Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 6, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATZE OF FETSCRITTION (TATARLE IN ADYANCE). Pastame Predald nt this OMee. Daly Bditlong poatnaid. 1 688,0vvecrvsnssssernsaB18.00 Parts of yearatsame rato, Rhical Tei- Weekiz, , 1 7ol Partaof yoar at eame rate. X XDITION, POSTPAID, Tha peatago fe 13 centa Specimen coples seut free, Toprevent delsy and mistaker, bie sure snd give Test-Ofice address in full, {ucluding Stataand Caunty. Itemittances may be made either hy draft, express, Foat-Offica order, or In regiatered lettars, at aur Fisk, TERNS TO CITT SCRECRINERA, Datly, delivered, Sunilay excepted, 23 cents per week, Duily, deliversd, Bunday fucluded, 10 centa por weok, Addrem THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson and Drarborn-sis., Chicago, Il ey T AMUSEMENTS, REW OHICAGQO THEATRE—Clark afrest, between Tandoiph aud Lake, Xogagement of Knlly'k Leou's Minateels, it ADELPII THEATRE—Dearborn street, corner Monroe. Varfety enterlainment, McVICKER'S THEATRIE—Madinon strast, helwesn Desrborn and State, Engagement of May Moward, *“The New Magdalen,” WOOD'S MUSEUM--Montoa strest, between Dear. born and Btate, Afternoon, ¥ Cgllle,” Lvening, ** Bix Degrees of Crime.” PLYMOUTH CHURCII—Coneort by the Barnabee Troupe, The Chicagy Tribune, Monday Mormng, Decombor 6, 1875, At tho New York Gold Exchange, on Sat- urday, greenbacks ranged between 87} nnd 874, tho bulk of the sales being mndo at §73. A correspondent suggested, in yesterdny's Trinue, that the practico of potitioning the School Board of this city to restore the Bible to the public schools sbould be nbandoned, and recourso bo had to prayer. PTrof. Tix. pary might bo willing to accept this modifi- cation of the prayor-gaugo iden, but wo £hould not adviso tho prayerful ones to make it o tost case. ey Considerablo dissatisfaction is reported ns sxisting among tho British residonts in Chi- 18 on account of tho leisurely and ineficiont manner in which Minister Wape has pro. ceeded in the enforcement of reparation for the Manosny murder. This fecling is ag- gravated by tho continued recnrrenco of in- dignities and acis of violenco committed by the Chinese upon forcigners, and the evident indifference of the Peking Government upon the subjeo ¥ Among the first agreesblo experiencos of the new Congress will be the opportunity of # {reo trip to Philadeiphia, nnd a thorough inspection of the Centenninl preparations, with all that that implies in the way of lios- pitality galore. It is contidently expected by the judicious manngersof tho afair that the Uentennial, ns viewed by the avernge Demo- cratie 3L C. through the bottom of acham. pague glass jost emptied, will bo recognized 4s nn enterpriso eminently worthy of the million-nnd-o-half appropriation which Con- gress will be importaned to give. Princo of Wales in his tour throngh India coufirm tho carlier reports of his enthusinstic reception, oven tho intensest of the Brah. mins nceording to their future sovereign n warmth of treatment which astonishes the potives, What with witnessing the perform- ances of the conjurors and suake-charmers, learning tha process by whicli the vultures nre gorged on the towers, and making the cequaintance of a lineal descendaut of the Old Man of the Mountains, ALuesr Epwanp is npparently seeing the clephantin a manner Vighly edifying and satisfactory. Tt trauspires thet Gen. Bancocx was in- dicted in 5t. Louis last Friday, but the Dis- trict-Attorney delayed returning the indiet- ment to the Court in due form, in the belief that it was dosired that tho military Court of Inquiry should take precedonce. This was n misapprehension, the President ond Cabinet boing unanimous in the wish that thore shall bo no delny in the conduet of proceedings in connection with the indictment, and it i ex. pected that by the close of the present wock Gen. Bancock will be in the custody of tho United States Court ot St. Louis, or else under boends at Washington to appear and answer to the indictment when wanted —— Our Washington dispatches this morning trent extensivoly of the subject of Claims, giving a lint of some of the enormous and extravagant designa on the Tressury enter- tained by the people of the South whose mn- terial interests suffered in consequenca of the ‘War, The numbor of claimants willing to enter upon tie ers of reconmeilintion and pence, aud nnxious to avail themselves of tho generous bounty of ihis glorious Union as dispensed by a Democratio Congross, is really aficeting to contemplate. Itis a spectacle enlculated to draw tears from tho eyes of thoe most lardened and unforgiving tax-payer in the North. A curious story, apparently well authenti- catod, and bearing the marks of consistency, is told by a correspondent of the New York Ttnes, pud repubhished in our columus this morning, It refera to the summer of 154, ot the time when the peaco negotiations wero in progress at Niogara Falls, and tells of an infamous conspirncy for tho nssassination of President LixcoLy on the day before clection, The plot had been thoroughly discussed and fully resolved upon by the Soutbern Robels and Northern Democrats who flocked to the CliftonHouse under the pretenso of discussing peace negotiations which were never meant to ba consummated, and tho flendish schemo was only abandoned becanse of the angry and in. dignant refusal of Deax Riciuonp to give it couutenance, aud bLis threat to cause the in- staut publication of tho detalls and the names of the conspirntors unless their murderous wachinations were discontinued at once and forever, As it was, so the narrative gocs, the watler was communicated to Gen. Dix, and by hita reported to President Lincoww, whose rare wisdom it was, opposed to the counsels of is Cobinet, that koptthe intelligence from tho world ot u time when be rightly judged tho general discovery of such a ‘conspiracy would bave o depressing effect upon our urmies, which were then meeting with but iudifferent sucoesu at the front. ‘Ike wtory is iaterenting at all events ; the more so that it is probably trus. The Chicago produce markets were rregu. lor on Saturday. Mess pork was in fair de. ward and he per brl bigher, closing st ¥19.12J@19.10 for December and $19.30 for February. Lord was quiet aud 2§@3e per 100 s higher, cloalng at $12.15@1%.17) tor Docemnber and H12,35 for Ped wi.y. Moats were quist and unchanged, a4 vée for ahouldacs, 1W@MW4s for ahast ribe, and §4ie for short clenrs, all hoxed, Highwines were in fair demnnd and steady, st SL1L per gallon, Flonr was dml and easier. Wheat wns more active and 1ic lower, closing at e casht aud $1.00 for Janurry. Com was more active and ralar, closing'at 457c for Tiecember and | for May. Oats were easicr, closing at cash aund %0c for Jan- unry. Rye was steady, ot 8@ 68ic. Barley was quict and ensier, closing st Bje for Des comber and 84c for Jonuary. Iogs were in moderate demand at Triday's prices, closing ensy. Sales were principally ot §6.75@7.00. Cattlo were firm and unchanged, at S3.00@ £,00 for common to choice. 'Che sheep trude was quict atunchonged prices. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.75 in green- Lacks at the close. The tremendons gathering at MeVicker's Theatro yesterday morning, in spite of the rain, nssuros the success of Prof, Swiva'sin- dependent movement in establishing a centrnl church, There wero at lenst 3,000 peoplo in tho building, and nently as many moroe went awny unablo to find stavding room. The enterprise is by no means esperimental. Prof. SwixNaG's services in the samo place after {he fire and for many months before the com- pletion of the Fourth Church demonstrated thnt the attraction of the great religion lio prenches and the clarming way in which ho unfolds it aro enough to eall together more people then ean bo nccommodated in the largest auditorinm in the city, o is in no sonso n sensationnl prenclier, Ho hasa hold upou tho reason as weli a3 the affections and respect of the Chicago peoplo which will not be loosened by time, and he has now o swider sphere of usefulness than over before. Thero will bo no services at the Central Chureh for the next two Sundays. This in- termission is taken for the purposo of giving tho Business Committeo an opportunity to arrange the best plan for disposing of the sents. Their arrangements will bo concluded and their full programme announced during the present week, and services will bo re- sumed the Inst Sundny in December. There- after tho Contral Church will be ono of Chi- cago's peranent and most nseful religious institutiona, 'The fitness of McVicker's The- atre for holding the services was strikingly attested yesterdny by the circumstance that tho thentro wns emptied of the immense con- gregationit lieldin just four minutes,—na com- forting reflcction in the contingency of a firo, THE ROMINATION OF KERR FOR SPEARLE. "T'ho nomination of Mr. Micuars C. Krun, of Indiann, as the Democratic enndidnto for Spenker of the Ifouse of Ropresentatives, which, of course, iusures hiy election, is au event npon which the wholo country is, in a measure, to Lo congratulated. To the extent that the Democratie party is in power, it is for the common henefit of the wholo people that their best men should be placed in tho most intluential and responsiblo positions, The choice of Speakeris chiefly significant, beenuso the sclection of the House Commit- tees resty entirely with hiw, and upon their organization depends largely the character of the legislation. What trades, if any, relative to the formation of the Committees hnve been mado to securo Mr. Kern's selection cannot be known uutil after the Committecs whall have been sunounced ; we have only Mr. Kenw's nssuronce from the beginuing that be would not be o party to any such bavgsins, and, i he hns kept thin promise, he will now bo untramueled and free to se- lect tho Committecs with referenco to the Dest interests of the country, The triumph of Mr. Kuun is certainly the most nuspicious sugury of conservatism in the present Congress that has beon offered tho public, unless it is the result of a policy of deception,~not merely beenuse ho las been chosen, but also because it included the defént of Mr, Raxoary, who was his wmost conspicuous opponent. Mr, RANDALL was largely identified with the most objectionable Coungressional practices, He wos ona of the back-pay salary-grabbers, His parliamentary experience hos been chiefly employed in dila- tory and liavnssing proceedings. Hois be- lieved to be in sympathy with the subsidy- Leggars in general and Tos Bcorr's vast sehemes in particular, He is certainly an apologist for the fallacy of taxation for ¥ Protection,” and is suspected of a decided leaning toward the wild schemos for further qiluling an irredeemable cur. roncy. Mr. Kren, on the other hand, is un avowed and vigorous disciplo of sound money; thathe will be uwncompro- miking in this regard is evinced by the fact that no amount of Indinpa or other pressuro induced him to waver on this point during his Congreasional campaign, in spite of the danger staring bim in the face that ho would Lo defeated on this very account. Ie is also in favor of revenue reform,—that is the clim- ination of the iden that tho peoplo are * pro- tected ” by taxing the many for the benefit of tho few. He las likewiso the reputation of being a thoronghly honest and candid man, and, if 60, ho caunot fail to recognizo the preponderant sentimont against ouy further subsidizing and loaning of the public credit to private schemes. This sontimont includes the great mejority of sl partios and political thinkers, aund, after all that hus been said and done fu his behalf, we do not see how Alr, K£ng con refuso to defer to it. The choico of Kenn seems to be aceepted in Washington ua tho present defeat of the "I'opt Scorr lobby for {he endowment of the Texns & Arizoua Railway swindle, at the mto of ¥40,000 n mile, nud at an aggrogate cost to tho Government, in the end, of $234,720,- 000, If this view proves to be correct, it will bo a great boon to the Ameriean pooplo, and an esenpo from a danger that was becom- ng exceedingly formidable, Itis hardly safe, bowaver, to bulloo before we nre out of the woods, Thu plans of Scorr's Credit Mobilierare deeply laid, and the stakes they are playing for ara too high to be given up without a tre- mendous strugglo. ‘Thioy way yot succeed in copturing o wnjorily of the Democratio Houso, though tho fact that the Southern members voted lurgoly for Kenn would indi. cate that they are not somuch misled by tho in- genious advertising of Mr. TouScorT a8 some of tho Soathern papers would have us be. llove. Tho swindle may be postponed for party reasous until after tho next Presidential olection. It seams to be generally supposed that, ay Indiona has secured the Bpenkembip in the peraon of Keng, its Presidential prospects in the person of Henpuiczs will bo considerably wepkened, 'This will undoubtedly be the ef. fect, to some extent. But Kxnn's choleo way certainly the result of the combined intlu. ence of the Indinng and Ilinois dolegations, und they will be as vigorous probably iu thelr advoeucy of Henpnicks us the Prosidentinl cundidate us they have been in their support of Ksr.' 1f they succeed, the ryesult will very wuch diminish the public contidence iu the soundness of tho Domocratio position on the currency question, which the cholce of Kazx i3 valculated to snoousage, Iudosd, :| walks our streets is liable to bo seized with THE CHICAGO TRIBUNI: MONDAY, having given the Demoeratic Houso a full mensure of credit for melecting Kenw ns against RaNpaLy, it may serionsly U gies. tioned whether a Inrge proportion of the ninety votes he received jn eanens were not inflnenced rather by an intention to lull tie suspicions which the people enter tain toward the Demoecratie party than to honestly abide by the doctrines which Kera i1 supposed to ropresent, Thero is no doubt but the shrewdest Democeralic manngers aro trimming all their salls with referonce to the Prosidentinl campnign. Kenn's clection would hinve been more signiticant of good faith if it had oceurred qfter the Pregidential election insterd of Ieforeit. Just how many of the ninety votes Kron reccived wero given him with the particular viow of eater. ing to public sentiment for uso in tho Presi. dential eampaign, and with no intention of obiding by Kenn's doctrino, cannot be definitely dotormined; but that thero wore n number the ecircumstances of tho caso (notably the fact that Ranpary had counted confidently on eighty votes be- foro tho cauens met) leave no doubt. Buch persons will nlly themselves with the sixty- threo Congressmen who continued to vote for RaxpaLy, and thereby nvowed their in. dorsement of the snlary-grab business, the Protection fraud, the inflation swindle, the subsidy steals, and ail the worst practices and tendencies of Congress. This will constituto a formidable phalanx, which will be strongly tempted to shiow its front before tho session is hnlf over, notwithatanding the restraint of the overshadowing Presidenticl cathpaign, With the best hopes, therefore, for the in. fluence which Mr. Kern may bo ablo to ex- ert, it is well to repress too much confidence until after tho holidays, when Congress will enter upon the real business of the year. THE MURDERER'S INSARITY. The insanity dodge bas been onca more played with success in the caso of Jonn ScaxNeLy, the Now York rough who mnr- dered Tooxas Doxonve. The second trial cloged ou the 27th ult, with a verdict of not guilty, tho jury declaring that they belioved him to havo been insane st tho timo of tho shooting. How much insanity there was in the murder may be judged from the facts, In 1869, Frorexce ScanNzLy, o candidate for Alderman, was shot in a bar-room riot. Titoxas Doxonug, the Larkeeper, was arrest. ed upou suspicion, but after n long and earo- ful investigation the prosecution ulterly fail- ed to conneot him with the murder, and ho was rolensed. The brother, Jony Scanyeny, who had n suspicion it might have bLeen Doxouve wha did the shooting, tracked him from plnce to place until he found his opportunity and then shot him down in a bar-rooin, nand, after he had killed him, riddled his body with bullets, and then re- marked to a bystander, **'I'hia is the end of o long grudge.” In the face of such faets a« these, tho jury declared him insanc and ac- quitted hini. The Court expressed its indig- nation at the verdiet, and justly, us there was no pretense that he wns insane bofore the shooting, and he has been perfectly sane since. The case has a locnl application, inns- tuch as the inranity dodge will bo undoubt- edly tried in the case of tho gambler Davis, who murdered Wirraxo tha other day, No pretenso can be made that DAvis was insane before the shooting. He hag indignantly de- Deputy and tho 1ioss drove werrily to the residouee of Twrep, Jr, Tho Losy wanted to #eo his wife privately. Of course there were 1o objections; butwhether the Joss wenb up- stairs or down-stairg, into my lady's ehnmber or out of the back dvor, neithor the Warden nor Depuly ean toll. Young Mr. Tween en- tertained tho Dopmty and tho Warden. o entertained so suceossfully that five minutes clapsed and they nover thought of the Boss, Ten minutea passed and youug Mr, TI'werp still entertnined them succesafully, Iifteon minutes passed nud the entertainer was so ontertaining that their thonghts never wont up tho stairs, then they thiought the entertainer, who was growing a little tircsowto, had better go wp. stoirs and roquost the Boss lo come down, e wont up. It took him a long timo to got back, and he came bnck toaring his bair, with the henrt-ronding nn. nouncement that the portly Lird had flown. Why young Mr. 'T'werD should have torn Lis hair does nat nppear, excopt that it was the deamatic thing to do. Itis not related that cither tho Warden or the Deputy tore thoir loir. The Wardon went aud told a Deputy- ‘Warden nt tho jail, and this Deputy-Warden went to thoe Bberiff’s hounse and told him, and the Sheriff went to tho offico of the Polico Suporintendent aud told him, and the Polico Superintendont told the policemon, and the policemon told the detoctives, and then there was hurry and scurry, and wo are told that the police and detectives scoured New York City, altbough it is difficult to seca why thay should have scoured tho city at all, Ample time hiad beon given the Boss to put himseM Leyond the ranch of legnl clutches, and he did it. Ife would have beon 8 very ringular man if ho lhad mot done it. IIo would have been a vory foolish man to return to the jail when permirsion Bind been givon him to lenvo it. If the othor prisoners wero Bosses and were allowed to leave tho jail, thoy wonld not retnrn. Thero are two guestions which will oceur to the curious mind relative to the convonient eseape of the Boss. The firat of theso is, How much did it cost tho Boss? As the Sher- ill’'s Lond for the foithful performance of his duty is 250,000 nnd the Warden's 820,000, tho average nrithmotical skeptic will fignro up a prico above $70,000. Convenient os- capes plmost always involve loss of monoy. Perhaps Twrep's did not ; bub most peoplo will imagine the motto over his bed, *In God wa trust,” to bo at lenst gently ironical. 'The second question that peoplo will ask is why a diserimination should bo made in the enso of Twrrp, There are uo relative degrees of gnll in a case like his. Tither he is guilty or not, and it ke is guilty ho is just as guilty asovery other prisoner in tho jail. Why, then, should ke be allowed yprivileges denied the others ? But moraliz. iy is vain in this easo. Tho Twerp farce is over, and the curtain rings down upon the Boss flying to his secure asylum and signifi- cantly inquiring, ** What aro you going to do about it? " THE FUTURE EMPIRE OF EGYPT. The acquisition of the Suez Canal by Great Britain necessarily involves something like a protectorate of Lgypt, but it is probable that tho offensive name will bo kept out of sight and tho protection be given only to keop the King on his throne, He may perhaps be nmed it himself, Ho most certainly | furnished with English troops to complete hng Dbeen sape ever since the nur- | his conquests in Central Africn, but such aid der, oud yol his counsel will prob- | will probably only be given in case rowmo ably seelk to cstablish tho fnct, or | Buropean Tower threatens the integrity of rather the belief in the minds of the jury, that ho was insano at the time ho shot Wiy- rayp. Should this theory bo urged with sufficient force to conviuce the jury, or should & convenient jury bo impancled to bring in such a verdict, tha publie will de- mand that the murderer shall be imprisoned in an ingsno asylum for life na a guarontee of protection to Bocioty. If hie was only in- sano at the timo he shot Wiuvrsasp and is re. lensed, then no man je safe from™ his parox- ysms or those of other gamblers, who will be rendy to avail themselves of the insanity dodge to wreak their vengeance upon those against whom they may happen to lave n grudge, or who may chanco to cross their path in n man- ner offepaive to their peculiar gonso of honor, 1Itis time that insanity sbould bo punished, if it is to be made a defense for murder. If every brute and scoundrol that bis possessions. He will certainly have the belp of British monoy and of individual Britons, and can rely upon substantial na. tional protection in any extreme danger. ‘e concealed political alliance between En. ¢lnnd and Egypt will result ins publio and close commercial allinnes between the two, Englishh merchants will roap the profits of figyptian trade, sud English tax-payers will escapo the necessity of supporting a costly colonial Government. The history of the Egyptisu Empire is a series of dissolviug views, T'he dowain ruled from tho Lower Nilo has oxpanded, contract- ed, expanded again, nnd again contracted, through cycles of centuries, Dynasty hay succoeded dynasty, Thronos lave beon built upon thrones, Tho vast royal families have seattered their blood through all ranks of tho people, until there is scarcely o fellah on tho Nile who cannot claim kinship with his ruler, Where havoms abound, all man- kind soon jbecome related. 'Those ethnolo- gista who find the highest type of raco in tho nation which is composed of tho moat clomonts can point to the present Khedive of Fgypt as a passing proof of their theory. Tho blood in his veina comed from many different sources. The union of the white slaves of Oircassis and tho "Aark-skinned Turks from many varying climes hns at last produced a mon who defics the languid influeuces of the hot sun that beats on Nilo sands, and nots with an energy and skill we are wont to claim as tho ex- clugive possession of a more western nnd a colder civilization. Fis Empire is now about to swallow up Abyssinin, and will, perchance, ultimatoly embranee all Contral Africa, from sea to sea, Abymiinion civilization, such na it is, is an offshoot from that of Egypt, with moro recent grafts from Portugal. When the Bedouins overthrew the old Egyptian dynasty, the deposed monarchs fled up the Nile Valley, passed through flery dosort and matted jungle, and estab- lished w now kingdom in the vast onsis of Ethiopia und Abyssinin. A great trade in ivory, in gema and gold-dust, in epices and slaves, made thom strong and rich, Inthe courso of time, they reconquered their Egyp- tian throue, trunsferred thelr seat of rule back to Memphis, and left Ethiopia and Abyesinia to be managed by their satraps. But ero long one of the latter throw off the yoko, invaded hig Ewperors own conotry, oud made Egypt a satrapy of hisown. A dreamn drove the suporstitious barbarian back towards tho sources of the Nile, and Egypt was sbandoned to civil war until the Pror- euies assumed supromo power, ‘The third of that name couquored Abyusnia again. In ways like these, the contest of oross. purposes, the marriages and divorces of tho two countries, went on, Tho prosent attempt of tho Khedivo to add Abyssinia to Egypt, if successful, will meroly join together two principalities that have often been joined together nnd as often torn opart. The ten- dency of thingsin all civilized countriesis towards consolidation ; it remalns to be seen whether semi-civilization can exert this samo cobiexive power. iusanity and to commit murder one day, he is lishle to do the samo thing any other day, and socicty thercfore is only safo when they aro Jocked up for lifo. B038 TWEED'S ESCAPE, Doss Twrep is once moro at liborty, and without disgorging hia stolon plunder. What the courts refused to do, lio hns done him. self. The Court of Appoals removed him from Blackwell’s Islaud to i.he Ludlow Btreet Jnil. The courta would nol; open the door of his cell without eix millions bail, so he opened it himself, and is now over the hills and for away, and wa can fancy the fugitive in bhis flight now and then turning round to ask, *What are you going to do about it ?" Nothing, of course. There ‘will bo a spnsm of indignation upon the part of honest peoplo; a spasm of indignation upon the part of mi- nor and less wealthy criminals for whom Shoriffs and Doputies are 1 over convenient ; a spasm of industrions tonring around and riding about on the part of policemon and detectives; ond o spaam of pretepded sur. prise upan tho part of the BShorif and his Deputies that thoir prisoner should have slipped through their fingers naknown (?) to them,—then the wholo affair will pass out of ramembrance and ceaso to be a sensation. ‘Thero is no probability that ‘'weep will return to Ludlow Streot Jail Police, and Bheriffs, and detcctives may a8 well abandon the sirvalated wsearch. Buforo this timo ho is in security and beyond tho processes of law, He hai ggone to mcet his partners in iniquity who ure enjoying their stealings in foreign purts, MLy Tween will very soon alvo bo under a new vine sud fig-tree, where he will pass thn remainder of his days {n affleent and infamous exile, Tho escops of the Dewocraiio oss shows neither shrowduess nor conrago. Everything was arranged und made conveniont and cow- fortable for him. No obstucle was placed in his way, and plenty of time was allowed him to run. It hod been tho custows of the jail authorities, it seenis, to tike the Boss out to drive, bocsuse ho frequintly had tho headacho! Other prisoners laave the head- ache sometimos, but thoy ars not taken out to rido behind fast nags, becaw o they are not Dewacratic Bosses. When on Saturday the Boss wanted to go and see his wife, of course the Warden conld gccomunodato him, *‘be. caune licenso ought to ba gronted to & man who has so wmuch private business to transact.” Other prisonens bave & grest deal of private busi- uess 1o transact, but they cannof bo | a gveat deal more obout thew, by the way, Mlowed t0 go snd ses their wives, because | thaa they do sbout b, or are ever likely to, thoy ase not Bosses, ‘The Weatlan aad the | Whea his got through and his sweetly sleep. Cagrzs HameigoN, ho mado his maiden speech Saturdsy and was summarily squelched, Unablo to wait until Coogress assfinbled, he talked and talked snd talked to the Democrats in caucus assembled, mak- ing that well-known and somowhat tbread- bare speech about his constituents. Ho talka 'I'wenty minutes flew by and’ DECEMBEIR [ ing collepgues were waked np, the motion in favor of ciza roce voting, which le had nar- dently advoeated, was put fo vote. 'Che yeas wero 44; the nays were 5o numerous that the Chair ot tired out before ho finished counting them. 'This was very sad for our Canrrr, Derhaps, however, he will do better na o conatitnent of tho next Congressman from the West Sido than ho does as the Con- gressiunn, PAY OF HIGH PUBLIC BERVARTS. The declination of the Commissionership of Indinn Affnira by Ex-Gov. Wanp, of Now Jersey, after the offico had been declinzed by half o dozen other good wmen to whom it was offered, §s not surprising; but it brings out prominently the Ameriean illiberality toward public servants holding rosponsibla posi. tions, and the dotriment to public intorests incident therato. 'There is no queation but Secretary Uiaxpren is nctunted by nu honest <lesiro to reform tho Indian rervice, and the first atep to that end was the selection of o man of perfect integrity nnd moro than or- dinary ability to place at the Lewd of the Burcau. In his effort to securo such a man he hns heon confronted by the beggarly salory attached to the office. He has been forced to nsk gontlemen whose nbilities in- sure them a respeciable’ iucome to nssume tho chief responsibilities of s department in which $7,000,000 aro exponded annually at a compenaation of §3,000 nyenr! or muot oy much a3 s head bookkeeper can onrn in a bank, The proposition reduced to this mat- ter-of-fact statemont is simply ridiculous. Even Mr. CnaxpLrr’s generous aoffer to do- nate out of his own purne enougl to mako it £5,000 o year, if ho can find the proper mnn, has failed to induco an acceptance of the place. Tho sum of £8,000 s yoar of depreciated noles to a family wan in Washington, oc. cupying a high Government position which almost necessitates a lorge sacial expense, is absurdly insufficient. It is not enmough to pay ront and to enablo him to support his family in tha costly City of Washington without making any sllowance for tho extrn expense attached to his position. In fact, it will do little more than pay bouse-rent. To a poor man, therefore, it is n constant tempta- tion o corruption, and its responsibility cer- tainly offers no attraction to a rich mon who can alford to take his easo. And it is in this way that the public interest falls between two stools. Tho saving in salary is not. economical. Tho publio would make money —lundreds of thousands—by paying even 25,000 to o man of gront adwinistrntive nbility, like one of thoss who manago our large railrord intorests, and who might save to the public vast sums in an annual expendi- ture of meveral millions, The number of men of distinguished ability, able to cow- mand large salaries or cara large smmns of money, who ava willing to rceept a responsi- bility of ndiministering millions of dollars for n niggardly pittance, is cxceeding small, If they have already enrncd a competency for {hicwselves, it is nsking o good desl that they should sacrifico personal comfort sud risk personal reputation for integrity and ability to serve tho public for almost notaing, If they are not well off in this world's. goods, they naturally prefer to use their talents for their own benotit and that of those dependeut on them, The case of the Indian Commis- sionorship going begging among good mon should bring this matter so conspicuously before the people and their ropresentatives s to lead to sowmo change in tho practice of foolishly underpaying. officinls who assume tho immense responsibility of great public trusts. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. Mritish agitators and would-be reformers understand the political value of *‘leagues.” The leaguo, n congeries of clubs, 18 their chosen wonpon, They uso it to abolish a corn-law, to rudically change o land system that counts its age by conturios and its self- interested defenders by the million, to edn- cnto o nation. Tho most prominent feature in whnt may be called the soeial politics of Great Britain to-day is the National Educn- tion Lengue, which bas for its aim the non. sectarinn instruction of every hitherto un- taught child in the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland, Ireland is abaudoned to tho clericals for the time being, The struggle for socylar’ education there is postponed until n similar stroggle on the other side of 8t. Georgo's Obannel has succeaded. Tho en- omy is to bo taken in detachments, Tho laws of Eogland allow the formation of Bcheol Boards, Thoy do not conumand it, The Nntionnl Rducation League steps in to urge and persuade people to avail themsolves of the permission. 'Tho result has been something mnrvelows, Within the lnat twelvomonth, the number of Boards has increased more thau 50 per cent, from D09 to 1,485, Bomo of thom have control of large areas. Thus ono Board supervises the public schools of the whole of Londen, It is an especially gratifying fact that the rural ‘population has taken kindly to the new iden. ‘Tho citios wora gure to do so, but rustio con- servatism was relied upon by Tory boliovers in popularignorance to provent tha formation of Boards throughout tho country, embracing the villages, and to chock and thwart their workings, when formed, It scerned ot first, ovon to the founders of the Loaguo, that tho tosk was almost hopeless, The local dignl- taries, tho clergymen and the equires, could not be relied upon. Their opposition was, in foot, almost corlain. Tho secular charnc- tor of the instruetion provided by the Bchool Doards would repel the clexgymen; the levy of a tax on rentals for tho support of the schools would disgust the squires. Both thees things came to pass, but the mass of the people have shown n surprising and greatifying independence. The Boards now dot the country, Thoy levy and collect their taxes without tronble; they shut out sectari- anism, with considorable conssquent trouble; sod they curry into eflect the powens of compulsion with which the law on. dowa them, Noverin Euglish bistory have a4 many English children been in uschool ns now. And the good work is only begun, The law bas been in operation only since 1870, and wouch of this time has necessarily been spent in puroly preliminary proparations. Now the nunber of Boards grows apace, and every Board is an educational centre, More- ovor, such activity hay spurred believers in donominational training into fresh effort, As soon a4 paronts began to transfer their chil- dren from religious to the so-calledirreligions schools, the friends of the former took the alarm and hastened to fmprove the teaching. Thus the Leaguo has forced ita opponents to try to rival it in good works. If natlonal ed- ucation increnses in the futuro in anything liko the ratio of tho past, the England of 1800 will b> what England has never yet been,~—a nation of educated people. Se——— Tho Democratia patriots from Chicago who av in Weshington sseking for loaves and fishos beani b0 hiave been ulterly guored in “At Wesayngton, this was thiolr family cost, Not | the Bourhon panjandrim on Satirdny, ono of them reecived ecither o loof or o fixh or evon a promise. Lhis is pretty hard npon the Chicaga patriots, who were moutly of the ruMled-shivt JeMersoninns, But Jelersoninn Democracy was not in the nscondency sl the canens, Our patriots muds u mistake in not nftilinting with tho Short Hairs and in keep- ing nway from the bar-rooms. Tha compoen- wation will como, however, when Liarscy CauLFIELD gots an opportunily to introduce hisnew bills aud commences to remodel the Government, A CENTEGNIAL DRAMA. "Che world will tear with deep regret that the Trmoray f'rreomn of England, My, Man- 715 Fanquitan Turrer, hins broken looso again, shnttered the golden silence of his Inter yenrs, and poured forth a flood of platitudes, inter- apersod with broken.bneked wetaphor, sud saturated with milk-snd-water morality, Ile hna, alay, selectod this conutry s his theme, oud hna octually praduced a drats in five acts entitled *Wasbington,” end destined to Leone of the burdens of our contennial year. Js it not enough that onr Horrasp gushos for ua? Must we pationtly enduro the tedious Turpen, too? A powerful renson for staying away from Philadelphia during the Exposition is furnishod by the fact that Tur- ren and lus * Washington” will both be there, This i3 the first case in which Ponnsylvanin jutorests can, perhaps, right. fully demand protection. Why not bave o discriminating duly levied on tho importation of Turpr,—say 25 conts for the tirst pound of Tuepen flesh, Liood, aud bone ; 50 conts for the second; nud so on? Mnunuseript or printed copies of the 4 Washington " should be taxed at tho rate of %1 perletter. Only wensures of this sort will avail to save us, But afcer all, theso might bo too extreme. 'Tho proverb tells us that birds of n feather tlock together, and whera Horuaxp is, there Toprrn must long tobe. Whom God hath joinel together in platitude-producing power, lct not wan put asander, Most people who remember the results of the Racifle Mril iavestigetion will seo tho finger of un nvenging Providencs in the fact that Col. Fonxey—tho hero of no battles and §25,000—had to sit still for mapy mortal lours aud hear the Torrer mouth his unme- lodions verso throngh the whole five acts of “Washington.” Imagine having to kcep awnke while such stuff ns this speech of FRANELIN to WasuixaToy is thrust into your ears: Aud I then folt much as that uelf-ntroog 1nan, Honags, you romembor, who defled, An you, with me, defy, tho thunderbolt Lren of tyrannie Jove binself, The passage ling n wealth of cominas, but thoy poorly ntone for its lalting rhythu and ity appalling freedom from auy traco of poot- ry. ‘Thero is no excuse for & men who writos aueh stuff a3 this. It mny serve n¢ A saimplo of tho whole, though, a9 it is ono of the pas. gnges selected by Col. Fonsex in his letter to the Philadolphin I*ress, the averngo of tho drama is perhaps below this. The audience allured to the theatro on the first night—of course nabady can be got to go to the second performance—will probably not burst into raplurous applause of Turren's stilted com- monplaces about Auglo-American good-feel- ing nud the future of tho Gnited States. We quote a samplo of the light, glittering con- vorsation of the play. It refers to the im- aginary derivation of tho national flag from WasuiNGToN's coat-of-arins ¢ Rachel—Coat of arm3? What was ts coat of arme ? Feanklin—I'l toll you, friends, I'vo carched It out, and know it for mysolf, Whon late in Engloud thers, ot Horalds! Cotloga, Aud found tho Washlugtona of Wassyngton, 1o County Dirham, and of Sulgrave Yfanor, County Northawiptou, boro upou (heir vblald ‘Throa stars utop, threo stars bolow tha foss, Gulos—that 8 rod—on white, and for tho croat An esgle's ioad upaspringing to (e light. ‘The architraves at Bulgravo testify, A sundry patnted windows in the Latl "They touk it to their hew Virginia home And at Mount Vornon 1 myeelf have uoted Au old east-ron acutcheoned chimney-back Chargod with that boraldry. An avernge sudience would be solomnly snoring in its eoats or briskly running away lofig before the ‘*gules,” and *fess,” and * prchitraves” had boen mouthed. The ploy onds with the oxecution of the soldior-spy, Maj. Anpne. If this excoution can bo mado a real one, and Turren bo per- sunded to appear as Anpzg, the drams of * Washington™ will not, after all, have been written in vain, AN INTELNATIONAL OOLLEGE REGATTA. The Rowing Association of Ameriesn Colleges met ot Bpriugfleld, Mass., ou the st inst, and voted, among other things, to chaliongo Oxfora, Oambriage, snd Trinity College, Dublio, to send craws across tho ocean to compete with the win- 1ipg crow of noxt wummer's regatta. Tho regu- Jar race will bo rowed July 19, 1876, ‘The placo is a4 yot unfized. Tho cholco Lios between Sara- toys, Bpringtield, and Now London, Each has it dlusdvantages. Tho summor resort hag itn pamblers, ita oxpenss, aud its occasjonal rough water. It is, howsver, tho ouly place where &ll the boats entered can row abroast. At either of tho othier two placea mentionod, the race will havo to bo rowod io two hoats, Rud tho winnlng crowa will declde the victory the nextdayin a rogatta of thelr own. Moreover, Springficld has a curront aud Now Londou ntide, Baratoga is porhaps tha beet of the threo, Wheraver the ace is pulled, however, the subssquent regatia, should either, any, or all of the challenged British univorsities sond over representatives, wonld be of great intarest, When Harvurd rowed Oxford, in 1809, tho Amnorican college was hoavily handi- capped. 'The caurse wes crooked ; bridges Liad to ba shiot ; a strong tide impodod the meotani- oal awiog of the osrs; and a coxswain had to be carried, Those were mll unwonted facts. Our collegiang are used to a Biraight course, with no bridges and no tide, and tha bow-oar of & racing crow ateors the boat by means of long wires runnivg from the tilier to his foot-bosrd, The Anglo-American rece was gailantly rowed, but the viotory of Oxford was » foregone conclusion. As England beat Americs in a race couduoted on the English model, America now chsllenges England toa race on the Ameorican model. ‘The winning crew of our intercollegiate regotia is to®bear our pennant and row a niraightaway cousse, on water untacumbered by bridges, io & boat unlucumbored by coxawains, (nst oue, two, or three British crows, The 1ace would be more lntoresting, not to ssy fairer, 11 the number of crews ou eilher aide wers squal. It the three foroigu noiversitles all revpond to tha chiallenge, 16t the three bLost crews in the Lome race be entered sgainst them; if two of them sond bosts, hiave our best two meet thems and If ouly one picks up the gauntor, let she viotor {n our race row sgaiust Eogland's solitary roprosentative, Tho fnteruations! regatts would be a fitting sequol to the interocllogiate ono. Evory boat iu it would be manued with Anglo- Saxon wuscle, It would nat be blood against blood, but two kindied ustions in frlendly rivalry, S The Now: York Zerald bas probably heard somewhore of tho aying that eonsisteucy is the bugbesr of litile minds , and therefors, regand- fug ity own mind a8 & greas ous, it declines to be cousistent. Kor montha past it bas been sotively berstivg Awppxw H, Gnzzy, tha Clty Uomp- trollarof Hew Xork, and now b calmly turs —_— sronnd, mominates him for Ma:or, eslls by, ‘‘tho ntonewall tctwoen the thisves and ), publio tron-ury,” nud waga thor * ‘Blonew; Guenn' would msko a capital parly wrylnnl_’», cauvaea,” Onn of the pertons whoas attacks g tho pullic fremary have beon persiatently oy by Mr. Guep in JAsit GornoN BEYNETT, who.q little advortising bl still romming unpaid, T " rofural to pay it explaing tho Zorcld's anvage o, stuehit on the Comj.trollqr hitherto, but why oxplainn thin euddan greh of sffection g5, “Hlonowall Gngex*? Wa tiave rocolved & copy of n military mup o tho Indian Torritory, compilad and publisted b E. H. Ruersee, Fice Tasutenaut Engineers, g 8, A Tho work e tewn undertakon by him tne dizeliarya of hin ditios ; and it 18 80 mng, more ofaborato aud caroful thau auytaing covey. ing tho sama ground in oxkstenco that its merit, caunot owily b Judged of nxcopt by ono thoroughly familiar with the gronud It neemis Lo b, howovar, all that is clslmod for it and to relloct equal erelit upon the com. pilor and his saporiur oficors, uader whogs diroetton the wark las boon dono. The mapiy ontirely & military one, deaigned to whow the civil divistonn al tha topugzaphy simg iy In theiy relation to tho Indlan Reservations. ‘The sealy is for marching purpcs, large enong f to loeaty one's padition accumataly, Tha varying boun. darios of the Indian Leservations will bs m by band. Tha edition of this 7 41 is limited, leing onty enfliciont for tho usen of the Indiag. Dopartwent and tho military ¢ stablichmens, Licut, Rurryes, howovor, rotains tho origin] stonow, aud futuro sadouds can bs male or ek tions stiuck ot wien eslled fee, For some plotonean of design and neatne js of oxcoutioy tho work doserves tha hiziast pi siag. The Farty-fourth Congress will have ong uni:jue caso of contastad electi- m to decdo, [t may ba summarized a3 o cado of choek, coloss] cheek, enongh to equip = 1mpiment of army wules and then more thay 89 pply Bannsy Cacga FiELD, of Bridgopoit. Ita pe wsensor is Avat e M. Lowry, who liven (n the Thirty-second Dig. trict of Now York. At the “mst ejection of Cope grosamen, tho vote of thin district stovd : Nope ToN, 107703 Cany, 0.1:0; Lowny, 5, T rhows 19,099 votes agein it Lownv to b for hiag Lut ha modestly clattus the soat on the gronad that ho was tho only pe uon voled for as * Roge sentative tu the For ty~fourth Cougress." ad that theroforo only lns tive bailots shocld ie counted. Itis o pity that Bansest hoa gouo aup of tho show businese. JIo would certainly huvy gocured Ar. LOWAY 14 w1 unique corosity, If aoy phitanthrcpist or sot of philantbropists in this city fa loo'siug anxiously wround fors chance to start A ‘aew charity, which shali not do moro harm than good, ho or they might well con~ eider tho advisalsility of a Iviog-in hospital. We bave notuing -of tho sort hero now, and its ex- intanco would &ave many a hideous abortion and many s cruel child-murder, PERSONAL, Charles O'Conor is 8aid (o be another victimof bard work, 1t is rumored that Prof. Goldwin Smith wil purchaso tho Torontp Afail, and make ic an ad- voeate of Cavadiun judependsnes, Charles 8. Abell, a son of the proprictor of the Baltimore Sun, died Thureday, in the 23d yesr of lis mgo. Ile was a very promising youug wan, i Qov, Warmoth's gonius was developod in esrly youth, e used to engago to black atoves for 1§ cents apioco, sud biro athor boys to do the work for 5 centy. 1t is said Johin Morrissoy wanted to bot 710,000 Ttandall would be elocted Bpoaker; but perhaps Lo just wanted to havo the fact published, while ho bet on the otlior follow. Gov. Tudon's epigram—not entirely jost— puts tho question of resuming specio-payments thug: * Thero aro resources enough oxcept in the braius of thoso who havo charge of ocur finances,"” ‘Tho Rov, Froderick Ball, known as * the sing- Ing proacher,” is keeping up tho rovival work In Biooklyn begun by AMoody and Eankoy. Ono of lus best songa is entitlod *The Blood-tained Banner.” Lerd Hartington, leador of the Opposition party in the British Parliament, now spposrs to boe dotog much better than his courso as leader promised at first. Lis spoecaes bogin to bawell spokoun of. Mr. Robert AMilnes, tho only son of Lord Houghtou, wroto one of the prizo poams at Hare row this year. Thosabject wse * Gustavos Adolphus.” M. Milnes kas just entered Trinity Coltego, Cambridge. Fven **pull-backs " ara blossings in disguise, after all, canuing o great s domand for elastlo fabrica to furnish tho wh ithat to tio back, that tho Easthampton Els Lins been obligod 1o tun to their full to moot the demand. Judge Richardson hramade tho tour srousd tho world, zad returned to bis moat ou the bouch of tho Coury of Claims. His nbyenco waysearcos 1y noticed. But vestordsy he might Lave stood uninat tho world ; ncw ho ia obliged to g0 around ft. Tno PhilaGelphis Timesthinks 3ate Carpentor ought to know beitor tban to rush off iuto & libel-sujt tho moment wnytbiog unliod fs said of nim in tho newspypers. Nowitls & noke= warthy fact that Matt doesu's rashi; hs ouly #ays ho will. Fanny Rombla at ordinsry timos wae s plina woman, baviug bean marked by small-pox; bus sho was occasionally trausfigured by feeling on (ho stage, and upposred besutiful. A friend onoo said to her: * Fanoy Kemblo, you aze “‘l: uglieat and the bandsomest womsy In Eoglaod. The Brooklyn Argus is mystified by the state- ment that the first mermon of tho roverend sedacor, Glendeaning, iu Henry, I, * produced a good deal of feling.” Tue intelligonce is provokingly ebseurs, in that 1t dooa not state \hether it 1ras & goad deal of feoling around for s whot-gun. Miss Augusts Evans promised, s few months #go, mever to write suotber novel. Bbv has braden her word. Under the circumstances the PViblio is holplesa: forif any one should eay oF Zoa brutal thuing to hor, akie would propose to marry bim at once. Buchis the common exyé rence of all her heroluea. The removal of Hugh Mifler Thompson from Now York ta New Orleans is s sorions loss to the Tpiscopal Church in tho former city. Dr. Thompson might tavo bean Roator of £t. Jamos Churcp, In this city, to-dar, If the great fro had not medo *tho call of duty” mwey from this «ity perfectly cloar to him. Tho flon. Frank Jones, of Portsmouth, the Demociatic member of Congtess from the Finst ‘New Hsmpuhiro District, will probably have the finest eatablmhment at Washington of any Con- osamau who bus over been thero from ths tate. Howill Laves superb huuse, aud Lo hay taken ous five beautitul horsas, one pair © whioh cost hins $3,000. o will Lave three car- risgos, one of them teing s landau of attractive desigu and very expenmve finish. UOTEL ARLIVALY, Putmer House—~D. ¥, McDouald, Fort Scott, Kan.; ) .M. Woolworth, Uasha ; D, Hica, Now York ; Walds {l.n&nnu. Hoaton § e Uptos, Boston: D. Ly Kitby, Motreal; DF, I, ¥, Beels, Sau Praociice Uarvey tteveny, fartford ; B, B, Kseler, Hagts L Lura, Cal; D, O, Baith sud 0, O, umi-.lgu. (30 A R . Jobu Peauypacker, Denver ; ¥. ¥, ilildor 14, Loui# : Henusond Kenauly, New 'York, ... Grand Aieyfio—William Bond, Naw York; . ¥, loyce, Des lluliflu; W, Dean, Tipton, A, J, Wary, Peorla 4. Gibbu Cainplell, Butacuin, & ot s i 11‘:‘&17::&, [ow Yosi