Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1875, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATRE OF FURRCRITTION (TATADLE FR ADVARCE), Postaxn Freyatd at thin O 1 ta any addemss FOUR WETXA for. B T e rary and Rellgloiis domibin [ #ri. Weekiy, pos Parts of year at 1amo rato. WERELT ZDITION, POSTRAf 'y, poryone, . Onee: Soh o GRub of twenty, per coj o o | “Tha partage s 15 cents & year, which wa will prepar. fpecimen coplen sent free, To prevent delsy and mistakes, be sure aud give Poot-Office addrean fri full, {ncluding Stateand Cotinty. Remittances msy be mads elfher by draft, rxpress, Feat-Oflice order, or In registered lutters, ot our tirk, TERNB TO OITY SURCCRINERS, Dafly, delivered, Bundsy axcopted, 253 ceuts per week, Datly, delivered, Sundsy inclided, 10 cents por wok, Addren THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madinon and Dearborn-nte., Chicago, 1il, "SOCIETY MEETINGS. WAUBANSIA LODOE, No. 160, A, F & A Tegular Communication will be held thin (T) evoning st Orlentnl 1all, No, 172 LaRalle- member is earnently requested tu be pres nota—Tha adoptlon of new. IY«IAIL Par crlor T. J, TUSTIN, W, M, JOILN, fec, THOMAS J, TURNER LODGE No. 409, A. F. k A, M ~sitsted communication thin (Thiirsdsy) eveis Dec. 9, a 7:00 o'clock (Americsn Yxproan Bullding, Faaf Monroe atreet), Work ou E. A, degres, Anni commuuication will occur Dec 23, Visitors' cordially in¥ited 1o moet with un, By order of W, M, JOLIN' F. PEYTIBONE, Sacretary, T AMUSEMENTS. TOOLETH_THEATRE—Tandolph strot, botwean Clark and LaSalia, Cailfornia Minstrels, NEW OHICAGO THEATRE—Clark strvet, hetweon fllnd&l{)}h and Lake, Engagoment of Kelly & Leou's natrels, ADELPOI THEATRE—Deatborn street, corner Monros. Variety enteriainment, McVICKER'S THEATRE~Madinon street, belwren Dearborn and_fitate, Engegemont of May Homard, *Bolld Silver.” ‘WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monron strect, hetwean Dear- born and Blato, Afternoon : * Cumilla,” Evening: * Deborsh,” THE CHICAGO TRIBUNLE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1875, for Decembor and S6e for Tnnunry. were activae aud Tlogs e higher, with the Dulk of the sules ab £6,40G 7,10, Cattlo were quiet and weik. shesp wera in good de- mand at firm prices—qnoted at 3, 75@5.00 for common to ahoi Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.25 in groenbacks at the close, An event of great interost to the Protest. ant Episcopnd Church in Illinois, and of no slight importance to the Church at largo, oc- curred yesterday ot the Cathedral of 88, Peter and Paul in this city, The Rav. WiLniax Evwarp McLArey, Iate of Cleveland, O., was cousecrated a:s Bishop of tho Diocese of Tllinois with eeremcmicr of an elaborate and im. pressivo character. The oceasion brought together nlarge number of church digni- taries, and », vast crowd of people witnessed tho consecration solemnities. The accession of Dr, Molianex to the Episcopate, to which ho was called with a nnanimity as gratify- ing as it is unusual, is & matter for con- gratulntion among all churchmen throughout tho Diocese, ns it promises to completely ro- store th harmony nnd unity so madly dis- turbed during the past two years. Bishop McLanzes will bo warly and joyfully wol- comed to tho grand fleld of usefulfess to whioh "ho has been called. anid for the oceu- pancy of which ho is belioved to e &0 omi- nontly qualified. Our issuo of yesterday contained a dis- pateh from Madison, Wis., stating that Messea, Luwis, Syimir, and Greaony, lawyers of that city, denied baving held any confer- enos with the Hon, Marr Caneextes, then United States Senator from Wisconsin, on the subjoct of compromise with the Govern- mont in the Rivexore and other whisky frand cases. Blr. Lewrs Lns clso addrossed and cansed to be pnblished in tho Milwankes Sentinel an “ open latter " to Tre Trinoye, The Chitags Tiibune. fhursday Norming, Docomber 8§, 1870, Greonbacks, ot the New York Gold Ex- shange yesterday, closed at 87}, Old P'robs’ programme for this rédgion to- day is, north to west winds with cooling and clearing weather, Thera is likely to be some pulling and haul- ing among the Democratio majority in Com. gross. The Northern mombers, cautiously mindfal of the fact that a Presidential con- test is near at hand, lean toward the side of moderation and insction, but the Southern Bourbons, less diseroot and moro eager to take full advantage of their unlooked-for ac- eeasion 10 tho privilogo of once more “1mn. ning things,” are bent upon a policy of ag- gression, and may be oxpected fo give their prudent brethron considerablo trouble, The waters of England’s newly.acquired routo to the Orient will soon be perturbed by £ unusunl occurrence—nothing loss than tho pnasngo of the British naval squadron station- cd in tho Enst Indies. Tho flect, consistingg of six war-vesscls manned by crews aggregating 8,000 men, bas been ordered to the Moditer- ranean, and will pass through the Suez Conal in an imposing lino. In certain possible con. tingoncies tho Mediterranean would be a linndy place for tho Enst India squadron to bo stationed. It will doubtlesa occur to the Milwaukeo newspapors in.tho covrso of & fow years, at the rate things are mow going, that thers really was & Whisk,y-Ring in that city, Such, st least, is the offect which might be expocted to bo croated by tho evidenco given yester- dny by Rooows, an ox-Ganger, who tostified to having rgocived $6,000 from the Ring. Now that #yne of the Government underatrap- pors haa ‘foosened his tongue and ontered into partiovnry, it is quite likely that others will .8ban‘son tho policy of silonce and do tho Bta'n somo servico which will measurably "ntone for their past rascalities, aud at tho shme timo asslst in entrapping bigger game. Tho case of Davis, alias TuxNes, indicted for the murder of Cmanctes D. Wirrraxp on Thanksgiving Day, waa yesterday continued for another week in the Criminal Court, upon 1ho ground of an afidavit by the dofendnnt that ho relies upon the attendance of a wit- nesa now absent to prove that he was insane atthe timo he killed Wrrsaxp. However gauzy this pretext may be deemod by tho im- putient community, it is cortain that the course of justica will bo accelerated rather than rotarded by the granting of reasonnble applications for deloy, & denlal of which would open the way for still greator delay by weans of a Bupremo Court supersedeas issued on the ground of error. The Crimiral Court does well to make haste slowly. Buveral of the leading coal-mining com- qunics in the anthracite region of Poonsyl vania bave determined upon total or partial nuspension of operalions—somo of them for the winter, others for four wecks, while in o fow instances operations will be reduced but not wholly suspended. Tho reason nssigned for this course, which will throw out of em. ployment 80,000 miners, is that the demand for coal has fallen far short of the production, and that the market s gorged In consequence, This is probably a correct statement of thy case, but tho fact romains that the coudition of the market Is the re. milt of n policy which limits the nmount of, consumption by holding up the prico to afixed and unslterable point, and whereby a powerful monopoly is able to con- tro} and obstruct the usual course of the law of wupply and demand. Our dispntches es yet prediot po reourrenco of laat winter's reigu of terror in the coal rogions, and it is 1o bo hoped that mutnal concossions may be unde whereby the minens will rot resort to violenco nor the mine-operators to & courso which will provoke violence, T'he Chicago produce markota vu‘rfl ateadier yesterday, Mees pork waa active, and ad~ yanced 200 per brl, cloving at 319,35@19.40 cash aud §19,52}@19.65 for February, Lard in good demand and H@10u per 100 Iby higher, closing at $12,30@12.85 cash, and $12.00 ‘for Februury. Moeats were quiot and firmer, at 74@74 for shoulders, 10}@10}0 for ghort ribs, snd 10{@10jc for short clears, all bosed. Highwives woro in fair demand snd stendy, st $1.11 per gallon. Flour was dull and easier. Wheat way uctivo and irrogular, closing at $1.00 cash and $1.00} for January. Corn was quiet und stronger, closing at 48}c for Ducewber, und 44Jo for Jauuary. Oats were quiet and unchanged, closing at BOjo ‘cash and $0ja for January, Rye was firn at 08@68)c. Darloy was active and closed weak, ot 861@5040 / ‘cost of wide-spréad, almost universal, ruin, in which ho mukes in his own hehalf n sort of evnsive denial, intonded to cover a great doal, but in reality covering very littla that affects tho truth or falsity of Tur TrinuNe's slatoment concorning conferences held with Bonator UanrExtre in the interest of * crooked " distillers, Tho most that can be gathored from Mr. Lewts' *“ doninl "—which, it should bo noted, required n week's timo for its preparation—is, that our correspondont wns mistakon g8 to the precise apot whare tho conference occurrad. Tho attempt to shield ex-Senator CanpenvER, oven at the exponse of n littlo special pleading, will bo taken for wha{ it is worth ponding certain dovelopmonts likely to result from further inquiry into tho matters in dispnte, THE PRESIDENT ON SPECIE RESUMPTION. "I'hat. portion of the President's messnge which treats of specie resumption should command the most earnest attention of tho peoplo, and porticalarly of Congress. In wnking his recommendations in this regard lie doos not undertnke to foreca them upon tho consideration of Congress as the only nor oven tho best mensures to bo adopted, but oxpresses hig willingness and desire to approve of soy measuro of Congress looking cffectively toward specio re- sumption. If the prosent Democratic Congress is ns honest as the Prosi- dent in desiring that wo shall retumn to the recognized money of tho civilized world, and thereby escape tho nationnal dis- grace of having our Governmont currency rated ot o depreciation, it will meet tho Pros- ident half way in this matter; and, if 1t does not adopt the measuies he recommends to rendor resumption practicable, it will at least suggest others with the same end inview, ‘The President i right whon he says that pos- sibly tho spoodicst way to insure a return to #pocio psyments would he through unlimited inflation, bnt that it would be secured at the expenso of honor. Ho might have gono fur- ther, and sald that it wonld likewise be at thy Unless Congress desires to leave this dangor open, it will follow tip the national promiso mado by the last Congross to reissue Jan, 1, 1879, by anch mengures as will onable tho Government to keep its faith, If Congress has no botter menns for re- sumption to suggest, thoss made by the Prosident nre entitled to trial, They will certainly afford a decided though not sudden approsch foward resumption. The sug- gestions, which shonld be adopted together in order to La efficient, are threefold, viz.: (1) ‘The repenl of the legal-tender quality of Government notes as to dobta contracted after Jan. 1, 1877; (2) the gradual redemption of logal-tonders nt n rate not oxceeding $2,000,- 000 n month by the issne of long gold bonds, bearing an interost of 8.65 per cont; and (3) the greater accumulstion of gold for final redemption, to be secured by increased rovenuo and decreased expenses. As each of theso suggestions i individually and sopa- rately in the direction of specie resumption, their combined operationwill bo tostrongthon the purposs and hasten the effect. 1, Tho net of repenling the Legal-Tender net as to jts application to all debts contract- ed after o certain dato fixed in tho future leaves tho past and presont relations of debtor and creditor undisturbed. It contemplntos, of course, an oqualized valuo of greenbacks and spacie oventually, but even if this equale ization shall not be brought about so carly as 4 now anticipated, the fact that the Govern. mont currency will not be legal-tender fr)r debts contracted in tho future will charage tho present unnatural and unintelligent gys. tam of quotation. Groenbacks will then bo quoted and received at their actual *valuo in the world's currency, and eovory doj.reciation will be a striking evidence of defrult on the part of tho Government to redeatn jts obliga. tions that aro past due. It is Dot possible to sce, therofore, how such an act can work any injustico. If greenbacks shall after nwhile appreciate to a par value In gO1a, olthor by renson of thelr interconverti- bility into gold-hearing bonds or the jmprove- ment of thu national credit, there will cor- tainly bo no renson to complain; but it they shall not bo par in gold, then all dobts will be contrgoted on & parmanent basis, and green. hacks will pass for what they aro worth in gold. 2, Relntive to the proposed gold bond for redemption purposes, the rate of jnterest suggestod by the President (3,05 per cent) is much mora caloulated to kerve the purpose in view—keeping grecnbscks at par with gold— than the 4 per cent interest suggested by the Bocratary of the Tremmry. Indeed, with the holp of the legal-tender attributes of tho greonback, it moy well bo considereq whether a 3 por cont 'gold bong, into which greonbacks may b converted, will not suffice, I'here {6 no question but the greenbacks will flow into theso bonds a8 rapidly as the Jaw will permit, if for no other reason than because on interest.bearing obligation is always better than a non-intercst-boaring obligation. 'The limitation of §2,000,000 a anopth, or $24,000,000,annually, to be re. deemod will give the appreajation af $he | greenbnckn a gradual and uniform tendoney; and at this rate it would bo mora than fiftcen years (if no moro summary systom of re- sumption were adopled meanwhile) before the groonbneks would bo ol retired. ‘The limitation has beon fixed probably with n viow to the gradual oxpiration of tho dobts contractod prior to the proposed repeal of the Legal-Tendor not, which wonld be payable in greonbacks, But the very denominations of the proposed 8.G56 bonds, varying from 950 to 81,000, would enabla tho pooplo to nso thom ns currency to nny extont that there ahould bo a failure of specie, bank notes, and greenbacka to supply the public domand for o circulating medinm, 8. The proposition for an accumnulation of gold for redemption purposcs commends chiefly on acconnt of the monns suggested to this end, viz.: By the restoration of the duties on tea and coffee and by a reduction of exponscs, The gradual accumulation of specie on anch a basis would fmpose no per- ceptible burden upon the people, and, going hand in hand with the gradual reduction of the amount of greanbacks to bo redvemed, it would be a comparatively short time before it would be ontirely safe te announca a gen- eral resumption,—perhaps by the timo fized by the Resumplion act passod at tho lnst Aes- sion of Congress. Indeed, the passage of such nets s the President suggests nnd a strict adhercnco to their provisions would bo a subatantinl proparation for resuming that right render it safo to rvepeel tho resumption clause of the Inst session's law, thus loaving the date to bo reached by the natural operations of tho combined monsnres ndopted. Thors iy an argument ngainst this course, however, in the moral weight of tho act of last session, which hat been itu chief value @o far, and which {8 the best reason for permitting it to stand. If, with tho practical proparativns to resume that have been suggestod, it is found that complete resumption shall not have been attained by the date fixed in that act,—Jan. 1, 1879,—theso prepamtinns of themselves will warrant n further postponement withont affscting publio confidence in tho good faith of the nation. If the proposed moans towand resumption shall not bo adopted, then tho act remning ns a pladge of the American faith to resume by somo other measuro st the time appointed, But ns between the existing net and tho suggestions made by tho President for now legislation, there i infinitely mors of practical resumption in the latter than in tho former. GEN, BABCOUK'S *'COURT OF INQ UIRY.” Tt is natural that & man conscious of his own innocence should seok the speediest menns of vindicating himself before the pub- ic, and it is but fair to presumo nnlil the contrary is proved that Gen. Iywncock was actuated by this motive in demanding a Court of Inquiry, to which he is entitlod as an officor of tho army under tho Articles of War. But thers aro many cireamstances which justify the conclusion that this is o needless oxponse, and that it would bave hoen winor it Gen. Tasoock had awaited Lis vindication {n the il courtsif any officinl charge is brought agninst him by a Grand Jury. 'The holding of a Court of Inquiry does not, of course, preclude auy eivil proceedings ngainst him for alleged . complicity on the frands on the rovenue, and it is bocauso the Court of In- qu.ry is in no senso conclusive, oither military or civil, that the cost and trouble incident thereto might better have been savod until it A corrospondant nsks ua i the reforencs to ““n Senator " means an United States Sens- tor of Tlinoin. Tt docs not. I{ refom to no United States Senator in vr oul of Ilinois, but it doed refor to a State Serator or ex- Stato Honntor who I3 said to ho mized up with tho “crooked " in somo way. Some of the persons with whose names ramor is Lusy nbout theso days aco rosidonts of this county and othews nare not. The ““Congressman” does not rapresent cither of the distrieta of this counly, Bince the terrible revelntions that have been made in Missouri concerning offleinl p orsons, the air is full of Hika roports concornis g offfeinl char- ncters in Illinois, Where the te is s0 much snmsko thero is sura to ba 8o ma fire, but we aro of the belief that the fire i 5 small in com- parison with tho smoke. 1fntil tho whole matter is sifted and investiga ted, there will bo clouds of wild reports flyin g all about, and throwing suspicion on per jons who are per- fectly innocent. THE EXCITEMENT IN MADRID, Madrid wna vastly excitrd Tuesdny night, The avernge Spaniard is wider awako nt night than duning the day. TRy stroets and plazas ara thronged then, and the fumes of millions of cigarottes float wpwmis from the gowsip. ing, strolling crowds. Tho cabled pummary of the part of the President’s mossago Telot- ing to Cubn remched the Capital when every- Dody wns on tho guizite to hear it. Tho nowspaper exirns Wwero greedily bought; the peoplo, sny the dispatehes, wero wild over the contents of tho messoge, nnd na specinl sewsion of tho Ministry was hnstily enlied. According fo the cublo, the excitement wos eqnal to that shown over the Virginius allair, "Lhis nows gounds sirangoly. and scems to show that the purport of the message on this point has been mistransiated or misunder. siood. Tho esble cr -trandlator may havo blundered, or incom petent hands may have propared tho sumniary, or the plain, blunt style that marka nearly all of our publio doc. uments moy haveo misled the diplomatic Spaniards, who raver sny all thoy moan ; few diplomnts do. Khey follow Tarrzvraxp's maxim, that the function of language is to conceal thought. We, on tho conirary, say all wo mesn and oceasionnlly considerably inore. 'There js an unguarded frankness in our oflicial stylie. Presidents tulk {o the peo- ple in popular language, mueh as a politi- clan apeaks frrom the stump or a journalist writea an edlitorial for his paper, A Pres- idential mewiage is n sort of family talk, with A caroless disregard of oulside listeners, Spain has b gon listening, and has heard what sho thinks bodes no good to herself. This iden is very Jikely o mnistake, It is true that the text on, Cuba offords no oxplanation of the reoent: heavy oxpenditure on the navy, but anoth or part of the messnge—which was doubtless not telegraphed to Madrid—ex- plains th at the current naval approprintions have not beon exceeded, so that the refitting ond reps iring may perhaps be attributed to a desiro tc) obey Jerrendon's maxim, that & na- tion in {imoof peaco should always be ready for wa' ¢, even when there i3 no spparont dau- gerfo rit. 1t is cheaper, in the long run, to keep our ships in good fighting condition than tole t thom rust and rot during peice, and the' 3 build new ones at the first notes of war. "[here is, howevor, somo possiblo ground 0 r tho Madrid flurry, ns a coreful rending of thie messego shows, Its general temor is 1aacific. It says that o recognition of Cuban indopendonce would be * jmpracticable and wag certain that he would have no opportunity of vindieating himself in the conrts, The Asticles of War authorizs the Presi. dent or nny commanding officer (whioh iv. dicates that the tribunal was intended for netual war servico) to call a Court of Inqusiry upan the demand of the officer whose con. Quet is questioned. This Court consigts of afligers of the army, not oxcoeding thr so, and a Recorder. It has the same power “or sum- raoning witnessas and taking evidomeo ns o court-martinl, but its function is merely to present o report of its investigation, and it is not permitted io ,pass any opinion thercon. There i8 mothing in its sossion, thorefore, that provwnts eithor o court-mnrtial or & civil proscow’sion. Whother the Court of Inquiry can draw out the scorots of the 8t, Louis Grand Jury, if any ovidenco congerning Gon, Bascocx has been taken by that body, or procure documents in pos. session of tho oftieors of the Court, is ex tremely doubtfut, and o mars roport of what cvidenca ay be takon befors a Court of Tnquiry {8 not likely, wundor tho' cir. oumstanees, to have any groat weight with the public. Its mnin pucpose will bo to give Gen, Bascocs nn opyortunily for denying under oath that he W in nuy way conneated with, or a beneficiar ¢ of, tho frauds on the Tevenas in connev jon with the whisky-tax. ‘The renson gir,en by Gon. Bancoos for ask- ing the Conrt r,f Ynquiry was thet the Aveny case, in whic, the charges woro brought out agninst him | wag olosed befora he hnd an op- portunity of apponring on tho witnoss stand In his ow n behalf, and the noxt :case, involy- ing the queation of conspiracy, would not bo enlled ¢ill the 15th of Decomber. But the Cour't of Inquiry which the Presidont has grant. ed} s not callod till to-day, the 9th inst,, so thiat, oV ¢n if it organizes and procceds to business indefensible,” and that the accordanco of helligeront rights would be ** unwise,” ** pre~ wature,” and * indefonsible.” Its copplaints of Bpauish conduct in tho way of delaying to abolish slavery, evasions, ingenious disin- genuonsness, tyranny, oto., have been often made bofore, and that without exciting Mndrid. But at the samo time there runs through the mesango on ‘hypothesis of future action which is probably tho main cause of tho flurry. 'The Presidont says that nn accordnnco of bolligerent rights is *‘at presont" indefonsiblo; that i the conflict in Cubn should not ‘‘soon” censo, other nations will have to “seriously consider” havipg recourse Lo “‘mediation and interven- tion”; that the Bpaniardd and Cubans * seom. incapablo of ronching any adjustment " ; thet ““mediation or interventiou seems to be thu only nlternative which must sooner or later bo invoked for thq terminalion of the strife”; and that if pesoce is not restored * onrly,” he will send in a specinl message “‘nt gomo period not far romote and during the present wossion,” which will recommend what mny *then" soomn *‘mocessary™ to him. Theso sontences, delached from their. contoxt, certainly have n somowhat threatening sound, but they shonld not -be so de. tached. The American peopls do mnot wish war asny more than they wish a continuance of iyranny, robbery, and wurderors conflict in Cuba, If we should intervone, it would certainly be, ag thoe Presi- dent gays, as “‘nlast expedient,” and, again as he says, in cowpany with *other nations,” Tho intarvention of the Unitod States, Bu- gland, and Germany would put an end to chaos in Ouba, withont tho loss of & life ora bit of bloodshed. But tho nation will heartily indorse Gnant's ** hopes of a satisfactory ad- justment and of the carly rostoration of posoe ?.mmodiately, thers will only be a saving of nix daya in reaching the public car, This is senrcely onough to justify the cost of n Court of Inquiry which may not bo finalin its action, There are othor reasons why it would have been bottor that Gon. Bancocx should have awaited a vindication in tha clvil courts. Though he is still a Colonel of Engincers, tho servico ho Las bLoen ongaged in.for many years past hns boon easentinlly that of a civilian, and tho charge that hus boen made agaluat him has not the remotest con- noction with army service, Gon. Ilancocx i charged with uvsing his confidential posi. tion near tho Presidont to obtain and give valusble information to & combination of en engaged in dofrauding the Government. There is no connection between this matter and Qon. Bancous's army position, and honoe the Court of Inquiry scems to be superfluous; for, it a olvil ourt found Gen. Bancoox guilty, he would, be dismissed from tho army by the Presidont without further ado; if in- nocent, therp would be no need of an army inquiry. If po indictment Las beon found sgoingt Gen. Dascoox, and nope shall be found in the future, then the rumors or chargos fall to the ground ; he would in that cnso, bowover, be entitled to bo beard in his own behalf, and would be justificd, as an drmy officer, in calling & Court of Inquiry to clyar up the rumors concerning him, But would it not have been better to walt for this? ——— Tu describing the latest phase of the erook- ©d whisky ‘business in this Judicial District, our local yeport eays that ‘* smong those like- 1y 1o bo counected with the transactions are Congrev sman, s Senator, two editors, an in- fluentis ) Germsn politician, and 4 gentleman Who U ves on bis means and his ¢ influence.’” and the removal of future causes of com. plaint ” by the action of the contending par. ties themsclves, without interferance from without. THE PRESIDERT'S8 EDUCATIONAL POSITION, "Tho Presidont hau supplemonted his Des Moines speech, and gone beyond the tonor of Mr. Brawg's letter, in the 'recommenda- tion that a constitutional amendmerit bo adopted establishing free - achools without sectarian teaching in all the States, Tho subject divides itself into two parta: First, tho importance of education ss absclu‘ucly cs- sential to the existence and perpetuity of our republicin form of goverument; and, second, the removal of sectarian toaching, whether tho tencta be Protestant, Catholic, Jowish, Pagan, Athelstic, or of any other sec- tarian form. Upon both these qurstions the President has planted himself sgriarely, and in & manner to comwond his viows to think- ing people, The Presidunt says: **'The edu~ cation of tho masses bocomes of the firat necessity for the prosorvation of our in. stitations, They aro worth preserving, becanse thoy have secured the great- est good to the greatest proportion of the population of any form. of government yet devised. Al other forms. of ‘government approach it just in proporticm to the general diffusion of education and judependence of thought and aotlon.” As the moans for se- curing the blesaings of edrication, the Prosi. dent recommnonds the suby ajssion of a consti- tutional amendment mak’ing ‘it the duty of the'several Btatoa to ost sblish aud forever mafntain froe schools. 'I''liere sy be some of the Bouthern Btates wh fch would rpfuse to adopt such an amendment, but this does not affeot the soundness of tha position taken by the President. The tax-aatluj class of every comrgunity are the intelligont, unsoru:pulous, and corrupt demagogues, who employ their superior knowledgo to lead and mislead the ignorant and projudiced rabble, and convert them into voling cattlo, nand mnke instrumonts of thom for the undermining of their own libertios nnd the infury of thoir own welfare, Were thoy not ignorant, they could not be thus imposed upon by the intelli. gent rasesls, Intho earlier days of tho Repub. lie, when tho almont universal occupntion was farming, and when the forma of government wero simple, thres or four ofiéinla being anf. ficient to administer tho affairs of every com. munity, the nocessity of education was not g0 imperative 08 now, when tho form of gov- ornment Lias becomo so complex and involved and when the number of offices snd officialy has been 5o greatly multiplied. The purest form of ropublican government in the United Statos at present s in the tho little villages ; in tho large cities repnldican government is well-nigh n failure, and will ba uttorly so be. fora another contury hos elapsed if the gon. eral education of the masses is not in- terpored to provent tha corrupt uso of the ballot in the bLands of the ig- norant classes. Just so long ne ignorance exista, the iguorant will ‘be in tho control of tho intelligont demagoguos, and a republioan form of government resting nupon anch a bnsls can only have o limited torm of life. it must fail unless tho people are educated and cnlightened, and that this is true in shown by the fact that alarming symptoms of failare are already nppearing in tho lorge cities, where tho ignorant classes ars in the ascendant, or nearly so, TIf general educa. tion is not spread among the masses of the ‘peoplo, it is not too much to affinn that the Republic will never reach its socond centen. nial. DByt the Presiderct goes still further. Ha not ouly recommends thata constitutional amer.dment shall bo submitted to the various Legislatures makfng it the duty of the vari- oug States to establish and maintain free schools adequate to the education of all the childron in the rudimentary. branches, but also ** forhidding tho teaching in sald achools of religious, atheistio, or pagan tenots, and prohibiting the granting of any achool funds, or school taxes, or any part thereof, eithar by leginlative, munfaipal, or other nuthoritics, for tho beusfit of any othor object, of any nataro or kind. whatever.” The adoption of an amendinent to this effoct would forover nettle tha vexad achool fund and other ques- tions now ot issuo bet:ween 'Protestants and Catholics. It would place tho whole issne whero it bolongs, and this dicpositipn of it would be in accordance with the gonlus of freo republican institafions. If tho Roman Catholics have any dangerous designs upon our public school system, it would thwart them nt once. If they have not, then it | would disposo of their aceusation thllt the Protostaut roligion is taught in the schools to tho oxclusion of other religions. If they are laonest in their statoments, they ought to and will give such an amendment their most hearty support. It brings all secta to the satno lovol, It treats oach with impartiality. What is dedied ono is deniod snother, and Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Maljommedans, Pogans, nnd Adbeists, all staod upon the samo footing = rolative te oducation. It would prove not only a temporary but & permanent settlomont of the ques. tion, for no creed would ever have strength enough, as combinod against other croeds, to tear an nmendment out of tho Censtitu- tion, Thero is on element of danger to the consumraation of such an amendment in the obligaticn which it would entail upon the States to establish and maintain freo sohools. Some of tho Bouthorn States have already oxpreseed their hostility to froo schiools, ba- onuso they might elevato and educate the negro, and place him thereby beyond the coo~ trol of corrupt white demagogues. Dut this do- fect, if it be n dofect, is easy of remedy, The amendment eanbe framed 80 as tobeadopted, und it should bo adopted as speedily as pos- sible, in order to sottle at once and foraver this disturbing question, i THE THIRD-PARTY PLATFORM, The new *Independent” organization is ordered to mect in National Convontion at Todianapolis, May 17, 1876. Tis platform is ombodied in tho call which was issned by the Exccutivo Committes from this city a fow days ago. The plank which contalna tho gist of the whole, the principle—or lack of prin- ciplo—which radically separntes this party from tho others, ia the following : Tho ecatablishment of & monetery system based wipon tho falth and resources of the nation, fu bar- mony with the genfus of the Governmeat, sud adspt- od o tho demands of logitimats business, To this end, e ciroulating notes of all Netional and State banks, s well aa sll local currency, should be withdrawn fram circulstion, and & paper snonsy fastied by tbe Govorn- ‘ment directly to the people, without tho intervention of uny systam of banking corporations, which monoy «liall b n logal-tender fn payroout of sll debls, publle and private, dutios on Jmports fncluded (scep$ that portion’ af the interest and principal of tho present pablio debt that is, by expross torma of tha Liw oro- nting §t, made payable in motalila monoey, shall be so puid), This money to bs interchsngeabls, at the op- tion of tho holders, with regiatersd Goversmant bonds bearing & rats of intorest not excesding 3,63 per cent per annum, ‘Tho new party wanta s paper ‘‘money,"— not curroncy, but money,—which the Gov- ernmont is to {asue * directly " to the peopla, The method of issue is not farther explained, but the ides apparently is that the number of inalienable rights appertaining to an Ameri- uan citizon shall be g0 enlargad that tite list will consist of life, liberty, the pursuit of linppiness, and unlimited amounts of irre. deomnbla currenoy. Every citizon is to stop right up to tho ‘T'reasurer’s ofice aud il his pocketa, - It ls diffoult to avold jesting on such wild thoorles ns those con- tained in the paragraph we Tlave quoted from tholr call, though its sorious jssue 19 roolly a serfous matler, How 1s this * money * 1o be pald ** dirostly " {o the people? Of course, no seourity is to be asked, for thon thass who want the stuff could mot get it, and. thoss who had the security to offer would not care to get the “monoy,” The latter is to bo based on “falth and resources” of ihe nation, in Mr, Kzruxr's patent way. Probably the only improvement on this would bo to base it on air; or castles in Spaln, or moonbeams, #inco all of theso would be much more abundant and quite as tangible ss the imaginary " falth and resonrces.” The suggestion to make im- port-dutics payable in the new * money” s tantamount to an indorsement of .complete free trade and direct taxation, for the money would be worthless and the duties would therefore be nil. ! The greenbackers utlerly jgnore the fact that the United States is one member of & family of natlons, and must perforce use in oll international exchanges international 1money, that is, gold.' Tha idea thal we pan got along with an. irredeamable ourrency all our own is a9 sbeurd as the smpposition that a aingle man could lssus unlimited irrodeem- ablo currency of his own and buy with it whatever his nelghbors had to sell. This fact, wo ropeat, is peraistently, deliberately, stupidly iguored by the irredoemable groca- backers, Like the hnntod ostrich, they stici thoir honds in the sand and refuse to look at the danger which will ho fatal to their schemen, Thia {8 the firal timo iv history that Amorican geese have emulated the habits of this African bird, The proposod monetary rystem wonld sim- ply destroy the commorcial intorcourse of the United States with the reat of the world or elso reduce it to s condition of bnrbarous barter. Tho gold-brokers would give nothing for apiace of paper that promised to pny nothing, and hence tho merchants who im. port $600,000,000 worth of foreign merchan- dise a year could not exchange tho papor in which they woro pald by the consumers for gold, and therefors could not renow their stocks, All foreign trado would ceaso. Wo could got no tin, no digar, no tes, no coffec, no molasses, no India-rubber, no good sitk, no hoavy tweed cloths, no iropieal Iruite, no «quinine, no medicines and chomicnls of many kinds, We would be, as a nation, almost ns helpless a9 n man whoso neighbors should re. fuso to sell him anything, ’ The only escape from such a pitinble atate of affairs would Do for thie merchanta to sell only for gold, to give no credit, since dobts could bo legally paid in this worilloss poper, 1t would then be mnccessary for eyory man who wislied to bay any foreign product to pay for it in gold The retsilors would de- mand the procions metal, boeause their stocks, like that of tho wholesale donler, could be re- plenished only by paylug gold, The laboring classes, and any nud every man in reccipt of wnges, rents, or profits, would be deprived of nll chance to consume sugsr, collee, tes, silk, quinine, opium, and a thousand other necos- warios or medicinos, unless thay could mau- ngo to gt some part of their income paid in gold. Tho effoct, then, of tho success of tha greenbackers' sehcme would be twofold. It would wipe out of existenco every debt at present existing, and would defraud every croditor who was not also a dobtor of evary cont of his dues. If ho wos a debtor, he could use the stnil ho received to paylhis own debts, and could thus, by cheating somebody olse, partly escape being cheated himaclf, As far as this effect is coneerned, the end would be renched more spoedily and quite ss hon- estly by simply having Congress pass a reso- lution annjhilating all debts owed by citizens of the United Btatos, and forbidding the Courts to allow any poounisry claims to -bo enforced. 'The other effect would be to force the country, after o fearful commereial crisis and untold suf- foring, espacially among the poor, to roturn to tho nse of gold, and sell ita interchange- ablo, irredeomable rags by tho pound. This cnd can be botter reached, withouta crisis and without any great suffering, by following out the plan’of funding the greenbacks in gold-bearing bonds. The ourrency question is considernbly simplified if wo remoember the fact that the great reason of the lack of gold in the country at present is tho existence of tho greenbacks. Hemova tho latter and the former will rush in to take Lheir place, ns rrogate membership of 1,100 y drlnking men hava baon 1nduc‘sdn::'=!’m‘ m pladgo: & dally temparance prayor-meeting yay heen_ rogularly mainiatoed ; and headquarters 1iavo beon entablished a8 & Tenott for fhoss g niriog to 1aad & batter life. Tho department of o Baclety’s work which sesrs to u mowt 1o metlt publie racognition and approbatien. in the effort it (s making o have pag-day ronerally changed from tho last to the firat of the wack, A large number of busicens meg hiave agreod, at the nolioitation of the Boclety, 1o make tho desirad chiango, and it in Loped many othors will fail into the movemmt. Tar Ta UNE earnortly wiklios sticcers to the Sooist il tho reformatory mossures it mav undortake through individual offort. and espocially com. monda to mozounnts and manufactaiors the pro. posod absoge of pay-day ae being a vigorous and perfactly foaslble aorreotive moasure. —_— Dr. McConn, President of Princeton Coltagy, has socured tho gitt of five bilhard-tables, which or0 to be piaced In the College Aymomiom, 1 is thought that this will fuduce stodenta to stay away from raloons, and play the pletgant game without the sinfol sccompaniment of lamonede witha “etraw™ init. Theides ls & zoud ope, Dut it {a & pity that churchea nod chinreh-people wait notll amusomonts, harmloss in themsslyes, | aro mado disreputaole befors thoy suffur them. { Holvos to bo foioed into taldng them up. The billiard-table {8 n somewbat curions masng of aiding religion, but, if proporly nsed and dise connactod with grog-thops, It might keep nany young men ont of frrelizious tomatatian, sud so promate morality amoug cortain classos quits sa oltectunlly a8 tho Lulnit or the prayer-meeting, Why suiould not the parlors to be found iu nearly 11 large accleslast:cal edificos bo utilized us clubs rorms for young mon and boys, as well as for *1aira" that unfairly Heece all the visitcrs and | praver-mestings that do not atiract thoss most in uecd of prayor? Old RowwaNp Hicn once ] eald that ho envied tho dovil the usaaf that ) rough-aud-ready word * damn.” The churches may woll euvy the devil the uso of the innoces amnsemonts which thoy havo allowed his mtae lono to monopulize. —— ! Tho Foglish Court which nscd to becalled the | Queen's Bench bas recenily been cailed uponts | decido the logal asbects of a wager, A Mr, | Uaxepex offored to bet, and did bet, £800 that | the rotundity of the oarth could not bo proved from Beripturoe, reason, or sclenco. A Mr, Waze TAcE nccepted the bet snd furnirhed the re ' quired prool. The stakeholder anrcandered the doposits on both 8 to Mr, WarLacr, and Mr, Haxepxy, tho K has now aued the stake hioldar for damages, There Is no. doubt whate ovor 13 {0 the itauo of the cass, slnce all wagsra | aro deciared fliegal by atatnte ; bub it is & qua-| tion whnt (he common law piinciple would be, supporing that po s atute provision Inieifersd. It is maintained by the couvsel for plainbft thst Bir. Warrack could have had no doubt as to the convexily ot the earth, sud thorefors that he | was bottiog oo s corisinty. The defendaut’s' cogosel, on the othior hand, contended that thia wae uot & wager, bul » contract on ceriainterms and cooditions which bad been periormed sod completed. Tha casois full of tecunlesl il and we do rot koow that it {a valoal wiog any additional light upon aurfaco, — Tho ablest military critic tn the world I claimed by somae to ba Col. Crantxs C, Cngawzy, | of England, His repatation s acritle, thongh! quickly mads, hiaa beou well made. Hia anony-! infallibly o8 air rushes in to fill a vacuum. Tho Liborian Commissioner to the Conton. nial, who is now residing in Philndelphia, has writton an intoresting letter to the Dulletin of that city auent the war which tho little Ropublio is now waging ngainat the snvages on her fronticr, He boldly charges that In- gland is rosponsible for the outbreak that threntens the very lifo of Liborin. Somo time ngo, nccording to tuis authority, alaw woa introduced into the Legislaturo of this nogro Btato giving England a monopoly of ita trade. This was finally unanimously re- jeoted, Sinco then, Englishmen have been scheming to incite tho neighboring tribes, whoso trada they alroady control, to the war, hopiug to overwhelm Lili.ria and thus secure by coercion the monopoly which canning could not give them. ‘Tho nasailants are fur- nighed with arms ond smmunition by theso tradors. English bullets kill Liberiansoldiors and English knives proparo their bodies for tho cannibal fensts of their slayers, * This, it will bo noticed, {8 an indictment ngainst: Englischmon, not England, but it s o suf- ficiently strong one to warrant the British Ministry in stopping the schomes of ita blood- thirsty ‘subjocts, Tho, Admiralty would be, much better employed in this way than in. passing Fagitive-Slaye laws. ' The New Orleans Picayune, in commonting upon the rogent article in Tre TEONE upon tho Bt. Liouis, Arizona & Paciflo Railroad Convention, says: *‘Fue Caioano Tnmsune, in ita anxlety to throw cold watoer upon an onterprise which it rogards inimicolly, both bogs the question and misstates tho faots in the case, Tha St. Louis Convention was not » *subsidy Convention.” The resolutions in question ask for no subsidy ; neither do they demaud donationg of lind ‘and the issue of Government bonds.” Inasmuch as Tme Tnrn vxa did not stato that it was o subsidy Con- yontion, the Picayuna is knowingly misstating facts, But when tho speculators engaged in the projeat sk the Govarnment to guarantee tho intorest upon their bonds to the extent of $40,000 per mile, which intoroat tho Govern~ ment is mode lisble for and must pay, it is only another form of taking monoy out of the Publio Trensury for a local enterprise. We are not partioular in calling it “a subsidy, | By the way, or donation, or an indorsement, or an fssue, of Government bonds, or aloan of Govern. ment arodit, aa it all aomaa to thie same thing inthe ond. The Detrolt Post.bas come to the rescue of ex-Banator Caneentzs, snd pats him approv- ingly on the shionlder for bls annonnced inten- tlon o sue T Tawmung for libel. While we ars of the opiuton that the Detrolt Post will do as_well to concentrate its epergiea in watohlog the avidences of carruption fo lte own mrhnlry. wo must Inslst thet, If 16 interferes in Tux Tuimusw's affairs, it shall mako a proper state- ment of tho case. Mr. CamrENTER hai 1ot enad to sue Tux TRBUNE becausd, as the Post asys, “Tax now enn-g\lld s officlals who while bo was & Benator.” If Mr. OimerntEn propossd to briog ault on that bsals, (here might be tama ground for it, buk the fact is 4 threstous to ane Tum TuinUNg for, as L say oharging that bo ' was, ‘while a Benator, a shsrer o the frult of freuds upoo the Iuternal Rev- epuo Jaws of the United Biates,” Tux Tsipuss never having mads sush s oharge, Mr. Canrex- rea's $hrons to wue i3 s Ubel upon this jotrual, and soy sult broughs on'such ground will also o # libelous sllegation againat Tum TH1bUNE, Whea' the Detroit Fost agsin uodesiakea to in- Iawyer In defonding iudioted s g mons pampblet, *The Battle of Dorking®: atartled all Europo and convulsed overy cissein | Eogland, Col. Cuxssey's last work is so ossay in be Fortnightly tieview oo the memoirs of | Gons, Bitznxax sod Jouxstox. In the coursoot | it, bis compares thom with each othor and with Gnixrand LEr. Ha Anys, spoaking of tue come palgu of 1804 : * Reatiug on tha yaar's histary viewod singly, BUERMAN muat bs prononuoed. o very maater of tho art of war in a closo and wooded aud mountainous conulrs, superior by far to his bolder and lesa. sagaciona chlef [GnAnT}, and uomatched auywhore, ualoss it be by Lex himsolf or tho Genors! [JoneTox] who 80 stoutly opposed him.” The wholo article is of exceeding interest, and forms an essentiad part of tho literature of tho ** March to the SBea.” While thn American pooplo universally accord to Oen. Bugsyax grost military abllity, com- parativoly fow coneider Lim superior to Gen, Gnanr. Tho testof eucossd and hard-fought Aslds viotorionaly woo cortalnly do not sustain theoone clusion of the Englieh critle, * Late in the eighteonth century the man who was born su American ciizen aud baptized Bax- 3aun. Trouruox, and whodlad Count Ruxroro, of the Holy Roman Empire, used a few spsre maments In propariog s receipt for makiog soup that shonld combine the mazimnm of nulritlon with tho minimum of cost. The jogrsdleats woto moeot, fat, potatoss, beaas, yeas, sod & fex other vegetablos. This recoipy_has lately boen used In proviling tho panny-lincbes dhat have been o popular in Boilin and other Prosaiay cities. Those funches aro served n the restau: ranta under tho care of s, philsnthroplo (ol oharitable) socloty organized sod mansged by a woman, Lina Monarnsreun, There nearly twenty penoy-restaurants in Dorlin alons, sat thoy do a'grest work In furnlsling the poor with wholesome faod st & very low price. The geo- oral plau of mansgement is sometbing like thas of tho * Holly-tros Inng” which have been atich suocosses in Boaton and Hariford and aush failuros in Chicago. Ve Toeson W, Pasg clsims €100, 000 from the New Yotk Tyfbune. Its chavges agaiost bim fa tha case of the Emma Mino are mado the ground of action. The immediate provoeation, howeror, msy doubtless be found In an article recentiy published by tho Tribune, which shows Mr. Pans 1n au ugly bgbt In connection with & traudalent igsne of the stook of the Now York City Central Underground Company. Mr. PAnk ls not, ty all'accounts, oxpend tears upon, bud it would be an mgreeable the countsy 1 hio should succeed in vindicating bis cbarscter, tho New York Z'riburq haa baen du- tiously given, since the deatn of Honiox GsEl- 1.x7, to spite and blunderlng, —_— When the Indian Ring bas been thoroughly oxplored, another branoh of the Iaterior De- partment will probably claim putlic attentions The Ponelon Bureag, by all accounts, wante 80 overhisullng. 1t Is aaid, on the authorily of the Philsdelpbin Press, a Republican:newspapes, : thiat at least §7,000,000 ont of the anvual appro= priation of 30,000,000 for penaions sre paklos fraudulent papers or are gathersd 1o by A torneys, . PIRSONAL t Farto {s dramatiziog hisstory of **Gabrid Bre Tainune hes spoken of bim 8 | goproy.! Tlonsy Olay Dean is lecturlog Io Towa on **The- sppoioted % Lls fnatanoe |y 0 opg)ity of the Boul The lecturs is probe ably a subtle plea for neglect of tha body. 'The Rev, Juson P, Walker, formerly of Chi- cago, but now Rector of Galyary Partel, Roches- ‘ter, Minn,, is spendiog s faw days with frionds in thiaclty, facvard student travslatings * Walste ¢ mich schaftlos aus dem Lager—I waitzed sleep- ity off for lager.” Wild amazement of instrusk or, aud & rippling smile through the olasn e Now York Lerald, lo a lesdiog editorial breathing $he upirit of indassy sad ood-wilk, terfore in other people's pusiness, it should &% | gyviges Mr. Bescher (o retiye from the polpit Ieaat stato the facts with somo spproxima\ion §0 | and thus oud the painfal oplsods m his minlatry. 200Ura0Y. e . The Chicsgo Woman's Christisn Union, which duten {ta axiatence from & mesting oslled March 16, 1874, haa published & repors of itu proceed- lugs for 3974-5. Th mbers of the Boclaty have bsen regularly engaged atnoe ita formatiou in clreulsting pledgos, distributlng temparance litersfure, aud holdlug .meotlngs of various uinds, Mass-meetipge have been held dunog the yesr at the Tate of oue & weeky eleyou Re- | dey with tole form Olubs have been orgsulzed, with sa sg- | Judicrous bluuder. . Boocher did nob say io bie Jess Fridsy 3 Mnl g talk thet Plymoath Church would show lier 4 fauga” when asuailed, bus thai abe would alwiye sbowbor “*0ag ™ st such Hmgs. The et ror occurred 1o the trauamission of the repost by telegraph. Me, Kerr inthe third pesker from Indlens. Davie wag the firat and io‘liu;h‘: u::n&.g 8 0 duties e ?ml but be made e When a division was calisd