Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 23, 1879, Page 4

arse MAUL, Agent cs Ree ' ! by § 4 a ! ¥ CR Aas ALOR MELE TN ETA TT ass \ _ * Some of tho reasons which urged tho Rus- * serve an outward appearance of fairness, It - short of tho intendod effect, ~ THE CMUCAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY APRIL 23, 1879---TWELVE PAGES. now, while tho tax on butter and cheoso has ‘beon doubled. To thoso famfline with our tari and its compound system of taxation, the Gorman atylo of taxing. ovorything by weight ia omi- nontly simple, It admits of no fray loco- motivea and floss rilk aro alike taxed by weight. Inn fow instances tho tox ts lovied, ng on live stock, at so much per head, Tho Custom-Honso officor has only to ascortain that San Francisco will pito up n majority of 5,000 for it, ‘To nscertam the opinion of the people, the editor of the Chronicle recently atldresscd letters to the yarious Postmaster of tho State arking.for the sentimont of tho people in their localltics, Three hundred aud twenty-five replies wero received, and from tho tenor of thoso replies the Chronicle printan tabuinted estimate of {he vote of tho State by countics, which makcs the ma- rortoro quict—that ia, by tho object sur- render of the Ropnbileans to the coercion and bulldozing of tho unrepentant Confed- erates and Stntos'-Rights Bourbons. Tho compromisa ho suggests is, not that the Democrats cose their threats of starv- ing ont tho Government, ond per. mit these political menstires to como before Congresa na dintinct propositions, but that ‘tho Republicans shall make absolute tunos and wonknosses of humanity, Diyorco cases, anita for breach of promise, bastardy eases, and criminal trials gonorally furnish Drond ficlds for tho legnt bully to practico his peoulinr tactics under the protection of pro- foasional Mconso asa Inwyer. Why a man who is a lawyer should ba allowed to insult and psporso o witnosa called on to tostify in acourtof justice is one of those anomalies which are frequont in tho so-called scioncoof upon him by a spiteful and revongoful ma. fority of ono branch of tho law-making power of Tlinoia mny bo inetod ont in a atill moro vindietive degros to any othor citizen who my bo eallod before ono of tho logistalive committeos. Undoubtedly tho right has nl- ways beon hold to bo inheront in both Housos of Parliament and in both branchos of Congross to punish for contompt orn breach of privllogs, and a Stato Legislaturo, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAIL-IN ADVANCR—POSTAGE any £89 heitgiodd boubia ‘Qne copy, ner yo: 8 1.59 | concession of ‘all thelr principles. As an jorities for tho Constitution 27,700 and those | tholnw. Partios toa sult are protected by | the kind of goods, as for iustanco whothor it | boing n woak imitation of Congress, it hos fie of ten Ae arbitrator Judgo Davis is not a ancoess, nnd | ngainat 2,600, thus giving it a round major | their respective counsel and by tho Court | is mado of iron, wood, coppor, cotton, sill, algo been assumed that to punish for con- Ae tne hia services will not bo required by tho Ro. | ity of aver 25,000, From such oatatemont | from the introduction of illogal toatimony | or linen, and thon weigh tho attloles, | tempt was Hkowlso one of its undlaputed at? Toxt-Onlca address in full, including Stato and | publican party in this contoat, it would appear certain thehtho now Consti- | aud from any inferoncda or suggestions that | which ara to bo taxed at so much | prorogatives, Hvon tho Common Conuoils ounty, tution will be adopted, and {Tht tho pooplo of Californin in thoir contest with the huge and powerful corporations of that Stato will win no uncertain victory. aro not warranted by tho laws and rules of ovidenco, A witnoss who has no intorcat in the caso, who has had the misfortune to havo in somo way becomo acquainted with soma circumstance rolnting to tho matter in con- trovorsy, and who is dragged awny from his business or his home to danco attendance in a court-room crowded, porhaps, with lonfers and criminals, scoms to bo considered o fair targot for tho abuso and slandor by word and innuondo of whatovor logal blackguard may lnvo n voico fn tho enso. ‘Chis pravtica is of old standing, but is pormitted, if not sane- tioned, in no courts oxcopt thoso where tho proceedings aro coftducted in the English language. ‘The Bar scoms to consider it a sacrod privilege, ns sacred as nny that was secured by Magna Charta, and tho propen- sity to oxorciso {t sooma to be as goneral among the profession ns is blackguardism and ruffiauism,—no moro and cortainly no less. Thoro is no more difficulty in being gon- tleman at tho Bar thon thoro is in being a gentloman in any other profossion or walle of life, Indeed, tho knowledge of tho law, nnd tho conservatism which assumes that every man has rights which cannot ba vio- Inted, ought to actasn restraint upon even thosa members of the Bar who aro naturally ond instinctively rufflsns and cowards. Por. haps tho training and study of tho profession oxerciso somo restraint of tlis character, and that were it not for theso the vulgar monace and cowardly assaults upon wit- nesses would be cyen moro numerous than they arc. Lot us bo thankful, thoroforo, that the thing which isso diggraccful os it is is not ns bad aa it might bo if tho black- guards in tho profession wero not laboring under tho restraints which thelr study of tho Taw has placed upon thom, Novortheloss tho fact exists that a man or woman who is compelled to attend a conrt to give testimony is in danger of being addressed in langungo, assailed by sugges- tions, amirched with thinly-disguised Innu- endoos, ond openly denounced, in a mannor ihat would not bo tolerated at an ordinarily docent prize fight or pormitted in tho vilest of tho slums of tho city. A wituess whoas only offense is the obedionco paid to tho subpoona of the Conrt las to stand up bofore 8 motley crowd of gentesl loafors and regalo tho audionco with answers to all manner of of somo of the largo oltics in tho United Statos have fancied themselyos ondowod with this questionable authority, on tho theory that thoy posscased tho legislative function, and therefore could oxercigo all tho privileges belonging to such bodics, Soma yonrs ngo tho Common Counctl of tho City of Boston undortook to punish n witness for contempt of its authority, but Ohiof-Justice Gnay, in tho decision rend with tho ap- probntion of the full Bench, entitled Wirtrr- conn ys, ‘l'ho Common Council of tho City of Boston, held that tho right to imprison for contempt was not conforrad upon o Board of Aldermon nor upon a County Bonrd of Suporvisors merely because such organizations hed the powor to clean tho atrecta by lovying a tax for that purpose, or because thoy wero empowered to chango tho namo of Mary Axn Smutn to Jane Manta Brown. ‘The personal liberty of the citizon is too sacred a thing to bo mado tho sport of a lot of ignorant and vicious follows who happon to ba clothed with a little briof authority by some inscrut- blo cdecroo of Providence, or—which is much moro likely—by o constitnency who took thom on trust and got badly cheated in tho trade, And wo think that it is now high timo ‘that this old (raditional parliamentary privilego was ynssed in review by tho Sypremo Court, and so far as either branch of a State Legisla ture is concerned, it ought to bo restrictod to o Hmit more compatible with tho progress of the age and the apirit and genius of onr free institutions, I€ the inajority of elther branch of the Legislature can imprison nn innocent man thirteen days, they con imprison a thousaud men a hundred anys, or possibly if they know and appreci- ated tho contempt universally felt for them, they might got n Inrgo majority of the people of Iinois in the lock-u: por pound, Onr astntesmon havo nevor beon ablo to french anch a aimplo Rystem ns that. -On the article of cotton cloth the Custom-Houro officor ins to count tha number of thrends in a square inch, to test tho whitonoss of tho cloth, to ascortain what tho valuo of tha’ loth was at the placa of its forolgn manufacture, nud thon ‘pro- cced to tax itso much per square yard and fo much nd valorem in addition, Our ex- perts in Congress have not yet boon able to understand how to lovy ntox on sugar by tho pound, Thoy unito the clements of weight, color, and value, insfend of tho sim- ple modo of putting the hogshend on the seates and finding how many pounds thero ara in it, Tho Germans, howovor, aro troubled with nono of these porploxitics ; they tax beor, and brandy, and potrolentm, as well ns whent, pig-iron, tobacco, watches, ond firewood by weight,—so much per 100 pounds. The German tariff will havo an offect upon brendstuffa nnd othor foods, cotton goods, hardware, cutlery, woodonware, and some othor articles of Amorioau maunfacturo, As tho tariff is inoreased for tho purposo of onabling the Gerimnn manufacturers to exact higher pricos for their goods at home, tho Amorican goods will probably go in ox be- fore, nnd tho Gormaus will fiud that, whilo tho prico of food will bo incroaaod to them, in tho long run ‘Protection will not protect,” and that while by ndding to the cost of German production the oxport trado of that country will fall off, the Yankeo and other foreigners will still be able to carry their goods into Germany and sell them. It is one of the peculiar results of Protéction that it nover protects whon it is wanted; that while all Germany will have to pny moro for bread and meat and petroloum, and for wino and hardware, and for nll iron, linon, and cotton goods, the foroign articles will not bo oxoluded, but will be sold there just tha'samo. ‘Tho now tariff will incronase tho coat of living all through the Empire, and, as each person will bo ablo to purohaso loss from his limited means, the coustmption of all articles of homo or foreign production must declino proportionately. Protection, theroforo, which is a novol thing to tho present gonoration of Gormany, will soon be found to bo nothing Remittances tnay be mada etther by dratt, expres, Pout-Ufics order, or tn regiatered letter, at our rlaks TRUMS TO CITY SUNSCRIVERS. Datty, delivered, Sunday exceptod, 25 canta por week, Dally, dettverad, Sunday Included, 30 cents per week. ‘Address THE THIDUNIE COMPANY, Corner Maditon nnd Dearborn-ate., Chicago, Il. Ordera for the delivery of THe Trinune at Evanston, Enptewood, and flydo Park left in the counting-room ‘will recalve prompt attention. Tho nows from Zululand onco moro grows exciting. On iho 20th of March tho Zutus attneked tho English colunm under Col. ‘Woop in gront numbera, but wero defented with henvy lona in a hand-to-hand fight, On the 4th inat. the Zulus undor command of tho Ohiof who lod them nt Isandula attacked Lord Curzmeronp's relief column wilh 11,000 men, ‘Tho fight was n despernto ono, but the Zulus wore-agnin defented with heavy Joss and driven back, Tho column thon pushed on nnd relieved Col. Pranson and his force, who have been shut up at Ekowo so long, Unless tho Doors in the ‘Transvaal should riso, these two victories will go far to- words ending tho Zulu war, The Boers, however, appear to bo on tho rampnge, ns they threnton to invost Protoria and detain Sir Bantry Frere asa hostage unless thoir demands are complied with, As tho trouble with tho Zulus originally aroso from his in- capacity, and tho English Government is in doubt what to do with him, {t might solve tho problom by letting tha Boors keep him. RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION. Wo have received from n responsible mer- eantile hovse in this city a letter showing how the railroads, whon thoy can, discrimi- nate against this city in the matter of froights, Hero is tho Ictter, omitting tho name, which is not essential to the undor- standing of the mattor: To the Editor of The Tritume. Ciicago, April 22.—We learn on pliable ou- thority that freight has been shipped sud ia being abloped to St. Paul from Now York at 45 cents, fourth cinss, while Chicago {s held to the rack ot 40 conte, camo clase. irom Chicago to St. Pau), fame class, 1825 cents—a difference, you will pers calvo, in favor of St, Paul from New York of 20 cents per 100 pounds, Wo have noticed with pleasore your fight for Chicago's Interests rs. rallway corporations, and hope you trill bo able so toexposo this injustice ns to compel transpurta- tlon compantes to lve Chicago a falrchauce, All that Chicago merchants ask is an cyen chance, ‘We will look ont for tho rest. ‘This lotter presents two pojuts of discrim- ination,—that practiced by tho Now York roads on froights between that city and Chiengo, aud the other, that practiced by the local roads betweon this city and Bt, Paul, The rate to Ohicngo from Now York is 40 conts, and from Chtcngo to St. Paul is 5 conts, or a total of G5 conts, ‘ho dis. crimination is, thoreforo, 20 conts, or, al- lowing for a reduction on longer distances, it ian discrimination of at least 15 counts, ‘That is a joint discrimination, or ono inwhich tho Enatorn and Westetn roads unite agninst this city. Tho 45 cents from New York to St. Paul aro divided betweon the Eastern ond tha Weatern roads, tho Westorn road ro- ceiving 13 cents only for hauling Enstern froights from this city to St. Paul, whilo it domands 26 conts for hauling tho samo froight shipped at Chicago to the sno point, No matter how the trahsnction and tho ratos may bo divided, the discrimination ngainst Chiesgo romnins, and both roads aro parlios to it. Tho ronds lending from Chicago to tho Wert ought to compriso a system distinct from thoso leading henoo to the Enst, Tho most liberal and perfeot exchanges and co- operation between the roads running cost and those running west ought to oxist, but TRIBUNE BRANOCI OFFICES. ‘TR Cutcago Tatncxe has catabltehed branch offices. forthe receint of subscriptions aud advertisemente as Howat NEW YOMR—Noom 20 Tribune Building, EF. T. Mas Fanner, Manager. PARIS, France—No. 1OTue de 18 Grange-Datellere, LONDON, Kog.—American Exchange, 449 Straad. Firxny F, Gu.usa, Agent. WASHINGTON D.C Madivon street, between En- agement of Edwin Booth, chard U1" Hinverly’a Thentre, Dearborn sireot, corner of Monroe. Engarement vf Clara Morris, ‘* Articlo 47." Afternoon and even- ng. Tho proceedings of the Colored Convon- tion which ndjourned on Monday after n session of sovoral days nt Now Orlenns in- dicated so plainly the dotermination of the Nogroes at somo not for distant day to leave Louisiaua for a country whero the shotgan is not the principal argument during polit- jonl campnigns that the necessity of some action to avert tha wholosalo exodus is now boginning to be vory generally recognized. Yesterday nt the Constitutional Convention tho focling of anxiety at tho prospect of n labor famino took the form of a resolution, offered and -Inid over for consideration to-day, dealnring most positively that there is no ground for tho reporta that legislation is contempisted by the Convention that will restrict the rights and injuriously affect tho welfare of the colored poople, but that, on tho contrary, no right or privilege now ac- corded to thom shall bo in any mannar abridged. Such a proceeding as tho pro- posed pledge iso curiosity in tho annals of bodies of this charactor, and the fact that it should be thought necessary to offlcinily ns- sure tho colored people that there is no cause for alarm on their part suggests the inferenco that but for tho threatened exodus thoro might indecd hava been cansa for alarm, —————— Hoaley’s Thontro. Randotoh etreet, hatween Clark and Lagatle. En- ‘agement of Robson and Crane, **Comedy of Errora." Afternoon, ‘Epoch Arden.” Ryening, ‘Miss Mul: fon," Hamiin'’s Theatre, lark street, opposite the Court-Houe. Fiet-Boat ** Pinafcre."" ls Mafes- Acadomy of Music. Molsted street, between Madison and Monroe, Va+ tety entertainment. Afternoon and oveolug. Exposition Building. Lake Front, foot of Adame street, Authors’ Car- Ayal, SOCIELY MEETINGS, NESPERIA LODGE, NO. 41t, A. F. & A. Mo—The mombera are hereby notificd to attend o regular Com- munfeation of thy Lodge to he held at tho hall, corner of Halsted and Nandoiph-sta., this (Wednesday) oven HiidSc tenses Puta ae get . CHAS. Ht BRENAS, W. Me CHAS. Hi. DRADLEY, beeratary. ‘The Paristan wits are haying much merriment over M. Renan’s particularization of the ap- pearance of St. Paun as a man with “a small bald Lead, pale face, thick beard, aquiline nose, and piercing eyes, with black eycbrows mecting over the pose” M, Muziniie, iu welcoming him to the Academy, rallied hin upon the de- scription, and remarked “ Nobody had known 8t. Pau so intimately, and M. Scznen must be right In alleging that you have suun him,” M. Renax, however, boldly defendea hile portrait, nnd tua letter to the Debate'cites the following WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1879, Tho cxodus of nogroes from Lonisiann heretoforo bas boon conflned to the cotton districts, It has now broken out in tho sugar districts, and tho planters aro alarmed lost the sugar crop may suffor, Probably tho nogrocs imngine that tho sugar crop oun bettor than th % —=_=_ qnostions having uo other purposo | moro nor Joss than a roduation of the quanti- | ‘nutnoriuies: The Acts of Thecla, writton by an stand suffering bettor than they can, THE NEW CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION. Soret see tho ‘Western ronds represent o | ian to porsonally defame, insult, | ty of all articles which the means of tho | Astatic priest 100 years after the Apostio’s death, phe bill ia now a Iaw—hoving boon passed ‘Tho wow Constitution framed nt Snera- | Western constituonoy. ‘Their constituonta humiliate, confuse, aud intimidate tho | Gorman people now enablo them to purchaso | and evidently based on tradition; passago In are tho producers of the grent States west and south of the lakes, In thatrogion which these roads supply fs a population now num- bering many millions, and rapidly reaching ton majority of the population of tho whole country, The interest of all theso ronda is that of the people whose businass thoy por- form; tho roads are to prospor or fail, riso and fall, grow rich ond powerful, or pass into bankruptcy ond ruin, with tho people. by whom. thoy aro fed ond supported. ‘The cities of tho Northwest aro part of its great productive machinory, and in the prospority of theso citios is Iargoly involved tho prospority of the railroad system of tha West, When no rond leading west from Chicngo notifies tho people along its line that whon they buy goods in Chicago thoy shall pay 40 to 0 per cent mora for transportation than if they purchnso the same goods nt tho Atlantic, the Western roads aro practically laboring monto in March Inst, and which will bo voted upon on the 7th of noxt month, is now tho ovorshadowing topic of political dis- cwssion in Onlifornin. ‘Cho newspapers aro devoting ovon moro attention to it than thoy ordinarily do to a Presidential canyass, and, as the political partics do not tako any partisan attitn@e, the Aight is all the mora miscellaneous and interesting. Woe hava already given somo of the salient points of tho new instrumentin'Tuz T'nmunz, but os the oloction is now closé at hand, wa may refor to them agnin to familiarize its readors with tho issues at stako, Aa compared with the presont Constitution, it is vo! radical and sweeping. ‘The principal change in tho declaration of righta ian clause which pro- vides that in civil actions three-fourths of n jury may rounder a verdiot, and that all foreigners of tho whiteraco and of African descont, cligibla to become citizens, may” have the samo proporty rights as native. the dialogue Phitopatris, Nicephore, St. Paut’s own words In seventeen passayzes In Corinthians and onc in Galatians." ‘Tho texts relied upon by M. Renan are I, Cor, 1,2 and 8; vil, 7 and 8; It, Cor, 4, 8 and 9; x, 1, 2, and 10; xt, 6 and 80; xl, 5, 7, 9, and 10;- and Gal., fv. 13 and 14. The “thorn Io tho flesh '? mentioned fn ono of the texts he ‘declares to ayo been rheumatism, a Tho Vicksburg Zferald, one of the faireat and most {otellizent: newspapers in the South, ex- plains that the coming election of United States Senator In Milasisslppiis to be made the occa- sion of an open fasuc betweon the Bourbon and. the Conservative wings of the Democratic party in that State. The Republican party In tha South boing now dead, the Democratic party can afford to divide on this issue. For iteclé the Herald prefers the Conservative wing of the party, somo of the articles of whose creed aro the following: " No bulldozing; fair elections; honust aupport of the Natlonal Government; Mberal Jabor Jaws; prompt punishment of erlme; economy 10 public exponditures, and de- witness, onch question boing emphasized by tho ill-supprossed snicker of the filthy crowd engorly catching tho salacious import of tho vulgar rufilan who, os counsel, fa thus permitted to abuso his office. A roapactablo Tann or honost and modeat woman in court ns o witness must submit to this or enter into a wordy conflict with tho rufflan nt tho Bar. If a witness refuso to answer an im. portinont ond insolent question, thorofusnl is hailed as n confession of whatevor filth was implied in tho question, and the pitch glories in having defiled something. Wo aro not drawing on the imagination, Wo sro stating what is only on every-ilay occurrence. In viow of tho shamoless extont to which tho liconse of abuso of witnessos is carried attho Bar by mon professing to be lawyors and mombers of ono of tho highest profos- sions, and yot naturally and instinotively blackgnards and rufflans, wo believe that onr readors will rejoice with us that nt loast ono annunily,—that is, they will, to tho extent of the production, bo ablo to got so much lesa of averything for thelr money. by the Sonnte yasterday, and Inter signed by tho Governor—which appropriates 380,000 to pay fortho services of tho State militia and for other expenses in connection with the lnbor riots ‘of 1877-'78. ‘Tho law goos into offeat forthwith, the bill having an emorgoncy olanso attached. It is time the mon wero paid, and thero ia hardly o diffor- once of-opinion ag to whether they earned thoir money. 4 i Possibly one of the good things that will grow out of thls colored exodus now going on is, that if may help to sottle the Chimeso quostion without n- violation of our treaty obligations, and without forcing tho almond- eyed individual to seck a resting-place alse- whore,’ ‘fhe Chinaman is ns proverbinl for his industry as ho {s for his long queue and love of rico, and a rocont etter from San Francisco asserts that thoro is not an idle man of that nationnlity now in Californie. Ho possesses two distinguishing and eminont characteristics that will make him very pop- ulnar in the Sonth as a hower of wood ond drawer of wator for tho self-sufficiont and poverty-strickon white class of thot section, to-wit (1), that ho likes to work for small pay and (2) ho doosn’t want to meddle Anothor victory for tho Amorican horso Parole is racorded in tho cable dispatches this morning. It has long been a theory with leading turf patrons and horse-ownors in America that tho racers of ronown on this side of tho water aro fully the equals, if not tho suporiors, of tho oracks of the European stoblos, ‘Tha two notable races won by Parelo with ontire ease will go far to strongthon this theory and encourage Amor- ican breaders to hopo for substantial results ; : : born itizons, ‘Tho suffrago clouso is | *Atust their own constituonts, and breaking | Juago in one court in this brosd laud ia | im polltienl affairs, Joun would much | velopment of all the resources of the ‘State."? ee ‘Seinla iti ha Togtieh :ghorquet noticeable in that it debara the Chinese | dowa tho most profitable because always tho equnl’ to tho dlgnity of his office, aad "hig profer to stenl than to vote, and | Jt will bea great day for Mississippi when this nad from ver exercising tho principles of an anor mailing of all railrond business, the rulod that n witnoss in that court, no matter | he would gindly stay at homo programmo secures the approval of the people, local trailic, LE elector. In tho Logislative Dopartmont it will securo attention to business and public economy, na itreduces both tha pay and tho time, It proposes to flx the pay pormanent- ly at 28 per day, and that “no pay shall bo allowed to membors for a longer timo than nixty days,” and that no bill shall bo intro- duced in either [louse after tho expiration of ninety days from tho commoncement of the first session, nor ofter fifty days after the commoncemont of cach succoeding session,” Buch a provision might well be entitled a aud wash and iron, or perform any manual Inbor assigned him, soonor than to talk poll- tics and vote the regnlar Domooratic ticket. Tho nogro’s enfranchisoment hen thus far beon little elso than a farce ond n burlesque, and the evidence tnken by the Tri1zn Com- mittea amply demonstrates tho firm rogolvo, of the white people of the South to control’ publio affairs down thero at all hozords aud atany cost, Tho negro cannot livo in many sections in pence and voto a tickat opposed to tho rogular Democratic arilcle, and if he who the witness may bo, shall bo treated with respect so long as that Judge occupied the Bench, The Loulsville CourlerJournal opposes the nomination. of Henpnicits for Prestdent be- cause this would signify that ho had done some- thing which TinpEN ought to have done, which {snot the truth. To this the New York World replies that the nomination of Hgnpnicxs might hayo a different meaning. It might mean that ho hag not done something which Tr.pEN has done, . For further particulars in- quire of the Porren Committee. Tho World is partly right. Hunpitexs bas not falsified his income returns, or wrecked rallronde, or at- tempted to steal the Presidency by means of Wo aro aware that many of the Westorn ronds aro practically owned by the samo per- sons at tho East who control tho Enstorn rons, oud that the operators at the Enst aro thus enabled to mako what rates they please and what divisious they may think propor, Novertheless, it must uot bo forgotton tat a reapect for public opinion ond public in- terest caunot safely bo disrogorded, Toil. rond corporations have alrendy suffored heavily becauso of their deflance of public sian Government to the course it has taken with rogerd to tho Nihilists aro moro than shadowed forth by tho telogramsa from that quartor of tho globo this morning, It appenra that thoro aro somo 19,000 active, porsistont rovolution- ista now onrolled undor the Nihilist banner, and that many thousand sympathizora only await the sigual to joinin any undertaking looking to what they aro pleased to term the Buolioration of ‘their presont political THE GERMAN TARIFF, ‘The rovonues of tho German Empiro hoy- ing, a8 a consequence of tho goneral de- prossion of trade, groatly fallen off, and tho Empire having been also subjected to groat loxs becauna of its attempt to sell its silver coinnge aud purchase gold, the Govornmont has, after long deliberation, adopted : the condition, '. They havo their black or | provision to oxpedito tho public business, | interests. ‘Tho intorosta of overy railrond } schema of n protective tariff, Tho main | valuos tho right of auffrago nt ull aud wishes | clpler-dispatches, But ho bas straddied mora rathor red list containing the names | ‘ho samo arllolo also forbids any approprin. | Company in tho land-just_ now can bo best | itema in the now toriff as matured by tho | to oxorolgo it, ho mnst find a placo where sone sule suis os given nua of con: of 200 promiuont officials who oro | tion to any school, church, or charity, sup. | Promoted by porfect fairnoss in their tront- | Podoral Council, and as it will substantially | bulldozing and intimidation nnd all that sort secutive hours than Tit.peN over did. anont of all localitios. It ia not tho rato of froight that creates popular discontent so much aa tho wanton abuses of the manage- mont of the ronds, whereby regulations which should bo puroly of a business char. actor aro mado to punish and damago cortain points and in the interest of others, It is U.is which intensifies popular focling in its hostility to railroad manngemont, ond this way of doing business invariably in tho end proved more unprofitable to the corporations than would the fair nud honost modo of dealing with tho publi to fall by tho hand of tho assassin in tho evont of tha failure of the Government to comply with the Nihilist demands. Tha situation is daily growing moro sorious, many porsons affiliating with the plotters boing found in high oMloinl positions, ported by a roligious denomination ; also to any corporation of any doseription; it also empowers tho Legislature to regulate and limit tolograph, gas, storage, and wharfaga charges ; and makes lobbying a folony, ‘Tho article on education motos the public achool system inolnde primary and grammar schoola, and such high schools, avening schools, nor. mal schools, aud technical schools as may bo oatablishod by the Logislatura,or by mupic- ipal or district authority, but the school rovenue is to bo applicd solely tothe support of the primary and grammar schools, ‘Tho University of Californin is made a public trust, and it isanoticenblo featura of this clausa that no person can bo debarred ad- miasion to any of its departments on account of sox. Tho articto on corporations makes tho Diroctors or Trusteos of corporations Hable to tho creditors ond stockholders for all moneys embozzlod or misappropriated, end forbids any corporation from issuing atock or bonds oxcopt for money paid, labor dono, or property actually received, and do. clores all fictitious atook void, Tha rovoune and taxation provisions have boon given in dotail in Tox ‘Trine and commented upon, ‘Tho ninctoonth article ia devoted to the Chinoso, and is very swooping in character, though not unnecessarily so. It empowers tho Logistatura to protect the State from the contagious disonsca of theso alions; forbida any corporation to employ thom; forbids their employment upon any public work ex- copt sa a punishmont for crime; aud do- clarca that as Coolicism is o form of human slavery, . all contracts for Coolio Inbor shall bo vold, ‘The Tegislaturo ig also authorized to dologate all nocessary power to the incorpornted citios and towns to place the Chinese within cortaln lmits, and also to provide the necessary logislation to prohibit the introduction into Gatifornta of any more Chinoso aftor tho adoption of tho Constitution, ‘Theso comprise the sallont points of the now Constitution. As wo havo already said, the division upon thego issucs does not seom to be made by political partios, Somostrong Topablicans favor the now Coustitution and some oppose it, and Democrats are ranged on both sides, Tho bankers, capitalists, and heavy corporations aud conservative people are opposed to it, while the laborers, me- chanics, farmers, aud winers are in favor of it, Tho agricultural districts are supposed to bo solidly for it, and it ia evou estimated bo adopted by the Reichstag, aro the follow- ing. The German “ mark” is about equal to 24 conts American monoy, and a kilogramme iy equal to 2 1-6 pounds avoirdupola : ‘* Raw cotton, free; cotton-yarn, alngle twist ac- cording to numbers, from 12 to 36 marka por 100 kilon,-—that !s, from $2.48 to 38.04 per 220 noundy. ‘Thoothor grades of cotton twist range higher in proportion, Sowing thread is te pay 70 marks, or §1U.80, per 100 kilos or 220 ponndas, Cotton clotls, 80 marks por 100 kilos; jaconct, muslin, etc., 200 marks per100 kilos, Lead, freo; in printing-typea or rolled, & marks por 100 kilos, Brooms, brushes, ete., 4 marks per 100 kilos. Tron (per 100 kilos), pig, 1 mark; rolled tron, 134 marks; costluge, 236 marks; rough axcs, hammers, filos, ctc,,'G marke; knives, sclacors, ete,, 24 marke; sewing noodles, pons, and guns, 6O marks, Grain (ner 100 kilog), wheat, oats, husked fruit, 1° mark; rye, barloy, malze, aud buckwheat, }4 mark; malt, 1165 insrke; weods, 3 merko; hops, 20 marks, Glassware, from 3 marke for green hollow glass, B inarke Cor table glass, 24 marke for polluted, to 80 marke for colored or allvered glass. Horae-hatr goods (per 100 kilos), 48 marks. Hides an: ne, raw, freo, Purniture, 10 marks; ornamunted goods of wood, 20 marke; upholstered furniture, 40 marka, Musical {natruments of all material, 30 marks per 100 kilos. Locomotives and other ma- chinory, 8 marke. Hallway carrisges, G percent, Carcloges and slelghe, 150 mar! ch, India rubs ber and gutta percha goods, » 10 marks per 100 kilou; tine goods, GO marks,’ Clothes 100 kitos)—Silk, 000 marke; half silk, 450 marks; un- dor-linen, 150 marks; silk hata, 300 marks; felt, 180 marka; tadics’ hats, trimmed, 1 mark each, Wrought copper in bate or pla! 14 marke per 100 klioa; in plates or wizo, 28 marks, Watches, per 100 kilos, GUO marks, Leather and leather goods, from 24 to 40 marks por 100 ktloe, Linen aud Noon goods (per 100 kilos), from3 marks to 46 marks on yarn; thread, 10 marks; drilling, from 10 to UM marks; colored, 60 marks; thread taco, 600 marks. Candies, 25 marks per 100 kilos, Ucer, 48 marke; spirits, 48 marks; vinoysr, 6 marks; wine and must, $4 marks; butter and cheese, 20 marke; fresh meat, 23 i marke; tobacco iu all forme, 100 mar ugar, JO marke—all per 100 kilos, Petroloum and mineral olls, 6 marks, Sil goods, 600 mixed with cotton, cic, 300 marks, So: SO marke, Perfumery, 100 marks, Playlng-cards, 60 marks, Coal, free. Straw goods, from J marketo 60 marke per 100 Kilow, Live-stock—Horaca, nascs, cows, 6 marks per head; oxeu, 20 marks; sheep, 1 mark. Oil- cloths, cte., from 13to 60 marks, Wools-Raw, fro." ‘The old tariff has beon enlarged o8 to tho numbor of articles, and as been mado high- ly protective, Tho duty on petroloutm has been doubled, and the increase 1s expeotedto givo 12,000,000 niarks or $3,000,000 mora revenue, ‘Sea, whioh was taxed 48 marks, is now taxed 100; the duty on coffee has also been inergased, ‘The duty on iron hes boon jucreased 25 por cout, Tho tax on grain is | of thing is unknown. To lhas fairly tested jug right to have o votco in publia affairs in accordance with the laws and tho constitu. tlonnl omendmenta rolating to the people of color since Emancipation Day, and wo all know how ho has boon cheated at all points, and deprived of ovory priviloge bostowod upon him. And now if a largo proportion of tho colored people havo re- solved to immigrate and find a moro congonial home, no one can blame them,—the only wonder boing ‘that they did not begin to “move on” longago, Tho white ruce in the South aro of that class who would rather “ynlo in Ifoll than sorvo in Icavon,” and they havo a natural liking for politics, A colored man with a ballot in his hand (unless it is a Demooratio ticket) will bo forever iu his way, nnd there will bo no ond of trouble. ‘Thoro ig the old projudico of raco nnd color, tho old sore in tho memory of the changed condition of affairs when Sasno was a chat. tol with a cortain cash valao, and tho white man waa the ownor and lord of body and soul, The avoragoSouthorn man is naturally barbarous and cruol to tho nogro as the result of 200 years of opprossion practiced upon his colored brother, and it is an utter impoa- aibility for him to treat tho colored mon as an oqual, for an equal ho fa not, noither in education, intelligonce, sagacity, nor ability to control in publio affairs, But the Ohinn- mau may take the negro's place on the plan- tation as a doimostio sorvant ond escapo tho insults and ill-troatmont that haa boon be- stowed upon the former without stint or Hmit, The oxchange may do them both good, Perhaps tho Chinamon may becomo skilifal in raging cotton and augar, and nover go to tho polls, whilo the lazy white men ait in tho shado of the corner grocory, drink- ing poor whisky, whittling pino sticks, aud talking politica, Scurty haying stopped, Madama ANDERSON has reaumed walking—the lattor in Cincinnati, Her now task isan attempt to accomplish 804 miles in 530 consecutive hours, walking a milo and a half st the commencement of each hour, Sho fs much more likely to succeed tn this than in her foolish attompt to walk 2,000 quarter miles in porlods of 10 minutes each in Chicago. Har fallure iu this city doubtless convinced her of the wisdom of trying something castor next time, The attendance in Cinfinnat! tas been large, and both pross and public havo treated thu unfortunste woman Kindly, . —— The statement that Mr. Vanpunuint now favors the proposition to build a tunnel under the Detrolt River at Rucky. Polut causes some alsmay at Detroit; but the newspapers thera tery to puta good face on tho affair, ‘The Jree Presa says Detrolt muet and will have a tunnel, whether one Is built at Rocky Point or not. Detroit {a not interested, the J’ree Press saya wisely, in having through frelght go by way of thatelty, but aho fs interested in bolng on a great national highway, so that to her own frelght charges she can enjoy the benefits of It. a ae Itseome to ho the undorstanding among the Domoaratic membors of the House Com- mittes on Efeotiona that it would not bo §udicions to undertaxo tho unsonting of tho two Republican mombors from Towa dis. tricts whoso sonts aro contested on tho ground that the cleation in October was void, aud tho sonting of tho Demooratio contest- ants, who contrived to havo, respectively, 172 and 260 votes cast. for thom in Novam- bor. ‘This is preolscly what was dono in tho caso of tho Colorado contest, and to. sent the two Towa, Democratic coutestants would be no grossor outrage than was the soating.of Parrenson ond the ousting of Bztyonp. But since tho inorcase of the Demooratio majority in tho Houso ia tha chiof consideration with the Committee, tho ingenious Srninaen is anid to havo contrived a plan which will no- complish that result and ot tho snmo pre- RUFFIANISM AT THE BAR, A fow days ago in ono of our courts, during the trial of a case, a lady witness, after giving her testimony, was subjected to a sharp cross-oxamination, In the courso of this the following romarks wero made by counsel, witnoss, and tho Court; **Do you know, ate, Ixnow a Mr,——, but Idon’t know that his first name is Henny," Counsol—** Docs ho wear eyo-glacaen?” Witnors—‘'Yos, elt.” Does thla ifr, ——~- alng In the chotrt *Idon't know abont Unt, Ie belongs to the anne Jodgo that I belong to,’ Counsel~—*! Whoo did you aco bim late Witnesa—''T haven't been tu the lodge within a. month, and haven't seen him in that time," Counsel—**I don't want to know anything about. your lodge.” The Court~' You must treat the witness respect. fully." Counsel. shall, considering the condition and character of the witness, * ‘The Court~''It makes no difference, if pheis tho vilest woman In thecity. Shu ts ontitted to re- spect, and eho shall Lave it in my court." We have omitted all names, as it not our purpose to comment on this proceeding with any spqcial roferenco to tho partica engaged init, We wish to call tho attontion of tho publio goncrally to tho fact that thero is at loast oug Judgo in the land who has tho mauliness and self-respect to protect a wit- ness from tho abuso and rufllanism which uro-too commonly practiced at the Bar, Thore aro members of tho Bar who pride thomsaclvea upon their ability, and tho suc. cosd with which they can bully, browbeat, dusult, alarm, and terrify witnesses, and jn certain classes of cases this ability for this kind of work finds additional employment because of its questionable charactor, ‘Chia manner of examining witnesses ig cvpeotally rel. ished by thoso persons who habitually hang around tho courts, feasting upon the rovelations which grow out of the misfor- Jo Buackuunn will no doubt be eratoful to tho World for tracing hia connection with Lord Buacknurn of Kiltoam, though Jossri has not certaluly had anything to do with the family since 1500, and then only by nresumptive evie dance such as {a shown in tho possossion of the name, But{t would hayo helped “rough and toughold Jo ff theso facts had heen made known during tho Speakership canvass, —— ae is proposed that tho Committoo shall roport deolaring alt tho Towa sents vacant, and re- quiro a spocial election to fill the vacancios, ‘Chis plan would have tho advantage of keop- jug several Republican soata empty during tho oxtra session, nud is therefore the ono likely to bo adopted. About 4,500 colored persons have passed through Bt. Louts durlug the Just three months on thelr way from the South to Kansas ond Colorado, ‘Yho whole numbér fs not larga fo yilew ot tho fact that thero arc about 3,005,000 still in the Bouth, Ifthe movement wero to stop wow, it would have no siguifecance. It ia the apprebonaion that ft will not stop which makes the * exouua," so-called, noteworthy, a Senator Davin Davi, of Illinols, some- times classed a4 on Independont, but invaria- bly found to bo o Domocrat whon party questions aro to bo voted on, yesterday gavo his views on the ponding Army bill in a speach of considerable lougth ond of ® ponderous gravity bofitting a graduate from fhe Supreme Benob, Tho spooch was ovidontly propared with groat caro, and de- signod to attract notlov and command respect es a sort of judicial uttorauco removed above -the plano of mero partisan politica; but it proved to be tho speech of ao thorough partisan, aud as such will fall far Judgo Davis can koe no reason why the country should ‘be disquietod by a political debate calculated to sovive the hatred and talico on- gendered by the War; and he can seo but ene way to end the dgbato and ‘Tho reconelliation of ‘Tatsacm and Harna- WAY seems to bo complete, and the public ig curlous to know more about the secret protocol which was thu basis of thelr understanding, Did it specify whether TaLMage was correct when ho called Hatwaway o Har, or whether Hatuawar told the truth when he catled Tare Magu a liar, or whether they both told the truth of cach other, and wore both ilara t a ——$§ It is of Mttlo consequence that Franz E, Nevins was unjustly, and as wo think illo. golly, iinprisoned in the Sangamon County Jail without having beon accuacd, much loss tried and convicted, of having been guilty of any crime,—wa sey it is of little consequonce because it was Mr, Nevine who was imposed upon, and it is of still lesa importance that he was representing ‘Tux Onicico Tamuxg ‘at tho State Capital. , But his lucarocration is of tho greatest couxcquence to the people of the whole Stato, for tho reason that the unjust punishinent that hos been Intlicted | All the oncrgles of, tho ‘TinDaN moroing organ of Chicago are now devoted to persuad- ing fteel£und the public thut It still lives, It already exhibits premonitory symptoms of an early dissolution, — who over stepped directly from the reporters’ gallery to the Moor of the House of Not that ho waearaporter, If Namentary leadars for the Daily sest in the revorturs! gallery. Jt ts saty History of Our Own Times," Is already in edition, Ho enters Patliament asa Hom youth upward; 60 writes Mr. Swanter, — et Jar demand for him then that ther henston to two or perliaps moro (rant. We should like to know {ts position is on tho question of Gnaxr for mendations from all sorts of a ” Jusrin McCautuy fs sald to bo tho figt man’ C ‘omman Mo Wrote the Pap. News, AUME, Bik hada Tertlay 1 BY the 4 Usstrta o-Nuter, rom hig other leader-writors of thelr ¢ way, that Mr, McCartity’s new buot, but ho has bolonged to that party f; ‘The St. for 1834, 6 ils Clobe- Democrat speaks ot Tag that, 1 there ts the snot a ef 4 will be nominated and otected. ‘The Ghee cerat does not lvok forward with any mine f ferns: of prerlsely what, 1933, ———_— Mr. McKinizy, of Chto, ts winning coms men for tits fant speech tn the Houso and hls OR factory bout with Mr. Bracknony, McKixiny fea rising young member. He took one tesslon to get ready, but now ho seems to te charged to some purpose. rT ‘The Authors’ Carnival, it 1s reported, thinned out noticeably on washing nud fronting days when the costumes had to bo taken out auf aired, It 1s not everybody who las tivo eet of knee brecehes, or more than ono pair of long silk stockings, or a superfluity of rufiles, saeedenesabe ate ily Ex-Congressman RAINEY 18 sdvined by the Philadelphia Times to co to Kansas and groy up with the emiarece. —<——___. PERSONALS, Parolo will now leoture, ‘Tennyson gots $15 a line for hig Postry, The Russinn boar has hocdlossly salts Into s hornet's nest. Tho Princoss Louise hangs pictures fron two nails by a ailvered cord, It is high timo that Mr, Tildon pald hia {y. come tax, Heform ia nocossary, It is suddenly discovered that tho favotily son of the South ia the son of Tan. Solovicf's head sits so lightly on by shoulders that ho's afrald to sneeze, Parolo didn’t drink champagne, and thers was nothing the matter with bia stomach, Chief Moses is said to rosomblo Teny ‘Ward Deccher, but we hope it is not trie, ‘The inkstand nsed by tho poet Longtelloy onca belonged to Samuel ‘Taylor Coteridge, Lord Oholmsford onght to buy Parole fa sorvice in his masterly retreats in Sonth Africa, Sitting Bull hhs becomto n Britivh subject, and will soon supersede Lord Cicelmsford, wo ap. pose, ; “Birdie” Bell was so deeply grieved 4 her poor shooting that, poor thing, slots dytngot a broken heart, ie Tho Brooklyn Prosbytery is a groat fight. er, anid porhapa it would take the contract to whip the Zulus for England. A public diunor will bo given at Syracas In honor of President White before his departers ns Minister to Germany, yi Tho Amorican mules which England it buying aro hardly fastonough for tho Engtlaa Gra. crals {n time of dancer. Tho Indiaua man who ate twenty-to polled goose eggs in thirty minutes, should bre had tho Berlin mission, England is buying ap a Inrge number of mules, and her war policy, perhaps, is to gitecs’ Zulu forty acres and a mule. Georgo Mucdonald, tho oloquont preacher and distinguished novelist, has been in poor bet!) aince the death of hls son Maurice, ‘Tho Queon of the Belginns is very fondof doga, and carries one slways which Is arrayed (aa. coat of the same color as her drees. Birds of 9 feather. sometimes don't flat togathor, Wlackburn speaks contomptuously of the editor of the Okalona Southern Slater. Herr Krupp has ono of tho fineat country acats In Germany. Nerr Krupp ls the great qo non-maker, and whose voice iw al} for war, Gon. Mite won't marry tho other midgt, Lucla Zarate, and porhaps he wants to mary (tt widow Ullyer, Of two cylls choose tho tut, General. Ta London it is. ponnl offonso to thor orange peo) on the sidewalk, Itia thole Americas trade, we snpposc, that keeps London corkley factories ronulng. Tho dispatches say that St. Lants attomph ed tocommit suicide the ather day. Cauro, were pose, disappointment on account of having let population than Chicago. It ia said that Paul Boyton has lost twenty pounds sinca he atarted down the ‘Misslesippl. ant fa very thin; bat wo suspect that auch sioriers told to discourago alligators, If Julia Binith bud married when es ought to have married sho might havo cclebrated her golden wedding several ycars ago. Welt! now she will never colcbrate tt, An Eastern paper lias on article on Gils Who Grow Upto Bo Men,” It might be regarded asaely attack on Gait Hamilton, perhaps, if" could concelve of hor as ever boing 6 girl GEN. DIX. Proclamation of tho Prosldent, In 1s Eu coutive Order, Calling tho Peaplo to De Ionor to a Noblo Man—Tho Funerab Wasmunarow, D. C., April 22.—The follonieg order was {saued this afternoon Exxcurtye Mansion, April 22,—Tho Prenidecl in making poblic annonucen of the death Maj.-Gon, Jonn A, Dix, which occurred aut Inst night in tho City of Now Yurk, desires to com) moud “to the “attuntion of thw people, tho country tho xroat public services (bmi tha long” and “eventful life of i aminent citizon and patelotle recor of bisa tary servicer, both in hig early youth and advao : age, Appropriate honors will ba paid to hia Lent ory under direction of tho War Doparla and of the Tronwury — Dupartmenh which ho was at an important period bt head, and it ta recommended to, bt follove-citizons to participate in a general Loken’ Toepect to his worth aa a private citizen. anit, eminent services na Senator of the Unite: Miniater tu Krauge, aud Governor of the B12 New York, Rutuznrony bs. er iy Naw Yors, April 22.—The funeral of ae Dix takes place Thursday, at Trinity ah ‘The pall-bearers will bo the Hou. Maw! ue Fisn, Thurlow Weed, Edwards Plerrepont ig Gov, Morgan, Gens, Catlam and Rathbovss 4. Cisco, Charles O'Conor, and A. A, fer remalne wit! be placed temporarily family vault in Trinity churchyard. —————=__— STRICKEN BLIND. Bpectat Dispatch to The 7 4 “th ‘ils moras Detnoir, Mich, April 22— ht Willlam Mackey, @ laborer, aged 60 years Wht watking dowo Randotph street approaching dock, suddenty fof tn a ft, and tay on thet walk, apparently In great agony. {0 fie ia tlon ho was discovered by Patrolman Me be han, who nssisted him to hie feet, wets atarted to walk away. ‘To (ho aurprisd 0 ‘yy self as wall as the offiver, he stumbled #00, ugaio. ‘Thinking Ue man jad nut sully 0 ered, the olliccr questioned bla, and foul lied the poor fallow wus atrickon we gest hess, ‘The mau waa agslated to h t and at ast accounts had not recovere onset Frovious to hits attack Mackey was 1 of oxcellont eyesigtit. Ce ALL STREET. izes to The Tridune tone Naw Yonss, April 22.—Stock speculaas, tinues active to-day, but there was a ih Incnt, the bulls not showing thelr Os ra Nearly all classes of apechlative cet 8 wers lower, aud no movement was m5! peat up special stocks. ‘The alder stocks WOT uk notably those of the Vanderbilt Mr yo Tule may baye been caused in part Mise by eral gossip about a new Southern bret ce ge way of the Wabash, which would sta busluces of the Northern truwis linet lcd under pressure, advanced 274, 97,000 shares, making a sort of 5Ul! Tumors, which coutd oo traced t able. FINANCIAL, - Cinorsnart, April 23—Peckoven Co,, dealers in stoves, made av aeeigul Gay. Liabltitics nos kuown, : stoort col