Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1878, Page 4

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Emperor WiLrnax is getting along nicely, having beon sufficiently strong 1o sit up nearly all day Saturday, The Senate Committes on Appropriations put in & hard day’s work yesterday on the Sundry Civil bill, and will send it back to the Houso to-day with the amount for the Clicnago Custom-House building restored to $400,000,—making 600,000 in all available for tho completion of the structure, provided the House recedos from its action in reduc- ing tho amount to $300,000, which now soems probabl Gen. Groavexon, who was Bpeaker of the Dhio Houso of Representatives and bad in- timate personal relations with Gov. Hayzs at tho time of the Presidential connt, has been gossiping witha Cincinnati Commercial ra- porter. We print the Interview in another port of to-day's paper. There are two or threo points worthy of attention. One is that Gen. Gnosvexon knows that Judge Xex's name wos under consideration for a Cabinet place long before tho Bourys Baxen dispatch was receivod, and that Bex Burven, in unvarthing this telogram, failed to pro- duce nboul.\wenty others which would show that, in spito of every importunity, Gov, Haves refused to commit himselfin regard 1o any policy except that sot forth in his let- ter of nccoptance. Another point is that Gov, Haxes, panding tho count, was ine formed, that, he could. rely upon ‘Henator ConswiNa's support if ho would agroe to ig- nore Mr, MoxnTtoN, butmnust otherwise ex- poct Honator CoNnkrina's opposition ; and Gov, Haves refusod toentor into any such disreputablo compact. The interview will Do found intoreating reading, —e A now aud fmportant witness for the Por- Ten-Burikn Investigating Comimittee will arrive iu Washington this ovening—Gen, Nores, Minister to France, who promptly demnndod to be supwnaed upon loarning of Ihe fact that his nawe appeared in the pre- nmblo of the PorTenresolution as one of the persons who had aided and abetted the al- legud frauds whereby the Electoral vots of Yloridn was cast for Haves and WakzLes, It was tho *‘confession " of BcLin that gave rise to the nccusation that Gen. Noves had promised to roward his services In connection withjthe canvass of the vote of Florida, bat when McLin appeared bofore the Committee ns o witness be virtually exonorated Gen. Nores by admitting that the latter nover made him auy prowmises of any kind, and that he nover had but one convorsation with him, and that was subsequont to the comple- tion of the canvass. It was the expoctation that McLin's testimony would 1a some de- gree substuutiate the charge in the FPorren preamble that induced Gen. Novss to make this tlying trip to Awerica; but now that he has come, his evidence concorning matters and things whick came under his observa. tion while in Florida will be of valueand general interest. The inaide history and the bottom facts of tho recont gathering at Montgomery, Ala., known as tho * Democratic and Conserva- tive Btate Convention," aro given in an in- teresting lotter which we print this morn- ing. The Democracy of Alabawa are bound together by a code of unwritten declarations of policy and purposos which may be sum. marized thus: Itesistance to a tyrannical Government, which perslsts in abridging tho right of & free people to distill whisky without the payment of an odious reve- nuo tax, the Irec peopla afore- mentionod being sometimes called *Moon- shiners”; tho determination mnever to recognize the negro as a voter and a polit. ical equul before the law,—a law which the Alabama Democrucy had no band in making, and which thoy will unmake at the earliest opportunity ; aod the intention and expec. tation of secnring payment for losses sus- tained durivg the late Civil War, such as the destruction and use of property by the Fed- erul nrmies, the liberation of ulaves, the cot- toy tax, ste. Allof which is expected to cowe to pass when the Democratio party obtains full coutrol of the Executive sud Legislative Lrauches of the United Btates Goverument. ——— Yesterday's picnio of the Chicago Bocials ists proved to Lo great fivancial succels, the procevds sggregaling nearly or quite £5,000. It would be pleaxant to aunounce that this fund was to be distributed among the wembers of the Communs in this city ‘whose families, we are frequently told, are starving for lack of bresd, while capital willows in wealth and luzury; but suck, un- fortunstely, iv vot to be the direction in which this strean of uilver quartery is to be tumed. ‘The wouey in to be poured dowan e ————— e the rat-hiole of Commnnistic journalism—to ‘‘start” a nowspaper. Howerver, since the pionic fund is not, under any ocir- cumstances, to be appropristed to & good purpose, perhaps it will do as little harm squandered in this way as in any othor. The picnio was also a success 1n respect of being orderly and pesceable—which is something to be thankful for. Thespeechen were not more bloodthirsty and inflam. matory than unsual, for the very excellent reason that the average Communistic orator has but one speech, which serves for all occasions. The managers of the enterprise shrowdly caleulated that thoy could draw a crowd and make some money out of the rumors currant of an intonded violent dem- onstration, and the result simply showed that they did not place too low an estimats on human intelligence in goneral. We observe thera is some opposition in the Senate to the conflrmation of the Presis dent’s appointees on the International Bilver Commission. The ‘‘silver” Secnators are opposed to Warken, the statistican, and ex-Sonstor Fexrow, of Naw York. The Iatter was strongly opposed to the Bilver bill, The former is claimed to be a mild sort of bi-metallist. The Hon. W. 8. Groessecx, of Cincinnati, is an original sdvocnte of silver.remonstization, aud hasdovoted much study to the subject of metnllic money. 1Ile {3 an able man, and a good appointment. FeNToX, unless he has greatly changed his opinions, is not likely to exercise much zealin DLehalf of bi-motal- lism; and we do not sec on what grounds the goldites are entitled’ to a reprosontation on the Board, for the purpose of opposing the object of the Commission. Nor doesthe selection of Warxen strike us as the best that could be made. Unfortunately, the President himsolf is cold towards the bi- motallic theory, and did what he conld with hia veto to kill the remonetization of silver, FAILURE OF THE FRAUD-HUNT. The proceedings in tho Housa of Repre. sentatives on Friday may be regarded as a confession that the Porren fraud-hunt has come to A Jame and impotent conclusion. Twice on that day the Ifonso voted by an overwhelming mnjority that Presidont Iiaves' titlo cannot be assailed by Congress. On tho first ocension the vote was 215 yeas to 21 nays. This was on Mr. Burcuanp’s resolution, Its introduction was like a bombaholl thrown over into the Democratia side. 'Tho resolution sat forth that Rurnza- ronp B, Haves nnd Winriax A, Warzies baving been declared by the Forty-fourth Congress to have been elected respectivoly President and Vice-President, no subsequont Congresa nnd neither House has jurisdiction torevise such action, and any attempt by either Housa to annul or disregard such action would be revolutionary, The Demo- crats did not want to commit themselves to this declaration, but they dared not opposs it. Thon another resolution of similar pur- port, though not so unequivocally worded, was roported by the Judiciary Committes,and was passed by a vote of 234 yeas to 14 nays, The action was aun unwilling but complete submission. to the popular protost against Moxicanization under any form, Thero aro two rensons for believing that this voto signalizes the failure of the inves. tigation schene sot on foot by the Porres resolution. One resson is because this acheme was aimed at the President’s title, aud waa intonded to result 1n the unseating of Hares and tho substitution of Truoex, 1t was TiLpEx's agents who traveled through the South in search of a protext for re- opening tho case. They Lad .the sympnthy aud assistnnce of CoNXLING in their mission, Tizoes's ambition snd Coxzrwvo's spleon were the moving causes of reviving tho con. troversy, and noither wounld have encouraged the scheme cxcopt with the hope and pur- potie of deposing Hares. It was Drats's memorial that furnished the pretext for bringing the matter beforo Congress, and se- cared (he necessary authority from the House of Roprosontatives to proceed in the business; ‘and this memorial had Hayes' ro- moval for its declared purposs. It was the same Democratic cabal that first possed tho Porren resolution and then refused to quali- fy it by Oasey Youna's proposition to dis- clalm all intention of impeaching the Presi- dont’s title, Porres, in his subseqnent let- ter, advocated as legal and peaceful a resort to n specinl quo warranto Inw as & means of gotting Haves out of office. Every significant circumstance connected with the investiga- tion judicated thé ultimnte purpose to be the removal of Haresin an extra-constitutionsl way, should there be the slightest warrant for maintaining that he had acquired his of- tico by fraud; therefore, it is rensonabls to conclude that the formal aud almost unani- mous disavowal of such an intention now is simply bocause tho prime movers recognize that the fraud-hunt does not and will not furuish them with sufficient excuse for pru. ceeding, Any money Mr, T1LDEN bas spent in working up this case may be rugarded sa squandered, and Mr, Conxting hiss his labor for Lis pains, ‘The other reason forlooking upon Friday's voto in the Houso asa formal confession that the investigation isa failure, is to be found in the record of the Committee’s proceedings, The Biru 8raiNozn branch was sent off to Florida with a flourish of trumpets and tho announcement of great things to come, but it has returned literally empty- handed. ‘This part of the investigation was conduoted in the most unfair partisan foshion. Witnosses deulred by the Repub- licans were oxcluded, and a Democratio coloring was given to the reports sont forth. The ** torpedo " McLix testified at the last that he ouly did what he would do again, that he knew of no Democratic frauds, and that there Lad been no improper dealings be- tween him snd the **Visiting Btatesmen,” ‘The famous ** Dmicaxns precinots,” out of which the Democrats expocted to make so much, turn out to have been connted just as the Democrats originally returned them. In fact, the Florida excursion was & total fail. ure. But the Washiugton Committee, 1n ‘charge of the Louisiana case, have done no better, 1If anythingcan be said to be proved from the maus of perjuriss and forgeries pro- duced, the wost is that ANDERSON is & con. summate but inconsequential lisr, that Dak- uaLL i & couniving politician, and that Mazruxws is @ donkey, The weight of the evidouce leans to the theory that the Huss. sax lotter and the Axpxusox-Weses sgrev. went are forgeriva, It is certain tbat the Frosident was never in any way involved with Axpzmsox, s the following official dooument proves : Exgcurivs Maxsiow, Wasuiiarox, May 20, 1877, —Deas Mu. Sgcusrany: If the commission which thy Presideat slyned onthe 24th inst. for Juuky B, ANucusoN, e Consul of the Unjted blates at Funchal, Lus not beep Jdelivered to tue sppolutey, (he President wiil tu uleased to bave Jou zelaln posscasion uf It uutil furtber inquirics us to Mr. Axpiusox's character are instituted. Very tzuly YOIk # & V, K. Roaxus, Privats Secretary, To the Hecretary of State: Prescnt. z It is equally certain that Bursmay would not bave anything todo with ANDXESON OF ’ for him, as Axpzrson himself testifies to this, knowing 1hat tho contrary conld easily be refuted if he nndertook to maintain it. Even Marrawws, nt the Isst, threw the Axpensox gang overboard, as appenrs from the following lotter from Marrnzws lo Gen. 8sartn, the Appointment Clerk. Martnews, Rasser & Marriews, Law Or- rice, Nortnwear Consen Fountit axn Visa STREETA, CincinnaTy Jnne 22, 1 —3y Dear General: I have your favor of the 214, Noone ts nnaer any obiizations to Axnensox. 1maw him on the cars going to Naltimore, ile told me he wasaatisfled, * If he does nit choose tn take what you choose to offer, arop him, | promised noth- Ing, except 1o do what I conld to have him reasana. bly provided for, Second—As to Mcltiazi I can- not speak definitely hocause [ do not know the eal- aries gyd. OFf conrse, it 1— enters the setrvice for thé firat time he vitght not to expect the highrat grade. Do for him the beal you can under the i camstances, Yours traly, BranLEy MaTrugws. In one word, the investigation has so palpably miscarried, and the frult of its Inbors is so totally an abortion, that the Democrats found themselves constrained to abandon the only logical and consistent pur- pose it could have had. There iz no doubt that the cancus had started ont with strength enough to prosecute the attempt at revolu. tion, and with the dotermination to follow it ont if they could establish the slightest pretext; but popular protest on the one side, and the sorry exhibition of perjury and lies on the other, have forced the Grensers to nbandon their design—till after the nezt Congressional elections at least. ""WESTERN CIVILIZATION.” Onr esteemed contemporary, the Now York Times, in a timely and newsy articlo on Symmes' Hole, suggests tho corking up of that interesting interpolar hole after filling it with ¢ Western statesmon.” ‘The Times is one of the fow Eastern papers which affect to look upon the West as a sort of howling wilderness, socially and materially, and ‘“ Western civilization” and * incidents of Western life” form their stock in trade whenever they desire to point a by no means pertinent moral or to adorn a not always veracious tale. Is it not sbout time for sensible folk to conso this gabble? If we re- member rightly, it was a Weitorn Prosident and a Wostern Goneral that saved the Union a few yenrs back. The products of Eastern civilization are a Beronzs and TirtoN; when wo have a McCosznx to deal with, there is no smothering of scnndal nor shielding of the guilty. While the esthotio East can- not rise beyond a Ginxone concert with ton thousand bassoons and snlvoes of artillery, the uncultured West succeeds in ita Cincinnati festivals, and music aud the drama flourish bettor in crude Chicago than in Anglicised and Frenchified Now York, In the pulpit we do not know that Coruyen and Swixng are much inferior to TaLumace and ‘* Adirondack " Murnav. In the realm of material comfort ‘and elegance, our rude ‘Weslorn hostelries, like tho Grand Pacifio, Palmor, and Lindell, will compars favorably with the fiuest hotels in New York. In mat- ters of practical skill, Esps will compare fairly with Roenuina; if Western engineer- ing works are not so grand as Brookiyn bridges, they are certainly more honestly coustruoted and do not keep the Coroners so actively employed. As for ** Weatorn ofv- ilization,” highwaymen do not as a rule stop our street-cars and plunder their passongors ; Vaspxrsir and Swvaxn will casos are not fro= quently found upon the dockets of our courts, At the time that the Times printed its arti- cle there appeared accounts of the mobbing of an old man who hnd taken a young wife ; of on attack in court by & witness in a big will case upon another witness, proceedings being further complicated by oune of the counsel belng boiling drunk; and of the dirty Srnaxoson scandal, A day before that ‘wo wero treated to the prosperous meorchant who passed off his mistresn aa his daughtor, incest apparontly being condonod in a high state of civilization whore adultery is frowned upon. In the particular matter of statesmon wo fanoy that Bey Burrer, Hes- oniok B, Wniont, Sax Cox, Jous Keuvy, Twrep,—he was by profession a statesman, it will be remembered,—8ax Ranpary, Por- TER, DBramve, Oaxes Auxes, Robesox, By Moduries, Horrumay, snd many other eminent gentlemen wo could name were mnot * Western statosmen.” Mr, DMonnssey, gambler and prizo- fighter, sat, if wo romomber rightly, in Con- gress from a city which rejectod Homaox Gneerer, Wo beseoch our ostaemed con. temporary to givo us a rest. Boorishness, rascalily, and orass ignorance are confined to uo partionlar section of the Unlon, are peculiar to no single class of its peoples. Bocause New York is becoming in some con. splcuous matters a bastard London, sho need not necessarily invest Ghicsgo, 8t. Louls, and Ciuncinnati with imaginary characteristies from Dicxexs' books and thorefors rovile them. We may be rough as tho *blam" which, as is well known, roam through our streets, but evon then wonld we be inferior toa folk whose recent sovereigns were the colossal thief Tweep, the impudent vulgari. an Fisg, and the milllonaire Vaxpzaniet, whose children paint him on oath as & foul. mouthed libertine, and whose present firat citizen 18 Jax Gourn? BOME DEMOCRATIO DEFEATS, Mr, Oantxs Hankison's pot schome to im. poso o tax on incomes, and thereby reduce the gencral wages fund to the extent of the tax, Las boen defeated. In fact the demun. gogucs goncrally scom to have weakensd nn. der the geueral protest of the country against their wild, revolutionary proceedings. This sohome of Hakmson's was ons of pure wickednesa. Nominally intonded and profess- ing to relieve the workingmen of taxation, it proposed to levy o tax on the workshop, the mill, the factory, and the employers generally, and force them to reduce wages orto reduce the number of workmen, Any tax on the praceeds of labor, of nocossity is & tax to be paid out of the wages of labor ; and, bLad Mr, Oanten HaxzisoN proposed to levy ataxof 3 per cent on wages, his proposi- tion would be an equivalent to his tax on in- comes. He preferrod to put it in the form of a tax on inconies, bocause in that form it had the appearauco of a punishment of the employers,—as sort of measure of roveuge which he considered would scem acceptable to the ignorant people for whose support he is bidding. The Democrats also backed out of their attempt to reduco the army., Thoy passed the bill limiting the number to 20,000 men, and declared that, before voting anmother wmap, they would die in the last ditch. The country, however, did not respond to this kind of business, and, excopt among the revolutionists, the action of the Houss had no backiog, even among Democrats. The Benato refused the reduction, and, after some weeks' attept to bulldoze the Senate, the House backed down, and the army re- waing as at present. Tho House had also fns#ed 1 the Army bill & provision that no troops should be ewm. ployed within the limits of » State as a posse comitatuy, or otherwise, and to the violation of this clause wore attached a serles of penalties. 'This clause was amended so as ‘o limit the nse of Yhe army Yo auch pura poses a3 were anthotized and raquired by the Constitution and Iawa. This leaves tho em- ployment of troops 'hereater precisely ns is now pormitted. The Democratic backbone gave way, and the House yielded to the de. mands of an indignant and outraged publio sentiment, It will be remembered that the House, by 8 strict party vote, inclnded in the bill regu- Inting the collection of internal revonnoe n proviso thot, when an officer charged with the collection of inlernal revenno was suod or indicted in n State Court, tho right. to hnve the trial of such snit or indictment transferrad to the United States Conrt should no longer exist, but such easa should Le proseouted without appen! in the State Court. In 1832, when South Carolina undertook to nullify the laws of the United States, it on- acted a law making it a eriminal offonse to collest the customs rovenno of the United States in that Biate. Congress, at the request of Axprew Jacksox, pnassed o law that in every such proceeding Ly the State Courts against a Fedoral officer of tho revonuo tho trial thercof shonld bo ‘transferred to tho United States Court. The present Domocratio House attompted to rovive this nullification law of the State by the repenl of the Jacxsox law for the protec. tion of the revenne officers, and, after trying it for two weeks, on Saturday Inst it struck the nullification clauso out. The Demacrats bave discovered that tho Porren Committea investigation is & total failuro, that the ex- pected consternation it was to prodnce has not followed, and that all the attempts at revolationary legislation which werato be car- ried out under the cxcitemont of n disturbance of the Presidentinl title have aroused the wholo country to indignation, Tho nuilifleation job, which was to prevont tho farther collec- tion of internal revenue, especially the whis- ky tox, in the Sonthorn States has Leen abandoned; it wos found to be too much for tho party to carry. A back-down was im- perative,—a rocognition of the power of pub- lic opinion even in resisting the desporate and irresponsible policy of the Democratia party in pandering to the revolutionary and Communistic factions, The Congress will be in session forty- oight hours yet. Itisimposaible to forotell what it may do in that time ; but the country bns coure to bo thankful that it has failed to carry out some of the most wicked aud desperate acts avor attempted in Congress st any poriod of the national hiatory. THE UNHAPPY POPE. TmacKERAY Wrote in one of his almost-for- gotten thymes: § ‘The Pope he in a happy man, 1ils paluce ta the Vatican, And there he sits and draina his can; Tho Poupe he is o happy man. 1often say when I'm at home, T'd lke to be the I'ope of Rome, The same {den of conviviality, high living, and comfortable ciroumstances, in connestion with life at tho Vntican, is conveyed by that other satirical production, ** Father Tox 'and the Pope,” which has had its doy and nenrly parished off the face of tho earth, bnt it is atill not without its seloct olrcle of readers. Thoss writings, it ls scarooly necessary to say, ropresent a stato of things which might have exiated under the old regime if any Pope had choson to enforco it, but which has been irrevocably awept away. ‘T'he most active jmagination cannot now picture the Pope ss a specinlly happy mdh, in tho worldly sense. The thnes of fonst- ing’ and merry-making have passed. The palaco of the old Pontifls has become n prison, It differs from ordinary prisons, however, in that it is a place of vol- untary confinement, ‘Thore is no instance in hiatory before uf a ruler in posscssion of influonce and power and perfect liberty of action coufining himaelf in prison for mor. ol effect, Thisis s kind of protest under duress which nearly approaches the sub- lime, 1t is difficult to conceive what earthly purpose can be socnred by putting the Vicar of Cunist * on limits,”" like & school-boy ; and if there is any heavenly purpose it has manifosted itself in an unusual manner, The promise to Prres was: ** Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shalt be bound in Heaven ; and whatsoever thou shalt looss on carth shall be loosed in Hoaven.” ‘The successor of Prren ought not, undor this promise, to bind himself, Thera {8 another reapect in whioh the con. finoment in the Vatican is curious and in- structive, It is not mervly a prison for the Holy Father, but an unhoalthy prisou, Tome in the summer season is an abode of malaria which is dangerous even for those who have been acclimated, and all Lut sure death to persons unnccustomed to the cli. mate, The new Pope {8 a mountainger, His health is none of the best uuder the most favorable circumstancos. A utay in the Vatican means for him a serlous impair- ment of bodily vigor, if not death. Indeed, it would be a tolerably safo prediction thatho could not live through throo summers at the Vatican. Tho question which his advisers have raised in viow of these faots is whathor be shall not seek o summer residence in the mountains., 1o has o most pressing invita. tion to take up his summer quarters in Monte Cassino, half way botween Rome and Naples, where there is a famous Benedlctine abbey, and where every provision for his comfort could easily be mads. Thore ought not to be much hesitation, one would think, nbont accepting such an invitation, but there are obstacles in the way, The last Pope passed soven summors in the Vatican, observing his . sell.imposed im- prisonment with all the fervor of a hero, What the could endure, the extreme party 80y, o younger man ought to submit to with. out a murmur. Besides, i the Pope should fail, how glorious his recompense! In tLis world, the crown of marlyrdom; and, in the life to como, rlcher and more abundant Lleasings await him. He will be a strong Popo who con withstand such temptations, Meanwhile, the bullotins .from Rome report the steady decline of the Pope's health, His symptoms are alarming, and it becowos every day moro apperent that his declsion for the summer residonce or againat it can. not long be postponed. Whichever way it may be, be is not likely to ba disappointed of his martyrdom; for, if he goes to Mlonte Qasaino and lives, the disappointed Cardinals who have undertaken to' manage him as an implacable will never forgive him, ‘The effect of his going* will be not merely that he will break the fiction which con- ceives him to be a prisoner through the usurpation of the Italian Government, but also that he will throw himself st once bodily into the arms of the Liberal party in the Church, Thers are already some in- dicstions of a movement in this direction. He has made Father Cuzor, whose declars- tion in regard to the temporalitics was con- demned by the late Pope a few weeks before bhis death, one of his principal advisers. He Lias also listenod most affably to the present invitation, which was extended to Lun by Father T'oszs, one of the moit moderate of Benedictines, The Denedictines themsclves are of tho opposite pale of opinion snd church policy from the Jesuits. The former lendt themost libernl wing of the Church, 84 tho lattor do the renctionary party. If the Pope sball deaido to visit the Denedict- ines, his nMlintion with the Liberals and his anbmission in the question of the tem- poraiities cannot bo concenled or denied. POLITICIANS AND THE ARMY, The Democrats in Congresa have at length bncked down from their attempt to demolish the handful of mon wa call an army, and decided tolet it remain at 25,000 men, not bacanse they aro friondly to it, but becanse thoy find that thelr onslanghts upon it have not aroused any enthusissm on the part of their constitnents, Ou tho other hand, the attitude assumed by the lattor fs auch as to indionte that those instrumontal in striking ablow at the army might not return to another Congress, Tha politicians and dem. agogucs have made a great hubbub ovor the dangers of a standing army, and hpva talkod long and furiously, but no response Lns coms to thoir tirades, BMr. Iewirr has ro- pentedly aired his personal spite, but no ono hos paid attention to it. 1le might sa well have talkoed o the winds, so far ns sympathy with his opposition to the army i concerned, A portion of the people would like to have a lorge army, Anothor portion would like to have it doubled, 8o ns to utilize the prosent officers more effoctively. Tho remainder of tho people would prefer to have it re- main At its present standard, There are fow, very few, who aroin favor of re- ducing it, and no one would consent to ita sbolition, The politiolans, among them Mr, HzwirT, seem at Inst to have got this idea into their heads, and have discrestly abon- doned their positions, evidoutly thinking, in view of fortheoming elections, that prudence ia the bottor part of valor. In other words, the Democratic demngoguea wont into the business of army opposition, parily because they naturally do not like the army (no poli- ticians do), and partly because they oxpected to make some capital out of it. The capital not being fortlicoming, they have abandoned it and decided to let the army alone,—n de- cislon which their common sonse would hnve dictated to them long ago were it not for the fact that most politicians who go to Con- gressdo not take any of that articlo with them. In defenso of their course these politicians have urged but one argument, and that is that the army has been used to interfore with the rights of the working peopls; con- nequently it isa menace to individual rights. Hero is where tho people differ with tha poli- ticlans. The peopls remember that tho army, or o very small fraction of it, wna omployed lost summer to stop a mob from burning and stealing property and murder- ing citizens, and that this was accomplished ‘without striking a blow or firing a shot,~—tho era prosenco of the troops being sufficient voinforcoment for the police in some places and the militia in others, They want the same protection in thefature, and thoy want to feel the samo sccurity this summer ogainst the threats of Communism, They do not regard incendiarism, pillage, murder, or ‘violence of any sort directed ngainst socioty in general, as the right of a workingman or any other map. If theso are rights, then it is absurd to have a militia ora police force at all, as these organizations have no othor purposa than to interfore in behalf of tho se. curity of property and the safety of the in- dividual against violence, and to see that iaws for the presorvation of order are obeyed. The New York Nation,in roplying to some of Mr. IxwrTr's argumonts agaiust the army, nod showing their utter absurdity, pats the whole question in a nut.sholl when it says that o standing army in - this country 15 sim- ply n mattor of business,and that the only con. tingoncy to be considored is whether a stand. ing army of small size or levies of militia aro most compotont to preserve the publie pence, In ono inatauce last summer it was shown that militia were not competent, and, had it not been for the regular traops, Pitts. burg 1night have been sacked and burned, Tho iden that s standing arsy of 23,000 mnen, which has to defond a frontler over 12,000 miles long agninst a quarter of a million Indions, to bo almost constantly on tho ‘watch againat Mexican deprodations, and to protect the publio property, can be danger- ous to the liberties of forty milllons of peos ple, is too supremely ridiounlous to be con- sidered, The only question in tho premlses is whether it is largo enough to protect them, The Nation mildly states the absurdity of the case when it saya: ‘Tha aseertion that under oar Government there 18 a great princiolo Involved and that American in- stitutione would be put in poril If 50, 00U Lien werg scaltered In garrisons over the whole conttnent, 13 a striking flluatration of the soundness of the Krowing vptulon that we have two much Congress, and shat the tiecessity which wnumbers fnd of fil- ing up she thme with vome kind ot _nuise disordars tholr sonse of proporilon, and suothers thy plain, |;-‘:('l.ul scnse which moet of them Lnug from 1s not the trouble rather that Congressmen do not bring their plain, practical sense, but leave it at home? THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. The River and Harbor bill passed Congress on Saturday last. . It appropriates §8,500,000 ostensmbly to 1mprove the navigationof rv- ers which are not rivers and of harbors where there ave no barbors, It is confessed even by thosa who voted for it to Le the moat infamous and disgraceful legislation in the way of appropristion of public money ever perpotrated. 'There was not a man in either House who could honestly dofend tho bill, and yot, under the duress of small local appropriations, the bill was passed by a large mafjority. A fow yeari ago a somewhat similar bill ‘waa passod by Congress, aud was promptly vetoed by Gen. Goanr. That bill did not appropriate over §6,000,000, aud the Presi. dent properly described it a8 & scandalous waste of public money on objscts of no pos. siblo publio utility, He informed the House that there wero some fow items in the bill which were of aproporand deserving chare acter which ke would gladly approve, He therofore advised Congress to change tho ill so as to leave it discretionary with the President and Becretary of War to expend the money sppropristed or not, and upon such objects as thoy might think the public interest required. The money was therefors appropriated in bulk; several millions of dollars were saved ; and that which was ex. pended was expended upon works which had some geuoral utility, ’ The present bill far exoseds in enormity the bill which Gen. Graxt refused to sign. It is more infamous because the aggregate sum proposed to bo squandered is greater, and becauss of the vastincresse of petty objects in the name of which the monoy is voted. If Presidont 11ayxs bas the firmness needed for the ogvauion, he will now stand between the poopls and thu wholeaale messure of robbery. Of the $8,600,000 ‘whioch this bill apprepriates, uot more than $8,000,000 at the mimout is voted fur pur. poses of & natioual charucter. ‘The restivs | seut, mora olectioneering dodga—to help presont Congreasinnal incumbonts to e re-clocted. 1t is wholly unjustifiable and indefonsible, and the Prosident owos it to himself to re- fuso to become responsible for any such measure. Lot him veto the bill; nnd if, after the election, Congress thinks proper to pass it over the veto, that can be done in De- comber. But by all monns he shonld, as the represontative of the whols peoplo, exoroise his coustitutional power to arrest such & ‘wholesals act of plunder and waste, The only grounds on which the Demo- oratic nllegation rests that Harzs was not fairly olocted is, that black votors have no rights that white Democrats are bound to respoct. M was by the use of intimidation, force, nnd terrorism that the Democrats enrried Minsisaippl and Alabama, and claimed 10 Liave earriod Lonislana. At n fair election, whera every man is allowed to freely vote Lis sentiments, Alabama is Republican by 10,000, Missisaippl by 25,000, and Louisiana by 12,000, Ian proportion to population, Mississippi is as strongly Iepublican as Iowa or Knusas, | The maouer in which the State ‘was carriod by the Democrats is a scandal on tho elective systom and a palpable violation of the following amendment to the Consti- tution: Srcriox 1. The right of citizens of the United Etaten 1o voto shall not be denled or abridged by thio United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or prentous condition of serritude, Sre. 2. The Congress ahall have powerto en~ force this articla by appropriste legisiation, ‘Chis is the treaty betwesn the Federal Union and the Secossion Btates, undoer which the ex-Ttebels wero admitted back into the Union on equal torms with the Loyal Btates, As n contemporary well remarks: ** Any violatlon of it is the repudistion of the most solemn trenty obligntions, It is the crystallization of the sentiment that nuiversal amnesty should bo forover as- roclated with impartinl suffrage, Taking from tho biack man in tho Sonth tho right to vote ia the violation of tho conditions nnder which tho white men engaged in the Robellion wors restored to the right of suf- frage.” Look at tho figures in one district of Misalssippi: ‘ e 18Ty e 187 Ureeley, Grant, TWden, Iayes, g 2 Rep. Countles— ent, Jlep, em. mite . B! 471 ki Lowndes 074 2 Alndison ]:l) 023 2 Total eusraesdy 476 14,757 714 4,470 Majoritles Joorressesnnn10,281 11,157 These scandnlons rotarns for L'1npey, and suppression of the Hayes vote, aro matched in one of the Louisinua countion; we refor to the Repnblican stronghold of Eust Felfcinna. In 1872 tho voto atood thu: Qrant (Rop.) Qroeloy (Dem. Republican majority In 1874 tho vote stood thua: Reputiienn. .. .. Dewocratlc, .. Ropublican majorityeeeces saves. In 1870 tho vole wns as followas ‘Tiiden (Dem. ). llayes (Itep. ). ... Democraticmajority. Can avy decent Dom p an in the face and say that Misslssippl was honestly carried for Tincx? And yet it was conntod for him by the Eloctoral Com- wmission beoauso the face of the papers scomed to show that ho had earrfed it; but how? I it not tho very hight of impn. denge to claim that TiLpeEN was the choice of Louislana in tho face of such frands a8 wore practiced in the Felicinna Parishes ? Lord 8Avisouity, onoof the Britlsh roprescnta- tivesat the BerlinCougresy, isthie snme eminent diplomatist who was so unmereifully chatfed at tho Conferenco of Constantiuople for a geo- graphical blunder not so unuatural after all, Montenegro s separated from the Adriatic by s littio strip of sea-coast that a man could almost throw % stone over, this annoying lttle strip be- longing to Austrin. On tho average tnap this fact is practically not to be ascertained by the avorage person examining it, and, as Turkish territory surrounds the Black Mountain on the othier sldes, mistakes ure quite llkely to occur. lond 8aLssuny, belng somowhat of & novice i diplomacy, undertook to scttle the whols Eastern question and remodel the whole map of Europe with a piece of blue pencil between drinks, Bo bo took NaPver Pasha— woe think It was he—uside ond sald unto him, “8eo lere, now, you know; lev's acttle this thing amicaby and. off- hand, Montenegro wanta a rectitication of the frontier—nceess to tho scabuard, you under- stand, Gimme that map—ba! here's Cattaro, Buppose we give '¢in Cattaro. IHave you anyobjectiontoceding Cattaro todontenegror™ The Turkish pienipotentiary replied warmly that his august master would have no objection. “Keerect!” sald the wmnteur aiplomatist; “then that scttles the whole question, ft would have been wiltions of blood aud treasure in Europo's pocket {f they had called mo in at first, Lcet's take aonother, and then we'll join the boys.” So they went in, aud Lord SaLis- BURY affably explained his solution, whereupon up got tho Austrian Envoy and sald, ¢ Wiat in thunder right have yougot to give away Cuttarol It belonge to my sugust master.” Lord BavLis- BURY was, {n the langusgo of diplowmacy, flab- berzasted, and when e lookel round for Barver Pasba he found that cwinent diplo- wmatist as emiling and bland as If the throne of the Osmanll were not tottering to it fall, Twelve or fourteen years before Earl Russert had settled the Polish question fu s stmllar manuer, writing to the English Ambassador at 8t. Petersbure that it was as «casy as folling oll & lug; ¢ivo the Poles repro- sentative lnstitutions. Prince GonTecnaxore, whea he got this dispateh, took hie pen quickly and wrote that thero mfaht bo difficulties in the way of giving the Poles a Parliament, especially asthe Russiaus hadu’t any. DId that effray Lord Jount! Noj for he simply replied, ‘8o wuch the better; the Czar can establish them in both countries at once,” Io this kecn and bull-headed manner do tho acute diplomatists of England sway the destiniea’ of Europe aud dispose of comulicated questions, S8mall won- der that an untralned Republican like Mr.\Vasu- BUBKE made 80 poor & Hat of it at Paris! —— This thing is becoming played, as it were. Just as svon a8 Mr. Huvant is safely dead, comes a dispatch from Pittsfleld, Mass., to an- nouuce that ou the afternocon he met with his sccident the cord by which a targe and costly steel portralt of him was suspended $o mn office broke and the plcture fell. When Ben Wapn died, his bust fell off of some one’s mantel-plece aud was smashed. When ANDY Joussox died, the glass over the face of his portrait in some one's back shop cracked. Aud so oo, Hereaf- ter we shall pay no attention to auch signs and omens unless they are atteated by an affidavie, sud witnesses ars brought up 10 swear that they saw the darned thing fall, crack, or break, or were loformied uf the fact immedlately after it occurred, and before the news cawe out o the sfternoon papers that the origioal was dead. ———— Baltimore 18 & preity well taxed city. It s truc that It s an old, rich place, but seven willions & year for a city of 800,000 iobabitants looks like piling 1t on pretty heavy. A sum- mury of tho jtems makivg up tho aggregate ls bere given: Tatal of the sppropristions mado by the Cit ok OF tbis, i A Counci), § $1,U51,000 is Tur interest; $1,888,000 s fur the Y- ment of temporary luans otner floai- ing Indebiedness: ‘$175,000 1 for the dre department; 326,000 {s for the bealth depart- jucludiuyg street-cleaning; $179, 000 tur the — e Clty Commiasionee's denartment. —ntesol, sewer, and other aimilne work: 3210, 000 In for tha ilar. hor Board; 8751,000 I8 for general expenditurey; $037.000 {s far the publle schoola: 8598,000 4y for the uolice; $185,000 In for the poor: ang $234,000 in for the conrts. — The elty taz-rate for ihe present year Is $1.50 on the $300, which, with the State tax, 18X conts, makos a total of $2.06% on the 8100, ‘This rate of taxation will produce sbout fyg millions, but Baltimoroe hins an Income dertvid from rallroad stocks and ottier sources which ylelds $2,314,000, or more than enough to pay . the foterest on the city debi, ———— How curious are some of the colneldences with which life abounds. Parson Vosnunan, of Jeraey City, was to be tricd on a charge of poisoning his wile, and the authorities sent out and subjprnacd every druggist io the city ex- cept one, who was the parson's Intimate friend, who used to leave the pargon alone in his phar. macy, who saw him handilog tho Jar in which that particulsr polson was kept, and wha finds that, although he has sold none of It, his stock. has considernbly decreased. As the younger Mr. Weller would sy, it ia & worry remarkable cofncidence, to say least, o — Tho editor of the Atchison (Kan.) CAamrfon, Mr. Joux A, MAnTiN, has published acard i lis paper sunouning that he fs aMicted with agrowing yearniog for Gubernatorial honors and emoluments, o says: ‘That the position of Governor of thls preat and tapidly growing Commonswealth 14 a distinction I would appreciate, | do not attempt to diaguine, 1t1s the unly office in the gift of 1le peopie I hava ever had any ambition to attam, T rozard it as the hiznest honor thatcould be eonferred npon me. ~And if the Republicans of Kansas deem mo worthy of such an honoe, [ will accent Uicienom. Ination with gratitudo, and with the sincere Lope that, If elected, etc., etc. e e — ‘The Mayor of 8t. Louis lias boen rocelving o salary of $3,0008 year. Tho City Council has come to the conclusion that his services aro not worth that much moncy, and they lmve cut down his pay to $4,000. Tha 8t. Lows lepub. lican remarks, (o viow of this reduction: ‘This commendable action showed the npflreela- ton in which Mr, OvEnsTorz’s secvices aru bold by thona who know him best. Thero is no particular senso in payine tho Mayor of t. Louls 5,000 a car. It1sa great deal more than he Is worth. e corubined malaries of the Uovernors of four Now England Etates mmount to only $1,H00 a y:n.r'. :.nd some of them are very good Uovornors At thal Capt. WiLLIAMS, & notorious police bully of New York, who Is before the courts about onca a fortnight for some brutality or other, has just formulated ‘a great apothegm. It 1s very sclidom one sees a Pollce Captain in the Penitentlary, and one often sces lawyers there.” This fact would seem to show that as a clasa Pollce Captalns are shrewder men than lawyors, or have more icfluence, —e— The New York Sun ot Friday last has a head- line, ** Michigan Republieans—Iaxzs' Policy ‘Trentod with Scornful Sitonce.” ‘The Ohlo Re- publicans indorsed the Administratlon, bat no mention of this fact was suffered to appear in tho Sun of Thursday last. Of such Is the Journalism of {udepundence. The demand that Mr. TiLpex shall speak out and declare that be s not at the bottom of this Pottering business, nor in aympathy with it, Is becoming loud envugh to reach bils naked ear unaided by the wicrophone. —— ‘The Democrats ot Fairileld County, O., have nominatea Tronsax for Uresldent fn 1830— Persevere, my preclous bavy. You'il bo President yot —maybe. sl L ki by Instead of ** fisherman's luck,” the proverhs of the future will speak of *investigator’s luck,” ——— PERSONALS. Moody and Sankey will be iavited to hold revival sersices ot Albany, N. Y. Two of Brigham Young's sons are at Wost Polnt, and a third 1s applying for admisston. Gen, Bherinan's son, Thomas E., is abont toahandon the stady of the law and bocomoa Jesuit, -~ ‘Tho Natlonal Guard of New York City containn sovon regiments, with a strangth of 4,720 effectivea, Tho Beventh hag 777, ., #Gail Howilton—3r. Bohurz” wna the heading over G last article in tho Now York Z'ribune, ‘The Bullalo Erpress tendera Ita cone gratulations. Phurlow Weed aud William Cnllen Tiryant, two of the best-known men In Now York, did not know each otber by slght. Buch is tha isolation In bigeity of even a very great man. ‘The * Robber Governor " Moses bought a house, the old Preston manslon, at Columbla, 8, C., 8 few years ago for 305,000, Willlam E. Dodge has just purchased it as & wintor residonco for $15, 000, In tho Mariners’ Family Asylum at Clifton, N. Y., thero are about forty old women, wives, widows, and alsters of satlors, varylng in age from 00 to 00 years, One has reaclied the aguof 09, and plays with cups and saucers and her dolls like chlld. A guileless and slespy-looking Turk, Lam- bri Pashis, & young man with lots of wealih, ro- cently visitca the London clubs, where he was plicked up by the expers clubmon as & provable vic- tlu, 1e cleaned thewm all out at every eawme, sald +Bismillah! God fa great! ™ and vanished. Tho Fifth Army Corps, ot its last annual meeting, adopted resolutious of thanks ** to Presi- dent UHayes for tils action Iu rocpoulng the cass of onr honored firvt commander, Gen, Flta Jonz Porter, thus afording that gallant and Joval soldler anopportunity to prove the lonocence in which those who served him always believed." Bounator Hoar ia crodited with saying, apropos of & auggestion to hold a Sunday seaslon of the Senatorial Iuvestiyating Committae called for by Mr, Matthews, that there was Bcriptural war- rant for lfting 3n ase out of the mire on the Sab- bath, It lsn't llkely he said it, and, asyhow, Ibere s no Gcriptural warrant for snythingof the sort. Mr, D, N. Judson, of Atlants, Ga., not baving beon paid for the gravestona ho made some yoars sga for the grave of a resident's little boy, levied on the stone last week and sold it at anction, though the parents had placed what articlos of s! verware thoy owned in his baunds as collsters curlty. A Mr. Anthony Murphy bought the stone, and sont It to the child's mothor, At arecent clam-bake at Noew York the ingrealents, which wers placed in layers upons foundstion of heated pebbled and covered in with wet wea-weed and canvas, wero 40 bushels of wofb and 20 bushels of hard clams, 5 barrels of lobstete, 2 of sweet potatoes, 3 of Bermuds potaioes, half a tou of sheepshead (flsh), 200 bunches of asparagus. 400 spriog cbickens, 100 pounds of tripe, agd 6O gsllons of scasoned sauce, Boecher and Btoddard were the orator and postat the recent sssembly of the G. A. R. % Springficld, Mass, bloddard had a gigantic paper- ‘bux contalning a new dress for bhis wife, who was one of thegueats, and as bo was struggling to et lethrough & doorin the hotel, Mr, Leccher and Gen. McdMahon camne along. ** Mr, Beecher, said the General, **thls Is Mr. Stoddard, the poet.” **Qlad to meet you, sir," roplied Mr, Boecher, and, pointiug to the box, he saked, **1s that the poem?** Patti is about to domand a complete di- vorca from the Marquis de Canx, on the ground that her marriage, which took place in Ruoxisnd, was not properly performed. The match was made-by the Ewmpress Eugonie, to whom M. de Caux bad mude himself very agreeablo by leading the German at Court. Victor Llugo blisters hiw 10 hla **Uistoire d'un Crime, " whervhe recapitulates he list of Nsooleon IiL's courtiers, male sud fe- wale, and adds: **‘Thers was one nellher man sor woman—the Marquis ds C—." # John Phooniz’s ™ son, Derby, the West Potnt cadet who graduated at the head of his clave this yesr, was born at sea sod appointed **at Jarge.” Of the other 43 mombers of the graduat- Ing class, 1 was bora in Alsbams, 1 in the Diatsict of Columbis, 1 in Flonds, 3 1n Georgia, 3 i Illinols, 1 1n Indisss, 1 in Tows, 2 in Keatucky, 1 In Maine, 1 1o Maryland, 2 o Masescnuscits, 3 io Michigan, 1 in Missourl, 1 o New Hampahire, 3in New York, 1 in North Carolins, 2 io Oblo, 013 Poonsylvanis (of these 2 were sppoluted from Ullinols, 1 from Wircunsin, and 1 at large), 110 Texas, 1 in Tennessae, 3 in Venoont, 3 lo Wis- consin, and 1 in France. In ages they gro classed s follows: 190f 17 years 0ld, & of 18, 10 of ¥, 90t 20, and 3of 2L