Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-24

land, 12; in Denmark, IS; in Prussia, 27
 in England, 39; in Belgium, 42; in Wurtem | burg, 60 and in Bavaria, 30. The capital o Bavaria is the city that, in proportion to 1t population (23O, 900 inhabitants), uses more
 beer than any other city in the world. The
 yearly consumption in Munich is about 4, ,5o0s
 900 gallons, or over 152 gallons her head. Murderers seem to be quite as safe in Mis- | sissippi as in Connecticut. The Mississippi papers are giving notice that the murdsrsrs oi Gilmore, who was killed when Judge Chisolna, l his son and daughter were assassinated, will
 not be tried. Kemper county, ''poor an6 | harassed, needs peacs." It is also said tha;
 'these murders were excusabIe, and that z l an outrage upon justice"
 The Tammany Hall politicians evidently dc 1 not intend to be conciliated. Quite sum oi | money has been raised to organize the State against Tilden, and if Tilden del egates are sent to Cincinnati Tam
 many delegates will go there also. It is again whispered about that Tilden has given up hoping or striving for the nomination foI himself, but that he intends to control it. Ii
 he cannot carry New York it is time that he came to this conclusion.
 The Improvement in postal orders recently introduced in Great Britain ought to be adopt ed in this country. The new orders are is-
 sued in four denominations, say in round nn dh1 ooI <.
 but, instead of being payable to the order of
 one person, these orders are sold in quantities
 with the name, of the payee in blank. Any
 person can fill in the name Of 8 person to
 whom he wants to send remittance, togeth-
 CT with the postofice where the payment is
 to be made The order then becomes sight
 draft to the order of the person to whom it is
 sent. That person can present the draft in
 person, make one indorsement, or ''cross it, D
 which is the English equivalent for making a
 draft payable to bearer. After being
 s'crossed" the order will be paid only on pre-
 sentation by banker, but it becomes payable
 at any office in the United Kingdom. A very
 convenient device.
 It seems that prisoners who attend church
 in the jail at Carson, Nevada, have an advan- tage (if it is an advantage) over other church
 goers in being allowed to criticise the sermon in open meeting. The officiating clergyman had been trying, in this feeble way to inn press upon the prisoners that honesty is the best policy. After the sermon thief named Jones asked to be allowed to make a few re- marks. Permission being granted he said:
 Al.aAL | ,,li cy was first thrown out on a thieving world by Ben Franklin, an old humbug. ] don't agree with Ben Franklin that honesty should be policy dodge. If mans honest, he's honest anyhow; and if he just simply keeps correct from policy he's bad egg at heart, and only waiting to get the confidence of the community and rob them out of thousands. A man who is honest from policy wouldsteal if he had the nerve and the chance. We fel- lows in here had too much nerve, and we're too candid to conceal our real character Barring the convict's characterization of Franklin and his praise of himself and his companions, the criticism is not bad one.
 The New York act of 1866 for the taxation of bank shares, which has just been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, lev jed e tax upon the shares of national banks absolutely, thus making discrimination against them as compared with the taxation of other moneyed capital in the State, which was contrary to the provisions of the national bank act The section of the Revised Stat utes which is to be interpreted in connection with State law is numbered 5, ,219, and is as follows:
 Nothing herein shall prevent all the shares in any association from being included in the valuation of personal property of the owner or holder of such shares in assessing taxes inn posed by authority of the State within which the association is located; but the Legislature of each State may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national banking associations located within the State, subject only to the tTo restrictions, that taxation shall not be at greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State and that the shares of any national banking association owned by non-residents of any State shall be taxed in the city or town where the bank is located, and not elsewhere.
 .The New York Court of Appeals held that the important word in the first restriction was ''rate." To tax bank shares was legal, pro vided only that no heavier tax were levied upon one hundred dollars worth of bank stock than was levied upon other property. But the Supreme Court swept away the la bored argument by which this was supported. In passing the section 5,219 Congress con- ferrsd power upon the States which they would not otherwise have possessed, and. 50 say the court, ''with due regard to the dignity of the States and with desire to interfere only so far as was necessary to protect the banks from anything beyond their equal share of the public burdens, said, You may tax the real estate of the banks as other real estate is taxed, and you may tax the shares of the bank as the personal property of the owner to the same extent you tax other mon eyed capital invested in your State It was by this qualification Of the power of taxation that equality would be secured and injustice prevented This is common sense as well az good law. If bank shares can be taxed at all when shares of other corpora tions would be exempt, they would most be taxed '' at greater rate" than other nloneyed capital