Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 10, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TITURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1870, ey e e ey TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. BATRS OF SURSCAIPTION (FAYARLR. TN ADVAXCE). Pontaxe 1repald ut thi falled to any sddrors FOUR WEEKR [uF..ujorscss unday Ktnlon: Literary and Religiaus danbis » on Cinb ol twe Tha postage §s 15 cont 3 Bpecimen copies sent free, o prevent delay aud mistakes, bo sure and give Poat-Ofiice addreas In full, Iucluding Bateand County, Hemittances may be mado elther by draft, express, Foat-0fice orden, or In regiatored lotiers, at our risk, P TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRIRERS, Daily, deliverod, Sunday excerted, 25 cenla ret week. aily: deliversd, Bunday included, 30 centa per week, D stus T S P TIDUNE COMIANT, Coraer Madison and Drarborn-sta., Chicago, Iil. AMUSEMENTS. MoVICRER'S THEATRE—Mndison atreet, hetween Drarborn snd Btate, Engagemeut bf 3tr, aud Alrs, Wo J. ¥lorenco, ** The Mighty Dollar.” TOOLEY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Olark and Lagalle, Tho Califoruia Minstrels, ADELPHY THEATRE~—Dearborn Monros, Variety performance. WOOD'S MUSE! born and Btaf Evonlog, street, corner UM—Monroa street, between Deare Afternoon, *! Ticket-of-Leave Aan,™ Tiarefoot.” ot T BUSINESS NOTICES. DR. ABORYN, OF BAN FRANCISCO, WHO ENJOYS & natioual reputation for his oxtraordiuary auccess in the trestment of Catarrh, Asthms, Hronchitls, and Consurption, ean bo consulted at the Grand Psciflo Hote), Clilcago,Tuesdny and Wednesday, Feb. 16 and 10, The @hieago Tribuae, Thursday Morning, Fobruary 10, 1870. Greenbneks nt tha New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday closed at 88§. TLatest estimatos of tho losses snstained by tho Now York fire of Tuesday night placo tho total at £8,000,000, and the insuranco nt £2,000,000, Continued wnrm weather, with a possiblo chango to lower temperature Into in the day, ara tho conditiona dished up for us at the meteorological shop in Washington, The Liberal members of the Hungarian Diet have agreed to support a bill providing for tho croction of & monument to Fraxos DEAx, the lamented patriot and statesman. — e Frrrz will positively not appesr at tho Centonninl this summer. Owing to personal mntters, according to a letter from the Pri- vate Sceretary of the Prussinn Crown Prince, the latter will find it impossible to do Ameri. ca this year, A donth notice printed ina Washington paper of July 8, 1872, is raked into promi- nence 10 prove the assertion that the elerk of Mr. Monnsox’s Committee actually did name his gon in honor of ¥. Witkes Booru. An. other deninl will now be necessary, An ofticial examination of o number of Chi- cago churches by tho Building Inspoctors discloses the fact that in several instances serious defects require prompt attention, The reports contain various remarks, suck ns “furnaces dnngerous,” *‘pipes too closo to the wood-work,” ‘“‘doors open in,” ete. The best timo to make a building safo is before it burns up. An understanding has been reached be. tween the Internnl Revenuo Buresu and the brewers whereby the Iatter will be permitted to make proof of tho amount of beer actunlly browed from & given quantity of malt, instead of being required to pay the revenue tax in accordance with the arbitrary rato of propor- : tion proviously enforced. Tho browers havo ilong urged a modification of this regulation, ond are pleased with their guccess in scouring © compromise. Plymouth Congregational Church of Chica- 80, ono of the wealthiest and most influentinl in the city, has by a voto of 22 to 15 decided to decline the invitation to attend the Ad- visory Council ealled by its Brooklyn name- snke. Bimilar action has been taken by tho Teavitt Street Church, so that the Chicago Congregationalists will have Lut a meagro * ropresentation in the Council. It is more than probable that recent ovents havo tended to shape this result, nud that Chicago's rto of representation is an approximately correct indication of the viows of the donomination in this city respecting the propriety or utility of the Advisory Council. It is eaid that the entire Republican deles gotion of Now York State in Congress has docided to presont and press Mr. CoNErLING'S nama in the Cincinnati Convention, and that they are confidont of euccess. Ex-Gov, Monaax has generously waived his flattering prospecta far the nomiuation, and the wark- jug up of county delegntions to tho State Convention is to commence forthwith, Itis plensant to notica theso ovidences of lar. mony and enthusiasin among the New York Congressmon, and it is to bo hoped that their sfforts toeffcct n thorough organization in the State will suceeed in insuring a few votes for Benator CoNgLaNd. A declaration of more thun ordinary inter- est and significance was mado in the Reich- stog yesterdny by Princo Brsyarck, In tho courso of tha debate on the bill amending the Pooal Code, the Prime Ministor alluded to the war rumors of a year ago by nows- popors falsely regarded ag semi-ofllcial, aud donicd that any such journals had an cxist- ence. Hondded: *Wo live in a state of the most profound peoce. Wo have no wish for conquest; we are contented with what wo possess, ' Wo havo no thought of threat- euing any one. Novertbcless, these rumors aro continually arising.” Certain clauses of the amendatory bill imposing penaltics for tho publication of such nuuom had already boen rejected, and it was in behalf of their reinsertion that Brsaanox's appeal was made, The Chieago produco markets were gen- erally stronger yestordoy, Mesa pork wos less active and 12§¢ per brl higher, closing at $20,65 cash, and $20.82) for March, Lard was in good demand and a sbado firmer, closing at $12.35 ensh nnd $12.474 for March, Meats weres moro active and o higher, st 7{c for boxed shoulders, 11jc for do short ribs, and 1140 for doshort clears. Highwines wero active and unchanged, at $1.06 per gallon, Flour was dull and firm. Wheat was act ivo and 1@2c higher, closing wenk nt $1.02} for February el §1.014 for March, Corn was in better demand uud dc higher, closing weak at 40}o cash and 41{o for March, Oats were more activo and §@]o higher, closing at $130 cash und 313c for March, Ityo wasquict ot 67c. Darloy wes quiet and irregular, clos- fug at 750 for February and 08}@CY for March., Hogs closed active and 5@10c Ligh- cr, late sales making at §$7.65@7.85 for cowe won to prime packing grades, Cattlo were dull and irrognlarly lowor. Shecp were neg- leoted and weak, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy ©112.75 in greonbacks al the close, ¥ A genernl feeling of satisfaction and relief will result from the announcement that Prosidont Gnant will not proceed to St. Touis for tho purposo of giving testimony for the dofenso in the Dapoook case, and that the President's deposition only will be offered nt tho trinl. If facts tending to dis- prove the charges against Gen. BAncock are within the knowledge of the President, jus- tico pnd homanity demand that thoso facts should bo made known, ULut it is nono the less true that under the circumstances the nappenrance of such o distinguished witness in court would lie the oceasion of malicious gossip and scan- dal which would not be excited by the read- ing of tho deposition, As to the probablo effect upon the jury of the personal presence of tho President of the United Btates upon tho witness-stand, opinion will differ; it might or might not bo to the advantago of the defondant, whose connsel probably weighed tho matter well, and acted for the best as thoy viewed it. Tho insidions gamo of three.card monte hns worked such havoe in the rurnl districta that the Legislaturcs of several States have been obliged to consider mensures for the suppression of the osil. The Iowa Legis- Iaturo is the latest ono to take cognizanco of tho matter. The House of that bLody has passed n bill making swindling three-card. monto men liablo to flue and imprisonment, and conferring upon conductors, stntion. ngents, ond other persons employed in publie conveyances, or in places of publio resort, authority to arrest such swindlers, with or withont a warrant, Tho Iaw will probally pass the Senato without opposition. It is n step in tho right dircction. Wo need such a Inw in Illinois, and anothor to break up tho gome of bunko. These various modern forms of swindling can be reached by specific onnctments; and it is casier to put tho Logislature to the troublo of passing Iaws on the subject than it is to have the peoplo suffer ond the thioves flourish, Wo need laws #o plain that no Judge, though n fool, can err in construing them. OUR COTTON TRADE AND HOW TO EN- LARGE IT, Tho panic of 1873 caught American manut- fncturcrs with immensa stocks of all kinds of goods on hand. That panic had the imme- diata offcct of reducing consumption iu the United States to the minimum, and thers was no other market open to them in which to soll but tho United States. Tho pnnia only permitted them to soll in the United Statos. All tho rest of the world waos as ablo and willing to buy as ever, but our goods cost so much to produco them that it was hardly any grontor loss to let them rot, rust, and deeay, than to ship thom, In any other country ex- copt the United States, an interruption of the home market would be met by an immediato ghipment to foreign countrics. We had not only to let the goods stand in warchouss un- sold and unsalable, but we stopped making goods, discbarging tho labor, reducing it to pauperism, and letting tho capital invested in mills, furnaces, and machinery rest, unpro- ductive. Sinco the costly expericnce of 1878 there has been an avoidance of surplus productions; but this hns been at tho ex- pense of the laborers, of whom it is estimated there are two millions out of employment. Ono of the firat reliefs obtaned after the ponio was the parchase by persons in Cannda of large quantities of tho surplus iron of Ponnsylvania; theto purchinses nggregnted nearly five wmillions of dollars between the dato of the panic and the 1st of June follow- ing. This sale of iron and steel to Canada in that half year excecded the export of iron and steel o all tho rest of the world in tho entiro year. In that samo time ootton cloth to tho value of nearly half s million of dol. Iars found its way to Conada. Since then wo have been exporting mors or less of a varied list of our manufactures to Canads, where they havae boen sold in succossful compotition with the British goods which pay aduty to Canadn of 16 per cent. Wo have also begnn an increnso of tho exports of cotton goods, sending thew on orders to Grent Britain and Gormony. It may be' interesting to know how our export of cotton goods has pro- gressed during the lnst twenty years. Weo find in the Now York Bulletin soveral tables, to which we have made somo additions ta snnke theni more complete, showing the valu ond quantities of cotton manufactures ex. ported to forelgn countrics since 1856 : VALUE OF MANUFACTURES OF COTTON EXPOLTED ¥ROM TUE UNITED 8TATES. Not speci Colored. Uncolorod — fle $ Va0l $2319,370 § B o647t 620,781 094 Ye'r ond'g June 1053116 1,317,719 1,770,154 1,546,083 Not given in Lureau of Btatistics reporta, This tablo is instructive. The total value of the exports iu 1875 was 25 per cont great- er thun in any year sincs 1869, but not one- hinlf what it was in 1856, ‘The year 1861, put down in the tablo, ended Tune 80 of that year, sod consequently included onc-hatf of the calendar year 1860, The Wur has been ovor nearly clovon yeurs, and wo hnvo not yet recovered any portion of our lost trade, The statistics of, tho United Btates do not show the quantities of cotton goods shipped prior to 1864, hence wo Liave no means of compar- iug the quantities in 1860 with those exported in 18756, Quantitiea ayo fully ns important ey values, 'Thus, in 1864 wo exported 1,835,921 yards, having a valio of $1,466,001, But wince and including 1864 the quantities aro reported ag follows : QUANTITIES OF COTTON GOODS EXFORTED YROM THK UNITED STATLS BINCK 1504, Yoar ending Coored. Uncolored, June i, Vardu, Yardu, 9.8, 148 21,314,020 BLOT NTTITH WY 18,212,070 BRI 11704018 WL 10,010,850 BT 14,340,689 1080111 19,8848 G003 6,698,157 FXTTXTER T 16K) 1,255,000 15566 1,800 *Not given in Bureau of Gtatistics Teport for 1609, It will besecn that fu 1875 wo exported 05 per cent more yards of cotton than we did in 1874, but the increnso of value was but 33 per cent. The cost of producing the cotton muanufactares hus declined, sud henco the manufacturers were able to put them on tho market at prices enabling them to compete with goods produced elsowhore, ‘Tho tari® may be 8o amended that tho cost and imporinl purple, and commencos to shirick 4 Crosar” and * tyeant,” a3 it hins dono 50 of- ten before. Al tho littlo organs havo com- menced grinding ont tho samo nonscloss awnsli, and oven the Uincinnath Commercial ia golting seriously alarnod boe.nuso Mrs. Tostr- xins' daughtor's husbanud hing Avritten this lot- tor, Mrs, 'Toueking lolng n cousin of tho Prosidont. Thoro s nothing which scaras thoso follows so ensily a8 thirdl torm,” and thero 16 nothing that thoy liko &9 Lo seared nbout 8o much, Wo con undi-vatand why Mrs, Tospxing' daughtor's husbhand should troublo the Demnocrats, bmt we cnunot un- derstand why such a cool olll enmpinigner as Munar Hazatean should be tronbled by Mrs, Tosrring, or Mrs, Tomrins' daugirter, or Mrs. Tostering’ doughter's husband, «or any other ToMrRINg, of the manufncturs of cotton in this country can bo so reduced as to admit of the snle nt prices justifying an indefinite incroase of ex- porta, G Ono of the greatest items entering into tho cost of American manufacturas for export is the uncertainty of the valuo of the carrency. Tho goods aro produced and sold at currency rates. 'The man who produces and sells his gooda when ourronoy 8 worth 89 cents does not know whethor, when theso goods aro paid for six montha later, the cnrrency will bo worth 89 or 80, and the decline, bo it ever so small, is sufficient to rendor tho sale a losing one. To proteet himsel? agninst such n loss, n margin must bo ineluded in the prico of lis gaods, which, withont any profit to hitn, is an addition to the price at which ho enn sell, and o protection to the foreign manufacturer who is exposed to no such con- tingency. Specio pnyments, nnd & return {o a fixed standard of yalue, are cssontial to any permanent reswmption of export trade. ‘Wao onco had a largo trade in cotton goods with Chinn, and we are indebted to the Sulle tin for tho following statement of tho ex- ports of cotton goods exported from New York and Boston to China for o series of years : EXPORT TO CHINA OF UNNLEACHED DRILLINGS, JRANS, BHERTINGR, AND SHINTINGS, Yards, v Yarde, fiorea and virulent as ever; but thero is nov- ortheless much truth, as wo have anid, i his insolence, and there is n certain dogres of poatical justico in the repronch. Tho Gov- ernment ligs not dono its duty by hitn. ANpy Jouxson did not do his duty by hin. Jep. rrnsoN Davis ought to have been tried by conrt-martinl ns the military chief of o wirked rebellion, and shot, Inatend of being allowed to escapo by the inertness of the Government ond the technicalities of Inwyors and courts, Jerprnson Davig ascerts * himself as tho embodiment of the Southern people, and clnima that he spenks for them. Wo wonld liko to inquire of our Southern exchanges, who now talk eloquently of tho duty of up. holding the flag and maintaining the Union and chorishing feclings of reconcilintion, if Jevrenson Davis apenks for them or repro. sents their sentiments, Wo would liko to inquiro of them if they really feel that tho Northern people wora the wrong-doors in ro- sisting his nttempt to break up the Union, and if wo aro tho recipients of their graco in tho matter of their forgivenass and forgotful- ness of the past. We would like, further. moro, to inquire of thom if they sustain and indomso tho ntrocitics of Andersonvillo, of which JeeFERsON DAvis has boen proven re- sponsible, ns well ns the Rebellion which lo headed. 1If s0, then they might as well ncknowlelge it at onco and throw off the mask, ro that both sections may know whero they stand, and the Govermment ean resumo the work of furthor reconciliation necessazy under such circumstancoes, tho Ameriean tariff, and to soe English socie- tlen airculating Protectioniat docnments and sonding over I’rotectionist lecturers to keop us firm in tho faith of Protoction.” If the Pantagraph will roilect n moment, it will doubtless perccive that tho Mritish news. papers could not very conalstently ndvoeate froo trade for England in ono column and praiso the American protoctive tarlff in the next column. Bat they' do tho best they can; they linve preity much censod for sov- oral yoars to say snything againet tho Amer- jcan tariff. They scem to bo yorfectly will- ing to see it sland, ns it operates to koep this country from competing with British manu. facturors in all other parta of the world. Tho British socioties aro spared the Inbor and expongo of ‘‘sending lecturers to keop ws: firm in tho faith of Protection” while tho Protection newapnpors and spouters do that work for them with so. much zeal. Nover. thaless, thoso socicties woll understand that whenever the United Btates drop the so.enlled Protection principlo of artificial high prices, the British monopoly of tha forcign mnrkets will bo ended, and a powerful competitor will Ve in the fleld. Look at this contrast in the exportation of cotton goods Inst year by tho two nations to American and Asiatic coun- tries. Wa have taken only such countrics an wo slionld be supplying with cotton goods, viz, : North and South America, West Indios, China, and Japan (the details will bo found in another article). s To those countries Gront Britain exported in 1875 1,132,/87,100 yards of cotton gooils, and the United States exported to all In viow of the fact that the Sub.Cor.imit- teo of Iivo reported favorably to the v jom- mitteo on Pncific Rnilronds as to the . Vox Scorr subsidy bill, it is pertinent to recwll the resolution passed in the early pnrt of tihe session at the instance of Mr. Iforyan Resolecd, That, I tho Judgment of thls Houss, in the present condition of tho fiuancial affairs of tho Government, no subtdy in mones, bonds, publia landg, udorecmonts, or by pledgo of the pubiio credit, shauld bo granted by Congreea to arsociations or cor- parations engaged or propoalug to engago fn public o private enterprises; and that all appropriations from tho Public Treasury ought to be limited at this time to suclh amonnts only a8 shall be fmporstively do- manded by the pablic servico, : ‘This resolntion received a vole of 223 mom- Lers in favor nud only {3 ngaiustit. Tta Inngunge is cleor and unmistakable. Tt 0u0] 183 5 1RTcee MR. HARRISON'S LITTLE BILL, tho countries of tho world 28,817, [ 6tauds almost a unnnimous protest against 3r. HannisoN has got through nmending | 748 yards, or barely onefortieth port the wholo subsidy business. If the Pacifio the Coustitution of the United States fortho | as myeh! These English goods wero Rnilrond Committeo adopts and reports the 1In 1875 Great Britain exported to varions conuntries—(not in Europe) allof which onght to be within theexclusive range of tho Ameri- can manufacturers—tho following quantities of cotton cloths made of American cotton ; Countrien, Yards, presont, and has turned his atteution for the nonco to matters at home. Ilo bas intro- duced the following bill ¢ fe it endcted, ete., That all the right, title, and inter- ost of the United Hlatea In and to Townahip 39, north of Tange 14, east of the thini principal meridian, in the County of Cook, and Stato of Iilinols, which lice north of the south Jno of said Scc, 10, and south of the south Hno of Randolph street, extending onat of thio east 1ino of Micligan avenue, satendiug south ss shiown on tho orignsl plat of Fort Dearborn Addition finding of their Sub-Committeo, it shonld bo A sullicient answer to turn to Mr. Horatan's resolution and recall members to the poliey to which they have pledged themsclves, ‘Thero ought to bo no nced of debating tho question, mnde of Amorican-grown coiton. Tho English manufacturers shippod to Can. ada nnd sold nearly twice as many yards as tho total American export of entton cloth to the whola world! Before the panic, our en. tire export of cotton goods were only 11,704,- 079 yards,—being hnrdly-cqual to the English oxportation to Chinn in a week. Since tho panie, the cost of production hes been forced Tho aditor BTonEt called a mn;by tho namo of Busu o ** Shystor,” aud printed it in hianows- papor. The fellow sued tho old man for dof- 000 35,218,700 x'im,&p.mo URIguAs 53000 | 1o Chloago, togeiher with ail tho riparin rightaor | GOVD L0 & point whore somo molo goods cant | amation of charactor. Tho oaso was submitted Atgeiantiopibiie, FILA0 | 1yonts of accretion thereto bolouging, or o any way | find o foraign market. The Pantagraphmust | tonu intelligent jury of twelvo poors of tho appertaining theroto, and tho sama ia hereby granted totho City of Chicago, to havo and to hold the same, to tho skt City of Chicago and its sssigns forever, Tho bill covers all that part of the Lake Park lying north of Madison street, which is the southern line of fractional Heo. 10. The investigntion into tho titlo of this sec- tion lins led some of tho lawyers to beliovo that tho City of Chicago Las no title in this section whatever, thongh the railronds wero willing to pay tho city $800,000 for n mere quit-claim, which would in no way bave in- volved tho city, either as to a warrant of tho titlo or snbsequont damages on any account, If this is true, it shows two things, viz. : (1) 'That the Aldermen of Chicago betrayod tho best interests of the city in refnsing to give a quit-claim to property which it conld not hold in any ovent; and (2) thata grant of this property from the United States wauld in somo measure atone for the folly of onr Chicago Aldormen by improving to that oxtent the titlo of the city. So far, Mr. Hamrmwox’s bill is one which we aro inclined to favor. But we aro nlso constrained to Joep in mind that such o result might turn moroe to tho benefit of the Ring Aldermeon in their individual ecapncity than os the’ representatives of the city’s in- terest, With oncoa title in the city as Mr. Iannsoy asks tho United States to give it, wo apprehend that the Aldermen would not so much insist upon ndditional pay on that account for the bonefit of the cityas that any incrense ahiould be applied on their individual perquisites, Tho position of tho United States Government in this matter hns always been that it wonld intorposc no claim to the property in any disposition to bo made of it, &0 that it will bo as well perbaps to leave tho city's titlo as it is, and lot tho purchaser or purchasers of the property perfoct their own claim to it after taking a quit-clasimdeed from the city. Our provious cxperience with tho Lake-Front, in the hands of the Aldermen, teaches us that any improved titlo will only incronse their individual greed and the imper. tinence of their demands, 800 that if we could manufacture cheap enongh we would supplant Groat Britain in foreign markets. Sho manufacturcs under froo trade; wo under ultra protection ; there- foro she undersells us, notwithstanding the cotton costs her manufacturers moro then it does ours, and they havo to pay doublo the Ameriean prices for food. Wo must unload the onecrons tariff taxes if wo hope to cope with Great Britain. THE DIPLOMATIC BILL, The Democratio oxclusion of Mr. GAnrrLp from the Appropriations Committeo, whero lio had sorved so long with advantage to the publie, has searcely achieved the purpose which nctunted it, Instead of availing thetn. solves of Mr, GarrieLp's wisdom and expo- rience in the Committee-room, tho Demo- cratic majority in the Tfouse must now en- countor Mr. Ganrizip's criticisms on the floor, | Ho hins recently oxposed the injustico and short-sightednoss of the Consular and Diplomatic Appropristion bill reported by tho Domocrats, who, in order to carry out their protense of rotrenchment, are crippling the foreign servics in some of its mast essontinl points, . Tho Domocrats have put forth this bill as if tho forcign scrvice hed beon conducted in the most extravagant and lovish mpnner by the TRopublicans, whorens Mr. Ganrierp showa that the present galaries were fixed and the presont system ndopted in 1855, whon the Democratic party was and had been for years in full pos. session of all branches of the General Gov- ernment, and beforo the Republican party had obtained control of any part of the publia service, From 1808 up to 18G5, whon the chango was made, the diplomatic sorvic had been conducted in tho loosest mannor so far as compeneation was concerned. 'There was then not only a salary, but an allowance for outftt and infit, which made the average first-closs mission cost the Government about $28,000 a year. The practico of nn allow- ance of ono year's salary upon appoiniment way shamefolly shused. One person ap- pointed to o foreign misaion drew his year's salary, went to Paris, spent the mouney in dissipation, and roturned home without coven visiting tho Court to which he lad becn sssigned. Another nover left his Btate, but drow a year's pay realm ™ to roturn @ verdict under oath aa to how mueh the character of tho eaid Busi hnd beon damaged by fastoning on him for lifo tho cog- nomen of Bhyster, and the aforessid twolvo pecrs, after hoating all tho evidonco, nrguments, and instraciions of iho Coutt, came to the unanimous conclusion (hav tho enid BroRrey should pay tho sald Busu the som of one cont damages for tho naw titlo ho bad bestowed on tho asid Busu. Titles aro cheap in thiy country, Down South everybody who wears o clean shirt i calted Colonol. Hore a cortain cloes of per- rona professing to be lawyers aro known ay Bhystors. Any ove but an editor csn o call them without having to pay anytbing for the priviloge, but au editor 15 charged ouno cont ovory timo he indulzes in that luxury. Why is thls thus? Our total ‘export to China in 1875 was 7,000,000 yards, whilo that of Great Britain was over o million of yardsa day. Wo buy coffce from Brazil and pay forit with bills of exchnnge on London, which bills aro ex- chavged for British cottonsto be sent to Brazil. JEFF DAVIS' LETTER. ‘Wo have nlresdy examinod JerrEnsoN Da- v1g' letter with referenca to the failure of the author of the Andersonville ntracities to ex- enlpate himsolf. 'Thero are two other points in this lotter, both of them of a remarkably jnsolent charncter, which nced inspection. 'The first furnishes the foundation upon which his whola letter is based, and is to tho offcct that ke is tho embodiment of the South, and that oll his deods were done on its authority and in its belalf, He says: * The Southern pooplehave forgotten much and hava forgiven much of tho wrongs they bore. If it ho less s0 nmong their invadens, it is but anotber ex- ample of the rule that the wrongdoer is less ablo to forgive than he who has suffured cansoless wrong.” 1t would perhaps bo im- possibla to find moro untaned Rebel insolenco in the same number of words since the out- brenk of the Rebellion. It will be seon from this extract that JerressoN Davis proceeds upon the assnmption that the South was right and the North was wrong; thut the South belonged to the Rebels, not to the Union ; nnd that Northern citizenshad noright to be in the South; in other words, JEFrEnsON Davis has not yet given up, and will not givo up, the absurd theory that tho South iss soparate, distinet nation, snd consequently that the Union forces were essentially foreign invaders, doing wrong 1o the South! Not aven the stern logic of events has tanught Jer- rersoN Davis wisdom, 'Iho Fedoral forces, whom le styles * invaders," wera marching in their own territory: Thoy had the same right under the Constitution aud the laws to move through Georgia and Mississippi that they hiad to move through New York and Illi- nois, 'I'he Southern territory belonged then nnd docs now to tho American nation. Every Northern man had then and bag now an un- divided interest in that torritory. The —— Tho Cincinnatl Commereial publislies tho fol- lowing extract from a lotter writton by a gentlo. man of Santa Fo to his friond in Cinciouati, which shads romo light on the Bible question, aud on tho extont to which soctarians will go whoro thoy bavo tho power: ¥ ‘Tuo npecisl corzeapondenco from Now Mexleo to tho Cominerc.ai lant year has heiped fo ring that vaper prominontly Lefore tha peopls hiere, nud we have derived great aid and comfort from the clear views expresscd upon tho schnol question, Our Tat- 3007, 18 & Jesult pricat namod Gasrannz, 1o uscs ox- actly tho sama line of argument and reachen exactly opposite conclurionu, 5o says, s thik peoplearo niue- tenths Catholle, wo siould bave, not a divislon of the fund, bue Cathiolic sehiools; 1ot only portions of the Douay Biblo read, Lut the Catholio citechiso taught —and 3t it tatght—with Clirch prayers, kneeling, proateations, crosslugy, ete,, all under ilo direction o Cattiolio prieta, 1f nol, wily not, an this Iv & Cathollc cauutry, olthough Jews and D'rotestani aud Free “Thinkers pay fully threo-fonrtlis of tha sckool tax 7 Tho only logleal and safo ground is whora the Commer- g iy At n recont meecting of tho Eoglish Socioty of Medical Officera of Hoalih, & discussion took placa upon the prospect of a reappearance of tho plague in England and upon tho Continont. A paper was read by Mr. Nerten Ranceirrr, in which be expressed tho opiuion that the dis- onsa which hns mado its appearance at various times sod places in tho East sinco 1853 lg, in ita symptoms, courso, and fatality, idontical with the plagno, Mr. Ravcrierz furtber belloves fhat *ita incroased rocent diffusiveness and its manifestation in widely-soparatod localitics sug- gost that it s abont to entor upon a now period of opidomlo activity.” It ta hopod that Mr, Rap. oriwes: 18 unnecossarily alarmed ; bug if his opine fon Is welt foundod, it is not very pleasant to think of tho opportunitics for its rapld eproad afforded by the great incrense of stcam commu- nication on land and water. —_—— Ex-Gov. Breenenp, erstwhilo of tho District THE BANKRUPT LAW, I'ho Tlouse of Representatives hns done a wiso nct, too long postponed, in ropealing the Bankrupt act. That law hns long ont. lived whatever degree of honest usefulness it “ possessed. It had bocome a mero statuto to | for an outfit, and in & few manthe reaigned. ( of Columbls Exceutive, 18 sceking *frosh flolda * South,” &. e.. tho slavoholders, sought to | promote, encourage, and legalizo fraud and | These nbuses wero corrected by sbolishing | and pasturos now,” accoriling to tho Now York provent tho Natioual army from going whero | perjury. It whitownshed moro criminals an- | )l allowances, aud Sxing the salary of first. | Sun- o proposod ta introduco his "compro- ithad tho right to go. The *‘South,” in seizing Federal forts, arsenals, custom. housed, post-ofiices, and othor property, stolo what belonged to tho nation. The whole letior of Jerrensox Davis, liow- ever, is based upon the assumption that tho States in tho Bouth are independent nations, soparate and distinct from the North, and that the North hns conquerod them o3 the Russians conquered the Poler or the English conquored the Irish. But they never wero indepondont ; they wero nlways part of the Amierican nation sinco they censed to bo Brit. ish Colonies. 'They tricd to destroy the Con- rtitution and dismember the Union, aud Jer- vERsoN Davis headed tho insurgents; but they were defoated. 'Twoor three hundred thousand of them lost their lives in the at- tompt. Every foot of the Bouth beforo the War, during tho War, and sinco tho War, has belonged to tho Ameriean nation, and the National Government was only secking to re- cover its property and jurisdiction, which JurrersoN Davis, as the hoad of the Rebell- jon, was seeking to take from it. ‘I'he Gov- crument was excludod from the *South” for a time as a robber might exclude a man from bis own house. ¥ If, therc. fore, as JerrensoN Davis nssumes in his Jotter, ko spenks for the South and s tho ambodiment of the Southern people, it only shiows that o great deal more of reconciliation und of reconstruction will yet be required, shd that the Northorn peoplo must forget nnd forgive o great deal more of the erimes and misery causod by the Southern aggress- ory in secking to carry out this visionary and bascluss thoory that they are an independont uation ; that the Goverument had no right to send its aray inlo its own territory to dis. persa insurgents or to overcome the nttempt to broak up its nutonomy us an indepoudent nation, y With regard to the sccond point made by JevrensoN Davis, while it is jusolent, thero is nevertheless much truth fn the taunt. In his scoutiug of the amncsty proposition, which the Confederato members of the House and the Northern doughfnces sought to thrust upon bim, he says: * The Indictment was finally quashed on no application of mine, nor have I ever avoided or evaded a trial upon any chargo the General Governmcent might choose to bring against me, and have no view uf the futuro which mnkes it deslra. blo to wo to be included in an amnesty bill.” Thig is o dircot insult to the North and to its forbearanco in the case of the arch.traitor whoso maliguity towards the North is just ag nually than were convicted by tho courts. It roduced frand to a legalized scionce, and elevated porjury into ono of the highest principles of succeasful trade. Nothing hns 5o destroyed mercantile confidenco and weak- ened credit ns the legal facilitics offered to fraud by the Bankrupt act. It offered the highest premium to dishonesty, and discrim- inated heavily ngaiust integrity., The mpn whe pays for his goods cannot compete with the mnn who only pays 20 ceuts on tha dol- lar of their cost and pockets the romainder, A Bankrupt law might ba so framoed as to nfford relief to honest debtors. In England the proceeding in bankruptoy is of a quasi- criminal characfer, ho debtor must acconnt for the property or mouey he owes for; must satisfy the court by proof that Lo hna ncted lonestly. Ifis losses must be estab- lished by Lestimony, and, failing to give a sat- isfactory accaunt of his affairs nnd what he has done with his ereditors’ property, he goes to prison until Lo disgorges. Under our law the greditors aro the eriminals, They appear beforo tho courts us crucl persecutors of un- fortunnte honesty ; n8 pursuing & man who bought, for examplo, $150,000 worth af gooils on six montha' time, and who four months thereafter asks to be disoharged from his dobts because his assets only amount to #75 of personal clothing, and that being ex. empt ! The Bankrupt law, like the Tariff and Rtovenuo laws, has long baen an active cor- rapter of public morals, destroying all rover- enea for oaths,—discriminating agninst honest denling by offering rewards for perjury and other crimen, The Sennte con do no wiser act than to pass the bill without delay, As the bill con- taing u teclnicsl crror aud has to be swend- cd, the Senate might, in tho interest of pub. lio moraly, fix the dato when tho repeal shall take effcct on the 1st of June or July next. “I'he very reasons which demand the repeal of the law call for its vepenl at the carlicst mo- went. honsive system of improvements * jo connection with the establishment of & Govornmont naval station at Port Royal, Bouth Corelima. At all ovents, he 18 one of tho incorporators of a now company in Beaufort County, South Carolina, empowerod to purchase and improve lands, loy ont stroots and avenuos, ercct buildinge, and In fact bmld up a new city, The Company I8 utnown as the *' Biato Land sud Improvoment Company;" {ia elaros aro 200 cach, aund it Is proposed to begin work a8 scon as 1,000 shares #Unll bavo boen subscribed. If the projoct poca on, Bx-Gov, Suerienn's Weslington oxpericuce will probably bo of Lonefit to Lim. — Hnman natare scoms to bo about the samo the world over. Tho abuges of the administration of public charitios which are 8o prevalent in this country and In England find a paraliol in Italy, In the latter Kingdom ttiey havo bocome 1o glaring that the Ministor of tho Interor ing sont a circular to each of the Profects domnnd- {ng immodiate {nformation ag ta the conditica of the charitable institutions in their districts, The opportunities for abuses are very numer- ous and vory tempting, sinco they hold property to the amount of £300,000,000, divided up as fol- lows: Hospitals and houses of rofuge, $80,000,- 000; slmhiousor, &70,060,000; orphon asylums, £20,000,000; hospitals for tho aged and infirm, $20,000,000 3 tho Monti di pieta, $12,000,200; tho institutions for giving a dowry to girls without fortune, §6,000,000; and other catabliehmonts with smaller sums, —_— Very favorablo nows comea from the peach- growers of Dolaware and Marylaad, to the eflect that thoy will not put o much fruit into the mackot this season, but fruit of a much finor quality. Last year thoy suffered savorely by the overcrowding of the market, resulting fu the rotting of thousands upan thonsauds of baskots. This year thoy aro cutting down tho varicties of treos from which tho market was overflowed, and replanting with tho bearors of finer peaclios. Another pian which they propose to inaugurate 18 to keep the inferior paachics at homo and can them for winter uso, snd send out ouly tho very finost, Considering iho quality of the stuff which was ubippod from tho East lagt yoar, the chaggo will be a very acceptable one. class missions at $17,600 and others propor- tionately less. This was over twenty years 8go, aud sinco that time the expense of living in Europe has incrensed from 80 to 60 per cent; yot thero has beon no increnss in the pay, but, on the conirary, certain reduction in the expenscs by substituting salaries for Consular fecs which apply on the general ex- pense, andnlso by tho consolidation of certain missions of minor importance. - It is on this nccount that the Democratic protense of oconomizing s bat poorly attested when good opportunities are passed by to make some insignificant eaving in o branch of the sorvice that has boen as economically ndmin- istered during and sinco the War as it was twenty years ago when money went much furthor, i 1t ia possible that the foreign rervico may be reforined in some particnlars, but it is not in the way supgested by the Democrats, It may be that somo of the Bouth American missions may be still further consolidated and some athor missions confided to Consuls, But the Consular service In China and Japan especially, and gonerally wherover there are trade rolntions, cannot be reduced withont bringing on more sorious logses to American commerco than the saving of Consular sal- arics would pmount to in fifty yeors. The real abuses incident to the Consular system aro of a kind pointed out by Mr. Kenx after his investigations, such a8 falso cortificates of expenscs for sending sailors home, disgrace- ful personal habits among Coneular agonts, ete. But these are the faults of our defect- ive civil sorvico, and are not to be reformed, but probably only incressed, by a system of niggardly pay to our foreign ropresentatives. ‘From the action of tho Democratio Houso relative to the appointmenta it had to make, thie promise of uny reform of the civil service on the part of the Democratio party is ox- cocdingly unsatisfactory. Ono Col. Trowas B, Bwany, an ox-Confed- erato officer, now practicing law at Charlos- ton, Kanawha County, W. Va., whose wife's mother, Mrs. Toxexins, is a third cousin of tho President, who was visited once by the Prosidont when he wont to Western Virginia, and who has recently roturned the visit, hos written a lettor to & country Postmaster in hia seotion, in which he advocates tho ronom. ination of Gen. GmaNT for a third term. Phis letter in some manner fouund its way to the New York Merald, the Orlginal Jacobs of Omsarizin, which acoordingly goos into con~ niptions and drags out the same old gceptro Thoe Unitod Biates Bignal-Bervico ofiice ab Washington bag recoived from the Fresidont of tho Internationsl Cougress of Geographical Holenco, recontly hield in Paris, the oflicial lotter ot distinotion bestowed upon the Bigual Ber- vico Iast summor, The lotter recites that the sorvico haa causod 80 much progress to be made in metoorological cicucs “that the distinctions provided by the regulations of the Qougross would uot bo equal to It deserta. Thly Ligh bonor i@ iu part retlected upon the whole Ameri- can poople, aud It comes from a quarter in which American sclence bay besu for years but voorlv ostosmeds,-- The. Bigual Service bas, ine The Bloowington Pantagraph enys it fails ta agree with 'ux Twioune in the discovery that ** the American toriff has given to Great Dritain ulmost the monopoly of the sale of cotton goods, woolen goods, iron and steol, aud féather manufactures in every part of the civilized globo, and opeps even the United States o tho sale of large quantities of Uritish cotton goods made of American cotton.” ‘*1f this were 80," it says, “weo should expect to see the British newspapers full of pralses instead of condemuation of. dood, proved {o be, in a sclentiflo point of vlew, na woll aa for its practical utillty, one of the mos marveloun instilutionn that has over boon catab. lighed by our Gavornment, Tho Cinciunatl Commercial has boon on ths lookout for grost Domocratio principlos to bs davoloped by the present Uongrons, Lut bas not yot boon nble to discover enongh to oquip o groat party for a pationsl campaign, This fg what it has discovored sa far as hoard from ¢ “Tho first polut is that tha Democratio party is ds. vatod fo ths Confedorate theory of State righin. The recond pofnt fs tiat th Democratio party in fu favor of All the jobs callad Improvemonts that hava heen el upon in tho lato Bonthern Confederacy. The tuird point fa that, as the majority of Demacratly membera of Uon and the backbono of the party itaolf, are of tne uction Inte fu rebellion, {t 1a tie re. belljous part of tho conntry (hat must’ govern tha whola country {f tho Demdceatio party comes uto power, A 8t. Touta dispateh nsys tat Capt. EAns hay * Just rocelved tolegram from Col. ANpREWs, contractor for tho joltles ot tho mouth of tho Dlissisaippi, announcing 13 foet of water through tho crost of tho bar st Bouth Paas, belug an Incroaso of 8 foot In tho past clghtdaye. Boven feot addittonal of water will en. title Capt. Eaps to a firat payment, by tho termg of Lifa graut from Coungrosa.” Wo liave hag falth in Capt, Eans' jolty plan for romoving thy bar over einca he first prosonted it to the public. "« PERSONAL. . Apropos ot tho now American comedy, ow [ a1auy Floreuce miglht a dodar be ? It 18 eald that Dr, Keuealy will soon bogin & 8oy 08 of rovival moatings fo London, 3 EawSacretary Delanc and Mra.*Dolsno have gono to, California, whore thoy will pass the winter. AMr. MoKee pays Jtsxes in 8t, Loulaon 800, 000 to §65,000 worth of proporty,.snd in Sullic van Ceunty, No Y., on & farm sssesaod af 210,000, Tho Baston Post romarka that Lawyer Evarty hns & now Bowen to guaw. Noj it Isthe samq old Bowat\. Titlens, the Italian opera-singer, is fond o\ negro-ming ‘rol entortainments. Aias Kollogg is accused ot ' & simllar weakness. The Duchuves of Edinburg hes oxcitod the shopkeopors a t London by bestowing hor pat« roungo upon th vir rivals of Paris, Her example is sald to bo vor,* pernicious. 2 Mr. Gladstone .\ still writing briskly for ths English magozinal. Ono of tho articlos in the Church Quarterly .for Jonuary is generally un- dorstood to bo from his pen. A subscribor I8 inf, rmed that therois & Park Thoatro in Now Yo'k City. Oakey Hall and Joln Dillon Intaly apyloarsd at this theatre, It 18 fiow closod ** for roh oarssls,” indefinitoly. The return of Mr. M. ;9. Conway to Europa on Saturday last took mai1y of Lis admirers and frienda in tho West byeu rpyiso. Ho had s num- bor of partial ongagemonts , to lecturo, which {& wag supposod Lo would Yulfiih. Hobert Browning's son, wi1o took to painting two yonra 80, has made gral ifying progross in bis professton. Ha has latoly " roturasd to EBn- eland from Antwerp, whero bo 128 been stayiog, with sovoral large studies in o1k Tho Ecening Iost, of Naw Yo rk. abides falth- fully by 'filden and Bigalow ; m 1d occaslonally picke up » littlo ofilco for itself, In the mean- time. Dryant Godwin, recontly appointod Canal Engincor, is s son of Parke: Godwin, aod grandson of Mr. Iryant, Mra. and Misa Mitchell aro condus:\ng & ro vival in Montroal. Miws diteholl s nbo it 20, or, 18 thoy say in “'Tho T'wo Orphany,” *yv.wang and 8o protty.” Tho yousg mon of Alonh:'cal are charmed with hor. They wonld like to » wbrace lior and hor roligion—rather both than ned\ber. Mr, Charles O'Conor will nover resumc ths activo practico of law, but bo will aitend to pri- vato busiuess at his offico s soon as pasaable. Ho Is a childloss widowor, and finda s o home cheerloss enough durivg the dayiinie, whon all tho restof the world {s ongaged .t business, . . A London magazino has lately published 2% nualysla of & Iyrical drama which was concelvind! in 1841 by Miss Darrott, afterwards Mis, Brown» ing. 8lho had beon promlscd ths neslstance of Mr, R, IL orno, 'The work waa fo be ontitled « Pgycho Apocalypto,” and waa intouded to deal with abstruse psychiologleal questions, Tha jury which acquitted Landis ara lving ~ avguments for tho oflicacy of prayer. They wero for along timo unablo to agroo on & verdiet,— nino being for acquittal and throo for & convio- tion of manslaughtor. Finally one of tho mi- nonty began to pray, and kept on until thoy wers allof ono mind, Tha Doxology was sung, the vordict recorded, and the jury dlsmlesed just in timo to spend Bunday with thele familios, Cape. Poul Doyton's exhibition of himaelt and bis lifo-saving euit at a ' varloty * theatre in B, Louis is alluded to by tho Enstern papors 0d bolng a great ** comlng-down in the world." Not many montha ago, Boyton was honored by the wsttentlon of the Quoen aud people of En- gland ; and Lis fame did not decreass until Woebb ewnm afross the Chianuel withiout » life- saving suit or sdventitious ald of any descrip- tion. Wo have beon-~that {s to say, cortain members of the human race have been—bhanged in the wrang way, from the begioning of the practico oveu until now, Sclentific invostigation uas shown that tho only proper way to bang a man ia by o long drop—ten foot, st least, Tho knot should bs placed under the culprit's chin, Hen~ ry Wainwright, the Whitochavol murdorer, was hanged with perfoct success according to the new method, in Loudon rocently. Biill another sposcbe-saving devico of tho dealors in slang ia roportod by sn Edinburg correspondent : * There aro 8o many things oono would bo glad to koow about. one's neighbor —1{s aho or ho handsoms, or agreoable, or clever, ornioo, or pleasant, and so oo ; all this is now provided for and packed away in tho simple monosyllable quite. You have no nced to sek your friend a torrent of questions about the lady of his choice ; if ho saya abe ls quile, that includes eversthing desirable, and if he adds that Ae thinks hor quila quite, you know st oncs that she ts the ne plus ulira of porfection,” William L. Gilbort, of Winsted, Conn., a rela- tivo of Miss Linds Gilbert, has offored to atart a national monument fund for prison-libraries with a subscription of $10,000, provided ‘shs can ralse $00,000 ndditlonn). In order to raise thla sum Miss Qlibert proposes to sell at the National Centonnial & small book giving & short history of hor experlonces, with n statistical roport of bor Iabors. Huo Las asked o amall space for this purpose of Director-Gonoral Goshiora; and, as 8he proposes that the sales shall be made undoezr proper supervision, and the proceeds bo turned over to a Board of Trustees, It seoma thas hor modest request might well be granted. HOTEL ARRIVALS, Paimer House—V. Slayback, fit. 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