Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. PATES OF FUTECPIPTION (PAYABLZ IS ADVANCE). Pastace Irepald at this Ofice. Datly Edition, past-paid, 1 -.$13.00 Purts of year Muiled to any addres FOU® VI Sunday Kdition: Litersy and Liellgic ‘The postage is 15 centa a yoar, which we will prepay. Specimen copies sent free, To prevent delay and mistakes, be suro and give Post-Oftice address fn f1l, including State and County. Remiltances may be made eitber Uy draft, express, Tust-Office order, or in registered leiters, ut our risk, TEEMS 10 CITT STLCRIDZRS, Daily, delivered. Sunday excepted, 25 conts per week, Durly, delivered, Sundsy included. 30 cents per week. Addreas THE TRIGUNE COMPANT, Cerner Madison and Dearbora-sts., Clicago, Tl AMUS‘E‘\- NTS. To-DAT. McCORMICE HALL—North Clark street, corner Einze. Letureat$ p. m. by Prof. W. G.Sumuer. Bubject The Danefiia of 1Lird Tim ADELPHI THEATRE—DearSorn Mouroe. “The Forty Thieves.” ACADENY OF MUSIC—Halsted streat, becwsen AMadiron and Muproe, * The Two Urpbana® NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark etrest, between Randolph aud Lake, * Mein Leopald.” HALSTED STREET OPERA-HOUSE — Halsted street, corner of Hxrrison, Tour of the Holy Land. Alternoon and evening. WOOD'S MUSEUA—)onroe street, bstween Dear- born aud Stute, * Cinderclla.” Afternoou and evening. street, cormer TO-NOREOW. HOOLEY'S THEATHE—I:ndolrh street, between Clark #nd LaSalic. Eugagement of the Kellogg Opers- Company. = Tte Boheinizn Girl"™ MCVICEER'S THEATEE—3acison etrest, between Deartorn and State. Engaement of the Oates Opers~ Comyany. * Les Pres St. Ge.viw.” ADELPHI_THEATRE—Desrborn Monroe. * The Forty Thisves.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, Detwsen Madiron and Monros, Enzagementof the Georgis Alinetrels. NEW CHICAGO TTIEATRE—Clrk street, betwoen Randolph and Lake. Eccapementof the Harrigan and Hart Comtfuatiza, * Tie Dojls Brothers,” WOOD'S JMTSETM—Monros street, between Dear- Yorn cud Srate Afterncon, * Red Riding-Hood.” Evemuz, ** The Advenzures of & Country Girl,” HALSTED STREET OPERA-HOTUSE — Ealsted street, corner Sarrison. Tour of tke Holy Land, street, corner SOCIETY MEETINGS. ATTENTION SIR ENIGHTS!-Stated conclive of Chicago Commanders No, 19 K. T.. Vlondsy ezening, | Jin, 5, at 7:3), for busiLess. Viviting Sir Knights eourteously invited. By oraer ot h= £ C. CHAS. J. TROWBKIDGE, Recorder. - RATNBOW LODGE, ner Went Medicon xn oitiers to re regue vited, 10 bu pr.sent. 0, 4(0. 1. 0. 0. F.—Hall cor oles-sts. Installation of { Mertera of the lodge . 3nd all merubera of the Order are in- JOLIN O'BRIEN, Rec, Sec. PAPER-HANGERS' ASSOCTATION—The membters of the Paper-Hungers' Aveociation wre regnested to met on Mouday even'ng, Jan. 3. 1876,5t8p, m, sbarp, =t Cilelanisn Hall, 147 and 169 E<at Washing- Lon w'reet. 'Business of importance tn be transacted, By orger of J. HARRIS, Secreiars. WAUBANSIA LODGE, No. 100, A. F. & A M. appukl Corueni-ation for the election of the ravmen: of dicx wil be Lold at Ori-ntal Hall, Vo'v,00k, sharp. of tae Lodge. ®. . Secretary. \ FROGRESS LODGE 5X, I 0. 0. F.—There will sea 1 u: lic nstaliation of oficers of the sbove-named odge. t'gethr with & grand entertaiument, ou ilon- Loy evening, Jin_ S, at their n-w hall112 snd 114 Eart 2and b Drothers of the Order, their ladies, and iriends are cordially wnvitad to attend. L. EAINWEILER, Secretary. Thursdsy evening, J.n. 6, 157G, at 7 Let every member be present, Fer o . T. J. TI E. ST. JOHN TAN RENSSLALR GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- CTON will held 3 regular asrembly ca Thursday even- g nest. Work on the Fourth and Fith Dogrees. It # demiraile that all who bave recervw<d notico of their alaction to the degres= shall re present. 3 E. P. DALL T.%. P, Gt M.~ Ep GoDALT, Gr. Sec's. e Chisyge Tribune. Bunday SAlorning, Januery 3, 1876. In Ohio politics, what is called the Pope's %ig toe plays an imporiant part. In national oolitics, however, just norw, the Pope's toe tannot compare with Bristow in importance. escape. AumaEAN Jiczsow, the swindling lawyer, who was one of the lights of Beacon street, has been tried for forgery, and con- ricted. Copies of Sat; 5’8 supplement, contain- ng Tee TmrsUse's Annusl Review of the Trade, Commerce, and Manufactures of Chi- sago for 1875, can be obtained st the count- mg-room. That our emplayes should bave an oppor- tanity to devote a portion of the first day of the year to social duties, TEE Trrsusz ap- pears to-day with but twelve pages of rend- ing matter, instead of our usual sixteen. The free-trade revival has reached Boston, where a strong club has been orgsnized. It is to hold public meetings once a month, and discuss essays, which will be read to it by eminent men. Let the good work go on. | tillers seom to be fully up to their brethren The rapid destruction of the big English iron-clads is said to have decided the Admi- ralty to construct a new fleet of small, easily- handled vessels,—monitors, in fact,—to re- place the unwieldy mammoths which sink better than they swim. It wonld be strange if it should turn out that Errcssox built the model war-ship at his first attempt. In any event, 1o iron-clad has yet been as serviceable as that *cheese.box on a raft,” which now lies, an iron coffin, under the waves that roll off Cape Hafteras. About 100 years ago, Mrs. JoEN ADAME wrote to her husband : *Our money is very little better than Llank paper.” Yet the Con- tinental currency was a legal tender, based on the faith and resources of the nation, battle-Born, blood-stained, ete. Our infle- tionists wish to show their reverence for the fathers of the Republic by going back to the sort of shinplasters that inade tho fathers bankrupts. It was the collapse of the cus- rency that threw Roserr Mozrnis, the finan- cier of the Revolution, into & debtor's prisun at Philsdelphia. In the course of interviews with distillers, rectifiers, and other perties connected with the whisky iniguity, a distiller bas made a confession relative to the mannmer in which the crooked whisky fraud has been carried on by one distillery—the Blackhawk. According 0 his statements, the Blackhawk began deal- ing in crooked whisky in 1872, its products being taken by two rectifying houses, Alasox & Crosny, anl GmOLseN & EisTauy, up to May of last year. By collusion of the Store- Lecper and Gauger, the whisky was sent to 1he rectifier, who took off the stamps and sent them back, the Storekeeper and Gauger putting them on a new lot again. In this | manner they did duty three or four times, the last lot being reported as straight. Thusabout one-third would be straight and the remainder would pay no tax st all This whisky the rectifier would take st so much per barrel, and generally dispose of 1t in New York, the stealings in the case of this one distillery be- ing about 70 cents a gallon, or 120 barrels of | bracing every description of goods, from steel 42 gallons each per week, amounting to €3,528, Another mode practiced Ly another distiller wos to gange his barrels {2 gallons Wuen they would bhold 40 gallons. Thess THRE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. wera put into the bonded warehouse 83 42, acd beforo shipment were filled up, the dis- tiller thereby gaining a diffcrence of four gallons per barrel. Still another method was the shipment of a large amount of distilled water from the distillery to the rectifying house, a cartain percentage of the barrels be- ing fillod with whisky. In ways that are dark an!! tricks that are vain the Chicago dis- in St. Louis and other cities. The so-called *“secret history ” of the War j3in no danger of being kept secrat much longer. Richmond and Washington are de- pots for the mannfacture of War stories, which ave furnished in such profusion that the supply outstrips the demand. The last one out is that Count Mencier, the French Ilinister at Washington during 1862, went to TRichmond in that year as the accredited em- issary of Secretary Sewasp, and that he pro- posed “‘that, if ths South would stop the War, a return to the Union would be permit- tsd without any conditioas, slavery should ba continued, and any guaranty made for the fature that tho Sonth would dictate.” Thero isno knowing what Mr. Sgwamp may lisve secretly done in a fit of disappointment over the fuilure of one of his ninety-day pre- dictions, but it is absurd to suppose that the North would ever have ratified this disgrnce- ful bargain. The ftory is moderately well sathenticated, for the Hon. James Lryoxs, who tells it, says Count Merncies made the offer to him. The petty extortions practiced on shippers 8t the port of New York have always been s theme of great compleint. We regret to see signs of such & system here. The railroads charge §2 for simply switching & car to a warehouse to bo loaded. There is no resson in this. No fee whatever should be esked Then the warehousemen chargo $1 per car for *‘trimming.” A *trim- mer” is 8 maa who stands inside the car and levels the grain as it pours in. Twenty-five cents would be ample pay for this. There are plenty of. men who would be glad to get thework at such rates. Again; the storage of a bushel of grain for 30 dys costs 2 cents. From 1 to 1} cents wonld be ample. As therc aro 330 bushels of wheat in s car-load, these different petty fees amount to nearly 4 cents per bushel, when they should be less thaa 2, perhaps not more than 1}. When the railroads are diseriminating egainst Chi- ¢ago as a “h’aning point, our warechousemen would i :{ ® . their own interests by light- ening the . ..rd=ns of shippers s faras pos- sible. At present, they and the railroads seem both busy in the perilous tssk of piling straws on the camel's back. THE MANUFACTUBES AND GENERAL BUSI- KES8 OF CHICAGD. The reader who has examinad, or who will examine, the review of the trade and com- merce of Chicago, published in Tuz TrIBUSE yesterday, will notice that the growth of our commerce, while it has been large, hes been steady and regular. Its growth has been so much the result of inevitable laws that the most adversa calam ties have never inter- rupted, weakened, or destroyed it The aggregete sales at wholesale in Chicago, during 1875, wera $637,000,000. No city of equal population, old or young, in Europe or the United States, can show such an immense trade in a single yeer. To our own people, who azre nccustomed to activity and bustle, the last year has scemed one of depression ; in other cities it has been a senson of actual depression. Yet none of those cities have been afilicted es Chicago has been. Four years 8go, the savings and capital of the city were abnihilated in a night. All that was left of the eac- cumulated wealth of the city,—the active capital with which business was done,—was the bare ground on which the city had stood, and a few foundations, and the fragments of materiels of which the city had been built. Chicago bad, therefore, to begin a new life ; to start afresh, without money and withont buildings. Inthe period that has elapsed the merchants snd manufacturers of this city have had their labor, their credit, and their capital crippled with the imperative necessity for rebuilding the city; of furnishing stores and warehouses for business, and dwellings for themselves and families. Following this dire calamity was tho financial disaster of 1873, which in a few weeks swept away the essumed wealth of thousands, destroyed sources of income, and left many branches of active business crushed and overwhelmed with debt. Out of the wreck of the panic Chicago was the first to emerge. Her business resumed, snd the record of 1873 and 1874 showed that even during those years of general stagnstion the growth of our trade and manufactures had been as regular a8 in previons years, when prosperity was geperal. The fire itself,—the destruc- tion of s0 many millions of capital,—did not destroy the trade, reduce the production, or weaken the activity of Chicago. Though there is no record of the business of 1871, that of 1872 shows & gain over 1870 of the general average of two years' successful business. Weighted with calamitics, taxed with the extroordinary expenditure required to rebuild the city on a largely increased plan and in a more dursble and costly style, the trade and production of Chicago have not been interrupted, but the increase has gone on gs if no fire had ever teken place and no financial panic had crushed the business of wide-extended portions of the country. From this we may judge of the stability of he growth and the enduring che acter of the commerce which finds its natural centrs in this city. Another striking lesson taught by these tables is the success which has attended all branches of manufecturs in Chic. go, and that not one of them owes its success to the laws which have for their excuse the pretext of protecting manufactures. Let us look at their character. First are the various manu. factures of commercial prodacts folling un- der the head of provisions,—pork and beef, lard, tallow, grease, snd other articles; then follow agricultural implements, cars, bridges, and other articles mede of iron and wood, manufactares in wood, manufactures of all kinds of building material, tunnels, sewers, and buildings, manufactures of leather, gas, chcmjc:\ls, varnish, lead, soap, oil, ete., cigars &nd tobacco, printing and printing materials, clothing, flax, lime, watches, glassware, inks, brushes, buttons, and the whole rsnge given in the long list enumerated. To these are to be added the iron and steel manufactures, em- rails to files. There isnot a branch of manu- facture in successful operation here which is not injured, rather than promoted, by the heavy taxes levied nominally for their pro- tection. The only line of production which can make & claim to baving a benefit from | protective taxes is that of iron and steel, and within the last two years American man- | afacturers of iron and steel have had an in- creasing export trade in those, Despite the . efforts of England sud Belgium, the Ameri- . can prodnsers of iron and steel have been able to sell their goods on foreizgn soil in sue- cessful competition with other nations. In the list of the metal manufactures which are prospering in this city thers is not one which is in the least encouraged or fos- tered by protection, aud not one which i tape of would not be greatly aided by the removal of | the onerous protective tax, which by reduc- ing the purchasing mesns of the people re- duces consumption, and by increasing the cost of living increases the cost of produc- tion. If relieved of this texation, all these lines of manufacture would incrense their production, give employment to more per- sons, add to’ personal and general wealth, and thus remove the great evil of willing hands unable to obtain work. This condition of manufactures in Chicago is equally true of manufactures clsewhere. Those which are nnprotected flourish and prosper, while those for which the law im- poses heavy taxation languish and perish un- der the protective armor they have to snp- port. The emancipation of manufactures from the crushing weight of protective taxa- tion would not only revive industry in all parts of the land, but would utilizo the in- exhaustible supplies of raw material, give work and wages to unemployed labor, and make the United States the great workshop, as it is the granary, for other lands. During the year just closed, the unprotected manu- factures of this city have incressed the num- ber of establishments to 1,549, against 1,(29 in 1874 ; the number of hands to 36,353, 8gainst 52,007 ; the aggregate wages to $28,- 452,580, against $25,446,000; the capital em- ployed to $68,469,000, from $65, the vilue of the product to 1 notwitbstanding the decline in prices, against $163,634,000 in 1874, These results have been achicved notwithstanding the strong and oppressive obstacles placed in their way by the protective tariff, NEW YEAR’S DAY. Never before has Chicago known such a charming New Year's Day as yesterday. The fog and drizzle of the enrly morning vanished before noon, and in their places came the sun, and summer-like sky flecked with clouds. Tho air was as mild and belmy as on a Juns morning, the lake as calm and unrufiled as in an August afternoon. The streets were crowded with pecgle, nearly all in pursuit of pleasure. The callers were as nuincrous as the leaves in Vallambrosa, and the number of ladies who ‘‘received” was quite as nu- merous as ever. Some young gentlemen were ‘‘tired” at night, but the number was few, and the temperancé agitators will have little fault to find with the ladies. The most ardent and nosy patriot must have been sat- isfied with the demonstrations in the early morning. Bells were tolled, pealed, and rung, and even the rusty and tune- less chimes of the Michigan Ave- nue Daptist Church were pressed into service by some -unskilled individual, who, unable to play melodies, rang the dis- cordant octave up and down for an hour or more. Our German citizens did credit to their Noew Year's reputation for gun and pis- tol-firing. Horns and whistles were blown, and the valiant Calathumpisns paraded near- ly every neighborhood. During the day flags were flying from every available spot. The lovely weather had its infiuence upon people. The good wishes of the year were never heartier. The streets were filled with enger, bustling crowds, and there seemed to be a universal feeling of faith, hope, and courage. Every one was commencing the New Year with courage, and looking forward with hopefuloess to 8 successfal and busy year, notwithstanding the great fires and financial discouragements of the rctro- spect, and Secretary Bristow's thunder- bolts of the present, which are strik- ing in unexpected quarters. The so- cial aspects also were encouraging. The ladies entertained their friend right royally. There were balls, partics, and festivities all over the city. There wers numerons family reugions. There wera few so poor that they were not enjoying themselves, and even the poorest were thankful for the genial weather which is saving them so much in fuel and making their homes so comfortable. To- morrow night Chicago will go to the opera and listen to the singing birds as enthusiastic- ally es it used to in the old days of the Crosby Opers-House, when times were easy and every one was flush. e All this speaks well for the city, and be- tokens = hsppy, prosperous year. All this shows we have weathered the worst of the storm. DBusiness is righting itself. We are finding our way out of political troubles, The churches are waking up to o realizing sense of their duties. The poor never were 'S0 well provided for before. Our schools are pros- perons. The Inter-Ocezn has crawled clear ount of its aitack upon Secretary Bristow. Some of our citizens &re restricted tempora- rily of their liberty, but we hope and expect they will clear their gkirts. Thers is but one sorrow in the midst of all this rejoicing,—the personal texes; and those who are assessed mourn as those without comfort. Clicago sets out upon the New Year with its loins girded up for the race, and 28 hopoful, cour- ageour, and resolute 88 ever. THE DEFERBE OF s}.;ggmn FEOM INVA- Ominous utterances on the Continent to the effect that o nation wishing to seize Hin- dostan would find the shortost road to that country by crossing the Channel and occupy- ing London have waked up tho English mili- tary suthorities. The Engiish people have olso waked up, and since Col. CuesNEy pub- lished his anonymous pamphlct, * The Bat- tles of Dorking,” and showed therein how ensy a German conquest of Great Britain would be, a plan for effective defense against an inveding army has been prepared. Its main foaturesare naturally thoseof the German system. Heretofore there has been nothing worthy the name of a system in English army administration. There have been many iso- Iated, batteries and battalions, but no pro- | visions for brigades, corps, and divisions, no | arrangements for the speedy and sufficient supply of arms and stores, no transport trains, no points of concentration, and no set of staff officers. The plan now being carried out divides the country imto eight districts, to each of which a corps of 36.228 men, with 10,585 horses, 1,410 -<arringes, and 90 guns, is allotted. The eight corps, with the permanent garriions, will number nearly 800,000 effective soldiers, In case of threatened invasion, a few tele- groms will bring the whole force into the field. The rendezvous of each corps is connected by rail and wire with those of the rest. Each can be bronght within a few hours to any point on the coast. It is thought that such a force of 300,000 men of &all arms, thus concentrated, will be amply sufficient to prevent the landing of en enemy of invasion anywhere, or to drive hostile traops suddenly Hung upon Euglish sliares back b their ships. The plan looks pretty on paper. If carried I out it would prove effectual. Dut its execu- tion will be no easy matter. At present, 8s we have said, there is simple cheos. An im- mense amount of order must be drawn out of a vast confusion. The red- cecturies must be untied or cut. Horses must be bonght, wagons built, and drivers hired by the thousand. Gunners must be trained and raw recruits drilled. The medical, commissarint, and control de- pertments, which now bhave only a shadowy existenco, must be carfully reformed, per- haps recreated. All this will make o gigantic task, and will cost great sums of money. The London Z%meshas promptly protested sgmnst the number of wagons, amount of equipage, ete., allowed to each corps, and there can be no doubt that angry tax-payers will repeat the protest. If it cost as mucl, proportion- atoly, to maintein an army in England as it does here, the burden of supporting 200,000 men in time of peace would be intolerable. BREAK THE POOL. ® The main lines between this city and the seaboard are fortunately st war with each other for the greater pa:t of the time. When. ever they combine, it is at our expense. Chi- cago merchants are pow being systematically robbed by the pool which Messrs. VANDEE- Brr, Jewerr, Scorr, and Gaznerr have formed. But discrimination is a game that two can play at. The four conspriators have tried it sgainst our mercantile community. The Iatter should try it against them, and so hoist the engineers with their own petard. There is one line of communication with the scoboard opem, which the pool can- not control Across Lake Michigan, at Grand Haven, the cars of the Grand Trunk are waiting for freight. This terminus cannot be reached by rail from Chi- cago, under present arrangements, but it can be by water. Our harbor and river are open now, and probably will be for some time to come. When they are closed by ice, veasels can still be sent from Milwaukee, whero the season of navigation is always longer than here. On the other shore, the Grand Haven harbor is said to be accessible the whole win- ter throngh. The vessels needed are Iying unemployed at our wharves to-day. Tp fo the last day in winter, and on the first dsy in spring, when a schooner can breck throngh the ice, our merchants should ship their scaboard freight in this way. Navigation will be impossible only for about ten weeks, at the outside. Daring that time it might be better to store the grain and flour s far as possible, in order to teach the con- spirators the folly of their ways. Until Thursday it was actually cheaper to send flour to New York froa Milwaukea than fiom Chicago. 'This was an outrage,—en at- tempt to steal from us. Now the managers pretend that they have ceased to discrimi- nate. Itisonly n pretense. Theyuow charge the same rates from the two cities, or, in otber words, they carry through freight from Milwgukee to Chicago for noth- ing. This is as much discrimination as the other practice. If they transport freight freo for 84 miles, when the shipper lives in Milwankee, they sre unjust unless they carry it free 84 miles east of Chicago when the shipper lives here. The pool, in short, is a conspiracy of unscrupulous capi- talists agninst Chicago. As such it must be regarded ; as such it must be broken. ‘We warn thequadrilateral combination that its conduct, if persisted in, will be of serious injury to roilrond interests in the West.- It would take but little to make the Granger sttack upon the railroads hotter than ever. If the great lines try to plunder w©vs in this way, an irresistible public opinion will force the State to interfere with railway management much more decisively than it has yet done. We should be sorry to see this come to pass, i but the responsibility rests on the roads. Wa will not be robbed. One of the four would-be-robbers playsa particularly wretched part in the coospiracy. The Baltimore & Ohio Road has received many favors from Chicago. Everything that could be done for it has been. It was granted sdmittance to the city, was liberally advertised, had busi- ness thrown in its way. The role its Presi- dent is now playing is treacherous as well a8 dishonest. The remedy for the joint ont- rage, however, is in the power of our mer- chants, They can, if they will, teach the Railwny Kings that they can no longer pley at sixes-and-sevens with our commercial in- terests. THE CUBAN QUESTIORN. It seems to be admitted that there is some foundation for the recent Herald dispatch from Vienna to the effect that the United States Government has been in communica- tion with European Governments relative to 2 combined intervention between Spain and the native Cubsus now in revolt. To the extent that this report is correct, we think that & serious diplomatic error has been mede. The Cuban question is one of those matters which the traditions of our Govern- ment, which were formulated in Mr. Mox- BOE'S message, and sincoknown as the ** Mox- ror doctrine,” require should be settled by the American Government for itself. Any proposition to European Governments which contemplates an infringement of this policy isan abandonment of it on the part of the Gov- ernment, and leaves the United States at adis- advantage in any fature effort to enforce ro- spect for it. The logic of the proposed Cuban interven- tion is clearly a8 follows: It is 8 queslion that affects the United States Government al- most exclusively, and certainly no other Gev- eraments than thoss which have now a rec- ognized foothold on the American Continent, —Great Britain, Moxico, South America, and | Central American Republics. It is doubtfal even whether the first named can have sny claim to consideration in any disposition which our own interests, and the considera- tion of international justice, may lead us to make of the question. The United States Government would never dream of interfer- ing with Great Britain or Russia in any set- tlement either should undertake to make of tho Turkey question ; and the same reasons which would render such an interference impertinent placa European interferecco in the Cuban controversy out of the question. Either it is proper and politic for the United States Government to intervene between Spain and Cuba on account of the demonstrated incapacity of the former to maintain ju Cuba the sovereignty it asserts, or such intervention is not proper or politic. But in either case the United States Govern- ment . must decide for itself. If our rights and interests suggest such an intervention, the United States Government has amplo power to assert them without counsel or help from other nations; if not, then the co- operation of other nations could not justify us in adopting such a course. DBut it would be a confession of weakness at the very open- ing of the Centennial year of our national existence to call npon foreign Govermmeuts ; to help in the solution of peculiarly Ameri- can problems. The infraction of the Moxzoe doctrine is not the only objection to a co-operation with European Powers in Cuban intervention. It is as much a commercial as a political matter, and in this aspect of the case tho United States has peculiar grievances, in the righting of which the European nations have no par- ticular interest. The Spanish Government, in its greed to enforce its entire support from the Cubans, has found it desirable to dis- criminate especially against the United States, because our people are the largest buyers of Cuban products, and would naturally be the largest sellers to Cuba of breadstufis and manufectures. As our products would, other things being equal, be offered to Cuba cheaper than she could buy elsewhere, the Spanish Government has levied discriminating duties upon direct imports from the United States, as well as upon the exports from Cuba. The result of this policy is best illustrated by the following statement of exports and imports: EXFORTS FLOM THE UNITED STATES TO CI 1673-T: From these comparative statements it will be seen that we constantly purchase more than four times as much from Cuba as we sell to Cuba, whereas without the Spanish discrimination against us we would probably sell to Cuba fully as much as we buy. There is only ono pretext on which the TUnited States could reasonably ask the co- operstior of other nations in an intervention in Cuban affairs, and that is on the ground of common humanity,—for the express purpose of assuring the emancipation of the slaves, and to bring to an end the cruelties of a war which otherwise scems to forecsst eternal strife or extermination. But even on this ground any action that comes from the Utited States had better be independent, so that there may be not even the appearauce of abandoning the Moxnoe doctrine, though we might join with other Powers when the prop- osition comes from them. If there is to be any intervention, however, it shounld be on tho broadest international and commercial grounds, in which independent action on our part will lead toa complete assertion of all EAEZSON. It is time for America to recogunizs her poet, philosopher, and prophet, who sits in genial serenity in the wooden house at Con- cord, who, like Acassiz. has no time to make money, and who is the distinetive thinker and so the distinetive croator of his country, and in some respects of his time. He is a poot, though he sometimes foliows BrowN- 1xa's rule of disregarding form for the sake of thought to such an extent that the weighty idea breaks the sentences framed to hold it into almost incomprehensible frag- ments. Yet there is no purer rhythm even in SwiNpuzxr’s salacions stanzas than in that famous quatrain which bagins a famous es- say: Thou canst not wave thy slaf {n afr, Or dip thy paddte in the lake, But it carves the Low of beauty there, And the rippks in rhyme the oar forsske, Ho is o philosopher, though the sect which has for its creed ‘¢ There is but one God, the Unknown witha big U, and HerperT Srexcer is ita prophet,” may sneer at the philosophic claims of the man who has never composed a system of thought, but leaves the reader to build it up for himself from the materiala 80 lavishly farnished. He is a prophet of immortality, of the good, the benutiful, the rhythmical, the true, the golden age, though he speaks only by the right divine of self-inspiration. His prose style hes been almost perfect. ‘The clear-cut sentences have been like the famous clipper-ships that once sailed betweon New York and Shanghai,—American-made, fanltless in form, freighted with the richest of cargoes. Few of the so-called masters of style can satisfy the reader who taurns from Eurrsox's pages to theirs. Ha notes a dif- fusiveness, sn inaccurate use of words, an af- fectation, which find no place among the par- agraphs of the Sage of Concord. Unfortu- nately, the latter's last volume, published & fow days ago,—** Letters end Social Aims,”—is markedly inferior, in form, not substance, to his earlier works. There are breaks and dashes, clauses tacked on to clauses, repeti- tions of words and phrases. The book seems like n bit of hurried workmanship. Gods and philosophers lower themselves by hurry- ing, even for an instant. There is mothing majestic about & man who runs. Exeepsox has written the Bible of the heathen. The man who revolts from the creed of his childhood is unfortunately apt to embraco its Bible in the number of his cast- down idols. Associnted in his mind with one particular form of faith, it falls with that, He no longer appreciates the beauty, the grand- eur, the suggestiveness, which have made the Bible a text-book for thousands of men and women who disbelieved everything com- monly deduced from its contents. It lies un. opened on his shelves, and WmTEFIELD'S sonorous sentence : ‘I could write damna- tion in the dast that oovers your Bibles,” strikes him as merely a bit of ingen- jous rhetoric. He must draw his strength in sorrow, his comfort in time of distress, from some other source. Strength and com- fort are garnered up for him in ExersoN's essays. The heathen reads them as the Christian repds the Scriptures, and the differ- ence in the good done by the two iz one of degree, not kind. Both books lift their dis- ciples into a purer atmosphere. Both help them to lead better lives. Doth teach rever- ence for humanity, under all its uncouth dis- guises. The ono is the Bible of tho Chris- tian, the other the Bible of tho heathen. In this fact lies the chief worth of Emznsox’s work and writing. The welcome of the Priacoof Wales in Bom- bay was brilliant and enthusisstic. The London Times correspondent canpot believe that say other city will surpass it. During his stay in the city, the Prince attained hie Sith birthday, sud in & public speech, returning thanks for the generous reception that had been accorded him, bo graciously said that he was glad to have eo important ao event take placo in Bombay. lm- sgno tho wild delirium of Bombay! Not only 0 have a live Prince, but to bave a Jive Prince’s birthday within her municipal boundariea! Could noy modern city desire o higher honor thanthie? Anotber grave matter is recorded in the sameletter. 1t has slwaya Leea a vexod question whother the Princa or the Viceroy was entitled to precedence 1o India. This was yrace- folly decided by Lord Nomrmnnoox bimself, who without heeitation went down the ehip's side befors His Roysl Highuess, thus conceding the superior renk of the latter. On every subsequent occasion Loid NORTHBROOK delighted in empbasizing bis own social inferi- ority. 1% must bave besn & tuuching sight. Lord Norrnpnoox showed himuelf to be & good dlplomatat, thuugh a poor-apirited Vice.qg: la 21l inman probability thers will be a time when the Punce can mako substantinl tecompenso for auy concessions now made to hin, OBITUARY. COUNT WEND zU EULENBL J The Europesn dispatches a few daye since aa- nounced the death of Count Wexp 25 EGLEN- erTRo, who bnt & short time ago was affianced to the Countess Mary Bisxsnck, only daughter of the Chancellor. He had for mauny yesrs been an intimate scquaintance of the Bisapck family, and had Qeen intrusted by the Chancellor with many important sud delicate commissio’ J, which bad always becn satisfactonly exccut d. He was descended from one of the oldast Dr.s- san families. His father now holds an impoc- tant Goverument appointment. Qge of L. brothers is Chief President of riavover, and another Lord High Chambeslaiu tv the Crown Prince. He Limself served in the Franco-Ger- man war as au officer in the King's Mussars, and it was during this campaign that the seeds of hie disenss were sown. A letter to the New York Herald gives the following details of his last moments : When on s visit to Varzin, Breuancx's favorits covutry seat, the Count fell Ul of typboid fever. As B00n 24 the filness permitted of it hu was transported to the house of Lis parents, which ho wss destuwed never aguin to leave nijve. Tic fover, of s most ob- stinete character, was only bdued by degreed, owing toa relarse ciused by o cfetary fault, Iowevss, in the course of last week the physicisns expressed de- cided Liopes of a complete rocovery, &n inlimation naturally producing great joy in the home of tue Chancelior, Countesa AfaRY, Who was kept from the Vedaide of her future husband by the contzgion of tho disesse, denoted also Lier pleasure at being abe for the first time to pay her betrothed a visit, lirtle dresming stio would eee bim no more slive. On Sundsy morn- ing, about 8 o’clock, the doctor fu attendance heard a loud, violent ratiling in thie tiroat of the sutferer. and immedistely administersd a restorative, but without effect. Onlya few rore bours of life were granted the Count, At & o'clock, ou_the 5th of December, he expired, to the tnuttersble grisf of his purenta. ATGUSTUS MAYREW. Tho cablo dispatches yesterday announced the death of AtausTrs MAYEEW, well kuown to En- glish lterary circles, and onoe of tho brightest contributors to Punch. He was bornin 1812, and was one of the principal workers upon this periodical, and in 1841 sseisted at 1ts organiza- tion, Ie first mede his reputation by kia Christ- mas stories, which were widely circuiated. In 1851 he published the ** Finest Girl in Brooms- bury ”; m 1853, * Eitty Lamere™ and * Paved with Gold, or the Romance ani Reality of Lon- doun Streezs ; in 1865, *-Faces for Fortune™; and in 1889, low Hot and Blow Cold.” * . MUSTAPEA FAZYL PACHA. The Geneva Chronicle furnishea the following details concerning the life of the brother of the Egyptian Khedive, recently deccased : MCsTapHa PAZYL Paciy, brother of the Ehedive of Egypt, and legitimate Leir to the Viceroyaity of that country, bas just died iu Constsntinojla. He wus the third 50D of the cilebrated IpRANGS Packa, tas con- «iteror of Syria and the vi-tor of Koafah, aad thus v grandaon of MEAMET ALL who founded the present dynasty after the masawre of the Mumelukes in the citade!s of Cairo, In consequenreof o bitter feud of long standing, His Highness had, since the s>ceasion of bis brother to the {hroue on the deth of SAID Pacua in the year 1862, taken up his residnce permsnenrly in Constantinopie, where be had. tp to bis death, ru el 28 leader of fashion, He was a thotoush European at Lierrt, and the princely hespitality which he exercis: in hid superb m:0a:00 on the Losnhorus w:n dealt o in the most apyroved Purisian utyle. His vust fortune, his profuse g.nero.i'y, Lis high-minde} and liberal views, had made Lim perhaps the most populir of Eastsrn noblee. Dy bis desth Priuce flaLrd Pacms, s uncie, and the eldest surviving son of MEUNET ALY Pacia, bocomes the legitimate Leir of the Khedive. DR. GEOEGE W. COLE died at Mors, New Mesico, on the 1Cth inst., and was buried at that place on Sunday last by the Masonic Frateri’y, of which he was o mem- ber. Dr. CoLE was & native of New York and served doring tho War in the Union army as Colonsl and Brevet Major-Genera!, commanding colored tropps in North Carolina sud Texas, He has beeu in New Mexico two yesrs, and 8 prac- ticiug physician in Mora since January lsst. His 1oss witl ue deeply telt in Afora County by all, and espaciaily by the poorer classes, to whom bhis servides aud medictues were alwaya free. MORITZ SCHOEFFLER. The Milwankee papers record tue deathof MoniTz ScroEFFLER, the pioneer German jour- nalist of the Weat. Ho was born in Zwei- bracken in 1813, was brought up a8 a printer, and for a time served es proof-reader in the Cotta book establishment in Stuttgart. He came to this couc try in 1813, and in the same year es- tablished the Western Chronik at Jeerson Citv, Mo. 1In1Sit he went to IMilwaukee, and on tho 1st of September of that year issued tbo Wisconsin Banner, the first German newspaper ever puhlished io Wisconsin. In 1835 be merged the Volksfreund with the Banner, and, under the joint namo it bns been publisbed ever since. In connection with the paper SCHOEFFLER commenced the pablication of s series of novels 28 premiums to bis snbscr:bers, aod as the result of this undertaking bis Novellen-Cbronik now pumbers about sixty volames. He was & mem- berof the Convention thst framed the State Constitution, the first School Commissioner of Muwsukee, a prominent member of the Sons of Hermano,. 2o incorporator of the German- Eoglish Academy, served = term a8 Register of Deeds, and was appointad Collector of Customs by ¥residont BoCHANAN, WERNER NUNZISGER. Tho death of WEGNFR 3 UNZINGER, the Pashs of Abyssinia, by assassinstion, has been an- nouuced. The New York Evening Fost gives the following details of his life: He was born o Switzerland in 1812, and, after fin- {shing hia studien at the Solothurn Gyma sium in 149, Le procoedod to Manich and studie] the Orfental lan- guagen, In 1933 he went to Paris, and the following year to Alexsndris, where he enfered a mercanti'e house. ‘In 1854 ho became the leader of a trading ex- pedition to the Red Se, after which be livel for some time in ‘fzssana, and fn Ker»n. the principal town of the Bogoa. In 1851 MrNzixas® fomed the German exredition to Contral Afries, but left it when its lesd- er, TREODORE voN REUGLIN, crosced into Abyssinia, and went by way of Chartonm ‘nto_Ob, expe ting to proceed throngh Darfur to Waaw. Failing in this un- dertaking, howerer, he roon returned to Europe. In1+2 he went to Africs, and in October was aprointed Brit- 1#b Consul in Afs*eaus, and assinted Coln. MPRIWFTH LR and THATNR in making reconnolssances In Abyssinia, snd preparing charts, which were of great sasis*snca to the English in their campalgn asainst King Tmzo- DORE {n 1867, In 1370 he went to Aden, snd witn Capt. MiLs explored tha southeactarn coast lands, On ks raturn to Massaua he sccepted the Goveraor— ship, with the title of Bey. In 1871 be remeved his esplorations i the Bogoa country, +nd in 1872 the Kledive eppofated him Commander-in-Chief of ths forces {ntended to invade Abyssiniy, and Governor of tho country to be conquerad, with the title of Pusha. AARON HARDING. The Kentucky papers asnouacs the death of the Hon. AsroN HarpING, of Georgetown, Ky., who served two terms in Coogress in 1860 and 1862, and in 1867 came very near being elocted United States Scnator. Mr. Moopy bas been snapped up very snd- denly by the editor of the Jewish Mexsenger for utteriog s libel against the Jews, having said in one of his sermons: *“A thousand Jews met not long ago In Paris, when ons of the ozators eaid, *We bave the honor of killing the Chris- tiang’ God," and this was atly applanded.” Io reply, the editor of the Afessenger eays: “What Mr. Moopr's ohject¥may have been in thus giving curroncy to 8o absurd a fabrication I do oot know. Buot I do sssert that no euch meeting was leld at Paris, that euch s meetiog of 1,000 Jews Liae not takec plice anywharo for years, and when Jews do meet tigether they are Dot likely to applaud the sentiment quoted.” A man ocenpying the place Mr. Moopy holds ought tobe verycareful how be utters such an atro- ciony libel agaiost snother religions sect. Char- ity in one of tho Coristian greces he wonld do well to cultivata. S The Nalonis infavor of fogging brates of me3a for the commissic 1 of certain offenscs, aud speaks generaliy on the sabject 18 follows: A bill bas bzea introduce 1 in the C: "fornia Legisli- ture jrovid.ng for the punishment ¢. wife-veators by fo23ing 3 aud it will probatly attrack . » unfevoratle atienifon of humanitarians, “The whiyping-pest and pillory in Delawaro have been sapposs ', by ihst large clasa of people who may be said t> be atcreste® n tue atolition of pain, to bea relic of the + -utal . and ey will probahly raiko an outcry against the . eued legislation in Californis. There are, howes.: ome thingn £ be brought forward in favor of flogyiug, the chief of them hetoy the evidance of the Evglisk Ju: 728, who havo found it, on the whole, uec il for the* ¢..i of crimes which are accompanfed Ly gross b u'sVty. Of these, wifo-beating and garroting an, of wurse, siynal instances, 1t is a curious fur’, 'y th way, that the luw, with all the ' .errss ° Dhai developed for jnhuman wretches %o Lo their unfortinate viclims for mouey of fo. igjmere p' aaure of the thing, atiil retaing a Roman severits n e cano the tnterest of "good morals and education, whils shudd-rs at the thought of a flogging befng given to, poor fellow who Brat Lets his wite 1 arly to dasthang. then pours canuphenz over her nake I body and se's fipy toit. It maybe a good thitig %o resc:ve tls right 1y beat chi'dren £nd o Lid thizg to 80g angi o2y else, i it shonld le rem-mbercd certanly tht e rightof Eagellation L4 0ot by any meazs a right witions lep] recuguition, e Sl L We note as ao incideatal proof of the gy telloctual regeneration of the South thatthy lecture-system seems to be ra;jialy growingip favor there. Defore the War, the teaten pathy of lecturera extended ouly through the North, The surest aign of intellectual regeneration iy Dixio :8, however, to coma. Wheu a statesmug sriges there ond devoles bid energies, not iy getting grants of millions of acres of fand for some bankrupt corporation, but to procaring thy application of the French or German land sys. tem to Southern =oil, and 80 insaring the creg. tion of a cisss of yeomanrv in piace of the **pogp whites” aod ehiftless blacke, that sizn wiy be given. This is the great need of thy South to-day. The nced bas been mep on a small acale, in Arkansas and elsewhers, #nd, as the lotters of onr corresponden:s hary shown, with the hanpiest resulis. Uunfortunate. 1y, the infrequent discussions of the lind-ques. tion in the Southarn press seem to show thay tho editors thereof are lamentably igoorant of the history of the lamd-laws. el R The political campaizn is shortly to be inan gurated in New Hampshire, and will be a very excit:og one, a8 the Legislature, which meelaig March, will elect & successor to United Statey Senator Cracty, whose term expiresin Aarch 1877. Tne Republican Convention maets on the 5th inst., znd will probably renominuts Gor, Caexey. The Democratic Convention mosh Jan, 12, and will probably put & newwan ic nom. joation. Among those named are ex-Mayor Coroxy, of Eeene; Frsxk A. McKeay, of Nashua; aad Capt. Davrer Marcr, of Ports rzouth. The Prohubitionists, woo hold the bas , suce of power, have already met and nominited Asa Kexpricg, of Swanzy, & very strong man. The funeral ceremonies of Madsms Dzrazes, at Paris, are recounted in our columns this morning. Long ago she had been a pepularas tress of whom everyLody must needs know tg be polite. Bo: old age at Jast found her in pav. erty, neglected and unremembered save by the decaying generation. Then & generous deed— wherein she impulsively re-enacted the divinelp ccmmended cpisode cf the widow's mite—aud denly came to the ears of the people, and the beart of tho great city went out to her. Her old sge was mado opulent, and when she died, the Panisiaps t0 & pumber greater than one fourth of the population fcf Chicago made gen erous effort to do her honor. e s N TaE CRicAco TRIBUNE cortunly errs swhen It staty that the Demacrate in Con Tess are earneatiy workly to get Serr.tiry BRisTow out of the Catinet. Th RaNDALL'3 reso’ution has that object in view. Ho seels to compel tho Secretary to expose hit haod to the thieves, and thereby defeat thi prosecution. The Courier-Journal cannot plead ignorauce of the eTect and mavifest design of that resolution. ————————— Thoe Philadelphia Common Council bus been rebuking the Baa:d of Edacation of that cits for excluding the Boble from the public echioo's. The only rational exnlzantion of this new-born zeal for the Scriptures on the part of the Aldermanio rouebs who rule sud plualer Phitadelphis is the uvpothesis that soms publisher of Bibles is will. ing to pay a porcentage on his sales totha schools. _— Tha Radical Clab of Failadelphia petitions ta have the Centeonial opened oo Bunday. Butit janouse. Itmight wjure the morals of the public to be allowed to see grand aod beautiful sights on Sunday ; they waust go to the ealoont imastead of the show. VWhen we celelvate ot second Centenpial, the doors will not be shut t¢ the people on thie people’s cav. FERSONAL. Who has tae most ups and downs fn the world? Tae elevator maa. Col. Jovce, the convicted whisky thief, was s brave soldier—and a brave whusky thiel. too. The dirtiest man in Montaoa has falles heir ta $50.000. Moral—Ba dirty and yon will be bappy- Mr. Evelrn Bellew, son of the late Mr. J. 2L Bellaw, is about to maka his debat in London m o reader. Louisa Alcott usedto fes! that it wasa mis take timt sha was born s zirl, because she did not like girls aad did Like bogs. AIrs, Barah G. Brailsford, of Baffslo, obteined a disorce from her hnsband merely becaass he was a burglar. She claimed that he had broken in ber heart. *Tia sad to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deop-mouthed welcome a5 we craw uear home= when a fellow Liza been out until 3 o'clock in the morning of Jan. 2, and haan't sa ides whethat school keeps or not. A reporter ‘‘iutarviewed” Mr. Baecher in coonection with the suit of s dentist for an un- paid bill. In thecourse of the interviaw Mr. Beecher said: *1 have had coosideiabla lsw, * coo stand a little more. I kind of like it.” Ar. E. C. Stedman's volume of easays on the Victorian Poets recoives » hearty and discrimi. nating notice from the Saturday Review—that bater of all things American. The essay o0 ‘Tennyson is geunerally admired, bat that oo Browning 1s thoughe to be inadsjuate sod un Just. Margarat Astor Chavler, the granddaugbter o Willism B. Astor. who died two-weeks 2go, be questbed to her hushaad $55,000; to her father, Sawmuel Ward, $1.000 aanzally; and the rast of her poreonal eatats to her children equaily. Her husband obtans the bulk of Ler realty, aftez & fow umall boguests are pjid. Mr, Beary Bargh is a man of considerable lite erary preteosions. Ho wrote s poem years 2g0 which was Dablished in Loodon, and he is the suthor of at teast two plays. The protector of animals is very fond of the stage, and goes regu- larly to the theatre. Mr. Daly bas now in hif possesaion & comedy-drams by Mr. Bergh. Mr. Proctor brings ua the szl maws that the moon is dead. This will modoubtedly cast & gloom over the outire commnunity. She hsd ber frailties. and her jnfluence Was not always good, perhsapa. bat it would be harsh and unfeeling to daeil upon them now. Let us ramember ooly har good ualities, and aay nothing bat kind worda for Ler. ‘Was it not a mysterious and fatal dispensation of Providence which brought New Years Day and Saturcay night together? Many a faithfel fellow yestordey felt otliged to pass the bowl twice every time be passed it st all—once for Satarday and once for New Year's. And passing the bowl, strangely enough, is not like passiog other things. TLo oftener you pass it tho clossr you are to it. The funny man of the Providencs Press £3y» e tood on a corner for half an hour, the other day, to gee it thera coald ba day eo coid that womsn would stop cariying their pocket-books in their hands. Aod he says that if the mercary was frozen solid, 8 woman might put ope hand in a mufl. bac sbe would sill carry s portawmoo- Daie, and avolume of Tupper, snd a pairof ‘worked slippers in ths other one. A. Stenhanaser, s2id to be a druggiat by occup~ tion, and whose parents resido in Chicago, com- mitted snicide in Now Orlesns by taking peivon Curistmas Eve. The cause is believed to b an- requited love and locses st the gaming-table. 1 is diffizult to say which piecs of ill-lack impelled nim most o take bia own life, If it is trow that life is s lottery, no one can be sud to Lave drawn & blauk while life remains. Tossi, the Itatian sctor, like most psrsins of peculiar dramatic talent, thinks he was deatined to excel in another field of offort. He says if bo hiadd to begin again he wonld ming tenor parts of chlldreu, and allows thair fagellativn by pa~:atain | in graud opors. Prolably thers uever wssd