Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1879, Page 4

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Engagement Hooley’s Thentros Randolph rirect, briwecn Clark and LaSalle, Foe Fagement of the New York Criterfon Comedy Compss By, Whims," Tamlin's Theatre. Clark street, opposite the Court-House. ‘Varlety entertatnment, ‘'Leopold.” Netropolitan Thentre. Clark street, opporite Sherman House. **Tina, tho Mlikvender of Germaatown.” Varlety entertatament. Acndomy of Music. Tialsted street, between Madlson and Monroe. Vae ety entertainment. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1879, —_——— Rocent honvy tains in. Californin have groatly improved the wheat prospoct, which until reoently was very discournglng to farmers. o Tho signing of the definitivo treaty with Turkey was yesterday formally nnnounced at 8t. Potersburg by tho Czar, and late-in-the- day illuminationy were had in Louor of Russin's.glorious victories, *Noturoe and Man" is tho subject of Prof, Bwrva's sormon of yesterdny printed in our'colomns. The Rov. L. P. Mencen, Swedonborgian, pronched -on * The Public Conmience,” and the Rov. W. F. Cnarrs conductod an interesting * quostion-service,” —— . Itismuch honor aud but little profit to ho Governor of-the State cf Michigan, A joint resolution has been introduced in tho Legistaturo increasing tha Gubernatorial aue nual componeation, now $1,000, to 22,500, There onglhit not to bo much grumbling at that proposition e ] A nrgumont in favor of capital punish. ment is furnistied n" the ‘¢ase of Mranick, the horrid butcher of his wife and her un. Lorn babe, whose bedy did the State samo Kervice ns the *¢ Aubject " at the wdtving clinio of the Indinuupolis Mediea! College. A sontenco of imprisonment for lifo would bave intorfored with this gratifying arrango. ment. — The Bub-Committee of tho Iouss Com- mittee on Approprintions, to whom was ns- signed tho task of figuring out tho amount required to meet the outlny necossitated by the Penston Arrears bill, have made up their minds that £26,800,000 will do for n starter, and a veport to this efect will be submitted, 1t will prove to be o wild guess before all the arreams have como to the front. ——— Thora is trouble afoot in that undesirable combination of jcelorgs nnd bad Indians known on the map as Alaska, 'Tho foebergs neko it too cold, and tho Indians muko it much too warm, and botweon tho two ex- tremes tho unfortunate white inlabitants ara kopt very uncomfortable. ‘Ton days ngo, whon Inst heard .from, the people of Sitka wero in mortal drend of an Indian uprising, fnd the Collestor had telegraphed Secrotary BrEayAx for asalatance. ———— Prohibitory sentiment is very strong among thoe temperanco peoplo of Minucsota, ns ap- pears by the vote in the Seunte an Baturday 6n a resolution providing for tho submission to popular vote of an amendment to tha Stato Constitution which should prohibit the man- ufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for beverages, The monsuro had been doptedin Committes of the Whole the previous day, but when it came befor the Sonato for fiunl fiation it lacked but two votes of a mnjority, — . The Bonato passed Snturday tho Honss bill on the Ohineso subjoct which lim. its the number arriving on any one vessel to fiftcen. 'Ihe principal amond- ments adopted provide that the LHl ehall not apply to any vessel driven on the const by strosa of ‘weather, or to China- men who come to this country to gt an education, provided they bring with them a certificate to that effect from their nwn Gove ernment. It {u belioved - that tho Houss will concur in thess amondmonts, Becretary Evants, in urging upon Con. grees the voling of n yem's salary to the widow of Bavann ‘Tayton, brings forward reasons which ought to silence all objections {o such an net of wrtioual generosity, My, ‘TavLon is worse than ponuiless;- sho is in dobt in Berlin, by reason of the oxpensive preparation mado by the Unitad Btates Min. istor for o protracted residence thore, The widow has not boon alle even to delray the funeral exponses, and it Is necessary for the credit of the people whom Havanp I'arron 0 obly represouted at the German Qupital that a little gencrosity ho promptly displayed by Oongresa, K — . A statemont tolegraphed from Washington to Tux TasoNe, and nppearing ju Satur. day's paper, {o the effect that privato udviees lind beon recolved thero that pleuro-pnen. monia was p;owdllng'nt the Chicago Stock- Yards, appears, upon juvestigation, to have no other besis thau the faot that, under iu. structions of the ‘Pressury Departwment, an inspootion of cattle at the yards had beon or. dered. An examination made Haturday by 8 representative of this paper furnished con. viuclug proof that there Las mot been, ©oud’ s ‘nof, anywhere wilhin fthe immediate ueighborhood, of _this city ot lesst, " any indication , of ploura. poewnonis. On this: point , My, Suxnyaw; Huparintendant of the Stock-Yards, and . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, F other gonilemen nlso as woll acquainted with tho busingsa as himsolf aro unanimous. Dr, Derrens, Unitod States Inspector of the Btock-Yards, states that ont of 10,000 head of eattle which ho has examined Iately, ho has not found a singlo case of the disense, Inorder to *“ make assurance doubly sure,” however, ho has, in accordancs with the in. '\‘stmuuomu of Commissioner LrDuo, en. gaged'Dr. Prextioe, of Cliampaign, Til, to nesist bim tomporarily in the work of inspection. Al the stories which have i| ot pubtished concorning tho disense hera ava either.tha expansion and distortion of such -oceurrences as the appointmont of Governmant Inspoctors, or doliberate fabri- cations for the purpose of hurling the trade of this city, Yestordny n dolegation of tha bnrricade- building citizons of tho big-gravoyard quar- ter of Paris wnited on Gamnrrra, demand- ing the retnrn of . all their friends and rela. tives remnining in Mdw Onlodonis, whither they were sent in Beptember, 1871, at Fronch exponse. ‘Tho plensant assurance was given thom by their old-timo leador that frosh pnr- dons had boen {ssued for another batch of 600 of the exported Parlsions, and that the Ropublic should be made aas productive nnd “restorativo” ns practicable, no further ob- staclo of the Monatchists' being enpable of inspiring alarm. To another Committeo President Gnevry, howovety' oxprossed the urgent noed of a programme 'so modernto ng to kaop the slow-going provinaials, freshly under the wmgis of libarty, from seampering Dback into the fold of dospotis ——————e Among our Washington dispatchos this morning will befound an outline of, tho views of tho Ohinese Embussy at Washington re- gording the bill passed by the Senato on Sat- urdny. Rumoris probably not far wrong in describing the state of mind of the'Coles- tial diplomats ns one of grent surprisorthat such n mensure should pass the Seonte, tho identical grave and dignified body which sot ita seal of ratification upon tho troaty be- tween tho United States and China. They did not cxpect a bill to pass the Sconte abrogating without notico n treaty entered into in good faith, and carrled out by the Chineso Government on its own part with the most sorupulous exnctness; and they now express confldenco that the Prosi. dout will veto the bill, nnd that it will be impossiblo to pass it over ‘his veto. It is snid that tho represontatives of European Governmonta anticipate n decidod disturb- auce of existing trade relations between the United States and China as the result of the posynge of this bill, and that European mer- chants will bo the galners theroby. DIFFERENCE BET ALIEN OHINESE AND BLACK CITIZENS, 1t is surprising that tho speech of Senator Eusmis, of Loulsiana, in the debate upon the Chineso bill, secking to draw a parallel be- tween the Ohinese nnd the American blacks, and ncensing tho Republiean ndvooates of the Dill with inconsistency, was nllowed to go upon the record without refutation or re. ply, when it was such an easy mattor to ex- poso its glaring sophistry and absurdity. It would not lavo delnyed.tho, doba e fifloon minutes to lave demonstrated that there aro no points of resemblance in the two cases, ‘Tho prohibition of the importation of Africans as a sorvile raco was effcoted in 1808. It was the ‘* Chinese law” of that period, and it has been in force over seventy yoars, The Chinese Coolies, ngainst whom the present billds directed, come horo to all intents and purposcs a3 nservilo race, Thoy do not como hero with any of tho purposes or ambitions that induce European foreign. ors to peele our shores, They do not como on their own money, Except that they con- trol o limited part of their wages, thoy'nro stubatautially chattels sent hero and thero by the great Chineso companies, and dopend. ent upon them for their situstions and very existonce. I'he blacks are American citizons ‘*to the manor born" for as many genern. tions ag the whites, and in the veins of half a million of them run the blood of the chiv- alry of tho South, which hus tinged them all shades of color. They are there. foro indigsolubly united fo tho whites by tha strongest of all ties,—thoso of consanguinity, —just ns they are indissolubly connected with the material interests of the Bouth by the indispensable necessity of labor. Any legnl discrimination agaivst tho black citizens of the Bouth which tended to froe that re. gion of tholr presence wonld banish brothers, and sisters, and sons, and daugh- ters, and cousing, and nephows of the domi. nant raco, aud soou leave the cotton, rico, and cano fiolds “‘n howling wilderness,” when dsprived of their labor. The Chineso ara not here under any such auspices, ‘Ihey are not related to the white raco, and their labor is not indispensablo, ‘They como hero s Pagan alions and tho chat- tols of great Chineso speculating companies, owned, operated, and controlied by (lhem, ‘Thoy stay hora os alions, work aa nlieus, and roturn na alions, Thoy come hore ne Pagans and romain as Pagans, despising tho Christian system of religion and our republican form of governmont, Thoy never iutend to be. coma citizens or sover their nllegiance to the Emperor of Ohina, and they novor givo up their amenability to Chinese law. They bring with thetn nefthor wives nor obii- drou. Tho only women who come aro hera for immoral purposes, It they live' until tho expiration of thoir contracts with tho # Six Compaules,” they re. turu to Ghina; if thoy die befors that time, the compauies agrev to sund their bones buck, it helug part of thelr contract to be buried in Ohinoso soll a8 ous of the conditions of workiug soven or more yeurs for the com. pauies in Awmerica, It is one of the strongest arguments in favor of tho bill that tho Ohinoss thom- selves fu Culifornia are not dissatisfled with it, ns it protects them from any furthor de- cronso of wages, which would bo the result of freah importations of compoting Couliés. There aro already Chipsmen vnough on the Lacific Gonst to supply nll the demands of clioap formny of labor, and this nwnboer could not be fnoreased withuut atd)i furthier roducing tho wages of the others, aud Injuring white Iaborors atill more, TIliere are ubout 100,000 Cliness mon in_Uulifornia, Oregon, nud No- vads, and a few scattered mbout in the Northern States, but not in sufMoient num. Lers to effect tho prices of labor, In gome places ou tho Pacifie Slopu they are morenu. merous than tho Americans, “The Chiness m this couuntry can stay hore without mo. lestation, as the bill doos not affoct them, As tloy grow sarcer, by returning homwe, persecution of them will coaso. 'Ilioy will retire from the couniry, alive and dofunot, at tho rate of from 8 to 10 per gent per year, or fuster, and, s the new lmpartations will be limited to fifleon on each ship, this acoesslon will ot equal the outflow, and those left bero will obtain better wages, The pressure on American labor being rolieved, thoe whites will also be pald better compensation, and sll enmity sad strifs between the two racos Will speedily diminish, and eventually die ont, Thoy will never, however, bo anything but Cbiness, They camo hore as Chineso, snd. thoy will go away as Ohineso, Thoy will take nway everything they can possibly get, leaving behind them only tho scanty cost of thoir living. They oame horo do- splsing our language, our civilization, and our Government, snd' thgy will go away with the same foclings, The black man is here to stay, and s o oitizen of tho Kopublic, Ife is nativa born, and has an American mnceslry, Ifo spenks the English language. Ifo constitules the principal Inbor class of the cotton nnd sugar Statos of the South, o is quiat and ponce. ablo, and uot so indolont as tho whites, 1lo is flexibla in his disposition, nnd rapidly falls into our ways, which tho Chinaman never does. Ho copies onr vices and our virtues, our nctions, manners, atyle, and dress, Mo goos to school and to chnrch, Ho ncquires property nnd pnys inzes, and holds offico when he can. Tho other day ho prosided ovor thal dignified body known as the Sennte of the United Btates, nnd Democratic Sen- ntora reapectinlly saluted him s Acting Vico- Presidont, 1o serves in tho army and the navy in defonso of the nation and enforee. ment of its laws, and he has chieorfully and, courngeously givon hislifa for his country, and stands ready to fight for tho fiag and the Union, As botween such a raca of colored Amor- fean citizons and the Chinese nlions, there in no point of resemblance in their relntions to tho White race, except that both are of a different color, though the whites of the South have done some servico in trying to obliterate this last distinetion, There was no call, thereforo, for the spoech of Bonator Evst1s, and we aro surprised that its mauifest soplistry was nol exposed on the spot, It was ns absurd in all its dotails 08 his chargo that Ropublicans sympathizo with white men as against tho Chineso, but with the blacks ns agninst tho whites. Their sympathy is not extended to tho ono more than to the othor, oxeept na tha blacks hiavo been ill-trented, porsccuted, and opprossed, without cnuse, ° Their sympathy for the negro isonly an expression of the indigna. tion they foel nt the unnecossary and cruel trentmont he has had to suffer from Senator Eust1s’ constituents, THE BRAZILIAN CALAMITY, The long and datailed history of thio famina in Brazil, whick was published in Tite Tnin. UNE yestorday, cannot have failed to arrest tho attention of avery person who read it. ,Tho provinco in which this calamity took placo is alargo one, nurrow ot tho coast, but widoning into tho interior, and containing two naud a lnlf millions of poople. The particular district visited by the famntno con- tained over 900,000 inhnbitants. "Those peo- plo dopended for their food upon theiv an- uual crops. Tho winter of 1876-'7 brought o drought, which cut off all crops for the next senson, ound tho winter of 18778 was equally disnstrous. The pooplo wers re- duced to.absolute starvation. They lived principally in little sottloments, aud theso wera rtarved out; thoy began to herd to- gother, and fnnlly to flock to the larger towns, Ovor 100,000 refugees moved to n singlo town whosa , Dopulation wns only 25,000, Throngh the years 1877 and 1878 famine ruled supreme. Cattlo and all anfmals that wmight lave sorved for food perishod with the men, wowen, and children, In the migration from the interior the unfor tunato peoplo died on'tho rond by thonsands; inthe madness of - starvation, parents nto their own childron, The numberof thoss who died from starvation is cstimated nt {from 150,000 to 300,000, "T'his does not in. cludo those who dled from disonses resulting {from fawine. It wasnot until this terrible deatitution and dosolation bad been pro- gressing moro than o yonr that the Govern- ment was able to afford oven precarious and altogether insufficiont reliof. 'The famino- strickon conntry was shut in by monntalns, and the rivers and streams wors not navign. blo. It was deficlont of raflronds, and, when the eattlo died, thero wns no moaus of trans- portation for eithor persons or food. Hardly had the Governmont beon ablo to afford food and shelter to those who had heen able to crowd to the larger towns, when, o4 an almost natural result of the destitution, filth, and wretchedness, the #mnll-pox mado ita'appenravee. Vaceluation bad never been practiced, nnd the scourge followed hard upon the famine, Yellow fover and cholern had thelr shave, but the small-pox assertod a supromacy. At the Wown of Fortnlez there were 160,000 rofugeos. Tlore tho posti- lonco raged for several months, aud In Do- comber last tho number of deaths ronched 1,000 o day. ‘I'wonty-one thousand persons died in Docember. At otlor places tho morwlity was proportionatoly as great, There wns no sauitary attompt to avert tho mortality or to limit it. It was allowed to wenr itself out. The dend wero burled in trenches, thinly covered with sand, and now the black plagnoe is conauming those who esenpod Uho famine, tho yellow fever, cholera, and tho amall-pox, No ono ean reud thiy terriblo atory without being imprassed with the importauce of com- munication s A monns of avorting such calamities, Tho great famine which Lns raged 6o long in Olina Las beon prolongoed by the Impossibility of transporiing food to the nfflicted districts, Thero being no rail. ronds and no navigablo stroams, aud the country beiug romoto, and nommed in with mountain rangos, and populous, famine js uitlimited In its dovastation, Tho want and misery produced by fumine aro of courso fol. lowed by opldennes which sweop the peopla away remorselessly, Al rdief from beyond iw st out. [u India tho British Govbrumment hns been uble to do much to mitignte the horrora of succesaive famines, but it is due to the facilities offered by railronds that relicf hne been extonded to the sufferiug people, The Iuterlor districts of Brazil are populated by an iguorant, - provident people, 8hut out praotically from the rest of the world, thoy know nothing and care loss for any dmproventont in their modo of living; thoy know nothing of pro- onulions ngainst eolamity, Thoy probably novor heard of sanitary regulations, aud have no deslre for commerelal intercourse with peopla beyoud thelr own tribes. When pos- tlouvo falis upon them they purish by the wholosale, For two yonrs thoy have boen dying of starvation, snd no word of it renched tho outer world. If the Btates of this country west of the Missiusippi woro peopled as thickly as thoy ara now, and had 1o navigablo streams, and waro dopendout on the food produced by thomselves for life from one svnson to an- other, afalture of orops or grasshoppor visita. tion would reduce them to famine and to all forms of poatilence, espeolally if roliof was only to be obtalued from the Atlantie ports aud hauled overland, A railread runying through thess fnterlor provivces of Hrazil would furnish & prompt moans of zelief to tho regions exposed to theso failures of food products, and, by averting the famine, rrost. ing tho terriblo mortality from starvation, would hava nlso avertod the various forms of pestilonce which followed the drought and the starvation e i —) BEN BUILER. Drsnaery, at tho ontrot of bis polition] en. recr, was a Radicsl. 1o soon Liboralized, and lod the Liberal purty in the Ifouso of Comnionn, Ultimately ho joined the Con- servatives, led tho Tory party in Parlinment, and beeame Primo Minister and virtunl Dic- tator of England, 1It, now, Disnazr shonld, being doposed’ from oftlce, Tojoin the Libs erals, from Libornlism rapidly drift into Radienliam, and, struggling to the front of his party, propose n revolution having for its object the dentruction of the Monnrehy and tho eatablishmont of a pure democraoy, who doubta that he would bo hooted off tho stage whara ho hns played so conspiouous a part, and drivon at once and forever into ob. senrily? Tho publio tolerates, and some. times oven applauds, wuccessive sharp changos of political viows on tho part of public nien, so long ns thoy seem to bo the logical outgrowth of an honest natural line of thonght. Buf, when the extrems result. naut position hnas baen reached and tho ndvent. urous politicinn undertakes to retrace his steps, lo becomes an object of contempt ond derision, At ench successivo stngo of his reactionary progress he is greoted by the seoffs nnd jecrs of tho associates ho lately deserted, oud by the time lie reaches his original starting-point ho is heattily scorned nud despised by the honost men of nll par- ties. It is in this nttitnde that Bex BoTren, of Massnohusetts, is presonted to the coun- try to-dny. Provious 1o the War of tho Rebellion, Bur- LED was o Domocrat of the strictost soct,—a Northern doughface Demoerat, subsorvient to the Inat degreo to the beliests of the Sonthiern wing of the Democratio party, At Charlesion Le voted resolutely for Jure Davia uutil the Pro-Slavery party was shat- tored in picces. Whan the War broke out ho joined the army of the Union, and soon be- enme o radical Reopublican. ITo was an ad- vocate of the most violent mensures against the rebellious States nnd people, and while in control of New Orleans earned tho bitter Late, not only of its paople, but of overy man, woman, and child in the Confedernoy, by tho rigor with which he enforced wilitnry law in his department. Ilo wns denounced ns a * bhenst,” and nnathomatized as a mon. ster of vangoful cruelty, No language was found ndequato to the expression of tho ab- borrence with which his Inte Demoeratic agso- ciatos, then in rebollion, regarded the man thay delighted tonsme *“ Benst* Bureer, Tho ‘War over, Gen. Burren was rofurned to Con- gress, whora he was n couspiouous figure in the ¢ fore-front " of tha radical wing of tho Republican parly, invariably supporting those roconstruction ensures which wore most offonsiva to the pride of the Bouthern peo- ple. With the zeal of a mew couvert he seized every opporiunily to taunt and henp indignitics upon the mon with whom in 1860 ho had stood'at Charleston nud voted scores of times for Jrrr DAvis. At this perod of his eareer Bureen had traversed tho wholo gomuy of polilical elbics and prectice, from ano extremo to the othor,—~from tha cruelty, monnness, and nurrow brutal préjudics of an unrelenting Pro-Slavoryism to the lofty hights of wuiversal freedom nnd Impnrtinl suffrngo. Ifis politival growth had been in an opposito ditection to that of Disnarry, ‘They nny bo said to have ‘mot and passed onch other in tho race, the ono hastening violently from Liberalism to Toryism, tho other from barbarikm to freedom and en. lightonmont. .Disnasr ronched tho goal of his personal ambition, e remained poor man, but becnine Premier of England! Bur. LeR, on tho other haud, profiting by every * plnce” ho hiold, became’ vastly rieh, but fafled to risa inetho political seale, 1le grasped after tho Bonntorship, but wis rudely ropulsed. Ho aspired to be Governor, but tho peoplo of Massachusotts soorned him! Onca n demngoguo alwaya o demagogue, - Whon it beeatno evident that the Republienn party of tho State and tho nation suspected the purity of his motives and dintrustad his honor, Burusr justified thesuspioion and distrust by commencing to retrnos his stops toward the position lio hiad ocoupied in 1860, known his defection toward the Ropublienn porty by brutally assailing the Adminigten- tion aud beconing tho voluntary ally of the contipirators who sought to overthrow the dacislonof the Electoral Gommission. Then, 0 if Ju liaste to publivh his own infamy, he Joined hands with the Communists, who holdly declared their purposo to soize tho Govornment of Massachusetts by violenco, it need bo, nnd beenme their leader aud candi- dato for Governor! The everwholming do- foat which ha encountered mado bim neither awisor nornbotter man, But he rightly argued that the disgraco of his nssoeintion during that campaign left him no asyluh save in tha bosom of tho Democratic party, In the public mind of the United Btotes thero is no pardon for tho mau who darox to apolo. gizo for Keanszr and Communlsm, Lhis bolug the history, in brict, of By Butren's career, his Into monstrons proposl- tion to place tho nnmes of Confederato sol. dlers on tho pension.rolls of the country side by slda with thoso of tho men who fought to save tho Constitution and the Unfon i3 stornly logical, Tt dlsclosos the purposo of the demagogue to sound the lowest depths of ubject subservieucy to the presumed wishos of tho party futo whose anns ho (hrows Limsult, The proposition shows what Bur- 126 thinks the Southern poople desiro, and Lis opiofon ia not to be despised, Ho haos the advantage of having studied Southern ohnracter from tho standpoint of {ntimate ag. Bociation a3 well nsfron thatof violentopposi. tion. Burren knows, too, how the Sunthorn poople hate and despise Lin, and, knowing this, ho tuakes tho slrongest possible bid for rostoration to thelr favor, Inthe utterance of a single breath ho 'retracts and humbly apologizes for Lis own words and acts cover. ing a period of sixteon yonrs. In ono brief minuto ho ancrifices whatever of congiatenoy thero might otherwise appear to have Loun in his careor of lalf o gonora tlon. How the rigadicrs by whom he was surronnded must have sneored in thelr Learts os thoy lstened to the man who coolly tondered thom kis worvices ns the princo of domagogues and the chief of doughfaces! ‘I'hoy vould nfford to amilo ut the fury of Qon, Bnaga, when o groater than Buaga offored to lay the humble worvico of the Northern wing of the Democratio party at their foot. It was an enrnest of the spoedy return of ante-bellum customs whon the veteran Domocrat, purged of his sin of six- toou years, ouco moro Lowed tho backs of Northorn Dewocrata to . receive the lash of their Bouthern brothren, Do the Nosthern people realize the scope of Gon. ButLea's proposition? We hardly think so. Mere it is. IMosmd: **The tie was not far distant when a fesling of brotherhood would take into tho charge of the He mado | SBRUARY 17, 1879, Government tho maimed And’ disabled soldfers of the Bouthern a; tememborlng thelr cournge, their ateadfaatneas, and their gallantey, and for- #etting tho mistaken judgment which made thom fight npon tha side they ald," 1f tho Confedatato soldier who loat an nrm {n ontitled to Lo reimbursod by the Qovern. ment of the Unitad Slates, is not his old fathior equally entitfod to be paid for the loss ‘of his mnles, hia horses, his pign, his cows, and hia colton? I the maimed Confederate soldior who fought ngafast tho Unfon is to Lo poneloned by the Union, is not tho Con- fedorate who atayed at home, ‘cursed the Union, and raisod subsistenco for the Rebal nariny, equally ontitied to compensation for tho hacon, and corn, and potatoes seized by the Fedoral drmy ns it awopt ovef the South. era territory ? Gon, Purnen's proposition fs broad and comprehonsive enougli to cover tho paymont from the Unitod States Treas- ury of overy dollar of loss suffored within tho bounda of The Confedornoy from tho day whon Fort Sumtor wns flred upon down to tho tIme of tho surronder of Lz to Graxt ab Appomettox Conrt-Ilouse, Burren is indeod n colosanl domngogue, n colomsal donghfaca ! Ho sayn, in effect, to tho Brigadiors: * For sixtoen yoars I labored to crush you, heesuso I foresaw that you were destined to bo orushed, and I renlizod that the only road to porsonal advancement loy in crushing you. But I have not beon rewarded by the Ropub- lican parly. On tho contrary, I have been contetnned nnd despired by it. I wish to bo revengod. Ioffer my bnck to tho lash, I offer to open to your suffering and oppressed pooplo the vaulta of tho Lroauurg!” Gon, Burren has made his bed, and, as ho has mado ity he must lie fn it. Tho mnorific of tha last romhant of his honor n3 a man and of his conalstenoy ns a politician will be accepted by tho Democrats of the Sonth. But how they must despise him while they use him! How thoy must scorn bis double tronohory o exlubited in his original dfer- tion of them in thelr hour of need, and his present defectlon from the Republican party bocauso of its rofusal to reward him! Wo leave him to the torturos of oonscienco,— that divine principle in man which survives tho lowest deeps of infamy, and stings with ¥omorsa nfter it has consed to animate with high purposes, —— DEFEAT OF THE POSTAL-SAVINGS BYS- A reault of extensive fnilnres amongthe pri- vate savingsinstitutions of the country within the post two yenrs has suggosted n cloger in. quiry than was ovor made beforainto the sav- inganyatemu in other countrics undor Govern. tnont ansplocs, ‘Tho result of these inqulries led up to the introduction of soveral bills in Congress, all governcd by the samo prinoiplo, and only differing in details, with n view to offording Government socurity for the small surplus enrnings of the laboring classos in tho sliapo of a deposlt or lonn to the Gov- ernmont. It was ngreod by all who had givon tho suhject nny study, aud who: were actuated by considerations for the mnss of the people, that a system modeled aftor the Postul-Saviugs Banks of Eogland should bo provided without dolay, Such a syatem would bo a great boon: to the Inboring clnsses,—~to the 'dny Inborers, mechanies, foctory operatives, miners, clorks,—and ot the same time it would be an ndvantage o tho Governmont in affording nu wnparalieled facility for placing tho Government debt entirely nmong tho American people at a rate of intorest not excoeding 4 per cort, But the defont of tha Purues bill b tho Mouso Inst weok by a Inrge mnjority proves thnt the iufluences adverse to the cstablishmont of such BYBD- tem liave provailed, and no postalsavings monsure will bo passed by the present Can. gress, Theso ndversa influences camo from the owners and monngers of Bastern savings inntitntions, and from the corporations and individuals onjoying tho use of the acenmu- Inted capital of the masses. These peoplo wero convinded that the doposits would be withdrawn from their private matitutions, oven though drawing a largor rato of inter- ost, in order to seck n CGovernment guar- nnteo; aud henco, guided entirly by sol- fish motives, thoy have brought such influ. onces to bear upon fndividunl Congressmen a8 to defont the great popular demand for a Government saviugs syatom, and forco the Inborlug clnsses to intrust thoir surplus to tho sufo-keeping of private banks, Tho experiunco which the massos have hnd with the privato savings institutions in Chicago, Cincinnati, 8t. Louis, Pittsburg, nud other oities will moroly sorva to discourago thrift and aconomy; the wogo and snlaried classes will prefer to spend thelr earnings as thoy go rathor than rlsk thoir loss by depositing in concerns whero they have no othor gunar- nanleo than privato Louesty, which hos proved to bo very frail whon oxposod to tho temptn. tions of the banking business, 'Thore is just one hope of partial relief from tho progent Congress, and that lies o the possible. pas- snga of the proposed bill for 10 Govern- mont cortifientes, drawing 4 per cont interest, and oxchaugoablo in cortain amounts for 4 por cont bonds, Private surplus carnlugs would not go into these certifiontes to nay- thing liko the samo extent thoy would seck tho privilege of postal daposits in any sum ; but the certificato schomo will atill affort some protection ngainst the savings-bauks awindles. It remnins to be soen whether the Enstern influences will suceoud in atrangling this monsuro ns well ay the postal-savings proposition, . r——— Binco tho closa of the War Tue Onicaco Triouns hos frequently exprossed tho opine ion that tho mont prominent eauso of {ha poverty and stagnation of the South was the lnziness of its peoplo, and thelr disposition to shirk Inbor, Tor this oplulon Tuz Tam. uNE has been quite frooly eritfoised audf de. nounced by Bouthern newspapora as insult. ing their people, and the customary amount of swash and fustinn has been slung at it, It is bocomiug nppnront. at last, however, aven to the Bouthurn papors, that fnziness {a tho prineipal evil from which the South is suffoving. Tho Now Orloaus 7lmes of the 13th inst. plainly says: **'Phiero can be no question abont it, much of the misery and poverty which now afficts the people broceeds aimply and absolutely from laalness, In o country like ours of the Bouth, for example, there can ba no cxcues for mendleancy except in cases uf disease or montal and physical Tmbecillty; yet wo find in overy city, town, and neizhborbood, ablu-bodled mon and women living vpon the alms extracted by pervistont demanaa from their more ipdustrions nctghbors, Thess people, by only half excrilng themaelves, could earna comfortable aupport Just as woll as not; but, bolng lazy, thoy hang oround aud exist as scales upon the commue nity, ‘' Look at the crowds of whitos as well as blacks who dully assemble on Canul strect, about the Hecorder's Conrt roowms, at the Custom-Hupso and City-Nall, Thoy, In many instances, huve posis Hvely no means of aupport, exceps the precarjous picking up of odd ligh jobe, yet shey thus pass their livea 1n continual idlencss. 'Tho asme crowds con be found—less numorcuy, of course~in ‘il the Country towne and villoges, even in sectlons whero labor 1y {n tho greatest demand, snd whors wages uro the higheat, 1t iaa déplorable state of affaips, and thore should bo devised sonle means by which tho communities could be rd of the focubus, ™, We ara” glod “to have the' jndorsement of tmoh a prominont paper oa the New Orloans 2'¢mes, and to know that onr advige to the able-bodied Inzy whites in the South will horeafter bo scconded by it. The misery and povorty of the Bouth will continuo until its pooplo ahnke off thoir shiftlesy, inert, in- dolont habits, nnd go to work like Northern pooplo, NEGRO BUFFRAGE AGAIN. Tho forthcoming tumboer of the North Ameriears Reviewo for March contning a ‘““symposium " on the negro question; nand wo prosont elsswhere in this issuo sufliciont oxtraots from all the contributions to given genoral {don of tho drift of the discussion. Mr, Btarxn has the first and the last word, and ho nses lug ndvaatage well, It fa seldom (hat n keonier pices of writing, more biting in its sarcnsm or more pungont in its por. sonalities, than his rojoindor, finds its way into print. The contributions of Wexpsen Panees and Moxraosmeny Brata roprosent extromo and opposite viows of the question ; but neither of their arguments is charactoris- tio of any large political party. They nro themsolves political eurosities, and even ns Idiosynorasies havo of late bocoma tiresome by thelr frequont unnecessary nppoarances beforo the public. Wenpriu Priiirs at- tempts, in ono of the omitted portions of his srgument, to justify from experionce his the old plan days, roconstruction in accordanco with which the of in Innds of the ebels would have beon con. flseated, and thoe secoded States held for an indeflnite poriod as Territories, Brarkz an- awers this vory forcibly by showing that the adoption of such a plan would have been un- constitutional, nnd would bave endaugered tho perpetnity of the Repnblienn party ; bo. nidos whicl it would bave been nundesirable both for the negroes and for loyal whitos, In a similar wny Mr, Brarse goos to the ruot of Wape Hasrron's argument that partial entranchiscment of the negroes through an oducationnt qunlification would have boen Dbotter. Braixe observes that the negro in Bouth Carolina, ns in the rest of the South, when tho Fiftconth Amondment was adopt- ed, was subjoct to barbarous and discrim. inntive ponal legislation, and thal the only way to protect him against it was to put tho ballot in his hands, All thoe dobntors, with thoe exceptlon of the ox-Abolitioniat Moxntaomeny Bram, agroe to these two propositions : 1. That thé "distranchisemont of the color- ol men is o political impossibility, . 2, That the ballot in the hiand of the Dblacks is n “deofonsa” and an * education,” and ought 70t to bo withdrawn. ‘The foncing comes when the application of this Iatter proposition to the circum- Alances of cliher political party is attempted, the Democrats contending that the colored man g boon * eduoated ” through the bal Iot to love ond vote with the Confederate party, and the Republicans that hia * eduos. Lion " has boen stopped and defented by the fraud nnd violenco of theSouthoern bulldezoers, "The argumont in favor of an educational or n proporty qualifieation fs diaposed of very cffectually by tho evidenco tkat the Bouthorn States themsélves, in which the averag of popular intelligenco and wealth is low, would be unwilling to disfranohise so many white voters as would be affeoted by a Inw of this description, Wo are surprised that none of the debaters hoa insisted fully on the argu. ment for negro suffrage - detived from the theory of our Goverumont and thie nature of In n freo Republio no eitie zon cpu Lo disfranchised for race-r¢nsons our institutions, alone. If ona xnco could bo so disfranchised, any might be, Nor is it agreeable to auy modern idens of freedom that Intelligant men and texpayers should bo gl lowed no voico in the disposition of thg mouoy which thoy are com. petled to contribute for the support of the Governmont. Objections to the vote of the negroos founded on their ignoranco or their povorly apply with equnl forco ngainstn larga porlion of the white population; and objections on the scora of rnce or nativity would, If rdopted, rule out a large part of tho whole body of voters. The black should hnve tho vote for the snmo roasons and on the same conditiona that the white has it; and ho is ovan more cntitled to the protac- tion which it affords beeause he needs it moro for his_protection. In tho words of Mr, GanrFierp, ona of the most thoughtful contribntors to this debate: *Thoo who denounco the onfrauchisement of the nogro ag unwise aud drugerous are bound to show & botter adjustmont of s status,” ‘I'hnt tomporary evils would arise from tho fmmediato enfranchisement of the colored raco was foroseen and admitted by those who supported the measure, but thoy believed, with MacavLay, that * Thera is only one cure for the evils which newly-nequired froedom produces—and that is freedom, When a prisoucr leavos his coll ho canthot bénr the light of doy; ho is unable to diseriminate colors or recognizo facos, But the remedy is not to remiand bim to his dungéon, but to acoustom bim to the rays of theeun. If men aro to wait for liberty till they becoma wiso nvd good in serfdowm, thoy will walt foraver.," Se—— Qen., ButrEn is ln hot water sraln, as usual. ‘This timo It Is about paying a tax upon personal property in Washington City, Havluz been as- sessed, ud the District Cominissioners demands [ng payment, Mr, BUTLER says that lie1s not & resident of the Dlstrict, and !s ot sub- fect to the laws of taxatlon. ©I am sent here,” he continues, *to represent my State, uud, I I canbot have tho couven. fences of life about me in tho District, of course 1 won't cutie, und I canfiot have them hero If 1 have to puy taxes o second time, after haviug pald taxes ou all my personal property in iny own Btote. Ho further states thut, a4 the queation Involves an tmiportant one of pers sumal rigtits, he sucgests that the Tax Commls- sloncrs attach his property and ho wiil then try titles with them before the courts. Buren's communleution was referred to District-Attor- ney RippLx for an opinion, who treats the Gon- eral to a citation of the law on the subject of taxation, und a uice bit of sarcasm, to boot, {n relation to BuTLen's fhreat not to go to Con geress if hods not well treated fn the District, RippLy admits thut 1t would bo s great uatfonal calumity not to kave *old cock-oye! in Cone Kreas, but ha faucles that the great law of coms pensation would hold good even in that casc, und ho hopes that the wheels of Governmeit would continue to revolve without hin, f ———— When, & fo weeks ago, a large numbor of American plasterers left Now York for Gluszow, whora they were to obtaln work for scveral nouths at lberal wages, the engagoment be- ainning the moment the ship loft the whart, the New York papers devoted much space to a do: seription of the cxodus, The mon have had to &uo for their woges, swhich havo beon reduced, while employmont hasonly beun furnlshed them for balf time, und the Courts have declived to make an order for wages tor tine bn the Yoyage over. Thisnows Is to-dsy ntadv public for the first time fa America, It out New York cou- temporaries will copy it they wmay prevent many moro artisans from belng gulled and left friend. less 3,000 miles from home. T e — 5 A Washinglon correspondent of a certaln Western nowspaper is not iuch fo love with alf phaaca of polite socloty {n thut aristocratic city, e recently attended o distinguished Senator nnr::;'l, members of the Cabinet, membersof Congross, arm, and other disttuguislied pes with a large majarity of Y, ly-dressed lndics, ton piven S Wwife, g whio foreigy er\]llfl: Y and nagy gy, rsons were Dres ent, autiful ang g, that o ogeo: gh- by the CowviLLe Folly Company, are somewhat fainous for the 2 millinery goods displayed on "I:;fl;ll:muum, o was ot prepared to 8e¢ a similgr nx):fn’;h ! e charms on the part of theso flng Iadies Whon 2 well-bred and of good repute, ’nxel«'!ln s between the dlondes on tin-too betory mmm Mehts, nud the blondes under thy l.le o gorgeonus chandellers in g Washington Sean rint mansfon, is, not nn excess of dmu‘f,nm the manmer of wearlug jt,—the r:, A !." clothes being deflctent. aboy; the r;nu. limbs, while the Iatter were so mom drosaed mbout ihe breasy and lhlm]nflm asto leave nothing at all 1o the Irnnz;l\mcn The correspondent states that there wag )['vl enough of thess fashlonable dresscs to mz:&u h demands of the person it they had beey) iy erly und more Judiclously ndfusted, ang m‘: 4 certain portion of what was dragein, hit carpet had been transferred to the shonldey would have been o great fmprovemeny, “'nn boldly and wickedly asserts that he will py disguiss himeelf again when ne V\‘!nuloum famous artist dance the Mighland fling fn m;a. air, a8 he hos seon some things in what 1y mm‘ the best soclety that takes awag the shama of j, ————— Mr. TILDEX may sayto the arc making up slates {or next Democratic Convention, in Buramia: They reckon 111 who leave me out, Itisalittle curfous that up to the time no political ealewlator has taken intoconyig, eration the fact that the Sage of Gramerey Pygy strength lay in the rivalry boiween Tituyyy und HENDRICRS, If TuuRMAN werenomingteg Hzxpricks would not bave a chanco of adorg. ing a National ticket at all 411 1883, whereas i TiLDEN and HENDRICKS wero the Ucket, (o chances would be greatly In favor Of Mnxonicyy and IANCOCK, or IIENDRICKS and Ronixuoy, for 1881, 11 tha ticket of 1873 s not, rengey unted with a whoop after an cloquent, speey on the necessity of redressing the Frod,—q " expect it will be,—the moment that THORMY looms up Henpricks will joln TH.ozN, ) TrURMAK wlll bave to confide hls feclings to by bandauna. ’ zentiemen "y year's Natlopy the wonly o ———— An English sclentist has lssued g elreulir, secking {nformation on the subject of he syl tive natural usage of the left and right bands; whether people can wink more elogucotly ity the right or left eye, and, If so, why not; { they can wag thelr loft ears moro readily than their right oncs, or, on the contrary, quite the e verse, and so on, 'This fs all very good, so far o it goes, but other yaluable additions might have been made to the list of inaulries, auch ., “Do you usually tell the truth over the fefs or the right1” “DId vou ecver think you wers right, and get loft1? ¢ Ara your foet all right, ornot!" “Into which ear doos a pleco of nems that goos out of the other nsuslly coteri” — Bome Confederate Brigadicrs who wers wae dering about the Capitol at Washiugton the oth. or day pleked up alittle serap of the old Iron Brigade. Finding it very hot, they aronped &t instantly, nnd are not tnclined to Braaa adout their exploit. ———— PERSONALS. ‘Wo beliove that Catawayo is an Ohio msn, Yawcoob Kahn is a bigger man than his fether, Mr. Tildon to his nophow William: Your valentine I cannot be. Birthdays, it nppenrs, are for Dr. Petcr Coopdr, and nobody olss in New Yorkcan hane any. If Mr. Tilden insiats on running again fer tho Presidency reform I8 necessary,—morejaecels sary than ever, Mr. Conkling obscrves that Costom. Mousos are often won without Merrlit and loit without descrving, "T'he British lion nppears to bo iways pot ting his tail whero it can be stepped on, The best place for it 1s botweon his lege, Fanny Davénport weighs 180 ponnds, sod this probably Ja the reason that she always wanld a strong company to support hor. Dr, Mary Walker Is lecturing on *The Coming Woman," e hopo, .Iumevzn the come Ing womun doesn't wear pantaioons. = A Olbolhinati man drank thirty glassés of beer rocently within tiso hours, “Hereatlast it the proper man for tho Beriln mission, B Dr, Laonard has beon lecturing in Detroit on “*The Fly." The Doctor evidently wials § porition in some firat-class buse-ball club, A Boston paper says : **The ico in some of 6 Down-Enst rivéra (s eo tifck fhat when itl taken out thers won't be any water left.” The rocent affair iu South Africa would have been the battle of John Bull Ran, but (38 British forcés dtdn't got a chiance ta run. A gentlemun hanged in Cloveland the other day remalned a hardoneil einner to the ol e wrote puetry almost (o tho last moment. Tho Chineso will probably go. Joserh Cook saya they must wat go, und theyars alnaly therefore, that Lie Intends to lecture to thom. It {ho Count Jonunes coutinues to sp- pear with hia present oftericy, we may look for 8 stelke of hons for bettor wages or fewer hours. England must {ollow the example a(llhh: United Biated and aupplant its bayonet ml; ::Im‘ policy of grace, mercy, and peace in italn cilable South, e b 1t greatly ainoys Mary Anderson ot mistaken for the pedestridn, She explaibe o aliois a **atar," whilo Madame Auderson famec a walking-lady, A correspondent says tho! s too good for hls party, Somator cortatnly come with o good deal better dation than this. - " Mrs, E. D, E. N. Southworth has lm finlated her fifry-hinth wovel, and we bdtl:;;flh Sias tald inote truth in overy ono of thew Tilden over thought of. i The New York papers very gmelyall“ 4 that O'Leary {8 missing, o tanotinisslod i much sa the compoiiturs for the Astley cha®P! ship belt wish o wero, Mr, Talmoge may preach on Hun:‘llt!'l.: much as he pleascs, but we shall never neam!lfl hey been thera under tho guidance and pr ‘of a New York policeman. o Pinche "ho Bpringfield fepublican soys: o back blushingly accopta the ofiice '3' Unh;“"m Revonue Agent for Loutslana, " Now, W colur of Plncaback’s blushos? T " It dasald that tho New York Castom-15 18 Lnunted by & ghost, Porhapait le 1he hlnn"m‘ the latu Mr, Conkilng, Mr. Merrith i must not falf to collect the usual duty on AP it A Fronch duel resulted fatally llml :‘, 5 dny, Tho horsea of one of the ducllsia n‘r,xm B hie was returning from the frontier und & e fof ‘This ouglt to moderate tho French enthus dueling, i Wo learn from the Atlauta a'mg"fi’:“ that Mr, Tilden's only crime lu that hole ! :Iy of Willlum Pelton, And b can li:“““m. acqmitted of this crimo nnless ho resor! tully to the emotlonal-tnsanity dodge. ote 3 An exchange says: * Chicsgo "]“‘"w world's fair in 1883 to bo held at cmcncfli" o ot 86, Louls would be fhe berter place fof 8. Peoria," We instal, bowever, that C:ml.::hltl by bostplace for s world's falr to be Ifn! ‘A] i Mr. Boooher fs a believor mvv :. oyt On Friday Inat hio tosis all tho youus o0 famlly to & atore, gave them carfe O no" 8 st what they would, footed tho biil, snd unm“ s for them &}l from schoo} Il tho valen be uddressed. il A 8t, Lonla paper boasts of lhflmllg"" i of bullding to be done in that city the .c:m ea don. " Boveral 8t. Loals belles have i o thaie 06 tucky gentlomen during thc vllnm’.l :x:u"' 4 parturs liberates a good deal of res! 16 to be lwproved. 4 Senator Baysrd Dayard most recamens