Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1876, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF GUBACRIPTION (PAYARLE TX ADVAXCR). Tastnee Irepnld at this OMee. 813.00 WREKLY EDITIO! par yei per eup) Bpecimen copies sent free, *To yrevent delay snd mistakes, by wurs nd give Poat-Office address {n full, including Stateand County. Kemittences muy be made either by draft, express, Post-Offics order, or i regintered leiters, at aur tisk, TERAMS TO CITY BUBCRIDERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 conts per week. Datly deivared, Buadsy inciided, 30 cente per esk. ‘Addres THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner M Clilcago, Il on and Dearbors b AMUSEMENTS, v ADELPII THEATRE—Destbora stzest, eorner Monroe, Varlety peri nce. B MOVIOKER'S THEATRE~Msdlson street, betwaon Dearborn and Btate, Eogagement of George Rignold. = Heéary V." NEW ORICAGO THIATRE~—Clatk street, between Randolph aud Lake, Engsgenent of Frank Fraynss Dombnation, 8 Slocum.” . FOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph strect, between Dlark and LaSalle, Engigement of the Kallogg Opara« Eraupe, ** Erpanh" WOOD'S MUBEUM—donron street, between Deare bom and State, Afternoon, ¢ Dndar the Gaslight,” Evening, * Pochationtis, Qe @hiengo Tribune, Thursday Mormng, Janusry 80, 1876, Qreenbacks at ths New York Gold Exchangd yestarday closed at 89, A continuance of cold weather is predicted for this latitudo to-day. Senator Bo_w;,‘ of Wiscopsin, is to succeod Secretary CraxoLER a8 Chairman of the No- Hional Republican Congressional Committee. Thority has oceurred in Italy, where the Gov. nmment has asserted its power in the sum. nory closing.of the Episcopal Beminary at Como on account of n refusal to admit the Bovernment Inspector. . The Tinols Farmers' Association, so-oalled, ¥ has voted to instruct Congress to repeal the Resumption nct, so-called, and to have nona but traly American . monoy, produced by American printing-machines, recognized as American legal-tender by the American Government. * \ The changoin the weather was most op- ¥ portane at Joliet, for it cnabled the people of that city to witness yesterday a fine street parado of various bodies of Knight Templars, who were present in connection with the an. nual inspection and reception of Joliet Com- mandery No. 4 Gov, Beve: po y declines to cheat i the hangman out of two highly.deserving candidates for hempen distinotion,—Masn. smaLn Ceaiv, the Williamson County asaas. ®in, and Hexny Jacons, the Joliet wife-mur. derer, both of whose exeoutions are set for Friday of this woek, ‘The more important portions of Gen. Gan- sELD's great speech in reply to Ben Hua's Rebel harangue aro reproduced fromthe Con gressional Record in our columns this morn, ing. 'The speech is to be published in pam. phlet form by the National Republican Ez. ecntlve Committes, and 50,000 printed for distribution, Fresh and important evidence of ontrage- ous discrimination against Chicngo in freight rates to tho Enst was brought before the Board of Trade Committee yesterday. Ac. capting as truo the statement of Mr, Joy that none but Lonkrupt roads can afford to treat this city fairly, the feeling begins very gen. erally to obtain that it would be n godsond to . Chicago if all the lines to the seaboard were bankrupt, — It is predicted by the sanguine friends of fhe murderer Davis that Judge Rooxas’ right- fal sentence of twenty.one years' imprison. ment will naver be carried ont, the oxpeota- tion being that Execntive clemency will be sxercised in timo to prevent & trip to Joliet, Things equally strange have been known to oceur, and it is not surprising that even Davis should hopo for a speedy pardos, and that his friends chould confidently aaticipats bis prompt liberntion. Benator Montoy, of I , Yealorday de- livered a set speoch in support of his resolu. tlon calling for o sweeping investigation by a Congresaional Committee of the allegod frand- ulent election in Mississippl. It is under. stood that the Independent and somo of the more conservative Republican members of the Senate will agree with the Democrats in op- posing Mr. Morton's resolution upon the ground that the investigation contemplated s * likely to be too sweoplng, and that the Sen- ate is not lkely to adopt the resolution with. sut some modification. Minnesota has hod o bitter expericncs with Bioux Indians, and entortains very pronounc. »d ‘viows as to the treatment of the Indian guestion. In the Legislaturo yesterday n resolution was introduced, and will doubtlesa pass both Houses, approving of the proposed tronafer of the Indian Burean to the War De- partment, “ which should not be trammeled o its action by any of those sectarian or hu- unanitarian influonces which have recently ' .been recognired by the Government, to the prejudice of the frontier settlements aud of the country.” Yielding to the protests of the Sentine, andl having confidence in that journal's as- surances that it would undortake to cover tha ground {tself, Tue Trmone for a timo fore- boro to assume tho entire responsibility of collecting and publishing tho Milwaukeo Whisky.Ring newa; but ss the Ssnlinels backsliding has again left & vacuum abhor. taut to the nature of news-gathering, a Turn. ONE corvespondent has oumce more invaded the “eroaked ” precincts of our neighboring eity—with what auccess will bs seen in our dispatches, The Chicago prodnce markoets wero gener. ally esler yeaterday, Meas porkywas mod- eralely active and unchanged, cloaing at $19.15 cash and $19.25 for February, Lard watin good demand and 2}@50 per 100 1bs Rlower, cloalng at $12,20 cash and §12.25 for February, Meats were quiot und steady, at e for shoulders, bozed, 100 for do short sibe, ‘and 1030 for do short clewrs, Highe wines wore dull and nominal, st §1,07 per gullon, Flour was dull and easler, Whoat was active and 1fo lower, cloing at §1.00 axked cash and DBo for February, Corn was Quivi and o lower, closlog at 400 cash aud 4240 for February. Oats were quiet and unchanged, closing at 30fc cash and 80j0 for Fobruary, Tiye was quict at 67@G7jc. Darley was qulet and steadier, closing at 810 for January nnd 770 for Februnry., IHogs woere nctive and strong, nt 10c advance, clos- ing firm nt $7.1097.40. Cattle wera dull and wenk, with sales mostly at $3.00@4.85 Bheep wore nativo aod firm, One hundrod dollars in gold would buy $112.75 in green- The beauties fostored and encotraged by the present Board of County Commissioners nare atrikingly illustrated in the cnse of Bemerrrer, who proposes to bury the paupers at §1.40 each, It who frankly admits that ho has an nar- rangement with BoNFieLp, the next highest bidder, who is to have the contract anyhow —at 82 if he can, at $1.40 if he muat, These contractors scarcely take the trouble to deny thot their profit on the burinl of panpers is renlized by the sale of the bodies for the purposes of dissection. * Subjects” com- mand from $12 to $20 ench, and can bo hauled to the medical colleges far cheaper than to Potter's Field. There aro ovidences of the existenco of a now and ghastly com- binntion of corruptioniste—n cadaver-ous Two aflidavits appear in another column which will scarcely ail 1o prove both valas- blo and interesting to the Penitentiary Com- missioners and Gov. Bevermnos, ns those gentlemen nppoar to have been in romo| doubt up to this time as to the possibility that there could be such a thing as irregu- laritios and small stealings carried on under the vory nosos of the Stato Prison mnnsge- mont. The aflldavit of Mr. Wircox tells pre- clsely how it was dong, whilo that of Mr. Apans shows conclusively thot a private un. derstanding or partnership existed botween Mr. Wizcox and Parchasing-Agent Haam- Ton, The matteris now placed in tangiblo shape for investigation by the Penitentiary Commiissioners, who will, of course, fallow up with alacrity Tae Taisoxe's clow to the exposurs of the rascality practiced in the prison. GABFIELD'S REPLY TO RILL. Gen. GanrieLp's speech on tho Amnesty hill was a conclusive and crushing reply to the false statements and suggestions made by By Hmn, of Georgla. 'The two points made by Hirr were: (1) That the hardships of the Union prisoners at Andersonville were wmerely those incidental to war; wers no worse, and not in fact as bad, as those on- dured by Confoderate prisoners at the North; and the Confederate Government was not o perty to them nor responsiblo therefor. (2) That the Confedornte Government, in the interests of humanity, appealed inces- santly for an exchango of prisoners, which was refused by the United States, who not only persisted in the pollcy of o*non-sxchangs of prisoners, but rofused to admit medicines to the Confedernoy, thereby preventing any rollef belng affordod the sick, Gen. Ganrzierp completely silenced the Confederate orator on these points. In the first place, he showed the character of the Rebel prisons by the roport of a Congress. ional Committec, both as to the trentment of prisoners at Richmond and at Andersonville. In the Winz trinl it was proven that the un. feeling brate, Gon. Wriper, was sclected ns commonnder at Andersonville by Jerrzosox Davia. When that infamous appointment was made, & Richmond paper said : **Thank God that Richmond is rid at last of old Wix- pEr. God have mercy upon those to whom he bas been gent.” At tho trial of Wmz, a report, dated Andersonville, Jan. &, 1864, signed by Liout.-Col. Cmaxprem, Assistant Inspoctor-Genersl of the Confedorate army, waa offerod in evidence. This report de- savibed tho construction of that prison; that it gave nbout siz square foot to each prisoner! that tho only supply of water passed throngh the Confederate camp befors it reached the prison, and was thus unflt for use, The same officer made another re. port on Aug, G, in the samo year, in which he strongly recommended the appoint- ment of some person in place of the cruel tyrant Wrnpes, whose conduct he reprosented 13 cold-blooded and horrible. Ho pronounced the prison a disgrace to civilizatlon, He de- livered this report in porson to the Secretary of War at Richmond. Gen. Onrrow, the Ingpector-General, ipdorsed this report, do- claring tho prison to bo * a reproach to us as nnation.” To this indorsemont the Acting Becrotary of War, Caxrnery, added that the condition of things at Andersonville demand- od the change. What became of it? A few days after, JerreneoN Davis answered the re- port by promoting the villain Wispen! At ono time the Confederate Bacretary of War, SeppoN, wrots an order relieving WiNpen of his command, which Jerr Davis promptly countermanded, writing thereon, ** Tis &z en- ttrely unnecessary and uncalled for.” In this way knowledge of the awful character of the prison ond its dreadful menagoment was traced through all the departmenta up to the very chiof of tho Rebel Government, Jerr Davis himself, Haviog thus disposed of the character of tho prison and the responsibility therefor, Gen. Ganrirrp addressed himself to the question of the exchango’of prisoners. During the War, the Utriited States armies took 476,1CY prisonors and the Confederates 188,145 prisoners. The first cartel for an oxohange of, prisoners was in July, 1862 ‘The exchange continued for some time. In October, 1862, Bex iy, of Georgia, pro. posed in the Rebel Senato that every person *‘pretending to be a soldier or oflicer of the Uuited States,” captured on the soll of tho Confedernte States, should be presumed to bavo entered the Confederato States with in- tent to excite insarrection and murder, snd should suffer death! In December, 1862;'the Robel President, Jeer Davis, fsued a procla- mation that all Commissioned offfcors in the command of Bexsswux F, Borees should not be entitled to bo counsidered e soldiers en- gaged in hooorablo warfare, but as robbars and criminale deserving death; and that when captured thoy should bo reserved: for execution. That colored men captured in arms be delivored over to the several States to be dealt with socording to the wave laws of such States, and that liko onlers bo exo- cutod in all cases of commissioned officers found sorving in company with uegroes in insurrection, eto. These wore extraordinary ordors: 1, That all officers under the com- mond of Burres should ba oxeouted as rob- bers. 2, That colored Faderal troops wero not to bo rocoguized a3 soldiors, but as slaves! This stopped the exchange of prisoners. ‘The Governioent of the United Btates could not live and recogaize any such distinotions between ity soldiers, In May, 1603, the Confederate Congress by law enactod the goneral provislons of that proclamation. There was the grand objec. tion which interrupted the exchange of pris. ouers, and which erowded Andersonville and ad other privons, 1t was (Lo demand by the THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1870. Confedorates that colored Union soldiers, when capturod, should be treatod as slaves and not as prisonerg, and that the whito offi. cers commonding colored troops should Lo treated as criminals and held for execntion, to which tho United States could never sub. mit without infamy. The Confederates gloried in the tactics thay had ndopted. The strong and nble-bodiad men of the North wers sent to loathsomo prisons, where, withont water, exposed by day to tho scorching sun, and at night to the frosts and ali times to the rain, with no tents, sleoping on tho bare ground, packed together in an inclosure containing & marsh, there to perish, by thousands, of polson, starvation, and brutal treatment, and often deliberate murder, for crossing the dead-line in search of food. The Rebel prisoners in tho Union camps wore, on tho countrary, well fed, well clad, well sheltered, carefully nursed, and grow rapidly in health, When 186t was reached, there were 90,000 prisoners in the hands of tho Robels rednced by starvation and brutal. ity to tho condition of skelotons, unfitted for all time for servico in the fleld, and whoso days of lifo wero sadly limited. Then, when Jery DAvis' man Winoen had Aecomplishied this dveadful work, the Confederate Govern= ment asked to deliver theso huwau skeleton or romuants of mortality, these fawlshed, dying victims of thelr diabolical inhumanity, in exchangs for an equal number of hale, hoarty, vgiorous men, who hal boen enjoy- ing themsolves at the North upon the fat of tho land. Then the oxchango would have Loen of living corpses for able-bodied fighting meun. It would have been to give Lre o now army of healthy, stalwast soldiers, to prolong the war, and to fight the Union armies then in the fleld,—costing tens of thousands more lives to enptare them ngain, The Rebel policy was to cripplo the prison- ers in their hands or to 8o starve and poison them that they would never be fit to take the fleld ngain. That policy they carrled ont to tho utmost oxtent, ohd within the stockado at Andorsonville and tho tobacco.warchonses of Richmond they committed an infamy which has no parallel in ecivilized warfaro, and which is fit to take rank in the record of the grent atracities which preserve the names of tho monsters who committed them, And it i8 tho chief author of tho damunble atroci- ty whom the Democrats in Congross iusist upon rostoring to full citizenship, in order that he may reappear in the Senate Ohamber and onee moro lead the Domocratio-Confod- orates and fling his cursed insolencoe in the faces of loyal men. A correspondent, whoseletter was published in yosterday's Trinunr, asked the question whother Ep Pamrirs, who had beon drawn ns one of tho membors of the new Grand Jury, was that Ep Pran.uies who is Assessor ot South Chicago, and whoso name ia n by- word and a reproach among the 15,000 per- sonal property tax-payers whom ho and his deputioshave robbod by their scandalous and partinl nssossment, It is painful to have to state that it is tho very man, and that that person whom the citizons of the South Side oxpoeted to have indicted by the Grand Jury is himself n momber of the tribunal to which complaint has to ba mado. Under ordinary circumstances, no ono would express wonder at such a selection, He is not speoially fitted for the position, but then wenk materinl conatantly finda its way into the Grand Jury room. As the caso now stands, howavor, his relection is an outrage to justice and common, deconcy, can have been secared only by the co-operation of some accomplice -in the County Board, and can have for its object only tho stifling of an investigation demanded by tho unanimous voico of the tax.payers of Sonth Ohicago, and "the prevention of the finding of an indiat~ ment for the groatest robbery over porpe. trated on the people of this city. It seems harily necessary to recapitulnte what has been alresdy so fully stated,—to ex- plain how Assessor Pmvrirs or his deputios blackmailed those tax.payers who yiolded to thelr domands, and trebled and quadrapled the assessments of those who did not; and how the burst of public indignation which followed the receipt of Collector Evaws’ no- ticesled to nn juvestigation of the Assca- sor's books and the discovery of frauds which should send their nuthor to tho Ponitentiary, That first oulbreak of indig- nation was succoeded by a fixed determing- tion on the part of the Citizens’ Association to bring Ep Pminries before the Grand Jury and bave him indieted for perjury and mis- fensanco in offico, It was the intention to have bronght the matter befors the present body, and no doubt was entortainod by thoso familinr with the facts that a trio bill would linve been found agninat him, Purmiirs woas awara of all this, and has taken his mensures to put a temporary stop to it by succeeding in having himsol? placed on the Grand Jury, together with a crowd of irresponsible bum- mers who hiave no sympathy with those who pay taxos, but much with those who live on. then, ¥ Nothing has been expected from Potit Jurors for some time back, but citizons have hoped that the Grond Jury at lenst could not Lo bribed or packed ; but the developments in the Pnrries caso show that, as matters ars now conducted, thera ia little rodress loft for the injured citizen; ho can ncither get a Petit Jury to convict nor & Grand Jury te indiet, The man wlko has robbed him maots him when he appears beforo the Grand Jury and infonma him that.it I3 not advisslle to consider his complaint. Wherever he goes to secure justice nunlnx’ Pouies, thero he finds Pumups, judge and juror in his own cnse, But how is this managed? How can tho Grand Jury be thus packed? The law pro- vides that each County Commissioner shall write on slips a certain nuwber of names; that these shall ba shaken up in a box, and that some one shall draw therefrom twenty- threo names. 'This formality fu gone through with, but it has long been understood what names were to be drawn, and tho panel, ora mojority of it, is made up before the drawing beging, Bo far mi can be sscurtained, Pois- v1pg’ pressuce on tho Grand Jury is believed to bo due to Col, CrEARY, who was Collector of Bouth Chicago for a year; who has town orders which have not yet been cashed; who is a friend of Pairuies, aud who wishes to stand well with the ‘Town Board in order that ke wmay get the remainder of the monoy which waa illegally voted him in 1874, He, tao, it is alleged, ix purtly responsible for the drawing of those bummers who cagstjtute the mo- Jority of the jury, and are undoubtedly pledg- ed to aid Purrrirs in suppressing any investi- gation of his delinquencles, This Cowmis- slomer, oud the person who drow the names from the box, are belisved to bo co.conspire ators in this plot to deprive tha oitizens of Bouth Chicago of a fair investigation of the demning charges which they mre about to paaler sgalnad the Assessor, aud on them the {mmediato responsibility for this offenso muat rest. Thero i3, however, n posslbility that shen theso facts aro bronght to tho attentiou of Judgo McALLisTER, now sitting jn the Crim- innl Conrt, ho will order these objactlonable names strikon from the list, aud direct the proper officer to summon reputable citizens to take tho places thus made vacant. TR EASURY BOOKKREPING, There has been a sharp debato in the Sen- ato of the United States for soveral days on a most extraordinary subject. The Troneury of the United States is a largo eatablishment, doing an immense financinl business, It ombracer # variety of depnartments and o multitude of clerks, It collects rovonue from n varlety of gonrces, and oxpends that money for wvarious purposes. Its collections are under nuthority of law, and no moncy can legally Lo expended without authority of law and n specific approprintion, ‘Chere are, of course, several bookkeopers. One set of ‘books shows the receipts of revonues by the Collectora: nnother shows the amount re- ceceived nnd paid out by the Treasurer and tho balance on hnpd; another shows tho nmount borrowed by the Government, and nnother the amount paid on the debt by the GQovernment. Theso nnd perhaps other branches of the Treasury aro intended to bo A check upon each other. It now appears that ths books of these soveral dopartinents do mnot sgree, and (hat thero hos been no timo within the last thirty years that they havo agroed. Thore are also soveral othor things which will surprise the public. The monthly state. ments of the public debt aro mere guess. work, by no means mccurate, nnd that it is impossible to have thom accurate. The fiscal year of the United States cnds on June 30, on which day the condition of receipts and expenditures and of the Treasury for the year are published. Those statements Mr, Bovrwrws, the ex-Secretary of the Trensury, coudidly explaing are never oorrect, and that it takes many months after tho close of the year to colleet full returns from all the ecoi- lection districts and disbursing agents in or- dor to state acourntely the condition of the Treasury at that date, Now, accepting all thesa explanations ns true, why is it that no Becretary of thoe Troas- nry has undertaken to discover where the discrepancies oceur, and why it is that no im. provements have beon made in tho system of bookkeeping, or in the organization of the Dopartment, which would correct theso ex. traordinary confliets? It is understood that many of these discrepancies go back to the earliest yoars of the Government, growing out of Revolutionary nccounts. But why is it that these old matters are not earofully compiled, nnd the irraconcilablo bnlances chargod up to ““profit and loss,” or to some- thing else, ond a clean balance-sheet opened for at Jenst tho Inst holf of the century 7 We do not know how much the existing and un- cxplained discrepancics amount to, but thoy exceod several millions of doliarg, and cer- tainly it i3 a roproach to the mccountants of the Treasury that they are pormitted to con- tinue year after year. CRUELTIES (?) AT CAMP DOUGLAS, Gen. Daxren Osxrzroy, who served gallantly through the War, taking part in tho move. ments in Tennessos, Georgia, and Mississippi, and who for a time was in command of Camp Deuglag whilo it was o prison for Con. federates, roplies to Bex Hiv's dofonss of Andersonville and ngsnult upon Oamp Doug- las in o dignifiod but no less vigorous manner, Gon. Oaxenoy was a Democrat when he entered the War. Ie'cams ont of the Wara Demoornt, aud has evor been and is now a conspiouous and rospocted momber of the Demooratio party of this county and State, But bho bas boen, nevertheless, & patriot. Cnmp Douglas, while ocoupied by Confeder- ato prisoncrs, was first under tho command of Col, MurrLioaN, Ha was succesded by Gon, (then Colonel) OanEnoN; who in turn was suocoedod by Gen. Awwen, and after him Gen, OaxtenoN agafn, Gen, Swrer was the fourth and last of those commandors, With the personnl and official charactor of those men Messre, Oavnrmmed and HanrisoN wore sufliciently acquaiated to know that nelthor of them would tolerato or inflict the slightest craelty upon their prisoners, and Gen. Caw- zroy pointedly robukes thoir defective recol. lections, Wa invite attontion to the letter of the General giving tho history of the prison at Camp Douglas, and his comparison of it with Andersonville, whore in four months 1more prisonoers died than died at Camp Dong. lns in jfour years, although tho latter for noarly all that timo held'from 80,000 to 40,000 prironois. TRE PERVERSION 0F A BPEECH. A comparison of Ben Hrr's speoch as it was made on tho floor of Congress and s it hns beon printed in the Congressionad Record shows that the Iatter is nearly ag full of sins of omission a8 the former was of those of commission, There I8 no nced of comment. ing on the contemptible dishonesty of dcliv- ering one speech and printing another, I'hat is patent. ‘Tlo practice Las another bad sidoe to it, which is less often conxidered. The Congresvional Record is the great reservolr for the future historian of onr politics. 1t con. toins the raw material of the books which nre to supply statesmen with suggestions, politi. cians with precedents, and the multitude with facts. Krperientia docet, safth the old proverb, but how can exporionce teach when nobody knows what sort of experfenco n country or an individual has hod, The Record, at present, Is maluly useful ss a means of informing posterity what the Hon. fo-and-s0 did not say. To find out what he did sny, the student must search the dusty files of the dally press. The official press is solainnly lying to posterity, It qny boworth while to note throe of the cases in which Ar, Hivn was nshamed or afraid to print what he hiad esid. Tlo spoke as followa ¢ 1t 1a not pleasant for me (o baing farward proof that any portiou of my country has been guilty of willtul murder or the crucl treatmant of poor manacled priscuers. o ''his was tantsmount to saying that tho North had been guilty of “willful murder” and of **cruel treatnent” of the cagod Con. federatea. But o desteroys change of tonses and the interpolation of & clauso just reversed the meaning of the passago when it appeared in print, We quote from the feecord: 1t coald be no pleasura o me to bring forward proof that any portéon of my countrymen have been gullty, ete, Nor will I mako any such charge, Thus Alr, HiLw first makes the charge and then represents himself as explicitly disavow- iug the idea of making it. This may be “chivalry," but it is noithor louesty nor truth, The sort of reconcilintion this ex. Suonator of the Confedersoy neods most would seem to bo the roconciliation of his conduct with the fint six words of the niuth com. mandment, This trickery pleases him so greatly that he resorta to it again on the same poge of the Ruord, After evwparing e deatl.rate among Union and Confederate prisoners, ho turnad to Braive and said with emplnsis: * And, my friend, who ia the murderer?” Thia insinuntion is paralyzed in print. Misu's version of Hirt's words isfis follows: = What 18 the logio of these facts according to the gentloman from Maine? 1 acorn to charge murder upon the ofcials of Northara prisont. "This is a cloar caso of political thimble-rig. Now you seo it and now you don’t, The eminent prestidigitateur first charges murder and then—hey, Plestol—"scorn to charge murder,” 1t is na neatly done as anything of tho sort conld be. A professionnl player of three-card monte could not do botter. Theso two instances of auppressio tverd, owever, ore cclipsed by a third. AMr Hin prints the following: ‘The mortality at Andersonyiile and ofber Confoder- Ale prinons faily short by more (lsn 3 per cent tho ‘mortality in Federal prisovs, This is what lie pretends ho sald. And here is what ho really snid : The atrcey'fen of Andersanvillo do not begin fo com- e wilh the ntrocities of Elmira, or Fart Donglas, or Tort Delawaro, 3nd of all the atrocitien, both at Ander- sonvllle and Eimira, the Confederate Governmont atanda scquitted fiom all rosponslUtitty and binme, Herenfter, it might be well to print two cditions of the Jecord, ono giving the speeches a8 thoy are made and the other— the *‘doughface edition"—giving thom ns they aro cooked up for consumption by Northorn Democrats, GERMAN HARD TIMES, The tines are hard in Germany, and Ger- many is cross. America and the Americans come in for the heaviestsharo of objurgation. To judge by tho remarks quoted from Ger- man newspapors and tho conversations of Gorman bankers, all the immenss losses that Gormon industry, trade, and finance have recently sufforod aro the results of American recklessness and bad falth, Tho angry and preposterous ontburst of Americanophobin i the German nowspapers when the German Titoxassey blew up a German vessel with an infernal machine made in Germany bod its deepest spring In the chronic irritability of the Tenton losing money. A correspondentof the Globe-Democrat writes from Tnropo that, while the credit of Americans, individually, is unbounded, American credit is in great dis- repute, Lending bankers in Vienns, Berlin, and Frankfort, told him that henceforth they should never touch American securities, If wao look into the history of German finances for tho last half dozen yenrs wo will discover facts that show that Americn is used in this matter largely’ ns a scope-gont. Tho trnth is that the gambling in trade, over-spoculation, defnults and disappointments in railronds and other sccurities, that now constitwle the burden of Gormany's complaint against Amer- ica, have been for fiva yenrs tho charnctoris. tics of its own operations. Aftor the Fraoco- German war the Germans plungedinto aBouth Sen bubblo of speculation. A mania for forming new companies sprang up. A very intolligent correspondent of the Financial Chronicle states that in threo years ono thousand million dollars wero invested in joint-stock companies in Germany. All prices multiplied ; all industries wero prospor- ous and exaggerated. Profita and wages, rents and incomes, donbled and more. Prussin in five yoarsndded 50 per oont to its railronds, How golid tho development of theso yonrs really was tho following table shows. It givos the foll in the selling prices of the shares of five represoutative companies in threo yoms: Decembor, December, 1872, 1878, Disconto Company.......310 per cent, 318 per cent Prussisn Daden credit, ., 263 per cent. 90 per cent. Derggisch Mark Railroad, 133 per cent, 73 por cent Ttheinisch Ratiroad. 72 percent, 100 per cont Dorti marsder Unlon Ing and Iron Works.,..173 per cent. 0 per cent The banks of Gernany are nearly all, ex- cepting thoso under tho direct control of the Government, what the corrospondent of the Chronicle, hitnself n German, calls ¢ gambling and jobbing institutions,” Thoy are stock- jobbers and speculators, and under their lead and the influenco of the French indemnity the whole commercial sod financial communi- ty in Gormany wont mad. MMost of the thou. sand millious of dollnrs with which Frauce poisoned Gorman industry was expended by the Governmont in fortifications, railrords, and loaned through the Governmeut banke to stock-speculators, The money is now gone 3 the fortifications, railroads, and stocks pay little or no interest; the “holes in the ground,” as Prof, Boxaxy Pzice aptly calls theso unproductive works, are afl that is left to roprosent the milllons of money and ungpunted expenditure of energies, Thotimea are hard, aud Gormany s in a very bad hu- mor. Let ber follow the Anierican example, ond, instead of sitting down in the dumps, set herself to repair the losses and mistakes of the lnat fow years. Germany neceds to reflect that nations, liko individuals, mnke their own mistakes. If Germans have lost money in home and forelgn investments, it is becanso they wero not shrewd nnd carefal enough. 'Thoro are good American gecurities and bad ones, just as thero aro good and bad stocks. Ttormscump' ond Stmovsnero in Germany represont tho snme opposites as Browy Brothers in New York and the Phlila. delphia Jax Cookr. in America, The New Orleans Buketin, the Confederate organ of Louisiann, upholds and defends Hivy's calumnious asporsions of the North, and denounces Bratve for oxposing the mur. derous barbarities infticted by Jerr Davis on the unfortunate Union prisoners. It de. nounces LiNcowN, BrantoN, Gnant, Snek. AN, Troxas, and Susninay, and charges on them the rosponsibility for the horriblo craclties practiced by Davis and the Confed- crate Qovernment on the Union prisoners! 1t concludes with an apostrophe to Winz, and denounces tho Fodoral Govornment for hang. ing the wretclh, Thue far wo can ngres with it. We always belioved that Jery Davm should have been hnnged first, WiNDER next, and Winz third, but not lnst. 'There wero n dozen othors who should have been strangled for thelr cruelty to our poor, misused prison-~ gqra in Rebel pens, Tt in evidont that the schioolmaster was not sbroad in the South when the present set of Confedorate Congressmen wera growing up. ‘Their acquaintance with the Queen's English 1s of tho slightest. Prof. Sxerye had to pub. *licly correct » grosa grammatical blunder in fthe draft of the Amnesty bill, and now Prooron Kxorz has reported & constitutional muendment which provides that no perion who **hng or may kereaftér hold” the ofiice of Prealdont shall ever again be eligible to thatoffice. Will P, K, parse ‘“has hold '"? The wint: ndred yeanl ago— ‘was almost as remarkable an the presont ane Las been for ita mildncss, All the harboraon the Atleutio const were generally free from ico; some of the rivers were 80 far open as Lo permib cowmuuication betweon the aifferunt American oamps. 1v is maid tbat Gon., Wasuinatox bad formed a plan for the surprise of the Drilish forces {a Doston, and was prevented from carrys Ing it out by tha absence of the (ce in the harbor which ke uncouselowsly anuaed M 8 material part of his caloutations, Inregand to tho present mild winter, s curious statemont, which wo boliove will be borno out on examinpe tion, in, that the gatlors and woathorwlse people gonerally predieted that the season wonld be une usually mitd, Bofore the oloss of navjgation the marine reporier of Tux Taipune reconled some pradictious of this kind, It was gaid thon thac the muskrats and beavers bad mado their winter- arrangements on no extromely modest scalo. Bclontitic peopla might iind it worth thoir while 10 1nutitute some inquirics on tlus ecore beforo the opportuuity ls past,. VIOARIOUS JOURNALIBML Tho Ring organ, with moro than naual enter- prire, Liag bogun the regulsr republicetion of old Tamuke editorfala. If it hins tho good Judg- ment to purauo this couras to the ond, tho man- agers of that aheat will soon sucesod in priut- ing a newsyapsr. Thoy have already, by thiy means, birought tholr editeral page down to the comparatively recont dato of Aug. 12, 1866, Its columns hiave acquirad freshnoss and newslnass sinco the adoption of this dovice. With a courtesy suporior to that of most other pub- leatigns conducted on rural principles, the ccredits tho aiticlos entire. The usual way is to present euch mattor in tho regu- iar cditorlal type, throwing In an casy and gincoful roferenco balf way down tho col~ wmu £o ** the ablo viows of our contemprrary,” or *as the Eatanswhl Garelle woll rematks,” cte., ete. Thus tho gutleloss reader s troated to what ho supposes to bo an altogethor origiual production, and wtill tho smenitioa of tho pro- feosion mio uovivlated, Wo should raise no vbe Jection if tho .- 0. choso that courge. Tho edi- torinla it solocts from our columns wara of Inter- cat when thoy appeared o dozen years ago, and, comparod with the other matter ta the dull columns of ths 1.-0., they are fresh and in- atructive, and throw much light on the valus of root nnd grass crops and diversified mechanleal pursuits, as well 23 rotas tion of crops. \We may excuso the roforonce to + gur brilliant contempurary,” but there is » point boyond which we canuot allow it to go, 1t may continuo to appropriate from us whatovar ideas it thunlis it prodent for itaelf to deal with 1 it may, nnd wolcome, but it must not praise them, #8 1t dud In 1ta roprint of resterday from oar col- umns of 1865. ‘The following was no doubt weaot kindly s * Plentiful facts, intenso errocst- noss, closs grappling with the subject, rig- orous reasoning, and thoughi-freighted son- tences,” ato the phrases of pralse with which tho Z ~0. alludes to Tue Tarioune's arti- cles of o decade ago. This ia worso than abuso. Tho "*close grappling with the subject” that tho L.-0. nttributes to us rocalls too palnfully the coavalsivo and borrible struggles with which tho editorlal force of tho 1-0. bove sgain and wgala tried to produco original cditoriat wmatter. ‘The fixed and protruding oyos, the knotted, sgonzod velns in the forokead,%the muscular cpasms of the arms, Joge, and truuk, as the mortgageo, assiguge, trusteo, editor-in-chiof, wmnoaging-editor, night-sditor, cityzeditor, and responsible-editor shook Lake strcot nightly io his bopoless grappla with the romoval of & bam from tho Custom-House, are all too dreadful to bo recalled and applled to Toe Tawosk. Toe Trmosk doss not “pgrapple with its sabjeot,” as any one who rends its editorlals doy after day in the 1.-0. wmay ses. I¢ handles them with tho easo, strongth, and gentlonesa with which tho gisnt stosm-bammer at Woolwiob will broalk s nat or forge a mighty gun. 8till the mlstake was nat- ural, consldering ita source, and we will only beg tho 1.0, to atonl our thonder if it plesss, but nover to bostos such awkirard praise agein. “Thers was » sparp contest in the Honse laet Monday on the introduction of & new ruls. It a8 opposed on the Republican side by Mosara. BaNgY, GanrizLy, Havre, and Kasson, ontho plea that it wonld enable tho Committea on Appro- priations to control practically all the depazt- monts of the Government, and was defonded on the Damocratio side by Messrs, Cox, HoLyuw, and RaxpaLy, oo tho plea that it was to the fo- torest of economy ; that it only placed proposi- tious to redace exponditures on the samo foot- Ing as propositions to inciexse, and thay 1t gave no additional power to the Committes on Appro- priations, inasmuch aa its action could bs only rocommondatory. The New York Times thus spoaka of the effact and Intontlon of the now rules ) . The clange of rules mado by the Houss to-day fa sery {mportant. Tta feet edect 1s to give tha Commit- tee ou Apprupriatious enormons power over tho legin. Intion of the Houss, bo‘auss ou the Appropristion uill thoy can_sitack almost any other Uili, 5o thst thoy causo it tn any tanner or degreo Lo reduce tho expenses of tno Goverment, The apecial purpose s said to Lo to onsblo tue Cominttes 10 strika at the army. Jtax- DaLL and ToLMAN, who conlrol the Comnmitice, haye committed themseives to great reductions of expanai- tures, and It was only by tho parsage of a now rale that ‘they could tecurs the jower to even bogin, Thesa Lina boen & grest oulcry On inany oceasfons be- cause mportnt and sometimes Lad legislation hine boen attiched 10 Appropriation Lllla, The rules of the Bouato have been very looso n this reapect, and most of the legislative micuduionts Lave been adiod in that budy, Last winter Congress was praisedl he. cuizo the Appropriation bills wors koyt fro 101 leg- {alation; but uow the Domacratie House, under plea of sccuring meastires for ocouomy, have proposed to make a wholosalo busines of legialating in the Appro. gristion bills, Thix rols places tle Appropristion Comwittes fat Bliead of the Waye and Meus Comunit- tee in {mportsnce, and elevatés Mr, RANDALL {0 tho lesding pouition’ ki the Housc. Posalbly that was the secrot purpove, ‘Tho Daptiat clergymen of Brooklyn have boon anjoying quito a rofresliug sorsgon recontly. At » Conferonce mooting, on Alooday, the question was digousiod a8 to whother the Rev, Rrvoen Jerreny should bo allowed to road & papor,—the objectlon belng that Mr, J, sras not nound ou the doctsine of cloen communion. Dr. MiLtzn was makiog a fow romarks, whon one of tho brotbron politely invited lim to **8hut ool "—wlich ln- vitation Dr, 3. doclined with the soggestion: “Mind your own busluess)” Dr. Jerreny, after considerablo opposition, got the floor, and, having dofioed Lis views on the right of com- munion,—which, he hald, **a mau doos not denivo from his Laptism, but from hls fmth in Chrlet,"—assertod tpat ho bad boen treated a8 n soct of moral leper, note withstanding whlch fact 4o would take every man to nis besrt, *excopt one.” Ly, Forton inquired, ** Who {s that oos ?" and Dr. Jesrenr aupplied tho informatlon, concisely but une- quivocally, thus: Yoo, sirl” strango Lo eay, did not pleses Dr, Fuiron, snd ho gave the opon-communlonist & Hvely ** hoop~ ing-up.” Dr. FuLtox bears a strikivg resem- blance to a lobster fo ono rospcct: bo never weems to bo In hisaphoro except when floundor- ing in very hot walor, When he was jmmersed, tho flild must surely have bean at a temperature of at losut 212 Falrenheit. Why, however, ba should be exesperated at a man's rofusal to take him to his Lieart, ls inoxplicable to the laity, who aro not admirers of mascaline caresses. It It had been o femals hoast, of course that would lisvo been a totally difforent matter, “An American Iady, medloally educated abrosd,” declarcs that tho primary cause of tho phvsical doterloration of the puopls of tho Unitod Btates lea in tho fuct that they do not live upon oatmeal and cruehed wheat, but por- sist fn rolulog thelr stomachs with oggs, butter, Augar, mest, flab, sod other poivouous articlos. Mush msy be very wholesome ; but a lifa de- | voted to It consumption must nitimately bo- come somowbal monotonons. And, bowidos, if {tbo truo that **He who drinks boer thivks boer," it 1e yemsonsble to Infor that an oxclusively mushy diet will rosult ln excluaively imushy {doas,—such ideas, {n short, as those sumgested n Amorican Indy, medically educated — 1t will ba remembered that, doring the am- pesty debate, CGeu, Laxys remarked o 2Mr. Hraine, »Thore no unwary ones on our sido”; that Bramik inquired, “Which is the gentleman's mde? ™ apd that Bangs, with the ciueling digoity of & Popsyar, responded, It is the side of the Coostitution of the United States, aud of the laws made o pureuance thereof.” The majoatic maunerin which the Gensal thus escaped from a merious dilemma ¥ochlls 40 the milud of the Boston News ah lnels ‘This rotort,’ ———————— dont of “tho Iate unplessantnosn.” One mom. fog Gen. Daxxa vaa bioakfastag i hin ten, whon o mombor of hla ataff rushod in mng gmpod, “Tho Itobels are advanciug upon ng tapidiv; our ontposts Lve Loen attacked and our pickets driven In, What sball bo done?n Lho Genoral sat soronoly at tho tablo, and, with ¥ wava of bLis hand, said, graudly, ** Repulse thy snomy &t oncol ” e ‘Whon Jerr Davis was Prosident of tho fonth. orn Cunfedaracy, h ued & prozlswstion, from shich the follawing Ia au oxtract 1 pronounce and doclars Baxsaxin F, BUTLas to by & falon deserving of capital panlabinent, 1 do ordor 1hat ho b no longor eona'dsrd of trowad as a pubiie enemy of ihe Couf derato Sta' e 1 f Amarias, but 81 an it aw sud conmon ausmy of snankiad, wud {hat, in tho event of hix capture, ¢ 16 officer in vomn-n i nf ihy capturiug force do'canno him $0 Lo {mmatiulety ree “nt:d by fnping, Aud 1 4> further ordac that ng vo nmsuding oxleer of the United Hta'en 14k ointive sliall b paroled before exolaugs untis the sald BucLry #hll havo met with dus pinisiment for bls orimay, Tu -t all commanding 0% ¢za in tho com-nanl of &1 B F. Burzen aro devlered not sntltiod 10 be conud. evod o4 noldlers ans s sod fn honcrible warfate, butay ronbers and crimiuais daserving deitu, and thit thyy and exch of tbom be, wiiesorar caplured, resecrod far sxecution, And this g the man whom Binwxr CAvLFizLy and CArTER 11, HaRRisoN aod other Congress. men of tiac 1)k jusint shall bavo amnasty thrust upon, in order that bs may retura to bis old seat in the Beoate, and bo oligiblo for tho Presidoncy whaa the Coafedorate Democracy come [nto powor, ' Vo et o Dutiog & pause {n the debate In tho Housseg the Ampaety bill, & Republican from Ohlo went in through the lobby upon the foor by the lavi. tation of one of the Obio Ropublican mombors, and took bi« sland near tho Glork's desk, Tho ‘Doorzeapor tas an ex-Rebol, wno bad replaceda ono-a' med Union soldier, Our rolator way mis. takoa for a Confedarate, aud a knot of Confeds around bim wont on with thelr proviona com. monts oo tho eituation, addrossing them in part toblm. 5aid ove, Wby don’t our elda pul n stop by this damued dabato?” Tho renly was, #sJust bocause DLArve's oo sharp for Ranvaty and the wholo pi'e.of us, but {t’s sonding tha party to helll Why couldn't Bz Hiut baw kopt bis mouth shut, and not drawn dowa thir {ofernal lot of tostimony on tho Andorsonvilll bu-ineas?” *Yes," chimed in a third, *you ey fhey've got therecord on us in black and whits, Thot's where wo're woakl " ——— A Union goldler reslding in Aurors, IiL, after roadiug Bex HiLr's spescl, recalls tho fallowing lenf fo Hicr's military careor: * Bex HiLL, tho Georgla Congressman, 1~4 @ foltha —n Oennral of Homo Guards in Georgia and Alabato: in which capacity, st the hesd (whon thoy starte homo) of about 8K * moss-backs,” he undertook tt drive back, from Telladegs, Ala., April 23, 1865, abual elghty soldlors of tho Secnd Michigan ‘cavalry, bul BEsaauns chanded bis miod (as hie latoly chauged bie speech), and, withia five minutes ofter the firet rifias ABoL. 18 was Lusy digglog the soul outof a nobls Soutliorn mule, wilhi & big oalc of Apurs and aul s the hiead of Lis'command, ~Tha * General ¥ latt on {he flold Mm(fllmi that was uot fustonad to him, snch ar two ) ate. nrtitlery (two ploces), pack-mulos, overcoats, blankets, Iis Dot otc. 414 commund dld not_again ge togelhel until tha dey of B, 1LY e'oction to Cougross, It may bo Loy hiave seateered again, It 1a atatod that the St, Louls Dridgo won't pla any fnterest for thirty years yot, Wlan tho Obicago Obrics tian hiesrs of this, ho'll Iny dowa fu tue straw and roll for jos.~HAroorlyn Arguz Uudoubtealy the amount of businers coming to St. Louis will not bo eufMiclont to permit of & Bridge dividend from that sourco for thirty yoars tocoma; but thoso pecunlazily interested lo the structure are irm In tho belief that the toils do. rived from B8t. Louisans moving to Chicago will bo 80 largo, duriug the period necessary to s come plote migration, us to ylold & very Landsoms proflt on thelr investment. ————————— 5 WWrLLIAK JoNES, who may bo addroesod at the Soldiers' Home, near Milwaukes, is an applicant for a pension. e dosircs witnessos to teatify to bis utanding fo the army. He was n momber of Company O, First Kontacky Voluntoors, Any poraon having auy information a8 to the where- abouts of any membors of that Company will confer & favor by forwardivg it to Mr, Joxss, who Is bliod and In déatitate circumatances. FERSONAL, Charles Nordhofr'a lottors from the Bonth ta the Herald aro o be publisned by the Harpots in book-form, Bir David Wilkle, the English painter, ob. tained bis model of **an old womau " In 1he per- sonof his friead Jackson, the sculptor. The World appositely quotes Emoraon's saying that an artist **would grind up bis Irieuds for paint® The London gossips try to make It sppeat {hst the Princess Beatrice, if she has her way, will marry a tradoaman, fn order to avoid the carking cares which her sister, the Princest Louieo, and the Marguis of Loras have sus tained. Prof. Pepper baa retirod from the drsmath profesalon after su oxporionce of one night in 8t, Louls, Heroofter he will bave the part of the Alchemist acted by somebody olse, whils b sianda bebind the scones and attends to the op tical effoats, E Qol. Uenry Gilderaleove, the famous rifloman, lins alraady becomo » terror to evil-doers in hit now position of Judge of tho Conrt of Genersl Seanions, Ho sendanp guilty men for terms of clghtoon yeats oatof a poasiblo twouty, Itit enoagh to bring tears to s bull's eye. A grandson of Dr, Lemprlore, the suthor ol the * Ciassical Dictionary,” is liviog in gresl poverty in Somersotahire, England, He hsd geinad o precarions livelihood by blif-posting, but owlng to sicknosa lie and his famlly are lofl in want. Anappeslis madein a London papet 1o hua bohatf, Dr. John Hall.6aid to his congrogation lsst wuudny morning : *I hats Lo have this oburch cafled mino ; I liate to soe it in tho nowspapor callod Dr, Hall's Chuich. Itis not mi yours and yourchildrou's, or rather it 18 Qlrist's, the Lord's” Itceriainly is not the ohurchof the poor In spirit. 0 The London Saturday Reviet, {n discussiog the Beochor scandal, says that tho tolerance which is shown to couduct like that of M Bocolier, even sdmitting that he is not gulity o the specific erimos charged against him, agordi a0 indication of & goneral unsoundacss of opls: jon and morality in thiscountry. Mra, Oatos and company aro enjoyiog a mosl prosperous sesson in Olucinpsti, standing-room belog I roqueat as evory porforinance, There port that ehe i3 to bo marricd to a minlater' ron, In tus presenco of sn sudtonce, by Floreace McCarthy or DeWilt Telmage, s thought 8 Jack tho ossontial elomont of truth. A fanoy atory lu told of two Vermont farment who sro not Grapgers. They inducod theld wives to joln aud report before they would vom* mit thersaslyes, Now, whea they will, they csd« not. Two blackballe groot every spplioatios. Meanwhilo tho wives go rogularly and triumphe antly to every meeting of ths Grange, sod the men stay st Lome to miod tha Labios. Tho Yalo Senlora are going with tholr Profes wora bext Baturdsy night to soe tho performancd ot **Julius Creass st Booth’s Theatrs, Double less thoy think fhey have made a great adranct from tho old-fogy idoas of tholr fatheray bub whon their sona lekve collsgs to appesrin opers: boufe, they will thiok that It is the age which grows, and that grawthls motalways hLeslby and baautiful, Tho appolutmont of AL Heary Vignaud tobs Becond Beoratary of Logation at Paris has 0t snrprise thore, Hi very ablo and accomplished man, and s jouraxilst Wbd bLas arrivod at the hoad of hid profosion. Af editor of the Afemorial Diplomatique he heldt waluablo position, which brought him in mort money than ho can make in offics, For thess rosnons, the acceptance of tho office by bimll considercd a groat sacrifloa, Den Dill, tho Southern Congressman Whe o1f 80 conspioucus in the Iate amoest! debate, stauds about B faat 10 Inchas, is of brosd and strong frame, bas & brown beard, cutshort aud wtroaked with gray, In form sud dress e woold bs takeo foran old farmer, Yo manad? and expression be looks like & Jodge. Biroth big, by ludly faatusen dee Lighted uy I8