Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 4, 1878, Page 4

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1878, Groonbacks nt the Now York Stock Ex- chango yesterdny closed nt 004, ‘The Fort hil n)rbixfl;‘thu further cou. traction of legal-tender notes is now a law, tho President having signed it yostorday. The lnlnqt‘- ullwn-u;l;nlmt‘l;a»llvj\ Tost by tho sluking of the German iron.clad in the British Channel places the number at 230, Tho jury in the case of Stwnars vs. The Chicage Board of Urnde yesterday retnrned nverdict for the former, tho Anding in effect being that he 1s entitled to be reinstated as o nuember of the Board, It in claimed that excexsive valaations have boen placed by tho Sonth Town Arsevs- or upon some of tho ran! estato in his dis- triet, and the property-owners nre orgsniz- ing a movemont to rosist the disproportion. ato asscssmont. Foyansville, Ind.,, is an sspeclal sufferer by tho ncedless disturbance which the Porren rasolution Atarted. ‘The Prosident, owing to tho rovivalof political excitement, hins folt constrained to enucel his acceptance of the nvitation to bo present at tho Evansville Fourth.of-July calobration, The story comes from Bucharsst that En- gland Lins progoised 4o recognize the. fndey pendenco of Roumanin,, Thiy story {a sup- plementod with’ tho doclarntion that Row- manin will never part with any of her ter- ritory, nnd thnat tho Cnbinot of Princo Cuaures is warranted in junintaining these sasortions Ly racent nssurances rocofverd feom tho British Government, It is hardly to be supposcd, howover, that England has, on the eve of tho assembling of the Conti- nental Congress, committed horsolf in such way o8 to justify a belief in theso rumors. ‘Wo print clsowhera o lotter from Now York to the Birmingham (Eng.) Post, giving tho details of the Communistio plots in tho United States to briug nbout an uprising of the laboring classes this summer nud soize tho roilronds nnd the Governmont, Tho ptatoments {u this lotter aro snfciently alarming, Lut it mny bo observed that, sinco tho time that lotter wns written,—1st of Moy Inst,—counter-mavements have beon made to thwart the mfsmous couspiracy of theus wrotches, nud that in Chicago, as well ns in other cities, the police aud militia are thoroughly armed and ready for tho worst thoy can do. In view of these preparations, 3t is hardly possible that their leaders will be , rackless onough to unlooso tho tiger, — The weaknesy and insecurity of the hoist- ing apparatus used by the Court-Honso con- tractors formed the subjoct of n communi. cation sent yesterdsy by Architoct Eoax to il County Bonrd. These inferlor and un~ sale dorricky stand over against two of the moet crowdud streets of Chicago, Oue of them foll ou Baturday Iast, sud must hove created fearful Lavoo among pedestrians and valicles but for being caught by the tale- graph wires, 8o fortunate an cacape can. not ressonsbly bo cxpected next timo, and ‘wuless the Connty Bonrd immediately com. pels tho contractora to tako away their pros- ent ingtruments of destruction and roplace them with apparstus of proper strength, the Grand Jury should ot once condenn the der. ricks 03 dangerous and indict thelr owners The records of thu Etate Department are saul to contuin evidence which will effectual ly contredict that portion of ANpEzsox's stut-ment intended to reflect upon the Preai- dent, They will certainly havo that effect if they whow, ea s claimed, that the President proposed appointing Aspessox Cousul to Fuuchal in good faith, but, having Feceived now Jight as to Lis charaeter aud standiny, revoked the appointient provious to tho time when Awprusoy claims to have refused it. ‘Chiuds tho last appointment he received fram the President, who sccms to have shown a remarkoblo indifferonce to the conscjuences of making an euemy of so dangerous o man s ANDERGON professes to be. The President got through with bim ot on carly date,~as soon, mo doubt, es he bocawe suflicicutly informed to dlscover the differcnce botweon a protended wartye and au actual scoundrel e —— After weeks of speculation, assertion, de- pinl, and overy goxt of conflicting statement, wo bave at last something tangiblo from which the reader can get an observation and shus figure out with some small degrue of torvectuess the actualstato of political alfairy In Eurovo as effected by the Russo-Turkish controversy. We now have the officinl an- nouncement that England has accepted the invitation to tho Congress, and that that body will meot in Berlin on the 18th of the presont month, 'The text of tho invitation forwarded to the acveral Powersisnlsogivon, in which Germany gunranteos a full and freo discussion of tho San Stofano Trenty. Tho fact that Lords Beacoxsrren and Barispuar lhiave boon named as the Englisk representa- tivesto tho Congross was made the subject for quite on oxtonded dobate in the English Parliament, many members considering it unwise fo allow tho Promior and War Min- fater to ba away from tha little island at the same time, — Axpensow, the champion, Democratio wit- ness, is n thonghtless and unsystematic liar. 1fe swears before n Democratic Committee now that the protest to which his namo wna aigued is a forgery, inasmuch s the blanks were filled np with falso statoments nfter ho had signed the document. But ho swore be. fore a Deocratic Committee in Louisiaun, & yoar and a half ago, that * ho bad read over very carcfully the atatoment he had made,” and that ho *'wroto tho last clause in the statement himself.” This protest must still be in existenco, and will undoubtedly be pro- duced before the ANpERSoN case ia closed. It will either prove to bave tho handwriting of tho witness at tho last, and in whichcasa it will demonstrate thnt AxpErson has lied in hia recent statoment ; or it will havo none of his handwriting, and bear ovidence of having boen filled in by somo ono else, in which casc it will demonstrate that AnpEnsow lied in his firet statemont. In cither case, tho production of this document is bound to prove Axprnsoxna linr ; it doesn't much mat- ter whon ho lied, beeause ho sworo to both statements, and a perjurer is not rogared ns a trustworthy witness ogalnst good charne- ter. ANDERSON'S CASE ANALYZED. Tho case now beforo the Porren Commit- teo ia that of Enst Felicinna Parish in Louisi- ann. Tho avidenca consists of the personal statement of Anpensox and tho copies of let- tors which he puts in, some of which are re- garded as forgeries. Any judgment mado upon the ense ns it now stands must bo upon the haais thot ANpEnsox himsolf is a witness not to ba belloved. Democrats must start ont with this as well ns Republicans ; for, if his evidenco woro to be accepted of iteelt, tho Republicans would Insist that he told the truth when ho made hia protest and in bis ovidenca bafore the former Louisiana Com- niittae, whilo Domocrats would insist that he talls the truth now. But, having evidently sworn to a lio in onc caso or the other, all ‘his testimony mnst be rejected ns worthless in making up n judgment, Thoro remains, then, tho aingle meth>d of estimating the probabilitios in the light of tho facts ad- mitted and_the documents that have beon proved gennine. Appronching tho casoln thisspirit, thomost conspiovions fact {a that, fu n county where thero were 2,127 reghstored Ropublican voters, not a single vole was roturned for Iavrs, or any candidato on the Repnblican ticket! Ax- pEuAoN now seeka to explain this astonnding fact by snying thaf thero wna o conspiracy nmoug the Republican mauagera to provent the casting of any Republican votes, ns a Lasig for the rojection of the entire vote of tho porish by the Stats Returning Board. Avpensox's whole atory is Luilt upon this statement, nnd yot all tho probabilities of tho caso aro violently opposed toit. We will recount somo of them : 1. 1lad the Ltepublican manngers ontered into any such conspiracy, thoy would natu. rally bave selected a county in which it was known thore would be alarge Deomocratic wajority. by an lonest. vote. They would not have sclccted o countly whoro it wos known that an lonest voto wonld yleld 1,100 Republican mnjority, Mer who con- spira to do a dishonost and unlawfal thing nover conspiro agniust thelr own in- terosta. But this is what thoy would bave dono by solocting Rast Foliclana Par- fah, 1In tho election of 1872 the Ropublicans bad o mafority fn that porish of 1,020 votes; in tho Btate election of 1874 thoy bad a mejority, by tho Domocratic count, of 841 votes, 'Tho rogistration of 187 gavo them renson to expect a majority of about 1,100 votes, Enst Feliciana, then, was ahout the last parish in the Blate which the Republicans would have cliosien to throw out by withholdiug thoir own vote, bacause thoy could connt upon a large majority thero for themselves. 2, 1f thero bad boen uny such couspiracy na ANpkrsoN charges, the most ossontial porson to ita success would have boen the Ttepublican SBupervisor of Election, who was 10 other than ANpensox himself. o wonld have been tho first to take into tho sceret, because his oo-operation would bavo boen nacessary to carry out tho solemo. It was not enough to withhold tho Ropublican votes; it was equally ossentinl to have a Bupervisor who should undorstand tho pnr. pose of withholding them, would heartily entor into the echeme, and who could bo roliod upon to file tho necessary protess thot the Republicans had been provented from voting by intimidation and violence. Yot Anpruson testifies that tho seeret was roligiously kept from him, and that he only learncd of it by tho gossip of a drunken man with o woman fn the roomn next to ono whare howns! Were tho men who wore knavish onough to concoat this fool conspiracy such irredeemablo idlotsns totrust it fntothe hands of aman who know nothing of it, nud upon whoso indispensablo do-operation they bad no reason to vely? BSuch a presumption is uttesly ridiculous, 8. Buch a conspiracy as ANpERsoN charges would have required tho comprehonsion and acquivscenco of the 2,127 Republican voters in the parish. Every one of these men would have to understand why Lo was not to voto for DPresident and. State and county officers, ‘The great bulk of Re- publican voters woro negroes, to whom vot- ing is ns precious a privilego as to tho Irish Democrat at tha North. They would not copsent voluntarily to forogo it - with. out some strong renson; they would havo to beliovo that it was for the good of the Re- publicgn party, and to this ¢ud it wounld have been necessary to explain to them the nature of tho couspiracy Now, o conspiraoy that includes 2,127 men, most of them xcalous and suspicious, i3 undoubtedly @ myth. it wero possiblo to orgauize o conspiracy with that number aud kind of mon, it would not have boen posalble to keep it socrot two yoors. Avprzsox's consplracy theory, therefore, do¢s not oxplain why not one outof 2,127 LRopublican voters cast a ballot on that day. It rests on his simple statement, contradicted by all tho facts and probabilities, and heuce must ba rejocted. The theory of intimida- tion is tho only reasopable or satisfactory explaation, 58 was charged by Axprusox in his protest and sustained by tho evidencs be- foro tho Rotura'ug Board and Visiting Com- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE : TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1878. R e e e e g mittees. Intimidation had beon proviously practiced with precisely the enme resnits. In 18083 tho Btato wns overiun with bulldozers ; in Caddo Parish, whoro there had been 3,000 Ttepublican votes, not one wna cast in 1863, and there was tho same condition of things in 8¢, Landry Parish, where thoro Liad beon over 1,000 Republican votes. What hap- pened in theso two connties in 18G8 hnp- pened in East Feliolana in 1876, and for the #AMO reason. The other point in tho casa is to ba fonnd in the letters and documents sobmitted by Axpensoy. Theee are merely coples, and some of thom ara regarded ns forgeries. If we consider them all as gonuine for argu- mont's sake, thon they prove, first, that Ax- DEBSON was a traftor nnd intrigner, schom- ing with both parties for personal reward. Tho draft of his agreoment with Nasn, tho colored Congressman, sufficiently attests his corrupt character and mercenary purposes. Hin letters to Wenen (tho Bupervisor of West Feliclana Parish) show that thera was collu- sion between tha two to tako such courso na wonld rnsult in their grentest personal benefit, Neithor party could trnst him. This is man- ifest from the sttempt of the Democrala to kill him beforo election, ANDERsON says tho attempt was due.to their lack of faith in him, which Indicates that they had made a pro- vious bargsin with him to whitewnsh their intimidation and bulldozing, bnt they bagan to distrust him. This wes ovi- dently the renson why Pacgarp, Kertoaa, and tho other Ropublican managers feared to trust him to go back to East Felicinna ns Bupervisor. Thoy had evidently beon in. formed of his conferonces with the Demo- cratio politicians, Whon AxpznsoN came to New Orlonns after the election thero is little doubt that ho was pledged to tho Democrats, ond that he intonded to certify that thero liad Loen an honest and free clection, thus ignoring and denying the intimidation that had been practiced, the assaults and whip. pings by bands of srmed mep, and tho throats by which the negroes were frightoned into voting the Domocratio ticket or romain- ingaway from tho polls, But when he roachied Now Orleans his former Republican associntes probably porsunded and frightoned him out of his corrupt trade with the Democrats. Thay probably convinced him that the story of a fair election in a parish whore %0t one out of 2,127 Republican votes hnd been cast was too palpably a lie to decsive anybody, and thoy probably threatoned him with pros- ccution if he persisted fn it. Then he filed his protest. It was ot this point that Smzn- AN arrived. Thero islittle doubt that Smen- MAN was informed by Pacmanp, Kerroao, aud others, of AxpEnsoN's truo character, The evidence was all nt hand, but the law required the Supervisor's protest in order to got it before tho Roturning Board. What more natural than to promise such & man that he would bo taken caro of if he would adhere to tho truth, and nefther sell out to the Demo- crats nor yield to their threats? 'What moro just than to subsequently ropudiato a scoun- drel who had to be bribed to do right? Had Axpersox been a stralghtforward, honest wman, it wonld have been right and proper for the Government to provide for him after hio had manfully stood by thoe trath at the potil of bis lifo and at thesacrifico of his home and his property. But he was not sucha mou, ITad Buensax placed himself ju Ax- DEusoN's power by any corrapt ngreomont, therd is no doubt that the former would hava fonnd a placo for the Iatter in order to silonco bim. But thero was no such necos- sity. Axpensox deserved no roward a2 on honest, conscientions man, suffering for truth's sako, and ho could not command a reward, ns ouo pal forcos another to yisld, bocause nobody was in his power, Ife had played a doublo gamo and lost ; Lo had fallen botweon two stools. He now comes beforo the public a8 a self-lmpeached witness with o story not sustained by the documents ho produces, and nbsolutely contradicted by all the facts and circumstances of the case, COMMUNISTIO ASSABSINS. Ouo of the conditions attaching to the throne of Gormnny seewms to be that ita occu. pant sholl consent to becomo a targot for evory crnzy-headed or vongeful nssassin that wants to shoot at bim. The Emperor Wirr- 1am doos not stand glone, however, in this undosirable position. ‘I'ie mildest as well na sevorest of monarchs Lavo beon targots for their subjects, bnt by some good fortuna tho assnssins have been so bungling in thelr work that it haa'done no barn excopt in the case of Qustavus IIL of Bweden, who died from o shot reccived ala mosked ball. Gronox 111, Gxonox IV., Wirriax 1V., and ovon the good-hoarted and universally-beloved Vio- ‘Tona, have had to run the gauntlot of theso frenzied foola, Naroreox I aud Nairorrox T, Lind vory slilar experionces with infor- nal machines, the first with n battory of jouskots and the second with the Onsint bombs, Loua Puivirre, JaaneLra of Spain, and Fenprvano of Naplea recoived the atton- tions of their subjects with gun, plstol, and doggor. Crazy Poles have attempted to take tho lifa of tho prosent Czar, who liberated tho serfs, and in 1858 o Hungarian shot at Fraxcis Josern. The Sultans without number have been hanged, drawn, drowned, and quartered. In Spain Asaprus was shot at, and Pmy, while Regent, was killed, Greoco and Bwitzerland seem to bo the only Btates in Europe that have been exempt from acts of this kind, ho Emperor WiLLiaxt may now claim equnl fume with hin brother who precoded him, four nssassing having nttempted to take the lifo of cach, Tho first attack upon the former wnamado in 1819 ot Njeder.Ingelhelm, whon, as heir apparent, bo wason his way to Boden to take command of ths troops to put down the uprising of the Ropublicans, Tho second wos made ju 1861, after ho had wucceeded to the throne ns King of Prussia, by the student Ossar Dzexen,. be. cause, In tho latter's opinion, ho could mnot efflcot tho unfon of Ger. wsny,—a diaplay of egotism and ruffinnism combincd that has rarely if ever boon equaled, From1861 to 1878 thoold Emperor hasenjoyed & rospite, and Bisarauck hos beon the target in is placo, ‘Il year, howaover, the rasas- sing have flred at him twice, Tho first of these nttempts was mado on the 11th of Jast month, a Communist named Jfoxoen firing ot bim twico while driviug in tho Unter den Linden avenue with his daughter, tho Grand Duchess of Baden,—both balls, lLowover, missing their mark, On Suuday aftor noon lust, upon tho eamo avenue, a Boclalist, Oant. Fnouanp Nopeune, a Doctor of Philology, an habitue of the Bocialistio clubs, an editor of & radical Boclalistic paper in Berlin, fired twice at bim and lodged thirty small shot in his hiead and orng. - As fn tho case of the Comwunist Hoxper, the second would-be assassin par. rowly edcaped being torn to pleces by tho sugry populace, the police having great dif- ficulty in saving him. Inthe former case, the Emperor, iu reply to the congratulations of his Ministers, gald : This 18 the third time that 1 have been Ored at. Tu sl wy snxlotvs sud troublva I Gud wy conaolse t10n In the sympathy of the popolation. which has been shown from the first moment in a0 strikine a manncer, anid which hi dona me ganid. One showid take anch things enetly. VWhen 1 wasa memberof the State's Minintry 1 frequently hinted at the diau- gera which must resntt from the tendencien ot that timo which were hostilo o the Stats, My appees heneiane were, unfartunately, confirmed Ly ‘the yoar 1848, Now again, and in an incrended meas. ure, itis the duty of the Government to endeavnr ta prevent the revolatlonary elements becoming uppermost, As it is his thoory to take theso things casily, we presume the blufl old Emperor of 79 years, notwithstanding his ifberal doso of shot, will soon be on his feet ngain, and will live out his natural term. In the case of tho Emperor Wintay, it ia difficult to conceive tho motire that actuated tho assassins, It ia stated that Nonerivo is 1ot only a Bocialistic but a religious fanatic ; but, it ho wera acting from n spirit of ro. vengo, it would be reasonable to suppose he would attack such prominent nggreseors upon Bocinlism and Ultramontanism as Princo Bissance nnd Herr FArck, onoe of whom fnapired and the other exccuted very sovero and odlous Jaws, Parsonally, the old Emperor is oxtremely popular. Ho s very sim- ple and plain fn his babits, affable in his fu- tercourse with the people, economical in his oxpenditures, mo@l, and even roligious, in oll his ways of life, and mild in his dispo- sition, It is snid that ho lLas nover yet signod o death.warrant, Hogpxy, the Com. munist, lhas not been hung. From the patriotic point of view, tho Franco-German war also commended bim to the nffection of all Lis subjects who take pride In the vie. tory of German arms and thoe glory of tho German uame. Agaln, what did this Boeinl- intie fanntic think he could accomplish? Supposc that he had killed the old Emperor. 1Te would havo been sncceeded by the Crown Prince, who wonld be likely to prove a more rigid ruler thau his father, and certninly, undor the circumstances, would administer his fanctions with torrible scverity. Sup- poso the Crown Princo were killed ; another one would follow, who wonld grind these fauntics under his heel, Kill him off, and thero is still anothor to come. ond to tho line, nnd it is made up throughont of tho samo hardy stock, Dut, long bofore this could bnppen, the German people them- solves would rise, Whonever they discover that Socinlism hns censed to be only o theory to bo squabbled over in boer-gardens and bo- como the motive of regicide and tho medium for striking dendly blowa at Germsn soci- oty, thoy will put an end to Socialism as the French peoplo put an cnd to Com- munism, and thero will bo short slrift for such mon as Hopen and NomerLea. It is utterly fmpossible, thorefore, to con- ceiva what object theso fanatics have in thoir murderous efforts, or how they lopo to ndvance thefr infamons doctrines as to tho conflscation of property and the disorgan- izntion of society. Thero is no reasonable hypothesis which will oxplain their condact. Wo can only nocount for it in two waya: Either these men attempted the lifoof the Emperor from an insane desire for public notoriety, or, being excitable, hot-headed fountics, they worked thomselves up into sudden fronzy, ns id Wizes Boorn whon ha shot President LincoLx, Io tho one caso, such mon should be hanged. In the other, thoy should bo confined in some sacaro place whero Luman Jife would not bo exposed to tho rosults of their fronzy, But for Hoxper's imwunity from any penalty for his orime, Noperixo might have never committed his asssult, PROSPERITY, The Juno statemont of tho condition of tho national fiuances has muchin it that is encournging to the country, and furnishos tho strongest possiblo protest ngalnat any ro- nowal of that civil strife which, from Novem- bor, 1870, to March, 1877, so cffcctually proatrated bnsiness and production, The condition of tho ‘Irensory on May 81, in 1878, ia compared with that of May 81, 1877, Tho first item shows tho changes in the character of the bondod debt : 1877, 1 flonds at @ per cont,.. 8804, Tlouda at 5 per cen Tionds nt 444 per ce Bouds at 4 per cenl It will bo soen that H15 per cont bonds have boen replaced with bonds boaring 44 or 4 por cont interest,—n rednotion of about §2,5600,000 annually in tho interest on the publiodebt. The cash nccount is ovon moro gratifying: 1877, 1878, $108,137,083 $180,708, 021 Coln on hand, . Caln and slivy tificates... 45,407,500 $2.823, 840 Coln lesscortificates.§ 02,720,383 $1u4, 884, 81 With tho exception of tho Bank of France, the United Btates Treasury bad, on the 1st of Juno, a greater eum of coln «on hand in the Treasury than was on deposit In any national treasury or bavk ia tho world. Tho namount is in- cronsing monthly, The certificatos are pald in duo time into the Treasury for duties, and their presontation will not, therefore, reduce the sum of coin on haud, which will go on increasing under our coinsgo, aud protected Dy tho largo export credit building. up in Europe. ‘Che comparison of foreign trado during tho last twelve months with tho samo trade ofthe previous year §s moat oncouraging. ‘The figuces ara ax follows: Tuelve months ending April 80, 1877, 1878, Exporls .., 002,807,541 § 081,148,423 Tinpotts .., 420,854,003 © 488,501, 350 Total forelgn trado.$1, 0352, 702, 104 81, 1110, 110, 851 An actual incronso in tho volues of the commoditios exchanged of $107,000,000; but tho incronse ropresonted in tho quantities in much greater. The epecifio valucs of tae commoaditios exported and imported during the Inst twelve months were perbaps from 10 2o 15 per cont loss than the valuo of the same kind of nrticlos in the yoar proceding, 80 that, though thero is over $107,000,000 Incronse in tho aggregate valies of tho trade, tho increaso in the quontitiea—the tons, yards, bushels, dozons—of the commodities hos been much groator, There has boen an increaso both of exports and imports, and nothing but the sclomu and profound ignorance of a large portion of Congress, and the cowardly demagogism of others, las prevented a vastly groater increase in onr export of manufaotures, which export is now crippled by the tariff, ‘I'he oxcess of axports ovor imports for the twelvo months ending April 30, 1878, amounts to §222,600,000; while in the year preceding it was $173,000,000. Notwithstand- iug an incrensa in our importy, thero is o still greator increase in our exports, and the largo balanco of lastyear placed to our credit abroad is not ouly duplicated this year, but enlarged by $50,000,000. | ° 'Theso seversl itoms of the Troasury stato. ment aro of great importauce. ‘Ihey showa reduction of the rate of interest on 31560, 000,000 of the public debt from 6 to 4} aud 4 per cont, Thoyshow an acqumulation in the *I'reasury of no less than $160,000,000 of gold and silver coin,—a sum almot unprocedented in the history of any Government., They show an anuual oxcess of sales of merchau- diso over purchases of §222,000,000, which There is o’ sum stands to our ereditabroad, n protection from nny draft of coin from this sido, and a means of paying sny indebtedness, local or nationsl, which Enropeans mny wish to dis- poss of. At the same time, American sccuri- tlos wore navor in groator demand or at bet. ter prices than now. In tho last ten days tho coniraction of greonbacks which Iins attended the increaso of bank cirenlation has beon arrested, $1,- 600,000 of greenbacks which wore to Lave beon retired have been restored to circuln- tion, aud, with tha $2,000,000 of new bank issues, havo beon added to tho eurrency. Within tho lnst year about £7,000,000 have beon ndded to the silver circalation, not in- cluding tho now dollars, which wiil heresfter bo coined at tho rate of $4,000,000a month,— the gold cofnngo belng about the same. The balances duo to us on onr cxporta of merchandiso are equal to that amount of coin, nnd in ono sense are part of tho cur- rency of the country ; thoy nre shipmenta of coin in advance, and available ns exchango for every possible purpose,—to buy goods, to purchase American indebtedness, and, if necessary, to have sont home, Nover sinco tho War was the Notfonal Troasury in such an excellont condition. Tho outire paper curroncy is practically at poar with coln; the I'rensury overflowing with coin; uational bonds bearing only 4 per cont interest at pnr in coin, gold and silver coin boing added to the currency at the rate of $8,000,000 o month, and an annual surplus to our eredit of over $200,000,000 in Europe. Is it any wondor, then, that trade and commorce have put on now onorgy, and that during the Inst baif ‘of the eurrent year wo have added over $100,000,000 to the valuo of foreign exchanges of morchiandise ? Undur the new impulso given to trado nnd commerce and production, there was a hope- ful return to prosperity ; the demand for labor was improving, there was a larger dis.- tribution of swages, the means in the hands of the people to purchaso was incroasing, and, with tho incrense of consumption, pro- duction was invigorated. A fow months moro of peace, unfon, harmony, and absenca of political ngitation, and the country would be on the full tide of return to prospernty. At this moment, so auspicious and g0 long waited for, o faction of Demoacrats in Con- gress have undertakon to ret on foot a ravo- lution ; to Mexicanizo tho Union ; to set up an oxtra President, and an extra Congress, and gonerally an oxtra Government; (o throw the peoplo into the turmoil, excitoment, and violence of clvil strifo and war over aonce sottlod election, Such a procecding can Lave no other effect than to paralyzo trado, alarm credit, destroy confidence and gecurity, to incite crime and disorder, to break down the authority of Iaw and “of courts, and to plunge tho nation into o stato of snarchy. Tho madnoss of such o proceeding is evident to all, and the immediate effect on business snd the rovival of trade and production mnst be fatal. Fortunately, while tho country is powerless to arrest this wretched and scan- dnlous disturbance of tho national poace, tho peopls will have in November an ample opportunity to bury tho agitators and rovo- lutionists under a dofont so overwheolming and ignominions that tho losson moay prove usoful aa & warning to the futare, e THE CASE OF MRS, BESART, Mra, ANNIE BeaaxT was formerly tho wife of o clergyman of tho Church of Eugland. Bhe separated from bim on tho 26th of Octo- ber, 1873, in conscquence of serlous diffor- oncas of opinion ns to religion. By the deed of soparation one of the children of the par- ties, & girl. was given into tho costody of tho mother for cleven months of each year, and tho father was awarded tho caro of hor for ono month; the othor child, n boy, wns given to tho father for clevon months and to tho mothor for one month in each year, This arrangemont remnined undisturbed un- til the month of April in this yoar, Tho father then filed a potition in the ITigh Court of Justice, praying that the torms of soparn- tion bo sot aside, and that custody of tho childron bo sololy remanded to him. Tho grounds of tho petition wero that the mothor whas on atheist in religion; that sho had neg- Iectod to give tho girl a religious education; that sho hind assisted in the publication of a book adjudged to bo lmmoral and obsceno; and that she was consequontly unfit to havo the onatody of o child. Tho father' alleged that Mrs. Besant commenced her athelstical writings in 1874, and then joined Mr, Bnap. ravar in writing for him, In February, 1875, sho delivercd bLer fivst atheistical lect. ure, and has continned to lecture ever since, From February, 1875, to SBoptember, 1877, tho girl was taught by a Miss Monns, & member of the Church of England. In Bep- tember, 1877, Mrs, Besant went into part- norship as publisher with Mr, Branravon. In that month the child waa seut toa day- school, and the mistress was told that she ‘was to receive no religious instrction, Sineo that time, while with her mothor, sho has not in fact rocelved any at all, Up to the time of the scparation tho child had been yoliglonsly broughit up, 8lhe know tho Lord's Prayer and other simple prayers by heart, Boon ofter tho separation, s great chango occurred, Tha child had forgotten oll Ler peayers, and on tho father’s saying, *QGood night, Gop blesa you,” whon she cnmo to visit him, she scid that her nother Lad told a servant not to sny so to her, and had forbidden her to say nny prayers, ns thero was no Gop to say thom (o, Mrs, Besant, in rebultal, ndmitted the views on religious subjacta attributed to ber, but said sho had nevor taught those views to {he ¢hild. Bhe thought that a child shonld be brought up without any particular religions Delle?, 8o that when old enough it conld select such religion ag it saw fit. She did not Jike to have lier daughter read the Now Teatamont, becanse there wore pasiages in it childron could not understand, Ble had never taught tho plysiological facts cou- tained jn her “Fruits of Thilosophy" to her daughter, nlihongh she thought they should bo kwvown by all young people. The Master of the Rollg do- livered judgment. 1o said the Infants'.Cus- tody act of the 8¢ and 37 Victoria provided that tho Court bould not onforce any agrec- meont divesting tho father of tho custody of bis child “{f it would not bo for the benefit of the fufant to give cffoct theroto,” ‘Tho Court belived it would not be for the bouefit of the child to give effect to this agrecmeut, first, because tho courve of education insisted on by the niother was most ropreheosible; oud, secondly, because tho mother hind beon guilty of publishing an immoral snd obsceno book, which would havo the effect of cxclud- ing her, aud her child, if tho latter remained with her, from decent soclety. Ho ordered the cbild to be given vp to the custody of tho father, Tnis decision has attractod a groat deal of attention in England. In some quarters it is spoken of as tbo result of roligious bigotry and tyranny, Whothor this bo true or not, ono thing is clear: that the Masterof the Rolls ncted stnctly within the low, The old Iaw prohibited thie father from divesting himsolf of tho custody of his child under any circamatancos whatever. The new law per. mita lim e givo thd child into the custody of tho mother by ngrecraent, but only sub- jeet to tho discrotion of the Court, iu caso it shall appenr that such arrangemsnt is not for tho benefit of the child. Tho Court was clenrly within tho lottor and ihe intention of tho luw intaking the child ontof the custody of the mother. 'The faunlt, {f thero is any, is tbat of English pablic opin- fon, which innkes auch a solution ol a perplexing cnse nocessary. Unbelievera may deploro the want of charity which s ovidencod in tho decision, by which the Christian society of England is held to bo in. capablo of extending toleration to an unbe. lieving women; but, sinco tho stato of so- cloty is 8o, there can Lo no question that it 1a botter for a clild to bo trained in nccord- nnco with it. Tho responsibility for athelsm is in these days o eerious that each indi- vidual onght to be permitted to make such n choico for himself or hersolf. Alrs, Brsanr was not consulting the comfort or intellect- unl independenco of hor dnughter when sho decided to loavo her unbiased In religious matters. . To lenva her unblased in the way described wonld bo in ef- fect to soparate her from all religious influences, and to bins roligious people againat lier, if sho grew up a8 on unboliever. The whole tendency of English legislation lies in tho dircction indioated by this declsion. ‘Thus, a fow yoara ago, the Court deprived a fathor, who liad taught his sonto blaspheme, of tho oustody of bis clild; nnd in the atill more celebrated coso of Viscount Axwbenir'a children, who were left by will to Lo trained ns atheists, the Court held the testamontory directions to bo contrary to sound public policy, and consequently void. There will hardly bo much difference of opinten in this conntry ns to tho fact that—whatever the religions vagariesof parents may bo—childron aro likely to lead happlor and more penceful lives for boing trained in hprniony with the common religious opinion, or at least not in absoluto antagonism to §t. Whatover the enrly tralning may bo, tho time must como whon, haviug reached yonrs of discrotion, tho child must, as Mrs, Besant says, sclect such roligion aa it secs fit. THE DELINQUENT-TAX LIST, The Journal cxhibits nore rancor than discre- tion {n regard to the action ot the Grand Jury on tho publication of the county tax-list. And its malico has so blinded It that it appears not to have comprehended the nature or meaning of the report made by that body. It actually con- strucs o broad tntimation of gullt into s **com- plete cxoneration”t We venture the opinton that the party who asked for the Invostization foto the transaction s not as jubilant over tho verdictof that Jury as *certain men" in tho Journal office pretend to be. After referring to the fact that McUrua ad- dreesed n note to the Foremnn of the Grand Jury, asking for au investigation of the report that the tax-list had been corruptly awarded, the Journat hus the temerity to sav: The Grand Jury complied with this reqocst last woek, calling bofore it as witnasaca all persons who ware likely to have knowledyo of the natter in question, Tho result was that the Grand Jury, 2t tho clove of {18 tnhora Inst Saturday aftaraoos, declded that thero was no gronud for ‘thocharzen; in other words, completoly exoncrating Mr, Mc- Cnaa and the Journal of any improper transaction in connection with the tax.i{st !v\lk\\\m\lon. Now, 10 show the malico of the slunderous and cowardly sttack, we nced but mentlon the fact that hoth tho Zimes nnd Tux TBux: studiously fall to make any mentiau of or referenca (o tho result of thy Grand Jury's investigation os rogards the presont County Treasurer, The Journal utters a very foollsh falschoold when It atates that *Tuz TrinuNs studiously falls to make any mentlon of or referenco to tho result of the Gramd Jury’s fuvestigation as re- gards the present Conunty Treasurer.”” On the contrary, TiuB TRIBUNE published conspicuous- v, In the Suuday {ssuc, tho ontiro report of the Grand Jury on the subjact of the publicstion of tho tax-list; and, what is not a little surprising, the Journal suppressca the roport.” It it “com- pletely exoncrated McCnea and the Journal," It 15 reasonable to suppose’the Journal would vublish the text of the “cxoueration’ In a con- spleuous part of its columns, Let ua sxamiue the ofliclal document, and sce how *completely it exonerates ™ the partief in question, Says tho Grand Jury: In cortaln investipations mede by the Grand Jury, their attentivn has been called to the law in reyard to the annual publication of the Jist of de+ Bugueut taxes, 'Thiin Jaw avemn to bavo been de- yised for noother purpose than to put money In tho pockots of a fow at the vxpenso of manrs It te one of the many schemos brought Info succeveful apptication by which additional wima of moncy aro wrung from the aiready overburdened taxpayeres one of o scriva through whict, by wkiliful and pexiduous manipulation, u very largo number of yeople are wAking comfortablo, indved luxurivue, Jiviigs from tho earnings of thuir fellow-citizenss in short, one of tho minor items n the pran system of oppreesive taxation which {s now bear- Ing so heavily upon thio poople, Like so many otfier devices for biceding the unsurpecting taz. ayers, it te un unnnul source of corruption and nlquity, nnd of no posslble public good. The “complcta exoneration ¥ [s cortainly not found n this part of the report. ‘It ia,* says tho Jury, **an annual source of corruption snd Inlquity, and of no posaiblo good.”” 1f thu pub- lication of tho tax-list a an *‘aunual sourco of corruption,” the inference [s pretty strong that the County Treasurcr I8 bribed by the pub- lisher, or the latter {8 bluckmatied by the forier, After stating the great cost of printiog the tax-llst, aud estimating the profits at $23,000 to £50,000 per anuu, and strougly recommending a repeal of tho Juw requiring the pubilcas tion, tho Urand Jury coocludes its report as follows: Fxamb which we tion of witnesses on the fnveetigation VD tiade At the reguest of the present rounty ' nrer in tegurd {o the amount of tho Hoting of this dolinguent livl of the tayus for 77 now due, leads i 1o tako tho foregoly comments on tho subjoct. Loiug much prevae for tine, our investigutions lnto the maiter, al« ihongn reavonably full, were not, Fcnmp‘. thiorough as with more tine ta give folt they might iave been. Wa think 1L Jn keeping with our duty, ond aa much 08 we sro called upon te say, torepeat d emphiaizs e opiian that the systeim of pbe 1ublug this euarmous deliuquent-taz st annually (with 8o mnch **fat " du 3, e the privtcrs term i) fean_aunual source of corrution und dulquity, and of no possllle pulile xood; and the sooner thu law de repwaled and the syslom abollshed tho better for the moople of Cuok Counly, All of which 1s respactfuily sobinitted. Cuaunes 8. Warrxn, Foroman, It the Jourual thluks this s a “complelo ex- oneration of BcCnas and itsell,” thero 1s no Jaw sgainst ndulziug in such bellef; but we yenturg the oplulon that not anotber lving human in Cook County will place that ronstruce tlonupon the lapguage of the Qrund Jury, The Jury “ropcats and emphaslzes the oplujou® that tho publication of tholist L nagouly **fat* and profitable, but {s au annual sousa of “cor- ruption and intquity,” The Jury lé careful not to make an cxception of tho * corrupt ¥ prae. tlco this year tn awardiog tho delinquent-tax list to the Journal. That concern wuuld bave scted wisely to bave covtented tself with asim- ple Jnconspleuous Insertion of the Jury's re- port, instead of suppressing i end, for ihe rest, ta have enjoyed its portion of tho yrodts without nolso or fuss. Alter tha ‘“*addition and aivision,” “silence” was tho politic part to play. e — Qov. BaiTn, of Wiscousin, agrees with ex- Gov. LuninoTox that the only way for tue Republicans to carry tho State Is to keep the question of United States Benator fn abeyance unth after the clection, es there aro so many caudidates it might endanger tho success of tho party by makiog the Scuatorsbip an lssue. On the otber haud, many actlvs Republicans fusist that it shail bo madeon issuc lo the sclectivn of members of the Legislature, because the peopla sre deeply lnterested ju lt, and mean to be beard upon 1t directly through thelr repre- seotatlves. There has slways been consider- able of & contest uver the election of @ United States Beustor {u Wiscousin, except in Senator Uowa's case, und tho ous thut will come ot next winter will not be different from the others. To 1850 Cmanrus DURKRE was elected by s union of all the clements opposed to tho Democratle party, and Mr. DooLirtry was elected first and converted to Repudllcan- Jsmafterwaid. T 1803 MATT CARPENTER was nominated by a muajority of only wne vote In tho Republican caucus over C. C, Wassnunxr, and [n 1875 ho was defeated for re-election by adefectlon in his own party, and Axaus Cax. BRON thosen in his place. Now Senator Hown has falien Iito disrepute, and a dozen gentle. men of mare or less promiaence pash up thele heads ns candidates for hisseat. If each man goesinto the fleld and attempts to pack ttw Legtstature tn bis own Interest, it will make tho fall campaign an exccedingly lvely one. e eat— The Wisconsin Lagislature meets In extra acsslon this week for tho purpose of approving the work of tho revisersof the statutesand the nction of the Joint Committee of the Leals. laturo that has been examining and verfecting thosame. The revision has been going on for two years, and now it has been brought down to include the laws of tho last sessfon. Compe- tent judges declara that the work of revislon has boen well done, and that the Jaws of the Btate aro wow coberent and conslatent with themselves, with the Constitution, and with the decisfons of the Supreme Court. It s not expected that the present extra session will Jast longer than one week, unless eome favestiza. tlons should bo set on foot that are now threat- cned. —— MaTT CARPENTER'S man Friday In Milwaukee will'do welt to notice that the Hon. E. B.Wasn- BURNE, “ono of the family,” {s now jn Califor. nla; that ho was screnaded o fow evenlngs ago by a party of Germans; and that e made a Iit- tlospeech. The Sentine! ought not to let tho ovcasion pass without {nforming fts milllon and a half of readers in the Seventh Ward that Mr, ‘Wasununys {s a candidate for the Prestdency, and visits the Pacific 8lope on purposc to make political capital for himself, and that his ecre- nade in 8an Francisco was a put-up job to catch the German vote, The Sentinel s neglecting a grand opportunity to abuse n Wasnsunye. | —————— ‘The Philadelphia Times has been examining the dictlonary, and declares thay, when Tnu TRIBUNE stated that Vissin Reax had © honey~ fugled® members of Congress, we committed a libel apon the pretty little senlptress. The Times docsn’t know what it is talking about. Its kuowledge of phifology is very llinited. Let it snalyze the word and sec how simple it fs. It {8 compounded of ‘*‘honey,” which aignifics sweetncss, and **fugle,” which means to use, to be, or to suffer. Hence to use sweetness, or 10 be sweet, or to suffer sweetness. Evidentty tho men of the Zimes hns never hiad tho ruu of ‘Washington soclety. e ti— Nenator Howe s cunning it not wise. Ilo Kknotra that ol two evlls peaple with ordinary “gumption " will naturally choose the least. 8o, to help his waniog -fortunes ju Wisconsin and make o successful run for tho Scuate, ho con- trives to get MaTr CARPENTER to become a candldate, Whercupon all the peobple of that Statecry out with one accord, *Of the two evits, let us have tho lcast, which {s a party by the namo of Howe.” skl Mr. ANprReOX neglected to testify in his evi- dence before the Porrzr Investigating Com- mittes Saturday that tho Democratic voters of East Feliclana were bulldozed, {intimidated, and driven from the polls by the ferocdous and bloodthirsty colored Republicans, - This was doubtless the result of nn oversight. ————— Bcnator CoNkraxe had promised to go to Oshkosh and dellver an address,—not *'the greatest effort of his life," but one sulted to an agricultural fulr, when his talk would be of buHocke,~hut now hie writes that be cannot bo present on accouut of the press of professtonal engagements, e —— Besides cutting down the army to assist it, tho Democrats might strengthen their scheme to unseat President Hayes by securing the co- operation of SirsiNe Burn. Mr, TiLbeN should not delay sending cmissaries to that savage warrior to sound him on tho subject. * 1 wo arg to belleva AXDERSON, thore was bo bulldoztng In East Feliclana. Eriza PIinikstoN was doubtless kivked by a plantation mule, and she was suceessful o palming oft her Injurics upon the fnnocent and unsuspecting Mr. Joux SUKRAMAN as the tlendish work of bulldozers. e —— A grave-rohber fu Indlana has been scutenced to the Stato Penitentlary for four years. Now what shall be donc with the budy-suatchers in Congress who have foully descerated the tomb 1o which, two years ago, the body of BamuzL J. TILDEN was quictly lnurucd? ——m—— Mr. TiLDEN"S, 1t {8 sald, {s the unscen band which ot rst promoted, and now directs, the Porren Investigntion. This is doubtless truo. But Mr. TiLpzN's band docsn’t hold & palr, and ho s merely blufMng. & 1f the designs o the TiLDEN Democracy are carrled out fo thelr illcgltinnte conclusion, Presidont D1z s very scoguine of annexing this country to Mexico, ————— Mr. Flayns doclares that o will resist any ef- fort to remove Biim other than by the joint {m- peachment of both [louscs. Mr. HaYEs kunows Lis Quty. 3 i Prince Biswanck s a very snccessful pemce- msker, sud we will pay his exvenses 1t ho will como aver hure and paclfy BAMURL S, o L oot Toast to be offered at azricultursl dinnersthis fall: *The Oblo porsimmon, It Langs boyond the reach of the Democratic pole.” ——— Mr. TiLDEN 18 too ambisfous. By that sin fell the angels. We will admit, however, that Mr. TiLpax is not an avgcl. et In view of ANDERSON's fabrivations, we fecl like exclaiming that truth s more of a strsoger (to A¥pzRy0N) than fiction. et —e PERSONALS. The pitoher that goes oftan, olo. Georgo Primross was killod ia & raliroad accldent oo Long Teland last weck. *llo had been blown up once lu powder-cxplonion, once his head was laid vpen In aratlread collivion, and when the Brooklyn Thea- tro waa burned down ho cacaped 40 narrowly toat hls boots were burned. A The Duko of St. Albaps, Hereditary Grand Falconer of Encland, has resigned his ofice—a sinecurs, of couree—and teturned ite salary, 1ils coneclence was smillen by tho example of the son of one of hi ladorers, 3 gooso-herd, who deciincd to ke his weak's solary of teupence becaude he had had no geese (0 mind. Thiv story will ba vrinted jo letters of gold and bung up In sl the wess-tooms of the gallant Royal Mariues (mounted). Young Mr, Seabrooke Purdy, tbo aristo- cratlc New Yorker who bas been before the courts for siealing furniture snd ateating from young women, bad bard imo of 3t when he ekipped away W Europe Jast year, Ata Parlshotel, the freb day ho landvd, & fricnd ran away wia bis pocketbook, cantalnlvg §160; ho borrowed $100 from sn scausintance, sud lost 1t ay cards 1bat nigbt; borrowed $10 from & barkcoper, and as wuch more from a sposting-man, sad ran L up, batting sed card-playlog, to §12,000. Then he loat 11 all, snd got to London penuiless. Lyn:'h. 2 dizwond-broker, bls pal, mct hiua; leat him $37 gave b carte bianche to order thinge st 8 botel he didn't stop at, and tried to got bim to commlf forgery aud be Jucked uy, Then Purdy bacatae clerk Lo & cheap ¢lothier, wherg bo had to black sccond-hand ebocs, Alter lwo wonths hoe found 1be clotbler could not pay bis board, so he became sevistant to o Gomsu. This did ot sult, asd Pardy eulisted in the Bistieth Riflea. The titing Lo Sergesut gave him was the ouly monsy be had secelved In eight weeks. “Tlo chase Bombay sa bls field of sorvice, but dariug sn bour's lcave of wb- scuce recelved 8 lotter from his brother laforung bt that bis mother was dsinc. Lo wentto the cllel steward of the Anglia, lying st the Victoria Docks, was appoluted salovu-ateward, cud so gub bowe ta Now Yurk.