Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 23, 1882, Page 4

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Brap Staventer who had the distinction of counting Loran Clark in at the late ropublican convention, is again a candidate for hia old place as ohief clerk ot the house, Brad ex- hibits a good deal of check, A bur- glar might as well ask for a position as cashier of a bank, S— Trxe: has become train robbersy headquarters, and Southern Pacific excursionists enjoy the pleasure of an encort of state rangers armed with repeating rifles, bowie knives, and other rib ticklers, There is mubh romanoce in traveling through Texas now a dayi New Yorx has become an awfal place for the indolent ofize holder, A Neow York grand jury has just in- dicted the strect cleaning bureau for falling to keep the streets clear of snow. The next thing we will hear of will be the indictment of an Oma- ha policéman for looking on at an in- nocent little game of keno, SeNATOR MoMILLAN has introduced a bill to eotablish three additional land districts in Dakota, There are bills siready pending on this subject in both houser, and it McMillan's scheme succeeds Dakota will have thirteen land distrivts, with twenty- six registrars and receivers driving o lucrative business out of the poor ‘homosteadors. There is no more need of thirteen Jand districts in Da- kota than thore is cf seven wheels to a wagon, Tur creation of the Utah commis- sion under the Edmund’s bill docs not seem to have solved the Mormon problem to the stisfaction of those who expect to wipo out polygamy and Mormonizm by an act of congress, The Edmund’s bill prohibits polygam- ists from holding, office or voting, Bat as about only one fourth of the Mormons live In polygamy, those who are not under the ban of the law oan hold office, do the voting and sustain such measures as the Mormon charch soen fit to favor. Itisa matter of fact that Mormona who ate not polygamists are Mormons still, That fact; how- ever, was never takon into considera- tion by the imprastical agitators who expected to wipe ont Mormouism by an act of congress, Tho only affect of the Edmunds bill has been the disranchisement of twelve thousand polygamous mormons. In other respects the church of Latter much political power as ever it did. Znd now the oxtromists who shouted with delight over the passage cf the Elmunds bill are kicking themsolves for favoring such a harmless scheme, and de- Utah Day Saints wields mand that everybody in who subscribes to the mormon oree shall be disfranchised and prohiblted If these zealots would have their way a very from acting upon juries. dangerous precedent would be estab. lished 1o this country. The founder of the republic made rellglous liborty | Scott, then assi AN INFAMOUS SLANDER Ms. Rosewater makes a piteons appeal to the old soldiers, and if tradition is « | truthfal this is not the first time he han tmed for merey. The other time when Grant's nrmy overtook the little confederate spy and talked cf stringing him up. Ths fright received there maden republican of him, but he is a spy and traitsr now, always has been and always will be, The old soldiers will bs mercifal now ae theo, aud permit bim to liv even as the snukes live, despised by ev body. The above compound of malignant inuendo and infamous slander ap- peared a few daya ago in an obscure sheet published by . sort of politieal literary burosa that iy devoted on the one hand o the defense of jobbery and knavery of every sort, and on the other to the villifeation of public men and papers that dare to ralse voioos againat the rogues and frauds that infest our public eervice, The libel was published in the Omaha Republican Wodnerday, and repeated again with evident malicions intent in the weekly Republican of Friday, two days after tho editor and mana- gor of that sheot nad been called into court, npon my complaint, upon the charge of criminal libel for malic. iously circalating that infamous slan- der, T have called these libellers into court to put an end, if possible, to their persistont and unprovoked at- tacks, as well as to vindicate myself from a stigma which they have sought to place not only upon me but upon my family. Treason is the highest crime of which any citizen can be guilty, and it is simply monastrous to stigmatiss any loyal man, and especially one who has risked bis life in defense of the unlon, as a rebel spy and a traitor. Instead of coming into court like men and farnishing even the shadow of proof to sustain their assault, these cowardly assassins of character have waived examination and left the mat- ter to a future inquiry by a grand jury, which will not sit for several months. They have thus compelled me to refute their slanders by personal reference to public records and well- known men who have known my ca- reor before, during and sinco the rebellion, 1 was located at Obarlin, Ohlo, the most redical, anti-slavery community in tho United States atthe timo of the celobrated Wollington fogitive slave case when tho professors of Oberlin collego wero arrested and lodged in the Oleveland jsil upon the chargo of aiding in the esoape of a fugitive slave. Protessor John M. Langaton, late ministor to Haytl, now in Washington, will bear me out with the faob that in that exciting pericd I carried correspondence from their families at Oberlin to the imprisoned professors in the Cleveland jail. In the spring of 1859 I accepted a po- sition as telegraph operator at Mur- freesboro, Tennessee. ~Three months later I was discharged, and the super- intendent, A. E, Trabae, wrote sub- stantially as follows: “Your services as manager of Mur- froesboro office are no longer required. We cannot employ men who entertain free soil sentiments as you do, Yo ity U TOTUT 11 you willl W SULLuG in the business, We have no fault to find with your services.” 1 did not obsy tho injunction be- oause I am naturally stubborn, and wont farther south. At tho outbreak of the war I was living in North Alabama and went through the most oxciting strugglo over sccossion as a ye socedod I wrote a letter to Gov. A, B. which had voted down sccession, across 8 | army, & service for which Thomas A. nt secretary of war, Omahs branch of ihe society of the United States Military Telogfaph Corps. At the rational convention of that mociety, held at Niagara Falla on the 20th of September, 1882, the fol- jowing committce was appoluted to prowent the claims of the ex-army tolegraphers to congress: George (o] Maynerd, Washington, D. ; William B, Wilson, Lan oaster, Pa, Edward Rosewater, Omaha, Neb W. L. Gross, Springfield, Til ; Capt. T. B. A, David, Pitteburg, Pa. I was in Omaha at the time this reunion took place and my seleclion would indicate that my comrades in the eervice have no sus- picion of my slicged disloyalty or dis- hovor, Aud now a few words about the men who bave published me far and wide a8 a traitor and confederate spy. For more than ten years I have been hounded by a gang cf villaine, who havo resorted to every means that devilish ingenuity could invent to de- stroy my character and drag me into the mire of publio contempt., They have heaped upon my head the vileat opithots, created prejudices and hatred among peoplo who know noth- ing of my past oareer, and poizoned the minds of people egainst me by the moat viodiotive libols, Not content and we know whereof wa speak, when we say & majority rquander evory dol- lar they earn, beyond the cost of board and lodging in gambling holls, Thess men earn from fifteen to twenty-five dollars a week, but when the month rolla around they have not money enough to pay for decent clothes to put upon thoir backs, Gambling is at best a terrible vice. It may bo in dulged in by men of large means as & diverslon, but when a whole ¢>mmun- ity becomes infatuated with it; when the laborer, mechanic and clerk are enticed into gambling houses and stripped of their wages it becomes a curso. It is & habit that seriously impairs the public welfare, It is true that profossional gamblors will spend their money again, but that money only reaches a very limited number. These are the channels that are divertiog the surplus funds in Omaha from the merchant, and to this we attribute very largely the un. usual dullness of the holiday trade. THr senate committee on public landa has directed Senator VanWyck to report favorably on his bill to com- pel the land grant roads to take cut patents on their lands under penalty of forfeiture There is no doubt now that thia bill, when it is reached, will with all that, they have incited bullies and rowdies to make personsl assaults upon me, and have assisted such parties in escaping the just penalties of their crimes. paes the senate; and inasmuch as a similar bill, introduced by Mr. Ander- son, of Kansas, is pending in the house, there is a falr prospect that the present con- In 1876 the distriot attornoey of this |gress will enact the law to compel the distriot certified over his name to the | railroads to pay their taxes on their postmastor-general as follows: subsidy lands. The Van Wyck bill, During the investigation and trial | unlike the bogus bill introduced by of Richard D. Curry, indioted with | Valeatine, includes every land grant Smith Coffoe by the grand jury of this | ryiiroad in the United States and Unfon man, It cost something to be & Union mpn in that turbulant section in thoso ghys. Before Alabama had Moore that I would not serve in any war sgainst the Union and when Ala- bama did secede I went into Tennessee I was In Nashville during those terrible riots that followed the cap- ture of Fort Donaldson, and under my personal direction the first wire the Cumberland river was strung for the use of the Union county at the February A. D, 1876, term of the state district court for an assault with intent to murder Edward Rosewater, editor of the OMAHA Bez, the sworn tes- timony of varlous witneases, in- cluding the parties implicated, dis- closed and substanttated the following tacts: That the assault upon Mr, Rosewater was talked over in the pri- vato offico of Postmaster Yost, in tho government postoftice building, in the preeence of Mr. Yost, some days pre- vious to the rsiault, and it was thon onderstood by Mr, Yost and Paul Vavdervort, chief clerk of tho postal railway mail service, that a ocertain osrd should be 1n- vorted in the Omaha Republican by Me. Miner, the local editor, purport- iogto come from R.D. Carry, and directed to Mr, Rosewater, the object in view bsing to bringabout a personal difficulty between Curry and Mr. Rosewater, Although the evidence was insuficlent to justify a prosacation of Mr Yost and Mr. Vandorvort as ac- cessories, there is no doubt in my mind but that the murderous assault upon Mr. Rosewater was the direct re- sult of the understanding and arrange- mont referred to. Dick Curry went to the peniten- tiary, but the men who set him up have gone acot free. They are still at their ccwardly work, but I propose before long to bring them face to face with justice. E. RoSEWATER, Tug rotail merchants and the trades people of Omaha com- plain of dull trade during the holiday season. While soma the larger number have fallen way be- low tho eotimate of the usual sales. The question is frequently asked what is the cause of this dullness in the ro- tail trade. What has become of the money thatis paid ont in wages to clerks, mechanics and laborera? Most everybody in the city has employ- ment at fair wages, the price of living 1 not as high now as it was last year, food and ratment are cheaper. The weather has been very favorable for outdoor work and large sums are earned by masons, bricklayers, car- broad measure, national in its scopé, which appeals for support from every honest member of both houses of con- ol The Valentine biil is a fraud on its face. It is sectional, and in- cludos only the iands oi the Union Pacific railroad in Nebraska. It does not cover the railroad lands in Kan- sas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Cali- fornia, Montana and Tex's, whore there are millicns upon millions of subsidy lands which if not iucluded in this act would go untexad for years. Tue election of Mr. P. B. Sturde- vant to the position.cf stato treasurer will create a vacancy in the treasurer's office of Fillmore county, The un- expired term of Mr. S:urdevant ns county treasurer is to be filled by the commissioners of Fiilmore county, but 1t will make considerable difference whether his succcesor is appointed by the present board of commissioners or by the new board that convenes in January. The outcome will be watched with more than ordinary interest, not because avybody outside of Fillmore county cares a picayune about Mr. Sturdevant’s successor, but but because the change will afford an opportunity to Mr. Sturdevant tv give vitality to the anti monopoly cause. His manifest duty s to withold his resignation udtil the new board, made up of enti moncpoly men, has SanTa Cravs is a dangerous chap to be allowed to run at large. He is a nihilist, or at any rate s Russlan with a countenanco that gives him away as a dangerous man. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The event of the past week in Great Britain was the change in the cabinet ana the advent of Lord Derby into & mimistry with which he differs very materially on important questions. Derby isthe great apostle of common sense, He belongs to a very large type of Englishmen who make seing things as' they are the great penters, and other mechanies who are ueuslly laying idle at this time of the year, Hos Omaba been struck with a spasm of economy? Are our people disposed to hoard their money, or have they become Indifferent about the ocustoms of the holiday season? Those who have given the subject some attention will agree with us ono of the corner stones of the Amer- | expressed his personal obligations. A | that thero is a very good reason for ican union, They prohibited all re-|fow weeks latorI enlisted in the United | this unusual dullness in the holiday ligious tosts, and placed every creed | States military telegraph corps and | trade, on the broad platform of universal|accompanied General John O, Fre- mont through his entire campaign In | tive operatic season. tolerance, Omaha has enjoyed a very attrac- For more than To disfranchise a Mormon to-day | Virginia, Judge Savage, who was a|two montha we have been regaled because he is a Mormon would slmply | colonel with General Fremont's army, | nearly every night with grand con: mean that to-morrow you disfranchise | will verify that General Fremont, |certs, operas and sensational shows| a Roman Oatholic beoause he 1s a|durlng s visit to Omaha three yoars|that bave drawn great crowds of peo- Qatholie, or & Jow because refuses to become a Christian, he | ago, expressed his personal satlsfac- Itis|tion - with my conduct while with far botter to bear the ills we have|him, than fly to those we know not of. aro tried aad convicted of crime, oan bo enforced, It a8 the people of Kansas submit to the | of General Pope. acquittal of violators of their prohibi tion lawe. At the close of Pope's campaign was assigned to the war department in 1t would be a sad day for the gov-|ihe offico where Lincoln and Stanton ernment if they were to disfranctise|and the commander-in-chief were In After a brief stay in the Washing- is safer to let the Mormons tem-|ton navy yard with Admiral Dahl- porarily rule in Utah, because they|gren, I was, upon personal request, are largely In the mujority than to|asignoed to accompsny General Pope deprive the Mormons of civil rights, |in his *‘on to Richmond" campaign. and declare them outlaws beforo they | I was with that army in its march to Lot | the Rapidan and its retreat acroes the polygamy be punished by the law in| Rapahannock, and was on the ground Utah, if the laws ageinst polygamy |at the second battle of Bull Run, If the majority of | This fact can readily be attested by the people who et on juries in Utah | General Ruggles, now assistant adju- refuse to convict, we must submit just | tant general, and then chief of staff ple to the theaters and public halls and taken out of the city thousands upon thousands of dol- lars of hard earned money that had been saved up by merchants olerks and mechanics, These people have thus deprived themselves of the use of this money for the purchase of Christmas glfts and that accounts partly for the dulluess in the holiday trade, There is another aud a good deal more potent cause for the shortage in cash among workingmen, clerks and merchauts, It is & sad commentary on the morals of Omaha but it is neverthelees a fact that hundreds of men of high and low degree tquander every dollar they can save in gombling. There are dens in Omaha 1 whole creeds because some of the |communication with the army by tele- | where boys and men gather nightly members indulge in criminal practices, | graph. With the ssme propriety an act of | mitted from the original document the |indulge in s passion With my own hands I tran s- laround keno and faro tables and that de oongress might be passed declaring all | emancipation proclamation of Abra.|prives them and their families of persons who confess the creed that|ham Lincoln out of the war depart-|even the very necessarles of life, teaches the purging of sin and crime | ment to Now York and the country, | Among young mechanics this is es- through penance lmposed by the con- hold office. That 1 left the department in good | pecially disastrous as well as demoraliz. fesslonal as not entitled to vote and | standing is evidenced by the fact that | ing. Take for instance the printers Tam now the vice-president of the |of Omaha who are mostly single wen, | 55 veuw, business of man on earth, On this side of the water Lord Derby would be regarded as & political trimmer. When ho was foreign seoretary of the Beaconsfield cab- inet he used to furnish the deputation who came up to_see him about the Itus- sians, or about the Turks, with such ex- cellent summaries of - the reasons both for action and inaction that be completely dumbfounded them. He can talk com- mon enso and_economy by the hour, and for this reason he 1s a very popular lecr turer on wages, thrift, orlaxd tenure, In discoursiog on such themes to plain peo- ple he has all tho air of & man who is con- stantly trying to get the very most out of Ife on an income of about one thousand dollars & year, There is a hitch about gettieg Sir Char- les Dilke into the cabinet, He first ap- peared in political lifo in 186 as » repub- an and created » sensation in politics by eral fierce attacks on the queen’s civil list, Ho denounced the annuities to the queen and her pumerous family as extrav- agant, and acoused her of not paying the income tax. He fell into many mistakes in matters of fact about which 1t is diffi- cult for an outsider to get information, | Dilice shiil not 2o into the cabinet as strongly as Chamberlain insists that he shail, ~ Mr. Chamerlaio, onse *'a local wire-pu ler of Biiminglam,” is now, next o 1 the prime m'nwster, n of the day. th t powerfal Within the past §wo or three years the French government has been displaging & remarkable eagerness to plant and acquire d colonies howed itee!f tury and the y part of the eighteentb, under theold bourbon monarchs, Exten. sive territorien were seiz»d in Amesics, and a very large emigration for o days was poured into them, and settlements were made in Indis which ssemed to promice at one time the rise of a French empire in that region to compensate France, as Kog land was afterward compeneated, for the losa of her possessions in Ameries, The republio is now turning to the foreign colony enterprise for the same reasons that brought about the conquest of Algiers, The seizare of Tunis has been followed by an_attempt to establish & pro- tectorate over the westorn and northwest- ern const of the Taland of Madagascar. Madagaecar i% a very fportant isiand, 1t is larger than France iteelf, being 1,000 miles long and 350 miles broad. It has 2,000,000 inhabitants, and they are noted s being the unly black people who ehow & capacity for progress, The Hovas have gradually beome the dominant tribe, and among them Protestant missionaries, in- cluding several Americaus, have met with gratifyiug sucoees, Thoe present queen w s baptized in 1869, aud gava proof of the sincerity of her converaion by ordering all the idols burned. The richness of the nataral products of the iland make it a tempting prizs for the Gallic free- booters. 1t i in just such quarters of the world that Franco . can most profitably carry ont the policy to ardently defended by M. Waddington of compensating herself in Africa and else- where for her loss of territory and power in Kurope, The Republique Francaise de- clares that France can never become a great colunizer. ‘‘Never shall we repair the unhappy loss of the Indies, of Canada, and of the Louistans which & Bonapa sold without even consulbing the corpalegit- Iatif. But let us carefully preserve what we have got. enlarging our poseemions if op. ortunity_offers, Madagascar and "Tonquin,” This frankaess is commendable But France admmisters her conquests badly, and it 18 to be feared that neither the peoplo of Madagascar nor herseif will be benefited by this new enlargement of her possessions, It is pretty certain that the French people will not support theee schemes, becauso the common people are not disposed to emigrate. Oace the novelty has worn off these colonies will ;imply prove expentivo gariisons aud oot homes for French settlers. Lord Derby's praposed reliof 8 all the istress and miseryin Treland is “‘assisted emigatin.” One hundrad yeara before the great faminé, when the population of Ireland was only some two willions, the sufferings of the peoplo were so frightful astoosl]l from Dean Swift tho savage euggestion that the population could be brougt within the means_ of subsiztenco only by ronsting and eating one hundred thousand babies annually. In the great famine of 1846 tho distress was no greater in the more thickly settled istrizts than in thoss where the population was scarce, and while all the world was sending food n charity to Ireland, the roads where men lay dyiog of starvation witnessed the ex- port of grain and provisions going out of Treland to psy the taxes and rents which had ruined the country, just vs in Bengal during the regularly Tecurring famines rice Is exported from the regions where millions are dying from want of food. To say that famine in Ireland is caused by ex- cens of population, while England, across the Channel, with & population twice as dease, is exempt from famine, is an insult to common sense which should not be allowed to screen the crime it seoks to palliste. The opinion that emigration is not the true remody for Ireland’s troubles, and can te in no sers) & reparation for the injuries sbe has uffered at tho handy of her _Fog: S ts Sapd. tn B NG el ot poITtatBPREGulteonomy is apparently clearer than that which bas been ko often applied to Ireland, declaring that as the island is not actively over. crowded—it has only 16 inhebitants to the equare mile, a_density less than half that of England —is would do almost irre- parable injary tothe country to take away its youngest, strongest, and most produc- tive men and women, that being the pie- dominent clces among immigrants, There is no doubt, however, that emizration would afford fome relief. “'here is till an active demand for thrifly and haray peo. plo who desire to make homes for them- relves in the vast unsettled region of North Amerioa, and if the British zovern- mont would asalst thes> people to emigrate and establish homes for thewmselves in the colonies or in the United States it would aftord a great deal of relief to its disaffected subjects, a8 in nfons in some barbarous | ¢ t of theseventeenth cen. | # Al ioformation was kept confidential, but chambers of commerce wers invited to dicenss every topic that ht on the subjact, Finally, 1 with & classified tariff list, embracing 855 soparate categories, compristng 70 tor ff clusses, and with it thers was submitted a report givi history of tariff legilation, statis in atticles, | could throw I at a law was dr jorts and exporte, and every sort cf in- tion required for careful legislation, her with a tabular statement of the uat of duties collect.d under existing tarifi rates, and estimates of the sults of the proposed law. at eecuring the largest reve an urgen: necessity in teeting home industries for the benefit of both manufacturers and consumers. The home market is carefully protested for domesti: production, whie raw material for industrial purposes nay be admitted free, and srticles of food and prime neces sity st such rates as will fail most lightly on the consumer. A ustria is following the lead of Germany in thus laboring to de- veloo its industrial resources by ecareful tariff lequslation, and naturally’ English freo traders are very argry st thus l.sivg the large markets their manufacturers have hitherto found on the continent, and at. tribute this new departure to ths evil ex« nmple set by the United States with its growing industries. re- All this aimed Feom 1875 to 188) the increase of the population of Germany was computed at about 525,000 per aunwm, and st that rate the German populstion would double within the next fifty years, from the 45,- 250,000 of the census of Decomber lst 1880, while it will reach 60 millions in 1900 and 80 millions in 1925, France, dur- ing five years preceding ita last census, in. oreased only 389,000, caused largely by foreign influx, while Germany, during the samo period, increased over two millions At the same rate, it would take France 433 years to double. The birth rate in Germany is 8,91 per hondred; in France it is only 2.47, while in 1881 the net excess of births in Germany over deaths amount- od to 623,970. ‘I'he constant increase of populstion in Germany, with its increase of labor supply, and its poor sud densely populated districte, reduced wages and profits, and o closely are the two related, that in Silesia the failure of ths potato and Elhbl?. crop brings its huadred thou- sand people to the verge of starvation., All this compels emigration, but that in turn entails & vast pocuuisry loes on ©Germany, Dr, Friedrich Kapp, long a resident of this country, and a noted writer on emigration, estimates the capital in money and valuables taken away from Germany by each emigrant at not less than 8108, ‘and during 1881 there landed in the United States 218, ier- man emigrants, cousiog a transfer from Germany to this country ot over 25,000,- 000 in money and proper.y. Itisestimated that Germany has lostduring the last sixty years, and_mainly during, the last thirty, in emigration, nearly twice the amount of the enormous ransom paid by Frauce to Germany s war_indemnity in 1871, It is not surprising, therefore,” that Biimarck should look unkiodly on the United Stat.s colonies under the German flag. The steamshio Fae! Kiong Kong on November 10, arrived in San Francisco on December 2, brought the statement thet *a considerable party in the Chineso government, elated by the success of the re' ent movoments in Corea, propose urging the resumption of active suzerainty over Siam.” Previous to the ratification of tho existing treatics with the western powers Siam was nominally tributary to Chins, but the imperial gov- ernment practically relinquished its pre- tendedZrights of suzerainty more than a quarter of a century ago. Since that time the great powers, in establishing diplo- matic and commercial relations with Siam, have recognized her absolute independence, At different periocs, however, during the reign of the old king (Monghut), the father of the presant enlightened soversign, tho Chinese authorities at Pekin have endeav- ored to extort certain payments from the Siamese government in recognition of con- . BN e SRR ERCt o TR SYSE Y b 20E0 peremptory manner to accede to their de- mands, and the foreign representatives accredited to his court in Bangkok have uniformly supported him in the position which he assumed, A few months before the arrival of Gen, Grant in Siam, during his journey around the worid, a special commiseioner arrived in Bangkok from Pekin, He conveyed the compliments of the emperor to hiz mojesty, the king graceful act on the part of the king to send o trifling tribute to Pekin. The young kiag was too well aware of the subtle in. tentions of his visitor to be entrapped, and he only transniitted the usual royal letter of etiquette. The subject, however, was generally discus<ed in diplomatic circles in Bangkok, and the event caused much un- easiness among_the Sismese nobility and the ministers of tho realm, John Russell Young, who accompanied General Grant Pending the organizatlon of a new re- gime 1 Egypt, that country is practically a British province, The khedive is watched by a sumber of English oflicials, who, in turn, are watched by a small com- mand of English soldiers—and for the present London holders of Egyptian bonds sleep very well, Quite likely, however, it is true, =8 the military government main. tains, that public order was never better secured, the peasantry never suffered less from thoso over them, and, at the same time, the taxes, which play so great a part fn this African drams, were never more easily collected. Meanwhile the powers 1n interest are very slow about coming to a final settlement of their difficulties. The “definitive rejection” by the Ger- man Bundesrath of & motion favoringfthe’ abolitlon of *compulsory civil marriage’ has a significance going beyond the merits of the question itself, The law making the celebration of marriage by a civil mag- istrate compulsory was one of the fruits of Bisnuarck's “liboral” period, and of the beginning of the Kulturkempf, Civil marriage, especially compulsory civil mar- and the general effect of his crusade on his political prospe:ts was supposed, €0 far as office is concerned, to be fatal, But hardly sny mistake s fatal to a man whois young, rich, aceomplished and clever; and and all of theso Dilke was, In the Louse of commons he begau to cultivate silence, and grew a litke more conservative, die- tinguished himmlf as o debater and man of business whils the liberals were out of brought on bhim by bis republicanism and his criticism of the queen, so far as to be. come even handin glove with the prince of Wales, Consequently, when (iladatone came back to piwer, he was one of the ris: ing men who hiad to have something, and he got o post for which he was adwirably firted —the under-secretaryship of foreign sffuirs—for he is a remarkable linguist, has traveled mush, and made a cloe study of foreign polities, London gossip has it that the entrance of Bir Charles Dilks into the cabinet is demanded by Mr, Chamberlain and the other radicals, that he may serve as an sntedote for the Barl of Derby, who was not very long agy & member of & conserva: vative winisiry. Englich politics certainly makes strange bedfellows. Dilke declared in 1871 that the jueen evaded payment of her taxes aud thy churt encouraged profiis In view of that deliverance, it is arkable thyt the court insists that office, and got over the sicial discredit | s riage, has always been one of the greatest eyesores to the Catholic church, The clerical party, supported in this instance by & considerable number of the Protes: tant olergy, have therefore spared no effort t> oompass the repeal of the act. The sccret syppathy of the emperor and the empress‘was counted upon by them in this respect. They hoped that compul- wory civil marriage would be sacrificed by way of concession to the va eemed to be Prince Bismarck’s conciliate the church and the politi arty attacked to it, at any price, The Jociave step taken by the Bundesrath, Which would not have been taken without the consent of the chancellor, reews o in. dicato that the limitof concession has been reached, for the time being at least, In Austria nz-\:' tarifl and revenus laws are prepared and introduced by tH® secre« tary of the treatury, This year such a on hia tour, manifested much interest in the matter, and ho urged the Siamess to maintain their sovereign rights, The *‘for- mal inquiries” of & ‘“certain western en- voy,” which were mado at the Tsung Li Tamen department of foreign affairs in ro- gard to the renewal of the attempts on the part of the Chinese goverrment to re-es- tablish ita lost supremacy in Sian:, were those of Mr, Y oung, TheSiamesoexpressno fear of the imperial government, aud they are tully prepared to resist by force of arms any encroachment on their | maine, but there is a turbulent Chineso element in the country which might be aroused to rebellion if encouraged by the presence of Chinese war vessels in the Menaw river, The Chinese population in Bungkok ex. ceeds 10),000in number, compos-d of all classes, 'I'hey are nearly all members of & secret society called the Kongsee, and they wre well provided with fire arms, so that should an outbreak be fomented by the se- cret agents of the Chinese government it is not unlikely that the presence of British, ¥rench and American_guohoats may be required in the Chow Phya river to pro. vent the destruction of foreign property and to insuro the safety of the lives of the European residents. — Valentine for the Senate. Schuyler Sun, The Sun predicted last March that Mr. Valentine would be ambitious to succeed Alvin Saunders as United States senator from Nebraska, That prediction has bsen verified, Mr, Valoutine's home organ, the West Point Repablican, announces that gentleman as a candidate for the posi- tion, Could political idiocy be car~ ried farther! Mr, Valentino has just emergad from a campsign in whish he won anything but honor or glory, We are not discuesing the justice of the popular verdict rendered by the peo. ple of this district on the 7th of No- vember. That will take care of itself, We do, however, recognizs in that verdict the embodiment of stubborn facts that would deter a man possees- ing an ordinary sense of dalicacy from au; law revising the old tariff was passed,~ and it is interesting to see what was doue to get the right kind of law. Circulars were sent to chambers of commerce, in: dustrial societies and manufacturers, in- quiring a8 to the quantity of material ecn- sumed, the amount msnufactured, the sales at home aud abroad, wages, freights, prices of raw material and manufactured snd try to find eome spot for German 5 el which, leaving of Siam, and suggested that it would bo & |3 further manifestations of polit- |, gn, and #0 earnest they in his behalf that the mear o not alwags the moat serup- I'he convention which nom- included all but sevenfof the regularly elected deiegetes. Ho wae recogniz.d as the party candidate, endorsed by the state convention and accorded &ll the uence of the party organization. Nothing that money or inflaence eould do was wanting in his awpaigp. And what was .he resnlc? In a district bonsting of & republican majority of 10,000, he recrived a beg- garly piorslity of 1,300, Fally 8,000 tepublicans protented inst his re turn to congress by voting for one or the other of his oppovents. And before the smoke of this battle, so disastrous te the republican party, has cleared away, there are men Insane enough to endorse Mr, Valentine's eandideoy for the senate, A gr holiti der it would bs te conecive, fad It been positively known that Mr. Valentine would nake his elec- tion to congerss a stepping stone to the senate, ho would have been the minority candidsto in the race. To use the prestige of that position now, would be the basest of duceptien. The Republican majority in the legislature is too small to jastify avy indulgence in experiments, and any conatderation of Mr, Valentin~'s candidacy will be an expensive and. dangerous experi- ment for the party, It Mr. Valentine ia determined to bea candidate for the senate, lot him resign as representa- tive eloct and take an even start with the other candidates. A vacancy in thia congressional district, however, offers too many inducements as trad- ing material. 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