Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 28, 1877, Page 4

L} “The Tribmre, TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. TY MAIL—AN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE PREPAID, aily Fditlon, one year, (0 ATt & yese bey moni 100 Eunda At mitie siie .50 stuniny Edition, twelve page: AN 71 Weekly, one year. .40 Furteof avear, per mo ft WEEKLY EDITION, One copy, per year, Qub of four... Bpecimen coplesgent iree. Give Post-Ofhce sddress [n full, Includiog State snd County. Remittances may bo made either by draft, cxpross, Tuet-OMce order, or in registered istters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY BURSCRIBENS. s Tatly, delivered, Bunday excented, 43 centa per week. Latly, delivered, Eunday Included, 20 cents per week. Adures THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Comner Madieon and Dearborn-ata.. Chicaxo, 11l Orders for the dellveryof Ttz TRiBUX st Evanston, Englewood, and liyde Park left In tha couutlog-rvom wilizecelve prompt attentlon TAMUSI * McVickor’s Theatrn. Madison strect, betwmeen State snd gDearborn. **Lillfan, or Woman's Last Love.,* Mesdamus Don, Broneall, ctc.t Mesrs. Wheelock, Learock, ete. Hoaley's Thentre, Tandoiph street, between Clark and 1.aSalle, **8truck OIL.* Mesdames Moore, Bmith, cte, s Mersrs, Moore, Sullivan, cte. Tinveriy's Thentre, Mouroe street, corner of Dearbarn, **The Danites.” Mesdames Dianclard, Gotdthwaite, etc.t Mesars, Rans "Xz, Aldrich, etc. Afternoon sad evening. Collseum Nuvelty Theatre, CIArk strect, between Handolph and Washiogton. Varlety performance, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877. CHIOAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicago produce markets wero rather loss active yesterday, and generally casler. Mess pork closed 1iic per brl lower, at 811. ash and $11.05 @11.974 for January. Lard closcd easier,at$7.00 per 100 mscash and $7.82)4@7.85 for Jannary. Meata wers steadler, nt 5¢ for hoxed shoulders and G¢c for doshortribs. Lake freights wera yulet, at 4c for corn to Duffalo, Whiaky was quoted at $1.00 per gallon, Flour was more active. Wheat closed 1!4G22¢ Jower, at 81,004 for November and $1.07% for December. Corn closed 3@ 1¢ Tower, at 48t4c for November and 42%¢ for December, Oata closed qulet, at 20!4¢ cash and 23%c for December, Tiye was duil, at60c. Barloy closed easler, at 6244¢ for Derswber, and 62Y4¢ for Janu- ary. ilogs wero nctive and 10¢ highor early, but closed quiet, with 5ic of the advance lost. Sales chiefly at $4.35@4.45. Caitle wero quict and weak, with eales ot $1.76@5.10. Sheop were steady, ot $2.75%4,00. Inwtora in this city last Satarday evening: 517,232 bu wheat, 204,850 bt corn, 84,104 b oats, 61,680 b rye, and 546,414 ‘bu barley, Total, 1,502,274 bu, Wheat In Ml ‘wankee, 263,463 du. Corn In Feorla, 12,10 bu; do oats, 4,467 bu. In'sight last Satanlay : 11,002,095 bo whent, 7,704,170 bu corn. In- spected [nto atore in this city yesterday morming: 230 cara whoat, 447 cars corn, 51 cara oats, 10 care rye, and i+ cars barloy. ‘Total (807 cars), 317,000 bu. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $103.00 In greenbacka at the clogo. ——— Greonbacks at tho New York Stock Ex- «<chango closed yesterdny at 074, —_— 'Tho old Boanl of Erio Directors, composed of mombers who favor Receiver JEwETT's ‘management, wns ro-cleeted in Now York yestorday. Tho opposition, representing tho Stcxres-McHexny party, about which so much has boen predicted lately, mnado n vory fecblo showing, Tha position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury hne been tenderod to nud accopted by tho Hon. Joms DI, Hawrey, of Rock Tsland, Il Mr. Ilawrey roprosented the 8ixth District in Congress for thrco succese sivo terms commencing with 18¢9. Binco hix retiroment in 1875 lio has boon engaged in the practico of law., Tho Senato slege reached n curions and grotesque phase yesterday when Mr. Bruce, the colored Senator from Miasisaippl, stood up and gravely announced that ho had paired with Conoyzn! No fact or circumstauce hns go forcibly illuatrated tho tremchery of the Florida renoegade. Himsolf elocted and koptin offico by the votes of colored men it needed ouly that Senntor Bruck shonld be his “pair" to complote the contrast and demonstrate to the full the former's apos- tacy. Benntor , of Illinols, has not yot voted for the seating of Iamburg Burwer, though hoe sided with tho Démocrats in the move fo bring tho case to an Immedlato sot- tlement, aud it fa quite possible that the Democrats will connt in vain upon Lis help when it comes to the question of Jetermin. ing who iy the lawfully-clected Sonatdr from Bouth Carolina, Judge Davis han announced hisintontion todoliver a speech on the merits of the BurLen-Connix contest, and the im- prossion prevails among the Ropublicans thut he will tako the ground that the Logis lature which electad Burren waa not a legnl Lody. Iu suchan event the vote of Judge Davis to seat Connsy would mnke the * rosnit o to, onabling the Vice-President to cast the vote that would relegate Huriza to fho ehades of Hamburg, Gronax Rorrn, the colored wretch who attympted the ravishument of a clorgyman's daughiter, was ycstonday exceuted informally by o crowd of cltizens at Columbia, Tenn, ‘Which is of oxtra interest in view of the fact that Ranpy, the man-killer of 8t. Eimo aud Gilson, will arrive at Golosburg, IIL., this morning in charge of a strong forco of offl. cers determined to resist to tho uttermost any attempt to Interrupt the duo course of tho law. 'Thers {s hardly a doubt that Tavog, who is said to have Doen already indicted by the Grand Jury'of Knox Coun. ty, will bo brought to trial without an hour’s unueoessary delay, and that conviction, son. tence, and exccution will speodily follow, as the evidence agalust him i{s overwhelming, Under such circumstances it is to bo hopede that the vxcited peopls of Gilson will permit the Jaw to denl with Raxpe, and we are glad to kuow that thero is an excellent prospect that uo violence will be attempted. ‘Tho bill which recently passed the Lower Houso of Congress providing for the rop- resentation of the United Statos at the Pans Exposition is in the wain satisfactory, It formally accepts theinvitation of the French Government; nuthorizes the President to appolut o Commissioner-General und twenty Assistunt Commissioners, with salaries of #5,000 and 81,000 respeotively; allows two Louorary Cowmmissioners from each State aud twenty honorary Commissioners-at-Large to bo nawed by the President, to serve with. out salary; directs that one or more of the public vessels way be assigned to the duty of trausporting articles intended for tho Ex- position free of chargo, andappropristess bulk sutd of $150,000for tho payment of cxpenses. Perhaps the bill would have been iwproved by tho addition of a section which should provide transportation from the interior to the seaboard, thus placing all parts of the country on a footing with the Atlantls cities, ‘T'here will be no objection, on the part of those who remember the action of France last year, to tho smallnoss of the prosent sppropriation. The Fremeh Government treated tho American Contennial Exposition with seant courtesy, Nearly all that waa dono in the French department was done by private citizens or by tho trades-unions of Parls. It is appropriate, thoreforo, that tho United States, in tho present instance, shonld do hothing more Lhan may bo neces- sary to secura n propor reprosentation of ita industries at P QGon. Gnast yesterday struck hands with tho real Republicans of France, A grand dinner was given in bis honor by Esme pe Girannry, at which was prosont a most dis- tinguished group of the Left, including GAMDETTA, gmr, Rexaver, DELsssers, and ‘Wapprvaton. A sentiment by Gen. GrasT, hoping for Franco a regime of liborty ncces- siblo to everybody, wna supplomented by Gaxperra in a characteristio &pdech, in which ho conched a thrust at MacManox under s, complimont to Gnaxt, praising the Iatter's political ca- reer, ond pointing to the fact that, whila obedient to the Inwa of his country and fully apprecinting the importance and dignity of the army, he * nevor permitted it to assuma supremncy ovor tho ecivil power” The speech of Gasmerra is doubly signifteant at & time whon tho army of Franoce is soon to determine whother its support shail be given to tho friends or enemies of the Ropublic. Tho Benate yesterday, after n coniinuons session of twentysievon hours, reached n preliminary voto on the Borien ease, The resolution of Mr, Trunax, discharging the Committeo on Elcctions from the further consiileration of the contestod election ecase of Burren and Consty, wns adopted,—DaT- TERSON, CoXoveR, addl Judge Davis voting with tho Democrats. A motion that Borses bo sworn 0a o Senator was made; and, goml- ing this question, tho Sennte adjourned, "The motlon to sent Burzen will probably Lo ndopted to-day, and a controversy and strug- glo will then taka place on the two contested cases from Lonisiann, The perfidy of tho two mon, Parrensox and CoNoven, admits of no cxplanation or extenuation. In Par- TERSON'A cnso it I8 doubly,infamous. Ho voles to ndmit Buruen in considoration of immunity from conviction and imprisonment in the Penitentiary for bribory, Tho Demo- crota may profit by this teaching, but they will, nevertheloss, hold both Coxoven aud PatrersoN in personal and officinl contempt. The political crisis in France scems to be rapidly pssuming a condition of belligerence, Tho Cabinct which was selected by Mac- Martox, outsido of Parliament, was rojocted by tho Houso on Saturday last by a vory de- cisive’ vote. MicManoN rofuses to moke anothor Cabinet, and the Houso refuses to accopt. o MacManon and tho Republicans nro agnin‘at a dend-lock. It' is now stated that Macdlaiox will once more npply to the Senato for leavo to dissolve tho Ilouse, and that tho Senate nny comply, na ‘it doos not approva of tho recont vote of censurs passed by that body. Then must follow the decls- ration of nstato of sloge. Alennwhile, tho' pooplo of Paris aro growing turbnlout and seditions, and open manifeitations of hos- tility to MacMazoN aro mado on the stroet, and offonsive placands nro poated on the walls, Numerons arrests have boen made, and the end is not yet. In case of a state of slege, tho vital question is: How will the army nct? Will it follow MaoMarnoy or the Republicans? Timo only ean tell. There scom@'to be now no escapo from civil war, Every movement of AMacMauox tends that way, Later Information in rogard to the wreck of the United Btates war-steamor ITuron shows that tho cause of it was not defective construction, as supposed, but bad seaman. slip, ‘Tho officers not only wont to sea in despito of the atorm signals, but failed nfter thoy Lnd putout to take ordinary precau. tions for tho safety of tho vessel, It is im. material at present which ono of tho officers is responsiblo for the negligence which re- sulted in tho disnster. Whoaever ho was, ho paid the penalty of hin error; the dispatchos ‘stato that all the ofifcors on duty at the time wero drowned. ‘Tho story of Eusign Youna reveals an amazing degree of incompetency or misconduct on tho part of some of these officera, .That o vessel of such a character should have been run upon shore from simplo ignorance of the fact that the sbhoro wns whero it was s no ex- cuse, When the Huron left Ifamp- ton Roads, thd officers know that Cape Hattoras was to be weathered, that-the const in thot vicinity was excoodingly dangerous, and that good salling would be roquired to bring tho veasel by it with safoty, Under the circumnatances, the prudont courso would have been to tako the vossol far enough out to son to avold the possibility of dangor, But it appenrs that, inorder to keep cutof the Gult Streaw, exactly the opposite courso was pursuod. ‘Fho HMurou hngged the shoro close- ly, and strnck nenr Currituck, the moat ex- potied portlon of tho shore botween Capes 1onry and Hnttoras. The Gulf Btream may be an undesirable current for navigators bound south, but it is hardly o sufilcient renson for #ailing in close to shore,—and the most dan gorous shoro on the American coast atthat,— during the prevalenco of a storm. - It is avi- dont that death has saved somcbody from o court-martial, aud death is not mnore than sufficiont atonemont for an ervor which cost o many jnnocent lives. Tho defloction of tho compass, which {8 referred to in the dis. patchos, could not have been great, and would not have ryosulted in the losa of the veseol, if ita courso had beem properly di- rected frow the start, lerald yesterday morning coutained the following sensational editorial: ‘The diepatch which wo published yesterday from’ oug carrcapondent ut Wa shington commualeated cuples of some rumarkable papers which wore left at the Waehington ofiice of the /lerald, whlch tally 0 closely with the remarkinade by Mr. TiLoexin s recent futerview with oneor oue reporters s to awaken curiosity as to what Mr, TiLoew s doing or attempting to do. Isbe really trying st this 1ato duy to fortify his claim to the Prestdencyr It 14 stated In one of the docuinents referred to that it is known that Mr TiLoEN conferred with the South Carolina sathorities pertalning to the elec. tion of 1870, and it was upon the information thus obtalned that he deturmined to tast $he yuestion ps to bis present title fu the courts, Tukeu ia con. nection with the rocent intcryiow, this s very sug- gestive. leit possible that Mr, TiLuxy lays the Hattering uoction to biw soul that he may duplace and seplace Mr. Slavxe? With our bigh oplulon ot Mr, TiLvEx's practical sagacity, wo cannot credit it, and if be werd flighty now, it 18 casy to sce how Lo might delude bimself inthe present condition of affuirs at Washington, * ‘Whilo we have no doubt there is o faction of Domocrats at Washington who are capa- ble of auy desperate measurcs, oven {0 & resort to civil war, aud the seating of Troexn is to them as good as any other protext, we havo no faith in this Herald story. The strength of this faction was greater in the last Congress than it is in the present, and the attempt to veize the Gavernmentin March last wasdefeated by a large portion of the Domo- crats acting with the Republicans, Partiesare #0 gvenly divided in the two Houscs of Con~ THE CHICAGO gross that even a faw moderate Democrats ncting with the Republicans can arrest any revolationary proceedingn. Last March the Democrats of the Sennte interposed no fac- tions opposition to the decisions of the Eloc- toral Commission, and wa do not understand that tho Domocratio mombors of that body have now any disposition to reopen the Prosidentinl controversy. We eay this much, notwithstanding tho nction of the Democratio Sonators in ate tempting to get control of the Benate by tho aid of the man Parrensox, who I8 under in. dictment for having purchased his own elec- tion by bribery. There aro no Democrats in the Senate who have any donbls as to Par- TERSoN's guilt, and, hnd they obtained a majority by his oxpnlsion and by the ap- pointment of a Democrat in his place, the chonge of the control of the Benato, how- over unfortunate, wounld be in one scnee in the interest of public morals, 8till, how. ovor desperate the . Democratic Scnators may be in their dosire to get control of tha Benate, we do not boliove the disposition of any con. siderable portion of the Democratic Benators oxtends to having Ttuory made Presidont. THE FRAUD IN THE SENATE OASE, If tho Democrnts obtain control of the United Btatea Sonate by a pursuit of thoir present tactics, the partisan advantage consc- quent thereon will bo tainted by fraud that will attach itaelf to all the subsequent use of their power. There will not Lo a singlo act of legislation, carried by a atrict party vote, bt will elicit a reminder that it is the direct rosult of ** treason, stratagems, and spoils,” These three words which Bnaxsreare has made provorbial apply to the present Demo- cratio struggle in the Senato as aptly and traly s if thoy wero originally combined to desctibo tho situation, The treason of Pat- TERsoN nnd CoNoven, the atratagem of the Democratio loadors in availing thomselves thereof, ond the spoils which form tho ob- jectiva point of the conspiracy, sra tho ole- ments of the most disgracefal scramble for political power that hns evorbeen dovelopedin this country. To what length tha conepiracy will go, if successful in its carlicr stages, no mon can ostimate. It is certain that mon who consent to become parties to go black a schemo will scarcely hesitate to push it to tho soizurc of any other ndvantago that pro- sents ltsolf, It is hinted that tho Sonate strugglo ia but the forerunner of a desperate attempt to revive TrLyex's olaim to tho Pres- idenay, with the purposo of taking complote posaession of the Government aud ita patron. age; and, though it is searcely possible that public sontiment will tolerats any aggressive movement in this direction, men who parley with sclf-confessod traitors, and bribe candi- dates for tha Penitontiary with a proffer of immunity, will stop at nothing which is des- perate, and heaitato ot nothing which is rov- olutionary and villalfious, i There is Parrensoy, the most conspicuous figure in tbis carnival of frand. Mo ocou- pics a seat in the Bonate Chamber'to which ho hna no claim in law or justice, since ovi- dence has como ont whick points to the fact that ho secured it by bribery, Bribery was his custom in dealing with the Legislaturo of South Carolina. Ho is to-day under in- dictment for the felony, with evidence star- ing him in tho faco which is cortain to send him to the Penitentinry, and lio should have beon deliverod up for trial under tho requisi- tion of the Governor of Bouth Carolina. Under this condition of things, the Demo- orats in tho Benate shonld have boen fore. mont in tho offort to bring Lim to trial, it not, indeed, to move bis’ immediato oxpul- sion from the Benato. Iustend of this, thoy deliberately conspiro to make him the instvu- ~ment of a new villainy by offering him the means of escaping the punishment.for his old villainy, This disroputablo bargain is consummated oponly and nnblushingly, and Patrensox himsolf, corrupt ns ho is, is tho ounly party o tho transaction who seems to have any realization of tho abject nnd infa. mous attitudo in which ho s placod. Benator Epyunps caused him to writhe under the ex- postire of his treachiory and rascality, while his co-conspirators ovinced mo sonse of shiame, . Senator CreuTiaNoY tore from him tho last vestige of his claim to being guided by conviction by rominding him that, if he believed the President should have snatained the Ciuspraramy Loglslaturo (which Paz- TeRson had just stated ns his conviction), then ho must believo that Connrw, elected by the Cnaamzarawy Legislaturo, was entitled to the seat, and not Burren, who was olected by tho Haweron Legislaturo, Thus Parren- 80X was strippod of his hypoorisy, and stood unkod before tho Bonate confessing his infa. my, but still adheringto it to cscape the Penitentinry, Parrenson’s case {8 propped up by such foeblo support as. Coxoven ean give Lim but Conoves, 1n some respects, ia in even more desploablo an attitude than Parrenson, Coxoves doos not havoe to confront the doors of the Penitentiary in cnse ho vefuses to obey tho whip of Hambury Burser, Iis ia au instauce of {nordinate groed. o is gov. erned sololy by a selfish consideration. . Ho bogan by resenting the Presidunt's refusal to permit hun to diotate tho patronage of Florila, The Republican party had no charms for him tho momeut he could no longer make his connection with it profita. blo. If thero was yet to bo any plunder for him, he must look. to Democratio alliances for his opportunity., He was ready to scll out; the Domocrats wers prepared to buy, o has no apology for his porfidy. 1o con. tents himsclt with explaining on the Bonate tloor what BurLes, with whip in hand, * ro. quires” him to do, and what he does mot “require” him to do. It would not bo surprising if this man Coxovea should con. fesa, before the controversy is done, just what consideration ho has boen promised for his treachery, either for the purposs of exacting his prico from the Democrats, or in order to expose their failure in carrying out thelr part of the contract, But Parrzrson and Conovzz, though they aro the principal sgents in thia corrupt scheme, are not the only men who stand be- fore the country as parties to the bargain and sale, The bribers are as bad as the bribed. The Deniocratic Sensators have placed themselves in the attitude of counte- naucing and approving a compact for com.’ pounding Parrrzasoy's felony. Hamburg Burres msy have personally arranged terms with the traitors, but the Democratic Bena- tory are accessories beforo the fact. Thero are amoug theso Sonators men who have made bigh protense o honor. Bavazn, Davis (of Llinois), Gosoow, Brox, Laumaw, McDoxarp, Tuuemax, and GARLAND oc- cur to us at the mewmont as Ben- ators whoso friends and admirers would have resonted the slightest imputation on their honor as most slanderous. Yet every one of these men has bocome & party to the “baso compact of seizing the partjsan control of the Benate by bribery snd corruption. Every one of thom is a party to the crim- inal act of compounding ParTaeson’s felony. Every ono of them uses the treachery of TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1877, Patrenson and Coxoves to share the advan- tage which this treachery is designed to secure to the party. They all foresco that the changes of tho coming year will probably give tho Democratic party the control of the Honate in a logitimato way, by the expiration of tho terma of certain Ropublican Senators and the clection of Demooratic snocessors, but thoy eannot wait. They prefor to acgnire immediate possession by fraud,and every in- dividaal Benntor who is a party to this frand will bo obliged to baar his proportion of tho infamy that attaches to it. “HAMBURG" BUTLER. In view of the excitement now existing in Congress over the Berren ¢aso, some of the nntecedonts of * Hamburg” Burien may not prove unprofitable reading. Who fa this man whom the Democrats, by compounding a felony, propose to seat in the Senato?* On the Fourth of Tuly, 1876, a®colored military company of Hambury, 8. 0., while parading, met two young white men belonging to the Southern chivalry, who ordered the com. pany. to bronk ranks and lot them pnss, which they refused, as any other military company would liave refused. Aftor an angry altercation and the.excliango of threats, the negrocs allowed them to go through. The father of the young men subsequently Institnted a suit ngainst the officers of tho company for obstructing tho highway, and their examination waa st for July 8. Gen. M. O. ButLEn, the foromost lawyer of that section, and a mon of somuch inflnenes that his word was almost law, was rotained for tho prosecution, Ife minde his appear- ance in Hamburg on that day, and on the snme dny srmed men began to pour into the village from the conutry, from Augusta, Gn., which is separated from Hamburg by a small stream, and from other places on the Geor. gin border. They evidently met npon a con- certod plan, for beforo night they ngreed to domand that tho negro company should bo disbanded, nud that the arms shonld be turn. ed over to tho 8tate. The negroes became awn=o of thelr danger, and, as it grow more and moro threatoning, thoy souglt rofugo in tholr armory, which was soon surrounded by an excitod and turbulont mob of whites. Within a fow minutes aftor Gen. BuTLes's appoarance upon the scone an attack was made upon the building, He remained upon the spot until the negroos were driven ont and twonty of them taken prisoners. At this. time (midnight) ho left the scene, nod short- Iy aftor, the blacks who had surrendered wero turned loose into a corn-fleld and shot at indigcriminatoly, fiva being killed and threo seriously wounded. Tho testimony takon at tho inquest showed that Gen. BurLen was presont nt tho battlo as. tho lesder of tho mob, which acted under his orders, and that ho'assemblod tho mob by going over to Au- gusta during the doy snd urging young men to arm themselves and cross over to Ham- burg, os he might need thelr sérvices. Tven nceopling his own version of tho mnsaacro, ho was wmorally respousible for it. Io was the leader of the mob, was presont when tho ottack was mado, dirccted it, and lu(t_ tho scono when he could not but have known tho bloody rosult that would follow. At any timo during that day, one word of Lis would have prevented rioting and bloodshed, but that word wns nover uttered. Thereforo it is that he is now known to the people of this country as * Hamburg" and *‘Butcher” Bureen, At tho timo of his purported clection to tho Bonate ho was undor indictment os o particeps criminis in thisbloody and cowardly masascre of unarmed men who had surren. derod’ themuelves.~'When' the’ slptijro mat 'In "Dédbthbiz) ’!;{'ris' vfie;é m‘(fifi"nofiia fifty-nine Republicans and fifty.seven Demo- orats lolding cortificates, two countios liav- ing beon entirely thrown out. Tho Sonato stood eightoon Republicans snd thirtcon Domocrats, Tho two counties thrown out roprencnted two sonts In tho Benato and cight in tho Houso which wero in contest. The Democrats in tho Houso, finding that thoy must be in the minority, left it, but the Son- ate Demoorats remained and participated with tho Honeo Republicans in the clootion of Unitod States Benator. Tho Senato Re- publicans voted unanimously for Con. mN, and he received 58 out of tha S voles in tho House, the Democratic Son. ators voting for Ganr, and wns elocted. Meanwhile, tho Domoecratla secoders com- monced voting for Benator, and ultimately weroe roinforced by twelve members of tho Bonato, who olccted Burres by 64 votes, 8 of which wero Invalidated by the votors having no cortificates, and tho whole number of votors boing 15 less than was required to eloct. Tha easo, therefore, stands thus: At the time of his purported clection, * Hamburg " BoTees was undor indiotment for complicity in an {ofamous orime. Iis elootion itsel® was fnvalid In overy aspect, and if ho suo- ceods in obtaining his seat he will do so by purchasing the vole of a mnegado for tho consideration of keoping him.out of the Ponitentiary, His record, therofore, is con. sistont in ono respect if in no other. The taint of crime tonches it from flrat to last, The invocation of mob violence, the massa~ cro of uoarmed prisoners, the trickery of an invalid clection, and tho compounding of a felony, ave the four nctd in this disgroceful drann, which clearly illustrates the hypocrisy and shallowness of Democrutio reforin, NEW YORK AND THE ERIE CANAL, The Clty of New York gwed much of her early prosperity sud her commercial suprom- sy to the fact that, in additidn to being an Atlantio - port, she had awater communics- tion with the Northwest through the FEria Canal, For ity years that channel poursd into tho lup of New York the wealth of the West, During that samo half centary the Stato of New York collocted of the West au enormous tax, which tax not only pald the cost of constructiug tho original canal, but all the repairs snd enlargement, including, perliops, twonty millious of dollars stolen, but has paid into tho Treavury of the State of New York in round numbers an excess over all expenditures of $50,000,000. With the revenue derived from this canal, the Btate of Now York might have made thnt canal 8o wido and 80 decp snd so thorough. ly constructed s to be & free, pormanent highway, capable of admittivg the trans. portation of ten times tho greatest quantity of proporty whith has over passed through it in & year. Dut the State of New York was not governed by any such polioy. 'Tho Erle Oanal furnished a w:llion or two of dollars to the Btato Treasury every year, maintalned s small army of officeholders, and permitted a liberal disbursement by the contractors. The railroads s last were abie to-intercept freight at Buffalo and move it to New York for less money tian it cost to move it on the canal. Other railroads lead- ing to other points wers able to undorbid the New York roads, and eventwilly the diver- sion of traflo from New York OCity and the building up of increased foreign trade in othor ports led to an abandonment ef the eanal policy of New York. - Montreal, Balli- more, Philadelphin, and Boston bocame rivals for tho Wosbern trade. Aftor a strugglo continuipg through several years tho tollaon the Erie Oanal woro reduced, antil thoy have bean practically nominal for the last year; but the Htate has done noth- ing to improve the canal; it has not onlarged tho locks, nor deopened tho ditch, nor done anything to shorten tho time of transit, On tha otherside of tholakes, the Onnndians have beon industrions and active. ‘Thongh the population of all the Statos of the Dominion hardly exceods that of the State of Now York, the Canadian Governmont has under- takon to onlarge her canals and mako thom capable of the Lighest amonnt of trade. In n very short timo tho largest lake steamers will bo ablo to ply with rogularity botweon Chicago anil other lako cities nnd Montreal, with fall freights both ways. The ocoon sorvico at Montreal is equal to all tho Wost- omn trade. Tho direot imports for tho Wost nre, cowtting delaya aud rates of rail freights, nearer to Chicago by "way of 3on- treal tham by New York, whilo froights on merchandise to Montreal by lake are much cheaper than to Now York, thereby giving n larger price to the shipper.. The latest movement in Now York ia to bave the Erio Onnal mado n free national highway; to hrwva it enlarged and deepened, admitting the vse of largor boats and of tho nsoof steam, New York is alivo to all this, on condition tliat the oxponso is to bo pald out of tho National Trensury, That Is to 8ay, tho Stato of New York, which has had o surplus reveans of $50,000,000 out of the Erio Canal, ¢silected from tolls on tho pro- ductions of tho West, now that it hescensod to yield, pro poses to turn it over to tho Gen- ernl Govern-nent, to bo enlarged atn cost of $10,000,000 out of the Public Tresury. In addition to the tolls levied for fifty yonrs upon the productsof tho West on their way to mtrket by tho Btate of Now York, how has the Olty of Now York denlt with its customers ! The boats taking graln to New York aro ubjected, and havo beon for many yoars, to n sories of chargos and extortions that aro disgracoful. Thero nvo various monopoliis crented by Iaw to which grain sont to New York Oity is subjectod. Thoro is towage, nnd lighterage, and wharfage, and oxactions for inspoction, which an unin. formed person might readily suppose wero intended 0 dnve trade from tho city, by rondering such trade unprofitable and voxn- tious.” Until Philadelphin nnd Bltimore built largp and commodions grain-clevators, the City of New York hind no mork con- venienco for handling grain than if it had no such trudo, At presont the grain sent thero by rail and intended for shipment on ocenn steameor s handled and delivered in a style hardly less primitive than might have beon used whon tho original settlers ealled it New Amstordana, ‘We havo published soveral articles from n Buffalo praper, giving an account of n trip of n canal-boat from Buffalo to Now York, anu- merating tho patty charges from the hiring of the bt until tho dalivery of the grain in an olovator nt Now York. Tho oxhibit is scandalous, whothor viowed from tho oxac- tions nt every bridge, lock, or turnout, to “*beer " everybody in authority, to the de- mand for harbor tonnage and wharfage in Now York City, It is theso things which havo inspired<the West with thd desire to avoid sording what they produce to Now York City whenavertit is possiblo to do so, CRI¥E AND CONSEQUENCES, Mr. M. F. Honisg, tho nuthor of n com. muniestion ._in Monday’s Tamuns on ¥ Respo asibility and Panishmont,” docs not undorstund the subject. Io has roason to sat up tho doctrine that responsibility is one of tho :most pornicions words in the language; for, if o wero held to o strict socount for Lis argunvent, the genoral opinion of his good sowo would not bo complimentary, Itis mora oharitable, howover, and probably moro just, to assume that a smattoring of information has brought Lim to err. How slight hin information i, and how inaccurate his conclusions are, may bo porceived from his roferenco to Prot, Tysparr's leotura be- fore thao Midlaad Institnte st Birmingham. Mr. Honmyn quotos Prof. TeNpaLL as having said: My intelleotnal and physical text. nrea aro woven for me, mot by mo, Pro- cessua in the conduct or rogulation of which T hed no shiaro have made mo what I am.” This quotation ig a refloction not only upon the iutelligonce of Br. Honme but upon Iy integrity; for, i lLe has rond Prof, T'ripary’s lecturo at all, ho mnst know that it contains, in addition to the sontomces given, the strongest possible contradiction of his promises and concluslon. The words of tho Profossor are: Wearo confronted with tho question of moral responslbliity, which It 1s desirable to moet In ite rudest form and o the most uncompromising way. *'1f," says the robber, the ravishar, or tho mur- derer, **I act bocause I must act, what right hava you to hold me rvsponsible for my deede?" Tho roply Is, **Theright of woclety to protect ltaclf against aggressive and injurious forces, whether theg be bond or free, forces of Natoro or forces of man," **Then,” retorts the criminal, punish me for what 1 cannot help," **Granted," saywsocfoty, **but hadyou known that the tread- mill or tha gallows was certaluly In atore for you, youmighthave *helped.’ " Let us reason the matter fully and frankly ont, We entertain no malice or hatred ngalnst you, but simply, with & view tu our safety and purifcation, we are dotormined that you and snch as you shall not enjoy lberty of evilnction In our midat. You, who have belaved a8 o wild beast, wu claim the right to cage or kil «| a8 woushiould » wild beast, The pablic safotytss matter of mora fmportance than tha very limited chance of your moral renovation, whilethe kuowl. edge that you bavo boen hanged by the nock may furaish 10 othars about to d o have done the prociss motive which will hold them back, If your uct beeuch av to invoke a winor penalty, then not only others, bat yourself, may profit by the punish. 1ment which we lafiict. On the homely principle that **A burat child dreads the fire,* 1t will make you think twice before vonturing on & repetitlon of your crime. Observe, Boally, tho conslstency of our conduct, You offond, becauso you cannot help offending, to the publle dotrimont. We punlsh, because we cannot holp punishing, for the public good. This is a complote justification of pun- ishmont for orime. We are indebted to Mr, Honmove for having fnnocontly directed-pub. lio attention to it afresh. Mo &wed this compensation for the mischief ko attempted to do. The question of Responsibility and Pun- istment csn be arguod on higher grounls thian those whioh Prof, TyNpaLL ocoupied in the Birmiugham leoture. Deoausa manisa creature of ciroumstances, Svhose ** mental 1rocesses are woven for him" by exterior cauies, it is tho duty of good meu, for their own protection and the common benefit, to act a4 eficient agonts upon the mindsof others, 'The montal processos that are woven for wen aro produced largely by other men. They should be produced, as far as possible, by the best claswes io the com- waunity, and these classes are represented in and act through the law. The fact that thereis but one First Cause, which resides in the Daity, does not relieve mian from respon- wibility, Ho always has rested, and always will rest, under the obligation, which is the condition of race-existence, tp respect the ‘iyon righta of othors, and to sco that these rights aro rospocted. In onler to fulfill this daty he is not merely at liborty, but ho is bonnd by every consideration of jnstico to deter those who bave iufringed privato or public righta from persevering in their wrong conduct, Binco individuals cannot snfely and swiftly make deterront impressions upon the minds of wrong-doers, this work is com. mitted to society, ‘which is mercly another namo for tho consengus of the opinion which is enterlained by tho best mon. Boclety knows no other wny of exorcis ing the .needed fnflnonce upon the minds of bad mon than by punishing them, gradunting tho punishment, so far as imperfect human kuowledge will permit, to the enormity of the offense, Whon bad mon think they are impelled to do wrong, society is impelled to punish them forit. Booioty thus consti- tutes ftsolf n part of the *‘ environment " of criminals, and exerts upon their minds an influoneo which is equal to their wrong im- pulses and opposite in dirsction. It admin. isters nn antidote, more or loss sovare, to the polson which has been introduced into the moral nature, and it works a cure, more or less heroic, The bad logio which has been wrapped around this snbject by sentimentallats like Mr. Hontxz wonld be corrocted if they conld bo made to understand that criminals aro not punishied primanly for their own good but for the good of others. As TyNpALL snys, in the lecturo nlrendy referred to, * The public safety is o mattor of more importaneo than the very limited chanco of their rono- vation," Roforination .may properly bo made an incident of o punitive system, but it can naver be anything moro. than an inoi. dent. The groat and fundamental instinet of self-presorvation, which justifies the indi- vidunlin taking the lifa of anothor to save his own, likewiso justifies sociaty in taking lifo, 1f moed bo, to protect itself. Tho issne 18 obscured by Mr. Hormne's attempt to give n metaphysionl dsfinition of *responsibili- ty." Quibbling nbont words will not advancoe knowladgo of tho subject. Partioularly is this tho case whon the quibbler is so poorly equipped as Mr, Honixg, who propounds the doctrino that responsibility is always from the superior to the inferior, from Goptoman, and from strong mon to weak.men, This theory excludos tho otymological meaning of tha word, which involves tho idoa of mutnal ro- Iation. There can be no such thing as onc- sided responaibility. Obligation eaunot ro- sido golely in ono person. It must have a -correlativo ns tho coudition of its existonco. If crlminnls cannot escapo the fate which makos them what thoy are, noither can thoy oscapo tho consequonces of their crimos conaoted by society, and socioty cannot avoid inflicting those conscquences. This is the theory and the intention of thelaw. Un- fortunately it is too often invalidaied by sor- timentalists like Mr, Honxg, who getinto the courta, ou tho jurigs, in tho attorneys’ oflices, nud on the Boneh, and provent the course of justice. Sometimos thoy go highor, and fn Exccutivo chaira pardon tho criminals who have been convicted *and sont to prison for tho common good. With tho rocont expe- rienco that Illinois bas hel in thoe wholesalo pardoning of murderors and other desperate criminnls by the Iate Governor, wo nre not disposed to view with patience tho nrgumont for imprisonment in place of capital punish. ment. We hold that tho men who are ngitating, liko Mr, Honmve, for the abolition of punishmont for crime, aroc encmics of the publio good. Afew days ago 'S8ay TiLpeN cntered Into conversation with a friend In front of the Now York Merald officg, and that paper affords an outline of the talk. = Mr. TILDEN appears to havo adheréd to his original proposition that the Kepublicau party Is goinz to the devil, and that ITAvEs Is helmaman for the voyage, That gentleman s supposed to be *‘chilllng the fanaticlsm of the Republican varty,” and that 1o #*three years from now he will have no more support than a corporal’s puard,” though the support ordinarily relled upon by n corporal’s guard is not deflnitely fixed in tho Interview. Moro than this, Mr. Hayes has alionated both Republicans and Democrnts, while the South, now *disposed ta pat him on the back and urgoe him forward in his work of reconcillation," wil) not stand by him, but will *support none but o ‘#blue-blooded Democrat (ke Mr. TILDEN) that wlll represent them,”" Tho Southern trip was ‘‘all humbuz,” for “it can't bo that theso Bouthern Detocrats will accept an Administra- tion which they must know is founded on fraud, and which §s Republican in spite of everything " (probably meaning tho bar'l). When asked If ho purposed prosecuting his right to the Presi- doutinl chair, o replied that he did, though, as be falled to specify the time within which he proposcs ta Inaugurate his demonstration, the presumption s that ho will wailt untll 1880, After a long tirade, which shows that hia mem- ory is unimpalred and that he atill recollects tho salicnt points of his speechios for the last year, ho suddenly discovered that some 500 persons had congreguted and wera lstening with cvery manlfestation of pity to what he sald, where- upon lio sloped ncontinéntly,—* went lke o shat," as the Herald observes. Thia Interview 1sof great fnportance at this juncture, for It shows that Mr. TILDEN {8 stlll an fubabitant of thecarth. o ——— Temperanco reformers who incline to the opinlon that any means are justifiable fn wean- ing & man from the whisky-bottlo and boer-kex will ba conslderably sct back by the discovery of Mrs. Dunvsa, of Brooklyn, that thero is owe 'way, at least, which the Iaw frowns upon. Mrs, Dunrza (childless) had habituated hersalf to the contemplation of Mr, Dunvea o every stage of drunkcnncss, until she concluded that herole neasures must be adopted to break his love for his Idols. Procuring a baby, sha went to bed and held ft up beforo his detighted gazo ss his ollapring, hoping to win his affcctions there- for. But tho scheme appears to havo been djs- astrous in & varloety of rcspects. First, Mr, Dunrga eoterbd upon a celebration of tho cvent lasting two weeks, during which he reached plienumenal conditions of intozication; and second, lis velatives, with an oye to his property, had his wife arrested for palmine off tho spurious baby as his son and helr, Au'ex- planation relloved hier of her crimiual lability; but Mr. Dunyga, delighted with the idea that hio could get so druuk as not 1o bo sble to dis- tloguish Lotween a two-months-old infaut and onv just bory, bua kept {t up ever sloce, i e, $41'm @ Repablican at heart, but I must vote with the Democrats b kecp out of the Peniten- tlary 1" usys United States Sonator PaTTsmsox. We know hothing more baso than tbls {n the history of Congress, except the mct of the Democrats who made the infamous bargain with the villalo, promisivg Lim Jmmuunity from punishment for felony as the price of bis vote " betraylng his party. Congressman SmaLLs, of the same Btate, a fall-blooded negro, gulity of no worse offcnse, returncd to South Carolina’ and stood his trial Mke m man, was fouod gullty by a jury of negroes and whitgs, and has been sentenced to three years’ confinement at bard tabor tn tho Peaitentiary. He stands be- fore the world in lufinitely more honorsble a light than the white felon who has betrayed Lis party to kecp his worthless self out of the State Frison. —— A horriblo stats of affalrs is revealed by the morgue-keopers of Now York, who relate in- staoces of scifishness aud ishumanity scarcely ty be credited Io this age of civllization. They say that it Is ot an uncomwmon crcumstance fur peaple in the higher soclal walks of life to leavy thelr dead to burial at the public expeuse. ————ee When not!fied that some member of the family hasdied a violent death, they Trequently sy jg thelr refusal to bury the remalns will be pulx lislied, and when informed that there fs ng law to compel them to Inter the bodles, they tum with every evidence of satisfaction from the Irk- some and oxponsive task. The New York Tri. une says that the wealthy proprietor ot seTeral storessent his Infant child to the morgue for burial, whilea man recelylng a largo salary gent his sick son to tlio Charity Hoapital ana refused 16 bury him when nformed of his death, Sey. cral other equally heartless instances are clted, among them tha action of Dr. Lister, whose wifs corimitted sulclde In a fit of insanity, "*8he has cost me 8350 slnco she became crazy, and £ will spend no more money on her," um' his soulless response when her death wan roport. ed; and to fnsure his’ escape from an obylous duty, he swore he was too poor to Incur the funcral cxponses, notwithstanding the fact that ha lives In grand atyle on Fifth avenue, Boula) relatlons, ns well as natural affection, In Now York sppear to be based on tho small surfaceof tho almighty dollar, - —— A genrchor after tritth, who has besn al broken up by Josaent Coox’s question, © Does death end all?"" proposes a novel sottlement of the Interrogatory in the following letter to the Rocliester Union @ I write to offer mysolf a8 & sncrifice In e est of . troth, pr’o(&m!. and enn}'m'éfl-'.'fii{, otherwiso Atholem. - 11l not make this aacrifeg nnices you assure me that by allowing my braly o be cat oat, whilo Ilviog, I will be solving to learned thinkers, now ia'goudt, that perplezing 1ttlo conundrum, **Doos denth nndl‘lg“ 1t xo, tenT offer niyseif for thin purpose, conditioning merely that T drogged. S0 T am not sura whetlier the fuliimentof that offer wiil be of Httlg Orpreat Importances if 1iltlo, why, I wiil rocon: sider the offer; 1f great, then'T deslro the attend. ance of TrxnALt or 1luxLer, Dr, DnAren, R, 4. Inocnsoty, Dr. Bnows, —of Binghumion, 'the Drooklyn Eagle's (objection to Coox's theory) correspondent’ G., ryonnulf. the Rev, Joampy Coox, and othor leading scientists, operation be performod in Bome IArgo cliv. whope 'I‘:?lu:) l‘rlmn are p'lfi'nly-nollln' ::fil a litile faith. nded, euperstitious, priest-riddo: B clty 1iké Roshester, 1 ior nadom stand-aili As the gentleman s datly practically estab- 1ishing the negative to the question, ** Docs fne sanity presuppose the existeuce of bralns 19 f¢ is questionable 1¢ the sclentists will consent 1o sacrifico him on the other polut. ————— Diphtheria has become untusualty virulent in New England, killlog oft great uumbers of neople. Tle Boston Post says: Tho prevalenco of diphthieria bri new nc‘:- In connaction vl:kn e‘;: un’z‘l‘rr l:t‘i‘ ‘-:r:fl of this dreaded malady, A New Haven pavor. eays it wau introduccd fnto that part of the cofnti about tweniy-five years azo In an exceedingly viralent form by the exhumation of remalns in Wost Iaven. Nenrly all who wers exposed to tho exhalations from tho graves died in spite of all that could be dune to save them, Tho polson thst Aleo that the ariaca from drains and other receptacies of refuss . acte ina slmilar, even 1f loss violont, mannor, and tho enbjectf ventilation has its extremo Impor- tance froshly tllustrated by ti . s > 2 —— ‘The Benata will make ftaclf infamous In the cyes of the country It it does rot oxpel tho ine dicted carpet-bag scoundrel PATTBRSOY, and eond bim back to South Carolina for trial and fucarceration n the Ponltentiary, ? If PATTRHSON has no better defenso to the Indictments agalnat him than he presented for sclling out, the sale, if it saves him from the Penitentiary, was clearly justifiable. 4 PATTERSON'S descent from the Senate to the Penitentlary {s not so remarkablo when we re- flect upon his fall from & newapaper reporter to & Benator, 3 : — PERSONAL, Mr. W, W. Btory's leoture in New York was a disappointment to thoee whe heard ft. Coramics camo ont strong nmong the wed. ding gitts at the Vanderbilt-Twombley wedding, The Empross Eugonle declaros that sho alono was responslble for tho last war with Gere many. Quoon Victorla contributed $1,250 to the Indlan Famine Rellef Fund, and Lady Burdett Coutta §5,000. Charlos O'Conor walks the strocts in a swallow-tall coat, and wears his tall hat on the ‘back of s head. i Victor Hugo refuscd to receivo a visit from Gen. Graot because the lsttor affifates with the Monarchistd in Parls, The Rev, T. Koble writes to the AtAencum that he has the only complets autograph copy of the **Christlun Year," Mra, Louis J. Jounings, who bsfors her "marriage was Miss Madoline lenriques, haa pre- sonted bor husband with seven daughtege within alght yeahs. Al P Dr. Holland {s a tall man, with black hair snd mustache, and darg complexion. Thorels & #pring in bis ntep, and he doesn't look over 40 years of ago, Mer. Farjeon, Joe Jafferson’s son.-in.law, has expressed his determination to write a book of American notes, for which ho has alpeady bogun to gather material, Caroline 8, Brooks, tho butter-woman, now gives exhibltions of her akill in pablic. Bhe de- sires to'ralso fands in this manner to enable her to work in marble, t The Boston Gaztle says: **We aroglad tolear thattho health of Mr. Bamuel Dowles ls slowly Improving, '—~the meaning of which lles in the emphasls of it. Mrs. Gen, Bherman has written another #trong letter on thoaubject of round-dancing. Bhe objects to it on moral grounds, snd uses rathes violent language in support of her visws, Dion Boucicault has a goneral air of Mdon't care™-about him when he walks the streots. 1o stoops and slouches along with his hiead noar tho ground. ‘e has syes ko cut stea), and & gray mustache and goateo cropped close to tho sxin, Tho Empresa Jossphine's mansion of Mal maleon has been sold by the State for 000, 0002, to M, Qantlor, the agont, It ls rumored, of & forelgn personage. Another celebrated mansidh, the Hotel do Monaco, In the Rue da Vurenne, built in the seventeanth century by Cortonne for Marshal Montmorency, ond occupled by Grimalds, Prince of Monaco, by Princoss Adelside of O:leans, snd by Gen. Cavaiguac duriog his Presldency, 15 ree ported to have just been presented by the Duchess of (illlera to the Cotate do Paris, The malarial fever of which Princs Albert died, and which wobecquently attacked the Princaof Wales, and still Iator the young Prioce . Albert Victor, was jnduced, it appears, by ihe polsoned ground on which Mariborough House s bullt. Tho condition of the basement of the house was hideous, sud it is ramombered that & convent nad hospltal stood on th t long ago, and the Prince and Princess of e jud thelr children have becn inhaling the rank polson from the ancient cesspools and a grave-yard where porsons wore buried who had died of infections diseascs, aggravated with al) the modern Improvements. Mr, H. J. K. Marston, B. A., a blind gen- tlaman, has obtalned & Fellowship in the Univer- stty of Durham, Mr, Marston's blindneass tell upon him 8¢ an early age, when ho was preparing to su- ter Eton Bchool, snd his prospects seemed closed. TBut the oponing of the Blind Coltegy, Worcester, offered the opportunity which he sought. Uaving beon preparod there he entered Darham Unlversl- ty, where, persevering {n the face of many obvious dificulties, by galuwd 8 gcholarship atentrsnce, aud subssquently $ho University Classical and the Nowby Scholarstips, and the Helienltlc Greek vprize, ‘obtainlng & Orst clasg in both higexamina- tlous for the degres of B.A. Mr. Marston is oW Becond Master in the Blind College, Worcester. The late Marshal Wrangel was a curious charactor—a harsh spirlt, with & sort of grim. coarsc humor, He wasa ustive of Stettia, where, in 1848, his family llved, Slmultaneousty with the troubles ln Berlin occurred also aa outbruak in Stettin. The popclace seized, among other hostages for Wrangol's good couduct in Berlin, his owa wife, and notified him thatif he entered the Capltal with bis tropos they wpald shoot ber. Thistbress bad no offect on the rough old fellow. Jils work was done without hesitstion, aod even wijh entbusiasm, snd 0o one dared to remind bim of bls fmperiled spouse. Svme days sfterward the nows came that the threat had not been ex- ecuted, and that the tender hostage had beon re» lessed Then & steff officer nakod Wrangul if be bad uot been suxious for his wifs, as be rude tbrough the Hrandenburg Gate. **No; ob, o™ suld the Genural; **I nover had any c thoss Btotiln peoplet™