Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 1, 1875, Page 4

a — THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. the specches, wan there o solitary allusion to RS forcigners. Der Westen insulta the intelli- gence of its readera in trying to stufl thom with such silly lies. RATER OF AURACKIFTION (PAYALLE IN ADYASCE). Tostore Peepnll at this Ofee, Daily Edition, prat-nid. 1 sear. ..813.00 Parts af year 1.00 2,00 Yrof, 8wixa yeslerday announced to tho @550 | Fonrth Preshyterian Church that on or he- A 0f 3rRr AL KRIDG Fal WPERLY EPIIION, TORIPAID. Onacony, por raar, Club of tive, per eapy €Clab of twehty, per o Tho postaga 1 175 cente & year, which mo will prepar. Hpecimen copies ent free. To pravent delay and mistakes, be suro and giva Post-Ofeo address §n full, ineluding Stateand County, Remiltancea may bo mada either by draft, expreas, Foat-Office order, or in regirtered lettars, ot our risk. TERMS TO CITY KURSCRINERA. Dafly, deliverad, Sunday excepted, 125 cents per week, Duly, delivared, Bunday fucin ) cents per week, Address THE COMPANY, Corner Madfson #m! Desrbarn.sts,, Clicago, Iit, fora tho close of tho prasent year he shounld sever tho pastoral relation with the church, leaving it freo to place iteelf inn position “less irregular,” as viewed oy the powers that bo, ‘This notification sets at rest all un. certainty rogarding the possible return of Trof. Swina to the Presbyterian denomina- tion, and it also pointa to the nenr fultillment of the project of eatablishing for him an in. dependent church in the heart of the city, and the enlargement of the sphero of useful- ness of & man who, though lost to the Pres. byterian ministry, is gained for the cause of religion in Chicago in a bronder and grander eapncity. TAMUSEMENTS. NTW CHIOAGO THEATRU~Clerk streat, botwesn Lahe. Engsgeent of Charlutts Thowmpe o Lyce. 7 vml THIATRE—Desrborn strest, i Aevin MVICREL'S THPATRE=Madiaon street, beiween Dearborn amd State, Fugagewent of James Lewls. The **short™ operatora in lard on the New Yorlt Produco Exchange underwent po ter- rible n squeezo on Saturday that the nnctuons and seented swain need not want for benr's- grense for many nmoon. At the same time, on the Cotton Exchange of the metropolis, the bulls gored the ursine hosta who had ar- rayed themselves in opposition, and nothing but the inclement nature of the weather, which legally nbsolved contracting parties from immediate delivery, preserved the latter from utter aunibilation, 'There promises to e an juvestigntion into the corners which enlminated the day before yesterday, and an attempt to preclude, in future, the Leavy ¢ transactions” by word of mouth which in this instance affccted the market with all the gavity of regular commerce. corner HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randelph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Lugsgement of e Californis Minatsels, WOOD'S MUSEUM-—Manroe street, born and State. Afternoon, * Evening, * Uncle Tom's Calin, Betweep Dears ‘us Marble Eeart." BUSINESS NOTICES. COD LIV 016, AND LIME._THAT PLEARANT 209 acllvp agens ir tho euraaf 3 cananmntive symptoms, *P\wiinor's Combioml of Puro Cod Livar Ol and Lime. rl;‘llyudani"‘l 11y 0 edical practica. Sold b; ' WILBUIL, chemat. Bosien, 7 Che Chivage Tribune. Monday Morning, November 1, 1875. Words of wisdow and modoration are those contained in the letter of the Hon, Joux WexnTwonTi, printed elsewhero in this Issue, Te earnestly advises the voters in to-mor- row's election both to exercise frecly and submit with n good grace to tho right of chal- lenge,—to challengo and be challenged, the first ns n duty which every eitizen owes to the purity of the bailot-box, and the second ns A necessary consequenco of tho first, **When in donbt, lead o trump,” is tho rule suggested by Mr. Wrntwortn; that is, when unceriain ns to any man's legal vight to vote, challenge promptly and unhesitatingly ; not intending to give offense, but simply to make suro that no illegal votes are cast. No harm cau come of frequent challonging, and no man should feel alronted becauso he ia chial- lenged. At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacks ranged from to &G}, clos- ing at 86 e e In 1869, when Ifzsiva aud his Marsbals, Savortoy et al., surrendered, and tho Toss was sent to Elba, ho made his promise thab ho would be with uz yet again, He kept his word. ‘To-uorrow’s sun will come up on Wateloo. In the recent applieation of whitewash to the rupntation of Agent Ginsox by the Osage Comuaission, the artists composiag that body D no hesitation in saying, and they said it boldly, that the Government lind lost nothing through auy act of Agent Ginsox, 'The little joler is now nccarately ascertained to hiave been disguised by the unquestioned fact that tho Indians lost it all. ] In yosterday's issne of Der Westen, the Sunday cdition of Mr, Ilesive’s ueswspaper, the Staats-Zetung, thero appenred various siguificant intimations that German employes throughout the city must vote for Mr. Hes- 16 if they would escapo being discharged by their employers. 'This is & cowardly threat, and will logo for Mr, Hesrve and the Dovil- Tish ticket a hundred votes of freo and un- trammeled workingmen for every vote it extorts throngh foar, Alrendy every me. Thero reems to be no Ballot-Box Guards or- gnnized in the Second Ward. It was in this ward that moro than 8§00 fraudulent votes wore counted for the charter Inst April. The gamo seoundrels who perpetrated that villainy are now working for the Devil-Fish ticket. What is Ald. Dixox doing to insure an honest election in his ward? The result of the election to-morrow tnrns chanic and loboring man who owns his cot- tage and lot is keenly alivo to tho necessity of erushing out the mob of plunder-hunters led by A. C. HesiNg, and threats of cocrcion will not help the matter, That such threats are mado is in itself conclusive proof that tho case of the Devil-Fish has becomo too des- perata for ordinary methods, and that this dastardly course is the last convulsiva clutch for a hold upon oarth, sclely on the answer to a single question, viz.: How much repeating, ballot-box stufling, and frlse counting on the part of tho Devil-Fisk crov:d'will escapo detection nnd prevention ? If auly legal votes aro cust end counted, A.C. Hesixe and his unholy allicnco will be over- whelmed by more than 10,000 majority. Al the signs point to a tremendous victory of Hor csty over Corruption unless the ballot- boxes are stuffed, A Chicago clorgyman, preaching yesterday on the *'The Duty of Christinn Citizets," epitomized bis views iu two short sentences, The ery of Hostility to TForeigners will avail nothing es an offset to the complete annihilation of tha Devil-Fish prospects in consequence of tho Farwell-Hall meeting. No ono will be deceived by this shallow sub- terfuge, Evory intelligent foreign-born citi- zen of Chieago knows perfectly well that the merchants and business men felt no spite, nnd manifested none, toward foreigners. The President of the moeting, Mr. Gronroe An- AouR, President of the Chicago Iloard of thmn: * Prevention is belter than punish. mort. To go to the clection Tuesday is Let- ter than to mourn afterward.” The duly and the interest of every citizon could not be more briefly and emphatically expressed. Bat if wo rend the signs aright, the immonso vola to be polled next Tuesday will leave but litile occasion for subsequent mwourning, Trade, is Limself o foreigner, and an S e T bonor sud o credit to the city of . Foxt Tuesday will be an important day s ¥ outsido of Caok Coanty. his adoption and his love. The Hon. On that day clec- tions occur in twelvo Btates, nad upon the resuit will largely depend thoe shap- ing of political issucs for the Presidential compaign of 187G. In cach of the States the contest hns been active on eithor side, and in o majority of ceses thoe probabilities aro decidedly in favor of victory for tho Re- publican party, Much of interesting informa. tion concerning the candidates, former votes, ete., is presented this morning in a condensed form, ‘Tnoyas Hoyxe, one of the principal speak- ars ot the meeting, is o forcigner. Bevora] otker foreigners assisted actively in both the calling and the conduct of the meeting. A number of foreiguers helped nobly to defend the meeting againat the invasion of Mr, Hesmie and his disreputable condjutors, Mr, Hesmva and his newspaper only rendor them- sclves ridiculous and still more contemptiblo by asserting that hatred of foreigners was at the bottom of the Farwell.Ilall meeting, or that it entered into the proccedings in the alightest degreo, —— ‘We understand that Gov. Bevenroor reach- 1d Chicago enrly this worning, snd that he will b present in the eity to-dsy and to-mor- Tow, to consult with the Mayor, Supsrintend. ont of Polics, aud Sheriff, aud to dircct in such measures us may Lo considerod neces- sary for the preservation of peace, tha pro. tection of the polls, and the preveation of il- logal voting or other siolntions of the Eleetion 1aw. The authority of the Joual oficers will be strengthenvd by the presence, counsel, and direction of the Governor,—tho Chicf Executive of the State. ‘Wo submit to tho careful cousideration of the people of Chicago the consequences which are to follow this election according to the way it may be decided. Wo have o de- plorable City Government and A moro do- plorable County Government. The two levy, collect, nnd expond nearly eight millions of dollars of taxes snnually, oud the County Government has tho power to add several milllony of dollars to the public debt, ‘Chera has been o hopo that at the first The General Election law of the State pra. videa: Seo. 79 prohibils tho selling or giv. ~ing away of any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or the keeping open of any saloon on eloction day, under o ponalty of from %25 to §100 for oach offenso. It is made the speciol duty of the Sherif and of all Courty Magistrates to seo that this provision is en. forced, Itisto be hoped that the Sheriff ‘will direct the closing of every saloon in tho city on that day, and enforce the order. Mcn mnddened with whisky are in no condition to attend the polls and discharge the duties of citizonship, election for municipal ofiicers tho citizens, by o determined effort, might reclaim the City Qovernment, Tho contest has, however, been precipitated by the action of the oriminnl classes who have selected an nble, influential, and a most daring loader. The purpose hns buen to root all the honest members out of the County Government and to grasp the wholo machinery of elections, snd thus pre. vent any possible reform at the election next spring far tunicipal oflcors, The result of the election to-morrow may De considered as conclusive of the result noxt spsing. If tho Opposition combination be defeated, and the honest citizens pravail, the tatter may hope to be able to accomplish a reform ot tho firet municipal eloction under tho new charter. Then theromay b deliver- ance, But should Mr, HesiNo and his follow- ers succoed to.morrow, then they will have seoured sbsoluto control of all branches and dopartments of the local Government, in- cluding all the machinery of elections, and, of courso, have the power to porpetuate their ascendoncy, Voters, therefore, must underatand that in voting to-morrow it is not mercly to elect Mr. Hesmvo or Mr. Hocg, butit is to dater. mine the charactor of our local Government for yoara to come. Itis the intention in several of the pre. cincta to station trustworthy men at poluts ‘where thoy can obtain a view of the ballot- boxes, for the purpose of keeping accurats tally-lists, checking for ench ballot as it is dropped into the box. 'This cxcollent pree caution against ballot-boxutuffing will doubt~ 1esa bo mado general throughout tho city and county. We would suggest to the Republicsn Qentral Committee the propricty of having thesa taly-lista brought to hesdquarters di- vectly upon the tlosiug of the polls, in order $hat they may be used to verify tho returns 3a they come in whon the votes have been The Chicago prodace muarkets were general. ly steady on Saturday., Mess pork was quiet and 10@250 per brl higher, closing at $19,05 #eller November and $18.75 soller the year, Lard was quiet and firm, closiug at $12,70 per 100 s (new) cash and $12.07i@12.10 seller tho year. Meats were quiet and firmer, at 8jo for part salted shoulders (boxed), 11ljo for sbort riba do, and 11jo for short clear do, Highwines were quiet and stendy, at $1,18 per gallon, Lake frelghts Wero active and strong, at Oo for wheat to Dulfalo, __ Flowr ‘wos dull and unchaoged. Mr. Hrsino's newspaper, whose Bunday Asue is called Dor Weslen, yesterday con. lalued numerous parsgraphs intended to im. presa the German-American reader with the dea that the purposos of the Furwell.Hall neeting and the romarks of several of the ipeakers wers chiefly inimical to foreigners. This {8 & miserable falsehood, and {8 known © be such by the editor of the Busday edi- lon of the Staats-Zeitung, Nelther in the all for the meeting, in the resolutions Mopted, noz n the language used in any. of Wheat wag more netive and firmer, closing at $1.12% eash and 21.08§ for November. Corn was netive and §@1c lower, closing at 6lde eash amd A0¢ for Novemiber, Uats were activa and wenk, closing at 3tfe for Novem. ber and it je seller the year. Iiye was active and stendivr, nt G3G6Y9e. Dariey was mors active, but tade lower, closing at N2e cash and $0c for December, Hogw were in active demand nnd wero firmer, with the bulk of the trading at &7.10@7.35. COattle wers un. changud, closing steady ot @625 for poor to extra. ‘Thero was o fair demand for sheep at $3.0025.00. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy 2115.874 in greonbacks nt the close. The enly arbiter, under the Constitution avd laws, in Ameriean politics is the popular will expressed through the ballot-Lox, A false, corrupt, and dishonest ballot-box is worse than n false, corrupt, and dishonest Judge, because there is no appenl from the decreo of tho inspectors of election, while that of tho corrupt Judgo may bo overvaled and the Judge impenached and pupished. The American ballot-box is the purely American tribunnl whero the American people try their differences, and by whuso decisiona they are bound ; but this assutes that that ballot-box shall be kept pure; that no vote shall be re- ceived therein savo when deposited by a legal voter ; that the vates therein deposited shall bo fairly and honestly counted, aud the nc- tunl result as fairly and Louestly certified; liat an clection conducted in any other way is n crime agninst law and the liberty of the peorle, even more infamous than that of the izeendinry, the poisoner, or the assassin, Le- couee it poisons the life-blood of our political aystem, destroys republican liberty, and crusbes the sacred cause of humsn freedom the worid over, The despiration of the fight which Mr, Trawve is making for the County Treasurer- ship, to attain which he has allied himself with mou whom he has heretofore denounced ns “thieves, rascals, and damned scoundrels,” is largely necounted for in the extraordinnry amount of money the Connty Treasurer will handle during the next two yenrs, Herealter the city taxes will be collected nnder the gen- eral law, aud the County Trensurer will hold all the State, conuty, city, and town moneys. In addition thereto, he will have all the money realized from the sale of county bonds for building the Court-House. He will hold the money raised by the city for its shore in the Court-House. Ifa will draw his salary as Lrensurer, his salary as Collcetor, and tho bank interest on tho Iargest line of county deposits ever known in this part of the United States. The praceeds of the office, as Mr. Hrsiva will manago it, will, it i estimated by good fingucicra, be not less than $100,000 o year. No wouder he hins stooped 50 low to conquer this rich prize; nnd no wonder his friends and ereditors, and the ring with whom he has probably to divide, are fighting so desperately for Lim, WORK FOR THE CITIZENS' ASBOCTATION. County Clerk Lirp, in his anxiety to serve the intercsts of the County Ring and his wil- lingness to pander to the worst eloments that enn bo utilized for that purposo on election dny, has overreached himself by issnirg in- structions to the judges of eleetion, in which he has assumed to interprot the Election law, and has deliberately sairinterpreted it. In doing this, Mr. Lizp has exposed himself to prosecution for misconduet in offico, and it is to be hoped that, whatever tho result of the election may be, the Citizens' Associntion will take his caso in hand. isoffenss is aserions one. Wo belicve thero is uothing in the Election law which outborizes tho County Clerk to instruct the judgoes; and, if not, it is on impudent stretch of his authority to assumo to do so. But, baving dono so, it is the 1wore serious violation of his public trust to give a false intorpretation of the law. Thero is n statute which provides thnt every person holding public offies, whether State, county, or municipal, “who shall bo guilty of willful and corrupt oppresaion, mnl. feasanco or partiality, whero no specinl pro- vision sliall heve heen mado for the punish- ment thereof, shall be fined not exceeding 210,000, and may be removed from his office, trust, or employment.” Wo sug, to the Citizens’ Agsociation that it is their duty to take counsel on Mr, Lien's instriction lo election judges, and, if it be found that ho has misinterpreted the Inw without warrant or authority, that they appear before the next Grand Jury and ask for the indictment of the County Clerk under this statute. Among the other instructions which Coun. ty Clerk Lien hns, s wo beliove, nnlawfully irsucd, ho sayn: If tho fudzex of election are satisfed thatany per- sou offuring to vols {o entitled to vototley can re- «eive bis voto, even f hoin challengwd, without ro- quiring Lim to make ofiavit, If they arenot satis- fied that Lo I8 ontitled to vote, and hiv vote 1s chal- lenged, be must make affdavit of his right to vote, anu an afidavit of & witneas i required by Iaw, ‘Thore is nothing in the Election law which gives tho shadow of an excmso for such an interpretation. This instruction js thut the judgod may exerciso their own swoet will as to who may vote, without any regard to u challenge. The law says that **whenever any porson offering to vote f¥ nof PERSONALLY BNOWN (o0 the judges of election to have the qualifications mentioned, if his vote is chal- lenged by a legal voter at such election, he shioll make and sabscribe an aMdavit,” the form of which is givenin the law. Does this sdinit of Licn's jnstruction that the judgesonly need to be * eatistied” of a voter's qualifications in order to dispense with the afidavit ? But not only this, Tho law further pro. vides that when o porson offering to voto is challenged and his qualifications ars not per- sonally known to the jddges, hio must, in addi- tion to his own aflidavit, ** produce a toitness, personally knawn to the judgea of election, and resident in the precinct or district,” who shall maoke an affidavit that he knows the person offering the challenged vote to havo the nee. essary quolifications. Does this look as though all that is required is that the judges shall be * satisfied " the challenged voter is qualified, and maoy then dispense with theso afidavits? The only legal way in which the election judges can be ‘¢ satlatied " of the fact in each case ia by the two affidavits re. quired by law. The most dangerour festuro of these un- warranted instructions is thet they may bio accepted by the elsction judges asan authori- tativa futerpretation of the law which they way follow, and thus free themselves from ony respousibility, They are very much mis- taken in this. Tho Election law provides, auong other defined offenses of tho judges, that “ {f any judge of any election shall per- it & person to wie whoss vote ¢ challenged, without the proof required in this act,” ha shall bo fined not exceading $1,000, or imprisoned in the County Jall one year, or both. Tha unwarranted and false instructions fssued by the Oounty Qlack will not save any Judge who nesa went on, until the Citizens' Bank found itsel! holding mortgages for 122,000 acres of tho largest, best, and most prodnctive sugnr and cotton plantations in the State, besides other morlgnges on tha city aml villago residencen of the planters. For n while after the War somo of these plantations pro- duced enough cotton, nt the very high prices, to pay the eurront interest and taxos, Lut the Iand had passed forever from the handa of tho originnl owners, aml is not now worth any- thing like the money advanced on it, The accumulnted interest almost equals tho originnl debt, nnd the Citizens' Bank, which for forty years lhind borne an unquestioned reputation, was compelled to close its duora. Tts entire capital nud sceumulations wera sunk in this property, which could neithor bo sold nor rented, 'he Citizens' Bank was but ono of these factors. Every commission merchant was mora or loss a factor, and held mortgages on Inud, 5o thnt practically the Iarger part of tho plantations in Louisinna were held at the closo of the War by mortgages,—the owners Deing unablo to refeem. The same wystem prevailed to a grenter or less extent, and pro- vails now {n nll tho Cotton States. 'Tho plant- er hins to run lis plantation on eredit, pay- ing from L to 2 per cent a month, and, should violates this provision from tho gover» penalty provided by tho law. Clerl Lirn's offienss is n serious one, and eapocially in view of tho weli-fonnded sus- picion that thero will he a disposition Lo re- sort to every imaginable fraud to-merrow, The effect of the County €lerk's instructions is 1o give the election judges s warrant to tako a Iatitudo of personnl discretion to which they nare not entitled. But the clec- tion judges will not be relensed from the penalties for an infraction of the law on ac- count of Mr. LtEn's volunteer instruetions, and Mr. Lien himself will probably bo called to judicial account for hia interferonco. e ey MODE3 OF ELECTION, T Pennsylvania, the judges and clerks of election in ench township and precinct are elected forn year al tho April terw of elec- tions on tho minority principle,—no one is allowed to vote for more than two of tho three judges, or ono of the two clerks. This seeures a representntion to both sides. Tho plnan is said to work well. Something of tho gnmo sort is tried in Peora, in this State. Peorin hed an old special charter, under which the voters, and not a ring of County Commiasioners, have their say. In an elce- tion of this sort, however, there should Lo provision for voting by some system of mi- vority reprosentation, This would insare at least ono lonest mon ot every poll. If thin were carriod out, the state of things which now oxists in this ety would be an impossibility, A mon who proposed to vialato the Constitution and the lnws of Iili- nois by taking ten times his rightful profit from an ofiico could not hold a sceret confab with a cligne of corrupt ofllcinls and dictato to tho Iatter a list of appointments of men whoso main qualifiention is their ability snd willingness to misjudge the clections they aro chosen to judge. Noset of men could de- fiantly notify the people of a great metropolia that they meant to curry an election by force of fraud. No notorious gambler would boast that the ballot-boxes of tho First and Second Wards should hold 700 Lallots for the gamblers’ and plug-uglies’ candidato beforo an honest vote was dropped into it. Gutter and grog-shop woulil not boe raked for vile crentures of vile candidates, The tremendous indignation that now possesses tho honest and respectablo classes of Cook County ageinst the publisbed plan of stufing the Lallot-boxes would not bo called into play, for no such plan could succeed. 'T'he voice of the people wonld not be stitled in tho back- roomns of low suloons by corrupt hirelings of corrupt men, If this plan, or somo otker scheme with tho same objeet, does not suceeed, the aboli- tion of vote by ballot may becomo a prossing necessity. For, if Dallots aro not honestly conuted, they are worso than useless. Judge DoovrrrLk proposed, in his Rockford spoech, that voting-precinets should be so small that ench would contein only a few hundred voters, and that every voter should march up to s platform, state his namo and residence, and openly doclarc his preforencos. This publicity would be terrifying to time-servers and the timid, but itis the only nltcrnative to the ballot-box. LEvon the use of a registry-list cannot provent fraud, though it groatly aids in its detoction ofter it bns been committed. DBut the cum- brous system of ousting a returucd candidato and seating a choated one in his place is so slow that it is often useless. What we need is n mode of voting that will substantially prevent fraud. If this is unattainsble, the nearer wo can get to it the better. A vica- tote vate would malke it possible for n hun- dred peoplo to Leep tho tally at overy poll, 8o that the judges would not dare to falsify tho returns, If this wero combined with a striet registration, we might, perhnps, have the minimum of fraud and the maximum of lionest government. bLis crop provo insuflicient to pay Lis debts nt o close of the year, the mortgogoe follows nsn matter of course, and hence tho eventual transfer of the land becomes o mera question of timo, We submit that this system of business must be abandoned before there can Lo auy permanent prosperity in the States whero it prevails, Such o system could not oxist in the Northern States, and at tho South it conld only continne without producing bank- ruptey o long ny slavery existed aud slave property waseasily convertible into eash, with which, in estremity, estates could o rescned. This resourcs no longer existy, and running plantations on barrowed mouey wmust prove o losing business. ‘The Citizens' Bank of Louisiana proposes to put ita lands in the market in lots to suit purchasers, and at low prices; and, if theso Inuds fall into the hands of thoso who will do their own Inbor, thero will be a solution of the labor question and the establichment of planting on A& now basis; and to this basis agricultural industry must come at the South in order to be prosperous, and in order to in- vito agricultural labor from other States, The meeting callod by the Hesiva crowd " for McCormick’s lall this ovoning, under the protenso of advocating *‘froo specch,” is a palpable effort to Lrenk the fall, and, to some extent, obliterate the dirgrace resulting from tho invasion of the Farwoll Ifall mecting. 1f Mr, Igsivo were a beliover in *'free speech,” he would not have consented to the effort made last Friday evening by the roughs nnd bruisers who endenvored to dislodge the morchants, It Mr. Hesive wero o beliover in '*freo speeoh,” he would accord it a3 freely to the merchants of this city ns to the gamblera and plug-uglies. If Mr. Hesvo were o beliaver in *freo speech,” ho would not havo encouraged his henchmen to ery down goutlemen who mot together to spenk in bebalf of the purity of tho ballot-box. 1t Mr. Mesive wore a believer in * free speack,” ho might havo gone to Farwell Ifall and asked the privilege of speaking in a meeting where ho was not invited (which would have boen grauted), but Le would not love taken theroa backing of o crowd of rowdies, roughs, gamblers, and thieves to capturo that meoting, If Mr. Iizsine woro a Dbeliovor in “freo spoech,” he would not deny the right of rop- utable citizens who hire and pay for a hall to oxpress their sontimonts without molesta- tion or interferonce of the disroputable classes, If Mr. Hzsrve wore a boliever in *freo speech,” hoe would not have stationed his sontinels in various places of & public moot- ing to ery *Irsina! ITesixa!l™ overy time Mr, Hoyne, or Mr, FanweLy, or Mr, Lanyeo, or somo other invited speaker, came forward. It Mr. Hesixo wero o boliever in “free spoech,” he would not threaten German mer- chnnts with the use ofe his newspaper col- umns, breathing vengonnco against those who opposed him. The simple fact is that Mr, Hesivo has dis- covered tho fetal error ho mado last Fridny night, when ho tolerated and cucournged his roughs aud bullios in their effort to disperso morclinnts who had gathered in s hall which they hired and paid for. The meoting to- night is intended to offsat this 1istake, but it will fail fortwo reasons,—first, beeauso it is not slncere ; and, second, because it comes too late. ALABAMA’S BTARVED BOHOOLS, ‘fho Mobilo Repister, referring to the eriticisms of Tue Trwuxe on the now con- stitutional provisions to starvo tho publio sehools of that Stato, saya: ¢*'L'ho answer to all this ig, that the proposed Coustitution providea a more certain fund for publio cohools than the oxisting one, and that be- fore tho War the State of Alabama had o far more effective common-gchool system thun any Westorn, Btate,” (?) We rogret to be obliged to say that theso statements are not true, and that a reasonably intelligent idiot ought to know that thoy nre not true, The tole proof which Mr, Fonsyru offers is an extraot from an obsoure pretonded Republican papor. ‘The writer, in de- fouding the mnow Conatitution, says that the delegates to the Convention which frumed it made *all the provision possibla for schools,” This, it will be observed, merely begs the question, o prove its own hare sasertion, the Register quotes somebody else's bare assertlon—of something else ! "The question is, Does the now Constitution of Alnbnna provido a less efficiont public. school 6ystom than the present instrument ? We say it does, The Alabama Stats Journal of Oct, 28 con- taing a throo-column letter to tho people of the State, signed by the IHou, Samuvew F. Ricx, & native Boutherner, an ex-Bupreme Judgo of Alabama, a lawyer of the highest standing, and o gentleman whose opinion Mr. Fonsyru himself must respect, From bis Jolter wo toke n few—not asertions, but —facts. The old Constitution of Ala- bema provided that “onefifth of the aggregoto annual rovenue of tho State” should be * dovoted exclusively to the mointonance of publio schools.” This pargentage ¢ exceeded $200,000 per yeur." ‘I'he new Constitution requires a levy of only $100,000. We quote: * Disregarding the value of & good and fixed educational system, the new Constitution materially reduces: the #upplies which wero fixed by the old Constl- tution, snd leaves the educational system de- pendent for efclenoy upon the mercy, preju- dice, or disposition of the Legislature,” It PLANTATION BUSINESS IN LOUISIANA, We have received a pamphlet containing a deucription of lands and plantations in Louisi- nna belonging to the Citizens' Bank of Louisions, whiol that corporation offers for sale or rent. Excluding the town and city lots, the land foots up about 122,000 acres, the whole of it undar fence, and most of it provided with dwellings, outhouses, and all the buildings and appurtenancos of once thriving sugar and cotton plantations owned by rich and prosperous families. Tho lands nro of the best and most productive cluss in the State. Weo do not refer to this to advertise the land, but to point out one of the counscquences of tho old plantation system nt the South, and the effects upon that systemn resuiling from the abolition of sluvery., Theso Jands were valu. ablo and productive, and the owners lived in princely and royal style. ‘Thoy had their slaves, numbering according to the size of tho plantation, from 75 to 600, of all agos, '"They had their overseers aud chief men, who purchased all that was needed to feed and clothe the hands, to work the farm, and keep the plantation in perfect operation, ‘The crop was consigned fo s factor at Now Orlenns, wlo sold it, and was the bank- or and general ngent of the planter. Tho owner lived in the beat stylo; whatever wns needed for tho comfort or luxury of his Louschold was ordered without reservo; nll the monoy which the plantor needed for his own 10, or for the expenditures of his fami- 1y, was drawu for upon the factor at New Orleans, 1o troubled himsel? concerning no detailn, and such a thing es regulating ox- penditures by income was altogethor too com- mercial for a gentleman of family, 'The gen- cral result was, that, in the most successful cases, the aunual crop when coaverted into cash but barely covored tho previous drafts upon the agent. In the weantimo, o new nc- count had to bo oponed. The purchases for the support and maintepance of the planta. tionbegun, Thecloscof tho yearsaw thopro. ceeds of tho crop all expended,—and the ex- peaditure for the coming year bagen in Jan- uary and continued until near December. Tho plantation—its owners, and its laborers, andallits incidental expenves—had to be sup- ported from January to December by the pro- cecds of drafts on thoe factor, who was either o merchnnt, or bauk, or banker. Upon the wonoy thus advanced a high rate of interest, whieh, including commissions and brokerage, probably equaled 2 per cent a month, was cxucted, and at the close of tho yoar the fac. tor, whether merchant or banker, collected from the proceeds of tho crop all his od. vanees, including his Interest, The habits of the plunters were not such a4 permitted kaving or economy. Au unusu. al crop was followed by unusual expenditure, while a fallure, or partinl failure, was not ac. cqmpanied by retronchwent. ‘Ihere could be Hut one outcome of this mode of doing busi- nesa, Whenaver the balance at tho end of the year was agoinst the planter, there was the inevitable mortgego to cover the deficlen- oy. These mortgages were of course never pald. Every yoor or two they wers renowed Loz an ugkopssd amoupt § aad thus the bual Mr, Foasrze wante anyéhiug more of this | bave withdrawa from the Huslingham Club, and plgoon-shooting s to be boncoforth tab the British army, ) Balzaa says that Parisian Indies have a i for gracaful walking, and seom to lmpri!:t"l:n:x:y fold of thoir robe tho mold of their ting fear, ‘Whenan Englishor a German lady l(lnmm; this step, bo statas, *'thoy Liavo the air uf & grenadlor marching en avant toattneka rodoute,” The London Lancet tails o percoiss that 1y Princo of Walos will incur, a8 far as hin health 4 concernod, any greater rinks in visiting Ingj than in romaining st homo, Tho climato of Iy. dia at tho timo tho Prince will viuit that country {9 88 hoaithy na if not heaithler thau England, Tho doath of Mr. Q. J. Paul Pischer, a mini. tnro paiuior of some ropute In hin day, ang Court miniatura pasnter to Qeorgo tho Fourtl, in onnounced. Mr. Fischer has long outlive] tho modo of art which ho once practiced wigy ct‘::shloublu sucuoss, Ilo Was neacty 9 years old. d Tho Duke of Portland Lias an annual incom of £300,000, most of whick ho spends iy vag bullding onterprises. Ho s o roclus Limaglr, Ho nevor anawers a lottor, nud although a mmu: bez of four London cluba Lio nover goes {o them, 8o far as socioty 18 coucorned, o 18 dvad to 1y world. Milton's honso in Weatmineter in still nysul. ing, slthough elightly altered. o boliove thyy William 1azlitt lived in this house for somg timo, and that he causod tho tablot to Miltowy moemory to bo fixed to tho gardon front of the Liouso, which now looks toward the Wolligton Barracks. Invostigation hins nhown that not only porscus of great mental capacity, but also lunaties, oc. casionally possees brainy which aro congiderably boavior than tho average braing possessod by ordinary but eane people. Toll this to the man with a big bat when he next romarks upon ing capacity of bia hoad. sort, wo can supply him with half-a-column of nonpareil extracts of similar tone, It would be a waste of tima and space to dia- cuss his otlur preposterous assertion that “bhefore the War the Htate of Alabama had A far moro giectivo common.school gys- tem than any Weatern State.” Alabama and linois ontered the Union togather. Weo provided education for nearly every child within onr borders, Alabamn made it a ponal offensa to instruct her hundreds of thousands of blacks, and allowed her swarming ** poor whites " to grow up in brntish ignoranco, Wo challenge the Zegister to publish in paratlel colnmns the provisions of tho old and now Coustitutions of the Stnte in regard to the common sehools, And wa adviso it to procure one or two ‘*idiots” of Tne Tnin. usE's stamp, and learn from them how (o write a truthful editorial and exposs a ne- forions fcheme for reducing the mnss of tho people of Alabama to the level of * voting eattle,” ruled by the fow men of education as the planters used to rulo their slaves, County Clork Lien's plan for mbking repeat- ing eany extorts admiration, na it wero, for ita comprohonsive simplicity. With a stroke of his littla pou he doca away with the awkward for- malitiea which might impoderepeating, Of courso tho awearing in of his voto whon challenged is but s moro formality to the repoator, but it oo« casiona an embarrassing delay, and fixos tho at- tontlon of *(s" bystandors upon him in s way caloulatod to make hils identification easy thero- aftor, which nlso might prove embarrasmng sub- soquently to {Ho ropeater. Gon. Lien guards apaiost this, aud provides for repoating ad libatum, with noatness and dispateh, by instruct- ing the judges of olection to practically lgnoro challenges. In his clrcular 80 | yy o banoy deamatio porformanco i New thom ho tnstructs tho judgos that if thoy | ¢ b v ircane attern Charlos T ware salisfied apy porson offering to 4 aon, Charles Thorue, Jr,, and Kato Claxton gave tho Lalcong-scene from ‘Romeo and Juliet.” 2Mies Claztou's clort was scarcely succosaful, but it i eaid Mr. Thorae made » most impaesionad Romeo, and luoked the charactor exceodingly well, ‘The Graphic protesta st tho eubjsct of My, Longfellow's ngw poem, * The Masquo of Pay- dora.” It anga ho, like all other poets, with the pousible oxcaplion of Joaquin Ailler, as falten into Lhe olaenical rut—or *‘rot,” mavou preter, 1t bolleves the classico-mythological binincas is, to ugo an Americanism, ** played out.” John Dright makes tho sweoping astertio that in montal powers girla aro not inferioe ¢y boys. Thero 18 room for discrimination hore, Girls differ from boys 88 ona star frons another in glory; and it would bo a mistako to xay thit tho constollation Virgo is oithor inferior ur su. perior in powor to tho consteliation Arios, The polico of Han Francisco recontly canture) and locked up a Chiuoue theatro—nctacs, speeta- torsand all—for violatiug a city ordinance which roquires all places of amusement to close ot 1 o'clock, Tho Chineso, for whose beuefit tlo ordinanco waa particalarly inteuded, disregarded it, and kept up the infernal tom-tom night attur night until carly morniug. . Prince Bismarck remalns in very poor hLealtl, though Lis condition 18 not ot presocut evasidercd goriously alarming. Ho has lately beon moch deprerged {n &pirits in consequenceof tha itlncsy of his proposed sou-in-law, and tho death, by an accidental gupshiot woung, of Lis favorita body-servant, Helorich Niedorgesaees, who liag for ton years past beon in the Chancellor's ser- vice and onjoyed his entira confidence. Tho British Quarlerly Review, a ligh literary authorlty, confounds James D. Dana. tho milvar- alogist, with Richard Henry Dans, Jr,, the au- thor of ** Two Yoars Boforo tho bast." Many a cotloge-boy has confounded James D. Dans be- forg, but Richard Heury I8 & goneral favor.ic. Wo novor hoard bofore of a porson who cune founded them both. Together, they conetil:ie o litorary banquet sdapted to any taste. Col, Warren-Bey and Liout. Col. Reed, tns Americans for somo time in tho sorvics of ths Khedive, have boon dischargod from the Ipyi- tian army. Col. Warron retired on acconat of opthalmin, contracted in the Khedivo's wvervice. o haa taken up hia residenco in Psiis, whera he intenda practicing medicine. Eieut, Col. Toed ia now in thia country, having returntdto America immodiatoly nfter his contract was cans coled. It is upderatood thst both officors rotired voluntarily. Gounod, tho opers composer, has rovokod his allcianco to England and resumed his nativo Treuch nationslity. An English family which gathored up tho broken pleces of his being when no first Janded, like Napoloon, on British soil i soarch of hospitality, which furnished him wits an idoal and spiritaal Lome, bas brought sud againet hitm io the sum of £40,000 for breach of promiso—to dwelt in {ta midst forever aud ever, Gounod onco more laughs on tho boulovanls,— or will, 88 s00n ag B recovers from & broken bona in his shouldor, which tho newapapors 60y was causod by his falling down slairs. At a swoll-weddlog latoly in Englaud the La. dies Gwendoline and Muriol Talbot wora jnob- caps, ‘The mob-cap fa a looso bag of net, edged round with o broad frill, and tied betweon tho trill and tho crown with a gray ribbon, snd lav- ing n bow In front. The Bt. Louis Republican says our girle would call the mob-cap dowdy gnd trying, but, on a girl with any kiud of & rolling eyo, It wonra n saucy and piquant oxproesion. TLidles Gwondoline and Mariel may have looked cnto and sweot {n them, but no¢ all the !mn Dblood of all the Hovarde and Talbota com'dned can resuscitato the fasblon of mob-caps ozsept for mght furaiture. Tho wodding of Mra. Moulton, st Cambridzs, tho othor day, to a Norwegisn gentleman Wi the unpronouncesbte uamo of Lo Chambellen da Hogormann Londenchronn, included some sutt: oaa Norwogisu cugtoms, ono fosturo belrs wedding-carpet brought over from Norway for the occasion, It fa n picco of workmenshin cf quains design, and boauty, aod fabulous valup, liko sn Indian sbawl, Upon it unpumbored Norwegian bridea of the npronounceably 13m8 have rested thelr littlo foes whila tho mipinict pronounced the mystio words of bestowal .lfw groom doubtless had gomo old country sujer- atition ar * tondornoss” for tho liabll, sud s {mported his bridal floor-cloth for the occasi i A hitile volume i soon 1o be publisbed iu Iaris entitiod **Terpsichore,” tho futroduction ll‘d whioh ia from tho pen of Alle, Rits Leugalli lt: premiere dausouso of the opers, Bho "m‘:‘n, the decadence of the grand batlot, sud finda t cause of it In the fact thst tho ballet ¥ I!flW clifefly used as a divertisssment in opora. Inr«‘vl' g, Mile, Langalli says: *Thersias tende I;"‘ to replace tho waut of cultivatlon of of chorograpic art by anothier deficleucy,—thst b costumo, It ds not for nothlog tust tho :11 of which our skirts are modo fa csllod ld b" fllupion, By abaudonivg theso wklris, ln" "{ substituting for them flesb-colored dra e auz couleurs chafoyantes, charm and il are alike dlspelled.” MOTEL ARRIVALE. imer House—W. O, Muskville and G . Now o A Howard, Tankton, b, . Aw Watbiagton B rocklyai M. Hova B 3. W, ¥, Hale and G, . Whitlaker, Bottol Fiitaton, Pai . M, Kuasell, Gsl fuars ot 0. oot b 26 i & m‘::.;é‘:a Boston § Charles Kidgaly, B-"':"f\?":!i :1 ikt tie lev, Edward Froblion, New Xork 3 o 'Alos, Rirklund sad 8, £, 10 Browaing, Yatner; O .. W, G. Ollyes, Ucouto, Francisco; vote {s ontitlod to vote, thoycan recoivo his vote, ovon if bio i3 chisllenged, witbout requiring him to make afidavit.” Thus, when o wagon-load of patriots who havo already voted at leaat onco apeico ot a dozen procincts approach tho thir- teonth, lato in the day, and beavily 1adon with Liquor, sud it Is yot {mportant thoy should re- peatat o dozen other polling-places, and thoy aro challenged, o]l tbat js mnceeswary s that tho Judges indicato they sro safisfied tho repoaters aro ontitled to voto by accepting their votea. This will expedite ropeating and save tho chale lengor's wastlog his broath. Thie indicates what Mr, HesiNg had in viow when, through his erea- tures in tho County Board, he denled the Ito- publicans {heir qnota of tho judges of election, and dictated the appointment exclusivoly of his partisans. o — The interviows with retail dealors, tradosmen, mochanics, and Iaborers, published in Tux Syx- DAY TninuNe, afford satisfactory ovidence that not only the merchauta who participated in the Farwell Hall meetiog, but tho thrifty, indus- trious classes not specially ropresonted thero, appreciate fully the ranffianly conduct of Mr. 1icsixa and bis following of roughs on that oc- casion, Notwithstandivg tho moral torrorism which Mr. IfesiNg, through his nowspapors and his following, by almost overy conceivabla moans, has attempted to set up over them, the ropresentativo men of the retail tredeamon, me- chnnics, and workingmen do not hesitate to spoak out unoguivocally In condemnation of the rufilaniem of which the Hesivo demonstration at tho Farwell Hall mooting was a manifeata- tion, and of which Mr. Hzsina has deliboratly mado bimsolf tho oxponent and defonder. Thoy forcace that tho triumph of the Irsixe ticket on Tuesday moana tho triumnph of thst ruftlan- ism, and the delivery of tho city and county to its rale, and will voto for its fiunl overthrow, by voting aRainst iza ontira Opposition ticket, —_— 8w BowrLrs pauses in his preat lifo-work of pomiuating CnanLes Fraxcis Apaus for tho Preaidency to tonder tho following advico to the Republican members of the noxt House: 1f o Republican parly is really so sound on this eurroucy question, and g0 impressed with a sonso of fla_ovorwhelming dmportanco, as tho orators und orians would have uo believe, wo alinll seotho Ro- ihlican memibors of the Tfouso voling solldly (with {1l cxception of Mr. KxLLEY), and from (s word go, for tho mau wuom tuo inilatioplsts don't want, Miciar C, Krcn. of Indians, It in entizely in their yower to-day—it will bo cutirely witlin thelr power up 10 1hio neoting of the Democratio caucus—to givo tho conntry a hard-money_Speskor snd hard-mouey come miticos, It in mot, aud wili not be, in thoir pewer to cloct a bardemonoy Hepublican, They understand il:at porfectly well; tho country understands i, If they throw away helr votea in complimenting Ar. BLAINE, oF any other Rapublican, it will be s confes- siou shiat thoy have beon trying o obtain popular con- fidcnca und support undor false pretenses,—that their bard-mancy {rotestatlons bave Lieen only so much balt (0 ealeh gudgsous. S e Tho Rev. TiowAs K. Brxcuen baving come out in the Independent as an sdvocate of rag-monoy doctrines, tho New York Evening Post advisca him that bis nrticlos on that toploroad ** vory much n3 wo might supposo s digsortation on the Transit of Vonus from the pen of Mr, Joun.Mon- mgey would read; but still they are on the level of intelligenco and profundity of the school o which they belong.' AT - Tammany leads off for TiLpEN, and the New York Herald thus advises tho grest reformeor what will bo the result of such leadoralip: If Gov, TiLvEN should be nowinated for the Prest- dency, aided by Tammany Il as now controlled, his raca would ba fika that of SiNaaD tho Hatlor, wheil tho Ol Mt of the Kea lospod upon his buck, This Amer- ican nation will never accept & Domocracy whoda lemd- eiship comos from Tammany Hali, It will never per- mit tho introduction juto our nationsl politica of the mea who ¥o loug controllad Now York. A e e L Tho fuueral of tho Devil-Fish will be celo- brated with becoming joy by the honest voters of OChicsgo next Wodnesday mornlng. If judzes of election falslfy the roturns, .thers 1any be some more funorals on that same day. SRS Buppose, were such a thing supposablo, Mr. J, V. ¥anwrry, atthothond of » squad of his y\mm and draymen, sbould attempt to capturo IeaNa's mooting to-night, what Lberty of specch would be nccorded Alr. F.? Hanriw is positively entered In tho race for the Tows Benatorship with Bocretary BELRNAT, and Gov. Kinxwoop is his priolpel rival. PERSONAL, Benator R. J. Oglesby is till at the Palmer. George DB. Bmythe, of Keokuk, is at the Palmer, Charlea MacEvoy, of the Hebernicon, is at the Blermau, Spurgoon witl take a vacation this month and next, aud vielt tho Bouth of France, 8, Parker, Jr., C, H, Bacon, and G. D, Bates of Boston, are atopping st tha Shorman. W. E. Blioridan and Linn Iarris, of the Char- lotto Thompaon Troupe, stop at the Tremont, Col. 1. 0, Wadaworth and Maj. I C. Pyne, of Worcestor, Maes,, erc guesls at thoe Tre- moat, Victor Mugo hias not yet begun the second part of his *'08" novel, which Le promised to write when the first appesred. TEx-Bpeaker Blaine Lian startod on s tour of tho British Provinces, accompanied by his wife, 3iss Mary A, Dodge (Gail Hunllton), aud the Hon. Eugooe islo und wife, Von Bulow complains that the classleal Iadies of Boston who go to bear Waguer and pretend to understand biw do not know enough to rustle their faus fu time with bis muale, Ronan, the infide), who & fow years sgo would ecarcely bave been tolerated in Iialy, has mow combe, mado bis home in that country, and is wasiog & flz:x.n' [ nove! to Hiastrate an Italten subject. tilasng o Mo Dusst New York; George W. Vau Dussh Miss Charlotte Thompaon Wogoers, Loraine A Yishtor, Sursey Olty i \'V,ull. Tgm{:;«a{. ‘}'."{:'.'E’,'\,«n. Rogery, dliss Emma Wray, Sol 8mith and wito, | sherman, Huusers: BECTH Pl Unilos E; Mot Hliss 0. Evelyn, and John Y. Gorman, the Ciar<.| Grand Kapids i w l‘l. Avgier, g“n@mvn lotte Thompson ‘Iroupe, sre at the Snerman, Uy abmusl 0. Adune, London Qur pigeon-shooters pursue a sport no longer pationized by English Hoyslty. Tbe Frince of Wales and all the Princes of the Royal famlly 5, Cambriden, Banont Mot s, yTacuse BRocksalas, + P, It. Yonkas, ngynwu'