Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1878, Page 4

a WTHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURPAY. JUNE 8, IS78—ITWELVE PAGES, Tlhye Tribare, TT MAIL~IN ADY. a5 Edition, one vew Parxof & YCAT. DOF M Eunday Laition: Tranbie Sheet. Enturday Editl Jri-Weekly, one year. ‘T8 Of 4 yeor, per monih, WREKLY BDITI Ome copy, per yea LA Bpecimen copies sent 1 Gise FosteUltico sddren In foll, Inclodiog State snd Countr. Jtemittances mayhe made elther by draft, express, Fost-Ofceorder, ot In registered letters, at our riske TERMS TO CiTY SUDSCRIBERS. Tally, delfvered, Bunday excepted, 25 centa per week. Tefly, delivered, Eunday Included, A0 cents per week. Address THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, 11l Orders for the delivary of Tux TRinuxzat Evanston, Engiewood, and Hyde Park feftin the couuting-room Wllizecelve yromut atteation. . TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, Trg Cu1CA00 TRINTXR hina established branch ofices for the recelpt of subicriotionsand sdvertisements as follows: NEW YONR—Toom 20 Tridune Bullding. F. T. 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Greonbacks at the New York Btock Ez. chingo yostorday closed at 09, P A The usnally poncefol aud prosperons citi- zons of Elgin, Tll., are considerably ' tore up * over o municipal muddle, in which the City Council and the Mayor are furiously at loggoerhends, According to tho accounts raceived, tho Mayor scems to have lost his tomper and mental equilibrium in resorting o force and violonce to carry his point, A victory for this stench-suffering com- munity bas been gained in tho conviction of the partics on trinl in the Criminal Court for contributing o the grand volamo of the nnisance, It is regarded ns o test cnso, and ns detormining the result in a large number of other cnses yot to be tried; so that there is a gratifying prospect that tho offending institutions will be compelled either to uso apparatus by which the noxious gnses can bo destroyed or clse to suspend operations and quit tho business, Tho correspondenca submitted by the President yesterday in responso to the ro quest of the Porren Committeo fails to fur. nish any evidonce that tho former.was dis- posed to rewnrd ANpEnsoN for his corrupt services. Ou the contrary, it shows clear- ly, what has been Lerotofore nsserted, that, acting upon the rocommendation of tho entire Republican Congressional dolegation from Louisiona, the President intended to appoint ANpgRsox to a Consulship, but that Lo chianged his intention and revoked the appomtment promptly upon recelving in. formation 08 to Axpenson's disroputable charncter. Tlho Tiroes plan of securing nominations bas worked badly in the Eleventh Illinofs Congressionnl District. Gon. SmoLeToN's suceess I8 alleged to hnve been brought abont through the regular Graniercy Park mothods, ond tho Democratio dolegates from Groone nud Jersey Countios openly chiargo thnt the men from Pike not only sold out, but, worso thau all, they sold out disgracefully cbeap, oud In this way lowered tho market price. The campnign openod immodiatoly aftor tho adjournment of the Convention by numer- ous joint discussions, in which knock-down nrguments woro freely employed among tho delogates, and in one instance the persunsive rovolver waa introduced with marked effect. 1t is not expected, howover, that trivial epl- godos of this kind will serinusly interfore with tho success of the ultra inflationist whom thoe men from Pike wero Instrumental in nominating. Indisn-Cowmissioner Havr has succeeded in making an unenviable record for himself ina short perlod of sorvice. Besides om- broiling himself with the army by biy serious and nnsubstantinted statements in regard to tho licontiousness of soldiurs and officers nt Btanding Rock Agency, he hos been charged with suspicions transactions in conncction with cortain cattlo contracts. Tha 8t Paul Pioneer Press mokes a clear exposition of tha subject, It shows that, by tho terms of tho contract, the successful bldder was re. quired to deliver tho cattle at the remote ngencies mentioned oighteen days after the proposuls were received at Washington, This rostricted the Lidding to ono man,—the only person in the world, so far-as known, who had cattle within call of the agencies, 50 that ko could comply with the conditions of the contract. ‘The euccessful bidder was thus enabled to charge the Governmont throe and o holf cents per pound, whereas under the contract for the year the rate was two and a half cents per pound, making a differ. sunce of £40,000 to tho Government. Will Commissioner Iayr plonse oxplain? —er It will bo remombered that the preamblo of the PorTER resolution charged upon Sec. relary Sueusan wrongfulacts in influencing, Ly assurances of roward, the making of pro- tests by AxpensoN and Wenen in which in. timidution and violence in the Feliclana Parishes were falsely and fraudulently al. leged. 'I'hiv charge, if proven to bo true, wouldIny the foundation for impenchment procecdings ngainst the Secrotary, e is therefora entitled to the privilego of proving the chargo to Lo false by testiniony before the Comuwittes, and to do this ho must be allawed to prove - that ‘the - violenco and jutimidation upon which tho protests wero based actually occurred, Mr. Su X has submitted to the Committee a list of the witnesses whose testimouy Lo desives to have taken on this snbjoct, and upon whom Lo rclies for his defonse. To refuso to allow theso witnessea to testify would be 4 outrageous uct of injustice which would bo everywhere condemned, whilo to sccede to Mr, Buruawan’s demand will open up a damaging side of the 1avestigation which the Comuitieo would suppreas if thoy dared. It was predicted at the outset that the Becre. tary of the ‘I'reasury would prove a trouble- somo subject, and the Democrats are just be. ginning to tind it out, The importsnce which the Democrats of tie Porren Comitteo aro laboring so hard to nttach to the irregulerity fu * Certificate No. 8" of tho Louisisna Electoral count will “taxes; they kuow (hat in thiv Stats the not roadily be perceived by the public in gonernl, Evidently tho purpose is to divert attontion from the disgraceful collapse of Axprrsox ad a witness by raising a hue.and. cry over what was at most n technfeal mis- tako in the preparation of the roturnd The attempt will not succoed. It is plain to the dullest comprehension, first, that tha ques- tion of tho genuineness of the signatures to “ Certificate No. 18" cuts no figuro in tho cnge, sinca it was not this certificate that governed the decision of the Electoral Com- mission, but ' Certificate No. 1,” which was gennine and regular beyond question); and, socond, that no fraud or forgery was attempted in the mattor of the jrregular certificato, becanse nono was necessary. Tha thing which the Commisslon weanted to know whas, for whom were tho oight Elect- oral votes cnst; and this was shown by “Certifteato No. 1,” the only paper consider- od or acted upon by the Commission. Nobody disputos that the eight Electoral votes of Louisiana wora actually onst for Hares and Waezrses, sy shown by ** Certifleate No. 1,” tho only dispnte being whethor the eight Ropublican Electors wore lawfully elected. Tho fuss made about tho irregular cortificato shows the extremitics to which the fraud- huntera aro reduced for sensational matorial. THE NULLIFICATION VOTE. Wao have now the official record of tho voto upon tho smondment to the Revenuo bill by which the officers of tho United Btates, appointed to collect intornal rovenue, aro denied the protection of the United States Couris, and are made subject to pros- ocutions, civil and criminal, in the Stato courts. Wo havo alrendy shown that this provision was inserted to provent the collec- tion of nny tax on whisky mannfactured in the Southern States. Tho right to manu- facture whisky s now regarded aa ono of tho *‘State Rights " of tho South, nud theroisa dotermination in thoso Btates to pay no United Btates tax on the whisky produced there, Distillorics aro in fall biast in soveral of thosoe States, and the authority of the United States Is openly defled. The reve- nuo officors, when they scek to make an arreast or selzo a distillery, ars mot by armed forco, and within tbo last ton days the House of Rapresentatives havo put in the Army bill o prohibition of the uso of any military force of the United States in any Btate to enforcs the laws or for any other purpose. The same House hns now gone further, and sathorized the proscoution of all Fedoral rovenuo officers who shall make arrosts or soizo proporty in execution of United States Inw in the Stato courts. The official record ronds thus: The queation was on the nmendment of Mr, ‘Vaxcr, of North Carolina, which was as follows? Addos n}rnvlin 0 the ninth sections Protided, That so mnch of Sec. (H3 of the Re- visod Statutes of the United Statew ar applies to the romoval of clvil anics (from the Btate to the United States Courta] or criminal vrosccutiuna againat any officer appointed under or acting by authority of any revenue luw of the Unitod States e, aud tha same te hereby, repcaled. In 1833, when South Carolina nuliified the laws aod passed s Blate Iaw probibiting the acollection of rovenue by officers of the United States in that State, and making the samo an indictable offense, Congress, at tho request of Gen, JaomsoN, ennoted that when any rovenuo offlcer was subjected to civil snit or eriminal proseeution in a Btato conrt, the trinl of said case should be trausferred from the State to the Federal courts. That has boon the law over since that timo, and now the Democratio Housa of Ropresontatives have repealed this law for the protaction of the United States ofllcers, and loaves them 'to bo indictod, tried, con- victed, nad punished by the Btato courts for onforcing tho Rovenuo law of tho United States, This amendment of Mr. Vance was ro. joctod on the rising voto, yoas 69, nooa 72 a voto by tellers wns domanded, and it was agnin ‘vejocted, ayes 77, noes 81,—tho North. orn Domocrats boing slow to sustain this nullification schomo, Vaxce domanded the yons and nays, and the nmondmont wna adopted,—yens 107, nays 93, 'Tho Bouthern Democrata voted for tho nmendmont solidly, and o sufficlont number of Northern Dowmo- crats put thomsslves on racond for this nulii. tying, rovolutionary net. Wo give the names of thesa Northorn Democrats, who will short. 1y bo asking the people of tho North for re- clection, Wo commend the list to tho peo- ple of this State, that they may domand an oxplanation of this schemo to releaso the poople of tho Bonth from payment of any Tavonne tax. Toro is the lst: Ewng, 0., Mayham, N.Y., Finloy, O, McMabon, 0., MNardenbergh, Morrlson, 1L, N, Jd., Morso, Mass. Jardein, 1. Maillet, Fa.o & Uartzell, 11t.," Ross, N, J., Y., Eayicr, 0., 8 . 0., G N Y ln'l":flk"il"‘ Wikzlaton, ¢ 1 Mackoy, I's, J s Blon, la-" Maian, ban® Wrign Ta. In nddition to this liat tho following Democrats who would have voted for the amendment woro paired : Rico, Ohlo; Dickey, Ohla: Fuller, Tndisas; Muller, New Yark: Cobb, Indlana. Tucluding the pairs, thero woro 40 North. orn Domocrats who voted to prohibit the colloction of internal rovonue, and espeolally tho tax on whisky in tho Southern States, oud voted that any officer attempting to col- leot such toxea in thoso States should be fined und imprisonoed by the Btata courts for exccuting tho Revenuo laws of the United Htatos in any oue of those suverolgn tates. Theso 40 Northern Dowocratio votes in favor of nullification and Stato Rights at the Bouth wero given from the States named : New Hampshire, 1; Massachuaotty, 2; Now o e T R Torotd, 15 gonu‘«cdcul. 1 o, oo Ui Theso six Domoorats from Illinols had not oven the poor apology of voting to relcass tho distillers of this Btato from paying their tax will bave to bo paid, and they ought to know that, when whisky can be made south of tho Ohlo River without paying taxes, it of courso can be sold at such rates as will break up tho manufacture of the articlo in this Stato and in all the Northern States. The law fs equally applicable to the collection of taxes on tobacco and cigars. It a Marshal or Collector in this Blate shall arrest any cigarmaker for non.compliance with the law, or .secize hls property, tho defendant will bave the right to «ue him for false imprisonment and dam. eges, and brivg the sult in the State court, without muy right of appeal to or protection from the United States Oourt. Any Justice of thio Peace 1n I'inols sy issue Lis warrant for tho arvest of eny United Htates Marshal who shall make an arvest or scizure under the Revenus laws, or who shall use forco in executing tho Revenue law, and biud him over to be judicted, and tried, and punished in the State Courts, Any United States officer attempting to execute the Hevenue laws in this or any other Stats will do so athis peril, and subject to arrest and punishment for violating State laws. Ot courso this will prectically defeat the execution of any Revenue law; it 1% an su- thority from Congress to nullify the laws of the United Btates, nand for this legislation six Democratio members from lilinois, two from ‘Wisconsin, and three from Indiana voted, and pleced their names-on rocord. Even Now England furnished four Domocratio votes to declare the United Btates to be n “foreign ™ power, without tho authority to ocollect its revenue in any sovoreign Slate, espocially in any Stato which had been in tho *'go-called Rebellion,” MR. LEVISSEE'S TESTIMONY, The Chicago Zimes can always be depend. ed upon for getting on both sides of any tm- portant mattor which agitates tho publio for the timo being. The Porren investigation has baon no exception to the rule. The first poge is edited vigorously in behalf of the rovolutionista; the fourth page is edited just ns vigoronsly in behnlf of tho conservn. tives. The Washington dispatches and their flaming head.lines have from the beginning conveyed tho impression that the Domocrats woro achieving o grent trinmph, and making ont on unimpeachable ense of deliberate fraud, involving the President and protty muoh the entira Administration; the edito- rial, writton at homo, bas persistently antag- onized this false coloring given to the nowa aud evidence, and has riddled the testimony and ridiculed and denounced the whols case, I this were an exceptional occurrence, it might be attribnted to tho nbsenco of the ruling genius of the Zimes establishment, who has not yot advanced to Mr. BExNETT'S plan of editing his paper by cable. But the same donble-faced systom was in force un. der Mr, Sroney's porsonal supervision,’ so that it may bo acceptod as the policy of the paper to try to satisfy both parties, and this policy has its nsual result of dissatisfying and disgusting both parties. Tho niost glaring elfort at misropresanta. tion was made in the Washington specinl dispatch to the Zlimes in reforenco to Levis- sEr's testimony bofore the Commiltee, The Lead-linew burst forth with the startling an- nouncements: ‘' Forgery Added to tha Long List of Political Orimes in Loulstana”; * The Certifleate from That State Pronounced Dogus; " *Denial Ly One of the Electors that Ho Ever Signod It, Though His Name Is Attached Theroto,” eto. The dispatch it- solf says that *‘Any one familiar with the school of Loulsiana politics will not be surprised to know that forgery was called to the aid of the gang of thioves who had by perjury and furgery sccurod the State thus far,” and it proceaded to the length of n column ond o half in the ssmo sirain, Notwithstanding this unblushing distortion of the avidence by tho Washington editor, the Chicago editor procecded the very same day to show up the utter weaknoss and pal- pable porjury of the testimony on which the Domoornts are resting the whole investiga- tion. The factaof the Lmviasex testimony are too plain to bo susceptible of sucossaful mis- construction, Lievisses was one of the Lon- isiana Electors whom the lying Anpenson charged with having voted in blank., The Democrats, catching at any straw, eatled Mr, Levissez before them. They caught a tar- tar, He swore that the Democrats hnd made a desporate effort to bribe Lim to vote in Ulauk, offering him as high as 100,000 to do so, but that ho resisted tho bribo, and voted for Ilarzs and Wurerzn, Ho himself signed tho roturn which was opened and counted by the Electoral Commission, Some timo aftorwards, it wna doomed wise to cover all teohnioal requirements by send- ing forward additional duplicate roturns. By this time Lzvisszz had roturned homo, and was pravented from visiting Now Or- loaus by a storm, so that his name was sigued to the duplicates just aa ho himsolf had proviously signed tho origival. Tho iden that thero was avything like forgery or on sttempt at fraud in this proceeding is far- fatched and proposterous. Lrvisser yvoted for Hares and Wureren, and sigued his own nomo to the originsl return which was counted. Any subsequent transaction is simply immaterial, and the mors so because nothing had been done which Lrvissex had not done himself, which ho wna not again ready to do if necessary, and which ho does not now confirm. The Domocrats failed to bribe Levissge in the first instance to vote blank, and they have now failed to induce him to repudiate Lis volo and signature, It begius to look ns though about all the fraud in Loulsiana was on the Democratic side, THE SBWIRDLING FISHERY AWARD. Tho criticisms of tho American press on the Halifax arbitration have nt last provoked a responso from o prominent Canadian organ, but not such & response as we Loped for and hind a right to cxpect. 'The ‘Toronto Globe dovotes throo of its Jong columns to the subjoct. It demounces, the unfalrness of tho American press; defends the charne- tor of Mr, DreLvosse, the nmpire of the Com- mission ; nnd |nsists upon tho obligation of tho Unitod Btates Government to pay with. out protest or inquiry, Ono bravch of the discusslon, however, it strangoly negleots to notico. That is the question of the justico orinjustice of the verdict; ita accordance or want of acoordance with the terma of the submissfon, and the binding character or essontial nullity of o verdiot prooured and ronderod as this was, It is no answer to the caso of thoe United Btates Government to ssy that Groat Britain paid tho Geneva award. 'The Aloboma claims were o casus belli, It thoy had wnot boen pmid, thoe United Btates would Lave made reprisals, among which would been included not only these procions tisheries but the Dominion of Canndaas well, Groot Britain estcemed théso possessions worth tmore than the §15,500,000 awarded to the United States out of Ler Treasury. She had olso a powerful inducemert to pay the award in tho prowmise of a strict neutrality as between Great Britain and other nations, which she Incidentally exacted from the United States. This coucesslon is worth many times the value of tho Canadian fish. eries in divpute. Its monoy value to Great Britain in the rgcent compheations arluing between her and Russia in simply ibcalculable. A second difference botween the Geneva and Halifax awards is, that the former was o just messure of the damege inflicted and the latter an unjust meavure. The Uited States actuslly suffered in mouey loss through tho Alsbama snd other pri- vateers much more than sbe received in the Geneva award. ‘Though there hay yot been no distribution of the whole sum awarded, the delay has only been becauso the Govern. ment could uot st ounce datermine which olass of claimants had tho better right to be paid. The fishery award was intended to be tho seitlement of a commercial dispute, the torma of which were clearly deflued before it wes submitted to the Commission. The American Commissioners ot Washington claimed thst thig privilege without abate. ments was not worth wore than $1,000,000 in perpetaity. Both sides at that time had in viow the value of the inghore fishorics. Theae were shown to b, within the throc- mile limit, only mackarol fishorics. The cash valne of the mm:ku-all bronght to this conn. try by American fishormen during tho five years in which the treaty had beon In opera- tion did not excoed $75,000 por nonum, and the profit on this catch was not mora than $25,000 por annum. But tho Capadian Com- mission adjudged tho valae of the privilege —which cannot be more than the profits from the flaherios—to bo 483,333 per annum, It reems clenr that thoy had iIn view a totally different subject from that contem- plated by the Joint High Commissionors. Tho Canndian Commission must have ns- sumod to decids the memorable hendland coniroversy, by which it ia claimed tho jurisdiction of that country extends over all tho bays such as the Bay of Fundy and all tho gulfe anch na the Gulf of Bt. Lawrenco within tho Dominion. This question was not submitted. Tha only question wns whether the fishing.rights accorded to the United States by Canada were more valuable than tho fishing-right and the remission of duatles accorded to Cannda by the United States. The Commission wns not ealled upon’ to decido that the fishing-rights re. forred to included tho right to flsh within any two designated hendlands of the Domin. fon of Canada; but, nccopting the usual interpretations of international law, was bound to decide that the jurisdiction of the soveral countries did not oxtend miore than three marino miles from tha'const, whother in tho Bay of Fundy, tho Gulf of 8t Law. rence, or nny other inlet, sound, bay, of gull. Tha Toronto Glods sssumes that ** the loss of somo 28560,000 n year of daty to the United Btatos Treasury” was not a snbjeot for the Halifax Commission to consider. But Art, XXIL of the treaty ospeclally says: Inasmuch a¢ [t {s assorted by the Government of her Jiritannic Majeaty that tAe privileges accorded to the citfzens of ‘the Unmted States under Art, XVIIL of thia treaty are of greator value than thaes accorded by Arts, XIX. and XX1, of thi treaty (o the subjecis of her Iirtannle Majesly, ond thle aseeriion is not admitiod by the Uoveruinent of the United Sates, [t Ir further Agreed that Commissioncea shall be appointod to determino, Aaring regard to the pririleges accorded by tha Tniteid Shiles to th of her Hritannic Mu- Jesty, asstated in Ari and XX1 of this Treaty, the smonnt of any comnensation which, in thetr aptnton, aughit to bo pald by the Government of the United Stated 1o the (lovernment of hee Britannic Majesty 1n return for tho priviloges ac- corded to the citizens of tho Unlted States under Art. XVII, of this treaty. Tho first article thus roferred to ns nc. cording * privileges” to the subjecta of hor Britannic Mojesty {s that which gives tho right o flsh in American waters north of the 8Yth parallel of Intitade. The second articlo (XXL) rende ns follows: 1t I8 agread that, for the term of years [twalva] mentioned. in Art, XXXUL, of this, treaty, fahs ofl and fish of ali Kinds (excupt fish of tho iniand Iakee, and the rivers falling into thom, and oxcept fisl ureaerved tn all) belng the produce of feheries of the Unitad Status, or of the Domintan of Canada, orot Priuce Edward's Island, shall bo admitted into ench country, reapectively, froe of duty, It js nnfalr and dishonost for tho Toronto Globe to claim that tho only porsons who goin by this losa of duties to the United States aro the inhabilants of those Btates. The treaty expressly mentions this as one of thae priviloges accorded to Canadn, If itisa privitege, it is worth something. But the Halifax Commission throw it out a8 worth nothing, It thoreby violnted the treaty and the terms of submission, and mado ita own verdict vald snd of no offect. This, after all, is the pith of the controvorsy; and here is to ba found the roason why the Toronto Globe and other Canadian papers argue the question with sach heat and disingenuous- ness, PENSIONING REBELS, Tas Curoaco Tminoxe has claimed from tho outset that if tho Democratio party should gain the political ascondenoy in Oon- gross, and seouro control of the Executive branch of the Government, the South would rush in and demand indemnity for itd losdes during tho War, and wake n raid on the Treasury with clalms dmounting Yo hundreds of millions of dollars, based npon every con- coivable pretoxt. Thoe Democrats have not yet secured comploto control, bnt tho raid has novortholesa commonced, and the records of Couvgross aro filled with thousands of clnims, filed by individuals and corporations, nsking that tho Genoral Government shall relmburso them for their oxpense jncurred in resisting the Government, = Thus far Tar T'nipuNe's prophecy hng beon fulfilled, Wo now go a step further pud put upon record anotlier prophocy, namely, that if the Dum. ocrats @ocuro tho next President and Con- gross, the Northern doughfaces will voto to pay theso claims, to reimburso the South for ita losacs, and to pension overy ox-Coufedors nte or bis hoirs, or, refusing to do sa, will be driven out of the Domocratio party, The donghfaces Iaughed and sneered at the first praphecy of Tux. Tntnuxe, but it como to pass. Thoy will sucor at the sccond, but thoro is no other logical outcome to the ovents which have already heppened when the Democrats hiave control of but omo Jlouse, . Straws show which way the wind blows, snd thoro Is ono straw to which wo are about to rofur that shows the wiud is Llowing very freshly from tho Somth, r, Hzxny War- TERAON, tho editor of tho Louisvillo Courier- Journal nnd ex-member of Congress, doliv- ored an address to tho veterans at the Dayton (Ollo) Boldiers' Home tho other day, which contained o eignificant ultersnco thal we odviae the readers of Tns Turnusx to cut out and flo awny for futuro referonmco. Mr, Warrzrson ia a gontleman who has always boon noted for his franknoss of specch, Iio has nover boen rogarded as a radical Bourbon or a tire-sater, .I1{e lves near ouough to tho border to know and appreciate Northorn son- timent upon all matters connected with the 1ato Robellion.. He knows that the mojority of the Northorn people are inflexibly op. posed to nny measure tonding to recognizo tho action of the Bouthern Htates s justif. sblo, and ho has fratornized with them, and Lias olways been rogarded as a man who says what he means. In the course of bhis spoech Mr, WarTznson said: 1 should like to be antacrst for one day, I would double the pension of every one of you, 1would Nlllllul{lunlluunm of this kind, And, In Jeal 10g out benefices of tovernment with no nicgardly tand, { would not sto Hae, but would seo to It | of the south yot 8 litile sober earnest, ) would ou Masou's and Dlxcn's ong, with the test. i k uotbing for myself that 1 am not ready 10 give; but [ do mek &1l for myvelf tbal 1 am ready to give. Ju s Hepublic thero nuvt be no ducrimivation, Equality i3 {ndiepeueatle o fratemnity. In other words, it Alr. WaTTERSON Wero sutocrat for one day, he would pension all the ex-Rebols and provide them with Boldiers’ Homes at the espense of the Gen- eral Government. **In a Nepublic,” says Mr., Warrenson, ‘‘thore must be no dis. crimination,”—that is, the Government must not discriminate between tho men who fought for its maintenance aud tho men who fought to deatroy it. Rewards must be bestowed upon them oqually. The result of Mr., Warrzsson's sutocracy would be to placo Rebellion upon the same footing as Unionism, 3nd o extend the same favors to those who for five ycars sought to break up tho Government s to those who resisted tho attempt aud thwarted it. This mon. strous doctnneis enunciated, not by oue of the oxtrome flre-eating and bnlldozing Bourbons, bat by aman_hithorto supposed to be mod- orate in his views, It only goes to show the unanimity of sentiment that oxists in the Sonth npon this question of domanding and obtaining complete indemnity for ita ex- pense in resisting the efforts of the Govarn- ment to preservo its own oxistence., It is o foresbadowing of what is coming in the near futnre, and one of many similar offorta to propare and habitnate the public mind to it. The only distinction between the gonerosily of Mr. Warrzasox and ¢hat of the extreme SBouthern Bourbons is in its ex- uberanco, Whilo the latter would pension nll the Rebels nnd take awny tho pensions of the Union men, if they could, ho would double the pensions of Union men for the sake of ndding tho Robels to the ponsion.list, which §s only auother illustration of the ro- markable bonevolonca of men when they can run théir hands into other people’s pockots. In fact, tho only limit of Mr, Warzenson's generosity to tho South would ba the taxable capncity of the North, It nover scems to ocour to Mr. WarTensox, howaver, that the people who would have to provide the means for this Democratic generoaity might object (o ft. They are in- debted to him, howover, for n very frank statement of the Democratic programme, POPULAR EDUCATION. Two weeka ngo Inst Sunday afternoon the Rey. Mr, Fonnusn preached a'sormon in tho Fourth Unitarian Churoh of this city upon the taking subject of ** Popular Education,” that was, on tho whole, a very plausiblo and logical discourse. Tho leading thought {hat the spenker endenvored to elaborate and fm- press upon his anditors was the supremo im- portance of the diffusion of kmowledge asmong the peoplo ay s guarantes of the per- manency of republican institutlions, Ile compared our success ps o nation with somo of tha South American and Moxican States, andstruck the balance largely in our favor, ‘because our people aro 50 much moro intolli. gont thon those with whom thay were com- pared. After making usaof all the onstom- ary arguments in favor of popular oduca- tion that are generally adopted by its ndvo- cates, Mr, Fonuvam proccedad to antagonizo the position of Hznoznr Spexoer aud the TRoman Ontholic Church, to-wit : that educn. tion was not 8o great n promoter of morals as many of its adhorents coitended. Ho said * Tho question wns whothor the world was lahoring under a delusion, or was popu- lIar education developing intolligonce and promoting publio virtuo, or was it having the opposite effoct?" Our anawor to Mr. Foypusu's question would be something like this: Popular eduocation is developing intel- ligence and promoting public virtue Lo a very gront degree, but not to the extent that is claimed by men who mako universal,cduca~ tionn hobby, A mnan mny bo o fanatio or an extromist in the mattor of education, aud, bolng wholly angrossed with the ideaof the beneflts that he imngines will result from tha adoption of his theorles, ho may bo ut- tarly Llind to'the correlativa delocts of such o system. Mr, Srexoen does not think that education is o novor-failing panacea for the oure of crimo, dishonesty, and immorality, ond in this ho {8 wundoubtedly right. Mr. Fonnuez gaid that *nearly . all crime was committed by Ignorant peo- ple.” 'This s far from n correct statomont of the cnse. If ho moans that a majority of tho criminnls in our peniton. tiarics, jalls, nnd houses of correctlon are ignorant and dobnsed mon, itis very likely that ho has the faots to austain him; but it homaans to strike a balance botween the vir- tues and vicos of mankind,—charging igno- ranco with all the vice and crediting intelli- gonco with nll the virtne,~then Mr, Fonuuan ia claiming too much. It is probably sus- coptible of ensy proof that thero is as much sobrioty, honosty, and true religious living among the common peoplo of thisand all other countries aa there s among the richer aod bettor classes of soolety. Then thera aro degrees in orimo as in everything olse,— the ingelligent criminal striking higher and accomplishing much more than his stnpid and ignorant brother. For example, tho re- port of tho Btate's Prison at Waupun, Wis,, showad ' that thore were twonty.odd men sorving out sentonca in that institution for horse-stonling. If they lLad stolen Lut one horso opiece, the aggregate value of tho properly taken would not amount to more than throe or four thousand dollars. In tho same village, and under tho very shadow of that samo Penitentiary, a banker, Hongmx by name, misappropriated more than $100,- 000 ot doposits belonglug to widows, lubor. ing men, poor wornen, and men not 8o poor, Alr, Hopzmmg made o sudden visit to Aus tralia until tho affair blow over, but hns now returned to laugh in tho facos of the pooplo whom he lLss robbed, The defaullers, counterfolters, forgers, conspirntory, adultors ord, and robbord that aftict modern eociety are gonerally iutolligont and well educated porsons, who Lave beon trained in a special live, but who have turned tholr knowledgo to a bad account, Oue smart rascal can in- fliot more serious dnmage upon a community than twouty other fellows of' ordinary ca. pacity, Tho oficers of soma life-insuranco companies aud of some savings banks, and the 'I'reasurors of somo stock companies, might bo citel a8 examples that would illustrato tho inatter under dis- cuasion, - In overy Blate, tho mou in Btate's Prison are greatly outnumbered by those who ought to bo inside, but are sharp enough to ovado the grip of the law and koep out, 'Tho poor fellows that are crunched up by the iron jaw of that curious thing we call Justice, and whose names crowd the police roports, are not o whit worse, nor na bad, as thousands of others who pais through tho world as respeotable poople. Not long ago, in a noighboring city, three mon wers lying in jail awaiting trial, Onc was accused of counterfelting, and had been a member of the Stato Legislature and quite prominent a8 o physiclan and local politician. Another hed forged checks upon bauks so cleverly that tho bank officcrs were deceived and taken in by him. Tho other was g student in the Btate University, arzested under the chargo (afterwards confesscd) of having wurdered bis own cbild in order to escape the shamo of exposure. Those persons were All bigh above thae herd of drunk and disor- derly people thot are run fu by the polico and figure in tho proceedings of municipal courts. Mr, Fompuann will find, also, that the number of criminals in any Stato in. creases with omazing uniformity with the inerease of population, und that there is seemingly no decreasa of vico to corrospond with the spread of intelligence and the dif- fusion of useful knowlodge. ‘What shall we say then? That popular education is & fallacy and a falluxe? Not st all. Butlot us sy to a!l educators of the young, Do not atlach too much importance to mere intclloctual development and to the scquisition of kuowledge in order to prepare men aud women for the grond and responsi- ble duties of'lifo, but give the moral nature i late, and the conscience strongth and tono suffi- ciont to withatand tho nesanits of temptation that are sum to come to all. Universal edu- cation {s & tremendous factor in the progress f the human rnco; but, befors wo ean rench our highest ideal, {t must bo supplo- monted by a rational, consistent, and rigid morality, Dr. Youra declares that, *'With tho talonts of an angel, aman may ba nfool”; so with the finest intellectual qnalities, he mny harbor all the vices in tho eataloguo, Even Honaox Maxny, who did moro for popular eduoation than any other man of his day and genoration, declared that ten mou failed in this lifo from a Jack of morals whoro ono failed from a lnck of intelloct. Tho spread of intelligenca among the mnss of the people by the com- mon-school systom and other educational facilities adopted in 'this conntry may bo compared to spreading 8 prodigious amount of canvas upon a ship,—she must have a proportionate amount of ballast or sha will capsiza and be loal THE ROCE ISLAND ARSENAL. As nught have been oxpocted in the pres. ont condition of the Domocratic mind to- wards the army and everylhing connected with it, Mr. Hewrrr and his Committeo have siricken ont the appropriation of 300,000 nsked for to continuo work at tho Rock Islaud Arsenal, nud refused to give.n single dollar. They are willing to givo monoy for nany other purpose, but they do not like this arsenal, which is in the wrong part of the country to snit them in goneral or Mr. Hewrrr in particalar, The Rock Istand Arsonal is the only ntaenal wost of tho Alle- ghony Mountains, It isintended to supply the whole West and SBouth with tha material of war and military stores, and in refusing to contribute towards its furiher support this Cominitteo has dealt o blow at tho wholo Wast aud South, Thera aro privato ns well as public ronsons why Mr. Hewrrr is doterminod to broak down the Rock Island Arsonal, and perhaps the private ronson is quito as strong as tho publie, It ian blow at Wostern manutactur- erain tho intorests of Eastern corporations. Mr. Hewrrr, 08 is woll known, is an Eastorn maonufacturar, and connocted with the wealthy iron firm of Cooren & Hrwrrr. Having this business-standing, it is not re- ronrkable that Mr. Hewirr should declaro that the country does not want armories and nrsennls, and that private eorporations in time of war ean supply all the requisite ma- torial. Tho Davenport Gazelte, in discussing this question, nsks the following very porti- nont questiona 5 Ia It hecauso ho knows well that in building ap s manufacturiny arsenal unpon Rock Island the Gove ernment {a giving direct but unintentional, but nono the lees cortain and cfective, incentive tothe aguroeation of other mannfacturing tnterosts in this Tocallty? 1Iu it becuuso he knows well that mnnufactuzers of iron. brass, zinc, etc., are cer (aln to bo attracted to the vicinazo of so large s Government workshop a8 tho arscnol on liock Island s sure to he in duo time, if tho plans long ago adopted are Fully carelod out? 18 Mr. HEwite 80 hide-bound in his devotion to Kastern Intercats that ho fesrs and would wholly cripple the Westy In nuswer to tho sily plen that private porsons can do the work, tho Rock Island Argus, n Democratio paper, which vigorous. 1y denounces the Domocratic hostility to the arsonal, woll anys: Only a very fow of the richest private firms in the East caw'afford to make tho inrze cxpenditure required to got roady ro muke the speclal “material of war_roquired, and when they are roady it i too Evon then thoy cannot make tha very hest, which is tho only thing worth huving, Without the arsenals the Government cannot have models and show what I8 wanted nnd ita coat, and contractors and forelzn conntsies ean supnly what thoey please, and charge for It what thay ploase, It would bo nractically, when tho nation Is In danger, tylng it liand and Tont and tuening it over to 118 enemios, or to 1t3 not cntircly disinterosted friends, This wholo subject kas bzen fully and fairly considored. and it fu pretty hard Lo say now. when the arscnal 1 thrao-Joriha comploted, that it anall b abans doned. Tho fact that the work can bo done now most ccopomically when both labor and matorlal arg vory chenp !a worth cooaldemtion. At the prescnt time, when labor ls so unscttled, & propa- sition to throw ontof employment & larze numbor of workingmon and add them to the unemployed workingmen of the country 1s & great hardshlp. sad fs unwiso for thoie who do it aud {8 perhaps Iraught with much danger, 'Ly point is so cluar that it doos not noed discussion. It hoa beon sottled by oxperl. onco and facts that cannot be gainsaid, aod in urging tho contrary Mr, Hewrrt is siinply striving to strike n blow at the manufactur. ing growth of tho West to benofit Enstern corporations, to holp sectional Interests, and to satisfy tho rapacity and sclfishness of Eastorn monufacturers, It i8 & Westorn interest that'conflicts with a privato Eastorn interest, and Mr. Eewitr, being identified with that intoreat, i3 willing to break down an actusl necessity to the West apparently for purposes of porsosal greed, - Thero s still avother roason which lics at the bottom of this hostility to the Rock Islond Arsonal. ‘Tho Democrats, bating tho army naturally, hote overy mnstitution con. nected with it, espacially those whioh fur- nish it with supplics and mntorial. In case of futuro saotional trouble, tho geographical location of tho amonal s unfortunato . for thom, It is beyond thalr reach, Bituated in tho midst of a thoroughly loyal people, thoy éonld notselze it. As botween theso two remsons, Mr, Mewirr can take his cholee. If ho dooci not opposs furthor work upou the arsenal bocauso ho is nctuated by tho solfisk interosts of tho cor« poration to which ho belongs, theu it is be. canso’ of the gravor publio ronson which we have alleged, and vice tersa, It now remaing to be seon whothor the Westerd and Southern mambers of the Houso will unite to protect tho {nterests of their constituents or will yiold to the personnal hostility of Mr, Hewirr to this {mportant mensure. This {3 not o political mensure, but one which affects tho wholo peoplo of tho West and Bouth and the growth and resourcos of the vast country between {ho Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountaing. - As agajust Mr. Hxwirr's per- sonsl greed or political onmity, whichover it may bo, the peopla of theso sections have soms ¥ights which Congreas is bonnd to con+ sider, A BRIGHTER BUSINESS OUTLOOK. The only journal in New York that has {akon a rational aud fmpartial view of Amer- {can finances during the past year or twolis the Graphic. It has kept up protty well with Tue Trinusein tracing causo and effect fu connection with tho hard times, their in- citing troubles, and mostapproved rewedies, It hns generally steered cloar of tho extrem. ists on Loth stdes, governed by thewr own in. terests and selfish purposes, and it has con. sequently enjoyed the satisfaction of verify- jng its own predictious and witnessing the dlgcomfituro of those who opposed it in a communily where it stood almost alone, The Graphic’s courso in the past warrants its claim to & good deal of consideration for sny estimate it may make of finsncial and commoreial probabilities of the future, It now ventures the following prediction s As tha ropeal of the Bankrupt law goes fnto effect v the lat of noxt Boptewber, wo may ex- vect business enterprise to take sdvantage of 1ho aveun Ivency ul thows who rcioain in trade, oo unprecedented voluume of business next full. We belleve tbat ull tho slgns of the times lu? ate not vnly a returu 10 brosperity, but 8n ¢ra of immenyo yneculstive activity, We have sesdy sll tbu machinery for the transactivn ol s Rlenutic businces. Wo "have gheap food, cheap coal, cheap Jasbor; wuare tolorubly wetl assured of chieap Lansportation; wu uru reacalug now msrkets 8!l over the world: more land s belng ought, and wore new wanulscturcs atwwoted than averbufors f0 the history of the comntry: obr marvelon WoRlE 10 minoran n AhONE 9 b3 devmone nmrcy gluanifc scale; the pulae of trade Alrendy heaty high, and the ndvancing prices In the Atoek-hoary tells the siory of tho prosperity which overy one anticipates. T'his rosante view of the long-dofarred im. provement in Lusinecss has a more substan. tinl basia than mero hope., A very marked oxpansion of the stock of money s bound 1o ensuo a3 A consequence of legislation and non-legislation which have bean mecured by porsistont and untiring attacks on Congross, The legislation comprises the Bilvor bill ang thio bill recently signed by tho Prosident for. bidding a farther retirament of the green. backs and providing for thelr refusue nfter redemption; the non.legislation is the refusal by taclt agracment between tha twa factions to further disturb the Resamption act. It may bo rensonably cxpooted that, within o yenr from the prosent time, without further disturbauce, there will Lo ot least 81,000, 000,000 of available currency with which to transact the business of the country. The items may bo stated na follows ; Greenbacks (now outstanding). ....8 310,000, Nationai Ak Noten (now ouiiand on Hgl Saeeeretestteietissiinn 121, 000, 000 Gold and sllver (after resumpt! 200,000, (o New supply of gnld and_silver. 100, 000, 060 New supply of Natlonal Bank ni 40,000, 000 Tolalsvs eesien sosnse oersen §54007, 000,000 About the two firat itoms thero etn bo no disputa; no more greenbacks can be retirod, and it ig scarcoly possiblo that the volume of bank-notes will be rodnced by the volnntary nction of banks below the presont compnra. tively low figure. Becratary Suemian cati. mates that the present stock of gold and sil. ver (which will bo brought into activo use for eirculation and reserve purposcs after re. sumption) is 320,000,000, but we have re- duced this estimate to $200,000,000, Tha now supply of gold and silver will como mainly from the American minos, the prod- ncta of which for tho coming year may ba anfely estimated at $80,000,000, but o good denl moro will come from Europa in part payment of balances duo in this country, The ostimato of tho new supply of Lank- notes is, of course, epeculative ; but tho Free- Banking act will undonbtedly induco theo Na. tional Banks to incrense the volume of their notes of issuo rapidly as soon as it shall bo ovident that more moncy can bo profitably employed. It is probable, too, that the banks will be encouraged in this direction by more Hboral legislation in regard to toxation and tho oxcessive rato of security exacted from them in the doposit of bonds, Tho effect on business and invostmonts of such a decided cxpansion of curronoy cannot be doubted. The capitalists who have been hoarding their money will begin to look for investmonts. Land, stooks, snd collaterals of all kinds will rise in value. Something ot this kind hos already beon noted. A com. parison botwaen tho price of atocks on tho last day of May this year ond the lowost prices of 1877 show an inorenso of $140,. 000,000 in tho valuo of the stock of twelvo londing corporntions. 1f other securties have followed in the same line, it is probable that the wholo mass of stocks and bonds are worth $1,000,000,000 more now than they wero last year, A genoral disposition to in- vest, supplanting the goneral indisposition to invest that has prevalled for tho past fiva ' years, will work n revolution in trade aud enterprise. It will change a falling market into a rising market, and this means now speculation, now entorpriscs, now employ. ments for workingmen, now confidence,~in short, good times. ‘Wo arq inclined to put a good denlof faith in this hopeful view, with a singlo resorva. ton. Thero is ouo danger now thraatening the country which would counteract and overcomo &ll the conditions favorable toa revival of trade. Wo rofer to tho Demo. cratio monacas of revolution, It is in vain for tho Democrats to- sy that thoy meditato no attack on tho President’s title, after tho Congrossionol procoedings pending the adoption of the Porren resolution and after Mr, Porren’s lottor, It is {n vain that they give nssurancos that everything will be done 4 pencofully,” So long ns the invéatigation shall procead, so long ns the agitation shall bo kopt alive, tho capital and buslness of tho country will bo in atremor of excito- ment and fosr, and the norves of commorce, entorprise, nnd ambition will be paralyzed, Tho near prospority of the country is, uue fortunatoly, in the hands of the Democratio party, whose lenders and manngors scem to tink that they oro justified in rotording a rovival of good timos by the hope of tho partisan advaniago they are striving to gain through the mauipulation of a few character- lesa political adventuro The Orcuerlrnn: fiugnly Qisgusted with thele scoundrel ANDENSON since ho pronounced the WrBER-ANDBERSON contract placed fn STANLEY Marrirws’ hands o **forgerv.” e told tho Benator it was the genulue, original docusnent. When ho was first beforo the Porran Commtis teo ho rovesled the fact that he lsd placed 1t In * the hauds of the Ohlo Benator for safe-keeplug: ha deaeribad its contents, aud swore to its real, outlientie character. Tho Committee aslied for tho document, and MarTuzws promptly pro- duced It. Whea the villaln was called upon to Identity {t, he turned around and coolly pro- nounced It a forgery! He saw nt o glance that be wes caught; that the sigoature of D, A, Wenen was spurious; aud that, if he cialned it to be genulne, he would be arrested for perjury and clapped into the Penitentiary after spend- ing tho interimof the trial in fall. Some of our readers may have overlaoked this Democratle torpedo waich (¢ was fordly hoped would blow Harss outof the Wilte House. It reads as foliows: & Nxw OQur.uaxy, La., Nov. 14, ~Thoundersigned, Jaxed B, ANDED Kunervisor of Hegletration for the Parish of East Feliclana, aud D, A, Weszu, Bupervisor for the Perish of Wust Fellclans, La., have rtesvectively refused to wign any protest agsinet the counting of the vota of our pariehed, ction bield on the 7th day of Novem- the reason that tha clection held on he most peaceablo sna orderly ouv and the largo gain made y logitimate means, 8nd was owing In s great measurs o tho diegust and hatred with which a large proportion of the coloced peoula regurd the present Siate Uoverpment, but the Electoral vote of Loulsiani being nucaesary touecure thy clection of laves and WuzeLes, and o ordet (o secury ruch voie it uary to throw out the Paristiof Easi nd ‘encugh Democratic voted la Wt Fulicias make tho pariat Iepublican, wae have for this reason. and no otber, decided (o protost against tha cuunting of fhe votes as cast, and we have done this at tho instivation and request of 8. B. Packanv, canaiy! u _the Hepubfican ticket for Governor; J. I, Q. Pivkix, Unlted Biated Marehial; WiLtiax F, KeLiovu, now Govornor uf the State; snd Cuantes E, Nasu, inembor uf Cons §read from Lhe Stxth District, and others, D. A, Weszd, Jaucs E. ANpERSON, ‘This was s/gued in our presence Nov. 10, 1674, Geonax Dickw, A.J. Wituen. fwora ta before me (hls 15th day uf Novembers 1870, oy the withln meniloned JaNes E. ANush- soxand D. A, Weszk. i \lf.."A‘:u 105, . u. ‘WieLtax H. Seyuouu, Notary Publie. e ———— The perlodlc flurry about bribed dramatic critics s been begun {u New York by the Suny which shows that tho PAPPRNUaIM troupe was in the habit of paylnz #4415 a month to sccuro favorable uotlces from tho Metropolitan press. Feb. 0 there sve vredited for * press expeuscs '’ $2010 A, 830 0 X A, 81010 H4A," 830 t0 “8t. A," and $100 to**8ch A.” Tho Sun gives & very broad hint that Afr. “8ch A' is Mr. Bcuwaw, the dramatfe editor of the T¥mer; possibly “X AY night be Jom Howarp, the 4 Monsteur X."” of thu Sux Itself, Joz Howauv has nlways been sald to be the man who wrote that Buet MARTE's *Two Meu of Sandy Bar'?