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THE QUESTION or RACES.

4 paper was recently read before the Asso-
citation for the Promotion Of Social Science,
at Glasgow, upon the question Of races, by
the Rev. DR.. JOSEPH ?. THOMPSON, one of the
warmest friends Of tho colored race Of Amer
leu, which is attracting very general attention
in Grcat Britain. With regard to the present
condition OF the South, Mr.. THOMPSON says:
Much Of tho insecurity, the alessncss, the terror
Ism that a]ic Southern society inevitable con-
sequences Of tho sudden and violent subvers!on OF
that society based upon tho System Of slavery.
This would haze bcen-nsuet have been-quito apart
from any question Of and color. Such svtlB time
must remedy; Tho rrocosa ia painful aud Ia likely
require generation for tho cure, That the atate Of
society lii the South ~ not bad a. Ia sometimes
reprcscnted Ia plain from tho fact that tho production
Of cotton has now reached four.fths Of ia MAXIMUM
before the War that industry and trade reslving
10 many parts: that tho freedmen havo considerable
in savings hanks; md TINT not a few planters
layo resainel the ,unAns Of living comfortably at
home, xnd Of sending their Children abroad to bo edu
Gated.
His remedy for the trouble at the South be-
tween the races is not now one. Although
impracticable, it has often boen suggested.
a1r. THOMPSON thinks that 1t would havo been
wise policy and greatly for the advantage of
tho Southern States If q standard Of educa.
ton, intelligence, and character had beon tix-
cd as qualification for the voter, standard
which being attainablo by all would DO unjust
to none. Undoubtedly such q qualification
would bo blessing, but it Is qualification
Of that er past taelo character which could
never be carried out. This qualification
would disfranchiso not only largo
proportion Of tho blacka who have
been already voting for eight or ten years, but
also largo proportion OF the whites, per.
hnps 1nnn for man, AZ the lower class Of tho
white population Of the South is notorious
for its ignorance and illiteracy. The blaeks
MS we'll as tho whites arc part OF the body
polite, and the right OF suffrage once given
them cannot be lawfully taken away; and,
even il it could, would work great injustice,
since there arc many illiterata men in tho
South who pay thousands Of dollara in taxes,
aud arc men of good moral character. No
compensation can be given man for taking
the right Of suffrage away from him. Again,
the whites Of the South would neyor cousent
to diAfranchise themselves In order to deprive
the ignorant part Of tho blocks Of the suffrage.
This would be cutting OIL the nose to spite
tho faeo. Il Acknowledgement con-
tlitional upon educational standards wero
adopted at all, 1t would have to
be n,ade universal, and this would
operate at the North as well as the South,
and against whites as well as blaoks. This
would take away the right Of suffrage from
largo numbers Of natura!ized Irish and other
foreign nationalities. A considerable part Of
, 1875-01-02
LED2U-RQLLIN.

cable dispatch in our last iEsuo brought thu
Intelligence Of tho death of the eminent Frouch
juriat and politician. LEDHu-IoLLrN, who at oup
time occupied d prominent place in tho political
world Of Europe, but Of lato yoarB Inns been In
comparative obsctlrity. lie was born in Paris In
1aoS, and vas admitted to tho Bar in 1880. Some
papers which he published nbout thiB time
brought him Into public notice, and tlenceforth
ho Was enRhged ag council for tho Republican
cousl'lrators who were prosecuted untlor LOUIS
Pn1LLIrrE. In 1857 he became editor Of Tho
Journal du Paiais, rliich ho continued to hold
for Ken years. 1Ie also superintendent tho pub
licaton Of the Jurisprudence Fraucais, and In
18la-'G appeared l.s Jurisprudence ad,ninistra-
tire en- natie''c contentteMse dc 1889 1891, aud
about tho Same timG WAS editor OF the daily law
nows2aper lie Droit. In 1911 he wns
elected Deputy, aud made such bold
confonsion OF his RepublicanBm that he
WAS prosecuted by tho Government. During
the sau1o ycar he ossabliseda Journal Of his own,
In Etfornse, devoted to social aud political re-
forms, md In 1915 Issued q socialist manifesto
which aecurod him largo constituency In tho
lower classics. but lost hin support among the
middle clsDsos On the organization OF tic
Provisional Government h6 WAS elected one Of
its membera by reclamation. As Minister Of the
1ntc1ior, he issued revolutionary circulars and
sent special commissioners to France to further
tho Democratic organization Of the departments.
In the Presidential election Of December,
1913. ho presented himself aB tho Democratic
candidate, bat received only 370.119 votes,
vhilo LOUIS NAPOLEON had moro than
5,0o0,000, and CAvA15sAo nearly 100000.
His popularity, howovor, revived in
1910, aud in tile elections for tho Legislative As-
asmby he WE'D chosen by the vote Of i've dcpn1t-
naenta and received heavy vote in aoyen othora.
His election encouraged hin to opposition
against tho Government, and Oh June 13 OF that
year he attempted M iusurrectionary demonstra-
tion which onded in a vretched failure. Ho1L1y
escaped to England, whero ho remained many
years, asaociAting With Kossur,s, MAzz1sr, and
other revolutionary leaders. In 1857 he was ae-
cuBod Of bcins engaged in plot with MAzz1s1
agalnst Louis NAPOLEON, which brought upou
him eecond sentence Of transportation. Ho
rofuscd to avail himself Of the last amnesty pro-
claimed by LOUIS NAroLEos, and did not return
to Parls until 1870, aftor twenty years. ab-
Benco. uc was returned to the Assembly IN
1871. but, after disappointing bis ffiopds by biz
speeches, resigned. lie had outved his usoful-
ness, In addition to tho works of which We hayo
spoken, he has left ~ q literary monument,
Do Ia Decadence d. FAngleterre and La Loi
Angtdise.
, 1875-01-02
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INCREASING THE PUBLIC DEBT.


Now we have the intelligence that q COM
mittee Of tho House OF Representatives have
under consideration bill to subsidize mar
row-gange railroad to begin at Toledo aud
run weRtwarlly on tho forty first parallel to
Council Bluffs, Iowa; also to extend east-
warlly to New York. Tho bill takes three
or moro railroad companies already chartered
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, whicLhave
no money and cannot possibly induce any
person to invest any to build na,row-gaugs
through-freight rnilway from the Missouri
River to Toledo, md thence to New York,
md make them national corporation. It
then proposes that to give this Company
the credit to build tho road the
United States Government shal1 issue
to it national 6 per cent bonus at the ratio
Of $4,000 per milo. There Is also before
the Committee, it will be remembered, an
other bill for tho construction OF double
truck railway from tho Atlantic coast at Nor
folk anl Washington to tho Ohio River, with
branches to Chicago, Cincinnati, and st.
Louis, with indefinite extension westwarlly,
with large subsily Of national bonds. Our
readers are already fasniliar with Tou Soor7's
bill for large subsidy to his Texas railroad,
and JAZZ CooRzs bill for a large subsidy to his
Northern Pacific Railway, tho yirginia bill for
subsidy Of 800, 100000 to the mountain
canal, like subsidy to the Georgia
Canal, another subsidy Of 100000 600
to th,. Chesapeake j. Ohio Canal
Company, s,.oaidies to proposed railways in
Oregon and Utah, and o bill for subsidy for
an air-line railway from portiand, Me-, to the
Mississippi River. These propositions, be-
sides others, are oil pending before Congress.
They are but indications Of where the bust
ness Of subsidy, once begun, will lead. The
pending propositions call for Government
bonds equal to five or six hundred millions Of
dollars, with interest running for thirty to
forty years. and for enterprises so barren of
productive results that no sane man would
invest one dollar Of his own capital therein.
What do these men In Congress- WHO oll-
courage these schemes 1nean2 Are they hou.
est in their purpose to create such IN addition
to the national debt that the entire credit OF
the country, national, State, municipal, and in
dividual, shall break down in irretrieyobIs
ruin2 Are they desirous Of experimenting
how far the public credit can be drawn before
breaking?
Tho american people bore with patriotism
the relentless taxation during the War, and
since then they have had the assurance that
the national debt was gradually tliminiohing,
and that the annual charge tor interest there
on WA becoming smaller, But now, every
broKen-down, bankrupt stock. gambler. snec.
, 1875-01-02

The Louisville Courisr-Journaz thinks the
North has had too many subsidies, and
TINT tho "South" should get IN equal amount
Of national money and national land in old Of
its railroads and canals and things. It Gays
that It TIE TRIBUNE has always advocated sub
sidies for tho North ~, but that I" 1t is road
this time that does not lend out OF Chicago
which asks, not o subsidy, but m indorser,
offering good security(?), and, 10, The TRIBUNE
shrieks for economy" The difference between
subsidy and IN Endorsement, in this case,
Is thht 'twixt Tweodledum and Tweedledeo,
and the "good security" is not good enough
to induce any capitalist to invest cent in
tho worthless bonds Of Tox scoT7'a broken
down road The only road running out Of
Chicago that received a land-grant Is the
Illinois Central, and that was granted before
the present TRIBUNE was In existence, and
the road has discharged all the duties laid
upon it in exchange for that grant with
punctil;ous fidelity. Tue TRIBUNE seconded
the building of the Union and Central Pm
cifc Railways on purely national grounds,
for q purely national purpose. It has as
hoartily opposed, on national grounds, sub
sidizing the Northern Poetic, which Is
Northern enterprise, a. subsidizing the
Southern Poetic, because there exists no
national necessity for either project. The
Couritr-JourAal makos out the following
tabla:
ker<s.
Lands voted by CopgEess 10 Northern en-.
Lands voted by conssess 10 southern sr. ''~''''0
tefnIlses.+ Tl8,46o
E1coas to tho North. la ,sal
Money voted by cougresa to Northern
I1oney voted By Consfoas 10 Southern ''''>
sotefpr'Aea's' 6,sal, ,f00t3
Exeess to the NORTH. $685. EOS a74si
Its first error is in calling the Union Pa
ciho, and Central Pacific, aud Denver Pacific
Aoails Northern enterprises" whom they
arc national and central, and just as accossi-
BILE to tho South rs to the North. San Frau
cisco Gun no moro be called Northern city
than baltimore. They arc both on about tho
sa,ne line OF latitude. Louisville Ia as well
accommodated by the Kansas route to the
Pacific Coast a. Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and
Cincinnati arc, or as New York, Boston, and
Chicago are by the Nebraska xoutes via Chey-
enne, where the two lines meet There has
been no Partiality in land-grants. ToM soorr
got o. much ground for the Southern
Pacific - JAy CooxE did fos the North.
eru. The 1and.grant to the Kansas Pacific
up ths Kansas Valley, for the benefit Of the
6outh, Il ~ lasgs Il that to tbs road up the
, 1875-01-02

cemproles GREEN Will probably rea,gn at tho end
OF the year. Every PAPER sscapt tho IInss is OPP
posol to h!a remaining M office Ths World eama nut
said 10 bs Prepared GHEEK h4s never been anything
shan of head-cerk for gAuuEL J. TiLDEa,
lovcsuor-ctct, and has no end Of personal suemtes.
GlLpth auda that he can 10 longer ausatn GHxkN III
ths position, and hss probably sdYissd 1s Resignation.
Comptroller GREEN may have made soma mis-
takes. like mont other me1s, but this is not Why
tho HeW York p1ess oppose him. When he en-
terod Office, he found number Of enormous aud
apparently fraudulent bills sgalnss the city. He
declined to pay thsua. Among them we're adyer-
tIsin8 accounts from tho Tribune, Herald,
Sun, and = dozen other papers. Butt
wAa brought On Ill Of thom, and tloso
Papers howlsd for tie head Of the Comptroller.
The Sun spltotu}ly declared, few days slnce,
that Mr. Gaktx had made tho city pay oyet
100000 for legal defense sgainat th.ss claims.
This u true. It II also t1ue-but tbs Sun
omitted the Btatenene-thas that defense has
aaved the city oyoE e2,o00. coo. Itdosa not augus
wau for sae purity Of ths coming Democratic
oons1el IN Nav xosk thAt Mr. T11.nxx, duspiss
, 1875-01-02

Now is about to set in the annual busy
season Of law-making, with Congress and the
Legislatures OF thirty states in session, viz. !:
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Geor-
gia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West
Virginia, and Wisconsin. As some Of these
are second and others special sessions Of
Legislatures, 1t las rarely occurred that SO
many have been simultaneously at work.
Tho politics Of these thirty Legislatures are !:
10 Democratic, Il Republican, (nlinois)
controlled by IN Independent balance Of
power. and Gouisiana) in dispute. The
List includes all the States but seven, whose
Legislatures do not meet this winter, viz:
CalNornia, Connecticut. Town, Kentucky,
Maryland, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
, 1875-01-02

The Spanish Succession il ono Of those in
extricable problems which, in tho language of
DuNpnEARv, "no fellah can find out." Just
why there should be coup d 'etat now, just
That has brought it about, and just WHO is
responsible for it, aro things that no sane
nan will attempt to explain. It may hare
been tho Captain General OF Madrid, or the
archbishop Of Seville; it may hare been tho
army or tile clergy. It is all the Enme It is
q mere chango in tho name Of Government;
the spirit remains just what 1t has been since
the Bourbons took the throne. The only
solecism that is apparent in the cass is that,
in seeking to return to Legitimacy, Spain has
only succeeded in attaining illegitimacy. It
is matter Of very littlo moment, however,
whether the fgure-henl is called SEraAxo,
CARLos, or ALpuoNsE. It is the tgure-head
which is necessary, and not tho nnnlo it is
known by.
In all the revolutions which spain has ex-
parience1 ainco tho abdication Of IsApE11A,
the people havo renained tho same frivolous,
unthinkiug, ignorant, superstitious mass,
rs volatile in their allegiance rs they are abb
ject in their loyalty. Whether under 1sABE1-
1850" ' 4,'~I' ~, 1saas' bo' ~ oAA'
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anu "pPl''as'o'1 pota 'al' III tho eaott 70 give
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, 1875-01-02
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.

AAIEs Or BrFachrFT1eN trATAuLE 1x ADvAECr1.
rostnge Prepaid mt This Unlcc.
Daily, b. mall q l3.UD Sunday 8H.1M
Tt.Ntek1y lt.jU Weekly ............. x.UO
Farts Of JsAs II tbs 1ane rats.
To rrr-cnt delay and nIstakes 10 and x.a Posi-
OfScs addrcss In full, including State anil County.
KemtAncns ba made eEther by draft. exprcss. FcAt
OAcs crdsr. Or in registered letters, At oar risk.
1ERva TO r171 RupEcRInEns
Dlir, deli.ercd sunday excepted, 5 eents per weak
Daily. del.srsd, suuday included, 40 cents CT
Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY,
Corner Madison and l>nsrbei n.tss., Chicago I'll.
, 1875-01-02

sholr avn language. altogether, u,a question
ot tltoraoy In country rs most rorous one. The
moro clcsay NO lock nj It, tho serious It arpcaib
Snarleyow, not having looked nt tho n,nlte,
Mt A, does not consider it ~ nj oil serious lie
hns sncccs!etl III proving his own ignorance
in his attempt to extGl1lish lint of Eaa
Germans
, 1875-01-02

CHICAGO. MUSEUM Monro. s,rsst, he.rsen PER-.
noon: Tho Forty Thta'eb." Evening" "paul rfs y
, 1875-01-02

ACADEMY OF FM!1sfc-ftattet .t,set tetween M.d-
fson anl Menrrr. Engage af Misa Clara Aofrta
" "Camis." Afternoon nnh sraninE,
, 1875-01-02

Ehemau 1fou.c. keily 4 lt~on's Mlrstfuls. " 10
pot. Faust" Afternoon aud evcnlne.
, 1875-01-02

SEVENTH PAEE-Cty, Kuburhan. and Country Real
E.tA,c WnntA. lusness CHANCES, Financial. oe.. Gig
Pubitcat!ons, i;siirosd Thns.Tablc Lecai. Medical
Carls, etc.. atc.
, 1875-01-02

HOOTKY's TnEATRE-Randolph street. between
t]ask LaSsle. Lied Asray." Afternoon and ssen.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-26

A GAMBLER PARDIsR.-In Monte
Carlo the gamblers have "A Paradise,
aud correspondent who invaded the
realms gives an interesting picture OftEe
scenes to lie witnessed there. Situated
as Monte Carlo IL, in the midst of the
fashionable resorts on the Mediterrau-
can its frequenters are all of the arts
tOcrstic and wealthy classes. Its very
Openness, and the art, beauty and re-
fnement in which il is clothed, allure
hundreds of English and Americans
Ia take hand in the exciting game.
The gambling halls are clothed in royal
splendOr. with gilded panels and cell
rags and huge chandeliers which add
:. glitter to the scene There were
abont FIVE hundred persons in the
rooms as the correspondent entered,
and. though many were promenading,
much the larger portion seemed in the
ysuies which were going on at the Ia
bles. 0ne-tfIird Of the gamblers were
ladies, from the gayly- dressed Paris
belle to the gray head ed madame. At
the rouge-et -noir table not a word
was uttered. but the coins were laid
upon the numbers as the ball went
whirling round, and then there was
breathlcsss silence until the click Ofthe
ball told the lucky number, when the
gold Napoleons we're raked into the
bank and fortunate man received his
winnings. The same scenes are witness
ed seven days every week during the en-
tire season A careful estimate places
che amount that changes hand there
each day at $1,000; but deducting
from this two-thirdS for dull days, We
still have $1,000 per day. or $1,000
900 the season. Notices to the effect
that pistols are to be bought close by
are terribly suggestive.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-26
The Price OF Hogs.

An intelligent writer maintains thai
the price of hogs this summer mus
remain at a high figure lie present.
the following facts:
The reports from all parts from
November |, 1874, To March 20. 1873
show a decrease of about 1000, OOC
pounds, while from New York. from
January lSt to March %. 1879. the
exports are about 6.0G0.000 pounds
greater than last year. Taxing this
exhibit of the hog crop, and it is OBJ
vious that the summer prices will rule
high, it will be profitable for the far
Elar to feed well and bring to market
a better quality of stock. as the prices
will surcly warrant it. Present price,
will be maintained. and probably be
higher for meats and much higher for
lard "
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-26
A Florida iayentiOn.

Taking for granted that what re-
bounds to the credit of any citizen of
our State, and elevates the character
of our home mechanics for ingenuity,
xiii aud inventive capacity, will be
interesting to all our readers, we are
glad TO call attention 10 an important
improvement ia picket making ma
chimes, invented and patented through
the American Patent Agency, by Isaac
Levy. Of Ellavilie IN this State.
The object of the machine is 10 dress
and shape the heads Of pickets or pal
ings and the points consist in the APP
plisnces for supporting and clamping
pickets of different length while being
shaped by revolving cutters. The
Scientific American making very ia
yorable mention of the invention
among. other things says:
The device can easily be attended
10y a single man, and it is claimed. can
cut 100 pIckets per day. From the
sdjustability Of its various parts, it is
capable of executing large variety Of
work leaving the same in condition fit
for immediate use. 1t is equally suit
able for the purpose above described.
or for tenOning machine, by simple
adjustment of the heads aud carriages
and by suitable changes of the knives.
picket-heads of any desired patterns
may be formed The machine, We are
informed is the first which has been
devised for producing the picket heads
IN complete state
We are glad thus TO chronicle the
success Of our Florida mechanics and
hope for him round profit as the re-
suits of his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
(F2a.) Press.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-06-26
Grants Goodness.

There is one family that will never
forget our President, despite these ten
denotes of political parties and parti-
sans. The story We give was furnish
ed US by one who knows its truth, and
as it has never got into print, We mar
rate it as cvincing the fact that Gener-
al Grant has got heart, at all events.
The wife of an officer called upon Pres
ident Grant last December to implore
the release Of her husband from the
Albany penitentiary. She told the
President that, crushing as the sorrow
was to herself, she would try to bear
it, but that every morning, without an
exception, since her husbands incar-
ceration, her four little children had
come to her bedside with fearful in
quiry: will dear papa come home
today This plea of my children
will, | know, ere long drive me into
insanity. And now" SAID she, my
little ones have varied their agOnizing
questioning, with pathos that is mad
deuing too-'Won't pa come home
Christmas 2" Madam, will consult
the Attorney General and do what
ever | can for your husband with his
approval" II know all will he use
less" said the grief stricken wife.
His decision will only be adverse, and
| may as well go home aud tell my
children at once that their papa can't
come home, and give up in despair"
Wait moment, said the President,
and sitting down he hastily penned Il
note to Attorney General Williams, and
nervously handing it to her, said, Go
and tell your children that their papa
shall come home Christmas !" Al
most fainting, the woman was carried
from the Executive office with the
open note in her hand. On examin.
ing it, it was found to be peremptOry
order for the immediate release of the
husband and father. But this was not
all. All over the page were great blots
of the President's fastIailing tears as
he wrote. GA the night before Christ
mas there was one house liz Washing
ton rs joyous as it had been desolate,
and ether eyes dropped tears as the re-
cltal was made of President Grants
tenerness and mercy in restoring their
long absent papa to the children of
paymaster Hodges.-NOrWdtk Gazette.