Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 20, 1878, Page 4

-4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. MAY 23, 1878, Thye Trilbave, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Y MATI~IX ADVANCR—TFDSTAGR PREPAID, Iy Kdltlon, one sear. . f.'n;{ni 8 yeie 1.00 anan Tnbte Siee S.Dn E£arardny Fdftion, twe 00 TH-Weekly, one e, agn Tartaof avear. perm v WEBKLY EDITiON, FOSTFAID. ' Lo Gne cony. g Tl fou 588 Specimen Give Post-Ofhice address In fall, Inclading Etate and County. Hiemittances may be made either hy draft, express, Post-Ofice order, or In registered letters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCTIDERS, Tsily, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week. 111y, delivered, Sunday inclnded, S0 cents per weok. Addrens THK TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cotner Msdteon and Deacborn-ats,. Chicago. 11l Orders for the delivary of Tz TRinvNE at Evanston, Fnglewood, and liyde Park left o the ¢counting-room wilrecelve nromot attent TBIUI-J—NE BRANCII OFFICES. .. 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MONDAY, MAY 20, 1878, _— In Now York on Saturdny greenbacks yanged ot 093@09} in gold and silver coin. Vice-Prosident Wurezren and Mrs. Haves aro paying a brief visit to the home of the former, Malone, N. Y., ond have boon re- ceived with great cordiality by the people of that place. Among the deaths announced by telegraph this morning are thoso of Daxist Wircox, proprietor of the Quiney Whig, who died at Quincy, I, yesterday, and of Fnaxx Mo. Vicken, at Boston, son of Mr, Jaues H. BMoViexen, the woll-known theatrical mon- ager of Chieago. Tho tenth auniversary of the Rov., Ep- wAnp SuLnivas's accession to tho Rectorship of Trinity Episcopal Churcly, in this eity,— o church whose history iu curiously iuter- woven with that of Chieago’s growth and progress,—wns celebrated yosterdny morn. ing, Mr, SvrLivaN preachiug n sermon full of intoresling reminiscencos. Dr. Werts, at Conl Creek, Ind., illustratos tbo character of the men to whom Gov. ‘WiLriass issued a supply of arms for the equipmont of n military company. Dr. ‘Werss' offengo consisted in his laving off- cinted at tho burial of the throo negroes who were brutally mnssncred by the Coal- Oroek Governor’s Gunard, and for this he was ai- tacked Saturday night, snd two shots fired at Lim, In the summary of bis views, communi. cated through an Associated Proas dispatch thin morning, tho Presidont i3 ropresented a4 ealmly preparing for the worst that tho Demnocratio rovolutionists can do. Tlo shows nodisposition to underrate the seriona naaturo of tho situation, nor docs ha dispute tho possibility that his own titlo to tho office he holds mny bo brought in question, Tho views ascribed to tho President are given 03 coming from him through n friend who tonde thom known to the Washington corre- spondent of o Now York paper. Thero is nothing that indicates nlarm or unonsiness, but1ather a wise detrmination to look the situation squarcly in the faco and a purpose to meet nny overt rovolutionary attempt with firmuess and promptaess. Ono Jouy I1. Bunxe bas undertaken a big job. Dissatisfied with tho manuer in whicl the Nouauza kings have managed and mpnipulated tho Consolidated Virginia Mine for tho curichment of s fuvored fow, ho has brought suit, in belinlf of the atockholdors, to rocaver the onormous sum of $u3,684,348, Messry, Froop, MAcgey, Fam, and other wsny-millionaires are made defondants, the complaint alleging that thoy have wrongfully ocquired the amount of the clalm, and also nsking for tho removal of tho Directors of tho Compauy. Cousidering the consol- idated coin that Is ropreseuted by tho de- fendanty {n the action, it is safe to predict that Mr. Berxe, however ineritorious his cnso may be, hind o long and tedious fight Lofore Lim in this offort to unscttle tho offairs of Consolidated Virginia, S A——— Unless all sigus fail, thero is golng to be a vigorous shnking up of rasenlity ansong the Indinn Agoncies shortly, The Interior and ‘Wor Doportments are working together har- wonlously and efllectively in tho effort to and break exposa up an ex- tonsive systom of Qishoncsly mmong tho ofticisls intrusted with tho con- duct of affairs ot the Bloux Agencies. Alrendy somo of the thioves bave been sure prised by the suddon aud unaunounced apprarance among them of agents who can neitber bo bullied nor bribod, and who aro not lacking in eithor the ability or the dotermination to go to the Lottomn of things, Tho Indian Ring will fight bard to prevent tho Impondiug catastrophe, but there is gratifying en. courngemont to beliove that tha rascals who havo solong cheated the Government and tho Tudiaus with fmpunity are very near tho cud of their rope, though' not ko mear the cud of a rope us somo of them desorve to b, ———— The hend aud frout of the Houso cabal which meuaces the country with revolution {8 uo other thun Bpeaker RaNDALL, =8 W1 3 ut anl conscienceless partisun, 1fo gave the conspirators their veal Opportuuity ty a raling that violated all procedunty and all principles of parliumentary law, e ru- fused to enlertain-a motion’ to lay on the table, which is alweys in order, and thereby gave nolice totho liepublican side of the , Houso that they would not ba allowed oven umy euough fo recure the co-opers. tion of & ocertain number of conserva. tive Democrats who are opposed to the il lainy in band, aud who would probably have Lunded togethor to defoat theono-sided reso- lutiva if they had been given an opportunity 10 satisfy themselsos thoronghly of the ma- lignant purpose of tho rovolutionists. It waa owing mainly to this nnprecedonted and unexpected partisan ruling of Raxpatr's that the Republicans nbandoned the contest, Porhaps it is just as well, The Demoernts Iinve assnmed tha rosponsibility of a partial aud partisan investigation with a viow to rovolutionizing the Government. Now lot thom meot that issue in the next Congres- sional elections, The agitation by the Chicago Communists or Bocinlists of their impossiblo schomes of rovolution hns set poople in goneral to thinking whether thers may not bo a profita- ble field for examination and discussion ont- side of the nnrrow limits of the Socialist or. ganization, BMany of tho preschers of the city yesterday dovoted their attontion to the variona phnses of the situation s view- ed by them., The Rev. Dr. Trows, at tho Xirst Methodist Church, preach- ol n vigorous sermon on the ‘No- cessilios of tho Age,” in which he pointed ont the way in which the charches could combino togother for the remedy of many of the growing evils of the time. Bomething* tho samo lino of thought was followed by the Rov. SBmiNer Ertis, of the Church of the Redeemer, Universalist, by the Rev. L. P. Mencer, of the Union Swe- denborgian Church, and by the Rev. A. W, Patrey, of the Wabash Avenuo Mothodist Chnrch,—all tending to tho bellef that in this, ns in overy other dark honur of the world's history, religion may prove a power- ful factor in tho solution of the problem, The composition of tho SBolect Committee of Eloven appears to be very well undor- stood in Washington, and it is stated with positivencss that the aunouncement fo be made in the JHouse this morning by Mr. Bavwen, Acting.Speaker during the nbsenco of Mr. Raxpatn ot the Pennsylvanin State Democratic Convention which meets in Pittsburg Wednesday, will bo ns follows: Democerats—Porren of Now York (Chairman), Mornsox of Illinofs, Hux- Tox of Virginia, MacManoy of Ohlo, Brack- sury of Kentucky, Brexoen of Penusylva. nin, and Conn of Indinna; Republic. nns—DBurrer of lassachusotts, ' Hiscocr of Now York, Cox of Ohio, sud Reep of Maine. Tho Republicans are intensely nannoyed at the sclection of Burier, to whowm thoy would prefer any fair-minded Demoerat, and whoso appoint- ment is of a picco with tho partisan malico that has animated the proceedings through. ont. Burren is looked upon as being dis. tinctly committed to the war upon the Pres- ideut nnd his titlo, and ns no more accopt- nble to tho minority than Davio Duprex TFreLp himeelf might be, RAILROAD AND WATER TRANSPORTATION. 'The present condition of the transportn. tion business s of atriking interost, not only ns it affccts the profits of the present, but nlso as it indicatos a pormanent revolutionin tho transportation mansgoment, ‘The ex- traordinary low rates of tho present season nre not merely temporary; they promisa to be permauent, at loast ns compared with tho rates of the pnst. Nor is tho decline in froightsconfined to Enstwand-botund merchan- diso; it extonds mensureably to Woestward- bound merchandise. The producer and mer- chant of to-day may well look back with as- tonishmont to tho time, and only a few years ngo, when to transport n bushelof corn from the Mississippl River to Now. York required that three other bushels shonld bo sent to pav the freight ontheone bushel. Then,wheon wheat was sold for 1.50 per bushel ju Liver. pool, the transportation compauioes took out of this sum whatever thoy chose, and tha pro- ducer on the banks of the Mssissippi was compellod to take what wns left as his com. pousation for tho grain. The producer was powerless to fix any prico for his grain; ho sold at the place of production for the price offored at tho place of cousumption, leas the local freighit to Chieago, the warehouso and inspection fecs, tho lako nnd canul froights and tolly, or railvoad freights, tho extortions for haudling aund lightorage in Now York, the ocenn freiglts, tha marine insurnnce, the profta of fnlf o dozen middlomen, and per- haps some special profits to some colored ling, aud geucrally a grab at every station along tho wnole distanco. Whon all theso wero satisfied, tho share falling to the pro- ducer was very small, Thero has been a change in theso particnlars. Tho exactions luve been reducod. Wao quote from Tur Tarnuxe of Batarday: ‘The golng rate of Inko freights yosterday was one #nd threeajunrier cents on corn to Builalo, thaugh rome curriers asked two conts, Throuzh rules by lake sud canal wero dull at seven centa for corn und vight cente for wheat to New York. Lakoand rall rates wers quoted at ninc and one-half cents for corn to New York and eleven cents ta Boston, . All-rull freights wore firmer on the bas twenty conts fer 100 pounds for gran ¢ York. elghteen cents to Phitudelplila, and teon cenls Lo Laltlmore, It i4 ensy to ninderstand Low vastly bene- ficial this revolution in tho cost of transpor- tatlon i# to tho producer. ILivery cont ndded to the cost of transportation is taken from the prico iu the hands of the producer, and avery cent taken from the cost of trauspor- tation {s 50 much addod to the prico of the grain in the producer's hands. When somo years ago tho agrioultural producers rose in tleir might to contend with tho exactions of Tuilrond monopolists, tho wildest Jmaging. tion nover auticipated such a ravolution in transportation charges ns bas sinco tuken place, A few doys agowo plinted out tho fact that tho railways aro compelled to carry freight at nn average of 1,000 miles for 20 cents por 100 pounds, and that thoe Vaxpen. nieT roads, which are ‘solvent, and have hu- mouse Jocal businoss, cauuot relieve thom- sclvos of this because of the compotition of other ronds which sro actually und avow- edly bankrupt, or which are substautially in that condition. One-balf the railronds of the couutry ore bavkrupt {n ‘the sense of uot carning more than thelr operating exponses, Ruilronds which ure declared iusolvent, and aro mauaged by Roccivors, aro freo of tho obligation to pay interest on debts, dividends on stock, and salarics to expensive corps of officors. 'Tho Recoiver has the road and all its property complote, and pll he las to do i6 to make it yivld enough to keep it in ye- pair, keep tho rolling-stock in good condition aud . supply, pay ~the wages of tho workmon needed to oporate tho road, wud pay bis own feee, Necesanrily, Lo cau oporate nroad much choaper than con o Presidout and Bosrd of Directors Laviug to weet interost on any numbcer of willious of bonds, aud pay dividends on ay equal number of willions of stooks, and sup- port un anuy of officialy ‘who reuder no servico, and furuish. living to pargsites of ovory jmagiuable kind. The general rates of transportation at prosont are on the basis of operating railroads by the, inexpensive wachinery of Recvivers, and not. upon the Lasis of operativg wmagnificont and costly corporations, 'Lhicre is not o railroad in the counlry which is carning enough over its cxpenses to pay iuterest on ity debts sud of ven. dividonds to ita stockholders, Thero {s no hope that tho bankrnpt ronds can so recover 08 to resumo payment of dividenda and in- terest, and tho strugglo is, Shall the essontinl exponditures of all railronds be reduced to the standard of the bankrupt roads, or shall the Intter be restored to their former stata ? Thero can bo hardly n doubt s to the result. There can never ba n return to the old scale of transporintion charges, becanss water transportation must remain always tho great controlling and regulating power, It ia conaidored that tho Erio Oanal must become n free highway,—ns froe as the Inkes and the ocoan. Within a briof period thera will be a freo highway from Chicago to Montreal and Quobec for vossels of the Iargost carrying capacity. The lakes and tho St. Lawrence canals will offer unlimited monns of reaching the Atlantie, nnd com. paratively free of tolls, In the wintor, when tho lokes are closed, the Mlississippl River will offor free navigation to New Orleans. The rates of transportation by water on the Inkes will never probably riso above what thoy aroe now; indeed, so groat will be the roduction whon the Canadinn: cansls are opened, that it is qnestionable whether the freo Lirio Conal will Lo able to maintain more than a local trafle. From April to December the Northern water routes, with their rates below even thoso provalling at presont, will be prohibitivo of any sorious advance in railrosd ratos, and if, after tho closo of Northern navigation, thero be an attempt to restore high railrond rates, tho opon Misslesippt will offer the producing Wost transportation at rates against whicl railroads cannot compate. Substantislly, therefore, fhe tariff of transportation must sottle down to somo- thing abont tho presont rates; if thoro ba a change, it must bo to even a lower rato, becauso tho water routes ara capablo of any incroase in their carrying eapacity, and rail. ronds must be governed by them, In the meantimo, railrond managers] and stock- holders, and bondholders must govern thom. selves accordingly, Thoy must reform thelr osponditures. If o rond cannot carry 376,000,000 or 150,000,000 of stock and debt, then it must gomo dowa to what it can carry at prosont rates, There enn bono hope of restoring past rates. IRnilroads must so reducoe the cost of operating by the abolition of oll wuseless officers and solavies, and by culting froe of all parn- gites and all iotermediory nod usoless agoncies, as to ba ablo to run their roads as near to the standard of Receivers' oxpendit- ures 08 possible. Having got rid of the ox- ponding dopartmont, having brought rail- rond manngement to the closo, aud rigid, and thrifty conduct of a purely privato business, and forever cut loose from the stock-gam- Liing and plandering of tha past, thoy will find that raitronds will be able to do an im- mensely increased traffic ot tho lowor rates for transportation, and be able to mako lib- eral profits on tho cnpital actunlly invested. Tho lesson’ hna yet to be loarnoed and en- forced, that an inflation of capital stock and a ruinous and dishonost piling np of dobt do not carry with them nny such sanclily ns property as to stoud in the way of moasaring tho valuo of railways by their earnings, and by that rulo alone. In the meantime, so long as water routea exist, so long will the present atandard of freight charges snbstan. tially continue. L. The New York World, n Democratio news. paper, hos published a serios of intereating sketehes of tho rulers of 'Pammany Hall and the Democracy of Now York, and conse- quently of tho foromost city nnd Stata of Amerlea. The * pedigrees " of 112 mombers of tho Goneral Committos, including all tho rogular Domocrats of prominence*in Now York City, are given; we have taken the trouble of tabulating thom, Of tho 112 membors namod forty-four nre foreiguers, mostly Celts, whilo of the re. maining sixty-cight the names of most be. tray Coltio descent, and some of thom were certainly, though the fact is not atated, born obrond. Ivoland contributes. twenty-cight rulers, Gormany fiftoen, and England one, Thirty of tho 112 lesders of Tammany Hall are liquor-dealers, nine others have boen ea- loon-keopers, one runs a billiard room and gambling hell, oue is a *“spotter” on a horse-car line, ono runs n variety show of low clasy, ono {8 an omigrant runner, two aro junkmen, sud one is a Tombs shyater, ‘When we como to ook into the individual records of these statosmen, wo mako soveral interesting discoveries. Trmoruy J. Caue- peLy, the legislator Wwho fainted at a hotel dinver-table on hearing of Twren's death, mado a sensation at Albany by taking a com. won prostitute upon the floor of tho House, Tuoyss Doxrar, ex-gin-seller, Is now CGom. missioner of Jurors at %15,000 o year, and hna all bis male relatives in offico; thus states- man began lifo n o dog-catchier,—bright ex- ample for American youth, Huvan Keaneis the proud and ‘happy possessor of a talonted gonat that driuks whisky cocktails, Two Al dermen, Keane and 8urety, keep two saloons ench; sodees Mauk Lantaax, his saloons boe ing ** bucket-shops " of the vilest kind, and tho Bociety of which he Is & momber giviug. an nunual excursion, whereat thers is o freo fight on the way home, aud honest people near tha pienio grounds hava to defend thofr portablo property with shot-guns, Ald, Saverused to keep an ** all-uight " saloon, the resort of Lounty-jumpers and hackmon who “ran” for Louses of ill.famo, Josrrn Scuwas has o penchant for using n bung. starter ou tho heads of his customers, In. doeed, the Inclination of the Tamumany Demo- crat toyiot im ns natural as Lis tendenoy to rum. Iticuanp Cnogen, Coroner at $12., 000 u year, wns oncd a prizefighter oud leader of the worst gang of the city, and has boon tricd for murder. Lawngnck Coz- RrY, City Marshal, was hustled out of dil. more's Gardon by tho police a fow days ngo for disorderly conduct, Ricuarn Franacaw, Corouer at $12,000 a year, has been engaged as a prize-fighter, and is a gambler, Ropzur Fosrea, butchor, airs his muscular shapo in front of a saloon duily, but *his roputation a3 o pugilist 14 gono since his last fight in Ditrmans’ saloon.” Jemry Hantsoan has, Leen triod for murder. Htate Houator Ep- wazp Hoaax got into o murderous fight only o few days ngo with his brother-in-law, Coroner Bme, aud ¢x-Beuntor Fox—Demo- crats both, ~Ald. Peren Kenn, o rencgsdo Republican, threatened to cowhide another Alderman for, words "used in debato, but didw't, Jouw Kewwy wes Coptain of a riotous targel cowpany, defeated ¢ Bully-of-tbe-Rocks"” KexmaN in o fight, aud cawd noar -belng wntched against “Yunkeo % Burrivax, Congressman Nicus ouag MULLER j¥ *Jeader of the roughest of two rough factions in tho First District,” who at ptimarics always stuff the boxcs and pound their oppouents, Heszy D. Puszox is tho mon who smashed a brother delegato’s jaw in the Nyack Couvention last ycar. Fhese aro the gods of Tammany Hall De- woerucv. 'Thig is tho resuls of tho strugslo for political existence, n survival of tho un- fitfest, in the metropolis of Americn. This I8 the stratum which has boon npheaved in & city of a million sonls, whers for yenrs tho Domocratio nscondency has been unques- tioned. Thesa nro the rulers of the party of Jerrerso¥ and Jacxsox in tho Btate of Bizas Waiant and Marcy, These are reprosonta- tives of tho olnsses 8 Democratio victory in the nationnl contest would mako all-powor- ful in the affairs of the American Llepublic. And yet some people insist that tha party which opposes theso murdorers, rioters, rumsollers, and thievea has no further mis- slon,—has need of a war-cry and a policy! A CURIOUS PROSECUTION. Tho investigation Iately instituted in re- gard to tho alleged fraudulont charges and commisstons cases arising chiefly in the Cus- tom-Ilonse at Now York promises to end very curjously, About two nnd a half mill- fon dollars have nlready been disbursed by the Treasury Department on sccount of these old claims, and nearly a half million dollars’ worth more have beon proved up; and an appropriation was asked of tho pres- ont Congress to cover this Intter amount. But the attontion of the Bacretary of tho .Trensury being called to the sub- jeot, he instituted an investigation to inquire whother na a matter of fact the claima nirendy paid and those pend- ing are mot largoly fraudulont. Special- Agont Cuntis, an exporionced officlal, has beon engnged in this investigation for sev- eral months, It appears that ho became convinced of tho genernlly fraudulent char- nctar of the claing, ond go testified bofore o Committeo of Congress, and 5o reported to the Becretary of tho Tronsury. In order to sustnin these claims beforo n court it is neccessary that protests in duo form shall lnvo boen filed ngainst the decision of tho Colleator of Customs at the date of tha transaction. Tho general allegation is that, in a vast majority of the cnses, pro- tosts wero nof filed in time, but that such protests have been forged and surreptitions. 1y conveyed among the papersin the Cus. tom.ouse files, Now (o the point: Last Wednesday one Arwoxy W. Griswonp, o Inwyer whoso oflic is at No. 120 Broadwny, Now York, ** was arrestod and arraigned be. foro United Btates Commissioner Snrenns, on the chargo of causing o falso protest to bo ninde in support of a claim agafuat the Gov- ernmont for the amonnt of an nlloged excess of dutios paid by Avoust Ricxanp on goods imported on Ang. 15, 1861." Tho complaint wos made by Bpecial-Agent Cenris, “ A Inrge number of ofiiclals and law- yors,” snya tho New York ZTridune, “were in attendauco whore Mr. Grs. worp was arraigned.” Doubtless this large number of jofficinls and lawyers expected to witnoss *lm probing of the old charges and commissions sore which lns cost the Govornmoent two and a hat? million dollars. But they were disappointed. B. @G. Orane and O. A, Runkie appeared for the arraigned lawyer, and declared tho rendi. ness of their client to procoed. Thon came tho hitch. Mr. Assistamt-District-Attorney Cr.arg (whether the brother, cousin, or son, or father of 8. G. Oank, dofendant’s nttor- ney, is not stated) said that * the principal witness for tho Governmont could not be found; and he nskod permission tn with. draw the complaint”! Defondant’s counsel “offoerod to consent to a postpono- ment, or make any othee arrangemont to glve the Govornment . titne {o pre- pare,” Bat Mr, Assiatant-District-Attorney Crazx (whethor thie brother, or cousin, or son, or father of 8. G. Cuang, defondant’s nttorney, is not stated) was obdurate, Ho would agreo to nothing but to bo dofented. 1o wonld not tako the chanco of tho Gov- ernmont's principal witness ** turning up* at some futuro day. IHo would not take time toprepare. He would accept nothing but absalute, inglorious defeat. It js usually tho case that the prosecutor i in hastetoproceed, but in this instance itis thie dofondaut who demandato be prosecuted and the progocutor rofuses. Mr. GrisworLp writes to the Now York 2'ribune that ho has sought in vain to got the Govornmout to tako netion in his case. o appenled to the United Btates District Attornoy to consent to havo an order entered by Judge Braton. yonp, directing that nll the involces, ontries, papers, and ' protosts bo re. turned. to the original Refereo In tho cnso, with instructions for tho most soarching investigation s to whether the protests wero in any caso false. Tho United Btates District Attorney pald no attention to the request. He next gave notico to the Roforeo that ho would go on with somo new cnses (only twonty-six years old probably) lnst 'Fuesday to dotermine tho quostion wholther thore was fraud {n them. On this notico Mr, Assistant District Attorney ap- peared, and Ountis and Nevov appesred in bellf of tho Government, and, as Grisworp ollegew, iuterposed overy possiblo teohnieal objection tendirig to prolong the trial, and flually procurod a postponemont of the hear- iug until last Friday, on tho plea of Mr, Oraux that ho had an engagement at Albany ou the following day (Wednesday). But it scoms that Mr. Assistant-District-Attornoy Oranx (whothor brother, consin, fath. or, or son of Ouinx, tho de. fendant’s attorney, {s wmot xnown) aia not go to Albauy on Wednosday, for he was presont to fusist upon tho suminary dismis. eal of the crimiual charge ho had brought againat the unhappy GriswoLy on complaint of 8paclal-Agunt CusTis, It fs casy to com. prehond why GriswoLd wants to procsod promptly in his cases. The Committecon Ap- propriations aro holding up the half a willion dollars out of which GmiswoLp Lopes to got Lispay, How many *‘grabs " GriswoLp is on. titled to make outthebag Congross Is expoote ed to 8l for the benefit of tho hungry crow of Now York lawyors who prosecuto theso cases on shares is not known. He, howover, swoars that Cuntis swears falsoly when ho (Cuntis) alleges that Lo (Ussworp) is guilty of any, even tho small- eat fraud, in the premises; aud ho declares, that theso *“extraordinary procecdings of the QGovernment will' not deter him from prosecuting his cases, now and old, and shiowing that they are ns sweot and pure ns the nowest creams.” Bni whiloe Grisworn'; courso in demaunding trial is perfectly logle the course of Assistaut.District-Attorno; Oranx is not susceptible of so easy explana. tion. If the Government hayu case, why doca its paid attorue§s abandon it on the flimsy preteuse that the principal witness iu, for the moment, not w bo found? Aud it it has no case, why not say so ? ‘I'he publio js under the lmpression that tho charges and cowmmissions casvs aso a dis- gustivg fraud, *If they are, they iuvolve the integrity of the New York customs ofipials, and, if this be so, they aro within the juris. diction of the Commission now sitting at New York. We commend the subjeot to its carly “consideration, Let it fustituto tho tullowing iuquiry: Is tho Governmont, throurh Assistunt-District-Attornoy Oransg, prosecuting the lawyer Grisworp, or is the lawyer Griswornp prosccuting tha Qovorn- mont? PACRT B COMMITTEE. 'Tho Democratic majority inthe Lower ITonse of Congress, having dotermined to prooceed wilh ita partial and partisan investigation, has consistently resolved to make the Com- mittee of Investigation ns one-sided as pos- sible, The Committee will be composed of cleven membors. According to usnge, the Ropublicaus would be ontitled to fourof theso membors, and would have tho right to select their own mon. Dut it is reported from Whashington that the Spoaker bas taken the nppointmont of tho whole Committes into his own hends, and hns named ns the Republican members four persons who are in no sense the choleo of the party. Two of theso mombers lack the experi- ence and the stnnding in the parly to qualily thom for this work; tho third-— Mr. §. D. Cox, of Ohio,—is not an aggres- sivo or dolermined man, and not acquainted with the secret history of the lato Prosiden- tial election in the South; and the fourth is Bensaxiy F. BDurezn, who hins beon a traitor to the Republican party throughout this session of Congress. Durren helped to draw out the fabrionted MoLix and Dexxis confesaions, and approved the Domocratic attnck on the Presidontial title. 1lis sympa- thy with it was so notorious that his aftend. ance on tho Ropublican eancus, hold to con- sider the best means of opposing it, was regarded with suspicion. The appointmont of BurLen, under the circunistances, will be tantamount to tho addition of another Doin- ocrat to tho Cowmmittee, and will serve to confirm popular contempt of the whole investigation, Thero are n number of moen whom Bponknr_ Rawnpazy could havo chosen to serve on the Committeo, if ho had desired to give the Ropublicans n fair ropresentation, If he had named Ganrierp, Coxoes, Font, IALr, or other mon equally well known, and equally trusted by tho party, thoro would at lenst bave been assurance that the Republiean causo would be ably defonded and presonted to the peoploin a maunor to provent mistakos. Bat there can be, no such confldence if tho men sclected by the Bpegker are permitted to sorve, Ho choso thom with reforonco to thefr inability to represent tho party, when, by all parliamentary usage, he had no right to chooso them'nt all. Tather than submit to fnsult nud outrage of this description, the Repnblicans should doclino participation fa tho investigation. It is nt tho Lost a Demo- cratio conspiracy gotten up to Moxicanizo the Government, and the Republican * party ought to have no connection with such schome. It will do better by withdrawing and permitting the Domocrats to conduot their revolutionary plot without obstruction. ‘T'ho rospousibility for the results will then bo olearly fixed upon them, and tho people will hold them to the stricter accountability. ENGLISK VIEWS OF AMERIVAN BCHOOLS, Mr. R. W. Dare centinues his *¢ Impres. slong of America " in the Nineteenth Cen- tury. His third article'is davoted to a con- sideration of popular education. It con- tains much that is interesting to Amerienns, fow of whom, it i8 safe to presumo, know as much of the public-schiool system in this canntry ng this intelligont and -painstaking English obsorver. Tuo conclusions of Mr, Davg nre that popular education with us hog ronched n high degroe of officloncy; that our gystem of school govornment Is in many respects suporior to the Euglish system, and espocinlly so In conferring larger powors upon loenl school authorities; that thore has Loen in somo quartors a tendenoy to ** oram,"” but that in genoeral dus rogerd is hnd both to the acquirements and the capacitivs of pu- pila; that tho co-ordination of schools into primary, grammar, ond bigh does not in overy instance cover the wholo ground, be. causo it is not preciso; and that there fs n grave dofect in tho want of separato courscs to propare boys for collego and to fit them for business life. On this head Mr, Darz saya ¢ The whole schema of education for boys over 10 yearaof age who are 1o ¢o to & umversity ought to be dilleront from that which §s Intended for those who aro to loave schuol at 14 vr 16, Doya destined for thu university should begin somo subjects at 11 or 12 whichi 1t would bo wasto of timu for them to toach If tholr educatlon had 1o closc in tho cottrse of two or tirce years. un the other band, loys who are to go into business as soon as thelr olemontary education 1a flufvhed whonld bo taught aomo things in a popalar and un- sctontific way which boys who are golng o the university mitat po taught more llmmuzhl{. The **primary ** lpstruction of both setd of children may bu carried_un together; but from the time thoy are 10 or 11 a speclal training I8 ncceswary for those who aro to enjoy the advantages of s unlversity, Mr. Dave seoms to have misconcelved the truo spirit of the American common-school systens. Ita purposo fs not to provide tho youth with a uuiversity education, but to put them in the way of gainiug an oducation for thomsolves. It gives them a start ; puts tho iustrumonts of knowlodge in their hauds, and then throws them upon their own re- sources. Tho Btato {s only concernea to give thom o8 many advantages ns may bo neoes sary to onnblo thew to form intelligent opln. fous of curreut events, aud discharge thoir duties ns citizons with oredit to thomselves aud benefit to the State. In some Btates, ns in Illinoly, the Leglslnturo is only author. ized to adopt measures * whereby all the children in the State sliall have a good com- mon sehiool edneation,” ‘L'ho Btato bas theo- rotically nothing to do with the university systom, excopt as it tends to promote knowl. odga of practical agriculturo, Mr, Dare “spoke without duo reflection whon ho sald that boys who are to go into business should bo taught fn ““a popular sud unsolentifiu way," Thero 15 no such thing as asound meothod of teaching which is ** unsciontific,” The most intoreating part of Mr. Dare's article, to the student of American politics, is the historical summary of the beginnings of thecommon school system in New Eu. gland and the South, In New Eugland tho systom datos to within twenty-two yeors of tho landing of the Pilgrim Fathors, An act thon adopted roquired tho Sclectmon to seo that * their brethren and neighbors " do not suffor ** their childron nud apprentices” to grow vp in ignoranco of the English lan. guage. Five years later every township of fifty householders was required to appoint o teacher, aud every township of a hundred familics of honscholders to establish a gram. war shool. In Now York uuder Dutch rule similar provisions wore made for freo educa- tion, These wore abandoned aftor tho En- glish occupation, bat resumed ‘again after the Revolation. In Maryland, Virginia, South ‘Carcling, and the«zemajudor of the touth the policy. was . notably differ- cut from that adopted in’ Now England. It was not a policy of negleot or inditforence, but one of studious boatility to free educa. tion. Sir'Wirriax Besxrizy, who was ap- poiuted + Governor of Virginia by Omanizs L, gives what be regards as a obeer. ful description of the condition of the colony after ho had governod it for thirty years: **I thank Gop there are. no free schools nor printing, and I hope wo shall ot bave, these hundred years; for loarning has bronght disobedience and horesios and seets into the world, and printing hns divulged thom and libols sgainst tho best Governmont,” This sentiment in worthy to rank with that remarkable passage in tho Iate Enoyclienl of Popo Lro, in which he compares the ngoa when **tha Church was honored ns a mother,” aud iguorance nbounded with the presont ago of enlightment, to the disadvantags of the former. This sentinent wns consist- ontly acted upon south of Mason and Dixon's line untiljaftor the War of tho Rebellion. Mr. Dare trnthfully says: * Be. foro the Civil War, the common school sys. tom had hardly made any way in the Bouth.” This noglect of cdueation, next to the agri. cultural system, was the most important con- sequence that followed from Blavery in the Bouth; and it contributed more than any snbordinnto cause to the misnndorstandings of the two sections of the country, the blind infatuation of the masses in tho South in fighting for a principlo which degradod them, and the porpetuation of Bouthern prejudices ogainst tho North. Happily this is all changing, though it Lias not yet all changed. The rolica of popular iguorance aro still to bo scon in tha workings of somo of the Bouthern Btate Governmonts; but ns they aro providing more liberally for oduon~ tion, nud seck to ropair pnst deficiencios in this respect, wo mny Lope at no distant day to soe the bonefits of the common school systom enjoyed impartinlly by all scotions of tho country and all olnsses of citizona. —————— Many of the Republlcans In_Washington think that the party ought to make an ng- eressiva ficht at the South In the next Con- greasionol eampnien, * There are over a scors of districts whoro the Republicans could clect thelr candidates upon snything likea falr yote. But the frecdman has been pretty effectually * con- clllated ** out of his right to representation, and it 80 hiappens that, white tho Bouthern Demo- crats have all the beneflt of the colarged repre- scntation arising from the cxtcuslon of the suf- frago to the negro, tho latter I8 practleally dis- franchised, Iow this works is sat forth by H. V. REDFIRLD fn ono of his letters to tho Cluclu- natl Commercial Ware tho ballot perfectly free In the Sonth thore wonld bo no Democtatic majorily In the present Congress, Or, wera the nogro taken out of politics and ont of tho banis of represantation, there wonld ba po Domocratic majority, Thete majority cone sists cxclusively of ‘‘gains" throogh a sop- prossion of the negro vote. Tho enlargement of the Lasis of reprosontation 80 as to take In tho black pooulntion has given Honth Carolina three mombers, Geozgis four, Alabama four, Arkansas 1wo, Texas two, Miasiasippl four, North Carolinn three, Loutsiana three, and so on. Yot {n ail tne Biates enumerated thy Hepuvlicans have but five mombers, one from North Carolina, ano-from Loutsana, and three from South Carolina, In theso Statbe alono there aro twenty-five meninors ‘Who owe thelr seats to the enlurgomunt of tie basin of representation to take in the blacks; yot tho bincke bave proportiunatoly a small voice in the matter, Without negro auifrage, for instance, Ucoruia would have five Demacratic moinbers, bt with it she has nina Democratic mombars, Yot to clect all of theso nino there wero only ‘mllud a8 1ittle uver 102,000 voter. Now to eloct only threo memnsbers, Minunesota polled only 120,000 votes. ‘That Is to say, Minnesots, with ‘a total Congres- slonal voto of 120,000, has but three wembers, while Goorgla, with o total Congressional vote of 102,000, has nine mombers, e e— e The partlsan gerrymandering Iaw passed by the Democrats of Ohio s futended to sccure them thirteen or fourteen members out of tven- ty, while the popular yote may be largely Re- publican. - The new districts voted as follows at tho Prestdential electlon of 1870 ! Rej 670 Foarth,. Elghteenth | Ninoteenth 14/ Twentioth... 8no| ‘Total,,. Fourteentl, Firteentl, Bixteenth eroare thirtoen districts given totho minor~ ity party aud seven to tho majority party! And yot those cheating bulldozors have the cheuk to prate about * Florida frauds ™t ———— The newspaper Item has as many lives as a cat and as many forms as Proteus. A few weeks ago Tus Trinuns invented o story about tho verdant missionary In Texas who proached about the might aud mojesty of the roaring lion to a cougregation which had coppered tho bull at the last lon-bull fight, and his sad fato, It had avery succeseful ruy, ana duly canto back to Chicago to be copled inta the Zimes. Then the Mlssionary News copled {t and ft sct out on {ts rounds axain, credited to that plous paper, Lringing up inally fo the New York Sun, whero 1t was scen by the fuunv man of the New York Q'tuies, Who retold 1t ot the length of a column, Behald ¢, therefore, on ts rounds once more, liablo at any moment to be expanded Into a three-nct burlesque ora comfe book, But we tremble at tho thought of the Saturday Review's article on *“ American Civitization " when'that tein gota over to England. ———————— Tho Cinclunatians voted -down a proposition to give two milllons tmore of bands to completo thelr Bouthern Railrond to Chattanouga. The proposition was defeated on account of dissatis. {fuctlon with some particulars In tho blil. The Leglstature, beforo adjouralng, passed another bill omitting the olmoxious provisions. The clty has aiready Invested sixteen milions of Londs in the enterprise, and it wiil requiro two moroe to finfsh it. Soys tho Commerclat: 'The people of Cincinuati wlll, therefors, sooner or later huva an apportunity to reconsider the vote ot *4iitack Friday,* ae it wcalled, The majority o tho lnst vota wans ao sinall that It 18 thought on o wecond trial 1t will bo reversed oy a large majorl- tys particuturly av it becomve apparent ghat with. out tho money the Nouthorn kalicoad cannot vither bo dahed or put in a condition for an advantaga- ous lcase, o ——— When Cassivs M. CLAY wasin New York o fow days ugo hie was luterviowed by a Sun re- porter, aud talked thus blautly: +*\Vhat 1a your oplnlon of the Porren fnvestiga. tlon reevlutiont™ **Waell, Llavzshas given usof the Bouth what wo expected from TiLOEN, — ‘homo rule,’ There- furo, 1 suy to our people that, having got what they wunt from 1aves, thoy shouin not now toss bini back [nto the hands of CauEnoN and CoNks LING for thom to hendlo, Desiles, 7 think that they ayreed to slund by the guma of chance, and bn ood fulth ought to do so [referring to thé Eloctoral ‘ominission], 1llv pollcy has madu the South strorg and peaceful, * I oxpect to sve the country guverned by Southurn en and influonce largely, now that our troublos huve been romoved, becausa ‘Wo a1o mure homozenenns than the people of ihe North, We have no Jecobinlem there, © Men fole low un Jusug wore compactly, while at the Norih they are divided luto factlons, partivs, and schlams," —————— Tlho Alton Dsmocrat does not beltove In re- peal of the Resumption act whon paper {3 withiu balf o ceut of coln n value, It dofends Cougressman MORRISON, who opposes the ro- peal. Bays tho Democrat in relation to the Beventeenth Congressional District: | It 1s ldlo for v, WaLkxu toasy that no Demo- crat can consstently supuort Me, Moiwmox be. canse tbe Lemocratic Btate E.‘"um demands the nncenditional repeal of the Husumption act, Plat- furms ore not wfallible; sud, 10 Mr, Moumisox snd tho SpringGold platforus differ, the question for evory pnn to doterminy ”L > Which s rightr” Wo unbesitatingly ductare that on thin question of speciu resumption Mr. Mouuisox is right, and the atforus wroug, snd we go further dud say that r. MonigoN comed nearer representiug the Demacratic party of INinuis upon this question thau dues the declaration of the Democratic State Convention, oy Tho New Orleans Democrat thiuksit is coward- 1y,. ungensrous, oad unmauly for Northern Papera to eritielso Sury Davis' “uoble leter, read at the laylog of the coraer-stong of the Confederate monument {n Macon, Ga. Jxry Davis blself, it says, Is *the grandeat and wost couslitent champlan of civil liberty tho ago hos produced.” Thokigd of “clyilliberty tuat Jury “champloved” was tha extension aud perpetulty of humanslaverv—the curso and alsgrace uf the mation—and tho * liberty ™ to ‘seeedo from the Union and dismember it, The War forthe preservation of tho Unton, Jxry in Jids letter called “ @ war wagod for thorobbes-lke-| vurpose of cononast.” aud tha slayeholders’ rebeflion he called * o war to repol Invason,n Thera would have heen no **invason™ if 1y slave oligarchy had not attempted to drstroy the Unton under the leadership of this molf, same JEFP DAVIR. “Buch was the Wart py says, *fn whioh our heroes fell. We breseny them to posterity as examplea to be fullientn Those heroes fell In an unholy cause—the causy of human bondage and dismemberment of the Republic. The New Orleans Democrat tnag ox. pect to find ail such “noblo lettera? criticlseq in all Northern papers that are not Copperheag or flunky. ——— Jrrr DAvis, says the Now Orleans Democrat, speaking of his “nobls letter” on 4hn oceaston of the laying of the corner-stono of tha Mucoy Confederate monument, Is “'the grandest aud most conslstent chamolon of civil liberty the ago has produced.” Wa nominate the editor of the New Orleans Democrat for tho French op Qerman misslon, or at least a Post-Ofce, when JErr is elected Prosident. Bon Toostns, ae Chalrman of the Senate Committee 1 Forcley TRelattons, will report favorably on the noming. tlon, and it will go through the Benato like g hot knife throuzh a roll of butter. Thus wiy virtue be rewarded. e ——e— ‘The Pope’s Encyclieal, whose tone has heeneg Qlsappolnting to folk who fancied that u Lin ecral Cardinal would of nocessity bo a Libers) Pope, is declared on good authority to have ug. dergone materfal changes In those passages which concern the Temporal Power. As nt firsg drafted snd approved by Cardinal Frascn ang others it tended towardsa rzcognition of the natlonal sentiment and unity of Italy, but thy views of Cardinal Lunooutowsity and hia ety provalled, and the letter was altered ro nsto nssert tho absoluto nocessity of tho carthly do. minlon for tho free exerclss of the splritual offtee. ————— ‘The Charleston News and Courler, alluding to the roport. that DAN Voonirass is toaceomnpany WADE HAMPTON to the reunlon'of Hoon's Brlx. ade at Houston, Tex., says that these men do not hunt In couples—that DA s “a nolay, rantiug demagogne.” That is pretty rough on Dax, but he need not sorrow, Eveu o trented they the Northern doughfaces which were bee fore hig. One rellglous paner in the country Is enter. prising,—the Freeman's Journal,—which re. colves a regular cablo telegram from Romo cvery week, May it always lave better Juek than It had whon it announced the complete re- covery to health of the lato Popoon tho day that ho died! About two Congresses from now, If every- thiug goes well, 1t will be the correct thing for somo Southern member to Introduce a bill to convert tha WASHINGTON monument Into a WiLkes Boorit monument, and so fuish it one year at tho ¢xpense of the natlon, ————— ‘The opinfon of the average Northern Demo- eratic cditor concernfug the Southern wing of hils party is that segaclously formed by tho Ia- mented A. Waup: “J, Davia,” sald the wiso showmnan, *“tho Sunny South! s making an egreglous mutton-head of herself,” ——ee——— Mr. CONKLING'S personal organ, the Utlea Republiean, says that *RoscoB CoNknivg knowa onouzh to hold his tongue when he ought not to speak.” And yot Ros wageed his tongua very frecly to a late editor of tho Utlea Tepubtican. ——e—— PERSONALS. Mr. Ruskin has boon complotely restored to health, Tho first Dutoh fomalo doctor has taken her degreo--3tles Alctha Jucobs, of Amaterdam, Gladstone has nccopted in o lotter of the uausl gushing sort the dedication of an anti-wsr song, **Dy Jingo." An sutobiography of Popo Leo XIIL, in Latin verse, wrltten two ycars ago, 1a printed jna German Casholle paper. ' Dandwmnnn, tho nctor, has beon held for trial on all threo counts o the Indictment charging au gssanlt on Mrs. Rousby, On tha 18th of Junoe the King of Saxony wlill celobrato hia mlver wodding at Drosden, when amonyg tho gucsts will be the Binperors of Uermany and Austrin, Threo Kings of Spaln were prosent at tho opening of the Paria Exposition,—Don Francieco W'Aesls, husband of the ox-Queen Teabella; Don Carlos, the Legithmist ciolmant; and Amadens, Duke of Aosta, # T'ho remaina of Rossini will shortly be tranaferred to Florence, and placed in the clinreh at Santa Croce, where the dust’of Michacl Angele, Dante, Alfierl, Macchiavelll, Ualifoo, aud Choras blal already ropose, Braonbridge Hemyng, who dus not blush to clalm that ko {s tho anthor of the **Jack larka« ‘way" novels, has obtalnod an Injunction froma New York court restruining tho use, by snother anthor, of tho titlo of **'Tho American Jack Hark- away." It being proposed to crect by publio sub. sceiption a monument aver the grave of Chaclotta Cushman, the Utlca derald remarks that she left over8500,000 and nade no nppropriation for monument; nor did sho Lequeath a cont for chari- table burnoses, Concluslon: the hutrs can atfurd 10 put up o woaument, Father Curci's rotraction is complote. Ha wroto the declaration retracting tho passages fn hls Dbuok which had ralvcd so much controversy, tho Pope revised it and ‘made somo changes, aud tia ex-Jeunlt signed tho docutnont without reading it, rowmarking, **Tho Pope has dolgned to write: [ have no neod to know, or even to read—1have ouly to aign," Tho second article 1 the Fortaiphtly Re. riew on **Tho Political Adventares of Lord liea- consfield™ feas scatbing and caustlca roview of that statesman's carecr as was tho first. Thoau- thor contands that the Premler’s churactor, i1 the situation which he holde, is a dangoer and deflunce to England, and o threat to the poace of the world, e afflzws that ot presont tho doctrl the personsl power fa loudly prociatmed, 8 which Qoorge 111, sirovo unsuccessfully to assert. Theso assumptions are ostentatiously set forih in courtfer-lke memoirs appesring under tho Hovsl sanction, and in political manifestoes of importaut Consceyative organs. Thoy fit In with the doc- trinos which Lord DBeaconsfield has profossed with more steadiness than auy other of his fluctuating aplulons, Csrdinsl Wolsoy wrote: **Ego et e moeus,” Lord Beuaconetiold, according to tho aue thor, makes 8 yory mear approach to a similar epotivm; and It Js o longer povsible to treat bimy with the half-contemutaous mdulgence that was once thought toba due to & political comedian, Uptill 1874 Mr, Disracli was ticatud ss a joke. In 1878, without doing & sorious personage, ho boldy very sorlous lusuos in bl hands. The su- thor, therefore, convlders it csvontial tusy men shoutd be reminded what nanuer of wun b ls, 0 whom the Engllsh peoplo, the Englivh Parlisment, and tho Quuen of Enzland have committed 8 sort of political dictatorsbip, . Ministor Taylor is thus plessantly wel comed to hlv new poat by tho Berlin corruapondent of the London News; **Tho appolutment of Mr Dayard Tayior to be American Ministerhera causca the Germans genulne satlafaction, They rogard, and justly regard, the seloctlon of a man who bad such a knowledge of the language and the countey, and suchan intelligont sympathy with tho beat sluments of tho nstionsl Jife, asw pecuilur come Pliniont, which thoy srv bound and williug o o= clprocate. With many msmbers of tho republic of lotters in nunmmyl Mr, 'l‘ly.l:‘;‘ already has & persoual acqualnlanco, whon ie arrives ho will find himaclf Introduced tn advance to the genaral resding public. "1t bes become quite tho fashion for the puwspaperd noW 1o 8l np their feuilletone with tragalativns front bis works. Ono cuterpelsing dally paper, tho 24y~ dlati, oven had two serialsof bis in progrees st ouco; sud I om bouad 1o ssy that she quality of the paper did not suttor iherofrom. Last waek 1| Ceqenwart had & long blographical skeich new Miulster, . .- . Mr, Tayior comes less di- ructly recommeaded 0 the great scholars than Mr. Bancroft; ieas cxperlenced.fn the vouttue of diplomatic work than Mr. Liancroft Davks; but o 1s bottor knows than elthor of thuse to tho grest middle clsss of Qermsuy, and cepocially the younger school of authors and thinkers, From Bl classes ho will receivea hesrty welcome, sud Lls misston will doubiless by fruitful In the best roqults "’