Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1875, Page 8

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. e f aad unsettle 1300 | was an active market for sheep, nt ¥ 150 for mon to jrite, One hundred {dollars in gold wonld buy 115,50 in green. bucks at the close, ————r. If Plymouth Church is really anxions to Cattle wera inag Sy 18 ve, por c 230 CIbb af tweaty, por n <13 | allow tho great seandal to lapse into ob. ‘Th postago ts 1.5 conts & yoar, which wo will peopay. Specimen caplen aent free, To prevent delay and_mitaker, te sare and glvo Turt-Office addreas In full, including Statoand Conuly. Remittances may be made cifher by dratt, express, Port-Oflice order, or in regintered lotters, ot ourrisk, TENMB TO C11¥ RURECROIENA, 3 cents por weelt, 1) centn por week, } COMPANY, hicago, Tl reurity, the officers of that Society have n vary queer way of nccomplishing the desired result, It s not ensy to see how or in what manner the action of the church meeting Thursday night was ealenlated to bury out of sight the disngreeable subject. The Examin- ing Committee, in neerot session and with- ont giving notive to that lady that any such atep was contemplated, agreed to recommend the name of Mrs. Matwa R. Movrroy lie stricken from the membership roll on necount of her continued absenco from church-ser- vice. The first iutimation of tho mat- ter received \by lms, Movroy was o notice {hat tho report of the Commit. teo would bo prosented at o church meeting Thursday niyht, She attended the meeting, nccompanied by her counsel, Gen, Pryon, who read a letter in which sha denied tho justice of tho expulsion, for tho reason that her absenco was an enforced one, arising from lier unwillingness to attend the ministra. tions of a wan guilty of adultery according to bis own confussion and that of Alrs. Trvroy, and abio guilty of false swearing. Of courno the report of tho Examining Committes wos conenrred in, nud Mrs, MourTox's name was drapped from the Plymonth roll of member- ship. The spirited, conrngeons lady has man. aged to have the Inst word, however, and sho hins spoken it under cireumstances which give the statement a weight and foree not exceed- e by her sworn testimony to the same effect on the witness-stand. And tho great seandal is certainly no nenrcr oblivion than before, —— THE RAILROAD LAW, The long-expected opinion of the Suprome Court of Illinois in the case of the Railrond Commissioners ngainst the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy Railroad Company does not, 705680 | wvo regret to sny, determino the question whether the Railroad law is or is not consti- tutional. Tho suit wos brought by the Attorney-General to recover the penalties prescribed by law for violation of tho statute of May 2, 1873, ‘T'he declaration contnined nineteen counts for extortion and one for un- just discrimination. Tho Railrond Company pleaded specially. | A demurrer to the ploas was filed, which the Court below sustained. A trial was bad without a jury, and, the Conrt finding the defendant guilty, o fino of £1,000 was imposed. The caso came beforo the Supreme Court on this record, "T'ho statute provides that if auy railroad ‘corporation shull chargo or collect *moro than a fair and reasonsblo rate of toll,” the samo shall be deemed guilty of extortion, It further provides that if any railrond corpora- tion shall make any ‘‘unjnst discrimination in its rates or chargoes,” it shall be deemed guilty, ete. These are tho statutory defini- Dadly, delivered, Bunday oxcepte Daily, dellvered, Bunday elutied, Address THE THIBY Cerner Matienn tad b AMUSEMENTS, KEW CITICAGO THEATRE=Clark stroet, hetwoen Randolph #nd Lake, Engageinent of Chatlotte Thompe son, “Jaue Eyre,” Alternoon sud ovening, ADELPIT THEATRE—Dnsrborn sireet, Manpoo, * Lispet,” Afternoon and eveniuy, corner MeVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison etreet, between horn and State. Encagement of James Lewis, **'Cho Biy Bonanza.” Alfternioon and orening, HOOLLY'S THEATRE—Itandolph street, hetween Clnrk and TaSalle, Logagement of the Californla Minstrels, Aftornoou and eveuing, WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroa street, between Dear- born and State, * Unclo Tom's Cabin,” Afternoon And evening, e —, "SOCIETY MEETINGS. COVENANT LODGE, Wo. 625, A, F. and A, M.— Members are roquested to meet at their hall, No, 137 Einzle-st,, on Sunday morning st 10 o'elock sharp, to attend the funcral of our late Iira,, Deter A, Rerry, Members of mater Lodges cordially fuvited to at By order of the W, 3. KEI n@hz Chicagy Tribune, Saturday Morminz, November ¢, 1875, VITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks, at the New York Goldl Ex. chiange yesterday, fell from 86} lo 864, 861, and closed at S67. aily The firm of 1L B. Craruy & Co. will be compelied to stand trial upon an indictment charging complicity in the enormona silie- smuggling frauds, Tho effort to quash the indictment was unsnceessful, tho Court yes- terday rendering o decision sustaining threo out of the four count: Relinble advices from Wisconsin show tho election of LuvinotoN by nbout 1,500 ma. jority. Kuemy, the Democratio candidate for Trensurer, is elected, but the result for the remainder of the Stato ticket is 50 close 1hat it cannot bo known with cortainty until the official canvass is made, ‘Lhe Republi- cans have 8 mnjority of 4 in the Sennte and G in tho Assembly. Dunke D'AvpirPRer-Pasquirr wag yester- dny clected President of the French Asseme ! 2 bly. Ho wasn March Inst elected one of | tions of ‘}10 enimes. T‘"{ act, however, .iur- e four Vice-Presidents, and his nccession to | thor provided that tho Railrond Commission- the Presidoncy is a scvere blow to tho Bona. | ¢rs shall make for each of the rilrond COIpo- purtists, to whom tho Duke kas boen a violent | *ations a schedule of reasonable maximum opponent, holding the Empire responsibla rnl_es of chargos for tho transportation of for tho dimsters sustained by France. 1o | freight, passengors, and cars; and that sach wns olected to the Assembly in February, | fchedules, in all suits brought \u{der !he. nc@, 1871, and becomo famous for his nble and | Must bo takeu in all conrts a3 prima fucie evi- vigorous cxposura of tho frands committed | denco that the rates therein named are rea- in the purchase of military supplics during sonablo maximum rates. In the declaration the war with Cermany. Io has acted with | it Was alleged that the sum demanded by the tha Afonarchists and ultra-Conservatives. Company ‘““exceeded s fair and ressonablo — — toll.” The question was, Did this descrip. Proviso, which was tho Inst township to tion cover the statatory ‘om.am sufficiently ? ha returned, did not help tito Hestno ticket 'Fhe Supreme Court, reviewing the smtuzfa 08 cnongh to spenk of. Last fall it voted on | ® Wholo, decides that tho atatute provides Congressmen ; how reasonnble rates may be ascertained; Tor ike Republican caudidate that it provides that tho rates in tho schedulo Yo the Dewocratie candidate thall be held to bo fair and reasonnble, and that n disregard of tho schedule rates isa necessary element of tho offenso defined by -238 | the stafute. Until this schedulo of rates was 15 | cstablished tho Court dacides thero conld 11 03 Lnst Tuesday it vo! For Hocx, Rep. For Hsswa, Up) For Kexra, 1 The whole vote cast in the county for | have been no linbility for unressonable and ‘Treasurer appears to bo as follows oxtortionato charges. The schedules were fl""“ nan'.l 31,164 | intended to fix, so for as the Legislatore n::’gn',’f):}, '.,S_D;: could, the rates of mailrond charges, and to ——— | punish tho taking in cxcess of the fixed b1 i . n:{;‘:{g.}”figfi 23t ...'1{','.3_@ rates; at the samo’ timo tho schedules were = mado merely prima facie evideneo of what i Pl were reasonable maximum rates in order to BT o1 | avoid the objection made by the Courtina In the case of tho Chicago & Alton Rail. | 2704 f rond, now pending in the Circuit Conrt nt | PFEVious cnse, that it wan not within tho Total vols cast in the county E CHICAGO TRIBUNE on an assumption that the law constitutional, and againstthis nssnmption, j 0 far as there is one, Judges MeAtristrr and Scovt euter their disclaimer. Practienl. Ly, nll that the decision amounts to in that +the Attorney.Genernl wasat fault in not ro froming his declaration ns to aver that the defendnnts had exceeded in their demanda the maximum rates prescribed by the sehied- ule established for that rond by the Bonrd of Ruilroad and Warehouse Cominissioners, ‘Whan this decision was filod, 8 caso of like character, in which the Chicago, Alton & 8t. Louis Railway Company is defendant, was on trial beforo tho Cirenit Court at Springfield. The plaintif at once moved for leavo to nmend tho declaration 5o ns to conform with the apinion of the Supreme Court in the Burling- ton & Quincy case. Tho cnse of the Alton Road will, therefore, if taken up, be divested of theso questions of pleading, and will re- seut the constitutionality of the law directly for the decision of the Supremo Court, which decinion may be hnd perhaps a year hence. In the wmeantime, severnl cases Involving the samo general questions as to the limits of legislativa power over railroad tolls are ‘on henring in the Supreme Court of the United States, THE WHISKY EXPOSURES, St. Louis has Leen tho centro of somo very slartling exposures of the frauds practiced on the Government revennes 1y tho Whisky Ring. That city secms to have been the base of the Ring's operations. The developmenta thus far show tho organization to huve heen the growth of yenrs, and to include n Iargo number of the official class and persons of wenlth and influence. So strong nud com- plete istho web woven abont this huge para. site that its prineipal wembers have given up all iden of esoape, Ono of the highest ofticinls—Jovcr—ls been convicted, nnd mauy of the distillers and rectifiers who were indicted when Secretary Buistow first sprung his trap bave thrown themselves up- on the leniency of the Court by pleading guilty rother than go to a trial suro to lead to conviction, This was tho condition of things up to yesterdny ; but even the developments up to that point had scarcely prepared the pnblic for the announcemont that now indictments were found ngainst persons intimately nsso- cinted with the Administration at Washing- ton. Tho intelligence that such men ns Gen. Bancock, the President’s Private Sece- retary, OnvinLe Grast, the DPresident’s brother, the United States Marshal, and for- mer United States Attornoy of that District, wero implicated, was certainly unexpected, and, 08 to one of thom, few will believe it antil it is better proven. Whilo it is not the first time that corruption has been found smong men holding confidential relations with tho highest places, the prompt indict- ment of such persons is something so un- usual as o oxcito surprise. People in high places often suffer from tho misconduct of thoso whom {hey have been unfortunato cnongh to trust, but they rarely havo the decision and thenerve to clear their own skirts by assisting in the exposuro and prose- cution of thoso who Lave botrayed them. This i tho proud position which the Presidont occupies with relation to tho Whisky Ring. Ho called JMr. Bristow to the head of the Treasury Departmént for tho express purpose of driving the Whisky Ring to the wall. o Springfield, the counsel for the Peopla yes. Yower of the I:cgl:lat;:m 10 m?ko azy fixed terilay presonted o doclaration nmended o us | T4E8 cOuClusive of what was fuir and reason- %o comply with the decision of the Supremo able. Thercforo the Court held that, to con- Court on the preceding day, The defendant Bttty theglieniio in.tnndud. by tho statuto, entered o domarrer, but it was overrnled, and tho malo token must bo in oxcoss of the tho docloration sustainod. It is the intention noliodale Tato; nd 3t vas REvSHiaty !_u rar. of tho Railrond nud Wurchouse Comminsion. that o schedulo of rates had bonlf established, ors {0 prosconto this and other casos of and that the defendant hed recoived compon- n similar charcter, while (he TRailrosd s:;u?n in uxit‘:ls: of t};eun rnt?y.h Tl;u sched- Companiea will probably ewry thelr apponts | ™ fiinlln&m fl‘l;l i T:o’_A' rd‘innft np;n to the United States Supremo Court before | Vo oy tho A¢ z‘ ieiss, Aceordingly, the ubandoning their defense, Thero arg hints | S%3% 080 t0 nlnoteon, inclusive, were do- of an intention on the part of Gov, Beven. fsliva. 1DaE to reorganizo the Bonrd of Rnilrond and | _ 1B the. matter of the twentieth count the Warchouso Commiisionera with a viow to the | declaration was that the Railrosd Company Infosion of new vigor aud vitality, transported from Quincy to Macomb **one e ey car-lond of horses, commonly called ponies,” Another misfortune is likely to Lo added to | ® distnnco of 59 miles, charging therefor the tho loyg list alrendy inflicted upon tus.payers | ¥l Of B28.84, or at the rato of 48 conts by tho corrupt combination in tho County | 2ilo, and about tho same timo transported Borrd. Thero is overy reason to fear that !u}m Macomb to Chicago, a distance of :}M the Board’s groat haste in adopting plan | iles, “ono carlond of h'oms," charging und awarding tho eontract for the foundations | therefor only the sum of $56.70, or at tho ot tho connty portion of the new Court-Houso | o0 0f 27 cents g, milo,—thereby unjastly will result in compolling tho arehi. | licriminating, eto. 1~lm statute deflnes this lect appointed by tho clty to coy. | Oonso to bo l.ho charging a groater amount fonn to the county plan, and in the | ©f compensation for auy distance than is at drection of a building costly but not con. _lho sumo timo charged for tho transportation venlent, exponsive but mot ormamental, | I® the same distance or like quantity of Thus far th ¢ Bonrd of County Commissioners freight of tho sama class over a groator dis- bave shown no disposition to allow the city | tauco of the same rullroad. nathorities & volcoin detormining the plan of | tho Court liolds that the count docs not the structure, and the prospect now is that present o state of facls which shows a violas tho tax-pa:rers will not Lave the satisfaction of | t1o8 of tho statute; it doos not aver that the o creditablo building to show for tha costly | £reihts wera of the samo clusy aud liko quan- frauds and jobs attonding its eroction, tity ; _ o averment is mado as to the number o —————— e or weight of the animals, nor of the size or Tho Chicag murkels wero gen- exnlly wlow Yyesterday, Mess clagg of cars containiug them, ote, ‘The pork was in fair | judgment of the Court below was therefore demand, and 160 per bil higher, but closed | roversed. casier, ub §20.00 seller thio montl, and $19,86 In this judgwent Justices Burioon, Buuesy, seller Mo yoar, Lord wos dull and 7)@100 | Cnara, MeAvtisten, and Scorr coneur, Dut per 100 1us lower, closing at 1285012874 | Judges MeAvrLwren and 8corr, whilo conour. for Nuvcmbgr, and $12.15 seller the year. { ring in the judgment of tho Court, dissented }lunu were w good demnnd wud firm, at 6{@ | from fthe reasoning of the opinion o far ng it sle for part salted shoullery (boxed), 113@ | woy bo said to assumo the constitutionality 11 '[of' short ribs do, and 12 for short clenr | of the law, do. Highwines wery woderntely active aud Judges WarLken and Scuorsipnn held that blescly, ut $1.12 per gallon, Luke freighta | the uverments n tho doclaration i this cnso Wery quiet and slmug, ot Gle for wheat to wero suflicient ; that the schedules were wmat. Bulfalo. Fiour was quict and easiyr, Wheat | ters of ovidenca ; that the offonses were ade was quict and a shade firmer, losing st | mitted ; und that the jud ment belov sl ¥1.073 e, ond $L07} seller Novewber, | Lave boon wied, vl i % Ceau was in light demand nnd do lower, clos. | Thors the Court loaves the question, Ok ot G2le cusb, und Z0fo for Novewber, | Whother tho law bo constitational o uot ha {ms woro setive and fe lower, closing ut 503 | not been dotermiued, tho docision turnin, 1ior November, and 31c for December, Ryo | exclusively on the sufliciency of the pleadin, 4 %t dull und lower ut 63654, Burloy wau | The argument of tha Court does not aflirm flfi; quict sud irregular, closing st 84Je for Nu./ conutitutionality of the Ruilrond law ; it does vewbor, sud 8316 for Decunbyr, Ldgs waro | tiottouch that poiut atall, 'l'heopink;n, Tows uiay not have known or suspected thatany persons intimately conneeted with him wero plieated in the frauds (and it mny turn out that the charge is false), but that would only go toward establishing his own personal in. nocence and ignornuco of the Ring'u opera- tions, But since ho has hiad renson to sus. pect the implication of such persons, he has not wavered in his original purpose. He has enconraged tho Sccrotary to go on, nud sparo nobody who is guilty. He referred to him communications touching thesa recent in- dictments with tho sssuranoe thnt he (the President) would not interfero in behalf of any one implicated. The result is found in tho recent indictments which havo been brought against men whom Lo would have Pprotected, if he protected any one, Tho fect that tho President's skirts aro por- fectly clean in this wholo matter is atill further attested by the manner in which Ox. s1LL Graxy, Bancock, United States Marshal Newcows, and tho two former District-At- torneys are snid to have been connected with tho Ring. The charge is that they wereinre. coipt of a weekly atipend, in consideration of which they were to ¢ proteot " tho Ring from suffering the penalties of thoir crime in case of exposure. If the charge against them is true, which we do not believe, it shows they bad not the power, and did not dare even to attenupt to furnish the protection which was promised, and for which they are said to have received o portion of the plundor. But it must bo kept in mind for the pres. ent that tho recent Bt. Louis indictments have been found on the testimony of only one man, aud that this person—J, N, Firznor, formerly Deputy Collector—had onca testi. fted that ho did not know of tho connection of MoKee and Maoumme: with tho Ring, while he now swoara that both of them roceivod part of tho corrupt fund. Such testimony, unsupported, would mot convict befors s potit jury norin the mind of any falr man, Unlets it ean be supported by other testi. mony entitled to credit or by documentary ovidence, there ia no caso against the porsons lagt indictod. Dut tho entiro conduct of the war upon the Ring loaves no room for doubt that, if acloar ¢nso is made out against thom, thoy will be couvioted ns cortninly ns Jovcs was couvicted. THE THIRD. GABOD, "Tho cloctions ure aver. Tho tidal wave of 1874 has turned the othor way. Finding themselves discomfited on the current issucs, and aware that something st be dono to stem the veflux of the popular wave which has set in again heavily in favor of the Re. publicsus, certain Democratio editors aro now seeking to alarm the peoplo with the old third-teris humbug, which was long ago dead and borled. The third-term was the coinoge of the Now York Merald, For tho past four years Bexwerr has been afilictod with Cresar- {xin as somo peoplo are afilicted with klepto- mauia aud bydrophobia. 'The royal Ozsin hay long beenaghost in Besnerr's closet that will not down. If Gen, Guant sueczed, it was ominous of Cusarisin. If ho went to Long DBranch, up popped Czsan's ghost. When his daughter was married, tho nuptinls woll in some wysterious manner suggestive of Cosarisia, When Mrs. Hinvomis' off. spring made Lis appearauce, ho was certainly born to tho royal purple. Every Oabinet umeeting was a seoret conclave held for tho advancement of Cuwsarisw. If u nogro shot 8 white men in Mississippt, lo ! the ghost ot tho coming Oesan, If Mrs. Grant bought o new curput, of course it was for a third term, Otherwise what would she wantof & now carpet? It Fuep Guant was allowed s day off, was it not bocause he wes the son of Cxuan? Having the monopoly of thig SATURDAY f4it , the facnlty of summoning it at his own plensure, it is not | rematkablo that young Mr. Bxserr, upon reeing vietory pereh onee more npon the Re- publican bannars, should whistlo up tho old ghnst again and bohold tho air full of Keep- tres, and crowns, and royal bees, and flurs delis, Accordingly the Merald is at it again ; again shricking Cwsarism ; again predicting a third term; again licholding President Grayt on his march to n throne, 'This is not remarkablo in the Jlerald, but it in n little remarkable that othor Democratic news- papers are eatehing up this atalo old ery and re-echoing it. Even thoe Cinciunati Enquirer pipes a feeblo littlo plaint over third-term possibilities, and tha little organs aro whis- tling nway at it with all the vigor they hnve Teft after their recent rout, ¥f the Domocracy have no other hobgohlin than this with which to searo people, they aroinasad plight, Cesariam is dead, and tho tane the organs are grinding isn dirge, The Republican party lins disavowed it. The Tepublican Conventions have pronounced azoinst it emphatically and unmistakably, The President himself has taken special ocen- sion to put his foot upon it. It is dead and buried, and ean do no mors harm, if it cver didany. Tt is not creditable to Democratic judgment that this “spook” is agsin brought into the light ot the bidding of tho rensational New York JMHerald, It Tind certain believers for a little time, It has nono now, and the effort of these Demo. eratic organs fo again thruat it upon the peo- ple shows the desperation that has seized upon them since the results of Fuerday last. ‘The peoplo long ago stripped the hide off, aud found an animal whase Lray is harmloss, Thero is no more horror in the Jerald hiob- goblin. Take it awny. Cmsan is dond and turned fo elay, Lot him rest, and give us something vital and tangible. 'Thero is noth- ing to strike at in a ghost, - S —— THE SUBSIDY DUBINESS. ‘The 8t. Louis papers mect avery objaction urged to tho varions schemos for subsidizing railronds in Western Texas, Arkansns Ari- zona, and New Mexico to the extent of two hundred millions of dollars, and of subsidiz- ing other companics to the extont of two hundred mora millions of dollars to build canals over the mountains of Virginia and Georgin, by a referenco to a schemo to have Congress cut n ditch ncross the prairio from Hennepin to Rock Tsland, in tho Stato of Illinois. Tho Aepublizan nssumes that the State of IMinois, and enpecially Chieago, is frantio to have that caual dug in order to benefit tho commereo of Chicago, I'ho Men. nepin & Rock Island Canal is ono of o large number of proposed internal improvements which awnit tho adoption of o national sys. tem of expenditures for internal improve. ments. Thess works, beginning at that part of tho Miewssippi River above the Falls of St. Authony, coutinue down that river fo its mouth, including the building of lovees on the lower half of the stream ; it includes, of course, tho Missouri, Arkanuas, Ohio, nnd Tennesseo Rivers ; the construction of n canal from Chattanooga over the mountains, nud to Savaunah and Mobile, aud another canal by tho way of the Kanawha River over the mountains to Rich- mond, Va,; the bnilding of n railroad from Western Missonri through the Indian Tor- ritory, New Mexico, Arizona, and Califor- nia to the Pacific, with castern branches to several points in ‘Texns, Louisinna, and Arlansas 5 the building of the Northern Pa- cific Railway to Oregon, oud thenco to San Froncigeo ; the Luilding of an air-line rail- ‘way from Portland to Laka Eriv; the bnild. ing of a national rnilrond from New York to Chiengo, with branches to Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Nashville, and perhinps westward to Omaba. Al theso schemes involve an ex- penditure by subsidy of bondsor cash reach. ing iu the end a thousandmillions of doary; of which sum, according to all experionce, one-hal? will bo stolen, leavingthe worls un. finighed, orealling for asnother five hundred or o thousand millions of dollars to complote thera. Chicago and Ilinois protest agnimt this genernl system in whol and in detail ; they protest againat the subsidy businesa from be- ginning to oud, and they aro not to bo bribed by the Hennepin Canal to favor this omnibus business, It would be far chenper for the citizens of Chicago to construct the Henne- pin Canal themselves than to bo taxed for the railroad sehemo which the St. Louis papors ad- vocate with so wuch impartunate impudenco, to say nothing of the other St. Lonis schomo to keep the Mississippi supplied with 12 foot of water from that city to New Orleans,—n scheme which s porfectly chimerical, as it would be & failure after doubling tho national debt to sccomplish it. What Chicugo and linols want iu, that tho ravenaus beggars and swinding speenlators be prevented from got- ting their bands and arms into tho National Treasary, —— AMERICAN AND GERMAN BILLINGSGATE. One of the St. Louis papers, odited by a gontloman who hns tho roputation of being a connoissour in epithets, is lost in admiration at the wonderful command of cxplatives ex- hibited by the Chicago Z%ines during the re- cont local cawpalgn, But in expending his appreciation upon the American volubility, the 8t. Louls oditor hus falled to give the German side o fair showing. Ha sliould un. derstand, in the firat place, that there was nn old quarrel botweon Mr, Srorev and Mr. Heaivg, which the campnign furnished an adirablo opportunity of fighting out. Mr, Sroney has an expert in political billingsgate named MaTTeso, and Mr., Hrarno bas Mar~ Tes0N's Toutonic peer in o mon named Ras® TER, Wo presnme that there is notan eplthet iu the English Ianguage unknown to tho one, nor a German epithet unknown to the other. ‘When these two individuals were lot looso at each other, it becnmo merely & qnostion of tho comparntive resources of tho two lan- gunges, ‘Thus anative and, so to spenk, & vernacular pride was doveloped on either eide, and the colunins of the two journals, both daily, teemed with the choicost speci- mens of invective (hat the two languoges afford. We do not like to admit that Alr, Rasten was defeated by Mr. Marreson in this duel of hard words, Marreson was fighting, as it were, with a piko, and Rasres wont at bim with a schlacger, bringing 1o ita use ull the ox- porienco and ¢nthusinsi of the Gorman stu- dent. Itlsdificult todo eitherof them juatice without a fils of their respoctivo newspapers, whioh, tho St. Louis editor will do us the justice to believe, wo would not Lovp in Tue ‘TusunE office. But whenover one came out with *vagabond” and *rufan,” the other promptly responded with * Laudstreicher"” and ““ Lunpenbund.” If one indulged in the laxury of “scalawag, conspirator, sycophant, bully, knave, trickster, and villain," he was mot fairly and squarely with * nichtwuor- diger, gowissenlosor und niedortraechtiger Obronblaeser, Nasendreher, Schurke, Fuchs- schwaenror, 8pitzbubo, und Herumstroiohor.” OVEMBER 6, 1875, ~TWELVE PAGES, If the American CnzsTrnrieLd survived this dose, and returned to the chargo with gentle iusinuntions of ** daviliah, dishonest, rascally, unprincipled. unserupulous, and infamourly corrnpt conspiracy,” the Cerman antaganiat cameo up smiling with “ gemein und Inster. haft Schimpfen, Lacstorn, Luegen, Rohheit, Plnmphoit, Schurkenhaftigheit und Posbol- bnftigkeit.” As wo havo alrondy intimated, weo cannot do justico to Mr. Rasten with- out o filo of his paper, and passing over such playful little pet names 88 ““Dieb” and ** Rauber,” we aro inclined to think that Lo fiually got the bost of his opponent when ho hurled at his devoted liead the crushing sockdolager of * fromme.puri- tanische-republicanische - temperenzler-imick. craund.waseersempel,” and intimnted a * mit- wisrensehafl-an-cinem.Stenerdichstahl,” In endeavoring to give each of theso ex- perta in invective a fuir represoutation, and in giving the lnurel to RasTen over MarrEsoN, it is only fair to remember that Rastzn had decided advantage in the langunge. Though the English may have the greater number of words, the German admita of an illimitable system of word-building, where one stamm will furnish & whole vocabulary ; and, as to Jinwbreakers, of course the Teutonic editor was stocked with n supply with which the Anglo-Saxon editor conld not hope to com. pete. The net result of this gamo of philo. logical battledore, howover, was that both Heatxa and Stoney got tho worst of it, as it is generally conceded that both these editors wero generally right, if not always polite. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLIC. The telegraph in our lost issne announced the intercsting fact that Guatemnln on the 1ith of October celebrated her Fourth of July, it heing the fifty-fourth anniversary of her independence, with artillery, firoworks, upeeches, poems, toasts, and musie, nfter our own fashion. While the people of the United Stntes will be disposed to congratalate Ginat- cmala upon the fact of having reached her fifty-fourth yonr so comfortably and prosper- ously, they will bo much moro disposed to congrntulata Jior upon tha offort sho is now making to revive the federation of the United States of Central America, On tho 1st of July, 1823, n Federal Ropublic was formed by tho union of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Han Sal- vador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The union, however, lnsted but fifteen yoarx, Civil dis- sensions and joalousies combined to brenk it, and since that timo the various Btates have been completely independent of each other, During the past fow yeaws, however, new men linve como into power possossed of more nbility thon their predecessors, nnd the poo- plo themselves have regretted the breaking of the compact. The lend in tho movemont to restore the federation in tnken by Guatemala, and her Secretary of Stato has already issued o circular to cach of the little Republics zetting forth o plan by whicli such a union cnn bo made, 'The plan submitted by Guate- mualn i the adoption of a treaty between tha fivo Republies by which the prineipal interests of tho country wmny be barmonized, and still they may wnaintain their own nationality, To this end itis proposed that they adopt liberal institutions, and maintain Central American territorial integrity; that consular and diplomatic representation be nniform; that they shall always unite in making recla- 1nation agninst a foreign power, and rice terxt 7 that thoy shall be united by railrond nnd tele- graph; that their postal matters, international Inw, civil, pouul, and commorcial legislation, system of imposts, and public edacation shall Lo nniform ; and that the citizens of any one of these Republics shall hava the rights of citizenship in all, Thinis tho wubstanco of the plan proposed by Guatemala, and, as all the Presidents of the other Republics are in favor of tho plan, thero can be Lutlittlo doubt thatit will bo speedily matured. Tho fol- lowing tablo will show tho arca in square miles and the population of the naw Re- public: Repubdlies, Popwlation, 1. Guatemalu., 1,150,000 630,10 026,070 2,645,000 ublica at present hns nny influonce outsids its own boundaries. ‘I'heir union, however, will give them an im. portant placo among American nationalitics and a rocognition by the world at largo which they do not now enjoy, It will im- mensely increase tho development of rade, commerce, production, and wealth in those conntries, and will be productive of peace and harmony instend of tho almost incessant wrangles and revolutions which have dis- turbed tho Central American States so long. CURIOSITIES IN JOURNALISM, Yesterdny's mail brought us two notable papors, one published in the frozen north, on tho shores of Lake Winuipeg, far boyond the boundary-line of the United States, aud the other within tho limits of onr own Indian Torritory. The Winnipeg Free Press is o daily journal and a aprightly one, It is packed with advertisements, it has an editorial on the approaching victory of hard money in the United Btates, and it contains an exposuro of the fraudulent misuso of the sohool-fundu, Evidently, Winuipeg civilization is in abont 08 advanced a state us ours is. 8ilently, but not slowly, Anglo-Saxon persoverance is push. inn tho arca of settlomont toward regions of Arctiocold. The prairivs of Maunitoba, dosolate enough when swept by wind and snow, are rich and delightful during the smnmor, Yot it is only o fow yoars sinco this province was o wilderness. Now it bears that flower of clvilization,—a daily paper, The {ndian Progress is a weekly journal, which has mannged to get suppressod already within its brief carcer of two wooks, It ig owned and edited by two Chorokeo citizens, who put up a building on Creck soil. They have been ejocted from this and have suse pondod publication for two weoks, during which time thoy mean to obtain an office within Cherokeo boundaries, The fndian Progress is o neat looking paper, bnt it is composed 1oninly of vituperation, Why should it call tho oditor of the rival shicot a “lickspittlo” and a ““dend.boat"? He is probably not responsible for having learned his trado in the editorial rooms of the Jnter Ocean, and hio has ot any rate partially re. deomed his character by leaving that journal, The Progress contains some interesting news, and promiscs in tho future to bo a polyglot curiosity. Of ita thirty columns, two are to be printed in Cherokee, two in Choctaw and Ohickasaw, two in Creek and Seminole, and twenty-two in English. It will thus carry in. formation to the ive civilized nations of the Territary. Its summary supprossion socems to have boon due to the desire of the Hon. J. P. 0. Suanxs, Special Indian Commisaioner ; ‘Wirrua P. Ross, the defeated candidate for Chief at the last election; and M. P. Ros- 1T, lately a Chicago journalist, to monopo- lize the business of Creck journalism. This trio, it is claimed, persuaded the * House of Kings" and the ‘‘Houss of Warriars™ of | Plug-ugly violonce and outrages, *n rather a frivolous veln the Crack nation to ejoct the Drogress from its office, nnd to confiseate the type and mp- terinl, including the new fonts of Indien letters east expressly for this partieular Journnl. This Jooks like n high-handed ont- rigeo, but the other ide remning to e heard, ‘Phe laws and eustoms of the different na- tions in the Indian Territory are peenliar, an ! thero mny hiave been authority for tho net. Tu any ovent, we wish the Progrem Prosperie ty. May it flonrish in its hot habitat ns Lustily as the #ee Press thrives in cold Win- nipeg. — The Russian correspondents of botl Tnglish and German papers scem to agree +o fully as to tho failure of the Russisn erops that there can be but little doubt of the state- ment that this failnre sprends generally throughout the country and extends to all kinds of grain. While tho distressin Russin will af- ford an enlarged market for American hread. stuffs, the benefit to tho American farmer will bo lost entirely if tho railroad combination in this country bo not broken up, A conspirney among the milronds running from the West to tho Enat can literally eat up all the profit on the production of brendstuffs, no mattor how high the Luropenn price may bo on ac- connt of tho reant supply of Russian grain, ‘The railrond combinntion bLas been mmade with A view to this absorption, and the people must spare no means to break it down. The approaching ndvent of the Clilneso voter in regarded in Californis as soytbing but a jolo. It appears that thero aro in Ban Fraueluco ha- tween 500 and 400 young Chinamon who will be legally qualified votera nt tho noxe election, hay- ing immigrated whon undor 17 years, and thoro- toro not hoing requived to take out naturaliza- tion papors. The Chineso compani®e which fetch aver;tho fmmigrants, and under contracts mado at Hong-Kong, disposs of thoin almost or quite an abaolutely as though thoy wore Hlaves, it is roported proposo to volo thono Young men at tho election next year, and aro fully alivo to tio advantagos which will aceruo to thom (tho companies) as manipulntors of tho Chineso ele- ment. Making largo allowanco for tho preju- dico wlich ascribos to tho companios {ho most sinfrtor purponss, it Is very evident that there &ro many reasins for epprolonding that tho en- tire Chineso vote will nt every olection be fn the markot, snd altogother Hkely that tho Celestialy will nake tacilo progross in all the arts of ro- peating and voting now arrivals ahnost as soon a8 they are off ship-board. Their im- measurablo contempt for ull our instituy- tions, the enormous vauity which leads thom to rogard themsolves a8 superior boings and thoe Americans as more outside barbariavs, and tho furthor well-autbenticated fact that in Cali- fornin thoy riglily maintain among thomselvos the Chrueso codo, and feel o concern In tho laws or iustitutions of tho Stato, all tend to con- firm tho feara oxprossed on this scora. For tho Jst few seara ‘tho Chineso immigrants (all of whom are fotchod to Californin by tha com- panice) biave muinly heon young men from 16 1o 20 years of age, Tho Chincse contowpt of the outeide barbariang is not grostor than that of tho Californians for the Colestials, and nodoldy in the Btato hau paid sufliclent attention to the matter to know what prororifon of tho Yyoung Chinamon were undor 17 years of age upon their arrival. ractically, therofore, it 18 within tho power of tho compsnlos to voto ail tho young Chinamon of about 21 years of sge In tho State, though with charactoristle prudenco it is not at all probable thoy would attempt such a thing at tho trat oloctfon, Tho otber sido of it iy that the Chinese, who aro nevor slow to Tearn their own lnterests, whea they como o be volers 13y scquira eolightenad viows of their solf-intorest, and decline to bo bought and sold at tho polls ou masae, Adilitted to fall political rights, many of them, it may reamonsbly bo expocted, will abandon what is now tho cberishsd purposs of overy Cinaman i the Btato, of returning to the Flowery Kingdom. The nuraber of theso must naturatly iacroaso, snd £ that sentiment epronds will they begin to be Americanized. Tho San Fraaciaco Ledger, & bitter anti-Chinoso organ, thiuke bloodshed would be warranted ‘o provent tho Chiuese voting, and makes dema- gogic appoals Lo bring it about, but muies the slguificant admission that tho Californinns aro ot hkoly toshed blood about it. ‘Tho TLeddger AayA: dust oa surena the worll moves, and Waturo yre. tervea thoe unlformity of ler course, wosury i3 it 1hat i aur prosent provpect of s largo Clhineso population 13 not founded on a iciscaleulation, Cilucse anlirage ueaua a destruction of all that i worth preacrviug In onr form of government, We suould b free tu name, but would really bo governcd by un oligarely of tog most unscruplous and cunning, Tt 13 worth Aighting for, thir mntter of Chinese suffroge. If our peopls were fmbued with the sumo eurnest determination to Ppreserve overy fota of political Mbertysa animated thie mon of the thirlosn colontes 3 century 540, thy Paclfic Btatea would tell the Atlantio S:nted that thoy might ennct il the laws they chose, but Chinamen sLould ot vote hore, There fu uo euch spirit here, bLowover, and when the Chinamen go to the polls next sear there willbe no effcctive remonstrance, Perhings after It becomes 100 lato 10 apply n reneldy we mayr wako up t9 themagnitude of the cvil, Afier ys tho deluga,” —_—— Tho figurea expoee in all its iniquity the un- paralicled ballot-stuffiug ut Baltinore Tuenday, The utmost population claimed for that city is 810,000. Colored votars wera driven from the polls in & numbor of precincts, and many whizes muss have -been deterred from voting by the Yot 68,021 ballots were counted out. the ofticial roturns be- mg: For Cannont, Domocrntic candidate for Qovornor, 30,958; Hanais, Republican and Ito- form, 21,963,—tho nhylo number of votes cast Leing sovoral thousand more than at tho cily oloction beld Batuiday, wiich was a nost excit- fog contost, Tho Fivet Ward thon polled 3,756 votos, Tueaday, according to the oflicial count, it polled 4,032 or over 30 per cent moro than at tho olection threo days previous, aad & correaponding Dewmocratic “ galn” wns figured ont, The Fourth Ward, which has ® totsl population of 8,970, poiled 2,485 votes, or more than ouo voto for ovary four peraons of the entire population.® In other wardd the incroaso in the vote polied, aud in the Democratic majority, was in noarly tho samo ratio, Tho fraud ia the more glaring whon con- trastod with tho vote on the samo day in tho other groat cltles. Now Yorl, with o population of about 1,100,000, cast botween 125400 and 130,000 votes; Philadolphia, with 909,000 popu Iatlon, but, in round nuiabiers, 113,000 ; and Chl- ©ago, with a popolalion of half s miltion, but 60,704, belog 3,107 less than Baltimoie, which obly ¢laima a population of 200,000 loss than this city. In Daltimore, the voto was about ono in five for the eutiro population; in Chicago, one in nine; in Philadelpbin aod New York, one in overy eight. Lvidently tho Daltimors plug- uglien, when thoy drove the Republicans from the polls, euffod about » sore or two of bal- lota into the box for the Demaocratio ticket, s The English Earl of DArNLEY, who i3 a large land-owner in Keat, Las become involved ina curlous controvorsy Wwith ono of the most con- sidorabloof his tonants. The Eari wasuutil Iately tue Colonel of tho West Kont Yoomanry, Ho resigned in consequonce of ili-fecling ox- hibited towarda him by tho other oflicors of the rogiment. Moat of Lord Danxezy's tonants who were privatos in tho regimont also retired from it, but the don of the Mayor of Gravesend re- fused to do e0. Thereupon Lord DiENLERY made s epeclal request totho Mnyor that Le should romove his son. Tho Mayor, who isa teant of thirly-thres years' standing, dia ot comply, and tls Lordship has now suggested the ropriety of m cessation of tho relations of land- ord und tonaut. This s rathor an unusuat utep consideriog tho smallucss of the provocation aud o character of tho touaut, lis Lordsbip writes Tt 18 tho chiarscteristio of the tenantry on tbe large estales in this country that (hey are nol tere reat- payem or customers for the owiudily calied land ul, 03 1o coulrary, rotalu Just 0 much uf feudal traditicn ‘s, without comprorolatug thels dap. ade. pendence, scrvos Lo eatablish some kiud of sympathy of sentiment aud ideutlty of futerust Latwron thoui- slves and thalr landiord ;' and 4 sppeans to ma to bo s > While Moonr and Saxkcy aro downg their best it matter for considreation how fu, TreTeea fo dinreqird 1.t kind of yo L?.':im‘"'.‘ bivs ol Feepg ot wome e ian vene oyl ) e regard Tho corraspondence lisw provaked » 901 dogy L and fy of cn:]nmcnz unfavorablo to the Iy now dofinition of the relations betweo n au tonant i wot ousially approve, 10 s The White-Linora hinving carriod M, it remainy 1o bo woon what they will do impoachmont and ramoval of Gor, lmljmm thll-y Iiavo failed to deoura it najority in the Legislnture, may a forogona lcuuclmfion. ’l'in: }!f:,:cu:‘l::llra, . gramao will Lo oxhansted, fhoust they will hold together to carr; nmgi!;lu‘:: :‘:“m Presidentisl olection, Thelr victory Tum:hl maltes an end of earvat-bagiam, aug “Dracticall) Of the Ttepublican party in the Stats -f; i bredietod it would bo fallomad by Sambgry o pivg oud of politiey altagother, lnavin, r:p whites to do the voting. Dut they :.eg.f (P‘ canvass by giving tho ReEroes barbaeyes, ."2 Soltowed it up b ‘organizing cotored Domgeres cluby, any by making active bida of overy g ; for tha colored vote, Now there are Blules; ‘ifl innmerablo iy I\liselmlpfl.—lllngumur u:_: many for ano party to hold thom afl,—~npg u? interasting quory is, how soon the lmhidn‘ White-Linera will vio I:i(henchnlh"lnbl“in:lm thocolered vote on their fudividual scconotmons oagerly than they have boot doing for the a ‘n When that U comen, Wilts-Linoian mype - cud of itaclf, sud tia raca quo.tion will be gy nated Irom Siasiesiopi politics, = sinappy After tyy tho reqaj ‘Tha Philadotphia Ledger {3 ono of \vhlclh, hun‘;:vor tho full returny reanlts, bnd nothing that eamld have |, en bacik o It articlo on the olections p::?inl\:: tho next morning. With that rare Telicity of expro:Mon aud delleacy of feeliug disolayeq og), in the peetie gems which adorn 29 obltuary ca[J. umn, the Ledyer obse:sos: “Tho sictors g sestorday will, of cou 5o, be rojolclng to-day,» With tonder conmdaration for tho foclimge s tho vanguished, tha Tedger omity g) that might fudicate whe they be, but continuis; thus gontly pours off upon thejr wmmd’sz: ““That la tho notaral arder of evens; bat 1, vanquished will navo the consolation of ‘knoy. fng that neithor the city, nor the State, nor the country will bo half 0 badly ruinad na some of thelr imnginative spokesnion duting the canyasy feemed Lo think.,” Who bt true Poot could hiavo done it with wuch equiaita swaot ferrors 80,07 tho pocts all, who but that child of geny tho Zedger's own, G, W. Crueny, A. 3, ? ' the Journayy modifled. tle Ricusnn Grast Warre, the hoterophemis, hias bocn postoted so unmercifally with bis gy &ills in & pint ™ that ho bne ot Jast. dofended him. solf by eaying thut everybody ought to know by meant four. The Now York {Fortd, in trying 1 holp him out, sas 1 *According to the universy neago of wine-morchants, beer-bottlors, milx. wou, aud other doalers in Jiquid commodiies, vhose authority on the Aubjact is indlputaple,s Dintiy very for from contuining fourgitle, In tact, itis nvariallo quantity, adaptlog itself to 4y nilifting exlgencies of medern commerelal alvili’ ation, aud pot 1o bo eribbed and confined oy ancient traditions,” Tius is very handeoms on the rart of tho TWorld, but it comes too late, e Winte at fhist beterapbized ju favor of twe gilla to thie pint. and now wavs ho meant four, And yot any dealer of atnffa contained in bottley will inform bita that most fluids measuro aboy) threo gills to tho pint, 8o that Mr. Warre, betero phi in favor of two gil's and meuning fous Iy oty bul three gills, e o Baltimore, which is o much smaller clty thay Chieano, aud containg much maallor Propots tlou of unmarricd voters, polled 2,000 more votes taat Faosdoy than we Gid. Thia, in itsel, 18 & practy convineing praot of ballot-box stale fiug, Vhen we add tho fests of an nnugually large vote bere, and tiwe driving of wauy volery from tho Dallimore polls by force, the proof s nmanswerablo. We ive oleowhere vome carious facts nbaut the populntion saa voto of different wards i thn Mouument City, which sre at ogea Indicrous and mouratal. Philadolphia and Now York probably nover saw grester frauds upon tho ballat-box than those porpotrated wu Baltk mora this woek, ———— Pareen Browsnow, in bis paper, the Knoxrills Chroulcle, vaya the rag-menes repuciation plauk m the Penunslvanis Democratio platform was tho reault of & bargain botween Wasnm, McLras, of the Cincinuati Enquirer, and Sax Raxpars, Ths story, accordiog to the Chronicle, is that * RuxpALL pledged to McLrax that the Demos c1atio Couvention of Penusvivania should fne dorso the Obls 1nflation platform, 1n considers tion of the Domocratic Congrestimen of the lat ter Stawo wupporting Ravpary for Spesker! The Chronicle addy : * Baxs carriod out his parl of the programme, and provided for the cortaln dofeat of his party In hjs own Histe. Now me will eoo whether tho Enquirer performs Ita pit of tho contract.” Esploring among tha wreck and debris lefthigh and dry Ly the tidal wave which swept over Obio, Cuantes Nonouovr dicoovored the Demos crat who gave the truo gonekis of tho rag-baby. To tho question what mado him think Artex could carry the Hiace, bis luminooa roply was ; ‘1 take it for granted fn all polltical calculstions,® ho Ratd, # that the masd of the people are ngues, il voto for any scheme which promines wither plun- dor or the I:ave to cheat cach othor. So_ belieriog 1 was persundad thnt Ohfo would be swept by ALLea ou the fnflation platform, I ani A hard-moue but I an & Democrat, and 1 belreved ths movement would be a suceess for our party. Lelieve it waa & good atruke in politics, and, laugh, aco how small LLaves’ mafority (e Lhat is tho rationale of 1he rag-money fufis tlon-repudistion movement in a nutahell, e g M. Pumanerk Ciastes, the Fronch aothor, In ono of his posthumous works which has juib beon issucd, indulges in some vory logenious speculations touching the symbolsm of the charactors in Disnaerr’s ** Lothair.” The hero, Lorustm, he claims, is the poople. Tho thres Iadles who claim poascssion of Lotuain are Catlolicism, tho Nevolution, and Protestantism. Mr. Puaous 1a the type of Modosn Italy. The verson ho marrics i (reeco. . Tho Grosk dowry which ho zofusos s tho detaching of himaolt {from Lhe Greok Church aud bis embrsclng ot Catholicism. The dodication to the Duko of AusaLe is underatood by CimasLes os 8 protost aga'nst Imperatiatly tordanciss, Tao F oo won's Loy to ** Lothalr "18 very wgouious, 10 88y tho least, foreyou e for tho vovival of religion in Brookiyn, eome of tho churchbos are usmsating the ovangoliate o mako couverts tu very unorthodox ways, Attbe Jast moeting of tho Alethodiyt Ministerial Cob- vention 1t was atated tuat one ohurob wai trr- Ing to get out of dobt by giving Ktesing feativaly and that anothor was offoring & new chromo (o every now couvert, 'Tho Iatter prooss is s dis- gueting ono, but for paying off a chusch .m:: nothing has yet been devised which can equ! tho tirst namod. It maybo possible thatthe Methodist minluters objecs to it for the reesod that thoy are loft out {a tho cold. Tho bull-whackor etoment in e Tosss Coo- stitutional Conventiou, which thus far bss do; foatod every proposition for 4ho catablishmeo! of the froo-achoo! system in that Biate, evident- ly becauee, accordlug to she bull-whacker o0 tiows, book-lonrning is of no mocount, pOW Pe- pose that the Convention sit with closed doors, 80 thay the posky mowspspers can't bsve 807 chance to ialk nobsenso, sbout thom. In ou® polut of view the proposition is a0 mnml‘; one: it will relieve the bull-whackers of the troudle of shooting the fow enlightened editors who Intabit that Btate. Mr. OmaBes P, BuTtox, some years l’.'°h‘ rosldent of this Btate, propoass to begin :h : publication in Boston, in January nexs, olbd" New Englend Reofew. It lato “dow‘lmd 1ho local and goneral lntereats of Now Eng! l’ aud especislly the promotion of the wn-uunusfl‘ of the Caughnawaga Canal, congecting tbe 7t ZLanzeaco Biver with Lako Cbawplsin, Cbicsg! R WP e T SRLAC IS Fo T APy, N N N