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I 1 ' THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1879—TWELVI PAGES, Tiye Teibwwe. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. - WY MAIL.~IN ADVANCE~-TOSTAGE PREPAID. psily Fdition, one sea 12, a¥th of 8 TPAT, DT MO [ I:.\‘lnlny‘flnlll in: Lteral g 30 heet.. . ] Esturday Xili} 1. ?nn €0y, ver yei -inh of {OuP.. ecimen copl :i‘;\e out-Otive addresa I falt, fnciuding Btata ad County. Remitances may homade eiiher by dratt, express, Tost-Ofice order, or in registered letter, at our rlak. TEHMA TO CITY BURSCRIDERS. Polly, delivered, Eunday excepied, 23cents por week, Datly, dellvered, Sunday Include3, 0cents per week. Addrers THE TRINUNE COMPANY, Comer Madiron and Dearhom-sia., Chicago. 1. Qrdert tor the del(vary of Tig TainuNe at K anston, Englewood, and 1iydo Par foft n the countl g-roont wiilreceive Lromut atiention. CES. TRIBUNE BRA. ik CrteAna TRIGTXT: has established branch offices fer therecefptof Tubscriptions and sdvertisements as 1 0252‘;;‘ YORR-Toom 20 Trisune Building. F.T.Mo~ PDRR, MANARET, FANIE, France—Ko. 18 Rua do1a Grange-Datelere. B.Mantee, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—~Amertcan Exchange, 440 Btrand. BaaRy F. G1LLIO, ARent. HAN FRANCISCO, Cs al alace Motel. WASHINGTON, D. C. AMUSEMEN PeVicker's Theatra, Madtron street, between.Dearborn and Btate, Eo+ entof Kice's Burprise Party. ** Nobinson Cru- Taverly's Theatre. Dearborn streel, corner of Monros, Esgagement of the New Tork Standard Theatra Company. ** Al Tmost & Life." loaley!a Thentre. Randotph street, between Clark and Lagalle. En- mgement of J. K. Emmet. ** Frle” Hamlin's Thoatre. Ciark strest, opposite the CourteHouse, **0ur Inno~ cent Pastor." Varioty entertaoment. Atternoon sad ovening, Metropolitnn Theatre. Clark streat, opposite Suerman House. of Clarsh." ** Tho Fills Academy of ATusle. Halsted street, between Madlson and Monroe, Va tlety entertainment. . Plymontt: Church. Michigan avenne, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty- dxihatreons, Locturs by Prof. O'Nefil on ** Sclence Art, Literature, and Travel,” with filustrations. X First Reglment Armory. Juckson street, botween Wabash and Michigan ave- Bues. Eshibttion of Palntings. SOCIETY MEETINGS. WAURICK MAYER LODGE, 105, 1. 0, B. B.—The members of the above Lodwoe nre hereby notified to at- uneral of our lstg o Ry etrks Jrom i Toul b (Tuesda) n at1 0 3 Ience, 378 Wavbasheay. CHAY, COUKY, sec'y, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1870. . An nocount is given in another column of \ho arrest in this ity yesterday of n physi- sian and a widow obarged with a triplo mur- dor most horrible in character. The phy- sician is alleged to bave killed with chloro- form tho husband of the woman arrosted o8 his accomplice, sud to have subsequently caused tho death of his own wife and unborn ehild. 4 A liboral nbstract is given in another tolumn of tho recent decision of the Illinois Supreme Court affirming tho validity of tho Ohicago city merip of 1878, so exteusively issued and used in anticipation of tho collue- \lon of taxes for the current flscal yoar. Tho ipinion is written by Justica Dioney, and tots ot rest tho question aq, {o the suthority of theeity to pay its current exponses by moana of warrants on tho Treasury paysblo put of any moneys belonging to the proper tand. -The obsequies of the lote Bishop Forzy, of Ohlcego, were yestordsy completed at Baltimose in all the golemn stste and im. pressive grandeur cmmbodiod in {be ritual of the Roman Oatholic Ohurch, and in the large attendance of eminent ecclosiasts was vonveyed a rocognition ‘of the groat worth and high position of the deceased pralate. Archbishop Gnoxs pronounced the eulogy, end most eloquently did ho set forth the lotty virtues and fine cxample that shone out in the carcer upon carth of Bishop Forzy. ‘The Chliness question is being raised in womo of the Colonial possssions of Great Drit- sin {n such 8 way asto compel action by the Provincial aathoritics and eventually by the Homs Government, In British Columbia, aut of o population of 25,000 one-fourih are Mongolians, and a very earnost potition for restriction in immigration and the {mposition of & per capita tax has boen forwarded to the DOominton Governmout at Ottawa, Troublo &g olso arison in Now Zoaland by reason of tho competition of Ohinese cheap labor, and here too an effort will be mado to secure ro. utrictive logislation, ‘Tho bill intreduced by Sonator Jostrx In o the Tllinois Soato providing for a ilue of 9500 to bo imposod upen any ember of the , Legislatnre found guilty of mding upon a oilroad pnss bids fuir to go farther in the right direction than its author intonded, It was offored a8 a satiro gn the propensity of the average logislator to avail himeelf of all deadheading opportunities, but it {s now soriously proposed to include in the provis. fons of the bill all Btate, county, and munic- {pal offlcers, as well ns those Loldiog places by oppointment of the Governor, "The Benata will at all events have an opportumity to muke a record on the bill, and tho law, it passed and onforced, would be o credit to Iltinois, whero offlciat deadbeading is almost epidemie. Se————— ‘We print this moralag a letter from Benn. tor Jauxs G, Buaive on the subjeot of tho Chinese Immigration bill, and in reply to Witsun Luoyp Ganmison, 'Tho lotter dis. cussea the subject in n manner &0 pointed ond so forcible that It eannot fail to exploda the purely sentimontsl objections of the soliool of thinkers of which Mr. Garnsson {8 ono, The lotter meets the ouly objections which npy sorjous number of the peoplo on- tertain, and a little culn reflection and care- ful thought wiil satisfy any reasonable per- oo that tho bill cught to bo enacted now, It does not propose to interfore with or dis. tugb any Oliusman now jn tho country; it spplies only to the future, aud its passago at this time witl be found to be both timely and nscessary. . ' The pungent romark of Mr, Covoxs, of Michigan, upon the floor of (he Ifouse yes: terday, roviveg recolleotions of the closing hours of the firet sousion of the prosent Congrens, when legislation would have ncen Lalked and the direst confusion ,created but for the steadfust devation o duty of Mr Ramver, tha colored mowber from Bouth Qaroling, who, 83 a mewmber of the Comuuit- tee an Eurolled Bills, went without sleep mid food to sea that the work of Lis. Com- mittes was attended to, while the Dem. ooratio members were elther druvk or nbsont, Now it is proposed to re- pent the outrage porpoirated in the Florida ecaso, and at the very end of the sossion to unsent Ramer and put in the Temocratic conteatant, giving the Intter his full pay and mileage, There was a doublo sign:fioanco to Mr. CoNazn's suggestion tuat nction on tho Iattor cnso ought to bo put off until after overy bill had been onrolled,—a desorved complimont to the binek Congress- man, and a savage satire on the Democratio practice of voting in a man never oleoted just in tima to onnblo him to steal $10,000 or moro from the Treasury. e 1t ia enrnestly to bo hoped that the eco- nomleal Demoorats in Congress can bo made to seo that to refuso Ohicago the appropria- tion necessary to complote its Cuastom-Honse and Post-Ofice building wathin tho current year is to necessitato tho payment of nearly 843,000 for rents which might otherwigo be saved, It cannot bo falrly nrged that other citiea stand {n tho samo position na Chicngo. nnd can with equal forco claim an {ucronsed appropriation ; thera {a no civy in which any- thing liko tho nmount of rent is boing puid for Government quarters, Chicago's Federal buildings were swopt away by the firo of Ootober, 1871, and this is why the new building is so much nceded. Secrotary. Baeruan shows that an addition of $175,000 to the sum ngreed upon by the Houso Ap- proprintions Committes will comploto tho building, and every consjderation domands that tho incroase be made, The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was yesterdny passed in the Houre under n sus- pension of the rules and without debnfo, It appropriates about $16,000,000, sud there fa n chance for the discovery later on of some itoms which escaped sufficient scrutiny in Committes, and which would Lave been snitably vontilated in open debate, Assum- ing that the Committeo means to bo strict and watchfnl, it does not follow that they can always detoct and defaatn job,or thot thoy can bo suro of making all necossary provision, 'The prssage without dabate of sn Appropri- ation bill with several hundred itoms nggro- goting 16,000,000 is & dangerous experi- ment in legislation, and almost certain to prove in froquent instances costly and nn- satisfactory. Dut it is the way bills must bo passod if nt all,—tho fow remaining dnys of the sossion admitting of no such thiog s de- liborato action based upon careful considera. tion, : ARE PRIVATE TELEGEAMS PUBLIC PROP- ERIYY "Phe incarcoration of Mr, E, H. Sauorrm, man. oger of the Western Union Telegraph office at. ‘Popeka, by order of the Kansas Legislature and undor protonse of contempt, is an ontra. geous proceeding. Theroe hins beon no such contumacy nbout Mr, SanTa's rofusn! to pro- ducoe originals and oopies of telegrams in his posscssion a8 agent as to warrant his arrost snd imprisonment. He is an omployo of a corporation which has instructed him to re. fuse to dellver the papers demanded, bacauso it s important that it bo determined 1y su. preme judiclal anthorily whethier or not a logislative body can, at any time, ordor the cxposuro of all the telegraphis correspond. once that has boen going on during nvy stated period. ¥ind Mr. Surrn disobeyed his instructions, ha would probably and proper- 1y hovo been discharged by his omployers; for not disobeying his superiors he is ordered into continement by the Legislaturo, though this arbitrary and extreme procodurg ia by no means necessary in ordor to tost tho disputed power of the Legiulntire to compal the Telegroph Company io surrender tho dlepatohes und coples thereo? which may bo in its possession. If tho final decision shall deny that apy such authority exists in a log- ialative budy, a8 there is good reascn to be- Jiove will by the cose, then we think sn action wonld lio for falso imprisonment agoinst tho men who voted to arrest and dotain Mr. Banra, and we hope the latter will prosceute it. Tho Kansns Legislature has proceeded in nv} imperious and high-handed fashion in this whole matier. Acting on rumors of corruption in.tho election of United States Senator, tho Legislature appointed an Inves. tigating Committec. * One of the firat things tho Investignting Commiltee did was to jusua a subpana duces tecum for Mr, Sxrra, It ls nralo of law that this form of subpona shall apecify whot the witness ia required to produce, but the following is a copyof the document actually issued by the Kanens Committoe: **Yau are horeby further directed ta hring with you betoro ssld Commitico such orizinal telo- trams as refer dircctly or indirectly to the lato eloction af a Unitoa States Senator in thia State, or which mention monoy, and which wera sent from your oitice Ja Topekn, Kan., from Jan, 24, 1879, to this date, tho 17th day of February, 1870, by [certain persons named], and coples of all telo- grama In answer thurcto br you roceived, Also coplos of all telezrama yon recolved during aald time upon the above subject far AN the peraona ahove named, and auch other documents in your cusfody s may de repuired (n the Investigation, Dy order of the Investigating Committeo, " ctc. Mr, Bamri, in a communiontion to the Legislaturo, said he was rendy to appear bo- fore the Jommitteo, but had besn instructed to withhold the tolegrams demanded, Ifad houndertaken to comply litorally with the terma of 1ho nbove subpwna, it would have boen necossary for him to tako with him all tho dispatches sent from bis offlee dnring tho period namod, and copies of all dispatches that had heen reccived during tho same timo,—for ke was not in a position to julge what ¢* decumants in his custody might be required {n the investigation.” If, then, tho Legislatura had the right to make suy such sweeping demwand as this, which is fmplied in the committal of Ar, st for nat cow- plying with such demnnd, then people must dismiss the jden ot ouce that there Is any privacy nbout tolegraphic mossagos, and henceforth sond only such mesanges— whethor politienl, commercinl, or domeatio ~—aa they tay be willing ta Lave proclaimed from tha house-tops, 1t is not sirango that the Telograph Com- Ppany proposes to resfut (ho demand of the Kansos Legislature and coutost ity nssumed nuthority to tho very last tribunal, Any other caurse would ba an outrage upon the publla that patronizes tha tolegraph so lber- olly, sud would ultimately result in a sorfous 1os8 of business to the Qumpuny, The Com. pany might alwaye cireumvent Legislaturos und Investigating committeos by burning dis- patchius sent a8 rapidly as they ore {ransmit. 1ed, and keeplug o copies of thosa recelved; but such practico would deprive the Com- pany of proper and necessary protection ngniust claims for damuges ou account of vrrors in travsmission, ‘Po protect itaclf and tho public, thon, its only coursa {s to insist that telographio correspondence is as sacred us tunt sent under soal through the maily, gud it Is desirabte that the highest judicial authority should pass upon the question at the earlicst possible momont,- That tho Bu. premo Oourt will sustaln the Telegraph Com- pauy in this pouition way be fuirly predicted on tho strongth of Judge Coorex's opinion, who esya in hia ** Oonstitutional Limitations™ (3d ed., pp. 806-307): $\Tho case s treatod as If no other considerations were involved than those which artes in the orais nacy case of n voluntary disciosire by one private peraon toanother without necessity. Sich, however, 18 not tho naturs of the communteation made to the operator of the toleuraph. ‘That instrument \s used anameansof correspondonce, and as o valu- Able, and in many cases an Indispensablo, anbstitute for tho postut faclitieswand the communication ta made, not bocanso thie™party deslres to put the oporater In possesslon of facts, lnt Dbecause transmiselon without it 1s impossible, 1t 48 ot voluniary In any other sense timu (hist that the party makes it rather than deprive him- a0if of the beneflt of his great Inventfon and ime provement. The ressona of a public nature for malintaining the secrecy of telegraphic communica- tion are tho same with thoss which protect corre. spondenca by maili ana, though the operator la ot a public ofiicer, that clrcumstance appears (o us immaterinl, Jle fulfills an important public Sunction, and the proorlety of hie preserving in- vlolable accrecy {n regard to communications is 2o onvious that it i¢ common to provids statutory pen- alties for disc'osures. 1f on grounds 87 yublic policy the operator should not voluntarily disclose, why do not the ssmo coneldurations forbid the Courts compeliing him to do so? Or, it 14 be propor to make Bim tostify to the correspondence by telograph, whal good rosson can bo uiven why the Postmasier stould not be made subject to thie process of qubpena for a like purpose, and compelied to ring the correspondonco which passcs through Aig hanas into Court, and open it for tho purposss of cvidence? Wo must maintaln the opinion, not- withstanding the declsion of so eminent a tribuual (Supreme Court of Malno), thiat the public are not cotitied to a man's private correspondence, whether obtainable by seizing ft In the mmls or by compelling the operator of the telegranh totes'ify 10 lt, o by requinng his scrvants 1o (aka from his desks his privato lottera and Journals, and bring them Into court on sudpana duces lecm, Any such compulsory process to obtaln {t would be nothing short of a most arbitrary snd unjustifable relzura of private papers, such an unréasonable aefzureas is dircctly condemned oy the Conatitu- tion.* It ia probablo that the'Lclegraph Company would havo made tho isme with Congresa in the casa of tho ciplior dispatches hind it not Leon that both political parties united in dempnding the messages, thus reprosonting both partios in interest, bodause neitber way willing to rest under tha suspicion of desiring to suppress the corrcspondence, DBut it is neceseary for the ‘Telegraph Company to take anindependent atand in tho Xansas case, and thug establish a precedent which shall govern all others. 1f the Courts shall sustain the Company In its very proper refusal to exposo private correspondence whonever a Legis- lative Committce or Court sce fit to make an ordor to Lhat cffect, then it is to be hoped that Mr, Sxrrn will seck redross for tho per- sonal outrago put upon him by holdiug to nccount tho individual legislators who voted for lns committal througl suits for damages, nnd that the Company will stand by bim and nssist him to the succesaful proscoution of such suits, . QOOLTE SLAVERY IN THE UNITED BTATES, In tho enaotmont or veto of the Ohiucso Ewigration bill is involved the question of permitting the transportation to this country of countless thousands of Coolie slaves from China. Wo call thom **slaves," and, thongh tho syatem iu free of many of tho maro re- volting features which marked African slavery a8 it was known in this conntry, it Is novertliolesa slavery to all practical intentt and purposes, The ‘‘8ix OCompanies” gnther the refuse and paupor population of the Ohineso ports—the material enlled “trampa” in this country—and contraot to transport them to California and to support them until they can got *cut-under” em- ployment. Out of the first cnrnjugs thoy must roimburse the *8ix Compauies,” and thon for o atipnlatod numbor of yoars® thoy pay over to tho compauics onc-half their carnings, and with tho other half return to Objna, Durlog their stay in this country they are uuder the surveillauce of the agents of tho 8ix Companics, and oll their movoments and all thoir contraats aro made with the consent of those companies. Every dollar they oarn has to be acconnted for, and one-balf of it hns to be paid over to tho companythat gent them. If the Chi- neso wore liko nuy other race they could emancipato temselves from this servitude by slmply ropudiating theso bonds; but tho CObineso are religiously and by law compelied to roturn to China if living, or bo taken thero it dond, so thoy csunol ewnnoipate themselves by bocoming cltizens or porma- nent rosidents of this country, and any at- tempt by them to violuta tholr contract would ba goverely punished on their return to Chiua, On tlus point, in bis reply to Lroyp Gan- nisoy, Sonntor DLAINE says: +4he number of Chineso in this country {a 130, - 000, mostly in California, of whom 7,000 ar women, but not wives, and are of the most bestial character, Tncroare no famlly ties, no morality, no purity, according to the Scnator, but prostitu- tlon and slavery beyond any limit of which the American can concolve. o arguea that, If we hnve s right to keep out Infectivus dizesscs, we have cqually the rixht to cxclude the secds of *moral and ubiysleal dlscase and desth, The Chinose and the Americans have oeon to- gother in Callfornla, and ticra has been no nssimilation in habits of religten, nor has there boun any marxed complinnce with the lawa of tho country, the Chiness having thelr own secret courta and thelr sccrotly-enforcad penalties, oven to the death-sentence, Thelr resldenced are te breeding-places of pestilences, anil it fu only o questlonof time and castward travol os to whon thoy will sprend dluoasa across tho Coutinent,' "The Senator denvunces the assertion of Mr.Ganur- 0N, that these Coollos must bo put on the samo footing 8¢ Caucasian immigrunta, deciaring that * all the imminration from Kurope to-day nssimis Jates ot once with its own blood on thix soll, and to place the Chineso Coolles on the samo footing is to shut one's oves to all the mstincts of human na- ture avd all tho teachings uf bistory,' " The people of Now Eugiaud and of New York aro peculinrly sentimoutal. They are in toars, and loud in their expression of sympathy for tho oppressed at a distance. Thoy folt miscrablo at the sufferings of tho Modocs, and-=they bowailtd the sad lot of Hirmiva Burn and tho savage Sioux and Ar- rapaboos, ‘T'hey know nothing personally of tho chnrnotor of tho Chinese any more than they did of that of Buacxyasty Jiss aund his nasoaintes, Thero are twonty-five hundred miles betweon the Chinesv, as tho peoplo of Oalifornia kuow them, and the soutimental aympathizers of Now York and New En- gland, It fs ensy to sympathize with people at a distance, 1f, however, durlng the next six months there could bo emptied futo Now York 150,000 Chinese, and 100,000 into the cities of New Euglaud, it is pos. sillo that Dbefors tho year is out thero would coma up from thoso places as earncat n prayer for delivornnce ns has como up from San Francisco, Tha Chineso aro a olnss of slaves,—men bound to service aud labor for a torm of years,—who lavo to pay one- Lalt of what they get to their proprietors or musters ; who come horo aliens aud propose to romain lere as aliens; who take what thoy produce away with thom, who have no familics, who nre degraded and depraved in (hoir Labits of lifo nnd morals, and who thrust themsclves Letweon the families of our own peaple and their head, aud oarry the latter away with them to China, 'Chero 18 no possible hope of their bacoming part of opr peoplo, and therefors must always re. main sy alien population. Gov. Bsyuouns, of New York, spoaking on this point recont- 1y} raldz ‘¢1Ve Atlll have the negro problem on our hands, and the Indlan groblem. Tho two have costus mara than wa canld afford to spend: and now, by inviting tho Chiness problem, wo tempt our fate (on far. Those who talk of the asaimilation of aces nnder ont anatitutions ato theorists swho iz nore facts, There hae been no arsimilation. The Indian Is ah Indtan still, clinging to s langunge, i< habits, and hin tastes, resisting four contnries of Enropean influence. 'The Monzollan will con- tinue 1o be a Mongolian, and, it we permit bim to setup hia civilization apsinst ours, we shall com- el a conflict sooner or later." There is n strong appenl to the Prostdont to volo this Anti.Ohineso.Immigration bill. All the sentimentalism of the country will be pourad into the Presidont’s enr, and thero is danger that ho may be inflnenced by it. "Thers fa & wide difforence botween the sound jadgment aod rational common senso of tho Amerloan poople 04 & whole, and the maud- lin, unpractical, dishwater sentimantality so much affectod by certuin classes at the Enst. Mr, Evants s not asafo advisor on such o subjoct. Itis not omoof a character with which ho has any practical exporionce or knowledge, nor is the Prosident by habit and thonght the mau who will push asido the flimay pretexts of abstract sympathy, and geasp the subject in its nractienl dotmls* and deal with it ns the wmnjority of Western mon would: do, "Thiere is danger, therofors, thot he may veto tho LY, and such a veto will be extromely unfortnnnte ns anational a3 woll as porty proceeding. It may be that a veto may de- foat tho DIl for this session, but before tho noxt meoting of Congress the demand for ts onnctmont, and perhaps for a much more swooping law, will bo so strong that Oon- gross will not besltato to pass it despite the objections of the Executive, Lot the Presl. dent, thereforo, meet tho question as ons of direct practienl consequences, affocting tho personnl and moral welfare of the people, and act foarlessly, lonving the refiuoments of sentimentalism outside of tho case altogother, THE OHIO CLERIUAL CALAMITY, The recont developmonts in the caso of Archbishop Puncesy, made at the Sysod of priests convened in Cincinnati, give it a very pitinhle aspeot,—firat, because s0 many poor peoplo have lost their money through his unfortunate -investments; nnd, second, bo- cause thls finoncial disastor, which haa nssumed appalling proportions, must of ne. cessity cloud the olosivg days of o prelato who has herctofors borne, we bellave, an cxocllent reputation. Thero is no testimony to show that he intentionally defrauded his depositors, On the other hand, hae nocepted their doposits with the belief undoubtedly that ho was doing them a favor, and that tho clerienl savings bank would not only be able 1o pny n good interest, but wonld henor their drafts on oall, 'The wretohed rosult, however, only shows that n elerical suvingg bank is not more infallible thau a secular bank. The panio struck the Bishop, sud o ponio is no respector of persons. Values shrunk, Beourities proved wortbless, or dwindled awsy in values, Ilis investments could not be mnegotiated for nnything liko their valuo. Roal ealste slrauk away in & Bilshop’s honds just as rapidly as it does' in the hands of o baoker of the world. The laws of finance and political. economy are paramount to all the edicts of the Church, and all the pricstly influence which this powerful prelate brought to boar could no more stop tho headlong rush {o financlal ruln than the Papal bull could stop the comet. The storm broke ‘upon bis' savings ‘bauk, and] when it cloared up, like our own Fidolity, Bechivo, and State Savings, it wss in ruins, It is little consola- tion to the luckless depositors that the Bishop did nat intend any froud, aud did not delib- orately swindle them ont of thoir money. ‘The peculinr circumetances of the case mako it slmost equivalent ion orime. Thoro aro somo mistakes which are wellnigh tanta. monuot to orimes. It was n gross indecornm, to say the loast, for a prolate of the Romau Cutholie Church, of all churches, to compli- cato tho sacred duties of his profession with tho affairs of tho world to such an extent. Mo could not, howaver great his execu- tive ability may be, properly man- ngo ¢ho offairs of his diocese and ot tho eome lime conduct the immenso business of a bank or Oredit Fon- cicr, which, as it now appoars, bas involved linbilities (o the amcunt of §4,000,000. Oc- cupying €0 exalted a position, exercising & powerful Influonce over the Oatholies of Obio, belng the man to whom they looked up for spiritual advice and counsel, it was but natural that they should put implicit re~ liauce in his financial couneols and feol that tholr money was safer with bim ihan with the bankers of the world. Repeated fail. ures and ugly rumors had shaken their con. fidence iu the banks of the sirect, and they thereforo turned with all the moro alacrity to tho Bishop ns a man who would o ad- minister their money ns to yield them a good intorost and return the prineiiml srhenever it was wanted. The "catastrophe which has ovortoken them and 'him oply shows once more tho folly of that infatuntion which in. duces men to try to do two things at once, when they nro only fitted for ono,—an in. fatuation nl tho more fatal whon it selzes upon tho profession of the minlstry, which by its vory nature has littls to do with, and little knowlodge of, the material interests of the world, . i From tho general tenor of the proceedings in the Synod, it is apparent that the author- ities of the Church now proposo to add ane otLer gravo mintake to that already commit- ted by attompting fo recoup the losses of tho unfortunate depositors through the gam. bling process of a huge lottery, and in viola. tion of the statutes of Ohio, which fortid lottorics, 'T'o avold the penalties of the atat. ute it is proposed to potition the Legislaturo to amend tho statute o that \his particular oaso mny be exempt, ‘This would at once practically nullify the whole statute, since if discrimination is wade in one case it must be mado in all, or olse it will cxercise n par- tlality that will be an act of jujustice the people of Ohio will nover atand, Beyond oll thig, it§s a project that will dissppoint thousands, that will not recover the losses, aud that will do more harm than good, Tt will be a eorry spec- taclo if tho Church' shall add to the gross mistake of one of ita most prominent Bishops the still grosser wmistake of giving its sunotion to a huge gambling oporation, Thero {§ but one honorable way out of this wiaorable complication. Lot an Assigneo be sppointed; aud let him convert the securities ond othor assets in the hands of tho Bishop into moncy as rapidly a8 he can, and distrib. uto it pro-rata among the creditors, As tho DBishop's fiuancial operation was an extra oftlolal aot, tho Charch property is not liable, snd there {s nareason why the settlomont should not take the samo course that is fol. lowod in the cases of other rmined banks, Of course it is a great hardship, but thore is no more reason why the Legislature of Ohio should allow the depositora in the Bishop’s bank to recoup themselver with a lottory than the depositors in any other bpnk, CHINESE TRADE. The San Franclsco Zoraminer, in stating tho probnbilitics of aJogn of the China trade {n cnso of the passngo of the Lill cutting off tho immigration from Ohinn, contends thnb thoro Is 1ot onough involved in the matter to cnura any alarm. ‘Tho total exports of mer- chandlso from tha United Btates to Chinnln about $3,000,000 o yenr; the export of specie is $12,000,000. Wa therofore export £12,000,000 in cash with which to pay for what we buy of Ohina, 'Tlie Culifornia paper argues that this{rado is of itsclf in ono senac n loss, and that the jmmigration of the Ohineso is nnother nationnal loss, nnd jt con« tonds that completa non.intercourse with China would be preferable to the conliuu. onca of tho trade with the accompaniment of the immigration. The world has become too practical to per- mit questions of raco, religiou, or habit lo reglute and conirol trade. As thers is no potriotism fu trade, so thore nre no preju- dices that ean any longer rastrain or prohibit it. As the man buys his dally supplies from tho butcher and the grocer of whom he ean get tho most for the lenst money, so come munitter, and States, and nations deal whero they can gok the greatest consideration for their money, Bo long as the Chinese refused denlings with tho ontside world at sll, thon they woro exceptions nmong nations; bub, when thoy found they could get moro for what they had to sell by tsking in ex- change thie produets of other peoples, even if they wera barbarinns, they bogan to seokk commercinl relations, ‘Ihoy are a shrewd, thrifty peoplo; they have long sinco mastered tho scienco of small things; they fally underst nd that millious of dollars nro but aggrogates mado up of small fraotions of dollarg; thoy know tuat, whon thoy enn got 101 barrels of flonr for a givon quantity of ton, it is to their profit to take that number of barmls in preforence to taking 100 barrels; and they know that it is to thoir profit to purchaso cotton cloth whero they cnn get it ot ono-tenth of a cont per squarc yard chieaper thiau they can get it clsswhore, The renson why the Ohineso have of Inte yonrs began to purchase American provisions and American manufactures ja precisely the samo that has opened evon the markats of England to tho same goods. Great Britain doos not buy cotton, nor tobacco, nor bread- stuffs, nor provisions from the United States beenuso of any love for this country, but simply bocnuse she can purchase them of us for less moncy. than sha can got tham olsewhoro, The Chincse only buy of us whon ft is to their advantage, and thoy will nnt buy of othiers 8o long ‘a3 thore is the slightest gainor saving to bomado by dealing withua. If woean buy ailk or tea chioaper than wo can in China, ns for instance in JInpan, our trado with China will drop off, in- stantly, There iu, thorefore, not the fainest somblance of & ghost inthe ro-called laws of trade which hns been conjured up a8 a reson why wo sliould not discontinue the immni- gration of Coolies. THE ENGLISH IDEA OF GOLD, It iy evidont from many circumstauces that intelligent Evglish sentlment on the subjeat of an exclusive gold currenoy has beon undorgoing o radical chapge during the last fow months. We havo heretofore quoted tho London Economist and Prof, Jevoxs as to the deeline In supply and rapid appreciation ot gold, with the consequont eflect on prices and trade, To the testimony of theso au- thorities must now bo added that of Mr, Ropenr Guren, on eminent Euglish statis- tician, who rocontly rend n paper before the Statistical Soclety in which ho confirmed oll the staternonts aud conclusions of the nu- thonties previously oited, Mr. Girrex mado a comparison between the prices of 1873 and 1879, and the depreciation is indicated as follows in some of tho lending articles of commerco: 'Tho decline in Scofch pig-iron has beon 006 per cent; in conl 87 per cent; in copper the samo; in tin 87 per cont; in whoat 35 per cont, and in flour 51 per cont, on the Now York basis ; in beef 26 por cont; in cotton 46 per cent; In wool 43 per cent; and so on, Thero hos been an avernge decline in o)l prices of at least 22 por cent durlng the lnst five yearsin England (and much morein thig country, owing to a coincidout npprecintion of the valuo of our paper currency), nnd this decline is atlributed in Jargest pact to the decrense in tho supply of gold, the increased demnnd for gold by Germany and tho United States for now coinage which is estimated at £600,000,000, and tho ingvitable incrcase in the value of gold ns compared with other commoditios, This showing has given n new interest to the proposition to introduce gold ay the ]ngnnemh\xr curronoy of England, The Lon. don Spectator pronounces this proposition stmply proposterous, nnd prodicts that any such effort would disorgnnizo trade through. out the world and produce n d:siress ‘of which the present depression gives buta folnt idea,® It maintains that, a8 o matter of fact, tho current production of gold is not sufiicient for tho colunge of natious now using it ns currency, along with the wears sud-tear and tho use in mauufactures, and this {8 the reason *‘tho price hns gond up, whether cxprossod in commodities or in silver, ns the prica of any other artlcle wonld of which tho world wauted more than it could gat." It is estimnted that an effort to miako gold the ourrency of India would re. quire tho woild's entire supply of that motal {or five years beforo tho chnnge could be of- focted, Itis eatimated thut §500,000,000 of silver ara now hoarded away in India. But gold is much moro sought after for hoarding purposes than silver, beeause it is moro con- vonient to carry or lildo, and beoause thore is less rust and waste lo 1t. This vast sum of silver now honrded in India would come out and seck cxchango for gold, which would disappear and (ako the place of silver in the hiding-places,” 5o that $500,000,000 of the world's stock of gold would Lo withdrawn before gold coin wauld coma iuto eiroulation in India. Tl fact aleno sliows how wild the acheme of gold for India actually is, and tho very suggestion of such scheme hns Liolped to bring Euglish thinkers to a realiza. tion of what wmight resuls from n goneral movement smnong natious to imitate tho British examplo of rolying upon asingle gold standard, Yrom the prosent frightful distress that provails in England; from the tromendoua a1l in pricos that has taken place thero dur- ing tho last five years, nolwithstanding the country had a uniforms currency; from the slarm which many of the lending economista aud nawspapors hava takeu at tho Lare pos. sibility of new domands upon the limited stock ond constantly decroasing supply of goid for monetary ypurposes,—we may learn what & fortunote csape from disaster the people of the United Btates made whon thoy defeated the gold clique, and succeeded in re-establishing, in principlo at least, the double standard that had alwaye prevaled in thin eountry. ‘The solfish polioy of England will undoubtedly prompt that natlon to abide by the singlo gold standard &o long as theta i3 a hops that o utilization of bLoth silvor and gold by othor natious will prevent universal dissster; but, it tho toudoncy of ptices and decline fn trade ahall continue In England to bo what they have beon for the pnat fiva yonrs, the time is not fardlstnnt whon popular rontiment in that gountry will domand tho favorable con- sidoration of au internationnl projeot fo ngres upon tho donblo atandard and o com- mon ratio of valuos botween the Lo metals, Au appreciation of gold to the amonnt of 20 per cant during tho last fiva years hos ine crensed tho publio and privato indebtodness in'England o just that extent, and tho bnr- den of intorest aud taxes in precisely the samo proportion, It is n tendoesoy of which the English poople will quickly tire, nnd, when thoy shall compreliond the real cause thereof, they will unito in a demand foran iuternational donble standard which the Gov- ernment will not ba able to roslst. Homo time ago Tue TrmuNe expressed somo views nbout the various schomes for colonizing the discontented blacks of tho Southern States which scom to have attract. ed attention nt the Bouth, The Vicksburg (Miss,) IHerald reproduces the article in quostion, and makes such eomment thoreon ng jnduces the boliof that the Bouthern whites will bogin to treat tho blacks with more consideration whenover the danger of losing their¢services in largo numbers abinll bo immincat. While the Ilerald denles the full mensiro of the chargos ngalnat the Bouthern whites of bad treatmont, it admits that thero **is some trauth in them,” and seelts to explnin the caso a8 due to o reaction from tho excosses and abuses of carpet-bag rule, It is ovident from the Zlerald articlo, howover, that any cousiderable loss of black Inbor through colonization would be very dumnnging to the interests of the South, ond it advises planters to adopt n cash sys- tem of paying thoir Inborers, and making such othor reforms ns will bind the negro mora closely to his Southorn lLome and nttachgents. But the Sonthorn peoplo must do gomething moro than to accord the negro fnir businoss treatment. The negro is en- titled to the snmo protection in his politienl rights as tho white labor:r at tho North, 1t is politioal nabnse that will encourage and davelop successful colon'zation efforls mors than any smount of private and personal complaiut, for suok political discrimination nffeots ot once large numbsers of tho blacks, nnd also croates n moro gonoral sympnthy nt the North for thoir oppressod dondition, The way in which a suggestion of colonization on o Inrgo soalo has boen recoived conflrma the theory that this will ba the speodiest and most cffeative plan for securing from the whites tha vespact for the negro's political rights to which he is entitled under the Conatitution aud the lav 1t really must have looked a little like old times In the Ilouse -of Rebresentatives lost Tueaday, when Gen, GanrieLn and Jox Buaok- .BuRN got by the cars. Jos was in the chalr in Committce of the Whole, when in the course of his remarks GARFIBLD intimated that BLack- BURN was ugelding points of order against the Reoublicans on purpose to please the Dems ocrats, ‘Lhis made Jog mad, und ha Joft the chalr with a bullying slr that reminded ono of the dnys when plantation manners wore fn vopue in Wushingten, and when the slave- drivers cracked thelr wlips at Wil about the cars of Northern doughfuces, GATFIBLD \vas as caol as a polar wave, and, nfter & proper display ot resentment, the man from *‘the dack aud bloady ground? conctuded not to eat him, As Jog nepires to bo the Speaker of the next Con- ¢ress, he wmay o8 well be told that he must expect erltfetsma upon bis rulings, and that it is beneath the diznity of the position to got angry ubout it. g e The Loulsvlllo Ays dves not attempt to cou- ceal ts disgust in view of Tit.prN's late revival of his claims, *The real trouble with the Democrats,” [t says, *ls thut clrcumstances seem to be foreing Mr. TILDEN upon them, and hie has not fuspired them with confidence.” The writer in tho Age hins o projudico against TiLpnN becauso ho Qid not. bring about the populsr demonstrations In New York and other Stotes which wero promised In 1870 und 1877, * Ilere {n IKuntucky," the Age aoys, “wae had the most posl.ive ossuranco of this lino of proceeding, and the Democrats hicld n State Convention only to find it flat, stale, and unprofitable, by roasont of the falllng through of the great New York demonstration, st the general lottlug down of everything to the tame mnethod of the Electoral Coinmission,!* Mr. Tir.oex has been forgiven much, but thero ure people who will never forzive Inm for making the “chivulry ¥ of Kentucky ridiculous. e p———— The Border City Mill, at Fall River, Mass., whict was wreeked by Cutacs und HATHAWAY, Las been run of late by a committou of credit- ors, ‘Iliey have bown nble to report a profit of | $20,000 for ten weeks, Thesc unusual profts, 10r 80 short a perlod, have rafsed hopes among the creditors that they will eventually ve pald in full the §600,000 due them, Bug there )s no reasonablo hove lor the stockholders, whio can- not comg In for any benefits’ until other claims are antisled, Crace mul Hatnaway stole the catire capital stuck of $500,000, uud they are now in State's Prison, e — Mr, Tronrstan's magniliccnt double somer- sault backwarda last full ou the curroney ques~ tlon—more astonishing than the vuuit of tha clreus acrobat over the backs of ten horses— fastened upon hlta the nawe.of * the chataplon flooper.” Last week lie acted on an fmportant public mensure as If he caveted the name of the ¥ Artful Dodger,"—he belng found skulking in the cloak-room when the vote was bolug taken Inthe Benate op the Iirazilisn mall subsidy, But then Mr, Tuonsan js & candidate for ‘the Presigency, und must be very carcful how he votes. ——————— In the exciting dehato fu the Ifonsa of Repre- sontatives on Tuesday last on tho Ineanc at- tempt of the Democratic majority to repeal the Eiection laws, the Wisconsln members tuok a hvely hand, Alr, WiLt1ans led off on the Re- publican side with a vigorous speech showlng the uoconstitutionality and immorality of such lexlslution, to which Gen, Braga roplied 88 well as he cowrd, Luter in the day, Mr. LYaps ro- plicd to Mr. Fays defending the Democratic method of carrying etections fu New York. e e Judge GILDERSLKEVE Is going to make an ex- ample af tha rufliana who robbed & lady of her diamond ear-rings o broad daylight in Fifth avenuo, Btate's evidence hias buon refused, und the rabbers will et the luueest term allowed by the law, At the sawme time, the Judge reiteratos the opfalon previously expressed thut ludics who carry thelr pocketbooks (n thelr hunds, snd Jace hundkerchiols in pockots slung behind them, uut wear costly ornamenta In tho streot, ave leading tho'crlmlnal classes Into temptatlon, e Tho New Orleans Tunes, tho Vicksburg 2o a'd, unt the Memphis Ava'anchs are the vuly Liberal-Democrutic newspapers of any note in tho Sauth, and they are constantly persecuted for, opinfon’s sake, They are chargeu with be- fug “Radical”? orgaus fn disguise. The Yimes, for Instanco, has just becn compelled to dony tho rumor that ta largest stockholder i Beuatur KeLroaa, > —m——e ‘Those who looked Into the ITouso of Repre- soutatives on Thurelay ovening lasy were fin- yressed with the idea that earthly Lonors ars very ompty sud ephemeral affuirs, “The acca- sjon was ect apart to commetorate the mom- ory o tho late Congressman W, Dotrolt Distrct, an the sesston e e " exhiaust that doleful subject. Oniy g, ek ty members attended, und, It It hag o T Tor the sttagelors in the galleries, he i men who delivered enlogies upun'lhe l'u'"m"b ncter, and_public acrvices of My, iy 02 would lnvo spoken 10 n beggarly aceer At empty benehea, The deceased wag o uem‘l"" 4 of cousiderable infiuence il high oo™ Washlngton and i s own Stats, poyr? and soclally, aud 1t Is strange fudeed that l‘:"’ should be 80 few among his oli} Associates o waald bo willug to do him reversnc, - oy shadows we are, und what shadowa o nur:‘n:"t e et " The unacating of Mr. Bisnxe, he seating of hia Democsatic of LRY, was a good thing {or Mr, Fm‘;‘:,v“.c:;fl?,' added one more to the Democratie majorl, l:. the Mouse. Iv was o neat Job for l-‘m.’ 3 financially, as it will put 811,000 0f the peoerr monoy ju s pocket for sitting In a ;m—mv.: ; bya better man—six days, which s nearly x: thousaud dollars par day, with stationery H stealings thrawn (n,—all {n the {ntcrest of o trenchmient and reform, you kaaw, W - —r—— of Florida, any Itis taken for granted, sineo Mr, 'y confessfon of partial ftnhecllity and ‘E,'?.“}‘; mission to the orders of Nis mm-runuln nephow, that ho will be the next Dempr, candidate for Yresident. Dut wh £0, nobody is able to say. If Tiupex wery clected, nothing, so far as appears, could e vent PELTON from runuing the Governmeg directly contrary to his instructions nnd Wishg without his knowing anything about it, i e ei— Jony, G. 8axn 1s sald to be suffering fron chroole melancholia, caused by bis vwn fingy and that of mewmbers of bls tamily, Ty will ba sad news for the many admirers of by wiltinge, additions to which have heen fyppe. quent of late years, nod nowW promiseto stop y. together. Mr. 841 (s another filustration of o professlonal hamorist far [rom amusing fn biy own houschold. Hle pleased others; himself by could not plense. e — . Our Mr. Epxy made s bintherskite speech y the House on Friday Iu favor of a Ielw] clay, and got **chawed up very flne by Coxoze, n; Michigan, and Keipen, of Olilo, The bill gy finally willed on & motion to striks out jiy cuacting clauso, which passed by a large ma. Jory. The cunctinz clause of Mr. Eppyy Congressional career wos stricken ont last ful by the voluntary actlon of the Bemocracy of by own district, —— Judge HoApLey mado o blg speechat the Washington birthday celebration In Cinclnoait, Howas for the OId Mon und a renomination, e mnocntyy ¥ 1L should Whoever s nominated,” he added, “ops ching ts certain: the column is colng 10 be closg o the lender, sud no obstacle, except thatof & majority vote, will provent hils inauguration.” We'll try toinake the obstacle of an adverss majorlty vote large onouzh to stop this surtof talk. et ——— The Atlanta Constitut’onsaya: * Brx Burias will perhaps regret to liear that the Confederats soldiers don’t want any penstons.” The Con- federate soldlora will regret to hear this mors than Bxx BUTLER docs, aud the Consttution I3 thne will regret that they rezret to hear it e ‘The Atlanta Constitution begs Jomy Surruay to interfere and prevent the nowlinavon of GuART. ‘Thero s nothing Suzivan woold more wiltingly do, it he could. ————— The disadvantage of having TiLpry msts President would bo that Nephew PELTON could then carry on his sceret negutiations for bribes ou a larger scale, PERSONAL, It tho Chinoso don't go California threats cns to. Teunyson porfectly idylizes his new grandehild, Ta viow af the popularity of tho Pioafors, the pinbeck ia gradually going out of use, -If opera-singera wonld carry tho war 1lo Afslca it would ba b blossing to a weary publle. +1 GHadstouo's ndmivers proposa to build fiolipltal to kils momory that will cost $110,000. » “The'walking is so bad in Euglaud that Mr, Weston wlli fash hin walk by taking the traie. . Adulteration is carried to such an slarmicg cxtont that even water fu slhunnod as & general bere orage. My, Tilden js rogarded by the Thurman wingof the Democratio party us a large Democratls loss, Paople in Northern Wisconsin keep the waolt tcom the door by Inclosing thelr sheep inthe pasture. ‘Tha ono ides fn which all sections of ths Democratic party ageeo s, **Anything fo beat Graut." Hitting Bull, tho outenst alien from oue borders, keopn a good many locks of bair torememe ber us by, P Tho only man who could not toll a lie it dead, but we have with us many who cannob fel} tho teutu, “Iho Clincse troaty should not be sbro. gated, China Is a good country to work oft trst dollars on. Dakota Territory has o naw town called Eden; and in 1nnocence and loveliuesa it rinls Qramercy Park. Jobu W, Young hna just takon his fifth wife. dohn {s evidently buund to ba a bigaer ia than old Brighant. Gon., Bharman is golng to Ben Trancisoo, and California had etter not attempt socension whileha's pround. i Thoro are a grent many trints fn fl . world, but none for K{-\a ll‘tnhh» because she hast’ got the wonoy to pay for it H Instend of saying *¢too thin, I“ch:f: Grant White tranalstea ft into the espeession tha utmost tonuity of fabric." i ‘Tus Now York Hoening Port daplores the Qegsadation of humor In Congross, Which dlrect attack on the funny Jittle Atz Cox. i Peter Cooper is said to b -u:d)‘:";’ it dead langusges, and he I8 qnlulumrll\: they were dead some time befoze he was bato. e Mew, John Jncob Astor, in ton yw‘,d o sccurod homos and tho mesnuof & livelBod 450 homaless childean ay a cost of mearly §07:00% Prof. Swing says there should ba no ssusse Iy inter m in tha pulpit, which, beine ful ‘F}:Enl:}r means \h‘;xe should be o Tslmage in ] pulpit. Linnet Mary Anderson is physically m“‘:’d’ :n vy than aho was ® Yoot 2g0. Tals Is suroly, but we hope tho same ‘cannot po ssldof W acting. H Marahal Maobahon wil visit Iral::fillml:;l sammer, and, a8 ho will doubtleas b‘:wramn e Cork, bo regards bimaol as **& bige old Orant." " A woman in England lint wrlllel:"taF:i:k adelpbla paner claiming to be tho Wife thauctor, There uo.zolw-vur. soveral tiow to hear from, we believe. e The managers of tho Ilnlllmnrleh.\‘r:}:d Exhlbition, balleving that Gean. “n:duloflfll “ogifted™ man of tho tine, 16 ! sccura uls gitts to adi 10 thefr display. the tax 03 Congress proposos to mdncafl' The prop . To increaso the populsrit: 1 ffl'.:fl'.f'mfm rewoved from the friction a1 should be placed on ‘walking-matehes ; O, Tl s hovor and chnrac! ..w s tho Olaclnati Kayuirer, **have BECORS oy of the Demucratc party." From Y‘; e e ot the Democsatic party is satialled with veTs eilior, e Barnum, who is Chatrman of !hln S.‘:xl:nn teo on Temperance of the Cnnntl:lulll:. flum T favors the useal (be bar-rooul h'h‘y ety thinka it {8 ** {he only show vi eartl Leucs from the whisky trame. ih Sl of Wiltiam Bradahaw, & mambcr(; » i a Daptlst chorch o Pull-dclvh\.l. _“nm tosich” mlssed becanso U ‘“l‘l.prds‘:’r:::n‘r: e houg® urlesque ** Il M. B. " ‘n‘e ‘::lb'flllll nover ta do it ssato. B e L