Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1878, Page 4

[} THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THUNSDAY, MAROH 7, 187s. @fiw Tribnne, SCRIITION, TERMS OF 8 i WRERLY EDITION, POSTPAID. e ropy. peryen ] Ciub of our. Scecimen cop Glve Post:Umce addrees fn full fncinding State and County, Temiitaaces may he maue efther by draft, express, Tost-Ofce order, orIn reglstercd letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SURECRIBERS, Dally, delivered, Funday excented, 23 cants per week, Latly, delivered, tunday Included, 80 centa per week. Address TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta.. Chicago, Tl Orders for the delivery of Tie TRIBUNE st Evanston. Fonglewood, and Jiyde I'ark left In the counting-room willzeccive promat attention. TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, Tne CriicAGO TRIAUXK has eatablished branch ofices fer the receiptof subscriotions and sdvertisements as NEW YORR—Room 20 Tritune Dollding. F. T. Mo+ Favnrex, Manager, P'ANIS, France—No. 10 Rue de 1s Grange-Datellere, 1L Manven, Agent. LONDON. Eng.—Amerlcan Exchange, 440 Strand, ~TPalace llotel. AMUSEMENTS. BAN FRIAN MeVicker’s Theatres Mpllron #irect, hetween Dearborn snd Etate, **The Two Orphans.™ Hooley’s Thentre. Tandol;h #ireer, between Clark and LaSaile, Tngazement of the Oates English Opers Boufte Troupe. **arbe Dleue." New Chicagn Theatre. Clark street, opposite Eherman Ilouse. Fogages ment of W. 1r7ing Bishop, the Autl-€piritist and Mind Tieader. ¥ Haverly’s Thentre, Monroe street, corner of Dearborn. Kngsgementof Rota Rand. **Cllo." Colieum Novelty Theatre. Clark street, oppostte Court-House. Varlety per- , formance. McCormick Hall. North Clark street, corner Rirale. Mesmerism and Tsychology by F'rof, Carpenter. Iershey 1Iall. Madison street, hetween State and Dearborn. G. bard, Testl+ THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1878, Greonbacka at tho Now York Stock Ex- chaongoe yestorday closed at 987, —— Tho Minucsotn Sénnte has formed itrelf juto a High Courtof Impeachment to try tho charges preferred ngainst Judge Paoe, of the Tenth Judicial Distiict of that State. The accusations are that he hns nbused his judicial functions by n course of rotalintion and vindictiveness toward his politieal an- tagonists, nnd the proapects of impeachment aro thought to be quite flattering. Itlooks as thongh the old dollar of 412} groing, in o new dress, wero going to pet sround almost before wo know it. The Philadelphia Mint has made quick work of its preparations for colnagoe, and will ba able to turn out tho first installmont of 230,000 of the now dollars to-day. The ndvertisoment of Dr. Linpenuax for proposals to sall silver bullion in lota of 10,000 ounces and upwards also looks like business. It now scems probable that tho Congress of tho Powers will nssombla between the 224 and 2ith of this month, sud that Berlin will be the placo ,of meeting. Gonrscna- xorr, who is not so unwell as ho was beforo tho permnnent pesco basis way fully determined, is quite certain to nttend, and in that cnse Brsyanck will preside. De. foro that time arrives the completo treaty of peace will hava been signod, and, judging from the detailed stateront of conditions printed this morning, the Congress will have littlo elso to do besides ratifying the arrange. monts already concluded by Russin and Tur. key. An {den of the extent and importance of tho dairy aud poultry intarests of the United States can bo gained from tho figures pre. sented yesterday by the Statistical Commit. teo of tho National Butter, Cheesw, and Egeg Association, now holding its fifih annual convention, Few people aro awaro that the total valuo of tho milk, butter, cheeso, eggs, and ponltry produced each year renchos far up into the hundreds of millions, and tho magnitnde of tho interests roprosented by the Nutional Association, and the importance of its aims and objects to tho material wealth, nro but littlo undorstood by the world ‘at large. The procoedings of the Convention during its scasion in Chieago promlsc to at. tract geueral attention and interest. Judge Kerrey, of Pounsylvania, ind his doy in the Ilouse on Tuesdny, but he seems to Liave concoived tho idos of avoiding the consequences of his elnborate oratorical display by withholding Lis speech from pub- lication in the Jeecord, It proved to be o bad cxperiment. Gen. Ganreren got hold of enough of tho matter to fur- nish the text for a reply, which ho delivered yosterday, and tho provailing impression when ho had finished was that Judge Kerreywould have fared no worse if he hud played fair and had his spoech printed in tho usual way, Garereep took lold of tho great apostlo of inflation and the chief cham. pion of *“ the American system of finance " o manaoer thist was snbsequently charac- terized as unconstitutional—being *“ an act of cruet sud unusual punishmeont.” —— Tho President's second oxperience in the veto business is likely to prove inore satis. fuctory to himself than the first, This timo Congress has taken the subject under con- sideration, for the reason that there was something to consider which bad not alrendy been considered to death, It is falrto pre- sumo that many of tho Senators and Repre- seutatives who voted for the Mississippl Pine-Log bill, which provides for the holding of extra sessiongof United States Courts at points where log-acizures have been made by the Interior Department, did so in the belief that tho cffect of tho law would be to the benefit of the Government aud tho disadvan. tege of tho timber-thioves. 'The contrary is shown to bo the case by the President's veto essage, and some difiiculty will doubtloss bo experienced in sernring tho two-thirds voto necessary to onact tho bill fnta a law, e ‘Tho Berato yostordsy passed with somo wncndments the bill introduced by Mr, Warrace, of Peonsylvanis, providing for ‘Lo issue of $100,000,000 of #fty-ycar 4 per coupon Londs of the denominations of 50, nnd $100. The bill requires that tho bonds shall be Lept for salo at par and werued interest for coin or legal-tender ootcs at all tho Bub-Treasuries, National Bauks, and money depositories of the Gov- sruwent, and olio requires the National Banks to pay the interest coupons with. out charge upon the production of the bond to which tho conpon has been attached, tho interest being payable semi-annunlly. Provision is alao made for tha registration of the bonds and their nssignmont, and for the reissno by the Secretary of the Trensury of greenbacks aud cofn reccived from the salo of the fifty-year 4 per cents, such proceeds to be applied to the redemption of bonds bearing a higher rate of interest. B Jomy Roson & Sons launched another stenmship yesterday at Chester, Pa. The vessel is destined for the mail Rorvice be- tween Drazil and tho United States, and largs delegations of public men nnd Dra. zilion dignitaries from Neéw York, Plnla. delphin, Baltimore, and Washington ac- cepted freo rides to Chester, and saw tho magnificent craft take its proud place upon the waters. No nccident marred the success of tho send-off or presaged an omin- ous destiny, as has hinppaned on those snmo stocks and shores, The Presidont himself promiscs to look upon the debut of the sister ship which is to go upon the waves within o fow wecks. The vessel lins bean built without n subsidy from tho United Stales Government, and will be sailed to and from Ttio Janciro whether a subsidy is granted or not. Nevertheless, n big bonus is asked for at the hands of Congress, and n strong effort will be mado to insert this entoring wedgo in the doors of the National Treasury with n viow to futuro operations of tho seame sort. 's Civil-Servico va- gories aro puzzling aliko to his friends and enemies. True to his principles, hio hias re- cently mnde two important appointments without ever montioning tho subject to the Benators and Representatives of the States in question, and it is generally granted that Loth selections are in every way admirable— viz. : thosa of Baxarp Tarrom, from Ponn. sylvanin, to be Minister to Berlin, and At~ nent G. Porten, from Indiana, as First Comptroller of the Treasury, On the other hand, much nnfavorablo commenthasbeen vx- cited by two appointments which involve the principles of Civil-Service reform not casily reconcilablo with the President’s rules, In tho case of the Boston Collectorship tho claims of the Deputy-Collector, who has in fact largely performned tho dntics of the of- fice, have been ignored in the appointmont of Beanp; whilo the appointment ns Pay- master in the army of Sstrrm, a civillan from the Tronsury Department, over the heads of Captains who have grown gray in hard mili- 1nry servico, is not calculated to encourage the hope of promotion for merit. THE CITY APPROPRIATIONS, ‘The Common Council have comploted and pagsed the annunl Appropriation bill, which amounts in tho nggregato to £3,902,879, Of this amount nbout £230,000 are obtmned from the miscollancous receipts provided by licenses, cte., leaving 83,713,242 to bo raised by taxing the real and personal property of the city. Thero is n saving of sbont $250,- 000 on the tax.levy of last year, which was o littlo ovor £4,000,000. But this saving is insignificant in comparison with tho exnc- tions of the people, who demanded a reduc- tion of at lenst 131,000,000 to moot tho sbrinkngo in values and the greater hardship of paying taxes under such conditions. Tho Councll have also_proceeded in defiance of tho sorious emberrnssments of the Mu- nicipal Government, arsing from a deficiency of the tax-collections nnd tha decisions of the Courta practieally pro- hibiting the tomporary borrowing of money, sinco thero can be no Iawful appropriation of money fortho payment of interest thercon, In onoe word, the Council hias followed iu the footstops of its predecossors, with the nota. ble exceptionof the Council immedintely suc- ceeding tho Corviy carnival. It lins nppro- printed monoy to run the City Government at about the ssme cost as herotofore, in the faco of the fact that many citizens will con- tinno to contest the payment of taxes under tho presont systom, and without nnking the slightest provision for escaping from this system by providing means wherewith to in. naugurato the policy of ** pay as you go,” The moat of the Aldermon who voted ngainst the finnl passage of tho bill did eo beeanse tho approprintions wers not high onough to suit them, and not beeauso thoy wero in sym- pathy with the popular demand for a further decrense, Tt fu gonerally. balloved that tho approprin. tions this year could have been kept , within £1,000,000, and many persons think, in viow of the necessitics of the easo, that $2,000,000 could Iavo been mado to serve ; in the Intter cnse, o total appropriation of 34,000,000 night have beon made with tho distinot un. deratanding that the surplus should serve ns an unoxpended balance for next year. Such a programme would have thrown the citizens on thuir own resources to n Inrgo extent for the protection of their property, the cleening of the atrects, ete.; but, ns it iw evident that it is only in this way that the city can over resumo ensh poyments, it would have boen bettor to suffer a year's inconvenience now than to go ou increasing the embarrassments and burdens of the taxpayers in the future, ‘The average Alderman seems to think that n settloment can always be postponed ; but he is mistaken in this. Thore is u limit to for- bearance when thiogs keep on going from Lod to worse, ns they must of necessity so long ay the ** ehaving ™ system of flnances fs moiutained, 1t ia of littlo uso to examine tho itoms in detail. It was tho business of the Aldermen to study them und ascertain where tho neces- sary woving could best be made. It fs nidic- ulous to say that the public works of this city could not be kopt in repair for less than $463,280, which is the amouut of the np- propriation, Houscholders might have been left to do thoeir own streot-cloaning, as they do tho streot-sprinkling, and from the pres- ent condition of the streots wo should say that they would do it better, as they cor- tainly would at less cost. Tho sum of #203,000 was appropriated asa ¢ Contingent Fund"; thors would bo somo compeusation for this if there wero any assurance that such n fund would bo saved in order to be. giu the next yoar with some money on hand, but it is alrendy being whispered that this fund will bo nceded to make up deficiencies in other appropriations, For tho Police, Firo, Health, and a portion of tho Public Works Departments, the appro. priations wore made in bulk, which would allow the Executive, properly acsisted by the Council and heads of Departmonts, to car. tail in the expenses and save some of tho moueys as unexpended balances. DBut there is little hope that this will be done, As the Council itself exbibited no genuine desire to retrench, it is not likely that the executive chiefs will do auy bettor; like the Council, they will go on as thoy have been going in tho past. ‘Tho wmost culpablo and exasperat- ing item in the appropriations is' that of $75,000 for the construction of sewers, though thoro is now an unexpended bal. ance of §175,000 for that 3 This item shows the wutterly selfish spirit which has governed the Coun- cil for tho most part, and the inferenco is, that it would do no good to save money ont of tho approprintions any way, as tho Council would continue to appropriste in addition thereto just ns if no snch saving shonld be made. If the Mayor does nothing elso with this Dbill, he should at the very lenst voto this itom of 275,000, which is the result of trading and jobbery. Of course the City Government contem- plates proceeding this yoar upon practically the samo basis, controlled by the recent Court decisions, ns during the past pear. It may not be able to borrow any money in large amounts on Trensury warrants, as thero s no prospect of ever getting any in- terest on such certifiestes of indebted. ness. It will bo proctioable, however, to irsnio theso warrants in denominntions ns low as 23, and pay off employes therewith ; in this way the omployes mny eacapo the ex- tortion of tho ‘brokers by dividing up their warrants among tho taxpayora from whom they rent honses and buy family sopplies; nevertheless thoy will be sufferers to somo ex- tent. When the interest on tho bonded debt falls duo, it cannot bo paid in warrants; even then the city officials may induce some of tho larger taxpnyers to take theso warrants at a reasonabla discount, sinco they aro re- ceivable for taxes, But all this, it must bo ndmitted, is still n mere modification of tho creditsystem; and, by arranging forexpendi- tures on tho old Lnsis, the Council has given Chicngo no hope of escaping from this vicious and oppressive system. ‘WHAT TH! SIDEN D ROT DO. Thero were urgent intimations during the pendoncy of the Silver bill that, if the Pres- ident would, for tho time, surrender his notions of Civil-Bervice reform, he might save the country by such a judicions distri- bution of his pnironago that enough votes would be secured in tho Senate to sustain the voto. This policy was strongly hinted if not dircetly advocated by more than one Noew York paper. 'The Albany Erening Journal seems to regret that tho President wns wenk onough not to have bribed enough Senators to have defeated the Silver bill, nnd in commonting on the veto it expresses its disgust by snying: Tiut it matters lttle what the President snys, 1t will have no influence upon the fate of the measnro O way or fic othcr, 10 Will of n J ACKan%, the polltienl tact of n Lixcot, or the quiet hut effect mal leadershilp of n” GnAXT, could arrest it Thora wns a time when even President 1layas, with dif- ferent counscis and with eacnest will, could suc- cexafally have cried hait to thle on-rushing mad. ness. {Sut that time has gone by, ‘They understand this business better at Albany. Ono honr of Coxrrixe would have been moro prized than a lifotime of n Presi. dont who wonld not either sell or buy; who would not make patronngo o logal-tonder, or remonctizo officeholding. Tho fact is, Pres- ident Hayes voluntarily surrendered Execit- tivo control of Seuatorinl votes when he abolished the Sonatorinal excrclse of Execu. tive powers, and refused to lot Senators ap- proprinte patronago and distribute offices amoung their dependents. Ifad tho Prosident appointed Pratr ns Postinnster-General, things would, according to the Albany no- tion of doing business, hiave gono admirably, Tho Postmaster-General would have given unlimited authority in the way of appointing Postmastors and awarding postal contracta to a sufficient num- bor of Henators to have eatisfied them that the Silver bill was n national dis- grace, But Pratr wos not made Postmaster- General, and tho man who was would not, even to ‘save the country,” offer any Sountor a bribe, and henco everything went to tha ctornal bow-wows. The intimation that Jaczsoy, aud LincoLy, and GrasT conld bave manipulnted tho Bonate, and induced that body to have puttho country at deflanca and have defeated the Silver bill, is not war- ranted by history. Tho statement is untrue, The intimation that thero was n timo when even Presidont 1axes *with different conn. sels” could have commanded a controlling voto in ghe Senate, is equally untrue, The inforonco, however, is that, had Mr. Coxzuive been allowed to run the Administration, and other machine Souators been allowed to manage the local yolitica of their States, and if tho Presidont had given the seloction of Lis Cabinet to the gontlomen who wero not nominated at Gin- cinnati, then the veto of the Silver bill could havo been sustained. This s unfounded in fact. Tho Hilver bill was demanded by the country, It wns not an anti-Administration measuro ; it was not a party measure; but it was n national mensure, appesling to all scctions and to tho peoplo of all portics, It could not bave bren defeated. It might have been postponed ; but the elections next November wonld have given such an expross. ion to the popular will that no awmount of bribery or machine politics could have dared any longer to resist. Wo do not proposa to argue the facts, Our purpose is to call attention to the low tone of morals exhibited in this Albany paper, where with hardly-disguised bitterness it tipbraids tho President in not being squal to his opportunity, and for uot having em. ployed the Exccutive patronage to bribe a sufficient number of Senators to Lave sus. tained the veto, When palitical degradation ronclies that point that the central organ of an aspiring candidato for the Presidency ac- cuses the President of moral wenkucss {n tho cause of nntional honor, in refusing to use Executive pntronage to -influence (purchaso) votes enough to defeat the Silver bill, we can understand to sowa oxtent how grateful the country should be to the Cin. clunatl Convention for what it did not do, I'ho prospect of a reform in the Civil Bervice, or of reform in onything, cannot be very brilliant so long ns American politics are thus disgracofully illustrated. PATIENCE AND PERTINACITY WILL WIN THE VICTORY, *t‘There {8 no use in saying anything about Custom-House frauds,” xnid Mr. L, Z. LeiTes, of tho Ilouse of Tietny, Lerren & Co, “Why?* queried a'I'nisuNereporter, *'Talk. ing does no good," eaid Mr. Lrires, and pro- ceoded When ovidenco s lald beforo the Becrotary of the ‘Ircasiiry, Le takea no notice of It Loukat that man JaNze. 1t the cvidence againat bl is true, Lio s a scoundrel, apd oughit to bo dlsmisscd, but the Secretary bas dons nothing, §t dues no #uod to whow where frauds ure cauimitied, since o notlce 15 taken of them, and wo iutend saying uothlug wore. ‘Wothink that Mr. Leiten is altogether too {ast. We nre not by any meaus of the opin- fon that the Becrotary of the Trensury is disposed to iguore evidenco tending to show tho existence of frands, either among the subordinates of the Collcotor of New York or among his own subordinates, The ns- sumption of Mr. Leres, that the Koux case was brought to the attention of the Sccre. tary os soon ns the * conditional” decision of Br. James was made known to the Col- lectorof Customsat this port,—a month ago, —is & volent presumption. If Mr. Collector Barru wrote immediately to the Secretary ou tho subjoct, tho letter probably went into the hands of Mr. Janes bim- sclf, and he probably threw the docnment into the Treasury waste-basket. That Mr. Ssurr should wait some timo be- fora renawing the appenl is nataral. That ho shonld arriva at tho conclusion that his former lottor probably mever ronched tho hiands of the Becretary, and so provide nmply ngainst the recarronco of tha accident, is nlso nataral, Honco it s fair to presume that notice of the Konx cnse hns barely reached tho Secrotary, and that ho has not yet con- sidered it or had timo to act in tha premises. Bat admitting that Mr. Lerren is correct in Lis premise—that * it does do good to show where frands are committed since no notice is taken of thom,"—his conclusion—to **may nothing"—is certainly wrong, radically wrong., If Tne Tnisuxz sball at last bo convinced that officinls of the Govern- ment neglect or rofuse to take no- tico of the frauds pointed out, it will by no menns cense to point them out. It is precisoly nt that period of time that Tne Trisuxe will *ery aloud and spnre not.,” Apramast Lixcory, as President, was careful to move no fasteron tho rond to reform than the mass of his follow-citizens. ‘Whean ho propared to nssautt the enemy, he wanted to ba sure of ample support, to the end that the blow might Lo a heavy and de- cisive one, The reign of castoms frauds in New York has been so long and snccesaful that Sccretary SnensaNy may well hesitate to grapple with the Ring uatil he is suro that the press and peoplo of the country are with him, Every great reform of tho nges hns left its martyrs Ly tho wayside. History is fullof the cascs of noblo mon who have fallen helplessly, in conflict with ginnt ovils, for want of support in the nick of timo. *8ny nothing” and *‘do nothing " are not lovers of progress. In the effort to overthrow an abuse so gigantio and 8o old as that of the New York Custom-ITouse mismanage- mont, it caunot bo reasonably demanded that Becrotary Buenvay should do more than keop fully abreast with the tide of pub- lio sentiment., The whole publie is intorest- ed in tho proposed reform. Every dollar stolen from the revenues at tho New York Custom-House is an addition to the tax bur. den of every citizen of the conntry, which comes {n the form of additiounl taxation to meet tho deficit cansed by the theft, Thera- fore overy cilizen of every Stnto in the Union shonld, from the standpoint of per- sonal wotive, stand by the Beeretary in the prosecution of the work of reform, But Mr. Lziten is in a position to feel tho di- rect forco of tho outrnge. ‘The frands nt the Now York Custom-llouse constitute n discrimination ngainat Lim personnlly. Thoy drive him, n merchant, from the foroign markets, and compel him to buy the goods Lo prefers to import of importers in New York City, who, he 8 morally cor- tnin, aro placed in an advantagoous position over him by resson of the fact that they have robbed the Government of a portion of ita rovenues, Tho position is humilinting, and Mr. Lerrer should not balt half way on tho rond to the exposuro and punishment which surcly await the scoundrels who have had tho effrontery to decroo his banishment from tho markets of foroign countries. TRUE TEMPERANCE REFORM. The Massnchusotta Legislature recently had before it o petition nuking for legisla- tive disorimination in favor of nle and beer. Tho potition was supported by a strong argn- mont from a Mr. Revren, who ropresonted tho Brewera' Association. The petition and argumont ecom to have produced a deop im- pression on the public, if not on the Legis- Iaturo, Fivo roasons wero ndduced in justi. fleation of the desired legislation, Thoy wero, briefly, ns follows: (1) That loger beer and alo contain only abont 4 per cont of alcohol, combined with over 6 per cent of nourishing malt-extract; (2) that they have invariably been found pure; (3) that thoy gratify without injury o lovo of stimulants which is ono of the strongest of human in. stincta; (4) that tho classification of all liquors ns equally injurious, nnd their taxa- tlon as such, tend to - discournge the use of tho least injurions; and (6) that ale and Leor, on nccount of their bulky and perish. nble nature, which makes evasion of tha tox impossible, bear tho burden of tho Ilaw, ‘Theso sovoral propositions are aupported by oxtracts from tho annual roports of the Stato Board of Health, Mr. Revten maintained in his argument that tho brawers deaerved cradit for * moral courago and adherenco to prineiplo,” inas. much as they had declared war upon the dis- tillers; and it is well known that browers look for tho salo of by far the largor part of theirproduct to those who are at the same timo intorestod in the sale of distilled spirits, Tn support of the position tunt the craving for stimnlante is well-nigh nviversal, he quoted tho cstimates of good authoritios that' mato iwused by 10,000,000 people, cocon by os many more, chicory by 40,000,000, the chocolate bean by 40,000,000, coffes and botel each by 100,000,000, opium by 100,- 000,000, tea by 500,000,000, and tabaeco by 801,000,000. ‘Thenumberof peoplousingaloo: Liolio stimulanta is probably greater thau any of these. ‘“A practico so general," Lo argued, * commencing in romote antiquity, sud common to Loth savage and civilized peoples, noocasarily arises from a natural eraving of man.” In regard to the nourlsh. ing qualitics of beer, Mr. revren found veluablo testimony in the report of the Inspector and Assayer of the Commnon. wealth of Massachusotts, who fonnd mine samples of beor nod ale analyzed by him to nverage 4.00 in nlcoliol, and G.09 in walt ox- tract, Good cow's unlk contains 13 to 15 por cent of solid substanees; hencs, 100 gallons will, in the nverage, yicld fourteen galions of nutritious wattor. There nre produced in thia country, annuslly, about 280,000,000 gollons of beer and nlo; these would repre- sent in nutritious matter—at the rate of 14 to 6—120,000,000 gallons of milk. Nor can it bo succassfully maintained that the barley used in this production is * wasted” It would not be grown at all, or ouly Iu incon. siderable quantities, if it were not for the wanufacture of Leer. As it is, barley is the suveuth staple agricultural product of the couutry, and nearly 37,000,000 more valuable thau tho tobacco industry. It yields, next to tobacco aud potatoes, tho highest valus of any crop produced. The mauufacture of beer thus cansey, indirectly, o large returu to tho agricultural population, Moreover, the barloy is mot *‘wasted"” after it has been through the mash-tubs, but is used for feed. For this purpose it is vastly mare valuable than distillers' slops. The * grains” result- ing from 23,000,000 bushels of malt annu. ully usod ropresont 403,200 tons of hay in feeding value. Continuing his argument, Mr. Revren showed - from tho veports of Btate officials that' beer aud ale are scllom adulterated. He quoted from Prof. Mare- scooLT’s *“ Obemistry of Food" to establish tho beneficial byglenio properties of beer as & boverage, and reinforced this position with tho testimony of Dr. H. P. Bowoizcs, Dr. Joux P. Rxvxorvs, and Dr. Cuanixs E. Booxuamay, all well-koown pbysicians of Boston, keferring to tha oxporfenca of na- tions whero beor is most widely msed, he mnintained that drmnkennesa was compnra- tively unknown among them, and quoted on this hend tho observations of the oditor of Tae Tnmunz in all parts of Germany, of Dr. Bownrren in Munich, and of Dr. Rev. xorps in Vienna, The authority of plysi- cinns was also givon to show that malt llquors are often ngoful as a tonic whon ali olso fails. Mr, Revren, it will be observed, makes no statemonts withont authority, He has line upon line, precept upon precept, for avery proposition ho advances, His argument is doubly vnluable, beeauso it proceeds upon sufiicient information. It is cnlenlated to convince overy thoughtful, inprofudiced per- son that the manufacture and sale of malt liquors mny, nnder some circumstances, be proteotion against the worst evils of intom- perance. In this respect the argument voicos tho sentiments that Trz Tninuns has long enlertnined and often expressed, Wherover beer and light wine can ba snbati- tuted for nrdent spirits, they aro a national blessing; and, o far aslegisiation can bo used to procure such a substitution, it should be freely resorted to. The proper means to ndopt to accure this end have been indieated. Tho most eflicient prohibitory laws that have over been passed have lamentably failed of their purpose; and any Inwa which try to eradicato the appetites of men must meet the rame fnte. All that can be dono is to in- fluenco nnd regulato these appetites. This can be ensiest nccomplished by giving tho freest salo, consistent with the demands of the rovenuo, to wine and beor, and by mak- ing tho sale of ardent spirits troublesomo and expensiva, 3 DBR. MARY WALKER'S GRIEVANCE. Dr, Many WarLxen has a griovance, ‘There is nothing remnrkable in that, for Dr, Many Wargen frequently hns grievances, Ifer latest griovance grows out of her own eccen- tric idens 08 to dress, which exhibit her npon the strect in n toggery that appertnins noither to man nor woman, and makes it uncertain whethor she is fish, flesh, or fowl. ‘The average pedestrinn in Washington has probably becomo ncenstomed to what was ouco n startling phenomenon, but the streot. Arabs have not, and, ns tho gamin of the guttoer nlways has o keon relish for tho ridic. ulons, and claims anything ont of tho com- mon ns fair target for his merrimont, Dr. Marr Warxcr hns been sclected by the newshoys and bootblacks as theirvictim, and wheno'er sho walks abroad, an ndmiring throng of theso gentry swarm after her with suggeations moro forciblo than elegant, and requests more personal than polite, For in- stamce, sho s desired to *‘Shoot that lint,” aod *“Pull down lLer vest.” Ifer remon. strances tre followed by the interpellativo, “What do you soy?" or an intense desiroon thoir part to learn if sho is ‘‘giving them taffy,” or n warning that she may “mnke herself disliked." Tho ill-manners of theso small boys, howaver roprohensible, are hard.» ly to be wonderod at. The boys aro not awaro that sho is o dress reformer, or that sho {a the exponent of hygienie, esthotic, and philosophical ideas. Thoy rogard her undoubtedly as an iconoclast, if not a mon. strosity, and think thoy are cntitled to treat her as thoy would ono of “their own number who skonld appenr on the streot with n clean shirt or o white necktio. They seo in thoir crude, nnsciontifio way that somo of the propricties have been violated, nnd thero is no greater stickler for rontine than tha gomin, Ono who doubts this mny test it at apny timo by running the gauntlet of tho Madison streot tribo in any style of dress at varianco with the prevalling fashion, o does not assall Dr, Many Warxen with his argot Dbocouso slio isn woman or because lie bears any malico towards her, but simply because, bong n woman, sho offends his consorvativa idens by nppearing upon the street in a stylo of drosa that jara ogainst the eoternal filness of things. Thero are older people who tako tho same view of Dr. Many Warxen, but being more politic in thelr dispesition, and not having that buoyancy and friskiness that charnctorizo kittous, calves, and gamius, thoy keep their thoughts to themaclves, wherens in tho case of thoe Impulsive small Loy of tho curb ho efforvosces nnd bursts gll Lounda of decorum in the expression of his foolings, Upon ono of thase occasions, it is to bo confussed, Dr. Many Warken rose superior to tho situation and made an ox- amploof ono gamin that struck terror to the rest of the flock, Tho victim was unusually gifted, not only in powor of lungs, but in his flow of English, and mado it so livaly for tho Doctor with gibes and jesta that sho gave chase to him and overtook him. Selzing him by tho nape of tho neck with one hand and by that portion of his breeches famil.' farly known to his guild ns tho *“slack " with tho other, sho held him up and nearly shook tho lifo out of him, nud sodomoralized the victim of hor wrath that he has ever sinco rogrotted tho intimncy of his acqummnt- ance with the Doctor, notwitbstauding the fact that he is regarded aa a horo by the rest of hia fellows. 'The shaking up of this one M1 gamin, however, was a8 {neffectual as would bo the killing of ono hornet iu n nestfult, Knowlng tho terror that o policeman in. spires in the Lreast of the gomin, she has determined to suppress hor small perscculora Ly seeking a place on the police, and a few evenings since she filed the following appli- eatlons Tn the Honorable Noard of Comnisstoners of Matrapoliturs Polica of Wiushinglon ~GrNrLENEN 1 herevy nake application Lo be uppoluted o special poltcewaman on the police furce of thiscity, | clalm that 1 am tho nul{ woman n the United States that Is qualified to hold such a poasttion, ns [ aw tho only one who ever held & commienion in the Unlted’ Stutes arny, having been honorably diechurged as n Contract Surgeon in the regular army st tho close of the War, Many E. Warkew, M. D, In asubsequent interviow with a roportor of the Washington Post she mapped out her campaign as follows: ‘I propose, when I get my commission and badge, to have o crook put on the handle of my cane, so that Ican catch tho little scamps by the collars and gatber them in." Much as wo may ad. miro the pluck of the Doctor in thus sevking to circumvent her persecutors, we fear the jub will not be a4 ensy as sho faucies. Rag- pickers display great dexterity in fishing cut flotsam from the gutters with their crooks, but a gemin is movable, clastic, and as ec- centrio in his movemonts na a-devil's darning- ucedle, Bhe may reach out for him only to find ho isn't there, and, even if sho succceds in wecurely hooking bim, he may shed his vaiment, leaving her with nothing but s small jacket for a trophy, whils he, with flugers gyrating from the end of "his nose, slipa casily away. It secms to us there is a larger field in which she may operate, and ono worthy of any woman's ambition. Beivg invested with authority to ‘¢ comprehend vagrom men,” and armed with club, erook, and revolver, she can walk abroad in the full panoply of the law by day and night and gather in the loafers and bummers. In such a city as Washington, whoro total ab- stinence s not regarded with particular favor, she might even now and then capture a Con. gressman out Jato at night and a littlo tho worao for wenr, and thua get evon with somo of thore who have recently ridiculed her pre. tontions ambitions. We do not know, for instance, of a more inatrnetive apeetacls than Bex Buries or Sunset Cox with Many War. KER'S crook in their coat-collar, and admon- istied to ** Como along now, will yon?" In such a spoctacle of Lovely Woman rising trinmphant over Tyrant Man there wonld bo compensation for centuries of peracention and slavery. By all menns give Dr. Many ‘Wazken o billy, Give Susan I8, Axtnony ono, and Mrs. Ltveryone one, and Mra, Capy SranToN one, and every other Sorosister one, and then sonnd thae slogan in the enraof their persccutors that the peelors aro coming. ——— END OF THE CUBAN WAR. All the circumatances seom to indicate that the Cubnu war, which has now Insted abont ton yosrs, has been brought to n closo by a trinmph of Spanish authority. But it {s evi. dontly a triumph gnined rather by conces- sion than by the assertion of superior force, ‘Thora is littlo doubt that the Cuban patriots conld bave maintained n formidable insur- reotion for many yonrs longer had Spain fought them under the barbarous and in. Luman tactics purated during several yenrs by Vazdtasena, enconrnged aud sustained by the Home Government, Then tho policy was massncrs, not war, and Spain found ita fighting material undor the name of * Volun. teers” in tho penitentiaries, and gallcys, and chain-gangs; the beautiful Island of Cuba was Inid desolate, and men and boys wera slaughtered by tho tons of thousands, by these bloodthirsty wrotches with command- ers scarcoly less brutal than thomselves, ad this kind of warfare been mnintained up to the present time, we believo that not only would tho insurrcction not have been crashed, but thal some portion of tho oivil. ized world would have intorposed on tha ground of humanity and the confessed ina. bility of Spain to govern Cuba as one of her provinces, There I8 reason to beliove that Gen, Man- TiNEZ-OAMPOS dosorves the Jargest share of tho credit for tho moro recont policy of denl- ing with the insurgents, which has finally bronght about their surrender; for, had JovrLran, the Captain-General, followed his instincts, ho would have abided by the tra- ditional policy of oppression in peace and oxterminntion in war, which bos character- izod Sponish rulo of the Island of Cuba forn contury and half. But Mantinez.Oasros, naftor showing tho superior strength of good soldipry, under proper discipline and fight ing nccording to tho rules of civilized war. faro, indicated a policy of concilintion, 'The terms include general amnesty, tho omanci- pation of slaves who were in the lines of the iusurgents, n ropresontation in the Spanish Corton nccording to population, and the ap- plication to Ouba of the same provineial aud municipal laws 08 obtain in Spain; theso Inws have boen in operation in Porto Rico for some time. ‘Whether or not Cnba shall long remain in a stato of quict will dopend entirely upon the good faith of the Home Governmont in following out tho spirit of conciliation and fair trontment promised by the terms of peace. Cuba in the past has always been at tho mercy of tho Captain.General, who ruled with as despotio n sway ns if he were aun Emperor in the Middle Ages, and the Coptains-Genoral have usually beon chosen by tho Home Government from men who would apply tho scrows and extort tho ut. most revenns from tho residents of the island by fair means or foul, This is the underlying renson of the constant succoasion of rovolts, insurrections, and robollions which have torn aund ront the lovely island over sinco the population was large anough to offor resistanco to the policy of oppres- slon. Nor Is there any reason to expectaper- manent ccesation of outbrenks now unloss the Spanish Government ehall abandon the effort to mquoczo out of Cuba, by taxations and impositions, tho entire yield of jts rich resources. ‘Tho Cuban population, in its preaont advanced condition, domands all the ndvantages and concessions due to n crvilized condition. The gradual cmnncipation proj. cct muat bo enrriod out in good faith; the amnoaty stipulations must be folly main. tained; tho nativo Cubans must have the samo property and personal rights as the Bpaniah onjoy ; tho policy of trade discrim. ination must Le steadily modified till it dis- appears, because it is this moro than auy. thing olso which has opprossed and impov. erished tho Cubnns in spito of tho excep- tional luxurianco of thoir island and nlmost unlimited product of their eofl. Any roturn to tho old Spanish misrule of tho island will moroe surely incito insurrcction in the futuro than it hos in tho past, ‘Tho Doston Adeertiner evidently feels mor- tified at the passage of the Silver bill, and is trying to pick a quarrel with Tuoe Tnmuye about something clse, . Here is tho way it goes about it: Doow Tyte Trinuxg hold with the Toledo Con- vention that the bonds of $he United States wore yayable w greenbacks prior to 1860 Titherto, 1f wa mivtako not, It tronely eensured that opin- fon. Ilitaorte it hios contenden that & prooise to I:uyl-nutpny. Now |t talks about Wull strect aw aving **produced the lexislation of 1800 that wade tho paper obligntton: incoln,” “With slve ‘IMBUNE going to open 8 nuw campalyn fn terests of the Greenbackers? u the fn- We should like to know If the abuvo expresalon, quotea from It, was tha result of an oversight ou the part of its editor, orif e now holds that the Uniled Statcs bond wero payable In leal-tender notes befure the y sage of 1hu decluratory act of 1809, and if he d approves of tha intter measuro, Tus ‘Tuinuse holds that the United Statea bouds nat speclally payable in paper are payable now in coin,—gold or silver, at the option of the Government,—and that thoy were 80 payable from 1800 to 1873. The Bilver bill simply reatores the option, Whether they were payable exclusively in coln before 1809 is no longer au open ques- tion, and the discussion would ba too un. profitable to follow at this late day. Asthe Bwect Singer of Michigan would say, that matter has been disposed of ‘“hitherto, horebefore.” Tux Cuicaco ‘Fribuxs has always maixtained that the utmost limit to which legul-tender notes could be issued by tho Government is $100,000,000, and Tne Tasune bas nover ndvocated any policy violatiug that lmit, 1t the Adrertiscr wants to discuss some living question, lot it explain to its readers why the natioual bonds, now payable in *00- cent dollars,” have not fallen in valne at Lome or abroad, and why it is that gold has not fsen in ths proportion of the difference between 00 and 100 cents, and why it is that capital, alarmod at the natfonal dishonor and uational bad faith involved in the remonsti. zation of silver, has not chartered various steamers to carry off the gold to Europe. Wo think tho Adcertiser indulged in various owl.like predictious of this character a fow woeks ago, sud we would like to know why the prophocics have failed, and why the couutry doos not ruin worth talking sbout. ———— ‘Tox 8corr’s Louisville organ, the Courier- Journal, makes a frantio cffort to reliove itsolf of the merioun responsibility of advo. cating n proposition to plunder the publis Trensury by designating Tne Ontcado Trip. unz as ¢ Hontinaton's Chicago orgnn ™ thnt thero inno principle of etirien which war. rants tho dinchargo of the Courier-Journay from the imputation of selfish and improper motives by bringing a connter-chargo against romobody clse. Even if Tne Tarsune were ** HuxTinaToN's Chicago organ,” as the Conr. ierJournal says, the disgracoful position which tho O.-J. occupies as Tox Scorr's organ would be in no manner improved or oxcused by that fact, Of conrse Tne Tpip. uNe isn't HunTINGTON'S organ asy more than it is Tox8corr's. The Courier-Journal says the Southern people demand a new railrond connection with the Pacific Const ; ‘Tae TribuNk opposes that demnnd in so far ns it involves any now outlay of Governmont moneys, or any further pledge of Govern. meont credit, which is equivalont to the ssme thing in tho end. Every propo. sition that has been introduced into Congross in tho interest of the Toy Scorr Texns Pacific Railroad has provided for a subsidy, varying in amonat, in the shape of o gunrautee of intorost. In tho meantime, Mr, Monzy hns introduced a bill giving the right ot wny to the Southern Californin Company, transforring to that Company the land-grant previously voted (so far ns it shall complete tho road), and requiring it to construct Goo miles of road within the next six yoars, Tne Taiouxe has soid that it is at onco ab. surd and suspicious to inalst on guaranteeing bonds for one company, in addition to n land.grant, whon another company of at lenst equnl resources and eredit is willing to undertake the wark for thoe land.grant alone, and without any bond or’ money subsidy. We do not understand thot tho Moxcr. HuxTixoToN proposition involves anything olse. Menawhile, it ia very funny to seo the Courier-Journal rail at the awful subsidy which it is praposed to give the Huxtinatox Company in lands already donated for that purpose, and at tho same time insist upon the justice of giving not only theso lands but a bond-subsidy also to the Tou Bcorr Company, There's logio for you! Bil H. R. 2,805—BANNING's—provides for the discharge from the army on or beforo the 1at of January, 1870, of the following officers: Three Driqadier-Generals— Adjntant-General's Department, 13 Burcau of Military Justice, 1; Pay Department. 1. icentp-fics. Golonels—Adjutant-Gonoral's De- partment.'1: Inapeclor.Gensral's Depactment, 4; Commissary and ?nunmmntnr'l Denartmont, 4; Pay Department, 13 cavaley, 41 artillery, 2; In- fantry, 10, (Should the President assigh ono of the supcrnumerary Colonels to the position of Judze (hdyocato-Ganeral, tho losn of Colonels woul 24, Twenly-four Lleienant-Colonels — Adjutant. General' no;»mment, 2 Comuiseary and Quar- Department, 8 cavalry, 43 arillery, “Jtajors — Adjutant-Ceneral's De. t, 8; Inspector-Genaral'a Department, 13 Burcau of Military Justice, 7; Commissary and Quartermaster's Departments, '12; I'ay Departe ment, 45; caraley, 133 artiilery, 0. (Should the Presldent transfer Majora from the cavaley or artil- lery Lo the five now positions of that grada created in tho infantry, tha joes of Majors would bo 01, ) 4ico Hundred and_XNine Uaplaine—Commisexry and Quartermaster Departments, 7; cavalry, 43; artillery, 24; infantry, 10, Ziwo Ilundred and” Eighiy-eight First-Lienten- ants—Cavalry, 563 artiilory, 524 Infantry, 180, Tiwro Hundred dnd Four Second-Lieulenants— Cavalry, 48: artillery, 20, infantry, 130, Four Chaplame—Cavnlry, 23 Infantry, 2, Secen Milltary Storekeepers — Quartormaster's Dcoartment, Bhould the President assign an oxtra Sccond Lieutenant to cach company of cavalry and in- fantry under Bccs. 4 and 0, tho loss of Second Lieutenants would boe reduced to twelve. The total loss by dlscharge, as the bill stands, will be 835 otlicers, which may bo reduced to 637 by the pssignment of one Colonet, five Majors, and 102 Sceond Licutenauts as above clited. If theso officers remain in service to be mustered out with ona year's pay onJan. 1 next, ft will re- quire more than a million and a half dollars to pay them off. It they scll their commissions under the provisions of Scc. 18 of tho bill, it will require more than two and a lialf million dollars. — Tho late overwhelming voto of the Convocay tion of tha London University in favor of ad- mitting women to examination forall its do- grees appears, after all, not to bavo closed the struggle. The vote, following as it did the favorahle action of tho Senate, the rullng hody of tho Univeraity, was thought to have finally decided in favor of women the contest begun by the Listorian Grotsmany years ago, But o correspondent of tho London Times almost mockingly warns somen not to be prematura in thelr cxultatlon, ¢ as thero {a a scheme on foot among the medical graduates which will defeat the objects of the new charter, so far asit re- Iates to women.” It s now clalmed that tho University of London has already resigned {ts power of admitting any one to its medieal degress untll they have passed the oxamination of a Doard now In formation, consisting of representatives of all the medical cornorations, and to be called the Conjoint Board of Medical Examination. This Board will not sdmit women to cxamination, and it is hoped by the medical men that this obataclo will be fatal to the wholo scheme. Tho male doctors bellevo thoy are threatened with great loss of practice if thoy are subjocted to the competition of women. Thoy plead that they aro fighting for sclf-preacrvation, but they cannot deny that they nre fizhting with wormen. ——— Here is the manner in which Mr, Gzonux Mc- Hexny udvertised himself in o London paper concerning the Silver bill: 1 know of my awn knowledes, for I am only & short thue froin home—I am & Pennsyivanian—that tha people of the Atluntic States Intend following tho oxample of the people of the Pacifio States, and will refuss to do buay except nron a yold pasis, The people of the M pi’ Valley—naver woll up In the sclence of 1 may rave Just as much #4 thoy chooso b this; but, as thu{ are debtors, and if they avail themselves of & Bilver law, lhe{ will get no more credit from the East, They will svon sve the fully of their ways, and’ the **dollar of our fathers,” It it ever reappears, will eventu- ally finde its 'way inlo the hands of the bulllun dealers, tu be sold and re-suld in order to pay Federal taxes, That will be 1t function. Mr. Grouax McHennry will find employment at home, working up the scheme of buying and selling exclusively on a gold basts. ‘The penple of the Mississippi Vatley are well enough up fo the science of fluance to know & good dollar when they ses it, and to find plenty of persons williug tu scll them onythlug they nced and tako the dollars 1u exchanze. —— Mr. W. W. Astor, who lutely, fn the New York Assembly, advocated the useof light wine asud beer, bas been excoriated by Birs. Busax- Nau Evans, in a lecture delivered {n tho Cooper Institute, Bpeaking of drunkeancss (a tho wine-growlug dlstricts of Europe, sho sald that, during the viotage-scason, the men fired off horsc-pistols fn the day-time, and, on re- turning to thelr homes along the mountalu- paths, they shoyted as though crezed with driuk, Mrs, Evans' rcmarks would iudicatos degreo of depravity hitherto unthought of i1 connection with Europe. The borriblo practice of firing off horse-pistols~the common peoples it Is well koown, aro all srmed with horsc-pls- tols—canuot be too much deprecated; nor, in- deed, can we look with anytblog but saducss upon the picture of men shoutivg along the mountain-paths, ——— Tho Brooklyn ferry companies have a surplus of half a milllon, and tho New York legisiators have Introduced soveral biils to reduco the fare on the ferrics. It §s safc to predict that the bill will not pass, and that scveral rural legislators will lift the mortzages ou thelr farms fu the spriog. ——— The Bllver bill is dangerous and alarming, be: causs of the vila intent of inuss who coiucered it Itiea stepic the wrong direction. and o:ber must now follow. It s the Srat drop of blood ths! will infurlate the Communists in Congress as lh?l- of Pariata i8It s & 'l“?fi o "x:‘h Fpidls ators, insano finsnciers, §o4ues, the rascally politiclans—for Communism