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NEITHER RIGHT NOR LAW.


The Supreme Court of Illinois has made
decision which will be sharply questioned by
both the common sense of the country and its
best legal minds. 1t seems that four years ago
Mr.. Connell, a lawyer in Omaha. having bust
ness in Washington and New York, bought an
unlimited or stop-oyer ticket, which was issued
by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
roads in common, and was good over either of
the roads. He came on TO Washington on the
Baltimore & Ohio, transacted his business and
boarded Pennsylvania train to go TO New
York. Upon presenting his ticket to the con-
duetor he was informed that it was not good,
because the pooling arrangement between the
roads had been broken up by a rate war; He
refused to pay his fare and was elected from
the train, after sharp resistance, with consid-
cradle violence. He brought suit against the
Pennsylvania Railroad, in the courts of Hi
nois, and succeeded in proving that the pool
was in full force at the time he bought his
ticket, and that the Pennsylvania road had re-
ceiyed its share of the money he paid. Upon
this showing the jury gave him verdict for
the full amount for which he sued, or $15, 600.
The Pennsylvania Company demanded another
trial, which was granted, and the jury again
returned a verdict of $4,000. The case was
carried to an appellate court, with like result
It was then taken to the Supreme Court, which
cIx That 1fr
nells ticket was all right and that he was en-
titled to be carried over the Pennsylvania Rail
road on it, he is not entitled to any damages
for being thrown from the train, and that it
was his duty when notified by the conductor
that he would not receive his ticket, to pay his
fare under protest, or leave the train and hold
without compelling the conductor to resort to
force; bat he could not recover for the force
used by the conductor, which, by his own act,
he induced the conductor to resort to in order
to put him off the train"
Horace Greeley used to say of like decisions,
aThat is very probably law, for it is very GER
IainIy NOT coninoh sense. Win al oeief-
| ence to the august Supreme Court of Illinois,
we will say that we believe that such a ruling
is as hostile to law as it is to common sense,
and so it will be generally pronounced by both
legal and non-legal critics. If Mr.. Connen
was entitled to ride on that train he was enti-
/ tied to defend that right by all the means in
his power, and he is also entitled to exemplary
damages from any one who infringed upon that
right A seat in the car was just as much his
property for the time being as house that a
man has rented is his property during the life
of the lease, and ~ has the same right to re-
sent intrusion and trespass upon it.
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In the FIRST place, we have the first install
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Next we have graphic picture by "Carle-
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in the heart of the mountains of Arkansas. A
bright story Of love-Enalzing in wartime gives
q pleasant variety to the first part Of the
paper.
a weIl-writtep description Of the great man
nfacturing and commercial interests Of the
thriving city Of Minneapolis, a careful history
Of Gen. Sherman's ill-fated attack upon the
rear Of Viclzsburg in December. 1863, de-
scription of the forts built 10 defend Washing
ton from the rebel attacks--the first account o.
those important works that has ever been pub
lishcd,--and half-score of other articles O
equal merit, make up The special features o
this issue. The various departments ani
the letters from ell parts Of the country are al
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ONO TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.

OHIO TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.
The Temperance legislation of the State of
Ohio still continues to be one of the leading
factors in the political situation, and may de-
terrnine the way the State viii go this Fall.
To understand the matter it is necessary to
make somewhat extended explanation. The
Constitution, adopted in 1851, contains this
clause:
No licenses shall begranted for the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors. but the Legislature may provide by
law against the evils resulting from the sale thereof
The Legislature in consequence passed Sc
verely stringent laws which, if they were
enforced, would completely stop the sale of
intoxicants. But for % years the laws have
not been enforced. Rather they have become
dead letter on the statute book, and Ohio had
in 1880 one saloon to every 225 people-a larger
proportion than any other State in the Nation
Several attempts were made to amend the Con-
stitution, so as to permit the granting of
licenses, but these always failed, as they were
opposed by two influential classes-the radical
Temperance men, who declared that license
is partnership of the State with crime, and
the liquor-sellers who naturally did not want
any change from the freedom they enjoyed.
In 1882 the Republican Legislature passed
what was called the " Pond Law in which it
was attempted to dodge the anti-license clause,
and impose what was virtually license, under
the name of tax. The Supreme Court decided
| that the attempted law was unconstitutional
| The Hquor-sellers ordered all the German
voters out of the Republican party, and the
result was that the Democrats carried the State
that Fall.
Undismayed by this the Republicans at the
| succeeding session of the Legislature passed
what is known as the "Scott Law" which tht
Court accepted as constitutional. This levies 3
tax of 500 year upon every place where fer
mented liquors are sold and 5000 year OF
places which sell both fermented and distilled
amendments TO the Constitution to be voted or
at the election in the Fall. The first of thes,
would repeal the anti-license clause and substi
tutc license clause The second would foreve
prohibit the manufacture or sale inside til,
State Of Intoxicating liquors of all kinds. TIL,
first was opposed by tho liquor-sellcrs and th,
Temperance men, and received bat an insig
nifcant yote The Temperance men am
women made vigorous canvass for the second
and succeeded in obtaining for it 800, 189 votes
Il 100000 votes would have carried it,
d Tho Democrats made their canvass in direc
hostility to the Scott Law and upon distinc
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

reader of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE to secure
one. AS for the quality of the work, the book
will speak for itself It is divided into three
parts. In the first, 1.-The biographer-Mr. Geo.
Francis Dawson, ex-Librarian of the Senate
sketches the career of Gen. Logan before the
war; in the second he describes those military
achievements upon which his fame as soldier
rests, while in the third part he exhibits his
record as a statesman. In this last division
will be found copious extracts from his most
famous speeches, which are thus for the first
time brought together in connected form. 1t
will be seen, upon careful perusal of them,
that in Gen. Logan the qualities of a statesman
are even more conspicuous than those of the
soldier.
A special attraction of the book is the en-
graved portrait of the General, which forms
the frontispiece. It is conceded by all who
have seen it to be most admirable likeness.
This book ought to find place in every library
and every home, and we will send it to any
| address, postage prepaid, on receipt of 81.
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The reports of the splendid crops all over the
country had very stifening effect upon Wall
Street, and in little while the steady fall in
prices of the last three months was recovered
from, and the market has since been pretty
strongly maintained at the enhanced figures.
The bears and crackers are trying to counter
act this by disceuraging reports. They throw
suspicion on the Governments estimate of a
crop of 5O0.000,O00 bushels of wheat, saying
that the Governments reports are always quite
as rose-eolored as the situation viii admit OF,
and that if there are Az, 00.OO0 bushels we
shall do well. The reports from Europe as to
the likelihood of a heavy demand from there
are also conflicting In many districts the
crops are very light, but the English press
claims that the crop of the United Kingdom
will be 10000 600 bushels, and that India is now
sending in about ], 600, 600 bushels week. The
prices of the grain in Chicago seem based on the
belief that we viii have big crop, with a light
foreign demand, for the average quotations for
September were IS cents, where last year they
were 1o2. In the big crop year of 1882 the
lowest price for September wheat was 81
and the highest 1O1-average for the month
90
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FOREIGN pAUpERs AND CoNvICTs.

The laws relating to pauper and convict I'M
migrants have received some very important
and decisive interpretations during the past
week. In some cases brought by the steamship
companies, the courts have decided that the
fact that man may have railroad ticket to
the interior of the country, and some little
money, does not redeem him from being pau
per, nor does the restitution of money neces-
sariIy make him one. His status is something
entirely within the province of the Commits
sioners of Emigration to determine. The law
says that if they shall find upon any ship any
convict, lunatic, idiot, or any other person I'M
able to take care of himself or herself, without
becoming public charge" such person shall
not be permitted to land" Haman or woman
has not been in the habit of self-support before
coming on board ship to sail for this country
he or she is pauper, no matter if they have
the means of temporary subsistence. On the
other hand, there are many arriving in our
are vigorous, healthy, and habitually indus
trious, and are consequently a welcome addi-
ton to the country's population. But the Com
missioners are to be the sole judges whether an
immigrant is desirable or an undesirable adj
dition, and if they decide against him, the
steamship bringing him has no other alterna-
tive than to take him back again. The Treas
ury Department has announced its entire con-
currence in this ruling of the courts. and that
it will support the Commissioners to the extent
Of its power. 1t has given earnest of this in
the case of the steamship Devonia. The Com
missioners of Emigration found on board of
| her an Objectionable immigrant, named Rosen-
stein. They ordered the officers of the Devo-
mia to take him back to Europe. Instead OF
obeying, they urged Rosenstein to slip on shore,
and even supplied him with ticket to Balti-
more. The Treasury Department has instruct
ed the Collector at New York to refuse the
Devonia a clearance until it appears that Rosen-
| stein is on board and will be taken back whence
he came.
| 1t is such measures as these that viii stop our
country being made dumping ground for all
the human offal of Europe.
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promise to repeal it if they were put into
power in the Legislature. Upon this promise
they received the solid vote of the Germans
and the liquor-sellers, and Judge Hoadly, who
had been the attorney for the Ohio Liquor
Dealers Association in its warfare on the
Scott Law was elected by plurality of 1000.
The Democrats also obtained strong MAORI
ties in both Houses of the Legislature, and Sc
cured three out of the five members of the
Supreme Court. But when it came to carrying
out the promise to repeal the Scott Law they
hesitated. As there were nearly $4,000 saloons
in the State, the law had put about 100000
into the County Treasures, which the tax
payers were reluctant to relinquish. Besides
this there were very many thousand Demo
ocratic votes in the 323, 1S9 for Prohibition,
and it would not do to treat them with con-
tempt So the Legislature dallied along, repealed
that part of the law which allowed communities
to exercise local option" as it is called in
Ohio,-that is, vote whether the sale of liquor
shall be prohibited in their village or township
or not,-and passed the delicate question over
to the Supreme Court, much to the disgust OF
the liquor-sellers who upbraided them with
treachery. The Supreme Court has been hand
ling the matter so gingerly as to make COM
ical spectacle. In the first case that came be-
fore it it took but one little timid nibble at it,
declaring that the clause which made the tax a
lien on the real estate of the place where liquor
was sold was unconstitutional when itapplied to
saloons that had already been established when
the law was passed, for the reason that such q
! lien would be an impairment of contracts The
court took great pains to say that it did not
course, this brought.smaH comfort to the saloon
keeper, who was confidently looking forward
to being relieved from the payment of his
annual 5000. The liquor-sellers, who have
mostly refused to pay their taxes, have recently
secured another decision, but by an inferior
court-that of Common Pleas-which still
leaves them in aggravating uncertainty. The
Judges decided that the Scott law was eonstitu-
tional, because of the decision of the Supreme
Court to that effect,-but that there was moth
ing TO determine whether it was tax or an
assessment. If it was tax it could not be
collected by law until the goth of December
when the second half of the yearly taxes are
due in Ohio. If it was an assessment it could
only be collected by verdict in favor of the
County Treasurer in some court authorized tc
deal with assessments.
The problem of vital interest in Ohio now is a:
to how this will affect the Germans and liquor
sellers. They believe that they hold the balance
of power, and free liquor is the tombstone by
which they try all parties. VIII they continue
to throw their votes against the Republican
party in revenge for its Temperance legislation,
or viii they try to defeat the Democratic party
for its failure to carry out their wishes7 The
progress of the campaign will probably bring
some interesting developments, which will be
watched fer with anxious interest by poll
ticians.
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NOW READY.

We take pleasure in announcing that our
/" Life of Gen. Logan" by Mr.. Geo. Francis
Dawson, ex-Librarian of the Senate, has been
received from the printers, and that we are
now ready to fill orders. This is not simply
the only authentic biography of the soldier
statesman that has ever been published, but the
most copious and entertaining. Although it con-
tains upwards Of 400 pages and the cover bears
a facsimile IN colors of the famous Fifteenth
Corps flag, we have put the price at the very
low figure Of 81 Per copy, SO as to enable every
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TRIBUNETs.

Erie Herald; Ben Buffers habit Of winsing
always puzzles a saltwater clerk who is not ae-
quainted with him.
Norristown Herald: A New York woman has
sued, at different times, three young men for
breach of promise Of marriage. She Is determined
to let no iilty man escape.
Worcester Gazette: Life IS Ike harness. There
are traces of care. lines Of trouble. bits Of good
fortune breaches ofgood manners. briled tongues,
and everybody has tug 70 pull through
Speaking Of his political course, Col T. W Hig-
gibson says: . have burned all my bridges behind
me-" But all the same, the Colonel knows that in
this Summer time there are good forSls almost
everywhere.
With good baseball pitchers In demand at $1,000
year, and eatehers at 5000, it would seem
that man who IS trying to amass competence
by writing Spring poetry al 10 cents yard IS
ing his time.
New Orleans Picagetae: Brook trout sometimes
show great patience and curiosity. They have
been known 70 watch fisherman az day to sec
what he wiz finally do with the gFssshOpper he 10
bobbing up and down on the end of a string
Jefferson, the murderer. who was executed In
New York last Friday, presented his brother the
new black suit made for him to be hanged in. 10
viii be nice for him to wear TO evening parties
and other festive occasions
prescriptions written by women physicians. The
proud privilege OF charging a man s. for ordering
him quarter Of cents worth of EPSON salts Is
allowed only to the doctors who can raise mus
taehe.
Though 81 people are dying tn the world every
minute, 81, go day, and % $50 SIS year the fell
low who scents his hair oil with bergamot and
sits next you in the hot day lives right
along to reasonable age. Things don't work
right in this world
Life: Doctor Engaged six months after the death
OF his first wife. sOIiIOquizng leEterThis is
better She addresses me "a You dear darling
duck" Ny first wife used 10 speak to me As THAI
nasty old quaek."
Jamestown Sun: We are willing to take a certain
amount of stock in newspaper accounts Of Western
cyclones, but when Arkansaw paper tells about
zephyr carrying bed-Gailt 81 miles, and then
going back for the sheet we aren't there.
Troy Times: A boy in Lyons who ate quart Of
peanuts and then two quarts Of cherries. pits and
all on top of which he swallowed several glasses
OF ice water, has passed over the border This
seems 20 be neglected opportunity to get up q
cholera scare.
| Phoebe (CaL) Record: There is gnat here this
Summer that erawls up under person hair and
bites him the scalp, causing an immense lump
TO swell his head. II Is hard for person who
has been bitten by OF these gnats distinguish
whether it is big bump on bis head or his little
( head ON a big bump
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TIE PORTRAITS

of Commaader-in- Chief Kountz and Mrs. Kate
B. Sherwood, National President of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps, are very fine pictures,
though neither does justice to as fine looking
man and lady of as attractive and COM
mending appearance as one can find in travers.
ing the Nation.
Commander-in-Chief Kountz is now in the
very prime of his life, and his face shows it.
Mrs Sherwood has a face that would attract
attention and win respect and esteem any.
where.
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THE EGYPTIAN conference has been fail
ure. and England has had the whole response
bility Of the government of that distracted
country thrown upon her. This places her in
a most embarrassing position. She is saddled
with country which must be ruled by rifles,
and a very strong and expensive contingent of
rifles at that, and she gets neither money nor
credit for her labor. There is only one logical
course for her to pursue, and that is to place
the Valley of the Nile under the same sort of q
government she has established over India.
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a RARE CHANCE.

donbtedly the Rebellion Record, the official pub
location Of the War Department Volumes
one two, three and FIVE Of this work are now
out of print, but THE TRIBUNE has managed
20 secure complete set eleven volumes) and
viii send the set to any address on receipt Of
ST. Address simply THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UEE. Washington. d. C.
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LAST week we mentioned that Col. Chester
claimed TO be the last man mustered out of the
army Of the rebellion, and also that members
of the 165th N. Y. made the same claim. This
seems to have stirred the boys up, for five diff
ferent correspondents claim seniority for their
regiments: Charles G. Otis. late Major of the
21st N. Y, states that his regiment was not
mustered out until May 81, 1866; E. T. Lam
bert gives the date of the muster-out of his
regiment, the 1O7th U. S. CoIored Troops, as
December, 1867; while an "Ex-oficer" says
that the 4th Wis. finished its term of service
May "a, 1866. The comrades of James l.
Reeds regiment THE 34th N J.) left the serv-
vice April 30, 1866; and '.W. A. H. of tie
18th Mo. Cav, did not get his discharge until
April 8, 1866.
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600 Union soldiers who started from Louisville.
only counted for $4,000 at Chattanooga, while
the $4,000 rebels who confronted them in Ken
lucky had grown to be 65ooO by the time the
mountains around Chickamauga were reached.
Therefore, instead of being crushed by over
whelming numbers, the rebels were really
whipt out by inferior forces.
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Union
I9.lsl.8S


The population Of the Border States in 1850
was
Kentucky ,155,6s4
Maryland 6S,0io
l6202
2,424.745
It is fair to assume that one-third of these
people sided with secession and two-thirds
against it. The proportions were indeed the
other way, but when we consider the loyal
people of East Tennessee and West Virginia
the estimate is not unfair. We, therefore, have
the following total strength of the populations
on either side at the outbreak of the war:
20 765o 95
Rebei. l0024643
The Pacific States are left ont of the count
altogether because the part they took in the
struggle was insignificant. All told they sent
but Is, SIG men into the Union army, and prob
ably sent nearly as many into the rebel army
This showing gives the lie conclusively to all
Wanting about yielding only to overwhelming
numbers 1t was simply impossible that there
should by any such thing. Where would they
come froIn2 The North had but two to the
South's one at the beginning, and every man
of understanding viii admit that this was
very small preponderance to begin an offensive
war, especially against an enemy occupying a
compact territory. where inside lines enabled a
small force to be stronger at ali points than
the widely separated invaders. We are quite
sure that never before in the history of the
world have 90 millions of people succeeded in
invading and subduing 10 millions, occupying
their own country.
Frederick the Great gave q magnificent Illus
tration Of the advantages of a small population
occupying compact territory, when he with
100000 people, fought or for years, and finally
defeated, 1o0,00O,0 GOO who surrounded him on all
sides and struck at him continually.
Still another consideration: Everyone knows
that the South put every man into the field. In
Gen. Grants expressive words, "They robbed
the cradle and the grave" to fill their ranks
Going through the Southern cities during the
last years Of the war not an able-bodied white
man could be seen anywhere. Going through
the Northern cities the men who were gone
could not be missed. Again we ask, if the
South were crushed by overwhelming numbers
where could the numbers have come from2
Finally, every step that the Union armies
marched southwark depleted their strength
, for garrisons and guards - for maintaining
! lines of communication and protecting The
i TANKS The same movements concentrated ana
strengthened the rebel armies. So that the 100.