Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1876, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2l ‘TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, SUTES OF ACNSCRIPTION (PATABLE TN ADVANOR). FOUR WERKA [or. e et s Kehgiou Bpecimen eoplos sent frea. Toprevent dolay and mistakes, be sure and giva Fosts Office address bn full, including State snd County. Remittances may bo madg sithor by dralt, express, PoatiOfos ordar, or In roglsterad lotters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY AUDACAIDERS, Duily, delisered, Bunday excopted, 25 cents par week, Wally, delivered, Bunday tncluded, 30 conta per wook, Addrese THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Carner M , Chicage Iil, AMUSEMENTS, MOVIOKER'S THEATRE--Madiron sireet, betweon Dearborn and Blate, Eugagement of John T. Ray- mond, ' Col Mulberry Sellers,” TIOOLEY'S THEATRE—~Randolph atroet, bstween Clark and LaSalle. Tho Californis Minsirels, ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn strest, AMonros, Varloty performsacs. WOOD'S MUSEUM—2Monros strest, betwoen Dear- bornand tate. Afternoon, * Captain of tlio Watch ¥ and ¥ Toodles.” “Evening, '** Wild Bill, corner BOCIETY MEETINGS. ORIENTAL, CONSISTORY, 8. Etated Avsembly at Consistorial If ‘Thursdsy ovening, Feb, 31 {smendment to By-Law), 1y order GIL W, BARNARD, 33°, ! JAMES A, F. BIRD, 12°, Gravd Secretary, @be @hienge Tribume., Monday Mormng, February 21, 1878, B Cloudy, colder, and unpleasant weathor is predioted for this region to-day. —————— At the Now York Exchango on Saturday greenbacks ruled at 87}@88 cents on the dollar, The contest for tho Democratic National Convention is bolieved to have narrowed down to Chicago snd St. Louis, with the chances in favor of the forme: The Servinn Ministor of War has issued an order calling out nll men between the agen of 20 and 50, dirccting them to report to the Alilitary Conseription Committeo, —eree Cable dispotches confirm the reports of recent important victories by the Alphonsist forces, and denoto an enrly close of field op- erntions. Tha routed Carlists have fled in large numbens across thio Fronch border, and Lave been interned by tho authoritios. A fine new building and sowae improved printing-machinery,—the first prouounced the finest in the land, and the latter tho firat ever employed south of tho Ohio River,— these woro the gratifying conditions sur- rounding the issne of the Louisville Courier- ~Journal yestorday, Glad of it. e ——— An effort to settle Prxompack’s case in caucus is not likely to succeed, Certain Re- publican Senators opposed to Pmvcinack's admiksion, among them Messrs, Epjunps ond CamsTianoy, respectfully but firmly de~ cline to submit to caucus dictation in this matter, which thoy regard one of law simply, and zot of political expediency. A curious instance of how circumstances alter cascs is mentioned in our Washington dispatches, When publicity was given to tho testimony of Lvzmist, who mailed the letters contnining inclosures to Messrs, Dan- cock and Aveny, it was given out at Wash. ington thot o person who saw Gen. Ban- coon'’s letter opened would go to St. Louis and testify that it contained nothing but blank paper. But the truly providentinl ap. pearanca on the stand of Maairt, who gave the letters back to Jovce, placed matters up- on a different footing, and tha attendance of tho Washington witness was not required. Thaot magnificent establishment which was the sceno of a notablo *house-warming” some years ago, and which hns since been the pride of tho Towa State Capital, is just now the subject of a spirited controversy botweon Mr, B, F. Arwzy and the people who have cloims ogeinst the bankrupt's estate. Tho house and grounds sro rated at £200,000, nnd the dispute is whother it shall bo exempt or not. A question of citizenship cuts n largo figure in tho case, and tho recent discovery that Mr. Azzex voted in Chicago in 1874 is likely to be regarded by {he creditors ns a pioce of valuable information which comes just in the nick of tim. Bunday lecture-goers in Ohicago wera yos- terdny to be counted by the thousands, At McCormick Hall tho patrons of the regular Sunday aftornoon course were entortnined in large numbers by Moxcune D, Conwax's {nteresting locture on ** London,” Tho Hon. Lzorano Swerr, of the Chicngo Bar, inaugu. rated n now Sunday courso in tho West Di- vision, the theme being oue of general inter- est ot oll times, and peculinrly to in the hands of a lecturar 80 excoptionally qualified to talkc about ‘* Apnauax LincoLy.” Prof. GURNING delivored the concluding lecturo in tho course at the Third Unitaringt Church, on the sub- jeot of ¢ Geology,” [Liboral abstracts of those three lectures aro givon in our columns this morning. The extremely mild winter, though a genu- ine blessing to the poor of Chicago, has not been without its drawbacks to the unfortu. nates who are dependent upon the procarious supplies furnished by County coutractors, ‘Whon the weather iscold tho demand for oonl fncreascs, nnd tho contractor can man. age to got nlong with & moderate short. #go on each halfton delivered, for the aggregate fs laxge onough to bring up the profits to tho required amount; but when warmer wenther dimin. ishes tho demana, it follows of courso that the shortage must bo increased, 'Thls planis found to work advantageously in the cuses of helpless widows, and there secmus to bo nothe ingto prevent successful application on large scalo in tho delivery of coal at tho Oounty Building and other institations under tho watchful care of the Bonrd of Commis- sloners, ‘The Chicago produce marksts wera steadler . breadstuffs on Haturday, and irregular on provisions, Mess pork was active and easier, closing ot €21.40@21.42§ for March and $21.673@2L70 for Apnl. Xard wus very cetiva and ensier, elosieg o0 812,82)@12.85 per 100 thg for March and $12,071@18.00 for April. Meats were in fuir demand and steady, closing at 8jc for bozed shoulders, 11}0 for do ghort ribs, aud 12 for do hort clears. Highwines wero quiet and unchungel, ot §1.00 per gallon, Flour was in hotier re. qQuest und steady., Wheat was less nctive aud @10 higher, clocing at §1,03 for Febru. & s0d 81004 for March. Corn was eotive and easier, closing nt 42Jc cash and 42fc forMarch. Oats were quiat aud firm, closing ot 320 cosh and 323¢ for March. Ryo was quiet, at 06}@67c. Darley was activo and stronger, closing at 63je for February and 63@63{0 for March. ogs woro active nnd strong, at fio advance, selling at §7.60@8.75 for skippers to extra nssortad lots. Cattle wero dull and heavy, at o decline from Thurs- day's prices of 12{@25c. Bheep were in de- mand at former quolations, One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.75 in greon. backs at tho close. Whils the President, in the caee of Gen. Bonzxck, adheres stubbornly to his favorite poliey of mever removing an officer while under fire,—n policy attended with disadvan. tagos when the fire happons o create s bad smoll,—an ugly rominisconco is revived con. cerning the old Momphis El Paso Railrond swindle, which Gen, Fnemoxr lobbied through Congress at a roputea cost of $500,~ 000 in gold, besides n largs nmount of stock then supposed to bo worth having. The story conncots Gon. Benexer with the iniquitous scheme in n manner no less disereditablo than {he Emma Mine seandal, though at the period referred to ho liad not reached tho dignity of Minister to England, but was Chairmnn of the Commit- teo on Ways and Means, The Memphis & ElPaso job is now tho subject of n Congres- sional inquiry, with a fair prospect that somo of the membors of the Forty-fourth Congress will come in for a sliaro of tho damaging do- velopments. Wo print elsewhera o lettor from Senator Tronyay, of Ohio, in which he toilsomely endenvors to set forth his position on the currency question. IIo says that he origin- ally opposed the Itesumption nct and is now in favor of its repeal, At tho same tiing, ho insists that ho is opposed to tha *‘ demono- tizing of gold,” nnd is in favor of a specio basis for tho currency of the country and the redemption of notes in gold. But bero Mr. TrounMaN comes to o sudden stop. 1fe fails to say what means ho does favor in order to rid tho country of the irredeemanble currency which he professes to oppose, He makes no suggestion as to what shall be substituted in placo of tho nct to bo ropealed. Therois'n reforonca to Mr. PeNpreToN in tho letter and an extraot from ono of his spoeches, which prompts the Ciucinnati Enguircr to draw the inferenco thot Mr. TuomMan wroto his letter for tho purpose simply of convincing his Ohio constituents that he is as much a greonbacker ns PrxprneToN, and this with tho Presidential nomination in his mind's oye. The Enguirer remarks editorial ly: *'Tho menning nnd substance of this is thnt ‘Mr. PespreroN substantinlly agrees with me on the financial question. You can- not blame mo without blaming him.! Wo submit that this is unworthy of the Senator. Mr. Penprrtoy, like Mr. ‘nunsay, hag his frionds for the Presidential nomination in Ohio. 1In a certnin sonse he is an opponent. It is, to say the least, not very dolicate in Mr. Trunxay to uso n rival's name as an ex- cuse to cover up what had been considored hig own deficiencies in principle. So far as wo can learn from tho Senator's oxprossions, ho is neither in favor of the expansion nor contraction of thoe currency. o thought yenrs ngo that wo had just enough,—neither too much nor too little. It has been largely reduced since, but.still Mr, Tousaan sings tho samo song." TIIE THIRD TY, Tho recent Conventions in Ilinois and In. dinna, and the adoption of a demand for a permanent paper *“money ” as distinguished from national notes or promises to pay money ; the nomination by these Conven- tions of Stato 'tickets, and the appointment of delegatos to a National Convention to nominato candidntes for President and Vice- Presidont, and tho evidont existenco of nd- lherents to that policy inall the States, leaves no question but that there will be an effort to have the coming Presidential election sorionsly influenced and controlled by this third party. s ‘I'hero is no doubt that the National Con- vention which this third party has called will contain delegates, moro or less representn- tive, from a lnrge number of States, and espe- cially from Ohio, Illinois, Indiaua, Michigan, Wisconsin, Now York, Now Jerscy, and Tonnsylvanin, Theso States ara to be tho battle-ground of the Presidential election, ‘Theso States are essentlal to tho success of the Ropublican party, and equally so to the Democratio party. As they now stand, they aro all Republican excopt New York. The presouce of a third party will force the other two parties to tako an unequivo. cal position on the currency question, This third party, or DPaper-Money party, is com- posed in its membership and in its adherents and sympathizers of persons who have boen clussed hitherto ns Democrata ond Itopub. licans. It hos, however; becn moro largely reeruited from the Democratio party than from others, Its leaders nro both Repub- licans and Demoorats, It has recolved aid and comfort, and its special policy has had cearnest ndvocaoy, from men who have held, and who yet hold, high places in the Ropub- lican party, Wo need mention no names, While Pexpreron, Auizy, and Hesoicxs Lavo undisguiscdly professed the doctrines of the Taper-Money party, thero have been Ro- publicans equally oy conspicuous who bave insisted thot (he Paper-Monay policy could bost ba promoted by tho Republican party. Thero is, howevor, this difference; Nono of these prominent politicians on cither sido have tho remotest intentlon to leave thoir own party organization to take up with the “third party,” It may not bo out of placo to sny just liere, that there §s no activo leader in the third party who is not an ‘arrant dema- gogue, secking placo and notoriety not ob. taluable in oither tho Democratic or Rtepub. lican party, The case of Lanpens, tho nom. ince of the third party for Governor of Indiann, is @ cnse in point. This man seeks this nomination to forestall the action of the Dewocratio Convention.s He threatens tho latter party that,if it does not nominato Lim for Governor, tho third.party vote will defeat the Democracy in the State, - We do not suppose tliat the Democratioc party would ever think of Lanvens for Governor undor ordinary circumstances, In epproving the Paper-Monoy platform, Mr. Lanpxes has shown an ignorauce inconsistent with any creditable service as Governor, or a want of integrity moro discroditable than even his ignorance. What the Biate Conventions of the third party are intendcd to be to the Btate Conven. tions of the other parties, such is the Natlonal Counvention of the same party intonded to be to the National Conventious of tho Republi. cau and Democeratio partics. It proposes to adopt a paper-money platform, aud nominate ‘Wintrant ALexs, or Judge Davis, or Gov, Booru, of Californis, or some one elso, and than threaten the other partios with defeat unless they accept both platform and eandl. daten, . Wo have no hesitation in assuming that nelther the Democratic nor Republican party will touch tho ** Paper-Monoy” platform or candidates. To do so will bo fatal. Tho Republican party, of necessity, must avoid {hiat nbsurdity, both as to platform and can. didates. The Democratic party cannot aflord to stultify its pnst record, It cannot adopt the Rag-Baby doctrines nor the candi. dates of the third party. Its strength isin presorving its identity ns o party, and in having its own distinetive platforin and enndidates. The Democratic parly must look for success in carrying somo of the Re- publican States of tho North, nnd these can only bg carrled by the Democracy on the as. surancd (Lat that party is o botter hard.money and specie-payment party than any other, Tho failura of the Democratio party to de- clare for hard money will render the Repub. lican suecess cortain in every Northern State, Rejected by the Republican and Democratie partios, whnt are theso third parly or Paper. Money peoplo todo? It is not likely they will disband. They aro in several States qnite nunterons,—sufficiently so to influcnco and control tho eloction of local officers in soveral counties and townships, The third. party Republicans nnd Demoerats will nnite to trado with tho local candidates of the other partics for o sharo of the public plun- der nnd n division of the spoils, The nation. al ticket will not bo extonsively pntronized. Long before tho election, Democrats and Re- publicans will havo taken sides with ‘ono or tho other of the iwo pnrties. This is on the assumption that tho Demo- cratic and tho Republican parties both de- clare for hinrd money and specio rosumption, Should, however, tho Democratio party ex- tend its arms so ns to include paper monoy within the scope of its policy, then that party, whilo probably receiving the whole snpport of the third party, will find itself rent in twain. Buch a proceeding wonld extinguish the Democratic party in Now Eugland, New York, Delaware, Maryland, nod Now Jersey; wonld divido it in Pennsylvania ; snd would divert from its support a large body of voters in the Northwest, Tho effect of suclr a pro- ecoding would be an onrly determination of the contest. 'The practical extinction of the party intho Enstern and Pacific States wonld in advance advortiso tho country of the re- sult, nod in November the Democracy would hardly muster as many clecloral votes as it did in 1872 for Greerey, Can tho Democracy resist the tomptations nnd the threats of tho Rng-Baby party? Will it pnt that party at de- fiance, or will it, under the load of I'monuax, Hewpnicks, Keng, ALLes, PeNpLeton, Cox, and Feaxaxpo Woop, embrace the Rag-Baby, atd then give np tho ghost? PROTECTION IN CANADA. A recent discussion in the Canadian Parlin- mont shows that there 8 o very formidable movement in the Dominion to so roviso their revenue tariff laws 88 to apply the theory of “‘protection” to Canadinn manufactures. Regarding thia movement from & purely solf- ish American point of view, ono is inclined to wish that the Protectionists of Canada will carry their schemo through, It will be Inrgely in tho interest of the United States Government to have such a system of high. tariff dutics adopted in Canada ns will place the two countries on an equal footing in this respect. Asitis now, Cannda has tho de- cided ndvantege. The Canndian products of the farm nnd forest have the same foreign market as the products of the United Statos, The Conadinn farmors and producers got aa good prices abroad sa tho farmers of Now York, New ZEngland, Penuosylvanin, and Obio, and better prices than the farmers of Tllinois, Wisconsin, Jows, nnd Minnesota, beeauso the latter are further removed from the European markets and linve to sacrifice more in tho way of transportation. At the same time, the Canadians ars ablo to purchaso oll their manufactured goodsat from 235 to 40 per cont less than tha peoplo of tho United States, owing to the sbsonce of tho protection element from thelr tariff. This circumatanco hag doveloped a gigantio sys- tem of smuggling all along tho border from Mnino to Oregon, which nmounts in the ag- gregote to perhnps not less than $£5,000,000 annually, If tho manufactured goods in Canada are placed on the szsme plane in the way of tax ns the manufactured goods in the United States, this amount of money will bo saved to Amorican whopkeepors and manu. facturors, ond the vicious and demoralizing custom of smuggling will bo chocked to that extent. As long, therefore, as the United States are cursed with o species of robbery Imownas ** protection,” it is toour intorest that Caunda shall bo similarly cursed, in orderthat the Canadinn farmera and peoplo generally shall bo compelled to competa on equal bandicapped terms with their neighbors on this side of the linc, and that the onormous smugpling business shall be stopped. Our Govornmont losea severnl millions n year of revenuo from tho ovasion of the Custom- Houss dutics, and our shopkeepers, and tail- ors, and manufacturera are doprived of many millions of dollars of demand for their goods. When the Canadinn tariff is advanced to the beastly high level of our ¢ protectiva® crushing-machine, the natural advantagos of tho United States will enable our denlers and anufacturers not only to securo tho trade thoy now lose, but to sell more goods in Canadn thau ot present, ns sverything will becomo dear aud high.priced ovor there, ex- cept ogricultural products, lumber, and fish. At tho sawmo time, while fightiag to rid this country of the incubus of protection, it would e unfair not to expose the folly and stupidity which havo prompted some of tho Caundinns to seek o ropetition of our own disastrous experience, 'This new movomént on their port is prompted by the recont finan- clid depression in Canada, which has Leon falscly attributed to the differcnco in the tarilf laws of the two countries, ‘Che fact thot this s not truo may bo readily demon. 6trated by n comparison betwoen tho foroign trades of the twe ocountrics. The United Btates, with a population of 44,000,000 souls, have a foreign business amounting, in round {igures, to tho following statement : ereeseneed$ 75,000,000 Tho imports and exports of Canada, with a population of only 4,000,000, were as follows in the yoar ending June 80, 1675, TROrB, suvesssranensnsresssassarseresre, $119,618,857 Biportasscvoesshisssmissaivasasits 87,079 Clugd‘ smuggled into tls Uniled Blales, % 4 S OIS #XPOHEL v avenrasresarnins 6,079 BARCE, sovreasrernsarersneransrasesd§ 16,731,608 The following shows the heads under which the exports were chiefly made, with the value of those exporta: which are exported, and does not include any of tho cheap foreign goods emuggled into tho United Blates, auch s sillks, satins, laces, velvets, shawls, glaves, Indies' toilet articles, jowelry, broudeloths, clothing, underwenr, fino entlery, queenswaro, and a thowsand other things which aro imported into thae Dominion at one-fourth to one-sixth tho Americean {nrifl taxes. The foregoing figures show that Canada, with only a million mora people than the State of Illinois and not ro mnny as the Stato of Now York, hns a foreign business nhout one-fifth s Jarge as all the United Btatea, with clevon times as many peoplo and nntural resources infinitely superior. Tho Dotminion is alinost destitute of thoso great and cssentinl clenents of strength and de. velopment, conl aud fron ; neither bos sho in quantities which pny for working such minerals ns gold, silver, lend, copper, zine, or mercury; her potrolown wells are littlo better than delusions; nnd she is wholiy lacking in thoso rich agricultural staples of cotton, corn, tobaceo, sugar, and rice, Yot tho extent of her shippingsand commerce and the value of her surplus products are truly remarkable for o country of so sennty population and restricted natural resources, Tho reason for this larga commeorco aud tho prosperity of her farmers, in spite of all tho untural disadvantages, is simply beenusa Can- ado bas had a tarilf avoraging only about 12 per cont, while tho United States has had n tariff averaging 48 por cont, or four times ns much. The Canadn tariff has boon o tariff for revonue only ; tho United States tariff has been n tariff for protection—ngainst con. sumers, It is absurd in the faco of this showing to cloim that s protective tariff will bo of any benefit to Canada, ospecially to her farmers, and lumbermen, and fisheries. It is true that thero hns boon n docline in the valuo of tho commerco of the Dominion during the last year, but thero was a marked increase every yearup to 1874, Tho falling-off of tho lnst year hias amounted to abont 10 por cent, but it can all bo sccounted for by thoe decline in prices; thero las been mo decrenso in tho bulk of the trade. Duat this failure to maintain the ratio of incrense in tho pnst hns been owing simply to the commercial depression that has provailed throughont the entiro world snd with special hardship in tho United States, Conada's near- ost neighbor and chicf customer. The gon- eral depression in this country was brought nbout directly by tho two evils of over-pro- taction and an inflated irredecmable currency. Canada has suffered inflnitoly less than the United States. As to any other difference in favor of the United States, it must bo looked for in the enormous natural advantages pos- sessod by this country. If Canadn possessed the rich and vnst doposits of cosl and the groot mountains of iron which the United States have, and if she wero blessed with a climate that would grow corn, cotton, to- baneeo, sugar, rice, peaches, grapes, and oranges, the difference in her tariff laws would ansblo her to completely outrun the United States in commerce and manufac- tures ; but these natural disndvantages can- not bo offset, but will only be increased, by the adoption of the protection fallacy. If, howaver, Canada desires on experionco of her own in this respect, and is not satisfied with ours, lot her try the exporimoent and see how it worka, AN ENGLISE VIEW OF THE CENTENNIAL, Tho London Z%mes in & rocont issue pays a handsomo compliment to our Centennial Ex- hibition, and treats the Great Show with a degrao of fairness which will not only com- mond itself to the managers but to tho whole pooplo of tho United States. After showing that in nearly all provious exhibitions of the kind, from tho London Exhibition of 1851 to that at Vienna jn 1873, the maonagers have orred in being tardy in their prepnrations, so that places havo not beon ready for goods at the proper time, and, worso than this, opon- ing ceromonies have taken place before tho original scheme was fairly renlized, it gocs on to compliment the Philadelphin manngers upon their avoiding of this error, and also upon the proparations for the convenignce and corafort of visitors, which it says ‘hove beon * brought down to the lowest point at which ingenuity and foresight can succeed in placing them,” ‘The Zimes calls nttention to tho fact that, aftor all has been done and well done by the managemont, the eventunl success or fail. uro of the Exhibition must depend upon its ability to attract visitors, and thero is great foreo in its prophocy that it will prove an attraction in America becauss of its novelty, ‘Although Amoricans are woll ropresentoed in foreign travel, tho vast majority of our people do not travel at all, more particnlarly over Europenn routes, and mnevar expeot to do o, ‘While there nre afew thousands who have traveled and mnde the grand tour, the mill- ions utay at home from tho time they ars born until thoy die. Thoe travelers aro a com- parative handful of woalthy people from the large cities, This Exhibition will enablo tho people of this country to see the productions of tho civilized world, its inechnnical applisnces, sgricnltural implements, paintings, statuary, tha modes of lifo of its pooplo and their lnbits and onstoms, and the progressof the world in civilization, without tho trouble and expenso of golng nbroad. To Americans, thereforo, the Ixhibition will be a novelty, and thero is nothing that can draw Americans like o nov~ elty, for wo are a nation of eight-scers, The Z'nes fully recognizes this fact, and upon tho strength of it prophesies a success, To what degres the Exbibition may be at- traotive abrond,—and this is a question which hiag beon variously debated in this country,— the 2%mes says: WEllo Americans may thus be expected to flack to & gathoring togothor of much that is chofce and beauti- {ul {n European art, European visitors will flnd them- sclves brought face to face with tha products of that American ingenully which necessity las done eo much tofoater, As the Mronch have beeu yendered skillful cooks by striving sgalust the {ndifferent quality of their meat, and the Heotch Liave boen rendered aliliful gardeners by striviog agslost tbe inclemency or une certainty of thelr climate, 80 {be Americsus have beon rendered o nailon of inventors, or perhaps, woro atrictly, of contrivers, by the scarcity or tha costliness of muny forms of labor, As tho costlluess of labor, if not ite ncarcity, is in many ways belng brought more sud more olosely homa$o ourselves, thore can Le no quoation that sn eularged scqusintance with Awerican “notfons ™ wmay greatly ndd to our convenlencca sud our comforts at hame, Home faw of ihewa things, ob- viously adapled 1o’ our preseut wants, bave slresdy been brought to our knowlsdge by adventurous trades- wmea, but tbese form only s small portion of similar contrivances which aro fh dally uss on the other side of the Atlantle, It will bo & bsppy result if an in- creased scquaintsnce with each ofher's fndustriss should m-l[lnnghud and America more dspendent upon cach diher than heretofors, ‘While the Times, however, draws such a glowing picture of tho foture of our Centene uial Exhibition, aa the true servant of the British people it warns them in ndvanco of certain pltfalls which may be awaiting them. In ho first place, they must expoet to find broad differences botween the people of the Old World and the New. Thls, howover, we 1870, fanoy will not disturb the average English- wan, but on tho other hand will furnish him with food for thought, In the second placo, ““n largo body of strangers will always bo la- Llo to suffer inconveniences which they may set down to the nccount of tho national insti. tutions." 'Theso inconveniences, hLowever, will not ba any mora aggravated than they would be in England, or any other foreign couutry, and ean *b> avoided by doing in Romo as the Romans do. Tho third warning i3 an amusing ono,—* Thoy will /lso bo linble to becomo the proy of the knaves and sharpers from whom no country is exempt.,” This grave warning from tho ‘Thunderer to tho nverngo Briton iz nalve, to sny the least, Tho Intter, if he brings com- mon senso with him and keeps a sharp laok- out on his pocketbook, lets **the tiger” alone, nnd eschown tho ncquaintance of the bunko man and the man who used to live whero he does, will not suffer from Lnave or sharper, Tho last suggestion of the Zimes is simply nbsurd. It says: **In America, mmnong the less enltivated classes, it may well liappen that tho rominiseencesconnected with what is called tho * Centonnial Year ' will bs regarded more or less a8 mntter of triumph over ouraelves, aud this feeling moy find ex- pression in the public utterances of some of the inferior order of politicians.” Even it this should happen to be the case, which is very problematic, the Eunglishman ean avoid it by keoping away from the inforior order of politiclans. English. men ond all other foreiguers may rest assurcd that they will bo trented with courtesy and genuine American Lospitality, and they will find upon the part of our people an earnest desire to cultivato tho most friendly and cordinl relations with them. Our Canten may lot fly his gorgeous eaglo upon that oc- casion, but the fowl will not bo nn offensive one to the English, On the other hand, they will find him to bo a very pretly and a very curious bird, and ono well worth coming ovor hero to sea. There need be no fear up- on tho part of the Zimes that our Centonnial Exhibition will not be conducted upon the brondest, most liboral, and most hospitable atandard, IN ‘The ovidence boforo the Grand Jury lnst Snturday relative to the alleged bribery in the disposal of the city printing scoms to have beon rather remarkablo for what the witnesses did not than what they did toll. Tayror and Epwanps, of tho Post and Mail, and Poxenoy, the *red-hot” Democrat, scarcely gavo £0 much information to the Grand Jury as thoy imparted to tho roporters, It is not very surprising to loarn from them, however, that th8 men who approached them woro not Aldermen nor city officinls, It is not the practice of Aldormen or city offlcials to bid for bribes dircotly and personally. They do this gort of thing by proxy. It is certain that there is o certain class of hangors-on about the City-Hall, smong whom were two or threo of the persons named to tho Grand Juary, who profess to bo able to control Alder- manic votes, and who go around, whenover a schome presents itsclf, with a list of Alder- men whom they can **influence " in favor of tho proposed job. It is not unlikely that mauy of those solf-constituted lobbyists nct without any outhority whatever, and that othors mako use of names without warrant which they ecould in no senso control, At tho samo time thore is rosson to believo that whero there is 50 much smoko thero is also soma fire, Itis folly to presumo that these so-called Conncil agents would devota their timo go nssiduously to tho manipulation of votes (and mauy of them bave no other visi- ble menaus of support) if thoro wero not votes which thoy are ablo to control in an omergoney. It is cortaln that theso proffors of assistance in pushing jobs through tho Counoil are never made withont exacting o spocific sum s a guid pro quo. Itis known that certain meoasures have beon prssod chiefly in the intorests of privgto porsons in profor- onco to othor bids " which wero favorablo to the public interests. The depravity of hu. man nature in genoral and that of Chicago Aldermon in particular leaves little room to doubt thot monoy considerations sccuro the allotment of favors, and that tho agonts do not spend tholr time mor give mwny thoir Aldermanic votes for noth- ing. This certainty, slong with the avidenca olrondy talien, should prompt the Grand Jury to follow up the caso with more vigor and discrotion than seoms to have been exer- cised ot their Inst sossion. Penorar, Gano- NER, and Kexncpy woro mentioned ns the men who offered Tazron and Poxenoy to got their jobs through the Council for certain stated sums, Tho Grand Jury should next subject’these mon and othor known sgonts of tho Aldermanic Ring to a close questioning, It the inquiry have no otherrosults, it will at lenstsorvotorender the go-bstweensinfamous, and by domonstrating their repented failures on the ono hand, and holding up the fear of oxposure in caso of guccoss, will ronder their busiuess a littlo moro difficult and disngroea- hle than it has been in the past. But beforo the Grand Jury adjourns, and after it hag ex- aminod the mon who did not get the job and the ngents who failed to bring those Alder- men to time, it will be well for thom to cross- oxamine tho parties who wero succesaful, THE BACK-PAY GRAB, A subscriber in tho country writea to tho editor of Tnz Trwuse to sottlo a disputed question, Ife says the Demoerats of his fown affirm that **when Congress raised its poy and made 1t retroactive it also doubled .tho salary of tho President, nnd enacted that tho increase should date back to the begin. ning of his term.” Tho asscrtion is not true, ‘Tho {ncronsed salary of tho President only commenced with his second term, 'The Sal- nry-Grab act was passed on the 3d of March, 1873, during tho closing hours of the Forty. socond Congress, Tho part of the bull re- lating to the President’s salary reads as fol- lows: Bert enacted, ete., Tost on and aftor the éth day of March, 1673, the Proaidont of (he United Statos shall Tocelve for his sorvices during ke torm for which he aall have boen eloctod the sum of $30,000 por aunum, to b pald monthly, Tho President entered upon his second term on the 4th of March, 1673, and the act was passed on the last day of his first term and on tho last day of tho Forty-second Con. gross. Aftor donbling the President's salary to commence in the futuro, the members of Congress proceoded to add 50 per cont to thelr own compensation, and made it date backwards two years! They nlso inoreased the aalarios of all officers, clerks, stenogra- phors, doorkeepers, messengers, and cm- ployosof uvery deseription, from 60 to 15 per cent, and made the advance of compensation to tako effect two yoars back,—that is, to the 4th of March, 1871, This steal is what was cnlled tho back-pay grab. 4 The etfect of this picce of shuneless groed. iness was destructive to ncarly all the mem. bers who voted for it or who took and kept the monsy, Bome poople havs been disposed to censuro the Prosident for not vetoing the bill incrensing the President's salary in tho future. But they probebly do not reflect that, wherens the compensntion of members of Congresa had boen increased several timen sinco tha beginning of the Governmont, that of tho President had never beon raised. When WasnixatoN wns Prosident, botween cighty nnd ninoty years ngo, Congress fixed the salary of tha Execniive offico at £25,000 per annum. A dollar in those days possessed moro than doubls the purchasing power of o dollar nowadays; $560,000in depreciated green. backs at this timo represonts less valuo than $25,000in gold when the compensation of thé frst President was fixed by Congress, eighty odd years ago, At that timo tho United States were & poor, woak nation of 4,000,000 fuhabitonts, and bad Jess taxablo property then the State of , Illinois bas nt present; $25,000 now ig no moro valun than $12,000 would have been whon WasaixaztoN, Apaxs, JerrEnsoN, and Maipsoy wero holding tho Presidentinl oflice. Either they were paid twico {50 much, or the old salary is only half enough, Tho United States contain ten times the population and twenty times the wenlth thoy did when WasmiNaton or Jer- FERSoN was DPresident, and the duties of the offico lhave incressed tenfold sinco that poriod. On the busis of population and wonlth, official duties, and responsibilities, n salary of §4,000 or $5,000 in WasnmvoroN and JerrensoN's terms would bo relotively as much ns $50,000 at this time, nnd that, too, .without taking into account the groatly-de- eronsed valuo of n dollar ns compnred with' what it was seventy or eighty yenrs ago. —y HOW TO BEQURE FREE TRADE. The Independent party in Nlinois has an organ in Chicago which advocates prohibitory tariff, whisky swindling, rovonue stenling, and * paper dollars.” Tho recent Convention of tho Decatur Tadpoles, having declared for tho abolition of all notes and ather forms of currency, and the issuo of national paper monoy in quantitics suffleiont to pay off tho nationnl dobt, included a sentence which, if carriod into effect, would como nenrer to tha ostablishment of trado than anything yot proposod. The presont tavifl hns an averago duty of about 48 per cent in gold. The Tad- polo platform provides that these duties on imports gball bo collected in paper dollnrs. The Governmont hias need of gold, and will have need of gold to poy interest on the pub- lic dobt until such time ag tho whole amount of tho principnl of that debt shall be surren. dered by the holders in oxchanga for the new papor dollars, And that will never be dono voluntarily, Tho paper dollars recoived for dutics on imports will thereforo have to bo sold for coin. At tho outsot, the paper dollars may be worth, eny, 80 cents on the dollar, and the im. porter will have {o pay proportionately less dutics. Assuming tho average duty to bo 50 per cent, the first reduction of duties will ba to 40 per cent, In thirty daya the paper dol- lara will £all to 76 or 70 cents, and the aver- ago duty will be down to 85 per cont., By this timo tho general break-up in the credit of tho Government will havo begun, and tho paper dollars will get dowa to tho coin value of 25 conts on the dollar, and the average duty on imports, computed in papor dollars, will bo 12} centsin gold value, the lowest averngo rate of duty impoged in tho United States for sixty years, ‘Then, nccording to the Tadpolo organ, tho .country will be flooded with foreign manu- foctures, tho production of pauper labor, Then American mechanics, paid in *Ameri- can money,” will require $12.50 per day in oxyler to compete in wages with paupers of Europe. Tlken the American manufacturer who scll goods on thirty days' credit will be paid in monoy 25 per cont less in valuo than when ho mado the sale. Then tho man who hires out at $10 a day for a month, in money worth 40 conts on tho dollar, will bo paid off at tho end of the month in money worth 30 centson the dollar. Then every man will havo his pockets full of “moncy.” Then money will bo sbundant, ond 40 cheap/ But tho grentest blessing wronght by tho monufacture of paper dollars will be the establishment of practical freo trade, Noarly overything will be admitted free of duty, and so free that thero will be little or no use in attempting to produce them ot home, with wages at $15 per day, flour $40 o barrel, pork and boef at 756 cents n pound, and railroed freights nt 10 centa per ton per mile. Thoso will bo glori- ous times, Tho Inter-Ocean, gs the organ of tho Tadpole party, will sell for 31 a copy; and everywhoro throughout tho land there will b offered praises to tho great Tadpole party which had inventod cheap money, and in effoot abolished tho tarid. —— THE VICIOUS WAVE, ARD THE REMEDY, ‘Line upon line, precept upon procopt,” i1 the rule given us in the Beriptures for in. culeating moral truth, Though it may ap- pear for the moment a fruitless task, it does soem that all patriotic, not to say Christian, men ought to combine and uso every offort to bring back our poople to the practico of oconomy and old-fashioned honesty. 'To this ond, it is easential that they should'not tolo- rato rascality, no matter by whom practiced, or who may scok to condoneit. Villainy in almost pll shapos stalks through thoe land un. challenged, and henco the effrontery of the vicious classes, and tho energy with which thoy pursue their schemes of plundor and robbery, Even tho two most moral cfties in the country,~Boston and Chicago,—it is to bo feared, are rapidly degonerating to the lovel of New York, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and other placos where tho “faith of tho fathers” sooms to havo lost nearly all control over tho habits and tho character of the peo. ple. At the IIub tho most astounding for- gerlog, dofalcations, and other crimes, com. mitted by men of tho highest standing in religious, commoroial, and literary circles, have bacomo so common thot the outside world beging to look for no other nows from Boston, Hore, two lifejnsurance managers have recently boon using for their own bene. £t tho funds of their companios; members of the Common Council unblushingly put up printing and other jobs for snle to tho highest bidder; two of them, with the late County Treasurer, are indicted as Whisky. Ring thiaves; the Mayor usurps Lis office, or is detormined to trytodo it, for a year and o half beyond the time for which he was elocted; the gamblers, bunko men, sand thieves havo control of the officos, and all sorts of individual and official corruption stalk abroad at noonday, What is true of Boston and Chicago s true of necarly all our citles, and the fact is tho whole country seems to be golog rapldly to the bad. Our criminal col umns almost evory morning are awful. They reveal o truly appalling state of soclety all over the land. In this condition of the public morals the patriot and the statesman may well inquire what can be dous. 1s there no hope for honester and thirefore better (imes? A chango, in our judgment, must como, and o tho hetter, bofore many months, or at most years, havo passell awny, In morals, thy homcopntbio principle that *like cures like" ia yob cortainly true, whatover may bo thought of its valuo in wedicino, Crime and wickedness may rule for a time, but ere Jong tho vicious fall out among them. solves, and vory conslderable party even of them find it is for their interest to elect relin ble men to offico, And, besides, the groal body of our mercantile and business mon, ond cortainly tho grent mass of our people, aro thoroughly hionest,—sound to the coro og overy principlo that can conservo and pro. mote tlto bost interests of socioty. Thoy have negleotod thoir dutios at tho polls and othor. wiso not frowned with sulliolent stornnoess on all forms of private and official corruption ; ond hence for the moment the nscen. dency of the vicious classes. Tho people are becoming aroused both to their duty and thelr dnugor, and boforo their united enorgies vico and erime will bo forced to shrink ouf of night, or bo hid hehind prison bars doing tho State service, ‘Lot good men, therofore, take courago. Lot them nll do their wholg duty at the polls nnd in society, aund thoy can not only hope for botter timos and nn honost ndministration of public affairs, but they can be sure that tho country will surgs back to its old moorings, and industry, aconomy, and Justico will again bless tho land. —— A corraspondent inquiros whother the words * Ladtee’ Library Asaociation,” when appliod to an Incorporated institation, shonld be printed ag above, or without capitals, thus—* ladies’ Hbeary ausociation,” Thnero fs noinfalliblo rulo of faith or practico In capitalization, but if thoro I8 auy rulo tolerably rocognizoed it s that spocific titlen should bo printed in capitals. Itmight bo a question whother the ward ** association” ia a part of the titlo above quotad, or a generic term indicating a clnas g0 brond that no epocial char. noterization of it in {ype is roquired. Ladics' Library Assoclation or Ladios’ Library nssocia- tion might bo used Indifferently, acoording to tho tooto of tho individual. Each npwapaper oftico is obligod to catablish rulos of 1ts own in this respect, and prosorve barmony within it owa bordors. Thore {8 probably but ono nowse papeor oftice In tho United States—tha Chicaga Times—wlich would suthorizo ** ladies’ tibrary ansociation” ; and tho Times is notorloualy woak nnd uneducated in proof-reading. OBITUARY, TIE TEV. TIMOTAY O'FARRELL. ‘Tha tolograph announced yestorday the daath of tho Rov. Trromuy O'FANRELL, oue of tlu oldest and most respected Cathollo pastors of Brooklyo, N. Y. ilo was born 1n Longford, Iro Iand, iu 1818, and camo to this country whon s vory young man. Ha finishied bis studios at the Bominaty in Cinciunati, 0., whoro ho was Pro. fossor of Greek for many years. He was op daioed to tho priesthood by Archbishop Punossy in 1844, o remainod in tho Diacuso of Cincine nati for ofght yearsand o half, doing the work alooo which 1t uow takes thirty pricsts to so complish. Ho wont from Ohio to New York Cily, whero ho was sesigned by Archbishop Hoonrs to 8t James Church, over which ki ofticiatod eightoen months, and then went ta Brooklyn, whero he officiated as ansistant pastor of Bk Paul's Church for two years. In 1858 he was assignod to the Chnrchiot cho Visitation in Brooklyn, over which lio continued to preside until the timo of his death., OTHER DEATHS, The London Academy annouaces tho death of the Marquls Dx 84 Da Baxpetna at Lisbon, Por~ tugal, who, oa a soldier, statesman, nnd cultiva- tor of litoraturo, han for tha last fifty yoars hold o pro-ominent place in Portugal. It was duo to him tbat tho Polytochnic School, tho Army School, tho Industrial Institnte, tho Academy of tho Fine Arts, nud the Couservatory of Deamati¢ Art woro establishod, and that the decres of the 10th of Decembor, 1836, abolishing alavery, wat passed, Capt. Avaustus 8, BALDWIY, one of tha last of the oflicers swho circumnavigated the globe under Capt. Wirxes, in 1838 ¢o 1842, diod at Princoton, N. J., on Thuraday last. Ho was in the sorvice of hia country up to tho time of his death, Mos, ConNEwlA Van Ness Roossvert, the widow of Judge JauzaJ. Roosrvert, of New York City, dlod rocently. The New York World Bays of hor: In hor younger days 3{rs. ROCSRVRLT wss consld. ered the balle of any drawing or ball room assemblage, and owing {o her great accomplisnments slio was yorito with young and old, tlie was married (n Paris 10 1831 at the American Legation, the Marquis do Las FPAYRTTE, among others, atteating the marrlaga ceriific cate, hier marriago sho returned to this coun witli her husband, and for a number of yoars lived the famlly mansion, 816 Broadway. At tho time of th¢ isit of tho Princa of Walea to tils country she onters tainoda large number of her Parlsian and English friouds, Wiileahe Lved lu this city sho was & grast wotker in the differont charitiss, At various times she ‘was President of the Lodics’ Nelief Association during tho War, of tho Bleliering Arms Association, of the Freo Traluing School for Women, 8ad was always & tuanager of the Charity Ball, PERSONAL, Mr. Charles O'Conor's health Is sufliclently re- stored to permit his prosiding at the annual mooting of tho Stato Charitics Ald Asaociation in New York noxt Thursdsy evening. » Tonry Clay Doan mays that [mmersion s frog-pond religlon, and sayn that ha lately tatked roligion with a Modoo widow and found her as wiso sa tho profoundest philosopher. 3Mr, Randolph Rogora writes from Rome that tho statno of tho Iato Beoretary Seward is fin- 1shod, and it will bo shipped in time toreach thls country in May, It cost $25,000, and is do- seribed e betng one of Mr, Rogera' best proe ductions, Dyor, the Bt, Lonis District Attorney, meant jtali in joko when Lo asked Btorrs for the volume and page of the calobratod trial of Bax dolt va. Pickwick. Tho rojoloder waa quick and appropriste, and Dyer ehould hava had oredit for it, instoad of boing mistaken for an igno. ramus, Qen. Richard Taglor, of Kentucky (**Dick™ Taylor 18 lus popular appeliation), s son of tha lato Prosident Taylor, s said to hove achisved in London & gocial Buccess quits surpassing that of any of his countrymens, Tho Prince of ‘Whalea thioks him *no end of & gentloman snd good fellow,” Gtendenoiog hias been clrculating o paper la Jeraay City, tho aigners of which toatify to thelz hollef in Lis {nnocence, Few signatures have boeen obtained, It {u & mystery why Glendene ning, with so many other flalds of ussfutness opoun to bim, should persist In remainiog in the Cbristian ministry. The 8t Louls Times aays Judge Chester H. Krum was not born when that famous spacch ‘wad made to the sisailaote of Lovejoy—'* Gens tlomen of the mob,” 1Well, then Judge Krum 158 young msn to bo oogsged tn a0 big acase as tho trial of Baboock; und his father, who Lad somothiog to do with preparing t trial, is tuo suthor of the speech roforred The long-promised Rogister of LaGrangs, which has just beon publlshed by order of the Comedio Francaiso, furnishes sbundant material for m history of the French stage during the reign of Louia XIV,, and 18 tho most importans contribution to dramatio literature duriog the prosent century, It bas made its sppearance in Parls, and will no doubs soon ba reproduced ia this country, Mr. Juhan Hawthoroe has gotten back to Ap- pletons' Journal, and is again writing his inter esting skotches of m * Journey to the Unknown,* May Bo long delay takiog it {n fact, 8% he now ia in faucy, is the fervent wial of his any friouds aod well-wisbors. We caunot help thloking be would be a truer snd bel writer If he could, once In & while, forget the awfal responaeipility which rests upon him as the son of his father. The Nutlooa! Liocoln AMonument, for which Mr. Olark Mille 1o aaking an sppropriation of Coogress, 4 10 b 70 fest high, wilh alx squese e