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

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And A, M, —1Tall, ORIENTAL LODGR, No, &3, A. F, 122 Lokalle-at. speelal comsmintcation this 1Frmn¥$ 5% at 7ui0 o'clock, for work, Visltors cordially invited. By order of the Master, . N. TUCKER, Bceretary, son, A. V. & Friday) evento 187 Enst Kinzi for are oll requicsted a0 curdially tivited, TANDLIN, Wi 3. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1870, The Rov. Jaaes DeKoven, D, D., of Racine, Wis., has beon elected Reotor of St, Mark's Church, Philadelphia. Cuanres H. Bent has been appointed by Gov. Prescort na United Blates Sunator from New Hampshire at the extra sosaion of Con- gress to fill the vacancy caused by tho ex. piration of Sonator WanLelan's term, —— A bill to provont trenting has been intro- dnced in the Houso nt Springfield. It is vroposed to attach n penalty of from $5 to 815 to the pornicions practice of * setting up the drinks all nround,” tho procoeds of tho fines to go to ko Beliool Fund; while candidates for offico may be fined £50 or imprisoned twenty days for offoring to trent their fi.nuafitunnu. — ] Tho toslimony at the Coroner's inquest yesterdsy upon the body of Davip O'Nenrr, ‘who was shot by an nssassin on the night of Feb. 20, and died of his wounds Iast Wednes- day, pointed to Troxas Erris, tho man un. dor suspicion, ns tho porpetrator of the dastardly deed. He Lins besn hold without bail on the chorge of murder, ‘Che situntion in Bzegedin, Hungary, ne- cording to the latest dispatches, was hourly growing moro serious, Tho waters were rlsing rapidly, and in addition a fonrful wind provailed, endangering the boats engaged in rescuing the imprisoned victims, Hundreds of lives aro alrendy known to havo been lost, and it is foared that tho record of donth is not yot half complete, Tho city is com. pletely dostroyed, with all the property it contained, leaving many thousand people in the most pitiable .conditien imaginable, Without roofs to sholter them, many Iack the necossarica of life, and much suffering must onsue, unless rolief is promptly fur. nished, ‘Theroscems to be an excellent prospeot that tiro Bennto will pnss tho bill for the protec- tion of bank depositors, which provides, among other things, that & bank officer re- colving a doposit and knowing tho bank to bo insolvont or on the vergo of susponsion at tho timo shall bo guilty of fraud, aud {ined doublo tho amount of the deposit-or imprigoned in the Ponitontiary, It also pro. .-Poses to forbid the loaning of deposits or truat funds by a savings bauk to its offlcors without tHo consent of depositors, and in u general way aims at making it a crime, pun- ishable tho samo as any other form of thott, for bonk officers to tako what doos not bo. long to them, [ —— A Bpringfleld dispatch states: * The Joint Rovonue Committoa declded to recommend the followlng olinnges in the existing Revenuo law: Asscssments of ronl estato to ba made once in four years; all personal proporty to be listed under oath; gonoral,notics of de- linquent lands to be published, instend of the prosent itomizod tax-llst now. domanded by law; tho number of books for nssossing ond collocting to be reduced to throo,” All theso aro eminently practical, Each of thoso provisions remedles au exlsting and an enor- mous abuse, the corrcotion of which will work incaloulabla good to tho Stato snd to tho rovenno, It is to bo hoped that theso, and a few other equely practical amond- ents, of coufessed importanca and utility, wiltnot be burdened down snd defeated by any attempt to pass & wholesalo mensura for tho goneral rovision of tho revenuo code. — e A mensuro of very doubtful economy was passed by tho Iouso yesterdny, viz., the bill reducing to $1,600 tho salarios of tho Iail. rond and Warchouse Commissionors, If the gontlemen who passcd this bill wore really in favor of tho rotrouchiment professod to be aimed at, they could accomplish it more cffectually by abolishing the Board ontirely. 1f the Board is worth retaining at all it is worth o compensation that will uduce moen of rospectablo abiliges and character to devote their time to tho oftico, and that will secure efficlency and not operato as A temptation’to resort to crooked practices as a means of bringing the compensation up to & fair figure, It would be ploasant to believe that the heavy vots by which this bill was passed—yeas, 116; nays, 19—ruprosents the sentiment of the Houso ou tho subjeot of economy, but unfortunntely the genoral tendonoy of logis- Intion s not such as to benr out the supposi. tion that rotronchment nlono was aimed at. Tha political erisla in tho Fronch Assembly lins passed, nnd the threatoned antagonism botweon tho Oabinet and- the Chambor of Dopnuties has been avoided by a compromise which is sntlsfactory to tho extromists and not objectionable to the Government. The tost of tho Iattor's strongth in rostraining the rovolutionnry tendencies of tho radieal Ropublicans oceurred yesterday in the wvots in the Chambor on the proposition to impeach the DeDrocriz and Rocupouer Unbinets, Tho Government atood firm in opposition to this dangorous programme, and on tho flnal voto was sus- tained by a very omphatie majorily, the impeachment plan boiug dofeated, and the ostremists contonting themselves with ordering that the mombors of the offending Ministries be placarded in every Communo as having intrigned ngoainst the peaco and safety of the Republi THE CONFEDERATE PROGRAMME IN CON- ORESS, Tho Washington Post may properly bo regardod oy tho national organ of the Demo- Confed party. Its roports of tho Democratic caucns are ofiicial, and when it outlines any Demo-Confed programmo it speaks by nu- thority, Its cditor Is a candidate for Secro- tary of tho Sonnto under the new Demo-Con- fod rulo by renson of his position as official roporter to the party, Ilenco mny party an- nouncemont made by the Post is ontitled to moro credit than Domooratio newspapers usually command for what they print, and thig circumstanco warrants special attention for tho -following exposition of the Demo- Confed programmne for tho exira sossion, s given by tho Post: **The popular plan among the Do mocrats of the Tlouse, na expreascd by thoeo mow In theclly, 18 10 confine business to the two appropriation blls. The Legislative, Executive, and Judiclal biil will be reported and disposed of promptly, just ng it passed the last llouse. Asa very promineat mems- ber expressod it yestorday, not an additional § will hodotted or t crosred, It willgo tho Senato and e passed thero with as 1ittlo delay as possible. Meantime the Honsa will do nothing. Not even the Army Appropriation bill will bo touchied until it Ia soon what 11AYE# proposcs ta do. It ho sces 1t to approvae tho Legislativo bill, then the Army bill will bo passed as quickiy as possible, and Congress will immedlately adjourn. Shonld Hayzs veto tho Leglslativo bill, then the Democrata of Congrees will conclude that.no time need bo wasted fuoling with him, and thay will adjourn at once, f Iavxs sees fit to call another extra acs- slon, it will convena and coact the samo pro. gramme uver again, nndeven again if necessary. The Democrats will not yteldan Inch, and are wiil- ing for Hares to try the experimont of running tho Qovernment without money, if he wants to," ‘'ho nbove programme is sufficiently roac- tionary to inspiro the belief that it is actual- ly and soriously contemplated by tho Dema- Confeds; and, as thero will be o Demo-Con, fedJumnjority in both Housos, it will be possi- blu to earry out the purpose outlined if the cnucus shall dictato it and if all the Demo- Uonfeds bo willing to enbmit. It is thorough- ly in keoping with the bullilozing policy of the ex-Confedurates, for It is in the uatura of an attompt to nceomplish by fraud and intimi. dntion what conld not be accomplished by legitimato mothods, It is n fraud to attnch partisan logislation to the approprintion bills, and it is iotimidation to threaten to cut off supplios unless tho President shall acquicsce in that froud. The policy s des- verato nnd rovolutionary, but for that very reason it is likely to be sustained by the Bouthern Bourbons, It was equally dos. porato and rovolutionary for the ex. Confedorntea in South Carolivn to carry the lnst election by tissue-paper ballots, and that of Louislann and Mississippi to carry their clection by murders and systom. atio violenca, There was desperation in tho attack mado in the Fouso on Gen, Braca ebocause he resisted the payment of Rebel claims, ond in tho glowing defonso of Jerr Davis by Sonator Lasan, Thoro is no rension, thorefore, to doubt the accuracy of tho Post's stolemment becauso it involves s rovolutionary purpose; as the Democratic party now s, that fact wounld only confirm tho statomont. : The Democratic parly, as controlled by the ex-Confederates, is a party of nullifica- tion. **Rule or ruin’ is the motto that hins nlways governed its nctions. Whenover there hns boon n failuro to coerce the Gon- oral Government into submission to ite diotntes, there ns boon a stubborn attempt to nullify tho laws. Btate.Bovereignty is the standing excuse for any and every kind of resistance that is offered to tho lawa of the nation, Whother i tha slinpe of actual secession, ng in 1801, or in circumventing tho United Btates Courls with the aid of State Courts, or in defenting the colloction of tho Governmentrevenus by resiating officary, or in tho violation of the constitutionnl amendments, nnd tho Inws that have grown out of them, undor tho toloration and on. couragement of the Btato Governments,-— nnllifiontion is tho resort of the Democrats whousver they caunot dictate the logislation of tho Ropublic. 'Thoir purpose now ia to ro- peal the National Election law. Thoy cnn. not do it on the ground that the lnw is un. constitutionn!, becouss tho Constitution exprossly authorizes tho Goneral Governe ment to tako entire supervision of the nn- tional clections; nor bocause the law iy unfair, sinco it shmply provides n means wheroby both parties may supervise tho machivery of general elections under the impartinl suspicos of the Uuited Btates Courts; nor because the repeal of this law is domanded by a majority of the people, sinco the groat majority beliove in fuir and houeat eleotlons, ‘o ox-Confodurates, nasisted by their Northorn allies, are simply dotormined thnt the New York and Cincin- nati repeators, tho SBouth Oarolina ballot-box stuffers, Mississippl bulldozers, and tho Loulsioun murdorora shall Lave full swing in tho mext Presidential election, aud honco thoy say that the law must be ropealed or they will shut off supplies sud block tho Wheels of Government. If thoy cannot carry out thoir design by fair monns, thoy are propared to do 1t by foul menns. When they canuot dictato tho laws they aro pro- paved to organize revolution. Howevor sorlous the Bourbons may be in their intentions to aot as the Post soys they will, it moy woll bo doubted whother thoy will bo ablo to carry out thelr programme. Tt 1s not morely vevolutionary, but it is fm- pertinont; and tho Northern Domocrats who might not stop at the former condition may hositato at the lattor, Domocrats from tho North will hardly dare to faco their con- stituonts in u fow woeks with {he nunounco- ment that thoy have como homo aud loft the Govornment without supplies beeauso tho Prosident would not sign a bill repenling o law for the protection of houest olectious, Even Domocratio constituencicu at th North aronot so utterly absorbed in State-Sovereigu. ty, nor so confessedly indifforent to honest olections, us to approve a scheme for aban- doning Governwent altogother, unlesa nulli- ficatlou auddishionest olcations be rocognized, Elections are perlodical in this countrv. LHE UHICAGO TRIbUlvly FRIDA:, MARGH 14, IoY="L wiilivly 1 AGES) Whon Democrata ndjourn on the plea ] which tho P08t prediots, it will be to make an issuo for tho moxt clection, They will bo obliggd to appesl to thoir eonstituents for approval of such adjourn- ment; thoy will come back to ask re-election on the issno of State-Sovereignty and nullifl- cation; the Nationnl Election lnw will still be on the statuteooks, and the tost of the issno will bo an'"honost ono; they will nsk tho pooplo to cloct n Presi- dont who will sign the proposed repenl of tho only law for tho supervision of nntionnl clections. Domooratic membors from tho North will hestinto a long tima Lo- fore placing themselves in any such nullifis eatton position ny this. Some of them have too mnch good senso to insult the intelli- goeneo and convictions of tho peoplo at whoso hands thoy will sook ro-eleotion, There aro othor reasons for thinking that the Democratio mnjority in Congress will not dispose of tho matler in controversy so swnmarily as the Washington Post predicts. It is not at all like Democratic politicinns to nct 50 promptly and barmomously ns it would be nooessary to act In ordor to make n squaro fssuo within a fow days aud adjourn, Onco nssembled in Washington, with an an. bounded latitude for political demagogism, nothivg short of the dog-days or the prospect of Asintla cholers can induce tho Domocrats to disperse and go home. It is not at all unlikely that tha extra session will be mndo to cover the entiro rangs of topics usunlly cnuvassed, and the now membors eapecially will oxact opportunities for airing thoir rhotorio and riding their hobbies. Be- sides, the bill to which it is proposed to tack the repeal of the Election law provides for tho logislativa as wall as the exeeutive nnd judicial expensos; not to pass (his appro- printion will ent off Congressmen from their own pay, a8 well as the President, Cabinot, and tho Judges. This circumstance is apt to exert considerable infltonco, nnd perhinps ns much among inpecunious Southern membera as any other class, The prediction, then, though it ovidently foreshadows the presont ex-Confedernte programme, may miscarry, ond it is moro than likely that Congress will not adjourn immediately, and that, when it shall finnlly adjourn, it will not be without providing the means for sustnining tho Gov- ernment. But if the ex-Confederate pro- grammo bo carried out, it will result in tho complete subordination of the Demo-Confed influence for the next four years. Northern constituencies will attend to that at the polls. THE ROYAL M, GE. Princo Antnun, Duko of Connaught, son of Queen Victorta, born May 1, 1860, created Dulke of Oonunught in 1874, was married yestorday to tho Princess Louise, daughter of Prince Frepenick Cuanres of Germany, Field Marshal fu the German army; born July 25, 1860, and betrothed to Princo Anrnun May 16, 1878, ‘The bridegroom now has five brothors and sisters married,~—Princess Vic- ronta to Prince Frepenick Winutas, tho Princo of Walos to the Princoss AnzxANbna, Prince ALrrep to the Grand Duchess Manie of Russio, tho Princess Herena to Prince CunisTiaN, nnd the Princess Lovise to tho Marquis of Lorno; and thero yet romnain to be mnrried Princo LioroLp and the Princess Beatnror, Tho bride hns two sisters, the Priuncess Manrg, married to Prince Henprig of tho Notherlauds, tho Princess Erizavern, married to Princo Avausr, horeditary Grand Duko of Oldenburg, and one brother, Princo Fpievricn Lroronn, who, being but 4 yeors of age, can hardly be expected to ontortain sorious thoughts of matrimonial allinuces. ‘T'he marringo appears to have boen emi- nontly succossful nnd attrnotive in all ity surroundings, The skics smilod ausplcionsly upon the young pair, which iz a good denl for London skies to do. 'The procossion was o long and gorgeous one, and oven tho last man in it was cheered to the echio by the Jjubilant multitudes who thronged tho strcots. There wns gront profusion of tapesiry, ban- ners, and flowers, and the costuines of sillc and satin, trimmed with raro laces and blaz. ing with dinmonds and sll sorts of precious stoues galore, might have drivon the ordi- nary society roporter wild with despalr in attempting to describe thom, The groom was ushered in with drums and trumpots ond tho brido with tho organ and the bands; and the Lord Chamberlain, who did the ush. ering, nudoubtedly felt it to be the proudest day of hislifo. Tho bride's fathor, in tho searlot uniform which tho German soldiers know so well in the Fronch war, gave away tho bride, nnd the Archbishop of Cantor- bury, with four Dishops and no end of conons and minor ocanons, performed the ceremony in npproved stylo, the Queen being * visibly affected,” a8 all good moth- ors should be, though this is tho sixth timo that she Lns undergone thoe trial. At the | conclnsion of the coromony tho cannon on tho outor wall anncuncoed the consummation to the populnco, and thonsands of lusty Britons answered tho cannon peals with their huzza, No intimation i3 given whother the Royal pair will go nmediately to housekooping or mnake a wedding tour. Should they deoter- mino upon the laiter courso, it is to bo hoped they will pay their sistor in Canadn a visit, and, when the warm weathor #ots in, tako a run down to Chiongo with hor to onjoy the beauties and comforts of thig city as a sumn- meor rosort, In tho fall thay can return in time to go over to Ireland, where it is in. timated Parlinment would like to have the Princo do sombthing for himsolf in tho way of earning a livelihood Dby taking the Gov- ernor-Genoralship of that happy placo, THE HUNGARIAN DISASTER, The flood-dlsnster at Szogedin, in Hunga. Ty, though it will not'bo so lnsting in ite of- feots, is scarcely lesa appalling than o gront flre, Any cotastrophe by which 80,000 people aro rondored homeless even temporarily is horrible enough to arrest the attontion of the whole world, and to call for such ald as moy bo necessary to rolleve im- medinte suffering nud nssist tho victims in rogaining n solf-sustaining condltion. 1t is not possiblo ut this carly day to esti- ninto the loss nor the sulfering of this Iun. garian community. ‘The peoplo of the town had n warniug of what was to come by the breaking of two embankmonts and the probability that tho third, largest, and lnst protection would give way bofore tho flood, ‘Ihousands of tho mon kod beon ot work for soveral doys in tho effort to savo tho em- bankment, but it gave way during the night, and henco the flood must havo taken a large port of the population by surprise.- Tho terrors of rushing waters hiave beon graphic. ally doscribed by Ouauves Reape in one of Lis novels, and American readors have a closer recollcotion of such impressions as mny bo communicated by doscriptions of the breaking dame in New England throo or four years sgo. It would probably be diffl. cult to exaggerato the horrors of sucha scone a8 Las boen onacted at Bzegedin, for water may be moro terrible and relentless than firo when it comes in o torropt that no buwman haud cau stav, sod {oo hwifs aud ovorwhelming to permit of escape, ITun- drods of houses must have gone down in that night of tarror, and hundreds of men, women, and childron must have mot n sud. den and frightfnl death, 'The River 'Thelss ia n large, navigable atrenm, 60O miles in length, flowing parallel with the Dannbe for n long distance, and finnlly omptying into tho Intter, Beveral fm- portant manufacturing towns and commor- cinl cities nre located on its banks, and of these Szegedin s tho chief. The city is Luilt in o marsh, and tho fact that tho river i crossed by a bridge of bonts indieates tho constant dangor of flood. ‘I'ia city is con- neotad by rail with all the ports of tho conn. try; boat-building, and tho manufaciure of cloth, tobnoco, soda, nud sonp have boon its chiof industries; and it hns onjoyed n largo trade, Tho actunl destruction of proporty and tho loss of business togethor will aggro- gnte an enormous loss, nnd entail a great amount of sulfering boyond the immedinte result of the flood, The people of Chicago liavo renson to know how far-renching so gonoral n disaster ag chis ia in its offects, Tho bronking of the cmbankments at Bzegodin mny bo of some service to this country ns & warning to Congross not to enter upon the Schemo for the embaukmont of tho Mississippl River from its sourco to tho Gulf, nt a cost of untold millions of dol- lars, 'Theso mud.walls aro littlo protection in tho crisis of a flood whon they ara needod, nnd of 1o use at any other time. TProbably tho River Theisa novor has one-fiftioth of tha volumo nor onc-tohth the im. potuosity of which the Mississippi Rivor i eapablo in flood-time, and the experionce of other countries should teach the American Congress not to construct high walls of mud within which to conflne n hugo flood of water, the forco of which will brenk through the artificial protection andl sub- morge the surrounding country. Adequate outlots are vastly safer and cheaper s pro- teotion ngainst rivar-floods than earth om. bankwments evor can bo made TAXING MORTGAGES IN ILLINOIS, Senator Wiiring has offered a bill in the Legislaturo which it is aunounced *is do- signed to provent double taxntion on real o8 tate.” Itprovidesfor ** tho taxation of mort. gnges and other incumbrances, and that the tax on the land shall be proportionately re. duced {o tho extent of the mortgage.,” This Dill ins'been evidontly suggésted by tho pro- vision placed in tho new Constitution of Oal- ifornin by the Kearneyites nnd Qommunists, which wo printed tho other dny. It will bo remombered that the prosont Tevenuo law of this State provides for the taxation of all ronl estate. It nléo provides for tha toxation of mortgnges and all other crodits ns property. i Bonotor Writie hns Doen tho foremost champion of the taxation of credits, and in dofouio of the theory that n debt is taxable pro érty. o has argued claborately, session after session, tho justico of taxing mortgages ns property incum. brances, vohomently denying that it was doubla taxntion! At Inst it has boen rovenlod to him by the Commuihists of Californin that to taxn farm, and nlle‘_‘ to tax a mortgago on tho farm, is to tm’; _.‘lhu same property twice. 'Tho peoplo of Illinois have reason to rejoice that this aglfwvident trnth has at last reached tho undorstunding of that schiool of logisintora which have maintained the taxation of dobts undek our Rovenue Iaw, There {s nothing, ht:iljv‘avnr, to warraut tho exomption of mortgaged real ostato on the ground of doublo taxktlon that does not ap- ply with eqaal forca lélilhu exemption of 'all other mortgnged propeyty in il other forms, and whon Scuator Wii¥iNo nud his poouliar school of economisty {{b,hccdo that to tax the land and to tax the morigage on the laud is doublo taxation, as¥it' unquestiouably is, then Lo concodes of necessity that tho tax- ation of all debts is .Algo doublo taxation, which is unjust accordidg to every principlo of fairness and sound jidlioy. We disoussed this qufi‘;fion tho other dny in connection with the thfomln lnaw on the subjoct, Qur Constitution provides for the taxation of all proporty;’ The Assessor lists overy lot and nero of laud in the State, without reference to the ownership, It is the property and not,the owner that tho Btate taxes, Itlooks to'tho proporty for the tax, and docs not pretond to decido who tho owner ig, nor tho propofiflon which each pro- priotor owns; it leaves all questions of titles to bo settled by individuals, and claims its taxes of tho proporty. , That of courso is the only safo polioy of tha State, and when it nbandons tho property in a search nfter tho owners, and claimants, and creditors to got its taxes, then tho Stato will onter into n system of litigation without limit, nnd end in suffering n practical defeat of the collec- tion of snuch taxes, The bill proposes that, whon a piece of Inud is incumbored by a debt, the State, hiav- ing nscortained the value thercof, shall credit the owner of the land with tho amouunt of any mortgageo Lio mny owe, aud tax tho property on the romainder, and will then pursue the mortgageo to collect tho ramaindor of the tax, There nro millions of dollars' worth of voal oatate which is indebted beyond any cash valuo it mny have; land that the mortgagoes will not take for the debt, preferring to lot tho proporty le idlo and wait for an im- provement, or to soll tho land for less than tho dobt and take a judgment for tha remain- der. All this renl estate under such a bill would becomo released from taxation, and tho Assossor aud "Pax-Colleotor would bo put on tho hunt after tho owners of tho mort- g0ges or other inonmbrances, It §s noedless to eny that fu two years tho revenue colloc- tious and nsscssmonts in this State wonld bo in inextricabla confusion, and that the Courts would hove dockets erowded with all mau. nor of revonue cases growing out of the wild hunt after supposed owners of mortgages, The attompt to conflicoto mortgnges, and dobts, and credits for non-phyment of taxes, ag proposed by the Koarnoyitos in California, can bardly be followsd in this State under our Constitution, where the tax is confined to property. x This nohemeo is but one of the phinses of tho goneral lunnoy that to tax dobts is to reduce toxation to debtors, This law has long boon in oporation in this Stato undor tho wost vigorous form, but it Las beon a con- fessed and notorious failuro, as any such law must of neccasity alwnys be, It mny bo ng- sumed s an {nevitablo and unalterablo fact that tho borrower must always pay all the interost, and oll the taxes, and all the charges portaining to u loan that aro ol Tt s immaterfal in what form the law atlompts to -reach the londer, the borrower must 1n the ond pay all that the law extorts, directly or fndirectly, from the lonn, It 18 the penaly of dobt that tha borrower as. sumes all tho charges incldont to it, The Stato may tax a loan, but the tax must be poid by the borrower in the shkape of higher interost. Ono of tho offects of the prosont law {s, that the Btate imposes a tax on all mortgages, and this tax, whioh is rurcly vuid to the Htate, i vald by tha lor rower in tha shape of increased interest, For tén yoars tho borrowors und dobtors of this State have beon pnying sunmlly 1 to 2 por cont additionnl rntes of intereat on $300,000,000 of mortgagea nnd other debts, boeauso of tho absurd law which providod for taxing these debts, while the State has not boen recoiving perhaps $10,000 & yoor from sich taxos, The existonco of the law has furnished the reason for n higher rate of in. terest, and whilo tho dobtors have beon flecced, the State has obtained littlo or no revenio from that gource, If the law tax- ing mortgages and other debts were re- pealed, it would result in tho reduction of from 1 to § por cont in tho interost of all tho municipal Londs of tha Btate, most of which now pay 9 Lo 10 por cont intorest, No mat- tor what tho device of law may be, tho lender will always in gomo form mako the bor- rower pay overy chargs on thalonu; other- wiso ho will not lend, He will not lond monay at 7 per cont and pay 2 or 3 por cont taxes thoreon, If the tax ba paid at all, then the borrowoer must pay an equivalont of 2 to 8 por cent or go without the money. Tho diract, simplo, and effectiva remedy for oxcessivo rates of intorest, commissions, and othor chinrges on loans, is to ropeal all taxen on dobts, and lot all now contracts bo made on that basis, Then monay, free of all perils nnd threatenings and all complicn- tions, will flow into the Btato and be lonned at choap - rates; tho :mortgaged and other incumbored property can bo rolensed of an avernge of 2 per cont on its prescnt annual chargo for intorest; loans ean be sooured at tho notual curront value of money; and the hundreds of millions now sacking 4 por cont bondh will sock invest- mont in tho farms, city real ecstate, and fm. proved property in Illinois, at G or 7 per cont. 'The repeal of tho so-called tax on credita—which yiolds comparatively no rovenuo—will be o practical delivernnco of at loast 2 per cont interest now paid by borrowers in thiz State on $300,000,000 of mortgages and other debts, This would bo o rolense of an aunual exaction from the debtors of Illinois one-half groator than the ontiro taxes for 8tato purposes, Our legislators, however, persist in tho lunacy that they can compel men to lend monoy at a rate of intorest which does not include taxes, or, in othor words, that lend- ors of monoy will ogres to pay half or third tho interest on their losns into tho Btate, County, Town, and OCity Trensuries, That delusion has cost the peoplo of this State sevoral millions of dol- Inrs annually for n long serics of yenrs, and now tho Iatest form of onfurcing donble tax- ntion is to relenso the roal cstato from tnxa. tion, and have tho Tnx-Colleotor send his warrant all over tho United States to induce holdors of mortgages to pny taxes on debis duo them in Illinois, Forgine telegrams 18 n somewhat dangerous business, but it is perhaps a mistake to suppose that the loss caused by them must acerue solely to the sender or recolver, The Baltimoro Ameri- can cites a cose, the tendency of which 18 to show that-the telegraph company which trans- mits such a dispateh is responsible for the dam- ngo caused by it. “*Some years sinee,” it says, “a dispatch was seut to Messra, HALL- GARTEN & Cu.,, of Neow York, slgned WiutiaM Fisugr & Sown, Baltimore (o singular colncidence In names), which ardered the anle of several thousand eharos of Marfetta & Cincinnat! stock. The morket was similarly demoralized, but upon the recelpt of the first telegraphie roport of what sales had been made by the New York firm the Baltlmore housp prpmptly notified. their friends that some- thing was wrong. The New York Stock Ex- chango took the matter up, offered a reward of 810,000 for the discovery of the forger and his accomplices, ond cancelod all transactions based upon the order, N6 one was ever publicly fdentifled with the erime, but by many It was said that the criminals were discovered, and that prosceution was abandoned becausc of the high positlon of somo of the accomplices in the trans. actlun, the object of which was, of course, tho depression of Marletta & Clncinnat! stock bya bear clique,” In this case the Telegranh Com- pany acknowledzed ita lnbllity, and offered to stand the loss caused by the transaction; but ns the New York Exchango declared alt sales oft there was no loss, aud the Company was ro- leved. S Mr. J. P. Coruien's alleged dlscovery of o new play by BlARsPrARE 18 good to this extent, that the play nlluded to—** A Warning for Faire ‘Women *—undoubtedly does contaln passages that wero written by SuaksPEanre. Dut Mr. CoLLIER {8 mistaken In supposiug that he is the first person to connect the namo of SuAn- PRARE with the play in question. J. W. M. Giops writes to the Atheneum, fn which Mr. CoLLIER'S conmuuication on the subject ap- peared: The Inte Mr, Ricitaup S1xrson, in the first In. atallmont of hls *‘School of BHAKAPEARE' (**A Lurum for London," etc,, Luxosax, 1872), mon- tioned the ** Warning," with some othor plays to be fucludod In hiv **Schaol, ' as fafrly attributable to tho part suthorsbip of BnAKArEARK, And five yeara dater Mr, BisesoN emphaaized the Idea in his complution of thy **School of SHARSPEATE" (two volunios, posthumously publistiod, Cuatro & Winnus, 1878) by reprinting tho entire piay, with much evidenco **tonnecting’ it with BuARsPrAnE 48 prohably one of the poct's but lttle valuod ef- fortw of more manarerlal **adaptation.” Follow- Ing Mr, Sturiox nlso, 1, myvelf, who helped Mr, ¥, J, Funxivatn bring out the two posthumous volumes just mentioned, havo tnoreln ventured to compare passages in the **Warnlog" with pas. wnges in **Macooth," ete., and one, at least, of theso comparisons 18 [dentlcal with onn of thoso Mr. CouLien claims to have made for tho first time, ————— Thoro ia a lngering lrlclnn that Juatico Is wea-minded as well as Ulind. The New York tnan who atolo 4 §500 carring {tore it outof a la. dy's ear], recolves a_twenty-year sentonce, whils tia Chicago Asuguy, who stolo ovef $100,000, Kots but ten, —Phlladelphia Chronlcle, Justice i neither weuk-minded nor blind fn maklng o distinction between robbery, wlich in- valves the use or threat of personal violence, und slple cmbezzlement, which 18 an injury only to property-intercate. It isa curlous fuct thut untit within a comparatively recent perfod ombezzlement was not regarded us o crimo at atl, but as a private affair, to be scttled by tho persons immediately coneerned, —— If the Republicans nominated for the Com- mon Councll go v, ns they probably will, thut ‘bodty will comparo favorably with ony municipal leggislature In the country, The young men of thy Elghiteonth Ward inust ses to it that the avorage s kept up, That ward Includes one of the best resitlenco districts in the clty, and it sliould not clect another JoNas, ——— The Interfor still fecbly defends Taruagw, and reprints another of his sermons from a scenlar newspaper, But it evidently hos less zeol In the cause than formerly, Itis beglnning to hear, no doubt, from some of the wembers of the respectublo and conservative Presbyterian Chureh, to whom the pulpit antics of TaLMAGR ore slmple blasphemy, ——— ‘The boys on the Board of Trade are querying whether J. K, Fisnen would have been taken iu by a-red balf-rate forged telegram as ARoute wasy but belng fn, it {s generally admitted, ho would nut have come out auy better, if a0 woll. Nobody could have shown miore nerve or promptncss undor the cireumstances thau the younger Fisugn did. S —— Jeee Davis has prowised to have bis autobl- ogruphy out by August, ilo ought not to owmlit the thrilling sensatlons produced by Zaou CHANDLER'S specch, ————— ‘Tho sum of $30,075 wae paid by the Jast Cone greaa to dofray the expeuses of contested elce- tious in turnlog Republicans out of the suuta, This fa the lorgest steal of ita siva pn record, the meaning of which is that no other nppropriation, In proportion to the amount, had less foundation fn reason or the necessities of the Governmont, Tt Is not good polley to maka contests cnay and profitable, for hall the able- bodied polltictans in this conntry can esrn more money in conteating seats with a colorablo title ihan in carrylug on any lomitimate buslucss with which they nre acquainted. e ee—— Bad storles ara told about tho state of affairs in Memphls, Inaddition to tho fluanclsl ruin of the clty and the publie health, ovory man In the city who can do w0 is bemglug, saving and seraplng monoy togother with which to get away next summer, when f fs feared the yellow-fover will rage sgaln with redoubled fury, - ————— A great many young editora~—thosa connected with the Springfleld Republican, for instance— fall to understand the poputar atred of Jurs Davis, because they have arown up sioce the War. But Jeer DAvis Is to many minds the embodiment of a treason which brought distress and grie! to milllons in the North, —— Tuanppxus C. Pounp, the able Congressman from Wisconsln, is entd to bo moro successful than any other member in sceuring approvria- tions tosquanderin his District in the River oud Harbor bill. But 1t s uot known that he hos views on any other subject thaw the Mill- Creok Navigation Company, S Mr. HArsT#AD cxplatng that hohas not desert cd 8penMAN for Cuaxprer. He Iv only pro- posing a varlety of names with a view to flood- ing the one-man movement. or a milltacy Prestdent, ho thinks Pin SugnipaAn would be better thun anybody olso who has been men- tloned. ol es 5 The Literary World, fu conncetfon with the partial admission of womcu to the privileges ot Harvard, enys: * When the tender ivy once gots 1ta tendrila into the crevices of the hoary gran. ite tower, it generally stays.” But the fvy has no tendrils. — The Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat wants to have its nativo city anuoxed to fitinals, This is evident~ ly o boso attempt to borrow our Btate Falr for the next consus. 8t. Louls will need several fairs on that occasion, if she {s going to beat Chleago, — A fowbrief wocks ago nobody would have said that Zaoit CuANDLER was likely to muke o speech fit tolve in - the achool readers by the slde of Danizr, WensTen's aud PaTiick Hzn- ux's cloquent utterances. But be bas done it. , B — In canvassing the chances of the candidates for the Speakoerehip, it will bo well to romomber ihat Mr. RANDALL'S case was given up before by many gencrous correspondents, and yot ho afterwards proved to be an casy winner, oot — Mr, O’LEARY rulned his system by leaning up against too many mahogany counters and trying to sec men over them, Ile lookad throuih ginsses dimly. Let this bo a waraing to youth- 1ul pedestrians, ——————— . Mr. Evarrs, it 1a sald, Induced the President not to veto the River und Harbor bill. ‘Then Mr, Evauts is altogather too uuanimous, ——— PERSONALS. As Detwoen Grant and Tilden givo us somobody olse. Mr, Eunis should romombor that the devil takes tho hindmost. Docs Mr. Clara Morris think he is a biggor wan than Cetywayo? Quito & number of legs wero broken in tho deslre tosece O'Leary's, Archbishop Purcell is convinced that money 15 tho root of nil evll. Wo foar that Rowell’s sobriety was the principal difiienlty seith O'Leary, Command by Gon. Clara Morris: Take alm, mako ready;: hit-him twioe, Fraldy; ~ Tho Duke's wedding was one of the plons. auteat it hna ever beon our fortunc to attond, -~ Why do the papers keep on asking, ¢ In 1880, what? The question ls, *‘In 1880, who?" In commemoration of Mr. Harriott's re- cent engagement Omaha {8 now knownuas 0l-my- oye. Koono and Fishor are holding a Coroner's inquest to dlscover tho porpotrator of thst bogus dispatch, Mr, O'Leary cannot yet equal Weston as a failuro, but ho {s lkely to do so with o liitle more practice, Somebody nominates Gen, Bhiclds for the Prosldoncy, This cannot be untll Gen. Shieida has been born agaln, An exchange says O'Lieary had botter tako & wolk, Poorman! ho haas walked himself nearly to death already. The accidont at Gilmore's Garden Wednes- dday night shows that O'Leary waa not the only one ‘who broke down. Poor Mr, Tilden, His mind is paralyzed too, According to an Eastern paper ho sings ** I'm Littlo Buttorcup.” Jefferson Davis is believed by tha Roolies- ter Herald to ba thepeor of Washington,—of George Washinzton, of Loutsville, who waa hanged tho other day, Mrs. Cobb wants a enrpot in her prison call, and sho should have a protty one to match her own sweot welf, ‘Tha New York World is to be out down to a four-pago two-cent paper, kwnn'l 3r, Tiiden's oarrel open to the HWorld? | Prof, Lice, of 8t. Louls, is laid np with a brokon wrist, and we supposo wo may look for \luullll“l] severo weather, 7 Mrs. Crabiree, Lotta's mother, may have ‘mado soveral poor investmonts, but they certalnly do not Include Lotta herself, Drother Talwage, o fow Sundays ago, eaid that ha shonld go to Heaven, And.mark! Brother Talago is boing tried for falschaod and decsit, Iu tho next session of Congress the Domo- cratw aro oxpocted to ronder tho country valuablo scrvice, 1118 belioved’ thoy wilt kilt the Doma- cratlc party. ‘Wa aro grently alarmed abont Rowell, e may walk himseif to death i hio keops on this way, and, morcover, he wmay bost Knale, the only Chi- cago pedestnian Joft. Mark Twain will soon be home, and he will go out In tha woodshed and cry when he hears what auperlor lying hasbeen golng ou fu this coun- try during bis abycnco, It ia quitc amusing to hear Seorotary Thompson sing ** For [ am the monarch of the nd the doublo-shufle with which he enda thowony 1s vory pretty, It is again rumored that Secrotary Bohurz is going to bo marrled. The lady's namo s not mentioned—out of conslderation for her frienus and family, we supposc, 7 According to tho Buffalo Hrpress, Mr. Iayes will now proceed to brace-up, 1ias the o cider turned hard, or hes Ruthy boen taking something strongor? A slight shpck of earthquake was felt at Ban Franclsco the other day, It was doubtloss the result of Donny Koaraey's emphatic remarks on tho veto of the Chinese blll, Donu Piatt complains that tho Washington Journallats do not sympathize with him. Ah! but 12 not Mr. McGarrahan In Wasuingtun, untestraine ed by bonda to koop the peacet BMrs, Gon. Buerman eays if sho had 81,000,000 tu spare sho would give It to Arch- ‘bishop Purcoll, As she hasu't got it, however, her genorous hwpulees cause the General no unosainess and no profanity, ————— s LIBEL, &pectal Diavatok tp The Triduns. BeriNarisLy, 111, March 13,—The triol of the ibol sult of James T, Magle, lato Btate Priuter Expert, va, The State Jteglster Company, began In the Baugamon Circult Court to-day. Magle sues for $23,000 damayes, because of ‘the publi- cation of articles churging bim with drawing pay for days when he rendersd no scrvice, and with makiy, Aava false certificates us to the number of survlea ug Printer Exnart. ROYAL NUPTIALS, Marrisgge of the Duke of Con;. -naught to the Princess Louise of Prussia, A Most Brillinnt Company Attendanes upon the Coremony, in The Preparations Made ot Windsor Castle and 8t George's . - Chanel, Some Iden of tho Trousseau anmg o Host of Tteh and Elegant Presonts, Description of the Future Res. idence of the Royal Pair. Spectal Disnateh 1o ‘e Tridune, New Yoni, March 13.—In spite of the Dro- test of the Iligh Churchimen,—who forgot appar ently that the Priuce of Wales was marrieqd In Lent,—the wedding of the Duko of Connaught and the Princess Loutse Margarcthn of Pruesfy took place in 8t. Georze's Chapel, Windsor Costle, to-daynt 1 o’clock. The Emperor of Uermany's consent that the nuptials shoulg te celebrated at the home of the groom was only obtatned after lone megotintions, nud ot thy special request of the Queen, who wished thg marrfago of lor favorite son to take place iy England. THE DRIDEGROON, His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught und Straty. earn, Eorl of 8Bussex, Duke of Snxony, Princs of Caburg and Gotha, Privy Counclor, Kaight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of fho Most Aucient and Most Noble Order of the ‘Thlstle, and of the Most Iilustrious Order of Salnt Patrick, Knizht of the Grand Cross of the Most Distingzuished Order of Baint Michael and Satut George, Knlght of the Most August Order of tho Black Eaglo of Prussie, Knizht of thy Imperlsl Order of Osmanit of Turkey, Licuten- ant-Colonel of the Firat Battallon of the Rifle Brigade, and Colonol a la smts of the Third (Brandenburg-Ziethen) Hussars, 15 the third son and seventh cbild of the Queen und lato Prince Congort, and was born ot Buek- Sugham Palace, May 1, 1850, that day being tho 8lst birthday of the Duke ot Wollingtn, who became the Prince’s godfather, e entered the Woolwich Milltary Academy in February, 1560, a6 o cadet, oud recelved his commission og Lieutenant in the Royal Engincers, June, 1663, In February, 1809, ie was transferred to the Royal Artillers, and in August of the samy yearto the Rifle Brigade, these changes befng made in order to allow him to learn the details of the several branches of the scrvice, so thut he may succeed his great uncle, the Duke of Cambridge, 88 Commander-in-Chief, Dinmedis ately after his transfer to the Rifle Brigade, the Prince salled: for Cunada, landing at Halifax, Aug. 22, and serving with bis regitent at Mon- tronl, e visited Bullalo on the 27th of Sep- ‘tember, and was subscquently—in January and February, 1870—cntcrtoined in grand stylo by Presidont Grant, and at New York and Boston. During his term of service In Canada, the Duko of Connaught participated fu the brlef camoalzn. pealnst the Fenlans In the early summer of 1870. Returning to Englund, he obtalned a Captalney In May, 1871, when, on his comlng of age, he was Introduced at the Royal Privy Coun- wl, soon afterwurds recelving the freedom of the City of London and belng granted an allow- ance of $7G,000 o year by Partinment. The Grocers’ Company made him a freeman the April followlng. In April, 1874, Prince Arthur was transferre lie Seventh Iussars; he was mado Major i Avigust, 1876, and m Scptem- ber, 1870, took "commiand of the First Battallon of the Riflc Brizade ss Lleutenant-Colonel, serving in that capacity at Fermoy. Though he has ouly been half the usual term of five years fn commaud ot o reglment, ho will probably now get o Coloneley, nnd be PUSIED ON RAPIDLY to prepure for the Comwmundership-in-Chicl ‘The story that he would become Viceroy of Irc- land so scon as n place could be found for tho Duke of Marlborough was categorically denled by 8ir Stafford Northcoto In the Commons last month, The Duke of Connaught uaturally prefers the greater emoluments of his uncle's position, apart from the fact that he {8 credited with a real ltking for his prolesslon and remark- able proficlency {n fts dutics. From the begin- ning of his millitary carecr Lo has stren- uously refused to have asny faver shown him on account of his birtn. Vwhen bls ‘marriazo was announced In the Peers, Lord Beaconsfield described the Y'rince ns o yourg man of spotless 1fe, and ‘‘not a soldier of pa- rade but of service,” while Lord Napler of Mag- dala, declared that ho “afforded o bright ex- ample ta every ofllcer in the army.’ InJuly Jnst Parllament gave the Duke 850,000 a year for life (in nddition to his other allawance), with £10,000 & yenr to the Frincess should she sur- vive hin, 8Ir Charles Dilke mado hls usual op- position to tho subject, which was only succesis ful In securlng the publication of some Inter- estlugz figures s to the cost to Englind of the Royal fumily efnce the accesslon of Willlam of Orange. The Duke of Counaught {s about the hest of the Queen’s sous. ‘Thero never has been auy seandal attached to his namo; ho has always been hard-working and practical fu the army. "The gossips say thut i€ ho had been permitted o choose b would have wedded the daughter of an Irlsh Earl§ als2, thet bis sister, the Crown Princess of Prussia, made tho preacut wateh in order to keep the bride from capturlng hee oW son, Priuce Wililam, Hu I8 much stouter and more manly-looking than he was when in Aumerlea, wears o soldlerly mustache, and hass pronuncnt nose, which makes his forebead took retreating, und the heavy lower fuce of the Guelphe, THE BUIDE. z Her Royal Highucss Princess Loulse Mar zarctha Alexandra Victory Agnes was born n: Potadam, July 25, 1660, being the third and youngest daughter of the l-hnuumrsm?.hc‘fr; Triuco Fredorlek Charles Nicholas, Ru‘ Prince,” by his wife, the Princess .\|' o 0 Anhalt. “Ifcr eldest sister, thy Princess Marss wasg nrrled Aug, , 1873, to Prinee llunrlh brother of the King of the Ncllmrhnnla,‘!’v 10 died in January; the sccond, the Priucess ot 28 beth, was married on the 18th of }ulg;l;:;‘.' 1878, to the hereditary Qrand Duke of o bure. The Red Princo has ons otber uh]-h; Trinco Fredorick Leopold, a boy of M. s takes, hfs familiar name, by the woy, from b searlet tunics of bis ITussar regiment, to whicl his new son-fu-law has: been numlnnl)‘y t:,x;: volnted, the Quesn hoving returned v.Illt 5:10” pliment by meking him a Kulght Urand Fheod of the Huth, His wife t8 o beautiful su oA complished woman, but nluh-tumncml.m i imself, und hence the Red Princo ! sl o ceutly to have attempted—vaiuly, hownvu-t oblafn his unclo's permisston loueunllv;n:u; ‘'he Princess Froderlek Chorles 18 o urf:ll uu“. of art ond music, and an active worker ;‘Lm causo of benovolouce, Sho und her dumlz : i ‘have always tuken a conspleuous 'x:-m u i great bozar of the Deutsche Frauen of thy Jungfrauen Vereln, which s ouo = fenturos of Berlin ot Christmas-time. 'l‘lgl;c“m of to-day is very tall und of & |quu¢r'. i figure, v{l\h Mghthale(which sho M““l ),n .nl;:ir grayish-blue oyes, and an oval face, »T xa:md, @ highforehead, Bholooks pretty, goo ;fiuw:d. and rather plquante. Bhe s highly e dud s especlally accomplished as s l.lm.l:) g artist, haviug, on dit, very falr wwu.-l e traltura and carleature. When sbo ¥ ] Queen st Dalmoral ‘last year, her br lf:nlvrtl< slnple manner made & very hvornlhlommm. slon on those with whom sho came 18 B They say that ber Royal fighucss I8 ;I’ pird 8 dicted to clgareties. Ller marsiaZo W