Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1879, Page 4

ftausns City, whero the caving in of the side * bad temper on account of the failure of his Y MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAN] 11y Edition, one year. 1'arts 0F & FraF, per mon Literary and ficiigions iioi Epecimen copics sent fres. Giye Post-Ofiico address In full, Inclnding Stats and County. Remittances may be made either hy draft. express, Toat-UMTce order, or In tegistered letter: at our risk. TERMS 70 CITY SULSCRINERS, Dy, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 25 cents per weeks Dally, dellvered, Ennday incinded, Mcenta per week. Addrers THE THIBUXE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ste., Chicago, §11. Orders for the delivery of TR TRinuNE 8l Kvanston, Englewood, and liyde Park seft {n the counting-room willreceive promp th OFFICES, TRIBUN 4 Tr¥ Criicaaa TRIRENE Jias eatabitahed branch offices fer tlie recelpt of subscriptions and sdvertisements aa followa: NEW YORK~Toom 20 Tribune Nulldiog, F.T.Ma- ADDRYX, Mannger, TARIS, France—No, 10 Rne de In Grange-Dateifere, 1 Man LONI merfesn Fxchange, 440 Btrana? Agent. BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.~Palsce Tiotel WASHINUTON, D, 1310 F street. AMUSEMENTS. — McVicker's Theatre. Madlron street, tetween Dearborn and Ftate. En Fagement of $t1ss Ads Cavendish, *'The New Magda: 1en.* Afternoon snd eventng. % Faverly's Thentres Dearhorn street, corner of Monror, Engagement of Uates’ Comie Opera Comuany, ‘L& Marjolalne." 5 1onley’s Thentre, Tandolph strect, beiween CIATk and Ta gagement of Mme, Janauschek., **Mary Bt En- ] N Academy of alnsic. Tinlated street, between Madison and Monroe, Vas ety entertaininent. Afternoon and evening. ¢ Hamlin's Theatre, Clark street, oprosite the Conrt-Tlouse. Tuck." Varicty entertslnmnent, +Xip and Meiropollinn Thentre. Clark strect, opporita Sherman 1onse, Detective.” Afternoun and even **The Doy WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1 Bslop Fouer, the Catholio prelate in chnrge of the Diocese of Chicogo, lies dan- gorously sick at his residence in this city. Troyers for s recovery will be bresthed alike in rich nnd humblo homes whero the pood Bisliop is held in reverent affection. —— e Ench year tho sessionsof the Northweatern Dairymen's Associntion increaso in interest nnd importance in proportion as the dairy futerest increases in mngnitudo and product- ivoncrs. Tho total valno of tho butter nud cheese prodnoed in the United States during? the post year was $150,000,000, or 2060,- 000,000 moro than the valuo of tha entire wheat crop of tho conntry, aud tho gentle- men who are in Chieago just now to talk ubout it are in an industrinl and commeroial ‘wny persons of conaiderable importauce. A sl\ockizq; dl’nfiéio‘r ~m:curmrl - )}uslcrdny at of o deep railway ent resultedin the killing of #ix laborers employed on the work. The cyt was ninety fect doep, and its sides, com- posed of enrth aloue, had been given a slaut of threo feot to ten, but this was not sufi. vient to prevent the soil from sliding with such territio forco ns to pile itseif up twenty feot high on the opposita side of the cut, Tho occutrenco of such o slide while n passenger train was rushing through the cut would have produced a horror by the side of which that of yestorday seems insignificant. fome intercsting information as to tho whereabouts of Strrixa Burt is contained i o letter which wo print this morning from u corrospondent at Wood Mohintain, in the Northwest ‘Lerritory, narrating the visit of Mnj. Wawin to the big Chief's camp, which ix situnted on Frouchman's Creek, on Ameri- enn soil, two miles wouth of the boundary live. Syrriva Bown wns found to be in o nttenpt to effect an allinnce with the Crows, aud mieditating the organization of a war party to take the field ngaiust thom, Alto- guther, the outlook for peace is not encour- nging, and although tho hostile Bioux are no longer on British territory, they are so uenr at hand that the white peoplo theroabouts aro beginning to fecl narvons sbout it Illiuoia, as usual, fares poorly in the annunl distribution of prizes kuown o8 thoe River -und Harbor Appropriation Lill. With all her ninceteen Congrossmen alo is unabla to we- cura more than o paltry $10,000 for prose. culing tho improvement of the Illinols Ttiver, o work in which the farmers of tho groatest gralp-producing aren in tho world aro directly luterented ; whilo n singlo TRopresoutative from o Wiscousin distriot hay beon nble to persuade the Appropriations Committeo to put in an jlem of H100,000 for cxpendituro in Lis distriet nnder the protonsoe of carrying forward tho Fox River huprove- ment, which to complate will cost about £20,000,000, but which it is safo to say will nover bo completed. Out of the millions to bo divided up among dry crecks and geose- pouds, to make strenms navigalle which nover hud any water, aud fmprove havhors never hoard of except when this aunual Lo. nunza is pieced out, the sum set npart for ilo llinols River ia absurdly small. What Lave our Cougressmen beou dotuy nll this timo ? . Ouo after unother tho Europuan nations are inatituting the most rigid precautionnry measures to wanl off the muchedreaded plugue which sppears to ba slowly moving westward from ity Asiatio birtbplace, Al ready cases of the foll diseaso have appoared in the Greeinn Archipelago, and most, if not wll, the ports on tho Mediterranean nre virtunlly closed to tho Bluck Boa trafiic. In a commercial poiut of view slone thie dreaded visitation is already affect- ing the markets of FEurope, and, should it gain o foothold thery, the mensuro of its influonce iu this regard can hardly bo calculated. Al the Goveruments of Europe are ulive to thu necessitics of the occasion, The most alarwming predictions uro made a8 to the possible terrible couse- quences of neglect to guard agninst the in- troduction of the plague, In the Ilalian House of Deputics, yestenlay, a bigh wodi- cul oficer declared that whould the discaso sucecod in passing the Larriors set up by the sauitary authoritics, it would be likely to curry off oue-third of the populution of Europe, 1L is not much wonder that the United Hiates Benato should indulge iu & luugh whenever Gen. Bukssibe's proposition cowus up fur introducing * wmoral aud soclsl scie cuco® ns i part of the commoun school sys- tem of the District of Columbia. When it is explained that this proposition contemplates selual ® instruction in such ebastract sud audividual qualities of the mind as TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: patience, gelf-deninl, purity, self-respeet, conrage, gratitnde, mercy, kindness, ote., it will nt once appear how ridiculously impractieablo it {s. 'fho subject might have been made still moro nmusing if Gen, Bunx- s had explained the manner in whicl oach of thesa virtues were to be imparied, and it wonld have beon infinitely {nstructing nand valuable to mankind in genoral if ho had boen ablo to indicate how theso ndmirable montal and moral attributes could be com- munieated to the young under the practico of reoitations or evon the uso of the ferrule. Tho Sunday-schools, eslablished for tho ex. clusive purpore of instructing youth in the practica of Christianly virtues, havh naver yet nchieved o system whereby any surer means of communicating the gracos of life could be sccured than that of illustrations from the Bible, from history, and from fic. tion dirccted to that end. Tho common, sohool, in addition to its ordinary discipline, can best furnish childron with facllities for studying the honefits of good conduct nnd the evils of bad conduct by providing tho Dbasis for intelligont readings and tho knowl- edgo requisito for going thirough life with decency, 'Tho nngelio qualitios which Gen, Bunysive wonld have instilled in the youth- ful mind aro too intangiblo to admit of other instruction than that of good oxamplo and wholesomo influences. PURITY OF ELECTIONS. The Democrats in Congressionsl enncus have resolved o lond down thd Legislativo Appropriation bill with two political mens- ures that are pretly sure to encounter the party resistanco of the Republlicans, Tho purpose is to compel IRepublican nequiescenca in thesa objcctionnbla mensures, or to do. feat the Approprintion bill of which they are to ba made n part, and in the latter caso to necessitato an extrs session of Congress at: which the Democrats enn organize their iga- jority in each ITouso and pass their measures in spito of Republican opposition. The two measures In qucstion are (1) a bill ropenling the test-oath for' jurors in the United States Courts, and (2)n Lill ropealing tho United States Election law, Thero is not much to the first maasure, and probably the Republieans wonld agreo to arepenl of the test-onth if the propositon were submitied in n proper shape, Indeed, the Domocrats cInim that the requiromont of such wn onth way nctually repenled, and that-ils existence on the statute-bouks is dito to an error in re- vision, ‘This mny be conceded to be the fact, in view of the many crrors already dis- covered in {he Revised Statuter. The form of onth objected to reguires the porson suu- moned s juror toswenr that he lingnever takon part in rebollion ngainst tho United Bintes, nor given nny assistance in monaoy or otherwiso to (hoso who have participated insuch rebell. } jon, and tho District Attorney or other per- son aoting for tho Government may, ot his discretion, requiro tho Couct fo administer this outh in sddition to the usunl qualifiea- tion. 'I'here may still bo some objections to romoving the privilege of demanding such an oath, but thoy are not of snfilcient weight to warrant nn issue which would involve an ex- tra sossion of Congress. It is very different, howover, with the United States Election statntes. The law in question provides for the appoiutment of Supervisora in citics hav- ing upward of 20,000 juhabitauts wpon the application of two citizens, or in any county whero ten citizens maka such application, to sorntinize the election for Congressien and protect it from feaud, The practico of the Conrts is to appoint Ywo Supurvisors for ench voting preciuct, one selecled from each of the two principal partios in conteat, and such person as cach parly may recommend if ho bo reputable nnd fit for the position. ‘Thesa Suporvisors are authorized to attend nt the places of rogistration, clialleuga any person offering to rogister, list the volers, nttend the polls, challonge voters, scrutinize the mnu. ner in which the voting i done, and count tho ballots. ‘I'ie law also provides for spe- cial Deputy Marshals to proteet the Super visors in tho dischargo of their duties, and for the punishiment by fine and imprisonmont of thosa who sliall bo convieted of interfer- ing with the Suporvisors nud Marshals, und preventing them from fuithfully performing thelr duty. d It must bo vomembered that Lhis law, which the Democrats want to have repealed, applies to the clection of members of Cou- gress, who aro iu uo senso Etata officers, and whose clection thy Uunited States Govern- ment might, under the Coustitution, tuko undor its specinl nud exclusivo dirvetion, I'ho reason why the Democrats are ko anx- jous for tho enrly repenl of tho law Is that thoy desire to protect from prosecution aml punlshment certuin people in South Carolina and other Htates who combined to intimidate Uultod States Bupervivors und Murshuls at the Inat clection, drive them Irom tho polls, arrost thom, and otherwisa pruvont them from discharging their duty, Tt was theso combinations ngainet the Rupervisors and ngainst the enfurcomont of tho United States ntatuta which facilitated the voting of tissue Lllots, the studing of bullot-boxes, and the fulsifying of tho count inso many of the Soutboern districts, 'The repesl of the law tow would save from prosceution thoso who woro engaged in this disvoputable business nt last full's election, aud in the futuro re. move every obstacle from tho path of those who are propared to earry elections for Con- grosswen Ly fraud or furce, Thio Demoorats cannot seeura the repenl of this Blection Taw s u direet mensura In tho prevent Congress, since the Tepnblican Sounte wonld rofuse to coneert, In tneking tha proposed repeston ouo of (ke Appro. priution bills, aud thus socking to sceuro by unworthy strategy 8 measnre thut will not stuud ou it own wwrits, they are assuming o respousibility that will como back to plague then before they are through with it, It s 4 woasuro which the Nepublicaus ought to reslst at avy cost, They should refuse to acquiesco inuny Appropriation Lill that shall carry this repenl withit. 1f the consequont dufeat of an appropriation on this account sbull wake it necessary to call an extra session of Congress, the responsi- Lility will rest with tho Democrats, und it will bo for them to justify Lefora tho coun. try thair zeal for tho repoal of o proper and nocessary law, This is an lssue which tho Tepublicans should rathor seek thon avoid, It will place the Republican pasty in the attitudo of tightiug for houest cluctions aud the Democratio party in the attitude of fighting for dishonest elections, and thero con bo no doubt of tho sesult of such an issue when properly presented to tho people, Supposo the Republican party should side with the Democrats in this wmatter, nud coun. sent fo the repeal of the United States Elee. tion law, Supposo the Republicans should tuko this position for the same yeason tho Democrats tuke it. Buppose the Republicans whould suy to the Dewocrats: “‘You wuy go on in the Southern Btates depriving the negroes of their nght to vote and carrying elections by frdud and violence, but wo shull get oven with you; wherever our purty controls the State and loeal machinery wo shall adopt tha eamo tactics; wo shall ex- clule Democerats from the polls, we ahnll vaty our repeaters ns often ny wo like, wo shoil ataff tho ballot-boxes and connt the returns o anit oursclveal™ Whatavould bo tho resnit of this agraement upon vinlenca and fraud a8 the ruling glomonts of Con- grossional eloctions? Tt wouldreventnato in tho destruetion of tho olective system of government, * Adventurers and kuavos wonld then be tho politionl chiefs of the conntry, and tho rula of the majoritywonld cense to be oven o protenso, Our syatem of government conld not endure for nuy longth of timo under such practices. 1In secking to force the repenl of the Con- gressionnl Election law, the Democrats aro starting out as the champions of intimidation and violence, fraud and corruption, illegal voling and tho stufling of ballot-boxos, for the law as it stands is an aqual protection to Loth parties, and enablos both parties to take nn notivo supervision, under thoanapices of tho United States Courts, of the election of Con- grossmen. Those Congressional clcotions form no part of the Stato Governments, nad the Inttor bave no more warrant in secking tho control thercof than tho United Stales Qovernment wonld have in tho effort to su. perintend and direct the election of membors of the Legislature in the various States. It the Democerats will not nssent to approprin. tions for earryiug on the General Govorn- ment except on condition of its surroudering entitely ita jurisdiction in National elections, then lot tho presont Cougross ndjourn withont mnking the approprintions, and let the Demo- crata go beforo the people on this issue, It will be anow Nationnl isane, which s seriously needed to mark the division of parties, and one which the Republicans will be ablo to turn to their ndvantage. It will involve the question of National rs. Btato Sovercignty, and of honost re. dishonest eleotions ; aud ‘the Democrats, bLosides ohamploning the wrong sido in each of theso issues, will be nccountnblo to the people for thoe cost and dnngers of an extra session of Congress ns a means for achieving an unuworthy political object, PELTON'S CONTRADICTIONS AND EVASIONS The Associnted Pross dispatchea covering the sanbject of tho cipher investigntion werg necessnrily very mongre, A careful rending of the verbatim reports published in the Now York T'ribune discloses glariug conflicts of wvidence ns belweon different witnessos, and sharp contradictions in the different brapches of the testimony of individual wit nasses. 'Thus, Col. Pxurox testifios that the now famous complicated ciphier used in tho bribery communieations was * gotten up just befora Wrep left for Bonth Carolina— that dny.” Ifosworo that it was prepared in n room nt the Everott 1louse on tho eve of Weep's departure, In answer o o ques- tion he sald that ** it was cortainly not got- ten up beforo election.” On the contrary, Mr. Werp swore not only that the cipher waa not gotton up on the day of his dopar- ture, but that he had had it a long time, and had used §t in Ohlo ot the timo of tho elee. tion. Being pressod, he admitted that ho obtained it from *Prrronj acting Secrotary of tho Nationul Democratic Committee.” 'I'his is important as showing that Perron deliberately lied in order to mnke it appenr that tho ciplor was n hnsty affair, Io trapped himself very stupidly, too, slnce it in ovident that it would Liave taken n * biger man * than PertoN ot least o weok to in. vent and porfoct tho oipher in question, which was extremely cunning, " "I'hore is a sharp contradicton betweon the testimony of Prrrow nud Cooren. Cooren awenrs that ho suw TeLToN at thoe moment of his departure for Baltimore, that ho gave him s cipher, and atated that he might want to draw for some money. But in anawer to the question, ** Did his expression convey to you that he wantodalargesum ? * ho roplied, ¢ Not definitely at all inany shape.” Onthe contrary, DrrtoN testifies that o said to CoorEn, * Inm going over to Daltimora to meot Mr. WEED to koo what thero 18 in the nntter nnd I may want 560,000 or $80,000," Ho sweans that he explained to Cooper the nature of Wexp's corrupt proposition in gen- crul termw, aud particularly that he might want the large sum of money nameod ; and adds that ho then belicved Cooren would wend the money ** if tho circumstauces wero all right and it conld b arranged " ; that he 4 wos satlsfied " with the roplies of Cooren. o discrepaucies in Prrton's testimouy are wavy nnd great. Tor ivstance, ho swears thut ho prococded to Taltimore with the pur- poso of investigating Weeb's proposition to purchase Elcctors, under on arrangemont with Cooreu lo telegraphe for monoy, pro- vided he should find overything all right. Bt nunder eross.cxamination he swenrs that hio telegraphed for the money before ho mat Ween! Apuin, ho swoors that bo accepted tho propositions of Miuvsre and Weep for tho purchase of the Returning Bonrds of Llorids and Soulh Caroling for tho sum of 130,000, solely on his vien responsibility (1), intending to cnil the Nationwl Democratio Connultteo togather nnd submit thom to that Lody. Bulng questioned nsto the time it wonld tako to accomplish that resnlt, heo ro- plied ono or two duys. And, belug further quostioned, ho admits that, from the time of the acceptance of tho propositions to the time he received notico thut ** tho thing wus up,” he medo no ¢ffort whatever to conveno thy Committes! Ho even swears that o naver hinted the subject to auy member of tho Conmittee, showing, inferentially, in the strongest pesaiblo mmnner,What bis protenso that he expeeted to got the monoy from tho Commmitteo or sny member of it was utterly fulie, o wwears that upon his voturn from Balthnore his unclo expressed strongly his disapprobation of Lis vfforts to Luy tho Roturning Board of South Caroliua, but fails to remember a sioglo word of such disupprobation, avd adwits that be not only rumained an fuimato of his uncle's houso, but contiuued negotintions for the purchase of tho Electors! voto of Florida by precisely the samo corrupt means as thoso employed in the Houth Curolina negotlntions, and slleged to have been severcly roprobated by Mr, T1LDEN, : Mo was cxamined ot longth in regard to his testimouy given belore the MonToN Cowe wittes iu Jonunry, 1877, and it was dis- closed (hat on thut occasion bis evidence, in tho light of later dovelopments, was a tissue of tho grossest prevarications, e sweors that Mr. Tioex anvd the National Dewmo- crutic Copmittee selected tho visiting states- wmen, Mapsre, Wxen, Woorrzy, sud the rest, ond that they woro as worthy of confi- dence ns any membors of the Demo- cratio party. Ho swears, howover, that Lo studiously concealed * from A, TiLpeN aud the mewbors of the Natioual Democratic Committes the propositions of their duly constituted ageuts, MaunLx and Wirp, whenever, iu Lis opinion, such propusitions represented immoral transac- tious. Ho wlhits that ‘Lreues wsked for the news, from timoe to time, but the dqwunyuly, this il fi that which makes aasesnicnls a3 of Jan. 1 instend of Mny 1 in ench yenr. ‘The objection i1 that in January tho farmers have numbers of live stock on haud which they dispose of before the firat of May, and {herefore thoy will hiave to pay taxes which thoy now escape, Whis objection in not as substautinl as it may seem.. Tho State, county, and other revenne is now lovied in grosssuma; ench county pays a round sum of tnxes. If thero be leas live stock in May, {lien tho tax on the land is proportionately increased ; if there bo moro hogs nnd cattle in January, then the rote of tax on land is proportionately radnced. o tho result will bo eubstantially the esme in either cnso. Another fact goos to remove the objoction. The great bulk of the hogs of this State nre marketed beforo tho 1st of January, and the cattle aro not as fat in January nor ns valuable ns they are thres months Inter. 'I'he gront rush of hogs to market {s in No- vember and Decomber, whilo the enttle nro not, a8 a general thing, fattened for market ‘uutil o Inter day, so that practieally the chango of dato for the enumerntion and val. uation of porsonnl proporty nf farms will mako but a trifling difference, he sceming disadvantages belng offset by componsating advantagoes, , The whola State and ovory taxpayer on o farm {8 dircctly intorested in tho collection of revenuo in the cities, . A Iargo part of the Btate revenno is nascased on propetty in tho citics, and a vory largo proportion of it is now lost, or not colleoted, and tho dofieit has to bomnde up from such conntics ns do poy their taxes, Tho wholo SHtate is directly intorested in having the cities rostored to such a flunucial condi. tion that they can pay their taxes, ond at & great rednction of the present cost, ‘The burden of carrying n number of cities lianging on the verge of bankruptey falls upon tho whole Stale. The bad erodit of cities reflects upon countios and towns nnd upon overy Individual in the State. This Vill praposcs no changos save such as will re- liove tho cities from tho impossible roquire- monts o([tho existing Jaw, and snch as will reduco tho presont excessive cost of collect- ing the revenno, and it is to be hoped tha Leglslature will generously, liborally, and promptly afford tho reliet asked. penniless nephow eava s ainelo only wich reraps a1 hie thought digestiblo by his (T1uorN's) high moral natura ! Of course such stntements are palpably false on their facn, Bt one of Mannrr's telegrams con- tnins atrong internal evidencn of their utter falsity, In the dispatchk of Nov, 27 to Nephow Perrox, in which Manars complaing of the charnctor of somae of his asrocinte ngonts, ho ways: ‘T decline to commil 'T1LneN with men s indiscreet.” It is quite clear that Manntr understood that lo was acting not for I'srroy, but for TiLpEN. A porusal of the cerlatim report of the cross.cxmnination of the nephow of his unclo will convinee any unprefudiced person that his testimony was o mass of bungliog fabrications, THE LEGISLATURE AND THE CITIES OF THE STATE. Members of {ho Legislature cannot too serlously consider the importauce of having somo logislation nt this session in regard to tho arsessment aud collection of rovonue in tho large citios, not only for city but for Stato and all other purposes, A largs pro. portion of the taxabla property of tho State ia located in tho incorpornted citics, and in transforring the assessment aud collection of city taxes to the State machinery thore wna butlittlo regard to nadapting the machinory to tho wants of such ocitien, The rosult has boen most disnatrous coufusion, which has in severnl instances noarly wrecked tho City Governments, and Lrought them to the pres- ont nnomalous condition of the City of Mem- phis, Prior to the gonoral law tho cities made their appropriations in the spring, by which tinio tho nssessments were mndo; tho tax lovy followed, and the snlo for delinquont taxos resulted in tho payment into the City Treasuries in March of each yonr tho cntiro Inx lovy for the fiscal year ending March 81, Enach yonr's business wos wound up within the yeur, and there was nothing due by the city or to the city nttho end of the fiscal yeor. In timo nll this was changed. A chango of Conatitution waa followed in this city by the fire, and tho destruction of the taxable proporty made the subsequent change of rovenuo syatem even more embarrassing and confusiug lere than it was in the other citiog, T'ho result is now that the rovenuo for the yonr 1870 is limited to the sum of tho appro- priations for 1870 ; but the revenue for 187) in not collectablo Ly tho salo of delinquent property until September, 1880, nine months nfter tho explration of tho yenr ; and, though the clty is not autherized to borrow any money, nor issue any evidonce of debt, it st still enrry on the Government and pay its futorest and its expouditures, What we have snid of the financial cmbarrassment cnnsed by tho Revonuo law to Chicago ap- plies equully to all other cities of the Bln? THE ENGLISH DEFEAT IN AFRICA, Tho English schomo of nggrandizemont in tho rich nud extonsiva region of South Afrien has come to n tomporary binlt,—the Zulus, the most warlike of all the tribos, hnvieg overwhelmed one column of the invading forco in irrotriovable ruin. The defent was equivalent to mtter annibilation, Apprehonsious of danger to tho forces under Tord Cuerysronp have beon froguently ex- pressed of Inte in the Euglish papers, and tho territlo result shows their foars were juatifinbloe. Tho Znlus havo never boen conqguered by tho English, Thelr territory extends for 200 miles along the English frontier, They are tho brhvest, mdst warlike, bost armed, and bast dritled of all the African tribes. Their King, CrTEwaYo, itis said, can put in tho fleld botween 40,000 and 60,000 wnrriors, armed In part with breech-londing guos, organized into regiments, and accustomed to excente concertod movements, The English liava hitherto fought the African tribes ono Ly ono and overcomo thew, and gradually annoxed their terrtory, until at last they had pushed their boundaries up to the frontiors of the Zulus, Tha approach of tho English was the signal for an uprslog” of 'tho Znlus, and it boeamo so genoral nud formidable that Lord CnrLmsronp was compolled to abandon his oporations against SgcoceNr, n powerful warrior in tho southorn part of tho Trans. vaal, and concentrato his forcos to moat tho attack of OzTewayo, It nppears that his ox- pedition had reached tho ‘Lugela River, somo distanco north from Natal, 1Iis headquar ters woro made at Insandusann, Leaviuga portion of the Twonty-fourth Regiment of white troops, a battery of artillory, Aud 600 blnck muxiliories to gmard the camp, Lord Cuerasvonp sob out with tho remainder of tho expedition upon a roconnoiseance. In. stead of finding tho Znlus, the Zulus, making a flank movement, swooped down upon the camp at headquarters in large forco, said to bo 20,000 strong, and, after a desperato bat- tle, fuirly nnnibilated the Dritish force, who stood . their ground desporatoly, Lord Cnrrysronp was compelled to beat a hasty rotroat bnck into the Natal Colony with tho remnants of his command, lonviog him too wonk to mako another forward movomont until ho recelves the ro- inforcoments for which the GCavernor of the Oolony, Bir Bantie Fuene, bas sent, Thot the battle was a desperate oune isshown by the sovero fatality among the Zulus, roported at 5,000 killed aud wounded before the English troops were il destroyed, Nothivg in our hulf-century’n warfaro with the Indians has boen so de- structivo as this sudden blow of tho Zulus, 'ho QusTer wmassacre appalled us, but tho loss of lifo was smaller and ko Indians gniuod no matorisl advantage by it, The Zulusulaughtered notonly 30ofllcersand about 500 nou-commissioned officors and ruuk sod ilo of the Imperial troops, and 70 mnon- commissioned officers and rank and file of tha Colonial troops, but slso captured 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two caouon, 400 shot and shell, 1,000 rifles, 250,000 rouuds of ammaunition, and 00,000 pounds of provis- fons. It was a complote and ernshiug de- foat, and ono of tho most terrible the Englislh hinve ever sustained from hostile tribos since their overwhelming disastor in Afghanistan forty years 6go. Ultimately, of course, tho English will rout the Zulus, Lut the presont defeat may not be the end of disaster, CrTEwWaYo, tho King of tho Zulus, is not ouly u bold war- rior, but o mau of great exceutivo abilily, In all the former csmpaigns the Eoglish have only Lind 1o contend with the Africaus, tribo by tribe, and ns they have overcomo them have nunexed thelr tevrltory, Cetee waxo, huwever, has not only mustered Lis own subfects, Lut has sent his messengors awong all the nutive tribes with the view of inducing them to join biig in o general reslatance to tho Euglish advance, Szcock- 51, tho rulor of the mggt powerful of theso tribes, joined him some time sinco with 10,000 warziors, und Lo has thus fur sucoess- fully defied the English, owivg to the nature of the position to which he rotreats whon bard pressed,—a steop wmouutain side which 14 iunccossiblo to any ordinary force without loss of life, Nothing so iufluencos thuse ignorant and eupenstitions tribes as victory, 'Thae tribes in India are only held in wubjaction by their belicf fu English fuvinci- bility, Hal the recoent expedition ioto Afghanistan met with such a defent ss that which bay overtaken Lord CurLMsvomv's forous, all Northwestern India would have been in rovolt bebind thom. It is nod impos- sible, therefore, that CxTEwayo's important victory will have the effect to stir othur dis- ulfected tribes, formerly held buck by fear and tho Legislaturo is asked not to change any system or polioy of the prosout Iaw, but to mnke the tranufer of tho cily raveuuo wmachinery to that of the Siate more har- monions and uniform, and to placo the citles and counties on the snma footing. The bill now pendiug before the Lepisla- turo, propared by tho Convention of ropre- sontatives of tho various City Governments, is 80 unobjectionablo nud yet so necessary to the oxistouca of City Govornments that nothing less than a factious purpose to em- Larrass tho City Governments can seriously oppose it. Thobill provides that the nssess- mont of property for taxnug\ shall take ef- foct ns of Jau. 1 instead of now ns of May 1 in ench year; it roduces tho numbpr of times which' tho tox-list hos to be copied, dispensiug with no less than six Hats, equal to thirty or forty Inrge manuscript volumos in this county nlone; and dispenses with the ponderous and costly ndvertised lst, which costs in this county 860,000 a yenr, and pro- portionately in all other connties. Tho as- sesament 13 to be completed ot tho end of March, and the Looks to be in tho hands of Uollectors on the 1st of Angust, rolurned to tho County Collector on Hept. 10, and judg- ment on tho delinquent list bo eblalned in October, ‘I'axos not paid after Angust will Lenr intorost, and after judgment 5 per cent will be'added as o ponalty. At present the only poualty for non.payment of taxes is the 10 per cent intorest, Horenfter thero will be 5 por cont ndded to tho snm of tho tax, and tho wholo will boar intorest. ‘T'ho end sought and accomplished by this Dill 13 to permit tho collection of city taxes within tho flscal year for which they aro lovied. It furnishes reliof to tho City Gov- ernments from the extraordinary nnd jm- possible requiroment to poy their current expenditures, including their aunual interest, ns rapidly ns thoy accrue, and without in- curring dobt, and yot cuts them off from the collgetion of the revenuo for that purposo until nine months after the year has expired. ‘I'his bill simply corrects this impossiblo re- quiremont of the existing law. It relloves City Govornments from baing obliged to pay their enrrent exponses out of revenue from taxes whon thoso expensos aro required to be incurred clght months before the taxes aro lovied, and twonty.one wonths beforo the law permita tho revenuo to bo colleoted. Motnbors of tho Legisiature can hardiy af- ford to ignore the present coudition of City Governments, The Constitution as it is in- terproted by tho Suprom@®Court prohibits tha ity from ineurring any indebteduess ; it prohibits the City (iovernment from bor. rowlug any mouey ; it prohibits it from pur. chnsing lumber and nails and employing a workiman to repair s bridge, unless the oity shall first have mado an sppropriation of money for that puryose, und huve the wonoy on haud to pay the cost, At the same timq tho city is prohibited from levyiug a tax or collecting tho revenuo with which to pay the cost of tho work, TFrom January to January, tho city is prohibited by the present law from collecting tho taxes necesuary to pay its cxpenditures witbin that time, At the same timo it is proibited from incurring a debt or borrowing moyey. It is not permitted to fusuo dua bills, A caso is now pending be- foro tho Suprame Court In which o judgent will bo rendered in June, and in every proba. bility thoe Court will deculo that tho city cannot pay Interest out of the rovenus the collvetion of which tho law prohibits, Citics aro then driven to puy their curront expouses by orders on tho ‘I'rensury payable out of revouus to be co’- lected in the indefivite future, tho orders Learing no interest, and issucd without re- course against the city, 'To attompt to carry on City Gavernments in this way is jmpossi. ble. Private vuterpniso has bLithorto -ad- vaueed the money to carry tho cities, expect- ing and Loping that the Loglslaturo would iuterpose just sach on awendwont of the law o3 isnow asked. Unless tho Logislaturo furnish this relisf afforded by this Lill, allow- ing the cities to colicet the roveuue within tho year ju which they aro required to ex- pond it, then tho Suprewe Court decision June prokibiting the paymeut of intorcst oa Troasury orders will practically close up every City Goverument in the Stato, Lo ouly objuction that bas Locu urged to ‘vVEDNESbAY— FEBRUARY (2, 1879-TWELVI: PAGES, of tho English army, to join . Their op- ponttion, however, will bo shortdived, 'The English Quvernment will pour in reinforce. ments auflictont to overtun the wholo region and annex it, and, ns snch n result will bo in the interest of madarn progress and eivill. 2ation, the rest of the world will Lo con- tont, and will hardly Legendge the rich com- ponsation that England will have for -her trouble avd oxponse in the dovelopment of tho immonso eommoreinl rosonrcos of that region, The Loundon - Times foreshndows the roversos which may occur In the fol- lowing comment: ‘' It would bo usoloss to deny ocither tho sadnosw or the extreme gravily of the catastrophe, Whother there was or waa not any want of vigilance on the part of our foree, it is clear that the Zolus are even mora formidable than our military anthoritica oxpoctod thom to be, It was koown that they ara woll drilled; that great numbers are armod with breech.-loaders, and that they ocould fight courageously, Wa now know but tgo well how large a forco thoy can mass at ono point. 8ad as tho loss of our troops is, siill graver is tho peril which must arise with defeat. Tha Zalus will bo embittered nnd tho colonista exposed to fresh and formidable dangers,” ‘Tho gontlemen of the South Division who et on Monday eveniug to discuss the prop- osition to givo Michigan avenuo over to tho jurisdiotion of the Park Coinmissioners ovincod o unanimous approval of the scheme, nd appointed a comtmitteo to look after the succoss of the bill which bas bLeen intro- duced into the Legislntura’ to coufer the nocessary nauthority. 'This Committee, con- sisting of Messrs. Bavcox, Corwirs, nod Axzg, will havo sn opportunity for prompt notion, s {t is reported that the bill will coma up in the Benate fo-dny. With a proper representation of tho real pnrpose in view, thoro éught to Le no opposition what- aver to the passage of this measure, It will affect no other eity or community in the Stato but Chicago, and imposes nothing uppn Chicago which its citizens, through the Common Council, may not refect if they sec fit. The bill is simply designed to provide approaches to tho parks and mhintain them in o decont condition. Bo far ns it will affect local taxation, it will rather decronso than enlargo it, for the atreet sclected ns an npproach to tho park, after being once paved, will bo proserved by the exclusion of Loavy tenming and by n systom of constant ropairs in vogno with tho Par Commissioners but not with ounr city authorities, It s only through some such monsuro as this that the residonts of Chicago and those who visit tha city onn hiave any comfort or enjoyment ont of pprks which Lavo alrendy cost so many millfons of dollats. Tha proposition s aimply that the city shall surronder polico supervision of some oua streot leading to such park into the hands of the Park Commis- sionars, sud this is dosired by all tho partios in intorest. Wo fail to soe any renson, therefore, whyJlie measuro should bo op- posed or retm by anybody in the Logis- Intare. It allowed ‘to pass immediately, it will be possible to improve Michigan avenuo aud mako it availablo oe & park drivoway for next summer's use. Tavenroon, Feb, 11, ho order of the Privy Council revoking, atier March 3, Art. 13 of thu forcign-animala order, #o far as it rolates to the Uniiod Stotes, wasa great surpriac, All cattlo from the United Btates, after Mareh 3, will haveto be slanghiered in the abattolra now preparing on the dock at lirkenhead and Liverpool within ten doya after landing. —’rees Dlspatch. The nbove-mentioned regulation thriatons a disturbaneo of tho trado in live stock bo- tweon this country ond Great Dritain, Tho whole proceeding ovidently is instigated by tho protoction domands of tho Britlsh and Irish cattlo-ralsern. American boef is entor- ing largely into Dritish consumption, and has so roduced tho prico of boef that it s becoming possible for thousands of consumers who could mot afford it ot tho domestio pricos. The prolubition of Amoerican cattlo on the plen that thoy wero afllicted with the rinderpest was too 'trans. pavent a pretext, nod had to be abandoned. Now this order requiring that cattle from tho United States (not Canndn) shall be alangbtered within ton dsys is an cqually insidions movement to protect tha British beof. It requires some Limo to restore cattlo from the effects of the scn voynge, and the beef of cattlo killod on thelr arrival must bo inforior to tho native beef. Novertholesy the effect will be to foroa boef in n less per- feot condition on tho public, Thoe manu- facturo of ice i3 not yet a Dritish industry, but wp expeot that tho arbitrary roquiremont to slaughter oll ‘American catilo will lend to tho carly, introduction of ice manufacture, and to tho ostablishmeht of re- ingerator cars in which tho beef can bo transported to tho interlor towns., If this order to slaughter all Amorican cattlo at Liverpool bo coufined to cattla from the United States nnd does not apply to Caunds, thon it fs possible our Caundian uelghlors will find a profitablo trado iu cattle from this country to Livorpool whero they will not have to bo #o summarily slaughtorad, It is not probable, howover, that this nrbl- trary regulation to increase the price of food will bo maintained aftor its practical offucts will Lo underitood and falt. e———— Prrenr ALvi AYLOR, M. P, for Leleester, has Jaunched ‘a ‘Nincteenth Century Club ot Brighton, Itls a radical fnstitution, tutended specially to promote the futerests ot the work- tng peovle, 1t will bo open on Sunday, ‘The fnaugural meeting was largely attended, und Mr. ‘Tavron fu his specch touk o stroug stand agalust Babbatariantsm, decluring that it was +* the most baseless ol all superstitions,—nelther Jewlsh, Christian, nor rational.” One person present asked whether the restaurant and Nora- sywould bo oven on Sunday, und cards and bagatulle bo permitted on that day as ou every other. % Nodoubt,” sald Mr, ‘Tavior, This reply produced a sensation, aud {t s said an im- mense prossure bas sluce been brought to pear on Mr. TavLOK to fuduce blm to modify bls rule; but be refuses ta do so. He says that the wealthy men of London play cards and billiards unrestrictedly und openly in their clubs on Sunday, und ho doesu’t sce why the poor men of Brlzhtou should not lave the same privileges. ‘Thia logic fs perhaps faultyi but the revelation with regurd to the habits of the wealthy men fo Loudun whil be futerestiog here, whers public oplulon will not permit card-play- lug or billlards at clubs or other pluces of ro- spectable resort on Bundsy, ———— Chevsc-paring ecovomy bas sbout ruu to the end of its rope fu Mainy, whers the Lugisiatury has voted oue Judre off, the Supreme Bouncl, und reduced the salaries of the others from $3,000 to 82,000 per souum. ' Ous member wanted to muke the salarics §1,500 per unouwn each. Itls not surprislug thut the Greenback muvement should have swept this Stuto, or that hostility to dccent, able, und learncd Judges should bo the first result of it. : e ——— TPeople who are up to reforms and that sort of thing are calied * viewy ** in England now, und to be **viewv " {3 tu be *vulgub” Wholst Is oup of the amuscwcuts thut i3 ot rezarded wy sylewy," wind cousequently stawld the test of thne better thun any other, ‘Fle Rev. Mr, Muunay, who weites up thls whole subject tu an entertalning way In the lneg p Oo'den Ru'e, eays he knows of 3 af Tingland clts, nnd that. ot Hostey o €7 here are tiventy whist clabs, « o gh - T demic i ofhier Incalitics na well, "y g S rubber stretehies frotn Partlang to ()I;II :v i even beyond, T has such uuuu-cluum-i1 e n kind of semtliterary nir, agft worr 0TV boon inade lasslein English novole s e 120 the nobility, nnd all that sory o edby that it Is quite n * gaod form * ¢, l)cln""nz'_ whist club.” Mr, MURIAT confesses :1': e he knowawhat ho is writing anouy, e come o like the game—swhen t ety 28 scrlouely. There 1s this to te satd nbmlim‘ hed over and above Mr. MURKAY'S pleasan fm“' about the serious vartner, it is not o g man's gaine, nor a gamo of brute Tuky nl,mm e other hand, Is 1 sopurcly eclentie oy ) ol licads can win fnft. The nize adjusty r Tuck aml suiil n 1t 18 the secrct of the e:lnlmm favor which ft enjoys. The skiliul ,.1,‘ il this game, as In all others worthy of the i." 2 knows that In the lung run he must win nu‘ i) than an unskiliful onoonent, while the h:H" go-lucky player who takes a hand st f“. ‘g0 fecls that hé may win In spite of |l|w : science and skill in the world, 1f he hag en e trumps. Ifit{s true, ns Mr. Murpay -:n:(“hl A wwhist fs rapldly gatning In favor, we are giag 7 hear [t. ‘1t {an elean, innocent, etimulating, b intcllcetunl game. il Phiyeiclans ;uklhnt avery kij -im!' ¥ Kind o chitis, diphtberia, sora throat, and F:E;:h:zmm cumplaints are renarkably prevalent naw, 5:" sible peoplo ought to reflect that nine-tenths o these troubles orlse from preventablo m"a! Wet feot are probably the first cause of ;:j many of them, 'There {8 no excuse for nn’vg who catches cold fromn wet feet, Overshooy q" chieap, and In this clfmate they ouziit to bo mor, all the timo between the 1st or No\umhuu:l the 1st of May, It is nover safo to by with. out them, except In summer. llzsnxwm; Brzcurn aseribes bis robust health wainly ¢ the wearing of overshues; and all other mey, wiio know how o _take care of themsclves ey, tfy bo tho,eatne effect. Avother canse of throyy and lung diseases fs Insufficient clothyyy, Girls and womea Who o “low-necked n:.i ehort-sleeved ' to partles take off e flannels to do g0, uml when consumption declares Itscll wonder how they got g A stlll more general cause s overheatiny and bad ventilation indoois. The lun~; parched und poisoned in the house, aro jo | condition to breathe culd or muist ale out of daors, Carbonle-acid gas puts them in o siate of {ucipieut tuflammation bofors they meeu the fresh ale at ol Attention to these simple dictates of common-senss would prevent, we helleve, o larze proportion of the dangerogy coughs and colds in this communlty whidido not eome from constitutional weakness or predisposition and (n the latter class of casey the need of careful watching ts greater. e aa— == amber of gy, Qov. VAxcE, the now Senator from Nutth Caroling, clected to succeed Mrrutvoy, his Deen widely spoken of a8 an ultra Bourbon, e was defeated on this basls six years azo hya unfon ot the Republicans fn the Leglelature with bolters from the Dewmocratie caucus, At tho lust electlon the Republicaus refused to enter into a slinilar combination, thinkluz that the devil himself, binck as he has been pafnted, couldn’t be a worse Bourbun thau Mzrmivo, Now a correspondent of the Cincianail Commercial, nlso nomed VANCE—~and we sus- pect a relative of the Secuutor,—~declares (lut the latter s not a Bourbow, and, to proveit, forwards & letter wrltten Uy tho Senator o Bceptembier, 1884, he then being the Confederate QGovernor of North Carolina. Iu this letier Vaxce referred to the utter demoralizatiof the army in Ucorgiaj spoks of Jerr Daviy “deflance of publle opinfon® aud “utter fguor. ance of men'; predicted that the Warwould soon be over, und the South *not be offered any terins st all "; showed the upathy of the people In the rear of BHBRMAN to Lo an indic- tlon that the great popular heart of the South waos not and never had been in the War; de clared that it was *‘n revolution of the s cians, not the' people? ; and sald, for bls own part, “Ihad no hand init)* This will do, we think, for o proof of thorough reconstrution. VANQE is evidently not a Brigadler. ——————— Bcunator LAMAR says Lo cannot savo aoy of lils salary beeauso ho {s consclentiously opposed to the usc of railroad, telegraph, and express passes, and spends 8300 a year out of his privite pursa for nowspapers. ‘Thercfora he thisks overy Senator should have a private sceretary, This logle i8 not good. The enator shontd retrench by cutting off somo of his newspapers. e docsn't really nced any cxcept Tis Cuicico TRINUNE, which 1s only &12 per annum, postaze prepaid. This would leave him €288 to pay bis fare with, 3t he didu’t rend 80 many neks- papers ho would have more thne to'teud to busluess in, ————— The Cloulnnatl Ewqulrer, speaking of Ti DEN'S excuipatory talk with the Cipher Commit tee, calls his collaquy * A clear, calw, conslst: ent, complaisant, conscientious conversation carrylng conviction of its credibllity in every line.® Not to overybody, For example, bls neptiow PELTON, and Mosra MAN1ON MaunLe! C. W. Woortry, and Bsru Wezp will i quirc additional evldence to make them bellere it. ‘Tho coparceners aro not z0 casily conrlmt:l thiat the “old man’ {s as wnnoceut as MARTS littls lamb as I3 the slmple-ininded Enguine man, S i—— Tho draft of necro laborers to Texes has fue polled the Legislatures ot Alobawn und Georsis to fmposen llcensu tax of §100 upon every period sollciting pouple to omtzrato from thore States. They nover miss the negro till he has gone away. Then they begin ta reallze bis useful- nees. It they would limposu & fine of §10 o0 every ablebodicd whity found -foatng both frittering away his time and decliuing toworks they would not bo so dependent on the 1abor ul the blacks, nud thetr States woald prosyet b finitely more then they are dolng. Fugland s had a Cuatsn massacre, and Led CugLstsronb will have to bear the blame of It A recounoftering expedition thut left s foree io canp unablo to kegp off the enemy ¥4 ': amazivg blunder, The dissster to uwi:u«'lh‘ Griny, moreover, was fur greater than which our troops met ut the Little Bz ll-fl Alist of forty-ning ufficers aud K00 nea kil =.n fs appalling, We lost with Custas only dee! offleors und 245 men, S g—— DiLy BPRINGER was working away i :hfd: THLDEN and his coparcencra fn the elpber Ut uuss 1o New York, whou Congressmai Reep, "_ Malne, ot I oue un llw. SruiNoss balt terfered In the examluation with his ruu::.xxit'l_ fusulence, when My, Regp drawled outs ‘“ ways know that when Brotber Brmsozik lwm:‘ his mind on s question 1t will overisp i eteld time," e JxerERson DAvis has published 8 lonZ l,fl(l: to say that he still favors u Southert ll‘ & Rallroad, but Scoator Matrngws bith ':' G now stands, Is a delusion und @ suare 3050 the interests of tho Bouth sre concertidy r Ia solely calculated tobe a fecder for 8 P i Northern monopoly—Tox BCorrs Po vanfa Ceutral Road, et —— it The Portland (Me,) J'ress accuses 3 mm mewber of the Molue Logislature of l;u‘m seventeen speeches (o one day, an ‘0 voull Jutmping up und saylug that if memm.‘l':‘ b oty stop talklng thry could exvedito e and reach o fual adjournment within 8 v ble tiwe. —————— The Rouesow Investigation skows U':‘_' -1‘::':_ Roack bas made & fortung ous of the . f;ng nent by questionable weans. The '“,‘,‘w 20 o uew subsidy to him, wbile the anl s 1s under fuvestigation, would bo & scanda! yud disgrace. rution bewalls 4 The Atlanta (o) Cunstitution be o idlences fu the Bouth, both of ‘m;nomfl negrovd, und praye for sowe relul:nler o it lift the drunes to the level of asif rr!p‘:’.' " fo will look around with a scrutluiziod [#