Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 11, 1876, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JUNE 11, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. The Tribawe; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PAYADLE IN ADVANCC—POSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS OFFICE. e Dally Bditton, portpaid, 1 year, $13. arts of year at 65 Matied to any address four weeks fo1 Sunday Editfon: Literary and Religio 3.0 &0 FParis of year st same rats. 9 'WEEELY EDITION, POSTP. - ~Qxe eopy. per year... ne Cichof five, percopy. 1% Club of twenty, per . L The postage is 15 centa & yeas, which wo will prepay. Epecimen coples seot free. To prevent delay and mistakes, be suro sad give Post- Office address tu full, {acluding State ad County. Remittences way bemade efther by draft, express, Post-Office arder, or in registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CFIY SUDSCRIBEXS. Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Datly, deilvered, Sunday included, SO cents per week Ajdress THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madfson and Desrborn-sts., Chicago, L et ho— AJMUSEMENT: Tnity Church. orth Desrborn street, opposite Washingten Park. Bacred Concert st 3 p. . New Chicago Theatre. Clark etreet, between Randolph and Lake. Benefit ¥ 1'al Rooney. e —— SD;LETY MEETINGS. E N, SIGHTS—Spectal Conclave of o nery X5, 39, K. Ty Monday: evening, Suve I su. This Commandery having declded 10 o I ord on June 2. it 1s desirable that all Sir gllshh gulng l]ml‘l':lfl ‘;l{l IEemm:dl: ;zr‘l.}:: gflfllfihfl: i fmeats w] : Pirahts s CHAS. 3. “"‘“‘gfi”"{, SI0R LODGE N0, 3. KNIGHTS OF PYTH- llf—x.fga."-;fllln‘ Knights, utres, and Pages.—Pre- e oemieiecs ot Castle_ Hall, 13 Souch Halsted-st.. T ue: ‘morning, the 18th inst., in full uniform,at i:fll o'clock, to take part o the parade_trom Grand Ipe Hall. nntfilprlébn of Grand Lm}rfl‘sfigxl‘l_lu X . ler of 5 o sclicke. m. Byorderol oy yiceChancelior . A. Panures, Chancellor Commander. ‘GOLDEN RULE LODGE NO. 7284, F. & A, cation for Work on M. M.— . de- Ivening, 15th inst., at Eir.'“‘ Sievens will pay the Lodge an o cord: invited. s brethiren cardl N ACFADYE, Secretary. N DGE. NO. 639, A.F. & A. M.— &E‘I’smfuligwn will be held in thelr Hall, 62 d 64 Nortl Clark-st., \{edn&d»’yh cueglug next, 848 el or work on the lock, PromIPh (O IS PFLAUM, W. M. pro tem. BEN F. PRINCE, Sec- N, WAL LODGE., NO. 596, A.F. & A. M.—Stated nfin“:x‘x)lmunn ‘will be beld at thelr Hall, corner Bau- ok g Bt s ey cxene, e 3 W on M. Bvited. By oraer e 4 & WOOD, . AL A. G. CUNDBURG, Sec. LAIR . 393, A. F. & A. M. —Regular oriimickon Mondgy evtuiik, Jun 12 Wouk on réthiren - e Third Degree. Vislting bretyr R C. W. O'DONNELL, Sec. VAN RENSSELAER GRAND LODGE OF PERFEC- TION—There willbe 8 regular assembly o Thursdsy c 10th degrees. evening next. Work on By 9th and arder of E. P?DH_U.L. TTG. M. ED GOODALE, Gr. Sec'y- al conclave af ATTENTION, SIR ENIGHTS, SEd S1, Bernard Coinmandery, No. K. T.. Wednesday evening, June 4. at & oclock Work on the R C. 1e courscously invited. O . Visiting Sir Enights e e e o By DIk RO, Tebcorder. APTER. NO. 2, B. A.M.—Hall, 72 -'.r:.‘;‘.‘.Z“EEx;“ o yocaiion oy Sveaing, Jioe Oy arelocks for Dusincas 204 work. s ol oF Dl O CE R Secrerary. CORINTHIAN CHAPTER, NO. e, R ‘A, M.— Beular ool O s, J S omipe and S draen dearet. 5 31 HENDERIOR, 1.1 SUNDAY, JUNE 11; 1876. Greenbacks st the New York Exchange on Baturdsy ranged at 88j@88} cents on the Hollar. —_—eeee The bill authorizing the issue of twenty ‘millions additional silver coin wes passed in the House yesterday under the operation of the previous question. Strenuous efforts were made by the inflationists to attach to the measure a provision repealing the Re- sumption act ; but the move failed entirely, and the bill went through without adivision. Mr. Kxorr, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, seems Lo have come to the same conclusion as that to which Mr. Hoar gave woice on the day the bill repealing the iron- clad oath was reported in the House by that Committee. Mr. Kxorr probsbly thinks that the repeal of this oath might possibly be unpopular with the few ainong his con- stituents who would prefer to keep profes- sional Ku-Klux from the jury-boxyet awhile longer. Gen. Bourree indignantly denies having engineered the exposure of the BLa letters to Fisuxz, and makes the point that, if he had been Murricax's counsel, he would never have let that individual go to Wash- ington withont first making copies and photo- graphs of the original letters, so that the Int- ter could be produced in an emergency. ‘This statement seems to agres with the state- ment that Murricax has made to the effect Abat Brarxe has not read all the letters he took from Murtiaax, and that hé has sub- stituted others in the place of some of the originals. This is the most serious charge that has yet been made against the ex- Speaker. Mr. Bramne's chief strikers, Messrs. Hare d Feryre, have arrived in Cincinnati, and ve set to work to forge the chain of argu- ment by which their favorite may be ena- bled to secure the nomination for the Presi- dency. They will listen to no suggestions from Republicans who foresee the danger to the party that must be encountered if their principal, with his questionable record in ths stock-brokerage business, is placed in the * van of the Republican army. Yet there are some of the newly-arrived delefates who are eounted for Brame who are beginning to pluck uwp courage enough to discuss “the possibilities, and there occasion- ally ereeps into those discussions a doubt as to the propriety of nomi- nating =8 candidate for the Presidency s parson whose record will prove so vulners- ‘ble. This leaven of honesty is working, and 1t §s not impossiblo that it may effect such a change in the minds of delegates before the Convention meets as toconvince the friends of Mr. Braixe that they have placed a false esimate on thegiftof appreciation possessed by the average American citizen. *There is an erroneous impression that there 1s going to be a long and fierce struggle at the Cincinnati Convention, extending over s great many ballots and perhaps several days. This ides comes from the belief. that there are some three candidates whose partisans will obstinately adhere to them to the last, wnd that there can be no masjority so long as ihis goes on, nor until the ¢ Great Unknown™ be found and accepted as s compromise on a1l sides. This might be the case if the two- hirds rnle prevailed in the Republican as it does in the Democratic Convention ; but, since it requires only a majority to nominate 3¢ Cincinnati, the man who shall first succeed in approximating it is most likely to be the successful contestant. There xre unpledged delegates and delegates only partislly committed to *favorits sonnies” who will seramble for favor with the winning man by changing their votes over to him the fmoment it appears probable that he will get the prize. 'There is contagion in this sort of thing, and, once fairly started, it rarely ends vrithout a nomination * by a large msjority.” calculated .to carry men off their feet and betray them into a vote which they will af- terwards regret. One delegate from this State has been heard to say that he would not vote for BLarvz, even on the first ballot, if he thought there was any probability of his being nominated. This gentleman, and others who feel as he does, had better take no chances, but every delegate should vote for his'real choice from the beginning. There will be but a few ballots, and it is not im- possible that the very first ballot will indicate the Coming Man. The Chicago produce markets were frreg- 1ar on Saturdsy, ‘and active. Provisions were steadier, wheat stronger, and corn easier. Mess pork closed a shade lower, at $18.95@ 19.00 for July and $19.20@19.22} for August. Lard closed 5¢ per 100 Ibs higher, at $11.20 @11.22% for July and $11.35@11.374 for August. Meats were 4c per lb higher, at 7ic for boxed shoulders, 10jc for do short ribs, and 103c for do short elears. Lake freights were steady, at 2jc for corn to Bufialo. Rail freights were unchanged. High- ‘wines were steady, at $1.08 per gallon. Flour was in light demand and steady. Wheat closed 13c higher, at $1.07§ for June and $1.08 for July. Corn closed ic lower, at 453c for June and 45}c for July. Oats were easier, closing at 30¢ for June orJuly. Rye was steady, at 72. Barley was firmer, at 60c for No. 2 and 38¢c for No, 3. Hogs were active and firm at the opehing of the market, but closed dull and a shade lower—quoted at $5.90@6.30 for common to extra. The cat- tle market was quiet and steady. Sheep were dull at $3.00@4.75 for poor to choice. One; hundred dollars in gold would buy $112.62§ in greenbacks at the close. During the last two weeks the daily ar- rivals of cars with grain in this city have averaged 1,100 cars, with an average of 340 bushels each. This aggregates 374,000 bushels per day, not including the receipts by canal. The most, if not substantially all, of this grain goes hence by lake to Buffalo or to Canadian ports. - The shipment of grain: from Chicago by rail has been starved out by the exactions of the warehonsemen. The old charges of $1 per car for loading and $2 per car for switching are still enforced. The result is that the Chicago trade now pur- chases and ships grain by cars from Peoria and Joliet, being compelled to this by the warchouse monopoly. Other grain, how- ever, is transferred from cars on track with- ont going into warehouse, and at a compara- tively insignificant cost. The warehouse policy has always been to extort the largest amonnt of money possible from the least amount of grain, and for the least services, That, however, is but the rule of all monop- olies. The ruling rates for freights are very low,—2} cents per bushel for wheat and 2} cents per bushel for corn to Buffalo. The grain trade to Montreal continues to in- cresse, and when the canal shall be completed there will be in all probability a general rush for that route,—the most direct and cheap- est, as well for New England as for Europe. During the last few weeks there have been several cargoes of oats purchased here and taken to Canada, presumably for export to Europe. This is an unusual, if not unpre- cedented, incident in the grain trade. THE SCHOOL EXPENDITURES. . The Board of Education have felt the pop- alar approval with which the proposition méde by Mr. Hoy~e (while acting as Mayor) for a general reduction of municipal expendi- tures was received, and the preliminary steps have been taken to make the Department of Schools conform for the ensuing year to the policy of retrenchment which the hard times and the financial embarrassments of the city have rendered necessary. If the proposed reduction shall be accomplished in the end, the greatest obstacle in the way of a general retrenchment of city expenses will have been removed. It is among the schools that the most serious opposition to a reduction was to be expected, and for obvious reasdns. The Board of Education consists of a number of gentlemen who are generally well-to-do, ‘whose sympathies are always with education- al progress, and who are inclined to think that that part of the City Government nnder their immediate charge is more important than any other. A large number of the em- ployes of this department are women, and it is confessedly harder to displease them, either by & reduction of salaries or other- wise, than to displease men in the same way. The public-school teachers have, also extraordinary - opportunities for manufacturing public opinion in their be- half; they reach the mothers through their children, and the fathers through the mothers and children both, and thus influ- enca a very wide circle of the most respecta-~ ble people through the dearest and tenderest mssociations. Such influences are the hard- est to resist, and the Board of Education must be prepared to make a heroic struggle against outside pressure if they hope to pre- vail in the work they have undertaken. At the same time, it is obviously nothing more than fair that, if the firemen, policemen, and other employes of the city, are to be put upon shorter allowances, the school-teachers and employes shall likewisa accommodate themselves to the same condition of, things. They are not 50 hard-worked os the others. Allowing for vacations and weekly holidays aside from Sundays, their annual occupation is only eight months instead of the full twelve months during which the other city employes are obliged to work. Their fifty- two Saturdays, their sixty days of summer ‘vacations, and their fourteen days of Christ- raas, spring, and other holidays confirm this estimate. Their working hours are also much shorter, and their occupation is all in-door snd easy lasbor. There is no special or unusual qualification pecessary for ‘the subordinate teachers, and there is probably nobody engaged in the business of school-teaching, as a rule, to whom the work is not more congenial than any other work would be, or who do mnot earn more money in that occupation than they could otherwise. Certainly, then, re- ductions in other departments call for pro- portionate reductions in the schools. The scheme proposed by the Special Com- mittee of Five, consisting of Messrs. Perry H. Surre, W. K. Svzrvaw, W. J. Excrisg, T. J. BLuTEARDT, and RooNey WeLcH, along with President RromBERG, seemsto have been well devised and - thoughtfully considered. The Committee believe that its adoption will save $100,000 a year without dsteriorating the class of work or weakening the efficiency of the schools. If there is any change made in it before adoption, it ought to be in the direction of still further retrenchment, and certainly not toward the old system of ex- travagance. As to salaries, there has not been a uniform reduction recommended, but a judicious rearrangement whereby the relative pay in different grades shall be more fairly adjusted. The reductions in salary average about 10 per cent on the bulk of ths teachers and employes, and the reductions in Itis the *hurrah” that is to be fesred as | the highest salaries and for the newer teachers are larger than those on the lowest salaries and the older teachers, which is thoughtful and proper. Further saving is econtemplated by inoreasing the work of those who have heretofore hisd too easy a time, by the consolidation of certain depart- ments and classes, and by lopping off some of the superfluous attachments, Thus it is not unreasonable to ask that the Principals of the schools drawing $1,800 & year shall take charge of one room and teach a class; they will have time enough in the intermis- sions to assert their general aunthority, and, now that corporal punishment is abolished, there is an opportunity for them to do some- thing besides applying the rod. It has also been the practice to.appoint extra teachers (who have usually not taught half the num- ber of pupils they might teach) whenever the classes in a school overrun a certain arbi- trary number; now it is proposed that the Superintendent shall have discretion to unite in one school the two highest grades of two or more schools in which there are not a sufficient number of pupils to fill a room, and that only one teacher shall bs em- ployed in each room of the average number of seats. It is also proposed that the Normal School be mads a department of the High School, which will avoid a separate organiza- tion and save several salaries. In addition to thesa recommendations,which seem to be ap- proved by the Committee, 8 majority rec- ommended that double &ivisions in the High School be established, and that the offices of Superintendent of Music and Su- perintendent of Drawing (now paid $2,000 each) be abolished. These recommendations, we think, should be adopted along with the others. In their consideration and discussion of these proposed changes, the Board of Educa- rion must keep wellin mind that a general reduction of city expenses is not merely de- sirable, but absolutely imperative, and that thereis no reason for excepting the Depart- ment of Schools, which has been inits way as extravagant as any of the other city“depart- ments. They must also estimate at its real character and value.the personal influ- ence which will be brought to bear against the reduction, and make it subservient to the universal demand and sactual necessity for retrenchment. If the situation is cor- rectly considered in this light, there will be no hesitation in adopting the most summary and effective measures for reducing the ex- penses of the schools that can be put into operation without depreciating their useful- ness. BEFORE HE WAS “A BIGER MAR. The late Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, who was a Confederate re- former, and was likewise indicted for steal- ing bed-quilts, in that famous letter to his friend in Texas, which has gone into his- tory, wrote these sad words, evidently under a presentiment of a rapidly-approaching Nemesis : forward even when he was iater pocula on his “frolicks ” with the members and Sen- ators, is already beginning fo be apparent. With the salient points of Frrzuuey’s brief career as Doorkeeper the public is glready familiar. His own letter to hia friend in Texas has graphically portrayed the features of his carnival in & series of unrivaled pen- He told us how he took tea with the Kerzs, and how Cox “warmed” towards pictures. him and embraced him; how he * frolicked” with the members; how he astonished the natives in Washington with that * spanking turnout”; how the members “pulled snd favers out of him; how the boy took his hat jurked” him about to get and coat; how Fax was enjoying himself; and, to sum it all up, how he was *‘a biger man than old Graxt.” The public know all this, but it does not know anything of Frrz- HUGH before he was ““ a biger man than old Graxt.” Fortunately the friend in Texas to whom he wrote the famous letter has come out in 8 statement which lets in a flood of light upon his career before the Democratic members set him up as a reformer. In the language of the Rings, the friend in Texas has ‘‘squealed” and ‘‘given him away.” Jomx W. Mappox is the friend in Texas, and in a letter to the Sherman (Texas) Register he explains why he made the precious letter public and thereby enriched the epistolary literature of the country. He says: Firet, I wished to rid the country of & shamefal disgrace; second, the public were bilious, and, be- ing of a philanthropic turn of mind, 1 desired to give them an effective tonic. I confided in Firz- gy when nearly everyman in Austin was de- nouncing him. He abused my confidence, and proved himself to be abase counterfeit of humani- ty. The records of the Federal Court at Austin determined me, and I resolved that he ehould not disgrace our State, the Democratic party, and the nation any longer. Inthe case of MonEmsap, Youxe & Co., of St. Louis, ve. L. H, Firzuvcu, he I8 shown by his own testimony, by docaments signed by bimeelf, and other evidence, either 1o have perjured himeelf or willfully lied, and obtzin- «d goods under false representations. Not content with calling him *‘ a shamefal disgrace,” *“a base counterfeit of humanity,” a perjurer, a liar, and an obtainer of goods under false pretenses, the friend in Texas goes still further into details. If his English isnot a8 picturesque, bizarre, and highly: colored as Firzavon’s, it is at least concide and terse, and has the merit of being easily understood. He tells us without unneces- sary circumlocution how Frrzauea came to go to Washington. One evening, Frrzeucs, who had been fishing out drift-wood and railroad-ties from ‘the Colorado boom, came to Mappox’s honse, wet as to body and despondent as to mind. He was in a fine vein of melancholy, resembling the tender regret for & day that is dend, and possessed of g feeling akin to sorrow, as the mist re- sembles the rain. He sat down at Mabpox's hospitable board, and while munching his pone and bacon incidentally made the re- mark that if he could get to Washington he mightbetter his circamstances. Only the pricé of a railroad-ticket stood between Frrzrvee and that elevation which would make him ‘“a biger man than old Geaxr.” He intimated to Mappox that the price of the railroad-ticket would place him in a position ‘where ho would be of service to him. Map- pox didn't want any position, not being a re- former. Perhaps he suspected that Frrz- HUGH's proffer was to be taken in a jocular sense, like BLaxve's proffer to MurLicax, but he bad a friend, Craxcy, who was desirous of being a reformer, and if Frrzaven would promise CLaxcy a place he should have the railroad-ticket, begidesa small loan of $250 for expenses incidental to the inauguration of Democratic reforms. Frrzauce promised, and got his accommodation. By this time the Democratic patriots were assembling in Washington and were looking about among the 3,000 reformers who wanted to be Door- keeper. There was, therefore, no time to be lost. As CrxcrwnaTus left his plow in the field to hurry to Rome, so Frrzmvowm left his lumber boom on the Colorado and eped to Washington. . The patriots welcomed him. They * pulled and jurked him about.” They frolicked with him, Kxzr “Let a man be prosperous and every man is his friend.” The reverse of the proposition, to which hs was looking took him home to tea, snd Cox *warmed up * so rapidly that he fell upon his neck and embraced him. Fe got the place,and be ap- pointed for his chief assistant a Southern gentleman who knocks down his butcher and grocer when they present their bills to him. But Craxcy failed to get a position. ‘Worse than this, he has naver sent back the money he borrowed from Mippox. But Mappox is at last even with him. He print- ed the letter one morning, and the next morning the whole country was in a burst of laughter at tho expense of the new Demo- cratic reformer, ‘This was too much. . Frrz- HUGH might steal bed-qnilts, perjure himself, commit arson, lis, swindle, and steal, and still be a good Democratic reformer, but to be laughed at was too, much. He was kicked out of his place. He went no more fo tes with Kenr, and Cox soured on him, for Frrz- HUGH was laughed st more than Cox ever was. But the publication of the letter was not all. The House having kicked him out, his friend in Texas gives him the following parting kick : 1 published the letter because it contained slan- derous lies; because Firz has wronged my young friend CLaNcr, who was too honorable to receive a position at Firz's hand after he fonnd out what a villain he is; because he had basely abused my confidence after T had befriended him when he was friendless, and had shown himself to be neither & ‘man of honor or veracity; because he isa detesta- ble ingrate, who does not hesitate to defame those who have been his best fricnds; because he isa villain and a knave, upon whom the Sheriffand the fool-killersecm to have an equa! claim, and be- cause he is a disgrace to the naticn, and has shown by his testimony and by documents signed by him- sclf that the Houee of Representatives is not the proper place for him, and justice demands that he haves felon's cell. Undoubtedly . Mappox is correct in his facts; but the Democrats of the House knew all this when they made Frrzaucm ‘‘a biger man than old GrRaxt.” He was qualified to be a Democratic reformer until he was laughed at. Thelesson of which is thata dead-beat and a scoundrel can be & Demo- cratic reformer, bat he must not make an assof himself. POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS, Mr. JorN SHERMAN, of Ohio, has taken oc- casion to assert again his independence of the newspapers, and thereby again furnish evidence to prove that he really is afraid of them. If he were not afraid of the news- papers there would be no occasion for his re- pented assertions that he does not dread their adverse criticism. The present rates of postage on prepaid matter—newspapers, magazines, and periodicals—is 2 cents per pound when issued weekly or oftener, and 3 cents per pound when issued at longer inter- vals. Mr. Senator SmERMAN proposed on Friday in the Senato to increase these rates to 4 and 5 cents respectively. He stated that there was a large deficiency in the re- ceipts from newspaper postages, as compared with the cost of transportation. He states the amount collected from newspapers for postage at $1,000,000 annually, and the pur- pose of his amendment is, he said, to com- pel the newspaper publishers to pay for the transportation of their papers. The Senator has always been strong on specinl legislation. He had justvoted to imcrease the price at which the Government shall sell stamped let- terenvelopes tosuch price as shall notbe less than unstamped envelopes can be pur- chased at the retail stores, with 3 cents post- sge added. This legislation was an addi- tion to the postage on letters, put on for the protection of those manufacturers of en- velopes who do not have & contract for sup- plying the Government with stamped ones. There is in the Postal law a provision that weekly newspapers, of which there are probably 5,000 in this country, shall circu- late through the mails in the countics where published, freo of postage. There are, there- fore, over & million of sheets passing through the mails weekly which pay nothing. This is special legislation ; this is *‘pro tection”; and this dead-heading in the mails at the public expense Mr. SEERMAN of course pro- poses to continue, betraying a dread of the geveral hundred country papers in Ohio wholly inconsistent with his assertion of in- dependence of the press generally. Mz, SHERMAN overlooks the fact that the great bulk of the newspaper distribution does not go through the mails at all, and, if his amendment should be adopted, he will discover that, instead of doubling the rev- enue, he will redace it by driving the trans- portation of newspapers to the express com- panies in.gvery case where these companies can reach the readers. Itis aa old theory of Mr. SHERMAN that the proper way to in- crease revenue is to increase taxation to the point of extermination. Tee Damy Tris- uxe weighs 17 ounces per week, or 55} pounds & year. Mr. SEERMAN proposes to make the annual postage thercon $2.20. How long does he suppose the daily news- papers of the country will use the mails at that rate? Even at the present rates the great distribution of newspapers is by ex- press, because it is cheaper than to send by the mail. The expenses of the Post-Ofice Depart- ment exceed its income. But the expenses of the Department are capable of reduction. The Senata rejected the House bill for the reduction and equalization of the salaries of Postmasters. Postmasters are valuable op- erators in machine politics, and Senators ap- point Postmasters, and Senators are willing to pay Postmasters exorbitant salaries out of the Treasury, even if they have to double the postage on newspapers. In Mr. SEERMAN’S own State, as admitted by himself, there are | numerous Postmasters in comparatively small towns who are paid $4,000 n year each and perform the duties by deputies, while the Judges of the Suprems Court of Ohkio are paid only $3,500. There is an immense ex- pendjture for daily mails on routes where the business does not yield enough to pay for weekly services, but mail contractors are admirable operators in machine politics, and some few millions have to be expended to Lkeep the machines in motion. There is vast room for reduction in wasteful expendi- ture in the postal service. The salaries are all too large, the number of persons employ- ed too great, the amount paid for the trans- portation of mails excessive, not only in the way of compensation for service rendered, but for compensstion where there is no ser- vice rendered. But redunction in expenditure when there is a power to increase the tax is a heresy in niodern statesmanship. Should Mr. SHERMAN'S proposition to tax the news- papers out of the mails be carried, it will have the effect of increasing the annual de- ficiency in the revenues of the Department, and be another instance of the brilliant wis- dom of the policy of taxation to prevent revenaue. The duel fought at River Bend, Col, on the 8th inst., between ALBERT JESSUP, armed with a revolver, and M. O. Davis, armed with a Winchester rifle, was little less than a cold-blooded murder, although the details of the bloody affray were arranged by the prin. cipals themselves, and were mutuslly satis- factory to them. At the distance of 150 feet the man with the pistol had not one chance in a million for his life. He might as well have put the pistal to his head and blown his brains out at once as to fight at that dis- tance with en antagonist armed with a rifle. His death was certain at the hands even of an ordinary marksman. Had the distance been 10 feet, and the signal to fire from the word, he would have had an equal chance; but, under the circumstances, his death was absolutely certain, and, 28 we have said, the death of his enemy was only one chance in amillion. Although he foolishly and recklessly flung his life away, the duel was none the less a positive, cold- blooded murder, and the murderer, if he is ever apprehended, should be made to suffer the penalty of that erime. It is a little sur- prising that on the frontier, where fair play is considered a jewel, the murderer was al, lowed to escape by the crowds of people who witnessed the murder. LET THIEVES BE MADE O0DIOUS. ‘There is one thing about the whisky ex- posures and convictions which threatens to become hurtful to society and politics. It is the general disposition to logk upon whis- ky-stealing from the Government as & differ- ent matter from ordinary theft from indi- viduals, and upon the falsification of official oaths as less heinous than other kinds of ganized society as represented by official bodies, must protect itself against the infec- tion of this vicious and dangerous fallacy. The idea is already too common that it is no crime to swindle the Government. It can- not be further encouraged or tolerated with- out serious danger to our social and political condition. There is certainly as much rea- son why the whisky-thief and perjured official shonld be excluded from the councils of the people as there is why the man who robs a till should be shut out from similar opportunities and association with honest people. If there is any difference between the two cases it is in favor of the ignorant and petty thief, whose necessities or asso- ciations may have betrayed him into his crime, and against the man who has enjoyed the restraining influences of position, means, and association with decent men, but who has, nevertheless, betrayed the trust confided to him, stolen from those who had trusted him, and systematically perjured himself for money. The American people cannot en- dure the demoralization of permitting such men to go right along in public service ; it will be fatal to all official integrity in the future. The force of this remark—undoubtedly like Jace Bunspy's—is *‘in the application on’t.” Itisobvious enongh: The blather- skite named Hinprerm, for instance, is a confessed thief and perjurer; but his own moral perception is so opaque and his moral nature so impervious that he makes his reg- ular appearance in the Common Council, pending his senience, and continues to defy public opinion and common decency with the same insolence as before ne had caused himself to be written down a knave. There should be some means of ridding the Coun- cil of this pestilential element. If the Council has not resources of its own for kick- ing him out (since he has not the decency to resign); the Board of Health should proceed against him as a pernicious and poisonous piece of garbage that threatens by his pres- ence the sanitary condition of the corpora- tion. Hrsixg, likewise, clings to his place in the Park Commission on the North Side, thoughhe voluntarily enrolled himself among the whisky-thieves, and made a public con- fession of, a long career of blackmailing and a lifelong devotion to * addition, division, and silence ” in political life. In.insisting upon retaining his semi-public connection with the Park Commission, he has shown less appreciation of his present attitude be- fore the community than has his old " associ- ate, Jake Reme. Now, in these and all othér _cases public morals actually de- mand the retirement from all official and public places of the men who have been engaged in defrauding the Government; if they will not aceept such re- tirement voluntarily, then it should be en- forced. A New Orleans Judge, in sentenc- ing a recent batch of convicted ?whisky- thieves, reverted to the fact that it had been his misfortune to be forced to send ignorant foreigners and negroes to the Penitentiary for petty violations of law, and he could not be expected to, and would not, permit the men who had deliberately robbed the Gov- ernment, with the full knowledge of the enormity of their crime, to escape witha light or nominal punishment. The same rule, being a fair and just one, should gov- ern the action of all those who reprosent the people in a corporate or public eapacity in denling with the whisky-thieves here and elsewhere. It is not enough to punish the men who have robbed the Government ; the offense itself should be made odiouns. EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. ‘. The bill for allowing the Irish peopls to close their liquor shops having passed, the English Parliament is now agitating educa-~ tional questions,—a bill upon the subject of Elementary Education baving been recently introduced by Lord Saxpoy. The discussion upon the merits of the bill, when it was first introduced, brought out some interesting facts concerning the educational progress of England. Since 1839, no less than §65,000,- 000, raised by voluntary subseriptions, have been invested in school buildings, besides 88,500,000 granted by Government. In this country, the attendance upon the schools far exceeds the accommodation. In England, the reverse is the case. The large outlay by the Government and private subscription, has provided accommodation for 8,250,000 chil- dren, but of this number thers is only an av- erage daily attendance of 1,§00,000,—so0 that one-half or more of the accommodation is not used. To remedy this imperfect result from the large ontlay, Lord Baxvox intro- duced his bill. His plan is a kind of indirect compulsion. At present the system for securing school attendance comes very hear to direct compulsion. Out of a population of twenty-two millions, the children of no ‘fewer than ten millions are now subject to compulsory by-laws under: School Boards. They are prohibited from work, and are kept in school until the age of 10. Then they are only allowed to labor on receiving a cer- tificate of having passed & certain examina- tion; and, even if they reach this standard and are allowed to labor, they are subjected to a modified half-time system. The Lon- don Ttmes, in criticising the Saxpox bill, says: 2 To a great proportion of our readers it will re- quire some effort to realize the state of things thus bronght to our motice. The upper and middle classes 1n this country are sensible of no restramts in the education and employment of their chil- dren. They are complete masters of their own homes and of their own families. But below a certain line every father and mother is met by the law at every tarn of their children's lives from infancy upto about 12 years of age. They may not let them be employed, except under certain conditions; they are bonnd to send them to school at certain times; and they are compelled to submit them to certain Government tests. Of conrse, the false swearing. Society, and particularly or-” 1aw is universal in ita applicability, but its prac- tical application affects the lower classes only. Bat, notwithstanding the compulsory char- acter of the educational enactments, it still remains true that not one-half the education- al machirery is utilized, and that a million anda half of children are truants. How Lord Saxpox proposes to secura their attend- ancg is thus shown by the Times: He proposes, in the first place, to simplify and consolidate many of the ‘conflicting regulations with respectto the age of employment by laying down a gencral rule, subject, of course, to neces- sary exceptions, that no child shall be un'!ployefl under the age of 10. After that age the child may ‘beemployed on condition of having passed Slm‘}ul- ard Four in the Education Code, which wouald in- sure an inteltigent knowJedge of reading, writing, and of practical arithmetic. But, assome children are, and are nlways likely to remain, dunces, it is proposed to accept as an alternative qualification attendance at school for five years. The work- ing of this regulation, it is evident, would beto render it the immediate interest of both parent and child, but especially of the parent, that the child’s education should 23 soon as possible be bronght up 1o a reasonable standard. If the standard were fixed too high, the plan wonld of course at once break down: bat, if too much be not demanded, we mny scasonably hope parents will perceive that the best thing for them and for their children, from every point of view, will be to insure, by regular attendance and diligence, a speedy attainment of the standard, In other words, the bill proposes by indi- rect compulsion to avoid the extension of direct compulsion, and of the domiciliary visits to enforce it, which have become dis- tasteful to the average Briton, whose house is his castle, whether his children go to school ornot. The problem, however, with which England is contending is no more serious than our own. She is seeking some wey to fill her empty benches by compelling chil- dren to go to school, while we have not benches enough for those who want to go. The distinction is not without suggestions as to the relative desire for education in the two countries, BEER CONSUMPTIO: Now that the time for the drinking of beer has come, and that the sound of the bung- hammer is heard in the land, it will be of interest to the votaries at the shrine of Gaysnivvs to know something of ‘The sta- tistics of their favorite fluid. The annual reports made at the sixteenth session of the Brewers’ Congress, held in {Philadelphia last week, supply these statistics. The Prohibi- tionists will be delighted to: know that the brewing trade shares in the general depres- sion of business, as shown tby the following figures: Annual increase for nine years pre- vious to to 1673, 816,971 barrels; production in 1874, 8,880,829 barrels; ir::n 1875, 8,743,744, showing & falling off of 137,035 barrels; to. totalrevenue paid forthe year ending June30, 1875, $9,144,002; for the preceding year, $9,304,678. The following are the principal States producing malt beverages, with the amounts manufactured in 1875: New York, 2,889,777 barrels; Pennsylvania, 964,634 ; Ohio, 840,115; New Jersey, 455,600; Illi- nois, 536,619; Massachusetts, 479,598; Mis- souri, 397,034 A turning point, however, seems to be reached, for the returns for the present fiscal year indicate an in- crensed production of 337,263 barrels, and there are now 2,738 breweries in operation in this country, which is 216 more than in 1874. Among other figures presented are some giving a comparison of the amount of malt liquor consumed in this country and that consumed in Europe. The following table gives the fignres, the amount per capita being in hectoliteres, or 21.64 beer gallons: s Per Conntry, Populatton. Product'n. Head. Rlientsh Havari . 615,000 600,000 .57 SO0 B00.000 153 Unite 3 Austria-Hungary . ¥ Davaria 284 Py 1k 2019 -31,303,000, 20,984,000 .68 655,000 1200000 102 4,931,000 T.R54.000 1.57 136,000 .37 700000 (19 50, 80,000 157 (463,000 1,141,000 .78 From this table it appears that the average production per head of the population of Bavaria, Denmark, Sweden, the United States, Austria, England, Norway, Germany, Russia, Beigium, ,the Netherlands; and France, is 10.6 gallons. In the United States it is about 8 gallons; in the little beery but temperate Kingdom of Bavaria, 61.45 gallons ; in Wurtemburg, 47.39 ; and in En- gland, 29.86. One of the strongest argu- ments for the use of beer can be drawn from these figures, since those countries where the most beer is consumed are more temperate than thoae of small consumption. England is the only excéption to the rule, and the ex- ception is occasioned by the fact that she ex- ‘ports immense quantities of her malt liquors, so that the actual consumption of them is smell. The address of the President of -the Con- gress contains the following pertinent allu- sion to the fanatical raids which are peri- odically made against teer: 3 Onr wise State legislators are doing far more to- wards cducating our people to the use of strong drink than the Federal Government can possibly do by putting a high impost daty on light wines. They do it by enacting prohibitory lews which alike forbid the sale of fermented and distilled liquors, and license laws which impose the same stringent restrictions on both classes of drink. As a natural consequence, proved over and over again, distilled liquors, emall in bulk and of keeping quality, with the greatest case surreptitiously con- veyed and safely hidden, find their way every- wheré, where demand. for them exists, through illegal channels; while ale and Leer, too bulky and to0 perishable to be handled with the same_ facility and safety, aredriven, not only from sight, but, to a great extent, out of consumption;, and potent distilled liquors are sure to take their place. Pro- hibition never lesscned the quantity of distilled liquors gold, bat had a wretched effect on théir quality. Any argument in favor of the use of beer and light wines, which are cheap and wholes- some, would, of course, be wasted upon Pro- hibitionists, but the fact, nevertheless, re- mains unquestioned that in countries where the consumption of beer is largest there is less intemperance than in u’o\mm'el which consume but little beer. ‘. Among recent deaths reported are those of the Counress DOWAGER oF CARNAVOYN, in her 72d year, eldest daughter of Lorp Hexry Movrr~seux Howarp, and wife of the third EARL oF CARNANON; of Dr. J. V. P. QUACKEN- BUSH, & leading physician of Albany, N. Y., and at one time Mayor of that cty; of the Hon. H: H. HULL. of Bath, Me., for twenty-five years ed- itor of the Bath Courier; of HENRI ALPONS' EsqQUiros, a French Senator, and an author of considerable note, who has left scveral novels, poems, and socialistic works; and of Gen. Sir GroRGE BowLes, G. C. B., Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Colonel of the First West India Regiment, who was one of the Water- loo veterans. . ——— A lady-whose addressis No. 428 South Park avenue, and who has a deaf-mute child to whose improvement she is entirely devoted, is desirous_ that her afflicted child shall have the benefit of that method of instruction successfully intro- duced by Prof. BeLL in Boston, known as the ‘“articulation method,” or “visible speech.” By this means the.deaf-mutes are actually taught to talk themselves, and to follow others talking to them through the movement of the lips, thus dispensing altogether with the tedions and necessarily limited communication by fin- ‘ger-signs. This instruction enables deaf-mutes to scquire a complete education, and gives them free communication with the world. In order to faduce a graduate of Prof. BELL'S classes to locate in Chicago it is necessary that g chsg should be formed here, and familfes that havea similar affliction and desire to avail themselyey of this great relief should communicate with ;he lady we have referred to within the next ten 2ys. ———— ANNA DICEKINSON'S FATLURB. The lecture-fieldlost little and the s nothing by Miss ANNA Dxumsox":gedgfim e‘: Boston last month. It was heralded by the bran-bread dilettanti of that dyspeptic city that she would wear diamonds; that sae had written her own play in two wecks; that her clothes would cost §9,000; and that the daring debutants occupied the suite of apartments at a Boston, hotel that were once occupied by FANNY Kxy- BLE, EDWIN Boorsm, Duke ALEx1s, and Dom Pepro. That was very gratifying in a social way to Miss DICKINSON, but it will no mors make her act like FANNY KEMBLE than It made - ber 2 scion of the house of BRAGANZA. Misg DicrsoN made the dramatic failure every one who knew anything about the ptage must have predicted for her. Her venture, to speak frank. 1y, was a foolish and an impudent ome. 8he bad no reason whatever to expect success, or to assume thgt for her alone a royal road to the summit of the theatrical profession had been laid. . Her carcer ag a lecturer gave no promise, even in the blush of her youth, of success asan actress. Shehad not the gifts of voeal expression, dramatic concep- tion, or emotional power which' would warrant her in thinking that at 35 she could take an easy jump from the platform and land on the stage alongside the women whohad givena life’s study to a difficult art. Miss DICKINSON's failure is not one to be la. mented. She did not deserve success, and there. fore she has missed it. Ttis well that self-confl. dence has discovered that it cannot take the place of studious labor and long, patient train. ing. In all departments of art there is no sub- stitute for elementary instruction. Not even genius can get along without that,and Miss Dick. nsoN’s efforts on the platform showed that she lacked genius. ' She had a power of intense utterance, but no idea of artistic effect. It was indeed painful to hsten to her high pitched, strained, Httle flexible voice 2s she declaimed, or rather scolded. Her rash attempt to start at once as a great tragic actress without trafning, and as a master-playwright without practice or carefnl cultivation, was an implied rebuke to the dramatic profession, slowly climb- ing to the heights of histrionic excellence, and the dramatic authorship, in which experience has taught that with ordinary persons only years of cffort can attein to success. There was no reason to anticipate for Miss DICKINSON a re-, sult short of a stinging blow to her arrogant self-confidence. If she had met with anything else ‘she wonld have been a dramatic phenomenon, which she evidently thought herself to be, and fn whick foolish idea indiscreet frfends seem to have en. couraged her. We trustthat her failure will teach men and women who fancy they can become dramatic artists of .the highest class,—sach as CHARLOTTE CusmvAN, Rose Ertivee, and Epwix Boorm,—simply by putting on stagelothes, no mattet how ex- pensive, and appearing before the foot- lights, that grand acting can no more bt done under the spur of vanity, without long practice of its details, than the girl who paints a pretty flower on a screen can produce at call ¢ RAPHAEL'S “ Madonna,” or 2 nimble player of little waltzes can compete with Listz or Von BuLow in the execution of a grand sonata, A case recently brought up in the, New York courts makes some astonishing development: agto the eounterfeiting of chantpagnes. O1 Thursday last thirteen wine firms in New Yorl City were arrested for connterfeiting wine, labels, and packages, and selling them as orlg: fnal G. H. Moum & Co.’s extra dry and dry Verzenay champagne. The detectives employ: ed to work up the case discovered that this so- called champagne is & chemical preparation of Sauterne or acrated California wine, costing about 20 cents per bottle. The evidence dlso shows that these firms have been supplied with “the original oMy boxes and straw packing by the old junkmen, who employ boys to collect them. It has been estimated by experts that of the campagne drunk in the United States threc- quarters is bogus, and made in New York, the profits upon which are enormons. — There is an orchestrion, harmonicon, colossa hand-organ, or whatever it may be, perambu- lating the streets daily, for the purpose of ad- vertising cheap shows, that oughtto be sup- pressed by the police. There is not aday that it'does not frighten horses, anda day or two ago & lady was nealy Killed by a horse scared byit. Apart from the danger of the thing, it is a public nuisance that ought to have been sup- pressed long ago. ——————— How was it Judge MCALLISTER characterized CoLviN—a locum tenens or a locum tremens T —_— PERSONAL A Mies Sinclair has just been admitted s a Doc- tor of Medicine at the University of Zurich, M. Eugene Roederer, head of the famous cham- pague firm of Louis Roederer & Son, Is dead. It looks as though Harvard, Cornell, and Colum- , hia would have it all theirown way at Saratogs this year. It is said that Secretary Robeson used to be much addicted to **carrying two bottles of Madeira un- der his hat.” Girl-gradustes find it no easy matter to keep sweet in this weather; but they eat caramels, and 100k to Providence for the rest. Senator Foote and hig two nieces were annonnced at one of Secretary Seward’s parties as **Senator Foote and the two Misses Feet." Carlos Gomez, the Brazillan composer, has fin- ished, and dispatched by the steamer of June3, 8 hymn tq be played at Philadelphia on the Fourth of July. Among the petitions to the British House of Commons lately was one by Annie Besant against the infliction of disabilities for *‘honest heresy.™ 1t was ordered to liz on the table. Ex-Gov. Bullock sends an alternate to the Cino- cinnati Convention in order to keep his engagement with the South Hadley girls. There's gallantry for you,—more gallantry than sense of duty. James Russell Lowell has been invited to **do™ a poem for the Fourth of July celebration at Taun- ton, Mass. Charles Francis Adams has consented v; turnish an oration for the same place and occa- sion. Jobn McClure writes s letter of explanation e the New York Sun, and, after signing his name in full, makes this addendam: **Iam better knows among Christian gentlemen and statesmen & *Poker Jack’ McClare.™ Ben Butlef was not Mulligan's adviser; not be, If he had been, Mulligan would have tsken photo- graphic copies of the famous letters, and perhaps & few barrels of telegrams would have been obtained, to shed lght on the investigation, as in & forme memorable cose. Arthar Chambers, the pugilist, lately bulletined 8a having crosscd over to the shining shore, pub- lishes a card in which he 8ays he is happy to inform his friends that he fa not dead. The only symptom of consumption be manifests is & weakness foi ‘beefsteak and rum (in season). Mme. de Rothschild lately gave grand ball iz Paris, and the Countess de Pourtales’ toilette is de- « scribed as having been the most marvelons of the many beautifal ones present. How the fair wearer got into it was impossible to discover; there wasno seam atall visible to the unsophisticated eye. Mile. Aimee's slater waa married to a man nsmed Mariande, an {dle, worthless fellow. Some days ago, exasperated by the refusal of his wife to give him money, he shot her, and then killed himself. It appears that he rendered hera great service, in- asmuch as she will recover, and he is fortanately disposed of. : A Congregation was held in Rome the last week in May to take into consideration the question of the ' bestification of ‘‘the vemerable' Marls Christina, Queen of the Two Sicilies, who dled on the 31at of Janaary, 1836, at the age of 24 years. The virtues of this Iay require 774 pages folio for thelr fall elacidation, while the arguments of the s0-called *-Devil's Advocate ™ agaiust ber occapy