Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 13, 1878, Page 4

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By o SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1878, Groenbacks at the New York Stock Ex- change yestorday closed at 09§@093 in coin, All obstacles having been removed by mu- tual understanding and agrocmeont, the long- pending question of the recoguition of the Diaz Governmont of Mexico has been set- tled, Ministor Fosten having, on the Uth inat,, formally recognized and entered into diplomatio relations with that Government, Firz Jony PorTen's appenl for a reopening and roviow of his cnge hns at 1ast been grant. ed, nnd tho President bhas ordered the appointment of & Board to take the mew ovidonce claimed to be in tho possossion of Gen. Ponrten and to report what action is necessary to be takon, Tho Board is composed of Maj.- Gen. Bcnortewn, Brig.-Gon. Tenny, Col. G. W. Getry, and Maj. A, B. Ganpyes, and is to conveno at West Point Juno 20, It spoaks well for tho efficiency of the Canadian system of dealing with Indians that the Government can safely and without protest distributo arms and smmunition among tho tribes. In pursunnce of a treaty mado with the Blackfeot, forty-six of the Chiofs dnd head nien of the tribo Liave cach been furnished a Wincheater riflo and 400 cartridges. ‘The United States has not pro- gressed so far ns this in the science of got- ting along smoothly with ita Indian wards, About the coolest thing out in politica in tho roason assigned by soma of tho Western and Bouthern Detnocrats for tho dismissal of all furthor coatroversy regarding BMr, T'z. pex's clalns upon the nomination in 1880, Tho dosolate old usufruct is heartlossly shoelved, tho thoory being that bis nomina. tion is an impossibility, since the Demo- cratic party is thoroughly committed to the ono-term principle, and 3r, TiLpex, having onco beon clected, cannot posmibly be thouglit of for asocond term! Could any. thiag be moro cruel? now afforded to tho American Prrvsors who shall step to tho front and undertnke to carry into effoct tho finding of the Treasury Commission appointed to investigato the sinking at son of tho stenmer Motropolis loaded with laborers for Brazilian railroad building, ninety of whom porished when the shaky old hulk when to the bottom. The testimony taken and the conclusions roached by the Commission have been veported to the Bub-Committee of tho Ifouse Committeo on Cominerce, and it recommends the crim. innl prosecution, under the United States Rovised Statutes, of both the owner of the Metropolis and tho contractor who patched upon the rotten hull so as to concoal its dnngerous weakneuss. It was to Lo oxpected that the Cook County dolegation to tho State Democratio Convention, chosen as it was by the disgrace. ful mnob that assembled at the Palmor House, would cust a new reflection upon this county and city. It was o matter of common roport at Springfleld that a large number of this delegation was for ealo, but it is believed that thoy wero unsuccessful in their offorts to find any oue to purchaso thom. The best reason for thinking so is that, on the night. traln roturning to Chicago, most of the Chi. eago bummers who were down to Springfleld sat up in the day-cars, notwithstanding the fatigue from their labor and bumnming, Tasses nnd roturn tickets do not include slocping-car accommodations which cost extra. Thero are very fow signs of war in the forolgn dispatches of this morning, The general opinion in the soveral European Capitsls is that negotiations looking to an ultimato pesceful settlement have been set ou foot, Gerunany taking a leading part in the work of conoiliation, It scems probable that the proposition broached by Bisaancs, contained in yesterdsy's dispatches, that a preliminary Conference meet in Derlin to arrange for a subsequent Congresy of the Powers, is tho idea now being elaborated sud perfected by the parties to the contro- versy, and that, unless some unforeseen hitch occurs, sn understanding will be ar- rived at which will bo satiafactory all around. Evgland, Lowovor, is still putting on a show of preparation for war, which, if it surves no other purpose, may have its influence upon the deliberations of the Con- gress. S ——— It was Willlam-and-Mary day in the House yosterdsy, the VirginiaCollege of that nameo being on deck agaiu for the hundredth time s o supplicant for national charity. Under’the plea of reconcilistion and frator- nity the manjpulatons of this cotering wedge scem to have succossfally worked upon the sentimental side of some of the New En- gland Congressmen, who, out of o literary veneration for the ancient in- stitution, have consented to overlook the fact that it was a hotbed of treason and socession prior to and dnring the War of the Rebellion, and to support tho proposition to vote the College £63,000 out of the National Treasury ns a gift, thongh under the thin disgnise of a claim for dam- nges sustained through tho nots of the Union forces, Dr. Lonixa, of Massachusetis, had on the gushing fit yosterdsy, and made a speech in favor of the appropriation, but the effect of his appeal was very thoroughly upset by the plain, practical speoch of Br. Iteep, of Maine, and the brilliant and eaus- tic sallies of Mr. Townszxp, the New York humorist, both pointing ont the danger of establishing such a precedent as the allow- ance of the claim of William and Mary Col. lege. . Tho sutcession to Gon, Ooresnr's seat in the United States Benato cut some figure in the recont Domocratic Convantion at 8pring- fleld. Ar. Goupy was there from Cook County, and, aa a prospective candidato for the Benate in case the Democrats carry tho State, ha was natorally averso {o having anybody from Northern Illinois, and es- pecially from Cook County, nominated for 8tate Tressurer, as that might intorfore with tho candidaturo for tho Senato of any other Northern Illinois, and especially Cook County, gontloman, Nevertheloss, Mr. CroNgniTe, the nomines for Binte Trens. urer, lives in Freeport, which is in the northern part of the State. Another casé in tho samo line is that of ex-Gov. Pansen, JMn. Pazaren is an avowed hard.money Dem. ocrat, aud yet ho nccepted with the utmost complacency the soft-money platform adopt- ed by the Convention, and no doubt will support it with rapture, Ex-Gov. Parazn doesnot propose to jeopardize his chunces for the Bonate for o matter of conviction, The Democratic tendency to blunder was well illustrated in the Bpringfield Convention by W. W. O'Brien, who offered the follow- ing resolution in roforcnoe to the recent Democratie rejection of the Democratio Gen. 8nierns aa Doorkeeper of Congress, in favor of an obscaro Confederate named Freup: Jeesolved, That the thanks of the Democracy of 1llinoin are hereby tondered to the ion. W, M. Srmixaen, Congressman from the Twelrth Con- grennfonal Disteict, for nis patriotic and indepond- ent courss In voting fur that veteran Democrat snd gallant noldior, Gen. Jauxs SizLbs, for Doors kecper of the llouso of Hepresantattves, This waan bombshell, Of course it cro. ated genoral dismay and confusion. The Convention conldn’t adopt it and it conldn't roject it. Tho result was that the dele. gates senttered, and the Convention was broken np amid hoots and howls of chagrin and disgust. Mr, O'Baiex must have known that his resolution would produce this effect, and it must bo that he introduced it as the inauguration of a protesto! the Irish Demo- crats throughout the entire couatry ngainst the infamous troatment of their gallant com- patriot. Had the Illinois Democrats possessod tho moral conrage to meet the matter square- ly; had they approved SrriNaEn's course and repudiated the pusillanimous sction of the Northern Democratio mombers of Congress in submitting to Confedernte dictation, it might have been possible to allay the natnral and earnost indignation of the Irishmoen of this State who ospocially rovere SnreLps. As it is, the Irish Domocrats havo roceived the same affront from the Democratic party of the State as the Irish Democrats of the whole country raceived from the Democratic majority in Congress, DEMOCRATIC ATTACKS ON NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL PRUSPERITY. The Domocrats of Illinois aro to be con- gratulated on one feoture of the State cam. paign which thoy have inaugurated. Thoy have cut looso from the inflation and Com- manistio ** Nationals " to whom thoy bave been pandering for the Iast three or four years, have nominated a ticket of their own, stand upon a platform of thelr own make, and have manfully determined to **sink or swim, survive or perish,” as Domocrats, This is an exhibition of more pluck tian that party in Illinois have mani. fested at any time since the Granger move- mout was atartod. It may result in defeat to them, but they will at least have the satiafaction in defeat that thoy did not dis- credit and humiliate themselves by jolning thelr destiny with that of inflation lunatics and Communistio destructives, Having sald this much in behalf of the Illinols Democratic Convention, it is all that tho utmost charity will warraut in their favor, . Tho platform adopted i= at onco o medloy of coutradictions and a sories of at- tacks on national and commercial prosperity. Ono of the first and most consplcuous reso- Iutions adopted was to the effect that ‘o gradusted tax on incomes, over a roasonable sum for su))pun, ought to be adopted and placed” on the sarplus profits of the wealthy who escape their just proportion of taxation.” Thiu is put forth with the purposo of securing & part of the Communistic vote. Reliance is placed upon the hatred to capitalista of that class of men whoso fncomes will ba ostensibly exempt, and who cannot comprohond that an oppros- sive tax on manufacture and trade must react with greater Lardship upon the very classes who suppose themsclves to be exempt., The exemption of an ncome of $500 would, in theso timos, exclude the laborers and most of the ortisaus, The proposed tax, then, would be 1 per cont, say, on amounts over that up to §2,000, 2 per cent on amounts be- tween $2,000 and $5,000, 5 per cent on amounts over $3,000 and under $10,000, 10 per cent over $10,000 and under a certain sum, and about half the income when it renches above $23,000 a year, That is the priuciple of & * progrossive tax.” ‘The men whoso support Is expected for this Com. muaistic scheme ignore the obvious fact that such a system of taxation inevitably reduces the wages fund. Take the case of the man- ufscturer, If the income from the factory s reduced by 810,000 & year on account of * progressive " income taxation, ho will mako himselt whole, if possible, by raising the prics of his goods to cousumers and by reducing his pay-roll expenses. As the pro- posed law afects all classes of manufacturing, the result is that the wages of all mechanics sro shaved down, and the prices of what they wear snd use arc put up. Do they imagine, then, that they can escape the hard. ships of such a scheme of taxation? It cuts into them on both sides, and they sus- tain in the end the bulk of the burden. Ho it is with the merchant. Finding the profits of his business reduced $5,000 or $10,000 & year by tho imposition of this new tax, he will pat as much of iton the goods he sells 85 competition will permit, and bo will pat most of the romainder upon his accountauts, salesmen, porters, cartors, sad other ewm- ployes, and take it out of their wages. This is what those who mako honest returns will do, whils the dishoncat enes will raise tha THRIBUNIS: SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1878&~TWELVE PAGES, gy prices of their goods and rednco the wages just the same, but pocket the resultsand swindle the Government. The bankers and money-lenders will be governed by the Iaw of sclf-protection; {f obliged to pay over to tho Government a large part of their income, they will raise tho rates of discount and in- tortat on their customers. The railronds will exact from the traveling and farming public what they have to pay in income tax, sathey did when a war tax wns Isvied on their gross reccipts, and they will squeeze their employon at the samo time. That is one phase of the matter which should commend itgelf to the men of amall incomes who foolishly fancy that they will oscapo the far-voaching injury of the pro- posed tax. Another phase is a blow sirack at Reneral commereinl prosperity, 'The scheme involven the exposure of every man'a privato business, with the thonsand abuses incident thoreto. The man who returns a large in. come not only pays n tax proportionately in excess of the smaller incomes,—which 18 equivalent to taxing enterprise, Lrains, thrift, and industry,—bnt ho also becomes a viotim of all the dead-beating davices of the commnunity. The merchant who returns n small income, or no income, loses credit with his banker and creditor and the mon with whom he does buiiness, and may be ruined or driven out of the fleld by this cir- cumstance alone. A large income ono year and & small ono' the next, both honestly returned, may ruin a business credit and roduce the victim of his own honesty to bankrnptey, while his neighbors, who shonld consent to perjure themaelves to secnre busi- neas advantages, would thnive upon their fraud and falwe awenring. To advoente so pernicions a scheme for domagngical purposes and to curry favor with Communists, the Illinois Democrats have committed thomselves to the most glaring contradiction in their platform. There are two classes nmong the porsons in and sbout Congress who advocate the in. come tax. One class ave in favor of it, in order that the revenue it may yield will af- ford an excnse for reducing tho tax on whisky and tobacco; in other words, they desire to tax the provident and temperato people for the benefit of the whisky saloons and topers, But tha other clnss, which embracca the only respectablo members of Congress in favor of tho schieme, ndvocate it ns the only means for mnintaining the sinking-fund, which rep- resents the aunual and now excessive roduo- tion of the debt. Dut the Illinois Demo- crats declaro that it is not their intention * to make any further reduction of the prin. cipal of the publio debt at prosent.” Either this pretension is false, or elso thoy have thus deprived themselves of the only respect- ablo reason that can bo assigned for reim- posing the odious, injurious income war tax, which has always been regurded as nn ox- tremo measure, at once oppressive and cor. rupting in its offoots. We presume Illinois Domocrats, however, do not mind incon. sistencies in a platform, but mercly regard tho latter ns a menningless formality, pro- yiding it catches votes. 'This {s not by any menns tho only contra. diction in the Democratio platform adopted at 8pringfield. Inona place, the Convention declared itself *‘in favor of United States bonds and Treasury notes being subjected to taxation the same aa other property ” (moan- ing theroby Btato and local taxation), and yot, in another place, the Convention an- nounced that it is the duty of the Govern. ment to roplaco the presont bonds * by the Issue of othor bouds bearing a lower rate of interost,” and also to issno popular bonds at a low rate of interest for tho nccommedation of savings-doposits. The simultaneous pro. mulgation of these two propositiona counld only lhave boen made by thoughtless and ignorant people, oven if Mr. Gounr was ot the head of the Committee on Resolutions. Any man with half his wits about him can understand that United States Londs cannot be sold at o less rato of intorest in this country if they be subjected to State and municipal taxation. The Secrotary of the ‘reasury has just arranged for the disposal at a premium of $30,000,000 of ‘bonds for gold, ot 4§ per cent intorest, and it is proposed to put the savings-bonds as low as 4 per cent. Lut it would be impossible o socnre any subscriptions for bands at less than 7 or 8 per cent interost if thoy were subject to State and local taxation. A bond nominally bearing 4§ per cent interest wonld not bring in more than 1 to 1§ por cent in that event, and & 4 por cent bond would really be worth only 1§ por cent per annnm, —as State and local taxation canuot safely be reckoned at less than 2) cents; with us, it is considerably more. In fact, a G per cent bond (tho higliest rate drawn by any of the old bouds now outstanding) could not then be negotiated at par, for it would really pro. duce less than 4 per cent, and bonds cannot now bo sold for 4 per cent in largo quantitiea when free from tax, No Governmont bonds could then be negotiated at less than 7 per cont futerest, and then they would be forced out of the country, All our bonda would go abroad if subject to local taxation. The iu. terest on the national debt would ultimately be incroased from #35,000,000 to $40,000,- 000 per year, without yielding a dollar of revenue to tho Btate and local Governwents,—for we know of no systemn under which taxes can be assessed nnd col- lected in any Btate of the Unlon on scouri- tics held in Cauadas, Evgland, France, Hol- land, or Germany. And yet the Democrats of this State sre committed to this prepos- terous schome, The demnand for the repeal of the lesumption not when greenbacks are within hall & cent of fhe value of gold or uilver is so preposterous that we reserve some comments thereon for a subsoquent article. As to the blatherskite Fraxx Lawrxa's Communistic demand that the systemn of leasing couvict labor bo abolished by law, wa leave it to the farmers of this State, who geunerally eloot a mojority of the Legislature, to determine, The proposition is made to every Legislature that meots, and the farmers heretofores have always dealt with it in a summary fashion, When it shall come be. fore the next Legislature, the Grangers will ask, as heretofore, ** How, then, are we to support theso convicts?” * DBy taxation,” will be the only possible reply, Then we profer that they shall support themselves, inutead of liviug off of our taxes in idleness,” will probably be the response, as it has been heretofore. It will bo uoticed that the platform, while favoring a substitution of Treasury-notes for bank-notes, does not advocate inflating or watering the currency, as the crazy * Na- tionals " propose doing. . The best man named for Btate Treasurer in the Democratic Convention was by all odds Col. B. B. Courrzr, of Kana Couaty, His name was submitted by Jix Hanzixaroy, who made a shocking blunder when he eulogized himn as one who had won glory on the tented field, risking his life for the vresarvation of the Union. That sottled Courrten's hash; that specch fixed his flint. The Copperhonds fn the Convention wanted no Union soldier at the hond of their ticket, and so thoy sat down on poor Courtes and squelched him. He bad fought on the wrong side for them; ho received but 67 votes ont of 502 cast. HanrmwoTow saw thathe had put his footin it; but the cat was out of the bag, so ho remarked that ** it was dangerous to prosent to a Demooratic caucua any one who had won glory on the tented field for tho Union, but he was willing to do 80 beforo this Con- vention,” IHannixaton is generally es. teomed to be n shrewd, cunning politician, but on this occasion ho showed himsolf to ba a simpleton in exposing his friend to the animosity of n Copperhend Convention, Why did ho do it? Ho had tho fato of Gon. Buterps befors his eyes, who had just been alanghtered by the samo kind of Democrata in a Washington Congressional caucus, However, HannixatoN was taught a lesson that he will not forget, and his Unlon soldier {riend CourTen will also be likely to bear it in mind. The sort of porson the Conven- tion finally compromised npon is thus de- seribed by Buruivaw, of the Journal, in his Bpringfiold lette: ‘The nominee, M, ¥, L. CRoNxniTz, ia & mild, Inofienslve citizen of Freeport, where, up to a short time axo, he kept a store, 1le merved three terms inthe Lower Ilonse of the Legislature, nnd said **tpye " or ** no ' when hin name was called with a8 mitch ability as could be expended tn the utier- ance of those monoayilablee. "1le never oricinated & neasuro of value, and nover antagonized persans 12 he conld avoid it, 1le scquired popularity an *'a nice fellow, ™ of negative rather than positive qual. ittes. Ho will not be convicted ot incendiaram for sctting the pralrics on firo, ‘Tho Convention havo offerad the public a goody.goody sort of milksop as a substi- tute for a gallant Union soldior whom they spurned with contswpt simply because Lo was one. 'The people will pass on this action .| at the polls, DEATH OF WILLIAM M, TWEED, ‘Wirrzan M, Tween, who nchioved consid- erable national reputation as the great Dem- ocratio “bosa” of New York City politics, and a world-wide notorioty by tho manner in which housed the political machinery for froudulont purposes aud publio robbery, is released from noy further responsibility to the taxpnyers of that city, whom he bled so unmercifully in conuection with other mem- bers of Lis party Ring, whoso offenses have been condoned cither by reparation or Btate's evidence. Ho was born in poverty; hoe lived in luxury and ho died in prison, so that the lesson of hia life is not altogether illogical. He had his briof time of enjoymont of his ill-gotten enrnings, but the Nemesis of crime stendily followed him, and, in his old age, shut out from friends by prison walls, and stripped of his vast accumulations, ho met Ono to whom his old question—** What are you going to do nbout it?"—had no porti- nence, and, a3 tho prison.boll struck ligh noon, he pasaed away from the jurisdiotion of enrthly courts to be judged by a higher tribunal, Bun Twzep was born of Scotch parentage in New City, April 8, 1823, and was conse- quently 575 years old at the time o hia death. Ilis paronts woro very poor, and unable to givo him more than the rudiments of educa. tion, o learned the trade of chalr-making at an early nge, and in 1851 began businees with his brother as a furniture doaler, What ho lacked in education he madoe up in native shrowdness and sharpness, and, as he hnd a pretty thorough koowledgo of mon and few scruples of a moral sort in his denlings with thom, he was admirably adapted to bocome a political leaderof the oloss to #hich ha be. longed. He mndo his nppoarance in political lifo as a ward polilician, and was olected Alderman from tho Seventh Ward. Ho had tho same qualities which characteriza the ward bummers of many other cities, There would be many more Tweeps if they had hisability, Ho gathered o small faction about him which he gradually increased, correspond- ingly incroasing his power, until he secured an clection to Congress in 1838, Congross, however, was no place for a city ringster, Howevor well his plans might be matured, they were in constant danger of, frustration in any locality whore he was not absolute, nnd he soon returned to his connection with local affairs, and developed his fraudulent schemeos with smazing rapldity and success. Ho conatantly increased the number of his adherents, and bound them to him 50 closely through various considerations that the Ring ‘was too strong to bo broken. Iu those days —from 1808 to 1871—Tammany was an all- powerful agent in New York politics, and he made ft his agent by securing lis oloction as Grand Snchem for soveral yonrs continuously, during which timo he mot only socured an immense fortune by robbing the taxpayers, but also used his great power and influenca in con. nection with Mr. TrLoeN and other eminout Domocratia reformors to {naugurate gigautio frauds at the ballot-box in coanection with Htate and national politics. Ile not only stole millions of money from tho City and County Tronsury, but he stole the vote of a Btate, IHis control over tho affairs of Now York City soon became absolute, and the tax- payers were helpless, His control over the State was almost as absolute, but he used bis influence nt Albany mainly to perfect his plans in the city, 'Tho little faction that he had controlled in the Beventh Ward swelled to an army of forty or fifty thousand men who wero ready to do his bidding, and who obeyed him as implicitly ns ever alaves did their masters. The inside ring was Twxen, Coxvorry, Bweeny, dud IHavt, but there were still other rings rovolving about it,—~Cexer, Warsox, Woonwamp, Fierps, Bannasp, Oarpozo, and nunerous oity and county officials, mombors of the Legislature and of the courts, It was not long bofore the ouco poor chalrmaker was rolling in luxury. Under s adwministration six mill. iona of dollars wore stolon, of which Le took the lion's share, through the familiar con- tract system, the other members of tho Ring sharingin less extont, but all euriching thom- selves, Whenever a protest was made ngainst this organized and systematic robbery, tax. payers woro met with the taunt, ** What will you do about it?" The taunt, however, came once too often. It was a long and bit. terstruggle, but at last the Ring was broken snd jts members fled in disgrace, Tho story of Tweep's arrest and conviction, of his escape and rearrest, need not be told over sgain, He has paid a harder penalty for his crime than if ho had mads expiation accord- fug to the tenure of his original sentence, After living in palatial splendor, he died in a Jail under condemnation of all honest men, and the crime which he had committed, working upon mind and body, killed bim in his old sge. Ha represented the most vicious and demoralizing sspects of Ameri- can politics, and he lived in wealth that was stolen ; but the last two or three years hava brought with them a terrible punishmeut, once more confirming the declaration that the way of the transgressor is hard. With all hiv abilitivs, bis power and infiuence, he has left nothing behind but a clouded name soon to be forgotten, and the record of a life in which there is nothing that a good oitizen THE ALLEGED CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS, In the {exne of Tae Tamunz of March 2¢ was printed the following important letter: Minugaroris, Minn., March 0.—In times past you have published numeroua articles an the curs of drunkenness: but nona of them, #o far as I have boen ablo ta diacover, have reanited In reliey- ing the victim (h'{ were Intonded to benefit. With will now give to the world, #oe And apeedy cure for Intom. nerance,—a enro nfi‘ hae been tried frequently, aily. te—It mattors not whether he is nat rmunfinfl, 18 beginning it or on & **&preo"'— cgin by faking ecery tiwo Aowrs one drachm (fea- spoonfuly of tinclure of cinchona (Peruvian bark). This will make him feel good. Ile can Increnno the dose to mix drachms (teaspoonfainy without auny danger, and take it in that proportion four to ten times aday, It will not destroy his appetite forfond. In'the conrns of s few daya the anti-periodie propertics of the cinchona begin to tell, and he loscs not vnly ali taste for the tincture, but also for everything in the way of alcohol. Recently, tn thia city, & well-known gentleman —who has in times past been on his $300 and $1,000 sprecs—tricd this remedy, telling tha varions druggists where he drank It that he was fizhting, and wonld cnnannr. the greatest demon on earth; but they could hardly beliova him. Yet ha conquered, and the appetite for drink vanished, Ilo wan never nervous, never lost his sppotite or #lecp anring the sicge, and came out of tho ordeal in perfect health, During the timo tha fever Insted 1 gave him two of thres doses of simple medicine for his geneeal health, but the tincture of cinchona did the business, This case can be verified by the proprictors of seven of our drug-stores, 8o well satisfied am I of the value of the treatment, that I will cusanteo a care in allcases, uming this remody atone, R, D'Uxoxn, M. D, In n subsequent letter, communicated to Tnr Cutoaao Triune, Dr. D'Unoen saya: Asall medical men and dracgists aro aware, there i a largoamount of adulteration in the **Poravian bark of commetce, ** many barks which are mized with the cenuine possersing the same bitter principle observed in quintno, but not the afterative and anti-perlodic propertica which the genulno bark alone possessos. In lnemmuil of tinciuee of cluchona, therefure, I should have mentioned that the bark out of which it s made muat be pure, fot It is tha anti-periodic property that cures inedriation, E It has beon objected by some that the Doctor’s romody is & nostrum, and that ho has offered no prescription, The extracts above given show that it is not a nostrum but n wollknown medicine, and tho pre. seription is given in dotail so that any one can use it it hois caroful to procurs the pure nrticle. Thero have already appeared com- munications in our columns attesting to tho officacy of tho remedy, and we linve rogrotted to observe ono sneering at it, and suggesting that the only cure for drunkennoss s to visit the Gospel temperanco mootings at Farwell Hall. The remedy is & very simple one. It cnn be had in evory town and city, and thero certainly can ba no harm in testing it. It is an oxcellont tonic, whothor it cures intompor- anco or not, Chicagoe ia full of poople who ought to give it a fair teat, and thoso who nre sncering ot 1t wonld do well to wait until it has beea proved a failare, It Dr. D'Uxoxn hos really discovered a spacifto that will cure incbriates of the burn. ing deslre or appetite for strong drink, he will be one of the greatest bonefactors to the human raco the world has ever known. If this remedy proves successful and conld bo administered to every man and woman who has an appotite for liquor, it would advanco the world towards tho Millennium. It would do away with crime almost alto. gethor. It would bring sunshine into thon- sands of darkened homes. It would banish poverty. It wonld reunite dissevered fami- lies. It wonld make men induatrious and women happy. Any man who oan bring about such results as these has made a dis- covery by tho side of whioh Mr. Entson's aro unimportant. It may be that Dr. D'Unaen's remedy will prove a failure; but it cortainly desorves a fair trial, and theroare plonty of men in this oity who ought to test it atonco. Thers is no secretabout tha medi- cine or the formula. It is ocasily procured, and any one can prepars it. A very short time will tost its merits, It it doos what Dr, D' Uxazn clalms for it, it cannot help but break up drunkenness. Many people can stop drinking for a time, but by and by the appetite roturns with Incroased force, and tho victim finds himsolf unable to resisc it. Ho makes a brief struggle, but finally yiolds, and all the temperance soocleties and maet- ings of the Farwell Iall sort in the world cannot help him, It is ns much a disonse ns scarlet fevor or small-pox, and it must be attacked oa thesa disenses are. This remedy, the Doctor claims, will destroy the appetite for atrong drink, That onco dostroyed, & man's self-respect and bet- tor nature will enable him to keop sober. If tho appotito is not cured, the vic. tim's caso ia hopeless. If the manosgers of the Farwoll Hall temperance meotings and of all other tomporanco societion are wise, they will urge the victims of atrong drink to test this now remedy and give it a thorough trial. It may prove a valuablo auxiliary to thom in their work, and, even should it fail, it can do no harm, Instead of sneering at it, or condemning it before trial, let them recommond it, aud perauado their inebriated friends to try it. The Doctor haa evidently actod from disintorosted motives. Thoro s no speculation in it, and this argues for its excellonce. It may be that thia remedy will 8o the way of Cundurango, Blue Glass, and other much-vaunted spocifica for disenscs, but it is nono the less a duty to give it a trinl. The diseaso of intemporance, swecp- ing off thousands every year and leaving be- hind it social and moral ruin to thousands of others, breaking up homes, fllling our pris- ons, and entailing untold pain and misery upon the funocent, 18 5o terrible and devas. toting in ita charaotar that every suggestion for its cure onght to be welcomned and adopt- ed, in the hopo that it may prove the bless. ing for which the world has been praying so long. — ‘The Jast ofticlal report of the Committes on Commerco and Navigation gives tho following listof od valorom taxes levied upon the con- sutners of the following imported goods: Lar cant.| Per cent, [ * s o iR e i Do, hoslezy...... a3/ Lead, and ita man'(’ | Leath 5 Itica ... 2 8ait in bulk Serap-iron o To the the tazes levied ou boxage, drayage, wharfage, commls- sious, etc,, which averago about 6 per cont on the value of the goods at the port of shipment, all of which must be pald by the consumer. Does sny fintelligent reader bellevo that the protected classcs really neod so much protecs tion at the expense of tho consuming masses? ‘The present scale of dutics sre perfectly boast~ ly. No wonder tlmes aro hard and laboring people complaining of want and deatitutlon in the fswe of such grinding taxation upon con- sumption, ————— ‘The propoeition to bave two chambers for the House, one to debate in, the other for the con venlenvo of members who wish to write, or lobby, or take a quict nip behind the shelter of & deak, commendy itself strongly to all sensiblo meo. But thero 1s snother reform quite ss necessary, In the interests both of economy and decency. This is the adoption of a system of takivg & vote by cloctricity. It would mot be dificuls to contrive s plsn wheredy each mem- ber would anly have to press s button at his scat to have his vote **Aye" or *No" re- corded; Indecd, the contrivance in use in Enrope might be sdded and the vote would announce §taeif {n plain figures at the end of the allotted time. Thres or fivo minutes would thus suflice to take a vote, instead of from thirty to forty belng reanired, and to the saving in time—and consequently fn expense, for, {f we ata not in error, Congress costa the country directly some- thing like s dollar & second—wonld have to he superadded the avoiding of fitbustering and of such scenes in the event of a closc vote as are alwaya gotten up by demagogle members and the Demouratic Speaker. ————— In the Confed.-Copperhead caucus to nomf- nate a Doorkeeper to tako the place of the dlsgraced and expelled Porx, the name of Gen. Jastzs SnixLDs was placed {n nomination aud culogized as *'the hero of two wars for the Union, and as s grand old Democratic war- horse.” That speeeh spofled the gatlant Gen- cral's cake. If the euloglst had omittel the words *“hero of the War for the Union,” Gen. 81eLDSs would have stood n pretty fair chance of getting tne nomination: but it was asking too much of Copporheads, to say nothing of Confederates, to elect as fAelr Doorkecper n Unlon soldier. Two ex-Rebels wera placed fn nomination against him—FitzLp, of Georgls, and McCor, of Baltimora; the former recelved 70 votes, 'the latter 80, while the *‘gallant Unlon here" found but 20 supporters, and all of them but one dessrted him immediately afterwards. Tho trouble with (en. SuizLpa was, that he fought ‘on the wrong slde, In the estimation of the Domocratic llouss of Repro- sentatives, —— When the clalm-agents and Congress{onal demagugues were pushing the Pension, bill through Congreas placing the surviving militia aud home-guards of the War of 1812 un the pen- elon rolls, they boldly atlirmed that tho sum of money which would be requirod to satisty those demands would not excced half a million of dollars per annum. The Penslon bill which has nst passed the Houso contalns thesa two items: For Yennlonn to survivors of the War of 18l2.,. 4ses seees. +$1,332,000 Widows of thone who served. e 1247074 Total f0£ 1870 0uerere srnnenssrene s 82,670,074 The large majority of the recipicnts of this two and a halt milllons of taxcs aro in far bet- ter circumstances and own far more property per capltathian the averazeof the peoplo who are taxed to pay them this bounty moncy. —— With greenbacks worth 093¢ cents fn gold or silver, and resumption alniost & fult accompll,— only a half-cent on the dollar lacking of ft,— was not this a very stupld and astonishing reso- lutfon for the Democratie State Convention to put on their platform: flesolved, That we are in favor of the immediate and uncondittonal repeal of the ltesumption nct, ‘The probabllities arc strong that greenbacks will bo on a par with silver and gold withina fow weeks, which will liberate all the lacked-up =old and throw it into circulation,~adding in that way $100,000,000 tothe clrculating mediiun, And yet In the face of this prospect of an im- mediate expanalon of the currency by $100,000,- 000, tho Democratic Convention pnssed that long-cared-jacknss resolution agalnst such cx- vansion of mouey | ————— Our implacable New York nanesake thinks that there was a very slim basls in the Rbode Island clection for the President to found a claim for rejoleing upon, becauss the Republic- ans “‘adopted no platform whatever, and the falling off in tho Democratic vote was due, among other things, to a now reglstry law which compels the payment of poll-taxes 8o far n ad- vance that no candldate will pay them and risk the chance of losinw the nomination.” Ana yet it was only a few days before that our implacable New York namesake thougnt that the same elec- tion was significant as showing how unprofitable n “Fraud platform was for the Demozrata! If the election had & meaning {n ouo caso why not in another? — The Democratic State Convention resolved **that they applaud the action of Congresa in remonetizing silver, and accopt {t ns & partlal measurs of financlal rellef.” And then the same Convention passed a resolution demand. ing the repesl of the Resumption act, which, it comnlied with, will render the circulation of sliver impossible, because it would knock down greenbacks below coln value, and conscquently not a doliar of silver could clrculate. Iad not the Conventlon senso cnouzh to sco that ono of thelr resolutions nullified and destroyed the otherl It would scem not. The Couventlon must have been run by & 1ot of ignoramuscs, or s pack of knaves who want to play double un the unsophisticated rank and file of their party. ——— The Confedorates and Copperheads in Cone Rreas would Lave vastly preferred the clection of & Republican soldier as Doorkeeper to the Democratic Unlon Uen. Buizups. Thelr feeling s that Burzups ought to have cither kept out of the Aglit or gone on the Rebel side. They considered that ho had no busincss to draw his aword in defense of the Union againat tho Southern slaveholding Demovrats. Ienco Uls defeat In tho caucus for Doorkeoper of the Touso of Representatives. ————a———— The Houre transacted no public business, bat eat in Comnnittce of the Whals ‘on the private calen- dar,~ i¥ashinglon Press Dispateh, This {s & sort of loglslatlon that the Houso delights to engage in,—voting the people's monoy to pay ‘‘private claims.” It {s while thus plcasantly engaged that the lobby gets in its work., There is no more open, hospltahie, and generous wan fa the worlidl than your aver- oge Congressman in voting other people’s money to satlsfy *‘claims.” ————— Weolearn from our Now York namesake that It nover was so soild and sound as it {s at pros- ont, All the storlee of ita stock's belng unsal- able are, then, Actitious. Bo glad! Malnly for tho sske of tho editors and reporters who, rumor sald, bad had thelr pay cut down two or three tines in two yearss We hope that Jax GouLp s not organizing a bull movement in N. Y. Trib. with the intentlon of unloading on some one, —— GarL HAMILTON has Just **knocked the spots oft" from everybody and everything that she thinks has cvorin any way interfered with her friend, Jix Bratym, except onc, To tho case of the sun that ‘struck’ Br. Bratxa rather hard last summer, GAlr has not yet given her attention. When ahe does, thoss spots on the sun's surface will bo dealt with as summarily as ahe disposed of Jin's oppoucsts in the Cloda- natl Conventlon. ————— The Egyptian Copperbeads were hugely dis- guated at Biry O'Brign's resolution of “ihsnks " to BeaiNaxr for supporting Gon. BumLps for Doorkeeper in prefereace to the ex-Rebel Fixun, They held thelr noses and rushed out of the ball pell-mell, as i acry of fire had beon raised. That is the way the Dem- ocratic Btate Convention homored & gullant Unlon soldier,—formerly & Democratic Senator from Llluots. e —— The New York Ewening Post aays that * Bena- tor Hows, of Missourt," has written *a reply to the article published in Mlackwood's Magacine on the futurc of the Repuvilcan party.” The Post points out that allusion is probably made to Gzonax W. JULIAN'S screed fn the North Anurican Hovlew, Mr. BRYANT la quite rignt, and we will add, for his beueilt, that Seuator Hows alts for Wisconsin,~not for Missourt, —— Bauuy TiLDEX s & most shamefully-abused man. They bave stulea the Presideacy from bim, and his new spring overcoat, and the rolis and cake be bad ordered for histes. Haopy thought! Yerbaps some one stole his income- taxreceipts. (1 Implacable Democraticsheets please copr.) ‘Tho President's pollcy bas beeh condemued and abaudoned by yot one mors lite-long Repub- lican. This is & resident of Newport, who,” when Mr. HaYEs visited that city last summer, mado bis wsy to the Prealdent's carrlage, and sald he had losta leg at Fredericksburg anq wanted the means to get another one, y Hares Inquired into the case, and, finding m‘: the man wasa Unlon veteran, had hum fiteq with the best artifictal leg that could he boughg in Boaton., At the clection a few days this Unlon veteran wes asked it he was not l:,z Ing to vote for VAN ZARDT. *Not 1" ald b, **1 was & Republican all through the War, by 1 take good care [ am not going to vote for Vax ZANDT, who s a HAYES mant”? The gratefy} patriot had to draw the lino somewhere, ang he drew it at accepting artificlal lega. ————— The proposition of certain Dircetor Brooklyn Bridge to establish a umnl:‘l’l;:t; raliway over [t has caused & grout deal of gjs. eatisfactlon among the residents of tho twg cities Intereated, 1t Is shown conclustrely b the New York Timesthat thetronble of ('hlnzln’ from one line of cars to anothor at cacn end of tho bridge would bo as scrious as the breseat transler at the fer: —— It Gontsonarorr and DisnarLt do Bucceeq in averting & war, the expression of relief upon thelr countenances will resemble nothing gy much as the glow of gladness upon tho faco ot an underaized voliceman who, having been sammoned to atop a fight by a woman wiy her balron ead, discovers, as he comes round thy corner, that the enraged combatants arg two newsboys. ————— ‘What 18 born Iu the bune will come out in the flesh, saya an old saw, Its truth was (llustrateq In the Copperhead State Convention by ths treatment given to W. W, O'BRizN’s resolution indorstog tne Hon, W. M, Brrinozn tor Voting for Uen, Bitiet,ns, tho Unlon General, againsg Gen, Fisup, the Coufederate. The Egypiizg Cops refused to swatlow any such dose ay that, —————— Mr. JAY Gounp's paoer last Monday contained vigurous editorial protesting arainst the Clause of the mow Pustal bill requiring newapaper publishers to sead thelr lssucs through tha mails exclusively. Inasmuch as the clause ro. ferred to was stricken out by unanmoustonscnt some weeks ago, the present argument scems to be a little late, ————— Citizen DAN'L WABAsz VooR1eEs, from hold. ing Conununistic views, flopped sudidenly over to support JAY Gounp's bill. DAN'L fn (ho 11ons’ den of movopolics aud Irresponsible rail road corporations! Well, we neverl ——————— Gooduess! But won't EpMunos and Tnoa. MAN catch it when Garu HAMILTON reads the debato on the Paclile Raliway bills? Those Sen. ators scalped BLAINE un that oceasion, and now it Is i order for GAL to scalp thom, ——————— ‘When tho Princess of Walea bows to a mulit. tude, she has & way of making every manand womnn feel that ho or sho alons 1s the orosd reciplent of the salutation. Bho would wake s good Doorkeeper. ——— PERSONALS. Harrison Alnsworth is still alivo, a well. proserved and dandyls, though gray, old man of 72, ‘Pennyson got B81,600 for that idimiu‘ tballad about the Revengo and hor encounter with the Spanish fleet. Women Lave carried off eight of the ten prizea In polilicat cconomy offered recently by the Cobden Club, of London. By the death of his widow, the fortune of the composer Rossinl goes to his nativo tuwaol Pesaro for tha foundatlon of & schaol of music, Benators Anthony and Hamlin ars the only members of the Scnate who saw the depariare and return of the Senators from the reboilioss Htates, TLord Dufferin will soll off his horses, car. riages, ete., early next month, an actlon which no longer leavoa any doubt about his leaving Canads at the end of histerm. James A. Whalen is suing Gen. Sheridsa in the Federal Conrt at New York to recover about half a milliun dollars for the scizure during tho War of tho stock sud products of bis plaous- tiun of Killona, 8t. Charles, La. Daron Linden has been sentenced by a German court to slx months' Imprisonment asd two years and a half detention for high treasozsad defaming Prince Dlemarck. The printer of the pamphlct got off with half that punlshment. When Lady Rosebery reached hor new residence of Dalmeny Park, the old hausekeeper et her at the dour and broke sbove the youny bride's head un oaten cake, in accordance with tos old custom, welcoming hier and wishing her plenty. ‘The American Bishops wha are to be pres ent at the Lambeih Conference In July ara the Dishops of Ohlo, Pennsylvanis, Western New York, Indiana, Nebrosk: na, Missourl, Albany, Oregon, Middle Nebras New Jerser, Iows, Northern Toxas, and Colorado. The printer who stole the proof.sheets ol the **Encyclopredia Britannlca' at Edinbnrg, to scll them to & Pnilndelphia publisher, got off wity twenty days' imprisonment, his offenso being de- cided (o bo s simple theft. Ilia defenso was the e 100k the proofs homo to read them, The most oomplete, largest, and most va ried collection of poitery and porcelain over made by any private Individual—that of Mr. M. G. Bohn. of London—has bacn broken up amd 'Tho sale lasted four days, but voly realized 815, 500, tho prices in mlmost every Insiance being ridiculously low. ‘I'he Emperor of Anstria has placed bis villaof Mirsmar, ona clif overlooking the Ad- stic, at the disposition of the Pope fur a summet residence. 1t is & pleasant seat, but sad memories of the doath of Maximilisn and the maduessof +*poor Carloita" must cling about it, and coor tinually revert to sny occupant. Queen Isabella will sell at auction at Paris fn July her is, for which she has mo forther d at $400,000. Theeo are the refused to scnd to Quecu Mere codes when the latter was married. The youn Quoen, by the way, bas buen serionsly ill, Thoss ' Spanish students” that made sucha sopsation In Parls with thelr short cloaks, and tinkling quitars, and similar accessorios, have proved to be frsuds, Woen they gat back ¢ Madrid the roal students wobbed them. Tbeob: Ject of tho humbug 18 not clear, for as It waa care Yiod ont the projectors went to a good deal of 63+ pense aud made nothing, . Princo Leopold has been visiting Corsica. o pald a visit to the room In which Napoleon wis born, and on hle expressing admiration of & splen- dld cameo, the Curator, M. Groasoltl, begged bls acceptance of it as an acknowledyment of the gratitude of AJacclo for the hospitality accorded by ¥rgland to the Imperlal family, The Priacs tnauked bim for the gift, which ho sald be shoald (ke with him onhis return home aud presestio the Queen. London got excited over an alleged ate tempt tosteal the Countens of Roabery's juwelt, during ber honeymoon stay at Putwortn livuse, nat far from tho Capital, but it came out that th3 former Miss De Rothachild did not take hee ju-el; with her, and that the emslly- d attack of the burglars was so clumally made 10 dt-ml:u the theory that they wera tho ssme expert fobl I: who have blayed such havog with the jewel-case of English belles this year. Mme. Natlaniel de Rotbschild, readors of Tus Taause may romember, offered (o :h: Provost-Paradol's Lucy, who bas Just aied, 8 fi:n risge portlon equal to a quarter of a mild ” dollare it the girl would sbandos ber nneuum-d o entering & coovent. The generous ofler wad o clined, bat the nows tost it bad becn made :" abroad, and since then the generous uamnm‘w beea overrun with applicants for the dowey the poor girl doclined to accept. o A msn named Webb has beon swinalisg cruslly the poor weavars and artisans Of L’n" Kerne, Wallaall, aad Plymouth, Englasd, by “Vm resenting that he was the senlor puumyl 3 II:.. of msuulacturers st Chicagy. At Crew Kerne # tween thiriy and forty heads of familics wero loun‘ credulous snough to bellove hisstory, and were 1: ducep to sigu an agrecment a printed luuf: ni which they pledged thomaalves to work for : frm* fors ibo rate of wages agrecd on beiog $3 a day for the men, and $2 8 day for the "’T"'. Al} traveling exponses were to bo pald by li' firm, ' but 8 soversiga was drawn from ce_ch Io: tepdingemigrant as a **token of good faith- 'n:: poor people broke up thelr homos, and sold mn farniture and everytblng they could Dok take Wil hom: thea, of courss, Webb disappearsd,