Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF UTECRITTION (TAYARLE TN ADYAKOE), Toxtneoe Daly Fdition prat. Part reas FOUR WEEKR £ cvay and Koligl Thn postage is 175 ceats a year, which wo will propsz. Rpecimen corles sont free, To prevent deloy and mistakes, bo suro and qive Pont-Oftice addrers in full, including Btateand Canuty, Remittances may bo mado efther by draft, express, Tost-Ofiies ordor, or in registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY NUBSCRINENS, Daily, deliverad, Sundsy excepted, 23 centa per week, Darly, delivered, Sumiay incinded, B0 cents per weeks THE TRINUNE COMPANY, AMUSEMENTS. ADELPHT THEATRFE—Deatborn atreet, ~corner Monroo, Engagement of (he Kiralfy Troupe, ** Around the World in Eiglity Days.” NEW CHICAUO THEATRE~Clark sireet, between Randolph sad Lake, Engagement of Kelley & Leou's Ausirels, WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroe etreet, between Dear- born and Btate. Afterns: # Uncle Tom's Cabin." Lvening, * Grifith Gau HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Nandolph stireet, hetwoen Clatk and LaSalle, Eugsgewent of tho Cslifornia Atfustrels, MoVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison streot, between Denrtorn uud Biate, Eugsgement of Juno Coomba, #7The Huncliback,” PLYMOUTII CHURCH~Lacture by Gen N. P Bauks, Euvfect: * The Republic: Will It Endure 2" TALSTED BTREET OPERA HOUSE — Halated wtreot, corner Harrison, MacEvoy's Hiberaicou, @‘lja_@bifagu aibune, Monday Morning, Novomber 15, 1875, In spito of hor grasshopper aflictions, Ransos koepsaip a healthy growth and devel. opment. The State census, jnst completed, shows n population of 533,373, an increaso of nbout 24 per cont per anuum for the past ten years. e A midnight cable dirpnatch from London reports gveat damage from o violent stortn and high tides which prevailed yosterday along the DBritish and French coasts. In Bomersetsbire thousands of houses have been submerged by the overflow of tha River Parrett. Llaborate preparations are in progross at Montreal for the burial of Guinorp. The authorities will to-morrow mako another at- tempt {o get the remains under ground, and this time, judging from the military and polico force ordered on duty for the oceasion, they are liliely to snceoed. If tho Catholica interfero again, they will find tho situation more serious than before. Now that it is evident that the Whisky Ring ia to be prosecuted to the last, without respect to persons, it will be well for the Thnited States Judges before whom the in- dicted persons are arraigoed to scrutinize vory particularly the bail they offor. Onco convinced of their juability to escape convie. tion, the guilty ones will be greatly tempted to * jump their bail,” and offer sureties of an uncertain character with that end in view. American manufacturers of calico still con- tinne to enjoy the rare luxury of shipping their goods to the Eoglish market at & hand- some profit. Last week's exports of domestic cottons aggregated the sum of 171,000, of which 2111,000 went to Grent Britain, Tho new trade is on tho incrense, and several nrri- vals are noted in New York of agents from Groat Britain, Germany, and Canada, who come commissioned to purchase and ship American cottons, ‘There is little room for doubt that the pas. sengers and crew of the stenmship Waco were the sictims of a wholesalo mnrder—a murder growing out of the recklessness and greed of tho vessel-owners, who, in violation of law, crammed the ship's hold with petroleum and other lighly inflammable and combustible articles. This fact is probably susceptible of nbsolute proof, and thero is prescnted s fine opportunity to make a terrible oxample of the men who are responsible for the sicken- ing horror. ‘Wo publish this morning a lecture by Mr. Witiux Bracrerr, delivered before the Philosophical Society, of this city, last Satur~ Qay ovening. The subject, * Tha Philosophy of Voltoire," and the interesting mothod and maonper of its trentinent, will command for the lectura ntteution and interest. ‘The render will also be entertained with an abstract of the lecture of the Rev, Epwarp Evenerr Hate on " Tho True History of Philip Nolan,” a patriot who is ecaruestly recommonded as doserving of a monument § and 2 lecture by Dr. Lupray, ewbodying the results of his observations among the hos- pitals of Paris. An investigation into tho management of the Public Works of New York City is re- vealing somo nupleasant facts. One witness, a property-ownes ob o Atroet that waa being repaired, teatified that out of & paug of ity or sixty Inborers only twenty or thirty wounld bo at work. Part of them gonerully played cards, The witness walked the distance be~ tween Oune.llundred-and.Sixth aud One- Hlundred-and-Tenth streets four times while a laborer was drawing an empty cart from one ptreet to the other. The men averaged, in his opinion, about three.sud-a-hulf hours work per doy. This testimony was corrabo- rated by that of weveral other persons. It was sagerted that laborera had paid es much 23 $20 for the privilege of being employed by the city. When a contractor offered to do the work on @& certain boule. vard with Dblasting machines for Lalf the cost of hond work, the official In chargo said to him: “The objection to your machines {s that they can't vote!" Per- haps, in that millennium of municipal affairs toward which wo sometimes seem to be has- tening,we can have our ballot-boxea stuffed by wmachinery, This would rewove the objece tions to the employment of machines on pub. Lio worky. The Chicago produce markets were gon. erally week on Baturday. Mess pork was quict ond easier, closing at $19,15 seller the year aud $19.95 for February, Lard was sct. ive, aud declined 10G15¢ per 100 1bg, clos- ing at §11.55 cash and $12.00 for February, Mecats were in moderate demand and stendy, 8t 8@blc for part salted shoulders (boxed), 11{@11§c forshort ribs do, and 11jo forshort clear do, Mighwines were quist and steady, ot 31.12 per gallon. Lake freighta were dull and easier, at o for wheat to Buffalo, Flour was dull and unchanged. Wheat was dull and 1o lower, cloaing at $1.07} cash aud §1.07} for Decober, Corn was active, and declined jo, closing at 52jo cash snd 51y for November, Oats were quist and steady, cloging at Atla cash and #1f%e for Decem- ber. gn wns firmer, t 7lo. Uarey was dulland cacier, closing ot Ste cash and @2%¢ for December. Hogs were active ond sleady, at ¥T.O0GT.50 per 100 bs, Tha packing in this city since Nov, 1is 153,031 head. Cattle wero quiet and steady. One tnndred dollars in gold would buy $11L50 in greenboeks at the close. ) Sast Raxpsrn’s seramble for the Speaker. ship is not o be withoat wayside incldents of a disagrecable character. Iiis Democratic opponents hiave already begun to rausack the record, nud the showing they make at the ontset is nnt especinlly flattering to the ob- ject of their solicitude. The Washington Capital devotes some atiention to Raxpary's Congressional carcer, with the result of mak- ing the Pennsylvania statesman's reputation wenr n wilted aspect—somewhat like a paper collar might bo supposed to look after baving passed through n washing-machine, Andyet tlso race is ot fairly commenced ; the ungs nro only befug brought on the track. More mud will fly when they get under full head- woy, e ——————— The City of Birmingham hus been making some important and apparently auccessful experiments in wmmtters which aro usunlly considored to be beyoud the palo of munic- ipnl effort. Last June, the corporation bonght tha Birmingham Gas-Works, aud hns gince mannged them. 'The gas supplied hins lieen one eandlolight better than before, and tho saving to consumery hns beon at the rato of 22000 a year. Moreover, nfter this month, tho price per 1,000 feet ia to be ro- duced threepence, which will insure a fur. ther saving of 430,000 ayear, The water. works will pass under municipal control within & fow wecks. Tt is a curious fact that in this country the cities should have gen- erally supplied themaolves with water, but not with gns, Thero is, perhaps, no mere resson for doing tho one thnn the other. Wator is needed to put out fires, to bo sure, but gas is equally needed to light the strests. The one is a cure, tho other a preventive, of evil. Dirmingham is now about to ongage in an cxtensive series of building operations, Unliealthy tenemeonts ars to be pulled down by the acro and model ones put up in their stead. Such unwonted nctivity will be watched with interest, for the result of these experiments will go far to show what an English municipality ecan and cannot safely do. But we must not infer that this settles the question forour cities. That is a very differont matter, Tho * Boss” is an American product. SPECIE PAY“E"%SLA:SND THE DEBTOR Some weelk or more ago we callod attention to tho fact that the grentest opposition to a return to specie payments §vns the fear of & largo class of debtors that they would be calied upon to pay their outstanding debts in a currency worth ot least 15 per cout more than that in whizh the debt was contracted. We also suggested that, so long s this depre. cinted currency was continued a legal-tender for all contracts, thero could be no roturn to spacie pnyments ; and a8 & moeans of render- ing specie paymenta immedistoly practicable, and at tho same timoe preserving the equitics of debtors nud creditors, we proposed in sub- stance that Congress this winter should enact : 1, That tho bolders of greenbacks, upam cresenta- tion of them to the Treasury Dopartmont, be entitled to recelve tn oxeliange therefor 4 per cent gold bonds, of tue doncmiaatton of $30 or $100, or sny multiple of o, 4, That these bonds, having thirty years to run from tho date of faaus, o made legal-teuders in the pay- went of all debts and contracts made before, s3y, tie 4th of July, 276, 4, That the fegal-tendor for all contracts Tuade after that data ahall ba the cofn of the United States, except when payment otherwisa tusy bo exprosaly atipulated. The 8t. Louls Repudlican thinks that this is a roundabont way of scaling the debts con- tracted prior toJuly 4, 1876, at 85 conts on tho dollar, This reats on the assumption that the 4 per cent bond, atthe present prico of monoy, would be worth 85 cents, and that it would rematn so, and that creditors would have to tako 85 centa on tho dollar for thoir debts for all time to come, Wo have to treat things as wo find them. We have for thirteen yoars had o paper currency which has been worth at various times from 50 to 90 cents on tho dollar, and is forever fluctuating betweon tleso rates. It is by lawa legal-tonder in the paymeut of all debts contracted as well be- fore 1862 as since that date. It isa legal- tender {u tha payment of cvery dabt coutract- ed from day to dny, That currency is now worth from 85 to 87 cents, and there is no redemption of it All the indebtedness of the people and municipnlities of the country is pnyable in this currency, aud wo aro going on from day to day moking new indebted- ness, though we are all awaro that at some time we must of necessity have wpocis te- sumnption, and the payment of all these debts in coin. The act of Congress fixing January, 1879, for a return to specia payments, cannot be exccuted until some way is devised for ro- tiring the currency, or for suspending it as o legal-tender aftor that day. Our plan offers to ths holders of 'the car- rency tho original form of redemption pro. vided when Congress mado theso notes n legnl-tender, and that wos fanding thom ina national fnterest-bearing bond. We belleve that in a very sbort time tho uational our- rency would find its way into those bouds, We do nat understand that that would be ecaling the debt, or taking any advautage of the public creditors, any mora than it s for tho Governmont to gell a 5 per cent bond, and with the proceeds tako up a G per cont bond. Tho & per cent bond fs not worth & much ns thy 6 per cent bond, but it cannot bo claimed that the oxchange of one bond for the other is scaling the debt, The Govern- ment {8 now about to put on the market a 4} per cent bond, which it proposes to ex. clungu for G per conts, aud certainly thero is nothing dishonest {n the proceeding. The greenbacke are worth now about 87 cents. Ifthe 4 per cont bood be not worth that much, then nobody will exchanga cur. renoy for them; nor will the greenbacks be surrendered for bouds until the latter are worth ae much or moro than the ourreney. The greenbecks are part of the national debt, They are overdue and unpaid paper, and are below par. When the Govermuent is unable to pay its demand notes, it la under an obligation to give therefor a time note, Learing interest, or at least to offur the oreditor the exchange, But the debtors claim, aud with atrong equity, that the retirement of the legal-tonder ocurrency will deprive them of the opportunity of payiug their dobta in the same ourrency iu whick thoss dgbts were contracted. But it thess bonds—which, in fact, will be tho legal-teuder currency in another form—Lu made legal-tender fur' a¥ debts contraoted before tho passage of the law authorlzing thelr inano, then the wholo complaiut aud objection’of the debtors are’removed, sud ey stond in tlo swue posltion Lo thelr ered. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, itors with respect to the currency that they do now. The bonds mny ndvance to 10 cents or to 93, or even to par, but sq may the cur- rency. So long as the currency is exchangea- ble for the bonds, tho valuo of the two forms of debt will remnin the same, and the dobitors will have all the opportunity they now havo to pay their debts in either paper or honds, whether the same ba worth G0 or 15 cents. ‘I'ie moterinl point gained will b that the country, instend of drifting as now into a perpetuating labyrinth of contracts on o pa- per basis, will be brought to auchor, and that it will begin the second century of the na- tional existence under n new system, or the gystem which the ‘War interrupted and sus- peaded, when oll men entering' into con. tracts will do so knowing that they have to be exeented in gpecio values, The change will work no disturbanco with the past. Al contracts mude in the days of paper values will be payable in papor as before. Instend of having specie paymonts for both the past and futuro contracts, the past will be permit. ted to settle its own debts in paper, while the future will begin with new books, new values, and on a sound and permanont basis, free of fluctuntions, and relieved of the manipuintions of the great gambling estab- lishment,—the Gold taom,~—~which will closs to meet no more. 'Lhe adoption of this plan —the perpetuation of paper legal-tenders for nll existing contracts—disarms and removes tho cpposition to specie payments on tho part of thousauds of honest debtors. It per - mita apecie payments to be resnmed at ouco, without disturbence or inconvenience of any kind. BECRETARY CHANDLER'S OPPORTUNITY Seevetary Coaxpres has boen in the pub. lic gervice for nearly twonty years. o was Inuwn as o positive man, having, oo mauy subjeets, extreme views, upon which lie of- ten insisted with the intolerance which per- tains to carnest convictions, Mis service covered tho poriod of a long civil war, with itg bitter fouds, ite aectional animosities, and the rancor which is inseparable from a de. mestic insurrection. During hig whole pub- lic service, and during tho War, when moral standards weres lower than usual, and when so many public men made personal gain an incidentof their public service, ho maintained his character for personal integrity, and, with clenn hands, and hounesty unimpeached, ho was fitly appointod Secretary of the Interior, copcorning which Department tho country was prepared to believe tho most scandalous reports, Secretary CuaNpren, therefore, en- ters that Departmont with an unquestioned reputation as an honest man, and the coun- try welcomes his appointment as the right kind of a mon in the place where he has so long been sadly wanted. The country ex- pects much of him, and we think he has large room for an active exarcise of his ex- ecutivo authority. His Department embrnces severnl branches of the public service,—nll of them being of long establishment, all of them in the hands of corrupt men, liable to abuses, and all of them having jurisdiction over gubjacts es. pecially inviting to the robber, the specu- Intor, and the conspizator, It wonld not be surprising that in the Land Offco, the {udisn Office, tho Ponsion Office, and the Patent Office,—offices nearly os old 28 the Govern- ment itself,—thero should be corruption or dishonesty to some extent. Enachof these offices offers o fine fleld for the gpecnlator and corruplionist. The Indian service hes always been more or leas under the suspicion of fraud, and never so strongly ss of lnte years, Investigations in tho matter of frauds undor the Post-Office Department and uador the Tressury Departmont disclosed be- yond all doubt that the outside operntors bad their partners and confederates with. in thess Depnrtments, and that the vory officers of the Government whose duty it was to protect the Goverument wero under the pay of the conspirators sactually ongaged in plundering the Treasury. The dircet ond intimate relations betwoen tho men having control of all the official business of tho Departments with those outside, was the great clement of strongth and of protec- tion on which tha conspirators depended for success, For instance, Mr. Jovck, the con- victed officer in Missouri, was for years the Appointment Clerk in the Internal Revenue Deportizent, He had personal knowledgo of every officer in tho service; he coutrolled all recommondatious; he know when efforts were making to remove an officer, and when to have a person appointed. o was in n position to inform interested porsons of all proposed or actual chonges, and of the ap- pointment of all special officors, In control- ling sppointments, his office was one of groat power. Having succeeded in filling all the offices with his specinl friends, he resigued, ond hed himself appointed. He was familiar with all the inside operations of tho Revenua Bureau, and, no doubt, retuined his control- ling inflnence, For yearg the Whisky Ring was protected ot Washington, evon against direet reports of thelr illegalitios, If this thing were possible in the Internal Rovenue Bureau, s it natural to suppose alike state of things has not grown up in other bureaus, less oxposed to detection, and offering lberal opportunitics for plunder? That thers hus beon for a long time an inti- mete relation between persons holding office in the Indian, Land, Patent, Pension Bureaus, and intercsted persons outside, is handly de- nied. Outsiders, speculating in old claims, questionable demands, and actual frauds, con woll sfford to foo all pervons in the Depart- ment who can serve themn direotly or indirect. ly; they are the bost and ablest counselors, In all theso offices thore are men who have hold their places for mnany yoars, sad who aro personally familiar with every thread in the complicated detall of the Land, Indian, Pension, and Patent service. They kuow whero there aro placers, and where the proofé and evidences may be fousd, All this information is valuable to the short-termed Commissioners and Becrotaries, but is also of value to ontsidern. Those officers are consldered indispeusable to the Department, but thoy are olsp valuable to others, They can render valuable aid to outslde parties in countless ways, and receive valuabla compen- satlon therefor, without attracting the least attention, or ever being known, ¥ Mr, Oganpres, when he geta fairly enlisted in the business of his Department, may find the opportunity to rid the publio service of all the cficers who caa in any way be consid. ered ge serving two masters. While faithfal ofticors may Le justly consldeved more val- unble becauso of long experience and ripe in. formatlon, if thero be just renzon to suppose that this exporience and information are used aguinst the Govermment, and that publio servouts aro alio the pald sgents of outsids parties, thon the wooner the whole bateh e dismisved, and litted out of their places, the battor it will ba for tho honest administration of the Deparvaent. The revent vxpurlence in tha Iuternal Rovenue Hureau and in tho Pout-Olllce Dupurimout procluds tha suygos- tion that official cormption cannot and does 1ot exist among those oflicers of the (fovern. ment holding confidentinl positions in branclhies of the public servico whero successs ful frouds aro profitable, Mr. CaNDLER, enfoying a national veptifa- tion for personal and offeial integrity, hag now within his excentivecontrol the Indinn, Ponsion, Land, and Patent Durcnus, Ho bay the opportunity not only of relieving all these offices from suspicion of frands whily under lis control, but of so purifying them that the operation once performed will for- ever act o4 n sleterrent upon thoso who may nfter his day hold places therein. ———— OVERLOADED MANUFACTURES, One of the prominent mereantile ngoncies of the conntry hns issued a sohednlo of the failures during tho first nine months of 1875, They foot up 331, The labilitios wero 2181,172,508. It is o remarkablo fact that the manufacturing States furnish more than oneialf the failures. Under a healthy state of trado, this fact wonld menn that the price of Inbor or raw matorials, or both, lind risen suddenly and groatly, probably on nccount of n war which drow a largo part of the working clnsses futo the army or ent off the supply of some staple material, English wanufretur- ers were forced into bankruptey when ous War qunintupled the prico of cotton by reducing the attainable supply, and German manufncturers failod when Georman operatives had to march to Parfs. When the price of labor or materi- al suddenly rises, tho manufacturer can no longer prodico gooids at anything like the price ot which they have been selling. Ifis customers desert him, and ho runs the risk of failure. But none of theso causes can bo enlled into play to explain the failures of our manufacturers during the first nine mouths of this year. The New York Bullelin, which is a recognized authority in matters of trade, lins been publishing stotistics which show that cotton is now a triflo lower, reckoned in gold, than it was in 1860 ; that wool is also cheaper ; and that the wages of the greatma- jority of factory-linnds are—to say the least —no0 bigher now than they wero then, esti- mating their money in gold. Why, then, are the manufacturers forced to closo their mills, dischargo their haudy, and nsaign their shrunken assets for the bonefit of their cred- itors? Tho reason lies in what is miscallod protection.” Our manufacturers are con- fined to the home market. They cannot turn out of their tariff-tazed buildings aud trans- port on tarifi-taxed railways, and then ship abroed, goods that can be sold in competition with those produced either in tho country to which theso are shipped, or in other countries in which no tariff swells the cost of manu- factured wores. If the tariff were rearranged and cat down to a reasonsble rate, our mer. chnuts conld export their cotton fabries to India, to Chinn, to South Americn, to Earope, as they did in 1860, before the Monnmwy tarifl handieapped the industries it was in. tended to promote. Thoy could supply the world with edged tools, as thoy once did. underselling English manufecturers in the English market. They could build sterm- ships that wonld monopolizo the immensely lucrativo enrrying trafic of tho Chinose rivers, as they did fifteen years ago, but do 10 more. They conld conteat with England the supremacy of the sons, did not our mod- ern embargo, tho protective tariff, paralyze ship-building, closo all tho ship-yards, save those where lobbying contractors make rotten iron cofBns in the shapa of ships, and drive our flag lmost from the ocesn. Our manufacturing interests nre . taviff.cursod. ‘Lhe only way to permanently revive them is to throw open to them the marketa of tho world, both to buy and sell in, and cease to restrict them within the comparatively nar- row limits of one country by & ring of Cus- tom-Houses, JOYOE AS AN ORATOR. Cortafnly if a man can ever be eloquent it is in gelf-defense; and no circumstance is more coleulsted to enhance the oloqaence of such a momont than the yawning wault of o Stato's Prison which 1s to close upon the or- ator mud prevent any furthor display of his art for ti years and a half to come, This was the condition which gave birth to Col. Joyce's outburst just before recoiving the sentonce which he himeelf hadoourted toavoid o moresevers sontence clsowhere, Notallthe *“crooked” whiyky which bo has passed dur- ing hia official cdroor, if imbibed by the com- bined logislativa bodies of the universe, could have produced go brilliant and startling anexhibition of oratorical pyrotechnics. ‘I'he great efforts of the past pale in the light of this modern apology. It will poss into tho classles with Desostiengs' “De Corona” oud Cioeno’s ‘*‘Catiline” orations. It will ind its way into the rhe. torical renders alonguide of Patnick Hexny's famous harangue on liberty, Pirr's roply to Warrory, Mank AnToNY's oration over Casar’s dend body, and Danimr Weoster's spostropho to Arexavpes Hauarroy., 'The youthful heart of future gonerations will bo fired with indignation aud melted in tears at the firut ug of those vivid pnssages, us unmindful of the fact that they wore inspired by whisky, 4 the fasciunted reador of De- Quiycey is of the intluence of opium in his exquisitely-roundod periods, Thus will Joxe live, and Joyce's wordsburn one gener- ation aftex another, till they are extinguished by parsing like MirtoN's * Paradise Loat” and Poror's * Courso of Time.” It i possible that Jovcx may have mada more money in whisky, but he would have earnxd more reputation had ha gone into the pulpit, or the rostrmn, or upon the stump. 1t iustead of sending out ** cxooked " whisky to Lo sold for less than tho tax thereon at oue bar, ke had put in his appearauce at another bar, be might not now ba looking from be- hind & third bar, Tho eloquence of thiy sin- glo offort in bis awn behalf bofare the Court ot Jefferzon City must be the concautrated brillianoy of a lifetime, No member of Par- linment frow Ireland ever protestod more ve- hewmently sgaiust the wrongs of his race than when Joxor defended the wholo Chris- tian segt in hLis own person from tho heroditary persecution of the Jews as typified in a rectitlor, gauger, and storekosper of ace cidental Iszaelitish extraction who testified against hiza, Thiv marvel of eloquence should be sont on to Gustav Dozg, to whom Joxox wefers so admivingly, and it will scurcely fafl to inspire the bold delineator with uow idpas of the Hobrew chiaractor, Jovox has a pro- found contempt for men ‘“who steal small things when largo ones are convenisntly at haud”; ho findsin them tho pratatypes of “peddlers of fraud und perfury,” snd oon. signy them ** to the devouriug firvw af arotten conveledeo,” Could n mora te:ribla fate, moxe vividly pletured, await the vurieat rogue that goes wahuug? It was a Jpity that Jovcs's eloguent apology should hava been intrusted to tha uuteader mexalos of the telograph, aud Lave made ity Bust nppemeance 40 the world lu the obsoure OVEMBER 15, garb of nonpareil type should have been ween and hieard to be fally nppreciated ; but, even at this dintance, we cnan mdnire the man who approaches n vilo felon's eell for Dbaving swindled the Government that ewm- ployed him with the smme *‘lofty conrage that inspired Sir Warten Raiciou ot the Block." Wa can imngine that such a compari- son mny canse even the proud Raretan to turn his nshes over in tho grave, Thero is also an illimitable consolation in the reflee- tion of one who goes to the Penitentinry that the ** prison walls bmn:nad in Gsuinro, Covusous, 'Taseo, nud Navouzox,” and that the bars of & jail “do unot mensure the minds of mon” Just what points of comparison thero aro between sei- once, poetry, and war—* monnrchs of tiie hour nud mAsters of eternlty “—and tho official sanction of manufacturing aund selling t ¢rooked " whisky, is not readily apparent to tho ordinary mind ; but Jovce evidently Tunows and fools them, anl that is enough. "Thore musl also be a feeling nkin to divine penco and consolation in tho reflection which Jover earrios with him to the Penitentiary t hat ** the rain falla lightly on the mountain, tha sun ghines warmly on the plains, and the fload evon now is kottling into its former bed, where the eryatal waters sholl again reflect tho greon folingo, the oak, and the sycamore, and tio gentle broezes and birds shall moko 1noery mugic in tho eathodral aisles of a gen- orous nation,” Was there more inspivation than this in tho crude eloquence of Cuanpes XIL of Bwedon when he roused the sparso ranks of an undrilled army to great deods of valor, or in the flowory peri- ods of Lasantize when ho soothed the sav. age breasts of the infuriated French revolu- tionists with the music of kis voice ? Who can doubt that Jovog, like truth crushod to earth, will rise again, when he saya: T shall breast the pelting storm, and 1ift iy hoad clenr and bold to the coming sunshine of trath nnd redemption "? It may bo that, when Jovos does rise again, ho will not got an appointment in the Governwmont ravenuo service, nor deal in ‘*crooked" whisky, but Le will have had the bencfit of his experience. Ho must console himself now with tho icllection that *“whom the Lord loveth ho chastencth,” nod that, in got- ting throe years and n half at Jefferson City, ho cseapes thirty yoars ot 8t, Louis. Itis this brief hintus in his life a3 & freo and indo- pendont Americrn office-holder that lhias re- vealed to him his marvelous oratorical gifts. His oration, whothor contomplated as 8 work of art from the exordium to the paroration, or ns the spontaneous outburst of native and undiscoverod eloguence, is fearfully and won- derfully made ap, and shouald command the admiration of gaping millions. HCRUTIN D'ARRONDISSEMENT. The adoption of the general constitutional Inws known a8 the ** Warroy Constitation" by the French Assembly sottled all the press- ing questions of the moment but two,~the method of clecting the Lower Houso of the new French Parliament, and the time whon the pressnt Assombly was to "cesso its wise usnrpation of power and commit official sui- cide, Above nud beyond these ggestions is that of the futuro head of tho State, but that will not be decided until 1880, when Marshal JMacManon's soptennial terw expires. It has only a theoretical interest now, When the Agsombly renssembled, s fow days ago, it had to decide whother its successor shounld be chosen by the scrutin de Hste or the srutin d'arrondissement. The ex- planation of these puzzling terms is o simple one. France is divided imto dopartments, presided over by Prefects, aud each depnrtment is composed of 8 num- bar of arrondissements, or districts, which ore Tuled by Maires, or Mayors, Prefocts and Mayors are all appointed by tho Ministry at Versailles, It was proposed by the Conserv- otives that each arrondissement should elect & roprosentative, ns each Congressional Dis- trict with us choosos a Congresswan, The TRopublicans wished each dopartment to voto en masse for a long list of caudidates, one for ench arrondissement, but ench voted for by all the arrondissements in tho department, The first method is colled scrutin d'arron- dissement, the sccond serutin de liste. In support of tho former, the Conservativea urged tho preccdonts of England and the United States, the ense and simplicity of voting, and the dangers of the list system. They said that the latter wonld merely insure o plebiscitum at every election, Bome ono of the many men who hope some time to rulo France, a Bourbom, an Orleanist, Narorxox IV., Gamnerra, M. Turens, would ba placed at the head of a list in each depart- ment, and the poople would thusbe called upon to-vote direetly for their supreme ruler, incamuch as his recelving a majority of the popular vote would be eyuivalent to indorging his aspirations, aud would embolden him to snateh at supreme power and ohange tha form of government to suit himself and hiu pitms. It is obvious that such o contest, reponted ovory fow years, wounld bo fatal to any stability of government. On the other haud, the Republicans asserted thmt voting by arrendissements would enable tue Central Government to ex ercise an influ. ence, fotal to all frecdom of election, and that voting by departments was mors in con- sonance with universal suffrage, The latter paint {s sentimental and joeaninglesa; tho former is not without force, The {asuo of the contest waa 80 uncortain that tho Ministry, while ardently supporting the scrutin d'arrondissement, took paina to sunouncs that they would not make the question a Cabinet one,—~which meant that thoy would stay in offico, whether thoy lost tho day or not, By the small majority of 81, —U57 votes to 820,—the sorutin d'arrondisw- ment became part of the fundamental law of Fruace. The recent illness of Vice-Prealdont Wrrson furnishes oczasion far recalling the facts that eighteen persons have held the office of Vice. Prosident of tha United States. Of these, threo—Joun Apaus, THOMAS JxyrERsoN, oud Mantin Vax Bonex—were subsequently elocted to the Prealdency. One—Jomy C. Oarnovx—resigned before completing his term. ‘Three—Joun Tyrem, Mintanp Fouo- wony, and AnDEEw JounsoN—succesded to tho Preuidency in consequonce of the death of the Presidont. Three—Gzonom CLINTON, of New York; Eisninor Grsay, of Massachu- sotta; and Wirrzay R. Ko, of Alabama— died in ofice. Gzoxax CLinTON was elected Vics.Prasident at the wecond election of Jxr- rERioN, and was re-slected in 1808, with Mapmoy, He dled at Washington during tho sesslon of Congress in April, 1812 Euuminox Gxmax wos elected Vice-Presidont at the sacond election of Alapmox, and died suddenly at Wuwshington durlng the cewlon of Congress, Nov. 25, 1814 Wirzaay R, Kina wes elected Vieo-Preside: it on the ticket with Fresident Prsnos, in 18 g2, Before the time for taking the oath of 0 ‘gl,_‘ to his failing Lealth compelled bim to take the onth there, and it was adrainistered to him by tho American Consul, Mo return ed to his home at Catawba, Ala.. and died April 17, 1853, tho day after his return. Of those who have leld the office, Haxyinan Hamriy, Scnvsten Corrax, and Hexny Wit. soN alone survive, Of those who have held oftico a8 Vice-President, Messra, DBune, Caze 1ouN, VAN Buney, R. M. Jonssoy, Tyres, Darrag, Kixe, 1asuiy, ANDREW Jounsoy, aud Mesny Wirkox had served proviously in the Sennto; Grrny, Towxixs, Fiurore, Bugcresnivor, aud Corrax hind ferved in the Trouso ; and Cazatoux, Rrcitanp M. Jonxsow, Kixe, Hamuiy, aud Aspnew JonxsoN had ed in both Houscs, JonN Apams, JEf- o, and GErRY were signers of tho “Declaration of Independence. TITLE TROUBLES. Our pystem of transferring real estate is by no menns perfect, though it is o great ad- vanco on the plans which prevail in Europe. Registratlon i an admirable thing, but the cost of searching n title increases in undne proportion ns the chain of titlen grows longer. Moroaver, while the common lawr theoreticolly *“abhors a perpetuity,” it does not slways permit the practice of its theory. We have no primogeniture and no eutaily. Mr. Hopace Waite, in hisg letter to Tux Taisuse o khort time sinee, hinted at a Ao~ preenble truth when ho said: “ I sivougly suspect that any land-owver dosiring to con. trol Lig estates after death for *a life in ense, # life in passe, eud twenty-one years therent- ter,' can do so by making a will to that ef- fect.” The tele of aBoston title, as told in the lest number of the American Law Review, is n strildng proof of tho technical troubles of titles under our system. A Mr, InoaLzs, of Boston, left a niece of property in that city to his son, Mr. Wizrrax INcaLLy, many years ago. e nlso left two Jegacies of §u5,000 apiece to his nephews, ‘When the estate was settled, the roal prop- erty was the only thing left alter paying the debts. In 1800, the nephows sued for their Jegocies, Thoe Court held that the deviso to- 1he son wns invalid, inngmuch as it gave him only what ho would bave taken at auy rate by descent, but that the legacies woro a valxd deviso aud 8o were a prior claim. Judgment. was entered for £50,000 and interest. The wholo nmount was §148,000, The property passed undor the hammer and was bought Ly the nephews, in 1862, for a trifle less then the sum dua them. Blraightway, a cortain Jony Roozus sued for the land, In 1760, its owner had willed it to his brother *it ho should die without issne.” The brother’s daughter took the propoerty after her Iathor's death and willed it in 1790 to her daughter. It finally passed from tho latter to the senior INoarzs, But the will of 1760, when judiciously interpreted, was held to convey the land to the heirs at law, Theo legal heir in 1790 was tho fother of Jonx Roorrs, The latter showed this, ousted tho nephews after three years' possession, and got the property. Still ita fato was not sot- tled. A briefless attorney of the Boston Bar whiled away his leisure in studying this curious title, e found that it had been con- veyed in 1710 by a deed to a certain JorNsON, but not to him and kis heirs. Consequently, it logally reverted, mpon Jounsox's death, to the mnn who sold it to him. This man's heirs were bhunted up. A spoculator bought their claim, sued on it, and won tho bone of contention. After the Boston fire, he exected o splondid building upop theland. But Mr. Wirrrax TIncarts hed meanwhile discovered no earlier dotument than any yet brought into court. It was o will, dnted 1600, and conveying the land upon condition that a certain part of it should never be built npon. The coudition bod boen violated, snd the titlo thorefore went back 216 yenrs to tho testator of 1060 and desconded to his heird. The heir in 1875 waa Mr. Inoasrs. The latter forthwith soed. The land-holder consulted p medium, and was advised to compromise as best he could. Ixoarss finally got back his land, after fif- teen years' dispossession, and found himself far richer thorefor in 1875 than hie had been in 1860, His title haa since been examined by experts and found to be perfoctly good. Bo the story ends. There may be anext chaptor, however, and that may toll of the finding of some deed prior to 1660, which will oust Inoarrs again and put somebody else in es owner, Probably no parallel caso to this could be found in this section of the country, for it is s yet too young, But onr chains of title, thanks to the rapldity with which speculative property pasges from hand to hand, sre al- ready inordinatoly loug. Our staluto of limsitations hos many claims, but leaves a loophole for some queer ones, It is doubtfal whether the present registry system can bo profitably retained. What is neoded is a system thnt will make tho transfer of real nnd personnl property equally cheap, easy, nndeafe, The Towzna' plan, which has had fifteon years’ succesaful trinl in Australin, miay bo the summum bonum, or it moy be sasceptible of improvement. In any event, tha question is ono for legislators and think- ers to study. ‘Whether 3r, Bxno will succoed in sayiog the intant rope-walkor, ** LEo,” from Lis unoatura! father aud tho ebow-peopls who speculate on exposure of the child for the dolectation of the smuseniont-going public, to nightly porll of hor- 1ible death, is involved in all the uncertsinty ot alaweuit. Such §a the popular taste for ba's barous oxhibitions such a8 that of forciog cho trembling, puny midges to risk a fatal full, et it woenw be i& quite s smsll fortune to Lis, qrm. ers or lessees, and tioy do ot propose ‘m «give him up witbout & stubborn contest. “fho ovl. denca shown tLiat he haa beon subjecto t tr, pru. tal treatment by his trainer, and the. {/ jurious effoots of his treiniog ave manifeal i !,is puny frame, Alresdy deformed by ourvaturg ot the aplue, Bug hin exlbitor ia sttenaptv ig to prove hat the ouitd Hies it ; tho father ¢ jen forward and domanda custody of tho litta # ,jlow, tuat he romy return Lim to the sUOW-¥& io; and the cmie, which hias occupled the ®& giona of ouo of tlo divisions of tho Bupreme @ ,urt will be re- eomed to-morrow, o W8 uuprofossiousl 1t soems anomalous that 18 * o tnbunal such e thiat there should be tol84% ;03 yuoh contest for the posavsaion of the ' 3 1o coin monsy out of bim by such cruel e3F jpjtions of Lim for the smusemout of thiat 889 50 of the public winoch pays for the OPPO? nity of witnessing the tluilling performand 4, (ho climax of whioh wiil be rosched whea t¥ g jiilo foliow tumbles from & dizzy height, 0¥ , picked up & Lit of quivenug, Lifeleas, % | fleah and bonos. The Lovd¥ , 4cqdemy hea dincoversd and pub- Habod & 9 ¢ glotoh of Now England in 1076, Tho ODALYY gr of that aay recards that thare wera w00 Bef gare,” and '‘uot 9 put to desth for Teft™ gut of the 120,000 inhabitants. ** There AT® ¥ Myusitisus by trade ; one Danciug schoole e’ opup, but put down ; o Freeman must bee =¥ jodox, sbout 20 years old, worth about .00." Thoss were tho dsys of the leglslation which & cunning bater of tue Puritans parodisd and pubhishied as she * Blus Laws of Counecti- cut.” Imagiue the Boston of 1873 truated ss {ve prodecessor of 1675 wan, No * Musitisu by trade," go Bustun Jubiles, no Musie Hal, oo Cuba, aud Cougress by law sutbiorlsed pLiy, ¢ | Ly crgen, o Havar sud Latox Club, 8o danclag aetioole.—and no volers savo the “on thodix ' possaevors cf £200. Tho polls woula bo awot enyten, but it wonld bo Lard to fird euonugh freemon to i1l the oftices. Another Mormon prophed haes srisen, and “vitlt the prasuaet, too, of faunding s religiona. volitiont dominion thatatiall surpaea and survive the: of Bitsnsyt Yousa himself in Liks patmiost days. Tho now prophat is & Beolchman namead Wactin Muanay Giosory, ahom Ditoiax dise patched to tho Bandwlel [ulandu a8 misaion. ary, Thero titnroy thrgw olf the yoka of gl lorianco to You: and sot un ou bis own sc. count, Ilo succanded in nastenng ninety . dars tho Kanaka tongue, which eircnmetance led tho natives to attributo to lum miracatons Powern, sinco mo-t of tho missionariog afior nmiavy yoara of effort have only succecded (n Kaining an imperfect knowlodgaof the Tanugunage, a0d no white maw, it s said, over hofure in so kliort time loatnel i, GiuioN was sided in his work by the oM nauve legend that the pod Lono, who waw their promised redoomer, wonld coma to them in tho form of n whito man. G1nsoN seized upon thin, and, through his shrawdnoss and Ly eloe «uance, addroseing {hem in tholr native tonae, peraunded the mnatises to accopt him nslhel; voritablo Lowo, 1o modifiel Monmonism to conform to tho anctent traditions of tho fsland- ors, ndded to it somo doctrines borrowed from Mayoxer, snd in fowr monthe wfier ha began preaclung bad gathetod together 150 dlinciy.lon, Ha then anuounced what bo was wolug into iue ~iklertoun to com mmna witi the Mpirit, wnd, af- ter fasting and praser, wont luto a socladed dell in the Islaud of Lanai, Itora thenco in paven daw ho returnog, preclaiming new revalatious ; wel up as tho caly wrophets npolated his ajontles; and plavned an iugpense tomply, W hon Briauast—who hiad receivedd raports of uu; G olugs of G1usox, or, au tho nativey called hing, 1 imroNA—gent s band of tho faltlful to uulo ¢ haipwon's woik. Taeveon (HpsoN retircd o oe vather lsland with Lia followers, and is contic, 1o g bis prosatyiizing work. tis fue commead of tho ustive tougne gives him a great advauty PLy ovor bis rival brethren, nud in the onjoymont of & voet estato and unaumberod tlocks of sheeg he raloy lis peoply 2k ono commissioued frowm op Digh. e Louvtae Latran, tho Bolgim ccatatic and g'iz, matist, whose fos!s fu the outaculous line v ers auch a marvel to wany foolish peoplo, prove: ta. bo a first-clags fisud, Dr. H, Boxs, an cwinent physicnn of Charterol, hias msde a tharou rk ia- vostigation of tho case, aud publisbed o Jete- ter givmg tho rosubts of his serat.nv. [ao matn tacts discovered by lim aro epliomize i uy the Britich Medical Journal an foilows ; During an filneas which listed ataut a “ stigmatie ™ bleoding stoppad, st the ey wery repluced by hysterieal faiutinge, Afternacis,. the sovmes wate of thiogs recurred, Al Borsm vig: as et o watch ou the fomnlly, deelsvoa that o & i 5. po:tion to afinn uud prove thet Lovise Lat, cud drinks coptously, and performs cll the oty Lunctions of uature, ' He sy that * Hay f10 10 Tabs und scrstehes with hee unly and with K 1o, cluth, espectally during tne night, tho places “thess thio bload flows's and kecpa Np uh thuse wjste, evr 4 wechanleslly during sleap, prossro withs Lee 40 av £> mitntain o condition of toeal com! Of courio, no exposure, Lowever col will puake the faith of soma of tho La mitaclo-gwaliowers. Imnpoature. no imate * how grasy, Always has found zowlous wnd ftonifast bolievers, nud always will f11a them. Tay oxe peticncs of the apes coants Bur nothing If there wero uo gulhibility to ‘anman pawn e, no ono would make appealsto such a sentluent g and thio fact that thera are 40 mauy fools in the world iy largely the oauss of tho fact that tucre. are 8o many knaves. ‘Thosimpietons who o.vub: immolation will never fau of thoir dosira tbromth scarcity of wieldors of ttey eicriticial kuita, Io would bo & wasie of breath to cry **Lousg Live Humbng ! "~for Hwmbuyg will nevor cease to ez, ist until GanmiEL’s tiump hag sounded tha eig- nal for the extinction of bumaaity, gl et ‘The way Gouxop broke his leg and & coupls. of ribs wos tuis: o lind loved a fair duno ia England snd desertod hos. Tha fair danio iad in her poseession, and refused to surrencer, tus- seore of his now opera, which had been written for tbe Grand Opors-House at Parls. In lkia dilomms, GouNop was forced to undertuko the: {mmeove task of rowriting lus opera fron: monie ory. Ife had not procecded far in the wor): when. o friond, who mado a srecinl jontnoy to England. for the puipiuo, succesdod in obtainirg the: original score, GOTNoD haatened to his f.1end'ss houso, clasped bis pracious mapuscriptto Lis Lo-- som, turned in high spigits to lcave tho houra, and, in bla excltelocns, took but ono sten frem the top to the bot:om of the loug pairof ntaios. Thero never was a moro manifeat instance of suddon end completo tetribution, Tho falrdem | of Eogland must bave seen in har drearw ¥ o finger of Providenco pushing Gouzod & .o those ataira. g In the matter of depriving the coloat 4 chil- droo of opportanity to ac;uire & camme y.chool education, it would seom that Keo'uohy vies withi Alabams, Tho apportionment, ¢ | Kentueky 18 8o managed under tho prescot @ atutos Lhat to the white schools tho allosatse 5 par pipil 18 nloo times that made to the €0l rod ychuols per pupil curolled. To furthor knaxe pys the dieniin- ination, all whites botwenn & and 20 ymrs of ago aro euroilad e sciwo PO atlon, while onif the colored youth botwwem ¥ g ngew of Gaud 10 aro 8o enrolted. Tho <o red pooplo's 8:hool Qouvention, old at Texxw 1on a fow days kincy, appoluted » commitieon b gagod by ex-Attorney= Ocnersl BPEED, to ped’ jon the Legislaturo ab the approaching ‘sessio’ ; to so modify tho Liw as to extend to tl'am 1v' | gqual advautages of 1be © public schoolr,, ——— Judge Co gsn™, an old resident, and onoof tho forem cstme.nof tho Alabams Bar, hasde. olarod ay gluay. che proposed nmew Conatitulio, and in T, yay dehed lotteraays that not only docd that | aatroment repudiate tweuty out of the isty . mifians of the Stato debt, buttbatlt *of" sctually ropudiatos the romaluing 810,030, 00F ) 'of undoutesd liability of Alalams, for the I¢ gac;u that tho smount which will be sooually 1 ealizod froun the tax-payera of the Btato will Dot pay the curront expe of tho State, and ‘ 0 interest on tho 810,000,000." Alabaws, whore one of the chiof argumtuls for the adoption of the new Constiution Iy tuck it rolioves tha Bista of oppressive tazation fer tho support of the publicacloold, last yoar, ac- cordiug to the roport of the Cammlu\uuor_a{ Lducation, expeuded for school purposes 87/5 couts for oaoh pupsl enumorated, For the saws ¥ lifnola expendod €5.00 for each okl Jows $6.69, Nobrasks 210,72, aud Ohio 81140 Evou Virginin saised §2.03 for oach pupll ente worated, Gen. GonpoN, ot Goorgis, I8 another of the Bouthiern Congressmen who, baving dechared (o2 rag-infiation sinco tho Ohio and Peuussivava olection, bus becomo couvluced that tho e poticy fcr the Democracy at ke pext seaslou id to dodge the currency fssus altogetler, and do vote themselves to onalaughits upon Republicsa corruj tion. ** Anything lo win," @vidently 2o mafos the cardiual doctrive of the Democtady Norki sud Bouth, o i Jo Buiry, the Mormon Prophet, shonld also be earolled In tha calendar of reg-money nalnts. 1o 1837, wien o had hls colooy at Rutisod, Lake Coanty, Oblo, he nfiated tne ourrendy with the bills of the *Kistlaud Safety Hociety " which exploded lu 1838, wharson :: Propliet decamped betwasn W0 days, aod o sppeared at Naavoo. B —————— 3 Tha latest ** Americauism " bss besn F0Ri T by acrtical review lato tho Evglish langusgse The Londoo Spectalor of Oct. B0 spasks of 153 Bpanish + garpat-baggers" in Cuba, D The Philsdeiphla Press sums {$ uplan alngle seutauce wortl remombaring ¢ rification of s party, Bot tbe Wttt 3}3-‘- @ ew Adaaits 4 1t would be fnteresting to kuo: what lon:h- tion there (s for the “rumors* muutivus nn tha Byriugfield bieyublican +of burgeiniugy