Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 25, 1875, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1876, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. in good demand, and wero firmer, ‘Shero rian PAROLE TS ANSARER were sales nt *6.50@7.75, the bulk at 7.00 Om ir . s : i Eee pice n this Ofice. @7.90, ‘Tho eattlo market _waa Hifelen. Dally Fditlon, post-paid, 1 year. 913.00 | Sheep xold inoderntely at $2.75@4.50. One Satie eae oe too {| hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.87} 2 Hellas 00 in greenbacks at the close. 200 = aupport of the samo Sheriff, the same Re- corder, and the smine Connty Clerk, who are running theso offices (formerly so lucrative) at an enurmous expense to tho county; and ho is supporting for ro-olection some of the very men who indormo these things and audit tho bills. ee THE MOULTON NOL. PROS. Tho entering of a aalle prosegui in the case of libel bronght by Mr. Brecarn against Mr, Movrtos is ono of the most singular of tho many kingnlar developments in the grent seandal, ‘Fhe public had come to suppose that the whole caso hinged upon this supple. mentary ¢riat, and that the jury in the orig- inal case having left a doubt upon the ques- tion of Mr, Beecusr's innocence by failing to agree, he would triumphantly establish his innocence when his caso againat Mourrox was brought to trial, ‘This was the burden of statements mado by his friends, by his church, and by his newspaper organa, all throngh the long and tedious trial, They gave Lhe public to understand that, when the tabloa wero turned, and Mr. Bexcuen became plaintiff’ and Mr. Movrton defendant, then the preacher would not only establish hia iu. nocence, Lut would utterly crush Mounron aud hand him down to infamy. ‘The proph- ecy was a most boastful one. When Mr. Movrroy, in the course of business, had to ,[ leave Now York for a time, they loudly pro- elnimed that he dared not atny and face the music, but was ronning away from this par- Matled tong a Bs _ Perhapa the ‘cheokiest" proposition to 3.99 | feeco the City Treasnry which has come to 1-40 | tight recently ia that made by ono of tho Messrs, Ga vauMe (Who are put down in To prevent delay and isteker, bo aure and give Mr, Wesrxo’s list of his German supporters) post bites nddvees bn fall netaiing Stateand county, | to trade o fot on the corner of Randolph and Nemittancea may te made either by draft, expreshy Union streets for neity lot on the corner of Post-Office order, or in regintered letters, atourriek. | Madison aud Union atrecta for 3:10,000 to boot, Puig Sais aa ee ra as cenlh Tae west] The Randolph xtrect lot is Inrger than the Daly, deliver Y gamtay duel 0 cents por week. Madison street lot: tut the former is the Addresa THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, poorest kind of business property, and tho Corner Madion apd Deasborn-ste,, Chicago, 1. } tnttor about the vory best kind of business property, on the West Side. Probably Mr. Gurexenaus could notsell bis Randolph street property for more than $20,000, and the Mad- ison street property is worth perhaps 40 per cent more thon the Randolph street lot. Yet Mr. Greeszuavar wants $30,000 in money for the exchange. ‘That is, he wants the city to buy his Randolph street properly and throw jn its Madison atreet lot, Perhaps it will be as well for the nuthorities to defer this batter until after election, If carried out, it might damage Mr, Hrarxo’s chances, which are just now all-important. wre. One enpy, per yea Club of Hve, per ‘O)ab of twenty. ‘The portage ts 155 ce! Bpeclmen capten nent Cee ‘sear, whicl wo will p "AMUSEMENTS. HOOLEY'S TARATRE—Randatph atrect, beteesn Clarkand LaSalle. agemeot of the Callfornia Minstrels, MoVIGRER'S THEATNE—Madiaon street, between Dearborn and State, Engsgementof Lotta, juselte,” ADELPHI THEATHE—Dearborn strect, cornor Monroe, Vario\y performance WOOD'S MUSEUM—Aonroo street, between Doar orn and State, Afté¢rnoon, * Aurore Floyd.” Even: ing, "A Dangerous Gere,” McCORMICK HAL1—North Clark atrest, corner of Kinrle, Entertaiament by Prof. Pepper. “BUSINESS NOTICES. Mr. Iestxo’s great financi Y dintresa has MILBOR'S COD, LIVER, OU AND ud yrurarsien | alrendy unde itself felt. He has fond it reat pupnlurity of this safo and efficacious proparstion fe aloae atta wtotis iatefasie morib. tn the cure | nooescaty to resort toa mild sort of bunko tienlar trial, When Mr. Mouton returnod, acrofal fous bum re ani all contumptire armbiomy it fet | yanie in order to raise funds to assist in ge. | however, after transacting his business, they fo suporior. If equsl.. Lot no one new! carly By M ie - 3 ¥ ' ‘ a4 fonue of disgase, mun an agar ie tu watch | curing the votes requisite for his election, | Were strangely quist, aud manifested no dia position to press the suit. Mr. Movrton publicly domanded, in the most unmistak- able mauuer, tliat the case should bo brought to trial, Then comes the District-Atvorney and entors a nolle prosegui, which leaves Mr, Mounron still charged with perjury, calumny, and binckinail, just as Mr. Brecnen still stands charged with criminal conduct, breaking up Mr. Truton’s howe and alien- ating the affections of his wife. It will be of no use for Mr. Brecuen’s friends to urge that this action has grown out of his long suffering, and generosity, and rendinesa to forget and forgive. He and his friends ond his lawyers havo made the charge of perjury, conspiracy, and blackmail against Movzroy as the very key-note of the whole gcaudal, and have reiterated over and over again their ability avd deter- mination to prove it when the opportunity came, The opportunity has now come, and Mr. Movztoy not only stands resdy to mect the charges against him, but urges and in- sists upon a speody trial; but, when it comes to the point, Mr. Brecnen retires from tho fiold, and tho case is dropped. This is at leagt vory strango conduct, andthe public can only regard the abandonment of the charges against Mr. Movnton oa tantamount to an acknowledgment that ho was not libeled by Movzton at all. 5 + OF tho! Manufactured only by A, B, WILBOR, chemlat, Boston. Bold by all denguiste. The CShicags Geibune, Monday Mormng, October 26, 1875. Assussments of sums rauging from S10 up. wards have been levied upon the clerks and employes in the offices of the Sheriff, County Treasurer and County Clork, aud other coun- ty oflicinls who belong to the Devil-Fish party, and, osn suflcient rovenuo was uot forth. coming from these rources, the squeezing z process hus beon applied at the City Mall, At tho Now York Gold Exchange on Satur- | yuder the express sanction, it is said, of May- day greenback were quoted at the opening | oy Gorviy, ‘The demand hos been made st 86i, from which figure they ellvangad to | soremptorily, with a plain intimation that o 372, the closing quotation being B74. refusal to “represent,” a8 the bunko-ropers Cannvra, the Vineland editor who waa hot have it, involvos officint decapitation. It so by Laxpre ‘on tho 19th of last March, and | bappens that many of the best and most val- who has carried a bullet in bis brain over unable clerks in tho city and county employ tince, died yesterday. Ho had alrendy nc. | Republicans who have little or nothing tu cepted from Laxpia a sum of money in satis. say about politica, but who will quietly vote faction of any ond all claims on account of ogainst Mr, Hesria and his eo-plunderors, the shooting, but thia fnct will not operate Let ie aera gr read ex ee acts han overeinalpraseniow: method of extortion tho money will doubt. less bo raised, but whether tho votes it will buy will outnumber the votes turned to the other side ia by no menns certain, _———— 'Tho Commissioner of the Genoral Land- Office bas spoiled Mrpprxton’s little gamo in attempting to disturb the title to the site of tho Palmer Houso in this city. It is decided that the ground upon which this great hotel is situated was regutarly entered and prop- erly sold as Canal property, and that it is not subject to entry under the PonterrtELp scrip. B8OME ELECTION CRUIBS. It is n favorite device of Mr. Hxsrva, as well ag other political @emagogues who are aeeking olection to office, to appear in the role of the poor inan’s friend, and make spocial sppeals for the poor inon's voto, This campaign dodgo has been minde especially conspicuous by Mr, Iesrsa and hia follow. ers with aview of giving that gentleman tho guardianship of the county moneys for the next two years, Wo submit that the poor man could searcely hava a more dangerous enemy than one who sustaing a ring iv the Coanty Board, which he himself bas de- nouced ns organized for tho plunder of the Pubtie Treasury. This is what Mr. Hesrso is doing. The effect of such a conrse is an in- ercaso of taxation, which fa already ao oner- ous in this city aud county as to cripple capital and prevent the enlargement of out manufacturing interests. Tho Public Treas. duced a profound impression upon tho large { Ury cannot be plandered, the public moneys azecmblage, and that Mr. Saxcey’s singing | cent bo wasted in extravagant and currupt was a pronounced success, The clergy of | controcts, nnd tho public taxes cannot be in Brooklyn were largely represented on the creased, withont striking directly at the tax- platform, and the revival movement wag in- } Payers, who are at the same thne tho em augurated under tho most favorable auspices. | Ployers, When the resources of employers are thus contracted by a vicious administra. tion of public affairs, there are none who suf- fer the consequences more acutely than tho poorer, Inboring classes, If Mr. Hesmo were really the poor man’s friend, and entitled to the poor man's yote, he would now be It now appears to bo definitely settled that Secretary Cuanpten has determined upon making tho experiment of conducting the affaira of ‘*:¢ Interior Department without the aid of Indian-Commissioner Sara, We fear that this step has been taken without consulting either Mr. Satrrt or the noble band of Indian-Ring contractors whose inter- asta are so deeply involved in the matter. ALADAMA REPUDIATES HER DEBT. The State of Alabama ia in many reapecta aprosperoas one. It is o largo State, it is admirably located geographically, and is ca- pable of being made one of tho most pro- ductive in the Union. It has mountains, aud broad valleys, and plains, is well intersected by navigablo streams, and has a sen-const aud aseaport. The State hes the valuable com- Dination of timber lands, cotton lands, min- eral Innds, besides vast tracts suitable for atock-growing and general agricultural pro- duction. It has land some of which exceeds that of the prairies in producing corn. It haa a variety of marble and other stone ; has inexhaustible coal-ficlds, and some iron; the climate is unsurpassed, and tho soil product- ive; it produces wheat, corn, cotton, rico, sugar-cane, and tobacco, besides live stock. The State has been prosporous since its ad- mission, It snffered the ponalties of the War ; has been reconstructed, and during the Inst summior has undortaken to frame a new Constitution. This Constitution is now be- fore the people for adoption. Thero is ono provision in it which is urged Messrs, Moopy and Saxxer opened -in Brooklyn yesterday to n tremendous house, thousands being turned nway who were un- able to gain admittance to the Rink. Ourdis- patches rocite that Mr. Moopy's uddress pro- Tho country can now rest easy, for a mo- mentous question has been settled without revolution or bloodshed. Fora long timo a condition of terrible uncertainty and furious controversy has provailed regarding colf-hair faith with coutenpt. It in dishonorable, and there can be no escape from the penalties of ptich dishonor. Ifthe State of Alabama bs faithless to her honor now, bitterly will the act be repented hereafter, ‘Thera ix not a hamlet inthe eivilized world where thera is ninan who hes ono dollar to lend, who has not in hia memory the namo of Mississippi, tho State which repndiated her good faith,” and refused topay ber creditors. Tho State of Alabama will learn at heavy cost in tine that honesty ia the best policy, and that, na matter how grievous tho load of debt, nor how iniquitous the means by which that debt was contracted, the cheapest, as well nv the only honorable, way out of the trouble is to pay the debt. Winois and Alabama were ndniitted to the Union at nearly the same time, and Miinois hoa a financint history which it wonld bo profitable for Alabann to atndy. Forty years ago, thia State, through its Legislature, embarked in the, business of selling bonds, anit in due course of time had an immenss debt, some of whiclt was moro or less tainted with fraud; the population was mnall, much less than that of Alabamn, and tho State waa without roads, Thomoney wasall expended, and there was not # mile of railway to show forit. Taxation to pay tho interest was enor- mous upon the thon comparatively scattered population, Wenk Legislatures shandaned all Jovien of taxes on account of the debt, and thoro were thon in Illinois, as there are wow in Alabama, weak mon and demagogues pro- posing to ropudiato good faith, to scale the debt, and to “sit a4 a sovereign above all courts” and toll the public ereditor he must nerept o pittauce or go without anything, ‘The vame of Illinois was enrolled among those which paid no interest on their debt. Credit died out. The stigma rested on the whole people, Noman in Illinois could buy goods on credit anywhere, Immigrants, with their wagons, and teams, and Bve stock, drove cloar across the State, refusing to live in the State upon which tho blight of repudi- ation had fallen, Many of our own poople moved away, and there was that most horri- lo of all stagnation, when no mnn conld sell anything he had. and when credit had been wholly extinguished. What did Minoia pro- pono to do under these cirownstonces? Her half-million of people, rejecting the appoala of repudiators and demagogues, called a Con- vention, and in the new Coustitution placed on irrepoalable tax, which was to bo collected annually, and ita proceoda applied to the paymont of the interest ond principal of the debt. All the unpaid inter- ost was funded in now bonds; every form of unbalanced indebtedness was taken up and funded. ‘The credit of the State was recov- ored. ‘Tho bonds were soon above par; ine dividfal credit rose with that of tho State; immigration flowed in and remained ; capital gought inyestinent among n people who paid their debta ; tho State, which, “ sitting as o soveroign above courts,” had fost to her good faith and erodit, grow in all tho ele- ments of prosperity, aud ber people never oxporioneed a regret nor an inconvenience from the imposition of a tax which long since has sponged out the onco formidable debt, with all its accumulated unpaid intorest. Honesty was found to bo thw bost policy. Had the Convention of Alabama placed in her Conatitution o provision for an irropeala, blo tax to pay the whole Sinto debt, her peo. ple would never have fol the tax, and their eredit would have attainud o distinction in strong contrast with that of o State which re- pudintes debt because it reats on “good faith only,” and which, eitting ay o sovercign ho. yond the reach of courts, compelw creditors to accept n shilling on the dollar or go with- out anything. The twenty millious may bo aaved, but at what o sacrifice! Tho croditor who Jonna money on bontl and mortgage takes the risk of the sufficionoy of tho security; but the man who loans money on the ‘ good faith” and honor of a “sovereign” receives botter treatment in Mexico and Spain than is olferad by the new Constitution of Alabams. ag aetrong commendation for the whole in- strament by mon who have hitherto hold high places in the State, and claim to bo statesnion and friends of Alabama; but we can undorstand it only ag an impending blight, which, if now imposed, will have an effect on the State from which it will require whole generations to recover, To understand this provision, it should bo explained that thore is outstanding in the name of the State a debt amounting In round numbers to $30,000,000. This is not alla bonded debt, but is mainly contingont; that is, the Stato has contracted a liability result. ing from grants of aid to railroads, which reaches posaibly 320,000,000, which, added to the debt proper and unpaid interest, makes the aggregate we have given, The validity of portions of this debt is denied, and «why does ho sustain the men who aro respon. | 20 interest has beon pald on any sible for it, aud some of whoin are candidates | Portion of the new debt, The new Constitu- forze-cloction on the ticket which ho heada? | tion contains such restrictions upon the "Tho committee of the county having the | Power of taxation that it will bo impossible matter in charge is about to report favorably, | t levy a tax to pay the interest on the debt, : it is enld, on tho allowance of 850,000 to tho | “ho new Constitution does not directly ro- woizure of o large number of browerios and | South ‘Town Bonrd for tho payment of the | Pudiate the Btato debt; it simply rondora it and its status under our wise, benignant, and intelligent protective-tariff system. It wasa serions case of calf-hair, and not merely of half-care or car-fare,and it was reforred by the Treasury Department to tho Smithsontan Tnstitute, Tho last-named ougust body has rendered a report, and tho customs officers will hereaftor keep an eyo out for that insid- fous emissary of European pauper labor under the balefal guise of calf-hair, engaged in an effort to reform the County Board, instead of advocating the re-election of men whom he hos himsolf denounced, through his newspaper, as mombors of a cor- rapt ring. A fow illustrations of the present county Management have come to light within a day ortwo. Mr, Penoiat, who has a monopoly of the contracts for county supplics, is now furnishing the county, under a written con- tract, with potatoes at ninety cents a bushel, when thoy can be bought by the quantity at fiftern cents a bushel, and whon the county ‘has plenty of potatoes of ita own, raised on the Poor-House farm, which are left to rot in order to enable Mr, Pentotat to enjoy the benefit of bis contract. Doca Mr, Hestxa, in his charactor of the poor man’s friend, sanction this sort of procecding? If not, This time it is the brewers of St. Louis who ate ou the brink of a moral Ningara, composed of beer brewed without tho pay- ment of the internal revenuetax. TheTreas- ury detectives, not satisfed with disem- boweling tho Whisky Ring, turned their at- tention to the manufacturers of lager, with the result, it is confidently asserted by thoso who should know, of ferreting out a large line of fraud in the repoated re-uso of atatupa upon bovr-barrels, The rovenue is said to Lave suffered to tho extent of about $300,000. by this schemo during the post two years, and the evidence obtained is auch that tho tho arrest of thelr Bropriotors may be looked | outrageous salaries which tho town officers | impossible to pay the interest or principal of |* for very soon, have vated thamselvos, A portion of this is | thatdebt, The Hon, Tuosras H. Hzannon, <= said to bo for town debts, but thea town | i aapeech urging the adoption of the new A small nomber a officcholders, office- | debts consist of provious outrageous solaries { Constitution, among other reasons gives tho sockers, gamblera, and bummorg held a meot- | voted themselves by former town officers, | following: Ing yesterday, and, assuming to represent | Ono of the principal beneficiaries of this pro. | ,/2urth—tt ralitcartan willbe the proximate cause the Irish-Americans of Chicago, passed a posed allowance fs a candidate for Count; of relieving the State of $20,000,000 of tho principal of resolution requosting Mr, Micwavu Keeury | Commissioner on Mr, Hesrna’s ticket, The um aH var 100/00 fotrrert ta iy te bala : to withdraw his independent candidacy for | character of theso town officars, ‘and their | of the debt, ‘ i a i a ~ the office of County Treaaurer, Mr. Keeurr | utter usctessness oxco This may sound Un iy pt ns appendages to the 7 @ m atartling propoaition, But will probably treat this impadent mani- | coalition whlch Mr. Tests is Pakalig, are pie bela te eet te bg pia teg dic festo with the contempt it merits by | too familiar to require auy furthor dis action, and oan be assured jon. | by the statement of wuimple fact, E kn reason of tho fact that the partiew who | The very suggestion of allowing one of the (Hat the moneyed obligations alate acy. based, OR put it forth do not represent the Irich-Amor- | Town Boards &50,01 2 ite good falth avd credit only ; eR sovereign sho icans of this city, but merely represont Mr. | another sino, Me ta caries a tee. od ie short ait const, beyond the reach of dele pro. Devi fant a and his choice collection of | it becnuso My, Heatva ia the poor man's | ler to pey uu he pope, whove soveretauty abe ee evil-Fish tontacloa. Mr, Keeney will natu- | friend that ho advocates the election to the | bedles. Nowa debt of $10,(00,000—nesrly one-fifth of rally be confirmed in his detormination to | County Board of mon interested in making | Me, Yue of thelr tarable property—the poople of continuo his present active canvage, the more | such an allowance ? & ) Asbsma can never pay—vwill nover pay; od this so that yeatorday's demonstration was atacit |. Astheso aro but ordinary samples of tha preshehan ene riipenters ovat afore em the euntersige of the genuine alarm with which | County Board transactions, it ix no wondor | ‘The moaning of this cannot bo mistaken, ia candidacy ig regarded by tho very men | that Mr. Bunprcx, the Chairman of tho Fi- | It is to force the creditors of the State to ro- bine ho claims, omployed trickery to defeat | nance Committeo, is forced to report that | mut 820,000,000, with the sccrued interest, nomination in tho firat place, tha expend a se year will exccod the | under the distinct constitutional threat that SaAtnce hy Pa appropriations by $50,000, It is no wonder | tho Stato will not pay, and that, ‘as a gov. pais eee roan markets wero rather | that i¢ is proposed to increase the appropri. | elgn, abe olta above a courte and toyond be ool) pea Perini dl Mess pork was in | tions for next year by aver $100,000, though | reach of their processes and mandates,” ee Datshae an aia closing at $21.60 | the property-veluation in the county basbaen | _ ‘The faot that the moneyed obligations of a Lined wae dull Cad geet e tne ite oar. | enormously reduced. Ibis no wonder that | Slate aro based on its good faith and credit and $12.25 seller the 4 pada for new | an increase of expenses amounting to $2u0,. | only is actually employed as s reason why st Bjo for part-salt, ee ae Hes plieg quiet, | 000 is anticipated for the coming year, when | the State should not pay its obligations, —in fos Waxt Bs sales iiot ea xed), 120] tho Sheriff's office, which always ylolded | other words, that ‘a sovereign uitting above Tigh inex vara’ sliets tite, » ive clear do. | large profits when the fees wont to the occu. | all courte” can afford to treat good * faith sina er gallon, Lake pil: vita steady, at | pant, vow bas o deflolency of $75,000 a year, | and credit "as of no concern, We do not and eos a sciear’foe ats ‘| were, anit and whon the County Olerk’s and Recorder's | mican to asy that the debt of Alabama was all Flour aa a ehhcat at a 0 Bes ‘alo. | oficas are alsa yunning behind in the same | logally contracted, nor wisely contracted ; on ler, closing af $1.12 aah a a ‘91.07 regs Proportion. Doea Mr, Hxsia conceivo it to | the contrary, we think Alabama is no excep- November. 8 ‘Com. aids pany a ‘ a ‘or | be his duty aa the poor man’s friend to in. | tion in the list of victims of an unsorupalous Osta were du and: 4@jo lower, closing at | Yor a of the mon who are responsible | to sell bonds, But that ia no justification for repudiation, Thi fe B}jo for October and 820 for November. | t would havo been as woll for Mr. Hesma | is o botecatye Tepceaihe estas of wets Bye was dull and lower, at @710, Barley to have used his influonce to suppross these | is the strongest reason why a Stato was active and 10 lower, “closing at @00 for | sqvelations now that be is no longer ine po- | should cherish good faith with religious Ostober and Uta for Rovember. “Hogs were | pitloa to condatun, thea, He is asking the honesty. No State oan eford to trakt sood THE SOHOOL-QUESTION 1M ENGLAND. The attack on our public-school system finds o parallel in England. In both coun- trices the assault tales the same insidious shspo, It is in the guise of an attempt to secure a distribution of tho sclool-taxes among sectarian, as woll os State, schools. The connection of Cliurch and State in En- gland is the roal reason, according to Prof. Tnono.p-Roagrna, why that country has never enjoyed uational edu cation,” The Educational act of 1870 has bom shorn of much of ita effect by sectarian jealousy. The schools, established under ik have been successful jn proportion to the absence of seotarianiy, in their management, ‘This fact has oncow aged the large body of mun who boliove that *4 State should keep open. schools, but should also keep them frie from sectarianism, But it has also lod to renewed effort on tho port of those sectaries who see in this tho losa of tholr hold on tho minds of ifhe masses, and who are, therefore, determined to uso-thew schools, if thoy can, to train the people inereeds inatoad of in knowlodge. A Vicnr in Warwickshire, Eng., is reported to have said that the Gov- ornment would ititroduce into Parliament at tho next aexsion F, bill authorizing tax-payers to havo thoir sebol-taxea nsod for the sup- port of either so starian or public schools, ag thoy prefer, A¢.cording to the London Times, Lord Lyrrurtos; favora this soheme te force the State to nct as tox-coltuctor for any sect that chooses to start a school to inculcate dogma, His n-ime, however, is the only ona of any prominince as yot mentioned in cou- nection with the plan, and the 7imes ex- presses great, doubt whether any sich Dill isin contemplation. In faot, it pooh- poohs the ideu, But that such a project is mooted shows: that national education has the eante focis.in England asin Americs. The Romaniste would join with the Established Church jn gsh @ foray upon the pablioschools. thera. Hone, where the State is freed from the incubus of an Established Church, we have only ‘the Catholics (and only part of them) with ‘whom to contend in behalf of the corner-itone of our systam of Govern ment—the }oudlic school. The attack upon thom is msute only by the more ultramontaue of the priosthood and the more ignorant, and therefore 1rioat easily led, of the-laity of the Roman Ojaurch, If the demand of these men should be granted, and the Btate should be dograded into an instrumer.t of dogmatism, the downfall of oor who.» public-school aystem would bo almply a ¢ uestion of time. If wa allot part of the sc) iool-fund to the Cathclics, wea must do tho sim ne favor to the Baptiste, Preaby- torians, Methodists, Campbollites, Epiaco- palisns, Unitarians, Swedeuborglous, He- bfaws, #.04 all the other thoasandyud-one secta wWiolch bave reprusentutives iu this country. Every two-pevuy privets school would ‘ha enrolled ay & “ dotuninatioual acadenn, }," and thus justify agray for part of tus taxt gw «Tho exsiem would foi yader tho walvlt, of ta own wonrkness, oud the vablle schoo? would bea thing of tho past. Chis iy what tho Catholic hierarchy wishes, It pro. rents the thin edge of the wedgo in this de- mand far adiatribution of the school-fund, Tf ib gets this through, it will drive the wedge honw and shatter the corner-atono of {reo institmtions into fragments, ‘The position of the Atmorican Rtate in tho rchool-question ia simple and right. Tho Btw is itself non-vectarian, and all its acta must necessarily be vo, IL proviiles schools thet teach overything but sectarinnism. Prrents who wish their children instripted In the Intter can aend them to private schools, or can ottend to this at home. But the per- sons Whoni poverty or preferences leads to vond thoir children to the public schools can thus cecure for them a solid education with- ont having somebody else's doctrinal notions crammed down their throats. Tho public xehoo! must be preserved, and tho price of its preservation is uncompromising resistance to sectarian interference. —_—_—— THE GURBE OF CHEAP MONEY. ‘Tho well-known statistician who writes for the New York World undor the rather absurd psendonym of “Adersey Curiosibboy ” has compiled nome accurate tables showing tho different prices of potatoes, rive, milk, mo- Tasses, sirup, und Inbor in Now York in 1860 and 1874, They show that tho prico of Inbor—wagen—has not risen in proportion with the prices of the commodities which the laborer buys, Io got more paper dollars in 1874 than he did gold ones in 1860, but he could buy less goods with the wages of 1874 than with those of 1860, A first-class machinist oarned $11.90 per week in 1800, and $16.00 in 1874, The first aunt isin gold; the second in paper, Dur- ing the name time, the price of a bushel of potatoes rose from 46 to 77 cents ; that of s pound of rico from 6 to 11 cents; that of a quart of milk from 4} to 8 conta; that of a gallon of molasses from 48 to 80 cents ; and that of o gallon of sirup from 63 to 97 cents. Tho machinist’s weokly wago would buy 3% less bushels of potatocs in 1874 than in 1860; 403 less ponudsof rice; 62} less quarts of milk; 3} loss gallons of molasses ; and a galion leas of sirnp. ‘The sama comparison can be extended to othertrades. A boilermsker's wages—$10,96, gold, in 1860, and $15, currency, in 1874— would not buy as mony bushels of potatoos in 1874 08 in 1960 by four; a8 many pounds of rico by 46}; a8 many quarts of milk by 70}; 2 many gallons of molassos by four ; and as many gallons of sirup by two. A blacksmith’s wages, reckoned in quarts of milk, show o decrense of 61} quarts dur- ing the fourteen years. The weok's work of a millwright would buy 64 gallons of molasses more in 1860 than in 1874, A braas-foundor could purchase, with the procoeds of six tlays’ Inbor, G3 moro pounds of rice fifteen years ago than he could one year ago. Tn 1860 on unskilled laborer sarned, on an average, $6.07, gold, por week, nnd in 1874, 38.81, cntrency. His wages, reckoned in potatoos, were 3} bushels less in 1874 than in 1860; reckoned in rico, 21 poands jean; in molosses, 14 gallous Jess; and in milk, 83, quarts loss, Itisa truism to say that the test of tho highness of wages ia their purchasing powen I¢ A’s pay will buy more than B's, A’a wages are the highor, no matter Low low thoy may be in dollars and conta, It thero- fore appears that fourteen yenrs of “ protoc- tion,” hypocritically demanded for the sake of the interosta of Inbor, and twatve years of rag-money, neatly printed in groen ink, ‘‘blood-sealed” to on alarming extent oz based on “ faith and resources,” have redvetid instead of increased the comforts within‘the reach of American labor, When a high tariff anda fnetuating oxrron- cy raise pricos,—and they slwaya do s0,—the workingman inust necessarily wofar. Tho prico of labor is the Sret thing to fall and the last to rise. Supply and demand dx all prices in tho long run, but tho owners of most com- moditics can hold thoir wares end keep them in good condition, waiting for prices to rise, Not so with labor, ‘Vhat is tho most porisha- Lie of all com*nodities. The man who has a day's work. to oll finds its vaiuo falling vith overy hour for which ho i# ‘ynemployed, and vanishing with the setting sun. He most often make afore od sale, and such salos are always at low: pricas, We havo cheap money now,—s0 cloap that the workingman can get but little 7n exchange for his money. What he needs is, not cheap monoy, but cheap goods, He can get the latter when the curronoy is honest and the tariff low. A CURIOUS DOMESTIC REVELATION. ‘The dovelopments mario in the proliminary hearing of the Srxoxn will caso constitute a acandal of domeaticity ond a phase of modern civilization whiob are almost without parallel. Wo have alreody alluded to tho features of the will of this polygamous patriarch, and tho manuor in which it Is sought to be broken by one of the divorced wives; but the domes- tio foaturea of the case are #0 uniqno that they aro worthy of comment also, Tho rov- elations made by Asvoprus, who lifted the roofs of the houses to seo what was going on buneath thom, were not more singular, sad- diming, or mysterious than those which havo Deen made in the lifting of Mr. Snvarn's reof by the attorneys in this will case, Here is o man who hes had twenty-eight clifldven by six different women, the most of the childron now living arid married, and heretofory moving in good soclety, ad thelr fathor did bofore them, without any apparent stain upon thelr names, Dély was divorced from two of thase women, and ho was not married to the one to whom tho has left the groater part of his proparty, although he publicly acknowledged hor as hia wife, acknowledges her as such in bis will, and she has always borne his name, likewlss hor ohildren, and hea moved in the best so- clety of England and Americans the wife of the great sewing-maohine millionaire. Three other women whom he never acknowledged a3 wives have also borne him children, and these children he recognizes as his own by giving them his name and amply providing for them in his will, . The most mysterious feature of all this sorry business is the fact that the world, which presumes to kuow everything, know nothing of the harem which Mr, Sixoxa had established until bis will came to the light and Mr, Sinoza himself was beyond the reach of scandal or gossip, Tumor, with all hor eyos, and eara, smd tongues, had failed to see or hoar anything of this matter, Most singular of all {a it at none of thevo many-divorced wives and paramours, and uo one of thislarge wealth could proonre, or ton years he livad in Londo and Paris in that joatou and enviea wonld have led to fiumediate disclosures, if not to: more gerlous porsonal reculta to the lord of tho harom. It is aktonishing that blackmnilors hava not Ht. orally swarmed abont him and mado his fife atornent to him, But apprrently nothing of the sort has happoned. Io passed along through life quietly, easily, and happily, Ho rolled in wealth, aud be had every luxury that During the past sight the most affluent style with his Inst ostensi- bie wife, entertaining hosts of visitors, his magnificent establishment boing known to thonsands of travelers, aud yel not ono of these wamon who he had lott behind him ever breathed the seeret which they held, not one of tho ehildran lispud it, and tho world looked upon the millionaire ax 8 model man, enjoying in hin old age and retirement from basinces the profits of his ingenuity and industry. More than thiy, he waa, so far av the world knew, 9 peculiarly-moral man, an generous and charitablo man, who took dolight anthropic enterprises. Wenlth always brings powerandinfluanco, and these attributes now- adays shield n mau from moral aud legal pon- alties, ond too often, even in tha Church, polliste offenses which would he instantly condemned under other circwmstances. was not no in this instance, however, as the Church know as little of tho real life of the man ns the world, exemplary church-momber, and 4 in siding roligious and — phil- It ‘The peculiarities of the cade tend to show that Mr. Straxe did not regard his conduct as immoral, or even out of keeping with the practices of modern civilization, or the pre- tences of religion and morality, There :nust have beon, howover, some twinges of con- acience, and there was a rilent concession to the usages of socicty in the fact that he kept his secrot to himeolf during life. called upon to leave life, however, he gave his secret to the world without any provari- cation or snbterfuges. no responsibility or cover up anything. recognized legitimate and illegitimate childron as upon the same footing. Ho claimed thom alles his own by conferring his name upon them, and providing for them boyond the possibility of want. of his course of life, and howevor sternly we may condemn hia practices, ns calculated to undermino society morfls and brenk down the sanctity of home, his honorable conduct in this particular is to bo commended as that of a conrageons and fair-minded man, and his oxample ono that should be followed by many ouother man of wealth. Strict justice would compel aman by law to do what Mr. Srczr has done, and that he has done it without compulsion speaks well for his mem- ory, whatever view we may take of his course of life, ‘When Ho sought to shirk Ho Whatover wo may think Tho conviction of Toree, the ex-Revenuo Appnt in St, “Louis, npon an indictment for frauds in the Rovouue Department, is no mat- tor for congratulation in two respects: First, this man Joson was tho loader of the Whisky Ring, and 9 man of unuaunl boldness, sharp- nas, and sagacity, and, notwithstanding the ability of his dofenso, the jury convicted him upon every connt in tho indict ment, Thus one corrupt revenno officer will recaiya appropriate punishment, Second, tho conviction of Joyce was in reality the col- lapse of the whole Ring. It pulled out the very key-stone of the arch and lot every- thing down in ruin. Tho whisky men had come to believe ‘that the bribing of the local officials was equivalent to the bribing of every one in Washington, aud that whon they hod fixed mon like Joxcx, thon they could go stead with the most perfect im- punity. The conviction of Joxox was like a flash of ightuing. It revealed to thom the perilous position in which they are standing, and showed them there wae no one in Wash- ington to whom they could look for help, Hence thoy are now fleoing in every direc- tion from the wrath to come, and are ready to, compromise, tarn State's evidence, beg for Yeniency by confession, —do anything, in fact, to escape, The Ring is as completely smashed as if a thundorbolt had smitten it, ———— & According to the Pall Balt Budget, the system of “inquiry rooms" which wore in- troduced by Messre. Moopr and Sanger in England has not proved a success, and the miulatera fre soriously discussing the pro- yriety of abolishing them, It appears that wolves in eheopa’ clothing are continually get- ting into thom; that young people, pretend- ing to bo qualified to converao with those who desire spiritual counsel, talk all sorts of yabbish to people old enough to be their grandparents; and, still worse than this, that hosts of young men and women aro using tho rooms for the purpose of carrying on Alirta- tions! ‘This is asad rosult of Moony and Sanxxy’s labors. The Budget suggosts, as a means of stopping the wolves from getting in, that “the best plan would bo to ostablish a preliminary ponance of auufliciontly disa- grecable nature—such ov having tho head shaved—ns a teat of aincerity.” It is doubt- ful, however, whether this would bo prao- tical. Shdving the head ie altogether too light a penalty for flirting to have any infu. sone inlopgin a oto The Park Commissioners are at work im- proving the most-sonthern of tho two parks known collectively os’ South Park. ‘This park les immediately along tho lnke-shore, ‘and the Inke igwesily connocted by a canal with the series of small akes-within the park. Thoro has always been more or leas confusion in speaking of these southern parks because of the want of specific names for them. We believe the Commissionors “have concluded to formally deaignate them a5 South Park and Michigan Park,—tlw latter "belag the larger one, lying along the lake- shore. = The ancient Auzen won't cares “beubdes” about the cosult in Ohio, aud lingers on in robuat twalth, evidently to the profound disgust of the f Ipripgfeld Republican, which tartly obatirvess ‘Tt looka now very much as though the Cincinnall Jtnguirsy crowd bad sucosedo?, not only in beating Tine Wits ALLE fn Ohio, but in beating dir E‘gusuina in Peousyivania, Both States wor) reason~ a bly sure for the Democracy tuntil theso astate poll {itiane aet up thelr ebrill yawp for more papertmoney, Bat, nothing daunted, Witax, the Oiwlanatl Fimuirer anneupoos, goes to Ponnsylvauda thie wwek, to rally the masses with bis fog-horn tones, and to disconcert ex-Benator Buoxatrw apd the other Democrats, who hava been hedg- liagon the Erie rag-money platform, ALtun’s appesrance on the stump thera mesus a square fight onthe currency ivauey and mayhap the etalwart antediluvian will as effectually dispose of the Pennsylvania Damocratio dodgers os he did of Senator Tavawan, _——— ‘The'awtul consequences of ALLEN’ defeat are colony of children, ever let out the secret | dolly paraded by the Cincinnati Hnguirer in edi- through cerelesaness, envy, or malice, We doubt wlesther any man before, secretly asso~ elated wig wis Women, and having children by all of thom, has been so pucoossful’ in hepping {hose agvogjations biddow from fio world, Ts any other case it wed som to be iuevilatls torial parsgraphs chronfoling every mercantile fettuse reported in the country with the pro- found comment, “They probably hada’t heard of the election af Haas,” The irresiatible ta~ ference lu that if Azzax.bad basen elected Gov- yernor of Ono, aud, as he would baye dene, bad classed the Mabtoing presses to pridtlog grean- paoky, the baubrupted Orme, toatead oF turnlog ee: over their entire sagets to their oreditors, mal have paid off thelr dobts iu rag-mopey worth porhaps 10 conte un tha doll ad bave lett thelr crogitora to fall. ———— Abont threo month ago, wo reviewed ona g tho poorest buoka ever fasnoit from tho Ameri can preed.—''Trincipia or Basis of Boolal Bop. ence,”—by ® porson named Jt. J. Wriant. We said thatthe book was ‘a haeh of lame fang; and state fact thrown togetbor higgtody-pggte. dy in tho moat sloranly fashion," and wo ented by doclaring that ‘the writers and publisher of auch etait shonid be indiatud by a Boeicty fo the Provention of Cruolly to Reviewers.” We are now inclined to think that bey ought to beim dicted for auothor offense. Wo havo received 4 paniphlet of reviowa of Mr. Witunt's volume, tn which our attempt to oxpose its rool usture i, 90 garbled and misquoted that ‘tux Tainoxe iy actually made to noem to recommend tho pre. postoroun aluah of this trickster. Stich an offensy against goo morala deserves exposure. Thy author nays bo bas writtun his book for “pioug young men.” Does hoe courtier this piece of knavery 6 fitting oxamplo to budding pions person? Ho tirst committed the unpardonable sin of writing a stupid, doll, and silly book, and ho now tries to foist his printed vapidities on the public by something remarkably like a Jia, Hinoo be ha garbled our eriticiam, he has probs. bly treated tho otbers io this parophletin the same way. If any ‘pions young man" an vives the task of reading tho book, be should write an expostolatory letter to ita author. Sa psn mare, ther itlustration of the extreme sensitive. noss Of tho British Government to publio opinion {a furnished by tho modiflestion of tho ordar concerping fagitive slaves. The Earl of Darby referred to the orders af the Admiralty in the course of speech delivorod at s pnblic dinner in Liverpool on the 7th inat., and annoanced that the Govornmont had docided to auepend them. British Captains in foreign wators will sot, therefore, for the progont, be expected to ext as elave-catchors, and foreign elaves wha taxo shelter under the Britian flag will every. where bo recognized as frosemos, Tho Earl of Derby eald: ‘The statement of law contained tn rave referred to, whether or n0 It embodies eee [iv viow of our rights and obligationn, ie simply that X¢hich wa havo received on the highest logel author ty; but, looking at the constraction placed upon it, feeling the extterse {nsxpodiency of exciting populst yoanajon on a matter which requires carofut Ealing iind considering that the question dealt with fe not «one requiring urgent haute, we think it better to case awl what has been done, so that the whole question inay be considered de novo, and that any future dis tmssivn tpon it may not be projudiced, This fe rot the time and pleco for dotailod explaustious, and Feobsbly you will think I havo sald enough for the rsoment, 7 —_~—+—_—_— The New York special correspondent of the Cinctonatk Enquirer unosrths the fon) con- apiracy in pursnscce whereof Scuuzz aided is Killing the rag-baby, It waa concocted ny ths “tmoneyed aristocracy of Wall atroet and tha Manhattan Clab,” and the long and ehort of it it that Scuunz ia to be placod on the tickot with ‘TrupeN, for Vice-President. What renders this exposuro tho mors appalling {a tho fact that nol tho slightest rogard was paid by tho con epiratora to tho third clanao of the Twelfth Amendment to tho Constitution of the United Stater, which makes » forelgn-born citi- zen ineligible to the ‘Yice-Proaidency. And they are going ahoad, nccording to the En quirer's correspondent, these conspirators, Col Gnoayexon, Jon Poritzen, Stisos Hotere, aod tho New York crowd, laying tho wires for the nomination of the Blonde Dutchman," as the correspondent atylea him, for Vico-Presi- dent, with Saumy Trrpex at tho hoad of the ticket. As to tho remarkable atgument that money, as the atandard of values, ahould itaolf intrinsically be of no value, the New York Honing Post BBYS > If the thing to be measured be an extenslon, the thing by which {ta measured must have extention orlength: tf it boe weight, the measure mutt have Srolghts if tt be volume, thy meastire ratnt bave.capec+ ity; Af it be best, tho measure must bes unit of heat; {Pit be thine, the mouure imuet be a unit of timo; and ko, If it be wealth or something wrought by labor, the measure must be wealth. 9... Butdidangone ‘ever prapose or hour of an idoal measure of longtb, oF an ideal moaanre of welght or capacity? Did spy oue re te ry ity £1 t! rintin peep pipe capacity from the prose as well a4 mi tres 0 woalth ? ‘an lddal ouneor oF an ideal inch, or tangible a quanilly ideal pint, {a just a9 valid and a ae ee Gollad: Meltzer of then miearurea s2)- op an ideal Gollar. thing, aud they all ‘The socrot of a recont fall in Aissourl Pacific stock fe oxplatned. Thore waa 0 ramor iu 006 of the New York clube that » law of Sfiasocr had rocontly been discovered which, if enforced, would compel the companios of that Btate to pay 16 por cont of thelr groas earnings into the Btate Treagury, Cortain gentlemen who ware heavy holders of tha stock called on Mr, Witte uaa BM. Evanrs, and inquired if there tse any truth in tho tumor, Mr, Evanrs, thinking bis queationers referred to a tas-suls which bad been decided against the Company, aiyrored In discouraging manner, Thoy retired, and be- gan to sell heavily. ‘The market fell more thea 20 per cent in three weeks. The nitetake bis now been olscovorod and rectfled, but Ar. Evanta myaterious viaitora do nut valoe hie closraess of vision so highly as thoy did formorly. ee To « lotter aoliciting him to come out ag 80 Indopendent candidate tor Governor of aie chysotte, and theroby pavo the way for cH Presidential nomination poxt fall, Cssau Fnanots ApaMa reapovda } ny toenter upon auy course, direct oF in rete Sarata nao ie Yeltow-cltizena in the matte of at election to the Presidency, be nothing but morliGeation and repentance. 17 fey roally want me, they kaow where to find me, Bonet nothing that {could do would avail to chandy then. You eay shat things oro managed in auch way ae to supproas (lie true sonay of tho peaple. 1 A that this can never be when the people really Late ty opiulan. It is only when they sre Indifferen! i ride hay manaGetneDy op and 1 gay ie ) r Bion it PR were to attempt ft my friends would only be sorry for my smiatako. ——— former The protoualonn of Gov. TaDEey se 4 Fe! aro thus quisty peloked by the Cinciunstl Gas selles ass ecurtoalties of politica 1s that Gor, ea arty we an ally anny yporter of sls ane Finguntit other pawora beaks fle back, 14 Ti ide pars of reformor, aud In particular that he 1 Poy ng Whe pars of reforsner of caual rabberive, wile porpotrated under the Democratic regi, With whlch be was closely allied when it was bot, that it was robbiug the Btate, and the losing © Of witch ore still eading managers of 1 Sock party; and that for toe, display af Claeea trent In the name of reform by Gov, Trier, OO cratic party, with the canal riog stil olatme an election, Paroon Brownzow thus sounds the ae oF the rag-money queatioa to bis Knoxville Chron telex betweed ‘The wild inflstlonists desire to Alacrininate : the bongholder would eee aeger aan dollar worth wo cenu ns. —__-—_—_ Jaues Farman Crane, of Boston, am Biblical researches, has discovered the onto inflationiet, He wos the uvjast stoma ty contrived so that a man who owed a a measures of oll seamed to pay bis debt Alty, Av exploration oY Bam Ranpatt beoking for the Sptakersbip of the nett 198, reducesthe entire fontharn delegation” Po" to him toa slugle member-—sx-Cov. Was he ta2't Virginia, And now WaLsia doclares pledged to Rampatt, nor any oiler clea Ee Te ane Of Anas as the La ere ean didate tu 1876 the Toledo waye: if Wa are quite confident the Republicens of tbe eet Southern by, eee tNEL fo soo Mr, Apaus pominsted LY TT, for tag Prosigency, and not Lecatay, be Vallty, mor bie bonesty of purpose, O00, bis Re y, Tarton, of Wisconsin, Demooratis * pests ° cutisia for re-election, 1 one ot Oe yery honest mea who prove lage iad thely own afidavita, whlch be bas done anes matter of the ebarged against bio of Gofre! rd toldlure of thaie boonty-money. Zo linen