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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF URSCRIFTION (FAYABLE 1N ADYAKCE). Poxtnge Frepaid nt this Ofee. Weekly, 1 yoar. Five coples 14,00 w nt In sach town and village, Special arrangoment with sacn. Hpecimen coples sent f To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure avd give Poat. Oftiea address in fall, including State and Connty. Remt,tancesmay bamada sithor by draft, express, Post- Of.ceorder, or In ralstered lettary, 3t oz risk, TRNME 7O CITY RCAKCAIRNAS. red, Sunday excented, 203 venta per wank. red, Bunday Included, 30 cants por wesk. THE TRIBUN ener Madison sud Dearbor afly, Dadly, Addre 4 TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. . THRATRP—=Randoinh atrast, hatwasn O Tauatie, - nngomont of he Unfon Bavare Company, '*The Two Urphans,” VL 'y THEATRE~Madison ats betwean Diarborn knd Siate Hnkegomens of (o Haverls's Minstrels T THEATRI—Deatborn strost, comer Mon- tety Eotertainment. IEMY 03 MUSIC—Halated strast, havwean Mad. (aehtud Monroks - Aftermam o Grorgs Washnglon Lveniog, ** The Daya of ——— BUSINESS NOTICES: TRAUTY I A BOTTLE-TIFS TRRM MAY PITLY e applied to Lalri’s Hloom of Youth, since the most e1: funs are dorived Lrom that suurco, Sold Tl Chivago Cribune, July B, 1878. Monday Moruning, Tz Tamoxe will bo {+sued as meual fo-morrow morning, For the convenlenco of advertisers tho Duniness office wiil bs kept open from 6 a,m, to1p. m,, and from 7 to i0 p. m, Onartes Nonprorr's letter to the Chair- mnn of the National Republienn Executive Committeo, in reply to thoe abusive treatment of him by the newspaper known asthe Va- ional Republican, has attrneted a good denl of sttention in Washington. Except by s class of politicians who insist upon standing on tho morthern side of n bloody chnsm which exists only in their imagination, Mr. Norpuore's letters have been quite generally admired, especially tho last one, in which Le makes the happy suggestion of a change in the name of the so-called organ in Washing. ton. #1r. Gronor W. Curros, the favorite Amer- fenn poet, whoso beantiful clegies aro so well known, hns signified his intention of presonting o bouquet to each of the $,000 children who tako pnrt in the Fourth of July |- concert in Philadelphia tolny, This grace- ful net ja characteristio of the gifted poet, ‘whose tender memories of the dead and gone have been 80 many times cmnbalmed in death- less verso ot the usual scale of prices. All great poets have loved flowers and children, and Mr. Omrps does not seem to bo an ex- ception to the rule. Ife would have made Lis beneficence still more touching if he had also written 3,000 little poems to go with the flowers, Less than the costomary number of acci- dents from tho use of gunpowder aro re- ported in Chicago for the two days which hiavo thus far been observed 08 tho glorious Fourth, but as the general cclebration occurs to-day there need bo no fear that the averago will not bo keptup. The record of disasters to fingers, noses, eyebrows, ote., not to mention more serious casualties, has yet to bo fin. ighed. By the kind indulgenceof the Chicago police authoritics, the boys will be enabled to mako up for the time they lost in Sunday- school yestordny, and burn thomselves, st fire to buildings, and frighten runawny Lorses to thelr hearts' contont to-day. It's only a quostion whother the fire-crackers hold out, Additional particulars are roceived conoern- ing the terrible earthquake which deatroyed the city of Cucatn, in the Province of Pam- plona, South America, near the Venozuelnn frontior. Besides Oncuta, thero were soveral villagos in that rogion which wero literally wiped from tho face of the earth, ‘Ten thousand people wero killod outright, many more thousands were wounded and maimed, and all tho inhabitants wero made homeless sud penniless. Whether the eatastrophe was caused by tho brenking out of a volcano which was last hoard from in 1848, or whoth- er it was o new voleano that ereated tho aw- ful havoce, is not known, and the Government proposes to investigate the question. In tho menntimo it is safe to concludo thdt Cucuta 1u destroyed, and that tho country possesses 1o attractions for colonints, The fact that the Fourth of July feli on Bunday was tho oceasion of various sermons appropriate to the day. 'The Rev. Dr. Pow- xn8, of Bt. John's Church, had for his subject ** Tho Vital Forces of National Life and Sta- bility"; tho Rev. Bumwxr Etrm, of the Church of the Rodeemer, * Tho Perils of the Republic”; the Rev. Dr, Looxe, of Grace Churell, “‘The Ruler of Rulors”; &he Rev. Jony WrLuzamsox, of the Wabash Avenue M, E. Church, * How to Celobrato the Fourth"; the Rev. F. M. Erum, of tho Michi- gon Avenuo Baptist Church, * The Baptist Church, and Its Early Struggles for Religious Liborty"; the Rev. Dr. Tirrany, of ‘Trinity Methodist Eplscopal Church, “Freo Church and Free Stato*; the Rev. Dr. Farrows, of 8t. Paul's Episcopal Church, “How to Deal with Bkoptics.” The congre- gation of Plymouth Church celobrated the Fourth by the dedication of their new and beautiful church, Dr, BagTrETT preaching an sppropriate sermo! A construction of the Dutter and Cheese law of Illinois, pased in 1869, haa been given by the Bupremo Court, It sottles the legal statne of * skim.milk,” as the housewives call it. There are a great many uses to which this article of dairy refuse may be put, ny mitk-consnmers in large cities can tostify to their sorrow, but there is n point where the ‘Wwatery stufl ceases to ba logal tender, accord- ing to the satatutes of Ilinols, While a farmer, according to the declsion, mny skim thé milk on the top, bottom, and edge, and strip it of the lut globule of creamn when he sells it to g choose manufacturer who does business on Lis own 8ccount, he niust dellvor the square articlo Just as tho cow yields it when it goes to a co- operative factory. The law was evidently enacted more for the benefit of the milk.pro. ducor than of the manufacturer, as, by the decision of the Bupreme Court, its penalties ©perata only to provent dairymen from swlu. dling each other, leaving the rest of the com. munity to look out for themselves. [ A practicql schems for applying Trwpirys 1dva of « prayer-gougo has been started in London, where there iu an institation known 83 the House of Faith. It {s a houss for the $ecaption of persons suffering from disosses _ whish have besn pronounced fnsuralie ; 5o -JULY 5, 1876. physicians are employed, and prayer and ointment are the only means used to wecurs the recovery of the unfortuunte inmntes. It is clnimed that somno seventy enses of diseases which had bieen given up by the doctors have been cared simply by the eflieacy of prayer and oil. Practical peoplo will probably think that dovoted nursing, plonty of pura air, and freedom from drugy, had a good deal to de with theso cures; ut they were equally de- sirable in either cnso, 'Tha promoters of tho institution, howover, furnisha curious com- ment on their own faith in the principle they are applying Ly oxeluding all who aro afilicted with infectioua disorders. Thera ia a family at Sandy Hill, New York, which has & very practienl way of viewing oventa in life and denling with sudden emergencies. The 14-year-old daughter of tuis family, who has boen nddicted to dime- novels and other sentimental gush, cloped with o school-boy, got married td him, and then returned with him to be forgiven, aftor the manner of the lovers in the dime-novlls. The parents, however, were not lika the parents in the dime-novels, for tha mother soundly sponked the girl, and the boy on his wayout of the house wns kicked eighteen times by the father. As neither of them had ever rend anything of this sort in novels, tho denouement wns A genuine surprise to them,- The. welcoma of the l‘fml parents, howover, issnid to have worked liko a charm, nnd both the lovers are cured of their folly, Love may laugh at a locksimith ; but, when it comes o spankings and No. 12 boots, love can raise ot best only a very sickly smile. THE 10WA PLATFORMA. The two parties in Iown—the Republican and the party wilhont n name—have now their candidates fairly before the people, and upon distinctive platforms. Upon two points the two plntforms aro diametrically opposed. Theso two points are thus expressed. Tho Republicans say : R 1, 'That we deciars it a cardinal principle of the Re- publican falth that the Republicis a ustion ouesnd indissolnble, within which tho conatitutional rights of tho Stales and the people to local self-govornment must be faltlfully maintaiued, 2. We favor tho early sttainment of & cnrrency con- vertible with coin, and thereforo advocate the gradul resumption of specie-payments by continuous and steady utepa in that direction, The * What-do-you-call-it” party say: 1, A rm adberence o the doatrine of political goy= erumont un tauglit by JerrEasox, MADIs0N, sud other fathera of the Kepullic, 2, Thut wo are in favor of the resumption of specte payment aa noon s {he same can be dono withont in- Jury to the husiness luterests of the country, and meantime a sfficient supply of nattonal currency for buniues purposes. Opposition o the present National Bauking law, Here is n distinet avowal of policy on the vital question, whether the United States are a nation, or o mero partnership, for limited purposes, of thirty-seven independent fov- ereign nationalities. It raires the question whether the peoplo of Town will voto that they are citizens of the United States ; that they havo a distinct nationality ; that they have n country coextensive with the national jurisdiction of the United States ; and that, whorover the flag may fly, their citizenship shall bo recognized. This is tho menning of the Republican platform. On the other hand, the Opposition ask the people to vote that they have no nntionality, save that of the sovereign State of Iowa ; that the United States are not a nation, and have nover had a national existence; that thoy are a mere voluntnry association or alliance, for specifia purposes, of thirty-seven independent sov- croignties, which in thoir sovereign ca- have pacity appointed an agoncy at Whashington, with authority to mct for them; that the poople of Towa aro citizens of Iown, owing their primary alleginnco to that Stato, and that their obedi- ence’ or submission to the Genernl Gov- ornment is not to any national or inheront authority such Government may claim, but morely because it is the duly appointed and accredited agent of the State .of Iowa, This is the {ssuo presentedi by these oppos- ing partics: Is this o nation, or is it a mere confederncy of nations, ench independ- ont and sovereign in itsclf? Is this a Re- public where tho power of the * American people” is sovercign, or is this a mere allinnco of petty States without a nationality ? In tho Government of the United States the Government of a distinct nationality repre. senting an aggrogato of freemen claiming kindred ns citizens of acommon country, or are the peoplo of Iowa *‘foreign” to tho peo- plo of Wisconsin and 1llinois, holding them * gnemies in war, in peace friends®? Have the votors of Town 1o intorest in the welfare of the country, any more than they have in the welfaro of Prussia, Grent Britain, or Tur. koy? Iave they no stronger political tios with tho peopla of Mlichigan, California, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, than thoy have with Ruesia, which has always been our ally and friend ? If the doctrine of the Opposition bo true, that this is a confedoracy of States, and not a nation, that the Govornment at Washington 18 a more agency, exorcising delogated powers, and holding its appoint- ment at the will of sovereign Btates, nnd that oll claim to nationality is a froud and an impostare, then what are the people of Jowa? 'They nre mot a part of the United Stntes, except as a business partuer, obliged to pay taxes to support the central agency; they are mnot citizens of any nation excopt Jows, have no flag oxcept that which floats overthe agency, have no country except that within the bor- ders of the State, have no recognized cxist- enco as a * sovercign power,” and sink to the political level of ono of tho many petty principalities of Gormany. Are they pro- pared to give up their nationality; are they propared to vote that they have no couns try outside of Idwa, and that they aroaliens when they cross tho Missouri or Mississippi River? ‘The other question is that of the onrrenay, The laws of the civilized world, outside of the United States, make coin the standard of values. The dollar is rocognized in every land os o measuro of value, The Repablio. ans of Towa doclare themeelves.in favor of restoring tho dollar ns o mensure of values, and that the doliar shall bo a realand an hon- est dollar; that it shall weigh the standard weight, ond Lave the standard amount of gold; and that the ourrcnoy of the United Statea shall cease to ba an anomaly and & dis- grace. o ‘The Opposition, however, declare that the " depreciated currency shall nevor be retired or reduced, but that as it falls in valuo the do- ficiency shall be supplied by an additional is- sue; that when *greenbacke are worth 75 cents an additional amount to cover the 25 cont depreciation shall be issued, and that when they fall to 50 centa their amount shall be doubled 80 ns to keep the actual amount of * dollars™ sufficient, for * business purpo- 842" Upon thesa two issues the two parties are directly at variance, and we question very wuch whether the people of fowa are roady to vota that they have no cbuntry, or that two or any numbaer of paper dollacs can sasve any busineas purpones, beyond tho actual sum in cain that can be got for them at public auc- tinn, or at the oflice of the broker or other dealor in depreciated currancy, —_— AROTHER OREDIT MOBILIER COLLAPSED. Tho famous Credit Mobilier Francais, the grand parent and model of all the kindred as- sociations all over the world, hns gone the way of all its predecessora in the business of naing other people’s money in speculation, In its day the Credit Mobilier of France held ahigh position financinlly, Its shares wero consid cred the standard of the stock-list. It offi- cers woro regarded as apecial objects of favor Ly fortune, and were envied accordingly, It was o joint stock compnny, chartored in 1852, and Exite and Taaac PREmE wero its load- ing managers, Though authorized to trans- act o general banking Lusiness, ita ostensiblo object was to facilitate tho construction of public works aund develop nationnl industry. 1t had a capital of £12,000.000, and its shares. were for $100 each. It had authority to hold public securitios and abares of M industrial corporations, and to issue its own bonds to ten times the amount of its own capital. This orgonization nt onco jumped into public favor., 1Its annual dividend ono yenr reached 41 per cent, nand until 1867 it averaged 17 per cont. Under its operations tho gas and omnnibus companies of Puris were consolidated, and it beeame largely interested in railronds in Austria, Spain, Russin, France, and other countries. The prospority of the concern compelled it at Inst to accept all kinds of on- terprises. A “Societe Immobilier” bought o tract of land at Marseilles, and sold it to an Eoglish conipany ; a new town waa Inid ont, and the firat stone was laid with great core- mony. The Credit Mobilier invested in this enterprise nearly one-third of its capital, and not one house has ever Leen built in the new town, Other like jobs so crippled the con- cern that its credit suffered greatly. Some of the creditors, if not stockbolders, brought suitas against M. Prriere, and theso suits led to an oxposure of the condition of the Com- pany. This was in 1867. Baron Havssmax was thon installed as chief, and Le adopted the policy of converting all the nssets into money aud collectingall the debts. This pro- ceeding promised to bealong one, and, theop- erationsof the Company being in the meantime suspended, M. Prrcierart, a Belgion financier, succeeded to tho manngement. He nddressed himsolf to compromises with the creditors and debtors, thereby frecing the capital which was tied up in tho lawsuits. This enabled the Compauy to resume business. It so hap- pened, however, that Puruirrart had boasted toe much, and ho held in his hands numerons small railroad concerns, which ho proposed to consolidate. Ho excited a strong opposition, including tho larger railway companies. A stockbolder in the Credit Mobilier Company appealed to the Courts for process restraining the managor in his operations, and the Courts did interfore for that purpose. PmrLmpant thereforo retired, and M. D'Epravors has now condented to serve aaadministrator of the defunct corporation, whose shares sell at 40 centa on the dollar. Hero is a concern which started with $12,- 000,000 capital, and which in fifteon years divided over ©30,000,000 of profita; which issued its own bonds to an amount of $120,- 000,000, and losued the money of its deposit- ors and of trust funds to wild-cat spec- ulations; which indorsed the bonds of numerous beggarly railroad and other corporations; it was from thé begin- ning nothing but o vast gambling con- cern, using, however, other people’s monoy as tho stakes it put up on the specnla. tions it fatherod. In fifteon yenrs its ownors amassed immense fortunoes and retired, and for oight yenrs the creditors have been vainly endenvoring {o collect the fragments of tho ruin that has taken place. ‘Wo have nd a Credit Mobilier in this country, which in lesa than six years stola abont $37,000,000'of the public money, cor- rupted and debauched a score of publio men, purchased national legislation, and weakened the moral character of thenation. We havo Liad & balf hundredsmaller corporations of the samo kind. We havo had large corporations, playing thopart of Credit Mobiliors in buying, and lensing, and consolidating smaller corpo- rations, and in indorsing the bonds of others. ‘We havo had tho country in this way flooded with issucs of bonds to doublo even the nominal value of the property they ropresent. All this business hos gono' down, leaving thousandsinvolved in ruin. The broken down adventurers, gamblers, and spoculators who have been running theso private Credit Mobiliors in this country, hav. ing exhausted their credit, and the oredulity of tho paople, are mow concentrating their efforts to convert the General Government into a grand speculating concern to indorsa bonds for impecunious individuals and cor. porations, or to swap bonds with these in. stitntions, under the protenss of encouraging industry and promoting the dovelopmont of the country. The Convention in Nebraska called to pro- pare o new Constitution for that State con- cluded ita labors on the 12th of June, and submitted the Constitution to a votoof the peoplo to bo taken on the second Tuosday in October, 1876, 'The Constitution, like most of the State Constitutions framed since 1870, is modeled upon the new Constitution of Illi. nois, It embracea the same regulations gov- erning legixlative proceedings; the same pro- libitions of special legislation ; the same pro- hibitions of amending laws by mere refer- ence; and the samo requirement of an aflirmative voto by s majority of the mem- bers-clect of each House on the passage of a bill. It abolishes all compensation by fecs for State officers, and provides for specifio salarics, Tho foes sre to be turned into tho Btate Troasury., It confors the right of suffrage on all sdult male citizens of the United States, and upon all alien born ishnbitants who have taken the Initi- atory steps towards naturalization, It makes liberal provision for education ; it prohibita all sectarian instruction in any school or insti. tution sapported in whole or in part by the State, nnd prohibita tho acceptance by the Btate of any grant, conveyance, or bequest of money or other property to be used for sec. tarian purposcs. ‘The rovenue article ia like that of Illinois; it probibits the diversion of the Btate revenne for any local purpose ; lim. ita county taxes to 1} per cent; pmlublu.l subscription by municipalities to railroad stock, but allows donations of money when sanctioned by a vote of the people; providea large powers in the Legislature over railroad management ; declares railroads to be publio highways, and authorizes the Leglslature to eatablish maximum rates for transpor. tation. Muniolpal indebtednesa for ordl nary purposes shall not exceed B per cent of the masessed value of the propesty. The Illinols oath against bribery hss been Mnflt:d, and drunkenness is made a cause far bnpymhiment and removal from oftles, A seprato article was snbmitted prohibiting & removal of the Htato Capital without tho nflirmativa voto of & maforily of the voters of the State, Another separate article providus that at any eloction of membiers of tho Legis- Inture immediately preceding a vacancy in the United Btates Senato from Nebraskn, the clectors mny, by ballot, expresa their prefer- enco for somo person for the office of United States Sonator, anll such vots is to be can- vnssed aa other votes, Taken as a whole, tho Constitntion is an excellent one, nnd prob- ably will bo ndopted. If adoptod, it will toke effcct Nov. 1, 1875, SHORT-HAIRS V8. SWALLOW-TAILS, The Now York Nution calls attention vory forcibly to the struggle going on in that city botweon Democratio factions called tho “Short-Mairs” and the *‘Bwallow-Tails” upon tho rate of wages paid to laborers om- ployed DLy the city, Tho former nre headed by Joux Monmssey, and the Intter by Jonx Krrer and sunch men a8 Gov, TiLpex. Al though primarily the fight is one between New York Democratie politicians, the ques- tion atissue is of geneml interost, and, as tho struggle is likely to occur at any time in any Inrgo city, the Nation hns done well to expose tho nature of the contest, The *‘Bwallow. Tnila” contend that the Inborors for the city should be paid tho same rato of wages paid by privato omployers for similar work, as fixed by the action of supply and demand, while the *‘Short.-Hairs” contond that the city should pay, not what is the fair market pries for labor, and what labor can bo had for, but what tho laboror is pleased to con- sidor & **rensonable sum,” and upon this they have nalrendy announced that thoy will male a political issue, voting agninst all offi- cials who support the payment of the markot rate. Upon this point the Nation says : ‘They winh to "have Lo right of the oity oficials to pay such wages as they pleass, without regard to the market rate,—or, in other words, to diatributa every year an cnormous sum in clarity to persons selected by theimselves, and without control or sccountablity,— formally and publicly recognized, Tho difforenco between what they can get labor for, and what thoy pay for it, fa of courso charlty, It maybo calied “ wages, ' or any ofbier namo you please, but ita char- acter remaina the same, In paylng it, the city officers aro glving away the money of thu taz-parers without any check, bocaueo tha accounts of s ofiicer who may pay whiat o pleases Su wages aro absolutely valueloss, They will tell you how mucn han been spent, but they tell mothing as to whetlier 1t has been well snd prop- erlyand necessarily speut, In fact, absolute disore- tion as {0 tho rate of wagos might In practice, and la the bands of persons eveu baif as sudscious as Twexd and Bwsir, smouut to campleta control of the appro- priatious for certain impurtant portions of the munlc. ipal expenditure, Upon this demand of the Short-Hairs, it mnkes the following pertinent comment : The city e simply & body of tax-payers. It can afford what the tax-payers can afford, and no more, Its dutles to tho poor are what thelrs ara, The groat maxime of prudenco and morality applicable to the conduct of private affairs are spplicable to fta affalrs, Giving away its mouey (or sny purpose whatever, na- neceamarily, or without authorization, is stealing from a large numiber of private ciizens, noarly all of whom aro porsons of snuall meaus, suruggling with dificulty from ycar to year to maka onde meek, This quostion, as we have alreadyindicated, in not peculiar to New York. It is o Com- munistic ovil imported from the Old World, which has made its first serious appearanco in Now York, becauso that city contnins a larger proportion of the worst clags of foreignors, who hang liko leaches upon the municipality, and a larger proportion of unprincipled, cor- rupt demagogues who are always plotting to control their votes. It has mode ita appear- anco in other cities in other forms, but tho source of the troublo is always the samo, In New York, aj in othorcities, tho prolotarint element of tht Democratic party is comnposed of foreigners whose impulses are alwaysquick to mako war ngainst property and the sav- ings of tho economical classes, and this pro- gramma of the Short-Haired demsgogues is nothing more nor less than an attempt to avail themsolves of these impulses and prejndices by directing them against the property-hold- ors, ono form of which is thisunjust und out- rageous lovying of a tax npon economy aud industry, and this .compulsory demand that tho tax.payers shall bo bled to pay for the idlencss and incompetency of foreign Com- munism ot o rate higher than competont la- borers in private employment can obtaln, It hippens, however, in Now York, that some, if not many, of the native Democrats, or Swallow-Tails, have some Lonestly-acquired property and pay taxes, and, having borne this tax-eating ovil until it has become intoler. able, now turn about and oppose it. The samo evil does not yot exist in Chicago to much extent, but the tondonoy is apparent onough, and the evil would be hore did tha apportunity offer itself. public works are mostly done by contract, and laborers aro hired by contractors ; but, were tho city onco to engago in the hiring of men, the stroggle now going ou in New York.would at onco commonce here on a scale proportionate to the amount of work and number of labor- ers engaged, and Chicogo, like New York, would speedily become thoe rendezvous of crowds of just such & rabble ns curse the lat- tor city, The mob of Communista which wado ite impudent demands upon the Reliof and Aid. Society last winter is only the nuclons of just such a crowd as the Short. Halrs of New York, and the only thing lack- ing to a similar evil in this city is a aystem of building public works liko the New York sys. tem. Shonld that system ever be adopted, the City Treasury will be robbed by dema- gogues aund Communists, and the tax. payers and honcst laborers will be bled exactly ns they are in New York, The bill passed by tho demagogues in Congress paying laborers ten hours' pay for oight hours' work—in othor words, taxingthe people to pay men for two hours’ labor each day after they have quit work—ia ancther form of the Now York ovil; and this domagogion! prac. tice is still continued, although it has cost the country millions of money, and has been on utter fallure in any of tle reforms which wore claimed for it. The Government offl- ciala unanimously testify that less laboris performed per hour than pnder the old sys- tem; that it begets an indifference to work, encourages h;m'npennu, and demor. slizes the workmen, and that the leisure time which was to be devoted to mental jmprove- wont is often devotod to dissolute and vicious prootiees, It should be borne in mind that the pay for this leisure,time comes out of the pockets of tho business and industrial classes. The evil, aa wo have said, comes from the 0ld World. Its principal home has been in France, where Communism has olaim. ed, and for a time was euccessful in the claim, that the Btate was bound to furnish work and pay, and pay whether thers was work or not. France endured it until it be. came evidont that they were eating out the very vitals of the nation, and then the farm- ers and middle classes rose and shot fifteen or twenty thoussnd of the devouring Comman. {sts, and ‘extirpated this idea that a laxy, shiftleas, vicious rabble had & natural right to lve in idlendts upon the industrious classes of the country, It the Fourth of July ordtars to-day want subjoot, Lot thoos take tid” evil which hag alrendy cansed a atruggle in Now York., Itia an ovil of tho most alarming character—n eancer upon the body politic which will grow, and fester, and aproad, unless it i3 extirpated. This in ono of the reformis, and one of the moat important reforms, upon which this country can enter, now that itis about to commenco its mocond eentury. It is nro. form, however, which will never bo mado by demagognes, Whéro aro tho statesmen who will grapple with this groat evil ? THE MODERN ENGLISH JOURNALIST, ‘Wo hinve been in the habit of considering an English journalis$ ns much like his Ameri- can follow, plus brawn, mutton-chop whis. kers, nnd an eye-glass. But it seams that ho is by no means anylhing a8 commonplace s this. If wo are to boliove Denn STANLEY, ho in a fearfully and wonderfully mndo creature. The Dean presided at the recent dinnor of the * Newspaper Fund " in London, Io hnd to make n speech, of course, nnd he did so. It is most refroshing rending. Buch over- whelming praiso is in sharp contrast with the carping criticism bestowed npon tho press by politicians with published. peceadilloes, The spenker Raw nothing bad in English journal- istn, and he sketched somo remnrkablo facty in it. Tirst he dived down iuto antiqui- ty and raked up the pleasing fact that 8t Avaustie nlways traveled with a body-guard of sixteen reportors. This he presonted ns a tid-bit to the London re- porters—none of whom, however, wo are bowrl to say, hns yet expressed any gricf that ho did not live in time to take down tho saint’s lengthy and Loly utterances in short- hand. It waa when the Dean came to edi- torial writing that ho rose to the full hoight of the subject—and soveral miles abova it. His natouished auditors learned that a man who writes a lender displays tho ** tonsion and enorgy compressed into the gititude of o &ouching tiger.” The crouching tigers en- goged in this sort of work produce results, it scems, commensurate with their powers. Thoy writa articles ** at dead of niglt, re- sembling those terrifio chaptors in the Koran, known ns tho Terrific Buras, which turned the Prophet's bair white inn fow hours,” Re- morso over the tension and energy of such appalling balderdash ought to turn Dean StANLEY'S hinir white with tho samo rapidity with which the Terrific Suras blonched Ma- nomer’s locks. Leador-writers, the speaker weut on to say, aro often *‘carried boyond themsolves into colossal proportions,”—which must bo a pretty phenomenon to see, but must necossitate very large-sized editorial- rooms,—and are ‘‘inspired with a power not their own.” * Ono of the best editorinl-writers in London is usually inspired by a power not his own, in the shape of greon ten and lomon juico; Capt. Snaxpon favored gin; but the staplo inspiration is supposed to be beer and cigars. Was it manly in the Dean to touch, oven as lightly ns he did, upon these little failings of his heroea? Is a tiger to crouch all day without the solace of a cigarotte, ond maintain tension and enorgy with. out nn occasional Bwig at somo stout- bodied alcoholic mixturo? It is doubtless tho indulgenco in theso creature-comforts which preserves tho loader-writers from the fate of Mamoxer. He wrote torrifio Burns in the Koran and turned his hair whito; they writo terrific 8Suras in the newspapers and their hair rotains ita natoral color. The advantage of being inupired with a spirit or spirits not their own (e. g., got on credit) ia therefore apparent, There is o wido differenco botweon the English and American editorial writer, Wo are nover guilty of torrifio Surns hero, Whon a thrilling editorinl on the city tax-laws is growing into shape, it is not a cronching tiger, but a sitting man, who composes it. Leaders on tho French floods aro not written with the tension and energy of a tiger, or a typhoon, or anything clso tremendous. There is o tendency to make & mystery out of journalism, Dean Sranrey's speoch is a good illustration of this. Leador-writing 15 o trade, roquiring certain special qualities, but not difficult work for the possossor of thoso qualities, Tho theory that makes the journalist a high-priest of literature, the doer of unutterable things at midnight, a being apart from tho other patrons of his butcher and grocer, is about as absurd as the other extreme which makes him a ragged Boho- mian, without consoience and without cash, —————— ‘Wa have ruuive:\:fiawmg inquiry from a gentleman in Towa : TU_the 2dutor of The Chicaco Tribuna s 8100% OrTY, July .—An editorial in Tie Taraoxs of tho 20th of June says that M, McCuLLooN, in his Isat leiter to tha New York Tridune, atates that # Massachusetts and Californis are the only two Btates in the Union which have not bean gullty of st least partial repudiation,” Pless fnform your readers whereln Tows hsa ever ropudisted any legal obligation, and oblige, L Mr, " MoCurroca's meaning was not very clearly expressed. He referred to tho fact that all the States, with the excoptions he noted, had pald the interest on their State dobts in greenbacks, from the time the groen- backs were mado legal tender, Thoso States which had borrowed when gold was the recognized standard of money in this conntry were thus guilty of * partial repudiation,” as Mr. McCurroc chargos, and foreign holders of tho debt wero obliged to content them- selves with their interest inaspecial currency which was at a heavy discount on gold, while they had loaned their money under the ex- peotation and stipulation that they were to receive par money. There was = time near the closs of the War when greonbaoeks weore not worth more than 45 per cont in gold, and foreignors holding Btate bonds were forced to take them in payment of interest, though they had loaned the Btates gold, and expected coln in- terost. This was in the nature of a swindle, which Aorelgn holders of our State bonds bave never forgiven. As to Iowa, its dsbt has always been small and unimportant; but it it over borrowed money abroad in ante- greenback times, without any express stipu. lation that the interest should be paid in gold, we have no doubt it followed the ex- ample of tho other Btates, and pald itin de- preociated groenbacks, While this caunot be &ald to be ““repudiation of any legal obliga- tion,” as our correspondent puta it, it is nevorthelesa a flagrant breach of faith, anda speoial hardship, of which the foreign bond- bolders have a perfoot right td complain. ‘When they loanod ourBtates gold they never sgreed to nocept depreclated greenbacka for intereat thereon, And now oomes another Southerner, who is still fighting in the War of the Rebellion and backing away st his man of straw, Gen, Jorx 8, Pazstox has added his name to those of Brauzzeazp, Szuues, and Gov. Kaurzs, 88 e frreconcilable, aud displayed his silly hatred of the North in an addross delivered a few days 8go to the Mlumni of the University of Virginia. Says Pazatox: ** Not space, or time, or the convenlence of any humean law, or the power of any human arm, oan recon- oile institutions for the turbalent fanatla of Plymouth Bogk Aud the Gad{aaxing Ghcle tian of Jamestown,” The whole oration is after this pattern of bad temper. To placa this silly bombnat in ita proper light, and to show that this fire-eater does not represont tho rentimentsof the South, wo mako the fol- lowing extract from a letler written by ex- Gov. llznsoner V. Jounsow, of Georgia, in reply to the invitation to take part in the cel- cbration of the Fourth of July at Atlanta, Mr. Jounson mays: 17 Tam not mistaken, the celebration you proposs Lian an important and ivteresting significance, It ia Intended na & manifeatation of the desire of the peo- vl of Goorgla that the bitterneas between the seations engendered by the fata civil war shall cease, Thisls right, Let tho assurance go out from the Oapital of the Biate that shie (s resdy and willing to extend prac- tleal greeting to the peopls of every sectton wha sgree to atand by the great principles of public Hberty and maintaln the Federal Union of flates based upon them, s they are defined in tho Constitution, Tho 8t Louls Republican, after paying 8 tribute to the gnlltry of tho naval com- manders of the Confoderacy, notices the fact that Seansres and Bucnanan * donot atand in high favor at the North, at present,” and adde: *“Batif wo sliould chance to become ombrolled in an ocean war witha foreign power, and the former commander of thoe Alabama were allowed to tako part in it with o good ship, the chances are that ho would come out of it with & name that oven Now England people would dolight to honor,” The Republican makes an error in supposing that the North is st all cxercised about Mr. Seaes. The cont fita the other way. Mr. Bemumes {8 exercised about tho North, his naval head being filled with the absurd and silly idea that he cannot come North without being subjected to hu- miliation and ** wearing a brand,” ns he ex- pressen it. Tho North has no more intercst in Mr, Seantes than it has in Mr, Sy, or Mr. Brown, or Jerr Davis., Bhould he come North, ho would be simply lot alono—not even stared at. It requires considernble con. coit, by the way, for Mr, Braruzs to sappose that ho cut so largo a figure in tho War that the North has not yet recoverod from his nnval exploits. A visit to the North might bo of beneflt to Mr. Seaaes in taking this con- ceit out of him, and convineing him that the War is over and forgotton. His sensibilitics will not bo touched by anything that he wiil seo or hear relative to the War or his connec. tion with it, As the Common Council sbolished tho Board of Polico for tho express purposo of pntting the Department in the hands of Jaxe Remy, they must have expected n rea- souablo amount of respect and obedience from that gentloman; but he haa already takon occasion to show his comtempt for them. The other night the Council paased tho following resolution : Resolved, That tie Buperintendent of Police be, and the ssme 1s, hereby directa ! to prohibit the burning of fire-crackers, and other fireworks, on July 3, 4, and 5 next, excopt in the publlo parks and other cpen grounds, ‘Thig order, it will be observed, avas not di. rected to tho Board of Police, but to Buperin. tendont Rzmx in porson. As to two of the dsys, July 8 and 4, Remx has not pald the slightest attontion to the order, Firo-crackers, torpedoos, pistols, revolvers, shot-guns, and tho usnal silly acocssories of a Fourth-of-July celebration, were whizzing and banging in the strects night ond day, Two or throo fires, which threatened to be sorious, were among tho results, 'There was apparently no effort whatover on the part of the Police Superin- tendent to carry out the orderof the Conneil ; and, if ho manifests to-day the ssme indif. forence to the Council's directions and tho intoreats of the city, wo may have another sach conflagration as we had now nearly a yoar ago, The Boston correspondent of tho Advancs says that Gen. Boreen and King GaMorixos wera the two most notable personages in tho Bunker Hill procession. It thus describes thom 3 Tho Philvlelphia T4mes says that Joagunr Mizrxn. supposes that sll the centounial prepartions are o ato hia return to Amorica, It you could have seen Gen, BUTLER caracoling and curvoting that day, atthe head of the militery oacort, his Lat off, bowing incesrautly to_ezery quarter of the compass, like & figuro {n & barvel-organ, you weuld have fantled that thia mighty By i upon all the flags, and the decorstlons, aud the soldiers, and the distinguished gueste, lncllidiog Gov, BuEnuaX and tle Vice-Prosl- ent, and the poanut-atands, and tho balloons, snd tho orowds, as but & thestrical background for his favorite performance of Lombastes Furtoro, Ths procession of * Trades " was four miles in leugth, No featuro in_thia was mare noticeabls thau the heavy 'l,cnl 1aden with hops and mflk and kogs and batrela of the great browing firms. Ju thy cen- tre of these, throued high upon & buge cask, sat King GanpRINUS, in gorgeous robes, grasping bis foaming tankard, with tinseled minioos perched beneail his seal French justice hise no meroy for frands. The unpardonable sios 1n that gilded Jand are bypoo- risy and decelt with intent to cheat, The woes of the Prriina family of sristocratio doad-boats in Paris have been sung in many a measurs; the slight misfortune of Mr. Joan 0‘ Fazxoxt and Dia assoclates on the’ Bourse have alao been givon in recitative; and now we have to toll of still anothor judicial proceeding which {llus- trates the oxtrome tenscity of the Frenoh mind. Three persooa who attempled s revival of the Kamis Krvo impoaturs in Paris have been proa. ecatod, convicted, and aentenced to impiison- ment,~—tho two Frenchmen for one year, and the American accomplice for six months. Their operations were no moro helnous than those of the countless spirit-photographers in Americs, who flonrish undlsturbed, yes their punlahment {s spasdy and condiga. — POLITICAY, ROTES, The party whose devotion to ths best intsrests, of the publio schiools Lias never baon questioned is not the Democratic, X The State Buperintendent of Publio Instruo- tion in Now Hampshire spells *sugar” with an “B"; yet, it he Is removed from office, the Domocrats will say Civil-Service Reform has gone to the dogs, < "Ratio Beymour has beén mentioned; but he 8238 no esrthly considorations can vrevail upon him to try it sgain. When the grest Amerioan poople sit down upon & man onoe he ought to keop atill forever after, Gov, Hendrioks would donbtless mocept with becoming resignation an earthquake, lightning- stroke, or even a visitation of bolls, which should prevent Lim from takiog an sotive past in poli- tics for some months to come. ' Qov. ‘filden, of New York, naving gone to Long Branch for health and recreatlon, thers is 8 sudden revulsion of fesling on the part of ths Opposition preas, and s total suspension of un- kind remarks abous Presidest Grant's absence from Washiogton. The Nation says *'there s uo use in any party taking its stand on the Ten Command- ments, forit wiil flud nobody to offer what Reform parly most needs,—diroct oppoaition.” Tha California Judependents, having mada thls fatal mistake, ave advised to shut op shop. The Bt, Louls Z¥mes was an honeset paper duriog the thres weeks it was in the Lands of its oreditors, and denounced the Whisky!Ring In un- stintad terms, Sincs Hutohing has coms back to the mansgement, the Zimes wishes to bave it understood that * thoss thres weeks don't count.” Benator Morton is obarged by the New Or- leane Times with politioal iotriguing of the first order during bis visit to that clty immedlately sfter the adjournment of Coogress. The story lo, that Morton promised Pinchback one offoe and Casey auother, on conditlon that the sleo. toral vole of the Bouth in 1870 ahould be ossh for Qs B M. Mook salikier of Shs piriien 4o Wha ailegod cantract had powar to noll, much less to deliver, tha wiiolo *‘exposuro” may bo sot dowa for nanght. Qon. Noborts, Democratio candliste for Gov emor of Maine, aerved hin country in the Wae of tho Reballion until after tho second battle of Boll Run, Iu that dack bour be resigned, ale though in full bodily vigor; sud his resignation ‘was accepted. Gon. Bolden Conmor, his Repube lican competitor, entoral tho army as & private soldior, and norved through the War, Ex-Senator Robert Toombs hss indalged in somo characteristio dnivol aver the Fourth of July, e noed not wasto worde sbout it. Every« body knowa that the Daclaration of Independs ouce waa not mado for the like of him, aud no- body oxpeots him eitlier to cslebrate the Fomth of July or to respect the Gavernment of the United Stales of Amorica, 1le ought not, there- fore, to be chiaurined or surprised it the peopls of the Unlted Htates do not respoct him, Bir. Halstead is cortainly making good use of his Confederats currency argnment, The dulless underatandlngs are bolng eu'ightened by bhis ad captandum ntyle. Tho epithet, in the firat place, only noedod oxpansion; and that it is gatting in greas quantity through the Clnownnati Commercial. For instanco, the Commercial suggosts that some balos of the original curren~ cy might bo recoverad by a vigorous system of advertining, and be used to help old Wikllamn Allon out, —_——— PERSONAL, The Union 8quaro Theatre Company sre stop vlog at tho Bherman Hoaso, Albany, N.Y., has & ghost. [t {s Tilden’s chanoe of the Prosidoncy, doubtless, A Boston girl thinks Boyton's dross must be made of ellk, **bocause he did such a foulard-y thiug.” Judge Nellson fired his Fourth of July shot i advanco whon he discharged the jury, Itmsde nolse enough, Lowis' book, *M. Quad’s Odds,” in mold by subscription, aud thera are already 10,000 coples subacribed for, Darnum's fat woman's appearance is probably a shadowy delusion, Blio woars stockings with horizontal stripes. Joe Howard's vaticioations are always dismal. Ho now declaros that threo womon aud Tilton aro preparing *‘statemonta,” Nowport will have & sensation to-day in a sub- marioo foot-race between two divers, who arots tow the boata which contain thoir air-pumpa. Tho truth is that Mullett heard of a man in Europo who could ues original oatha twelve syl Iables long, and that is why he ls going thero. A Bloomington youth of 22 is nuder arrest-for seducing & Iady of 44, Strauge how suscoptible thoso Bloomingtou girls are |—Peoria Democrat. The New Orleans * Proas Club™ has passod resolutions againat treating. This would seem to bo & suporflous procaution. How about being treated ? Farjesn, tho novelist, and Georze Fawoett Rowo, are traveling togother in SBwitzerlaud, In a distant country aoy familiar face is welcomo, probably. Mra. Swalm, of the FortDodge (Is.) Messenger, dollvers tha oration st Boone to-dsy. We can affoad to ailow it, It's Bwalm enough here without her, Henry 0. Bowen {s alwaya In trouble, His daughter haa lost a dismond pin, now that the Beocher trial {s over, and Bowon {s busy disouss~ lIng the caso, A Bt. Louls visitor yestordsy afterncon was trying to peddle 1 i& TriBUNS to passera by, Bober peonle who get Tum Tninunz do not like to part with {t. A farmer i Chariton fouod s way to makea balky horse go. He took him to a strango town audpnt him up at anction. He went for $85,— Brunswicker. *Qur inalde contains to<dny,” says a couniry editor, ***Dyspopeia,’ * Crooked Whisky,’ * A Chi~ nese Restaurant,’ and various other interesting #elected articlos.” 4 In naing tho words * briny deep,"—which It is nat a desirable thiog to do,~always put them’in quotation marks, for fosr that paople might think the phrase original, Oable is the name of a Bouthern story-writer who I8 lkoned to Bret Harte. His styls should ba strong aod conncoted, withifashos of wit running through it all the time. Yale and Harvard atill peg nway at each other. Haryard made Gov, Gauton, of Masssohusetts, an LL.D,, aud Yale instantly conforrod the same degres on Gov. Tilden, of New York. Bince Boach mentloned the worda * new trisl,” & dozen stealthy men, armed with shot guns, wander round tho ocourt-room with furilve glances in the direction of Tilton's counsol. An Indiana farmer, after drinking some bard cider, endeavored to milk bis pat mule, aod will, in conaequencs, bave to repair the roof of his barn In the spot where his head went through. Benator Jones bought real estate in Chicago and horees in Boston, The latter will bo sent to him, but, If be wants the former, all his money cannot mid him in getting it without coming hera for it. = e The New York Evening Post celebrated the semi-centonnial of Willism Cullen Drysat's edi- torial connoction with it by moving {nto a new elevon-atory building, Theold editor does nod need a tall tower. . Thought it would coms to that eventuslly, ‘The,correspondents are sbusing Cora Poarl, the brazen Parisfan domi-mondaloe, now that she i gotting old, and describe ber as hard, haggard, and conrse, with little parrot-like eyes, Thbe Bar of Tiffin, 0., mourss the loss of ons of fts most esteamed members, Mra, Lute, who has just conductod & son into this warld, snd findw it necossary to retire into private life for a littlo while, Bha bas trials enough of hor own, Qen, W, W, Belknap, Secretary of War, are rived in the city laat evening at 5, todk some re~ freshment at tho Grand Paclfio, and left in the aveaing over the Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy Road. He ls to deliver the oration at Burling« ton, Ia., to-dsy, Baltimoro lawyers sre amazed at the vigorous memory and lucid loglo of Reverdy Joho- ®on, pow in his 8lut year, IMis phyalca) strength, top, seems to puzzle them. Ha atood d argued a oase In court for & whole day lask ek without sppearing fatigued in the least. +A cltizen of Didequsah, N.B., ross from his bed just twenty minutes previous to his death, took & bath, dresssd himself in his grave-clothes, to bed sgaln just in time to exclaim, Doath, I have long waited for thee,” He waas t00 good to live in & town like and dle, Didequash. A contractor has made arrangements with a town in Hungary to work out a debt by taking an ogg dally from each one of 4000 inhabitants for mx years. This will give 4,161,000 egge. ‘Thae conntry would not sppear to be the only Hungary one there. A man in Portland, Ore., thought he recogs nized an old friend, and procoeded to slap him heartily on the back and exolaim, * Hello, old feller, where in h—Il did you come from " be- fore he found out that it waan' his friend, bud the Rev. E. Payson Hammond, the revivalist. Now we know how thay celebrate the Fourth in Bt, Louls, If there had beeu no bsil-matsh Saturdsy and no Bt. Louls boys here yesterdsy, we might have remalned forever ignorant of the manner of {t. They forgot they were [na respedt= able city, and made themselves quita at home. Poor women | Whea they wear locss, smple skirts, ovarybody condemns their exiravagancs Now (hat the pretty aod graceful Sle-back akirt ocomes in, the newspapers call it indecant, Wby, ita the prettlest thing {n the way of dress ainod Eve lofs Eden, and what's the use of howliog about i P Busas B. Anthony, who s editing the Lesverr wosth 2¥mas during her ‘s llloess, SR s wie 1 Ao pALL Dalre Besié | g i - i . RoT s T oo i £