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

T CHICAGO TRIBUNE : TULSDAY, DECEMBER !7, 1878, Thye Tatbaae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, E-~POSTAGR PREPAID, RT HATL~IN ADVAS Ve Faturday Rditfon, twolve pages.,. WEEKLY RDITION, One o e i it Fpeeimen coples sent fres. Give Post-uniee addrese In fol), including State and County. Ttemittances may he made efther by draft, expres, Post-Utce order, or in reglstered Jetter. st our risk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRIBERS, Dails, delivered, Ennday excepted, 25 cents per weak, Datly, delivered, Bunday included, 30 cents per week. ddress THE THIBUNE, GOMPANT, Corner Madiron and Dearborn-sta., Chiess Orders for the delivery of Tny TRIRTKR at K ton, Englewood, and Tiyde PArK (eft fn the counticg-room willrecelve tattentd Tr® CuicAno TRINUXE has estabiished branch ofices or (he receipt of subscriptions and sdvertiscments an allows: NEW YORK—Room 20 Tridune Bullding. F.T.Mc+ Avnex, Manager, PARIS, France—No. 16 Rue de la Grange:Datcliere. ManLxw, Agent. DON, Eng.—-Ameriean Exchange, 449 Btrand. 11110, Agent. BAN FRANCIECO. Cal—Palace Jotel. P L L AMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatre, Aadtron street, between Dearborn and Atate. ** Desd Men's hoes.” Haverly's Thentre, Dearborn street, corner of Monroe, Buffalo BiY), ** The Knight of the Plains ement of ¥ Einaley’s Theatre. Randolnh sireer, between Clark and Lasalle, Eae Fagement of Emerson’s Minstrels, x Acndemy of Music, Tialsted street, between Madison and Monroe. Va- tlety enterlainment. Hamlin’a Thentre, Clark sireet, onposite the Cours-louss. Engsgement Mme. Rentx's Minatrels. Metropolitan Thentrs, Clark street, oprosite Sherman House, Varlety en- tertainment. ** Mazeppa.” Art. 0. 63 Washington street. Loan Kxhibition ‘of the Chicago Soclety of Decorative Art. Day and evening. McCormick Hall. North Clark strest, corner Kinzle, phooy coneers, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1878. Tratt's Sym- Greenbncks yesterday at tho Now York Btock Exchange closed nominally at 99}, holders being unwilling to sell at that figure. T'wo trials havo been vouchsafed to Repe- METER, the St. Lonis murderer, who killed an jnoffensive stonc.mason. while at work, and ho is for the second time found guilty of murder in the first degree, the plen of insan. ity availing him nothing, The crime was peculiarly atrocious, and merited the law's extreme penalt; Tho ruin of the West ot England and Bouth WalesDistrict Bank is bardly loss eow- pleto and disastrous to creiditors and share- lolders than waa that of the Bank of the City of Qlasgow, and the possi® z ty of sefting the institution on.jo foet again in no longer cotortained. The Committes which investigated its affairs find that the entiro capital and reserve funds bavo been wasted away, leaving a deficiency of $1,000,000 to be mnde good 'Ly the un. fortunatp sharoholders Another phaas of 6 gas question in the Common Council wns reached last evening in tho pnssage of anordor directing that after Jan, 1, 1879, the use of gns in the stroot-lanips in the Weat Division be discon- tinued, sud oil substituted, It is to be pro- sumed that few of the Aldermen who com. prised the majority in the vole upon the passago of this order anticipato that snch a chango will be necessary, but that thoy rely instead upon bringing tho West Sido Gas Company to terms by wneans of the threat to withdraw o largo proportion of its patronage, — By the prompt interposition of Congress the thicves who robbed the Manhattan Bank have beon deprived of thair chief leverago for oxtorting & heavy reward for the return of the stolen property. Thoey took away, sumong other valuables, 31,600,060 in Gov. orpment bonds, and for the resti. tution of {heso the modest sum of 8500,000 in cash was demanded. Dut the bank procoeded by a mew route to cir- enmvont tho thioves and their go-botweon lawyers, and obtalned from Congress the passage of an order directing tho Secretary of the Trensury to fssue to the bank dupli- cates of tho stolen bonds, whereby the lat ter are rendered non-negotinble and worth- lesa, — From tho report of Mosars, ATwoop and Drureieeo, the infcroscopists to whom the Health Comimissioner applied jn Beptember last for inforination, based upon scientific research, concoruing the extont to which the Chicago pork.uupply is infected with trichi. nie, und whether a hog thus infected is to ba rogarded os an unhealthy anitmal, it will be sicen that with thorough cooking pork may be oaten without fear of injury on mecount of the parasites, and that tho same rulo applies to white rata as an article of food, which will bo comforting information to epicures, It ix aluo interesting to kuuw that in only eight hogs out of the 100 whose flesh was wubjeoted to the microscoplenl test was the presenco of trichinw doteotod, aud that, whilo the worms wore plentiful in the tenderloius, the hams wero in overy instance free, Thus far tho reorgani County Board hins made for itself an excellent rocord on the side of honest and caroful administra. tion, Its meoting yesterday was productive of soveral importaut measures which show s vaat improvement over the looso and corrupt practicus of the precediug Board—mmong them steps toward a much-uceded reform in the matter of drawing the panels of potit jurora for the different courta of record ; the irswing of a new Grand Jury for the Orimi. 3al Court for the January term, in which the ouues of bummwers and scaluwage aro in far leis conspicaous proportion thau formerly; the undoing of the work of the old Ring 1n the matter of the Ifanus “extras,” wheroby the county is saved what would otherwise Lave beon a steal of $29,000; and the reduc- tion from 32 cents to 25 cents ofgtle Bher. il's per diem for dictlng prisoners in the | County Jail. Al of theso messures sre gonuingly o the intercst of houcsty and cconomy, and will be appreciated as such by the taxpoyers. e —— Messre. Four aud Latusor aro the authors, Tespectively, of bille relating to the ourrency whick were yesterday introduced. Mr. Four proposes to punish diserimination by Natioua! Bauke aysiust tho silver dollar by o fine to bo retsived out of the interest on their bonds deposited in the Treasary, sud to requiry the Sceretary of the Treasury to exchuuge legal. touder uotes fur degaltender siiver, Mr. Lutrror's contemplates’ some important chnngos in the system of silver-coinage, by removing all restrictions as to amount, allow- ing bullion-holders to hive their bnilion con- verted into coin at the actusl cdst to the Government of the process of coinage, the present subsidiary silver coins to bs with- drawn and tedeemed in legal-tender silver, thae subsidiary coins to be hersafter produced ‘| to bo legnl-tender at thelr nominal value, their weight to be increased so as to corre- spond with that of the etandard silver dotlar. Tho Brars resolution, which was debated intheSenate yesterday, is very sweeping inita scope, authorizing an investigation as to the manner of conducling the elections in any Btate where fraud or unfairness {s charged. The featnro of the proccedings which will strike the genoral reader at tho North most foroibly is the debate upon tho amendment of Senator BurLza, of Bouth Carolins, who 18 declared by the Benate Committee which investigated his own election to be & usurper in that body, BurtnEm, with the history of former investigations fresh in his own mind, had the unexampled assurance to inaist that the sessions of the Committeo nt the Bonth sliould be held with open doors, or, in other words, that witnssses in affairs like the Iamburgy massacre, in which he was the principal actor, shonld be known to their bloody-ntinded neighbors that they may bo o influenced by fear of the wrath to come that thoy will think several timos before they risk thetr lives by appear- ing npon the witness-stand to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, of their bulldozing persecutions. Yot the Demo- cratlo party, as ropresented in the Senate of the United States, was a unit in support of Butnzn's propesition. By the adoption of an amendment offered by Mr. ConrriNg the investigation is placed in the haunds of & Special Committeo, consisting of nine Sona. tors, instead of the Judiciary Committes, ns was originally contemplated. ENGLAND'S PANIC. The reporta of commercial and indnstrial disastors.in England begin to come thick and fast. Failures of groat houses, the closing of great manufacturing establish- ments, strikes, destitution and suffering among nll classcs,—this is the burden of the song of ‘the tolograph and the corraspond. ents. It would scem as if the whole fabric of Dritish industry is about to tumble 1n ploces. Many canses are assignod for these disasters, Mr. Priuie D. Anugur, of this city, who has just roturned from ‘Europe, declarea that the prime cause is competition with our cheap provisions, 1o says that tho English farmer is payiog rent ($10 to 3156 por acre) on land valued at §300 por acre, whilo onr farmers produco crops from land valned at 320 per ncre. It follows that whon we Iay down wheat in Liverpool at $1.08 per bushe! aud pork at 5} cents per pound we drive the English farmer to bank- ruptey and the laborer to stdrvation. It has ever been a cardinal point of En. gland's policy to cultivate foreign marketd. Hor wholo colonial system was based upon tho theory of morchandising. When sho rent ont a colony she looked to have thom beeome purchasers of British goods, Thus the island became a huga workshop for the fashioning of cunning contrivances for the comfort of maukind, By the hand of hor artisans she transmutod the world's erude producta into articlod of use and virtn, em- bellished to the highest degree, and offered them in every market on tho faco of the carth, And for a long period Britlsh manun. factures have held these mnrkets. To achiove and maintain this supremacy it was necessary to depress the labor market to the lowont liviug llmit. In & word, England has built up her commorcial clnss at the oxponse of her industrial classes, Tho policy of ca- tering solely to foreign marketa has oper- ated to reatrict homs consumption to the minimnm, because the consumption of n peoplo must be in tho proportion of its acnle of labor priccs. It the yiold of labor is great, consumption will be largs, but if tho yicld of labor is small, consumption will hold o strick relation to it. Until the weat. orn lands of this country were brought un- dur cultivation to an extent which furnished a vast surplus for cxportation, the prices of farm products in England were casily sustain. ablant o falr price. But the cheapuess of this surplus oporates, aa Mr, Amxoun justly says, to crush the farming intorost of Englaud. Aud the sgricultural intorest cannot be crushed without producing a great crisiu, But cheap food in this country produces an- other disastrous effect. in England. Our manufacturing interest Las become an im. portaut one, andcheap food meavs the cheap. ening of mnnufactures, Hepco our manu. factures begin to find their way not only to foroign marketsformerly supplied by Ecgland but to England itself. ‘Iho conclusion is perfoctly logical that if we can greatly un. dersoll the Dritlsh farmer in the Liverpool wheat market, we can evantually undersell tho British ianufacturor in all thio markets of the world. For food is the ono groat ataple hat onters most largely into tho woof of evory fabric aud into the fashloning of evory artivlo of use or ornamout. Cheap food is, then, tha key with which our manufscturers will ultimataly apen tho door for their wares to all the 1arkots of Christendom., ‘Iho law of cutall is tho canker which Is destroying tho life-blood of the English people. Estensoy, in his ** Euglish 'I'raits,” under the titla ** Aristocracy,” seys: ** Pal- acos, hall, villas, walled parks all over En. gland rival tbo splendor of Royal soats. Mnuy of the halls, like IHaddon or Kodleston, oro boaatiful desolations, The' proprictor never eaw them or lived in them. Primogoniture built these sumptuous plles, and I enppose it is the sentiment of overy traveler, ns it was mine, ¢ "T'was well to como ere this were gono.! Primogeniture is a cordinal rulo of English proporty and inatitutions, Laws, oustoms, manners, tho very porsons and fices, aflinn it.” It is this law of primogenituro which has massed all the real proparty of England in a fow hands, made the farmer a tenant, and the laborer an iguorant pauper In little better coundition as to the comforts of life than the occupants of his pigitye. It was (his condition «f things that drew forth GorvemiTa's bitter seutimont atterod in such smooth verse s dects. 1y fadu; has wade; But a buld pessantry, their countey’s pride, Wben vnce destroyed, can never bo supphied, ‘There is 1o grauder bListory than that of the British uation and people. By thom tho world's treasurcs of srt, scivuce, lteratare, worals, sud law biave Leon vaatly augmented. But if it shall appear in the end that tne nany have been sacrificed to the fow; that for every day’s huat of tho British’ sports- man in the vast parks beld sacred from fuvo- siou by the plowsburo thousauds of British subjects bave suffered penury and waut, and been kept iu debasing igooraace, and so that the foundutious of general prosparity have Levn fatully eupped,—if this shall uppenr, -the fact will constitute nother connt in the modern indictment agaiust Royalty and titles of nobility. BENATOR CONRLING AND HIS GRIEVANCE. Thero in still considerable donbt as to the conrne which Benator Comkrixa will pursue in the matter of the New York appointments. On the one hand, 1t is asserted that the New York Benator i still unreconciled to tho ro- moval of ArTaum and the other Cnstom. House officinla, and that he finds encoursge. ment for resisting the confirmation of their successors in the fact that the Sonthern Deihocrats have grown Inkewarm towards the Prosident since the delivery of his ges. sage, and that thay sre na willing toside with Mr. Conxeixa as with the President, or do anything else which mny promote discord among the Republicans, On the other hand, it is said that Mr. Coxxvrixa's ante.election preference for harmony, the carrying of New York ns o result of that policy, and a movement to provide otherwise for Mr. Antaun, will indace the Now York Sen- afor to acquicsce in the confirmation of Messra, Mzrarrr, Boar, and Granax with- out further opposition. Whatever Mr, Coxg. 1180 may docide to do, or whatever miccess Le may linve in cnse he shall farther oppose the confirmation of the mew appointments, there would appear to bo a good deal of mis- apprehension as to the effoct of rejecting the names that have bean sont to the Senate. It 4as been generally supposed that, undor the Tonurg-of-Ofice law pnssed in Jouxson's Administration, tha suspended officers would resumo in caso the new appointments Lo not confirmed. But this is an error, according to Harper's Weekiy, which says: ‘There {s nomn carioaity to see whether Mr. Coxge 11xa will rencw his contest with the Adsninietea- tlon over the New York appointments; and there s & vory general, but mistaken, impression that it Mr. Mznwitr [s not condrmed Mr. Antnua will immedintely resnme the ofice of Coi’ector, This imoression is doubtless itus 10 foreetflnem of the serions changes that have been made in the Tenare. of-Ofice law. 1t was originubly passed to reatruin Axpuew Jou: i it provided that whencver tho Sunate was In seesion thio President must report 101t the reasons of any removal.he had inads: and il the reasons ware not opproved the fewioval could not take place. 1wt It now provides that {ho President may suspond an ofifcor until the end of the next scsalon of tie Scnate, and he {a not ouliged to wive any reasons; The old practice nas been o far restored that the Prosident, ncting upor, tila roupomalility, 18 supposra (o huve good vea- sons; and the question submitted to the Senato i not whether A ougnt to be removed, but whether B 18 a fit person to be avpointed, ‘The latention of the moadication wae umLul'lllnnubI] to restors the President’s power over the oflicos, If this ba the correct conatruction of the law sa it now stauds, then Mr. Coxzrina will be at a pormanent and jrremedinble disadvantage in a contest with the Excctitive 80 long as tho latter shall eloct to assert his power. For if tho Sennto should refuse, at Mr. Coxkring's diotation, to confirm My, Mxnarrr, the President conld send in an. other namo, nod continne to send in new names as rapidly as his appointments should ba rejected until tho end of tho session. It the Benato should adjourn’ without confirm- ing any appointment to the offica of Col. loctor in Now York City, then, indeod, Mr, Antauvr would be ontitled to resume his place, but be could not hold it twenty-four hours in deflance of tha Presidont, as the Intter could aguin suspend him and appoint a suceessor to hold till the Sonate should meet again, If it bo sald that this course wonld be constructive discourtesy towanls the Sonate, It may be answered that it would not bs any more discourteous than the Benate had been to the Prosident in rojecting a succeasion of -unob- jectionable appointmenta in order to compel tho Prosidont to rotain s porson in offico whom he believes to bo unfit. If the proper construction be as Harper's Weekly states it, then tho old practice scems to hava been ro- vived, viz.; That tho President shall not be able to sppoint and keep in office any person whom the Senata will not conflrm, and that tho Bonate shall not ba ablo to compel the Prosident to retiro an officor whom he no longer rogards as it for the place he holds, And if this be tho fact, Mr, ConxtiNe will find discretion to be the bottor part of valor, and ho will servo himsolf and his conntry better by consonting to the confirmation of good mon than by engeging in a hopeless strifa to forco the retontion of his favorites. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE BILL. ‘Wo bave received from ‘Toledo the follow- ing lotter concerning some remarks we hnad on the Inter-Btate Commorcs bill pussed by the House of Ropresentatives a foew days ago. The letter readsa: To the Editor of The Tridune, ‘Toreno, 0., Dec, 14, —Yoit sre wrung In your construction of Hec, 4 of the Inter-Biate Com- merco bill, which reads as fotlowa: **1tahail be oatawful for any person or porsons engaged in the fransportation uf property, etc., to charge or rg- celve sny greater compensation per carload of stmltar property for careying, etc,, tho semo for a shorter than for a longet distance Ih one contin- ou carrlage," This simply 4, 88 an example, that the Lake Shore, making o rate of 35 centy from Chicagu to New York, anall not make a rate over 5 cents from LaPorte, Elkhart, etc,, to New York. e Mr, HEAUAX'S cXDianation-in Congres. slonal Necord. Ww.oun, The text of the bill was published in Tnx Tnipuxg yosterday, aud differs quite ma- terially from the synopsls of the bill sent by telegraph iu tho report of the action of the louso, Tho part of the bill covering tho ratea to be charged on long snd short dis- tances 18 in thie fourth section, whioh roads: ‘That it shsll be unlawful for any person or pers sons engayed i the transportation ot property, as wvrovided 1o the Orgt scctlon of this act, to charge o rocelvo sny refter compensation pur car-1od of stmilar proverty for carrying, receiving, siar- lug, forwarding, or baudhug the same for o shorter than fora longer dlatince fu uue continu- ous carriage. As the bill was reported by telegraph, thils section was represouted as providing that the compensntion should in no case be loss per wilo for long distauces than was charged for slort distances. ‘Tp this provision Tux Tawuxe objected. Tut the bill does not contain nny such provision; on the con. trary, it has nothing to say about mileago at all. Tbe bill iu Bec. 0 thus disclaima any reforence to auy luterfercuce in the matter of. local rates or traffio within one State vx- clusively : figc. 0. That nothing in this act shall nwl{m tho carriage, seceiving, sturage, handijng, vy for- warding of proverty lovs than un ordinary cat-load, or wholly within one State or Territory, and not desttued fog carriage In auother State or Yureitury, or golng to or coning fzom somae foroign country, or 1o property corried far she United States at lower tates Of Iroight aud charges than for the publle, or to the tlllllnuflull»u ol articles at reduced rates of freight for churltavio purposes, 0r}no¢ from public fairs und expositions jor exhie itfon, The effect of Bec. 4 is coufined exclusively, therefare, to the rates which it may be law. {ful to exnot between tormiual poluts extend. ing over two or wore Htates. ‘Thus it shail not be lawful to chargo more per car from Pueorla to New York than from 8t. Louis to New York; no more per car from Danville vr Champaign, Ill., to Philadelphia, New York, or Boston than from Kausas City or 8t. Louls to theso poluts. The railroad com- pauies may fix what rate they plense from auy poiut to asother, bat they are prohib- ited by this bill frow charging wmoro for the shorter distauce than for the longer. 'Thus the company wmsy charge as wuch per car from Elkbart or LyPorte, iu Indiaus, to Now York, as from Chicago to New York, but shall not chargo any more. ‘They may chargo ws wuch por cur from Toledo or Dotroit to Now York a4 from Chicago, but not svy wore. ‘They way charge w3 uch per car from Chicago to New York, Boston, Philn- delphin, Raltimore, or Portland, as from Omalia, 8t, Paul, Winonn, Milwankee, Kan. #as City, Bt. Joe, or 8t. Lonis, but shall not charge any more.. The bill permits tho transportation companies to mova cattle. traing from Kansas City to New York or other poinis East at whatever rate per ocar they and the shippers may nagreo; but it prohibits them chiarging any higher rate per car for the transportation of similar trainas from Eaat 8t. Lonis, or Peoria, or Chicago, to the same points East. ltates of transpor. tation are not established by mileage ; the companies ara at liborty to mako any rate they ploase between tefminal points, but the rate per car for the loug distanco is mnde the unit, and the company is not permitted to excoed that rate per car for any shorter distance, o Thus in & shipment from Omaba to New York tho company may chargn 50 cents or 40 conts per hundred, or $100 or $30 per car; it may take tho same freight from Du. buque for 280 or 260, or from Milwankeo nt 864 or 835, and feom Chicago at 360 or §560; and from pointa further east at lower rates. All this the transportation company may do at {ts pleasuro; but this bill prohibits it from charging more from Dubaqne than from Omalia, or more from Milwaukee than from Dubuque, or more from Chicago than from Milwaukee, or mora from Toledo than from Chieago. The rate per car for tholong distanco exteriding over more than one State is the maximum rate per car that can be charged for a less distance. A car may Lo taken from Counncil Blufls to 'Toledo at any price the company shnll choose to domand, but whatever that charge may be the charge to Milwankoe or Chicago shall not oxcoed that to Toledo, Strango to say, Measrs. Arpnicw, Bnewe TANo, nnd Hamnison, of Chieago, voted agaivst this bill. Wa suppose they had some good reasan therefor; but to an intelligent obsorver of the porsistent efforts to mako Chicago a.moro way atation, and to subject trado to and from this city to diseriminating oxtortions, the renson {s not rendily under- stood, The Illinols members voting for the bill were Boyp, Fonrt, Hanrzenn, Haves, Mansn, Sparxs, Senivexn, TieTow, and Townsuennp, Messra, Buncmanp, Caxxoy, EosN, Hespzesoy, and Monnmsox voted agoinst the bill. No part of tho conntry stauds more seriously in need of just such a law os this ns do the Slates lying between tho Ohio nud Missouri Rivers. The whole railrond transporiation between the States onst and west of the Missouri River passcs over theso States. On all freight trom tho East to moro western points the rotes por car ore less than to points in Ohio, Indinns, THinols, and Wis. consin; on all freights to States cast of tho Alleghanios the rates are less per car than from Chicago, Milwankee, or other points in Indiana, Illinois, or Wisconsin, Botween tho two blades of tho sheads thess Statea are shorn soveraly. The objection, aud the only serions one, urged in the debate to the bill was that it dostroyed competition. The bill prohibits combination, and prohibita the pooling of recoipts, and the attempt to explain that this pravonted compotition was a coniplete failure. 'Tho bill leaves overy maflroad freo to cliargo on through frelghta whatover it thinks proper to demand ; this and the pro. hibition of the pooling of roceipts neces- sarily forces avery road to compete for the business. Whero there is combination thore {8 nover any competition, and, where ‘com-. potition is necessary to the transaction of business, the gencral public will never be subjocted to eoxtortion and discrimination. ‘The bill is o wise one, n most necossary and timely one, acd wo trnst it will ba promptly od by the Senato, GOLDWIN SMITH ON UNIVERSAL BUF- FRAGE. ‘Tho ndministration of government in tho United States and the methods and prac. ticos of our soclal life aro becotning favorite toplcs with Enpglish writers. We have re- cently printed soveral of theso speculations, criticiems, and comments, some of ‘which showed close obsurvation and made valuabla suggostions, Too many of thom, however, have been written by Englishmen who bhad made flylug trips through the country snd looked at things through English spectacles. Now and then we got tho deductions of a man compotont to judge, and of this class are the obwervations of Prof. Gorowin Swntw, printed in onr last fssue, who has resided fn this country long enough to treat the subject from an intelligent standpoint. The special topie to which Prof. S8urrn dovotes himself ia univereal suifrage, and while he, in common with mnny thoughtful and observing Amoricans, is couvineed that it has failed in somo respects and in others las produced wutious evils, he does not think that the strongth. or integrity of the American Government are theroby impaired, or that there are any grounds for despair as to the workings of the Americun system of government. On the other hand he moes, what must atrike even a superfi¢ial observer, that in the self-control of its peoplo lies its safoty, aud that o Government which can go through the most perilous crises, such, us the Clvil War and the wecond olection of Alr. Laxoony, without suspending the ordluary course of low, except at the very scene of war, end without resort to violent forma of ropression or vindictive penaltios, has fouu. dations in , tho freo alleglance of its pooplo which canuot be serioualy shak- on, Again, notwithstanding the prava. lence of dishonesty snd corruption, ha does not believe that this evil strikes at the voots of democraoy, becanse hio fiuds that in the past fourteen years a third of the publio debt has been pawd, the intervst great- ly reduced, taxation lightened, and credit raised to u first-clase, and that on tho wholo “ proporty is sccure, right is done between suitors, crime is punished nnd confidence in the judiciary is geuerally felt,” aud these rosults he doew mot bellove would obtain if honesty as a rule had mot prevailed in the wdninistration of Government and of the law, In this samo conncction, Prof, Batu shrowdly obsoryes another Larrier to div- honesty in the publicity which i given to it through the press and the vigorous manner in which it is denounced. In Eugland pub- lio disbouesty is covered up, and whea it dous como to the surfaco it produces a sen- sation, while in this country ** of the corrupt we alwoys hoar; the trumpet of political rivalsy tolls their names loud enough.” Another elstent of strength in this coun = try, * qpcessive now-intorvention,” is so sin. gular to' au Englishman, the policy of whosa Qovernment is alwsys to grab, that Prof. Swuiru is inclined to lay it at our doors as & sorious charge, upon the ground that the Auerican Republic is the tutclary Power of the New World, and wouald be of beuefit to the wonker comnmunities by soting in that capacity. Iu this observation, however, bo does not go to the bottow of the watter. It 1 truo that wo bave refused to tase Hayli, asking at onr very doors for admins| We disregarde.l tha pitcous appenls of the Cnban patriots during their long and brave atruggle for freedom, and allowed thom fo Do restored to the yoke of tyr- anuy and eruelty, Wo neglected to take Moxico when wo lad subjugated her and her Capital was in tho possession of onr victorions armics, and, with all deforenco to tho newly-established potty Court of Lonxe aud Lovise, the annexation of their Domin- fon would not be a difficult task. For all this it does not follow that we have not the same land-grabbing propensities as the Saxon race across the water, which has grabbed Cyprus and the Transvanl and i8 now pre- paring to yrab Afghanistan. If our Govern- ment wers Iaid npon the same foundations 8 the Euglish, if onr mothods of ndministra. tion ware similar, if our syatem wero as well adapted to colonize without admitting to reprasentation in the body politie, Prof. Byrra wonld bave little oceasion to compli- ment us upon our forbearance, or to charge us with neglect of daty in the matter of tutelngo. If Oubn, Hayti, Mexico, and Canada wors unoceupied rogions, they wonld havo beon incorporated long ago, and sottled with a popnlation capable of assimilating with us and in sympathy with democracy, and their condition would have been infinitely better than it is now. Haytinn nogroos, Mexican groasers, and unfriendly Cauadians with Royal bees in their bonnets, aro not the kind of stuff ont of which American citizons aro made, Intho necessity which compels us to keep poople who will not sssimilate out of the body politic lies tho salvation of our system, ns otherwise we should probo- bly keep on grabbing until wo had absorbed everything from Alaska down to Patagonin, aud finally break of our own weight and go to pleces, ' X 8o far as universal suffrago is concorned, the recommendations of Prof. 8aitn may be summed up in tho application of a proparty test in citios and an edncational tost in towns and small villages. Thero I8 nothing new in these remodies. Thoy have often been urged by our own political philoso- phers, but it is quostionablo whether they wonld be generally officacions. Whon 1t is remembered that the most astound. ing frauds in our history, thome in the recont election in Houth Oarolina, were committed by mon who wonld pass both these tests, it does not look very en- cournging for the preventive characterof the remodics suggosted. Thero ia no doubt that suffrage, espocially in the hands of industrial exiles of the lowest sort and untrained im- migrants easily made tho tools of dema. gogues, ia fraught with ovil; but the situn-, tion ig not without hope, In tho abundance of Inud, in commercial expansion, in the goneral intelligonco of tho people, and in tho sprond of education and the mora vigor- ous punishment of polltical ag wall as official crimos, thero is hops for tho future, . — UNEMPLOYED ROYALTY. Bome time since Tur Cmicaco TrrsuxE playfally suggested that the childron. of Queen Victonia, having nothing to do and growmng up In idlencss, ought to be sot to work to earn their living. It now appésrs ‘that Lord Beacoxarrern has acted upon the suggestions of Tue TRIDUNE as i they wero serions, and has sat himself to work to find occupation for the numerous Royal brood, and keop thom out of mischicf, One. of them, tho Princess Louise, wifo of the Marqnis of Lonxg, is alrendy a$ work in Canadn, and Las oponod Ler littlo Court in the slab-sud- shingle town of Ottawa with -distinguished success, Even o Princoss could hardly ask for a bettor sond-off, and, if the Marquis of Lonye conscientiously attends to his busi. ness of breaking in tho domoeratic Kanucks and making them amonnble to Royal fashion and otiquatto, Lo will have enough to do to keop him busy. 'The women of Canada who conld not obtain the doctor's certificato have alraady takon the Royal pair to thekr bosomns with an openness that was vory tonching and beautiful, considering the asperitics of the climate. 8o well pleased is Lord BeacoNserzeo with the guccess of the Canadian exporimont that he haa dotermined to-act again upon the suggestion of Tue Taioune and sot up au- othor of the Royal idlers in business for himgelf. This time he has picked out Anruun Wituau Patnick Arsent, a stout youug follow, 28 yearsof sge and withont incumbrances, bettor known as the Duke of Connaught, the only one of tho flock wha was marked for future Iriah possibilities, and haa indicated his desire to make him Lord. Licutonant of Ireland, bouncing the Dake of Martborough, the present Lord-Licutonant., As tho Queon is very anxious to bavo him go, aud tho Loy himscl! makes no objaction, he will probably obtain tho situation, Mo has every rocommondation for the place ex. copt ono, Ilo is ongaged to mnarry the Danish Princess Tayna, and the Irish do not fonoy the Dancs. Thelr old Kings used to be in continual troublo with them, and Batan Bonw, it will be remembored, put n stop to it by expolling them, Tho engogemont with tho Princess'I'nyxa, however, can be an- nulled as casily as o saloon.liconso can ba vovoked. Nothing willbe thought of it in Royal circlos, and there is no denger tho Priucess will sue for bronoh of promiso, As these warriages nro mero mattors of political bartor arranged by Premiors to acoomplish certolu aoffaive of State, fu which Cupid playd no part, there will be uo breakage of hearts. Tho Princess Tuvna will quietly step onc side and judiforently walt for tha next customer provided. for hor, To be a success in Ircland, Patnick Axravs should bava Coltio surroundings, aud, to commend himself to the Irish people, ho ought to have an Irish wife of the genuine blue blood, It will bo oasy to find one, as Iraland fs full of them. Thoroaro all the O'Buians, do. soended from Baiax Boru, the great war King of Munster; all the CoxnorLys, from Fixyn McCoorr; all tho FoLkvs, from Orrav Fora, who intpoduced sstronomy and medi. cine; sovera! Parnices, stralght descended from the Saint-King, who put the Druids to rout aud slew all the snakes ex. cept two, who wero subsequently slaught. ered in a general uprising wgainst them of the whole Yrish population; all the Kincaios, who boast the blood of Coxx Krapoanaon, or Coxx of the bundred bat- tles; all tho O'Nuris, from Nuvw, who so valiantly fought the Daunes. As the Irlsh have had more Kings than any other nation, and ‘have resolutely opposed amalgamation with other natious, it stands to reason that Royal blood must flow in the veins of almost every Irish woman, and $hat whatever bloom. ing, buzom Irish uaiden Patriox Asrmun might seloct would prove to be a Princoss in disguise of the iruly Royal strain, who weculd do uo discredit to the Royal atation. Huvingsuccesafully placod Paraicx AxTuus where bo would do the most good, and pro- vided for a Celtic-Guelph prugony which, wight be available in future contingeucies, it will buthe duty of Lord Bzacoxsrirep (o look after the rest of the family. The Princesy 1ctonia has already enongh to dd to look after her scven childron, and prepare herself for her duties when the Crown Prince comes to the Imperinl German throne. Aspenr Epwanp, of courag, cannot be spared, sa ho ia the heir-apparent, and mnst take tho reins when Vicronta shufiles off Lier Queenly coil, and goos the wayof all the Guevrns, Suirns, aud Browxs, The P'rincess Avice is forever at reat, and now sleeps with her Royal pre- decessors. The fourth, Prince Arrren, Duko of Edfnburg, has nlready been snggested by Tar TRIBUNE ns an eminently fit Governor- Qenernl for. India, and Lord Braconsriztp will do well to nct upon the suggestion. As ba fwrried the Grand Duchess Mante of Russin, her romoval to Indis might perma- pently avert all dangor of a Russian invasion of that country, The fifth child, Princoss Hevresa, who married a nonentity, Princo CutnieT1AN of Schleawig-Ilolatein.Bonderburg- Augustenburg, etc., ote., Lna the reputation of being alady of oxcellont tasto and pns- sionately fond of coramics. Hor place, therefore, evidently is the nowly-nequired possession of Cyprus. Tho sixth and sov- enth, Lovtse and Patnick ArTius, ara already provided for. The eighth, LroroLp, who is alrondy 26 yoors of . age, and ought to bo doing something, might tnke Australin; whilo the last oue, the Princoss Bratnice, who i the flower of the flock, could go to tho Cape of Good Hops, whero dinmonds may be had by tho peck nnd tho climato is favorablo to low.nccked dressing. Having thus disposed of all her childron, the good Quacn, when the summons comnos to join tho caravan that procecds to the pale realm, may dopart in peace. Mr. WreLiast D, Wasnnuny, Congressman. olect from Minnesotn, has permitted himsel? to bo intorviewed in New York, and among other statementa hns delivered n rather in. cansistont utteranco on tho subject of silver coinage, Ho scems inclined to the double standard, but thinks the silver dollar ought to be made 04 nearly equal the valuo of the gold dollar as possible. Mr. Wasanonw, who has not, had the expoerience of his older brothers in Congress, has not yet loarned to giva thonghtful consideration to a mubject: beforo he talks about it in public. Other. wise, ho would have thonght this mattor over long enough to understand that tho standard silver dollar is now equal to tho gold dollar throughont tho length and breadth of tho United Btates and i every country on oarth with which tho Amoricans have commorcial dealing. Ie would nlso have romembored that the American silver dollar contains relativoly 8 per cent mora bnllion then the silver coins of any other nation whoroe both metals nvo used +ns monoy, Ife would havo reflected that an enlargomont of tho smlver dollar now to cqual the bullion value of tho gold dollar would result in the disappearanco of all the silver coin from tho conntry nt the first riso in tho valuo of thae silver bullion, ife would have come to the conclusion that a schome of monthly, wack- ly, or daily rocoinnage of milver, incident to following oxact gold values, would be uttorly impracticablo, and that a suggostion thoreof ig very absurd. Mr. Wasnsunx should look befora he loaps, ‘The English papers make the announcement that tweoty-five rallway companies in Great Britaln have resolved to lssue from and after the 1st of January next railway stauips to the oublic of the denomifuatious of fourpence (8 cents) aud clghtpence (16 cents) which shall carry parcels of two pounds and four pounds respectively throughout their whole systems. ‘Thoy have also agrecid to accept purcels ot these wefghts and at theso rates throughout the whola of their systems, and to grant an losur- snco up to 85. Some of the companies, among them tho Loudon & Bouthwestern, London, Brighton & BSouth. Const, nad Houtheastern, have not conta into the arrangement; but it is Loped, we aro told, that they will do so, and also that tho Post-Oflice authoritles will co-op- crate, The Pal Jall Gazctte ndda: It wonld bo diffienlt to overestimata the valne to the public—who are undor exiating arrangements unmercifully flacced by local carriers (expross compaules) and ofton subjected to the mout un- Juatifiablo extortion and inconvenlenco~of a reslly woll.teguiated parcel post, Shopkeeperw, and, indoed, the trading classcs gencrally, wonld deriva groat henofit from the adoption of a systemn sccuting the tranvmission of amall poreols of gavds with case and regularity at reasunable and fixed charged, As o cluss, lawyers are distinguished for thelr diftuso style. They are scldom laconie or, epi- gramaticin their methods of expression, but usswords in speaking or writing as if they didu't cost ncent. Ono of the * profesafon’ out In Kausas lost a young hog, and the ver- bosity of the fratercity Is well illustrated by the description of the strayed anlinal which * Lex sent to the villaze paper. The opening men- teuco will bo sufficlent for our present purposo: A cardinal (or as some call 1t brindlo) Aud white colored young bog (or s somne call it whoat) neariy 7 months uld, marked as (ollows: A small amount of cardingl (or brindle color) on nls face (or as some call 1t snont), over his nock o hia back, coun with the white on the under, or ground, shoat, of yuung hog, and of the thence fua direct lino cust by southeast W & polnt two and a quarter inches weat of Lhe central nolut of the ex- Lromy voutherly exposure of the shoat, or youn, hoy, and thence west up the northern boundary of the animal aforesald 10" a polnt ahout midway be- tween bis ‘:Pw““ and his tail, then bearing two degrees und three minutes fo the cust, and thonce diie north ta tha point of bugloning, giving hila & gencral avpearnicy which iyt by (bnt Is not) describud as, or like, & pail of swill Liad boen cares loualy thrown upon him, aud run down u hitle furthor onvomo of the legs (or as omu call thesm ilmbs) thun others, " e R B Fenlanism 13 sualn brought to notice by the orrival o New York of Patgick Tienxxy, the lust of the Fenlan prisoners except one. Tienxey was convicted June 18, 1868, and has been confined fu Bpike fsland Prisou, in Cork arbor, until Dee. 4, 1873, When ho was cone vieted ho was 23 years old, and ho {s conse- quently now about 87, His trade, when he en- tered the prison, was that of g leather-catter, and while In dursues he dearned the trade of stone-cutting. o was obliged to work with & chain welehing sbout twelvo pounds on his leg, and sutfered so many hardchips that bis health was serfously linpalred. A commission, con- siating of the Hou. SraxoEs TaLpor sud Bie Hznny Howrany, of the Brithb Parlament, waa appointed to inquire into his condition, and through thelr fnflucuce bis releass was ot length ubtulned, Ho attewpted to escave In 1873, and after his cupture was forced to suffer suvers punishment. When ne Jeft the prison he was not allowed to laud, but was conveyed to the steawer in a boat, Mr, TIXRNEY seeins to be in koud health, Ile was given hiy Nberty ou con- dition he would never return to Eogland, e et— After the Presidential election of 1880 the “ Solld Buuth ** won's be worth talking shout a3 a fuctor in the political games that men sud parties will pe playlng. Ewigration shuns it, and will cuntivue to do so us long as life, prop- erty, sud soclal stauding sre subordinated to nolitical projudice, and will serk & moure con- gevlal bome fn the great Weat. For tho next ten ygyre the rapld locreass in population will bo mdit marked (u the vew States and Terri tores lylug botweep tho Mississippl River and tha Vacific Occau, and tacy sud the States Iviug north of the old MasoN aod Dixon's Une will control the destiuy of the great Republlc with- out the Bouth. - ————— After cighteen years of untuterrupted Repab- Mean rule, the people of Wiscousin thought they would try * Reform * Just for & change in thelr State Adwiutstention, avd so they elected that distinguiabicd political economist, WitLiaM R Tasron, Goveruor in 15T Au ubcowwmon smount of gas was gencrated by that Democratie Adwtulstration, und their papers were Ulled with the boast that $300 & day was befng saveq to the people of the State by the rare ecanomy and retrenchment of the atoresald Tayron ani his brother-Reformers in office. Rut this year the taxes am higher than ususl in the Stnre, and everyhody s growling about ity as 1g u»é prerozative of cvery Anierfean citizen when he 18 called ubon to pay taxes, A deficlency In the Treasury of $100,000—a legacy of that famouys ' Reform " experiment—must now be pald, an:| the saving of $500 per duy fs now explaine |, The new statutes, forbid borrawing from one fund to make up tho deficiency in another, which hias been the custom heretofore, and noy the taxpayers must pay up in full. The xind of reform that contracts large debts for otherg to pay is not. m.apulnr in Wisconsin, - - — ‘The grave and cold London Times gives place tothis ‘“*special? from its Berlin correspond. ent: Mmo. Avnktaxa Patriis for the fiest tim, N Hn.'The enthuaiasm creatod by her perfornoery in nnprecedented, Persimixm, Nibillam, and af other rumbling fancles of the eort aro ncattered to tha winda by the sweet volce of the accomplisieq artist. Life, which popular whilosunhers declare 10 bu worth nothing, s suddenly converted tnta g supreme hlessing, admitting, as It does, of enyo. tions such asare awakencd by PATts. The sou, which anly yesterday doubted its own exintence, 1y to-day made conacions of ita reslity by the charsy and melodious sontiment of an sccompligtied singer. There michi be botter methods of realp. ing the transccndental, yet art isonaamongot; hers, —e— Herr Avousr WiLnRLM, the distinguished violinist, certifies that he found the keenest nppreciators of musle in Milwaukee, his Jap. Ruago belug—*In Milwaukee, 1 was surpriseq, Boston did not furnlsh keener, it 88 keen, anpreciators of music.” Thia compliment 1o our northern suburb is well deserved. Next ty lager-beer, music Is the Milwaukean's rost absorbing passion. They havo the largest ang best tnusical soclety in the United States, ang more timo and monoy - is spent for music thers thau in any city of Its stze In tho world, - —— It is & slim excuso for TUURMAN to sny that ho cannot subject himself to tho straln of o Gubernutorial canvass {n Ohio while ho is g the same time expecting and wanting the Dem. ocratfe nomination for tho Prestdency fn 183, which would bo a thousaud times mord “ straln. ing" on the old man. Old Fog-Horn Atigx wouldn't onter such & flimsy ples as that, Por. haps Trursaes is admonished at the fateof Honace Gueorer, . e ——— 5 Beoator Camznox, of Wisconsin, who ‘ras clected as the result of a fierce political quarrel in his own party,and was therefore bandicapoed by a prejudico for which he was not to blame, Is coming to the front as a carcful, able, and eml- uently trostworthy member, whose career thus far has been characterized by the clusest attey- tion to public affairs, and by the faittful dis. chargo of his Bendtorinl duties, ———————— Nobody can pay a’neater compliment than the voet WaiTrizr, In his new poem on the ocea- slon of & boat-launch, the following raro tribute refers to Mra. loustoN Wear: “Thera i o singer richly gifted, Mer charmed volco npliiteds And tue neadow lark snd soarrow Listened dumb with anxious pain, ——e— Several gontlemen of both political parties Thave contributed some whitewash for the pur. pose ol vindicating Mr. Reprosentative AckLey from a late scandal. Coogressmen probably slgned the ACKLEN statement on the theory of the good ofd hymn: ‘The mercy I to others show, ‘Ihat mercy show to mo. - e—— The DBatesville (Miss.) Biade haa s slash st Senator Lasan-after this styler * Mr, Lasur 1s quoted ou the Southern sentimen, Heno mure represents the Sonth than does Bruce; in fact, not 'so0 much so. Nelther of them could be elected beat constable, the lowest office in America. Nr. LaMAR is a dead cock {h the pit, and died with his back to the storm," er—— A Washington correspundent says that when nothing of particular consequunce fs golng on, Conrring has pleaty of lelsure, but if a big speech ls to bo made by a Benator on elther slde of the Chamber, then Mr. CoNRLING always has some linvortant writing on hand to which he ostentatiously addresses himself unti! ths ex. citemunt is over, e — The Columbus (Miss.) Democrat gives notlca that *‘the Greenback Democrats will have a word to say {n fashioning the Democratic plat- form of the future.” As long as the Greenback tail hes had the pteasure of wiggling the Demo- cratic dog for the last two yearsit fs reasousdle to assuine that it will continue to do sc. —————— 1t {s taken as & good omen in the case of Wabpe HaxeTox becausc, as the report bad If, ‘*he was strong enough to take the oath of oftico as Governor for another term.” He would be & slck man fndeed who wouldn't muster up strength cnough to take such an oath as that. —— The New York Ewening Posg says thatitls s cutious fact that the actempts, or contemplated attempts, upen Queen Victonta's life havo been traced to lunaties, while the assassins of the Continent have been usually In full pussession of thelr wits—such as they were, 3 —————— The Southern Planter condemus the publle- school syatem as a Yankee trick to rob the tax- payers of the South. Tho Planter is devoted to the development of the country, and to the im- provement of all domestic auimals except men, womeu, sud enildren, e — A Washington letter-writer says that It there are any Democratlc Scuators who van match Mr, BLaiNg aud Mr. Epsunps fu & running de- bate, they bave not yut had su opportunity of making the couutry acqusluted with thelr fo- rensie abilitie —————— TALXAGR'S scusational sermots on the ad side of ife fu Now York are pluying ont. IHis fast audicuco did ot kalf €1l his house. Itls bigh timo they were ended. They would do no good cxcept to advertlse s clorieal mounte- bank. —————— e CONKLING {8 sald w bu for GmaNT i 1850, Tha', of course, ls his second cholce, his first choive being himself, It is & littlo curlous bow many meu bave to take ub with a second cholce at last. Bowmetimes u fullow vuly gots u poor third, Miss Minxit HAuk has seut notices to the newspspers that she bas settled her dificulties withh tos manager, and will sing In the OLE Burt concert, It is the firat caso on record where & sicger evir made it up with anybody. - —— That “bill to regulate inter-State commerce,” which passed tho f{ouse the othier day without & why or & wherefory, will probably run sgatust apnag fu tho Scuate. 16 ls & very dmportaut bil}, and wili probsbly clicit s warw debate. - — It will tako the edge off * Hambarg" But- Lxu’s speech fu reply to BLass wheu it js 1¢- wembered that the Bepate Commwitice on Elece tlons declare that be was aever legally elected, and bas no business fn the Benate, ———— . Before BLa1N® made bis speech on bulldoziug in the Soutb, the Clociupatl Commersial thoucht it was 100 much of & venture and would nob tske. Since BLA1NE has spoken, however, LLo Commareicl has changed its mind. i SraNLey says that the Emporor Mrass, of Ugands, 1o the futerior of Alfrica, has 800 con- cubtues. The late Bxiouam Youwso, of Salé Lake, wauted to go to Ugauds very waych, e e e— Mr. Dawa, of the New York Sun, is now wor- rylug fur fear the Republicans will disfrsochise the poor blacks. Those culored poopls wiil pester tha life ous of DaNa yet. e —ee A married woman in Buffalo saya she could make Bow (x0x%30LL belivve fu bell M she was bls wife. —— ———— A Portland paber save the polive arv on the weent of A, T, BTewaur's remalos. e p—— Laih A gruudsou ot Paruick HENuy b the leader of tue Virguia Legislature, \