Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1876, Page 4

NS0 B S . 3 \ . s s i A ) The Tailbune. TERMS OF BUBSCRIITION. PAYADLE IN ADVANCER—POSTAGE PREPAID AT TIS OFFICE. tly Editton, postpatd. R e e o $13.00 10 H -"d!d to L0 ey [ 8.00 TN .00 0f & year, per monith. 50 W) i bE] b ol Tivh Cl:lh ou' twenty, OO Apecimen copies sent frve, To prevent delay and mistakes, he mre and give Post- Qff.co addrem fn full, fuclubing State and County. Hemittances msy be mnde either by dratt, express, Post-Otfice order, oF in registered letters, at our risks FERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBERS, Daly, deltvered, Sunday excapted, 25 cents per week. Datly, deilvered, Sunday Incladed, 30 cents per week Address TUE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madieon and Dearborn. Chicago, Nt e ey AMUSEMENTS, Adelphi Theatre, Monroe street,’ corner Dearborn. *'The Black Crook.™ McVicker’s Theatres Msdison _strect; Lotween Btate and Dearborn, 4'The Bes of Ice,’ New Chicngo Thentees Clark street, between Lako and Randoloh, Hooley's Minstrele, Waood’s Museum. ‘Monroe street, between State and Dearborn. ** Uncle Tom's Cabln.’ * Afternoon and evening. Haverly’a Thentre.s Randolph street, between Clack and LaSalle, Calle fornia Mitstrels. Intor-State Exposition. Lake Shore, foot ot Adams street. BOCIETY MEETINGS. CNICAGO CALEDONIAN CLUD.~A Special Meet- 1“1'(‘1'1'1“?” held on Friday eveniog, 20(h fnst. All menibers plests attend. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1870. QGreenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 01. pein A A long list of medals and awards given by the Centennial Commission fo exhibitors is contained in the Philadelphin dispatches this morning. The West hos fared remarkably well in tha competition with tho world at large. The Northwestern Associntion of Bpecial and Adjusting Agents of insurauce com- ponies met yesterday in this eity, It counld not have chosen s botter place of meoting. In the character of her businessarchitecture, the unlimited extent of her water supply, and tho efficioncy of her Fire Department, Chicago constitutes an inviting ficld of ob- servation to the insurance fraternity, We print this morning the call of the Cook County Republican Contral Commities for the County Convention to be beld in Far- well Hall Oct. 11, to nominato candidates for tha offices of State's-Attorney, Sheriff, Coro- nor, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Recorder of Deeds, and five County Commissioners, and sppointing Oct. 10 as the day for holding the primary meotings to elect delogates to this Convention. Bramve and INaersoLt are to be in Chica- go at some date immediately subsequent to Oct. 10, when their grand stump-spenking tour in Indiana will have been coucluded. Tho troublo in Chicago is to find a place big enough to hold the cnormouns assemblage that will be drawn together by thess two great orntorical magnets, Suitable provis. iou will, howover, be mado for the occasion, which promises to be the grandest nffair of tho kind in the history of Chicago. ——— Gen. BraxToN Brpaaa yesterday dropped dead of heart disonse in the strects of Gal- veston, He had boen in his customary henlth up to the moment of the fatal attack, Gen. Braae wos o prominent officer in tho Con- foderate army, holding at various times im- portant commands, He was educated at . West Point, but for several years previous ta the outbreak of the Rebellion he had lind no connection with the United States army. Hig military carcer wns as o whole neither brilliant nor successful, and at tho closo of tho War ke retired to private life, Ho was born in 1815. Reform iy nocessary, Thres promiuent Democernts of Chicago are prepared to far- nigh convincing rensons why there should be o change in tha Administration, Jnrdc Grath, ex-Tax Commissionor, and Jomn Cornonax and Jng Warsn, ex-Aldermen, aro “wanted” by the revonne officials of the parly in power on account of some mnowly-discovered transactions in crooked whisky, Unless Tiupen and Hen- DRIcks are clected, thero is no tolling where this corrupt and despotic Government will place its heavy band, No Democrnt is safe who defrauds the revonuo under Radical rule, This thing must be changed, and the way to chango it is to vato for Titoex. By this means only can tho libertios of the Democracy be secured. A turf event of almost unparalleled inter- est took plnce ut Louisvilla yesterday. For nearly twenty years the great Lorse Lexing- ton stood nt the head of the American turf, aud it was not until two years ngo that his four-mile time, 7:19¥, was beaten a quarter of second by TFelloweraft at Saratogn.: An. other Kontucky horse has now beaten the time of both Lexington and Fellowcraft, aud the poople of the blue-grass Btate sre war- ranted in feeling proud over the perform- ance. ‘Uen Broeck, s thoroughbred racer named in lonor of the gentleman who owned Lexington, and bred and owned by a member of the famous Hanren family of horse-broeders, yesterday yan four miles in the unprecedented tims of 7:163, or 8 sec- onds faster than Felloweraft’s, and 4 seconds faster than Lexington's time,~an achieve. ment which stamps Ten Broeck the greatest horse of the centu: An interesting case, involving the question of the legal linbility of a mercantilo agency for the correctuess of its reports, has just been adjudicated in Canada. An agenoy in T'oronto, professing, through its system of esplonage, to koow the finaucial standing of a certaln rotail dealer, sold its so.called knowledge to a wholesals dealer, who pro- ceeded to sell to tho retail dealer upon the purchased hypothesis that he would ruceive the money for his goods in due time, The wholesale dealer's prospeots of gelting paid were, shortly after thia transaction, rendered unequivocally dablous by the absconding of the retail dealer. Thereupon the wholesale dealer recovered $624 at law from the mer- cantile agency, and a higher court Las af- firmed the judgment. 'Thb inercantile agoncy now seeks to evade its responaibility iu the matter by & last appeal to the Oana. @lan supremo tribunal. The Ohk;;; ;):o_dnu markets weremoder- * ately active and steady yesterday. Mess pork clased 16@20c per brl Ligher, at $16,30 for Octoberaud $14,82} sciler the year, Lard closed 5@10c per 100 Ibs higher, at $10.25 for October and $9.27} for the year, Meats were stendy, at 6o for summer shonlders, boxed, 8}c for do shorl ribs, and D}c for do short clears. Lako freights wore quiet, at 2{o for corn to Buffalo. Highwines wore firmer, at $1.00 por gollon. Flour wosin good request and stoady, Wheat closed {@ jlo higher, at $1.08} cash and $1.05} for October. Corn closod steady, nt 46}c for Soptember and 44jc for October, Oats closed firm, at 34} for Septomber and 833c for October. Rye was stendy, at 61c. Barloy was ateadier, closing at 81jo for October, Tlogs were active, and G@10¢ higher than Tnesday, with the bulk of the sales at $5.90 @6.10. Cattle wero dull and lower. Sheop were firm and unchanged. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $110in greonbacks at the close, —————— It is ovident that the indicted County Commissioners now on trial in the Criminal Court place thoir reliance upon the clever- ness of the eminent counsel they have en- goged, rather than upon their ability to prove the charge unfounded. They aro not #o anxious for the vindication that a full and fair trial brings to an innocent man charged with a crimo as for the discovery of some loophole of technicality through which thoy mey cscape, and from the proceedings in Court yesterday it is to bo feared that the Penitontiary will be robbed of .its just clnims by menns of their success in this direction. Morally, they atand convicted of years of systematic robbery of the taxpayera of Cook County; and if their cases should be dismissed because of the inability of the prosecution to prove the existence of the conspiracy subsequent to the pasange of tha act undor which the indictment wos found, the genoral belief in their guilt would be in nowigse modified. In any event, the surest way to break up the corrupt Ring in the County Board is to elect ive honest mon to fill the vacancies occurring in November, The Tarkish Government having, in ac- cordance with a hint from the Great Powers, consented to a prolongation of the armistice for eight days, it waas to be expected that that brief period of quict, at least, wonld in. torvene before any important warlike event would transpiro at the soat of military oper- otions, It secems, however, that Tcmen. NAYEFF, Prince Miraw, and his Ministers do not relish the sort of truce to which they havebeen troated during the past tendays, and they have thereforo notified the Powers that, while willing to listen to reasonable terms of peace, they cannot submit to a repetition of tho Turkish method of observing an ar- mistice, and therefore have recommenced nctive operations by burning two bridges over the Morava, built by the Turks during the past week, Skirmishes have also taken place betweon the opposing outposts, and there i now a prospect of more lively work. The war feeling in Servia hns received a new impulse from gome source, and the Ministry publicly declare that the province will never submit to degrading terms of settlement un- less forced to do so by foreign occupation of its territory, BAYARD AND DOQLITTLE ON REBEL CLAIMS, Senator T. F. Bavarp, of Delawnare, and ex-Senator Doorirrrr, of Wisconsin, in ad- dressing the Domocintic moeting in this city on Tuesday night, both made referonce to the subject of Southern claims, and both re- sorted to the same avasion, and, these men necessarily knowing the truth, both dishon. estly misropresonted by suppressing the focts. Senator Bavano used this langunga : The Nepublican party dodged this issue, and ralsed the ery of n united South, DId his hearers feel that they were in danger? T'here waa no de- siro in the South for anothor rebellfon. Secesslon wos burled 1,000 fathoms deep, never to be reaur- rected in this country, The idea of paying South. ern bonds or bills was absurd, Thelr notes wero all made payable after the establishmont of the In- dependenc of the Southern States. What an ab- surdity to talk sbout paylngthesv blila! 1t was about like paylng 8 promissory note two days after the doy of judgment. Morcover, the Fourteenth Amendment prevented all this, and it was non- acnee, and an fusult to the intelligence of the peo- ple, to talk this stuf, Mr. DoouitrLe, spesking from another stand at the same time, said: ‘Thelr adversaries, while sdmitting the necesslty of reform, sald they coulil not trust the Demo. cratlc party with power, because they wounld ase sumo the Itebel debt. But how could 1t be as- sumed? If at all, by members of Congress. Now, the frst thing the membera did wan to tukesn sol- emn oath to preserve the Cupstitution, tn which thero was a claure prohlbiting the nssumption aof any debt fucurred In Insurrection or rebeltion, Thut utterly disposed of this common ery of an- sumption. Buthe was prepared to demonstrate thero was no Rebeldebt, The men of the South staked overything, and the Southern bonds and notes contalned & clause expresuly atating that they would not become due until two years after wo had acknowledged the Independence of the South. When would such notes bocome duo? Why, It would be two years after nover! Before they beeane due the Union would have to be dis- salved, and only two years alter a ratifieation of a peaco-treaty wquld they be pald. ‘I'hat was proof conclusive there nover would bo any Revel dobt, Wo ingist. that when a public man of the high personnl character of Senator Bavanp, in discussing n question of national impor. tance, suppressed the truth and substitutes therofor something clse, that much & pro- ceeding is & confession on bispart that he dare not meet tho question Lo thus avoids,* Tho coincidonce that the Wisconsin orator adopted procisely the same evasion strength. ens tho conviction that the Democratio party dare not, in advance of the clection, declare against the payment of War claims to the people who were engaged in the Robellion, Now, no Republican hes assorted that thero is any danger that the bonds fssued by Jewp Davis' Governuent, or by any of the Rebel State Governmnonts, in sid of the Rebellion, will be paid directly ont of the National Treasury, Though such an expeetation may exist among the Bouthern pooplo, aud these Confederate bonds are still hoarded by thom, such psyment is probibited by the Four. teonth Amendment to the Constitntion, But these Democratio statosmen both knew that the payments to which the Republicansg ob. Ject, and which the *United South" will demand in Congress, are tho payments to persons residing within the Lebel Btates during the War for damages and losses sus- tained by tho War, Both of these Senators know that the payment of these claims is not probibited by the Constitution, and re. «quiring no other warrant than an act of Con. gress passed by a majority vote in both Houses, and approved by the President, Thiey kuow that there {s no law or Constitu. tion which prohibits Cougress from passing 8 bill dircting the paying the payment of 100,000 to any ex-Rebel citizen of the Btate of Goorgia for ‘corn nnd mules furnished by him to or tuken from him by the Rebel urny, The payment of such & eluf {1 absolutuly within the discrotion of Congress. A *‘cludm” agoinst the United States is s demand outsidu the law. I with. in the luw, it i3 u debt payable under the law on demwund ot the Treasury, A claimis an appeul to tho discrotion of Cungress to go outeide of the law ; an appeal to the sympa- {hy of Congress to cxerciso its power tomake o special order for payment of & bill which has no sanction nndor thalaw. Theso clnims, therefore, aro addressed to the sympatlics of Congress, nnd what Congress? In case TruoEx bo olected by the Holid Bouth, thore will bo thirty-two Sonators, represonting con- stituents making these claims, and there will bo 110 Reproeentatives chosen by the same ex-Rebel people, These thirty-two Senntors will constitute two-thirds of all the Domo- crats in the Sonate, and the 110 Representas tiveswill be n large majority of nll tho Demo- crts in the House. They will control tho party in botl Housen of Congress, and, neces- sarily, control the policy of the TrneN Ad- ministration. They will be liberally repre- sented in the Cnbinet, and they can enforce the policy of paying these claims upon the parly. Now, what are theso claims? Tha universally.established and recognized principlo of Iaw in all countries, and the ssme rule prevails in caso of civil as in foroign war, is, that all persons residing within the enomy's territory stand on tho footing of enemies, and to theso the adverso Government is under no obligation, legal or moral, to make payment for damnges sus- tained or private property taken. his is the law applicable to all wars in all coun- tries, Hence it is that all person in the Robel States who suffered loss, even from Union troops, make **claims” for compensa. tion, nddressed to the *discretion™ of Con- greas. We submit to the people of the North tho probable exercise of this discretion whon reposed in two Houses of Congress and an Administration controlled by n Congress in which ex-Confederate officers will be in the majority of the party in power. What the nature and extent of theso claims will be we already have striking evidenco, The United States have long since paid to every man in Missouri who on any pretonse of loyalty pre. sonted a claim for damnges all that was asked, The ox-Confederates, however, waited until thero waa a Domocratio Legislature, and thoy presontod their claims to their own *sover. cign,” the Stato of Missouri; that Stato ap- pointed n Commission to examine and allow thess claims, and those allowed amonnt, up to this timo, to EIORT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and tho Stato has issued to claimants cer- tificates in this form: No,—§—. 1t 1s hereby certificd that the State of Missour! s indebted to In tho sum of —— on account of . 'Thia certificato §s not payable by the State uni)) nfter tho claim of sald has been presented to the United Statca Government, and 1he amount sllowed and pald to the State, and then only for the actual smount recelved from the Unite cd States Government, Ciry or Jerrensoy, Mo,, —, 16— ——~——, Govornor of Missourl, =——— Acting Q. 31, Uenerat of Missonrl, - M. Bavarp and Mr. Doourrree suppress tho fact that the State of Missouri, ns a ¥ Bovarcign State,” will present her demand to Congress for an appropriation to redeem thesa certificates. The State of Alabamn hag issued substantially a similar certificato to hor Rebels to an nmount reaching to $70,000,000 or $80,000,000, and half the cagos linve not been hoard. Twelve or four- toen othor States are yot to be heard from, Louisinnaalone asking probably $200,000,000, Hore is & form of claim, backed by tho authority of sixteen * Sovcrolgz.x Btntes,” but Mr. Bavarp and Mr, Doorrrre ignored the whole business, and confined their donials to the quostion of taking up Jerr Davis' Con. foderato bouds! This was a fraud on their hearers, There is & law which prohibits the Conrt of Claims and Treasury Department from al. lowing or paying claims to any person who promoted or oncournged the Rebellion. A Democratic Sonator, at,the late session, pro- posed to repeal this law, and to make an gppropriation to pay this class of claime, Anothor Dbill, proposed by » member from Arkansas, dirccted that all such claims be tried in tho States whera they originated, the sums awarded by the local juries to ba paid by tho Treasury, A Tenneaseo stateman proposed a bill direct- ing the Sccretary of War to hear, allow, and poy all such claims, These claima in the aggregate will not fall short of £2,000,000,. 000, being equal to the national debt. Prac- tieally, the payment of these claims will bo to distribute among the Rebels of the South that sum of money taken from the North to moko good their losses smstained by them in tho War to destroy the Union. Of all theso claims, of all thero mensures to pay them, and of the magnitudo of the claims, Mr, Bayanp assumes an ignoranco equalod only in degrea by that of the ex.Senator from Wisconsin, And yet thoy were hilari. ous over the absurdity of supposing thors was any purposo to pay the Itebel dobt. Tho progress mada even during one ses- sion of a Democratic Congress towards the payment of thess claims i thus compnetly stated in one of Mr. Braine's Obio speeches, Ho paid ¢ T will admit thero fw no danger of any moncy being palid for the Ilebel debt, or for thy slaves that wero cmancipated. Dut, inalde of that, gentle. men, there {a nothing in the Constitutlon thet for- blds the poyment for all the articles that were de- stroyed down Bouth during the War, all the wild destruction that followed the War, a1l the houses, the fences, tho school-houdes, churchos, towns, and the wheat, and the corn, und (he bacon, and the mules and horses, tho rallrosds, bridges, cul- verts, and thousand-and-one nameless sources of lors, aro all payuble to-day, if you can get a ma- Jority in Congress to vote the money, Thore is nothing in the world to prevoat it. llow do you know that any of them are galng to bo pald? Thoy Liave very nearly £00 billa now plled up, 1 have acen it stated at 140, but it s very riearly 200, and of every imaginable thing. For the number of these bills you have tho tost)- mony of the Hon, WitLiax, Lawnescy, a carctul, painstaking, industrlons man, e is modurate in fs statements, and haw carefully examaned, and from s experlence, for he Ia wioro competent than any other man In the House, ho eald that those already filed would Involve the poyment of from $100, 000,000 1o $700,000,000 from the Natlonal Treanury, in the event of u majority of the House vating theay, Well, the War-Claims Committeo of the House oat, and, as I said, Judge Lawnesce, of lellefon- talne, wus Chalrinan, aud they hiad it as a rule thay & man muat firet establivh his oyalty hefore estab- lishing bis clafan, The first thing that Committeo did when tho Democrita got control of §t was to striko out thut vequirement, and It any man put 1u his claim for losses without regard to tho ques. tlon of Joyulty ot all. And then agother rule, which certalnly the lawyerw, if there be ony dolng me the honor to Haten to mie, now will look upon 28 remarkablo, that any persun putting in a clatm for damayies should havo s awn evidenve, hould sustain that clalin oy bls own abidavit, and that of some other person knowlug the fucts, llere comes Jouxs Swity, of Alabama, who haw lfost 20,000 by the Union army, and then Joun Joxks awcars thut s s0. This would bankrupt the Horus- cuiLps, It will strike even Domocrats with sur- prise that Benator Bavanp, who hag been in the Sonate for many years, should come all the way from Washington to Chicago, aude by his profound silence induce his hearers to believe that Lo hiad neyer heard,and there- fore, in fact, no ono olse had heard, of theso Rebel claims amounting o two thousaud willions of dollars awsiling T1Loex's election to bo paid out of the National Lreasury. Benator l!-uum, of tho Democratio whip. plug-post State, talked at some length about he said, was abgurd, as thoso bonds and notes wore not payable on their faco until after the cstablishment of the independence of the Southern Confederacy, "This was throwing sand futo the oyes of his audienco, He knows very well that tho claims which tha Ropublioan spenkers warn the coun- try agninst nre the individual claims of ex- Tebels for damagos and losses sustained dur- ing the Roboellion. Thore are hundreds of thousands of such Rebel, personal claims waiting to ba presonted to Congresa for pay- ment when Tiroes and Hespnices are oloct- od, Bome thousands of such claima the owners have had the lardibood alrendy to present to Congress for payment, These aro the clnims, numerous as the frogs and lice of Egypt, which the Relela intend to press for payment ns goon 08 they get con. trol of tho Government. 'The pnyment of those outrageous demands is what constitutes “roform™ in thelr eyes. Why did Scnator Bavanp 80 care. fully ignore those individual clnims for damages done to Rebels by tha Union army ? Not n word came outof his month con- cerning them, becauseshie is in favor of com- pelling the taxpayers of the North to cash them. Ho novor faila to vote for the pay- ment of Robel claims for damages received during the War, The first thing the Confederate Clnims Committes did in the lnst House of Ropre- sentatives was to change the rula requiring proof of loyalty on the part of the person who puts in claims for losses. They altered the rule 5o as to allow any Rebel to sustain his claim with his own affidavit and that of one other porson, and then it is ready to be presented to the Honso for passage. All this the whipping-post BSenator concenled from his hoarers, fraudulontly and purposely, Peo-; plo will also look in van in the columns ofij the TrLpeN organ for a statemont of the {facts on this highly-important subject. THE CONORESSIONAL NOMINATIONS, Two of the Republican Conventions to nominate candidates for Congross in this County meet to-dsy, Tho three distriots aro now ropresonted by Democrats. Theso three men were declared clocted by small mnjorities, ngirogating less than 1,000 in all, ‘Wo beliove that the three districts will, sep- arately and untedly, give Haves and ‘Waezien o large mejority, and that each district may be safely depended on to elect tho Republican candidate, provided the can- didate bo a man who ought to be eclected. While belioving that each of theso districts is certain to give Hives and WneerLen a handsome mnjority, it docs not follow that the nomination for Congress will be equiva- lent to an election, unless the candidate shall be worthy of the respeot and confidence of the public, Unlike tho Democratio party, the Republicans cannot bo whipped into the support of any person who mny manago to get the nomination. Republican voters are apt to diseriminate, and, where a nominnting Convention solects the weakest and most un. fitted man, these Republicans are apt to re- dross the error of tho Convention by defeat- ing the candidate at the polls, The Republican mafority in each of theso districts is not so large ns to warraut a Con- vention in taking any risks, or in giving any complimentary nominations, or in attempting to forco upon tho party any candidate against whom there aro any well-founded objactions, porsonal or political. The Ropublicnn party in the country, and especially in Chicngo, has doclared for sound money. The inflation party fa making its own nominations, and has no right to expeot the Republicans to adopt either its ourrency-watering platform or ita dilution candidates. The Republican party should select na candidates to represent this commereinl oity in Congress men of personal integrity, of intellectual ability, and free ot all entanglements in tho way of claimants or ag agonts of claimants. Our Congressmen should go to Washington frae of all suspicion of personal aggrandizoment, mnd be able in their own porsons and character to vindieata the purity and integrity of the Repnblican party, If tho Conventions shall nominato such candidates, thero will bo no fear but the nominations will bo ratified at the polls, and the Conventions will undoubtedly scek to make success certain by discarding all mere personal considerations, and naming condidates who aro sure to be elected, and who will be creditable to the party and the State. THE S80UTHERN REBELLION, ‘Wo print clsowhoro soveral narratives, gnthored from our inails, showing the deter- mined spirit of rebellion that exir!s in the Bouth ; the resolution of the Southern Til. denites that, notwithstanding constitutional guarantecs, the Republican negroes shall be diafranchised at tho forthcoming election ; and the terrorism that provails in nearly every oneof the Bouthorn States, and wo cnll thoenr- nest attention of our readers to theso roports, Forewarned should be forcarmed, and if, in caso of the election of Titpex and Hrx. pricks, this spirit of rebellion should assort itsclf anew, s it did in 1861, the Union mon of the North cannot complain that thoy were botrayed, We commend to our readors the extraot from a epoech delivered at Wallalla, 8, 0, on the 4th inst. by ox.Gov. B, F. Peuny, ous of the most prominent advocates of ‘T1LoeN and Wang Hasterox in that State. ‘W espacially commend to them the closing sontenco of that speech, in which hio ndvises that ovory Bouthern Republican shall bo ostracized and branded with in. famy: **And here I would appeal to my Democratic frionds nll over the Btata to atop all social intercourse with any mun who is base enough to be ¢ Nadical, Lot him feel by your conduct toward Lim that the brand of infamy s on him and his children, Z'%is s the only vcay you can reach lis black heart,” ‘I'his waa the talk of the Bouthorn fire-eaters Lofore the War, It mienns intimidation, ter. rorism, disfranchisement, It means that the same agencies which were employed in the days of slavery to provent Union mon from expressing tholr principlea shiall be employed now to provent them from excrcising the constitutional right of suffrage. We call the attontion of our ronders to the reports from ZXoulslana, Mississfppi, and South Carclina, In Louisiona the colored poo- plo are all Republicans, and yet no Tepublican moetiugs are held, for the roason that they are broken up, and the colored peoplo are compelled to lold and attend Democratio meetings or to leave thoir humes in order tosave their Uves. In the back parishea armed Democratio mobs, like that Londed Ly Burizs iu South Carolins, are patrolling the country in every direotion, breaking up Republican meetings wherever they are announced and shooting negroes who declare themselves as Ropublicans, We print also a letter from & Now York mer- chant to his partuer narrating a conversa- tion he had with one of his customers, the Captain of an.artillery company in Charles- ton, in which fie was informed it was the in- tontion to provoke the uegroes to an out- break aud then exterwinate them. A cor- ' PHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY., SEPTEMBER 28, 1876, . . pnying Bouthern boudsanddoebts. Theiden, | respondent of tho New York Tnes, writing — from Barnwell County, 8. C., rays: 1t lookn exaclly as if there were & great war In the near futtre, Armed hands of Democeata call- ing themecives tlle clubs are overrunning the country ready to turn anything into s ight. Thora bands aro heavily armed with rifies, shot-guns, and revolvers, and keep the country In a perpotual torror, ‘This county, althongh having a legitimate Republlcan majority of at least 2,000, is In fact now At the mercy of the armed Democracy. 1t ls the same old Robel spirit raling the conntry just sabefore the War. Ono hears from the whites on every hand, *“We will carry the Stato {f we have to kil avery — Radical," No Republican of even the amallest inflaence fs afe. Open threats aro made to kill them, The writer of thesa lines ‘was 8o threatoned more than once to his face. ‘The Charleston News and Courier, one of the most active supporters of TrLpEN and IIrxpRIogs in that State, iz engaged in the very work suggested Ly the Democratic speaker mentioned above. It singles out the Republican merchants of Charleaton, black and white, and recommends that no ono sball deal with them, and other papers throughont the State are following the samo course, From these and numorous other reports of o similar chiracter it is ovident that thero i no protection in the South for any man, black or white, who is known to bo a Repub- liean, The whole South is in the possession of an armed Domocratic mob engaged in brosking up Republican moatings, and shoot- ing down or driving away from their homes all negroes who dare to proclaim themaclves Republicans. The same mob will provent them from voting on clection day unless thoy voto the Domocratio ticket. Thero is but one remedy for this, The South lins carried this question outslde of all political considorations, It ianow a question of order or anarchy, of obedience to the lawa or rebellion against against them, The Re- ~publicans of the South must have relief, The ‘Constitution guarantees them equal rights,— tho right of protection in person and prop- erty, which they no longer have; tho right to think, to act, to vote as they ploase, which they no longer have. If a Republican in the South attends n Repub- lican mesting, ho is hunted down by a Demo- cratio mob, If he proclaims himself a Re- publican, heis shot down at his fireside or in his bed. If he refuscs to attond Domo- cratic meetings, he {8 driven away from his home, If he is suspected of being A Repub- lican, ho is osiracized and his business is ruined, If hoattompts to vote the Repub- lican ticket in November, he will be killed. Thore is but one meaning to all this, It means dotermined and deflant resistance to the laws of the country, These lawa must bs enforced now as thoy wero enforced in 1801, and in the ssma manner. Judgo Tarr's lottor of instruction must be carrled ont offectively and effoct- uslly. The peace in the Bouth must be preserved by United States troops, The livesof Ropublicans must bo protocted by them. The rights of voters must be guar- onteed by them. Tho sanotity of the ballot- box must bo guarded by them. It is mo longor o quostion of the politicnl chances of this or that candidate. It has taken a larger and more dangorous form. The Constitution of tho conntry is in danger. The South is on the vorge of n now robollion. Prompt mensures now will avert the necossity of re- peating the bloody lessons of enforcement that wero compulsory fifteen yoars ago, The ‘War of tho Rebellion was fought in vain if the Republican Administration cannot sooure and perpetuate the fruita of the victory. AMERIOAN AND ENGLISH TOADYISM, ‘Wa are remirded once in awhile by tho English pross that the American tosdyism 80 acutely charnoterized by Diorens in ** Mar- tin Ohuzzlewit " and his ** American Notes " haa by no means been outgrown with thoe do- velopment of larger communities and more genoral oculture. 'The newspapers are fairly open to the charge of cater- ing to tho common ocuriosity about tho privato nfflairs of those per- sons who have become conspiouous from ono couso nnd another, and the practice of intorviewing has no doubt contributed to the oxtont, and somowhat to the scandal, of the personal gossip 8o usual among American journals, ‘The sickness of Commodors Vax. pesnint, which it wad supposed at his age would bring death, suggested the collection of avast lot of gossip concerning his lifo and career that furnished tho Now York papers with materinl for a kind of ante-obitu. ary artic'es, which were unquestionably in bind taste, and also led to the pnblication of dnily bulleting of his henlth that entered into the moat minute dotails of the circum. stances attonding what was supposed to ba. his death-bed.,” This sories of articlos struck a writer in the London Seturday Review ss essontinlly ill-bred, aud nlongarticle was the result, of which the following extractisa samplo: The most minnte and sickenlng pariiculars are given of the progresa and finctuations of his dis- ease, aud it would nppear that a body of apeclal interviowera surround the poor man's couch, and 1ake downall he says and all that 14 safd to him, To most people this would scem, as was sald of o well-known blographleal work, a new terror added 1o death; but it 1s just possile that Mr, Vanven- miLT, a8 an American, himaclt rathor enjoy and that lin lifo haw been prolonged by the ples Ing excitement of readlng every dayall that s printed about him, He s, for instance, assored by the New York Zribune that **it lv an gvent of an exceodingly rare occurrence that a man of more than four-acore yosrs, who has had & great “strain upon the mental and physlcal vowers, should Jinger for months after Le has beon prostrated by an fncurable and painful malady,"* There fs almoat a tone of dieap- pointment {n the way in which thu Tribune regards this lingering case, as if it were keeping back copy; Lut aw the Z'ridune huw made up its mind to publish Vaxvensint's 1o witbout walting for his death, that event will now perhapa be expected with less hinpatience, **Scencu at the Sick Bed ' |a the at. tractive title of & column or two of nauscons gos- #p. Wo are told how the Commodore **apoks fully and frecly of biw religlous Leliefs, convie- tlons, and hupes*'; and the ** conversution subse. quently turnedupon the imputations derogstory to him which he had Lorue,™ his explanation of his sllence being that **he did not wish to ruin others,” Then ho related an anecdoto ** jllustrat. 1ng a desive on his part to fnjurg noone. ' 1is phy- siciau reports that thero is ** & continuous ebb aud flow of vwitality * and this Is followed by somo pretty speculations by (he reporter as to the ‘‘dormant slate™ of somo of the patieat's functlous! organs which we must pasa over, Mr, W. I, Vanveaminr, the son, ‘‘spoke with decp feeling to a Zribune roporter, *‘who apparently took It all down In short-band, §n regurd to his father's slowness in dylag. Hle father, he sald, was quilo resigned to tho jdea of death, all matiers woro fully arranged, and everything would be carried on just as if ho Jived. **1le does not expect,” he added, *'to live much longer, and we cannot look forit," From ihls it would appear that the son at least was fully prepared for his fatber'a death, and thouglht that tho old gontlemun might just as woll dle at once, Instead of that, however, the Commodors rallied from bis low fit, and **talked conntantly for nearly two houss and a balf withoot the appesrance of much fatigue.” Much more of the same kind is printed in the Buturday Revlew article, which also goes into Mr. Vaxperniut's private business af- fairs with equal particulgrity and ourlous want of feeling, under tho excuse of citing samples of this sort of American journal fsm. We presume the conductors of the Suturday Jevicwo proceeded on the theory that the Commodoro wonld be dead for good and all befora their articlo reached Americn; otherwiss thoy themselves would bo subject to the samo chargo of heartlossmess and bad taste which they have brought against the Now York pross, Still an infraction of the laws of propriety by an English journal does not exouse our own, and there is undoubted. 1y good ground for complaint against Amori- can journalism for the publication of just such nows of which the above extract far. nishes & sample. The practico hea grown from the favorite modern theory that the function of the newspaper i3 to inform the people from day to day concerning those things in which they aro mont interested without any porticular offort to control or direct theirtastes in tho matter. It can scarcely be donied that those news- papers which follow thia policy most liber- ally achieve the grentest popular success, though they do not alwayscommand so large a gharo of respect from intelligent people. The practico will bo modified somowhat by the continued development of educational facilitios and ngencies, and the time will come when the line will be moro distinotly drawn batweon the respeotable and high- toned nowspapers of influenco and tho sen- sational repositdrios of personal gossip, Bat that thore will always ba a class of profitable and popular newspnpers of the sensational and gossipy kind may bo depended upon whilo there is full liborty of the press and the samo amount of curiosity in human nature. The reason why this claas of articles seems poculinrly offonsive to English nowspapers is not beeauso journalism in Englond is entirely free from tho same abuse, but becauso it seeks another flold. The chiof interest which American poople have in individuals natorally contres in those who have attained conspionity in poli- tica or buniness by their own efforts; in En- gland hereditary aristocraoy has so strong o hold upon the popular intorest that the por- sonal gossip of newspapers runs mostly to titles and royalty in its various branches. Even the London Times never fails to give several columns to the enumeration, with foll dotails of rank, of those who are por- mitted to make n morning call on the Queen or the Prince of Wales at a publio reception, and thero are journals which live almost cx- clusively upon information aund patronago of this kind. All this geoms sa outrs to the Amorican notion of journalistic propriety and good taste as our personal gossify doos to the English, They are both oustoms, ‘however, which would be * more honored in the breach than in the obgervance.” NATIONAL BARBARISMS, There have been American and English officinls who have raported to their Govern- ments long accounts of alleged barbarities in Bulgaria by tho Turks, and there have been general condomnations of the Turks by the people of Christian nations. But are the Turks the only people guilty of barbarity? What would be tho impression produced in Turkey, Morocco, Tunis, and Egypt, and what the comments there upon Christian civilization, upon the reccipt of an official ro. port such as follows, made by the Turkish Ambassador at Washington : To Hla Majesty Sultan Murad V., Commander of the Falthful: Tver elnce your Supreme Mighness appointed me to represent the magnifcent and glorions Sublime Porte among the half-clvilized Inhabitanta of this ‘Western Ilemlaphore, it has been my care to study continually the strango Institutions hero fonnd, and tho nbeard costoms of these inddels, who dwell in the darkness of unbellef, not enjoying the light of the truo religlon, Allah have mercy on them, and send them the blessed Koran, to give them the knuwledge of tho truc God, and of Ma- hammed his prophet! They have, indeed, a form of religion, or rather & hundred forms; for they are divided Into numorons sects, rival and hoatile. Thoy build many churches, and hold many meet. Ingn for worship and preaching; bat they all teach deadly orrors, and acem moro fn carnest to engage in theologleal dlsputes than to promole a mor® reformation nmong tha people. Monoy-making and politics absorb universal aftention, and, une fortunately, the two pursulta are often united, so that great corruption 16 eald to exist in connection with the affalrs of government. and smong the slxty or elghty thousand minor ofiiclals, Afashals Inti! T am a Turk, and no Christian! Having ot heartthe Interests of universal civiliza- tion, I have felt it tobemuy duty to exert an oftlclal nfluence In behalf of humanlty, amid tho barbaric practices which, alas! atlll sarvive in this land, though this 18 now tho thirtcenth century aince the heglra of the Prophet, Your 8upreme Highe neas {s aware that a great rebellion occurred a fow yeara since among the Southern provinces of this country, which came near putting an end to thls wenk Government, #o like unto a sick man whoso death European nelghbors expectod and desired. It1aindeed Inn precarions condition, having the burden of an immense natlonal debt, belny unable to resume specio-payments, and strugeling in valn to subdue wild Indian trihes on its borders, who have Jnst exterminated one division of Its army. Ever sinco the ond of tho Great Rebolllon, the whale Southorn country has been dlsquioted, and " violent fouds have broken out between the blacks, who have been sot free, and the whites, their former masters. Recently came newa of many ‘murders, and even of massacre, in a province called South Caroliua, on tho borders of another known a8 Qeorma, Pllled with tho horror which such crimes inspire In tho breast of a true bellever, who recalls the solemn words of the Koran: ** Nelther #lay thosoul which God hath forbidden you to slay," Itook measurcs at once to investigate the facts, that I might remonstrate with the I'resident, in the name of your Majesty andofall Mussulman yowers, Having reason to distruet the lying statements ot the newspapers and of corrupt oficlals who seek to canceal from the Mohammodan world the wrotched soclal condition of thls Christian country, Isent my Secretary on a misajon. of personal Inspection to ace with his own eves the alato of things o that province, To was obllged to pracoed with geeat cantlon, lest tho fufurlated and susplcious whitcs should instantly murder bim. Through Allah's merciful protection he retarned In safety, and hoa made hiu report, from which Iderive the materials of this atatoment. o declarcs that tho barbaraus hatrod of the whites to the blacks is some. thing most astonishing and unsatural, and which cannot be undsrutood by the moro civillzed Orlen- tals, who aro accustomed to seo no civil or socisl distinctions made on the ground of mere calor and race, Men there will not credit ft that high mill. tary and civil ofticers of your Bupromes Ilighnesa sro pure-blooded negroes, who aro ulways treated ‘with honor, and are wailted upon by white ser- vants, These somi-barbarians cherlsh insdne prejudices againet the negro, and will have noin. tercourss with him, Another thing which shows thelr moral degradstion {u that those whom they thus hiata are of thelr awn religion) That a Chrls- tian wight hate a Musaulman I concede, for we have religlous animositiea of that kind in favored Turkey; but it shows a special depth of brutality when one hates thoso of his own faith, ¥or the Koran says: ** Whoso killeth a bellever designed. 1y his reward shall be hell; he ahall remain there forever," Butthose barbarous Christlany donot hesitate to kiil ono another! My Becrelary reports that he went to a village called Hamburg, where hie met some of the terrl- fied blacke, and learned that tho outrage actually commonced on tho 41k day of July, —~the day which these hypocritical Americana profess to observe as & natlons) holiday, in honor of Mberty! The blacks had a military company which was peacefully marching on the public utreet, when twa whites ine ulsted on driving s veliclo Into the ranke, and thon complalned of an obatruction of the highway, Subsequently 200 or 300 armed white men, under Durees Pasua, surrounded the armory of the militls compuny snd. dumanded thelr weapons, When the surrendor was refused, they oponed fire upon them, bringing up a plece of artillery, and drave tliens from the armary. The blacks, belog without smmuultion, fled hulpless, and 25 of them wero cauglt,” Bome ofjthess Wore told to run,and, 88 they started, five were shot in the back and Kkilled, and soveral others wera wounded, It was hoped tat the ofticers of public justice would bring the murdercrs to account, sudthe apologlst for the wmiserable Goverument assured mo that this would ‘ bo done by the Gavernor of ¢ CitamnentAm Bev. Dot when ?;el:g:‘.‘tn:.,".““ nrmed whites also’ met, with thay seert fet s srtiffery, and easfly ** perauaded” the (ml;xé‘; " topass that eare, Thum was jnstice tter]; p Teated ! And thia cane 18 nld 10 o bt 5 rerl] 3¢ of wiat fo_continnnlly oceureing fn the o ot Having porscasod mynelf of the facyy 3 it on the Preatdent and the Secretary of 'mm'm Protested against such ontrages In tho name of ™ Mohammedan powors and of unirersslcvmieey 2t intiroating that the gravest diplomatie ¢ quencea might follow 1f tho guilty paryje ™" not soight out and ponfatod. - They e sshamed and confused, and attempted to hn it llallmn on o met of rongh, lawlers mep, tyfl}h- $Whito-Liners,” n sort of Bashl-Dapepke 0 often do violent things without tho sanetion sr " regulac anthoritlen. Tut T frmty nnlateq goer exlatence and outrages of such men were e grace to the Government, and that the 5 Torte, as Lhe representative of civiizatiap, mot temaln silent in the eclrcumstances for thy Koran says: **1le who slayeth a sou} :finn b 2 it he slew all. mankind; Lut he who sareiy o afive shall be an §f Lo had saved the lves nl““l mankind," They promised 1o glve Smmedqtate " tentlon to tho subject, and & prociamation 1, Been sued Looking 10 the disponal of e jeprt troapsaa &s (o protect the biacks from vlotene, 7 It remaina to bo seen whether 8 Governmen, o ported to be 50 weak and corrupt, can enlom; |=- own commands, Walting lnnher.lnsmmlom" romafn your Supreme Nighness' most foyay ." obedlent sorvant. Anzaoiux Anistancy; Bxr, = T — ¢ INTERNAL REVENUE ARD THE g ‘Wa rogrot to be obliged to By mmoflf tor Bavanp, in the lnhored apology fer ‘4 8olid Bouth ™ which he made in his Spezeh in this city Tuesday evoning, wos guiltyop somo pettifogging entirely unworthy of hiy vosition a8 a Senator and statesman, Cin. corning that portion of it in which ke ma. aged to avado the real ‘danger of Teslorig tho Confedorntes to power, and to BUpprisy the olass of claims which they nro sary to make, Wo have commented in another adl. olo. But ho likowiso sought to cxaggerts tho politieal importancs of the Southerg Btates by a compnrison of tho internal ryy, enuo receipta in differont parts of the cor, try. Hoegaid: Why, gentlemen, tho other day Imaden calen. Iation of the amount of internal ravenne pald by the State of Virginia in 1875. It smonnteq to mora then three timas as much a8 the five Ney England States together. And Kentucks, yoge nelghbor Stato on the south, pays nearer fonr han three times s much a8 the fivo New England Btates together. Missour{ pafd more taxes fato the Trensury in 1875 than the five New England Statos togother, Can you spare this money? Are youso profitably engaged? Do yon love taxstlon 80 much that you wish Ita burdens Incroased upon you? Iscapital o easlly obtained that you wjsy more taxation added to your bardens? 1t so, fol. Jow Mr. BouTwzii's recommendations, Crasy down again theso communities who ars holding out thelr hande to yon, asking you to trent them a8 brothers and let them joln you in maintalning the strengtirand prosperity of the whale peaple, Greet them with the same fustice you would ask them to greot you with, and yon would need to have no fear. 1If Sonntor Bavanp did mot cherish th common Southern contempt for New En| gland and ail that emanates therefrom, he would know that thero aro six New Englang] States instend of five. DBnt, possing over this, the sophiatry of hia statement consists| in tho fact that he doliberately suppressed| the circumstance that all the tox which tho peoplo of Virginia, Kentucky, or sny] other Southern Stato pay, as n matter o fact, is on the amount of taxpaying produ which they sctually oconsume, The fax i lovied and colleoted at the point of produc tion, but actually paid at tho point of cot. sumption and by the people who consume Thus tobacco i taxed something like 9 cents & pound, and whisky 90 conts a gallor, oud the internal revenue roturns show ths Virginia pays tho tax on the tobacco it pre. duces ond Kontucky tho tax on oll th{ tobaceo and whisky it produces. But Sens: tor Bavamp knows very well that, when o tax is laid on products or mane. factures, the producer or manufacturet merely adds the amount of the taxtothi price ha charges for his commodity, and cok ublimg . coalg % lects it from those to whom he solls. To thy oxtent, therofore, that Now England consumes Virginin tobacco or Kentncky whisky, it pays the taz thereon,—nll of which Benator Barany knows as well as anybody. In claiming thorefore, that these Bouthern ‘States pay onormous a proportion of the taxeaof the country, ha claims what cannot be concedel to thom merely to oxaggorato their polith enl influence. They only pay in propor tion to their notual consumption. But, accopting Mr, Bavanp's sophisticdl way of stating tho case, Lis claim, thorough 1y examined, will only be tho menns of belil- tling instead of onhancing the political in~ portance of the South, He will fndoner- amination that the single Btato of linois pays us much internal revenue ns all tho sit: teen Bouthern States, omitting Kentucky acd Missourl, and that Cook Connty alone poyi a8 much as all the Southern States, omittisg Kontucky, Missouri, and Virginia, The 1 turns for 1873 showed the fnfernal rovente taxos of the South to bo as follows: $ 152,404 Missonri . H Carall 420, 39218." Carolina,. 108, 143 Tonness (AR nit Wolgflg W By 5, B — Misatesippic. '198,070] Total.....§25,400.1L Now, during tho amo yenr the Stateol Tllinols alono paid the sum of $16,403,16¢id internal revenue taxes, or 08 much as 14 of _ these States, and Cook County (chlcngo) » much na 18, Yet, while Iilinois paysss miach intornal revenuo tax as 14 of theso Boutbern States, she hns only two Benators and 19 Ropresontatives in tho National Congresh whila the 14 Sonthorn States hove 28 Sens- tors and B3 Representatives, Mr. Banso will scarcely deny that, on the Dasia of tss tion which ho has set up, tho South lss 2 monstrous exaggeration of political poweri and when those Sonthern Btates combine it o solid front with the purposo of availiog themsolves of the subatance of the }_\'nnhw relmburse thom for the lossca h.mulcul:’ thelr folly and wickedness in bringiug o ! : War of tho Rebellion, thelr purpose cnnn:n be justificd on mny pretoxt, but fenst of on the basis of the tax thoy pay. blicans havy very largel) 2; eided to cast tholr votes for Hayzs and W ul"-“ s, The only prominent excaption I8 cmnyl. Fraxcis Apaxs, who, as Col. Inmsuw‘l." oy # had his henchmen at Clncinnati, lmm“fimn e might get 8 nomiuation from the Rvp:kc o party there; who was equally willing to llte g nomination at 8t. Louts, and uko‘lhu P Mean nomfnation fn Massachusetta; but et tho Democratie party, wishiog for lumo o dencs of respectabllity, knowing that 1 o man would Jend his namo to them lfll‘..l v ment, groped In tho old cemetery of e E‘y‘ Dbility and fished out CuanLxs )-'nn«:la;\[l:l e 1t thero ave any Liberal Republicans -clun . ever, who haye not yet mude mcl'r decls " M commend to them the followlog uardn‘o‘r o great leader, Floraon QUEBLEY, wllul; s the disastrous conscquences that w‘ ot from n re-establishient of Democrat sha [fl:“m ‘The brain, the heart, the soul, of ¢ a‘po Deimocratlc’ party 4 the Rebel elouent Bouth: with ihs Northern aities snd ayupattiiy 1t ta Hobel at the core to-day. 1t \m:l” o (b power with the hate, the chagrin, ¢ z'o i wortlfication, of ten bitter yusr, it to taklui guldy ite vtops. 1t would devote lue‘m ) phoasu! OFf or reducing tax after tux, until 4 was deprived of tho means Of pu! the pational debt; and would Iml.‘1 um‘l‘l?’l’x?fie‘mvau by our uotiunal 8ins weo