Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1879, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY. MARCH 20, 1870--TWELVE PAGES Thye Taibwne, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—]N ADVANCE—TOSTAGE FREPAID. Dally Editfon, one year.. 81 Tartaat s weat, et woni’ [ WREKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Qna capy, peryenr. Cind of fou Clun of ten Club of twe Specimen conlen sent freo. Girn Post-OMce nddress In full, Including Btate and Conaty, Remittances may ba mada either hy draft, express, Post-utlico order, or In reglutered letter, at our tiik. TRRMS TO CITY SUBECRINENS. Daity, delivered, Bunday excepted, 23 cents per week, Lally, delivered, Suditay Included, :0 cents per week. Adiress THE TRIBUN Qriders for the deltvery of Tite FuInuXe aL Kraneton, Englowood, did Iiyde Park Teft n the countlug-room ‘will peceive promnpt nttention, TRIBUNE BRANCH OXFICES, Tix Criicano TAIVNE has establlshed branch ofces for the recelpt of aubactiptions and sdvertfsements aa followa; NEW YORR—Ttoom 20 Trfdune Bullding, . T. Mo- Fanpn, Manager, PARIB, France—Na. 16 Ruo do 1s Grango-Datellere, I ManvEn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Btrand, 1txNny F, GiLLig, ARent BAN FIRANCISCO, Cs WASHINUTON e AMUSEMENTS. -Palaco Hotel, 1910 F atrect. McVieker's Thentre. wadiron street, befween Desrborn and State, Ene gagethent of Strakosch's Italtan Opera. **Rigoletto ™ Haverly’s Theatre, Denrborn street, corner of Monroo, of John McCullough, **Jullus Cicssr.” Engapsment Ilooley’s Thantre. Randolph eirect, tetween Clark and Lasalle, Ene gogement ot Lotta, ‘‘La Clgale,” Jiamlln’s Thenatre. Clark street, oprosite tho Court-1louse. Engsgement of W, T. Melrille, **The Pirates of tho Chesapeake,” Varicty Olfo, McCormick Hall, North Clark etrect, corner Rinzie. erawic Views, —3odern London, Diswolving Pane Academy of Afuate. Tialsted sirect. between Madison and Mooroe, riety entertainment. Va- THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1879. Tho number of tLo drownod at Szegedin 18 now estimated at 1,600, whilo 8,200 ont of 10,000 houses have been destroyed, and 120,- 000 persons rendored homeless by the floods, Two foarful miskaps are noted in the for. cign news of this morning. Tho one, a col- lision betwoen two ocean stesmers in which sixty persous were drowned. 'The other, an avalanclio in the,Austrisn Tyrol, which de-~ stroyed many dwellings and swopt to sud. den death fifty-five of the inhabitanta. Ropublicaniem is not altogether dead in Louisiana, whore a largo number of dele- gotes have been elected to tho State Consti- tutional Couvention. In Now Orleans ex- United Btates Souator Bustis was defeated by Judge Parnee, the Republican candidate, nnd in numerous districts and parishes good Republican majorities have been polled. The Democratic House of Represontatives at Washington disposed of the **clnims” of an immonso number of offfce-sockers by ro-clecting the Speaker, Clerk, Doorkeopor, Postmastor, and Chaplain of tho provious Houso. This, prosumnbly, carried with it (1bo rotontion of all tho provious subordi- nates, sl wasnnotico to applicants that thero was ‘“no vacaucy,” This adjourns {ho dis. tribution of patronage to tho now Benato, whoro several thousands of hungry Con. foda aro to bo provided for by that body. —— Tho policy of the Senato Ropublicans 15 to mnlko tho extra session o short one, and to dofor until the wintor all logislation excopt the Appropriation bills for tho passsgo of which tho session wns convoned. This is what the country, tired of political wrang. .. Jing and anxious for a period of quiet, would approve of, but it is uscless to oxpoot that the Democraoy will perocivo tho advantage of letting the peoplo rest from partisan bick- oring for six or eight months. They will insist upon an extended session, aud, from tho number of bills ntroduced yestorday, it iy evidont thgt they havo no intention of forcgoing tho exerciso of their nowly.ac. quired supremacy in the logialativo branch of tho Governm: Gen, Burren beeamo very sovera in his trontment of the Widow Oraven in the courso of his cross-cxamination yesterdny, o bullied, nnd browbeat, and bulldozed tho woman in his most fearless and valiant vein, e biad a good subject to work upoy, for tho witness liad by her own testimony shown hersalf to ho utlorly disroputablo; nnd, hosides, she was & woman, But it will nol be forgottou that Gen. Burren once qualled before o woman witness, who had not the bonofit of judiolal protection from any indignities ha might have offored. Ho had not Mrs, Jengs to deal with yeatorday, and hia virtuous soul was unhampored in its ox- proesalon of scorn and indignation at base- uess {n a woman, S ——— The President’s mossago is briof, pithy, and pointed. It tolls ita story and stops, The ating of it Ia in the last sontonce: * Ra- grotting tho cxistence of tho emorgeucy which requires n spoclal session of Congress at e time whon it {s the goneral fudgmont of tho country that the public welfare will bo best promoted by permancney in our legistation and by peace und rest, 1 vomwend those fow Tecsssary measnres to your cousiderats at. tention.” The words in italics ought to commit tho President in advanco to a voto of tho polition! ameudments, it they ara pro. seuted to him, for it is his sworn duty as an ofticer to do whnt in him lies *“to promoto the publiv welfaru® by tho use of the voto Ppower or othorwino nd occasion may arlso, —— In thodenth of thoe Xev, Dr, Jaues Dg Koven, who was sirickon down by npoplexy at Raotus yeutordny, the Protestant Vplscopal Chureh loses one of ity brightest lighte and strongest wiuds, The Oburch in Amerlca Lad fow sony, cither in the House of Dishops or anong tho olergy, more widely known or hionrtily admired than was the gifted Wandon of Rucine Collage. Ilis eloction as Bishop of linoig, aud tha subswquont canvass of his qualifipations und withholding of consent to bis consceration by a majority of the ftanding Uommittess by reason of his so- called High-Qhurch proclivities, gave to Dr, Dx Kovey marked prominence’in the denum. ination, and his wudden doath in the Light of his fawe sud usefulness ns minstor and educator will bo everywhere rogorded as a griovous Josy, ‘Lhe despurate determiaation of the Housp Demoerats to jucronse their perilusly swmall anajority at whatovor disregard of ‘fairnces and houeuly, is cloarly shown in _yestorday's sotion 1 tho Florids coutoutod eleotion case. Iu violation of all priuciple sud prec. edont, and eolely on the ground that thoy nro in need of votes, the Democrata voted solid for the seating of Ifuny, the Demo- cratio claimaut, who i now undor indictment for complicity in elootion frauds, and whose cortificato of election was oancoled by ordor of the Florlda Bupremo Court. Unless the Democrats oro succossful in ropenling so muoh of tha Federal Eloction laws nstinposes a ponalty for fraud, this man Huy is very certain to be tried and convicted, It was by frand lto socurod tho cortificate of clection, and it ia by the grossest of partisan incon. nistency and & conscienceloss disregard of Iaw and equity that Ilvwy is given a seat in Congress, Tho transaction is a fraud and o robbery so palpablo that, with one exception, the Greenbackers and Independents, four of them BSouthern members, joined with the Republicans in voting against the senting of Huun, Nothing so indecent has beon done by the Democracy sinca the exclusion of Brrrorp, Ropublican, and the admission of Parrenson, Democrat, ns Ropresentativa from Uolorado in the Forty-fifth Congross, Politienl powor purchased at such a prico will prove a costly possession, The Constitntion of Now Hampshiro has rocently been changed, and the session of the Legislnturo Inst ofocted will not bo leld until June, In the menntime, the term of Mr. WapLeron, represonting the Btata in the United Btates SBenate, oxpired in March, Tho Governor of the State has appointed n gentleman to fill the * vacancy,” and when tho porson appointed prosented his credon. tials his admission was objected to. Tlhisis not o now question. We bulieve the decis- ions hava always bosn ndverse to the powor of the Governor to make such ap- pointments, on the ground that under such eircumstnances no ** vacaney " ocenrs or oxists, AMoCnany, in his work on the * Amorican Law of Elections," lins this to say on tho snbject : **It is very clear that 1o appointment can bo made to fill a vacancy until tho ofiice hias onco been full, And, nccordingly, it has been held by the Senato of the United States that the words * All vacancies that may happen during the recoss of the Senate' mean such vacancios as oceur from denth, resignation, or promotion.” Tne does not apply striolly to vacancies in memborship in tho Sennto, The Consti- tution provides : ** And if vacancies happen, by resignation or otherwise, during the rocess of tho Legislaturo of any Btate, the Exocutive thereof may make temporary ap- pointments until the next meoting of the Legislature, which shall then $ill such vacan- cies.” In tho onse of Puerrs, who was ap- pointed by the Governor of Vermont to fill n vacanoy, tho Legislnturo met and ndjonrned without olecting o Bonntor, and the Senate, aftor a thorough invostigation, decided that Pueres’ appomntment expired with the ad- journment of the Legislature, leaving the Btate withont one of its Socnatorial repre- sentativos. McCnany in his book does not mention nuy case in which it was expressly decided that no * vacancy " exists where there has been a fatluro by tho Legislatura to oloct for a full term, though tho principlo has boen asserted that thore can be no vacanoy inan offfieo which has never been filled, THE MILITIA BILL, The opposition to the Militia bill in the Houso at Springfield, developed in the do- bato on Tuesday last, was as extraordinary na it was infamous, and the charactevof thedebate goes to show that the oppononts of the bill wero not actuatod by any motives of econ- omy, or by the bolief that s militin s un- necesenry, but simply by thenatural tendonoy of all domagogues to pandor to the riotous rabble of the cities, ‘T'he provisions of the National Constitution defining the powers of Congross authorizo it to call out tho wilitia for tho execution of tho Iaws, the supprossion of insurrections, the ropolling of invnsious, and to provide for ite organization, arms, and discipline, reserving to tho States the appointment of the officers snd tho authorily of training it; and this authorization not only enjoins and oncoumr- nageg the support of the militia, but Is almost obligatory in character. The pending bill was therafore in sympathy with the oconsti- tutionnl provision, both in lotter and spirit. In its local application there was no renson for objection. It proposed to mnako a moder- ate, indeed a very smnll, annual appropriation for the support of n Btate Guard of volun- teor militia for the preservation of order, and tho protection of life, property, busiuess, and commorce, It is auxilisry and supple- meontary to the forces of tha police, consta- bles, and shoriffa, liable only to bo called upon when tho latter are unablo to preserve the peace. 'I'his ia all thereis to the bill, If it is wrong to maintain the Stato militia, thon it is equally wrong to maintain n police forco, It tho Iawless clnsses bave tho right to de. mand through these political demagogues in the Leginlature that they shall nat bo resist- cd by the militin whounever they undortake to destroy businesa and burn property, then theyhinve nn equal right to denand that they shall not be covrced by policemen or rasisted by constables, aud that they ahall have full licenso to carry ont their violent and de- structivo purposos, No objeotion can lia to this bill upon tho 8core of monoy, A well-organized militia is the cheapost aud most effective publia de- fenso posuible to dovise and maintain, and the approprintion necessary for its support “will never be folt by the peoplo of tle State, and, even it §t wore, would not croato any digeontent. A tithe of the monoy squan. dorod in varlous corrupt and unnecessary ways would anawer all purposcs, "Ulio mon. ey proposed to be squandered on a lot of shorthand roportors would amply support the whole Btate Guard, The mouney that might bo saved from extravagant uppropria- tionw for local inatitutions would pay tho whola oxponse, Oue-tonth of the moncy lost by (ax-fighting, by reason of defective tax laws, would far more than gupport it and would give tha Btato of Illinols tho best equipped wilitia iu the Unlon, It is no motive of economy, however, that urges thess demngogues to oppose the mill, tis, Evor since tho Wor of tho Rebellion, tho Deniocrats havo hawled at, abusod, and sought to destroy tho usefulness of the Fed. eral standing arwy, nud contended that the couutry should depend upon tho State mili. tin; oud now, whon a bill is futroduced to encourage the organization and disolpline of a Btate wilitls, up jump theso Demooratio demagoguos and howl at tho militia as “a atauding army.” Any forcs iu a stundlng army in their eyes that interfores with tho vicions sud luw-breaking olasses, whoso votog they covat, aud if thoy dared to go wo far thoy would dumand tho disbandment of tho police forco upon tho ground that it is a staudiog avmy “that meosces rloters, and crimipals, and tho general riff- vafl of tho cities, and provents them from mukiug nesaults upon the righty aud poace of the quist aud respaotablo element of the com. wuuity. Theso disty dewsgogues, Lowever, who are willing that tho nghts of citizena shall bo invadod, and that the pnblic peace aud public aud private property shall bo loft nt tho meroy of the mob of loafors, vagrants, tramps, criminals, oud Communista with whom they wish to curry favor, forgat that the young men of the State, who aro tho {frionds of lh?mulfln, hava votos also. Thoy forget that the proporty-holdors, the manu- facturers, the merchants, the transportation companies, and overy man who belleves in obedionce to law and desires poace and order, bavo votes s well ns tho criminal clasacs and the Commu. nists, Tloy forgot that the farmars of Il. linois cannot afford to have the railroads blocked, and frelght trains stopped, and property in travsit plundered to gratily Communistio mobs, and, what is more to the polnt, will not hava it, Thoir memoriocs, howover, mny be rofreshed in n very sudden and stortling manner the next time these rufians undortake to interfere with the oxo- cution of tho laws and the movemont of trade and commerco. COLLECTING THE TAXES, Tho bill which bas passed the Illinols Sennto to further the colleation of past-duo and unpaid taxes should receive prompt con- carronco in the House and become a lnw. The purpose of tha Lill is clontly and ‘con. cigely set forth in the following parngraph: ** 8zc.1, Be ltenacted by the peoplo of tho State of 1linots, represcnted In the Goneral Assemnbly, That See, 230 of un act entitled *An act for tho assessment of property and for tho levy and collec tion of taxes,' approved March 30, J be amonded o us to read av follows: Bec, 230, The County Board may at any time fustitute suit in an action of debt, in tho name of the people of the State of Ilinols, in any court of competent jurly- diction, for tho amount duc on forfeited propertys and in such snit tho recard or the real property for- folted to the State shall o prima-facle evidence of the legality and regularity of all prior proceed- ings, and tho lutroduction of such record in evi- denco shall constitute a prime-facle case for the Plaintie " Under the present system for the collee- tion of tnxed thoro aro not enough sales to private purchasors from tho dolinquent list. In many, perhaps o vast majority, of cases tho proporty is forfeited to the State, which carriea the claim at 10 per cent interest, aud onters up the unpaid tax in the noxt lavy. ‘Tho noxt year, very likely, the procoss is re- ponted, and 8o on for a number of years, ‘Tho result is that the forfeitures lave nc- cumulated and are stll sccumulating at an alarming rate, It amounts to the Btate, County, and City Governments lonning monoy at 10 per cont when thoy aro them. selves paupoers and borrowors, and loaning this money for mn indefinite poriod, and upon securitios which thoy cannot convert or touch, and then levying eoxtra taxos on tho rest of the people to roplaco tho monoy, Two years ngo, Tne Trinuse auggested somo such romedy as is proposed in tho abovo bill, but no mensure was then matured. As it is not likely that thero will bo any thorough or eatisfactory ravision of the Revonuoe Inw at this session, the best ro- liof it in possiblo to afford is to enable the Connty Bonrd, representing the County Col. lector, fo suo for tho amount due on the forfeited property, and proceed to collect as would any other creditor who gets o judgmont against the dobtor, 'The provision that the record of forfeituro shall bo ovidence of tho indebtodness will simplify such suits very much, and render it practiea- ble to tnke out judgments and excentions prompily. In a great mnjority of cases it is not probablo that the suits would be resist. ed, for the sama roasons that the delinquent taxpayors do not reslst the applications for judgment prior to forfeiture. Tho owners of dolinquent property in mony instances allow the judgments to bo taken out and ensior thno to be forfeited. because it in ensiost way for them to borrow the monoy necoysary for tho paymout of tho taxes; if theso persons knew, however, that thoy would ultimately be subjectod to the coats of a enit for dobt, and made to pay the original tax with added interest and cost by process of execution, thoy would probably make an offort in ovory caso to pay the taxes when they becomo due, Such n lnw a8 that cited would be & great reliof to tho City of Chiea- go and Cook County in seouring pnyment of the largo nccumnlation of back taxes as well a8 Ly promoting the moro goneral sud prompter paymont of taxes s thoy ourrently becomo due, "Thera seems to bo no good reason why tho Tlouse should not conour in this Sonate bill, CALIFORNIA'S NEW CONSTITUTION. The peopls of California have a now Con. stitution submitted to them for adoption or rojection, and are just now disoussing its provisions in dotail with an earnestness nud intolligence that slways ought to charactor. izo o community's interest in its orgnulo law, There wasn large sprinkling of Working- men, so ealled, or Independents, or Kear- noyites, in the Convention that framed the present instrumont, and for that renson it was oxpectod that it would be radically and offensively agrarian; but such doos not scen tobo tho case, and the extromists, in some instanoces at lonst, havo ¢ bullded wiser than thoy knew.” Tho Band-Lot hoodiums of the Dennis Keanney broed did not ssem to havo their own way to any great extent, and the 8an Francisco Chronicle, the most widoly- clrculuted daily paper in the State, deolares that * Every honest, intclligent mau in the State, outside of the Central Pacific Rall- way and other monopoly ecirclos, leartily indorses it,” And, looking st tho amended Bill of Rights in the now Coustitution, it muat be ndmitted that thero ara changoes for the botter afd improvemonts upou old mathods tint somo of the older Btatus will do well to lmitate whenovar they ronch the volut in the course of their muuioipal life when their presout Conatitutions must bolaid asldo and now ones adopted, ' Mr, Jeryxnsox oxpressed ths opinlon that most of tha Htatos, cspeoially the nuw ones, would out- grow their Constitutions evory thirty years, and find it nccossary to abolish, alter, or nmend thomn in mapy essentinl partioulars in order to koep paco with tuo growth and proeperity of tho people. Cali- foruin has boou Hving under her fivst Conati- tion just the lougth of timo that was set by My, Jeerenson's prophetie’ pen, aud her people huve now offorod them another that seoms {o be, iu the main, well adapted to their wishes aud necessitios, Bome of the chauges that have boen made in tho now, g8 comparod with tho old, will ilustrato what wo aro saylng, 'Fhus, for oxample, it was the crucl custom in many of tho countiea of California under the present #egime to confiue witncases who could not gve Londs for their appearance when wanted in tho samo roow or cella with the worst criminals,—a ot voprebonsible practics, still in voguo in some of the older Btatos, Yhis is forbidden iu Seo, 6. The mode of trist by jury s so modi. fiod aa to meot the popular demand, snd justice {s to be no longer impeded by one stupid end stubborn juryman boing able to thwart aud rouder nugatory the doelsivn of hia elovon botter-informod colleagues, Boo, 7 presoribes that in all clvil cases throe. fourtlis of a jury may, find a verdiot. ‘This is a declded improvemont, especinlly under tho present vicious and corrupt system of drawing jurors tunt i the practice in other Statos ns well ns Californin, It makes the tampering with jurors more difficult and moro lable to oxposure, ns woll as moro ox- ponsive, Undor the old rule, it waa suffieiont to dobauch one juryman in order to defent tho ends of justico and render a vordict im. possible; but hero it requiros the corrupting of four boforo tho same rosult is renched. It ia botter for honest litigants and harder for thosa who expact Lo escape the iron grip of the Inw by technicalitios and delays. Sec. 8 nllows Grand Jurios to bo disponsed with onco a yenr, nnd providea that proscou. tions may proceed by information in cnses where such offonses wera formerly notieed only by indictment, This Is a blow at the old” ex-parto methods of proceduro, and shows tho tendoney of modern civilization to fnir plny and open-handed dealing, The Grand Jury is doomed to go by the board cutirely beforo long. Hee, Swrolatos to tha law of libel, and there is added a clouso fo the existing law upon thit subjeet which will bo found to bo a just nud wholesome provision. The law of libel in this country in its casontinl featuros is, practionlly, tho snmo that it was three hun- dred years ago, or whon my Lord Coxe do- clared that ** Tho greater tho truththe greater the libol.” Since Lord Coxe's time, howevor, public soutiment Los so far modified tho lawa of Jibel as to admit the truth ns n factor in all snch netions; but it is still sus- ceptiblo of various clianges for tho bLotter, for one of which the now Counstitution of Cnlifornin mnkes provision. In that Stato, aud in wany others, tho complainant in libel against the publisher of & newspaper may maka prosentment in nuy undorhunded way he plenses in any county in the State, nnd if he fail in one county ho ean apply to an. other, and tho publisher is dragged off hundreds of miles from homo to be tried be. foro nn ignorant or a prejudiced Judge, Under the now Constitution, however, the phointiff must bring euit cither in the county whero the paper js published, or in the county whera tho compluinant rosided at the time of tho publieation of tho alleged libel, and that fs the end of it. In Wisconsin the Suprome Court has held that & paper is pub- lished wherover it circulates through tho mails without rogard to tho location of its business office, and somo such provision is nceded overywhore for the protection of pub- lishers under such a capricious declsion as that. In nearly nll the Statesit is provided that # Private property shall not be taken for publio uso without just compensation,” but the Californin Constitution supplemonts this by adding that such componsation shall bo *first pnid to the Court or tho owner, and 10 right-of-way shall bo nppropriated to the uso of any corporation other than municipal till full cotapeusation shall have been paid to the Court or the ownor.” ‘Thoro aro other dopartures proposed in the now instrument a3 radionl as thoso to which roferonce is here made, which go to #how how cortaiuly tho judicial systom of n peoplo is forced to evolve and keop stop with the progross of modern ecivilization. THE NEGRO EXODUS. It mny havs beon, aud probably wns, very unkind and unjust for railroad companios in the West to send sgents amoug the Southern blacks to oncourage emigration to Kansas nnd tho Western Lerritories by exnggorated accounts of the abundance and¥enso awniting the emigrants at tho end of their journcy, But this movement has served, at lenst, to domonstrato two things which have been in dispute, viz.: (1) ‘Uhat ‘the blacks aro pro- pared nnd enger to leavo the South in large numbers at the baro offer of a living eclso. where and (2) that the native whites will mako carnest eflorts to retain them whenover thoro shall bo a practicable scheme for thoir cmigration, 'Theso two facts are importaut in their political ns well as their material boarings, ‘I'hero would be o reason for widespread discontont nnd esger migration among tho Southern blacks {f they hnd been well trented. Tho climato and tho nssociations of their old homes would have bound them #o clogely to the Soutb, if they hnad been troated na their new condition demauds, that tho prospects of an Eldoredo, with froo transportation, a farm and & mulo, . would scavoely have attracted thom away, The fact that a mero distribution of radway ciroulars and irresponsible promises of an fmproved condition have started hundrods and oven thousands of nogroes from the interior plan- tations, with a bare possibility that they mey frecuro {iransporiation on the river townrds n now lome in the West, isa com. plato answer to tho plea of the Southern whites that thoy aro trenting gthe negrack foirly. It is the strongest poasible confirma. tion of tho charges brought against the native whitea to tho offoct that they havo oppressed tho negroes politically and imposed wupon them in their businoss relations, ‘The negro, ns a treo citizen, is entitled to full protection under tho Inws for his lifo, Nborty, property, und peraonal and valitical rights, Instond of re- coiving euch proteotion from native Sonthern rule, Lio has baon donied tha exereisoof hispo. litioal convictions; he Lins boon forced to vote under thodlotation of the Confedoratas or not pormitted to voto at all ; hie hina been intimi. dated, whipped, or murdored when Lo undor. took to partieipato in a publio meeting; ho lins baenoppressed by speclal laws which are made to spply to tho blacks alone; and, finally, Lo has suffered from extortion under {ho renting and credit systom which provails ot tho Bouth, These are the reasons why the uegrovs arc ready to quit thelr homes nt the slightest inducemonts, and why nothing short of starvation will drive them back. But tho anxioty and alarm of the Southorn plantors ot the rocont negro exodus are not les slgnificant, All accounts sgreo that the owners of Southern plantutions, and their oreditors in Bt Louis and other Bouthern citlos, rogard a largo nogro emigration from tho South ss fatal to their prosperity, The fuct is that the Bouthern whites havo goner- nlly been Hying upon nogro labor since the War ug thoy did before the War, and the prospect of losing thelr monns of aupport startles and frightons them, Thoy aro now Iaboring with the negroes who liave already loft thom to fuduce the fugitives to roturn, and offor frao transportation back, They are iustruoting tho negroes who rowain that the promises held out for omigration aro delu. uive, us they probably are in most osses, Thae point of jntercst in this alarm v that, whon the Southern whites ouvo become convinced that the negroes can and will leave them, oven uuder dlsadvautages, for tho induce- mont of ou potual froedow and acknowlodged citizonship, thay will begw to treat tho ne- #roes who remain with more consideratlon, ‘Tho propor facllity for emigratiop, then, i probably the best possible solution of the raco-conflict at the South, These refloctions naturally rovive Gon. Grant's Ban Domingo schemo, which, somo dny, will receivo the earncst attontion which ho asked for it ns nn escapo for outraged and discontonted blacks at the Bouth. If the United Statos Governmant had nequired Ban Domingo at the time Gnant proposed, thero wonld alrenily have been a thriving American colony on that fsland, madeup mostly of negro emligrants from the South, With a congoninl elimate and employmant to which tho negro is pecularly adapted, and with roturns abundant cnough to warrant the ine vestment of capital, there would havo been ninplo facilities for the emigration of negroos withont a dollar of their own, and excellent opportunities for them in thoir new homes. 1f negro colonization be the truo solution of tho race-problem at the South, as tho.recont negro migration and the consequont concern of tho whites will indicate, thon somo practicable schomo to that end should be promoted by the Government, It ia to Lo deprocated that tho black Iaborors of tho Bouth aro deceived by railrond run- ners, and it I certain that the rough fron. tior lifo and cold climato of our Northwost- orn Statos and Torritories aro not suited to them; but tho disposition to escapo from Bouthern oppression, even under unfavora- ble conditions, is a reason why an exodus should bo oncouraged that will bo ndvan- tageous to the negroes who desert the Bouth and also to those who remnin, Wae fear, how- aver, that any San Domingo scheme will find littlo encouragemont nt the hands of Con- gresa whilo that body shnll romain under the control of a set of mon who ara in full sym- pathy with the presont politieal methods nud business hubits of tho Southern whites, SURANCE. Those bolligerent legislators who are of the opinion that tho shortest and ensiost rond to popularity is to nttack somo so-ealied mo- nopoly will do well to consider the great dif- feronce that really oxists in the oljoects, sorvicos, aud functions of difforent corporn~ tions, Bomo of tho purposes which are sought to be attained by the aggregation of capitnl under charters from the Com. monwenlth nare, if not spocial and selfish, ontirely psrsonnl, go far as nll peouniary con- sidorations aro concerned, that over onter into tho calculations of their projectors and managers, For examplo, the motives thnt would induce & company of eapitalists to organize a Nnational bauk, or to obtain a char- ter for arnilroad company, are quito differ- ont from thoso which would constrain them to establish n life-insuranco justitution, in this, that in the first instanco they ave looking to tho prosont and to their own individual benefit and aggrandizement, but in tho lat- ter their object is more hnmane and unsel- fish, and their cfforts embrace tho welfaro and happinessof those who may need pro- tection and nssistanco in the future, L With this distinction pretty clearly do- finod in regard to the chinvacter of those com- pnanios whogo governmont falls moro or less within the provinco of leglslation, wo ara propared to say thata life-insurance com- pany should be trented with more faver and lenionoy than thoso corporations whose aim and rosults are lcasvital and far-ronching, A railrond corporation is earning dividends for the present, and usunlly for those who ara alrendy well enough provided for to fight thelr own battles and to dafend thoir prop- erty against all comers, wherens n life-insur- nnce company is striving to hold in reserve for tho futura an amount, smell though it be, that moy afford food and shelter for tho orphan or widow nfter desth hns jnvaded tho home and forever romoved the chief sup- port of the family. 8uch corporations aro not usunlly organized for tho purposes of speculation, ns most others ave, but they have their inspiration in tho best and nobleat feclingsof the human heart, and mny, there-- foro, justly clnim oxemption is some respeots from the inflexible rule ywhich oxperionce diotates is neasssary to apply to corporats selfishness and aggrossiveness, ‘Wo bavo said this much upon a trito mub- Jjeot bocauso of tho lnrge numbor of bills nlready befaro the Illinois Legislature relat. ing to the subject of life insurance, and because in all probability {horo aro others of similar import still to omnanate from the fur- tiloe brains of our law-makers, Bomo of theso bills discriminate unjustly againat for. oign compnnies now doing a successful busi- ness within onr limity, and which are not only affording safo and sound insurance to our people, but they yleld tho bonefits and stimulus of active and healthy compotition, Wo beliave in froodom in Insuraneo, as in overything olse, aud deprecate the disposi. tian to show to good and solvent companios whoso oharlers wero- grauted in other States nn wnfriondly face on that acconnt, Wo need searcely roiterato what wo enid the othor dny when altuding to this ‘subjoot, to.wit: ‘That the people of INlinois Liave uone too much first-class iusurnuce now, noither fire uorlifo, and that any logislation which will ronder it loss safo or barder to prooure is unueoessary, impolitle, and viclous, OENUINE SOUTHERN OPINION. In o lato Southorn paper wa find tho secrot of Sonator Bayann's sudden defection from the right end adhesion to the wrong, The Wushington Republican snys, in connaction with the assembling of Congress in extra sosslon: * After a strugglo of cightoon yoars in war aud politics, the Confederaoy hava nt last onptured the Capitol.” In rosponse, the Southern papor says: ** Yos; thank Gonl we have captured tho Capi. tol, and in 1880 our man wilt walk upthe Winte Hlouse steps and taka bls seat In the Presidontial chatr, *+* Thon wili our glorlons triamph bo complete,” 4 Then will wa proceed to tear your amendmonts (ullm the Coustitution and trample thom in the mlre, **Thon will we break the shacklos you have forged for (\ho Free, Sovercign, and Indepoudent Commonwealils of tho Union. **Then will we recogniae the right of socosulon, ~a right that e mot dend, but steoning, Y Then will we decorale the Capitol with the vieturce of Davyy, aud Lew, and Stvanr, and nll tho glorlous leadurs of tho Cauge that la not Jost, but hving stitl, **You, thauk Gon, wo HAVK capiured the Capliol, and from that coigne of vantage we pro- pose to rule the Republlc in a way that will moko your Radica) laws snd your ltadica) leaders for- avor odfous fn Amorica, ™ It will not do to eay that this is mero gas. conade, It canuol be brushed aside as tho bluater of an obuoura journal, The woekly papers of the Bouth aro ulmost the only papens read by the Houthern peoplo. The great journals of the commercial capi- tals of the country do not circulate among the planters of tho South. They roly upon the local papars, aud tho looal papers yefloot thelr sentiments or moll thelr opinions, ‘which comes to the same thing, Yt a Re- publican journalist in Misslssippl undertake to publish the opposite of the viows wo have roproduced fromn the Okolona Btates, ex- pressed in langunge equally foreible, and ho will find either that his paper has no sale or that his publishing bouso haa beea reduced to aghes over night, and, in addition, will porhaps bo served with notice to "quit tho country on pain of denth, Tho lowest strata of opinion in the Democratic party always molds its policy,* Papers like the States forcod the Bouth into secosslon and robellion, Pot-house politicians gonded their lendors forward to the utlerance of trensonnblo words and friondly to trenson. ULle acts. Arnexanorn I, Srernzxs opposed robellion with all his might, but s efforts to stny the tido were iu vain, All hig infln. enco had not tho woight of n straw when ox- orted iv opposition to the popuinr madnoss, Audeven Srernexs, who possesses some horole qualitios, lncked the moral courago to stand Ly his convictions. 1io nllowed the wavo to sweop him into the ranks of traitors, and ho became alender in n eauso which both his conkelenco and lfs judgmont disapproved. It is only the other doy that Bavarb strug. gled bravely to stay the proposed unjust, suicidal, and revolutionary policy of his party, na Brepnexs atruggled to avert seces. sfon, but he falled ns Sreenexs did, and, ns Sreeness did, dropped upon lils knees before his radical associates recanting what lte had snid in support of the right, and offoring humbly to surrendsr bLis convictions at the commaad of tho extromists. Tho State Sounte on Tuesdny pnssed an importaut bill, which, if alco pnssed by tho House, will ba n great improvement on tho laws of this State, The bill rends as passed * An actin relation to mortgoges and trust- deeds”: **Sgc, 1. Belt enacted, efc., That no real estate within this State shall be sold by virtue of any power of sale contained in any mortoage, trust-deed, or any other conveyance In the nature of a morigago exccutod after iho taking effect of this act; but all such morigages, trust-deeds, or other cunveyances in the naturo of o mortgage, shnll only be foreclosed §n the manner provided for foreclosing mortgages, cgptainiug no power of sale, and no real cetate shall he sold to satisfy any ruch morigage, trust-decd, orother conveyance in the nature of a mortgage, except in pursuanco of A Judgment of decres of a Courk of compotent Jurisdictlon." 1t {8 truo that Illinois should so amond her 1aws o8 to have thom sdapted for a porma- noutly-sottlod State. Illinois i no longer n frontier State, occupled by nn unsettled pop- ulation. With moro than threo millious of people, tha Btate can now nfford to adopt its laws to the civilization of permnnent States, Tlho timo when it was necessary to give cat- thront morigages and lightning doeds of trust hoa departed with the time when men traded under the protection of cockoed ro- volvers aund tha pressing solicitation of tho bowio-knife. It is timo that monoy-londing in Tilinois should ba reduced to somo system basod on ocivilization, and to recognize the fact that it takos two partics to mako a bar- gnin, and that all contracts ought to have some mutunlity of interest. If this bill passeas the ouse, ns it ought to pass, with- out apposition, then hereafter, in this Btate, no man con bo divested of his 1and without the judgment of a Court to that offect. That is the law now in mnost of the States, and it should have been sdopted in this State yonrs ago. The snap-judgmont stylo of soizing estatos and solling mon ont by summary process should havo been abol- ished long since. The Legislature should also pass tho kindred ill which modifies the practico of obinaining judgments for tho de- ficiency betwoon the amount of a mortgage dobt and tho amount obtained from n salo of the mortgaged promises. The pending bill aimply provides that, when a jndgment of this kind is taken, tho proceeding shall have tho effect of oponing the foreclosure for tho term of two years, during which tho debtor mny redeem the property. The merits of this bill have boen discussed 8o ofton that it is not necessary to say moro on tho aubjeot, but thoe two bills aro equally just and expe. diont, snd should certainly boe passed at this session, Corporal KrenaN has onco moro broken loose and opened his * burah." After the Corporal's successful tormination of tho Russo-Turkish wor he rosted from his ln- bors, aud the Old World cujoyed o season of reposo. Sinco the 7%mes supprossed its morning edition and decided to appear asa noon paper, he has come to tho front again, and relioves Brsyanck, Gamperra, and Dis- raeLt by taking cliarge of Buropoan affairs, His flrst bulletin is truculont, and amolls of gonh. Rusaln is angry with Germany sud Austria! Francois concentrating hor armies to neize Belgium, and Germany is advancing upon Holland, and both France and Germany will spoedily advauce upon each oth- orl! Russin, meanwhile, s going to break tho ‘Iresty of Dorlin and advauco uwpon Gormhny, and Englond is going to advanco upon Russin by way of Afghanistan, whilo Russin ndvances upon Chinn by way of Khival!! Spaln i dissatisfied with England in the matter of a troaty and will soon advance upon her by wny of Cuba; whilo Italy, discon. tonted with Franco and Eogland for their action in Egypt, is about to advanes upon both! 1} 1 Tt is a vory protty pro. geamane that the Corporal bos mapped out ; but, unfortunately, he leaves tha issue in doubt by not intimating which of the armies ho will head, 1t is a littlo remarkable, how- ovar, that Corporal Kerxan should devoto hia encrgles to the organization of European wars whon le js needod at home. Bince the 7'imes discontinued its morning edi- tion and eaute out as n noon paper, tho Evening Journal, News, and Telegraph bhave formed o ‘Triple Alliance, aud aro pressing it to the wall, They bave al. ready antivipated 1t with their noon editions, and are now proasing tho 8 o'clocks well up to ita walls, Moeanwhile, there is no head to the concorn. Corporal IKexxnan should resign the Premiorship of Burope and come home befora the 'Lriplo Alliance vapturcs tho whole ooucorn, Ninctoen mombers of tho United States Sen- ato are ex-Confoderate oflicers, They are: Llor{;nn. Vanco, Lamar, tarland, Withere, Jutler, Wulker, Jonnstog, Hampton, Call, Gordon, Harris, Lockrolly Willlawe, Cake, Vest, Jongs, Anxey, Rausom, The following Is the lst of ex-Federal afficars: Lngan. Plumb, Hurnelde, Kelloge, ‘The Brigadicrs are almost & majority of tha majorlty party,und willcontrol as the must active ‘members of tho party, the leelslation of that branch of Uongress. The atatistics for the Houeo have not yet been made up, but they will show the same gencral proportion of ex-Cunfeds crates to ex-Unlonlata, 1t fa not an exaggera- tion to say thut the Leyislative branch of the Government las passed under the control of persons who a fow yesrs sgo plotted treason againat {tand tricd to destroy It, ——— Col. R, A, ArsTON, who was assassiuated in the Btate-Hlouso of (leoreia ji opea duy, wrote a lettor to tho New York Tridune not loog sinca declaring that Jlfo sud proposty were us sccure In Gdorgla as in any other Btsta in the Unlon. e —— ‘Tho salc of the BuiNuuy library In Now York was brouglit to a close temporarily Saturday nigbt, vne-third of tho callootion baving then besn dlsposed of. The remalnlpg two-thinds will not be sold undl pext autumn, This is tn necordnnco with the original programme, books thus farsold went off at very satlsfac prices, and It 4s belleved more Wil he poq from the Nbrary than Mr. BuiNtgy pald Among the heavy purchasers wero the 4, can Antfquarian Boclety, Yale College, Wargins Library, of Harlford, g tutions which had bequests fron In the form of credits o be honored i salo, Other largo purchases weore mada an h:. half of the Boston Publle Library, the Library ot Congress, nd the Chicngo Pubile un;m; which ~bought principally rare Amerlcnm' Among individual bugers Mr. L. 2. Leirey, o; Chicago, was prominent, The New York 17::;., says he has “enriched his colleetion by e numerable purchates,” including, wa belieye, one of the Ertor Bibles, 'Ihie rosults of cach day’s salo are as follows: Namufaysoo Sk 0 Thieadey Wednedday . . 10,001, 18 Saturday TolALecevinvunrvnnnniine on venn BUH, 3 The averago per ot 18 81978 and a fractlop, Tha tory tined OF ¢, nerf. the and other fnay. n Mr Briyige 1t s announced in the ofcial programme of MoVicen's Theatro that, during the approach. ing engagement of Ebwix Bootit in this gy, the prompt-books prepared by that emlneny actor {n conjunction with, Mr, WiLLiax Wiy, i wil be strictly followed, In the Mg of prompt-hooks as given the ttles of some of the plays aro thus printed: * Don Ceosen do Jtyy, zon,”" “Rug Blag,” and *KntherenJ, Tetry cbfo.” Theso plays have not litherto, we be- lleve, been In Mr, BooTu's repertory; but iHhe can play Katheren J. Letruchlo with angthine likke the same art that he sometimes emyploys g; n ahnilar chiaracter In “‘The Taming of thy shrew,” his performance will be well worty seeing. Bo with Zug Lias, which may Possibly bo a Persian adaptation ‘ot foupy Blas; but we linve not even an Inkling of the plot of * Vo Ceusen de Rauzon.”. The title might be takey for a misprint of “‘Don Cessr de Bazan,” pyg for the fact that all printers are familiar wiy the stage and its bistory, and no professor of “the art preservative” could be concelved of s mutilating well-known uames fu the mauner Iudicated, The Rock 1sland and Davenport papers keep sflotice about the Moline Water-Power debate in Congress, or touch points not in debate. Thy question Is not whether the Government should {fulfill its contract with the Company, and keep up the power as agreed, but whether agit o thy waterspower back to the Combany, 8s conteme plated in the Bundry Civil bil), would bo hoa. cst or wise, The discretion of making suchg lense has been vested by Conpress fn Seeretary McCrany, who is an Iowa man, and may have spcelal knowledge of the subject. ———— Qucon VICTORIA'S snub of OLADSTONK, In refusing to invite bim to the weading of tha Duko of Connaught, causes unlversal surprisa in th!s country, where no English publie man g mora uviversally estocmed thasn Mr. Grip. 8TONE, Tha Springfleld Fepublican speaks for more than ftself when it savs that GLApsToNE's “Draln and heart are worth thoso of all the GusLrus sinco the robber-Baron of the Rhing who founded the family. ————— “Btato after Btate at the Bouth was called without findlng a man fn the delegation who could tako an fron-clad oath.”* Buch was the suggestivo sceno preacnted on the assemblivg of tho Forty-sixth Congross of the United States fourteen years after the closo of the War. ‘The fron-clnd onth {s simply & declaration on tha vart of the person who takes it that lic bas noy attempted to destroy the Government. e By choosing & Democratic committes ontof a TRepubllean Council to appoint *judges of clecs tions fo’a Ropublican city, Ald. TurLEY lias dova much to discouraze fndependent movementsin local politics. Mo bhas, fndeed, only confirmed an opinlon which has been growing steadlly of latu nmong Republlcaus; but such o stand wag hardly to be expeetod of one who was elected as &n Independent by Ropublican votes. i e b s The hard-moncy Democrats fn tho Benats threw o sop to the soft-monoy men by putiing Dan Voonuees on the Financo Cowmmittes ‘That showa the degree fo which the Democratia party really is committed to the cause of honest money. With BAvanp ot the bead und Voor- xes at the tail of the Committee it aught toba possible for the Seoate to muke anything, from gold to soft-sonp, logal-tonder. Tho biil which prascd the Btato Benate appro- priating $10,000 for a library for the Appellate Court of this distrlct was, by a mispriut, repre- sented as appropriating 8100,000. The sutn act ually approprinted {8 not too much for the pure poso und the bill ought to pass, e —— The Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald speaks of Senator WapLeian as the best Benator New Hampshive has had slnco the time of Joun P, Hare, and thinks the attempt of tha Governor to prejudice his election by appoloting Mr, Bsrt In his place for the extra sesslon cannot be too strongly condemued. e g ‘W. D, KxrLoy, openly descrted his party in the House, and voted for Hrnvrick B. Wiiont, the vilest demagoguo and Communlst in Coo- gress, for Speaker. Mr. KxLLry [s the ¥ Father of tho House,"” owlng to his years of servlcej but ycars, it scems, havo not brought him dis crotion. —— The Vertal Equinox occurs to-dny, March 20, ot 5h. 44m. p. m., Chicago time. ‘L'hits tn defer ence: to tho expreas wlshos of many peoplo who fancy thero 18 Bomo connection between the wenther of the noxt three months aud the dlreo tlon ot the wind at the date of the Equisox e —— - “Tho pnblie welfare will be beat promoted by permanency {n our legislation, and by peaco and reat,’” says the President {n his now messait Truer and wisor words than theso the President Lias never uttercd. e Benator Loaax apparently zot moro flowers than aay other momber of the Benate, but he scems to havo been shabblly treated by his s« soclates in the distribution of places on tho cows mittecs. ———— - The Rev, GiLokat DaLa Matyn showed by nomindting nud votlng for lenpmcs B Waiant for Bpeaker that ho velued his Greene backism more than he did his relizion, > e t———— PERSONALS, Mr, Randall has boon olaoted Spenker, bub we suppose Mr, Tliden knowa nothing about it The “ Black Crook" drow well in Now York Iaat weok, In splte of the leguof thoothereeX. Westward tho course of hampiro takes ité way, Colorado hos just hiad Jts Qest legal exccas tion, A sclentiflc anthority ssys that oysters can whfatle, 'Thelr favorite tuns probably ls Nep: tune. b The English oan beat ua runniug. ‘They always cauld, over sinco the days of Georgd Washe ington. My, Tilden's influonca fs unmistakably io- creawiug, and tho barrel cerialaly supplies s want long felt, y i G MMy, Payuter, R, A,, is paintiog of lllll.‘?ywllh the tmmlnx:llAl Mre, Langiry s spectator. = ‘Cho Buftalo Ezpress mentions him a8 Juc Al Wo think, howaver, thore ehould be 83 other MHY Advios from @ noted pedestrians *Toke cate of your stowmach, and your lege will take u,u of themselven." s Mr, Rowell may take the belt, and h“ must never cowe horo bothering us sbout 169 worthless thlog agaln. Tramps are excollent pedeatrians, bub thl;{ cannot bo peranaded to walk on & teack, for ! 5 reason that there are no farm-housea along caurse whore they can iop and beg minco plv In counection with s nuwmbor of emcn: tlons which occurped last I-‘xmnynnuw-pnwf:’“ pr the wish that evorybody who d:ulu““ could be hung. Bat who, lot us sak; ‘would b to do tao hanging?