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

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Madison strcet. between Dearburn snd State, Ex:Ln.:rmtm of Miss Mary Anderson. **Homeo and Jubiel,™ Adelphil Theatres ¢ o Monree street, corner, Dearborn, | Fngagement of t Qeurge W, Thompson, - vacup.r e AMONDAY, AVRIL 23, = CHIOAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chlcago produce markets wers gencrally stronger Saturdny, with moderato actlvity, Mens pork closed £5@30¢ per brl higher, at $15,65Q 15574 for May and $15,774@106.80 for June, Lard ciosed 107612%4¢ per 100 lby higber, ut 80 ! @10.0: or May and $10.1214@10,15 for June. Meata wero $y¢ pot brl higher, at ¥ for luose shoulders, B¢ for do abort-riw, snd Bic for do short cleara. Ilizhwines were quiet, at $1.07% . per gallon. Flour was tn good demand and highor, ‘Wheat closed 4'ic bigher, at $1.503¢ for May and 1,522 for June, Corn closed 1c higher, at 474ic for May and 48%c for June, Oais closed Y40 bigher, at 47c for May and 38!4c forJune, Rye wus firm, st 80c. Harley was sroug, closing at 756 @70c for April and 60c¢ for Xiuy, 1llogs wero acte fvo and firm, nt $5.25@5.00 per 100 1bs, Cattle were In good demand, at $3.60@5.75. Bheep were nowinol” at $4.00@0.00. Ono hundeed dollars [n gold would buy $107.00 In greenbacks ot the close, 1877, In Now York on Satunday groenbncks were a triflo lower, the ruling price bolng 933. ————a— Gonrrcuanorr’s circular to the Powers, announcing Russin's determination to obtain by forcoof arms what peaceful diplomacy failed to securo, is expected to be fssued to- day, and to-morrow it is believed tho formal declaration of war will be issucd by the Czar, “I'wo very aged and well-known mombers of the Masonio Order died yesterdny—Gon, ‘WitLtas E. Larusor, at Rochester, N, Y., sged 63, and who wss Commander of the Graud Commandery of tho United States; ond Capt. Geonor: Banxen, ot Hudson, N. Y., sged 85, aud belioved to be tho oldest Freemnsou in America. e The contost for the Loulsinna Senatorship 1s tho next thing of gencrnl intorest in that Btate. Thero is o Democratio majority of aine on joint ballot, but the number of Dem. ocratio candidates, each confidont of succous, is o disturbing clement in the situstion, and the result is quito likely to bo goverued wmore or less by financinl considerations, In this view of tho caso Wanmoru should be a for. midable candidate, his operations in Loulsf. aun bouds having increased his bank-account to an oxtent estimatod ot something like $400,000, 1t fs reported that Mr. Lavanp, the British Minister to Constantinople, was instructed by his Governmont to suggest to the Porte tho advisability of inviting the United States to mediate iu tho affair heiwoen ‘Curkey and Montenegro. Nothing has coma of it if the supggestion was over made, and nothing could, in all probability, as Turkey would not be likely to choose for an arbitrator a notion so intensely sympathotio with the Sclavic prov. inces struggling for rolease fromn the worst despotisin in existenco, aud at the same time 80 watm a frisnd to Russia, Aud it Turkoy should overlook all this, the Unitod States would be quite certain to decline the office, having no notion of getting mixed up in any of the European complications. ——— Tho letter of Bex Wabe, of Ohio, bitterly condemning President Haves' policy toward the South is now published for the first time. Tlo favored the nomination of Qov. Hayes as the Republican candidate for the . Presidency, and is now sorry for it, because of an utterly falso and mistaken conception * of tho President’s policy in relation to tho colored people, 1listory records that the writer of this letter onca condemned the course of Apmauax Liicow in terms equally emphatic, and oftorwards changed his mind and if Bex Wapr is spared long enough to this world, history will probably repeat it- el in referenca to his estimate of President Havrs. The evils of abaenteelsmm and neglect of duty in the Iilinois Legislature have resched a point where forebearanco ceases to bo o virtue, and where sharp, decisive action by the people is needed to require of their pub- lic servants the performance of the dutiesim. posed upon them by their solicitation and #cceptance of tho offices they bold. An ad- dreaa to the poople of the Btate of Ilinols is printed this worning, sont forth at ihe re- quest of & number of Senators and Represont- atives whoso cfforts to proceed with snd finlsh the business of tho Logislature are Valked by the Labitual absence of a large proportion of the members of both bodies for folly three days out of each week of working days. 'The nuisance has bocome so chronia and rottled that the people are ap- penled to for the exerciso of their rigit to domand that their rcpresentatives in the .| Logislature shall either attend to their busi- ness as such or resign and give place to somebody who will. Tho suggestion that mass-meetings be Neld for the purpose of giving form to the popnlar indignation nt the way things aro going at Bpringfleld is ono that might bo acted upon with advan- tnge. - In this way, if any, the absentees could be brought to a senso of their shamefal neglect of the people's affaira, The . Chicago T¥mes, in discnssing the throntened European war, of coursa takes the Tarkish sido,—firat, bocnuse Tur Cntoaco Trinoxx takes tho Russianside; and second, becauso the Turkish sida is sufficiently brutal and devilish to suit its tondencies. Thore aro soveral very good rensons why the Chi. cago T'imesshould favor the Turks, In the firat placo they are incorrigible liara; second, they never made a promise they did not break; third, they are butohers; fourth, they ara Asintio barbarians ruling over enm- slaved Christians, and are alions in Europe ; fifth, they are enemies of modern civilization; sixth, they have mada no progress in litern- ture, culture, tho arts, or the industries, but are to-day tho same as whon they crossed.the Bospliorus 400 years ago ; seventh, they Lave nover made a reform in their Government ond nover can; oighth, their so-called Gov- ernment lias been a reign of absolute bruto force; ninth, thoy arn cruel, bratal, and faithless, Theso nine reasons ore sufficient to account for the course of the Clicago Times. — Bome years ngo the peaple of the pretty village of HMydo Park, consisting exclusively of those who do business in Chicago and use Hyde Park for slecping and raising chil. dren, wero excossively annoyed by some rendering establishments located to the sonthwest of them in what was colled s Ains- worll, Thero was s universal domand for the summary suppression of theso nui. sances, but there was no way of getting nt them. 'Thercupou some gontlomen who had the welfare of tho Hyde Park bnbies at heart, aud who knew u thing or two about politics, pointed out the way to annex the entire town of Hyde Park, oxtending as far a4 tho Indiana State line, to the villsge, or- ganization, after whicl it was an casy mattor to abolish tho rondering establishments, or make them move outaide tho villnge limits, Now, howaver, tho peopls of tho willago proper—the residence portion—begin to so0 somd of tho disadvantnges of tho annexation. There are about thirty sec- tions to the south of them that will be main- ly occupled for manufacturing purposes, and will have a voting population sufficiont to outnumber the householders; tha latter fore- sco that this vast scction to tho south of them will want draining, and grading, and stroets, eto., which will cost n very large amouut of monoy, aud which the villagowill have to pay for, though the villago proper will dorvo no particular bonefit therefrom. 1t is very proper, thoreforo, that there should ba o movement for a divixion of tho villag, and the Logislature -has been asked to give the proper authorization for this division, The bill should be possed; it thoro ia any. thing in it that is unjust to tho southern dis- trict of Hydo Park in requiring it to assume any portion of debt of which it lias not en- Joyed a share in beneflts, tho bill should be amonded in that respect, but the village ought to bo returaed to its origiual limits, rer— THE APPELLATE COURTS, ‘Wao hiavo rapeatedly called attontion to the fact that the bill now Lefore tho Legislaturs establishing Appellnte Courts inferior to the Buprewe Court ‘has been designedly *doe. tored,” 50 as to increnso profossional foes, incroaso salaries, and add heavily to the cost of litigation. - At present, nll appeals and wnitd of error aro token to tho Supreme Court. 'The Coustitution, in providing that other Appellate Courts might be provided, excopted from tho jurisdiction of these Courta criminal onses, and thoso involving o {franchise, n freehold, or the validity of o statute, which excepted cases wero required to bo taken to the Bupremo Court, This bill requires apposls and writs of orror in all other cnses to bg taken to the Appellate Courts, but makes the judgment of the lat tor final ouly in cases whero the mmount in. volved is less than $500. It will by Been, therofore, that litigants in all cases whore the sum in controversy is 500 and moro must follow the appeal, first to the Appels late Courts, and thenco to the Bupreme Court, thercby being compelled to have counsel in two appeal courts instead of one, and tho case subjected to the coats and de- Inys of two appeal courta instesd of one, We look upon this part of tho bill naan ampls reason for its defout. What wos wantod was a bill to reliove tho Suproma Court of n certain class of cases. This bill provides for casos involving losa than $300 boing disposed of finally by the new Coarts, but requires all the other cases to pass also through the inferior Appellate Court on thoir way to the Bupreme Court. ‘Thers is nn effort to disguise and deny the effeot of this bill, Evon the editor of tho Legal News takes tho troubloto say; “‘Itis a mistake to suppose that this Court would be n kind of half.way house betwaen the Ofrcuit and the Bupreme Court.” Nevertholess, that is pre. clsoly what tho bill provides, except in cases involving less than $300 and the cases ex- cepted by the Constitution, Al the other cases will have to pasa through two appoal courts, Toshow that such nn effect was in. tended, wo givo that part of the bill origi- nally prepared by the Bar Association and the provisions of tho bill now befors the Legialature, and 110 one can notice the differ- ouce without discovering the purpoda of erecting an extra toll-gate on tho road to the Bupreme Court. ‘'l origiual bill read : ‘Tho Appellats Courts shall have excluslyo Juris- diction over appeals and writs of error from final detorminations at law or in chancery of the saveral Circuitand County Courta In thels respct Ivise dons, mud of the Buperior Court of Cook County, in all cases other thau crimina) cases and those in- volving a franchise, or frechold, or the validity of satstate. Provided, the order or decrec appeslod from 1a for the puyment of less than 1,000, ex- clusive of costs, and uo sppeal or writ of ercor shall He from thelr declslons In mattors properly ‘within their jurlsdiction; but {n commercial cascs, or tbose tnvolving 8 frauchlse, or, freebold, or the valldity of s statnte, or cases whers (ke judgment, order,or decres ls for tAe poyment of one thousand dollars or wore, escluslva of costs, appesls apd writs of error shall be taken dlrecily to tho Gupremo Court, as heretoforv, z The bill pussed by one branch of the Lagislature and now before tho other reduces tho sum from $1,000 to $500, aud it other. wise follows the section of the original bill 83 given nbove, omitting the words in itakio. ‘The purpose, thorefore, of the preseut bill, to prevent cases where the sum in controversy is £300 being taken ms now direct to the Buprems Court, and to compet thom to be takon through the Appellate Court on the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1877. way to the B'npramn Court, is confessed. 8uch a pprposo is wholly unjnstifiable and shonld not be tolerated. It ia n ** grab " for business and fees which the legal profession ‘shonld neither conatonance nor approvh, and which they shonld repudiate. —— PEACE IN LOUISIANA. The Louisisaa skies have cleared up at last, After ten or twelye yenrs of constant strifo and turmoil, erimination and reorim- ination, revolution and outrage, a distrasted social condition and a depreased commercial condition, during all of which there have been appeals to tho country by both factions, there is at last a settlement on an houorable hasis which promises pesco and genoral sat- isfaction. It is a peace which has not been brought about by forco of arms, and which will require no bayonets to sustain it, but one that is the onigrowth of mutual conces- sion. 1f the Paoxanp Legislature in practi. cally dissolving has sacrificed any technical legal advantages it may have had, it lias not sacrificed any principle, for, in going over to the Nionor.us Legistature, the Republicanawho were elected have joined m body thatis solemnly committed to guaranteoing full civil and political rights to tho negroes, to furnishing equal educational facilities to all without discrimination, and to extending tho protection of tho laws to immigrants and blacks o8 well as the native whites. Thia is all that the Republican party has ever con- tended for in Louisiana or any other South. ern State, and, in achieving it by tho ac- quiescence and concurrence of thoss who have heretoforo resisted it, the triumph haa been greater, and the results ara apt to be more pormanent than if 'an army had en. forcod the same policy which Niononss has cncepted, . The csnduct of Mr. Pacxarp in bravely resisting to the last is worthy of admiration inn mon who bolieved himself to be right. His courage is admired and his abilities are respected by his successful opponents, and in this regard he stands much higher in the estimation of the country than his prede- cessor, Krrroao, Ho has not yet formally retired from the conlest, aud, sa for as his vowers goes, he is really ns much Gov. crnor now as Lo has been any time sinco Inst January, Bnt even tho semblance of au- thority will vanish when bis speclal polico shall have dispersed (having been pald by the Nicmorrs Government), and whoen the only Legislatare in tho State, with a full quornm of elected members, shall have formally recognized Niomorts ns the only Governor, Thore will be ono Legislaturo, one sat of oflicials, and one set of courts; and, of course, Paczarp will not then de. grado the conrage Lo hns herotofore shown by an empty and farcical pretonse of being o Governor whom nobody recognizes, Thoe most cheerful foature of this fiual go- lution of the long struggle in Loulsiana is that it hos been brought about without any direct intorvontion of tho General Govern- ment. It is not tho result of Federal coercion or meneca. The peoplo of Louisiann have worked out their own salvation, or, at lonst, have chosen their own conrse, Tho Deme- crats have abandoned some of the leguslative seats to moke room for Republicans seated by the Returaing Board, and tho Republicans have joined. the Niomoris Legislaturo in sufllciont numbers to make that the legal body. President Hars, in the moantime, maintained the slafus quoleft by his predo- ecssor, until it bocamio ovident thatthare was o logal Legislaturs, and thon ordered the withdrawal of the troops, becnuso such Leg: ialature had not asked Fodoral intorvontion as required by the Constitution of the United States. Thore has beon no occasion to use tho troops to coorco cithor faction, -nor to Lkeop tho two factions from coming to n con- flict, The Stato is now in the hands of rop- resentative native officers. Carpet-baggers ean no louger bo citod in extenuation of local dieturbandes, nor a8 an impediment to the comuercial progress of the community, If tho Nicmorzs Government fulfill in good faith the solomn promises it has made, thero i3 no reason why tho political condition of Louisiaua ehall not hencefoith bo ns peaces- blo as that of Illinois, or Indians, or Obio, whero the pooplo fight out their own local issucs withont calling upon the rest of the country either as participants or witnesves. — RUSSIAN DIPLOMACY, Now thot the diplomatists have closed their work in the Turco-Russian complica- tion, n roview of tho various stops which have becn takon by Russia clearly onough shows that Gostscuaxory has boon tho mns. ter mind in tho negotiations, and that, while ho bas gradually lured on the. Turk to in. evitable destruction, ke La at the samo time relieved Russia of all responsibility under tho Treaty of Parls, Tho New York Nation of the 10th inst,, in a very forcible article, shows how akilifally the Itussians managed thelr concossious in tho Conference 6o ns to impross the Turks with the conviction that they would uot fight, and that tho other Powera would divide npou tho Enstern ques. tion, and sums up the manner in which thoy hava dealt with tho other Powers as follows ; Tho requiroments of tho Conferenoce with regard to the internal sumintstration of Turkey had sub. slantially abrogated that clause of the Treaty of Pazls which bound the algnataries not to interfere with it; and, having taken upou thomselves 1o Interfers, the next question was whether they would allow Turkeyto snubaad defy them and disregand thelr recommendations, or whethor, in shiort, they were golng to let the matter rest thore, ‘They atienipted, accordingly, to get out of this dificulty by drawing upa protocol recording the conclusion at whicl thoy had arrived about Turkey, andit inevitably cuntalncd 8 vague threat that §f ‘Turkey did not, within some period not named, bul her affairs In ordor, somuthing which wos not desceibed would be dono to combel her, Rusals having obtained this formal release from the jolnt obligations of the Treaty of Pais, aud Gnding her- solf thus freato pursue ber own courss, Count Scuouvarors added the **duclaration” which has broughit matters to m ci or it s uelther wiore nor less toan . threat, which fa by no means vague, that If reforin shonld not be carried out ju ‘Turkey {n » mauner vatlsfactory to ltussla, within s briof period, she would heraelf seo 1o ft. It is now ovident that Russia intouded to definitely settlo the Bclavip cowplication from the very firat, peaceably if she could, forci- Lly if she must ; and that the whole tenor of her diplowaoy has been to “avoid giviug the other Powers any pretext of interference. In 1854, England, Frauce, and Sardinia were leagued with the Turks against Lor. This time she was detormined’ there should be no alliance againat her, and step by stop she has removed every obstruction from her path, ‘England, her nearest possible opponent, has through the justrumentality of the pross been macaged quite as ekillfully, in a moral way, a8 GorTuciagory aud ScHouvarory have mauaged her in a political way, Her people are no longer Turkophiles. Oun the other hand, the great mass of them are Turkopho- bists and very nearly Russophiles. England infact has been forced to occupy & position where she cannot interfere unless Russia as- sails Constantinople. Gormary las been secured as a fast political filend, and Austria will eventually be forced into an occupation of Boanis and Herzegovins, ‘even to the danger of a political revolution in the Empire, which will make the Govern. ment Bclavio instead of Magyar. Thors was 1o posaibility of complication with France, beeauss France has no intercst inthe Eastorn question, and Italy was in no danger of in- terforing, sinco her only interest is to wait and bo thankful for guch crumbs as may fall. to hor when tho final division comes. ‘That final division begins to grow appar- ent. Austria must ocoupy Bosnia and Her. zegoving, because, if she does not, Russin will, and such an ocenpation on the part of Austrin is sufficiont warrant for Russiatotake possossion of Balgaria and old Servia, There ave rumors that have recently grown into posaibilities that England may occupy the lower proviuces, It tho Turkish Empire is to be dissolved, Russla must either establish theso provinces ns sn inde. pendent powor or keep them, and sho will certainly do the latter, it Austrin occuples a foot of the territory on the Adriatic side. England, howevor, can never nllow Russin to hold Constantinople or con- trol the Dardanelles. With her facilities for building vessels, she would soon have a fleot that would sweep down upon the Suez Canal aud thus hiave control of both routes to Asia, while tho Engihh ocoupation of it would hold Russiain continned check. If the Turkish Empirae is to be dismembered, it is the cvident policy of England to take Roumelia and the whole territory up to the Balkans, and then give discontented Groece hor old provinces of Thessaly ‘and Epirus, This would bo a natural division,—tho east- om provinces to Russia, the western to Austris, tho central to Eungland, and the southern to Greoce. This done, then the Turks might bo remitted to their old Asiatio possessions, or placed under a protectornte, 0 that their infernal bntcheries, masaacres, and perseontions shonld nover more carse the history of humanily or disgraco the world's record. With this outcomo of Rus. sian diplomacy the world wonld be content, There i3 no completo solution of the ques tions {nvolved except tho pormanent ex~ tinction of the Turkish Empire, ———— ‘WORK AT THE BQUTH. ‘Wa have on more than one occnsion pointe od out that the roal curse of the South is the disinclination of the native whites to work, Befora tho War, such an assertion would have been nccepted ns n compliment by a repre. sontativo Sonthern journal like the Richmond Enguirer, nnd the answer would have been that it was not nocessary for Southern gen- tlemen to demenn thomsolves by manual ln~ bor, that thoy had their cstates and slaves to cultivate them, and that tho professions and public affairs absorbed the attention of all who did not chooss to giva themselves up to a life of idlonoss, Thero is some hopefulness in the circumstanco that the charge of idlo- noss ia now resented ; it sooms to indicate that the abolition of slavery and the nocessi~ ty growing out of an impoverished condition hava at loast romoved tho projudice ngainst labor to some oxtent, Whore thero was for- merly no cffort to concoal the aristocratio contempt for labor, there is now at least a profession of rospect for it. Wo do not al- togothor like the construction, nevertheloss, which the Richmond Znquirer puta upon the labor question, Hevo is a spocimon of what it mays : Deapite all this wo went to work. Tn the face of difficulties calculated to dlscourage the most san- Ruine, all clastos bunt thelr enorgies to the sacred task of rohabilitating and gathering up the frag. uients that rematned. First from unecounty, then from another, then from whole States, we drove tho vampiras that wore preying upon us, uotil now but ono Btata s left In which they bave & foothold, and from thls they would bo drlven out within twenty. four hours bat for the bayonets of the Adminlstra- tlon. By tho closeat and strictest cconomy wo have gradually ro-establlshicd our commerclal crod!t, and saved many of our publie securities from total wrock, This 1s bat an imperfect statement of what the Bouth has accowp!lshed alnce tho War; yet it ahould bo sufliclent to cause oar Nurthorn friends to think well bofore giving car to such charges ax are made by Tuz Tainvxe snd nmilar Journals, Ilad our peoplo looked down upon labor,—had we worked less noble and manfully,~had wo been atticted with **chronic and hereditary Inzincss,” and boen afrald of *‘solling our hands,"—tho South would to-day be the perfoct desert waste' Radlcallam Laa tried to make it. We wani the peo. ple of the world to know that we will work, and that, so far from acorning labor, none respect it more, No Northern man hag ever como among us for tho purposs of carning an bonest liviog that will not testify to thle Leing the case, The only work tho South scorns Is the work of pillsge. The kind of labor which is roforred to In this extract {s not the same which Tax Tnrs- uNe has lhad in mind in charging chronio lnziness upon the Bouthern whites. The South has cortalnly been industrious onough during tho lnst ten yonrs {n Iaboring to get rid of the carpet-baggers and to get control of the public oftices, Thelr work in this al. rection has ot last beon rowarded with gen. eral success, tho aingle Stato of Lomsiana be- ing still in an unsettled condition, But the amount of labor expendod in this effort has been so greot that they have left themselves no time or ambition for productive labor, The whole native white population, with exaeptious enough to prove the rle, Lave heen ongaged in ono way or another in fight- ing tho carpet-baggers, Tho negroes havo. kept on voting for the carpot-baggers, and somo of tho shrowder ones have gained offices for themselves, but the great mass of blacks havd simply - used tho political franchise as tho -groat mass of whites nuso it as tho North ; they have voted on elcction days and gona about thelr busi- ness tho rest of tho yoar, But, with tho whites ot the Bouth, the political condition has been tho sole aud absorbing toplo of thought and disenssion. The older men have been tho condidatos and the disputants, langing around {o discuss thelr grievances, and tho young mon have organized them. solves -into the bands of Regulators, and White-Leaguers, and White-Liners that have done the * bulldozing." ad the people of the North bean luft at the close of the War in the same precarious aud impoverished con. dition ns the peoplo of the Bouth, thoy would Liave avoided instead of cultivating politics, but would have redoubled all former energy in rocouping their losses, vestoring their Lusiness, developing their mines, cultivating their farms, inproving their implements and suachinery, wideuing the domsin of produe. tion, and rogalning the old-time material prosperity. Wo think it will not be claimed by any. body that the white peoplo of the South lave dono all they conld Yor themselves. ‘The labor-line in the Bouth {s yet ns strongly marked as the color-lino. In the citles the blacks do all the productive work ; they are the bousc-servants, the porters, the dray. men,the butchers, tho hod-carricrs, the car. peuters, the bricklayers, the stevedores, and Inrgely the skilled mechanics. In the coun. try districts, they plow the flelds and plant thp corn, they pick tho cotton and *tote” it to the gin, they cultivate tho cane and carry it to the mmill, they harvest and feed tho cattle, Inthe North, white men who tind poverty staring them in the face go to work at whatover they can best accowplish ; men whoare comparatively poor do not waste thelr time in the disoussion of politica on the street-cozuers ; business men, wechanics, and farmers, confronted with hard times, fn. crenso thelr attention to private affairs, and tako proportiontely less interest in public affairs. In tho South, tho roterse hias beon the ease, nud wo shall be glad when the final retiromont of oll the earpot-baggers shall take away the slanding excuse for the politienl dissipation to which the Southernors are addicted. Having nobody but themselves to quarrel with over domestio politics, the North can, nolonger bo blamed for continned doprosiion, and the Houth must solve for it- self the problem of solf-support withont slavery. With rich minerals, o fertilo soil, and n climate that permits of steady work all the yoar round, the solntion will not be dif- ficait if tho whites will only take thele hands out of their pockets and go to work. The negroes can't support both races, ——— HOW THE TARIFF OPPRESBES, Now comos the war in Europe. There will be and is n demand for iron ships and stenmera. Buch a demand finds the United States supplied with monster forges, fur. naces, ship-yards, machinery, and labor, with 8 capacity equal to the construction of iron vessels of overy kind to moet any demand. All these ship-yards are closed, cxcept s fow building vessels for the coasting trade. The American mechanics and ship-bnilders have been out of work and their yards closed for years, becnuse tho Tariff laws of the United Btates denled them them the privilege of building ships jn competition with ship. builders elsewhero. The same Tariff lnw pre- vails now, and though thero is an appeal from tho ship-builders that, if the law woro repealed or amended, the United States conld now build iron steamers cheaper and better than they can Le built on the Clyde, and thus bo'sble to recover the onco great trade in building ships for foreign nations, there is hardly a hope that Oongress will come to their rolief. Though tho extra secsion of Congress {s called for the purpose of making an appropriation for the support of tho army, thero is mothingin law or in propriety to prevent Congress taking up the subject of relleving the great mannfacturing industries of the country from the burndens which now prevont them engaging in an ex- tensivo foreigu trade. Despita tho lariff, our cotton nien have already begun to export their goods, but they are still liampered with the cxactions of the tariff, Without going into dotail at this time, Congress ought at once to repenl overy. daty and charge on the importation of every description of material nocded in their business by tho manufactar- ers of cotton goods and by tho printera of colton goods; by the manufactur- era of oll varietios of woolon goods, especjally tho makers of fine cloths, who havo boen practically shut out of busi. nesa by tho tariff; by the manufacturors of lenther and of leather goods; by the manu- facturers of glass and all tho vhyleties of earthon ware, If any other trede or branch of industry is suffering becauss of the ina- bility to procure materials at the world’s prices,~as for instanco the manufacturers of mnchinery and other iron andsteel goods,~—lat tho exactions bo removed, and let the Ameri- can manufacturer have s cheap a market in which to buy hia raw materials as the manu. facturors of other countrios enjoy, This would be one grand step toward a pormanent rovival of productive industry. A second would be the remonetization of silver with freo coinage, With an incrensed foroign trade, .and n permanent market for tho product of tho silver mines, thero would bo a natural sud a large cxchange of our products, We cannot buy without we soll ; and an incroaso of our oxports would give us an increnso of lmporu.'nml thus restore the rapidly-declin. ing rovonue from customs. Tho nogro s now ont of politics for tho first time in half & contury, and Congress might begin at this callod seasion n system of logislation for the bonefit of the conntry generally, ‘The people of the State cannot afford to hirss General Assembly for the purpose of leglsloting exclusively for Cook County, while the peaple of that county muat learn, sooner or later, to perform the duty which the right of self-government im- poscs un them., —SoringAeld Register, . ‘I'bls refors, of courso, to tho bill which the Leglslature is asked to pasa to onablo Cook County to got rid of a scoundrelly Ring which Is plundering it at the rato of nearly a million a year. There are two Springfleld Aenerrrs ; one is In the Legislaturo and the other runs tho Register. Goopzrr, the lobby. agent of tho Cook County Ring, has evident. 1y beon laboring with Loth of them, The walignancy of the nbove romark indicates that, whatever the Mzarirr influence amonnts to, it will bo used to defeat the Cook County bill. Now in deciding whether the people of Cook Comnty have any .clalms upon the Leglslatare, it moy bLe remembared that the population of this county {s about as largs ns that of twonty other average counties in the State; that Cook Connty pays more than one-fifth of the taxation of the Btato; that it fs rogularly floeced from 40 to 00 per 'cent by tho Stats Hoord of Equalization; and that it standa its full proportion of tho per diem whioh "the country members draw while spending abont ona-half their timo at home, It must also Lo vemombered that the procious time of the Legiulature hias not besn cousumed in passing & measure ssked by the entire Cook County delegation aud demanded by all the decent people of Cook County, but in defeating that weasure, The bill might have beon dis- posed of long ago, if Ring agents snd Ring monoy had not pat in aa asppesianco, and brought about a delay which is now fulsely charged upon Cook County. : OBITUARY. « Diep—The Carpet-Bagger, This amiable and truly useful man was born In the North, Ilo moved South about 1663, aud at once began to take an futerest In politics, He had been moro or leds in the army, especlally less, sometimes in cotton speculutions, aud had won distinetion in the quartermaster and commissary departments inthe War. In instances ho bad been o con- tractor, and In varlous other ways be had ac- qulred great knowledgo of pructical statesman- sllp, 1o went South o ald thy people of that country in returuing to thelr sileglacce. The task proving to bo somewhat arduous, he called upou the negroes to back bim with thelr lives aud votes, and upon the Quvernment to furnish hiw with on sdequate forco of troops. In this way be boped to plaut the alive-tres and to make it flourish. That It might take dcep voot, he dsllled ¢t fn with' the bay. onet, fructlled ft by tho lsue of bonds, 8tate and municipal. He employed the ueuroes 1o tend it with Spencer ritles, shot- guus, and vow aud theu a plow orawmule, e tried to awaken a friendly spirit among the white peaple of the South, by keeplog them free from the cares and exasperations of ofllce, and by a systemn of rigid legislation whish woutd show them the evergy sud value of an ciclent Government. He cudeavored to fultiate them {uto the mysteries of polltical mecbanism by disfranchising bis oppusents and binding to- Rether bis friends through the cohesive power of public plunder. He was all the tims ob- structed by a spirit of soclal catraclsm. The wives of Southern men would not call upon his wife, aud that pained him swuch—after sil he bad duna for the Bouthern people. It preyed upon bis apirit, aud be preyed upon thew. The very Clristian feclog elicited after years of self-denying effort was a general ns- sent to the words *Let us prey.” The reault was that thers came to be little to prey pon, and, s the subatance of the land wasted, ll parties became mora clamorous for what was left, Tho carpet-bagger, wearled with his ef- forts to preserve the peaco and to allay strife and bitterness, gradaally became cold at the ex- tremities, The hand of mortality was upon him. Mo was kopt up with stimulants for some Years, untfl finally 8 new phyalclan from Ohlo diagnosed his case. iie saw that it was. hope- less, and Friday afternvon he ordered the sitmu- lant discontinued, so that the poor carpet-bag- ery clothed and In his rignt mind, might preparo for his final exit. Ife sank rapldly, and to all intents and purnoses he is uow n articulo mor- ds.” 1e has ot last gone out of politics. It fs a comfort to know that he lost nothing in worldly moods for his smceiices. It may ho sald * of him, in his’ conncetlon with tho Bouthern people, *“Ha was poor, yet for thelr sakes he becamo rich,”” He was of no reputation at home In the culd North, yet for thelr sakea he consented to £l all the high posi tlons In the sunny South, e rests from his 1abors, and his works shall follow him. Let us be thankful he died in the falth; - the faith that the ouly way to protect anybody was to expend every force in protectiug him, and that the truo mode of bringing tho South to a hearly allegle ance to the Unfon was by sltting down on them forever and forever. He Introduced this novel feature n our republican system of govern- ment, and no one ean challenge his clalm to due credit for the invention. If this system coull only have been supplemented by lcounecting It with a perpetual motfon, it would no doubt have succeeded. This failing, it has collapsed, PR e LOUBLE TAXATION. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune. KxoxviLie, 1il., Aprll ©0.—Will you please ex+ Phln o one of Euur readers whereln a curporation s wronged by the & fon of Ita capital stock any more than Individuals who sell their property on creditand arc compelled to pay tax on both the property and tho hidebtedness? The party. who uys the property poys tax on it, and tho hoider uf the indcbtedness pays tax on ft 'also; the horse Is taxed (o the owner and tho note to the hnl:’!:r‘.“ The difference In the case sfated by our cor- respondent- is o very plain and paipable one. Mr. Joxgs fudividually Is not required to pay both toxes; ho s not taxed on the horsc bo bought, and also ou the note hic gavs for tho lorse, The aouble tax isapportioned to two persous, the buyer and the seller. But fn the caso of capital stock onc owner fs compelled to pay two asscsements on the same property. He s first taxed on tho property Itsclf, and then he 1 taxed n sccond time on his written title to the same pruperty, called a stock certlficate, If the company of which he {s a member sells a horse ou credit, it is toxed three times. First, the purchaser of the horse is taxed on its value as fixed by tho Assessor; sccond, the note glven for the horse Is taxed as one of tho asscts of the compsany, and cach stockholder must pay his portion of it; third, tho certificato of stock rep- resents an Interest fn the note, and the owner of thoe certiticato Is agamn taxed upon the samo property when e pays his taxes on his stock as well as on the property which the stock covers. But tho case supposed by Mr, Joxxs Is an out- ragecus species of taxatiou which Tuxr TrinuNe has often denvunced. - When the horso is taxed, that 1s enough; the mote should not also be taxed. It may never be pald; it Is only s prom- 180 {n writing to pay. Tho property with which the noto Is liquidated may Lavoe yet to be carn- ed, or, If earned, it is already taxed. Tho whole practico of taxing notes, book-nccounts, and inortgages, in addition to the property they represent, {3 an outrage on justice and cquity, because it is double or triple taxation of the same tangible thing. Buch a system is a great injury to public prosperity, and fs the Invention of bratal ignorance of the principles of polltical economy. 4 —— Thelast funny breach-of-promise trial is re- ported from New Jerscy. Tho committer of the bicach—Heaven rest his soul !—is dead, 1o be- gnn his gy carcer of deception In 1808, when hie was at the tender age of 70, Gronax VREE. LAND was his name, and Greenvyille, N, J., nis chosen dwelling-place, When Gzonos dled fn 1874, aged 80, full of years and dishonors, he had not comploted his matrimonial contract, entered into nine yoars before. - The bilghted being left behind him, who was 81 yearsof sge when the engazement was made, s now 43, 8ho has presented bouds for $60,000, sald to have been given her by the dead man, and the signa- turcs to which aro pronouuced forgorics by the heirs of tbe old man Many pledges of affccton .and . many tender communl- cations passed between this ancient Lotharlo and bis truc love during the period of bo- trothal. 'After & prolonged escapade aod spree, he returned to lier bosom with tle frank and retreshing confesslon: *8ls, here comes your prodigal” He was fond also of excusing him- sclf from the fulfillment of bis matrimonial contract by declariug that It was *‘o matter which rested between him and his Gop," a declaration which naturally excited tho wrath of thelady, who hadalways imagined herself con- cerned In the contract, us well na her Maker and Mr. VnELAND, Onauother occasion Mr, Vaex- LAWD guvo bis Many 81,000 and ‘s new set of teeth, saying that slio would need them before she got married.” Tho Nuw York Zribune hoa never heard of so remarkable a love corre- spondence as this. Then it kuows not of the otieo famous case in Chicago which revealed an ematory orthography of new and startiiog pro- portions; whereln the defendant complalned of Lis manifold suferings from thatdread scourge, ‘arisipalace,’ and testified often and devoutly to bis fulth In the blessed * geasus.! — The Cinemnati Southern Raitway—which has been in couras of incubstion since 1869, and which lias probably cost Clucinnat! many wmoro millions thau fe ever will return in the shapo of profits—is now epen from Ludlow to the Ken- tucky River, just 100 miles; aud the first pas- senger traln over the llno wade its trip on the 20th fnst. . Bteps having been taken to secure tho formation of a company fo Claclnnati to complete and opersto the road, apd & committee of twenty-five having been appointed to report: o plan of orgaulzation, the Trustees uf the road, with aviow to exhibitlog its condltion, fayited tho committeo and o large number of other Cinclonatians to “jump into the wagon sudall takea ride.”” The train having ardved at tho Kentucky Rliver, tests were wado of the bridge over that streaw, which Is claimed to be the highest rallroad-bridge fn tho world, These tests, which were qulte severe, demonstrated tlo safety of the structure, The Cinclunuti Guzelte, in Its report of the excursfon, speaks of the bridge ns follows: Tbebridze was commenced Oct. 16, and was completed Fob, 20, [ts cost 1v $104,000, lte nuvel couatruction by growing oat intu the alr from the abulwents has beeu describod. When the junction was iuads in the widdle ot the bridge, It was found that _uvnly one of the top chonle wet-accurately, The lower chonds o wtreaw §eved fo thu exlent of threo luches, Tho fop chol lowy streain did not cowme Logether by oue oue-fuurih luches, and 1ho raine sldo by four aud one-fourlh uckes, squeezo thove tugeilier was & prableml. The chords tust et weeo faalened with heavy Irun plate; This was In the daytime, wita aunshine on the jower chord Itou. When ulght cawo the 1rou cuntracted, and shrank away frow tbe end sbutuenia, ‘The spaces beliiud tho abutments wery thea flled, oud, whew the expausion cawe on with the uext’ day's suu, the gaps closed up and the bridge was fustvned to- gether! There fs no rallroad Liidgo in the world soligh as thisope. Ooe fu Switzerland Is 254 foot bigh, but bas unly 144 fectspan; suother In Yurragas, bouta Auicrics, i 282 feet Liyh, with 125 fect span; whlle this Sue fe 575 foet Ligh, with 470 feet vpan. 1t §s all uf wrought Iz bed siator Whlch ota v AR GisapthLs ‘The affalrs of Mr. 8t Kxcxk, .cx-Pork Kiog of Clucionati, have not beeu settled up with the smoothuess and quickoess that were promised ou the first aunouncement of the fallure, Iu fact, they are not settled up st all, and “the era of good fecliug which began some weeks 8go, and which always begins tho day after » Rood-natured feMow confesses bis ruln, hasal- most ended, 83 such eras generslly end, fn bit terucss of splrit sud execration of the bankrupt. Alr. Kxck promlsed, wheu the terms of setyjo- ment were arranged, thet he would wbtain bis wife’s slznature to the neccssary deeds trang. ferring his real-catate within tweuty-four hours. .Up to this tine ho bas uot obtalved her sig- nature, mor is thers any apparent proba. bility that he will, " A lawger repre. senting her futerests has proposed g compromise by which the creditors shall lift g mortgage of $8,000 from tho homestead, In conslderation for her agrecinent to the transfer of the othier real cstate. The creditors are dis. appolnted by the delay and the sttempt to die tate terma at this Iate day. They clalm. wity reason, ‘that any propositions of*this naturs should have Leen made ab the outsct. Nor bave they any mssuranco that, it they should agree to Mrs. Krck's terms, they would be ong whit better off, sincs all the property is held on s frall tenure, which may be broken by the bad falth of either one of the principal parties concerned, ———————— Maj-Gen, E. BrLoY S8xvTu's revort on the statc of the intlitia of the Dominion of Carads for 1870 states t'e active and enrolled militla at 43,000 meny but thoso who tralued last year numbered only 21,000 men. The cxpenso of maintainiog this force was about m million of dollars: 8srTR's report saya: The period of driil had fo be restricted to twelve days fortleld batterles of sriillery, and only eight daya for cavalry, garrison astillery, and m{-mrp 1 nieed Lardly €ay the amount of fnstruction to de ncquired o thesa fow days was amall indeed, + o+ . The system pursucd this year (1870) ap. renn to be demoralizing, because e’ retaln nom. nally 2 large Lody of men who, If not brought t. fomu long envugh for .some amount of Inetrugs, fon, are uo Letter than recruits; and, If we cons tinuo to malatain the present numerlcal force and only traln them for elght days In ench alteznats Jear, we teach them next to nothlog, and at the aamo time incnr the oxpense of clothiug and equipning the whole force of active militia authore izeu by law. The question arises, What does Canada want this militia for? Whom does sko propose to fght with lier 43,000 men, drilled elght days In each alternate year? 'Is she preparing for a war of {ndependence from England! This s hardly probable,iecausd the Mother-Country has made it known that whenever Canada wants to set up for hierself she may do g0 and welcome, as no restraint will be put upon her golng whenever shé pleases. Isdhe mulitia intended to fight the Usited States In tue Improbable event of a war between this Republic and Great Britalu? It this {s what the force is kept up for, it 1s per- fectly ludicrous. What resistancs do the puor Kanucks supposo they could make agalnst thls country! Certaloly not more than a b-year- old child could oppose to s stalwart man, They would be wiped out by ths first dash of the advance guard of tho American fuvasion, Do these Cannalan statesmen not kuow that the fightiug power of this Republic embraces mill- fons of men swho are only too ready to volunteer “Insupport of the flag* at the *“drop of & hat"? The Canadianmilitia fs ten thnes too strong for anything {t may have to do in peace, but not one-tenth atrong enough for any use in war. N ‘The Now York Sun is poking’ fun at the sup- posititious and Imaginary rivalry between St. 3 Louts and Chicaco a3 to population, It say: ‘There was {0y in Bt. Lonis, n few weeks ago, “?10“ tho publication of & new city directory, from which, by an ingenious l{ll—em of computatlon, the arlthmeticlans of tho place wero able to show* that 5t Louls {a far more ‘populous than its rival, l.'l.uufu: that, in fact, Bt. Loois has & popalation of 501,480, whllo Chicago, according to tho last natlonsl consus, bas but 300,000, The chagrin of Chlcago nt wuch & showjng on bohalf of 5t. Louls can imagined; nnd wa mupposed that Chlcago's new directory, when manipuloted by tho mathowaticlans, woul prove the placa o be far more populous than St. Louls, The Chicago opat- ators, unwilling to stand behind 8t. Louls even for 8 moinent, have already fonnd other means than a now dircctory to show Chicago's snperfority. They rush befote nankind, polnting proudly to the fact that, st the reccnt elections, the total'voto polled in cachof tho two citics stood thus: Chicago, 0,000; Bt. Lauls, 41,117, thus making it plain that tho actual voters of Clilcago_numbered 0,000 mare than those of 8t, Loals, Now, it Is evident that 1f 8t Louls, with but 41,000 'voters, hna s population of half & milllon, then Chicayo, with B, miore voters, must have & population of bee tiveon (100, 000 and 700, 000, + The local electlons {n Chlcago and 8t. Louls, held o fortoight ngo, are not a rellable test of relative population, as a full vote on such occasions is rarely over polled. But ex- citlug Prealdential clectlons bring oud, all the avallable voters. Take the vote of last fall and 1t pans out as follows: to dry up on relative population. —— Mank Twain's juvenile hero, Bod Sawyer, {ell desperately i love before ho had advanced 1n hls teens, and meditated ail sorts 8f sanguine ary purposes as regarded himself, bis sweet- heart, and Lis rival. He was very young, but altogether tuo sharp o boy to carry any of his {ell desigos into exocutlion. In this respect be differed from & love-sick youth of 10 in Brouk- lyn. Ho was & scholar at Public-8chool No. 18, and went “head and ears,” as the expression 1s, In love with & young miss of about his own age. Bhe scorned his advances. He proudly, but quietly, entered the corncr drug stors and demanded arsonie. The clerk, suspecting his purpose, gave him borax Instead of arsenle, and tlie cousequenco was that the younz miu bee came very sick, but suffered no other evil offects from hls modiclue, 8ince Othello stabbed Desde mona with o bolster, romance has not known & more pitiful tragedy than this of Brooklyn. ——— According to a Turin uewspaper (It Pro- fresso), a certain GRROLAMO CAVANNA, of Genoa, bas been o Rome demonstrating to the Minfater of Marine the reality of an importaut discovery which Lo clalms to have made. CAVANNA substitutes water-power for steam fn alt application, even for locomotives and maring engines. Io asserts that Lo fs able to use liguida for the ,production of powerful mecban- fcal effocts, his invention restiug (1) upon tho utlilzation of the pressure from the bottom to the surfaco of any liquid mass, enabling him; withtlie outlay of but & emall additional force, to clevato that messj and (3) upon bis utiliziog this mass as a heavy welght, tho pressure of which 18 converted futoa drlving or other power. ‘This looks very much like our old frieod the KenLxY motor {a a forelgn gulss. It ia the ‘old pretentlon of & man lftlog himacl? over & fence by pulling on the straps of Lifs boats. ———————— PACKARD'S frignds stlll clalm he Is Govornor, although minus. any forces and o legal Legis lature. A professor was once expounding the doctrine of continuity to bls class. One of them held up Lis knife and sald: * Suppose 1 loso the blade of this kuife and put ln & new one, will it be the same knifel” 4 Certalnly,” an- swered the professor, *Suppose, theu, I lose tho bandlo and attach m new one to the blade, WL It 6411l bo tho same kaifel” ¢ Burely,” re- sponded old Dialectics! * But suppose somo ©one should find the old kuife and blade and put them togetbor, what kolfe would that bel” This {s PackanD's iz, Hebas lost the blade aud handle, yet Lis fricuds still claim he i3 the original jack-knife, although Nicuorrs bLas found the loat blade and havdlo und put them together. L —————— ‘The Reglater propos W to ueo its Indaence, ** bu the same more ol * {o .opposition 10 sny turther tinkering of the law, —Sprungald Jiegleter, ‘We do not understand the Register to couvey the idea that it “ proposes ' to use its mighty “Induenco " any looger than it is feed bY GoopxLy, who is the disbursing sgent of the Ring's moncy, Nopay, no *“intiucnce,” is the rule In that oftl f . 2 ' ———— When the Last-Ditchers have ratified their treaty with the Iwpracticables, says the New York Tribune, and jolucd forces against the Ad~ ministratipn, there will be a pretty quarrel be~ tween Toouss aud WxwpxLL PiiLzirs asto who shall be gonfalonferol thoe consolidated host. 7 ———— A Boston letter says that * Sepator BLais® bas four newspapers or organs in New England —tbe Boston Zyuveller, cdited by his former secretary; the Kenneboc Juurnal (his home organ); the Bangor Whig and Courier, the most radical of them all; ana the Concurd Munltory that echoes the Trupdlo—which are now e