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Monday Morning, December 6, 1870.
At the New York Gold Exchange, on Sat
urday, greenbacks ranged between 87j and
87$, the bulk of the sales being made ot S7£.
A correspondent suggested, in yesterday’s
Tribune, that the practice of petitioning the
School Board of this city to restore tbo Bible
to the public schools should bo abandoned,
and recourse bo had to prayer. Prof. Tyn
dill might bo willing to accept this modifi
cation of the prayer-gauge idea, but wo
should not advise the proj'erful ones to make
U a tost caso.
Considerable dissatisfaction is reported as
existing among tho British residents in Chi
na on account of tho leisurely and inefficient
manner in which Minister Waor has pro
ceeded in tho enforcement of reparation for
tho Maroart murder. This feeling is ag
gravated by tho continued recurrence of in
dignities and nets of violence committed by
tho Chinese upon foreigners, and the evident
indifference of tho Peking Government upon
the subjea *
Among tho first agreeable experiences of
tho new Congress will bo tho opportunity of
a freo trip to Philadciphia, nnd a thorough
inspection of the Centennial preparation!;,
with all that that implies in tho way of hos
pitality galore. It is confidently expected by
tho judicious managers of tho affair that the
Centennial, as viewed by tho average Demo
cratic M. C. through tho bottom of a cham
pagne glass just emptied, will bo recognized
us an enterprise eminently worthy of tbo
million-and-D-half appropriation which Con
gress will be importuned to give.
Detailed accounts of tho progress of the
Priuco of Wales in his tour through India
confirm tho earlier reports of his enthusiastic
reception, oven tho inlcuscst of (lie Brah
mins according to their future sovereign a
warmth of treatment which astonishes tho
natives. What with witnessing tho perform
ances of tho conjurors aud suako-charmers,
learning tho process by which tho vultures
are gorged on tho towers, and making tho
acquaintance of a lineal descendant of tho
Old Man of tho Mountains, Aruebt Edward
is apparently seeing tho elephant in a manner
highly edifying and satisfactory.
It transpires that Gen. Babcock was in
dicted in St Louis last Friday, but tho Dis
trict-Attorney delayed returning tho indict
ment to tho Court in duo form, in the belief
that it was desired that tho military Court of
Inquiry should take precedence. This was n
misapprehension, the President and Cabinet
being unanimous in tho wish that there shall
bo no delay in tho conduct of proceedings in
connection with tho indictment, and it is ex
pected that by tho close of tho present week
Gou. Babcock will bo in the custody of the
United States Court at St. Louis, or else under
bonds at Washington to appear and answer to
the Indictment when wonted.
Our Washington dispatches this morning
treat extensively of the subject of Claims,
giving n hint of some of the enormous and
cxtiavagant designs on tho Treasury enter
tained by the people of the South whoso ma
terial interests suffered iu consequence of tho
War. The number of claimants willing to
enter upon tho era of reconciliation and
pence, and anxious to avail themselves of tho
generous bounty of this glorious Union as
dispensed by a Democratic Congress, is really
affecting to contemplate. It is a spectacle
calculated to draw tears from tho eyes of tho
most hardened and unforgiving tax-payer iu
the North.
A curious story, apparently well authenti
cated, and bearing tho marks of consistency,
is told by o correspondent of the Now York
Tiinei, and republished in our columns this
morning. It refers to the sammer of 1804,
at the time when the peace negotiations wero
in progress at Niagara Falls, and tells of an
infamous conspiracy for tho assassination of
President Lincoln on tho day before election.
The plot had been thoroughly discussed and
fully resolved upon by the Southern Rebels'
and Northern Democrats who flocked to the
CUftonUouso under tho pretense of discussing
peace negotiations which were never meant to
be consummated, and the fiendish scheme was
only abandoned because of the angry and in
dignant refusal of Dean Richmond to give it
countenance, and his threat to cause the in
stant publication of tho details and the names
of the conspirators unless their murderous
machinations were discontinued at once and
forever. As it was, so tho narrative govs, tho
matter wus communicated to Gen. Dix, and
by him reported to President Lincoln, whose
rare wisdom it was, opposed to the connects
of his Cabinet, that kept the intelligence from
tho world at u time when ho rightly judged
tho general discovery of such o‘conspiracy
would have a depressing effect upon our
armies, which wero then meeting with but
indifferent success at the front. The story is
i.iivrchting at all events ; the more so that it
is probably true.
The Chicago produce markete were Irregu
lar uu Saturday. Mess pork was in fair de
mand and fie per brl higher, closing at
siy.l2)®lU.lo for December and $111.30 for
February. Lard was quiet oud 2£(&9a per
100 tbs higher, closing at $12.1C®13.17J
for December and $12.3.1 for Pelsi.y.
MeaU ware quiet and unchanged, at tto (or
aknnlriere, lUtflOJa for abort riba, and (|£»
for short clean?, nil boxed. Highwines were
Sn fnir demand mid steady, fti §MI pev
gallon, Flour was tliill and easier. Wheat
v.7w more active ami lie lower, clotting at
•|'V e.ash ami Sl.on for Janm.ry. Coni was
morn active and irregular, closing nt 4-V‘c for
December aml i«Jn far May. Oats wore
raster, closing at cohli and ”0c for Jan
imiy. Rye was sternly, at (IStfiilSU 1 . Barley
was quiet ami earner, closing at 81 Jo (or De
cember and 84c for January. Hogs wore in
moderate demand at Friday's prices, closing
easy. Sales were principally at $C.70(n)7.00.
Catllo wore firm and unchanged, at S.’UKXSp
it.OO for common to choice. The ahcop trade
was qniot at nnchongod prices. One hundred
dollars in gold would buy $111.75 in green
backs at the close.
The tremendous gathering at McVicker's
Tliontro yesterday morning, in spite of the
rain, assures the success of Prof. Swing's in
dependent movement in establishing n central
church. There were at least 0,000 people in
the building, and nearly ns many more went
away nnablo lo find standing room. The
enterprise is by no means experimental.
Prof. Swing’s services in the same place after
the fire and for many months before the com*
plotiou of the Fourth Church demonstrated
that the attraction of the great religion ho
preaches ami the charming way in which ho
unfolds it are enough to call together more
people than can bo accommodated in the
largest auditorium in the city. Ho is in no
sense n sensational preacher. Ho has a hold
upon the reason ns well as the affections ami
respect of the Chicago people which will
not be loosened by time, and ho has now a
wider sphere of nsofulness than over before.
There will bo no services at the Central
Church for the next two Sundays. This in
termission is taken for the purpose of giving
the Business Committee an opportunity to
arrange the best plan for disposing of the
scats. Their arrangements will bo concluded
and their full programme announced during
the present week, and services will bo re
sumed the last Sunday in Doccmlicr. There
after the Control Church will be one of Chi
cago’s permanent and most useful religious
institutions. The fitness of McVickcr’s The
atre for holding the cervices was strikingly
attested yesterday by the circumstance that
the theatre was emptied of the immense con
grogationit held in just four minutes,—a com
forting reflection in the contingency of a fire.
THE NOMINATION OF KEHIt FOB SPEAKER.
Tho nomination of Mr. Micuaer C. Ketm,
of Indiana, as tho Democratic candidate for
Speaker of tho House of Representatives,
which, of course, iusurcs his election, is an
event upon which tho whole country is, in a
measure, to be congratulated. To the extent
that the Democratic party is in power, it is
for the common benefit of tho whole people
that their best men should bo placed in tho
most inllucnthd and responsible positions.
Tho choice of Speaker is chiefly significant,
because tho selection of tho House Commit
tees rests entirely with him, and upon their
organization depends largely tho character of
the legislation. What trades, if airy, relative
to tho formation of tho Committees have
been made to secure Mr. Herd's selection
cannot bo known until after tho Committees
shall have been Announced; wo have ouly
Mr. Kerr's assurance from tho beginning
that ho would not bo a party to any such
bargains, and, if ho has kept thin promise,
ho will now bo untraounclcd nod free to se
lect tho Committees with reference to tho
best interests of the country.
Tho triumph of Mr. Kutu is certainly tho
most auspicious augury of conservatism in
the present Congress that has been offered
the public, unless it is tho result of a policy
of deception,—uot merely because ho has
been chosen, but also because it included the
defeat of Mr. Randall, who was his most
conspicuous opponent. Mr. Randall was
largely identified with tho most objectionable
Congressional practices. Ho was ono of the
back-pay salary-grabbers. His parliamentary
experience has been chiefly employed in dila
tory and harassing proceedings. Ho is be
lieved to bo in sympathy with tho subsidy
beggars in general and Tom Scott’s vast
schemes in particular. Ho is certainly an
apologist for tho fallacy of taxation for
“Protection,” and Is suspected of a decided
leaning toward tho wild schemes for
further diluting an irredeemable cur
rency. Mr. Kxen, on tho other bond,
is uu avowed and vigorous dlsciplo of
sound money; that ho will bo uncompro
mising in this regard is evinced by tho fact
that no amount of Indiana or other pressure
induced him to waver on this point during
his Congressional campaign, in spite of the
danger staring him in tho face that ho wonld
ho defeated on this very account. Ho is also
in favor of revenue reform,—that is tho dim*
inalion of tho idea that tho people aro “pro
tected” by taxing tho many for tho benefit
of tho few. He has likewise the reputation
of being a thoroughly honest and candid
man, and, if so, ho cannot fail to rcuognizo
tho preponderant sentiment against any
further subsidizing and loaning of tho public
credit to private schemes. This sentiment
includes the great majority of all parties and
political thinkers, and, after all that has
boon said and done in his behalf, we do not
see how Mr. Kuna con refuse to defer to it.
Tho choice of Ksud seems to bo accepted
in Washington ua tho present defeat of tbe
Tom Scott lobby for tho endowment of the
Texas A Arizona Kailwoy swindle, at tho rnto
of $40,000 u mile, oud at no aggregate cost
to tho Government, iu tho end, of $234,720,'
000. If this view proves to bo correct, it
will bo o great boon to the American people,
and an escape from a danger that was becom
ing exceedingly formidable. It is hardly safe,
however, to halloo before we are out of the
woods. Thu plans of Scott’s Credit Mobilierore
deeply laid, and tbe stakes they are ploying
for are 100 high to bo given up without a tre
mendous struggle. They may yet succeed in
captunug a majority of the Democratic
House, though the fact that the Southern
members voted largely for Kuin would indi
cate that they are uot so much misled by tbo in
genious advertising of Mr. TosiScott os some
of tho Southern papers would have us be
llovo. Tho swindle way bo postponed for
party reasons until after the next Presidential
election.
It seems to be generally supposed that, as
Indiana has secured the Speakership in the
person of Kxcb, its Presidential prospects iu
the person of Hsnpuioss will bo considerably
weakened. This will undoubtedly bo the ef.
feet, to some extent. Hut Hum's choice was
certainly tho result of tho combined luflu
eucoof tho Indiana and Illinois delegations,
and they will be os vigorous probably in tbeir
advocacy of Hcnobicks us tho Prosideutiol
candidate as they have been in their support
of Ktuu.* If they succeed, the result will
very much diminish the public confidence iu
the soundness of tho Democratic position on
the currency question, wJriioh the choice of
Uau U calculated to tnoouisga, Indeed,
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; MONDAY. DECEMBER 0, IM.A
having given the Dotnoerfttio House a full
measure of credit for selecting Kuna as
against Randall, it may srriomdy b ques
tioned whether a largo proportion of the
ninety votes ho received in caucus
were not influenced rather by nu intention
to hill the suspicions which (he people enter
tain toward the Democratic parly than to
honestly abide hy the doctrines which Kero
is supposed to represent. There is no doubt
hut the shrewdest Democratic managers are
trimming all their sails with reference to the
Presidential campaign. Kerr's election
would have been more significant of good
faith if it had occurred after the Presidential
election instead of Wfoiy it. Just how many
of the ninety votes Kuui received were
given him with the particular view of cater
jug to public sentiment for use in tbo Presi
dential campaign, and with no intention of
abiding by Kerr's doctrine, cannot bo
definitely determined; but that there
wore a number the circumstances of
the case (notably the fact that Randall
had counted confidently on eighty votes be
fore the caucus met) leave no doubt. Huch
persons will ally themselves with the sixty
three Congressmen who continued to vote
for Randall, and thereby avowed their in
dorsement of the salary-grab business, the
Protection fraud, the inflation swindle, the
subsidy steals, and all the worst practices and
tendencies of Congress. This will constitute
a formidable phalanx, which will bo strongly
tempted to show its front before the session
U half over, notwithstanding the restraint of
the overshadowing Presidential caihpaign,
With the best hopes, therefore, for the in
fluence which Mr. Kean may bo oblo lo ex
ert, it is well to repress too much confidence
until after the holidays, when Congress will
enter npon the real business of the year.
THE MURDERER'S IW3AHIXT.
Tho insouity dodge has bccu once more
played with success in tho cose of John
Scannere, tho Now York rongh who mur
dered Thomas Donouce. Tho second trial
closed on tho 2Ttl\ ult. with a verdict of not
guilty, tho jury declaring that they believed
him to have boon insane nt tho timo of tho
shooting. How much insanity there was in
tho murder may bo judged from the fncts.
In ISGD, Florksce Scanners, a candidate for
Alderman, was shot in a bar-room riot.
Thomas Donohue, tho barkeeper, was arrest
ed upon suspicion, but after a long and care
ful investigation tho prosecution utterly fail
ed to connect him with tho murder, and ho
was released. Tho brother, John Bcannerr,
who had a suspicion it might have been
Dosoirup. who did tho shooting, tracked
him from place to place until ho found
his opportunity and then shot him down
in a bar-room, aud, after bo had killed biro,
riddled his body with bullets, and then re
marked to a bystander, “This Is the end of
a long grudge." In tho face of such facts as
these, tho jury declared him insane and ac
quitted him. Tho Court expressed its indig
nation at tho verdict, and justly, as there
was no pretense that ho was insane before
the shooting, and he has been perfectly sane
since. The case has a local application, inas
much as tho infinity dodge will bo undoubt
edly tried in tho case of tho gambler Davib,
who murdered Wuvrakd the other day. Ko
pretense can be mndo that Davis was insane
before tho shooting. Ho has indignantly de
nied it himself. Ho most certainly
has been sane over since the mur-
der. and yet his counsel will prob
ably seek to establish tho fact, or
rather the belief in tho minds of tho jury'*
that ho was insane at tho lima ho shot Why
land. Should this theory bo urged with
sufficient force to convince tho jury, or
should a convenient jury bo impaneled to
bring in such n verdict, tho public will de
mand that tho murderer shall bo imprisoned
in an insane asylum for lifo ns a guarantee
of protection to society. If ho was only in
sane at the timo ho shot Wiiyland and is re-
leased, then no man is safe from' his parox
ysms or those of other gamblers, who will
he ready to avail themselves of tho Insanity
dodge to wreak their vengeance upon those
against whom they may happen to
have a grudge, or who may chance
to cross their path in a man
ner offensive to their peculiar cense of
honor. It is timo that insanity should bo
punished, if it is to bo made a defense for
murder. If every brute and scoundrel that
walks oar streets Is liable to bo seized with
insanity and to commit murder one day, he
Is liable to do tho same thing any other day,
and society therefore is only safe when they
aro locked up for life.
8033 TWEED’S ESCAPE.
Boss Tweed is once more at liberty, and (
without disgorging his stolon plunder. What
the courts refused to do, ho has done him
self. Tho Court of Appeals removed him
from Blackwell’s Island to i.he Ludlow Street
JaiL The courts would not; open the door of
his cell without eiz millions hall, so ho
opened it himself, and is now over the hills
and far away, and wo con Jancy the fugitive
iu his flight now and then turning round to
oak, “What ore you going to do about it?”
Nothing, of course. Thera will bo a spasm of
indignation upon tho part of honest people;
a spasm of indignation upon the part of mi
nor and lew wealthy criminals for whom
Sheriffs and Deputies ore n over convenient;
a spasm of industrious tearing around and
riding about on the part of policemen and
detectives; and a spasm of pretended sur
prise upon tho part of tho Sheriff and his
Deputies that their prisoner should hovo
slipped through their fingers unknown (?) to
them, —then the whole affair will pass out of
remembrance and cease to lie a sensation.
There is no probability that Tweed
will return to Ludlow Street Jslh
Police, and Sheriffs, and detectives may
os well abandon the simulated search.
Before this timo ho is in security and beyond
tho processes of law. He ha i gone to meet
his partners in iniquity who uro enjoying
their stealings in foreign parts. Bill Tweed
will very soon also bo under a new vine and
fig-tree, where ho will pass tho remainder of
his days in affluent and infamous exile.
Tho escape of the Democrauio Boss shows
neither shrewdness nor courago. Everything
was arranged and made convenient and com
fortable for him. No obstacle was placed iu
his way, and plenty of time- was allowed
him to run. It hod been tho custom of the
jail authorities, it seems, to h ike tho Boss
out to drive, because ho frequently had tho
hcudochol Other prisoners leave the head
ache sometimes, but they are not taken out
to ride behind fast nags, bccaui to they ore not
Democratic Bosses. When on Saturday tho
Hoes wanted to go and see his vuife, of course
the Worden could accommodate him, “be
cause license ought to be granted
10 a man who has so m uch private
business to transact.” Other prisoners
have a great deal of private busi
ness to transact, but they cannqt bo
.vllowod to go and see their w free, because
they on not Bosses. The Was CLsu and the
Deputy and tlio I.'-om drove merrily to Hie
rnsidnucc of Tweed. Jr. Tho Doss wauled to
poo Ids wife prlvatc’ty. Of course there wore
no objections; biitwhother tho Dosi went up
stair* or down-staim, into my lady's chamber
or out of tho back door, neither the Warden
nor Deputy can toll. Voting Mr. Tweed on*
Icrlaincd the Deputy ami tho Warden. He
entertained ho successfully that Are minuter,
elapsed and they never thought of the Doss.
Ten minuted jmssod and young Mr. Tweed
still entertained them flucccsafully. Fifteen
minutes passed nud tho entertainer was so
entertaining that their thoughts never went
up the stairs. Twenty minutes flow by and’
then they thought tho entertainer, who was
growing a little tiresome, had better go up.
stairs and request tho Doss to come down.
Ho wont up. It took him a long
timo to got back, and he camo back
tearing his hair, with tho heart-rending an.
nounccment that tho portly bird hod flown.
Why young Mr. Tweed should have lorn his
hah* does not appear, except that it woh tho
dramatic thing to do. It is not related that
either tho Warden or tho Deputy tore their
hair. Tim Warden went and told a Deputy-
Warden at tho jail, and this Depuly-Wardeu
went to tho Hboriff's house and told him,
and tho Sheriff went to tho oflico of tho
Dollco Superintendent ami told him, and the
Polico Superintendent told tho policemen,
and tho policemen told tho detectives, nud
thou there was hurry nud scurry, and wo aro
told that tho police and detectives scoured
New York City, although it is difficult to see
why they should have scoured tho city at all.
Ample timo had boon given tho Boss to put
himself beyond the reach of legal clutches,
and he did it. Ho would havo been
a very singular man if ho hod not
done it. lie would have been o very foolish
man to return to tho Jail when permission
bad been given him to Icovo It. If tho other
prisoners were Dossco and were allowed to
leave the jail, they would not return.
There aro two questions which will occnr
to (he curious mind relative to the convenient
escape of tho Doss. Tho first of these is,
How much did it cost tho J3oss? As tho Slier*
id’s bond for the faithful performance of his
duty is $50,000 nnd tho 'Warden's S-0,000,
tho average arithmetical skeptic will figure
up a price above $70,01)0. Convenient es
capes almost always involve loss of money.
Perhaps Tweed's did not; but most people
will imagine Urn motto over his bed, “ In
God wo trust," to bo at least gently ironical.
Tho second question that pcoplo will ask is
wiiy a discrimination should ho made
in
tho coso of Tweed. There nro
uo relative degrees of ginlt in a case like his.
Either ho is guilty or not, And if ho is guilty
ho is just as guilty as every other prisoner in
tho jail. Why, then, should ho ho allowed
privileges denied tlio others ? Isut moraliz
ing is vain in tins case. The Tweed farce is
over, and the curtain rings down upon the
Boss flying to his secure asylum and signiti.
cnntly inquiring, “ What are you going to do
idiout it? ”
THE PDXUfIE EMPIBE OF EGYPT.
The acquisition of the Baez Canal by Great
Britain necessarily involves something like a
protectorate of Egypt, but it is probable that
iho offensive name will bo kept out of sight
and the protection bo given only to keep the
King on bis throne. Ho may perhaps bo
furnished with English troops to complete
ins conquests In Central Africa, but such aid
will probably only bo given in case some
European Power threatens the integrity of
bin possessions. Ho will certainly have the
help of British money and of individual
Britons, and can rely upon substantial no.
tional protection in any extreme danger.
The concealed political alliance between En
gland and Egypt will result in a public and
clone commercial alliance between tho two.
English merchants will reap the profits of
Egyptian trade, and English tax-payors will
escape the necessity of supporting a costly
colonial Government.
The history of the Egyptian Empire is a
series of dissolving viowH. Thu domain ruled
from the Lower Nile has expanded, contract*
cd, expanded again, and again contracted,
through cycles of centuries. Dynasty has
succeeded dynasty. Thrones havo been
built upon throucs. The vast royal families
have scattered their blood through all ranks
of the people, until there is scarcely a fellah
on the Nile who cannot claim kinship with
bis ruler. Where baroms abound, all man*
kind soon related. Those ethnolo
gists who find the highest type of race
in tbo nation which is composed of
tho most elements can point to the
present Khedive of Egypt as a passing
proof of their theory. Tho blood In his veins
comes from many different sources. Tho
union of tho white slaves of Circassia and
tho ’dark-skinned Turks from many varying
climes has at last produced a man who defies
tho languid influancos of tho hot sun that
beats on Kilo sands, and acts with an energy
and skill wo are wont to claim as tho ex
clusive possession of a more western and a
colder civilization. His Empire is now about
1 to swallow up Abyssinia, and will, perchance,
ultimately ombrauco all Coutral Africa, from
sea to sco. Abyssinian civilization, such as
it is, is an offshoot from that of Egypt, with
moro recent grafts from Portugal. When tho
Budoulns overthrew tho old Egyptian
dynasty, the deposed monarchs fled
up tho Kilo Volley, passed through
flery desert and matted jungle, and estab
lished 0 now kingdom in tho vast oasis of
Ethiopia and Abyssinia. A great trade in
ivory, in gems and gold-dast, in spices and
slaves, made thorn strong and rich. In tho
course of time, they reconquered their Egyp
tian throue, transferred their seat of rule
back to Memphis, and left Ethiopia and
Abyssinia to be managed by their satraps.
But ero long cue of the latter throw off tho
yoke, invaded Emperor’s own country,
aud made Egypt a satrapy of his own. A
dream drovo the superstitions barbarian bock
towards tho sources of the Kile, and Egypt
was abandoned to civil war until the Ptol
emies assumed supremo power. The third
of that name conquered Abyssinia again.
In ways like these, the contest of cross
purposes, tho marriages aud divorces
of tho two countries, went on. Tho present
attempt of tho Khedivo to odd Abyssinia to
Egypt, if successful, will merely join together
two principalities that have often been joined
together and as often tom apart. The ten
dency of things in all civilized countries is
towards consolidation; it remains to be seen
whether semi-civilization can exert this same
cohesive power.
Cabtxb Uabeisok, ho mado bio maiden
speech Saturday and \?aa summarily
scpiblchcd. Uuablo to wait until Congress
aes&ibled, he talked and talked and talked
to tho Democrat* in caucus assembled, mak
ing that well-known and somewhat thread
boro speech about Ids constituents. He talks
a great deal more about them, by tho way,
tUftn they do about him, or an over likely to.
Whoa ha got through and hk eweoUy sloop.
ing colleagues were waked up, tho motion in
favor of riwi voce voting, which Uo hnd ar-
dently advocated, was put to vote. Tho yeas
were 4H; tho nays wore r.o numerous that
the Chair got tired nut before bo finished
counting them. This was very sad for onr
Carter. Perhaps, however, lie will do better
ns a constituent of the next Congressman
from tho West Side than ho does os tho Con-
gressmnu.
PAY OF IIIQH PUBLIC SERVANTS.
The declination of tho Commisoionerjihip
of Indian Affairs by Dx-Oov. Ward, of Now
Jersey, after the office had boon declined by
half a dozen other good men to whom it was
offered, is not surprising 5 but it brings out
prominently the American ilUbernlity toward
public servants holding responsible posi
tions, and tho detriment to public interests
incident thereto. There is no question but
Secretary Chandler is actuated by an honest
desire to reform tho Indian service, and tho
first step to that cud was the selection of a
man of perfect integrity and more than or
dinary ability to place at the head of tho
Bureau. In his effort to secure such a man
ho has been confronted by tho beggarly
salary attached to tho office. Ha luw been
forced to ask gentlemen whoso obilitics in
sure them a respectable’ income to assume
tlio chief responsibilities of a department in
which $7,000,000 aro expended annually at a
compensation of $3,000 a year I or not oh
much as a head bookkeeper can earn in a
bank. Tho proposition reduced to Ibis mat
ter-of-fact statement is simply ridiculous.
Even Mr. Chandler's generous offer to do
nate out of his own purse enough to make it
$5,000 a year, if ho can find tho proper mao,
has failed to induce an acceptance of the
place.
Tbo snm of $3,000 o year of depreciated
notes to a family man in Washington, oc
cupying n high Government position which
almost necessitates a largo social expense, is
absurdly insufficient. It is not enough to
pay rent and to enable him to support his
family in the costly City of Washington
without waking any allowance for tho extra
expense attached to his position.
will do little more than pay house-rout. To
a poor man, therefore, it is a constant tempta
tion to corruption, and its responsibility cer
tainly offers no attraction to a rich man who
cun afford to take bis ease. And it is in this
way that the pnblio interest falls between
two stools. Tho saving in salary is not
economical. Tho public would make money
—hundreds of thousands—by paying even
$25,000 to a man of groob administrative
ability, like one of thoso who manage our
largo railroad interests, and who might save
to tbo public vast sums in on annual expendi
ture of several millions. Tho number of
men of distinguished ability, able to com
mand large salaries or earn largo sums of
money, who are willing to accept a responsi
bility of administering millions of dollars for
a niggardly pittance, is exceeding small. If
they have already earned a competency for
themselves, it is oaking a good deal that they
should sacrifice personal comfort nud risk
personal reputation for integrity and ability
to servo tho public for almost nothing. If
they aro not well off in this world’s- goods,
they naturally prefer to uso their talents for
their own benefit and that of thoso dependent
on them. Tho case of tho Indian Commis
siouorsblp going bogging among good men
should bring this matter so conspicuously
before tbo people and their representatives
ns to lead to somo change in tho practice of
foolishly nudorpaying. officials who assume
the immense responsibility of great public
trusts.
RATIONAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.
British agitators and would-be reformers
understand tho political value of “ leagues. ’’
The league, a congeries of clubs, is their
chosen weapon. They use it to abolish o
corn-law, to radically change a land system
that counts its ago by centuries and its self
interested defenders by the million, to edn
ento a nation. The roost prominent feature
in what may bo called the social politics of
Great Britain to-day is Iho National Educa
tion Longue, which has for its aim the non
scctariau instruction of every hitherto un
taught child in the two Kingdoms of England
and Scotland. Ireland is abandoned to the
clericals for the time being. The struggle
for soculai* education there is postponed nntii
n similar straggle on the other side of St.
George’s Channel has succeeded. The en
emy is to bo token in detachments.
The laws of England allow the formation
of School Boards. They do not command it.
The National Education League steps in to
urge and persuade people to avail themselves
of the permission. The result has been
something marvelous. 'Within the last
twelvemonth, iho number of Boards has
increased more than f»0 per cent, from ODD
to 1,42)5. Some of them have control of
large areas. Thus one Board supervises the
public schools of the whole of London. It
is an especially gratifying fact that the rural
population has taken kindly to the new idea.
The cities wore sure to do so, but rustic con
servatism was relied upon by Tory believers
in popular ignorance to prevent the formation
of Boards throughout the country, embracing
the villages, and to check and thwart their
workings, when formed. It seemed at first,
even to the founders of the League, that the
task was almost hopcleia. The local digni
taries, tho clergymen and the squires, could
not bo relied upon. Their opposition was,
in foot, almost certain. Tho secular charac
ter of Iho instruction provided by tho School
Boards would repel tho clergymen; tho levy
of a tax on rentals for tho support of
tho schools would disgust tho squire. - *.
Both these things came to pass, but tho mass
of the people have shown a surprising and
gratifying independence. Tho Boards now
dot tho country. They levy and collect their
taxes without trouble; they shut out sectari
anism, with considerable consequent trouble;
and they curry into effect the powers
of compulsion with which the law en
dows them. Never In English history have
os many English children been In school as
now. And the good work Is only begun. Tho
law has been in operation only since 1870,
and much of this time has necessarily been
spent in purely preliminary preparations.
Now the number of Boards grows apace, and
every Board Is an educational centre. More
over, such activity has spurred believers in
donominotionol training into fresh effort. As
soon as parents began to transfer their chil
dren from religious to the so-called irreligious
schools, the friends of tho former took the
alarm and hastened to improve the teaching.
Thus tho League has forced its opponents to
try to rival it in good works. If national ed
ucation increases in the future in anything
like the ratio of the past, (he England of 1900
I will bo what England has never yet been, —a
nation of educated people.
Tho Democratic patriots from Chicago who
are in Washington sacking tof loaves and
fUVf Mam to I*t» Uan ttitoty Igaorad in
Iho Bourbon panjandrum on Saturday, Not
ono of them received oitlior a loaf or a H«U
or even a promise. This is pretty hard upon
llio Chicago patriots, who wore mostly of tho
rufllod-Hliirt Joltcr.Kmmus. Bat JclTonumiati
.Democracy was not in the ascendency at the
caucus. Our patriot* inudo a mistake in not
idllUatiug with tho Short Hairs ami iu keep
ing nwny from the bar-rooms. Tho compen
nation will como, however, when Barney
Caulfield gels an opportunity to introduce
Ids new bills ami commences to remodel the
Government.
A CENTENNIAL DRAMA,
Tho world will loam with dtvp regret (hat
Iho Timoxuv Titcomd of England, Mr. Mar
tin I'VnguitAn Topper, has broken loose again,
shattered tho golden silence of his later yearn,
and poured forth a Hood of platitudes, Inter-
Hpcmod with bmken-bneked inotaphom, and
saturated with milk-and-water morality, lie
him, alas, selected thin country as his Uionio,
mid has actually produced a drama in five
acts entitled “Washington,” and destined
to bo otto of tho burdens of our centennial
year. Is it not enough (lint our Holland
gushes for us? Must wo patiently endure tho
tedious Tupphr, too? A powerful reason for
staying away from Philadelphia during tho
Exposition is furnished by tbe fact that Tup
per nud Ins “ Washington ” will both bo
there. This is tho first case iu which
Pennsylvania interests can, perhaps, right
fully demand protection. Why not
have a discriminating duly levied on
tho importation of Tuppur,— say IM cents
for tho first pound of Topper flesh, blood,
and bono ; SO coats for tho second; and so
on? Manuscript or printed copies of tho
“ Washington ” should be taxed at tho rate
of $1 per letter. Only measures of this sort
will avail to sbvo us. But after all, those
might be too extreme. TUo proverb tells us
that birds of a feather flock together, and
whore Holland is, there Tupper must long
to bo. Whom God hath joined together in
platitude-producing power, lei not man put
asunder.
Most people who remember tbo rosults of
tho Pociflo Mail investigation will see the
Huger of un avenging Providence in tho fact
tat Col. Fobmev—tho hero of uo battles ami
tio,0(1(1 had to sit still for many mortal
hours and hoar the Toweu mouth his name
ludious verso through tho whole five acts of
“Washington.” Imagine having to keep
awake wliilfe such stuff as this speech of
FnANautf to Washington is thrust into your
ears:
And I then foil much as tint self-alroog mao.
iluiucn, you ronu-nihor, who doflori,
Aa you, with me, defy, tbo thunderbolt
Even of tyrannic Juvu bltnself.
Tho passage has a wealth of commas, but
they poorly atouo for its lytltiug rhythm ami
its appalling freedom from any traco of poet
ry. There is no excuse for a man who writes
tmclt stuff as this. It may servo as a sample
of tho whole, though, as it is one of tho pas
sages selected by Col. Fcmsiit in his letter to
tho Philadelphia i*/V-w, tho average of iho
drama is perhaps below this. Tho audience
allured to tho theatre on tho first night—of
course nobody can bo got to go to tho second
performance—will probably not burst into
rapturous applause of Toppek’s stilted com
monplnccs about Anglo-American good-feel
ing and tho future of tho United States. Wo
quote a sample of tho light, glittering con
versation of tho piny. It rofors to tbo im
aginary derivation of tbo national flag from
Washington's coat-of-arms:
JUehtl— Coat of arms?
Wliat was this coat of arms T
J-’rankhn—VU toll you, friends,
I’vo loarcbnd It out, and know it for tnyiolf,
Wlxm bit* la England there, at Heralds’ College,
An J found tbo Washingtons of Waaayngtoo,
Id Couuty Durham, ami of Bulgravo Honor,
County Northampton, boro upou (heir ahlatd
Tbroo stars atop, three stars below the fosl,
Guloi—that is rod—on white, and for tbo crest
An eagle's bead upspriugloff to I he light.
The architraves at Bulgravo testify.
As sundry painted windows la tho hsll
At WcSMyngtoa, this was thotr family coat,
They took U to their now Virginia homo j
And at Mount Vornon 1 myself have noted
An old cast-iron scutchcoocd chimney-back
Charged with that heraldry.
An average audience would be solemnly
snoring in its seats or briskly running away
long before tbo “gules,” and “fess,” and
44 architraves” bad been mouthed.
The play ends with the execution of tho
soldier-spy, MaJ. Andre. If this execution
can bo mado a real ono, and Tupper bo per
suaded to appear as Andbe, tbo drama of
“ Washington” will not, after all, have been
written in vain.
Afr HTTEUNATIONAb OOIXEQE* BEOATTA
Tbo Rowing Association of American Colleges
met at Springfield, Mass., on the lot Inst., and
voted, among other things, to chalioogo Oxford,
Cambridge,'and Trinity College, Dublin, to send
crews across the ocean to compete with the win*
uiog crow of noxt summer's regatta. The regu
lar race will bo rowed July 10, 1870. The place
is as yot uuflxod. Tho choice lies between Sara
toga, Rpriugllold, and Now London. Each has
its disadvantages. Tho summer resort has its
gamblers, its expense, aud its occasional tough
water. It is, however, tho only place whore all
tbe boats entered can row abreast. At either of
tbo other two places mentioned, tbo raco will
havo to be rowod in two boats, and tbo winning
crows will decide tho victory tho next day in a
regatta of their own. Moreover, Springfield
has a current and Now London a tide. Saratoga
is perhaps tho beet of the three. Wherever the
iaot> ia gulled, however, the subsequent regatta,
should either, any, or ail of the challenged British
universities send over representatives, would bo
of great intereat. When liarvutd rowed Oxford,
In 180'.), the American college was hoavily handi
capped. The course was crooked ; bridges hod
to be shot; a strong tide impeded the mechani
cal awing of the oars 5 and a coxswain had to be
carried. Those were all unwonted facts. Our
collegians are used to a straight course, with no
bridges aud no tide, aud the bow-oar of a racing
crow atooia the boat by means of long wires
running from tbe tiller to his foot-board. Tbe
Anglo-American race was gallantly rowod,
hut the victory of Oxford was a foregone
conclusion. As England beat America in a race
conducted on the English mode), America now
challenges England to a race on tbe American
model. The winning crew of onr Intercollegiate
regatta is to*bear onr pennant and row a
straightaway course, on water unincumbered by
bridges, in a boat unincumbered by coxswains,
against one, two, or three Biitlsb crows. The
race would be more interesting, not to say fairer,
if ihe number of crews on either aide were equal.
If the three foreign universities all respond to
tbo challenge, let the three best crews in the
home race he entered against them ( if two of
them send boats, have oar heat two meet them t
and If only one picks up tbe gauntlet, let the
victor in our raco row against England's solitary
representative. Tbo international regatta would
be a fitting sequel to the interooUogiate one.
Every boat in it would be manned with Anglo-
Saxon muscle. It would not be blood against
blood, but two kindted nations In friendly
rivalry.
TU Now York Herald bo* probably bowl
oomowbors of tbo styiog that conaistnucy u tbo
bugbear of UUlo miudo , aod Uierafore, regard
lug »U owo mlod ta a graat ouo, U declines to be
oouauteut. i'or bmdUis psat it bae boon actively
boraU&g Axousw H. Oauv, tba Clt? Comp
troller of Nov York* and no* tt calmly tivu
around, nominates him for Ifa.-or, calls h| „
*• the stonewall between the tlnsvoß amlti,.,
piiblio treasury," uud huvs that M 'Blonewt’i
Giicri** would malm a capital parly ory forth)
canvass.” Ono of iho puranne whose attackirq
llio public Irrnmiry have been pwisUtitlj fait,,)
by Mr. Gufi'nlk Gordon Br.titnr, wlio^
little advertising lull still remains unpaid. n,
refusal lo pay it explains tho Fl-TcMCt savage on.
xhuudit on tiro Com).trailer hitherto, but *bat
explains this ouitd-m gr.;ah of ntTeotiou f OJ
“Stonewall Green *'?
We have received a copy of a military mts
tho Indian Territory, compiled and pabliakel bv
R. 11. IlcFFNita. J’ii.c Lmntenaut Engineers, D,
H. A. Tho work lias i«ui undertaken by him hi
the illi»cltargo of his dmios s and It is so nmcj,
more elaborate and careful than noytuing cover
mg the mum ground in oxfatcuco that Its meritt
cannot ors'ily ba jud.foj of except by
ono tliornuuhlr familiar with the ground.
It iscenm to be, however, all (hat is claimed (at
it. and to redact equal credit upon the com.
pilot and lilj aitparior ofllcora, under whose
direction tho work hai been done. Theaaph
entirely a military one, designed to übov the
civil divisions anil tho topography simj ,1? In (hiii
rclaliou to tho Indian llcjorvnilonn. The scale
in for marching pnrpu.es. largo ononj ;h to locate
ont’a position accurately. Tho varying born*,
darioe of (ho Indian Reservation* will be put
mby band. Tho edition of tide tn: 41 is limited,
being only suillclont for tho uses of the Indian
; Department ami tho militaiy 0 ilablbbrnent
Lieut. RuffNeh, however, rotain-i tUo cnigioal
stone*, and futnro aodouda can lu% ma le or edi
tions oliuok oil' when called frr. For com
ptolonops of design and neatno is of ojcooUo*
tho work douervea tho highest pi aiau.
The Forty-fourth Cangrona will have oos
unique case of contested •ductr m to decide, ft
mav be summarized as u caoo r>f chock. colomj
check, enough to equip a irglmout of army
mules and then mure than so pp]y Daunst Cicl.
field, of Dridgopoit. Its pc lisesser in Auacircs
M. Lowrt, who lives In th« Thirty-Bcoond Dl*.
trict of Now York. At the ‘/ant election of Coa.
grosamcn. tho vote of this district stood : Nos.
ton, J 0.770; Cart, Lownv, 5. Tii»
shows I‘J.OJU votes again jt Lownv to fi for bin •
but ho modestly datum the Boat on the ground
that ho was the only pc .non voted for as •* Kov
ucnlativo In the for ly-fouvih Congress.’• and
that tboroforo only I fie live bcwluU should L»
counted. It is a pity that Barnum baa gouo out
of tho show business. Ho would certainly fairs
secured Sir. Lower: 1:1 an unique curiosity.
If aoy phltanthrrjnat or sot of philaotbropiais
la this city la loo’xhig anxiously uruuml fora
chance to start n 'cow charity, which nhall not do
more harm than good, ho or they might well con
rider tbo advisability of a lying-in hospital. W»
havo nothing -of tho sort hero now, and its ex
istence would save many a hideous abortion and
many ft cruel child-murder.
PERSONAL.
Charles O’Cooor la aald to be another victim of
Laid work.
It is rumored that Prof. Qoldwln Smith win
purchase tho Torootp Mail, and make it an ad
vocate of Cau&diuu independence.
Charles B. Abell, a sou of tho proprietor of the
Baltimore .Sim, died Thursday, in tho 2dd year
of his ago. lie was a very promising young
man.
Qor. Wormoth’s genius was developed in early
youth. Ho used to engage to black stores for IS
cents apiece, and biro other boys to do She work
for 6 cents.
It is said John Morrissey wanted to bet #IO,OOO
Baudall would bo elected Speaker; but perhaps
ho just wanted to have tho fact published while
ho bet on the other follow.
Got. Ttldon's epigram—not entirely Just—
pats tho question of resuming spocio-psymonti
thus: “There aro resources enoughoxospl ia
the brains of those who havo charge of on?
finances.’’
Tho Hoy. Frederic* Ball, known as " the Bing
ing preacher," it heaping up tlio revival work in
Diooklyn begun by Moody and fiankoy. Ono of
his boat songs is entitled "Tho Blood-Stained
Banner.”
Lord JlartingloD, leader of the Opposition
party in tbo British Parliament, now appears to
bo doing much bettor than blacoano aa leader
promised at first. His speeches begin to bo well
spoken of.
Mr. Bobart Mllooa, tbo only son of Lord
Honghiou, wroto one of Uio prize poems st Hsr*
row Ibis year. Thosobjoct was "Gustavos
Adolphus.” Mr. MUnos has just entered Trinity
College, Cambridge.
Even "pull-backs” are Nesting* in disguise,
after all, causing so great a demand for elastio
fabrics to furnish tbo wherewithal to tie bach,
that tho Eastbamtiton Elastic Fabric Company
has been obliged 10 tun to their 101 l to meet th*
demand.
Judge Blchardson bos made tho tour around
tbo world, and returned to his neat ou the bench
of tho Court of Claims, Ills übseuco was scarce
ly noticed. But Yesterday hfj might have stood
against tbo world; new ho is obbged to go
around it.
Tho Philadelphia rimeatuinU Mate Carpenter
ought to know bettor than to rneb off luto a
libel-suit tho moment anything unkind ia eaid
of him in tho newspapers Now it U a note
worthy (act that Matt doesn’t roah; ha only
says bo will.
Fanny Korablo at ■ordinary Umos was a P^ n *
woman, having boon marked by small-pox; but
ebo wae occasionally trauefigured by feeling oo
(ho atage, and appeared beautiful. A 'ncntl
onoo aaid to her x •• Fanny Komblo. you art tho
ugliest and the ‘handaomesfc womau In England.
The Brooklyn -Argot u myallfiod by th« atato.
moot that the (hat oormon of tho reverend
seducer, Olsndmnliig, iu Henry, 111. " Produced
. good deal of feeling." The Intelligence!*
provokingly obeeuro, in lb«t it does not stale
whether it tree • good deni of feeling nround lot
a übot-gun.
Mien Augusta Evene promlood, e tew tnoo»«
ego, noyor to onto nnotber novel. She hu
brolien her word. Under the circometencee the
pviblic is bolpleen: forlf any ono ehould eey «
4o e hrulel thing to her, oho would propose to
merry him etonee. Such to tho common olpw
rienct of all ber heroines
The removal of Ilogh Miller Thompoon front
Now York to Slow Orleeno ia a eorloua loea to the
Episcopal Church In tho former city. Ur.
Thompoon might have bean Bootorof St., Jamoo
Church, In ibla city, toiler. II the gre.t Sre had
not made “tho call of doty" away from thl»
city perfectly clear to him.
Tho lion. Frank Jonoo, of Portemonlb, tho
Bemoctetio member of Congreao from the Find
Now Uompabiro District, will probably hove the
rinoot eotabliobmcnt at Waahlngton of anf Con
croasmau who has over boon tuoto fr m U»
State. Ho will bavo a anporb honso, and ha
ban taken out flvo beautiful boraoo. 000 pair of
which cool him »3,000. lie will hare three car
riageo. ono of them telog a landau of attractive
design and very expenaivo finish.
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