Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1879, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRID Tye Tribme, TERMSB OF QDB&CRII‘TION- LII gty s W ey SRS 3 TY MAIL—IN ADVARCH—TONTAOE PREPAID. 1an, ONe year, . 812, ' montii.. 2.30 .00 W One cops. 1.50 Cinbof tw 2O 7 Epecimen cop! ive Poat-Oflce uddross n full, County, Ttemittances may bo mado efther hy draft, express, Fost-Uflce order, or in registered letier, at our riek. TERMS TO CITY SUDSCRIDERS. iy, delfrered, Bunday excepted, 2 cents per week. Dally, deftvered. Sunday inciuded, 30cents ner weeke Addren THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, ineluding Btate and ' Corner Msaditon aud Dearborn-st., Chicago, il Onfers for the delivery of Tk TRIRUXE at Evanston, Engiewood, and Hiyde Iark teft in the eouting-room wilireceive Fromotatiention. TRIBUNE BIFAN 2 CricAco TRIREN has established branch offices Mn‘he‘;:lwlmnl anbscriptions and advertisements as followa: ; DF‘;&“‘ TORK~TRoom 29 Tribuns Bullding. F.T.Mo- ansger, ‘rance—No. 16 Rue do In Grange-Batellers. K. Mantrr, Aseut. L0ADON, Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Strand. HxxnY F. GiLLia, Agent. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-~Palace fl:l 1 1310 ¥ reet. MaoVicker'a Theatre. ton street, between Dearborn and State, Ene gsgoment of Miss Ada Cavendish. **As You Like it En- Tinverly’s Thentre. Dearborn street, corner of Monsoe, of Mr. Jobn A. Stevens. ** Unknown.” Fangagement 1toniey’s Thentres Randolph etrect, beraecn Clark and Lasalle. Fn- Fagement of the New York Criterlon Comedy Compas ny, S Whimy" othor gentlemen nlso as well acquninted with tho business as Limaolf aro wnanfmous. Dr. Dervens, United Statea Inspeotor of the Btock-Yards, stats that ont of 10,000 head of cattlo which le has examined Iately, ha has not found n singlo caso of tho diseaso, Inorder to * make nssurance doubly sure,” | howevor, ‘o has, in nceordance with the fn. \structions of Commissionor Lz Due, on. gagod 'Dr. Paextice, of Ohampnign, 1, to nssist bim tomporarily in the work of Jnspoction. Al the storles which have beeh published concerning tho diseass hero nro either.the expansion and distortion of guch ocenrrences na the appointment of Government Inspoctors, or deliberato fabri- cations for the purpose of hurting the trade of this city, Yesterdoy a dolegation of building citizons of the big-gravoyard quar- ter of Daris walted on GaxnerTa, domand: ing the return of -all their friends and reln- tives remaining in >Téw Caledonia, whither they wero sent in Septomber, 1871, at French exponse. Tho plensant nssurance was given them by their old-time leader that frosh par- dons had boen jesucd for another bateh of 600 of ho oxported Parlsians, ond that the Ropnublic should bo mnado as productivo and “ restorattva” os practicable, no furthor ob- staclo of the Monarchists. being cnapnblo of ingpiring alarm. To another Committoo Presidont GrEvy, howevet;' oxpressed the urgent need of & programme o moderate as to keop tho slow-golng provincials, freshly nnder the wgis of liborly, frof scampering ‘back into the fold of dospotism, iR e Among our Washington dispatches this moruing will befennd an outlina of, tho viows of tho Ohiness Embassy at Washington ra- garding tho bill passed by tho Scnata on Sat- Tlamlin’s Theatre. Clark street, opposite the Canrt-llause. *'Leopold." “Varlety entertainment. Detropolitan Thentre. Clark street, onposite She Toure, *' Tina, tho Milkvender of Germaatow arlety entertaioment. Academy of siusic, Tialsted street, between Madlson and Sfonroe. Va- 2lety entertalnment. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 187, — e e Racent hoavy rains in. California have greatly improved the wheat prospoct, which until recently was very discouraging to formoors, - —— Tho signiug of the definitivo treaty with Tarkoy was yosterday formally announced at St. Potersburg by the Czar, and Inte-in-the- day illumivations wero had in honor of TRussin’s.glorjous victories, et # Naturo nnd Man" is the subject of Prof. Bwixa's sermou of yesterdny printed in ourfcolumng. The Rov. L. P. Mencex, Swedanborgian, proached’ on **The Public Consoience,” and tho Rev. W. F. Crarms conductod nn intoresting ** question-service.” . It 1smuch honor aud but little profit to be Governor of tha Stato cf Michigan, A Joint resolution bas been introduced in the Legislaturo increasiog tho Gubernatorial au- nual compensation, now $1,000, to 32,600, There onglt, not fo bo much grumbling at that proposition. -Au.argumont in favor of capital punish- ment is furnished 1 the ‘cnso of Mrnnick, the horrid butcher of his wifo and her un. YLorn babe, whose body did tho Stato somo wervice ns the *‘mubject” ot b catving clinio of the Indinuupolis Mcdicat College. A sentenco of imprisonment for life wounld havo intorfored with this gratifying arrsoge- ment. Tha Sub-Commitice of the ITouse Com- mittes on Appropriations, to whom was ns- signed the task of figuring ont tho amount roquired to meet the outlny necossitnted by the Pension Arrears bill, bavo made up their minds that 226,800,000 will do for n starter, -and o voport to this effect will be submitted. 1t will prove to be nwild guesa befors alt tho arrcars have coma to tho front. Thero is trouble afoot in that undesirnble combination of icebsrgs and bad Indians Lknown on tho map ng Alaskn. Tho iosbergs make it too cold, and the Indinns moke it much too warin, and between the two ex- tremes tho unfortuoate white fubabitants aro kopt very uncomfortable, ‘Fon days ngo, when last heard .from, the people of Sitka ‘wera in mortal dread of an Indian uprising, and the Collector had telegraphed Secrotary Buzraran for asalatanc Prohibitory seutiment is very strong among the temperanco peoplo of Minuesots, ne ap- poars by the vota in tho Souato an Baturday on a resolution providing for the submission to popular vote of an amendment to the State Constitation which should prohibit the man- ufacturo and sale of intoxicating liquora for beverages, The moasure had beon adoptedin Commiltea of the Whole the previous day, but when it came before tha Senate for final action itlacked but two voles of a majority. . The Benato possed Baturday tho Honso bill on tho Ohlueso subject which llm. ita the number mriving on any oune vessol ‘to fiftcen, 'The principal smend- ments adopted provide that the bill shall not apply to any vessel driven on the const by stress of weather, or to Ohina. 1aen who come to this country to got an education, provided they bring with them a certificate to that effect from thelr own Gov- ernment., It is belioved that the Ilouse will concur in theso amendmonts. Becretary Evants, in urging upon CUon. frees tho vollng of a yew's salary to the widow of Baxann Tayron, brings forwnrd rensons which cught to sllence all objections o such an st of uutional genarasity, Mre. ‘Paxvon is worse than pusntless;. sho is in debt in Berlw, by renson of the expensive preparation made by the United States Min. ister for o protracted residence theve., The ‘widow haa not boen alls even ta defray the funeral expouses, and it Iy necessary for the oredit of the peopls whom Bavarp Tavron 0 ably represented ot the German Cupitsl that o little gencrouity ba promyptly dlsplayed by Congress, © A statement telegruphed from Washinglon . to 'Tue ‘U'ripune, and nppearing in Katuy- day's paper, to the effeot that private udvices had beon roceived thero that plonro-pneu- ‘monia was p'uvnlllng'nt tbo Ohicago Btock. Yurds, appears, upon investigation, to have no other basis thau the fact that, under in- structions of the Treasury Department, an inspeotion of cattle at (Lo yards had boon or- dered. Au examination mado Baturday by a representative of this paper furnished con- viucing proof that there has uot been, snd {8 ‘not, anywhers within the iomtediate ueigbborhood, of . thia cily 8% least, ' any iudication . of pleurn.’ pasumonia. On this ‘poink Mr. SmeaMix; Huperintendent of the Btock-Yards, and urdny. Rumor js probably not far -wrong in describing tho state of mind of tho'Coles- tinl diplomats ns one of great surpriso:that such A measuro should pass the Sonate, tho idontical grove nud dignified body which sot its seal of ratifieation upon the treaty be- twoen the United States and China. They did mot cxpect a bill to pass tho Scnate sbrogating without notico a treaty entered into in good foith, nnd carried out by the Chinese Governmont on its own part with the most scrupulous oxactness; and they now express confidence that the Prosi- dout will_veto the bill, and that it will bo impossiblo to pass it ovor his veto, It is said that tho represontatives of Europesn Governments anticipato n decidod disturb- auce of existing trade relations uetweon the United States and China as the result of the pnsyage of this bill, oud that Buropenn mer- cliants will be the gainers thercby. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALIEN CBINESE AND BLACK CITIZENS, 1t is surprising that the speech of Senator Eust1s, of Loulsiana, in the debate upon the Chineso bill, secking to draw a parallel be- tween the Ohinese and tho American blacks, and’ nceusing the Republican advocates of tho bill with inconsistency, was allowed to go upon {he record without refutntion or re- ply, when it was such an ensy mattor to ex- poso its glaring sopbistry and absurdity, It would not have delayed . the. dobn e fifteon minutes to have demonstrated that thero are 10 points of resemblance in the two cases, The prohibition of the . importation of Africons as a sorvile raco was effeoted in 1808, It was tha * Chinoso law” of that period, and it has been in forco ovor seventy yoars, 'Tho. Chincse Coolios, agninst whom the present bill s directed, como haro to all intents and purposes a3 nservilo raco. Thoy do not como hero with any of the purposes or ambitions that induce Europesn foreign- ors to seok our shores, They do not come on their own money. Exceph that they con- trol o limited part of their wages, thoy aro substantinlly chattels sent herc and there by the great Chineso companies, and depend- ent upon them for their situations and very existence, ‘I'ho blacks aro American citizons “ to the manor born" for ng many gonern- tions as the whites, and in the veins of helf n million of them run the blood of the chiv. alry of tho South, which has tinged them o\l shades of color. They are there- fore indissolubly united to tho whites by the strongest of all ties,—thosa of consanguinity, —just na they are indissolubly connected wwith the material interests of the Bouth by the indispensalle necessily of lalor, Any legnl diserimination agaiust tho black citizens of the South which touded to free that re- gion of thoir preseuce would banish brothers, and sisters, and sons, and dangh. ters, and cousins, and nophews of tho domi. nant race, aud soon leave the cotton, rice, and cone flolds “‘n howling wilderness,” when daprived of their labor, The Chinesa are not hers under any such auspices, 'They aro pot related to the white race, and their labor is not indisponsable, They como hero ps Pagan alions and tho chat. tola of great Chineso speculating companies, owned, operated, and controlled by them, They stay horo as alions, work ng nlions, and roturn ns alions, Thoy como horo ns Pagans and reminin as Pagans, desplaing tho Ohristian system of religion and our ropublican form of governmant, They nover intend to be- come cltizens or sover thelr alleglauce o the Emperor of Chins, and {hey never give up their amonablility to Chinese law. They bring with themn nelthor wives nor chil dren, Tho only womon who come are lera for immoral purposes. If they Jlive until tho explration of their contracts with the * Six Compauies,” they re- turn to China; if thoy die bofora that time, tho compnulus agreo to sund their bones bick, it hoing part of thelr contract to bo buried in Ohinese soil ns ouo of tho conditions of working seven or more yeirs for the com- panivs fn Amerlea, . It is ono of the strongest arguments in favor of tho bill that tho Ohinose them. selvea fn Culifornia aro not dissatisfied with it, ns It protects them from auny further do- oreaso of wages, which would be the result of fresh fmportations of compoting Coolies, Thoro are alrendy Ohinamen enough ou tho Pacific Qonst to supply nll {he demands of cheap forins of labor, and this mynbnr oould not be Inereased without atill furthor reducing tho wagesuof the others, aud injuring white Jaborers still more, ‘“I'here are ubout 100,000 Ohincso mon in Californis, Oregon, and Ne- vada, and n few wcattered about in the Northern Blates, but not in sufilsient num- Lers o affect tha prices of labor, In some places ou the Pacifle Blope they are morenu- merous than the Americans, ‘The Chineso m this country con stoy here without mo. lestation, as the blll dves not affoct them. As they grow scarcer, by returning howe, persocution of them will ceaso, Thoy will rotiro from the country, alive and defunot, at the rate of from 8 to 10 per cent per year, or fester, and, ns the now {mpartations will be limited to fifteen on each ship, this accession will not equal the outflow, aud those loft biero will obtaln better wages, The pressure oir American fabor being rolieved, the whites will also be paid botter compensation, and sll eumity and strifa betwoen the two racos \out. Thoy will never, however, bo anything Lut Chinose. Thoy onmo hore ns Chineso, and they will go away as Ohineso. They will taka away overything they can possibly got, lenving behind them only ihe peanty cost of their living, Thoy oamo hero de- spising our langusgy, our civillzation, and onr Gorernment, and they will go away with the samo feelings, Tho black man is liero to atay, nud 18 a oltizen of tho Mepublio, e is native barn, and bes on American ucestry, o spesks tho English language, Ilo comstituics the principsl Inbor clnss of the totton and augne States of the Bouth, o is quiet and pence. able, and 1ot 8o indolont as tho whites, 1o { flexible in Lls dispasition, and rapidly falls into our ways, which the Chinnman never does. Ho copica our vices and our virtues, our nctions, manners, atyle, and drees, Io gaos to school and to chnreh, Ho nequires property and pays taxes, and holds office whon he con, Tho other dny ho presided ovor that dignified body known as tho Senato of the United Statos, snd Democratic Son- ntors respectfully saluted him ns Acting Vice. Prosidont. o sorves in tho army sud the navy in defonse of the nation and enforee- mont of its 1aws, aud he has cheerfully snd, courageonaly givan hialifa for his country, and stands rondy to fight for the flag and the Unlon, As botween such n raco of colorad Amor- jcan citizons and the Chinese alions, there is no point of rosomblance in their relations to tho White race, axcept that both are of o differont color, though tho whites of the South have dono soms sorvics in trying to obliterate this Inst distinetion, There was no call, therefore, for the specch of Benator Eusris, and wo ate surprised that its manifest sophistry waa not exposed on the spot,. Tt was as absurd i all its detnils ns his charga that Ropublicaus sympathize with white men ns against tho Chineso, but with the blacks ns agninst the whites. Their sympathy g not extended to the ono mora than to the othor, oxcept ay tho blacks have been ill-trented, povsecuted, and opypressed, withdut cause. ° Their sympatby for tho negro isonly an expression of tho indigna- tion they foel nt the unnecessary and crucl trentmont ha hes had to suffer from Senator Evst1s’ constituents, TRE BRAZILIAN CALAMITY. . The long and dataitad history of the faming in Brazil, which was published in Tie T'nin- UNE yestorday, cannot bave falled to arrest iho attention of every person who read it: Tho province in which this calamity took placs is o largo one, norrow at the coast, but widening into tho interior, and coutaining two and a half milllous of poopls. The particular distriot visited by the fmmine con- tained ovor 000,000 inhabitaats, “These peo- ple dopended for their food upon their an- nual crops. The winter of 1876-'7 brought o drought, which cut off sl erops for tho next senson, oud tho winter of 18778 was equaliy disnstrous. The poopla wers re- duced to absolute starvation. They lived principally in little settloments, and theso wera ntarved out; thoy began to herd to. gother, and finally to flock to tho Ilarger towns, Over 100,000 refugees moved to o single town whose population was only 25,000, Through the years 1877 and 1878 famine ruled supremo. GCattle .aud all soimals that lght have sorved for food porishod with the men, wowen, and children, In the migration from tho interior the unfor- tunate peoplo died ou tha rond by tHousands; in tho madness of . starvation, parents ate thoir own childron, Tho numberof thoss who died from starvation is ostimated nt from 150,000 to 300,000, This does not in. cluda thoso who died from disonses resulting from famina, It was not until this terrible deatitution and desolation bad been pro- gressing mora thau o yoar fhat the Govern. ment was able to afford oven precarious and altogether insufiicient reliof. ‘The famine- strickon country was shut in by mountalns, nnd the rivers and streams wore not navign. blo, It was deficlent of railronds, and, when tho eattlo died, there was no menus of trans- portation for cithor persons or food. Hardly had tho Goversment boon ablo to afford food and shelter to those who hnd been sble to crowd to the larger towns, when, s an almost natural result of tho destitution, filth, snd wretehedness, tho small-pox made ita'nppearatice. Vaccluation had nover beon practiced, and tho scourge. followed hard upon the famine, Yollow fover nnd cholern had their share, but the small-pox asserted a supremacy. At the Town of TFortnlezs there wera 160,000 rofugeos. THero the postl- lonco raged for several months, aud in Do. comber last tho uumber of deaths renched 1,000 & dny, ‘I'wonty-ono thousand persons died in Decomber. At other placos the mortality wns proporticnately as grent, There was no sanitary attempt’to avert the mortality or to limit it. Itwas allowed to wear itself out. The dead woro buried in trenches, thinly covered with saud, and now the blnck plague is consuming thowo who escnpod the famino, tho yellow fever, cholorn, and the small-pox. No ono oan read this terrible slory without being fmprosseil with the importauco of com= munication a8 A monns of averting such calamitics. Tho great famluo which hos raged 8o long in China Lns beon prolonged by tho impossibility of transporting food to the afffictod distriots, 'There being no rail. ronds and po navigable streams, and tho country boiug romote, and hommed in with mountain ranges, and populous, famine is unlimited in its dovastation, 'Tho want and misory produced by faigine aro of course ful. lowsd by epldemics which sweep the people awny vemorsolessly, ‘Al rdief from Leyond s shut out. Io JTudie tho British Governwent lins been able to do much 1o mitigate the Lorrors of successiva faminos, but it is due to the facilitos offered Dy rallronds that relict hos Dbeen extended to tho sufferiug peoplo. Tho Intorior districts of Brazil ave populated by sn iguoraut, im- provident people, Bhut out praotically from tho rest of tho world, thoy know uothing and caro less for any dmprovement in their mode of living; they kuow nothing of pro- onutions ngalnst celnmity. "fhoy probably nover heard of sanitary regulalions, aud have no desiro for commorclal intercoursa with people beyoud thelr own tribes. Whon pos- tilonvo falia upon them they perish. by the wholesale. Tor two yoors thoy have been dying of starvation, and no word of it rosched the outor world, It the Btatoa of this country west of the Misslssippi wero peopled ns thickly as thoy aro now, and had no navigablo streams, and were dependont on thu food produced by thomsclyes for life from one scason to nu. other, afallure of orops or grasshoppor visiia- tion would roduce them to famine and to all forms of pestilence, especlally if rolief was only to be obtatued from (he Atlantie ports aud hauled overland, A raiflrosd runying through thesa interlor provinces of Brazil would furnish & prompt moaus of rellef to the reglons exposed to these fallures of food ‘MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17. (879, producta, and, by averting the famine, avrost- ing tho torrible mortnlity from starvation, would have also nverted the varlons forms of pestilonce which followed the drought aud the starvation. e BEN BUTLER. Disnaeey, at {ho onteot of his political ea- reor, wns Radleal. o soon Liboralized, and lod the Liberal party In tho Houso of Commons, Ultimately Do joined the Con- sorvatives, led the Tory party in Parflamont, and bécama Primo Minister and virtual Dic. {ntor of England, If, now, Disnarnt should, Loing doposed from oftleo, rejoin the Lib. erals, from Libornlism rapdly drift into Radloalimn, and, struggling to the front of his party, propose a revolation having for its object the destruction of the Monarehy and tho establishmont of a puro democracy, who doubts that he would bo hooted off the stago whara ha bas playad so conspiotous a part, nnd driven at onco and forever into ob- sonrily? The publie tolerntes, and some- times evon npplouds, suocessivo sharp changes of politienl viows on tho part of public mon, so long as they seom to Lo the Togical ontgrowth of an honest uatural lino of thought, Bué, when the extrome result- aut position hes been reached and the advent. urous politician undertakes to retrace his steps, hio becomes an object of contempt ond derision. At cnch succesaivo stago of his renotionary progross ho ls greoted by the scofls nnd jeers of tho associntes ho lately descrtod, and by the time lo renches his original starting-point be s hoartily searned and despised by the honest men of ol par- tios. It isin this attitudo that By Burees, of Mmssnchusotts, fu presented to the conn. try to-dny. Provious to the War of the Rebellion, Duz- LEm was o Democrat of the strictest soct,—a Northern doughfaco Demoerat, subsorvient to tho lnst degreo to the behests of the Southern wing of the Democratio party, At Ounrleston ho voted resolutely for Jere Davis until the Pro-Slavery parly was shat. tered in pieces. Whon the War broke out he joined tho nrmy of the Union, nud scon be. camo o radical Ropublican, Ilo wns an nd- voente of the most vlolant measuros ngainst tho rebellious States and people, and while in control of Now Orleans earned tho bitter late, not only of its people, but of every man, womnn, and chifd iu the Confedernoy, by tho rigor with which he ¢nforced military law in his department. He wns denounced ns o * henst,” aud anathomatized ns a mon- ster of vengetul cruelty. No language was found adequato to tho exprossion of thoe ab- Dorronce with which his Inte Democratic asso- ciates, then in rebellion, regarded theman {hoy dolighted tonamo * Beast " Buren. The War over, Gen, BurLes was roturned to Con- gross, whero he was o conspicnous figare in the * fore.front " of the radical wing of the Republican parly, invariably supporting thoso roconsirnction ‘nensures which were most offenstve to the pride of the Southern peo- ple. With the zeal of a mew couvert he seized every opportunily to taunt and heap indignitios wpon the men with whom in 1860 e hind stoed'at Charloston and voted scores of times for Jrer Davis, At this period of his careor Burszn had traversed tho whole gamut of political elhics and prectico, from ono extreme to tho other,—from the cruclty, monuness, and nmrow brutal projudico of an unrolenting Pro-Slaveryism to the lofty hights of universol frcedom nnd impartinl suilrnge, Ilis political growth had boen in nn opposite ditection {o thnt of Disnarsr. They nay bo snid to havo -met and passed each other in tho race, the ono hastening violently from Liberalism to 'Poryism, the other from batbarism to freedom and en- tightonmont, .DisnarLr roached tho gonl of his personal ambilion, Tlo remained n poor man, but beenine Premior of Bogland ! Bur. LeR, on thae other hand, profiting by overy * placo™ ho hold, became vastly rich, but fafled to riso inetho polilical scale. e grasped after the Senntorship, but was radely ropulsed, o aspired to be Govornor, but the peoplo of Massachusotts scorned him! Once a ‘demngoguo always o domagogue, When it heeamo evident that the Ropublican party of tho State aud tho nntion suspected the purity of his motives and distrustsd his honor, DBurwenjustified thesuspicion and distrust by commencing to retrace his stops toward the position he bind ocoupied in 1860, He made | known his defeation toward tho Republican party by brutally assniling the Administra- tion and becoming tho voluntary ally of the conspirators who goughl to overthrow the dauisionof tho Electoral Connnission. Lhen, nw if in haste to publish Lis own infamy, he Jjoined hnnds with the Communists, who Loldly declared their purpose to sefzo the Government of Massnchnsctis by violence, if need bo, and beeame their loader and candi- dato for Govornor! Tho overwholming de- fout which ho encountered mado him nefther o wiser uornbetter man, DBut be rightly argued that the disgrace of his assoclation during that campaign left him no asyluth save in {ho bosom of the Demoeratic party. In the public mind of the United States there is po pardon for tho man who dares to apolo- gizo for Keanner and Commuuism, This belng the history, in brief, of Bey Burrew's eareer, bis Inte monstrous proposi- tion to place (ho names of Confederate sol- diers ou (he pension-rolls of fho country sido by sido with thoso of the men who fought to save the Constitution and tho Unfon is stornly logienl. It disclosos the purposo of the demngogno to sound the lowest depths of nbjuct subservieuoy to the prosumed wishos of the party into whose arme he throws himself. The proposition shows what Bur- uen thinks the Bouthern people desiro, and his opiulon is -nut to be desplsed, He hns tho advautage of having studied Southern character from tho standpoint of intimate ns- wocintion aswall asfron thatof violent opposi. tion, Bursen knows, too, how the Southorn pooplo hato and despiso him, and, knowing thie, ho tnnkes the strongest possible bld for restoration to thelr favor: In the utterance of a single breath lio ‘retracts aud humbly apologizes for his own words and nots cover. ing & period of sixteon yoars. In ono Lrief minute ho ancrifices whatover of conglstenoy thore mnght otherwise appesr to have Loon s his career of lnll a gonera. tion, IHow tho DBrigadicrs by whom Lo was surrounded must have snoored in heir Learts ny thoy Mutened to the man who coolly tendered thom kis services as the princo of dumagogues and lho ohief of doughfnces! Thoy could nfford to smilo ut tho fury of Uen, Brada, when n greater than Buada offored to lay the humble servico of the Northiera wing of the Democratio party at thelr feot, It was an earuest of tho spoedy return of ante.bellum ocustoms when the veteran Democrat, purgod of his ain of yix- taon years, ouca moro bowed tho backs of Northern Detuocrats to receive tho lash of their Southern brothren, Do the Northern people realizo the scope of Gion, BurLes's proposition? We hardly thivk so, Heroftfs, Hosmd: 4+Tha time was not far distant when a fealing of brotherhuod would tako into the cha; of the dovernment the maimed the Bouthorn army, femomboring thelr cournge, thelr steadfastncas, And their gallantey, and for- gelting the miataken Judgmont which made them fight ypon ths stdo they 8id." It the Uonfederato soldier who lost an arm is ontitled to bo reimbursed by the Govern- ment of tho Unitad Btates, is not his old fother equally entitled to be pald for tho loss ‘of his mules, his horses, his pigs, his cows, and his cotton? If tho malmed Confedorate soldler who fought against the Union is to bo pensioned by the Union, is not tho Con- fodorste who alnyed at home, ‘cwrsed tho Unlon, and raised subsistenco for the Rebol army, equally entitled to compensation for tho bacon, and corn, nnd potatoes seized by the Fedoral airmy na it swopt ovoff tho Bouth- éru territory ? Gon, Pureen’s proposition is broad and comprohonsive énougli to cover the payment from the United States Trons- ury of every dollar of loss sulfored within the bounds of 1he Confodorncy from the day whon Fort Sumter waa flred upon down to the timo of ihe surronder of Lreto Gravr at Avppomattox Court-Honse, Burren is indood n colosaal domagogue, n colorsnl doughface! 1fo says, in effect, io tho Brigadiors: ** For nixteen yonrs I Inbored to crush you, becauso I foresnw that you were destined to bo orushed, and I roalized that the only rond to personal advancement Iny in crusbing you. But I inve not been rawarded by thoe Repub- lican parly, On the contrary, I have been contemned and despised by it. I wish to be rovenged. Ioffer my bnek to the lash. I offer to open to your suffering and oppressed people the vaulta of tho Lreasury!” Geon, Butren bas made his bed, nnd, as ho has mado it, ho mnst lie in it, 'L'he snorifico of the last remnhant of hia honor a3 & man and of his conslstenoy ns n politiclan will bo accepted by tho Democrats of the Sonth. But how they must despise him while they uso him! 1low thoy must scorn hfs double tronoliory ns exhibited in his original ddbor- tion of them in thefr hour of need, and his present defection from the Republican party boeauso of its refusal to reward him! We leave him to tho torturos of conscicnce,— that dwvine principle in man which survives tho lowest deeps of infamy, and atings with ¥omorso after it has censed to animato with high purposes. DEFEAT OF THE (LOSTALBAVINGS s¥S- A result of extensivefnilures smong tho pri- vate snvingsinstitutious of the country within the post two yenrs hins suggested a closer in- quiry than was over madu heforeinto the sav- ingssystems in other countries under Govorn~ ment anspioes, 'I'he result of these inquiries led up to the introduction of several billa in Qongross, all governed by the asme prinolple, and ovly differing in details, with a view to affording Governmont secarity for the small surplus earnings of tho lsboring classes in tho shapo of n deposit or lonn to the Gov- ernment. It was ngreed by all who had givon the subjeot any atudy, and who- were nctunted by considerations for the mnss of the people, that o systom modeled nftor the Postul-Savings Banks of Bngland should bo provided without doley, Snuch a system would be a great boon: to the Inboring clnsses,—to the dny laborers, mechanics, factory operatives, miners, clorks,—and at the samo time it would bo au advantage fo. the Governmont in affording an unpreallelod facility for placing tho' Government debt entirely among the American people at a rate of interest not exceeding 4 per coct. But the dofent of the Puurzars bl ih the Houso Inst week by a large majority proves that the influences ndverso {o the estnblishmont of such n sys- tom have provailed, nnd no postalsavings mensuro witl be passed by the present Cau. gross. Theso ndverse influences came from the owners and mnnngers of Enstern savings inntitutions, and from the corporations and individuals enfoying tho uso of tho acoumu. Inted enpital of the mnsses. These poople wero convinded that the doposits wonld be withdrawn from their private matitutions, oven though drawing o largor rato of inter- ast, in order to seck a Government guar. auteo; aud hence, gnided entirely by sol- fish motives, thoy have brought suol influ- ouces to bear upon individual Congressmen ns to defont the great popular domnnd for n Government savings systom, and forco the laboring clnsses to intrust their surplus to tho aufo-keeping of private banks, "T'he exporionce which the massos have had with (ho privato savings institutions i Chleags, Cincinnntl, 8t. Louls, Pittsburg, and other cltios will moraly sorve to dircourago thrift and aconomy; the wego and snlaried classes will prefer to spend their enrnings ns they go rathor than rlsk tholr 1oss by depositing in concerns whero thoy have no other guar- anteo than private honesty, which has proved to bo very frail when exposed to tho temptn- tions of tho banking business. There is just one hope of partial relief from tho presont Qongress, and that lies in the possiblo. pas. ungo of the proposed bHI for $10 Governs ment cortificates, drawing 4 per cont intereat, nnd oxchangeablo 1n certain amonnts for 4 por cent bonds, Private surplus enrniugs would not go into theso certifioates to nny- thing liko the snma oxtent thoy would seck tho privilege of postal doposits in any snm ; but the certificate scheme will still affonl gome protection ngainst the savings-banks awlndles, It romning to be soen whetlier tho Enstern influences will succeud ju strangling this monsure ns well as tho postal-saviugs proposition. Binco tho closa of the War Tuz Oniosao Tninuss hos frequently expressed tho opin. fon thut tho most prominent causo of the poverty and stagnation of the Houth was the Inziness of its people, and their disposition to shirk labor, For this opinlon Tug Tnis. une hins beon quite frecly criticlsed and) de. nounced by Southern nowspapors as Insult. ing their people, and tho customary nmount of swash and fustinn bas Deen slung ab it, It ia becomiug appnrent. at last, howover, aveh to the Southern papers, that lnziness Is tho principal evil from which tho Bouth is ruffeving, 'Tbe Now Orleaus 4/meo of the 10th inst, plainly says: “+There can Le no guestion aboat it much of tho misory and poverty which now alicts the people proceeds slmply and abaolutely Jrom laslpess, In 8 country liko oure of the Soutli, for examylo, thero can bo na vxcuss for mendleancy except in cases of dlsense or montal and physical imbecitity; yet we find 1n overy city, town, and neighbornood, able-bodled men and women living wpon the alme extracted by versistent domands from thels mota Industrious nelgbbors, ‘Thews people, by only half excrtlng themselves, could carna comfortable aupport Juat as woll as not; but, belng laay, they hang sround aud exist as scales upon the counnue nity, ** Look 0 crowds of whitos as well ss biacks who dully emble ol al street, sbout the Necorder's Court rooms, at tho Custom-Houso and City-1iall, 'They, In many instances, bave poai- tlrely 1o mesne of aupport, excepi the precarlous pleking up of odd light Joba, yet thioy thus passtheir Iives 1n continuat {dlencss, Tha same crowds can be found—levs numerous, of course—in ‘) W country towns und villages, oven In sections wh labor 18 {n tho greatest demand, sud whera wages are tho higuest, It ts a deplorablo stata of affsirs, sad there hould bo devlsed some mcans by whicy tho communitiea could be rid of the {ncubus,", Wa are glad to have the' Indorsenient of /N 1 disabled soldiers of \will speodily diminish, nnd evontunily die such n prominont paper na ihe New Orloans T'¢mea, nnd to know that onr advice to the nble-bodied lnzy whites In tho South will horenfter bo seconded by it. 'Tho misery nand poverty of the South will continuo nntit its peoplo ahake off their shiftleay, Inert, in. dolent habits, and go to work like Northern poople, NEGRO BUFFRAGE AGAIN. The forthcoming number of the North American Reviews for Narch contalna a “gymposium * on the negro question; and wo prosont clsowhero in this issue sufliciont extraots from all the contributions to give n genoral fdon of the drift of tho discnsslon. My, Buaixe lias the firsb and the last word, and ho uses lus advaatage woll. It Is seldom that o keonor picco of writing, more biting inits earonsm or mors pungont in its per- gonalitios, than his rojoinder, finds it wny into print. The coutributions of Wexpsun Prmtars and MoNTaoMerY Brain reprosent extrome and opposito viows of the question ; but neither of thoir arguments is chinracteris- tio of any large political party. Thoy aro themsolves political curlosities, and even as idlosyncrasics havo of lnte bocomo tiresome by thelr frequent unnccessary nppoarancos boforo the public. Wexprin Priwumrs at- tempts, in ono of the omitted portions of hig argument, to justify from oxporionco his plan of roconstruction in the old dags, in accordanco with which the Inuds of the Rebels would have beon con- flscated, and the voceded Statea hold for an indefinito perivd ns Torritorfos. Brauke an- gwera thia very forcibly by showing that the adoptlon of ench a plan would bave beén un- constitutional, avd would have endangered tho perpetuity of tho Republicnn party ; be- wides which it wonld have been undesirable both for the negroes and for loyal whites. I a similor way Mr, BraiNe goea {o the rvot of Wane Haurron’s argument that pariial qutranchisoment of the negroes through an educationnl qualification would have been better. BraiNe observes thet the negro in South Carolina, ns in the rest of the South, when the Fifteonth Amondmont waz adopt- ed, was subject to barbarons ond discrim- inntive ponal logislation, and that the only way to pralont him pgaipst it was to put tho ballot in his hands. Al tho dobators, with tho exception of tho ox-Abolitionist MoxTaoMeRY BLAmy, agroe to theso two propositions: 1. That thé disfranchisomont of the color- od men is & political impossibility. . 2, That tho ballok In the haud of tho blacks is a ** dofonso® nnd an * education,”" naud onght 7ot to bo withdrawn, "T'ho foncing comos when tho application of this latter proposition to the circum- stanees of elther political party is attempted, tho Democrats contending that the colored man has beon **ednoated " through the bal lotto love nnd vote with the Confedorate porty, and tho Ropublicans that his ** educa- tion ¥ hns been stopped and defeated by the fennd and violencoof thaSouthern bulldozers. The grgument in favor of aa oducational or a proporty qualification {s disposed of vory effectunily by tho evidenco that the Bouthern States themaélves, in which the average of popular jutelligenco and wenlth is 1ow, would be unwilling to disfranchise so many white votors as would be affected by a law of this deseription. Wo nro surprised that none of the debaters hns insisted fully on the argu- ment for negro suffraga - derived: from tho theory of our Goverumont and tho nature of our institutions, In o free- Republic no citi= ‘zon can bo disiranchised for race-rgasons alono, If one raca could be so disfranchised, any might be. Nor is it agrecable to auy niodern idens of frecdom that intclligont men - and toxpayers should bo al Jowed no voice in the disposition of thg ~monoy which they aro com- pollud to contribute for the support of the Governmont. Objections to the vote of the nogroes founded on their ignoranco or their poverty apply with equnl force againatn Iorgo portion of tho white population; and objections on the scoro of race or nativity would, if edopted, rule out a largo patt of thio whole body of voters. The black should havo the vote for the same ressons and on the same conditions that tho white has it; and he is oven moro entitled to the protec- tion which it affords becouse he noeds it more for lis_protootion. In the words of Mr, GArviELD, one of tho most thoughtful contributors to this debato: ‘‘Thoss who denounco the oufrauchisement of the nogro ng unwiso and dangerons nro bound to show n better adjustmont of hla status.” That temporary evils would arlde from tho immedioto onfranchisement of the colored raco was foreseen nnd sdmitted by those who sapported the measure, but thoy belioved, with Macsvzay, that There is only one cure for tho evils which newly-nequired freedom produces—and that ia freedom., When a prisoner leaves his cell ho cannot bear the ligut of doy; ho is unable to diseriminate colors or recoghize faces, But the remady iy not to remand him to hia dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of thesun, If men aro to wait for liberty till they become wiso and good in serldom, thoy will walt forever." Qon, BuTLER I8 Iu hot water agaln, os usual. This time 1t 1s about paylug o tax upon versonal property {n Washington City, Iaviug been as- sesscd, nd the District Conimisstoners demand- Ing payment, Mr, BUTLER saya that hejanota resident of the Disttiet, and I3 not sub- ject to the lawa of taxation. “I am sont bore," he continues, *to represent my State, and, i I cavwot bave the comvene fences of Mfe about me in the District, uf coursa L won't came, wd I canniot havo them hera if 1 have to puy taxca a sccond time, alter having pald taxes ou il my personal property in iy own Btate.” He further states thut, as the queation Involves an important one of per- suml righte, he suzgests that the Tax Commis- sloncra attach hls propersy and he wiil then try tittes with themn before the courts, Buruan's communication was refesred to District-Altor- ney RiooLe for an opinton, who treats the en- eral to o citation of the law on tho subject of taxation, and a vico bt of sarcasm, to boot, in velation to BuTLEn's hreat not to g0 to Con gress if be fa not well treated in the District, IippLe admits that It would e sgreat national calamity not 1o bave “old cock-sye’ in Con- gress, but he fancles that the great law of com- pensation would hold zood even In that case, and he hopes that tho wheels of Government would contiuu to revolve without him. ——e——— When, a fey weeks ago, a large numbor of American plosterers left New York for Qlasgow, whare they were to obtain work for scverni mouths at Jberal wagzes, the engagomeat be- ginning the mument the ship left the whast, the Now York papers dovoted wurh space to s do- seription of the exodus, The men have had to suo for thelr wajges, which havo been reduced, while employment hoaonly been furnished them for bulf thoe, and the Courts have declined ta nako an order for wages tor tine on the Yoyage over, This newsls to-day medu public for the first timo fo Amerlca, 1f out New York con- temuorusies will copy it tiey mey prevent many moro artisans (rom belng gulled and laft frlend. 1es3 3,000 miles from home, et — 5 A Washington correspondent of » cortain Western uowspaper i not much {n love with all vhases of polito socloty fu that aristocratic cty. -of a New York pollceman. e rocently atteaded dmu;uum,ed 8enntor m members of the Cablinet, for| mermbers of Congreas, army nrnL‘Ilq:l\)v““m"" and other distiugulshed persons wera i with a large majority of beantitu) gng D;"m' Iy-dressed Indics, Ilo says that 1o 12040 guised bimnell nnd attended s poygomencs O the CoLviLLE Folly Company, whag mflm " are somewhat fmnous for i reany, am, ey miliinery goods dieplaged on the gy ot o was not prepared 1o see a aimilar umh::’l‘ 5 charms on the part of these fing Indies, whnn * well-bred and of gaod repute, Ty g, between the blondes on tin-too before m:""“ Mghte, and the blondes under tho fooc gorgeous chandellers 1n & Washington ‘Iu rial mansion, Is, not nn cxcess of dm”~§“fl\o the manner of wearing ft—the fyott clothes being doficlent. about. g et limbs, while the latter werq 1o mm' drossed about the breast ang nhnulnqm as to leave nothing at =il to the lmmnauu.I ‘The correspondent states that there way i enough of theae fashtonable dresses 1o m&u ig demands of the person i they had been p; 4 erly und more fudiclously adfusted, and thy 4 certain portion of what was dragzing M"Il carpet had beco tranaferred to the shonige, u would have been a great fmprovemen, . boldly and wickedly asserls that he wm’u, disgulss himself agaln when ho wanta to u"’ famous artist dance the fHighland mn,;m,fw‘ alr, 08 ho has scon soma things in what iy e the best soclety that takes away the shamg ur:: e — veeention piyey 1, nd his wife, gy wl:h; Mr. TILDEN way sayto the contlemenwy, aro making up slates for next vear's Nationy Democrptlc Conventlon, fu the woryy o Bramiat L They reckon 11l who leave me out, It Is a Mtlo curious that up to the prawy tmo no political caleulatorhas takenintaconyy, eration thefact that the 8age of (iramerey Pury strength Iay in the rivalry betweon 'nmm; and HENDRICKS. ICTRURMAN werenomisaty, Hexoricrs would not have s chanca of ndm' ing & National ticket at all till 1383, whereas |y TiLDEN and HENDRICKS were the tekel, tby chances would be greatly In favor of Huxnaicey and IIANCOCK, or LIENDRICRS and Rosissoy, for 1884, If tho tickat of 1870 fs not renon, uated with a twhoop after an cloquent specy on the necessity of redressing the Frod,—aswy expect it will be,—the moment that Taauy looms up Hexpricks will joln Tripxy, iy TrurMAN will bave to conflde his feclings to by bondovos. ! An English sclentist has fssued a dreuly, secking {nformation oo the sublect of the tels. tive matural usage of the left and right handsy whether people can wink more cloquently sity the right or left eye, and, If 6o, why not; it they can wag their lofi ears moro readily thag thelr right ones, or, on tho contrary, quite there verse, and so on. 'This fs afl very good, so far 08 §t goes, but other valuable additions might havo been made to the 1ist of Inaulries, such 1, #Do you usually tell the truth over the left or the right1” “DId you cver think yon wers rignt, and get left?” “ Aro your fect all right, ormnot?" “Iuto which ear docs 8 plecs of nemy that gocs out of the other usually cater® ———— Boma Confederate Brigadicrs swho were wig derlng about the Capltol at Washingtontheoth. or day pleked up o littlo serap of the old Iro Brigade. Fluoding It very bot, they dronped & instantly, and are not loclined to Brage abot their explolt. e — PERSONALS, Wa beliovo that Cetawayo is an Ohio man, Yawcoob Kahn is o bigger mon than ks father, Mr. Tildon to his nephew William: Your valentine I cannot be. Birthdays, it appenrs, ara for Dr. Peler Coopdr, and nobody clss In New York ean bars any. If Mr. Tilden inslsts on runuing sgain for tho Presldoncy roform 18 neceseary,—morejoecet: sary than ever. Mr. Conkling obsorves that Cnstom. Tiousos afe often won withaat Meritt and lot without deserving. ‘o Britiah lion appenrs to bo always pote ting bis tall whero it can b etepped on. The best place for it 18 botweo his lega. Fanny Davénport weighs 160 ponnds, sod this probably s tha reason that she plways witd astrong company to support ker. Dr. Moty Walker Is lecturing on “ The Coming Woman." We hopo, huwever, the ¢one {ng woman docen’t svear pantaioont. A Olhoinnnti man drank thitty glases of Woor rocently within two hours. “Hereatisd it tho.proper man for tho Berllu misslon. ; Dr. Loonard has beon lacturing in Detroit on “'The Fly." Tho Doctor evidently wiolt 4 poeltion i somo first-class buee-ball club A Boston phper snya : **Thelco in some of the Down-Enst rivérs ls eo tilck thet :thn e taken ont thers won't bo any sator left.” - The rooent nffair in Bouth Africa would bave oean the battle of Jobn Bull Run, butde Britlsh forcen dldn't got A chunce to run. A gentloman hanged in Cloveland the other day remalned 8 hardoned elnnor fo 1ho ¢l 118 wrote poetsy alwaxt to the lnstmomente Tho Chinese swill prabably go. Joserh Cook says they mnst nat go, und theyare sttd thecafore, that ho nda to tecturo to them. It tho Count Joaunos continues fo s> pear with hia preaeat oftericy, we may 100k ford atelke of hons for bottor wagen of fuwe houtk England must follow the cxample of l:w United Staten and supplant fts bayones ral m;la ; polléy of grace, mercy, snd peaco {n e frees cltablé South. T m 1t grestly ananya Mary Anderson lo‘m mintaken for the pedestelén. She mhmmli sholss **atar," whilo ‘Madame Anderson }am » walklog-lady, A correspondent anys that Ean-ear&nm 1% too good for his parly. Sonator Hayal g cortainly come with 4 good deal etter reco! dution than this. b Mys, E. D, E. N, Boutuworth Les im finlaied her Afty-hinth nove), and we b=|::;: e uns told mote trath fn every one of thet? Tiiden cver thovght of. rovely abth *The Now York papers vory B !h-f‘(l)‘l.nm is m«..f'..é.’ Ho 18 not mlslog ‘“‘L: miuch ea the compotitors for the Astloy champ! ahip belt wish bo were. i My, Talmago may prench oft llu‘v:r‘lm much 88 he pleascs, but we ahall pever beltet b hav been thuro ander tho gudsace sad prote 44 pinche Tho Bpringlleld Republioan seys:, J:,fi: back blushingly accopts the ofice of Usl®/t,, Revenue Agent for Loulutana,* Now ¥ color of Pincubuck's blushes? o " It iwald that the New York Gnutnm‘; et 1a liaunted by a ghost. Ferhaps 1t $a tbe B0, be lsto Mr. Conkiing, Mr. Merrth ML must pot fal to colleot the usual duty 08 " pre A Fronch duel rosulted faully “::nm o day. Tho horses of ono of tho dustiatt "nled R e returning from the frontier snd :.“m Pl ought to moderate tho Frouch eniby daching. R Wo learn from tho Atlauta L'unl‘f;::‘::u that Mr, Tilden's only crime in ||Illh":l“" 7w of Willlam Pelton, And he ean T aucees” acquited of this crimo unless ha Fea0r Tudly 1o 1ho smotional-iusanlty dodge: i An exchange saysi ‘(CLicoRO YO WOrlds falr In 1883 to bo beld at Chlcass - 6t. Lauls would be fho Usstet pléct (5, Peotia,” e insist, howerer, that ?d\u bl boat place for a wWorld's fair to be holcis acti Mr. Boooler fs a beliovor 12 V:" of B On Friddy Isat hotosk all the yount 970,y famiiy to s store, gave them corts b t::u seast what they wounld, foated (he nm.-na‘w e G e for them !l from school till the valed! bo addressed. A Bt. Louls paper o of baflding to be dore in tha son. Boveral Bt, Loals belles Bate m:"':;m tuoky geotlomen durivg uc wlaters B0 ik are liberates & good deal of esl €4t 1o be improved, at ¢ the #00% bnul:": e camiog ** '