Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1879, Page 9

“THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, MARCH 2!, 1877—TWELVE PAGES: ‘KU-KLUX OR KANSAS! | The Only Alternative the Bull- dozers Have Left the Southern Negro. Terrible Sufferings of tho Blacks under the Reign of the Sworn Statements of Some of the Vic- tims Who Aro Homeless in St. Louis. St. Loute Globe- Democrat, March 2% A Globe-Democrat reporter, accompanted by a notary public, went sround Wednesday among the duocd darkies, who are here fn our city subsisting upon the limited charity of their colored brethren, and obtained die aflldnvits elven below, showlng the elreum- stances tunder which they were forced to Jenvo the South, where they wero living a life in death, wavering between the terrors of starva- fon and the muzzle of the bulldozers’ muskets. The unfortunate colored mov were found on tha levee, inthe churches (Ue hospitality of whose hard floors and pews had been tendered to udaccepted by them), ud many tn the atrects, up and down which they ara compelled to wander, walting with witstine hone for the ultimate rellef which they frmly bellave will come to them. Many of their stories aro most pitiful, and It would ba tmiposstble to detail all the outrages which they relate. ‘Thoso xlven ammonly neample of what might bo totd wero {he testimony of cach man taken. While all ne- kowledge that they have been brought North under falso colors, not ons seems torcerct having cleared the skirts of his rags from the bulldozing districts, and openly de- clare that they prefer the hardatips aud even starvation of their present couditiun to the tor- rible dally ordealof doubtund fear under which they Mved in the South, ‘The dopositions will be found intereating reading for the general public, aud will furutsh plenty of food for the reflectlon of statesmen, whose -proeliyitics run over {1 the direction of reform. : LEVE CIUILDS said: fam 83 years old; dave lived at Madison Pariah, La., fur the past six years; was a hunts- man, tnd for the Just two or three yeara made a vers rourh Mving; the white peonle down fn that country allowed the colored peuple no show .at all; what you brought them they made you take trade for, and that at bie priees. I feft the Bouth because Ccouldn’t make aliving thera and wes afraid of belny shot.21 saw a man they were ‘after in the next house to ming, ‘Chey wanted fo attach his yoke of oxen for debt, hut he wouldn't give them up, nud they threatened to kil him. tie said he didn't owe them any. thing, Tle left the place right away, and L haven't seen him gince. ‘They were making up companies and killing men In differant places, nui thought if Ldidw't leave they would lil me, too, T intend to go to Kansas, but hayo no Bicans to get there, . FREDERICK MANSHALL ead: My are is 53 years, 1 have been Hyingat. Natchez, Miss., about six years, making cotton, Trented about ten acres, for which J paid two bales of 450 pounds euch, and made n tolerable living for a while, until the bushwhackers came fn and commenced shooting, dust before Christinas, 1875, three or four men caine to my house mbout dayHeht to kill me, and I ran out of the way, and’ stald out the rest of the night, when they went away. I didn’t know the men, ‘They sald they would kit me, and bad a rope around my neck, and said they were golug to Kill all the’ emart oen, und LT told them I aidu’t know anything. 1 knew a man named Page who was Kllled at Waterproof, La. 1 was present when they sot him, and I saw him shot. They also shot a boy off | the hduse, somo relation of Page. They said Page was one of the smart men. There Were going fifteen or twenty white men in tho frowd that did the killing.” Twas afraid of my Ife all the tinie, and that is why I left the South. When you get to the polls.to vote, the. white men won't lut the colored men vote, anid say, if we goto the box to put the batlot fn, they will shoot us. I want to gu soino place whero I can work without being atraid of my life, aud heard Kansas wasngood place. Ihave a wife. woukdw’t gu back South ngaln, OLAKENCE WINN deposes und says: ‘The reason [left the South was could wake nothiny: if 1 had stald there Twould have starved, and [was afratd of my Ife; 1 have never seen any rhootiy, but fhuve seen ncn who have come right from there; 1 shouting was mostly done {1 Franidin aud Moe house Parishes, ba, adjotaing the Parish of Madison; Lhavo taiked with theso men who have rup away from these parishes: one of the tuen's names Was Erin dackson; wo could never vote as Wwe wanted; if we voted the Republican Ucket the Democrats woula get up fh a mob and Khl us off; at the last Presitential election after the voting was done at Ravia, a Mttlo station about thirty-ive or forty miles from Delta, In Morcbause Parish, twenty-lye or thirty men burst inthe doors und took the bal- Jota, and would haye killed the colored men— . N, Jackson, Nuthin Brooks, and Hy 2, Valmer, who had churge of the baltot-boxes—If they coukd mave caught them; but they ran off; they cot the ptatoly away from them. My alin isto go to Kansas, if L can pet away and get there, I have got n Nttle money.—I guess. enough to pay my way. Lwaut to go to Tope- ka, L havo a wile and two children with me, ; JAMES NROWN made the fallowine statement; My age ts 80 Years; huve been lying in Madisou’ Parish, La., since 1873; have been farming on shares. 1 left te South because [ didw’t have the privilege of votlng as I desired: because we would go to the polls mud they would tell us If wo yoted the Ne- bublican ticket we could not go back on their plu Mr. Bradley, the uent of the place | Tented, told moe in’ June, 1878: “Brown, by G—d! Ifyou fo to the polls I want you to cast the’ right ticket.” I asked iim what ticket ho wanted me to vote, unt saya he, “Jim, we aro golng to carry this thing our own way; you G— d= nigyers hid thinge your own way long enonzh, and we white folks are goiuy to buve ft our own way or Klll ont all you G-— d— Kepublican niggers? aud told ina I was one of the leading man, 1 would ever zo South aualu. I huyaa wife, threo or- bhan children, a mother-in-law, and ber five or six children with me. J hayeno mohey, QronGE nogEns sald: My age is 30 years, I lived in Madison Parish, La., slnve 1875, farming. I rented tt: tecn to twenty acres, and patd ninety ponnds of Unt cotton to the acre, equal to about 810, Haye wig and three eblldren withane. uid hud scarcely enough to feed them. If f had the white folke would et tt. 1 left the South be- cause I was atraid of the white folks shouthyur Killing me. { have ecen white peuple golns around at night in Franklin Parish, in disgutee, Liltnys the culured people and robbing them. A lady ih Franklin, who bad a son abuut 18 years old, had hint murdered. TL went by the house Rext moralny, and saw the son; he was dead, amd ahat all to pleces. and rea all the papers, and the white Deoplo there won't allow that. fils mother said about twenty-tiva or thirty veunlo came in tut ntzht, and they imade alter him, and she hailooed; ehe told’ them ho wus the only sun sho had, and asked them not to Kill hin, "They pald no attention to her, but auot him right down, ‘They were diszumed in Ku- kiux form, When they first shot him ho fell, and was not killed; they went off a little way, aud his mother commenced ta talk to hin When be wads “Dot’t talk so much: they, will hear you, aud came back and kill me? ‘Shey heard the tallklug and camo back, und, dnding the door tockad, burst it In, und this time they thot hin nud shot him to pleces, and nade sure ofit, A want to go tu Kansus, £ could hardly Get the Hvis of a doy tn the South. CURTIS POLLARD Qwore; My nue ts 69 years; { havo Ive in Madison Purlsh, Loulslana, for fifteen yeara; my Sccupation was farming; } bave served two card iu the Senate and Legislature. My object t leaving the South wis on uccoune of threats Of my life; T wag accusea of teaching the peoole to caiigraty to Kansas; don Bradford, a sced broker living tu Detta, told mo on March 1, 1670, ff that Could be proven to be the fact, My neck would ba broken; he tokt me on the strecta before a jarge crowd; Dr. Hamilton Wade threats when 1 was getting ready to zo uboard the boat, in the presence of the Captains ts Gibb, of Delta, adviscd me ta leave, or would surely be kitled, About the middle of February, 1570, two men came to my house rom Richland Paris; ono was cut very bads they wero cut to pieces pretty bad; they suid the’bulldezers hud got hold of them for want- {ue to go to Kaneas, and bad pretty nearly killed them, I usked’ them bow many men Wero there, and they sald twelve. ‘They gait ity knew some of the white men in thy com- any, They said one was Jou ‘Thomson, anid snother was dobn Traverse; they tlualty 6 Seeded in vetting away, und came'te Delta; one 9 wilo and tour ebtldrsa, the other a wits and two cbitdren, ‘Pha conuition of the colored ¥eoply down Suuth for thy pasb few years bas ‘ Ho was a sinnrt boy, 4 been very bad—the {il-treatmont of tho white men; no matter how qoud a crop you made, you couldn’ make anything. LnWis Wwoons, My age ts about 43 years; have been living In Madison Parish for the past eight years; hava been farming the best vart of that time; pald 810 un acre for ten acres, ail the last year rented only elght acres; was Constable there for Uvo yenrss mada a very bad living there he cause Livas charged xo high for rent and pro- visiona that ot the end of the yeur the land. owners had ft all, ‘The cofored Inen received very bad treatinent from the whitca; It was be- conn so the colored people dared nut cxpreas an opinion against the whites. in Madison Par- ish, at the election Inst fall, we were allowed to vote as we pleased, because the whiter were afraid to come there on account of the yellaw fever; in the ad [oining parishes the colored neo- ple were not allowed to vote the Renublican Ucket. Tleftthe South beeausaT didn't feel myself safe and couldn't make a living; would hy no meats go back. Ihave seen people from Frauiclin Parish who said that tt was a vers coin: mon thing to sea a cotured man killed and hung: toa tree? 3. D. DANIBLS save: Jom 45 years old, o_ bincksmith, and from Warren County, Miss.; [ have a wife and five children; I left the South because I couldn't. make aliving there, and couldn't voto as L wanted to, because the planters, on whose lind Wo tere, made us vote as they wanted or wo would have to leave; we couldn't hold our club Incetings on account of the white people coming in onus; when in Vicksburg they came fn on ouredab and kiled Washington Davenport's son; itwas inthe nicht; they shot him and. then burned him: Andrews and Green were the men who did tt; they live In Vicksburg, and. were not disguised at the time; I was constant- ly afrald of my Hies Iwas threatened a week ayo last Friday night. Mr. George Stmerell toid mo If J was going to Kansas he would move Inc out of hts room, nnd } took him at. his word nnd went. In the Third District of War- ren County, Miss. the colored people held a ineeting to Instruct cach other how to yore, to. days before vating, and wo all vated’ the Republican ticket, os we had been gen- erally doing, ond the other party robbed the ballot-hox, = golyg to -Vicksburr, and threw {tin the rivers it was found tn the river between Newton and Davis’ Bend; and we were not allowed from that time to now to Use our own judement in voting, L want to co to Kunsus, because 1 think wa eando better there. 1 would not go back to the South again. JOUN MASSEY, on his oath, says: {have lived for the Inst ten yenra westof Etlwards' Depot, Hines County, A y have farmed; for the frst three ‘years t leased twenty-five aeres of lands pala two bales: of cotton for it lost year; made only a lying; the gencral treatment revelyed by the colored peoule from the whites is bads left the South wenuse Teouldn'’t make a living there, und be- causowe had no rights; on election-dars we were compolled to vate the Democratic tlekebs they would vome to us and lye us a tieket, anc told us if we didn't vate it they would kill us; thnes wero getting so bad that acolored man dare not speak above his breath, for fear of being kitted; it was tnpossibfe for us to vote the Republican tieket. 1 know Harry Curtla, who Iived about three miles from Auburn, anid who was taken out and killed, some three years ago, because he went to hear Radical speeches. ‘ DANIEL PARKER, being duly sworn, on his‘oath says: Iam about 29 years of nage; hava beon living for the past five years on Wilow Crane's place about three miles from Delta, La. 3 made a very bad living; paying 310 an aere rent; the colored Mayor (Mr. T. B. Royden), in moving the adop- tion of the report, Indlorsed this avtlon of the So- cloty, and sald It was to bo hoped the emplosers of the mon would In future tnke measures fur chabting them to return to America? a CURRENT OPINION. Tho Sams. Columbita Journal (Rep. ). The Sams could not all win atonee. Tilden and Haudall succecded. Cary und Cox will haye to walt. .. Bens Bufaato Express (Ren.), A now life of Butler is announced. There {8 one comfort. Jt can’t possibly be worse than the old one, A Cautlous Opinion. Washington Moet (em). Bringing up Ben Butler to oppose the Widow Ollver fs & good deal Ike tonding np acolumbart toshont acanary-bird. We trust this is not libelous. Jt fa intended to be epigrammatic. ONL Zach. Cleretanit Leader (Ren.). Don’t fear about Zach Chandler not heing able to attend to the British Jon, He can Drufse the heads of leaders of the lost cause as fast as the Dewfederacy can bring them up, and hecan break every bone in the B, L.'s body while. huis resting, Tilten's Smutty Finger-Marke. Washington Republican (item). Tilden’s smutty fingersmarks are ta be eecn All through the record of Sam Handail’s late campaign, They are as plain as the noonday sun, for the work of alding Randall, done by the Gramerey Park gang, was performed without the accustumed resort to cipher digguiscs, Buyard Surronder. Albany Heening Journal (Rep. For a time Senstor Bayard made a fair pro- test against the Democratic revolutionary scheme, But the Bourbon wave was too strong for him, and he hog yfelded with the rest. Ie was passably virtuous, but altogether wenl. Prudency aid moderation havo little chance in the Democratic party against the hot-heads, The Greenback Position. Phttadetphia North American (Ren). The fourteen Greenbackera will get pretty tired of flocking all by themsclyes in a corner. Since they have found out that the Democratic party does not need them, ant the Republican party will not bave them, they ‘are already be- ginulng to fecl loncsome. It's all very well to. talc about being the nitcleus of 9 great party of the future: the position fs an elevated one, but it's rather solitary. Tho Counsel of Prudence. Patladetnlita Ledger (Int). Whichever way the subject may be looked at, —duty to the suffering Interests of the country, or policy looking to tho future suceess of a party,—the plain counsol of prudence fs “hands off"? everything but the Appropriition bills; do nothiug else. ndjourn, and leave the country Bt peace to continue on its pathway towards re- newed prosperity, now opening with such bright promise, Incapable of Picturing. ‘Troy Times (Rev.). The New York Tribune thinks the re-election peopluin the South received no favors nt alt trom the white peuple; the reason I left the South wos becatee bud organized a club to get a reduetion in rent and I was President of the club on Widow Crane's places; was aveused of teaching the people to leave the South, and beard that threats liad been made against my lite; was afraid they would make away with mo atnlght. A younginun who had lived right uext to ine moved juto Teusas Parish, and told me that the bulldozers aloug in August or September, 1878, came into tht parish and Killed and slauyhtered men there just for fun. Alig name was Ed. Darby; he was a preacher, and sald that if he told the people how to yato he would be shot. He (Darby) also told me that after the riot in ‘Tensas Parish the Democrata compromised the mutter witt: the colored veople, and the — colored men went to work again. . While they were in the fields the white men, about 200, mountea on horaeback, went around, vroke into their houses, took thelr vund, sind, going to the Nelda, shot und hung some of the men; the others were afrald to stuy there, because they lind no protcetion. My wite and tivo children are down is Mudigun Barish; i had to leave without then Ye J. WAITS testified under oath; My nee fs 29 years; lived in Vicksburg, Miss. ‘There was nd Repyblican ticket nominated for the election Iast June, be- cause the Democrats would not allow it. ‘They would not allow a cauens to be held, and the colored people wero ulrufd to attempt ft. heard there was a riot fv Tensas Parish In the iall of 1 There was n meeting of colored people over there tu get a reduction tn rent, and the white people heard of the meetings nit tried toget away with those who attended it, und killed olf somo _colured men. A colored Indy named Laura Lewis, who taught school about seven miles from Bovina, told me she had to few for her, life, und Jeft her bouaet aud shaw) fn the school-room; her dress was torn wud wet with dew; all oecasioued by her expressing her opfifon of the grievances of the colored pev- ple. A person in Ue South dare not expre opinion against the Democrats, My Teay Was ovensioned by an advertisement I guy in the Vicksburg Jferu'd, notifying atl parties that fur- wished information to encourage emigration to Kansas if they were not spotted they would he, und when they were found out they would tnd. that ellmate too hot for them, ager ainns toolt a solemn oath and said: I Itved at Madison Parish, below Vicksburg, for if{teen years. Some yeara wo would iiake a good erop and clone someting, nud then, ugatn, we could make nothing and the white lolks would take {t all. Last year the land-owner tool all the catton Dratsed and Jeft mo nothings I stilt owe him $23.08, In the place where 1 lived there wasn't tnneh kiliing, but In Franklin, Washington, and of Speaker Randall is atriumph of the Con- servative aver the Bourbon clement of the Democratic House. Thiais probably so. Aud, with the recollection of the outrages already perpetrated under “Conservative” Sam Ran- dall, the loyal mind is incapable of picturing the state of things under so rampant a Rebel us Blackburn had he been given control. No Crow, +. ailontt Sentinel (Dem,), Despite dil the brave words that had been said by the Grand Rapids Democrat, the Bile Poster, Patriot; Wree Press, and many other Democratic papers, Fick! jammed a whole ticket und o worse platform down the throata of the misscalled. Democratic Convention without o murinur of dissent from a Inrze majority, and these papers now awallow their own words with the crow-meal thus furnished. ‘They may relish the dict. Wedon't take any on our plate, AWint for Thurman, Cleretand Herald (Rep.). Beore one more for the bar. Mr. ‘Thurman, this sort of thing.will not do ff you propose to get away with the old gentleman, Now here ts ahint for you, Just surprise the boys' iu the Senate some day by walking into the Chamber elnd in the imposing gray uniform of 2 Confed- ernte Brivadier, Jt would bring down the Southern aide of the house 1 sure as your name ja Allan Q., and, whut ts more; it would become you prodiglously well. . Oh! Waan't It? Dalthinure Gazette (Dem,). Tt will he just tke a lot of narrow-minded gentlemen {o the country to raise a yell uow to the effect that the auecesa of Mr, Randall la a pronounced victory for Samuel d, Tilden. It ts possible that tho hermit of Gramercy Park 1s partial to Mr. Randall, but the fact cannot bo gninanid that many of Mr. Randall's most active friends and supporters in tho Speakership con- test were gentlemen who would do nothing fu- tentlonally to advance Mr, Tildun's Presidentiat {uterests, At Icast three of the men to whom ho owes hig recent success are avowed support- eraot Mr, Thurman, ‘Tie Presidential contest was not taken into consideration, Comfort for Kelloy. New York Sun (Dem). A skeleton presonts itself to Mr. Samuel J. } Randall in the hour of his triumph, Tt tells him {hut his huld on the Speakership may be tem- porary, He received 143 votes; but his rival from hfs own State, Mr, William D. Kelley, re- ‘Yensad Parishes there was'a heap of telling done, white men killing off colored men to pre: yent them yatlig the Republican ticket. [ know of the killing because so many colored inen eame fron tose parishes to where E lived; {hey ga i they ler uae they were afrald of their lives, ‘Vom McClatian camo from Wash- fugton Parish directly after Christmas; he ran off and Jeft his wife and three children and crop of cotton and corn because be was afraid of beting killed, ———————— Personal Journallams New York Tribune. A minister nover appears to as Httle advan- tage ue he docs when hu ta explaining to bts flock how he would edit a daily newspaper, Here ls the Rey. Mr, Rose, of Milwaukee, who alma co raise the tone of thy puble press and do away With its “sensationallsm, impurity, and general wickedness hy inuking Journulism wbso- lutely personal.” ST would dismise,” he says, “the affectation of the cditorlal two' under which newspaper nen with their habitual mod- esty are wont fo conceal their personality. would break up thts ambuscado fn print. would give all these yolves, alike thoge that ery trath and those that ery falsehood und slander, a body and o responsible personality. f would , have printed at te head of evypry newspaper the: nante of cyery man responsible for Its utters ances. ‘The political, religious, society editor, ue erltle of art and musfe, the correaponients, the reporters, should put forth their work over thelr own names." ‘The Paris newspapers are condueted on this “personal basis.” Mr. Rose can huve Le Jiqauro transluted—polittes, erie, cosslp, Jokes, siznatures and all—an elreulated among the. members of hla congregation, in order thut they may (nd out for theinselves that jourvalists who sign thelr nomes cannot be sens salloval, Ginpuro, or naughty! Tho Suez Canal, The Suez Canal stock is now aclling in Europo avabont $13 perabare, and [3 advanelny, “bho annual revenus has now crept He to $0,000,000, andthe exponses have probably reached their imaxhnuth ut about 83,500,000, ‘There aro fu all 400,000 shares of stock, nnd the Hritlah Goycru- mont could sell out to-day thu large block of stuck whieh Mr, Disruei bought four years azo, wid pocket a prailt of 85,000,000, ‘The par value of ie 400,000 shares of stock Is 8100, but whille the caual was being vuilt they sold dawn as tow 43 $20, and when the canal was opencd wero worth only $60, Americans In Distraas at Liverpool, At the aunual mecting of tho Bootety for the Retief of Foreigners In Distress, held tu Liverpool on the Tih of Murch, it was stated that ** there had been during the year a remartiable decrease fu the number of Germans who had applied for rellef, and a not Jess remarkuble Increase of Americans, ‘Tho latter sonsisted for thy most part of young men employed to attend the cat- Ue now'imported ‘in such large numbers from Amurica, whe were pald triuy wame for their services and discharged in a destitute condition, and without meuns of returniug to thelr native country. ‘fig Soclety had at rat relleved these cases, but had tome to the conclusion that they were not of the nature to which the funda of tha Suctoty should be directed, und bad resolved to refer upplicants tu the pata suthoritics. The eetved one. Now oue, by asimnle process of multiplication, may become 14% Suppoainge Mr. Kelley to be 6U years of age now, and whhs vote to Inereaso one every year, at the ago of 203 he may beeoine Spcaker. If Methusclah had been elected at thts nge, und been Kept fn Ull the timo of his death, hoe would huvs held the ofleo much longer than any one mun ever did hold it, Let Mr. Kelley take courage, Let It Quietty Adjourn, Hoxton Heratt (hud, Deno In the North, abont the only ptava where the repeal might work a considerable change would bein NewYork, but even here, apart from the loss which s party with o revolutionary reputation fs eure to sustain all over the countsy, It is doubt- ful if the game {3 worth the candle. Elections fn Now York City are now carricd on with much ercator clreumspection than they formerly ware, and the wext Presidential contest, which ts the one chicily conatdered hy those who are crying BE Tar the repeal ofthe Federal Election Jaw, will bo fought out at the metropalls under the supervision of a Mayor who allows honesty to outrant partisunism. There seems, therefore, hardly anything to ho gained by thls forced move, while the chances of toss ara consider ale, It would be better, both for te party in the sare HONEY and the country, {f, after organization, the Houss wore to puss the ape propriation bills uutneumbered with political viders, and then quictly adjoura. A Solid Southern Idea af Loyalty. Mubtte (Ala.) Reglater (Nem. ). ‘Tho great offense of Mr, Dayls ts, that ho has nover usked for pardon at the hunds of the Qoy- ernment. Why should he ask for pardon? Why ahould any ut the South haye becn compelled to ask for pardon? Ifthe Southern States were sliuply couquered provinces at the close of the War, thero might have been somo reason In thy ewond, Butthe theary of our Government was malutained, although for years it bad very Mittle practleat effect, and the “South was con aldered to be agaln a part of the Union, ‘There 1s no Government in this country except thut made by the people. Hence, as tha South soon nosisted in forming that Government, In asklug pardon ehe nddrcased her petition partly to her- self. ‘Thie was manifestly absurd, but the Re- publican party has never been careful to havelta Pract a conform tu the theory of our institu- tions, An Engllats Viow of Jom Davia, Loudon Telegranh, . ‘Tho cause of the South met with signal fall- ure. ‘Tho “State rights? which it stood up to defend were for yeara abollshed, and will prob- ably ouver recover thelr oll force; and Slayory, which was the cornerstone of the “new na- tion? has‘ utterly disappeared. No greator catastrophe ever closed a reyult. But the gigantic contest and the conclusive victory wore overshadowed by the unexanipled political clemeney of thy conquerors. Wher the war was over, bu man suflered death on tho scaffold save the few convicted of ussassinition, the volitical prisoners Were quickly reicased, con- Bscativos wero coun seieved, aud now tho South posresses again its political rights. {sut ihe theory ot obliteration nud forglyeness fs dushed ta an absurd extreme when twenty- tivo Democratie Henators propose that the nan through whose fystigation the Amerfean people fostinany hundred thousand men should be presented asa fitting recipfent ofa Btate pon- sion for services rendered more than thirty yearango, At all events, its payment might be bostponed till the huge national debt die to him und his colleagues ts coumpletely cleared off, Tho “Intquitona Tax" on Coal! in tho Now Canadian Tar! Toronto (Cun.) Otabe, It $s matter for congratulation that the hard winter is neurly over, 60 that Jaboring men and thelr fanilies will not have to ablver very long over thelr ecanty fires; but even one more month of frosty nights and raw days will Lo enough to teach them the milreries resulting frum n tax on coal. They haveto get along with one-tenth Jess fuel, or scrip themselycs of other auppiies almost as necessary te purchase cnough to keep thelr houses as warm as before. Back nnd side must go bare, or foot und hand grow cold, When they find the old sult of rough clothes getting thin in places, the purchase of other garinents can be delayed till the omount of the tax has heen added to the savings fund, the good wife can do a little more patching than usual, the ehfldren cau be still ore careful of thelr dross, and, by a rigid economy and a wood deal of sowlng und darning, the amount teenssary to make the woolen manufacturer richer can be made up without much absolute suffering, Bat the coal must be grot at once when it is needed; the water In the fea-kettle must be kept hot; food necds the sume cooking as before it was made more coally; and there is no way te avell the coal tux Without 0 degree of aiilering in those famt- Mes which were barely able to make both ends meet betore. A more iniquitous tax—one press- Ing mors eruclly on cinsees tn proportion to their poverty; a more useless one to the coat- owners, whom it fs intended to beneflt—was never deviaed by any Government; and, af fts result is not cen next winter in riotous pro- tests from the men Who are made to suffer, we can onty aserldo their pationce to thelr convic« tion that they have deserved to suffer to some ent for the folly of piaving their fortunes In the hands of a party whicit lias always been their enemy. uring the campalen every resource of perfidy was weed to win over the worktngmen to te. Tory side, They were promised a free breakfast-table, plenty of work as suon as Sir John returned to power, aud increased Ineomes all around. From the chieftain to bis humblest canyassecr alt were ready to shed, ‘from the depths of somo divine despair.” tears of sympathy for the working- men; their wors were ascribed entirgly to poll- teians who refused to tax them more, and a bright future was painted under n Conservative regine, ‘Flere was once g sketch in Lunch which Mlustrated by anticipation the present position of the Tory leuders, A. coal-deater, being awakened by hfe son, inquired: William, what kind of a mornin is 162 “ Very frosty, father,” answered William, "Tg the gutters fruzel"” “Jlard, fathers? “God help the poor!” sald the old man. Put up the coal a penny a bushel." Sir John is equally philunthrople in. the re- solve to tax the coal of his beloved workingman to the extent of laif-a-dollar a to: e — ‘THM NEW ORLEANS PANIC. The Fatluro Which Precipitated the Disaster. New Orleans Times. At the usual hour for openiug business Tues- day morning, the Southern #ank closed its doors, and the report of {ts suspension spread Alxe witd-llre through the streets, ‘This disaster was not/a surprise to those well Informed in fnanecial elretes. ‘The statement of the bank up to Mareh 1, published In the Demo- crat March 8, ot once attracted the attention of experienced observers. ‘The statement then made showed the assets tobe $1,013,161.20, and the Habilities to be $058,059.15, but a careful examination, particu. lnrly of the market value of the assets inen- tloned in the statement as conyertible intucash, made the reat condition of the bank clear. A brief summmaryof the exhibit will be readily comprehended. Under the hvad of lnbilities may be found $028, 886.90 B28, 1BU. 7 $o.a0 : 8 2058, 058, 15 en added a judgment in favor of the City of New Orleans tor $85,000, which would mako the total Babliities $1,018,058,19, In the items of assets [3 a statement, ‘other cash axaets (stock), $072,723.20," which, upon {nveatiration at the State Treasurer's office, proved to be sixty-one consolidated city bunds of $1,000, $198,700 city Zper-cent bonds, and. 120,700 State consols, Hatimating these at their market yolue Feb. 28, the day the statement was made, the exact yalue of the securities 1s found, as follows; v1L sonsolldated city bonds, $011,000, ‘aLeole 136, 700'city bonds, a ars 5.00 4, Hh. AT 40, 078." MOAR sss sees ee te vent eee 668973, 060,13 ‘The market yalue of the assets at this dato would be Spoclo....ceee Currency eee. Loans on demand... Yue by other hanks .. Market valuo of bonds, y7iper-cent bonds, abst 190) 700 Stato consule, at 403, ..scece 2a Cash valuo of total avsets,....+ 640+ +00¢S314, 202. 03 ‘This woutd leave the amount short to depostt- ors $114,000.57. 2 mouth shortaccording to statement, $443,- Amount short on total Habltities, $520,256.12, Unusual importance {6 attached to the sits pension in consequence of the great sacrifice which ft is bcHoved must be made of the city consolidated bonds, ‘The rumor fs that the greater portion of theas recuritics is held by the Chemical Bank ot New York, and it is arute in bankiue that the mo- ment another bank having pledges within Its vaults suspends, the securtles must be at ones places upon the market, and that the suspended bank becomes lable for the difference between the net proceeds of the sale and the full amount, of the debt. ‘Thoso upon the streets acquainted with theee detaila apprehend a tumble in this class of so- curtlles; and the fact that the only opponent to the promium-bond plan ts stricken down, and thot its sult, now pending before the Supreme Court of the United States, will probably not he prosecuted, fn tho opinion of the street, will have tho effect of pluctiz premiums and city consolidated bunds upon the same level. Apropos of the suspension, it may be stated that the condition of the bank as represented hy the forevolng exhibit was known to its prom- iient offcers several days ago, ‘Fhe ussur. ances then given were that tho interests of the depositors would be fully Protected, and that, meanwhile, the bank, if permitted to quivtly puraue its accustomed course, would conserve the futerests of {ts stockholders uy prevent, Whit at this period was deemed exceed- nly disastrous, anything approachiug a panic. Cireat cuntldence was expresso iu the tricnd- shiv and ablding talth fn the bank of the depos- {tors, und it was intimated that, Inaamuch as their Inceresta would notin the lewst he jeop- ardized, as they were the only croditors the Dank was at present compelled to satisfy, und, inasmtch ay no apprehension then existed, any comments concerning the bank were auly caleu- lated to do farm. dudging fiom the sequel, other opluions seem to havo prevailed, ns it was elicited, in conver satlons upon the streets yesterday, that the legal proceediugs referred to in our court column must have been w preeoncerted arrangement, The celerity with whieh the bank responded to the petition of the plaintlif, and the prompt: ness with which the Judge sondered his deciston, admits of no other construction; and, although the forms of Jaw have been complied with, and the bank has perhaps made the best arranye- ments possible under the elrcumstances, it {3 but natural that the method of accomplishing this should create come comment. Last evening a Tunes reporter visited Col, C, E. Girardey, one of the Hecelyers appointed . by the Court, and by him was gesured that the movement was made eGiirely dn tho interest of the depositors, Col, Glrardey stated that he knew nothing whatever of the matter until Monday evening. Ie was thon assured of the determination of the managers to pay to the depositors overy dollar duo them} and to asslet the bank fn carrying out thisobject he bad taken the tegal steps already alluded to. Col, Glrarday expreseod the utmost confldence fu the mtiexlpfo integrity of President Layton, und reaucsted the reporter to urge depositors not to become panic-strickun or sacrifice their claime, ag they can contldently depend, however much the stockholders will lose, that every de- pouitor will recelye fila full balauce, a Why He Was itoduoed, A small boy iu Belfast, Me. whoso Geport- meut at achool hud alwuya ranked 10) per cent came bume one day recently with his standing reduced to 03. * Waut have you been doing, ty gol” usked the mother, Been ‘doing ti replied the young hopeful, “ been doing Just as \ hove ull ’ulong, only the teacher caught ma ly thoae,"? , A Motel MOVING TiLINGS. Electricity as a Universal Motive Power. ‘ Elesators, Sewing-Machines, and Light Rachinery to Be Ran by a single Electric Station, Sdn Franctaca Chrontete. Whether or not we ever fully understand that wild, untamed clemncnt of nature called electrict- ty, ite usefulness fs bound soon to be fully test> ed. Not many years ago its ability to ihimi- nate vas only tried on a large acale on rural Inndecapes end to slow fine effects of mountain scenery; nowy it is rapidly supplanting cas-light, as gas-Heht supplanted Inamps and candies, and aa lamps anil candies releqated Mok and rush- Naht to everlasting darkness. Once its power was displayed in destroying buildings and burn- ing haystacks; now ft {s used, or will-tn> doubtedly soon pe used, to prope) ma- chfoery, and go gave an i{nfluite amount of labor ond avoid the ureat ex- pense nnd the terrible danger of fire und eteany Tt Ss an elusive spirit tat ip gradually yletding, onthe most subtie things in the universe have slelded, to the, skill and perseverance of man. Man Francisco {s taking the lead in these experi- ments, and she js in the yan of art ond on the skirmish Hina of all progressive move- ments, The availablity of electricity ns a mo- tor power Is about to be thoroughly tested by a San Franclscan—Stepben W. Field. Mr, Field Isa nephew of Cyrus (WV. Field, the father of ocean telezraphy. ctrivity scems to bo a pet of the Fields, an electric current, se to speak, running in an hereditary way through the whole family, A. Chronicle reporter yesterday atter- noon visited the nephew at the rooms of the Eieetrie Light Company, 412 Market street. ‘The room uged by the Company fs staple and unat- tractive. Its simplicity isa merit, for it is but an evidence of how much can be done with a powerful element with a few inechanteal cone trivanees, Mr, Field was found bending down over aaquare Slemens machine, made of coils of wire, with na eylinter revoly within it, that rose but n few tuches from the floor, and looked Itke 9 Ittle tron box. Yet there was foree enough In that little niachine to run ‘several hotel clevators, twenty or thirty — sewing- machines, half adozen dalry-clinrns, a dozen ine atrumeuts of dental torture, and 6 patent board. ing-house masticutor. “fhe inventor offered to finpart all the useful information he possessed, © This application of the power af electricity fs not exactly new,’? said Mr. It has lony been know that a current of electricity cen- erated In one dynamo-electric machine could be transmitted to another. The power transferred. has bitherto been supposed to be nearly ones third that orleinally generated, and the amount. is only fimlced by the distance and the etze of the conductors einployt OX course, bevond a certain distinee conductors could not be made so large as to render the transmission of power fcasshie. "The power cau be conveyed a inily without difliculty, und with the loss of only 50 per cunt." TINST EXPERIMENTS, “What were your first experiments here?” the reporter asked. “In aur original experiments, our Ittle steam- engine, which you see there In the corner, fndi- cated two-hon.e power, of which L succeeded in reclainung. o dd three-fourths-horse puwer, as indfeated by welzht placed on the elevator with which we operated, ‘The tlrst experiment, consisted in coupling one of the Gramme tma- chince with the Slemens inachine, and this by a belt and pulley with the elevator, 1 started up the steam-engine, made the elcetricat connection between them perfect, and the elevator ascended trom the, first to the third tloor with great ye- Jovity. That simply Indleated the existence of power without measuring Itsetrength, ‘fhe ele- vatur was sent back to the first floor, und six men, Whose aggregate weisht was (0 pounds, tot on to thy platiorm. ‘These x elevated to the top of the building in fifty-five scconds, without in the least reducing the speed of the machines, ‘The clevater was acuin sent buck, and received a luad of 1,100 pounds of coal, Which was tuken up in ifty-tive seconds, alter that we tricd making te elevator worlt both ways, which. was iy uevomplisaed: by merely reversing the wires between the two machines, « 1t operated either way with equal favjlity."” “Was. there any linit to be rafsed und lowered? “None whatever, ‘The clectrle current was found equal to auy weight whieh the strength of the eluyator was uble to bear, ‘The only up- preelable cifect was (nthe Une occupied by the elevater in making {ts trips. In tals respect ite operations differed widely from that of the ordinary water-clevators, in running which the welght on the ulevater can never be made to more than counterbulanes the weight of the water employed. The action of these machines fs, in sonte respects, only comparable to thut of the livdraule rum, where one vers small pump, bre series of simple fiupulses ind nccumula- tions of power, oets unen o cylinder of much larger surface, producing almost unlimited power through a very slow movement.” “What do you prapons doing, nuw you have obtained a I:nowledge of the means by which you ou transmit this electrical puwer to a dls- ‘tance 1" found to the amount hall not only h iy gens erated by Uie centrally-pliced machine, bur tis elevators, iu desconding, of their own welzht, will generate electricity, undo contribnte tu te general fund of clectrle power, ‘To speaks more plainly, at the central station will be placed a great mumber of dyunme-clectrie machines, which will be continually in motfon and connect- ed by asteamn-enging As lung as the current fs uuemployed, the engine revolves idly, taking: little power to move ft. But tet the current be closed on any one of these wires leading to any one of these dynamo-vlectric machines and that: rachine will bevome exelted, and will give off power to the machine pliced adjacont to any of the elusutors tu be operated,” ANALYSIS OF TIE METHOD, Will you ho kind enough to trace ihe tran mission of power more definitely, beginaly with the steam-engine which uriginally gen- erates 1tt” Suppose wo bave a central station, with steam-engine and a large number of Sicmens nuschines at the corner of Post and Stockton Streets, that belng a point from which wa could make the power availably easily withhn the ra- dius of aintie. ‘The englue would be connected with suitable bands, belts, sud pulleys, with aay twelvy dyuumo-electric generatora, like that waleh you ses onthe Loar”? [Here Mr. Ffoll pointed to the Httle, black, tusieniiicant ma- ching tn question | ‘these would be twelyo, inches high by cighteen broad, and three feet Jong. ‘They are made entirely of soft trun und vopper wire. ‘They consist of two parta,—the electro-magnetic or exelting magnets, and the revolving bobbin, or cylinder, watch runs within It, butween the poles of the electro-maguety, ‘This bobbin consists of a spindle of lrou, on which the wire is ¢wined tn the manner In which a boy whids bly kite-striug. Any movenent of the revolving bobbin tends to produce a current ot electricity iu this wire. ‘he muro Tapit the movement, the stronger the current, always provided that the elreuit fs made con plete by the proper attachinent of wires, Hy the way, that one machine has a power of 470. cells of Bunsen's battery, eaclt cell of about flve gallons capacity, and we find ie cheaper to cen- erate electricity fn thie way fur our toval Te! ph Company than by ust the colle then es ‘The Sflemens ninchines connected with zinu would be in turn connected by wires with otter machines at the hotels, by whieh the elevators Would be run. Lyery engine of a gly- en horse-power can be doubled iu capacity; Lor iustunce, one of twenty-fye-horse power cun be mude to furnish Ofty-horee power, ‘The largest: elovator duca not require inore than three-lorae power to run it, though mora powerful enulnes are used, If woe hud an engluo of Mfty-horse power at aue central station we could run at cast. thirty elevators within the . radius of a mile. In suying thls J tuke into consid. eration that the cleyators are ever all rune ning ot the same tine, aud sume of are large, and sume are emall, Tho largest ones ara at the great hotels, wud they are used most about dinner-time, when those at tle bual- ness hotscs have ceased running for the day. Some elevators run fast and sonie slow, those whieh run slow requiring less power, ‘Fhe eleva- tors ub lodglyg-hotses are exceedingly emall, and would not need to propel them more than ono-hores power, Let us enpposo that of the thirty elevators not mora than efx are ever run: plug precy atthe sume moment, or that a majority of them are running down while the reatare rupuing up. ‘Those which are rauning down send buck electricity to the central station tu be used cls¢where, und those which aro {dle allow of the accutnulation.of power to be used whenever it {s necded, not waking any draft ou the entue's reserve power, - If tive elevators, no matter how widely distant from one uvother, showd be raunlug down at tho sans inoment, 1 should fiugine that they of themselves would generate enough electricity to seud snother elevator up, no imnatter (ft wereamile away from them.” “Do duu wuderataud the bydraplly syetqua by which the Patsace Hote) elevators arc runt’? “Uh, yeas and 4¢ 1s very complicated and ex- pensive, ‘They tirat pump the water Into a large Acctimulator. From the accumulator it ts fed into rams, and these rams by moving outward distend acoll of ropes in such n way that the {eve end of the rope 13 raised, carrying the ele- vator along with it. It roquirea the same power to ralse it empty as to raise [t full, and costs Juat as much, tere ara four engines and bollers, six pumps working all the thine, and n large nuxihary pump, to be used fn case of accel. deat. This combined nee of steam and water is troublesome, costly, comnlleated, ond ao poise ns to be disagreeable tu the inmates of the hotel, OTHER USES POR THE PowEN. “Can the power generated by electricity be ured tn other ways?” ’ Yes, {tean be apped indefnitely; for ine stance, in running sewluy-machines, Jowelers? Tathes, and fn all staall shops und places where a limited amount of power Is required and tt dues not appear desirable to have nn engine and holler. ‘Ihe power ean be applied without imetl, grease. heat, or dunger of an accident. Itcan be apolied fn a gentleman's parlor with- out Ineonventence or annoyance.” ii What would be the expense attending all 1 “Very amall, The design of the Company is tacrect thts central atatlon, as descritcd, te furnish both ight and mechanical power. To do all the work described it would require only one engineer, who would feed the fire by nleht, nnd onein the daytime, OF course, a fety In epectars would be required to attend to the ex- tending of wires, the anperintendingy of ma- chines, and wencrally looking after things at a distance from th station, ‘The general advan. tages to accrue to all those who use the power J have uamed,—creat decrease In expenditure, heatnesg, the avaldauce of an infinite amount of trouble and danger, and a, decrease of the rate of insurance,’ ““Are your proposed improvements patented 2? “1 have applied for a patent on the method of coupling up one central station with great mum bers of elevators: alse, on the pecultar devices of yvoveralny motion up and down, and for the method of getting a reversed motion; also, for the peculiar devices for securing the eafery of the cage should anything ran wrong. Tn all this Thaye been alded by the able mechanical engi necr of the Company.” ‘These are the matn potnts of a very Interest- ing interview with) Mr. Field, who was assiatect by oceastonat sugcestions from W. 1, Milliken, the mechanical epetneer of the Western Etectric Light Company.” If half what these gentlemen say is true, we are on the eve of n great revolt. tion through the imeans of eleetrivity used as a motive power, THE NEW CANADIAN TARIFF. Hostile Diseriminations Agatnst the Ameri- cans, Teronta Globe, March at. Itdocs not fallow, as some of our saptent Torles imagine, that berause the new tarifl ts violently ant!-Hritish therefore it cannot be anti-American too. On the contrary, it can easily be shown that, from the American point of view, it will be regarded with as ttle favor as the British merchant or Canadian consumer will bestow upon it. In order that the bearings of yie new tariff on Aimerican trade may be am- derstood, it is necessary to examine and seo what will be the duties hereafter levied upon American manufactures. We have therefore gone through the Trade Returns of last year, and in the table below give particulars of the yalue of American manufactures imported, the amount of the old and new tariffs thereon, 60 far a3 the Jatter can be caleulated, and the amount of the increased duty. The result is us follow: Patent medicines, .| Puralture,.. he nty, Machin’y, vartous. Paper and paper: Tanust Stationery ‘Simalt trai Tron tubes Woollen n 402,401, RT ATS 100) ca) oi] 20 451,450 G0 Tb.) 5 Tron bars, ete, Iotely paying: TCO! se) 4,050,000 uN to 35! Tey tay, TK These Imports of manufactures will be found to.foot up, in round numbers, $16,300,000, ‘Tbe remaluder of the dutiable eammodities taken from the American States are not manufactures, but ortictes such as Sugar... ites Cottey ae . ‘Meat products. And yarlous other products, amounting iu all to about 37,00),000, making our total import of uutiotle articles from the States abuut $23,500, As the average rate of aunties on American mavufactures had previously ncen less than 17 percent, the new turf amounts to an tyerease all uround on American goods of over 8 per “This, however, does not measure ihe full of the hostility towards the United States. ‘Tho new dutles aro so Ted ow as absolutely to exclude —mauy branches of mantfactures. And the ‘duties on sugar and tea are ayowedly Imposed for the furore of abolishing the American trade with Junada in those articlea, ‘then, again, the due tles on wheat, corn, ete, amount to a virtual closing of the Grand Trank Rathyay as a means of transport for the cereals of the Weatern States to thle-water, The struggle for Western frelglits was previously of the sharpeat descrip: ton, It fs perfectly hopeless tu think that our railroads will be able ta compete with the Amer- fea Ines, when the former are welghted with a coal tax which the latter does not pay. "Phe Teast costly “bonding system’? that could be devised under which Lo conduct the transporta- tlon of grata will add considerably to the ex- pense ana, however small the addition may be, 6 will be go much more to the disadvantage of the Canauian computitor, Aid the Canndian will not be the only loser by the ¢losing of our railways to American through trattle. Western States farmers will now be lett to the merey of the American trauk roads, Whose attempts to combine and ralse rutes huye hitherte heen neutralized by the Canadian Hue, ‘The American tariner, who ling never been com= pletely onelled to his products belts pith Joetrat to Canadian competition while American Insnufacturers baye had absolute protcetion, will now have a just cause for exasperation furnished to him. ‘The actlon of our Govern: ment will increaso the Amertean factier's cost of transportation, nud therefors entitle him to cull for thy exclusion of Canadian firm products, Wo may bo sure thatthe Western States will soon find this out. With farmers and tanuta turers ull incensed and erving out for Tete! thon, and eapectatly with Mr. Tilley’s deplarably lily and bombastic amnoun wl that hw tie tended to discriminate against American goods, wo cannot see how the Auierican Congress will be able to avoid uvcepting thedesulag of our nes tariff n3 a direct clmilenge to a commercial war. We hava frequently demonstrated 1 the American tarltt was uot really so hostile to. us as it appeared. It excluded some manufactires Which we do not and never did posses, but tt admitted all the products which we wanted to send to thelr markets at a rate of duties but It- tle oxeeeding the rate we levied on the pools we took froin them. The Atmericuy duties on Vue practetions tley touk Irom ita did not ox. eved 20 per cent, while we levied 17 per cent on what wo imported from thew. We lave naw Uchiberately dared the Amerlcans to inereaza thetr dutica tll they exceed our new dutles by as much as our new duties execed thelr existlug rate, Not further duties upon otr munufie tures, Which would not jnjuro us utall, but a ating blow fa the sbape of sich an facreasy iy one lumber duties as would ive Michigan the control of the warkets of Chicago, the East+ ern States, and the seaboard; total ex. clusion of our Inmber from its best market; total shutting out of our barley, poultry, cces, hides, woo!, pheep, peas, potatoes, und other agricultural vroducts whlch we vow well to them in vast quantities; the conversion of thy one nation to which we scl! more than we buy from It into our creditor instesd of our debtor, for inany thiuge wo must continue to buy from the Btates even if they should decling to tako auother cent's worth of our produce; atl, per- hapa, even a refusal to ullow our products to pags Cirourn American territory in bond, Noth- jug but the moat reckless phase of lnuacy could have jndyced our Government to wantonly in- vty tue Vulted Wivive Wy indict veo ue Uy blow whien they have power to deal us. Thicir policy {s bad fn evory one of [ts csscntiat feat: ures. In fts bearing upow our relations with the United States it ts a blunder ao vast as to’ amount toa crime. ; Protection and Disruption. Torontn Globe, March 2. Our dispatches of this morning from London | ~. ‘re ominous of trouble with the Mother Conn: : try, and Canadians must now recognize the fact \ that the question of yesterday concerning tha : wisdom of the protectionist. policy {n Its -Mscat +. aspect alnks to thimportance bealde the, arent. question as to the bearing of that polley, on our relations with Great Britain. aie ee Sir George Campbell's motton was siqnifl- cant of the fimpaticnce ywith which | Rn-'* glish stntcsmen regarded the mero threat -ta-: ‘ impose duties against Brltish goods, and now that Mr, John Bright has come Jorivard to nsacté Enellsh optnton, and {fs backed by the London preae, our Goyerninent fs plainly placed In the position which wo foretalt they. would occupy. — Etther the protectionist taurit{, must “be nbandoned, or we myst boldy say that to maintain it ta of madre importance than to maintain the Imperial con- fon, Conservative Loyallats ,have to asic | + Yhemsotves whether their attachment to the Crown fa to be paramount over thelr fatebful- ness to thelr palltical leaders, If this question had been placed befora the people at the olec-y tions in a way to. be Tully underatool,: wa should reeognize that. the expresaed will of the veovle of the Dominion nus: neces- sarily huve tts way. Canadians wero Jed to support Sir Jolin A. Macdonald without any fear that the proposed tariff would cause any disruption with England, and in reliance on big ‘ions that he would bring ino tariff to bind pion still more closely to the Crown. Tory leaders must have known oll alon that Exgland would not Hghtly regard a ‘aril having the tendeney to curtatl ‘her already diminished trade, mutch less one which plainly dlscriminates against it. But they rashly made promises which they have boen compelled’ to redeeny, and haye ied tho country to the brink of revolution, , I {s uacleas to hope that the hostility already. displayed in the Hritlsh Parliament aud by tha | London press will speedily end. If cireum- tances beyond Canadian control had put ua in such i position that England could no longer fet a proilt by trading with us as a colony, or ff the natural growth of home manufactures had (tmintshed our tmports from Great Britato or reduced them to nothing, she would still have been content to run the risk of our defense. But We urc about to tux ourselves heavily from what Tuust appear tere folly or caprive, and it fs not very probable that Britain wilt willingly continua to Keep her armamenta at the disposal of a cole ony so foolish and weak. Under no circum- Blanees could her trade with us be more Mmited than it fa by the present prohibitory tariff; und, as 0 reparate nation, we could not call on her to spend money and tlood for our sake. Of course there will bo no attempt, auch na tht hinted at by the Pall Mall Gazette, to co- erce Canada into the ways of political wisdom. In her war with the revolted Colonies which now constitute the American Colonies Englund attempted to tax them against their own con- sent; but she asks from Canada no Preater boon than that of nov-exclusion. She certainly has the right to name the terms on which sho. 43 willing to retain any dependency, and no rone sonable man could grumble {t the result of Mr. Bright's inquiry were the inthnation to Canuda that she was at Hberty tu go her own way alone. It is possible, of course, tat hur statesmen muy trust to the operation of tine to cure Canadians of the folly of protection, and thts course, wo are convinced, will ultimately give her fulr treatment. tn our markets. But it is evident the — tendency of protection = -* Isto annexation to the United States, and En- glist piatesmen are able to calealate on tha [igiauiiy thutatter Canadian manufaeturees have glutted the home market they will ery out. for a wider field, while at the same time they desire to manufacture under protective duties. hey cay auly get these by a Zodeerein with the Unita Seates, ant the clumar for a Zollyeruli, while our connection with Eaghind lasts, means almply 3 clainur for annexation. England may say that she will not be chargeable with our da etitl the day arrives whun we have forced: clyes to ouk fur union with the States, and, he docs, the peopla of Canada will have to dleelde quickly on thelr course. ‘We may be accused of exaggerating tie con- sequences Of just British dissatisfaction with the , but the evils which we dread are as obe son threatening our connection nid ay the indignation ob the Mother + Country was foreseen to be the necessary reatilt ue th success of the reckless protectionist ugi- ation, THE CATTLIE-PLAGUE. Unsuitable Arrangements at Wirkenhoate Neceasity for Reform. By Ondte to ew York Herat, Loxpox, March 20.—The Liverpool Courter says: “She Jairage and abattolr arrangements at Birkenhead are altogether unsuitable aud Incomplete, and’ the churzes exorbitant. The trade refuavs to use them further thau neceselty compels.” ‘The Courier catle ou the Mersey Dovk-Hoard .to remedy tlis state of things, or the meat trade will be entirely driven away. Awortean Cattle nud Ment TrademA Depu« tation Calls on Mr. Walsh. Corresmandenee New Yurk Heratd, Lonnos, Mareh 7.—A_ delegation of leading Americaus engaged tn the live cattle and dead ment trade between the United States and Great Uritalu waited on Mr. Welsh, the United Staces Minister at this Court, and had an exe tended Interview upon the subject of the cattle and meat trade between thy two countries. Among tha delegation wero: | William. Fuller, of | Messra. ‘Martin &° Faller, of Philudelphia; G. C. Foffey, of Mexsrs. Daniel Totfey & Coy of New Yorks Charles f Musere, Morris & Allerton, Chicago; Vai Wagner, of Messrs. Sherman iG Gillett, New York; and Col, Rowland, of London, After an exhaustive Interchange of views, it was up. parent that the delegation wera strongly of oplufon that the action of the British Govern- ment in the interdiction of Ilve cattle had not been damaging to the interests of the United States; that fur some time past American live vattle had been shipped to Great Britaty at a lu3s_ to the shippers, with no present nor iin- mediate prospect of improvement; that dead mest ls, vind can be, shipped at a reasonable protit, and that, with the great Improvements tn refrigerated transportation, the trado is capavle of uby evtension requissce to mect the demunda of consumers here. It was atuted that the prejudice Leretofure existing against American meat had heen completely broken down, a great many consumers now preferring Aincrican mens alter refrigeration to Enatish fresh killed, and from whiten the anfmal heot had not beep exhausted, Jt was adinitted that the” efeanialiti ccunpantes would not be guiners by the loss of the lye cattle trade, a3 one ship cau ‘ transport in dead meat a quantity equal to the capacity of ten ships for live cattle, ‘Tho meat trade fu be made profitable can only bo carried, on by practical men pussessed of large means, with special facultles for doing this business and capable of withstunding the great fluctuas tous in prices which are constantly recurring here, A private letter from the United States Consul at Christlania informs mo that by a Roya ordinance of Feb, 23 the Nurweglan” Goyurne ment has prohibited tha fmportation frou all polnts In the United States of live stock (cattio) | eheop, und goats, ‘Three hundred head of cattle, Ay? Ale first importation under the order in Counell for siaughter on the quay, arrived tu the Mersey: tosduy (Friday), and wera brought to the now slaughter-house at Birkenhead, The sane ; steainer landed sheen and plys at Liverpool, but they wero not scheduled. Me. Welsh antl several oller_pentiemen wilt to-day duspeet and Aylosbary Dairy Company, . which has for many jens supplied ‘the London | public with pure milk, under sanitury and other ‘regulations. Itts intended to udupt a similar. | + process Jn Now rork, Philadelphia, und Chicago, ee SOMEBODY'S CHILD. ‘ Bomebody's child ts dying,—dylng with the lush of hops on his young face and an inde- serlbable yearnlog to live aul take an lonored | place in the world besite the companions of bis youth, And somebody's mother ts thinking of the time when tat dear fuce will be bidden where no ray of hope can brighton [t,—when ber * heart and home will be left desulute,—becuuse there was nocure for consumption, Keuder, It the child be your nelghbor’s, tuke this comfort. {ug word to the mother’s heart before tt la too. Jate. ‘Tell her that consumption t3 curably, thas men are living to-day, eged, rubust meu, whom * the ph yai¢iang prosouuce! tncuraule at the age, of 25, because one Jung had beon slinost dee atroved by the disease. Dr, Plerco's Goldun | Medlcal Discovery (3 u most efiicient alteratiye for separating thy scrofulous matter from tha. + blood aud lungs, amd dinpartivg atrength to the systuin, 1p bas cured huodrads of consump. , tives, pene Reo ; ‘The Laws Must Ise Kaforced, * Memunss Herald, % A man was found dead at Filtecn-Mite Hayau,: nvar St. Fruncls River. A jury betd an inquest - and broueht ina verdict tn accordance witd the facts; alter which the Squire, noticing a pistol, on the pereau of the dead man, agalu called the *: jury together, who found btw guilty of carrylns | concealed weapons aid tiued bin 325, aud geome, grave of the dcgd wa was then void by pay pia ate “