Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1875, Page 4

a re THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1876. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. LIPSION (TAyaRRS TY ne Prepaht at ile O10 Onneopy, 1.50 Clabol dre, per a Glud of twanty, per cu} 2 ote ‘The pustage in 15 conts a year, which wo wil prepay, Specimen contes sent froe, To prevent delay and intetaken, bo ware and give Post-Office addresa in full, tuctading Statsand County, Temtttances may be mads either by dratt, expt ‘Poat-Office order, or in registor«\ iotiers, nt one riek, TERMS 10 CIUy AUMCKIAFHS, —* Daily, dellvered, Sunday exce}ts't, conta per weak, Detly, delivered, Suniay incinded, 20 cenis per werk, Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Oorver Madison and Dearhorn-sis,, Chicago, Ut, eet AIAUSEMENTS, MoVICKEN’S THEATRE—Madinon vfrent, between Dearborn ond State, Eusagement of Barry Sulitvan, Mtehelteu.”” ADELPIE THEATRE Afonroa, Engagemon! of the World in Righty Day: HOOLEWS THLATII-Rende:,h atreet, ttween Clarkand LaSalix, Engagonicut’ of tho Caiiforuia Minatrole, NEW OMICAGO THEATRa—Olar't elrert, batwcen Rendoiph and Lake, Engagomoutof Kelty & Jaou's Minstrels, =f WOOD'R MUSEUM—Montno MImsen Dears born abd State, Afternocn, * alice D'indae and “Love in Livery.” Evening, ' Poap o° Day.” FIRST METHODIST CHUKCI—Comer Clark and ashingtonerrpela, Lecture by Col, Boudinot on In- a —ee “SOCIETY MEETIKGS. rartiern sternt, Rlraly Trop, Arousrd ILLINOIS BT. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.—Tho {hir- teeth sonivorsary dinner of ths Ulinzis St, Andras Bociety will bo held at the Sharman Mouse on ‘tuesday syouing, Mth ingt, Tickets may te had of Williva M, Dale, druggiat, 15 Bouth Clark-st, corner | cnet of one of bis subordinates, Dinner prompt Bo'clock, Business meeting cf 9 JOUN ATEWART, Secretary, correcta Dhe Chicagu Trbune. Monday Morning, Novomber 20, 1875. At the Now York Gold Exchange on Satur- day greenbacka ruled steady at 37: Lient.-Gon. Surat in his annual report dovotes considerable attention to tho Tucian problom, which, he thinks, can be best solved by tmneferring the Indian Barean to the charge of tho War Dopartment, to bo takon under the general administration of the army. Gen, Srentpan, who is excellent authority on there points, believes that if the Indious were honestly and humanely dealt with, the Government would have less need of troops to keep the savages under proper subjection. Prof, Parron may now call off his dogs and breathe fraely onco moro, That terrible horotic, Prof. Swrsa, yesterday savered his connection with the Fourth Presbyterian Church. But ho will remain in Chicago and harrow up the soul of Prof, Parrox by proaching in the heart of the city to an nudi- tory fivo times as large as that which was able to gain admittance to the Fourth Church. No other city nved apply. ‘Lhe Presbyterian Church hne lost a great gospcler, but Chicago at large has gained hi Fomale members of tho histrionic profes. sion in Germany will hereafter be compelied to curb their propensity for low-necks, pull- backs, striped stockings, and other extrava- gonces of dress on the stage, Tho Rerlin critics, wholly insensible to the yaluo of these ndjancts to high art, and having, It may ba supposed, an intonso antipathy to gorgeous millinery, have succeeded in procuring an or- dor from the Government ¢irocted against both the dry-goods and the uo-goods drana in Berlin. A sermon by the Rev. E, F. Wrurtass, of the Forty-seventh Street Congregationnl Church, on the subject of the Bible in the Behools. is printed in onr columns this morn- ing, Tho gentleman takes tho ground that itis unwise to insist npon Bible-reoding as an orercise inthe public schools, believing it to be a violution of the conscientious. convic- tions of many good citizens, and in this way “a species of tyranny and oppression which ought not be counté@panced by a Government ‘professing to be repnblican in form. After two or three yenrs of stolid fault. finding, the Eastern press is beginning to wake up to the fact that Chicago is exception- ally well protected against fire, and that cities which have been reproaching us have merely been playing the sacred drama of the Beam and the Mote; or, You're Another and o Biggor One. The New York Times, after duly crediting us with the invention of cheap fire-proof houses, and remarking that Now York is Wable to destruction by fire any day, ends its editorisl by saying, “Let tho ex. ample of Chiengo bo followed.” This is sound advice. Only the well-known modesty appertaining to everything Chicagoan pre- vonta our adding that in overything buta Municipal Govornment this city atforda one of the finest possible models of imitation, ee Thera js still another fresh addition to the romors concerning the Cuban question, It is reported in Washington that Spain bas de- manded of Guatemala the immodiate revoen- tion by that Republic of her recoguition of tho Ouban insurgents as belligerents, and that a similarly imporntive demand has heen made upon Bolivis, Colombia, and other Bonth Amorican Republica which huve recog. nized the Cuban patriots, Rumor bas it that proper regard for the Monnoz Doctrine willcompel tha United Btates to tnke the pirt of Guatemula and the rest oa against the revongefo) aggressions of Spain, and that this new phase of the sitnation furnishes n more cogent explanation than any get given of the extraordinary and continued propara- tions now golng forward in the Navy Depart ment, Those intereated in the fate of the persona involved in the whisky frauds will discover from the letter of Secretary Bristow to the Prosecuting Attorney at St. Louis that there is no disposition on the part of the President to interfere in the most rigorousprosecutions, Tho Secrotary, in repelling an intimation of his own interest in u Whisky Ring, invited o Judicial investigation of his own cnse, and, showing the letter tu the President, tho latter bid him uotify the law ofticera to “Let no auilty man cscaps.” This letter will unde. cuive all those who have been assuming that the President did not fully approve of Mr, Bawrow's policy of punishing the revenue frauds. The President heartily applauds the sotion of the Becretury, and there will ba no interposition at headquarters to rave the guilty, The Chicago produce markets were irregn. Jar on Saturday. Mess pork was quict and firm, closing ot 819,45@19.47} seller the year and $19.55@19.573 for February. Lard was in fuirdumand gud advanced bo per 100 the, closing at $14.83 egah aud $1245 fen lob. ruary. Meata wero qnist, at tfc for shoul.!- ! cruel and hopeless civil strife of modern times | cach man Wasa county cidcial whose snlary ors, 1040 for ehert ribs, and 10fe for short | otones, all bosrd. Wighwines were in fnir | demand and atenady. at F111) por gallon, y was dall and cutter, Wheat was activ i and deelinod Lie, closing wank at G1.05] cash 43 for Decsunder, Cojyn was active anddeclined Tc, cloving at 490 for Novem: ber and 4740 for tho year, Oata were quiet. | nnd deo lower, clrring at 30Jc cash and foje Yor December. lye was steady, at GYo, Bure Jey was 1@1}0 lower, closing at BG1e cash and Bile for Dacomber, Hogs were in moder- [ate demand and steady, at $6.90@7.50 per 700 tha, Cattle and sheop wore unchanged, » hundred dollars in gold would buy SMILUT} is greenbacks at the clove. The duty of the Grand Jury of tho Crimi. nal Court in relation to the admitted fact thst nerinicat confined in the Connty Jail was permitted ta be at large on the day of the county election in order that he might cast one or more votes is forcibly and cloarly set forth by 8 carrospondent in another enhtm, ‘Lhs slatute covering such cases fy quoted to j rhow the untenable position of Shorift Saxnw in claiming that the unlawful oct of libera- tion wag unknown to himeclf, and was the From the Innguago of the statnte it clearly appears what tiis plea, even if trio, will not verve na on defenso ota tho Sheriff, svho alone is the custodian of prisoners in the County Jail The path of the Grand Jury keemo perfectly plain and unmistakable—so snnch se that a neglect by that body, now in session, to raturn an indictment against Shorift Savew could not but be regarded a3 an act of favoritivm and dereliction so gross and pal- pale as to subject the members of (he Graud Jury to the liability of being themeclveecited vo answer a charge of willful and intentional neglect to perform a sworn duty. Thoy should not forget that oven o Grand Jury may bo made to suffer a ponalty for tho viola- tHon of law. WHAT DOES IT MEANP The Washington advices concerning our relations with Spain indicate a mysterious aad irreconcilable state of things. ‘The news from tho State Department is to tho effeot that the Spanish Cabinet is in harmony upon the Cuban quostion, and that thera is the best of reasons for anticipating an amicable not- tlement of ali the diplomatic points reecntly raised by the American note. At the same time it is reported on what appears to be good authority that tho Svcrstary of the Navy continues in secret the most extensive naval preparations; that the iron-clada have oll been overhauled with refcronce to immediate aotive service; that the torpedo corps is likowiso ongaged in preparing torpedoes; aud that orders have boen sent to Lisbon recalling the entire Mediterranean squadron. It is impos- sible to reconcile theso two reports with any information ot hand. If thera is no danger of any conflict with Spain, thon there is nothing to justify tho large and gen- eral expenditures on our naval servico not warranted by the appropriations made by the last Congress, which allowed tho Naval De- partment some 28,000,000 less than had beon expended the previous yoar that included iho expenditures on naval proparations be- enuse of the Virginius affair. Since the power to declare war is vested in Congress, it is fair to presume that the President, in sanctioning the continued preparations in tho navy, has information of somo serious com. plication or some impending mouace which ‘nas uot been made public, Atall events, thesy warlike preparations, which cannot possibly be called out by any other foreign relations than those with Spain, furnish a proper occasion to say that tho United States Government should not bo be- troyed into the danger of opon hostility with Spain on any mattor of a minor or technical nature. If diplomatic dif- ferences ariso that threaten to stir up bad blood nnd lead to a ‘broach in friendly relations, then it is better that tho wholo Spanish question shall ba opened up and our commercial relations with Cuba readjusted upon n fair and equal basis, This is tho real cango of complaint wo have ngninat Spsin. It completely overshadows the right of coun- acl for American filibnators captured in giv- ing aid and comfort to the Cuban rebels, It is even more important than tho abrogation of the nnfoir right of gearch claimed by the Spunish Government under the treaty of 1795, though we denied the samo right to Groat Britain long ago, It lios ut the bottom of the whole question, So long as the Span- ish Government insists upon continuing the prosent outrageous discrimination against American commerce, no smount of diplo- matic tinkering will assure permanent peace and friendly relutions, If, therefore, wo aro to have war or complications likely to lead to war, let thom be on the broad basis of aqua! commercial rights, The burden of our complaint is woll known, Wo buy of two Spanish colonics in the Weat Indies nearly €100,000,000 annually of their products, two of which—coffoe and sugar——are almost ay necossary to our people as brend and meat, Wo have commoditics of our own needed in Cuba amplo to pay for these products in kind. We can supply the wante of Cuba, all other things being oqual, chuaper than any cther nation, The Cubana consume, and if left to themselves would purchase from the American people, a sufll- cient quantity of breadstuffy and manufac. turea to very nearly balance the American purchases of Cuban products, As it is, wo are foreed to pay s differ. ence of nearly $70,000,000 a year, or sbout tho annual product of the gold and silver of American mines. The renson of it is to bo found in the discriminating dutics against the United States lovied by the Spau- ish Government in tho shape of import and export dutica. If it wero not for this discrimination, Jeviod by Spaln in order to extort from the Cubans thu cost of running the Spauish Government, it would leave us Practically our ontire product of gold and uil- vor with which to resumo spocio-paymenta gud reduce our foreigu debt. ‘There is little wonder that thereis an hropressible rebollion in Cuba under these c reuinstences, If Great Hritain (which perwmits its colonies to regu. late their awn commerce in their own way so long us they do not discriminate against the home Government) khould undertake to im. pose the came burdens upon Canada, there would be rubellion there that would soon lead to Canadian separation and independ. ence. Tho casu ix no diforent because Vuba is an American island instead of a part of ihe main continent, Tf there is to be war or ramons of war, lot the differences be probed to the core, ‘There is no longer anything to be gained by the uitotion of mere superticial disputes or puxo- lio, We havo real grievances, if any issue is to bo wade, These, in common with the desire we must share with the remainder of the civilized world to sue the last vestige of sluyery in America wiped ‘out, aud the most bronght to end, should be tho casus felli, if a waristocome, Tt is weak aad sensel. sto ; court the dangors and oest of a foreign wer, cr to incur the enornious expenec’ ef vestor- | ing o naval rervico in deen, for any mere dem. } Oustration of strength or any temporary and trifling advantage in n dipiomatic dispute. ‘Thora is onough to justify war on the brond basis of civilization, humanity, and commut. cinl xights, if tho American people are pre- j Pared to undertake it; but there is not enough in the diploruatic ‘iferences that have heen mado public sa far to justify the Preparations that ara said to he going on in secret, Woshall probably have to await tho President's message before reaching a satis. favtery explunation of the conflieting reporta that now come toms, MUNICIPAL EXVENDITURES, In Tue ‘Irrpunz yesterday wo discussed tho striking distinction betwoen the efficiency and intogrity, the economy and filolity, with which the Govornments of English cities + sre adininisterod when compared with like Coy. erumente in the cilies of tho United States. In nothing is the extravagance and whatefi- nega of our American Municipal Governments so remarkablo as in tho inordinate allow- ances nnd profits of the ollice-holdera, Wo aud in tho New York Times n veviow of the salaries paid to local officers in that city at this time, and this is under a Municipal Qovernment which has reformedjont of exist- eney all the sinccures and abuses which flourished under the ‘Iwrep Regency. Wo note a few instancos : ‘Tho Mayor of tao city receives 212,000 0 year, ‘There are 21 Aldermon and 24 Assist- ants, who each receive £1,000 8 year, with °1,000 extra to each of the prasiding officers of the Boards, making an aggregate of #181,- 00. Tho oxpenscs of the afice of the Clork of the Council aggregates over 340,000 a yenr. ‘Tho Times tavulates tho cont of managing the United States Tronsury and the Treasury Department of the City of New York, oy fol- lows: f General Gorernment. | City Gorarniment, Sccrntary Treasury .$10,00° “omptrotiur.s. «++. «$19,020 Avatatant bosrotary. 60.0;Deputy Comptroller, 7,000 A jAeniataut Deputy Comptroller, 2503 ClerW ta Comptrotiar $,030 3,000|decrctary to Comp. trotles Dixvureing Cl Avpolutmient Clerk, Mead of | Warrant Bureau. Uowl of f 3,600 Recusve 440, Attoraty tor Tax Gulef of Currency ii BUread vearessvee 3,009; in New York City there is n multiplicity of vivil courts, including Ward and District Jus- tices, In these courts, oxclusively within the city, the anaual expenditures for salaries and pay-volls are thus given ¢ A eI Director 1,200 Martue Court... Loval District C Bolte Courts Cuurt of General beanione,,. Surrogate... County Clerk District Attoruny. ‘Counulaslonor of s The New York Zimes thus comments on some of these abuses : IEA taken sonte character, Yearning, talont, and ex- perience to nake a Chiof Juntice of the Suprvme Court of the United States, what shall wo wsy of thu grestnesy of the quiliteations far, Judicial oflears ta thls gla- rious caty? Let tue Tammany pay-roll epoak for us : Chief-Justico Walte, United Blatea Supreme Court... $19,500 4G RO. Auy Tarai 17,009 ‘Msjority for T:mmany, 7 per cent. Ordinary United States Chief Judges. Ordinary Tansuany Btate Judged... jo Supreme Majority for Tammany, 75 por cent, A Circuit Judge of the Ouitod States A ‘sstumapy Conucon Moss Judge. Majority for Tammany, 150 por cent, A District Judge of the Untied Statoy, avorago.. A Tammany Superior Court Judge. Majority for Tammany, A New York Judye of Appeal Dennla Quinn, Tammany Wi Judge Quinn better than Chict-Justice Church, 14 per cunb.... cesses eessereeseee EDs Jurt think bow Tit Casvusie will shine in such company, with & salary twico aa large as that pald to Judge Baxeprort And yet there {a moro Jocal superiority, We put the coinparison in thts faehion s Attorney Goneral of the United States, No aaeldtaatsecsseeeee ‘Total for Uncle Bam, Tammany Corporation Co ‘Tammany avsiziant...., +$10,C09 ‘Total for Tammany Hall... Majority for Tatumany, Lig per cent. We have not yet reached in Chicugo the condition of things which prevails in New York, but wo aro making great progress therein, and the inevitable tendency of local Governmunts to expend mouey iu easily illus- trated. ‘ho Coustitution of 1370 nbolished the old Board of Suporvisors and establishod slocal Board of County Commissioners whose componsation was fixed at $2.50 per day. Tho County Board have, however, ignored thiu regulation, Tho actual sessions of tho Board numnbor possibly sixty in the year, but, by somo singular construction, the Commission= ers are eusbled to charge an averago of fou days’ attendance at $5 per day, making an avorage of $1,590 por yoar to ench member, ‘That is not quite up to the standard of a New York City Alderman, but it is a good utep in tho enme direction. Bofore the now Constitution, we had in this couuty several offices greatly sought af- ter. Tho Sherii’s office was reputed and act- ually was worth to thnt olllcor $30,000 6 year, Ho took the office, paid all ite ex- ponses, and out of the procecds in two years pockoted his $60,000, Tho Clerk of tho Cir- cuit Court held a dunl office. The Clerkship proper yielded hii, after paying oll its cust, perhaps €20,000 o year profit, He was, however, ¢z-officio Recorder of Deeds, and this office ho was able to manage and take in a profit of some $45,000 to $50,000 a year. In Hko manner the County Clerk, after paying all tho oxponsos of his of- fico, could always farm out his income at $25,000 a year profit, Tho Superior Court at that time had threo Clorks, each of whom could onsily lay aside $15,000 a year; and, a3 tho terms of these Clerks expired, the profits of the survivors increased. Col, Stevenson, the last of these Clerks, whose time explres next Monday, was able to discharge all the expenditures of tho office and at the samo timo secure a surplis of income snfiviont to furnish him a handsome compe- tency for life. Thure was a universal desire that these monstrous official incomes showld be brokon np, and so the new Constitution required that cuch of these officers should hereafter be paid a fixed ealary, payuble ex- clusively out of the iucome, and that the sur. plits revenue should be paid into the public troasury, In the execution of thla law, the Pecullar faculty of tho ordinary Jocal Govern. ment in dealing with suluics was at once awakened. Deputy Sheriifs and Bailiffa, who had for years been content and ottremely anxious to retain the compeasation alowed them by the Sheriffs who hud employed them, put iu claizus for salaries of the Mrat magni. tude. They were no longer moro deputies ; } wan to be 1 by tho County Goverment, | Wis unneeessary to go into detail The 'Saperior Court is about lo unter upon the sulary-ayst ni for the first time. and the sel- jarienof the andordinates Lave been, or are to be, adjusted by the County Board. All wo wish to call attention to ia the fact that tho olficcs of tho Shoritf, Connt, Clerk, Recorder of Deeda, Cirouit, Suparios, and Criminal Court Clorke, and District Attorney, which undor the old aystom yielded to the incumbent:, after paying all oxpenrer, an annnal income of from £180,000 to $200,009, now costs tha county, in addition to their proceeds, a very large sam annually, Thus it will bo ween that the oiferts taken by the people of the Stste in isty to broak up the great shuse of excessive oficial in- cone, and to maka all these oftices self-sup- porting, havo been defeated; nnd the very menue taken to accomplish the reform have beou wicd to saddle now expenditucs upon the public, Wo need berdly refer to the other incident of the erention of vations now oftices with liberal salorics attached. We merely givo these facts to show the inevitable tendeney of focal elective Governinents to creato and duplicaty means for the expondi- turo of publia money, especially by vating enormous salarics for the most ordinary service, THE IMPCSIIBILICY OF TURKIGH RB- FORMS, A well-informed correspondent of the Lon. don Times in Horseyovina, who has had a conferenco with Sxnven Pasua, the Tarkish Imperisl Commissicner, contributes ta that paper a statement of the utmost importauee conecrning the relations of Turkey avd Herze- govina, as showing the utter impossibility that tho reformy propesud by Turkey and in- trusted to Srnven Vasa ena ever be corried out, Not only this, but the correspoudont found that the Porte was incapable of under- stuuding the grievances of the Herzegovininor, and that the Pasha himself was in utter igno- rance of the facts. The measures proposed in the way of reform aro: 2, A reformation of the Councils, Fo ns to seenve proper representation of Christian intorests. 2. A modification cf the road. service regulations, so that the people shall not be obliged to work ont of their own dis- tricts. 3. ‘ho publication of court sentences in both langunges. +, The formation of a corps of secret inspectors of all administra- tive details, 6. ‘The suppression of tho ex- isting conscription of horses. 6, Transfer. mation of tithes into land tax. 7. ‘fhe forma. tixa of « corps of Christian snd Mussulison tax-collectors and pulice. ‘These mensures, if strictly executed, might remove some causes of discontent, but they would not be in the natura of n complete romody, because they do not reach the root of the trouble, Upon this point the correspondent of the Times says : J aut not permitted to qrote authorities for the nu- merous end strony confirmations of the opinion L have berotofore expressod—that with tho masuca tiero {eno politiral mative for insurrection, but simply clue ani crosd oppression, and thoabsolute imporsiullity of obtaining Justico fur Chiriatlaus from a Mussulman adminitratlon. On this point there ts no diderence of oplaion that the Turi sh aystem ts Invocurably con nostod with fnfustico to the Christin, and in goneral, slao, to the pooror Mussulmun. It fe weelosa to reforus a aystora which is rotten ta the try base, Tt must he wholly replaced, aud {t 14 {mooasible ta ruplaco it frown materia’y to ba collected in tho Eumpiro, Evan if these projects of reform did reach to the root of the trouble, they would be hopeless, becauso the civil administration of the Turks is incompatible with justice or peace, and becanso thero iv uo elass of men among the Turks capable of oxcenting the roforns. The policy of the Porte has al- ways beonin the hands of native Mussulmen, andis now. It has no other claas to lean up- on. So that the maintensnco of order is left in the hands of the very people whose op- pression bos made tho ‘Turkish provincen what they are. The very system up- on which Senven Pasna basea his reforma is the system of persecution, It is evident froma the facts gathered by this correspond- ent that there iano hope for a perceful solu- tion of the Horzugovinian question oxcept by the intorvention of foreign Powers, and the present attitude of Russia, Austrin, and England shows that this intervention is only A matter of time,—nn intervention which now bids fair to rosult not only in the parti- tion of the Turkish provinces sud of Egypt, bné also in tho disappearance of ‘Lurkoy her- self og a nation. . THE ARIZONA RAILBIJAD RESOLUTIONS. Mr, Tost Scorr has met ina body iu 8t. Louis, resolved himself hoarse on the subject of the Texas Pacific Railront, and adjourned vine die, He hos succeded to ome extent in committing a part of the Southern people in favor of a raid on the Public Treasury for his benefit, under the delusiun that they will participate therein, and he bas organized what may bo regarded as a very formidable raid upon the Democratio House of Repre- sentatives shortly to convene at Washington. Hoe has found a good many foolish persona who are ready to pull his chestnuts ont of the ire for him, and it may bo thot, cither by direct bribery or a system of log-rolling thot will cost the people of this country un- told millions, he will succeed in getting o Democratic indorsement of his schemo, If he docs, the only hope of defeating it will bo in the Republican Svnate, Notwithstanding Mr. Scorr’s gront personal interest and acknowledged ingenuity, his resolutions adopted at the St. Louis Conven- tion are a very: limey protoxt for the subsidy ho oaks, His strong point ix on the South. ern people, and ho hos persuaded Bt. Louis and ita tributaries that they hava not had their share of subsidy in the past. Yet there igo stretoh of some 400 or 600 miles of rail- rond—the Kansas Pacific—which was built on 8 Government subsidy for the direct boncfit of St. Lonis, That city is alrendy ns closely connected with the Pacific Slope as Chicago. San Francisco actually lies south of St. Louis, aud tho two cities are not so far apart as San Francisco aud Chicago, What immenso trade is it that Mr, Tow Scorr thinks ought to bo doveloped in Arizona, New Mexico, and the Indian ‘Lerritory at Government expenso? What have thero conntrieg to exchange for the products of China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, aud tho other countries which Mr, Scorr saya he will open up tothem? Whore are their people who ary to consume the enormous toa trade which Mr. Scott expects to establish? If the Texas Pacific Ruilroud were running to- day, we funcy that.all the tea consumed in that region of the continent would still bo purchased in New York. We have an idea that the port of San Francisco and the exiat- ing railroads connecting the Enst and West are ample to accommodate all the direct trado with China, Japan, and Australia which we ely to have for many years to come, particularly in viow of the fact that there ia nots foot of grount wost of the 100th mo- ridian contiguous to the projected railroad that can bo oultivated without irrigation. Mr, Scurr's resolution nbout the necessity of hi. proposed railrond for national do. fence ssimply atn® and nonsense, Where dover the foreign monacn come on the Pasifie Blop:? Tait China, Japan, or the Sandwich Inlanda that is to make the firsbottack? And i* they do altace! , are thoy going to pennirat. lato the arid wastes of Arizona, and the dreir expanse of Now Maxico, to eat away the anb- stanca of the great Amorican poople? Wo are of {the opinion that a majority of the American peoplo will prefor to take their chouces with the present fo- cilitica for tranrporting troops for tho defense of tho Paeitic Sicpa in case of n foreign war, rather than oxpond R234,720,000 gold in interest on bonis for Slr, Seot7's xailrond, Several foreign wars would be cheaper than this, Aa to tha Arizona Indiane, we have mors faith in the specific which Gen, Cnoox applica in that region when necensary than in Mr, Scort's efvilizing agency. Tho Arizona Indians give uv less trouble than those tribes which havo railroads nearer to Uiom, sud we should let well-cnough alone, ‘here was onu point which Mr. Scorr did not get iuto his At, Louia resolutions, bat he hag made it in the Auiliray World ; it has been reprinted in tho St. Louis papors, aud will probably bo n part of the address to Con- Grous, ft ia that the countruction of this rond at Government expense will giro em- ployinent to 140,000 men for ono year, which Mr. Scorr thinks will rostore gook times, This ia very much au if a Jarmer in a grasuhopper re. gion, or where there was a deprosuion from some other cartse, shoult mortgage his farm for $10,004) and omploy all his nsighbora to dig post-holes and then fill them up ogain, ‘There is uo doubt that such a community would be better off for a timo, but how about the farmer? Ho would find bintsztf mort. gagod with a debt of $10,000, nod no better of than before tie money was borrowed, Even those among whom ho had distributed the money would probably have misoonceived thair temporary prosperity and have indulgod in extravagant Lnbits that would loavo thom worse of than before, ‘That would bo just sich on panic in o small way as Mr, Tom SBcorr wanuls to produco in a large way by distributing Governmont funds amoung 140,000 people without receiv. ing anything for tho money, Haven't the American people alrondy had suflcient expe- rience in this sort of iinnucioring? It is so- riously proposed, in order to enable Mr, Scorr to distribute a part of 3117,360,000 among 1£0,000 men, nud pockot tho largo part of that sum for himself and his associates in the construction business, that tho Government shall pledge its credit for tha sum of 8234,- 720,009 in gold. Wouldn't the 110,000 peo- plo whom Mr, Scorr is xo anxious to benefit fare better if the Government would distrib. ute the $2i4,720,000 directly among them, instead of paying Mr. Scorr an enormous commission to distribnta a small portion of $117,860,0002 Put in this light, which is certainly fairor than Mr. Scorr's proposition, would Congress daro to entertain it? ENGLAND AND THE SUEZ CANAL, Mr, Disninct is nothing if not sensatioual. He is o believor in stago effects, aud is fond of trying to atone ‘for nny tistakes or monotony in oduninistration by some grand spectactlar purformauce at the closo, ‘This trait in his character bos just been again displayed, The Inyt sos- sion of Parliament reflected scant crodit upon the Tory Ministry. Nocrab could have been more ngile in rotroating than thoy were, ‘hen, after the adjournment of Parliament, cams the Joss of the Vanguard, followed close by the narrow oxcapo of tho other par- ty to that destructive meoting on the high sens, tho Iron Duke. ‘his has been fol- lowed, in turn, by the retiromont in disgraca of Wann Hunr. Meanwhile, tho Admiralty has been forced by public opinion to with- draw the foolish circular by which it tried to cugraft the worat features of ourold Fugitive. Slavelawupon Engligt: naval low. ‘The general public discontent haa also been nggravated by tho Queen's insolent letter, after her yacht had run down another, in which sho said what wou tantamount to declaring that if private persona did not want to be drowned, they had better keep out of the way of Her Majesty's ship. Thongh the Ministry were not at oll responsiblo for this outburst of: murderous eploen, thoy suffered from the effects of it. Mon bigh in powor aro always the targets of popular ill-feeling, no matter by what untoward avent the ill-fecling is caused, Disnaxut, hurt by this succession of catastro- phies, has lit his bluo lights and produced on his imaginary stage the spectacle of England grnuping for the control of the Suez Cannl and go of Egypt, and thns preparing to play her old role in the world's politics and disprove Bistancr's ancer that she was ‘no longer a European power,” ‘The people of England woke up on the morning after our Thanks. giving-Day to find that they had handed the Khedive o. Egypt £4,000,000 and reccived in roturn 177,000 shares of the Suez Canel Com. pany's stock, or very nearly half tho wholo, ‘This is anow woy for a Government to ac. quire practical possession of territory within thy limits of auothor, ‘Tho old method was to send an ariny and o fleat and seize tho soil. Cash supplants cannon ag the menue of civ- ilized conquest. Tho acquisition marks au entire revorsal in the forcign policy which Lord Patarenaton initiated and which has ainca been followed. Pataretston wan tho chiof opponent of the Suez Canal, and En- gland was foremost in demanding, after its completion, ite entire and eternal neutralize tion, She hoa been by far the greatost customer of the canal, supplying more than two-thirds of oll the tolls paid, and now sho 4g about to become ita owner. Shecannot do so without playing a prominent part in ‘Turko-Europenn politics, . She may allow Tusaia to inherit the possessiona of tho ‘sick man,” but a price will be paid for her con- sont, When the Russian fag waves on the Bosphorus, tho English ensign will be ro- flected in tho Nile, All this will take place, provided the galled jade of a British tax- payer doos not winco under the cost of im- porinl oggrandizement. But he is very apt todono, A quarter of o century ago, En- gland nnd France guaranteed a Turkish loan of £24,000,000. It ia now possiblo—prob- able, indeed—that thoy will have to make thy guarantee good. If this happens, the deep disguat of tax-payers in Oriental affairs will be too great to allow any farther intor- ference,, and Dierarzt'’s spectacular per- formanco will fail to please the people who seo it~and must pay for it, Still, stern necossity may force England to adopt her ancient polloy of imperialiam. If Austria and Rusuiy partition Turkey, the Ozar will soon ba able to march an army on bis own soil to the very boundaries of English Avia, Under such clroumstances Hindostan cun, perhaps, be retained only by placing Egypt under the protection of England, ‘This would not only moke it dangerous for Russia to attack, but it would insure the safe transfer of British troops and mnnitions of sar to the Indian Ocean. Certainly, Euglard cannot afford to let kus othar Power he'd fhe Suez Canal: it remaina to be seen whether she can afford to hold it heradt, Ut is now plain that the notsblo article tit the Pid Mrlt, on which wo commented a few days age. was “ingpired,” and that its appa. reatly wild insinuations about the necessity of ocenpying Egypt wero renily hints de- aignod to test tho public temper on a project alrondy docided upon. Disasrtt line been shrowd enough to secnro tho hearty support of the London 7'mes, and may therefore count upon @ popular backing. When Par- linment reconvener, howovor, look ott for squalls, THE REVOLT OF THE SERFB. Tho battle between tho sorfs of Enginnd and their masters, the formers and landlords, ended in the defont of tho former. A hollow truce exists between thom, ‘Tho Labor-Union, which fought the fight of the agricultural la- borers, ia split in two, and is temporarily. not permanently, powerlass, Nuither cf its two wings expocts to renew the old thsht. Each will horcafter bend its offorta to pro- moting emigration,—o hazardous remedy for home ills, The onemy is by no means united, either. ‘Cho farmers ara dissatisfied and seated, Tho Inndlorda—or soma few of the winer among thom—see in the rebellion of tho serfs the warning finger that traces the “Mone, mene" arrosa tho tonopoly land Inws of Englond. ‘Thoro is a wide-spread dis- contor Tho condition of the serfs has some- what improved, heir avoraye wages aro two shillings, or half o dollar, a work moro thin they were threo Yeurs ago, when the rorolt began, What is Porkaps of much greater importance, public Attention has boen entled to tha existance of serfdom on English soil, to the fact that the agricultural laborer, the direct descendant and only representative of tho sturdy yeo- man who, in the days of smotl farms, was England's pride and strength, has sunk to the lovel of the brnuto, Ho lives in straw. roofod, mud-watled hovels on mud floors. Ho and his wifo, their ewarming children of every ago,—ushored into the world by a doc- tor in parish pay, and thus branded ns paupera before: their cyes opon to the life that curses them,—and often two or threo lodgers, all lie in heaps upon tho conrao atraw that ix at auco carpet nnd bed in the ono room the hut contains, Reduced to live like pigs. is it any wondor that they gratify their brutish pnasions like pigs? Exceptions thero fre, of course, but this is tho rule, The letters of tho correspondente detailed by the London papors to write up the strike of 1873 and the lock-out of 1874 painted a story of wretched. noss that was as frightful as Cant Hunwen's ‘“Wanvers of Silesia,” tho picture which provoked a riot in Berlin, when exhibited there, and which wan shown in the art-gal- lery of the Exposition here in 1874, It was not ploasant to learn that employes of Queen Vreronta, servants of o monarch who saves a fortune from her suporfluous income ovory year, were starving and sinning on wages that mado it simply iznpossible to escspe pauper. ism, More delightful, if not moro intorast- ing, letters have beun printed than that do- tailing the woes of tho snifering Inborors on tho Sandringham estate, tho rosidouce of tho Princo of Wales, whoso incomo is nearly $2,000 a day, All together, the {nets unearthed by tho keon dotectives of tho press told a fearful story of man's inhumanity to man. That story has been somewhat changed, but only alittle, The Inboror is wtill searzely moro than a slave, He has beon a beast of burden too long to become a man forthwith, oven when his yearly wages is in- ereasod by the enormons sum of $26. In too many caued, the oxtraS0centa n week isspent for liquor, and the life shows no change for the batter, There seoms, indeod, to be little hopo for tho human cattle who have grown up under the conditions of the past. Save in oxcaptional cases, they cannot be human. ized, ‘Tho effectual work must bo done with tho next generation. Lf the children can be docontly clothed and fed, saved from some of the more dondiy influences which have poisoned their parents’ lives, and sont to. school, they will be something more than the criminals to whom thoy awe their oxistence. But tho most important change that can be made in the interests of humanity, of Christianity, of common.sonso, igo thorough reform of tho land laws, When tho agricultural laborer owns the land he tills, ho will be a slave no longer. His condition uow ia perhaps a little bottor than that of the French serfa in 1789, but the son of tho serf is now living in reasonable comfort, while tho descendant of the yooman is a miserable slave, THE EXAMPLE OF FRANCE. ‘Tho Ohicago wild-cut organ seems to be incapable of receiving information or of np- plying it whon it does receivo it. Its latest woreed ia upon the way the French Govern- ment has administered its finances, The iisfortuno is that we have willfully ond dis. aatrously avoided the Fronch policy, and, while the paper currency of that country is ot por with gold, ours iz worth less than it was yours ago, Hore is what {t has to say, and more false statemetits and false ren- wons are not often crowded into an equal apnce: ‘Those facta ware cited to vhow how gold may be and ia altracted toa country by Anauolal espedicnts, ue in the caro of France by the maklag of papor woney ® full legat-tendor, and so stimulating productive {2- dustries toa high degroo of activity, This activity after a while turned the batauco of trade 1a favar of Frauce, and then gold flowed In for ecttlewent, There {9 no sentiment at the bottom of the raviva! of tho indus tries of Frat ‘The French Government did not, 8 tho first atep toward apocle reaumptlou, coutract the volume of paper mi Qu the contrary, tt con- tinued to enlarge its until the bum of industry was heard in every quarter of the feud, Yivally, when through the ostraorduary activity, the volume of the exporte larg esosded thit of importa and wold beysn to fow back, paper currency contraction com. menced, enough belug retired to offsct the now ac- cumulativns of the precious motuls, By tho torms of tho treaty with Germany, Frauce had to pay $1,000,000,000 in coin within a brief specified period,—the pay. monts beiug in rapid installments. The Goy- ernment borrowed of the Bank of France 806,000,000 of its notes, which wera madu logal-tender, ‘These notes it negotiated and exchanged sll over Europe and largely in Germany for silver, which was thon tho Jegal-teader in Germany, and with this silver France paid off much of tho several install- monte of the indemnity, 1 was $1,000,000,000 of coin taken out of France bodily and trans- ferred to Germany. ‘The Bauk loaned theso notes to the Govornment to fill the vacuum in pért,—the Bank increasing ita {sane of paper money by the addition of 300,000,000, the Government undertaking to repay the loan in gevon annual installments. The previous paper issue of the Bank waa #308,000,000,— making in all $014,000,000 of legal.tendors issued by the Bank. The votes declined in price and sold ata discount, like our green- backs, for gold at @ varying price, Un- liko our Government, howaver, the Bank of France promptly fleed a date—Jan. 1, 1878 for ths resumption of specio payments, and hogan at onee the foiut op2ration of nocumn, latins gold and cautracting its papor isan, even faster than the Government repaid the loan. Tho notes at once advanced to nearly par, and buainess in Frauca bat boon done evr since practically ono apecio basin, In the menntime. the thousand millions of coin thrown into Germany oaased av expaunion ot credit. Prieas advanced, wages inerennod, strikes ensued, spoculation was wild, nnd in. flation had its inevitabla conaequencss, Gey. many was wanble to manufacture at prices admitting of exportation, whily her Import, increased a the result of Inflation and result. ing extravagance. Inn short tima most of the indetanity gold flowed out of Germany, Moanwhile France, which had been deained of her coin money to snore than throe times the amount of tho now Bank tsaues of paper, continued to sroric anid manufacture chonply. Tho conse. quence was that the Fronoh wera nblo to sell thoir products in all parta of Germany below tha inflated coat of German yroduction, Franoe rapidly reeuporated. Tho Govern. ment paid the Bank (ho first installments of the loan, and the Bank, nasoon as it recoived tha notes, drracd them. On the Ist of Novetuber, 1878, the outntanding legat-tondor notes of France renchot — 3,071,000,00 francs, oF &614,200,000, ‘This virculation hae Deen steadily reduced by burning the notes on thoy are recaivad, until on the 9th of Sep, tember, 187%, lows than two yenrs, the amount outstanding was &72,400,090,—the net reduction baing €141,000,090, or Raarly one-half of the whole increnss of issue canied by tho wor, and the reduction is till going on. In the meautimo gold is flow. ing back into Franco, and long bafore tho Ist of January, 1878, tha legal-tender notes of France will be redeemable in coin on demand, So fixed n cortainty is specie pay. monta that the notea now in all ordinary transactions aro taken at par, and are actually exchangeable for gold at loss than one-half por cent, Here, instead of expansion, has been nsteady withdrawal of tho notes and their destruction, and the man who wonld propose in Franco to reissue one of thays notes, of to inflate the paper currency, or postpone ab. , solute apecio payments, would properly be put down ng an ass, a lanntic, or an enemy of his country. All honor to tho wisdom of France, and prayarfally may ont peopla ask that her policy bo imitated in the United States! Mississippi ia blessed with o candidate fa the United States Senate whose lection will produce some remarkable results. Senator Axconn’s term docs not end until March 4, 1877, but as the State Legislature holds only bionnin) sessions, his successor will be chosen this winter, Ho bas aspirations hisnself, but probably no chances, The candidate afore said 1s Gen, Wixriznp Scorr Fraturnstéy, about whom we know nothing pro or con, but whose election, according to tho Mobile Jeg. ister, will be colebrated by 1 whoop which tho throats of ten thousand Indinna could not produce, and which would drown evar the hurrooa and cudgel-whacka of on old-time Donnybrook Fair. ‘Tho (white} peoplo of Missisaippi,” says tho writer, ‘from the hill tops of Marshall to the glittering sands of the Gulf, from the dark, shadowy canobrakes of tho Mississippi River to tho sunny prairies of tho Tombigbes, would send up one long, wild shout at the election of this distinguished citizen and coldicr.” Tho Register saya those avo “golden words,” but they seom to hypor- critical persons to be alloyed to auch a degree that they are little more than pinchbeck. If they are correctly described, golden wordsare little better than greonback dollars, It is very easy to write such stuff, Even our 'prontice hand could do it, Listen, If Ssars. mvs is elected Constable, the people of Iilinols, from the precipices of Cook Coun ty to the yellow mud of Cairo, from the foaming torrents of the canal $0 the storied temples of Nauvoo, from the flower-sprinkled load-mines of Galeva to the towering peaks of our prairies, from the broad Inkes that Inve the reedy abores of Calumet to the bounding billowa that sweep with riot and roar under the fiftecn-million-dollar bridge, would howl and yoll and whoop and shrick until archangels faint and devils awile There! Theso muat bo golden, diamond atuddod, pearl-odged words, according to the Register's standard. After that, what cam- parison can there be botwoon tho Senatorial chances of FxaTuenston and the Constabular chances of Surrranins ? If the testimony of the man Mxoave, the St, Lous whisky cases, can be rolled upon, a new and curious fact is added to the twisted tangle of oventa connected with the {amous and infamous Oxonpenntne claim. It will bo remembered that this olaim was once andited and ordored to be paid, when Senator —thon Iepresontative—Dawes rushed a bill through the Housa forbidding the payment, and thus saved the Troasury a half-million steal, Groat credit hay always been given Mr. Dawes for this action. Mxonur's story by no meana dotracts from that oredit, bat shows that this impudent attempt to bleed the Troasnry was only defeated by an equally impudent attompt to blackmail the owners of tho claim. Senator Srencen, of Als bama, had been engineering the job— this is an unfortunate habit of Mr. Srenoxr,—and bad got it audited. To him camo Mzoxvz, who sald he wanted—io his own expressive dinluct—to “strike” the ownera of the claim, and who accordingly arranged a plan with Brexcen. The former was to delay the payment, sod Mxronug was to ropresent to the heirs that he could hurry it up, and was to put tho price of his wholly imaginary “influence” at $40,000,—part of which sum, if paid, was presumably to go to Seencer, The latter hurried down to the Hongo and interviewed Dawes, Mr. Dawxs, fortunately for the country and unfortunate: ly for the conspirators, took the alarm forthe with aod had a bill passod which effectually provented the paymout of the claim, aud 20 chuckmated the little plan of the lobbyists Dishonesty was its own defeat. We sball watch with considerablo’ interest the rald Cuonrexnrsa moans to make on the Demo cratio House. _— ee. Bome years ago, the Suprema Court of Ilincis decided, in the caseo? nar County vs Davis, that the Conaty Courts of Ilinola, 8s organized under the Conatitution of 1038, were not courts having oompatent jurisdio- tion to adwmit aliens to citizenship of the United Btates. In the meantime, thousands of Wiens in TWinoig had in good faith been admitted to citizensblp by the Qonnty Courts, The State Convention, in the Constitution of 1870, unable to mako these persons citizens, endeavored to secure to them the right of voting despite their dee footive naturalization, aud go provided in the Constitution for the privilege of suifrage by