Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 11, 1875, Page 4

4 e e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUFICAITTIOS (PATARLR TN ADYANCR). Pastnee Preeald ae chin OMec, Datly ldlunn.x;n 50 s . 813.00 ' Maited iy 100 e - D T Ly, e b &0 Qnanpr, par yeu ub v a0 Eiib et waath o ol b Tha postags 15 15 conta & year, whicn wo will prepss. Hpecimen cotdes sent (res, Taprevent delsy and mistakes, bo sure sud fgive Post-Ottico addreat fa full, {ncluding Stateand Coun Femsttances may be made either by draft, ex)es Post-Oifice ofder, or In reglatered teiters, st our risk, TERMN TO CITY FUDSCRIDRNA, Dally, delivered, Bunday axcepted, '23 centa pee week, Dany, delivered, Bunday included, B0 conts per week, Addrens THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn ste., Clicago, Il st ey AMUSENENTS. HOOLEY'S TUEATIRE—Randoiph atreet, hetween Cinrk an (akalle, Tugagement of the Ceilfornia Miotrete, ADELPRI T Mourae, * Litpet,’ Dearborn street, cormer NE Rand non. MEVICRER'S THENTAE—Maiison eireet, between Denricrnad Siade. © Tha Morry Wives of Windeor,” by the Chicago Liederkranz, CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark sirent, hotween 1s aurd Tk, Eugagament of Chariotta Thompe Tsue Lyre,” WOOD'S MUSELM—3louroo street, Letwern Dears borik and Hieie, | Mternen, " Uueld Toun Cabin v 0 tlith Gaunt,™ SOCIETY MEETINGS, ILLINOIS ST, ANDLLW'S BOCIETY—The prepar- #tary weetng ol the Ihinots st Andres's 80 foty will Lo tivld at Caledonis 16 Waslidngton street, this (Thuruiny) evenlng at 7 k, JOILN STLWART, Secretars, Ehe Chicagy Tribnne, Thurgday Moroing, Novembsr 11, 1875. Greenbacks at tho New Vork Gold Ex- shango ycaterday opened nt 87}, rosa to 87}, tell to 874, sud faally closed al K73 Chicago divided the honors with Jackson n the inter-Stata ritle-nintch contested yos- lerday, Our feam wns not successful os a team, but wo showed the best individual wcore, and won n majosity of tho prizes. All #o need s a few 1are Col, Troxpsoxs, and a1 we asic s time £ Dring them out, Mean- while Ja n mey justly elain eredit for tho mperior achievenents of her team, Itisan ill wind that blows nobody any zood, 'Tho gale that destroyed pert of Zalveston deepened the harbor several feot, 1o thint ocean steamshipy ean now liv along- ida the wharves and unluad, instaad of using dilters, as tey have hitherto had do do, U st. Louis coulld persunds tho Weather Barean to send n few geles of Lhe same sort along the Mississippi Valloy, they might bring about that ** fourteen feet of water in the Mississippi,” for whicis St. Louis wants Con- Zress to spend a few million dollars of other people's money, Mannfacturing aud business eircles in Chieago will be not a little moved by the au- aouncement of tho death of Jr. H. I, Tarror, one of our bast and most valned sitizens, and ono whose earecr furnishes a bright examplo for thu guidincs aad cucour- agement of tho young men who have yot to writo their names on thorolt of success. Mr. Tavror was n fine specimen of the self- made man,—a maa in whom a high order of business enpacily, strong honor nod intagri- tr, rod Inrge generosity and benovolence wora Llended s these qualities scidem are. The ftelograph yestordny flashed through the land {he ainrming news that Viee-I'vesi- dent Wirsox had been struck down with apo- olexy. and was momentarily cxpected to die, Later repm"é!, however, served to allay the yenernl fealing of solicitude nnd grief, and iTorded encourngement for the belief that e danger had been exazgerated. Our latest lispatchos yiving bulloling of Mr, Wrzson's sondition ara yob moure reassuring. The rostrale statesman was much bettor, and it was believed that alsolate rest and quist wonld quits rcstora him. Tho intelligence vill bo receivod with universal gratification. The question of the Bible in the sehools 223 been disenssed from a Protestant Epis. mpnl standpoint by the Church Congress 10w in kession in Philudelphin, The Rev. tarmENT M. BuTire took strong ground in favor of the sbandonment of what hoe char. acterized ¢ the irreverent faree and deseern- tivn of the perfunctory rending of the Bible in our public tchools,” e nrged that the discontinuance of tha practico would place the public-school system on an impregnable Toundation, aod {ake away all plansibility from the claimifor Romonand other sectarian schoola. e — Supervising-Arehitect Porzen, in bis an- nuul report to the Sreretury of the Tressury, recommends the abolition of the present system of contruct perceutuges in the cutting of wtone, Io finds that of the approprine tions made by Congress for public buildings one-third is expended in the eutting of stone, and the allowance to contractors of a per- rentago for supervision oporates sa an ine centivo to increaso tho outlay in this direc- tion, and stunds in the way of strict cconomy, Afr, Porren also believes that the Supervising. Architoct's dutios are too diffuse, snd that this ofticial could render more valuable ser. vice in the mntter of architecture proper if relicved of the labor and attention required in the personal supervision of buildings in course of erection. Pl ——— A tendeucy is observed on the part of tho Committes on Public Servica of tho Board of County Commissioners to recommend a gen- eral reduction of the salaries of county eu- ployes. 'I'liis con bo done with juatice and proprioty, and a lurge relrenchment can be tlns effected ; but the Cowmmittee and tho Tioard should not stop with salaries. Thero are haudreds of lenkrnges, great and swmall, which nggregate dollars whero the proposed cutting duwn of enlaries will pavo cents, Lot the Board lock to these as woll, and for once domonstrete to the tux-payers of Cook Coun- ty that thoy mean to bu honest and economics al all around. Buch nu opportuuity for a striking contrast was never bofora affurded, und we hope never will be agaiu.. Let tho Board improve the opening, und Legin the Centennial year with a good record. ko Chicago produce markets wero rather tawe yeuterday, Mess pork was in fair de. mand, and 12}@1%o per brl higher, at §20.75 cosh, and %19.22} sellor the year. Lard was quiet aud ensier, cloging at $12.12} cash, and #12.00@12.02 seller the year, Meatawero less uctive und steady, ut §@8Jc for purt salted sboulders (Loxed), 11{@11jc for short ribs do, and 21 e for short olear do. Highwines were quict and steady, at $1.12 per gallon. Laoke Lreighis wory dull and easicr, at Go for whuat to Tffale, Flour wag dull and unchanged. Whest wns loey netive and lower, closing | at n Corn was ddull and le o eer, closing at te for Novewinw, and 47le wnder b e yenr, Oats woro notivo wnl fimy, closing at sle ensit and Htfe for Decembe e was yuist Lol GaeGile, Barley was 1 lower, elosing nt &53ie for November and 1@ tefor Decom. ber, Hlogs were nct:ve and averaged I0n ! higher, closing firm at $7.16@7.70 for poor , to prime. Cattle were dull and unchanged. i 8heop wora active and casior. Ono hundred { dollars in gold would buy $111,62} in green- + backs at the close. i | There is little room to hope that any of i the passengers or crow of the steamer Uity E of Waco, which hurned off Galveston harbor, i have escaped. Ofliesrs of ships lying in the ; immedinte vicinity of the burning vessel du- i clare thnt the work of deatructlon was very 1 ¥apid, nnd that the entire hull wns wrapped e e tin flames in a fow minutes after the firo was | first discovered, giving those on board only ! the fearful alternative of death by fire or ; water, Another survivor of thy lost stenmor 1 Pacilic hias been rescued front nraft pfter ; flonting two days at the mercy of the waves. ' Tla says the steamer was run down by a ship | under full sail, and the additional fact that a Inrge whip carrying a sigual of distress was goen in that Ireality by anothor vossel goes to coafirm his statement, 1t may also prove that the disabled vessel was instrumental in saving soma of the nnfortnnates who had tuken to tho boats or rafts when the Pacitic went down, O s "The postal-telograph systom scems to be a sueeeas in Australin, Theve are 30,000 milos of wire on that continent and New Zealnnd. ‘Tha 5,600 miles of Victoria couveyed Lnlf a million messages Inst year at o profit to the Government of £40,000. In Now South Wales, mesrages caa be sent mnearly 4,000 miles for 50 cents, “ Can this,” asks an en- thusiastic Australian, ** be equnled anywhere elso in the world?"” Certainly mnot in this soction of the universe. Weo have the pleas. Vure of paying $1.23 for rending o messngo less than 1,000 miles,—from Chicago to New York., 'The New South Wales tariff sccmns to show that most of this §1.25 is clear gain, anad that a little nore competition in the tele- graph business wonld be of service to the public. In Austealin they expeet, ero long, to **snperredy the post-ofiice by the telegraph to a very great extent.” No sueh expectation ir entertained here, Thanks to Mr, HANNIBAL Haswuiy, we have partly superseded the post- ollieo Ly the express companics, but the ad- vantage is not npparent. THE PURITY OF THE BALLOT-BOX, * "Flw corruption or purity of the ballot-box ie an issno that ontlasts the duration of a singlo political campaign, Notwithstandirg the vigorous and persistent effort mnde Ly the merchonts and the honest voters at our Iuto election to gnard tho ballot-boxes, there i no question but many illegal votes wevo east; had it not Leen for this effort there would have been thoussuds of them instead of hundreds, But, unless wo would remain unider the coustant menace of corruption at the polls and repent at every election the tre. mendous effort made at the recent clection, some remedy must bo applied that will be lusting in its nature. The only remedy of this character iy the prosecution, conviction, and punishment of ropoaters. We are glad to note that the Citizens' Association are not tiriug of tho work they have underteken, and propose to follow it out to its logieal conelu- sion, Wo cannot now reeall an oceasion whera thero hns been n couviction for frandu- lent voting. "Thero is nothing, thereforo, to hold up agninst professional repeatersasa deterrent, "They seem to thinlk it iu o rero question of getting their illegal votes nccopt. ed, and that, if they sccomplish thoir pur. pose, it will be ntlended by no penalty, What is wanted is the practical ovidenco that iHleyal voting 1eads to the Peuitentiary. Tho apprehension of the man PyrLLips af. fords the needed opportunity, nnd no effort should be spured to conviet him if guilty, Ho is tho type of a large desperato class in the city, ready for criminal work of any na. ure, and freo in the use of tho kaife or the pistol to carry it out, This mnn PurLrreg uot only went about repeating on tho dny of election, but was prepared to murder any- body who should dare to interpose betweon men of his clasy and the purity of tho ballot- box. The evidenco agninst him points him ont nd the man who stabbed Mr, Maory, who was ongaged in challenging at the First Precinct of tho First Ward. 'The indictmont and arrest of this fellow have been ndmirbly mannged. Ho and his friends certninly had no intimation of a proceading against him, or he would have beon run out of tho city. Now that ho has been indicted and is under nrrest, the gnng to which le belongs, led by Mixe McDowarn and Harny Lawaence, will use nll their money and all their inflaenco to acquit him. ‘They will be on hand to prove alibiy, pack the jury, anduse all tho customary means employed to acquit eriminals, This gnong hns u wider interest in Puinuies’ case than his personal convietion or acqnittal. They know that to send lnm to the Peuiten. tiary will be to intorfero with their custom- ary occupation of procuring repenters at lo- cal oloctions, A half-dozon such convietions will do moro to brenk down tho practice than all the offorts that honest volers can make by nssociation on election.dny, 'The pentlenien who are charged with the prose- ention of this ensa must be propared to meet upowerful jnHuence in his behalf,—the in- fluenea of tho gamblors, contldence-men, thicven, roughs, plug-uglios, and vote. Lrokers, Tt st ho kept in mind that wo shall not berenfier huve the protection of registration at onr local cluctions, and that the way will be open to export and reckless ropeaters. It wil als0 be difficult to urouso public senti- mont again Lo the sama degreo of enthusissm as that which provented wholosale ropeating and bullot-box wtuMing ton days ago. The only hope, therefors, that our ballot-boxes may bo protected from invasion by armed ruflians {8 in the conviction of some of those who have alrerdy been enyived in that sort of worlk, If & fow men like Puserirs ean b sont to Joliet for the crime with which ho is charged, the villainoua crowd 1o which he belongs will not bo #o reckless in the future ay they have boon fn tho past. The Jabobinics) Liks, who has been run. ning the County Clerk's oflice a4 n nera po. litical machine, now publishes over Lis own siguaturo und in Euglish what his Gormen poper has already advooated, viz. : A recom. sendation that the political division of the city into eighteen warda shall be on a basis of nativity, without reference to population, or taxable interests, or any other consideration. Wo are content to let the proposition stand alone without further comnent. Its {nfamy will be recounized as radily by farnion.bora 1074 for November, and <1.09 for Jaun- THE CIHCAGO TRIBU ! citizans of intelligsneo and patriotism ns by native-born citizens, and it comes from n souree for which the respectablo foreign-born i citizens arv not to Lo held responsible, THE NEW YORK 9MUGSLERS, The vonviztion of €1 Bis Axensin New « York City ia n significant ome, o wasnn ; ofiicial in the Custom-House there, and was indieted for complicity in smnggling cortain filks. TTia whole jprevions record ag & man ;and a eoldier mnde tho charge iveredille. Ifig friends protested that he was innacent as 1 0 child, not o siegle paper spoke barshly of i himn, and public opinion voluntarily geauted that **suspension of judgment” so often asked and s0 rarely got. found him guilty, Having worn the stripes ! of ahigh cficer in our army, ho must now ; put on the stripes of conviet giach. Hia con- + viction was donbiless p disngreeablo surpriso Yet o jury hos o enait ! to the mombers of the indicted firm of 1L B, | , Crarray & Co., for tho silks be is chaged | 'which afterwards wern by this firm. The procers was simyle i cnough. A certnin Iarny Lawnescr, siuco i absconded, imported a Rcoro of cases marked a8 rotton goods, Ono of them coutnined | cotton, the athers silk. The Inspector, Dry Axaes, had been privately notified which box : to mark for inspeetion. He earefully chose the ome in which the coltons were. The sample was examined, naud the whole lot duly passed, Lawnesce took ithe {wenty cases and paid for them ns cotton. The silk was then placed in the hands of a firm which was nominnlly engnged in the wine business. This firm sold lurge quantities of silk to the buying partner of 11, | B. CrarLv & Co. at prices below the hare cost of producing and importing the goods. It 1a claimed, hawever, that the purchase was niade without any idea that tho sillk lhad bought and seld | been illegally entered. On the other band, Mr. Crarmay told n reporter of the New York Zwribune that o house which did not buy smuggled silks would be drivan out of the trade, and that he had been advised by a prominent Custom- Honso official—wns it Drs Axars P—to pur- chnse goods offered him in theso sceret ways. 1t doea not secem quite credible, in view of this frank statement, that the partuers of [ the firm should have maintained a childliko | innocence in rogard to the silks that were Lought nnd sold at rales too los to cover the baro cost of Lonest goods. Still, it is eer- taiuly to Lo hoped that a grent fine like this will be able to phow in court that its hands are clenn in the matter, and that it has never stooped to cheat the Governmont of its coun. try for the sake of a few flimsy dollars, The trial of Drs Axars is of course entirely distinet from that of H. B. CrarLiy & Cu. o might have been guilty a thonsand times ! without their boing guilty once. He wan in- { dicted for conmivance ntsmuggling. They i have been indicted for havingin their posyes- sion goods which they knew to be amuggled. The two charges are thus wholly aport. At the snmo time, the conviction of tho ex-Tn- spector shows that tho goods in question were really smuggled, so that the only gues- tion left is whether or not H. B. Craruiv & Co. knew this. We may rost assured that the point will be fairly decided, and that neither ahigh position nor a vulgar desire to swirch a good nnme will play any part in preventing Justice, The Smuggling and the Whisky Tiings must both learn that the National Gov- ernment is stronger than they, WANIED~A GRAVE! Have the dend no rights that the living are bound to respect? In Montreal, poor Gur- vonp's hody is etill above ground, patiently and nncomplainingly waiting for interment. e Liag thus far boen denjed burial for relig- ions rensous, but tho prospects mow sre fevorablo that he will speedily got into his grave—if there is auything left of him. Meanwhile, thero is o nogro in Philadelphin who loft this vale of tears over two months ago, nnd hag not yet found his lact resting placo. o himself, in all probability, has gono whero the good negroes go; but the dark casket that contained him atill waits above ground, while whites snd blacks are squabbling over his remains in the courts. His namo wns Hewny Joxrs. He was n ceterer known to almost every one in Phil- adelphis. Ho was s favorito with all, and had amassed a very handsomo competonce with his skillets and stow-pans. Ho owned a Iot in the Mount Morish Cemetery, for which his widow now lolds the deed from n former whitelot-owner, Whon the caterer was gather- d to his fathers, the widow made Lier preparn. tions to bury him in the family lot, but the cemetery managers would not allow the dark slindow to cows in among tho graves of tho dosd and gono whites, Thereupon tho wid- ow prayed for the issuanco of a writ of man- damus compelling the Cemetery Company to grant her Into husband the samo right of nep- ulture that the othior lot-owners have, Mean- while the poor caterer, or the remains of tho poor caterer, have been bundied back and forward in tho court like n shuttlecock, Ho hias beon culogized oue day as a model for all living Philadolphinns, and as deserving the best marble iheir stono-cutters can turn out, and an epitaph ug mendacions as those which are cut in the grave-atones of his white breth- ron, Tho next dny he has hoen Anathema Maranathn, and tho attempt of tho luckless widow to deposit him among tho graves of white men has heon denouncad as an outrago that will set all the other Lones rattling in their crumbling cofling, withor the very grass and Howers abovo thom, and strike all the feathered songsters dumb with horror, Thus this poor megro has Leen kept above ground by prejudice, and his poor widow, who don't want him any longer, is still obliged to have him abont the house. When bo was alive he was good enough for nuso. ciation with white men, becnuse he had money, but, now that he in doad, he cannot associate with ghosts, although in all proba- bility his ghost Is quite as respectable as the white ghosts, and, if he he an angel, his wings havo just ns wide a sproad and fine o plumage, and he plays the harp as well as ‘Yox Jones or Bivn $int, or any otber angel who happened to be white when in the flesh, Looked at from un abstract and sentimental point of viaw, it fa dulleuit to see why o man shonld Lo refused burint among whito men Lecause he happened to ho black, If wo aro to be wscrapulouws on this weecount, why should reot an excop- tion bo mado of red-hosded won and squint. eyed women? From alegal point of view, unodoubtedly, this Mount Moriah Cemetery Compauy have n right to dictate who shall bo planted in their ground, but the abamdity of tho whole caso is that the Compnuy shonld timo ax gaod ns any other cadaver, and just 24 welcome to the politio worms as if he had bacn white as tho driven snow. His entrauca into the Mount Moriah Cemotory will not dis. turb & siugle one of the people sleeping there. or vrojudice their resurrvotion, He withhelping 4o sadgyle are the vary stufle « e 00000000 peupda o mudadblad | TITURSDAY, will sloep an sours v na the rest of thew, A thera in na rocord of ek ghosts, hiy mid- night pranks will not bo any more distressing o souln than those of the white Fe will rotive.to hin ploe at the maons of the neighboring reastes just ot promptly ng the rest, I will vot infure the locks of the cometery, The gress will grow ns o green aboye hinu Wil Ulossam s preltily, and the bi Ring as sweatly, Wo confess our {nnabilit; to seo why the rensitiveness of the Mount Morish Company should stop at 8 negro, Why not exclude ul! other uationali- ties and colors excopt white Americans? Why not rule out all who are not possessed of n certain amount of property, all who ean. nat show a title clear to mansions in the gkies, anil Al who are not up 10 a reguintion sinndnrd as to the color of their cutivle? If thie Mount Moriah peaplo are to bo exclusive ! in one respect, why not in all, and thus have o gilt-edged, ereme e la ereme grovoynrd fitled white bodies, which ouco were tenanted with undoubted whito souls? Meanwhila Joxes is waiting above ground Leeanss the men who associnted with him while living, and fed up- on his good things, aud respectad himn for his money, are now determined that his bones shall not rest beside the bones of their reln- tives, nlthough they nvo of the samv color. 14 there no plrce for Joves amoug white dend who was good enough for whits people when nlive? ——————— THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATION. The insurrection of the Helavie Christians in tho little province of Herzegovina agninst the ernelty and oppression of the Mohamme- dan Turk is but the * prologue to the swell- ings prelude of an imperinl theme.” The lit- tlo stngo upon which the insurrection has Leen played brordens out into the vast aren of all Europe, and nations ero taking part in tho drama. 'I'he plot thickens very rapidly, and Russin, Germany, Austria, and England lave alrendy put in their eppearanco, and their negotiations give indication that Turkey may yeb be sliced, and carved, and divided nmongthe Grenf Powersasthe just retribution for her relentless persecution of the Chris- tinns of the Danubinn provinees, Turkey has no friends, Russia, Austrin, nnd Prussin havo nlready taken tho initintory steps to compel the Sultan to cease his horrible tyran- ny over the Sclave and {o introduco the re- forms ho hns ko long promised. If the Sultan, however, ceates his {yranny, his reveunes will cense, for ‘'lurkey lives upon her Danubian provinees, and, ns to maeking reforms, she has no money to effect them. Iler only friend, Eugland, bas Deen alienated by the repudintion of the Turkish bonds, and English bondholders are swearing vongennco a8 they discover that the money they have loaued the fujthless Turk has been squaudered by him, and that ho is on the vergo of bankruptey, These Powers, with the oxception of England, have decided that Austria shall lay down n systom of re- formn for Turkey to follow, and they know in advance that Turkoy cannot follow them— more than that, they naro nware, now that Servia has joined Herzegoving, that it is doubtfnl whether Turkey can crush tho in- surroction. Thera is but ono alterna- tive to such o failure: tho dismem- bermeut of the Turkish Fmpire and its division among tho three Towers, Austrin, Germany, and Russin, And bere a now com- plicntion narises, England is not a party to this negatintion, Tho only relations she now bears to Turkey are those of n frightened and desperate creditor. But in this division of the spoils England will not consent to be left out in the cold. nad as an offsct to the advan- tages which Russin, her old rival for the supremacy of the East, will obtain, sho has alroady givon out intimations that hor ocen- pation of Egypt s but a question of tima. ‘That oceupation, however, will never be nndo except with the consent of the other uropean Powers. Egypt, althongh nomi- nally an independent Government, ruled by an abgoluto sovereign, who has tho power of concluding treaties, main- toining avwies, aud waking war, is in ronlity a dopondenoy of Turkey by virtue of tho enforced tribute she must pay her as tho condition of her absolute sovor- cignty, just as Servin and other Dacubian provinces aro rolated. It is not iripossible, therefere, that, in case of dismemberment, Egypt also will go into tha common pool for national division. Thus the gamo stands at prosent. Tho remaining moves npon the board will bo watched with interest, With the Danublan provincea it it a atruggle for religions righta aud tolerntion. , With Aus- tria, Russin, and Prussia it is a strugglo to maintain political power. With England it is o struggle for commercial supremaoy. Whichievor wey they may move, Turkey ia apparcatly doomed., L THE ** UNEARNED INOREMENT,” This phrnse was invented by some follower of Joux Btuant Miry, and rpplied to the in. oreaso in tho valuo of land, duo to any canse other than the labor expended upon it, such as the growth of population. A Land Roform Boclety exists in England, which voted, ata weeting in London in the spring of 1873, that tho State may rightfully confiscate thin * unearned inerement " by taxation. Itisto bo regrotted that Mr. Miwr, by presiding over tho meeting and failing to express any dis- sont from its decision, should have commit. ted himself to such a preposterous msserlion. 11 u wan buys corn, or horses, or dry goods, beecause he knows that circumstances inde- pendent of hig action will causo a riso in their wvalue, no one denies his right to tho money thus made. Why should similar shrowdness shown in the purchnse of land be denied a similar reward ? If it is eaid that the paralle! fs inexaot, bo- cause land is not crested by human labor and {he other substances mncntioned ure, the rendy answer {8 that diamonds exactly cor- respond to land in this particular, aud that huying dismonds for the sake of tuking ud- vautage of & forcseen rigo, in their valuo is recognizod As a porfectly legitiniate aperation of trade, A groat numbor of things, indeed, gain value simply becaueo thoy aro held. A United Statew copper ennt of 180¢, in good condition. is worth neariy $10. Would wuy- body say that tho State has the right to cou. fiscato this ** unosrned inercmont” by taxing every owner of an 1601 cent, next year, £9.997 Tuo proposcd method of taxwtlon is aboply coutlsealion. Lise theory i au outgrowth of philosophical comumunism, 1t would be kile to deny, however, that it has becn recoived with favor in somo unex- pected quurters, Tho Land-Coutieention act ; of Princo Edwaord Islaud is on a par with the raiso any logal point at all, or make any fuss | overa mero cadaver, which is at tho present ; Legislation dumnnded by the Land Reform Hocicty of London ; and now wnollier Eu- lish colony, a great one, with a population of B()0,000. has scen its Prime Ministor recom. uend, in 50 many words, the cuntlscation of the “unearyed increment.” ‘Yhelewor of the Protectionist party in Victorin is Mr, Graman Dxury, When o curious scrics of politicul NOVEMDBER ' 1875. [] L8} rovolutions mada him Prima Ministes, ho brought forward a plan for raising nll the reveman of tho State by taxing eslates of #.000 peres and upwards, Inured to n Belief in eonfiscilimr the propeily of the many for the banofit of tho few, Ln pro- yosed to oven up matters by conil-cating the n properly of the few for {ha lenesit of the mnny, Als wishod to have a practically pro. hibitory taclf on everything thet by nany possibility conld bo grown or made on Vie- toria soil, and then have just one direct {ax, -0 tax on Innd, Jovied upon no estates be- Jow 5,000 acrex, hut increasing with the sizo of the holding boyond that. ¢ We will not," e said, *“have n keore or two of {axes Lo dis- iract attention, For onea, the propurition will L made, whatever may becomo of it. that, instead of going 1o the very lowest clasned and taxing their tohecco, o berr, or tea, or coiloe, oF & » we will o at onen to the man of 200,000 rich Acres, upon which he ploys littls human Ibor and from 4t ho draws a prineely rovenne, and eall upon him to pay hia fuir gquota of tho tasation.” **1fis fairquotn " mennthis shnre of that paid by the large Inndowners, for no- body else was to pay anything in the way of ndirect tax. Tho Victorin Assembly—to use the emphatic words of the London Timet— *promptly put the extinguisher on the nuked weheme of gpolintion propounded by the Inte Premier.” Mr, Grauax Benax was turned ont of ofilee, nnd his attempt to legnl- izo communism is temporarily suppressad. Tt will doubtlens be revived, however, It of- fers too many advantages to the nverage demagogue to be neglceted. Fortunntely, the laud-question, befaro it becomes nn im- portant one in this country, will probably. be sutisfactorily settled by lbe oxperiments of otlhier nations. Its solution will not be found, howover, in the schemes propounded in these two British colonies, SPEQIE PAYMENTS ARD THE DEBTOR CLASS. We print to-day a letter from Mr. Jessr Cox, Jr., of thiscity, dated on the 8th inst., proposing & plan for a resumiption of specio pnyments without any disturbance of the ex- isting relations between debtors and credi- torn. ‘The plan suggested by Mr. Cox is sub- stantinlly, thongh not in detail, the snme as was suggested in thoe editorinl articles in this paper of the 8th and 9th. We commend tho lettor to the careful reading of all persons intercsted in this important matter. We do not agree with all the ronsoning of owr correspondent ad to the currency and its valuo in gold; nor do wo agres that tho prospeet of specie resumption is the reason why the currency is worth less in gold now than it wns two years ago. We do mnot Dbeliove tho act of the last Congress has had any serions effect towards producing spocio l)h}'rflol)hl. ‘The only rengonabla objection that any lionest mnan can make to a resumption of spocic paymonts is tho ono that debtors hav- ing contrncts made on the considerntion of n depreciated currency, should not bo arbitra- rily compelled to executo those contracta nb coin values, A monsure that will fund groen- Dacks in bonds, the bouds being nlegal tonder in the payment of all debts contracted prior 1o a day named nfter the passago of ihe law, will preservo to the creditor all his equities, and leavo the way clear for an immodiate re- turn to n kpecie bnsis on nlt new contracts. Such o roturn to a henlthful system of values would be followed by n genoral revival of sub- stantinl busioess, Speenlation in cwrrency would be at anend. Prodaction and expor- tation would increase. Gold would flow to and remain whoro it was needed. Tha banka would open new fcconnts, nad the old paper buginess wonld be rapidly closed up. 'Thero swould beno shock, ho prostration, no stagnp. tion. The gold-rcom would closeits doors, and tho conntry would rejoice in the emancipation from the costly system of doing business with # money whose valuo was pever the same for three conseentiva hours, THE ‘' HEROISM OF BILEN(QE.” That was certninly a very romarkable ser- mon which Mr. Begonen prosched from the Plymouth pulpit under the nbove title, That it had o personal applioation {s cortain from the fact that it was dolivered in tears by the pestor and recoived in tears by his con- gregation, Even tho most ardent friends of Mr. Brrcues must admit that thisis a ho. miliating spactacle. If the sermon hos any meaning at all, it means that Mr. Bereonen rogrots that he ever mndo answer to tho charges brought ngainst him by Mr. TitToN, that he called the Church Committeo, that he auswered in tho courts, that he appeared be- fore tho Grand Jury and caused Tivroy and MourToN to be indicted for slnnder, To put the most favorable construction upon this sermon, it is & confession of weakness. We think it will be accepted generally as a con. fesnlon that Mr. DBreomen feels he hns nat succesdod In rogaining the prond pogition ho occupied amongthe American peoplo boforo tho eharges were brought against him. In other words, he hngaceepted the humiliating position alrondy given Lim by many of Lis ablest sup- porters who still believe innocont, viz : That the hiutory of the cass shows him to have a wenk naturo and not entitled to that respect and confidence which he had com. manded for lis supposod strongth, boldness, and Christian fortitude. Mr. Beecnen's toxt was Mank's account of tho arraignment of Jesua beforo Pirate, of whickh the historian saye: ¢ But Jesus auswered nothing, so that PiLaTe marveled.” Mr. Beecmes Inments that he did not follow tho sanio course. ‘I'ha propriety of the com. pariion may well bo doubted, but the infor- ence which Mr. Beeouer evidently intended to convoy was that if he had ** answered nothing,” the people would bave * marveled,” bat ko would have beoen better off than he is now, Iudeed, hie soys in the course of hin sormon : * I should have been a richer man and you would buve boen a richer peoplo if I had beon o bottor man.” When he snys “richor” be evidently means that he would huve enjoyed wore wental comfort, and when he says *better,” ho probably means that he have been botter if o had kept silent under the charges brought agaiust bim. It is hard to conceivo of a man in bis position (which is cusentinlly of this world, and not of the divine naturo that Jesus felt) keoping silent nuder the necumulation of testimony brought against him; and yet wo are inclined to think that e could scarcely havo Leen worse off, nor have had fower friends aud believera than he hat now, Itis hard to comprehend Mr, Brecueu's utterances when thoy sre read in cold type and divested of the personal maguetism which lLie givea them, but this sermon can be scarcely less than a formal uotification that ho inteuds to return to the “polioy of silence " which Lo maiutained so long prior to the callingof the Church Committee; and that, whothor bis caso comes into the courts in trying Loaprx or hefore the Congregational Council, he will decline to take any fur ther stupn toward his own defense. Tho dismissal of the Mouxtoy sad Tivros indict. ments are in keeping with this programm, Mr, Brzensn also eallel wpon his congrega. tion Lo jein him in this ** herois of wilaneo” in the future, Tt widl e dittieult for him to obserse this potiey of silonee on aceount of navi e ewitona of delivering kertaony sopnal eppliextian s bty i Do is npal toily it will eventan et e & rest w0 far ns public agitstion is concnrned, It dakos two to muke n quaerely and public excitemont and publio interest will dio ont seonsr or later it Mr, Brrcusn stnbbornly refnses Lo make any further nnwwer, 10 mat. ter what tho provoeation mny ho. e e e EMGLAND AND EGYPT. The Dall-Muil Ginzette was hegun, aceord- ingz to its eurions prospetia, ontlewen for gentlome Takinge this word in the ve- stricted sense in’ which it i< understood in snghand, the promise has Been fairly kept. The opinions of the wpper widdle elnses nd of the nohility arn quite fuirly mirvered in tho Pall-Mull's columns, It is too conserva. tive ta go to radienl extremes, too rudien] to indorie constant conservatism, It praises and blames all Ministries, Itis en excellent type of n really independont paper, When, therefore, it published, n weok ago to.day, an editorial setting forth the urgent necessity of the occupation of Eaypt by Ingland, tho fact vas deemed of sullicient moment to Lo telegraphed. The Pull-Mall said : Tho Engi'sh 0 enoation of Eypt i oaiy o question of tin2, as that step I8 tecessary for tito presorvation of our Tudisn Enydre, Curiously enough, tho position of the Pall. Mauil makes ita opinion on such a point as this of very slight importance. On many mn’tars, the constituents of whom it is tho raouth- piece slinpe the beliofs of the Raglish nation. As far n3 the cplonial question s concerned, liowover, their beliofs and these of (he nation aro in sharp contradistinction. Every colony in England's imperial possossions is dear to the nobility, the gentry, the gront manufacturers of the *right litthy, tight lit- tlo” island, Youngor sons get rood herths in the colonial service, nnd merehmt princes draw wenlth from colonial mneeds. It is trio that tho system which lot to the Anterienn Revolution,—ibat of forcing coloninl dependencies {0 trade oxclusive- ly with the mother.country,—has bheen abavdoned, hut tho political ties be- tween country snd eslony aceessmily, in a thousanl wiys, confine the commercinl relations of the colony muinly, if not whoily, to tho motherland. Power. place, and pelf nre atrong argnments, T¥ey lavo con- vinced the constitnents of tho Pall-Mull that the colonics must by kept, no matter at what loss, 'That paper, therefors, is faithful to its nannl eonrse in printing the threatening para- graph which we have quotod. The pura- graph iteelf was in all probability written by Mr., Frrz James Steenes, formerly o member of the Indinn Government, n passionnte be- liover in tho retention of all the English de- pendencios and most of all Iindostan, and ot prosent the mainstay of the Pall-Yall on Indinn nffairs, o is too ardent an advoeato to ba an impartial judge. "Tho feeling of the nation is preiiy cortainly tho other way., The average Englishman is proud of that Empira over which the sun nover sota, and likes to think of the dram. beat that oucircles the world, but o dislikos, with a griovous dislike, the consoquent taxes, 1t is fino to think of tho Baglish flag flying from New Zealand flag-staffs and awing a crowd of naked Maoriy, but ho knows that bouenth that flag thero are a multitude of oflicials for whose maintenanco e must help to pay. 1le objects to the colonies as an asylum for tho superfluons sons of the favored fow nud o pockat for tho fingars of rich merchonts and manufacturors, 1I¢ wounld not vote a dollar to subue Canads, if Canada should suddenly declare ler inde- pendence, and would probably be - rather proud of tho pluck shown in the action, Ilis gontimental approval of tho retention of Hindostan would not mako tho loss of that slico of Asin peculiatly painful to bim, though he might bo ready to wagoe a desper- ate war for the sako of repelling n Rnssian attack upon it. DBut ouly when ombarked in such s war, and inflamed with ity passions, would he seriously consider any project for the reizura of Egypt. It i ovident that n British army on the Nila and at the month of tho Suoez Canal could attack n Ruszian forco mnrching overland towards India on the flank nud rear, and ro make tho march too dangor- ous to be tried. But seizing Egypt means Inying moro taxes. 'That, in time of peace, would not be horne, It ia not likely, then, that the telographed throat will have any serious rosult, Tho Pasha of Egypt can go on building alternata schools and harems in peaco; Russia can copturo Afghanistan; snd Hindostan can fit hersolf for self-rulo and wait therefor until Fuogland grows tired of paying soveral shil- lings in goneral taxes for overy pound of profit made by her werchauts out of Indian trado, —————— Tows hiaa hor Beadle Busnie in Snporintond. ont McCanty, of tho State Reforta Bchool at Eldorado. The Iavestigating Committoo which has beon exploring Lis management of that lustitution roports tbat ho began building up bis repotation as o model official bv n sories of exporiments upon the hoya whom ha was to re- form, for tho purpo o of detorm.ning the least pozsible amount of food that would euftico to korp their souts and bodies togother, ile tbus succeeded, without killing any of them outright, in fetching them down to a cloan starvation diot, At tho rama time this model official drew from the Btato Troasury, In ail, §1,155 for tho subsist- enco of (etitious inmasen of the lstitution, The boys who ware baitg roformod by McCanry atole muldv cruste from the cook-room and raw po- tatoes, and boggod from nelzhvora the pnvileke of eating rotuse food rloked out of tha slop- pails. And yeb thab dlidn't reforin them, thedo voraclous bad bays witn guswing sppetites, A nawnbor of them plucked up apliit onough to emuge'o to the rasident Trusteo o petition aik- g for more, Tho Trustes ut once advised Ao- CanTY of thus insnbordination. The 1atter thore- on arraignad thoso hungry lads. siguificantly ad- woulsbed thom that tho * Trusteos woull not tbank them tor anch complalnts,” and Nt give iug an opportaulsy to those nho choss to do so so “He themsolves out" of the poti. tion, sentenced tho remsinder, for having forged their followa’ Higuatures, to bo pat on bread aod water—which murt, of coaras, have eatiefied the most obdurately bungry of them of the sufiiciency of thu starvation dict, and have refortaed out of thom tha (des of complafning in future, McCAnTY further reformed the lads plased under s charso by o werirs of reflucd crueltios, euch a9, under uur enlizhitonad code, the ofiicisla of pevulivstitutions generally svem lef to practice at yleannra, tuough what warrant of Jaw thero 18 for them 1o lawyer Las aver beon ablo to explain, ACCABTY thrashed the boys se oftun s bie relt like it ; so did the subordinate ofticials genorally. Cuastisoment was itlictod with rew-lndes, bupgv-whips, broom-huudlos, baroces-strand, and ropes doubled sud quadsu- pled. boards. and chair-tacks. A8 many as ono Luvdred tashen wero mtheted as » mngle punish- went. Homeof the boys received in all over 2,500 laghes. DBea:des, they werue further pa- formed at thia Rofori Behool by being slappad. knocked sown, kicied, sbot s, and handeuffed, For the purcoso of furtber reformion, ihem, taer ndel ut ! wornahit un fn the dunpeon for woskaat G, The dunieany, which ®ora il in tha eliar, tstsired Fron 5000 48 b ten i vaggy, 4o 2 ard 7 feat bigh, tie ha a4, wikhont veuy come o Wirah the deor A Loy wae placed thare tvemy. B 73 for o crino of BuIFANtitinggly LR Gn Ao pand of pants {0 enld weather, Thiv school wan one of L0 g fanvione, 109, op whieh §i wns boasted (hpt corporal puei.fy mant " was not pacticed therain, but tho Toport of thn Comnlitten, which was in eousion Fixty- fiva deye, and mith tha nid of eminent Tewyars on Lith widea oxamiined witnerass, tnorn trge hnif of «whom were for tha defenso, 13 fiflad with tancen of Loatiog nnd kloking aud kuodking down of tha boye, us woll an of survation ypy impric.omant in tho duugnon for waoks nte tita, Thin oxpo:o ia siguitlennt an Indicating the trndency nf our panal and einzitably fnutitu. tiona to dovolos Baadle Bustnrrs, and improgs. trely onfureen tho welf-ovidant fact that tho org has paased Cae pormitedug the officials, whether of B Rform Mehool or Conttautiary, 3¢ meserito nt will o colo of panatinont to be mmpoved wion the fnmates without trial o appeal, In the narure of tlings, theso bare Lantios will obtam to a rzroator or lass degree in al wteh fnstitution s until fixed codo of rules iy onacted by tho Legislature, n forfual accusater and proof requrad boforo panishwent fop enixaction of the rules ba inlictod s rocosd kopy of eacht erro, anid « rovikion bo mada for appoal te o pablic lexal tnbanal, wharo an Insnrtisl hraring should Lo accorled the accused, and azposuva and punwhment of crachies be tnzured. As at fa, 1t woull ba interestiag to. -know by what 1aw a Prison-Kaoper. Wardon of a Penjtentiary, or Supo:intendent of a Rofarm. Schinnl sentancoa an inmato of such institution g the dunazw, tue lash, or other nunishmant, sud that without trial nnd for vioiation of rules pre. eciibed by such oflielal, slule the Infiction oy cruol and unurnal punishinents {4 prohidited by the Constitution, and tho fuil right of tral by Jury is secure:l to overs porson chargad with ap offonxe, oven thongh committed fn vrison, a6 hass beon sbundantly establiotied in the trial and con. viction of convicts for murder of their keopors. ©ith 10 openitg when tha d.or wos cloned, " b i, 6.6 or whel migy alvul g MrLiNaUr wad one of tho aclors af the ol echool in Paris who hiad daboled o little 1 a): tho arte, 1o was Romothing of & keulbtor, aug in ono of bie playa, which wis vory vovulsr inm its day, o usod to modal s Buitue upon the slago. This pieco of husiness was carriod o § tho most outiandioh fasbion Imaginadle, T4 nctor would work o momout 8t hie tmodey, * ,,;: tush to ono corner uf the atage aud gage” ,,: ad miratian at wbat io had dono, then rote " it add » fow moro touchos, sudsnou, § '\ fushioo 11 theso days for an actor tabr | . iagy, ond . MELISUUE was b Hio B g of e faebion, What so reseonablo, tF 01" o ghat a critic of tho prosent day, m::, wished to uctice aud condemn the Lheat rieal airs of CanveAu, thoscul-tor iatoly decgn « pq, should corpnra bim t0 MECINGUE? “Mhin 11 whes o of tho writers on the Parin Figarn Tataly did, litile thinking what torriola conscquar ees would tlow from Lug apt compatison, The of litor wrote that CARrEADX bad ** tho gevtures of 1. ‘zutaxve.! A few days after the articlo AnNoAre: | the writer wan ugsaulted ond vearly kithd on U stronr by n00n of JELINGUE, who intarpretod toe stlusion to ing dend fatberas & brso reflediion on hig Lonor. 'Tho journalist will probwbly rocovor, Meanshilo ho bas hail ampla op rarteuity to meditato upen the inbumanity of o an to mag, and tho inconvonionces of tho law w!aich requires critica in Franco to append thoir 1 umes to tholy nrticlen, ———— Tho English engincera haviog of wncladed tha it cannot bo done, the Britiab {-dmiraity hae tuenod o this coun:sy to find somia onp who will' undortako raising the suuken muirmter iron-clad Vanguard, and {ovite propossln from Col Qowax, of Now Yorz, Col. Gow ix is the eue wiveor who, for the Dnssian Gove .nmont, raised 10 less thatf poventv-oight of t o vessels which were suni oft Hobastopol, mi1d the avorage wolght of which was five thout and tons esch. ‘Ihe Vanguard woigls eight the usaad five hun-- dred tons, and lies in doeper: water, but Col.. Gowax bus no doubt of his ability to get hor. atlont within two wooks after: beiginniog work, ol. 8 cost not exceoding £100£00, Ho proposes: simply to muverintond the work, leaviog the British Government to hava mheolute cbarge of! all expenditures, aod asks fnr himsolf nothlog, Bave what tho Admiralty may; chooso to bestow. aftor the Vanguard is rifend, his object being “Juet to show them what ar: American can do,”" Thbovo is littie doubt but th at, if ho undertakes i, ho will succesafully accor nplish his wortr, and add nnothor to the achio'zomonta of Americss enginesrs In doing what ‘iho Dritish engineoes: have pronounced unpossitita. Tho qualily of tho reform that maybe e pected to tollow tho Antl-Tammauy friumph led by the ITou. Joux Monrigscy [s alresdy iudicate: od by tho unaoimous pausage. by the Now York. Board of Aldormen, of a ioselution recommend. iug the raatoration of tlto wages of tho city's Iae horers to the old figures. The ald figurea wore: Iurgoly in oxcess of tlio murket rate of wages fot tho eamo class of luborers. Curting them down: to tho usial market rites was Wwhat gave back- bone to Monnssey's revolt, and ho becamo the: champion of tho workingmon by his advocacy of! the schomo for futnirshing his subordiuato strike ory with citv employ'ment at double pay. Hig tocsin of victory evllent way “aquare divido*'— thas i3, lot everytody from the *Bosa'' dawn have a sharo in the spoils, Aud so the working. mon who hioval m: avel on the strootu aro to gel double the pay they could gut from snybody ela¢ for tho lika work, and tho “ roform" cones i when the tax-paver.s foot tho bills, 1t s * Bost i6m ™ with & moro extonsive divido. -~ The Rev. Dr. I{awxs, of New York, aahls- tarian of the P'rotoutant Episcopal Charchin Ametica, han discovernd somo documents which ought to be of inkercat in Philadelphis about the - one hundrodth aunlversary of American wnde- vondonce, The documonts reforred to are tbe- private dlarios of Bishop Waire, of Ponns vania, who rolaten In ono placo a convorsslos that booverhieatd batwoen two gentlemonat atay-: orn in s remotocountry parish. Thespeakera were o fatber aud #on, one of whom had baen s Tory during tho Ilevolutionary War and the other &- Patriot. Each had dceded all his proporty to- tha othior, audl, as the war was now closad, the: son. who bad been the Tory, wished to have his! shara boek, 'Tho fatbor, who' ssemed to be a3 thritty soul, rofused to part with snstlungin: bis posseaslon, ‘Yie poxt dav tho Bishop asked. the landlord who wera (he oscupapts of the! room from which the conversstion had pro- ceaded, and was faformad that they wero DBex- 2431y FraNgLY d his eon. s Tho courtitutional amendment taking awsy tho peromptory right of partios indioted te & chiaugo of veuus upon mere atidayit that they do not holieve they contd obtain falz trisl bofore the Conrt iu which thoy ware iudicted, was car< ried at tho Iato eleotion in Maryland by 43,703 votes for to 20,072 agalurt. ‘Tho right to @ changa of venuo is not Abselutely dented woder tho amendment, but is mzde a queition of do- terminatlon by tho Judg/s to whom apgheation b made, according to all the olrcawstsnces of the ease, Tt will do muck, 1o defoat the sbyater ,nn: tive of taking char.gos of venue ander the ol Constitution for (he mcro purposd of chesticg Justie Ly the d glay. ‘The wan ‘who bas no musio fo_bis soul bax beon fouv d, flo ia the Mayor of Lille, Frauce. ‘Lhe pwapls of that place boing abont to cela- biets tue contanary of CRiaTAroms, the in‘m:lm: of 40 pianulore, tha Alavor emnl.ouG w e Proclsmation forbidding the vae 02 plunl:a i urgaus in tho city in all placed opeu to the o £ lo aftor the 1st of November, on the grou - (hal they Lnep away workmen from their worl ',; stimulate young girlé to debaucbery, and on‘" puwance in tho nolghborkiood whare uuym vlaved. Thore sre wapy selghborhoods wl