Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 23, 1875, Page 4

THE CIHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, DECIEMBER 24, 1875. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES 03 FUTFCNIPTION (PAYADLR IN ADVAXCEL Poutnee Prenald af thin OMces. Deily Editiv At paid, | year, Pactn of yearat Walled to any adidross FOU'R WERER far. 5 s ANians Titorary and Holiois dabis Tri Onnenps, par yea Cluh ot e Ciubof Tho poateze Ia 15 cent spechnen cople sent Tree, ‘Lo pravent delay and mistaker, te sure aud give Jvet-Oflice addrees In ful, inclnding Stateand County, Iemittances mny be made efther by draft, expross, 1un.-Office ordor, or in regintered lotters, at our risk, TEAMA TO CITY AUBLCRATKRS, Dally, delisered, Sunday exceptud, 275 cents rer week, Dzaly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 rents per week, Address IR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Dearbol Chlesgo, 1Nl AMUSEMENTS, ACADEMTY OV MUSIC—Ifalsted wireel, beiwecn Mndiron and Monroe, * The Two Orphans,” ADELPIL TIFATRE~Dearborn sireet, corner Mourop. * Forty Thicves,” 8 TIEATRE—=Randolph stroet, betweon 100! Clark sud LaSslle, Calfforuia Minstrols, NEW CHICAGO THVATRE—Clark sfreet, betwoen Randolph and Lake, Kelly & Leun's Minstrels, MUcVICRE THE~Madlson atrest, between Dearborn and Ktate, Eagagement of Baker snd Yar- roo, * Helarich and Hettie,” WOOD'S MUSEUM~—3fonroe street, botwaen Dear. torn snd Kiste. Aftsrnoon, ** Red Riding-Hood.” Eventug, * dack Hlarkaway's Adventures,” '8 T1] TAN CHURCH—Corner Mon_ =ONITED PRESBY Concort by Father Kimbali's roe and Paulins strovt Old Folke, SOCIETY MEETINGS. RILWINNING LODGE No, 811 A. T, & A, M.— “Tno Annurl Communication of thie Tadge for the cle - tiom of oficers aud pasmient of ducs, swil bo held thix ‘Thnrsday eveomg, Dec. 20, st Corinthian 1lall, 187 East Kinzje-at, A full attendance In urgently requeste ed, The gavel sounde at 3¢ o'clock, wbarn, © A, 11, RUBINSOS, W, AL, L. 8, CIIARLETTE, Kecretary, LUMBERMAN'S LODG TT A, Fo & A M= Tho Auntini Conpnuuteation for election of oflicers and pagment of dues will be hold Thuruiay e Dee, 20, A full wttendutee of tembers io J. I HGGINS, Heer The @hiege Tribue, Thuredny Mormng, Decombor 23, 1873. The oflicin! 1neteorological programe for t-dny in this region gives ug colder weather, with a northwest wind. W o New York Gold Ex- shange yesterdsy opened at 88} and closed it o very slight decline, Tho Granger coses will come up again for arguinentin the Suprente Court of the United Stetes on the 11th of January, It has Leen discovered that Troirsos, the Jynamite demon, once lived in St. Louis, T'his information may be of service in nssist- ing the effort lo ascertain how it wny pos. sible for u human mind to hatch out the enormous schems which led to the Mosel ex. plosion, Torefathers' Day, commemorative of the lunding of the Pilgrim Fathers in the neigh- borhood of Plymouth Rlock £55 years ago, was celebrated yesterdav with interesting xercises at Ann Arbor, Mich., Modisou, Wis., und other cities where New England Soéicties tlourisl. 1t is nnderstood at Washington that Fen- Naxpo Woop was named second on the Ways und Meany Committee under an jmprossion tLat he would resent tho insult by offering Lis rvesignation, and that when he did this e House Ly an unsnimous vote would ex. cuse him. But Fenvanno Woop did not ask to bo excused: he pooketed the slight and retaivs his place on the Commistee. —— e A gocial ovent of unusunl interest and im- portance is clhronicled in onr Bloomington dispatehes—the wedding in that city yestor. duy of Miss Saruir WonrmizeroN Davis, only daughter of Judge Davin Davis, of the United States Supreme Court, and Mr, Aexny Sruant Swayse, son of Judge Bwayne, also of the United States Supreme Bench. The yathering of guests Included distinguished people from various parts of the country, und the ocension which cemented the two cminent failies was in all respecta suitably brilliant and happy. The policy of tho ITouse Commitiee on Ap- proprintions, as outlined in our Washington tiepatches, contemplates a reduction of £40,000,000 in the public expenditures dur mg tho ensuing fiscal year, The War and Novy Departments aro to be reduced #-0,000,000 cach, the former by roduction of the army to o maximum of 15,000 men, and the navy by sclling all but first-class war vessels. Rotrenchment is a uew hobby for RaNDALL to ride, and if he keops the saddlo throughout, and sits down with equal firm. ness on all other uppropriations, and s suc- cessful in the inculeation of the principles of rigid economy all around, the country will be both astonished and gratified, A correspondent at Boston gives an inter- esting nccount uf the remarkable decadence and downfall of the Eastern Railrond Com- pany of Massachusetis—an corporation which iu five yoars has traveled the broad rosd to rain with wore than locomotive upeed, In 1870 the Eastorn Iteilroad was voted among the best managed and most proaperous concerny in New England, with a heavy passenger ond freight traffie, and a compayatively small debt, Sinco that time the affairs of the Compauy, by the sid of & combination of ubout ol the evils that railway munsgement is capable of encompassing, have lapsed into & condition bordering upon hopeless ruin, A prononnced type of contempt of court prevails at Franklin, La., where u number of the leading uewbers of tho Har have united in drawing up and presenting in open court # latter rvqueating, in the interest of the pure and jntelligent adiuinistration of Iaw and jus- tice, tho rusiguntion of Judgo Muniz, of the Parish Court of St. Mary's Parlsh. Hls Honor took. coguizauce of the mutter in open court, snd denlod the motion upon the ground that he should not resign until xe. quested to do so by his constituents, His ventimenta were evidently like thoss of the Second Lieutenant of o militia company, who waa elected by a close shave, and who, whon called upon for a specch, said: “'Then sa voted for me, I respect; tham as didn't, I disgust,” Dut the lawyers aroin earnest in demanding a chonge, and a move for the im. peachment of Judge MenTz is likely to follow, The Obicsgo produco markcts were gen- erally tending downward yesterdsy, Alesy pork was moderately active, and closed firm ut $10.15 cash and $10.40 for February, lard was in good demand, and oclosed steady @ @19 20 Deg 100 1bs caah aud §12.40@24.48} for February. Ments were quiet and firm nt 7l@tie for hoxed whoulders, 10i0 for do short ribs, and 10Je for do short clears, Highwines were quiet and steady, ot $1.10 per gallon, Vlour was dull and unchanged. Wheat wns less netive, and je lower, closing at 96} eash and 97e for January, Corn was quiet and ensier, closing at 47¢ for December ond 432¢ for January. Oats were quict and ensier, closing ot 29ic cash and 80c for Jan. unry. Rve was dull at (Se. Barley was Anict and 1@1e lower, closing at 81)c cash and 8de for February, IHogs were dull at Tuesday's decline, Packers paid #6606 06,85 far common lo choice grades, Cattle woro dnll nud unchanged, Bheep wero quiet and averaged lower, the supply being excessive. ne hundred dollars iz gold would buy 113,25 in greenbncks at the closo. Finding that they have heen going too fast in truckling with the ex-Confederates, the Northern Domocrats have sounded alalt, and it is now announced that the removal of one- legged Union soldiers about tha Houseof Rep- resentatives to make place for Confederates has been checked, temporarily at least, Tho breozes of popular indiguation which were beginning to sweep down upon the Capital portended n storm so unniistakabty that thoy did not dare to faceit. 'Tho halt, however, will bo of Lrief duration, and after the holi- daya are over we may expect to see the work completed, As a just quid pro quo, sufficient Domoerats should at one be dismissed from the Deportments to make room for theso men, whose only offenss is that they fought for their conntry against the men who have been given their places The fight for the Senatorinl succession in Towa to the seat of Senator Wniont, whose term expires in 1877, is already commencing to be waged in a very vigorons manner through the newspapors in that State, Sen. ator Watant having reti from the fleld soma time since, four candidates are already contesting for the placo,—Harna¥, Prick, Kmkwoop, and Severetary Beresap, and the tight is raging fast and furions, Fortunately the Republican wargin in Towa is suflicient to allow of a lieated contest without seriously endangering the succession, and a lively can. vasy may develop such frets as to insure the selection of the beat man. There is certainly tire enongh in which to pnko & choice, and if there is the disposition, as now appants, to thoroughly canvass every candidate, there is no repson why the choice should not ba a good one, THE DEMCCRATIC BITUATION IN CONGRESS The inunngers of the Demoeratic Houseo of Representatives have atteupted a bold poli- ey, the aim of which is of importance to tho whole country, but the success of which is extramely doubtful. "T'ho gentlemnn chosen for Spenker is o Democrat, who, casting aside the delusions and crimes of the modern par- ty, proposes to place in the foreground the finuncial and revenue policies of the Dewoc- racy which prevailed prior to the War. For this purpose the control and management of tho Democratic 1Touso hus been concentrated in tho hands of men from the West. Tho Eastern States have been quictly put aside, and all the leading yuostions of the day have been comuwitted to Western men, In this orray of controlling power the Weat has been treated ns the country. Tho States in tho Valley of the Mississippi have been recog- nized s the seat of power, while New En. glaud and tho other Atlantic States have been cousiilered ag frontier or outlying portions of the Union. 'This attempt to give to the Western States the eontrolling power in Con- gress hus been made moro daring and aggres- sive by the further attempt to place this pover inthe hands of Western Democrats whoare in favor of sound money, reduced oxpenditures, and a reduction of taxation to an exclusively revenue standard, For this purpose the bold and defiant manngers, who in tho fivst placo forcod Mr. Keny, represeuting his peca- liar views, upon an unwilling and adverse majority of the party in the liouss, have so arranged the working machinery of the body that all power is contined to that faction of Western inonbers who favor hard money, The Conumittee on Waye nnd Meuns is composed, with the exception of Mr. Kerrey, of bard- mouey men, and with a Jurge majority in favor of tho nbolilion of protective taxation. The Committee on Banking and Currency is equally decided in favor of hard mouey; aod, though its Chairman ik & New Yorlker, all his past history is that of & Western man, Two clnsoes have therefore been oxcludod from the government of the Iouso,—the Demoeracy of the Stales enst of the Alle- ghenies, ond tho Democratic Inflationists of the West as woll of the Enst. ‘The aunounce- ment of tho committeos by Spenker Krnn wes on open dotiance and declaration to the Inflntionists of all parties, and to tho Pro- tectionists of all parties, and upun the question of inflation, that the Speaker, and consequontly the mnnagers of the party in the Houso, are opposed to the mnjority of the party in the Iouse. It is the old prob. lem whethier tha tail ghinll wag the dog or the dog wiuy tho tmil, Shall Keen and Monmsoy, and their comparatively kmall faction, govern the party in the House, or shall the mnjority of tho Demacratio Honso bo permitted to dic. tate to the minority? In tho Democratio representation from Indisna thero is but one, if indeed thers i3 even one, who favors hard money and opposes inflation, except Mr, Keun; now shall bo dictato to his colleagues, or sbnll they bo allowed to have an opinion of their own? o with tho Protoction Dem. oeruty of Now England, New York, Peunsyl. vania, New Jemsey, and Maryland. Bball they submit to have Mr, Kenn and the men of the West wpongo out of existence the lib. crol aud mugnificont bounties and ponsions which their prople have so long enjoyed un. der the protective turi, It is imposiiblo to beliovo that tho great protectivo interests und tho lurge inflation majority of the Democratio members of the Iouwso will submit without a struggle and no- copt frea trade aud specio payments at the dictation of Speuker Xyun and the smull fac- tiou of Domocraty who agres with him, Bo fur, insubordination hus been repressed, The Speaker hus manuged to stifle discussion, und lils progranmo for the future {s understood to bu thut all resolutions or other forms of declaring opinlous ou all questions relating to thu owrrency shall be referred to comumit- toes without debate, thus proventing any op- portunity for the Inflationists to foreo the nembers to o vole, These committeos, ay composed by the Bpeaker, will nover report su inflation oeasure, Bub We Question whether thilg polioy of suppresulon can bo waintained. Already there are resolutions by the scors prepared, to be offered aftor the rccesd, which will practically declare that, while the Democrutio wujority elected Kenn, who ha« organized the committoes on a hard. monsy basis, the House did not thereby adopt his financial opinions, The reaistance is ger tain, and when {4 is made it must of nsoe: {y determine whether the party shall bo for intlation or honest money, and that decision must alko divide the party into two factions, ench ns unrelenting and as determined ns the aiher, The policy of transferring the control of legislation to the West, whera practically the people reside, may be attended with great party disadvantages. New York, New Jersey, Maryland, ennsylvanin, and Delaware aro of themselves o strong political power, and, though their votes nre not essential to the election of a Presidentinl eandidate, their loss is n serions danger. The prople of those States will not, without strong resistance, consent fhat the Western States shall here- after became nbsolute in the control of ma. tiona! legislation. The gamo played by Kern nnd his friends is n boll one. They seck to seduce cr whip the Dewmoeratic rank and filo of the Westorn Democracy into n hard-money platform by the ofier of giving the West the control of Coungressional legislation, n reduc- tion of forly millions of dollars a year in national expenditutds, and the removal of the obmoxions protective taxes. Lo the South they offer such n reduction of the army 8s o render military intervention thero even to enforce the laws ont of the question. This policy, if successful,—if the Democratio House ean be conxed or coercod into giving the quictus to inflation anda support to specio payments,—thenthae revolu- tion in sentiment will be of a magnitude and importance so unprecedented that, until the success becomes a fnct, belief in its proba- Lility exceeds human credulity. THE PERSONAL-TAX OUTRAQGE. Trobably no.subjeet is exciting so much at- tention and indignation ameng the business men in Chieago at the present timo ns the valuation of the personal property of the South Division for taxation. A few com- parisons will serve to illustrate tho unjust diserimination which bas characterized this wonstrous nssessment. The nssessment for city taxation lnst year was $238,549.310 on renl estate, and tho assessment for State and county taxes this yesr on the same real cs- tate §s only 125,444,173, or less than half s much. If the whole nsserament had been equitable, the persoual property would have beon rated in nbout the skame proportion, in- stend of which it is } for Slate and county, and was only §43,153,830 for tho city Inst year, or actuully more for the former than for the I=tter, instead of less than half as much, s it ought to have been, The bulk of this burden has fallen "upon the South Side, In the Weut Division and {he North Division the Assessors mado the pro- portion of the real-cstate valuation f(o the persoual-property valuation about & to| 1, while in the South Division it jx not: evenitol. The personnl properly of the West Division is assessed at $4,361,41¢, and that of the North Division £8,252,000, whilo that of the Bouth Division is 13,203,207, The valuation of the South Side personal property is juore than ticice as much ns it ought to be in order te be uniform with the other two divisions of the city, or with the proportion of city veluation to State valua. tion of real estate, The gross injustics of the South Side ns- sessmont is further illustrated by a compari- son of somo of the bank assessments. The Notional Bauks are assessed n regular per- centuge ou their nctunl eapital,—the First Na. tional at 100,000, the Merchants' National at $$200,000, the City Natioual at 100,000, and 80 ou,—while the private bauking inatitutions are assessed at only a small fraction of their capital. The Merchants' Savings, Loan snd ‘Frust Company was asscssod at one-third its eapital. Alarge institution like the Hibernian Banking Associntion was put down at only 38,0001 and Mr. J. M. ApsiT paysn tex on only ¥565, with which he does a very re- spectable banking business. In individual cases, it is mow pretty certain that three- fourtlis of the residonts of the South Side] aro required to puy twice to thres and four times as much as much as in previous years on the samo amouut of personsl property. The explanation of all this is very simple, nnd it {8 for this purpose that wo have given additional prominence to tho subject. Last spring the good citizens aud tax-payers stayod in their shops and oftices and per- mitted a lot of bumwmers, thieves, and lonfers to tako possussion of the polls; and did not, it wo recollect right, present oven one decent ticket in opposition, By & system of repeating aud ballob-box stufling, it necessary, or by a mere prevalence of bummerism and senlawngism on the one hand, aud nbsence of tax-payers on tho other, one Ep Puniuivs wos elected Amessori among the several town officors * ktuffed” for at tho time, Thisis the reason why tho South Side is paying about three times ns large a proportion of the personal tax as the other two divisions, why some banks are assessed high and others on a mero nominat sum, and why some individualy pay threo or four times as much as thoy did last year on tho same or less property, and others not s much, If, uoxt spring, the good citizens and tax-poyers agnin permit the bummers, re- penters, nud ballot-box stuffers to elect their own cronies, the tax-payers may expect to suffer in tho smme way, and we don't know but whot thoy will deserve to suffer ovon worsa, ———— PENDLETON'S PRESIDENTIAL PILORIMAGE, v, Grorgz H, Penprrron, of Wash Me. Lean, Ohlo, is now eugagoed on a Presidontial pilgrimage down in Dixle. Whilo other candidates nre figuring und speculating in Washington, und playing the courtier to the political pavties, Mr. Prypreron, like Dax. 1zL PraTr, and Gronar: WasaiNGToN MELLEN, and Geonor Fnaxcis Tna, takes time by the forelock and starts off upon a little cam- poign of his own, in which ho blows bis own trumpet and waves his own flag. Ostensibly on his way to Poxcs; v Luos's youth-renow. ing fountain for the benefit of Mr, Prxpre. ToN' heelth, ho luproves the upportunity to put in an appearsuce at each important Southern city, und to pat in a little specch at oach nppearano, at which his claimu to the Presidency are sot fortl in a bland and child- like mauner, and with a degree of depart- went which would not have done discredit to Mr, Purveyoror himsclf. Tho hotel balcony is Liufavorite rostrumn, and his audionce throngs the streets Lelow, nnd bstween the strains of pensive muslo his voive floats out on the ovening air, laden with perfume of magnolia and roses,—tho air, not the voice,~and Pleads for ¢ a Joftier, purer patriotism which will crush out all soctional bitterncss,” It iy but justico to kay that the fanltless peoktics and fminaculate kids of Gentleman Gxouay, Lis hondsome deportent and persussive tonguo, ure making an effect upon the sus- ceptible Bouthrous, and alresdy Augusts, Ga., hes openly nominated Lim for the Presidonoy, with other localitics awaiting the man, and the speech, and the deport. mont, to follow suit, The saribe who travels with bim assures the eountry, through the nof the press, that his appearane n has Leen tho signol for raising the ery for him for Presidents that he eonid et the support of Georgin for the nowmination to-marrow ; {hat up- on his retwrn from Flovida he will pass through Alalama and Mississippi, siow his deportment and sound the Presidentinl slogan : and that it will requiro only n fow weeks to get the unanimons vote of the Sonth. 'This will ho waters of bilterness and gall and wormwood to l'moey, By Anney, Tovnyay, 1lexpriers, Ferxasno Woon, Cox, Lasam, €. Ursay Hanrwioy (our Canten), nud other Democrrats who nre persuaded that the country i pining for then and them only; but neverthieless wo are inclined to congratulale Me. Prynretos upon the suceess which s attending him upon his pilgsimage of pure and lofty patriotism nnd his mission of love and deportment, In following the tenor of Mr, PrNpLETON'S remarks, however, wo confesy to feelings of mingled astonishment and doubt, Tis seribo tells us that *“iu private conversation My Pexoretoy said the Democratie party was in favor of hard money, in spite of all that had been snid to the contrary.” 'Then, of course, as Mr, PrypreroN must bo elected by the Dentocrats, he must be in favor of hard moncy, in spite of all that ns been raid to the contrary. What sudden chango has como over Gentlemnn Gizorarn that he should thus cast off bis rags and erray himself in gold and silver attivo 7 Why, Mr. PESDLETON a3~ sisted at tho birth of tho Ilag-Baby. Somo say hie was tho daddy of it. Ho has fondled and caressed it, Ilo has dundled it upon his knee. Ho has fed it when it was hungry and dosed it when it wns sick. 1fo wad the pro. genitor of the greonbnck echeme for paying the national debt in irredecmable notes, 1o stumped Ohio for WintmaM AsteN ond mourned with him when tho Rag-Baby turned up its littlo toes, aud put on & weed when it was laid away under the daisies. Then he climbed tho fence and straddled it, and one of his gentlomanly legs rested upon the hard pao and the other upon rags. Now he has swung around the circlo. Ho evidently knows which way the wind Llows, Like HauLrr, he was mud north-north-west in Ohio, but when the wind is southerly, s it is now in (corgis, ha knows s hawk from o bandsaw, Mr. Pespreros’s seribe lets out in the mogl innocent manner a secret sorrow which distucbs his moster’s gentlemanly bosom,—n sorrow which caunot be roncealed by is im- maculato shirt-front or hidden Ly any elnbo- rato clegonce of pose. Says tho seribo: “Tle talked os if ho wished Congress ®onld adjourn until next winter, groatly fearing that some of tho Democratic members wonld commit rash acts which the enemy would take effoctunl advantago of in the campaign,” This kind of talk is not peculiar to Mr, PrN- preToN, Al nnxious Democsats pray in fo- cret for such an adjournment. Never were they in such a dilemnmn befors, Ilow ean they go into Mr, Lasaran’s Star-Chamber and receive their ingtructions how to think, talk, and vote, and at tho swme time give honest expressions of opinion and not commit rash ncts? Mr. PeNoreroy may woll fear thrt some of the Democrntic members will got on the rampage, but ho may be assured that, whether they get on the ram- pnge or not, thoy must show their hands. Tho people of this country will not go into an olection next fall with a hide.and-go-seck gmne going on about them. They will know for whom and for what they ave voting, and no Star-Chamber will dictato to them either condidates or principles, With this certainty in view, Gontlemrn Gronrak can resuma his Presidential pilgrimage and continuo his de- portmont without fear that any rash acts or seeret conclaves at Washinglon will undo the sweet aud gentlo mission ho is now making in the iutorcsta of *a loftier, purer patriot- ism,” S0, A, The “I. 0. U." {s o familiar eabaliatic sign of supposititious commereial valuo to which most men in tho courso of their lives have ocension to subgeribe, Thoe 0. A, U."isn varintion of letters yput forth by the New York Jlerald, a ciromnstanco that divests the combinntion of the credit which the old form somotimes commands, The * 0. A. U."” stands for the Order of American Union, if there is any such Order, just as “ A, P, A" used to stand for tho American Protestant Associa. tion, the distinguishing fenture of which wns that thore wers no Americans eounsoted with it, but mostly Ulstor Irish. The “O, U. A. M."” is the Order of United Americou Mechan- ics, which s an offshoot of the **A. P, A.," and includes o good many Germans, Thera may bo other branches of the same general nssociation of Orangemoen to conform to the prejudices and preferonces of differont nation- alities, and it is just possible that the *0. A, U. " is one of them, though tho cirenmstance that the Herald cxposes it as a secret Order would indicato on goneral principles that there is no such institution in cxistonce, The purpase of the 0. A, U.” js eaid to bo o general opposition to the polities of the TRomon Catholic Chureh, including all in- terference in political affairs of any ecclesins. tienl body, the division of the school funds or their diversion for sectarian purposcs, and the recopgnition of religious distinctions in any publi cducational or reformatory iusti. tutions, Tho Ordor {e reported, but without any bettor authority than wo have already given, *to oxterdd throughout the ontire country,” with a sort of national organiza- tion, including & **Benate sud Councils,” ete,, ete,, with o total mnemborship of 74,811 ! It seoms not to partako of the old Know- Nothing sentiment, inasmuch as one of the articlos of tho alleged Constitution provides that “auy loyal citizen or any alion who whall have declared his intention to becomeo a citizen” ia oligible to wembomhip. 'The only thing which would indicate that this Order intonds to tako an active part in poli- tica is a eection.of the * Coustitution” which provides that the local Chiofs shall keo that ull members nre properly registored and doposit their vobes nt electiony, each ¢¢ Chiet ™ being required to look after ten * mon,” re. port changes of residonce, and so on, ‘The probability is that this “ 0. A. U.” jua form of Orangemon, intended toinclude their sympathizers, not more dangerons than other associations of the same kind, and ohiefly objectionable iu the way that all sccret as- sociations for forelgu, uativistic, or sectarian ends aro objoctionable. There {s no likeli- hood that this Order will be able to accom. plishwuch of importance in any political way, except to ultimately damage auy party or movemeut to which it attaches itsel?, as the Know-Notbing orgauizstion damsuged tho ‘Whigs twenty years ngo. It ia hanlly to be supposed {hat tho ** Order of the American Upion" will attain either the numbars or the strength of tho Grangers, and yet tho latter Lavo not been able to achieve any permanent influence in politics, and have mainly suc- cosded In damaging theirown intorest whez. ever thoy bave underiaken to sttain $0 politle eal control, No recret organization in poli- ties ean meet wiliv wuceess in (his country, at Tenst whera the elementa of publicity are coincident th those of pepnlwity. and where the very iden of seercey is regarded ns dangerous, and recognized universally ns in. congistent with the theory and principles of our Government, ‘Tha effort of tho Merald lo connect this new phare of Orangelsm with o third-term movement for Gow, Graxt is simply nnother proposterons application of the Jerald's mania in this diveetion. There is nothing even in the sensationnl necount of the Assio- cintion whicl it prints that warrants any in- ference of thia kind; though the Associntion could not powibly bo leas havmful than by adopting the thivd term ay ita foundling. Nobody clwe, not even President Gaaxt, has been willing to resognize it, and nobody will object to confiding it to tho teuder mercies of the “0, A, U." It is ceriain, however, that tho Associntion will draw its membership froin both politieal parties and all political roeds. Thore is a largo clas of peoplo who nve an insanc nllection for seeret orders, and this rentiment has been responsi. ble for sisny a fantastic nssocintion with mystie signg, and grips, and pass-words, which have enabled people to get rid of somme of their moncy and spend a good denl of their time that might have been more profitably employed. Tu this respect, tho 0. A. U.” probably docs not differ from the rest of them. Tho association of the names of Graxt aud Bramve with this Order is manifestly a Herald invention for sensationnl purposes, and the whole matter is gearcely worth the spaco we hiave given it. THE WEED SOIT.® In 1867, Gen. Jaxes WatsoN Wenp wes TUnited States Minister to Drazil. Shortly before, the American schooner Caroline had been illegally seized and condemned by the Brazilian Government, Ier owner, LEMUEL WeLLs, complained to Seerelary Skwanp, who direeted Wens to ask for a speedy set- tlement. This was dona, Oct. 2, 1867, Ira- zil paid Wens the full amount of the elaim, £14,452 (370,000), This was handed over in tho shape of three bills on London, for £5,000, £5,900, £3,332, respectively, Tho first of theso was forwarded to Washing- ton and duly {ransferred to Luxvuen WeLrs. A yenr or fo ngo it was dis. covered that Gen, Wron's accounts were short by 49,232, the namount of the two other drafts, Suit was brought ngainst him by the Governmont in the United States District Court of New York for this sum. ‘The defenso Lo sets up is peculinr, but prob- able, The hypothesis of peculation hus scarce- Iy been admissible from the begiunmng, on account of Gen. Wrpn's character, record, and wenlth, Ho suys that WeLLs instructed him to pay auything in excess of .£5,000 awarded to certain * influential Brazilians"; that this arrangement knd tho jmplied, if not direct, sauction of Becrotary Srwamp ; and that it wes dQuly carried out, Wrrrs' letter dictating this disposition of the money was forwarded to the Secretary with the £5,000 draft, but the nawmes orig- inally mentioned in it woro crnged, Brwarp had been informed of the proposed sottle- ment in tho preceding April, and had ex- pressed no dissont, Dee. 7, 1867, ho acknowl. edged tho recoipt of tho .£3,000 in a dispatch to Ween, and added: * You lnve shown much energy and sngacity in the settlement of this claimn,” If the money was reslly shared in this way, the testimony of Lesurrn Wetzs and of the *influcutinl Brazilinug” would settle tho thatter, The former has not been called upon, and Wenn refuses to give the names of the lntter. He says: *‘They were desirous not to bo known in the transaction; nud, to seouro their ser- vices, I pledged myself and my ofii- cial character s tho Envoy Extraordi. nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States” nover to reveal their names. A motion to commit the defondant to jail for contempt of conrt in refusing to montion thess menis now pendingybeforo Judge Braromronp, Gen. Wenn's story is doubtless true and his refusal may perhaps be justified, but the talo is none the less un- pleasant reading. Is it ono of the funciions of our Foreign Ministers to act as jockeying claimm-ngonts, to hire lobbyists, to conspire with them against tho Treasury of their own untion, and to act ns au attorney in tho shar- ing of the spoils ? Ax the cas stands now, it scems that Gen, Wrpn so far forgot himself as to bribe, or ald in brib- ing, a numbor of prominent Brazilians, who were .ashomned to appenr in the matter themsolves, and so made the Ameri- can Minister the cat's-paw which raked their modest porcentage of G5 per cent of the Carolina claim out of the Treasury of Brazil, If this thing is common, Gen. Scaexck has been moroly following precedenta in his un. fortunnte carcer. The French Senate {s to contain 300 mom- bers, Of these, seventy-five have beenclected by the Assembly and 25 are to be chosen «, the Departments, much as our Senutors are elocted by tho States, The former hold their sents for life, or until the next revolution. Tho latter sorve for a term of years, Dallot- ing for lifo-Senators begun iu the Assembly on the 9th inst, aud ended on the 21st, Its results have been a sweoping trivtuph for the Republicans, 'They have 5t of the 75,— 80 from tho Loft Centrs und 24 from the Left, The Right Contre —the Orleanists —havo 6; the Extrome Right— tha beliovors in 1leNnt V., tho white fleg, wsod the Bourbou blood—have 11; ond the Bonapartista count but ono avowed sdlieront, though a number of other Benators aro suspooted of a lurking like for tho violots, tho Dmperial ongle, and the boy NarorkoN. The election of the 225 Bonntors by the De- partments will doubtless ndd a number of Bonapartists to tho Upper House, but the Ttepublican majority is sure to bo large enough for auy practiesl purposes. Senntcs have pever amounted to much bitherto in T'rance, but the struggle to secure control of this one shows that it is expected to play a niore important part than any of its predeces- Hor, Cov. CHAMUEKLAIN, of Houth Carolinn, has sgaln struck a vigorous blow for roform. The Legislature of that Htate lately elacted somo uo- torious scampa Circuit Judges,—WRIPPER and ox-Gov. Moses among them. The Governor bhas refused to {swue commissious to theso two, baslug his refassl un some legal techuleality, 1% 1s hoped that this will save tho Biate Judiciary from the utter degrudation prepared for it by ths Logislature, Tho corrupt Judgos were olected Ly s combination of wll tho bad elemonts in the Ropublioxn and Demooratic pasties of the Htate. ‘Thore was scarcely s protsuse on the part of those who put Wateeks sud Mosxs in nominstion thst eithor of thems hsd expa- tlence of reputstion to fit bim for the Bench. The Independent member Who nom! nsted Wurerzn gave special prominsuce to bis ocolor ma & zeason why he should be aleated. The speaker sald1 **We must bave #0d will bave calored wan on the Bench. s + o 1 mant acolored 1oan; we all want eolored mon.” Bpeakor 01T Reconded thn nomination in & slump-specch from tho cbalr. Iosaid he wonld measuro the Ropublie- anism of the mombsrs on the finor by their yotes on thianearion, 'There wan ovon less pretenso of n regard for decency In the nomiation of T J. Moses, Jr, Tho Bonator who stood spunsor for Lilm #nid tha candidato had faults, but they waro “all on fhe Republican side” On the counting of tho baltots, Mosra was nat elocted, but Wrirzeatonr, the calot-broksr, and a tum- Vorof others flopped over, and the result was changed. In a published futerviow after tho olection, CGov. CuAMBERLAIN said that ho fooked upon the eloction of theso mon ns 8 bLorrildo diraster,—na disastor equally great to tho State nnd to tho Ropublies 0 party, ‘Thero in no doubt that tho electionn wers bouglit by & free uso of monoy and the promigo of places, Votes were almoet opouly forealo at €100 apreco. Wo rejolco that Gov, Cuaxncuraty hos dono all in his power to pre- vent the consummation of the bargain, Ho de- gerven eradit for ntanding wa well by his recont record of Loneaty and intolligouco. One of tha facts bronght otit by the matrimo- nial correspondenco which wo published during some weeks, rocontly, was that the avotege youug man apparently preforred cigars to con- uubial bliss, and would rather buitd castles in tho sir by tho aid of smoke than put up & homo of his own with a wifo Insldo t5. * Tobacco," nays TuACRERAY, "la womsu's groatest foe,” This i8 a bit of koon percoption. There ia no knowing how many babes bave stayod unborn beenuse thetr potontial fathor preferred ciuars to children, 'The Romaus sometimes burned in- conso bofora their houseliold gods ; the Chineso do #o now. Our Amorican youth puff volumes of savory smoko from pipo and clgar, but the incense 18 not In hovor, bLut in ban, of thoir Lousobold gods, They worship tho deity that America flrst gavo tho world,—tbo plant tobaceo. Punch bnd o car- toon, somo years ago, which represontod the gilded youth of England ns pufling away their braius, Tach skull was fashiouod into s pipo, ond long tubes falling from the mouths of the rolf-alayers wouud In serpentive coila aronnd their limbs, and finally entered tho skull-pipos. 'The youtl of Ametiea aro perhaps not puffiag nwey their brains,—although that process would not take many pufls, in tho case of tho avorage youthy—but thoy blow from thoir eclgar-tips wiven, children, and homos iuto (ho limbo of what might have been. The eigar is rockoned 28 o necessity: louschold Joys are luxurios. The former, thorofore. comes first, We aro neither defendiog tho fact nor grieving over it. Few poopla not woolng or being won nt this pre- cieo moment will deny Its truth, It is o mattor of grave social lnport, them, when tho costs of living aro greatly reduced by the introduction of tho cheap clgar. This dusky Lenofactor of maukind first appearod a few short wooke ago. 1t could be procured for & niche), and it pro- duced the tlekling sensation on the palato and cloud of vapor boforo the oyes which satlety the averago emoker. It is truo that tho proper sea- 80D for its use seemed Lo Lo ouly afier a lunch ou corn-beef, in accordance with the culinary maxim that corn.boef and cabbago should be taken togothor. At flint, tho cheap cigar waa ‘gold st G cents, mo matter hLow many were bought, but there 8 now amarked inclination downwards. Basoment- saloons offer Junch, o glass of beer, and a cigar for b cents. ,Tho uocessaries of lifo aro cer~ tainly diminisbing in price. Somo uneasy feol- ing bas buen excited of Iato, howevor, by tho apoarition of o swarm of small boys who rako the gutters tn apparent search for stumps and ox-quids. Can the cheap cigar bo made of thess ? Wo aro glad to Lo ablo to say that this In cortainly not truo of every brand. A New Yort paper has discovered o factory of Y4-cent cignra in thot city, and deseribes tho precess of manufacture, 1ho owners buy imporfect, yel- low, and colortess tobacco, and subjsct it to chomical action, which makes it seem a8 good an aoy. Thoy claim, indocd, that, aftor baing #o treated, it not only socms, but is, a8 good as auy otber, Tlo averago cost of the finished cigar 14 about $20 per thouesnd. It is sold to rotallers a¢ from £35 to G0 por thousand, and rotailod to conenmers at 5, 10, and 15 centa por cigar. Other kinds of domostio cigars aro fast boeing driven out of the market. Tho protits are ©o groat that there is suro to bo flerce competi- tion cro long, and wo may then otiniu the sunisnuny lonum of the Italians, who buy bad clgars for a cent aploce. Tho consequences will bo more marriages sod & marked incressoin population, The economists of the past have shown Liow choap corn increased tho number of marriages; tho oconomista of the futurs will doubtlosa aliow that choap cigars have the same effect., Tho Boston Adverliser, o paper not zivan to lying or evon to startiug stories until they aro proved, publiskos an ubpleasant allogation in regard to the last Intercollegiate regatts. It ia roportod as esying that five of the wianing crow, from Cornell, were ploked up for the oc- caaion § that they wers not candidates for a do- greo and not membora of the University ; that thoy nomingily entered Coruoll simply to row the ruce; and that a deliberato fraud was thus succexsfully practicod upon tho boys of tho othor crews nnd upon the publie, And tho Adverfiser goos on to say that threo of the Columbia crow, which camo rear winning the raco, wore of the game port of mon as the flve ' Cornolhisns.” Theso ara sarious chargos from & rogatts siand- point, which sbould bo answered forthwith. ‘The public has come to expoct such tricks among professional bal-tossors mnd blaok- legs, but the utmost confidonce has been placed in the hosor of tho student smatems who pull oars {n our college racca. Thls confl- donce will be ehaken forovor unless she state- ments made by the Advertiser ars prompltly dis- avowed, Tho presa st large should call atten- tion to them, in order that the colloges impli- cated may Lo forcod into & speedy explanation. Wo trust that that expianation wilt be porfsctly Batiafactory. Eurmio Casteran's * Life of Lord Brzon," s translation of which has just appeared in Lou- don, promises tobs in many rospocts a dissp- pointiog work. Tho anthor kas thrown no uaw Jight on the history or charsctor of tho poot. On the contrary, it s #ald, moro than balf the small volumo devoted to the subjoct o taken up {n personal refloctiona and excursusos of varions kinds, The work will Le chisily valuablo, o fuuoy, a6 & study of OAtizan himeelf. —Tho studont may expoot to gain from porusing it more jusight into the ming of tho prlnh‘ontor aud statesman than Into that of the Inglish poot. Thero {s a growing susplcion in America that if it hod boen CasTrAn's bad fortouo to be Vborn in Englaod or this couutey bo would eithar bo & vory difforent man from what hola or bho would not be esteomed as o scholur, MHis cssayy on **Republieswsm and Monstchy in Enrope,™ receutly published la Jlarper's Magazine, Lave 10t enhauced his ropatation ag a thinker, Prob- abiy hin * Lifoof Lord Bynox " will only cou= firm and deopen the improsulon created by for- mer essayy of tho suthor—~tuat he is more an orstor than an historiau, —— The Tilinois Toachors' Associntion is to moet at Rock laland nest woek, boginning Wednesday and closing Fridsy, A clrcular containing the order of uxercises aud diroctions for delogates has been widely ciroulated through the State, 1t contalns an error in regard to the arruugo- ments with the railroad companisu for reducad fare. Thbe rsllroads bave not agresd to soll round-trip tickots for one faro and one-fifth, bt to well retuen tiokets for one-ffth tho uwual rates to all who present cortificates of mombar- ship from the Assoclation, i el e oy # Mr, Cuasrxs Hzway Hamnigo, member of Congrees from Llinols," ls the sigoature to & lettor printed tn the Now York Zercid agbeiog forth the metits of & comatifutional mpesdema) .. e which that gontlemnn proposes to offer rolative to the Presidentinl tonuro of ofiice, Wa have roforred upon Liwo or thiree previoua oconaions to tho libartios which are constantly taken with the namo of our Nuetrious orator and Represeute ativo, **Mr. Cuanrra Hexny lannteoy, methee of Congros from lilinois," ARTIR, ~ nothing mere, nothing less,—and wo once mors pratest ngaine thia ovident conspiracy to rob him of hig laureld and placo them upan the brow of nouto mythieal poraonage. Ho shall not losou singlo spray 8o long an wo ean defond him, It was ottr CARTER who mado the Centenninl-han. quet speech and who wrota the Herald lettor— not Mr, Cuances Hevny Ianntsox nor G, Iexpy Ilannisox, a8 envious pooplo ate now calling b, — The doctrine of atavism—which means, In the sciontific slaug of tho day, a roversion to the tenitn of ancestora—haa & moral bearing which La not beon sufficlontly counidered. Thoro in aweet comfort1n it for tho sinner. When & man hins nn atiack of atavlem, ho in of courso not rospansible for his misdeeds. Hia great-groat. grandfather in mcting tnrough him. When tha forco of sciontifle truth {8 fully appreciated, the averago thief will plead that his remots ancostor wag a baboon and stolo cocoanuts, and that he is therofore not responsible for what atavism hiae lod him into. And so in private Jife, the ‘moroso, Rolflah man will say that ho cannot ba blamed for hia naturo, bocauso tho small, leath. ory beg, which Mr, Danwin counts 08 tho fira torm of fifo, clinga in sulky eelfishuess to a rock sud loads it lonely lifo in utter disregard of evory other oxistouco; atavism endows him with tho samo traits, —— Bomo of the mmano womon of Now York havs undertaken to obtain roliof for the poor shop- girlaof the motropolis, Itis a common ruls among the shopkoopers of the city that tho girly employed by them shall not eit down during the time thoy are ou duty. An attompt is now belog mado to socure a modification, if not the total sbolition, of this rulo. The women engagod in the movoment do not protend to be particularly ‘*advanced " in thoir viows. Itis n mattor of differonco {o thom whothor tho skop-girls ob. tam tho ballot or mot. Thoy only seo bofora thom at prosont a poteut cause of wides-proid sufforing, which might bo scnsibly mitigated by o littlo practical offort ; and thoy aro makiog the effort. 'Thoy onght to succeed. If thoy do sue. coed, they will havo nceomplished more for the Donofit of tholr sox than all tho woman-suffrage ansociations tuat over oxiated in Ametica. i ‘Thero in but ono oxpresston of opinion na to tho fitnosa of JEAN Barrisze Doaras and Jures Buroy for the seats in tho Fronch Acsdemy to which they have been clected. Itis, indeed, al most & source of public congratulation that the Academy has honorod ftaclf by hononng such men, instead of picking from oblivion a couple of nobodies, Jurrs Srxox was electod Sonator of Franco for lifo on tho sama dny that ho way chosen by the Acadomy. IHo is known aa s Deputy during the Republic of 1848 and a con- sistant Ropublican over aince. As o lecturer in tho Barbonna ho hag won high honors for his puilosophical researchos and the acutenoss of his mental vision, JEaN Barriste Douas hag beon for half & contury one of the moet eminent of Fronch sclentific chemists, 1o i 75 yoard of age, but etill robust in mind and body. — 8poaker Kenn will have to bo clussod amonz tho odlicial figureheads at Washington for soma timo to como. Ile has retained n youag man to it by his sido and prompt him as to the routing dotailsof his offics until ho becomes familiar with them. The tomptation must bo strong ‘with somo of the membera who hinve boen school- maators in enxly life to call vho 8peaknr to order for improper asslataoco in reciting s Jessons, "Thelo nacd to be a famous teacher in nn Enatery university whoso favorite warning to unruly and insubordinate pupile waid: * Bubside, sir, sub. wide; or I'l floor you rudely.” A manof this deseription on the floor of Congress would make short work of Bpeaker Krnu's montor. Tho brute creation is evidently fecling the prossuro of theso hard times, for it is commit- ting suicido at o great rate. A horso hang him- elf the other dsy ; a dog drowned himsolf ; anl now a rooster has dashod his brains ont. o, at loast, say our veracious oxohmnges, If tho cus- tom becomes more goneral, ita good rosnlts may outwelgh the bud. Bupposo tho rats should all commit suicldo, tholtes of noxt summor bo born only to stanghter thomselves, and oveory mosqii- to bo gulity of felo de se. Yor tho saka of sucha happy consumination wo might wall afford to 1oso an ogeasional hiorse, a frequont rooster, and any number of doga. X —_— 8ome facstious but molicious individual lins Blartod this *sporting ™ liem about ono of the Ullinois Seuators. Tho scono 1s laid down in Dixio during the War, when they were besleging Vickaburg, aftor it was discovered that mpades, not clubs, woro the trumps that would take tha town. Says the narrator: Tho stury gors that onco in tho game of poker (. Toaxy hell three Jacks—Sack of fearts, jack of dis ‘monds, and fack of clube, _After runn(ng tho bets up 10 tho lbmit and calllng down the handv, JooaN fourd thint hin oppouent had four tens, when, witl true mili- fary fertlity of rosource, Louan furtively took outof hia pookot oo of hia own phitographs and plased it tapon bis usmecting oproveat for tho lack of srade. Uberaby HoMLIHG Tour Jacka and sweopioy the board. A census is always an Intoresting thing to Atudy. Its dry figures can be mado to yleid Jjuicy facts. A clisnce roferonco to tho consus of 1840 hns shown ua the rathor romarkable face that In that year thers waa only ono Biate out- side of Now Ivglaud {n which no slaves were. ownod, This was Michigan, In New England iteolt, thiore woro slavos ln Conpmecticut, Rhode Tsland, sod Now Hampshire. In the so-called 1 fron" Bates, outsldo of Alnasschusotts, Malne, Vermont, aud Michigan, there wore, in all, 3,128 slavon, 1 1iad rathor writo than Lo President,” said Tarsteav, of tho Cinclunatl Commercial, to somo ons who mentioned his name for Preal- dent. And * I Lod rathior be right than bo Pres- ident," waa tho rofloction of Mr, Brave as he rotired to the closk-room, while the vote on the rosolution sgainst the third term waa taken in tho House. PERSONAL, Bluhop Iavan is a milllovairo, heosn afford to be foolish, Congresaman Lamar is describad aa n man who shows traces of grost suffering. It ls hawdte bo a King, Ex-Sonator and Fx.Gov. Fenton i now ia Florida, sooking rolief for & sorious thross af- foction from which he Las suffered for many years past. 7 Yionle Roam ploa her faith to Morton as tht coming man, 8he mays Lie ls alroady luvu'lfll than Bisino and fast galning on Bilstow. Vio- wio iy sbrowa. Charlos O'Conor, with that unpleasant eyok clym for which ho is Cemiqus, ascribos lis rocov- ory to a caraful and comprohiensive disregand of Liy physlciany' instructions. Prof, Goldwin Hmith denles the roport thsd he bus purchased or intends purohssiog the "Toronto Alail for the purposs of advovating O nadian independence through its colamns. It in said at thls late day thas Capoul, ¥oe tenor, after an unususlly brilliant performeacd in Migoon " at New York, refused s fashiou: ablo boarding-school on Murray Hill in bulk. Talph Watdo Emersou says ho bas hoard with admiriog subwmizsion the experiencs of the 1sdy who declared * thut the seuse af boing porfecti? welldrassad glvos s faellug ot Lnward tranquilllty which rellslon {3 poworless to bostow.” TPoatmastor-Geners] Jowell still refusea to 8- Tow the use of hig uams for the Gubermators! nominstion fn Connectiout, but it is thought ols- cumstances moy essily sriso under which be oould be {nduced to think bettar of the matter. Prantics Mulford denies having ever bean ed- torof the Oceriand Mondhly, Ke says (hal b 1o editor fa & oleatacd benh whade atid trateid o feels thad