Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1878, Page 4

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Oame be- tween the Chicagu and Cineinnat! Clubs at 3:45 p. m. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1878, Greonbocks at tho New York Stock Ex. chaugo yostorday closed at 99} — “Tho denth is snnonnced of Jonx T. Con. conax, cx-Aldermon of the Twontieth Ward, now the Eightcenth Ward, and a Democratic politician of some prominence in local aflairs. Count Scrnouvanors reached London yesterday, but too late to obtain nn inter- view with Lord Sazspuny. It is believed that Scuouvarorr hins brought from the Czar tho concessions that will insuro an amicable odfustment botween England and Russin forthwith, ¥ An intoresting lotter from a Paris corres spondent of Tne Tninune, descriptive of tho architectural features of the Exposition, is printed this morning. For hopeless and unpardonable ugliness the Amorican build- ing is by unanimous consent awarded tho first prizo, Tho woalkness of the clerical influenco with tho present tovernment of France is shown by the fallure which attended the attempts of tho Ontholic dignitaries to in- duco tho provention by the civil authori- ties of the forthcoming celebration of the Vorrafue centennry, To their appeals for interventiod Duriune, the President of the Council, had but one answor,—that tho cele. Dration was o private affair, and tho Govern- ment had no right to intorfere Eeen——— Tho platform of the Indiana Nationals containg many inconsistoncles and absurdi. tics, but none more fnconalstont than that clauso which condomns tho building of a costly ond magnificent Btato-Iouse in Indinnapolis. Why, tho Communists ond Boclalists and Qreenbackers nnd odds-nnd-onds who make up tho Natfonal party aro otermally howling for a liberal system of publio improvements that will employ the idls labor of the coun- try—just the thing which the building of the now State-House will do. It isto bo feared that the Natlonal who wrote that ros- olution Lias private and porsonsl ronsons for disapproving of the award made to the suc. cesstul architect. e — The United Btates Circait Court at Des Moines, Ia,, yeatorday recorded its ostimate of B. F, Avrey in o muguor that must provo highly distrossing to tho faithfnl fow who have so pertinaciously refused to beliove in the rascality of tho alleged banker, The Court, Judgo Love presidiug, and Judge Dir. rox sitting ns Associate Justico and fully con. curring, ripped up tho famous ** blanket mortgago” as an instrumont deliberately dovised nnd deawn up to defraad ALnen's oreditors; declared that the firm of Avve, Sreruens & DBressengasserr started s bank in Now, York without a dollar of cap- ital; und that AnLeN was insolvent before Lo wunt o Chbicago. 'The attempted oxemption of the Jown homostend was sot aside with rewarks strongly iotimating perjury ‘aud fraud, and in o goneral way the Des Molnos ex-capitaliat was shown up in his true light. — The report of tho Commiasion appointed to examino tho work of constructivg the Chicogo Custom-House building is mado public this mornlng. In the lotter of Col. lector Bantu to the Becrotary of the Treasury tho couclusions of the Commission aro forci. bly epitomized in the sentence: * From the beginning to the present timo there has been the most shameless disregard of publio inter. cats, and tho coustant adoption of adrolt methods for robbing the Treasury.” The Col. lector, in his customary blunt and foarless fashion of putting things, does not hesitate to declare thiat thero aro ovidences of crim- inal collusion between tho contractor and the Government ofileers who were intrustad with the duty of proventing the robbery thoy aided in, With this, conclusion tho readers of ‘I'ue Toisune who kept track of the de- velopents ducug the investigation will Leartily agree ° ———— Speakor RANDALL ot Pittsburg este made a somowhat peculiar dec;uu‘inzm to"h ni interviower concerning the purposa of the pastisun investigation by Porren's Commit- toe. AMr. Hasvaru scouted as idiotio the jdea of any intention to unseat Hayes, and promisud that the Cowmittes would in three weeks’ time * crystallizo the evidence we bave all been familiar with since its pube lication," for the purpose of placing it upon record. It will not exactly satisfy the coun- try to know that all this cxcitement and un- certainty, this absolute suspension of busi. vess in the House for five days, has for its object simply the orystallization of *ovi. dincs we are all fariliar with.” The people did not demand and will not spprove of this rehashing of the testimony of self-gonfesscd perjurers,—aven supposing Speaker RAx- DALy to be correct in his statoment that this 18 all that is aimed at,—and will be vory apt to *crystallize” their condemnation of the job into a form that can ba dropped through tho small opening of a ballot-box. seee————— Tha debate in the Houso yesterdsy upon tho bill which proposes a rednetion of the army was exceedingly interesting on account of the firm stand taken by the Texas Dem- ocratsin opposition to the reduction. Messrs, BouLrionen, Mirrs, and THROCEMORTON Pro- tested sgainst a policy which would leave the dwellers along the Rio Grande border 6 proy to the incursions of Mexican raidors, only to be mot by the cool propo- sition from Mr. Bmmors, of Pennsyl vanis, that the Moxican Governmoent be held responsible for such incursious, aud if they were mnot preventod war should be declared and the Mexican Republic gobbled up by the United Btates in slices. The Democratio plan in refersnce to Mexico scems to bo to raducoe the army in order to Lring on n war, and then incroase it to fight a war that might have beon averted by a few extra companies of cavalry to patrol the Toxss border, Mr. Wniant, Democratio candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, courted tho favorof the Communists and Mollio Maguires by the dishonest assertion that Fedoral troops wore more a dlmndo than o help in suppressing the riots of last yenr,—a slatement thet overy intelli- gent man, woman, and child in Ponnsyl- vanin knows to bo a deliborato falschood. Mr. Conn, of Indiana, was convicted of o similar disregard of truth in denying that Gov. WitLiaus called on the President for assistance in quelling the riots in that Btato, a8 was shown by o telogram from the Gov- crnor applying to tho President for Federal nid, which Gen, GARFIELD promptly eent to the Clerk’s desk and had road. If tho Texas dolegation stands firm, and the Ropublicans presont a solid front, with the exception of Durees, thero is an excellent prospeot that the roduction will be dofeated. but exacted by the Iaw. Mr. Porrxa's Com- mittes of Rovolution will soarcely dare to deny Socretary Smenaay foll opportnnity for dofonso and attack ; if thoy do, they will only make a bnd sitnation a good deal worse. Public opinion has already boen formed on this one-sided investigation, and indi. vidual diselnimers will not change it. Tho tona of the newspapers; tho expressions of ‘businesa men ; the warning letters that have Teen sont to Washington; tho universal de- siro for peace; the univorsal protest agninet agitation; the piddling statesmanship of the Democrats 1n Congress; the American love for fair-play ; tho popular respect for con. stitutional methvds, and the holy horror of Moxican mothods,—all thosa hava nlrendy united the poople in condomning this monace of revolution. Aninvestigation which starts out upon the basis of forged letters and the testimony of self-convicted rascals, and then refuses to lLear the other sida of the case, could not command the sympathy of tho American people under dny circumstancos; but, when it Is designed morcover to inaugu- rato a revolutionary procseding that would ovontually destroy the Americnn Republio, {t can only rosult in tho dofest und disgrace of tho party responsible for it. DEMAGOGUES AND THE ARMY, The debatoon the Army bill is developing much rampant demagogism in the House of TRepresontatives. The ponding bill is to re- duce the army to 156,000 men from the presont number of 22,000, On this subjoct thie Democratic demagogues ara endeavoring to make political eapital by denonncing tho cmployment of Federal troops to restore order and commerce during tho rallrond riots last year, and insisting that thero shall bo no national police this year to bo used for any such purpose. Conspicpous among {heso blatant brawlers is Bex Burier, who cxpocts to bo o candidate for Govornor of Massachusetts this fall on the Communist ticket, Ono of the great diffloultios in forming tho National Union was the comparative helplessness in which it would leave tho soveral Btates, which would havo neither anny nor navy for defenso. To have o National Government with each Btate having a soparate army and navy would be fatal; 8o the Constitution, whilo prohibiting tho keoping of troops or navy by any State in time of peace, also provided that the United States shall protoct each Btato against invasion, and, on the application of the Legislature or of the Governor, shsll pro. toct such Stato ngainst domestic violence. Two things were thus provided: first, that tho only army should bo the national troops, and that the jUnited States sssumed tho obligation to furnieh cach Stato with nrmed polico to suppress any domestio violence, tho Stato Government to dotermine whon tho services of such national police should bo nooded. To roduce the army to 15,000 men on paper, which practicolly means 12,000 effective men, and scattered among 204 posts, is to put it out of the power of tha Presidont to carry out his constitutional obligation to the Btotos, Thore is no instance of tho Fedoral troops by orderof tho President being om- ployed in nny State, in timo of poace, to quell disordors, without tho provious ro. quost of tho State suthorities; and during the long term of disturbances, last year, and in all provious years, where natioual troops have rendored sssistance to the State, there Ly boon no time whon it has "boen noces- sary for such troops to fire n gun or take human life. Thoir interforonce hns nlways been confined to tho restoration and pros- crvation of penco, As such troops canuot be employed in o Stato excopt at tho requost of tho Stato Government, thore can be no fonr of any usurpiug ocoupation of any State Ly any vational military forco, In point of fact, thoy becomo, at the State’s domand, a part of the police force of the State. ‘When Bex Buries, and Apg Hewrrr, and the othor dirty demagogues in Congress, pro- test that ** the army shall bo so roduced that no portion of it shall bo,employed to put down mon who atriko for botter wages, and who aro the victims of tho grasping tendoncy of capital," thoy are guilty of inviting crimes and disorders and of perpetuating ignorance which Is as disgraceful to them ns it 13 to the goneral intelligenco of tho class thoy profess to befriond. Wo have nover heard of any intelligent man objecting to the moral® or lo. gal right of nuy person, or number of per- sons, striking for wWages, or rofusing to work it ho did not want to, for any cause. How- over foolish a strike may be at certaln times, wo never heard of any * capitalist " who favored the omployment of forco or of any legal mensuro -to provent the atrike or compel men to work against their will, The groat strike of tho railvay men last year was, so far 88 it was confined to a ro- fusal on the part of those who struck to work, entiroly logitimate, though for n time it mrrested the commerco of the country. DBut whon those men who did strike, and thoso who sympathized with them, resorted to force and violonce to prevent other men from working, then they were guilty of that injustice and crime for which there can bo no spology. For cvery rallway man who struck, there were 100 other men, represont- ing as many . familics, suddenly deprived of employment and the means of living. Tho ioterruption of business, the stoppage of operation In many othor brauches of pro- ductive labor, was of incalculable loss to the laboring men who had no occasion or desiro to strike, The interruption of Iabor, and the supremaocy of disorder ovor law and authority, was a signal to the eriminal class oud Communists to 4nfage in their voca- tions, and pillage, and arson, and personal violence, and arnned usurpation of suthority, followed with theirr costly results. The State Governments of Wost Virginia, Mary- land, oud Penusylvania weregutterly powor- lers for such an emorgency. Their State polico and militin wero wholly ineffective, and were openly dorided and fired upon by tho mobs. Those States appeslsd to tho Presidont for protection under the Constitu- tlon, which demand he obeyed. The mere presenco of a fow companics of rogular troops in each Stata at the points of disturb- auce restored order, onabled men to go to work, renowed labor in the mines and at the furnaces, fn the mills and at the factorics, ond put the wheels of trade and commerce in operation all over the land, Who are those intorested fn labor? The one class have capital, which they fuvest in ‘buildings, machinery, materials, and in funds to pay wages. Another clasy, having uo cap- ital, aro those who. contribute labor in ex- change' for wages. And the third olass, which includes moro than halt the poople of the country, are the agricultunsts, THE MENACE OF REVOLUTION. Some of the Democratic members of Con- gress are making individual efforts to remove tho impression that the PorTen investigation is not designed to *‘crowd Harea out of office,” 'Theso are the mon who, in tho light of publio opinion alrendy oxpressed, have como to agreo with Arxxanpen II. Breeuexs, who daclared ot tho very outset that the mpvement was not only unfair but impolitie, and would bo bad for the Democratio party. Mr. Monnisox, of this State, antious to save his skin nt tho next Congressional election, is very emphatio in disclaiming any rovolu. tionary purpose; Lo voted for the Pottery, but feels protty sure that tho Soventeentlt Illinois District will never return any man to Congress who furthers or sanctlous the Mexicanization of our Government. Many others, especially among tho Bouthern mem. ‘bers who are beginning to hear from home, are equally solicitous to froo thomeelves from the suspicion of supporting a cabal that has rovolution in view, But these individual disclaimors will not now pass for anything but what they really are,—personal, selfish, nnd cowardly attempts to escapo punishmant for participation in a rovolutionary pro- ceeding, Tha renl purposo of the Porren resolution isknown, Tho Democratic majority rofused toappend to the rosolution n pledge that there wns no intontion to disturb President TAyes, when such a plodge was demanded by Casex Youxa, of Memphis, Tenn, They refused to admit the resolution offered by Mr. Hawe, of Maine, which wiloned the scopo of the investigation o as to include Domocratic frauds. The ndmission of such ovidence would have made room for an offsot of frauds whicl would have dofented their denigns on the Prosldonoy. They rofusad to admit that impeachment was the object in viow, bocauso this was tho only lawful way of reaching Hayes, and it would fail, Thero romains, then, the singla purpose of declaring by resclution, after a one-sided and probably perjured jvvestigation, that Haves and Wueeres ‘wero not elected, thia to be fol- lowed by tho rccognition of Tipexy and Hexpricxs, and then civil war. If the Por- Ten investigation, under these circumstanoes, bo not a threat of ravolution, then it is ridic- ulonsly aimlosa, Invostigation cannot be the purpose. It that wore the case, tho Democrats would hiave given a goneral ang official assurance thore- of ; tho protonsa would not merely-be set up by a fow scared politiciana . fearful that thoy will not bo re-clected. Mero investigation fs unnecessary in Louisiana, since Monrisoy, who was Chairman of the Committeo which iuvestigated that Btato after tho election, snya that nothing new can be discovered there. Tho pretended now cvidence from Florida does not warrant a new investigation in that Stato, because the new witnesses are fwpeached by their own words. Every ono of them—AlcLry, DexNis, SeLxmz—has ns. cribed tho usual motive of tho disappointed office.gooker for his so-called ** confossion.” ad theso fellows boon taken caro of, they would not havo spoken, Thoy were all cheap men; every one of thom would have been sutisfiod with a place worth $800 or $1,000 ayear. Mad thera been anything to sup- pross—any guilty knowledgo on the part of Ifaves, Burnaan, or any othor part of tho Administration—all thesa * squealers” would lave bsen hnshed by Govermment employmout. The fact that their * claima" were jguorod or rojocted, along with thele own admissions that negloct had brought out their protended revelations, sufiiclently attest the worthlessnoss of thoir testimony, Fiual- 1y, had investigation been the sole aim of the moveutent, the -Democratio mafority would not have resisted so obatinately the domand for a full and thorough iuvestiga. tlon; publio indigoation st the one-sided, partisan investigation would not have boen risked it thero wero not some deaper dosign in the background. The blow s aimed at President Haves, ‘The investigation will not start out by strik. ing so high, but it is intended .to reach the Presidential office by smirching some of the wmen who are nearest to it. Sucretary Smxs. aan, and Minister Noveg at Parls, have been singled out as the Arst victims, Both theso gentlomen strike back. - Minister Noyes de- wands by cablo the right to be hoard, and both ho and the President give tho broadest and most couvincing denials of any connection with any fraud whatever, and of any and every slleged proffer of Gov- cernment omployment in cvousideration of corrupt or jwproper party service. Becre- tary Buzeyuan not merely denies the charges brought against bimn, but arralgus Porrzs 6ad his susoclates for their complot. He is prepared not only to establish his own jono. | who own their own capital and cence, but also to prove with proper facili. | perform their = own labor, Whon tied that there were the very elements of | men vole to disband the army to violenco and intimidation in East and West Feliciana Pariahes which wero alleged; that the protests were trus, and that the Return. ing Board's action was not only warranted | prevent the National Government from aid. ing the Btates to proserve the peace, protect property, and enable men working for wages to continuo at work, and to suppress domes. \ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1878, tia violencs, in whose behalf do they speak ? Thero are many hundreds of thousands of men now out of employment, and in receipt of no wages. IHave these men no rights on- titled to protection? If all of them were offered work to-morrow, wonld it not bo oruel a8 woll as infamous to permit them to be shot down nnd maltreated for attempling to earn the meansof living for themselves and fami- lies? Wonld not society fall into n state of anarchy if the right of men to employ and bo employed and to work for wages that thoy need wna jncapable of protection, and ench was only permitted to labor at the disoretion of an armed and irresponsiblo mob such na lield Pittaburg last July ? The enpital that is invested in buildings, mines, machinery, and matoriale, and in tho wages funds, is ns ossential to the working- man who has no capital as is his own strength. Without it he hns no shop, no tools, no machinery, and no wages. The attempt, therefore, of these demagogues to nrray popular hatred aogainst omploying capital is an oppeal to stolid ignorance. It assumes that the man who has no money must treat the man who employs him s an onemy. It ignores the faots that the employer who oarns tho grentqst profit can employ the great- ost number of workmen, and can pay the grontest wages; and that Lo who wars against employed capital wars for the reduo- tion of tho number of employed men, and for the reduction of wages by destroying the menns of employing and. paying for work. No one knows theso things better than Bur- ren and Hewrrr, both.of whom aro wenlthy men, and yot for moro electionoering capital they nappesl to tho assumed ignoranco of workmen, and endeavor to array the em. ployed against the employing clasa. Agalinst these demagogues ate, and always must be, opposed the great conservative farming population,—the poople who own their own capital and perform their own la- bor, When tho mobsand tho criminal class arm themselves and undortake to dictate to. the mon on the farma that no owner of land shall labor, that he shall only Lire those who are permitted by o mob to be employed, and that such persons shall only work the num- ber of hours, and shall be pnld the wages fixed by'somo irresponsible body, it is prob- nblo this farming population will bo heard from, rebuking the demagogues who insist thoro shall bo no polics suthiority exercised in this oountry, nnd that all pegsons and proporty shall be deprived of Governmental protection and bo subjected to mob rule, mob violence, and to the juatico that Is nd- ministered by the torch, tho bludgeon, and the ravolver, THE WATER-COVERED LANDS IN ILLI NOI8, ‘Wo have rapoatedly called attontion to the appropriation asked by tho representatives in Congress from the SBouthern States for the construction of levees on the Lower Misals- sippi River. It is variously estimated that tho nocessary lovoos will ba 2,000 milos long, the cost for their original construction £300,000,000, and will cost 10 per cont of that sum nonually to keep thom in ropair, It is estimated that this work will onnblo owners of the lands now subject to overflow* to reclaim thom, and that the products of those lands—cotton, sugar, ete.—will bo add- ed to tlio annual genernl wealth of the country, and be boneflcial to the peoplo of ovory section. Wo have before us a map, propared and published by a committes of Cougross, which shows that the country on both sides of tho Misslsaippi River Lolow Cairo, for many miles on ench side, I8 in. cluded in the lands which it is proposed to roclaim at tho cost of the United Btates. Thore has boon just {ssued by the State ofticors a table showing the number of ncres of land in tho State of IMinois which aro overflowed or 80 undralned as to be unculti. vated lands as rich as nny on the Mississlppi River, but which avo virgin to the plow, be- o of overflow, or bocnuso so low that they remnin under wator all the year round, This tablo is interesting, Tho wholo num. ber of acres of this kind of land in Illinofs ia 1,818,096, and is conflued to no parts of the State. Thot ita valuo may bo understood, wo give the fgures of some of the countlos, giving no countles except those whore the numbor of acres exoced 20,000 : Countle a82iLeo, 211 Livf 8, 810/ Logan. . ),gjfl Mclenry, 21| McLean' Koukakeo.ses + Knoxon oo The tablo also gives tho prosent product- ive valuo of theso lands in each connty, and the productive valuoof the samo lands it dralned or protected from overflow. Of courso the prosont valuo is°mostly nominal, Tho figures given for Pike County will suf- fico for illustvation. The wet or submorged land in that county containag 101,648 acros, haviug @ presont value of $1 per acre; the valuo of tho same lands if drained will aver. age 837 per ncre, adding $3,710,152 to the list of taxablo proporty of the county, The 1ain port of these wat lands lio in the great corn belt, though many counties produco both wheat and corn. * The corn-producing «ountios suffer badly. from these wet and overflowed lands, In 1876 some of theso counties had under oultivation in corn the following number of acros: of acres Champal, Chllllhl‘l‘.‘ Tzoquols.., Kankakeo. In these same oountios thero are over 225,000 sores of tho bost corn land in the United States incapable of cultivation be. cause of being covered with water, Tho lands, like thoso along tho Misaiuslppi River, are private property, and, belng ocovered with water, have no productivo value, It reclaimed, thoy would bo worth 830 an acra, and yleld greater profits to their ownors than any land Lotween Cairo and tho Texss line, The peoplo of Illinols, howover, Loing old. fashioned ia thoir unotions,,alwsys poying their own debts, building thelr own houses and fences, aud gonerally bearlng all the expenditares to improve their own lands and stock, building their own roads, aud keeping them in repalr, have, af. ter various efforts, obtained a geueral law wheroby the peoplo of.any distriot may, at thelr own cxpense, 50 construct a system of drainsge aud protection that they can reclaim these nearly two millions of acres now uuder water, Just as rapldly as the machinery of tbe law can bo putin operation, and the arrangementy can be made so adto protect every person sgainst paying any more than his proper share of the cost of the improve. ment, this work will be pushod fo comple- tion. That, wo say, has been the intention o3 well as the continuous practice of the pooplo of Ilinols. But if the General Gov- ormnment is to begin the paternal work of improving the farming-lands of somo six or oight States, espacially by draining tho over. flowed lands and ereoting petmanent pro- tection from high water in the future, thon it is possible that tho owners of these water- covered lands in Illinois will ask to share in the patornal benevolence and providenco of Oongress. Alongside of Iilinois s the State of Indians, with several milliona of acresof land which might be reclaimed and made valuable, but which are now value- legs. Wisconsin and Minnesota may have afew millions also of private land which can bo reclaimed, and which the people of thosa States may propose to reclaim at their own cost. Why not include them all in genoral bill, hike tho River and Harbor bill for inatance, nud havo all the low lands in the country drained, and oll the high-water dygked out? Inorder to eqnnlize the bene- fits to nll sections alike, the Btates that have lands which are valucless for the want of water, such as tho western parts of Kan- sas and Nobraska, and California and Colora- do, as well a3 many of the Territories, should ‘o supplied with n complote system of irri- gation. Owners of land that i incapable of cultivation becanse of n scarcity of water havo as strong clnims for Governmontal aid 0s hava the owners of land which is afilioted with too much water. To build levees on the Misslssippl River will require an expenditurae of $300,000,000. To drain the water.covered lands in linols wiil cost the people of this Btata $35,000,- 000, but would cost tlife Governmont $70,- 000,000. It will only require tho issue of tbat many mors bonds, and, on tho princi- plo that bonds do not cost anything, why shonld the people of Illinois tax thomselves $05,000,000 whon, by uniting with tho people of the Lower Mismssippi, the owners of land on tho Missouri River, the Red River, tho ‘White River, the Green River, tha DBlack River, the Wisconsin River, Cumberland and Tonnesseo Rivors, tho ¥Ynzoo, Arkansas, and all othor rivors, and the ownors of oll tho wator-covorod lands, including those of North Coroling and Florida, have n gencral appropriation of bonds, so ns to reclaim, lavee, fonco in, and othorwise put in o high stato of cultivation all the unproductive lands of the country? That would bo ox- ponsive in bonds, but it wounld be magnifi- cent] It would evince the grandeur and richos of a paternal Governmont, and wonld odd to the atiractions of tho Ropublio that of abonovolent Government putting and keeping overy maow's farm in ordor, sup- plying it water when too dry, and ecar- rying off the wator when too wet. Wo com. mend the drainago of the low lands of Illi. nois to the Representatives in Congress from this Btate, that when the lovee bill is to be ennoted thoy secure an appropriation for drainage in this Btate, say of $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 of bonds, HEWITT'S IGNORANOE, In tho debate the other day on the Army Appropriation bill, Mr. Hzwirr, of New York, nsserted that ¢ Communism never had o footing in tins land, ond nover would have.,” If Mr. Hzwitr is ns ignorant as the first part of the above sentence that we have quoted indicates, in rogard to what has nl- rendy happened, it isnot surprising that he should proceed to toll us what will ocour in tho future. Tho same papor that prints Mr, Hewrrr's speach also publishes a dispatch from St. Louis, of which tho following is the substancos Inanswer to acall addressed to the working- men who had gecn mllitary servico, oither In this country or ln I‘Iumre. botwaen 300 and 400 men miet at Torner Hall last might. . . ., Aue ug culled the meoting to order, and stated the object to be to tnko étaps towards the organizatiun of ‘milltary companies, to bo comnosed excluslvely of workingmen who were military veterans, to aorve the purposcs of workingmea and Erolecl them sgainst oncroachment on thelr righits by mil. itary and polico forces which have beon srrayed againat them in the attitude of ontlaws. Heveral epeeches of the usual Soclalistic and Communistic cglucur were made, @ great dea® of enthusiasm manifested, and some 250 enrolled as the army of workingmen, ‘These men have 2ot no arms, and, 80 far as known, 1o me havo been devisod to Ernenm them. Thoy , however, in all proba. ility, purchase guus as Individuals, nud cominenco to drilt ut once. : It arecruiting office hod boen opened in 8t, Louls for the purpose of enlisting veter- ons to cnter the United Btates army, and after being properly advertised the rocruit. ing officer had scoured ten men the first dny, he would have congratulated himeelf upon the successful inauguration of the enter- priso; but hero are throe or four hundred Boclalista who respond to the call ‘‘at tho fivat tap of tho drum,” and 360 of them, the dispatch states, enrollod thomsclves ns soldiors under the' Workingmen's banner, These mon are not raw recruits, mark you, but such as * have scon service, cltherin this country or in Europe "; and consequent- ly are rveady for businoss at a momont's notice, without sny drilling or tralning. Any old army officer will toll Mr, Hewirr that 250 veterans are worth moro than 1,000 nowly- enlisted mon for. immediate sorvice, A soldier cannot bo made in aday. A brave man may face death without flinching, but potriotism is one thing and the ability to per- form oll the duties of a soldfer in an officiont mauuer, when the supremo mo- ment for ekillful and declsivo notion arrives, is quito amothor. If Mr, Hrwirr thinks Communlsm has not already got a strong foothold in this country, Le is mistaken; and if ho thinks it will be discouraged by such speeches as ho made in Congreus last Baturday, he is also mistaken. If the first call in Bt, Louls Lrings togethor 260 vet- orans,—tho nucleus of un army that no one will nffect to despise,—~other calls and other, meelings oy add fmmensoly to the number of theso trained meon, whoso objoct is, ac. cording to tho statements of Mr. Awmaxiy, “lo protost themsolves against encroach. ments on thelr rigts by military aud police forces,” In othor words, if s strike -is agreced upon, and the loaders docide to take the men off a certain railroad that may not have accoded to their domands os to an increass of pay, and stop tho trains, theso veterans aro organized to resist *‘the oncroachment of military sud police forcos ” which may be arrayed against them for the onforcemont of tho laws, to protect property, or to keep the poaca. To tho simple comprehension of a loyal man who has boon trained in the line of law and ordor, this moeting at 8t. Louls, in ita spirit, proceedingy, and jntent, was as noaran overt ack of treason or conspiracy agalust the Government aa it is posutble for men to got ond yet miss the mark, Tho military and tho police are not an sggregation of private persons doing business by the job for indi- vidual profit, but they are the executive of- ficers of thg law; their uniform is the in- signia of authority, and to resist them in the exercise of their legitimate duty is to defy the sovereign authority of the realm, to spurn peace and good order, and to invoke tho spirit of chaos, disorder, snd anarchy. ‘With procisely the same propriety the burg. lars and thieves of Bt. Louis might arm and drill to resist the encroachinentsof the po- lico force upon their right to ply their nefarious trade whenever thoy please to pur- suo it. The principle of resistance to tho logally-conatituted anthoritios lies at tho foundation of both propositions, and is equally fatal to both. A striker is worso than n burglar, bocause tho former openly inciten riot and doflos tho law, while the lat- tor modestly seoks the shelter of darkness for his unholy deeds, and hides his bad ex- amplo a8 well ns ho can from the sight of his fellows. But let us come back to tho illogical statemonts and unstatesmanlike viewa of Congrossman Hewrrr., He eald, It Communism should brenk ont, the Pres- ident is authorized to coll out the militia.” And so, if tho Asintia cholera breaks out, we can call out tho doctors. But provention in oither cnso is infinitely bottor than oure,— for Communism and cholera are malignant disenses that aro suro to bring violent or sudden death in their trail, and the judicions courao i to gnard ngainst tho outbroak of both, A standing army within ansy reach acts npon tha body politic as any wholesome sanitary regulation does upon the social sys- tem, allaying tondencies to Irruption nnd dis- sipnting polsonous gases by tho introduction of healthy elomonts. At Pittsburg Inst July wo had a benutiful specimen of the ofliciency of the militin to quell a riot, The trouble: is that half of the militia ia in sympathy with the mob, and the Intter know it, and avo thereforo mot rogarded ag dangerous customors. A Sherifl's posse, composoed of the friends and intimate ‘acquaintances of a lot of rioters, will not do much damago to the men with whom thoy oxpect to nssociate as noighbors after the cxcitement is over. Mon who own proporty that moy turn to nshes undor the touch of the incendiary’s torch, when lighted by the spirit of rovenge, will bo alow to take upon themselves tho responsibility to vindicato tho majesty of the law by quelling riotous pro- ceedings. . ITenca the vastsuperiority of the soldiers of the regular army in suppressing domestio violence ; and lence the nbsoluto folly and madnoss of attempting to reduce the army to tho point of worthlessness under the demagogue'splea of oconomy. It is not econo- my, but in tho end it will prove to be the most wastoful and unjustifinble prodigality. And yot tho schemo to reduco the army is ominently Democratio. HOW THE GAME WAS PLAYED, Bhortly after the prescntation of Brain's Maryland memorfal to, *Investigate’ Harzs, the New York Herald procured {nfervlews with all the Democratic members then in Washing- ton, and published two or threo pagea of their vlews. Moro than three-fourths expressed de- cided opposition to the purpose of the Bram memorial and to nll attcmpts to reopen tho Presidential questlon, yot, s the flerald now remarks— These same gentlemen, who publicly washed their hands of complicity with any moyvement Jooking 1u_that direction, snstalned Mr, Porren daring the protracted dead.lock of 1ast woek and voted for hia resolution, This remarkable change of front by so many Democratic members 18 a po- Iitleal phewomenon” which excites curlosity and requires explanation. Why has such a muiticude of Democratic Congressmen an suddenly changed round? What has Induced them to' nct agafnst heir rocent convictions on o subject of so anch Importance? The Iferald then proceeds to answer its own questions, based upon what its Washiogton atatf have been able to flud out. 1t says: that syatematlc coercion has been practiced by TiLpeyN's agents npon the Demo- cratic membe 'They woro industriously threat- encd with the wrath_of thele constituents if tho farled to too the mark in this investigation, 1f {t asked how thero can bo any terror insuch threats and what power Mr, TILDEN hus to cxecuto thens, tie to bo remembored that new Congress- {onal electlons tako pinco this year, and that tho thoughts of mombers are occupied with their chances for renounnation, Thers {s hardly a man awoug them that has not an aspiringz Democratic nval in his own district who would glad! supplaot him. Mr. TioEN's Ctstill hune 't haw extonded Into all the districts, and In most of theim ho had il man salccted to ran agalnst tho present monser if tho latter kicked ayainst tho Porren resolution, This widespread acheme of Allen?mu.mlon would not havu been much res garded i 8 cunuing pian had not been concocted for rendoring it edective, It was given onl by Mr. TiLpex's emlssarive thot the Florida documents in thie hands of hiw fricuds are so startiing and ao ub- solutely overwhoeluing that nothiug will bo able to stand sealnst thum when they aro published. These furmivable pieces of evldence have been withheld frum the inspoction of the threatencd membere, who hive Luen askad to accept tho con- fdent assertlons of Mr, TiLvex's ugents, 1P the alleged Kroull aro as astounding amd dam- aging as the tools of Mr 'liLuEN assert, the inunaced Democratic members, who cling to Aheir placos, have an intelliglolo motive for folding to the threats. The Porren revolution fx en thus carried through by a tlseus of art- ful cxl¥|¢um(lolll Intended to practi pon tho fours of incmbers who are soon 1o appeal to their conatitucuts, the actunl fuvestization Is lkely to vrove a flasco, T cmluflg at doal Juse evldunce than hod been roprevented. All that s real was glven to thy public soveral weoks ago, McLix's confesslon, which causea o much excitement at Bret, has divindlod intoa vory smal aliaw, like s soap bubble which colinpaes fnto dirty When McLsn I8 summoned =zs a wiind the Porran Committes Le will bu ondy tostily 1o Democratic frauds in Florida e {0 Re- ublican frauds, forsince hisso-called confession ho Eis professed s largo knowledge of hoth, LENNis hine retreated Lo aalmilar position, And tho pros- pect is that ho will prove a bowmorang 1o the Demo- .crats when ho f6 called (0 toatity. Iesidow McLix wnd Dinyis, whuse evidenco will pour shame v tho Florlda Democrats when they aro crosd-cxsm- fned by the Repubilcan members of the Comuits ce, theru i nothing ad yot tanglblo enough to fix punlic attention, 1t 14 “asserted that there sro damuatory letters and documents, but nobody out of the narraw TiLLXN concluve has seen them, und 10 nembur of the conclaye Las said that be biss secn anything more than copies of protendgd od‘ inals, When those pretenses come 1o ba sifted will bo found thut thiere sre no original, and thaf 1he felgned copice cannot be authuuticated, t t et B Gov. Buiry, of Wisconsin, bos just returned to Madison after a protracted visit to Washiug- ton. Ha wasthere duripg tho exciting contest over the adoption of the Porren resvlutlons, und had a goud opportunity to obacrve the cur- rent of popular feeling iu regard to the proposed fuvestigation, especially nmong Ropublican members of Congress. In an futerview with o reporter uf one of tho local papers, Qov. BMiTi sald that tho real friends of the President aro not at all alarmed at the prospect, and are ready to counter any blows that the Democratlc Comimittes may give. Hu ia of the opinlon that the passago of the PorTen resolutions will serve to atlay some bitterness of feellng heretofora cxlstivg in somo quarters betweeu the Prosi- deut's party frieuds, and that the outcome of the event will bo greater uuton aud hurmony in the Hevublican rauks, - Ou the othicr haud, the headed men among tho Democrats do not Jook upun tho fovestization as like- ly to turm out to be tho big bo- vanza that it was at first thought to be, aud that its effects will be offset and neu- tralized by tho uueasy feeting that will pervade the country at the prospect of inaugurating proccedings at onco revolutionary and uppre- cedented {n our history. Uov. 8suti is & warm suvporter of President Haygs, and, fu that re- spect, antagonizes tho position of the two Sena- tors from Wisconsin, and probably we may as well add, nearly the cutirs Republicus delega- tion in Congress frowm that State. On this fssue, and becauso of his great popularity among the people, his fricads {ntend to press him as a vandidate for the United Statcs Benate next winter, = The circunstantial cyldence scems to be ace cuwulating to sbow that Matr H. Canrextsn intends to bo a caudidate befors the Wisconsin Legislature uext wuter for Jlows's seat fo the enate. Hls persunal organ 1w Mllwaukee, the Seuined, which {s under the coutrol of Matr's foymer law-partner, has recently vut out several feclers concerning such candidacy by CARPENTER, but with not very satisfuctory Teaults. But ¢ secuas that the ex-8enatorls pot content with owaing the Seatine sud Its editors; Lo nas also gobbled the News, which clauns to bo the leadiug orgas of the Demo- cratic party of Wiscousin, At lcast such sn fnfercnce is legitlwately deducible from the leading editorfal fu the News of last Bunday morofog, in which the puteucy of Carpenterism ‘in Wiscunsin politics wes expatiated upon to a degree that scewmed to be burn of more fricud- ship than is usually mavifested by a political oovouent. The chaotle conditivn of partles was duly set forth by the Newe; MaTT's tradi- tional *‘magnetism' and popularity with the masses was regarded as an important factor in the case; flowr's unpopularity was duly discussed; the facllity with which MATT mighe adapt himself to any phase of the currency queation was not forgotten; and the likelihood of a dead-lock fn the next Leglalaturo belng broken by a CamrrenTER triumph was worked out with a skill and an elaboration of detail trnly admirable. And tho aoimus of the artlcle waas still better than its faces, figures, and [m. aginary data, from the standpoint of the frienits and admirers of Mr. CARPBNTER. It would have becn considered decidedly gushing if ¢ had appeared fn the Sentinel, MATT'S Own, but inthe News, that fs supposcd to he the mouth. plece aud exponent of a great politieal party, it 1s too funny for anything, Wo areassured that the Btata Is to be thoronghly {nnoculated with the CARPENTRR virus this summer, and that the next Legislaturo will contain Republicans, Democrats, Greenbackers, and Independents whose first, only, final, and one supreme object In going to Madison next winter wiil Le to eend MaTr back to the United States Benate In place of Howe. Accorling to the News, the Re. publicans still yearn for him, the Deino- crats Ive and admira him for defending ‘TILDEN, and the Grecnbackers falrly dote on him because his vagarics on all publlc queations aro such as to make it easy and natural for him to espouso tho most absurd theory of finance, Haviog now securcd the good-will and com. mendatlon of the two principal papers in Mit- waukee, one Ropublican and ono Democratle, “bath dallles,” Mr. CARPEXTER may be eald to enter the Senatorial raco with a gnod start, hiaviog the pole, and leading all his competitora ~—if you can believo tho Milwaukee Dally News, Honace Runnee, T. O. Howe, Qov. Swira, Pmmeros 8awyer, Lucius Faircnmiup, C.C, Wasnpury, Groree W. Ariey, Judge Dyen, ex-Chlef Justice Dixos, ex-Gov. Lupiya. ToN, E. W. Kerss, Jonn B. CassADAY, aod others are yet to hear from. ———— ‘The political campaign begluneth to grow warm, as witnesscth this lst of' conventions that havo already been called: May 23—Vermont Nopublican..... Ma} S =Tennosses emos Texus De 1) 20—Varmont Nemocratic. 23—-Michigan Lemocratic 20=1ifnois fopubiicau, Ohifo Democrat! July 3~IKansas Natlonal “=Ariantas Domoch Vermont Native Amerlcan 15—Colorado Democratie. Aug. B-Loutsiana” emocratl ‘The New York Sun {s hunting up witnessea for the **Fraud hunt. It {s rcquested to call Mr. EATON, awemberof the Democratic Na- tional Central Committee. Ina recent conver- sation with llexpnicks, Mr. EatoN sald that TILDEN spent “dircetly about $250,000, though Hewrrr told mo that hoand Ep Coorsr, his brother-fo-lnw, had svent about $120,000 addl- tional, I learned nfterwards that Mr. Tilden did pay them all but about 10,000 each of the sum they expended,” ——— 1If the Democrats had known that Bocretary Buermax and cx-Gov. Noxzs, of Ohlo, had been' so much like Harkls and entircly “willln',” 1t 1s doubtful if theywould havo been g0 florco to begin thelr {nyestigation. The promptuess with which both those gentlemen came to the front and declared thelr willfogness to tell all they know has been a sore disappoitt- meut to tho Democratle fuglemen, The play of ““Hamlot " with tho part of Hamlet left out, you kuow. v 2 Tho Now York T'ribune very pertinently re- marks: The Sohd South bas cut itself off from oll claim to maguanimous treatmont for a long time to come, y its own confession Ila¥Es has done more to E-cuy and rebulld {t than TiLnzN could have done ad lie been President; and yot, at the first oppor- tunity, it turne about ond attempts to supolant 1avEs by TiLues, at the risk of throwing the wiiole country into revolntion. Aside from tha reckless dishoneaty of this conduct, it ¥ tho =llcku pecimen of ingratitude this goneration 08 se6D. § e —— ‘Tho New York Sun wants to know what i3 meaut by the Republican eharge that the Por- TER busiuess Is an effort to Mcxicanize tho Government, It osks: **Is the cxploration and defeat of frauds peculiar to Mexicot” Tho Cinclunatl Commercial replics: The Domocratic party in Mdzico does not, we belleve, do much In the investigation of **raud, " but they -In(- dispute the Frosidential election when it s ngaloat themw, and onu prutext for that Liabit Is about as wortnicus s anothior, e et That Beriptural alluston to tho Potter having powerover the clay, making diie vessel to honor and suother to dishonor, undoubtedly referrcd to Porrzr,of New York, In makinga sorry-look- fng vessel out of Congressman ITaunisoy, of Chifcago. After atl his flouudering, ho was at last soft, and pliable, and sticky uader the fushloning hand of the master, and tho Scrip- tures are fultilled, e —— A Milwaukeo mochanie has fnvented a steam velocipede that I3 to run twenty miles an hour over & common wagou-roud, MATT CARPENTER bas secured tho first ons that is to be bullt with which ne proposes to mako tho race for the Han- ato next falt, Matr will find the roads dovilish rough, and the machine lableto get out of repair. ——————— Benator COORRELL, of Missourl, was particu- larly active in tho offort to bave Gen. SuixLpy placed upon the retired list as s Brigadier-Gens eral. Can It bo that CockRuLL was actuated by o fearsthat SmBLDS may bo the Dewmocratic candldate for tho United States Senato whea CocRnELL'S prescnt term shail explro? ——e—— % Damn ArexaNpen I 8Tapisns,” siid 8 Southern Bourbon Congressman, because ho would not subport the PoTTex resolutions. In sbout o year from this date they will all cry with one accord, * Damn CLAnKksoy N, Porren.” e ———— - Wautour, of Penusylvauis, declared the other day that “thero are ouly two demagugues ln the House.,” Whercupon Uity fellows jumped upon their feet and declarod that Witaur bad used language personally offensive to thom. — All tha Domocraticparty needs is rope enough aud it will bang itself. Tho Porrzn resutus tlous will prove o blesslug in disgubo if they furnisu a considerable quantity of rope. iy = The Democratie party In Congress haa started out on a still-bunt after frauds. They whl flnd ft as the Irishman did in attcmpting to shear the hog,—more nolse than wool. ——— PERSONALS. Edison was married in 1873 to Miss Mazy Biillwell, of Newark, N.J. They have twocbil- dren—a little boy 4 years old and a littlo girl aged 2—picknamed **Dot* und **Dush," aftor the characters la the Morse alplaoet. ‘[lie late Sir Francis Goldsmid, M. P., who was killcd on rallroad-train st Londoa the other day, was the first member of tho Jewlen failh called to the English Bar, and aleo tho frst pervon of that religion who was mado s Q. C. llo was & Liberal fu politics. An observant writer says that *voryffew men can bear prosperity. It Intoxicatcs tuem, 1ike wine. 1t turus theis hoad and throws theim of their balance. Others canmot bear adversity. Thoy have no fortiude, no courage, BO Lope. They are not }ike tbo old ssilor who sald he slways felt happlest fn the hoight of & storm, because ko Luew then tbat tho next change that took place, whatover it might be, must necessarily ba for tha better. ‘They caunot realize that thero will bo any change. When the sky Is ouco clouded and over- cast thoy will mot bellove the sun will ever aulne sgala. Young men should make it & polat to keep thels heads cool under all chsuges of circum- stances, to preserve thelr equaniwity, sud ot to be unduly cluted by success oF too much cast down by dsappolutment.'