Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1876. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, NATES OF SUBSORIPTION (PAYABLR IN ADVANCE). Pastage Prepnid nt this Ofce. 818,00 FERRE f 100 z';'i-&'.‘i A ey aha Heltgton T Weekly, bou Bpectmen coples sent froo, To prevent delay and mistakes, ba sure and givs Post- ©fice address In full, tncludiog Stato aud Connty. Remittances may be mado either by draft, express, Poat-Offics order, or In rogistarod Intters, at our risk. TERMA TO OITY SUDACTINKRS, Dally, delivered, Sanday exceptod, 205 conts vee week, Oaily, detivered, Bunday included, 0 centa por woek. d THER TRIBUNE COMPANY, + Oblfoago Til. ‘MoVIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, hetween Dearborn and Blate, Engagement of John T, Ray- mond, ** Col, Malberry Hellers."” L] THEATRE—Randolph ntrest, between fl:‘rgoligvl.?s.llll. The Clllfornllplunlmll. ADELPHI THEATRE—Destborn sirest, corner Monroe, Variety performance. 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B, WIIGHT, Sccroiary. @he Whicage Wribnne, Friday Morning, Fobruary 26, 1870, Greonbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- ehanga yestordny closed at 877, The Motcorological Burenn prediots slightly warmer and cloudy weather for this locality to-day. gressional bribe-monoy, has notified Procron Kvorr, Chairman of the Houso Judiciary Committee, that ho is ready and waiting for o summons to proccod to Washington and give his testimony bofors the Committee. A heavy sharo falls upon Chicago in the . terrible railway disaster of Wednesday night on the Harlem Rond. To the feeling of lior- ror attending the personal of the sickening accident will bo ndded that of monrnful re- gret at the death of Mr. 0. II. Bssern and hia gon, and the severo injuries suatained by other well-known residents of this city. The Grand Jury which failed to return an indictment against the murderer RoNEY is engoged in finding out why it failed to in. dicthim., Not much progress was made at yesterday’s session, and tho most wes dono waa to develop the fact that fow of the jurors know what thoy were about when the voto was token on the indictment, which appears to have been considered and disposed of with sxtraordinary baste, It is to bo hopod, how- sver, that the Grand Jury will be succcsaful In finding & reazon for their action in the matter. There wes great rojoicing in Washington hst ovening over the nows of Gen., Dan- tock's acquittal, The friends and supportors of the whisky-thioves wero espocially jubi- lant, and confidontly prodicted the early re- moval of Secretary Brisrow and Solicitor Wrison a8 tho result of tho trial; but thero 18 good reason to believe that they have grossly miscalculated the effoct of Gen. Ban- pock's ncquittal, and that tho intorposition of lending Republican Sonators will operato 88 o thorough chock upon the plots to oust Wesars, BrisTow and WiLsoN. Among many Domocratic members of Con- gress tho action of the National Committes in designating June 27 as tho date of the Convention meets with littlo favor. It is urged that Congress cannot possibly adjourn vefore tho middle of July, and hence the Democracy will not have made up its record provious to the holding of the Convention, which will, according to the presont rate of progress, have nothing to guide it in the sonstruction of a plhatform. Spenker Kenn is anderstood to sharo in tho opinion that a grave mistako wns committed in naming so sarly a date for the Convention, The English jury wh eld an inqnest on the remains of tho victims of tho Strath- clyde explosion yesterday roturned a verdict of manslaughter against tho officer of the stenmer Franconia, which ran into tho Btrathclydo and caused tho disnster; pnd strongly censured tho oflicers of the Franco. nia for their desortion of the scene of the explosion without offering any assistance, and the Captain of tho tug-boat which went to the Franconia inatend of the Btrathelyde. Tt was o most wretched and melancholy caso of incfficiency and mismanagement through- out, and one which fully justifies tho severity of the verdict of the Coroner's jury, The conclusions of the Advisory Counell, renchied at last evening's sesaion, are anbstan- tially in gccord with the goneral anticipation of the result of the Council's deliberations, The sction of Plymouth Church in connec- tion with all tho subjects specified in tho Letter-Missive is fully sustained, and & mew investigation of the charges tgainst Mr, Brrouen {s provided for by s Committes of Five, to be appointed by a 3ub.Committea of tho Council from among a list of porsona distinctly specified, and the Oommission is clothed with nuthority o de. slde whether an investigation shall bo held nt all or not, — The Sultan haa issued another budget of 3ilded promises to the insurgents,’ o heas granted amnesty to all of them who return to their homes within o month, and hus also announced that the Government will rebuild at ita own cost all tho churches and houses that have been destroyed, and will furnish them with the means of resuming their avo. cations. The fact, however, that none of the decrees of the Sultan are ever obeyed is probably tho reason why 28,000 Herzegovin- ian refogees in Dalmatia soy that they will starve before l.ho{lwm return to their homes, and the insurgents in the fleld declare that they will fight out the war to the bitter end, belp or no help. .The Chicago produce marketa wers general. 'y tawo yesterdsy, Mess pork was less active wud 5@100 por b lower, closing at $21.35 lor March and $21.55 for April, Lard was dull and ensier, closing nt $12.75@12.77} for March and $12.92§@12.05 for April. Meats wers quiot and casier, closing nt 8o for boxed shoulders, 11e for do short ribs, nnd 120 for do short clears, Ilighwinoa wore in fair request and unchanged, at $1.00 per gnllon. Flour was dull and ensier, Whent was nctivoand declined 1o, closing firmer at $1,02§ ensh and 993@903e for March, Corn was duil and o lower, closing at 42¢ cash and 42{c for March, Oats wero quict and o lower, closing at 12}0 cash and 323c for March, Ryo was dull at 65}@G63e. Barley was moderately active and 1@20 lower, closing at 570 cnsh or seller March, Iogs wero active nnd ensior. 8ales wera principally at 37.90@8.15, Theo eattlo aud sheep markets wore falrly act. ive and unchanged. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.87} in greenbacks at the close. Tho attempt to bring out tho *“‘bottom faets" in the city-printing scandal will prob- ably tesult, as such investigntions usually do in Olicago, in & complote fizzle. 'The thing will reman, after all, a question of credibil- ity, Ono sot of witnesses swenr that certain go-betweons proposed to secure the job for a specified sum of money, and tho idontical go-betweens swear with oqual solemnity that thoy never pro- posed nnything of the sort. It will be gon- erally concluded that the solicitor of a bribo would not scruple to commit perjury to shicld himself and Lis parlners in cor- ruption, but the Grand Jury is not likely to draw any such fine distinctions be- tween conflicting statoments, The truth. ful DPsnoraT nnd the virluous GaRroNLR will be spared for futuro usefuluess in tho samo branch of science, and the public will have its own idens concerning tho city-print- ing job without regard to the conclusions reached by the Grand Jury. The House Committco on Foreign Affairs havo obtained from Sccretary Fisu cortain documents relating to Gen. Scaexck and the Emma Mino scandal, but suspect that other papers aro withheld by the State Depart- ment, and will ask the Secretary to dig a lit- tlo deeper into tho files and'see if he can't bring up something more to the point. So far, the Committea have only ascertained that an intimation was sonvoyed to Gon, Scnencg, that his Emina Mine relations wero not con- sidered just tho thing in a Foreign Minister, ond that he thersupon resigned his position 83 Director, taking good care, however, in his letter of resignation, to publicly assert his full confidence in the * valuo and profita- bleness of the property,” together with his high esteem and appreciation of the remnin. ing Dircotors. 'There is a strong fecling that this is not, or at least ought not to be, all the correspondonce of interest which pnssed be- tween Minister-Director Scuenck and tho Stato Dopartment. THE RATE OF TARIFF TAXATION. In tho thieves' I.-0\., or interconvertible organ, there is a complaint that L'ax Ontcaco Trioune hos misropresented tho average duties imposed by the tariff, The.-0, says: ‘micaao TAIDUNE, Feb, 912 % Tho present averago duty of 44 per cent fn gold." ‘That is & deliberato falschood, Tho writer kuow it lo Do auch when he placed 1t on paper, becauso ko knsw that e wan only guessing, and henco could not be certain whother ho was noar to or distant from the truth, Wo bave before us sn officlal publication by tho Natioual Bureau of Btatistics entittod, ** Home Consumption and Impost Statements,” comprising certain tables of the forthcoming snnual # Report on Commerce aud Navigation.” At tho closs of # Table No, 21," the averago rate of duty on ali dutiable fm- porta for the year ending June 30, 1875, 18 givenos 40,62 per cent, which fa cortaluly not 43 per cent, Tho official publication aforesnid sots forth in detail tho quantitics, values, rates of duty, and amount of duties, on imports for the figeal year ending June 80, 1876, 'The aver- nge rate of daty on tho dutiable articles is given, os stated, at 40.62 per cent. Thesa ore tho dutics ng they stood prior to tho action of Congress at the last seasion, which restored or added ten per cent to tho rates of duties on which this table was compiled, ‘Tho duties on imports are, therefore, over 10 per cent higher ot this time than thoy were during the flsenl year of 1876, During the year onding in June, 1875, tho value of many lines of goods had declined seriously ; in sov- eral lines of goods whero the duty ia the highest, the importations fell off largely or nearly coased. 'Tho total value of importa in 1875 was $547,000,000, against $595,000,000 in the yoar 1874, a decline of $30,000,000, The valuo of tho datiable goods imported in 18756 was $879,795,000, against 415,784,000 in 1874, n decline of $36,000,000 in value, A decline in the value of the goods on which tho highest rates of duty aro laviod of course reduces the averago duty on tho wholo vol- ume of imports, The valuo of the goods imported in 1876 on which the 10 per cont additional duty hns sinco boen levied was about $140,000,000, ond the duty actually paid was in tho neighborhood of $60,000,000. Hod theso same goods been taxed at the pros- ent rates of tarifl, they would have produced about $66,500,000, or an average on these particulnr classes of goods of 47} per cent in gold. That {s the averago rate now charged on them by tho prosont tariff, This addition would have added $0,600,000 to the whole dnty, and added to the general average equal to about 4} per cont, making the avernge rata of taxon the dutisble goods about 44.40 per cent. "I'his rato of 44,40 per centin gold, reduced to currency ot 88 cents, is equal to 50 per cent. But the rato of tax to consumers is not to bo measured by the mere sum paid at the Cus-+ tom-House. Thore ara soveral other itoms entering into the tax rate. Given in round numbers, tho wholo valuo of the dutinble goods imported in 1875 and tho duty pnid thercon was as follows: Whola valua of goods. Duty thereon...... Add the increaso of dufy now in fore Tmportors® profit, 30 per ccnt ou duty, Twelvo und one-alf per cent on gold for duty. .. ‘Tolal wholesale cost, 330,000,000 +188,000,000 £,500,000 34,000,000 19,000,000 604,000,000 Doduct cost of goods, 340,000,000 Tolal sddition to firat cost,...... 224,000,000 This is o protection of nearly GO per cent on the whole list of taxed imports, We have not included the premium on the gold paid for the original imports, amounting—with currency at 88 cents—to nearly $40,000,000, or equal to 13 per cont additional protection, It is impoasible to follow u tax through il its ramifications, Wo bave here, however, taking the wholo dutiable imports, traced up an average rate of tax in our currency of 64 per cent ; but, taking somo of the lines of im- ports, that rate of tax {s iuconsiderable, Let us give the presout rates of dutyin gold which ore paid at the Oustom-House on tho following classes of articles: Per cent,| Coarae cotton clotha 7 Buttons, stc., of Voolen cl ace-chalos, Wrought-iran Wood screwa. This list of nrticles taxod at the rates given might be mnde twice ns long. 'The £.-0. can take the list and fill it out ot its leisure and defefid it as it plenses, Wo have shown that the increnso of 10 per cont in tho duties mado last wintor falls upon the goods most essontisl in domestio use; that upon the whole dutinblo importations the avernge tax, including the incidenco, in far beyoud 48 per cent; and that upon a variety of the most indispensablo nrticles the tax ranges from 50 to 100 per cent. The theory of tho 7.-0, is that the higher the tax tho moro perfect the tarill. Even if wo kad overrated the averngo tnx, it was, nc- cording to the 1.-0., but giving tho nbomina- tion a merit it was not ontitled to in fact. ———— BUPPORTING CANDIDATES, The Chiengo Journal undertakes to robuke Tng Trapose: for assuming to differ about matters and things with Acting-Gov. Bev- ruinGE, and acenses this papor with a pupose to defeat the nomination of the Govornor for re-clection, > ‘I'ne Curoaco TrrooNe has had a life in this city dating back beyond the birth or orgnni- zation of tho Republican party, nnd during that timo hes alwnys boon in favor of free gpeech, and of free criticism of all men in offico, of all mon secking offico, without ref- cronce to what party thoy may belong, and of all measures and policies, no matter by what party thoy mny bo proposed. Tue Outcico TRinUNE does not intend to altor its course in this respect. It fonrlessly criticises all pub- lio measures, and it defonds or opposes them from the standpoint of the publio good. It supports Republican policies and Republican candidates beeauso they nro proferablo to the policies and men proposed by others, It gives an intelligent support to the Ropublic- an party and not tho support of o servile de- pendent, a hireling, or an expectant of favors, It considers, and acts npon the judgment, that the best time to criticise eandidates for office is before, rather than after, their nomi- nation. Tarties may do much good by aveid= ance, It is n greater party victory to beat an incompetent or nnfit candidato in Convention than it is to elect him after ho is nominated. The ono caso is tho provention of an ovil; the other is the infliction of a public calamity. ‘While T Curcaco Toisuns hns not yet said it was opposed to the continuance of Gov. Bevermoz in the offico of Governor for cight years, nor has it expressed any prefer- enco for another candidate, yot it claima the perfect right to oppose his renomination, and an oqual right to support some one else for that high offico, These rights belong to overy Republican voter in Illinois, and why not to the editor of Tue Trmuoxe? If Tne TrinoNe shall consider it to be tho best pol- icy of the party to renominate Bevertoar or to nominate some othor person, Tre Tar- e will not hesitato to do what it may con- sider its duty to the party and to tho State. Tue Triune rejects tha servile iden of tho Journal, that no candidate for nomination is to bo criticised, but that o nowspnper must keep silent and hold itself in rendiness to blow the trumpet of tho man who foista himsolf on tho ticket by the tricks and manipulations of the professional offico- hunter. If auy man or paper have any ron- ton why a person sccking and scheming for an office should not be nominnted, the timo to spenk is before the nomination, 1t so disposed, Tue Trmmuxe claims and will nssert the right to criticise or praiso the candidacy of Mr. Bsveainar or any other porson asking to be nominated for Governor, Tt has eriticised some of his offlcial scts, as it did thoso of his predocessors, Oaresny, Pauuen, and Yares, It has the right, and will exercisa it, of criticising and opposing the opinions which Gov. Bevinmaz or any othor soeker of a nomination may express ns to the principles and policy of the Republio- an party. The editor of tho Journal is opposing the renomination of Gov, Bevenmog, and pos- sibly more offeotually than any other man in tho Btate, Ho is a candidate for Licutenant- Governor. Ho lives in the samo rural town in Cook. County with Gov. Brvermor, and knows full well that his only enrthly chance for n nomination is the defent of Gov, Bev- enmop, His candidacy is o direct mennco— a bold effort—to unsent Bevenivoe, and yot ho complains that Tme Tomuse is disposed not to support Bevertnar ! The fact is that the newspaper which has no opinions, hoa no concern for tho welfare of the party, which dares not warn against error nor demand the expurgation of ovil, which accepts implicitly what is given to it, and is forover pressing the hand that is smit- ing and crushing the parly, is not worthy a place or namo in jonrnaliam, Its support is that of the bondman and not of the freoman ; of the grinning idiot and not of the intelli- gent mind ; and Tne Cmioaco Toamone has nover been, and does not now intend to bo, n newspaper of that character, and if this is to ba considered opposition to Bevenmoag, or opposition to any other candidato, we rejoico that we aro in opposition. — BABCOCR'S ACQUITTAL, The verdict of acquittal in Col. Bancocr’s caso, which was broaght in by the jury after only two hours' consultation, can scarcely hnve surprised any one who has kept close track of the testimony. It would be diffi- cult for any caundid man who has read tho procoedings from day to day to say, if he had been on the jury, he would under oath bave held that the evidence established Ban. coox's guilty connection with’the whisky con- spirncy. Itis possiblo that the same sus- picion mny have been created that originally led the Grand Jury to indict him, but it hos been the goneral conviction of thinking men, ever since tho proscontion closedita case, that tho suspicious clrcumstances wero not sufficiently strengthencd by the evidenco produced to warront a verdict of guilty, In considering it, it must bo kopt in mind that tho oxistenco of a conspiracy was not denied by tho defense, and that the only queution for the jury to consider was whether Col. Bancoox was implicated. This was clearly pointed out by Judge Ditton in Lis chargo, tho cffact of which was unquestiona~ Lly favorablo to the defendant, fho Court {natructed that thero was no direct evidence implicaling tho defondant; tbat he might bo convicted by circumstantial evidence, but that such evidenco should he cxamined with grent caution ; and, finally, that it was equally the duty of the jury to protect tha citizens of the United Btales from suffering on sccount of mere suspicion ns well as to protect the Government. It did not require long for the jury to dotermine that thore was not suff. cient evidence o convict. To some this will simply mean * Not proven”; others will ac. cept it s a thorough vindication. It is cer- tain that the trial hea been conducted with the same vigor on the part of the prosecu- tion as wss used in the other couspiracy cases, and that no effort was spared to cheit all the facts bearing npon Col. Ban- cock’s alleged conmoction with the frauds. ‘F'horg has Loon no influence brought to bear to seenro Nanconx’s nequittal on account of the place he holds in the President's offioial family, Mo has boen tried by the same rules 02 wonld havo been applied to any other man, and there is no reason to doubt that any other wonld have been nequitted under the samo presontment of nll tha facts. All this is satrongly in Bancock's favor. A caso which has attracted so general atten. tion as this hns not failed to clicit freo com- ment on the manner in which the defenso bis beon conducted. We do not hositate to say now, howaver, what we woro nnwilling to sny before tho conclusion of the trial, that Col. Bancoor's safoty was seriously jeopar- dized by too many doctors and too much physie,—not bnt that his lawyera wore all ablo men, and Inbored industriously and des- porately in his behnlf, but because thoy de- fended him s if they belioved him guilty, and wore trying tosave him from the Penitentiary rather than vindieate him and fres him from nll suspicion bofore the world, From the very first, his atlorhpys were technienl, contesting with zeal tho introduction of overy pleco of evidence, even of thoso parts which thoy had announced were suscoptible of the plainest and most satisfactory explanntion, From tho boginning to tho ond tho attorneys for tho defonso conducted tho case pracisely ns they would have done had their cliont's escape from conviction doponded not on his innoconce, but upon bresking down and ex- cluding the evidence offered to prove him guilty, When tho case began, the country was propared for the prompt acquittal of Bazncock, but his counsel dragged it out by their objoctions to the introduction of testi- mony, lotters, and dispatches, by long argu- ments on tochnical points of law, and finally by tedious closing epoochos which were unnecossarily elaborate and verbose, It is a wonder that thoy did not in this way seriously projudico thair client's caso, "There was ot no time during tho trinl n dis- position on the part of tho counsel for the defenso to throw all tho doors open and in- vito the whole world to contributa of infor- mation, in whatever shape it might como, as if confident of their ability to demonairate Col. Bancock’s innoconco by a complote ex- position of his personal accounts and actions, Had such o course been adopted, the verdict of acquittal would have beon of grenter satis- faction to his frionds, though this verdict perhaps is o greater triumph, as showing that such projudico s the line of defenso left did not influenco the jury to pronounce him guilty when tho evidence did not warrant it. But his own counsel kept up the suspicion constantly, Tho result of the trinl, nover. theless, is a matter for goneral congratula- tion, ns it is an escape from tho greatest dis- grace that has threatonod the country in the entire whisky conspiraoy. 30OWEN'S EX0DUS, Thoe very remarkable interview botween Mr. Bowex and the Plymouth Church Com. mittee has twosidestoit,—tho ono humorous, tho other disgraceful. Hitherto Mr., Bowex lLias provoked feclings of sympathy and of admiration, as well as of disgust and of con- tompt ; now ho has set the public in a broad guffaw at hin remarkable display of cowardly agility. What new dovelopment the Sphinx will develope in connection with this scandal it is difticult to determino, During the timo that he has maintained his stony silenco, ho hins inspired a cortain sort of reverential awe. Ho has been veiled in mystery like the Prophotof Khorassan, Thepublio has waitod such timo as ho should open his lips with the samo degreo of painful curiosity that spec. tators watch o voleano in mementary expoc. tation of its cruption. Now that tho time hsa come, however, the contrast betweon the Sphinx resting with sealed lips and gazing calmly into the futnre, and the Sphinx flying through the back door of Parson Harripav's residence with o liberal representation of Plymouth Church brothren howling at hig hoels, blunts the edgo of hig oracular utter- ances, strips him of dignity, mojosty, and mystery, and places him beforo the world very much in the attitude of a physical and moral coward, with nothing admirable abont his composition excapt his logs, In all the presontations of human wenkness and sbsurdity upon the stage thereisnothing mors exquisitely humorous or broadly ridic- ulous than this picturo of the ** editor, propriotor, and publishor " of the Independ- ent, tho signer of the Tripartite Treaty, the repository of nll the secrots of the scandal, the central pillar of Plymouth Church,—in a word, the Sphinx,—suddenly plunging about Parson Ilaruroav’s parlors with fstraining oyes, disheveled hair, and outstretched arms, darting at this door and that, upsetting tables and kicking over chaira, threatening the utter ruin of Harrioay’s furniture, hal- looing with [lusty lungs, his two sons mean. while executing a war-danco and making the air blue with threats, and tho fifty brathren of Plymouth Chareh gestionlating and howl. ing, anathemntizing and maranathomatizing, dodging the flying furniture, and desperately neeking to dotain tho peripatetic Sphinx, and wrest from him tho uttermost secret of his mysterious soul, Tho effort, however, wns fruitless. Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit! The brethron failed to shut the back door, and out of it went the Sphinx like a shot from o columbind, and as he went through the friendly holo loft by the carpentor hoshouted for help—not to the polico, not to constablen, not to sheriffs, not to any of the minions of the law, but to two minfons of the fonrth estate cavesdropping at the foot of tho stairs for such stray crumbs of information o8 might fall from.the rooms above, Mo know that the pen was mightior than the sword, and Lo calculated not in vain, for tho roporters rushed into the fray, and with pon- cils for javelina and note-books for shields, covered his retreat until ho wag far away from Parson Hanrmay's chambers of inqui- sition, which but for the valgar authority of tho courts might havo been filled with racks, und thumbscrews, and pincers; far away from the brethren of Plymouth Church, who, but for tho same merciful obstacle, might have compelled him to recant all that ho has charged, and then saved his soul by sending it to the Letter world, This is the ridiculous gide of the interview; but there is auother side to it which reflects dMgrace upon Plymouth Charch, Whether Mr. Bowex knows anything or knows noth. ing; whether Lie is a falsifier, or slanderer, or not ; whatever opinion peoplo may have of him, the disgracoful action of Plymonth Church remains the snme. Whon Mr, Bowen agreed o sppear beforo the Plymouth Church Fxamining Committes and sob- stantiate his charges, ho did not oxpect to oppear before any one but the Examining Committee, This was the implied under- standing, and Plymouth Oburch violated faith. When Mr, Bowex appeared in Parson Harzwax's parlors, ho was confronted not only by the Exawining Committes but by members of Plymouth Church, by the Presi- dent of tho Advisory Council, by sundry preachers, by lawyors, by rolatives of Mr. Brrcnen, by the inevitable Oriven Jomnsow, nod finally by Mr. Beronxn himself, who confronted Mr, Bowen as woll ns he could behind a door in a corner, evidently having chogen this socludoed apot either to suddenly pounce out and make onoe of his dramatio of- foats or bacausa ho had a ronlizing sense that ho nd no bunsiness to bo there, and that mod- oaty would have induced him to stay at homo with *mother." There wero, nll told, fifty brethron confronting him, and they wero avi- dently inattendanco for the purpose of ine timidating him, in which they sucoceded. The nact of Mr. Wnitein locking the doors upon Mr., BoweN was tho nct of a lun- otio. There was no resson for Mr Bowex to apprehond violence, except upon the gronnd that lunatics aro somotimes dangerons ; bnt Mr. Bowex being a coward evidently did apprchend that ho might bo harmed, and may have hnd in his miod the recolleotion of Faanx MourTon's narrow escapo from tho fronzied mob in Plymouth Church. Howover thiz may be, tho dologation from Plymouth Church acted liko n parcel of idiots, and if somo of them had had their hends punched tho rotribution for their idiooy would have been righteous. Ono can hardly read the account of this in- torview without wishing that Faanx Mourron or some othor ‘‘heathon” had been in Bow- z5's plnco who could have putina docided physical protest against this idiotic manifos. tation of roligious assumption. In that caso it is altogether probable that the seance would have onded with the flight of Plymouth Church throngh Harrrpax'a back door, Brother Wirrs nnd Tearful Toanty bringing up the rear with battored hoads. Asit has ovontuated, howover, the migcrable farce shows BoweN to ba nltogsther a coward if not o humbug besides, and the Plymouth Ohurch delogation & pack of lunatics who have brought dlsgrace upon thomselves and the church, If somo dynnmite flend could blow the whole pack hieavenwards and thus ond the matter, it wonld not be an unwelcomo denoucment to the disgusting farce which is damaging religion moro than all other causes combined. . MEANINGLESS DEMOCRA BUNCOABE, ‘The National Domocratio Committoo adopt- ed n resolution just before its adjonrnmont which has been telegraphed thoughout the country ns n sort of national address to fire the popular heart. ‘Whatever influsnco it may have on tho popular heart, it is pretty certain that tho popular mind will promptly ropudiate it ns an unfair partisan dooument, intonded to deceive tho unthinking with posi- tive untruths but half hidden undor some glitteriug genoralities, ‘* Co-operation,” say tho Committee, *is desired from all porsons whowould chango an Adminiatration that has sulfercd the public credit to become and re- main inferior to other and leas-favored nn- tions.” 'This is purposoly obscure, but not tho lesa untrue, whatover construction mny bo put upon it. If the Domocratic Committee refor to the interest which the Government pnys on ita bonds, there is a direct decoption, 1In 1861 tho Government paid as high s 7 8-10 por cont intorost on o pnrt of its obligations. "Tho 7-308 were redcomod from the proceeds of bonds bearing only &6 per cent intorest. Sinco then o large portion of the outstanding 6 por cents have been eanceled, and 5 por per cents issuod in placo thereof, And thero ia now a proposition bofore Congress author- izing the Bacretaryof the Troasury to sell 4} per ocont bonds at par to take up the- romainder of the G per centa. There is no doubt that thess bonds can be readily nogo- tiatod by making them run thirty years. 'The policy of the Governmont has been to issue short bonds with a view to their carly rotirement and the rapid reduction of the debt. Had the opposite policy been pursued it would have been easy to soll bonds at still lower rates of interest. Bub even as it is, there is only one Government in tho world— that of Groat Britain—which can borrow ‘money ntalowor ratoof interest. Francopays G per cont; Russia could searcely sell 6 per centbondsbonds atparto-day. England alone commnnds monoy at lowerrates, but it is with securities that amount to a perpotunl invest- ment. Theimprovementof American credit under tho administration of tho Republican party has boen owing to a constant adherenco to the policy of maintnining the publio faith in the payment of interost and principal of tho debt in gold, and by such mansgemont of the public sorvice ns to reduce the dobt 500,000,000 and st the same timo reduco taxation, Any damago that insbeen done the credit of American securities has como from the perlodical ngitation of the favorite Demo- cratio policy of paying the United Statos bonds in depreciated groonbacks, It cannot bo charged that the Ropublican party has in sny way subscribed to this pernloious and dishonest intontion, If tho sentonce we have quoted from the Democratio nddress does not refor to tho United Btates bonded dobt but to the non- interost-boaring notes of the Government, then it is equally false and unfair, It is the TRepublican party which hag steadily keptin viow the redomption of these notes in specle, which has limited their issue by act of Con- gress to not more than $400,000,000, and which haa declared by act of Qongress that it is the duty of the Governmont to provide for their redemption inspecio at the enrlicst practicablo moment. It is the Democratio party, on the other hand, which {s constantly proposing in its Conventions to exceed the legal limit of tho groenback issns, in the face of a virtual decision by the Supreme Court that an odditionnl issue in time of peaco would be unconstitutional. It ia the Demo- oratio party with a mojority in Congress which now proposes {o ropeal thoe act fixing adate for resumption, without substituting anything in licu thereof, which will advanco the Republican policy of redeeming tho greonbacks, In point of fact, whether aa rogards the United States bonds or the United States notes, every action of the Re- publican party, since a large publio debt was rendered necessary by the rebellion of the Bouthern Democrats, hos been to appreciate the public credit, whilo every action of the Democratio party has been calculated to de- preciate the public credit. There is one other point in this Democratic address which shonld not be permitted to pass unnoticed. It charges that the Repub- lican party- *‘has stifled trade by unequal, unjust, and pernicions legislation.” ‘I'his is o goneralization that evidently refers to the tariff, Before the Democrata can gay any- thing on this subject they must improve thelr present opportunities to reviso the tariff in the interest of trade. Thoy now control by nearly a two-thirds majority the popular branch of Congress, in which all measures must originate for providing the funds for the Government machinery,” They now hold the purse, and are able to constrain the other branckes of the Government to follow them in any reforms thoy mny suggest. The Pud- lis (tho lending finanolal newspnper of the country) very properly enys that, it tho Mon- nisoN 'Tarilf Rovislon bill is adopled in tho House, **it will becomon law,” and that *‘the Topublican Senate will not dare to make an iseue in tho Presidentinl olection wupon such a monsuro,” Tho whole question of the tariff s, therefore, actunlly in tho hands of tho Domocrats, What will thoy do with it? Thoy have been in rossion nonrly threo months and have dono nothing 8o for. Mr, MonnisoN hins suggested o mens. uro for rovising tho tariff, which the Com- mitteo of Ways and Menns have not reported, nor even considercd, ns far a3 we can learn, Tt doca not acom unlikely, indecd, that Domo- catio nction on the tariff in Congress will ba nearly o counterpart of that threo years ngo when, pretonding to be a party of revenue reform, the Democrats nominated As a stand- ard-bearor n man who was a recoguized luna- tic on the subject of protection. At thattimo the Democrats * relegated the consideration of the tariff to the Congressionnl Distriots "; but, now that they have tho opportunity to tiko Congressional chargo of the matter, thoy fail te carry out their common pratense of roforming tho revenus. Until they fulfill this pledge they aro in no position to criti- ciso the Republican party in this regard. THE JAPANESE INDEMNITY.FURD, The retontion of tho Japancse Indemnity- Fund by tho United States isan nct of na- tional dishonor, as will be shown by the cir- cumatances which occasioned ita payment in 1868, At that timo thereal rule of Japan was in the hands of the Tycoon, the nuthority of the Mikodo being only nominal, The latter was hostile to the Tycoon's policy, and was sdstained by tho Daimios or Governors of provinces, ono of whom, Cmosiu, robelled. During this' rebellion an American steamer, the Pombrokoe, was attacked by two of Cmo- srv's stenmers in o narrow etrait. The United States steamer Wyoming sailed to Crosru's torritory and took rotalintion by in- flicting sorious dampge upon the Jppaneso, Subsoquently, Fronch and Dutch vessels wers fired into in thesame locality and took similar redress, TheTycoon's Government expressed rogrot, and promised to chastise Cnosiv s soon a8 it could, meanwhile ssking for for- bearanco, The United States Minister mnde a claim for $10,000 indemnity, which was poid in 1864, with 32,000 intercst, and there- upon the Mimster expressod himsolf ns satis- fled. Innsmuch, however, as the Japaneso Government was not able to guarantes pro- tection to foreign vessels in Cmoeru's locality, the Forcign Ministers sent an expodition of nine British, four Dutch, and throe Irench vessels, and a littlo chartered stonmer to rep. rosont the United Btates, with which they de- molished Crosru's fortifications. They then compolled tho Tycoon's Government to guar- antes tho payment of an indemnity of 83,000,000 to cover the exponses of the expe- dition. Japan faithfully paid the money, and of this amount tho United States Govern- mont hes alveady reccived $750,000, which is ndditional to tho sum with which the American Ministor was porfoctly satisfied. This moucy has been obtained by the high- way robbery of a friend. The Japaneso Gov- ornment has always been friondly to ours, and has shown Americans moro favors than tho pooplo of any other country, It has al- rendy made a lorge approprintion for the Centennial Exhibition, and sent an American citizen, who has boon in Japan during the past threo years, as hor Commissioner: It would bo a very graceful and gratoful act for the United Statos to reciprocato this good foeling and return this money, prin. cipal and interest, which does mot bolong to us, and which was extorted from her, Tho holding of it is national dis- honor. 'The bill offered in the House by Mr, Monnoz provides for its return, but suggests that tho Japanese Government should bo in- vited to catablish a university with it for the oducation of Japancse aud American youths, Tho suggestion is quite ns superflous as it would bo for a highway robber to return his money to his victim with the recommenda- tion that he apply it to purposes of charity. All that tho United States can do in tho premises is to return - this monoy which does not belong to us, and to return it at once. ‘What the Japancso may do with it is no af- fair of ours. ‘The Hon, E, L. Boowx, Prealdent of the Republican Btate Convention in Wisconsin, spoke as followa ¢ Experienca haa demonstrated that this Government {nsafest in iho hands of its frionds, And Trre Tnisune comments th ‘There {s & hoap of truth in thia clalm, Now, that i just tho{dea of Gov, DEVERIDGE, in & littlo difforent languago, WWhy does Tux TRIBUNE ap- plaud BrowN and eriticlss Bevempox? Falr play i » Jowel.—Post and Matl, i But false quotation isnot a jowel. * Sup- pression of the truth is the suggestion of a falsohood,” and of just that tha Post and Mail s guilty. Tue Tninune's * commenta™ wore on tho Iast sentonco of the exiraot from Mr. Brown's specch, which the Post and Mail sup- presses. This was his langnago ¢ Under all circumatanco if has been faithful to its trust, Its mission {8 not ended, Experience hsa de- monstrated that this Govornment {a safest in the hands of its friends, aad theao friends sre the Ropub- lican party, We do’ what 10 other party ever did,— ohat ot frand and coreuption L High pieces ns well as low. And horo la what Tae Tamunx esid io rogard twlt: There 18 s heap of fruth fn thia claim. It fs quite certaln the Democratio party never huita out tho fraud and corruption in bigh plscos or fow places whon committed by members of ita party, The ruls ia o concel sad deny, nad maxe money’ out of the offices The very thiog DeveEnmas belittles Browxy holda up as of the highest importanco, viz.: hunting out fraud and corruption and eatablish- ing honesty in the place thereof. Honosty la tho vital principle of our Government. When that 18 lost, all is lost, The holdiug of an ap- polotmont as Penitentiary Commissioner st tho hands of the Governor givea tho Post and Mail strabismns of vialon, and csuses it to dlatort, suppreas, and pervert tho words and meaning of Tug Toisose, ————— The etyle of the country nowspaper reportor 18 not always modelod aftar that of tho masters, but it sometimes affords as keen a pleasure in tho roading. A yeporiof & seductlon casein Wisconsin appeared recently in a Milwaukees pa- por, and paria of it ware writton ina vein of unconsclous humor that Mark TWaAN might envy, Thoogh the subject is not a nice one to handle, we cannot forbesr quoting two sen- tonces, Bpeaking of the seducer, the roporter aayss ‘' At one time he was st tho head of the moss celebrated brasa-band In this State, but the inatitution which his genius kad bullt up was destroyed and scattered on account of his vices and roputation. . , . Hoatonatime enjoyed » fino commerclal atanding, bat his crodit and busiaess were dissipated, liko his brass-band, with hls roputation.” Of the girl in the case the reporter eayd ; Unfortunately she possessed the fatal giftof musle. . . , Having had no op- portunity to assoclate with young gentlemen, and poseessing no iodopendont standard of comparison; she waa the more easily captured by tho attractions of the highly-veneered clarionst- plaver and orgau-dealer,” The report in which thia rubblsh occurs is distiogulished as much for {ts brutality as for the praof it gives of the writer's ignorsuce, The name of the young woman is published, and the whole exposure is mado most cruelly, bucsuwso withous suficiens provacation or necossity, The newspapsr which oponod its columoa for the admission of thls * gensation * owon an apology to the publla, The rosulta of tho recent Indepsndent Cone vention in 1lllinols aro noticed by the country press with litilo diversity of oplulon, The Ro- pnblican papers generally hold that Brzwanp was nominated for Governor becaues he rich and without political antecedonts, and thag Fraoa was rojected bocause he was considorad o hard-money man. 'Tho genoral vordict of the organs of both partles is that the Indepondentsy lost thoir opportunity by not nominating n man npon whom tho Democrate could unite, Liout.. Goy. GLENK or Mr, Fraaa would have baon such a man, As It {a howover, four of tho candi. datos nre old Domoacrats and only two Ropub. licana, Tho strength of the movemont will be drawn from the Domocratio party. The Paoria Democral, s leading reprosontative of tho party whoso namo it bonrs, says: *Tho Domooratie Convention cannot indorso tla ticket, . The Indopendont tickot wiil roceivo, most ltkely, but & mors nominal vols, aud the grand bulk, per. haps 09 por cont, of the opposition to ths Republio. an party, will voto tho Democratioticket. , . . The Indepondent movo will only be regarded by tho voters of {hio Btato aa mere slde-shote of ng consequence, and rocove little attention ani Jase Indorsenient from the peoplo.” ——— Dr, Von Borow scems fated to croato & dreazs wheraver e gooa, Rafora ho came to this coun. try bo mado afl Italy mad with Lia savage orit. feism upon VEnur's musio. Siace his advent in this country ho Las aroused a storm in Boston nnd Now York by discharging DenosaxN bacanse Lo drauk tvo much, sud by animadvarsions upon bis countryiuen’s tondency to drink beer. In our own city bo stirred up the Gormana by a silly upeech at hia waiineo. Iu Bt Louis ho got into an aliorcation with a critic in & masic-atote, aud both burled Gott in Himmols at oach other for bulf an hour, which was followed up by o movemont of tho Cermnn pross agaiost him the noxt day. He is now on his way to New Ore leans, and na he #lll probably raisc a storm thero, somebody of courso will shoot lim, and that will benn ond of tue flery little Doctor. Then the Germane will got mad at the Freachmen fo Lilliog him, snd forget that they evor assaulted him thomselves. At the same time, with mota. physlcal tondornoss, the Germans evorywhore hasten to inform ua that 1t (s Voxr Burow the man, uot VoN BuLow the musloian, whom they are attacking. Tho Amorican eagle was not exhibited to groat sdvantage by the projnctors of the recent Can. tenninl bonoflt dramatio porformance in London, Col. Fonxer ia held rosponsiblo forit; but, it tho truth wore told, ko only committed the mls~ tako of approving tho Idea, His authority and * countonance, one wayor tho other, waro not eafliclent to ontail any conalderable load of re- sponsibility, ~ Tho play was * Mactsth." Miss GEXEVIEVE WARD, who i8 yet without honor as an ortist o Amorioa, whore alia wea born and “raiged,” nasumed tho part of Lady Afacbelh, Tho Vokes family and Cumistr's Minstrels rs- eistad in tho witohos' chorng. 'Tho ropresonts- tion iu itsolf was mors molodramatio than trag. ical, but it would have boen tolorable enough bad ita extrinsio charactor boon abovo reproach. Tho boneflt for tho Centonnial was not an ob- Joct near to the bearts of the English psoplo; and the appeal to thom, after tho frequont une kind sllusions they havo made of Jato to Amert- can Indopondenco, was not only humitiatiog but beggarly, The proceeds of tho bonofit were nob largo enough to pay for tho shamo of {t. gt ‘Tho LiNcory monumont which Is to bo orocts od in a public squaro at Washington if the pa- tionco and purse necessary for the undortakiog can bo supplied wau suggeated boforothe death of #0ld Anz" by Joun A. Drruas, momber of Cone gross from Michigan, Mr. Orank Mmis was captivated by tho ides, and at once propared a model. After the death of the Prosidont he found encouragemont on all sides, and bad some promise of an appropristion from Congress. Tho appropriation nover camo, howevor, and ia not likely to como while the Confoderates re- maln in power. Of tha whole 400,000 reqnired o carry out the original plan only $80,000 have boen raised. It will ocour at onco to porsons familinr with the history of natfonsl monuments that AMr. Miurs' plas is on too large a scalo. Thirty-six bronze statuos, oquestrinn and po- deetrian, besidos the principal figure, are scarce~ 1y necessary to commemorats tho life and ser- ‘vices Of ABRAITAM LINCOLN. ——————— J. B, Fanvrry, of No, 102 Esst Sixty-second stroet, Now York, haa sent to Tne Trinune, sod probably to many other nowspapers in tho United States, s remarkablo circular, of which the following is a copy: Nxw Yonx, Feb, 14, 1676.—Dxan Bimn: I wish you ta propound 'this question publicly: Ask Mr. TYno, Mr, HaLL, M, BacoN, Mr. BUDINGTON, Mr, STanss, Mr, QurLn, Mr, Daxomzn, and Mr, Moony, Are you holy—being’ sinful in the presencs of % ul Tttethen inof iha ot ABa while you arasbout it, just mentionthat the templa of the liwing God it 0ot made with hands. Mr. PAncey wrltes that ho bas sont this ciren- 1ar to all the porsons named, Woll, what of it? The Davil ought to be proud of his progeny if be bas among them some of the preachers sbove mentioned. ——— The Hon, Orank E, Oarz, of Galesburg, wsa ono of those who talked In the Republican cone ference mooting on Tuosdsy evoniog., Among other things ho sald: Only honest Tien, and men with honest records, should be placed in ofiice, bacauss the Kopubiican par+ 1y of the country wea the grestest party this country evee lad, and was the only party which possessed the power wiibin itsef to purify laclf, Lo wanted o sos aa lionest platform made represeniizg bonset monoy, Tepresonting an honeat tati, honest government, and Io ; and, with honest and abla candldstes, it would galn greater triumpha than ever, Cranz Oann makoa old-fashloned honeaty amatter of tho first importance, and doos mnot shoo-fly {t a3 a matter of minor consequence. —_—— The Cinclunati Enquirer saya that if the Democracy be placed on & hard-money plattorm “tho only isauca left to divide partles will bs those which sppertain to the War. Upon the ‘War queatlons alone we would not like to insure the Democratic party more than eight or ten Northom States." ' Eight or ton States!" That's good; but it moant oight or ten counties, such a4 Butlor sud IHolmes, Barke in Peansylvanis, ' and Allen, Indisns, There would be no show for “Statea” on this side of Mason and Dixon, u?d thora won't be much on the rag-baby issue, eithor. —_— The attitude of the Roman Cstholio clergy of Bpain in the rocent, elections s very clearly shown by s letter sent by the Bishops of Oata- loola to thelr elergy who had consulted them as to the courss thoy wers to pursae, The Blshops roplied very ancolnctly to the following effeot 1 That hiberty of worship 18 condemned in the 7, 78, and 70 propositions of the Byllabus of the relgning Pontiff, the ymmorial Proa IX,, that no Catholis can ‘Yola fur this disastrous Liberty, nor send, by his Yota, 10 1he Cortes those who are detormined 10 eatablish such Iiberty of worsbip in Bpain, Thst we are bound n duty 1o employ every legal means in out power to drive {rom tha Assumbly and Henate all who chesh such o design, And that we must bave recourse to evory logitimato aud honest instrpmentality at our disposal 1o wocura that tho Spaniah peopie shall be rep- resented {n the Legislature only by men who, setting asfde all political opinions, are frmly recclved to re- establish, and, in caso of Deed, to defend, religious unity in our dear native countr; R (311 aid that Omanres A, Dana aod Ropest - SoXNkn are negotiating for Jay GouLn's tuterest In the Now York Tribune, It would not be alto- gotber consiatent with Mr, Dana’s previous rep- utation if he should establish himself in the Tall Tower, and write Billy-Mary editorials. And without such provender the roaders of New York Tribune would languish and dle like sheep with tho rot, —_— The Carros line bids fsir to stretch out to ths orazk of doom. There wers six Dox OinLoszd beforo the present Pretender, sud the pressnt Protonder, who is but 38 yoars of age, has a lit- tle Doy QAxros 6 years of age, who will besll ready for an nprising by tho time his father gots | i | { i : | i