Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1876, Page 4

i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : _——————————— ——-r TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. CAPTION (TATABLE T ADVANCR), Lropald at thin Ofice. 13.00 3 3tafled ta any addrots FOUR WEEKA Bunday Rditioa: Titerary an shivet. . TrieWoekly, Parts of year at same rata, WEEZKLY EDITION, POSTPAID, Oneeapy, peryoar., 81.50 Ulob n”{n. v’lr €opY, LA Club of twealy, per cof 1,49 "The portago is 15 cents a yoar, whioh we will propar. Spectmen capirs scut free, To yrevent delsy and misiskes, be sure and give Post.Oftice sddress fn full, fucluding Stateand County, Iemiitanceamay bo mado elther by draft, expreas, Foat.Office order, or in regintered letters, at our risk, TENAS 70 CITT AUDFCRIRENA, Dafly, delivered, Bunday excepted, 25 cents per week, Duily, delivered, Bunday included, 30 cents per woek. Address THR TIBUNE COMPANY, QOorner Madison and Destborn-sta., Chicsgo, Lk T AMUSEMENTS. TOOTEYT'S TIHEATRE—Randolph strect, between Olarkand Ladalie. _Engagement of the Kallegg Opers- Company, * Tuo Doheininn Girl." MoVICKER'S THREATIE—Madison strest, betwreon Deatkorn and Siate, Eugagonicut of the Gates Opara- Compauy, * Lea Pres St. Garvafe, ADELPHI TIFATRE—Dearborn sirety, corner Monroe, ** The Forty Thieves,” ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ifalsted ntreet, between Madison und Monroe. Engagementof the Georgls Minstrels. KEW CITTCAGO THEATRE—Clark atreet, Letween Randolph and Laks, Engagement of the Harrigan and ilart Combination, ** Tue Doylo Brothers,” WOOD'S MUSEUM-—Monroo Atrect, between Dear- born snd State, Afternoon, ¢ Iad Riding-Hood.” Evenng, * The Adventures of a Conntry Girl.” e A S Y @& Ohienge Tribune, Monday Morming, January 3, 1870. The wenther, it is predicted, will belelear, and colder than yesterday, but may warm up 1 little toward night, Tho Journal reckoned the transit of Vonus among tho local events of tho peat yenr which it harmlessly chronicled last Friday. Adsices from various sections denoto that 1ho sovere hurricana of Saturday evening was quito extended in its visitations, and madow targe number of Now-Year calls. In spite of \he sad hnvoo among tho wires, telegraphic tommunication has been already quite gener- Uy rostored. The melancholy intelligence comes from Atlonta, Gn., that Anexanoen H. Strenes, tho intellectual giant of the South, is lying at denth's door, his recovery being considered hopeless by bis physicians, his friends, and himself. An nggravated bronchial affection of a distressing type ia his malndy, A now Baptist church, called the Centen- ninl, was dedieated in this city yesterdny. Tho congregation made o good beginning of fie new year and the new century by wiping »ut the church debt. Tho worshipors of n wmndred yenrs hence will not fail to appre- site this display of enterprise and fore- hought. ———— Bishop Havex rocently contrived to snatch 1 little leisure from Ius politienl eares, and In. sors, and schemes, go that ho could doliver wveture for the ostonsiblo bonefit of a Knalamn- 100 church, 'Tho great Renominator appears 0 have been the true beneficiary of the occa- fion, for it is said he made his feo of §60, whilo the church failed to pay expeuses. 1t is stated by the Government authoritles in Washington that the arrest of Messrs. Hrsixo, Remt, and Minies in this city was tho result of the successful following up of clews upon which the revonue ngents have been working for the past three months, and that the ovidence against thoso individualy is £o conclusive 84 to warrant the gravest ap- prehensions on their account. ————— The man at the other end of the cable be- gins, the new year with a spasm of news. gathoring onterprise,—thongh it may prove to bo one of thosa foverish tlnshes of the in- telleot peculinr to Jan, £, when it ondenvors to persuade itsolf that chicken-salad is not an intoxienting beverage. At all events, he has it that Germnany is getting rendy to gobble up Belgium, and that tho latter is willing to bo gobbled, A general feeling of reliof will be experi- enced throughout Europe and America nt the safo arrival at Now York yesterday of the stenmship Balier from Bremen. It was at first ramored that the Snlier was freighted with ono or more of Tuoassex’s dynamite contrivances, and, nlthough this wns subse- quently denied, overybody will be glad to Live conclusive nssuranco of the safoty of the steamer und her passengers and crow. New movements in the raid upon the frands In the Pension Service aro in course of prep- arntion by Becretary CuaxpLEr, who confl- Rently expects to cut off a suflicient number of bogus clnims io ndmit of & reduction of £2,000,000 in the forthcoming annual appro- priation. The frauds are mainly the handi. work of cxamining surgeons who were ap- pointed through political influence, and who tave formed partnerships with fraudulent faim-agents, 'The preciso character of the rocent circular f the United States to tho European Gov- rnmments, though closely guessed at, has not been fully mado publie. Whether the docu- nent flatly proposed intervention, or mercly talled attention to that part of the President’s mosaage relating to Cuban affairs—whickovor way it was, Bpain scems to lhave found it necessary to enter into communioation with the Powers, and to ask that sho be allowed a definite specified period within which to sub- jugoto the Cuban insurgents, tho question of lotervention to remain in abeyance mean- while, ‘The Bunday Afternoon Locturo Course at BcCornick Iall offered an unusual treat yesterday, and a very large number of intel. ligent Chicagonns availed themsclves of it. Prof. Buuxzs, of Yale Collego, was the lec- turer, and his subject, ** Hard Tiwes,” was ono which claimed the widest interest, By & course of reasoning at once plain, logical, snd easily followed, Prof, Sumxen main- tained that the cause of the present “‘bLard times " was directly tracoabla to the eystemns of Finonce and Taxation—twin evils as they now obtain in America—and that the twin remedies were Specio Resumption ard Froo Trado, Benator Loasx is accredited in our Wash- Ington dispatches with a deniul suficently partienlar and comprebensivo to cover the ground of the New York Sun’s allegations in relation to the blackmailing of Miss Sweer, the Chicago Peusion Agent. Gon. Loaiw authorizes the statement that the Sun story s felse in general and in detail; that he tiover had any mooey transnctons with Braxery, Miss Sweer's predecessor in offico; that Braxesy never owed him a dollar, nor did CaMrprLL nor anybody elso on Braneny's acconut. This denial is much moro apecifio and swoeping thon that of Miss Swerr her- self, who left o number of loopholes for some- body to fill, and Seuntor Looax has filled them completely so far as the blackmail allegation relntes to himself. R —————— Tarkey commences tho new year withn financial outlook probably worso than any other nation in the world. The Constanti- nople correspondent of the’ London Zimes furnishes some figures which are very sug- gestive, Tho sum duo for the loans of 1858, 1862, and 1872, and tho genoral debt, will amount to $8,500,000. Of this amount, 21,900,000 is nlready in hand, which will cover the loans of 1838 and 1862, and, although the Government is raking nand scraping to cover the remainder, tho do- ficiency will be $2,500,000 or $3.000,000, The revenuo doos not oxceed 110,000,000, and tha deficit for Inst year reached $235,000,- 000. 'The debt was ralsed in twenty years to £024,008,015, involving an interest of $74,- 846,200, which absorbs more than halt the rovenue, and, upon tho top of this, Turkey is now conducting a war which costs £1i0,000 dnily, notwithstanding the fact that the troops in Herzegovinn receive no pay, In this des- perate condition of finances, tho Suitanis playing the part of Neno, fiddling while his Empire is going to pieces. His civil lint wos ralsod from $4,657,680 in 18GS to §9,419,400 in 1873, nnd he enjoys, besides, a subvention of £2,761,175 for imperial pensions and char- itios, and bis income from crown domains and prosents from tributary Princes, In ad- dition to this, ho helps himself ot his own sweet will to the funds in the Trensury to the amonnt of nbont 225,000,000 per annum, which he lavishes upon mosques and pal- aces, and costly mnarbles to sdorn thom. From an opicurean view, ho is a wise philos- oplior. From the fatalist view,—nud all Turks are fatalists,~he is pursuing a wiso policy. Heo has evidently mndo up his mind that Lis roign is a short one, and that ho will enjoy it whilo it Iasts. THE DEMOCRATIC FINANCIAL PROGRALIME We print elsewhere a brief account of an interviow which an Indianapolisreporter held with Mr, Frasstix Laxprns, the Democratio Member of Congress from that district. It is chiefly significant ns outlining the probable action of the Democratie majority in Con- gress relativo to the national finaunces. Mr, Lasprrs is of the opinion that the finances will be taken up immedintely after the recess, and that thero will be n majorityin the House in favor of tho repeal of the Specie-Resump- tion act of Inst Congress, Ilo also thinks that o majority is in favor of the rotiremont of tho National Bank ngtes nnd their replace- ment with greenbacks, but does not appear 1o bo so coufident of this as that the Specio- Resumption act will bo repenled, Thore is ovidently a strong uope, too, that there will bLe sufficient demngogism found in the Republican majority of the Senate to pass these Dbills if they como .from the Houso. This view of the matter lenves the country dependent on the President's veto alone to save it from the dire con{nsion and commiercial disaster that would result from such o policy. Tho movement in the directionindicated by Mr. Laxpezs i probably stronger than would bo thonght at the first blush, It will have a backing of that large class of persous who degire a revival of the wild speculative ern which produced the panic of 1873; and all outside pressure of this kind is pretty sure to find demagogues in Congress roady to pander toit. Tho most sanguine hopeful- nees for national honesty enn scarcely await any measure from this Congress providing the means for carrying into effect the promise of resumption in 1879; anda refusnl to do thiy will naturally lead up to n repenl of the act, It is vory genoratly believed that withoul rome further preparation for resuming Jan, 1, 1879, the Seeretary of tho Treesury will bo powerless to casy ont the promise. If thoro i5, then, an obstinate refusal on the part of the Demoeratic Congress to pass measures to facilitnte resumption, the snme disposition will prompt the repenl 6f tho Resumption aet, and o formal abandonment of the theory of redeetning the greenbacks in coln or re. turning to specio payments, A very natural nccompaniment of the re- poal of the Resumplion act would be to re- tiro the National Bank notes and snbstitute them for a like amount of irredecmablo logal- tenders, This would be tho most complote abandonment of nll iden of specio resump- tion that could be adopted. To at onco re- fuso to fix n date for resumption snd to double up the amount of gresnbacks would Le a declaration of permnnent irredeatnabil- ity, and a practical application of the wildest theories of the rag-babyites, It would be ropudiation of the non-interest-bearing obligations of the country, and it would Dbo inovitably followed by the depreciation of the greenbacks,—that is, o decrense in their purchasing power,—the full extent of which no man can foretell. It is in this light that the probabilities defined Ly Mr. Laxpens must bo regarded. It s altogether likely that the National Banks will offer no united or systematic op- position to the proposal to retire their notes, for tho reason that thelr eirculation has large- ly censcd to Lo profitable. Homeo of the banks have voluntarily retived their notes in various parts of the country, and none of them aro sufllofently interested in retaining their circulation to organize nnd make an ex- pensive fight for it in Congress. *The most sorions objection in tholr minds would be the necessary disturbanco of discounts and of the financial conditions of trade. The banks would have to deposit greenbacks in the United States Treasury for the redemption of their notes; Lut it does not follow that they would for that purposo sell all of the bonds now doposited to securo their civenlation, ‘There would be a natural indis- position on the part of the banks to sacrifice on their bonds {n view of a'serlous deprecia. tion. They would prefor to avail themselves, in part ot least, of their othor resources for tho retiring of their circulation. 'To do this thoy would be obliged to pinch thefr custom- ers, There would probably bo a severe squeezo on the commercinl commuunity, The banks loan the business public about §1,000,- 000,000 (one billion). Lvery refusal to loan on usual commerciul application would affect & wide circle, The rates of disconnt would go up; creditord would have to wait for their Yiny; merchanta would bo constrained o re. duce their business or suffer loss. This out. look would probubly produco some opposition on the part of the bankera to the proposed forced retirement of their notes, and certainly ought to call tho attention of tho combined mercantile community to the probable con. sogquances, ‘Whaiving the considerstion of tho conatitu. tlonal point {hat Congress has no ppwer to jmsno ndditionnl jrredeemable notes in timo of penca and force them on creditors ns legal- tenders (u‘]mymm\'. of debts; and that tho ex- tont of snols authority hna alrendy been cx- hausted in emitting the §400,010,000, wo prss to another phaso of the eass, 'Toro- place £360,000,000 of bank notes with n like nmnount of greenbacks, the latter can only be got into circulation by the purchase of bonds, and those bonds can only bo bonght at the prices at which the holders ara will- ing to sell nnd take their pay in greenbacks, Assuming that the bonds will continue to be worth par i gold, the Government will have to pny prices in proportion to the depre. cintion of the legnl-tenders, and the doprecin- tion will increase steadily with the incrensed {ssuo of greenbncks, Of this there can be uo question, If resumption is drended with only 380,000,000 of greenbacks, it will not be contemplated at all with nearly $740, 000,000 of greenbacks outstanding. With tho nbandonment of all iden of uitimato re- demption, the greenbacks will go down from 88 conts, about their present value, to €0 conts, 70 cents, GO cents, and the Lord knows how much lower, If £360,000,000 of greenbacks are issued to take tho place of the outstanding National Bank currency, thoy will notlikely buy in more than from £295,000,000 to $250,000,000 of bonds. With the greenbacks at 80, a §1,000 bond will cost the Government 1,250 ; at 70, about £1,400; at €0, $1,700; and ot 50, 82,000, If §250,- 000,000 of bLonds ave fiually retired in this way, thero will be a saving in interest of something like $12,600,000 n year (less the bank taxation of $7,000,000), but if they coat the Government $360,000,000 in green- backs, the national debt will have been in- crensed $110,000,000 to do it, and there will have been a loss to the people of $100,000,- 000 or more in tha depraciation of the cur. rency which they now hold, with no mors currency 1n the land, after all, than there is now. This programme will precipitate the conntry into all the evils and hardships that must onsue from an avowedly and forovor ir- redeomable currency, the utter worthlesaness of which is only n question of time. As it is now, tho banks have half the responsi- bility, and must sustain half the burden of specio rosumption. The moment the Government proceeds to redeom its notes in gold, the banks will be forcod to redoom theirs in gold, and thus the work of resumption is divided between them. But if tho National Bank carrency bo retired and tho greenbncks be put ot in ita place, the Government will nasswno all the burden of carrying the double lond of currency of the country, and the probabilities of redemption will ducreasio two- fold, and diminish steadily with time. In ather words, it will be a step in the direction of repudiation, which is a deplorable way in which to inaugurate the second contury of our national existence. PERSONAL TAXES—A MEASURE OF BE- LIEF. County Commissioner Burpick, in a letter published in Tuz Trmouse yesterdny, makes A vory practical suggestion in the wny of remedying tho instances of gross injustice in the asscesment of personal property for taza- tion. Thoro has been much well-fonnded complnint, but the difiiculty has Leen to find & pructical remedy that was not more costly than the original wrong. Mr, Burpick pointe out very clearly that tho total tax-levy for 1875, for nll purposes, ia less than it was in 1874, Tho nsscssment for 1875 throws, however, n far larger (double) proportion of the whole tax on personal property of the South Division than last year, The tax now collectable ia that on peraonal property ex- clusively, the tax on roal property being pay- ablo at a later day. Tax-payers should re- member, also, that the bills for tax on per- sonal property this yonr contain tho whole taz on that property, including that for State, county, town, park, and city tazes, all together. 1Ileretoforo those taxes wore col- lected at & different tima of the year, and per- sons who think themselves aggrieved by the bills for personal taxes for 1875 should com- pare them with the nggrogate personal-tax bills of 1874. The lnw, as singularly inters proted by the Supreme Court, admits of uo redross. The Supreme Court has distinetly stated that tho courts will not restrainthecol- lection of taxes unless upon proof of fraud, or that the tax woa levied for an illegal pur- pose, or that the property taxed was not lin- ble to tnxation, It s true that there aro ef- forts making to have this question again con. sidered by the Supreme Court, and to have that tribunal roverso the shocking and ab- surd doctrine lsid down iu the Av- stt case, but this takes timo, and to tho avernge tax-payer is moro costly than the payment of taxes. In the mean- time, tho non.payment of taxes is o serious embarrassmont to the City Government, which has already had to borrow several millions of dollars ot interest in leu of an aqual amount of uncollected taxes. + There are two wrongs in the personal as. sessment of property : ono is the gross in- equalities, and tho other over-assessment of value. Tho distribution of taxes hns been outrageouuly and corruptly porformed. Asa whole, the assessmont in the West and North Divisions are rensonable enough ; but nabe. tween individuals it is in hundreds of cascs positively ruin ous and oppressive. The Bonrd of County Commissioners and thoe Common Council—the two legislative bodies of this city—have the power to muake rebates in taxation, and such rebates havo herotofore been mado in cases whore the in- justico was flagrant. Mr. Bunpick proposcs that the Common Council shall desigunte a committee of five members, the County Com. missioners a committeo of two, the Park Commissioners and Town Boards each one, and that this aggregate Committes shall sit and hear all complaints of excessive and nn. just assessment, and, whore the evidence sus- tained the claim, to romit or rebate the ex. cessive tar, Mr, Bouspiox thinks that $50,000 will cover every case of excessive porsonal taxation, Of course thero will be no com- plaint from tho multitude whoso nssessments are below what they should be, Mr, Bunrpick assumes that the State Audi. tor might in somo way take part in thls pro- ceeding, looking to tho Legislature to legal- iz it herenfter, Wo do not understand how this can bo done. But the entiro personal tax for Sfate purposes on property in this city is very light,—not over $140,000 in all, and the rebata on these cases of excess would bo very small. Tho great Lulk of tho tax is for city and county purposes, chielly city, and if the rebates bo made in cases of well-founded complaints for these taxes, the property- owners can well afford to pay a few dollurs of excessivo tox to tho State, cven if it be un. just, in consideration of tho lurge and sub- stuntial remission in the other taxes. ‘Wo commend the suggestion of Mr, Busn. nick, and hope it will be carried out. Itiy an alternautivo for a lawsult, in which there may be a thouand Jitigants, involving a large MOND. AY, JANUARY ¥, 1w, expenditure and o gonorals refusal to pay all taxes, Wo trust the Common Council and the County Commissioners will ndopt this suggestion. No ono wislies to enforco the collection of unjust taxes, and nn amicablo adjustment of inequalitics and payment of taxos is far preferablo to s general lnwauit, tha non-collection of all taxes, and Lorrow- ing monoy to run the Government. The City Governmenta can well afford to bo just, when tho alternative will bo a refnsal to pay any tax until after n Gnal hearing by the Supreme Court perlinps two yoars henee. BEDUOINGV NAVAL EXPENDITURE3. Thera is no doubt that a commendable ef- fort will be mado during this session of Con- grese, in tho interestof the national economy, to reduco the naval expenditures at lenst $5,000,000, and perhaps £0,000,000. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune throws sowe lght on the manvor in which it is proposed to mnkoe the reductions. The appropriations for the current fisenl year and tho estimatea for next yearare nafollows : Tatimales, Appropristing 1677, 1811, 163,750 o+ 2 RILGG 1,725,000 Snlarles and sxpenacs Naval establizhnen! Publio works ., Mincolianrous. ... . Lo Permanent sppropriations., 5,000 Total sueusarsrasereese $22,702,428 Tho firat {tem of reduction will bo made in the salary list, which, by lessoning tho amount of clerical Inbor in the Department, it is cnlculated cnn be reduced to $160,000. For tho Ordnnnce Bureau, the Secretary de- sires £400,000, which it is proposed to re- duco one-half by stupping new work. Ha asks for $102,000 for the construction and ure of torpedoes, and, as the Becrotaryof War wonta $150,000 for the same purpose, theso two corps should be consolidated, at a snving of $100,000. Ho also nsks for £510,000 for filting out the new sloop Trenton, nnd for the armament of five double-turreted monitors, which will probably be thrown out altogether. Itis proposed to strike out $1,500,000 from tho estimates for tho Buresn of Equipment and TRecruiting, aud 2300,000 from those for the Burenn of Yards and Docks. The estimnte of §:3,300,000 for the Bureau of Construction nnd Repair will bo reduced to $2,800,000, ns £1,000,000 is considered sufficient to prevent tho navy from going to deeny, and thoro is no renson for building new ships. The appro- printion of §300,000 for repairing tho Puritan and Dictator, $300,000 for repairing six school- ships for boys, and $:00,000 for two new rams, will be thrown out allogethier. T'ho es- timato of 82,200,000, of which the principnl part is for the ropair of machinery, will bo re- duced to $500,000. Tho item for now boilers for the Shennndoal, Whachusett, Alnska, Benicin, Wabash, Lanenster, and Juninta, nmounting to $400,000, will proba- bly be stricken out, likewise the 50,000 asked for to build a now wing on the Naval Acndemy, and the $15,000 for experi- monts in the Wasbington Navy-Yard, It is also probable that an effort will be made to nbolish tho Marino Corps, which lay ceased to bo of any practical use since the ndvent of steam navigation, and this will save 2925,616. Tho total reductions amount to $6,000,000, mnking which, and other lesser items that may occur, it is calculated tho estimntes can be rednced to 315,000,000 if the Marino Corpa is continued, and to $14,000,000 if it is abolished ; and * this Inrge reduction can bo wade without embarrassing the operntions of tho Dopartment, aud simply by nrresting at onco tho oporation of *putting the navy on s war footing.'"” Thera is no doubt that the peoplo will Loartily sustain Congress in making material reductions in the navy, and slso in thoarmy expenses, if they ean be effected without damago to tho public interests. It has been heretofore both o difficult and delicate task for the Administration to interfero seriously with cither the army or the navy that fought throngh the War of the Rebellion under its susplees, or to ask Congresd to mako rndical reductions, Mnch has been done in the army, lowaver, but not & great deal in tho mnavy. Novw that o Democratic House, however, is in power, it is o good time to lop off tho excres~ cences and superfluities, and thus materially reduce theso expondituros, which aro unwnr. raated in o timo of peace. The pcople do not want the navy sbolished, ncith- er do they want it cripplcd, but thoy will not complain of any reduction in what {s ornamental and useless, orany stop- page of tho farce of putting thonavyon a war footing in time of peaco. No one will mako any objection to tho abolition of the Marine Corps. Gentlemen sailors on shoroe are of no use excopt to draw salaries. Like Tirz = after enso of cottonn marked * Lowell, Masa." Yeritnbla Lowell cottona nre egain entering tha Chinese market in cousidercblo quanti- ties. In November, the stock of Amerienn drills at Shanghni was doable that of the year before, whila thara was searcoly n piceo of English drilling for sale, Menides tho cot- tons, wa are nlgo supplying the almond.cyed followers of Buddhn with light and heat, dormant in refined kerosono and anthrocite conl. Tho latter iz o bulky and barbarous thing to ship so far. Whon roventio reforin is brought abowt, we shall oxport articles which contain much moro valuo in ruch leas spnce. 'Then the conl now exported will be wsed in the manufacturo of tho uiore precious commodities thon exported. Wo get from Chiug, in roturn for our ex- ports, silk and ten. In the preparation of Doth, the imitative Mongolian has borrowed many a hint from the British cotton- manufacturers, e londs his sillk with oils and sugar of lead. Tho thing is ko mently done that only an examination with a micro- scope can dotectit at the placewhero tho silk is recled and bought for shipment,buta long voyago brings about a chomical change, o that the sitk is almost entirely spoiled hefore itrenchos New York, Tarceln arrive there, itis said, looking as though thethreads weremixed with wet snnd. The adulteration of greon ton s an old story. Its quality is growing stondily worse. It is carclossly prepared nud corelessly packed. Japan is thereforo tnking away from China tho Americon tea- trade. We import nearly tho wlolo surplus tea erop of Japan, whilo our demands upon that of the Celestial Empire grow less every Jenr, Hereafter, thers will bo a triengular ight for the posseasion of the profits to be won in clothing the Chiucse in cottons. Germnny, backed by Holland, bas just entered the fleld ngninst England and tho United States. The best man—in this cage tho most lonest, skill- BanvacLy, thoy may die at their posts with their salariea in hand, nobly dofending them to tha last, but the people will waste no re- grets over thom, The people havo no usoe for navy officers cxcopt at son, Congress, therofore, does not need to hesitate about the popular sontiment 8s to navy roductions, but cau go nhoad with the work, provided it does not cut so clogo as to impair the efficioncy of the navy or seriously cripplo it. OUR TRADE WITH CHINA. There was o time whon we bad n large trode with China, We were tho common carriers of hertens. We paid for our teas oud eilks with cotton fabrics and other goods, instend of with drafta on London for silver, Then MonnLy, Kerrry, and a kindly Congresa undertook to ** proteot'” our indua- tries, and succooded in des'roying our oxport trado with Europe in everything but the pracious metals, and in inflicting far mors damage upon our mercantile warine than n score of Bhennndoshs snd Alabamas could havo done. We wers *protected” to such an extent, indeed, that, na for as Clhina weas concerned, we shipped little ‘or moth- ing but neat pine boxes containing dead Mongolians from San Franocisco, who wishod to rest in the soil of the Flowary Land. Of Iate, thoro hay beon 8 obange for the bottor. ‘Wa find in the Celestial Empire, n newspaper published at Shanghai, an iuteresting article on tho Chinese-Amorican trade, which our lieathen-editor hes cavefully deciphered from the quaint pot-hooksof tho Mongolian al- phabot. ‘I'he British manufacturers have been found out, ns, if they had vead THACKERAT'S essny on ‘ Being Found Out” or had consulted common sense, they might have known they would be. The Chivaman hes an in. nato skill in washing. In this country, every Josh-house is surromuded by a ring of laundries, Ioterspersed with oplun shops. It wos inevitable, then, 1bat he should quickly find that British cot- tons were made out of & little cotton and o great deal of starch and white lead, and that they therefore yielded up about half thelr weight and warmth on thoir fnit visit {o the wash-tub, He was tricked, for a while, by the coustant connterfeiting of American trade-marks, bat hoa since discovered this bit of dishonsst guile, though Liverpool stoame ors atill land on the wharves of Bhanghal cate ful, and shrewd man—will surely win. If our manufacturors will but do what they can, and if Congress will but stop trying to * pro. tect * them, they will win the rich prize. AN EDITORIAL MYATERY, Tho Chicago ** orpgan ” has nunounced from dny to day that Editor This, Editor That,and Editor Other, and Manager A, and Boss B, and "Trusteo O, ond Assignee D, had nothing to do with the article nitncking Becretsry Brstotw, and that each and all of them ro- pudiate the imputation. In the progress of denisl, Mr, Hax has beon reached, and even o refusea to be cousidered as the suthor of the unclean thing. All this begols tho in- quiry, Who did write it, and who edits that paper, snyhow? Isit editod by spirits ? Is the “‘stnfi” composed of tha disembodied &pirits of men who lived some centurios ago ? Whichof the departed Bounnoxs of the twelfth or thirteanth century is chief of staff ? And of what particalar binnches of the Guevens and Gumenuives do tho other spirits who make np tho staff ropresent? How do they control the paper? Do they put on the form of Hax, Snext, and Jarnet, and thus decsive tho foroman? TIiave tliey ro perfected them- selves in the peculiar English of the renl ed- jtora that the proof-renders detect no differ. ence in tho grnmmer, stupidity, and reckless- ness? Js it a foct that no omo in the ofiico can tell whotlier tho paper is writ- ton by live men or ghosts? Generally, it makes no diffierence what is written, or whether anything is written in the poper; the only article that was ever published in tho paper that was ever copied, or read, or talked aboat, or atiracted the loast attention, it now Appents was nover seen, or read, or henrd «f, by any living editor, owner, or boss of tho concern, until it had made the paper notorions, Whet particular spirit wrote thut articlo and prlmed it off upon the foremnn end proof-roaders ? Was it tho onco famous Murcnavseyn who visited the earth, and, find- ing the world given to lying, naturally se- lected the “organ™ in which to show what conld bo done in that lino by an expert ? ‘The fow prople who read the ** organ " have now n now mystery: IHow is it that the paper is edited, whenno propriator, manager, or employo does the writing, or konows who does it, or has the least idea what is to nppoar in the columuns next dny, and who opens the paper in the morning astounded at what it containa? Is tho paper controlled by spooks, who, after the paid force leavo at night, take poascssion ond write whatevor villainy they may fancy, and put it in on editorial ? NEW ENGLARD IN CONGRESS, The JIndependent has n wail over the de- eadenco of Now England ns a powoer in the councils of the nntion, It attributes the ig- noring of that scction in the House Commit. teea to the locn! projudices of Speaker Kenn, of whom it says: ‘‘For tho first time, n Speaker has been eloctod who was born west of the Alloghenies.” This is o curious blun. der, A not unknown Speaker by the name of J. G. Bramve was born in Fayette County, Pa., many miles weat of tho Alleghenies, and two other Spoakers, Jomn Bein and Laxy Borp, wero born nenr Nashville, Tenn, This, however, i8 & minor polnt, The main drift of the Jndependent's uorticle is corroct, Now England bas lost politic cal powor and is lostug it. From {lie time when the Articles of Confederation were adopted almost until the outhronk of the Civil War, Now England and tho South wore tho two grent ndversaries in tho great gome played at Washington, and the States batween wers tho debatablo land for which they strove. Home of the 1uost im- portant provisions in the Asticles of Confed- oration, and afterwards in the Conpatitution, were adopted by the casting voto of these contral States, Now Jersey had thoe decision of the apportionment of taxation betweon the frce and slave populations and of the more important apportioument of representation in tho Lower House. This equilibrinin of powaer betwoen New England and the Bouth continued until a third section, the West, us- sortod its equality as it has now assorted its supremncy, New England can no longer lay clalm to the share of the aggrogale popula- tion, wealth, and wisdom, which it once pos- sessed. 'Tho * Weat * hina for tho first time fair recognition in the Committees of the Houso, And yet, romembering what once wwas, wo must sympathizo with the suwall for- cnstern Btates over whatis, New England has now only oue momber of the Cabinet,— Postmaster-General Jewrrr. It has this yenr 10 Chairman of an important committee, and can't add on any mors * protective tariff.” It happons to bo Sgnored in tho War Deport- ment, where tho Becrotary, tho Gen- ernd, and the Lioutenant-General, ara all Western men. Bo ure the President and the present Vico-President. It is truo that New England has donoe o large business for o number of years in exporting boys who wore gubryostatesmen to tho West, aud so has bad o powerful indirect influence which ot times hos shinost countorbalanced the wano in its apparent weight in national poli- tios, Yot the wane ls now undentabla, Itis somewhat duo to tho endenco of Now England, eat flul no place while she has rejected her Burtins andOancsAvrars, Connecticut passes by tho cconomist Davio A. Wetrs to send o Coppor- hend EaTon or n partisan Enansu to the Senate. RhodeIsland isruled by aplutocracy and Vermont by a railroad, while Now Hamp- shire produces no more Wrnetens., New En- gland londers hiave becomo commonplace. A floodd of medioerity pours from the Northeast lo Washington when Congress assemblen. Maine is wiso enough to stand by Brawe, but where are tho other successors of tho long line of New England worthics from the dnys of Quixcy und SuerMax to thoso of Susxen? It §s this positive declino that ling linstened the relative ono. When tho North- arst renrs the equals of tho old race of men, New England will have no meed to complain of lack of recognition by reason of her com- parative paucity of population. ——— political de- Massachusells for her Apauars, N0 NEW-YEAR'S WINE. Ona foaturc of the obrorvanca of New-Yoar's Day in Chileago desorven publis notice aud ap- proval. Thin was the general nbeence of wine from the parlors aud diving-rooms, Favw, if any, people of good $asto found it necessrry to entor- tain thoir callors by stealing amay their Lraina, and, whon wine was offered at all, it wos gen- orally mccompanted with sn apology, which showed n consclousnoss of tho impropriety of thoact. Tho truth {s, tho custom of naboriog in tho New Year with o polits sprao has fallen into dleropute, It is now A custom more hon- orod in the bresch than In the obsorvance. We aro glad it s po, Thore i1 no argumnnt of good taate or good followship to justify a geoeral iu- dulzonco in wine on Now-Yoear's Day or nuy. otbor day. Tharo nre many arguments of goad tuornls, oxpediency, and even poreonal comfort, to forbla euch indulgenco, What can bo tho ploasure, to a refined lady, of ro- colving in her drawing-room a gontloman tho worse forliquor? What plessuro can a gen tlomsn take 1n drinking wino to oxcesa that will not bomora than tost by calmer rafloction on tha following day ? ‘Therois. to bo suro, n good deal of cant on the subject of wino-drinking. "Tho advacates of the custom tail uy that no gen- tioman will drink to oxcess, that wine fmpartd s pentla und healihful oxhilaration to cooversa- tion, that it promotes tho digestion of ideas sod chicken-salad simnltancously, The poots have stripped their own brows—alas! too ofton —to dacorate the wing-cap and tha punch-bowl. Old man Honack—whose Faleenian, by thu way, waa an insipld compound of awont stuff—way novor tired of singing about his drinks. What can bo moro musical thaa therhythm of & Fronch drioking-soag? Even Gormau pociry bocomes molodious whon it has futoxicated itself with n vision of wino. Tha mausters of flction have given to low debauches tho appenrance of bao- quota with tho gods by surroundiog them with all tho glamonra of n drunkoun imagination. Dicx Swivziten and his Marchiances, or Bon BawreR and ifa tea-prrty of couviviul fomo, witl live forover; yot we fancy no mortal ovo has geon compuny of that kind—so drunien and yot #o compasionaple, Whou wo tura from the rocords of tho imagination to thoss of fact,— from pootry ant fiction Lo bistory,—we havo no ditficulty in Nuding the devils lurking ot tho bot- tom of tho wino-cup, Tho hlatory of ort itself, srhick Loa dons so wtch to colobrata the virtues of *tho good, famuiliar creaturo,” 1s full of monrufal tostimony to the rutu it han wrought, Poor Bavaar, Dynow, Ouantrs Last, DIokeNs Limeell, Aurnsn Mossar, aro & fow namss out of thousands which ocour nt onco ay thoso of men who woulil bavo done moro and batter work it they bod nsod no stimuisnta, It I8 not pos- sible to clasify gontiemon by their power of con~ trol over thg appotites. To eay that all who stop At the right timo aro geatlemen, and ol} who do not are no gentlowon, would be cbviously uneatisfactory, If suob o classification wero poselble, it wonld constitato no oacuse for wine- bibbing on Now Yoar's Day, or for thoso ladies who seolt to perpetusts o bad cnstom by giving it conutonanco. Tho safest and ocasicst way to provant oxcenslvo wing-driukiug on Now Yoar's Dnyis to abolish tho custom altogaiber. Wo aro glad to notice that this has virtoally been dono in Chicago, Good wine, like all other good things, bas its timo and placo, but those ave not New Year's Day aud an opoo tablo at a general reeoption. A Washington spacial to the Cleveland (0.) Leader says: " The publly 1a swaiting with & graat deal of concern 10 weo the elfcct on legialation that the ox-Cunfuleraten will have In the Houss, There huvo beon introduced soveral biila the are 10 their purpart obje:tionablo to 1ho Ioyal Norilt, und more which, whils not bolug ob- Jectionabio in 'themselvos, show th general tendenty Uf the oz Rebol Gonerals Ana their ailios from the Northiern Statcs, Bax RANDALL' Lill (to removo the disabfitos fron all parwans) hos on i fuce o appeat Buce of wrong, but fta sweeping provisious sl open tho way for J£5° DANI3 10 come back (o the Humule,— a purposs which les deap but determined fu tho hewrts 01 8l Jutc Tebelilous, Your correspondent Lus hesrd \nen of prominenco from tho Buuth eay that ** The vectious) prejudices of the War would not be removed 41l DAVIS hiad bis old kent in tho Souate,” Wo ara propared to eeo a bill pass the Demo- oratio House, this soseion, which will have for 1t8 object just that thing. Tho old Copperlioads of the Nurth are just as desirons to eco Jery Davis back 1n tho Sanato a4 sho Qonfedorates of tho South, i PERSONAL Delmonico (3 to have the main rostsurant at the Lenteunial, The New York managers have refused Tup- por’s Centonnial diama, Prof, Marsh haa sccured 2,600 volumes Jap- anese litorature for the library of Yale Collego. Mr. Georgo J. IHolyonke, the distinguisbed English pohtical economist, bns had an opera~ tiou performod ou his oves, aud 18 hkoly to zo- cover the use of bath of them. A Yokohawma correspondent reports tho suicide of a French geutlemon namod Oarrey, & Clove aller of tho Legion of onor, and sald to bo & Lrother of the Fronch Consul in Chicago. The Now York Sun repeats tho rumor that Whitelaw Reld will oon go on the etage, For 8 tbrilling stage-effast, ho miglit commit sulcide Dby leaping fsum tho top of the Tall Tower, The statuo of Plimeoll by Eoll Laa been com- pleted. Mr. Phmeoll is represented with out- steetchied arm, as if addressing oo nesembly, 1In the other hand ho holda » papar, aa though fur reference. Prot, Coit Tyler, of Michigan Univorsity, haa racently flolshied a work on American Literaturs, which will bo published some time next season. 1t will give completo ncoount of tue orlgin and growth of our literatuze. e The Rov, Dr. Newman's book of travels i not treated by the newspapers with that respect which thu author would ke, It scows to be widely regardod aa a bumoroua composition, but wo do not understand that it was vo fntended. Charles Warren Btoddard, who has been writing letters from il parts of the kuown world to the Ban Francisco Chronicle, Las returaed to Pariy, nad taken up his quartera there for the winter. He is now brooding over the typioal American novel. The champlon coniderats man was Lia who, on being caut oshore at the Telo of Bhoats at uight, found the lightkeepor's hut, sud sat, balf-frozen, just witbin the storm-porch )l moralug, be- Ccauso, a8 Le said, **he supposed the kespera wera asloop insida the house, and wouldn's like to ba waked up." Mrs. Blsokford, the American ** Phwmolx,” who entrspped 8 Graud-Duke of Ruesia and pet Paris Ju a blaze of jndignation, was tho danghe ter of the Rev, Dr, Ely, an Old-8chiool Presby- terlan clergyman of Philadolphia, Hbo was baptizea Harriot. Hor firut husband was s Dr. Bisckford, s dlssipatod wretch, who was fouud dead 111 bed one moikiug, to tho great joy of his affectionate wifo, Iu Philadelphls sbie formed an assoclation with s man pamed Porter, or for an; Proctor, and obtained from him, by variona threata of axponure, somo 230,000. Bho orossed the winter In 1869, and mado hor appearanco ix Paris, whero slio marrled De. Piwonix. Hes wubsoquont lifa {8 wall known, Mins Annio Louiss Cary, the Tortland Press learna, has comploted hor engagemont to go to Vionus In the apring, attor which sho will remain o Ewiopo for some time, prosecuting dramalie ntudien. 8he will roturn to America Iate in the wammer, and wi'l probably sing fn epera o this «country next scauco, uoder employcicnt of Max Btralkosch, ‘Tho Boston Pilot (Catholic organ) disdaintully pays of tlie Colloge Rowing Aesociation s **Llar- vard aud Yalo aro just right 1n drawing out of tha tnick of potty colloges and thelr noiay adven tising boat-racos, It was pitiful to soe the twe universitioa bickerivg and strugzling with » lot of cheap Mothodist scowa mauned by embrye Lishop Mavons." Tn 1873, Dierseli belioved in abolishiog the anomaly, that the Patliamentary franclise ate tachied to o Louschold or proporty qualification Abould mot bo exercised whon ponsessed by a woman, though, io all mattors of loeal govern ment, whon similarly qualified, sho exeroiset this right. This wes in 1873 ; who oan tell what Disracli thinks now? The disdolution of the.XLevy concert troups aftora tour financially disnstrous, but artistio- ally succesaful, seoms to be ganerally regrotted 3r. Levy's cornet waa aitached by the members of his company to seoure their unpaid salariss, but {t was aftervarda rolessed. All the ocone tracts were for thioe months, and & nhmbor of suita will probably bo justitutod agaiost Levy. Itwas a hoartronding sight, says the New York Commercial Adcertizer, to sos the look of agony portrayed on tho countenanco of a young man, weariug eye-glassea ond nan ulster, who, while walking down town on Wednesday moto. ing, digcumsing the fino points of Dr, Purter't locturo on ** Eeienes and Sentiment,” stoppad on u alippary placo {n the sidowalk, and incontuwent. 1y sat down. The pastor of a church in ons of the impor- tant towns of tho S.ate wng called onm, a few dayano, by a gentleman brioging & note from ono of Mr. Beochor's eona asking if Mr, — was * [avorable to father.” If g0, the gantlo- man was to telograph at once, ** All right.”” He had to tel~graph, ** All wroog.” But what can Lo tho weight of o Council so nssombled 7 New York Indcpendent. Prot. Secolyo, of Amhoret, thinks our publi rohiools are in danger, oo tho ono hand, of alip. ping into tho haunds of the Roman Catholis pricathood, and, on the other, of boing deprivad of the Liblo and becoming secular, Ho thiuks ano oxtromo hould bo avolded as much #s the other, and that it would bo as eany to pursua g twiddlo courde in this respect as to proserve s mean betweon unresisted dospotism and unbri- dled Heonso. Benator Morton, Gov. Heodricks, and 3r. Ien dloton, aro the prominont Prosidential candl. datos who bave found Southorn trips beneticial to their benlth, Itis thooght that Gov. Tilden wifl be unablo to ainy much lungor in the vigor: ous Northorn climato. Mr, Redfleld, ot the Cin: cinnati Commercial, advises Tildon to take the trip without delay. Ho thiuks, too, that Pendie ton has gono South, not as n ProsBiential ocandi. date himself, but to praparo the wuy for & great: er thau ho, Bays the Now York World: *Mr, Dowen olsowhero risea to explain that the *informal contract ' between himeolf and Jay Cooke, bind. ing bitn to use the Independent for s conaldors tion fn cush commissions and atock to aid the Northarn Pacitlo Railway, * if it ovor bound him, did not do 8o for more than ten minutos’ time.* In other wordy, it wag, 8a the young lady snid of bor accidental baby, a * very littls ons,” and Mr, Loweu regards himself asan innocant and much. injured mav." Bays the Now York Tribune: **Miss Ads C, Svreot, who holds the office of Prengion Agont at Chicago, has written a lotter to Gon. Logun, do- nying the rumor that ehe had pald considerable #ums of money to him in oxdor to retain the ofiice. It was tho day befors Christmsa hor lot- tor wa3 datod, and skio boglos by exying that ahie hears Logau hag beon anuoyed by charges thal sho has beon payiug him money for his influence, and sho tales the prosont opportunity to comford him by deuying it. Bhe doos it in these terms? Clrcumatane:s seemed lo obligo ma to keep perfost sllence regariiog the truth or ercor of the statemonts madsin the lelter uuder consideration, but I now bresx the silence, which my own parsonal intarests al- moat fmperatively doniand, $o say that, a0 far a2 {he chsraes mad- agalnst yon are coricerned. thiey are ute tovty fols2, and_wilhout a shadow of foundation, 1 have never pald money, direct.y or indireztly, to you comiieration OF on sty pretenso whatevor and I havo nover eolfcited your ald 1n abtziuing or re tatntag the poaition of Pansion Ageut fo Obicsgo, e copt 1t ous Instance, Idid call ou you ouce, when 1 heard that you ware making sn_eifort Lo have a mat appointed o tho office I hofd, Itold jou my reasont for wishing t0 retain tho place, and asked yon not aiatnrlime, You met me in a most friendiy manner, and #aid you would not nae your fuflionce towsrd thi appolntmant of any one in wy place without sdvising mie of your sction. “Thia i oreditable to Logan, and very credit- able to Mles Ada, We tako lonve to unito witk isa Ada fn tho bope so cordiadly oxpreesed ix conclusion, that *this lettor will silence foreves the charge broucht against you, which is so un foundod.' It eoems hard that suoh » man m Logen shounld bo exposod to the susplcion of linving rocolvod money for his politicel infl onco; Lard that such s Penslon Agent as Mist Ada 0. Sweot should feol ealled upon to deny it; and brrdor still that it sthould bo wecossary to publish her Jotter fo ordor to *ailence foreve! tho cliarge.’ Already thore are thoss who say sho bas paid money to other leading stateamon, if not to Mr, Logan, for their influsnce {n kesp: ing hor In ofice. A Democratio Congress eenly sensitivo to this ourious and inquiring athitide, will bo very likely to appolnt a com- mittes, or somo such thing. to find out what the teircumatances’ aro, Btill we cannot but re. foico that Misa Ads has vindicatod the Benator from Illinols and ailonced forever the charge. TWhat sho needs to do now is to say she hst pover pald nnybody for political influencs, and 80 wet curiosity at rost.” TOTEL ANBIVALS, " Palmer House—0. 3. King, Corning; E. T, Dougiasy 8t Louin: J. 1. Dougle, Plugourgy W, 6. Grirmed Carson Citys J, I snd F. K. ard, Westicheater Pa 1 Mru, Goo, Kel'ogy, Mise Clirs Loulso Rellogg 1. E, Crouly, Olisa, A Grosdy, W, T. Coristul, and Madsme Van Zandl, Kidlogy Opors Trous,.. ., Grand Saeyfis—H, Oaterberg, Flock Tsland Jurues Grant, Dayenport; 3. & Olarkeor, Dos Motnea] if, B, Sborman, Milwaukeo; . . Mudge, New York W, if Daruiim, O Tlirels, St Pauly W. L Ioberts, W, Wadhains and O, W, McKeatry, Auntra Méxon, Denvillo J.J, orse, Autiirn, M. ¥, mian fouse—t1. . ‘Dacen, Des Motuon ton, Olevoland R, New Yark ufmalo ; Toledo? O, Hempted, ft, Loul dyke, Altany ; O, I, RicBerds 0, ... Treniont [fariac—l, Dalf, Fort Dodge, Ia.; Geory the Kellogg Opers Trounoy Wi, o Harnhart, Moltuos 8, 3. Hudgens, Stinneupollt E, 3. Nagls, Baston s G, N, iltob, Jodlel,; John dune 04, Texington, Miclj. . Gardner [l —W., Slzale, Dallimoro; G, A. Waidor!, Bingkasmton, N. Vi T, T, Tuylor, Auburn, N, Yot L, A, itose apd E, L, Hull Biltimora; M, aud M. Huguin, ‘Montagus, L 0. Pesker,'J. Dakes, B, ckiens, G, A, Conly aad G, D Heas, Rellogg Opers Troupe, b A —— THE WISCONSIN GRANGE. Special Dispatek to Ths Chixeow Tribune. MiLwauxee, Jan, 2.—The Btste Graoge hold sn annoal scesion hers Tucsday, Itis under- ntood tho Grangers aro n unit for malntaining 1o principla tho integrity of tha Pottbr law, ak though tho annual address of Grand Mastes CGochrane may oot take sy decidod stand on the question, leaving themesting to declare its pod- tiou. ‘Conuecticat Prentizo, Qon-dedy H. Ny T, Crocker, Baltimorn; Lord, Ottawa ; N, T. Finch, L) 0, Grummene N C——— ALEXANDER STEPHENS LOW. Nrew Yonk, Jan, 2.-A World epacisl fromd Atlanta reports Aloxandor H. Stephens® condi~ tion unfavorable, Iis troubls iu & severa cough and oxpectorstion. Tho brouchial tubes are sf- tectod, but not tho lange. Hia sitendants thio! thal be cannot rocover, sud be tumael? recogs ulzes the early approsch of death, gt sthinalioe o) MEXICANS AND INDIANS. 8ax Francisco, Jan, 2.—A dispatch from 542 Dlego eays Col. Minea, with BonoraSiate t100ph attacked the maln body of the Yaqua Indisus ol Pittoballs, on tho 8d of Decembar aud routsd them with » oss of aboud 200 killud and wousd od. Meucan loss, twenty woundod, L