Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 14, 1879, Page 4

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ExNgy ¥, Gituia, Agent, AN FRANCIECO, Cal.~Palaca Tiotel, No. 1319 F streot AMUSEMENTS. WoVicker's Thentre. . Maditon street, petween Dearborn snd State, En- gagement of ies Ads Cavendish. **The Naw Magdae len." . Taverly’s Thentres Dearborn street, corner of Monroa. Enl‘mflmez\l of Gates' Comlc Opera Company, **Glrofie Girulla. Haoley’s Thentres © andolph szeet, between Clark and Lasslle. Ene gagementof Mme. Janauschek. **Deborab." Academy of Musle. Talsted strect. between Madison and Monroe. Va- riety entertainment, Tamlin's Thentre. Clark street, opposite the Court-liouse. Tuck." Varloty entertainment, *Rip and Netropollian Thentre. Clark atreet, opporite Sherman Kouee. **Tho Boy Detective.” SOCIETY MEETINGS. N’ ODGE. No, 83, A. F, and A, M.—Hall, oAt O cprnicniton. 1111 (Friday) ovening o'cloek. Viliura and members cordiale 1y tnvited. By order ot the Master. [UCKEL, Secretary, WAUDANBIA LODGE, XO. 160, A, F. & A. 3, Megulng Communication this (Friday) evéning st “Ma- sunto Hiafl, Ko, %6 Monrgit., fur vorlncss sad work. Visllng beethren cordinlly 0FHON 11, gecrointy. o ———————————— ] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1870, Zaonantan Omanpren i to.be tha suceossor ‘of Judge Cnnstaxce as United States Sona. tor from Michigan, his term cxpiring March 49,1881, Ho was lnst evening nominated by the Ropublican caucus of the Michigan ‘Legislature, and of courso will bo cleated. Several disnstrous fires ave'roported in the dispatches this morning,—among them the destruction of sixty horses nt the New York Tattersalls’, a brewery at London, Ont., one of tho largest in the world, and $125,000 worth of property at Paterson, N. J. Tho announcement now comes from Wash- ington that Judgo Baxas is shortly to vacate tho oflice of United States Dislrict-Attornoy. 1t ia snid his rotiroment hes beon for soma timo pnst dutermined npon, but it was prob. ably pot until the Judge cnt such a sorry figure 0s o witness in the Broparrr investi. gation that the necessity for a man with n memory becamo apparent, ‘Tho Prosident wns 0 pleased at his vie. tory over Senator Coxkrina that he wrole Gen, Merrrrr o lotter warnily congratulating him upon his confirmation by the Senate ns Collector of the Port of Now York, But {be thing of chicf intercst in (he matter is the excellent civil-servico doctrino laid down in the lettor, Ilo wants the New York Custom-Iouso conducted purely on business -principles, and no man dismissed beeanse Jhe is o friend of Gew, AnT.ur, aud no man employed bacause ho is o friend of the Administratios The Democrats of the ITouse have just concluded to undertake another partisan ont- ruge in tho nnaoating of Mr, Buner, the Ro- publican member from the Becond Floridn District, who was a8 fairly clacted na any man of the mejority, nnd whose ense has 5o wany strong worite that the minorily roport is in great dangerof being tho ono adoplei, Thera havebeen so many soats stolen by foree of numbors and witlont regard to fairness and justico that ivis time a fow respectuble Democrats with cousclences, if there are any such, put a stop to the disreputable business, —e A report is given in the cablo nows this morniug that'is caleulated to . startle the world moro violontly than did tho news of the mnssacro of the English column in Bouth Africa by tho flerco Zulus, 1t is to the cffect that the nalive levies serviog with the Dritish regulars have rlsen en masse nnd murdered their officors, and that even the surviving nutives in the fight of Jan, 21 have massacred their oftlcers. The newa Incks conflrmntion, Lut its probn. bility in consequonee of the effect produced by the recont disaster is distressingly ap- parent, To countoract the diguifled aud oconsorv- ative position taken by Souator Bayann and a fow moderate Demacrats respecting tho ro. peal of the Fedoral Election laws, the Washington Jost, organ of the wultrn Rourbon eclement in Congress, mokes a sircng appeal for snpport of this mensure on the ground of its vital fm- portance to tho interests of the Democratio party in Congross. Tha Post clamors for a re- peal of the law lest its continued foros shoutd result in the conviction of several Democrutic members-eloct of the Forty.sixth House for thoe crime of tampering with tha Lallot- box or fraudulently doctoring election ru- turns, It is on such a plea us this that the Demoorats rro urged to unite iu removiug the only guurautee of o froe hnd a pure ballot that exists in soverul Btates, The House bill prohibiting the arrival in the United Btates of more than fifteen Chiness fu auy ono shiploud came up for actionin the Senato yesterdny, snd after vigorons spesches in its support by Benators Hooru, Basoext, and Grovew, of the L. ¢iflo const, sud Benntor Monaan, of Alabama, it was expected that the bill would pass by a declsive mmjority; but Scuator Marruews took the floor agaiust ftina speech so full of strong argument ngalost tho accomplishment of Chinese ex. clusion in thls muuner thut & motion to ud- journ was carrled, It was wated by Mr HazogyT, who i evidently informed on the subject, thet the Presldent Lns ondeavored to securs an. sbrogution of the Luxu. | connoils, LiNGAME Ireaty ‘by friendly negotintion through the Chineso Embassy at Washing- ton, but that tho latter refuso to recedo from the troaty. Such o stato of facts, if nncortained to be trno, will naturally operate in favor of tho pending bill, which might ba defoated if tho result sought were in a fair way to ba renched by way of international agraement. An interesting and it would scom trust. worthy and retiable presentmont regarding the cost of maintaiuing sleeping-car lines is reprinted from the Railioay Aqge in onr col- umns this morning. ~ Boveral strong points are made ngatnst tho passage by tho Iilinols Legislature of tho bill mnking it unlawful to charga more than from one-fourth to ono- half the existing rates for slooping-car nccommodations,—among thom the proposi- tion that if ratos nre reduced by law tho accommodations furnished will be reduced in proportion, nn effect of tho law which would soon create a demnnd for its roponl. — DEMOORATIC PERPLEXITIES, Sball thero be an extra session of Con- gress? Tho Democrats in Congrosa are in n quandary, and they aro demoralized in thelr ‘The Bouth, which is ns arrogant and dictatorinl ns it was bofora the War, s vehement in 3ts domands, Thoro has been a Demoernlio majority in the House during four years, but boyoud the patronsgo of that bedy the ndvantnge has been limited and restrained by the Republican Seunte, Dur- tho last two years the Senatorial elections havo so resultod that after the 4th of March the Sounte will have a Democratio majority. The large majority of the Demoorats in the Houso hns, however, undoergone o sovera reduction, and aftor tho 4th of March it will be comparatively smoll. If nn extra session of Congress con be called to meot in Maroh, thou the Democrats will havo control of both the Seunte and the Houso, nnd will bave at thoir disposal the ontiro patronage of tho Sonate, which is equal to threo employed officers to each of tho soventy-six Senators, The hungry mob of Bouthiern tramps and Northern beggars aro demnnding an extrosession, that thero bo an organization of the Doemocratic Sounale and tho distribution of theso 350 fat and idle Senato places, These people aro Lounding on thoir representntives to compel an extra session, To compel an extra sossion it is necessary to defent the appropriation bills. To defont theso tho Democratic Houwels urged toload down the appropriation bills with objectionnble legislation, iucluding, nmong other things, the ropoal of the Iaw governing the cloctions of membera of Congress and the law applying test-onths to jurors, ‘Che Senate is expected to refuse concurrenco in these propositions, and especinlly asriders on appropriation bills, Thero is no partion. lar objection to the repeal of tho luw con- cerning tho test-oath of jurors, and Repub- licans will prss that when prosented in o proper shape. But the Election law must stand {f thero ba any hope of maintaining an honest claction herenfter, Thia lnw theSen- ato will not consent to repeal. It the Iouso refuso to pass an appropriation bill unless it contains n repeal of the Election law, then let the nppropriation fail, I'he Democrats aro fearful that unless they can orgnnize their Ionso of Represontatives before December next thoy will have their small majority frittered awny by dissensions nndrovolts. The position taken by Gon. Braca may lead to an frroparable breach in the party, and dofeat tho eclection of n Southern Spenker. They wish nn extra sos. sion at the enrliest possible moment in order to sccure o Southern Spenker before the . party loses ita coliesion, Thus the loss of plunder and tho necessities of party urge them to compol an extra seasion, In this they are destined to a failure. The Sennte will not ropenl the Election. law nor would the President approve it. If tho oxtra session was held and both Houses were to pnss o bill ropesling the Election law, the President would voto it aud defeat it, If the Democrats North aud South want that Inw repenled, they must mnke it o test befora tho people at the Prosidential election, aud on that test no Democernt conld carry a Northern State, unless possibly Indiana, But the dofent of the appropriation bills will not forco tho President to conveno Con- gress. - All the appropriationa up to June 30 were made lnst yoar, and thero will bo no necessity for additional appropriations beforo Qctober or November next, So, whatover comes of the struggloe, thore will bo no extra session of Congress until next fall, and the hungry office-seekers wanting places in the Sennte will have to wait until then ; aud the Election Inw will stand until its ropeal is do- manded by the people at a Presidential clection, SOUTHERN POLITICAL METHODS, Whatever light the evidenoce before the Porren Commitles mny throw upon the out- rages and frauds practicad in suveral of the Southern Btates during the campaign and at the election last full, tho testimony tukon thuy far mokes it cortain that the frrecouoili- ablo scctionalism of tho native Southern whites will bo brought out with startling dis. tinctness, Two of the witnesses examined on Wednesday wero native Southerners and residents of Misslssippl. Oue, Gen, Reusuy .. Davis, wus a Greenback cnndidate for Congress last fall agoinat Col, Murprow, in tho Jirst District. Gon. Davis had beon a lite-loug Democrat, fonght in the Counfed. erate army, and had svinoad all the attributes of a Fire-Euter as early ns 1859} wheu, as a member of Congress, he hiad publicly warned such Itepublicaus a8 Winuiaxt II, Sewanrp that they would ba hinugud if they dured show thowmselves in the Bouth. Yet the very fact thut he ran agninst the regular Demo- cratic nomineo at tho last cleotion, and us Groenback candidato secured such negro voles us wers cnot - ntimidated or prevonted by fraud or violence, wus enough to bring obloquy. upon him, I was suspected of organizing tho blacks in opposition o the Dewocrats, and that sus. picion nlone secured his Leing hanged in eftigy, burned in ofigy, aud throatened with nssassination, Mo swore that 5o white man n the South coulil vote agninst the Demooe raoy without beiug ostracised, and that ho himsolf dreaded the assassin's kuifo more than ostracism, I1is lifo hind been throatonod if bio dured to testify beforo tho Teirks Com. uittes, aud it is not much wouder that ko taunted the Government with imbecility while it was in & position to cowpel him to testify, but could not protect bim in telling tho truth, Tho tustimony of WiLLiax Vassan, a no- tive of Virgiuia, but now residing in Misais. sippi, was of much the sawme purport. Ie hind boen suspected of making a ** Radical " spoech, and that subjeoted bim to bulldozing. Everything, he sald, is called * Radical” in Mississippl that is not Democratic, oud covory man who gives utterance to * Iadicalisis ” is rogarded as & peat, sod every such person is visited with busi. nesa and wocial punisiment, o tostified that the politica of Misaissippl were cou. trolled largely Dby boistorous and reckiess young men, that immigration of Northern peoplo ia looked upon a3 an intrasion, and that thoro nre no convictions for political murders and outrnges. What wos snid nbout Mismissippi politics by hnjye Bonthoruers night bo antd with equal truth of the Donto- cratic mothods in nearly overy Sonthorn Btate, ’ Buch testimony as this can scarocly fail to place in strong contrast the provailing free. dom of personal opinion and action in the North and the sectional jvtoloranco of the Bouthern whites, A Bouthern man niny come to Chicago to onter business or practice his profossion, or settle down on n farm in Iili noin; he may have boon an original Boces- aonist and active in the War of tho Reboll- jon; he mnny still be a flerco Democrat, and voto and nct with that party, With all this, he will bo able to expross his opinions freoly; ho may make politieal speeches nod vote oy ticket he likes without n snspicion of interferenco; ha mny run for office as n Domocrat, be elected, and onjoy tho possession thereof fn peace; he will alwnys have equal social, business, or professlonnl chianees according to his per- sonal ability and conduct, In the South it is the very reverse. Northern birth or Ro- publiean antecedents subject a moan to gooinl ostracism, business discrimination, po. litieal bulidozing, aud even persoual vio. louce, Tlis is tho universsl rule. It Lins beaome so notorions that Northerners who went into Bonthern Stntes lo live, toking their capital and energy with them, aro emi- grating from thore as fast as they can, oven at groat personnl sacrifice, Northerm men no longor contemplate emigrating to tho buildozing Sonthorn Btates, no matter how much tho nitractions of climate or jnvestmout might otherwise influ- onco them, A rocont ariicle in the St Louis Globe-Democrat demonstrated that even the bordor State of Missouri, which ought to bolong to the West rather then the Bouth in character and son. timent ns it does in geographicnl location, is repolling immigration from tho Eastern and the Middle 8tates by ils utter Bourbon- ism, inoluding nn opposition to common echools, n preponderance of Oonfodernto ele- ment, and a disposition to repudiato honost debts. If thisis true of Missouri, it is ton. fold more palpable of the Cotton States, It1s this intense spirit of sectionnlism, dominating the Southorn people, handed down from ono gonorstion to another, and kept alive by hatred of the blncks nnd preju- dica ngainst oll that is Northern, which is tho chief bindrance to tho restoration of tha political peace and material prosperity of the Boath. Time alone can anfold the romedy, 89 long as the Southern people refuse to ap- ply it. Moanwhilo the constant and twbn. lont mamifostation of this vicious sectional. ism is & bor to perfeot commercial and po- litical Linrmony between tho two scctions, ‘WELLINGION AND GRANT. It is common to say that Gen, Graxt has beon amply rewarded for his great military sorvices Dy the American nooply, that tae account js fully squared, and tlioy don't owe bim anything move. It is vory truo thoy in- trusted him for eight years with the highest office in their gift undor tho Constitution, 8o far s honor is conearaed, they have done as handsomely by him as by avy other hero or atatesman. Bat what have they donoe for 1iim pocuniarily compared with the incalen- luble valuo of his servicos for them? They paid him while Chief Excoutive about the samo salary that an Eastern railcond poys its Presidont. ‘Tho first four yoars ho had to spend every dollar of his salary in support- ing the hospltatitles of the position ; the pny of the second term cnnbled him to save a fow thonsand dollars. But how is be fixed for tha remninder of his life? As a nation, ws have no care for or pride in our Presi- dents aftor their term of offico has expired, nod it mntters little to ua whother thoy die in poverty or obscurily, though we give them o largo snlary aud compol them to spend it all, nnd are nware that thoy can. not resume private business, Asnnation we are willfully forgetful. Our horoes are heroos for o moment. Our rulors uro lionized just o long ny they rule and have oflices to con- for on officc-seckers, and then wo forget them so complotely that they sink into ob- scurity nnd die in an alushouse for aught the publio care. The most that this country has over done for its great military Gonernls is to give them the ewpty, glittoring roward of tho Presi- dosey, and compel them to keepup a state that exhauts their salary aud leaves thom impecunious when they step down and out of their official life, Our demagoguo leglaln- tora can aquonder millions upon any spoou- Intive scheme of rascality, or subsidy, or bounty, or public building, or work of littla or no use, But a howl is raisod that piorces the clouds if the Presidont of the Roepublio is paid more than the Prosident of a railroad or cotton-factory, or tho fecaof a Register in Bankruptoy or a favorite Assignee, Weo gave WasumnotoN the Presidency twico for his succosiful Goneralship, aud at the cnd of the cight years he hadn't a cont, We gave the Presidonoy to Jacmsoy for the Luttle of Now Orleans, to T'ayron for Buenn Vistn, and to Hanrnison for Tippocanoe, We gnve on obscure man, Franx Pience, the Presidency for his Mexioan campaigne, and sbused Scorr, his compelitor, beeauso Lo was beaten, though ho had au infloitely more glorlous racord than Pigxoz. We gave Gon, (inaxy, who haw done more for his country than auy American sinco Wasuixo- Tox, two torms of the Presidency, and then dropped him to pass the rost of his days in poverty and with no opportunity to make a living unless ho retires to his Bt. Louis farm or roopens his taunory at Gulena, Tt was proposod recoutly that Congross shoutd croato tha offico of Ficld-Marshal for Gen, Graxt, and then rotiro him ou half pay at sy $12,000 a year for his support, but the iden wns scouted at. It was denounced as an extravagaut, profligate proposition which the fiscal condition of tho country would not justify and an expendituro which the American people could not afford. It was hooted down on the scere of ecouomny, and since then has not been henrd of, ‘Iio gratitude nod geuerosity of tho En. glish peoplo are in striking conirast to our parsimony and niggardliness. ‘I'beir success- ful military horoas have been munifloently rewardod, aud after their death their fam- ilfos havo Leen abundantly cared for, ‘I'ake the ‘case of WeLLiNagTON, who was most assuredly not a groatsr or more suc- cessful Goneral than Gnant, 1o handled emall armies as ocompared with {hose which Guant led. Mo fought only, exoupt once, against subordinute French conymsuders, whilo Graxt met all the great leaders of the Bouthorn Robellion, including Lee bimself, and ovoroamo them, ‘The re. sults which WesuinoTon achieved wero small, indecd, as comparsd with those which buug upon GranT's wuccess, for it was not a 14, I873—TWELVE PAGES. mattor of vital covsequence to England whotlior Wertinatox wa3 or was not viotor rlons, whilo tho existonco of tho United Statea ns o nation depended utterly upon Gnaxt's telumphing, and yet Warnixaros wag ovorwhelmed ywith tho munificence of the English nation, whilo Grant got nothing. Wernisaro firat distingnished himself in tho Mabiratta compaign in Iudis, for which bo recoived the thanks of tho King and Par- Tiament, and two yenrs Inter was again pnbe- licly thanked for his negotiation of tho eapitulation of Copenhagen. For Lis first viotory nt Vimiern, in Bpain, ho wns ngain thanked by Parlinnont, For the nest victory ot Talavera he was made n Pecr, with a pen- sion of $10,000, and in 1811 was sgain thanked by Parlinment for the liberatlon of Portugal from the Fronch, For his capturo of Ciudnd Roirigo howas croaled o ** Grandeo of Spain,” was ndvanced to an Earldom in the Peorage, and received an additional pen- nion of "$10,000 a yeor, His declsivo victory ot Salamanen over the French was his next oxploit, and for this lio received tho Ordor of tho Golden Flesco, was mado Goneralissimo of tho English aud §panish nrmios, was ad- vanced in the Poerags by tha title of the Mnrquis of Wellington, aud Parliament voted Lim the sum of $500,000, Lo bo lald out in the purchose of an estate! Tho sharp battle of Vittoria gavo him tha baton of TField-Marshal and wore *thauks,” Oun the 10th of April, 1814, ho closed his sories of victories over the Fronch in Spain by his defeat of Sourt, and an the #d of May waos made Marquis of Doure and Duke of Wellington in the Peerage; he received an additional penston of $50,000 a year, and nn additional gift in cash of $2,009,000, besidos recolving, for tho tweltth time, the thanks of Parlinmont. Up to this time he had not handled o great ensmy or mot NaroLeox at ol The first nnd lnst meoting with the great Fronol Goneral was on June 18, 1813, at Watorloo. For that afternoon’s work the Prussisn and Austrian Emnperors made him o Ficld-Marshal of thoir nrmfes, Tho King of tha Netherlands oreated him ** Princo of Waterloo,” Parliament gave him nnother estate, valued at $1,815,000. IMis share of prize-1ioney from the captured French spoils was $000,000. Statues were raised to his glory, and ofllces, honors, and titles wero constantly thrust upon him. As tho reward of bis military sorvices ho recaived, besides his ealary, $4,115,000 in mouey, $70,000 in penslons per annum, and was ralsed to the summit of the Peorage, During his nmilitary carcor ho received honors and offices with- ont atint, nnd was almest uninterruptedly in high offica from the timo of the battle of Waterloo until his death,~n period which embraces his political carcer of thirty or moro yenrs, This is what Great Britain did for her gront soldier. And what have wo done for our greater ona? We bavo mado him Presi- dent twico, abueed him without stint, givon him the salory of the office and mndo him spend almost the whelo of it, and then turned him out on the common to shift for himself, and now he will shortly retnrn home from bia tour abroad and sell what littlo was given bim from private Bources, so that he may havo something to live upon. 1o has done moroe for his country than nny olhoer man, and his country bas duue nothing for Lim in return, exoept to make him the Ohief Magiatrate for dispensing officea to n ravonous hordo of of- fico-scekers and place-men, with the proud privilego of rotiring from tho offlco ompty- honded and of trying to discover somoe way to mako a living aud keoping out of the alins- house during the romninder of his anys. "Tenly we are a largo-hoarted, free-handed, munificent people to our heroos who per- form for us mcalculable servicos in parilous times; who chango gloom, defont, aud dis- solution into rejoicing aud saivation! Gan, GrasT turned out to grass as his roward. RN S — WHO PAYS THE GOVERNMENT TAXES1 Gon. OUnavyeus, n member of Congross from Mississippi, wns ono of thoso who sought to crush Gen. Braoa for tho lattor’s courageous protost agatnst tho prostitution of tho Democratic party to the position of a more claim-ngent for ox-Rebels, In the courso of his roply to Braaa, Onaratens took occasion to sy that * tho War.debt was not yet puid, and tho cotton and tobacoo States wero paying far moro of the debt than Wis- consin (Gen, Braca's State) waa paying.” Many nowspapers, followiug the lead of the Indianapolis .Iour‘ml, havo undortoken to show by the recordiof the internal revenua that this statement is iucorrect, and have succcoded from that point of view, Cotton poys no Fodoral tax atall, and tobicoo pays only in tho mnonfactured form. Tho rosnlt is that the Bouthorn States—the cotton and Lobacco States—pay but a small part of tho internal revouue divectly, 'Ihero are 14,206 cigar nnd tobacco fuctories in the Northern Statos nud only 2,672 such factories in the Southern States, Wisconsin paid Q:!,wl,&lol of internnl rovenne in 1872, which is stated to ba mora than was paid by all the cotion States put together. But Gon, Cuavamens might reply to these statoments with truthfuluess that it is the consumers ot taxed goods who pay Federal taxes, and that consequently any com- pnrison by manufacturing districts can give no indication of the relative aniount of taxes paitt by the North nod SBouth, While this is true, Gou, CuaLxrns would tind it still more diffienlt to vorify his assertion on the truo mothod of asoortaluing whore the taxes aro pald then by ncospting the innceurnto mcthod of eamparing the taxes colleated in the manulaoturing districts. Stato and loeal Governments are suitained by direct taxa. tion ou lands aud personal property, but the taxes collected by the Genernl Government aro all indiroct, 'They consist of the dutics puid on imported articles and of uxclses on epirits aud tobneco, aud stamps on bank. checks, matches, and patent medicines, TLe manufaoturers, who pay theso taxew in the firat instance, simply advance the monoy; they ure merely tho agonts for collecting the taxes from those to whom they soll their goods, For iustance, two-thivds, or there- abouts, of sall tho customs duties aro ad. vanced by the importers in New York Oity; but it would by absurd to claln that the people of the Oity of New York puy two-thirds of all the taxes luvied on goods imported into this country, The tax is collooted ultimatoly from those who buy these goods for wso and consumption, They pay o price whiols includes tho original cost, the duties, the commussions, and the profits of all the middlemen; Louco the Gov- erument tax is distributod throughout the States and couutry in proportion to iho rela- tivo vonsumption of tho imported goods by tho poople. 8o it is with tho Interusl-rove- nue taxes ou liquors, tobaccos, bauks, matches, aud medioiues. On this bosis Gen. Ouaraeas will scarcely contond that the Btate of Mlssissippi, for fustance, psys as large a proportion of taxcs per capita to the Goueral Governinont a3 the people of Wisconsin. It is probable thay Minaiasioni doss not pay one-quarter as much Foderal taxes s tho Btate of Wisconsi, for, whilo the peoploof tho lntter Btato aro pros- perons and produca largely, three-fiftha of tho population of tha former Btato are impo- onnlous black laborors, rooently in slavery, and the other two-fifths aro 'azy whites, who Iabor and produco as little as ponsible, and have comparatively small monns left from their fobollion colillon to indulge in im- ported goods nnd luxurios. ‘Tho samo will hold truo in n genoral compnrison botween the South and tho North, In the mntterof tobac o, the Bonth may consume moro in a chenp form by ohewing, but the gross valuo of the cigars smoked falla vaatly sliort of the North- ern consumption, In drinks, the South con- smmos 1a full share of whisky (much of which i the product of ** nfoonshining " and cseapes taxation by fraud), but tho North consumes tho high-priced liquors and wines in muoh Jarger proportion, and probably soven.eighths of all the beer manufactured or imporled in the Unitod States. ‘The con- sumpiion of matches, and drugglats’ goods stampad, of fine brondcloths, jowolry, silks, volvets, and fancy goods imported, and of stamps or bank.cheoks, famanifestly for Inrger per capita in the North than in the South, bocausa of tho greater relative wenlth and production and consequont excessof businosa and ability to indulge in luxuries and taxod goods, If tho population of the Sonthern States bo oue-third and that of the Northarn States two-thirds of the entire population of the Union at this timo, thon it is safa to ray that the Bouth doos not consume moro than one. fitth of all tho goods subject to Fedoral tax- ation, and consequently does not pay mors than one-fifth of tho Federal tnxes in tho ngyregato, In applying this proportion to the payment of the War-dobt, which yfi: the walapropos appheation made by Gen, OuaLmens, it is proper to remember that the South not mere. 1y pays but one-fifth of this debt, so far ns it hns been and is boing canceled by taxation, Lut that the South is responsible for the en- tivo debt of which the North is compelled to pay four-fifths; for, if the slaveholdors had not wickedly preeipitated tho country 1to o disunion war by secesalon, there would have beon no such debt. No reply could have possibly been mode to Gen, Braaa's protost against the use of tho public revenues for the soctional bonefit of the South which would have been mora unfortunate than this comparison of Federal taxation which Gen. Onarxens invited. The Gonfederates should, in all decency, wait till the War.dobt hns been paid off, for which they are entirely responsible, and only one-fifth of which they aro notually paying, beforo thoy begin their raids on the Publio I'roasury for thoir sec- tional benofit. STATE CHARITY, Tho annual reports of the Trustoes aud of tho officors of tho soversl charitable institu. tions of the Blate of Illinois form, whon printed, a small library of thomsclves, Tho printed volumes containing tho roports of the four Hospitals for the Insane and the report of thae Asylum for Feeblo-Minded Children ought to bo and would o more intoresting in an economical senea if they wero mado 1moro specifio in some particulars, ‘Thua the Asylum for Feeble-Minded Obildren, though ropleto iu information s to tho number of pounds of beef and of sausage, and tho num- ber of pigs' feot, and rabbits, and sardiues, oystors, and chickens, nnd tho hoitles. of horse-radish nod bunches of pie-plant con- sumed, might Lave beon mora important to {ho general reader if it furnished somo par- ticulnrs as to the ago, sex, and goneral con. dition of tho * dofootive " childron whoso support has beon assnmed by tho Stato. Tho Btnte has provided spacious and well- furnished buildings, an engraving of whicl. is furnished in the roport. Last year thero wera 108 children in the Asylum ; for 1878."0 the estimato is for 300 obildren, Cortainly tho people who pay for the support of theso littlo unfortunates should Lo furnished with some particulars as to their ago and sox, and the condition of their parouts, and also of the naturo of thoir afiliction. ‘Ilhe report is cloquont ns to the repairs noodad for the boilera nnd on the subject of buying more Innd, Lut beyond giving the numbor of children it has nothiug to say of them, The roport, howover, is compellud to say that for 1878 the **ordinary " expense of the institu. tion equaled §842,12 per obild, or un averoge of $0.60 per weok for onch child! In round numbers, $1 per day. The estimate for the coming yonr asks for * ordinary expensos” of 800 children #2,40 por wuek each child; but, on Jooking ovor the list of appropriations asked, wo find that the total is cqual to $3.23 por weck for ench child,” Iow many other persons who aro not feoble-minded aro snpportod in this institution the roport utterly fails to atate; but under the hond of *“salaries and wugos of cmployes” is an itom of $15,466 for the year 1878, Tho roport of tho Northern Ifospltal for the Insane, nt Elgin, states that the avernge inmates (insnnc) during the Iast yoar was 480, Tho cost for muintenauce of paticnts alone is §4 por weok, and the same rate is asked for 1879 and 1880, But tho total np- propriation for the Hospital nsked is equal to %298 n yonr for 500 patients, or at'the rate of shout $4.50 per woek for cach. The number of employed persons is put down nt 299, aud $34,000 for salaries and wages paid out; but whother tho 299 persons include tho *salaried” s well a4 the *“wages™ class is not stated, "Pho Central Tusauo ospital is o long.es. tablished institution. It pays out §82,212 for salavies and wages per yoar, but to whom and how mach to eash is not stated, The nwmber of patients is 490, nud the amonut nsked for noxt year is equal to £2i6 a year or 135 por weak for each’Insano inmate, ho Southern Inssuo Ifospital is one of tho comparatively new oharitivs, Inst year tho salaries, not including labor, were §27,- 200, Insano inmates will averngs 500, Ou hundred thousand dollara’a yenr is asked f it, which is ubout an average of $4 por week for oach pationt, i Phie Soldiers® Orphans' Home contains 201 children, DBulldings and grounds complate, Forty-seven thousaud dollars & year is asked for ita support, or at the rate of $105 a year tor cach child per week, Blany of these childron aro very young, and all under 14 yoars of age. We submit these faols, which speak for thomselves ; thoy indicate that publio charity is costly, nnd that the State, in ita contracts with the generous nud humanilarian class of porsons who take cars of tho wards of the Btate, pays n pretty round prics por capita for board, not including in that expouditure the sums pald for grouuds, buildings, furni- tues, live-stock, implements, aud other for- nishiugs for firet-class hotels, Next year the Insauo Hospital at Kankakoe will be added to the yoster of the Btate charitles, and tho yecommendation is already made that the Btate purchiase a sito sud- ereot buildings for awnccial hospital far the oriminal jusaue, Yorily, chacity covoreth a multitude of ex. penditures, ‘The Cinclonati Commereial I8 this time caught in [ta own trap, or rather, setting a sceond trap for Prof, Matngws, it has caughit an Ohlo man dquarely in its jnws, Our readees arc already suficlently familar with the much-ado-nbout~ notlilng made by the Commercial over the VENADLS affalr, in which 1t was shown quite cloarly thnt our Profossor, elther by asslimilae ti0n or appropriation, ad helped himsell 1o a small slice ot an address by ono Prol, VaxanLe, Our Profcssor was frank enouzh to ackuowledgo that, seeing the thing foatlng around without parent or guardlian, he quictly eaotured it, and has thereby made VENABLE kuown outside the limits of wherovor ho lves in Ohlo, Ilaving succeeded 80 nobly In this case, the Commercial trics again, and trots out sowme parailel columns, intimating that our Professor has cabbaged a lopz {llusteation of a somewhat fncomprelien- siblo muelcal sort from an address dolivered last December by W. 8. OAPPELLAR, the Audit- or of Hamilton County. Wo are surry for Oar- PBLLAR, but this won't go down. As onr Pro- fassor’s bouk was printed soveral years ago, and CAPPELLAR'S (whoever ho 1s) addreas was print- ed only two tontlis ago, it Is clenr enough that the Commareial unwillivgly and unwittingly has caught CaprettAn helping himsdf to Matusws. “Thisinakes honors easy. Whils we are fuclined to credit CAPPELLAR with better taste In borrowlog from MATIRWS thau MaTnews in borrowing from VENABLE, tve aro neveriheless somowhat surprised that MATIEWS, who can write matter good enough to steal, should bo caught on VENABLE'S premises, un- 1ess tho writing of bouks 1s conducted on the system of the juventls gamo of * Rob My Nelgh- bor.,” Meanwhtle, i Vexass wants to make himself well known, let him hook something from MaTnzws, e —— ‘The New York Zribune of Feéb, 11 prints o long letter from Josarit BaIN, the well-known bibliogeaphile, about the library of the late (izoxar Bumineey, of Hartford, which is be offered for salo at Ciinton Ilall, New York, on Monday, March 10, aud wlil be disposed of at the rate of about 400 fots per day, Mr. SAnIN enumerates only books worth at least $100 cach, und of thesu e lbrary containg a great many. ‘Ihe collection fs particularly rich fn Amoricana, embracing o Bay Psalm-Bouk, five copies of Evlor's Indlan Bible, 400 votumes of the Matiens' writlngs, very many specimens of Ameriean typographlcal antlquities, aud other Amagrican books fo propurtion. Mr. BasiN says: *It I3 no cxaggoration to asscrl that this catalogue describes moro rare aud important bouks relative to Amerlcan bistory than all the auctlons made in New York during tho Iast fl(- teen years, and when {t 18 romembered that this perlod {ocludes the sale of such llbrarles as that of Winurast Meszigs, R. W. Rocng, and others, of New York; Jous A. Rics, of Chicagto; J. B, Fisnen and Axprew Wiour, of Philadelphia, and other collectors, it may sound very like an exagzeration; but it s not. Of the 2,018 lots, of which the catalogue con- sists, over one-lalf aro books which rarely ap- pear for sale, and it is scarcely possible that any- Thipg less than another half century cau placa 1ta parallel on the market." ——e———— Piram, the Vermont murderer who has boen again condemued to death, fs the man who was reprievedd Lo yeurs ago after he lind been fully propared for the senZold, He bas been re- senteuced, after unother hearing, and will bo hungea Aprit 4. ‘Fhe circumstauces of bis ro- prieve are quite sensationnl, but buve probably Been forgntten Ly most readers by this time, It was caused by the publication of his full state- ment lu the Boston Globs the moraing of the day set for the exccution, MAnSmALY . Dows- ING, o respectable cltizen of Boston, read the statement, und fdentified himself with a con- versation gaid to have beon held by Puaimn with an unknown man on the train betwoen Provi- dence and Boston. Jumplug to the conclusion that, 1t thid conversation could bo proved, Prnam's allbi would be established, Mr, Dowx- 186 exerted himsell 1o the utmost and obtafued areprievo by telegraph ot the last momont, ‘I'he Supreme Court, un & rehearing, bas declded that, supposing the conversation to bave taken place at the thuo stated, Piratr might still vave committed the marder, and undonbtedly did so. So the philauthropie cxertions of Mr, DowNING tave only resulted In prelonging the wretehed 1ife of the wmurderer two yoars, and torturing him with a hope that fs now never to bo re- allzed. e Harper's Weekly publishes a cut of the now Capizol building of Michigan, which was turncd over for public uscn few weeks ago. It isa lnege, solld, handsome, well-constructed build- ing, 815 feot ft length and 270 {o width, with a fine, showy domc, from the top of which exten. sive and atteactive views may be obtained, The ercetion of the new Capltol was authorized fn 18713 the corner-stone was latd in 1873, und the bullding was ready for occupation before the closo of Inst yeur, ‘Fhe people of Michizan take n just pride in the fa:t that not n dollar Is due upon their splendid State-Houss. 'The money used In ita construction was rafsed by a direct State tax, and the work was paid for as it went on. 'Phe total cost, including furnishing, orna- mentatlon of grounds, otc, was $1,350,000. Compure this shuwlng with the record made by the Illinols State-Houss Comimlssioners, who, aftor gquandering three and a balf mililons of dollars on a building very Httle botter thaa the Michigan Capitol, require three-quarters of a* willlon more to complete t. ——— Qov. $70NE, of Misslssippl, whoso perverse relusal to ussist 1u bringiug the murderds of the CitisoLys to Justice was widely commented, on ot the time, has “acted with commendable’ promptoess in offering a reward of $300 for the arrest of the two GLOVERS, who murdered TLawsoN WooLbntpas, ln Coahoma County, u few doys ngo." 1t makes all the differonce In the world to this Governor who is the murderer o bas to deal with, It is scarcely murder at all in his opivion to shoot down Reputideans for ex- ercising thelr rights as freomen. The widow of por CiisoLy, robbed of her busband und his property, 1s u clork on a small salary ot Waah- inzton, while her (Ittle son hos been compelled toleave her und tuke a placo as messenger ot Harrisburg, This act of barbarlsm on the part of the overnment of Mississippi will cost that State dear before it 18 futly puld for. JonN Roacu has foiled to meke clear ono point which is esscntlal to a correct underatand- lng of his subsidy claim, 1lls attoruevs at Washington huve stated that the Draziljun steamshlp line, which has already been in opora- (fon uearly o year, {8 flunnclally & remarkable success, 1f thls ia so, there 1s no good reason why it ehould bo subsldlzed. The srguinents for subsidiziug steamship lines that cannot ba Kkeps suuning without Guvernment ald, flimasy as they are, do not apoly to Mr. Roacn's Bra- zillun line, ‘The subsidy, if it be grauted, witl b a steal, and the members of Congress who vote for it will do so knowing that It is a steal, —— No sooner fs ono subsidy fraud dlsposed of than auother riscs to take its pluce. Tha lino strotehics ou Hke that of Bunguo, and 1o the glass? It1s possible to sco wmany more. In- deed, most of them have thelg, origin In the flass und the good-fetlowship “which it gener- ates st somo lubbyist-picnle, Now that the ‘Texas Pacifiv steal bhaa boon flnally lald, the Brazillan subsidy steal hos takoa its pluce. It will require u liurder fight to beat this thun it did to et the other. The country will watch the roll-cally, meanwhilo, with breathlcss u- terest. B —————— “To junket,” according to WensTan, Is to have a prieate entortamment.”” The wuoun “ junket " s definod also as * a stolen entere taiument.” Our Legislatlve junketers have therefore been haviug *a private sud s stolen cutertainment tha public expenso. —— The Atlantio Monthly for March, just recelved here, b s shrewd politicat article ootitled o Presidentinl Elsctiouosriug fu the Bonate,” ‘The Presldentiul electioncerers mentioned are CoNkpLing, EDMUNDS. BLAINE, THUBMAN, and BATAnD. Of these the firsy two, personal fortunes are concerned, ered practieally out of the race, have moro than two candidat Barann.” The artlelo was wrmce‘ Tora the great combat betweon prived of ono of tho flneat |erefum . Presidentlal electloneeting tn ) our whole history alfords, *Wa have no hesltation the Now York Tribune, ndmitted facts, Capt, Ex lief of Congress.” The 1n declarlng, D3 I8 entitled to y, admitted 41 16 has, ha s entitled to paymen the letter of it. Ho nelther c!nlm: :;c:r:xh Hrellel,” und wo should precedent for Congress to grant the atipulations calt for, or any | e The bi!l for the protection of the rles, referred to In Tin TRINUNE some days is defective in this: It abportions the proj Board ot Comtnissloners amaony i bordering upou the lakes Even Ponnsylvania bes one. Lilino| ton timea the intereats involved vania has, thils Stato In the watter ar —— ‘The substdy for Mr, Jonx Roaon's Brartiug line is advocated on the eround that it woulq But why aking m than other successful eommercial emnmrh:: The woods sro full of conimerctal men Wwhe would like to bo **encouraged" on the samy plan, and havo as much right to be a3 Mr. Jopg encourage Amcriean comtacree, should Mr. Roaci’s lne, which is my money already, be “encouraged any Roauss, e a—— 1t's justrichness for a cross-roads politiclan whg imover went uway from home Uclore further thyy lie could walk to gt elected to the Legislatare, and travel about the State at the publie Hpbnn: That's the avernge cross-rondsldeaot Legisatipy work. — Our fifty junketera should cap the climax by voting themselves into the charftablo instig. tions which {n thelr judement !s tho moy luxurious und best suited to thelr tastes, B of the lostitutions they nre visiting, e — appropriation,” well, If it bind turncd out honest, industrlows, untl respectable, we should hovo been surprised, e ——— The morale of the Legisiature has esldently suffered from the strain that wus put uponftta the early part of the sesston, e —— The Gfty junketers cost the State $10 perday each, Not five of them cver earned that regue larly in n legitimato way. povntantihido I, PERSONALS. M. Belot’s now play is c:;}lml “La Veow Nedr." I'ho French aro groat lovors of horse-flash ~brofled. ‘The corner-stona of tho plot 10 steal tha Presidency was Marble, Ihers must bo no British gold used tode. feat Mr. Chandler for the Senate, Bragg is o good dog, but tho Solid South 18 fully convinced that Lo has tho hydrophobla, Arthur Sullivan has sbandoned his Amer 1can trip on nccount of new Parls engagements. T'he English, having onrried the warinla Africa, aro deuced anxious to carry it out agiln, 1t mankiod is to bo born ngain, waats rush thera wiil be to be born in tho State of Oalo, Phe Zulus are making lifo so unhappy for the Britlsh Lion that he almost wishesho weto desd, 31, Horold, tho new Prefoct of the Seine, \s 2 Senator, and son of the composer of **Zanpa.” TFlorida is bonsting of early groeu com. Shols ellent, however, on the question of numc‘n- ache. : tho ladies. M. Tilden can nevor bo President. Oh! yeshe can. Ho can b President of lnuSneng Lying Club. . Judge Taft would stand very fittle show it Garfleld eot Taftor tim, declines the nomination, A Boston physician announces {hat kissing is nnhealthy. Noneenso! Tlo was probably caoght by his wife while kissing the servant-gitl It oppeors that Scuator Clirigtiaucey is une settlod in his miud a8 to whother ho goes to Ferd tor Zach Chandicr's o¢ Joha Bagley's heaith. Paul Boyton is an aquatic tramp, snd ba i1} soon ba classed with such public nolsances i Weston, and Sergt. Bates, aud Mue. Amlcrl!fln. Mr. Konruoy lins begun the publication of a paper called the Dally Sund-Lol. A3 mX:htI be expected from jts editor and It name, It fa winiy sheot, Denny Konmnoy, whoso daclnration that the Chinuse must go has had nocffuct, wlnlln L orgunize a kind of quoue-Kiux to drive them of the country. Prot, Mathows' assortion that ho ;l:i l‘l::' Praf. Venable {8 rather rous T:“l .m;:.“mun ‘tho suspleion that both stole from tho same sourco. . Mr, Pelton failed to mako BIr. Tnl«ll:l'l Prealdont, buthe may cansolo blmaelt with . thought that his uncia would have been & Yery po Presidont any WaY. Mr, Manton Marblo does not mxne\;\‘!:f scnding the ciphor dispatclics nuxlhnlfl fllla"m. and it {a platn that ho must havo seatt walking In his ; "ha editor of the 8t.Louis be{«fi:‘;m‘ 1u absolutoly certatn that Grunt will ou' L i Preajdent, snd be is bound to Dyl it oul tow-ue If it takus two aumniers. it Putn, Herbert Sponcer tolls us, ltln’::‘;‘“ ' th rate of ninety feet per sccondi nn“ vt St Louls girl's corn 18 stepped 00 Il scroam **On!" until & week afterwart i Arrangomonts should be made to have i Vulentine's Day come in warot wcmnerl.n e cuplds, wearing only thelr natursl n\;x.w culiarly uncotwfortablo fn tho dead of Wi ‘( " Kissing i4 said to ba unhealthy; # %;ekx Pacls, awhile ago, died from $ho rflec::: ferd hugged by hor lover, ard it 1 mu_-m}l znum. ship aud marriage mnat be done by telop? or. Cinciunati knows more about Iml!‘ ,;“‘ tban sho doea about mukic, and the newp'" thero want Theodore Thowas to play n; Lcause ho has such an excellont batou Fec o An expectant Ohio bridegroom ‘;fixd i bashful 1o o Lo his giri's honso and ;: il the presance of the invited guests |Ix nym‘ i have sllurod him to the housy by secretin :fllb“ » somowhcre 1o the parlor,—a thing irree! an Ohlo man. i "Phe Christian Union believeixm::u“ originof map will never bo couclunu;om 1t appears, unfortunaiely, that tho Pe w dead, W8 1gUL have been usod s witncsses a5 e :rl‘x: exception, vorhaps, of old Bill, Alieny a0 won't cumtait himaelfe i Gon, Grant, whflnl h} fifii‘:;n}":inéi’i" o by the light of the J4 e l'l“:lnl;dfll,ll this light produces betie? pot! thap sunligbt, snd, eveniug as wol 1.2'2.,.:5 popular among photoarapbers: ook A barrel of beerin I’hilndclphlxnw::f‘ £t with torrific furce, the other dav. 1".7.;' 4 e entiroly across tha streot, and Infiicting ot Jurica that he disd soon afteswara. The sbows conclusively that wo must |lth:::" effactiye (smperance work oF sHORKSE are et R0 far ag thy, f;!)" bcmmmf tho Atant ¢ artlele underrates Trrpnye, e, of that % The Democrats cumnl,.:;:“.::'_z{h:z ) o ~TiLory and "hof conrse,pe. DATATD took place, and 1t therarn Y 2t dee Hustrattony o lie Scnate thag 8! ** that, In view of :‘l::: ' ie re. nothing to do with {t. The slmple el whether Capt. EAns bas fullled mguc(:l::::c\'! § 3ty peat, think fta very bx; any more thyy ess, Iake Oule. % 8l the Siatey except Titingly, l[l has abgy}, that Pen, ‘The 1liinols delozation nhnul; :;T; nieans support the bill until the interesty of e properly reganded, There is some confusion {u the public mind 1 to who are the greatest pensfoners on the publje bounty,—the Junicting leglslators or thetnmatey Prof. MATRWS at any rato has cariched our lauguage with one new ohase: ** The differenca betseen lezitimate nsshnllation and fllesitimats ‘This Leglislaturc s keeplniz up fts character Ttis L:lnm' that Mnj. Reno is not n cowand, but ho didn't liko to by massacred on accoust of but Garfetd emphatieslly