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The last Of the series of elections for the year
1871 has been held, and the judgment Of the
people upon the comparative merits and claims
of the Republican and Democratic parties
is before the country. Except ia two States,
where the people were overawed by rebel VIC.
lence, every one of them which ever gave a
loyal vote recorded their verdict of approval
in favor of the administration of President
GRANT and the measures and policy of the Re-
publican party. They have pronounced at the
polls their sentence Of "well done good and
faithful servants, as you have been true to us and
your pledges thus far, We have resolved still
longer to retain you in power"
The people of Connecticut were the first to
declare their faith in President GRANTS admin
istration and Republican integrity and wisdom,
in April last. Maine and Vermont followed in
September with an equally emphatic indorse
ment. In October California, Ohio, Pennsyl.
vania, Nebraska, Iowa, and Rhode Island re-
corded their judgment on the same side; and
last week Massachusetts,, New Jersey, (electing
. Republican Legislature,) Wisconsin, Illinois,
Kansas, Minnesota. and, last and best of all, the
old Empire State took up the shout of "well
done," and gave their voices for Republican
honesty and in favor of continued Republican
rule.
If the October elections did not settle the
next Presidential question, even in the minds
of the most inoredulous and hopeful of the De-
nocracy, those Of November certainly have
done %. At any rate they settle the fact that
the next President of the United States will
DO Republican, and that the policy which has
won such popular approval for General GRANTS
administration must be continued for four
years from the end of his present term. That
Is now as certain as any future event
ever was. Fence men, sore-heads, new party
demagogues, and all classes who are "waiting
for something to turn up" may as we'll pre-
pare Tor that event. The time of "Conserva-
tive Republicans" and new departure Demo
Gratis, or any other half 6sh and half flesh
time-servers. has not come yet. The people
want well-tried, bold, honest, positive men, and
they will have none others.
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In their war upon protection TO American
manufactures, the champions of free trade as
is their uniform practice, utterly ignore or
treat with contempt the idea of home
market for our agricultural products. The
very corner stone of their free trade system is
that we should abandon all efforts to compete
with England in the manufacture of cotton,
woollen. iron, aud other fabrics constituting
the necessares of life, and con6ue ourselves
mainly to agricultural pursuits. relying solely
on foreign market for the disposal of our
surplus agricultural products.
Yet it is a fact, according to Commissioner
WELLS himself, in his last official report, that
the three branches of manufactures we have
named--iron, cotton, and wool-consumed in
the year 1869 three hundred and twenty.one
millions of dollars worth of the agricultural
products-an amount which exceeds our total
exports OF every kind. including gold, to
foreign countries during that same year. Still
so olindly bent on destroying our manufac-
tories and sustaining his free trade theories is
MI. WELLS, that in this very report he zeal
ously labors to demonstrate the trivial i'm
portance to the farmer of the market made by
our manufactures, and to show the superior
advantage of foreign market.
La plain English, the advocates of free trade
are in favor of a policy which requires our
cotton to De sent to England to be made into
cloth, and then to be sent back for the use Of
our people, the consumer here having to pay not
only the expense Of shipping both ways, but
the cost Of manufacturing it abroad And all
this money goes into the pockets of foreign
capitalists and foreign laborers, when it ought
and might be kept at home to enrich our own
laborers.
1t does not require very profound mind to
decide whether it is better for the farmers of
Virginia to send their products to Richmond,
Lynchburg, or Alexandria, or those of Georgia
to Atlanta, Savannah, or Augusta, where q
ready market has been made by four or five
cotton or WOODEN mills, or blast furnaces, FORCES,
and rolling mills, and manufacture their own
raw material. or look to England for market
for one and to manufacture the other. The
one system will build up American industries,
provide demand for American labor, and
create market at our own doors for what we
raise; the other encourages and sustains foreign
capitalists, foreign labor, and foreign interests
OF every kind. Which will you choose
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Oyernsuch Jealous.

During the existence of the great Chicago
fire, one General GRosvESoR was shot by a
guard placed by General SHERIDAN to protect
certain property. Governor PALMER there
upon issued and had published even before it
reached the officer to whom il was directed, a
letter to the Attorney General of the State,
requiring him to procure an indictment by the
grand jury of Cook county of General SHER
IDAN and everybody else connected with the
affair, for the murder of GRosvEYoR. The
letter is very extraordinary as we'll as a very
long one, making not the slightest reference
to the fire, or to the terrible responsibility
thrown suddenly upon General SHERIDAN, and
seems only anxious that he should be indicted
for murder And what is as extraordinary as
the spirit and temper of the letter, is the fact
that it should have been made public at all
much more so that the first intimation the
when ne saw it in the city papers. This can
lead to no other conclusion than that Governor
PALMER was playing the demagogue rather
than performing the part of faithful and i'm
partial executive, and that he was more anx
ious to crafty some personal feeling towards
General >. than to protect the public interest.
The Judge before whom the case would come
very sharply rebukes the Governor for his
remarkable course, especially for his indicate
and improper attempt to influence the grand
jury in the matter. and make political capital
for official zeal. But it will injure him more
than General SHERIDAN.
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tirely in his task. 1t seems neither probable
that the present Kellerspsrg Ministry will be
successful in solving the growing difficulties Of
the situation. All complications and troubles,
however, have greatly increased by the sudden
resignation of Baron BEUsr. the liberal and
enlightened Chancellor Of the Empire, who, of
all others. enjoys the confidence and affection
OF the Germans, and their indignation is the
greater because it is asserted that he did
not withdraw voluntarily. but only at an init
| nation from the Emperor. 1t is added that the
Emperor did not SO much act out Of his own
impulse, as he was prompted By his wife and
mother, the .reactionary, willy, and bigoted
Archduchess SOPHIA, who used a trfing occur
renee as pretext for exerting all their in
| Auence to eradicate from the government ali
those hated liberal tendencies which found their
| representative in Baron BEusr.
| The incident Of which such capital has been
made, was. although significant iu its bearings,
excusefor the consequences which were given to
il. A few weeks ago, at the installation of the Rec
tor Aagnifcus of the University OF Vienna, the
students received the Czech Minister of Public
Instruction, with Kisses and shouts of pereat,
while they greeted Baron Bsusr with enthu-
siastic whats. This affair was made cause OF
bitter denunciations, but since the Emperor had
permitted the Hohenwart Ministry to resign,
in Difference to the urgent demand of the Ger
man party, it was confidently hoped that he
would sustain the Chancellor. If as is now
apprehended, he is weak enough to yield to the
reactionary influences which are made to bear
on him, and to throw himself entirely in the
arms of the Czech party, the experiment may
prove highly disastrous to him, and even force
the wronged Germans of Bohemia to renouncs
him entirely in order to become part of the
powerful German empire.
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Cost or Collecting the Revenue.

For the fiscal year ending June 80, 1870, the
expense of collecting $685. ass Of internal
revenue was 81, 32l, sol. The amount of inter-
nal revenue collected for the fiscal year end.
ing June 30, 1871, was $3.50, s64. l4l, which
cost for collecting S2,l32, 1862. The amount
collected in 1871 was about S3S, 100000 less
than in 1870, owing to the repeal of the income
tax on ali below 81 900, aud other reduction of
taxes But the total expense of collecting was
SlS9,OOO less, besides a reduction in the ex
pense Of the Internal Revenue Bureau here of
5000, making a total saving to the Gov
eminent, in this one item for the past fiscal
year. of s344.00O The amount of taxes as.
sessed for 1870 was $ls9, 212, lS2, and for 1871
only Sl40, 945, 63S, or $49, 600 900 less than in
1870. In the former year the amount collected
was S2l 900, 900 less than the amount assessed,
and this year the collection was only Sl0,O00,-
900 less. But large portion of these amounts
will be collected. The statement only means
that they were not collected during the year
for which they were assessed. 1t will be seen
from these figures that the entire expense of
collecting the internal revenue for the wear
1871, including the expense of administering
the Internal Revenue Bureau of this city, was
less than two and half cents on dollar. This is
much cheaper than the revenues of any State or
city government are collected, and exhibits the
economy and honesty of the Administration in
a most striking light.
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THEp School FEsrIvAL.-QuarterIy Maya.
zine, devoted to original matter. for Day School
and Sunday School Exhibitions, and Public
Occasions.
The October number of this popular Maya
zine (which was destroyed by TIE great Chicago
fire. when all ready to mail has hsen reprinted,
and has just reached us. As its subscription
list was burned. the publishers request us to
ask their subscribers to send their addresses,
stating what Numbers were yet due them, and
70 remit their subscription for next year. Let
all teachers and pupils subscribe non for the
School festiVdt-they all need it, 1t costs only
% cents year, iu advance, or Is cents for
single number.
The publishers were very heavy losers by
the great IRE, but they don't propose to allow
their subscribers to lose anything.
Send, by mail, to Alfred L.. Sewell & Co.,
publishers, Chicago, Illinois.
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IN spite OF the repeated and very emphatic
declaration of Vice President CoLFAx that IA
IS not and will not be a candidate for Pre.i-
dent, but on the contrary that he is most de-.
cidedly in favor of the denomination of Cen
GRANT, the marplots of the Republican Marty
as wen as some OF the more desperate and
hopeless Democratic leaders, persist in their
oisingenuous efforts to create doubt as to his
good faith by using his name to give weight
and respectability to their disorgauizing move.
ment. But they may as we'll abandon their
fraudulent scheme. Mr.. CoLsAx is one of the
last men to lend his name to the enemies of Re.
pubilcansm, whether outside the party or in it.
he Is too soondheaded to commit political sui.
eide, aud too honest and patriotic to turn traitor
That business he will leave to conservatives
Of the SEIZURE school.
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Trades Union Tyranny.

In ANNA DrcKINsoN's lecture on "Demagogues
and Workingmen," she dwelt with especial en-
phasis on that tyrannical and very mischievous
feature of Trades Unions which denies to
young men the right to learn any trade, and to
any extent, they may choose. Secretary Bour-
WELL. in his recent lecture on Questions
Affecting the Public Prosperity" criticised
this oppression and outrage quite as severely
- Miss DICKINSON did. and he asserted the
absolute right of young men to learn any trade
and enter any pursuit their interest or their in
clinstion may dictate. without interference from
labor combinations or anybody else. Yet
these Trades Unions do dictate 10 master
printer, mason, carpenter, cooper, and all
other employers how many apprentices they
shall take - well - what journsymen they
shall employ. So
These are questions that deeply concern the
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"he I'm Seven Thousand

cor, mere t are not far from seventy Thousand a.
..ss o. the General Govern ment Of an n.s ON
e.. "'y,e,gnt thousand Of whom are 60, $50
b.n. vi these seventy thousand os;ssr. r las
a aap' zen have proved defaulter, sOrin per
I". a' GRANTS administration. the Gors.. .e'.
=" ,vsiag by them not more than half 'rn I1,:
" dollars Of the one thousand miII,o, m nj
arS Of revenue that have passed ,h,onrr ,S SU''
Janus IN that time. In other voras .1,''
'A'e OF one officer in seven ,bons.rs = Tue
ea'n year during two years and half ~ ~
demonstration turned knave, and ON. Ill
~ Two thousand stolen. But every ons 90 m'
asiaulser' have been promptly removed an. .ns
prosecuted by the Governments. Al ~, anu ~
Vie" oil these remarkable facts n-ov;n. r..
there are not fifth part as many rogDs. Is ,a'
as IN civil life. excluding the more dsr, s,.
classes, the men who have for years uDbsIa "a
help penetrate the most outrageous fr.ra. y.
In New York, and arraign the Republican, or.
holders of the Government. almos, wi,hon,
as peculators and plupdsror,
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In our District column will be found letter,
written by Mr.. CHARLES KING to Governor
HENRY ID. Cooke, correcting the misapprehen-
sion of power over the moneys for the use of
colored schools acted upon by certain officers
of the new government We know that the
law quoted by the officers above referred to as
warrant for their demand that the Treasurer
of the Board of Trustees for Colored Schools
give bond was not intended to apply to any
but the Board of Trustees for white schools.
To question asking what effect certain propo-
sitions in bill making appropriations for
schools would have on the colored schools, the
reply from the gentleman having charge Of the
bill in the Council was, in substance, that the
government of the District of Columbia had no
in the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
This reply was made to the member from the
First Council District by the member from the
Ninth District, called out by the proposition in
the bill above alluded to to appropriate sum
of money for the purchase of medals for the
use of white schools, the member from the
First District having asked an appropriation for
colored schools for the same purpose.
We hope our colored schools are not again
to be subjected to the malicious opposition of
the negro hating element in this community,
made potent through the control friends of
that element may have over the money belong
ing to the colored schools established by the
laws of Congress. The correctness of the po-
sition of the majority of the Board of Trustees
for Colored Schools is ably set forth in Mr..
KINGS letter, and we are constrained to be-
lieve that the opposition comes from no regard
for the welfare of colored people and the at
tempt of that opposition to saddle the respon.
sibility of their hostility upon Governor Cooke
is useless, as no man in the community can be
made to believe that the Governor would do
anything having the least tendency to impede
the progress of colored youth in education.
The great need of our race is education, and
whoever does anything in any way calculated
to disturb our facilities for acquiring knowledge
is an enemy, Notwithstanding his professions to
the contrary.
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Making Assurance DeubIy sure.

The people at large Of New York, feeling
doubtful whether New York city would be able
to shake of the gang of thieves who had lad
their felonisus fingers so deep and so long in
the city treasury, and having no faith that Gov.
ernor HOFFMAN would cooperate in good faith
in the reform measures, resolved to leave moth
ing to such contingency. They therefore
made clear work of it by slecting not only a
two thirds bat threefourths majority of the
Legislature. They have thus taken from the
copperhsad, Tammany sympathizing Governor
of the State the power Of defeating by his veto
efforts to legislate the remaining New York
city thieves oat Of Office, create non- partisan
police, give the city new charter, and enact
such other reforms AZ are demanded. 1t does
not matter now what course his Exeellency
may taks. the Republicans have the power to
pass ell reform measures over his head. az ve
have no doubt they will.
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1t is reported that GEo. w. Curtis, Chair
man OF the Civil Service Reform Commission
Is soon TO succeed Mr.. FrsH as Secretary of
state. Our opinion Is that however inexperi-
enced Mr. Curtis may be in the art and sci
ence OF statecraft, the best test of his fines,
ior the position is few weeks experience in
It's duties. But Mr. G. don't think 40. and he
cannot consistently accept the rumored appoint
msnt until he shall submit to that rigid com
PetitiVe examination" which he declares to be
absolutely necessary to renovate and purify the
Civil Service. We trust therefore, that he
WI prove his sincerity by subjecting himself
to the same test that he would apply to aspi-
rants for mere clerkships.
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the Government. They, too, distruss such De-
mocracy as exhibits itself in the whipping posts
OF Virginia and the Ku Klux Klans OF the far
Their Southern States. Looking to the future,
and consulting alone the interests Of Virginia.
the spectacle presented gives us the deepest
pain. We do not disguise tive feel it but too
deeply.
.'Shall the exclamation of the patriots be
heard, ringing out the certain doom materially
and financially of the South, Ephraim is Joined
to his idols let him alone rn
In view of these and the thousand other
evidences of widespread determination at
the South to keep alive the spirit Of disloyalty
to the Government which plunged them into
the rebellion, and to prepare for another strug-
gle against the Union, we can come to no other
conclusion than the one which an intelligent
observer of Southern sentiment expresses
through the New York Times, that politically,
socially, and financially the people there were
reinstated in the rights they forfeited by their
treason too soon for their own good or the good
of the nation. 10 other Words they received
kindness rather than justice, and, with rare
exceptions, have accepted that kindness rs if
it had been prompted by aspirit Of persecution.
1t is not only profitable to recall, at this late
day, their condition at the close of the war, to
compare it with the present, but 1t is instruc-
tive as teaching us the ingratitude Of men who
have been educated to believe themselves to be
masters of the world. They were, at the close
of the war, abject and submissive to pitiable
degree. They expected Acknowledgement, con-
6scation, and redistribution of property, ex-
patration, punishment for treason, and negro
domination throughout the length and breadth
of the Confederacy. We know how these ex-
pectations have been agreeably disappointed,
and knowing it, naturally expect expressions of
contentment, if not gratitude Instead Of such,
however, we hear only the most bitter COM
plants, coupled with prophecies and hopes
that the Yankees will one day get their jus,
| deserts'
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The True Interests Of Working.
men.


The Republican policy of protection to Amer.
lean industry has done more to promote the
true interests of the workingmen of this coun-
try in the last eight years than all the trades
unions, eight hour leagues, and other copbi-
nations to force up their wages and force down
the hours of labor that will be organized till
the end Of time can ever accomplish. These
men might as we'll attempt to turn back the
sun in it's course as to annihilste the great law
of trade, which controls the price of labor as
everything else. No one but mad man or an
idiot would encourage q combination designed
to increase and keep up the price of agricultu.
raj products, regardless Of the demand there
may be for them-when, for instance, Europe
has grown more than enough to feed the ma
ton, and when, by the general prostration Of
our manufacturing industry, home market
has been destroyed. A union Of every farmer
in the United States, pledged to increase the
price Of wheat and corn beyond its market
value, regulated, of course, by the abundance
of the crops and the foreign and domestic de.
mand for them, could not force the price be-
yond that established by the law of supply and
demand for single month. They might as
sassinate all who dared to sell below the arbi-
trary price they had established, as labor
unions do, or threaten to do, when other means
fail In the end, they must sell their wheat
and corn for what it will bring.
1t is just as true of labor, as it is Of wheat
and corn, that those who own it must sell it
for the price which the same law of supply
and demand has established, or they must 20
hungry. 1t has been the policy of the Re-
publican party from the day it assumed the
government Of the nation, to increase the
price of labor and thus best improve the con-
dition of the workingman, by creating greater
demand for it. This they have done to an
extent that has wrought wonderful improve.
ment in their condition, and made them the
most prosperous, self reliant, and independ-
ent class of American citizens, by protection
to home manufactures and other branches of
American industry. This policy has brought
into existence manufacturing establishments OF
various kinds in every part of the country
And these have not only created market,
often at their very doors of the products of
our farmers, but have made demand for the
labor of many hundred thousand of working.
men, at rsmunerative prices, most of whom
would otherwise have been out Of employment,
and the rest driven to farm labor at starvation
prices. The supply of labor would then have
been vastly beyond the demand, and prices
would have gone down - certainly a. wheat
would whom there is more produced than is
required to feed the people.
No laboring man 10 20 dull, when Left to the
exercise Of his own judgment. who cannot
understand that II our manufacturing industry
were crashed, - il woald be BY adopting the
doctrines Of free traders, and .
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The Democratic Party. n.

Since the close of the Den ooratic rshsllioo
the Government of the United States hiss maid
one hundred and fifty millions of dollar in
pensions to the widows and orphans and MANNED
soldiers made by this wicked Democrats war
against their Government, and is now paving
them at the rate Of thirty millions of dollars a
year on the same account. And vet this ssms
Democratic party has the shameless effronterv
to assail he present Administration with the
mahgnity OF lost spirits" for imposing such
heavy taxes on IT, people, Bat for their
treason the entire expenses of the Government
would not exceed ninety millions of dollar.
and that would be raised on imports of arti.
cles OF luxury. There would be no iutsrnaI
revenue tax, no public debt, and, therefore. no
interest on public debt; no pension list ex-
eept Tor soldiers in previous wars, and no bur.
dens OF any kind upon the people. Eyerv
dollar OF tax now raised is the result of
Democratic treason to the Union. and must ba
charged to them