Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1875, Page 4

3 | TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNKE: SATURDA MBLR 235, Y., DECE TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATER OF SUTECRIRTION (PATATIE 1% ADTANCE) Pontawe tremld at thin Ofee. 9ally Edition, prst-natd, 1 sear... $13.00 Parts of yoar at eams rate, - \Weekiy, Do Parts of y-ar at raina rate. DI TORTPAID. Flab of twenty, por e The postsgc is centr u “rar, which wo will prepay. Bpecimen copd-s keul fren, “To prevent delay ent mistakes, Lo aure and give Post-Office addresn 1a fuil, lucluiling Stataund County, Remittancenmay be made cither by drafl, express, Tost-OMes ordor, or in registersd letfern, at our risk, TEBMA TO CITY RUBRCRIDERS, Datly, delivered, Bundas excepted, 223 cents por week, Lanly, delivered, Sunday fuchiuded, 30 ccuts pes weok. Address THE TUNIBUNE CONPANY, Cerner Mrdison and Dearbotts ats., Caalcago, Til, " AmuseMenTs, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Tialsted street, bstweon Madison and Monroe, * The Two Orphane’ After- Boun and evening, ADELPIT THEATRE—~Deuarborn stret, cornar Mouroa. *Torty Tulevee,” Aflernoon and evenlug. HOOLEY'S THEATHRE—~Randolph street, hetween Clark and LaSalie. Califoruia Minstrols, Afternoon and evenfug, NTIC CHICAGO TIHEATRE—Clark mtrect, Letween Fandolph ond Lake, Kelly & Leou's Miustrels, After Roon and evening. McVICRER'R THEATRFE—Madison street, belween Dearborn and Siute. Engagement of Nakerand Fare ron. ‘Ielurich und Iletife.” Afternoon and avening, TWOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroe street, hatereen Dear- born and State, * Juck Harkaway's Advoutures,” Af- tornoon and avening, -@;bt (hieago T’G,Tfiimm. Baturday Morning, Decombsr 25, 1875 At the New York Gold Exchango yeaterday the dollar greenback represented 85§ to 83§ in gold. Shonld the metcorological progmostientor Pprove correct in his deductions. we of this region may to-day look for littls lower tem- parature, with clar or partly clondy weather, ' ——e Dixon is immensaly delighted at the loca. Lion within her corporato limits of the Rock Ttiver Unis ¥, snd has celebzated {ho re- fitting of the University building by a recep- tion to the Faculty, whereat jubilant specches rud gratulatory resolution wero prominent Lonturey, An extension of the provisions of {ho Ex- tradition Ixenty ix nnder considbration by the liominion Government, the object boing to sio cxtend the provisions of the ‘Freaty s to prevent criminals in either the United Htafes ar Ununde from taking ndvantage of a lozy line of Lounda: effecting their eacapo. ———— Ar. Hexry C. Bowry was suceessful in oh- taining n verdict in his favor in his libol suit for £100,000 nguinst the Brooklyn JHagle. he jury found for plaintiff, and fixed the damnges at $1,000. As mouey was presuma- Lly not the nuin objoct of tha suit, Mr. Rowex will doubtless regard the verdict ns romething moro than the one-hundredth part of vindieation and satisfaction. ’ ———————— Tudge Bropakrr, of the United Statos Dis- trict Court iu this city, hos issued an order for tho impaneling of & Grand Jury, and for tho assembling of that inquisitorial body Jan, 4. If, ns many peoplo nupposn, the ramifica- tions of the Chicago Whisky Ring have hean ‘but partinlly brought to light thus far, it is to be hoped that the forthcoming Grand Jury mtay be more succossful than its prede- ©easors woro in this repard. We understand that soveral thousand per- £ons who feel outraged and oppressed in the assessment of thoir personal taxes aro form- ing thewselves into self-defansive associn. tions to resist tho payment of those taxes until every legal romedy has first been ex- Lausted. The resistance secems to be gen- el Thousands who nover fought o tax before have resolved to fight the Pprosent ex- uction to the death, The wrongful excess on personal property in the Sonth Division is nbout a million of dollars, e A cablo dispatch announces the death of the Rt. Hon. Earl Staxnovr, the English his- torian and essayist, ot the age of 70, 1l was the author of several historical works, and had figured somewhat conspicuously in tho world of lotters and art. Tle wau elected Lord Rector of tha University of Aberdeen in 1858, and founded a prize for the study of modern history nt Oxford. Ho was Chair- man of the National Portrait Gallery, aud in 1672 was electod ono of the six foreign mem- bers of the Academy of Moral and Politicsl Sciences at Pari The triol of W. W, Enmay, for the shooting =f D. R. ANTHONY, which hs beon in prog- ress in Leavenworth, Kan,, for the post week, way concluded yesterday, tho jury re. turning a verdict of not guilty. 'The twelve men went through the formality of ‘leav- ing their meats, but wero obsent searco- ly five minntes befors Teturning with their unanimons conclusion that Eu. nry “gerved him right.® This verdjot may not be in nceordance with the vlows of many people, but it serves to sbow the Ii. cense nccordod, in Kensos at least, to people who take the law into their own bands, wors especially when tho victim s notorioualy un- popular, and benrs a reputation, as i this caze, of being a bully, and a person whote verscity was bis poorest recommondation, —— Thero {a at last n good prospect for the Permanent organization of a creditable and efllcient militin in this Btate. This worning's puper containg the announcemont of Gen. Docar's staf, and the recent order of the Adjutant-Geueral of the State, consolidating sll the independent companics {uto regi- ments, shows an admirable basis for g first. class militia orgauization, The interest in thia matter will grow with tho dignity now given to tho organization; aud the cxistenco of a large and well-dlsciplined body of State troops will be eflicient in the way of preven- tion of communiatic evils, of mining troubles, of riot aud bloodshed, a3 well a3 the means of suppressing turmoil wherever it broaks out. ‘This militia organizition should receive ¢ver encouragemont from the citizens of the Btete, ——— "tu: Chicago produce murkets wera gun- crully steadier yesterdsy, Mess pork was in fuir demand and unchanged, closing at $19.0, cash and % 20@14.424 for February, Lurd was molerately nctive and stendy, closing at S12.17i@12.20 cash, and $i2.47}@12.40 for February, Meaty were moro active and eatier, 8L 7@7}e for Foxed shoulders, 10@104c for do short ribs, and 10fs for do short clews. Highwines were dull, and }o Jower, at $1.00} »r gallon. Flour was dull aud unchauged. Wheat was modaretely netive and sten. closing at 957¢ eash and Mile for Jaaunry, Cora was dull rad firm, el ot A for December and 4 for January, Oata were quict and steady, closing at 201c eash and 0} for Jannary. Rye was quict nt 68c. Darley was active and 1G1}c lower, closing at 8lic cnsh and 80je for Jnnuary, Hogs wera dall and unchavged, selling at & @6.85 for common to choice packing hogs. Cattlo nad sheep were quict and easy, O hundred dollars in gold would buy S11% in greentacks nt the closo. D S — From an extanded article in our local col. uinas this morning, relative to tho organiza- tion known as (he ** 0. A. U.," it will be per. ceived that sneh o sccret society nctually ex- ists in Chicago, though it docs not so clearly appear that the Order is 8o numerous or pow- erful aq has been represented. 'Che full fent ia given of the ** Working Book " furnished to cach Council as & guide for organization nud work. a copy of which was obtained with great diffienlty. Enough is shown to prove thot the New York #erald's Intest xensation wns not nltogether bnseless, but it is at the stmo time plainly evident that tho erald has been groping in tho dnrk, and hns to o great extent used guess-work in pluce of facts not cniy to procure, ‘The reader will also fail to purceive any hint of a Third-Torm eonspivacy in tho rigmarole of the # 0. A, U.." which appears to be com- posed of nervons citizens who have a wenk- ness for d»ing in socrat conelave what might just as well be done in pullic, and who, like the members of the Protestant Defenso Alli ance of Canada, fancy they have discoverad ihat it is necessary to unite and organize lo resist the aggressiva encronckments of the Romish hierarchy, OBJECTIONS TO SPECIE PAYMENTS, A cortespondent whose letter wo print this morning puts a number of questions, somo direct and others hypothotical, on the subject of specie resumption. For the hetter under- rtanding of tho questions and of the subject generaily, wo .repeat tho proposition mado by Tnz Tapose: Lo roturn to specio payments without any scrions disturbance of the rela- tions belweon creditors and deblors, It is Luown that tho only snbstantinl objection to an immediate return to specio values cones from tho debtor class, who object to paying debts contracted on the basis of deprecinted paper money in gold, whereby they wiil have to pay frow 12 fo 18 per cent of indebtedness for which they received no consideration, Under these circumstances, Tne TmmoNe proposed : That Congress by law provide thnt tho legal-tender Treasury notes now outstanding shall not be a legal-tender for contracts mado after n day named, sny Jan, 1, 1877; and that Congress authorize any holder of greenbacks to surrender thom at the Treasury, and re. coivo therefor o gold bond bearing a low rate of interzst, say 3.5 per cont. A portion of theso bouds to be issued in small denomi- nations, and to be legnl-tenders, the samo as greenbacks, for all debts contracted before tho dato nomed in the act,—that Iy, for all exiat- | ing debts, 'The immediate effcet of this nct would be, as it appears to us, that the coun- try would preparae for the chauge from the depreciated paper to the rpecio standnrd ; aud that, after tho day named for the chango, oll new contracts would ba on » specio basis. Forall old dobts,—that is all debts contracted prior to the day fixed by tho act,—tho green- back-bonds wonld be available in payment, thus leaving to tho debtor full oppor- tunity to pay his dobts in money of tho wulue of that in which they were oontracted. Our correspondents questions aro directed to tho detailed offccts of such a law when put in operation. Tho fizat oad second ask if the offect of limiting gresubacks s a logal-tender to new contracts would not bo 'to greatly depreciate their present valuo, and whether this would not he unjust o the holder. To thiu it is sufficiont to say that ono of the great evils of de precinted paper notes is, that all contracts basod upon that kind of currency are neces- sarily speculative—thoy aro practically bots a3 to the value of the nonoy at the dats of payment of the debts. There is rarely an in- stanco where a tontract is made for future payment and tho volus of the money ro. mains unchanged, The varistions ars daily, —ronging from 1to8 per cont up or down dur- ing evon nginglo week. Greenbackshava been worth 94 conts in 1873, and havo since that time been down to 83 centson the dollar, and must continus to fluctuate s long as they ro. main irredeemablo and at the same time legal- touder. Tho possible riso or fall in the value of greonbacks, thereforo, is part of every con. tract in which payment is to be made in irre. decmable paper, and both parties havo to tako their chances, But the offer of an in- terest-bearing legal-tender bond in lieu of the uncortain currency will have the effuct to giva o the currenoy o comparutively fixed value, equal to an investmont in Government stocks bearing that rate of interest. We think that o 8,65 per cent gold bond whick is oléo & legel-tender would be worth fully as much 0s the goueral nveroge value of the greesbacks sinco 1870, and, indeod, a littlo nore, The questions numbered 3 to 11 inclusive may be treatod as ono question in different shapes. Tho character of the greenbacks being removed excopt ns to prerivus debts, they necesicrily would not o received in payment for nutional taxes of any sort falling duo nfter tho chaoge; the notes rceeivod in poyment of praviously accruing taxes and on hand would be paid out by the United States, 03 now, in payment of previous in. debtedness. Those received in exchange for new bonds would ba permanently canceled. States, citles, and other municipalitios would determine for themselves what thoy would veceive for taxes falling duae subsequont to the chougo in the logal-tender Iaw ; at the sanie tinie, it must bo remeiobored that the Conslitution declares thut no Stato shall *‘ maoke anything but gold and silver colu a tonder in pryment of debts," Tho objection that to compel o eraditor to accept an intercut-boaring bond, payable st a lized date, in puyment of o debt whick he could collect in non-interust-bearing notes not redsemable at any time, would bea forced exchange, is hardly scrious enough to require an answer; nor is the objection that it would be unjust to compel s croditor to no. cept a legal-tender gold bond in paywent of ‘lebts when, by walting until specie pay- wents in 1870, he may get gold, 'there are but comparatively fow cred. itors and debtors who have made contracts ainco lnst January upon paper values with ihe expectation or understauding that pay. meut was to bo made m gold. Wherever +sutracts have been muode extending beyond 1878 in expectation that payments wero to te wade in gold, the terms of the contract have mecessarily been amranged on a gold busis, Thete is notling in what is called the Besumption et of 1679 Which precludes 1875.~TEN PAGLES. ention wonlid to Chicazto than aay ofier cify in tae evmtry, | Fiuvn are many goad resens why Chic whoall be the permanent leeation for ali the great gatherings in this connt ! compane the Cor whole issa of groen- ks v i tiers any insaperable difieulty | in the way of a Demoerntic Congress post. © poning the day for reswinption, nor in repenl- ing tho Resmnption nct nltogsther, nor in providing any plan it may think proper for gatting rid of the procmbacks, Congress relains tho eoraplata and oxelusive control over the whola subject, Tho plan pro- sed by ‘Tax Trinvss is intendad to bring fun Ling U CARISTIAS, ¥, Christings hns como ugain, with its holly aud mistletoe-baugh, its Yule log and boar's head, its Santa Clans, Kriss Kringle, Christ- Kindchen and Knceht Rupert, its goose in nhont specio payments aud epecio valnen tho North and 'I'ntkey in the Sonth, its s 5 S ot 1 el nt! a f ing t 5 without destroying or disturbing the existing | c’f:'lrl::: T;I:‘n:;;: "::"l :"!‘.T(":B Iflzm:::ll:n;: himes, . A equities of erclitors and d:btors under the | e il customary to allude to the merry eharacter of Jeang arwtdin oftivigdencnable: notlin wame b et o faney that its good bling contracts, and fuctusting valuo of cheer extends even to the brute beasts who currincy, knelt down at miduight Inst night in respect | to the memorable event that oecurved among their ancestors in the stablo 1,873 years ngo, when the star in the enst blazed with its Brightest vffulgence. and the Kings of the Oricut cawe bearing gifts, nnd the sweet. voiced angels made the Bethlehemn plains reverberate with {heir melodions tidings of peaco and good-will. Perbaps it will bo a3 welt upon this ocension to glance at o few peoplo who mag not bo inclined to regard this Christruns us especially merry in its cliar. neter. Mr. TwEep, for instance, whether e bo in New Vork, Australin, or the Hebrid:s. nod notwithstanding hLis six millions, will bardly regard the day as very cheerful one, or hang many misletos-boughs. Mr. Jovcr, looking tlirongh his prison grate, will hardly hear an angsl sing to him as he reflects upon the tortuousnesa of crooked whisky., On the 11th of November last he was in a frame of mind to have celebrated Christmns, for then **the rain fell lightly on the ountning, the sun] shone warmly on the plains, and the flood was settlicg into its former bed, where the erystal waters shall again retlect tho green folinge, tho oak, and the sycamore, and tho gentlo breezes and birds of spring shall make merry music in the ecathedral ajgles of n generons nation.” 'That was in the true Christian vein, but now, nlas, he has ‘‘abnndoned the vaticination racket and no longer showers down barbaric pentls before tho papnlar swine,” whatever that operation may be. 'flhere are many other dealers in | the erocked shivering in their shoes and | looking forward to days of tribulntion and excceding wrath who are not in a framo of mind to-day to celebrate Christnias with that degree of youthful exuberence necessory to a complete realization of the merriment of the day. The Rag-Baby will uot find much comfort hanging upon the lighted tree, that much-nfilieted infant being now in the cara of the doctors and nurses. Tho personal. tax-pnyers of Chicago will not hang up their stockings with keen expectationd, nor sing carols and drink. sack as thoy would have done lind not tho City Assessor paved the way for the City Collector to tuko their per. ¢ sonal property to eatisfy tho taxes They may possibly be raminded of the fact that Christ happened to ba born in Bathlehem bo- causo Joseru went down thero with Mazy to pay his taxes, but even Cusan's gread did not pile up sich o bill of toxes ns PamLres, It will be safo to wager considerable sums that Mayor CoLviy did mot get up last night to seo the animals kucel, and thet ho will not wander through the City-Hall to-day war- bling carols ng hie Aces tho probabilitics of his holding on nntil 1877 grow fainter and faint- or. Thero will bo mauy other ungracious ———— THE PERUONAL TAX. ‘The almost miversal complaint, and in fact outery, on {he subject of taxntion upon personal property in (he South Division of this city has much to justifyit, For o proper understanding of the matter. we present soma facts berring npon the question 1. Tu all previous yenrs, tho taxation on property. real and personal, in this city has been two.fold,—that isto sny, the City of Chicngo, through its own officers, has made its own nssessmeat or valuntion of property, and levied its own rates of tax to be collected thercon, At the same time (hero was n tax | levied for State aud county purposes, based ou an assessment or valuation wholly dis. tinct and widely differing from that inade by the ¢ity, On this valuation a rata of tax wns imposed for State and connty purposes. In addition, thera hns been a special tax on ol kinds of property in tho West Division for perk purposes, bnsed on the Stato asscss- ment, and n specinl assessment upon real properiy in the South Division for park purs poses, 2. The difffeulties in the way of collccting the revonuc for city purposes under so-called Bill 300 eventually compelled tho City Gov- ernment to resort to the genernl law of the State: and, abandoning its own valuations of taxnble property, it certified in o lump to the County Clerk tho nmount of revenue needed for city purposes; and that officer, taking the Stato valuation of real and por. sonnl property, has ndded to the ratesre. ! quired for Stato and county purposes a rato | sufficient to produce, on the State valuation, the amonnt of revenuo required by the city, S0, therefore, there is for the taxes of 1875, State, county, and city, but one valuntion, and the taxes on personal property for all these purposcs are now collected by the same officer, and ure included in one Lill, instead of being colleeted at different times and by different ofticers, ns herotofore, Tho bills for taxen on personal property now rendered | includo tho taxes Lerctofore collected sep. arately for State, county, park, town, and city purpotes, 8. The assessmont or valuation of taxable property, on which all the taxes of 1875 are basod, was mnde by tho severnl Town As- | sensors, This nssessment wont to Spring- fleld, and tho State Doard of Equalization ndded thereto, by incroasing the valuation of Teal astate and personnl property, 52 per cont. It is on this rovised nssesament that the taxes are now levied. From theso changes and cumplications various results havo followed. In 1874, tho peoplo of Chizngo paid taxes on the following valualions for State, county, tnd town purposes: = i Ferannat. Tot oL, souls who will not brim over with jollity to. R‘A_mlh‘ChlcngnJBf_l t{.'lgfl 3”.:)0' 3123-5‘?-15'; day, but will fret, and worry, and growl §§?fu‘é‘$1°!§§a: Hpe] b L thrangh it, and bo glad when it is gone. Total..... . $170,200.55 § 63,037,000 $231,305,615 T'he city valuation for municipal purposcs was a3 follows : Renl estate, $238,519,310; Ppersonal, $45,165,810 ; total, $303,705,140, ‘Tho taxes for 1875 nre based on tho Stata valuation, which is as followa : Real. — Prraenal, South Chicagn,..$ GLOILESY suanad Weat Uhicago, .. 47,11 7701 North Chicag 6,4 Fortunately this class is small. It is the world's holiday nnd the brightest and best of all the bolidays, 'Thousands of men, women, and children, in all the four quarters of the globe, will celebrato the day with glad hearts, Thousands of geeso havo offored themselves up on the altar of memory, ‘TIhousands of plum-puddings will smoke upon the groaning tables. Thousands of gallons of punches will be offered ss libations to thio jovial divin- ities of Christmas, 'Thousands of children will guther about the Christmas trecs, and there will hardly be a hovel 5o poor that the littlo old gentloman from the fur North will not find Lis way into it, to gladden the licarts of its immates with Christmas cheer, The Christmas snnouncements from the churches, elsewhore printed, the unurunl business rush of the week, and tho geperal expression of good-willall over the city, show that Chicago will have & merry Clristuas, notwithstandiog unseasonablo weather, un. paid bills, unstable financey, unendurable taxes, uncertninty a3 to paying them, and unmingled indignation about them. Such a condition shows hopefulness, faith, buoyaney, nud elasticity, and that tho present depros. sion is but tho shadow of a passing cloud. Pending tho time when the sun shall blazo out again, Tue Trivuse wishes all its read- ers 8 Morry Christmas and * on earth peaco and good-will townrds men,” NBAUIT 581700 31, Theeo figuros, when compared, will ox- plain why the tax on personal property is so extraordinary in tho South Division, In 1874, the city's valuation of renl cstate was §238,- 000,000, and of personal estate $43,000,000. This was tho proportion of 83 of real to 15 of personal, which for many yenrs hns been sbout tho proportion of the taxes on theso two kinds of property under both ity and Stato valuations it this county. Now, take notice of the proportion cstab. lished this year, as shown by the nssessment of 1875, The real estate of West Chicago js nssessed at 84 por cent and tho personnl property nt 16 per cent of the whole. In the North Division real estato is assessed at 833 percent and personal effects at 16}, being nlmost in the samo proportion as the West Division. Observe now the assessment made by the bunimer, Ep Paruirs, who was clected by thieves, scalawags, and ballot-box stuffers, viz.: Real estato, 63}; personal property, 313, Thus it appears from the rec- ord that ho Liss assessed the personal proper- ty at niore than double ite'relative value, It is nsseased too high in the proportion that 84} bears to 16, or more than two-fold. 8o much for tho genernl question and in explanation of the jncreased nggregato levy on personal property. But in individual cases the outrages and inequalities have boon enormous, ‘The comparative valuations are utterly beyond comprehiension; and so bold and glaring are they that they can only bo reconciled by nssuming that they were made eithor arbitrarily by tho Assessor, without auy view of the property, or for corrupt mo- ! tives. T'his can bo snid of bin nisessment by the press: thut ho “*socked” it to them good aud strong for their criticisms of the manner in which ho was elected. He has incrensed thelr personnl-property tax from 300 to 400 ! per cent, and theroby has his revenge. It seoms that the National Democratio ‘ Conmitieo are canvassing the location for their noxt National Convention, and that tho | wajority sentiment in opposed to any city east of Pittsburg, Cleveland, or Cincinnatl, | With this inclination Chicago is obviouely the place for it. Ciucinnati is an unfortunate location, as the Democrats have rcasca to recollect from their experience at the lnst Presidontial clection. Perhaps, they will faro botter if they start out from Chiengo (it they can forget MeOLzrzax and 1864). ‘Thero are also Influcuces in Chicago, especially in favor of sound wmoney, for which tho Demacratio Convention will bu sadly in need, Thero is likewiso little danger of the Chicago people being contuminated by the temporary Demacratio associutions; we can stand it, after a couvple of years' experienco with the xo-called Poople’s Party, As far ns thq accommodation and treatment of the Con- vontion is concerned, thers is no other city in tho West so centrally located, so readily accessible by rail from all parts of the coun- try, sud so awmply provided with hotels and balls. The Couvention would find it difficult to obtain a building so well suited to their purpose o4 the Exposition building, snd it is weobable that & wajority of those who will —— MOLLIE MAGUIRISM AND TAE CHURCH. We presume that we may speak somo plain truths nbout the great scandal which many of the Irish havo brought upon their race and their Church in this country without special offenss, inasmuch as we morely follow the lead of an Archbishop of the Catholic Church of Philadelphia, We refer dircctly to tho Mollie Maguirism now provalent among; the coal regions of Pennsylvanis, and indirectly to the crimes of violonce with which so many of the Irish race has become unploasantly associnted in the largo citiesof Americn, The purpose of this referenco is the hopo that the Archbishops, Dishops, and pricsls of this country will more generally imitate or follow ; the example set by Archbishop Woop, of | Philadelphis, and bring the immeonso power cf the Church to bear more efoctively than heratoforo to repress the vicious tendencies of too many Irishmen, and develop mory fully tho traits of generosity, good-Learted. ness, and reverence which have beon assoei- ated with the Trish character, Wo aro in- clined to Lelieve thut the infucnce of the clergy, cuergetically directed, could rovolu- tionize tho Irischmen of America, and pro- mote nmong them a cowmon desiro to rid their race of tha stains it is compellud to bear, The reccnt excommunication sgninst the murdarpus ** Mollio Maguires,” which wos promulgated by tko Archbishcp of Philadel- phis since tho Churel ilself provides it in such.cases, will probably accomplish more in the way of suppressing tho outragen commite ted in their name than all tho vigilance of the State Constabulary end courts, ‘I'he Mollie Muguires are but the imitators of the Irigh- men who i their own country associnted therasclves under the name of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Both nre sssociations for tho purposcs of ossassination, One is o band organized to kill laudlords, landlords' sgents, rent.collectors, evictors, efo.; tho other i¥ an association to apply the same theory of aszocialion {o mine-owpers oid anti-strikers. Terrorisin and blood-lat. ting are the tenets of Mollio Maguirism, and the members are bound by oath to protect each other, aud swear out the innocenco of every one who is gpprchended. Thoy have ter cemo | built np a kind and Bag no precedent o parallel in this countyy, exeept in the Ku-Klux of the South, aud "they hove veuglered a portion of the larga Stale of T'enusylvania more dangerous than the Ku-Klux Klan ever mada any saction of the South. At last.the Church has taken : engnizance of this terrible stnto of things, aud has brought out a wanpon that will prove more efliencions than Judges, or Sheriffy, or srmed militin. The fact that the Molife Ma- gitires avo an onth-bound, secret organization is full warrant for the exercise of the Church's right to excludo them from fts privileges, Bxecommunication from the Cntholic Church menans something more than disfellowship in a Protestant church. To n Catholie, it is tho deprivation of all lhope of future salvation, and a ban to the dearest family and social tjes. It forbids all who remain within the Church and hope to share its blessings, from holding any relations of intimney with ex- comtnunicated persons, and it thereby securos the influence of tho wife. tho sister, tho mother, the sweetheart, and the fricnd to avert the disnster. Tho Irish who have any reverence left for tha Church will henceforth avoid the cuttbroat Mollie Maguiras in Ponn. sylvanin, and use all their influcnce to keep their fricuds out of tho murderous organiza. tion. Thoso who may yet bo raved from tho. ban of excommunication will abandon their Mollie Magnire assoviations, aud the others will henceforth ceaso to have the protection or eynpathy of the nass of Irish men nnd women, ‘I'he point which wo would make agnrinst the authorities and dignitaries of the Cptho. lic Chureh is that this grent power is not em. ployed to accomplish all the good that might be accomplished among tho Irish poople. The priests aro well-informed ns to the peeulinr vices, follies, and wonknesses of so many Trish. Tho agency of the confessional re- veals to them the secret thoughts and inelinn- tions of these people, Tho fact that the Catholic Church in this country is largely composed of the Irish enables the priests to have n genersl knowledge of their chiarnetor and the best means of directing it properly, Yet Father O'CoNxor, at Mahanoy Plane, Pn., in the sermon which he prenched at the timo ho promulgated the excommunieation agninst the Mollio Maguires, mada the following nd- mission, which few candid persons, even among the Irish, will gaingay : Ashort time ngo the Now York papers gavean ace count of 3 man naned DELANEY, who killed o Captala, Thix fellow cotnposed a rigmarolaof & sung, which was vothing bt o boast of the murder he bad committed, And stiil be wan an Tifshman and a Catholle. Look at tho New York and Philadelphia pipers and nota tho uumbor of murders commitiod by Irfabhon, Whys in Now York alone, I feol certain that murder 1a dono alnost every dsy by tho Irlsn, and you will also ind thiat piriest aro oftener dispenslng tho coulation of religlon upon tho scafold than tho miuisters of any athier ferim of roligion, With this knoweldge, why do not the Cath- olic priests and Bishops malke & more vigor- ous use of their pecutiar roformatory powers? Why aro there not moro Father Marnews and Bishop Woops in the Church? Why is the tiemendous weapon of oxcommunication 50 charily used to repress vico and crimo? Why is there not somu stricter discipline in the Church relative to drunkenness, wifc- henting, rioting, and killing? Vhy does the Church fail to tako cognizanco of thae notorious fact that the Irish furnish an undue proportion of the worst clemonts in the municipal polities of almost every American city in the country? The nationnl vices of the Irish grow mainly out of excesniva indulgenco in strong driuk. It is this which betrays them iuto so large s proportion of the crimes of violence and evil habits, aud it is heroaway that the powers of tho Clhurch should bo most effectively di- rected. Thero is not a lnrgo city in Americn whero the Catholie clergy caunot do much, everything in fact, for the Irish people, for their own Church, and for tho public welfare, by exercising their gront power over tho con. seience of the poople more vigorously in be- half of tomperance. Thoy should aceept Archbishop Woop's exampla as a modal for their' own condnet. The temperanco Irish assurcdly atand as high as the most respecta- Lle dnd moral class of people in saciety. But the intemperato Irish wo need not deseribo, a8 their ovil deeds, and misfortunes, and wrotchedness are tao sorrowrul and disgrace. {ful for pleasant narration, ————— 3 A PROFESSOR AT FAULT, Prof, Sranney Jevoys attacks, in the last British Fortnightly, the postal-telograph B8~ tem of Grent Britain, but fails to mnintain his side of tho question. Just ono point wny be coric.ded to bis logic. He shows that the cost of purchasing the wires, franchisos, con. tracts, lcascy, patents, ete., of the telegraph compnnies was needlessly great. It shomld not have been more than one-third of what it has been, Mismanagement on the part of tho ropresentativos of the Government led to tho payment of an enormous price in the first place, and this wns but the beginning, It wad soon found that in some cases the Cov. erument bad bought only a lonschold inter- est when it thought it was gotting the feo, nnd that in others it had purchased the foo, subjoct to & porpetual lonse. All these unknown clnims had to be bought up at the price fixed Dy orbitrators, ‘Then como another discovery of the samo unplensant nature” Much of the material bought was found to be oldand worn.out, and unfit for use. "Tho offices wero littered with old intrumentg of overy sort and patant, from the first inven. tion of Monst to thoso of the prosont duy. Wires wore rust-eaton and small ; poles were worm-oaten and weak. New instrumonts, new wircs, and new poles had to bo bought ond put in placo. As far as this proliminary chapter in tho hiatory of the Euglish postal. telegraplis is concerned, Prof. Jevos' strie- tures seem justified. The purchass was mis- mannged. That which should have been bought for $12,000,000 cost $30,000,000. But ot this polut carpings should cense, Tho plan has been successfully worked. A greal sum has been speut in ex- tending tho wires, cpening new oftices, otc., but this i strictly in the line of the Govern. ment business, One of its objects was to en- large the system by carrying wires to places previously refused all telegraphic communlien- tlon bytho private compunies, Tha total cap- ital invested is £10,000,000, on which the Gov- ernment pays 8} per cent interest, or £150,000 per year, ‘The surplus of receipts over work- ing expenscs does not meet thix sum at present, and tho deficit has to be filled Ly taxation, This fact is tho pivot about which =il Jevons' complaiuts furn, We might o5 well grumble because our postal.systom docs mot *‘pay.” It wes never -intended that the postal-telegraphs should yicld an enormous rovenue to tho Government and help defray the expenses of tho army and navy. It is run by the people for the benefit of the people. And the bene- it has surely been grent. The averngo cost of messnges has fallen from 48 to '.’Q cents, gold. 'Vheir number has increased from 4,000,000 in 1870 to 20,000,000 in 1674,—an degree of outlawry which | inerng of ¢ patchea of 13 uow they amount to 22,000,000, or fold. There wero mo acrspapers, in tho American kense, in England be- foro the Jostaltelegraphs mnade news. sending cheap. Thera nro 5,600 tele. graph offices in Qreat Britain and Ireland now, against only 2,000 under tha old company mystsm; 11,000 new instru- monts againt 6,200 old ones; 21,000 miles of line and 108,000 of wire against 16,100 and 77,450 respoctively, All tuese figures menn an enormous inerease in publio ngo and con. venience. If the shilling message for ail dis- tances wera reduced from twenty to ten words, which Intter is {l:¢ Amevican number, —and our oxperience hins shown that the lat- ter numbor is amply suificient,—tho trifling deficiency that now exints would speedily disappear, nnd the wonderful suceess of tho postal-telegraph system in Great Britain wold be recognized by all. Bnt tho cviti- cistos offa thonsnud Jrvossrs will not indueo the British people to return to the old 658 tem of high prices and poor service, The export of American diy poods to Europn hus attracted the attention of the Dritish Minister of Foreign Affnirs in an odd way, Some enterprising merchant shipped n packago of Awerican ealieo to Harsre, Franca, ‘The British Consul at that point saw it, Dought a bit, and sent tho sample to Lord Dznor. ‘The latter hns forwarded it to Man- chestor, whore it is being gravely hnndled, cxamined, and pulled to picces by British maoufacturers, The London Telegraph frankly tells tho Intter that they are losing their supremacy by cheating in their goods. It snys that the * trick " has been found out and “will not bear repetition.” But the suporior cheapness of British ealicors hns been due to this very trick. Cheating and cheapness bave been causo and effect, 1f both cense together, as they naturally would, our faturo control of the markets of the world would scem nssured. But that control is dependent upon the removal of the bur- dens which now handicap our manufacturers. Free trade and a sound curroncy are what they need. —— A very sensible plan for the improvement of the Ohio River has been submitted to, and approved by, a largo meeling of Pittsburg coul merchants and other persons interested in tho improvement of uavigation on the river, Movablo dams are rejected, as too ex- pensive and ineffectunl. The eost would bo something like $60,000,000, nnd evory spring freshet would deposit samples of each dam in the vicinity of Cniro, They would be movable with a vengeance. What is needed is the Luilding of jetties where the channel ia too broad and therefore shallow ; the ro. moval of wreeks, snags, cte. ; and the altern. Lion of some of tho Lridges. At present, the Monongahela and Stenbenvillo bridges are anid to bo outrages on commercinl rights, ‘Tho report embodying theso polots was ungnimously ndopted. The manngers of the Direct Cable Compa- oy show n ]rampt perseveranco worthy of praise, They Inid their cable only after] years of trinl; they laid it at last only to hovo it breai forthwith; and they repaired it only to have it part onco more. But they promptly tolegraphed to England by the wires of their rivals, and tho stenmer Faraday cleared from London st Saturdny, provided with overy needed applinnco for geappling, raising, and repairing the broken ceblo. Such steady pluck deserves succoss. As often, however, oy their cablo is broken tho old monopoly cable-rates are ndvanced, As soon 05 tho cable is mended tho old monopoly drop their taril. Who breaks this cublo in o quostion that is recciving attention, Disa. greeablo suspicions aro in cirenlut;on. BOSTON 43 A VOLOANO. It bas alwaya been rathor dangerous tolive in Dosion, unloss tho vorson cancarasd restdod on Beacon troet, wroto for tho magazines, bo- longed to 207 clubs, and exchiangod noda with o member of tho Apaxs family twice n week. Exrngox said, loug ago, that life in Boston meant boing acqumnted with aix men, To per- 016 not iu possos«ion of thero pracious privi- leges, oxistonce in the * Athons of America" hns heaa upt to conaist of a nories of snubs and of waiting bolind counters or driving oxpeass- wagous for the dwoliers on the hoighta. Of Inte, bowover, all lfo in Doston Lus bocome dapgorous. That licornry city s ilctering its streots with ex-rezldents, Whilo Vesu- vius 13 roported as gotting ready for an explosion, Doiton s nlraaly explodiog. The passing wayfarer runa the constant risk of seoking hig hoavenly home b7 bounding into the air amld & showor of fractured paving stoues or a cholen sclaction of druggists’ sundries, It 48 but & short tims sincoe o drug-store distributed itaelt, 1ts occupants, aud the rest of tho build- iz, all in various-sized fragments, around the adjncent countrv, Now one of tho big gag-wains has Lad a wary Christmas celebration of its own by Llowing up, Tuo placo of tao catas- trovho wai woll chosen, Tha pipe was latd un- derneath 8 feot of gruvol aud small stonce, all of which wero utilizod as tomporary grupo- ahot and burled with tromendous foros inlo the crowd upon the sidewalks. ‘I'iogo who escaped contact with tho stono bulleta wors whirled into the river, which waa convenicntly near by, and drownod before thoy kuow wiat was tho matter with them. Tho wirolo thng oceupled only o faw seconds, but the destn rato ver gocond was mometblng gqute appslliog, Boston atreats wora strswn with ex-Hostonlans, Wo menago thiugs botter out here. Our gaw vuver explodos, It iwuo enfo that it bes to bo cosxed into burning, nnd is lable stany ma- ment to flickor modeatly out, without sav natice whatever. Ir it ever should explode, it wouid not do a tithe of tho damago Iuilleted in Bostou. It ought, porhaps, lauguidly litt a pebble 4 luch or two 1nto the air, but it would not tear up 160 feot of pavorment or kill auvtbing bigger than s infaut fiv, Dut Boston jes, like Douton vanity, {1 evidently mightior thow ours, Wo are content to lot it be so, It Boacou stroot 14 to by in the vicinity of voleanooed ; it brown-bread and beaoy 1ust bo eaten on tho brink of & cratery it drug-nteres are to explode by doy, and gas- mnion by night, wo can somewhst sutlo our sor- 10w ot our dlgtance from tho ITub. The Cli. cago Firo wan bigger than the Boston blaze, but Buston a3 a volcano Eurpagses us. ——————— An article in the Colocne Garlta glven indioa- tions $tut tha coudition of the Ruesiau uerfs bus nat beau improved by emawciputivn, Many of them bave beou roducod to ubdolute povorty, and drunkooners I8 far mord prevalunt than {c was before emancipation, Thediscontent of tho seife manifosts Itaell 1 scts of brutality and 1n- coudiansm, snd it 18 etatod that, fn (ho Bouth- weatern Qovernmeots, *!a day rurely pussss but the axy is reddoned by tho tames of a burning village." This discontont grow out of the fact that, while the Liberty of thoe serf fs almont se much restrict=d su it was before emsncipstion, Lo ia compatied to pay the most extortionste tithes out of his pociet for the use of Lis fande. Tho Gazelte vaysy He 18 Lo wd (0 pay » fix3d sum to his former master a8 rodemngtivn-money fur tho hiotes lu_which be livas and tke lind ou whi b 1t atands, Tule, to & cetiin extent, reatricis hia freodom uf action, but it b ron. dered quit 10037y by (b3 cirsumistan b that toe lan § Mk Bo cullivites for bina2if sud fumily, a1 for which be must Loy, la Bot Lia own, but Nia pr' +2 ty of the cowmune, whlch 1nay dlrpose of it o, plo T2 24, aftgr dovora all L €25y 10 150 Cudiva: ciatl o furaished Mra, Oat Washiugton. The frst was her belog pressotad with a cage coutsiving s songster who, albsis 8¢ wweot au she, was wiill jroprisoned, The cage was placed 9n e table In tho sveco, sad Mrs. Cetes commensed mingiog ** Good-by, Sweel heart,’ bary ia Lstouing to tucae of tha song. The t1nn of o pleco of tand allotted to him, may ad it ta tie fullowhing yoar teimnforred by the enwmuns to an- {other pes whiln Lo hlmaett geta in etchsnge Aol hely §a perhap s not o wail situsted or negli- ®eutly cnitivated, Nor s 1hia sl Tae commune i1 £ apenxiilo for the pagments dia from the pesmants, an1 AT sy of Liven full 1n1o arrears through tis ine suiliclency of the mems of the poorer membs fhive whio are better oif have lo make tip the fclenry, faillng which the communs soizes thety haraca and cows, In point of fact, tho condition of the merf roema ta Lo ovon worao than that of the Nolaves in Turkey tu Europe, e A corteapondent of tho Cincinnat{ Enquirer biny furaisliod some facts as to (he relative coat of the American and English navies, which are Apecially Ruguestive at tha presout time, when it fn proponed to teduce our uavy. While tve knvo ¥0 ahipn afloat, the Knglish have 238, car- riing 63000 men. While Great Dritain has nearly four timos an many veasels fo number, tho nggrognte flebiting strength of her navy, in the s1zo of ships and pumber and weight of guus, i eigbt tims as groat. ‘Lhe following tavlo ehiown the differonco in tho paval mausge- meut of the Lwo countrios « A Xo, Apnroprig. nen, ton. 63,101 $32,500,008 Ansorican Lav, [ 7,600 21, 40,000 st per Coxt per Proport. shr. m.on costfo Dritfah navy, $1°0 030 § 033 Asl tol Amerlvan tinvy 2i5,L03 300 As8Xtol ‘Thus, while the Dritish navy costs £62 por year foroverv £22 that ours costs, it s elght timea s powerful. Thara in ovidantly room for freform {n var navy managomont, Bavs the shinplastor-ultra-tari? concern of this city: Beveral artlcles from the pen of Mzsny C. Canxr, ro- Trinted in this paper s faw waeks ag9, on the * Dt «1ino and F.il of Britlel Freo Tradn, Lave uttracte wiin afteutlon, and exvitsd no ilttis communt, part of whicli has beon disdatnfully hostile, Tuc TRIBUNE exchanges with nearly all the daily newspapois in the Uoited States nnd Brit- ieh America, and with a vast number of woekly o publications, aud it fs very remarkable that, after tho closeat scrutiny and most painataking wearch, our news-clipning editor Las nol boen able to discover any of tho * wido attentlon or ozcited commonta. ANl the paoers have been *‘disdainfuily " silont at Canrx's twaddle, or ather it has not atiracted tho slightest attone tion. i The wall of the tax-payer Is hoird all over tho laud, 1Tis lust plniutive moan soands from tho awamps and wani-beds of New Jorssy. Boe loro tho War, that State owued so many stocks and bonda that tho incomo thereof paid all the runniog oxpenses of tha machine. Now they are being sold to mont the enrrent exponses. In 1878, tho Treasurer d.uponed of $350,000 and in 1874 of 3410,000 of theso assots, In 1860, the oxpenees, ordinary end oxtraordinary, of the Stato were §200,992.44. Tn 1875, they are $1,618,- 410.51. It povernment leops on Incraasing In voat in nnything liko this ratio, it will soon be altogather too oxpensiva a luxury for the Ameze tean peoplo to enjor. Bomo morbid statistician bos fignred that every minate of the session of the House of Represontatives costs the country $40, The fousn paesed & bill, (ho ottior dav, to change the namo of & Western atoamboat,—s bit of petty legislation, by the way, which conly Juae a3 wo'l b left to thio diroction of some salaried subordinate, The cost of doing tlffs was not lees than 8200 Wnen Subset Cox omried through his Lill to chavge the name of & schoonier to the “*Wrniax M. Tween,” thoers was somo debate thereon, and the caunsry prob- ably paia betseen §500 and $1,000 for the sake of bestowing this compliment upon the Doss. —_— While the movemont among the South 8ide tax-payers {s gonoral o resist the pavmont of Ev Pumars' villalnous assessment on personnt property, at the same timo it {3 not universal, Those who **Faw” bim in time are quite antisfled with their asscsament, aud do not lutond Jolning the uoblo uriny of tax-fighters. The vanker, J. M. Apsrz. is among thoso who intond to submit to Ep's sascesment of 2535 0a a cash capical of 3100.000, and to fcrk over tho €36 taxod against Lis bauk. Bat there wers & good many others no! 8o highly favored. ———— Wo have roce’ved & copy of the XNew Century, tho journal of ths International Froo Tea Alliance, of Now York City. 1t Is a handsomely priated magozine of vome thirty pages, containe fog a full account of the procoadinga of the Ale lianco, edilorial notes, and & good artiste by Prof. Bumsen on *The Natlous! Ides and the Amorlean Bystom,” The New Century will be teaucd from time to (ime, and will be sent, with tho other publications of the Alltancs, ta any person who remits €1 per yosr to the Treasurer, A. D. F. Raxvorex, 77) Broadway, —_— Tho Cincinvatt Enqui=sr, walch ia Ligh Dom« oorstie autliority, speai. of the newly-apooin Chairman of the Ways and Aloans Commtt “a brawling, omptv-headed, unknown nillazs voliticlun of Waterioo, IIL." And all bacause the Colouel Is uot o devoten of the Enquirer's rag- baby. If ho woul® only bring humseif t3 fondls and hug that illegitimate bra:, the mmms would conslder him & profonnd statesman in- stend of an * empty-headed " fellow. s Shckedt, Down 1n Tonnesseo they take the sealrs of beasts of prey in paymeut of taxes, If this rule were adoptod here, the pluvdered people of the South ‘Lown would turn ut en masse o wild pur- aui: of their ralcrs, and Assossors, Collactors Aldermou, etc., would all haveto buy wigs the noxs day. PERSONAL Alr, L. Lyer, & #on of Dr. Dyar, of Chicago, bas taken the Taylorian Sonolareblp lo Italian as Oxford University. Mr. Dyer is & mewmbor of Balliol Collego, ‘The Awerican Sunday-Scticol Unlon is sooused of using Cruden’s Coucordauce as & flyer for Marryat's and Bulwor's oovels, advartising the Iatter in tho fly-12aves of the former, A, 3, Holbrook, the editor and proprietor of tho Now Orirans Picayune, sy been for some waous past seriously itl. At ooo tima he was roported dyiog ; but o lo now in s fair way of recovery. Mr. Ward Hant bas boea dabled by Mr, D raeli # Iuot tho Slipper,” because ho Las made o many aligs durivg his admioistration of the Admunlty, Thaf o man is uofortuoate is us roason why bLis disociates siould make game of him, It 1a eald that tho recent sale of blooded stoex by Presidont Grant was merely prelimivary to the disposal of tho St. Louis farm ftself. An Indianspolis Company has partially accepted Gen. Graut's terms,—79) acro at §300 per acre, or §237,100 for the whole. Clara Louise Kollogg, her mother, cousip, and Mer. Croaby, her business-sgent, srrived o this ity yostorday. Piod & box at Hoolsy's Opera-Iouss, whore they #ppeated to be del glita with burnt-cork opers, oy inieruroted by the California Miustrels. Lay evoniug the party oooue In a performsnce by tho Richings-Bernsrd opors company, in Bpringfleld, Mass , Mr, Bete uard was too hoarse to utter an andible sound Hewent through the motions of Lis part sllent- Iy, s0d the abaurdity pleased ths sssembly as woll, probably, as hls aiugiog would bave doos. The Rev. R, Bacocs and the Ber. H. N. Wrlght, tho Loug Island clergymen whoso terris ble encounter was receutly reported in Tum TRnuNe, did some tull swearing agaiust esch Gther when the wsxault snd battery caso was 0B trlal, The jury disagreod, and tho clergymen thereupun kissed aud became friends. ‘There woro two evidences of unusual sppre- ha otbar night 1o ‘Then the imprivoned minger forgot Als