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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1878.
Greenbacks atltho Now York Stock Ex
change yesterday closed at OH.J.
Sitting Bull still watches and waits over
tho Canadian border, and, if recent reports
are correct, ho also hungers, and his stomoch
yearns for o square meat as doth his heart
for a reservation. The Canadian authorities
—namely, the Mounted Police—ore longing
for tbo time when tho craving uf tho groat
warrior for sustenance will force him to cross
into the United Slates, either as a suppliant
or n belligerent, and they bo once more rid
of an unwelcome guest. The timo of his
pilgrimage bilherward is believed to bo near
at liand.
Tho estrangement which has existed be
tween the German Government and tbo
Vatican is said to bo about to cud by a com
promise arranged between Dismauce and the
Papal Nuncio, negotiations to this end hav
ing been In progress at Heidelberg for sev
eral days. The basis of tbo compromise is
reported to bo the grouting of amnesty
for nil offenses committed by tbo Catholic
clergy against tbo Pals laVs, oud the re-es
tablishment of tho arrangement existing be
fore the rapture. Should tbo result of these
negotiations prove os favorable as is now an
ticipated, tho now Pontiff will have reason
to congratulate the Church upon tho mutual*
ly satisfactory disposition of a grave and
momentous controversy.
Tho authorities at Washington have advices
from tho Mexican border which indicate that
tho Mexicans ore about to make n show of
reafslauco to tile passage of United States
troops across the Rio Grande in pursuit of
cattle-thieves. Several successful incursions
have recently boon made by tho soldiers
uuder Goo. Macklnzjk, mid Mexican dignity
appears to have been wounded by those fre
quent expeditions. It is not expected that
anything very serious will arise from tho
military preparations now going on across
tho bonier. Ou tho contrary, It is believed
that tho thieving bands which have so long
infested that region will havo less chanco of
success and the necessity for entering
Mexican territory be greatly diminished if
both sides of the river ore patrolled by a
sufficient military force.
The distillers in Chicago have united in a
lottor to Internal Hovcnne Comrolsaioflhr
ItiUM in which thoy make formal complaint
of tho serious disadvantage they labor under
by reason of the fact that higbwiaes are sold
in open market in Cincinnati for four cents
loss per gallon than the cost of production
with the Government tax honestly and
faithfully collected. Tho Chicago men have
been compelled to abandon the manufacture
of highwioes, through inability to compote
with a market more favored in the matter
of the payment of the internal-reveuao tax,
and are forced to export a large portion
of tboir product, thus decreasing materially
tho revenue realized by tho Government
from tax-paid goods. The facts and figures
cited to show that something is rotten in
tho Cincinnati whisky business are such as
to demand attention and prompt action by
the Treasury Department.
There was a curious mixture of souso and
nonsense iu tho views expressed by differ
event persons before tho Congressional
Labor Committeo yesterday. A Connecticut
man hailing from Danbury had a magnill
ceut scheme whereby every man who wanted
it was to get $r,,000 from tho Government,
free of interest and without security. An
other Kcorueyito declared that machinery,
being tlm cun>o of labor, should be crushed
out, and gold and silver demonetized so as
to make room for unlimited is
sues of fiat money. Against tbo
preposterous theories of thoso two
lunatics weru offset the eminently sensible
expressions of two other witnesses, one of
whom thought the cause of the depression
was the War, the over-issue of paper cur
rency, the extravagance caused by tho period
of inflation, uud tho high protective tariff;
while another, a blue-ribbon man, attributed
tho existing destitution among laboring men
to ruu-guzzling and beer-swilling.
It appears that about 400 imm employed
iu thu large boot and shoe manufactories of
Chicago, known os “ bottomere," have quit
•work ami entered upon a strike because of
tbe refusal of their employers to advance
wage* to a point whore It would be impossible
to compete with Eastern manufacturers and
thobo iu this city who bava prison contracts.
The employers consented to an advance of
60 cents u cose (or bottoming boots, but
claim thst they c&uuot continue xnauofaotur
lug and pay the increase of $1 demanded by
thu striking workmen. If the bottouers
succeed in their strike to the extent
of a general suspension of work among
thu large factories, their success will
involve the throwing oat of employment of
400 other workmen who have no desiie to
strike. The wages they could oaru at the
advanced rate agreed to by tUe proprietors
are said to average $10.50 per week—a sum
sufficient to attract ontsido workmen not
connected with the strike, and fill the places
of those who havo quit work. It would
seem that under tho circumstances tho strike
of the bottomers is untimely and ill-advised,
and must result in a loss to the dissatisfied
workmen.
LANDS EOB WHOEVER WILL TAKE THEM.
We yesterday had some comments upon
the decision of Secretary Scnuns directing
that all the lands donated by tho Govern,
mont to the l*acific Railroad Companies
should hereafter be open to pre-emption and
private entry at tho rate of §1.35 per acre.
This will open to private purchase about 28,-
000,000 acres of land nLsl.23 per acre. It
is supposed by many that these are the only
lands now obtainable, or that are open to
occupation by purchase, pre-emption, or
under the Homestead or soldiers’ laws. As
so much is said about tho inability of poor
men to get lands, wo give as a matter of In
formation an abstract of tbe land laws an
they now stand. To understand this tho
better, it should be stated (bat in all
tbo grants of land to railroads the
Government retained each alternate section
of land, which sections are now and have
always been open to purchase and pre
emption at $2.30 per o.to. There are sov
oral modes of obtaining Government lands :
(1) By purchase, by “ private entry ” or
location; (2) location by land scrip \ (3) by
pre-emptions; (4)by entry under the Home
stead law; (3) by entry under the special
homestead provisions in tho case of soldiers
of the late War. Tho proceedings In these
cases are ns follows i
1. Any person having selected tho land lie
desires makes written application therefor,
describing it. If this land bo of tbe charac
ter open to private entry, bin application is
recorded, and ho pays the purchase money,
$1.23 per acre, and receives a patent there
for. tinder this form tho quantity Is not
limited, and there nro no restrictions as to
occupation or cultivation.
2. Congress has granted at various times
land to States for colleges and other institu
tions, and scrip has been issued therefor,
which may bo located on ouy land subject
to private entry, Tho warrant or scrip Is
accepted in place of tho cash at ftio rate of
$1.23 per acre.
3. The pre-emption privilege is restricted
to the heads of families, widows, or single
men over 21 years of oge, citizens of tbo
United States, or who have taken steps to be
naturalized. This right extends to ICO acres
at $1.23 per acre on genera! public lauds, or
at $2.30 per acre on tho alternate sections of
land along tbo railroad routes. Tho person
must go upon and occnpy tho land, and
within three months file a declaration of his
purpose to purchase that quarter section,
and within thirty months, or two years and
six months, thereafter, must file proof of bis
occupancy and soltlemout and pay the price
thereof in dash. lu case tho settlor dies
before maturing his claim, all his rights suc
ceed to his widow or heirs. Actual settle
ment is tho essential feature of this privi
lege, there being a credit of thirty-three
mouths fur tho purchase money.
4. Tbo Homestead law gives tbo right to
enter, free uf charge, ou any land open to
purchase, ICO acres; ho or she must be 21
years of age; tbo head of a family, a citizen,
or intending to become ouo; he must declare
that the entry is for bis or her exclusive
benefit, and for actual settlement and culti
vation. At tho end of five years settlement
and cultivation upon proof thereof, and pay
mont of tho office fees, tho person is entitled
to a patent therefor. The applicant for n
homestead can select ICO acres of any land,
the cash price of which is $1.23 per aero ; or
ho wny toko eighty acres of any of the reserv
cd laud, tho cash price of which Is $2.30 per
acre.
3. All tbo provisions of tho Homestead
law ore extended to* over; soldier and officer
of the arm/ who served not less than ninety
days during tho late War and who was hon.
orably discharged; the difference being that
ho may select 130 acres of any land, inclnd.
ing tho reserved lands, the cash price of
which is $2.30 per aero, and tho time of tho
service in the army shall be deducted from
the period of five years, required in all other
cases of homestead, for settlement and cul
tivation. The bonollt of this law is extended
to the widow of a soldier, if unmarried, or
In cose of her death or marriage tho minor
children may cuter tho homestcod. If tho sol.
dier died during the term of his enlistment,
then the widow or children shall be entitled
to the benefit of tho full term of tho entisU
mont. Thu total fees aud commissions to be
paid in case of n homestead is sl6, of which
$4 are paid whoa tho final certificate is
issued.
From these particulars it will bo seen that
any adult person may pre-empt any portion
of the public laud ,lo tho extent of ICO acres
of laud held at $1.36 an acre, or eighty acres
held at Jjli.6o per acre, and pay for the same,
without interest, at tho end of thlrty-threo
months after taking possession.
Or, under tho Homestead law, every adult
may cutor.KJO acres of $1.33 land, or eighty
acres of S3.CO laud, without cost, ou tho
condition of cultivating and occupying tho
same five years.
Or a soldier, or (ho widow of a soldier, or
the minor children of a soldier, can outer
ICO acres of either description of land, and
have tho term of service in tho army deduct
ed from tho five years'settlement or cultiva
tion. Laud may bo entered for homesteads
by a duly appointed agent. Lands acquired
under tho Homestead law are not liable for
d'jbts contracted previously.
Tho objection is urged that (hero is no
laud now open for settlement under these
laws, and that all the good lands have been
taken up. This is not (rue. No Stato has
exhibited a greater growth of lato yean thau
Kansas, and we have before us a statement
of tbo lauds now open to settlement Ju that
titutc. From this wo give the following
summary:
JiaUrca'Uan'h, Arret,
1. A., To»*kaAK. F. It. U. lauds Vi:.o,000
•». K«n«as Pacific It. U. 3, MW, UOO
:j. JJ., Kansas »V Texas it. It 1150, 000
4. Missouri Itivcr, clc.. It. it DUO, 000
5. Central branch V, P. It. It I‘iU, UUU
Total la Kama*.
These lauds range from $3 to $0 uu acre,
ami are sold on an average cf cloven years’
time, with liberal discounts.'
.Stale land*. Atrtt.
School aud o tner lauds 3,000, 1)00
These lauds are sold at not less thau $3
per acre, uu ten years’ time.
public landt.
Northwestern District....
Wevtcrn Dmncu........
baUaaUUimi
Ilepubhcau District.. ..
Arkansas Valley District
V> ichita DlaUict
Osage District
Tola) public lands
litre are nearly 17,000,000 of acres of
public land all open under the Homestead
law, iu forms of IGO acres, free of cost, or
open under private entry at per aero
fur cash, or under pre-emption, iu farm* of
ICO acres, at SI.W ptr acre, villi thirty
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 7, 1878,
three months’ credit without interest. In
addition, there are the 3,000,000 acres of
State lands for sale on ten years’ lime, and
the 4,300,000 acres of railroad land on cloven
years’ time. All this is in tho one State of
Kansas. In Nebraska, Minnesota, and Da
kota, the lands of oil kinds—railroad, Stale,
and public lands—are even of greater ex
tent, and. for the most part, all capable of
Immediate cultivation, easy of access, with
facilities of travel, transportation, and
postal and telegraph service wholly
nnknown to the people yet llv.
ing who filled up Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, and
Missouri. Dakota la twice the size of Min
nesota, and as large ns Illinois, Indiana, and
Wisconsin. Kansas is twice as large as
Indiana, and Nebraska has about tho same
dimensions. In Kansas and Nebraska there
arc many counties not yet settled to any
extent, and where colonies or organizations
of six, ten, or twenty families migrate
together they can havo their lands selected
by an agent for them in one body, thus
forming a community, and if they purchase
tho land from the railroads, or from tho
State, can secure tho most liberal terms and
long credit, or if they take under tho pre
emption laws, each will havo thirty-three
months’ timo in which to pay for the laud,
or If they taka under tho Homestead
law, can bo of mutual assistance in tho way
of labor and means until they cun begin to
produce. In ail such cases the larger tho num
ber moving together tho greater aid they will
be to each other, tho bettor terms they can
make; but in every case they ought to liavo
their loud selected by n trusted agent before
hand, and then move directly to it. Wherever
there are men wonting loud, with the inton-
tiou of laboring tborcoti, tbo laud is abun
dant, cosily reached, obtainable on any terms;
and iu every case they will find liberal hands
prompt to help them ou their wpy.
CHANGES IN THE EUROPEAN MAP.
Tho changes made in tho geographical
position of Eastern Europe by tho treaty of
Berlin ore so considerable that the map
and globe makers will shortly have to
issue now editions. The now boundaries of
Bulgaria may bo easily traced upon tho
present atlas by reference to a few points.
Commencing at Widdin, the Danube from
there to a point alittlo cast of Sllistria makes
tho north boundary $ a lino from there south*
oast to Mougnlia on the Black Boa and tho
sencoost to a short distance below Varna,
make tho oast boundary. The upper short
rouges of tho Balkans, ns far as Dcrbend,
and thou the main range as far ns Ichtiman,
make tho south boundary. From there tho
west lino runs from Ichtiman post the south
of Sophia up through Zaribrodz and Kakow
itzn to tho Servian frontier, including an area
of 23,000 square miles aud 1,800,000 populo
lion, lloumnnia gets 7,000 square miles
in the Dobmdja and Delta of tho Danube,
but loses 3,000 square miles in Bessarabia
aud about 200,000 people, so that her actual
gain is only abont 3, (500 square miles of tor.
ritory. Eastern iloamclia is a long paral
lelogram, extending from tho Little Kara-Su
Itiver to Burgas, on the Black Boa. Bosnia
goes to Austria, which gives her 30,000
square wiles and a population of 1,000,000,
and besides this thirty square miles at
tho southeastern angle of Montenegro.
Scrvia secures tho larger part of tho Province
of Nisch,—3,ooo square miles, ~und a popu
lation of 200,000, which makes bur present
area 20,000 square miles and her population
1,307,000. Montoucgro gets a long narrow
strip on tho southeast and tho harbor of Anti
vori, on area of 1,300 square miles and a
population of 40,000, which now enlarges
her area to 3,100 square miles aud her pop
ulation to 230,000. Besides her future in
demnity, Russia receives 3,300 square miles
aud 200,000 people tn Bessarabia, and 0,000
square miles aud over 300,000 population In
Asia. It wan generally supposed that Greece
was hardly used by the Congress, but should
the recommendations of tho Congress bo
adopted—and Turkey will hardly care to dis
regard them—she will receive un area of not
leas than 3,300 square miles, which is more
than Borvla, Roumnnla, or Montenegro,
who had to bear tho brunt of
war, receive. In the aggregate Tur
key loses over 70,000 square miles of
territory aud a population of three and a hall
millions. Bbo has absolute jurisdiction no
where. Tho small fragment left to her lu
Europe will bo ruled henceforth by a Chris,
tian Governor, aud her Asiatic possessions
have passed under ou English protectorate.
Looking at Turkey from this point of view,
there is considerable point to Nast's cartoon
lu tho current number of Harper's ’Weekly,
It represents Bisiuocx standing at tho hood
of tho dinner table ; upon a plate in tho
centre are two or three bones ; England,
Franco, aud Italy ore handing up their plaUs
for more, to which ho replies, with his own
plate empty before him, “Gentlemen, there
U really no more Turkey.”
KEABNEY IN BOSTON.
The appearance of Kearney in tho recon
structed Fanoull Hull of liustun, overflowing
with people, is certainly a sensation sug
gestive of strong contrasts; but that is ab»ut
all. His speech and tho account of its re
ception, interlarded witli annotations of
cheers one! laughter, produce no other im
pression in print than that of infinite dis
gust j in this respect, too, it resumblos most
other transient sensations. Tho speech was
a composite performance, made up of some
glittering generalities, probably prepared in
advance by Keauney's roportoriul secretary
(and partly cribbed from Col. Inoeusou.),
along with the man's owu profanity oud
coarseness. If anybody pauses tp marvel
over tho mosaic, ho wiu merely bo puzzled,
as iu some other cases of mosaic, to under
stand how people cun bo attracted by such
on exhibition. Nevertheless, a crazy person,
properly exhibited, can generally moke a
sensation in this country $ iu other countries
tho police usually suppress such exhibitions.
Of course tho burden of tho speech was to
show Hut every capitalist Is a “thief," aud
every bondholder a “Ueherotu thief,"—
though why a bondholder should necessarily
be more “lecherous" than other capitalists
Mr. Keaunky did not stop to explain. The
newspapers wore denounced as run in the
interest of-.“cutthroats, political bilks, day
light thieves, aud midnight assassins," and
all because they report Kearney's speeches
verbatim, and thus moke him familiar with
their gross vulgarity. Mr. Kearney soys he
can hire a man to write him “ u grammatical
speech" for $3.00 la greenbacks, which
suggests tho ardent wish that ho would use
$3.60 la this commendable fashion j but he
ftlwn gays that “it takes millions of dollars to
buy an hbnest man, bo he ever so ungram
matical," which suggests that Mr. Kearney's
idea of an honest man is not liko that of tbo
extinct Mr. I'oodUt, —“a man that don’t care
ad—n," —but a man who won't sell out
cheap. What is Mr. Kearney's price ? Aud
wouldn't he bo dear at uuy figure 7
It is not easy to come down to a practical,
matter-of-fact way of dealing with Kearney,
.4,660,000
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.6,*43,000
. 750.000
.1, 000,000
10,015,000
—no easier thnn An effort to hold a rational
conversation with no inmate of nn insane
asylum who imagines himself to ho Julius
O.esar or Iho first Napoleon*. When ho
tries to tntk sense (o bis hearers, ho finds it
necessary to travel hack to California, and
tho issues there have been so distinctively
local that they do not help him ns an advisor
of tho workingmen of Massachusetts. All
this wo have explained before. Bni It was
very fanny that ho shonld recount how tho
California workingmen had been deceived in
the politicians and demagogues whom they
elevated to office for a time, and how they
had only fonnd relief finally by throwing
over the political bnmmern nod electing none
bni*'poor, obscure artisans ” to office; all
this was exceedingly funny In view of tho
fact that Mr. Kearney's mission to Massa
chnsetts is to help elect Ben Butler Gov
ernor of tho Stale,—-a man who, so
far from being a " poor, obscure artisan,”
is a bloated capitalist, a "protected ” manu
facturer, and a political bmumer. What was
not so funny, however, was Kearney's em
phasized advice to tho workingmen " to pool
all yonr issues and put thorn all In ono pot”
as a certain moans of success, with tho an
nouncement (Jmt it would bo time enough
for thorn to determine whnt they would do
after they had thus captured tho Slate.
From a partisan point of view, Kearney's
advice in this regard was certainly shrewd,
though, fortnnatoly, tho advico is moro dif
ficult to follow than to give, for no factions
aro moro obstinate in their theories and
hobbles than tho factions of sb-caDcd work
ingmen in politics. There is certainly reason
to apprehend that if Iho workingmen wore
united, and could agree to pool their side
issues and cover them up, as Kear
ney advises, they could carry Massa
chusetts, or any other State in which
thero are populous cities and largo
manufacturing establishments; but largo
numbers of the well-to-do workingmen will
prefer to insist upon knowing whnt tho out
come of euch n success would bo. Kearney's
idea is that it will be time enough to deter
mine that after the success shall Itovo boon
achieved; but he forgets that he has in a
largo measure predetermined it in ids public
utterances. His notion is "first to corral
the capitalists, and when you got 'em cor
ralod, grind 'em, God dawn 'em.” Fortu
nately thero is in Massachusetts, and In every
other State where thp common school sys
tem has been auccossfnl, a very largo pro
portion of tho working people who under
stand that to “ corral the capitalists first and
thou grind them,” —that is, rob and destroy
their properly,—ls a policy winch will boar
down harder apoa tho working classes than
any other; so Mr. Kearney will scarcely in
duce the workingmen to wipe out tho differ
ences of opinion among themselves merely
to gain a power which will bo abused by the
now set of "horny-handed" politicians of
whom Kearney is the typo.
THE TILDEN CONTROVERSY.
Wo have no disposition to ontor in detail
upon Uio controversy precipitated .by Wat
teusom and Hewitt over Tiedem's rosponsl
billty for his own misfortunes. The subject
has been revived in a long letter from Mam*
tom Majidls to the public, in which ho takes
sides with Wattebaom, and produces a num
ber of letters and telegrams, along with his
own account of Mr. Tiedem's attitude and
sentiments, to show that the latter never
approved, but rather condemned and op*
posed, the Electoral Commission scheme.
After devoting more time to tho reading of
the letters on both sides than tho subject
warranted, we have come to the conclusion
that Mr. Tiedem, with his usual careful de
liberation, determined to so conduct him*
self ns to throw tho responsibility upon
others in case tho Commission should
decide against him. It was a case of
“Hoads, I win; tails, you lose.” Had the
Commission scheme resulted in tho seating
of Tiedem, this controversy would never
have broken out, ami Mr. Tiedem, as Presi
dent, would quietly and gracefully have re
ceived the congratulations of the country
upon his personal conservatism and magna
nimity in submitting tho disputed title to
arbitration in order to avoid possible revolu
tion and civil war. As the result was the
i reverse, It is now Mr. Tiedem's interest to
rid himself of all responsibility for tho un
successful effort to reach tho White House,
aud Mr. Mamtom Mauolb's revelations and
documents at hand show that Tiedem had
prepared the way for doing this. At tho
same time, it does not appear that Mr.
Tiedem had any other plan for taking care
of his Presidential interests than that
of procrastination by debate and forcing
the Republicans to fall back upon the letter
of the law, In tho hope that they would not
have the moral courage to assort and main
tain their rights. Whether or not Mr. Tu>
uem would have had the courage to organize
or load a resistance in such an event, Is
doubtful at the least.
lu spito of tho evident partiality for Sir.
Tilokn which hue prompted Mr. Mabqle to
publish this letter (probably at tho instance
and under tho direction of Mr. Tilden), wo
may doubt wholhor tliopiibUcatiou was well
advised. So long as Messrs. Wattejwon and
Hkwrv wore tiring paper bullets at each
other, with tho mutual understanding that
no other kind of bullots were to to used, the
affair might have been regarded as
a personal dispute, but Mr. Maiuile’s
letter draws the line strongly between two
factious of tho Democratio party,—llio Tin
pkm faction and the anti-TiLUEN faction.
And now tho fight will go bravely on. Mr.
Tilden will labor under the necessity of
continually defending and justifying his
course pending the counting of tho vote,
and ho will not bo able to make out that
ho was either a magnanimous and patriotic
American in advising and urging compro.
imso, nor yot that he was a groat and
valiant leader, counseling his friends to
stand by what they conceived to bo their
rights, and promising to conduct them to
victory. Tims he will stand between two
fires,—one coining from that largo faction
that believes constitutional compromise was
tlie only peaceful issue out of tho trouble,
and the other from thu faction that wanted
tho offices at any cost. The situation does
not seem to be peculiarly favorable to Mr.
Tiu)En’s nomination two years hence,
though, from a selfish Republican point of
view, wo might wish it wero otherwise.
We havu only one other comment to make
on Mr. Mantoh Maudle’s letter. A largo
part of It Is devoted to the alleged fraudu
lent methods of the Republicans in influenc
ing tho Returning Boards and local politi
cians of throe Southern States. We merely
wish to submit that this does not come with
the best of grace from a gentleman who is
said to have approached Dekeis or McLim,
or acme other one ol the “ague-stricken
Pariahs ’’ of Florida, ’ and to Ime told him
that he would bo talcoa care of handsomely,
or words to that effect, in case Mr. Tilujqi
wore counted iu; yet this way the purport of
Ucu. Lnw WaixaCL'a testimony before the
Potter Committee, as tho story came to him
from tho person whom Mr. Marble thus
tried to "influence.”
THE CONCERT-SALOON WAR.
Our Mayor is at present sorely troubled on
account of his undoubtedly well-meant
efforts to serve tho public good hy suppress
ing what is commonly cslied " concert-sa
loons.” Thero can bo no doubt as to tho
pernicious influence which these places,
whose proprietors cater to tho lowest and
most sensual tastes of their patrons, exert in
the community. They aro on outgrowth of
the brutal conception of pleasure that pre
vails in frontier life and in miners' camps.
A civilized community, and a centra of busi
ness and the higher aims of life, like Chica
go, cannot suffer entertainments that lower
instead of olovoto (ho participants, and such
are decidedly the majority of tho ouncort
saloons which tho Into order of tho
Mayor suppressed. Hslf-nudo women, in
decent songs and dances, discordant
tnnos from batf-dmnkon musicians, can
never elevate tho looker-on and hearer, es
pecially when music is mixed with tangle
foot whisky and sialo beer. If they do nob
disgust him at onco they will prompt him to
acta of brutality, ruffianism, and Indecency.
Instead of recreation, he receives iho incen
tive to lust and bestially.
It is going too far, however, to treat all
places of publio entertainment alike. Thero
are places, and drinking places, too, in (his
city that do not deserve to bo classed In iho
samo category as these low dons which min
ister only to depraved tastes and tend to
promote crimo and disorder. Our German
citizens have done a great deal to aofteu the
harsh egotism of tho life which tho Puritan
founders of New England sot up ns tho
standard of American society, and some of
their places of resort have done a
great deal to soften tho asperities
of American life by investing it with
moro of geniality, good cheer, and
Innocent diversion. Tho considerable intro
duction of boor as a family boverago wo owo
to the Gormans, and they deserve credit for
the continual decrease of drunkenness and
coarse excess in pnblia gatherings. They
have engrafted into our social life their
" Gomncthlichkoit ” and (heir harmless social
enjoyment, in which tho drinking of spirit
uous liquors is not indulged but merely os
a moans to increase tho fooling of good
fellowship and sociability. No ono but tho
most radical and fanatical prohibitionist
wilt deny that the Thomas concerts of last
year, in tho Exposition Building, with
their seasoning of boor and lemonade, havo
dono a groat deal to increase sociability
among Americans and to refino their tastes.
Why, then, should places of public resort,
where music is used to influence every vis
itor to bo congenial and social, bo put under
tho samo ban as places where tho vilest mix
ture of tones and indecent exposures of
females aro employed to increase tho con
sumption of vilo drinks, and to produce a
spirit of recklessness and disregard of all
decency ?
If a largo saloon is established hero for tho
exdiisite solo of beer, oud its proprietors
provide for the entertainment of their
guests nn unusually expensive orchestrion
which discourses good music, it should ho
encouraged instead of persecuted, especially
if it is shown that its patrons aro respecta
ble and orderly citizens, and that tho
plnco is managed with a view to fur
ther congeniality and good follow,
ship. Continental Europe boasts of
hundreds of " beer-bolls,” where tho drink
era will spend a few hours to listen to
music and to onjoy each other’s company,
and they liavo invariably been found to in
jure iho trade of groggorics and drinking
places whoro indecent pictures and other
appliances tend to promote actual vice and
misdeeds. Wo trust that tho Jlnyor in his
war npon (bo pernicious concert-saloons will
discriminate and protoot tho fow beor-halls
that harm nothing but tho grog-shop, and
provide resorts of sociality and music that
make very pleasant resting-places in tho din
end drivo of city life.
THE FIEND OF THE PEACH-BASKET.
Upon tho top of hot weather, taxes over
due, Communists, hay fever, rendering
bonao stiubs, mosquitoes, ami other nui
sances, now comes the peach-basket with its
customary load of fraud, rottenness, and
general depravity, only there is more de
pravity to tho basket than ever before.
There is hardly a peach-basket in Chicago to
day that does not contain n lie, a swindle,
and more or loss of cholera morbus. There
is hardly a poach-baskot in Chicago to-day
that docs not show a layer of handsome fruit
on tho top, made all tho more attractive with
opou-work covers that give you glimpses of
red and gold, or with pink aud rod gauze
that sets off tho fruit os a lace veil heightens
tho illusions of a pretty face, llcmovo tho
top layer and the depravity commences.
There are green poaches, blighted poaches,
sweating poaches, windfall poaches, rotten
peaches, wormy peaches, and dirty peaches.
Corruption can bo found in every stage.
There is fraud in tho quality aud fraud in
tho quantity. Tho poach is a swindle aud
the basket Is a swindle. Tho fanciful dogma
i of the total depravity of inanimate things
finds its clearest manifestation in the poach
| basket. The depravity of a chair in the
dark, of a match in a wind, of a piece of
bread ami butter obeying the law of gravity,
of a door In damp weather, of a dull knife,
all appcarinsiguliloaut when compared with
a basket of peaches. To such a pitch has
this depravity come that one cannot buy a
dollar basket without losiug a dollar’s worth
of confidence In human nature. Tho fonder
he Is of peaches the more faith he must lose
in tho moral standards of tho pooch-ralsor,
and, os ho contemplates basket after basket
of tills downy fruit, raised in regions where
every prospect pleases and only man is vile,
he is opt to ask himself a curious question in
moral philosophy, namely, "Why is it that
tho grower of peaches should ha the most
depraved of all fruit-raisers?
A barrel of opplus is always honest. Tears
are a moral fruit. Grapes preserve their in
nocence from top to bottom of the box.
liven berries, which ore prone to sin, keep ■
up a decent respect for the popular notion
of honesty. Though now and then they vex
tho patient soul of tho housewife, it Is
usually owing to circumstances of heat and
distance from homo over which they have no
control. But tho peach seems to represent
original sin itself, and the peach-growcr ap
pears to aim a blow in every basket ho packs
at the peace of the family and the morality
of the community.
One of the saddest results of tho peach
bosket is tho poor opinion of bucolic morals
it engenders in tho metropolitan heart.
Great cities ore always centres of corruption.
Their people expect to be plagued by
thieves, worried by bummers, bored by beg
gars, knocked down by thugs, defrauded by
officials, and fleeced by small traders. If
they should buy sugar that was not
sanded, cofloo that was not chico-
tied, whisky that wm not benzined,
horseradish that was not turniped, sweet
oil that was not larded, milk that was not
chalked, or dry good* that were not shoddlod,
they would fool unhappy and lonesome. In
Mich n situation aa this, they are accustomed
to reflect nptm tho mral districts, and con*
solo themselves (hat there are some honest
spots left; that tho vices of tho cities have
not yet Infested tho agricultural regions ?
that tho horny-handed fanner, going to his
work In tho early morning and tolling until
nightfall, leads n llto of stern .morality, and
represents what little there is left of good
ness in tho public condition. They reflect
that man made tho city and God mado the
country, and they look forward hopefully to*
tho day when, having accumulated a suffi
ciency, they may turn tholr backs upon tho
wicked city and repose under their own vines
and flg-trcos among tho simple, happy, and
pious country people.
The first basket of poaches that comes to
hand destroy* tho Illusion. Goo may hnvo
made thocountry, butiho Devil is in tho peach*
basket, presiding over n load of sins which
represent not only those known to tho cities, 1
but several distinct species that are native
amt (o the peach-manor born.
What ts to bo done in tho premises? Evi
dently it I a of no use to enact ordinances.
This has been tried and fonml wanting. Tho
city dealers cannot bo reached by them be
cause they are not at fault. They did not
raise the fruit nor pack it, and in tho guile-
Icssness of their natures and simplicity of
their hearts they probably do not suspect
the condition of their goods, Besides,
even if they did, is not this a free coun
try, mid in a free country' has not
tho grocer a right to soil rotten poaches I
Take away tins right, do you not strike a
blow at tho very foundations of society and
of politics, by eliminating fraud as an essen
tial of success? lint suppose mi ordinance
is enacted, how Is it to reach the simple,
honest farmer who covers tho rottenness of
his poaoh-baskot with a thin veneer of fresh
ness ?
If wo nro to Imvo any reform in this tuoU
ter wo must coimucucu at tho foundation,
and how can it bo wore effectually reached
than by moral suasion ? A conviction roust
bo raised in tbo heart of Ibo peach-grower
that ho is n miscrnhla siuuor aud needs re*
generation, that his poaches nro Insincere,
and that ho himself is n fraud.
To sum it all up, ho needs to bo converted,
and no pains should bo spared to effect it.
Instead of holding earop-incotings at Lake
Dluff, whore thoro nro no peaches, why not
hold them right in tho peach-districts and
wrcsilo with theso men of siu ou their own
possessions ? Why not soud out homo mis
sionaries and colporteurs to labor personally
with them, to argue with thorn, to pray with
them, aud, if possible, to turn them from tho
error of their ways? If thoro Is any vantage
in mooting sin upon its own grounds, then
tbo peach-districts of Michigan should bo
dotted all over with camp-meeting tents, and
tho voices of holy men should bo heard day
and night thundering conviction to tbo
hearts of tho iniquitous pcnoh-packors.
X’orhnps it might eventuate that after a fow
refreshing seasons success would crown their
efforts, aud the pouch-boskets would como to
ns loaded down with luscious, hoalth-gWing
fruit instead of tho abomination and corrup
tion tboy now contain.
Pboctou Knott's famous amendment for
bidding the use of tho army us a posse couiHatus,
os Anally amended In the Senate, has probably
defeated the purposes for which tho Democrats
In tbo House created It. It iorblds tho Presi
dent to employ any portion of the army as a
posse comitalus except as now provided by ihu
Constitution and by statute law. Among the
statutes thus excepted Is See. V-XW of the Re
vised Statutes, which provides that whenever,
by reason of unlawful obstruction, it snail be
come Impracticable In the Judgment of tho
X’rcsldout to enforce, by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings, the Jaws of the United
States within any State or Territory, it shall be
lawful for the President to employ such of tho
land and naval forces of the United States as ho
may deem necessary to enforce the faithful exe
cution of tho laws of the United States In what
ever Statu the laws of the United States may oo
forcibly opposed, or tho execution therein forci
bly obstructed. This section of tbo law is Just
now receiving some study in Washington In
view of a posilblecoiitlngcncy In South Carolina.
Dr. Mary Walker, of Washington City, was
picked up In Mow York rho other night by a
policeman and taken tu tho police-station. It
was tho Doctor’s queer suit that not her into
trouble, which eoueUtsof somethUus Uko a cross
between the dross of Zouave, a man's suit, and
tbo outfit of a picnicker. It was gray In color,
her hat was brown straw, and her gutters
sported many buttons. Him wore alhmsy brown
necktie, lied hi n bow, and carried an umbrella
and a stout walking-stick. When spokou to by
thu policeman, she “juwod back,” os is her
usual custom and tho custom of her sox, and
he, never having heard of Dr. Mary Walker,
thought It tu bo bis duty to arrest tho mixed
apparition before him and have It authorita
tively Investigated. When in tho station sho
took off her hut and asked: “Do 1 look like a
man I" Having established her identity, and
satisfied Urn otHcers that she was simply afoot
ami uot a culprit, she was suffered tu depart,
after “sussing’’ everybody to her heart’s con
tent,
Once upon a time there was n wild Irishman
named Donnelly who .served a term or two
in Congress from Minnesota. Uo was then a
liepublk-an, but falling into bad company ho
drilled into the Democratic party,— that common
rcecotai'lu of nearly everything that Is mean
and vicious In American jkjUUos. ila has since
boxed tbo political compass, belonging for a
time tu all parties. A Minnesota paper makes
this allusion tu him:
That nondescript democrat—soft-handed Gr*nc«f
—man of ready tongue and pen and eshaioille##
wit'**rubicund lump of obesity and Jocularity—
Irrepressible Ureentatker and unsnuelcuaUla
schemer—agile skipper across Congressional die*
Irlct lines— untl-iiHinupullsi who lathered a Male
publishing monopoly—ambitious Intriguer lor p ace
nnd power—ciiruoound-doubtc-wck-acllon politi
cal soniersauUer—the complacent, never durum*
filed. ssU'Cimflaent lumstusl.otoi.a Donnki.i.V
Is proposed as a candidate for emigres* In this tils*
trlciin opposition to toe lion. W. 1). Wamueus.
Bnx Bphikobh, ot the Potter Committee,
has been lalklug very freely of “ the case,” a*
lie rails It, which has been established by the
testimony already elicited. He regard* ft as
•. one which will nut only justify Impeachment,
but which demands It, Ho thinks the Wormloy
Hotel conference, lu euuuccUun with the subse
quent action ot the Louisiana Commission,
<VUlto suOlclcut to sustain articles of Imuuaen*
incut, and he fully expects the House to pre
sent them at au early day.” Bill will probably
change his mind about the expediency of Im-
I teaching the President after be has conferred
with bis constituents.
The J.'O.'U. seems to be all “tore up” about
the strike In Us compqstag-rouui, caused by a re
duction lu the rates paid fur type-setting. It
rvprluts a number of extracts from the adver
tising aud news columns of Tub Tkiuunh (or
the purpose of showing (hat Tub Tuiupnb U
kicking that concern while it is down. After
carefully reading ah these extracts over again,
which was neither very amusing nor profitable
employment, we cannot And anything that war.
rants the 1.-0.-U.'t assumption of being kicked.
The advertising columns of Tub TtuopMi are
open (aud generally used we are happy to say)
for all except Improper or libelous announce
incuts, aud the news columns of Tuu Tuiupbb
chronicle mull events and resolution#
bought to be of sufficient Importance or inter*
eat. TucTninuNß hasn’t thcsligiitcH<(hj M i 0 *
to the rates it pars printer,
or indeed doing anything rise which it* jn,| irtl}cn
or necessities dictate; on the other hand, it |, a
matter of Just as little concern to Tint Tutnu*.
whether the trades-union people patroni*. p,.
7.-0.-K or not. But the 7,-0.»/- r . (* »>r>t so f a j r
It deliberately misrepresents Tub Tfunvj,,-I
position In iho first plate, and then ifci mi mx
TiisTnimjNß’s relation* with its printers, n
sayst “The body of our type is above
standard, while the hotly of the type of y,,.
Ciiicaoo TItIOOBB Is below the standard*
This I* not true. Tire Tntnu.vß use* four kini,
of type, technically known ns brevier, minim
nonpareil, and agate, and each kind f*
tho standard. The Inference which the
Bought to convey wo* that Tub Tninir»g (#
ing nn unfair advantage of Ita printers. K
7,-fA-K has any printers about U* eMalilhi,.
ment they will tie able to demonstrate the i, •,[,).
ty of the assertion, wlilcli Is only important #<
an histanco of the disposition of umcriijiiiiom
people In trouble to drag others Into trouble.
Dill SmiSOßn’s recent Interview ha* ntlrvt
cd the attention of the Cincinnati (hunu,
quotes this paragraph from Him.’* statement*
It lias been proven tlmt certain Pouthern b* mo ,
crats agreed to break down the illlhuscerimt mow.
menu and thus open the way for a pcaccm )n S ,.
Btirntlon of Hatrs. on condition that certain coa
cessions were mado to Louisiana and South (,’«».
Dim.
Tho Oasette then adds this comment:
Thu* does HrntNORU make out that nfirr
Democrats had themselves created the Kicctonl
Commission, tho majority of them Jntemicj t«
break faith and law, and to prevent tho declaration
of the election of President by a riot. rotm-M.
mini nmiNOßii seems to lw unconscious that hribti
he grants that tho Democrats hud entered Inn,#
criminal nnd* villainous conspiracy. u ii.it |<«
alleges against Hates Is the promise to do certi;#
thine* which he had tho right to d». What t«
alleges of the Democrats is a monstrous crime.
To the traitor or The Tribune,
ll.u’isk, V»Ts.. A tiff. s.—ln tho daily of An?, r..
In reply ion (Oonrhon. lad.) correspumlpm, T( ,j
my •* Kvery time llio banks present a erpennactu
tnw Sub-Treasury for coin, toe Government cju
trump the cant, or follow salt, by pmcrmn* t
hank nntc at tlio Washington hank-redominion
agency for the cold coin." la thla statement tm?;
A* I read the huv the banka can redeem tliclrtut
dollar In greenbacks, If they hnvo them. ,h.
The statement of Tint Tninuss aopllcj n
ttio condition of things after Jain 1, next, uhen
resumption shall bo iu operation, and not to thu
present time. Th'tu, should the banka semi in
greenbacks for redemption, the Government,
holding bank-notes, can demand their redemp
tion, which must be In greenbacks or cola, an-i
the banks cannot hold tho greenbacks and lu,#
them redeemed at tho same time.
The friends of Prof. Swino, of this city, and
their name is legion, will bo glad to know tint
he has spent many delightful days with the fam
ily of the actor, Lawbrncb Baiuiett. at Colm
sot, Mass. In a letter to tho Alliance Prof.
Swing makes this rctercnco to Mr. BAitmmT
family:
Mr. Uaiuiktt Isa star with four satellites.— Mr*.
H.MmsTTiimt throe daughters, —and In all tho mil
verve ini group moves mure In perfect hnnnotiy.
Tho eldest damthler la near gO. the aeceml abvat
111. llin youngest nboat 0. .Mr*. fIAnaKTT seem* ii
young na her children. Tho alfcctlen Shot MmN
these live Is so strong as to De beautiful to i*huld.
The oldest daughter hi* alreony acquired quite a
f>urfect acquaintance with tho Herman and French
nnguago*, and with tho literature of her own Ko
ffliali. Sho has translated tintl written onl the
•• Don Carlos " of Sciullru, anti la bu*y all hoar*
with books. music, or rambles. Wo have bad
plenty of happiness, and teat, and fun here.
Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, whoso wholesale gro
cery house In Cincinnati recently fulled, makes
this statement in regard to its affairs:
I am now haring prepared a careful statement of
our a wots. Ufcmirsaln these assets are claim*
whicn wo may or may not oo able to collect, I can
not, therefore, ut present statu what our actual ««■
act* will bo. but they will go very fur toward pay
lug our liabilities. If tbt* can be done. lam asm
tied; lor tbo present la ccrtalntv the most trying
moment of my life. My suffering Is certain)/
greater than that of uny man I owe, amt my crem
es! desire and ambition Is to prevent anybody los
ing through me. I will give up everything ciceui
my reputation and honor. What our course in the
future will ho l cannot huv. Our Wiixiau T.
liisuoe Is now East, conferring with our creditors.
What tho result of the conference will bo I cannot
say. 1 will agree to any arrangement which will
protect the honor of our house. We have mopped
all payment*, and aro determined that our u-s.-i*
Biiah bo distributed to our creditor*, aud that (lie/
shall all sharo alike.
Hus Di'iLCn has had an Interview with tag
red-mouth Kearney, taken Ids measure. an<!
now repudiates him. Thu dispatch say* (hat
IlUTLnil’s yisit to Kbauhbv lasted only about
thlrty-llvo minutes, hut that was long enough
for the General to see the dirt In the bottom ot
Kbaunrv’s oyo. and at the close ot the confer
ence bUTi.RR publishes a card saying that “la
justice to Mr. Kkaßnby” he desires to Mate
that ho (Kearnby) did not eomo to Massachu
setts In his interest, “that he had no eommunl
cation wltn Mr. Kbarnbv, dlroctly or Indirectly,
or with any friend ot his upon Hie subject what
ever," and that ho called upon him simply to
pay his respects. Old Hen secs through thu
shullow-puted fraud, and promptly washes hU
hands of ail ofllllatlon with him.
Politics aside, tho (allure of Gov. Ilisuor's
firm lu Cincinnati is otm that will cull out the
warm sympathy of candid men of all parties.
For mure than thirty years thu house has bccti
doing an honorable and prolltnblo business,—
paving a hundred cents on thu dollar to ail Id
creditors, mid by its liberal policy doing maiiv
pecuniary favors to its regular customers. Hut
tho rains descended and tbo Hoods camo and
heat upon that house, aim It had to succumb to
the storm as thousands have done before iL
Thus is tho hurd-curnod fortuno of u loug (he
swept suddenly away, and an honorable bud
neafl career in which children and grandchildren
have an interest placed forever under a cloud.
Wo noto that some of Jour exchanges have
copied a part of tlm special dispatch sent to
Tub Tjuiiunb from Denver Just after the
cellpsu, which was slightly mangled In ths
transmission. In reference to thu glimpses
caught by Hwipt and Loudbu of what was sup
posed to bo tho plauct Vulcau, our correspond
ent wrote:
This Is tho first llruo in ccllpio*Mslory of slan
seen not Known, and yet some donut. It Is cer
tain that tno perturbation* of Mercury can bo ac
counted lor by reference 10 cosmic mailer which w
Inside the orbit of Mercury only at perihelion, oni
prof. Hill, of Washington, ha# detected pcriurw
(tons of Uw earth and Venus which accord with
this view. _____
Hami'ei. T. (li.ovcn, who U a candidate for
the United Stales Senate lu Missouri, ha* be
tunic Infected with the “Ohio idee.” 1» •
apm-h which he mode Uto other day at Chilli*
collie he wild:
I hold that oar btalo Democratic 'platform Is
wW mid ju»i. and wests »b» emergency whew It
demand* a currency m lessl-iendcr notes Iwho-J* 1 '
litU** frum time lutimo safflneut to supply ins
wholesome mid uncessary deutOtUus of Uw t-ulira
country, receivable in payment of all debt*, pulm®
and private, except each obligation* a* are m »r.s
n-rm* of the original contract expressly nude pay*
utile lu coin.
Tho 81. Louis 0.-li. occasionally getaott*
Joke this hot weather that Is amazingly fuuuy.
Monday, for example, it let fly two squibs at
Chicago that must have made its reader* lauuh
until they were red in the fuse. “During the
lute hot spell,” it declares, “the deaths from
sunstroke were nearly double as many in Chi*
cogo as in tit. Luuls, and wheu H Is remembered
that the population of Chicago U but two-third*
tliat of 81. Louis,” etc., etc. The humor of the
U.-D. is simply killing. ,
If the telegraph has correctly roiwrted the
blatherskite Kbaumbv’s Boston speech, there
was very little lu It except its vulgar profanity
and abuse of decent people. The fellow has no
original ideas, no wealth of expression except
in the matter ot abase and blasphemy, and is
icbcsp-Johu affair without valuable notions on
any important subject. Ho will break down
and stand in the glare of day the shallow, simple
fraud that he is.
It la said that oov.‘ Williams, of Indiana, to
about to take the stump, aud bos been looking
about lor his customary regalia with which to
go lorth to battle. Ho recently found that hb
blue Jean pants in which be has won fame and
position bod been washed by the housekeeper,
aud thus rendered unfit for the old Governor