Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 8, 1880, Page 7

The Case of Fitz John Porter Re- viowed by Senator Care pentor. outline of tho Agreement Finally Entered Into with the Utes. ‘ De Lesseps Finds a Cool Reception “for His Canal Schemo in “Washington, men phn Sherman Remains 2 Candtdnte— Boston Republicans. Opposed to (ivant and Blaine. Interost Rogarding Affairs Q a of Bere in the Old World. ‘FITZ JOUN PORTER'S CASE. Bpeclat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, qwastuxaTox, D.C. March 6,—Matt Garponter ono of hla notable lognt speeches on tho Fitz John Porter cnsd to-day, Mr. Carpenter us adebater on constitutional questions Is not sur- {n tho Senato, Is arguments aro ulways wellarranged, caroful, and studled, and nro de- frored with the grace of an tecomplishod orn tor, His opponents nro ns cagor to honr him as sonisfrionds. Demovrats who for tho most had vaented thelr seats during Logan's gathing anntysis ‘of tho Fitz John Porter testl- mony, to-lay returned ond Nstencd to ntor to tho end, Thoy derived ‘no comfort from it, Their best lawyers sucmed if faces indicate anything, to admit that Care ntersargiinent that Congress cannot reopen the decision of the court-martinl, or cannot, in fact, undor tho Constitution grant a pardon, WAS UNANSWERANLR, although It is Intiinnted that 18 good Inwycra ns Bayant and MeVonald’niny try noxt week to answer it. ome Mr, Carpenter omitted all roferonce to the tes- mony, and {if ah eloquont’poraritton olently, thowed why, thls Judgmont, the people whom ba represonted do not-taro for any: analysis of that testimony, Tho Iron Mrignto waa composed In promt, part of . Wisconsin tpops. That brigade wie cut down in the battto of those terrible Bull Run days, losing hundreds of Wisconsin yeonmary. Those men or XERDNOT HAVE FALLEN had ‘Fits Joh Porter obeyed iis orders, and deen Joyul to his commander and his country,’ ‘Thd graves on every wooded hill and grassy dope through to great Northwest are nll tho evidence which Mr. Carpenter thought tho pooplo.of Wisconsin needed to authorize iim to refuse to cast his vote to panton Fitz Johtr Porter. It was a hard saying for Curponter, 18 Fitz John Porter had been bis comrade nt Wost Pont, and had been a friend of hig untit the War, Curpenter {mproved tho ov- easton, a8 tho vlergymmon auy, to turn-the climax ofhis pecoration with the prophecy that tho ‘Democracy wero Ikely to so conduct them- telvesasto innke It necessary for the loyal North to putt ngain-ins.the White fHoure tho trong man, U. 8. Grant, a statement which tho Domocrats recolyed with derlafon and tha He- + publicnns with aurpriso, ng to that monient thore gad been nothing political im the speech, The allusion marred tho speceh, j ’ “Porter, who has heen a constant attendant duriog all tho foug debate, Istoned to tha Intro- duetory portions of Carpenter's argument, and then rotIred from the Sonnte chamber, It possle My may ha¥s been too hnrd for hin to listen to disown condomnution from tho lips of bis West Point comracdes : 4 THE SPEECH. To the Western Assoclated Press. + WastixaTox, D. O,, Murch 6.—Ir tho Sennte thls morning consideration wos resumed of the Dil for the rellof of ity John Porter, and Mr. Carpentor addressed tho Senate, - eee Mr. Carponter said: A careful observer of , thetendenciesof our time cannot fall to seo . that In every branch of our Guvernmont wo ura, running towards consolation and contraliza- tlon of power, and that insidg of tho Govern- Ment tho tendency ts equally strong towards the centralization of power in Congress. In illustration the Senator remarked: We have ostablished by Inw and supported for sov= eral yenrs at tho expense of the people tho De- partment.of Agriculture, and it fg now proposed fo! oatublish’ a * Department of Agricuituro, Mines and Mining, and Manufactures. Conmd- + (@rlng that neither tho word griculture, mining, Ror manufueturo occurs In.tho Constitution, nor sare thoy roferred to, it 15 a little curious to know “towhat. provision of tho Constitution this now Exeoutive Departmont is to be traced. This disregard for the Constitution murksadeendenco {nour practice of Government, 1t lena to DANGEROUS EXCKOACIMENT on tha province of the Stato, Tho Constitution ‘saysall officers of tho United States atialt bo ap- polnted by, tho President, by and with tno con sentof tho Senute., Wo pass lawa directing mon tobe appointed in the army, broakiag tho Uno of promotion. What authority has Congrosg to fovommand the President to appoint a man in tho army any moro thin in tho courts, or in any other clyit vilive? Nothing whutever but usage, Nothing but tho porslatent, obstinate ylolation ofthe Constitution and encroachment tpon tho ecitive power. ‘Tho casontini clement of our system of government Is the distribution of the Powers In tho three great branches of the Gov frnment,—the Legishitive, Excoutive, ard Judl- eal. “Yet this very pending bill expects to strike down this distinotfon, nud to exercise a judicial Power ty tho two ‘Houses of Congress. ‘Tho original Gill proposes that tho Presidont shall bo autharizod to sot ustdo and annul the Judgmont, Of tho Court rendered sevonteen yeurs ago, anc . estore Fitz Johu Porter to the plice in thoarmy: which he lost by that Judginont, Can any luw- i call Weed Neistaletian. un exercise of the logis- ative power? It was proposed to set the Jucg- mont aside and.restaro Porter, who bus boun seventeen yeurs a private citizen, we WITHOUT ABKING THE RENATE yeaor nny. Ho was not to bo confirmed on 9 Tenomination, but resiored by the act of the President annulling the gontenco of tho Cit twas to curry with It by logical conscausuce allthe pay he would had boon entitled to if he bud not “been: removed, and had other lke cRects, Now, tt having been ascertained, L aup- that it was a pretty tough Job for Congress fo undertuke, the membor of tho Coinmittce who repartod tho bill (undoiph) hus: offered 0 Fubstiture authorizing. tho, President to Mmumme, and by ‘and with the advice of tho Bonute to appolut, Porter a Colonol in tho army, dating frum 183, In somo respects this amendment bs worse thin the original bi. ‘That bill assumed te Congross coutd sat naldo tho ndings of the Furl, and ita other provisions followod logiently rom that wssumption, ‘hig amendment duce DOt propose topay tho judirtiont of thocaurteven the Paseo Peapeut of annulling. Ih. Tt proposos foluuvy ir in full force, declaring Porter should diamine and rendered Incapable of holding any ofica “of trust, honore or profit gidor the United States thoreaftor. It leaves at sentence in full force, and yet, In absolute gontempt of it, Congress {s expected to provide that the President muy name and the Renato F7rArm this man to hold tho ofice. of Colonel, Porter van bo numed’ by tho President and Syrlemod, is thoro any ovcaston for passing tho Ul saying that it wan bo dune? Tf ho ts oligiblo i aH may not tho President and Senate exer- cise tholr constitutional power without the ald ofan uct of Congress? 5 wSenator continucd: The amendment pro- Breed b ‘the Senator from Hhodo Island (iurn- of eh Hoh Bras idea for a new trial by w court Irteen ollicors having power, subject to ap roval by the Proaldunt, to confirm, mitigate, or Hine the former nontence, fs still nore remark~ lo. Porter, having been a private citizen for ie than seventeen years, cannot bo subjected his @ Jurisdiction of ‘a court-martial even with colsent, The whule procoading would be eas . A FAO AND A NULLITY, b ingress hoa no more right to try Portor to-day py, court-martial than it bas try you, slr. fealdcut,orme, The court-martial that tried ortor: and drove bim in disgrace from, the Can co was clothed with tho majesty of tho ptttution and: laws authorizing the ad- Rilalstrution of justice upon bly military tervico, ‘was composed of men of wit nence iu thelr pfotcssion, authorized to call to. ‘esees trom all points of the Unitod States, oan for persons and papers and adiniuister on #, aid any mun who sware falsoly before it peumitted Jury, aod muat atone for his of- thao, the Penltentiary, What powcr bad reo indivi! alg that passed upon thia subject, eG woare told, in review of the action of the Muremartialt ‘They bad uo power whatover, ey could not suid for a witness,—that 8, ubpuens. Raapet ‘ble attondance,—could not : COULD Nor ADMINISTER 46 OATH. Tam told tho; to aay if thoy’ald tho, sy committed a crime, Pea of "an extrajudicial oath— (het Js, without tawful authority to administor levtnaty crime punishable” at common wh by statutery law syeryn lore: No pay who tuld a false story thera could ‘be {ndic! tidy? ie wos net wu "miltary ‘proveediog, 3 not « militu 5. Fardsninetanot tha oxerelse oF the military ri bt Ot Wor; the Pres|dont, acting fo bis civil capa _ A aschlet Gui Maptateacone tho, lydia! ‘Pardun this na aa bo Wanted te ik ww rutended to dott, 1 rarer THE CHICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1880, whether ho ought to pardon him or no -ho raquesta, i MUNOL Order, PeqNEEts dividuals toadvise him, Now, | hopo thore on tho othor aldo inthis dehate will tell us what clause of the Constitution gave this Beant any atthority whutever, + Tho Senntor, after further argument. in sup. port of hia position, ail tha decision of courte “nartiat s ns final ne that of civil courts, Judt 08 tho English ecclesiastical courts decision {9 18 (inal agthat of the Lord Chaneellor, and for tho reson that obtaina In all courts, that where thore Is ne pppeal wuthorized from the tribunal wuthorized to hear the ense its decision MUST NF FINAL Tho President eat pordns Porter, continued Mr, Carpentor, and the pardon would wipe out outall conseqionces of the setitencos Jt would fits hin the sume legal standing bo would have had before ho was rontenced. 1 am told Porter bas never appiled for 6 pardons T stirs mit that under the clrcumstinces of this ease Porter fa not at Uberty to eet his frown nyalnst. tho only power that, une ler the Conatitution, etn relieve, hin, and Nek UA to exercise fh power tho Constitution tlentes. Isituny lnumitiition for him to apply: to that ultimate power whielt may still reach his enso, whieh {sf amplo and copiots, which © falls Mke streams from rising springs," wh! renoh his caso and violtte no principle Constitution? We cannot touch the ease with: out violating our oaths to support, tho Constitu. ton, for tho jortning power belongs tu the Executive, and, no matter what It ia called, the annulment of this sentence would uperite as pardon. * In conclusion, Mr. Carpenter sald: tended to review the testimony on of fact, Was Mr. Porter guilty? Th roarons why donot, Inthe first place, 1 think {t wholly tinnecessnry, because, if we have no conatititionnl power to pardon ‘hitn, or, whitt {6 tho suine thing, relieve bin from that Judgment inany form of proceeding whitever, tt 1s tine atorin! to us whotberhe was guilty or not. In the next plnce, that partof the tusk has been perforined by the Konator from Mlinots [Login] much hotter than E could dott. Now, I have had no teeling against Fitz John Porter on any deenunt. 1 was with him a year nt tho Acudemy nL West Point and 1 alwaysestecined hin a gene tleman until this utulraceurred, ‘Tho testimony, which Ihave exumined protty fully, convinces me, not that Fitz John Perter was disloyal to tho Union,—not thit he mount. that the South should succeed In breuking up the Government,—but he was DEVOTED TO M'CLELEAN. McCletian waa tho {ilol of his henct and star of his hope, He wanted to seo MeClellan sucered first. He wanted tosee our cause prosper, hut ho wanted McClaitan to lend ts to victory. Ho wos the mau to whom Porter wag attached, and whom all the affections of his henrt. med to have entwined themeclves, and ff was bitter as doth to hin when McClellan was stp> Ianted in command and suceeeded by a tan ‘or whom he scems to huve bud great contempt, that. was tho fault and fall of Hitz John Porter. Ttawas an ambition, if net for hiinself for his like the mnbition that drew Satan down rew Porter down, nd, so faras our pow neemied, tho analy procecda a step flr- thor, for, “when he fell, he fell ike Lucifer, never to risongain.” Look at tho facts on which he was convicted, and) TI think tho testi mony muatnins the findings of tho Court. ‘Yhere was abuttic raging upon whieh tho fate of this Nation might depend. Orders were Sssued to Lim again and again whieh Me FLATLY DISORBYED, When, finally, In obedience to a positive order to come ind report on the Unttle-fleld to Pope tn person, he did come, !t was without ono of his brimides, and so tardily as to show he bad no heart in the cause, no wish to oboy tho order. Why, Mr, President, life dopended on that bate tle.” ‘Not merely that of the individual, but the life of an uriny, the life of a Nation, perhaps. if Porter should go down the avenue and Kill a man to-day he would be hanged, Life for for Ife. Upon this ndinensurement of justice, what -ahnll wo do with the man who, by his erlminnt conduct, sacrifleed the tives of 20,000 soldiers? ‘Tho battle rendered necessury 11 con~ sequenve of bis nexleet of duty cost is 20,000 Hives. Upon this ndmeasuremont, if Porter had 20,000 lives they were ull forfclted to the State. ‘The people froin my Stuto, | know, felt it keenly. Tho ose foll heavily upon 1s, What was called the “tron Brigade” In tho Ariny of the Poto- mito, mado up of throe Wisconsin regiments and one Indiana regimont, 1s brave a body of men ns over were on the battle-etd, a body of mon who, for bravery und poldierly berring and con- tuot; would not suffor by compurigon with the “old Guard” of Napoleon, in ong of the thts In that neighborhood lost In one hour and flyo minutes NINETKEN HUNDNED AND TEN SEN killed and wounded, ery train of cars that penotrated tho interfor States for months after- wards cnine frelghted with tho sacred remains of our slaughtered soldiers. ‘Thoy were piled up {u. pino boxes around our dopots Ike mers chandise, and sleep now In green graves that dot overy hill and oyory green vulley in| Wisconsin. ‘Our peopte will not soon forget Pitz John Parter. Thoy will nover forgive hint. ‘They would not Boon forget me, and nover forgive. mo, if I should stand as tholr ropresontative and vote to pet Fitz, Jobn Porter buck where be would have: f he con if he hid not fallen, and pay hint all that. o would have had tf be had remained in the service and Kerved his cougtry falibfulty. Queer things aro being dono tiftsc days. ‘The thing may be done by the Senate, It will not be done by my vote, shonid regurd ft as e dlagracoful not for Congress to do. Nuvertheless, Me. President, God's willbe done, It may be that even this Inst travesty upon Justico is neve essary. ‘They toll us that whom the gods would destroy: thoy frst “make mad. It mihy bo. tl- thongir it seonus impossibie, that tha Democrats re not nud. net yet to insure thoir total dvatruction. -This last not may be neaded to con: vinee tho Anorican people that to Ingure proper disoriniination between virtue, and vice, to fx oper, purishmont upon disloyalty, and hold he rebellion in check, we need I the White House once more tho ‘steady hand, cool head, and tho patriotic heart of U. 8. Grant. [Great Muse] ; ARpIUEL | cd otitatned the floor, but ylolded ton motion for executive session, and’ when the soar were reopened the Senate adjourned until onday. K TIE CANAL PROJECT, Spectat Dispatch to Tha.Chicago Tribune, Wasutnatos, D. O., March 6—Tho reports that thoro are differenees between the Prealdont and Secretary Eyarts on} thé iuteroccante canal or Monroe docfrine matter are unfounded. It is now sald that although thore may have been some differences, both tho President and Secre- tary of State are in full accord on nll the ques- tons involved, It is certain that Bir. Evarts ts colperuting with the I'realdent in tho arrungo- ment of the ducuments soon ta bo sunt to Con- gress with comments. Mr, Evarta has nd charge of tho diplomatio and legul partof the matter, and hus devoted special attention to tho treaty, relations between the United States, European’ Powers, and tho Staves of Coftral America, It appears definitly that the United States Is bound | “by treaty with Colombia ‘to protect the torrl- torinl rights of tho latter Governmontif a canal Ja built, and. thls guurantco sccms to bo of auch B naturo that under this treaty the United States cunnot pormit any’ foreign government tointerfore. Indood, while Do Leasopa 1a very favorably received hore suctally, bo 1s (NOT LIKELY TO MAKE ANY PROGRERS + with his canal sehome, ‘Tho best thing ho cauld do, one of thoso near tho Administration sald to-day, If ho wishes toa dig a canal, would be to tako out naturalization papers as an Amorican citizen. There is no possible doubt that, #0 far as the United States ja concerned, tho attitude of the Administration will bo that no canal project will bo worth considoting which doos not insure to- this Government’ absolute military and naval control. over it, and that, “until we aro ready to Insist upon @ completo roconstruction of our diplomatic position in regurd. to the Tsthmua (os nffectod by the Clayton-lulwor treaty), it 1 really a mere waste of words to disuitss engine coring plans about @ canal througt the Iathinus. : 3. De ‘Lesseps cailod upon tho President to- day and, although the conference wus not of an ollicial churactar, it Is vory evident that Do Lossepe obtuined somo ‘ VERY CLEA AND POSITIVE NOTIONS ns to the real meaning and force of what ho had eyidently down to this tiling been unfortunately tlaled jute regapding a3 the vaguo and undube stuntial opposition of this cauntty to ble project of converting Colombia and tho Isthinus of Panama Into virtual dependencics upon a groat international canal company, to be organized under French law and controled {n France. The President and tho House Comuitttes on the Canal are acting In concert on this subjoct, M. Do Lesseps’ expecint effort to-day secmed to he to convince the Presilent that he contem~ plated nothing politicul; that he did not desire iy placo bis cunal under forelgu control, and, n° Q proof of this, said that he proferred ta have & mujority of tha stock ikon in, thla country, To sfouse Interoccanie Cunal Committes this “orning took defiuit action by adopting a rusos 1 don aftirming the Monroy doctrine. —— THE INDIANS. , Bpiclat Dispatch (o The Chicaga Tribune, ‘Wasninaton, D, ©. March 6.—Final action: wus bad to-day in the negotiations with tho Utca for tho cosslon of tholr territory in Colorado, by || the formal siguing, by atl the Chlofs hero, of the agreoment whose main foatures have al- | ready buen foreshadowed in. those dispatches. | The agreement binds the Indiabs, first, to use | thelr utmost endeavor to dolivor the Meckor | assasins, and, falling tn that, to place no obsta- clo In the way of thelr puntuhmont by the Gov- ernment, Second, to cede all thelr lands in! Colurado, It binds the Govorument, first, | to cede to thoso Utes lands - in soveralty, as. follows; ‘To the Southern. Utes, reprosonted by Iynatlo, a strip of terri-- tory in Northern New Mexico; to the Whito River “Utes, represented by, Jack, a portion of tho Uin{ab Reservation in Utah; and to tho Un- compabgre Utes, ropreecntod by Ouruy, & reser. | yation just over the Utab Iino along the Grand ' River Valley. ‘Bécond, to pay to these Indians aud their helrs forever the sum of $50,000 annu- ally in addition to tho suma pald now under former trenty stipulations. ‘Tho result of those negotiations is considered by Mr. Kchurz and Gen, Adams as $ A ORPAT TRIUMPH For THe PLAC POLICY, It is tho first thmo In tho history of this country when a tribe of wild Indlans has agreed to take, tands {n aavorilty. The Allotment bill,- now pending tn tho Committes of Indiate Amairs, cantempintes «change of oll Indian holdings in this reward, but the provisional treaty ett O- day. is the first actual step in that direction. | When the document. was prodticed tn the pres- ‘envo of tho Indians to-day for elenuture, there wasn good dentof hauging back and pushing of one another forward precisely at hey hid Deen a parcel of half-grown achuolhoys. | Oura, who isn wise mun, did not wantto dake the Ic as ho hus {nvarlably dono fn case of fore trenties, LEST 1 MIGHT INCUR TLAME §f dissatisfaction were afterward found i his eople, Adama aolyad the priblein by callie, vn peremptory tone, to Sawnntok, ne tho oldest Chief present, to come forwurd and make bie mutk, whieh he did promptly, aftor whieh all signed fn turn, A bili embodying the features of the agrer ment will bo drafted by tho Secretary to-murrow and submitted to buth: Houses on Monday, The next work will be to get Congress to do some. thing, and this wilt Pena, pe the imost ‘lis cournging prt of the whole business. Gen. Adama will stay here for the purpose of urging Congress to not. He Js contident that the Utes: will ratify the netion of thelr rupresentatives here with senrcoly it Mseonting yolee, To the Western Assoctuled Pres Waantnatos, 1. C.. Marel t.—Negotlations with the Utes wore, concluded to-day, Tho formal hyrectnent paeiies in tho first pura graphon tbo part of tho tndinns that they will pritire the surrender of those of their nation implicated in the inuntor of Agent Meoker and ie employes, and, in caro thoy do nat succeed tn up prehending the purtics, they will faithfully ald any officers of tho United States directed to make the arreste, The sceond- paragraph ocdes to the United States nll tho tory of the prosent Ute Iteservation in Colorndo, ong quarter section (100 of agricultural land utd a tike quan tity of grazing land to each head of n family, and onvshalf this equate, to euch singly per- son, belug vot npert for tho settlement of tho Indians, ‘Tho Southern Utes agree to settle upon unoccupled agricultural lauds on the Li Pinta itlver, Colorado, and New Mexico, or in that vicinity; the Uneompalig to go toGrand River, near the mouth of t! Gunnlgon, Colorado; the White River Utes will take up lands on the Uintah Reservation, Utuh, The Indi are to select thelr own allotwents of lands {n these locations. Provision fs made for roads and highways. This ngrvement fs en tered Into by the Ute Chiefs, who promise to ob- tain the consont of thoir people tu the erssion of tholr reservation upon tho followlng ex- pressed conditions: Fint—Tho Government to survey and patent, to the Indinns Jn sevoralty tho linds reserved for them, giving n fee-siinple ttle to neh Inalan £0 soon we tho necessary Inwa are passed by Congress; thie titl ur le to remain Inallennble and the lands not taxuble for twonty-five yeurs, Second—That, 80, soon us the consent of tho reveral tries of tho Ute Nation shuld have = beun obtained to this nure jaune, tho annuities —horetofere provid or Ra Coucaaa, amounting ut this time to £00,000, will be pald to tho Jiuiiuns in ensh, and ag inuch moru will bo added as Congress eball appropriate, ‘This annuity fe to be paid In cash at tho Feque Lor the Indiuus, the President huy- ing tho diaeretion to pay fit-in cash or stovk, wagons, and agricultural [inploments, ete, The Intter aro to be furnishod sufficient for thelr reasonable = wante; also auch siw and rist mills as mny bo neevssury toonable them te commence farmlmy opera- tions ne Koon ae tholr gottiement is affected, A. cvommission will be appointed to superintend tholr settlement, and touttend to currying out this agreement: and the migney appropriated by Congress for this purpose shall Lo apportioned as follows: One-third to those who settle on tho Ln Plata River;one-half to thoww on the Grund River; and one-sixth to those golug to tho Uhitah Reservation: Third—In addition, a8 pny, for their lands, the Ules are to recolve nn annuity of 50,0) to bo distributed among Shem, per. ¢apitn, und thoir present uunulty of $25,00) bo continued. ‘Tho support of tho Utes until thoy can become self- supporting, and the education of tholr phildren, 4s provided for, SHERMAN WILL HOLD ON. Special Dispatch to The Ohteago Tribune, Wasutxaton, D. ©, March 6.—Some of the Eastern sensational papess have published tho statement that Secretary Sherman contemplates withdrawing na a candidato, for the Presidency in favor of Waahburno or Binino, with a viow of defeating Grant, Careful inquiry of persona In position to be acquainted with Sherman's plans, howover, shows that he not only does not con- tomplate rolinquistiing “his candidature, but that ho {s moro confidont in his prospects than he hag been. Within two days bo nak made more extonsive arrangements for tho clreuli- tion of ds campaign life, and gentlo- mon from {difforent parts of tho country who aro working~’ in “his’ mterests fro. now here comparing books, and apparently havo great Ucliof in the reserve force of thelr load er. Gon. Curtis,of Now York, who {sono of Bherman’s most activo manngers, and {5 8 Fod- eral official who bolds closorelations to his chief, reports the Skormau organization as quito ox- tensive in, . THR STATE OF CONKIING. Mr. Bhorman himself, in all his interviows with! Congressmen and poople from different sections’ of the country who are visiting hero, talks froo- ly about tho Presldontlal clection, and docs not: healtate to discuss tho dotalls of bis own Presidential canyass. Tho rumors, therefore, that Shorman contemplates withdrawing at the Presont stago of the campnign are unfounded, und, if ho should contomplate withdrawing, ho would have great difiiculty in transferring any of his force to Blaine, if the viowa oxpressed by, Shorman's Houtonants bere In any way reflect the opintons of those whom thoy olnim to repre~ sent, Indeed, Shorman’s manugors to-day are congratulating thomsvlves that they havo gained a now polnt in favor of tholr cand|dato, from tho: fuct that tho Ohio State Convention to soleat dulogates to Chicago has fixod the ourly day of March 25 for meeting. This carly dato thoy sharchotders get nearly twico the yaluntion of thelr property, The press, which gon- ernily healtated nt first, naw denounces tho scheme. The |" ministerial organs even condemn ft. The Standart anys “The evidence Is unanswernble that the Go ernment ia aquandcring the pithllc mney. Tho Dally ‘Telegraph takes the side of virtue, and says the measure, unless modified, murt bo abandoned. The: strong opposition which has morganized aldrins the speculators, Prices were receding festorday, and to-dny. A aingle jhouso fs reported to have galned $7,890,000, ‘There are munérous ‘sharchelders among the smembers of Partiament, especially in the Lib- eral ranks, But a full thquiry is to be des manded. although the proposal is certain to ment with determined resistance, Iantax, March 6.—Tho Gorman Parliament to-day alecussed tho Wi prolonging the opera tloni of the Socintiat Jaw, Count Von Lulenburyg, Minister of (ho Interior, sald the Socialists pers sinted {n tholr orzantzntlon, hoping the Law would heuxpunged, but, now ft ia probable that the operation of the Inw will continue, they openly prochiimed war against tho Ktate, This. he sald, fully Justified the cottrsa adopted by the Gove erninent. After numerdun speeches, the bill was referred to a committes of fourteen, EXECUTION OF MELODETRKY, THY WOULD-DR ABIN OF GEN. MELIKOPP. Sr. Peresnuna, March 5.—No consclentions rertiples or maudlin sentimentality interferes with th eeution of caplint sontencer in Ite. ala, Melodotaky, who on Wednesday attempted to aesasinate Gen, Mollkof, was tried by court. martial on Thursday, and teeday was promptly banged in the presence of an imimense con- course of al lo, At an eurly hour he was Drought from the fortress to the place selected for lis oxccution, guarded by a compuny of Coraucks. ‘The prisoner was sented fn the black, fourewheeled yan used on atich oeenstone, and hore on his brenst 8 placard with the Snserip- tlon “State CriminaL” Beside the guard of Cossneks there wore tho jallers and a priest. When the procession arrived at the scaffold it is catimnted that not less than 40,000 peaplo were guthored in the Immedinte vicinity. These gen- orally wore a quict and subdued alr, though oc- casionally thoro were beard execrations of the culpritand his crime, as well na now and then 1 mutitered dununelntion of the Government and iis brutul methods, Serious apprehensions of n possible outbrenk wore catertained he nu thorities, und no less than four reyiments of in+ fontry were massed on the groin, forming 0 hollow equare nround tho renfold, and an tine penetrabie burrier to all’ save thos persons tll- thee soncorned in carrylug out the sentence of 6 Court, ‘On tho passage to tho senffold, and during all the preliminary proceedings thor, Melodutaky muintained avulr of the most complote uncon cern, and. frequently bowed and siniled to tho crowd, Ou the scaffold the sentence wus read, hen Meiodctaky again turned and bowed onal {tle reported that at this time ho mut. in low tonoz: Let. the farco be quickly Bult ." Thon he fervently: embraced tho erteifx, and sont n meesnge to his relatives hy tho priest. His limbs were then securely pine foned, tho noose adjusted, and the trap Imnic- dlatoly sprung. After hanging twenty minutes the body was cut down, convoyed to the fortresa, and delivered ta the dissecting-room. Inthe crowd which surrounted the acaffold sere many students, not less than a dozen of the more demonstrative of whom wero arrested and conveyed under strong guard to the fort- ress, Justnfter the trap was spring ono of these eried out: “There ts only one Mellkoff, and there are plenty more Melodetskys."” T' 3 = and the well-ktiown discontented — condl- tion of the atudents, cnused ominous forebodings on. .fimninent serious of - yolt among them. All offorts to extriet the Metals of the Ennigpteney from Melmictaky com- pictely fated, Tho nl admission he would make was thit ho was ordered to do tho deed, nnd that he was not actiuted by personal fo ing. Dut by principle, He continued to aes thut tho tyrant would yet fall by the hand of the uvonger, "It Is understood, however, that clows have been obtuined reyenliug the extatence of plots In which the Socialiats of London, Geneva, and other places are implicated. Detectives hove already beon dispatched to follow up the clows thus scoures ——$—<—<—<—<—_$>$_—_ A VIRGINIAN ON SLAVERY AS IT WAS, ‘To the Editor of The Chteaga Tritune, Garrsnuna, March 1.—Mr. H, Chrisman, of Abingdon, dellyered a lecture in the Congrega- tional Church in thigelty last ovening upon the subject of * Infidelity,” which ho closed with tho following pathotic reference to the slaves as they were, und the poor Irish tenantry as thoy tire, which [hope may be given to a lurger audi- ence through tha columns of tho widely-read Tuinusxe. Mr, C, was born and rajsed in * Old Virginia": t baal ‘9 ecen tha Octoroon maid ns she stood on the block,—ber:father n slatesman, ber mothor a slive,-her brother to como noxt, and their father, though prenlehy, ignoring thelr rief; T have seer tho dusk mothar all tear- jess and stark whon ber jowela were waiting to ba extracted from ther beart-and * shipped "" further South In seatch of a nutéket,” and! never toroturn. [have haird the ornsh of tho lash ng it plowed Aaron tho lines of the binck man's flesh, and heard bis outery for meroy that would have. entered a rock and suffused it with Bhume. And my poor foster brothar, so reckless of himself and so prave in Far qucreals, ins come back to smo bleeding. and mangled, and bruised, by ber muster, not his, for stealing to visit. the wife that hu loved.” But theso things fare past, and live only In song. However thoy sulfured, these poor people never wanted for bread. ‘Tholr mastord, though planters, were not abdentee lords, nor inaccessible to shame. “We come now to behold a peoplo so Uright, sand go brave, so laborioun and frugul as pute all our Inbors to shame, our friends In each contiict, oite helpers in need, and torn by harsh hunger i the articles of death. ‘Tho forefathors, not pati ers, held tho land liko ourselves, and went forth as gayly and peradl y to toll, but tho ine vaders were many thoir standard went down, and wronga aro henped on ther till ‘the base motal that can't pity should be rent back to tho mint and recoined Into men.’ Kobbed, driven, and ejected by their pitiless lords till only love keeps thom elinglng to tholr puor natul spot, snd travesty of bomo,—with no fire to warm them, no window and no door to Iot in the light, no bed buttho bare earth and a few wisps of straw, and no cheerful sound through tho one woary hours while palo infuney creeps still cloger and clogor in search of some warmth, and whispers in ita dreams if it only could bnye claim to bo a strong point in Sherman's favor. BOSTON YOUNG REPUBLICANS. Special Dispatch to Tha Chicago Tribune. 1 . Boston, March 6.—Tho Young Itepublicans,' who, for some years, have mada thomselves folt 4n State politics, held a Convention to-duy to dis-| cuss plana for the coming ‘campaign. The at: tendunce was Inrge, and tho denunatntion of: Grant and Btaino as possiblo candidates cartiest! and Joud, Tho purposos and principles of tho Indopendent Itepublican Committce of Now York and the National Leaguo of Philadolphin; wero heartily approved. The resolutions adopted, after long and earnest discussion, are; We declaro our adheston to the principics of the Rupublican party. Bspockaily: do wo urge. the eatablishmont of tho publio sorvico: on tho basis of intelligence and good con- duct; tho maintenance of specio-paymonts; tho passago of laws depriving yreenbucks o thelr legal-tondor quality: tho management by: tho States of thoir own affairs; the onforeemont of all National laws and tholr mulutenance throughout tho country, f Kurnestly dosiring the success of tho Ropub- ican party at the approaching freatdontiul eleas tlon, we protest against the nominition of any candidate who fs certain to lose tho support of any important portion of the - Tho dor cliuo of the Republicun party front 1875 to 1875 ahowod plainly that the Republfoans oi not hope for success whilo supporting ean dates who {n office do not uphold the rinoiples which the aoke has offerod. It ia our. clit that to submll to such Jenilarhiy fs vo: ‘work dieugter as well ua to desorye it, Nor oan’ tho plea af necessity bo ‘nage to induce us to Rerve under those loaders, for thoro are many Republicans whose yeoord ts freo from avery taint of perenng! or polltioal corruption, whose fidelity to the principles above declared are proved, and whose fitness for the highest office: cannot be questioned. : - : We, therefin trenudualy oppose the nomi- nation of Ulysses 8. Grantor of Jamos G. Blalno,; alnce many considerations will loud large pore Uons of the Republicun party to voto against olther, We will gladly support any man whi like President Hayes, hag shown in words und acts that ho ts in sympathy with tho principles declared by us, and whose personal chnracter is pure and above suspicion. . Koveral sponkers made an effort to have the obnoxtous resolution relative to Grant and Blaine stricken out, and Senator Crocker mud a motion to that effect, but it was lost, te motion indorsing Edmunds was lost, and un allusion to Dayard, of Delaware, us a candidate, caused cunsiforublo excitement, ‘After an oarncst discussion tho sesolufions as was Bp: roported were adopted, n Executive Committee at Largo poluted, and the Convention adjourucd, FOREIGN AFFAIRS. : vectat Cuble, es Lownon, March, 6.—Tho Govornment bil} to! buy out all the London water companios sup-; Plies: a seusation this wook., The rockless: profiigaoy of Mr, Cross’ financial pro-) posals "has Ween’ both proctded anal followed by ‘oa glguntio speculation in shards which’ assumes tho proportions of an} unprecedented scandal. The Guvernmont plodged to‘ adhore jo the markot price of tho: shares last; summer has been shaimelesly’ broken, For £9,000,000 stocks, worth last’ summer 217,000,000, the Govcramont sytous to pay £90,000,000, Since Auguat, and boforv the. terms, of ‘tho, barguin were known, tho shares oso. on -9n. .aversgo BO per occut. Since Tuvedsy there bus been a further riso of 40 per cent, showing the Governinont agrees to, give 0 per cent above the actual yaluo. Thoi Economy says, everything considered, tho bread toturn off tho edge of tho kuives with which its vitals aro torn. “Aman can dio when alone and not forget God; dio on the mountains, ‘mid savages and -bonsta; dio {na gailon, with no water to drink and no means of ogress; dio on the desert sunds, with no wjtncsa but tho stars and no guido but tho aun; dic in a strange ity, ‘mid rovelry and mirth, and still clinging to his Christ, But may my God never tompt mo when my loved ones aro anhungered and uthirst,” ———— Short Weights in Grain St. Louls and Now Orleans. New Orleans Demoenit, Murch 4 Aa Now Orloans is now looming up as a graln- exporting point, and ns there are cheoring Indl~ entions that the prophecy of that long-hended financlor and business man, Jay Gould, that Now Orleans willin three years’ time export mora xealn than Now York ‘and Nultimore together, Will Uo moro than fulliled, the time {is propl- tlous to eall the attention of our St. Louis friends to the fact that grata brought there In bulk has anunplensant way of fa ling. short in oles when delivered at this point, Weare aware that thore $s a natural abrinkege in grain amounting to about une-quarter of 1 per cent, but when, ax was tho caro bore tho other duy, In acargo of 10,000 bushels thore {4 a shortage of faur hundred and fwenty-alr bushels, tho matter becomes sorlous cnough abrinkuze, ic], involved an nctual loss to buyer hers of $580.40, and yot undor tho prosont methods of dolivery of grain at St. Louis thore fy no_reclumution, a8 the bill of Inding is only aligned for a elven number of bushuls more or less. Lt would not bo go objectionable if thors occasionnlly happened to Le more than the apecl- fled number, but the ne vurlotur ayatom of less is fares to bu exccodin iY, monotonous, an calls for a change which will pre rellef to buy- cra in thia market. It is well to. correct those little things bufore thoy if icatioe Into regular customs and rise to the dignity of procedonts,’ It ought to be a very alinple wiattor fo arrange, and in vlow of tho vast transictions which will ‘bo made In grain inthe near future ft would bo wall to udjust all differences at tho start. Wo therefore cull tho attontion of tho sellers in Bt. Louis and the elevator mun at that point to the unmistakable fret that all grain received bey by rivor falla short to a much greater extent than can be accounted for by natural shrinkuge. _——<————__—— Do Hons Lovet In my father’s poultry yard, anys a writer in Chambera Journal, way Cy mecock, tho most beautiful bird of the kind T oversaw, Hu bad suvernl wives, and it was @ curious thing to aco the ditferont atry and cst of the ladies of bis train, He ‘was an ‘Invoterate fighter, if he could escape from the yard, which was sur- rounded by a bigh wall.” By somo means, an acoltont, happened to his foot, and be became Jame, My brother, who wage medical student, advised us to poullico it. Mamma undertakini this, Rulph came cyery: morning tohnye his foot dressed, and though ovidently suifering very. much Allowed ber uttend to it. Butno mnprovement camo, and the peur, bird be; droup, One day wo beurd a toud no famous gamnecook bad come into the yard whon the guto was loft open, uttackod Ralph,, and bad .bexton bim severely, Hy was’ qorely Injured, though be hod defended dimsell well. SManuna pioked bin up and carried lm away, ut next morning he was out tn the yard, waru- ing hitneclf inthe suu. I was glad? wus there to sco whut | thon suy, or el could not havo bu- Neved It. Ralph bud been beaten! te was no longer to be bonorad by bis faithless wives. They came firet one by ono, and thon altogether, jooklog with ull the contempt they could dis. , Onvand another pocked at bim, aud ut’ the protticat, and bis fuyoril, wont - to bim-and gave him & Bovero i But there wae one faithful friend among thou, an awkward, buste | Ving brown ben with no prejonsions to beauty, who flew to bis rescue, glood resolutely before the prostyule bird—for be hud sunk to the if henrttn za, Te wns useless to Jouve him in unt, Ko he and his faithful brown ground with her wi athe poultr; en were placed in the pret the teol-houre boing left open for thetn uring tha night, Home weeks passed, and dtniph grew wenker, wo found him dend, A grave tone: Inne tin wag tig, and his faithfal wife raw him placed Intt. She wus taken back to the yard: but shy never rulleds and, 1 fow days after, we saw hor Iring cold and fifelesd on the apot where tho friend of hor gonerous heart Iny buried. —————— ALDERMANIC. Preparing for the Coming Flectlon— Candidates and Their Prospects, * Aathe tho forthe Aldermanic election ap- proaches the intervst in st Increnaca, and overy day. brings up n score ot new candidates in the various wards, Many of them anninince them- selves for no other purpose than to get thelr names In tho papers, but the majority of the candidates are boing urged by tholr " friends,” and really want the office asa stepping-stone to somothing better. Of the retiring Aldermen, Randers, Phelps, Mallory, Cullerton, McNally, Lawlor, 8myth, and Stauber aro the only ones who aro BREKING NE-ELECTION, and, supposing that thoir ambition will be gratt- fied, nine new men ate tobe elected, It Is very doubtful, however, whether ail who want to bo will be reflected, Sanders will have a spirited fight to miko, £0 will Turner, Cullerton, Mo- Nally, Lawlor, and Stauber,—not only in tholr Fespective wards, (uit agatnst the Letter element of the Couneil, It will be different with Phelps, Mallory, and Smyth, though the indications nro that Mallory will meet with more opposition than he dreams of, What there {a ngalnat hin, however, {s scarcely. worth considering, for it imay be eet down that If he fa not returned an equally good, man twill be. and the same mi heaatdof all tho doubtful wants, ‘Tho reab danger is that the bad mon will be supplinted Dy worso, but, reviewing the whole situntion. thas outlook for the year is not tnfavoranie 1s mirds the compdsition of the Council as cum- pured with the yeur about to close, SOUTH BIDH. Taking the elty by wards, ond atarting with the Firat, the protiabliities are that Dr. Wicker= sham will retire, and that a less worthy person will be elected, which is to be regretted, The Doctor bits mnie a good Alderman, and {6 0 gens tleman of sterling qualities, and ong whose serv= fees tho city can ill ifurd to lose. In tho Second Ward the prospeot fs that San- ders—an ensy going sndlyidunl—will be returned, notwitetanding the fight tohe made tpon him, Tie has behind hint the gas interest, and a great many personal friends as well; and. though hets not as industrious or as ripo x legislator nano it would not be dimeult In his ward to eeentntlve, eo Th does not appenr to he much of any opposition to Ald. Phelps, notwith- standing he is a Democrat and representa a Republican stronghold, [t is quite a compliment: to him, and the ward might go. agrent ways bu- fore bettering itself. Jn the Fourth Ward, ns has already been inti- mated, Ald. Milory will meet with opposition, but there is public consolation In tha fuct that all of his opponents are reputable men. In the Fifth Ward Ald, ‘Turner his eeveral op- ponents In his own party, and 4 Communist te~ ade, Tho Republicans ure not likely to make a nomination, but the chances are that {f Turner should be nominnted they will unite with tho Demoernts in bis support to elect Lim over tho Communist, THY WESTSIDE. Yn tho Bixth Ward the opporition to Cullerton In anid to be Btrong and organized in bis party, bealde the Communists are preparing to elect un individual with an unpronouncuble naine. It is very doubtful whether he onn t tho nomination. and there {8- searcely n chance of his election in any event, unless ho could guthor in the Republican voto. The Commu- nists will not touch him, the Democrats think thoy have better men, and, all’ told, ho hus a bard row to hoe. In the Seventh Ward McNally is thought to have the boom, his aole capital being hia ndvo- cacy of tho Fourteenth-streot bris Ex-Com- Wine. miasioner Carroll, however, and balf n dozen othors, ftmong whom aro Joseph Duffy, aro barking at his heels, and it would not be nsten- ishing to seo some of them mako it warm for - him, His career has net been satisfactory atnil, and rumor has it that there ian move on foot to combine his opponents and the Republicans upon same one of the othor candidates, in which death woul be easy, In the“ bloody Elghth Ward Lawler claims to haye the hoom, but, lke MeNully, he fs being Closoly followed.' His extravagant record hus rut many against him, but, on tho other hand, it has mude hima certain cliss of tax-dovouriny frien His Democracy, too, is new, and fe aid to havo como of bis being dischanzed from tha Post-OMce, which ig ogninst him. Especially Is this true since this ia tho yoar for “Stalwarts,"” and those olf] in tho faith, In the Ninth Ward Smyth docs not appear to hhnve much opposition. Politics thore are very uncertnin, and, standing In with the “ boys" 1s he does, if Is thought he will pull through. Ho hag bohind him the combinations of both pars ties, and itisnpartof tho history of the want that a Republican or Democrat can be clected with, equal facllity, provided tho candidate has the Koy to the game, In the Tenth Ward thoro aran dozon candl- dates, but most of them would be surprised to be nominated or elected, Ald. Elszner will not tinder any ¢ircumstances consent to a reflec. tion, which is a misfortune. The ward hos senreely ever bern as well represented, and it ia not to be expected that his stteccssor, whoever he may be, will bo able to maintain the reputas tlon ho hns earned. tho Ninth, tho ward is very peculinr, and isas linblo. to mn one was ag another. and his clection has always been t myn tory. Ila successor will bo named by a combl- nation, not by the. ple. Inthe Eleventh Ward D. J. Avery Appears, to ‘be the coming man. Ald. Throop could bo casily renlected, but he positively deciines on necount of bis Intending to leave the city. Br. Avory, is a good nnn.—A Kepubtican,—and, whether his “poom ” Insta or not, it {a snfe to say that tho peaple will eleet some good person, It will ba alMoult, however, for thom to find tho equal of tho retiring member. In the ‘Twelfth Ward Ald, Rawlolgh rotires prepare for the Mayoralty a year bence, und for his pluce there are numerous axpirants. Tho ward contutns abundant ocd muterinl, and there fs no doubt but bis shees will fault ton Republican, and somo one worthy of thom, 1. P, Williums, an old resident, scons to have the Tead in the race so far, and be ts ald to be n most excetient man, Tn the Thirtecnth Ward thoro {8 quito a ‘foramble for Ald. Knopf's place, who retires In the expectation ot yotting a soat in the County Bonrd this fall, Tho fight ‘appears to be bes tween Frank J. Smitt and Oscar L. Brady, bon Repuulicnna, ‘and both enld to be good men, Bolh of thom have warm and zealous friends, and {t {a unfortunate that there 1s 60 much fvel~ jug botween thont,—unfurtunnte because It mas lend to tho eléction of a third and an Inforicr tnun, Thoy nro autd to be currying tholr flght into the churches and saloons, and it would not be anfe to predict, what the outcome will be, nor pvon thut Ald, Knopf's successor will not bo a umnocrat. In the Fourteenth Ward Akt. Staubor fs u his own sticecasor, and tt {s not bollavod that ho can bo dofeated unless the Republicans and Demoorats unite upon some one. A wove in the direction indicated is on foot, and a meeting with this purpose in viow {8 to bo held during the woek, but yory little fulth can be pinned to it, because it has been tried bofory without suc cess. A worse man than Stauber mizht: bo found, and (tis certain that the ward contains many bettor men, but with the ascondeney tho Cominunists baye in the ward bis unpopularit; Among his own people will hayo more ta do wit _ his defeut, {f ho is defoated, than anything elec. THE NONTI BIDE. * In tho Fiftoenth Ward the indloftions aro that Aid. Waldo's place will, bo filled by some ona ‘who should not bave {t, Tom Btout ison the war-path, and so are several othors of bis kind, and, unless tho ecne become aroused to the importance af the election, some ono of them wil din,aud tho city will Iose In the end. There {6 abundant, materini. and somo, of it ought to be utilized, since Waldo positively de- el{nes a redtection, In the Sixteenth Ward thore will bo three can- dldates, most probubly, for Ald. Wotterer’s place, and notio of those numed would be much of an improvement over tho old order of things, *Bummot" Moller and o Mr. Imholt are appenl> {ug to tho Mepublicana for support.” Btubl fg the Communtst candidate, and tho Democrats are naming a Mr. Lor i and foveral othors.¢ With three canditntes in the full it would seem that Stahl would win, and thore fe very fittla known of hilm oxcept that bo toa ranter after “division: pr puperty, " eto. From the Seventeenth Wand very little can be oxpeeted, and the race em to bo a yurits~ your plenso agelr. McCaffrey tas minde a good ‘Alderman, but loaves the city tn Muy to go to Jowa, and the pre aey is t his successor whl Do some individual the olty could yet alone without better thin with, ‘no Hopublicans cannot bope for anything, of course, and the Tomocracy there 1s Huble to do almost anything. It ought, howover, to take wp sumo business man and olect bim.¢ In tha meen Ward the vandidates sro tow, and nothing bas boon dene. ‘There will be two vundidates, however, for Ald. J agd the Indications sro that the Youn: Auxiliary Club, will name the successful ono. Phe Republicans can elect a fe man, and ox- Ald, Kirk is being urged to allow the uso of hia name, . ‘Tho olection occurs April 6, and it will be acon thot there is very ftde timo bo espectall: since there ts to be a registration of voters in all the wurds and tho Judges of lection have not yet been appointed, | The Cum- initico on Elections of the Councll meta to- morrow to attend to the latter dotail, and it inust report to the Councll and have the work ratitlod during the. week, for tho registration must commence a wook from Wednesd: twonty days prior to tho eloction, A special ‘imucting of the Council will, nu doubt, be held to uttond to the matter, and tho earlier tho better, for the appointeegmust all bo notified of thelr appolutinent, which 1a no small tusk, — ‘Battie of the Cooks—Hot Mush as 8 Weapon of Feminine Wariure, Pitud: legr| A remarkablo tneldgat mad ‘ono whose se Hous character was partially offeot by ite -ludle croumess, occurred about 0° clock tho ‘other, 1 rheltered him | morning tn tho kitchen o| a avenue, ind Point Breeze, in the Enst End. At that time the cook waa busily toanipuloting tho stirring paddle in a hoge pot of mush. which was atothing and bubbling on tho stove. Thro of the domertica employed in the bouschold were preannt, and while the tmiteh waa being worked up In the proper style the three fell into a warm Afseusaion. Presontly the armimont wie chanyed ged tom queerel. and the females entored Into the diepute with grent relish, Something wan aatddlepiraginaly of tho cook soon aster, and dna fit of supreme anger she retalinted upon the tlomentie who mule the remark ty tending a Indie full of the hot mush direotly inte the off ending female's face, Thus the tight began. Fivo minutes later the owner of the muanston, Atatged fron his shimbers by the nolec. rushed inte the kitchen, and was Ui! y nstounded by The celling, i walla, carpet, and various artic In the apart- ment were mMouely. ornamented with bir chunks of the smoking compond, and the trate domestiva, with thelr bande madly inixed up tn each other's hair, wore piontifully: besputtered with it, ‘The battle had been a hot one in more genaes than one, and after awhile, whon the com Datants hil been ae cach of them hid been bined more or Ieee by tho hot mixture. Smoking lumps of the stuf clithg to thetr hair and ygannents, and on the whole thor were {na plitinble pilyht, The pros rletor did not atop ty inquire inte, the ennse of he tronble. but then and there discharged all of the fomales fron bis employ, THE SOUTH. Some Information as to i Condition. ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Evarrwoon, 1, March’ 1.—Since the War, many Northorn speculators and bome-scekers. bave turned thefrattention to the boundiess intneral and ngricultural resotrces in the South- ern States, which In the past nges have lain wu notteed, or been carried on ina very inferior Atate, But now things are taking 1 change, and tho South fs progressing in nlmost all branches of industry. Thereby sho has thrown hor doors open tonll comers; #9 1 have preparer this puper on the past and present condition of ber ayrieulturiats. Many of the Northarn people do not know what n condition the Southorn people have buen in since the War, The War left muny families nvarly destitute of any means to procure the necessaries of Ife, ‘The country was in want of hoplements and atock, and in some plices of seer, before It coult commonee any improves nfents. When the father, brother, or son re- turnud from the War, he found things at bone ina very sorry and discouraging condition. Many of them had done Httle or no work before the War; consequently they searcely knew what todo, nor how, as their. slaves bad heretofore dono thelr Inbor, Now, as the nexrocs were freo, and their labor had to be pald for, the whites did not have muiticient money, and world not have till they could raise a crap to secure It. Merchonta hud to trust the farmers for almost everything thoy got. taking allen on their crops; and this trusting business fs what has ine ured definitly materiat prnaruss in the South. Farmers ure trying to pull through, and puy up debts that have been standing for yeurs,.so that, fs ench year roiled around, it found thetn fir ilt- tle ur no better condition, and some worse.olf, financially. Thi ‘o but few farmers who are entirely free of debt; but tho majority are gains ing very fast, so that thero isa Letter outlook for thelr future sucecss, The customs of tho Southern ee fe arcs great drawback to themselves and thoir section, ha thoy fre superstitious, conceited, and not adapted to a quick conforinity toa change In ther mode of agriculture that would comply. with the times, ‘Those who are raised in the Northern States do not conform to the Southern ways; nor do the Southerners, on the other hand, agree ton very utc adoption of Norths ern ways: and thia fact ix tho cuusc of some Of tho bard feeling between them. Since returning from tho South, sang ene me, How do the people Nye? and, What ts thelr xen- ern) condition? Well, the planers baye suili- clent of the necessaries of life to make them comfortable; but those who own very amull farms, or rent small pieces, are Hying in a detl- cient state: and, if it were not for the favorable climate, thoy would suffer extreoicly 08 many of them are Uving In miseratilo log huts, which is little better than living In tents. They do their cooking in the fireplace, in the very rudcst of utenall—iying on corn-bread and bucon, with what few. eee. thoy mas: nilne. Thero is not ony family {in ten who know bow to make whent-bread. Whit little wheat thoy get is nie Into sedn-biscults; and they are Bo black and tough that thoy aro not fit to cat. Men, women, and children are inveterate to- bacco-users. I bnye ecen women rub saul, chew tobneco, and drink whisky, equal to any o! tho men; it 1s n hablt that hn grown amon them, and ft will tuke along tlmo bofore it will je erased. Women dress vory plaints. but sometimes very neatly, Plalds are generally worn for every-day. dresser, calicy for extra. They lke tohavoa showy headdress of ribbons. Few wear hats, as thes prefer bonnets. The mon dress mostly in brown or pray, with low brosd-brimmed hats and high-topped boots. Tho Southerners genorally marry vory young. Fifty percent of tho men inary before thoy are of age: alargerpercentoft tho women marry hofore thoy are 18. The proportion of young In- dios to young men {87 to 6. Schools have till of lato years been very poorly Managed, 80 that the poor clisscs were negicct= ed, a8 thelr system of free schools was conducted under diftculties, so that In many districts there waanot three months of sehoul held in cach Year. Schools were conducted more by subserip- ton; su those who could not alford to send the children toa subscription schout hud to ro with out any schooling in the elementary branches of writing, arithmetic. reading, or miner, till hoy ure old chough tw pay thelr own way, Writing is taught mostly by writing-masters, who hold a term of a few days Inn place. ‘The Southorners are grent church-goors. Thoy often ride cight and ten miles, on_borseback or in a lumber-wagon, to hear a_sermon, If is amusing to sve the munner In which tholr serv- fecs nro contucted. In singing, the minister rends Aline ut: 2 time, which tho congregation sings; and so on alternately tiltthrough. |, The resources of tho section are really im- mons, favored as it is with more than 8,000 miles of intand. havirabie. waters, and n const~ Ine of 1,000 mites, which gives the country a large amount of humidity, thus increasing tho raduiution of the soll on ‘all crops. It has also hoe advantage of a larga commereint trade, which wilt grow in proportion a4 the commereii products Increaso, Cotton is tho first article in commercial value; but tho ralsing of it atone, undor tho present conditions and prices, docs not pay tho producer, as Southern farmers are learning ta thelr awn sutisfaction that a mixed husbandry pays tho best, and it ig becoming udopted moro and more every year. There ls not moro than one-tifth of the arable Innd under ond culllyation, but tho quantity and quality of crops per acre nro incrensing cach yenr, 18 farmers aro lessening the rea and increasing the quantity by a more judicious system of cult- 0, ure, It was formerly an opinion that tho climate wus a bar to any extensive uso of white labor, Tohas been fully tested and acknowledged, that Inbor fn the open atr fs feasible tn all portions of tho South, except In tho very low, swampy, and malarious localitlea.; The white Isbor 18 ih- crensing in the rural distriota every yenz, whilo negro hibor Isdecrensing, As tho negrovs like tobe together, thay pre! fer working in towns and villages; consequently, tho towns and villages fare overstocked with hepro Inbor, and the lubor- ing cinssca of tho whitus nro flocking to tho country,-80 now there are many localities where tho work {8 dono wholly by tho whitca, Tho South ts advancing ropidly, Now that tho whites have to make tholr own Ilving, thoy seo and feet the necessity of having prepor tine Piemonte to cultivate and improve thelr coune ry? railroads and canals, to fucllitate all com- morelal transactions; mills und factories, to manufacture all thoy can wt homo; schools and colleges, that thoy can educate thoir childron, which will aasist thom In doveloping all thoir resources of Industry. Those are all coming, and will only take tine to be brought to perfec~ tion. In the South is open a xood fletd for iin- migration of the agricultural fraternity, Tho ollinate is very: favorable for cultivating North: ern grains and ‘Tropical fruita. Tho south should oxcol {n suceessful agriculturiste, bo- eauso thoy can work the your round on tholr farme, and atock docs not noud the care or shel~ ter that {thas to have Inthe Northorn States, Inthe central and southern localities thoy can Falko two ofupe A FOar =n a8 Arcot Crop to ourich the gall, Huccosa awatts the hmmigrint {apropuriien to his fndustrial and ceanomical Material a A Patont Chajke-Mark, Not jong, ait & man appliod at the Patent Once, In Washington, for u patent of nn inven- tion; which was refused bim,as the Examiner said, * because the invention was merely achalks mark,” and 9 maninust be crazy tosupposo that achalk-mark could bo patented, Hut the mut went to court, and Inst week got a devislon it his favor, in the shape of a mandamus compell- Ing the Coninisalnuer of Patents to Insuc tho patent, The Judge said that a chalk-murk could be patontod If tts application was usotul and original. Inthis case it was applied to a luce of panretona. cutina strip and fastencd ina clroular forin, with beveled edyes, bo slipped over guar: puck ets uthor how. = A Transactlon Which Protited All Pare tes. A tondor-heartod atranger of well-to-do ox: terior, passing. by the broud stone steps of Ware saw Catbodrul, porculyed a poorly-dresad wom. anerouched at tholr foot, weeping loully’ and wringing hor bands indoep tribulation. ‘Touched mh ee evidony ‘distr Ee atopped und asked what was the mutter, “Kind, gructous ul re lied the sobbing woman, "I ui the most n= fortunate creature in the world, I want to get my baby oliristened; but the pope demands two les, and [have not a singlo copuck.”. Ie Tout allt” observed tho pitiful wtranger, “Take this five-rouble note, go, stralght to the pope, AY biun bie christenay £60, aud bring mo out 0 three roubles change.” With joyful prompt- joft masses of | rated, it wis found that | of his bounty: church, whence sho. presently ome ed with three allver roubles, which she handel over to her benefactor, expressing her hewrtfolt gratl- tude for his timoty saceor. and her surprica at bis apparently ‘lisiuterestad kindnese, | My, ston) woman.” ansieted the philanthroptate with | a heaming amile, * yourastonishment isuncalled” for, Yort ace, Fam ont of those people who cans not bear to contemplate the unhappiness of thelr follow-oreatures. 1 must always neo Joye ous faces around inc. Besides, everybody cone , corned in this teansnction I profited by tt. -The + pape hae got his foc, your child will bo chris ened, your mind {4 at ense, and F have derived. three good silver roubles from # bonovolent ao- ton and—n bad five-rmablo note!" AMUSEMENTS. CENTRAL MUSIC-HALD. , Iteappenmnce, aftorn year’s nbsonce, of the World's renteat Violinist and the Brilliant and Charming Planinte, CARRENO Friday, Em REMENY! SALE Seats Bori Y to-pay. Ramony! will bo « 4 Mnie, TERESA CARRENO, he MESEGANG QUARTET, Hiss EMMA "THURSTON, , Mr. B. DECELLE, « fut tie cle lise GAVIN, For which Grund Hntertntnmente vckgte will ba wold at a t the Poputar Prices 0 Cents, includin, RSS psy sir, BO Bevonty-fve Conta and One Dotinr, on und attor Chis Morning, at the Conta! Sutestiall Haxumice, In which Two Concerts and one Hapylae Matines ne E HAL, Munagers : ATRE. ae OPERA! 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