Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1878, Page 4

4 : ; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL Y, 1878, The Tribwre. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. vited to purchase American conl, ns affording | placid as the brooks ihint used to wind in 1 better and, all things considered, a cheaper | and out among his anccstors’ wigwams. It fuel than they have over had, and they, in | would be a recommondation for Mr. Frzrp acswor, ask that if they buy our coal, what | if he know Our Canten; it would bo a still will the Pennsylvaniane purchaso in roturn,— | strougor one if he were his cousin, Some Will they take silke, velvots, carpets, calf. | one with Indian blood in his voins is needed sking, or other French productions,—what | for the place. A full-blooded Indian with will our Pennsylvanin frionds say in reply? | tomahawk and scalping-knifo would be a will they insist that, in order to protect | better Doorkecper than cither Mr. Frxrp or ‘home industry, thoy must not purchass any | Gen. Bmxrps, and might hope to keop off French goods: that if Fronch goods be sont | the voracious hordes of hungry patriots of 40 per cent of the cash valun. tion of real estate or other wealth. The bank fs given permission to pay & proviously-tondered tax on A 40-per-cent valnation, and is granted an injunction foraver forbidding the gresdy tithe-gathorer from further effort to sccure the remaining GO per cent erroncously de- manded before the inception of litigation. ——eeeer thoory that the Eleotoral Commission refused to go back of the State rolurns, and that it was this decision which precluded Trupex from tho prosentation of tho frauds he and hia party claimed had bean committed against thom, the Democrats’ profor an indefinite ropotition of disputa and trouble rather than oonsont to abate a dogma which botrayed them into socossion, rebellion, defeat, and disgrace. If this is not Bourbonism, then tho torm hns been universally misapplied. Domooratio spoila system they have amirched thiemselves and brought disgraco on their party. No party enn touch Tammany Hall pitch or Jacxsox spoils systom without being defiled and dishonore: swar to this s tho testimony of Herr Mosr, ana of the most dlstingulshed Boclalists In Gep. many, who, fu a public speech recently deliy. ered In Berlin, declared that J'trades-uniong could not better the condition n? lnborers,”” "5 report of the speech can bo found In a letter to the London Times, dated Berlin, March 10, ang prioted about the 20th ult, —————— As the horny-handed railrond manager of the boundless West surveys the pile of a few thoy. ssnd cords of wood stolen by his horay-nandeq TY MAIL—IN ADVANCR—POSTAGE PREPAID. Paily Faition, on %1 arisof age e It i porfactly extrnordinary that the Pa- cifia Railroads vonture to put forth lobby offorta to defoat the Benata Judiciary bill ro. quiring them to pay over 25 per cont of their niot earnings into a sinking fund to provide e year. et mon : Lite 540 o858 y Edition, tweive pagc Triireckis, one rear. It30f & year, per monil WRERLY EDITION, TOSTPALD. Mr., Hewrrr, of New York, has invented {on of the Governmont bonds | laburers from the vatlonal dontaln, he rejol, Orecopy, per yea .50 | olan which he thinks will sxpedite tho trans. | to Philadelphis in exchange for conl, they | thirsting for place. Mr. Frsup boing the | As & matter of fact, however, it Is only the | for tho redomptl o \ b rejolces U;Ee:xi(::rmm nt tree. ks upcllnn of business in the ip{oma of Repre- | must bo taxed 60 to 80 per cent, or at whot- | suceossfal candidate, wo are sorry he ia not | extromo scnsitiveness of the Democracy -to loaned to them, Is it possible they do not ::Sl:‘l::::“‘ he was uot born s “Prooshlun, Glve Post-Gthee address in fall foctudtog Stateand | gantatives, Jis plan contemplatea the fit. | ever rate will bo high enough to provent | Our OanTEn's cousin. any possiblo infringement of thelr false doo. | 500 that their Marrazwa bill cannot be County, Lemittances may be made either by draft, express, Fut-Uffice order, or In registered lctters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS. o Tatly, delivered, Sunday excerted, 25 centa per week, 1 4Ny, delfvered, Eundsy included, 80 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearbos 8., Chicago. Il Orders for the delivaryof Tix TRinuxE at Evanston, Enpiewoud, and Hyds Park leftin the counting-room ®ilireceive promot attentlon. Bound the lond timber o'er Montana T, Jim l’l::l‘nl hie hath triumohed—we get our wood i — Offclal returns made to the Buresu ot Statye. Lics show that during the month of March, 137: there arrived at the port of New York 4,533 {m. migrante, of whom 3,204 were males and 1,833 femaler. During the three mouthss endeq March 81, 1873, thé total fmmigration Into thy port was 8,786, as compared with 7,230 arrivaly during corresponding perlod of 1877, passed, no matter how much tribe.money they moy expend on members of Congross? And do they not know enough (o know that the dofeat of {he Taorsax bill will precip. itate nn issue of thequsstion at the polls noxt fall, domanding thst one.-half or two- thirds of the net carnings of the ronds shall he put into a sinking fund until the money they ows the Government isrepald? If the people are baffled tn this demand, the next ono will be for Congress lo repesl thocharterof those grab-all companies. a8 fthas resorved the suthority to do, and diract the President to take possession of the lines and operate them for the general good of the public. What the companica have thus far had from the Government was tersoly set forth by Senator Monrivrz, of Ver- mont, in a spoech 1ast week in favor of the Traunsay bill. After showing tho extraordi- narily moderate demands of the bill, which only required that out of the net earnings of tho companies a small portion thereof shall be set asida under tho control of the Treas- ury Department for the payment of the in- torest ou the bonds as itaccrues, and of the principal of the moncy subsidy when it matures, Sonator Monnirt proceeded as fol. lows: First=We have given to them, s estimated at different times :Iz the Gencral Land Ofice, from 20, 000 to 30,000,000 acrce of publiclauds, not wholly of much present value, but with abone dant coal hields of pricsless valu¢, exceeding even the Inexhaustible anthracite coal flelds of Penn- rding & cheap and marketable supreme element in the cheap ting up of a new hall for the mecting of tha Hlonse, whersin thers shall be mneither speochmaking, writing, private conversas tion, nor anything bat strict attention to logistative business. Ho has, how. over, in sketching the details, omitted ono important item in the furnituro of the new lhall—which is, that it #hall be fitted up with members of Congress who have somo other end and eim in life than the lobbying through of private claims and the voting of enormons subsidies to cor- porations with liberal notions,.ss to divi- dends. Unless Mr, Hzwrrr can do some- thing in this direction, thero 18 littlo chance of succoss for his latest reform project. — THE EXPORTATION OF COAL. The latest novelty is the sending of nn {mmense stoam-collier to Paris' carrying rome 1,300 tons of various-sizod anthracite conl. Tho ateam-colliot itself is a curiosity, and it bears on it for exhibition in Parls o locomotive built with a grate farnace, and adapted for the use of tho waste or dust conl, the ‘refuse of thomines. These Joco. motivos havo been in operation for savernl yoars on tho Philadelphin & Rending Radl- road. Thoy aro said to bo run nt a cost for fuel of three conts per mile, tho ordinary cost being twelve cents por milo; anditis stated os n fact that tho consumption of this waste or dust.coal does not exceod ton por ton the consumption of tho larger coal for tho same service. It is intended to exhibit this machinory and illustrate the economy in thus utilizing the wasto,and dust of the mines, which may bo had for the mere cost of handling and hauling. The stenm.collier will carry to Franco to bo exhibited a varioty of specimens of the Schuylkill anthracite conl. This kind of conl is rarely seen in Europe, and {tsutilityand cconomy for manufactures and in domestic uses |5 not known, In onder to make this oxbibition completo, no less than twenty- three stoves, including cooking stoves and honters adnpted to the uses of tho many sizes of conl, form part of tho cargo, and will bo in foll operation at, the Exposition. Tho specimens of coal include ona solid mass weighing 16,000 pounds, and other speci. mens ranging from poa to large egg coal. The various uses to which anthracite coal 15 applied in this country is to be thus fully il- lustratod. The end sought by this enterpriso is n most desirablo one. It is to endeavor to create s demend in Europe for anthracite coal, Itis not in nson that country, while in the Unitod Btates the supply is inexhaust- ible, nnd tho production s so far in excessof tho consumption that work in the mines is closed from one-third to one-half tho time. Anthracito coal can bo sold for exportation at Port Richmond at an avorage of 22,10 per ton, or aven much less, and furnish an am. ple profit to tho owners, Tho price is the only obstacle in the way of tho sale of this coel in Europs, Whon the price In this country roachos a cortaln figare, the domand falls off, end tho bitami. nous cpal comes futo uso, How far it conld compete for manufscturing pur. poses with the bitnminous coals of Enropo is a mottor which can only bo tested by ox- porlonce, tho cost being largely a governing fnctor, The use of anthracite coal for do- mestlo uses will necessitate almost a rovolu. tion in the houschold managemont. Tho pro. jectors have wisolytaken with them spocimens of American stoves, tho cooking as well as tho hioaters, and the succesaful {ntroduction of anthracite coal into FEurope will of neces. sity open to the manufacturers of Amarican stoves ‘s new and wholly unoceupled ficld for the sale of thelr wares. Tho com- parativo cleanlinoss of anthracite coal can hardly fail to create o fa- vorite impression : ita greater leating power will commend it espacinlly in ghe colder States and districta, Considering tho immense doposits of this coal in Pennsyl. vania, tho favility of reaching the seaboard, oaud the fact that the annual product of which these mines are capable, nnd the jm. possibility of finding salo for it in this coun. try, there ought to be no rcason why this conl should uot bo added to tho exports of this country, und to an extent that in time will rival that of petroleum. The possibility of this trade furnishes anothor illustration ot the absurdity and wickednoss of the pro. toctive polley. Peonsylvanin con now, without even a serions nddition to hor miving {industry, produce 40,000,000 worth of anthracite ocoal for export anoonlly,. We have - the * coal, and the labor to produce it. Europs has not a pound of the cosl. But suppose the Pennsvlvauiaue be met at tho Exposition by tho ropresontation that tho lntroduction of American suthraclto coal will intorfere with the coal-mining intercats of Europoan States; will expose the miners of Earops to competition frow the pauper minors, tramps, aud Molly Maguires of Amorica; nnd that, by introducing sn entirely new sud better article of fuel, will throw thoussuds out of omploywment aud bankrupt the mining com. panies and coal transportation compantes which uow are nble to divide dividends of only 100 per cent annually, Suppose, at the Exposition, thero should be printud and ciroulated the specchos, and resolutious, ond platforms of the statesmen of Pennsylvanin demanding that tho main and primary duty of all Gov. ernmonts ls to protect the home producers of coal, and to so tax sll foreigu coal as to prevent its forelgn fmportation or ita use. Col Fosxxy, who is in Paris, tho speolal champion of Protection, could easily satlsfy all Europe by the reproduction thers of his own speeches, of tho crimiual danger and rank oppression to the peopls of allowing ono ounce of foreign cosl to bo landed. To permit eny American o intro. duce American coal into ' England, Delgiom,- Germany, Frauce, - Austria, Ruusia, or Bpaiu, would lead to the rapld overtbrow of all thous countries, and the complete pouperization and wretched- ness of all the people. Thon, too, look at the couscquences. Every steamer that will carry 8 cargo of Amearican cosl to Havre will carry ‘with it a cargo of Awerican cook-atoves, and of the latest improvements in selt.fesding and other heaters. According to the Penn- sylvaola school of statesmen, these articles of stoves and coal will be more perilous to the peoploe to whom theyaro sent than would be the visitation of a pestilence. When the French mnanufagtusers are in. their salo? If they mako this reply, the Fronch and other European States will p:::blyn;nt a duty of ¥00 per cent on The Democratic party of Chicago and Cook American conl and American stoves, County {s managed by, and in the interests and that will ond tho mattor, The | ©f tho most depraved classea in the commu. & ity. * Youars a mob, and a disreputable Sohuylkill mind, instond of ‘supplying Eu. | ™4 e ropo with conl, will bo closed six months of :;:b{ at fl"‘;":h"’l" ‘}‘;""‘“" “"9" by the the year, and the miners compelled for want e o he, Josa emocratic Conven- of labor to become tramps for tho rest of tion of Saturday. *I have nlways vcr’tad the tho year, We think this schemo of shipping Demooratio ticket on general issues,” said & anthiracite coal to Europe one of tho wisest | Prominent gentleman yesterday, *but I will and most promising means to revivo one never associate nor make common cause with very important industry directly sud ail tho ronghs and blackgnards who composs others indireotly, Dut wo must deal fairly. tho Democratio party in this city. The or- Wao cannot expect othor nations to purchase gonization is given gver to the control of the our products when wo excludo tholrs; nor ward politicisns, and the ward politicians 4§ f tho lowest possiblo species of that can wo expeot’ France to purehnse onr coal | 2 © when, g0 faras we con do 8o, wa prohibit low clnss of creatures. The Twrxp gang in this country of all | New York had braine enough at their com- g}zn::lm:fl::u?:: Shall wur’hnva s mnnd to suocead in geiniog control of the Enropenn markoet for conl? If 5o, we must City and Connty Government, and fo plun- open our market on reciprocal torms to der the people of a hundred millions of thioso of our customors who have somothing | 9ollars, but tho very scum of humanity was to soll us. not permitted to make a disgraceful oxhibi- tion of itself as tho ruling element. DBut the Ohieago Democracy seoms to have abandoned every claim to rospectability, and tho black- guards run it with an impertinenco that sa. vors of conaclous power, Saturday’s local Convontion was held for the purpose of appointing delegntoes to the State Convention and a new County Com- mittee. The mob that crowded into the Palmor House gave the imprefsion of a riot, and people who did not know what was going on anxionslyinquired what the trouble wos. From tho moment the mob was called “to ordor,” it such an exprossion may bo applied to so disorderly a crowd, the uproar bogan, The most noted gambler in Chicago stopped to the front and dictated the action of tho so-called Convention. In vain did Mr. Torey, who must have blushed at his nasocliations, apponl to know whether the Democratic party was to be run by Mg McDoxALp, tho gambler. The answer oame in hoots nud howls, and tho roughs carried overything before them, The First Lieu- tonant of ¢ Boss " MoDoNALD was a croaturo named Woatey, who had scarcely finished with his pelitical dutics boforo he was *run in” by the police in an attampt to swindle o couple of Iowa Grangors in what is tech- nically known as ** tho mocking-bird game.” Politics with these fellows is a labor of love ; their regulnr employment iz the *confl- donce” business. Nevertheless, they have undisputed control of the machinery of the local Democracy, for, if thero aro any re- speatable mon asgooiatod with the local or- gnnization, thoy aro so much in the minority that they have nothing to may, or else they are nshamed to put in on appoarance and aclmowledge their companionship. The County Committes selected by thls mob agreos, for the moat. part, with tho mob itsclf in character and reputation, It in- olades saloon-keopers, gamblors, roughs, confidence-mon, self-convioted thieves; the namos of o vory few men with respeotablo associations nreused as a sort of sop to keop the decont Democrats quiot, Tho wonder is that mon who placo any value upon reputa- tion or standing consent to hold concourse with the depraved majority. The Commit. teo nppointed will have the control of next fall's Conventlon, will exerciso the chief in- finenco over tho character of that Conven. tion, will in largo part dictato the nomina- tions for county offices, and will run the campaign in the intorest of the County Ring. Tho dologatea to the Btate Convention were appointed under tho samo dictation, and thoy will go to Bpringfleld to give tho samo ocolor. ing to tho Blato ticket and campaign with which they have smirched tho local organiza. tion, 1f tho Chicago and Cook County Domoe- racy continues to grow worse and worse, as it has for somo years, tho timo {s not far distant whon the polico will bo warranted in forcibly disperaing any Convention that iz called nndor that namo, just as thoy would any other dangerous aud disreputable mob. Aftor tho oxperionce of Saturday the au. nouncement of a Democratic Convention ought to serve as s notico to the authoritles of an excellent opportunity to make nwhole. snlo capturo of gamblers, confidence-mon, vogrants, pimps, aud thieves. Buch an assomblage, and the high-handed dictation of o ring of gunblers and roughs, ought to put respeotable mon to the Llush who still cloim an affllation with the Democratio party, It is a disgrace and an injury to the city that a mob of this kind shonld repre- sont ono of the two political organizations, They are more disreputablo fn character and more dangorous in thelr dosigns thon the Cowmaunists, If thers are not enongh decent citizens nmong tho Democrncy of Cosk County to at least keop the black. guards, and roughs, sud criminals in the Lackground, then the decent citizens shonld refusa to give the mob the sanction of thelr assoclation and co-operation, in order that Chicago msay be relieved of the constant mouace that such crentures may some dny absolntely run the city s they now run tho pasty. B STATE RIGHTS AND THE ELEOTORAL SCHEME. There are indications ‘that the Electorat scheme devised by the S8ab.Committes of the Houso Bpecial Cominitlee, and also every other ucheme for the abolition of the Elect- oral Colloge andl the election of Preaident wmore directly by the popular vote, will be resisted by a large part of the Democrats in Congress on the ground that it s an inter- ference with State Rights, Oue member of tho Sub-Conunittea (Mr. Heuorsr, of Als. ‘bama) las dissented from the report of the wajority for this roasoun, snd Is engaged in making a report of is own, in which he hopes to show that sny plan of more direct voting will be on invasiou of State Rights aud a step towards centralization. The person who first applied the name of Bourbone to the American Democraty cor. taiuly ind a keen perception of their chief characteristle. 1t would seem s if tho per- niclous theory of State Rights had already done the conntry harm enough, yet scarcely o publio .question s suggested which the vock-rooted Democrats do not view from this standpoint, They prefer even now to resist siy proposition which looks to the avoldance of the dangers fucident to the present system of choosing Presidentlal Electors aud conut- jug their votes rather than concedo ons job to what they conceive to be a possible attack upon thelr pet theory. Even in spite of the fact that it was in a strict adhercnce jo this trine which botrays thom into the fear that a cliango in the Electoral system will attack State Rights. The formal recognition of the theory of Stata Rights will atill romain in tho two Btate votes which all tho proposed Elect. oral echomes rotain, It is not likely that the retontion of theso two votes is in respect of tho State-Righta doctrine as it is construed by tho Bourbong, but becauso no Electoral schemo could hope for the necessary ratifica- tion of throe-fourths of the Btates nnless it embodied this provision of equality. The small States, being the most nunicrons, will not consent o forego this * Rotten- Borough” advantago either in the United States Benato or in.the election of President. But a more direct plan for electing the Presi- dent by popular vote will give the small Btates an advantage by depriving a fow largs States of the power of dotermining a close election, as, with » small majority of their own, thoy can now east alarger Eleotoral vote than n majority of. tho smaller Statca can cast with a tremendous popular majority for the opposing candidate. The roport of the Bub.Committao refers to this phasa of the question in the following terms : 1t I8 the peaple of the State who create all tho machinery of the Stato Uovernmoent and choase its officers, ‘The pcople are tho Stato, If o Stato has tha two votes, thosame as all tho others, in that tespect sha 18 the peer of the others, and it makes na difference as to State Jtights wiicther the tvo yotcs are determined h‘ the people directly or by tlie people indirectly throngh ofticers reprosenting them In thelr corporate capacity, Even in theory, therefore, It 18 not tho Electoral system that tends to Pulervu the equality of tho Siates, but it s tho giving cach State the (wo voles that does it, and. whother the exorciso of thesa votes [a by the poople directly or by tho people indirectly through Electors, the power of the Btatc s preciscly tho samo, In practice tho Electoral syatem has no tendency to ireserve tho relative poivers of tho smaller States, he amall Statcs are oversiaughcd by the pressnt Electoral -{‘mm. It has havponed slready that the vote of New York cast soild bi general ticket haa decided the olcction by a fow thousand major- ity, and has not nnl‘ settled the question for the millfon voters of the State of New York, bmt agalnst a majority of tho 8,000,000 who aro voters of the United States. Tho practical offect of the Electoral aystem hns boen to increasa the relative importance and power of the large States, and tho practica of voting tho gencral ticket waa introduced by the large States for that purpose, llndanam tntroduced oll wero compelled to fol- ow 1t is not our purpose at this time to advo- cate any plan for a moro dirsct vole in clecting tho Prosident, It will bo timo enough to do that whon tho various eug- gestions aro all in, and when {tshall become apparent through discussion what plan can be ndopted that will offer tho greatest ad- vantages, and the lonst dangers, as a substi. tute for the prosent system. But if all plans 8ro to bo refused a hearing from the Doemo- crats on the ground that tho present elaction system Is an ossential rocoguition of the Statos-Rights doctrine, then the Democrats are simply affording o now ovidonoo that, as o class, thoy never loarn and never forget onything. Thoy aro putting themeolves out of tho way to set up o defonse of their ox- ploded and pernicious political dogma, bo- causo, 08 o matter of faot, no schemo has been proposod so far which intorferes with the practical exerciso of Biate Rights, as they now stand,—except a proposition for aggrogating the popular vote for each can- didate, which hasreceived no serious consid- oration, and which will probably never be introduced into Congress. * IMPRACTICABLE DOCTRINES." The Washington Post (Dem.) occasionally porpetrates a stroke of unconscious satirs on tho Democrata that is very enjoyable to Ro- publicans, In on article donouncing the aotion of Oanten Hainmison's Civil-Bervice TReform Committee, which inveatigated the llegal practices of the Confoderate Door- keeper PoLx, the * organ " says: The lnvestigation Jmulded. and finally two re. ‘ports wero wade. Une of them was sigued by the four Republicans and three of the seven Dewo- crats [including Jlanmisox], Tle other was wign- ed by lour of the Demacrats. That {s to say, thora was %Hu botwoen the majority of the Democrats and the unanimouns Ropublicans on the Commit- too, and this tle was decided in favor of the Re- ‘publicons by the casting vote of the minority of tho Democrats, 'I'be report which thus becamo the exprossion of a majority of the Commiltes wus in fact notorloasly the creation of Mr. Jacos Dot.e #uN Cox, of Ohlo, o Jtadical of tha most proscrip. tive typo, fanatical In iy, pm‘ynm, and a mono. manlac on certain abatruse and Ginpracticabls doc- trines whieA are hos!tle to the apirit and anfamo- nistie to the practices of democracy or popular seif-government, The worda in italics aro decidedly rich. The phraseology employed s intendoed to conceal tho iden contnined from all Domo- crata, excopt the seloot fow ** d—d literary follows "' who are able to comprohend the moaning of polysyllable wourds wove {nto abstruse sentances. It was intonded that outer-circle Domocrats, composing the plain and ignorant masses of the party, should be given to understand that Mr.-J. D. Cox (Rep.), was o bad, dangerous man, plotting and hatohing misohief against the publio welfaro, and that throe woak, pusillanimous Democrats fcll into Lis trap, or allowed themaelves to bo usod as tools to carry out tho dlsreputable and wicked schemes of the aforesald Cox, of Toledo, Dut to theliterato Democratic mind the Post’s langusge con. wveys o widely differont meaning, It tells them that J, D, Cox believes in adminlstrative lionesty, observance of law, and Civil-Hervice reform. Tho Post calls these things * cettaln nbatruse and impracticable doctrines," Tho venerablo apostle of Ohio Democracy, Fog- horn ALLxN, pronounces overything savoring of Civil-Bervice reform ‘‘n d—d barren 1deality,” To put a stop to the violations of law by o Democratio Doorkeeper is truly called by the Washington Dew.Confed. orgon some- thing * hoatile to the spirit and antagonistio to tho practices of democracy or popular selt-government.” It {s literally truo that purity of Admiuistration is at war with the practices of Democracy, and that Civil-Service ruform is antagonistio to its spirit. * Popu. lar golf-goverumont,” s operatsd by that party when in power, is the old spoils system invented and brought into vogue under Gen. JacxsoN, Its central ideais to sdminfster ‘the Government by partisan demagogues, not for the good of the coun. try, but for their personal emolument. Its practics is to multiply offices and make places for partisan loafers and bummers; to jucrease tho pay of its tax-eaters; to sell bonds and pile up publio dobts, und, when they become too heavy, to repudiate them; to practice grab, blackmail, and knock-down in all legislation, whether in national, State, city, county, or town legislative bodles; to multiply jobs snd claims, aud make all pub. lic work' cost vastly more than it is worth. The whole clockwork which rung that party is operated with an eye single to the abstrac. tion of the earnings of the industrious, fru- gal, and productive classes, To the extent that Bopublican politicians bave adopted the S ——————— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Trx Ci1cACD TRINTNE has establishied branch ofifces ferthe receiptof subseriotionsand sdvertisementy s followa: NEW YORR—-Room 20 Tribune Bullding. F.T. Moe Favoxx, Manager, PARIS, France—No, 16 Ttue de I8 Granga-Dsteliere, H. Mantkn, Agcut, LONDON, Enz.~American Exchange. 440 Strand, Jixxux F. GiLLty, Agent, . bAN FRL 5CO, Cal.—Palace Hotcl B e It 1s & matter of history that durlog the Presidential campaizn of 1876 the Democrats of New York, recognizing the force of the income. tax charzes againet TiLDRYN, underlook to ex. smine into the record of ex-Gov. E. D. Mép. 0AN, who was runniog for Governor on thy Republican ticket. But they found that M-, MoRroax’s record was unimpeachabic, e ——— ik " the gooé old Democrat, Tesrs In bis eyes, exclaimed. *We should to cheat the Qovernment," 8 frlend #ald, **boashamed.' *'Naw! 'Tis not that," the Democrat Teplied, with angry snarl; *But the more tho Govornment gets from Bam, ‘The less thero's 1n tha bar')l.” AMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatees Madlron strcet, between Dearborn and State. **Tho Exlies.” 1taoley’s Thentre. Randoirh strect, between Clark and LaSallo. *The Exilen" Now Chleago Thentre, Ciark street, oprosite Sherman House, * Lifa In tbe Eouth ” and varlety performance. Afternoon snd eveniog. —— OUR CARTER AND HIS COUSIN. ‘We always knew that Onr Oanten wase groat statosman, an nstate politician, a brill- innt rhetorieian, and a powerful orator. No other member of Congress over sent tho American eagle on sunel n long and dizzy flight, wetting his tail-feathers in the Atlan. tio billows, whizzing like a bolt through the air over millions of bam.yards without awooping to pick np a single chicken, and never stopping until ho dipped his heated pinfonsin the sprays of tho Pacific. No othor statesman has everlet loose the Bird'of Froe- dom with such disastrous rosults to the buz- zards of corruption. Wo did not know before, howaver, that Our Canren, like Jogy Bagatock, is ** sly, sir, devilishsly,"—inothor wonds, that he is a diplomat, and that, whon the oceasion requires, he can carry his pur. poses aftor tho tortuous mannor of tho Mer- TenNicas and Sonouvarorrs, scoming to do ono thing while he is really doing another; controlling puppeta that think they are doing thoir own dancing becauso they do not seo the strings that make them go; never golng straight to nn object, but reaching it by going awasy from it. In his modes of diplomacy-~*‘strategy " ho modestly callsit —ho soems to have studied GonTsomaxory, That wily Russian, it will be romembered, has el along mystified and fooled Disrarrt by lending him off on falso sconts, and por- sunding tho Orlental showman that ho wns contomplating a certaln end to bo attained whon in reality he was looking at an entirely different object, nfter tho manner of cross- eyed people. Our Oanten tried the samo tactics in tho matter of Doorkoeper Pork: Reduced to a formula, they may ba stated as follows: Our OarTen wished to have A ro- moved, and waa detormined C shonld be his guccessor, If A wore removed, tho Southern delegations would got mod and nominate O, who wos o favorite with them, but thoy would not nominate him if they kuow that he wns Our Oanten's candidato, 80 he favored tho nowmination of B. The reslt was 8¢ ho calculated. O was nominated by the Bouthernors to spite Our Oantem, who hadremovodA. Applying thediplomatio formula, which Our Canten, aftor the man. ner of Gonrscnaxorr, worked out on paper firat, to tho renlitics of tho caso, he affronted the Bouthernors by letting his cagle looss on Porx, and, s soon as the bird carried off Porx in its clatchos, Our Carrxn turned nbout and vigorously supported R. E. GoopeLy, who had no show of n nomiration. Thoe onraged Southorners spurned GoopeLy, a8 thoy would any other Northern Demo- orat, ond turned about and nominated Fiewp, of Kentucky. The supposed matual friendship between Qur Osnren and Gooprby was fatal to the latter. Ho was only a lanb led to the sacrifioe by Our Oanten for dip- lomatio reasons, No sooner was Fienp nominated, however, whon it transpired that Bio was Our Oanten's caudidato,-sud, more than that, Our OanTen's cousin, In his do- light at tho euccess of his little game, ho could not refrain from mentioning to such Routhern Brigadiors as ho casually oncoun- tered tho detalls of his diplomacy and the neatness and dispatch with which ho had carrfed 1t out. In this respect ho differs from Gontsomaxorr. He is much more windy than the Russian. Gonrsouaxorr never tells his vietim how he circumvonts him, bacsuse he may want to try the same game on somo one else. Dut then Our Oanten ig e novice in diplomnoy, and has o certaln sort of boyish exuberance and adolescent braggadocio about him that loads him to exalt his horn and blow it. In time Lo will learn tho secret of the sphinx- like domeanor of the great diplomats like GonTscuaxorr aud Bissanok, T'here is one hitch, however, in Our Can+ 7xa's diplomacy, for now comes Frerp, who denjes thot he {s Our CanTzn's cousin, says that his family and Our Oantes's may have intermarried, but ho has mever heard of it, and even affirmy that ko nevor knew who QOur Osnzen was untll tho other doy, This makes it bad for Fixrny and certsinly pre. sents him in anything but o favorable light us an evmlsble candidate for Doorkeopor. 1f he has nover heard of Our, Canren, what hns be. heard of that possesies any valuo? Whero has he boen for the past year or two? Every nowspaper of the country has bLeen full of Our Canrxn. Can he not read? The American Eagle screamed his namo clear aoross the cootinent. Is be doaf? Our Oantea is the cynosure of Wash- ingtop. Ishe-blind? [s o wan o dense n his ignorance as not to know Qur CanTzs 8 fit man to keep door? And again, does o ronlize what is implied in his donial of kin. ship? Mr, Fizup mey beloog to the firt fowilios oft Kontucky, but Our Casten be. longs to the first families of America. Ho has publicly bossted his ludian origin, Some dilution of the uddy tide that once coursed {hrough PocauonTas’ velns wmean. ders through Our Caurxas and gives him his modesty, Faiut shivers of MerrTamona's passion now and then thrill biv beiog, and Lie breaks out in o torrent-like eloquence. King Purrir's pulsos sometimes surge in lim and he grows warlike, Rzp Jacmer's dauntloss crimson flushes bis face into flame and bis opponents shrink from bim, Anon the faiol reminiscence of some dusky Shawaneso malden of the Blue Grass region comes to him like the damsel with tho dulel. wer whom Coresipax saw in his vision, sud the stormy waves of bis passion subsides and he arows a8 e —— Conlronted with the prospect of belng able to gratify his comity againat Mr, Havxs by slmply voting for Mr, MoXTaUMERY DLAIR'S measure, ana lendiug his aid to install TILDEX, the ayer. ago Ropublican Implacable will be apt to think that it Purgatory s bad, Hell fs worse, ———— Bax Cox used to be an American humorist, but (rest his soull) he wrote a book. Bzx Bon LER bas begun to use Lis old Jokes over azain, From this there fs but a step to lecturivg; then, with rapld atrides, will come tha book and oblivion, Vinverly’s Theatre. % Monroe street, corner of Dearhorn. Fogazement Kiralfy's Opera Doufte Troupe. ** Trip to the .Moon. TUESDAY, APRIL v, 1878, product os well overation of the road. Second—We alded by lendIng the companies our B ner cent Lionds fot thirty yoars to the amount of 857,002,102, secured st the outsst by a first mort- gage, and these bonds now bring in the market over 18 per cent premium. We gave our secarity sud on theirs to cover an exactly equal amount. Third—We coneented to cnlnEv thie place of our mortgnge sccurity from tho firat place to thot of subordinste, andgave to the companies the priv- flego of lesuing an equal smount with & prior on. Fourth~The whola of thelr charges for servicos n carrying the maile and other transportation ac- counta by tho actof 1802 wera to be atoncoapplied on their rmlabflnlll e, but by tho nct of 1804 only ong-half was to Greonbacks at the Now York Btock Ex- changa yesterday closed at'99} in coln. ‘The frightful holocaust of idiots and pau- pers in the enge at Bath, N, Y., Saturday night, rockoned sixteen victims in all, an nged paralytic who crawled ont enveloped in flunes haoving yesterday expired in agony from his injurics. 'Thoe County of Steuben is severoly criticised for having kept its poor ond infirm in o ronsting apbaratus as com- plete and dendly as o railway car, t Mr, Hows, who has long and vainly been listening for tho answering roar of Wiscomtn against tho Presidont, should 1ift his ear from the ground, or clsa he may take cold from hay- ing %o much of him exposed to the damp, chill earth. ——— ‘This {s In the maple-sugar seabon, and Naturs valuly endeavors to put her produce on the mar. ket in timo to compete with Jast vear's crop melteddown and remolaed. How hardly shall 8 grocer enter fnto the Kingdom of Heaven! ———— applie n the firat act all coal-mincs wero ro- scrved to the United 8t but {n the last thoy wholly surrendered to the railroads, Slz{h—Wa hnve thun far pald the accrning inter- «est op the second mortgage bonds (less the amomnt. relinbursed) to the extent of 824,343,812, We muat_continue tha payment of thie luterest as it falls duo for twenty years longer, or & farther sum of 800,110,620, Notuing of tiis will be due, ac- cording to the decislon of the Supreme Coaurt, un- ¢l tho principal ia due. mmrln Intorost upon theso payments at G(RJ“ cent witl amount to nearly or quru $70,000,000. 1If this also Is not o debt, when wo are payinz G per cent upon a loan of mill. {ons, then it Is 'a gratulty largoly in excess of the origlnal bonde, end ono of those things mever dreawmed of in the philosophy of Congreve, Tho account stated ns botween merchant and marchant, or betwoen man aond man, would show that besldes lands, Lesides conl mincs, besides credits, up to the year 1000, we shall have alded theso companics, as uircady indicated, to the ex- tont of not less than 817,510,024, The local election at Rockford, 1., always an event of importance in that thriving town, since it jnvolves tho tomperanco question in somo form or other, resulted yesterday in tho dofent of tho Prohibitionista and in tho succoss of the Liconse parly. It Is no reflection upon tho good effects of tho Red-Ribbon movement that an intelli- gent community like that of Rockford sliould vota to license saloous; on the con- trary, it is an cvidonco that the spirit of genuino lemperanco reform s uppermost, and simply shows that in the judgument of a very large majorily of the people the evils of the lignor traflic enu bottor be regulated and controlled by o liconso systom rigidly en- forced than by the prohibitory plan half-way exoouted. Mr. Hows, we fancy, can count upon his ears tho nnmber of influcntial Republican papers o ‘Wisconain that support him. ——— PERSONALS. Konealy's son, Ahmed John, propristor of the Staffordshire News, hi ne jnto insolvency; Uabilities, $10,600 (Including s debt of $6,500 to bin fathor); assets, $3,500. Tha senlor Mayor of France has just died atthe ago of 100 yearsand 8 months, Tis name was Kerrouy, and ha judged tie people of Plo. mear-Gaatler for ifty and fivo years, Pope Loo XIIL's Latin poems ara tobs tranelated Into Itallan by Signor Pletro Darnsbe Bilorato, Tls Molinoss' latest oconomy bas been the abolitlon of tha official stenographers, who used to report the public speeches of the Pope. Mr. Gladstone has issued an ukaso to say that though he will, In the future asin the pas, be giad to let visitors see the park of Uawsrden House, it must be nnderstood that thelr visits are to the place only, and that the family will not b on exhibitlon. The Bhah's departure for Tiflis has just been aunounced by tolegraph. Thence he will proceed throngh Russian terntory to Vienns, whers be will remain ton days. 1le ana his ) ruin the farnlture and carpets of o suito of thlety five rooms at the hotel Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt have been vainly endeavoriog to pass on one ticket on an English rallway, on the ground that they were not bigger than boys of 12, The aathoritles, how- aver, declded that thoy were to sll intents and ‘purposes mon, snd so must pay fall fare. About tho tenth jowel robbery has just been committed fn England. Tho thisves entéred the dressing-room of Mrs, ntine Cunalngnam, ‘Walton Henth, Burrey, whi taok Jewels of tho value of dotected, 1n m preclsely sim tho other robberlcs been committed. TLord Roscbery, on buying the old Zzam- iner, & review that bad run down sadly, took & practical way of stimalating Its staff of contribs o doubted thelr paysl) ent will prepars the pro- et with pleasuro the news It would scem from the reports fn the Vir- ginis papers that the bar-tenders have discoy- ered methodsof beating the MorrrTT bell-punch, They arc not punching with carein the presence of the drinkare to represont half tho guzziiog that Is golog on. Wo quote from the Washiog- ton Star: Tho {alling off In the revenue detlved by Vir. nia from the Morpyrr liquor law, owing to laxity nits enforcoment, {8 curiously large. In Cui- pepper County, whers the registers are man: tured, $050 was obtained during tho months of November and Decomber from the eastern district, ‘whilo from January to Marct 18 tho revenac was only 8142 in the westorn dlsirictaleothere has baen o steady docreass since Novembor, tho return for that month belng 8117, while the amount recelved in February was only §21, In Fanquier, which reprosonts about the average decrcase, being » mean betwoen the extremely dolinquent counties and those in which the crank 18 regularly tarned. the receipts for January were i for February, $304; and for March, $2045. ‘ToD1 80106 COUNLICH N0 relurne Wi mnde, The Auditor of Publle Acconnta | tant 1o beliove thatthe MorrxTrregistor short time so thoronghly reformed some sections of tha State that thelr nbsorption of intoxicatin, bevorages bns beon rednced more than one-half, and |4, not unnaturally, suspicious that the law is not fully carried out, - Hle urges the Commission- crs of levenno to the prompt snd faithfal execn- tion of the act, and requires them to report to him at the closs of each calendar month, =There ls no doubt that a datermined effort to enforce tho law will re-catablish the revenucs from this source at ihelr former figores, The Richmond Dispalch says that in the casss of cortain dowlers taken {n hand by the courts the Incroase in returne was from 300 10 800 per cont in one month. Beeretary Smenyan's hurriod visit to Now York is construed as an evidenco that recent dovelopments rogardjng tho customs frauds, irregularities, apd discriminntions in that city have convinced him of the necossity of making a porsonal investigntion. While in New York ho will huve an opportunity of moro fully convincing himsclf of tho nevos- oity whicl'exists for n sweeping chango in the . Custow-1louse management in that city, and if, 88 is supposed, lLis trip has in part tho object of sottling upon the appointmont of anew Collector to sncceed Gen, Antuun, the Secretary will liavo little diMculty in procuring plouty of facts with which to just- ify the removal of the presont imcumbent. It is very evident that practionl results are . toon to follow the labors of the Commission appointed to Investignte the charges of Western merchauts against tho New York Custom-Ilouss managemont, T — Tho timo linving nrrived for tha holding of caucuses to arrauge for the control of tho organization of the Common Council for tho cnsulng yoar, it s in order for Aldermen who have sccured thefr olection by super- human efforts, inclufiing the services of ro- peatens and illogal voters, to conspleuously onnouuce their undying devotion to Au hon- est and cconomical administration of tho City Government. The Stauding Commit. tses aro soon to Lo appointed, and a fow 1)ru1lmlun.ry profcesions of reform, ean now ba eafoly fodulged in, It will bo time onough to cut loose and get down to business after the “liboral” elumont suc- coods in getting the upper hand in the now Council. Whether it shall snccoed or not deponds altogether upon the nction of sov. eral Aldermen of whoin it is hopod that thoy will idontify themsclves with the clement which laysno clalm to liborolity so long na tho condition of the municipel fiuances ro- «quires tho closent nud most perslstent ocon. omy, e — 1n the Scnate debato last week on the Rall- road Refunding bill, DLAINE rafsed sn objection to tho TnunyaN bill that it would not take the Paclic Rallrosds out of poiitics, and that, unless Congress somehow abdicated the power the bill itself rocitea to *alter, amond, or ropeal? the .| Pacific Rallroad acts, tho roads would not bs left in peace, but stock-fobbors would go to ‘Washlogton and stir up strife agaiust them. Braivs offered an amendingnt which provided that, so long as the companics cowmnplied with the demands of tho TnuasaN blll and of the acts of 1562 and 1864, thelr compliance should be taken as sufiicient to meet thelr obligations on account of the bonds hold by the Govern- ment. This amendment was elther jesmtteally intended or offered in profound iguorance of all past experionce. Mr, THURMAN'S quictus to Mr, BLaing's professed approheusions was so #pt that it must be azain quoted: , Experience 1s a completa anawer o every word ho sald oo that subject. For two years thie sub- Ject has boen boforo thio Scnate; for more (han two years It has beou beforo the Judiclary Commi| ! tho Senate, sud in sl that time | have d'of one man Lostile to the rallrosd mpanies lobbylnk Congress—not one, 1 bave scon this Senato Chamber flled with the railrosd Jobby; 1 hava seen tho gallerios flled; 1 bave scen the corridors flled; 1 hiavo seen tho committes: yoom besleged; | have seen Honatorg bestugod at their own liouses by the rullroad lubhx but pever did 1 ave oue man or h oze urging legialation hostlle to th maiden name. The sutograph was Inclosed ine tiny gold box, and was a cheque for $1,000,000. Whon COardinal Franchi, the Pontifical Smmry of Biats, 1ald before the Popo thead- be presented by the Fronch pilgrime, bis e, snd aald sharply, 4 will not havo tole sddress read to me, orifitls read 1 shall not reply to 1t.* He also safd that it was very distressing ta see the religious movement In France in lay hands, and spoke of the danger of aCatholie press not under cal control, a very piain dig at Louls Veuillot, Geon. Grant Is reported to have sald: It Twero notan American, I would be an Englh- man. And if 1did not llve in America, I wosld 1ive tn England.* 1le dentes tho story that hebad felt burt because at tho Prince of Wales' dinnerbe wae 1ot aaked Lo alt next to the Emperor of Bradl, aod said that no one conld tave shown him more sttention than the Prince of Wales, and that bo bad carried away the beat posstbla feelings owards the Prince. Uis tnpto Bcotland Interested bim deoply, more capecislly bis visit to Dunrobln sad Inverary, °*There 18 no manllving," be ssld, “*for whom 1bavo & highor estcem than for (be Tuke of Argyll." 116 looks forward to bis visit 1o Ireland with groat plessure, snd will make thet tour 88 he Roey home. ‘The hitoh about the Rosebery-Rothschild wedding le corrabarated by so eminent & legal 83 thorlty as the Solicitors' Journal, This paper sy that the entry 0f the service at Chrlet Church a4 8 cantravention of Hec, 12 o Vict,, Chap, 110, Further, It ridegroom and bride described themeslved 13 the rogister a4 **bachelor" and **spinster’ they - ves lable to the penslty for perjury % G ana 7 Will, IV, Cbap. 84, Sec. signed the register they were sed, in 1800 suother Lord was jndicted for perju: juch a0 e8° tey, describlog bimsolf as wife ss & *'widow," The Court, that it was dificalt Lo say that the act was Joa® wilifully and corrapt); d the jury rcturasd 8 verdict of **Not gulity, The British Government Liay concluded a3 fuvestigation nto sho alleged bratal treatment I3 prison of tho Fenlan, Charles M'Cartby, who died of heart-diseass |mmediately after hie veleasé 5l¢ James'T. Ingban Onds Shat be was not com polled o carry hesvy weights up long and steep o clines; that there was smple ventilation in bis cotly which sven bad & window, the valye of which wé under bis control; that bis dlet was sutticlest, 88 was fostsuced by hls gainiog weight dusing i‘: confinement; that he rocelved modical lmlfl"fl whenever be asked it, belng visited fftaen Umes I8 one yesr; snd that bis **punlshments™ conals! of & e of 6d. to pay for 8 bandkerchlst, and w0 +sgeductions of clase,™ esch fuvalving, for » tord of thres months, the substitution of grusl for Wes. One doctor thinks that the regular and tranquil e of the deceasod in prison waa calcolated to viste bis disease, and that he inighi have 5 some years longer if bo had not sat 8t Uber! {' Tho statementof Mr. Owen, 8 o whom (he deconsed consultad sfter his liberstion, show¢ 1hat bis was warned of tho extremo danger of 3ty tending & pablic meeling in his then sists heslty, and raises trong presumption that 4 death wes bastencd by tha excitemsnt of bla centiou in Dablia. The controversy over tho office of Door. keeper, made vacaut by the displacement of Torx, was yesterday terminated by the elco. tiou of the Democratic caucus nominee, tho ex.Coufedorate Maj.-Gen, Firip, and the defeat of Gun, James Bureros, o wounded veteran of two wara, an cx-Benator of the United States, and n man deservedly tonored oud revered by a very large clewent among the Democraoy in the West, Tho Dewocrats wero able to command a strict party vote for the caucus nominee, cxcepting slone the case of Mr, Semivoen, of Illinois, who could not bring himself to * voto against the gallant old Unlon soldier of " two wars. It was a Domocratio vistory which may prove more costly than .Jefeat would have done,—a victory which the Re. X publicaus, laying aside the claims of Gen. : BiseLve, could scarcely bave wished other. wiso, siuce it demnoustrated, as nothing elsa could have done, the complato supremacy of : the Coufedorate element in the Democratic ) party in the House. To the Editor of Ths Tribuns. Cutcago, April 7.—WIH1 you plesse explain to meny of your resders the Sguring of oar Treasury savauts in \\‘uhlllrwn In regard 10 the uiout! 9+ ductlon of our national debty 7 I recollect nght, io 1808 our debt amounted to (round nutnbers) $3,000,000,000. ~ Since that time, syery month the couutry le treated to a reduction of the national debt smoul n1 10, &t the least, an rage of $1,600.000, which would amouni in tbe course natio 4 . Yot we are above B4 000,000, 600, T, 8. The public debt in 1866 was, July 1, 230,178.69, aud wmot ‘'‘in round numbers' $8,000,000,000. The monthly rednctions of the bonded debt were not begun till 1860, A re- duction of §1,500,000 a mouth would not smaunt {o the *course of years' betwecn 1866 and 1878 to $1,800,000,000 or anything near it. The debt ‘was reduced on the average about $8,000,000 & month n the yesr between Julyl, 1539, snd July 1, 1670. The debt 1s now $3,214,047,078.80, No one bas detected the Treasury Departmont in putting out falso claims of what bas been dono iu reducing the debt. Not long ego the people of Wisconsin were greatly confused by a decree of the Suprems Court of that State maintaining that say asscasinent of property falling short of ita ubsolute cash value is void, 5 and that mno tax can be collect. H el upon & lovy bused upon such an imperfoct assessment. Upon the heols of this judicial opiuion, so Jeonoclastio in fts effect upon the ordinary course of revenuo. collectivn, comes the decision of a United Btates Circuit Judge in Cincinnabi, who up- holds the refusal of & bank in Toledo to pay more than & tax on 40 per cent of the money composing its capital stock, and holding that sn assess- went of 40 per cent ou its property in woney is &3 faly &5 the usual ussessment —————ett— To ths Editor of The Tribuns, Eoxy, Mich., April 4. —Plewss stale iu Tas Twisvxs tho smountof the pabile debt at the cluss of the War, and the smount at thosunnl time. . C. Kxiout, ‘The War closcdin April, 1663, On,Julvl, 1863, the amount of the public debt was §2,630, B47,500.74; tho debt statement of Apeil 1, 1873, showed the total Goveroment debl to be $2,214,047,073,80, e —e Mr. A, R Pansons, Io & letter to Tas Tata- uns Bundsy, attewpted to correct an editorial statemaut fa regard to the pature of Soclalisi i Germany. Ho denles that it has “declared an everlasting divorcs between itself and trades- unlons.” Mr. PANSONS says that, “‘on the con. trary, Boclalists sre earnest supporters sud founders of trades-unions.” A sufiiclent ao.