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

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 187G. Y his succossors from the danger of thiserzor | in the Patont Office, s ¢t stran in eatimating the exnct character of the pix- | that Wirorn beeamo wildest and slaughtoreq doning power, it will be well for the Logitln- | tho parents responsible for his uncoversy turs to croato an Advisory Council to aasist | Jogs In infancy and the wifo who made thy tlio Governor in d(f«pofilng of applicationa for | averalls of mnturity too short ? o said, as. pardon. ‘Thia it mey do under the new Gan® | cording to tho dispatches, that ho ronlly magy atitution, which says: * ond tho trouble " now, But instead of da. ‘The Governor ahall isvo power'to grant repriesol, | {ng 4o with needlo and thread aud longlhen. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. NATTS 67 SUNSCRIPTION (PATABLE ‘!,lmAMuu). Ing nt 97.30@7.86. Tho cnttle trade was | est importers. When imported silks aro sold | is by reducing tho duth Anyhody buta dull at weak and irregular prices. Snles at | by wholssale in New York 30 per cent chienp- | 100l will seo or o knave admit that. Tho 22.50@6.00. SBheep were octiva and firm. | er than their cost in Europe, Lonest importa- | prosont duties on hundreda of nrticles are One hundred dollars in gold would buy | tions become n losing business. substantially prohibitory, and yield littlo or £113.12} in greenbacks at the close, Tho proposed Tarifi bill should pnss, even | no revenue, Tho framers of the excessivo = = it it had no other merit than that it abolishes | imposts thereon intended they should bo ; If two days of cold wenther end snow fur- | tho ad talorem dutics on cotton, woolen, and | thoy were mado excessive for two purposes, nish any reliable basia for judgment, wo may iron goods. The repenl of those dutics repenls | first, to enable the Enstern makers of imilar fanot less than $40,000,000. A small por- tion of this is protoctive and the rost s col- lected ns revonue, The talk of ‘‘n frea brenkfast,” with sugar tazxed from 50 to 70 per cent, is ono of those absurdities which mark the demagogue or the ignoramus, In England thore is no tax on sugar, nor in {kere any tax on nny nrticlo pertaining to tho Matled to aay sddrers Fo0R llln' !SKHT{(BA Literary and I WEZXLY EDITION, POSTPAID. 3 t v . H tations, and pardons, afler conviction, far all ot yo assumo that winter has finally arrivad, al- | practically the logal means offered to all man- | articles to chargo high prices for their goods, | breakfnst or dinner table, oxcept ton and cof- [ SR MEEE B0 P O ot o ing tho legs of hisovoralls, ho took nn ay (8:5&'1,"‘;:;&' i tliongh ot a very late period in the season, | ner of frauds now committed. et tho value | and secondly, to ruppress ‘rovenue by | fee. Our brenkfnst-tabla pays tax on overy- e B e b vided by Iaw relative (o the msnner of applyiogthers. | And shortoned tho livesof hisfomily. Thon, for. by dint of razor and rope, he did end his owg Under this provision, the Legislature may | trouble, 1fis wifo mny, it is said, recover, create n Pardoning Board which shall pass | If shio doos ro nnd marrics n second husbang, upon applieations beforo they go to the Gov- | it is anfe to say that the overalls sho makes ornor. Buch n system hns been adopted in | for him could ho relicd upon to it Gotarn, somo of tho Edstern States, on nccoumnt of | tho Colossus of Rhodes, or Long Jous Weyp the scutimontal way in which Govarnors | wonti, abusod the pardoning power, and, we bedieve, E 5 A e with good romults, 1t is not necessary that | Tho Inter-Otcan copies tho following son, such a Bonrd shiould b elected in nddition to | tenco from nn editorint which appearadiy tho other State officors, but cortnin ofiicers, Tue Citcago TnipuNe in 15.“-""‘"1'5"'1 yoars including tho Altorney-General and ono or | 840—nnd males it tho basis of a protection more members of the Suprame Cotrt, might ‘r;']::'“(;nmma FERaA |'=l 45 i bo dosignated to nctin this capacity. An 2 : ey Adsisory Honxlof, this Kind would both aselst | S e neties o f sod ot oy doae oy ] tho Governor and aid in the proper dispensn. § War the imposing debt rendered fta continuance tion of justico. Tho provision for pardoning | *eemingly necomsary.” condemned eriminals was nover intended to Whotig staled in this extract was true bo employed for sontimental purposos, but to fll.en, nud there is nothing initin conflicy onnble tho Btate to correct nny injnstico that | With the position of Toe TamuNe on thy mny lavo been done by the unavoldablo | tarif question now. An increase of thy suppression of evidenco or to avoid unneces- | YUY low torifl of 1867 a5 o reveniue meatury sary crnelty in visiting tho pains of a peni- did, of course, Lecomo 1 “"“?‘"y after the tentinry upon men who may have hecomo Rebellion broke out, The tariff of 1857 wa hopeless invalids or insane, It is mora lkely | 013 intended to produce enough rovent for that o Board of conveniont accoss and compo. | Hi0 support of tha Government in time of tent membership would arriva nt tho truth of [ Ponco and when it wna outof debt. Ths the applications, and it {s loss likely thot such | $¥iff of 1801 was imposed professedly asa o Board would be betrayed into personnl mo- | FeVORUa measure; but many additions wers tives, than n singlo person invested with ob- | Afterwards mado thereto on the pratonse of solute power both in the premises and in the revenue, but really for tha benefit of "E’mfl finnl disponition of the cases that come befors interests. It was loaded down witl ndditiony him. Some member of the Legislaturo may made from motives of gran.d and selfishuess, ‘best serve his'State, perbaps, by preparing o ::‘r"y":;; ‘::;:’ BI0r "i"n‘;.’:y ‘: thh:peclalr]:llr < et X ere is in tho oporations of the Sehemms foF lw““ Whisky Rings. What Tor Tripuss advocates TIIE DISTRICT RING, is o fariff for rovenne so arranged and lovieday TIn 1869 the looker-on in Washington saw | to boar lightest on the great consuming pub. from the back-door of the Capitol a strag- { lie. Thoe present hotch-potch of a tariff is gling city on a rolling surfaca mainly com- | not so framed. Many articles of universal posed of mud, marsh, and morass, The ex- | consumption and necessity are outrageonsly treme inconvenience of living in o mud-hole, | taxed. Other articles, such as ten nnd coffce, tho distance of fthe holo from the centre of | are not taxed at nll. The whole systom as it the country, and its exposed situation, 8o { stands on tho rtatute-books to-day is one for plainly shown in the War of 1812 and in the | protection of specinl interests, with irei. Rebellion, led to an carnest demand for the | dental revenue, instend of being a tariff for removal of the Oapital. This scared tho pol- | revenue with incidontal protection, which iticlnna and placemen of the city, the prop- | was all the Whigs claimed in the days erty-owners, whoso lands would be. valuable { of Hexny Crav. The revisod tarif only for uso s the raw material of mud-piesif | introduced™ by the Chairman of thy tho Copital wero moved, and the speculntivo | Woya nnd Means Committeo propoges Congressmen, Senators and Ropresentatives, { to reform the dishonest features of tho ex. who were gambling in options on eligible { isting system of dutics, and at the samo time Dits of mornss and quagmire. A gigantio sys- | make it a bottor rovenue tariff. It will yield tem of improvements was at once detormined | moro revenuo than the present imposts, many upon, The American attachment to suck o | of which are prohibitory. It will do away system—a Ring—speedily became appavent. | withithogreater partof the frauds by underval. It wos o well-equipped Ring, with n Boss | uations, adulterations, perjury, and complici. | ond o sot of satellites in tho shepo of con. | ty of rovenuo officers, which a complex sys tractors, lobbyists, and men who live on | tem of ad valorem valuations is sure to cause, “percentages.” All sorts of work was done. | It ia a great reform of tho existing ovil tarifl. Sewers wero built. Strects woro graded. | Its ennctment will be of incalculablo benefil Valleys were filled and hills cut down. | to the industrinl interests of tho country, and Eversbody who had o patent pave- | also to tho morals of importers and rovenut ment, and understood how to loy it in | officors. accordance with tho doctrines of addition, TR division, ond silenes, sprend cement, and Wa tnko the following from tho Crawfori pin, ond asphalt over the ovenuca, Droud “333 .’ii".Zém fact thst these farmors who are the streots were oponed in evory direction,—every Qirectian, thut ta, 3 which the Ting oWnod | oo e e e raat of land. And finally jobbory and robbery led | our largest plantors who treat tho negrosa working for to their legitimato result. 'Tho Distriot wag | them exscily aathey did thelr alaves, working them from daylight to sundown, allowing no fdling; and it head over heels in debb, Its finances woro darky trospasses aoy of o ralcs, hols tied up snd " The postage Is 15 conts & your, which we will prepay. Specimen coples sent freo, To prevent delay and mistakes, b wurs and glve Poat-Offica sddress In fall, Including Stateand Count Remittances may be made either by draft, expr Post-Office order, or in registered lettars, st our risk, TR Daily, dalivered, Bunday excepled, Daily, delivered, Bundsy included ddress THE TRIBUN Corner Madizon ond Dearborn-sti posc e bt i sinco spring will bo upon us in little less | bo properly or improperly enterod in the in- | suppressing importation, But wo are told than four weeks. Btormsaro raging about | voices, the duty is herenfter to Lo assessed on | thore are * two millions of laborers out us in all directions, east and weat. Boneas | pounds, yards, and dozens. Under the pres- | of employment.” If snch aro tho disnstrous scems to bo looso and raging Mke o lion, and | ent tariff wo hnve the complication of both | resnlts under an ultra.protectivo tariff, s it yet to-dny may be balmy ngain ns a dny in | apecific and ad valoren duties on the same | not high time that it should bo reformed in June. Itis tobo hoped not. Wo need win- | nrticles, Tho new tarilf also abolisen the | order that tho wheels of industry and com- fer now until tho end of it nllotted term. | requirement to Include the boxing, cartnge, | merco mny again rovolve? 1t thoso two Wo can endure it during the next few weeks | and incidental expeuses nttending the sbip- | millions of jdle laborera aro to ba set at work, with more patience than wo can the hent of | ment of goods in the valuation for dutisble | a market must bo fonnd for the products of next sammer without jco or lco at starvation | purposes. their Iabor, It will naver bo found whilo tha prices, The farmers need winter even moro > g 2 system of obstruction is retained that pro. {han tho peoplo in cities, for their pork is | THE "“"“V“"'.}‘o{’,"g.?#}‘ -JOURRAL AND |\t oxportation of manufacturce. 'Tho souring on their hands, and they cannot get Tho Touisville Courier~fournal of a recent | home market is glutted, and tho back-wa- their wheat nnd corn to matket, owing Lo tho | fqyo replies to Tne Cntcado Tninose upon | terof * protection™ pravents an outllow to bad condition of tho ronds. If Ol Probn- | i1y general question of npproprintions ng | other countrics of the surplus productions bilities, thereforo, can grant us three of [ yoigean tho North and Sonth, and specially | of tho loom, anvil, andyforge. four weeks of winter, and report snow and [ ypon tho guestion of Governmont sid to — i ico in liberal quontities, and numerous arens | oy Soorr's Toxns-Pacifie scheme. Before PRIZE-MONEY AND BRIBERY. of low bnromoter, ho will confer a VEry | ponlying totho latter, we will briefly refer to That was o fine sentenco .whlch Nezsoy grataful boon atike upon the people of eity | ono'or two of its statements regarding the | FaR UP at the mast-iead of his fl'ng-shx_p at aud country. former. The Courier-Journal expressos ft- u;" :’1"‘“"‘1‘:"%"“‘“‘3“;; 1}‘{'-‘;:‘ ‘{‘“tl"’"“ "‘5 = itori ¢ of tho words: ** England expects Wa cannot vouch for ot peprt bt | SE1f 8 at o loss to undertand our tereitoriat :viry :‘x'ngn to do his duty.” lf‘ut tlmnpnnd we havo been told by a formes attache of Tnx Tmus. | location of the proposed railrond and insists . i b T e e tie campensation for {he sersicesof | upon it that it is o Southern rond, In tho | 8inco in the English navy and in ours, tho that paper to the Cobden Uiub *came in tho slnpo of | Nox) when wo spenk of the North and words really used to clicer tho sailor hnve 410,000 2ol checks, and Honacr Warrs put tho cocks | oy’ in ponarnl torms and without smy | beem: ** Your country expects you to do in Lin own pocket,” The emploseatated that ho aot —— your duty, partly becauso ybu onght to do so his fnformation from cne of the stockhotders, who, In speeial explanation, wo always menn the old o moment of tndiscretlon, bad vaoted his wrath apon | freo States and the old slavo States. Tho and partly becauso Bhn‘oflm you an enor- Mr, Whire's bead for bis aclish actlons.—Chicage | Torritories nre meither North nor South. n;nnn‘bnho for dgmg it” Txh: ‘W:l"dls s{lstem Journal, of prize-money i3 wrong. inflicts heavy Wa aro very much surprised that Mr. Wit~ ;:x:y“?::'n!\%):o: e;zm;'dm:; ‘:;- :\l";rxf]:t ,g; losses npon tho mation ; it breeds envy and sox should permit fo false, seandalous, and § ) oy gy milrondsgl tho old freo States | bad Dlood in the army; and it saps tho libelous a charge to appear in the columns e menn(’ endihen-wa sneik of valleonds moralo of the navy. It originated ot of hisnewspaper. We cannot believe that in the Szm'th ko salliak daqun tho old slave | B timo when naval ‘warfaro was largely any * formes attache of Tite TRIBUNE" OVCr | g0 omenne Tn thugsonse, thorond fanot | Carried on by privateers. In order to seeuro told anybody so lying a story, and we shall | P C Nl The Courter~Tournal | S8il0rs for the regular navy, it was necessary bo grontly obtiged -to tho editor of the Jour- | L1 v yhe fact that this road will bo of no | 0 bid high, and tho bid was put in the shinpo nal_if o will give us the nmo of that benefit to seven or eight of the Sonthern of prize-money. It is arelic of frecbooting. tformer attacle,’ Wo do ot believo that [ getiCt 0 SSL 8 VB P ohiom, that | The privatcer on sen and thoguerrilla on land Mr. Horack Wmnre ever received from the it wm‘nnt be built by Southern men n’m‘ by have fallen into disrepute, but the worst fea- Cobden Club, or nny other elub, or from an5' | g0 mones, and that the profits of ig tures of the formor are preserved in the rules individual, tho valuo of one cent, or any ;om!ruction will inure to the benefit of a | GoVerning the navies of the two great mori- greater sum, for any article on tha tariff qnes- Construction Ring at Philadelphin. Again, time powers of the world. Mr. Witrts, of tion he ever inserted in tho columus of Tne savs tho Courier-Journals. ngelofnmgon; ‘New York, hins done well in introducing into Citcaco Tonoxe. One thing, howover, ds | (5 orary has been 1;-l'one s dants the Houso o bill designed to abolish the pay- absolutely certain, which is, that the present the clni];ls of ouly ane section when huuL::leu ment of prize-money. It should bo passed. editor of Tux Trizuse never before heard the wero 1o bo bosto 50 2. and todsites anon SHe Tho system costa the nntio}:, in timo of defamatory report which the Journal pub- | oo " e untiom;l watotioe nng unity | F8% enormous sums. Tlhie monaey distributed Tishes, and if any of the stockliolders of Tme | Fr P e &8 o e ormod | Among the officers and men of our blocknd Tnisuse had aver made such n charge, or be- 'fllisyi 5 0 serions misstatement ofpfuct. Tm: squadrons, during the last War, is enid to lioved thera was foundation for it, he thinka it | qot o or bos never deniod the claims of one liave nmounted to nearly $40,000,000. This would have come to his knowledge. Mr. seclio;l us against tho other, and, since the was n dead loss to tha nation. 'The people Warre isnot in the city at present, of We | ,yletion of the Union I"uciflc Railroad | Bupplied all tho capital, tho vessels, equip- should have waited for him to chiaracterize | 3410 discovery that the Government had muent, ammunition, fuel, and wages, neces- tho foul ealumny iu his own wn; put it hands into the firo and burned them sary for the z.:nptm'a of tho blockade-runnors, it hag consistently and continuslly opposed nli and then lot its employes, fllxcndy Yell paid, subsidies and spocisl tases and bounties and | $8k0 all the profits. This is much na if 4. T Government nid of any description for the Stz.\v gz, aftor furnishing oYery cm'xl of the Vonelt of iudividunls, 1f the Courier-Journa | Sopial ceded to corey on bis business and hins not discovered this fact, it has not read | POYIRE tho salaries of all his clerks, should bo Tue Tamose either with attontion or intelli- called upon to divido all the profits among gence. Another point made by Tre Trmune the latter, , Ao ia ignored nltogother by tho Courier-Journal. | The system makes on unjust dlstinction 1t does not. explain whnt benefit this rond | between tho army and navy, ono that is bit- will bo to Kentucky, It docs not show us | terly felt by tho former. During tholato what goods tho people of Kontucky have to ‘War, tho capture of o thousand bnlcs.nf cot- distributo over Arizons and Now Moxico, or | ton by soldiers yiclded the l'ntler nothing but what products thoy expect to derive from honor; their capture by sailors yiclded not thence, unless they have found some profita. | 0nly Lonor, but plenty of hard cash besides. ble commercial uses for sand, voleanic rocks, | There was neither reason nor justice in this, and cactuses. Tho Red River campaign was a mero ma- ‘Wo come now to the specific object of the rauding r""“?v in which Basgs' army wa Courier-Journal's importunity, Tox Scorr's used as a cat’s-paw for the gunbonts, which thing excopt ten and coffee. The tax on tea and coflee is the most deair- ablo of all taxes, becauso it produces more revenne in proportion to the tax, and be- cause it does not increndo tho cost of tho arti- cles to the consumors, Wo repenled tho tax threo yeats ngo under a combination of ignorance nand cowardice on the part of o ‘mnjority of Congress. Wo lost the revenuo and did not reduce taxation. The Sceretary of tho Trensury has officinily informed Con- gross that as soon as wo ropenled the duty on ten and coffea the prices of thoso articles were advanced at the placo of growth by local and other charges. The difference between tho operations of n tx on ten and coffeo and o tax on other im- ports, so far as rovenuo and taxntion are con- cerned, isso atriking that any ono can seo it at n glanco. In 1871 wo imported ten which produced 8,323,000 rovenue, and cofee which produced $10,869,000, nnd cot- ton manufactures which produced $10,773,- 000, There wero also produced and sold in tho United States cotton goods to the amount of $165,000,000, Theso figures show tho following comparative results: ‘Atticics, Valio. | Ta Cotton, forelgn. Cotton, domesti WOOD'S MUSEUM--)fonroa atrest, between Dearo born anid Btate, _Afternoon, ** Lidden Hand,” Even- ing, ** Ticket-of-Leave Man,” McVICKER'S THEATRE—Madison stzeat, helween Dearborn and Blate, Lugsgement of Dan De Biar. * Micawber," ADELPHT THFATRE—Deatborn atrest, cormer Monroa., Varlety perormance. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Afadison and Monroo, *' Bar TIOOLEY'S THEATRE—Tandolph sirfel, between Clark and Ladalle, * Tuc California Mlustrels.” . @he Ehiago Tribune, Thursday Mormng, Februery 3, 1870, ! street, botween Ra Greenbacks nt the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at B8}, Pk §191,58790 570 $ 14,274,158 8,322,005'8 8,322,995 19,428,698| 10,96,035] 10,969,098 e — Slightly warmer wenther, to be followed by another freezer, are the conditions pre- dicted for this region to-day. A — 1t will bo seen that the peoplo of the Unit- ed States pnid a fraction over $19,000,000 tax on tco and coffee, and that the wholo of that tax went into the Treasury; that in the same timo they paid over §70,000,000 tax on cotton goods, of which only 10 conts on the dollar was paid into the Treasury,~—tho other 90 cents on the dollar having been spe. cial bounty, Tho tax on tea and coffee i o tax for revenue, and tho tax on cottons o tax for protection. By repenling tho tox on ten and coffeo Con- gress raduced taxation just 19,000,000 and reduced revenuo precisely to tho samo amount, Now, hnd Congress ropealed tho catiro duty on cotton goods, it would have reduced taxation $70,000,000 and reduced rovenuo only $10,000,000. There aro other things as sacred as ten and coffee, and quito s indisponsablo for human comfort. We have referred alrcady to the orticles of sugar and molasses, from which the Government collects twice as much rave- nue os it does from tea and cofico combined. Thero are persons in the country outsido of Congress who wear shirts and other under- clothing of cotton as well 85 of wool, and who, if requeed to tha alternative of dispens- ing with them or with tea nnd coffeo, swould prefer to give up tho latter. Boots and shoes aro nlso as ** sacred " and as essential to hu- man comfort as ten and coffes, and yot all theso articles, as woll as every description of clothing, aro taxed excossively, not for reve- nue, but on the partnership plan of 10 cents to tho Government and 90 cents to support tho protected paupers. In the face of theso notorious facta therewill be men in Congross Oxford Universily will not accept Max MoueLLer's resignation, but will give hima deputy who shnll do all the work and shure in the salary, lenving Max frea to pursue his studics of Indian literature Springfield getting along qnite com- fortably without the services of tho polico- men discharged by Mayor Flav, and, as the firemen hold themselves in readiness to re- spond to firc-olarms as usual, fhe policy of cocrcion and revenge seems to hove resuited in reducing expenses without damnge or dan- ger to the tax-payers. Tho same Wnashington dispatch which slates thot the Democrats will opposo the restoration of the tax upon tea aud coffeo conveys the information that the ITonse Committee on WarClnims hos before it bills aggregating $20,000,000. There i3 n total of about £40,000,000 involved in this com- bination, and it is not on the eredit side of the Government balauce-she: THE NEW TARIFF. - Tha bill proposed by Mr. Morn1sox for the simplification of the tariff is in many respects admirably arranged. Apart from the repeal of oppressivo taxation on many things enter- ing into various branches of manufacturo, and the reduction of other taxes to a point whore they will produce an incrense of reve- nue, the bill is especially commendable be- causo of its simplification of the tax itself. ‘The present tariff imposes a duplicated tax on a majority of the principal importa. Thus, a tax on cotton goods was made up of n epecific rato per square yard and an addi. tional tax of 20 per cent. In this way 100 square yards of cotton cloth valued at 8 centa per square yard paid the following tox : The Treasury Deportment exhibit for Jan. uary shows that the totnl expenditares of the Government for the six months ending Dee. 31, including interest on the public | debt, were ©141;193,205. Bonds to the amount of $3,594,700, deposited by Nntional Banks as security for circulation, were with. | drawn during the past month, and about §2,000,000 of National Bank currency was zatired. The House Committee on Education and Tabor are engaged in the consideration of several bills having for their object the ap- s 8t 8 cent, t 3 in inextricnble confusion. At this point, | asound thmshing sdministersd to him; then, H be ropristion for educational purposes of tl‘m i oS oF B etithrs 2% | Texas-Pacifio scheme, Wa would like to ask | took on board tho cotton reized by tho sol- | who will object to a purcly rovenuo tax of | oo vy interfored. Every possiblo scheme | loaves, the employer hunts him up, brings him back, prop Soli i diers, ond then clnimed and collected ty millions of dollars "Thls gen, res futuro procacds of the uzle of public Tands, | HoChe o o iiverad ta Usiied Histen, 1013 | tho Courder-Journal what objoction it Lsa to ers, ud then claimed and collocted prize- | ten to twenty millions of dollars on tea and { ¢ gomocratio represantative government hind | 824 doubles the dose, orally makes an cffect: il wi ivi o1 BEunenears 168 | o iforaia capltalists building the rosd out of | mORCY on it. This sharp trick was played | coffeo, but who will insist on retaining taxen | boon tried for tho District, and all had failed, [ 1aleare od e offendoer seatmes work, Towtes o A bill will probably bo reported, giving to p 2 n i i wa " the comuson schools of every Siate, ceord, | Jlate per cout of 83 | their own money, with the aid of the original | 0gsin snd ngain down tho Mississippi and | to the amount of two or three hundred mill- good band, and ta anxious to hirs (o tho sxme mn 3 - So tho theory of reprosentation was aban- doned, and three Commissioners were op- pointed, .with instructions to complete the work that had been begun and would be ruined if loft alono, and to issue 3.65 bonds in order to raiso the monoy. But somebody hod blundered, Thers wan a loop-hole through which the Commissioners thrust any numbor of now contracts and $16,000,000 more of 3.05 bonds. Bor these, issued un- der o natipnal law, the nation is responsible. They have been placod cn tho market at from GO to 6% par cont in greenbacks, and will have to be redecemed at par. And un- loss Congress doos eomething, mars will bo pot out. Another form of government hns brokon down. ‘Tho nation must psy tho debts incurred by the Ring and increased by tho Commissioners. Ina time of profound penco tho public debt has been increased $16,000,000, for which the City of Washing- ton has, say, $9,000,000 worth of work, much of it usoless, to show, (OVERALLS AN 'RDER. ‘The tragio ond the comic are not infre- quently combined in cases of crimo, Ono of tho instances of this rule is the low comedy and terrible tragedy of Taesday at Esst Lyn- don, Vt. Beeauso Mrs. Sinas WinLpEs mado o poir of overalls too short, S1uas stabbed her, knocked down his father, 73 years old, with an nx, cut his venorablo mother to pleces with the sawmo weapon, then, returning to his father, who had meantimo crawled focbly into tho Litchen, fustencd his gray hairs to tho floor by a single ukull-c_mnhiug blow, and ended hin muck-running carcer by cutting lisown throat end hanging himeaclf. And all this beeauso his overalls wero too short. 1t is fortunate that no greater evil vexed his gonl, If he had scratched his finger, he might hava slaughtered all East Lyndon, If hobad tumbled down on his knee-pan, Vermont might be an uninliabited wilderness to-day. And if a falling brick hod erpcked his crazy- bone, there is no knowing bat that he would have massacred all New Eugland. If short overalls affect the rural mind in this manner in Vermont, tho Legistaturoof that State should by all means mako the production of a pair of nbbreviated breeches sufiiciont causo for dissolving the marringe-tie. Most women would prefer being divorced to being inur. dered. Perhaps in his early youth Sras WiLper wos obliged by ecouomical paronts to wear trousers too short for him. Ilis playmates may Lave bailed him, boy-fashion, with ghouts of *Ifo! legs!" *'See his shinnka!” and similar playful outeries, Mo may have translated toga oirilis into **long pantaloons,” and rejoiced at entering man’s estate principally because it enabled him to cnst off his semi-ITighland garb and drape hie ehina and ookles in flowing breech- es. * This anticipation waa very likely doomed to dissppointment, The country tailor s apt to economizo in cloth by cutling off his pantaloons aa near the knce as possi- ble. Isitnota sign of the Granger that his pants flap around the tops of his unblacked boots? Evon when they ahow the creases of the shop-shelves,” thoy genorally display a foot or 50 of boot-leg. And so Simas WiLorn may have even yearncd in voin forlong pauta. loond. When his very wifo finally disap- pointed Limn and presented him with a pair of ovaralls abont the length of the breaches which WasmyaroN wore.on state’ ooca: slous, and which ere still presarved Under the present tariff, this cotton had at the Castom-House to be messured, weighed, the pumber of threads to the square iuch counted, ond its foreign value nscertained. ‘The now bill abolishes the ad salorem tax and reduces that on the cotton. Specific duties of so much per pound or square yard are gubstituted for the ad talorem. The same wholesomo reform is madoe in the duties on wools and woolen goods and on iron and steel mannfactures. There is no greater sourco of fraud and corruption in the collection of revenue from imports than the ad valorem system. It opons the doors to dishonesty on the part of the importor, and offors ns extensivo opern- tions for bribery and blackmail on the part of the revenuo officer. Under that system there is o continuous robbery of tho rovonuo by the connivance of dishonest importers and reve. nue ofticers, and o constant opportunity for rovenno officers to extort blackmail from hon- eat importers. Under that systemn a morchant who buya goods in Europe is compelled to have them invoiced, not at the prico he actu- ally pays, but at the currentprice of the day; ho must include in the juveico the cost of boxing, cartage, freight to tho placo of ship- mnont, wharfage, aud other petty and 1ninor expenscs, and these are jncluded in the for. eign valuation of tho goods. If, by nccident, any of these items be omitted, the whole in. voice of goods is forfeited and tho importer subjected to o henvy fine. Tho vigilant rev- enue officer discovering such an error, in- volving but nloss of & fow cents of revenue, is armed with the power of inflicting heavy losses on the importer, and demandsa con. siderstion for bis silencs. The morchant who contracts in January ot the prices of thiat time, for goods to be manufactured and delivered in Muy, makes ont his invoice at the contract price, which may be made lower or higher than the prico in May, In cose the prico in May bo greater than the con. tract, ho must alter bis invoice and know- ingly swear that ho bought them at the prices in May, or, it he invoice them at the price actually paid, tho whole invoice s sub- ject to confiseation, aud he becomes subjoct to penaltics of false wwearing and frauds upon the revenuo. ‘The dishonest importor, by connivance with the revenue officer, lu- voices his goods at one-third less than thoy cost, or, as in recent cases, invoices cases ox containing o class of cheap and inferior goods, when in fact they aro filled with costly goods; the confederate in the Custom-House passes the whole thing o4 invoiced, and the revenue is defrouded accordingly. It is to the interest of overy importer, where his goods are taxed by valuation, to keopa Cus. tom-Tlouse officer under liberal pay, and o very large number of the revenuo ofticers would willingly serve the Governmont with- out pay rather than lose the opportunities which these offices offer, It jssnfu to ussume that one.third of the law- ful revonue from customs arw never collected because of the frauds comnmitted under the ad valorem system by dislonest inporters and yevenue officers. The whisky frauds sink into insignificance, financially, when com- pured with those committed on the revenue from custowns. As the sale of crooked whisky interfered with and destroyed the profits of the wmen doing an houest business, so the fraudulent importations of the dishonest im. porters is deatructive of the business of hone another yoar, Tho employer has got value recelred out of his hands, aud i3, consequently, able to pay full wages, Govorn your hands, and all wlil bs better matiafied. Let them govern yon, and the couse try will soon go to tho dogs. By the side of the abovoe choles extract from 8 Goorgia paper wo place the following ad. vortisoment cat from an Alabama paper, the Oxford T'ribune: TWENTY DOLLARS BEWAND, 1 will pay the above raward for a colored boy named MoKNEAT, Who ran away from my placa last Hatun day night, tho2th fnst, ~ Said boy was sold at suction f0r stoaling $10 from the Woodstock ron Campany's store, snd waa bound to me for five months, nine dspt and a half hard labor & cover damsgos.- % TAYLOR DEAMAY. From tho rending of these two oxtractsit will appear that tho South is rapidly getting back its patrinrchinl institution, and that the negro is once more bought and sold and com: ing under the lash as in the good old days of slavery. Theso things are happening in the Stato from which Bry TIrLr, went to Congress hugging tho Constitution and all its amends ments to his bosom, and in the State where Tooxss bonsts that ho hos intimidated ond terrified tho nogrdes liko beasts. Thoy show very clearly the drift of things in the South. It only nceds the clection of a Demacratio President next fall to permanently establish slavery in form, thongh possibly without the name, aud to ensble tho Bouth to got the profits of compulsory labor without tho risks of ownership, slong the wholo const, It was flagrantly un- just to the army. The system demoralizes the navy., It turns sailors into buccaneers aud makes naval warfare o gamo of grab, It leads to endless quarrels and law-suits, and replaces tho Stars and Stripes by the Almighty Dollar sa tho glgn of an American warship. Tho single argument in its favor is that it increases tho efficiency of the navy. This is a mistake. A goldier does his duty because honor urges him on. Wo are not prepared to beliove that the United States must bribe ita sailors to do their du jons on clothing and otker indispensablo ne- cessities from which tho Government will not reccivo more than twenty to forty millions of rovenue: ‘Those men talk of *‘freo break- fnsts " with moro taxes on tho, contents of the'brenkfast-tablo than are tolerated in any other civilized country. land.grants with which tho California & Southern Pacific Company wad en- dowed by Congress nt the time of their incorporation. They have already more than complied with tho conditions {mposed upon thom. Their rond is alrendy completed to within a few miles of Ban Bornardino, and Ly July next will reach the terminus at Fort Yuma. It has dono all this, without Govern- ment aid, out of private capital. Now what hins Tox Scorr done? Ho has failed in his original contract. The conditions that he shonld build eastward from San Diego and westwnard from Sherman, Texas, at the rato of not less than 125 miles per yenr, have not been complied with, and now he comes in and nsks the Government to help-him out by gunrantecing nearly £300,000,000 in interest and o contingent assumption of over $150,- 000,000 of principal indebtedness. To this Tae Cmocaco Tamuse does make, and will continuo to make, strenuous objection, It hos no objection to make to the operations of tho Californin & Bouthorn Pacific Com- pany, or any other company that is building ronds ont of private capital and the usual land-grant. It would have no objoction to its building Jay Cooxe’s Northern Paciflo upon these terms. It has no objection, and bas alrondy recommended that, as the land- grant of the Texes-Tacific Company hns been forfeited by their failuro to build the road as rapidly a3 thoy sgreed, it should be turned over to the Southern Pacific Company upon an ngreement to construct a certain number of miles cvery year clong the 32d parallel, which the Southern Pacific is ready to under- take, and thus the road would be constructed without any increaso of the national debt or martgeging of the publio credit. If it wero uot constructed, the, lands would rovert to the Governmont, aud no public losy would be sustained, We object to the im- pudent demand of Tox Scorr beenuso it is n dangerous policy td plunder the Na. tional ‘Treasury and pledge the national credit on special bountiea for the benefit of individuals or private construction rings. We object to it becauss it Government aid is gronted to this particular scheme it will bo followed by schemes without number of @ similar description all over the South and North, aud the Government cannot equitably refuso to help them, We object to it be. couge wow, if ever, economy and retrench. ment should be practiced, and the Federal Treasury hos not o dollar to spare or any credit to give to any ono, 'The Courier~Jour- nal should oppose the 'fox Scorr scheme for precisely tho same reasons, and every other sclicme of o similur character, Will it an- swer u categorically what objection it has to giving the construction of its Pacific Road to a company which is ready to take the Toxas. Pacific charter and go abesd and construct the road out of its own resources? Will it also answer us categorically and explain why, in view of these facts, it is urging the Gov. ernment to give Tox Beorr its credit? ing to the rato of illiteracy, their propértion of tho fund, and nn cffort will be made to 3 gecure o sbare for tho higher educational in. stitationa. Tho ghost of Cwsarism is no longer to be classed among the Democratic bugbears, hav- ing been docently interred Ly tho action of tho Houso yesterday in defeating the bill re- ported by the Judicinry Committeo fora constitutional amendment restricting the Presidency to o single torm, Tho substi. tutes proposed by Messrs, Fnye and Resoay, fixing the term nt six years, shared tho same fate, and the attempt to wave the measure by recommittal was thwarted by Speaker Kear, ‘who cast tho deciding vote in the negative, THE PARDONING POWER, The Springficld Journal hos taken the paing, evidently at tho instance of Gov. Beveroor, to prepare and tabulate a com- parative statement of the number of par- dona issued under tho respective administra. tions of Gova, Ocvresny, Parxer, and Beven- wor. It is put forth as a vindication of the latter ngoinst tho criticisms that have boen mado on his use, or rather misuse, of tho pordoning power. Without entoring into tho dotails of this statement, it is suflicient to sny that the result shows that Gov. Beveninoe has granted moro pardons than Paraen did, and fower pardons than OcLesny did, in proportion to the number of convicts in tho Penitentiary. Beforo Gov. Bevermar can satisfy cither himself or the public, how- over, that he bms not mado an inju- dicious use of the pardoning power, ho must recall tho fact that both Gov. Ocrzspr and Gov, Panaren were also sgoverely criticised for the too liberal exorcise of their authority in this respect. In Gov. Qoresny's caso tho eriticisins woro pretty se- vere, and a good deal of public indignation was oxpressed, and tho objection was only tempercd by bis showing that his pardons wero granted mainly at about the expiration of tho terms which the pordoned crim. inats had been condemmed to serve, and that theywere grantod principally for the purpose of rostoring thess recipionts of Executive clemency to thuir full rights of citizonship. In tho enso of Gov. PaLuzn, wo do not know that ho ever justified himself before the peo- ple for his use of the pardoning power. As to Gov, Bevemwor's conduct in thin regard, the criticism \ hns been bnsed not so much upon’' the number of persons whom ho has pardoned o8 upon the character of criminals ko has lot loose upon the commnnity ; 6o that, with the full benefit of the statoment that has been mada on his behalf, it is no auswer to the fault that has been found jn him. Ilis sym. pathies seemn to havo been roused too often in favor of men who barely escaped tho gol. lows and those condemned for crimes of vio- lenco. Itiu thatho has set froe mou con. victed of manslaughter who would Liave been gentenced in some communities for murder; others who have attempted to comumit mur- der, apd still others who lind become a terror to the publio as burglars and desperate rob- bers. If ho should pardon Davis, recontly sentenced to the Penitentiary for killing Way- 1aND, because his accidental intoxication at thie time of the killing saved him from the gal- lows,Gov. Bxveninarwould but follow out the line of pardons for which he has been criti- cised herotofors, o has been using his Ex- ecutive authority in such a way as to create suspicion that he treats it 83 & personal privi- lege instead of o sacred publio trust, sy some- thingto bu given away like a * Christias. box " or a New Year's present. This s the real cause of complaint, and to this the com- parative statement of the Springfleld Journal i3 no answer whatever. solucsrder to zellave Gov. Bemeamax and THE TAX ON TEA ANB COFFEE, There is no greator fraud than the senti- montal ery of *a freo breakfast” which cow- ardly politicians, windy demagogues, and in- terested protectionists indalge whenover it is proposed to put a tax on ten and cofice, They hold it to be enormous oppression to tax ten and coffee, which they insist is an iuvasion of tho snnctity of *a freo breakfast,” What peculiar sonctity thero is in n froo breakfast which does not cqually pertain to a free din- ner and a freo supper we do not know. Tho threo meals are equally importaut, equally genernl in all families; and there is no moro reagon why the hand of the tax-gatherer should not extond to one as well ns to the other, Buch o thing as o frea breakfast is unknown in this country, and perhaps un- koown to any ollier country, Tho nearest approach to it is in England, whore the only thing pertaining to the breakfast-tablo that is taxed is the ten and coffee, ‘I'ho Dritish fax- gatborer, in his search for rovenue, finds nothing in the kitchen where the brenkfast is prepared, or in the dining.room where it {s served, or on the table to which the family sit down to eat the breakfast, from which to collect a tax, excopt the two articles, tea and coffes. All elso is freo,” In this country the case is different. Do- ginning in the kitchen, thestove is taxed; the coal-hod with which the firo is replen. ished is taxed ; the boiler in which the cofw fae ia hoiled, if of tin, iu taxed, and if of part tin and part copper, is taxed doubly., The tea-pot, whethur of wimple earthonware or of more pretentious britannis or plated nickel, is tuxed heavily. In like manuner the coffee-pot has to pay its share of the national burden, The coffee and the res envs, which are somewhat indispensable in ko use of tea and coffee, are taxed, and this tax cannot bo ovaded by the use of tin cups or glass mug, for theso are nlso taxed. The spoous, whether of iron or plated ware, aro taxed. T'he plates and dishes on the table, the salt, and the cellar, und tho spoon, are taxed. Tho tuble.coves, the knives and forks, and the glassware, all are taxed. The carpet on tho floor, tho stove in the roow, the window. blinds, the glass in the windows, the table itself, it painted or oiled, or bas castors, are taxed. Tho varnished or painted chairs pay tax. But the most essentisl article of sll in breakfast where tea and coffeo aro used s "sugar or sirup. Evory pound of suger put upon the table haa paid a tax of from 60 to 70 per cent in gold. Any pemson who buys one dollar’s worth of sugar ot o time, when he reflects that one-half the cost of that sugar is tax, cau then estimate how “*free” is the broakfmst to which he sits down. Tho total tax collected on sugar and molasses every year in the United Btatas | Cold comfort for partics urging claims on aceount of Indian depredations ig nfforded Ly Prof, SErtye, of Massnchusetts, who has been successful in securing the adoption by the House Committce on Indian Affairs of » resolution which excludes all claims of this tharacter except in cases whero “treaty stipu- Iations render the Government responsible, Prof, Seruyr’s theory is that the United States Government is not a Redskin Outrage Insurauce Company, and that persons who elect to live on tho fronticr do 5o with their tyce open toall tho chunces, and honce at their own ri: iven the Washington correspondent of tht Cincinnati Enquirer is forced to admit tha tho Democrnts have been making a mere pro- *tonse of anving tho public moneys, and ure not actuated by o genuine and sincere dusir to dosa. Ho says that, while the Democrald have been making much noiso nbout paltry reductions in salaries (Consular, West Point ote.), the Republicans have bLeen keepings tally of the private bills introduced by Deto- cratio members for the approprintions of public monuys, and huve found that thay age gugntu some $64,000,000, During this time opublicans have rofrained from introduciss any bills of this naturo whatover, Of course the Cincinnati Enguirer nttributes thissb- stinence on the part of the Ropublicans to & party spirit. Very well. Supposo it is sug gested by party policy; we submit that it is u much better purly polioy, and mauch more likely to tind favor with tho peoplée than that which cuts off driblets at oneend only to weigh down the National Treasur witl huge jobs attho other. Itis aparty policy to which we earnestly hopo the Re« publicans in Congress will adhero stricthy giving the Democrats a full swing of the claim.business, subsidy-business, and privates bill business. The Republioan Congress mon camnot make a better showing bofor tho people than that which the Cinclnnst Enquirer1a constrained to make for them i this instance, b Covrvin's success a3 o hauger-on seems {o . have enconraged some of the Aldermen to nope for an extension of their terns of offico by similar menns—by refusing to call an clec. lion for members of the Cormmnon Council, A report is current that such a schiemo s un. der consideration, and thero can bo no doubt that, if the way wero rensonably clear of dif- Hculties and dangers, the Mayor's example would bo followed, and o Ifold-Over Ring organized in the Council. Fortunately, however, the people are innsters of the situation so far o tho election of Aldermen is concerned. The law distinctly providea the duto when such an clection shall occur, and sven though the Council should omit to designate judges and polling-places, the elce- tion would be held, and the Aldermen-elect would tako their seats. It would require n degreo of boldness and rocklesiness far ex- cecding that shown in poutting through ordinary jobs and steals to bring an Alder. manic-Ring up to the point of attempting the continuation of their terms for another yeur. The thing will probably not be at- tempted. The Chicago produce markets wero gen- enlly finn yesterday. Mesy pork was active aud 15@250 per brl higher, closing at $19,70 cash and $19.90@19.92} for darch. Lard ‘was in moderate demnnd and 5@10c per 100 us higher, closing at $12.12} cash and 12,25 geller March. Meats were in fair do- mand and steady, at 7jo for boxed shoulders, 1030 for do short ribs, and 11¢ for do short clears, ighwines were quict and unchanged, st $1,06 per gallon. Flour was dull and steady. Wheat was mcederately active and Brmr, closing at 98c seller the month and 97jc for March, Corn was more activo and 40 lower, closing at 49l cash nnd 40}c for March, Oats were stoady, closing at 80jc cash and 81jec for March, Rys was quict at 61@G70. Barley was quiet and finoer, % 7o for Fobruary and GU@70c for Macoh, Hogs ware active at 50 deolino, sell The common aud worthy purpose whict Las actuated the Government in the prossct tion of whisky frands at oll tha points whert they have beon unearthed wan sgain illws trated in the discrimination of the sentences of thoso convicted in Indiana, Tho highs! fmplicated ofiicials reccived tho most goverd wentences, thelr subordinates tho mext, ond the distillers tho Yeast. 'Thia fa ag it ought 4@ be, and in exsot proportion to the extent of thelr guilt. 'fhe men intrusted with he highest degres of eonfidanios, and im sedeipd An ultra-protection p-pn:wliMy ob- serves 15 it not wxceedingly strange {bat s setattempt abould be made to increass (he Fevenus from custome Dy reducing the dutfes,—that, 100, when compstent Judges estimste that same two millions of laborsrs sre out of employment, ‘When duties on articles are so kigh aa to be almost or altogether prohibitory, the only wsy to incroase the revanue from such articles o BB T AT B Y B