Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1878, Page 4

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EIR KNIGITS OF ST, RERNARD L NO.75, K, T, ~Tau ato herehy order. fuliy armed and_cquinped, rf. to form an vecors for the M. during the ceremantes of o tho armory for the Fimt $ir Knlghts froi sister Cum- 1v participate, GEO. M. MOULTON, C, Q. LNIGHTS OF CHICAGO COM- . 19, I, T.~You are hereby notlfied tn at the aayliin, corner of Halsted and Kandolph iy Syt at § b s in ) un LN jnying of 1) corner-stons of 'h".; nvm,my ‘;rl‘lh!}F (c!’h‘q ‘l'l'l_bl\l. LN G, Grie? of the . Congar: 4 UANES E. MEGINY, Rec. NLATE LONGK, NO. 29, A F. & A, M.—Agree. shicio thie requeat of (ha Grand Master, the membera of this Lovice are requested 10 mieet at the parior of the Tl 1o+ 1 welnels, to take part In the cere- ioiz the cormer-sione of Iaving the ¢ Regiment, 1. manderies ary Dy order of the ATTENTION, 611 MAND! monles Inefie ng it the Arzory of the Firac ticginient Tatanter, L N6 C. W, O'DONNELL, Secretary, ] CHICAGO VETERAN LIONT ARTILLERY-— Notjee = A1l members of this battery afy redn to nent ot flielr Armiory at §2:30 1 aturiny, May 1R, for o1 and paraide, n the rerce moi Ying the cort he ¥irst Ttegt ment Armory, Per order, TUBEY, Captain Ariliters, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1878, Greenbacks nt the Now York Stock Ex. chango yoeaterdny closed nt 99§, Ald. Tuiey, of tho First Ward, has Leon electod the regular presiding officer of tho Commion Couucil in the absence of the Mayor from its moctings. ‘The clection is one which will givo cotire satisfaction withont regord To party. — The announcoment in tho foroign dis. patehes recoivod yostorday of the denth of Lord Jonx tusaery proves to hava been pre- mnture, Tho old ex-Prowier has made o strong rally, aud at Inst recounts was thought to be improving rapid ‘This morning'a ndvices from Bt Poters. burg are of a peaceful tonor, yet no attempt isoado in tho dispatches to give the au. thority upon which the provailing reports aro grounded, oxcept it be that the Russian journuls havo with paticosbls unanimity dropped their despondont tone In some cascs, and in others, whoro nowspapors have been predictivg 8 warlike outcome of the pending negotintions, hopes of peace aro freely indulged in. Although nothing defl nite is known ns to the result of Count Bcnouvarars's misslon, yet the long.talked- of Congresa is belioved to have been ngreed upou, and there 1 reason to believe that the meoting will take place within two woeks. ———— The Commissioners of the Joliet Poniton. tiary yestorday finlslicd hearing oll that the ofticials and employes of the prison desired to say for themselves, ind then agroed to suspend tlio two gonts utder whose cruelty tho convict Rexn suceumbed and died, wnd to lay the wholo enso boforo the Prosecuting Attornoy of Will County, for such crim. mal procedure against the mnnagers snd guards of tbo prison concernod in the Luarbarity as shnll scem to furtber the onds of justigo. The Commis- sioners are nfraid (hero fs to be something in tho way of u shower, nud so bave deter. mined to stand out from wnder, but, after investigating o horrible atrocity over which wy would whuddor hod it happened in Dul. garin, thoy bavo not o single suggestion to offor to tho nuthoritics, and nfight ns well have Leen Lemont-stono men holding a cornice on their heads so far as any particular intelligonce has been {u. dicated by thely recont labors, It s somoewhat evident from the vomarks of the witnesses that tho convict was whipped to denth while ju nn exbausted condition from starvation. Tho Wardon *‘did not dream thero was a whip {n the prison” when the frantio yells of his vietims must bave boena common reverboration in those frightful corcidors, It was naively stated yesterdoy vegarding auother convict, that * ufier sev- el whippings ho was taken to tho Ingsuo Asylum.” ——— Prowptly upon the tennination of the violent struggle which has held the floor of tho House for five doys, and in which has been doveloped the purpose of the Demo- cratic majority to attempt the perilous busi. ness of unsottling the President’s tenure, an sddress is published to the voters of the United tates by the Iepublican Congres- sional Committes, arruigning the Democratio party 88 au enemy to tho peace and prosperity of the country, It is in this light that |listory will regard the ovents of tho past five days, whotker success or foilure finally attends the revolutionary project which was yestordsy set on foot, Of the intention of the movers in this danger- ous devico of an unprincipled partisan - jority there remains now not a doubt. ‘Che vital fact which the address of tho Ltepub- licun Comuitteo points out will pot be lost sight of--viz.: that the Porrem resolu. tion could not Lave been brought before the House and forced through st this scasion bad uot the undirstanding been distinct that the proposed investigation tonched the | between Gramerey Park and Portland, be- question of the right of .the President | tween tho privata secretary and nephow of to hold his offico. It was this inten. | tho Democratic candidato for the Presidency tion, and this only, that made the resolution | and the Democratic Governor of Oregon. **n question of the highest privilege,” in the | If thero wns cheating on ono sido thora was words of Spenkor RANDALL, who tacitly ad- | a corrnpt use of money and attompted brib. mitted in his ruling that ho had been sufii- | ory on tho other, Haves' own hands are ciently nssured that the ultimate purpose of | clean, TiLpEN's nro roiled; the one actod tho the movement was to unseat DPresident | part of an honorable eandidats, the other Haves. This is the record npon which the | pursued tho corrupt tactics of Tammany country will hold the Democratic party re- | Hall, sponsible, e} e — THE FOLLY OF FOOLS. The veleran Democrat, Avnxxasper II Brezenexs, hins been interviewed, nnd ho has declared himself with such forco and dotor- mination in regard to the Presidential con- sud contempt ontortained for him by the spiracy that his ulterances may recall some people of Lis district on ncconnt of hls per- of tho Domooratie politiciana Lo thoir senses, formances in tho Doorkeopership fight, whon | The mannging men in Washington have ap. he lacked tho courage to net for, hia con- plied the Iashso vigorousiy that Democrats of stituonts and ngaingt the dictation of the | indopendenco and fairness mny be driven cancns, Hannisox hsd given some promisa | Ot mllmf than whipped in as was ln(endc.d, of redeeming himself by s manly and Brernexs' words give n promice of this, indepondent stand againat the jug-handle in- e makes nn indignant protest for himaclf vestigntion businoss unless any and all do- ngainst the caucus tyranny which threatens signs upon tho Prosidential tenure were dis- the country with revolution, and he holieves tinctly disavowed. DBut whon tho pinch that thera avo at lenst thirty other Democrate camo ho flunked, and instend of following,| I0 the House who will refuso to yield to the courageons examplo of Mruts and Monsz, at 1t the peril of the nation. Hesayathat ** tho the two Democrats who romained true to | OFigin of this investigation is not creditable their convictiona of right and duty, 11arnisox f? tho Democratic party,” and charges that quniled Tike n cownrd, and bent his neck to [ **ft was sct on fook by tho dead-bents and the party yoke. By his voto against Gen. disappoiated hangers-on after offico who in. Smieroa ho insnlted overy Irish-American in | fost \Vm;h:nglnn 08 rata infest tho sewern bis district; by biavoto yestorday ho for [ Of Paris” ~That s sn indepondent foited n valusble chanco to recover lost | And impartial declaration of the literal truth, ground, ‘I'hora are Republican rats ns well ns Demo- ——e cratic rats in this dibroputablo business. The THE INVESTIGATION ‘BUSINESS. Democrats aro at the disadvantage, however, Lot us stnte tho cnso in a nutshell : Por- | of having assumed tho rosponsibility, and s, of Now York, put forward by the Dem- | Sreruexs’ experionce and judgment teach ocrats, introduced resolutions reciting the | him that * no party can bear the disgraco of nlleged falso nnd fraudnlent counting of | legislation so narrow and unpardonably par- returns in Floridn and the alleged conspiracy | tisan " as that proposed by the Democrats in in Louisiann whereby the Eloctoral votes of | excluding the Hare amendmont, while they thono Blates wero diverted from Trroex to | insist upon the adoption of tho Porren reso- Haxts, and ealling for tho appointment of a | Iuntion. Selact Committeo of Eleven to inquire into The villainy that las placed an embargo thoso nllegations, which Committeo shall | on logislation, and terrified the conntry in havo plonary powers. the contemplation of the revolution that may Porren presonted this papor a8 n question | result, was so sprung upon tho Houso that of high privilego, and Ranparr, Spenker, | such patriotism as there is nmong tho Demo- overraled tho Iopublican objection thatit | cratic members was crushed, ‘Thore had wns not such a question. This decision, | been no gonernl caucns, but only a consulta- Lased upon tho ground that the resolutions | tion of a limited number of the affecteq] the clection of the President of the | Northgrn extremists, who hnad doter- Uunited Btates, was sppenled from by tho | mined, with the promised aid of Spenker Republicans, and the appenl was soverrnled | RaNpary, to troduce tho investigation by n strict party vote, with two oxceptions | schemo in such n way as to impugm the on cither side, party loyalty of every Democrat who sliould Whan this stage of tho caso was reached, |,fefuse to sustain it. But, on tho very ‘first Mr, Hatz, of Maino, on bohalf of the Re. | doy, Mr. Mruis, of Texas, gave notica of his publicans, Introdaced an amendment provid. | intention to refuso submisslon unless ho ing for including Oregon and Mississippi fn | Wore nssured that it was not tho intontion to tho field of investigation. disturb tho peaceful and Iawfnl ocoupntion of 'T'o this manifestly falr and proper amend. | the President’s office, Thendeception was re- maont the Democrats coward-like and meanly | sorted to, and Porres, of Now York, us tho objected. ‘They determined there shonld Lo | leader, gava tho conservative Domocrats to ud investigntion of ‘Domocratio election. | understand that the resolution did not look frauds, bribory, and violonce, and moved the | boyond more investigation of alloged frauds, previous question on Porren's resolution. ‘Thus the conservatives wero {nduced to voto The Ropublicans thon very properly began | With the party majority, Butat the cancus to restst by filibustering and rofusing to | Which was held afterwarda (groat caro ‘was vote, It reqnires 147 votes to constituto a | taken tht no caucus should bo held before quorumn, Tho refusnl of the Republichns to | the Fesolution wes introduced) the mnjority voto loft tho Houss without a quorum, nae | of the Democrats rofused to pnss n reso. thero wero not 147 Domocrats prosent until | Intion recogmazing the demsnds of *the yosterday nfternoon, In order to secura | consorvatives which the Intter hnd reason to one, tho revolutionary bulldozers doclared | betiove hiad nlready been concoded, Thidivns all the Democratic pairs *“off,” and forced | trickory. There isno parly clalm on con- their paired mon tovote, Thisact is shame. | sorvative Demoerats to stand by tlie conspir- fully dishonorable, ators under such cirSimatances. ‘Those who Avzzanoen H. Stremexs,of Georgia, coun. | can be influenced by cousiderations of fair- seled fair play, and endeavored to sumbit a | ness will demand with Mr. Srremeva that compromiso rosolution to let in tho Haun | tho IArx resolution bo ndmitted, and that amondient providing for a sonrching inves. | tho proposed investigation bo as broad and tigation into tho Orogon bribery business | {nl) on one side hs on the other Those who and tho Mississippl frauds and intimidntions, | bave any political ncumen will recognizo but ho was howled down by the revolution. | with Alr. STerueNs that no party can go be- futs and Dourbons, He was told * to keep | fora tho peoplo with a confession of a dolib- his mouth shnt,” and by yolls and howls ho | erate attempt at rovolution Ly a suppression was silonced. Ono Sonthern Bourbon safd; | of facts that will not court defoat, The “ Damn ALexANDER I «Sternens, I wish | Congressmen who consent to such palpable Lo would go over on the Republican sido | Villainy, to use Mr., Srermens’ words, ¢ will whero ho belongs, o was n traitor to the | bo elected to stay at home, Confederacy during tho War, and {s untrue #This movement is ill-ndvised, foolisk, to tho Democrats now.” and rovolutionary,” says Mr. Srermexs, and Yestorday the carcor of the Democratia | thore is not the shadow of a doubt that tho obstructionists came to an end, a suffleient | Mmultitudes of the Democrats throughont the number of nbsentees to form a quorum | conutry outside of the tricky politicians nnd having been called in. Tho Porres resoln. | groedy place-luntersaro of tho same opinion, tion thon passed by a vote of 145 yeaa to 2 | It is rovolutionary beeause it proceeds upon nays, tho Inttor votes being cast by Demo- | the theory of snbatituting TrLoeN for Haves crats,—Monse, of Mussachusotts, and Mirrs, | in an unconstitational way, It is ill.advised of 'Fexas,—who, while detormined to | and foollsh because It isn confession of n rocord their disapproval of ho partisan | purposo to do this by excluding all bear- uten, agnin, and [ loosoned the pag, vulsions, down. in his mouth. morcy, torture. Then ho fainted, The flonnderings of Congrossman Har. nisoN, of the Second Chicngo District, tn connection with the revolutionary scheme in- avgurnted yesterday, will add to the disgust whip, has been violated. amplo ovidenco. Gov. Currost. and dismissed, promptly and soverely. murder. Stato. anthropy ita flavar tieally trusted tions there applled. That foctory to tho community. rovolutionary conspiracy, were ovident. | iugs upon the caso which might defeat | oy clvilizod socioty, much losa its ovolution Jy unwilling to take tho responsibility | the acheme, Democrata can bo counted by | from n barburous coudition and tho tedious of brenking (ke quorum, Ifad’ theso | tons of thousnnds who will not sanction auy | processes by which it has attalned its prosent two Democrats refrained from voting, tho | such proceeding, and who will agree to voto resolution would havo been defented. The | for Mopublican condidates all tho rest of ottitude of the Ropublicans was consistent |,thoir lives rathor than risk tho Mexicaniza- aud creditable, as it lias been throughont tho tlon of the United States and tho destruction dend-lock, It would have boon possiblo for | of constitutional Governmontin this country, thern to have deloyed action almost indefi. | The politiciaus who do not understand this nitely by dilatory filibustering, but the time | ure fouls as well as knaves. Successful per- badarrivod when the entire responsibility | sistonco in their onc-sided juvedfigation will could be loeated upon the Democratio ma. | swount to diggiug a pit for the remainy of it s confessod to bo, jority, nnd thoy wisely discontinued | Dewocratio Congressmen. ‘Thesltustion hns | gaults that worry us, but which le quite their ' polioy of rosistance, It now | now nssumed on aspect which indlenten that | oytsido of the domain of both, Thens woems likely that mno . furthor at. | tho Democratio party can ouly bo suved from | gepsoless idiots know ss hitle about tempt will be mada to pross tho passago of | its folly by the reslstanco of “cuough {he Hate amendmonts, the Republican Con. | mon like Brerress, who will vote only for n gressionnl Coinmittoe having last evening | full and impartial investigation or olse vote deelded to leave tha situation es it now is, | ogniust tho ontire profect, If thoro Ia not and pormit tho Democrats to proceed with | sonse enough in the Democratio party to the oncwidod investigation they have or- [ 5ave it from the proponderauce of uies who dored, 'T'ho rocord as it stauds Ia complete | represent it at Washington, then it must pay ngainat tho Democratio party; it has beon | tho penalty of its folly, for tho country will fully mado up in tho refusal of Porres, act- | not submit to revolution or anarchy. ing under thedirection of the caucus, to nd- - * mit for consideration and action, aldug with BRUTALITY AT JOLIET. his own resolution, the Republican proposi- Tostimony submitted to the Commiasion- tion to make the investigation comprohon- | o™ af the Btate Peuitoutlary, now in sesslon sive, thorough, scarching, and impartial, | 8¢ Joliet, shows that one convict Lns boen This rofusal has been recorded overy day | tortured to death and another brutally since the PorTen resolntion was prosented, | beaton. ‘The eivcumaiances of the denth, ns and for au extiro week tho business of tho | admitted by all tho witnesucs, are theso: Honse has boon Llocked in consequence, The victim woa n colored convict named ‘Tho gonoral foeling of the couutry ig | Reen. His offonso was what is known to tho against oponing the Isat Presidontial ‘olec. | Prison-ofticials as * violatiug tho voluntary,” tion matter ; but if it is to bo opened, all | o disturbing the silence of the prison. For fair-minded wen, all docent men, all honor. | this the man was first whipped on tho naked able men, with ona gccord, say: Let it be a body ** with a strap somo eighteon or twenty Jull inteatiqation or none. The schemo to | inches long, soaked in briuo, and securely iuvestigate oue side and suppress the other | fastoned tos handle fourteen inclies long.” will renct agninst the Bourbons with jrre- | Fora second offonse ho was gogged. ‘I'lio sistible force. 1€ they aro not propared to | 898 adopted aud spproved by the prison have Democratic frauds looked Into, they | ofiiclals at Joliet ls thus described by a cor- would be wise to drop the wholo business, and | Tespondent: *‘Itis around piece of wood count thomsclves lucky in gettiug out of o four or five inches long, an inch or more in false position, dll::lm:ter, witha “dnl;x hule;:cd “u: Dll;lu cly‘nd,l o ‘which passes around the neck and is buckled fim"’h:l:;m;ml; Sicl‘;p ]uaoll?::?u;{:‘:n::: ::; {uto 8 buckle on the other eud of the stick.” ‘onio-sided bunt of the clection frauds, While | When men d’x“um Sonccept the gag, it is tho manogement of the eloction in Florida placed on thelr lips ot teoth, tho strap and Loniuiuna {8 boiug overbauled in quest | PRssed around to the }Md‘ of tho neck and of Republican frouds, & searching scrutiny drawn up through ‘the I:m.-k!e until the ought to bo fnstituted into the clection botd [ 2outh 18 forced open. 'The gag which iu Mississippi, where a Republican majority proved fatal “" ;hu clolm;l Rzep wis a piece of 20,000 was suppressed and & Democratic [ Of ® broomstick. Its ¢ “:& W hind e wajority of 50,000 was substituted! On its “flbff,?’ u:: :"m w.,:‘:: fl‘l'm hidw::;m 't, and vory faco this exbibits obeating and villsiny ;#fi’ io ,:‘;“:m.:lxl‘ifil:a s thoek ".".“.':.,fi'.‘,l‘ on & scalo nover before attempted in tho | teW minutes he atill cried vui, ant tzbtenod 1t bistory of slacton.frauds i thia county. | Sk b0 aut b i st Stk In regard to Oregon, tho story is told quito | 12, b Wrak o ! SHasie b ot e thought be was umlug.“l 0y 3 plainly in tho private telegrams that passed | cuwoto aud ericd agalo. Thou 1 thought ho wes manufacturing per diem! print a pay. fooltng me, and I tightened the gaz up agatn, The gag was In ‘nia month ltogether Abont Aizty min- Tho rymptoma of atrangnlation appeared hen [ went for & whip, and, oncoming back. fonnd Rerp in con- I Immediately ent the gag and rent for the doctor, who aasisted me in IIJ:II,EII'I)( the man In five or ten minutea he + Thia nareative indicates that the convict choked whon the gng had been ten minntes Ho still oried ont,” beeauso ho found tlat ho was dying, and hoped, by informing his guard of this fact, to obtain Tho result was to increaso the ‘Whon tho strap was loosoned, he begged for his life agnin, and suotlier tvist was put in the barbarons machine which wns throttling him, torture continued until the prisoner died. No additional facts nra necessary to form public opinion in regard to this marder; but the Commissionors have proporly extonded their inquiry to cover all the prison mothods of puuishment, and ascertain, if possible, whother tho Iaw prohibiting the uso of the Thero wars marks of the ‘whip on the body of the dead convict. of tho koopora testifled that ho had whipped nnother convict named Hannis ns many ns rix or sevon times in one day, on the order of the Deputy Warden and the physician. Tha benting in this instanco was done, the witness nnively snid, ns *“n inedicnl experis meut," the physician having a suspicion that tho patient was feigning insanity, shown that prisoners whipped wero gonerally putin irons first; that men havo boen in irons {n solitary confinement five daysata timo; that n record of punishmont was crascd aftor the death of a convict supposed to be injured by confinemeont when iil; and that convicts have been bygntally treated in other ways for slight offenses or_no offanse. ‘This teatimony imposos a piain daly upon Tho quostion no longer con. cerns the facts, but: tho responsibility for thom. ‘The guilty persons must be disgraced Tt will not do to assume that the keepers and tho subordinate officials avo tho only gullly ones, The facts are like- 1y tobo othorwiso, It is next to impossible that ooy keoper would employ the whip in prison, knowing that tho use of it was a vio. Iation of law, without the sanotion of his superiors; and, if the punishment did oceur without the knowledgs of the Warden or Lis deputy, it is a question whether their ig- noranca was uot duo to gross aud inoxcusablo nogloct,. They ought to have known, if they did not, of punishments occurring so fro- quently in tho prison, all being violations of tho spirit, and soma of tho lotter, of the law, We hope Gov. Currox will make the inves. tigations thorough, and punish the ofenders Nothing olso will reform the barbarous prison disciplive, Burely thore s’ grent need of reform, Tho killlng of the convict Reep was The testimony of the person who committed the murder is itsolf onough to make humane people indignant; and the demand upon Gov. CuLrox for the punish- ment of tho murderer and tho officlals who ‘woro accessory to it will not be confined to any political party or any sootion of the BOME SOCIALISTIO VAGARIES, ALEXANDER JoNas {8 a recognizod loader of the Bocialists in the United States, claros that the objoct of hia Orderis * the entiro overthrow of tho present socinl ays- tem.” That is explicit enough ns & mero rov- olutionary pronuncismento, but it i3 not quito eatisfactory to tho avorago citizeh, male and femalo, who has interest enough in his own lifo to inquiro of theso Boolnlists what they proposo to do next. The man who undertakes to pull down tho houso that sholters us, without our consent, cortainly ought tobe kind enough to let us know what sort of n domicil, if any, he will permit to be erected in ils stead, Of courso theso crazy knaves pretend that thoy intend to make things bettor for thowmselves at least than thoy now are, and s0 they swoeten their theories with tho abstract sontiment of phil- which will most & likely loso o3 soon o8 it thoy to pull down existing institu- is littlo doubt, if their in- dustry {n that direction corresponds with their desires ; but whon thoy undertake the roconstrnction of moclety upon n basis cemented together with thelr crude notiovs, we fear that thelr work will not prove satis- Theso men do not seenn to underatand the laws that gov- condition, as imperfect and unsatiafactory ns ‘We have not reached our presont plano of soclal dovelopmont by ssudden jump, nor will Socialism land us in a state of porfection at one bound. osay enough to growl about the existing stato of things, especially if one {4 too lazy to labor or too stupid tocouforn: to thew, and to blnmeo soclety and tho Governtnent for the political as they do about social economy. A Boclalist has got to be synonymous with an impracticable fanatic. Ho s like a Lull in o china shop; ho moans destruction aud nothing elsc. Ho hoa ability to tear down, but none to build up. Some of the vagaries that theso follows entertain in regard to the true functions of tho Government are as abeurd aa their ideas sro about the rights of proporty and the claims of labor, In a specch recontly delivored by one of thelr lendors in a veighboring city a plan was out. lined for bringing about better times quite oa radical as nnything that ever ontered into the topsy-turvy brain of Georaz Fraxcis ‘Tna1y. The plan was this: Tho Gencral Gov. ernment was to tako posscssion by confisen- tion of all railronds, cauals, and tolegraph lines and run thom in the jutorost of the peo- ple by fixing tho rates at a figure low enough merely to pay opeoratiug expenses and repairs. Al machine-shops, furnaces, and establishments of description and kind wero to be confiscated aud sat 1n motion under Govermucent super- vision, aud ewployment given to every man whowanted work. And every establishment was to be run on the co-operative plan,—that 1s, overy laborer was Lo share in the profits of the concern, besides rocciving his regular But just bere it occurred to this Communistio statesman that it might be neceasary to have a little money in rescrve to pay expenses and run the waching, But his juvention was equal to the emergenoy, fo did not have to wrestlo so long as Arex. anpen Hamizrox did with u financial schewe for o yonug Republic, nor as loog as Baruox P, Cuase did in providing the funds neces. sary to carry on a tremendous civil war. Our agrarian finsncier would abolish all the National Bavks and”have the Government limitless swount of bocks, If times got} bard aoud busi. ness dull, print more non-promises to 1f the supply of manufactured goods got boyond the demand, as it was certain to do, let the Government givo every mann farm, and money and implemonts to run it; becanse, don't you fco, this is n Government of tho people, by the people, and for tho peoplo? Np mora Nationnl Bank ; no moro grinding monopolies ; no moro conflicts be- tween Labor and Capital ; no moroe subsidies; no more class logislation ; no moro tariffs; no mora 7 per cent fntereat; no mora strikes ; no mora capitalists, Utopis, and not chaos, would then bo ours. True, it might cost juat a trifle for tho Government to get possession of all the railronds, canals, tele- graphs, furnaces, stonmbonts, express com. panies, rolling mills, cotton factories, otc., ote., to the end of the Boclalistio demand; but thon the Government, nunder the Com- unistio regime, will bave two strings to its bow,—what it cnanot buy it can confiseate. If an individunl or a corporation is stupid sumption {3 practically at hend, and shoutd be nllowed {o {ako place naturally, The flow of coin to this conntry continues, andislikely to contintie 20 long ns onr exports exceed onr imports,—the cxcess growing larger an- naally, Thora is nothing at present t6 in. dieato any chango in that condition of onr trade. If Congress would pnss tho law nu- thorizing the issue at par of small bonds to onrown people in exchange for coin and greonbacks, and would pass tho law creating tho poatal system: of savings deposits, tha Government wonld experience no risk in maintaining coin rodemption and continn. ance of the aystem of fundiug the # per cents iuto 4 per cent bonds, o 8o tho THE COTTON TRADE OF ENGLAND, Tho recent strikes in the cotton manufac- tnring districts of England have brought the Englieh poople to a sense of a danger which onough - to seek sheltor for Dimscl? | threatons ona of the greatest interests of the Of this thero § and his property behind the sanction | Kingdom, The wages of tho cotton opern. nore 18 | ot lawa rocognized ns binding the | tives have been rednced more thau onco world over over sinco the dawn of oiviliza- tion he will bo informed that ** the present gocial systom i entiroly overthrown,” that oll courtsof justico are abolished, nnd that ol diforouces betweon man and mau are sot- iled by the vote of a popuiar mob nac. cording to tho diotatos of n genuine de- mocracy, It seemns to a rational person that there is at loast ono missing link in this golden chain of freedom. It will undonbtedly bo exoeed- ingly plonsant to have eversthing free,— {reo monoy, free schdols, free transporta- tion in this world and a doad-hoa ticket to glory in the next, freo trade, freo sexunl re- Intions, free love, free religion, free soil, and freo everything,—but gomcbody will bavo to pay the Dbills. Who will it be?. Not the copitalist, for that bloated sristocrat will havo beon abolished ; not the broker, becanse thero would then bo no such a useless nui- sanco as a dealer in monoy; not tho land- owner, becsnse it would be a erimo to have any title.deeds; not the corporations, for they would be unksown; and certainly not tho laborer, for he is the ouly creature in QGon's wide universo who, nccording to So- cialiatio philosophy, croates something ont of nothing by the flat of- his all-powerful musclos, and has therofora an inalienable right fo the pursuit of life, liberty, and hap- piness, without work or cars, unvexed by tho assessor and unknown to the tax-gath- erer, AN OLD WORD W. A NEW NEANIRQ, Tavestigation is the term tho Democrnts apply to tlio acliemo introdnced into Con. gress under PorTen's resolution, Tho word isdeflned by WensTen to mean *‘ the process of inquiring into or following up with caro and necurncy.” Tho thing tobe inveatigated in tho present case purports to be fraudin the Prosidentinl election. The Democrats nllego that thore wore Republican frands ; the Jtepublicans alloge that thore were Demooratio frauds. Tho Republicans say: * We will consent to your investigation of frauds on our gide if you will at tho same timo jnquire into your own frauds,” ¢ Oh, no!” say the Domocrats, ** that 1an’t fnvestigation at all ; it's only the Ropublican frands that wo want to investigate.” Thus iuvestigation is made to nassumo nn entirely ndw signifieation, ‘Wensten says it means to inquire *‘with care and accuracy,” which would exlinnst tho matter in hand; but the Democratic defint. tion is to drop care and accuraoy, and reject all ovidonco on ono side, It {8 very much like n scientiflo investigation whero cortain phenomena or signs wero noted, but all others ignored; or a roliglous investi- gation which should nccept s ovidenco nothing but the dogma of a certain sact; or an investigntion into the financial condition of n business-man which should take nccount of his assets but refuse to consider any of his labilitles. Buch {s the Democratio notion of investigation, Tho Democrats say: ‘‘Wao hava the vaguo intimation of fraud made by a couple of disreputablo persons from Florida, and we proposo to follow it out.” The Republicans way: “If you are really after fraud, wo can produco tho testimony of thousands of men in Florida, Loulsiann, South Carolina, and Missiosippl, showing that the Domocrats resorted to intimidation, violonce, ballot. box stufling, snd other frauds that suc- ceoded in carrying one of thoso States and all but eucceeded in stosling the others from the Ropublicans” *Hut that ien't the kind of fraud wo nre after,” the Dumocratareply. * Then wo can proba-~ Lly prove to you that a desperato cffort was made to Lribe the Florida Returning Bonrd to give tho State vote to TiLpen," ¢ No, no; that fsn't it," sny the Demoorats, *it's only tho frouds in Lebalf of I{aves that wo waut to Investigate,” *We can also show,” say the Ropublicaus, *‘that money was used ‘in the attempt to purchaso an Electoral voto from Oregon by TiLpew,” “Bat you don't scem to uundorstand,” rotort the Democrats impaticntly; *our proposition {8 to inquire into and fol. low up the frauds ou one side exclusively, nud if you don't recognize our new defini. tion of the word *investigate,’ thon you aro obstruetion!sts and villains.” ‘To investigate, then, Is to look on ono side of the question, 'Thero mnny have been frouds on the Ropublican side, and if theso can bedrought to light, they would prove, standing nalone, that Mr. Haves was not clected, There may bhave been tenfold greater fraudy on the Demoeratic sido, Lut they would have no bearing on thu case. T'he purpose is to make partisan capital or to get lfavzs outof offico; therefore only thoso matters must be investigated which will lead up to that eud, This is a plain utatement of the Democratio position which Mr. Porten, with the active acssistanco of Speaker RanpaLs and the submission of the Democratio * statesinon” in Congrous, is on. deavoring to establish, Have these astute Democratlc politicians 8o poor an opinion of the intelligence or tho American people as to beliove their dscoption and foul play will not be recognized and estimated at just what {t is worth? in tho last cightecn months, and the production has at times been dimin. ished, Sinco Mnrch Inst the manufac. turers gonerslly have beon compelled to givo notico of n further reduction of 10 per cont in wages to all branchosof the trade. ‘The attempt to onforco this reduc. tion has been resistod by n strike, and thia strike hns thrown perhaps 120,000 persons of tho wages class out of employmont, The circumstances leading up to this strike nro of no ordinary charneter. 'Tho manufacturers plond diminished salo for their goods, and n sale ouly at such prices as prohibit tho payment of formner wages. They plead that it is no temporary or trivial interruption of thoir business, but one which threatons a permnanent and even more disastrous intorforonce with Dritish cotton manufactares than has ever been antici- pated. The magnitude of tho cotton in- dustry of Grent Dritain is very gront, Grent Britain imported in 187G raw cotton smounting to within o fraction of 1,500,000,. (00 pounds, of which only 203,000,000 pounds wns exported to tho Continent, and tho remainder, nearly 1,300,000,000 pounds, whas rotalned to be mnnufactured at home. TLore wora at that time employed in the 2,655 cotton fnctorics of tho Kingdom no loss than 470,615 operativess. The exports of cotton goods in 1874 had a value of 271,000,000 in 1875 a value of B58,- 850,000 and in 1876 of §38$,200,000. ‘Tho declino in prices hindl begun ns carly s 1873, nnd has continued since then. The total valuo of Dritish exports in 1876 was $1,000,- 000,000, and it will ba geen that cotton man- ufactures was mora than one.third of all that England sold in that year. Anything which threntons the permanency or valuo of this cotton trade s theroforo a monaca to the wholo trade of the Kingdom. Tho value of the exported cotton manufactures of the United States in 1877 was about 810,000, 000, while the value of the expurts of Brit- ish cotton manufactures is equal to $1,000,- 000 n day tho wholo yoar round, including Bundnys. ‘Tho plen of the manufacturors of cotton goods in England, that thoy are compelled to reduce wages, resta upon threo important peints: 1. A decline in the domand for cot- 1on goods bocause of tho general doprossion in tho world’s trade; 2. Tho manufacturs of cotton goods in Indin and China; and 8, Tho competition of the Unitod Btates, which has becomo so great that American cottons are solling, wholesale and rotall, in England in euccessful compotition with Manchester goods. Inan ablo review of tho state of the cotton trnde published a yenr ngo by Mr, Epwanp ATxinson, of Boston, he showed that so close had becomo the manngement of tho trado that cach minute item in tho cost of production was of {mportance, and that tho possession of tho cotton trnde of the worll might, and eventually would, dopend on tho differcnco of less than half acont o squard yard inthe cost of production, The Dritish cotton goods hithorto furnished to the principal customers have been no- torious for thelr falsity in tho mat. ter of weight. That s, the cloth hias been so hoavily loaded with clay that, when onco washed, tho reduction in wolght was oqual to 20 por cont. The American goods have not baen thus franduloently fabri- cated, and the American goods, freo of clay, are now sold cheaper thau the English goods. The advantage is now with the Amoricans, There is no reason why this trade . should not be secured to this. country. Tt must bo with this conutry or England. Our mills are nearcr tho cotton-flelds. Wo have abnndant coal and water power, We have unlimited mupply of labor. We have bottor ina. chinery, Weo have more anbundant aud chenp- er food, Wa nro nearer to wmauy of the coun. tries that consumo cotton goods. With theso advantagesof which wo caunot be deprived, thero is no raason short of cxtreme folly and moduess why the production of - cotton goodls shonld not be socured to this country, Tomeet thesodificulties,which threaten the supremacy of British cotton manufactures, the proprietors of tho Eughish mills have but ono recourse, and that s to reduce the woges of tho operatives. Thero must bo a limit beyond which wagoes cannot be re- duced, and the British workmon doclare that that limit has already been reached, and that human fabor cannot bo wmaintained if de. prived of its present sharo in the cost of production, If tho superior advantsges of the United Btates could be supplomented by the removal of every tax attached to its raw waterialy, sud thus be placed ou a footing with tho British manufacturer, then the gradual Sut rapid absorption of the world's trade in cotton goods now begun would go ou, and that trade, which has so enriched England, can bo transforred to tho United States, Cotton prodnction lisa reached that minimum of cost in Eogland, and all that is loft to meok tho competition In tho United Btates is n reduction of wages. Whon that reduction pascs the limits of endurauce, then the gisat sud magunificont monopoly of the British cotton trade will pass into other Liauds and loavoe those of Euglund forover, c————— One 1t woa He de- {s prac- can be Itls evory ——— Mr, Brantsy Matacws is uno of tho most impracticablo men that over aspired to be a legislator, and at the samo timo is pertina- ciously engaged in prosenting schemes of loglslation uponall subjects. The Becretary of the Treasury has completed tho sale of #50,000,000 of 4§ per cents, and tho pure chasers are negotiating for an additional $50,000,000. There s also n probability that before Jan. 1 thero will o a salo of §100,- 000,000 of 4 per cents. There is therefore uo poesible danger of any contraction of tho currency, auy relirement of grecubacks, or any lack of coin, gold and silver, for the redeption of any notes tuat msy bo pre- sented. With greenbacks ot par with coin ood redoemable on demand, tho bulky snd welighty coln will remain on deposit ia the ‘Tyeasury and the owrency will yomain in general ciroulation. There is, therefore, no necessity for now legislation tinkering tho Resuwption law, because ze. The Wasblngton correspondent of tho Boston Hera'd tells bow Judgre I'oLAND, of Vermont, was “cut dead” by “Gall Humilton.” He thus relates it2 An Interestiog picce of gowsip ls foating arouud Washinzton concerning the wuy in which BLaixs apd hle fawlly perslat iu eudeavoring (o puniuh pevple who did uot ece Ht to ald Jix in securing tho nomination for Presidout fn 1874, Opoof the men whou 415k counted un to hely bim ovut tntho Conveution was Judeo Poraxn, of Vers mont, who was ataeibor of the {ouso ut the cad of 1be Forty-third Congtess, Judge FuLaxw hap- poned to have been Chalrmun of ihe Credit- oblliler Comwmiitee, where hu 2ot somo lislton Buawe's tinancial history that bas never been made public, Ho was Chajran of the Vermont dolegation §n the Cibciunalk Convention, an rised Mz, BLAINE by votlng for Buietow every ime. He wos, while 3 cesident of Waalie ington, on lutimato torma with Braine s bis fomlly, but had mot mot since Couvertion 'untll & few duys sgu. when be gaucd 10 "0 un o trala between bere aud New ork. At oue of the luterwediate ststluny, Bratxx, his wife, snd Gul Hawflton sl got up- on the' traln, and luok scats 1o lbo car Whero Judge Poraxv was. Tho Judgu soon ceplod the Braisg party, and. saying to’ bls compunion, Ry, Bore ls Guir 1¥ulitfon, ™ got Up wed wd- green. vanced down the afsto, with smiles of recognitio; on bis face, and his hat Inhand. . ** How o yon do. ™ watd o, when ha roached the New Yark Trine wune's acolid. Brarve had ouletly paseed the word to the women that they must *‘ent™ tho fadge, and that moat polite Individnal received in reenionng to his salutation aisuply & blank ntare from il three, Thero was nothing for him fo do ot to ntove on, and he went Into the nest car and ee. mained. Braixr and hle aatellltes are conatantly Indulging in 1iitle rode revengen of this sort, an| his popularity te, of course, not greatly Increased thereby. e — Facta arostubborn things, The cities of the West now decline to take the sllver doline fop which they once eiamored as if the snivation of the country depended npon it. Jiut they enough arithmetic to know that 100 cen than 91 cenls In recelving dolinra: in payinz, erpectally In paying dhe Shylacke, Vankees, cat: Tallate. Aoldbogs, hoated bondhoiders, ang Fan: crn Crasuscs, they are willing 1o nve as much of]- voras moy be. What theao Western financlors might like 1aa Iaw preseribing that they shail by pafd in golt, and that they wmny Pn, i silver, At nny rate, they demand 'law which ehall heneiig 1ll,mu at the cost of tho othors, —Providence (R, 1.) ‘ress, What nmess of Iying trash thisisl When have the people of the West declined to take the legal-tender sitver dollar for which theyoncs clamored? As fost as those dollara inve been sent West and offered In - oxchange for green. Lacks the people have taken them. Everybody recelves them on perfeclly equal terms with gold. ‘They pass for 100 cents on the dollar— nelther moro nor less. Tho gold-bug organs of New England and New York arestill spiteful and mallclous-when they speak of remonctization, and are utterly unable to tell the truth, Thelr masters had made a big grab at the property of the enterprising classcs, to whom they had 1oaned cheap, depreelated notes, and frotn whom they demanded payment in artificlally dear gold, But that dishonest, rapacious, ungodly conspiracy was defented ; hence the groans and lamentations of the disanpointed 8hylocks. ————— They may well say in France that the schoole master is abroad—in Germany probably, The recent reports presented to the Assembly show that In fult sight of Parls 1s a town only one of whose Municipal Counctilors can read; of 1,200, fubabitants in another in Charente-Inferieurs wnly six can spcil and four read writing; only a fesy rich landhiolders in another of 2,000 souls in Viennc can read; and so on. Before compulso. ry cducation can be attempted to be enforced it will be necessary to build 17,320 parish schools, to enlargo 5,488, to repalr 3,781, and to put ordinary furniture into 9,857, O!f the ex- {sting schools thousands aro literally hovels and caves in the earth. Bome have wo light save what comes in at tho door; In one of these It was lmpossible to hold recitations on thirty. nine days In a sesaton of fifty. Another had to be entered on all-fours; o third had earthen scats and desks. In another caso, not even a cavern belng handy, the master used to lead kg flock across the linc into Spain where an clizible nook existed, ‘There are schoola kept in wine- shops, polfec-stations, dancing-rooms, under o church-porch, in a atable (held there for warmth), In & kitchen. In one ease tho school. master’s wifo had been couflued in the sole ruom, which was academy and dwelllog; in ane otner his pig occupled part of the apartment, And vet ta grunds nation wouders why Germany beat herl . ———— 8peaking of the continual boast of the Dem- ocratle drag-net committees that they wera Just vn the eve of finding somethine terriblo against the Republicans, the New York Tribuny says: ‘he only striking featura about 1t is the manl- fent determination of Mr, Porrenand hls pariy uskaclates to mako of ‘thin proposed {nvestia. tion what the bosting men call *‘adead sure thing,”" They have liad several ‘*sure things™ 111 the way of Investigations since the scasion be. gau, but uncommon hard luck with every one of them. ‘Thoy wera not_slow to pracialin the sure hings they had in tuo way of fraud discuveries at the “outwet, **Only givo us full swing,” they aald, **and we will uncoversuch o mass of Repub- Itean fraud and corruption inall the Dopartments as will astonlsh the world,* ~ "Tuey navo Lad all the faciltles for ‘o thorough and exhnustive rummaging of overything: freo range of the Departments, experts, stenographers, **8tag whisky " and clgary, and evervthing that heart couid wish, down to ** cye-openers befare break. fant to avsist then In their wearch; and thelr suro things have. notwithatanding, disappointod them Inovery {natance, 1fow many thines has tho dear dellzhtful Grovei ahouted *+8tand from under! in screno confidenco of bringine down & Itcpublic. an, only to send o Democrat home limpiney And how many partles have gono out with ‘'Slaz whinky " and other rofrashments, to hunta **sure thing,* only to come skureying back into camp | withthe **suro thing " huntiug them? No party ever had so many **sure things' against thetr on- ponents, Nonc ever had 8 nck getting thom tnto camp, Dear-hunters, they aro, who cume in regularly just abcad of the bear, e — . Tho Engiish popular heart {s belng fired worse thian ever, now that it bexlng to look as if a peaceful solution of the Eastern question might bo arrived st *Hearts of Oak,” * TrueBlue,” An English Flagond an Euglish Crew,” and * Empress of Indis,"” aro tho latest additions 1o popular muslenl Jiterature, with a’remarkable song and chorus which has, av lenst, ooo thing i its favor,—it is likely to drive into oblivion the almost cqually idiotic ** Wa Don’t Want to Fight,”” This production, which s alost bad enough to be worth 8200 a Hne UL it were sigued # Aupien TENNYsON,' runs as follows: 1 nuver could love a Muscovy Mles, Ho whate'or her barbarle degreos To beat of xong, let hicr jugglu along, And be huk'd 104 ** bayitien Chinee, - Chinee, ond by lnk'd to & **haythen Chinge. ‘The Ntussians delight in trick and chicane, And thelrsutocrats rule vy the knout; But truth will claim, humanity's name, ‘That it's better to srn without, without— Thut it's better to rh without, From the world's whole parish 1'1l choose a wife, In its widta polieh'd pooples thore b The Lues with Chinese may wed as thoy pieaso, Tiut no hypocrite ltusslan for me, for me— But no hiypocrite Ruasian for me. 1 goes witbout saying, In tho lauguage of the TFrench, that the ** Muscovy Aiss® aud * hypos crite Russtan * 1 the Duchess of Eninnuna. e t— The Democrats have undertakon the role of bulldozer in the Houso of Represcutatives. #Only one slde of the fraud busioess shali bo investigated,” thoy shout In chorus. TILDEN'S sitempt to buy au Elector fn Oregon must not bu lovked Into, The frauds and violence pere petrated Ju Mississlool, whereby a Republican winjority of 25,000 was wiped out and replaced by 50,000 Democratic majority, shall uot be in= vestigated§ No Democratic frauds or rascalitics are to be touched., Do those knayes supposu the people will staud this onec-sided surt ot busluesa? ———— Having been unable to * Reduce tiao Army to 10,000 Men,” the Sun bas come out with suother wur-cry, *Abollsh the Navy.” Bueveral other war-crles rewaln furour esteemed contewporary to try befaru {8 Is done, Let us suggest n few, as follows: *Down with the Diplomatic and CousularServical" “8hoot the Custom-House!" “Close up tho Fourth-Auditor's Oiico!" *To Hell with the Bupervisors of Btenmboats!” “'Blow the Marine Dand!" » Cuss the Depart meut of 8tatel” and so on. e Wlicn, Gen, GakeisLp moved an amendinent to PorTun's resulution to luctude 't the.frauds in all the States without rezard toparty,—mean- tug Oregon sud Mississipph—POTTER Juwped up und yelled at the top of bis volco: **Tlilafean outrage! Wowant lnlnvullyut'!hv ublican frauds—nuot Democeatle frands! What bu country wants 14 (o have Democratic frauds leb alunc—they are doiog well enouyh as they are. Yuu don't waut 10 stir "etu—not if you wanttocoos nnul» to Inenlll:u le als ululluh?tm;::x?:rzln““lx t :’l‘p":":"lfa‘:" ‘n’l %‘mi“w'i'.'n :‘ wunied (o restore prosperity '’ e — -— Some regeret 1 expressed by European paperd which looked for something wore Hberal thas the recent Encyelical of Lxo X111, and com= plaiut fs wade that, deapite » certaia clevation of language, the vew Puntif 1s submerged and vanqulshied by the Papul fudtitutious. Perhapd, though, it sots of the Able Editors ever should come to the throme uf Bt. PETER, they, 100, would go for infullibility, the ‘Feporat Power and all the reat of it et —— Tho Internatioual Postal Congress, which &8 stiortly to sssemble at Paris, has an Interesting thougl bricf history, It begao its first sesslun ou the St of October, 1874, at Beroe, with twenty-two States [n its membershiv, those of Europe, the United States, Egypt, aod Asiatlc Russla and Turkey, thelr aguregato populatic= belug B15,000,000. At the sccond wmeeting o