Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1878, Page 4

¥ i s 1 P TSR T et A Srae 355 e ‘ i 1 4 & » oA \ THI CIIICAGO 'TRIBUNE: The Tribmre, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. MAIL—1¥ ADVANCE-~TO8 ratly Fditlon, one year. Faris of B YEAF, prrmon ;..f‘;.m-mflm T ierary and ] WERKLY LOITION, POSTPAID, Specimen coples sent frea. Glve Poat-Oftice address fa fall, facluding 8tate end County. emittances may be made cither by draft, express, Tost-Ofice onder, of In registered Tetter, at our vk, TERMS TO CITT BURSCRIBERA. Dafiy, delivered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents per weak, Datly, aritvercd, Bunday felude, 00 conta per weeke Addres THE TUIBUNE COMPANT, Corner Madison and Diearborn-ma., Chieagon 111, Orders for the delivesy nf Thx TRInTNE st Evaoston, ZEnclewood, and Hyde Park left (o the countiog-room willrecelve prompt TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, TrE CNicaco TATRUXE haa extadlished branch offfees cr thie recelpt of subscriptions and sdyertisementa as XEW TORR~Toom 20 Tritune Buliding, F.T.Mo- ApDxx, Manager, FARIE, France—No. 16 fine de Is Grange-Batellere. » t. merican Exchange, 449 Strand. pIER . GiLtia, Agent, »AN FRANCISCO, Cal.~Pataca ftotel. AMUBEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatre. Madiron streqt, between Dearbarn and ~iaze. ** Head Meu's Ghoes." Aftersoon and evening. laverly's Thenire, Drarborn stroét, corner of Monroe, ¥nEagement of Buffalo Bl ** May Codyi or, Lost aud Won." Atter: nuon and evenlag. Hoolry’s Thentre. Tiancolph street, batween Clark and Ladalle. En- greoment of Emerson's Miustrels, Afternoon nnd avening. Academy of stus! Halsted street, between Madison Monroe. Va flety enteriafoment, Afternoon sud avening. Hamlin's Thentre, Ciark atreet, opposite the Court-ionse. Engagement Mmie. ftentz's Minstrels, Aflicrnoon and evening Metropolitan Thestre, Clark street, oprosite Bherman louse, Valoty en- tertalument. ** Mazepoa," Afternoon and evening. 4 Art. 5 Washington streel. Loan Exhibition‘of the Soclety of Decorative Arl, Day and eventnz, ‘White Rtocking Parl. Michigan avenue, foot nf Wi Tiay and evel NGS. LUMRERMAN'S LODGE, NO. 717, A. F, & A, M.— Speclsl Communleation Saturday evening, ivee, 31, for fustallation uf otlicerz. Al micmbers are requestéd 10 e present, VEILOrs cordislly welecoms, 1Y order of W. M. ) ABHLEY, Secretary, PLANEY LOLGE, A. unication &t 36 Monro this (Saturiav) evening at i ofiiczrr, | Members Ao reques be present. A. Mi—Bpeefal Conis (Free Mason's Tinil), 1t W. 31, SALURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1878, = e — TO ADVERTISERS. An unususl pressure npon our advertialng col- vmnne s anticipated for to-morrow's tesuo of Tie Tresuxe in connecticn with the holiday trade, and sdvertisers will conanit their intereats by arranging for apace at as carly an honr as posstlle to-day. § Orunllnd:x stand at par, It now oppenrs that tho disaster to tho steamship Byzantine in the Bosphorus was not so serioug as at first reported. Nearly, if not guite, all of the passengers are ro. ported to have been saved. ‘Tho German préss and Govarnment are outspoken in their sympathy and condoloneo in notieing thy denth of Barasp Tavror, ovr Minister at Berlin, Al thoe Berlin papers speuk'in the highost terms of tho deceased, ——— e e The rumor comes for a sccond time that the Ameer of Afghnnistan has fled from Cabu), taking his family with him into vol. untary exile. This report”is supplemented DLy tho statement that the *‘ill-starred wretel,” Yazoos KnaN, has nssumed tho reios of Governm sut, which, if it prove trne, retaoves Eugland's casus delli, and promises ou early return of peaco in that far-of be. pighted region, Judge Krrrey is out inn lotter explana. tory of his course in supporting the Demo- cratic measaro in the Tlouse designed to punish Federal officiala who exceed their Iegitimate functions in intorfering with olectious, Ho claima to have lhad amplo reasun in his own case for favoring a law that shall prohibit the use of money by Fod- crul officinls to hielp or hinder the election of a candidate, having himself been compelled to fight againat this kind of {nfluence. Sarlons trouble has occurrod at 8t, Peters- burg botween the Government authorities aod the students at the Academy of Medi- cine and Burgery, occasioned by the refusnl ot the Intter to confornr to rigid claus. regulations impposed for the purpose of repressing disorderly demonstrations. Nows of internal distorbance in Russia travels slowly, such is the censorsbip of tho tolegraph lines exercised by the Govern. went, but it {4 ovidont that the flery young,! bloods in tho universitios have set up a de- termined rosistance to the despotio course tuken toward them, and have suffersd severcly through the corrective moasures upplicd through tho Cossacks and gen. durmes. These Cossacks aro unpleasant cus- tomers to como in contact with, as they carry heavy whips and are froe to use them in a disorderly crowd. ——————— Bissarck hias suffered an aggravating de. fent Tn the refection of & pet measuro by the Uovernment Commisslon appointed to con. sider the tobacco question, “The Chancellor hiad assutued the sponsorship of the proposi- B tion for placiug the tobacco business under the exclusive control of the Government, as i3 the case in Frunce, and tho disapproval of the scheme i all the moro eurprisivg in view of tho fact that the Cowmmlssion was composed of eight wembers designated by tke Governwent, together with thres experts. In place of tho (foverninent wmonopoly plan is put for- ward the duty sud excise systefs ay applied to imported and domestis tobacco. Uis. uanck's lealth, which was none of the strongest undor smooth political salling, is likely to Do cousiderably impaired by this new worry, aod he must sgain pay the pan. ulty of being groat and occasionally unsug- cessful, The 1Mouse adjourned without takiog nction in reference to the case of Judge Brovagrr, ft would sppear that no Ilinols wiember way willlng to take the responsi- Lility of prosecuting tho petition for a re- View of the facts with o view to institating in:peachinent proceedingd, sod the unusual recounse wis had of svading the petition to the Speaker for preseutation ss s privie Lged wstter. His right to submit it to the Mouse was clallenged by Mr, Breeuagn, of Iliools, gsod pending the settlement of that question au adjourn. ment for the holiday rocess was voted by tho members impntient to leave for their homes, and the potition, so for a8 any standing in the Houso in conoerned, is aa thongh it never had an oxiatance, although the frosh notorie. ty recoived through the proceedings of yes. terday ia not'catanlated to assiat the friends of Tndge Broporrt in their efforts to quiet tle matter by the process of suppression. The cxpresaion of views commuuicated by COowmissioner Frwx, an eminent railway au. thority, through the columns of Taw Tam- uxe this morning will be received with In- terest among railroad men, merchants, ship- pers, and prodncers. Mr. Fixx has evi- dently given carefnl considerstion to the provisions of the bill for the regulation of inter-Stata commerce recontly passed by the Tionse, and the objections he makes will un. doubtedly receive considoration when the bill comes to be debated in the Sen- ate, where it will hardly be rushed throngh with tho Thaste and lack of adequate attention which charncterized tho nction of the Houso. Mr, Finx is of the opinion that the ovila of discriminaton and extortion in ratlway management are susceptiblo of treatment at the handa of Congress, but he ia convinced that they are not to be remedied in the manner proposed in the bill in question. Inquiry in regard to the recent restoration y the Eastorn raifroad pool of the former ratea to the seaboard roveals that the sotion was taken becanso the roads have alrendy contracted for pretty much all the business they can handle up to the first of February next. If this is 80, then they ean better . afford to abide by an agreed tarifl thnn to cut rates for the addilional freight that will come to them ; thoy will thus get an advance on the carriage of fraight that comes to them outside the contrcts, but the fncreased ratos will not affect tho bulk of the business, even if the roads keep faith in the new compact. Nothing of alt thin applies, of course, to the ocean freights, for the reason that the rail. roads cannot forco the stenmers to any ngreed wnd sustained rates; steamers cannot be laid off on side-tracks lika empty freight- cars, but must mmke their regu. lar lrips, carry the mails, and incur a constant expense, so that they will carry freight at the very lowest figure rather than not enrry it at all. Besidos, the Penuasylva- nia Compauy controls the Philadelphia trans- Allantic steamers, and the Baltimore & Ohio Company the Baltimore steamers, and theso Companies are always ready to cut ocean froights when that 18 necessary to secure enrgoes for their vessels. Nor is it at all cer- tain whether the railronds propose (o be governed in the remewed pooling ns to freights carried eround Chicago, That isn matter which cen only be determined by netual experienco, and it may be that the new ordor of things is only intended to af- ford a better opportunity for discriminating ,againat Chieago. . e ASPECTIS OF AMERICAN LIFE. We reprint from the January number of the Atlantis Monthly n sorions article from the pen of Cmanpxs Duprey Wanven, en. titled '* Aspects of American Life,” We have no notion that M Wanxer conteni. plates turning critic; it is not in his voin, he fsn't cynical enougl, and he s too gooda humorist to be permitted to becomo a pessl- mist, He scems to have boon prompted to writo tha article wo print elsowhare by's senso of doty, and we reproduce it bocause it hasw train of thought that tasy be fol- lowed out with ndvantage by large nambers of American poople. Nevertholess, we think Mr, Wanxen takes too scrions a view of the matter in band ; your jolly fellow nrually becomen dolefully despondent and moroso when be drops inte morlization, and Mr, ‘Wanyzn is probably not an exeeption to the rule. Wo hopo his lecture to the giddy peo- ple of this country will accomplislt all ke has hopod it would, but at the same timo we must protest ngainst his treating as univer. sal and dangerous £raits of Americau chame- ter what ho properly charncterizes in the title of his article as aspects of Awerican society. The social aspects which Mr. Warnzn rogards as most conspicuous in (his country uro the wasteful and spondthrift habits, engernoss for wealth unaccompanied by econ. omy, ostentation in display, and solf.indulg. ence carricd to excess. The Frenchman, he tells us, ia cconomical and provident, always laying aside some of his earnings, even at the cost of salf-denial ; the Italians are eco- nomical of labor if not of woney, and save themselves mnch in the way of physical ex- crtion if not of their incomes; the Germans naro industrious nud fond of money, but in. dulge themselves with reereation and amuse. wentd ; the English practice a sort of com- pulsory ecouomy, necessilated by a fixed Income which attaches to slmost every con. dition in life, but as n rule spend ns much ag they onrn. But the teudency of Americans 18 to live beyond thelr fucomes ; not to got vich by saving, but to sirive after wealth in order to mecot their oxtravaganucos; nod to gaugo position and influcnce by the possussions and tho extent of oatentation uttached to thom. 'This general characterization uudoubtedly fiuds cousid. erablo warraut fo tho presout’ aspects of Ameriean life, but not to such en exteut na to creato sn apprebension of ultimate oxcoss and decay ; nor doos it make proper allow. ance for tho conglomerate aud inchoate con. dition of American soclely which may well Do expected to outgrow the foibles, and retain the strongor and mora conservalive traits, of the various peoples that Lave contributed to our population, Every estimate of American life, whethor its political or ita social aspecta bo in ques- tion, must tuke into cousideratiou tho fact thata great bulk of the population ot our largo citles is mude up of forelgners and the first geuoration of their offuprivg. Theso poople come to America with nollons and Labits strongly fustened upon thew, which thoy transmit in o certafn degree to thelr childron., 'They co.prise pooples from many lands, and social, religions, and polit. fcal amalgamation is necessanly a work of thme; 1his circuinstance aloue would provent suy ubsolute cutimate of uational traits likely to euduro and grow. But it wust further be taken into account that & very large pro. portion of the foreiguers who have come to America wero of tho poorer aud more illit- erate classed, This was natural, aince those woll established in their foreign homes or bound to thewa Ly strong sociul or educa. tional ties would be less willing to break them for anew and esperimental lifs. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, for political and religious Intolerance has given Awerica some of Europe's best citizons, But, as the bulk of the foreign immigration into this country bes cousisted of the jm. poverished classes secking to kmprove their fortunes, aud of people who have enjoyed very limited advantages in education, litera- ture, sud sociul intercourse, it is natural SATURDAY. DECEMBE 21 1878—SIXTERN PAGLS. they shonld bring with them an overriiing dosire for gain, a disposition for a display which waa hefore imponsible to them, aml the very obvious tendency of the foureanr tiches to regard wealth as the chief cloment of distinction, The War, and the speca- Iation and extravagancs growing out of it, added to thass “ aspects” of American ociety larga numbers who were “fo the manor [aud tho manner] born.” But both the foreign Influonces and the bad habits generated by the War will woar off in time,— are wearing off every day,—and tho higher traits of the Anglo-Baxon, Teutonic, and Gallic natures will have a more favorable flold here for growth and development than they over enjoyed in the conntries of their origin, As to specnlation, extravagance, and osten- tation, it in o groat mistake to mssumo that tho Americans of the last ten or twonty yenrs hava indnlged these weaknesses to s degred that forma an exception in history, There are prototypes among all peoples and inall periods for these so-called Ameriean vices, 'This conniry has nover yet hnd an ora of wild, reckless, and foolhardy specula- tion that would comnpare with the experionca of Spain when her people werae discovering and plundering the New World, or England during theterm of tha BouthSeaBubblo, or of France whenJony Law turned thelieadsof her people, or of staid, aober, phlegmatic Hol- laud when the people went ornzy over tn- lips. More recent epocha in Europe Ithve revenled tho smine huinan teudency to yleld to temptation when it comea in the shape of casily.gotten gaina and self-indnlgonce. Austria, on tbo strongth of consolidation and enlargement, undertook a gigantic sys tem of internal improvements that gavo birth to Credit-Mobiliers and ran into ox- travagance and riot until the collapso came. France, under the Becond Impire, wont bullooning till the bag of wind was riddled by the QGerman needle-guns. Gormany, drunk with the stimnlaut of a huge indem. nity fund for the Fronch war, went on o prolonged spree from which the na- tion is still suffering Kateenjammer, Amer. fca had & 1more fertile roil for the growth of such excesses thmf the oll and well-worn ground of Europa, 1lora specula- tion grew by what it fed on, for the earth was bountiful of its trensuros, nnd ylelded n wenlth of breadstuffs, aud minerals, and riecls oils almost at the touch of 8 wand, Thero s not much wonder that our people were in- fected with insatiablo greed, in spile of Boroy's wisdom that *“satiety is generated by wonlth and insolence by satioty.” DBut repentanco set in some years ago; we havo boen dojng penanca with as good a grace ng possible; we are taking on more consorva. tive notions; wo are learning to go moro slowly, to livo within our incomes, and to sot mora store by the moral and intellectual ro. finementa than by the fineries of weslth and ostontation, The American tendoncy isin the right direction. A COLOSBAL SWINDLER, The loose and reckless manner in which mauy Amoncan banks have been conducted, and the frequent cases of official dishonesty which have come {o tho surface, has given this country nn odious reputation abroad, and Eoglish journals have not been slow jn commenting upon these banking frregnlarie ties, ond attributing to them n national character. In comparison with recent crim- inal developmonts in Europe, howaver, onr own operators appear nt decided disnd- vantage, whether we conslder the amount of | monay involved or the degroe of skill and audacity displayed in their operations. Our sooundrels aro of such s petty sort that they aro hardly deserving of notice by tho #ido of those who are continually turning up across the water, With tho details of tho colossal collapse of the Bank of Glasgow, and, the horrible mismanagoment and fraud that” precipitated its downfall, the public is already familiar. Following closely upon this disastor comen a case of individual crime which dwarfa anything known in our crim. inal records, On the 4th of November last, Evozxe T'Kint ne Roopxxorxy was Lrought to trial 10 Brussels upon 140 distinct acte of theft, involving in tho aggregata $1,000,000 On the 4th of December ho was found guilty and was sentenced to fiftcon years of solitary coufinement. As an offsot to her superiority in crimo, Europe may claim a sup®Mority in the administration of justice. Shs punishes her criminala; we let ours escape. T'Kint, twenty years ago, entered the Haok of Dolgium as & superoumerary clerk, By Lis native ability and knowledge of busi. neas he gradually rose unttl ho becamae the mauager of the sccurities of the bank. 1o had no private fortune, and while he was drawing 8 salary of #810 por snnum he was speculating upon the Bourse with an audac- ity that was colossal. e had twenty-five agents in Brossols and Paria; one of them bought for him within five years securitios amounting to 92,424,678 aud sold to about tha same mmount, while another bought over $21,000,000 aud sold sbout the sama. Tha comnissions of oue sgent alone were $40,- 000, From fimt to last he lost a million of dollars on the Nourse, Three years ago he estimated Lis fortune at $400,000 and his yoarly fucome ut ¥40,000, 1lis stealings were exactly §4,000,000. As compared with tho rascolitics of our own swmall.salaried bonk olerks, 'I’Kixt's operations not only dispiny & brilliancy skin to genius, bot a wnguitude on the sum total that is simply glgaatic, The most remarkablo fenturo of T'Kint's operations was their simplicity, and it was 80 marked that they dupended for success upon cheek alope, iis business was to keep necount of the securitios of the bank, the key of the vaults whore they woro kept bulng always ju the possession of the bank Becretary, M. Hrxvazur, Every wornivg T'Kint sent for such sccurlties as would bo necded during the day, and when he returned the buudle at night the Becrelary's con- fidenco in the ulerk was such {hat he never examined it to see if the number was cor. rect. Moanwhile some of the securitics wero stolen, ‘['Kixt's speculations wera well kuown, No oue, however, took the trouble to make any deductions from thesa premiscs; T'Kist had such influence over the employes of the bank that they came to regard as s mansger and went to Lim for instruotfons, while the real manager of the bank complacently smiled at every hint of Lis clerk's duplicity, There wore outsiders, Lowever, who were on the watch. Bl Bucnorrscurid, a Belgian Bonator, who had reason to believo that some of his securities had been sold, gave uotice tbat he sbould demand them on a certain dsy, Xefore thet day T'Kryrstols the vouch. cze for 400 shares of the Luxembourg Rail. road and bought back Bisomorricuiin's xe. curities, snd had them rvady for him. Mean- while the outside pressure becawmoe so great thatone of the Dircctors, M. VANDEVIN, wus dotailed to make an investigation, I'Kixt worked nights and replaced the stolen securi- tivs with forged ones, sud e¥su stolu othury while the nvestigation was in progress. Whon M, Vaxpryry made hia report he stated that all the securities were in propor oider excopt five, aud that thewo five boteayed ir. rogalaritins, bnt no signa of frand. The Relgian Hocretary of Fegation at Paris discovered that the numbers of somo coupons which ho took nut of the hank were different from thosa of the securities which hoe lad deposited, bnt evon such ovi- donce na this T'Kixt was ablo to beat down, Meanwhilo the manager of the bank, with a negligonco 8o culpnbla as to be criminal, not only made no personal examination of the securitics or any serntiny of his condnet, but even rllowed him to have nnlimited credit, with which and tho clever manipulation of tho bank acrounts ha wasablo to temporarily cover bis teacks, The day of reckoning loomed up hefore him at Inst. An oflicial examination was onlored. Knowing it wonld roveal lits guilt, he fled for the United States, but tho polico were 50 prompily on his track that thoy cap- tnrod hitn at Queenstown and bronght him back to DBrtssele, where retribution hax at Inst overtoken him. The sentence is a righteous one, and the same Court which rentenced him has also punished the nogli- gent mannger, THE WHIPPING.-POST STATES, A recent dispatch from Noweastle, Del., mays: * Nine convicta—six black and threo whito—were publicly whipped to-day, five belog afso pilloried.” A later dispateh from the same State sunounces that a negro found guilty of some criminal offenss hns Leon sen. tenoed to stand an hour in the pillory, to be fined §1,000, to reccive sixty lashes, aud to go to the Pemtentiary forlife, by the provisions of which sentenca the authorities not only ad- wnjniater justice but tako vengeance and steal the vietim's property. Tho disgrace of the whipping-post for a long time past hns been confined to Delawara; but Virginia has reintrodnced it, and wo now kave the firat result of the barbarous proctice, A mnegro arrested for petly larceny wea sontonced to receive thirty-nino lnahos, The whipping was administered, and the negro, overcome with shame, weut home, took n shot.gun, aud blow his brains out, Two handred years ago announcements of this kind would not have occasioned any surpriso, 'Tha bitter vindlotivenoss of re- ligious intolerance, which scarcely knew any bounds to its cruelty, and the degrading influonces of Slavery urged on tho people of Massachuselts to acts of barbarism in which they imagined they were devoutly scrving Gop s well as humanity, They dragged men tothe pillory and the whipping.post for the most {rivial ofenses, and compolled them to go to church upon pain of fine and mprison- ment. Religiona toloration was sacured at an carly period of our lListory, but Slavery flourished nntil it was crushed out by a long and bloody war, Tho one vision of horror that rises most clenrly in the romembranco of Slavery is tho whipping-post The brand. ing-iron, tha bloodhonnd, the auction.block, woro horrible adjuncts of tho system, bLut the lash in tho merciless hands of Legree, and the bleeding, quiver- ing back of. the poor victim, somo- times mutilated for life and often dying un- der his mhuman punishment, are the black- et festurcs of this inhumen ecrime of Slavery, which projected its dark shadow even into the ninoteonth conlury in a coun- try that boasted the largest measuro of free- dom in the world, . I War of tha Rebellion compelled the Bouth to relinquish human slavery, and yot two Stotos, Delawafo and Virginis, cling to its most degrading and barbarous nccessory, the whipping-post, and slmost every day men and women (if they are black), con. victed of petty offenscs, are led to it an lashed. - Whito worden aro mover whipped, and whito men rarely. The degrndation fs roserved: for tho blacks. Aftor a recent whipping in Virgitia, tho oficer who had inflicted the penalty informed tho represont- ative of s newspuper that “ he lhad nover whipped a white womau, but that he had whipped abont ns many colored girls s ho had men. “We make them strip down to the walst and I lay the atripes on protty Lard. An Ethiopiau's back is tough, and can stand it." And yot the sense of shame oppressed the whipper as he added, *‘It's mean businoss, though, this thing of whipping.” Thero is no viow of the cnge which mitl. gates tho barbarity of whipping, It is ven- geance, not justice. It fs brutality, not rotribution, The lash removes tho last hopa but no one hns yet succecded in teaching him to playnfiddie or blow a trombone, Thero are many animals—noarly oll of tbem—pecn- linrly sonsitivo to musie. The bird loves the fiute. Tambn frisk to the mnsia of the pipe. "The horna s stirred by the lrumpet. Tigors oven have been restrained by humnn song. Dogs will try to sing. Orrreus gathered all the animals about him excopt tho hog. You may squeak npiccolo, saw n fiddle, bray an ophiclolde, nnd pound a kettle-drum to n hog all day withont mnking any impression npon him at all. Hia temperament is nol sonsitive nor bis tastes csthetio. Yon cannot move him with the concord of sweel sounds, Ifo cannot mske A musical tone, much less produce a musical socquence or ncommon chord. Ganpyes kins reduced the sonnds mada by nll the common Auimals to musical notation, so that they can ba imi- tated on the pinno, with the solltary excep- tion of the hog, whoso gutturals cannot be placad upon the ataff in auy known clef, Ho is not musienl at either oxtremity. Therois no musie 1o his throat, and it has long been his repronch that you cannot make a whistle ont of his tail any more than you can make & silk purse ont of hisear. What is trne of tho Liog as an entirety ia true of Lis prod. ncts. There Is no point of compnrison Lo. tween a sausago and a sympliony except perhiaps that some mausages aro bettor than somo aymphonles, nor caun the most scute obaerver dotect the remotest suggestion of n sonata in somse. To the argumnent which moy be made that somo musiclans aro hogs thore romains the crushing response that no hogs are municiaus. From all this it would scom eminently de- sirable and even nooessary for Cincinnat, if sha Insiats npon boing the great musienl con- tra of tho country ns well as the nuthority in the cognate departments of wood-carving and jug and dinner-plate painting, to grace- fully yleld all claims upon the Log, aud to cgnsa to expeot that beonuse sho bas a great orgon and orchostra that tho hogs of the ‘West will troop thera for the purpose of dy- {ug to tho accompanimgnt of tha dinpnsons of the ono or tho ndaglos of thoother, It i & ourions fact that the hogs. began to drift away from Cincinoati about the time sho be- gan to arrango for her first fostival, aud that thelosa hiag kept proportionata progross to the increnso of musie. We mightshow the practi- cal men of Cincinnati solid rensons, growing out of the business enterpriso and progross of Chicago, tho vicinaga of tho hog to our market, and the greater facilities for hand- ling nnd shipping him, why ho prefers to end his daya inthis city, but as this would only lead to crimination and recrimination, wwa profer to reat our caso upon the higher ground of philosophical nocessity and osthet- i incompatibility. joined tho pnrty than there hns been as to what timoe during the War or why he took up arms againat the Robellion, 3 The Republican presa of the other Staten sk the question, Why ahonld the Republic- ans of Illinofs not ro.eloct Beuator Oarrsny ? And thers scems to be a goneral aurprise that it thero bo agy real or anbstantial reason for repudiating tho old soldier, why no ona ever answers that queation, Did Gen, Ooresny intrigne, lobby, or in any way conspire to dafeat tho rc-aloction of A Ropublican prede- cergor iwo yesrs ago? Did Lie labor to pre- vent the re-cleotion of a Republiean Benator who had bean faithful to his party? Most certainly not, 5 ‘The Henator whose time was to explro in 187 had been & Republican convert from tho old I'ro.8lavery Democracy, aud, after several years of faithfnl service, went back to his first love. The office, so far as the Republican parly waa concorned, was vacant, and the Repnblicaus of Klinois without a dissenting voico named Gen, Oazesny to Al that vacancy. The office fell to him by goneral acclaim of the whole party by whom he had heon twice electod Gavernor, Tho question propounded by tho press of the country irresiatibly repentaitself, * Why, then, should Gon., Ootrsnr not bo elected Ihis own suceossor?” No one has answered or evon attempted to answer it. Thore hns not boon and canuot be o decent pretext given for thrusting Bonator Oavresny nside in order to clect—whom? Is it pro- posed to clect an abler lawyer,a botter scholar, or a more ,inltllechlql manf If go, who is the man? Call over nameson the list of thoso who are secking to bo elected in placa of Oaresny, aud which of them is s Dbetter Itopublican, a braver eoldier, a better Inwyer, a better sobiolar, or more intellectnal than he? Leta candidate presenting these superior qualifications avow himself, or lot him be named by his advocates. Fas any such person annonnced his candidacy, or his purpose to crowd Ourzanxout of tho Sonate? Is o change of Senators demanded on the ground that the 8tato of Iilinols should be ropresented by n person having experience in Congresa? Senator Oorxanx hns had six years' oxperience in the Senato,—as long aa that of any Republican now living,~—and if it shonlid bo the case that others may have been in Congross longer than that jt shonld ba remembered that Senator Oatxsny’s whole servico hins been as n Republican, and Is sub. joct to no sat-offs for sorvice in tho camp of the adverse parly. ‘Who, then, aro opposing the re-clection of Gen. Oorrsnx? It is not easy to clothe shadows with sabstance, and perbaps if the question bo framed 8o &s to inquire, Who are thoy that do not support Ooresny? it may e more rendily answered. In the Banate he hos boen the same plain, straightforward, houest-thinking, and lonest-voting man of tho peoplu that ho'was as Governor, member of the Stato Senate, and in privato life, 1le has never boen popular with Treasury-grab- bors, claim.agents, subsidy-seckers, or that clnas who follow plnndering of the Treasury for o living, These people have disliked him, nnd they think thatthe State of Illinoisshould Liave a Sonator who will make hinsolf hoard oftener and at & greater distacoo, who will voto liberally in tho distribution of other poople’s money, and who might have oven an ambition to bo Presldent. All this class of persons oppose OoLeapy, nnd ha is elso op. posed by every man holding offico or who expeots to Lold office for the purpose of making the largest possiblo sum of money for tho loast service and lolding office for tho longest time, All tho oddr and euds of ol party machines, those who, though no longer of any servico, still cumber the earth and pitoously claiin to bo supported at the publio cost,~all thoso oppose Oarusny. Every man who has a “olaim” of such quos- tionnble character that he is willing to pay half or two-thirds of its amonnt to get the rest, or wonld like to have a Benator in the fenato as his attornoy, opposcs Oavreany, and thinks the Repnblicans of Illinois should elect somo other mon, With a publio record unblomished by word, nct, or vote; with a privata lifc as ro- spocted ns his publio life, having served his Stato and Lis party truthfully and honora. bly, and his country dovotedly and gallantly; without a man inall Illinols who dare stand up abd make n valld objeotion to him, the Republican membors of the Legislature will take a sorlous responsibility in discarding and defeating Gon, Oaresny, In the mean. time, the plaiu Republicans of llinols are asking, Why shoull the party and on what NOMIOAL—1870. ; Tho following arc the principal astronomical phenomena of tho coming year. Tho times given ara for the merldian of Chicago, which is (Dearborn Obscrvatory) 43 minutes 14 sccouds weat from Washington, and 5 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds from Greenwich, BUXDATS, 12, 10, 26, July 6, 13, 20, 27, 0,10, Aug, 3,10, 17, 24, 10,9, 30. Bent, 7, 14, 21, 28, y Oct. 512,10 N 1. 10, [1% Pee. Tho first full moon after the vernal equinox will occur Sunday, April 6. By the rule gov- erning the movable feusts of the Papal snd Protestant Churches, the Sunday next rucceed- fng that {s Enaster Bunday, which, thercfore, falls upon April 12 foe e i IR £nn in perigce, Jan. Vernal equinox, Murcl Snoimer solstleo, Juno 21, &nn in apogee, July 2 2 Autumnal cquine: Winter snlstice, Dec, bun fo penigee, Dec. ki THE oy, New Moon. Uctaber,.. Nuvenihe ‘The April new inoon will escur very noar tho placs of the apogee; aud tho November now moon near tho perigee. Her parallax will be 53 minutes -66.8 seconds at the first date, aud 01 minutes 27.8 scconds ot the last. rCLIPSRA, | ‘There will by three eclipses during 1870, —two of the sun, and vne of the muon; but they sre of little intevest to dwellers in this rezlon, Jan. 24 at 6 o’clock in the morning, tno sun will be eclipsed. The phenomenon will be an- nular along & barrow belt extending’ from east of reform, Every stroke of the lash crushes out the manhood of+the victim, degrades and shames hitn, and makes of him a dangerous beast. Ho is branded for life, and he be- cowmet an euemy of his kind, Tt degrades the commmnity In which it is practiced, and renders every man callons {o cruclty and blood. It reduces tho mnan who is whipped to a slave, but a dangerous one, It reduces 1ha man-whipper to the loathsome office of 1ha Lrute who, in the days of Blavery, was empowered to lash the ncgroes, It is a diagrace to tho spirit ' of education, roligion, and civilization. It can only be practiced in & community that has been brutalized by long sssociation with Blavery, and has not yet been aronsed to tho sentimont of absolute justice, of man. 1y iudependence, aud of that large and noble hamanity which is a featurs of the progress of theago. The State which thus tona- ciously clings to this horrible retic of bar- bariem {8 amnbitions to seat its most promi. nent citizen, Mr, Bavanp, in the Presidential chair,—a wan who, notwithstandiug bis Ligh character auvd ability, has not made an effort to ropeal this odious law which ho could rewtove from tho statute-books it Le were 80 disposed, If there were no other obstaclo iu lis way, the whipping-post alono and tho odium which it has jusplred forthe community that tolerates it would prevent bis election. No upholder of any of the sar- rouadings of Slavery will ever reccive the in. dorsvent of the American people, GEN. OOLESBY AS HIS OWN SUCCESSOR, 'ho approachivg Scustorial election ilinois ix attracting great attention, and is divcussed largoly iu the Ropublican press of the country, Bo far as we bave noticed, but onoor two Ropublican papers outslde of Tllinols and but fow withiu this State have been able to discovor any pratext for not re- elocting Bonator Qarrsuy, Viewed in every light, there is a confessed fuability to uuder. stand why the Republicans of Iilinols, hav- ing o clear majority iu the Iogisloture, should not re-clect fhe prosent Sonator for a second term, . . Agoinst Lis Republicanism, biv long dovo- tion aud support of the party, his Anti. Blaveryism when Auti-Slaverylsm was uu- popular snd fatal to all hopes for political Lonor, there bas nover boen a question or & doubt, Honator Qorxsny 18 kuowa to the Republican party fu all the States of the Union, and there has becn no wore jnquiry @3 to the Lime when or the reasou why he longltude 8!¢ degrees and south latitude 274 degroes, to 1413 decrees enst of Washington and 73{ degrees north, It will be visible ss a partis! eclipso to o distance of about 83 degrees on cach side of that belt, thu urea lncluding about two-thirds of Bouth America and the sonthern half of Africa, 3 July 19, ot 8 o’ctock fu the morning, there will be anotier annular cclipso of the sun, the ceutral line runnlug from longitude 67X cast and latitude 73 north, to 175% enst and 231 south. Tt willbe visible as a partial eclipse from a largo part of the South Atlantle Ocean, nearly the whole of Africa, and Bouthern Eu- rope snd Asla. Dee. 28, at 10 o'clock {n the morulog, the moon will be eclipsed, belug ut the tims below our horizon, grounds ‘should the party refuse to make Gen, Oatzspr hia own successor in the Ben. ate? Nobody has given them an auswer to that most pertinont question, PORE AND MUSIOC. 'There are some practical men in Cincin. noti who are lamonting (thot, while they hiave socured an ologant music-hall, a large now organ, o colossally:laid-out college, a braud-now orchiestra, with Tueovour ‘S'uosas toload it, tho best string quartetta in the country, and big festivals every two years which trumpet tho musical fama of their oity far and wide, Chicago has been quletly taking all the hogs away from her and pack. iug them; and that, while thoy are produc. ing more symphonies, and sonatas, and con- oortos, which do not yield any rovenus and canuot be made to figure in the anuual com. mercial statistics, Chicago is piling up hams, and bacon, and mess pork, and sending thom all over the world, theroby stoaling the reputation which Clnoinuati has o long en. Joyed as the porkscentre of-the country. ‘The argument with which we answerod o Trohibitionist the other day applies with equal force to the situation in Cincinnati. The buman wind Ia uot s0 coustituted that it can bo sawayed by two great excitenients at the same time, To Le thoronghly absorbed in one great ¢ffort requircs the entire virile force, 'fo push great onterprises to sucooss, wan cannot divide his onergios. Tho logical deduction from 1lis philosophical truth is that, if o man attempiy to dircot two great and all.controlling forces at the same time, Le will fail in each. He must iuevitably fall between the two horses and see them both runniug away, Oincionatl cangot de- vote her soul absorbingly to hdgs and music atthe samo time. Ehe canuot’ concentrate bLer wholo wind on pork and at thesame time devote the requisite attention to musfe. It she is to challenge the world in devotion to the Heaven!y Maid, she must yield her elain upon the terrestrial kog; and, vice verua, if sho demauds recogoition as the centre of pork, she must abagdon all musical preten- sion, closs her college, discharge her fiddlers, sud give her whols mind to swine. Auother insurmouutable difficulty which coufronts Cincinnat! grows out of the eterval fitness of things. "T'here is no affinity between bogs aud wusic, ‘The hog is a squealing but not & wusical auimal, Sowe patient truivers bave taughthim toform words fypuw lotters, to pick out a good poker haud from a deck of cards, to add up Agurey, tosmoke and todrink, TUR PLANETS, » Vi'ean—It now is alfost certain that within tho orbit of Mercury thera are two or more plancts, A transit of one of these may be ex- pected 1o oceur Sopt. 18, but it may bo too carly in the day to ba visihle from Chicago, | Mereury—WIll ottain his greatest clongations from the sun a8 follows = West, rising bofora the suns Jan. 10(24 dee.)} May 14 (38 deg.); Seot. 0 (18 deg.); Dec, 28 {2244 deg), Fast, setling after the*sun; March 29 (19 der,); July 27 (27 deg.); Nov. 30 (2} dup). 1lis conjunctions with the sun occur March 4, April 17, Juue 18, Aug. 23, Oct. B, sud Dee. 10, ‘The moat favorablo thne for scelog him will bo in tho early evening of March 20, At that dato Venus will be sbous 9 dee. further vast than Mereury, aud may servé as a divcetrix, Venua—Will be an evening star duriug mora than elght months, ' Her superior conjunction oceurring Dec. 5,1878, ahio will be nearly half an hour east of the sun at the upening of the year, a littie to the west of Capricurnus, and under tho head stars of that constellation Jan, 11, On the 28 ot tho month she isfu conjunction ‘with Jupiter, passing 47 min. soutbward of that plaoet, ncer the tall of Capricorn. In the evening of March @ sho will bo about 13¢ dogs. north from Saturn, both belog nearly ia lue with the castorni side of the Bquaro of Pegusus, April 15 she wiil pass just below the Plelades, and teu days afterward bo 63{ degs. north from Aldebaran. 8he passcs throughithosouthein part (feet) of Qeminl duriog Aluy, skirts the north- ern sdge of the Bechive cluser Juus 13, ia vne degree north from Regalus during the night of July 4, and iu the siternoon of July 8 passus ooly 15 winutes oporth from Ursnus, She attolns ber greatest clonzation cast (45 deog. 33 min.,) the night of July 16, and her greatesat bLriiliascy Aag. 19, aod is very uear the moon st noon of Aug. 20. 8he f» iu fofertor cubjunc- tlon with the sua Sept. 2}, aud theuce becowes & worning viar, tisiog beforv the aun duriog the remnalnder of the year, sud attalulog her great- et brilliauey Oct. 30. Murs—Wilk not attract much attention from o] -Bh A nakea oyc observerafo 1870, From his con- functton with the sun last September (20th) ve his opposition Nov. 13, next, ha is & morning.. star, rising before thesun; and, “md at the last.« named date, his nearest appvwah, ha/wil] « #omo 46,000,000 mites from ths earth. - o wily, however, be watched by astronomers In No- .yember with great intereat: His two moons, - discovered by Asaph Hall In 1877, will probab)y be viaible only through a very few telescojics, including tho one at Clilcago; and the obscrya- tiuns then made will enable astronomers to fix preclsely the perlads of revolutlon of the satellltes, and thence to' correct the present estimate of tho plancts Mars—nbout one part in 8,065,800, that of the sun being taken as the unit. In.January, Mars will poss throtigh Beorplo, in February aud March through Sagittarius and Capricorius, in Avril and May through Aquarics, in July through Plsces, In August throuuh Arles; il he will ho nearly statlonary, not far from the Pletades, in Boptomber and Octohier. Jfe win then retrogrado Into Arfos til) Dec. 16, aud then turn dtrect, May 0 ho will beless than one de. gree south from Jupiter; and- June 29, at 1. 8m. p. m., only one minute of arc norih from Batura. These two plancts will he very mearly in conjunction during the night preceding and that following this date. In the morninz of Nav. 10 he will pass anly 12 minntes of arcnorthof No. 53 In Arfess and jn the evening of Nov, 20 will be only 1 minute of are south from Rho prime in the samo con. etillatfon. Mars will be near the moon In the evenings of Sept. 6, Oct. 4, Oct. 30, Nov. 26, and Dee, 215 from which data the casual observer may learn to recognize him among the stars, Jupiter—\Wiil boin conjunrtion with the eun Feb. 7, and In opposition Aug. 31 lenco he will not be an abject of fntercst to those who only atudy the evening aky, till tha latter paet of the year. Durine tho autumn months he will be consnicuous In tho constollation Aqua- ries, about 10 degrces south from tho five stars known as the Urn,or the i, This planet. §s now nearing his conjunction with Saturn, which will occur in the Jast holf of April, 18812 votn haing in conjunction with the sun, a8 scen frow the carth, Nov. 20 Jupiter will pass 13 minutes of are south of Bigma In Aquariesj tha apparent distance between the two Lelig only sbont two dfametors of Jupftar, Saturn—At the Leeinning of the year will e ahout & hours east from the sun, and below the well-known square of Pegasus, near which he meets Venus, fn the evening of Moreh 2. e conjunctton with the sun occurs Maren 26, and his opposition Oct. 5, whan ha will be ln the constellation Placos. The last three months of sho yoar ha will be visihle cveninge to the naked eya as a star of the first mognitude, and will ba a very interesting object through the telescope. 11ls rings were completely closed up Inst March, They are now widoning out. The-ratlo of the apparent axes Jam 1 will he 1 to 25 nearly, and the 1st of August about ax 9 to Il We are now looking at tho eoutheru etde of the ring system of 8aturn, when we sco this phenomenon, Astronomers whl not again e the northern face of the rings of Saturn tnl carly in the year 1603, when they will have a good opportunity to observe the chanee, as the planet will then be about %0 dogrees away from tho sun, & Uranus—Wiil bo in opposition to thaSun Feb, 20, and may be sesn about that date, and for o couple of months afterwards, with the unsided eye, by those who kuow whera'to look fur him. He shines as n star of the sixth mazuitude unly, Ho may casily bo found as followa: Take as starting-point the well-known star Regafus, of the 134 magnitude, in the handle of the sickio of Leo. From that star, 03 degrees eastward, in line towards Bplea, {3 Ruo Leonis, of the foursh magnitude—casily pieked up, beeanse there are no other stars near it, At the beginoing of Mareh Uranus will be 3 degroes nearly nortliwest from Ruo; and at the end of the month a little more then 4 degroes northwest by west from the same star. These urnlx!‘d‘a{emcpl‘flp Tggpectively cqunl to about it Stimice-thuapparent breadth of the full moan. Neptupe=Will bo In opnosition to the sun Nov. 8, at which thic his right ascenslon will be 2 hours 355 ininutes, aud bls declination 13 der. 163 miu. north; not near any promiuunt star, but very close to an interesting nebula. e caunot be scen without the afd of 2 guod telescope. Ucenltations—A few of these phenomena will be of fotprest during tho coming year. We givo the following notcs of prominent stars, the ap- pulscs to whieh may bo walched with fnterest through an ouera-glass; y Aprit 10, in the early morning, tho moon be- Ing threc days paat the full, and a little cast of the merldlan, will pass Just south of Antares, dune 3, ahout 10 o'clock, when cast of tho meildlan, and near the full, the moon will ve- cult Antarcs, August 24, thomoon fn tho west, and near her first quarter, will oceult Antaresabout half- post 0 1 the evening, Bept. 7, at 3 o'clock in the morning, the moon belng near her Just quarter, will pass through the Piciades, and ocenlt Aleyone near tho thoe of her rising, Nov, 20, about midnight, tho moan being near the full, and ono hour west of the mer{dlan,will oceult Epsilon Arletis, Dec. 1, at 11 o'clock [n the ovenlng, the moon belue enst of the merldiun, and a ittle post the full, will oceult Delta Gemtnoram, E. C. —————— We fully azrca with the New York Zimes In its opinion of tha new Postal bill agrecd upou by tho House Commilttce,—Canxow, of Itli- nols, alone dissentiug, for soma porverss or 1o- serutable roason, It observes that “ Classitica- tion of mafl matter I8 more reusonaule, as s more comprehensible, than any which hos’ heretoforo beeo produccd. There is, however, a needless amount of red tape in tho regulation . which requires publishers of newspapers and periodicals to regtstor thelr fasues and to priut labeis on thelr shects, gut it is a seasible thiug to Include {n one class (the third) all manuscript Intonded for publication, proofs, corrected proofs, and manuseriptsaccomoanying the same, Ilerctofore, an ubsurd distiuction bas been made between “copy" fulonded for bound books and that sent to the magaziove, A cur- rectod proof has hod privileges which a proot with a direetion to a printer on fts murgin has heen dgnied. Bomo of hicae Iucongruttios bave Leen romoved, and the new classification, though not perfect, shows a considerable ud- vance In Congres: Intellizence,” The stage {s a poor place for jealous people, a8 things get considerably mixed somctimes amony the performers. A Now York paper saysthat last week, In tho ** Comedy of Errors,” Mfss Ronyox, the Luclunna, slapped thu face of Yer father, the Dromio uf Syracuse, AL the VBrooklyn Purk, WiLLIANSON, &s his wifc's stave- futher i *“Btruck OI)," saw her woued by au- other wan. At Wallack's tho lovera’ paits usually full to Mr, and Miss Counnray, brother aud slater, At the Lyceums, In ** Doublo Mar- risge,” STEVENWON wakes love to Mlrs, Line 0ARD, whils his wife, Karw Craxroxn, las suother actor for s lover. But then— Al the world's o stago And all (5o men ana women mieroby ulayerd. - — Scnator GARLAND, of Atkansas, fs trving to rovive the oid State Rights doctrine o little. o s lutraduged a bl which proposes to sdd the followiug clause (o the Judiciary aet; But uu cliy, town. villuge, eountv. or other muuicipal or bublia carpuration shall be wued in tho courts of tue U'nited Bate ‘The mesulur of that {8 plain. The Btzte Court Judges are clective, und where there fsa popular sentiment fn favor of the sepudiation of wunkeipal bouds the Courts are apt to hold tho sawe way. dtis o LU) that ought woito pasty et et S ‘The British Post-Oflize has boen the pooplo’s saviugs benk for those who cared to avall them- sclves of the privifege for cighteon year. At tho beetnping of 1877 there wors 1,703,874 de- posltors rewalulog oo the books, sud the totsl Gupoaits were $134,33,750, belnyg ou average of a lttle over $i9 10 each depositer. The Post- Ufticy 18 wwtended ta be 3 baok for the peiple, and & wumber of strict Lrovialous w0 wade tu