Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 5, 1878, Page 4

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TARIS, Frauce—No. 16 Rue de 1a Grange-Batellere. H, Mantzn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchaoge, 440 Strand. Agent, Fexzr F, U CO, Cal.~Palace Totel BAN FRAN AMUSEMENTS. McVicker’s Theatre, Modleon street, between Dearborn and Btate, **Uncle Tom's Cabin,™ Afterncon snd ovealng. Flooley?’s Theatre. Randolph strect, between Clark and LaSalle. Tarx Theatro Company. **Hurricancs. Afternoon snd evening. Yiaverly's Thentre. Monroe sireet, vorner of Dearborn. Joha A. Bta- wens, **Unknown,” Afternoon and syoning, MeCormick Iiatl. North Clark stroet, corner of Kinzfe. Lecture by Joscph Cook. Bubfect, ** Strikers and Comnunists,” BUCIETY LIEE’I.'IN—GS. 0. C. CREGIER LUDGE, NO. 613, A, F'. & A, M.— A speclal communication of this Ludis will be held at thelr hall, Nos. 404 aud 408 31, wnnkee-av,, this Wedn: eny mornlng. June 5, at 10 n'clock, {o attend the funcral ‘ot 'our Iato brother, Demard forettl. All memhe licreby notificd to attend, The fraternity cordiall, vited, Dy ordecof JAMES KEATSB, W, ‘WEDNESDAY, JUNE &, 1878, — ] Groenbacks at the Now York Stock Ex- chango yosterday closed at 094. ‘Wisconsin's Logislature convened in extra session yestorday for the purpose of pro- ceeding with the vitally Important work of rovising the statntos. Nows from the Oregon olaction is mengro and uncortain, Senator MrrcnrLy yestorday rocoived from Portland a dispatoh stating that the indications are that tho Legislature will bo Repablican, R o —— It is evidont that the malice snd spite shown by tho Houso Democrata toward the army will receive o wholesomo check at the hands of the Benate, The Appropriation Commit. teco will roport ndversoly upon the House amendmonts providing for roduction and reorganization, Lut will recommend the' transfer of tho Indian Burcan to tho War Dopnrtment, and there is no doubt that the Houso will bo foroed to recedo from thoso amondments, Thoporfect health and rugged constitution of tho venerable Emperor of Gormany have served hijn well in the trying emergency of tho attompted assnssfnation. Everything points to an early énd complotu re- covery from his wounds. The Pope lns conveyed by tolegraph- his rogret ot tho atrocious attempt upon the Emporor's lifo, and has directed that urgent inatruo- tions bo dispatchad to tho Catholio clergy throughont Germany to use every effort to prevent the sprend of Socialism. Al Chris- tondom s pnited in its sympathy for the strickon monarch, and ita hatred and con- demuation of the doctrines which led to the murderous assault, Tho fato of tho Woop Tarifft bill in the Houso will be docided to-day, The oppo- neuts of tho mensure aro dotermined that thero sliall bo no debate upon it, This fact was demonstroted yesterday, when repro- rontatives of the fron interest took overy occnsion to fnterrupt its consideration with motions caleniated to delny aotion or utterly defent it. As tho matter now stands, the House will como to a square vote at noon to- day upon the question of striking out the enneting-clauso of the bill, It will hardly be possible, undor thoss ciroumstances, that & monsuro of suzh imporiance as a goneral ‘'ariff bill cag pas) under tho suap-judgment process, as many mombers who would otherwiso support it will either vote in the negutivo or abstain altogethor from voting, — Tho dobato in the Benate yosterday on the bill to subsidize steamship lines botweon New York, Now Orleaus, and Brazil took a practical turn whorom Mr, Worrs moved on smoudment providing also a line from Baltimore. The Benator from Maryland very matorially objected to the taxlng of Baltimora for New York's benefit. If Now York and New Orleans aro to havo stoam- sbip lines to Brazil ot tho exponsa of the National Troasury, why should not Boston and Charleston, Portland and Bavannab, Daltimora and Mobile, esch and all be elmilarly favored? And it o seml-montbhly line ia a good thing, & woekly lino {s o bottor thing, and a daily lina still Lottor, Bonator Wuyrs confessed that he would not vote for his own amendmont, for the reason, doubtless, that he s opposed to eaddling on the Government the exponvo of building stoamships that ore mot mecded, Lut his proposition served none the less to illustrate tho selfishness and groed of the' subsidy-grabbers, It Avprnsox held an ax over the hoad of President Haves or Beorotary Burmaan by reason of aoybody's kuowlodge of and ac- quiosconco in the perjury which Le now saya he committed, then he certainly used tho weapon 0 a very poor advautage, It eawd that the credentials which ho brought the Prusident induced tho latter to appoint Lim to a Madelra Consulship, This is tho Place which Anpessox eays ha declinod. The faot sppears to bo, however, that the ink was scercely dry in which the President wrote the justructions for ANpessox's appolufment beforo tho former loarned of the lattor's un. fitness for any position under the Govorn- ment, sud the President thereupon wrote to Bocrotary Evaurs revoking the sppointment and justructing the Becretary to withhold Axpyusod's commisdon, This does not look very much as though the Presidont was .1 seared. Hocrotary BHERMAN was uot any more iwpressed with Awprnsox’s fmportance or Lis ubility to hurt anybody, Axprssoy him. solf says thet Bherman did not even recog- uize bim, and that, afler Axvxnsoxn Lod iu- troduced himself, Buesaan told bLim thero was 1o place for L in the Troasury Depart. wegt, aud that ho (Buxzaas) would not Thye Teilbuae. THE CHICAGO _'J.‘h_IBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JUNIS 5,1875, solicit a place for him in any other Depngt- mont. Itis very ovident from thess two circumstances that neithor the President nor Becratary Smxasan felt himsolt in Axpen- pox's powor, but that both had satisfied themsolves that ho was a knavo, and henca refused him office,, which it would hiave been nataral and proper to give him if he had been & martyr to the cansoe of truth. Had Awpzeson succeedod in getting a posi- tion, there is littlo doubt that he would have used the fack to indicale that noither the Prosident nor Secretary Brenuaw dared to refase him. Failing o get a position under theso circumstances is conversely an indica- tion that nobody had any roason to ba afraid of him, Roprosentative Rexp, of Maine, who has boen intrnsted with the managoment of the Republican sida of the Porren investigation, yosterdny took charge of the cross-examina. tion of AxprmsoN, and wns suocessful in demonstrating out of the witness’ own month his utter unveracity and worthloss- ness, Axprasos wes for hours subjeot- ed to the merciloss application of a sharp lawyer's faculty for exposing the true character of s shaky witness, and in the outcome he .stood confessed & scoundrel and s porjurer. Ho was made to admit that ho had in his former examina- tion before the SBenate Committes nnder oath Intentionally suppressed the truth, deliboratoly misled the Committee, and un- hesitatinglylsworn to a tissus of les. His enforced admission of falsehood and perjury, coupled with tho improbability of many of Lin statemonts, completely destroy hia credi. bility, and show him up in the lightof & misorable tool of the Democratio conspirators who have organized this ravolutionary move. ment, From boing their chief witness and main reliance in tho plot to unseat the Prosi- dent and some of tho leading officials, Anprrsox has in ono day's cross-oxamination collapsod in disgrace. POTTER A8 A BECESSIONIST, The porson selected by Mr, Truoex to lead the Democrats of the country to revolution aud ronow the flames of civil war on a ques- tlon of disputed succession to the Presidency is Mr. Oranxsox N, Porrzz. He is no wnl- gar rough, selested from the ranks of Tom- many; he is not a representatliva of the voting and fighting: factions fn Now York City; hois a ropresontative of tho wealthy and arlstocratic Now York Democracy,—that branch which purchnses seata in Congress, and “honors” the paid retalners by ropre- sonting tha districta. Mr, Porrzn is an exporiencod member of Congress, and has always oxercised controll. ing influence in that body. In 1874 he olectrified the Houso of Represontatives ono day by doclaring in a spesch that tho prosent Govornmont of the United Btates was ono of the grontest political absurdities in the world; that it was altogother a frand npon the theory of popular government; and that, in fact, it wos o contralized Government con- trolled by o minority, AMr. Porren's present prominence racalls to public attention this remarkablo spoech, and we presont some ex- tracts from it. On May 21, 1874, in a de- bate in the Ionse on tho bill to admit New Mexico as a State, Mr. Porrean opposed tho bill. Ho placed his opposition on the ground that the practice of admitting now Btates with comparatively small popu. lations wns an injustica to the larger Btatos, ‘becauso it took from the latter tho propor- tionato weight to which the number of thetir population entitled thom. Ha cited the fact that at that timo tho number of Sanators ‘was seventy-four, and he claimed that six. teen of theso Benators ropresented a major- ity of the. people and fifty-eight were ap- pointed by a minorty of the people. He ndded to this statement s The States of Now York, l'cnm}llvlnll. Ohio, indians, lllinoiws, Missouri, and Kentucky, with Masenchusette, being cight States in all, having, by the last census, a populstion of 10,200,155, have ing 8 contiguons territory of not more than 1,300 or 1,400 miles one way by some 100 the other, now contaln an actual majority of the people of these thirty-seven Rtates and ‘ten Territories; and not only & majority of all the peopls, but oy a large majority of iho wenlth, the industry, th trade of the conntey, Having thus stated his thoory of ine. quality, and located within designated States tha poople who wero outraged and defranded, ha proceodoed to assort the remedy whish in time it might bs necessary for the poople of theso States thus ruled by a misority to adopt for thelr own protection. Ho sald, pugo 4,183, Congremsional Record, Forty. third Congress, firat session: The theory of squality among States faright, T ‘was mysell an extremo State's right man, 1 am frea to declare, what [ presume few mon in the House would venture to samit, that, If [ was now to make a Constitution for the 'futare government of rising Statcs, 1 wonld put & provision In it wheredy a certaln number or proportion of the States might go out of thair Unlon whenecer they {vlam«l; for 1 believe that good government can in ha long run only bo maiutained by jte Lelng in sce cordance with the interests of those who aru under i, 15 o e, e ot s tl;num. u":naum be ailowed to go. L Having expressed his opinion that the principle ‘of voluntary union, peacoable so- cession, and perpetual (revolution, and es. pocially the extinotion of all pretense to nationality, would be the best thing for the Amerloan pooplo, Mr, Porrzn thus expressed his judgment upon the *‘absurd Government that {u in existence,” e sald: The theary of thle Govornment, the fandam tal theory, ‘e that pulsr Go i Guvernuiont to' pres he rights & tho wishes of the p Dut we have withaut reeard to that {i 411 to-day we find ourselves atated, and all the time it {a'g lar Uovernmen af iA surth a8 8 pupu- A such, It ta in tAts respect one 2t abaurd Uoternments on tAe face of the nd geutlemen propose now 10 make It nore abaurd by Introducing Teeritories with this t:!'.\al'l o h-néllul ot po and giving than the talives cac) into the form of fgovernment ho uald could not last ; & change would have to oome; tho time had come when the Fedoral Government must be lmited. Having pointed out that the right of sccession and of dissolving the Union, and of destroying the nationality of the Unitod Btates, ought to b6 o conatitutional provision, Mr, Porren da- dlared that, in the absonce of the constitu. tional right to secede, when the time came such socesalon would take place, and, when it took place, who, he asked, was to prevent it? Horo is what he said: Somebody ssld to mo this morning thet & chaungs. of represuntation in the Honate could only be brought about by revolution, If that be so, what thent Docs it not oceur Lo gentlemen that in this little striv of eight coutiguons Btates, Massachu- soits to Missourd, les a majority of the weslthund wer of tuls Unlont Aoy thould take W Into ir haads togo out of the Union, who can Reep themdn? Audif & reform in 4bis growiog abuse of coutrol by the minority over the msjority could only be secured by revolution, why, then, wAen taey resolsod on suck revolullon, 4 would be alike short, successful, and peacegble, Here we have Mr. Porrxs, in May, 1874, nive ycars after tho Warof the Rebellion, inaisting in his placs in the House that the existing Constitution of the United Blates was defective, becausa it did not contain a provislon securing to the States the right to dissolve the Union at pleasure, to weceds whenever matters did not suit them, sud to st up as many indopendent confederacies as there were Btates to fdrm them; and, baviog catablished this dootrine to his own satiafaction, be prodicted that the time was near ot band whon tho people of tiye largar Btates, tirad of the opprossion practiced on them by tho smaller States, wonld, Uonstitntion or np Constitution, revolution. ize the Union, and, declaring thomsalvos sovereign Afd free, would go ont of the Union, and Mr, Pore, qcfi"u Who was there to prevent mv.ii'};,-;\a obnrea the revolutionary right to secode i8 ndt .Hmjted to a quostion of equal reprosentition. “A aie.- puted Presidential election will' lgm_‘g,;,"l aa well ns anything elso ns n protext'for se cession, or for an armed overthrow of the Foderal Government by the deposition of one President and the proclamation of nnother, Onco admit Porrea’s theory of the right of Btates to secede, as n revo- lution subject only to the ability of the other Btates to prevent them, and wo have the doctrine of sacession reaflirmed as boldly and as deflantly as it was proclaimed in 1801, ‘This advanced advooato of revolution ns & romedy for supposed fundamental dofects in the Constitution is now presiding nt the meeting of the revolutionary committee at Washington. The question Le is now con- sidering is, Was there nny fraud at the last election in any of the States? 1If so, shall the President and party in power be wny longer racognized by the reprosontatives of tho people? And shall the porsons claiming cleotion bo installed in power by the people ? Bhall ws have two opposing Governments? Bhall wa plungo into a rovolution, and by the result of a civil war determine who was legal-" ly elocted Presidont in 18767 Or shall the Btates composing a majority of tho pop- ulation doclare a revolution and * go out of the Union,” leaving it to tho other Btates to provent them if they can? It is perfoctly ap- proprinte that an avowed sccessionist shonld havo moved this revolutionary committeo and bo placed at its head. But Mr. Porten will find that in this conntry declaring a rev. olution Is not revolution; and that the Amorican peoplo, who have had a long and bitter experienco of civil war, will in tho fu- turo take prompt measuros to dispose of the rovolutionists, and thus ronder revolution unnecossary. ‘PATERNAY. GOVERNMENT. The sceno in the Imperial Ialace nt Ber- lin,consequont upon the attemptod nsanssing. tion of the Emperor, is ono of the most touching that history has ovor beon called upon to record. A vonerable old man, the idol of nine-tenths of his people, plain and simple in the monnor of his life, a man who has never injured any one, and au Emperor whohasgiven the strength of his mind and body to the advancement of the German Fatherland ond the glory of the Gorman name, lies there plerced with tho shotsof a misorablo nssassin, hanging bstween lifo and denth, nbout him his wife and children offering up thoir prayers to Gop to save his lifo and restore him to thom; ontside tho palaco, tons of thousands of people maintain. ing asilence almost as solomn as if they stood in tho prosenco of donth, and eagerly awaiting each new bullotin of the condition of their sovereign ; 1o ono in all Germany not pray- ing for his restoration except n handful of idle, restless, crazy dreamers, who are at war with the oxisting condition of soclaty, who dignify nssassination and exalt cow- ardice, and at whoso lands tho life of no man is safo who doos not subscribe to their infamous and impossible doctrines of abol- ishing poverty by destroying woalth, and removing tho evils of the world by nasassina. tion and incendiariam. The individual motive which urged the miserable wretch Nonzayo to attompt as. sassination, as avowed by himself, was o political one. o hated the Emperor be- onuso his popularity provented the spread of Communism, thefool not stopping to think that the death of the Emporor might preefpi- tate the rinof the verysystemho was soeking to cxtond, Loaving tho nssassin and his Royal viotlm, howover, and going to the ‘basis of Sociallsm snd Communism, batwoen which there is a vory thin partition, thero is room for serious ihought, Assuming, s theso men claim, that poverty exists in tho world, with all sorts of misery and crimo following in ita train ; that, while some men are enjoying luxury, others have to strugglo to livo at all ; that there isnot re- muneralive employment for all ; that capi- tal is often synonymous with tyranny, and that the poor cannot elevate themsolves,— granting nll these pitinblo conditions, what fs socloty to do? The State can do cortain thingd, It can rolieve paupors and cars for them ; it can halp tho disabled ; it can make tho homes of the poor healthy 1f the poor will observe the rules of clean- liness; it can provido tholr chil- dren with freo education ; it can furnish a aafo placo of Investment for thoir earnings. Individual charity, casual as it may be, can do und does much to help the unfortu. nate, Tho Communists, lowever, laugh these things to scorn, and domand a paternal govornment,—that is, a Government which will take care of overy one by dividing the gains of tho rich among tha poor, since in thoir estimation tho acquisition of wealth is a orime. s But what doos a paternal govern- mont {nvolve, or rathor what doos it not involve? The Booialists can have patornal guvernmont when tlhoy can change human nature, 'They must firat, howevor, romove tho 1laziness, thriftlessness, ignorance, fecblenesa of disposition, and weakness of, human natare on the one hand, snd cradicate self-effort aud relf.rospect on the other. Thoy wmust destroy all the causos of poverty and crime, Thoy must glvo scourity that the Fntamn! soup-housg government will not “offer a promium upon povorty and dishonesty, They must show that their systom will not immedintely pauperige the natlon, Thero is nothing so casy or o tempting for a shiftless, ignorant, half-witted person as to lean upon the Gov- ornment and wait to be fod, clothed, and supported. A paterns! Goverumont must of necossity spoedily develop iuto a gigantic system of out-door relief, tho ond of which would be, first, the pauperization of the whole country, aud, second, the destruction of the Govornmont itsolf. TLook at the case of our own country as it now stands. Wa Lave hundreds of millions of acres of unoo- cupled land awaiting cultivation, and yet our cities swarm with thousands of unem. ployed foreigners,—men who were born upon farms and accustomed (o labor with the shovel and the hoe, and who cannot be inducod undor any consideration to quit the cities, where they kuow thoy cannot muke & living. This class of won coms to our cities, and not ouly refuse to labor at thoe only pur- wult for which they are adapted, but assume to teach Americans what thoy must do, and domond that tho rich sholl furnish tbem with food, fucl, clothing, house-roow, and mouey. L s Thera are oortain ovils iy theworld, such as jguorauco, loaferism, vied, dnd intemper. ance, to lessen which sil’ mén are cer- nostly striving., What arg thesé men who are howling for paterupl goverumout dofng? What schemes of clarily Lave they ¢ot on fool? What practical suggeations have they made to benofit thoso of the unfortunate class? Has any one of them gone individn. ally or given one cent to reliave the working poor? What are tho Communist poor them- seclves doing ? Cortainly they are not entirely without responsibility in the premises, Bince the conolusion of the War of the Ra- bellion, thirtaen years ago, it Is safe to ns. hert that the class of men in this country who may be said to live from hand to mouth Yo squanderod more money upon liquor 808 tabageq alone than the amount of tho nationm Jebt, with the Btate dobts added to It IC'they W3 gapei this monoy, it would Lave providel iy with homes and with o comfortablo livfhg:*SThers would hiave boon 10 necossity for this Oty gor tho division of other people’s proporty among thom, no need for rolie! excopt i isolated cases. Tho poor nover can betar their conditfon until thoy coase squandering their enrnings wupon. useless nppotites, nud hanging ronnd citios whero thero is no work for them, with the cxpeotation of belng supported. Lenst of all will patornalism hielp thom. Thoy will live on In their equalor and never reallzq it. It is o misorable, do. coptivo will o’ the wisp they aro following,— A doctrino that would reduce thrift, inven. tion, indastry, and sobriety to tho leveél of vice and drunkonnoss, and subvert the Gov- ernmoht that songht to carry it out. Rather than turn the carth back in {his manner and plunge it into the chaos tht must inevitably cnsuo, it would be a mercy to blot it out with a storm like that whioh foll upon Bodom and Gomorrh, OAMERON'S RECULLECTIORS, ‘Wa print elsewhore this morning the ra- port of a romarkable interview of a corre- spondont of the New York ZTimes with ex- Benator 8mfon CamznoN. The venerable ox-Sonator scems to have beon ina com. munientive mood whon he met this particu- lar correspondent; and, though lo was silent in rogard to curront politioal topios, he contributed liborally to the making of history. His political lifo owed its bogin- niog, he sald, to his opponents, who by erying him down incressed his resolation to succood. In 1845 he went to the Benate for the first time na o Democrat, baving benton tho regular caucus nomineo,— two precedents which ought to have beon, but wore mnot, tronblesome to him in nfter politienl life. Ilia conduct 1o the Suarver affair, when he succooded the Inttor s Choirman of the Committan on Foreign Ralations, was guided by tho same obatinato resistance to what ho oonsiderod an nefair attempt to pull him down. When boe heard Bocretary Bonunz, then a Senator, speaking ngainst the romoval of Buawzn, on the ground that Oasznow, the next man on the Committes, yna tho most unfit person in the Senato to succeod him, he resolved to bo the successor of Bwaver, though Lo had proviously opposed the chango. But per. hapa the most intoreating part of tho inter- view is that which rolates to the battle of Gettysburg, which OamzroN says ought to havo ondod the War. In this ho is unguos- tlonably right. Ho soys he was on tho flold of battls very soon after the fight took placs,” and he counld never understand why Meaoz did not follow up Lzs ond make a Waterloo north of the Potomao, which was thon flooded in such a way that no crossing was possible for many days, 0s his army was flushed with viotory, and hoavily relnforeod immodiately afior the battle, Oaxenon snys he thought of tole- graphing Lixcory nnd urging o direct and decisive blow upon tho Rebel armies; but, on gecond thouglits, fenring tbat he might havo dono Mrapz an’ injustico, ho docided not to telegraph, aud thuslost a great oppor- tunity. He adds that Lincorw afterwards told him that, if he ‘h‘ud telegraphed, such an order would have beon lssuod. There were persons on tho fleld who mnot only thought of tolographing, but did tele- graph, and mot, to Livcouy alono, but to Braxton. These tolograms, it ofter- wards appeared, wore rocolved, but the Pros. ident and Becretary of War declined to inter- fere, probably baoause they had had severe oxpericnoe of the dangoer of sending persmp- tory orders to an officor in the fleld. Among tho porsons who thus tolegraphed LrxcoLy was Vice-Prosidont Haswy, Indved, every intolligont spoctator on the fleld saw, what Iins long since been -indubitably eatablizhed, that Meapg then had it completoly in his power to end tho War in one attack on the Dboaten, broken, discouraged enemy, and to make himself the hero of the Union armles. It was an oxpensive blunder for Mrang, and still moro for the country. It might have made Lim what Grant has since become ; it would have saved tho country Lalf the cost of tho War in monoy and lives. THE CHIEF REVOLUTIONISTS, Mr, Ouantzs A, Dana, the coditor of the Now York Sun, Lbas been from the start ap- parently the chisf conspirator against Presie dentIlaves. Hebegan to howlfraudsoon after the inauguration, and has kept up the howl tillnow. Bince the Porrxa resolutions were paasod ho has denounced the avowed author of thom for faint-heartsdness. Ie has ad. mitted into bis columns personal attacks upe on Qov, Hawrron, of South Oarolina, and Gov. Nionowrs, of Louistans, the only con- celvablo motive for which was thelr friendli- ness to the Administration, He las, in short, used all the means in his power to bully the Democratio party into a full sup- port of the revolutionary programme, Tho principal supporters of Mr, Dawa in this affair hove been Tioex himself and Montaouzny Braia, TiLoxN has, or thinks bo has, a large atake in the rosult. It is now or nover with him. If he is not made Presi. dent by a conspiracy, he {s not likely to be. como Prealdont at all, e has slim prospects of suocesa in tho next Democratio National Convention ; aud, it he woere nominated, bis rocord s doveloped in the last campaign would prevont his election, Though he had not the courage to insist on his claims when they might have boen urged, he hasthe base- ness to press them socretly and by deputy, after the question has beon irrevocably set. tled, though ho thereby throatens the safety and peace of the Republic. This is why Alr, TitpeN has used his influence with Dawa, Montgoueay Brin's motives are equally transparens, Maving sacrificed his party on a former ooccasion, apd heing now out of politica by comman,eonient, ho sees 1n this movement ap oppoytunity to make political capltal for himself. ‘It it should fall, Le ‘would be no worse off than he already is; if i¢ abould win, he might look for his reward “to the succeisfal party. 5 Dana, who has been put forward as the mouthploco of the conspiracy, and as the bulldozer-iu-chiof of the Demoeratio party, bas no special right that we kuow of to dic. tato terms to such old Democrats as OLanx- sox Porrzs, Arexaxoxs Breruxyy, Sonators Bavavo and Tuvnsan, Govs, Haxeron and Nicuorrs. They wore in the Domocratic purty whon he was a Republican. When ho was oditor of the New York Tribune undor Honace Gnrrrey thoy belioved in the Domo- eratio dootrino of Becession and State's Rights, They muat bo amazed to find so new a convort to Democratia principles cracking tho slaveholdors’ whip ovor them, and assnmiog to lay down a policy for thom nnd all the rest of the Democratio party. The quostion that the Damocratic patty is now called upon to decide is whother it will submit to the insolende of this man Daxa. Ts ho to bocome the Democratic dictator? It he is not, it is timo for the respectable mon in the party o assort thelr indopond- once. Tho Demooracy has nover beon ruled by tho one-man power ainco the days of Gen. JacxsoX. Thongh it has always been moro or 1633 under the shadow of Now York Influence &inco the time of Mantin Vaw Buzcy, ft'has nover permitted tho leaders in that.Btate to eay boforohnnd what it shall and,ghall not do. But it now soems 'to be propnring for preciscly this kind of subsérviéncy. It not only tolerates tho Innoleneg‘of Dama, but 1t permits him to domaltplo the party. It docs what he orders." At his instigotion alone, tho hayigone into this rovolutionary No prominent Domocratio miexcapt the Sun, in the United Btates, ananded it. No othor Domocratie nowspapeeat heart now supports it. Even tho Wq';‘m:llinorodiu Axprason as n witness. The Chictgd T¥mes, the Cincinnati Enquirer, tho 8t Youls Republican, the Memphis Avalanche, the Richmond: Stats, the Vicks. barg Ierald, and theleading Democratic nowepapers throughout tho Bouth, condemn tho investigations :Only Dana approves it, and goads the lddders of itliko Porrzm for ough. Aro DaNa and his two ptfl‘nun’,‘t 0 owners of the Domocratic pnrty ? Have they tho right to doclare what is the Datocratlo policy ? I thay hava not, tho party skould throw ovorboard the piratical crew. o ‘Whenever tho New York papors find them- sclves out of subjects for editorials, they resort to misropresontation of . the silver dollar to fill up thelr apaco. The Fost Is not gulitiess of do- ing this same thing, sltbough it is old enough to know beiter. For instance, under the head- jog, "Tlm'ynpopuhr Dollar,' {t nnys: The Sllve: bill has boon a Inw almost three months, butwho wants any of the dollars or who has any of them? For a fow days affer thoir first isano o fow pf thom were in domand as pocket- leces, hnt Gia demand soon ceased. Our dispatel rom Washisgton this evening shows that, with more than we millluns of the doliars on hand, less than elght bundred thousand have been calied for, ‘The Treasury s, thereforo, in a quandary what to do with thecoln on hand, The law requircs the colnage of pot losa than 2,000,000 sllver dollars a month; baiif no one waats them they will only accumulate o incumber the Treasury vauile, Hoc- retary SuxuMaN hopes Lo get them out by distrib- uting thom in the country districts, but the country districts are precisely the places where & combors somo coln 1s 008t unpopolar, This statement is far from honcst; It {s an at- tempt at deception unworthy of the reputation of tho Post. The Post nsks, ** Who wants any of the silver dollars, or who has sny of themI" Docs It know of anybody who will not give greenbacks for legal-tender silver dollarad Does it kuow of any ono that will sell tnose dollars for grecnbacks at parof tho latter! The rcason that silver dollags will not stay In circulation fs prectsoly tho safue reason that prevents the clr- culation of gold dollars, viz.: that bothare worth more than paper dollars, and the chuaper money always crowds out the dearer, as the Poat \tscl? has stated o thousand times. Tho Troasury {8 in no mora * quandary what to do* with the sllver than with tho gold coln; what over it can do with onc it can do with thoother, It can redecm 5-20 bonds with sltver dollars. It con pay tho coupons on bonds with them; it can pay any indebtedness with them, But it the Bocretary of the Treasury thinks he can put out coin money worth 100 cents on thoe dollar and have §t remain in clreulation with paper money worth but 99 conts, he is greatly mis- taken, When the paper dolars become worth preciscly 100 cents, then the silver dollars will remuln in thelr company and circulate side by side onterms of equality, ‘The * cumbersome- ness” of the cofn will not prevent tons of miil- fons ot silver dollars from dolng duty as cur- roucy * in the country districts.” ‘Those who do not wish to handle them physically have only to exchinnge them for stiver certificates, and in that form they wiil baas portable as bauk notes, ———— TaTEs Is eaid tobe sercueand fmperturbable. Why slould bo not be?! No man ever held the title to tho Presidency with so sfrong w grip as he, Firat, ho had & majority of the votes inthe Electoral College, and tlat s all any of his - lustrious predecessors over had. Let uny man read the debates 1n the Federallst, and he will sec that the framers of tho Constitution cou- templated a much wider scopo to the powers of the mombers of the Electoral College than s gencrally accorded to them by tho usages of modern politlcal parties. It was held by meny of our earlfer statesmon that the College shoutd oxerclse their own diacretion In the cholcs of Presldent and VicePresidout, no matter what the pruferences were of thoss who voted for them at the ballot-box, There are many sup- posable cases in which thelr individual judg- ment must obtaln,~for fostance, fa the case whore ono or tha other of the candijates voted for had died after the election, or whero it turped out that one or both ware {neligible. In addition 0 this original tenure, 3Mr, Havgs bas the war. rant of the act of Congress whoraby the Elect- oral Commisslun was established, and a major- ity of tho Bupreme Court, a co-orlinate branch of the Government, stood at the door of the Exccutive Mansion with uucovered heads snd bade Mr. Hlayus enter. To this decisfon a very largo majority of the Democrats fu thoe Foriy- fousth Congress assented. It thero was fraud at tho ballot-box In Loulsiana and elsewhero, the taint of it was removed from Mr. Havns' titio to tio offico by the vote of the Electoral College, by the actlon of tho Elsctoral Commls- sion, and by the sanction of the Forty-fourth Coogress, Hence there is no good reason why Mr, 11aYas should not look upon the efforts of the Porras Comimittee with that serenlty which comes from a clear consclence and 1 quickened by a puro motive, Let the galled jade (TiLDEN) wince; the Presidedit's withers are unwrung. | ——— After tho perfod of excitement and unrest that tho country experienced between the clec- tion In November and the {nauguration of Mr, Havzs, 1§ would be natural tosuppose that Con- gresa would jmmediately provide by law for counting the votes for President and Vice-t'real- dentunderany exigency that might possiblyarise, ‘That was what the country expected, hecause it was presumably ou the verge of civil war, which was only averted by BaxusyJ. TiLpex belog too much of acoward to encourage the rovolutighary splrit that was at one tlme ram- pant and clamorous among bis adherents, A more importaut subject certalnly could not en- Qago thelr time and attention, and the phenom- cnun of tho present aesslon 1s,that it was oot st~ tended toin duo time and with proper consid- oratlon, But, instead of passiog s law Sthat would give tho country stability and assursacs in the future in this respect, the Democratie House has gone dellberately to work to uu- settle the past snd revivo tha fceling of inse- curity and distrust in the mlads of the poople. Ifthat party ncoded capital for the next cam- paign, they mre certainly manufscturing f¢as fast as possible; but 1t remains to heseen whether they sre not makiug it for the benofit of their opponents, They are digging s pit that they themsetves may tumble luto. ——— More than twenty-five years ago the Ion, Tuomas DSUMMOND was appoloted Judge of the United Btates Court for the Northern Dis- trict of Hlnals, and the Judge at once entered upoa the dutfes of one of the most laborlous dlstricts in the country., During that lovy in- terval, and up to the tlwe of bis promotion to e Circuit Court, by kuew no futermisslon of business; he had been holding Cotrt almost continitously, and laborlag with an earnestness and fidelity which ate characteristic of the man. He has beon repeatedly prostrated by lllnoss, ‘but his labors seemed nover to have & respite, Buch & thing as a holllay or vacation he never felt himsel! at liberty to sccept o long as thero Wwas publle business re- quirlng his time. When appotnted Judge of the Circuit Court, his friends expectod he would find some relfef from his ‘continunons lator, but Judge DrRUMMOND took tothat Court all the carnestness and consclentions fidelity to Quty for which he ia so distinguished, and his 1abors In the new office have beea as engrossing s thosa in the Conrs ho had left. Atlast, n seri- ous fallure of his eyosight and a goneral ex- haustion of health has compelled him to take 4 brief hollday, and to-morrow he will sail from Noew York for Europe, to be abment & few menths, Noman has over won a right to a vacatfon for rest mora desorvedly than tho great upright Judgs, who for twenty-five years has never missed a day's labor for tho publie when It was possivle for him to bo present to pertorm It Hls roturn {n improved health will be o gratification to the entiro people of the Northwost. & e t— * Puocrox, of Ilinots, Tne Trisuxe's Demo- cratfc correspondent, has started another paper, this time Id the pleasant and proaperous litle Republican clty of Danville. It fs called the Poit (becausa 1t 1s to bo & fast paper), terms 83 per annum, Cheap enough. The oxcuse “Pnocton ! gives tor starting this Zosf fs that “Thero are 8,800 Democratic voters in Vermil- fon County, every one of whom has long felt tha want of a newspaper which wouid help him keep up the organization and protect the Inter- ests of his party. For this reason the Fost has been atarted.” ' Pitocion ' says the Post shall ba " Democratic fn tone."” Let it never bo Dem- ocratic in anything else. **Tone" will be suf- ficlent {n theso days of Qreaserism. Puociow asks for exchanges, and is rofreshingly candid as to his motives, saying: — ‘To THE Prorgssion. —In order to make the Post teadablo wo shall desire s reasonable number of exchanges from which 1o ateal good Itews, Thorge Tare, we hape those 1llinols Journals receiving this copy, marked, will atonce put tho Lost on their excliango list.” Nothing fa 40 gratifying to a coun- try ediforos fo kunow that while ho loafaand slecps aome othicr follow Is writlng up good stofl which ho can scissor and—Ilead. « The New Orlcans Democrat, whose cditor, in the furyof his heart and wheon the dog-star rages, devours hot coals, rod-hot cooking- stoves, and Incandescent pig-iron, and drinks popper-sauce, molten lead, and leves whisky, has given mature deliberation to the proposition to import protninent Republican speakers into the Southto stump strongly Republican dis- tricts, and says, calmly and dispassionately: Wo nre freo and fndependent Statos, and nave tha samc right to manags our domestic affalts that any other Stnta has, Wao certainly have the right, inherent 1 all communities, of “protecting our- aelveangainst tho deliberaty achomos of allens (1) to create disturbanco and riot {u our midst, and pro. vuke bloodshed and mlsery smong all classes of our rnnme. ‘Wao warn theso peoplo in advance that, if hey coms here for any such purpose, they must Inke tho consequences, and tleso will rest upon their own hesds, Mcssra, Gorvow, LAsan, HAnrTON, Nicn- oLLs & Co, will pleass put this n their ptpes and smoke it. Tha Ansessor of the Boutu Divieion, undor tho lead of Philusophior Manitt and It. P, DEiicrany, humanitarian, has adopted o systom Of asgeud- monts totaily difforent from that heretofore fol- lowed In this and the other divisions of the clt; aud the rest of the ftete, and te at present ¢|l|szu in yaiuing reaily at its full indtead of ita ono-thizd cash valne.— Chicago Zimes, Ono of the partics above named pleads not gulity to that charge, as fthasnot been dreamt of in his * philosophy.” What was called o * one-third valuation* in formor yuars of In- flated prices, would now ba n good two-thirds of actual cash valuo, and in many cases o fall cashi value, In no part of tte Statels propor- ty being nssessed at a full cash yaluo except in tho South Division of Chirago, ————— ‘Tho Richmond (Va.) State continues to inaist that the people of Virginia are not in favor of the PorTER-ring busintss, or the unsettlement of the President's title. It says: Yet there is nothing moro cartain than tnat our people look on the whola worement with lm- patienco and aversion, ‘I'loy are above all things auxious (o be quist ind to_sce Congrose attend fn 1ta legitimate business, They are no inter- ested in the capital-factory {nto which the two partics hare 4 themuelves In Conpress, and they by no mi elieve that any good will come to them from mouat of jnvestigation fnto any number of auch creatures as ANDEisoN, McLin & Co. What we want I8 for Congress to do 1ts work, attend to tho tarifls aud Internsl rovenue matters, aud then go hoine, s ————— To the Editor of The Tribune. Crrcaao, June 4, —Will you ptosss declde the following bet: A bots B that it was Gen. Ruwznr E, T.ew who attempted to cacaps from captare by thio Federal “"IX‘ 1 bets it was Jerr Davis, Which has won! i1l accopt no other declelon but yours, 50 pl lecldo and obiige It was Jevr Davis. Gen. Les surrondered bis sword to Uen. GraxT at Appomattox Court-Iouse, Va., April 0, 1805, Jzry Davis was captured near Irwloaville, Ga.. Blay 10, 1803, by a pursuing .force of Federal cavalry, while attemptlug to escaps I femaleo apparel. ——————— The Petersburg (Va.) Jndez-Appeal woulds to Gop that tle country had some such hero as “Htonewall®? JAcksoN mow “to ride loto the camp of the traitors and oppressors of tho peo- ple, and free the Government fromn the reign of corruption and crimne,” We bescoch our fervid friend to go slow,—togoout and hold his throb- blog brow against a lamp-post or & hydrant. After March 4, 1831, such talk may be in order. —— Judge Knr has recelved this lotter from s Consorvative of Nastville, Tenn, : 1am juat in from the country, and the firet thing 1did wae to read your Jettar sppealiug 1o the peo- ple of toe Bouth. “Itis what Iexpocted #ad prophe. aled of you, The Prosmdent, as I bullevo la: through your In ce, has constanily extends the olive-branch of guu to the Boultiern people, but we aro, nevertheless, in reat peril of & Holid South snd a Bolid North. Yours traly, ————— Judu-’ ml)ux }n 3 wnra Of age, large Lo oari hetgh parently sbout 60 conslderably sbovs n fratne, an t. —Tridune lacal tem, ‘The reportr 1s **apparontly ™ s beiter judge of size than of age, as Justice HARLAN fs still on the sunny side of 50, sud has a baker's dozen of yeara' hard work abead of bim before roach- ing the venerable status of a sexagenarian, et As AXDERSON has utterly falled to makea goud thlug out of elther purty, let him now re- 1y on his natural abllities and go Into busivess as tle champlon liar of tho world, He basal- ready developed such remarkable ptation in that Mne thut his success is assured. He was born for the business, and his education is com- » plete. e . ADELAIDE LBNNOX, tho Engliah actress who is trying to get up a scosation B Now York by sllcging the hostliity of the cs and mana- gers to her, was & profgze of BEILMAMMER, the Uerald's ceitle, Thereforo all the other critics fcll upon her with one accord and tore her Um——that is, tight from tight, e —— There is som: fety in the public miod to koow what part Ban Buries will puayasae member ot the Investizating Cowmitice, As ® skilltul and sdroft cross-examiner he has no equal, and he may pick the TiLDEN witnesses to plecesin s way that will be pleasant for bonest peoplo to look upon. ‘fhe BRDXRS have beon heard from sgaln,~ this thwe st Jacksonville, ¥la They were beading for the Nortb, probably fatendlog to teatify before the Potteriog Committice. The ends of justice might bo sttaiued if they could be tndused to lavest th frults of thelr carcor of critwe in an orange-grove. ————— Even as his friends yetled to Mr, Pickelck ‘whea be fell futo the pond, so now the average Democras who hopes 1o have his name presest- &d to the convontion fn 1880 yells to President Hayss: “Hold onj for my sakel’ as if he woulda't hold on for his own. v ———————— Scnator WaLLACH, of Penasylvania, says it s the oploion of meny Democrats that an address - ought t0 bo Lsaucd 10 the peopls assuring them Suat the Porran Lusinces doesuot contemplate the removal of Br. Mayes, Do thesy gentle begin to mes that thelr rayolutlonary schemes are telling apon the busfacsa inter eats of the country, and that public confldence in the honesty and slncerity of the Democratie pacty darapldly being destroyed? That's what's the mattor. — + Wa fsney that Mr. HexDRioks., Benators ‘TnunvaN aod BAvanrp, Gens. tiaxcock, Me- CLELLAN, and other Democrata with amblition, wonldn't mind enguging Brother Kixnarn to ralse the debt on the Democratle parly and pay off the TiLDEN mortgage. — Mr. KispaLL, the debt.raleer, is at present meeting with great success in Muassachusctis, where the Bupremne Court has just declded that a note given for a chiurcnh sabscription need not be pald by the maker, thers being no valuere- celved 10 the cases ———— The New Otleans Pieayune allndes to Jurr DAvis as “this patriotie and noble genticman sud veteran.”” How thaukful the average American gitizen should be that ho tsnot o patriotic and noble gentleinan, but merely a mudsiil. —— ‘The English papers are atigmatizing 8TANLEY 28 & boor, because when banquets sro given to him he doean’t put in an appearanco till dinnet is holf over. They forget that to an African ox- wlorer only the dessert has charma, e t—— : . A New York Police Jastice has very properly fined & prisoner 85 for contempt of Court for asking him for a chew just ns lis Worahip was abont to hofst In aquid. The dignity of the maglistracy must be preserved, | Brother Vosnunoir, the New Jerscy clergys man, having been ncquitted by a jury of his neers of any attempt at polsoning his wife, should oW resiqu. } ‘The Tennesseo Democrats who are howling so about Postmnster-General Kay's tetter ought to keop thelr breath to repudiate their Londs. f By way of seitling this Loulsiona busincss satisfactority, Jiat BexNErT should send nan ex- pedition to the Misslsslpyl to discover tho poll. f “Benator 8rAroN has not drawn his lezisla- tive pay for mearly o year And hehusn't earncd It for nearly four years. f The Now York Worid bas glven the word Yeolitde " the sanction of a place in its columus fu big type. } Tiroex’s “bar'l” of moncy is still in sight. AxpEnsox and his co-conspirators have an cyo on ft. * Bex BourLen has some reputation ns a erfml- nal lawyer. Let hin try his band upou ANDER. 20N, + The I’n’nn:jlvnn(m Communista are #o low down that tho Molly Maguires repudiato them. PERSONALS. Beorotary Evarta has bean argning a patent { "cane bofore the United Etates Clrenit Court at New York. Father Damen hns been preaching *‘a miewion® (n Sing Sing to 1,700 prisoners, 1le was nuslstod by alx priests. Prince Arthur wanta to marry thoe daugh- terof an Irish Earl, but the Queon said thera was one Commoner already io the family. Palmer, one of tho London detectives sent up for connection with thosa frauds upon a French Countoss, fs dying in Jall of & brokon henrt. Jams Lambert, Charlos Reade's Lero of the Clydo, who saved--or was said to have saved—so many folk from drowning, hae just dicd inthe Gios- gow Indrmary. The King of Denmark sent the Emperor Willlam an autograph latter of congratulstion on hin escapo from Hocdel's Luilet, the first bo bad sant to Berlin sinco the war of 1864, Mr, Richard H. Dana has celebratod his 001k birthday. Petor Cooper Is not quite 89, and basa jolly way of saylug, **When I wasa young man, Dryant was a boy, writing poutry. " Elf Porquotte, of Whitelall, N. Y., is n wafle example of ginttony. Lo ate fifty-seven waflles, welghing threa pounds and two ounces, betwuon noon and susset oue day last week. Congressinan Springer, on tho ocension of the coiebration of his forty-second birthday lust woek, recalved, as & survrlse present, a finw crayou photograph of his wife and child, with an appro- priate copy of verses. At Now York tho **Bocloty of tho New Tleaven and the Now Earth* has been duly fncors purated, by Ellza A, Thayer, Martha Morris Bacon, Agnes E. Morrls, L, AL Dronson, and 8arah K. Fuller. Tha object of tha SBoctaty, it is daclared, 15 10 Jead men to the Kiugdom of Ifoaven. Amount of capital not atated. Judgs Chonte, the new Foderal District Judgo ut Now York, Las {saucd an order reducing 81l feos and coats to tho legal standard and other- wise Interfering for the financial sdvantage of the partlss to snite tried before hiscourt. No one with- In tho memory of the oldest {nhabitant has over done this, and soma lawyers and ofiicials ars corre- apondlogly disgusted, Hornce Greeloy's woodland lot has hoen sold for $10.000. It la s pieca of land contalning oighty-threo and s half acros, strewn with boulders snd filled with rats, whers Mr, Grecley had sown in s rather promiscuous fashion. In d vehicle, knowa round Chapoaqua ik, "' the great editor would drivo bis stout plece of horse-flesh amoag them, in his short-sightadness payiog not the slightest altontion tosuch trifing obetaclcs s holesa yard deep, boulders as high, young saplings, or overhanglag boughs, though his guests wers apt to be offs differ- entmind, and all the timo would talk about the Kroal advantages of forest-planting from a politico soclal-scientific view. When no visltor offered him 8 victim, ba found his way to the wood-farwn and chopped about with an ax. To-day the plos is cov- ored with & scrubby growth of locusts ssbigusa man's arm. Bob Ingorsoll should ba sent to Japan asn missionary. A Japancso scsrf gi idea of rsons] devil and materisl holl in by Mikado. The devilisnafund n color, with the orthodox hem to Lese thelr tortures, which sre many, varied, and exqulsite, Thoy fall into meats of burning acorpions, whers they aro tan- talizsed by gilmpses of thelr friends enjoylog themaalves i of cool water, They are ticd 1o rocks, and red-hot lead poared down thelr throata; are chased by hyenss through a fald of open knives and other sharp instruments; are tortured by having thelr limbs sawa off and by belog thrown into & revolving wheel of fre, Some are made 10 hug red-hot stove-pipes, while Satan himaelf, with a smlile, o fanolog them. Otherd awim in seas of blood, surrounded by laughing demone. Othersuilil are seated in & caldron of red-hot sulphor, having thelr tongues pulled out. Some carry heavy burdens of coal sud thruw It into the fze to bars naw victims, A Pannsylvanian named Isass Johnson, of the Village of Port Penn, bashad, sccording to the local gazettes, an eventful ca. sad inherited & fortune after he had loat 1 sad cowplotely given up the struggle of lifo, When aboy of 10 ko stole wash-tob, launched it upon the Delawsre, g0t lota it, flosted down ths river into the bay,snd. was picked up by 8 bark which carried him 10 Vora Cras. The: e made his y totbe Cityol waa adopted by s rich merchant, ndez, givea s lideral edu snd, daslly, & psrteerahlp. Having vecome a par- tisan of Maximilian, he grew so odious totlio people that be was obliged to fly to Texas. Al outset of our Civil War bo sntered the Canfed: army, servlog as side to Albert Syduey Jobnson. After ite cessation, ke returned North, went into the manafactore of shoce fa Philadelphls, aud floazished for awblle, but was eventually ruined by the dlabonesty of bis partucre. Broken fnspiait snd estate, be went back to his viilage home to dic apsuper. Rocently he recelved notice that prop- erty to the value of §200,000, mostof it Ia Gur- erument bands, bad been left him by Don Hidalgo. and be {s patorally rejolced thereat. The moral of thie Is obvious. Bical a wash-tub early,— nevor mind the slza or yhape, ~aud wealth shatl coma to you unezpectedly aftur you have luat your last ceut.