Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 5, 1881, Page 4

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HOND, #0, DAVID GOODWIN, Recorter. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1881. Tre elty charges four and one-third dol- lars per month to the proprietor of a whisky shop, aut proposes to charge five dollars pur month as Heense to the man who rups the street telescupe, ‘The one ts open night and duy, rain or shine, while the other flnds It Inpossible to ply his vecation more than avout two hours ‘per night on the average, and not inany nights during tho inonth. Cho one necessitates the use of police uflicers and justics ofilces, with ocensionul appents to the mnjesty of Stato law, while the othor tends to clevate, and refine, and pacify poor human nature, It really scems as If the powers that be are proposing to tax tuo much the glass that eduentes ay compared with the glassy that denioralizes tha people using ft. Tis star-ronte orgin seems to think, or + trios to convey the iden to its renders, that the members of the Clvil-Service Commission uppolnted by the President tn the spring of 167) were employed by the day, and charged $60 per diem. ‘Che fact ls, that four of them wero tendered by the Governtient $2,000 each for thelr services during the perlot of tho organization of the board. One of the jmembors we belteve received the tull amount; the others lesser sums, ‘The editor of ‘Tie ‘Tumune accepted one quarter of the sum. tendered to him by the Government, and Jeft the remainder in tho Treasury. He has no objection to haying this record compared with the nection of Mr, Folger, who strenu- ously endeavored for years to compel the Government to pay him 8816 per day for 226 days, in addition to his regular salary of $6,000. yeu, for recelying money from sale of revenue stanips on which a commission jad already been pald to the purchaser, All the money received by tho eaitor of ‘Tae ‘Trinune for hls services on the Civil-Service Commission dic not equal two-thirds of tha amonut fora slugle day charged by the naw Secretary of the Treasury. ‘The peculiar de- fense set up by his Chicago organ does not help tho looks of ifs record very mueh, ‘THe Inst move of the Land-engucrs to de feat tho operation of the Lund but by urging tho tenants to rush on mussy into tho Land Court for appratsats and thus block ft with an overwhelming mags of business will have no effect, for as soon ns the court has deckted a fow cases, and landtords and tenants seo the driftof the decistons, they will come to- wether and amicably settle upon rents, and this will bo done In alarge majority of cuses, this rotleving the court very speadily, ‘Thils done, the Lind League itself will be retleved of any further buslness, for ag soon as tho tenants sizu thelr contracts for fifteen yenra, with privilege of renewal, they will settle auletly down, and the leaqud will dissolve for want or anything to do unless Ibmakes sume now asus, ‘Pho recent action of some of the Irish In voting the ‘Tory ticket at the munteipal efections will amount to nothing Inthe Juongrun, [thas grown outoef thelr resentnient for the tmprisonmentot Parnell and his followers, but this is only temporary: ond will secon dio aut, ‘The Irish aro not go ignorant uate cast in thetr lot permanently with tho ‘Tories, who are thelr hereditary onenles, and were they tn power would ree peal tho Lint bill, aud against the Jlberals, at whose hands alone they can hops to better their conditios Tuy New York World, though avowedly afree-trade organ, fins joined in the ery for the abolition of the Internal-rovenue taxes on whisky and tobacco. ‘The World is well aware, of course, that the sulv object of this movement Is to attord a pretext for- keeping up tho high duties on hinports, The aboli- tion of the Internal-revenue taxes was orlgi- nally 2 Pennsylvania “idee? and Republics ans were the first to propose ft, Willan 0, Kelley, Senator Don Cameron, and the Phila- delphia North <luterican, all Republican, eave the movement a fresh start a fow months age, Someof the more prominent Dewocrats, fearfulof belug teft behind on this question ay they were In the tarllf dis- cussion of the Presidential year, have made laste to udopt tho program of “No Iutors | Nal-revenuc taxes” ns a Democratle measure, Sam Randall in his speech at Cooper Uuton tast week holly advocated It, and the New York Sunand World have both favored it in teading artictes, that of the Int- ter belng entitled “Down with the Internal- Revenue Taxes.” ‘The movement is likely to have much strength in the next Congress, and there is danger that hy a log-rolling combination of Southern Democrats who want free tobaceo, Northern Democrats who Want free rum, and Enstorn Republicans who want an exense for a high tariif on im: ports, this antl-reventne Lil) may pass. Irs highly provable that the recent move- ment in Confederate bonds {s n sort of stock- Jobbing trick which willeventually enable n fow stiurpers to realizeon a certainamountot waste paper they have. collected. It hins fre- quently been demonstrated that speculation can bo worked np toa high pitch by excitement An stuil absolutely ns worthless ns the mori- bund securities of the defunct Confederacy, doy Gould could probably pince steck in Wall street representing a fantastic scheme for a railrond to the moon, and so, manipu: late It ns to Rive itn quotable value and witl- inately retire from tho operation with o profit. It ts certain that stocks hayo been run up te ov pretty high figure that never paid ndividend, and never will pay a dlvle dend, It is just possible, however, that there may have been s depostt in the Bank of England to meot: tha payment of Confed- erate bond cotipons falling due on dan. 1, 1855, and that the collapse of the Confederacy shortly nfter deterred holders of the bonds trom presenting such coupons for collection. In any event, if the United States Govern- ment has, as is reported, $50,000,000 of those bonds and can sell them for any amount In cess of thelr value as waste paper, it wilt be wiso to make the sale, The transfer shoult bo made “without recourse,” and any funds current which sich a sale -may bring to the United States Treasury will be about the only Indumultication ever recoived from the South for Its treason, ‘Tur senior Chiengo organ of the spolls- hunters and star-route robbers charncteris- tically defends Judge Folger’s Wlegal at- tempt to grab $185,000 from the Government. ‘The organ begins by giving away the whole ense thus: ‘Tho Inter-Ocean docs not think Judge Folgor. showtd buve been paid his claim, though Itscarce- ty thiyks he showed himself a dlshonoat inant bo- cnuse he tested the matter. The star-route organ Iscandid at this polut, but at no other, Itdoes not have the cour- age to state the ense falrly for the benefit of its renders, so that thoy may know what tho merits of the controversy wore, and what “the matter”? was that tho too-ctrrlous Fol- ger desired to “test.” It does not cure to say that Foiger demanded $t85,000 extra com- pensation for 226 days’ service as local Trens- urer at, New York, though he was at the same thine pala reguiay salary at the rate of $8,000 per annum.- Nor does the star- ronte organ daro to quote tho United States law which makes it “a misdemeanor punishable on conviction by fine or impris- omuent, or both,” for un Assistant Treasure er “to charge or recelve extra compensation, or pay, or perquislt for nny service of any character or deseription whatsoever.” ‘Tho “organ” purposely refrains from vonsiler- Ing the ease on its merits, and wanders otf into trrelevant twaddle about tho Civil Serv- ice Commission and the services of the cdltor of Tie ‘frisene in connection therewith, lt can’t divert the public from the main ques- ion In this way, and {€ tot prepared to Justl- fy and defend Solger’s attempt to Heh Sts5,- 000 out of the National ‘Treasury it would do well tu kop its mouth shut. Folger fought for his grab from the ‘Treas: ury Department to the Court of Claims, and from the Court of Claiins to the Supreme Court, Mo Ieft oflce duly 1, 1870, but did not bring sult for double commissions until May, 1875, Judgnient was pronauneed ntealast him by that court In 1870, Ile.then appealed and this Judgment was renfilrmed by tho Supreme Court in March, 1881—nearly eleven years after he left ofllee, LE this Ins dicutes merely a legal interest In the aues- ton of double commissions, as the star-route organ says, the fact of Kolger's professtonal perslstence ought-to be known, Jt may be thought to his credit by lawyers that he tirst Invented an Hegel eltim for $185,000 double commissions, which no oficer of the Govern nent had ever made before, and then pressed it for eleven years and was beaten at all polnts, ‘Tite: history of tho internal-vevenuo taxes on whisky and tobacco in the Inst fuw years may be of Interest now, In view of the prob- able effort to huve’ them Inreely reduced or wholly abolished at tho next session of Con- gress. ‘These taxes were instituted under the general law of Congress providing for au Internal revenne known as the act of July 1, 1862 ‘The tax on distilled spirits under this net was only 20 cents per proof gallon, Manufactured tobaceo (exclusive of snuif) valued at more than 30 cents a pound paid a tax of Qf cents n pound, and tobacco of less value 10 cents a pound. Smoking tobacco with stoma: In it pald 5 centa, and wholly composed of stems? cents, while snull was taxed: 20 cents, ‘The next act was that of March 3, 1865, under which distilled spirits pald 60 cents, snuff, cavendish, rnd other chewing tobacco 40 cents, smoking tobacco 85 vents, stems 15 cents. ‘Tho act of March &, 1867, ralsed the tax on diatited sylrits from v0 cents to $2 per gallon, July 20, 186%, the tax on spirits was reduced to 50 cents por proof gallon, the tax on snuff and chewing tobacco to 53 cents, and that on all smoking tobacco to 16 cents, Under the act ‘of duno 0, 1872, the tax on all manufnetured tubneco was put nt 20 cents, and the tax on whisky was raised to 70 cents per gallon, Muroli 8, 1575, tho tax on distilled spirits was further ralsed to 0 conts, and that on nianu- factured tobacco ta 44 cents, ‘The tobacco tax was reduced again Mare 1, 1870, and Is now 10 cents per pound on all manufactures of dobaceo, except clyars, elgarets, ote, ‘Tho vartations of price In cents may be sean ata ginnce In the following table: * Sbirita Zetwteeo " Otte JY prerend, Pe y aid stGost) ‘The ralsing of the tax on whisky to $3 per gallon in 1807 was aftyposed at tha tne to bo largely in tha Interest of speculators, ‘Tho Increased tax coutd not be collected, ‘The huducement to evade the Inw was too great, and in one year tho revenno from xpirits fell aff from $33,000,000 to $18,000,000, ‘Tho 0 cent tax brought up the revenue the following yenr to $45,000,000," ‘Tw 70 cont {ax of 1873 inercasud the rocclpts to $33,000,- 000, and the revenue In 1880 from the 8 cont tax was 261,000,000, Part of the increase is to bu acequnted -for by the natural growth of the country, the auppres- sion Of © mnuonshining in the South, and tho honest collection of the revenues In tho North, In this connection It may nov be amlss to notice that from 1870 to 1871, when the whisky ring was in full operation; the revenue from whisky fell off from 855,- 000,000 to $40,000,000, or 0,000,000 In one year, most of wiilch was stolen, us there was no change In the tax, “Pho tobacco-tax hing brought Jn a steadily Jucreasing rovenue asluost from tho iret until the last reduction to 16 cents, ‘The various classifications of chewing, stnoking, snl, stems, ete. were a conventent cover for fraud, aud the plan of levying a uniform tax on all kinds of manu- factured tobacco except clgara and elgarets was adopted in 1868, ‘The revonue fell off slightly under the 20 cent tax, but came up agaln under the 4 cent rate, In 1879, before tho reduction had falrly gone into effect, the revenue from tobaceo was $40,155,000, In the fisenl year of 1880, under the 1d cent tax, It fell off to £88,970, 140, in spite of the great in- crease In produetion and popufation, and the great netivity of trade and prosperity of the consuming classe: . POPULARITY OF SILVER. Under the uct remonetizing silver dottars the holders of silver bullion were quthorized to deposit It in the ‘J'reasury and take out certifleates, fhe same privilege docs not ex- fst with regard to gold. But it was ultl- mately declded that’ all persons receiving money from the Treasury, whether silver or gold, could redepostt it fn the ‘lrensury and receive thorefor silver certilleates, ‘This transferred an amount of silver dollars in tho Treasury from the credit of the Govern ment to the creditof the hotders of the silver certificates, practleally putting that amount of silver dollurs {nto cireulatton, the Govern- ment holding the silver coin ns security for tho redemption of the certificates, ‘The result of this policy is, that Instead of the silver dollars, the property of the United States, remaining In the ‘Treasury, which fact wns always referred to by John Sher- man agan evidence thatthe silver dollars wore n tiscless and senseless coin which the people would: never touch, it now appears that of all the silver dollars coined since 1873 there aro now only 243,000 in tho ‘Treasury lying idle, ‘Tho mut has coined over §100,- 000,000 In silver dollars. Of this suty $60,- 827,070 aro represented by outstanding ‘Treas- ury certificates which circulate 23 money; 8,000 silver dollars, the property of the United States, are in tho Trensury; and the remninder, some 40,000,000 coln dollars, aro In tho hatds of the people. For a jong time the practica hins been’to deposit gold coin Ini the Treasury and.take therefor silver certificntes, and in this way all the silver dollars coined by the mint have buen exhausted. ‘The colnage of silver dol- Inrstias been at the average of 2,000,000 a month, and the whole amount coined has been put into circulation, either in the form of silver coin or in that of certificates, ant las been added to tha currency of the coun- ho ‘Yreasury has now been compelled to suspen the regulation by which sllver certifl- entes have been issued tn exchange for a de- posit of gold coin; the Treastry has no sil- ver dollars agalust which to issue certificates, the deposit of gold and silver coin belng In exces of the amount of silver dollars pro- duced by tho inint. Hereufter, thd Issue of silver certificates must be Ihnited to the amount of silyer dollars dcposited with the Treasury. Last spring Mr. Knos, the Confgoller of tho Currency, commented with much force upon tho “barbarian” practice of paying and receiving gold dally by welght, Instead of permitilug it to remain bt the Treasury and haye it transferred to and fro by checks or by certiflentes, Now, when the bauks wish to draw gold coin from the Sub-Trens- ury it has te be welghed out lt parcels welgh- Ing a half ton, a ton, or oven as high 2s elght tons, and carted through the streets; andon the same day other parcels of the sine welghts are carted through tho streets back to the Sub-Trensury, ‘he use of the term “barbarian”? in reference to Uils price tice Is not too strong, particularly when tho transfers of monoy through tho bunks of New York City by cheek exeeeil $100,000,000 aday, of which not moro than 5 per. cent is in netyal cash, . ‘The reasons’ governing the action of the ‘frensury Department are not always under- stood, Why the gold held’ in the banks and in various institutions, ns well us by indi- viduals, may not be deposited with the’T'rens- ury ‘and certificates fssued therefor Is not understood, We have never met with any explanation. It will he seen that the great public will readily exchange their coin, both gold and silver, for the Governtnent certlil- entes, redeemable on demand at any Sub- ‘Treasury, ‘There 1s noe question that if per- titted two to three hundred millions of the gold coln now In the cuuntry and hold by private persons would promplly find its way Into the Treasury In exchange for certificates: of coin, and in that form would be added to the cttrrency of the country. The present regulation serves only to force the coin out of sight and into private honrding-places, Wo wish to remind our anthsilver friends, espeelally of the banks, that thelr sanguine predictions that if silver wore remonetized every dullur of gold would ily the country, and would stay out, and that our silver would sink to tho level of Continental or Confed- erate money, have nob been realized. One hundred millions of silver dollars aro nlont and, performing the functions of monoy, and the Government hus at Inst been com- nelled to suspend the exchunge of atlyer cer- tileates for gold coln ut the ‘Treasury, for no other reason than that the mint falls to coin tho silver dollars In numbers to equal the demand for that purpose, ‘Ihe exehangs of gold for silver is arrested because of tho want ofaflyor dollars to mect the domand! CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE, Sir Aloxander Galt, one of tho created Canadian nobility, in.w recent interview strongly denied that there was any public sentient In Canada favoring the fndepend- ences of tho States of thu Dominion, Hoe elahued that loyalty and devotion to tho British crown were untversal among tho Canadians, and especially among the French, but no particutar renson was given for this unusual love for tho British connection anong a people who aro now as essentially French in thor customs, habits, manners, and associations, and In thoir Inws and Ht erature, and in thelr language and retlglon as they were when Canada wis a part of the Freneh Empire. That the French poputation ta extremely Indifferent as to the general pollileal conci+ tlon of the Dominion is largely duo to the fact that the French portion of the populne tlon of Canada lives within Hself—hns {ts own local goverment, is own officers, aud eares us Nittle what ts done in the other provinces as if It had no pollleal association with them, ‘Tholangunye of thesy people is almost exclusively Fronch, A hundred years of conquest has made but little proge ress In Anglicizing them, and It is dus to the polley of allowing them to remaln French in all thitigs that they are so Indiiferent to the condition of belng part of & British province, Almost absolute nointerforence with this Trench, population on the part ef the British rulers and the concession ‘to them of exclusive control in nll mate tors pertalning to shelr local alfairs makes tho burden of a’ British Government as light to them us if thero was not an Engllsh- speaking fnbabltaut of Canada. The French population of Canada Is not Awmerlean, Ene alish, British, or Canadian; it ts French, and Js permitted to rennin French, This popus lation, howevor, has lately beon disturbed by 8 Jarge exodus, ‘The wouds of Mutne and the manufacturing districts of ult Now Kus «land are filled with Froneh-Canudiuns, young mon and young women who have crossed inte the Btates and engaged in pro- ductive Inbor. ‘Tho orlgtual purpose of these f upon such a tend) people was to- come to Now England, earn wages, live econautcally, hourd their sayings, and fn thine gebrektoCanada. But tho intlu- enco of personal contact with the Amertean peoplo Is Irreststible, and these people have had thelr notions of Ife enlarged, and tho young people who have determined to stay, who haye married and obtained permanent homes, areanninally inerensing, and each year tho settlements fn this country aro present- Ing a more Irresistible attraction to tho peopic of Lower Canada, Canada, therefore, Js at present drained of both tho English and the Fronch speaking population, Those who revisit their homes in Canada carry back with them strong de- serlptions of the new and varied Ife in tha States; each of them Is % propagandist of Admertean Institutions, and each of thom tells the tale of American growth, vigor, prosper: ity, freedom, and independence as contrasted with Canadian stagnation, weakness, dull- ness, empty and costly parade, dependence, and a lifeless and profittess British connec: tion, ‘The ultinmte end of such a Govern- ment thus welghted down fs patent to all. ‘The obstinacy of tho ruling class in adhering ton connection for no other purpose than to be dependent on a Ilttte island beyond tho ocean does not gommend annexation, es- peclally ag the bust blood of Canna, of whatever orlgin, now finds its way In the very vigor of manhood to this country. ‘The Canadas are n mere preparatory school, f tralning ground where Canadinn young men are eduented for active, cnergetic, and intelligent Amorican citizenship, No nadian, unless for somo exceptional cause, who comes to the United States to petter his condition ever goes back to Canadian leth- argy, or to the ridiculous sentimentality of tho “{inperin! connection.” It has been sald that thera aro as many Arish and descendants of Irish In tho United, States ag thero ary Irish in Ireland, and it will not be many years before there will be ag many Canadians and thelr descendants in this country as there aro tn Canada, and the comparative material prosperity, freedom, nnd tndependence’ of tha two branches of the Canadian family will indieats how heavily linngs the’shadow of decay over the land) where the “imperial connection” fs still maintained, @ ‘The British connection is, of course, & source of wenkness to the Canadians, and the Canadians must break ft, or It will break iiself, ‘Cho British Government Is heartily tlred of having the American weakling hang- lng to its skirts forever exclaiming Mvtoo,” Let Canada assert iis independence; let It modornizy Itself; let it have « Canadian Government knowing no higher allegiance than to the Canadlun people, Let its Goy- ernor-General bo a Canadian representing iis own people and his own country. IIs people are Atherleans, uot English, Irlsh, Freneh, or Seoteh, and Jet the Government be National, independent, and entirely free of that cofonial weakness and dependency, all tho more offensive because Inststed upor, after tho parent Government. has grown weary of the connection, Great Britain » few years ago distributed 8. fow titles. of the lower grade among some of the politicians of Canada, and by holding oiit the hope of such-honers to others has given now inspiration to the “loyal” fecling of that class of statesmen, But oven at this early day it 1s more of a Joke than of respect to refer to these favored gentlemen as “Sir? The Inugh always follows the title, ant nat urally so faa country that Is going to seed, and whose population is escaping from it tn every direction, THE NEW YORK TARIFF CONVENTION, Extensive preparations are belng made for the National Tarif Convention “ for protec- tion only,” whieh Is ta be held in New York City tho Inst two daya of thisimonth, ‘The steel and from munufacturers, the woolen and cotton manufacturers, the potters, the copper aud nickel, brits and glass works, aud, we presume, the whole Ine of protected manufacturing Interests, wil be represented, ‘rhe ostensible purpose of holding this con- vention is to suggestand urge “corrections”? In the present tariff, which fs sald to contain many “Urregularities” and “diserhininite tlons.”? Ag a inatter of fact, the convention has been enlled to make n demonstration aginst any reduction of tho excessive duties onmany lnports. It may be that some atten- tlon will bo given.to oxisting anomalies in the present tariif seale, but it is protty cer- tain that none of the currections which shall ‘be proposed will be In favor of a reduction ofany of tho high taxes on consumers, For instance, it is sald that steel in the form of blooms pays 8 higher ad valorem duty than the speclile duty paid on steel In Ingots, while stecl in colls ty admitted at a Jower duty than the Iattor. Here, then, aro threorateson steel, necord ing to the particular shape In which it fs hmported, and no doubt much unfalr discrimination arises from the discrepancy. It Is safe to assume, however, ihat the system of adjustment which the ‘Tarlt Convention shall recommend will be to Imposy the highest of all three of the pres- ent duties on all steel Importutions, it indeed It shall not actually. propose a uniform tax ow the people higher than any of the three rates now In vogue. It wit! not be surprising if the convention shall develop a clash of interests, For ine stance, the papermasers may urge on abotl- tion of the duties on blenching-powders and wood pulp on the ground that-putp fs the chief material from which they manufacture, Atall events, such a elaine would be consist- ent with the theury of protecting American winnufactures, ‘Tho inaltsters will bo still nore unreasonable {i thelr demands, ‘Shore Is now aduty of 20 cents a bushel on mult, which {sone of the materials used in the muantfacture of beers, But oven under the operation of this high duty the‘ lmportation of Canndinn malt has been Mtereasing sone- what fora number of years, and the Ameri- can maltsters want theduty raised to 25 cents per bushel, It will not bo surprising If the "Lari! Convention Indorse this proposition, and thereby seek to Increase the Inconalsten- cles of the tariff rathor than correct those which now oxist, All conventions and conferences of the protected and atbstdlzed classes look meruly to thelr own soltish Interests, and every plan which shall be suggested for curing the de- fects of the present tarilf In tho Interest of the people will tnko the direction of assess ing more taxes upon the consumers, If there Jato be an evening-up of the dutics on steel and fron, then it will be proposed th negess the highest existing rato ot duty on any artl clo on all forms of stee! and iron rather than lower tho highest existing tux, If thero.[s to be any adjustment between the manufacture orsof pulp aud the manufacturers of paper, then it will take tho shape of lnereasing tho amount of “protection” fur tho pnper- mukers Jnstead of striking off tho unfair and Inconalstent udvantage given to the grinders of basswourt logs inte pulp, Ifthe conven tlon shull approve of the demand that tho duty on malt shall be increasud so as ty cut olf all importation from Canada, and ratse the price of American malt, then the brewers will be told that thoy can get even by churg- ing higher prices for the beer, ‘In all cases of adjuatinent. and “zoform” indet the nur spices of those who enjoy the bencilts of the tarlit, It will fnyariubly be found that the interests of the consumers reccive no consideration, whatever. ‘The .varjous branehes of coguate Industries may agree _to the mother count ‘Is no coal nent of duties ns shall be reciprocally satisfactory, but the result of such an agreement will bo foun to assess the users mul consumers of the vations man: ufactured articles more heavily than before, "The object of the Free-Fraders Is to lovy a tariff! “for rovento only? The object of this conventlon will bo to levy a tart for protection onty, the higher and more prohib- Story the better it will sult them, One of the abns of the Natlonat ‘Tarif Con- vention i¢ suilleicntly revenled by tho an- nouncement that one of the lending features of tho acgston wit! bo a paper by “ Pig-fron” Ke! in favor of “tho speedy reduction of internal taxes by tho General Government.? ‘Tho reason why a speedy reduction of inter nal taxes fy desired (the abolition thereof 18 the ultimate purpose), is to forestall any movement for modification of the tariff taxes by thus sacrificlag alttho surplus revenue which now goes toward the payment of tho National debt. ‘There will bu nota singto word uttered in fayor of tho speedy redic: tlon” of any part of tho customs taxes on the people which onnble the manufecturers to exact excessive prices from the Ameriean consumers. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PANAMA CANAL. So far as Gen, Dutler approves of the posl- tion tnken. by Seergtary Blaine tn his recent diplomatic note on the subject of the Panama Canal he ls allright. . That position, as wo wnilerstand it, is about this: A French com: pany, under the leadership of M. de Lesseps, and cneouraged bythe provalling mania in Frunee for spceulative Investments, is bulld- ing A eanal across the Isthmus of Panama, A proposition has been made that Engtand and France, and perhaps other European nae tons, shatt enter Into an agreement guar anteelag the neutrality of sald canal. ‘The Anerlean Governinent protests agalnst such weombluution, and clatnis theexclusive right of guaranteeing thy neutrality of such o cn- unh: first, upon the basis of a treaty with tho local tiovernment which Is of longetand- ing; and, secondly, upon the brouwd ground that the interests and safety of the United States Governmont. aro opposed to any ox- tension of Juristiction on the part of any European Power over any por- tion of American territory. ‘This protest anounts to a notlee that the Amer! van Covernmént wil not undertake to stop the French company or any other company of cnpltallsts from bailding a canal aeross tho Isthmus of Panama, but that it regerves the right at any timo in the future when it shail seo fit to enter upon the pos- session of the canal to the oxtent of asserting its own rights and preventing any enemy from making use of the highway to the prejudice of American Interests. Whether tho Freneh company shall elect to completo the eanal under these conditions, or whether the European Governments shall determine to unite ina jolnt guarantes of neutrality in defance of the Amurican protest, remains to besecn. in any ease, however, the Woyorn- ment of tho United States has given warning that It may take possesslon at sume futuro day agalnst all contestants. In going beyond this position and borrow- tmz trouble as to war with England sono day, Gen, Butler has stmmoned up o buga- boo which is neither formidable nor tamil- nent, He siys: Insplte of alt the “gush" at Yorktown, and Jntely over tho nssusinntion of our Ercaldcut wheroin all the Governments of furans. viet with ench other to show by tholr sympathy how much they wero opposed to ussasination of a ruler. so Chit some wicharitabis people might think they desired to teach thoir dubjoota that America, tuo, had come into the family of King- ly nations, hiying suifercd by nséusination, aud would no longer aiford a pluge of rofuge for those neensed of potitleal orlmes, I think there muy be complications with En- Riana, so long #8 sho continucs to hold colonics on Americnn soil, which may being on wt wir in the not very distant future, Atnny rate It would be tho part of wis- dom to see where wo would stand in such an event, As mutters stand now England could not blockade Sain Francisco, because no blouk- ade would be sufficient which was not made by stonm wir vessels, and she has no war veasole which ein carry moro than enotgh con! to make the run from tho Sandwich Islands to San Frans cl4co and return, But open the Pantma Canal And you mixbt as well ancbor Uibraltur off the Goldon Gute, because then she could put her heavy fron-cluds around our Pacitio port and maintdin them there, certninly until wo could build a nnyy which would copy with thom. Tho whole western const of our continent would be open to the ravages of her navy until we had 1 navy on that coust that could mcet bors. ‘Yo begin with, a.war- with England ts among the most Improbable of events, Tho English havo ceased to be a warlike people, Aside froma ttle fighting forced upon hor by some Afghan tribe or 2 stubborn colony in Africa, England wit go to grent lengths to avoid coniilet, Certainly that peopte will never como across tho sens to fight the Amerlean people either to acquire new juris- diction on this continent nor to save the Ittle remnant of authority which Canada has loft ‘The prospect of s war with England on any pretext fs 60 remote that it would bo folly for the. American Goy- ornment to bo Intluoneed In any matter of pol- lJeyby such a contingency. Inthe next place, the point which Gun, Butler makes about coal for English war steamers seems to be geographically incorrect. Itty furthor from Panama ta San Veanelsco than from San Franclsco to the Sandwich Islands, and thera at) Panama anyway. If the British Government should over seck to blockade or bombard Sau Francisco, the fleet fur that purpose would probably be asslgucd from the Chingse waters, and rein- forcements (ispatoled by that route. More- ovor, If Englund, or. France, or 2 combina- on of European Powers, shall deny the Auerivan clalm of virtually controiing any ennal bulttacross tho isthmus It‘is only by foreo thitsuch a olnim can be asserted In tima of perl, Tho enforcement of the Son rou doctring In any phase must rest upon a test of martial strength, except when it shall be voluntarily recognized by European Pow: ors, ‘Tho French occupation of Moxieo dur- ing our Clytl War was an aggressive Intrac- ton of that doctrine which olrcumstances induced the Amertean Govornment to toler ate, Mut that adventure turned out so dis- ustrously, even without American fterfor- once, that therewill scarcely be any tompta- tlon to Franco or gther European Powers to repent the experhment In any shapo when tho Atncrican Government Intimates a purposo to resist Ht forcibly, aie ‘Tene Is quite a tendoncy towards a stam- pede of reputnble Domvorats out of tho Bours bon dute the Itepubiiean narty. A fow days ago Wo published tha rouunelation of that party by Devd, Ward Bills, and noxt comes the publlo notiiication of Bir, Houry A, Wilder, of tho doce aud Ward, that by hua coused to be 4 monibor of tho: Democratic party. His ronsong for the change of bass are 80 palnted and Ivold that thoy shoul! bo road by ovary Democrat. Among uthor ubservations hu made the followings Thave concluded that the Nemoceratio party of today Is simply a combination of discordant ttor inonts, held together by thut hope which so carieatly actunted Micawbor, and that Its prine ciples, there is unything In its composition Pivlog to that dignity, are as evanescent and us Uncertain of uxiatence us tho jelly-tish. For tho Democratic party” hus simply the fidorger, and that Indorswunt: ulwaya coming from compulsion, of tho uccomplished acts of tha Republican purty. Jn ita platCorin once, tha War iy a Allures in its platform noxt, tho Waris un ade initted euccess, Once thy reconstruction ucts aro legal and outrageous next they ura ine dorsed, und tho paces, pledged to their support, Once the constitutional amendmunta are con. denned, aud ouly opportunity was needod to overthrow thom} next they urd ratiliod, and ad» initted to be Irrovecably the Jaw uf tho land, Chico the jwiompe at specie FosunpLon was wrong, aud destructive of the best interests of tho Hupublios noxt it is uppisuded ag an ave vowplisbed fact, Its preferable to be a wen her of the pollticul party orgunizlug great decds thun tho nducrent of the party opposwy thom, und thon compelled by the course of events to indorsy them, Tho gryay byl of the intellls gonco of tho Nation 1s found in the Iepubiican parte and where thore 4 Intotligonce there 1s Fond the mistakes of intebtiance are fie preferible to the blinders of irnartnee. In tre utitre, us In the past, tho publiv-setonl aystent of tho Nation must look to tho Republican pare ty fur protectton. ——$—<——— Mn, Watten, proprictor of the London Tinea, hos racontly recognized tho value of the onlntons of the Sanitary Engiieer hy addressing to, that Journal a totter In whieh ho Inquires whetbor tho atoneh which ofton arises from sowors through the open gratings in the sirects is. nn unavaldable result of that mothod of ven tiation, Mr, Waltor writos that ho tine ofter: bean tormented by this nuisanco In London, and particularly on the read out of Shanklin, intho Ilo of Wieht,on the way to Sandown Tho Sanitary Enylneer roplies that tho system of ventilating sewors hy perforated covers at frequent Intorvals is now widely practiced both in Burone and this country, aud ts generally ro- celvod by ongincers ns the heat methud yet de- - vised, and adds: “ Ifsowers are properly planed, well constructed, nnd carefully lovked after, the perforation of man-holo covers for purposes of ventilation fs not likely to fond tu trouble, and such trouble, whon It ccours, fa generally 0 syinptom of something wrong In one or muro of tho above particulars.” a ——$§ Count AnpttaAssy, curly whiskered and Dojawojed, fs agatn at tho head of tho Anatrian Forvign Oltlce, It ts Just two years sins tho handsome Hungarian gave up to Haron Hays morte tho portfolio which ho hind held for nino yonrs. ‘fo Andrasay {8 duo the muster stroke of tho Austrian ovcupation vf Navi-iazir, thus ebocking Russia's advances, Chunges In Aus: trinn pollties meau little asnrule, Atdrassy resigned in 18 iu asort of pot with tho Huu gacian idberals. Iu is 0 LAberal bimeelf so far as that goes, but Libernlisin and Consorvatlem fy Austrin incnn practleally tho samo thing, and both are combined tn a bureiucravy whieh in power and permaacnco fs nut juferlor to that of Tugala, ————__- ‘Vite Fourth Commissioner District of this county is contposed ot tho towns ut Cleore, Lake, Proviso, Lyons, Riverside, and Leyden, and tha Tov. Wililam fl, Wood, tho present eftictont mombor of tho Bonrd of County Cominisslonors, is a candidato in that district for retloction, Hig retievtion ought to be a foregone conelu- sion, Judga Woot Is ag high-minded, honorn- bio, relindfe a gouttoman as ling over bud n seat in tho County Hourd, aud Isa mun of exccllont business Judgmont. ee ocean Canny atroct railways are not without their disadvantages, Tho San Francisco tlt California anys tho frequonoy of acciionts on tho cable roads calls for somo additional protec. ton to pagsengors and pedestrians, Versuns atepping from cars or pnasing belInd thor are kely to bo struck by the dummy of the train coming in tho opposit direction, and,’ns tho dummy {8 firmly gripped to the cable, there ts nowsenpe. Tho remedy suguested Is nm miulne ture coweatehor, “ a Mn. Boowwarren’s newspaper still con- tinues to allude fo tho guilunt fybt whieb that crushed person made, “If tho campalgn of Mr. Nookwaltor,” it says, " waa, as has often been remarked, a novel and original one, and his incthous strlotiy bia awn, tho result would seem to indicate them beyond dispute.” Considering tho faut that Mr. Bookwalter ran something liko 25,000 votes bohind Goy. Foster, bis editor ta a ttle too enthuslastic, A Boston paper hus discovered that a clork ina hardware store In that ety sold dure ing tho past twelve months pistols to twelve perdons who purchased tho weapons for tho purposo of killing meolves. From this fret itigargued that firehrma shoutd bo sold undor tho saio restrictions ns are polsons, and that persons of suspiclots nppearance who ara look- ing for pistols shold be handed over to tho: pollce, Tue Rev, Mr. Peet, of Cleveland, has writ- ton a bouk on the colabrated rallroad accident ut Ashtabula, O,, but inno part of it does ho uivo the dato, day, month, or your of tho dls- aster. Mr. Poot must bo some relation to the reporter who went to tho inquest und yot evory- thing but tho verdict. ———_ ‘Lire cnbio dispatches state that “ A farmer named Dohorty was shot dead in Galway Wednesday night becauso bo paid bis rent.” It ig proper to state, bowover, thut very few of fondors of this class are found in Ireland. Conp weathor Is undoubtedly the best tino for courting, and Mr, Tilden has begun tho sens son bravely, Somebody bas enjoined bin from solling somo Iron-mine stout. AN exchange pithlly remarks: Confidonce may ben plant of slow growth, but it bears dendiy fruit whon it goes to sued in w bank dl+ rectory. A vonrian dispatch says that Sheiks aro after su Egyptian oditor. ‘This is probably a misprint for Shoriifs. ‘: LAKESIDE MUSINGS. It begins to look as though Mother Ship- ton was right, Anothor basc-bull leagua bas beon orgnnizod, A Dicyclo rider In Boston had threo ribs broken tho other day by failing from his ma- vhiue, Bloycles aro sometimes not so useless ag thoy socm, A Cleveland paper says that tho difference between a tmilkiman and n cow is that ono sells tilk aud the other gives Jt. . This editor never visited Chicago. “Bard of Kenosha’—Tho author of the poem commoncing: ‘0, the snow,” cte., Is not known, and on account of this fact it is possl- bio that bo Is still allye, Minister Hurlbut continues to recognize tho Intost Veruvinn Government, ‘This ja onaler, than trying to pronounce the nnmo of the geu- tlomau at tho bead of It. An exchange says that “an Iowa lawyer of somo years’ pruvtico is now. serving 18 loco- motive fireman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy Railroad,” It 1s gratitying to fourn that Juwyers are sometimes useful. a PERSONALS, Prof, De Janon, the Instructor of Spanish at Wost Point, has held tho position for over thirty yoars, and is tho “ Dean of Professors.” Senntor Hill, of Georgia, {s drinking water from springs nt Eurelkn, Art., and confidently expeots tobe cured of the cancerous aifection of bia tongue, ¢ Tho ex-Empress Eugénte visited Fon- tninoblenu incog. Thuraday. Bho .was groatly moved whon shown tho former upartments of her son, the lato Princo Imporial, Although both sons of the Princo of Wales are receiving naval education, tho cldeut, Prince Alvert Victor, will ultimatoly bo ap- polnted to a comunission in tho army, President Arthur is quoted assaying, In regan tothe report that hia unmarried alater would proside at the White Houso; *1 havo but one uninarried sistor, and hor bentth will not permit her to discharge tho duties," Sig. Casamorata, the distinguished Floren- tine musician who died recently, once said that bo wae cured of composing original music by hearing Bellini's “Plrata," whieh was per- formed at tho samo theatre and about tho sumo time us his own iret opera. « A man who, in a dark hall, will selzon Nowfoundtand dog, whose oyes aro giuring, and whose jaws ure suapping, and who, inspite of the brute's fastening bis teoth in bis hand, lacers ating It ina dozon plaves, will clutch the dog by tho throat, drag it down atitira and Into the back yard, and then’ bind, i¢ with a chain, so that it cantiot budge, ta Uoth strong aud courageous, ‘Tain la whut *Springe Heol Dick,” a Cluolunatt pugilist, did on ‘Tucaday, and tho dog, probably hot being mad, but perhaps poisoned, bo 1s not Hkoly to suffer vory sovervly for it, aither, It fs proposed to abolish the charity known. as Watts’ Pour Travoicrs’ Houso, at Rochoster, Eng., mado famous by Hickena in bis Seven Toor Travelers,” ono of the most popular of his Christmas sturics. Rocently tho trustees ap- pointed an fispector ta investigate tho char avtersof tho applicants for and recipicuts of the obarity, and hia report has just been pro. sented to the trustocs, ‘Tho mevtiig was 8 prie yato one, but it may bo stutod that the inspector Faported that during the ujnoty-two vvenliga covered by tho investigution 1,248 won. applicd for admission, and 600 wore avtuully adialtted, of whom tho yroat majority wero wayfaring mocbanics, anewerlog to the duseription of the~ founder of the bequeat—viz.s * Poar travelore.” The geyerul fuvllng of thu trustous appears to bo jn Savor of the retuntion of the uhurity, the Chairman expressing bis conviotica % tho Poor Trayelors’ House was auswerlog the pure Poa of ite founders 3 POLITICAL, — Importance of the Bittor Cam, paign Now Woging in Virginia. The Carolinas and Georgia High ly Interested in the F Issue. Painful Dilema fof {ho Manutaotureyy of Fortilizers in the Palmot. to State. Danger of Making a Fair Bargaty and a Bad Political Precedent at the Samp Timo, Dorsoy Was Wad His Day tn Arkany and Clayton Js Coming Forward Again. Mies Aurotta Hoyt's Explanation of the Trouble in the Ranks of the Pomalo Prohibitionists, Connequencon Attnehing to the Rleca don In Virginine Spectat Correspondence ef The Chleago Trtbuas, Ricumonp, Va, Nov. 2—In a few days 9 struggle which has been hotly waged jn View einia for four years will end. It may questioned whether nny cleetion held in thts State since the War has been fraught wlth more Import than this, and certulnly there has been. none more vehemently contested, Vathor hus been arrayed against yon, and brother against brother, nnd family thes have been sundered, whitlo thg bitterness between Readjuster and Debtpayer is far’ greater than that which oxisted between themselves when united and their common enemy the Republican in Reconstructlon days, Itty voneeded by ench side that this ces {lon deeites the fate of ono or the other, If Mahono wins, it Is confessed ny his opponents that the battle is ended, 20 far ng tho debt question fs concerned. It the debt-paying party comes from tho striggte victorfous, then the Mahone men aeknoy edge that the ‘fight is over for them, Ifthe disruption of tho Doemocratle party in Vir ginin Is completed, then tho problem which hos for fifteen years voxed the Republican North and South fs solved, and a breach ig effected in tho ranks of the Solld South, ‘This idea has beon derided by Democrats of the Carolluns and Georgta, and even doubled by members of tha Natlonal Democratis Commictee, but there ts the ~ best mithority for stating that in the threo Southern States nomed mon aro walting tho result of the Virginia fight, ready, If the name of “Liberal movement” earries the day, to holst tho same banner and, like Malieae, ery for recrults from Re publican and Denocratle ranks, IN GOUTIE CAROLINA R movement hus been started (it Is truo ins Taw counties ag yet) whieh Is the legitimate outgrowth of the Virghala complications, In Virginia, when the ery of readjustment of the State debt was ratsed, it was quickly taken up by the small farmers and laborers in the country, especially as the advocates of the novel measure undertook tocdemonstrate how the reductlon of the State debt leasened faxes anil cheaponed the cost of Ilving, and also that tho movement was essentlally a poor miai’s movement, whieh would te opposed by the moneyed power for that reason, The earnestness of the opposition on the part ot the cities to the rendjustinent Idea gave tts expounders another effective weapon-ant one most successfully used—the cry of “town agaist country? Nor was it long before the county orator was pleturing, with all the vividness of colorlug whieh verlaps the constant reflection of the forest greenery aud tho mountain ontilne gives to the town ship Demosthenes, the pot-stomached profile of tho “blonted bontholder.” ‘The ery ut readjustment carried tle day, but the veto of the ineumbent Governor pre yonted the carrying into effect the alms of ‘the party, and so today the debt of Virginia remiins unreadjusted, “ Nest time we'll havo the Governor and the Legislature,” sald-the Readjuster, “and who will baulle ws then? If they have those two In truth, so power can thats them, and tho experiment of Readjustinent, 47,18 the debt-payers contend, repudiation will bo In the power of the majority of the rullng powers ft Virginta, while the man who rides most satisiietorily ween the top of the waye will go tu tho United Bates Sennte ns the colleague ot Muhene, Nov, this sane ery of rendjustient ts Just rit ny nilng tu bo heard In South Carollna, ‘tls différont way, and in a direction, Indeed), which more nearly AVFECTS THE FAIMULS, who, tn that Slute, asin Virginia, make b4 the larger part of ‘the voting population. 1a South Caralinn the farmers a year age pele orally Invested very largely’ in tertltinets Ke tlelpithieg In this year sich abundant, tehte as would enably them te pay off the An i edness Incurred, In no Shite In, the ad has fertijizing entered so largely inte i inaking of crops as in South Carolin, a the prinetpal cities of that Stato hinve wm He capltal futerested ta the manufacture iy article. 164s lo the city, therefore, tha | farmer eomus to gel hls supply, bo the clty so mmnufactitrer Is is Hin ftor, During tho summer J cuted ie erops in South Caroling were ruined ty hy} unprecedunted dronth, and the yiel less Doan estimated at one-fourlt and ca ae of the ayernge crop. ‘The tnlapoy tlie looking nbout for saino means of aa rh ie himself from the dificulties Into wrerevet has thus been plunged, one at W at ho went other farn In Ike ofan ae predicament, wid when a sharp coun eo rister spolo before n sinall gntherlug ve it consolutes of a movement of the farm Nett ed * Reauljuatnent,”, by ve thoy proposed to scale down what they oe sidered an unjust State debt, and ter mnt tie farmers of South Carolina wh Pa not they apply the vrineiple of read}tt pte oO AN UNjise fortilizersielt, | Hit it xestion spread so raplilly ff WM salon is now. tho subject of dl re Save tn more than ue county, Mectlty tng heen hold and resolutions Sars fer forth that the farmers bouche laraely neces tilizers, the payment for whieh ie it surily contingent upon aunt AVETARY I i crops, but.by an act of God thoy tlege prived of thease crops; therefore they the hve that they have no means of pay Be mney (0 doytadhess, fund {f they use their 0 pay tor eapitkty FRNTIAZENS WINCH ANE Not neNrviTl carry 0 thoy wilt bo without the funds to carry oy Owerationsnext y\ an | ‘Tho; aveurdingly 4 the manufacturers of fer exes te hw this debt and bint that neither la ig morals are tho dobtors bound for TN oy of of it, In short, there is a, suxge nly forcible renijustment 1¢ It ls uot a done, So fn more than ono res ite i quartheng movement bustling Inte Hower 13 x in South Carolina ta ike tho full Hove, Virginlay “Ln the first State, as ht ibolet the same ery of town ngiinst coun FY be a used, and the bloated bondholder o! f hu sol compared with te sutforing tiller of the oF ‘As in Virginia so In South Carol nt ca position to this readjustment comes iy city, ag iu Virgluia so in South Care Han) rendjustment movement hex! ne aafactuet couitry, ‘Fhe — fertilizer ial one dnds insole Hn an eipbarrasging bosityy tt painfulness of which 13 euhanres Vana conselousness that hig aetion In U Me henge to be used ayn political A ae et ner i to the demand. of the fa recedes avi fe to a dungerous bry wh can bo followed whenever henntas disastrous drouth. 1¢ he Tol Se ontzes the very clues with wh th gitiow principal dentings. And in tl mn ae ba Ho stand now-drawn up ready ts Hach ts walting und Watch as tl vind Virginia, ‘The Readjuster ot eaujustet ut Tina is in ayimpathy with the eye r) Yitaluia, whe thy manutag