Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1878, Page 4

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Madiron street, hetween Dearoorn **After Dark." Afternoon and evesing. and State. flaoley’s Theatre. Tandoiph sireet, between Clark and LaSalle. Emerson’s Minstrels, Afternoon and evening. New Chicago Thentre. Clark street. opposite Eherman llouse. Engage. ment of J. Z, Little. '*Roving Jack." Aftcrooon and evenlog. tnveris’s Theatre, Monroe sireet, corner of Dearhorn, Josh Hart's Pan- orama of the Cticago Fire. Alfternoon and evening. Callyeum. Clark atreet, opposite new City-Hall, Vatlety en- tertajnment. s MAY “ SATURDAY, 11, 1878, Greonbacks at the New York Stock Ex- chango yosterday closed at 994, e The, VALENTINE scrip caso is now fairly be- fore the Secretary of the Interior on appeal from tho decision of tho Commissioner of the General Land.Oflleo, Mr. BoNrisLp, Corpora- tion Counsel of Chicago, Laving yesterday filed his brief and arguments in the case. The rensons hio brings forward in support of the plea for n reversal of the outrageous de- cision aro clear and cogent, and thero is every probability that the' appeal will be suceessful, g mal casualty is re- ported in the eablo dispatches this morning. An explosion ocenrred yesterdsy afternoonin the hold of tho Sardininn, o stesmship of the Arrax Lino, bound from Liverpool to Que- bec. Tho vessol was at the entrancoof the harbor of Loudonderry when the explosion occurred, and but for this circumstance the loss of life must Lava boen foarful: Agit is, there secimed to bo no hope of saving a por- tion of the steorage pnssengers, who were cut off from holp by the flames which imme. diatety followod the explosion, ’A‘ha vessel will prove a total loss, Tho Iouso Committeo which has for some time bieen engaged in investigating Becrotary Robeson's adiinistration of the Navy De- partment has coucluded ita Iabors, and cveptunted in o double-barreled report, which, ns it Is givon by tho Associsted Pross, lonven the reader in doubt na to how far the Iato Becrotary was romlss in, or ignorant of, Lis duties, or whother ho did not, on the whole, make amodel exocntivo officer. As the minds of mogt people havo been for sov. eral yenrs mado up in regard to Mr, Rong- sox's fitness for tho position as ovinced by his oficial ncts, it is hardly to bo supposed that the two reports of this Committee, both supported, as it is claimed, by authoritative testimony, will change public opinion in the lonst, At yesterday's conference of the buslness nien, bankoiw, and city ofileials to disouss the question with a view to agroeing upon some current aud uniform cash value at which the city serip shall bolroceivod, a spirit of genar. osity and good-will was manifested toward Al city employes that will go far to comfort and encourage the unfortunates who have waited o long for their pay, The confidenco inspired by tho decision of the courts sus- taining tho legality of this serip will bo strongly augmentod by -thq Mayor's solemn . Bssurauco that In no event will the serip be igsucd to exceed 85 per cent of the appropn. ution, Thore is an cxcellont prospsct that the tronblesome question of foating the seelp for tho remaindor will bo satisfactorily adjusted by the public-spirited gontlomen wlho have undertaken the matter, s —— Bishop McCoszuy announces his intention to staud his ground aud weet any and all charges that way bo brought affecting s character us a prolate of the Protestaut Episcopal Cliurch, Ho has lately nddressed to Bishop Bati, of Kentucky, President of the Houso of Bishops, n lotter withdrawing his resiguation, and announclug: his aban- donment of the jouruey to Europe he had contewplated, and his readiness to answer his accuscrs actordivg to the forms and methods laid down inthe canons, It ia pre. tumed that the scuudal recently made pub. lie will Le put into such a form as will bring the watter Lefora the praper tribunal and lend to o thorough investignt.on, to the end that complete glndicnlmn sy be had—of the Bishop if ke be proven innaceat ; of the dignity and suthority of the Church if the coutrary is shown, Thie Benatg bas bya majority of sevenvotes atended the Baukrupt.Repeal bill by fixing the date at which the old law shall become incperstive at Sept, 1 of the present year. 1t would ba difficult to predict, under exist. ing circunistances, what the ultimate fate of the wewsure will Le, The billy as is well kuown, Los received an overwhelming ma. jority in each House, and at ove time thero s)'peured 1o be au almost unanimous desire o secure the immediate repeai of the low, Whether the causes which Luve resulted in briuging sbout a chauge of sentiment in the Benate will have the same effect in changing the votu 1n the House, remaing to be seen, “{hie bill will probably go to & Conference Comumittee? and tho two Houses may not be ablo to agreo upon a date, or 1ay, as & com- promise, decide in favor of repeal, and the appoiutmentof & jolat committes to draw up a new bill which shall meot the views of the mxjm;ity. The disorder aud confusion which tore up the House yesterday for a considerable length of time was but one amoug many siwilar sceves that must inevitably at. tend, the considerstion of the Southern worclaim bille. It is inovitablo that e presvntisent of these clsims should Cll OFFICES, THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY. MAY I y 1878—TWELVE PAGES., bring ont reminiscences that aro ex- tremely distasteful to the ex-Confederates in the Houee, me was tho caso yesterday when Gen. Harny Waite, of Pennsylvania, rang out his charges of ernelty and starva- tion practiced at Libby and Andersonville, ‘When the angry claim.ngents asked for a wit- nesa to rustain the allegations, they were met by thesimple statement: ** Iam the witnoss; I was there mysolf.” Thera is no bravado or bluff, no general denial that can put down A witness who was sizteen months an jumate of Rebel prisons; such 8 man s certain to carry conviction when he speaks whereof he knows, If the Confederato Brigadiers in the Honse cannot bear to havo the truth told comcerning the horribla barbarities practiced upon Federal soldiera and loyal Sonthernera who were im- prisoned, they can ercape the unpleasant infliction very onsily,—that is, by withdraw- ing their huge bnndle of bills for the reim. bursemont of war Qnmnge. e — The Chicago 7imes naver noglects any op- portunity to malign Saoretary Saenuan, Its Intest effort in this direction is in connection with the notorious H. B. James, Chief of the Cnstoms Division, Tho Timer states that Jastes was deposed by Secretary Bnis- Tow upon discovery of ihe fact that he hnd deceived him in regard to some Department Lnsiness, which is truo, as Tuz Trinuxz siated six or cight weeks ago. The ZTimes further states that Sacretary SnzaMax rein. stated Jaxey, which is not trne. Following are tho facts: Bnistrow dropped Jaues from the Department roll. Bubso- quently, upon the representation of friends that JAauEs was very poor and in {ll.health, DBamstow appointed him to o subordinate place in lis old division. From thal moment Jaxxzs began to intrigue for reinstatement in his former responsiblo position. Doubtless he hnd the asa:stance of the New York Ring, which is powerful, but Le did not succeed until after the retirement of Bnistow. Soon after the acccession of Becretary Monnii, however, lLe was re- instated by him. Becretary SmEBMAN 18 re- sponsible for Jaxxs' retontion, but not for his reinstatoment, That he is not now en- tirely trusted by tho Sscretary, wo bellove, and that he will be removed when lhe **grand bounce" of New York customs of- ficials shall be made, wa are confident, ——— THE TARIFF DISOUSSION. The efforts in Congress to prevent disous- slon, to stifle investigation, and defeat sny reformatory legislation on the subject of the tarifl is fanatical and anti-American, It fsn denial of publio right, and argues generally o apirit of despotism with which there can be no public sympathy, A determined ef- fort was mnde to prevent the new Tariff bill baving a heariug at all. After one day's debato there was a motion to atrike out the onacting clause, and another motion to Hmit dobate to two houra; and there are other motions promised, but for the time withheld, to lay the bill on the table, to postpone it indefinitoly, or otherwiss poremptorily reject it. Long beforo the bill ‘was prepared, and before the Committes had sgreed upon ono line of it, thore was a grand scheme of popular donunciation concooted. In Pittsburg, aud in other manufacturing distriots of Ponnsylvania, New Jersey, ond nlso in other” States, thero were popular gathorings and parades, . at which, by spooches, banners, and mottoes, overy imaginary slandar was henped upon tho bill, which, at that time, had no - shape or form, Nowspapers all over the country fol. lowed in adverse criticiam of the bill, in which it bas been held up as the embodi- ment of evil, and the wicked invention of ‘the enemy of mankind. Gen, Baxxs hans made o sot speech, in which he has dis- played his accustomed rhetorio denuncia. torg of the bill, and resisting n change of tha tariff as strenuously ns if it wero an in- vitation to eternal perdition, Tho assumption on which thess proceed- ings hove been based, the theory on which all this donunciation is poured ont, is, that the present tariff is & sacred enactment, that it has boen transmitted to tiw prosent gon. craton undor a Divine commandment that it must be preserved for all time as » guide and ns o protection; that it has come to us as anothor Goapel with a Scriptural warning that not a word is to Lo added thereto nor o word taken therofrom; that it is o sort of inspired volume, tasching governments all thoy Liave occasion to know, ond what thoy must obey; thatit isa second National Constitution, overshadowing all other law aud @l other , knowl. edga and wisdom, and that it involves tronson against Divine and human Inw, and against the hopes of mankind here aud heroafter, to change or alter, to reduce or modify, this system of taxation sanctified by demagogues and illustratod in the suffer- ings, wnnt, and destitution of millions of unomployed, homeless, starving men, women, aud children, principally in the very districts which are loudest in their de. nunciations of any ¢hange. All this assumption of sanctity in the presont torifl fs supremely falso. It {s not sanctified by age or by exporience, It has uothing to comwend it s a cods of morality or a4 & measure of finaunclal wisdom, It reeks with fraud, special legislation, and subsidy, It ls a vast system to liconse rob. bery,to encourage perjury, to promote smug. gling, to impoverish the farning classes, to destroy industry, and to bring about the very condition of afaira which now o unhappily exists in all the manufacturing districts of the land, Instead of being sanctified by any iuborent principls, or entitled to auy reapect becanse of its effects upon the country, it stauds confossed ag ove of the miost in. defensible schemes of plunder and desola. tion that was ever enacted under any civil. {zed government of 1nodern times, Itstands condemned by the people it has beggared, by the tears of the sufferiug women and chil. dren it hai rendered homeless, and by the graves of those who in a land of planty it has starved to death. It s o bill for the modification, smenduient, change, sud eimplification of such & code as this, that one-half the members of the Flouse of Representa- tives jnsist shall not be examiued, ahall not be debated, sball not be pnssed on iu the American Congress. Do thess men forget that they hold thew places by mere sufferanco? They are but accidents of the hour,—aud other accidents- may overtake them. This is not a nation of Congressmen and the whole number can be displaced to. morrow and successors appointed without any material loss to the country or any pop- ular loss of respect for the National Con." gress. ‘Ihese shameloss attumpts to prevent de- bate on the teriff is not consistent with Amwerican notions of intelligent legiulation, s the present tariff defensibla? If 80, why not debate it? Is it the perfection of polit- 1cal wisdom ? ‘Then why not viudicate it ¢ it it Lo beneficent, if it bo what tho pecplo want, If it bo n national blessing,~then lot ,the whole schome bo ventilafed and explain- ed, and theso great publio and prisate bless- ings bo shown in nll their glory and splen- dor, If the tariff be what s clajmed for it, then its friends ought to be tho most strenuous for dobate, the most earnést na de. fenders of truth and right. They must re- member that the great mass of the people live upon theearninga of thefr daily labor, and suy 1aw which takes toll from these earnings, that reduces the size of the loaf, and shortons tha mensure of cloth fn tho coat by-enhancing the_cost of all the necessaries of life, is regarded as an unjustifiabls extortion, de- monding immediate rellef, All schemes to prevont discussion, to prohibit amendment orattention to the prosent confersedly dis. lionest and crime-stained tariff, can serve only to unite the, suffering and oppressed people in such a sweeping revolution of Congrossthat fatare statesmen will nunder- stand that free and ample discussion of ail quastions of publio concern is a right which will nover be surrendered, and which enunot be denied succossfully so long as n free peo. plo possess a free ballot and can make and uumake reprosentatives at plensars, A CASE OF UNREASONING MALICE, The New York Timeskeeps nneditortowrite against Chicago, with fncidental references to the West. This gentleman sits with the “Thesaurus” at isside in order to avail himself of all the synonyms of invective, and then hurls epithets” with that reckless disregard of consequences genorally devel- oped by wnting at a safa distauce from the object mssafled. That Chicogo was burned, is an offenaa in his eyes; that the Enst came forward with relfef, is a ropronch; that Chi. engo was rebuilt, is s regret; thac Chicago owes some money amply secured by mort. gnges, is a scandnl; and that Chicago gener- ally favored the passage of the Silver-Remon- etization law, 1a tho one unpardonable sin, The slightest provocation sorves for a new attack, but the gossip sbout tha Communists bas furnished a glorious opportunity for defamation. A hideous and terrifying picture is drawn of 8,000 Communists prowl. ing about the streets of this perverso and wicked city of ours; they are all nlleged to be marshaled and armed with broech. londing rifles; the peopla are poworless to reslat, and it is only a question of time when the streets shall yun with blood that shall only be checkod by the ashes of the burning houses, Buoh a prospect of desolation ought to bave softenod the heart even of this terrible New-Yorker, but, on the con- trary, he fairly rovels in it. Hoe holds that Cbicago, having demanded the right to swindle New York creditors outof 8 per cent of thoir lawlful claims by sustaining the Bilverbill, onght to extend the hand of fol- lowship to the Communists, bucauss ** The politienl principles and finaneial views ot both are at bottom the same,” The Chi- cago editors, he tel]s us, ought to fraternize with the Communiat bacause the former ap- planded the ** robbery"” of Eastorn capital- its, The sacking of the city, we are in- formed, will only be the logical result of the principle which upheld a repudiation of 8 per cent of gold indobtedness under the covor of tho Bilver bill. The grossest inconsistonoy fa charged npon the Chicigo press and Chieago property-owners becauss thoy aro not ad- mirers nnd allies of the Communists. Fi. nally, the wish is father to the thought which snggests that it will bo **espectally sad" if the Communists burn down Chicago ogain, *“inasmuch as the Esst might not be ready to advance money wherawith to ro. build it.” Without tho smallest degree of resont- ment, and with a becoming consciousness of tho utter depravities of Chicago peoplo, we would mildly auggest either that the man who writes theso articles on Chicago is an nss, or that he gives exprossion to a New York sentiment that would not do discredit (o 8 gang of pirates or highway robbers Whethor theso articles emanato from a mono- maniso on the silver question or frown an ill. will growing out of jealousy, their evi- dent purpose s to daniage the in: torests of Chicago os the Capital of the Weat, and to destroy tho confidence of capltal in tho snfety of Westorn Investments, This 18 8 matter which capitalists will prob- nbly dotermine for themselves without ref- erenco to tho opinions of the New York Times. 'They will probably not bo disposed to carry their resentmont at the Silver bifl so far as to rofuse to make monoy out of the people who defented their grocdy avarica. No doubt they still regret that they were not able to compel their debtors to pay them from 15 to 40 per cent moro valuo than they loaned, by coercing payment in a single gold standard represonting that wuch excess over the value actually advanced; novertheloss, they will still bo glad to lend money on good seourities, even if thoy are not able to extort an advanco on the principal as well as their intercst on th®loan, The nttemptod banish. meut of silver wad a ehrewd and dotormined effort to iake debtors pay more than thoy ever agreed to pay, but the failure of this effort will not persuade them to lock up thelr moneyin vaults and let §b remaln idlo rather than loan it to people who rofused to submit to thelr extortion. Capitalists, as a rule, are not the sort of people who bito off their noses to spite their faces, and the New York Zimes will rave In vainif it hopes to impnir the commercial and monetary relations between the East and Weat that are wuggested by mutual fnterssta, The exaggorated account of the Commu. nlat dolngs wn this city is evidently a part of the programme the alarming the sensitive natare of the capitalists, but the exagger- ation is go palpable that it will defeat its own purpose, If Chicago sball be called onto contend sgainst Communistio violence, it willbe in common with other large cities of the conntry, where demagogues and villains are taking advantage of the unusual number aud distress of uneraployed people to fucito their worst passions, Bat, in case of any general outbresk, Chicago will be oy well prepared to crush it “as will be any other large city 1n the Union, We shall not have more militia and police; there will not be fewer Communists, perbaps, in propor. tion to population ; volunteers to protect tho rights of property will not be any more nunierous,—but thero will stand at Ohicago's back a reserve that hns always dismayed and apuibilated Communism whenever and wherever it baa beon called out. Wa mean tho farmers of the Northwest, It was the farmers of France who ulaughtered and dis- persed the Comumnists of Francs, The g ricultural class, overwhelwingly powerful, are unrelentant in dealiug with mon who threat. en their personal liberty and property righta, ‘They will not parley ; they will kill. Chicago bas the good fortune to bo the very centre of the most populous, prosperous, and fntel. ligent agricultural district on the Contiuent, snd any wenace to Chicago is @ menace to tho Northwest, Thero is no dauger to be svprekendad in Oaicego from ¥y fire gud pillage that mark the progress of Commu- nism, while the farmers of Illinols, Iown, ‘Wisconsin, and Minnesota aro within a fow hours’ enll, Wo wish heartily that the prop- erty interests of Now York Ci'y wero as secuire from attack and nas cortain of ener- getic defonso, New York City is the natnral birth-place and the favorits home of Com- munism in America, It Iands there, like the cholers, when it comes from Enropo, Ithas boon nourished and developed by the rotten politica of 'that city, Tammany is a sort of guardian and snch aman ns Twerp an efficlent leader, It has thrived by the sccumnlation of & municipal debt of $140,000,000, T¢ is ropre- sontod on the press by men like Bwixroy, and has the leading apostles of the ereed in men like Meay, Whether in banquets, pub. lio meetings, mobs, politics, literatures, or demonstrations of nny kind, New York alone has mors of genuine Commenism than all the remainder of the conatry. Itis not wise, therefore, for Naw York people to gratify any spite they may have for Chicago by glorifylog in nnticipation of » Com. munistic ontbrenk hers. Wo do not com. mond the chalice to thelr own lips, but they may be the first and grentest auffor~ ers; and, if they ehall be, they will discover for themselves the diderence betweon the ‘‘gilver craze" and practical Communism, with which they have sought to associate the rightoous demand for an equitablo adjust- mont of contrac THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. A new secrot society called the ** Knighta of Labor " has recently completed its organ- ization in nearly every Northern State, and is now ready to begin business. Its avowed object is to contiol tho election of members of the Stato Legisiatures and of Congress, and go shape the legislation of the country a8 to make it conform to their Soctalistioc or Communistic ideas. What the leagno in. tends to do if it cannot attain jts rovoln- tionary objects poacenbly remains to be seen, Its mewmbers are ‘oath-bound, being sworn upon the Holy Biblo, and they have their grips, signs, and pass.words the same as otlier sccrefsocioties. The hend of the con- cern is in New York City, with branch offices in Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago,'8t, Louis, Cincinoati, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, 3Mil- waukes, San Francisco, and, in fact, in all the principal cities of the North, Enst, »and West. The RKnights of Labor seep to hove awallowed soversl other smaller anfl wenker organizations which held to,notlons similar to their own, particularly the Brotherhood of Eugineers, the Journey. men Tailors’ Union, o good sprinklingof the Ponnsylvania Mollie Maguires not yet hung, and n number of the Trainmen's Leaguo. Added to thesoare inany of the minor Sooial- {stic Ordars throughout the country of various uames, grades, aud conditions, and its frionds claim that it already numbers 800,000 members.- The Socialistio Workingmen's parly of New York i4 now in such closa sympathy with the Knights of Labor that the objects o!'tha two organizations are sup. posed to bo one in spirit and intent. Some idea of what theso fellows are aiming ot moy bo gathered from the following succinet confession of faith aa onunciated by Arzx. Axpzn JoNas, tho editor of the Volkaritung, to-wit s i The cntiro overthraw of the present social sys- tem; the abolition of nll personal property in land and other means of production, and their cession 10 tho state; tho introduction of the co-operative pian Ia 1abor, 80 that every Inborer may be a part ner In overy factory and workshop: the compulsory limlitation of the hours of labor fo cight hours a day or less, according to the requirements of un- emuloLfll workmon; the regulation of tho prices of labor by arbitration between the employer and.the employed untll tho co-opcrative systcin s intro. ducod; compulsory cducation aud the opentug of all coileges and unlversitics freo o ail classeer the abolition uf saylugs banks; tha abolition of diroct taxatlon and the fustitution of o scaled income- tax; and the taxatlon of all church propesty. ‘Tho most of theso objects might bo con. sidered absurd If it were not for tho fact that the number of industrious, honest, but mis- guided men back of theso ngitstors is o grent that the wholo affair is alarming, Tha nntecadents of somo of tho leaders of these Soctalists aro not such as to impross ua with the wisdom of their plans nor the purity of their motives, For instauce, somo of the leaders whom we could name fled from Sax. ony to escapo fmprisonment for revolutionary Acts; one was sontenced in Berlin to prison for being coucerned in the Bocialist move. meat there; snother man, now n resident of Obicago, was fmprisoned for a similar of. fense; aunothor, who was a Socialist in Ger. many aud o Communist in Parls, is now the editor of a Bociallst organ in Ohlo, Beveral of tho same breed in Milwaukeo aro the sort of fellows who **lelt their country for thefr country’s good," and if they escoped tho gallows over thers it was only to more richly desorve hanging here, Theso are somo of the leadors, alders, and fnstiga. tors of this new movement, and the above- quoted paragraph containa the essence of thelr platform, Bomo of the head men nre out of felone’ graves wimply becausa they bavo not yet met thelr daserts, and becauso their exlt from the land that gave them birth was too sudden for tho officeraof justice, Others ave yet alivo becsuse the laws of this country for the punishment of treason, con. spiracy, insurroction, and revolution ara too imperfectly formulated and too leniently ap. plied. ‘The only thing to be ndmired in the iconoclastic platform of theae conspirators is its plainness and candor, When they declare’ their purposo to be ** tho eutire overthitow of tho present socinl syatem,” we know exactly what they meau, although we may be a little in the dark as to what they intend to estabe Yisli {n ita place. We know they are bent on ruining the exlsting soclal superstructure, but we are ignorant of the sort of thing $hey will substitute in exchiange. 'Their promises made in advance aro mot likely to be kept. If thoy once tucceed in obtaining power, thoy aro 100 progressive mnot to wuse it to the fullest extont. Thore is no reason why they will not in. vade the domestio circle and destroy the family relations, and make as radical changea thero as they propose to doin other depart. ments that are quite as sacred ang important, Cortainly the relation of the sexes and the restraints imposed upon men and women by existiog Jaws must be as hateful to these ‘‘reformere” os that old custom which fu. heres in the honest acquirement and posses- sion of property. That gond old Mosaio jue Junction aguinst covetivg our neighbor's goods embraced his wife and maid-servant in the catalogue, as well as the rest of his chattels, and, when they reach that sublime point of perfection when they shall abolish all personal property in land,” the next step will be easy cuough, and the doctrino of Vicronia Woopnvey in regard tomarriage, di- vorce, aud free-love can readily be adopted. It the co-operativesyatem for which theue vicious idiats ‘are now so vociferously clamoring is the great panacea for all the ills that afflict society, tho door of the household will not bo likely to be barred sgainst its spproach after it obtaing dominion elsowhere, and the family of the futurs will* be condacted upon the co-operativo plau, as well as the mill and the factory. This is not by any meaus the reductiv ad abeurdum method of reasoning. P but the legitimato inferenco that is to belogic- ally drawn from these Bocialistic promises, It may bo true that tho Knights of Labor have not yet enuncinted any sach dangerous theories ns those put forth Ly their Com. munistic and Mollie-Maguire aiders and abot~ tors. Dt aa the wholo is equal to the sum of all ita parts, and as the formulated oxpres. sion of the majority of nbody of men assocint. ed togather for a specific purpose must be taken na their idens, so this new Order must ba awsyed and controlled by {ta constituent elemonts. Some of the component parts are inherently ** enssed” and bad, and the fruit of such o tree cannot be good until the order of Nntnre is roversed. Sociallsmeand all kindred associations are the thorns and thistles that have been transplanted from the Old World into the rich soil of tho Now; but ot no commnnity expect that ite; can gather figs from ono or gropes from tho other, . DIFPERENT KINDI oOF OILTATION. Mr, Tucken, of Virginia, made an affect. ing plea for conciliation in the Lower House of Congress Wednesday, Ho enid that we were * brothers of a common race,” and that wa had ¢ a virgin continent " and * & virgin soil,” and that we were * washed by two ocenns” acd ‘“permeated by channels éf trade,” and in other respects comfortably provided for. In“view of these common blossings, which aro insured by union, he urged us to ¢ forget the things bebind and reach to those befora”; to *‘let the dend past bury its dend,” and “join togothor in furthoring the progress, prospents, and honor of our country,” These are honorablo sentimonts, We sympathize with them, and wish thoy might have n wider circula. tion thnn they nre likely to gt in a speech on the tariff question. But Mr, Tucken is not tho only herson nuthorfzed to sponk for the Southern people. Tho ox-President of the Confedoracy is still esteemed by many of hisformer compatriots, He belloves in a different kind of coneilia. tion, In a letterdated April 11 of this year, and addressed to certain gentlemen cone cerned in Iaying tho corner.stone of a Coms federate monument at Macon, Ga., Mr. Darvis expressed hia idea of concilintion. For purposes of comparison, we placo parts of his lettor and of Mr, Tucrer's speech sideby sidas Tucker's Sprech. O my brothers, have we Davls' Letler, Let posterity learn by nat something better to this monument that you do than indttige fa memo. commoemorate men who rics of tho past? Let the died in o defensivo war, dead past bury its deads. . . Led not any of forget thince sehind, and their ‘survivars Impuen reach to those botore. their memories by offer- Let unjointogether, hand inz the peultentini plea, by hand, clarp our’arms *‘They * bellaved they under one commion tm- were right," . ., *tIt pulse, uniteinfurthering Is better 10 have foughit ihe provress, prosverity, and lost than never to and hororof ourconntry, have fougntatall.” , . . and meke it the wlory of They did nof, as has been the world, and a blessing iet’y slated, submit to ag- for our children's chil bitrament of urms the dren to all gencrations, |quesitonsal tazve, , . . .et this monument tench the difference hotween s war waged for the rabber- 11ke purpose.ef conquest, nnd one torepel invasion, Such wes ibo war In 3 which ove heroes foll. We prescnt them (o pos- terity as examplés to 04 ollowdd, ¥ Here are two kinds of conciliation, which we know not how to roconcils! There lsa painful discrepancy botweon them, It may be olaimod that Davis {s now out of political life, nnd nobody minds what he enys; but peoplo do mind what hesnys. Ills letter was | rand to a vast concourso of people, and was voclforously applauded. Tho Macon Zele- graph of April 87 says: * It was thagrang- ost letter over ponned by human band.”, Tho contradiction of Mr, Tuoken by Mr. Davis.only poluts a moral which recent eventa liave baen forcing upon publio atten- tion, and that is the wide and sincore diffor- ence of opinion among the Southern peoplo ad to the resnlts of tho War, Many of them aro no doubt ready to be conciliated without money or prico; others domand nappropri. ations as tho conditions of complote rocon. lintion; still others will not be pacified by any conditiona'whatover. The question of con. ciliation {s, for the presont, one that con. corna the Bouthern peoplo exclusively. Lot them agros among themsolves and tell the Northern peoplo what kind they want. If thoy shall ask for 3r, Tuoxen's kind, the Northern people will be ready to meot them bLalf-way, in o spirit of gonerosity and fra- ternal feoling ; if they want Mr, Davis'king, the North will nlso ba ready to meet thoem, tmt with different feeliugs and intentions, It will Lo woll for both sides to understand that conclliation must come, it it comes nt all, freely, nuresorvedly, aund forover, It cannot be temporary, or partial, or pur. chased by bargains and appropriations, Any concilintion of this description wonld be worse than none, for it would have to Le dono over ngain many times, We hope and heliove that the good sense nnd patriotism of tho Bouthern people will induce thom to choose the right kind of conciliation, — The ecditor of MATT CARPENTZN'S versoual organ fn Milwaukee, whuever he tmay happen to be at this moment, s clther utterly Iznorant ol the circumstances attending the election of ANGUS CAMERON to the United States Scnate, or ho willfully distorts and falsifies historical facts in stating them, The Sentinel 18 so tender, of thereputation of My, CARPENTER, its prin. cipal stockholder, that no refecence, howover mild and’ commonplace, can be wade to that Rentleman's fnglorious defeat without exclting its ire to o degres that eods fu frenzy., Mr. Caneasten's organ baa contended from the firat that Benator CastE1RON I8 a (0ol,—a distinc. tion which Jtreadily accords also tothe eutire Ite- publican delegation In- Congress,'und to nearly every prominent MHepublican fn \Wsconsla nut! belonging to Uque,—but it streauousty de- nles that Mr. CAMERON'S clectlou was the out. growth of u desfre for reform, or that he was or fsn *“Reformer.’” If you *bray {inash] n fool in & mortar” it wiil nelther do you nor the tool much @ood, according to BoLosoN, o we shall not trouble the reader with u restatement of tho proofs in Tus Trinuxs's article of Wednesday, fu which the chief events attending the deteas of the Seatl nel'scandidate for the United States Beaate were briefly stated. The facts In the case sufll clently demonstrate that the eightecn Repub lican bolters of blessed mempry, und the Bfty- two Dewocrats who voted fur ANaus Cauenon, weraall actuated by a desle for reform. That was Tho retraig of the fumous provuscisiento ol the bolters,’and that was the pith and sub- stance of the confesilon of faith drawn up by the Democrats and sgreed to by CaMenpN Le- fore they would conscot to give hun o “stngte vote. This may be uews to MAT? CanvestEn's editor, but it Is uot ucws to any well-luformed Republican orj Democrat s Wuconsin. Thers i onc remark of CARPENTER'S uewspaper that Is wortuy of a line fu reply. ' It says that “‘unety-nine out of every bundred Republicans he State wero o favor of MaTt's ro- clection. If that were true, the eightcen bolte ers who were Instrumental in deteating him committed a great outrsze upon thu party, sud deserved ewift punlshment for thelr base treacherv.' But It 18 uot true. Nor have thoso wen beea culled to mn account. Ov the coutrary, two of the leaders of that revolt against the dictates of Kiug Caucus Bave been proototed and honored by the Képubllcaus of thelr alstricts, We refer to Se¢nator Baupgy, of Columbia County, and to Benator WaLsu, of Sauk. The former was the *chict conspirator” amaug the bolters i the Sepate, and the latter among those of the Assembly, of which he was at that fime o member. BARDEN has be #inco re-glected to the Bcnate and mado Presi- dent pro tem, of thnt body, and W .11 kas been transferred from the House to the Senate. Bome of the others have boen stmllarly pune fshed for “betraying tho party ' on that ve- caston, And, sinco MATr CAnreENTER appeared beforo tho Electorsl Commisaion ta armie in favor of fraudulent Sasisy TILDES, the *nine- ty-nino hnndredths of the party! that the Sentinel talks nbout are entirely satistled with Marr'adefeat; no matter what they think of Caxenon as a *Reformer.” —e— Last Saturday, ns ls &nown, Mr. Jonx Woop- BRILOE, attorney for tho plalntifs, filed a bill agalnst tho ¢ Hepublic Life-Insurance Com- pang,’ In the name of J. B. NexpLes, Auditor of Btate, alleging varlous wrong actions on tho part of the oflicers of the Cempany, and cspecially C. B, and Jony V., FAnwELL, Tues- day morning laat Tue TRINUNE published asa part of ita lnw reports a very bric! synopsis of the bill. Before publishing it a reporter waited ou Mr, J. V. FARWELL, the former President of the Company, to obtain his statement and re- iy to the various sllcgations contalned in the bill, Mo talked quite freely about the matter, enitieised the partics who brought theeuit fv a pungent manner, denounced some of them by name as defaulters and thieves, zave the ot- torney for the plaintifs particular * Hail Columbia." and reflected sevecely upon those *who remalned in the background and allowed otherstoappend thetrnames.while they remained shrouded in a cloak of respectability In the rear," and namcd somo of these *respectables.” Ie clatmed that *the animus of the whole thing waa blackmail, as he would show on the trial)? Tug Triwuxe gave Mr. FARWELL the benefit of his explanation, printing his statemeat cor- rectly, so that the antidote might go with tho hane. Butiv secms that Mr, FARwELL desired that all mention of the bill or its contents should bp suppressed by the newspapers, and thereln ho exhibited a fatuity or incogitancy. very remarkable In a man of his fntelligence and knowledge of the world, In supposing fora moment Lhat the contents of such n Lill of com- plaint aguinst the defunct Republic Life-Insur- ance'Companv and its ex-oflcors conld be con- cealed from the publie, or that suppression, even it successinl for a few days, would be of tho slizhtest valuc to the defendants In the sult. But, passing this, Mr. J. V. Fanwan ylelded the following obscrvations to a Times reporter, as prioted n that paper **on yester- day™: . ‘The representntive of the Times nsked Mr, Fane 'WELL why THE TRIBUNE had publiahed all the ex- trayagani allegations in the petition with such ex- treme anction, 41t must be for polltical reasons, ™ he replled, **Tho Zlmen very courieonuly Informed me that itdid not intendto publish tne Iy petition, chiety becaure 18 did nut regard its publication as evincing good journalistic sonro. When n ‘I'inuxe reporter callnd noon me 1 tald him (hat your paner [the 'I’mma sould fenire the fonl thing entirely, and he wald The Thineng would also, Alr, Prxv callod on the responsible editor of that paper, to make eure that 1o notice wonld be taken of it,™ **1a tnere any persunsl quarrel between you and Jor MeninLt *'Nono whataver, 30 faras I know.** **You linve 110 potitical 2epirations that e, Ae- it desires 10 nlo in the bud? *+No; but the publication is almed chiefly at my brother Cuantks, 1{tnderstand that MenisL. favors Wasnounsg for almost sny vorition wiikiln the glft of the poople, aud therefaro considors that & vlow alnied at “i maon who might possioly stand Inhls wn{ L a Jick in Wasunvnse's favor, That y 1s the only conceivablo reason for MepirL's coursa i this inatance. " Mr. Fanwzes has fallen {nto divers and sun- dry orrors which are very remarkable, to say the least. To enumerats o few: (1) Mr. Peer did not call on the responaible editor of Tiux Trin- UNE with a request to suppress publication of the bill, nor call on any editor of Tite I'RIDUNE, nor &t the oflice of Tuns TrinuNe. (3) The re- porter of Tng Tuinung denles, positively, that he sald Tue TrinuNe would subpress fts pube lication, or clalined anv authority to act in tno premises, (8) Tho asscrtion that “the publica. tion" of a synopsis of tho bill “was almed chiefly at his brother Cnanwes,’ (s not only untrue, but simply ridiculous and absurd. It as published simply as a matter of fmiportant news. (4) Tha editor of Tur TrIBUNE nover lnagined, and never befors heard. that thero was any rivalry of *‘politigal asplrations® be- tween Mr,Wasuourya and Mr.C, B, Fanwetr. It 1 very certaln that Lo Is mot a partisan ot cither gontleman’ against the other for any concelvablo offica that both may bo aspiring to. He has no knowledge of any offlce Mr. W. dcsires, nor bas Mr. F. {ndleated the office ho wants,” Wo can assigo both gentiemen and thelr {rlends, including *brother Jonx V,," that the Tuinuna Is unpledzed and uncommit- ted, aud perfectly free to give both a lift {f they are candldates for anything fo the gift of tho people, it they will let us know what posts of honor they scek. Tue editor of ‘Tun TRiBUNE is not “favoring* ELmu at tho expense of Cuanees, nor vice versa, and never told ang- Lody that ho was, and rezards both as able aud excellent men In thelr respective aphores, As to the publication of & synopsls of the blll agalnat the defunct Republic Compauy, that wos /inserted as an importang ftem of legal news, and had no more conucetion with “brother CiauLes'” political ambition or Mr. E. B, W.'s candidacy for any position, than ft lad with the man in the moon. Mr. J. V. F. Is suf- ferlng under strango misconceptions of fact that hava overcome him like & symmer cloud. —————a—— * Tothe af The Tribune, Jovier, T, M There has heen constdora- Dle dispitte hiere nmongz several of your readers s to the legality of tho back taxes for 1874 nud 1875, Kome contend—among whom aru our first Inwyors- " that tho_epactmenta of the Leglolaturu for 1870 and 1877 mado the hack taxes as legal ae any, and that they will be collectod. They have already been advertised by the Colloctor for wale in Juty, A number of equally nbla le2al gentlemien eay thst thie cdrctslons from time to timo of the Rupremie Conrt uvon the subject sct the mutter forever at reat, and they point toa sceming indlsputable fact xards these taxes In Clitcago, which, If collected, or capadle of Leing coliccted, wonld place the city n s fur different condition Bnancially thsn she s at present. It 1 old saylng that wheu doctors disagree, who ded 80 wa havyu agreed to leavs 1t to Tne Trinuxe to decide; we wish that vou would give your opinlou in Saturday's lesae, and you will cunfer a great favor on E Manr Reavens, We do not quite comprehend what it 1s that Yho writer of the abavé *leaves to Tus Tiis- uNg todegide.”” ‘That s law for the collactlon of munlcipal back taxes was passed by the last Legistature, and that it went into lorce July 1, 1877, ara facts of recosd, 1t must be held to be avalldact unttl the Bupreme "Court decldes otherwise, The opiulon of no Jawyer will in- validate It unless the Bupreme Court pro- nounces I in conflicy with the State Conul}u- tjon. ‘What a SBanitary Assoclation can do when it {s tborouglily in earncst is shown cousplcuously by the records of the Tottenham, Eog., Asso- ciation, contalolng sixty members. DBy in- creasing the water-sunply and providing for the oxtension of the sewer system,'cleaning the strasts and ditches, ang proceeding vigorously uzalnst atl nulsances, this Association has brought about the following result, the frat «figures belnz for the three years 1871-'8, the sucond {or the three years 1874-'6: Without Wua aoclety, lflfllly. T i) Deathe by fover. iooue ) g lh‘ \;; diarrhea . e “:l; "3% 4 by suven 2ymol : 2 Excess of i:x’n\n m’er deaths (1) 443 As s natural consequence of the coufidence juspired by tpese measures, the number of un- occupled houses in Tottenhain bas decreased from 600 in the prosverous year 1871, to 200 lo 1876, a year of depression. To the Editor of The Tridune. Dixos, M., M3y 9, —WIIl you please Inform me throuvh the coluuins of Tux Tuisvse tho higheat military rauk conferred upuo Gen, Wasuisgtoxt DId the rank conferred upon i cease st his death? Alwo, tlghest rink conferred npo the fole lowing-pamed odice 12, ¢ Gens. ScorT, GUANT, Buruyax, snd Suxui rescul rank of Gen, SHEBMAN higher Lieutenaut- Genersl? Hespectiully, vanl, » o Haxay T Noxwx. ‘The bighest raifk conlerred upon GEORGE Wasnixorox Uoder tho United States Govera- ment was thot of Lleutevant-Geueral, aud tho rank expircd at his deatb. It was created us sn houurary Mstiuction for bim after he retired from the Presidency. Iu 1855 tho grade was rovived by o jolut resolution passed by the Seuate aud Mouss for the benedt of Gen. eomposing the New 8cotT, tho same '“to bo conferred by breyy ouly, provided that, when the prade shay hare once been fitted, and thereafter become ft shnll expire.” The rank was again rmm' after the War of the Rebeillon. and way con. ferred firet upon URANT, then upon Enenrygy and SURRIDAN. The present rank of Genery {s bigher (han that of l.l!ulcnnnl-”cnurq]‘ nd 1s conferredt gnly upon GrANT and Supnuyy, Snenipax’s rank Is Lieutenant-General, B —— Vacant, The Washington Post declares thnt T TRIDUNE Was in error in assuming that ity on)) natice of the action of Conrress in withhylgyy, apsropristions for the Dietrict of ('nlumn(: schools led up to the advertisement of o cheap clothing-store, and salth: than ten houra afler we called npon wy, BLACKBURY {0 FepOFS B D11L ADDrODFiatg thy 1 quired sam, tho bill war pareed through the Tema. cratic loute and awaiting the action of g Hepuy. hcan Senate. Wil Tite TRIDUNE bo **keyyngn enough fo correet? The TIBUNE never correets anything o matter of *'koyindness,!” hut as a matter of Justice. As we alwava take our cateemed on. temporary’s word for anything connected sy, itaclf, the,correction s hereby made, Haned, sealed, and delivered. But fs our vmcmj contemporary sure that its prafseworthy zes) fa this particular instance was 1not rather for the gratification of the dealre to zce Bppropriationy made for any subject whatever than g tributy to the cause of educatlonl e — 13 A A v) L} PR e AL Sume of tho cate rascala from the Wiy city why wero bageed Inthe late rafil on that olace Shon)q come here and put the officers on the right sceqy, .+ Uinetnnats Enquirer, * Probably thov have; at all events, the da tectives appearto be onthe right seont, gyy have the ‘‘dead-wood" on the Cincinnyy whisky-thieves, Btealing to the amount of ' million and a quarter of dollars has alresay been ascertained, and the * back counties ngy yet heard from!” Before long the Cincinnayp papers will be publishing long nccounts of **confessions !’ and ‘' squesling,” Taying down." and * giving away ** fho * liberal gay. wers," who played the game of nddlltnn,dlm[nu, and slience. e et Decidedly they are not having Wnnch Juck in Eurone with thelr survivinz memhers of dis. tinguishicd famllics, The French Assemblrha) pearly passed a bill to pension off Kiromyy aged daughter when it was found that she was tho nicce of Kunozn’s hrother's wife, and tha the Alsatlan hero never was married, neitle: did ho have any’ children, Just now they Lare been writing up a Mme, Cammrnen, the dsughter of Krorstocs, who wrote the ** Messlah," and lo] the discovery Is mado that Krorstock only had one child, and, os tha chilld was a son, and a atili-born one at thy, the belief 18 current that another mistake hay been committed. a e et ——— ‘The Washington Lost would not care to sce Gen, Smiznos in Congress, It reserves for hin an easler position, where, as a rotired officer of the United States, he can pass his declining days [n easo ond ineligibility to the Scnate or House of Representatives. The editor of the Washington Tost, we hicar, has his cyo ou the Benatorship in Missourly The thonorablo gintlemin of Tammany Ilall ,{urk Board of Aldermen have passed n resolutlon instructing the Clork “*to sppend tho rignatures of the members™ (o * documents, This will save the honorable gin. tlomin much anguish of mind and bard acrisl labor with the tongue during the process of writing thelr namea, - —— Tho virtuous Cincinnat! papers express blank surprlse that ¢ liberal gauging' shonld he con- sideredleven an frregularity, much less stealing, and thoy aro indiguant that the * lberal” pras. tica should be Interfered with by Joux Siugs. MAN, who {s an Ohio man. e ti— In Cincinnatl they zivo it the eliplemiste titlo of *liberal gauging.” In Chlengo, wigro people are more plain-spoken, it s called whis. ky-stealing; butit amounts to cxactly the same thing, so far as robblng the Government s oo cerned, —— The average worlkingman who fs tempted to follow the lead of the Professional Acitator would do well to ask himself how many hours adoy and at what trada tho p. 8. labors—how the p. n. makes such good wages dolug noth- ing. ——— Qov, Bisnior, of Ohlg, when puton is oath about tire Cinclnnatl Bouthiern Raflway, just re- wembers enough vot to he sent to the Penlten tlary, and just forgotap enough to Kkeep his friends from belng sent there. —t— That Russtan Nihillst heroine, VEna 8as- suLITCH, {8 spokon of as the * Kussian Cuane Lotcr Conpay ¥—a sort of Charlotte Russe. —— When Communists fall out, honest men keep . thelr own, —————t— PERSONALS. John Brongham will publieh a volume of his recotlections of the stage in the fall. The President's daughter, Fanvie, was one of the performera at a recent concert civen In ‘Washington to dlaplay the proficiency of the puplle of a music-teacher, Bob ¢Jngasoll’s ,* conversfon to commrn sonde or religion " fs to bo prayed for regularly by the membere of the gradusting class of the Ling- hamton Wotmon's Callego. Bir Charles Mordaunt, undeterred by his previous experionce of matrimany, hos taken 10 nimsclfa second wife,—Miiu Mary Cholmondels, daugitor of a Glonceater clergy: A Mra. Rogers, of Middletown, Conn,, has aiven the Evongellst Pontecost, of whom r Moody spaaks s0 favorably, a bank-book In which Is recorded a handsomo deposit to bia credit. Gon, ds Gallifiet, husignd of the beautiful 8t Jast taken the trouble to denv te y that, when the Cousmune of 1871 waa put dowa, and a woman with & cbhid 1o her arma went to bl to mplore that nd would spare the life of hier husband, a prisoner, -he turned the suppliant over to histroops with tha words, * *stoot this apawn uf the acoundreln *; and that they weid Loth shot accordingly, mother and (nfant. You can’t most always toll sometimes often how things are gotng to pan out, Ex-Solicl tor-General Baker, of Qucbec, at the recent pros vinelsl elechion, propared for a grand jubhation over his certaln return; she feams for the triumphe u} proceesion were hitched up, the bunfire wal bullt, and the torches were ready. At 5 o'cloc! was 168 ahead, and everylhing was fovely; at soue back districts were heard from and bis ma- Jority came down to 50; at 7:00 came tbe d",f patchi: **Beventecn behind; doa't {llumtoate, They didn't, : ‘When Bon: Perley Poore,—the Major's At:| name {8 not Den (abbrovistion for ** Benjsmin ) but Ben: (with a calon), —thie comptier of the Con sional Directory, called on Johu Morrisacy o ort aketch of his life, and ssked what bl p!:~ feasion was, the newly-elecied Congresawial “l::i with somo bitterneas, ** Well, 1 supposo you bid Letter pus mo down aa & faro-dealer.” ** Ok, !““ dun't mean 1, said Msj, Poore, °*Cau't vfl. give me some other occupatlon?” ol:ou:;r 1can," replied Morriveey, e me cn‘dll:m my old trade if you will; call me an iron-mu! 4 for that's what I am (P I'm auything.’ And he aps pears in the Directory as an {ron-molder. ; A reporter fora New York Sunday newwlr::_ ealled on Auguet Belmont tho other day to 1ot 3 view bim. °**1have nothingto say, " said tbe rev: rescmtative of the Rotbschilde; selilug well, snd If Congress will ccase thelr l‘b; surd debale on the currency qucnlunl & shall have specle payments snd proaper :J. **Whatubout the Silver bill, Mr. Belmost . bas not worked s0 badly," suggestea the nnoxllo ; +s\Well, J doo’t wish 1o be iuterviewed, Do 'rl- thiuk 1 am an ass to give you idess o munbpa“ “ scut in your papers? 1 have nothing to saY 'b e tha Sliver bill-or enythlng elss, Good: 7‘; ‘'Bot, Mr. Behsont," remarked tbe rcpa\}:"; Mr. Belmonl's ire now began to rise, V‘I o7t whit! what!” sald be, **do 'you etill pert! »‘"' askiug mo questions? Doo't you sdo bt Ier £ 1ing off my wail for Europat Here, Schmltty 1bis man out,—such su awfally impudest % neversaw in wy life," And the seporter bad aklu, S