Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 4, 1876, Page 4

rot AU OCloR s My TR lla THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1876 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PATADLE IN ADVANCD—POSTAGS PREPAID AT TIIS OFPICE. Zditton, postpaid, 1 ye: $13.00 Iatied to any address four w LW Bllax;‘dly Fditlon: Literary and Kellf ouble 2,00 et Tri.Weekiy, posipaid, 1y ww Parts of & year, per month.. oo *WREKLY EDITION, POSIPAID. ol ® e huhvf twent 20,00 ‘Postage prepald. Bpecimen coples sent free. “To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Posts Offioe sddress I full, Including Btate snd County. Remittances may be mode elthier by drafl, expross, Tost-Oftice order, of In reglatered letters, at our Flek. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBENS, Dafly, deltvered, Sunday excepted, 35 cents per week. Dally, dellvered, Bundsy included, 20 centa per week Address THR TIIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta.y Ciluago, Ik R 5 CAMPAIGN TRIBUNE. The Republican party has now placed fts natlonal ticket and platform before, the people. The ensulng Presidential caryara will booue of the most exclting and linportant that s ever occurred In thls country, Every mansbiould be furniahed with full and correct po- Milcal Information. 1 order waupply thisnced, the pub- Hihers of Tun Citloaco TWnGNE willpeints campaign v mediately, and contipulig :'fi'i'n%:‘:fl"x‘fflflfx‘gn\lm'mmmu T Rovember, 17 at the followlng excredingly low rates, ‘postage pals ‘nuinbers of e canpul t Lo ek e O rens orOLT K CAMFALGY. Tuilis KK, the Ereater numiber of Imues they will get for Abelr mouey, e TAMUSEMENTS, Adolphl Theatro. Monroe street, coruer Dessborn, **Bsd Ploker." ternoou aud evening. Y 1looley’s Theatre. Tandoiph strect. botween Clark and LasSafle. *The Two Orpluoa.” Aflerioun and evenlug. MeVick Madison trect. hetwecn S ent of thy Almee Operwloutle ‘Troupe. artatenno. 19 Theatre, tato and Dearhorn, Engage: “La Vie Whood’s Mascn. Monroe strect, hetween Dearborn and S Moon; ** HlackEycd Susan''and ' The mond." 0 The Seven Siiters.” Halsted Street Upern-Ilanno, o, Corner of Ialsted uud Harthon strects, ** Cluder- Blia’ Afternoun and ovenlng. ASHLATL LODGE, No. 303, A, F. & A, M.=The cimers are hereby notl e that tiio funerlof our lato her, Jutius Warret, Will taice piace 1o-da, July 4 ate rildy bty ¥6 AL £ sy euth-t. TUESDAY, JULY 4, 187G, — —_———— Our dispatches from tho Indinn country gay that Gon. Uezny will supply Gen. Custen from the mouth of the Big Horn. It may Do nocessary to keep our supplios in & big horn, but grant us no more big victories ovor the aborigines out there in that sort of way! Somothing too much of this horn concelt. Senator Monniry, of Maine, hos finally made up his mind a8 to what ho will do with the Tressury porifolic which has beon awaiting his pleasuro for about two woeks. Iio will take it, and begin operations to-mor-- row. At the present rate of resignations and removals Socretary Monnmuy, will find plenty of vacancies to fill nmong tho Treasury snbondinats officers. Se——— Tho unhappy Cireenbackers of Chicago undertook n grand rally of thoir countless thousands Iast evening, and ouly succeeded in inflating Farwell Iiall to tho oxtent of & ‘huaodred and fifty persons. They are con- wincod that the Northwest is overwhelmingly in favor of rag-money, and are bent upon entering upon the campaign with the voner- ahble intlntjonist of New York as their stand- ard-bearer. 5 'The Contennial watch-night demonstrations at Philadelphia last evening aro described e8 brilliant and grand beyond all compari- @on, A procession containing thirty thou- gand poople, boaring torches, devices, and $ransparoucies, poraded the streots up to midnight, and when tho stroke of 12 o'clock was hoard, the advent of tho obe- hundreth annivorsary of the nation's birth awas greoted by o vast multitude with cheora and rejoicings. The Common Council yestorday ndopted a yesolution calling upon the Comptroller for alist of tho property-owners who were suc- cossful in evading the paymont of thoir taxes for 1878 and 1874, When tho list has besn submitted its publication will doubtless Do ordored, affording to the people who paid heir taxes promptly the melancholy satisfac- tion of Ynowing how many thers were who successfully resisted payment, nnd who, toking advantage of o defect in the law, will eacapa tho tax altogother. 1t has boen dotermined Ly the Democratic Gity Contral Committeo thnt tho laat City Convention shall reassemblo and nominate candidate for Mayor. It socws to bo the goneral opinlon mmong tho wiser heads of tho party thut great ylakis incurred in making apurty Issuo on thd®Mayoralty at this time, and thht todo so is to invite almost certain do- feat, and thus to damage Domocratic pros- pects at tho fall elections, All of which is undoubtedly true, and the folly of attempt- ing to mako Chicago & Democratio city will bo more clearly spparent about tho time tha votes are counted. The Post-Office Approprintion bill, as agreed upon in Conforence Committeo, fixes tho rato on third-class inatter at 1 cent for every 3 ounocus or fractionul part theroof, and 1 cont for each ndditional 2 ounces. Tho sun of $17,800,000 Is appropriated for mall transportation, with a provision that the Postmuster-Gonoral is directed to road. just compeusation to bo paid to rilronds wfter July 1, 1876, by reducing the rates 10 per centum per nunum from the rates allowed by the Post-Oflico Appropriation bill of 1873. ‘I'he Presldent is also author- $zod to appoint o Commisaion of throe cou- petont persons to examino mnd report to Congross at its next session such rules os thoy may deem oxpediont to onablo tho Post- laster General to fulfill the necessary ser- vice of the Department. ‘The. highest salary allowed to Postmasters is $4,000, ex- copting that of Now York, which is contin- wed s at presont. The smaller items are generally compromised by substituting sums sbout midway between the figurea fixed by the two Honses. — Upon the recomunendation of fhe Finance Committee the Common Council last ovening passed unanimously sn ordinance suthorizing the raising of a popular loan based on the tax lavy of 1876. The loan is 1o be represented by revenuo warrauts of such denomination asshall be desired by par- tios lending the money, boaring intorest al a xute not excceding 8 per cent, and ro- calvable at their face value, with sccrued in- tarest, in payment of city taxes of 1670. It will be seen that all the elemeonts =" vonditions of & vpooplsr loan are provided in the ordinance—perfect recurity, since the warrants aro a lien upon the taxes ‘of 1876; convenient sa to denomination, so that capitalista and poople of moderate menns con invest large or small sumaats good rato of interest; and receivable for the payment of taxes. It may bo con- fidently expected that the plan of the loan will meet with gencral favor, and that the monoy necossary to provide for the current expensos of the city, pending the collection of the taxes of 1876, will bo spoedily forth- coming. e ———— Tho dobnto in the Seuato yestorday on the rosolntion to allow Prxonnack $20,000 for oxpenses in prosocuting his unsucoessful claim to the Louisians Senatorship, took a wider rango than that which embracod tho quostion under consideration, and touched upon the subject of the Mississippi election trauds and outrages. The Commitlea op- pointed under Mr. Monton's resolution to in- vestigato tho condition of affairs in Miasig- sippl have just returned, nnd an outlino of their forthcoming report, said to have beon obtalued from o rolinblo source, s given in our Washington dispatchos, ‘I'he’ majority report will, it is underatood, show up in n stroug light tho system of in- timidation, terrorism, and, murder practiced Dby the White-Liners upon the colored and whito Republicans, and by menns of which tho Stato was secured for the Democracy. It will demonstrate in dotail tho mothods which were successful in *‘redeeming” Mis- sissippi from Republican control, aud fur- nish information of the most interesting and important charncte?, compnred with which tho question of allowing or rejecting Piyou- pack’s claim sinks into insignificance, There have been many American Centen- nial colebrations this last yeor or two, And thero will bo many more within the nexs fow yenrs, for the struggle for American inde- pendence was not encompnsged within o day, nor amonth, norayenr; but the peculinr significanco of to-day's celobration is as the Ceutennial of o nation's birth. It was oue hundred years ago to-doy that tho thirtoen original Colonies signed and ratificd on be- half of less than 3,000,000 of people that declaration of indopondence wlich consti- tuted n distincl, soparate, independent, snd indivisible nation, which has grown into thirty-eight States, with 44,000,000 of peo- ple, and Lins bocome one of the great powers of the world, *Tho declaration,” says Bax- cnorr, “was not only the announcement of tho birth of n people, but tho establishment of a Nationa! Governwent.” This is the dis- tinguishing charncteristic of to-day's cale- bration. The nbuses of the Colonies by the Home Government long antedated this puriod, as did the firat blows for political in- dependence. * It was fifteen yoars before that the British Patlinment authorized tho * writs of nssistance,” orserch warrauts, which arous- od the people of Massachusetts. Thirteen years beforo thoro was o conflict botweon the Home Government and Virginis, which firat brought young Parnicx Hexny to the front. Eleven years before the ** Sons of Liborty " began organizing resistenca to the hatoful Btamp oct. Six years beforo had occurred tho conflict botween Gaor's troops ond the citizons, which was called ,tho * Boston Massacre.” ‘Threo years before had tho tea beon emptied in the Boston harbor. Two yours before the * Old Continoptal Congress " bad mot ot Philadelphis, whore Parnrcx Hexoy declared, *I am not a Virginian, but an American.” More than a year before had the first gun of the civil war been fired at Lexington. Battles hnd been fought nnd won, fought and lost, but it wes not till July 4, 1776, that the citil war waos doclared an end, Britain mado a foreign country,,and the Colonios crented & nation. This is the event wo celubrate. Evonts have traveled with such unprece- dented haate, whether in Government, war, peace, education, scionce, invention, enlarge- ment of torritory and population, that the history of the first ono hundred yoars of tho United States of America as & nation will i1l o larger place in tho world's history than any other country. Tho war for in- dopendonce was successfally prosecut. ed to o olose in 1784, and a defini- tiva tronty of peaco madoe in 1783, whercby the United Statcs were formally acknowl- edged:by Groat Britain, o they had alrendy been by the world, to be froo, sovercign, and independent. Articles of confodoration had beon adopted in 1778, but they wero found doficient in certain matters of importance to o great nation, and the present Constitution was adopted by a National Convenfion in 1787, which was first sccopted by Dolawure in the same year, ond then by all the other Statos, and lastly by Rhods Inland in 1790 But so rapid has beon tho progress of events that it is alrendy regarded, though only 86 yoans ofd, as ancient nud vonorablo an insti- tution as tho Magna Charta. Now York was donignnted ng the Capital, and ‘WassiNaToN way inaugurated Presidont in that city March 4, 1780, with Jonx Apans Vico-President, ""noxas Jervenson Secrotary of State, ALux- anpen HasanroN Beerotary of the L'reasury, and Iexny Knox Bocretary of War,—pu ade ministration which put new life inzo the poo- ple, restored public confidence, roscued -the finunces from o chnotic condition, rovived commercs, and instituted genoral prosperity.- I'ho two political parties of that day were thio Foderalists, who favored the Constitu- tion just o4 it was, and tho Ropublicans and Domocrats,—then happily one and the same, —whodesired to limit the Federal powér and incroaso that of the Statea, 1t will bo searcaly possible, in an articlo of this character, even (o mention the striking national events which ensuod from this timo up to the Contennial Fourth. Ponnsylvania whisky system of removal ~from bas now grown inte' o the United States rcbuked the There was a formidable Indian war throughout the North. west, which roged from 1700 till 1795, The insurrection, ocoa- sioned by an unpopular Excise law, ocourred in 1794, and was an uprising that required a call for 15,000 militia, but was energetically suppressed. The vomplications with France, growing out of a treaty with Oreat Brilaln which was distasteful to the French, became vory serious in 1797, and it was then that the ronk of Lisutenaut-General was created, and Wasmxarox called Lack to the command of the army; but hostilities were scarcely openod when o troaty was concluded with the First Nopoleon in 1800. The Alien aud Bedition laws (tho former empowering the President toorder couspiring foreiguers to quit the country, and the Intter restricting the liberty of specch and tho press) furnished the next excitement, und elogted JurrxusoN President as the roprosentative of the Re. publican party. It was lieve that began the ofice 1o make room for political partisans, which great ‘an sbuse. During Jervemson's Administration pirates of the Barbury Coast by bowbarding Tripoli, and Buns, who was Vice-President in Jer- ¥EuSON's firab tekm, was tried and Suquittod on the charge of treason. In 1806 the scc- | of tho city, Wa have novor saggosted the ond struggle with Great Dritain took its origin in the assertion of the Itter's claim to tho right of searching American vossels for English deserteraand tha insolence with which tho British naval officers prosocuted it. This continned, and was furthor aggravated by certaln arbitrary rostrictions on Ameriean commerce, till no alternative but war re. mained for tho United States. President Babtson roluctantly acquiesced, and zent n message to Congress June 1, 1812, on the subject. Congress adoptod n manifesto im- medintely, and the act declaring war was signed on the 18th of the enmo menth, This war, further complicated by the hostility of many of the Tudian tribes, lasted until the famous European struggle of the eame epock was finishiod, and penco was declared by the Treaty of Ghent Dec, 24,1814, It had been exceedingly unpopular, and had cost the country serious losses, leaving o debt of $80,000,000, Tha banks genorally sus- pended specle payments, and thero was no uniform or stablo carrency. It was then that the Nationnl Bauk wos char- tered and located ot Philodelphin, with o capital of $35,000,000, and nuthorized to insue circulating notes redeemnblo in gold and silver; it wns the renewal of ita charter (oxpiring by limitation in twenty yoors) that Jacuson vetoed in 1832, Moxros's Adminis- tration wns an craof ponce nnd good will, supported by both parties, and ho was ro. clacted by all tho slectoral votes except ono, It was during his Administration, howover, that tho country was divided for the first time on the slavery question, which wns des- tined later to figuro so conspicuously in our history, It was tho controvorsy over the formation of the Missouri Constitution. For the first timo tho North and the South wore arrdyed ngainat onch othar, and for tho firat timo the threats camo from the South of n dissolution of the Union. Tho resnlt was tho famous compromise, by which slavery was prohibited forover north of 36 degroes 30, minutes, The *‘Movnox doetrine” w cnuncinted during the samo Adwministration 08 o result of the discussion over the recog- _nition of the indopendence of the Spanish- American Ropublica, Joui QuiNoy ADans' Administeation suceceded, and the most con- spicuous ovent in it was the adoption of “he Amorican system of protecting home manufactures”; the Tariff law of 1828 wns enncted on tho basis of this sophism, It was the starting.point of tho discontent of South Carolins, which threatened secee. sion in Jacxsox's time, when the tariff of 1832 imposed ndditional duties on foreign goods, JacksoN had just been re-slected. Ho denicd the right of nullification, assom. bled the army at Charleston under Gon. Scorr, oud threatenod to hang tho loaders, Hig firmnesd cat off this incipient rebellion in the bud, and Henry Orly's tarig ¢ompro- mise poured oil on tho troubled wators. It was during Jackson's Administration also that the Seminole, or Florida, Indian war broke out, which lnsted till 1842 and cost $40,000,~ 0u0. In Vax Borex's time ocourred tho financiol crisis of 1837, whon the mercantile failures in the City of Now York alono amounted to $100,000,000 within a apaco of two months, and nearly the wholo of his term was occu- pied in devising measurcs to establish a stnble currency and a sound system of finance. Gon. Hannmsow, it will be remem- bered, died just ono month after his inaugu-. ration, and Mr. Tyrer succceded to the Premdency, and signalized the nccident by going over to tho Democrats and desorting the Whigs who had eloctod him,—the Na- tional-Bank controversy still boing the rally- ing point. 'The proposition o annex Texas becamo the lending question in 1844; Alr. Vax Bunex, who lad written a letter oppos- ing it, was dropped by the Democratio party,, which alected James K. Porx over Onay, who had mode the same mistako as Vax Bunzn. The troubles with Moxico began almost im- mediataly, and war was declared on May 11, 1846, Congress voted $10,000,000 aud gave suthority to call 50,000 volunteers, It re- pulted in the nnnexation of New Mexico and Californin, and tho treaty of pesco was signed Teb, 2, 1848, establishing tho line of tho Rio Grando us the boundary, Menuwhile the slavery question was sasorting itsclt, andin 1832-'3 nnti.lavery socielies were formed throughout the Northorn States. Congress tried to ignoro it by refusing for a whilo to cousider nuy petitions, but it would ‘‘not down,” The *‘Liberty Party” was formed in 1810, and in 1844 nominated Binney for President, whon ho reccived 7,60 votes; in 1844 ho ran again and roceived 62,800 votes, When Tayron was nominated by the Whigs in 1848, the terms of tho Wrrmor Froviso, probibiting the introduction of slavery into any new Territory, wes rojected by the Con- vontion, and the Freo-Soil men withdrow. ‘The story of the Republican party ia told in another article. Tho discovery of gold in Oalifarnia was the chief excitomont of Tax- von's Administration, and the queation of admitting California as a Stato renowed the slavery dissension, Lut Mr. Orax was again on hond with o compromiss, and tho rupture wnd again postponed. The slavery clemont eloctod Fnangun Prence, notwithstanding tho Whig party trimmed to suit it. Lut, in 1854, tho ropeal of tho Mis- souri compromiso gove the Anti-Slavery party strenyth cnongh to assume a fornnid. ablo shopo, and in 18565 it achioved its first victory by the election of N, P, Banxs Sponk- er of tho House, Bocmanan was tho last Prosident electedby the slave-holding States. From now thio slavery question wes tho ab- sorbiug issue of thoe nation. How it led up to tho elaction of Luxcowx ; the secossion of the Bonthern Statos; the firing of tho first gun at Sumter ; tho prosecution of tho War for the Union; the proclamation of the eman- cipation; the conqueatof the Itebel territory; tho surrendor and peace ; the reconstruction of tho States that soceded ; tho conatitutional suifrage sud gronting o new meaning to the memory. comprehendod within the span of a century. e mny have tothe land within the limitaof the anything but whut is nswed therviu, or by implication revive any rights or conflym any those threo blocks, it holds it indepundently amendments giving the negroes tho right of Declaration of Independence,—aro matters too recent to require even a spurring of the The not result is found In a united country, with nearly three times aa many States and fittesn times as large o population, celobrating the hundredth anni- versary of tho mation with the grandest exhibit of human accci.plishmonts ever In our remarks upon the selling of the Lako-Front, aud obtaining therafor §800,000 for the exbausted and distressed Treasury of Chicago, wo assumed that there was a stand. ing offer from the railroad compaics to pay 1o the oty that sum of mougy for a quit claim deed of whatever title or claim thacity three blocks of ground. ‘W do uot aee how such a deod could convoy to the corporation rights to which the copany has now, or hus aver lad, any claim. If the railroad com- pany have any claim, legal or equitable, to salo or the deoding of any Intorsst of auy kind, diroctly or by implication, which would tend to confirm auy claim, or pretenso of claim, on tho part of the railrond company to the besin, ar any part of it. The offer, ns we understand it, was plalnly $800,000 for n quit-claim deed to the land swithin tho bounds of the thres blocksnorth of Monroe streot, without any reference, di- roct or implied, to anything olse; and, if that be the offer, wa repent what wo sald yosterday, it ought to be accopted. RS THE PRESENT DUTY. It s not out of time on this Centennial snniversary of the national birth, while glorifylng the wondorful progress mado since tho memornble declaration was pro- claimed in Philadolphin one hundred yonra ngo, to nsk oursclves if we have not lost something given to us by the fathers, and whether we should not sock to regain it. Daring the intervening century wo have passod through four wars: the Revolation, the second war with Great Britain, the Mox- ican War, and tho war of 1861-'5. Wo have got through with great wars, We have ox- hausted even whatovor causes there moy havo oxisted for civil strifo, Wo lbnve ex- tinguished seotiounlism. We have cenged to be n nation of States andcommunities; wo linvo becomo n homogeneous people, having o comnon intorost and A common destiny. The romotest districts are now inseparably botnd togotlier by the countloss ties of trado and commerce, by socinl rolations, snd by o common nationnl interest. It will bo impos. sibio ovor ngain to divido the Ameriean peo- plo by goographical lines or by sectional in- stitations, 8o that great dnnger has leen overcome oven by tho cost of s terriblo civil war. Wo have survived all occasion for for- cign wars, ‘Thero is nothing that is likely to oceur in onr relations with European Gov- ernments that can load to war. Thoro can ba 1o possible disagruements between the United States nnd foroign Governments that may not bo seltled by diplomacy or by an appenl to the courts. Wo entor, theroforo, upon the second contury of the national life will nn ostablished policy of penco, Fully ablato rosist all oppressions, haying no interest in making aggressions upon others, war bocomes a possibility so re. moto nsto bo oxcluded from tho nationnl perils. A hundred yoars ogo, thoe bhandful of peoplo seattered slong tho Atlantic const proclaimed their indepondonce while the land was swarming with hostile soldiery. Tow changed the condition! A long war was beforo them, sud, even when their indopend- ence was acknowledged, their condition was almost n hopeless one. Without money, and withont credit, without o Government, and withont n national suthority, they begnn the groat % Exporiment,” Thoy wore wenk in all tho material powers of nationality, They weore without trado and commerce, werawith- out manufactures, and produced barely suffi- ciont to meet tho ordinnry wants of life. These peoplo wers weok whera we ore strong, ‘but they wero sirong where we are weak. The war through which thoy had pasyed was ono of sacrifice. It was o scnson of suffering and privations, It was mot o contractors' war. Thera was no fortunes mado by selling to tho army; thers was no sudden increase of wealth, no gudden doparturs from poverty and rags to silks sud diamonds, The war, though long and exhausting, had not the naual demoraliz- ing effects of wars; it did not corrupt the persanal integrity of tha peoplo; it did not wenken their porsonal morals; it did not orect wonlth ns the standard of honor and rogpect; it did not begot a universal deairo to got rieh without referonce to the means, nor cultivate thosentiment that it wero better to bo rich, even if covored with crime, than poor aud obliged to labor. The war through which theso men of 100 years ago struggled and succossfully emerged did not breed a contompt for labor, nor did it leave men and women oducatod, by, the ovil example of others, to nbandon - honest toil, sober in- dustry, and slow thrift, to sock the menns of riotous and luxurions living and tawdry dis- play, without caring whothor theso means yore honest and virtuous or criminal and de- graded. Thot war was not followed by a general rolaxation of all the innate feolings of rovolt against stealing, betrayal of official and privato trust, forgery, porjury, aud all tho other forms of crimo by which men seek to corich themselves ab tho cost of others. That war did not leave a universal purposo among the people to got rich without laber, snd to got rich that they might indulge in tho extravagancios of dresaand other personal adornment, and in the luxury of sensual an; other vicious enjoymonts. Pan yoars have followod the close of onr: last war, and the country is yot under the full inflnence of the social demorlization eansed Dby that calamity. Buddenly-acquired wealth, dacked in sll the colors of the. rainbow, flannta its robes bofore the eyes of Labor, and laughs with contempt at honest poverty. Vice, armod with wealth, rules in politics, in trado, and in soclety. Yabor is held to bo an ovidenco of pauporism ; consclones 18 treated ws an oxploded superstition ; integrity is looked upon s want of progress ; intalloct {8 n mere orament like the purchased * old mastars® on the walls, or tho * atons” figures, whose names aro unknown to the ownors ; domeatio life ranks as the dull ex- istonce of simplicity ; porsonal purity is laughed at as amyth orasindicating silliness ; but Weartu is deified. Tt is the monarch commonding the reveronce of all. It is im- materinl how this woalth was obtained ; no oo asks that quistion. Boclety, which reo- oguizos Iabor ns disgraceful, to bo consistont must treat wealth as honorable. Men snd women, old snd young, boya and girls, aro brooght up in tho knowledge that the moquisition of wealth is the prime aim of man, If wealth ba wanting, do not Iabor, get money ; forge & check; rob your omployer, cheat your oreditors, appropriate publio or private funds within your veach ; get monoy; get dismonds, snd silks, and eating, no matter what you give for them; get a horso, or two horses ; surround your- golf with all the things that other mex and women, who do not work, have got. Lenvo work, ond slow life, and honost thrift, and slow scocnmnlation, to thoss who know no better; but enjoy the present ; live while you can;j wear all the golden harness you ean put on. : Such Is the lesson which society has tanght tho young since the country was ¢ with o gigantio war, ‘That this lesson has beon by overy issue of & daily paper The yast empiro, enters upon tha second century ‘with 100 years ago. which they wore nlsostrangors. 'We have the strength of numbers, of vast riches, of im- meuse deposits vf gold and procious motals, lewrned and extonsively practiced is confirmed country, great inall the maturial powoers of & weak and poor in social morality as compared We have railroads and canals, telegraphs and steam, to which our fathers wore atrangers; but wo have nationsl and individual, political and social vices, to o and of conl ond iron which can- not bo exhausted; wa have har- vest fllds capablo of furnishing food to many nations; we have ‘boundless vinoyards- equal to n bountifal supply of drink for all; but our fathers, poor in all these things, were strong oven es glants in the enltura and practico of the groat moral virtues, manly integrity, womanly graces universal industry, ond individual thrift and intetligence. "The first duty of thia sccond contury is to undo the social destruction resulting from the looss morals of & time of war, Men and women must learn and practics the groat truth that we aro living a lifo of false mornl- ity, the end of which is bankruptey in all things. Thero must be a higher aim for men and women than the more ncquisition of wenlth, and there must be n higher pupose for tho acquisition of wealth than that of mere expenditure for display oud vice, In- dividua! integrity and purity of life must be ngnin recognized nsamong the highest req- uisitos of social life, and lesrning and intol- lectual ability must onco more tako rank among soctel diatinctions, The wealthy thiof must bo discarded 8s n thicf, ond tho rising generation must know that tho slow process of accnmulation from the procoeds of honeat labor is the most enduring and the mout honorable way to ncquire wealth. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S FOURTH OF Upon this Contonnial Fourth of July, while bolls are ringing, flags flying, and cannon fiving, it 8 o fitting timo to conaider what the Republican party has done for the country during its part of the hundrod years, 'Lhat party hos now neorly attained its firat quar- tor of o century. 1t was founded twenty-two yoars ago. Free-Soilers and Anti-Slavery Whigs nud Demucrats erected the structuro upon the mins of the old Whig party, The slave power wad complately dominout in tho Democratic party, and it hnd east its baneful shadow over the Whig party., The new or- gonization mado the first stand against further encronchments of that power which was threntening to absorb overything. Tho fugi- tivo efforta of individuals and littlo societies wero now superseded by n compact, energetic, and detormined party, which had adopted for jts baso the fundamental doctrines.of human freedom, and had pledged itsolf to carry ont tho original schome of the Declaration of In- depondenco. For soven yenrs, through the pross, on the stump, in tho pulpit, on the floor of Congress, it labored to this end, and in those soven yoars it in. ereased and multiplied in numbers, its inflo. enco was widely extonded, snd its mornl strongth at Inst became so irresistiblo that the slave power became alarmed for its own oxistonco. Rather than yield to the domi- nant party, which had trimnphantly clected Annamass LINcoLr o8 its standard-boaver, it sought to disrupt the Union of the States and overthrow the suthority of the Govern- ment by force of arms, nided and comforted by its nuxiliaries, the Northern Democratd, over whom it etill maintained its influence. Tho Rupublican party took the flold in de- fouso of the Governmont sud to maintain the integrity of the Union, Itssons rallied from overy Northern State. Four long yoars it fought Rebels in tho Sonth and trnitors in tho North, and it vanquished both, It saved the Union and re-established the authority of the Governmont, and made the celobration of thie Contenninl Fourth of July a possi- bility. Tho Ropublican party did not stop with snving the Government from its Confoderato and Domocratio foos, It struck the fetors from the negro and abolished humnan slavery. It socured every man in the United States in his rights to the onjoyment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It forover abolished the ownership of man. It foraver socured ovory man tho right to enjoy tho fruits of his labor, It mado every man, without regard to race, color, or provious condition of sorvitude, o citizen, having equal rights with every other citizon, which is tho foundation stone of the Declaration of Independence, It passed tho Constitutional Ameondments securing theso rights in por- petuity. It reconstructed tho Southern States and brought order out of chaos, ploc- ing every ono of those Statesina condition {o resuma its former prosperity if it wero g0 disposed. It magnanimously forgave tho traitors, even to thoir leaders, and it eventu- ally romovod their politieal digabilities, thus allowing thom to hold office again and ro- sume thew places under tho Government which they had sought to destroy, It has gono further than this, It has reduced the public debt which was incurred by Demo- cratic porfidy with o promptness and to an xtont that has surprised the world. It has ‘bound the East and the West in tho strongest of tica. Ithas developed the material re- sources of the country with wonderful ro- pidity. In this colossal work of saving and restoring the country, of roconstructing the Bouth, and re-establishing the disturbed con- dition of the North, a work greater than was over undertasken by sny other party in tho history of the country, it wa inevitablo that somo mistakes should ocour and that gomo men should prove untruc. Ithad to’ contend not only with the confusion and chaos of o great war, but also with the whole train of ovils, crimes, and immoralities that always follow in the wako of war. Now it has set itsolt resolutely at work to corvect these mistakes and to weed out and punish tho unfaithfal, It has placod its standerds in the hands of irroproachable men, and once more it moves on ta victory. ‘Tho Bos. ton Advertizer puts tho following admirable words in the mouth of the party appealing to the nation: Some men whom we trasted In civil affales, out of the plentitude of our thanktulness for thelr im- tnensurablo services in wor, have disappointed our confidenco. Bomo vices inheging In the political system, s we received it frol oot predacessors 1n administrotion, are not yet eradicated. While asking fair consideration of the salvation we have ellsctad, and of the burden of responaibliity we have carried, we do not concesl vur own convie- tion that what remains to bo done is slsa lmpor. tant, and we angage to accomplish it 1f the nation continus us ln sathority, To the work which the present timo demanda we stand committed by our resolutions end our candidates. The Democratio party ought to have led in the crusade of fresdom, but its record has boen & crime sgainst the integrity of the na- tion. It logisloted in the interests and rights of acaste, It sought 'to establish = white man's Union, in which all other peoplo would be slaves, snd for what it has done it hns been punished—by war in the BSouth, by loss of power in the North. Tho Republican party has legislated and sctod in the interestof all men, During # large part of the last twenty-fiva yesrs it has managed the Governument, and it has brought the country intact down to this Centennial Fourth of July, On this day overy true man should decide whether he will intrust the Government to the party which Les saved and maintained it, or to that party which now cowes howling for re- forn, without mentioning its cximes against tho countéy, withous single ssh of Whioh it can boast during the last thirty yearsj without a single doed in that time that was not an ingult to the national hongr. Which party will you sustain—that party which hos no record of Its own except that of shame, and no platform excapt that of abuse, or thnt party which can point back to a glo- rious record, and now makes ample promise of reform by tho nomination of two men who have no political taint, and whose per- sonal charncters aro unspotted ? Itis a good day to make the cholco T COLORADO, The peopls of Colorndo having ndopted the new Constitution framed by their Conven- tion, and approved the proposition to assuma the dutics and privileges of Statehood, Col- orado is, therefore, entitledto becomo a Btate in tho Unlon sccording to the provisions of the Enabling act of Congross. In due time a Leginlnturo will bo olected, which will chooso two Unitod States Benators. The people hinve nlso to eleot & Govornor and othior Stato offi- cers, ond o Reprosontitive in Congress. Colorado will also be entitled next fall to give threo clectoral vaten for President anil Vice- Dresidont. The mejority in favor of becoming a State was very Iarge, being over 10,000 in a voto of not quite 20,000, 'The population of the new State is perhaps 73,000 or 80,000, and is growing stendily but not rapidly, Tho po- litical contest this fall will ba closo and ox- citing. In 1872 the Republicaus carried the olection for Dulegate in Uongrass by tho fol- lowing voto: secondary quostion. The necessity is to re move tho chuse of the quarrel so thal it may not rocar lheroaftor. In what over woy this mnay bo done, tho civ. ilizod world will rojoico whon it It accomplished. The shot which will bo fired on thig Contennial Fourth of July by Borvis will be heard round tho world, s wastho shof that was fired at Concord Bridge. It moant aivil and religions freedqn for the Christiana; the rout of the MonlomTordol_; the end of tyranny, cruelty, bloodshed, * extortion, plun- dor, nnd massnere; the opening up of Tur. key to civilization, luman progress, commer. cial and industrinl improvement;_the end of this horrible, fatalistio Oriontal nightmare which has kept all Enrope in nnrest so many conturics, The Centenninl Republic, celo- brating ita freedom to.day, strotches outa friendly hand of sympathy to the littlo Christian principalitioa wha strike to.day for thelr lberties, Their strugglo 1s a groater and more macrod one even than ours. Wa struck only for civil liberty. They strike for oivil liberty and roligions freedom. Bervia hos formally declared war sgainat the Turks, Little Montonegro has promptly followed suit. 'Tho armics of the former, under their Princo, are pouring noross tho line in throo columns into the sympathizing Sclavonic provinces of Bosnia and Bulgaria, T'ha ariny of tho latter, undor their Prince, acclamations of the insurgont population. Sorvia will assault tho Turks with a welle driiled nnd excollently-armed forco of 100,000 Chaftee, Htop troops, commaunded in point of fact by Rus~ Hunt, Dem ’ sian officors, The Montonegrin army nume Tepublican MAJOrY . vevveeserser +essrsnsl, 330 | bora nbout 20,000 men, also led by Russian In 1874 the Dumocrats carrled Coloradoby | ofMicers, Thera nre o good many Austrian o heavy majority, viz.: « | and Gorman officors serving in both armics, For c"""”""fi"x?u‘»'fl'fi’. l}(epnx-‘-. . -fl"lg and & great numbér of Russian and Iun- '"2__ | garinn volunteer shiarpshooters besides, It Democratic MBJoritY.euesansseeesseenenses2 103 isa war of races and religion. The Ohris- tians intend to expel or extorminate their 'Turkish tyrants as fast as thoy goin ground. The horribla opprossions, cruolties, and inhumnnities of four centuvies are to be now avonged in blood and expul- sion, and the ferocious barbarians will boe driven back into Asia, whonce théy camo. The soil which they conflscated from tho Christian population will be recovored us faat os the Molinmmedans are driven out of the country, The hour has strucle for freo- dom a8 well as vengennco in that fair but oppresied laud. Tho nations of Europe havo formed a ring around the combatants, and will not interfors botwoen the Turks ond the revolted Christians, excopt to seo fair play. The intention is to let them fight it out. Tho sympathies of the peopls of Europe, of course, are on tho side of tho rovolutionists, and they will give them moral support, wmoney, modicines, powder, and lend—mon aro not neoded, 88 tho insurgents have them in plenty. Tho London Zimes expresses the position of Groat Britain, viz. : Phe Princea of Hervia sud Montencgro have en- tored upou » great entorptlse, snd must be atlowed to fight it out. We do not mean tosay that if their efforts proved 8o succesaful ax to cause a complate break-op of the umion betwcen the European Provinces and Turkey we might not bo constrnined 0 express var opion aa to tho distinction of wome une or two of thum, buttheso are remota coutingeucies, the anticipation wheroof would not Justity our interfering to rustratn the Princes, We hope and bulleve nobody in Euxland dreams of such Intecfercnce, 1f the thought box Leen bac- Lored anywhere, 1t must by dieslpated a8 soun e 1t assumes o practical shape TTIE GREAT AMERIUAN PAMILY. The adinission of Colorado mukes the twenty-ifth new Stats added to the Unlon sinco the War of Nutional ludependence, The originul lamily, who united Juty 4, 1726, to form a uation of uue peuple, were: It is this majority tho Itepublicans hinve 1o overcome, aud to'which they will hopo- fnlly apply themsolves. Colorado makes tho thirly-eighth State in tho American Union, and the twouty-fifth Btate admitted since the Governmeni was crented. Tho eldest-born is Vermont, ad- mitted March 4, 1791, The laat provious admission was that of Nebraska on March 1, 1867,—2a flourishing State now, containing nearly holf o million of inhnbitants, SERVIA'S FOURTH OF JULY. 1t is on omon of happy auspice that Servin firos her first shot for freodom to-day, and that tho, struggle of the Belavio Christinna for their civil aud religious rights wiltin fu- tore history date from the Fourth of July, upon which day our own country colobrated its hundredth anniversary of indopendonce. Apart, therofore, from the general features of the forthcoming war in the East, apart from the effort of tho Bclavie principalities to freo themsolves from the civil tyranny and roligious fanaticidin of tho Turlk, the strugglo commends itsclf to the American peoplo 05 dating from their own birthday of freedom. ‘Tho morsl sympathics of the American people will bo with the Christian mountaineers in thelr struggle, and it is not imposaiblo that, in caso the weaker power is pushed to the wall, Russia and Austria will come to hor reliof. It is not impossible that Bervin’s doclaration of war affer all is the fist move of Rusaa to- wards the oxpulsion of the Turk from Earope, and that the Prince Mmax moves to tho head of the army under the inspiration of the Russian Foreign Office, which is saving its blow until it bocomes apparcent that Sor- vin cannot win, TRussia waos the first power to recognize the Horzegovinian rovolt, She hos supplied the insurgonts with material of war and mono‘}:i Her agents and emissa- {Y"'{\-e: {fi,f;:fi:;_ Ao, m‘:,fi’{,:,":“:““" WV nd ur: 2, Massachusetty, 1), Marylau ries have fiven aid and cncouragement to the g ’ V"gl“h' Clristians, One hundred and twenty-four of her best officers aro in the Servian army. A Russian General commands that army snd o Russian stratogist and diplomatist is ot Bolgrade. Russia has hold Berviain check until Russian army-corps is massed in Bes- gorabia, and tho Austrian frontiers are swarm- ing with her battalions, from all of which we infor that it is Russia that has pushed Ber- via to the front. -~ Wera the contest to bo confined to Bervin, single-handed ngeinst Turkey, the hopo for Christisn indopendence might bo slight. Tho following statcments of the relative forcos, which we give in tabulated form, will ghow this, The army strength of Turkey in 4. Connecticut, 5. New York, 6. New Jersey, 7, Ponnaylvanla. Tho following States Lave been sdmitted in tho years sct opposite cuch'unme: urth Carolina, No. Admitted, 14." Vermont (from Naw York). 1701 16, Keutucky (frowm Virginis) 10, Tennessee (from North Ca 17. Oulo (trom Northwestors Teerits 18, Louislans (bought from Frauce, i803). 10, Indiana (from Northweatern Yorritory). 200 Mlsaiuaiup! (from Georgla) 31, 1lmols (from Northwester: . Alabama (from Georgin). 3 50, Wikcousin (from Northweatern Territory) 1848 timo of war 1a as follows: % 417 Califoruia (conguerod from Mexico) .., 160 At : 0. of men. | %L Minuveota (hall truin Northwestern Ter- Ffi_.;"r:m{é o ritury, half from Loufsiuna purchuse).,185 7 1850 %lefiflx:d rnfirve. olica,« Mllllllr{.lz. o 43, Oregon (fram Lugland by troaty) 3% Kousaa (from Louluisna purchaseo 85, Weat Vieginia (from Virginia).. 36, Nevada (conquered from Mexic 7. Nebruska ((rom Loulslana purchise o Total, regular arm; B T8OB) coer sesnsareens seasiranen To thesa muy be added: 38, Cotumio (partiy from Lonisiana purc Trreguiar troops.... ‘and port couyuered from Mexico)... Auxillary troopa.. Territodes remaining to bo organized iuto States: 1. New Mexico, organized, , Utah, urgunlzed.... 3. Waslingion, orgu 4, Dakots, vrganized. b, Arlzous, orgunized. Tota), {rregulararmy ‘Making a grandtotal of. Tho army of Bervin is compose NEGULAR ARMY. Four battallona of infantry. . 2,400.| 6. Jduho, orgunlzes Two squadrons of cavalr! . 400 | 7. Montany, ol zed. Hoven hatterics of artillery » 1,400 | 8. Wyoming, orgmutzed Four companics of sugineens. [T U, Aluska, urFul\ oo itatrict uf Columbia, seat of Governmont. Total . aserierses 4,470 e e HHARAVAR: A Carbondalo (T11.) dispatch to TiE TRIDURS, Plest Dan, efghty battationa 67,280 4 : B Eaty butustion 5500 | priuted yeaterday morntug, says: *¥row u rell Phirty-three synadrons, ?.!lli:g ublu informaut news came bero to<dsy that the i, Twenty-olght hlllimle Nine conipanics wife of llowaxp Elausz, u farmer lviug 7 miles 5 south of Lere, has been tissing sineo lust Mon- Sl @ay. Bhowaslsst seen belng drazged by her Total eeuee tusband werosa an open flald with & Qrand total.... 164,760 | TOPY around her neck. Nothing serlous wus thought of this mode of treatincnt, a8 eimilar scenes were quito frequent.” If thore 18 anything tha can compeusato for the presont heated termn, it iathe coolucss of the sbove statoment. Taking uverything together, tho viinity of Carbondale must boan extraordina. rily fterestivg und cheerful placo for women. 1t it ia tho common pructico of farmers in that section to amusc themselves by dragging thelr wivca around a field with o ropu sbout thelr uecks, it fs evidently about thnu thot & whip- ping-post should be erectedon yverymrm where this amusement ia practiced, and that able- bodied whippers should be sccured to lash the brutes. Dut Servia docs not fight singlehandsd. Bosnia, Bulgarin, Ierzegovinn, and Monten- egro, although littlo principalities, weak in numbers, have o common causo with Bervia, and south of the Balkans the Servian agents gre alroady ot work among tho disaflected Grooks, stirring them up to active rebolllon. Monnwhile Russin, Austria, Germany, and England have formod a ring on' the ‘Turkish frontiers to watch the fight. Two of those Powers, when the timo comes,—that is,when the small boy geta undor,—will top in; and thosa two Powers are Russia and Aunstria. Germany i a disinterestcd spectator, so far s the Eastern question is concorned, and 14 only too gratoful for Russian non-nterfer- ence in the Franco-German war to arrsy herself against the Ozar, England showod her teeth when the Berlin agreement was submitted to her, but she will do no more. The lion may growl, but will not bite, When this wer assumes ita final grand di. mensions, it will ba fought out to the bitter ond. It will not bo closed until the cause of Ohristian discontent is eradicated. Like our own War of Independence, the primal cause which has arrayed the Christians against the ‘Turks was the attempt of the latter to en- force an arbitrary and tyrannical gystem of taxation. It will end, like our own war, in independonee; but mere indepondence will not satisty Russia or civilized Europe. The contest can only ba closed by removing the Ottoman power. Tho ‘Turk must bs ban- ished from Europe ond driven to bisold Aslatio possessions. There can be no per- | that was ducidedly comical. SAYLER docs nok nanent peace 80 long a8 the Moslems remain | propose to vacate for him. SaYLER'S clection in Europe. - The partition of Turkey is a | isnotfor ten dsys, but for tha entize In the Early l1bel case l‘llml W. ¥, Sronur, of the Chicage 7Vines, in which the Clrenit Courd of this county found Bronsy EA“"‘Q and sssessed the damage ol $15,000, the Blate Suprome Court has sfirmed the vordict of the lower Court, snd tha “faries nn 18 therefore **n for it." " It was one of ihe most vatrageous casea of libelon record, the Jimes having through ita Rockford correspondont grosely vlandered an inuocent young lady, ~Mise ALiok Bauvy, of Rockford, 1L = Evensng Journal, ‘The young lady has since marred and gono West. The error committed by tho cditor of the Times was {n not prumptly retracting athe libelous chiarges as soon as his attentlon was called to the matter, ‘Thero was a retraction made, but it came too late. It is siugular that the suthor of the indecent charges has nover Leen discovercd, notwithstanding tho closcst search has been Instituted by sharp detectives stimulated by tha promiso of a large reward. ———— A Washipgton dispatch says that “The un happlest wan who came loto the House yesten day was Bam Cox. He came down to his sesl in front on the Democrat(c slde, and looked uyp at SavLan, who had been elected Speaker dur ing his sbsence at Bt. Louls, in an envious way g havo marched into’ Herzegovina amidst the *