Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 5, 1876, Page 4

By i : g i K ————————— THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1876—TWELVE PAGEZ. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATER OF ATRECRITTION qnnnu'lmmmvum). ) sneet., Tri-Wedl il pou T Oneenpy, por yes O oF Hioe: e om ©lub of twonty, per co Tho portage s 15 cei Rpecimen coples sent free. *To provent (lelsy and mistakes, be nure and give Tost-Office nh‘m- in full, including Btatesnd County. Jlemiftances may be made cither by draft, express, Poat-Ofce order, or In registered lettars, at our risk, TERMS YO CITY SUDRCRIRERS, Daily, delivered, Bundsy excepted, 33 centa per week, Daily, delivered, Sunday incinded, 30 cente per weok, ddrem THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-stn,, Cbicsgo, WOOD'S MUSEGM—Monron street, between Dear- born and Stata, * Tivkel-of-Lesve Mau," Afiernoon snd evoning. MeVICRER'S THEA' Dearborn and _Siate, *The Merry Wives of Windeor.™ evening. T adlscn street, beiween Licacement of len' Do Bar. Afternoon sud ADELPHT THEATRE—Deatborn sireet, corner Bonroe, Varicty performance. Afternoon and evesing. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Malsted rstreet, belween Maditon and Monroe, Afternoon, * Caste.” Even- ing, “ Oliver Twiad™* HOOLEY'S THEATRE-Randciph aireet, belween Clark and LaSalfe. * The California Minatrels,” Af- ternoon and evening. McCORMICK FIALL—North Clark atreet, cornor Rinzte, Concert by Hans Von Bulowat 2 p. m. Gon- eert by the German Military Dand in the evening, PLYMOTTI! CHURCH—Concert by tho Germsn Military Daudat 2 p. m, The Whieage Wreibume, Saturday BMorming, February S, 1870. WITH SUPPLEMERNT. Greenbncks at ‘the New York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at §S3. A terrible explosion ocenrred yesterday in a Belgium colliery. About 200 miners were killed. Warmer weathor, with pnssibin occasional snow flurries, is predicted for the Lake re- gion to-day. TheDuke D! Ammsr-PAgm ia thought to stand an excellent chance of being elected o preside over the new I'rench Senate, Jooge Broportr yesterday denied the motions to quash the indictments against Messrs, Hrsmve, Reny, end Hoxr, and Mon- day, March 7, was set as the dny when these trials will commence. A plea of not guilty was entered in each case. The Senate yesterday resumed considers- tion of the Louisiann Senatorship question, Ar. MorToN speaking in opposition to the motion of Mr, EpMExDs to amend the report of the Committee 60 that it should * be not sdmitted" No definito action was taken, Tho advantages or disadvantages arising from the combination of Church andState were illustrated in s London court yesterdsy, wherein certain High Church observances, such as the use of the crucifix, the stations of the cross, solitary communion, cte., were do- wlared illegal, The sales of mess pork in the Chicago mar- ket yesterdny aggregated £2,750 barrels, tho gelling price of which was about $1,700,000. Fhis was exclusive of the sales of lard and meats. The shipments of meats on the pro- ~ions dsy were neatly 2,500,000 pounds, or 124 car-loads. mTived in Rome yesterdsy, and wos ime mediutely granted an nadience with the FPope. 1t is understood that the object of the Prince's mission is the restoration of an emicable understanding between Germany and the Roman Episcopac; A British army is said to bo moving on Beloochistan, a country adjoining Indin, nud abont the size of Texas, which now lics be- tween the Anglo-Asion frontier and that of Persia. It is odiirsbly adupted for pur- poses of defense and for nothing clse, 50 that its occupation can be dictated only by o desire to prepare for resistance to Russin. —_— The Italian Ministerinl Couneil, in defer- ence to the wishas of the Germsn authori. tics, hos consented to inform Count Vox Anxptof the seutence pussed upon him by the German Court. The Council decides, howerver, that the request for the extrudition of the offending Count caunot be cowplied with, there being no warrunt therefor under existing trentics Letween the two countrics, At the rate things have been going of late, it will not be long beforo Spain is uble to direct her energivs toward the Cuban iusur- xoction exclusively. Ieports wro received daily of fwportant Alphousist successes, nnd the cable now corveys the intelligence, se. crodited 10 o Yaris newspoper, of the com- plete rout of the Carlists and the Gight of Don Canvos in the direetion of French terri- tory. —_——— A new und vigorous upplication of the re- ceatly-enacted Tress law in Fraunce hus beea aunde in the o of Lu France, against which procesdings huve been instituted on the churge of pullishing false news, The Journal in question stuted not long ugo that AL Burerr, President of the Mivisterial Council, Lnd tendered Lis resignution ov con. dition that e should roccive the nppoint- ent of Governur of the Lenk of T eunce a8 cowpensation. There wus welive us well us filsebood u this pubdicetion, and L uce the Vrosecution, A specinl committee of the Common Council is engaged iu the cousideration of uu ordinunce which propuses to ubolish the prresent system of telegruph poles thromph- out tho city, and to require the luyiug of the wires underground. An opinlon bus heen given by tbe City Attorsey thut the tity would bo compelled to benr tho entire vxe penso of the proposed chunge, estimated &5 cortaln Lo muount (o over £3,000,000. It 45 Pesrs, worcover, thut no syutem Loy yet boew devised for (le successful operation of under. ground telegruply, uud the only thing re. uainiog for the Committes und the Common Council to do s to let the thing alone, wud provide the Fire Marshal with nippers to cut the wires when they obstruct the workings of the appiuzutus of bis Department. ptstantinis ekt The Chicago produze murkets were gener- | ally finu yosterday, Mens pork wens vetive, wnd 25¢ per brl Lighor, closing st $20,50 cish and §20.67} for March, Lucd wes quict snd slaadier, cloaing et §1205 cash wnd §i20 #1245 for March. Ments wers nc- tive and #@Jc Righer, at 7fc for boxed shoulders, ‘11}e for do short ribs, and 11jc for do short clears. Highwines wero less active and unchanged, at 2106 per gallon. Fiour was dull and steady. Whent was more active nnd de higher, closing at 9530 seller the month, and H7jc for March. Corn was setive, aud declined 1c, but closed stronger nt 39} for Februnry nud 29jc for March. Onts wero quiot and ensior, closing at #0ic for Febrary and G1je for March. Rye was quict at 67@G67ic. DBarley was quiot and nteadicr, closing at 75¢ for February and 70¢ for March, Caltle were dull and ersier. Hogs wero active aud 10@150 per 100 lbs bigher, at $7.80@7.40 for packing grades. Sbeep were wenk, Ono Lundred dollars in gold would buy 3113.00 in greenbucks at tho cloo. 1t is now considered certain that Tox Bcorr's mammoth subsidy schemo will re- ceive the support of n majority of the Sub. Committee of tho Pacific Railroad Committee having the subject in charge, and that the Texas Pacific monstrosity will bo favorably reporled upon. In that case Mr. Horwax will of courso loso no time i mnking food his assertion that the Demoeratic party is opposed to Tox Scorr's job. His efforts in that behalf promise to Lo peculiarly in- teresting in view of the fact that Laxan, the King of the Caucus, is the Chairman of the Committec and tho especinl advo- cate nnd manipulator of the plan to voto fo Tox Scorr's Company several Tundred million dollars for doing what the Southern Pacific stands ready to do without o cent of Govcrnment guarsuteo or cash, It will be surprising if it does not turn out thut Sixarcroy is better advised than Hoiuax s 1o the Demoeratic policy in the House. AMr. Mornisos, of Illinois, finds that the leadership of the Democratic majority is now and then nttended with disagreeable inci- dents. One of these happened yestarday, when io an evil moment ho took part in the diseussion of a pension bill for the reliof of o soldier who bad deserted from the Confeder- nte army and joined the Union forces. Mr. Monnisox's virtuons but unwise remark about tho scoundrelism of such a procedure brought from Mr. KassoN, of Iown, thoe inquiry whether an application of the condemnation was intended in tho case of Union army of- ficers who had joined tho Rebels; and from Ar. TowssexD, the satirical Now Yorker, a referenco to the supposititions case of o man who should suppress his record as a Union officer after it wasin print. The latter sharp shaft brought the blood, and amidst the laughter on one side of the House and tho scowls of the other Mr., Mornisox had ample time to wish bie hadn’t said anything about the pension bill Thoe Bercres scandal is onee more brought into prominence by tho remarkable commu- nieation of Ar. Hexpy O, Bowex to the Plymouth Church Examining Committee. The belief that 3r. Bowrx's bosom hns all along been the repository of secrets of vital importancoas affecting the merits of the grent scandal caso is confirmed by that gentleman's letter. The editor of the Independent has ot last been smoked out by the proposed inves- tigation of the griovances of Mr. S. V. ‘Wmr1z, and be now declares to the world that, years before the present scandal be. came public, he was informed and now be- lieves that Mr. Brecres had been guiltyof the crime of betraying the sanctity of other lomes beside that of Turopome Tintox, Mr. Bowex nononnces his readiness to testi. 1y to essentinl facts before mny proper tri- bupal, thongh he will not “allow & singla oame to be bruited before the world.” 1lis conclusion is that, withont the shad- ow of a daubt in his own mind, Mr, Bercuen is “guilty of the awful crimes of adultery, perjury, and hypocrisy.” To this bold and unequivocal arraignment of their pastor the Plymouth Examining Com- mittee, at their meeting last evening, made Do response further than to summon Mr. Bowrx before them next Thursdsy evening to auswer to the Warre grievances, ‘WHY MARUFPACTURES ARE NOT EXPORTED. 1t is adwitted by the high-tariff peoplo that the United States produce cheaper raw mn- terinls of the great lines of manufnctare, such 1 cottons, woolens, furniture, leather goods, and of iron and steel, than any country in Europe; and also that they produce the clienpest food of every description, as flesh, fish, fowl, breud, butter, milk, vegetables, and fruits, No European country ean begin to compare with the United States in cheap- uess, variety, and abundance of food prod- ucts, There is more conl already discovered in the United States than is known to exist in all the rest of the world, and it can be wiued with far less labor, and therefore expense, than the coals of Europe, which are wmuch exhausted, nnd are now only found at greut depths aud distances from the outlets, ‘I'hiscountry exportsmore burplus agrieulturnl products, including wheat, oats, corn, oot~ tou, tobaceo, beef, pork, lard, butter, and cheese, than auy other nation in the world Tudwed, it ix the only country thut produces &ll these voluable commodities, and bias wore than it con cousumne of them ull every year, Beivg in sure possession of wl the elements aud fovilities for cheap manufacturing, viz.: cheep food, cheap fuel, aud cheap raw mnte- rials, why i6 it that the United States do not successfully compete und undersell the dear food, searce coul, uwnd high-price raw-wu. teriul mwunufocturing ustions? Low doey it Luppen thut we cannot compete with the wanufacturers of Great Brituin, France, Ger- many, and Belgium, who pay sbout doubly the Awerican price for breud, butter, meat, wilk, end vegetables, o quarter 0 8 hnlf wore for lumnber, coal, and iron ore, 15 to 23 per cent more for hides and wool, and G to 10 per cent wors for 1aw cofton, thun the mwavufacturers of the United States? Arg their mechunics 50 much wore skillful suwl rapid workmen thunours? Are they wore ipventive? Do they surpuss us in the use of lubor-suving processus 50 greatly sy to ueutralic sll our enormwous advuutsges over thew iu cheaper foud, fudl, force, aud raw wuterial 7 Will it be wsserted thut Britieh sud European operalives work for 5o much Jews wuges thun ours (Lat, notwithstundivg all the immense puturel wdventoges cur man- nfucturers possoss in chespuess of ruw mu- tezisls, food, sud fuel, still they cunvot Lold their own sguiust these competitore? Wo wust dewur to sny suck ples. Tens of thousauds of British nod Gerwau wechun. dos who cume to this country for work wud bigh poy buve returned Lowe within the Tuat ten years, bocauss they could not subsist or support their fumilive ou the * pauper wi g " offered thom Lere, They Luve gous buc (in disgust ood disappointsent), Le- cutine they cau get Lotter compensution und standi wr cioployment in their gwa countries. If thuie vinges seew to be bess in the pumber of dollirg, yet they cou wmske their Gurningy go farther in support of their families, It foo and fuel ave dearer, rent and clothing are far chonper, nud they aro paid ia solid coin, which is worth all it professes to be, nnd i3 not at a fluctuating discount of 15 to £0 per cant below its face, The answer has not yet been given to the question ' why it {s that our manufacturers, with all their grent advantages in prico of food, motive-powor, and raw mntorials over their Europenn compotitors, nreunable ta ex- port their surplus goods to foraign markets and soll them in competition with English, French, Belgian, sud German manu- facturers, Lot us search for a rolution of thia astonishing stato of facts. Tathisnot it, that our ultra high tariff has rendorod ndrly all mannfactures artiticially dear, and dear goods makes expensive housekeeping, and that ench class tries to reconp itself for its Tosres by toxing back on the community? On tha great lines of mouufactures tho tarifl jm- poses a tax of 40 to 80 per cent, 'The do- mestie mauufacturer can, therefore, chargo our peoplo ii to 7 per cent for his goods nhove tho foreign market price without danger of being undersold by imported mer- chandiso. This is what is called * protec- tion to American fndustry.” The avowed object of the legislators who jmposed so cnormous a prohibitery tax was to author- ize and coable the Enstern manuface turers to sell thelr wares to the people of the West and South at one-third to two-thirds more than the goods were worth, which privilege they have availed themselves of with great chieerfulness and alnerity. This specinl authorization by Congress to chargo the West and South a prico and a half or two prices for their goods goes by the soft, sweat, and reductivo name of Prolection, but plain- spokon, blunt people call it legalized robbery, 1t is obvious that, while this srstem of charging a price and a half for manufactures continues, no domestic goods can be exported to foreign markets for sale. Whatever sur- plus may be produced must remain unsold, and tho shops, mills, and furnaces must stop prodneing, and turn their operatives out on the streots, or work them on half time. This is procisely the state of things wo have had for the Iast two or three years, Hun- dreds of thousands of working people have beon living in enforced idlencss, either sub. sisting on charity or prowling around the country as tramps, They, poor fellows, have beon ** protected " with a vengeance. ‘What is the remedy for this sad and disas- trous condition of things? Is it not to re- move tho artificial high prico of merchandise, and with it tho artificial high cost of living and producing ? If the cost of housckeoping and manufacturing wero cheap, tho goods produced by the mills and factories would necessarily bo cheap. Then the surplus pro- ductions not needed at home could be export. ed abroad and sold in exchange for whatever our country needs to buy, and any balance coming to us would be paid in gold by the foreign purchasers. This would give full employment to our idle operatives, both men. and women. 3lore conl would have to be wined and iron ore extracted from tha earth, Activity wonld replace stagnation, and pros- perity and plenty would drive away hard times and scarcity and the pinchings of poverty, ‘Whenever Congress abolishes the artitlcially- dear goods, costly production, and expensive. living system, then will the enormous natural ndvantages we possess in cheaper food, fuel, and raw mnaterinls over European nations begin immediately to manifest themselves in our successful competition in the sale of goods in the markets of the world. In the fervid language of our pious Methodist friends, May the good Lord hasten that blessed day ! A DEMCCRATIC CAT OUT OF THE BAG. As will be noticed in the House debate on Thursday last, the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill being pending, under tho gentle persuasion of Mr. Havrr (Republican), of Maine, Mr. SiNGLETON, member from Mis. sissippi, ex-Confedernte, and a representative Southern Denocrat, who is also a member of the Committeo on Appropriations, which un- der the rules has been made superior to the Committee on Ways and Means, and who had the bill in charge, opened the bag and let th Democratic cat out. When it became appar- ent that the animal was fairly out, thero was general consternation on the Demoeratic side, They sought in vain to catch the animal and return it to its bag. They belabored the un. fortunate SiNoLETON with might and wain.: They whacked him across the face. They 1ade him eat humble pie. ‘The whole Demo- cratic side of the House wriggled backwa like crabg. They clamored, and expnnnlum and insisted that SiNareToN, who was a no- body, Lisd protested too mnch. But it was sll too late, The Lug was empty. The cat was ont, scampering and frisking and chasing its tail in delight over its liberty, and all the country has seen the pretty little beast. Now that it is out in full sight, let us exmmine the animal, Mr. SiNvaLrtoy, i the course of the discussion replying to sowe yrior remarks of 3r. Hawux on Southern claims, naively stated that the South Lad three sehemes to accomplish in this Congress, No Republican wember objecting, be stated thet oue was ““to improve nad protect the levees of tho Mississippt sud to reclaim the ulluvisl soil of the Delta, which would be of wore value thon wll the Black Hills in the country, as 7,000,000 Lules of cotton could be ruived on this reclpimed Jand.,” In other words, Nr. BivoLeTon's little scheme is to jo- crense production 7,000,000 bales and reduce prices o 2 ceuts per pound or thereabouts ; to enrich the bottom lund-wwapers and specu- lutors, und starve out the upland farmers, This is gettivg up u corner ou cotton with a vengeance, Where are our linois speculn. tors thut some of them do not get up & scheme for jucreasing the wheat erop a bun. dred 1willion bushels or so for their beuefit ¥ And this is the first precious scheme,—to tax 1ho people of this country for the benetit of s crowd of Bouthern speculators, who pro- poke to wonopolize the cotton crop to the dirsdvanteges of other cottou.growers ! 'I'o cut off the fees of our sturveling Consuls und cripple West Point in order that Mr, Brxoreron and bis fellowsspeculators wuy ubsorb Lo cotton crop und starve out tho cottou-growers who do not happen to own the wlluvial suil of the buttom lunds uloug the Missisrippt River ! 'This is scheme No. 1, of which Mr. Bixoreros delivered biself without pressure, Finding that Me. BixorrroN was in o com- muujeative mood, Mr. Harx gently pressed bita for snotber schewe, whereupon the willing BixoLrton replicd thut snotber was thy Bouthern Pacitic Mailrosd. In otber wordd, the secoud schee of the Houss Democrats is Tou Bcorr's scleme to gut thy credit of the Governwent for $300,000,000 of iuterest und the sssuwption of 150,000, 000 judebteducss to build o railroud across the urid wustes of Arizouw aud New Mexico, tho charter of which ho Lss slreudy forfeited by nondfulfillment of ita conditions in the specified thne. Mora than this, Mr, Bixace. ToN ndmits that the scliemo of the South, and of the Domocratio party North and South, is to plunder the Federal Trensury for the benefit of a Philadelphia Construction Ring, when tho California Company, as we have seveml times shown, stands rendy lo build tha rond with private capital upon thoe original Innd-grant, which should bo taken from Toxt Scorr for non.fulliilment of con. track. 'Fhis §s schieo No. 2. By this timo the ent wns so far ont of the ‘bng that the Northern Democrats began to grow restive, but, Mr, ITane complated the work aud released the animal by nsking him: *Ta not the refunding of the cotton tax an. other?” Mr. SixareTon acknowledged that it was by not denying it, nnd secking to os- eapa with the quibble: I do not propose to discuss that question now.” Ho hore weo have the programmo of tho Democratio pacty: 1, An appropriastion of §,000,000 for tho benefit of Southern speculators that they may monopolize tho cotton erop. 2. T'oxt Scorr'n 'Tuxas Pacific subsidy steal. 3, The refunding of the cotton tax. We tnay sl to this the fourth itan, namely, the pay- ment of Southern claims, amonnting to sev- eral millions of dollars, which Mr. Bixore- Tox would have confessed hadnot the North- ern Demoerats pounced upon and throt- tled Lim, Thero was o desperato cffort upon thoir part to mako it nppear that Mr, SmvonrtoXx was 8 nobody, who ropreseuted nothing and spoke for no one, and that Lo was delivering ouly lis indi. vidual opinion. Theso pretenses, however, came too late, ns shown by tho engerness with which Dovaras, HoryaN, Broust, Itan. DALY, and others sought to get the eat baek into the bag again. The bare fact thnt Mr. SiNaLETON Wns chiosen as the representative Southern Democrat upon the most important Comumnittee of tho Ionse shows in what significance he fs held Ly tho Democrats in the House. Tho only troublo was that the gontleman from Mississippi was leaky, and the lenk becamo so greut that his party asso- cintes could not stop it. 1io babbled out what they had not intended to admit until after the Presidentinl olection, 1f this dis- cussion had taken place aftor tho Presidential election had gons Democratio, Mr, HarLe wonld not have had tho necessity of pross~ ing Mr. St¥oLETON or any other Demoernt for basiness. Thero would have beon no neces. sity for nsking the questions, SECRETARY FISH'S The London 7%¥mes has “given Mr, Fisn something like tho lie direct. It flatly de- nics his ustonishing assertion that the real author of the Moxnoz doctrine was the Brit- ish Prime Minister, Mr, Canxiva, In this detail, Mr. Fsit has not blundered as badly as in tho gist of his cirenlar note on Cuban affairs, but in it both he and Lis assailunt are wrong., The facts, as given in Voy Morsr's * Constitutional and Politienl His- tory of the United States,” are that CanvNixa whas at first inclined to aid the Ioly Allianco in its scheme for direetly interfering with American offairs in such n way as to keep not only Cuba, but tho South American Repub- lics, under the Spanish yoke. But after the Congress of Verona, and before the promulgation of tho Mosnor doctrine, Caxxixa's views hed quite veered around. e promised Rusit, our Ambassador, the sup- port of England in carrying out that doetrine ot that time. It appears, thereforo, that Seeretary Fisn is wrong in snying that Cax- ~1xva wis tho anthor of the dogmas, but no more wrang than the Thunderer is in saying that it * directiy traversed the councils of Ar. Caxsiva,” So far, dishonors are onsy. But iu tho substauco of this Cuban note our Sccretary of State is utterly and hope- lessly wrong, In begging foreign Govern- wents to belp us settlo the Cuban question,— a question which really only concerns Spain and the United States,—he las flown in the faco of the Moxnox doctrine, both as it is and as it is generally sup- posed to be, aund has invited the snub which ho has received in the flat refusal of England and Germany to interfere, If the snub were confined to Lim it would not much matter, but in him the people of the United States have been insulted. And they must pocket the affront whick their repre- sentative has invited. Since the only alter- nntive wns to receive a refusal or nn accept. nuce, it is fortunate, on the whole that wo, got the first and nsnub, Cuba is our con. cern, not that of England, or France, or Ger- magy, or Russin, or Austrin, or Italy, or Greeco. We alone can settle the disputes with Spain, nnless we chooso to abandon onr rights. The quarto volumes of correspoud- ¢nco on the affairs of the island end American intercsts tlerein have been written by Awmeriean pseudo-statesmen, not by foreign diplomats, Europe does not suffer. Wo do. Europe has no in- terest in the trouble. We have, We want no foreign partnerahips. We wish no coun- terpart of the ‘Curkish question on this side of the Atlantic. WasmiNoTON wWas right in Lis warning sgainst ** entangling alliances.” An orcliestra of nations, in which we played second fiddle, would not be o good thing for us to organize. Yet just this would have been brought about if Eugland and Germany Liad taken sdvantago of Mr. Fsu's blunder, —a blunder the less cxcuseble becuuso our doiug anything whatever with Cuba is merelya question of furbearance, not of power, Hpain could do nothing cffeetive to hinder, und 00 one Enropean power, scting with Spain, could defeat us in doiug whatever wo think is right. Weo buve four wrongs to right. Spuin bas promised ws to abolish slavery in Cuba und hes not done 50, 5o has committed out- rages on Americun citizens in Cubs, and is still committing thewm. She throws our citl. zeus into juil ju o country where tho labeas cwrjra is unknows, und where juries ore packed with a skill that wonld not diseredit a Cook County Sheriflf und bis holliffs, Lust und greutest, she regulates Cubun trado with vutrugeous injustice to ws, Bhe supports her own chuotle Governments by wouey druwn from Americuns throught Cubs. For this, our taritf is partly responsible, but thy moain fault is hers, Having theso grievances to scltle, wo wpent mill fous of dollars in putting our fect into fighting trim sad tekivg it to u poiut whenco it could cusily descend upon the **Quecn of tho Auntilles,” uud then, insteud of doing suy- thing, wo cruwled before forelgn courts, Legged their uid, and got snubbed for our prins—und very rightly, Tet us either give tho mutter up or do it all ourselyes, ‘I'he Houso Committeo on Military Affairs huve reported un smended bill to regulate th€poy und llowsuces of ariny officers as follows: Geucrul of the Ary (Burusan), £10,000 instead of §13,600; Licutensut-Gen- erul (Suxsiuax), $4,000 justead of $11,000; Mujor-Generals to receive their preseut pay of §7,600, wnd Brigadier-Geverals to be ve. duced from ¥5,600 to £5,000; the salarics of ull uthier otlicers to reiunin oy Lerctofure fixed by law, The partisian malignity of this report will be approciated when it is noticed that it reducos Gen. SnxaMax's salary %3,500 and Qen, Bnxmipax's #1,000, leaving tho Major-UGenerals untouched, and reducing the Brigadiers very slightly, The animus of the report is only too npparent. It is to striko at tho two great Union Generals who inflicted tho most barm upon the Confeder. ntes, and to got £6,600 more towards nppro- priations for ex-Robels who lost mnles or ba- con when Suznuay wont on his Mareh to the Son and Buenipan swept across the Virginia valloys. Does any ono suppose thatif the officos of Goneral and Lioutonant-Genernl wero held by tho ex-Confederates Lec and BroNewaLn JacksoN thero would be auy re. duction of pay? CONSOLIDATING SMALL MISSIONS, The discussion of tho bLill appropriating money for our Consular servico shows thnt both parties aro wrong in thelr views of the matter. The Democrats hava gono too far in their wonld-be cconomy, and the Republic- ans have resistod some most just reductions, The abolition of the Embnssy to Greeco is wise. The chiof duty of our Minister thero istolook at the Acropolis, The most im. portant recent dispateh from Gon. REap, the Miuistar, was dovoted to a statement that, at somo recent celebration, the Queen wore a white satin dress, which **scomed to steal the color from her chooks,” So pretty, but it is searcoly worth while to pay o Minister for chronicling such instances of innocont petty larcony. A Consul at Athons or tho Pirmus could do all the neocssary work, The Ministor has a sinccure. His offico should ba abolished, At Hayti, tho respectable color- ed gentlomau who represents tho United States seems to bo mainly occupied in turning his residence into an asylum for re- belllons cutthroats, and in jssuing—in ex- chango for foes—naturalization.certiticates of dubious logality. Ietter mako him a Consul, oud save monoy and reputation. The consol- idation of the Central and South Amer- fean missions is another proper thing to do. Most of them avre mero recoptaclos for played-out Congressmen and decayed dend- beats, who boesiege an incoming Adwministra- tion, and litorally bore themselves into theso sinccuros. Our late Minister to Poru had s littlo to do that ho went into business in Lima ns n pownbroker. Mr. Moxror, of Oberlin, O, in a spooch on Thursday, op- posed this nocessary consolidation. Tho Preas dispatch thus roports him: Ho capreased his belief that one of tho noblost and grandeat fields of commorcs in thia futura would Do the Btates of Bouth America, and ho thought that tho Amsrican people ought o bo the posseasor of that field, Ho know that the cxiating commerce thoro was amall, but Lie asked whether the Unitod Htates were prepared {0 acoept the low and poor coudition of ita commeres #8 an unchangesble thing. Did Con- gress mean to proclaim to tho civilized world that the United States 0ld not mean to bea ereat commerclal power, but meaut to have ita name crascd from tho lint of commercisl nations? Ho could nos bellevo that that was the oplnion of this House, It is not dificult to answer theso quostions. Congress, by passing a high protective tariff, made American goods too dear to export to these countries and wiped away our trade with them, and Lns proclaimed that the United States is * propared to accept the low and poor coudition of its commerce a3 au un- changeablething ' ; that it does not mean tobe a great commercial power”; and that it does mean fo * have its name ernsed from the list of commercinl nations,” The fruit of this Congressionnl folly is shown in the caso of Brazil, - which imports qnch year 3,000,000 yards of cotton cloth from tho United States and 97,000,000 from England made of American cotton, With n revenuo tariff, thesa figures would be roversed. For the high tariff, Mr. Moxnaoe is partly responsible. ‘When hoe and tho rest of Congress turn about and stop the policy which has wiped ont of existence our export {rado to Bouth America, we may neced missions to all the Houth American States. | Until then, the Democrats oro right in abolishing them, But they aro wrong in cutting down Consular salaries, which aro already too low, and here is wlero Republican opposition is needed. DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY ON THE TARIFF, The Democratio prrty in Congress and iu the country is now confrouted with o direct issuo upon a question upon which that party, up to the date of the Liebellion, had an hon- orablo and saccessfnl record, and on which the party bas been profuse in protestn- tions and promises of what it would do if it only bad the chanco, Tho chance is pre- sented. The Democratic parly hns an over- wholming majority in the House of Repre- sentatives. Itybns the control of the Com- mittees, of all the machinery of legislation, and on this particular subject has n largo lto- pnblican support in both Houses of Con- gress. The Damocratic party has beon known to the country as in favor of a tariff for rev- enue only, and as opposed to levying tnxes on cousumers for so-called Protection, The Whig party, availing themselves of tho op- portunity of their victory in 1840, enacted the Crax protectiva tarllf of 18: The Presidentinl election of 1844 thrust the Whigs ont of power, and the first use that was 1made of the victory by the Democrats was to enact the revonue tariff of 1446, which ellminated overy vestige of specinl subsidy protection, Bo auccessful was that turiff that (he * prostrated” and *‘infant™ manufactures of America, instead of perlsh- ing from the loss of * Protection,” put on new life and vigor. Mancfactures and ex- ports increased; the revenuo so increasod that the freo list was greatly expanded. Now Lngland, through her represontatives in Con- gress, was foremost, even ns late ax 1857, in reducing the tariff, and never had manufac- turers or the people enjoyed such solid pros. perity us under the rovenue tariff fn opera- tion from LB5T to 18G1,—as MonwrLy himself hus confessed in one of his speeches on tho floor of Cougress, Ever since the protective tariff was rentored the Democratic party hus Leen complatning of excossive tariff taxation, und prowising that it it could get into power once woro it would ubolish the onormitics and wbuses of a system whioh cannot be Justifled save ay tho robber justifies hiy ex- actions on the bighwoy, Tho Democruts huve been loud end vehewent in their denunciotions of the Republican par- 1y of the FEaslern Blates for their excensivg and plundering tuxution of the people under the toriff enacted siuce 1860, In this complaint thero hias Leen moro truth thaw fu any other over wade sgainst tho Kepublican party, The familiar plolure of progressive tuxation, from the frat garmont placed o tho now-born behe, fol. lowing him ou uvery article of spparel, every wriicle thut ho way have bad to use in his trade or profession, until bis buriatin old #ge in a heavily-tazod coffin, i§ a true oue. There iy no outrage’ that can be imagived in tho way of taxation or the abuse of tuzation which way not b justly charged ogainst the Awerican tariff, Hut the Democratio party, valiant out of office, bucowes o cowardly Jubber in autbior- ity. The introduction of a bill to simplity tho tariff, to infuso a little honesty into tho method of colleetion, to make tho collection of revonno somothing olse than n teap for honest men and & source of plunder and blacknminil for officinl thioves, haa instantly oxposed the hypocrisy of tho Democratio professions, and exploded tha oxpeotation that that party had tho loast intention to disturb successful and legalized frauds, Hardly had tha Democratio Chairmanlof tha Commitieo of Ways and Means, Mr. MonnisoN, proposed & Tariff bill merely entenlated to lop off some of the grentest abuses, and stop smuggling through official connivance, when Mr, Hor- AN, of Indinna, who flonrishes on a simu. Inted reputation for superior honesty, hna it proclaimed that he will never vote to put n tax of twonty millions of dollars on tea and coffee, oven if by mo doing he ean abolish seventy millions of dollars of tax on neces- saries of lifo from which the Government gets no revenua, What iy it to Mr. IToLyan thnt his immediato constituents pay threo times as much tax on the shirta’and drawers thoy wear, and on their boots and shoes, noue of which tax ever renchee the Tiensury, than they would ever have to pay on their tea and coffco ? Does he menn that shiris and othier underclothing, and stockings, and boots and shoes, are not necessaries among his covstituents, and that such articles aro # luxnries"” which mny be dispensed with ? Of course, the ominsion to tax ten nud coffeo rendery tho pnssage of the bill imponsible. It ia the lifo of the bill. It means $20,000,000 of rovenue, in plnao of 80,000,000 of {ax on consumers which docs not produce $20,000,- 000 of revenue, The Democrats have for yenrs boen aceus. tomed to hold Kentey upaes n monster of iniquity, and bave dubbed him ** Pig-Tron Kerer.” DBat this now Tariff bill will have no moro resolute opponent than Sax Rax- DALL, the great exponent of Domocracy in Congress, who hins the courage to push the pardon of Jerr Davis, but dare not vote to tako tho tax off the shocs aud coats and trousers of his unfortunate, unemployed, and pauperized constituents, Now comes to tho front that other apostlo of pure and unadul- terated Democrnoy. the immaculate Ifon. Frrvaxpo Woop, and he declares that he will not vote for n revised Tariff bill, and the Democeratic Representatives from Connerti- cut, New Hampshire, Now Jersey, and Mary- land wash their hands of any complicity in Mr. MonntsoN's attempt to establish honesty in the collection of the revenno, and the re- duetion or repenl of special taxes which pro- duce no revenuo, At the eclection of 1874 the Democrats elocted no less than seventeen of their party to Congress from Penusylvanin, In solid body, theso soventeen men, who cheered Bex Hua's defenso of the Andersonvills prison and monster, will stand to resist and defeat any bill which repeala the infamoun law which has reduced legions of their own constituents to pauperism, and, as Mr. Krr. LEY anys, forced them to become tramph, Such is the condition of the Democratio party.in Congreas upon the only question of public policy upon which that party bas had an honest and Lionorable record, upon which it hos been loudest in its professions, and upon which it could so legislato as to relieve o plundered and impoverished people, 1f the Democratic party cannot be trusted to pnss an honest Tariff act, what, 1n the namo of common decency, does the party ever cx- pect to nccomplish? Does it exist only to pass Southern relief bills and plunder North. ern tax-payers to recoup Southern Rebels for their losses in attempting to destroy the Union? Let Mr, Kenn disband his Falstaf- flan army of Coufederates and Pratection- plunderers, and send them home, BRITISH GOLD AND THE .COBDEN CLUB, The Protection organs hinve nil at once let loosie upon the * Cobden Club," and some of them neense that Club of the lavish uso of * British gold,” as bribes, in the cultivation of an American sentiment in opposition to n high protective tariff. Has it ever oceurred to theso people that onr protective tariff in the very thing which hus done 1more to en. rich England nnd incrense her manufactures than any other action on our pact that wns possiblo? Grent Britain in the year 1875 oxported colton goods to the value, in En- gland, of three hundred millions of dollurs, of which mora thau onc-fourth ere sent to countries on the American Continent and to ‘China and Japan, comparatively our neigh- bors. Great Britnin imported all the raw materinl of this manufacturo from the cotton to the minutest item of dyo staff and chemi- cal used in the business. Tho only rival on the globe which could manufnctare cot- ton and woolen goods to mny extent ju compotition with CUreat Britain is the United States. Wo lave cheaper food for the labor, cheaper fuel, abundanze of water-power, and, in the caso of cotton, al. most & monopoly of the raw material, Great Britain importy the groater part of Ler wool, —~the domestio product being merely used for mixing with others,—aud in this respect wo areher superior, beeause we grow o far greater variety of woal, varying from coarse to flue, and the quantity may bo increased equal to noy possible demaud, rs wo havo thirty times the territorial area of Grenat Britain, 'Fhero is nothing in which we might not successfully compato with that country. Wo have intinitely mwore and a better quality of iron ore; we have botter facilities for pro. ducing stoel; we have inoxhaustible supplios of copper, and lead, and nickel, and of all the materiala necossary in their monufacture. Wo huve more and cheaper conl than all the rest of the world. Uunder theso circumstances, the sale of British-luade cotton, iron, woolen, leather, or stecl goods in the United Htatca ought to be couxidered ag extruordinary as the saly here in Chicago of British-milled flour mado from American wheat. Iho British manufacturers have no causo to fear an interfercuco with thelr vast for. eign trade from any other quarter than the United States. No other country can make cotton, fron, lenther, wooden, or woalen goods and undersell Fngland in foreign markets vxoept the United States, Notbing hus horetofore provented or now provents the sule of American manufuctures sbroad but the high protective tarilf, which so enbances the cost of producing all these lines of goods iu tho United States thatit practical- ly prohibits thelr export, and limits thelr production to a part of the howoe demand, The American tariff has givon to Great Britein slnost the monopoly of the sale of cotton goods, woolen goods, iron and steel, and leather menufuctures ju overy part of the civilized globe, snd opens cven the United Btates to the sale of large quantities of British cotton goods made of American cotton! Great Brituin hus had tuat monopo- ly ever sinco 1861, That monopoly hos been of incalculuble profit to Great Britsin. 1t Lus drawn to her the weslth and commerce of all nations, It hus absorbed frowm ws our gold. | It Lios mode En. gland the great banker and morchiant of thy earth, It hns given omployment to her over. flowing population. It hns mado ler il arbiter in money mattors, and enabled her to spread mortgnges over half tha Governmenty of the world, This has been the work of thg American tariff,—tlio giving to Great Dritain the monopoly of the world's market for g nlo of Lier manufaclures, American mnny. factures have boon put in chaing; their milly and mines allowed to work only on halt time,—thnt Great Britain mny sell her irog in Pittsburg, her cotton goods in Lowell and Providence, nud hov carpets in Philndelphia, Tt ** British gold” were over nred to infly. enco Amorienn legislation, if the Colulen Club havo ever ronght to promoto the direot intorcsts of Great Britnin at the cost and ox. pense of the United States, tho natural pro. sumption must bo that both have beon en. listed in framing, incronsing, nnd perpetunt. ing tho Amorican tariff, which provents American manufncturers from aver interfering with the British monopoly of the mnarkets of the globe. It would be absurd to use theh “ gold " in any other way, The Washington National Republican which gets ilaliving out of public plunde and theréforo hios no love for Mr. Bristow, hag circulated o ridiculons rumor that th Secretary is to become the Democratio eandl. date for the Presidency, under the leadershig of the Louisville Courier-Journal and th New York Sun. This willy story having been started by this leech upon the Adminis. tration, the fnter-Ocean, ever on the alort for nnything reflecting upon Becretary Bnistow, picked it up and prominently publishes it The story is all bosh and nonsense upon it very faco, and, oven if this were not so, fl appearance in the £.-0. would be sufficient ovidence of the fact, when tho animus of that paper towards Secrotary Bnistow i taken into nccount. As it has had to retract all its past slanders of the Scoratary, howaver, tho retraction of this freshest calumny will speedily bo in order. NEW RAILWAY-LINE 10 BARNIA Binco tho four gioat Eastern rallway lines,—the Michigan Central, the Houthern, the Pittaburg, aud the Baltimore & Olio,—by pooling thew earnivgs, bave made heavy diecriminations against the business of Chicago, much intereat Lins been folt in tho opening of & now aud iode- pendont roud to Barnis. Thore It would conneot with tho Grand Trank, vnoof the longoest and Dbost rallwaya on tho continent, True, It ia one of Mr. Joy's bankiupt ronds; but it Is decidedly strong and livoly, aud Chicago would give it 1 mout cordinl welcome. By such s con. vection, ite 1,100 miles of road, resch ing tho seaboard over connecting linot at Now York, Doston, and DIorilspd, would bo rendered profitablo, if anything can possibiy mnko thom g0, For Cbicago busiuess, it is now st tho merey of tho Michigou Central, which rofuses to tako its freight unloss it chiarges the ates adoptod by tho pooled laos. For nesrly llf tho year it oudsat Barnin or on Lake Huron,—practically nowhere,—snd honce Iu Iimited Lusinoes nud impoverished coudition As o competing ling, it iy during tho wintor of little or no valuo to Chicago. Our business-men can cxpect no quarter fron tho * pooled lineu * till navigation opoay. Theis diseriminations and organized raid againat ow prospority, it mives us great plossure to repork, canuot probably bo ocforced boyood the pres cut scason. We lave relinble amutbority for stativg that ovo of the lines botween this city and Satnis can bo opeued 88 & frolght-road for sbout ball a million of dollare, aud that it will bo completed during tho coming ucanon, probs. blyin timo for tho fall busincss, ‘This, with the Grand Trunk, will form an exclustvely Chl eago lme to tho scaborrd. It con ecarcely over be made for ks interost to uolte with other lines to discriminato against the business of thecity. Mr. Jov admits that his rond is suffering from its connection with the “pool,” but thia Jino would bo more surely com- peiled to work in unison with Chicago {uterosts than tho Michigan Cential. To uso the lane gnagoof our well-informed correspondent, it g plainly “the destiny of the Grand Trunk to reach Chicago, and that at no distant day,” The wooner it is dono the better, both for'the popu- larity aud tho buniness interowt of the road, and certainly it is of great importanco to the pros- perity of our city, This is tho Grood Truok's “opportunity,” and it {8 to be hopud it and its frionda will have tho wisdom aud the ene:gy -te ambrace it. AN OLD SLANDER b0 Mt. Varnan (1IL) Neics, s littlo Copper- head sheet published down in Lgypt, revives #omo of tho old les it aud other Copperhesd sheets used to talk about Benator Loaax. It says: ; i d Ilozd his biography from preface to appendix, an o oly Lo slisprateyed secker atter th ‘incidents of personal greatiiesn to find any mention of his conneo: tlon with the **Hon'" rn Tlliu: ".Legion," s body of men that Mr. oo, ater’ d fu Jead 1uto the ranks of the Confederato army and assist in the destruction of “ Lincots's hirelngs,” Ne:ther do wetind that Mr, T.00aN bus giveu his blographer the circumstances o 1w oxplott at # Dig Mddy ** bridge, whore thess sami “LixcoLN_bireliuga " wore to 'be intorcapted and: turnci baek by thu flaming swerd of the gallant Jonx, from (helr march i1 defouse of the Unlon, Am wgzaiu, thero 1o tho little incident ot McLeansbo wheu Logan becamno so disgusted with the Hiars an Htripes thut Lo refused to spwak uatil they wers hauled down,—uon, uot ono of theso fruportant eventa {1 i Lifoof the greit Lonwn, fs writien down by tha V'ographer, And wo might still further montion the 1 i'gble omiswjon on the part of wome one—we do 4 odav hut 1t was Loaan Limnelf—of his apoechics at Do, 'w, Marion, Muckueyville, Murpbyavoro, and other Houthers 11linols towus, where he waa all-powar. ful,—fust previous (o and during the first wmouths of thie late distressing unplensantnees, Thoso speechios ‘wers m of fre-oat! n? weccasion, aod would fure niwls the Lest of reading for the most ultra Rebel ar moat ahandened bushwlisckor, Why is this thus? Theso charges wero all refuted over and ovor again, LoaAN challenged hia cpemics to sube etantiato any of them, which way uever done and it s rather late In tho day—sistesn years aftor tho timo referred to—for the News to rake up, Butit will not harm Logax, while it will certaioly not bouefit the News or any other shiost that ~tands to crodit those old fatachoods, —_——— OBITUABY, TUE REV. JALEZ LURNS, he cabile dispatchoa from London on the 1st inut, roported the doath of the eminent Meth- odist divino and author, the Rev, Jasez Buand. He communcad hiacaroer asa writer ou religious subjocts in 1820, and was emlnootly succesaful. In 1839 ho removod to Scatland, whioro ke con- tinued Lis hitorary labord, In 1826 he commenced minfatorial work fu London, sud coutinued it for tweuty-fivo years with remarkabla succoss, In 1839 Lo bocame eoditor of tho Temperance Journal, and soon aftorwards established the LPreachera’ Magazine, o was oue of {ho earll- st members of tho Evangelical Alliauce, and was prosont at the first Conference of that body in Gront Uritaln, In 1810 to received the degres of Doctor of Divinity from tho Wouleyau Unle vorsity at Mlddietown, Conn, . PROY, CARL WILKE, A correspondunt of tho Allgemeine-Zallung writex the followiug ead story from Pers, near Conutautinaple: (ur Iittle German rolony hiere was Tat weok phunged ro wad deuth of old Prof, Caur Witk under BLucusn tn 1804 tgua sgatust the Frouch, sward Liw wint 1o Urvoco, whero Lu oblained a sit- ustion sa eacber of Ul Greek sud Jatia Poilology, Un the vaptiadon of the Baver on the dowafall of Oruo, WLk jrocesded 10 Coustantiuopls, where by oitted na tutor in the B bool of the Patrlatche o, sl illed that poaition il four years sy, wlicky on ‘sccouut uf Lle grost age, Lo was rotired ut 4 smal rension, The disssusions suiung tha Gresl Lul uarlan, Lowever, waterially 1sduced the re e Putrisrchiate, sud WiLke's peusiv meagre pillsnce ind ita paymeut very frr Tue ol niet wes sou oLifygcd to” vacrides bis valuatle - Lrary, bub tho procesds of shis were scon gouo, aud. withough s fewof Lin old pupils seudersd Liwm sors wablatasiie, Lo bas fur stund ttas baca i e verge ol