Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 25, 1875, Page 3

e et e e e T ENGLAND. An American Impressions of the NMothers Coundry. A Paper by Mr. Horace White in tho ¢ Fort- nightly Reviow.” + Qreat Dritain Moro Republican than the United States. gomo Points of Differcuce Between the Two Countries The anslic;n of Universal Suffrage~- The Courls—Compulsory Edn- cation. thurch and State---Romanism---Free Trade in Land-.-English Crops. givil Service---Condition of the Working Classes---erson- al Expenditure. Fortnightty Rtepiew, Logland has given Lo America lengunge, litera- tare, laws, and {nstitutions, HSho pave un_thu I'rotostant religion, Magna Charta, and African slavory. Sho endowod us with whatover ehe had sttho timo, and we (ook tho good and the bad togotlior. \hen wo eamo to congtruct onr Gov- ernment, wo borrowed tho form of King, Lt}rdfl. sud Commons, without (leirtitles and here.dxlnl:y enccession, The now couvtry rewaine, in thiy sespect, where it wau nearlya hundrod years sgo, whilo tho old hes greatly changed. King and Lonls, thongh retaining their titles and succos- sion, havo beon merged for all practical pur- poscs in tho Commons, whilo Presidont and fon- sto remain indepondeut, co-ordinate powers on our do of tho water, and. tho Executive powor I rongibiy gained upon tho Logislative, In re- cording #omo of tho tmprossions which s firnt yisit to England makes upon an American, I mention this asthe most strikivg in its effect apon my own mind. LSOLAND DBIFTING TO A REFUDLIC—AMENICA TUE LEVERSE, The now Republic has, if ansthing, veorsd to- ward Monarchy, whilo tho old Mouarchy has mavifestly drifted to Republicanism. 1t eecmy rather o startling thing to say -that England is mors Republican thau the Uniled States, but L bave veutured to say it in an Amorican publica- 4on, and I ropost It Lioro, 1 understand a Tepublio to be a conntry which Is governed by publio opiulon. As Letween two countrica which aro so governed, the ono in which public opiuion acts more speodily, auraly, and effectively {s tho moro Republican, and that country 18 England, since England is not fer- tered with epecified terms of oflice during which public opinion is powerless to offcat its ends, Tho spectaclo of a proud and sble Ministry bronght 1o ity knees and compolled to chauge its courso willin & wook's time, upou o question whother a bill deomed by tho Premier to be of sccondary importanca should bo passod in this session or Lo nest, 18 altogether without parallel in our legislation, 1t was clearly Mr. Disracl, and not Mr. Plimeoll, who apologized for tho late oxcit~ Iog sceno i the Ilouso of Commous, 1t may be argued that specificd torms of offico are usofal {n onler to securo the sober, socond thought of the peoplo rather than tho fivet Impulsive ox- pression, That may be truo, but doos not affect tho quention whethier the one or tho other lund' of government s the more Ropublicaz. TITLES AND UNIVELSAL BUFFEAGE. 11t Lo auy grievanco that o fes hundred por- eona aro sllowed to call themwelves Lord This or Bir That, becauso their fatkors woro so siyjod before tuem, Luglishmen are the only onea who have & right to complain of it, and I inve yot to hear such complaints uttered, What way bo the precivo aims of the Hepublican agitators in England, I have not learned, 1f they mim to so- cure & more equal distribution of sosts amoug tho constituoncies, their offorts wcom most commendable, for 1t is almoat nn fusult to daclaro a man fif to have tho suffrago, and in the eamo act decroo bim to bo ouly s fraction of »mau a8 comparcd with soino othor person pos- #eseing 0o higher qualiticatious, In tha view I Am taking of tho forns of Governmont, this is meroly & mattor of detail, Iu tho wider nonso, it appears to ma that the Republican agitatars of Englaud havo already got all, and more than, they can over atlain by copylug aftor us, if they want & Damocracy, that ls snothor thing. Tho questioh whether ail adult males should bo sllowed to participato oqnally in tho functions of Governtent, regardlcsy of education, chiarac- fer, aud porsonal interost in the common weal, {5000 40 be digcursed by itwolt ; and if it could Beapproactiod by & porfoetly unprejudiced per- +800, like tho man from the moon, might ba placed ou the tablo alouguide of the question of ¥omau-suflrage, Itwould beapart fromthe pur~ 00 of $his articla to set forth aby views na to tho folativo claimun of expediency ou thio one haud, aud Mbetraot nghts ov tuo other, in detertnioing who il b allownd to vote, Iu tho Ropublio of the United orates, the doctrino of abstract righty Lisa obtained 'the mscendenoy (oxcept ms fo womeu), and 1t must wark out its own salvation with more or loss foar aud trewbling. ealigia nulla relrorsum, In the Republiv of ngland, the rule of oxpodienvy hns governed, dud will continuo to govern. Lcoking at the frequovcy of bribory 1u olections, I should say that it would not Lo udvisable to oulargo tho atea of corruption rapidly by opeumyg the suf- frage toa clas who would maiuty exorcles it for W8 value In money or giu, Tho next Reneration of thie Hoven Dials and £t.-George's-in-the-East way be, muit bo, befter qualiled to voto for embors of Partiament than tho present, if the Now Hehool Inws are wisoly - administored. Whothor all, the pooplu i England who would Dsa the uflrago wikoly and vartuously havo hnd it extuuded to thom, sy woli bo doubted. Whathor all who have recelved it do uss it widoly and well, Is uat by any moans an open quoation. Any rule which may Lo aopted for bringing in néw shoals of vaters, whethor by property or educatioual tosts, will necessarily Ting i 8 cortain number of the worthloss aud unprincipled. That is would Lave beon botter for us lu Aworics, ospecially fu tho largo citlos, It sonie such toss bl buen adopted and adhored 10, in place of universal suffrage, ia the upinlon ::‘ neariy all who have aitlier education or prop- by Not ouly does pubiio optaie ot only does publio opidion in Eng) t more surely, spoedily, and eRectively %1::3 (.lfa vernment than in America, but justica is more surely aud expeditiously silmintatered 1n tho Courts. Three causes for thia ditferauce have occurred to me. Iu the frst place, English Judyes are not concorned to dotorming the 0ou= Suutiunality of any siatuie,—that yuestion ha ing beon concludod by tha Parliameut which e led it Amorican Gourts 810 coustantly pes- {sted with queations of this kind, They have o lermine not only tho interpretation of the 1w, but whother 1t was compotent for the Leg. adura to pase tho law; and tho Logislatures, both National aud Btate, have fallen into gno it of pasalug billa of doubtful confority to the Conaitution, Felying npon the Courty to gos- ¥ect their ervors, if any,—a habit which wmay bo wildly churacterized as ulovenly, dubgerous, and tructive of all seuso of logislative rospansibil. . Oue-third of ali the tolay and vxjensy of Lamanitu (oxcopt thoso of o strictly comton-law tyve) from tho necossity imposed upon Udges of deciding upon the costitusionality of “atutes, Jo mught La suppuotd & priarl that tha h 18 would sagerly seize such puwese, and that b8 Legistaturo “would stoutly resont such on- fot meuts, Exactly the opposito result Lass Ollowed s i cases, ‘Tho Courts mauifest gm reludance £o set aside statutes for waut of oormlty to the Constitution; snd the Legs- m‘:}“' 0 cases whero they du go intortere, mlv-u 10F tho least uuoaeingss, ubleds soumo m&«lumqa s thoreby put in jeopm uly. scldom boppous, Hocondly, the twofuld THH CHICAGO TRIBUNE: NA TURDAY PrEMBER 2 ayrtein of Courts - one sppartainig to the Hiate, At the uther to tho United Ntates - with a targn and incroasing numbor of cases winen may by tuanwferred o appendsd feom Hie iimer Lo G Iattor, haw no pazwilel in Englad. Withoot go- dng inta detuly, T uny any (hab ot is prod: Loth of delay and bad deedicr. Tlardl proctico of choosing Jadi s ol Sty Courts by wuiverml sufirago Ling bosno Lad ot in mangy hacos, aud in dentimod to bhoar watko Lofors wis ana the end of it The gonerd upiglune tho Judicinry servon to miko the rasealiny of exceptionn the mora glaching, and to print ont more fozeibly iho dangers of a aystons which coulatun such gorm, COMPLLEORY BCHtooLtva, Tho celerity with whtch cotnmon schools have heen extablished 1 Encland sies the passses of s iadt Reform bl in (o o very hoticeabio, an i« nlwo tho mein< cploved to eulorea the at- tendance of chiliren. In providing welool- raom and instraceion for all the cluldzen an her Borders, and enmpothng theie attendanee, 1 clatd i outatriy pud the Amorican civy wheres | resile, in wiich tua **commonaxhool syrtem ™ T provabled ainco sty fitat foundanon, ~ Iu the cux of whiclt | speal, which is pecinps ascep- tiviable, population has commaniy outrnn echool-accammudavon, and compclzory utlend- nuco hay ouly boen farutly disensocil, ‘Tho veve oral btatoys of tho Umon hnve eacy their ovn po- culiar Sichonl laws, Whother compalrory attoud- auce bia boen adoptod in any, [do not know, I funk ft haw been in womo parts of New En- Aiel bub it Ta ot genanal, T T adhioved €0 great n blesting as the means and apglianees of wmvorsal primary edueation, Ly s surpislug thivg, con-idering the shortnosd of time you hnve huon al.out b, The rates peid by Londoners for all purposes, includig Church- rates, aro trivisl a3 compnrmd with those paid in American citios, 1 judye ithat they aro not tnota than one-fifth tho snw nawossed upon equal amauntsof propoty in New York or Boston. “Lhus iw 1ot 6 comlls 1o bo wondored #L what wo congidor the seeimnisted wealth of London, oud reflect that wha hus long wnco bought and paid for hep periaucnt tmprovouments, whilo American eitios are oither buyiag thuirs, or pay- Ing intereat on tho debts coniracted (o wevure thou. Bt ik mukes £ho wonder grow that any- Loy should grambio at i relio 1rato of 3d in the nanad of assensod rontal vatuc,-~tho assessiient bewg not rmore thau ho!f the real value,—bo- caurs perchance somelody rasy hoye moro chuldren Inschuolthan somshody elao, THL CUURCH AXD BTATE QUESTION, That the rchools should Lo badicappod with a Church question in to bo expevted, Wo uro not wholly freo from sech disputen in Amerien, though uilr cireunisinnces arg much mora favar- abl6 to uon-sectarian tuition than those of the Mothor Country. The union of Church nnd Stalo ia n wost conkpicuons headland to every American sojourner in Innd, Here, if_nny- where, wo scom to find {ho ruck of ngen, Union of Cluireh znd Stato is the dlegitinate oltspring of old Nome. Its onigin is to ho fonnd not m Jeutts, it i Jupitor.” Whon Chirstiamty over- turuod the old mythology, it put on us wmany of tho clathen of tho decadont ax it could wear, As, tho adminstration of the Btato and’ the sd- ministration of religion wero oue bofoys, so they continued to be wue after the imago of Mary hed wupplanted that of Juno i the Paptheon. Whv does it nuver oceur to thia Rit- ualists of the Church of Lugland tlat, in put- ting on tho uappings of 1l Pupacy, they sro ay likely rs not putting on t oahngm.irm ? Tho union of Chureh and Staze was thits n oxiating Tact swhen Henry VHT. hroke with Bomo; and he, too, pissed it on down the streawn of time witha rrogeny of abuses like that against which Dean Htanleyaud tho Roy. Mr, Feomantle protestedlast Juna at the City Templo, Nobwithstanding thevo sbuses, aud tho puratit abuso implied 1n taking fiow tho property of all to suppurt a form of worship whici in objectionblo to g por- tlon, the State Church seews to bo tolorably well brated, Itis very plain that Digsent is making no hosdway agaiust it. ‘Ihe Now Learnlug s it ouly formidable enemy, but this fs the onomy of tho Dissouting churohes as well. Indsed, the State Chureti s inuch more doxtorous in mocting snd moking ternw with this comer than tho other denominations on oithor sido of tho watcr. Itseems tobo sprinkled withs clorgymon who make no seraple of dipping into Gerwan eriticise of the Bible, and pussing the cream thoreof aver to thelr flacks in tho shapeo! transiwions, If the Now Learning i of the mammon of unrightovusness, it is finding distingnishied friends 1 that which Americans lhavo been accustomed fo estoem tho most con- sorvative branch of the Protestaut faith, For tho rest, tho Church of England seems to bo a well-to-do coi1poration, owning much land, do- claring rogular dividohds, and fraught with n seelnl power against which tho breezy diatrac- tioun of Moody and Sanlkoy on the one hand, and tho incantations of the Pope on the othor, will alike provo ineffestual, THE KIREAD OF MOMANISM. It #cems to Lo tho fashion, both n Enpland and America, 10 utler plaintivo cries about the growth nnd ‘sprend of Lowsnism in the two cauntrics, As regards tho United States, it may o anfely said that the Romau-Cathotie Churel iy making no inronds upon tho native populatio, It gains vothing except in the way of inporta- tona frowm Irsland and South Gerwany, and theso aro too sl in proportion 10 sho wholo to be accounted serivus. On the othar Land, it fairly bolds ite own in its particular sphere,. Ita teneta aro opposed to our systemof popular edu- cation, and overy now aud_ then we hoar a Cath, olic Bishiop domanding ndivision of the schoold fuud, 8o that Catholic may apply tho portion which thoy contributo to their own peeubiar motkod of training, It dr ime porniblo that thin demand should bo com- plicd with, Logically, the publio suthoritios Wwill bo compolled to dispenso with every form of roligious inutruction iu schoot ; that cousisty now only of reading the Ihblo aw a mowming vxereiso, sud {8 by no meaus universal, Some of the wmost ominent of the Protestunt clergy ara will- ing to yield tlus point. 'The Catholics will bo as Littlo watisticd with that, however, as they aro with the presont custom; but it is all thoy can Lopo for, viueo & divisiont of tho #chool-fund to accommodato the Catholivs implies a division to acconmmodate tho Jows, the Quakers, tho Spirit- uslints, the Freo-Thinkers,-and overybody elso; in short, a digsolution nnd breskdown of the wholo systom. PIDDLING PARLIAYENT DUSINESS, Tho Varliswent sud Government of Great Britain scom to »lvend their tuno, for the most, o mattors of tritling jwpurtance. Whether ro- portors shall bo recoguized or only tolerated in tho gallery ; whether tho Princo of Wulcs shall distubute fow or many nocklacos to the nativo Princes of Iudis, and whethor tuey shall bo paid for iu whole or only in part by the British peo- e ; how 1nucl wanuro a touant-farmor should o allowad to put upon land withoue becomhug suddenly richs-theso aud kindred questions oo Lo bo tho exciting toplo uf Parlismentary debsto, ‘Fhe seoming unimporiance of tho bille eugagiug the attontion of the Uovernwent s oug of tho tirst things that arrostod my own at- toution, and 1 bave vxplained it in two ways, Of course, whon o country has settled all ity groat uestions, It will busy iteelfl with its httlo ones. Lnglaud has ropresontative Governwent, freo teade, o sound curroncy, sud lght laxation, Bho Las paid tho Alnbuma chiitns, punished the Ashastoos, aud doposed tho Guikwar of Baroda, Tonco reighu fu all hior bordors, and a good de- greo of cantoutinont pervades sl classes,— bigher, at all events, than ber nelghbors can Bowst § Wighor, fudesd, than the Unitod Sintew can cluim st the present time. Iollund alone secms to show au equal matisfac- tion with oubward circumstauces. Nover- theloss, sinco & Governmedt must ap- pear to do something, 1t will naturally pick up the leavings of moro stirriog times, Agadn, of two varties dividing the politieal forcos of & couutry, the ono which 18 comntted to the bollef that thlogs arc well onough e they aro, will of coursoe find smaller things 0 bend 1ta noblo streugth upow, than ono which, theorot- ically at least, bolda that thero is much room for improvemont, FHEE TUADS IN LAND, Every American 8 expeeted {o bring home sowe ideas ou the subject of Euglish land-mo- nopoly. Tho conditious of thetwocouutrics iu redpect of land and land-vwnorship are so ditfore out that agriculture, as an clement of nasioual concern, neods to bo studied hero de novo, At tho risk of repeating roto things which I have #aid eldewbero, 1 will bero wention tho'impres- siond 1 bave gajued, \Wlatover may have S)nan tho evils reaulting in the past from the uggroga- tiou of larye tracts of land fn the bauds of the fow, and the uivorcamout of the mauy from any interust in the soil uxcept as tanants or Lirviings, —whstover may bo the prosout ovils of such system,—thoy are such av logislutive power i no louger abla to reach or greatly modily, 1fa tract of land nuun to tha aroa of England wero suddenly added to tho Kingdom by rising from tho sea, and were equaily divided smoug the in- Labitauts, the process of coucentrating & in the bands of ths fow €0 tho oxolusion of Ve many wuuld begin immediately, The richor wouly bid for tho portionsf tho poorer, sud would iu tho oud obtain thow by fair " bargain, This wust be tho rydult in suy country where tho accumeila~ tion of wealth is groat, whern lund-ownerabip couferd social distiuction, aud whore the ares of laud is muall rulbth‘el{ to pu%uminm All threo of those conditions exiet i Eugtaud. 1t would appear from (his that what s called land- monopoly {8 not au ecoromic evil, uuloss we o proparod to adwit thas & perfectly uatural and uncoustrained courss of isan evil,— Which uo bconomlét can allow, Land 1o Ha- gleud 16 worth & cortain BuI por acre per au- um for pusposes o lillug.~for what oan b wado out of it,—snd that sum will be paid for ity hwsever Inren o s1all tho parect ineo.s hiclo it iy, s ntenn I At of it with- Il 1 for duse-parkn preant-g oaneves, and tho bl it apg cara thig as dnnds of rimelar ubi- —land ¢ wthin e undipnted egotrot of Farliaient, Lao tho Nev Forest,—the will of the oo 18 ot counnl ni 1 by buthng i stop to Hoves nig ad gome vesrs ago {or trann. forming it into arshlo or pastuces [and, and that 113 L0 ho kept o nearly in & stato of nature na may bo, It Lord Leigh and Lord Iipun ara minded o keap largo parks ot thoir onn cx. P to beauuly tho landscape fimprove thy air, 1 amnat the one to compliit S0il jesy whiuld £ enmplain if T woro an Engliehoan. hav- ing tho laudscapo amd the air aliayn 02ty crvice. TUE LNOLIKIL LANDSIAPE. T'ho baruty of the Engliah landseapo, tho ver- duro of tho meadowe. tuo fertility of the wil, the sclentiflc and cossummata mathois of til- aye employed, must impress the most careluea usmnrver. Wo bavo nothing erapatacio Lo thy oxpansivo folisie of English to tho rolp-r Leaith of Fuglish heduce, tho velvor sofinern aud frestness of Englith thif ; nor have wo, ox- cupt in gnmo of the inoro favored parta nf Cali- Fornia, sueh ample aod brilliant opon-a'r flowor. gardens, Tho ursnoss of our Atmoaplicro und tho extiomes of our LEmpETLIIe KALEO to uce eaunt for tho difference. Whan | raw tho ntand- ing erops of hav and cereals i Warnickahiva in Juuo Inat, L thought 1 had never beheld so bounteond anel promising & baevest in any land, Tho wheat-flelds of Califorma and Oregou in a favotablo kenson will portiapn umke 8 finer dixplay in that particular ccreal than any I noftead in Fogland, hut thoss on the Atlantio elopo are eerteiuly much fuforior in productive- 104 to yours. 17 thr carnfalness nud thorongn- ness of titlazs which provail in Fugland wera appliod to tho ami of the Sata of Himols, the restiting produco could not e digposed of at n profit. nor could it be earried to warsot by any exikling meana of transportation, Tho freris e aid greennewy of rural Logiand invaded tha Metropolis, and givos to London n peenhar charm and distinetion. Tha arca, and popula- tion, and wealth of Tondon are a thrice-told tals Her parky, ond open squars, aad privato gar- dena conatitiico liof real disunction among eities in tho eves uf the travclor, Other cities can by found larger than suybody will eare to ze0 the wholn of.” Youo can by found with sucl wealth of rural adornment. Lincoln's Jna Fields, a wpot which few strangers fiud their way to, is ithelf Buiquo in metropolitan belongings, RAILWAY-TEAVEL. Englich railways emo tn for & largo shara of atteation and comment from every American vis- itor. Tn tho way of comfors to iho pnaeenger, they arv inferior to the Tranwestluntio sail'wavs, whilp tho chaugen for travel are higher, Euglish yaseouger-traiu, however, are rin at a bigher rate of speed tihan Americay, and tho con- ditious of safety for an equal number of traing 250 certainly greator, Tho arraugements for crosaing each ather's tracks and the ordinary car- niage-roade at different grades remorve a large percontago of the absengo of aceldont. But, on theother hand, tno freqnency of traius ou the enmo tracks appesis 4o muko “travelng by rail about ns hazardous in the ouocountry na 1ho oti- er. The arrangementsof Eugheh railwavs for ro- celving and deliveriog lugeago, and reheyiog tho travelor from auxiety respecting ic, are inezeus. ably ba; while the syatein of carriage-conetruc- tion seoms to be a deliberato provocation to out- rages, Theso dificultivs, 1 suprose, ure to ha atinbuted in part to British conser vatism, and in nart to tho relnetanca of Iiailwav-Directors to et soms slight addisional expense. TUIT-RUNTING, 1 biavo remarked that, I it Lo o grievance thet n comparatively small nunver of porsone sho:bl bo artayed with titles and sot upas o stratum of Emghsh Bociety, by virtuw 1 merit, but of ancestry, Englishmen are the ouly onos who bavo any riftht to complain of it, aud that [ havo not heard such complaints uttered, On tho cantrary, the averago Briton scoins roady 1o back hia insular nobility against auy foreign Dlood that cau bo mentioned, sud tho trading Briton eeems to bave achioved glory cuougt it ho can spresd upon s elgnbonrd the fact that 1o in patronized by some Prince or Princoss, Tho multiplicity of such annouucoments adorning tho pubhic atrants, and the frequency with which wo aro notitled in tho advertimug columns of tho nowapspers that this or that movemeut or intor- ost 18 Yuulxell by tho respoctability of Lord —, or gheltored under the wgis of Lady —, sro #uflicicat to remind tho wayfaring man from ovor eoad that, althougi Lo 18 1 a land of Republican freedom, snd although his uative tongue is spokon in ita streets, he 18, nevortholess, snma distance friom home, Here, fn fact, 18 tho vital aud radical difforcuco betwaeen tho two conntrios, It is not a politien) difference, as I have alrendy #hotw, but something deepor and 1ot so ensily bridged, Being @ sooial difforence, it 1 some- tiing which doos not concern nio, and [ leave to Fugelinh satirints sho ¢nvk of doctoring any moral Qdeformities it may give rien to. liow far tho vico of tuft-bunting and titlo-hunting may por- vado British society cou only bo judgod, I fancy, after long obsorvation. I'or my own part, I enw vory littlo of it, Anxiety to wrigglo into com- pany whero ono is not wanted 15 a phase of clharactor not usually contidell to strangers at a Urst mterviow. Althongh I am aswured by emi- nent Enghshmen that the grent and dintrossing Dritish walady is o weskness of the kuces at sight of a coronet, it cannot be includea among tho impressions that early obtrudo thomsalves upon the visitor. It is to bo hioped that a nstion who biave conquored 80 many difticulties may bo ablo oventually to overcowo this singular mental awkwarduess, which begins Dby overcstunat- ing the dignity of othors, and ouds in nnderestimaing “oue's own. ' Notwithatandiug tho reputation Amoricnnn Labvo nchicved in the way of solf-aascrtion, I have to acknowl- edge that wo aro not wholly free from tho weak- niess under consideration, though in America o titled ponion i oftenor an abject of intorest than of rovoronca. and what is taken for snobbery is notinfrequently an itl-govorned curiouity, Trans- atluntic snobbery takes the form of ialo expondi- turo aud cutside sbow, ‘Tho oclal arraugoment which nelects oue child ont of a family to bo tho ezcluaive racipiout of tha bonors aud estato, and discriminatey agninst girly, is held in profound | disfavor, and could by no possibility bo wado to take root awong us, Even those who apo the munnens of foreign aristocracy wonld shrink from o system which appears to contain so rank an alemont of Inju-tice. TUE ENOLI CIVIL SERVICE COMPARLD WITH ouis. Tho Englizh Civil Servies, though perhaps no better thun some of the Contineutal systoms, s s text upon which any American who has had to do with public affairs may preach a long sermon to his own countrymen. This is not the place for such a discoursu, and I uiall only vutline the impressious mado upon mo. 'Thoy will perbapy appear a8 simpio a4 somo of tho observatious of Goldumith's Citizon of tho Worll. Neverthe. less, thov go to tho root of the whole qnestion of QGovornment, In England [ percoivo that the foroos of socioly cotapiro to make the person holding v admninistrative ofiice oflidiont, faithful, dihigent, and trustworthy, How far tho origiuat appuintment to oftice may ho controllod by fa- voritism 1 do not inquire. Bus it is very cloar thiat, if tho ap;iointes turns ont a raseal, an ignor- aumub, or o sluggard, ho must prove 8o in glaring dospito of the bystem under which hu holds biy placo, siuce o is sure of rotainiug it i he moritorious, acd of being prowoted in dua time it be is oxtra-moritorivus, and of being pen- rioned if he 1s disabled in tho wervice or over- taken by ngo. 1w oilico givew im a cortaln nount’ of eoclal dlstuctiou, which he losas 1t romoved for any fanlt, aud the ceprit de corps whiich Lisy beented by long, coutiuuguoo of tho system insurcs a degreo of intelligones at lesst proportioned to the duties of the oftice. Undor such & syutem, tho ombers of & yast officls! pate ronage ‘canunt ba importod into the ordinary politieal contests of the conutry, to give addi- tioual heat to eluctious, (o 1ntiame pastisan rag: sud o stitlo {udopendent thought aud actio Turniug (o the Alorican aystom or practivo, wo flud that the snrroundings of the ordinary dftico- holder prompt him to do thoe best Lo can for lumyelf durng his probably hmited torm of olico. Il social podition is vt improved by his accoptanoe af place, but rather the roverse, Lecsuso he is most commonly undorstood to Lold it at the pleasuro of wome Congroseman, and cannequon\ll‘! to ®a tho tool of waid Congressman, 0 qualificat, of situoss nroe roally roquisite, though pughie opinion en- forces . sume attention thereto, The oticer ia Hablo to bo removed whonever ho becomes dis- tanteful for any reason to tho appointing power, or whouever any othor person csu command the influence to -upxhnz Lim. Of esprit de corpy thore is noue, and can ba nous. Whon an elec- tion of l'rosident is to take place, the omolu- ments of sowo HO,000 ofticos aro really put in disputo: for, slthouglh the number of removals 13 always much loss, the potoutiahty of removal s fl}"ll to the whole number of incumbonts, and tho hoat gouerated by the strifo is equal 1o the srood whneh thiat uunibor iseapablo of eugendor- ng. A distluguished Awmerican Sonator iny bosn Lisard to say that this mukos the best Civil Ser- vice {n tho world, It is the worst one thas I know anything about ; but its fuborent vices can- not be “fully approciated tilt ouo Las beon brought iuto tho ncighborhood of & bof I coun% it wwong the grestest advantagos an Amoricun cau derivo frumn a visit to England that ke Lay the opportunity to put tho two wys- tema gide by wido, sud to” learn the dotestable vicos of bis awu by cowparing it with yours. (f Eogland bas not carried Ler Cival Bervice 0 sba perfection attsined 1 (Gormany, sho s not man. aclod by Buieaucracy, sud Lor example proves that la {a possible to hiva au omicial class whoars uob & goverulng clasy, 1udeed, the otiicial clasy g 25, IBTHA"V LN PAGES, s | i the Unitsd Statns ars understond 1o have Taliled the eondbionm of thar appointmcen: «) far wa thee bave rcosolel i bosoning ‘e Javerningt ciasm, an 1 L o b eommon Teavon mewigned for removing an incimbent i that to Lan foat pohitical rupremaey o hila aealite, Wiy dy wo not changn tis Kystein 2 ¥ou mwk, Tute 410 Aommo di acser, tougrews caunne ohsnea it, oven if ro dispogod, bicatun tha Constitation lodges thy appowtiig power {u the Proadent, and the romoving power {8 understoud 4o boa part of the sproiuting poer. Thy Presdont, for tho tmo Long, coubl chiaugo it il he would ; but Iiis acta wonla oty have tho forcs of example to hiu a wr. dn truth, neitier Congrer Preadent appene ¢ dewire any eliango. dhioy aro the chief beneficiaries of tin partiean Aek 1wy of tho sppointers. v paut of f; o opinivi 18 not yet fally slive (o the egreno aud growing eiils of e eorviee. These evilp are undarsoud to Lave Legan in the Presidonzy of Gen, e forty yoars agn. Puor to that ' - VIu8 Wag VUry much what hith 2 Neb thero bas been 0 change of inw or Constitts on weauwhile, Lul coly of practice. The Ameelean Cinal Servies hay now Lucowa in eome Tespects ko tho Lughoh o the tima of Geargs 1k, when members of Parhiwnent were bribed with plaro to hound ou the war agninst (e C onics, JUik asyaem which cunnot last, Iow et further miscliol it must work ero it ia abated, time will khow, THE. TNITED ETATES A CASUAL WABD, #livh writerw hiave for the 1naet part given a had name to their own_countsy, and aftorwards to other countrics thies have vimied, Th ¥ huvo croated tho impreesion abroad. wo far a Liny woro slle, thut Englaud Ia mainly noted for fo; #noba, and paupers, and that Anieriea is [ rinci- v distinguishon for braegarte, atmcd buiiies, and'divorced women, TLin “i1 not the piaea to delend my own conntey. Iearu 3 hut Iubmit that she is performing a useful thiough tedious office in washiog, comb- ing, aud odvcating tho disiuhorited ouew, buth whito and bisck, whom Iurope has thrown o liborslls upon hor sbores. America wel comes Lnglikh travelers mora warmly than any others ; and England welcomes Americanw, il hot moro warmly thau others. ay they can hope to Do welegmod yuh deed, Enghah howpitohit tho renown aud gr npeak not of iy owh 0x]anence mor that af every Aimerican vi ilor in any way quali- fled to be Mo recipient of it whom 1 have ever wot. Idid not. in the conrse of #1z weehs, havy the advantage of a London fog ; bul the season war not woll chosen for that entetainment, I c:ities of & Lechnical chinc- | Blie has vel tuneh to | mnde froquent and extenwive tours on fuot throogh tho distriets inhavited by the working classen ; and the resuls I reschjs this: that ekilled workmen ase, on {he who'e. hitier pro- vided with comfort« In Enelaud thanin America, but have Jes opportunisy o rixo to the condition of emplosers: that the condition of the nu- ukiilled laborer |s esuentialiy the wame 13 both countries ; and that thn ** elmns™ uto more or- Qorly in London than in most of or Inrgo cities, 1 Liavo not, Lowever, had opportunity to observe tho eondition’of the agenitural laporers in Eu- glaud as vet and hence can muexa no Comvari- wons in that departinent. ERSON AL EXTENRE, pervonal e fture among the well-to-do clansen fs cectainly n uotablo and praiseworihy feature of English clvilization. Of course, ecouomy it o relativo terw., Lugielin Uro ot s0 tconowical o8 Beotchmen, nor Be men as Fronchmen, nor Froschmou as Chin meu. [ fear it must be confensed that my conn- trymon are thomost prodigal of all, aud that tuey got 1ok for their money than any others. This 18 the curgent opinion of htel-keovers, cauriers, dresa-takors. Jowolers, and vendors of Lad copres of the old mastere, on tho Contineut ; and I knall not venture to cantradiet auch prace ticed obrervers. But John Bull has one mode of getting rid of Lis money which 18 perliaps mora chjectionable. Horeo-racing, attended by wagnry of movey, 18 under tho socinl ban ia Amorica. Neither the effarts of & waslihy coterio in Now York, nor the Presidsnt's fondness for the turt, Lavo'availed to give it n respectable fooung, - Consequently, wo are sarprieed when wo find | how deep a hod it bas taken upon Dntish rocie- .ty, oud whou we seo Inore spaco given iu the daily journats to the betting-markat than to tho produco and corn markets, ~ Undonbtedly bet- tivg in tho condition upon which racing main- tafus 1teelf atwo bigh o popularity. Lrobably Any attempt to suppress it by law wonld at yres- ent beneffectual, It is satd that tho Italian Government dare not close \be Hiato lotteries, eveu if it wore inclined to, Bo ¥trong i tho Ap. petito for that form of gambling among tho peo- pie. Dut this paper 19 not intended for » lecturo or & mornl disquisition of nuy sort. Horse-rac- ing and the stakes dependent thercon are nots:l asonoof tho impreskive features of Dritish civilization, which, whon conpled with the c! ing of the Brighton Aquars ob Nuuday, the strangor cannotl fail to powder. John Bull 18 porbaps tho most consorvative radical mewbor of tho human fanily. I biave biero recorded A fow of the impreasions which a tirst visit to Evgland, in the monthms of May and June, Las muwle upon me. Liko Ifia Higlhiness of Zaunzibw, who wus thoro at the samo period, 1 was gratified beyoud the powser of, tho Arabian tongue to cxpress. [ shall urge my Amorican friends visiting Europe to give moro timo to Englaud than reoms to have beep tho fashion, for [ am sure {hat not only will thoy bo suply repad, but what is lofc of the bad fecling ougendered dnring onr lato war will bo dispolled vy Closer mzerconrse. This fecling baw greatly nbated sineo tho setiiement of tho Alabama dis- pute, bat has not wholly disappeared. sinco it wah founded upon a conviction that the ruling oiaseen of Lnpland desired to seo s weakned and lmuhated. I am suro that tho Contennial- R now runnin; summosity to G avents of 1776, All that loug since passod away. courso lia 1o adouxinro of ; ¢ Brilain arsing from tho | Wo mwl'lmh othor dlixuv.mctlm hlt:‘m)' l\hxm uu; i L 3 thomsolves about 1776, and | o o tlio. ‘areater | Camp Robinaon cau be brought oo, with & bat- #o wo muko tho most of thew. Tho greater ouos which have travspired rinco sre t0o bear us in point of timo ta bp historical. It Centon- wialism appears long-drawn to others who have thio stirring scones of a thoussnd years all aboat thom, thoy should bear in wmind thess diffor- vuces, Houacs Winre, A SONG OF THE EARLY AUTUMN. ‘When in late summer the streawms run yellow, Burst tho bridgus and aprosd into bayn ; ‘When lcrries are black and peaches aro mollow, And hills aro Lidden by raniy liazo; ‘When tho palden-rod is golden atiit, Lut tho Lieart of the suntlower 44 Lrowner and sad- der 3 When the corn {a {n stacks on the slope of tho b, Aud uvor the path sties tie striped adier ; When butterfiea flutter from clover fo thickot, Or ware thelr winge on the drooping leat When the breozo comes ebrill with tho éall of ihe cricket— Grasshoppor's raap, and rustle of aieaf ; When bigh {n tho fleld the forn leaves wrinkln, And brown s the grass whers the mowers have mown, # When low (1 the mesdbw tho cow-Lellu tinklo, Aud Lrovklets crinkly o'r stock and stous § Whet Lieavy and hollow the robin's whistle, Aud thick lis the stade i the Loat of noon ; Wheb thu air fu white with the duwn o' the (histls, Aud (ho vk is ved sith the barvest moon s 0, Ut ba chsry, young Tisbert an Mary; ‘L4 no timy w3, —uot & woment want | 14 thio fddle would play it muat stop it tunicg, Aud they who would warry must be dutw with their mooning ; Mind well tho eactlo, let the ehnra ga rattle, And plio tho wod by tho barn-yard gate —~Seribuer tor Uctober, i e Garibaldi’s Moard-Hill, 'I'he Italie of Rome publishes the following : “ At Civitaveechia luetuhlic mind ls occupied with w ningular dispute, Garibalai, as i well koown, betug busy with lue plans for tho iw- pravewons of the Tiber, conecernod bimself but littiv latoly with tho nor vulgar question of overyday hife. At Frascati, where he wado hia first ttay, the Workingmen's Association uuder- ook to victual bin und Lis family, sud ssut hun every moruing abous 20 pounds of uiwat, four fonls, s quautity of fruit, aud other things proportion. 'he dencral never know how s hiad Loon fod until the day of Lus devarture, when the Association prosented him with sho sccouuts of lug purveyors, all raceipted. 'Gari- buldi was dooply moved at thet mark of atieu- tion ; ko thanked the membure wainily and then luft for Civisavecel Ho has now quitted the t-pamod Lhcn. d tLe proprietor of tho 1lta in which he resided—an totel-keopor of the town—bas sont in to the municipalite a bill for th entertainmeont of the Gouersl. Tho chagges arv lovked v ve vxorbitant, and amount, tor a onth, exclusive of gent, fo 7,728f, G - di'a faunly cousista of his wife, two chitdron by ber, an eider d-uihlor of 14 or 15, brought up 1n , and who bas lately jowned ber father, his Secrotary, 3L, Lusso, lus friend, M. Bgrarhno, snd two childron, udlond charges 10uf, for each dinver and 30f. for the suppers; ho vetonds that he uérved eightoen lircs of *hisnti wine dmily for the femily, while the servants drauk nine barrels of su inforior sort duriog tho munth, Thore was slso, spparoutly, 8 laryge consuwption of 1ce, of which 90 pounds aro charged for daily. This account bas csused no little excitemant it the towa; the inbabit- auts way that it 18 snormously e: eratod, while the botel-keepor refudon to roduro it contine, declaring that ho supplied all that ts ot down in the bill, sud shat bo will tave Lls mouoy, { i warriors displ CHUNSIL, Great Ta'k Between the Black Hi Commizsion and the Indians, Intertribal Jealousies Delay fhe Se- tectfon of a Slte for the Coancily Perfect Arrangemenis Kade for the Protction of th: Commission. plies of Recent Massneres Possession of the Indians, e in Persounel of the Commissions«Senator Allison, Mr. Comiugo, Gen, Terry, tien. Lawrenee, Caply Ashy, Mr. Hivman, and Cols Beauvals, ~veeial Curresoneen-e of Tie Chireza Tritanie, Len Crovn Acpxey, Set. 17, 1875.—The Commsrion hold drily nesrions in perfecting tho projimiunry srrapgements for the Gravd Coun- e, and but for the tadied delay of Spotod Eail it fuiiiag 0 agreo Lo n piacs for holdine the Council, mnch of the more important work nt ' 5 the Commlg<lon wonld now be well on towas completion. An fordian ta THE BIGOLST Y001 ALIVE, measured by the staudard of white civilization, and (ho mrgumonts that woull move even the | most stoblorn JBriton fail utterly with euch meu ax Bpotted Tail—evpecially ea when they aro an smart and shrewd as the variegated cau- dal just mentioncd. Tha troable with the Ine diaug has becu tho bitter jealousy that cxistn betsreen the Ogalallan and firnles --Hod Ciondrep- rosoe Spattet Tail tho otber, Notwo policad factions of one parcy conid be more +0. certain to olject to, and thousands of Tndians take up the rumpus justan the mob foliows itn chiefin factinnal warfare sinong hiv whites, Thar, the Council hacing been pointed at Red Cloud, which is tho Ogalalla Agencs, tho Brulen oppoze, anl iusist upou having it i the God- forenken. barron plaing near Shadron Criek, nud to that eud neasly one-half of the Sionx have been worki Ax by befors Leen noted. Spot- ted Twil * sweetened ™ tho River Indiann with 150 ponies, Then Redt Clond got at them and gavein one lump 189 better pouies, shich rather demor- aliz wotkers, Stiotted Tail. Tlho waysof civilization, You koo, nru fasl mAking B sweop wong the children of thn plains—just a3 it somo wainsly Harlan or Dilworthy Pomeroy bad given them Iessons in tho wav of knowing how {0 * set *om up.” Teed Clond’s Inst gift wather broke & combination, and en Wednosdsy he came, wih a a Iarge rotinue, to fFeo about it. AFTER & LONO POW-wa, in whiclt oceurred tha uenal gush about haw by loved tuo pale-Taces, hie waked up Red Dog, the ! Ogalatla Clief, and the orator, par excellenee, ot tho natiou, who pinned BSpotty down closely, | and abruptly capped the climat with the propo- extion that the Coanell ke beld at tho mouth of florse Creck, 40 mules below Yort Laramio, | Then tho proposition of the Cotnmission was ac- copted that Itod Cloud, ed Dog, and Young- Mau-Afrsid-of-the-101ecs, for the ono faction, and Spotted Tall, Two BStrike, and Swift Roar, for tho other, act asa Canfereuce Commisteo | and agreo upon tha place, it to be near enough to cuabla the Commisston to go and como from their present quarters to the ground moruiug and night. Thus tho Jabbering war rages. but niust como now to 8 speedyend. It iy tho inten tion of the Commirnion, if tucso Chucfs do not agreo, that they will et up she Conacil tenis at tho place chioscn, § miles esst, invito iu all who will como, and let tho consequences that may ariso fall upon thoso responsiblo. Yut thero is vory little danger of auy bamls absenting them- selves, ond one of the fulleat Counculs evor held with the Sionx wiil veeur. WILITARY PROTECTION. 5 Gon. Bradldy, commandumg the district, has mads amplo srrangomients for the protection of ho party. A guard of 100 cavalry, nnder tho commaud of Capt. Egan, will attend daily, Itis not consideral dangerons, as ke temper of the Indinns nover was better, 1€ auy of their Lad young men ara determinod ou having & crack st any of tho Commis8ion, tho wlolo of the army would bo no protection. In caso of trouble, Capt. i Eynu's cavalry, arned as they aro with the beat guus in the world, and kept well in hand, wllt bo entliciont protection until the Fix companies ot tery of Gatling guna to aid them, ‘fhe sealps of all aro gafe, savo from the hand of thu assassiu. THE FIEST MEETING of tho Indians and whites in general concort ia set for 8aturday morning at 1) o'clock. Nothing moro will be done aave to exchanzo compliments and gencrally mention tho maiter of businesn. It ey ba settled in & fow dayd. and it may take sovoral woeks—tha_charactor of the rol uan iy paut tinding out. They do not propors to have wny mistakes oceur, as thov claini waa the caso with the treaty of 1863, Their pricos will be exorbitant at firet,—that 14, tho order of thy Rling to 1ta understrapperd,—and tho Judian wiil have to Lo brought away from tust powt in Council. Only that_price_what fair judgment will troély give will -bo paid. eepecially 50 siuco Gen. Terry thinks that ‘a forco of %00 men will effectually soal up tho illy to all encroachments from the whiies, As I have proviousty intimated, tho Commission eonstrio their jusirnctions so a8 Lo not intorfere with the genoral festures of the Troaty of 1808, sud tuko s their task tho purchage of the 1lilts and tho hunt- ing-right of the Indians to the Iz Huru country, Anything elso witl bo entirely wu! suliary’ to thero wain propositions, This was pot, in_ sccordanco with tha plan of tho Iing, but’its piaus wre not fuvored by the Commiasion, NOFES AND NEWS. Yeaterday tho Ogalalias gavo a grand ** Oma- ha Dancu.” In this dance many of the warriors appeared atmost usked. and | of hideou tess that was startliog, 1o th.s daoeo 0 s2alps and other trophios of b urfars, uot escopting the bridles or tufts of the manod of horses rtolen. Taey also relato their exploits, with sullicient oxaggeration to Tk them very big men, It way a disguativg show, aud ended only with the givi f rationy to the budsubed beggara, Tuu Bjuaws » wmilar portormance in the moriing, at which Bowo wagnilicont costumos ,0f boxd-work wers seen, wade oat of tho 'whitest (AWD-skiug tunued, Sowe old womcn, above 80, kept np {10 noi=o and stiil-legred jump for houri, Yosterday 1 saw and oxamined a highly-orna- meuted robe worn by a buck, tho fringo of which was cumjosod entirely of WHITE WOMEN'S 1A, wavy, soft, and elken black, brown and anburn, 1n its shades. Most of it camo from tho massacre of some emigraut families south of this & few years ago, Lho men huving gone afior autalopo, lesving the irafu at the mwrey of the ruvaged, When the mon roturnod,—and they wWuro sbeeut obly two bours,—they found their womeu outroged and killud, sud some of tho childrenulio. Bomo werg cartod uff, but, beiug bard pressed, thoy abaudoued them tu death by exposure, Another noblo rud wan spurtsa bock. lace wado of the NAILS AND ENDS OF FINUERA of whited killed. Nico, min't it? Then Little Big Mau, one of tho wild Northern chaps. the murdurer of three Crow wouien and cuitdren, wix in all. al one tinle, gocs whisthuy alwut camp with & whistlo nmda out of one of the botea of the foreari of & white womun kilied in 1864, Another wuo bas showu mu 4 buuch of #ealps takon from men killod winle the lmon L'aoito waa building, but by sssurcs e thatho loves tho whiy tusu now yory much, sud wo shook bands on 1. This s & samuulo of the cases that could b cited ju proof of the amiabiliy, Kind- heartoduess a (1 thiat wort of thing of the goutlo judividusl uow fel by tho Patyrual Govs orument, A Lotter day is cawniug, thank God, aud wa can ouly bope for its wore rapid dawn, TUL PENSONELLE of the Bloux Indiau 1icaty owiuisdion iy cere talnly of & vory exvellent wrads and 1f oboson lu tho expectancy that the Indisn ling would Lud jo thom an ald i0 their schewes of plondes, What che one sgrees to sheother is 1iho eforts of tha chief of Indian wire- T inted to a degrey | abominnblo treaty, & grost " for o peo,le, i been | b procitive for 11 staba, Fotuiy fawde, T Cu J4AN, OF 105N, om iy e politics s oun , o mendy growth wied mach promire. o rop- ted the Sheel fowa Diston in the 'Thirtys uth, wud Fortath Congrreesos, anuk as a hard thinker and prac- member of tha 6. Ly lalo ex- v epon Jum, and ineenisted Lotwaon v from Iowa after ] wtrasgie with and Lie ting ex- ork af thy Crng svinoes ftelf gy 4 whicl mattars arg prece: The tip aud delaying et hun eutirely from the ea Secietary Ciswo { the most coniident them. Hn was cir aloug and vere hutly- the clane of Ilarky, . Fares a1 1t i | revious trainin staal annnier in wh moved alung, vhile i in Towa for thid veas, gives bima fiie onn o DIty tu ree Low the King wanages its robber oy nud bow beete mn Chirinis of tho Soaate Tn. dian-Afla.co Cotnnitice, he can moyn measus, of check and refern, Tu Senator Allison. dur- ing tho vext wa-ann, the i will finl oue of the most troulleasins wen in Cangress, for ha vill hnve the advautage of haviug been an obe eorver on the fleld wlore the grosse-t misman- ! agement Las preva Thero s band )ick | atiead for thoso Inlian paticts swhoso hearts throp with phulavthr pr for poor Lo, bt whoso llmmfl' reack out for tho fat of the coutracts, Ko it i b ! Another member of tha Commiesion who hay Lad Congre sional B; ertence 1s 3 « AUBAM COMIN W0, OF MI4finTRYL, showesented the Boventh aud Lighth Mis- o i Ho in 36 yeara old, and a n o Cf paasueal comimon renso, with no 140 it uat 6f the way of honesty, et pase i for he i th Wipartd, 1tiw not Lo miszonstrued, 1 iu bis temporance ¢ v hen the mornings here are cold e 1e vl st Tmlopendenco, 3o., 4or by paciesson, wan a L nion man dur- whelu of tho Jate trouble, sotwithstand- ol G Lee oanet flaves at tho commoneeme ftho gamo cailed 1 ey ol eoture, uy Iniese ein i Ftands, bolotguny we i does 10 the weak and wreeked sements of & vain worid, 1 n jolher, { ravro ccupaainnal I e very hard to gamo which, ondent nunders cover than the af; & lawver of ¢ Nlavon, Conn. e ene | 3 T e and won by meico- | | f.ome rersico the promotio ta Major General, | T3 Uinlior,- af thy War, ead b az juaimtance with chiasneter tunn Lt o work. To lus e v can o ndded A nns Gt pero: ¢ his good judemant as a jawrer. an Of-1a2E Wiy o bve Of doinp tins tember of the Comminnon of 1243 that th tre ¢ I the Fort Fisher engagement a brave young " oflicer, then on (ieu. Ames’ siatf, waw wonn lod titioh-—in both srs. throat, K the ampatation of tho left ar the expedition that ea; o the st briluant ¢ T1e rau b Tul 4B a0, RNy LR iere s was n 18 w, and in- Joring bua wpeech tow degrce wpmielimas ui- leanant, 2 This ot o Au Gy LAWK PRULYN (A Y ahier of the Comuussfun s aud Lig meciing { Wik thie distingiushed Ueneral under whoso or- ters Lo walvsnicrd to his wntiution, is tho mear ef reca’line wany of the woro plrasant rer: cenevh of the War, Gen, Luvtence way bre erf four times for bravery on the fiold, while on AT duty with Sanl, Mastndale, W, F. Smith, #. I iwn ron of VWilliom Brach La rence. tho emiment lavyer of New York, aud un- " thar of a ktandard work on luternational Law. tien, L. 13a student from the oflica of David * Dudley £ield, but has given only Lmited atten- tion 10 Lis_profevsion.” A gradante of Harverd, ivcluding its ‘law departinest, with ten vears' Eeryice 0k an attache of the American Leration h: Vicnna, auwd Ministar Desident 1867-'63 at Costa Tea, e 1, of course, ru inteliizent man, i oand s Lis posttion with greaz_credi. Ho iy 1 not an enthuriast on the Black Ml gu-stton, and will ronly thid which in fair for the ¢ peaple—tlio poor whites of the Ring are not in . 1avor with the vuldier Lawrence. i CAPT. W, i, AT, | of Nbragkn, is a fuir 1epresentativo of that clors of Western mon, who are Youu in yen, but e { dowed with: an enorgy And co-atienl-ativenes thnt srenerally ** knocks tho persiwmons * swhen it goen for tue bun! Caps. Asliby was ou thy wrong sule durg the war, and cartioy five wounds as a certificate of that fact, He s mont thotougtly reconstructed now, aud i oue of tho strong men of the Comnnesion. He is quick to #ee into the movements of ths Ringites, and ay quick o aet, in all ca-cs, totheir npsetting. Tho prosent opportunity of seeing the Indun ole- plant is nut warted, and the time will cowo when bo will us¢ bin aramunition with good of- fect. Tho game is plen:y, and ns Ashby is a good ®Lot, With ~eitler n gan or pen, the_proepoct of finding ecalps 1w hon Lo s momising. But few youug men i b State stind ps sirong e he in the good wilt of the people, and b stand. | ing bas been gawied deeeeved! i a citizen and & worker in politics. CUL. Go Ve BRATVALS, OF ST, TOUIA, in tho fartber jn yeu:s of the Commikion, mens- uring them by kixty simmers, for tho wint, ¢ of tima hias tonched ki tut Exbtly. e is an ol ludian trader, having enterod the servies of tha | Americuu Fur Company = ear] contiu- uing in their employ for 1w vhen, in . he started oat_on hin own venture, Ho apeaks Quently—Luglish, I'teuch | ican, Sioux, and the wizn langnage of the Plamns ludinus, Ho was in tho Blaes 1lills countrs an early ax 1842 aud in bis Joue earcer Law bonght over 21,000 hufalo rokes, besides at loast e + Limlf that nutaber of other farw, His exporiences ! with the tribes in thoeo carfv days aro interest. ing to 8 bigh degree, aud firush tho ground- work for o volumo hardly 1o I oxcelled in its line, Col. Leauvls is “of French extracuos purely, well educatod. and known by thousands 1 of tho ! Belly,” on azeonnt of that rotundity #o well ho- coming tho reputable vearn of 60. Mis ne- naiutance with the Indiany 1s a valuable aid to the work in hand, aud his sound businoes knowl- dga forbide any oxtravagaut uotiuns abont t propored purchaso, Cowmisgion. TUE RLV. SANMUEL D, HINMAN, the missionaly aniony tha Santes Sioux for ho past fiftesn years, Ling dous wak i that in creditably 1n the hrghest duy very far fiom Leiug pos lsmbs, as tho New masencre 1 Minnerots proved. Afior the and tho tranxfer of tho Hautees ta Dik miley sbove Yunkton, suden the Missoun Eiver, efloctive work cowmenced. 'The tribo Was uno of tho wildest, now thoy own thair laml,~w | man baviog M0 acres; tho Indmnw sl iy I comforiable houses, built by themnelves, pay by Isbor for all the aid thoy rev-i tho Government, Three Epbscopal Chute one Cougrepational Cirrch have tecu hal, sud + aro all well attended. The palputs of tho uf tho first named are tillod by uative preachers. | | Doarding=rehua s for botis rexes havo becu tult i and saceessfully oreratnd, tosether with day- ! scheotr, Trolation of the clullren Gom thor PAFCBUR I8 Boceasary L tho siceess of education- ul offorty, it was found that. nuless tho women | were wade (0 Joatn the ways of civilized bouse- Lkeoping, tho progroes of the twon was detsyed’ to great deeree, hemca ibo Indian gitly aro trataed in all | the work that appertains to the home, and tho | Rivls Ao in great demaid, Whera thoy go you tind decently-kept homes. Ths wmarniake relas tion i sacrediv roapected ; £11 malTingos aro ol ewnized iu church; many of theso meu will as- sutme the rigkta of full viiizoustup soon ; they do goud farming ; sro hunost, and all ly slf the Sane teen aro thy wiphierses O tho most succesntul of- fort at Indian covidizabwon wo cau sbow, And tho eredit of this belougs 1o the elforts aud worke of Mr, Ilinman,—~eurely & monument that will prove ns Listiig 8d it e honorable, A tho Bioux know hun wore or luss, aod * Ming-man " in very miclin demaud st Commiss.on Load- quaiters of the lodians, Cunueetod with noarly sll tho tomirsions that Lave trestya with the + Bioux for the lust docudo, bo hus a.ways proven 1 Bimself tho fiiend of the Indian, snd 8 compos tout, Worthy porsonage at sl tiuics, JuiN 8. COLLINW, KECHETAY, 13 one of tho young sud enterp:iung businesss men of Omate, whers be is cogaged 1n a largo Lusiness With his brathers. | i (‘l 1 az0 b was appointed by the President as Post Jr. Colling wers enpaxwd in the lesther bumi- noss togothor atsdtalena, L. —honeo thore bus ! arisou from bovbool a personal lnomlnhll) [ | tweou “the boya.” ‘Fhe Presidens wnd Mr, ! Colliua made a joint viuit to tho polta 1n 1560, | Casting tuoix frst ballots togerer for Sieplen t A, Douglas for Preaident. Mr. C. wad ony of { the tirat to call tho Prasudent s attention to thoe Black Hilla complicstion, and was desiguated by Lim to discover tbs tomper of tho Iudiau touch- dug their sule, aud las becn active iu the work ot gettng them iuto council from the firat, being one of the parly of Commissionery— Mosura. Cowmingo, Ashby, and Thusmau—that went through the Judian countey during tho, suamor, socuring the atiendance of tho entirs Nativw, tave tho warlizo bauds puder Bitting Bull of tho North. Mobert D, Linos, «f Washiogton, D. 0., is ni Distiicts i the Morty-second and Forty- | abonpler, | ) any Spaninh, Mex- | lIlqum\, who give him the utle of ** B | He was one of thy latis . Lt hoo When { be init went to his ‘woik he found the Indiang | Abont threo years | Wardon ot Fort Laramie, which poeition | Lo now holds. Iu ou” oarly duy the tathors — of Prosident tirant and ! ntanagenphor of the sutht, and was ana of the Camtusaioners of Inst year, ancuring the hunite ing right from tho Indians gouth of the P'latte. NEBAGO COUNTY Secretnry Kimball Lilts Up His Volée 1 the Calae of Tufured Truth and JEFF DAVIS AND WID owers Above fetty Meanness, To the Edutur of 7he Chicago ribune: Itockronp, IMl., Sept. 23.—Iixperionce haa taught mo that ft is au hazardous vonture to of fer explanations or corrections to an influontial Journal; but & senso of Justico snd honot fmpals me. relying on sour fairnnss and magnanimity, to vindicato our Doard of oflicara aud tho van- erabls ox-Prowident [Joerson Davia] from the cantemptuons charge of chafforing over tho et uf thelr coutract. My attention las boen directod toa lsto are ticie (shether an editorlal or dispatch [ eans 1t determine) pulitished fu the coimmng af in which thoe following vory un- utations occur : Hete wak a 1ittla difTeronce of opinion cuntrantls ¢ pirties a4 Lo the vajua of "t of tha ChinfRleracy, Tha Dirostora bozgal ifm Hiue xake of ths canne, and Mo refined, Ho stond 4 (e 33 e was par- 1 the members bt wen lintd," the $30) ran Then they offerc ] Vi 4 arkeinl etl oniaris zealun one e D Luaba w s i1y azroe] upon . Permit ma, Mr. Elitor, in vindieation of out- ! raged trath aul inuoconze. to give an emphatio ! demisl to overy stalement of this conmunica- (tion. Tin entirs test of my corre pandenco | with Mr. David has bean published to the world, { In my cotaminication {o Lim I expressed myecl? a4 foliow ‘ 1 write yon through our Board of Managers aolicit. g your proes B prsst duting the woek of Sepe tember comumencing with e it o nd trews s Ahe 364D of that memih, 11t tlrn ol 40,04 fearers sl o Will you pilease reply ab one, aui, il poeaibie, accept thio Javitation mo cor taliy extend. . 3fr. Davis repliod: **1azeapt yoar ofar an terms proposed.” In no lotter received from that distingaintiod gentlo:nan has there beon o siuglo referenco to or ktipulation forany amount bo was to receive, Tho malics nnd malovolence of tine infamoua charge, i my bumble opinion, 11 bt the fraifage of that revengnful and unfor- Rivinz epirit that fosters sectional bittorness, B2 ankes opportunities for the nxemrlhiieation v and hate, Tho oblou¥ hurfed gt one blo Itoard of Diroctura i ‘the statement vegzod " thewr dislinguished orator Lnock o something for the s#ake I disdain- aside, a4 it i couched iu a faleehood and wean thet intelligont readers will ¢ its weakness and maliciousnosy ot o Tu my tiens leiter to the datingulshed o thy causn of reconciliation falls sling Ho pet ” | ex-Prestlent, I {rarosed terme of S10—tho. prs § enuiars pare of the contract bewng loft ontirely i one Direetors, learning tho y chidd mo for want of liberal- ¥ Soziaty bl better incroaa the smonnt largelv.” [ trmmediately wrote tho Teident auain, bufors Teceiving a roply to 2 1ay offer §300, I il onor of that grent 873LenwaD 101 h shove tho patty moan- ness of bagaliog sud chatferine ns Mont Blane towersgbova tiio plams of Piedmont, \Whate mhkcu and erpore may be atttibnted to s great aud evontful’ hifo, bus charactor rrimauy yeb unsuiliod by & singlo rct of cowardice or by & uin?lu staiu of etock-jobbing uvarics, Permit me, in your penerosity, to rofer to anotber paragraph in this unkivd communica- tiun, which reads thus ¢ ¢ Now it $s eald the Southern farmern aro sceking ta coutltio tho unplousantuess by withdcawing thoie pa- trouagy from tho 1L, kford manufucturers, who doat argely in wgricuitural f1uplementa, Had it not beon for tho wicked and unauthori- tative telegrara sent to tho Jn! r-Ocean, that our manufacturers hiad formed o leagus sud given vledues that thoy would not contribute the prod- nets of their workshopu to the Exposition l} Mr. Davis shonld speak to 0ar patrons, a largo purt of the bitterneas and sulmoeity resnlting from { our invitation would heve beon forestallsd, No | such combination and no such yledges wers over made. Mr. N. C. Thompson, Ralph Ewerron & Co., Enocly & Doty,—onr Loaviest manufactur- ers,~bavo inforined mu that no such agreomony way contalnplated vor adopted, It was o fletion of tho reportor, who-e ouly interpretation of hiy act in that tho Jhirascology of Liy Jispatch wat changed after 1t reached Chicago. As a fur ther illustration: A dispatch was pubtished ia tho Chicago pavers of day laat, seut from Rockford, stating that our digtinguished orator, David Ward Wood, FEaq., in his moat ace eeptabla nadress privato interviawe, took tho opportunity to express his dis- eent or dirapproba%ion from our course in tho invitation to Mr. Davia, Mr. Wood sends me o communication emplaticallydonying * thas sucl iutorv.ew os that reparted (n i TrITNE ever took place.” Thia deuisl s pub~ Lisied 1 the Rocktued papers. T refute theao Fleeriu Isotio0 14, and shield ths fair charac- ter of wusreprescuted individuals from sila as. PUrSion- A, vt feom tho dark, liketho dag- gers of Tudnizht asgassies, to tnjure and kll, T feel thst it in n ¥olemn duty I owe to our man- acend, ta Mr. Davis, aal his personal friends at Mewping, to make this candid and honest states mant of the faeid in the case, H, P Kivnant, Secretar; Wintelaga County Agricultural Sodetys a aying : teilievs the m LAKE PEWAUKEE, Iniprovements Projected by the onlo 1on Springs Company, ' Special Correatnienee of The Clacago Tribune, Lask: Vewatv«ke, Waukesha Co., Win., Sept. £2,—-Tho interest mamtestod by your Journal in sil tmprovements of a character designed to in- tercst thu public, aud especially thu liborality showt to this new summer-resort, by the fro- | queut nuecint attention, by telograph sud otbor- | wing, drawn td 1t4 succes au a tishing aud pleas- urn j oint. induce me to give you the earliest in- fturmation from hendquarters aa to projectod | improvemeats to be cunmencod at ouce, and - tendod to ba 10 readinoss the ensting epring sod ramner, Tho Oukton Springa Compnny, charterod by T b State of Wisconsin, with ou smplo eapital, aud Lilly antorized to farm, quarry, buid Lo- tels, trotung-parks, and vteamboats, and to pros-, cento nlniost auy cuerent business pursait, is the awnor of the celebratod watery at tuls point in- dicatod by its owsn name, audsoveral eligiblo farma iid vracts of land, amoug which 18 a beautiful truct of over 100 ucres, ulmozt alfolming tho vrumses of the Oukton Spings Hotel,—tbe same comprising a boantiful grove now heing fitted up as & park; adjoining which {s lucuted Uskton 3pring 1 ; arousd which spring sud park & haif-mite trotting-courss hina been survoy nud, with two fine beds of aravel odjuceut, it ia proposed,durinyg the fall sud wister, tu come vlete the grading aud urstiug o1 »aid park in a proper aua duraojo wanuer, with the msention of opemng it tho epring the Usktom Springe Druiug-Tari, Withio # few bundred sacts of thb apring and propossd patk 1 the ' privaty sumbior-cost- deucs of Col "N, P, Iglebart, s well-arranged vetsgon Louso, with eigd Tootng, sud & barn and stable adjoining, capable of holding twouty« five horsos, and Lo raso, huy, aud hostlor- aceommodations for the rame, ~Thoas premisca it s propossd 10 sttach to, 10d WRKO B part of, ) the outtit o1 the park, (v bo kuown as the elube huuin aug stabledof tho Uaktou8prings Drivings i Park, 1am assured that some of the best-known' ratserd of fast horess uud fauncy stock wm tho Northwest L been cousulled, and s 14 pro- P ecd to havo thid 8 place of rescrt for guntlo- | mou huving nice horsus; that thoy, while Lera fisbang. bosting, shooting, ote., can diverwify thar smusumouts by mprovivg the speed and pendleness of their favorites: while the local farmuer sud horso-fuucior, having likely youn, Blued coming into mariiet, cau advance the spoe of Luy sawmp, and the more readily tind & warket, by reanun of thiese fncroased sdyantagos, ‘Flis Huecesa of Lake Puwuukeo, iu thy increas. ed yield of fiah thys season over uil, provious yuars aud other lakes, hus much ucreased tho number of ita adwirers, wany of whow for (he Hiet time bive witueascd 1he Loauty, clearuoss, aud dopth of its westorn eud,—it Lulng 1u area 114 by J unlos, wud from 20 10 63 feet doop; aud Boveral owners of yuchts bave prowised to plsce eunough on Its surface the comivg soawon, sa that, in futire, ysehtiug sy become an addi- teature to the standard amusements now y so woll knowy tere. ‘The leading hotels m Waukeshs, Oconomo~ Woo, etu., aru olosed for the season ; but the cot. tages uf Laxesido, nod at Osktun Bpring A, — the luttor bosuy run i connscuion with ths Usk- $ou Bpriuge Hotul, at this oud of the lske,~are all open, and will probably rewsin 0 for soma tiae, in order to give tho lovers of wport a chanco at the vory fno duck aud partrudge. shooting, aud tho well-watured pke, Lass, sud ckerel, thiat aze mok with Lose Lato 1n the soas [l Anocence—Ilow tho Bx-Presidens