Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1880, Page 4

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NEW YORK—loom 23 Tritnine Bullding. FT. Me- appr, Manuger, GLASGOW, HKeotland—Allan’s, Amorican Nows Axvency. al Rentiold-ab LONI Rng.—Amorican Exchange, 409 Strand. igsny F a0, Agent. WASIUNGTON, D. C.—1519 F atroet. — ee AMUSEMENTS. Haverly’s Thentre. Desrhorn sireot, corner of Monroc. Augustin ‘Daly's New York Company. “Wives.” ——— VOTAL ONANGH INSTITUTION, U. 8, A—Untan sfetvors No, 14. Loyal Orange Lodua, at hall cornor Peeve a daumeeaen. itewutar movtime thls oven Hx WLBEctock, All members are expectad to Le ese Ially invited. present. Visiting brothren corsially invited: ag, WIL STAFFORD, Socretary. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1880, TO WOIKING REPUBLICANS. The President campulyn has now filrly opened, The Tepylicans have a magnificent standard-bearer, ntonce # atatesman, scholar, and eoldicr, who $3 Wethy of tho cordial support of every Republican ft.this broad Innd. Every man whe is proud of thepntriotic record of tha Republican party, and dyoted to the honor and welfary of his country, eninot hesitate to sup- port Gen, Janes A. GAltyeip and the whole Republican ticket. The Demo-Confedernte cindidate is wholly ignorant of political and cf-.nffairs, ns his whole life hns been spent In millury routine; those constdorntions, the Republican State Cen- tral Committce ought to interfere nad foreo tho withdrawal of both Dunnell nnd Ward, and Teayo tho fell open for the nomination of a Hus pubMenn candidate who can hakt tho party voto and be eure of an ¢lection. This Ja a lad year to lose Republican senate in Congress by reason of local quarrels. Ovn Monday collection of religious matter embraces sornions by tho Rev. O. HL. Tiifany, at ‘Trinity Methodist Church, on the story of Christ ant the Cross and its effect upon mankind; by Prof. F, W. Fiske, at tho First Congregational Church, ott "Tho House of tho Lord ns a Causa of Joy"; by Bishop Fallows, of the Ieformed Eplecupnl Churet, on “Suppressed Lives"; and accounts of the Sunday services wt Lake Blut, with azermon by the Rev. C. 1. Fowler, and of tho dedication of tho now chapel of the Burr Miyston, with remarks by the tev. C. G. Trus- dott and a dedientory address by tho Mev, Hrooko Herford. A. connesroxpent. at New Orleans gives the antecedents of Col. George Willlamson, who bas Intely left the Repnblitean party and n+ nounced hig intention of supporting Ilancock. It fg obvious that Cal. Williamson was n Kepitbe Ucan while it patd to bo one,—that f8, whilo ho could mannge to get and keep an ollice; but that time has passed for the Colonel, and his nu- merous disuppalutments have conyineed him that every true Southern gentleman ought to be fn Democrat whenover the Republican party fails to make It an object for him to remaln In that organization. fteing originally 1 Democrat, and Inter ona Rebel, nothing Is moro natural under existing circumstances than that Col. Williamson should now support Hancock. A Mosr shamefi! outrage was yesterday perpotrated by a party of roughs, aided by threo Hyde Park police oflicera, upon tho people in at- tendance upon the annual pienio of tho French Benevolent Associntion of this city, which was hold in South Chicago. Not only did these po- licemen took on approvingly while tho roughs knocked down and trampled upon women and children, but St ts satt tho “guardinns of the pene” even assisted tho ruifang in their brutal agsatits upon the officers of the Society and the unoffending men, women, and children presont at the plonie, Tho French’ Society upon thelr return to tho city Inst evening held an indignn- tlon mecting and resolved to prosecute tho plug-ugiles, both in and out of untform, to the full extent of the Inw,—n deterintuntionwhich {t ig to be hoped will be oncrgcticaily carried out. Poor Pelton went to his grave with the humiliating and hoart-breaking consclousness that hie had been made to do duty as the seape- goat for tho sins of his erafty uncle, A letter printed in tho Washington Capital, a Domocratio paper, contains & conversation betweon Pelton ng © prominent Democrat somo time before the former's denth, in which Pelton gave hia friend to understand, distinctly that he had been compelled to bear the IgnomIny and disgrace of the cipher dispatches, and to silent- ly submit to the imputation of having conencted that infamy through excessive zenl in behalf of Tilien and wholly without tho Intter's kowl- edgo. The unfortunate nephew resented thls Imputation bitterly, but kept his uncle's averet. to tho = Inst ond took he is utterly unfit. to discharge tha ‘utente and dificult duties of the Bresidency, and h glected will be nothing more than 0 nose of wax % the nanug of the crafty, unreconstructed, State-u1- premacy Brizadiers of the South. It Is not safo toclect sueh a man, Chief Magistrate of this rrent Republic, ‘The Republicans must confront the *Solld Bouth” by w Sold North, Congress aust bo recovered from thu hands nf the @unfederates and tholr donghtnee alles; aud tho Govern- Tnent must Le Kept ir the control of tho party that enved the UnvT and made a free coun- try; that preserve the flercely asaniled Na- tional credit, restee? the currency to par, filled the chunuels of mde with gold and silver, ro~ duced the publi debt and tho rates of interest, and establish! Keneral prosperity. Tho busi- ness Sntcrest-Of tho country cannot nord to be tampered vth or experimented upon by cure rency quaeS 9F reckless demngogs. Gon. Gan- Flenp wr Sive tho. people a pure, able, eco- nomice #4 efficlent and patriotic Admintstra- Hon, -2 electing blm there ure no risks to bo tinker 88 his wisdom, experience, and record eeatiown to all men. nsupport of the Kopublican party, its cand!- ates and principlcs, Tie Cutcago Trine will make 1 lively campaign. No agency will cone trivute more to the success of the Republican cause than a wito dissemination among the people of this journal, In order to place ‘fue Weekny Trmuxe intho hands of thé grentest posalble number of readers during tho campaign, it will bo sent until atter tho Presidential clection at the following ex- traordinarily low rates: . Hingle copy. Threo coples. ‘Ten copies (ane aikdrera) Forty copies (one address), All additional copies onch 4 vents, Let working Republicans pour in the clubs without delay uayil every readur is supplied, Cror reports from diferent parts of the ‘Weat continuo to be favorable as to whedt, onte, corn, and hy. Six members of the Dominion Government are now in England, and the Canada people are wondering wherg thelr seat vf Government ty, auyhow, Uron the steamer Germanta, which reached Now York yesterday from Liverpoo), dimes Gonton Bennett, of the Herald, and W, Crssius Goouloe, United Stites Minister to Belgium, Wore nmong the passenge! A SHORTAGE of $4,300 has been discovered in tha accounts of the Richmond, Va., Postmng- tex, and unless he or bis sureties mnko good tho deficit within tho noxt forty-oight hours he will be arrested und dealt with a8 an embezzler. 1s attempting to restore peaco botween two colored mon who wero quarvuling ut a dance at his house ut Now Albany, Ind., last Saturday: night, William SMurting, colored, was shot through: the heart and Instantly killed by John Woods, Tr {3 positively vortified by Dr. C, 3, White, Banitary Director of the Auxtiiury Sanitary As- sociation, and Dr, Jones, President of the Board of Henith, that thore Is-uet now and bas not been this summer a cnse of yellowefever In New Orlvans. Gaspetra spoke at o ble meeting at Betlevilte yesterday, and was’ tremendously cheered when hu declured that the new {te publican institutions of Frauce could defy all uttacks, uo matter from what quarter they Anigift como, Between 1,800 and 1,100 Utes are recelving Bupplies from the Govornment at the Southern Ute Agency, und thoy ure sald to be pouceably disposed and Hkely to continue so unless hos Ulitica are precipitated by tho whites, Tholr reservation ja ningty miles in length and fifteen qniles in width, comprising excellent grazing and hunting grounds, They do not “tackle kindly to” agriculture, and will probably never cut much ofa tigure as farmers, ‘These and somo other intercutIng fucta are given In # lotter from Autmas City, Colo., which we print this morning. Ges, Antiun, the Republican candidate for Vice-President ‘of tho United States, has avalled bimscif of tho right of an American olt- Zen to writd u letter of uceeptance when norni- auted for vilice, and tho letterappuars in our col- uiune this morning. Tho latonvss of tho hour at which tha somewhat elaborate document wae put upon the wires for transmission fo the press Mf the country precludes & review of its cone ants at this writing, und tho reader is respec! ‘uly referred to the letter itself for tho views wf Geu, Arthur on public questions, THE row in the Stepublican camp in the Zirst Miunesota Distejet threatens serious cous Jequences to the purty tn the Btato unleas some Adjustinunt can by wifectad, ‘Tho intense uppo- Utlon to the renumination of Dunnell took the ‘orm of w double-headed convention, and t avtuinutions, nulther of them belng procured by ereditubly or regular mothods, In view of the + danger that @ triangular fight tn tho First Dis- trict may result not only tn tho eleotlon of a Dewocratlo — Congressman, but of oo Democratic Legialature, and with it tho, oss uf a Hepublican | United States _ Senator and the gerrymanderiog of tho bate witha view to Democratic advantage in the Increased Congressional representation that follow phy cousua of Lidl—iu view ot oll it with bim to the grave. It Is said by those who know that upto the nomination nat Cincinnatt he hnd lived hit the hopo of seeing his sucrifice of character and manhood serve the purpose for which It was endured, but that when it went for Mthing and Tilden was defeated in tho Cincin- haé Convention ho broke down under the loud, and ted a victim to his unclo’s eruclingratitude and teachery. ‘firs erganizers of a Garfleld and Arthur Club in. Atcen County, South Carolina, published thoir call as an nedvertisement in a Demoeratle Paper, there being no Hepublican paper In that county, but were careful to promise that the’ Movement. shuttid be restricted solely to 18 Electoral and Congressional ttexots. They ovi- dontly hoped by this pledge, which reads strangely. enough in thls “free country,” to. conoiilats =the bulldozing —_etement. nnd obtain permission to conduct thelr campaign without Interference; but the Demoernts were nevertheless ;xreally nston- ished at this display of Reprbienn temer- ity, and at once eonctuded that [t will bo nogea- sary to make an example of the daring organ- izors. ‘Tho local paper which printed the call admonishes the Deinvernts to bo on tha alert and so arect theirforees sto give Unancovk tnd English a majority of 6,000 inn county which enst but5,013 votes alt told! in 1878, and 6,119 1n 1879, From which it is apparent that tho Aiken County Garfleld and Arthur Chub is not golng to be allowed to make much of a showing of votes when tho returns are made up, Anvyrutna for delay, is the polley of the Turkish Government, Boing driven to tho Inst extremity by tho firm determination of Europe to enforce tho decrees of the Berlin Conference, tho Porte bag now concluded to do what it ought to have dong two years ago—to pro- ceed in necordanee with tho provisions of Art. “4 of tho Berlin Treaty, stip ulnting that fu tho event of ‘Turkey ond Grevce falling to: ngreo between thomselyes on tho fronticr quogtion tho Powers reserve the right to offor mediation to facilitate negotin- tions. Ignorlug tho more recent decision of the Powers In tho matter, Turkey proposes nt this Inte duy to avail herself of a clause of a treaty hitherto dotlberately Ignored, and claim tho right to recommend another Conference and fresh recommendations, In the meantiine Greceo Is to bo Kept out of her rights, and ts expected to alt tumely down und walt three years longer for justice at the hands of Turkey. There 1s a strong probability that everybody's patience will give out before long at this rate, and that tho Powers will conelude to * mediate" by such a solution of the troublesome problem ag will wholly ollmiuate tho Turkiab Empire as fA fuctor thoreln, LETTER OF A DEMOORAT. Tho letter of the Mon. P, A, Orton, of Darlington, Wis, renowneing Ms allegiance to the Democratic party, should be read by everybody, It Is a very able paper, It1s doubtful if the objections to Democratic aseendency have ever been mote clearly or forélbly stated than by Mr, Orton fn this: missionless letter, Mr. Orton hus always been a Demoernt, aud has twlee accepted a nomination for Congress at the hands of his party, He never sought those nominations; they were urged upon hin on account of his Igh character and consequent popularity, through whieh it was hoped by his party frlunds that ho would ba able to overcome the Republican majority ino his dtstrict. Doubtless Mr, Orton has long doubted the propriety of remulning In {he ranks of the Democratic party. His keen analysts of the polltical situation shows close funillarity with the events of tho Inst twenty years, und shows, too, that ho has considered those events with ‘the acumen of * thoroughly Informed political philosopher, Ills letter {san arralgnment of the Democrats party, frained with tho precision of # ériininal in- dietinent without legal thw, and with an overwholming array of facta which aro “of record,” and hence known to the Jury of tho people betore whom the ense fs to be tried,” Ile goes back to 1770, nnd quotes Gov. Clinton's toast offered at a meeting of Ravo- lutionary heroes,—" May justice support what courage has galned,”—and argues i refutably that this swine sentiment “ought to have Iniluitly greater welght-with us" than with our forefathers, alnes “wo have sven the manifold dangers. to which the Re- public 13 exposed, and kaye seon the most formidable frebellion fn the world’s history, deliberately orgunlzed for its overthrow, only put down by a sneriiice of fo and treasure whch Is appalling to contemplate.” Ina pltby sentence he states the twa great facts resulting from the War of Rebellion— “tha preservation of tha Union and tho abolion of sjuvery,”—and the two great prinelples—" that no State has a tight to se ecgé, and that the United States Is n Notion, supreme within Its jurlsdictiu, of tho ox- tent of which itJs the solu judge? bi Having laid down his premises, Mr, Orton declares what no mun can successfully dis- pute, that“ whatever the Democratic party ay havy been in the past it Is esycutially JULY 19, 1880. ‘ i ————E—EEeEE——————— and absolutely the party of thé Soll to day.” In support of this allegition iweltes the fact of tho offer of. ‘Sottharn Democratie teaders, i advance, to cktiver the 138 Electoral yotes “of the States which sceeded, or wanted to sededo\ and dare not,” to the Democratic ennididato, for the Presidency. Ite brushes away the dopre- entory remark of Northern doughfaca Deno- erats that “the Domoerntte candidates ata Northern men” with these unanswerable Socratle questions: “Is it not truo that the South ‘vere compelled ta nominate Northern men In order to give any Assurances of suc cess at the election? Could tho South hate dono tess and have been true to thelr pur- pose to get control of the Government? If tho South had the strength unaided to elect a President, will anybody believe Wade Hampton would have stood up, as he did, ta the National Convention of the party at Cin- elnnati, and pledged tho 183, Electoral votes, of the South to the eandidate for President tho North might select? ‘The temper of the South at this timo will justify no such conetusion.” Ho reviews the record of tho Dentoeratic Congress with 9 master hand, showing tts long array.of broken promises, its IneMictency, its utter feylect of its pledge of revenue and Clyil-Service roform, Its xelf- stultifiention in the election of audall,n Pro- tectlonist, ns Speaker of tho fouge, and its attempt to retstablish the dogma of State- tights by denying to Congress “the power to exerelse any control over elections, even when members thereof and a President were to be chosen.) We comment the following pertinent questions, with which Mr. Orton sums up, to the careful consideration of every honest man In this country, be he Re- publican or be he Democrats fa tt wise or Just, and ought the Amorican people to place’ tho iepubile in the contro! of this party of the South? Will the National credit be safe in its hands? Will tho National Treasury be safe iu its hands, or will not rathor tts doors be thrown open to sutlaty the greed of , thousands of Southern clalmants, whose loyalty can be enslly catabe lished to the entisfaction of this Southern party? Will the principle that the Kupublic is a Nation be honestly reapected and nequiesced in by a people who Individually believe that it ts 4 Ile, catablished by might and not right? Is tho right of all classes of citizens nt the South to vote re- spected, go that their elections can be consld- ered afar and Sutelllgent oxpression of public sentlmont? or are such results simply dictated by w class desperate for political power? | Will the North be true to the noble history it bas made, now to pass the Government over to the control of the very men who fought to destroy it? Will this be’ just to tho memory of those sialndn its defense? Can tho politicians of tho eaay-golng South npprecinto tho necda of the. nod w Frey io Mlapoeed to resurd thom Dir. Orton Is a very modest man.” He offers no defiance to anybody, Ho is quite cool and dispassionate in the statement of his position, But ft fs in order for some member of the Democratic party to answer tho mumerous interrogatories’ of which Mr. Orton’s notable letter is composed. They aro siinple questions, addressed to the com- mon understanding of the ordinary citizen; and unless some grent chief of the Democ- racy takes tho trouble to answer thom, to explain away the points involved in them, ‘thousands of honest Democrats are likely to be converted to Republicanism by the strong Arguments and logical conclusions In which they abound, Wo chatlenge the Democratic speakers and writurs of the country to‘answor Mr. Orton's letter! THE WEAKNESS OF. THE SOUTH. Mr. Secretary Sherman in o recent paper published tn the Independent discusses Vir- gluta’s weak points, and claims that her lack of advancement lias been due to slavery, proyineialism, “State-rights,” and the ab- sence of any spirit of Nationality. ‘The de- serlption of tho causes of weakness on tho part of Virginia is quite correct, but the aumoe genertl stutement might be applicd as well to nll the Southern States. It fs true Virginia liad an exrly prominence In tho pollticnt affairs ond In the pro- ductive interests of the country which wns not possessed by several of the other Southern States, and, while the term of not-progressiveness might be applied to most of those States, Virginia hus positively retrograded, and It is not inappropriate to spenk of the netual decay of Virginia, While, of course, the failure of Virginin as con- trasted with the Northorn States Is confessed, her failure as compared with other Southern States Is hardly less remarkable. After com- paring the condition of Virginia at the time of the Revolution with that of the Northern Colonics, Mr. Sherman says: What {s the logiv of this great change? Tho fault bas not been In the. wnystgnl strength or Intellect of Virginians, When they have gone West thoy baye contributed tacir full share to tho improvement of thelr new homes, The Virginia settlement in Ohfo, composed almost excl cela of tho descendants of tho Revotu- Yonnry soldicrs of Virginia, isamong tho most ‘prosperous in Oblo. The magnificent courage ‘of tho sang of Virginia on tho wrong sido in the Civil War is freely acknowledged = by friend and foc, ‘Thoy proudly bonst of their statcamen, Inwyors, and patriots, and every Amorlean citizen’ freely admits this boust, ‘The immortal roll of great named fur- nishod wy Viryinis to the Union can be re- pented by schoolboy; and yet tho fact an must be ad mitted that in physient Hovelopmont, production, property, improvement, and credit bho 14 far behind States with inferior natural re- wourees, Jt faa deticate tnsk to gunerniize about a matter Nke this; but, when tho fuct is 80 patent, wo may, without’ offense, inquire what are the cnuges, J thin those will be found In tho adoption by Virginit of 0 few faulty ine stitutions and “osmas, proudly clung to, 18 mother will cling to hor eformed chitd, because no one else will love it. Tho -first of these fatal institutions ‘Is -sfavery, and upon this Mr. Sherman says: The oxtstenco of slavery kept from Virginid ho Hugi tuintrious ingalpeetion wien fed up the North and West; and yet, by Inducing careless culture in land, -malnly conduated by élaves, it impoverished cho soll and proventod n dtversity of industries. The workstops of Low- cll and Lawrence night haye hoon more readily: located on Chg dames or Potomue than upon tho Merrimne, The harbor of Hampton Roads and the wators tiround aro equal, if not superior, to hose of Now York. Slave Inbor, however, 18 ee adapted to manufactures or commerce; but ean only be prothably employed In tha ridest Aine’ pidend away’ thory ts Nothing te proven Nitwinis regaining il tint she has lost by slave jabor, A second cause why Virginia has been lett belilnd in the race Is snid to bo the adoption of tho doctrine of “ Virginia for Virgin- tans.” Shortly after the War—we think In 1606—there wus convention: of the plantors of the southern part of Virginiy and of thosv of the northern part of North Cara- ‘nn, All the counties on both :sldes of the Mne were represented, The proceedings of that convention were remarkable, ‘The do- struction of slave-proporty was of course In- mented, but submission to the great loss was adinitted to be inevitable. Mow to mect this loss was the grent sudject of discussion, ‘Sho scheme to employ the Inte slaves and pay them wages was scouted as something too gross to ask of Southern freemen; it was also generally held to be degrading to expect aSouthern gentleman to take the place in tho fleld lately oceupled by slaves, Finally {t was resolved to sent to Europe and to tho Northern States and se- cure white Inborers to como to Virgluia and North Carolina and porform the work of cultlyating the Iand; but it was also voted that in bringing these hardy white men tu the South tho latter should be notified that they must come as laborers merely, and not under any expectation of becoming land: ownors, because It was due the character of the Southern people that every acre of, tha soll of Virginia and North Corolltua should forever romain excluslyely the property of Virginians und Carolinians. The unaiijulty with which, this last resolve was adapted was of itself on explanation of tha’ @vead- ence which has attended these States, arid of the false thogrles lu which these veuule bad States; to belittle tho Nation, Deon eduented from generation to genera- tlon. ‘Tho next cause of Virginia's weakness Is her devotion to tho theory of State-rights, ‘After explaining the foundation of this doc: trine, Mr. Sherman says? Tho original doctrine af tho Itesolutions of 108 was harmless onoumh until it was extended aonato deny to the Federnt Government the ower to onforce Its laws and to devkio upon the Finite of Its powora, Asn consoyuenco of tho doctrine of State-rights the people of the South rity enn to worship thalr States and to finte Thole vountrys to believe that Virginia or Routh Carolinn. was greater than tho United H i Ae Reich lens maintain our relations with fordign coun Ties ‘and develop and blend into harmony and werlth tho industries and produotions of tuany Btates, This doctrine tonds ty olevnte the States, whose adutnistration should be sinply dome: flo: while the Nation excrelses nll power dommerce and anjoys nearly nil the great antirced of IndiMet taxation, ” It wag partly t! dloyation of the State ntove tho Nation that lod i Virginia to burden heraclf with adebt that sho iis now unwilling fo pas, and to attempt turks of Internal improvement which the Natlon alone Ane reso! tocope with, Since the adoption of tho Constitition tho States aro go limited fr “tholr powors of taxation that thoy should con- + tract ne debt, but should apply the direct taxes, “wich tnolr people eatr readily ie to the tlo- meatie obfects for which alone they should be: loried,—tho matutenance of thelr courts, tho support of thelr sehools, and tholr local roads aud charities, What thoy xo boyoud those and Kindred domoatle. powers, thoy trench upon the duties of the National Goverinent, and erlpple thelr own resources, The doctrine of Stute~ rights prodiees provincialisins, Jentonstes, and alike: cultivates a narrow instead of a Na tloonl view of things; and {6 still one of tho dapgers thnt threaten the country. As ‘we have snd, the theorles, social nnd poftieal, which have cursed Virglula for neirly a century liave been spread with dis- astuus results to other Southern States, ‘V4 Carolinas, Alnbamn, Mississippi, Lonist- ans, Tennessee, and Arkansas have been largely paralyzed: by the same malign poll- eled, Missourl, owing.to some Northern im- migration, has been somewhnt relleyed of thae Intnences, but a large part of the State fg‘atill ny benighted as Virginia herself. Tiere Is much work yet for the wlssfonary tn those States. Education ts the seed which ismostsatly needed, With education wilt grow. wp expanded ideas; new teachers and Teadyrs witl arise to teach new doctrines, politcal and social, and with these new teachings Virginia and the South will under- stané and eventually embrace that broad Natbnality which Is now so cordiully hated, —————— A WAR AGAINST EXCESSIVE TAXATION. "The South Ameriean States appear to have f peatiinr facility for getting Into war with ench other without letting the world know whatit ts all about. ‘The first news that usualy comes fs that a very brisk war is go- {ng on; tho next, thot the strugate has re- sulted in defent to one orthoother party; and the next Isa statement of the enuses, This has born the ease with Buenos Ayres. The first nows was of n desperate struggle be- tween the National Government and tho City of Buenos Ayres, ‘Then ‘followed tho news of thotriumph of tho National Government; and naw we ure enabled to get at the cause, which appears to be one purely of taxation, The story {s quite an Interesting one, and Its development covers a perlod of almost 1 quarter of a century. In 1858 the Dictator Rosns wasdefeated by the Argentine forees under Gon, Urqulzn, who attained to the supreme power, which he exercised wisely in the Interests of com- merce gud the development of the country. ‘| ‘The people of the City of Buenos Ayres, however, fancied that he was bent upon make Ing himself Dictator, shut him out ‘of: tts gates, and elected Dr! Obligaio Governor, Urquizn Intd siege @o ‘the city, but was finally defeated and oblged to retire. In 1863 Buenos Ayres becqme a separate Repub- He, and Urquiza estabilshed the seat of government for the, Argentine Confedera- tlon at Parana, In 1859 he again crossed the frontier, and war Dbegqi, the final result of whieh, two years afterward, was the defeat of Uraquiza and the ‘a{iftiation of the army of the Confederation by; Gen. Mitre, who, In 1862, was eleéted President of tho Argentine provinces, and Buenos Ayres surrendered her customs revenue to help support the cost of: tho National Gayernment and Con- gress, - Tho troubles of Buenos Ayres began at this point, Jer only public debt at this timo was ono of $10,500,000, contracted in England in 18%, Owlng to tho civil war the Congress funded a debt pf $15,000,000, Whei order was restored, however, trade and im- miletation Inereased so ‘raplidly that the rey- venues wero greatly augmented. Finshed with sucess and ambitions to extend thelr linits, the Government, arranged with the Brazilians for the conquest of Paraguay, A Joan of $12,500,000 was negotiated in Lon- don, The war Insted nine yenrs, costing Brazil $205,000,000, and the Argentine Re- public lost $40,000,000, besides 35,000 men. In 1808 Dr. Sarmiento was elected President, and, the war with Parsguay belng over, he commenced the spread of eduention and de- velopment of rallways, A fresh loan of $30,025,000 was negotiated in London. Com- merce flourished, lmmigration Increased tn mensely,s aud land speculations were in- augurated In a manner that would even astonish Chiengo speculators, ‘Two more Jarge loans were negotiated In 187t and 1872, andl Buenos Ayres soon had a» bubble blown of colossal proportions, It burst In 187) Tho failures in three years had antounted to over $10,000,000, In 1874 Dr, Avellaneda was elected President, in the midst of this financial crisis, Durlng:tho next two yenrs thore was no rellef, On the other hand, mat- tera grew worse. ‘The foreign traders luft tho country rather than pay the heavy taxes, a\s almost the entire reventie was raised from imports, tho Congress uvery yenr tried to offset the declining revenues by ralsing the alutivs, until at last they reached 50 per cent ad valorem, In 187 the Finney Mister In his dire extremity applicd to the Bank of Buenos Ayres for 9 loan af $20,000,000, It was refused, and nll the Directors resigned, The Prime Minister, however, finally'suc- ceatted in getting It, but-it was only ndrop inthe bucket, A correspondent of the Lon- don Thnes says; ‘Tuxes vational, tnxes provincial, taxes mus nielpal rained on tho heads of the cittzens, tll Dr, Mlestra declared that if this coutinued © the awutboriticd would drive the people mad with taxation.” And still the exodus of [tallan huck= sters and Irish sheep farmers had no cifect on tho obdurate poiley af the ruiors. Duflelta piled upon doficita during a loug seriva of titteen years bad now grown colossal, Dr. Restra advised the Government to suspend the sink- ing fund on all debts, and pay tho interoat in’ yoll, but tho foolish avi-disunt finunclor luughed at. him und suid the crisis would Tho detlolt in I87V wus tho smnllcst ever known,—only £470,000,—but tho taxation was terrific. A. lottery loan (olfering prizes of £4000 for 10 shillings) was created by the local Leyisiatura, and taxes on rallway-tickets, on Bttvot-portors, etc., were algo resorted tc, All fo" yuin, Another lorn of 500,000,000 from tho bank would baye put covery thing. straight, but nolthor the Minister nor the public could think a again “watering the stock” of the poor papor hy . The currency doilar or piastro has now fallen to throe-halfpence,—say 10) per pound,—and gold was at G) per cent promiuns, ie currency ‘Wag, thorofore, in too desperate a condition to stand anothor lasuo of paper dollars, Of this taxation the great burden fell upon Tuenos Ayres. With but & per cent of tho population, sho had-to pay 98 per cent of the taxation, bealdes the cost of local adminis: tration, amounting to $5,000,000 por annum, They have had to pay alt the rmilrond def- felts, the snluries of tho offlelals of tha uvpor provinces, and subsidies almost without uiumber, rey At lust tho load beenmo 80 Intolerable that the people at the last election Inaugurated a revolution, with Goy, Texedor, who hind re~ ceived the yotes of Buenos Ayres and Corrl- entes, at Its head, and opposed the National Govermuent, with i, Koen, who had recelyed the votes of twelve provinces, io at tho head of tts forees. Iecent dis- patches show that the National Cov- ernment has humbled tho rebellions, tux-rhdden elty, nnd that ita unfortunate neo- ple will have to continue being stripped to support the otter thirteen provinces, which are Inzy, aud poverty-strleken, and squalid fn overy sense, and will continue so na long 98 fhoy enn live off the people of Buenos Ayres, "Tho condition of our own countrys century ngo was so similar that tho Bnenos Ayreans deserve and will receive yory general sysnua- thy from Americans in thelr unfortunate plight. — et THE DOG-DAYS. ‘The dog-tlays are now upon ts; or, rather, they aro upon the inhabitants of places less fortunate than is Chicago In regard to stin- mer heats. Where we have had 9 few warn days, the folks elsewhere have been literally broiling, St. Louls, New: York, and other intermediate, as well as extramedinte, places have sweltered, and stewed, and steamed undor tho raglig heat of the season, which, almost from the immeniorial, has been known as the dog-days; of which It fs pre sumed every doz lias one, Jt isa falr question, why the most oppres- slvq part of the yearshould have been named’ after a domestic animal instead of some member of the famjly of wild beasts, It woukt have been natural cnough to connect It with “the Hon maging to devour,” whieh Jong since found its.way Into the Zodinc. But why the dog? Some of our readers tiny De Interestetl in following out tho thread of thought which connects the two and ex- plains one of the most widely-spread super- at\lions of the elviltzert world,—the fuea that dogs are peentlurly Hable to go mud fn the hot weather. 7 ‘She fixed star Sirlus, the brightest In the heavens, popwarly known as the Dog-Star, now rises at the same lime asthe sun, In thls Jatitnde, {1 the fatter part of August. Astronomers toll us that owing to the pre- cession of the cquinoxes this rising occurs ench year n tite Inter than the year pre- vious, Hence tt formerty rose with the sun eatlior than now.» A few thousand years ago it peeped out In the eastern twilight, just before sunrise, to the inhabitants of the land of Egypt, shortly before the antnal overflow of that country by tho River Nile. Ience tho first sight of this star before sunrise was ansiously looked for as a precursor of fi most {important event, and the star eame to be regarded ag a monitor of the approaching overtlow. From the idea ofan inanimate monitor or sentinel to that of an animated wateh dog, was not na very Jong step, in an age when action of any kind was necessarily represented by some animate object, aa pictorial representation was tho only known mode of recording action or thought, In later years the stars near Sirus were classed, with lim, intoa group, and called “fhe Dog.” Then followed the Idea that tho thne during which the sun was slowly passing those stars, at the rate of about onodegree per day, belonged to, or was presided over by, the dog, ‘The days com- prised within this period are: ever sineo called “the dog-days.”” ‘Tho {dea spread, with the march of man- Kind westward, and was embalmed In the lnngunges of the farther West, But the rea- son was not present to those who did not live In Egypt, and It gradually died out even to the Kgyptinns, as the precession of the equinoxes carried the sfar past, and hassince then continuously widened tho time that clapses between the rising of the Nile and the morning appearance of Sirius. Nothing wns nore natural titan that the popriarmind should invent a reason which it could under stand. and apply. If thera were any connec. tion between tho dog-days and the dog race, It must be that dogs were peeulinr- ly alteeted during those days, sud ¢s- pecially imoro linble to that dreadful. disease for which there was but one known remedy—denth, And so ft became settled that dogs go mad during the dox-days, ff at nll, and ft beenme recognized as the Christian duty of persons in authority to issue an annual proclamation against and avout dogs, justaga certain high authority ones fulml- nated his bull against acomet. Heresy It Is in many parts of tho world to-day to doubt it, nnd gross neglect of duty to omit the ac- eustomed warning to dog-owners and com- mani to policemen in regard ta dogs without: owners, And so the dogs still die that a superstition may Hive, though there fs far less renson for the existence of the superstition than for that of tho antmat--which fs Ilttle enough It a elvilized community, THE STOCK OF GOLD, ‘Tho Nation bauks of the country had on deposit on the Ist of July about $90,000,000 incoin, of whieh all but a suiall sui was in gold, At the same date there was In the ‘Treasury about $202,000,000 of coln, of which abott $140,00),000 was In golds there was In auiditlon in the hands of the people and tn banks other than National a sum of gotd coin equal perhaps to $00,000,000, showing that on tho first dny of the fiseal year 1890 there was tn the country nearly 800,000,000 Jn gold coln, ‘AL tho same date there was in silver dollars and tn frictional silver coin about $100,000,000, making an-nggregate of gold and silver coin in the bunks, tho ‘Treas: ury, and tn the hgnds of the people of $400,- ),000,, y Some tine ago there wns an attempt to erento an alarm by a story that purehuses had been made of gold for exportation, in anticipation of 1 scarelty; the reason given for this untieipated: seareity of gold being the incroaso of our finportations for the term of ‘high prices diffing Inst winter; but the Increase tn the value of our finportations of mmerehnndise was inure than offset by an in. erenae In tho value $f our exports,—leaving still n balance due {g this side of the ocean, Tha demand for gold for export did not, therefore, arise, and If any person bought gout at a premium in anticipation of a searelly, then it way clear cnse of uilscal- culation, a Tho story of an antielpated demand for old for exportation was made the occasion for 9 fresh onslauglit upon allver, and It was argued that the coinage of silver dollara was {n’some way responsibly for tho scarcity of gold,—a searelty, however, which did nut happen, All the gold organs and all the antl- silver oflicials in tha Treasury at once re- newed thelr appeals'to Congress to dia continus the silver dollgr, and thereby pre- vent nsearcity of gold, + ‘Those who recall the frantic opposition of the New York and otber bankers to tha re- monetization of silver: will remember that in addition to the ‘proiifction that, if silver wns coined, the Government credit would bo so destroyed that not another bond could ba.gold at par, it was alsu predicted that as soow ag the silver dol- lara were coined the gold would jncontinent- Jy depart from the country; that it would noyer cireulnte; that tt would be shipped to the Olt World, and there would be nothing left at home but debased dgllars of paver and sliver, This prediction was vehemently urged upon Congress in various memoriala by New York bankers, and by somo Chicago bankers, all of. whom represented thomselyes as experts In nancial atfairs, aud entitled to have thelr prophecies respegted, ‘The Gov- ernment has been colning silver for near- ly two years, and during those two years the tow of gold Into! the country hos been almost continuous. First, the bulk of thy American bouds beld abroad .placu where our Julls now wero sont home, and at Inst the gold was forwarded, and tins continued to come evor alice, Notwithstanding the enormous purchnses of foretan merehandise Inst year, there was nenrly, if not quite, $100,000,000 of gold sent hither, nnd the flow of gold to tis country during tha flsenl year which began on the 1st of January will probably be with- out precetlont. ‘The presence In the country of $00,000,000 of gold and silver coln is evidence of the National prosperity, It Js substantial ant conclusive proof of the great abundance with which the American people are blessed, and the contrast between the present flian- cal condition of the people anid thelr condi- thon n few years ago is most striking and In- structive, The bulk of this coln Is on deposit In banks, inthe ‘Treasury, and in the yuults of varlous finanetal and other Institutions, It 1s subject to call, and fa available for use, 11s presence liberates an cyttal amount of paper, and puts the Intter into elreulation, for: which Its coyentence makes it preferable to coln, ‘There fs $65,000,000 In silver dollars tit tha ‘Treasury which is not In general cireula- tlon because the paper money fs more cur rents there 1s $100,000,000 In golt coin in the banks and $140,000,000 more gold coin in the Treasury which is not In general use be cause the paper money and the certifientes are more conventent and as valuable for all purposes, ‘I'he valuo of this colin is none the less beeanse tt fs not in use; It is within reach, and Its presence warrants the release of so much paper which would otherwise be withheld from general cirentation. . No surer evidence fs needed of the prosperous condition of the people than the urge necumulation in the country of gold and silver coln,—reat, actral metalile money, Rover Con.yEn’s lecture! New York on capitat and Inbor contained a very full sketeh of Jncob Bright, tho father of John fright. Friend Jacob—he was n Quaker—wns i cloth manufacturer and founder of the prosperity of Rochdale, Eng. The cobperntive ‘association of Rochdale, now famous the work! over, was ore ganized by men who bad worked in Jacob Rright’s factories, Jacob was an orphan and was sent by Quaker friends to Lancashire. Tle master was part weaver, part farmer, “and could turn yon aut on the Innd when your cheek, grew pole and your chest hollow, ond go take eare that tho craft did not devour the man, as it does now so fatrlly.” At the end of hie 'pren- ticeabip Jacob hnd good health, n dollarin money, and an ambition to rise iti tho world, He began life sa a journeyman weaver at n dollar and nhalfn week wages, Home timo-after this tho Brent factories, run by machinery, began frst to ‘be started in Lancashire, and the young Quaker determined to establish ono of bis own, Sone men in Manchester furnished the capital. Jacal Bright founded his factory on a system which seemed then, and would still seemn to employers: generally, crazy and ruinous. Instead of setting out toget the most work for the least pny, he bad n theory that the interest of employer and employed was mutual. Nay, ho wont even furthor. Toasmuch as be knew hiinseif to pos> sesa “tho brain and fine powers which lead to fortune,” by so much he considered himself the more bound to deal gentrously with thoac leas ‘Tichly =cndowed by Nature. The Inbors. of hls) workmen = guined Friend Bright's wealth for him; ho consliered, therefore, !t was his business to use that -wenlth in some mensure for thelr happincss 03 wellas his own, He belloved that It was his business what hismen did outside of working hours, since ho bad thus brought thom together ing body. Ho held that to some extent amoral responsibility rested on him. One of his udble weaknesses waser love and pity for children, and he willed that no Jittle one in bis employ should work too long or too hard. He abolished tho strap In factories; and Robert Collyer, in bis Ieotutre, suld that ha wasoneea. factory boy in England, and bad often felt the strap himself, But Jacob Bright used to stand’ by his factory- gate at night, and hold a lantern Myhting tho children out himself, putting the small and fee- | ‘Ule ones in tho curoof a trusty man on thelr road home, He wea yenerous to a fault with his money, but not a penny would be pay yol- untarlly of tho English Church taxes, Ie dld not velfeve thoy were right. So, year after yenr, .the Cbureh of England parson in Rochdale got out warrants ngninse him, and officers went to his mill and levied on whatever goods thoy could find. But Friend Bright stil “stoou by bis testimony.” He ca- tablished a spirit of,unton amony his people, and engendered such enthusinem that he was * yepaid for hla paing many times over. Ie grow to bo one of tho most powerful manufacturcra in England, tho owner of four great mills, run- ning 40,000 spindles. He nover had a strike in those milts, Hs distinguished son saya that in fifty-seven years, with 2 singlo alight exception, there never was a brenk ‘ora Jnr botween cme ployers and employés In the milts founded by Jacob Bright, “He hired thotr hands, and thon won thelr hearts and ennobled thelr lives," says Robert Collyer. ——————>__. A taner Republican ratifeation meoting was held in Galveston last week. Ono of the spoukors sald; if Lover was sorry for some of my friends, it was when poor Hortco Greeley was thalr enndl- date, and now we are ayaih culled upon to mourn nnd pity them at the «ish thoy. swear 1s splendid turkoy, when itla nothing ‘but crow, crow, crow, A” Federal Genera! nt tho herd of the table,—Gen. Hancock.—and nt tho foot a “blouted bondholder” nod banker—Mr. Ene ghsh,—for whom no Democrat over before hud any use, Rusa thom plenty of enit and pepper. Tf thoy: must forever ent crow lot us muke It as palatas le as possible for then. Gov, Pease, the old untagonist of Mancock, sald; . if I believed roscnted for that my Democratie friends had ho offices of Hresidont Gon. Wine Held Seott. Hanvock, ut soldier, becuuse ho dls. tinguished himself in tho suppression of th rebellion which thoy inaugurated, 1 would give thom eredit for caudor, but they did not select him for that canes, Thoy selected him because ho hus been. tdentitied with the Demooratia party ever alnce the close of tho Rebellion, Thoy selected bin because ho had been chosen by Andrew Jobnson, who had eed all tho means: in hig power to defeat the reconstruction laws, if fritter away and destroy the effect of those awe. . Several of tho speakers referred to tho fool- ish polley of tho Democratic Administration of tho Stato which had built up expensive prisons and permitted the school system to dus cay.and fallin pleces, Under tho Republican Administration of Gov. Davis schools tlourtahedt In Texns, and public education was promoted, Now, In the langunge of one of the resulu- tions ailopted at this mecting: ‘Tho Democracy baa ignored school-houses and substituted In tholr stund paluco prisons, notas Die for tholr elegance und Imposing architest- tro, which dollgbt the we und nitmiot, rather than repel the erlminaf, Tho structures nro erected hi the most frequented places in Texas celtics, thus diguifylng crime, Th other centres of olvilizution tha schoo! potas, oceuples tho and, ro Tuy Nashville (‘Lenn.) stmertcan, 8 Dom- ocoratic paper, priits an extract from a Ietter of a prominent Missourian, an carjest supporter of dtr, ‘Tilden, and alse a supporter of Hancock, whotn be bas known for imany years, and with whom ha served in tho fietd, This writer says OF Gen. Muncock + ig , ‘hon approached & member of the Gove ernment, iy Decumnber, 18 and asked tf ae did not consider it bis duty 1s u soldicr to boy ull the orders of his superior oflicers,—a mout inuld- fous queation, naked with a crooked purpose,—bo gone jetely tolled the questioner by replying: “AL lawful onlora.” The consequence wis that orders wore prepared weal, Hancock to the Pacitio coust, aud roplaving bim by MeDowell, but the Electorat Comuilssion provented tho confirmation of the desiyn—that ja, the change bevamo unnecessary. Northern Domocrnts dony that Hancock was a rovolution{at In 1870; but it 1a nuticonble that. Bouthorn Demovruts don't deny it, They Hike to bollove it 1s true, Johu Hay, a very careful man, says In bis letter to his Cleveland friends that Hancock's supposed fuellty to Tilden and infidelity to bis country was used as an argue mentin bis bebalf at Clucinnati, and had much to do with sceuriny bi thu nowiluation, a Mayon Lrwis, of Knoxville, candidate for Congress in tho Ninth District of I!iuols, mado an upparent slip of the tongue, already noticed by Tite Tribune, whon hu sfld, 14 his specoh of accoptance, that, if vlccted, he would represent “ tho wealth, tho Intellect, and the uristocracy of tho district." Tho Knoxville Review puts a better face on ft, by this explanations + When Mayor Lewis was making hls acknowl ments to the Convention at Pourla, bls eeo- oud sentence was this: 1 will, if ‘elected, eateorn It a great honor to reprosent tho wenitn, tho Intellevt, and tho nristocrnoy of the Ninth Distriet,"—nid at this point cheer Interrupted the continuance of the sentence, and in the confusion the spesker talled to take up tho thread and finish the porlod. He would havo added, & For U regard tho industrial interests which compose the weatth, Intellect. and arise focracy of the country ‘as paramount to nil othor interests,” But the Peoria papers, forall this explanation, to not take Kindly to Mr. Lewis. Tho Journal, van Independent newspaper, demands that to shall withdraw, and tha Transcript, whose editor was acandidute against Lewis, is slgnificantly | dumb, 14s to bo hoped that those Wttle feelings will bo harmonized. beforo tho olcetion and Tewis bo sont to Congress by 0 good majority, ‘The district is too close to permit any bickering within the party. Whiting had but £80 majority {it 1874, and Hoyd had M47 in 1876, and In 1873 ho wag elected only by a plurality of 741, tho Green. back candidate polling 3,748 votes. The ftepub. Nenus of tho Ninth District ahould not fool away. ony of thotr strength by needless wrangling about worls. $< —_—— Ex-ConanussMan Rainey (colored), of South Carolina, made 1 little speech to his felunds in Huntsville, Alu, tho other day, In tho course of which he satis It would be far better for all th States ir thoy were only more Hboral in tholr.views, If thoy would only recogaize tho rights of ever; mint and allaw bin to epenk and act for himself, fe wwould tend to the. prosperity of the enuntry and your Industrics would revive, and your gen eral’ interests would, receive at finpotus thi nothing tmder God's heavens could) prevent, You have your fue hitls and mountalns, the bowels of whieh are tiled with ore that [3s tmnk« ing people in. othor puris of this country rleh, and = powermul, | Intluential, white you ure, In the South, standing, 3 it were, with Folted arms against poverty and against want looking tipon tho hills. They will not burst forth and give you tholr richer be- eanse you will not use the onergy ind persevers anes that dre essentinl ty. birt ait those things that are buried within thoir depths; and whily uu do notdo this yourselves, beeatse of your intolerance, becsitse of your wantof the nflow- aneu of difference of opinion in yous, mist, the men who would do ft, who would bring capltat and cnergy and came bere and develop them idl brig out tholr riches, stand olf aud sity "No, wo will not go there; we will go to the cold and * icy hillsof Nevada or Colorado; we will go tu tho Territory of Dakota, of Wyotniny Washlnge tun; wo will go beyond; we will go into Orexuny hut'ns for the South, from all such eundition of things, good Lord deliver us." And go they atuy muyay. Cuigressinan Ralney's head fs remarkably Jevel, and when he spoke to his colored friends of thelr intolerance, liztness, and want of sense, he mernt hls words to be Iiberatly appiled to their white neighbors and political rulers, a JAN, 17, 1808, Mr, Forney wrote from New Ortouna to his paper, the Philadelphia Press: Lowisinna and ‘Poxas scom to be reserved ns tho especial trophies of Gen. Hancock's stttes munship. Since bis advent there has been noth ing but confusion worse confounded. Every mull brings tidings of some new Hebel outrage, un old Conservative newspapers ke Fake's veston Hiletin do not withhold the facts, proving, the calamities of Mancock’s administra. fon tn ‘Texas, Nut Forney now decinres that Hancock {¢ “superb.” In 1863 Forney was prosperous and didn't want anything; now bo isn’t exactly so, nnd dovs. It's a simple matter of judgment with Forney. He is like the uetive youns poll- tiohins who Jump into the Democratic party be- enuse itis easier ta become Icnders of a mob than of an army. So tho chance of getting of+ flee for n man Ike Forney would be inflnitly bet- ter under Hanvoek than under Garfield. Forney docsn't object that Hancock hus no experience in clvil affaira; In fact, he tikes Hancock tho more for that. His Inexperience might——mako Forney « Cabinet ofiecr; and nothing else could. ————— Tur School of Philosophy at Concord, Mags., under the superintendence of A. Bronson Alvott, 1s now well under way for the summer term, Tho attendance ts double what It was Inst year. Mr. Alcott himself is not the chict instructor. This honor devolves upon Dr, Wille fain ILurris, of St. Loula, welt known ns inex pert in the selene of education, and 9 con- tributor to various philosophical publications. Another teacher is Dr. H, K. Jones, of Jackson- ville, HL, w setf-targht student of Plato and Aristotle, whose mind 1s saturated with the spirit of the old Greeks, The Rev; W. H. Chan: ning wilt deliver four lectures ‘during — the seugon, Other lecturers are Mr, Alcott, tho Rev Dr. Kidney of Minneapolis, Dr. Elisha Btulfurd, Mrs, &. D. Cheney, Julian Ward Howe, Prot, Benjamin Pelree, Dr. Bartol, Mr. Emerson, De. Hedge, and Dr, Andcew P. Penbody of Harvard. Since tnst yearn new chapol has been bullt for tho use of the school by Mra. Elizabeth Thomp- gon, of New York. Le Tr nomination of Sparks In the Sixteenth IMngls District for reClection to Congress ts not getrong one. Sparks was clected in 1878 only by uplurality. Ho ts not personally popular, and ran somo 700 behind his ticket in 1870, Sparks 1s adyed-in-tho-wool Democrat, and a Rourbon of the old school. There fs n decided {mpres- ston in thodistrict that hla style of statesinnn- ships fast playing out, and that a more tlberul and progressive man would Setter repregent the dlstriet, The Springtlotd Journal snys Sparks hns for years been known as 1 moncy-shark. Hla savings 18a lawyer, bis pittunco As « Congress- mut, and the small percentages pleked up by suvh Congressinen, by virtue of being “on tho Inside," have all been securely and_ safely an- chored in cast-fron mortgages; whoro the cent per cent fullcth not, and the law can If neces: sary recognize and claim its own, Porsons dulng this Idind of « business are not popular churic> tera In tho Sixteenth District, and it would not De surprising if Sparks’ vote should show nt other considgable diminution at the next elec ton. ————__—— ‘ie following Is the population of tho ipringipal cities of Minnesota by the census of 4880, compared with thut of 1870: 1880, 1870, abies ts inyocg Ps Minneapolls,,. Rt. PAUlseceoee 20,000 Winonu. bate 40 Bullwater, 4007 10) Mankato. 34 ill Heed Wins. 4s Faribault, 401 at Ttochestor 3 Jinstings. My Duluth .. a Owatonna, us + Peter, ” Tanke Cit + St. Cloud, it Austin, 1 Wabashi 2 Irinerd a Albort I O Chattlold ” Moorhead ” Sauk Centre,., 1,108 ” Tnx edltor of a colored Journal in Alabama tells his readera “ What I Saw in Chicago": A publioschool of Nifty pupils, of which Ave were colored, taught by nt colored lady, Jess prejudico on account of color than in any other city wo huve visited, 9 Tho finest hotels in tho United States, tho worst payed strects, tho most dingy-looking * Dullding stone, and tho feast rogurd for the Bab- with, " ox, % ‘Tho most disarrecablo audionces for any pub- , Ue spenkur who dares to assert’ opinions contre ry to general expeatation, ee Enough hagh-houses, ut which you ean got & :, meal from 10 cents up, to board a’ yast army of polltical tramps, Thesv are recommendations that will invite 0 now colored oxodita vory specidily, It's welly perhaps, that tho colored editor didn't seo Biler avenue, Ou tho whole, be ja quite right in giv ing tho colored populatiqn of Chicago u bib charucter, — Wann M. Auuister, 2 Harvard student Dought a through tickut from Now York to fue ton by the Old Colony linc, Owing to competl: tion the through rates are less than tho rates from Now York to Nowport, a part of tho dls tunes. Allistor wished to go to Nowport, an trlod to got off there, 3c was promptly. stopped by tho guard, and compelled to pay 60 cents ud> ditfonat furo, Ho sucd the Company and re covorad #20 damages, Judge Bucon, of Bostom in passing on tho case, hold that tho Company could have aucd for tho oxtra 60. conta on the ground that the pussonger was guilty of breach of coutract in leaving before his doatination, but the Company had no othor remedy, and no right whatever to restrain tho pussonger of his Mberty; a tradesman might ae wotl lock bis sture-door tll! a customer paid bis bill. a A JAVANESE tralning-slilp has arrlyad on tho Paottic Coust. It has a crow of O37, a full comploment of oficera, and thirty cadets, alt gruduates of tho naval college at Toklo, The eadeta are all young men of-bigh family, aid speak Engllsh, Alt the commands are given I English, Tho cadets wake four aunual erulscs gud are thon examinod in navigation, after which ordeal, if sutisfactorily passed, they sre uealgued us firsteclass midsbipmon to the yptl- ops ships uf the navy. Duriug these cruises the cadets ary required to taku observations dally atY a, m., and to make the calculations un thelr ¢