Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 30, 1878, Page 3

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1378, : A PBEGNANT DECISION. Important Ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States. As 1t May Toead fo {the Payment of Many Sonthern Claims, And the Burdening of Sonthern Btates with War-Time Debta, Arguments of the Majority and Mi- -+ nority of the Court. 2 New Fork Tridbune. ‘WASRINGTON, Dec, 20.—A decision has re- eently been rendered by the SBuprems Court of the United States, which it {s belleved will tena to unsettle many of the queations that were suppused to have been settled by tha recent amendments to the Conatitution and by Coo- gressional and Btate legislation under them. Indeed, In speaking of the effect of this decls- fon, Mr. Justice Bradley says, in his dissenting opinfon: **It serma to mo ihat the attempt to fasten upon, the lawful Government of Tennes- seo an obligation to recelve as cash bllls that were lssued under the authority of the usurp- fng Government of that Btate whilst ft was en- gaged {n a deadly war against the Government of the United States, s esiculated to introduce covils of great magnituda that will ultimately lead to the recognition of the War debts of the seceding Btates, notwithstand- ing the probibition of the Fourteenth Amend- ment of the Constitution. But tbls 1would regard as far Jess evil than the establishment of doctrines ot war, as I thiok, with the true prin- cl;fln of our onal Government, as well a8 with the established rules of public law.” L 118 CARE was that of John T. Kelth, plalntif in error, against E. A. Clark, Callector of the Stato and county revenue for Madlson County, in error to the Suprems Court of the State of Tennessee. The focts, briefly stated, sro these: Tne State of Tenoessce, In 1838, organized the Bank of Tenncasee, and agreed, by o clsuse In ita charter, to rccelve all Its fssucs of circulating notes in ayment of taxes. Hut, a Conet{tutlonal smend- by ment adopted {n 1605, it declared the fssuesdof the bank during the insurrectionary period vold, and forbade thelr receipt for taxes, There was no evidence In the record that the notes offered in payment of taxes by the plaintiff were fssued in ald of the Rebellion, or for any consideration forbidden by the Constitution or lawsof the United States, and the Court beld that no such oresumption conld arise from anvthing of which it conld take judicial notice. Upon' this state of facts the majority of the members of tho United States Bupreme Court decided that the Conatitutioos! Amendment of 1805, which declared the 1ssues of the bank during the In- surrectionary poriod void, and forbade their re- celpt for taxes, was forbidden by the vrovision of the United Atates Constitutfon sgalost im- pairing the obligation of contracts; also, that the political soclety which fn 1 waos organized and admittcd s & Btate into the Unlon by the name of Tenncasee, has remained thesame bodv politicto this time, Its attemptto separate {tself from the Unlon did not destrov its Identity as a State, nor free it from the bind- Ing force of the Constitution; also, that beiog the same political organization during the Re- bellion and sluce that it was before, all its acts, Tegislative and otherwlse, duting the period of tho Rebellion, are valid and obligatory on the Btate now. excapt where they were done ‘in ald of thot Rebellion, orarein conflict with the Consti- tation and laws of the United States, aud were fntended to impeach its authority. TUE ARGUMENT O THE MAORITY OF THE COURT, The more important points of the argument of the majority of the Court fo support of this decision may be summarized as follows: It 18 held that what van called tha State of Ten- ne: m"""'""‘“ @th of May, 1861, became, by the inanch of Becesalon, ed on that day, subdivided into two distinct political entities, each of which was a Biato of Tennessee. Ope of them waa loyal to the Federsl Government; the other ‘was engagcd in rebelilon agalnat ft. One State was composed of the minority who did not faver se- cesstons the other of the m-]orl:y whodid. These twao Ktales of Tennessee engaged in & public war l’rnlnn ench other, to which nil the legal relutlons, rights, and oblications of & public war atiached. Tho-Oovernment,of the Unlled States waa the ally of the loys] Btate of Ten! ee, and the Confed- ersted Ttebel States were the allles of tho disloyal Btate of Tennesseo, The loyal State “of with the ald of her ally, con- nd subjugated the _disloyal Biate of Tenncssee, and by right of conquest Im- vosed upon the latter anch measnre of punlshment and such system of laws as it chose, and by the lnv‘:\r conquest it had the right to do this, Om; ‘Tonneseee on t! veas the onn declaring thet the during the temporary control of alfairs by the re. bellious Btste wore to ba held void, and that conqueror, And by right of conquest, the ioval Stato had power to enact this ssa valid law. This ix briefly the ground on wh cage for tha State Ia based. It is a sufliclent anawer to this fanciful theory, says the Court, that the divislon of the Btate fnlo two States never had any actual l‘xlltlll;x‘ An we shall show bereafter, tliere has never n but _one nolitical soclety in existenca as on orgonized Htate of Tennesses fzrom the day admission to the Union, in 1700, to the present time, It chimera to assert that one Siate of Tennessee coliquercd by force of arma auother §tate of Tennessce, and imposcd laws up- on it. Finally, the logical legerdemain by which tho State goos Into rebellion, and makes, while thus situated, contracts for th Pnorl of the Gov- ermmcnt in its ordinary and us Tunctions, which are necessnry 1o tho existence of anclal life, and then by resson of being cunguered 7epudintes the contracts, {s ss hard to understand as similar phys- ical performances on the stage, The accond proposition in support of this case, says the Court, is & modificalion of thls and de- ryes more gariona attention. 1t s, #s we under- o it, thit each of the oleven Btatcs which pasaed ordinancen of acession and joined the wo- ealled Confederata Btates, so attempt to eparato themaelve flavvmmunllhllduflnf]lhc veriod in which the Rebelllon maintained its organization, theso Btates Were, in fact, no longer a part of the Union, or, if 80, the jndividual Kiates, Ly resson of their rebellious sttitude, wers usurping powers; thatall of thelr acts af leglslation or adminiastratlon are void. exceptas \hoz aro ratified by positive faws cnacted since the o restoratlon or ore recognized ss valld on the princinlen 8 comity flerance. We cannot ugres to this doctrine, says the Court, It i op- posed by the inhersnt powers which sttach to every arganized political socloty possessed of the right of self-government. It 1s opposed to the recognized vrinciples of publlc nternattonal law, and It 18 opposed o the well-consldered decisions of this Court. ‘The palitleal socfety which, in 1706, becamo a Htate of the Unlon bz the mame uf the Ktate of ‘Tannecasce, says tho Court, 18 the same which is d dtates in the Con. ly fu it toe samn ody politic now, but it has al: been Lhe same. There has been porpstual s: n and pere taal identity. T?lle alwi been "::m st 1imoc & Slate of ‘Tennessee, and the samte Btate of ‘fenucssoe. Teginlative, its fudicial d ued without Jnferruptiv, h wodified, snd recupatructed it or- 7 State Conatitution, more then once. L has done this before the llebelllon, during the Hebelllon, and sloca the lebelllon, and it waw ule ways dooe the collective authority snd fu the name of the vame body of rbupln conatitating the ki the State of T lts execative, {ta riments have contine d in regular order, It litical ‘ennessce. I'nis political body b 1 this timo tate, and e, but it has always becn one of the Ul X darihe Col States, sbo had no Iawful pawer ta depsrt from that Union. The etfurt waich she made 1o do so, if it had beea sutcesaful, would have been ro in #pite of the Constitation and by reason of tnat.force othier fnstances emtab- i slatus which 1ouat be 8 8 fack without roforunce Lo sny ques- ht, and which in_tbis case would Lave been o the extent of its succesas & destruction of that Conatitutivu, . Falllng 1o do thls, the State res mained & State of the Unlon, She Dever cacaped 08 of that Coustitution, though for & 8y bave evaded their enforcement, Thetu {s, bowever, says tne Court, in (ba case Dbefore ua nothing lu warrant the conclusiou that thase notve wera lasued for ihe purposs of sidiug he Rebellion, or io violatlan of the faws orof the Constitution of the Uniled Siates. Thess is 1o ples of that Kind in the record. ~ No such guestlon baiited to the jury which tried the casc. er atated 1o defense, eitber by facts i1 of excentions or in the decrev of ued after May arrectlon, and therefory come within the amended Constitution of 1845, declaring thew yold. The provisiva of 1be Sule Constitution doea mot go upon tne ground thst the State bLonds and bsok notce waich {t declared to be lovalid wero lusued In ald of the Rebellion, but that thuy were ixued by 8 ueuIPIng Goveruuieul, o reason which we have al- ready demonstrated 10 bu unsound. Not only is there notblng tn the Uonstitution of laws of Teaue ec t0 Drove that thess uotes were issued 1 su rt of tho Hebelllon, but there nothluy kunown 0 us 1o public bistery which leads to thts conclu- slon. The opiuion,of the Biate Buprewo Court. which we Lave muu( cited, states that the bauk was engagedin a letinate busiuces at thls time, receiving deposits and otberwise perfurming the functlons of & bauk, andthough. sx fs abundantly wvigent, willing enough ta repudiate thess notes a3 seceivable for laxes, thab Court beld them 10 bo Valid lasuca or Lhe bank, In the tecth of tha urdi- uance declariug them void. It 18 salg, bowever, Ahat, considuring the revolutionary charscter of tho Btate Goveruimvat st tae Uie, we must presuioy thoritative deslaration, In an appropriato -form, by the peopls of tho Siate, ' who were cognirant of ‘the fsctr, that all the that there notes were {saned to aupport the Rebell- fon, Tint while we have the Ranreme Courtaf Ten- nceae holding that the hank during this fime waa engazed In 8 Jegitimate banking businces, we hare na evidence whatever ihat these notes wera insned nnder sny new Iaw of tha Retel State or by any interference of §ta ofiicers, or that they were [n Any manner ned tosnpport the tate Gov. ernment. If thin were ro It wonld sti]] remain that the State flnvnnmcntfiu necenrary 10 the zond order of soclety, and ¢ in )ta proper fanctiona It was right that it should be snpported, ‘The jnde- ment of the Snpteme Uurt of Tennesnce iy there. fore reversed, and the case in remanded (o tnat Caurt for further proceedings In sccordance with thie opinton. DIRSENTING OPINIONS. From this decision of & m-fmlty of the United Btates Bupreme Court, which 18" of course the decinian of the Court, Mr. Chicl-Justice Waite, Mr. dustice Bradley, and Mr. Justice Harlan dis- sent. The Chifel-Justice, in the courss of his opinion, Rays: 1t 1n an Listorics] Fact that the banke of the In. surgent Btates, and eapecislly thuee awned by the States, wera aeed extensively in furtherance of tha Rebejiton, and that a1l or ueacty ail their avellaMe fands wera converted In one way or another into Confederate securities. . . . If the billa of the Dank of Tannessce were, in fact, favued In ald of the Henalllon, they ate vold an gbligations of the State, S0 tho Constitution of the United Btates ae amended providen, and ao thia Court bas decided n every case where the guertion wae ramed that 1« Satme up here since (he War close 1c wirue the ordinance of Tennessee, it is an au- Government, on- fasuen of the bank after May 6. 1861, were In fur- therancs of the Ttehellion. ‘In this way the people 1n effect prohlibited the tax collector and officers of the Rtate from receiving sach issoesiinipayment of publicdues. . . . 1fihebills ol this bank pnt ont after May 0, 1801, were fssucd In aid of the Rebsllion, the conatitutional ordinance in ques. tfon, so far 84 it relaten to them, la valid and can stand; but If not it in invalld, because prohiblted by the Conststution of the United Sta fng the obligation of contracta; certal fate, the presumption 18 that they were aid of the Hobellion, and until this presumption ia ‘overcome there ought 1o be, as I think, no recov- ery. Mr. Justice Bradley delivered an elaborate dissenting opinlon, tho conclusion of which hias been olready cited. He nlso saya: In favor of the proposition toat the lawful Sute Oovernment, renrzsuized after the Rebelllon, Is bound to recognize the billa jn question, it s con. tended that the State of Tennesace haw always re- mained the same State, nnd that unless It #hould bo shown alirmatively that its actaund proceedings were intended to ald in the prosecution of the Re- belilon, they are valld and binding on tho recon- stencted Btate, The Iatter position 1 dony. The State can only act by its constituted authorities: in other woras, by it ‘Gavernment; and if the Uov. ernment s the urorping dnd 1llegal Government, the State itself, and the legal Government which takes tho placo of tho usurpiug Covernment, is not hound by ita acl: mgnw case hefore us tho actusl Government of the State, for the timo being standing belund the direction of the bank, and creatiog that direction, exerciaed comvlete control over the operattons of the bank. When the Btate Uovernment was in want of money or other resources for its immediate purposes, the bank, in abedience to Ita will, izsued its obligations and pro- cured what was wanted. he process by which this was donu was equivalent in the substance of the transaction to thie Government fasuing its own ob- Ugatlony, and thereby filling ite treasury, . . o It cannot reasonably be donbted that the very ob. ect of thie extraordinnry new fssue of bank clrcu- ation was intended for the purpose of enabling the Government 10 carry on its operations, . The fact that the billa themsefves commanded onl{ a fraction of ue roof fhat they wero n courre of , . but procecds received therefor were destined for other uses than leyltimate banking. . . . Now, It the position or _toe mujnmi of the Court ia cor- reet . . . Idonotsecwhy ail the obligations {saned by lhnflwlbdurlnf the War, whether in the shape of bonds or certificates of Indebtednes otherwise, are not equally as obligatory as ¢l bl How {a it to be proved which of these were fssued for carrying on the War. nnd which were not? Upon the srsumption made thev are all prinia facie valld. Tut this, of conrse, 18 ouly & collateral mmption tnat tho Governments of the insurgent Btates were lawfnl Guvernments, I belfeve and hoid thst they wers usurping Govern- ments, Mr. Justice Harlan, in bis dissenting oplnlon, Baya; The argnment upon this branch of fhe caso pecesnarily reals upon the sesumption that the notea of the bank fesued under usurping authority altde May G, 181, were not {avued, or do not ap- pear to hiave been fsrued, fur the purpose of alding the insnrrection, or In hostility to the Union. This assumption, however, cannot be succeasfully main- talned withont excluding (rom consideration well- known listorics) facts, The Government of the Confederate States of America had ita orlgin in the urpose to dissolve the Union formed by the E‘edrrfll Constitation, snd to_overthrow the Na. tional anthority in the Staten declneed to be In In- surrection. The reyolutlonary ; Gavernments of tho insurrectionary States had tnelr oricin snd wero formed for n lke purpose, Thu ex- stence of the former depended upon U exlstenca of _ the lotter. Al _ moneys therefore, ralreid by tho revolutlonary Btate Uo! erumenta for fla support and maintenance shonld be daemed In every pubstantial legal sepso as ralsed for the sunport and maintenance of the Confed- erate Government in its efforts to overturn the dovernment of the United States. Nut fn the view which ] tnke of this case, and the principles which muat govern fte decielon. it 1s immaterinl whether the notes were or were not tesued in direct the Nebelllan. They wero the obligations of an institution controlled and mansged by a revolu. tlonary ueurping State Goverument, In 1s name, for {ta benefit, and to prevent the restoration of the lawful Uovernment. 1t was that revolntlonary Uovernment which undertack to withdenw the Htate of Tennesreo from 1ta allegiance tu tho Fed. oral Government and mako 1L oue of the Confed- erato States. , . . Hutl am unwilling to givo fll,] nssent to tho doctrine that the Constitution of the United Biates Imposed upon tho lawe il Governmens of ‘Tepucssce an obilation, which this Conrt must enforce, to eripple its own revenuo by receiving for 18 taxes bank notee lssned and used undor the authority of 1ts usurping Guv- ernment for the double purpoec of maintalning itrelf_and of defeating the restoration of that law- ful Governmont to its proper relations to the Unlon, Lswful Governinent should not be re- quired (o pay the expenses incurred in effecting and majntaining lteoverthrow, . . . If the Ine sorrectionary Biste Government had, during the recent War, urged the people In nsurrection to take the notes of the lank of Tennessee at par, upon the grotnd that the lawful Btate Government, when restored, would ba reauired by the Courts of the United Htates, whose Uovernment they wi endeavoring to overthrow, lo recclve them In pay- ment of taxes, and {f the insurgents hed bellevod such to be the law of the land, thy Treasury of thy Coulederato Btaies Governmient would havo had more money than it did lo carry on the work of revolntion. Upon theso erounds, which I will not further elaborate, 1 feel ovligea todissent from the concluslous reached by the Court. - e e—— WANTS AN 'EDDICATED" MAN FOR SEN- ATOR T the Editor af The Tribuns, Cnicago, Dec. 20.—Is 1t not avout time the great State of [Mnols should be wholly repre- sented in tho Senate of the Btates by Enclish- speaking, cducated statesmen!? Our Generals, our merchants, our great manufucturers are well enough as melghlors and fricnds, with whom to associate {n cburch ond busincss al- fairs, In county and Btate politics; but I submit that many of them arc totally uatitted by habit sud education to occupy tha highest oftice In the it of our Legisluture. A position which Is the target of the eves of the clvilized world, the incutubent of which s supposcd to repre- sont the highest futelligence and cwdtivation 1o which the people of # Btate have sttained, should bulllled by u inan whoso ucquircments aront least up to those of bis average cons tuency, Now, the wreat State of Itlinols 4 8 been to achool aud through vollego, 7y In_short, ui tha best educated snywhere, aud she protests sgainat belng represeuted lu the Chiamber of the most august body on earth by & wman or men who cannot correctly speak the Epellsh Jonguage, as to alway set whien they should ait, lay when they shouid le, ete,, and are nover accumpanied by droper reiatives Vinvex, e ———— Ravages of the Bmall-Fox, A brief telegram from Rio Janelro indicates a deplorable state ol thiugs in Ceara, oue of the northiern Proviuces of Brazil, In the Capltal of the Proviuce, also named Ceara, and s town of uot more thau 20,000 Iyhubitauts, the deathis {rain snall-pox aru reported at G0 dally, aund awong the sgricultural population of the interlor, uumbering probably 40.000 people, the distruss is sald to ba so great thet carrion snd evey corpaed are bejug converted into fuod, ‘Tbe sevautional character of the news will cause it to be rovelved with cation, but If there Vo elther pestilenco or famlue in Brazil at sl approaching fu virulence to what is fadicated In the dispatch, there capnot be too prompt a wovement for rellel aniong those who sre willlug aud able 10 furnish out of thelr supor- flulty the weans of ullnylu(i 80 much suffering, Brazil {s bound to us by tics too lutimate to g:unnu uuwwcnl for ala, In such & cause, ing disregarded —— Gen, Shermsn Explagns It. . We belleve It 1s understood that it will not do Ao tell Gen. Buerman Stale secrets, for be oinits 10 think thewm of sullicient lwportance to keed theu. Therefors we msy ssaume ghut toe ful- lowing fuforwmation, from & womag®s Washing- tou letter, was not, Ju suy stage of its progrevs to, publicityy held In the strietest contlidens (e, Bherman, who 1 thu wmost delizhitful of foterviewers, slways ready to talk, uud al- ways Laviog something tosay worth heariog, tells me that the rcason Secretary Evarts docs Vot sllow ludles to attend the Usbinet dinuers {a because bo wishds to lntroduce (ho Englisu style of discansing sfMafrs of State at dinper, where the guests are gentlemen only. most important arts of legislation are sald to be settied In Fogland over the banguet-hoard be- fore they cume up In the Iouse of Commona, Bo these dinncra swhich, in this city, were wont to be purely aocial, now resemble ‘more the se- cret workings of the caucuy,—are, (n effest, a species of 'eaucus’ and uncork us. itas, 1think they should admitat least one wom- an to help them keep the scerets of their atare- c,rn)tt‘lur at leant when they tell (as men aiways o] the matisfaction of saving that the one womsn vresent repested thelr table-dnlk, atiil belicves that men can keep scerets, that one has watched the numeroua Investigations authorized by Congress in the past three years to litlie purpose.” tlon to the election of Mr. Voorhees to the 8en- ate within tho Democratic party. opposition will crystallize Into an organized re- sistance to his nomination, or a holt ngatnet bis nomination when miade, I another guestion. ‘The muat pointed and formidable opposition to Jeft to a popular vote of the Democrats of Vigo County, he wonld undonbtedly be defeated. This grows out of = combination of causes. In the firat place, Mr. Voorhees' character among all classes of merchants and in Terre Haute is bad. of Lord Bacon's qualities of In a high degree,~that is, s ereat temot for amall obligations. claimed, cither, that it {s a matter of nccessity, hecatise he makes money rapldly, from his law practice In the poast ten years has of money, ercept in wing it to pay debts, and he bas carried this shortcoming to such ap ex- tent in Terrc Haute as to utterly destroy hia credit sod very largely fmpair his political influ- to a publlc man and politiclan in this country than in refusing to meet small oblications. fu looked In a’politician sooner than ingratitude. ‘Tne Hon. Bayless flanna, hees in point of ability, bas given fifteen years of the prime of his life to working for Mr. mental expenditures for the benefit of local works of comparatively trivlal Importance. In the vulgar tongue ‘most of these works would be termed fobs. Thes are of the kind _anlch o erate infschievously when the Rlver and ' IHarbor blll fs before Con- gress and the log-rolling process is In tull blast. Ex-Senator Chadler’s ‘l![":l’ Jald down an un- objectionable programme, beesuse one that looks nlmp[{ to to the completion of ruessures re- g“vli’lec to secure the full advantages of the lake onte. fined ft would be entitled to ratfonsl support. But the tendency to magnify local interests, and to load down an appropristion LIl with ftems suggestive of Jobbery and waste, provokes and Justifies an opposition which endangers really merdtorious works, When ol aod bad aro mixed in order that the extellences of one class of expenditures may hide the unworthiness of another class, the proper course is to resist the whole. It {s better to pustpone the good than to pay the price of the bad. The necessity of euforcing this_ruleis fn- creased by the determination of the Southwest- ern Bates traversed by the Mizelssippl to press the demand for untold millions to construct o aystem of levees, The recent speech uf Senator ustls exbitits a marked change in the tone and tactics of the partics who urge the passage of this measure. The application made, mal by citizens of Misalssinpi, soou after the War, rested upon reasonable ground, It was not THE RACE QUESTION The The Dog-and-Cat Disharmony of Dif- fering Races. In vanover- The Blacks and the Chinese in Amgrica. ¢ results of the meeting, they can have London Times, Dec. 34. ‘This [s an age jn which every advsnce In the materigl arts of civilization tends to promote the unity of mankind. and every political change scems to draw new Jinea of sepsration, Men pasa from land to land with greater case than & century ago they passed from Surrey to Fssex. Anfdea conceived In. one country fs within a few hours kindling the intelligence of nations thousands of miles away., A famine in China burns down ,Col. Raynsford Jackson's house st Blackburn, Fach pulsation of the Eu- ropean Exchonges thrill through New York. While the whole world fs for many materfal and for more intellectual purposes becoming s slogle State, every alngle State appears to be Inclining if any one ————— VOORHEES. Will fle Be Re.elected ? " Indtanapolis Journal, Dec. 8. * There fs unqueationably very serious oppos!- Whether this tlon. ‘The ples was moro modest. i, 1t was, In brlef, that, = military vperations having destroved meny of the Jovees, the Natfoual Govern- ment should, fo une way or another, hy graut, or loan, or guarantee, provide for their reconstruction. A further argument was that the reclamation of overflowed lands would be an sdaltion to the cotton-growing area, and would thus contribute indirectly a_partlal equivalent for the outiays umn:mn(ncd. This reasoning was at east plausible, and the oropo- Altions to which {tled were not extravagant. No question of richt on one hand and duty on the other waa ralsed. Simple modifications very likely to sec cause for lamenting the fact. Never was there a period In the world's history when distinctions of race were made of more sceount, 8lav Is objecting to live fn p.olitical unfon with Greek, and with Turcoman, and with Teuton; Magyar, {n his turn, is averse from ying fnore 10 4o than he cao help with Blav; Behandinavian with German: Ceit with Saxon; Canenslan with Moneolian; White with Black. That these cthnological feuds are very incon- venient to politicians 1s obvious. Politieal ar- rangetnents were settied Defore mankind had hecume scientific. When, in former daye, France shopkeepers He posscsses ono @reatness con- It cannot be The Incone have been Inflicted upon hutnanit Tas introduced & new element into national and international complications. In coming Euro- pean Congresses the P'rince Bismarck of the fu- ture will have to summon as asseasors the von- temporary (irlmm, and Max Mueller, and Dar- vish expenditures, 10 be follawed by indefimite obligattons, Had the matter been 'brought forward now In this spirit It would have deserved consideration, Southwest and Northwest should stand on the same level, Hut Mr. Eustls® thnolngy eourt.™ We do not refer to tho matter exceot In a power of adapting our- sclves to circamstances which has given us the inticritance of the waste places of the carth, ‘When too absorbing an attention {s dirccted to such dissimilarities, the effect {s to foster a lellef that sytmpathy with men of the same race is best shown by antipathy to every other, In the Old World men have not as yet ad- visited Washington on this buainess, we have demands implying sweeping obligations on the partof the Federal Government, The Loul- rlana Senator anpears 1o care less for tho im- pravement of naviration or the reclamation of uverflowed lands than for the establishment of & principle which, under Bouthern pressure, would keep the Treasury always empty, int of weakness with his own party fa his This {8 much more ngratitude, damaging even downright = dishonest robably should not be so, but [t is, neverthe- ess, Fvery other shortcomin witl bu over- nakes it pardonnhle, it not virtuous, to regard him as s lower aulinal. Across the Atlantic there {s a popular theory that the dislike of Chinamen apd negroes ia'the physlcal disrust which a dog feeia for a cat, Chinesc habits are, it mav be atlowed, ropulsive to white men and negroes occupy 8 low prade In mental cultivation, But ft Is not “merely morall- from tne category of subsidles, and to place the whole subject in the list of those of which the Federnl Governimeot is bound to take control and supervision.” So unreservedly Is the old doctrine of strict construction thrown over- board; In it place we have a policy that would maka the Guyernment the guardian, not of the navigation of & ereat river, but of luterests half largely to his Demoeratic neghbors, and when they have stood In need of his rervicea in return, e tins unlformly falled to 2\ul fu an appcarance, he pecrof Mr, Voor- Voorhees. When he was a candidate for the *« Attorney " se. Rippant abuse of the courts, 1 iy | Fanntieray that ho is mistaken in xupposing the: There |s no such suspiclon concerniag any Jndge In the country," H make the argument that **it le found indlepenna- can there be there are corrupt Judgesr Jiseemsto me T have s faint rocollection of & petition, not long ago, signed by over Judges Lo resien. whisperings from Washingion of a petiiton to Con- Rress containing serions charges, the merita of which I know notbing, bul which show st least decided opinions of the Bar themeelyrs. fac1a prove there fs 8 _suspicion of eorruption, snd **Attorney * knew b when bhe atated therc wae **noench snspiclon, ‘Trith ia never a barrier to assnmptiona and ss- nertions mede tosupport the caoee of wrongdoing and Jmposture, ** Atturney ' sayn in regard to the Judicial pob. that rome. ’yn.lc‘r‘nunlnm ‘apuonent sirore Aimout of Exactly. *r's testimony wan believed againat the oath of one of ourmost hunorable citizenn, boneat man who is bronght In conflict with raseal- 115 before these contin. a jury of twenty-four men at all if one Atforne Qeneral's small head, or 6 cient fortreks for Lhe defe ravagen of crime? And what right Judges thu 10 lesislate nway what the people have ducided to be 8 necessary bulwark? ' noticed fn Tix Trtsixe of Christmas Day your ahart editortal, in which, relating to the escape ot eryends In view, and simply multiply the Attorney " grows facefions, snd mpnoses & €aer of conenitation of aclient with bly lawyer, nnder aroitration, making the lswrer ray, 1 have here the 1,000th volnme of the Awards of Arhitea- tinn. and find that the question h: B3 timen it your favor and 653 tmes the other way: wherefare it is Jikely yoo will be beaten, ar ft has been found that the probabilitics are of an equal number nf decislont on esch alde.™ thia Is wholly sn Iml,l!ln supposition, but T will If the movement. coulil be thur con- | guote the sathority o 8 Leen decided Now & writer In Trr TRIRUXE of uly12, 1876, whom the Tz T dorsenss:'s promirient lawyer, who be bractice in the Supreme Conrt, who stated **that there had been over 100 contradiciory deciniona in that Conrt inthelastien yearn." Sa 1 will pot fifty sctosl dectrinns on one nide and Ml{ actnal decislons of the rame aucstion on the othe: client, **wherefore it i likely you will with the joss of .thonsauds of facetions lawyers, and coste, and ex geniously proportioned to exactly take all yon have and leave youa littleindebt. And Iwlilsapport my indgment by referring that client to the Albany Larw . Journal, that declaresthat ** The declalons of the lllinals Supreme Court are disgracefnl to the Jnrisprudence of the country.* Iictter arbitrate, #ir, and save yoursslf from utter hopcless absorp- r, and dollars | nses in- 8, **In answer ta the idle and wish to inform Mr, ow, then, do you to adiscovery that it is aa far as possible fram | then pretetded that the Federal Governmentis | hie to h the o Iim within his party comes from his own tawn, | yeyn 2uoi” o finda that it Is made up of | bouni Lo conatruct and maintain n vast stretch | bandeq down ' se pecerannte, O et Gonrls where he {s best known. If hisnomination was | ;000 races than oue, and one race or other fs | Of levees, Involvinig unlimnited expendiiures, | barrer agalnst corript decialon low, corropt decirtons unless of onr eftizens, Lo ene of our Meininks 1 hear preity lond ‘These new he was not telling the teath annexed an integral portion of Germany. the | would have cuabled the Natlupal Government been fuily equal to his salary as a member of | ambition of Freuch rulers provoked fear and | o co-operate with the St {mmediatelv {n- 'ib'e;fir? k.'n‘én’é’.’.'e"n"f#'m'i'.'flfi'n."'--'fi’n.'l ?-'u:f Cangress. He s profligate, however, fn t he uso | anzer, but uo outrage was supposed to | terested, without fncuring tion le not pure malice, seems to smount to thi ‘The *‘unscrapulous * perjur. 80 fares cvery Hence the warninks you cnce. speech, and the comments it passing, s amatter of fact, well known to | %in. Difference in race is ono of the most use- | hus callea forth at the South, presenta a differ. ;:;‘l':l;gc" n‘!"‘l‘;u m-”hn- o "h:f n;:;:m: y every citizen of Terre Haute and to a great | ful of servants in natiunal development; Lut it | ent issue. Instead ol the moderate requestaof | **to kee, out o keep out many people outsido of Terre Haute. The next alllh \Iflltzyml'lt,fil;.od“fl Englishmen owo to our | the Misslssipplans, who nine or ten yearsaro | of *cou Hence the pupulsrity it vers 0 of these snares with the *'unscrupulons, ' who nee them to catch roper designation given them by you, Mr. Editor, n your able editorial, awindling of Lioness men," ta restrict the more than rega these cuurts, whose Jndges, in thelr favoritism towarde and I 1o overrule the thelr game, and heuce their **Mere shops for the 1 call npon the people 1 powers exerclaed by ue with the criminal classen, darc aws of the Btate, And make onr ol ombi vanced 80 far os to hold thet phraical antipathy | Grants, or losns, or arantees—suhsl- | Grand Jurleq mere subordinale creatures Lo the will {\:’ {?fik;’{?.u‘i'{%fi“&i{.‘i’. m::‘:‘nzc\:‘:rr:t ';'l':'!l'l.:llafx. s 0 ustural consequence of diversities In race. | dies i any Torm—will ot satisfy the | sndcaprice of their own tool, the Attorney Gen- \nanity Ia lelr 1o, and this Is Just what some of | Magyars have their own fstitutlons and ways | Bouth, It he correctly expresses fta wishes. | sral. The mere adriter of the Grand Jury, under he Taading. Democratie pofiticians. of Terro | of thinking, which are not thoe of Stave. Hut | “His method of tresting this questiop,” re. | fhe, 18w, 1o now ‘ser up by the bold Haute sttegbute to. Mr. Voorhers. Whatever | they have ot vet grown to s faith that there fs | mark his frienda of the New Orleans Lieayune, | ce ™ comsinte' shall g0 before 'them. ang wromoatlon Mr, Voorhees recelved he owes | Bomething in the ekin and color of a Slav which | *is auch as to rcmove the levee aupropristion | whum they shall or shall not iudict. Y Why ba e honesty, lva e e of socicty from thy ave these t 1 0! ogainst Hostet- g {‘I‘Z':“’“vé’a'.nee‘:' d?vn:fi?d"hm“\lmd rle?u-":l ty or ‘culturs _which Is ofleuded in | local. ball personal, which should be adjusted | b nevh '.:,:’,‘zfifé‘.'.“.:.‘fi"%rf\?.‘.’:; fo turn his band to sccure hls nomination, | Calllornia or South Carolina by the | as between the owners of lands to be reciaimed | nia pay: but it was also praved that the sum doe the Ianna e, of course, justly {ndiguant. and will claima of alten races to equality, However | and the Ntate whose taxable resources would be | defrauded officer was one-third of & cent greater wot be found among the - lobbyists urglug Mr, | highly inglviduals of these inlght be educated, | Incressed by the reclamation. then that charged In the indictment, and for thin Voorhees forthe Scnate, and may be found ".‘he same llr;;uncrnlv‘e urflrslun wuvuhl :.:murb 1|=|n = :‘!nl:: '1“; ‘:':enl:‘fl:‘be w:: p‘n‘u |ll‘|‘t’ed.‘7 mThe mllulfi " 6 /9 [1 ne porcelain of the white man's nature. The @ law secms e of wome very ama much cullure, hio 8 3 stronz. common-aense, | contalns & paper in which Mr. James Pdrton ais- T iand and paruirs Diast be proved bag 1ok peks bold worker, and when he had money to use, | Cusacs the question whether there s a natural ARNBITRATION. sumed, " -ndv"ernq man i presumed innocent aotipathy of white man to black man. If the hiypothesis he true, it 18 o fact to be Jamented, but to bo made the best of, Certsin outward stzns of 1t Mr. Parton admits to have been once very penernl, New York cltizens sulll frequent- 1y Intimnte their deterwination not to sit side by side i1's public conveyance with a negro, There are suits pending ogainst New York land- v the Lditor of The Tribune. Cricago, Dec. 29.~It is a very common nrac- tice with artfal opponents of a proposed re- formatory mensure, which, they feel consclous, will [oterfere with thelr particular lutereste, thouzh nddressing Jtself to popular tavor for the public good, to uretend to great frankness used {t freelv to secure tha vromotion of Mr, Voorhees, He bad a right to expect an ex- hibition of some gratitude in return. When he was o candidate _before the Denocratic Btata Conventlon for Treasurer of Ktate, a word from Mr. Vuortiees would nave been of great value, He had Voorhees appointed 8 delczate to the Conventlon, confidently belleving he would ajd of tne *juy urvccthix.gg ullty fethe i or { lords for refusiug to lodze negroes. 3 2}‘" é’:- e r{;‘:fi “;’,%;““x'}'fl'.’,?:."'}c.f.",'m'f,’.”",‘.’,'{.f New Jersey students have been known | !0 admitting the cvils sought to be redressed, A Ty tn Washington, snd allowed hls trusted und | to be unwilling ~to {mbibo inetaphynics | but to make Mitle of and decry each and every | proposition. in _company with men of color. The Tecling, however, {s zrowing dally fainter, Itis trivial now In comparison with the force of the sentiment forty years ago, when Conuecticut declared it Hllegal to estavlish o negrogirls’ remedy that may be proposed. The public will readily detect this transparent ruse on the part u of ** Attorney " to parry the force of my arcu- il menta fit support of arbitration os & correclive | #ystem tha faithful friend in by-gone days to go down under the Fleming combination. Another tqunlly strong cose 1s that of Juige Patterson, W‘w. except for bis own popularity, would have been utterly sacriliced upon tle altar of Voor hees' Inordinate sclfishness and ingratitude, | school fan quiet village, Mr. Parton argucs of the erying abus of the judiclary Tho same may ;m 1m orD Judee Jobn ‘st}; ml:d l'P:::. 1-1;31‘-(‘:27‘1":3";'%«; \{:: v:rfi: ;”“bulfu u:}; system. lle pretends 10 falrne 1 other leauing Democrats, With the U & LX [i ilng t L defec % :engmlon t‘)f Havens and one or two other marks of a natursl anupathy, 3§t wers i cuhfealing o, greatdufects In (hataystem, but his unly object {8 to disarm criticlsm, and to turn hts recming candor nralost all proposed relfef. ‘Thus ho assails arbitration as * worth- less,” Wheun I polnt to Ita successful employ- ment by the Board of ‘Lrade in the settlemnent natural, it would not have disappeared under the inticnce of political considorations, If it were notural, it would inanifest itself fu chitdren, On tho contrary, in the days of the fiercest hostllity of white planters to necro emancipa- Democrats of fuferior nbllll; and {nfluence, these leading men of Mr. Voorhees’ party In lis own town would gladly see him defeated by sny means that could bo devised. With thia opposition aud the vpen oppusition of Jrom eyht until proved guiity, suppose that rale of law wiil gn with all the rest lery and legerdema N ut * by all means dispense ' with' your ‘rules of l“:w.’by which you first prove & man an “*rules of law " that ** Attorney™ thinks so “¢indisponnable, * and and tatks about my ¢ tempt 1o cxpose the Iniquities of the Coust-kuuse . He talks of the *‘ehallowness " of my name five tlwea In bl conceals his own, and criea **malice,™ ** vituper- ation,™ Hut he signe himsel! **Autorney,™ and that name, with <'all it fmplies,” (s enouglh 1o presautfo the mind sn evil gnome thst sits and plps its living from the rage snd I sarcastically remarka: No, slf; pre. then let " him no. These spects me of * **malice, viluperation " when 1 at. 1 wonid ruther be sha/low In the vx{ creise of any puor glit] possers in pmmm‘;. Tb-u 1 ean, for conserving the sacrell ciaims of fruth and stice, than e au deep m8 the nethermost pit, or *+ Aftomney. ucks the dearest intercsta of the vortex of profeesionsl inceed! pest touched tne foul toad, and the dark demon blmvelf started up revealed, s lsst o adyoeating tho continuance of & pube v itua wiicn can fmay thi ‘This writer parades desp articie, while ho ta in th lat ko | tion, no nurses excited mors ardent af- % in s> 5.'7.»-'"'.“» l”:‘:;:l;ly 'wilh g 1%0’%4‘:;'"5':;:: fection than negresses, Nuw, when the | Of the vast number of complications srising in i‘...."m“:" bo .:]tgnw'n:_-"".:\'xko ‘,.M’!‘ clal wiews, it did look at ono time since turinehmchllullnmlmnrka nrgbrok:-ndnwn, hllnk fts business, its heppy cffccts In Masonlc and --||u“1! I?w snd ‘vgmrupn}fnlunnl, .\‘\"I.M- ‘ evita- | and white chilaren mav be seen everywhera | Oud-Fellow socleties, churches, ete., . { mirable lnnocence and amiability aska, licre thoclotlan, ga- it hix .dufeas” eas, tevita sitting in nerfect content i the mmu%lnu at F ek, Eliisches, etlsy lie o con Inall this business nre tho Hench wnd barto ble. To overcome this opposition Mr. Voorhees detnanded and reccived the augrespive work and influcnce of Gov. Hendricks, Eeuatar McDon- sld, and the Democratic Stata Central Commit- tee. endricks snd McDonsld have, on ever: occaston when an opportunity offered, given [t out by way of intervicws to the press that they pelled to sield the facts and consent that it Is a good thing,” but gives =s & rdason why it thero proves *u pood thing,! becauso of the “grganization of intetllzent men," sad the “arbitration s contined to questions which they all understand.” Ile further says, * Nor school, They reeard *une another’s color no more than #o many black and white lambs playing oneJunemorning upon thedarled alopes ot New Hnmpsbire fuem.’ Further, i the refugnanco were natural, Mr. Parton maimtaius it would be reciprocal, Asn dog flies at & cat, g0 tslation q Henators are lswyers, atives there mre X5 lawyers, und unly seventy not ith Jeg- the Senate of the U eight lawyors and twenly of other occupations, rrom Ilfinois and mneieen other Statvs all 1l o 1n tho House of Represciit- y g ¥ Mr. Vi * | thy cat hisses &t the dog. Negroes would not | 4o ‘I deny that amnong merchoats o lurge num- | lawyere. Hilinols has~ seventven lawyers, and yere :-x‘ti;«r:'dlrmr :;;1:::;2::’ lzrml;u‘lgg;hclf;. have niways pardoncd the repugnance of white | Der would be able to draw a submission to arble | two ~ of otber catiings. Niichizan - mas Deen brought to Lear upon Suuators Sarnte- | men, and courted thelr society, if a_natural an- tratfon clesr enuigh for the purpose, but it la | solid platoon of nine lawyers, Misulssippi Dtiacn and Winterbothaus and_their followers | tivathy existed between the two races, na be- | How aquestion of prosiding o yalen for the | iz, aine five, without_a sprinkle from speedy scttlement of dlsputes on” all manner of questions, for all classes of people,~farmers, mcchanles, master and gervants, cuandian and ward, cte.,—nmoany too fgnorsnt to hold a pen.” To ‘thus yicld the point of opposition to arbltration as appilcable to merchants snd_intelllizent men, {8 aimoat 1o surrender st discretion, for nine-tenths of dlsputes snd tween **the tiger and the lfon, the canary and ;,'he‘i-(’agxo\\uhhd. the ruttiesnake and tho copper- eud. ‘The gnestion in the United Btates In of very practleal Interest cven now, At the heginning of this century it was yet more urgent. 8o (n- compatible did tho existence sido by slde of a black and a white people scem to s zencrousand in the Li‘lellnlur!, and the uttet disruntion of the party In Indiana Las been pletured to them an the result of thelr defeat of Mr. Vourhees, Mr. Hendricks, himself a candidate for the Democratic uomination for President, and hinv- fn fully committed hmuaelf in the canvass in fndfong to all of Mr, Voorlices' yagories on fluance, und having advocated on every stuinp olher avocations. Alabama, North “Carolina, and Wisconsin have each seven lawyers, and only one More than three-fourtos of the In tho ritlhh Parliament & Not & et are of thal pro- -ienths being country squires, bankers, etc., men from the pouple, e great |eaders, Gladmone aud Disraell statesien, but notlawyem, are The French Asvem. 3 o 1 % litlgstion aro between the vast number of teodes- | hiy hos but few |awvers, aud In ine (ierman o the State the “immediate and un- ;::."L',’,:',”J;-'m,‘:‘\;.'&}'k&l fi‘;"d::“zfi’umk?:a that | o e inteliigent 1o cantract, and, an §main. | Itefcustag a lawyer is not kiiqwn, Butin America, w{xg'hlu;\on‘:m‘ reggnl n“g:!r !i‘l‘l’&:l rmlk;:zlumm L Mty e i ek S un:-. Ilfl:&llnn‘l;‘ln ‘:ni -:u‘llu den;::‘elv 'lh'f" nl&ler-r i" "I‘I”u wnu)l‘u Governmbnt, tois clawe bas B s Aostinlen aned poot s | Tk plan was L0 buv the whole alava poputution | he subjeet, maitcrs i Controverey (it opaqus | Eromda . our - halla of with Mr. Voorhees. Senator McDonald moves | 0f its masters for 400 miljivns of dollars. This { Judges or *‘slippant*’ Jawy iut 1 s nat | ¢or of law' wholly n_ the Intercsts num might, ho thougeht, bo rgised Ly the salo of | willing to leavo Yho **farme c| of thelr own fraternity. I have no atatie- and acts as 1 ho was holding Lis place in the Demoeratle party by sufferance. While hedoes put agree with Voortices, and knows that be is ters, aind servants, ofc., many. 200 millions of acres, The remainiog acreaze i would sufllce for a new Africa, President Jot- " o 1 professlon, 'The cowmon intelligence v 1o sonud currency and Lusfness pros- | Sereon had previoualy sugirested that the uegroes o legal 4 et her. thirough sheer cowardica and | should frst be educated in aclence, arts, the pubiic, s duet ‘as acecudble” and farce of party disclpline, hus been lead to ndve- | 8nd industry, and then shioped to somne aur courts are, Mr. **Attorney, Heonvenicnt revlon fu which they might be set un in busineas, Al the early schemes us- sumed that the black man must by some device or other he improved out of Amcrica, or that purt of it which white men occupied. To a cor- 1ain cxtent the dificulty has solved {tsell, ‘The negro and the white” wan continue fo live cate Mr. +Voorbees' elaction to the Senate. Tho undertaking ana conducting a holt in the party, la opposition to Hendricks, McDanald, Voor. hees, anit the Democratie State Centrul Com- mitter, I8 a formjdable -one. Wa very much doubt whether thopponents of Mr, Voorhees, while they are suflicient In bumber, bave the nrganization of costly techuicality, ** d and ** delects,” admitied by yoi. Few Intelligent men would refuse 1o kindly "act an refcrees be- tweon dlaputants. however humble oF *Viznur- ant"; sud it fo the absmo of these pretended seate of Justica 1 honorable ntr menta for Jtance " and blamer™ the elln)s runs tu splder, 1h 14l rit to put It 1o successful operat! The | together: and the newro, without tho epmpul- | o arenan for pefty squabbl Euresibe Chances are ten to one that they will tamely | sfon of the whip, eurichvs tho American Repub- { giop, tn whlrn';hv’;m“u man’s aubstunce 18 squ s whall compe| aubmit, and be taken into camp by Mr, Voor- | le by producing 5,000,000 pales of cotton a year. | dered under incitement and stimulation foru, Lers when the time comes for making the noi Novertheless, the relatlons between the two | **Attorney's" **abl vyers.” You meusloned fnation, Mr, Voorkees and his friends ar hedg- | races ure still yery far from harmonious. The [ & ~ashort time y Mr. Fdior, & case Ing, however, and laim that they can loas il | dictum of Southern statesmen beforo the War [ in New = York, = whero the original | less the bord-money Democrats, sud obtatn enough | that and the uearo cagnot | 8mount In coutroversy wus thy phiiful gin of secendoliare; where there wery tiree or four emiuent lawycrs enzaged on each sides whero a larve voluine of teatinsony biad been taken, ad uiready accuniulated to sotie §2, 600, all vober, rational men §f the courts of ibe country were lnatituted for auy sucu ab graceful contes! thiet isitpot a spameful pro- {anation of the temple the peaple huve dedicated to the sacred cause ol juslice Do we feuce oft atwn-acta lot, and fnvite all persone having pes- sunal ditferences to go du and Oght them out? Would tbere not be & thousand Aglis golng Mve together as equals " can scarcely be sajd to have been os yet confuted by eventa, AMlr, Parton himaclf does not belleve thut the *eolor Hins™ will ever be cutirely vuliterat- ed until * the scalawoe be suppressed, and the natural chiefs be placed at the hiead of Btates,” But that *color Hine ' he cu bave heen drawn by a long hablt « sud want of culture, sud not tukes, wo think, unnccessary puls of the Greenback element to seenre his clecs tlon. This the treenback inen deny, aud clain that a bolt fu_the Democratic party wiil securo the defeat of Vearbecs. B et —— Two Gamblers of the t Century, A writcr of vhe last century relatesa teniific scenc which ho witnessed in i London drawing- room. ‘I'wo clderty ladies wera seated atu table play- my abllities me. tuprove that e ' At the nepro and white yaces are physically yvery ¢ sll timcs, resultiug I tumudi, e e e A R D e T T :?uad':n: ane destragtiou. I:'( nlll:'slunlnl';n'r 'LE"-:" ol '3 pre : 0 clety? No. slr, we nothing of the kind, which wos wlinlow, from tho crprossion of | pyucara to ve teifing with a grave subject, On Yo contrary, auf ews foruld Rebcim af alfs t L'r.fl";f ‘m“ dph il el fniy cuted | o physlotogleal ditfgences between whita | But we build court-houses, sud Invilg knavory ta h"h:)"" I s ‘""," T e oty | man_aod negro are coustderabls sud cs- upon hunesty nlll\mmnlnc\uml the vongelul, author describes the sweet oud plensing manner | govin)™ ‘They only correspond to the | snd theliticious to go in aud dehe It aut, aud o in which the gamester of ity years' stunding bore bur loss. ¥ Her face," io says, “was ol n unlversal crimson; and tears of rage secined ready to start {lo her eyes. At that mainent, as Batan would have tt, her opponent, 8 dow- ager wioss hair and eyebrows Wit os white as those of an Aibiuces, triutapbantly aud briskly aemanded payment for the two black aces. “VTwo black aces!® ungwered the loserina voice almost unintelligidle by nassion. * lere, take the money; thouh, instead, L wish Teunld Rive youtwo black eyes, You old white cat!? ne- companying the wish with a gesture that threat- cued a possibility of its execution.!’ *The stately, starched old Jady, who, In her esgerness to recelve her winnings, had hait risen from her chialr, sunk back Into it as though sho tad really received the blow. Bhe literally closed her cyes snd opened her wouth.guud for seversl moments thus remaised Hxed by the wagnitude of her borror." o ———— Bayard Taylor's Estate, Canctanati Oommercial. The Cleveland Leader says ol Bayard Taylor: *Jt Is muthoritatively siatcd that bis evatate will yfetd little or pothi { exvept bis life-f- surauce uf $10.000, and that his widuw uid importance, which My, Parton adwits, of thy moral and intellectual diversities. The friend of the negro, or puther the well-whiher to American lonment, uced not be concerned that ¢ Is finpossivle to wash the blackamoor white. Fastulious bontheru ladivs never re- fused the services of negro attendanta; and elderly persous In this country can remeinber a thne when no greut establishment was reckuned comvlety without a black footman. ‘The fushion of regarding the negro us » nutural bondsinan made white mou not eo much toleraut as ob- livious of superficial diveraities. The nawer fashion of regarding him s & natural equal Will hardly bo 1éas powcrtal, Those divers|ties bad no part fo originating any untipsthy of the white mau for the iegro. Itis an ordinarv in- cldence of the co-exutencu of differcns Lodies of wea Hviug o the sawme community, but cujoylue uuequal rights. ‘Chey are broueht too close to eacliother 1o be likely to malntain the ncutral stute of feellng which 18 neither sympathy sior antipachy, In tha Southern Stutes the want of cominon interests prechuded sympatby; politl- cal feuds and jealousies prepared the soll for antipathy. It1s ot least poseible that the anti- pothy ot the whito 1pun for the negro tmay have generated 8 correspondlug sentiment ow the tavasand IIW(H" are cnvaged in the mandy vecn. pation of patiing their champlons on the back, as- suring each siac, Under **attoruey’s™ eyl law ' #(hat they arv nght and are “bound to ilence, an fncessant caruival litization ahhol rent to tho teachince of relizion sud the duties of Bbumanity. Bnt the lawyers exultingly ride the storn of passlon, laugh in thoir siecves ot their bamboozled victlms, whllo they pucket thelr une righteoud fees. 1 would ramind ** Attornoy ™ that I distinctly ‘advocated that wur Leglelature should appointa Boand of eminent legal wluds to projure u code of comprehensive, and thut shonld wm- bruco the cieareat maxims of lawand equity. 1 alec rewind hio that one of my chief nrzumentn in favor of arbitration was to reifeve the viertusked courts, 0 o W couble thent tu give such e, b~ vestigation, and conwideration 1o cases involving hlgh principivs of luw, Where Boltber side wonid derire of Dropse arbitration, us (0 celaulish suthoniative brecedents, anid yive tne pybhc reapect the sdunulstration “of Justice, 1 do not posn o fure ey yu tion, however ~complicated, of arhitrators not damiliar with On the conteary, L maintain tial Bunong cecuan fasmers, mechanlee, sud Iaborer, disuutes ween thei wrisg 1o Tegurd o thelr’ peculiur oews aud purvaite, aud they are o thousand-rold velter informed ond better qualited w dotermiug e proceeus € el nte g that mu daughter wlll ba lcft very slouderly provided | Gilir side, Of this Mr. Farton takes o ac- practiealts, quverions betwien (bl o: than 2y toe.” It will be fouu -,‘_'P"“at ';,’"“,%‘ e that | ouge. We doubt very much if tho negro with | Would be bound Ly cules of coumon sease. a this statement Ls “lew-'““,-N . \.“-‘k"'r“.}: now atvept the voudition of poltiical appreutice- [ plain rules of equity sud an owner of several suares of Now Yok 7rib- | ybip wincl 1a bis soecilc or the tlual cure of he | on our ~ Hosra | of © T une stock, aud wbile for, soma years Tribuns | ropugoance which the ueara's old madters still | Eschanye, aud other Assoclations jor proice; divideuds hiave uot been larpe, tie property 18 | foof 1o aasoctuting with bisn un absolutely equal | tiun axalust the piracy of courta. Aoy uud aud pays. Then Mr. Tovior's bouks sell steadily, and bave permsuent value. His death wlil increase the dumand for them. Tuere are 1wore than twenty volumes, beside trauslations. o ———— Wamarck's Had Health, A telegrapbic dispateh from Berlin to the « I propose arbatration ** bound by Du rules of " "Yes, sie, | want arbliration freo from the ruled of Jaw thut you contews jead to ** unjust de- lays,” to **evils that exlst fu tho adwiulstration of law,” sud agalust which you pretend to fuyite +* vigurous dircussion ™ and persisteot action, It 1s against Lhe svasciess verblage, tho wpevious tecuuicalily, the labaryptllau mases and luvolus tering, S e — istration @ Kubsldy Schewes to Fluuder the Tazpayers. New York Tiwes. A Commuercial Conventlon, beld Jast week ut 8t. Paul, resolyed itsell luto a conference to de- vise pretexts tor epending public luaney, und to Paris papers siates that the beslth of Privvo | provide wethods of oblaining It Osjeusibly | tone. sud ‘hlul!;le[l_w trickery, Under, tho Lixh- Buwwarck _jusplres apnreheusion umoug his | the object was to dlscuss viaus of Improving the o R L of v le waich Iricads, The dociors have recommended ubso- | Lrunsportation ruute from tho West 10 the sca- L %a" St Bor Licue nbsurdiies tRAC 1. lute rest for u few days. Tne Chancelior cum- vlatos of great weakueds; be sleeps badly, sud couscquently works but very little, vepscially sluce night-work bas been forbidden M. bourd; put it 8 Luoossible 1o go through tbe proceediuge without se¢ing that, under cover uf o great pur&au tha wajority of the dolegates weiv capeclally dedlrous i obtalulug Uoveru vocato the subetitution of ho sluple, practics), ke, and ineapeusive wethods of arbira tion, To Iucuibe: thy prozoscd now systess with | Dresden fu ¢ ali tho vezatluus wachigery of tu vld waald efeut | pvr fa tue v Free Hchool Educati Ovpice BTaTe Sur TI08, CoLuNpia, 8. C, Dec. 8, 1SM.—Dean Gienmnat: 1 send you the followlie Juforma- tion at the request of Col. Lipscowb, who - forius me that you dedlve lt: awouut 15 due to ¢ I off cach year, it UGew, M. C. Butler, Washingtou. e t— tics of wur Legialature, but 13 fu [air (o presumy 1rum the proveruial modesty of these professinnal Rentiemen that they constltute not more than Three-fourths of Ite members, and thercfors Lam to mpewer the question, greatly embarrase **Whers In all this bustness are the lisr to 1 call npon the people Lo look to thelr intereats, and demand a thorough reform of the taws, and tlon of sl tnat myrisd-turesded com- plexity, that, like the dexterous meshew of o net, centre, where k the friends of urbliration tocirculate the petition 1 published crouches tte hidevus . und let such an array of ruwmud to the Genornl Assomily It to heed the people's cry for Law Yes, Mr. “'Attorney, If the Judiclary Com- mitiee of the General Sesombly, which will doubi. composed entirely of lawyers. will not liavo the wuperier futellluence you clalin for thon over ‘tlarmers, tncchanics, elc., many uf them too Ignorant (o hold a pen,” tho wuperior intel: ligence, 1 say, tion. #a a ch form, 1 will eby to draw o bill establishing arbitra- ef tep toward tho demanded re- Fully render waatever asalvtanco may afiord. 'They can reckoh on TTE¥RY FAUnTLEROY. n South Csroll RINTENDENT OF Lpeca. White. Colored, Average yearly scliool attend- ance under Hepublican adiin- {stration for saven yvan ¥ early school atteuds ancounder Democraticaduln. o | iatratlon for iwo yoars .. The public school ssstem was upder Repub- dean rule fur elzbt years, but no reterus of at- tendanco were msde for the tirat year. ‘The umendisent to the Coustitution, which was ratitied Dec, = Luglslature, providest) be raised by au annaal tax of two mills on the dollar oo all the taxable property in the several counties ol tue Btute. poll-tax are the nmrnu—:l of “tha o swount ol the Bchool Fuud, have been larzely increased under Dewocratic rule, ment 1o the Covstitution furthier provides that ¢ the wehiool tax shall be distributed umons the several wchool distriets of the counties fu pro- portivn to the respective pumber of vupils uttending the publle schoals.” are made to my oftive by which 1 cau tell the sinounts devoted 1o the eduestion of each race, out the foreguing statement will show that the nugrocs recefys mors of the School Fuud thau tho whitds, It Is, ol course, well known to you v of the uegroes do not even pay the poll-tay, and that, sherefore, they contribute 1 | vothiu to the Behool Fund of which thetr yuce recelves the grester portlon. schools sre more eficlent now thsu they havo ever been, but the chief obatacle fn thu way of ull the schools 18 fuund io tue fact that the Hepublicans entallel upon the present Admin- debt of nearly S185,0K0, A7,420 4u,481 50,281 60,0 1877, by a Dewocratle hiat thy Schoul Fund shall ‘The pruceeds of the devoted exclusively to public echools. ~ The anl beney the also thls tax, The wmend- Nu rcturns The colored ‘Fhls apd we sre paylug Vory tru iron 8. ‘TuOMPSON. Excessive V'uliteness, Bostun Transcrip. Tho Sax0ns arv i very bolity people,—so over- polite thut they ot Infrequeutly briug down ridicule upou themselves. It used to be told 1n usour’s studeat duye thut u stren- y woa ono day crosaiug the greal bridge that spans the Eibe, and i- Uve with 5 reanent th. Lo direeten 1o o rentom church which he wiched to find. and it paincd me to him, but J grisve to either. Jel empha'e miek ' Hee rope ————r——— THE RUSSIAN CRUISERS, Bperial Dispated to The Tridune. rriLapeLran, Pa, Dee. 28.—The Rasstan ship Africa, with 1,000 tans of coal, 200 Evans rifies, several hundred hoxes of cartridg, threa Gatling guns, and provisions enough to last & month, wit! sail from Philadelphia for the Old World I the latter par: of this week, lies at the Willow street wharf.where slic was taken to on acvount of the scarcity of room ng Cramp's shlp-yard, which prevented her belog placed in the dock secure from floating foe. and ammu , 18 the samc a4 that of the Fa- Like them, she will clear for Nitke, Alsskas, but will {n reality go to Co-~ peohaven, where, with the other two vessels, a8 regards guns and Asli she wiil reccive her armament. ation, Irected ‘IR a ‘tiertnln ' Really, m; dear sir,” anid the Dreadener, bowing lu;. "yl grieve greatly to sav it, but I cannot tell you.” The rtranger passed nn, a 1t sorprised at thie volnble answer to a simple question. proceeded but & few rods when he heard burried Inotateps behind bim. and turning saw the samo man running to catch up with him. Ina mo- ment his purauer waa at his side. his breath ¥ rone, but coouch left to pav: ' My dear #ir, sou nsked me how you conld find the church 7€ Lo say that 1 did not know. Just now I met my brother and mskerd eay nn,t he did not know fle had 8ho now Each vessel il recelve three elght-inch guns and four brosdsides, Theso cuns wiil be eent to Copen- hagen from Cronstadt. vessel, the Zablaca, I8 not yet finlshed. e —g e . A GROSS EXAGGERATION. Bpeciel Disvaleh to The Tridune. Cenar Rarips, Ia., Dee. 23.—~The report telegraphed from Des Molnea to the Chlcago Journal concerniug the ravages of diphtheris liere In & pross exager: but 170 deaths herc, all told, rince As oaly about 100 of these were from o During the past week there have been but few ‘the fourth Russian There have been il 1, and. nhtheris, new cases, and it s hoped the worst ls uver. ¥, 0RDER T0 ACCUS MO lln::n Uftices in fh: dil Ner:ni X Lelow, Plice &4 charged at the Main (iice, an untsl Ro'elock p. m, dUF/Ng the week, and Latl 9 p. m. o —— . The Pope and Hoclallam, Paope Leo XIIL, {s engaged In drawing up & scheme of co-operation between all the Furo- pesy Powers, with s view to the represslon of Hoclalistic and International tendanciel AT where advertisementa will be tal an tiaturdsy: ODATE OUR NUMERUUB we have easbiished Dviainns, 21 deaignaied ken for the sama d will be recelred J. & ORI *:";}'\:-";fi‘i;‘ } L':looholllm :nd Buatloners, 123 . M. wedesler, Atal 4 v 1000 West Madison ROt ay L omer, ete I KOBERT Tl eat-Side News Denot, & "I WA all fonday morning, CULBERT & C Je-st. Lasall WA articles W e LT . & ML Seweter for four moaths free; & STON, Wi rorner of lalsted-at. oot comer Lincoln. Traacss NTED-ROY TO FKkED CYL! Miscellnncots, NTED=MEN 10 TAKE 2: circulstion, i, (). J. - FOR WISt AUENTS arms describe 10,100 SCOTT, 10 Dearborn, Y ONSIN, LAK Northern lows, A corupetant tes malt chlufnnler. and Faney WANTED-MALE MELP, _ NDER PRrS3 0., %3 and GUIDE ove scquaiated with tie busineas and territors. dresa for one werk P a4, Tribune affice, o A W 45T 0eds by sampfe. ences required. Lalielln 1 Cie A 4 Blxterntiat, TUATIONS WANTED-X EMALE, ITUATION LY trl 1 NTED=A GOUD MA; Nursesa NTED=A WET. between i amt m. e, Domenticse Y STATETO 'y pald, NURSE, PPLY MON AR SBENRAT ANTED~UY A GOUD XORWEGIAN neral housewark. Apbly at brescat glare, 1ol L uploymnent Agencies. qfl'UATl(YNv- NTED—-FAMILIES IN wd et T tierian Temale help supplicd at 4. DUSK well1e 78 o3 feer, une Kiala bura. bullain 0 dowi, KO-sité farn: 14 lorses, waun, hay, miieasoutl, o Ehlc T ‘\LW T8 AIEA i 1AM ~ BT and ki Wassipinieon five i shieda cic., Vained at in bustntsa ur athier 2 nie. Juquire of NTRY T BOYD, oot 7, 17 Manison- g PIANOS AlLE 1 RECLMY I ALL THE GHEX Hall iy by STORY & eA) B AND 1 RUATE-ST. id only'br & CA STONY Ar, 183 AND 100 REATE'ET, n IMMENSE WTOCR of the FAMOUS MATHUSHER PIANOS 0 ur vule YERY LOW AT ATOUY & CAME'S, IR AND 1 NTATEAT, TANCE POt HARGAINH IN PIANUS AND ORUANS, FOIL OUR PRESENT PURPONE WE'WI Rk MAKE . 1INUSUAL INDUCEMENTS. MAGNIFICENT UPRIGIIT ELEGANT SQUANE GuAND HCHTON -OCTAVE PIANO, $19k {ZLC!.,(IIANTBXPAS HAML L PIANUFORTE, $200. PIANO,. $173. SUN & XD \ AN Gl :-'" ORI s oo, 7|0 RENT- 813 PEE MONTI 101100 eraay w9 IIIE?'T-THIKHH-RI'(H:\ ND 7 NORTH CLALK-ST. 500‘“.‘& o gilidy T NEAnS NOTES N Tuenr Sonpoe S wyer days all QAN e OUNEIL WAN £ Madison mausut boart st very low ra Transient, 3240 . Day buard 83. Citne and, AV ISDIUR JIOUSK, 179 STATE powite flous 0 co with Lward, 10 $7 peb weuky B ToomL KI;\'KNL 8 SAD ads, ete., ok | dolull of every e olice dicen e inba T AN Wilo” OWIECT 16 W will only ab al “'.\h”l\u MACHINES, W ut ot oF b toom 7, Y istIxG To Lusincss we wl dry goos. hotlod, elv., [uF cliy feal catate, 1are a2 170 Madisou 8! 1 oo und up canioy i T tanght telegraphy, pracileally, it Lawal, ApuY b s £adt Quo-at, ROANS OF VARIOUS MAK WOM 70 FU T3 PER C| T Twest siao. eut Adaus-at, $13-Tworstory South Niges Tont liduse coract of “Stichlinu. . ApplY At S houth Clark-st. West Sldos North Slae, ih foui, baths sy’ $1 Lo 8 ard, € Eloteld. 9 [LOUSE, I 7K. bouuns 3 aaid b ) QUL Madisou sl _SIISCELLANEOUS. Al 0d souiething eutirely usw fur i T b or teur. HORTRON, D10 Wetasiay N tarchiug- uischines 1 machines & L. logue. CHANUE — 14k ACL ANTED—, tal. desires s 1 s wewbor of AFLHY—LAD otfice, 160 Milws ukee - COUNTRY REAL ESTALT Wil s gNe l“rwnm-« r ot Wil ounty, 1a., conelatiug uf U} wer, ‘need, with Food detling- luwse, b . ety ot eatafe, et Wit farul 1m0 pluimeatss o In Palatzl Coduty, 1adline. T PIANISTS. ... TO_RENT-HO00MS, ¥ MON. NDEILS il vate of Alsu tlie Everiastiog ) e, Hiachiga: colandering-machlu fim, B TO UXOHANGE. X AltM: 90 ACHES undvr feace sud plows viioty of thaber, waler, el & willes Iruw Leuilagton, 1id. ; want store aud I dweiltog: whl asiiue LA, T. B. BOYD, TV Madlso L. MUNGER & CU., 65 W = Cranip I 8 L baias ook ke ping Lhomougir. Addhens & e vl thorouglly. Addre Uiy linso otie Y of " large s o cuperiy i 153, ¥ OHOAN, $l A aLAND PARLOR ORAAN, B30 T WATERS' PARLOR 0124 , $30, 2K ll\(flh. M TOUSE 10:3 bricl 4 lrve Ing-pisce aud 13 Fillmore-st. lnquire st N1 DASRMENT MAL- sad Four HIRAT-CLASY eek, wiih vas of 8 AND 18 EAST ADAMS ST — i, with board, trom 83w $10 AND “SILVERY o4, diainsods, aud veluedles 53113 Luaa a0dBullius Ullshed 143, B FROM THE JOB-LOY cachange vur enflre K ot Chivaws ) 11 h,