Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 13, 1877, Page 4

& THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER I. Gye Tribune. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MATL—IN ADVANCB—POSTAGB PRAFATD. y Futtion, ope year... i if Alterary aod Keligious ne} Baition Srouble Sheet. Foturiay Edition, rleWerkly, one ye ‘erteot aycar, per month. WEEKLY BDI © copy, PF FeAt. Chivel Teter? Club of twent: Fpectmen copies rent tree. ‘Te prevent delay and mistakes be eure and Rive Post: Office address to full, Including State and Connty- Ternittances may be mada elther br draft, express, Post-Uffice order, or In registered tetterr, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY AUNSCHIBERS. Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, delivered, Sunday included, 30 cents per week. Address THE THINUNK COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn: Chicago, nm Orders for the delfsery of Trux TRinvxwnt Rvanston, Engleweod, and Hyde Park left in the counting-toom ‘willreceiye prompt attention. “AD MeVicker’a Theatre. Madteon street. hetween State and Dearhorn. Fn+ gagement of Edwin looth. ‘lag Lear.” des- damea Dun, Price, Tanner, etc. Measr& Booth, Whes- luck, Pearson, ete. Hocley’s Theatre. Randolph street, between Clark and TaSalle, Fa- wacemcnt of Lawrence Barret, ‘*Macbeth.” Mes: dames Cummens, Foster, ctc.; Mesars. Barrett, O'Neil, Price, ete. Adeiph) Theatre. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. ** Beonts of the Plains.” Texas Jack, Dig Duckshot, Donald McKay, ete, Cotton’s Opera-Honsn. Monroe street, between State and Dearborn, Kirt+ clamollo, ‘* Tbe Fool of the Fatnily.” Now Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman House. Haverty's Minstrels. Measrs.Add Ryinan, Dilly Carter, Moran, otc. Exposition Bullling. Michigan srenue, opposite Adame streot. Inter quested Co meet at thelr hall, 72 Monroe-st., on Friday F. 8. ALLEN, W.M. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877. CHICAG) MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets woro Srregular yesterday, provisions being weak and breadetuffs firm. Mesa pork closed 25¢ per brl lower, at $12.50 cash or October, and $12, 05@12.074 eeller tho year, Lard clowed %0c per 100 lbs lower, at $8.70 cash or October and $8.05@8.07% sell- erthe year. Meats closed tame, at bigc per © for loose shoulders and 7i4c fordo rhort ribs, Lake fretghis were firm, ot 3c for corn io Bulfalo, Llighwines were steady, at $1.09 per gulion. Flour wasin fairdemand andsteady, Wheat closed 1% e2c higher, at $1.05 for September and $1.01%) ne October, Corn closed W¢ lower, at 4h for September and 44%¢ for October, Oats clused ye higher, at 244¢¢ for September and 24%c for Octo- ber, Rye waa firm, at GOc. Barley closed 4D 1c higher, at Gc cash and G8e for October, Hoxe were actlye and firm carly, bat closed dull and 25 @it5e lowef for packing hogr. Cattle were aniet and casy, at 15@5c deciine from Monday. Sheep were weak, at $3,2594.75, One hundred dollars in guid would buy $103.25 jn groenbacks of the eloae. Greonbacks nt tho Now York Stock Ex- change yesterdny closed at 964. Since tho guration of tho National Bonk system, sixty banks havo failed, Chi- engo having contributed four of tha col- lapsed concerns, Col. Tayton offers $1,000 for the produc. tion of Srengen’s body in Chicago, ond it would not be a thing to wondor at if Brzn- cen'savarico should induce him to tura up oud claim tho reward. Tho Prohibitionists of Massachusetts and Ponnaylyania yosterday nominated fall State tickets, oth are confident of succoss, and both will wonder, as usual, why their crowd failed to pnt in an appearance at the polls, . It is now estimated that Gov. Connon's majority over Witttaus, his Democratic competitor for tho Maino Governorship, will exceed 11,600—ao vory creditable showing when tho lightnoss of the total voto cast is considercd. Lamy Drzs has limped into Canrp Sheri- don with his band of Indians, comploting tho surrender of all tho hostilo Sioux, and frecing the Dig Horn and Black Hills country. It is to bo hoped that Srrmyo Bux, will sooa effect a junction with them. Upon calm consideration, Judge Wirzuus thas concluded thot a Receiver will bavo greater power than an Assignee, and bas in- structed the Committes of depositors fn the Btato Savings to agroo upon o man if possi- ble, and report his namo to-da: _—_— Hero isa now complication in the Srerma Buus business, It is discovered that ho was born on Canadian soil, is a British subject, and hos aright to romain in the Dominion, ‘Yho proper course for the Commission now is to induce him to exercise hia right, Hydo Park hes suffered no littloloss in tho burning of tho Liyde Park Hotel, one of tho most popular of Chicago's suburban resorts, ‘Tho fire originated in the pastry cook's room, and though overy offort was mado to save the building, it was wholly destroyed. ‘Tho Loss is stated at from $125,000 to #150,000, Tho exercises at Dayton, 0., yesterday werv of the mont interesting and agreeable charnctar, and were enthusiastically enjoyed by @ concourse numbering 20,000, ‘Tho bpecches in connection with the navoiling of the handsome monument at the Soldiers’ Lonso wero by the Preudent, Chief Justice Warr, Secretary MoCaany, and Gen, B. F. Burtxn. Our Mexican relutions are now understood to Le far moro amicable than recent dis- patches would bave led ono to believe, In- ntcal of the bitter hostility said to have Deen lately animating the administration of Beaicau affuirs, the State Department and the Mexican Minister at Washington rospect- ively recoguize ond preclalia only the most pacific endeavors to break away all barriers to a cordial understanding. A long and interesting discussion upon tho efvets and cure of iuebriety and opiuin eat. ing occupiod the stjention of the past day's micoting of tho Association for the Cure of Druukards at the Washingtonian Home yes- terduy. The conclusion arrived at was that the uso of opium is » habit, while drunken- ness is a disease, and that peculiar methody aro necessary in the cure of thous addicted to tho one and suffering from the other, ‘Tho question of a division of the diocese ‘was not reached in tho Episcopal Convention yesterday, The principal items of business transacted were the election of deputies to the General Convention; tho adoption of o resolution providing for the appointment of ae comumitice to inguire into the subject of -an exception in favor of Tne Tnrune cor- intemperance and report the measnres which shonld be taken by the Church in Mlinois in the discharge of her duties and responsibili- ties in the promises; aud the introduction and reference of an amendiment to the canon law, whereby fomalo pew-holders shall bo permitted to vote for Vestrymen, Father McExnoy, said to havo been tho oldest Catholia pricst in the United States, died at Frederick, Md., last ovening, aged 95 yonrs. One of the chief episodes of hia lifo was the part which he took in suppress- ing a riot on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1840, oxactly tallying with the disturbances of Inst July on the same road, wherein ho is believed to have been ehfofly instramental in averting n bloody conflict betwoon striking workmen and soliiera, Speaker Raxpanu now discerns the sunset of Sam Cox's anticipations iu the bright promiso of his own fnture. For him the ‘Texas Pacific has become a thing of beanty anda public necessity, and it is supposed that he will alow the Southern members to oint their souls with the flattering unction that bia past record in opposition to grabs and private ax-grinding is a matter of cor- roding remorse in his innermost conscience. It is understood that o dosa of crow about this big will centre upon the aspirant swal- lowing it, which ia Mr, Ranpaus, the whole influence surrounding ‘Tost Scort's gigantic schome, and put Mr. Cox upon o very. ob- scure back seat in the meeting of next Octo- ber, 2 Mr. Monar Harsrzav, of tho Cincinnati Commercial, does not often consent to be in- torviowed, gonorally preferring to circulate his views at first hand through the medium of his own paper. He has, howover, made respondant, whosa letter is printed elzewhero in our columns this morning. Mr, Harsteap han ontire faith in the success of the Repub- lican ticket in Ohio this fall—no thanks, howover, to the platform-makers at the re- cent State Convention, who failed to appro- ciate the fact that a Republican victory means an indorsoment of President Hares by his own State, and a Demooratio victory means just thoroverse, But tho people un- derstand this, though tho politicians didn't, and hence the confident expectation that Ohio will oloct a Republican Govornor and o Republican Legislature. A question has been raised whether or not tho fly-lcaves of the Holy Scriptures are part of the Word. One Fathor Gnooan, traveling on an Minois Contral train, plously took a Bible from tha rack, and, after pray- orfally oxamining an alleged indecent pict- ure on tho first leaf, pitchod tho objection able volumo out of the window, Thore wos no objection to the book as such, nor to its innocuons effect upon passengors aa a Bible, but tho Reverond Fathor bethought him of the leavon that leaveneth the whole loaf, and 28 tho picture condemned tho page, the pago condemned tha book, and the Jatter was cast upon the prairio to roturn after many days’ search. No action was tnkon by tho Com. pany against tho onthusiastio hater of im- pions addenda to tho Word, and ho was handed over to the Church to oxplain why ho sacrificed so much comfort to tho sinful- ness of one page, Tho third annual Convvention of tho Amorican Banking Association, which began in Now York yesterday, was nttondod by about 100 members, and from tho various reports submitted it appears that the organi. zation is ia o flourishing condition. Tho subject of specio resumption was tho ordor of the day, and the principal speeches wore those of Mr. J. D, Harz’, of Detroit, and ex-Liout.-Goy. Srzwant L. Woopproan, of New York, ‘Tho lattor assorted that tho chicf hindrance to rosumption was tho partial legal-tonder quality of tho National Bank currency, and stated his belicf that the law is unconstitntfoual that confers this somi- legal-tondor quality upon this class of cur- roncy, Ho expreasod full faith in the suf- ficioncy of tho present Resumption law to bring about a return to apecio payments by tho timo named,—Jan, 1, 1879,—and that tho country will como to it naturally and easily without any furthor legislation, SAVINGS DEPOSITS AND THE GOVERN- iT. Thoro id'n protest from Wall atreot against tho Government changing ita creditors,— against the Government accepting tho money of tho savings class at 3.65 por cont intorost, and taking up ita 8 and 4 fer cont bonds held in Europe, Mr. Jay Gourp, tho great moral financier, through bi paper, the New York Z'ridunc, oppoucs tho interposition of the Govornmont. for tho protection of tho 6,000,000 or 8,000,000 of depositors who havo from ono thousand to twolve hun- dred millions in the savings banks ogainst the frauds and -robberics which, from time to timo, aro committed upon them by dishonest managors. ‘Iho proposition that tho Government, through tho agency of tho post-ofiices, ahould recoive tho sav ings deposits of the people and pay interest thercon, is objected to bocause it {sa con- trolization of power, ond a stride in tho way of paternal Governmontalian which is uot desirable, Tho same paper further ob- jects becnune the Government should not “go into the business of lending monoy"; that if such a policy be adopted it would give every Postiastor tho power to lond or refuse to lend,moucy; and that under our system of Government it is not probable the funds would bo ax faithfully guarded here as in England, where it ia admitted these post- oftice savings Lauks havo boon very euccess- ful and satisfactory, Tho great objevtion, howover, is that it will withdraw from exist- ing savings bunks large sums of money which aro now loaned out for speculativo purposes, These objections will hardly have much weight with tho general publio, especially with the peoplo who make the deposits, The point that to establish post-oflice unv- jugs banks would be an exercise of paternal. isin in very weak, Tho Government now receives money on deposit at tho post-ofliccs oud issucs drafts In tho shapo of money- orders payable at auch point in the United States or in Europe as the depositor may eclect, the Government collecting a foe for the service, After having’ exercised that function without eudangoring the liberties of tho people or undermining the foundations of the Republic, it would bardly be dangerous for tha Government to receive the doposits of the people and invest them inits own bonds at slow rato of interost. It is not proposed to prohibit private savings banks; it is merely proposed to. offer the people the choice of depositing thelr money, us now, in private institutions, or to deposit it in the ‘Treasury at a rate of interest less than that paid by private banks. It ig not an exercise of very vigorous parental authority to leave tho people froo to select avy bank they msy think proper in which to deposit their money, monoy? ‘Tho post-office savings banks will be meroly plnecs to receive moncy loaned to the Government. It is nothing new for the Government to borrow monoy, and if there sro $1,200,000,000 of monoy in the hands of the people, in smal! sums, which they are willing to lend the Govornmont at 3.68 per cont interest, why should thoy not have the privilege, and why should the Government have any hesitancy in aecopting thé loan? Tho Government now owes nearly 91,500,000,000, one-half bearing 6 per cent nnd the other half 6 por cont interest, Is thore any moral objection to borrowing this money from our own people nt alow rato of interest, nud taking up these bonds bearing a high rato of inter- est? Willnot the whole uation ba tho ben- ¢ficiary of the operation? Tho objection that the investmont of tho savings deposits will roduco the sum of availablo capital to be borrowed by specula- tors is not n sorions ono. In facet, the facility with which the deposits may be loaned for apeculative business nnd to reckless operators is precisely the greatest objection to ravings banks na they now oxist. Millions of depositors’ monoy may be loaned for operations on Wall stroot, If the operations succecd, tho oporators pockot tho profit; if the operations fail, the doporitors lose that much money, The State Savings had capital to Iond on Calumet and railroad property, If those investments had been profitable, Srencen would have had the profit; bat as they proved a total loss, the calamity is to be borne by tho depositors. Indeod, thure is on universal fooling that all woll-governed savings banks shoull havo one-half if not more of thatr deposits invcat- ed in national bonds; nud {t isonly to secure this absoluto security that the people should havo tho option to invest their monoy diroct- ly with tho Government. Of course, Jax Goutn’s: objection to tho postal savings banks will apply equally to tho no less desirable schomo of issuing o nationgl bond for 250, or any multiple of thot sum, having ninety years to run, bear- ing 3.65 per cont interest, and issucd at par to any amount uot oxcocding that of the public debt. This would be n direct offer to Iet the people of the country becoue the creditors of tho Governmont, and if theso bonds to tho amount of fifteen hundrodtill- fons of dollars were distributed among the people in sums ranging from 850 to . $1,000, tho measuro would luo the strongest bulwark ogainst Com. munism and tho strongest defense of na tional onion and national integrity tliat could be dovised. Lot the peoplo—the -working- men, avery man, and woman, and. growing boy and: girl, who by industry od thrift saves 250, $100, or any other sum-—becomo n bondholder, a stockholder in the Govern- ment, interested directly and to tho full ex- font of hia or hor incans in tho honest and oconomical. administration of the Govorn- ment. Snch o disposition of thw public dobt would bo a stronger defense of tho Union than standing armies and an oxten- sivo navy. Yot that is not what Mr. Jay Govtz and his class wont. They-want oll powor dologated to Wall streot, 4 THE TRIAL OF GAMBETTA. The political situation in France bas been affected soriously sinco tho dissolution of tho Assembly by two ovents, Ono of thoso was tho death of M. Tutzrs, tho othor was tho prosecution of M. Gasmerta, If tho Minis. try had forescon the formor, it would not por- haps have made itself roaponsiblo for tho Int- tor. ‘Thoro was something to gain by mak. ing Gasmetra a prominont figura in the can- vass, if at tho uamo timo tho personality of Tnouers might bo dwarfod; but, with Tmrens gono, there is no ono to dispute tho leader- ship of Gammerrs, and ho becomes tho chicf roprosontativo of his party. Hs leadership is, indeed, 80 conspicuous that to prosecute him for political utterancea is to prosocuto tho party. ‘This iso task tho Ministry, rash as it is, might not havo nndortakon if Toixns had died a few days carlicr ; onco undortakon, howover, the dignity of tho affair demanded that it should be followed to the ond. Inno other way could a sufficient justification for beginning it be found. Gamuerra’s offonso was not at all on of- fenso against froa institutions, and wo in America, who are supposed to know some- thing of a Srepublican fora af Govornmont and tho right to freo speech guaranteed ‘un- der it, can scarcely appreciate the grounds of tho prosccution. It is almost’ easier to beliovo that the reports are dofective, that Gasmerra’s speoch wag seditions, that tho personal libel convoyod in it was atrocious, than it is to supposo that ho should bo ar raigned for frivolous rensons, Unhappily, thoro is no such easy escapo from tho difll- cultios of thocasc, Tho official proceedings confirm the worst that has been said against the Cabinet. MaoMacnon and his advisers aro their own acousors, Gambetta was pros: ecuted for declaring that MacMauon must submit to the decision of the nation or ro- sign; thore is nomoro hoinonssentiment than this in the specch. An English or Amorican orator would os soon think of domonstrating a proposition in Euclid on tho stump as of stating so fundamental o truth toa body of intelligent voters, Yet for making tho stato- mont Gamperra hos boon é¢ondemned to three months’ imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs. Ife escapes the judgment only by an appeal, which will allow him to plead his privilego ag. a Deputy after the oloction, and ho will doubtless bo mulcted in the flno whon the case fa disposed of in tho court of Inst resort. ‘ * ‘These proceedings aro important primarily for their bearing on the future of Franco, and secondarily for the illustration they give of the political charactor of the Fronch people, Gasuerra was already high in tho favor of the Republicans, and only such a prosecution as this was nocded to establish him as a hero anda wartyr. We havo been taught that the voice of tho mar- tyr -cannot be stilled by porsecation. “Every Jash inflicted is o tongue of fame; overy prison-house a moro il- Instrious abode.” Gauperra will leap at ouce into unbounded popularity. Already tho Radical journals of Frauce express fears that ho will become too popular by virtue of being prosecuted. ‘The Miuistry may well shrink from the storm it hasinvoked. It showed its fecbleness in the first placo by ordering the prosocution to take placo in Lille, fearing that, if the trial wero held in Paris, a crowd wight gather about the Palais de Justice, and sorious consequences ensue. If the Ministry is not strong enough to try Citizen Gauustra in Paris, how will it bo ablo to withstand Denuty Gamaxrra when, ‘The Government is in debt aud paying 6 per cont intarest ; is it contraliza- tion to nsk a Jonn at 3.65 per cent intorest, leaving the public free to fend tho monoy or ‘not? “But,” saya Mr. Gout, * shall the Government go into the busincsg of lending money?” and asks, Shall tho Postmaster have tho powor to lend or to refuxo to lend not be institutions to lend money; they will thoronghly Latin in its origin and dovelop- known to tho %— reprosontative with them proceeds from above and permeates the lowor ranks, Tho source of power is a mystorious hoad, existing in its own right, or by tho force of ciroum- Anglo-Saxon race ns this power resta with the head rathor than peoplo shirk their political duties na far av they can, or discharge them fitfally and ir- regularly, Tho remedy for on abuso of power {fs rovolntion, and ravolution once Ao- public apathy. It is true that experionce is tenching the Fronch poople their responsi- Dilitios, bnt experience teaches slowly, They hava obtained Municipal Councils, but not protected them against the encroachments of tho Executive; and present indications oro that they cannot roalore ropublican Govern- ment in Franco without a coup d efat, and poasibly a revolution. When tho Republicsn Convention of Penn- sylvanin succoeded im yiving so clear, direct, aud unequivocal an exprossion to tho sonti- mont of tho peoplo of that State on the sub- ject of romonstizing tho silver dollar, it is strange that a Convention in o Westorn State like Wisconsin should confuse the mat- ter. ‘Tho Ponnsyivauia Convention de- manded the restoration and tho unrestricted coinage of the silver dollar as it always ox- isted in this country up to the passage of the swindling demonotization act of 1873. That fe just what tho bulk of tho people through- out tho ontira country demand, oxcopt por ribly in Now York and tho Now England States whoro tho monoy-lendors havo con- trol This sontimont is 80 docidod that it actually forces itself upon an observing por- son, aud so jnat that it is not sufficiont to formulate into asimple and intelligibio propo- sition, | Under theso circumnstances, there was no excuse for the following resolution: 7, That wo tojoten that the fidelity of the Repub- lean party in upholding the nutional credit has brought our currency eo near the point of resump- thon of mpecio-payment. Wehold that the silver dollar should be restored to its former place aw monoy, and made a legal-tendor for tha payment of debts except where otherwise distinctly provided by law. with the coinage so regulated ag to main — tain on equatity of vatue and presorva the harmont- ous circulation of gold, silver, and legal-tonder notes ax money. : ‘Thero aro two fontures observablo in this resolution, First, thoru was an evident dis- position to follow tho dictation of Svcrotary Suenstan in tho Olio resolution, in spito of tho fact that the construction which ho is known to placo upon tho exception, * whero otherwise provided by law,” is jeopardizing tho chances of Ropublican success in Ohio, which would otherwise bo beyond doubt, In tho socond ‘place, the Convention com- mitted n folly in restricting the demand for remonotization with tho condition that ‘tho coinage be so regulated as to maintain an equality of yaluo and preserve tho har. monjous cirenintion of gold, silver, and logal-tonder notes ag monoy,” Tho silvor dollar was o part of tho Jegal-tonder monoy of this country for nearly one hundred years, and tho men in control of tho Governmont nover found it nocossary to undortakoe tho im- poosible task which this resolution auggusts, Sometimes tho silvor dollar would bo tha moro valuable and somatimos the gold dollar, tho relative value being rogulated by supply and demand; bat olways tho more plontiful and cheaper coin suppliod tho bulk of tho cireulating medium, os it always will, Even an attempt to keep the two coins constantly at por with cach other would requiro o pormancnt svesion of Congress, with untiring vigilance in watching the varying conditions of tho silver and gold markots, and tho ‘pasango of lawa changing tho relative weight of tho two coins to sult ovory transitory condition, ‘This would bo aon absurdity, but on attempt to keep Govornmont notes at par with both (which is also de- ‘mandod by tho Wisconein resolution) would ‘bo an impossibility. ‘The impotence of leg- dslation in this regard has boon abundantly demonstmitod. No law which Congross has yet boon ablo to framo las succeoded in com- pelling peoplo: to take irrodvemablo paper notes at par with spucio; it is only whon such notes shall bo redeemed in specie on domand tat they will have an oqual valuo and circu! ato sido by sido with both’ coins, Wo complain of tho Wisconsin resolution bocauzo it is not clean-cut and out- spoken, wad becauso it has needlessly con- fased n matter on which thero can scarcely besald to bo ndifferonco of opinion among the peoplo of that Stato or the West. TAXATION OF DEBTS, Wo print several communications on tho aubject of the taxation of debta, growing out of Mr. Davin A. Wexxs' reviow of tho cnsouf KirtLanp, recontly deoided by the Bupromo Court of Connecticut, and soveral editorials in this papor on tho samo subject, Alltho writers seomingly overlook tho fact that it is property and not tho peraon who is taxcd. It ia immaterial to the law who owns tho property; tho law in no Stato makes it the duty of tho Assessor to decide titles to property, and tho tax is lovicd on the property and not on the person, Tho State of llinois has no authority to lovy taxes on proporty in the Stata of Now York, though tho owner may bo a residont in this State. Property located in tho Town of Lyons, in Iowa, cannot ba taxod by tha su- thorities in any other county in tho State, oven though the owner may live in such other county, Even the Supreme Court of Conncotieut concedes that uo taxes can bo loviod in Connecticut upon any roal estate located in Ulinols but owned in Connecti- cut. ‘Cho argamont is that Kratnanp, own. ing property In Connecticut, transferred that proporty to Dlinois, and oxchanged it for a mortgage or a Hen on‘ real ostato in Hilinols; that though the real estate in Illi- nols is taxed there for ita fall value; though Kierranp has parted with the possession and control of tho property which he moved from Connecticut, he is novertheloss taxedle in Counecticut, not only on the income he ro- ccives from Illinois, but on the mortgs go, or lion, or sharo in tho property in Iltnols. Where docs Connecticut get jurisdiction or control over tho property or debt, or what- ever othor interest Kimtraxp owns in Illi- noils? What “protection” dos the Btate of Connecticut furnish Krnriamp's interests in Miinois in return for which taxos are de- manded of him? Can the Courts of Can- necticut protect his mortgage, enforce bis rights, or coerce the payment of either pri: cipal or interest? Oan the Sheriff of any county in Connecticut alone or with & posse furnish any protection to Kiwriamp's property in Wlinois? Can the GoVernor of Conneotlout order out troops to protect Kret- apeaking on behalf of three-fifths of Franco, hosummons tho President to oboy or resign? The trin! illustrates, as wo havo said, tho political character of the French people. Their idea of repnblican Government is ment. Thoy do not understand the machine Governmont. Power stances. Responsibility for tho oxercise of with the members of the body politic. ‘The complished paves the way to a new period of tion of the Btato of Mlinois? Init taxable in Mlinois? Being found within this State, it is taxor. Is it taxablo also in Connecticut? It itbe taxablo in both States nt the sane time, is not that donblo taxation? And can donble taxation or taxation of the samo prop- orty at the samo timo iu two different States —tazation in Illinois to build a new State- House anda now Penitentiary, and taxation in Connocticnt to pay interost on the debt of that State—bo justified on any principle. of Jaw or morals? Bavoral correspondenta havo justified tho taxation of Kiatiayp in Connecticut, on tho ground that bo ‘waa worth $20,900, and was rightfully tared on what ha wns wortl.” This again is an assumption thnt itis tho owner of the proporty, aud not tho property itself, that is to bo taxed, and this assimp- tion is wholly opposed to all the laws of all the States on the subject of taxation. Krnt- LAND waa the owner of an interest worth $820,000 in property itt Illinois, which prop- orty was tared ‘in Illinois, How could it bo toxol beyond tho jnrisdiction in which it was located? If Mr. Krrtnann had sent his $20,000 to Chicago, ond bought lot aud building hero for the monoy, lie would “bo worth $20,000,” but it is admitted he would not be taxable thereon in Connecticut, In- atend of buying tho feo simple of the prop- erty, hy Longht o mortgage on it, and it is claimed that Connecticut has jurisdiction of the property in the mortgage, and therefore the powar to lax it, That is the quostion at “asne in the Krntnanp caso. THE RANKEST OF COMMUNISM. Wo think both political parties oro fairly open to the chargo of pandering in thoir rocent platforms to the Coimmunistic sentimont of thecountry. Tho labordemon- strations following tho railroad .striko and tho effort to form a distinctive workingmon's party afford tho provocation, aud demo- goginm is too pronounced on all sides not to nibble at the bait. But tho Wisconsin Republicans Lave been moro scaudalously botrayod than any political organization elec- whore, After thoir rogular platform had beon adopted, sone outsidor, who was either aknave ors fool, offered 9 supplementary resolution, which had cither not been beforo tho Committoo or hind been rojected by them, and it was evidently adopted without cousidering its roal purport, That resolu- tion ombodies tho vory pith of Communiam, and is af follows: . Resolved, That the Republican party 18 In favor of an appropriation by Congress for the purposo of analating under enitable regulations the surplus In- boring men of the larger cities and mining districts to setilc on the public lands. It is very uvidont that tho logical nnd in- ovitablo resulta of such a policy wero not considered, or it could not have boon sug. gested by a body of men composed for tho most part of rational and law-abiding citi- zons, A fow pointa tracing out itg opera- tion will show how Utopian tho whole schemo is, 1, Whatis meant by tho “larger cities” and tho ‘mining districts"? Is it intondod thnt tho Jatter shall include only the coal minog, or thoso districta whero thor aro strikes and inbor troubles, or that all the mining districts—the copper, lend, stono, gold, ailver, ote.—whall bo comprehended? And what aro tho largor ollies? Is Chicago ono? If so, ia Milwnakeo another? And if Mile waukoo, thon aro Madison, Jancuville, Osh- kosh, Watertown? ‘Tho point is in tho diff. culty of drawing a lino of demarkation, which shall range certain cities and certain mining districts within the appropriation, and exclude others, Ours is a represontative Govornmont, and wo fanoy the oxclnded mining districts and citios would maka o most vigorous protest against an appropria- tion of public moneys for tho bonefit of those that had boon preferred over them. 2, The same roprosontativo principle will exact the admission of tho agricultural dis- triets on an opal footing with tho mining districts and the citios. Why should they bo oxclnded, in point of fact? Thoro is surplus labor in tho cowantry as well a tho city, Ag- ricultural Inbor in neighboring districts in Pounsylvanin rocoives smallor wages than those which tho mino-ownors offer, aud which tho minors refuse to nceopt. Does anybody suppose that 9 ropresontative of an agricultural district In Congress will vote for au appropriation for tho bonefié of the con- stituents of o represontative from a mining dixtrict or a city, unless tho Iatter will also vote for an appropriation in favor of tho formor’s constituents? And what juatice would thero be in such a discrimination? ‘Tho proportion of poor mon among the agri- culturists is porhaps noarly as great as in tho cltfcs or mincs, Tho mon who work as form-hauds for so much a day, thoxo who sro tiing patches of ground on sharing terms with the owners, whoso who aro labor: ing over worn-out laud, aro ns worthy of as- sistanco as tho poor classes who livo in cities or mining districts, .8 Having deterinined, then, on an omni- bus appropriation bill. to assist all tho sur- plus Inboring men of city and country to set- te on the public lands, by what process can the surplus be determined? It cannot be concluded that the loafing and vicious olo- onts of citics and mines, and the tramps that infeat the rural districts, are tho only ones that will avail themselves of the pro- posed Government bounty, Farmers reo- aouably well-to-do, but who still have more childron than money, will find herein an ox- cellent opportunity for settling for life ono ortwoof the older song. Many men who sre making both onds meet with large fami- lios by laboring in cities or mines will con- cludo that thoy can Letter their condition by locating on public lands at Government ex- pouse, and thoy will be applicants, It will be difficult to ostalilish any rule or system of inspection that can determine just how much surplus labor thero is, or what mem- ‘bers of tho community properly constitute the aurplusage, - 4. But admit that all these dificnities can be overcome, and everybody enjoying Uncle Sam's bounty, not merely in a farm but in boing helped to acttle thoreon, it is time to reckon tho coat. To properly settle a family on a farm includes the transportation to the land, tho building of a house, a barn, and a fonce, the supply of a wagon, a cduple of horses or males, a cow, somo pigs or sheep, the farm implements, seed for the ground, and subsistence for cight or nine months tilt the crop can be raised. Now, an extromely moderate estimate for all this is 91,000; it cannot be done for less, and, if Cone at all, it will be done generously, because it will bo upon other peoplo’s monoy. We have heard the surplus labor of tho citicag and mining Lanp’s property in Illinois from damage by mobs? In what poxsiblo manner can the Government or Inws of Connocticut afford the remotost recurity or protection to Kint- LAND's property in Chicngo? Is not that property, no matter in what form it exista, noimatter by what legal name it may bo called, wholly beyond tha jurisdiction and control of tho Slate of Connecticut, nud as wholly and exclusively within the juriadic- 000,000, oither by incrensing taxntion to'that extant, debt, ‘ no meaun ends hero, This is a froe country, trade; it is useloss to make a list of thom, pander to, or gracd to gatinfy. ‘The simple fact is that tho foolish or Inavish outsider who folsted this resolution upon the Wisconsin Convention did what he could to commit the Republicans of that Btato to the rankest nnd most vicious Com- The Republican party has less oxcuso and less neod than any othor for. pandering to this sentiment. Ono of the first acts of tho party, aflor it ucceded to full power in tho Government in 1861, was munism, to pass tho. Free Homestend law, which is still in force, with such modifications os it has beon necessary to make from timo to timo to tmard agninst frauds on tho one hand and cost to tho sctilors on tho other, The Democratic party, undor tho control of tho Southorn wing, had always refused to pass such a law. ‘Ihe public Jands nro now free, and th willingncss.fo most always attain them. But whathor thoy rupt thom in order to scttle theso froe lands, and if there wore, it wonld bo tho “folly of fools" to adopt such a policy, Tho London Spectator saya that “ Protoos tion in America has dono ita work,—that is, it has attracted to protected monufacturea more people than can bo muintained at high wages by tho domand of tho protected area.” ‘This is very truco; tho home market no longor furnishes a demand for the prodacts of the abnormally-stimulated mannfacturing capacity of this country. But has the Spee. talor fully cousiderod tho consoquences to follow from tho adoption of its advice to tho Amoricons? “Supposo that Congress should removo tho dutics from the raw materials of manufactures, and theroby promote cheap- neas in the production of many lines of goods, tho result would be that Amorican manufactures would snecossfully compote with tho samo kinds of British goods in tho markets of tho world. If Congresa had tho wisdom and statosmanship to adopt a tariit systom substantially like that of Groat Brit. ain, it would not be ton years bofore tho manufacturing supremacy of that country would bo destroyed. With our decided ad. vantage in cheaper raw materials, of food, coal, lumber, cotton, wool, hidos, iron, cop- per, lend, and othor staples of manufacture, we could distancg England in the race of commorcial supromacy, if Congrasa would remove tho handicapping absurdly callod Protection,” but which should be named Destruction.’ Ouo of thesa daya Congress will romovo tho rostriations and fotters, and front that day the decadonco of British man- ufacturing supremacy will date, and tho soverolgnty of Amorican productions in tho world will bogin, ‘There Js still much excitement In South Caro- lina about the revelations made before the Grand dury of the stealing and swindling carried on by the carpet-baggers, ard the division of the plun- dor with leading Democrats. Says an exchange: ‘Two of the must culpable of the indicted Bouth Carolina curpet-bagyers huve decided to give evi- dence for the S.ste, and the indictments aratnat them will not be tried. ‘They ure Jonxs and Woop. Clerks of thu House und senate, renters 828.000 worth of bouanga war- Tanta and all claims ogaines the State fur alleged unpald printing bills,” Joxes surrenders private property valued at $22,000, and Wounsurr sure Tenders the building aud fixtures of the Printin; Company in Columbia, valued at $7,000, and tis claims ayaluat the Bank of the state far $1:30, 000. Both rascals ary allowed to retaly thelr private residences, ‘Thelr evidence will be very importaut, Bs (vy were uccessarily cognizant of all the Jobbery which was coyineered theough the Leyislature, aie Congreasman O. R. Sinaneron, of Milas! pl, has had the effrontery tu make the lying aud slanderous declaration that “there ta a grow. Jug sentiment in the North in favor of restrict ing, if not entirely abolishing, the elective frau- chisa to the black man, to be effected through, an amendment to the Constitution. it would seem that the Democratic majority in Mississip- pl lind been made. largo enough already, with- out such barcfuced misstatements as this." This Bixa.eton will be dead and damued a geod many decades before the “scntiment’? will * crow’? enough In the North to be seen by @ microscope. ae An exchange says that the mud period scems. to have been reached tu the Obio campaign, Judge West bas been tormally charged with breakinga wi} which bis own wife's forincr hus- band bad left, for the purpose of cheating an educational institution out of a legacy. This has Deen solemuly deuled in detail and with volu- mjnous proof, and the original slanderers are shown to have willfully aud maliciously Hed. It would seem to be im oroer now to charge the Jutge with wife-beativg, or with baving lost bis eyesight iu a diabolical attempt to blow up his own household by pouring powder on a red-bot stove. or The Democratle Gubcrnatorlal candidate for Governor of Oblo refuses to remove the pad- lock from his pocket-book, and the party hacks are shrouded In gloom. The only thing he bas done to promote the success of bis ticket is to clectloncer among bis sect, the Campbellites, sud amoung his uld Kuow-Nothing confreres and the Sunday-law prohibitionists. It fs thought hemsy galn some votes from those elements, but that bo will also lose from others. Peace aa When tho war broke out between the little mite of a State, Muutencyro, and the great Turkish E:mplre, fu June, 1870, the Montene- grins promptly laid siege to Nicsicss From that tue until the present the cable has been bring- fog reports that “ Nicsics has been revictusled,” o~that the sicge bas beey renewed, and ralsed, districts ntated at 1,000,000 men;@ho sur- plus labor of the rnral districts cannot bo lesa, for the poor bincks at the South would farnish at loast 500,000, and the poor whites and farm-hands both North and South wonld farninh ad many moro. Then thero would Le 2,000,000 families to provide for at the rato of 31,000 each, and the Government would incur an extra expenditure of 32,000,- This enormous sum of monoy conld bo obtained in only one of two ways,— or selling bonds nnd adding it to the publie dobt. As the poople aro neither in the con- dition nor the humor to boar any such ine ercase of taxation, that theory must be aban- doned, and then the schome could only be achioved by doubling tho present national 5, But having donbled the national dobt, and doubled tho intorest which will noarly double taxation, the cont of the schemo by whero every man is supposed to be equally entitled to Government favor; if 9 ocrtain portion of the population may be established on farmins at a cost of $2,000,000,000 (which every man must help pay for in tho in- erensed cost ‘of overything he ents, drinks, wears, uses, or owns), then other classes have the same right to ask assistance. The journoyman shoomaker says that he will be worthless on n farm, bat ho isout of employ- ment, and tho Government ought, by a parity of rensoning, rot him up with tools, shop, aud material to bogin business, So with every other journoyman in overy other Iu this way taxation may not only bo doubled but quadrupled, for the demagoguos will not stop as long ns there is any class to who havo the ambition, the work, and the onorgy can al- can or not, it is outside the function of Gov- mont to provide such moans, Thoro is no warrant in tho Constitution for saddling tho nation with a debt it could nover pay and tho peoplo with taxation that would bank. and 80 on, alternately. Finally camo th; patch thoother day: 6 din A Cattaro telegram to the Politteat ence, of Vienna, reports that Ntealea wieght: teen gine hia 'murrendered pncondittonally fe jo garrigon of 400 men and intab re Towed to withdraw to Gntechkas "Were al- ‘The Montencgrins had no use for the rarrtzon, and were willing to parole and Jet them ot Nivslva was the key to acyeral passes which Tet Into Montenegro, and {t commanded 4 blatn of fertile land which the Montenegrin former}, owned, and on which thelr hearts were set to re, saver. Nicalcs ta described as a stronghold on the boundary Iino between Montenegro and tf govina. It has been helt stubbornly through. out the war by the Turks, who have expended thousands of lives In endeavoring from time ty time to provision {ts beleagucred garrison, ty capture Is a heavy blow to the inilitary preati of the Turks, while ft advances corresponding} the fame of the Montenegrins, It ts probably that this victery will impart renewed Vigor to the fusurrection In Western Turkey. a Some of the Ohfo Democrats have been al. culating upon great galna this fall from dete, tons among the colored Republicans, One of the places named waa Columbus. A dispatey, from there says: “A creat deal has been say about a bolt among colored Kepublicana here, ao I have investigated with great care to maty out a census of Frep Roxzr's colored Demo, crats. At present tliree colored men ara pledg. ed to that ticket, and stiother one ts doubtful, That Is positively tue whole list.» ha See Eee The Chtcago Times of Sept. 11 copted two col. ‘umns of correspondence from the London Du} Nees, ulviug an account of the flehting fy Schipka Pass. It was a vory interesting st age. ‘The Jimes could have printed tho samy account two weeks earller, by copying the speci cable-spatches to Tus Citicago Trinusr ot Aug. 26, 27, and 23. a A Parliamentary paper on the Brltlsh income tax shows that the total amount of income te charged from the year ended the 5th of Apri, 1813 (the first year it was Imposed), was £47. 781,523, It commenced at 7 pence in tho pound, and realized £5,607,798; and Isat year tt wag pence in the pound, and produced £4,002, 400 og $20,000,000, We have every reason to Jook for a great det of enterprise in catching SPencrt, now that it is ascertatued that he has gone beyoud recorery, There has beeu a great deal of able-bodind sitting around done inthis matter, Dut, now tha ft fa perfectly anfo to wake up, no one should bo surprised ot any manifestation of fruitles energy. ———— Jomn Monntsser contributed $500 toward thy tellef of those who suffered from tha New York Gro, and now he bas given a Boston charitable institution $100. Manifestly Mr. Monnissery inclination to divide {ndicates that he fs acu, didate for some ofllce in the gift of the Com munista. — It Is eald of Gaunerra that he 19 the reverse of a man of actlou. Ho is 8 man of actite -thomgitwhose thought Is to be carried out by the acts of others." This {s o fortunate onler of Intellect for M, Gambetta, who goes to jal to think for three months. ———— One Baltimore young man challenged another Baltimore young man, but the Haltimore young man who waschallenged by the other Daltt moro young man overstept bimsclf, ond a9 consequence they didn't do well. = A Toronto ticket-agent says he was aatonished at Brescen'a readiness In computation, ant concluded that he was o broker. Right. He has broken more bauks than any man of bis ag fo the West, Mr. Ross whl not fdentify any boy over years of age, That was Cuantey'’s ago when he decamped about threo years ago. Tho fond father docsn’t want any O-year-old youngster. Explorations in the ruins of the Now Yort plano manufactory have developed a skull, burned and twisted; but as yet there are no ie dications of water anywhere in tho vicinity. | A report from Vienna says that “Oswan originally, but had Lecome decidedly state by” Pasha Ie a prisoncr," a fact which tends to or . Toborate the statement that be {s Crawvon,s spite of tho Turkish Minister's dental. | As SpPencen rode through Canada, he sighed when his gazo fell upon the Bible-rack fn the car, and obseryed ite Iegond, “Read and te turn.” Now that he has found out who the man wi, tho Toronto nowsdealer who loaned Srncees corkscrew rojolceth in hie heart that he gotit back. | PERSONAL. Prof, William Everott is proparing to writ the Hfe of his father, A daughter of Mrs. Thomas Barry will soon appcur on the slags in Boston, Darwin says ho has soon a woman's fect blusn, Thia ts what may be called the revealing 4 je confidences, Tho Turkish Legation informs tho prea that the cmincot Turkish Genors] Oeman Pas was bora In Asia Minor of Mussulman parents, Tt isnot genekally know that tho ches board of Napolvon is now in America. It wat given by tho Count do Sarvilliers to the late Cavt Morgan, of Now York, Miss Middio Morgan, tho stock-roporter of the Now York Times, is said to know as mach about horees and cattle as any man in tho county, and for more than any other woman, Forty persona bave applied for admission to the Junior claes of’the Yaio Theological Schooh ond the class will be the largest, with onv ex srntlons ever known tn the history of (he Institue ton, Preaidgnt Chsdbourno, of Willinma Col lege, preached a memorial sermon jn honor of Prot, Tenney last Sunday, dnd gave high testimony tothe character uf the deccased as a scholar and & gentleman. Gov, Jowell and his wito colebrate their allver wedding and the marriaye of thelr youngest daughter, Florence, on the Olh of Uctober. Mise Jewull is to marry Mr. Willum Strung, o young Hartford merchant, hoy of Detroit. ° Joseph 8, Reynolds writes to tho Cincit- natl Commerciat that he knows nothing of 0: Pasha, and only certifies thatthe man Ct aerved in our arniy, wud afterwards sep: binself as boing in tho service of the Kheiive. Mru, Seoretary Thompson enjoys Washing- ton life, and believes Mra. Hayes exerts a pleaslog Sod benign Induence co voctety there, She; bss on alarge scale, the popularity which was accord ed her in Obio when President Hayes was Gore erpor. Landseer wrote toa friend in this country during the progress of our Civil War: **Yon will quite understand my hoptug thatthe fghting may last in the new country as it dia in the case of sb¢ Insh cata, and that when you come to tell tho tills I may be present.” The October number of Scribner's will com talna paper by the Rev. George 8, Merrism, 1D which be traces the changes of Christianity (rom the simplicity of Jesus, and the substitatival which bavetaken place of other tests for fellowe sdip than right conduct, i Edward Eggleston has written a serial story called **Roxy,” which will be printed 10 Scribner's Monthly for the coming year. The iI lustrations will be by Mr. Walter Shirlaw, whost **Sheep-Shearing” baa attracted so aiuch favorae ble attention here and ia New York. Dr. Hans vou Bulow is reported to have aald, **1€ E atop practicing for one day, 1 notice ey in my playing; if L stop twodays, my friends Bo tice It; if I wtop three days, the pudlic notices it How different is the case with most performurd. ther shoald stop permsnently nobody would 0 tice it, Mrs. Gen, Sherman bas written a strog letter in eupport of » book called **The Dance of Death,” which is supposed by the unlearned readc? to be the walts or the redows. The objections 1? it are placed chiedy ou bygienie grounds, and it \# said that many women have brokca down bealth prematurely in this manner.