Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 22, 1878, Page 4

The Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE PREPAID, nily Edition, one yes B12.40 artsof & T, e ynday K 1 20 eat o, iw 1081 ne year, . . gg T, per mon T Give Post-Oftice address fn foll, facluding State anid Coumy. Ttemitfances may bo made elther bydraft, express, Post-Office order, orin Tegistered letters, at onr risk. TERMS 70 CITY SUBSCRIBERS, Datly, delivered, Runday excepted, 25 cents per week, Diaily, delivered, Bunday included. 30 cents per week. Address THE TRIDUNE COMPAKY, Comner Madlson and Dearborn-sts., Chicago. ik, Orders for Lhe delivaryof Tnm TRILTNE at Kvaniton, Eoglewood, and Iiyde Park leftin the counting-reom Wiilrecelve bromot attentio rmr—— AMUS. TS, MeVicker's Thentre. Madiron® streel, between Desrborn: and State, ¥The Exfles.” Haolry’s Thentre, Tandolph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Engagement of Mad. Modjeska. **Camille,” s ey Haverly’s Theatre, Monroe street, rorner of Dearborn. Engagement of tho Kate Claxton Combination. **The Two Orphans.” Now Chicago Thentre, CIark street, opposite Eherman House, ‘Tom's Cabin." "' Uncle Collnemn. Clark strect, oppositc new City-Tiall. Varfety per- formance. TRIBUNE BRAN ‘TRE CriicAGo TRINUKE has catablished branch offices forthe receiptof subscriptivnsacd adverlisements o follaws: NEW YORK-—-Ttoom 20 Zribune Bullling. F. T. Me- Fappxx, Manager. TARIS, France—~No, 16 Rue de Is Grange-Batellere. T, Manten, Agent. LONDON, Eng,—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Tizxny F. 01519, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO. Cal,~Palace Ilotel. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1878, In Now York on Saturday greonbacks wera worth 99§@99§ in coin on the dollar. A torriblo galo on the northern const of Spain has Lronght appnlling dovastation to tho fishory frado, sinking ecores of small veasols and drowning upwards of 150 fishor. men, A briof but aweeping deninl by Bishop McCosxny of all tho charges of immoral conduct just made public ia given to the conntry this morning over his sigunturo through tho Associnted Proas dispalclies. — The peoplo of St. Albans, Vt., felicitate themeelves upon baving oscaped o fenrful conflagration. Discovery was made yoster- day of what thore is overy reason to Lelieve to be two concerted attempts by incondiarics tofire tho city, Iu both cases, fortunately, the fiends wero foiled, but in neither caso ‘wero thoy atro: e ——— Weathier permitting, tho farmers of St. Chair County, Illinois, will comnience tho plowing of corn to-day which was planted iu March, Such o thing ns corn largoe enough to wdmit of plowing at this senson of the year was uever before known in that locality. Iuother parts of the West corn-planting is golvg forward rapidly, and seed-timo in goneral is fully threo weeks in advanco of the avernge of seanon: i g . Enster Sanday in Chicngo was observed onong nearly all tho denominations yoster- duy with festive floral decorations unusnally elaborate and beautiful, and services appro.- printo to the great day of Christian rejoiciug, Among the episodes of spocial inlerest was the occupation by St. Panl's Reformed Epis- copal Bocloty of its newly-sequired church cdifice, and tho anniversary services at ''rini- ty M. E. Church, with o sermon by the Rov, Dr. Troxas on * Lifa's Lessons,” Itia carnostly to Lo hoped that tho strik. ing cotton-operatives of Manchoester will nccopt and nct upon the wensiblo' advico profferod yesterday by the mceting of delo. gotes of tho Amalgamated Association, 'Tho delogates, being bottor able than tho atrikers themselves to judge nccuratoly of tho situa. tion fn all its Learings, urgo tho men to do- sist from the strike for the presont, submit to tho reductlon decreod Ly tho emy ployers, and await 8 more favorablo oppurtungty than o falling worket presents for an organized cffort at resistance, ——— After soveral days of vexatious delay, occa- sionod by a determination upon the part of tho colonists to crowd the vessol boyond fts lawful carrying capacity, tho bark Azor yes. terday st uail from Charleston, 8., C., towed out of the historio harbor by the tug Wade lampton, bearing 250 colored peopla to tholr future homes iu Liburia, It is tho first ship. load to embark uuder the auspices of the Liberian Exodus Assoclation, but the project Lins becomo so popular smong the fevedwen that another cargo of emigrants can bo mnde up as soon s tho funds can be secured (Lat aro necessary to defray the expousca of (heir equipment and transportation, e —— It fs now rogarded as certaln in 'Treasury circloa in Washington that a renowal of oper- otions looking to the romoval of Collector Awtiun and Naval-Officer Convewr will tako placo forthwith, It will bo remembered that the nominntion of Mr. Rooseveir was re jected by the Scnate ou tho ground that no sulliclent causo was shown by the President “fortho removal of Collector Antuvn. Nosuch difffculty could oceur again, the investigation ©of the Treasury Commission having dovel- oped plonty and to sparo of sufficient cansa for removal. 'Tho unme of ex-Governor and cx-Benator FenzoN Iy now montioned in con. nection with the Colloctorship, and Gen, Dix 43 Naoval-Officer, In viow of recent events it is considered doubtful whether Mr, CoNg- Ly could command the requisite strongth oitlier from mnong the Republican or Dawo- cratio Senaturs to defeat two thoroughly nuexceptionable nominations, e e———— Gen. Gonoy has been laboring withs the House Committes on Military Affalrs to cou- vince the Dewocratio metnbors of the neces- &ity of o strong force advavtageously dis- tributed in Northern Montana as a safeguard against a renewal of hostilitics by the Hioux and other bad Indisns now in British Co. lumbis with Scrrive Buis. The Dewoc. rooy, howover, aro so bont upon erip- pling the arwy by wholesalo reductions and changes that it is doubtful whether the most experienced aud judicious of Indian fightery, such as Croox, Tzeey, and Gusoy, could provail iu'the effort to wake prudent provision agaiust the possibility of suother Indisn campsign. Proper precau. tions taken now, together with the uuder. staudivg that the Canadian mnounted police will co-wperate with the United States troops in the oveut of & warlike movement by 8iz. ‘I'H1S CHICAGO IT'RIBUNE : MONDAY, APRIL 22, 187 T1%a Bony, would probably insure peace for the entire ygar, nnd compel the return and surrender of n large portion of tho hostiles. —————— amount to the prices thoy chargo, thus mak- ing the tax a pretext or expedient for greator goina than before. The laboring men, in tho meantime, not merely suffer n roduction in wages, but find the expensos in living in- creased, 'The Iandlord will charge mare rent, for the only way landlords have for paying taxos and intorest is to take them out of the tenant, This income tax will also fall npon tho re- celpts of insuranco companies, and thoy will inevitably recoup themselves two-fold by making it a pretext for advancing their ratos. Mechanics and elerks will havo to pay higher on their dwellings and farnitare. All the items of clothing, andf sustenance, and fael, will bo higher, on nccount of the increass fu prices required to meet the tax lovied on morchants, manufacturers, coal dealers, common carriers, and every class of omployers, Thus the workingman will bos chief sufforer, though ostensibly paying no incomo tax. IHiis oxponses will bo enlarged and his wages bo smaller as n direct and in- evitablo result of this injurious Southern bill, Thero are incidents and attachmenta to this kind of bad tax that fall heavilyupon the dobtor clnsses, Tho banks protect them- selvos by raising the rate of intorest, nad the enpitalista, in loaning money on mortgago, will add the income tax to his rates, and the borrower must pay it. Tho railronds chargo more for passengor travel ng well ns for the transportation of froight. The salo of o farm, houso, or pieco of property for $10., 000 roquiros the paymontof 2200 tax, though only o tenth pnrt of the purchiase-monoy may be paid in cash, ond though the property may bo sold ot o hoavy loss below what it cost the secller. BMen who nre verging towards bankruptey by renson of owning property bought at tho inflation prices will still havo to pay a special tributo in order to sell thoir land at the faco of the mortgage it carries, ‘Thus it becomes n tax on lossos in- Atend of a tnx on gains, and overy farmer and mechanie in debt will be made to foel it tho moment Lo sells his farm or house or nttempts to ronew tho mortgage thoreon. Evory man who rents, travels, insares, solls, borrows, works, or saves will be a victim to this tax, be his incomo Inrge or small, and the smallor the income tho greater the pro- portional hardship, The oxemption Is, in this respect, a mero delusion and n snare. Fortunately, thero ia yet time and oppor- tunity to save the country from the infury of tho proposed Bouthern income tax on the North. Tho purpose of the Congressional domngogues who aro thua pandering to the Communists and secking to deccive the massos 08 to the actunl effect of this sbomi- nable tax will be exposed. The Inwyers in Congress should be influ- onced by tho fact that auch tax will proba- bly bo held by the Bapremo Court to be un- constitutional. Whon lovied bofore it was as & war moasure, and no Union man dosired to tost its validity. Tho case will be vory dif- forent now. Tho tax—unjust, oppressive, inquisitorial, and nnnecessary—will bo wide. lyand stobbornly resisted. An income tax, in its very natare, is n **direct tax,” and the Constitation of tho United States provides that ‘diroct taxes shall bo apportioned among tho States which may be included within this Union according to their respoct- ive numbers,” The proposed law fails to do this, and it wonld be dificult to devise o sys- tem for levying a tax on incomes that would meot this requiroment, Tho constitutional cousideration should influence thoso in Con- gress who will not bo restrained by the man. ifost injustico ond opprossion of tho pro- posed tax upon their constituents. Onr dispatches this morning chronicle an. other of thoge thrilling menagerio oxperi- ences which convalse the circus-going world carly in the spring of onch year.. The well- known bridge and tho * herd of elephanta” aro used, this time in Virginia, tho royal Bengal tiger and the Bouth African lion being rossrved for Iater sorvice, in Michi- gan, mayhap, If tho lover of super- lieated sawdust and croupy hand.organs will only take such, recitals with the proper prophylactic (which is, salt ono grain), thero is no excuse for denying the rest of the peo- plo the enjoyment of these effusions, which Lave inken rank amopg the staples of our Lumorous literature, THE PROPOSED INCOME TAX. The Confederato Brigadiers have had another partial victory in the National Honse of Representatives, They have seoured the report of a bill from tho Ways and Means Commilteo deducting oight cents n pound from the tax on tobacco,—reducing it from 24to 16 conts n ponnd (the English tobacco tax is 80 cents per pound),—~and imposing n tax of 2 por cent onall incomes over 22,000 to muko good tho deficiency in the revenue to bo caused by this redaction of the tobaceo tax. This has been from the first a distinct. ly Southiern measnre, in which the purpose was to striko at the North, and nt tho same time mnke an effort to favor tho Southern tobacco Interests, Two Northern men in the Committeo Lave asssted tha Confederates in bringing this echemo so far for- ward that it ia set for consideration May 1. Asmuch might have been expectod from SAvLER, of Cincinnati, n doughfaco Demo- crat, Lut it is unnccountablo that Mr, Buzn- cuanp, of Illinois, shonld have given it the ULeneflt of his casting voto in tho Committeo, without which it could not have come beforo tho Iouse, The Confederato gains from the passagoe of this bill would not be so important to them ns is generally sopposed. Tho con. cumer pays tho tax, so that the tobaceo- growing and manufacturing districts in the South will not bo rolieved by the reduction; tho middle men who sell to the smokers and chewars will pay a little loss for the tobacco they purchaso to sell, and thoy aro a olass who aro cortainly not entitled to any special rolicf, a8 thoy don't pay the excise. The only way in which the Bouthern producers conld Lo baiefited would be through an fincrensod demand and consumption of tobacco that might warrant them in charg. ing higher prices for what they soll, but a reduction of cight contsn ponnd in the tax will senrcoly bring nboit that result, Nevertho- less, tha Sonthern Brigadiersand theirconstit- uents moy enjoy some satisfaction in the re- flection that 90 per cont of tho burden of the incomo tax will fall upon tho copitalists, manufacturing, and business men of the North; and the farmers of tho West will et * steuck " through the incronsed railroad freights on their produce and live stock and on the manufactures they purchase, whilo tho Lordship to tho South will be compara- tively slight, It will be moro dificult for Congrosamon representing Northern and Western distriots than somo of thom think to persuade their constituents of tho justico of imposing n special tax upon iudustry of all kinds,—ad. mittedly of au inquisitorial and onorous char. acter, and also of doubtful constitutionality, If thero wero war with somo foreign Power, or it the ravenues had irrecoverably sunkon below tho amiount nccessary to pay tho in. terost on the publio debt, thors might then bo some justification for ecstablishing o na- tional systom of espionage to pry into pri- vate affairs and oxact a special tribute from all thosa citizons who are onterprising, in. dustrions, and frugal enough to securo an income in excoss of $2,000. But thoro is no suck contingoncy. No such excuse, in fact, issct up. Tho purposois confossodly that of reducing ono of tho fairest and loast bur. deusome of all vationn! taxes,—tho exciso on tobacco,—aud of imposing upon the North tho most odious end injurious of taxes, nnd more than its sharo in the support of the Governuient, ‘I'he most serious crror mado by unrefloct- ing people in regard to an incomo tax is in {ho delusion that tho tax fally oxclusivoly upon thoso who havo incomes excoeding #2,000, becauso that ‘sum 18 ostensibly ex- ompt in tho collection, ‘The Western farmer who doos not earn moro than §1,000 & yoar may persuade him. self, in tho innocenco of his heart, that this uow tax will not rench hilm. As a mattor of fact, ho will feel it, in proportion to his woans, as much os nnybody clse, As n producer of gralu, wool, or live stock, the prices ho receives aro largely determined by the cost of gotting Lis produce to market. ‘Lransportation, storage, and commissions nre alwnys deducted bofore ho reccives his pay. But tho unow tax falls ou theso inci- douts. Tho railrosd companies aud tho warcliouse corporations are required under tho law to pay tho 2 per cent tax on thelr rocelpts bofore dividiug tholr enrnings, ‘Uhiy tax will be nu excuso now, as 1t was when it provailed during and after the War, for {m. posing extra charges double or thrivs the wount of tho tax lovied. The commission mon and willors who pay the tax on their in. comes will follow the same rule, Every dollar of the tax on theso Intercsts, then, though nomiually pald by corporations, mill. vrs, drovers, and business firms, fally directly upon the farmers, ucludiug those whose in- comes do not exceed $2,000, Those farmers who earn moro than this sum must pay an additional tax on their surplus jucome, Heuco not a single person engnged in farm- “THE IGNORANT, BIGOTED YOKEL'S" ALMANAC, The Washington Post, which aspirea to tho pross leadership of tho Democracy, has just discovered how tho Presidential eam- paign of 1876 was won by the Ilepublican party. ‘¢ Tho averagoe Radical votor of the rural districts of the loyal North,"” says tho Post, *is an ignorant, bLigoted yokel, who dorives most of his knowledgo of current ovents from an almanac, and tho bulk of his political information from the quarterly sor- mon of the Prosiding Elder of the M. Lk, Church North,” The ignorant, bigoted yokel, in 1874, loarned, says the Post (pro- sumably from his almanno and the quartorly sermon of his Elder), of ** the ringism of the Gnant Admintstration,” and he rose, did tho yokel aforesaid, ** in disgust and wrath and swept tho Radical party, with its rings, its plous thioves, and its Christian statosmen out of the ITouse of Represontatives.” But botween tho happening of this glorious evont in 1874 and the opening of tho Prosi- dontial campaign of 1870, the Ropublican leadors dovised an ingonious schome to frighten and cajolo tho * yokel” back to his allegiauce. They {frightencd him by holding up to bis view (through hia al. manac and the Presiding Elder’s quarterly sermon of courso) the perilof two billions of Robol claims, The Dewocratio party, says tha Post “denled, apologzed, aud expostulut. ed,” butall in vain, for the lvpublican loadors captured that ‘‘ignorsnt, bigoted yokol,” horse, foot, and dragoons, and “‘ro- duced the Democratic majority in the fouso from seventy to twenty." Had the Post been in existence at tho tima it would hove donied nothing, apologized fornothing, expostulated not at all. It would have promptly assumed tho aggressive, and fought tho battle ou that line. Whether it . would liave defonded the two billions of Rebel claims, the J%0s¢ docs not exactly say, Wo are loft to infor, however, that it would, sfuco there was no room for doubt as to the existenco of the claims ond s to the purpose of the Confederate Democracy to prosecute them to the bitter end. On the subject of “¢ curront events,” the ** yokel's” almanao fy ing can csoapo this tax, whotlier his incomo | sometimes dissgrocably specifio on no. b largo or small, It will come out of him | count , of its accuracy and truth. in tho eud, fulness, For instance, between 1874 The mechanics, arlisans, factory-ppora. tives, and laboring clagses havo likowisd ac- quired from the Communists the Lumbug- giug idea that they will escape the income tax, and that it fulls only upon those whosa direct income excceds the amount exempt- ed. The fact is that it uecessarily oppresses them more than any other class in the com. wunity, unless it be the farmers, It cuts into them on both sides. The special tax on tho earnings of the manufacturer, the build- er, the ruilroad and steawship companies, {lio merchants, and all other ewployers, ro- duces tho wages-fund in proportion to what is subtracted by this special tax. The tax 15 a new itew iu the expense account of all thoso doing business, and one that cannot bo avolded or curtailed. This expenso, therefore, will be saved somewhere else. Bouwe of the cmployers will moct it in part by cutting down wages, and in part by adding to tho price of their goods or freights. Others will spplyitall on & reduction of wages in order to got an advantage in com- potivg withs their neighbory ; still others will put the full amount ou the Jaborers aud owployes, and also edd the full and 187G, the ** yokel's ¥ almenao inform. cd hiw,and truthfally too, that claims of every concelvable nature, from the rob- bery of a Lien-roost to the profanation of tho sanctuary of the Lord, as represcuted by tho AL E. Oburch South, through its conver. sfon into a hospital for the accommodation of wounded Union soldiers, were presented and pressed upon the attention of Uongross, snd that theso claims aggregated huudreds of mitlions of dollars. It is & question whethor, had the Post beeu alivo to defend those two billion dollars' worth of Rebel clalms, aud its defenso had gone into the *¢yokel's" al. 10000 sido by side with the hard, cold state. ment of their amount,—it {s a question whether the . “ignorant, bigoted yokel® would not have roached the same conclusion, nawoly : that it was not quite safo to trust tho Confodsrate Democraoy to pass upon their own clajia. There is little doubt, however, we think, that the *yokel” will ropeat his action of 1876 when bo comes to study bhis almansa for 1876. He will find that the Con. federato House, with but twenty imajori. ty, presscs its two billion dollars of Iiobel claims with evon more vigor than 1t display- ed when its majority was n round scventy. It is plain that the Post has impressed it. self upon its party leaders, Thoy have ndopted ita nggressivepolicy, Wohave aven had an opportunity to observe how it works in practico. Tho case of the eloction of n Doorkecper fs in point. The nggressiva pol- {cy involved tho necessity of the choico of that particalar Confederate Goenoral who could show tho most consplonons record of disloyalty and bitterness toward his Govern. ment and flag. As n compotitor for Demo- crntio voles thero was presentod a veteran Democrat, and a veteran of two wars for the Union who bore the scars of wounds ro- ceived in both, This voteran, Gen. Smuirrps, received one Democratic vote, and lis opponent, Gon, Freip, the ox-Confederato, recoived all tho rest! This incident shows whither tho ag- gressivo policy tends. It means tho absolute proscription of the Unfon soldier, and tho olovation of the Confedorate to places of trust and emolument in the gift of tho Republic. The Doorkeoper opisode will not look well in tho ‘*yokel's" almanac, Lut it will find n place there, novertheloss. Tho Confoderato Gon, Fixtp roalizes that it will not look wdil, aud ho scoks to break tho foree of it by announcing his purpose to fill the so-called soldiors’ roll of his ‘department with crippled Union soldiers. But his pro- posed oction smacks of npology; it is not **nggrossiva ” onough, Honce tho Confed- ernto Appropristion Committee promptly assombled aud agreod to cut down tho pay of onch of them 8200 per annum | This will supply a paragraph for the * yokol's” al. manae, The nggressive policy wna beautifally de- veloped the other day in the course of the debato in the Housoon the William and Mary Qollogo Claim bill. That old Virginia insti. tution Les edncated more Rebels than any other collogo in tho South. Hence it was solectod by the ex-Confederntes as tho fittest subjoct of reward. Tho Hon. Mantiy I Towxsexp, in bis inimitably eanstie, humor- ons vein, showed why that institution of all othors was placed in tho van of the long line of ponding Rebol claims, It served the de. funct Confederacy best, and its name lod all tho rest. “No moro apologies, no moro doninls,” soys tho Post, Let us thrust the most offensive of tho Rebel claims upon the attention of the ignorant, bigoted yokel ! On Snturday last tho Houss of Represent. atives entered an order fixing two night ses- slons ench woek to consider pension cases, The secrot of this order is tho fact that o Iarge number of Bouthern claims aro on the calendar next after tho pensfon cases. The nggressivo policy requires that Southern claims should bo pressed to the front, and the ponsion onses aro to be rushed through to givo placo to the vanguard of the listof two billion dollars of Rebel claims. Tho pen- slon cascs concern Union soldiors; the ‘Bonthorn-claim cnses concorn Rebel soldiers, TRobel coldiora’ families and frionds, Tho ag- gressive policy demands that the cases of Rebel soldiers shall bo promptly considered. Prosced, gentlemen; you aro grinding out grlsts for tho ** ignorant, bigoted yokel's” al- manac, THE CUSTOMS-THIEVES' NEW RECRUIT. The Chicago Times aunouncos from Wash. ington that *‘tho Commission to investigate tho quostion of the undervaluation of im- portod goods will not bo in any hurry to go to work ot the Enstern ports.” It rofors to tho Commission s **jrresponsible,” and de- clares that ** it iz nmong tho possibilitics that its work is mear an ond.” It declares that tho Chicago people, in Washington, intor- osted in the fight of tho Weatern importors ngainst tho frauds of the Fastern seaports “‘have no confldenco in tho Commisalon”; that it was *“organized in the Ring Intorests,” and that *it will so report.” The Times further says: **Thero is in all branchos of the Treasury servico n pooh-poching of the charges mado at Chicago that shows how complotely the Treasury ig in the hands of a Ring."” Itia quite plain, from these gloomy forebodings, that tho Times has been ad- vised by IL B, Jauws. It is not strange that the man Jawes should * pooh-pooh” the ‘‘charges made at Chicago.” It is not slrango that, from a convorsation with Jaues, the Times correspondent should concludo that *“ tho Treasury is complotely in the handa of a Rung.” It wonld, perhaps, be botter for tho Z'imes to consult Bocrotary SurryaN on the subject of Ring influcnce in tho Trensury, Mr. BuzauaN may, perhaps, dotermino to eliminato from tho ‘Tressury tho New York Custom-Housa Ring influonce, oven if in doing 8o it becomes necessary to cut off tho official hoad of Mr. H, B, Jauxs, Wo mildly suggost to the Zimes that on Troasury offaiva Mr. BuzrMan is better authority than his clork, James, The Zimes insinuatos thot the Commission 18 corrupt, and that tho Now York thieves' Ring have purchasod it. The insinuation is a lying one, and wo challenge the Times to produce o particle of evideuco in support of it. Tho Z'imes says that Chicago people in Washington ‘““have no ‘confidence in tho Commission.” This assertion is as falso a4 tho fnsinuation that the Commission is corrupt, The Commnission could not sup. preas tho facts prosented to it if it would, and it would uot if it conld. Tho caso againat the Now York Oustom-Iouse §s al- ready mado up, Itis overwhelming, and its promulgation Is only n question of time, Tho T'émes lins never comprehiondsd tho sub. joct. It has treated it only in a sonsational way, with no adequate concoption of its im- portant bearing on the great mercantile in- torests of Chicago and the entiro Western country, It has printed somo important facts bearing on the subject, gathered from Government officials and interested Import- ers. DBut it bhas falled to compre. bond the significance of the facts, folled to digest them, and so failed to presont them to the pablio in & manner suscoptible of easy comprokionsion. Having failed to understand the controversy in an intelligible way, the 7{mes now sncers at it, and seeks to consign it to contempt by sub- jecting it to ridiculo. There is nothing par. ticularly ** nasty,” in tho ordinary acceptation of the term, aboat the New York Custom. Housa frauds. It is & ximple caso of dis- lonost collusion with certain Government officiala by a certain class of business-men on a large scale. If it wero a case of priest- ly unfaithfulness to the solemn obligations of his order,a case of adultery in a con. spicuously exalted social circle, or a case of strikingly excoptional nastiness 1n any walk in life, it would be quite in the Zimes way work & up to the best (?) sdvantage, with all the ac. companiwents of cynicism, obscenity, and’ blasphemous profanity. But the case under cousideration is not that sortof a case at all. It has, for a long time, been notorious that extensive frauds on the revenue are being committed in the Now York Custom-House, ‘Tus Trunz charged this to be the fact, and demanded that the Becretary of tho Troasury shonld put n stop to them. Tha customs offioials here ardently supported Tnr Trin. UNE, and Mr. S8renmaN promptly constitnted n Commirsion to juvestigato the charges, The individual I, B. James, Chief of tha Customs Division of the Treasnry Depart. ment, tried to destroy the investigation by poisoning tho mind of the Secretary of tho Troasury agninat the inveatigators of it, and from’ that momont the Zimes withdrow its eupport from the Commission., It fs plain that its nssaults upon the integrity of tho Commission, emanating from Washing. lon, as they do, arc inspired by Mr, James, The Times lms joined the James pnrly, and will herenfter dofend the New York Ring of customs thioves in their efforts to continuo the pres- ent system of robbing the Government reve- . uues and crushing out honest importers in Ohicago and other Western citien, The Times hos gono over to the cnemy of its patrons in Ohicago and tho West. It has joined the robbers of the ravenue, but it bas joined them at the wrong timo, They have maintained a long hold upon ill-gotten gnins, but they nro about to bo compelled to re- linquish it. They will bo speedily over. thrown, horse, foot, nnd dragoons, aud their nowspaper organs, whether in New York or Chieago, will do well to “stand from under,” CONELIRG ON THE SILVER BILL Bonator CovxriNa's silonce during tho exciting and prolonged debalo on tho Silver bill was cxplained by himeelf in the romarka- bleinterviow published Iast wook in the New York World, 1o rofrained from sponking, ho oxplains, for two rensons,—firat becanse hio saw the bill was demanded by o vast ma. Jority of the people, and secondly because the Now York papors had precluded all arga- ment by thoir insolont, vitnporative, and scandalons mothods of attacking tho silver men. *Tho Now York editorsthought they could carry tho day,” sald Senator Coxrtang, by calling tho silvor mon Innatics, fools, knaves, and rascals, and spoaking of a groat popular movomentas a “craze.'” This wns no way to do, Conrring thought. Tho men londing the movement, ho said, * wore noither idiots, knaves, nor fools. They know,” ho said,—*‘and we also all know,— that tho great dailies of New York aro nnder the shadow of Wall street, and completely controlled by its monoy-7ngs.” Sonntor CoNrLING i8 perhaps not tho best authority on soma political questions where Prosidont Havzsfs concerncd, but, ns tho Sonator from New York, ke mny be sup- posed to know what ho is talking about in thisinatance. No man has had botter appor- tunitios to study tho New York press nnd discover its undorground’ connections, and tho influencea that control it, than he; and whon he says that it drow its inspiration for tho silver discussion from Wall stroot, wo oro bound to beliove that ho speaks tho truth, His testimony is merely confirma- tory of more to tho same effect from other sources. Two of tho nowspapers wmoat slan- derous in tho combined attack against the West are known to be tho property of Wall stroot stock and gold gamblors. 'Tho others took thoir cuo from theso, and all adopted tho Wall stroot styls of argument, composed of misropresentations, nbusive opithats, and threats, - Thoir undisgulsed purpose was to Increnso tho value of tho cheap paper dollars thoy had loaned by requiring payment in Qear gold dollars. ‘Their wholo game was to enhanco the value of thefr lonns, at the ox- pense of debtors and industry. ‘Thoy clam- ored for dear dollars in payment of tho cheap stuff they bad loaned. They sought to got a8 corner on gold by making it the solo legal-tender for paying debts, ‘They did not even go to tho trouble of deny- ing or disguising thoir rascally, swindling purposo, but clatmed it was tholr right to thus rob the commuuity. All other money than doar gold thoy donouncoed as **clipped coln,” or “90-cont dollara,” It is only a fow days sinco the Now York Nation, one of tho most Insolent and abusive of the Wall street organs, doplored the *‘Inflation of the currency” likely to result from tho restoration of gald to clrenlation unless the greenbacks were withdrawn nnd burned as {nst 08 gold woa fnsued. To keep the groon. backs in circulation along with tho coln, it condemns as inflation, and says it will cheapen the value of gold and ralse tho prico of property and products, and such result it doprocates nud deplores with all the bitter- noss of o bloodthiraty Bhylock, Tho news. vaper that mokes the objection to tho groon. backs might os well proclaim itsclf tho speclal ndvocato of tho monoy-king at once, ond dovots itsclf oxclusively to the solution of problems in cent per cent, Seuator Congrixag is nght {n condemning tho insolonce and dishouesty of the Wall street orgaus. Asa public man, he knows that Shiylock s not King in this country, and that the peoplo cannot bo bought or fright. oned. 1o found ‘it impoasiblo to sponk ou this question when it was up in tho Senato, bocaude anything he might say would be, in comparison with the editorials of tho Now York presa, tame and ineffective, Ha could not out-Herod Heron, Thera was, perhaps, one other reason, nol mentioned by him, why ho did not speak, aud that was lack of solld srgument to be advanced nguinst tho bill. Thbis lack helps to cxplain the conduct of tho Now York press. Having the Wall street intorest to protect and concillate, and no facts to support them, the nowspapers took to defamation of charaotor es thelr only recourse. Thoy adopted the tactics of ApTEMUs Wamp, and sald in offect; “It may all bo as tho Western people any, but our mothor didn't die ina poor-houss, and oup sistor Bay hasn't got a glass eye.” Ben- ator Coxxvring waa too wise to follow thoir oxamplo. Events have already justified him and condemned them, A COMMUNISTIC HOOBTER GOVERNOR. The woral responaibility for the recent massacre of colored men at the Conl Oreek mines in Indiana should be laid at the door of the Commune-sympathizing Governor of that State, Blue-Jeans Witriaus, A brief rosumo of tho case will make this apparent- A year ago the minors at that locality bo* longing to the *‘Union " went out ona # strike," not upon a matter of wages or of time, but because one of their * bosses” wag porsonally objectionable to some of them. The companies resisted the strike, and after their mines had been idle for along time hired some colorsd men in Virginia and set them to work, This brought the Molly Ma. guire miners to terms, and at last a compro- mise sottlement was msde. With some exceptions, the * Unionists” were given em. ployment, but the introduction of colored Americans rankled in their foreign breasts, especlally ax thess blacks' continued to work some of the mines. A conspiracy was laid todrnive them out of that section. Last fall @ petition was sent by the *‘Mollies” to +0ld Blue Jeans,” asking suthority for the inoorporation of a militis company at Coal Oreek under the State law. He granted the petition at once, without giving the matter any investigation, and ordored that cighty repeating rifles of tho Bpringfleld pattern should be furnishod to tho company, which numbered that many men. By this action of the Govornur the Blate of Indinua armed eighty ruifians, who wore in n conspiracy to murder and drive out tho colored men, with Btato re- ponting rifles, It was not a difficult matter to plok a quarrel with them, Lost Tnesday night, one of the militia men, inflamed with whisky, nasaulted a negro and straightway the wond waa givon, The militia Mollies np- penred upon the streots with their rifles, not a8 a company ncting under military or- ders, but s & mob bont upon massacre, Thoy suceceded in killing thres innocent ne- groes, wounding several othors, driving the rest to their housos, end terrorizing them to that extent that they have not darc to ro- sumo work, After the massacre, the Shoriff appeared upon the scone and completed the farce by orderiug out the nssassinating militia compnuy to prosorve the ponce! The noxt day eleven members of this beautiful company of peace-consorvators wore placod under arrest upon the chinrge of murder, It s to bo hoped that tlieso oloven tnon, guilty of murderiug penceful, unoffending, industrious colored laborers, will bo punish- ed to the full extent of tho lnw; but there is a highor criminal in this cnse, the Govern. or of Indiann, who furnished the murderers with 8tate arms to do their bloody work. Ho should not Lo allowed to escape a moral verdict of condemnation from ke pnblic tribunal. Ho knew the characler of the men to whom ho gave those rifles. o was too intimately and sympathetically conneot- cd with the railroad strikes last sntmer not to know the vindictive feelings of the Coal Crecls miners towards the colored men, Ilo know that thero wns no need for a militin compnoy at that loealily. 1o know, if he wanted {o find out, that there was a conspirncy o provent tho negroes from working by murdering somo of them, which would bhavo the effect to catablish a reign of terror and scaro awny the rest, and that whon ke placed nrmam thelr hands thoy would probably commit murdor with them, It {s not the first time that this pandoring old demagoguoe hna opon- 1y avowed his sympathy and afliations with the Molly Maguiros and Communisis, Last smmmer ho unblushingly enrolled himself upon their sido by refusing to arrost their dlsorderly aud incondinry procesdings. He thon placed tho menus in their hands to stop all tho rpilroad traine crossing the State, block up public business of other Stntes, and Iny an embargo upon travel and transportation, with the solitary oxception of his son-in.law, who, ot his personal request, was ollowed by the railroad strikers to take his cattlo out of tho Btato on atrain, He bas now placed the instruments of nssnssi- nation inthehinnds of n lawless, reokless gang of Molly Maguires, and they have nocomplish. ed their work., Forthe killing of theso three black men he 18 almost s rosponsiblo as if he bad shot them himself. He not only encouragod tho scoundrals by Lis Commu. nistic conduct Inst smnmer, buthe placed the wenpons in their hands, knowing full well tho cruel rosult that might follow. The villains who shot tho colored men deservo to go to tho gallows, Their sympathizer morits the scorn of all law.nbiding citizons, and tho dotostation of every friend of bumanity. If justico were done, he would bo hurled from tho high position be dis. graces by an indignant pooplo, and naver again would bo iuvested with the opportunity to use tho power of the Blate in tho intorests of Communistio incondiaries and nasassi. uatlon, 8till another scandal at the Yalo College Junifor Exhibition. Theoration which took the sccond prizo last week, and came near taking the first, was cribbed almost bodlly from two of the prizo orations of 1600, They happaned to be on file fn the liurary, and the authors hap- pened to be in the audicnes: so that orator will never palnt a Profcasor's cow aky-blue again,— In Now Ifaven ot least, Sume years ago, an- other Juulor came to grief through lnjudiclous- 1y shooting off his cloquent mouth charged with thunder stolen from the lage Hon. Henry L. Demiug, who was iIn tho audience. Nor Is it long since, at another Eastern college, o young student passcd oft on the judges & chapter of Buckes on * Clvllization ™ as bis own work, and took o prize. In his caso, however, the Judges might be sald to be partlceps criminis, Inasmuch as they falled to recognizo tho matter with which they should have been famlhar, or to suspect that anything was wroog when such matter was spouted off by an unlicked cub in his fteens. It (s probable that all of these younz men would have conaldered It **inconslstent with n scuss of honor" to give away a com- rade suspocted of bejug concerned in 8 hazing outrage, ————— Tho London Spectator ot April G reporta this bad plece of nows concerning the {ntroduction of the American potato-bug Into England: A Colornda bLeetle, it fu vald, has made good his landiug on the coast of Ulamorysushite, A Car- diff nouse-decorator, ALFRED JONIN, t00k one last Sunday, which had 'boen obestved by his wifo on 2 potato, ta the police-station, and thera the Hoalth-Oiticer, Dr. T'arx, declured the bestlu to e of the genuine Colorado type, ‘The inscct i wup- pused (o have traveled by 8 vewsel now in port with & larg oclr*u. It may well torn out that the successful landing of this ex‘zldfllanury furce on the coast of Wales will, as Slr WiLyniv Lawson loog sgo predicted, b moro dissstrous for Bugland than the landiug of sny naval or military force the Walcs It e which we could ratlonally cxpect. 1ndeed, beetlo may prove far uiore formidablu in than oven thy Dashi.Bazouks in Th not so cruel, hut ls law of the Increars of only too formidably. e One of thoso cheerful sults which mako Dis- trict-Attorneys &0 anzious for ro-clection pigeon-hole Indictments found sgainst tho murderers of Insurance canvassers is raging ln Brooklyn, A woman bought a houso on nort- Ragze, insured {t {n tho mortzagee's fnterest, and conveyed ft to hier chtld. The houss burncd down; the woman uudertook to prove loss for tho movtgagec; the cowpany wouldu't accept ber proposition. The mortzagos proffercd proof; declined. ‘The child's cusrdiau bas bruught suit, and the company opposcs that, ‘The next thing will bo for tho company to us- scrt that there was no house at all, s In the midst of his swash about Eaatertide, Mr. Jar Gouwp is cmincotly truthful, aad says: V . We fingor the colns P Pt oyt o v the poor crowd about fiim; the bug L4 our buslness. Yes; the bag Is Jax’s busivess, and he docs floger tho coins greedily; but wo never cxpects ed to hear Lim admit the fazt so pluwply. —— The Democrats of Richmond, Va., have “adopted a resolution excluding the blacks from votlng st tho primary clections,” There i3, lowever, no objcction to tho blacks votiug at tha regular clection, provided that they vote for the tickot nominatea at the primarics from which they are thus excluded. Let us conciliate agelu. Audegain. Aud once more. Tiger! Liviog at Europeau hotela is dear; but dying is dearer, as witaess the bill ot $1,400 for “In< Jury toroom** brought fn by the thrifty vro- orictor of the Hotel do V'Univers, of Alx-les- Buius, sgainst tho exccutors of a man who died thers of a noa-coutagious discase, e — Why do not soms of our New York contem- porarics look up Mr. B. G. JATKS, sud obtain bis evidence as to whetber or mot therofs & tremendous deal of undervalustion and dis- crimination fu favor of New York merchants #% tha receipt of custom over which presides Alexla: boreturned an “Diotaer, Jn 1674, Kelaxaus, ex-Mayor Lol DT e d T3 contiry s sad 1o, 1470 ths B2 Colicetor Antnun! We havo heard it ealq thay Mr. Jarnn liad alstof the firms, which by thus profited, as long as a toll of Wall-paper, and that the names thereon were not Nnflngi o Chincse clgar-peddlers, or old-clo? Qealers fy Chatham strect. ————— The most alenificant annonncement in tagy weck'a Eastern news was contained In {ho dig. patch which sald that o Koyal yacht hag been sent to the Mediterrancan to take tho Dyke of Enixnure home. That looked 8 goog dead 1tke war, | Mr. Brecnien thinks tuat Mr, CoNrrayg M **n very big rat fn o very small trap, Perhapg Mr. Congeinu entertains a Mke oplofon of My, Beccuzn; who knows? $ P *Tho Great Thirat-Laud ? [s ke lagt book ont; and yet thero is uot a word In iy aboug Kentucky, or the First Congresstonal Districy of Virginia. PERSONALS, f Morrissoy’s heslth is steadily lmpmving and he Is now ablo to drive ont. * Willie Winter's fathor—Qlarlea Winter, of Cambridge, Mass,—died last week. ‘Thero ara threo Elovons of fomnla erjgy, eters lu England,—at Augmering, Elstead, g Thursley. Ifjalmar Doyeaen, who is shortly to seitly in New York, will do 80 asa married mag, by promessa sposa betng o New York giel, Hury Ward, of Sackolts Uathor, ageg 101, took his firat ride on a ralirond-car the other day, to complete the pavers for his application gy a pensioner of the War of 1812, Beechor says that Mrs, Tilton's confossion reminds bim of tho negro's saying to tha enes s the hotel who asked Bim If hat wa the recond bell, **No, sah; dat am de sccond ringing of ¢y fust bell,* Washington gossips, inimical to tho Preg. dent, asscrt that the confirmation of bLis Iriend, tien. T, 1. C. Smith, as Paymaster, may have fomething lo do with tho Fitz John Porter case,ay Gen, Smith was Pope's Chlef of Stafr, and ls thy most important witness in the case, Secrotary Chase, whon he issned the fing greenback, hunga cold dollar to his wateh-charn, snnounciog hls intentlon of wearing it unil by greenback camo up to par. Once be sald thathy Lad often doubted whether that day would ever be natialned, and hod left off wearing the charm; but Wis deepondency wos prematare. Mr. Tilden hns beon interviowed, Heis not now, and never will be again, a candidate for the Nuw York Governorship or Scnatorship; the Iatter ufiice ho would not take, Indeed, If {t wery offered to bim uuanimonaly, When pressed tony whether ho would bo a candidate for any other oftice, Mr, Tilden laughed, and sald that wae quite another thing, Robecea L. Fox, n prominent Quakerass, and the widow of George 8. Fox, who was & de. ecendant of tho founder of the Quaker sect, huy Just dled at New York, aged 70. She was an orlg. {nal Avolitionist, and very active in endeavoring to bring about the Mberation of Southern negroes, Bointeneo were her feellngs In (his respect that ehe would not make use of snything produced by slave-labor, Thero {s not likely to be much enthusiam over the 8hah’a second visit to Europe, e can not bo called handsome, bis manners are not en- Riging, when be quits a lodging the proprietor #clls the furniture ata low valuat nd, wont of ll, there fs an awful suspicion te i monds are not all gesuine, It romains to bessen whether ho will cheerfully obsarve to the Rmperor Willlam, **Why don't you strangle that old the-camel and tako ten or fifteen of thoss young gitlsY" Tho **old sho-camel " thus alluded to was ihe KEmpress Augusta. There does not appear to be much reasen for doubtlng that the recent arrest of ex-Gov, Fraok J. Moscs, of South Caroline, which wasso loudly declared to be non-political, had for {ts ob- Ject tho squeezing out of him of certain paperser ovidence affecting the prosocutions In that State, After his arrest Lic wos allowed (o go whereds would, and even to spend the night away from bis eaptor; aud, thongh previously he had botn s dewperately hard up that he supported himaelf by loans of sums as small a3 50 cents, heo suddenly came out flush. Baron Lionol do Rothschild turns out to have been tho myaterious gentloman who calledon the Marquess of Conyngham o year sgo, pld $100,000 for his magnificont Sevres chins cabinet, and took it away without giving o hint as to ble Identity or the destination of his purchase. Two sats of rumore were set afloat by this transaction, —theso, to the effect that §t had been bought by an sgent of the Prince of Wales; thomo, that it was bought by pasties inimlcal to the Brith Royai family,—the aupposition belng 1n both cases the same, namely: that itcontained insomesecres rocesa valuable ovidence aa to the marriaga of Mrs, Fitzherbert, Dr. Mary Walker was born in Oswego, N. Y., about 1830, and though she had tho reputation of belnz o peculiar, was not by any means s w: ward girl, Bho was a superior scholar, snd, tak! to the stody of medicine, graduated reguls She marrled when quite young s Dr. Miller, match proving an unhappy one. A suit for divorcs againet him was nnsnccessful bacause of hiedec- laration of his willingncss to live with ber, and hisalicgation that sho had dessrted him without causc, During tho War Dir, Mary had charzeof & howpital In the Wost, and was captured by the Con- fedorates, and confined in Libby Prison sasspy. Since the War ahe has lived at Washington, where shohaealways been dolng somcthing to atirsct notoriety, from the time that sho wo persietestly cndeavored to eain admisslon to the executions: Mrs, Surratt down to thoday of her asssulton # snioker inone of the Government ofices. Thero died a fow days ago at Parls oneof the most distinguished of modorn Poles, Dr. Boverin Qalezowakl, sged 77, Atthe period that Mickiewlcs woa the bright particular star of Pohil litezature, Galozowsk!, then Professor of Sargery at tho Unlveraity of Wilns, was the omament of Pollshsclonce. Tho University sent him abrosd tostudy sud roport upon tho advance of aurgical aclence in other countriss, and It was while be wad thas engaged that the revolution of 1830 broks ook Ttwturaing to Poland, Dr, Galuzowakl took & prom!e nent part lu it as Surgoon-ln-Cbief to the Insurg® entarmy; after tho suppressiun of the Poles bo went to_ Moxico, whore, for voumo ftecn years, be haa & large, bridiant, snd Jucrativa practice. The outbreak of 1848 culled him homo sgaln. sod when once more his hopes of ralsing sucosssfolly the banner of Polish natlonality were dispelied Bo aciticd at Parisand founded the Follsh school st Batigaolics, which has done so much to keep ““" nationsl longing snd spirit slive in the heasts o the childran of the revolutlonists of 1448, "Iha announcomont of tho intended visit of the Princo mperial of Austeia thls fall uu: somwe inquiry ss to the Itoyal visitors previously the Unitod Btates, Willlsm 1V., then & Midsbip- man on one of Admiral Digby's vesacls, came ov 0; in 37825 s, Iater, did bis brother, tho Dake % Kont, Queen Victoria's father, who wmmmleu tho exrrison In Canada. _Louls Pallippe, wita B brothcrs, the Duke de Montpensier and Count - Deaujolals, spant tho four years botween lm&‘ 1800 in tho United States and Cups. fa 1 e Jerome Honaparte, afterwards Kiog of W ‘I’a A phalis, camo to America, whers ko mnm Misa Patterson, of Baltiniore. After wmrm the country was visited by anotber brother of o geeat Emperor, Joseph Bonaparie, fl"“"“m_ Naples and Spain, who settled down at lluv“n' town, N, J., snd lived for mauy years fn 09; i retirement. Btill another Bunsparto visite o United Statas after Napuleon's overibrow, “l"d 7 Luclen, Prince of Csnino, wha was & bard "‘I o capecially of Ornithology, sud helped Wil ;( e ‘bring out his great book. The two sons of ‘l; o) Kingof Naples, settled hore after thelr n!; o exacation, —Napoleon, who taarzied 8 grs ':“ 3 of George Washingtus, and dicd to 'l'nlM:u. L Lucien, who died only & few daye ag0. Lo “_‘1 poleon lsnded at Norfolk, Vs., in March, u!lni aud upent some time in New York, whonce be 5 tosee his dying mother. In 1842, the PHM:“I Jolnville came to thls country; be retarnet 1861 with bla son. the Duke de P-ntbuvnk.. e his ncphew, the Count do Paris snd Dl: et Chastres., In Boptember, 1800, tbe Priee Wales appesred fn our midst s Baron mn‘ “; shortly sfterwards came Prince Nlpolc_on F1t e Princess Clotilde, Victor Fun;nflu ', fiwvl“m‘ ¥ n 1808 in 1870, Princo Aribir e o uks of Oonn:ul&l;‘nll‘lfl;fl: e aaain i 1677 with b youndss el aud Kniore raxil, —thulr Majestlch K:::: the last Koyal visitors the’ Republic bas . sertulned, excopt tho Kusalun Urand-Dulss.