Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1879, Page 4

Let nate WS: Siieaiedtbiees shomcoe rte * THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY MARCH 90 22 , 1879---SIX TEEN Pauls. De Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCRILPTION. BY MAN 10 ANVANCR--POSTAGE PMEPAID, ste £58 fee BO POSTPAID, or] 1:60 eS County, Kemittances may bo made eftiinr hy draft, express, Uilice order, ar tn regittered letter, at aur rlek. TERMS TO CITY KUNACTINERS, Dally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 cente per week. “Dally, delivered, Sunday Inehtde por week. Adiirest TUR THB: y Corner Madison and Vearbort Ontera for the delivery of THe PHInuNK ¥nalewood, and slyde Park tett in the couatlug-fovit ‘will recetve prompt attentlo WERKLY EDITION, Opa eapy, ner yes Aub of tour, Hoften.. ta twenty, TRIBUNE BRANCIL OFFICKS. Tnx Cicadn Trincsn has eatabliahed branch omces for the recolptof subactiptions amd adyerttaementa as follows: NEW VOUR—ftoor 20 Tribune Rulldiog, FT. Mar Fannrn, Manager, PARIS, France--No, 14 Rue de la Grange: Bateliere, . T. Manern, Agont. LONDON, Eng.-American Exchange, 449 Strand, Jirxny F. Giulia, Agent, BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Patace Hotel. WASIUNUTON D, G,-1910 F atreet, MeVieker's Theatre. Madioon street, ortween Dearborn and State. Tne Barement of Btrakosch’s Heltan Opera, Afternoon, “Martha " dventng, Z Baverivin Theatres Dearborn street, corner af Monroe, Fre ant of dotn MeCuliongh.: Afternoon, **Julfur Gasar" Eveulng, Richard 11," Tlonley's Thentre. Tandoinh street, telwern Turk nnd Lasstle. Bins gagementof Lotta, Afternoon, ‘19 Cl * Fvens ing, Sweethearteand Wives” sud Enyoga- mei Tamiin'’s Theatre, Clark treet, onposite tlie Court-House Eneacement. of W. T. Melville. Mrates of the Chesupeake,” Variety Olio, MeCormiek Matt, North Clark etreet. corner Kinzie, Diesolving Pans erumic Views, Afternoon and ovening. Acatlomy of susie, Nateted street, between Marton and Steptoe, riety entertainment, Afternoon and ovenlag. a+ “SATURDAY, MARGIT 22, 1879, The atrivol in New York from Havana of a Chineso woman in the company of her bus- band was an ev. nt so wnusual os to crente freat commotion among the pigtailed malos of the chy. Nothing astanishes a Chinaman mero than the advent in America of a decont woman of hia own race, Itis the absence of ony but tho vilest of tho female sex that mekes the Chinese question so hopoless of eolation by ordinary procossos, Mr, Waxt, of Macoupin, is to be credited with one of tho keonest comments yet made on tho do-nothing characteristics of the Prescot Legislature. Ho made it in the form of a resolution providing for an approprin- tion of $100,000 for ico for tho use of the members of the Gonera! Assembly during the months of July and August, ‘The Houso thought it was very funy, and sodo the toxpayors, but the Intter Inugh ‘on the wrong side of the mouth,” ns some of thosa officials tax-ontors will find hereafter. —_—_—_—. Mrs, Dr. Many Wanner and her co-lnvor- ers will rejoice and bo .xcveding glad whon they rend the Japaucso news brought by the last steamship arriving at San Francisco. Tu that far-off quarter of ihe globe a woman has been found who proposes to resist tuxa- tion unless such requirement of the Stato is accompanied by tho priceless boon of repre- sontation, Tho namo of this vonturous cru- sader who has dared to bronch such a propo- sition to the Japaneso authorities is not mudo known, but the eyes of the persistent fnith- ful in this country will hereafter ho strained in that direction to catch tho first flourish of this now worker's parasol as sho proolaims her victory over the Oriental potoutates and princes, Tho Baptists of Chicago aro ill at enso re- garding the prospect of losing one of their finest church edificos through foroclosnre oud sale, and aro bostirring thomselves to taiso the mouey to pay off tho floating dubt, seale down tho mortgage, and sceuro a long extension, ‘The gloomiest phnso of the aitu- ation is the admitted fact that tho church in question, the Michigan Avenna Bap- fist, is confessodly four times tua Inrgo for tho accommodation of any céngregation hkely to bo attracted to itu sup. port during tho lifo of the renewed mort. gnge, should a ronawal bo obtained, aud tho Durden of interest aud current expenses would fall heavily upon so small a society, A church property that cost $163,000, is mortgaged for 55,000, and ia valued at $28,000, may well be set down ns “n magnifi- cont wreck” which It wero wiser to leavo than to stay with and sink, _—_—__ Tho proposition yexterday submitted in tho Houso by Mr. Extis, of Louisiana, for the increase of (he membership of tho Cam. iitteo ou Elections from fourteon to nine. teen, ovidently hing for its object something beyond “economy aud correctness of ropre- seutation.” ‘Cho fact clearly is that the Democrats nro afraid to trust their present sinall majority to bo always in attendance upon important occasions, und fro determined upon increasing it by the unseating of a largo number of Republicans whoso naines are now on the roll, An Elec. tions Committco of fourteon allows of only a limited number of Sub-Coimmittecs, and tho work of unseating must drag in conse. quence; so it is proposed to onlarge their facilitios for this sort of work by male ing the Committea consist of nineteon mem. era, If tho Democratio majority in the House can be made to see the advantage of tho arrangement, the proposed increase will undoubtedly be voted. ———_—_——— Fivo members of tho Stato Senate Com- mitteo on XKeformatory Institutions lave united in a report adverse to the spproprin- tion of auy more monyy to complete the Southorn Penitentiary at Chester, bolleving that it would bo more economical in ovary point of view to abandon tho institution entirely, and sell the rattlesnake furm aud the buildings on it for what they will foteh at uuction, t ax to krop on pouring moncy down the Quester ruthole, Fora small por- fiow of the amount now and hereafter to bo required to completo and equip the Southern Prison the Committca find that additions could be built to tho Jolict Penitentiary that would for yeara to come furnish all the yoom required; that the saving iv one year's salary of on extra got of officers, $56,000, hy the abandonment of tha Chester job would Vuild all necessary additions at Jolivt, while the masuing together of all the convicts un- derone control would greatly eubanco the yevenue from their labor, Slrong reasous ure advanced for refusing the Chester appro- priation, whether $409,000 or $225,000, reasons that anght to convince tha Legixis- ture of the propriety of rolieving the people of this noedlesa burden. A Now Orloans dispatch explains the cr- igin and cause of tho nancial distress in consequenca of which tho banks of that city ware compollad to unite inn partial suspen- sion, Ovor-contidenco fn Touislann Stato bonds nx a safo and desirable investinent under Domucratic rnte appears to have leaded tho banks with theso secnrities, whila tho money for their purclinse found ita way to Now York and Amsterdam, leaving the local financiors with plouty of bouds but loss than tholr share of cash resources on hand, Tho fnilura of tho Demoaratic Stato Administration to fulfill its pledgoa ro- garding tho prompt collection of the revenue and ita application to the payment of intor- est ling caused a heavy depreciation in tho markot valuo of tho bonds; and the talk of ropudiation and the apparent majority of Deinverntio royndiationists in the Constitn- tional Convention to boa held in April hns still farthor depeciated the bonds nnd added tu the inisolief cronted by Democratic mis- manngomont, Ono of tho organs of Cantan FHanntson, which has all slong boon aysailing and mis. reprerenting Mr. Wrrair beeauso he refused to enter upon a temparanoe crusada nnd re- now tho saloon war, contain’ an intorviow with Mx. Hannisox upon this question, in which ho straddles tho fenca with as muck oaso ng ever Mr, Hennnioxe did. It is only necessary to refer to Mr, Hantrsoy’s own Inuguago, as printed in his organ, to suo what a contemptible and domngoyicnl trim. mor ho hag become, Says this trimmer: ‘fo be frauk with you, for I think every candidate for public truats should be candid with the pooplo, this question is ono which T do not caro to discuss.” ‘Pint ia candor with a vongeance! Again says thia trim. mer: “Now, if I know my own feclings, aud Ttbink Ido, if 1 ind the power by one word tocnteh tho ontire temperance voto, Lwonldn’'t apeak that word (7). If, ou tha contrary, by ono word I coal enlist the opposition in my bohalf, I wouldn't say that word (11!) ‘he people enn elect just whom they plenso Jor Mayor, If they do elect me, they must trust mo to do my duty as Iseo it.” But how is he going to seo it? ‘That is what ped- plo want to know. Aro {emperanco peopie to volo for n mati who hasn't courage ononzh to sny where he stands? Will tho snioon in- terest voto for a uan who is afraid to open his mouth? Will any ono voto. for a man who dire not sny yes or no to any mooted question that is asked hia?) Tho mun need- ed at the head of this city isn positive man, who hag manhood, a will, aud a voice of his own,—not a demugugical trimmer who xtraddles avery question in which the people of Ohicago are interested, And such tedious, purposelers, and timorons twaddle as Can- rer talked, his orgin calls speaking can- didty on topics of curront interest." Baht A HOMBUG COMPROMISE. "Thera are rumors of n so-called “compro. miso” botweon the Demnazatic majority in Congress and tho Republican President rela- live to tho ballot-lmx stuffing logistation. in favor of which tho Demoorats forced the ex- tranession of Congress. If thero is auy truth in these rumors, the programme is probably discernible in Drix Sentsarn’s proposition i theenucus, Whiule‘vertain oeratstike Pr spo Woon, Proctor Kxort, Sam Cox, and Nebel Cranuens,were urging upon the eattens: the adop ion of the appropriation b Is in pre- cisely the snino form in which they fniled in tho Inst Congress, Symone favored the adoption of separate bills repealing that por- tion of the law which provides for Chief Supervisors nnd the Special Marshals, leav- ing the law ag it stands in regard to the two Supervisors (ono from each party) to bo ap. pointed by tho United States Courts, aud to be preaent at the voting-plaves in the Con- grossional cloctions. Spnwworn’s proposition, argued in the can. cus, was that these monsures should be sub- nitted to the President Lefore passing the approprintion billy; that, if ho ned tha partisan bills, the appropriation bilis should he passed and Congress adjourn; that, if he refused to sign the former, thon they should bo mado a part of the appropriation. bitls, and the issue forced of his submission or nao supplics, Sprixarn’s proposition was not adopted, but Woon's likewise failed, and tho eancns provided for the aprointment of a specinl cannnittea and report a plan to the joint canens, ‘Chis action woud indivate the purpose to take timo for consultation to de- termino whether ov not the President would De likely to sign the repeal measures, if sub. mitted suparately and modified as Srutsaes proposed, Lhe trug inwardness of this proponed ‘comproinjgo ” is too obvious to deeviva my. body, It is merely a new way for obtalning the very kama object soneht by the entire repeal of tho United States Mection law, It ia very much the samo ax te strike out tho enacting clansa of soma proposed legisla. tion, Yo cut off the Chief Super. visor and atl) the Marshals is to make tho Gonoral Govornment’s Election lav inoperative, ‘Lhere will be no nuthorized officer to orgamze (ho pystent of supervision provided for by the lav, aud thers will he no oficars empowerad by the Court to make arrests and puta step to the most fligvart frauds and violonee, even if 9 yoluuteor corps of Supervisors should wach the potty, It is doubtful, in tho first place, whuthor Supervisors would ever be ap. pomted by the Cotrin in the absence of a chief, If there sould bo any auch appoint. tmunts thoy would be without organization or direction, and they would oveupy the samo wsoloss position as ehalten: at tho ordinary gloclions would, if the State cons slables and logal poties wero forbidden to come to thelr assintance, © Most State Inwa providy for registration and challenging at tho pollg, protuctud by tho policw, If n State Loglidatura were to amend sich a law so us to leave the challengers, but provide that thero shonld be no o.. atables or policemen at the polls to en- forco tho law, it is plain that the act, ox amouded, would afford no protection whatever against frand or violunee, But this is pro- cisely what Bir. Sertcen's proposition would do, ‘Lhe United States Courts nuty go through tho empty form of appointing Supervisory, but these Supervisors may be knocked down at the polls and dragged off by the bull. dozera and repenters, and there shall he no Marehuls to protect thom! ‘Tho Sue pervisors muy possibly bo permitted to staud at the polls, and there challenge illegal voters and observe frauds, but there shall! be no Mar. Shale to arrest the offinders or check the frauds! ‘This is tho naturo of Srarnozn's proposed “ compromise," Tho Miasve-Murt Congressional election in Florida uffords an itlustration of how the United Btutes Election law would work as amended by Spatscen, In that election Nuns secured a mujority of the votes by fraud and violence eo outrageous that the Suprema Court ordored Ina certificate cane veled, and many persona wero subsequontly indicted for their participation in these frauds, Novertholess, tho frauda woro not prevented nor checked, Hurt recaived nomi- ally a majority of the votes cast, and tho Confederates adinitted him to his soat in spite of the swindle, Str it would bo in overy enso of fraud perpetrated under the nose of unprotected Supervisors, Either the Supervisors would bo shot or driven off, or they would be allowed to romain oud protest In vain againat (ho repeating and Hatlot-box stifling carried on under their noses, ‘Thore might subsequontly be reports and possibly indictments, but nobody would bo punished, and, in tho meantime, tho frauds would mature, the bonefieinry theroof would secure hig certificato, and his partisan majority in Congress would promptly adinit him, og they have admitted Hunt, ‘To take away the Deputy .Marshala from the polls would bo to nullify tho National Election law as much naa it would nullify tho Stato Election law to prohibit constables and po- licemen from being present nt or near the polts, It Spnixarn’s achomo bo adopted and approved by the President, it will amount to n notice to Een Hontann in Cineinnati that he may muster his repeaters for next yeur'n election without fearof punishment ; to ‘Lam. many in Now York thatitimay marahality co- hort of spurious voters under tho frandulent uaturalization papers issued to them; to the ex-Confedernto managers in South Carolinn {hat thoy may print anow batel of tissue. paper ballots ; to the bulldozers of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida that they mny pre- para to kill Supervisors and intimiitate the colored voters; and {to all classes ef voughs, plug-uglies, blood-tubs, Lummers, repealurs, ant baliot-box stuifers that they need fear no interference from the United States author- itles in auy scheme of fraud or violence which thoy may devise aud wish to exceute. Wo ara not propared to believe that the President hag given any intimation to tho Congressional bulldozers that ho will approve a bill modelod upon Srainazn’s suggestion. Ho cannot be willing to sign such 4 Dill un. lees he is prepared to sign a total repeal of the National Election Jaw, for tho two pro- posed repcals aro alike in substnuce if not ba form. Itcannot ba assumed that Prosident faxes and tho able gontleinon of his Cabinet, will bo decoived by tho change in form; nor could submission to the distates of the Congrossionnt bulldozers bo justified by tho tnelt threat of entting off supplies, which woull bs mado by withholding tho upproprintion bills till he shonld sign the repenl bills. ‘This iesuo is olrendy clearly Leforo the people. If the supplics are to be cut off, the responsibility will rest upon the Democratic party, and the President need not fear for himself, nor for the parly which elected him, in appeating to the country on such au isaue, Tho Sparen proposition is so dishonest and puerte os on expedient that it will not deceive intelligent pooplo anywhore, aud the Presidont should bo prepared to take precisely the same position in regard to it asi the uppropriation bills wero submitted to him with the repeal of the Election law attached to them. No “compromiso” is possiblo in (his matter, for thero is nothing to compro. mise, ‘Lhe single business of the extra ses- tion is ta pass the appropriation bills neces. sary to the support of the Government dur- ivg the coming yenr, and legislation to that end, unincumbered by partisau attachments, 13 all the President should approve, SOUTHERN SAVAGERY, Another era of murder has begun in tho South, Tho telegraph each day brings tidings of individual murders, of slaughter in duela, of vendetias, of :ynchings, and of all sorts of barbarities indorsed by that in- famous sontiment of tho Southern people wHich goes under tho names of “ honor” and chivalry.” Tho recent murder of Col, Atstox was only one of numerous cases of the same kind, and that was a murder for which the community where ho resided was just as responsible as tho murderer himself, ‘Lhe Intter publicly announced that he would kill Col, Anstox, and enrried his weapon in plain sight. ‘ho wholo community were wire of his iutentiona, and, instend of stripping the man af his wonapona and punishing tho murderons —_braggart, they coolly allowed him to havo his | own way, and waited — for tho impending affray, apparently with all the zest aml ardor of tho spectators watch. jug the conftict botween the bnil aud the foreador, Not a voico was heard raised in pra est against the intentions of ‘the san. guinary wreteh, “Chivalry and honor” called for the hood of ong or the other inan, it was immaterial which, though there was no dillleulty Letweon then that might not have boen setttod in five minutes. by arbitra. tiow or by n court of justice without any loss of self-rorpoet to either, So-called * honor” demanded blood, however, aud the commu. nity did nothing to provont its shedding, When tho infamous murder had bee com. mitted, thon the authoritles complacuntly ar. rested the murderer, who, of course, will never be punished, the bar to punishment in the South depending upon the locality of thu victun's boats, If thoy aro on his foot whou he is kiltod, he has paid’a debt of “chivalry.” Having tortured, bulldozed, whipped, hang d, and shot negroes until tho poor wrotches no longor attempt to assert any of tho rights which the lnwa give them, the “chivalrous” whites have turned upon endl other, and ths pistol and bowle-knifo are in consiant usu to vottle affairs of “honor.” It will probably tke a long thue to eradicate this savagery, for it is nothing but brute navugery, such as oftains in all uncivitized countries Ibis dua in the first place to the common practice of carrying dendly wenponn, No Suutheruer's equipment is complete with out revolver, rifle, or bowie-knife, and fre tulliavity with them makes their nso a con. lant habitat life, IC it were the praction of every man in Chicagu, when another stepped lctweon him and. the wind, to whip ont hia revolvor and shoot him, wa should soon becoma agcustomed to it aud pay no mero heed to the barbarous custom than they do in the South, Auother prominent reason for erlmo in thot #ection fs the Inzincas of the people, ‘They will not work, consequently they have nothing to do but toucoupy themselves with their affuird of “chivalry,” Crime rarely oc. curs among industrious people, Violence in our Northern citles is couftnod almost ex- elusively to loafers and biummers who will not work, Ifthe Southern people turned their attouslon to ‘industry, if thoy would sot their mills aud fnotoriga into operation, if they would thoroughly develop the re- sources, if they would throw away their pis. tols and bowie-knivos, aud put their hands to the shovel, hoe, and plow, the personal erimes which are a stain upon their good haue avd a bur to thelr progress would, BOON ceaso, Tels nllopetul sign tint two of tho best papers in the South, the New Osleaus Zhacs andthe Atlanta Constitution, are making a doterminad onslaught upon these barvarous practices, ‘Tho latter 1a espocinily sovera upon tho practice of carrying arma and upon the sentimont {hat sustains violence, Tt saya: Theao aro reriowst and earnest quca- tions, aud the people of Atlanta should seo lo it that they nro nnswored, Choro ia nothing that lies nenrer tho aasenco of things than thisono habit. Tt tends moro than everything clan combined to keop peoplo out of this State and ont of tho South.” It appeals to its readers aud the Southern paoplo: ‘Can any community atand np under this? Can wo invite penca- ful people to como and live with ww unless we can give somo guarantee that this bloody record will bo improved and this turbulence reduced {0 order? Wo must imako tho ehnnge, Wo must demonstrate by actual action that. tho carrying of concenled weapons will not be tolerated, and that tho law will bo vindivated upon those who violate it, If tho press of tho South would Join hands with the Constitution and mako 0 combined assault upon this savagery, 1b would go far towards stopping ft. UNANIMITY IN JURIES, ‘Tho Mouse ofjho Mlinois Gonornl Assembly has failed for the want of tho necessary two- thirds voto to pass tho resolution nulunitting to the peoplaan amendment to the Con- stitution anthorizing verdicts in civil cases when concurred in by three-fourths of the jury. We think this action unfortunate. ‘Tho unanimity of juries was part of the original purpose. of juries, which was to protect tho subject against the Crown, No such reason exists at this day, and certainly not in civil cases, Why should unanimity bo required of twelye inen hoariug a com- plicnted caso of accounts between individ wily? How often oan it bo said that ench of tho twelve jurors’ in n casa of iat kind really does undorstand all the {neta ? It now reqnires absolute unanimity ; tho twelva men imust erch declaro that A owes Bon specific sum in dollars nnd conts; if one juror dissents in any par- tieular the wholo trial fails, aud all has lo bo done over again, ‘Lhe temptation to cor. ruption and bribory fs inereased by tho enso with which a jury may bo pro- vented from finding a verdict. It only needa that ona man bo porverso or corrupted, to Lave tho timo of Court, suitors, witnosses, and elevon other jurors wasted in a mis-trial, Stripped of all nonsense with which tho sanctity of jury-tridla is invested by cheap and superficial demagogues, tho require. ment of ungnimily of jurors in civil ensea isreally absurd, Every Judge, every Inwyor, every litigant, is fully aware that it is a waste of time, aud serves no practical pur- pose except to enable corrupt men to sell thelr votes and ignoramuses to dofent verdicts and the ends of justice, The siction of the Honso was unwise. It waa o doniat to tho peoplo of thu State of the privileyo of making this change. ‘Thera was no danger of any party auction by the people. Every voto not erst fur the amond- ment would havo been eonnted against it, so that in no event could tha change have beon inate unless a majority ‘of all tho voters at tho election had voted‘aMrmatively on tho question, ‘Tho solicituilg of the sixly-soven members of the House ddst a majority of tho people of tho Stato would have voted aguinst their own ‘interests wapjan assumption of superior intelligence an/tho part of the sixty- seven which 18 hordly "Warranted by the facts, Everything ina.this country is determine. by n mnjoritf, A majority of the peoplo of Tilinois ehg change overy pro- vision of the State Constitution, A mnjority muke the laws. A inaijority expound the laws, Four dadgos of “the Supreme Conrt render flual decisions owinlt questions of Inw in this Stato, Two Judges in tho Appellate Court make its judgments, In courts where there are threo Judges, Wmnjority define tha law. Why not require uifanimity in the court as wellas in the jury? Why not demaud unanimity as tothe In as wollns to tho facta? ‘Cho action ofthe Houso was un. fortunate because it’ delays or postpones this innelenaoded reforin for at least two yoars, and daily experionca shows how great is the abuso of the presont system. ‘ho mattor should be reconsidered and passed, Let tho question ba submitted to the poople of Tli- nois, ‘They will canvass’ and study it. in all its bearings, and -arrive .at a devision that will perfectly ombody their viowsand wishes, and no member of the Logiutature has a moral right to pravent them from passing upon tho jury system. THE DRAINAGE LAW. Wo printed a fow days ago u copy of tho enormous bill now pending in tho Logisla- ture on tho subject of drainnge, It will bo remembered that the provision in the Con- stitution of 1870 on this subject was held {o bo so defective tliat no effective law wna possible, and at ‘the election in 1878 the poople of the Stato adopted an amendment to tho Constitution cov- ering tho ense, ‘Iho Logislutura is, how- over, embarrassed with the maguitndo of the subject, and a variety of bills have been pre pared and advocated, . ‘he bill wo published tho other day is the ono which his been tho eat matured. It is a very long Uill, and ono which is, of itsclf,n. cole, It would Il a suinll volume, It iganuch too long, and yet # corrospondent writes that it needs sevarat additional sections to muke it perfeet, a This, wa fear, is the tronble in the bill, It intoo vast and fiucomprohensible, It aims attoo much at one time. It provides ma- chinery enough to run a State Governmont, It tonds to muke drainage too costly, ‘he legal proceedings ave not only prolix, cum. Lersomy, und {oo numerous, but oxeessively exponsive,’ It will cost more for legal ox- penscs and lawyers! feesto obtain: authority to dig a ditch, aud Iny a milo of drain, than itwili lo dig and lny five miles of ditch ant alraln, ‘ho law brintles all over with prove ocations for Juwaults, for Injunctions, for appeals, for damages, If the bill iad Leon prepared by an association of trad nion lawyera Lo secure an increase of litigation, it could not be more cunningly framed, Nor is this oll, ‘Lhorea are too many Commis= ions, toa many Comtuissionors, and toe many tularies aud costa Under this bill the sums. to be pard for salaries Would poy for laying wost of the drains, ‘Lhere onyht not to be a salary paidto any man save perhaps o surveyor, Ench county and each town has now a full brigade of salaried and paid ofl. eera, oud to these may properly and appro. printely by referred the duties of these Drain. ago Commissionura, Liko most modern Jegidation, this bill seems to make tho purpose of the law subordinate to tho creation of now offices with salaries, tho publio to pay tha cost, What is wanted is a luw give ing to overy man the privilege and oppor. tunity of draiving bia own tands; and when ony verson refusca to do this, aud his refusal stands in tho way of others improving their lands, then tho law should anthor. izy uu entry upon ond the right of way nerons tha Innd of tho dog-in-tho-mangor cilizon, Unloss his refusal to drain his Innis bo an injury and oa nuisance to others, any arhitrary prococdings to cocrco tho drainage of his land ia ono of thoxe matters that the Logisinture should bo slow to adopt, Any attempt by tho Logislnttre to provide for a genernl ayatem of drainage whethor the owners desire it or not, and for thia purpose tho crontion of salaried Bonrda to create debts, incur oxpenses, aud levy assessments to pay their own salaries, to pny the costs of court and of connect fees in all mannor of judicind proceedings, must end in making the Inw odious and damning its framers. There nro, if wo remember rightly, near. ly 1,800,000 napes of good land that ja not now cultivable, which by ‘slight averngo cost por acro night be reclaimed, Some of this Is on the river banks, and will need levees and other {mprovementa to keep wator out, 'Tho main body of the low land is that which requires drainnge,—somothing to carry the water off. It cartninly does not require an enormous political and judicial system to ennble the owners of this laud to furnish ditehes and drains to carry off the kurplus water, Certainly tho aim ought to be to maka the work ax inexpensive as possi- ble, -'I'o crente numerous commissions of salaried officern, with a retinuo of lawyers aud a siccossion of judicint proceedings, is not the way to recinim® wet lands at small expense, This bill may seom worso than it is, bat we havo in this city something ‘of tho same kind. Under our Inw, if tho property-owners dosira to open a street, or to widen ono already open,—n procecding {lat ought to be dono without {ho least trouble,—the Inw fur- nishos o machinery that is appalling, It provides for 9 Connnission, which makes a roport of tho dnamngo to ba patd to the par- tics whose proporty is taken, Of courso these damages aro always too high, At the ond of n your ar perhaps two ycars there is another Comznission to report the sums to ha pail by cach person bonellted by tho improvement, Nobody wants to pay 60 anuch, and tho rogult ia that. thera is n wide differoneo between tho sums assonsod for’ benefits and the sum to bo paid for damnges, ‘Lhe one docs not equal the other, Courts and juries are ap- peated to; but nothing ever comos of it, ex- capt to mannfaclure 4 mountain of costs and lawyers’ fues; and the stroot or alloy is nover opened or widenod, but remnina undor tho ban of soma promeditated smprovement. which has boon ortshod under the weight of the ponderons legal machtnery invented by tho lawyers ostensibly to onnble people at their own expense to improve their own property. ‘This Drainage bill looks like something of tho same kind, and agif tho cost of reclaiming the wet lands may possibly ent up not only the wot but also tho dry lands of thoso who get ontangled in ity moshes. Lot the Legislature go slow, and, above all things, create no new offices aud no snlnries, Lot it not furnish fresh provo- cation for Jong, btter, and cos ly litign. tion, Let it try a simple Inw aot first, and from experience Mud whut clso may bo nec. essary, Sovaral of the Southorn mombers of Con- gress, under tho Jonlership of Aurxanprr If. Sreriens, want the doors thrown opon widely enough to adinit all kinds of legista- tion that can porsibly bo devised, Mr. Srernens liws certain finnneial schenios especially in mind, but others—liko Reagan of ‘Texas, Briaur of 'Tennesseo, and Hooxen of Mississipyl—zprobably intond the latitude to by'moro far-reaching’ than thoy have ad- mitted. But oven if tho effect of throwing open the doors of Congress wera simply to givon hearing to. the mensnros which Mr, Stepnens wishes to submit, tha injury to tho country would, bo beyoud ostimate, He de. sires to make further modifications in tho Internal Rovonuo Inwa, though they have already boon so modified for tho sectional benefit of the South that they will fail to yleld suMcicnt revenue to moet tle expenditures laid out. Ho desires that " Congross shall order the issue of a least $500,000,000 legnl-tonder notes"; how much more he would liko to have ho does notsny, Tho disenssiou of such a measure, with even n romoto prospact of its passage, would so unsettle the mouetary and com. moretal conditions of the country ns to com- plotely wipo out all the ndvantigos that havo followed resumption, ‘Thora has beon a notable improvemont in business affairs sinca the Ist of January, ‘Tho tondoncy of yrices to decline las been changed to o ten- dency to advance; confidenco has been very greatly restored, nud capital is cecking invest- ment; best and most significant of all, labor fs finding moro gonoral and stendy om- ployment and commanding better pricos. The threat of a fictitions inflation of an irro- duemnble and depreciated currency would speedily convort the present progress to. ward prosperity into retrogression toward distress and suffering, ‘his consideration ought to have somo woight with Mr, Ste. vitens, ovon if ho ia uot restrained by the fact that a now issue of loga'-tender notes in ox- cons of “tha $400,000,000 war-issuo will bo illegal, Ho must not judge of tho conditions of tho entiro country by thoge of hia own Stato or district, nor should he delude him. rolf with tha false notion tat an increased voluma of paper money will be of any bon. efit to the native whitus of Georgia-and other Statox, ‘Tho whites of the South witl not itaprove their condition till thoy tako off thoir coats and go to worl, no inattcr how large a volume of shinplastors there might Us in cirenlation, aN enenneany ‘The ups and downs of the stuge have seldom heen hetrer ilustrated than by the recent ex perlence. af Mr. Tomas Wires, otherwise Known as Str Joseph Porter, WO, lL Three yeurs ago Mr, WitrPEN was in Chicago without gu cigagcment or the promise of ove; with wo money in bank and very Mitle in his pockets, Mla wifo was it}, and he was net strong, ‘The tloctor’s bil waa Jong, and there was no pros. peet of paying it. Ta theeo circumstances Mrs Witeven opaiied to a well-known local man- ager for cmployment, He was fiformed that thera was no plice for hin, but ho was dazated with a qualiiled pronitaa of the secont law. cumedian'’s pos'tion ot the beginning of the NeXt Fvagon, then some months! distance; sale ary, $80 per week, ‘This ofler he dallied with some thine, but finally declined in favor of a posdtble openiys In New York, ‘To New York then he went. Is ‘uances being ata pain: fully low ebb, it fs doubtful whether he went fret claaa, At any rate, ho got there. de did not find anything to do for monthe, ie Went fram bad to worse, und ho was really desuitute when he bean to pick uo odd Joba ubout the theatres. This happened, too, whan his experlencu und merlt were wall known, Even tn Chicayo he was unltormly treated with kindness by the prees and public whenever he appeared, and: in New York it wus the same. Ho was kuown in buth cities as au Engitsh actor tralued tn the best school, a mu- siclun, a stinger of some yolce und more method, and a really excelent purformer on the violin. Vut spite of it ail he did not succeed, Ha trugyled on in New York for cightven months or more; and then, by some stranve chance, he was cuployed laa Bastilydorued evupanz to play the “ Pinafuro” at the Staururd Theatre, ‘The sttecess of the plece was immediate and frreat, and with it the success of Winrrss, ls fortune was made for the time. Only re cently auch pubttentions as the Nation and dtarper's Magazine wut Weekly Nave pralsed bis Sir dosenh Torter, Me. Garona Winitast Cuntis writes in the Easy Chale of hits purform- ances Unt whence comes tho Night Hon, Sirdosrrn Poureiy Ke Cor 6 ie What we nale ts whethor the gentleman who plays the Firat Lord |4 A well-known art etint he may he, and tne known tothe Easy’ Choir, —or whether an actor plods ronily on in his nightly mt tnmarked for enuectal nnd mperior merit, and then-same Wadneriay night, #ay, after 0 Tueulay night of the ordinary wark—audidenly stops forth with ree inarkabee cleverness and becomes tmmedintely and dustly famous, ‘Phere 14 ne donut that Mr. Wines VEN'a Sit Josten ts in tne Franch puraso, 0 ** eras ation.” Itsy unique anid irresistible, Other Sur Josneig may be excellent, but His ts ky concetved Jn tho purest spirit of lity its reetrainte and tetteoncos and freedom from exaguoration—if ench wordy may bu teed to dexcelbe what te all oxaggers AttOn and honseuse~are xo full of fact and gents That is wnpossitle to cacapa the cunviction that thie ts tho real Sir Suaneit. We hope we have enlightened the Easy Chatr. Atany rate, this teat ont of the bfography of un actor may not be uninteresting to the great wublic, who knows too Httle of the trials und tribulations through which most of its favorites ‘on the stage are compelled to pass before Une fortunes are made. ‘Too often, indeed, thier fortunes aro not made ut all, and they pass theoygh trints and tribulations to the end. In the Hiescut {netance there fs reason fur con- eratulation that Fate has sintied on so genial and worthy a nian and so excellent an aetor, Ex-Licut, Gov, Donsuriazn, Tinpey's right bower at the 8t, Louis Cunventton, is ne longer his supporter, but has dropper him forever. In Arecent conversation with “Gath, he suld that. Pairon was always very close to his uncle, aud that the latter once sald to him that the “ouly man who never made a mistake was PeLtoN.' ‘Tinnen added that Patton Kopt every secret. ‘Thera fg no doubt nbuut the latter statement, Peuton hos a memory which absorbs aecrets without number, and never gives them forth again. As for imstakes, would not an “Ine choate offense” be considered’ a mistake by hia uncla nowt oe Canter Mannison docs not deny that he ts a friend of the saloon-keepers, nor admit that ke is In favor of extreme temperance tepislition, nor assert that he has any convictions or Inten- tlons on the subject, - But it is highly inportant that the voters of Chicago ahould know what a candidate for Mayor would do with reference te the saluons if he were elected. We ara forced to believe that Canter FLannigon Is trylag . to evade this plaln issue witha view to deceiving ono party or the other, Which party ia Carrer ALaRnison attempting to devetyet ea Avexanven H, Stevens, on behalf of the Southern Democrats, demande the issue of $500,- 000,000 of urecnbacks, while in the Souste Dan Yoounzes is appointed a member of the Fl- aneo Committee, and tn Michtgan the Uenioerats have coulesced w'th the Greenbacktrs, Do the business nen of thla country think they can salcly trust the Democracy with the full control of the Government? —— The Contributors’ Club of the Inst Atlantic con- taing an epigram which is of Chicago orlyin, It was part of a valentineon which wero represent- cd nome furget-me-nots, the address being from & woman ton man: Forvet mv not, So aay thear So any not 1. to you or any mt: Tovuiher wo have spent some pleasant hours, Now go, sir, and forget mo—lr you can, = rents Little Sanay Cox expected to bo the “dark horse '? tu the Spenkership race, He swore he never would support Sam Ranpann; but ho only meant hardly ever, for he was draguoned inty voting for him. ‘Iho dark horse was never seen near the track, RANDALL said “ Shoo fly,” aut ‘the fly shoova 2S anita. The Springfield Jemblican notices with dis- may a call for 4 Sunday-Observauce Convention to incet fu that city, and to 1 dl auch men as Dra, Wann, Tarrot, xIns, Brooks, Bacon, dosevan Coon, en. Hawrey, and Winuiasd. ‘The déepublican has recently printed a Sunday issue. Soe nai Put nono but Republicans on guard, should be the rule of all good Republicans fp this cam- palgn. ‘The party cannot afford to huye the control of clections pass {nto the hands of Dem- ovrats In the Connon Council. nted Moweras = Mr. Breck wants to have the faws modified so that ex-Contederates can be employed In the army aud wavy, ‘There would not be much use in this unless Jevvenzon Davis should beagain Bppoluted Secretary of War, _ eon Keven the Chaplala of the naw Democratic Souate is an ex-Confederate, and he will pray, as a good and pious man, for the furgiveness of the North, gk Seen as: Whatever may be thought of the “ Widow OLiven, there is no room for twqopinions about old Simon Camenon, * When the Widow ” O1iven's last husband walked Inte court, the widow dropped her tmournulug weeds, en PERSONALS. Ono of Mr, ‘Tildou's Intest hauls is ‘am- many, Mr, Tildon's now organ is a barrel organ, Wo suppose. Anus Dickinson—gentile tecture on the Jews, Remark of Mr, Randall to Samuel J. ‘Tile den: ‘Let mo boa nephew to you," Ts Bhnon Cameron rently 80 yeara old? Wo should uot think #o from the oyidence, Wo fear the Widow Otivor took advantage of Mr, Cameron's youth and inexperience, Virginia has eensed to bo the mother of. Trealdents, but sho ralecs (hu most peanuta, Jet Davis ix apparoutly trying 10 Gnd the Lost Causc, or rather, bis friende are for lim, Mra, Cobb, in Stato’a Prison, fools tho enoriuity of her dunacenco wore thun over before, ‘This wintry woathor dx on Llessing: fii dis- cule, It keeps the spring povts back a few weeks, Mr. O'Leary, it appoara, it going to din- poso of tis wtomach. At least he tntende to walk nual, , Senator Bayard has nino children, aud conequently, we wuppoa, how no tlie te ve Peal dent, Mra, Oliver has one husband, but, nover- theless, sho wanta Simon, ‘There te no love like the old love, Tho eduoation of the National Journal of Fducation Was been neglected, It speuke of a ‘* phenomena, An exchange sayx: that Paul Boyton is a Kentucky man, Impossible, No Kentucky mau would take to water wo kindly, ‘Tha tubles have turned. Fifteen years ago the North crlot: + On to Iichmond.” ‘To-day the South cries: ** Onto Washmyton. Mary Anderson will buy o house and set. te down in New York, She te rich enough by thls the to support a tuvband, we suppose, Auna Dickinson greatly admiray Harrie man's pluck and endurance; and this wugyeete that Ania bas not yet tailed aga pedestrian, Mr, Rawetl hw received the champion belts but he has decimod the one over the head which the vetting men wanted to give bim, Archbishop Pursell couldu't be ina wor o plight {f he were tho United States Treasury under # lung-continued Deuveratlo Admintutration, Wo four that tho Wolow Oliver is no better (ian sha should bo, Ibis unnecessiry to ssy tho wune of Simon Cameron, Everybody kuows it, Wo are told that Goorge Alfred ‘Lowusond Muvhice deeply when dotected In telling the truth, ‘The uovelty oF the aliuation makes blu seualliy Tho Atlante Constitution desires to'put'n atop to the Georgin habit of carrying concealed dyend, Bad, tu Leyla with, demands that ‘te Avna—bas on North shall pudl down her pistol facturles, Ts this a Sunthern device te disarm the North and restore the Lust Cattse to the unfortunate Mr. Davist “GIndstone,” says an oxchange, way not invited to the Duke of Connaught'n wedding; and, now that we think of it, we dit not eee hin, theres ; Tho Rev. Tygleston? having dramatized “Tho Piigrln’s Progress," the very plone preoule belleve nlm {a be very deep In the slough uf ine Aquity. if Clarkson N, Potter has dropped ont of night, ond the Buflata Aeprese waye there ate pore eons who want to know when such o tnan fe kutng to be born, Tho Alaska Indians aro making A gaol tleal of trouble, and the auzel of peace leaves the Wigwam when the Hithe trown Jug of Amerivan whisky entora It, William Winter has been taking Anna Dickinson to tasit on a matter connected with tier new plays and wo fool thut Wililam is the Winter of her discontent, Mr, Me@arrahan is all right with tho old Members of Congress, but he feals that tt wilt ho necessary to whiv Down Piatt agai to muke himself wold with the new ens A life of Admiral Farragut, by his non Loyall Farragut. 1s soon to he published, Ad Farragut wae once a blugee mun than Capt, coran, of H. M.S. Pinafore, My, Murphy is in Bt, Lonis, and the snioons in the-vicinity of the hall where ne will tecture are Jaytug in. an extra quantity of Nuld refreshinents in unticipation of a rush of business, A Michigan editor speaks of the remning of Jeaau i? Chrtstinucy, The latter ta on his way to Peru, or we helluve thers would be uccasion to epeak of the remains of o Michigan editor, It ia said that Chorlos Sumner’s ghost hay been reen In sume of the committec-rooms at Washington. Buc it will ue ne yood, ‘The Hemo- crate ara in tou strony torca to be frihtened, Tho Detroit: Hrea Press notug that sineo the Jat of March eleven Sothern titles havo hee atrnck by Nehtming, Tho Free Preas mun needn't ‘be friztencd: thunder-storing have not yet vegua iu the @orthy . AMUSEMEN TIAVERLY'S. John MeCuttough's Vay, #8 a part by which he will be remembered, Ife is rlebly endowed for the preacntation of the ebaracter, Ne looks the Roman father, possesses the voice, the presence, the repose, the ftnagina Lon, the reserve of puwer, stud, above all these, the heart that ja indispensable in the assump. ton, No stage-tricka are use to entrap attention, but in a tuuod of quict in tensity and’ skillint precision Jee yes the character throuuh its experfences, piving uss remarkable exhibition of individual eroatness, the resuurces of the dramaticnrt, wind the power and pathos of a rtupendaus pourle ide; Theo are many parts for which Jolin McCullough is unauited, bub his Virginia is ot oll events inagnifivent presentation. ‘Ihe frenzicd passtun is no fuer than are the softest touches of nature, “Even “with Forrest in our mem oy, .the eeeno in the forum where the father killa his child, preferring what to dis- honor, stands out us a perfect pleve of acting, Tu this, perhaps the most alilleult of the fucie dents to portray, he was Judictously careful not to give undue effeet by being too vehenent,— anerror of which his erities often accuse him, ‘Theroia a moturity in his manliness since we last witnessed fils performanco of thy saine rale which augura much for his future. Even tho which was ride and roughly masculine, has ine toble aut sey in its classic out. And fn the carlicr scettes he was equally igtter, for instance, rat Core ne. happy. iu the first act, where she Intimates her love for dcitius, was enacted with touching simplicity. He was the farher tn the bosom of hla tacitly, unaffected sud hapgy. Over the dead Deutatiz he was impressively pathetle, When Lucius brings the messaze to retur to Rome, and hesitatingly tells him that the lascivious Clandus aims Vergin’a ons lle slate, how she was dragged through the strects in open duy, and how she, belore the forum, was condemned as vite, the rapidly-vyarying;pbases uf emotion, feellug, and indignation were truin- fully expressed. Ifis delivery of the speech in defensg, ol «lle, child when fe beards Apius to hls face und appeals to te people, was full of beauties. Each Fens was rounded und graceful, and obedicut to ench passing word. Nothing could pussbly exceed the vigor, variety, and vividness of ue mad Beene In its fuat-recurring emotions, vod nothing could be more affecting and inpressize. Jn short, Vrginius isu persoyation worthy te be pinced std by side with Jolie MeCullougi’s ruta, und the two are evough to elnim far iim) the bese consideration from the eritical amt the tnost thougut- ful attention from the playcoek. We were more tnyorably tinpressed with Miss Emma Stockmann a3 7 ia than ns Lesdemone un Monday night, Her eoneeption of the vart Is elearer, her actlon ia tnure fy consonance with her dinlogue, whieh Js delivered with much ine tulligence, Sho was sweet and matdealy alfectionnte, and feelingly Interpreted her share of the fortim scene, | Miss Ehen Wrea wns effectlys ng Servint, 3 Inirly proud Apins was furnished by Mr. Il. A. Langdon, and the Jeliins of Mr. Joln Lane recetved a call helora the curtain, Sere ns was played by Mr. d. It Shewell, Zentatus by Mr Jolin Bo Sutton, wVurnitorius by Mr C, W. Vanee, Luce by Mr Wills Page, and Frank Lane undertvok the role of fins, During the weelt opportunity fas been afford: ed to see Mr. Chartes Huron in tragedy. He has appeared as Jayuand Cassius, and won much ntiention from the public unt the press a3 a clever aud conscientious actor, Last evening his versatility was shown ju the yp Hugh de Ttrass, Yow Jouse but ente in A Rewulur b ‘The perforin Hee Was alt execllent one in the main, but there was o lardness, an absence of Hanelty, which to our thinking marred the effect. Miss Ella Ween was capital as fra, Deburah Carter, Misa MU+ tens Willett ereditably embattied Muli da dant, aud o pleasing Lng Was uiven by Miss Vir- ainda Thorne. “dullus Cwsar' vill bo the attraction this af- ternoon, John McCullough playing Brutus and Mr, Churles Barron Case. In the evenly “| Richard Lt?” will be offered by Lhe star. TIE OPERA. ‘The aboyo (tle Is somewhut of a misnomer, for the representation Jast eventing can hardly by called opera, nor yet was ft concert, but one uf those melanges wilelt aro frequently dished Up tous by managers, and which are © neler fish, flesh, nur fowl, nov good red herring.” We may forgive Miss Kelloee for indulging tn the potpourri, a3 Nilsson, Latcea, Purepa, aud other artists have in thavs past given us (he sane operatic uduce-ple, the Upper-crust of which bit thls occastun was the frat net of & Lohengrin) the lower, (ho fourth uct of the & Eguennts "5 and the indlgeatthls horror between, the litt actof © Travlata’; but, ab the sane time, We couhl tave wished that Mls Kellusy ti; taken her furuwell benetit: of Chicago tn some ststalned nud dignified work, worthy uf her powers, rather than tia this tncongrnione pulehe work of Wagner, Verdf, and Meyerbeer, Je would be absurd to make a criticism of & performance in which there was neither unity hor aymuietry, nud fu which several thluzs were began but nuthing ended; nor was the medley of Haw mink Lohengrin, Vou etta asl aifrody Vaentine wd dau, with fa abrupt trans from exalted emotion through muwhkish rent Incutality and pulnonury passion Lao the melo dramatle fervor ot Moyerhvers lovers, cutee lated to leave any distinct fmpresston in ihe taemory of the Hatener. Perhaps the tnont alls: tinct tapressiun we brig away from dhe vere formance is the certuiuty that those who wert isuppointed becaune Hie whale of Lulien aria) was not given might ave tele still more ao 10 it dnd been, dudiing from tie performance of one uct ft could hardly have Ween mora than a rehearsals und “it i fs to by glyen entire fy San Francisco, us We luveseun it stated, Pittsburg and Ua elisha | are berter places sor rehearsal dan Linus We think that those who ure Aanaaifae wilt “Lohengrin aud with tbe exweting deny sls it makes were quite willing’ that the partarnt ance should close with Use combat belweelt Jake ype nad Ts remand, ‘Theru 1s, theretures that much af compensation in the prograaiue, One uct ot !Traviuta? id oo quite sutiicrent Jur Hie Usat ave contains the best ut the wast nud it Bayes ue from Sia the prosiess v! the quick consumption with whieh the herane fs ullicted, ‘To close uch programm, 1h fourth web of vy * flucaenuts is just us gov" us anything elec, 4 ‘The nosy was 8 very barge one and the inne brillant of the wees,— whitch {4a testinonfal o Miss Keliogeta popularity, and expresied ate sattefuction with the perlurmance by trequcet demonstrations of appluuse, ‘The Lohensriu uct wus well placed om the stage. Miss Kelivgs