Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TATES OF AURSCRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE). Poatage Prepald at this Omeo. Daily Rdition, postpaid, 1 yoar, . Pacla of year at tens FOLR WRKXE for. Iterary and Italiglou; Secimon coplessent freo, "To prevent delsy and mistakes, ba sure and give Fost- Ottica nddroas In fall, {ncinding State and County. Itemittances may ba mada efthor by draft, express, Toat-Offios orler, or in recintered lattara, st oar risk. TEDME TO CITY RUDACRINERR, Dally, doltversd, Sunday excopted, 215 conts per weok, Dzlly, deliversd, Bunday Included Addresy THK TRIBU. Oerner ol B AMUSEMENTS. WOOD'S MUBEUM=Monros irect, between Dear- bornand Btate, Afternoon, *The Sarious Family,” Eresing, “ Ingomar,” HOOLEY'S THEATUC—Randolph streat, betwoen Clark and Lasella. The Callfornia h!t:u\n’l’l. MoVICKER'S TITEATRE—Madison strest, between Dearbarn and Siate, Engagemnent of John E, Owsns, * The Victims "und * Solon Shing'e," ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Ialsted streot, betwoen Madlson and Monroe, Eugagement of the Julla Mathews Burlesque Troupe. * The Grand Diichess,” ADELPRI THEATRE—Deatbarn siresh, corner Maarce. *The FiyingSoud.” “SOCIETY MEETINGS. WASHINGTON OQUAPTER, No, 43, B, A. M.—=Bpe- sl convocation this {Frlday) avening st T30 oelock, for work on the Mark Depico. Vislling Compan lons cordially inviteds Dy oédos of the M. E. 1, Iy . WRIGHT, Soc. HOME LODGE. No, 08, ' and A, M.—Regulsr Gommuateution (his (Friilay) ovoulng, March 81, at Jzipa'clock, arluess of (myiortanco and work on the Firat Digrea, Members any carnestly requested (o 30 resent. Visiting brethron cordisily invited, Dy ondar af L. P, TOBRY, VW, AL ORIENTAL LODGE, 10, 4, A., F. & A, M.~Special ommonication thin (Frid3 v) ovenitig, af 7230 o'clock, forwork on the ¥, €. Degreo. By order of the Banter, 1. N, TUCKER, Secretary, f.. The Ciwago Tridune, Friday MD_I.;:M. March 31, 1870. Greenbnelis nz—t.hs New York Gold Ex- chango yesterdny closed at 87L Clear nnd sl atly cooler weather is the meteorological 17 cogrammo for this region to- day, The impench meut narticles in the case of ex-Secrotary By irvar woroe submitted to the Touse yestord sy by the Judiciary Comamittes, nud will come up for debato to-morrow, 'Cho caso o £ Panrarax and Ruan, the hard- fighting defrondants in the whisly-trial that has occupitd publio attontion for the past eight doys, was yestorday given to the jury, ond ot 1 o'clock in tho afternoon that im. portant ce Hection of arbiters withdrow o do- cido the ¥ssue. Thoy were privileged to seal their vorlict, which will bo made known to the Couct to-duy, e — — Tho grent dam which for twenty-four hours had kept the vivid contemplation of death and destruction bofore mnany thou- sands of folks at ‘Worcester, Mnss., broke yestorday at G o'clock, ond the mighty walfrs went down the valley with the fobled ronr of mythological winds frosh fram the carvo of Holus, Everything in front of b, shoreles mass for miles was Tuined, nnd tho damago done is reckoned by millions, The Iatest, dispntches at bhand, however, re.cord no loss of lifo, which is a matter of a4 mnuch surpriso os congratulation. ———n Bcnator Moxrox's Mississippi resolntions vrero tha oceasion of an interosting debnto in which Megsrs. Bavanp ond BoorwrLy camo to closs quarters, The Delawaro Senator rosentert tho intorjeotion of o very truthfal romark by Mr, Bourwern that the largo ex- ponditures by the Department of Justico in the Houth hud been msade necessary by the octs of intimidation and violence of tho Dem- ocratio party toward the colored peoplo. Az, Morrox was on hand with a clinchor of they same sort, and it was difficult to perceive whorein Mr. Bivaup was partioularly the gniner by his oratorical outburst, —— s Tussian journals, ono nftor another, are boldly taking sides with the Turkish insur. gents. Russian tolegrams for tho past woek have boen devoted to this subject, and every duy extrocts from some prominent Jjournal aro tranwnitted showing; the genoral disposi- tion of thess papers o favor intervontion, Two St Potersburg journals now assort, it the insurgonts feol themsolves strong enough to copa sucoos;fully with the ‘Turks, Russia will geo that thhey havo fair play, It is ovi- dont that tho Rustian Government silontly epproves of tho courge these papers have takam, as, under tao stringont press laws, thesio sentime nta, 1! antagonistio to the Goy. ernmont polizy, would bring severa punish. moent, if not supyression, upon the journalg in question. Tho Ropublican Club of the Firat Ward have got.u spleadid example in nominating candidatos for Aldermen. The Hon. Joux WesTwonTs, 'whoso name is another word for boiesty o nd capacity, and Mr. Jomy T, MoAurzy, o well-known merchant, wore so- lected :as the eandidates to be supported at tho Ropubl.can primaries, andto bs voted forat the oity eloction. The bummor and ringster W anney, though he should run in his legioru of hnciunen, gamblers, and thioves in suilidhont force to capturo the primaries, will not b ac copted 08 a Republican candidate, snd ‘will do well to save timo and money by withidry wing from a oconteat against either Joutt "Wrnrwontm or Mr. MoAuizy., The Finit Ward has out out a pattern which shemlil be closely followsd by the Republi. canis ‘throughout tho cit, Tlio probable action of the House in the temt roverted election cuse of Lz Moywk va, Faz weee is indicated in the action of the Sab. ot amittos of the Comumitiee on Elections, Tho Demoeratio majority of the Sub-Com- mi tteo, consisting of Mcsars, Haums nnd Bruaoknuny, are understood to hava sgreod to Tsport in favor of giving the eeat to L Moxxe, the Domocratio contestant; and, as Hanus sud BzacmnusN are botlh strong men in the Houss,—the former being Obairman of the full Comuiittes on Elections,—it is thought probable that their report will be conourred 21 by the Committes nnd by the House, A minority roport will undoubtodly be sub- milted by the Republican members of the Comuittes, but it i to be expeoted that Par tisauchip and mot equity will govern, and that tho Democratlo majority will oust the Republioan and seat tho Democrat, ————— ‘The Chicago produce markets were steadler yostarday. Meus pork was more sotivo and 100 1pex bl highey, closing st 922,523 @32.85 ssaby and 922,77} @24.80 for May, Lard waain better dosmand,and 12§eper1001bshigher, clos. ing at $18,85@18.87) cash and $14.05@14.07) sellar May. Ments wore quiet and unchianged, at 8}o for hoxad shonlders, 12}o for do short ribs, and 120 for do short clearn, Ilighwines wore quict and firm at $1.07 per gallon, Flour was in fair demand and stondy, Wheat was quiet, and closed jo higher, at 31,011 for March and 1,07 for:May. Corn was lesa nctivoand o lower, closing at 45je for March and 48je for May. Oata were quict and firmer, closing at 32]@330 for April and 470 for May, Ryo wna firmer nt G3}@GGc, Barley was active and irregnlarly higher, clos- ing nt 610 for March nnd 62@G6230 for May. Hogn wero quiot and fio lower for light, Honvy grados ruled stendy. Cattle wero dull nnd ensy, with sales st $3.00@5.60. 8heep wero in good demand at $5.00@7.00 for com- mon to oxtra, Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $113.87} in greenbacks at the close. —— In their search for frauds and irrogularities in tho Navy Dopartment the investigators have scooped up plenty of the smallor fry with erookod characteristics, and yot they aro not happy. They started out with thostrong determination nnd confident expectation of bogging bigger game. They wanted the sealp of another Cabinot ofticer, and thoy woro positive that Bocretary Roprsox's wns tho ono to be hnd. Thus far they have hit upon many things to criticiso and censuro; avidences of mismnanngement and looge meth- ods of transacting business have not beon wonting; snd apparently incontrovertible proofs of dishonesty mmong subordinato offl. cors havo been brought out in the course of tho investigation; but in the fourteen vol. umes of printed testimony already takon nothing appears which answers the purposo —nothing which furnishos materisl for im. peachmont proceedings against tho Secrotary of the Navy. Lot the Committee porsevere, If thora ia any rottonness to be uncovered by persistent Inbor, the sooner and more thor- ough the oxposure the better. 'There is n general demand, quite regardless of party, for this sort of thing, e ———— Becond-hand or hearsay ovidenco is doubt- ful enough ot tho best, and by a well-scttled rulo of law is excluded in courts of justico; ‘but to rotail scaudal, giving for authority the atatement of a porson who is dend, and therc. by undertake to mnke out o case, is simply preposterous. Yot this is what the Houso Post-Offico Committeo is engaged in doing in tho present investigation of the mail-contract frauds. A witness named Tayron was bufore the Committeo yesterday, and testified to an asgertion mada by one Bawyxs, formorly a membor of & Texas muil-contracting firm, and now dead, reflecting upon the integrity of Mr. Rourr, of Bloomington, 1L, who wns Second Assistant Postmaster- Goneral under Mr. Cnrswern, and is now Govornor of Colorado, Apart from the evi- donco that the large amounts of monecy ro. ported to the firm as having been paid to Governmont officers to secure mail.contracts wero in renlity lost by Sawxes in Wall streot speculations, this attempt of the Democratia investigators to blacken a good reputation by tho aid of a'roliash of post-mortem gossip is an outrageous sbuse which will fail of ac. complishing the dosired object and resct upon the partisan mud-slingers. — OHI0 AND PENNBYLVANIA ON THE TARIFF, Wodnerday. Inst was a dsy of Couventions, The Republicans hiad their Conventions in Vermont, Pennaylvanis, and Ohio, and ap- pointed delegates to the Cincinnati Conven- tion, put themselvos on record in the sbape of platforms, and in favor of * favorite sons.” A remarlable instanco of disagreo- mont, not morely a4 to candidates but as to an important economical question, is fur. nished by tho tariff resolution adopted in Obio and that adopted at the same hour by tho Convention in Pennsylvania. The two resolutions are ns follows : 1. Tho Ohio Republicans rasolved : That we favor & tariff for rovenue, with incldentay ‘protection to American industry, 2. ThePonnsylvania Convontion resolved ; That tho attempt of the Domoeratic ouse of Rep- resentatives st Washington, in the face of the de- presed condition of Ameriean fndustry, to inflict upon tho nation s freo-trade tari, fa an ingult to tho inteltigeuce of the peoplo, aud an ovidence of the in~ sbility of the Democratic party to meet the preaent wanta of tho couutry, The remedy for our sufforing 1s in & Ligher, not & lower, tarifr, These two declarations aro diametrically op- posed. That of Ghio is opposed to a pro- tective tari oxcept where protaction isan incident of & tax for rovenue. That of Pennsylvania i« in favor of a tariff for pro- tection with sush rovenue as may bo inei- dental therefo. Ouo.in o declaration that rovenuo should be the sole object of taxn. tion; tho other that protection should be the object of taxation, ‘Thera can be no tariff imposing duties on compoting productions which is not protect- ive to tho oxtant of the duty, It is immate. rial whether the tax be 1 per cent or €O per cont, it is protactive to the oxtent of the tax. A rovenne tariff which at the same timo taxes compoting productions is one that fixes tho rate of tax 80 that thg importations will yield tho largest amount of\ revenue; and to the extont of {hat tax thero fs an incidenta protaction to the home manufacturers, 'This is an inovitable result of the tax, and of it no ono complaina, Now lot uslook at the Penneylvania reso- lution, It docs not changa the facts to say that a * Democratic” Housa of Represanta. tives ““has proposed a froe.trade tarif,” be- causo the best and most ntelligent supporters of the Monzisox bill are Republicans, and its most intense and detormined opponents are Domocrats, Morcover, the Demacratic party in Ponnsylvania ia fully s dovoted to a go- called protoctive tariff us s the Republican, On that polnt no capital is mado by styling ‘“anti.protection* sentiments Domocratie, whon at tho very hour this resolution was adopted tho Republicana of Ohio, fully sy intelligent and as patriotio as the Republicans of Pennsylvania, were declaring their opposi- tion to & protactive tariff and in favor of one for revenue, Tho allegation of thess Pennsylyanians that * Amerlcan {udustry” is in “‘a doprossed condition " {s strictly truo, so far as it applies to manufactures, It is equally true that theso eatno manufactures are now protected, and have boen for sixteen years, as the mana. factures of no other civilized country have over been, The protection has exceeded in many instances incidontal revenue, becanse amounting to prohibition and to the excla- slon of competition. The enormous 1mo- nopoly 1% now in & depressed condition, and why? The capacity for production in nearly all branches of American manufsotures excesds the demand, hence the manufacturers of Penn- sylvanis, with their capital luvestsd, have to run thelr mines, mills, and furnaces on half or two-thirds time, discharging theirlaborers, and seducing them, as Mr, Krzrsy states, to the oondition of * paupers and trampa® THE CHICAGO TRIBUN Thetr markot is limited ; it is confined to the home consumption, and thia £alls far short of the actunl production. Tho result isnn un- salable surplus, closed mills, extinguished fur- naces, idle Inbor, unproductive enpital, banke ruptay, and goneral prostration. The manufacturers of Pennsylvania aro in tho precise condition in which the agricul- turista would be if thoy hind no markot for thoir production other than to meot the home demand. The farmers and planters of the United States produco cotton, tobaceo, wheat, corn, oats, beef, pork, cut meats, cheese, lard, grease, and other of their products, uot only in quantitics sufliciont to supply the people of tho country, but have n large sur- plus. What would be {lieir condition if this surplus was non.exportablo; if it was to remain in tho country to rot amd be lost? Yot that is the preciso condition of the manu- facturers ; they have tho capacity to produce o largo surplus; but if they do produce a surplus it eannot bo sold, and remains on hand, causing a suspension of labor and an impoverishment of the people, Dat with the unproteoted ngriculturiat tho case is dif- ferent; overy bushel of grain, every. pound of cotton and tobacco, overy pound of pro- visions, in oxcess of the needs of the lome markot, finds an instant snlo for exportation, Tho agriculturist, wholly unprotected, has the markets of tho world open to himj he can put moro land in caitivation, enlargo his herds of live stock, produco nn annual in- creaso, and can kel it all. We hava nlready noticed tha chango of policy on tho part of tho cotton manufacturers of Now England, They havo abandoned the delusive fraud of protection, and are now devoting their ener~ gies to tho production of cotton goods, not merely for thasupply of the home market, but of the largest possible surplus to sell abroad, Instend of running their mills four days in tho week; instead of allowing their ma- chinery to lie idlo two days out of six and their operntives to starve on tha wages of hnlf-tinte, they have concluded to employ their labor and machinery continuously; to work by night as well as by day; to donble the number of their employes; to produce tho lnrgest possiblo amount of goods, and ship the surplus to other ccuntrics whare thero is o demand for it. Tho result will bo that in duo time tho cotton manufacturea of the United States will have expandod boyond all provious expoctation, and with a world- wide trado will ranp the profit and prosperity which follow free industry, The Ponnsylvaunin Convention, however, insist that thore shall bo no surplus produc- tion; that oven the presont consumption of manufactures shnll be still further reduced by tho imposition of laws increasing the price of manufactured goods. To accomplish this, the Convention declares that *‘the remedy for our suffering is in o higher, not a lower, tariff.” Tho course proposed by this resolution is to incrense the tax on imported iron and steol, when in fact iron and steel can now bo produced and sold in this country ot a profit for less money than it can bo imported for. They arguo that it is Detter for tho country to produco n thousand tons of iron at acost of $25 por ton nnd sell it at $40 per ton, than to prodace a million of tons at $20 and sell it at home and abroad at $25 to #30 por ton, They waut to mensure the exact consumption of the country, and limit production to that amount by closing milla and furnaces, and letting labor bo idle rather than to produce to the full capacity of their means at hand and havo an immense surplua tosell. They want industry so limited that ench man shall produce what ho can consnme ond no moroe; that thore shall be no surplus to sell, and that the country shall add noth- ing to its wealth. Bat tho agriculturists do produca s surplus, and the Pennsylvania policy is fo tako this surplus, by means of bountics and taxation, nnd distribute it among the privileged paupor classes who are under * proteotion™ of the Government, e ] QGEN. SCHENCK'S CASE, Gon. Bonexck has guffered the fato of many men who are forced to submit to n croys-ex- amination. His own direot statement made o singularly favorable impression, It was np- parently frank, outspoken, and truthful. But Mr, Hewrrr's closo questioning brought ont circumstances that Gen. Scuexor Lad sup- pressed, but which have o materinl bearing on his connoction with tho Emma Mine, 1f his caso could have beon summed up as ho firat etatod it, leaving him in tho position of ono who hnd shnred tho losses of the Emma Mine aftor honestly invosting his own monoy, Lo might atill have been consured for a breach of ofticial proptioty in permitting tho uso of his name as a Director, but thero would havo been no impeschinont of tho purity of his in. tentions. But Mr. Hrzwrrr succceded by adroit questioning in drawing out from Gen. Somoxk himscl? admissions which render it imposdible to concelve that ho wna not aware L and his position were being used to float the schome, and that ha was getting pay for such use of his name. 1t seoms that Panx first lont him the mon- oy to tako tho Emma Mine shares, with no other socurity than the shares themaelves, and without charging him interest thorcon for a year. Then thore nre several indorso- ments on this note which glve further ovi- denco of the faot that SomeNox was lonning himsel? for a considoration to further Panx's scheme. Thus Pazx indorsed $10,000 on the note which purported to reprosent commis- sions on tho salo of the stock which were resigned in his case. Another indorsement, £1,894 (nearly $10,000 more), purported to ropresont profits which Pang had mnade for Bonexox in a specalation, though Sonenox had authorized no new fnvestment, snd had advanced no money for it ; this certainly can bo regarded in no other light than that of a gift. A third indorsement for £600 ropresented money realized from sale of a part of the atock to one of Bomenck' friends. Among all the indorsoments on the note, it scems that Beurxer paid in cash only $1,700, though he bad recelved meanwhils §10,000 in dividends, ond hod reduced his obligation in the large amounta noted above by gratuities, The settloment for the balance due on the note— nbout $32,000—was settled by the transfer of stocks from Bouzxox to Paux, the real value of which {s not known, and which may bo, indeed, uttorly valueless, But Souesox has admitted that ovon in this settloment he was governed to some extent by the forca of pub- lio opinion, since it waa not made till after his conduct bad boen severely criticised, It also seems that even the mortgage which Geon, Sonzncx gave Park on his honse and lot in Washington was not, 8a has boon gen. orally supposed, to seoura the payment of the money he agreed to pay for hia stock, but ae security for a cssh loan of $15,000 which Pazx had mads to Scoenox outaide of the stock transaction. This statement {s made up from Gen, Bommiox's own admissfons on Afls cross. sxsminaiitet, In veospliulating 1A, thire. fors, no injustica in dona Gen. Bommwox. But, taking this statement alone, and it no other evidence is adduced ngainst him, wo nro forced to the conclusion that he wns corruptly influenced to permit the Emma-Mine jobbers to put off their proporty on the English cnpitalists. Gon. Sonenok may love porsnaded himself that tho mine was n good one, though Panr’s ex- irome and unusunl disposition to practieally giveo him tho stock onght to have created a puspicion to the contrary. Novortheless, this individual opinion did not justify him in acceding to n proposition thnt was opposed at onco to official and business morality, Wo foar that Gen, Bonexek hins confessed protty much all that has been charged against him, TEE NEXT COUNOIL. Thero {s one serious danger that threatens tho organization of the new Council. Judg- ing from tho sction in vanous wards so far, it scoma na though the anti-Ring *Aldormen, many of thom most excollent mon and of long experionce in the Council, will be gonerally dropped or crowded out, while the Ring Al- dormen—tho Colvinites and jobbers—aro be- ing renominated and giyen facilities for push- ing their chances for re-clection. Thero is dangor that men like Dixoy, Cokry, Brows, the two Cranxs, WarenuaN, Hreatn, Woon- Atax, OAsy, CLEVELAND, and Qumg will not bo candidates at all, whilo the Wannexs, Rripys, Soamns, Stovrs, O'Bniens, Manns, Hronetus, Corconana, and so on, will all como to tho front again. The renson of this is that the good mon in the Council are naturally disinclined to ocontinue in the service, in viow of tho sorious ombnrrass. monts and increased responsibilities for the next two years. But thoir constituents should not consent to thoir retirement. Their avorsencss to re-clection ought to be oun additional reason for returning them. They will not push thomselves forward as a matter of courso, but they will probably not rofuso if elected in spite of their preforonce to retire, If the constituents consultod their own interost in tho case of theso good Alder- men, they wonld be re-clected in spite of themsclves, ‘Wo havo no objections to urge ngainst tho gentleman who have been put in nomination by the respectable nnd tax-paying voters in the varions wards, but it will be unwise to send to the Council in the presont emergency o number of persons whose good intentions will not avail sgainst their ignoranco and lack of exporienco in denling with the sbrowd and expert ring. sters, Chere is serious work for this now Council. Never before was the City Govern. mont confronted with so menacing an out- look financially. It will requird tha moat earnest thought, tho highest order of busi- ness talent, the most serious devotion to the interests of the city, and o united and per- sigtent effort for rolrenchment everywhoro to sava the eity from disaster and threntoned boankruptey. The stealing and blackmailing Ring will present o solid front against this effort, ond its position will be strongthoned by its familiarity with the practices of the Council. To successfully opposo it will re. quiro somo spocial tralning, and if the tax. poyors fail to roturn somo of the men who know the tricks of the Aldermanio trade and how to circumvent thom, even a majority of woll-meaning Aldormen may fail to pravail nagainst a recldess and conscionceless minority. This important faot must be kept in mind in making up tho list of Aldermen to ropresent the tax-payers, GOV, AMESY RESIGNATION ARD MISsis. BIPPI, There is nothing surprising in the resigna. tion of Gov. Axes, of Missisaippi. Though it was wholly unexpeeted, the gituation wos such that the xole altornative left him was that of resignation or, after & bootless strifo exasperating o the utmost the color preju- dico, romoval by impeachment. Tho Whito. Liners were determined upon getting rid of him, with or without cause, at ail hazards. They wore prompted in the proceedings against him by tho samo spirit that inspired them in tho canvass last fall Then, ac. knowledging that there was o majority against them of from 15,000 to 20,000, thoy loudly avowed their purpose of carrying the Stato **anyhow.” Arrogating to thomselves tho exclusive and indefensible right to rula tho State, and with the old slave-driving in. tolerance and incapnoity to ceda to tho freed- wen any rights a whito man waa bound to respect, by the Yazoo massacro and other high-hnnded outrages npon the blacks, with shot-guns and terrorism, they did carry the Btate anyhow, supprossing tho docisive mn. jority ngainst them. Thus thoy socured full control of both Houses of tha Logislaturo, and, practically, sbeoluto control of the Stnte. Whother Auxs and the State officers chosen st the previous clection did or did not serve ont tho remaninder of their terms counld modify the result in no appraciable degreo, The White-Liners’ victory was complate, and easured them absolute domination of ths State, Thers remained, however, the hatred and intolorance, quite inexpressible, of earpot- boggers, and in thefr phraso every Ropub. lican not o *““nigger” was a carpot-bagger. A ond the other Btate officials holding over woro roduced to mere oyphers, so that thero was scarce even decent protext for got- ting rid of them on tho scoro of political con~ sidorations. But thoy were Ropublicans and carpet-boggors. That was enough for the unreasoning hato and barbarous proscription of tho Whita-Linors, ard the work of gotting rid of them, not for what they might have dono or what they might do, but because thoy wore Ropublicans aud carpet-baggers, ,was begun by the survivors of the alave-driv. ing regima. Tho Lieutenant-Governor was impeachod and romoved. Other of the Ro. publican officials holding over wors marked for the liko fate. In fact, if not by law, tho Governor was practically shorn of the powers of his office, and harassed and thwarted in overy direotion, Ho was then impeached, whother upon sucfiient cause Tax Turp- unk, which has found frequent occa- sion to critloiso his conrss, does not now attempt to determine, aince the impeachment was without regard to right or wrong, snd solely bocause of the White.Lina proacriptive {ntolerance and determination ‘“anyhow " to rid Mississippl of Republican carpet-baggers. He was mssured of an un. fair trial and of conviction ““anyhow,” with. out opportunity of full defenso, and a full defonsa would have availed him nothing, Under the ciroumstances, a man of heroio mold might yet have made stubborn fight to the laat, though b could in no degree have altored the inovitable resnlt, Axwrs declined to make it aud resigned. His resignation ‘will of course be construed in many quar. tors oa a confossfon that he had no defense, But, in fact, ita acoeptance by the White-Line Leglalaturo s more a confossion that therawas 10 0ass sgalnst him upon which his impeach. ment and removal could be justified to the sobar second thought of tha nation. His MARCII 31, 1876. resignation was,in truth, a eapitnlation inthe faca of cortain ignominious defeat; and, in consideration of his gotting out of the way, the White-Lino Legislaturo virtually confossed thoro was no dona fide couse for his imponch- ment, or at least that the caso ngaluat him was too slendor to bo hazarded before the larger tribunal of public senti- mont. Whatever elso may como of it, the upshot of it all will ho that the White-Lino victory consummated by the vir- tual dentruction of the Republican party and ita **climinntion” from BMississippi politics will prove fatal to the White-Line party, With no opposition to hold them together, the old- time hostility of the Whigs and Democrats, more intenso in Mississippi by far than that of Domocrats and Republicans elsewhero ox- capt in the South, will mavitably bring about on early disruption of the White-Line organi- zntion and tho formation of new parties. Of courso this will not comsa until after the Pres- idontial contest. But theroattor it cannot be long delayed. When that result is reached, in the atruggle botweon the new partios the valuo of tho negro vote is certain to bo rec~ ognized; aud possibly the outcomo will bo that through tho final triumph of the White- Line movemont will bo opened for the freed. men in Mississippl the rond to full political oquality with the White-Linors thomselves. ‘WASHBURNE AND THE GERMANS, Tho Springfiold Journal, which opposes tho nominntion of tho Mon, E. B, Wasn. 1URNE for Governor, but dare not tell who it is for, talka thus about him : Nelticr do we deny fhe sorvice Mr. Wasnounxe performed to humanity whon he aftorded suceor and protection to the sullering German population of Parla, Wo have no dispotition to undervaluo or bo- Jttle this sct, but in porformiug it Mr, WASHOURNE acted as tho ropresentativo of the Amorican nation and dfscharged a duty which the whole American neo- ploapproved, and which any other representative, under like circurnatances, woull hava beon under ob- tigation to perform, 1t is an fmputation wpon the good menseand msgacity of German cltizens {o say that, in the coming conteat, they will not chooso tholr politieal reiations on principlo, but will vota for s man for Gavernor who stmply earried Republioan princi- ples into practics wiille Tepresonting uls own Govern. ment abroad, ‘Tho brave and noble conduct of Mr, Wasn. BURNE during tho sicge and famine of Paris caunot bo balittled in this way, nor disposed of by n contemptiblo sncer, It s very casy to say that ** any other representntive, under like circumstances, would have been under cbligntion” to do what he did. DBut the * othor ropresantativos * at the French Court did not sty to perform that or any other duty. Every ono of them except Wasnounxe “ gkedaddied,” to savo their precious lives from shot and shell and other hazards of a sicgo. Wasupuny® was the only Foreign Ministor who had tho norve and courage to stand at his post, do his duty, and not flinch from the danger. Tho Austrian Minister, whom one would supposa would stay at his post to protect tho people of the raco and BRMO spoaking the same langungo, had prossing business out. sidle of TParix The Russian, British, and Italian Ministors grew suddenly tired of Paris fashions and returned to their own Courts. 'The Spanish, Danish, Bwedish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Norwegian, Mexican, and Brazilinn Envoys becamo possessed of the notion that tho sickly scason had set in, and that they wounld endanger their healths if thoy remained beyond a cortain day; but the representativo of Yankeo Doodle, Hail Columbia, and thae Btar-Spangled Banner concluded that tho placo of danger was the post of honor, and romained in Paris when all tho other roprosentatives ran off, ‘Thero were 80,000 Germang in the city when the siego commonced, and all exit was cut off. This mass of people wore poor and friend- less. They woro regarded by tho French pop- ulntion with intonse hatred, ns all Gormang wore. 'Thoy wero linble to bo insulted, mobbed, and robbed. Their lives were szarcoly safe from tho infuriated populace, They fled to the American Logation for pro- toction. Our Minister spread over them the brond and ample folds of the flag of the great Ropublio, Ho oxtonded to them tho samne card, nasistance, and protection as if they wero citizens of the United States. 1l stood by thom to the Inat, nud nover fnltered in bis engagemonts to theso holpless and friondless straugers among their onemies, Wo give notics to thoss who opposa E. B, Wasmnunse for Governor that they are on the wrong track if thoy think bs is to be put down by silly sncers aund contemptuous allusions to his heroio and noble behavior during the memorablo and desperate sicge of Paria. BECRETARY ROBESON'S CASE, A good many explanations are coming ont in bohalf of Secrotary RobesoN,—too many, if anything. Thus there is a sorious discrop- nney botween two statements purporting to bo authorized by him relative to the chargo that bo advanced naval funds to the London house of Jax Codke, MoCurroon & Co. at a timo when thero waa roason to doubt their solvoncy. In ono of theso statoments it s said that he did not deposit the funds with this house at the timo alloged, but ordered their transfer into the hands of tho Pay- mastor-Genoral of the Navy, who was then in London, for the purpose of cashing any drafts that might be dishonored on nccount of the embarrassments of the Jax Cooxx firms, It is furthor amd tlat this monoy was not de- posited with Jay Cooxe, McOurroon & Co. until » month later, when their solvency geomed to be ronsonably well assured. Tho othier sta tement is that but o portion of the dispatohes bave been published which passed between Bocratary RonesoN and his Acting Secrotary at Washington, and thnt, when it wns reported that the payment of the $1,000,000 had been delayed in the Trensury Dopartmont, this delay had beon brought about by Mr, Ronzsox, and the moncy was not sont, ‘Chose statements seom to be mu- tually exclusive, ono of tho other. If oneis carrect the othor does not soem to be, 'This ia the aspect of tho caso at tho presont time, The statement is also'made, and this is the most {mportant it trug, that the Navy Do- partment hias recovered all the monoy origi- nally deposited with Jax Coore, McCurrock & Co., and all the later advances, except $200,000, and that this will bo paid during the coming summer, If this is literally true, it 1a better than any previous represoutation of the transaction, Qoncerning tho charga that Mr, Roneson has been giving time-drafta so as to oxtend into the noxt fisoal year a part of the expondi- tures of tho last fiscal year not authorized by tho appropriations, a complicated explana- tion is made to show that the $200,000 draft ropresents scceptances by the various Navy Paymasters soattered throughont the world, and that {t ropresents also the appropristions for the current year. ‘This etatoment 18 not any cloarer than most of those made up frowm ofilcial bookkedping ; but we presume that, if it means no technioal violation of the law has been vommitted, no more time-drafts will be found. The ex- tracrdinary sxpenditures of the Kavy Depact. mont last fall, which waro genorally admitted ot tho time, remain unaccounted for all the samo, It io just ns well that this investiga. tion should goon. The peopla are entitled to a moro completa exposition of the manage. mout and working of tho nffaira of the Navy Deopartment than Mr, Roprson hat beon will- ing to give sinco he hny Leon at its hond, Now s a good time to mnke a full showing of just what has boen done, If, in nrriving at this, Mr. Roneson can show that his man. ngement haa boen uniformly honest and earo-~ ful, 6o much the botter for him nnd the pub- lic rorvico, But if Mr, Roneson has beon caroless, incompetont, or corrnpt, that fact should not bLe pormitted to suppress the oxposition of the wholo matter, (= Tho Dotroit P’ost atotes that Tue Onioaco "Tntnunx objects to the proposed compromise funding fluance bill on tho nssumption “thot tho banks will gather up greenbacks and fund them rapidly, and even surrender their own circulation in order to put their capital in these 4 por cont bonds.” Thisisa total misconception of our objoction to the bill, The compromisa plan proposcs to offer tho holders of greonbncks n 4 per cont long bond in exchange, the greenbacks thon to bo canceled and destroyed, We have no objec- tion to tho funding of tho greenbacks by the peoplo, but what we said was that Congress in providing for the rotirement of these notos should romovo the legnal restraints amounting to n prohibition upon the banks issuing or keeping out a specic-paying cur- rency. If the bill to fund the greonbncks at 4 por cent pnss, without any change in the Banking law, then as the greenbacks disap. pesr, ns thoy unquestionably will, the necessity will be forced on the banks of ro- deeming their circulation in gold. To nvert such a contingency the banks wonld, in solf. dofonse, gather up greenbacks and sond thom to Washington, not to be funded, but to re- deem their own currency, There are now, vorhaps, twonty-five millions of greenbacks deposited nt Washington for the redemption of au equal amount of bank ourrency. Theo passago of the funding bill, resulting as it would in compelling the banks to rodeemn in gold, wonld precipitate o genoral purronder of the bank curroncy. We think the funding bill would bo a wise mensure if Congress at tho same time would 50 libernlizo tho Banking law ns to enablo the banks to iasue n currency redeemablo in gold, Bo long n3 the banks have to put up a securi- ty equivalent to $110 in gold to scoure a cire culation of 380 of notes, and then bo taxed on the circulation and deposits in addition to Stato and local taxes, thero will not be many banks which will endeavor to keep up o cur- roncy redeomsblo in gold. Bntif tho banks wera relioved of tho opprossive taxes, and nl- lowed to issuo notes dollar for dolinr for tho gold or equivalent put np as a soourity thero- for, the cnso might bo different. To pravido for fundingthe greenbacks without rendering the maintonance of a gold-note bank-carren. cy possible would havo the effact of driving out of existonco both bank-notes and groon- backs. It is grateful to learn from the dispatohes that tho S8enato Committeo on Foreign Rela- tiona have reported in favor of ropaying tho Jnpanese Indemnity Fund, which now amounts, principal and interest, to 31,260,000, The Committeo in its conclusions set forth: (1) That tho nota for which tho indemnity wero asked wero mot the willful aets of the Japancse Government, nor wero they approved or countonanced by it; (2) that it is not tho true policy of the United States to oxact indemnity from weaker pow- ers further than is nocessary to cover actual dnmnages; (8) that it is tho policy of tha United States to maintain friendly relations with Japan and to aid and encourago the do- volopmont of her resources, the education of her people, and tho assimilation of her laws and Government to thoso of Ohristisn na- tions, Tho Committeo might havo ndded to ita conclusion a fourth, to tho effect that this monoy was oxtorted from Japan very much a9 o highwayman robs a weak traveler; that it does not now and never did bolong to the United States; and thet to rotain it is o na- tional dishonor. We trnst that the Senate will adopt tho roport of its Committes with- out delny and refund tho money to its propor owners. It would bo a gracious act to send anapology with the money before talking vory loudly of assimilating the laws and Gov- ernmont of Japan to those of our Chris- tian Governmont. On tho surface, the Republican Ohio Con- vention was allfor Gov, Hayes, of that State, But dig down below tha surface, where tho real work was dono, and the real candidatos will bo found. The Cincinnati influence se~ cured o good many second choice delegates for Bowtow. The Cleveland influenco mado sure of one-quarter to one-third of the dolo- gutes for Braive, while along the western boundaries of the State the Mortonites picked up some delegates, Thers is o wido differonce betwoen the Olio and Penngylvania Ropublican plat- forms just ndopted by their respeotive Con- vontions on the tariff question. The Ohio platform daclares for a rovenuo tariff only, with incidental protection; whereas tho Ponnsylvania platform declares for a high protective tariff, with only incidental rey- enuo, The Bpriogfield (IIl.) Journal occuplos most of its oditoris! epaco with the Guberuatoriat quoation. Our nows-editor has glanced over those odd and profound disquisitions, but he ls unablo to inform us from tho lotter or context thercof whom tho Journal advocatos for uext Governor, Ho aays the cditorialy, sa far as he can comprohend their drift or purport, conslat ot abuse of Tue Ouiciao TribuNx for publish- {ng & number of letters from correspondonts, and extracta from oxchanges, many of them favorable to tho Hon. K. B. Wasnnuuns for Governor, and somo of them unflattaring to the Acting Qovernor, who la understood to L long- Ing for anothor four yoara Of the wweets and dolights of the Excoutlve Mangion, In order that wo may have some undsrutanding of the atate of the cato, will the Journal please rise and explain who it wanta for Governor? Is it for Devenipak sgainst CoLtom and Rinoway, or ouly B, ss againet Wasunuane 7 Or s it for Tuvowar.agsinet B. snd 0., with W. as ita eecond choloe 7 Or {8 I8 for Our.rox againad the fald 7 1f i in hostile to Wasanorym, who is it in favozof ! Come ous of the brash and show your ocalors. — 1If any of the iwhisky thieves or their organs supposa that the Republican party intends to condone their offenss or belp them out of their dilemma they are greatly mistaken. The Re- publicau Conveutfon of Ponusylvania declarsd ihat **io view of recent events at Washington » it * emphatically demsndas " Loneat mon {n office—men with brains enough to know iy wiien thiey see §t, and coursgs suough to :I(.I?: & wharever 1hey 804 . ' Tua llopiolicas sarty mumiteed by ila origin, ita traditous, its history e duites o an iatre 14 and bhonest sdminivire. tion ul affairs, and wherever in ufe, mailadminia Bas 1?“2 ipal Life, talca R, St S Erdy 3:":“ moarnhe of ear suppoTd =8 eltirens and o The Republican Convantion of Ohlo declaroq that— Perscnal Intearity and Adellty shonld b all oiieiain, Ang whien foand fo/be Sialioneat dncant rupt they should be Ixmmuud and_ptinishod, nna we cordially commend {he vigorous prosscution of publy offonders by tho present Natlonal Adminiatration. The Vermont Htate Convantion declarsd ; Wa are in favar of the untiring prosccution and pun. fahment of publlo fraud and critne whisrever xielipa: and we ropeat the declaration, * Let 0o guilty g cecape, Tho Now York Btate Convention declared For the unsparing pureult, mxposurs, and . ment of publts franiuand oilcial iboneatys T slovation of {hie publio service, and pure and’ efcieny Government, Expose and punish dishonest officlals, ang '*let no guilty man escapo,” will hereafter po the watchword and the rule of the Republicsy party of this conntry, PERSONAL. The Empresa of Austrls wenra an Ulater, William Cuilen Dryant has boen paintsd b moro than thirty artists. Mre. A. 3. Holbrook nos fiys her namse st thy hoad of tho editorial columas of tha New Or. leans Picayune ag ** proprietor.” Tho Stamboul, published st Conatantinopls, alludes gravely to *that litclo affair of Qeq, Sohionok with $he womsn, Emma Mine.” Dr, Francis Bacon, of Now Haven, Professor ot Burgory 1 Yalo Colloge, has boon invited 1y tho Faoulty of tho Johns Hopkins University of Daltimore, Tho Rev, R. Laird Collicr, of Boston, wij shortly publiah, through Roberts Brothors, 4 volumo of ‘‘AMeditations on the Esscnca of Christianity,” . Tho Graphlo publishes & portralt of Emmy Ohigholm, tho lliinois girl after whom th Emma Mioo wes named, The young lady now attonding school in Cbicago. The Princess of Walos, accordiug to & polite flotion, I8 left in chargo of England during the absenco of tho Quoon on the Continent and ‘ponding tho return of tho Prince. Tho bill logalizing the marriage of James Pan ton aod hia step-daughtor fins passed the Lower Houso of the Mausnchusetts Legislaturs by s votoof 01 to 80, notwithstanding tho adverm roport of the Committee. Dr. Ball-Rup Bussol), wishing to expross deli- catoly tho corrupt habits of & cortain Prince of India, wroto as follows: ‘“Ho la a very abis ruler, with strong commoroial tendencies, whicy ara dovelopod to benefit his own intereats.’ Tho United Prosbytorian Church of Forly. fourth stroet, Now York, reducod tholr pastor's salary from $2,500 to 8600, with a view to gat tiug rid of bim, Dut ho sooms dispused to reduco hla sorvices in proportion and stick. A lottor has came to Jight fecom Lucrozia Dor. Rinto ber husband, the Duke of Forrara, In which she eava: My august Lord, I thesk your Higtness infinitoly for the condolenco yoa havo oxprossod {n your doar lotter, It has much diminishod tho littlo grief I attimes, and malrs o, folt at tho death of my mother.” A discavery of papers that formorly belonged to Benvenuto Collini, the Ialian sculptor, who lived in tho sixteonth contury, has beon made in tho monnstery of Cumpo Mozzo st Roms, They contain inveutorioa and sccounts of the aculpturea oxecutod by him, and they will form o valuablo addition to the momoirs whioh are to be published shortly. Heory Clay Doan lost in the firo which de. stroyed his house Jast wook a fine library of 4,000 to 5,000 volumes, contsining many rare books snd not o trashy ono, At tho mame tine wery destroyed Mr. Deac's own worka in manuscrip, 88 yot unpublished, including & volums of poems, and Lis corrospondonce with eminent men dur- ing tho past forty years, In » sormon on the * Atmosphera of the Boul,” delivored last Sundsy, Mr. Boochor told how he onco ejected from his house a spall, put- fy man who had inenlted his wife and Limself It was a vory funny scone, graphically desoribed; but nt loast ono frreveront hoarer wonderod what would have happoned if + the emall, pulty man* bhad boen Frauk Moulton. M. Julian Klacgko, formerly & momber of the Austrian Roichsrath, hau republighed from the Revue des Deux Mondes his elaborate pon-ards unk skotoh of ** Two Obancellors, Princa Gortohe akoff and Prinoo Bismarok.” Tho Paris corrs spondent of the London Times wpenks vary highly of tho worl, which is published by Plos & Co., aud aa yot is published only In Fronch, Lucy Hooper has of late beonstudying tho char acter of Goorge 8and, and this is the concla- slon: “8he soems, from all that I bayo hesd about her, to havs had two aidos to hor naturs, the ono poroly and loftily intellectual, and the othor wholly bestial, Tho ono drew hor towsnd such mon sa Chopin and Do Masset, thoso most renownod of hor many lovers; the other drove ber into snch vilo oxcesses aa would have shamod & Masaalina,” Mr. Qoorgo Manny, son of John I Manny, the great roapor manufactaror of Rockford, will be married to-day at 8:30 a. m., to Mles Kilth Dwight, a besutiful and accompllsboed young 1ady. Our Rockford correspondont understands it will bo a very quiot affair, and no ope but rolativos nro invited, They start on the morme ing traln east for a ahort wodding tour, and after the honeymoon fs over will setits down {n (he Foroat City, that has bocome famous through the name of Manny. Dr. Nowhall, the former Prasident of Dels- waro College, at Nowark, Del, and a porsonsl friend of Bishop Havon, waa vory stok, and fof somo days ho thought himself immortal, and re~ fasod to take spy food. The Bishop visited him and tned to prevail upon him to take some nonrishment. *No; I do not want anything.” sald he, “I sm {mmortal. I am fn Hoaven This {8 Hoavon,” Then, pausing for a momest and looking &t Lis visitor with w troubled air, be - said: *“But Haven, how in the world didyod ' got hero?" Apropos of the prosent English excitement about Walt Whiiman, the Now York Tritum tells » ptory worth prescrving: ** Whon the first edition of ‘Leaves of Grass' was publishod i 1855—1n quarto, with o steel engraving of the suthor as s ‘coamos,’ in » flannal shirt,—¥% Ewmerson, after the per: of n fow pagth wrota an impulsive, extra nt privats letler 40 Walt Whitman, who, mthous asking permission had the sentence of highest praise engrav: upon the binding of the work—'1 groct you st the beginning of & great carcar. 1L W, Emer son. ‘This apparent indorsement of all the vok ums contained, by Ao graat ananthority, cortaite Iy fucroased tho male, but it was & source of Jusl mortification to Mr. Emarson to find that fnnd- cont purchascra had besn Jod by his name to take home to thoir famllles somothing {mpossible be read afoud ander tho evening lamp.” UOTEL ARRIVALS, Palmer Houst—C. D, Btrong, Iiinols; Jose Revaetts and A, Gutt, Mexica City, Moxico; A, "“;“'.S‘L': f s mith, 1, A, bwighit and d, I Manny, Tockford; O, H. Bedds ick Oucia; i, . and D, A, Blator, Jeraey G4 1 R A, Be! fouia ciica’ S Dus ery Deuvel ‘acific—Ty O. Y“nd}-:“‘wul A 0. Springfeld; O, K. Perkins A, 4. Jud urlingto worths G, W, Moerls, Piltabirg 1.0, ‘;“&"mhmllm;n 5 W, b, Qoos, Peoriaid: O oyes, Bt. ' > Jobb, Landon: doha N, Kurdoch, Ottaw 33y Clark, Utfes, 1iL3 3. O, § WL aad, Philadulpiia; Raip! aator! louss—F, P, Bartlelt, Chariton, 1s,:J. ail Now York: I, P, 'Shacklefurd, Allon, I Ketcham, Jackionyilla; A1, P, Kioksld, Ori o di Wulting, Detratt; J. Wi Eddy, autingion; J. G o \in, Aurora; Gov, . P, Ferry, Olympls, W. T3 Eimberly, ' Noanah, Wis; 3 cinaatts™ Jolin \V‘lhn%n:‘ o man liouse—Il, O, 'Oloveiand, Bock I E. W, Duras, Sullwator; G, 11, Heatiord, St L. W. Bloasings, New York; J. W, oward, Corry, . D Bimpeoy, Huffato Tawrehee Bichatier; B A 3 Bonith, Dixon, 1.s., Gardner Houts—J g, pu Boslod B, We WL, Mochster; deords Ly ) baayi A B Goass, Dison; vic . M ”"",E“flf'