Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE MONDAY, JU Y 26, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. PATPR OF STRACRIFTION (FATATLE IR ADVANCE). Postage 1'repald nt this Oflce. )y ¥ S10. Weekly, ) yea LR 398 B ; s Aaamioshoetoe 3,00 Paria of & year at the samn rate, WaNTED—Ono active agent in carh town and villsge. Rpecisl arrangements made wit ench, Bpeeimen coplos sent free. ‘I'o prevent delsy and mistakes, bo ure and giva Post-Office address In full, including Stateand County, Hemittancen may be made elther by draft, exrrens, Tont-Office ordor, or fu registercd letters, at our risk, TRRAMS TV CITT FUDNCRINERS, g Datly, dolivered, Sundsy cxcepted, 23 cents per weelz, Daily, delivered, Bandsy fuchuded, 30 cenia per weeks Addresy THT. TRIBUNE Corner Madison and Dearborn-ats,, Chieago, Tl ADELPOT THEATRE—Dearborn Montoa, * Tue Jee-Witch.” strect, corner HOOLTS'S THEATRE=andolyh lrect, brtwern Ciark an.l Lafalle, Engagement of the Union Bquare Qompary, * Th Two Orphisne.” SOCIETY NFETINGS. TAFAYETTT. CITAPTTR, Yo, 3, B, A, M.—State1 eunvocation this (M * ’)‘cl‘fl;lllllim nt 7::10uu‘r v‘lk. {n: o and work on tho M. M. Degeee, By arder o ‘t’x;:‘u“fl:.‘“ E. TT’TUCREII, Bec. "BUSINESS NO NIO¥ OF THE ‘ROSES, TIHE WIITE AND TR e ke o o s ATy commetic oclally sanotionod by tho sauitary authinri- U old by all drugg) The Chigage Tribune, Monday Morning, July 20, 18756. Greenbacks on Snturday opencd at 894, advanced to and closed at 89). e Tho Postmaster-Genernl continues his crusnde against derelict mail-serviee contract- ors, ond Lins placed n the bhands of the At- torney-General tho names of thirty-nino who failed to exccuto their contracty, and who will be sued for the additicval cost to the Government involved in reletting the routes at o higher rate. Arrangements linve been perfected where- hy Chieago is to enjoy tho benetit of a light- ning mail-service from New York westward along the lower Iako towns, Tho train, which will commence running on the st of October, will mnko the trip in twenty-six houns, and probably in twenty-four, receiving newspapers by the bundle, and folding and distributing tbem en route. All this at no extra cost to tue Government. ———es Now thet Fispen is no longer the Wash. ington Prosecuting-Attorney, the locul papers begiu to tell things about him which never got into print before. From the nceounts of lis persistent leniency toward the keepers of gombling-houses in Washington, and toward ovil-doers in general who had plenty of money, it is clear that Fisnen lived in the wrong city. Ife should lave moved to Chicago, where his pecufiar qualifientions would Lave been highly valucd by the pres- ent Municipal Administration, Tho ngnnl Monday morning's collection of interesting pulpit discourses will be found in our columns, ombracing the following topica: **Mystery and Religion,” by tho Itev. . W. Tnovas, of the t M. Church; ““The Rntional Support of Relig- jou,” by the Rev. C. L. Tuoxvsox, of the Fifth Presbyterinn Church; * Was Jesus Di- Yine?” by tho Rev. E. L. PowELL, uf o Third Unitarisn Church; and *Unity in Christ,” by the Rev. Arnent WARELY, of thy Teformed pincopal Church. S ——— Deraxo is of servico to the newspaper cor- respondents, if o no one else, as ho fur. nishes material for almost daily paragraphs obout his resignation, The Intest is that the Presidont requested bim to resign abont the 216t of June, nud that the ponding Sioux in- vestigntion was tho ground of Druaxo's re- quest for permission to stay a little longer. It would be comforting to know that tho President has sariously contemplated tho ro- moval of a standing reproach to his Adminis- tration; and if this latest rumor isn't true, it ought to be. A curious story has been raked up among tho old accounts in tho War Department, shiowing how a clerical error bnd o tragio ro- snlt. An officer during the War was wrong- fully charged with a defaleation minounany to 1,600, and, being unablo to readily dem- onstrate his innocence, ho committed suicide, ‘I'so balance erroncously mndo out against him was placed in favor of another oflicer, who, Imowing it to bo n mistalo, caused the matter 1o be hunted up. The result i o post-mortem vindication of the man who preforred death to undeserved disgraco. Tho story is inter- esting by reason of its {hreo unusunl inci. dents,—tho cleri's fatnl error, the muicide from such u cuuse, and the living oflicer’s re- fusal to accept money which wus believed to + belong to him, Incidental to Attornoy-General Trenne. ‘pont’s investigution into tho condition of -affaird in the office of the United States M shal for the Weatern District of Arkausis, which he finds has been conducted with great profligacy, an exposition s mado of the cumnival of bloodshed in the Indian Ler- zitory, which in crimind atters s iwithin the jurisdiction of the United Btates Court of the Western Arkunsas 'District. Judgo Pamxrn's report of the iprovalence of ocrime in that region Jpresonts s most sanguinary sumwary, Mur- Ider and horse-stealing are the principal pur- 1guits of a large portion of a population made ‘up two-thirds of Indians, and one-third of ‘nogroes and bad whites, The number of murders or homicidea now before tho Court ‘and yot to bo disposed of by arvest, indiet- ment, and trin}, foots up o total of 133, and ‘this does not include futal affrays betweon JIndians exclusively, At tho rato of progress ugual in murder cases, Judge Papxes will be ocoupied with criminal jurisprudence slons for the noxt two years, The Chicogo produce markets wero irreg- ular on Baturday, and generally weak. Muss- pork waa less active, and clused 700 per brl lower, at $20.10@20.20 cash, and $20.30@ 20,05 for Beptember. Lurd was quiet, and 5@100 per 100 tbs higher, closing weuk at £13.50 cash, ond §14.70 for BSeptember, Moata wero quict and casler, at Bjo for shoulders, 12¢ for short ribs, and 12%)c for short cloars, Highwines wers in good do- muud and steady ot $1.17, Lako freights wero luss active anduncLanged, at 3¢ for corn to Baffalo. Flour was quict aud weak. . Whout wis active, and declined 2]e, closing ot §1.19 cusl, and §1.19§ scller August. Corn wis uctive and 1o lower, dosing ut 72}o cash,sud: 72fo for August. Oats were active and ir- regulax, closlug ut 58jo for July, and 40v fox religions world, Angnst, Ryo wasdulland 2@ie lower. at §2 @ Wie for Angust. Barlsy was dull, and lower, clostng at $1.01 for Septomber. Hogs closed il anid wenk at $7.00@7. 76 for heavy, and at £7.7 .96 for light weights. The eattle market waa dnll and eany, with salea at A0@e.50, There wns nothing doing in sheep. The Tev. Arnavasr Jowve CoQUEREL, B wildoly-known D'rotestant dlorgnan of France, died yesterday, nged 75, IHo wns barn nt Amsterdnm, aud, by his docirines nnd writings, obtained promiucnco in tito His expression of views relative to M. Tirsaw's “Life of Jesus” resulted in tho suspension of his fune. tions by the Comictory of Taris, but by the aid of tho Trotestant Liberal Union ho resumed his dnties, In 1862 he wes decornted with {he Cross of the Logion of IHoner, and ten yenrs Inter ho spent kome time In a preaching and lecturing tonr in the United States. o eanio as o delegnte to the Evangelien! Allinneo in 1873, and returned upon the ill-fated Villo du Ilavre, being ono of tho few survivors of that terrible ocean disnster, JIudge Dronarr, of the nited States Dis- trict Court, in this city, has rendered an im- portant and interesting railrond decision, in which the rights of foreign bondholders ave protected ns ngainst the claims of a lesseo, Tlonds of the Joliet & Xorthern Indinnn Rail. rond were issued nnd negotiated to the amount of #800,000, at 8 per cent interest, tho payment of which, together with the principal, was secured by o trust.deed. At about the same time, the bare road, without rolling-stock or equipment, was leased to the Michigau Central at an annunl rental of £89,000, of which $64,000 was applied in the payment of interest on tho bouds, and the surplus of 25,000, instend of Leing sct apart as o sinkingfund for the poyment of the yprdacipal, wns pnid in the shaps of .dividends upon Joliet & Northern Indinun stock, the most of which soou found its wpy to the possession of Michigan Central stockholdera. The bonds maturing in 1574, the holders wero offered new bonds at G per cent inter- est. or they could foreclose the mortgage and thus obtain an unequipped and uspreductive railrond track, the lesiee claiming that the lease (which had proved s bad bargain) wounld bo extinguished by tho foreclosure. 'The Court decides in favor of the® bondholders and against the Michigan Central, requiring the latter to pay over to a Receiver the entire sununl rentnl, the surplns over interest to be applicd on tho principal, whereby the bond- holders will eventunily 1eceive their just dues. THE EUROPEAR BREADSTUFF3 MARKET. ‘I'hio statements sent by cable, and pub- lisheq in this is<uo of Tuxn TrIBUNE, concern- ing the condition of the Europent wheat crop in countries which compete with us in sup- plying the vavious forvign markets, sufi- ciently account for the recent advance in whent, and is producing the same effect in England aud France, the entiro advanco in whent in thoso countries being, 1t is stated, 8 shillings par quarter, which is equivalent to 25 cents in gold per Lushel. We are now enabled to judge of the condition of the European crops with a suflicient degree of acenracy to forecast the future demand upon Amerienn brendstuffs, In England, the almost incessint raing and consequent floods have produced ** almost irreparable damage.” In Hungory, which is one of our strongest wheat-growing competitors, owing to storms and floods the crop will probably be light. In Southern Rusaim, which is our strongest competitor, the drought sud worms hove woriously affected the crops, In France, the terrible floods kave eaused wide- sprend ruin, 8o that thes conntry will have to import largely insteud of being an exporter, s she was lost year. Belgium, with its denso population on a small territory, is affected by the same pluvinl couses which have been operating in France. Switzerland also will Le obliged to import more than usual, de. pending upon Italy and France, Italy has not been heard from. She usually ships to Marseilles Switzerland, and Mediteranenn ports, but it is doubtful this yoar whether she can furnish enough for kome consump. tion. Australis and tho Baltic provinces have not been heard from. Tlhus England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland will eartuinly bo competitors for the surplus of our wheat product, and we shall have only two important competitors for their supply against us,—Hudgary aud Southern Tussin "T'o tho extont that thoy aro short, the West will have to mmke it up, sinee in Culifornin the stock s lighter this yenr than usunl. That they will be short to considerablo extent ia indicated by the fact that it is already concoded that the shipments of whept from Odessn, which is the Chieago of Earopo, will bo very materially lessoned. In referring to the breadstuffs market of Turopo, wheat i always mentiorled, because wheat is in reality the Lreadstuff of Europe. Here, when wheat is short, we can fall back upon corn, but wheat is the staff of life in Europe, corn appearing mainly in the form of pork, as the people lave not learned to consume it ns bread or mush, and when wheat ig touched eovory family in Europo feels it, From thix presentation of facts and symp- toms it is pretty evident that tho unusually heavy surplus whoat growth in the Wost this year will find o profitable market, and that thero are brightor times shead for farmors and carrierd, and that tho oxportation will oven cxceed that of 1878, which was up to that timae unprecedentod, Tho immense nhip- wents in that yenr and the largo prices ob. tuined helpod this country materially to go through the panic, and strenghtened tho furmar greatly, Yast year, however, thero wero fine crops in Europe, consequontly much less whoat wus shipped and less wiws obtained per bushel for it. Thore is every indicution 1ows that we shall ship more than in 1873, and realize higher prices, so that the surplus of profits will excecd hnt of 1874, thus relieving our importing morchants from the pressurs of their heavy bolances in Eu. rops. Wuhave alrendy shipped §57,000,000 of gold in the reven months sinco the 1t of Jannary, which caused the increaso in the prico of gold, or ruthor the dupreciation of greonbacks, Tho senlo is turned, however, and upon the strength of these European pron:ises groenbacks are ugain rising in valuo, $hould these expoctations” be realized, aud should the hog and coru crops sympathize with wheat, and tho cotton erop fulflll the cxpectatious now indulged in by the South, gold will ba very low, and bo left inthe hunds of brokers to exchange for greenbacks, instond of beiug exported to Europo iu such vast quantitics to pay baluuces. The New York T¥mes says: *In 1874 the balauce of finports over exports wag about tifty-six mill- jous, A year lutér, thanks in great part to the enormous shipments of breadstaffs, the tables wero turned, and the exporis exceeded the imports by about the kame amount,—that i8, by fifty-soven and threc-quarter mill- ious, both exports and Imports buing calenlnted in gold. Up to the 1st of Muy n similar process hind been going on, hut by 1o means in so marked a manner, At that date tho exporta (in gold) excoeded tho im- porta abont twonty-five millions, and of this surplus mxteen millions were coin and bull- fon.” 'The indications now nare that we shall turn tho tables ngain, nnd that breadstuffs in- rtead of gold will be sent to Earope to pay indebtednens, nnd thia is a condition which is precedent to a renewnl of prosperity. The proceeds from this large demand ns they pass into tho hands of the agricultural classes will find their wny ngain to the mereantile classes and be widely distributed. 1t is not likely, however, that tho farmers will reap tha entiro Denetit of this rise of price and incrense of business, for where prices oro high and tho shipment demaud i8 good, tho trunsportation compnnics slwnys exnct Inrgor prices for their services and the middlomen get Iarger percontages ; but it is probable that the farmers will scouro more than one-half the benefit of tho rise. 'The general community will thns get all that s not taken by the English transportation com- panies and ba enabled to purchase and consume more goods. The morchants will pay off their balances, and less coin will be exported. There will be a rapid movement of money in tho banks, and, as it takes more curreney to handle these groat products at high prices in tho fnce of a lively demnnd, (.]:u banks will secure full employment for tloir idle funds. This at lenst is the ontlook from tho present situation, and that ontlook promises a livelior business this full than we Liave Liad sinee the panic. CHORPENNING AGAIN, Tho CrorresNING case is agnin to the front. This man Coonrexsive had certsin contracts for carrying the mail in California and the 'erritories for two yenrs, at a very libernl price. The contract called for tho delivery of the mnil by a certain route, but o obtain- ed permission when a portion of that route in the winter wns impassable to use another ronte. Subsequently his contracts, becnnse of bhis failures, were cauceled. He presented his necounts, and they were settled, and he was paid. e then prescated claims for ox. tra compensation for carrying the mails over the route, nud this claim was settled. o next appenled to Congress, which body we think voted him something, which he got. Another demand was miade by bim, and Con- gress directed the Postmnster-General to tear open and rebear and reseitlo hia case, Post~ mastor-General Brows, who went ount of office in 1835, thongh, protesting against the honesty of the claim and acting in obedience to the resolntion of Congress, reaudited the claim, snd allowed him $109,000. Each of {lieso settlements was “in full.” By this time Cmonrunsine had been paid twico the amount which all his contracts called for, supposing they Liad been exceuted. Cronrexyivag, however, was not dismayed. He renewed his application, Lut the Post- masters-General under Bucmaxaw, Livcony, and Jonssoy, all refused to reopon his case, Lolding that it had been finally decided and conld not be reopened. Ilo appealed to Con- gress, which body refused to vote him any ndditional allowance. Finnlly, in the last hours of Congress, a joint resolution, en- gincered by Mr, Jomy Crasya, of Pennsyl- vania, was passed, which in the mostinnocent manner directed the Postmaster-General to opon tho CronrENING case. About this timo an Assistant Postmaster-General resigned and becamo connsel for Citorrexsing. Tho passaga of the resolution attracted no atten- tion until, some months later, Congress hav- ing renssembled, Mr, Dawes, of Massnchu. setts, got an nnonymous note informing him that o draft by Postmaster-General Cues. WELL in favor of CHORPENNING was possing through the hauds of the soveral Trensury ofticers. o at once went to the Treasury and found that the Postwnster-Gen- oral had reopened the ecnge, had al. lowed CnoneeNyiNe to presont his claim in an enlarged form, and had actually awarded bim $443,000 in addition to all ho bad previously recoived. 'The warrant was then passing through the hands of the proper officers, and would be paid beforo night. Mr. Dawes, notifying the officer that the wholo thing was o fraud and to Lold the poper, procecded to the Capitol, nsked n hearing of the House, stated tho facts, and the Houso at his request nunanimously passed a resolution repealing tho joint resolution al- lowing the Postmnster-Goneral {0 make the new sottlement. The Sonato passed tho reso- lution, and the payment of the order was arrested, Here tho caso has staod ever sinco until Intely, when Cuonrexying has claimed a hearing, Tho Postmoster-General has re- fused o horring for want of authority, The Attorney-General has just decidod that Crion- PENNING i8 not barred by any provious pro- coodings from appealing to Congress for more. The award of the lato Postmastor- General is not a judgment binding upon nny- boidy; and that, unless Congress interfercs, the claim cannot bo presented in the Court of Claims becnuso excluded by the statute of limitations. It is not likely that Congrosa will ever agniu touch the now notarious fraud to the extent of roviving it CO-CPERATION AMONG FARMERS, Vinutn snid that farmers would be * too liappy if thoy but koew their own good for. tune.” Ono of tho great charms of thoir ex. istonce, as the poet explained, Is their inde- pendence. A farmer's family can do more of the work and produco more of the arti- cles necossary to cxistenco than persons in nlmost any other occupation. This very in- dependence, like most pleasant things, hns its drawbncks, ‘Tho roso hos its thorna It makes combination among farmers difticult, and in many eases practically impossible. The recent recommendation of co-operation ou the Rochdale plan, by the Exccutive Cow- mitteeof tho National Grange, has attracted general attention to a subject of grent im- portuyca and almost equally great danger. "Thoro is need of caroful discussion of this thome, It may save much money, time, and vexation of eplrit. Can the farmers of America profitably co-operata ? The hurden of proof lies o those who say they can, For this would be an innovation upon past experience and the established order of things, and, morcover, in both England and Gerwany, where co-oporation has been carried the farthest, little or nothing has been done in this direction by or for the farmers. *The co-operative wtores, shopw, snd banks of Germany are slmoat exclu- sively managed and owned by city wechanics? In Lugland, there is one promising co- operative ogricultural society,—¢ the Agri- cultural and tHorticultural Association (Limit- ed),"—but its growth has been cowpars- tively slow, and it is the only organization of tha sord in Great Lsitaln, Forelgn expe. rienee, thorefors, furnishes fow factsin proof of the possibility of co-operation among American farniers, "Tho efforts of the latter in this dircction havo not hitherlo, we beliove, been a success. ‘I'he exceptiona but confirm tho rule. Farm. era npparently cannot combine o buy gooils with advantage. The story of the attempt of ono set of Illinos farmers to do this will illnstrato the diffionlties to be overcome, Wo tell the talo as it was told us. Our informant is a prominent member of the Patrons of 1usbandry, whose name, were wo to mention it, wrnld be recognized na that of an authori. ty. The Grango to which he belonged do- cided to do some co-operative buying, An order wns ront to Chicago for some flour, sugar, tobaceo, ete, When the goods arrived, this man had to loso half o dny and work his tenm by going down to the station and carry- ing the articles to his house, ‘Then 8 scale had to be borrowed from the village store- keeper whom the Grange was trying to do away with. Weighing out the sugar, wrapping and tying it up, ete., took a number of valuable hours. The in- evitable shortage cama into the account, too. 'Tho npshot of the whole matter waa that the farmers lost a good deal of timo, took a good denl of trouble, and paid about 5 more than they would have had to pay if they had bought in the ordinary way. They found it disadvantageous, too, to buy through the Grango Purchasing Agent. If a man wished to get o now plow, for instance, he could go to n store, select one from half adozen different varicties, and have the privilego of exchanging it if it, did not suit him. If he bought through tho Agent, ho had to order without seeing n seloction of plows, and had to kecp tho one he got, no matter how un- suitable it proved to be. In the old way, tho risk was somcbody olse's; in the now way, tho risk was his. 'The general de- cline of co-aperation among the Granges moy fairly bo attributed to the recurrcnce of such experiences 03 thess, Tho troth is that while distribntive co.operation can bo mado n puccess amoug artisaus, it is of doubtful practicability among farmers. The Iatter ean oore readily sell than buy in unison. The Californin Grangers are understood to have made somo extra profit by shipping their own grain to Europe, but of this wo nre not sure. The plan of an international oxchange of wares betwoen tho American Patrons of Husbandry and the English co- operntors seems feasible, provided the details are well managed, but we doubt whether distributive co-operntion can be car- ried on to' ndvantage on 8 small sdéalo among our widely-scattered and self- dependent ngricaltural populntion, This judgment does not impugn the value or the feasibility of the co-operative principle. This bas made many millions of Englishmen, Ger- mans, and Italinns happy, But the first con- ditions of its suceess scom to Do a dense population aud the willingness to place im. plicit faith in and render implicit obedienco to the mnnagers clected by and from the mem- bers, ‘These conditions do not exist in the cuse of the isolated and thoroughly independ- ont Western farmer. ALLEN ON THE REBELLIOR, Gov. Auney, of Olio, opened the enmpaign in that State with a speech at Nowark a fow days ago, which tho Cincinnati Commercial charncterizes ns ** weak and miserable, low in tone, full of the deopost rent of tho dema- gogues of tho day, aud mode mmnusing by a pomposity of phrasing commonplaces that rewinds one of our African fellow-citizens.” Tho Commereial, howaver, hardly renches the mark in its characterization. It is mot only tho epeech of a domagogue, but of an old- timo, musty, stale, and disloyal domagogue, rnking like a chiffonnier among the cost-off nnd decaying issues of partics which were nbandoned long ago, and holding them up to the peopla ns if thoey wore frosh, and now, and vital; tricking himself out with the rags of poper currency, and exhibiting himself s o lunatic flaunts his bits of vibbon and paper which ho has stuck abont himself. "Fherois only one point in hisapecch which doserves any consideration, viz, : the War of the Relellion, which this ancient ghost has raked out of the oblivion to which it has by gonoral consent bosn consigned both by the North ind the South. If a toad, just relensod from {8 yenrs of imprisonment in some rock of tree, had the gift of language, it ~would yrobably discourss of whnt was going on at the tino it was immured. Sothis polit- cal saudan, reappearing on the surface after his lon sleop, commences discoursing upon tho War of the Rebellion, as if the whola comminity were not tired of it long ago, and s if dvery isuno conneoted with it and grow- ing mt of it had not boon dofinitely sottled. But old WirLtiax ALLen is nottiredof it, o linssottled nono of the issues flowing from it, Hohas not discovered that tho War is over. Holns not found out that tho South has no- cepted tho situation, nud is now laboring to recover from tho disastrous rosults of the coaflict. ‘Thereforethisold Copperhead rakes itall up again, and proposcs to oconduct a political cowpaign upon the War issuo by locating the responsibility of that War upon a Ropublican Congress! and charging upon the lepnblican party the disasters which grow out of it and tho subsequent burdens entailed upon tho South! Thero has been o very general sgreoment to lot bygones bo bygonos with referonce to the War of the Rebellion, oxcopt in tho cnse of a fow mal- contonts at the South represented by such mon na Beaunzaanp and Bemues, Prratox and Eirry, and at the North by this gar- rulous old Copperhend, who, like nearly all garmlons octogonarinns, is prating of things which took place in o past age. But now that an effort is made by the Ohio Domogracy to revive the War questions and to fasten tho responsibility of tho Rebollion upon the Rebublicans, it is only proper to fix the responsibility whero it Dbolongs. Tho Tobellion was notoriously inangurated by the Democratio party to preservo the institution of slavery, ‘I'he State Sovereignty party s responsille for the erimes aud colamities of that War, and, being responsible for them, is also responsible for tho disasters and dis- trossos which have resulted from ft. The Domocratio party of the South fought the battles of the War, dragging . the Whigs into it with thom, 'The old Whigs of the Bouth wore generally Union men. ‘Iho Democratio party of the North—at least a large pari of it—alded and encouraged the South. 1t opposed the drafta. It fomented sedition and violence, It fpredicted disasters and ou- latuities to the Union cause. In tho large citics it broke ont into open violence, so that troops had to be withdrawn from the Union army to suppress it. And mmong the Ohlo Democrats, WiLLIAM ALLEN, uext t0 VALLAN- DicnaxM, was one of the most venomous, and, in the darkest hours of the Union, mnde a spoooh intended to give aid and comfort to the Confedsrates. He had no words of en. coursgement for the North, aud no sympathy for ths Union army striving to presazve the TRepnblie from dirintegration. For this man, therefors, to revive tho bitter memories of that steagglo at this Inte day, is only to re- yive his own infamy aud to securo his own coundemnntion. PENNSYLVANIA PECULATION, At tho Inst session of tho Ponngylvanin Leg- inlaturo the Llouse passed a resolution direct- ing its Bpeaker to appoint n committeo chiarged with the investigation of tho Btate Tronsury, and authorized to send for persons and papers, and to hnve access to all rocords in the offico of tho Treasurcr. 'Tho Commit- toe was duly appointed. It waited npon the State Treasurer aud suggested that it would like to look at some figures, Ifo refused to ‘4 recognizo” the Committes. Ifo declined to produce his accounts. ‘Ihe representatives of tho people of Ponnsylvania were informed that not a serap of paper, not a leaf of n ook, not n row of figures, would be shown thom. Dishonesty had no iden of furhishing the proofs of its own gnilt. It willbe remem- bered that & certain official thief named T'ween once declined to **recognize” a demand for the production of his accounta. The mn- nenvre did not pay in tho long run. The wily person who sits in tho Tronsuroer's office at Harrisburg is apparently not versed in recent politieal history, elso he would scarce- 1y have taken this disstrons leaf ont of I'werp’s book. Tho refusal to submit the nceounts s tantamount to an acknowledg- ment that the accounts are—mildly spenking —wrong. No other inforenco can bo drawn from it, Yet mark how the press of Phila- delphin receives this exposure. ITero is tho Press, which prints the Committee’s report on an insido page, gives it & contemptuous heading, and makea not the slightest editorial roferonce to the grave matter. The Committee managed to recover from the blow of not being *‘recogunized " by Macrry, It procecded to invostigate this porson withont his nssistance. It has pub- lishedaproliminary roport, whichis important, not only for what it says of futuro investign- tion when the Legislature has met and tho THouse orders tho nocessary books and papers to be produced, but for itself. 'Three points o made. During twelve yoars from Dec, 1, 1862, the State T'rensury has received notn cent of in- terest on the funds doposited in banks, The average monthly balanco in the hands of the ‘Propsurer has been 2,100,000, TInterest on this, at & per eent, would have nmounted to moro than £1,200,000. Who got this money ? 1t was paid to sowmebody, of course, and that somebody wns not the State. If the Tronsurer rotained this interest for himself, heis liable to fine, imprisonment, and re- moval fromn office by impeachment or judicinl docision. In plain English, the mattr amounts to this: From December, 1862, to Decomber, 1874, some person or persons pocketed $100,000 o year which belongs to the 'I'rensury of tho peoplo of Penusylvania. 'This is what the Philndolphia Prest conaiders not of snfilcient importance to require edito- rial notico. 'Tho Constitution of Pennsylvania provides that, **unless in enso of war, invasion, ar in- surrection, no part of the sinking fund shall be used or applied. othorwise than in the extinguishment of the public dobt.” Nover- theless, nenrly 3,000,000 of the fund has been so applied, A Iaw of April 14, 1870, which soems to be plainly unconstitutional, authorized such a disregard of the Conatitu- tion, but more than 21,600,000 of the rum was diverted oven before any such wrotolied excuso wns framed for the practice. ‘I'ho law reqnircs the Commissioners of the Binking Fund to use *“all monoys” iu their possession on tho first business day of May, August, Novembor, and February in reducing the public debt. Instead of doing so, they have repoatedly carried balances amounting to over a million dollara over thoso days, ‘This was done, of course, in order to give somebody tho interest on theso large suma. The people of Pennsylvania have beon forced to pay interest on millions of debt in order that some dishonest person or porsons might receive interest on tho monoy that the law snid should be used to redoem this debt. ‘*GENTLEMAN EMIGRANTS.” Mucmillan's Magazine (London) for June, 1875, contains o paper urging an emigration of English ** gentlomen " to tho State of Vir- ginia. The writer rominds Lis ronders that Virginin tnkes her name from Queon Eriza- pern, ond was poopled mainly from the * rankd of cavalier refugeos, from whom the Virginians of tho present day are in great purt dircelly dosconded,” e describos tho Virginia descendnnts of the cavalierd ng ¢ keoping up to & certain extont old English hnbits and customs, cherishing the prido of nnciont descont, retaining s certain amount of exclusivencss, and sccumulatinglarge prop- erties™ ; these Virginions **lived in rural ease and plenty, indulgiog in plain but unbonnd. ed hospitalities, hunting hores and foxes, and shooting partridges and grouse, till the wmomorable year of 1862,” tho yoar of the Re- bollion. After depicting the disastrous offects of tho War upon Virginia and to the now era of oxistenco which {s now beginning for that State, in the wayof capital aud immigra. tion, the writor ssys that it is to o certain class of Englishmen that Virginia holds out her arms, and this class is of English gontle- mon and farmers with what i8 called in En- gland & small eapital, but which in Virginia will go a surprisingly long way. This class includen * British officers, and gentlemon of education,” ‘I'he English workingman—that is, the man who porsonally labors—is warned that about the very worst place he could transport him. self nnd family to would be Virginia, sinco in the rural districts there aro but the two classes, planters aud negroos, the latter doing the labor, The Englishman could not labor without losing social caste mnong the peoplo, who cherish with pride their ancient descont. Moroover, the whites in the rural distriots ‘whosa familics havo never ownod slaves, nor boon landed proprietors, are called *‘ mean ‘whites,” which, he thinks, English working- men would not relish. The advico to En- glishmen to emigrato to Virginia is, there- fore, confined oxclusivoly to **goutlomen " and othor non.working classes, who with small capital can purchase an estate, and hire negroos to do the work, while they can enjoy, in the style of English gentlemon, (ox-lmnt‘ing. partridge-shooting, and, with riding, and perbaps racing and other out- door sports, can have all the enjoyment of tho more woalthy class in England, If Virginia is waiting for this * gentle. man” class to begin o new ers in her exist. ence, then Virginia is walling for nothing new, The curse of Virginia has always been that her non-producing or ‘‘gentloman" class bas been 60 proportionately larga. A noa.producor, whother by lubus ee napital auploying labor, is the very worst class that could emigrate to Virginla. FPride aund pov. erty have had their day in that Btato, and, if Virgiols {s ever to rise outof the condition in which she is wasling away, she must in- | santimontal as financial. Onco tho plain wicke vito a white population, not of fox-linnters or parteidge-shiooters, nor of men having pride in their ancient descent, tut of farmers and Inborers, miners and mechanics, dach man of whom will own and callivate his own. Iand, undeterred by tho appellation of “menn whito.,” Virginin wants in- dustrious laborers and not drones, and must cultivate tho sentiment that the man who onrms by his own labor the brend ho ents is the social peer and the political equal of any * gentle- nian " in the State, no atter haw far back bo can traco his *‘nncient ancestry.” Vir- ginia hos bad onough of the * gontloman " clngy, taking that clnsa to bo the non-produc- ers nnd thoso who hold Inbor tobo n disgrace socinlly, and in the othor Southern Btates would go to .work porsonally ; would put tho horses they ride in fox-hunting and at *‘tourna- ments® to the plow and to the reaper and barvester ; instend of bowailing the demorali- zntion of the negro, thoy would take the place of tho negro in the fleld andin the forest, thoy would soon settle tho labor prob- lem, nad thero would flow in & tide of white labor to purchase the now abandoned lands and mnke the State one of the richest in the Union, Thon there wonld bo no such things to be seen in Virginia ns tho following, which the writer in tho English magnzine describes o8 * not uncommon " ¢ ‘Theold esiates are principally of 1atge elze, varying | monoy, disappearod. from 300 t0 3,000 acres, Itisno uncommon thing to meet with & plantor llving in & princely houso that might vie with many of our old country houses in En- qland, having In his posscaslon somo 1,000 acres of land, without a cent to carry ou his fa rm, several thousand dollurs in dobt, lving in ons room of Lfe boune, which lsall ho can aford to furnish, and working small patchoa of his estafio Lieraand thero, with tho add of one or two Lired hazeds and perhaps o toam of horses, Carved clitoney-pleces ond faultlossly Iaid osk floors aro rotting beneath hfs feot, ot naturally bred up to work, but having lived tha greater part of his 1ife in case and plenty, he has now to take off his coat and follow thie plow, undor 8 crushing load of daht ho can tee no meana of ever being able to pay, o secn hin eatato, which wae once covored with sheep and caltle, growingup above his heod in wild grass and weeds ; Lia tobacco-liousos, that auce grosned with tho fragrant leaf, falling fast to decay ; and tho long rows of cabins, where the darkics naud to sing and dance in tho long summer ovonings, doserted and silout. Bill this * Virginin gentleman " prefors to live in his princely house, steeped to the lips in povorty, penniless and bankrupt, to selling nany portion of his land to the mon who will’ hire laborers nnd work with them in eulti- vating the soil, in felling the foreat, in feed- ing his cattle, and roaping tho reward of his own labor and of his own capital, instead of mortgaging it in advance to n factor, spending his income one or two years shoad, in living liko an ** English gentleman.” Mr. Hesivo, in in his way which he will-find it very difficult to go round or climb over, in the shapo of Jaxe Reny, who now comes squarely out and announces his intention to run for the office, and if elected to nllow acowmmittee of citizons to nominatoe his chief clork, and not to take & cent for his services, but divide his salary, interest, and perquisites among tho charitable institutions of the city, Aore than this, Mr. Renx invites n counter proposition from Mr. Hesiva, which, if mnde, he announces he will * discount.” Now, lot us hear from Mr. Mesixo, «Rems hos ployed o big trump. Mr, Hzsmvo must tramp higher, or throw up his lund. Meanwhile, * over the Rhine™ all “ Germany " is waiting to s00 what ho will | do. Heswo, at lost, hos met his man. ‘When Teuton meets Touton, then comes the tog of beer. The Rov. Dr. Covien, in the Ecangelist, in paying bis respects to what he ocalls ¢ warm- wonther Obriatisus, saya: * Thore is snothor motoorological phase of religion. It may be #tyled warm-weathor piety. It is regulated hy the thermomotor. Llo standard it goes by ia not tho warmth of inward love for Christ, but tho warmth of the stmosphere, Its zoal coola If tho gentloman class in Virginin | blossom. ‘Tho red roso of Laucastor, and the and porhaps | g yl, atmost pootic, justico n hia fate, The and | Trustee of Columbia Collogo for over twenty y his search for the County | New York Philkarmouio Soctoty, for over thirty Trensurership, has probably met an obstacle | years hos beon a vestryman of Trinity Church baskel, adorned with flowers, comos into yun tha rosawood and wiver-plated earkoth will g out of nse, and funorals will Lecomo comparg. tively Incxponsive, fenco tho unhappiness of the undortakers. Meanwhile tho ganoral pulily will bo delighted if it shall ovontusta that the Duke of BuTuEnLAXD has mado 1t posaible for pooplo to dio and bo buried chonply. Lot e ) FEnglishmen havo a national reputation to sng. tain of absolute stolidity and freodom from thogy epidomica of fashlon which are usanlly suppoged to Lo the cxclusive right of their morcuria) ueighborw across the Channel, They havo taliyg nignally, dutlng tho past fos yoars, to man. tafo it. Every now and then a *rago” appears aud carries thom off. Ronod aro now all thy rago. Tho entiro Kingaom of (reat Britain poars to be engaged in cultivating its emblematig white roso of York, once iu hor history delugeq the feland in blood. Rores of all hrues ang varicties now perfumo tho country. * Ross. Bhowa" aro tho featurom of tho soag in the provincos; while gigantio exbibitiong at {he Cryatal Palaco, in which evorybody par. ticipates, snd for which coatly prizos are offered, stimulato competition. If ail tho fronzies of 3 nation wore as inrmless, as pure, and as natun, tho araonsds and navy-yards of tho world woulg rapidly decuy, —_——— An Englishman in Now York, the other day, foll into bad company, drank too much liquor, and was put to bed in a den of thioves. I3 awoko to find that his sonses bad In part rotum. od, sud his wallet, containing n small eum of Thinking, no doubt, that acnao without monoy was of no possiblo uso, by again went out of hia head, and sallled into thy streets in tho dross of *‘a protty waiter-girl® cousisting principally of tights. Thero sy fato of tho Prodigal tending swine waa uotso miserable by half as that of tho brave Brton who walked the stroota in the hobit of a prosti« tute. If the samo or a eimllar punishmiest— cloaing, sain this cnso, with s night in the sta. tion-house—wore metéd out to all midnight- brawlers, there would be some docrease in ths number of drunkards, and fewer brosion Loarts, in Americs, OBITUARY, OEONOE TEMPLETON S8TIONG. The Now York papors of the 22d inst. an. nounco the death of Geomor TeMrLETor Brnono, Comptroller of the Corporation of Prinity Church, in that city. Ho was s lawyer by profession, and & man of groat enlturo and loarning. He nover took m vory ctivo part in politica, but during tho last War waa appointed Troasurer of the United States Sanitary Com- miveion. Ho wasono of the foundors of ths Union League Club, and wxa an houorary mom. borof it at tho timoof his doath. Mo wass yoars, aud was also one of the fonnders of thy Hchool of Mines in that institution, to which by contributed & lsrgo and valuable colloction of books. Ilo was at one timo Prosident of thy and two yoars ago was made Comptroller of th Corporation. s0sEPT cLARK. Joseprr CLARK, one of the most promineat shipbuilders in Mnine, and one of the woalthiot mun io Now England, dicd at Waldoboro, e, on the 19tk inst. Ho bad boen in active bus. noees ovor fifty years, and nccumulated an ime moneo fortuno. He had filled various positions of honor and trust, aud had boon a member of tho State Legislature and a dolegate to theRe publican Convontion which nominated Presidact Lixcouy in 18G4, Ho was also largoly ongsged in banking and railroad interests, POLITIOAL NOTES, Masaachusetts, 1o shoer desperation, bu | turned from her profossional politiclaus, like Den Butler and Oskea Amos, and sukod ber scliolars to take part in publio affairs, Prol Beelyo, of Amherss Collego, it {a well known, is » mombor of Congress-clect; and President Eliot, of Howard, and President Cliadbourne, ol Williams, aro mentioned for Contennial Gor ernor, West Virginia now claims the palm for ont-sud out inflation hounizients ; but, no doubt, by timo the opinwns of hor public men have beex thoroughly csuviased, the common hord wil in proportion as the weather grows hot. When | bave come to wiser views. Such woa tho experk tho glasa geta above ninety tho inward emotions are congealed and pioty ia * puat feeling.’ It is “too hot ' to worship God for two hours ou the Sabbath, but it is never too Lot to toil for Mam- mon gix days during the woek.” Istho faultin this caso sltogethor with the warm-weathor Christisus of tho laity? Are thora not warm- wonther pastors also? This la tho sonson of vueations, and all over the laud tho miniters aro hurrying of for rest. Nothing Wrong about that. But what is tho practicc in nino ceses ont of ton? The fit-ealaried ministor goes off to the seasido or the mountains, and hia placo {8 sup- plicd by exhortors, homoe missionarios, or pen- sioners untit for active duty, and who nra not good for much, oither in Lot ar cold weatlier, Ta it thoroforo romarkable that tho laity sliould let down some in their raligions tono and grow lax induty? For inetance, Mr, Derouxn has had Lis salary rasod to 100,000, sud now goes off on enoe in Missourl, which was formerly tho mod pronounced inflation Btate in the Union, bat sov baa within her borders only one loading vewy paper preaching inflation doctrine. The Domocratic managers in Ohio aro trrioy to have Mr, Pencllaton appoar 8 a sort of havpf compromiso between Allon aud Thurman. W Lave the authority of tho Clucionati Com- mercial for the atatemont. Tho intimation is,d course, that Popdioton bas thus far beo th chief galoer by tho Bookor Hill Conventio, sud, in caso of its Indoreemcut at tho pols would bo tue onlyr avallable Prosidontial cscdi dato from Oblo Lofore the Domocratio Natiou! Coprention. Mr, Charles O'Conor'a arraignment of Now York Court of Appenals has not fallen & dull cars, Tho pross of the Stato is thorougdlf sroused on thosubject; and itis romarkablethst the Ropublican newspapors, for the most parh support Alr. 0'Cotor, whito tho Domocratlc pred o three-manths’ vacation, with Tox, Dicx, and | gonorally, and tho organs of tho Canal Ring @ Hannv to take bis place. Will it be remarkable partioular, abuse him in unmeasured torms. 4 if the Plymouth Church people who havo to stay | the New York Nati'on well obsoerves, ** Fow meni at home and swelter bocome warm-weathor Christisns ? Bupposo 8 doctor or lawyer should | tor,” and, having written it, fow would have 00 1 0 off on » vacation and il is place with inca- pobles, how long would they rotain thoir prac- tico? It thoir customers domand the bost, thon why should not s roligioua congregation also de- mand the boat? ———— Now that the college-rogatts is ovor and the boys iave returned to their homes, the nows. papars are taking a survey of the performanco from the lofty moral standpoint generally oo- cupled by the dally presa, They flud, firat ofalls that there waa s good doal of gambling going on in Baratogs during regatta-weok. Atouo time, 100 sets of college-colors were counted In Alr. Jonx Monnisser's olub-rooms, and tbe wearors of them were amoat invariably beardleas boys, more or less advanced fo intozication. Horo cortainly iy » dreadful evil, for which a remedy must be provided, 1f honeat men are to take any s hardenod wsioner indeed who calmly ocontemplste the prospect of su- jocting the represeniative youth of the Unitod States to tho baleful influences of Me. Jonx Monussgy, The Now York ZT'ridune sug- gests—uardonically, we presumo—that, 4 M., Monwesey bears tha reputation of & grod fel~ tow, he may b induced to close his clst-house donng the two days of the regatts, Wo foar therois no hopo of yelief in thig dircotion. Much more probable is tho intimatin given ouc in the New York Nation, that Yaleaud Harvard will return to tho old custom of roving apart, leaviug tha other colleges to ther OWnresourced. It fu eaid that tho crews of Yse and larvard sgreod to recommend this cou 8o o thair reapeo- tivo colleges ; and that, jporder to pravent ill- navured romark of cavil, eir meatlug wa held before the last race was-owed, 1f this ba true, a3 we beliave It to be, $16 twocolleges willvite oo the eubject soparatey next fally and, if ty de- clda on the policy of excluslveness, theirnext Tegatts will propebly be rowed y toga, ———— The Londca undertakers are ralsing 8dvay | promineuce he might breeze of {ndigoation over the Duke of FUTIZL~ Lanp'y xmn{ neat {uvention for aneloratng decompiosition by paseut burial:] ety protested ¢ etock in foture rogeitas. fle mus bo |, wpioh tne result was brought sbout. T 8 | Baltimoro Amavioan, in summing up the C& the world would huvo dared to writo such s ¢ i aiutontly itood by tho text. Tho Nation, by i " way, designatos Chist-Justico Church as * anotéd politician, who i gunerally up for some oftice other,—aomotimes tho Governoralip and som® timoe tho Presidenoy,—and whoso name o = courso, bocomes the foot-ball of any nowspspe that wishes to kick it about.” The spoctacle presentod in the Maryland Dec ocratio Convention was not unusual for thet times of caucus-rule and wire-pulling; but ¥ tho Bt. Louls Rypublican says, it was anough ¥ make the nld Carroll and tho old Hamilton tan in thelr graves. Charges of bribery in the Co» vontion wera bradled with magnificont reckles nees, Ae might have been expeotod from it raturo of tho prellminary proceeding, the nom watiops wer thoroughly disroputable,~b% #0 much for tho charsctor of men chosen, as for tho mamd = ‘:gg T 5 vention, aaya: ** It Is only publishing ao opd wocrat to asy that those mominatlons testify ¥ the complete snd entire succoss of the more City Ring, tho Chesspoake & Ohlo Ting, and the Btate Troasury Ring,—throo 008 = binations that are mutuslly dopendent ono 0F% tho otlier, whoso members must atand of f& 1 togelhior, sud who would have ccime to soD¥ thing worse thau disgrace and defoat it they bsd not carried ‘tho Conventivn yosterday. T groat many seombors of the Lemocratid party who rehet sgalost the rulo of tle Rivgs Thoy beve 1oado & good fight, and tiey ba™ boen beaten.” There la wald to be slrobd eamost talk of sn Independent tickes, relrd upou Republloan support. The Hon. Rouben E, Fenton has taken &? mdomitable *Gath” Intohis contidence; *Gath," lo turn, has brought the newspPs™ world into the circla of communicstion. outon does 1ot apprehend that Qhio will 7 eloct William Allen this year, becauso ther®¥ dissatisfaction with his platform, and with 5 assume au s Presidont csudidate. Billl, Mr, Fenton belioves thors ¥ st strength, constantly diminishlog though i T e b= ots, sad | be, in the inflation movement; saud Lo W s meeting in thatclty,+ whioh they { not havs the subject toa much sgitated b tbil sgainat the spread r notions whick | tine. For the rost, Fenton names Dsy! threaten to iojure our craft s dogrado the re- [ as & lixdy Democratle candidate, aud Morgss malnaot our common b with the Loadon undwiAkers upanity.” The trouble | Fiah, wd Bristow, aa smoug the nM is ol o0 mush | of mask io the Bepublican party, Tols inse