Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 26, 1875, Page 8

THE GHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1875.—TWELVE PAGES. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF SUBSCEIPTION (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE). Towtage Prepaid at this Ofc Dally Edition, post-paid, 1 year. .S Parts of sear at same rate. The postage is 15 ccute a year, wl Specimen copdea acnt free. To prevent delsy and mistakes, bo sure and give Post-Office address in full, includmg Stateand County. Hemittancesmay be mads either by draft, express, Post-Ofice order, ot in registered letters, at ourrisk, TERMS TO CITY SUBSCEIBERS. Dafly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per week. Dauly, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Msdison and Dearborn-sta.. Clicago, il AMUSEMENTS. . TO-PAT. ‘McCOBMICK'S HALL—North Clark street, corner Kinzie. Lecturs st 3 p. m. by Bobert Callyer. Sub- Joct s = Salt® ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn atreet, corner Momroe, *The Forty Thieves." NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, between Bandolph and Lake. * Unsere Sciaven.” ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroe street, between Dear- born and State. Miltonixn Tablesux. Afternoon snd wrening. To-M0RROW. MCVICEKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Dearbors and State. Engagement of the Ostes Opera Troupe. “Girofle-Girofa. ACADENY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, between M3dison sud Monros. * The Two Orphani.” HOOLET'S THEATRE—Randolph strest, betwsen Clark and LaSalle, Catifornis Miustrels, NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark street, batwoen Bandolph and Lake, Eelly & Leon's Minstrels, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroe strast, between Dear- born and State. “Bed Biding-Hooi” and * Capju- gl Lessona” Afternoon and evemng. ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn street, carner Monros. The Forty Tnievea” SOCIETY MEETINGS. WILEY M. EGAN CHAPTER, NO, 128, B, A. M.— Bpecial Couvocation at their Hall, 220 West Twelith- 51, on Monday evening, Dec. 27, for work on the Royzl Arch Degree, Visiting Companions cordially invited. Per order F. NEWELL, H. P, 0. NICKERSOX, Secretars. ATTENTION, STR ENIGHTS!—Special Conclave of Chicxgo Commanders, No. 19, K, T., Mlonday even- 1ng, Dec. 27, 1875, for installation of oflicers. Visiting S:r Enights courteously invited. By order of the Em. * Cam, G. A. WILLIANS, Becorder. CLVELAND LODGE, No. 211, A. F. & A, M.— The ! rethren are hereby notified to mect at Masonic Temyle, corner Halsted and Randolph-sts., on Tuesdsy morning at 9:30 o'clock, for the purpose of perform. Iug the lost ead dnties for our late Brother Bilag Pea- body Crumb, Services to be held at Epiphany Church, Jaserson Park, at 10:30 o'clock. _ Visiting brethren ine wited to attend. GEO, F. SINCLAIR, W, M. ATTENTION, SIR ENIGHIS!—The members of Chicago Commsndery, No. 1, K. T., are heraly noti- 1i6d 10 appear at the Asylum' on Tuesdsy, Dec. 28, at 9231 8 m_q for the parpose of attending the funeral of the iaia Rr Enight Silas Peabody Crumb. Funeral :'0m 120 Church of the Ep:phavy, Jeffereon Park, at 1040 5. m,; by cars to Roschill. By order of E. C. G. A, WILLIAMS, Recorder. Sunday Morming, December 26, 1875. WITH SUPPLEMENT. The usual holidny death-rate was well maintained yesterday. Chicago was for- tunately free from any great crime, but other cities made up our quota The thermometer stood at 80 degrees in Memphis yesterdsy, and the deluded popu- Ince concluded that the holiday they were celebrating must be Fourth of July. So they let off fire-works and fire-arms, and bad quite fair success ir —aughtering the bystanders. A new theory of the recent spasm of setivity by the Navy Department is given in our Washington special of this morning. It is said that the alleged enormous expenditures Dever took place; that many of the ships eaid to have been refitted are not seaworthy ; end that the bustle was ali for show, de- signed to produce a temporary effect, nnd costing little or nothing, We have been favored with several bulle- tins of reforms which the Democrats mean to carry out ; but by some singular oversight Civil-Service Reform is not included in any of the catalogues furnished the press, Per- haps the bill which is to forever ennul the Democrstic dogma *‘ To the victor belong the spoils " may be mislaid in Barvery Civr- FIELD'S mass of manuscripts, embryos. of law. The report that Tweep is at Havana seems to guin in probability. The Augusta (Ga.) Bentinel of lnst Tuesday says that Twzen left Sarannah Friday, for Nassau, by the steamer “City of Dallas.” Two New York detectives arrived at Savannsh Saturday, but they were too late. If the Boss really sailed for Nas- 6an, he is in Cuba by this time, buying Ha- vana cigars with some of his stolen millions, snd reflecting on the fact that justics is even more than proverbially blind on Manhattan laland. The important question.of the right cf Chinamen to become citizens and voters of the United States will soon be settled. Crocx Wona, editor of a Mongolian negspaper in 8an Francisco, is chuck full of resolve to find out whether or not the Amelican eagle is ready to shelter yellow skins, as “vell as white and black, beneath her wings. He is about to apply for naturalization to the United States District Court, and will appeal the case, if necessary, to the Supreme Court. Yuno Wixg, Chinese- Commissioner of Education to this country, who graduated from Yale College in 1856, was naturalized at Hartford last year, but it is claimed that this was illegal. —— Christmas-Eve was celebrated in & peculiar way by the portion of the Christian or Camp- bellite sect which resides at Abingdon, in Enox County, . Thereisa college there, which, like the University of Chicago snd the Louisisna Legislature, is usu- ally sopplied with two presiding offi- cers. The parallel between it and the law-msking body of the Pelican State might perhaps be pushed farther, for the faction supporting Burzzm, who has just boeen deposed from the Presidency, murdered Prexxr, who has just been elected President, : Eve. Our special dispatches of s;:omx:s S“ full detaila of the affair, Scems to have been an unprovoked snd eolfl—g.nlg:d assassination, aqupflrry dis- gracefal “ ] sl so-called ““ collegs and the " h mhshminxha_-mmm but this time it is ¢ East that is scorched. The dwellers in the *mountain festnesses of the Alleghanies, be- ::efl Virginia end Ternessee, have always B of the opinion gravely expressed by the ennsylvania Convention called to protest gsmmthafintemiuflulnidbyflu(!niwd tates, That Convention, which strack the keynote of the famous ¢ ‘Whisky War,” re. solved that untexed distilling was one of tho natural rights of man”! The monntein. ¢ers aforesaid have acted on this principle for Soantury. Tated aré ocllecied from (bem only by occasional cavalry raids. Advices from Washington show that & party of thir- teen mounted detectives have just returned from a two-months’ raid, during which they seized and destroyed fifty illicit stills sud 10,000 gallons of mash, captured great quan- tities of highwines and grain, and arrested fifteen distillers. WasuBUBN certainly has & ¢ taking way ” about him. The Electoral Districts bill, ‘as originally passed by the French Assembly, gave Paris twenty-five delegates and Lyons eight. It has now been so amended as to make these figures twenty and six, respectively. This is ablow at communism, but it is donbtful whether denying Cémmunists represeatation will tend to increase their satisfaction with the existing Government. The French plan of trying to smother opposition by force, in- stead of meeting it by argument, has not been successful enough hitherto to justify this repetition of it. If yesterday was not Merry Christmas to everybody, the fault' is mainly with the un- merry persons. The times are hard, to be sure, but there is one infallible receipt for being happy,—make others so. Those who fed the orphan, clothed the poor, made chil- dren glad, had 8 merry Christmas in their hearts, though sorrow and pain are warp and woof in the web of their everyday life. Theday after a festival is apt to be one of headache and dyspepsia, of re- gret and reaction. To-day the orphan may weep, the poor grumble, the children be sick, but the enjoyment of yesterday is so much golid guin. It can never be lost. Every ray of sunshine that falls on this dull earth is perpetuated, under some form or other, forever. TAXATION IR CHICAGO. In the money article of this paper there sppeareds few days ngo a statement con- cerning the growth of taxation in this city which contained solme comparative figares. These figures were correctly given, but they ‘were defective in the omission of other fig- ures equally pertinent to the subject and necessary for a proper explanation of the matter. It was stated thatin 1860 the pop- ulation of Chicago was 109,206, and in 1874 it was 400,000, —an increase of 262 per cent ; whule the direct city tax in 1860 was only $873,315, and the tax in 1874 was §5,468,692! —an increase of 1,364 per cent, or fivetimes as fast as the population increased. Under the old style of doing business, the eity, having the aathority to borrow money, avoided tax- ation and sold bonds, leaving the fature to pay the interest and principal. The growth of the city was so rapid that the extension of water maius and of the sewerage system required 1mmense expenditures, and, as thess were not to be paid for by special taxes, the revenue for that purpose was derived almost exclusively from the sale of bonds. 8o, largely for school- houses. The statement made omits to men- tion the fact that the rates of taxation for specific purposes were in former times limit- ed by the charter, and that demagogism re- fused to advance the sggregate valuation of taxable property. Thus in 1856 the total as- sessment of taxable property in Chicago was $31,736,084, and in 1860, four years thereaf- ter, covering a period of great growth, the assessment had only incressed to $37,053,512. In 1860 the total valuation of real estate was but $31,198,000, and of personal property not quite §6,000,000. The extension of the city necessarily in- creased expenditures. In 1864 the revenue from taxation was §975,000, and special as- sessments a3 much more. The public debt, which had been incurred during previous years, then began to assume large propor- tions. In 1868 and 1869 the system of val- uation was changed to full cash, and the total of taxable property was returned in the lat- ter year at $266,024,380, and the revenuse col- lected exceeded $3,990,000 (nearly four mill- ions). In December, 1869, the debt of the city had reached $10,754.000, of which over $7,000,000 was for water and sewerage, and the remainder tunnels, school-houses, and canal-deepening bonds. The bonds sold in 1870, befora the mew Constitution went into effect, swelled the debt to thirteen and ahalf millions, which sum represents the expenditures in addition to general and special taxation. Then came the Great Fire, with its sweep- ing destruction of public property, most of wilich has been renewed. In 1870 the new Constitution prohibited any further increase of the city debt, and estsblished the pay-as. you-go system. Under the vast increase of population, and consequentinerease of the expenditures for all purposes, the cost of maintaining several departments, as conducted by professional tax-eaters, had become enormous when com- pared with the cost in 1860. In round num- bers, we now psy annually a million of dollars for schools, nearly a million for ges, & million more for police, another million for interest. The Fire Department has likewise grown more costly, the number of bridges has been more than doubled ; we now build sewers and lay water-pipe, and pay cash for them. In one year we recently ex- pended $700,000 for sewers alone. Ourfunded debt remaing where it was in August, 1870. The City of Chicago has been Iargely recon- structed since the fire in many of its public buildings and other improvements. The paved streeta have been largely extended, the sewerage and water-system enlarged, new and additional bridges constructed, sll of which have added to the general cost of the City Government. ‘While our revenue from direct taxotion has increased in the fifteen years, the assessed value of property hes increased, despite the fire and all its losses, over 700 per cent. The rate of taxation on the cash value of the taxable real and personal property in this city in 1875, for city purposes, is about one and one-fourth per cent. ‘We do not question or deny that the munic- ipal expendituresof Chicago are extravagant in many things; that there bas been an un- warranted number of useless offices created and maintained at great cost ; that the sal- aries for unskilled and commonplace labor and services are excessive ; that there are useless offices existing, which the Common Council, instesd of abolishing, are‘increasing. All this is undoubtedly trus, sod CBicego is 1o exception to the general rule of the un- justifisble increase of expenditures in all the large cities. Providentially, however, we bave in Chicago a constitutional restraint upon the increase of public debt, and the City Government is limited in its expenditures to the actusl proceeds of taxation. We are not bled both by excessive taxation and incrense of public debt, as are other cities, and the actual tax levied during the last three years has been sbout the same amount each year. ‘We have seemingly reached our maximum of taxation for city purposes, and, when the losses \;‘y_tha fire shnll have been fully ro- stared, it is not likaly thal the presimt gsle of tak will b hcfimbywfin‘:t. City Government beyond what may bq de- manded by the ordinary increase of the city’s wants, TAXIRG CEURCH PROPERTY. In view of the agitation of the question of taxing church property, growing out of the recommendation of the President in his mes- sape and its wide-spread discussion, the New York Tribune has compiled a long and de- tailed statement of the values of church prop- erty in 1870, from official figures, from which we select u few general items of interest. The entire value of church property in tho United States in the sbove year was £354,- 483,581, The Methodist denomination, which includes more members than any other Prot- estant sect in the United States, owned prop- erty valued at $69,854,121, which was $10,- 000,000 more than the property credited to the Romsn Catholics, $16,000,000 more than that of the Presbyterians, and $28,000,000 more than that of the Baptists. Of this amount, the Methodist Church North held $10,000,000. It is estimated, from the pres- ent rate of increase, that the total value of Methodist Church property in 1880 will reach $100,000,000.% The value of the church prop- erty of the Baptists in 1870 was $41,608,198, andthe rate of increnss is steadily sugmenting, the denomination now numbering 1,633,939 members and 20,520 churches, which is an increase of 4,241 churghes and 517,805 mem- bers since 1869. There are sixty-two eo- clesiastical divisions of the Roman Catholic Church in this country, representing in 1870 & property value of $00,985,556, or an aver- age of less than $1,000,000 for each diocese. Of this amount, the churches in the Diocese of New York held §5,000,000. The Congre- gaotionalists in 1870 held property valued st $25,069,698, which is also rapidly increasing, the Church having gained between 1864 and 1874 784 churches and 79,011 members. The Protestant Episcopal Church has fifty.ox‘w dioceses and missions, and its property was valued in 1870 at $86,514,549, which is set down at under the mark. Of the wealth of the churches of this denomination in New York City, the T'ribune says : ‘There are 193 churches and chapels in the Diocese of New York, more than scventy of which are in New York City alone. The churches vary conmderably in sizeand wWeulth, though the majority of thoss in the city repre- sent & large amount of property. The churches out- #idu the city, it wus thought, would range’ between $5, 000 snd §30,000. In this city, Trinity Church is the chief. It is owned by & corporation, the income of which, sccording to the statement of Gen, Drx, tho Comptroller, ia equal tothe legal intereston stout 7,000,000, The corporation represents seven churches, Trinity, 8t. Paul's, st. Jobn's, St. Chrysostom’s, St. Augustine’s, St. Cornelius’, und- Trinity Chapel. To severnl of the churches a cemetery is utiached. There 18 uo taxation on the church edifices, o the ground on which they stand, or the cemeteriea, But {n sddition to these churches and cemeteries, the corporation owna alarge amount of very valushle property, which is leased. A portion of the real estate is leased for long terms, and enother portion for one or two years. The occapants of the long-term leases pay taxes, the cor- poration paying the tazes on the ehort-term lesses. The various branches of the Presbyterians owned property in 1870 to the value of $63,- 624,511. The total value of the property of these six denominations foots up $297,656,- 633, leaving a valuation of $53,826,948 for the other denominations. Whether this amount has increased during the past five years as rapidly as the President calculates, is immaterial and does not affect the question at issue. It is certain that the value of church property is augmenting much fastar than the increass of membership, The President's position, that all church property except cemeteries should be taxed, is o sound one. As itstands now, little church corporn- tions are taxed for the benefit of big ones, and the whole community is paying a church tith for the support of denominations, from the fact that the deficit in the revenue caused by the non-taxation of church property is spread over the general tax list. The whole system of immunity from taxa- tion is demoralizing, and there is no good reason that we have yet seen advanced why a church corporation holding millions of dol- lars’ worth of property in a city should not pay taxes upon the amount as a railroad or bank corporation does. An argument is made that church institutions which are not run for fiscal revenus should at least be ex- empted, but both corporations and individuals are heavily taxed upon property which is an. productive and yields no revenue. The Rev. Tromas Taweuy, of New York, makes these valusble points in behalf of church taxation, and there is a vast deal in them : If all real eatats, of everykind and no matter to ‘whom belonging, had to pay taxes and asseasments, 8 great good would be ncoomplished. It would make church corporstions and other corporate bodies a most exoellent vigilance committas over the faxation of property. Theroare no more shrewd, energetic, and vigilont men, where theirown interests are con- cerned, than they are, If they had to pay taxes, they ‘would look zfter taxation, and take cars that it was not upjust or excessive, They would be opposed to ex- travagant and dishonest expanditure of public monsy, ‘They would insist on honeaty and economy, and if the public money should be stolen the churcies would ring with denunciations, and the best men fn the community would be up in arms ogainat thieves, Now they are silent or Indifferent, because their poor- er peighbors, who probably never entered their churches, have to pay thewr taxes for them, while our big-hearted, generous legislators remit all assessments witbout being ssked to do%o, Of course, they never eypect any return for tholr generosity at other peo- ple's expense, Besides, the exemption of certxin property from taxation ‘hes @ tendency to make the managers of churches and other instilutions scquire and hold ua- Froductive more property than is necesaary for them, thus increasing uselesaly the burdens of the communi. fy. 1fthey had to pay taxes like others they would Rold only what waa necessary for them, and keep 1t in & productive condition, ANOTHER GLADSTONE PAMPHLET, Ex-Prime Minister GLApsTONE, Who is uni- versally recognized 55 champion of the op- position to the temporal and political power of the Vatican, has prepared another paper upon the subject for the British Church Quarterly Review, which will be resd with considerable interest. There are two points of special interest in the paper. The first ig the general fact that Ultramontanism will be the ally of France in her next struggle with Germany for the hegemony of Europe, —a struggle to which Mr. GravsToxe looks forward with certainty, He has made this point before in his pamphlets, but never with 50 much directuess as now. He briefly sketches the events of the past quarter of a century by showing that when, in 1848, the Italians overthrew the sacerdotal Govern. ment and established the Republic, the swords of four Governments—France, Austria, Spain, and Naples—were drawn against them to maintain the old doctrine of MoxNrarzx. BERT, that all members of the Latin comman. ion are invested with a right of proper citizenship in Italy. Naples and Spain made a feeble defense of the Vatican, being feeble powers. Austrian intervention reached its limit years ago. France upheld the temporal power and the Papal throne until 1870, when the exigencies of the German campaign com- pelled her to evacuate Civita Vecchis. Now Mr. GLADSTONE foresces that **ths powerfnl setting of the current of human motive and inclination, which we all term Fate,” is de- termining France towards another deadly conitest with Germany. When that fime comes, Mr. Griogroxz doss not look for any alliance with France as between State and ) the ndvantage of havi State. He says: Tho true slly of France will be sn ally without a zume; It will be the Uilramontane minority which pervades the 'world; which triumphs in Bolginm; which brogs jn England ; which partly governs and partly plots in Frince ; which disquiets, though with- out strength to ali'rm, Germany ana Austria; which is weaker perhars in Italy than in any «f thess coun- tria; but which s everywhere cohiersnt, everywhers tenacious of ita purposes, everywhere knows its mind, follows its leadert, and bides its time, This minority, which hates Germany and persecates Italy, will, by & fatal snd fnevitableattraction, be the one fast ally of France, if ever Frunce be again 80 far overmastered by her own intornal foes as to launch sgaln upen 3 wild career of political ambition wearing the dishone orable and fictitious garbof religlous fanaticism, Mr. GLADSTONE in the role of the prophet does. not foretell what the result will be. Perhapsit is so apparent that it does not need announcement. In the next war, Italy will not stand alone, for Italy will be the sub- jective point of the contest. She will have materiol defense. Austrin is no longer her enemy, nor is Russis, while Germany and Englend and the Netherlands are her stannch allies. There can be but one issue to such a contest, and that issne will forever shatter the temporal pretensions of the Papal throne. It will virtually be a contest, not between Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, but between civilization and a Papal assumption dating back into medimval times,—a contest for the absolute separation of Church and State, and for physical and spiritual freedom. The second point made by Mr. GLansvtoNe is special in its nature, and locates one of the principal dangers to the Vatican in the grow- ing demand of the people to choose local priests. During the past four years, accord- ing to Mr. GrapsToNe’s assertion, fifty-six Bishops have been allowed to enter upon the duties of their dioceses with only a Papal title and without paying any regard to the wishes of the Italian State, the clergy, or the people, and sixty-six more, who have demand- ed the ezequatur with such non-fulfillment of conditions that it could not be given, have been allowed by the Pope to assume their places. The Italian people have revolted against this ignoring of them, and the Gov- ernment 18 also beginning to assert its rights by reclaiming the Episcopal residences, while in various parts of Italy the parishes are choosing their clergymen by popular election, sometimes directly and sometimes by trans ferring that duty to the elective bodies of the communes. As 4 case in point, Mr. Grap- sTONE relates the following : Untdl recently, the Seo ofi Mantus had the fortuns tobe occupted by a Bishop of moderats sontiments. On & vacancy at his death, the Court of Rome, acting on its now invarisble poiicy, filled the office with & thorough-paced Vaticanist. Mgr. RoTa has not ob- tained, or even asked, the ezequatur, but claims, nov- ertheless, all the rights and powers aitaching to the appointment, In this state of thinga the Parish of San Giovanni del Doaso became vacsnt. It waa a beo- efice in the gift of the Bishop, of courss presuming him ‘to be regularly appointed to his see. Antisipat- ing the arrival of a pastor after the Vatican’s own heart, the people met in the presence of s Notary, and, in a manner perfectly orderly, elected for their priest a clergyman named DoN LoNampy, in whom they thought they had Tesson to place confidence, They alio chose for his assistants cortain DoN CORLLL They do mot sppear to have desired or contem- plated anything in the mature of religious change. Through the Fabbociera, or Fabric-vestry, of the parish, the chofce of Dox LoNaupl st Saa Giovann( was made known tothe Syudic of the commure, which is called Quistello, by the transmission of the atlo di nomina, together with s letter, which charges upon the Bishop » breach of his word, and sets forth very ingeniously thst only after months af corre- spondence they bad thus proceedsd to right them- velves, As against this quiet determination of the people of Italy the Vatican is powerless, since the Government will support the peo- ple in their determination. To oppose it wonld at once provoke an issue between the people, backed by their Government, and the Papal throne, with its following of Cardinals and decayed Princes, holding a nominal rank and influence whichare mainly the outgrowth of nepotism. The result of such a contest would not be doubtful. It wonld strike a direct and damaging blow at the temporal pretensions of the Vatican, and would hasten that time which, as Mr. GLADSTONE says, “will determine the triumph or decline of the principles and policy of Vaticanism in the Latin communion.” BTARTLING WHISKY REVELATIONS, Now that Judge BropGerr has issued a zenirs for & new United States Grand Jury, it is proper to expect more revelations about the operations of the Chicago Whisky Ring, for the investigation of which the Grand Jury has been especially summoned. But thefirst revelations come from a quarter from which they were not expected, whether regarded as a matter of news or as an intimation where the State’s evidencae is tocome from. A jour- nal which has heretofore laid claim to re- spectability, if not to prominence or influ- ence,—nons other than the JInter-Ocean,— has made almost a confession for itself. It bas printed an article which is susceptible of no other construction than that of an awfal fear of impending calamity in its own house- hold. In that article the editors of the Inter-Ocean charge Secretary Brisrow, who inangurated the war on the whisky thieves, with being himself implicated in the frauds he is doing s0 much to expose and punish. If such a charge were made, under the cir- cumstances, without any evidence whatever, it would be regarded either as partisan spleen, if coming from Democratic sources, or as an effort to subvert the punishment of the thieves, if coming from Republican sources. But, with the show of evidence which the Inter-Ocean makes, the case is so lamentably attenunted that it seems as though nothing could have prompted it but a guilty con- science and a desire to set up a fire-in-the- rear with & forlorn hope of escape. This is the first evidence we have had or heard that connects the editors of the Jnter-Ocean with the Chicago Whisky Ring, and we would have given it no credit had it come from any- body but themselves. 1t is not proper to hold Gen. Bancoox re- sponsible for the loose and vapid statements that are made by the Jnter-Ocean apparently on his behslf; but, if he has authorized these statements, then the article is likewise the most damaging evidence that has yet been made public concerning his alleged com- plicity in the whisky frauds. The allegation of the Inter-Ocean sarticle is that Gen. Ban- coox intends to appear befors a Democratio Committee of Congress and make a statement of all he knows concerning the Whisky Ring, under the protection of the United States statute which provides that mo testimony given by & witness before Congress shall be used as evidence-in any criminal proceeding against him. If Gen. BaBcoox intends to do this, he must proceed upon the belief that he is only an trial in a local court at 8t. Louis, and he ignores the fact that he is really on trial before the whole country, and that his acquittal or conviction in the minds of the people involves his good fame or eternalinfamy. He also ignores the evident purpose of Mr., Rawparx’s proposed Committee, which is to get all the Govern- ment evidence in the whisky casesmads pub- lic, in order that the prosscutions may be de- {fanted, and the Bepublican party dsprived of revenue frauds ond bronght every guilty man to punishment. The fater-Ocean says that Gen. Bancock proposes to aid this infamous partisan project with his own testimony, after having satisfied himself by legal advice that his testimony will not criminate himself in the criminal proceeding now pending against him at St. Louis, The Inter-Ocean nlso charges that Bas- Ccocx’s proposed testimony before the Demo- cratic Committee will implicate Secretary Bristow, and show, to quote from the Inter- Ocean article, that “he (Bristow) has from the start been as deep in the mud as Jomy A. Joyck is now in the Penitentiary.” Standing alone, this assertion is confronted with the strong improbability that a man occupying Secretary Bristow’s position should, of his own motion, proceed to the exposure of frauds in which he was himself implicated, an exposure which he could have suppressed as well a3 not. But—parturiuni montes, nascitur ridiculus mus—here is the startling revelation against Bristow which Bascock is snid to be about to make: . Bancock bas for a long time bunted up Barstow's record. He has demonstrated that BrasTow hna been attorney aud countel for whisky men in Loutsvills snd Cincinnatl; that kis brotherdn.lsw, WeiLEn, is s brother of WxLrER, the Louisville whisky man; and that whenever Baisrow visits Louisvilie be makes his home at tho residence of his brother-in-law, Babcoox bas honted upihe further fact that when Bmmrow 8006 to Cincinnati he makes the residence of Houant his bome while in that town. HopanT fs connected with one of the largest whisky houses in Cincinnati, Now suppose all this true, admit that Gen. Bancock and the Jnter-Ocean can prove be- yond any question every allegation in the above paragraph, what of it? Was there anything wrong or unusual sbout Secretary Bristow, a8 a lawyer, being attorney for whisky-distillers in Louisville before he be- came Secretary of the Treasury or even dreemt of succeeding to that position? Is not that, if it be a fact, taken in connection with his official prosecution of the Ring since he has become Secretary of the Treasury, an additional credit to him ? Is it anything startling or dreadful that Secretary Bristow should stop at his brother-in-law’s house when he visits Louisville, or at a friend’s house when he visits Cincinnati? These things are simply puerile; and, while they may be 50 or may not, if the Jnter-Ocean has nothing else on whioh to its grave charge, it would have béen better for its own reputation had it rerained silert. The Inter-Ocean has thus forced upon pub- lic conviction the strong probability that one or more of its editors are implicated in some way in the whisky frauds which Secretary Bristow is prosecating at this point. The mere fact that Secretary Brisrow found it necessary for the public interests to dis- charge from the office of Appraiser at this port one of the principal editors of the Jater- Ocean is not, of itself, sufficient to account for this reckless assaulé on his official integ- rity. There must be something deeper than this, and the conclusion is inevitable that either the Inter-Ocean is interested in defent- ing the prosecut'uns of the whisky thieves here by a policy of threat and intimidation, or that some of its editors have determined to turn State's evidence. The present indi- cation is, that it is not Gmorsex or Rusariy who is going to “squeal,” but some Jnter- Ocean man. O0UR NEW CUSTOMERS. The future of American trade grows with the passing days. We have won, wit hin the last decade, two great communities of customers, and we are now stretching iron arms towards a third. The sbolition of slavery doubled the Sonthern demand for some of our wares. The negro had been treated in something the same way as the mythical horse which was trained to live on one straw a day. He was supplied with only the barest necessaries. Louisiana planters publicly passed a resolu- tion declaring fhat, in their judgment, it was cheaper to work the slaves so hard and treat them s0 ill that they died in seven years, rather than try by better treatment to pro- long their powers. A race thus regarded took from the world only the coarsest cloth and food. It produced much less than it might, because it consumed much less than it should. By striking the shackles from the slave, we have rnised him from a brute toa man, from a being whose demands were lim- ited by the arbitrary will of a tyrannical mas- ter to one who, as his own master, makes his own demands. The result is the prac- tical addition of a vast community in the South to our customers. The South buys more from the North now than she did in 1860. The lessened demand of the ex- masters is more than offsst by the increased demand of the ex-slaves. If she buys more, she must produce more. And she does so. Her worn-out fields are regaining their an- cient fertility under the painstaking care of the peasant proprietor, while her virgin soil yields to the freeman crops which land like it ne'er gave the slave or his owner. Itisa significant fact—at once an effect and a cause of the new prosperity of the South—that Northern cities are eagerly pushing their railway communications towards the tropics. New York and Baltimore put their trust in diagonal belts of iron; Cincinnati is taxing herself to carry a reilroad due south from her site; even St. Louis is thinking that it might be a good thing to constructa Southern road before the end of the next century; and Chicago has already two iron arms which grasp the trade of Mobile and New Or- leans, and level the tiny watershed be- tween the great lokes and the great river by putting us a} the head of the Mississippi Valley. The new trade with the South has one marked effect upon the money market. ‘The blacks in that section are like the blacks of Hindostan,—hoarders of money. This has been especially true of them since the failure of the Freedmen’s Bank. Now, when they cannot put their savings into land, they put them into stockings. There is a constant monetary balance of trade against New York City. The cwrrency that flows westward from the metropolis all returns, when the crops have bean moved and the fall flurry is over. Butof the volume of cwrrency that is carried southward, only part is brought back. The difference—a difference that is counted by millions—represents the new hoards of the negroes. In the same way, Hindostan has been 8 sink of gold and gilver for unknown ages. With returning confidence in the South, this feature of our trade will disappear. But the failare of the Freedmen's Bank must first, unfortunately, be forgotten. The second great community to be newly numbered among our customers is that of the Chinese. Their trade is partly a re-con- quest, partly a new conquest. We used to send them, in our days of low tariff and honest money, articles, many in num- ber, but fow in kind. Now we are sup- supplying more of their wants, even if our saggregate exports to the Flowery Land are below those of '59. The factis due to the Chiness rexidents on the Pacific Slops, Mal- trealed, bullled, cursad, and legialated againas, nis, built his joss-house there, and elustered his cabins about it. He has learned to use many things of American manufacture, and has carried the customs thus gained back to his native land. Hence has arisen a large and 8 growing demand from China for many American commodities. We are shipping her cottons vin Manchester and hundreds of other articles via San Frencisco. Beyond the Rio Grande lies the next great field for mercantile effort. Mexico is rich in many things which we consume, poor in ‘mony things which we produce. An ex- change of commodities would be mutually and kighly beneficial. OQuar Minister to Mex- | ico is now on a sort of crusade through the Sounth, preaching the profitsof Mexican trade. Public attention, in New Orleans and else- where, has been aroused, and we may confi- dently expect, ers long, a great increase in our trade with our sister Republic. There are. other fields tempting to the troder near ‘by. There is Cuba, with her wealth of tropicel products; and South Amer- ica, with her teeming millions to be clothed in our cottons, and her’ tangled forests of precious woods to be cut down and carried off ; and the vast prairies of British America, with their treasures of fertility waiting for the magic touch of the plow. When the ris- ing tide of settlement has flowed over them, iheir grain will come via St. Panl to Chicago, seeking an exohange for the manufactures of the Northwest. There will be no lack of cus- tomers in the fature. If we will sell, the world will buy. But if we keep out the world by a tariff-walf} and suffer our business interests to flounder in the quicksand of a shifting currency, we shall effectually pre- vent our selling and the world's buying. During the year just closed, the govern- ment of Cook County has expended $1,049,~ 872, six-sevenths of which sum is peid by taxation on property in the city. In this list of expenditures we have the following items: County Agent’s office. County Hosoital, Insane Asylum.. Poor-House. ... Dieting prisoners. Sherifl's office. Out-door relief. County employea.. This list does not include an exp $77,363 for building County Hospital, nor $103,000 for building an addition to the In. sane Asylam. Practically, the $559,513 is ex- pended in the name of charity; a small pro- portion to the indigent poor, a larger sum to officinl and other able-bodied paupers, and the rest stolen and squandered. Unfortu- nately, we can see in the present composition of the County Board no promise of any re- form in this branch of the tax-levying gov- ernment of the city. ‘The managers say the times are hard. They tellus **The bottom has fallen outof emuse- ments.” The resson why the bottom has fallen out they explain to be, that tbe people are econ- omizing. It is true that the attendance at some theatres hea been ema'ler this year than usuoal. Good performances have been given at a loss. Mr. Barry ScLnivay, one of the best tragedians living, filled an uusatiefactory engagement at McVicker's Theatre, though his personation of Richard III. was far euperior to any that nas been geen on the American boards for years. Mr. T. A. Harr, whoopened the New Chicago Theatra with 2 good si6tk~company; was oblized toseek in Southern cities the appreciation he conid not find bere. Col. Woon’s Museum has oot ob- tained bounteous reiurns from exhibitions of *living curiositias * in theatrical performances. The finest stock compsny ever een in Philadel~ phis has barely held ita own. Mr. Davry, of New York, has oct been able to make both ends meet. In London and Paris, theatricals have been, at eome places, unusually dull. These facts, at first sizht, seem to make a firm foun- dation for the statementof the mansgers that *The bottom has fallen out.” But an examina- tion will disperse the generalization. Every city in Europe and America has some theatres that are doing well Those that are doing the best have the Lighest reputation for liberal manage- ment. All the theatres in Boston are prosper- ing. The UnionBquare, the Park, and Wallack’s, in New York, and the Walnat, in Philadelphis, have been making money. The theatrical income in Paris has boen larger this year than ever before. Even in Chicago the bard times do not extend to all the theatres. The negro-minstrel com- pany now performing at Booley's Theatre— whose success we shonld almost regret if it were not so honestly won—hsa no csuse to compisin of popular neglect. The truth is, that the hard timea are felt most saverely at the least deseriing places of amuse- ment. The people economize in their amuse- ments by cutting off tha poo:est ones. They do not patronwze bad or indifferent entertainments. They cannot aiord to do so ; the times are too hard, There is nothing they escrifice easier than the luxnry of looking at bad actors in a bad play; or, wor-a still, the torture of epesing a good play mur-lered by Bolfom the Weaver, Snout the Tinker, ard Flule the Bellows-Mender. No wonder the.bottom is out when such perform- ances are given. It ought to have been out long ago. The longer 1t keepa out, the better for the interests of dramatic art everywhere. What the people of Clicago want is & good dramatic compaoy under an intelligent manage- ment. Such an organizatiou they will support, in hard as well a8 in easy times. They will nev- er again, we believe, be satisfied with anything less, Cbisago is struggling out or and above her provincinl existence. The pro ns for the ar- tistic tastes of her people that were once suffi- cient are now totally inadequate. Permutstions and combinations of sticks and mtars, stars and sticke, will no longer be-found remanerative. Hard times are no justification of -bad actors aod cheap performances.. No careful merchant pro- vides for busidess depression: by lower- ing the quahty of his” stock sod keep- ing his prices at the old standard; and no theatrical mansger who adopts tbis policy degervea sucoeas or will have it. In the season following the fire of 1871, when the city was full of money and strangens, some of the managers made fortunea. Because they can po longer do a8 well, they blame the people aud the times. They bave no reason to do so. The times de- mand vigorons action and & generous policy or retiremens from busioess. The pecple insist upon having the worth of their monsy upon & bard-money basis. Until their demands ars Bat- isfied, they will tolerate nothing at all. Thewr cryis: * Good amusements or none.” Yale has challenged Harvard to row an eight- oared, four-mile race, with coxawsins, and the challenge has bean accepted. Thereat = num- ber of papers have bastily imagined that this action involved the withdrawal of both from the College Bowing Association. * This may oot be 8o. Both universities were represented at the meeting in Hartford not long ago, to arrange the preliminaries of the intercollegiate regatta, and both expected, at the time, to be represented in the final meeting at New York next month. It would be & bad bluoder for either to withdraw from the Association at this time. There have been five intercollegiate regattas. Harvard hasrowed inall of them and won none. Ysle has rowed in four and won one. This is not a record which ‘would make the retirement of either s very dig- nified proceeding. At the same time, it must be remembored that such matters are seftled by merry moba of boys who aot without much re- flection and have a remarkable capacity for malking fools of themselves in huate and repens~ icg in leisure, #0 that the withdrawal may come 40 pags. Yaia has always been oppowed to ths ing’ fully exposed the | the patient Mongolian has clung to Califor- reneral races, and Harvard i fact tglt 8he Btarted them. h]'::f:"‘d biokns cent damaging cnarzes of fraad by o Colambia at che laat race, whl:: t‘lg m’“ iy ton Advertiser ast afloat, may havs j such a decision. The withdrawa] -:mmn [ plucky thing in & eertain wa » iawmach by two colleges must know how they wul b.u caled and abueed therefor ; but e luck Dot pardun the tluader, Heion 100, the re. The Appeal, ”th‘ 0] 2 NOW Doy i teresta of the Reformed E::wfl’ghl:_lhh made its appearaace, with the mams of ik Favrrows, D. D., as editor-in-chiet ag 1y, of ita columns. ¢ ia o large, bandsg, et twenty pages, four of which are zin:‘. to vertising, which ia & very substactist xod o ful part of every newanaper, rolig.ong o g wise. The remaining pages ara Glled 'm:'h' torial and selacted matter, The o contain ten editorials, contmbted by e Cuntrss, Bishoo Crixey, and the Bay, u% Marsmary B. Swith, of Pasaaio, N, J., ‘;lm Cooren, D. D, Chicago; W. M, Posmpe " - Ealimoro; H. M. CoLutssov, af Oty and Jossrr D. Wizsos, of Peoria, Iy, 0?1.; ita departments are well Tepresented, u,u % 20 reason why the Appeal shanil gt long aod profitable Inase of life, I fy vt up with the same abiity that markg i ; » number, it wil cartaialy deserrs succasy. "0 —_—— Judge Darr. of New York, cision which will belikely to ::l:::“;;:“ the breas's of thonsanis of Peapla. Hip 7!: cision I to the eTect that vianow can by seized for the dabzs of the persons o hir them, Th, pang will not only affict the hirar, by, also u,: renter, as he contemplates the ‘Possibility of seejug his second-nand piancs ooming back to him aod lying idle 1n hia warerooms, Thers will be manv, however, who il secretly ry. Jotea tbat the plano is going oat of thajr Daighe borhood, and that the piaao-pounder may be brought low by this dacision. Thare ars pi and then thers are pianos; but of all Ppianos the bired pianoin the handsof a parson trly i dustrious is a thing of noiseands Duisance o ever. —_— According to the information gathersd ‘"CRIBUNE reporter, Ep. Pariyres lllvuy:’fl: oo the Staals-Zeitung in sasessing the valus of its Dresses, types, job office, boilers, eDRine, machinery, and other personal property used in the priuting business. It is stated thas the ** honest Assessor ” valued the whols of ita per-. s00al effects at 3600, and in tranaferriog thiy another book the sum was redaced to $200, a0d. charged against the Saals-Juliun” 5o the concern is ot taxed st all on ita ‘persocalty, The other morning papers were assased from $65.000 to 370,000 ench o their preses, types, etc., toWhich the Staze Board added & pe cent, —_——— OBITUARY, CEIZP-JUBTICE PALEN, The Hon. Joskp G. Parxy, Chiaf Justis ot New Mexico, died st Saats Fe recently, in the 64th year of “his age. He wis bom in Palenville, N. Y., in 1811, and graduated frem Ambersc College in 1835, After completing bis college course he stadied law, and socn afer bis admission to the Bar became Master in Chu. cery. In1842 he was the Whig candidsta i Congress, and in 1853 for County Judge. A severe illness shortly afterwards compellad ki to abandon his profession and hs became s farmer. In 1861 he was appointed Postmutsr of Hudson, and cootioued in office untd 188, aod was then appointed Chief Justics of the S preme Court of New Mexico, which ofios be held at the time of his death. Tha commm- school evster of the Territory owoa its origin fo him, as does also most of tha legislation in rels- tion to the development of the resources of the Territory. Its internal improvemonts found s active, earnest, and powerful frisad in him, whose intelligent direction will leave ita impres upon New Mexigo, its governmeat, and ita lsw, for all tume. PERSOFAL Bangs 12 not going to leave the Postal Serviss ‘before Feb. 1, Speaker Kerr is staying in Philadslphis oret the bolidaye. Mr, James H. Dowland, of Chicsgo, husbes engaged to lectare in Galesburg Jaa. 7. Senator Jones has discoversd s mine of sosp- Nevada is sosp prolific, you know.—St Losit Republican. Bradlaugh's brother, William, delivers Gnl addresses every Sunday evening in West Szith field, Loodon. fl, “Grace Greenwood’s™ Lusbaud, Dr. & K Lippincott, has been appointed Chisf Clesk o the Land-Office in Washington. M. Jules Simon’s election to Guizots édxh‘ the French Academy is making Roms “bovl The new Academicisa is anything bas sn Ul montanist. James Gordon Beonett has issued invitaties for a full-dress ball early in January, Il:‘l - gaged two prominent ** ladies of fashicn torr caive for bim. Earl Fizwiliam bas intormed bis collieh who struck for nigher wsges nine montis i that his Rotherhsm pits will zot be during his Lfetiiie. He ia 60 yearsof sge. Tne New York Graphic is disgusted becsos® Speaker Eerr has appointed Alexandsr siaphest who doeau’t weigh more than 90 pounds, Chair man of the Committes on Weights aad Mew ures. = ‘Bw‘l Olive is writing & book oo > She mff:"uu the world that fine words ter no parsmps, and illustrato the wb!a;: examples. Nobody buthar could do the justice. 3ir. Bamuel Bowlen speaks with lmxvm": decaive nobody when he says in his pired 2 Mr. Reid i one of tbemos g ble and long-suffering, ss Lh:h one of the! sccomplished, of journalsts.™ Mayor Stokely sent a copy of umm‘fl: sge, bound In morocco, to the I;ml-luy\“’l London. The sct was worthy of Colvis- ] doubt the Lord-Msyor 1 suffering for 028 Joe Forrest’s charscteristic eusions. The fashlon editar of ths Evsasvils 47 says: *The bold mssher, the solid N”‘:‘a’ once more on the ktrest, with ag 0varcost 4 ing to his heels, and an nopud- tailors reaching back beyond the memory of mas- = The New York Bar Amxg:hgn l::" Lo fallen into disrapute. atlemen d the worth or mg;nlmmm' the Chicaxd : sociation should bear it in mind thsb s smple in New York is not ooe to be Advertisement from anTowa paper : ** ism and brutal force n.n:d {nnd o Jobn Gates, by the legerdemain i » knowledge of his business, wn!fl"’_’_:._ boots and shoes of his own maks, besidos, b ", ‘Mra, Tracy (Agnoe Echel) socently rosd '35 bara Frietchie” and **Abou Ben ldhl“w acted Juliet in the balcony-scens, 88 s byl b8 entertainment in Buffalo for & pose. Her Juliel is highly praised Dewspapers. st The wags say that Disrseli bynght the Canal bocsase he bad been readiog Faony A0 book, and was impressed by tbe my which she relates that the Grand DuZe the Canal was the rosd the Bassisn s022 would ope day take wlndn.m Bayard Taylor says thu (3 still the novelist most m}dumnn(i rl England circulatiog libraries. 8uill, that the lowest point of litersry WM . has been reached. The recovery, from P forward, will be slowand paintal, Dut steady : e ; buns supportd The New York I ) students for withdrawing from the w:” Az ciation. 1t gives s pumber 0 Mm ek Oollege shouid not have gooe into g e tion, bus nos one lo excnse ik 0008 in the Ne¥