Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1876, Page 4

miei abana eclent Sian ae EE: * (per gallon, 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1876. i ——————— eee = lllllllE>~E~=_— x —————— EES TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATER OF RUDSCHITTION (PAYARLE IN ADVANCE). Postage Prepaid at this Ont Dally Rditlow, portpate t aear Parta of yeata fy hw Parle of year at came rat a WEERLY EDITION, POBTFALD, Ine copy, Nor year Ulubol Kroenor c jab of Fe ‘Who poste Brecimen zs ‘To prerent delay and rofatakes, ho sure and gird Wort Dffice addrans in full, including Ntate and County, Memittances may ho made either by draft, exprtay, Post-Ofice ordor, or in registere'| tatters, at our tisk. TENMA To CITY REBACKINENS, Daily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 2 conta ver wank, conte por wack. COMPANY, Chicage Ul. jon and Deartorn AMUSEMENTS. WOOD'S MUBEUM—Monroe atreet, between Deat® Dorn and Htate, Afterncon, “The Honeymoon,’ Rrening, “ Tho Munchback." NOOLEY'’S THEATNE--Randolph street, between Clark suit Lasalle. ‘The Californie Minstrala, After- moon and evening. MoVIOKER’S TIHEATRE—Madison street, belweon Dearborn and Blale, Kogegement of John 2, Owens. wi tae joys. AGADEMY OF MUSIO—Halsted treet, betwoen Madison and Monrose, Engagement of the Julis Mathews Burloaque Troupe, Aftornoon, Ia Fille Med. Angot” Byening, * Girofle-Girofa, ADELPHI THEATRE—Desrborn street, _éorner Monroe. “The Flying Scud." Afternoon and evening. SOCIETY MEETINGS. HESPERIA LODGE, No, 411, A. F, & A, B,—Regular gommunication at their hall, corner Randolph and Tialated-ata,, this (iaanenday) oyening, at 73 o'clock, ‘Third Degree, Visiling brethren cordially {ovited, ©, 1. DRENAN, W, "FOERSTER, Bec, GARDEN CITY LODGE, No, 141, A., F. nnd Ay Mom Arequlr communication witl be eid at Orlontal Hall, on Mednesday ‘erening, March 29. Work on te Af egrea, hren fraternalty Invited, sd F, HOLCOMB, W, 31 * HOLCOS BE L, Ll. WADSWONTH, Sec, The Mhicags Tribune. ‘Wednesday Morning, March 20, 1876. Greonbacks at the Now York Gold Ex change yesterday closed at 873. Tho City Council of Kingston, Cauado, have indorsed tho petition of the Chicago and Cleveland Boards of Trade for the opening of the Welland Canal on Sundays, ond tho gyoidaace of the needless and expensive de- loya to which vessels have horotofore been subjected on account of the closing of tho tanal one day in sovon. Farmers in Central Illinois continue to suf- fer sovore losses by tho hog cholera, Tho ravages of thig diseaso, together with tho ex- tremo difficulty attending the marketing of the hog product by reason of tho mild winter ‘weather and the bad condition of country roads, have mado the winter of 1876-'76 ono of unusual disaster to pork-producers. The House Committeo having in charge the impeachment of ox-Secrotary Bexanar yesterday took a vote upon tho articles, and they wore adopted unanimously. No now charges aro likely to be presented, the only variation being that since Onraczn’s wretched blunder bas been repaired by tho return of Munsu, the allegations will be supported by tho evidence necessary to secure conviction, Judge Wirztame yesterday hoard the mo- tion for injunction against the Town Board and officers of the Town of South Chicago to restrain the Board from paying or voting {legal salaries to tho town officers, and ro- fused to grant tho desired relief. He held that the nfildavits fled by the defondants con. troverted tho allegations of the bill, and that it was not shown that tho Board was abont to commit any fraud which a court could in. terfere to prevent. This leaves the Board trea to donate under the conveniont term of contingent expenses such sums to tho town officers a9 it may seo fit, Thero were indications of snow yesterday. "Yet this, chronologically, is springtime, ‘This ia also, curiously enough,’ tho time for the singing of birds, To tho credit of the foathored tribo bo it said, not a peep was yesterday at- tempted outside the confines of the do. mestic cage, and cven tho house can- ary was observed to hold aloof from thoze exhibitions of vocal pyrotechnics in which from time ond practice ho had bo. come profidient, ‘Iho fact of tho matter is, that March has mado a bad mesa of it throughout, and has proved himsolf a beastly Gailure as a spring month. ns It has been often charged that in a major- Sty of instances the chief end of a Govern- ment navy-yurd is to furnish votes and influenco to the politicians so fortunate as to command its assistance when neoded, and to line the pockata of favored contractors ond corrupt offiinls, This scandal is not without foundation, a3 appoars from tho facta clicited in the ponding investigation by tha Hoase Sub-Committee on Naval Af. fairs, Tho inquiry concerning the manage- ment of tho navy-yards at Boston and Ports- mouth davelops inefficiency, rottenness, and freud in large proportions, Tho whole con- duot of the Navy Department wonld seam to be a fruitful fold for investigation and ex- posure, The inking of ovidonce is finished in the caso of Patan and Busy, charged with de. frouding the revenue, and tho counsel on cither uido wore yesterday ongagod in making their arguments. Tho directnesa ond force of th proof being unmistakable, the vital iasue of the caso scems by common consent to hive narrowed down to tho singlo quer tion aa the credibility of the Government witnessca who-have testified to o guilty kn owledgo of ond a criminal participation in the frouds alleged, On the part of the Prosecution it is urged that theso wit. ‘nesses have testifled under no promigo of im- munity from punishment for their ownoffenseg, and that their testimony is therofore entitled to os full credence ag though they were not confessedly co-criminols; while the sim of the defenso is to mako it appoar that the Government has been engaged ina system of wholeuale subornation of porjury in order to convict the defendants on trial, Such ig the present aspect of the cage, with Mr, Bronze and Judge Banas yot to hear from, SSS ‘The Chicago produce markets were irregu- lar yesterday. Mess pork was doll, and Yjo Per brl lower, closing at $22.40 cash and B22.65 seller May, Lard was less active and 100 per 100 the lower, cloaing at $18,724@ 13,75 cash and $18.00@13.924 seller May, ‘Meats were dull and unchangod, at 8fo for boxed shoulders, 1240 for do short riby, and ‘13§e tor do chort clears, Highwinos wero in- active and nominally atronger, at $1.07@1,08 Flour was in fair demand and wendy, Wheat was nes active and {ehighes, closing weak at $1.02 for March and $1.07 for May. Corn was in diminished request and Jo higher, closing weal: at 46}o for March aud 49{a for May. Onts wero quit and firm, closing nt 82%c for April and 3430 for May. Tyo wns quict, nt Gio, Barley was in fair request and 1@1 Jo higher, cloning at 4940 for March and 61e for May. Hogs wero activo, nnd closed strong at Ic advance. Cattle wore inactive and nomiually unchanged. Sheep wero firm nat $4.75@6.75 for common to choica, Last Saturday ovening thero was in store in this city 3,147,369 bu wheat, 2,195,- 198 bu corn, 770,610 bu oats, 186,561 bu rye, and 319,103 ba barley. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $114.00 in greonbacks at the closo, Gon, Scnencr’s appearance before the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs relative to his con- neotion with the Emmn Mino is conceded to have mado a favorable impression in his be- half, He has had, at all events, tho manli. ness to putin as prompt an appearance as swna possible after tho formal chargo mado against him by Lrow, aud not merely to vol- ‘unteer a complote statement of lis connection with the affair, but to demand a full investl- gation to bo conducted in tho most searching judicial fashion. It will not bo possible, of course, for Gon. Scurnon to justify his con. neation with the Emma Mino while holding the position of United States Minister to En- gland on tho ground of propricty, but it is to be desired that ho may be able to show that he was not corruptly interested in solling a worthless mino to English capitalists. In this regard Gen, Scnexox makes a most ob- solute and explicit doninl, and says that ho will be able to prove that he bought and paid for the shares ho holds under an honest con- yiction of their value; that ho has sustained aserious loss from tho investmont; that tho failure of tho mine was owing to mismanage- mont, and that, proporly worked, it ia os valnablo in proportion as it was originally ropresented to be. If Gen. Sonenck can show all this, it will relieve him and the coun- try of a very disreputable scandal, and the public will bo generally inclined to overlook tho improprioty of his permitting tho uso of hia nome. He is ontitled to a full and fair hearing in his effort to make out tho case ho has etated. THE ENFORCEMENT ACTS, Though the Supreme Court, in passing upon tho olection cases taken up from Kon- tuoly and Lonisiann, did not directly decide that the so-called Enforcoment acta are un- ‘constitutional, the opinions dolivered in both enses oro 60 comprehensive ond unnvimous that thero is little room to doubt that auch willbo tho dictum of the Court whon tho constitutional question shall come before it in a shapo requiring a decision. Tho United States law, under which theso prosecutions woro brought, consists of a series of statutes passed in 1870, 1871, and 1872, providing penalties for wrongfully refusing to receive a vote, for unlawfully hindoring o citizen from voting, for appointing supervisors of olec- tion, and otherwise enforcing the free and unrestrained exercise of tho franchise of tho United States citizens, Tho acts wore frocly criticised at tho time of their pasenge es of doubtful constitutional interfer. ence with the powera of the States; but thoy woro generally sustained by Republicans in Congress aa o wise and necessary protection in the Southern States against tho interferonca and terrorism sought to bo exorcised by the Confederates, and gon- erally denounced by the Domocrats as an at- tempt to control the elections in the interest of the carpot-baggers. While the purpose of the Republicans was unquestionably pure, and tha necessity for supervision to protect the negro voters undoubtedly present, it now scoms, according to the Conrt, that there was aserions error in making the legislation 50 general as to defent its own logitimato pur- Rone. For instance, those sections of tho w providing a ponalty for unlawfully intor- fering with o citizen in his attompt to vote, or unlawfully refusing to receive his vote, and opening the United States Courta for the en- forcement of this pennlty, the Jan- ‘guage of tho statute is go broad ond comprohonsivens to include overy ro- fusal and every interferonco that is unlawful, whother in Stato, Torritory, district, coun. ty, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or any other local and torrito- rial subdivision, and without any particular restriction as to a refusal or interforenco on account of the distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. In other words, it gave authority to the United Statca Courts to enforce the penalties of this law in any wrongful interference whateyor, aud in any local as well as gencral election, ‘Tho Supreme Court now docides nonrly unanimously (Justice Orrrrorp dissenting only from the opinion, but not from the judgments in the cases adjudicated) that it is not the provinco of the United States Gov- ernment to do the goneral pollee duty of tho various States, and, so far ag elections aro concerned, the Government may only exer- cisa supervision and onforce penalties to carry jute effect tho Fifteonth Amendment to the Constitution. Tho former position ia more fully get forth in the Louisiana caso, tho latter in the Kontucky cases, in which the opinion was delivered by Chict-Justice Warte, an opinion that, for cloarness of thought and trimnesi af expression, will commend the new Chief-Justice to the con- fidenco of his countrymon, The Fifteonth Amendment, to the cxact terma of which tho Court now limits tho logislation on election supervision, roads as follows ; 1, Tho right of citizens of the United Btates to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United Btates, or by avy Binte, on account of rece, color, or previous condition of servitude. 1, The Congress shat! have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation, It was held (1) that the powor of Congress to logisinte at all upon tho subject of voting ot State elections depends upon this amend. ment, and (2) that such legislation must bo confined to the amendinent explicitly, or, in other words, the wrongful refusal or inter. ference must be because of race, color, or previous condition of servitudo, But tho Court further held that any refusal to reocive a vote or interference in the casting of a vote on this account cannot bo punished under tho present statute for tho reason that its termy are too general, ‘To eo construe the statute ag to enforce its penaltics on Gcoount of the constitutional prohibition it would be necessary to ingert words in soveralof the sections [notably Secs, 2,008 and 2,009] limiting thelr application to the apeciflo purposes authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment, This, it is held, the Court will not undertake to do, because it is extra-judl- cial and comes within the function of the leg- ialative power, ‘Thus the law, in ite presont shape and under the construction of the Bu. premo Court, not only fails to warrant any interference with Btate elections because of local abuses, but is likewise inoperative as to the end intended to be reached,—the pun fabmsot of interference an account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,— bocause tho Courts will not stop to inquire whethor or not the particular case beforo thom was ono coming under the Constitutional Amendmont whon thoprosecntion is brought under a statute so gonoral in ita terms as to go outside the Constitution, ‘This decision of tho Supromo Court, and the moro comprehonsive decision of tho un- constitutionality of nll tho so-cnllod Enfores- ment acts aa thoy sfand which it virtually fovoshadows, may be regarded partly ns for- tunate and partly as unfortunate. It is for- tunato in xo far as it rostrains Congress from enacting penal logislation in olections beyond the power conferred upon it by tho Conatitn- tion, tho infraction of which would bo so. riously dangerous, no matter what party wero in powor, Butit is unfortunate in so far ag it may for a timo open up the opportunity for sorious abuses and perhnps terrorism in tho South, It will ba impossible to secure w proper enactment by tho present Congresa of tho provisions of tho Fifteenth Amendment; and the prosent law, boing practically in- oporative, will exercise no restraint upon those who desiro to interfors with the votes of tho colored people nab tho South, Tho necessity for farthor and proper logisla- tion to carry into effect the provisions of the Fifteonth Amondment will bo another reason, however, for renewed offort on the part of tho Republican party to regain control of Congress. Tho hope is very romote that any Domocratio Congress, governed by ox-Confed- erates, would aver provide any such legisla- tion, ‘WINSLOW AND THE EXTRADITION TREATY, ‘The dispute os to the surrender of Wixs- tow, the Boston forgor, under the extradi- tion treaty between Great Britain and the United States, promisos to be a matter of moro importanée than was at first supposed. ‘The oxtradition treaty includes tho crime of forgery, for which Wanstow has been indict- ed, and on account of which his surronder is demanded, but tho suthoritles of Great Britain intervono with tho demand on their part that he shall not be tried on any other chargo than that on which he is surrendered. ‘There is probably no present intention of trying Wrysvow for any other offenso than that of forgery, but Secretary Fisn denies tho right of Great Britain to make the de. mand. Thoro aro two sides to the question. On tho part of the position taken by Scere- tary Fisn, it may be contended thot En- gland’s demand is impertinent, cither because it assumes that tho United StotesGoverument intends to secure the body of Wiistow undor theindictment fora crime included in thoextre- dition treaty, but to try him for some offonso which it docs not cover, or becauso England must abide by the terms of the treatyas it paymonts in 1878, discard silver, except aa a fractional or token currency. In Italy, Aus- trian, and Russia, the like course will be fol- lowed whenover thoy resnma apecio pay- ments. Japan has atready demonotized silver, and adopted the Amorican gold standard, Chiu mny bo expected to do tho ssme thing before many years. With tho wholo world thus rejecting silver as a legal-tonder, and with our mincw pro- ducing 240,000,000 to $60,000,000, with o capacity of $100,000,000, a year, to ndopt sil- vor as nn standard currency in this country would lend to our being flooded with tho sur- plus silver of the world, knocking down its valuo to 30 or 40 cents on thodollar. In sil- vor the use islimited. Except for coin, tho uso is restricted to spoons, goblets, plate, and works of art,—n demand wholly inadequate to consume tho supply, It is a well-known rulo that, whon any commodity has reached its maximum valne, any addition to the sup- ozists, and cannot in this mannor seck to on- largo or contract it. On the part of England it may bo maintainod that the treaty carries with itn tacit agreement not to arrnign n surrenderod criminal for any other crime than that for which ho is surrendered undor its provisions, and that tho practice of Gormany and somo other countries of socuring an cx- tradition for a criminal offense and thon try- ing the person fora political offense war- rants England in oxacting the pledge. Tho fairest statemont that can be mado of tho dis. pute is that the principle for which England contends is correct, and ought to bo expressly stated in tho extradition treaty, but that thoro is no authority for withholding Wiss. Low because the Govornmont of the United States rofuaes to give a pledge which it is not required to make by tho treaty. There is really on issuo on tho principle it+ self, though it does not properly ontor into the Wixstow caso, It has beon an obstaclo, howover, in the enlargomont of the scops of extradition between the United States and Canada,—an enlargement which is to bo de- sired mutually on account of tho long stretch of contiguous boundary which nffars an easy escape for criminals on vither side of the lino, It scems, howovor, that the negotiations for @ new treaty, which were begun in 1870 and carried on till 1874, wore snapended becauso the United States authorities refused to ac- cede to an article in tho English draft which provided that the Magistrate, Justice, or Judgo before whom the demanded criminal is arraigned shall dotormino on evidenco whother or not tho demand for sur. ronder has beon wade with a view to try or punish him for on offonso of ao political character. Tho United States main- tained that it should bo loft with the Secro- tary of Stato to decide this matter. This position seems to be proper, ainco (however it may be in England) our Polico Magistrates, as a rule, have noither the character nor special preparation to bo intrusted with so important o question, It would be possibio, and perhaps not even diffloult, to dofeat tho extradition treaty, if tho lower class of Magistrates wore charged with jurisdiction as to the nature of tho offense and tho proba. bilities of tho trial for a political misdeed. At all events, England, having failed to secure & now treaty covering this point, can scarcely bo conceded the right to withhold Winarow under tho old treaty ; and any effort to insist upon it will probably lead to an ab- rogation of all oxtradition botween the two countrics, BILVER AS A LEGAL-TENDER. We print claowhore a lotter from a vener- ablo citizon who thinks that the extraordinary increaso in the production of silver Naturo has contributed at tho right moment tho means of restoring specie valuca, Dis plan dg to restore the ailvor colnage to the weight it hod in 1853, and to withdraw all paper money of a lesa denomination than $10, and then coin silver as a legal-tendor without lim. itation, Ho thinks that this coinage would bo and remain of a permanent value, would bo stable, without fluctuation, and that it might be used to pay off the national debt. ‘The fact ia that the valuo of silver is now very unfixed and uncertain, It fells every day, and tho decline promises to be continu. ous for years to come. The Oriental coun. trie, India ond Chino, have for many years ‘been the receptacle of the silyor of America, Their trade and commerce were always con- ducted in silver, and whatever of that motal once went thore waa apt to remain, But the supply bas been groator than the demand, and they aro full to repletion, and the de- monetization of silver haa changed the finonolal relations of the East and the Wost. Indin and China have an exclusive silver coinage, but all their trade relations with the ‘Western States are in gold. The fall in the value of allverhas produced a wide-sproad con- sternation in India. ‘Tho silver which wasonco at par is now equal for purpose of payments in Europe to only about 17} shillings in the pound sterling, and a result which may be anticipated at any momont ig that India will demonetize silver and make gold the exclu. sive standard, The dominant clesses are so- riously contemplating it, Germany has demonetized ailyer, and #0 has Holland, ox- cept for amall change. France, which has had both sliver and gold, will, upon resuming ply will reduco the valuo of tho commodity in proportion to the surplus, It is n ques- tion, therefore, whethor the presont onor- mous additions to the quantity of silver do not reduco the specific valuo of silver por ounce equal to thopercentage which the ad- ditional supply bears to tho aggregate quan- tity of silver in uso. "The general domonetization of silver, and tho vast additions to the quantity, will havo tho effect of roducing its valuo until it sinks to 60 or even 40 conts whoro it now is rated at $1. What is to bo done, thon? If wo make it a legal-tendor, we repent in even o more aggravated form tho injustice which has been so long endured of a depreciated paper curroncy. Tho present value of $100 of tho subsidiary silvor coin of tho United States is $1} in gold and $96} in greenbacka. It is alrendy cheaper for tho Governmont to issuo silver coins than it ia to print and handle fractional currency. This fallingoff in yaluo is destined to continue, and should wo commit the fatal error of making silvor a legal-tender for all debts, then ina fow yoars wo will be tho receptacle of all tho surplus silvor oxcluded from all other coun- tries, with its valuo every day becoming less and loss, and wa will have to do as all other nations aro doing, declare it a nuisanco, and roject it ns a curroncy excopt for small change. & It would only chango tho situation from a dopreciated paper to a worse doprocinted and steadily sinking silver currency, and post~ pone for years ‘Yongor the ultimate necessity for an exclusive gold standard of values, which wo must come to sooner or later. Our correspondent thinks that because the bonds were sold at one time during tho crisis of the Rebollion as low as 60 cents in coin, the pres- ont bondhélders cannnot complain if tho bonds are paid in silver, ovon if tho latter bo dopreciated uo matter how much, But it should bo remembered that these bonds have changed hands perhapa a hundred times, and that the present holders have paid for them full faco value in gold. Tho making of silver coin a legal-tondor, except a3 now for the amall gum of five dol- lors, would be ono of tho great blunders of the age, would romody nothing, and would add to tho difficulties which must ovontually be settled by making ‘gold the absolute and exclusive standard of values. THE TAX ON QUININE, In the City of Philadelphia thero are two establishments, one conducted by Powens & Warianraan and tho othor by Rosrnaanten & Sons, which manufacture the universal rome- dist drug known as quinine, Tho manufac- ture of quinine is a simple proccss, Tho matorial is that known as Peruvian bark, which is imported, and from it ix extracted quinine, and tho inferior articles of the exmo class known a quinidia, cinchonia, quinis, ote, Until within afew years tho duty on manufactured quinine was 45 por cent, but has since been reduced to 20 por cont, The bill now pending before Congress to revise the tariff repeals the tax altogether and ad- mits quinino free of duty. The manufacturers of quinine in Philadel- phis have preparcd a momorial ty Congress, which they have sent out to all the wholosalo and rotail druggista of the country to bo signed, and in tho memorial they protest ayainst tho removal of tho tax, ospocially on the ground that to do ao will ba deatructiva of American enterprise and rednoe the wages of American labor! ‘hore are precisoly three persons in the United States pecuniari- ly interested in maintaining the high prico of quinino ; thera ore forty-five millions of poo- ple subject to fever and other ailmants for which quinine is 9 specific remedy, This momorial proposes that Congreas shall tax the forty-five millions af people for the exclusive profit of the three respectable citi- zens of Philadelphia, The druggists of tho country—boing customers of these Philadel- phia firma—aro expected to gubscribe to all tho statements in the momorial without reforence to tho truth, Mr, J. H. Moorz, in 6 communication printed in the Cincinnati Commercial, oxplodes nearly all the allega- tions in tho memorial. Hore are some of the statements made in bohalf of the Philadelphia firms; 1, Wo, the undersigned importers of and wholesala deators in drugs and cbomicals, do reepectfally repro- sent that sulphste of quinis ig manofactured to this country in sufficient quantity to supply the entie home demand, 2, Asa remedial agont (for intermittent fevers, ato.) {1s an unfalling remedy, and absolutely indlapenss- vleat certain searons (summer and autumn) in the Southern and Western sections of the country, 3, In purity, sppearance, and general excellence, it fs fully equal to the beat productions of Hngland, Franco, and Germany, 4, The price ts moderate,—f2.90 currency per ounce, —10 low, {ndced, as not to be felt sa. 8 burden to con- suumers, Who uso 18, as a rule, 1a doses of a fow grains only st a fimo. Sulphate of quints is frequently 8 shillings to 9 shillings por ounce~squal to $2@2.25 gold—{n England. 5. Tho manufacture of sulphate of quinis involves a large carrying trade between this country and South Amorica (Peruvian bark being brought from Bouth Amorica in large quantity, exclusively for the use of the quinin manufacturers af tho United States). 1, Tho fact that the Philadelphia manufac- turors can supply the entire home demand is no reason for taring the whole people. A re- duction of the price 40 per cont will increase the demand and increase the buslness of the Philadolphia houses. 2, The fact that quinine is “ absolutely in- dispensable” to the sick is a strong reason why ita price should be reduced. 8, If it be equal to the best foreign pro- ductions, it should not droad competition, 4, The fact that quinine is administered in small doses is no justification for taxing it. Tho beat English quinine, which rates the highest in all markets, can bo landed in this country at $1.65 per ounce in currenoy, com- puting gold at 115. Tho difference between that and $2.20 is Gt cents an ounce, equal to AO per cent, and is the special profit of the ‘hiladelphia houses, The avorage cost valuo of the quinine imported In 1875 was $1.42 por ounce in gold, or equal to $1.03 in currency, 5, Tho suggestion that the repeal of the duty on imported quinine would destroy the manufacture of the article im this counter is absurd. Thora Philadelphia houses have had a monopoly for years. From 1862 to 1872 thoy wore protected by a duty of 67 cents in gold per ounes, and during thos years had a practical monopoly of the market. Bince that time the importation of foreign-mndo quinino has been govorned by tho prices of the Philadelphia firms, When the latter put up the price, quinino is imported; when the Philadolphiaus put down thoir prices, impor- tation stops. Tho imports of quinine for threo years compare no follows: 1873 we importod. see sees 1874 we iinported: 68,097 ounces 1815 we imported, 12,279 ounces The suggestion that tho ropenl of this tax on this most indispensable of atl medicinal remodics will break up tho carrying trado,”— that is, the trado of the versela bringing tho bark to tho United Statos,—is very ridiculous, ‘Tho whole importation equals only 2,260 tons of bark ina year, or loss than ono day's re- coipts of corn in Chicago in the corn season. 'The fact is tho people of tho United States havo endured this tax—this monopoly—so long that the Philndelphin monopolista con- sidor they havo a yoated right to collect 40 to 60 cents an ounco on oll tho qninine sold in the United States, ‘Tho tax produces no reventic, ia almost oxclusively a bounty to the threo Philadelphians, and should bo abolished. Tho actual condition or status of Italion finances has long beon one of tho puzzios of the journalist. Everybody knows that 8 sun- pension of specie payments exista there, and that the currency in circulation has been at noarly as great s discount as ours for the last half-dozen years, But the amount of tho circulation or inflation docs not oppear to havo been ascertainod, nor to what extent tho Government had borrowed from the ‘banks, or whon or how it proposed to repay itsloana. We havo all heard of tho fiscal distress and ombarrassmonta of the Govern- mont of Italy; of the annual deficita and failures to make the budget balance by new taxation and other dovices, But the first clear and comprehensive statement of tho Italian curroncy system and the schemes pro- posod for its improvement is that which we have this morning transferred to our columns from the Nation, It offers important facts aud suggestions for the consideration of statesinon in this country, As the Nation obsorves : "The experience of Italy in the maiter of paper money {8 moro nearly analogous to our own than that of any other country, but with important differences, ‘What fa perfectly posatblo to us is.at preacnt Impose{- dio fo tho Italians, though they ardently desire to take the vory stops to which nelthor political party in this country dares to pledge {tself,—stops, namely, for a sncedy resumption of specie payments, Altuough the forced currency of Italy exccods ita former metalllo circulation by only 26 per cent, the premium on gold {a not much lower than with us, ‘Tho resson of thls 4s, that the finances of tho country‘sro atill ina bad stato, Whilo our Sper cent consols aro st 1044 in gold, those of Italy aro at 71; whilo our national rov- enues yield a large annual surplus, those of Italy are hoavily in arrears of the expenses: while we can ro- doem our paper money #8 rapidly a8 wo chooao, Italy cannot redeom hers without widening the annual def- felt, ‘Thus it is that, alluough sho hae tho will, she bas not the way; whilo we, who bays tho way, havo not tho will, The humitisting fact for us is, that while the peoplo of Italy ara unanimous in desiring to got back to golld ground, and aro pushing on tholr public men to get there faster than thoy think it prudent to go, many of our pooplo prefer to travel on @qusgmiro, at tho risk, 1m caso sny national disaster should largoly increase the public expontog, of sinking into it out of aight; aud our public mon dare not utter thelr troo sentiments in favor of honest money for fear the people will not sustain them, ‘The revenues of Italy have greatly im- proved-lately; the doficit of 1876 proves to bo only $5,000,000, against $14,000,000 es- timated, Small surpluses aro promised for 1876 ond 1877. If these estimates nro realized, Italy will emancipate herself from tho slavery of bad monoy beforo we do, with all our wealth, surplus revenues, and super- abundant ability to resume whenever wo really want to get rid of the curso of a fluc- tuating shinplastor currency. }22,736 ouneca Tho storm of yesterday was terrible, It expended over a yory wide district of coun- try; and to all the people it was no groat in- conyonionce, and perhaps to somo it becamo their last winding-sheot, But no ono ox- pected it to Inst forever, The angry forces of the atmosphere exhaust themsclyes in dua time, and bright skies and cheering sunshino again bless tho land. Soa far more desolat ing storm of political and social corruption has spparently spread over tho entire coun. try. Men way up in the very highcst soats of powor and influence have confessed them- aelvea thioves; and some in our own city who have enjoyed the confidenco of the masses by their own admissions have belonged to a grand conspiracy that for years past has been robbing the Government of untold thousands. The Mayor holds on to his office in defiance of all honesty and decency, and his bummor Aldermen sustain tho usurpation. Like the storm of yostor- day, this whirlwind of corrmption has mado itaclf felt everywhere, and hog threatened to sweep away all that is good, and true, and lovely, in our country. Had tho storm been permitted to rago long enough, every living thing would have perished ; and go, wero there no power to stop the vices of bribory, corrnp- tion, and stealing that aro rifo in the land, sociaty—all wo hold dear—must inevitably have perished by ita own intrinsic rottenness, That power, thank Heaven, is in tho handa of tho people, and thoy aro proparing vigor- ously to use it, As tho winds and tho storm must cease, and the snows, however deep, oven though congealod into solid ico, must melt away before the sun in his onward course, #o will the sovereign pooplo rising in their might bid tho giants of iniquity to coase their raging, and the commotion thoy havo raised shall give place to yoars of hon- cat administration in all the dopartmonts of political, soolal, and civil life, Voters to the resone, and all will be well. The Austrian Minister of Commerce has Just mado his returns of tho accounts of the Vienna Exhibition, The total orpenditures amounted to 10,123,270 florins and the ro. ceipta to 4,250,849 florins, tho entire loss, theroforo, being 14,866,821 floring, or about $7,500,000, which the Btate has to make good. Although our own Govornmoent is so- cura from apy losses inaurred by the Phils delphia Exhibition, the Agures of the Vienna show are rathor el6quently and nervously suggestive to those who have invoated in it, It certainly behooves the Philadelphia man- agera to look sharply aftor the rooks that wrecked Vienna and try to avoid them. It is now anuounced that the Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pxpzo, and his wife, Donna Tuxuzsa, who are on their way to thia coun- try, intend to remain in the United States about three months, visiting the principal cities, It is most sincerely to be hoped that thoy will not include Chicago in their visit. ‘There Is much hore that they would be de- lighted to see, and the people of Chicago would undoubtedly extend to them « most hearty and hospitable weloome, but there will be itis enjoyment for theis Majestias oud much mortification and shame to our people if Mayor Corvin is allowed to recoive thon in the regular manner which has char- acterized his provious recoptions of eminent people, If he contd be omitted from tho programme, their visit would bo an enjoyable one, they would bo secure from insult, and tho peoplo of Chicago would be spared the Dnsinosa boing at s dosd stand thore, they have again set things booming at St. Louis and glvon the town anew impotus toward lta dostl- nation as the future gront city by taking a con- sus. Thore’a somothing sesuring In the long columnua of figurea nontly footed up, and conning them the peoplo of that promising suburb forget al! about the hard times of which they have boon complaining, and are Lotter atieflod with thom- eclyes than bofore, and naturally onough too. Foras figured out by tho latost St, Louis con- eus-takor, the poputation of tho faturo great city fs now 499,182 oxnotly | That 19, bas slmont doubled since tho panic. To prove it, tho school popalation of Bt. Louis (botweon the ages of & and 21 years) is placod at 141,738, But whon it comes to the attondauco at Uho acliools, liko that of thoSt. Louis votora at tho polls, tho great numbor stay away, Tho total enrolimont at tho publlo schools is but 83,000, while in Ohicago, where the work of census-toking bas not beon reducod to the high art it is at St. Lonls, and no such figures ato claimed, the actual en- rolled attondanco at the public schools for Jast year was 49,121; and, at tho eamo timo, 28,251 children besides, wore in attondanco on private scboola. But it is tho mortality tables that domonstrate, at one and tho samo time, the yast population and tho astonishing salubrity of St. Louis. Thus, while at Philadelphia, one of the healthicat citios on the continont, woll drained and ventilated, the average annual death-rato ia 22 4-5 out of avery 1,000 of popula- tion, and in Olucinnati, ono of tho most sa- lobrious sitoa in the Miastssippi Valloy, ia but 21 to evory 1,000 of population, in St. Louis, al- jJowing tho half million of population claimed, the death-rato is less than 16 to evory 1,000,— lowor than that of any city, town, or country in the world, snd gives an averngo longevity of Gi yoars! How remarkably ealubrious anoint is St. Louisis manifest from tho fig- ures furnished by tho St, Louis census-takor. Upon theso, after making deduction from the mortality according to tho woll-oatablishod fact that one-third the wholo human family dies dur- {ng infancy, & close computation establishes that tho avoraga duration of tho lives of those of the population of St Louia who survivo tho whoop- ing-cough and other perils of infancy ia jaat about 100 years. With that long lease of lifo sasured them, it’s no wonder thoy nover gavin a hurry down thore, and always have telsaro to tako anothor cousus. But tho claim that St. Louis, with ita sultry summers and malarial atmosphere, is hoaltbior than Philadolphia, with its wido, cloaniy-kept rtroata, or Chicago, vith ita pure atmosphore from off tho lakes, or Cin- cinnati, with ita mild, tomporsto climate and sheltered site, ia as proposteroua ag all tho rest of the 8t, Louie consus-taking figuring. The mortslityin Bt. Loule on the pasis of their own computation is about 8,000 per annum. Granting that tho town is aa boalthy ga Philadolpbis, Cincinnati, or Chicago, howov- or, tho actual population is about 363,000, whiob, donbtioss, is somewhat abovo tho fact, but would atill enable thom to hold thetr proud pro- eminence as the moat populous and flourishing city on tho Misslesippi River. Bot so tong sa they publish tho school onrollment and the mortality statistics, to maintain thelr boasted bigness thoy must atick to the Mgures and swear tout, that the average duration of human lifo thoro, deducting infant mortality, ia one contu- ry; and, of couras, if thoy only take tho troublo to look about them, thero will bo no diffloulty in finding a rogiment of Washington's body-guard still with them, only awaiting transportation to tho Contennial aa a ving teatimonial to tho fact that at St, Louis bubbles tho fabled fountain of eternal youth, or the nozt thing to it. ‘The bottom facts brought out by tho roport of the South Carolina Logislative Committee on the Hanpy Sorouon bank failuro, by which tho Stato loat $205,753 doposits, reflects no credit upon Goy. Cuamnzntarx, It appears that the bank began business with only s nominal capital of $40,000, to make up which tho charter was eatimated worth $25,000, whilo in fact tho available capita! was loss than $2,500, Yet, vory shortly, it received the Stata deposita to tho amount of $1,400,000, and ‘rent on ewimmingly absorbing tho asmo, That was under tho sdmin- istration of Gov, Scorr, who was ono of tho stockholders. Among the other stockboldors woro Senator Parrenson, two lending State Sen- ators, tho Stato Trossuror, and s lot more of officials, including Caaxnentatn, then Attornoy= Goneral, and who remained » stockholder down to the timo of the bank’s suspension, Tho Inst semi-annual statement of tho bank, made Jan. 9, 1875, whon tho bank ‘waa uttorly insolvont, ashe must have knowa, was sworn gto by Gov. CrampEntarn a8 ono of the Directors; and that statemont shoning tho concern to be in sound condition was made up of fictitious assets aud by fabrication of so- counts, Why Onaxprsiain, who was only a Director, instead of the Prosidont or Cashier, sworo to tho statement, ia not explained. Tho only conceivable objoct must haye boon to bolster up the concorn by his name and official pouition, while, as was dono, what was left of the argota, wore abstracted and worthloag socuri- tios wubatituted for them bofore the suspension. Ouaimenrar, it will be romomborod, for more than a yoar bofore the falluro made show of a fight againat tho bank for removal of the Stato deposlta, but the while remained 4 stockholder, and loft over $200,000 of State deposits there to be lost, in viow of which it will require a deal of explanation to exculpate him, "Tho Engtiet boast that their land is the refuge of political oxiles of sll olimas ia in suggestive contrast to tho reception of Don Cantos on bis Innding at Folkestono. Granting that he had no claims upon their sympathy, and that in the largor interosta of humanity they might rojoica in hia downfall, English manhood and souse of fair play ought to havo “availed to protect him from wanton insult which no act of bis invited. It happoned that whon he landed, tho comple tlon of @ now pler was beiug celebrated at Folke- stono, Among the partloipante wore s number of “¥Forresters,” “Draidy,” and members of othor sccret orders, who, with othora of the crowd, collected at the steamer Isnding, and Jecred, and booted, aod hissed, and groaned, and dlaplayod jusulting banuora, and generally bo haved in such lswlesa and disgracofal manner that the London Zimes felt called upon to donounce tho whole proceeding in & «ponderous loader. The ines to- minds Englishmen thet their own sonse of manliness, ought to bave eaved « political refugee from cheap {nault, and thst so much thoy owed to their own dignity if not ta his. The remonstrance of the Times may prevent similar unseemly public exhibitions, but thoy will acaroe avallto modify English repngnance to the Uttramontane pretendor, nor hatred and con- tempt for him and hla cause, and the bost eri- dently that Cantos can expect daring bis stayin England will bo that “amnesty of disdain” which the Times commende for him. Though ho bas lost bla throne, he has come inte» for~ tune of £8,000,000 from his royal cousin, the exe Duke of Modena, and with that for pooket- will doubtless find his exile not altogether —_—__>_———— The Swindlers’ Organ asye: ‘1k seems to be genaratty agrood by all pat Jn the Hills thas Ro person will find gold plenty sod obtain it without Iaboring bard for {." 80? What baa oacssloned this suddon change io the relations of the Swindlers’ Urgan to the Black Hills swine die? How long is it ence that paper, with flare ing head-lines and sensations! statements, urged peapls to go to the Blech Hills, holding out to them the dolunton that thoy wonld make thetp fortunoa? Haya tho land-speculatirs, agente, ontiit-dealore, and othor cormorant: made all thoy can, and dispensed with the mrvicos of thot Chleago runnar, or Is [t really Loneat fn giving up tho sponsorabip of this nvttdis, ao ing the minchlof it haa accomplinhed, ind fers. ing the roaulte? ——_—_—_-__—_——. The manufactnrera of Pittaburg aro at ty taking active atops to utilize for furnare tua) the vast votnmo of gas cucaping from the famons Buans and Derameren oll-wolls lo Batlor Coup. ty, Ponnsylyania, A company has bean organ. ized with $200,000 to Iay pinos for convoying thy gan from tho wolla to Pittaburg, 8 distance of a5 milos, and work is to bo commoncodl at once, + A correspondent wishoa us to publish thy timos of moonrise and moonsot for soveral eon. secutive Baturdays, Tho special csloulatiun o theso times involves too much work to bo under. taken out of moro caslosity, and our core. spondent can take tho siatod timo from ay almanac ag woll as wecan. If bo will show thy tojeu vaut la chandelle wo will do aa bo dosireg, —_—_-——— PERSONAL. ‘The clork of the woathor mado s mictake yep, terday. He thought it wav St. Patrick's Day, Itcannot bo eaid that the poople of Chicago ad-Myor tho woathor of Old Probs, It blogs {t snows too much altogothor. ‘Misa Lotta thinks of rotiring pormanontly from the stage, making 9 reappearance abou; onco a yoar ‘for a fow wooks only.” ‘Tho Roy, Dr. Scuddor, of Brooklya, it is aud, la being urgod to accept # oall from tho Union Park Congrogational Charoh of Ohicago, ‘Thoso mon who 'novor keap a drop of liqaoy in (he houee, sir,” wont to bed sobor last night, No orring friod oyator disturbed thelr evening's moditations. Miss Floronce Marryatt, the novol-writor, 9 traveling In England and giving publio entes taloments which sho calls “Entro Nous.” Mecit. tlona, readings, otc,, compose the evening's pro. gramme. Nobody can toll where the accontrio opticot Jamen Gordon Bennott is resting at thia partico. lar moment, but wo foar it is right on top of the mop of Iroland which the Zerald personal editor gos for a head, . < Potor Daggy saya that Eli Porkine’ own chi- dron are moro Hkely to nood & aubscription then tho Dickeng obildren at Amboy. During the lifotime of Angustus Dickons Mr. Daggy ws hig bost friond and advisor. ‘Tho Marshals of tho St, Patrick proceasionin Now York ordored tho bands to stop playing os thoy passed tho Hippodromo, whero Moody and Sankey woro holding sorvicos. It was a courteous and gratoful act. Joyco sends this wall from his lonely prison coll: “My reputation ia a little tarnished jut now; but my charactor, that fs mo, and wil! ever stand, bold as the Numidian lion, firm tho rocka that compose theso walls," An Englishman who, some yoars ago, paid Mil- Infs $25,000 for a picture of his threo daughters playing whist in a consorvatory, has since be. come bankrupt and parted with tho work for €0,000, The painting is famous, and is entitled **Hoarts aro Trumps.” Coming from the Now York Evening Post, thore can bo no doubt of tho truth of the anco- dote: “A prominent clorgyman of Brooklyn last weok, while taking ono af a course of bor ing lossona for exorcise, received what the boys call ‘a jolly black oye." On Sunday he chose his toxt from Timothy, fourth chapter, seventh voruo. ‘I havo fought « good fight, I have fin ishod my coureo.'" Atimid young man, the othor day, handeds well-known Paris restaurant-keeper a volume of Horaco, on the fly-Jeat of which was writtent “+ Ploaso give the gontleman who will hand you this a good lunch, and obligo yours, Paul F—." ‘THo rostaurateor did as desired, and in tho even ing gavo the book to its owner. “ What a piece ‘of luck I" cried the Iattor. “I forgot the book at dome cafo, and had long ago written the lines, {n enao I should logo ft." ‘Tho statement that Miss Sagan B. Anthony hag rooontly paid off the dobt which ahe (uourred whilo publishing tho Revolution haa been widely copied in the newspapers of the country. The expressions of admiration and estoom for Mist Anthony which it bsg called forth should bo a» surance to hor that not all the oditors in the coun try sro disposod to jest at hor oxponse. Tum Tai une [a glad to have boon thg author of the atete ment, and sorry -to see -it.-eredited to other gources, Re A lowyor {ntorrogating a- rough witness {0 & Ban Francieco’Court aati Do yoru beltoye in the oxistonco of God?" don’t xoow," wis the roply. ‘*Do you admit: tho divinity of Christ?" “ No-o,” was tho boaltating reaponse, “I don't know nothing about Chriat." “De you moan to say,” aid the Jawyer sorously, “that you never. heard of. Josua Obrist?* al" said the witness, “the fao' fe, pard, that I jeatcam up from Lowor Californity, and i lisin’t had no chance to mect any of the people in those parts.” Tho witness is supposed to be sdoscendant of the original prospectors, wha crosaod over from Amaand settled South some 2,000 yoara ago. ‘Tuy Tarnunx must apologize to its readors fo1 haying inadvortantly given circulation to one ot Eli Perkins’ es, It’ appoara on invostigation that ho is the author of the published statement that an orphan nophow and nicco of Charles Dickens are now tiying at Amboy, Ill, in ox trome dostitution. Tho truth in that these chik dron are well provided for, oach of thom having a littlo property of 2,000, and being troatod by thelr guardian in all respocts as if they wore hit own children. Cbarlos Dickens during bis lattel yoars made them an annual allowance of £4 each. Thore ia nothing in their ciroumstanced to excito commisoration. Tho hose of Mn Kooling, in which thoy rosido, inutoad of being # hut er shovel, as Porkins aaid, ia one of tht Qnest houses in Amboy. Bs ‘That must havo boon saad procession of oF {tora which fled ous of the dlaing-romm In Port Royal the othor day, They wore op an excut elon, and most of them had the well-known hsb: ite of editorial exovralonlste. They hed beet recalyed at tho Port Royal station with beating drums, gay banners, and s crowd of tamultaoa! and enthusiastic citizens, ‘'he Chairman of tht Reception Committes, mounted on w barreh made them a epeoch of welcomo, and they wer then taken for supper to a building over whicll the word “ Welcome” was displayed in gixe tia fotters, Suppor being over, tho oxourslonistt preparod for astroll about town. At tho doa thoy encounterod an effusiye cltizen, who call] extended his band. ‘They shook it and caliol lum "brother," but he calmly and sternly evil to every man, “Soventy-iive cents, if yor please.” And everyman paid. Ib was a oo acon, MOTEU ARRIVALS, Palruer House—P, 2, 8, Mardenburg, Bt, Paci: Os Ton. H. ©, Patne, Milwaukes; 8. 1, Strickland, De troit; thelion, W. L, Wetmore, Marquette; J. ‘Millard, Omsha; J, E, Fronch, Cleveland; Capt. ¥- Brown, Dotroit; @, U, Preaton, Buffalo; Cootldge, Boston; David May, Lincoln, Neb.; FD Beach, Dotrolt; John McKillop, New York; J. Bet derdon, Montreal; Jots Batfes, 8. Vidal, and J. —P, Berkey, Bt, Toolt 1. Ae; the Hon. Whito, Marquatto; D. Jamiaon, Philadelphia} G.O, Crittenden, Now Haran} Q, B, Oni nd; ‘John Townsend, Albsy! Josiah Welah, Balt Lake; Joba i, Simpson, Bt, Loot oD the tion, We A 7 ee an. Sucllgh, Yeubiobe h : on. Daniel Tetlow, Puiledslphis} Bo Fre aie AA | judson ie ¥ Tebpenning, Mich. J. 0. Ez: cyt en te eg Kock) do Coates oe oer