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

4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1876. The Tribwnce, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. PATABLR INX ADVANCE—I'OSTAGE TRRPAID AT THIS OFPIC Daily ditton, postpald, 1 year, [ . i Literary and Reltgl Hhe Tri-Weekly, postpaid, 17e ¥arts of & year, per fnonth, WERKLY EDIT! Postage pre| » Bpectmen oopfes sent free. To prevent delay and mixtakes, ba sure and give Post- ©fice address {n foll, tuctuling Atato and Connty. Remittances may bemado elther by draft, express, Post-Offico order, or In registered lettegs, at our risk. FERMS TO CITT BUBSCRIBERS. Dally, dell rered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Daily, dellvered, Sunday included, 80 cents per week Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Comer Madison and Dearborn-sts., Chifcago, it —— TRIBUNE FOR TUE SUMMER, Partieslaaving the city for the summor can heva Tux DALy Tinuxa forwanded to soy address upon Jeaving orders at our couating-room. The paper will Do prompily mailed tn n single wrapper, postage pald, 4or 81 per mouth. AMUSEMENTS., Hooley's Theatre. MM!’& strect, between Clark and Lasalle, **Cone acieace.’ ki Wood's Musenm, ‘Monros strest, between Dearborn and Stata, the Octorvon Glrl.™ Afternoon and evening. TUESDAY, JULY 25, 4 Zoe, 1876. Blightly warmer weather ia predicted for #his region to-day. Greenbacks at the New York Gold Ex- change yestorday closed at 89}, Tho Common Conncil has passed the ordi- mance, nnd Mayor Heatn will undoubtedly approve it, imposing penalties upon people who nre guilty of the waste of water. This ordinanco is intonded to prohibit tha waste- ful misuse of water in some paris of tha city to the partial or complete deprivation of peo- plo in other localities, and should be rigidly enforced. The Houso took its usual Monday turn at the currency question yesterdsy, and with tho usual result. Judgo Kerier's motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to resume the coinage of tho silver dollar and make it logal tonder for all debts roceived 116 affirm- stive votes agninst G8 in the nogative, andso the motion failed forlack of the requisite two-thirds. The number of Domocrats who epposed and the number of Republicans who supported this mensure of inflation and sepudiation were about equal, and the soft. money mon are groatly encouraged on account of saveral recent sccessions to their ranks. It is oxpocted that the comtest will be 'ro- mnewed in another form to-day, and a lively weusion is anticipated. : . Mayor Hearn undoubtedly reflecta the views and wishes of the greater part of the community in his sotion votoing the ordi- nance providing for lighting but one-half of tho streatdamps, Two excsllont rensons are given for the voto,—firat, that the ordinance is in violation of tho contracts now in force with the gus companies; second, that it ‘would be manifestly unjust to supply light for but ono-half of tho streets whilo all the people ars taxed to pay,for the gas and all bave already beon sssessed for lamp-posts, It is poasible for the Common Councll to do- vise some plan of reducing the city's ges- billa which shiall not bo open to these valid objections,—as by the use of smaller burners and by lessening tho hours for keeping the mmps lighted. Mayor Hearn's inaugural messags was submitted to the Common Council yester- ay afternoon. The dooument has the merit »f hrovity, while at the same time it treats witk sufficient comprohensiveness the im- portant questions of the hour,—the protec- lon of the city's credit, tho necessity for tetrenchmeont and economy in municipal af- ‘airs, and the collection of the publio reve- aues, The duty of thorough and searching tetronchmont is oarnestly urged upon the Council as tho only rosd out of our difficul. lies, and tho salo of the city’s unproduetive renl estate, including the lnke:front property, Is strongly rocommended. The Mayor is ad. vised by the Law Department that the 1,800,000 of uncollected taxes of 1878 and 1874 can bo colleated undor the Goneral law, ‘butin the mewntime relief must first como through a reduction of expenses below the city's incoma, and in this direction Mayor Heata pledges his constant and cordial co- operation, The prospects are now apparently good for tho completion of the impeachment trinl the presout week, and final adjournwment of Congress by the middlo of next weok, The mrguments of counsel and mauagers in the Jrupeachuient case will probably be finished by Wedresday, and if the Senate, as is ox- pected, deliberate upon the verdict in secrot wesulon, the end may be oxpected within a day or two at farthest. The remaining ap. propriation bills are now in a fair way for compromise, the general feeling being that once tho BrioNap case having boen dis. posed of it will require little Inbor or dolay to finish wup the legisla- tive businoss. The constantly-Increasing warmth of the political utnosphers, as well as the torrid temperature of the past woek, sorves as aspur to the Democracy, who are anxious to take'the flold iu force in enpport of a ticket which, far from pleading its own couse, haa already evinced its lack of the fm. partant elements—consistenoy and harmony ~—which alone can render any party success- ful. The Washington mill for the manufac- $ure of political capital bay not run as smoothly s was expeated, the Democracy themselves having furnishod a good part of the warp aud woof for the manufacture of the scandalous stories which it was autici- pated were to startle the country during the rampaigo, The Ohicago produce markets were gen- wally stronger yesterday, and moat of them were moderately active. Mess pork closed 120 per brl bigher, at $18.46 for August and k18,55 for Boptomber, Lard closed 5o per 100 1bs higher, st $10.80 for August and $10.924 for Beptember, Meats woro a shade easler, st 7io for boxed shoulders, 9o for do short riby, and 100 for do short clears. Lako freights were atoady, at 1o for corn to Buffalo, Rail freights wers un. thanged. Highwines wers quict, at $1.10} pergullon. Flour was dull. Wheat closod Lo higher, at 890 cash aud 89§c for, Au. gust. Corn closed s suade firmur, at 44jo . oash and 434c for August. Oats closed 3o higher, a4 28}c cash or seller August, Rye was irregularly firmer at 50@5ic, Barley ‘wss quiet snd firmer, closing st 670 for Sap- tember, Hogs were in demand &t 5@100 ad- vanos, Oaitle wero falsly active, and choice Frades sdypumsd aboud 0o, Bheop were salable at §2.50@4.25. One hundred dol- lars in gold wonld buy $111.75 in green- backs ot the close. The Democratio County Convention was remarkable gathering,—n curious mixture of 8ilk-Btockings and Dirty-Shirts, of Swallow- Thails and Short-Hairs, Gen, Jomn F, Fanxs. WoRTH, nn old-time Abolitionist, was there and made a Demooratic speech | 8. Conxixa Jupp, Chancellor of the Diocese, was thero, ‘and, quoting from a book which might have been Mother Goose or the Talmud for all the greater part of his auditors knew, eaid to the Domocraoy: *Thy people shallba my people, and thy God shall be my God," Tho crowd, supposing that the Chancellor alluded to “Blippery Bax,” applauded vigorously, aud theroupon proceeded to engage in a most disgraceful row, in the courss of which Judge Mirien, the stately and dignified Chairman, was flatly scoused of putting up a job, and one of the shining lights of the Convention ‘was forcibly reminded of a record of infamy written against him in the Court files, Then thera were yells and howls and curses nnd abusiva epithets, and the beautiful fitnoss of Chancellor Jupp's Bible quotation was mora and more apparent. The Finance Committes of the Common Council havo agreed upon aplan for, the collection of the delinquent taxes of 1873 and 1874, the payment of which has besn for the time delayed, but not escaped, by the declsion of the Supreme Court that Bill 10248 unconstitutional, The Committee, following out tho argnment and suggestions put forthin Tae TRIBUNE, have reached substantially the same conclusion, viz.: that the Revenuo law of the State providea a method whereby theso taxos can be lovied nud collected in full, and the tax-fighters compelled to pay thoir just proportion of the oxpensos of the City Government. The plon proposed ia for the County Clerk, after having beon farnished with cortified copies of the ordinances levying and assessing tho amount of approprintion for each year, to proosed with the collaction of the tax in the same manner as he wonld pro- ceed under the Genornl law if no attempt had beon made to collect these taxes. | Itis believed that no act of the Legislaturs will ‘o nocesaary to legalizo this method of col- lection, but if such legislation should be found requisits, it can be eocnred in time to pormit the collection of the delinquent taxes nlong with the tax of 1876. A BOURBON CONFIDEROE GAME, The Chicago Times is moking a desperate effort to * play it on its Republican read- ers, By a serioa of false pretonses, covering a period when there was no opportunity to turn the Government ovor to the Confeder- ales, that journal endeavored to gain a repu- tation for political “independence.” Its hope and design wero to attract o certain Ropublioan constituency, since the Demoorats, being largely an un. reading people, did mnot furnish it with adequato support. Hence it called the Democratic party hardnames, It hurled cpithets with a vigorons and practiced Land, ¢ Bourbon,” ‘¢ Confoderate,” and * putrid remimscenco,” wero terms that occurred in overy other line, and uothing waa too vile or malignant to bo said of ita old associates. But, now that there is another and a last chance for the *‘putrid reminiscence” to get at the Government spolils in the person of Saxvy TiLpex, tho Tlmes rotnrns to its old love and fights as desperately for the Bourbons and Confederates ns it did during the War, or when it supported Mr, Peypre. ToN's ‘repudiation schemes after the War. But it is still solicitous for its Nepublican constituency, and hence mnkes frantic and Indicrous effcrla to show that in support- ing Mr. TiLpen it does not support the lost tribe bohind him. The ridiculousness of this opinion is sbundantly apparent. If it ‘were ot 80, the following paragraph clipped from ono of the ZT'imas' articles would estab. lishit: The Zimes carnestly supports Mr. Tinzy, It does not upliold Bourbonlsm, nor would it at all pallinto any ‘*outrage and barbarlsm* inatigated by tho splelt of Bourbonlam. 1t aupports Mr, TiLpEX not because it anbacribes to the sentiments of Bxx HiLy and Beveney Tocken, nor becauso it approvea of Mr. 8ax Cox'a encers and jokes ovor the bodles of the slain. It supports him becauso it belloves fn him a8 & Reformer, as a statesman, as aman of cultare, intellect, and forco; as a man dinposed to work outa great adminlstrative reform, to utop abused, to devise sound policies and wiso economlc measures, and a man who has the bralus and will to accomplish these things, with the ca- oporation of & reasonable number of those who will vote for him. ' The Z7mes la thercforo anxious to sce vomo aigns of reform, some evllence of reavon and juastice in those who assume to do the loudust shouting for TiLbeN. It docsn't want to sce him hopolessly sunk by the welglit of Bourbone Iem aud barbariam, Now, how cau tho Z¥mes **enrnestly sup- port " Mr. Tioey without also ‘‘earnestly supporting ™ the party who bave nominated him, the peoplo who will vote for him, aud the politicions who will fill the offices and composg his Administration it elected? Mr, TupeN cannot riso superior to his party, aud Lis party is the samo bad Confederate lot and * putrid reminiscence” now that it was & fow wecks ago before it nominated him, Indeed the party ocould not have chioson 'a man more entirely in sympathy with ita carecr of disloyalty and subsoquent Ku-Kluxism,—withits ' Bourbonism and bar- ‘bariem.” He refused to sign a call for a mass- meeting in New York in favor of maintain- ing the Constitution and lnws after Sumter waoa fired nt, though every other loyal Dom. ocrat of any prominence wag a party to that call. In the Dewocratio Convention of 1864 he was the New York member of the Com. mitteo on Resolutions which reported that tho War was o failure, Ho dare not to-day condomu the outrages. of the Southorn fire- eaters, nor rebuke tho utterances of such men 84 Bey Hiuw, Beveery Tooxen, and Bunset Cox, foritis from these peopla that he expoots tho butk of his support. ‘Chero is not a Bouthorn Confedorate who cherishes resontmont for tho ‘“‘lost cnuse” but will vote for Tipex. There is not a Northern Copperhoad who kept up the ¢ fire in the rear"” during the War but will vota for TizoeN. There §a not an anclent Democrat in all the land who believes in the Demo- cratic doctrine “To the victors belong the spoils,” aud who has his eyo on the loaves and fishes, but will voto for TruoxN, There 18 not a niggor-hater or a nigger-killer in tho Confederate 8tates but will vote for TrLoex, There i3 not & Tammany thicf at the North but will vote for TioeN. And they will all doitin the vigorous hope and sorona vonfl- dence that he will be true to them in the future as in the past, and that he will restore the good old Demacratio timesof Buomawan and Froyn, when it was no orime to kill a nigger or plundor the Guvernment, The effort to separate TiLpex from the Democratic party is simply to inke a dis. tiuction without a differsuce. One is the head, the other the body, and thoy atand or fall together. The success of ono means the inevitable success of the othor, Nobody knows this kby bettcy thay the Ohaago Times, and nobody desires it morc hanrtily. TiLDEN Was never more of n Copperhend and Robel sympathizer than StorEr, and the two mon have natures and traditions entirely in sympnthy with the Confederate party. 1f Sronry thought for one moment that TILDEN, if elected, would ndminister tho Governmeont on Ropublican principles (as the T¥mes wonld have ita Republican readers lelisve), he would not support Trmoxy. ¥la rofused to support Greerey, when tho latter was taken up by tho Domocrats, because GRERLEY wns not & Copperhend and conld not be induced to subsoribe to the Capporhend doolrines. He does support Titpex, becanse he knows Tirnxx to bo as rank & Bourbon ns himself, nnd he only nt- tompla to separate him from his party in the endonvor to retain somo of the Republican readors of his paper, and to steal somo Re- publican votes by conacions misrepresenta- tions and falsifications, It is o confidence game that will not succeod ns to cither of its aims, Its purpose is too apparent. A NEW DEPARTURE IN THE COURTS. At last comes & judicial utterance from which it would seem that it ay coms to bo recognizad by our Courts that a witness may have rights which n cross-sxamining lawyer is bound to respect. Mitherto, practically, tha Courts have assumed that witnesses hind none such. The Judges for the most part have distinguished thomaelves by the alacrity with which they have delivered tho Juckless witness, bound hand aud foot by tachnical rulings, over to connsel to be wantonly tor- tured, and to have the good fame earned by a lifetime of probity and honorable dealing destroyed by * dinbolieal innuendo. The- orotically, in this land of freedom, mno person, in the language of the bill of rights, shall baheld to auswer for a capitnl or otherwisc infamous offense, unless on pre- sontmont or indictment of a Grand Jury. But, a8 o matler of fact, whoever was called 88 a witness has boon by cross-examining attornoys charged with the most infrmous offenses, put on trial thorefor, and, nfter bo- ing subjected to the most terrific denuncia- tion, convictad, whilo denied the right of de- fonso or of appenl. The businessof the cross-cxamining counsel has been the nsans- sination of wituesses' charnoter, and lucky indood has boen tho witness who has not descended frotn the box to the immoansnrable depths of infamyto which his cross-examiner lias consigned him. But now comes His Honor Judge Esrvoys, | of the United States Circuit Court, and in a decision reported in our law colunns to-day, actually rules, roversing all the established practico, that the law doos not licensoe law- yors to nesnssinte tho character of wit. nesses, and that upon the trial of a causo the trial should be confined to that of the person accused, and that the trial of tho witnesses upon mero charges made by counsol should not be tolerated, Inthe case in which His Honor so ruled he even went so far as to protect witnesses agoinst the infamous sssaults of distin- guished counsel, and to publicly warn the jury that the “‘terrifio utterances” and **gereaming violence” of the distinguishied counsel wore simply so much wind, and wero indecent besides. In the courso of Lis defense of A persecuted witness, Judgo Ewwvons, indeed, went further, and made an attack wupon distingnished counsel that was o return redoubled of the firo to which the witness had been subjocted, and in which it is suggested that tho pro- fesgionnl assassin of witnesses' charnctor was indeed an accomplice after the factof the coriminal he defended, and not to be hold less guilty, Judge Esons' ruling works a now de- parture in tho administration of justice, which, if followed up, will work an end of tho farcical and disgusting performances in the courts, which are a parody on justice, and but shield the guilty at the expenso of those whose offense it s to possess knowl. odgoof the facts, TRESPONBIBLE GOVERNMENTS, ‘We print somo portious of an articla re- contly publishied by Mr. V. B, Dexsrow, of this city, in which ho urgnea for snch changea in our form of Government as will give to it thoso features of direct respousibility which distinguish the Euoglish and other Govern- ments, The writer slates the advantages which might be derived from the chango with somo force, and also the resulting weak- nessof our system ; bnt the plan he pro. poses by which to adapt the English systom to our own is, we think, a failure, The evila of our syitem are notorions and confirmed. They aro bocoming more and more embarrassing, destroying the unity and harmony which are essoutial between the several branchos of the Government, and compolling the country to submit during an infloxibla torm of "years to a policy of sdministration which it is poworloss to change, An instance of this was fur- nished by the administration of Jomwsow, which, during four years, was at vari. anco with the legislative departmonts and with the peopla; something of this kind has prevalled at times during tho last eight years, and at present we have a still greator compli- cation of an open division botween the two 1lonsos of Congroess, and butween them and the Prosident, and, though wo lave an eloc- tion this year, this condition of things must perforce continue until next March, There are many radical changoes which must takeplaos in vur Constitution beforo the prin. cipleof arospansible Ministry or Oabine} can be madeapplicable toourform of Government, In the first place, the Presidont must be made independent, and this can only be dons by eleotiug him for a term of six or cight yoars, and ineligible for re.election. ‘This removes himn from tho aspirants for the succession, and his tenura being for tho term permancn, ke would fill the measure of u. Natlonal Executivo in o way far more oredit- able than at presont. Having thus made the Exccutive an independent ofiicor, above party, and the reprosontativoof the conntry, the next thing would be to introduce the system of diroet rosponsibility both of the Cabinet and of tho 1louse of . Represontatives to the people. For this .purpose the meotings of Congross should follow the elections inmmo. diately, aud not, asnow, fourteen months aftor the clection of the members. Thus the Houso of Representatives elocted in 1876 will not mect until December, 1877, when all the issues upon which that election took place mny hnve been settled and forgotten. Congroess should havoe o fixed logal term, sny of two, thres, or four years, tho date of its oxpiration being fixed by law ; and the first meating of thisCongross should immediately follow the general election of the members, ‘The Bonate would of course remaiu as now a continuous Lody, one-third of the Senators being elooted every two years. ‘T'he Constitution being amended in thess particulars, thero wonld have to be a consti- tutional recognition of the Onbinet officers as on integral part of the Government, and to the President should be given the power through theso Cabinet officers to initinto legislation. These Cabinet officers might bo selacted from members of tho two llouses, or from other persons, in which caso the lat- tor would be ar-gfiicio members Without the right of voting. All the members of the English Cabinet are also members of Parlin- ment. In this way the Governmant would initiato all the leading measures of legisla- tion, and would approva or oppose mensures proposed by others. The Governmont would have'to dotermine on what policy it would stand, oither for or against & meas- ure, and seloct the bill on which it would stake its policy. If the House of Repre- sontatives should vote down a Lill which the Administration hind selected as indicating its policy, then the proceeding wonld be: 1. The Cabinet to resign, and the President wonld select another agroeing with the ma- Jority of the Housa; or, 2, Tho Prosident would by proclamation dissolve the Iouse, in which case a new eloction for members would take place, say in sixty days, and the new Honse would moet in thirty days there- after. 'This would be an appeal Ly tho Ex- ccativo from tho Houso to tho people, and upon the resnlt of tho eloction the con- tinuance in offico of tho Cabinet, or the im- mediate appointment of a new one, would follow. Thus the Houso, reprosonting the people, would be in nccordance with the Excoutive Depariment; when they diffored, and there wos a question whether public opinion was truly represented by the Touse, that conld be dotermined by the appenl to the people, These nre the constiiutional clanges which would be required to wmake our Gov- ernment like those of England, France, Italy, Germany, and all other nations recog- nizing the principle of representation,—really o representativo Government, responsible directly to the people, who are thus sble to compel the. Government to carry out their policy. This is a very large subjcet. The change proposed wonld ba n rovolution of our Gov- mont and of the administrative politics and practices that have grown up under it. It would mnko our Governmont mors domo- cratio than it has ever been. It would break up many ovils now existing, would destroy the mnchino system of politics, would give stability to the Government, und subject all leading questions direet to the judgment of the people. How far on tho other hand it would introduce evils and weaknesses at present unknown to cur system is o mattor for consideration.. While we do not desiro to bo considered as advocating this Govern- mental change at this time, we cad commend the subject to the careful consideration of thinking and studious men. UPHOLD! ASSACRE. Tmmedintely after the brutal massabro of Ulack prisoners, held in illegal arvest by n whito mob, at Hamburg, 8. C,, there woro some of the Southorn newspapors which had the monliness to denounce tho assassination, aud to disavow it as an ot which is consid- ored infamous even among uncivilized na- tions, possibly with tho exception of the Turkish fanatics, who make it a rule to massacre unarmed ond helpless prisoners, ‘These papers, however, aro gradually being whipped in by the red-hot secession papers, 50 that thoy have censed thoir denuncintion, while the lattoroponly justifiy- and defend tho mnssacre, ‘The Savannah (Ga.) Morn. ing News is ono of the former class. It recently doplored the mnssaore, now it de- cides that tho ‘¢ circumstances will not ox. cuso the unbearabla arrogance of an armed negro mob who dofy civil authority and threaten the lives of peacoful citizons,” But this was not an armed negro mob. This was a erowwd of unarmed, defonsclesa negroes, who were relonsed by thelr captors, told to run,and, as thoy ran, ware shot down liko dogs. **Defy civil authority!” Whot civil suthority had thoy defied? What au- thority had people of Georgin to go into South Carolina and disarm a militia com- pony, orgaunized under tho laws of the State oud recognized by the Constitution of tho United States? **Threaton the lives of penceful citizens! " What peaceful citizens ? I'ho citizens & Hamburg are blacks, Thore aro no white residents there, Is there any- thing very threatening in a handful of blacks besicged in their armory by a howling mob of whites armed with rovolvers, guns, and cannons? ls thore muything very threaton. ing in this handful of blacks hiding them- selvos under floors, in closets, corn-cribs, ond hog-pens? Is there ouything very threateningin this landfal of blacks, with. | out arms in their hands, used as targots for the white mob? Tho Augusta (Gn.) Constilutionalist is a fair samplo of tho latter class, It hias nover hesitated to defond and justify the shooting, It pronounces the whole affair as ** poppy- cock,” It calls upon tho mob to clean out tho whola town of Hamburg, which votes tho Ttepublican ticket. It has egged on Dr. Memmwerues, whose son was Lkilled during the sioge of the armory, to obtain, warrants for the arrest of oll tho mombers of the company, churging them with murder, riot, insurrection, and conspiracy, It is natural that a father uhould lament tho loss of a son, but why waa the son in the fray at all? Why should ho, o Georgian, go ovor into Bouth Carolina to help disarm a regularly-organizad militia company ? What had Le to do with theso negroea? Woe do not learn from the Conati- tutionalist, however, that any warrants have been issued for the murderers headed by Gen, BuTren, who assaasinated half a scors of helploss negroes on the public highway after they hiad been released. The Conatity. tionalist is tho organ of this Gen, Buries, and in its columna he ropliea to tho recent fo. port of tho Attorney-General of Bouth Oaro. lina upon the massacre, He expresses as- tonishment that the Governor should have subjooted the Btato to the expense of an in. vestigation! It is astonishing, The Demno- cratlo way would have been to lot it alone, ns it was only Ropublican negrocs who were shot, Houays: *‘It wasaoruel and inex. cusable wrong, an unpardonablo siu 'sgainst the poaco of the country and the lives of the poople, that ho should bave allowed tliess guns and ammunition to remamn in their hands,” Bat why was it a cruel and inex. " cusable wrong? The Constitution of the United States guarantees the right of the nilitia to bear arms, and declares that that shall not be infringed. What right, there. fore, had Gen, Burses, of Georgls, to go in. to South Oarolina at the head of a mob to disarm Btate militia? He cloges his roply with a patronizing display of hypocrisy that has rarely if over been equaled. Boys Gen, Burres; ‘The white men of this country have some rights which the negrocs are bound to respect, They bave no other foeling for them than kindness and pity. Kinduees for their loyalty to vur families durfng the War, sud pity that thoy will permit themselves to be mada the tools of bad, mischiov. ouv, deslgning whito sen and malattoes. So long s they obey the Jywe (1hat Is, 40 lony as they vots the Democratla tickes.—£L, ] uvery Lonorablo man V- of the conntry will fecl bound ta protect and en- conrage them in happinees and prosperity. We presume that the mob whom Gen, Burrer hended was actunted by kindness and pity when it ahiot down theso ten unarmed negroes, and thon pillaged their homes, but how the negro peoplo of the South appre- olato such displaya of kindness and pity is shown by the following oxtract from a reso- lution paasod at & mnss.neoting of negroes in Charleston, 8, C., on tha 17th inat.: Thero §8 & deep dctermination mever, o help their God, to submit to ho shot down by lawless regulntors for no crimes committed against socloty and law. Thers s a point gt which forbearance ceases to boa virtue; cowards driven to desperas tlon often deatroy those who corner them. The nezro [n this conntry witl not always ba docile—he will not always be reetralned hy is lnw-ablding charactar—the rising generatlon aro na brave and dneing as are white menj alrendy that spirit ls taking deep root in the mindsof thousands who liava nothing to lose in the contest, and who would rejolce tn an opportunity to sacrifico their lives for thelr liborty, THE FAST-MAIL S8ERVICE, Thoe fast-mnil service, which has been a luxury for nearly a yenr, has now been defi- nitely discontinued, and it is not likely that it will bo revived until the next annual ap- propriations shall ba mado, if then, At the time the sorvice was ostablished, tho ro- sources of tho Tost-Ofice Department did not warrant tho payment of such rates s provided a reasonable compensation for the extra Iabor and expenso of moving thetrains; but the railroads undertook tho work with tho oxpectation thnt the value of the service to the commercinl pullic would be so de- monstrated that Congress would incrense the pay and make thé service permanent. - Instead of this, the Democrntic louso di- minished the compensation, and so the fast- mail trains have been takon off. The actunl offcct on commercial corre- spondence which will follow a return to the old and slower systom of carrying the mails betweon tho East and West onn ouly bo defi- nitely nscortained Dby expericnco, We ap- prohend, howaver, that Chicago will suffer very littlo, becanse the hours of starting from Now York and arriving at Chicago weres such a8 not practieally to nccelerate tho inter- chongo of businoss lettors, ‘The train loft New York about 4 o'clock in the morning and arrived in Chicago about 6 o'clock. It brought mail into this city only a couple’of hours entlier, and practically for business purposes mo omlier, than the trafn which loft New York nt 8 o'clock on the previous ovoning. Unless business lotters were writ- ten In Now York during tho night, which is cortainly an unusunl practico, they would bo 1o more recent than letters written boforo the closs of business hours aud sent by the ovoning train. Had tho train loft Now York at 12 o'clock, mnoon, of ono duy sud arrived hore nt 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next dny, the Chicago business publi would have had grontor benefit from it, since it would then have racatved and beon able to act npon New York business advices of the precoding day. But, as it was, thore waso practical lapso of thirty-six hours from the writing of the lotters in New York to their delivery in Chicago, though tho train was run in twenty-gix hours, so that there was really no gain over what may be done now. That is to sy, lotters writlon in Now York yesterday afternoon befora tho close of busi- ness hours will rench Chicago ently in the Dusiness hours of to-morrow morning, and this was all that was nccomplished with tho fast mail, There aroe other communities, both nearer Now York and fnrther romoved than Chiengo, which mado a practical gain in time that was lost to our busincss mon. | Wo think that the most noticenbla differonce at this point will be in the failure to recvive in tho morning ths Now York nowspapers of the previous morning ; but, as tho circuln. tion of New York nowspapors in the West has been insignificant theso many years, this effect will only be felt by a very fow peoplo. Indeed, we think the experionce of the New York newspapors was that thoir limited cir~ culation m the West was not matorially in. creased by the fast mail, A much more sorious wattor than the dis- continuanco of the fast mail is hinted at by the Railway Age 84 o vesult of the niggardli. ness of tho Domocratic Congress in the Post-Oficc appropriation. 'This is the probable rofusal of the Enstern railronds to carry the through postal- cars at their prescut rate of compensation, This would mnke a decided differenco in the timo of transmission and delivery of business correspondonoe. So long s the postal-cars aro run, the mails are hold open in New York to the last moment beforo the starting of the train, the distribution for the varlous points §s mado in the postal-cars s the train pro. coods, nnd tho mail is ready for assortment aud delivery hmmediately upon its arrival, But if the postal-cars bo taken off, the mails will havo to be closed sevoral hours carlier in Now York, and the delay will be seriously folt, ¥ it comes to this, the Democratic Congress may expect to liear from the people of oll ports of the country in a very deter- minod protesi . BENEFITS OF GOVERNMENT, There 1s o first-claes ULlathorskito In the City Council of the namo uf LAWLRIL, —FRANK LAWLER he is called, 1o has Invontod a way lo ** fetch'* tho tax-payers to suy torms of submisalon which the pap-suckors may chooso to impose, 1l plan 1a to cut off the wator, tho sowers, the firs and po- Iice servico, and ko on, from all proprictors of Chl- cago who shall not, within ten days after notice, come forward and haud over all taxes, chargcs, pensities, etc., which may appear on any public rocord againet thom!—Times, The property-owners of Chicago who re- sort to all manner of means to avold paying taxes froquontly sy that they roceive no consideration for tho tex that {s domanded of them, and therefore it is an oxaction which they foel authorized to defeat. Ald. Lawren's proposition puts to the test this very question whether thero is any considor. ation given for those taxes, The Lulk of the tax forcity purposes is for lighting tha stroets, supplying the water, bullding, clean. ing, and ropairing sswers, aud for police and fira service. How would it be if those ex. penditures were all out of? How would it affeot the value of the proporty which thess people own? Iow loug would it be before Ohicago would become pestilontial, living hero unendurable, and the business of the city disappear? But in order to bring this question of consideration down to individu. als, how many of the G0O persons who on Baturday last filed a refusal to pay tazes would submit to have thelr property do. prived of the benefita resulting from the ex. penditures for these purposes? We have soen the géneral protest from the entire pop- ulation at the proposal to extingulsh one. half the street-lamps, and among those pro- tosting moy bo included the whele 600, most of whom are ‘‘carriage poople,” to whom lighted streets aro a necessity, Now lot the test be applied to any ‘of these GO0, all of whom are large property- owners. Oue of them refuses to pay a tax for water; how long will he remain with the wateraupply cutoff fgm his house? The saue person has & vonheolion between his house and all his houses and the srowers. He rofuses to pay a tax to maintain or pay for sawors, bocnuse he denies that he roceives any consideration for such tax, Buppose the city shonld detach all the connections be- tween all hla honscs and the stroot sewer, how long would his bulldings be habitable ? How long would hio bo able to find n tonant to ocoupy them, even free of rent? How long would he continue to live in his own house, with the drainsge pipes blocked up ? How long would it bo before ho would dis- cover that the tax demanded of him for sowers was o minute return for tho boenefil which his property derived from it, and which proporty would be valueless without it? , In like manner these 60O refuso to pay ntax to shaintain a Fire Deparmont becauso they receive no consideration for it. Bupposo the Fire Dopariment wora ingtructed to pay no attention to the property refusing to be taxed, nnd thatin cnsa of firo it should protect all adjoining property, leaving the untaxed promises to toke caro of themselves, What would be the decline in the rontal of property excmpt from taxation and also exempt from protec- tion agninat fire? At what rate would such property find i{nsurance? Would it find any? Would auy tensnt placo goods in promigos that was ndvertised as unprotected from fira? Tho 600 who refuse to pay taxos far polico beeause they got no consideration for tho tax wonld perhaps discover the valuo of the conslderation when their houses were made known na premises not under the guardianship of the polico. The burg- lars, and the thieves, and the incendiaries, would provide themselves with lists of the names and residences of the 000, and of tho atores, warehouses, nnd other build- ings owned by them’; and, as these people disenrd police protection for theso promises, the burglars and thioves would kuow exactly where to practice, freo of arrest, or disturb- ance, or eapture. Ilow long would these 600 Lo nble to find tenants for premises thus no- torious ns outside of polics protection, and as promises freo for plunder and violenco ? ‘Wo know of no class of persons who en- Joy 8o largely the bonefits of Hylted streots, water, sowars, firo and police service, na the clnss to which theso 600 belong; nor do we know any class who would suffer more or bo more merionsly injured thnn these same poopld were their property deprived of the benefits provided by theso taxes which thoy rofuso to pay because of & want of ** consid. eration.” The London Z%imes of tha 10th inst. closes an articlo upon thy recont meeting of tho Emperors of Austria and Russia with the fol- lowing significant declaration : i Tha moral of the prescnt crialg {s that the powera of the present polentates the world knows sre limited by conditlons of popular sentiment which cannot bo neglected. No desnotism Is uncon- trolled. 'fhe authority of o Sultan has usually been accounted us untrammeled and complete, but Annen Aziz found there wero limits to the tol- erauce of his caprices, and Lia auccessor appears 1o have nothing but the name of soversignty. The Cazar Is another embodiment of autocratic power, ‘Thero was a time when his will was law, and the Kmporor ALgxannen hod been ablo to do things upon which no Britleh Parllament would venture. Tha scntiment of maintainlng onr torritorial pos. wesslons unabated is so strang that we cannot rec- tify the frontior of an unhealthy African settlo- ment, while the Czar has been uble to scll a vast territory to the Government of the Unfted States, But he, too, knows that théro arometes and bounds tols power. The national wentiment of Russia moy be curelesa uf outlying territories, but 1s not carcless of oulcast Slave, oud when a movement fson foot for their delivery from bondage, the Czar acknowledges and respects the force which underlies it. * 'I'bo force " to which the Zlmes rofors is alluded to with equal significauce in the dis- patch printed yosterdny morning, that the Slavophils of Moscow have imsued an ad- dress solemnly promising a genoral uprising of Russian armed intervontion if the Serviaus aro defented, ‘and the influence of this popu- lar * forco” may bofound ih another dis- patel, assorting that all the Powers except Russia havo ‘doclared Roumania's demands vnreasonablo, It will be remembered that the most important demand made of the Porte by Roumanin is the control of tho Delta of the Danube, whiak, if conceded, would Le tantamount to giving the Russians right of way into Turkey. Tho peopleof Chicngo ought bo o little nshamed of themselves when they read that tho subseriptions to the popular loan recont- 1y mado by the City of Paris wero fifty.four times the vequired amount, while they hang off from tho lonn of their own city., 'This is not an exceptional case. Every lean ad- vertised for by the Fronch Government or the Paris City Government has called out subscriptions largely in excess of the amount desired. The subscription offices are be. sioged with people from the momont they are opened until subscriptions aro no longor re. celved by tho authorities, In the presont caso the city loan in Paris is not made to re- lieve any pressing nocessities, as is tho cnso in Chicngo, but to provide funds for magnift- cent publio improvementa in connection with the proposed Exposition of 1878, so that the contrnst betwoon the avidity with which the French gubscribe to their loan and the unanimity with which OChicagoaus hold aloof from theirs, is thus intensifiod, ‘Thero are two conspiouous reasons for the differenco in tho two cases. Ono is that the working claases of France are a moro frugal people and always have snvings which they want to invest; the other ia that thoro is n higher sentimont of patriotiam, traditional and iu the DLlood, among the Fronch than among our conglomerate population. But neither renson, so far as wo can judge, is creditable to our people, The Now York Times las o letter from Col, T. W. HigainsoN on the Mamburg butchery, Heisnot o bigoted Ropublican, he says. Mo ‘went to the May coufereuce. But he (s more than ever grateful, now, for IIAYrs and Wiusxr- E#, The Hamburg Trial-Justice, Princs Riv- s, was his own Color-Sergeant for three years ~—a man of uncommon physical and mental pow- er, a born leader, learncd to read and write be- foro the War, thoroughly upright, couragcous, aud truthful, The cvidence shows that Rivens excrted himself to keep the peace. Yet o had toflco for bislife, and Lis house was sacked, 4 Of what uso," asks the Colonel, *“arcall our efforts to lay aaide tho issucsof the War, if they are still to be kept alive by our white follow- citizens of the Bouth! Tho spirit that sends armed men acrosa tho South Carollua border to-day may just as vasily send them across the Pennsylvania border next year, if it secures the aldof a Dewocratic Natlonal Adwlulstration, For one, I do not proposa to acquiesce in this,” e —— Moved thercto, doubtless, by the torturesof people in the blazing, bllstering weather at New York, in which theyare brolling as ina flery furnace, the Sun turns to tho consideration of that other place of eternal hot torment, and preacuts some novel yet philosophic visws, golng toshow that the salvation with which profane, perspiring New Yorkers are wont to greet each other—thnt it 1s as hot asat thoother place~—Is wholly unwarranted lo fact, The Sun ssys1 We belleve there 1s a hell. Butit is not a place of eternal tor) av 4 Infiicted for tho sake of punivhe ment, Itis feally joclation of men who in thls existence loved Mhewmscives supremely, broke the Jaws of epiritual 11fe, nnd did evil. The of roul thus prodiiced s Infernal, nd men i oes A atate gather together afterdeath, Bt fn that aa. roclation, though thelr condltion is deadly and de. plorable, they do not know il, but have as much | nl?eu a4 they arecapablo of, und as litile suffering. Mr. DaNa I8 n 8wedenborglan, and the alove, which Is evidently from his pen, may prohably be accepted as the latest and most succinet atate- ment of the doctrineupon that polnt of the Atfierlcan disciples of the wondrous Scandj. navian seer. Those to whom the fire nnd brim. atong are of the essence of saving falth ay find fault with It; but the rest of mankind, in this weather at least, will be grateful to Mr, DANA for so philusophic a demonstration that hell may bo considered without suggestion of more awful heat than that experienced fn this Centennial year. ‘What the men of Boston could nnt do, the women heve token Lold and partinlly done, Twenty Indles, among them Mrs, Citaruxs Francis Apams, Mrs, Acasstz, Mrs. Jasry Freryvan CLarkg, Mra. James M, CopMax, Mrs, FRANRLIN DEXTER, Mrs, Jonn E, Lonag, Miss Anva C. Lowzrn, Mrs. AntiunT, Ly. MAR, Mra, WiLLiax (. Prescorr, Mra. Mary LowsLl, Pursas, Mra. G. HowLAnD Buaw, Miss L. P. Somien, nnd Mrs, Rooer ‘Wor.corr, have purchased the Old South Church, whith secures the time the Btanding Committee werg willing to graut for the effort to ralse money coough to purchase thie whole property. 1If tlg money s not ralsed in that time, then the Jp. dies who have bought it will have to demolteh the bullding and eell it for rubblsh, or cart it o to some other part of the city and rebuld it. It the men of DBoston do not raiss the money In the sixty days, we hope the ladics will see to it that the old Revolutionary structe ure s rebullt, exactly ns it was, and, having done this, that it Is devoted exclusively to fo- male uses, and that nomale Bostonlan shall ever be admitted within {ts walls. DBut, having suc- cceded In buying the church, why do not the ladies put tho male Bostonlans to shame Ly buying the ground? Thelr success fn pur- clinsing the structure, nlthough ft coat only $3,500, argues n corresponding degres of suce cens in buying the whole thing. . The mere ad- dition of a few zcros more or less to a given sum of purchase moncey is of no account In the cstimation of the avernge woman, and, as Bos- ton women ara a little better than the average, any number of zeros ought not to appall thew, Rt bty The Western Btates aro now politiesily rep- resented in Congreas as follows: Tiinois ., Michigan A careful enleulation of the chanees renders it probable that thoso Btates swill be ropre- _scnted in the noxt House of Representatives of Congress as followa: Demn, pr;..' F o an 1 8 2 7 a0 0 3 [] a 01 o 1 This estimate gives the Tlldenites every dise trict to which thelr strength entitles them, It the Republicans put forth their proper strengtl, as wo thinle they will do this fall. Cook County's part of this work of reforn s to dis. penee with three doughfaces and put in thek places threo sound Republicans, ——— The New York Sun, tho leading TiLoes organ of Ney-York. says: . Watel the Demoacraflc Congrassment Wo havy not mnch confidence In tho Democrnts who lead the party fn tha present Tonse of Ttooresontatives of the lnited Stafes, They are—most of thum— comparntively small men, tho creationn of accldent. Tho Democrats must have stronger men in the nexi Congress. They inay be stronger, but there will be fewes of them. Tifty of them at lenst wera the ‘‘ercation of naccident,” but this fall “acel dent" will not ereate Democratic members as it did in 1574, when the tidal wave flonted s many iniscrable sticks futo Congress. In thi State it Is proposed to replnco about aix of these “gmall men” with sound Ropublicans. In Indlanz three or four of the “small™ dough faces will bo dropped out. Jowa hat only one doughface in lier delegation, and ke cowld ULe left behind, Kansas a)so has ono of that breed, who will bo excused from serving in the next House. Two at least of tho three from Michigan will get a perpetual leave of absence—from Washington. Wiscon- sin i8 going to dispense with tho services of the individual CaTE, Ohlo praposcs to yeverse the present proportiona of her delegation, and fne stead of thirteen doughfaces und seven Repub- licans, sho will bo repreeented in the next Cone gresa by thirteen Republleans and only seven serviles, The Democrats may have * stronger nen ¥ In the next Congress, but there will bo fewer of them—that is certaln, ——— The chances for tho election of o solld e publican delegation to Corigress from Mossae chusotta this fall are thought by the Spring- fleld Jtepublican to be favorable. 1t cluses a careful review of the fleld with this prediction: The present delegation slande slx Rupublicans and five Democrats,” 'Tho Democrats may possibly sot ns many in (he new, but probably not more than two or three, while It is within the rango of ovents for the lepublicans to have thewn all agiin, But the latier cannot hope 10 do this without great-, 4‘!‘ (g:pwvlnu tho averago quality of tholr candl.’ Well, let them * greatly improve tho average quality of the candidates,” as there is plenty of good timber from which to make the selections, ————— Judge HHoADLET, of Cincluniati, is quoted by the Confed. papers asn convert to Tlldenism, Ilo started out with the Liberals of 1672, but ot tired, and ofterwards spoke and voted for Guant, Hels sure now that the only road ta reform is through the Confedernts party, and hels saylng so with great fervor on the samo stump from which Mcssrs. Cany and Ewina ara declariufs that the Democratic party {s thu great hope of inflation and repudiation, whilo JJoan- LEY preaches “hard money und puy your debts.” % ——— We havo scarched ihe anclent Copperhent Bronny's two papers, both dally, in vain for any notice of the fact that the Treusurer of Washington County, Wisconsin, who, as a delegate to the Bt. Louls Conventlon, voted and shouted for TiLpex and Reform, has shicy fled tho country with $50,000 of the public money 1n hils pocket, 3 ——— PERSONAL. o M Mr, Samuel Dowles, of Springleld, Mass,, fs talked of for Congress, Benator Sharon has two sons who 8ro reckoned $sprodiglous ™ at Long Nranch, Mr, Royal Phelps gave & **swell" dinnerin hone orof ex-Becretary Bristow at Newport a fow days Bgo. Mr, and Mrs, Garner left three children, all girls, the cldest 8 yearw of agoand tho younge est 3, ‘The late Miss Martincau left an injunction in her ‘will agatnst the publication of any of her privite lottors. ? At the Iast commencement at Unfon College the degrea of LL, D, was conferred upou Judgo Law- rence of this city. Borkshlre glrle call overything thoy like ‘*na- ble.* It is not unususl to lear them speak of noble mustaches, noble diamonds, noble sllks, no- blo caramels, noble weddings, and noble funerals, Reforring to tho base slander that the Woman's Pavillon at tho Centennial Is very dirty, the Rocuestor Democrat avks In an angry tone i ono canstriks for frecdom and do housework at the samo time, Tho oldestiwing Inthe country are claimed by the Charlestown (Mass.) District. They are 80 years of sgo, aud widowd. ¥gch hss been marrled twice and susvived her Lusband, aud each bf