Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 21, 1873, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE st of Euiscnion (PATADLR I ADVANGR). Parta of n yoac at e bt o prevent tolay and mistakow, bo sura and giva Post Ofi.co nddross in full, including Siato and Counts, iy bo mndo clthar Ly draft, oxpross, Post or in roginterod loitom, nt our risk. AENAA 10 OITY HUBACKIBLIA, Tafly, delisorod, bunday uxcopted, % coute por waok, Datly, aolivored, Bunday fucludod, 80 conts por wook. Addross T TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madizon aud Dearboru. Chieago, Tl TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, - MOVIOKER'S THEATRE~Madlson stroot, botweon Dowborn and Slato, Duprez sud Bonodlot's Min- atrols, ATREN'S THEATRE- Bouotit of Employe ner Con. h svomo, oornor Con o 0, o ‘Tho Happy Pai "BUSINESS NOTIGES, JLYON'S INSKOT POWDEI 18 INSTANT DEATIL roncho, bugs, ants, plant lico—harmloss as flour 1o human beings. 0V MEN ARI; ' OAUGHT" BY ART- g matnga. o Ol Logants now sovel, - Thoy Mot by Chanco." ' Prico, T NEVER-FATLING sAr ‘Winslow's Soothing Nyrt AND BUCORSB—MNS. info and cortain romody for R fean e ailetod durind tio L disoasos with whic B ‘of toothing. AL HAVANA TOTIERY_wWE SOLD |IN dmm. or 2l Avell font iy 500,000 pelzg itoylars 0] n. &0C0., informat) 2 ottt D0, o 4685, Raw York. ND_MOTI PATOIIES, ABK e o atoth, ahd Frocklo Lotlon. Sifiond.at, ok, lnrllmrlusnnlhul‘uuc, munusums, nndllouhmmm, 's Impraved Com- 0wt fimnlo foiod b Gichnt Skin: Modiciag, I’l aved only YJ FPorry, Derwatologist, 49 B e The Chcage Teibume, Monday Morning, July 21, 1873. Hankors TFOR it our drveals Sir Francis Hincks hias publishod s long lettor in denial of tho charges made by McMullen and tho Toronto newspnpors against himsclt and his colleaguesin tho Canadian Cabinet. Ho eays ho nevor asked Sir Iugh Allan to soolk tho co-op- erations of Amerieans in the Causdion Paciflo Rallwny. 1lo nover had any private conversntions with MeMullen, as tho lattor assorts, and nover told him nnything sbout Cartier's views, Ho novor received and nover solicited any monoy from Sh@8Tugh Allan or any ono clso in connec- tion with the Canadian Pacific Rallway, and vors that the Canadian Governmont nover had auything to do with Sir Hugh Allan's Amorican nogotiations, Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, who was killod in England day beforo yestorday _ by falling from his horse, while riding at full speod, was o son of tho groat philanthropist, William Wilberforce. Ho has written a num- . ber of theological works and contrib- oted Inrgely to ccclosinstical literaturo, Ho always took o prominent pnrt as [ epmmnl Poor in tho dobates in tho House of Lords and in the Upper House of Convocation, Io was also & frequent and cloquent apeaker at publio mectings of o roligious character. Mo was o Trustes of tho British Musoum, and o Chaplain to tho Royal Academy. Iiis death oc- curred in his G9th yoar. Postmaster-General Creswoll belioves that ono result of tho abolition of the f ranking abuso will be to put an ond to tho postal-car dis- puto bobweon the milroad companies and the Govornment. A number of iho companies have claimed that they were underpnid for their services in running theeo cars, and at one time threatened to diascontinue them, a procedure which would have thrown tho postal business of the country into sad confusion. They consented to continue only in tho hiopo that the noxt Congross would roim- burse thom. The mails,iowover,now are so light- ened by tho nbsence of free matter that it is be-~ lioved thal tho railroads may be induced to carry thom at tho otd rates. The losnos of tho Brooklyn Trust Company by the dishonesty of its lato Prosidont, Mr. Mills, nro now stated to be no less than §800,000. That Mr. Mills committed suicide seems to bo beyond doubt. The day bofore he was drowned ko was told that the Dircctors of the Company would begin an examination on the morrow of bis accounts. o theroupon deposited in bank to tha credit of his wifo all thobalances duo him by Inis real eatate agent, paid n number of honsehold bills, which ordinarily wonld have boon loft till the end of tha month. Ho then went to Conoy Island, n son-pide rosort on Long Island, whero ho spont the last night of his life, His conduct thore oxcited remark, and aftor his doath it was found that his bed bad not been used. A meoting, attended by 800 farmers, was held at Fort Dodgo, Iowa, on Saturday, to provide for tho representation of Webster County in the Anti-Monopoly Btate Convention, to be held at Des Moines next month. The resolutions “sdopted aro notawortly for their outspoken and thorough ronuncintion of both political parties, and of tho bummors, wire-workers, and offico seckers who have ridden the peoplo so long. Rosolutions worealso pasaed calling for tho aboli- tion of thoso oppressive features of tho tarif® which were ennctod in the intorests of & special class, and for lows to regulate the charges of roilronds in Iowa. Dolegatos to the Stato Con- sention woro choson, aud arrangements mado for a County Convention to nominato peoplo's candidates for county officers. There was a dispatoh in Tue TrIBUNE of Sat- urday roprosonting that undor tho new freight tarifis o man bad commenced hauling his pro- dneo from Ogwego, Kondall County (on the Chi- eago, Barlington & Quiney Railrond), to Chicago by wagon, and that ho was saving $21 por trip by tho oporation. On examination of the old and now tariffs of tho Durlinglon & Quinoy Road from Oswogo to Chicago, wo find thom to be. asfol- lows First Second Third Fourth clasa, claay, cluss, clasa, Ol tarid, 20, 20, a1 19, Now tarifi.,vinee 201 241 a1, 189 From which we conclude olthor that the dis- patoh referrod to did not tell tho truth, or that the Oswego man noodoed not to walt for the new law to commenco tesming his produce to Chi- cago. Tho Chicago produco markets woro less ac- tivo on Baturday, but generally strong in bread- stuffs, Moss pork was dull and steady nt 815,20 ‘@16.25 cusb, nud $15.00@16.16 sellor August, Tard was quict and steady at £8.06@8,10 per 100 1bs cash, and $8.02}¢ for summer renderod. Monts were quiet and unchanged, at 730 for shouldors, 8}¢@8%e for, short riby, 83(@83{o for short clenr, and 10@120 for swaet plokled hams, Lake freights wero moro nctive and unchanged, at 6@0}o for corn to Duffalo, Tighwinos wore In good demand, and & shade firmor, at00@ 0034c per gallon. Flour was moro activo, and hold wshado higher. Wheat was firm and qulet, closing at $1.21% woller the mouth, aud $1,105{ seller Augunt, Corn waa netive, and }{o higher, closing ot 87%o cneh, and 878{@37%o sollor August. Oats woro loss active, with littlo chango, closing at 23}@28%c cash, and 273{c eollor August. Ryo waa moro active and un- chengod at 50@G70. Barley wes quiot and Go higher, at 800 for now No. 2 sollor Boptombor, Thera was loss dolug In tho hog market, and pricen foll off 15@100, closing wenk nt £4.10@ 6.00. Caitle wero in light domand nt ecasy pricos, Bheop eold slowly nt former quutnuunu, or at $3.00@4.75. ‘Wo print olsowhoro an acticlo from tho 8t. Louls Democrat, which intimatos that the now Rallroad law of this Biato threntens to grind the Bt, Louis millors as fino as thoir own flonr. All shipmonts from 8t. Louis to tho Enst by rail must go across Illinols. Tho Democrat snya thnt tho now law lins incrossed tho ratos on flour 20 conts por barrel alrondy, and that it is likely to ouforco sn ndditionsl advance of 30 conta. Tho hardship for the millers is all the groator, bocauso thoy hind hoped to mako up thia yoar for tho losscs that bofell thom from another causo last year. The Democral inelsts that tho St. Louis millers must begin to look np somo other menns of gotting Enst. Tho Ohio Rivor can bo usod as long nb barges can sscond it. Thon the Mississippi to Now Orloans, thence to Now York by the Tow-Bont Association and occan steamers, will bo tried, It will be mnccessary to ndopt theso means in ordor to competo with Minnesota flours, which oan go Last by way of the lakes & part of the yoar, with Towa and Wia- consin, which have an outlet at Ohicago and Milwaukee, and with Indlann, Michigan, Olio, and Tonnossoe, which are not obliged to submit to what the Democrat calls “this infamous law."” : Tho following Govornmont advertisoments are noticed in ono issuo of tho Washington Chron- icle (James Harlan),—that of July 15: . Proposala for cora and oats, to be dolivered at Fort Riloy, Fort Larnod, aud Yort Dodge, Kanaas, Proposals for flour, to bo delivored at Omaha, No- ‘brasks, Propossls for oxcavalion and embankment at tho Dos Molues Rapids of tho Mississippl River. Propoasls for 700 round piles, oto, to be delivered at Fort Pulaskl, Bavannsh River, Proposala for dimension stono for ihe now Govern- ‘ment bullding at Cinclunatl, Ohlo, - Ditto at Philndelphia, Pa, Proposals for removing rock from tho Schuylkill River. Proposals for a broakwater at ITyannls, Mass. Troposals for army supplies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, . Proposals for headatonos for various Natlonal com- eterien, Proposals for tho Improvement of tho Groat Kanawha River, West Va, Ditto for Yazoo Rivor, Mien, Notices to Marinera at Race Point Light-Station, Capo Cod, Mass, And sovaeral columns of proposals for steam eloops-of-war, atc., which no contractor will ever rend in the columns of the Chronicle. 'The samo ndvertisementa will be ingerted in the Washing- ton Repubtican—or clso thero willbe a row. We supposo theso arosomo of the abuses which the party platforms jn Yowa and Minnesota are op- posed to, and which Gon. Butlor, or some other salary-grabber, will move to eradicate at an carly day. THE ‘‘ NATION” ON WATERED BTOCKS, The Nation appears to have discovered an immoral tendency in Tur Cutoaco TRIBUNE'S viows in reforenco to squeozing the wator out of inflated raflroad stocks. It eaya: Under this theory of rallrosd proporty, all stock which does not represent money actusMy invested is treated os * fictitions,” and all attempts to earn divi- dends on such stock as ottempts ot extortion, For instance—to put o caso of froquent occurrence—a cor- poration obtains a chartor for & road which it will cost $2,000,000 to bulld. Itaccordingly borrows the §2,000,000 on mortgage bonds, and constructa tho road, while the ‘membera divido among thomselves $3,000,000 of stock moro, and they work tho rosd 50 s8 to mako it pay intercat on the $4,000,000, Tho furmors now say that 1o rond shall bo so worked 06 to poy Intercet on any- thing but the proceeds of the bonds, or, in other words, tho actusl cost of constriction and equipment, This, stripped of details, 18 tho new plan, as gravely pro- pounded in Toz OmicAco TRIDUNE, The Oredit Mobilier system of railwny con- struction could not ba stated moro fairly, wo admit. It isstrippod of dotails to tho lat pin teathers. The Nation then goos on to say : Now,if anybody will getupand proposs & gencral Rail- Toad act of this naturo applicablo to all roads Licreaftor to bo built,wo think we can promiso that hie will have tho hearty support of everybody who has seriously raflect- ©d on the railroad problem; Forbid tho construction of any road excopt with tho procoedsof pald-up stock, and forbid any higher dividends than a cortain fixed porcentago on this amount, and woshall have a rule of ‘which nobody can complain, The 1mmorality of our position then conaista inwhat? Tho Nation tolls ua that it is like Bon Butler's plan for paying tho Govornment bondholdors; also that &t is “sharp praotico;” algo that it is “nimple swindlivg,” These bo very convenient phrases, and the odium of Ben Datlor is sufliclontly '* nationsl” to point o moral even at this distance from tho scene of his nctivo oporations. Bat tho Nation's argument in altogotlier too nlippery for us to lay hold of. A fair inferonce from it wonld bo that railrond companies, in the absonce of positive prohibi- . tion, hinvo thoright Lo issno na much stock as thoy plonso without referonce to tho amount of capi- tal actually invested in the ronds, Ourunder- standing of tho law of private corporations 18 procisely tho opposite of this, viz.: that rail- road companios cannot issue either stock or bouda oxcopt for money or property actually re- coived and invosted in tholr roads and oquip- ments unless exprossly authorized by their chartora so to do. Wo'do not know of any char- tors which have anthorized tho issue of stock in oxcess of the monoy received and applied for tho purposes aforesaid. Thore may be such, but, as o goneral thing, 1t will bo found that stock wator- ing hus boou nccomplished without logal su- thority,—that is, in deflance of it ; and that tho oxtra stock has beon predicated first upon tho ploutitul existenco of dunces who wore willing to puy good monoy for it, and, second, upon tho mertia of the public, who wora too much engrossed with thelr own affsirs to poy eny heed to it. In any case whero tho law haa oxpressly authorized tho issue of stock in excoss of pald-up capital, wo admit that tho miatake cannot now bo corrected. Wo Doliovo that the basls of the present suit of the QGovornment againat the Union Paoific Railroad is to compel tho stockholdors to pay up their stook,—or, in other words, to Bqueezo tho wator out of it. Wil tho Nation toll us whether this is a moral lawsuit, or othorwise ? If tho Nation moans that the public have al- lowed the Credit Mobilior systom of railroad- building to go on so long that it Lam orooted itsolt into Inw, and susperseded the common law, which rostricts corporations to that which is exprossly granted in their charters, and forbids that they slinll take anything by jm- plication, wo dony that also. Non lempus oc- ourrit regi, Timo doos not run against tho whole pooplo. Tho Credlt Mobllior syatom Ia of vory rocont dato, Ithad its origin among the bulls and bears of Wall siroet ten ortwelve THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JULY 21, 1833. e e A sttt e i e it years ago. It haa grown marvelously in a short spnco of timo, but it is an outlaw, novortheloss, and donorves to bo knocked in tho head. Tho poultion of Tue Tninunm as an upholdor of Inw, 08 applied to railronds no loss than to in- ividials, I protly woll known by any who havo desirod to knowit. DBut, until tho Nation or eomebody otse shnll show eomo Iaw for tho stock-watering oporations of Lhio past, wo shall continu to hold that they were as unprinelplod and vicions in their concoption s thoy ato op- pressivo and domoralizing in thelr tendeney. U —— HOW DUTIES MULTIPLY THEMSELVES, ‘Tho Bt. Louis Globe makes o Inbored effort to show tho farmors that the duty on iron eannot have cansed tho increnso in cost of railrond iron, and of building and oporating rnilronds, bo~ causo that increaso is grontor than “80 a ton "— which this meryolously-ill-informed papor as- sumes to bo tho duty on iron reilsl Until the @lobe ean acquire about ono-tenth as much in- formation in rogard to tho dutics actually im- posod by tho tariff ae tho avornge farmor pos- Besges, it had bottor not undertalo to instruct hitn vory much, The duty on rails is not #0 a ton, but 70 conts per 100 pounds, which, for & oustom-houso ton, is $16.68 por ton. Noither docs that duty affect tho prico of fron only to the oxtent of tho duty itself, as the Globe and other entirely ill-iuformed persons imagine. Tor, firat, there aro chiargos for and profits upon importation ; moxt, the dutios are paid in gold, and thoir practical offoct must be incronsed by tho promium on gold; ond finnlly, tho intent and partinl effoct of the duties is to force a searcity of foroign gooda in our markots, and, whonevor the demand hero in- cronsos, it gives a tomporary monopoly to the Amorican maker, enabling him to chargo what rates ho plensos until highor rates hinvo beon long enough sustainod to aseure foreign import- ora that large shipmonts can bo safoly mado, and until a sufficient foroign supply arrives. Tho effoct of & monopoly whenever unususl domand arisos is to push tho averngo of prices considera~ bly highor than il would otherwiso bo, evon with duty, ehargos, and promium oan gold added. It mny soom to tho Globe (and to somo other persons who know g0 littlo that they supposo the duty on rnils to bo only 89 a ton) that "the im- porter's charges aro not necessarily incroased by tho duty. But on importor, like any other per~ son engaged in business, is compolled to earn intorest on tho capital employed, and the duty compols him to employ in tho importa- tion of iron just $15.08 in gold moro than it would cost him for each ton if thero wero no duty. Morcover, the monopoly duty causes an uncortain snd fluctusting warket, ylolding somo- times largo losses aud sometimes large profits, and, in overy transaction of that charnotor, something bosides ordinary intorost is taken for risk. The margin of tho importor is thus raised abovo 10 por cent on his investment ; but his in- vostment is the entire sum required to purchase, and movo a ton of iron, and pay dutics on it. The duty alone, in 1871, the latest yoar of which import atatomonts have yot appeared, was 43 por cont,of tho originel coat, tho chango from gold to currency, snd tho importer's chargo of 10 per cent on tho entire outlay swellod the increase of cost to B3 por cent, and tho cffect of monopoly duties upon tho averago of pricos pushed tho increased charge still higher in 1872 and in the years from 1863 to 1860 inclusivo. 'Thus it is mnot uncommon to find a duty of 40 per cont so_ mwolled in its praotical offoct upon prices that it netmally causos on incrense of 60 or 70 per cont. In such cases, itis a very common cheat resorted to by tho advocates of Protection—nnd a vory sliallow one —to protend that the incroaso in pricos cannot be thus caused, beeause it exccods tho apparont amount of the duty. Ono thing the farmors can seo for themaolvos —that the railronds now have to pay over $80 s ton for iron, which, for the threo years 1850, 1860, nnd 1861, uudor a 24 por cont revonne duty, avoraged loss than345a ton. Ono othior thing thoy can sce—that railroads which chargod them local ratos of 2and 3 conts por ton por milobafore tho ‘War now charge thom 4 and b conts per ton por milo, and yot, a8 their yearly roturns show, do not moke as largo not earnings in proportion to thia capltal invostod and business done ag thoy @id boforo, Tho farmers will not bo na slow as tho Globe to understand that thoincronseof rates is in vory many cases compollod by tho increased cost of oporating railronds, Moroover, when thoy find tho largest and most prospoerous roads charging less for their through business thsn thoy did beforo the War,—that business having g0 greatly inoronsod that they ean do so without 1oss whilo they aro forcod to do soby competition ~—tho farmor quickly rensons that, if the actual cost of operating had not boen increased one- | half, {he ssmo ronds could profitably reduco thoir charges still moro, and would bave boon forced by tho samo compotition to do so. Thus, in both cagos, the farmor i8 tho victim of the wholekalo robbory which the monopolists de- vised, and which the Globe so brightly dofonds by stating tho datics oniron at $9 n ton. Wo rocommond the Iron and Steel Association to supply that papor with o moderatoly-informod ‘pupil of some publio sckool, in ordor to ronder ite advocacy of tho tariff-swindle a little lesa damaging to it frionds, THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH OOH- PANY. Mr. Gardnor O, Tiubbard, the principal advo- cato of tho Postal Telegraph, hag contributed a paper to tho ourront number of tho North Amer- ican Teview, on Postal Telegraphy, in the courso of which ho mnkos an nssault upon tho Wostorn Union Telograph Company, and tho Associated Press of Now York, which is not only unfair in spirit, but so incorrect iu statomont, that it ig dinieult to 1eo how a man could have crowded 8o many glarlug errora into tho space dovoted to thiy part of tho subject, unloss ho was prodotor- minod to creato & projudice, Alludiug to tho ro- mark of Mr. Orton, that “ho would undertake to produce an Amorican journal, printed ono thougand milos from the Atlantic Const, that should contain more nows from all parts of tho world in o single lssuc than conld bo glenned from tho London Z%mesin o weol,” and that *¢ the prous aro porfectly sntisflod with tho situa- tion," Mr, Hubbard snya fu roply 1 1. “Tho Assoclated Pross of Now York, m connection with tho Western Unlon Tolograph Company, colloct tho news from Lurope and from ol parts of our country, forward it to some conveniont contre for collation, proparation, and distributlon, and then transmit it to tho varlouy prosa associations inall portions of the country," Tho Western Union Telograph Company has notbing whatevor to do with tho colloction of nows; the nowspapora colloot tho nowa; tho Tolegraph Company {8 but a common ear- rlor, which distributes the nows furnished to it at o certain rato fixed by contract, ThoWest- orn Assoolatod Pross oxohuugos its nows with the Now York Associnted Prees, paying it a bonun_ for tho cable dinpatchos. 2. “Tho nows is dolivored undor an exprosaed or implied ongagoment that tho rocoivers slinil nolther encourngo nor eupport any othor telo- graph corporation ; Lhat thoy will proteet its in- torents, and will not critlcine tho tolograph, nows," Iforotoforo thero has beon a clause in tho conlract botweon tho Westorn Associnted Tross and the Telograph Company, providing substantinlly as abovo, but this provision has worked to tho dotriment of both partios in such dogreo that it will bo omitted in future con- tracts, Tho statomont that tho pross binds itsolf not to eriticlao tho olograph nows is ab- surd, The tolograph nows has boon eritfelsod ovor and over again, and somotimes unmoreiful~ ly. 'The pross ovidently has tho clear right to criticlso ita own agonta at any timo, 8. “Tho Wostern Union Tologeaph Compaay can afford to furnish nowsatlow rates to have the sup- port of the press in its oxtortions upon the whole pooplo.” Tho reasons why tho Western Union Telograph Company can afford to transmit nowa at low ratos s that it disteibutes most of the nowa Iate at night, when tho wires are not otherwiso oconpled, 8o that thore is no opprosaion of tho publio, nor s thero any damage to iwires or machinery by such uso which can projudico the publlo ocoupation of the wires in businecsa houra. Again, tho low rate is not an extortion upon the publie, from the fact that, by tho common law, the Telegraph Company is allowed to make lowar ratos for largo quantitios, just as tho railrond company ig allowed to reduco its chargos where it earrios largo quantities of froight. 4, *Tho Associations pay for this by defond~ ing tho powor which wustains thoir exolusive privilege of furnishing nows to the public.” Thero i no oxclusive privilego in tho promises. Thero are now colleoting and rocelving nows tho Now York Associatod Pross, tho Wostorn Asso- ciated Pross, tho Northwostorn Associated Pross, tho Amorican Pross Aseociation, and similor ng- goclations in Now England, California, and the Southern Btates, and othor nssociations may bo formod at any time, a8 necossity or convonienco may dictate, to procuro and distribute nows in the same mruner, and the Westorn Union Tol- ograph Company is bound by law to sorve them all on oqual torms. Mr, Hubbard doos not add anything to tho strongth of his arguments for postal tolegraphy. by such glaring mis-statomonts as wo havo ox- posed. Tho Western Union Telograph Company is but the common carrior of tho nows which tho various Associsted Presscs of tho country collect, intorchango, and transmit, Tho busi- ness {8 done per contract at & stated prico, lower than the tariff for privato dispatches becauso tho law allows it, and forwarded ab a timo whon the transmission does nob interfero with the righta of tho public, The monopoly which Mr,’ Hubbard chargos in tho relations botween tho Telograph Compnny and tho Associated Progs in oxactly tho monopoly which cxista bolween o bank and its customers, Tho customors do thoir business with o bank bocause it affords thom cortain facilitics and privilegos which thoy must havo; the Associated Pressos of the country: trananct their business with tho Wostorn Unlon Tolegraph Company for the ssmo reason, and thore inno more extortion upon the general public in the ono ense than in the other. Ir. Mubbard’s charge that tho pross s subsidized by tho Tolograph Company is simply untrue. It employs the Company to roceive and forward its nowa, That nows is collected and proparod by ils own ngonts, and, as a matter of fact, the collection of nows, in this country at least, costs considerably moro than tho transmission, THE FORT SNELLING CASE. Tho 8t. Paul Kvening Dispatch publishea the Aequel to an old transaction dating back to the timo ,of Prosidont Buchanan’s Administration, when Floyd was Secrotary of War, which, it properly presonted, I8 the cloarest aaso of got~ ting somothing for nothing that has yot beon do- veloped. Under the law authorizing tho sals of forts not roquired for military purposcs, Scorota~ ry Floyd made o salo of tho Fort Snelling Rogor~ votion to Franklin fteclo, who was, and always Liae boon, n sterling Domocrat, and othar porsons associatod with bim, Tho torms of tho salo to Steolo woro $30,000 cash and £60,000 in two equal payments, without intorest, making £90,000 in all, though thoproperty wos then enti- mated at doublo this value. Stoole himself is said to havoadmitted that ho would hiave given $20,000 ‘more thon ho agreed to pay for it. This resor- vation, known as tho Mionohaha lands, is, por- hiaps, tho handsomest picco of property in the United Btatos. It is Jocated in the fork formoed by the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, and it is o porfeot garden-spot. Fort Snolling adds largely to tho picturosque view of tho scono, which would bo an ornament among tho ancient beanties of the Rhino, It was tho dronm of tho oarly United Btatos enginoers who located tho fort at this placo that tho poninsula on which it is situated would one day bo thesilo of tho groat city of that region, which has sinco boen spread out botwoen St. Paul and Minneap- olis. Though this dream was not realized, the land was always certain tohave a great valuo from its own natural beauties and ite proximity to theso two cities. Tho Stoolo purchase of ovor 6,000 acros of such proporty as this for $90,000 was, thereforo, o splondid investmont under all citcmstonces. In roviowing the travsaction tho following winter, Congress sot nside the salo. In spito of this, Seerotary Floyd caused tho transfer to bo mado to Mr. Btoeele, finding, a8 ho contended, sufficient authority for it uuder the lnw. The Bt. Paul Zvening Lispalch now makos the statement that tho $60,000 which Bteolo was to havo paid the Governmeont within Lwo yeara was nover paid, In the meantimo tho Unitod States continued to ocoupy the fort, Mr. Bteclo, it ia now charged, rocontly brought in a bill ngainst the United Btates for $162,000 rent for Fort Bnelling sinco the time of the snlo, sbout 16 yoars, deducting tho §60,000 which Steelo ehould have pald within two yoars aftor his purchase, The Dispateh's statomont is to tho effect that Gon. Delknap, tho prosent Bocretary of War, has sllowed and paid this claim, aud conipromisoed with the Stecto pacty by resorving the fort aud about 1,000 neres, transforring 6,300 ncros to Bteolo aund his partners, Tho samo Journal chinrges that Senator TPomoroy assisted thoe Bteclo party to sequiro a {itlo to the land from tho prosont Administra- tion, Tt tho statoment of tho Tort Bnelling case, a8 made above, in truo, it is an Hlustration of the co-oporative priuciplo botwaen tho'two existing politioal partios, which makes corruption thor- oughly practicablo, IToro Iy acaso which, ac- cording to tho roprosontations, amounts to this : T'ho Govornment gives cortnin gentlomen of po- litical influenco one of tho most love- ly ploces of proporty, mnow worth at loant €500,000, and alao pays those gen- tlomon ©100.000 to take it. Thiy ls the suwm aud nubstanco of tho traueaction as it la describio No auch sacrifleo of tho Government's interost could bo boldly made under any ono Administra- tion, Botho way is prepared by Domocratio politiclans undor Mr. Buchenan’s Adminiatra tion, and tho job Is consummated with the pro- shumablo assislance of Republiean politiclans undor Gen. Grant's Adminfstration, It Is bub fair to remombor that the othor side of the caro in yot to Do bonrd; yot it scems to bo cortain that political influenco was used to socuro tho salo of tho property in the first inatanco at con- sidorably less thon its ronl walue, The notion of Congress In dlsupproving the enlo indicatos {his much. It s also enfo toasssnmo that political influcnco of the opposito comploxion must have beon used to so~ curo such a compromiso under the prosent Ad- ministration as has boen deseribod,—the pay- ment of o Iarge rontal, groatly oxcooding the original cost, for a fort for which tho Govern- ment had not yot rocoived its prico, and algo the confirmation of a titlo to tho property, which was obsonro and doubtful under tho ocircum- stances of the first trausfor. Whothor this par- ticular transaction han beon truthfully describod by the 8t. Paul Dispatch or not, itis a ssmple of tho readiness with which tho corruptionists of both the Democratio and Ropublican partica striko hands whon * thero is money in {t.” The Crodit Mobilior wasan instance of this, Bir. Brooks wag as necossary to Oalkos Ames & Co. as Mr, Colfax or Sonator Patterson. Tho salary- grab was another instanco of it. Pariy lines werono longor distinet whon both Democratio and Ropublican politicians saw su opportunity to put monoy in thoir purses, Tho florco contro- vorsy that ragoes between thoso two political or- ganizations is mainly confined to tho dead corpse of glavery, but thoro aro politicians on both sides that aro ready to drop it whon thero isngrabonhand. To keop tho grabbing mo- chinery in good ordor, tho politiclana on both sidon aro anxious to maintain tho oxistence of parties just as thoy stand. THE MUDDLE IN SPAIN, In 1655, Jano, thoInsano, daughter of the celo- brated Fordinand and Issbella, died. Bho had msrriod Philip of Austris, and thus introduced that family to Spain. Hor son becamo tho fa- mous Emperor Oharles V, In 1700, Ohnrles II., tho last of the Austrien lino, dled. A siater of his had married Louis XIV. of France, and an- othor sister had married Leopold, Emperor of Austrin, Louis claimed tho throno for his grand- son Philip, aud Leopold cloimed it for himsolf. The war of the Spanish Buceession followed, in which most of tho powers of Buropo took part. By tho pesce of Utrecht, in 1713, Philip was con- firmod in his claim, and thus introduced tho Bourbon dynnasty in Spain, and thence into Naples, A hundrod yosrs later, in 1808, Obarles IV. of this lino waa doposed by Napoleon, and nfter the downfall of Bonaparte {ho Dourbons wero reinstated in the porson of Fordinand VIL., tho oldcat of the sons of Chavles IV. Ferdinand had two brothers : 1. Charles ; 2. Francisco do Pauls, Tho law of the Kingdom confined tho succession to the male lino, Fordinand had four wives, the Inst of which was tho subssquently notoricus Marin Christins, of Naples, The latter had two daughtors, Isabolls, born in 1830, and Maria, born in 1882, The King dled in 1833, and it was claimed that ho had sot asido the law, and ad- mitted his daughtors to tho succession. Hero bogins the * Don Carlos " claim, which has been proaecuted over since. The King's brothor, Charles (or Carlos), was tho next malo heir; he at once mado war for tho throno, and was proclaimed King by bis ad- lieronts in soveral parts of Spein. Fordinand was ono of tho worst despots that bad ovor ruled in Spain, but Charles promised to bo even more crucl and malignnnt, Dospite tho Spanish loyaly, tho country gonorally sustained fesbolls, thon ouly 38 yoars of age, who was reigning under the re- genoy of her accomplished but scandalous mother. Tho six years of civil war was a succes- gion of the most revolting massacres and erucl~ ties. In 1889, Carlos loft Spain, but in 1843 re- uowed tho war, which was supprossed by Euro- ponn intervoution, There wero many intriguos to got control of the country. Tho powers of Turope prohibited tho mawisgo of tho Queen to any son of Louis Philippe, of Franco, but that monarch sought to accomplish the succession for his family by marryingIsabolla to her consin, Francis, son of Francis do Paula, thus uniting tho aldest and youngost branches of the family; aud marrying the Queon's sistor, Maria, to his gon, tho Duko of Montponsicr. The Queen's busband was kmown to be imbecilo in body and mind, and the succossion was considered secured to tho children of tho Fronch Duke by the youngor sistor. Thoso marringos took place in 1846, The first Don Carlos died in 1855; bhis son, Count de Montmolin, who styled himself Charlen VI., died in 1861 ; his brothor Juan (still living), who wna born in 1822, rencunced his claim in favor of his son, Charlos, tho prosent claimant, who waa bora in 1848, in now 35 yoara of ago, and is married to a Princoss of thie lato Dneal Houso of Parma. Ila hns o brother named Alphonuo, who was born in 1849, and is married to o Princess of tho Housa of Portugal. Alphonso is an officor tn tho army of Don Carlos. Upon the expulsion of Inabolla, In 1868, Don Carlos invaded Sphin, but in 1871, when Amadeus of Ttaly wan estlod to the throno, Lo wag ox- pelled. Since tho abdication of Amadous, Iast wintor, Don Carlos has been warring in various parts of tho country, claiming to be Xing, and ra such {8 rocognized by a portion of the peoplo, and is unquostionably the choico of tho oxtromo Church party, ‘Wo have mentioned that the marriage of Isa- bells waa oxpeoted, if not intonded, to boa ehild- lees ono, but five yeara Iater, in 1861, sho gave birth to a daughtor, and in 1857 to hor only son, Alphonse, Aftor hor expulsion sho formally abdieated in favor of thia boy, who is now 16 yoars old, and is also a claimant to tho throne, Tue third Bourbon claimant {a the Duke of Montponsier, for himsolf or in right of his wife aud hor childron, of which sho hes six living, tlires of whom are boys, the oldest boing 18 years of ago. Datwoon those three claimants, all Bourbons, and all closely rolnted, the nobility, churchmon, ond loyal landed proprietors of Spain aro divided. Tho Italian dynasty may bo constdered agno longer mmking any protonsions. All of those nre unitod as agafnst the Republic, but as againat each othor are reloniloss, Tho ability of tho Ropublio to aintain its position even thus far is duo, porhaps, tothe circumstance of thoe flerco avtagonisms of tho novoral Roynlist faotionn, It hing boon given out of loto that the Papal authorities of Romo wero inclined to favor tho wuccession of Don Carlos, and Quoen Ta- sholla has recently, nuder eircumstances which Liavo attraoted moncral aftoution in Europo, “votod for the rapeal of tho bill. .| that he will bo thrown overboard. N mado a journoy to Romo, and porsisted until sho had an sudionco with tho Papo, Tho Ropubli- cang, who are unopposed by oither of tho Royal faotions in the Government, gcom o be g dise tracted and as divided as nro the Roynlists. No Ministry soems to bo ablo to retain power long enough to givo stabllily to the Govornmont. ‘Whilo all favor a Republic, they cannot ngree on what Lind of a Republic it should bo; and such things as tolerntion, compromiso, concossion of opinion for union sako, are unkuowe to Spaniuh politicn. The Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania, aftor o warm dobate, has adopted the following oxtraordinary osth to bo taken by mombors of tho Tjogislaturo upon rotiring from offlice. Tho clauso ronds : Brorrox 2, Within twenty days aftor the adjourns mont of tho Genoral Assombly sine die, evory momber of tho House of Reprosontativea and ovary Sonator whoso torm will oxplrast thonext general eloction, shall take and subscribe boforo somo officor qualified to ndminister oatls the following oath or afiirmation I do rolemnly swear (or aflrm) that, as & membor of tho General Assomuly, T havo supported and oboyed tho Constitution of this Gommonwenlth to th best of ‘my knowledyo and ability, I havo not knowingly le- tonod to corrupt private solicitation from intorestod ‘partica or tholr agonts, nor havo I reccivad sny gift, or Promizo of & gift, from any such parties or from any candidate, Ihavonot voted or spoken on any matter in which I hind, or oxpected o have, a privato intcroat, X havo not done, or willingly permitted to be done, any act which would make me guilty of bribery. X have obacrved the order and forms of logislation as pro- scribed by the Constltution, and I have not knowingly ‘voted ar spokon for any law, bill, or resolution which X know or beltoved to bo inconsiatent therowith, ‘Tho forogoing oath or aflirmation shall be filed in the offico of the Prothonotary of tho county in which tho Benator or Roprosontativo rosides; and if any such Honator or Ropresontativoshall fail to tako and Dlasald oath or affirmation within tho time presoribed (uniess unavoldably provented), ho shall ba forovor aftorward disqualified from holding ony offico of trust or profit within this Commonsvealth ; and if, in taking such oath or aflirmation, it shall appear that ho has knowingly sworn or affirmed falssly, ho sliall bo desmod gullty of porjury and also bo disqualificd a8 aforesatd, A ‘Wo bollove this provision has no precedent in any Stato Constitution. Tho Constitution of llinols has & very stringont oath to b taken by ‘members boforo ontering upon thelr dutles, but this post-official oath is & now dovice. Nothing Iess than tho catablishod dishonesty of the Leg- islatures of Pennsylvania and the general cor- ruption of the State Government could havo in- ducod tho Convention to adopt this sweoping oath. An old story of Honry Olay is rovived for tho purposo of showing tho peoplo that they shonld not dofeat all tho Congrossmon who have beon implicated in tho back-pay ewindlo of the last Congross. Xenry Clay was the Bpoakor of the Houso of Roproscntatives in 1816, at tho time tho salarios of Congressmon were raised from $8 per diem to $1,500 a year. The incroase wag mnde, howover, just beforo an eloc tion, when tho people had an opportunity of passing upon it, ond not, ns in tho late inatanco, immediately after an election, Most of the Congrossmon of that time were de- foatod, but Clay went on the stump and among tho people, and ho inspired his constituonts with new confidenco by promising to vote for the ropoal. To one of his old friends who re- pronched him for having voted for the incroaso, ho put the caso in this way: **Did you ever bavoe o gun that flashed in tho pan?” #Yos.” “Yon didn’t throw that gun mway, did you, on that ecount ?” **No." * Then you aro not going to throw me over, aro you, bocsuso Ihavo flashed in the pan onco ?" * No,” was tho answor, and Clay was re-clocted. But ho ‘Wo hinvo heard of nocaso in the presont controversy which is at ail comparablo to that of Clay. Wo know of nono of the guilty partics to the grab who have frankly aclmowlodged their error and honostly promisod to repent. Thoy have all ondeavored to brazen out their offonso, which is much great- or 1n ovory way than that of 1816, and they must be punishod accordingly. Thero is now an intimation in Masaachugetts that Gon. Butlor will bo defeatod before tho reg-~ ular Republican Ktate Convention, and, in that evont, will run as an indopondent candidate for Govornor. Wo are not disposed to rogard this issuo a8 ot all likly. Xtis not probable, in the firat placo, that Gon. Butler will b dofeated in the Republican Convention, There is no rea- gon why ho should bo. Ho ia o fitting reproe gentativo of that party. Mo is prominently identified with the most notable features of ro- cent party polioy.® Ifo was at onco the leador in tho defonac of Credit Mobilior and the champion of the Salary-Grab., o has the tacit, if not tho declared, support of tho Administration in his Gubornatorinl napirations, 3Ir. Boutwoll is at Lis back, and Mr, Boutwell gnined tho favor of Mnsgachusotts capital by his financial policy. Butler is 8o clearly ontitled to the party nomina- tion, and his claim bus beon 8o openly recogniz- ed, that it is searcely to bo anticipated If auch shell prove to bo tho cago, it will probably be in tho ‘hopo that Butler will run as an independont can~ didato. Such o programmo would forco the issue upon the peoplo of corruption, reprosonted in the porson of Gen. Butler, and anti-corrup- tion, ropresonted Ly thoe regular Republican party. This would, indeod, bo an anomalous condition of things, Tho programme would bo a shrowd one for the Republican party, but we do not thinkthatits managers can afford to carry it out; for, if Butler bo dropped 88 a corrup- tionist, what I8 to bocoro of the othera? Tho Washington Chronicle is likely to take the load of the Bt. Paul Pressas the organ of tho salary-grabbers, It hns rocontly takon tho position that the hack-pay cannot Lo coverod into the Treasury by tho membors of the Forly- socond Congress who aro docent enough to recognizo and follow tho publio con~ demnation of tho grab. In the effort to establish this position, a good dosl bLa boen said about '‘temporary approprintions’ and “pormanent * approprintions,” but we fail to soo how this can affect tho situation, Thoso who have honostly iuteuded not to avail themselyos of the brok-pay huve taken ihe pro- caution to draw the monoy, and then glve it to tho Unitod Statos through tho Treasury, so that | tho monoy is no longer subject to tholr order. Thero is no law which probibita the United Statos from ncoopling gifts of this kiud, aud o very fair uso of tho mouoy 8o re- celved will Do to pay off the public dobt to tho oxtont that thoso rofunded sums will go. In this way tho peoplo will got back tho monoy which was thus misspproprinted. If thoroe ia no law to nuthorizo this, thore is none to prohibit it and, if any furthor loglslation is ro- quired to necomplish it, no Congross will evor bo found that will dare to rofuse it. There ia ono Commuittoo of the Vormont Log- islature which has done its work better than that appointed to Investiggto the frauds in the Ver- mont Ceutral Naflrond, to which reforeuce hina alroudy boen mado, Thisis tho Committee en~ gngod fn tho examination of tho Vermont Insano Asylum st Brattleboro, which {n really s private institution, but hos enjoyed logislative grants and porsonal boquosts until it hns acquired prop= eriy to the amount of half n million dollars, and has gonerally passod for a Btate Institutton. The Qommitteo discovered groas abusan, Though thero wero accommodations for only 800 persons, 485 patiouts wero crowded into the building. Boventy-five of this numbor were confined’ in damp, undorground colls, some of which were only 4x0 foot in dimonslons, with no othor venti- Iation than augor-holes which had boon bored through tho floor, Therewaro no amusomonts and nocomfort for the unfortunnte inmates. The dis- ciplino thoy found to bo unnecessarily cruol, and thero was that rello of anciont barbarism, the ehower-hath. Rofractory pationts woro placed in n warm bath, and a faucet of cold hydrant wa- tor turned on over their hoads. Ono of tho mont flagrant abuses was in tho appointment of tho Suporintondent of the Asylum as tho State Medical Examiner, so that thoro hss boon no protection against tho confinement of sane pore eons, Tho fact that ono such oaso was clonrly proved naturally oreates tho suspicion that (.hnm have been many othera. Somo little time back, tho Indianspolls Joure nal, which, like most Ropublican nowspapors, in anxious to keop tho old Domooratic party alivo, mado the announcemont that thoro was o quict: movement ” to bring out Gen. Joft. 0, Davia as the noxt opposition candidate for tho Prosie doncy, ond that this movomont was re« coiving much favor in the Domocratio el clos, The very scmsiblo comment which tho Bpringfield Republican maokos on thia suggostion is, that ** The next Prosidont of tho United Statos—alwaya provided thnt his namo {a not Grant—will not be a *Goner: 'This ia probably true. Tho commonts on Gon. Grant'a Administration which lisve attributed many of its orrors and abuscs to hin military habits of. lifo and discipline havo boon partially correct. 8o far as military training {8 responsible for the perversions of the Oivil Bervico and tho stub- born mistakes of the past four yoars, it would likowiso provido the samo cause of complaing under another military man. The army is not a good echool of statosmanship for a Ropublia liko ours, Thishas boon demonstratod bofora, Gen. Grant’s time, in epito of ono notabloox- coption at tho vory earliest stato of tho Govern~ mont. Asido from this main considoration, military man will not have tho political im« portanco at tho timo of the noxt Prosidential eloction that ho had whon Gen. Grant was firat oloctod. Aftor the latost trial, tho sentimont of the'poople i likely to bo in favor of a civilian. —————— It would look ns though Senator Morton, of Indisna, was Mkely to make & Gght cgainat tha Balary bill, in spite of the suspicion which hea attached to hia negloct to draw Lis own back-psy. and cover it into the Treasury. At all ovents, the Indianapolis Journal, which is genorally rece ognized as Senator Morton’s friend, has rocontly denouncod tho act in fofo, and Lias gone so far ag to eny that, “boing tainted by fraud, the whola aot 5 wrong," and that consequontly * Proeident @rant’s salary can be reduced to tho old figure.' * It is roportod that Gon. Grant hns becomo alarmed at tho {ndignation of the peo- plo, and .has also concluded that tho Balary bill ought to bo repealed fortho sake of tho party. It is very questionable, as wo have alroady pointed out, whethor tho Presidept'a salary was lawfully incrensed, undor that provig- jonof the Conatitution which provides that his compensation eha! bo nofther increasod nor di- minished during tho period—not the ferm—for which he shall have boen slected. But whethor Gen. Grant’s pay can bo reduced to the old figure or not, should not bo pormitted to intor fere with tho repenl of tho bill, During the Shal's recent etay in Londonm, tho Parsces rosidont in thot city prosented a petition to him in favor of their co-religionista who livo in Persia, asking him to rolieve them from tho oppressive taxes now levied upon them, and from tho system of gocial disabilities ime posod upon them conturios ago, Tho most of tho followors of Zoroaster sottied in India in the #ovonth contury, when their religion was ovor- thrown by tho Arabs. Many of thom, however, still romain in Porsis, and aro noted for their industry and morality. Thoy still adhere to ona of the maxims of Zoronstor which mndo it obligs etory upon them *to mnintain living exist~ encos—to plant trees, to dig wolls, ta fortilize desorts, in order that Lifo, tho Positive and the Pure, might bo furthered.” As tho Shah has but recontly granted a concession to the Baron Reutoer, farming out his wholo Empiro to him for intornal improvemont, it would seem to be a wiso stroke of policy to romove all tho dis~ abilities from the Parseos and allow them to holp the Baron in his schomes without any obetaclo in their way. Mr. Bondoll, & gentlemen who has spent much of Lis Iifo in Alasin, recontly dolivered s lectura in Bacramonto, in the courss of which ho gavo some intoresting facts and figuros concerning the fur trade of that rogion. According to Mr. Bondell, the fur produco of Alaskna oxccods in valuo that of the rest of North America and Si- borin combined. The most of theso furs are ex- ported to England, whonco they aro distributed over tho world, n largo part of them coming to tho United Statos in o manufactured shapo, for which—our own products—we pay 40 por cent dutics, Over ono-half of the furs are produced by two small lalsudn_—SL Paul and 8t. Georgo Thero are killed at theso islands 100,000 fur goals every yoar, which are worth nt London 310 onch, thus making tho scnson’s catch worth ©1,000,000. Tho profits of the Company which hns the lenso of these islands is very large, 88 i pays tho Governmont but £300,000 a year for the ease and taxos, and $10,000 in wages to the Aleuts, about 800 in mumbor, who fo tha catching. M. Rano, whoso Communistio antocedents created so much excitement rocently in the Tronch Assembly, and who gained atill mora roputation a fow weoke since by his duel with tho fighting editor of Parls, Paul Cassaguso, has publishod & lotter in tho Republigue Fran« caise, in which he oxplaina how he bocamo con- nocted with tho Communo, He states that higonly objoot in acting with the Communista was ono of concillation, and when he found that this waa impossiblo ho resigned tho ‘post in the munice ipality to which ho lad been eleoted. During his briof officlal torm he signod but one doareo, and this wag not the dooroo for the arrest of the lostages upon which prosecution is dirooted againat him, Som——— Tho result of the recent intor-college regatta at 8pringfield, Mass, would seem o demonstrata tho superiority of {le English stroko over tha Amoriosn stzoke, the nechiiac, sdventaze ot