Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1877, Page 4

S e o e s b A At b et L e et e Ve AP TR VAR, B adal e anded P — THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY: MARCH 23, 1877. April. Hogs were nctivo and casier at £5,25 @#.75 for commeon to extra. Cattle wero act- ivo and firm, with sales ot $2.12}@0.50. “Tho slicep market was dall and 26@i00 lower, nt £3.00@5.50. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $101.87} in greenbocks at tho close. Thye Tnibwne, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. BY‘"IIL—!N ADVAKCE—~TOSTAGE PREPAID AT TINS OFFICE. Daily Fdition, patdi ) iajied 10 Any b RS 1 It acoms to bo settled that the Hon, E. B, Hurday a.50 | Wasnponxe will complete his term of eight Entnn v, i 2. years as Minister to France, which oxpires 'Arts O year, pet mon next fall. . ‘Then, 1t is snid, he will ask lo be WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. One cony, per ye! ot Clubof twet relieved, and will retnrn to private life in 1llinois, with. n view to entoring the fleld against Mer. Oaresny for the Senatorial suc- cession in 1879. Yesterday Mr, Wasunuvaxe was waited npon in Washington by o com- mitteo of Germnus, who presented resoln- tions thanking bim for the valuable services rendered to thelr countrymen in France duriug the war with Germany. Specimen cuplcs rent free. Taprerent delny and mistakes, he rure ond give Post Offee sddress n full, Incinding State anit Caunty. Reinittances may be tnada efther by draft, eXpress, Foat-Office order, of In regtatéred letters, At our tisk, TERMS TO CITT SUBACKIBERS. Dilly. delf ecred, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week Lajiy, delivered, Bunday fneluded, 30 centa per week Adiress THR TRINUNE COMPANY, Coruer aa Chicaxw, 1l amt Dearbors The plan is now to bring abont a mesting in the presence of the President between the rival claimants in Sonth Carolinn, with a viow to effecting an adjustmont of tho com- plication. Gen. Hameron will probably con. sent to this proposition if it comes.in tha form of a request by the President, and Mr. Cnaxnraaty will not be averse to accepting the proffored opportunity for escaping from his unplessant position with dignity and lonor. 'This mothod of dealing with the Sonth Carolina question §s understood to bave beon decided upon at yesterdny's meet- ingof the Cabinet nan compromise mens- ure, and ont' of deferonce to the views of the minority, Secretaries Smemaax aud Me- Onany, who opposed the withdrawal of the troops from Columbis, while the President. and tho other five mombers favored this mcasure, v TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRKOTORY, Rooma. Occupe e, 1. CNARTRR OAK LIFK (lnsuranca Dep'ts) 2. TO RENT, % GUSTIN & WALLACE. J. T, DALK. 4. DUENER WATCH-GASE MAN'FU CO, . HOBRINS & AUPLETON. & TO RENT. 7. LUEBKER & UTCHINS. £ WM. C. DOW. A..J. BROWN, W, ODBINS. . WRIGHT & TYRIRLL, 10 CHARTER OAR LIFE (Loan Dep't.) 12:13. FAIRCIILD & NLACKMAN, 341 JAMES MORGAN, 1t W, BRIDOE. 18. HENRY E. 8KELYE, W. D, COOPER. i, D, =2, ABSOCIATE EDITOR. 1. EDITOR-IN-CIIEF. 24, MANAGING KDITOR, % ABSOCIATE EDITURS. L. €. EARLE. N . . ¥, NORCROSS, J. A. McELDOWKEY. ., REDPATH LYCKUM BURKAU, . COMMERCIAL KDITOI. W, W, DEXTEIt THATCHER. A. F. STEVENSON, s EDITOM. 8, CITY EDITON. Ofices In the Rallding to rent hy W. C. DOW, Tioom s AL WILLIAM BROSS, The firat warning bins come to Princo Ris- Mancg in the emphatic majority by which the bill romoving the Imperial Law Court (corresponding lo onr Suprome Court) from Berlinto Leipzlg passed the Reichsiag on Tuesdny last, Rnumors have not beon want. ing for soma time past that thero were strong combinotions in the Reichstag of Socialists, Libernls, and Ultramontanes, but it has not been supposed that thoy were strong ouough to pass any measure, or, if they were, that they wonld have the conrago to do it in the face of Bisancx’s power and influence, nnd his constant (hreats to rosign if nny obnox- fons measures wero passed. The passage of tbin bill, however, which removes the Im- penal Low Court from immediate Tmperial “intimidation aud interference, shows that the Opposition has at last gathered such trongth as to nusert itself. Ita notion is n powerful blow at Bismanck's centrnlization and consolidation policy, oud, baving sue- ceeded in delivering it, others may follow tending to remove tho Uovernmont as far ay possiblo from Prussian influonces. Wond's Musoum. Monroe treet, Letween State aud Dearvorn. Vardety perluriuance, nverty'n . _Jiandolph street, belween Clarl and _YaSalle, Eligmgenent uf te Dousicault Comedy Coumpaoys S gy e L et Adelplil Vhentre, Monroe wircel, turncr Deacburn. Varlcty enters talament. MoVicker's Thentre. Madlzon street, between Dearhorn snd State, Engugewient of Dlon Youcteanit. ** The Siaughraun,™ MeCormicke Tall, pjgrto Clark atreet, cornor Klusle. Concert by Ole © 0 aclock, Tor wi ralally suy’ et i iy {aekies” 07 | 1Tho 80th birthday of Wrrkaax, Emporor of Germnny nnd King of Prussia, was yes- torday celebratod at Berlin with groat festiv. itfos. All the nations of Europe wero repro- sonted by special envoys to convey their congratulations and pay theiz respacta to the octogenarinn monarch; and what .with the attondanco of the numerous German Princes with thelr families, Bern was fairly overrun with royalty and nobility. Daring tho doy tho city was profusely decorated, and in tho evoning banquots and illumina. tions were the order, Emperor Wit 14, in spite of his full four.scors years, neems to have been ablo to bear his part in tho protrocted festivities, recelving in . A Vo atfon this ¢ ), prening, ur ou the loyal Arch Degrec. er, A, d. Gl FORD, 11, P, CILAS. . WRIGHT, Sechyiary o ORD: I P KIA LODGE, X0 1o, AL F. AND A M. o liegular Coinmunteation this (Friday) even Fasuuto [all, No. 7 Moaroe-at, ally lnvite E. BT, JOIN, W. M. Fen cardiady tnviteh, S rier ot g W * avited, Wy Order o1 The W, 7. tETICK, Beo. FRIDAY, MARCII 23, 1877, Greenbacks nt’ the New Yotk Gold Ex- change yesterdny closed at 95, 2 in tho aftornoon, the immense throng of p v ————— Princes and dignitaries who paid their re. spocts to the venerable and august ruler of tho most powerful nation of Europe. IHe bas accupied the throne for nearly tweaty years, haviug in 1858 been sppointed Regont® upon tho rotiring of his brothor, Faepeniox WisLtax IV,, on account of mental aberra- tion, By the death of the latter withoat issue, Jan. 2, 1861, Witntam becamo King of Prussin, and on the 18th of January, 1871, Lo was proclaimed Emporor of United Ger- many in the palaco of the French Kings at Versailles, A Vienon paper is respousible for the statement that tho Emperor of Austrin has assured the Pope that the Vatican may xpect the full support of the Austrian Gov- ernment in the evont of Italy's encrosch- ing further upon tho prorogatives of the Holy See. Jonz D, Ler was yesterday taken from Snlt Lako City to Mounntain Mendow, the purpone of the authoritics seomingly being to cxecote him upon tho soil which he, under orders from the Mormon hiernrchy, saturated with tho blood of tho hapleas emi. 17 grants twenty yonrs ago. . . O o e — e Nev. Joseen Coox, .8 new Boaton fashion in the preacher lino, aud evangolical, for u wonder, said, in hia last sermon, that *¢ Politicians would do well to romomber that while in the Catholic Chnrch in America thero aro two miltion nittings, thero aro in tho Baptist threo millions, Mothodist four millions, and Congregational ono and a half millions.” Well, suppose a politiclan ddes * remember " it, what van he do about it? Can hu distribute himself to belong four twenty-sixths to the Cathollo, six twenty- sixths to tho Bapliat, elght twenty-sizths to the Mothodist, throe twenty-sixths to the Congreggtional Churchos, with a contingent remalnder for *The Little Church Round the Cocner”? QO course, politicians rememe ber these great trutha in our most holy religion, aud the remembrance iy indeed grlevous unto them. Like FarsTarr, when confronted by two female charmers, they ex- claim ; ** Divido me,"” But how to divide and como out oven is o great mystery, Indeed, this matter of religion is one of the mnost porplexing things in politics. The flesh Is willing Lut the spirit is weak,—in fact ispirited. Then there {a the great congre. gation of outsiders, with **sittings " liko the sand upan tho senshore in Novembor, who imust bo looked aftor. Who is sufficient for these things? In fact no one save the Lord knows the down *‘sittings” of a politician, Ho sils alternately with everybody, It fan bad thing to let religion and politics olone, but it is & worss thing that politics won't let religlon alone, and it is a fact of doubtful tendency,that religion won't Iot politicaalone, ‘The Founder of all Churches said, * Render unto Cxsan the things that are Oxsas's, and unto Gob the things that are His.” It would be well for the Church ond the State if this comwand was more generally obeyed, Iho Common Council last evening ap. pointed tho judges and clerks to sorve at the coming clectiou for city nnd town officors. Tho names of o lnarge number of reputablg citizens nro to be recognized in the list, sudd wo hiave no doubt thiat the seloctions as * o wholo are such as to lusure an honest elec. 5 tion aud an lionest connt of the votes. 4 ‘I'he Chicago Greenbackers linve adopted i 8 platform nud hominated a wot of candi. * -dates for city ofiices supposed to be in har- weny with tho rag-money erowd, Isople aro asked to express by their votes their approval of the inflation folly, but 88 thore is small probobility thst either the Republican or . Democratic Couveutlons will ratify the nom. . inations made yesterday, the returns will bo likely to show an nmount of approval not ' very encouraging to tho Greonback leaders, —— Nothing but earnest, vigorous, peraistent . effort on tho part of the Cook County delo- ! gution in tho Leglslaturo will secure the pas. sage of the bill providing for the election of . 0 now DBoard of County Commissloners. "'he delegation {3 practically n unit in favorof the main features of the bill, and the taxpayers of this county will hold their representatives responsible for its failure, . It can Lo possed it they work for it with cnergy aud dotermination, and it should be V. possed without fail, 3 ‘The Democratic nominations for Aldermen i# intho Beventh nud Eighth Wards are a warn. . dng of the kind of Common Council that i Clieago is threatoned ‘ith for the mext < two years uploss the respectable - citic “. zens and taxpayers interest ihemselves .+, in the matter. Hivoneru, the convicted whisky-thief, and P, O, Frenzy, shyster and ex-Constable, aro the two lmpending calam. itics referred (o, nnd there will be more of #* them if the gamblers and bLummers are al- > lowed to coutrol the nominations and fur- # uish o wafority of tho votes on election-day, ———— President F, A, P, Dasnarp, of Columbia College, New York, has contributed (o the Now York Tribune a plan for electing a President of the United States, of which plan he claims to bo the suthor,—a claim which, we assume, will be conceded to him by universal consent. It fis, byiefly, that Presidential Electors shall be appointed in the sevoral States by the soparate action of the iwo Houses of the General Assembly, Thus, the members of the Btate Senate shall have the right to elect two Electors repre. senting the Btate at large; sud the members of the House shall divide themselvesinto as many Conventions as there are Congressional Districts in the Htats, each Conveation to contain those membors elocted within that Coogresslonal District, and each of these Conventions to appoint one Presidential Elector. It willbe difScult to imsgine any scheme better calculated to provoke orin- vite conlested elections, evon if the plsu were practicable in any way. Except in thoss States where there is but ons Congres- sional District, it is not practicable to have + - . The Chicago produce wmarkets were mod. erately active yeslerdoy, aud grain was . stendy, while provisious were irregular, Meas purk closed bo per brl higher, at $14.00 v @14,03 for April and $14.20@14.22} for May. Lard closed Go per 100 lba higher, at £9.45 for April and $9.56 for May, Meats »-* closed steady, at 4fo for loose shoulders, 7jc .. for do short ribs, and 7]o for do short clears. : Highwines were unchanged, at $1.05 per {«' gollon. Flour was in fair demand and firm. * Wheat closed fo higher, at $1.24] for March £ and %1.25} for April. Corn closed Jo Jower, -+ at 381c for April and 423c for May. Oats cloged {o lower, at 82]c for April and 350 ., for May. Ryo was {@1o ligher, closing at ! $3@66a cash and 62§c for April. Barley was firas, at 52fo for March and 52@52j0 for person, from 10 o'clock in the morning until | Legislativo Districts coterminons with the Congressional Districts. In Illinois we have ninetesn Congressional Districts nnd fifty- ona Legislative Districts, and in mno case, do wo belleve, does it happen that tho bonndaries of aeny Congres- sional District correspond with those of any number of Legislafive Districta. In other States the Assembly Districts number as high ns 70, and oven 100, S8uch an arrangomont wonld reqhire tho alteration of every Btate Constitation, and in some, if not all, States wonld revolutionize tie whole basia of represeutation in the*Legislatare, The Constitntions of tho soveral States fix the dntes for ruceting of the Legislature. Many of these Logislatures begin thelr,sessions in Jonuary, others as late as March, Inall such cases the election of Prosidential Elect. ora would have to be mads by the old Legis- lature, chosen, as in Illinois, two and four yenrs beforo. Such a plan would also earry into the election of members of the Legisla- ture frauds and corruptions, rendered noro easy of necomplishment beaause confined to tho narrow limits of a single Legislative Dis- triot, and often to n slogle connty or part of a county, - No possible benefit could follow the ndoption of this plan, but the complica- tions ond indncoments to frand wonld bo multiplied indofinitely ; and one of the ends sought by o chauge is to reduce thesa induce- wonts to fraud to the minimum, civil war. It is by no means certnin that the President will not need thostrong and united eofforta of ol friends of reform and of all tho Iaw-abiding, conscrvative people of the conntry to indorse and strongthen him and help him defeat the Implacables of boih par- ties. lenrncd the facts, His danghter, Gonrrror's wife, forcod her mother to meok a refuge pending n judiclal sepnration, leaving one daughtor with AL Crave, who now knows sho is nat his child, and anothor with Mad- amo Goperror, to whom she constantly re- calls o terriblo relationship.” Tho most gratitying result of tho conduct of tho Presi- dent's conrse 13 the likelihood that it will result in a complets revolution of court prac- tices. Intanse public indignation was arousod. The pross condemned it ns an ont- rage. Tho Judgo who was responsiblo for the outrage has beon siruck off the list of counselors from whom tho Presidents of Assizo Courts are choson, and a bill has been introduced in the Assembly abolishing *tho resumo,” or second spacch for the prosecu- tion, which is usnally dolivered by the Pres- ident ot the ond of the case for sffect npon the jury. There has for some timo been disposition manifested in France to adapt ita system of jurisprudence more nearly to tho English system, by doing away with the antiguated *divine right” iden, nnd tho ns. sumption that every man aocused of erime is guilty. As a practieal opportanity hns oc- curred for making the roform, it is not im- possiblo that it will bo immedintely inaugu- rated. ANOTHER WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. Those who fancy that the sgo of discov. ery and invention isnt an end soriously un. derrate the enorgy nnd ambition of our scientific men, and the superior advantages they havo wilh the aid of tho progress already achioved. Tho condition of man. kind, and the utility and durability of the tools and implements in common use, can be materially improved evenovor the pressnt satisfaotory status, and tho -chomists are rapidly holping us out. It was only a fow months ago that wo ohronicled tho experi- ments of Prof, px ra Bastre in toughening glass, and already thers aro factorics in Franco and this country ongaged in turn. ing out glasa that is s hard and strong as motal. 'To.day we print in another part of Tng Trmons on articlo from the London T'imes which describes some of the experi- ments of Prof, Bany#, an English chemist, in the way of preventing {ron from rusting, tho succeas of which will make that metal na firm as the rock of agos. Rust has boon always the enomy of iron in all its protean shapes, and all the efforta that have beon mnde heretofore to provent or cuuntoract it have only extended it dura- Dbility toalimited extent, Painting, galva. nizing, and coatings of all kinds have only. retarded temporarily the fatal process of oxydizing, snd use and exposure for a fow yoars at most bring on the rust that, once started, ents away the substance. Prof. Banrr's exporiments have been fn the way of moaking this vory weakness of the iron a now element of strength. Ho has discoverod _that an fron article exposed at o high tem- pernture to tho action of superhented steam produces a black oxide, which is harder than the iron itself, which adhores to the iron oven more firmly than tho particles of the jron adhore to each other, snd which cannot be nffacted by exposure to olr, water, or oven sirong acids. This oxide under the trontment de- soribed forms over the ontire surfaca oxposed, and the film or conting has a thickness and resistance proportioned to thodegreo of tem- perature and tho longth of the cxposure. Prof. Banrr'soxperiments have demonstrated that an oxposuroof the iron at a heat of 1,200 degrees Fahronheit for six or seven hours pro- ducos a black oxide surfaco which will resist & rasp and stand an indeflnito oxposure to moisturo and the weather without collecting s particlo of rust, The oxperiments thus tar have necessarily been confined to small srtioles of iron, as they havo beon made in a chomical laboratory end with a emall cham- ber for tho hoat, but thero is every reason to boliove that all that has been dons with small orticles may be done with the largest, and the malleablo proporty of iron renders its uses illimitable whenever it shall be mado absolutely incorrodible. 1t is impossible o estimate the value to mankind of the practical working of thisdis- covory. Its advantages will reach tho house- hold, the farm, the factory, the tool.shop, tho army, tho navy; labor, society, and the nation will bo benefited. Stoves will no longer rust out in a few years' sorvice. Tho dangor from steam-boilers will bo removoed nnd their durnbility increased indofinitely. The farmer’s agricultural imploments—his hoos, axes, plows, oultivators, and machines of all kinds—will not roquire renewal every fow yoars, Tho small arms and great guns with which nations equip ' their armies and navies will endure boyond a singlo war and outlast the rust of idle timo of poace. Iron ships, which wero about to bo abandoned, may then bo preserved ngalnst tho ravagesof tho waters, and ot the samo timo strongth- onod in resisting tho tearing missiles shot from the guns of recont invention, Iron roofs will be a blessing to citios, as thoy may thus become tho most durable ag well ns the ‘moat fire-proof, whila now thoy Isatonly o few yoars at bost. Iron will supply largely the preséntusesof tin, copper, andlead, and much more satisfactorily than theso matorials. There will be no need for copper boilers for cooking, and leaden pipes for earrying water may bo dispensed with, With this improve- mont, iron bridgos may become nbsolutaly safo ngoinst tho woar of years, and such catpatrophics 0a the rocout Ashtabula horror ovorted for all time. Indeod, thera is no other discovery we can fmagine that will be of such unlversnl use-and benefit to the world a8 a cheap and practical means for protecting fron ogainst rust, such as the London chemist scems to have found, Tho London Times of March 4 containg an extremely important and slgnificant dispatch from Caleutta, to the effect that o treaty has beon concluded with XKholat, whereby the British Government ogrees to support the Khan ngainst in. ternal npd foreign foes, and to pay on ponual anbsidy of $10,000, besides o further sum of $10,000 for the purposo of effecting sundry improvemonts in the Khan. ate. In return, the Government will havo the privilege of occupying the chief towns with troops, construoting railroads and telo. graphs, ond erceting forts, 'The ritish ngent’s headquarters are to bo at Khelat, and an officer is also to be stationed at Quetta, The importance of this naws may be seon by a glance at tho map, The northern and westorn frontiors of India are guarded by the impenetrable and gigantic mountain- walls of the Himalayas and the Hindoo Koosh, Excopt by sen or round to the enstward by OChins, Russis can only got into Indin by two moun. tain posses,—tho Bholum, noar the Beloochistan frontier, nud the Khyber, fur- ther north, near Cabool, and close to the ro- cent Russinn acquisitions in Bokbarn, Ke- Iat, tho British Loadquarters, is the Capital of Boloochistan, and Quetta is on the north- orn frontler, The occupation of these two important strategio points gives the British control of tho sonthern pass, and will soon placo them in posscssion of the morthern ono by the construction of railways, so that Russian access will be out off from the wost, ond the advauca of Russia south through Bokhara will find itselt confronted with tho advance of England north through Afighan. istan. Tho English already have two sys- toms of railronds in Indin, tho one running northwest from Ualoutta, terminnting in the Punfab, thus sccuring connections with thelr extremo northwestern frontler; and tho other running northorly from Bombay, aud terminating ut the mouth of tho Indus. The new roads which they will construst under the terms of tho treaty with the Khan of Khelat through Affighnuistan and Deloochistan aro in reali- ty continnations of the Indian roads boyond thoir frontiors, and their effect must bo to bring England and Russia face to face on the BDokbaran bordor. It will bo o * thus-far. but-no-farthor ” to Russia, ‘Tho moral sug- gostion of this treaty shows that England ja not disposed to put muokh faith in the solemn doclaration of the Czar to the British Gov- crnment, not long sinco, disclaiming any in- tontions agninst India. It shows, even if thoy trust the Ozar, that thoy are bound to mako assuranco donbly suro by taking pos. sossjon of the only gatoways into India from tho west and northivest, 1 ST ——— GOV. CULLOM ARD THE DEMOCRATS. The attempt of tho Democrats in the INlf- nois Loglslature to dictato to Gov. Curroy, not only that ho shall sclect Democrats for a certain portion of the State Boards, but that Lo shall appoint the men whom they choose to recommond, is both unusunl and imperti- nent. Wo know no objection to the policy of giving Domocrats a represontation on tho different Btate Boards; indoed, we think it safor nnd better that the minority party shall be nlways reprosonted on official Boards con. slsting of a number of porsons, as their pres. cuce oxeroises a salutary restraiut upon any oxcesses to which the mojority may be in. The Legisiature has passcd a joint resoln. tion submitting to tho vote of the people at the general Stato election in November, 1878, an nmendmont to the Constitution on the subject of draiuage. The thirty-first section of tho fourth article of tho Qonstitution now rends: The General Asscmbly may pasa lawa permitting the owners or occupants of Jands to construct drains and ditches for agricultural purposes across the lands of othors. Judicial docisions have shown that, under this section, no apportionment of the costof such drninage ean be mado upon the adjoin- ing property. The result is that ownoers re- furo to contribute, though willing that others shall drain their lauds. In consequenco of this, the Legialature proposes as a substitute for the present section of the Constitution the following: Resolred, by the Bonse of Representatives of the Etate of 1Mlinols, the Senate concurring hereln, That there shall be submitted to tho voter of this State, at tho next election for members of the General Asscmilly, a proposition to 80 amend the thirty-Aeat sectlon of the fourth article uf tha Con- stitution of thls Etate thut tho same muay readus follows: 5 Thio General Assembly may pass lsws permittfng the awners of jauds (o consiruct drains, diiclics, and levees fur sgricultural, sanitary, or lllllllll%l'llflwt ACTORY the Iauds of utlitrs, and provide for the otkanization of araina ‘"l‘l i _vest the eurwr‘-tu nuthority Y wer to conatruct and mAlntain drains, ditehes, and levees heretutora constriicted under the Iavws of ‘this §t1te, by spectsl eriy benogted thereby. Asactsmicnisupon the props Soms of the best corn lands in tho State ave left valucloss for tho want of drainsge. Low lands, too wet for oultivation, and therefora unproductive, might, if ditched, be made valuablo. Draina must hove out~ lots. It is of no use for one man to con- struct ditches scross his own laud at his own expense if tho ownor of tho adjoining section refuso to extond the ditch, Undor tho proposed amendment the Legislature will have powor to mako the construction of drains compulsory, by having tho work or- dered judicially, and’the cost apportioned nccording to.bonefita npon all the land drained, Considering the great amount of Jand roquiring drainage, and the valunble re- sults of such an improvement, the impor. tance of the smendment, and of the subss- quent legislation for carrying it into effect, will bo at once recognized. Thero ought to be no objection to the amendmeont. THE G0UTHERN COMMISSION, The policy of sending n Commission to investigato nnd report upon tho political complication in Lonisiana, and in South Caro- liva if necessary, seowms to place the Admin. istration in u dilemma which it is to bo boped will bo only temporary. It appears to e the most judicious plan that can be adopt. ed, and yot it has its perilous side, Of course the Nicmorrs faction want (he troops withdrawn ; but should the Presidont withdraw the troopa thero is good prospect that tho two factions will como to blows, nnd then the troops must step in again, and things revert whero thoy were, The NicmoLrs faction havo an armed force alroady in pos: scesion of somo of the publio buildings, Meanwhile, Pauxarp has organized a- force in tho city and country parishes, so that thero is overy prospect, if the troops are withdrawn, that there must be bloodshed and a general uproar aud outbreak, in which Packanp would bo quickly wiped out; and after that result tho openly-avowed doter- wmination to retaliate with incendisrism may ba carriod out, The President, thers. {fore, in visw of the gravity of tho situation, is — clined. We understand, too, that Gov, warranted in exhausting every means of set- | - A CAUSE CELRDRE, . | Curzox bas - intimated from the first tling the question before removing the Gov- | A recent criminal caso boforo the French | Lis disposition to give tha Demo- ornment polica who have maintained the | courts has crested unusual excitoment in | crats & fair roprosentstion among bis Franco, and wide-spread discussion throngh- out England, na illuat}ntlng a pecaliar phaso of French court practice, The circum- stances of the case briefly aro'as follows: Goberroy, the prisoner, is a Paris grocer, and recently obtalned a sum of monoy to put into his business from ons M. Covnre- rots. 'The lsttor, having susplcions that he would be cheated out of his money, called upon M. Gopzrnor and made demand for the. payment. A wrangle ensued, in the courso of which the merchant drew a plstol and shot his creditor. 8o far there {s noth- ing very remarkable in tho case, Itwsan vulgar murder, and tho crime bhad nothing of romance or mystery about it. ‘The ro. markablo phases of tho case appeared oa the trial, The testimony was sufficient to have convictod the prisoner of mauslaughter, but the President of the Court did not think that evidence enough had been introduced; so ho set him. self to work to blacken tho charactur of the acoused, Bome correspondence of Gope- raox's had been discovered through the sgonoy of the secret police which gave him an opportunity of discrediting bhim in the eyes of the jury, CGopgrzoy had marricd the daughter of his former employer, M. Ozarz, which marrisge the Prosident contonded was meant to conceal an intrigue with Lis mother-inlaw. He read all tho lotters, and then subjected the prisoner to the most brutal questions intended to drag the crime from the obscurity where {t bad been hidden for years into the publio view. Ilo over- whelmed the miserable man with such’ epi- thets as Zacke, miscrable, ame vile, and Aypo- ¢rite, and went 5o far as to charge himp with haviog retained this correspondenco for base parposes. The outrageous conduct of the Court, howerer, did not answer the purpose it was meant lo sccomplish, for the jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter with extenusting circumstances. Thers has been s sequel to tho trial. The crue! and unnecossary reading of the letters has plunged the Oravz family into distrcss. The Paris correspondent of tho London Times nays: ** There wore terrible sconmes when AL Crayr, the oulraged husband, slatus quo vince Mr, Hayes was Inaugurated, In sending this Commiasion to Louisiana it is hoped and expected thoy will find some logal and peaceable meansof settling the trouble. The President has listened to the unofficial astatement of partisans on each side, made in great heat and from thelr own standpoint. A Commlssion of cool, moder- ate men from both parties moy discover some mutual ground of compromise belween the opposing factions, and some legal method of solution. * In examining and reporting upon tho two factions of the Logialature, the condition of the judicial elatus, the local ad- ministration, and in ascertaining which Gov- ernment the people are obeying, and (o which tho taxpayers are contributing, il is by no means imposaible that somo ground of safety may bo found between the two ex- tremes. Froni this point of viéw tho Com. mission plas seemu eminently desirable and judiclous. It has its perils nevertheless. Commis. alons are always slow, unwisldy, long.wind. ed; and this partioular Commission may consume 80 much timo that it will find itself in the extra session before it has arrived at any definite oonclusion. This will give the Implacables in buth parties fust the oppor. tunity they desire to attack the Administrs. tion, and to veuew ‘the disgraceful scenes which characterized the closing hours of the Inst session. They are already organizing thelr forces for such an encounter, and they will enlist in their ranks the White-Liners of the South and the Bourbons of the North, the machine-men who are opposed to Mr. Hares' policy and are just as muck Bourbon in their justincts and actions as the ultm Democrats, aod the mob of disappointed ofice-weekers and spolls-hunters whose schemes wero thwarted on the one side by the defent of Tizozw and on the otherby the operations of Oivil.8ervice Reform. These micu, caring notbivg for peace, jus- tice, equity, tho law, or the negro, will seek {o embitter and reheat the public, and so keep the country in turmoiiall summer, hop- ivg in the general confusion and disorder to secure plunder and office, or, failing in that, to plunge the country into the horrors of sppointments when he can find gentlemen of that party who are qualifiel for the official duties. DBut this willlngness on his part by 1o means conveys to the Democratic cauous of the Legislature any right to dictate tho selections ; on the contrary, it ought to in. duca the Domocrats of the Senate to refrain from nuy futorforonce with the Executive, which thoy might otherwise justify by nl. leging strong partisan bins in the appoint. ment of nono but Nepublicans, Tho simple fact 11 that the Democrats in thia mattor ara violating tho spirit, if not the lottor, of the Constitution. The section governing the appoiutment of Btato oMoials reads: *'The Governor shall nominate, and by sud with the advice and consont of the Benate (a mafority of all the Bonators selected concurring by yeassud nays) appoint, all oficers whose offices ore established by this Constitution, or which may bo created by law, and whoso appolintment or election is not otherwise pro. vided for; and nosuchofficer shall be appointed or clected by the General Assembly” Now when the Democrats of the Senatoare in sufficient number to defeat the constitution. al majority required for confirming appoint- ments, and resolve that they will only con. firm such persons as they recommend to the Governor, it is in effect depriving the Gov- ornor of his constitutionsl right of appaint. mont, and at the same tine arrogating to themselves the right of sppointment which is expresaly forbidden by the Constitution. We hopa Gov, Ourrom will refuse to sub. mit to this dictation. He cannot ccede to it without seacrificing the dignity of his position, and setting a prece. dont that moy be exceedingly em. barrassing and even dangerous in 'the future. All the gentlemen whom the Demo- cratio caucus have sgreed upon may be in avery way fit for the places to which thoy have hoen thus unlawfully assigued, but the imperious manner in which their appoint. ment s dictated will justify the Governor in rofusing to Jocate them according to the cau. cus programme. He must be left free to make his own sppoistments, The Benhte may then confirm or refect them, as it sces [ fit; but neither the Sonato as a whole, nor a party cauous thercof, has any right to say to the Governor, “Wo will confirm such and anch men, and no othera.” In taking this position the Democrats have disgraced them. nolves, and the Grovernor cannot sabmit to thelr bulldozing withont sharing the respon- sibility of a virtual violation of the Constitu- tion, and stch a sacrifice of his own powers 48 he may have reason to regrot soriously in the fature, and personal rezord hero, he recalled the nomi. nation and reappointed Mr. Yosr. [As le did not do In the Chicago case.] What does Ben. ator BAUNDRAs say! Nothing sase this: *f shall appolnt Mr, HALL'—that 18 his one and all-euMeient reply.”” Dispensing Post-OMces makes more trouble {n a party than they aro worth to it ten-fold. If they wero elective, how much trouble it would save an Admioistrs tlon! ———— One of the cheeklest things of the present cen. tury In the attituds of Titk TRisuUNR an the crib ond Iake tannel, Two weoka ago the 7Ymes edi. torlnlly dlated that the erib and Ita connectiony nete §'|v|nz way, wlerenpon Tng Tniouxs dented ftIn 1] omoel‘;mslllvu manner, On Sanday, Tix Tainune prints subatantially what appeared two weekn ago In the 7¥mes in regard to the crib, and parades it as an origianl discavery, —Times. Tne Trinuxs bss printed Mr. Gzonom R, BraMimaLL's communication respecting the strength and ability of the crib to resiat. thy blows of the storm-driven waves; and it did not know beforn that hils communication had ** sub- stantially mppeared in. the Times two weeks ago,” or ot any time. We Lavo searchied the fies of that paper for moro than two wecks without flnding any communication from Mr, B, on the subject of the crib, It Is true that Tne Tripusz hosnot bolieved in the reports started by the Zimes from time to timo of the weakness and danger of the crib, and docs not taka much stock In the storles now; but thinks that a thorough exbmination should bo made, and, If there {s the slightest danger of fts stabllity, let it bo made secure. ———etm— The Hon. Duxcax K. McRae, formerly legding politician of North Caroliua, but nowa resldent of Chlcago, writes to the Raleigh (N, C.) News urging o favorable reception to the President’s policy onthe part of the South, He sags: “If there could bo surmised a policy more consonant with the intercst of the South and with her duty, I eannot concelveof it It s u policy cssentially Democratic in the true senso of that term. And when to this is added the known disposition of the class of politicians by whom tho Prestdent {s Immediately sur. rounded, and hls own, favorable to tho develop- ment of the SBouthern resources, to her educa. tional and Improvement fotcrests, It would scem to bu another consummation of party fatality to ‘resist such favorable approactics,’ while the highest conslderations of patrlotism urge for them a hearty support and encoragement.” EXTRAORDINARY INTOLERANOCE. The Btate of New Hampshiro has again rejected the amendments to the State Con. stitution siriking out the word * Erotostant " 03 n qualification for offico. A provision of that kind has always beon in the Constitu. tion of that Btato. Tho original Constitu. tion was adopted in 1784, was amended in 1792,and again in 1850. A State Convention in 1876 waa held to propose amendments. The otiginal Constitution romsina in fqrce, but, excopt the reponl of tha property-gualifica. tion of voters, has not been substantally changod. Tho Constitution provides, as one of the qualifications for Govornor, Sonators, Ropresontatives, and Counselors, snd par. haps othor officers, that they shall be pro. fessors of the ‘/Protestant religion.” < Tho Couvention of 1850 nnd the Conventlon of 1876 both submitted amendments striking out this roligions test, and it now appears that the poople in 1877 have rejected the smendments, 08 they did - in 1850 Theso amondments ,wore adopted in the Convention by anunanimous vote ; all the newspapers and oll the caudidates advoeated tho amendments. Thero was no publia or avowed opposition bofors the eleotion, and yet, according to the returns, the nmend- meonts have been rejocled, and, of course, by o secret voto., Among the other curiosities of tho election, going to show that there was no party feeling in the matter, the Demo- cratic lowns nre conspicuous by the major- ities they gave againat the amondments, No matter by what concert or arrange. ment tho amendments wers rojocted, the résponsibility is upon the poople of that Stato for the perpetuntion of this relic of anclent bigotry. At the time of the formn- tion of the National Union, the Constitutions of many of tho States contained similar roligions discriminations, and, whila thoy wore omittod from the Constitutions of oll' {he now Statos, all the old States oxcopt New Hampshiro have long since abol- ished them, Beforo the Unlon, mnost of these States had n sort of State religion, but grad- ually nll this Lns been abandoned. New Hampshire alone of all the Statos has pro- sorvad the religious test for office, Twice within twenty-five yenrs tho poople have ro- fused to repon! this test. It applica to Ro- man Catholics, Jows, and to all persons who do not profess belief in Christianity. New Hampshiro can hardly afford this violence to the unanimous sontiment of the peoplo of the United Biates. Roligious tests for office nro arelio of a bygons age, and havo long since boen abolished in various Statea of Eu- rope,—oven in Btates which have s national or official State Church. Tho case of Now ‘Hampehire iz » national ropronch; it is o solitary oxception among the thirty-oight States of the Union; it alono in tho American Union maintains s o gqualification for office a beliet or pro. ——— ‘Wa find this paragraph in the Nation? The *¢\Woman Question' has come before the Engllsh courtsin an extaordinary shape. ‘There, a8 here, married women now hold properly inde. pendently of theighusbands, and ono marrled lady owns & race-horse on which she las given two or three morteages, besides owing the trainer some. thing, Tho creditors are now all presaing for pay- ment. and application was mado fo tho Master of the Rolls for an order ta sell the horso and divide the prico among the ownern of the llens; but he re- fuscd to make any such order, on the ground that the cridenco was too conllicting, Whareupon the counsel of thennfortunate inaband rose and protest. ed on his behalf againet his being drageed Ioto the cane a8 ho had beon. as he know and cared nothing abont the horse. T thisthe Masterol the ltolisre. plled ramorneleasly that It was quite proper to brln, himin; that he wimn necessary me: and thut § tha Court had mada any order In the malter, and the wife had disobeyed it, it was he who would have had to go to jall for contempt, —an odifer dictum which snust have plunged the matricd men Into deep thought. i The Boston lobe has a loneeditorlal entitled, “8ave the Old South.” Most Republican papers just now have all they wautte do at- tempting to savo tho new South. Itls ncom- fort to know that about all that is loft of tho *0ld South ¥ exists in Boston, and fs not in much danger of callini the roll of fts slaves in the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument at that. The Globe Is right. Let the ¢ 0ld South bo saved. The people of Boston dil as much as anybody to disrupt the Old'8outh politically, and the church of that name at tho Iub may well enough bo preserved as on excellent wmemento of that cvont, and of scveral other historfcal matters of the past. — S Gen.' BHERMAN, in his lato apeech at New York, sald:. “Our navy, 1 regrotto say, {8 now reduved to baro Polea.” This will holp out the wasting fragments of the countrymen of the lamented Kosciusko. But why speak of this 1abor in a derogatory way? Isnot the object of anavy to nourlsh freemen? DId not freedom shrick when Kosciusko fell? Our navy can be in no better buainess than to bo on Poles, and it 1s & com{ort to know that Sccretary TiospsoN, whoso lifo has been speat on a coast whers the only navigation was by meaus of poles, will b apt to push things in that dircctlon. e — e Indiana is to have s now Btate-House/w' 7. (s started out with au appropristion of §3,000,- 000, How much mors it will cost will depend a Rood deal on the cholce of theBtate-tHousp Com- inlssfonors, 'as lllinols has”discovered by sad experlence. Ono of the gontlemen named os likely to bo placed on tho Commission is L D. G. Nrusox,of Fort Wayuo, e laan old citizen and well known throughout the Stats as a gon- tleman of abiiity and integrity, with old-fash- foned, ovonomical tendencies that will be useful n just such o capacity. fosslon of bollef in n particnlar religioun croed. We do not understand that it nc- complishes anything in the way of prosclyt- ing. It mayto somo extentdrive popula. tion out of the Stats, and dotor others froin settling in the State ; but we question whether it over induced any person to change his religion in ordor to be oligible to hold office, ‘The only thing accomplished is to mnke the Biate conspliouous as the only part of the country whero intolerance and preju- dloo are 80 provalent that a religious test for office is maintained by the popnlar vote in the beginning of the second centennial of American indepondence. Life-Insurance is Just now in o bad way. ,The mentle agent keeps near his supports, and doesn't vonturs far from shore, b treadeth Hehtly with bis foot, and sticketh his bat doftly under his left arm, while he “‘makes his leg" in the presence of tho pollcy-holder of the cur- poration he represcuts, or seeks to begullo now candidstes for postbumous pecunlosity. The time las passed when s life-insuranco agent could dismias a religlous meeting in order to lecturs on the duty of famliyprotaction, or stop o man on his way to business and sit on him an hour, ressonlug of righteousness, temperance, und an “application” to come. There was a |- perfod when the volco of the sgent was abroad in tholand with o vengeance; when fathers of familivs went home by unaccustomed routes to avold bis ambush; when cards marked * yol- Tow fever,” **swall pox, ete., wore rosorted to, as defenses, and promiuently posted upon the doors of bousos and officps, 'This 18 all over. Thelr harp{s now hungon thewillows; thelr ** machine® 1s brukens their *“check ™ Is busted. Fow men would not waive the right to a small sum, pays- blc after death, In order to reach so desirable a consuwimation, ‘The averago lougevity of the country will be enhianced 10 per coat by the de- cadunce of thess agents, aud, in thls time, any man of encrgy can provide for hia family the amount of an averagy policy, It life-insurance canvassiog had contlnued a few years longer with the vivacity that once characterized it, the span of human life, through the worry and vex- atlon of agents, would havo become so brief that the companles must Incvitably have vol lapsed. Itisbetter for soma of them to dis wuow, in order that the peaplo may not perish off the face of the carth. 4 i 1t is a liltle queer that thu Southern Demo- crats should be so anxious to have the troops withdrawn from Loulsiana and Bouth Carollna, They interfere with nobody, ¥Fat contracts al- ways accompany this Kind of peaceful occupa- tlon, Gencrally s locality Is distressed when the withdrawal of soldjers is even hinted at, 1f tho demand to got them out 6f the way is In order to have n fight, 1t {s ridiculous, for the office of soldicrs Is to participate In fights; If {¢ §s in order to have peace, it is Inconsequent, for nothing §s more pesccable than a blue-cost on tho sunny side of bis barracks. Buppose thers should be a rlsing of the negrocs in Louisiana or 8outh Carolina, how handy tho few compa. nles statfoned fn thess localitles would bo. Per haps the Toouus style of Boutherner would do well to get over his hatred of troops. They are a military necesslty. They can't be cured and must bo endured. They do no harm 1f “let slone,” snd this characteristic ought to make them popular down South. Preadent Havms will uot be apt {0 move the army of the United States at tho dictatson of Boutbern politicians, ‘This would be rough on Gen. SBuzsMaX and Becretary McCrany, Fven ConsLixg, supposing him 0 bo as black as Gronax WiLLIAX Cuuris painte bim, is worth saving Lo tha Ropublican party.—Deirall Fost. Yes, and CHANDLER, supposing him to be a8 white as Cant Bocuunz paints bim, is slso worth saving to the Republican partyy Wo can- not afford to have any color-llne, especially so Jong us it 18 a mere matter of * paint.’’ et Within a few days Col. Lystax Bripaxs' nams hias been suggested for City Treasurer on the Republican tlcket., We have po lcaltation i saying that o better nominution could uot well bemade. Ho s just tho kind of » man that ought to bo nuinfuated; and, it Lo is put ou the tleket, will run splendidly, aud, It elected, witl make on excellent Treasurer, e ——— The New York Jeraid has got its man STAN- LXY into the “heart” of Afrlca. Tne public will now exclalm, with more vigor than over 4 On, BTANLEY, on.” Go it Branusr, Go ity Africa. It Staxtar has won tho heart of Alrica without a ducl, the ferald proprieter should sead him ono of the numerous wedalog suits ho has no prescnt use for, —t— The Boston Sunday Times caricaturcs Moopy's convertsand Ulustrations. Ouncrepre- scnts the rich man gomg up in @ balloon und throwing out sand, 1f the Lord ever shakes up the irreverent editor of that paper, thers will bo » geporal delivery of sand, but It will como from hia “crop, ¥ PR — The Chicago T¥mes fucls badly sbout President Mares, Itis afruid heis “among the break- ers.” The public will be consolod by reflecting that, whilo the Times lecturca bim, it {5 cortaln that hio ls not among thioves. et Women srasafd to be “utterly inefitclent * in the dead-lctter office st Washington, Probably 1t is bocause thelr curlosity leads them toread overy lutter carefully through, Thls, of course, consumes time, e —e The Dergocratle Leglslaturo of Missourl has le;hhhd& Stato Entomologist out of office. ‘The members fcel that his continuance in power was a constant menace. Ho was death on o= wects. “Tha Houth needs internal fmprovement' cry the Tou Bcorr newapapers. 8o does a man with dyspepsls. Why not have the Government {sauc bonds to buy vegetablo plils for tho al- sktedt “The bill forcompulsory education, it is allegedy will fall to pass the Btate Legislaturo becauso it {s so bunglingly drawn. This, if true, s & strong argument In favor of cowpulsory educa~ tion, * x ———— His opponcats bave pinched the sable aspirsut 3 —— ‘The Omaha Jiepublican denounces very bitter- Iy the appolntmont of tho new Postmaster for that city. It says: 1t s the duly of the repstable slements of the Republican party here to get ng‘u oncexfor nale of the record, if for no other pury tition to the followlng effect: ** Wa pro 1ho retention of Tuoxas V. Omaha. on the ground that and does Dot cojoy the uln.og: and "g?n 3“::.‘.’;‘ men “sad for Bepatorial honors from Louisiana so oftcd decent citlzens of Omaha would sign'such a that no one can blame him 1f he shows s dlspost- teat: would pooh-poul or tgnorw it. ? The Repubilcan goes on to say that * lbl.‘ mau {{aLL procured his nomluation by Prest- dent GRANT in the Jast daye of his term. [Bame as tho Chicago man did.] But as soou as Presi- dent GRANT tcard what was bis party, busincss, tion to Pixcu-nack. e —t e SraxLay Matuews to Hewy Warrsmsox: “Nepher say die.”? ——————— A Washington correapondent says of Pusson Nawsan's Motropoliian Church; * Each wio- ‘