Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNI (BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1I877-TWELY1, PAGES. Thye Tuibnwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 11~1X ADVANCE—TOSTAGE FREPAID. sliect Errviaay kit 13- Weekly, ote Yuib ot avenr, § WEELKL Qne copy, ror yes Citih et four,. Erectmen coples sent 11eq, Giive Post: Glico address In fall, including State and County, Remittances may bo made either by draft, expresy, Puat-Otice order, ot reaistered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBERS. Tatly, delivered, Funday excerted, 25 cents per wesk. #L 2113, delivered, Ennday Included, 70 conts per week. Address TIE TRIDUNE COM| d Lorner Madiron and Dearborn-sta., Chlcago, fil, Orders for the deitrery of Tig TRinuxzat Evanston, Englewoord, liyde Park leftn the counting-room il recelve prompe attention, AMUS McVieker's Thentre, Madiron stre between Efate and Dearborn. **Pink Dominos Mesdames Don, Etoneall, Granam, ete.t Messre. Wheelock, Learock, Pearson, cte, Af- ternoon and crentng, ‘Hooley’s Thentre. Tandoiph retreer, between Clark apd LaSalte. The Evangrline Combioation, ** Conrad the Coreafr.* Meadamea Weatlicrshy, Clancy, ete.s Messrs, Goodwin, Ro.ne, ete. Afternoon and evening, ENTS. " Hnverly’s Thentre, Monrne rireer, corner af Desrborn. FEagagement of Rato Flaher. *Mazeppa.” Afieroon and evening. ., Coliscum Novelty Thentro, Clark sireet, hetween Washington sod Randolph ‘*Our Workingmen,* New Chieago Thentre: Clark treet, opposite tha Shermen House. Engage- ment of Campbell Comedy Company. **The Virgin- fans.” Aftcrnoon and evening. MeCormick 1all. Northi Clark atreet, corner Kinzle. Concert hy the Gwedlsh Lady Quartette. Afternoon and evening. ———— SOCIETY MEETINGS, LB WARREN LODAF, ¥0.208 A,F.& A, 3, ~Tieg ular communicition this (naturday) evening at haife Fliore weicoms. by GRICE o R NN 4 ey - TN, DOSLOF, gecretary, e —— L BATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1877. CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY, The Chicazo produce markets were rather more active yesterday. Mess pork closed 10@12Y¢ por brllower, at S12.524@12.65 for November or Jannal Lard closcd 2i5c per 100 1bs lower, ot £8.0714QE. 10 cash and $3.05@8.073; fordan. sary. Jleats were casfer, at 353¢ for loose shoul- dera and tidic for doshort rite. Lake freighls wera Juict and firmer, at 8%@33%c for corn to’ Huflalo, Whisky was dull and unchanged, at 81,05t per pallon. Flour wan firm, Wheat closed firm, at £1.002; cach and 1,004 for November. Corn closed 71ic higler, at 44Yc cash and 4334¢ for No- ber. Oats ciosed firm, at 24%5c cashand 25igc vember. Rye'was 3jc higher, &t 5dc. Darley d L@1c lower, at 63t5c cashand 50l§c for e were in falr demand and without fuotuble change, clostng weak At $4.00D4,00, Cattie were dull and hieavy, with saled of inferlor tocatrant & 26, Sheep wero salable, nt $1.0074. 12 zives tho viniblo supply last 3 bu wheat and 8,650,843 Bu corn, ports from tho reabosra laat wweek Ine claded 57,000 bu wheat and 1,080,000 ta torn. Afloat on New York canals, 1,412,000 bn wheat and 1,729,000 bu corn. Inspected into eiora w this city yeatorday moerming: 217 cars vhweat, 108 cars and 5,000 b corn, 35 cars and 8,600 b 01ta, G cars and 1,500 bu rye, and 71 cars barles. Total (404 cars), 200,C03 bu, One hnndred collacyin gold would buy §102,%5 In grecnbacks ot the close, T me—— Greenbacks at the' Now York Stock Ex- change yesterdny closed at 97, ‘T'he urguments ou the motion to dissolvo the injunction In the case of tho West Park Commissioners wero yesterday coucluded, aud tho cise taken under advisement Ly Judge Moore. e —— A decision of the Supremoe Court of TNl nois, which we print this worning, will be rend with foterest by parties dealing in op- tioun, selling short, buying long, nad en- gaged in other pastimes peculiar to the Bonrd of Trade. It is an aathoritative an. - nouncement of what is not in cortraveution of the statute concerning illoga! transactions in tho naturo of gambling. T'ho Boanl of South Pagk Commissioners aro in o’ terriblo snarl, and charges nnd counter-charges aro flung around with o recklessnesa thot promises to enlighten the public more effoctually than a whole Yyear's ofiinl investigation could do, It is with this view that o codsidersblo spaco in this issuo is devoted to tho spirited contro. versy carried on at yostorday's meoting of the Bourd by Commissionérs Swwar and Moroax. . W "The freshwater mariners who frequont the Port of Chicago Liave sufferod within o week tho rigors of two storms of almost un. paralleled woverity and duration. ‘The furioun gale of Sunday last wuy more than * duplicated by the hurricane which Iashed Luke Michigan Thursday night and yestorday afteruoon, aud, although comparativoly fow sevious disusters to vessels or crows are re. ported among our extonded list of minor mishnps, the sailors and shipownors may well pray for deliverauce from another such a season of poril and excitement, e ————— . ‘I'he situntios ovua is Lelioved to be cxceeldingly eritical, As an evidenco that tho Russicn investmont is complete, it is ro. ported that mavy of the ‘Turkich soldlars, dospaning of relief, are deserting to oscape the many privations to which they have besu subjectod consequent upon the rapid deereass in tho nocessarles of life within the leleaguered city, The bosiogera are said to have establishod a system of fleld telograph rround tho wholo Turkish position, aud an attompt to cut thefr way oot at “any part of tho line by Oswax Pasha's forces wou!d be made known to tho Russians jm. medistely, and the Rreatened point be rein. forced in tho shortest.order, It is hardly possible that tho army uudor Ouzveer Pasha, 10w said to bo moving to the relief of the Lemmed-in garrisou, will be able to effect its object, o 1t must encounter before reach. ing Plevna several Rusaian forces superior in unmbors aud strongly futrenched, [ it e loug succession of ‘Lurkish defeats both in Europe and Asia, the great pablio has beon daily growing wwore and wore impatient to Loar the after dinner speeck of soma one in England who siiould be qualified to speak Authoritatively upon tho views and intentions of her Majes- ty’s Governwent. In this expectation the world wus not to bs disappointed. The time Lus arrived, and tho occasion, the banquet of the Lnrd Mayor of London, hag Leeu propitious. Premier Dussaxes fs the oracle, and his interpretation of the eigus is wetical os vver, Ouve point in his spicech, however, stands out in clear velief, end that embodies tho oft-ropeeted nssertion thut ** English interests” will bo Jealonsly guurded, which is supposed to be a Lint to Kusdia thut the eye of the British Lionis upon the victorious Muscovites, and that the Tecont successes in Armenis have sent a chill along the spine of the British beast in ques- 00 ik fMl 2.50 w0 1.30 5.0 -1 number unquestionnbly 2,000 wero Repub- tion, Mr, Dsnarwt, after bestowing o fow words of praise on both the Turkish and Russian armies, closes with the prediction thiat tho timo is not far distant when Ene time is no further distant than the date when Turkey is thoronghly whipped and is ready to submit to n victor's terms. Until then England will probably find it conven. feut to content herself with occasional re. marks about the * interests,” violont enreer, the workingmen of this country, Tho vote in Mnssachusetts scems to have been a surpriso to Mr. Wevprry Prrtiars, who, thongh nn original Republican himself, in looking nbout this fall for Republican reverses, and mourns beenuse he finds so fow of them. Mr, PaiLres represents the Im. placables in Mnssachusotts. The strength of his party is perhaps fairly gauged in the 8,471 votes which ho received na tho Labor- Reform ecandidate for Governor. Of this out labor. Tustead of starve, that it might havo taken years to recover, The army wna tho friend of the workingman. 1t saved him from tho Communist, the thief, ond the cutthroat, licans, and the odd 471 may hava been Democtats, or may have been neutrals, In the samo mannor it is fair to clnssify 16,000 of tho Temperaucs voiers as originnl Ropub- licans, and the odd. 211 as Democrats. In #pito of the losses from thess dofections, Ricz has a plorality over Gaston of 15,000 It it bo true, as Ay, Drm, rrs- says, that the result is a sur- prire to everybody, and particulatly to o Ropublicans, the latter have so much the mora reason to congratulate themselves, They have recoived poplar approval of their platform, which is an uneqnivoenl doclara- tion in favor of the Administration, The election of Rice, under the circumstances, showa that the bold policy is the best ono as long s it remains honest, and that the pro. plo desiro Reform for themaelves moro than they do offices. vania, The latter ropresonts n turbulent, have no sympathies with onr institutions, contenta and maleontenta have n right to atop the wholo ULusiness of the country by and plundor, overturn the Inws, and place thirsty mob becauso thoy are dissatisfied with tho oxisting rolations of labor and eapi- tal. Thoy beliove nothing of the kind. ‘They nre playing the roles of demagoguos, and demngogies of such & malicious. and infamoua description that thoy are publie onemics, conspiring against the peaco and wellare of the country, It is mot possible that tho thres gront States of Kentucky, Pennsylvanin, and California indorse such o - conspiracy upon the part of their ropre- sentntives ngalnst the business of this coun- try and tho welfare of the people, and it will not bo to their credit if they do not im- prove tho first opportunily to repu. dinte it in torms of the deepest indignation, as the people of the whola conutry aro now doing, The conspiracy has been nipped in the Committee of the Whole, and the people will now walt with some im. patienco to ses whother these threo dema- gogues will bo able to force their infamous schemo through tho Ilouso upon the false and miserable pretense that tho army was emnployed to * shoot workingmen.” It is to tho credit of the Texns Democrats that thns far thoy have Interfered to save what littlo army wo have, and have indignantly taken fasue with tho demngogues. In viow of the services of the army lost summer, have not tho' Democrats of Maryland and West Vir- ginia, ns well as thoso of Pennsylvania, a similar daty to perform ? — The weakuessof party discipline among the members of tho Democratic majority in tho Honso was demonstrated yestordny in conucetion with the Army bill. Every nt- tempt to reduco’ the army below tho naxi- mum of 25,000 men was defeated by n solid Republican vote, nided by the entire Demo. oratio delegation from Texas and hero and there a Democrat who hnd independenco enough to voto according to his convictions. The defeat was doubly significant from the Inct that the House repudinted tho roport of tho Committeo on Appropriations, tho Com- mittee second in rank and importance, nud not even the congpicuous excreiso of Speaker Raxnawe's privilego of voting as n momber of theHouse with the enemies of thearmy served to solidify the Democratio ranks, It was tho first strictly partisan contest of the session, and the solid Sonth was not on hand with tho votes to carry n party monsure. Jor Brscanuny's shamoful proposition to redice the army to 15,000 men secured but forty. six nflirmative votes, and after o contest of two hours the Texns men succceded by n voto of 138 to 136 in striking out of the Ap- proprintion Commitieos roport the clause limiting the army to 20,000, Not one of the Democrats ropresonting constituencies whose proporty was saved from destruotion by tho mero prescnco of Federal troops with- out the fring of a khot bad a vota to give or n word to say in behalf of the gal'ant officers aud men who avorted a condition of affairs appalling to coutowplate. Republican voles nand -the votes of Domocrats from a Stato- continually threatened with Mexican incur. slons alone saved tho day. The Democrats nro left in tho uncomfortablo predicament of having attompted to carry an unpopular wensuro and failed 3 e ——— THE DUCTION, Tho, courso of Mr. Bracknuny of Ken- tucky, Alr. Wniout of Penusylvanin, Mr, Lurreern of Californin, and other Domo- cratio mombers of tho Houso of Represent- atives, with rcferenco to tho Army Appropri- ation bill, shows thom to be arrant dema- goguea of the smallest species. In tho de. bate on Thursday Mr, Bricxnoax gave o8 the roason for tho reduction of {ho army that he nnd his side were not in favor of em. ploying tho army to shoot down laborers, and with a bombastic flourish of trumpets an. nounced ba * would call for tue yeas and neys on the House amendment, so na to test thesenso of the Houso whother it would Ppropose to redress the wrongs of the impov- erished citizons of the country by an inerease of the military powor.” All this goes to sliow, a3 wo have sald, that Mr, Brackouny is a demngoguo of a very contomptible sort. As he makes tho uso of the army during tho recont Inbor-riots the protense for its reduc. tion, it will Lo necessary to considor the ro. Intions of tho two inorder to establish the clinrgo that ke is o demagogne, Assuming that Mr, Bracxnuny corroctly ropresents tho Democratic sentimont,—and thero was no dissent from his remarks on that side,—how is it that the first call for troopa during the riots came from the Gov. ernor of a Democratio State, that the sccond enll for troops came from the Governor of another Dewmocratio State, that the majority of calla' for the help of the rogular army camo f{rom Democrats, and that they colled louder, longer, and moro lustily than the Republicans did? After Laving called for the troops and used them, and after having cscaped from thelr dangers and savod their livos aud their property, can thero be any- thing mcaner, moro contemptible, more pusillanimons than to turn about and abuso the Land that rescued them, and seok to leg. islato out of existence the very army that hod come to thelr rescue, oven ot o time whon thesa very dema. BOgues wero refusing to pay what wod due them, But what did the army do in these riots that it should so suddenly incur the odium of these demagogues? The soldiers did not shoot any workingmen, They did not shoot any of the cuithroats, rowdies, and loafers who were comumitting doeds of vlolm}n, ‘Thoy did not fire o gun, They injured 1o one in person or in prop- orty, 'I'heir prasence alone was snflicient to quell violence and restore tho operation of the ‘law, The Communistic mobs eared uothing for the militia. In some cases the lntter fratornized with them, Whers they did not, the mob deliberately attacked and sometimes overpowered them, So long as they wore confronted only by militia, they burned, plundered, and killod, and did not ceasa their lawloss and vialent acts until the regular troops came upon the scene, and wherover and wheneyer thoy appesred, peaco and order were speedily reatored by the na. tional police, without the firing of & shot. ‘The recent labor riots were in no sonss the result of a conflict between the workingmen and their employers, Had such been the case, the publio would have looked on with some degreo of indifference uutil the con- flict was settled by arbitration or by the sur. render of one side orthe otlier. It was & fight against thoe whole community, It was a0 attempt on the part of the mob to throt. tle the whole business public, They tried to stop the transfer of frelght, the forwarding A PESSIMIST VIEW OF THE ELECTIONS. A pessimist view of things is not infre. quently suggested by personal digappoint. ment. It is tho habit of certaln minds to generalizo from individunl experience, nnd whenever this individual experionco happens to bo disagroeable, all other thinga loolt dark and dismal. A bad digostion is responmblo for n good deal of bad temper, and so the world looks gloomy, mankind seems inimical, and thoe future is foroboding to thoso who cherish and brood over a porsoual grief. ‘These reflections have been suggostod by the woful condition of the usually jocoss editor of the Burlington Jatokeye, 1lo is nn indi. vidual whoso merry humor seemed proof ngainst all tho trinls and tribulations of sub. lunary existonce. For somo yenrs ho las ovolved day after day the most preposterous of puus; he has strung out column after columnof the queerost adventures 3 he hos furnished his exchanges with atu to turn columns snd pad the paragrapha; ko has beon "the specinl delight of tho nows-cditors, and the® unfalliyg resource of the ‘‘porsonals” compil. ers, His stock of good nature scemod id- oxbaustible, nud rosisted all assanlts but one, Even tho Burlington Mawkeye man's don. Aomie vanished whon Mr, Dernrrs was ap- pointed Publio 'riuter in place of Mr, Crarr, Of course, the ofilce, Veing one and indivisf. ble, could not bo given ‘to the Huwkeye man whon Mr, Dzreers was soleetod, and honca these toaral- Ever since that unfortunate occurronce the Jlaickeye man's humor has bLeer 05 stulo a3 poor Yorick’s wes when Hamlet found his skull In tho gravoyard. A film hos come over thoss oyes which once looked so kindly upon tho world, and avery- thing political has gous to. the demnition Low-wows. As a specimon of his presont deplorable state of mnind, we quote tho fol. lowing paragraph anont the rocont elestions s It nay be profitable for Prestdent Haves to con- femptato the resulta of hls work as lajd be. foro him by the roturns this morning, . Ue bas dlsmombered tho parly that made bim Presldent. Mo Uss trampled upon the principles for which tho Topublican: ve con. tended for a scoro of vears, and lic naw sees In the defeats In New York, Now Jerscy, Delaware, Vir- ginia, and Pennsylvania the consequences of 3 do- sertion af principles for policy It it hadn't boen for the personal disap. polniment which the ffuwkeye mnn oxperi. enced, Lo would never havo regarded tho re. cent elections as an indication that President Haves has *dismcibered the Tepublican pasty,” becauso the fzots do not boar out the assertion, Had it not Yeen for the single blow that shattered the'good nature of tho erstwhile focular JZawkeye man, Lo would Lave been in condition to recognize the ob. vions fact that tho Itepublican party has not sullered in tho late election to anything like the extent it suffered under the Machine ¥ys- tem. In 1874 there was a President who re- sponded to the demnuds of the Implacables, Tho Machine at that time was running smoothly and with steam all on, The army was employed almost oxclusively in patroi. liug the Southern States. The officeholders wore ruuning the caucuses, couventions, and campaigos. It is not out of place, there. fore, to recall tho result of Machine nanage. ment in that year, Among the Southern States, Alabama, Ar. kansas, Delaware, and North Oarolina were lost to the Republicans. Alabama, which bad given & Ropublican majority of 6,197 in 1872, went, Democratic in 1874 by a majority of 113,100, Arkansas, which had been Re- publican by 8,140 in 1872, became Demo- cratic in 1874 by 10,863, the majority for tho Democrats in the latter yeor being almost equal to the entiro Republican vote. The Republicans carried Delaware in 1872 by.010 aud lost it fn 1674 by 1,220, North Carolina went Ropublican by 1,899 in 1872, but Dem. ocratio by 14,136 in 1874, Aud Mississippi, which had given a Hepublican wmsjority of 84.725, was abandoned o the Democrats jn of tho exchanges of the country, the travel of the people, the moving of the crops, and the industries of tho mills and factories. They not only indnced tho idlo and discon- gland, with the other Powers, may | tented to join them, but they compelled those mako nn effort to patch up n | who were contented and wanted to work to penca between the belligeronts. Tho | quit. Tt was this class of mon whom tho regular army met and persuaded to atop their In go doing, the army saved Hod this mob continued its work of killing and burn- ing n short time longor, the Lusiness of tha conntry wonld lhave boen wrecked and the workingmen would have been with- commoncing, the winter with the prosvect of omploy- ment, they wonld have been idle and their {familiea would have been left to beg or The industrial interests of tha coun- {ry would Liave been so complotely parlyzed The demngogues who have engineered this infamons aud contemptible onslaught against the nrmy are Lurrrewy of Californin, Briox. suny of Kentucky, and Wrionr of Ponnsyl- violent, un-American constituency. They and their only resort, when thelr domands avo not-met, is murder and destruction throngh tha various agencics of Molly 3a- guirism and othor oath.bound orders, It wonld bs uscless to nsk these three dema- gogues if they aro sincers in their protesta- tions, or if thoy beliove that a crowd of dis- blocking up its thoroughfares, to slaughter the whole public at the mercy of n blood. "Prosidentinl majority, in 1874, thirds of the Longressional delegation, In elected two-thirds of the *Congressmen. Ohio gava a Ropublican majority of 34,268 in 1872, but the Democrata earried it by 17,202 in 1874, In Colorado n Republican majority of 1,330 was changed in 1874 to n Demceratic majority of 2,163, Californin wns Republic- anin 1872by n majority of 13,102, but the Domocrats swopt the State in 1875 by 80,000 majority, Thus 1t will be seon that in 1874, when thero wero moro goneral Btato elections than thore wero last Tuosday, and when a new Congress was choson, the Machine and Bloody-Shirt manngemont lost the Repub- lican party twelve or thirteen Btates, and permitted tha Democrats to clect tho Con- grosa by about 100 mafority, though they had previonsly boen abont that much in tho minority, The revolution was so sweeping that it was accepted ns a popular protest ngainst tho Machine fn politics, and it was all that the better element of tho party could do to rotriove the disnster in time to save tho clection two yenrs Iater. Having dono this, the very same Im. placable and Machine politictans, who precipitated the disaster in 1874, take tho fimt opportunity to . embarrnss tho porty under its new managoment, All tho defent of tho presont year which the Re- publican party has to doplore is due to tho malice of those who, brought. on the more overwhelming defeats of 1874, when they were in full power and ran the Machino to suit themselves; but thoir spitahas still boon impotont to strike as hard n blow to the party as they struck it when tho party was forced to submit to their dictation end abuses, And oll this would bave been thought of by tho Jawkeys man if ho had been in his usually jocular frame of mind; and he would have onjoyed that customary jocose beati- tude, which had come to bo so much admired anfl envied, if Drynres had,uot been seloct- ed as Public Printer. — TAXATION OF BANK DEPOSITS. The Commissioner of Internal Rovenuo has rocontly mado o decision to the eflect that the late savings banks of Clicago—the Btate, Fidelity, and Morchants!, Farmers', & Meohanies'—were not legally recog- nizod na savings bauks by the laws of Il nois, and thereforo wero not cxempt from taxation under tho act of Congress cxompt. ing tho doposits of savinga Institutions, It this decision bo maintained, the Government demand for tax on doposits, covering sovoral years, will absorb s large portlon of tho Basots of theso broken banks, - We notico that Jndge Davis, Benator from 1llinois, has proposed a bitl in the Bonato to moot this rovenuo decision by exompting or releasing {from this tax the doposits in those bankrupt institutions, This mattor leads directly to the consid. oration of the justice or wisdom of taxing the deposits in banksof any kind. The de- posits in thesn savings banks are the savingy of labor; they represent tho temperance, frugality, and self-denial of the depositors. Take tho onse of two persons earning tho same dally, weekly, or monthly ‘wages, and having tho samb ordinary cxponditures, In the courne of two ycara the one man, by his frugality and thritt, saves 500, while the. other, spending all his Income for prosent. onjoymonts, saves notling. The Govern. mont lavies n tax on the savings, and thus imposos o penalty on temperanco, thrift, and aelf-denlal, It pursnes the man who avoids wasto and bed habits, and lets the mnn who spends his monoy in dissipation go froo, The deposits in other banks are maluly of a similar class, 'The men who are engaged in business dopoelt thelr cash in bonk for safo keoping, instesd of placing it in thelr safos. Tho monoy fa subject to call, ‘and varios daily and hourly, It rarely representa sccumulation ; 1t Is tho ordinary money needed from day to day In current busincas, Tho deposits represent the cash balaucos which the depositors have from day to day, and substantially are in no seuse capital drawing interest ; on tho contrary, they are ofton the procecds of notes discounted on which intorest is pald. The oggregato of these deposits in tho United Siates is very large, ‘I'ho mvings doposita aggregato about $1,000,000,000, the National Innks $700,- 000,000, and of private and State banks pot- haps £300,000,600, mnking a total of money under tho name of doposita of $2,000,000,- 000. Why should this money be taxed by the Fedoral Government ¥ The injustice of taxing deposita in savings bauks, or in cer. tain classes of thom, Is recognized by the exemption under an act of Congroesa of such deposits. Why should other de. posits be taxed any more than the deposits in savings banks? ‘Tho savings deposits aro tho accumulated savings of persons of small means; thoy are placed fu bank and prac- Heally jnvestod at intorcat for the profit of the depositors. ‘The earaings of the moncy are compounded with the principal, The monoy ls supposed’ ‘to be safely and profitably iuvested for the bonefit of tho dopositors. The other class of deposits, as a genoral thing, do not bear faterest. - They canuot be sald to be invested; they are placed in bank for convealenco and safo keeping. Wy should they ba taxed by the Goverument?” It is claimed that monoy in bank is “ property,” aud that all property should be toxed. It isnot suy wore prop- erty whon placed in a bauk for safe koep- iug Wan if retained in the bandsof the owners, in which case it js not taxod. The fact that 500 men place theis current chang- ing balance of cash in the samo vault does not increase the amount of uroperty, If the cash be retained 1875, aud (bey carried the Btato by 30,147 Among the Eastorn and Northern States, Connecticut went Democratio in 1874 by 4,960, thongh the Republican ' majority in 1872 wna 4,218, Massachusctts, which gavo 74,212 Ropublican majority in 1872, gave n Democratic mnjority of over 7,000 in 1874, New Hampshire, which had been Republican by 5,442, was carried by the Democrats in 1874 by a majfority of 1,465. The Domo- ornts carrled New York Iast fall by 82,742, while this year their majority §s reduced to about 18,000, ‘ Ponnsylvania, whero the rog- ular Repnblican majority had previously been ovor 70,000, wna carried by the Demo- crata in 1874 by 4,670, electing n Licutenant. Governor. « In New Jersey the Republicans wors 14,810 in the majority in 1872, and the Democrats carricd the State by 13,233 Among tho Western States, Wisconsin had voted Republican by 18,675 in 1872, and in 1874 the Democerats succeeded in electing their entiro tickot cxcopt their candidate for Governor. Illinois voted Republican in 1872 by 56,478 majority, but in 1874 the Repub- licans wero defeatod by over 110,000, and the Democrats elected tho Legislaturo and two. 1872 the Democrats of Indiana barely suc- ceeded in clecting Henpnices, but lost the remainder of their ticket, whilo in 1874 they carried tho State by 17,252 majority and by each depositor in his own aafo, Govern- mont does-not pretend to tax it. Tt wonld be impossiblo for n man in ordinary business {0 mnka returns of his cash on hand, beeauso the sum varios from day to day,~ia a Iargo sum one day, and a amall sum, or none, the noxt, Why should 500 men be taxed by the Federal Govornment in bulk for that which the individunl owners would not be taxed if the property was held by them separately? The deposita in banks, it property, and as such taxable, ara tho property of the depos., itars, subject to withdrawal without notico ond on demand. The banke aro merely the custodinns of the money. If thoy loan any of it, they do it at thoir own risk or peril. The tax, howover, fa levied on the banks, Thoy aro treated for the purpose of Fedoral taxation ng the ownera of the money deposit- od with them for safo keeping, It may ba trno the banks collect this tax from persona o whom they loan money by an incronsed rato of interest oxncted from them, but whother they loan the monoy or keep it in thelr vaulls, they have to pay Governmont tax on the deposits, which depositd may be withdrawn at any time by the owners, If deposits in banks may bo classed ns proper subjects of {nxation, the deposits in savings banks havo mora ot the characterof an invest- ment for profit, nnd have a degreo of perma- noncy which docs not pertnin to daposits in other banks, If it wero n quostion of Stato tnxation, nll deposits wonld bo trented nlike. Dt tho States cannot tax greenbacks, which fro oxempt, by’ declsion of the Bupreme Court, tho snme as Fedoral bonds; and the Stato Asscssors nover protend to list the sums in savings banks for taxation, ner in nuy other banks, Tho injustico of taxing savings deposits by tho Federal Government i confessod and contoded by the exemption of savings de- posits from Fedornl taxation, The oxemp- tion of savings deposits 18 so just and proper that no rational man can objeet to 1t; but there s no reson in tho world why ono clnss of transient deposits should bo taxed and not all. Congress, in logislating on this subject, cannot persist in continning the tax on bank doposits and discriminate botween thoso in savings banks and those in all other banks. Tho cxomption of savings banks fs on admission that tho whole business of tax. ing transiont, changing doposita is unjust in principlo as well as in practice, and that such n tax, whorever it exists, should be abolished, S —— DIPLOMATIO DINNER.GIVING, Mr. Hesny L. Sanpronv has beon nomi- nated a8 United States Minister to Belgium for the truly good rensonthat ho fsnn accom. plished giver and taker of dinners. This country hns long beon ealling for just such men in the principal Cnpitals of Europo, and occosionally mourning becausa it Las found thom not. As tho dispatches of yestorday state with benuty and force, ** The dinning-out qualities are eminently to be desirod in a diplomatio capaclly, and Sasp. Fonp, who has used thom once to the profit of tho Government, may bo ablo to uso them agoin.” Wa do not know whother Sawnp- roRp is In othor respocts fit for the position to which ho has been appointed. Thero are sarious rumors nffecting his integrity, Itis suid that ko *“stood in,” or desired to stand in, with au sgent of our Government rent abrond. to purchase Delgian arms. This rumor may or may not bo true. It mny or mny not account for tho grent woalth which Mr. Sanoronn is snid to havo amassed, It may or may not be an atroclous calumny, For the purposes of the presont investigation the story is worthless, Tho question that now risea to (he surface, and will not down, is this: * What knowledgo is of most worth in the diplomatio service 7" Assuredly, tho knowledgo of the art of dining-out,—using tho phrase in the Lroad 8onse as applying to thoso who give dinners 03 well as to thoso who eat them, If diplo- minoy ia to be understood ns the sclence of overreaching nations,—n deflnition which has not beon disputed by any of the loxicog- raphers,—it cau employ no agent more dextrous than good food and wine, - When tho appeal is to tho stomach, tho most sugacions brain cannot withstand it. The gentlo exhilavation of old sherry and port, tho tickling sensationof crisp goosc-flesk, and tho glamour which fominine chorms apresd over n table may overcome tho most Incorruptible Foreign Minister. Thoso who discusssublimo pates, na DesBeringhen well pointa out, have not the time to discuss sublimo questiona of State, Thoy have just time enough to scttle anch questions without discussing them. ‘This Is often an {mportant point to the For. olgn Minister, and Mr. Saxpronp does not overrato his morits whon Lo saya that, as the greatest dinner-giver In tho world, ho is slso the groateat npster of finesse, o can por- suade and convinco by ten coursesand twelve kinds of wino men who would resist with Spartan firmness the blandishments of elo. «quenco or any form of coarser bribory, Sr, Antuony's temptations wero Incompleto without a dinner-party, ‘The qualifications of the now Minister to Belgium for tho position are attested by the means which procured It for him, Ho dined and wined himeelf into it. A slandorous correspondent hias sald that the route of our army on the plainy, in a serlous chase aftor the Indians, cau be mnarked by the cham. pogoe bottles left behind, This is more nearly truo of Mr. Saxpronn's perogrinations about the balls and lobbies of the Ospitol, Iis iuvitations have been in every bousd and his dinmers o every mouth. Ile organized a rald on the gustrio juicos of tho Administration which lins o parallel fn all bistory, 1lo conquered at last. ;the Government was weakened, and, ina fit of melancholy, resolved rather to get Baxnronp out of the country than to sacrifico its own constitution in so bad & causo, Perliaps thero was a feeling abroad, wnreover, that thero was nothing of impor. tanco to do in Belgimn excopt to give din- nersand to take them; and for this pur. pose, everybody agreod, Banprozn was the man of all others whom the country would delight to honor, . L — There was citber an orror in the ssertion that a difforential tax of 50 centa on the ton- nsga of Bpauish vessels in Awerican ports had been. orderod by the Government, or if thero was such an order it was almost in- stantly revoked on representations of the 8panish outhurities that Spain doos not im. poso difforential dulics on American vessels, Novertheless, a recont issue of tho Now York Journal of Commercs charges that American vesscls are burdened with monstrous taxes aud exactions in Spanish ports. It has the sasurance of a rosponsible shipping firm that American veswls pay & tax of $1.95 per ton in Cuban ports, besides war-taxes and Cou- sul's fees. In all the porta of Spain thero is & fonoags tax of 60 cents golng in aud 40 cents coming out ‘ou the tonusge carried, which is usually from 150 to 800 tons in excess of tha registered tonoage, Besides this goneral tax there are ' cortaln local taxes in diffrent ports. Iu Malsgs, for instanco, s special tax of 40 cenis a ton is lovied to poy “mund.diggers’ dnes” In Sevillo and Barcolons, thero is a specinl tax of 40 centa n ton, which npplies on the con- stritetion of o now mole, and soon, If theso charges bo nctunlly -mnde on American ves aels, there in reason to think thoy are dif- ferential, because wo do not believe England would submit to them, " It {sa mattor that Congress ought to investigate at once. Our commerclal relations with Spain have long demanded a revision, and thore is no better timo than the presont to makeit. Wa are inclined to think that. the apecdiest way to bring Spain o terms is to adopt rotalintory mensures if tho S8panish Government refnses to ngreo upon n fair basis of commeraial comity; at all ovents, tho whola subject shonld bo gone over thoroughly, setling out with a determination to demand of Spain as favorable terms as aro given to any other na. tion in trading with Cnba and Porto Rico, COMMERCE WITH COREA. Tumors of war with and about Coren have been wafted ncross the Pnoifio Ocean ot odd times during the past half-<dozon yoars, and yot fow persons know more of this straugo country thnt China and Japan have beon struggling for than I sot down in the maps. It {s a valuablo possession. On oneside of it flows the Yellow 8ca, and on the other the 8en of Jnpan. It is a peninsula, having an extreme length of 600 miles, and n brondth in the narrowest part of 130 miles; on the north, beyond the peninsula propor, it meas- ures about 260 miles in width, It is a mountainous country, covered in many parta with Inrgo forests. The population is in the neighborhood of 5,000,000, and is supposed to bo gradunlly decreasing, Ita chiof pro- duclions are rice, silk of an infe- rior qmality, good colton - and linon cloths, sking, millet, papor, poitery, and porcelain, drugs, including ginseng, 0 black variety of tobacco, the oil of goma, fish of vartons kinds, nnd, what is uncom. mon in the far East, good beof and pork, The mineral resources of the Kingdom, which dre belioved to bo rich, are thua far undeveloped in consequence of the indiffer. enco of tho paoplo to wealth of this descrip- tion, Iron has, howover, been mined in considerablo quantities, ond gold-dust is font annually by embussy to the Emperor of Chinn, ‘Tho people have a contempt for tho precious motals, and never wenr jowelry or ornamonts, An intoresting nrticle on Corea by Mr, Cnanres Lasaay, which appears in a recont issue of the New York Post, and which we have briefly opitomized nbove, curionsly fnlls to notico tho early history of this strange conntry, Binco 1393 it has been vir- tunlly n dopendency of China, having then adopted the Chincse chronology; but its ruler satisfles his suzorain by o tribnte, and remnins within his dominlons absolnte, In the Intter part of the sixteonth contury Coren carried on nn exhausting war with Japan, and was overrun by an army of horsemen from that Empire. Sinco 1638 it has beon At peaco both with China and Japan until the recent complications arose betwoen those conntries in connection with tho great Coroan question, In 1870, it will bo re. mombored, the American Admiral Ropoens was near gettling the Corean diffficulty once for all by n vigorons bLombardment of the principal port, but he was obliged for diplo. matio reasons to withdraw. In 1870 Japan obtained the trade concessions sho hind so long contended for, and within two or threo months hoa nogotiated o second troaty by which tho Corean Government is bound to treat with Lkindness foroign eailors shipwrecked on the coast of that coun- try. Mr. Laxaan notices nlso that Coren for tho flrst timo in its Illlwry’ has this yonr sanctionod a national industrinl* exhibition, to which the goods of Japan only, of all forcign nations, aro admitted. This ciroum. stanca indicotes a still greator leaning of Coren towards tho liberal and progressive policy of Japan, and something akin to re. volt against the non-iutercourse system of China, i The oconomical history of Coren is the best illustration the world affords of the Protection Pollcy enrried to ita logieal conclusions. - Until 1876 it wna the only country on the globu cut off from com- maunication with the outslde world, All the overturcs of Jnpan wore rojocted, aud no str.ugor was permitted to penetrate the in. torior. Cbina is walled off by a belt of land uniuhabited and uacultivated, forty miles in width. ‘This land, although the richest in the whole domiuion, js kept a Pperpetual desert to provent tha encroachments of the Chineso. **Upon the Chinese line of this #pnce, and forty miles from the Corean boundary,” writes Mr. Lanaay, * stands a little village called the ¢ Border Goto," which contains the only opening through which communication is permitted between the two countries, This opening in in tho contral compartment of a small house, which is oceupied by the customs officials of both nationalitics, the Coreans residing at ono end and the Ohinose at the other, with an castern and western door. These aro oponed only four tinies a year, when they romain unclosed, for traffio, for a total pe- riod of ten weeks, the keoper of these doors belng n Chinaman, who recelves salary of 400 taely from the Corean Govern. ment, Itisthrough thisgate thattho annnal embassy from Corea to Peking ia obliged to pass.” Wae have beon unablo to learn that the Protection Policy ns thus brought to per- fection hasproved beneficial to Corea. On the contrary, the populution is decreasing, the wealth of the country lics idlo, and fhe nation will bo at tho meroy of overy strong aud unscrupulous power that, with better arms and cquipment, may seek to overrun it, ‘The facts have at Jast made an impression even upon the dense ignorance of the Corean QGovernment, and {ts firat step in the direc. tion of a more enlightened rule having been takon, it will find the subsequent ones easy enough, Perhaps by the time it overtakes the United States, Protection will have been abandoned by the common consent of the clvilized world, and both countries will enter upon & period of Free ‘Irade, or Rovenue Trade, together. = Tho New York Times has propsred the following List of the vote by States in tho Houso on tha ljfl,n question, to show * how overwhelming is tho strength of the silver inflationlsts ';.x e Naine....... 2% 879 New Uampabirg 0 10 0 Yermont....... 0 16 0 0 11 1 [ 3 [ i : i L5 . 8 0 0 7 0 . ok 3 1 8 3 [ 3 1 [ i 34 4 1 [ (] 1 [ 18 —_— - a 63 34 ‘We have beon labonng with ow York Times for adong period to make it compre- hend the * overwhelming strength silver-romonatization sentimont in th, try. Wa have nssured it that the 1, Bouth were practically units in p, tho restoration of the sliver dollar, in vain; nothing except the eall of ¢ and noes {n the popular branch of G conld open its eyes. The Times m: bo considered convinced that tho a of tho silver dollar are noither Of the 0 conp- cat ang chalf of Bt 1) ha nyey Ongresy 0y now dvocatey fow nop far botween, It has goan that e solid deleyations of every Western Stato, ) beginning with Ohlo and extending ¢, Kanaas, with two slight oxcoptions, yoteq for' the unconditional roplacemont of the legal-tender silver 'dulln,—m:higm and Missonri. Theformer gave two and the Iatter one negative vote. It is trne thero Wera many dodgors,—men who had not the cour. ago of their wnv]ullonu,-nnlnbly in Now York, Ponnsylvania, and Now England 5 bot it they do go on the record most of themwiy record affirmative votes. The Bonth showy upalmost as * solid " as the West One ¥a in Georgis, two in Loulsinng, one in Tezas, aud oo fn Maryland,—five in all, Like Cflp(_’ Boorr's eson, the monometallists may ag wel] olimb down without waiting to ba shot, — LATIN 0STON, Advocates of culture in Boston are divideq by o great moral question that Las fallen dfon them with all the woight and swify execution of a meat-ax. Half the abje, bodled ‘ population and somo students of Sanserit have potitioned the School Commit. teo to throw open the famous olg Latin Bchool to girls; the other half, mostly mady up of bone and stnew and old fogies, opposs the humble prayer of the petitioners, The morits of the question are as many and ag respoctablo na the speakors on eithor side; but wo look in vain through threo mortal columns of tho Adcertiser for n conciso state. ment of the wholo case that will commend itsolf to Westorn readers. Thotgh 8o much haa been sald, and so well snid, thero iy 1nst word to be spoken on bohalf of the im. partial spectators ; and, in default of mors cloquent orator, Tue Trmuxz is disposed to riso to tho height of tho argument. Through some pingular oversight, nobody has thys {ar noticed the inconsistency of tonching Boston girls, who nre essentlally of Grecian origin, tha depraved Roman tongue, Boston is not tha modern Romo, but the modern Athens; its daughters do not nsa in ordinary convorsation the Latin, but tho Greek; they aro not torn up in their minds by thoughis of Lucneor and Oarenuasia ‘but by tender recolleotions of Penrcres and Aseasta, Chj. eago is 8 Western city, to bo sure, nud not up fn all the departments of cnlture, bat, ovon in this barbarous region, Greck is the montal food of tho women. When parallels aro wanted in literature or art, Greciau his. tory is ransacked for them; when busts ara to bo presonted, Greelan bards and Macedo- ninn reviewers supply the subjecta; and, for ngood articlo of weak ten, nothing thus far hns been found to surpass tho incomparable ambrosia of Olympus. While this is the state of advaucoment in tho West, it would be unscomly, ‘we think, for Boston, the sourca of this revival of lcarning, to rolapso into tho rudo and uncouth figures of Roman mythology, or to be eatisfled with the comparatively useful Iangungo of anclent Rome. Progress should be 1n the dircction of the difficult, tho oh. scure, and tho ornamental, not towards that which ja easy of access, and, for etymo- logical purposes, of the greatest valuo, Another objection tfo_transforming tho women of Boston into Latins is tho probabls injury to tho morals of the rising goueration, There can bo no question that Rome was in ita day more Mcontious than Athous,’ Latin literatare fs in this respoot more open to consure than Greofan, and Latin precedents aro the more injurious. Tha Roman women wero much given to gossip, and had more respoct for their husbands than ought to have charactorized them. Thoy wero avow. edly fond of the stern virtues, and often powerful in exercising them. They had also tomo of the domestic affections, and were particularly weak in loving their chil. dren. .This human failing, it is al most unnocessary to say, must bLe excluded from any liberal nud compre. honzive schemo of education for American women, The fundamental principles of to- sex-in-education requiro that there sball bp o unjust discrimination botweon parents In the care of offapring or in the performance of ordinary houschold dutles, If this posi. tion be once occupied and tenaclously nd- hered to, tho argument of * spocialized {functions " onunciated by President Ponrzs {alls to the ground. Ho assumed—it would bo disrespeetful to say that tho mssumption i crazy—thot the sexes bhave differcnt capacities and differcnt alms in life; and that thoy should be so educated as to de- velop the poouliar qualitics of onch, If we can onco agreo that the aims in life shall bo the same, it will Lo comparatively an casy watter to rearrange tho onpasities, Tho dootrine of evolution, if it proves anything, proves that womon have beendwarfed in their mental growth by a loug précess of cruelty, Whon once tho preesurs in the dircction of housohold duties is removed, woman will ex- pand aud blossom fn Greek roots aud co- tangentsas naturally as man does, The Bub-Committeo that.hes soized this subjeot takes too broad a view of it. * The petition docs not contemplate or demand ab- soluto co-education, but the extonsion of the privilegos of the Latin Bchaol to girls, either separately or in mixed clasacs, as may bo ex+ pedient and conventent. The Boston fathers stand on their reserved rights as taxpayers, and demand that their girls shall Lave tho same privileges as tholr boys. What they would say to thé arguments of taxpayers who have neither girlsnor boya is still an un- ulterable thystery, » Their logio may be faulty, but their intentiona are right, They see that their girls are growing up in howl- ing iguorance of theclassics and mathematics, while they are slowly but surely imbibing & dangerous knowledgo of cooking, plain sowing, and rocking the cradle, 'Fhoy feel that a stand should be made, The heroism of the old Roman fathers is now required to overthrow the established order of things. But on that account the old Romsu daugh- ters nmeed not have affairs their own way. Grecian calture has flourished too long to ba uprgpted in n day, and we at least shall be opposad to turag it out to grass without & longgr trisl. Boston girls do not meed hlfir; they meed Greek. They ought nob to 'be sent to'the Latin Bchool, which avowedly makes Greek & subordinate branch of study, but to a Grecian school, which shall put Latin in the second place. 1f the Doston sgitators shall demand the estabilishment of & Grecian school, aud the compulsory & tendanco of all girls between the ages of 15 aad 45 upon its ministrations, they will bavo the sympathy of every enlightened educator in the country, ——r—r— The Hon. Cuariss B. Faxwstl, tn the Re publican Couuty Commitiee, magvanimously suumed all the blamo aud respomalblity for D