Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1874, Page 4

~7 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TEAMA OF BUNRCNIPTION (PAYATLE IN ADVANCE), Linty by il Tri-Wool To provont dolay and miatakes, be sure and glve Post Offico address in full, hicluding Stata and County, Tomittances may bo made oithor by draft, sxpross, Post Oftica ordor, or fu reglstorod lottars, at our risk. TEMRMA TO CITY BUDBORIUERA, aly, dolivorod, Sunday oxceptsd, 2 conte per wosk. Dally, delivorad, Bunday includad, 30 conts por weoks Addross THYE TRIBUNE OOMPANY, Cornor MaNison and Dearborn-sta,. Uhloago, Til. TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLRY'S THTATRETandolah ntroo! Ul‘l‘ll’k nm‘l hfl’—gm‘,,,’u‘f‘"‘“fim,fl"',“"‘"hg“’, “’flll‘l;;- sson in ¢ N oning 0§ o ' Rartiod Lifo ™ and* 11is Last Kegherr T S0 M'VICKE'S THRATRE-Madlson streot, hotweon Doarbarn and” Sinte. Kogegomont. of Olsta Morris. ot ! [.AQA““IBAI;‘Y or Ll“filfl—-“l\ligfl I}ISal‘.‘gn“lfisn 'l’hfl- i and Monroo, | Tngngotons, of dofn’ T Aflornoons **Rolf.n Lvoniags - Tho Old Toy-Makor. GLOTE THEATRE—Desplainesatrost, botwoon Mad- n nm Waahington, Engageniont of Sharpley, Bhoridon Mack's Minstrols, Aftornoon and evening. i & MYERS' OFERA.JIOUBE-Monros stront, botwosn Dearbora and Stato.” Arlington, Cottan, and’ Kemblo's M“x(s‘ml-. *% A Blippery Day,” Minstrolsy and coml- aalitios. The Thicagy Tibune, ‘Weodnesday Morning, Jonuary 28, 1874 Ministor Bancroft roports that the eredit of the United Btates is falling in Gormany. He attributes tho decline to the delay i bringing our currency to par, the numorous failures of raflroad compnnies to pay their futorost, and the iucreaso of the public debt. A careful canvass of tho State Benato shows thot 24 Sonators aro in favor of the bill pending ¢r compulgory oducation, aund 26 sre opposed toit. Of tho two other Benators, ono is absont, gnd the position of tho other is unknown, On this showing, tho vote will bo very closo, but the fato of the bill will dopend on the charastor of tho amendments which may bo made to it. Gov. Carpentor, of Iows, wag inaugurated at DosMoines yesterdsy. Industrial topics wero tho main thomo of Lis inaugursl address. He nseribed the burdoens of the peoplo to the mo- nopolies imposed on them, among which he places the protective tariff. Tho Geoueral As- sombly wne urged to consider logislation to in- vitocapital tothe Stato, and increaso itafactories and workehops. Mr. Waite yostorday rosigned tho Presidency of the Ohio Constitutioual Convontion, from which he was 80 unexpoctedly summoned to the most dignifiod post in the Government. He bado his follow-membors farewell in & faw modest and well-chosen words, in which homade still firmor tho tie of personal friondship by which ho declared he felt bound to thom all, ‘Lho Convention met him evidently in the same spirit, and appointed a committeo of nino to exproes their foelings in a series of resolutions. The couso of woman recoived a double blow yesterday. The Missouri Legislature declared that women bad no right to fill school ofti- cos, and in Maesachusetis, the Boston School Committee declared by a vote of 0 to 45 that the soats of tho twomen who had beon electod mombers wore vacant. This throws on the women the burden of carry- ing their cases to the Bupremoe Court. Tho voto would not have been o close but for the fact that all the women whose seats were in ques- tion stayed in their places and voted for their uide, Gladstona’s action in dissolving Parliamont nd ordering & now olection Las cuused a groat denl of excitemont in English politics. Con- servatives and Liberals both hope to return to the now Parliament with a majority. M, Brad- laugh mades public his Dbolief that it will con- tain a larger forco of Radicals than any previous Parlinment. Tho little band of two, =0 gal- fantly headed by Sir Charles Dilke and Auberon Horbert, will fiud itself large enough to provent the Conservatives from koeping office if thoy getit, and to make the Liveral party more lib- sral than it promises to bo, The Houss Finance Committee at Springfleld rocommend that |Stato Treasurers hereaftor bo roquired to filo & bond in the penal sum of 84,000,000 bofore entering on their duties. Tho present Treasurer bias funds in his hands to the amount of two or thres millions, and the se- curity ho has given the State is n $200,000 bond, Tho Committeo finds that, despite tho utierly Insdoquate amount of their bonds, tho Trons- aorors of tho State have all beon faithful, but thinka it wiso to exact a bond which shall be more of a guarantee for tho safe-keeping of the poople’s mon Tho Kansas Logislature balloted yestorday in 4parato sossion for United Btates Senator. 2birty-two candidates received voles, The real sontost will not begin il to-dsy, when tho Houses moet for joint ballot and continue in mewsion il a choice s mede, The Reformers fool confident that thoy will be able to eleot their man, as thelr caucus mght bofore last numbered 76 votos, wnd it requires but 71 to elect. Ex-Sonator Pomeroy is iu Topoks, oatensibly to attend to that bribory caso in which ho Is interested, but & good many people will suspoct that ho ia Aftor somo logislative carrion, — ‘Tho railrond between Edinburgh and Glasgow wag the scono yesterdsy of one of tho mosb frighttul accidonts which has occurred for some time pest ou cither gide of the Atlantio. Two sxpross trains moving at foll speod camo into collision, causing the loss of sixtoon lives and erious injurios to a Jargo number of passengers. Lho agitation in Euglaud for & GQovernment supervislon of railronds will be accelorated by this inoxcusablo catastrophe, Tho disasters on British roads have becomo so frequent aud fata that tho newspapors of that country declare the accidonts to bo tho sate atvivale of traing, and the Goverumont has already informed the com- Paniea that it considers thelr pursimony and mismanngomont respousible for almost all tho disastors that happen. The Chicago produco markets wore generally easier yepterday, with less doing, Mows pork wau nloderately notive, and 20@250 por bri lower, closing ut $14,30 cash, and #14.70 sellor March. Lord wag notive, and Go per 100 1bs lower, clos- ing ot 80,20 cash, aud $0,60 soller March. Menty woro quiet and firm, at 534o for shoulders, ¢}o for short ribs, 8@8)¢o for short olear, aud 9X@ 10340 for mwoet pickled hsms. Drossed logs ware moderatoly active aud firmer, olosing at @8.80@0,40 per 100 1be. Highwines were quist and firmor at 06@070 por gallon, Flour was dull and onsler. Whont waa nctive, and noarly 2 lower, closing at $1,20%¢ eash, and $1.26%¢ soller Mareh, Corn wna active, and 1o lowaer, closing at 57940 casl, and G0)¢o soller Maren, Oats wore quioct, and declined 3de, closivg ab 430 cash, and 44¢ sollor Maroh, Ilys was quict, and 2c highor, at 800 for rogular, Darloy wna quict and unchauged. On tho ovening of Saturday Iagt thoro was in atore {n this clty 2,208,005 bu whoat, 1,824,601 bu corn, 088,445 bu onts, 06,805 bu rye, and 845,002 bu barloy. Live hogsopened fairly active and firm, but closed G@16o lower, ot 86.10@6.80. Cattlo woro moro activo and cnsier. Bhoop wore firm, Moat of yesterday was spont by the mombora ol tho Ordor of B'nal B'rith in committoo worlk. Iho porsccutions of the Jows of Roumanis, and tho noblo worle of Mr, Peixotto, who went to Ducharest to alloviate ita horrors, was brought boforo tho Convention In s communica- tion from the Hon, Simon Wolf, of Waehington, This, and a proposition to tole- graph to Mr. Peixotto tho acknowledgmonts of tho B'nai B'rith for his sorvices, woro referred to the Committeo on Roumanis. Tho Commit- teo on Indowment.prosented two roports. The majority submitted that in tho prosent stato of tho ordor it was inoxpedient to begin any gon- oral endowment fund for their widows nud orplinns. The minority took the opposito view, and reportod s plan for the establishment of such funds by tho lodgos. This was rejected by tho Couvention by a vote of 77 to 64, Tho ma- Jority ropoct was adopted by 08 to b7. The usual doubt has boen oxprossed of tho truth of tho roport of Liviugstono's death, but must yicld to the ofiicial dispatoh which was ro- colved Dby tho British Government yosterdsy from Zanzibar, It confirms tho provious stato- mont that his dontl was caused by oxposure in crossing some marshos, in which ho was up to Lis waist in wator for hours. Ton of Lis men died from tho samo causo. His romains are on thoir way to Zanzibar, where thoy will arrive in Tobrusry. The dato of the groat travelor's dooth is 8till uncortain. A lobtor roceived from Bronner, the German oxplorer of Africa, soya that it occurred Aug. 15, 1872. The other ac- counta placo it in Juno. If Brouner is corroct, tho Doctor must havo died a vory fow days aflor tho last lotterto his brothor John, which was writton in August at Unyanyemb, on the eve of his doparture for the interior. Sonator Morton hes {ntroduced into the Sen- ate aproject for the Fedoral wuporvision of inter-Stato railroads, and accompanios it with o studicd argument in favor of the right of Con- gross to rogulate tho ratos aud mauagement of such corporations. Ho rests his caso on the powor givon Congress by the Constitution to rogulate commerce botweon tho Btatos. Tho appenl to Statochartors lio answors by saying that o Btatecan mako no contract with railrond com- panies carryiugon commorco betwoen tho States that would limit tho power of Congress. Tho State cannot obstruct such commerce directly by tax or othor intorforones, andit cortainly can- not delogate to a corporation a powor it does not iteolf possoss. In tho absonce of legislation by Congress, Btatos may regulate the inter- Btate commerco that passes through thoir torritory; but, when Congress assumos its jurisdiction, thoy must yield to its superior claim. Railroad compauies en- gaged in intor-Biate commorce nccopt thoir charters from the States subject to this right of Congress. 1n defonso of tho expedienoy of his schemo, Senator Morton dwelt at length on the inability of tho Btates acting soparately to con- trol the great railroad corporations, and on tho dangor that one B8tate might lovy ecrippling tribute on tho trade of half-a-dozon others.. CHICAGO IN 1874, Macaulay's Now Zoslandor sitting amid tho ruins of Chicago is now singing bis dirgo in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial. A fow weoks ago tho samo individual was writing for tho 8t. Louis Democral. 'The similanty of tho musia i& too striking to Lo the rosult of accident or evolution, The evidences of design aro highly apparent, both in tho Hne of discourse and in tho bad writing of the two epistlos, Tha starting point of the letter iy thse Chi- cago lins borrowed over $500,000,000, mainly to robuild the cdifices destroyed by the fire; that this borrowed monoy has been put into build- ings which caunot find touants ; that the owners of this unproductive propecty ara all straggling to avoid bankraptoy, into which, however, they must go; that tho trade and commorce of the city hava fallon off ; that tho banks are crippled with protested papor which the merchauts can- not poy ; and that, in short, the city has ontered on & downward oaroer which will soon land it in ruin. Theo Chicago fire destroyed, in round figures, $200,000,000 of property, & large propostion of which consisted of merchandise and movable offects, Out of this thoro was recovored $55,- 000,000 from iusurauce. It has cost to rebuild tho city, including tho large sdditions to the numbor of stores, warchouses, and dwellings, about $60,000,000. These plain and simple facts ahow tho reckless sbsurdity of the statoment that we have borrowed $500,000,000 and invested it in buildings which are not rented. After the fire thore was & large migration hither of men who brought capital with them, Theso bought real ostate and improved it out of thelr own meaus, Weo had after tha five many broad nores of land in the very heart of tho city without any buildings, This land, ownod and possessed by our citizons, was worth more then the monoy neceded to improve it. During the winter aftor the flre capitalists visited this oity, oxamined everythiug for them- solves, and the result was that in the spring thore was an abundance of capital hore sooking invostmont, Up to the day of the Sop- tombor panio thoro was no trouble in borrowing any amouut of mouey to improve resl estato in Chicago. Tho result was that tho wholo area of business proporty destroyed by tho firo was robuilt, better and more subatantially than over bofore; but tho aron of that olass of property was oxtondod to nearly twico its former dimon- wions, The prohubition aguinst wooden build- inge neceasitated the erection of muny hundreds of brick and stone struotures whero wooden onos had proviguely existed. Consoquently, the number of slores, warohousos, and othor build- ing adupted to puroly business purposos erect- od sinco the fire {8 noarly, if not quite, doublo what it was boforo; and, as oven Chicago caunot double hor businoss in two years, there are many of thoso now buildings still unoccnpied. The greut fact remsins, however, that there are one-third more stores uud buildings now occupled for busiucss purposes in Chicago than thero were bofore tho fire, and thore {8 not a man, owneror mortgegeo, who donbts that every on of suok buildings will Vo nooded within a short timo. The firo cansed many changes, eapeclally in tho retall trado, and thore aro holf--dozon loenlitios in tho city, two or nioro milek from thio old business contre, whoro An oxtonsive trado is now earriod on, sud whoro boforo tho firo thoro was not a store of any kind. It cost to robuild thoe ity and to enlarge its aron of coutly Luildings, a8 wo have said, shout £00,000,000, How much of this was borrowed wo have nomonnsol knowing ; but, evon If every dollar of jt waa borrowod, it falls short of tho valuo of tho land on which theso improvemonts stand, Compera this with tho siatomont that wo have borrowod 600,000,000 to rebuild the city, and tho roclklossucss of this calumniator is atonco ovident. Norls Lo any moro truthful in any other rospoct, Tho panic hurt Chicago loss porhaps than any othor large city. Our bavks mslutainod themsolvos without the ox- pediont of cloaring-houso cortificatos, and, fu threo days nfter tho goneral coliapse, curroncy began to flow horo ab tho rato of from two to four miltions a day. Trado rovived here immo- diately, Having curronoy with which to buy, wo rolloved all tho country tributary to this market, and ina veory short time our wholosalo housos woro in recoipt of as stoady romittances from tho country as if no panic hed taken place. The wholesalo businoss of Chicago in 1878 was nonrly 890,000,000 greafer than in the year fol- lowing tho firo, and that yoar was far in oxcess of ony of its predocossors. At this timo tho trado of tho eity is prosporous, Tho prices of all kinde, of grain are much advauced, and all thoso parts of the West having communication with this city aro forwarding hithor their pro- duots, and ecarrying bsck purchases from our morchants and mouufacturers. But the most comploto anawor to tho intimation that tho world has lost confldence in Chicngo is tho fact that ns.soon aftor the panio as tho st of Docom- bor monoy was sout hither to bo loanod out on rool estato, Binco thon, this class of invest- monts bus beon steadily incronsing, and ono day this woek thoro was nearly a column of adver- tisomonts in Tug Tuipune of monoy to lozn on mortgages oaud on collaterals, offors to purchase mortgages, and money offorod for ouny logitimate business. Our banks nover wero doibg a bottor business, and the openiug yoor of 1874 promises to equal, it not excead, in the volume of its trade, in the oxtonsion of commorcial exchavges, aud in the general prospority of tho city, noy of its prode- cosgors, The suggestion contained in the same lettor, tuet tho dobt of the Oity of Chioago has boon doubled since 1860, is maliclous, becausa it sup- prosses tho truth, 'he city dobt was purposoly increased in order to anticipato tho now Consti- tution, which forbids any munioipal loaus after 1870 in oxcess of b per cont of the nssessed valuo of tho taxable property iu the city. The monoy thus raisod bas boen neither wasted nor lost. It bas boon put into pormanont improvemonts, sowors, pavemonts, school-houses, and is now comploting the water-oxtension which, when finished, na it will be in & yoar or two, will give Chicagoa better wator-supply than sny othor eity {u the United Statos, It is surpriging that o ro- spectablo paper like tho Oincinnati Commercial should have given place to such a screed of mis- represontation aa the lettor reforred to, COMPULEORY EDUCATION, If the opponents of compulsory education would asl themselves tho question whetber or vot tho Btate has tho right of eclf-preservation, thoy might discover whether it hns not also the right to euforco tho education of its subjeots. We tako it for granted that thesegentlomon con- cedo o nation’s right to solf-proservation, and oven itaright to the military sorvice of its citi- zons, Thoy admit, doubtloss, that the Military Acadomy at West Point is o useful institution, and its existonce not wholly indofousiblo. They do not object to the ercction of forts by the Qovernment, or dony that s navy is sometimos a couveniont thing to have. All theso institutions thoy can successfully dofend only on tho ground of a nation's right to sell-prosorvation, Now, it isa losson which all history teaches, and which every day's oxporionce conflrms, that nations aro powerful not in proporiion to the number of military acadomties, forts, or ships which thioy possess so much ag in proportion to their intolligence. Forts, or ramparts, or ships, manned by uneducated mon, logo half their of- fectivencss., 'Tho scoptre of the world belongs to the intelligenco of the world. It was ovor 8o, 1t is so to-dny. Thoro are, undoubtedly, other olements then intolligeuce iu o npation's great- neas; but, other things being oqual, tho more intotligent & peoploare, tho moro poworful they are. Who will dopy that tho triumph of the American srms over those of Maxico, of the arma of the North over thoss of the Bouth, of Ger- many's over France in the late war, were the triumphs of superior education over inferior ? For tho samo roason, therofore, that we cannot afford to bo without the means of defonso in war, we cannot afford to be without mtelli- gont citizens, Tho fact 18, that wo Americans need education moro than any other great poo- ple. We havoe no standing army, and, when war comes, must trust to our suporior intelligence mainly to give us victory. Intellect must sup- ply tho place of disoiplive. Our people must bo #0 oducated that, when taken as raw recruits, wo shall bo able to transform them into traived goldiers in the least passible time. To do this thoy must bo educated. Thero is no more “patorualism ™ in making education obligatory thau in building an arsenal or an fron-clad, But it is not only in time of war that tho su- porlority of the educated over the uneducated maa i goen. Educato the labarer and you reise Dis standard of comfort, and, by ralsing it, bot- ter the condition of the wholo natlon, and im- prove its morality even, Puauperism and orime aro paront and child. Moroover, tho intelligence of the laborer is one of the clements of the pro- ductiveness of his Iabor, theroforo one of the olomonts of national wealth, There would bo gome diliculty, we admit, in onforcing such a law in this country. The finiug or mprigownent of poor parents, ns in Prussln, for violating ita provisions would be in many casos & hurdehip, against which the feal- ings of evon tho advocates of tho measure might vebol, Of tho advisability of tho law itsolf, Liowover, there can bo but ono enlightened view. —— ‘Ilio porjured witnees in o Tiohhorno trial, who got himselt and Mr. Whalley, M. P., into prison, sworo that lio bad kapt n saloon on Soy- enth stroet, 111 Ohioago, during the last two yaars. Nobody seoms to huvoe known that * Beventh streot ™ ling no existenco In this eity, It cost the Govornmont $50,000 to prova that tho witness had spont tho Inse two yesrs, and tho ten boforo thom, in vurious English prisons, Tho totnl ox- pouse of the prosscution Lug boon over §2,600,~ 000, gold, and 1t is cstimatod that half & million moro must bo paid ot bofore Oastro-Ortou- Tichborne is convioted and sentenced. Paxtof this onormous cost is due to tho fact that popu-~ Inrelamor forcod the Govornment, whon thoclalm- ant's funds falled, and ho conld negotinto nomoro bonds *payable six months aiter obiaining my ostats," to guarantoo the amount nooded to con- duct tho delonko a8 wall as tho prorecution, —— THE FOOTE-DAVIS DIFFIOULTY, A musty reminder of tho pnlmy duys of chivalry, when tho membor of Congross picked Dis tooth with his bowle-nife {n the lobbies, and miet argument on the floor with the pintol, i contalnod in tho oard which Mr, Heury 8, Tooto, somotimes donominated ** Hangman* Footo, hns published, soteing forth his contro- vorgy with Mr. Jofforson Davis, ox-Presidont ot tbolato Confedersto States of Amerlea. Tho toxt of tho card hins all tho flery tono of thoso days, tho startling snnouncoment of whore- abouts, and the jargon of tho professional duolist aping the mannors of the goutloman, Mr. Footo, it appears, has writton o book of por- sonal rominisconces, It i» nob oxaatly clearwhy Mr, Tooto should havo writton snoh a book, a8 most of Mr. Foote's romiulsconcos arc of that naluro which should bo consigned to the charity of oblivion; but, having writton such o bool, it was inovitable that Mr, Footo should *piteh into” his old-time opponont, Jeforson Davis, ‘Wheon tho sllusions to Mr. Dnvisin this book woro called to tho attontion of tho latter, ho wrote s bittor rotort, substantially posting Mr. TFoote es o liny, or xathor vo-posting him, Ar. Davis snys: Tu the year 1874 T published ifm_ [Footo] as constt- tuttonslly » Har, sud hih subsequont earcer only served to confirm mo iu_that Judgment, Hinco that dato, thieroforo, X bavo taken no heod of {he utlorances of anid Foote, Hin flattery, when bo wan wocking political preforent in tho Confederacy, ond his abutso, when, faithloss to hfa trust a8 s reprsoutative in tho Con- gress of tho Confedorato States, ho ws proparing for bfs subsoquent desertion to thelr enerafes, woro aliko disregarded by mo. To which Mr. Footo roplies in substanco : My whereabouts may bo casily fouud by liim or his {doliziug Coufedorates, He knows, o8 thousands of otliors knaw, that for full twenty yests I Lavo atood roady o accord tohim such eatiefction aa ho might deom necessary to lis deeply-wounided hanor, ond that whatever goucral viows I moy entertain touchiug the proprioty of sottling such fasuca us havo arlsen bo- tweon him and myself in tho mode roferred to, yot that, from apecial deforenco to him, [ sball bo inducod to mako i an oxceptioual caso, This brings o squaro issue botweon tha two old gonts. Mr. Footo being tho origingl ag- grossor, Mr. Dayis must bo the challenger, and Mr. Foote's card ia simply an invitation for the ohllonge. As Mr. Davis has sout at lopst ono challonge before this, for a much slightor cause, the prospocts are fair that tho two combatents may sottlo thoir twenty-year-old dispute upon {ho ¢ fiold of honor,” and spill what littlo blood they bavo loft, Tho animosity botweon theso venerablo duclists dates back to 1800, when they were follow-Senators, The ‘¢ compromise mepsures” wero then agitating the whole country., Mr. TFoote, at first opposing thom, beeawe thoir champion befora the ques- tion was sottled. Mr, Davis was thon a violent pro-glavory extromist, tho most zealous advo- cate of Btates® rights, and the bitterest opponent of the compromise moasures. Tho oxcited dobate opened a breach between the two men which hns grown widor and wider with timo. In Soptembor, 1851, hMr. Davis wne nominatod for Govornor of Mississippi upon the Dom- ocratic ticket, in opposition to Mr. Foote upon tho Whig ticket. Mr. Davis ropresented Dis- union ; Mr, Foote, Union, The cauvass which followed waa tho most exciting ono over known in that State, It was a bittor porsonsl struggle botwoen the two mon, and their campaign speechos were awful tirades, in which ench souglit to outdo the othor in gross vituporation. Mr. Davis was defeated by o small majority, and this dofeat atill furthor deepened the hatrod be- tweon the two men, During tho War of the Re- bellion Mr. Foote found furthor opportunities to get evon with his old antagonist, and placed & vory congiderable obstacle in tho way of Mr. Davis' succoss by the publication of a pamplletin Tngland, conclusively proving that'Davis had been not only tho advocato but the main insti- gator of Mississippi ropudintion. Its publication did great damago to tho Confedorate Govern- mont, as it was a point-blank shot at their crodit abrond, and holped to force their soocurities out of tho English markot. And in this instauce Nr. Footo really rondored his country n sorvice. That this long-standing animosity did not pro- voko a collision with arme long ago is singular. Davig has figured inat least ono ducl. Mr. Toote's rash tongue has moro than ouce involved him in so-callod affairs of homor. In his firat duol,—with Mr, Winston, of Tusoumbia, Ala.,— o was slightly wounded in the shoulder, Ho attorwards fought in Mississippi with 8, 8, Pren- tiss, and was again slightly injured; and, still later, ho oxchanged shots with J. F. H, Clai- borno, whon neither party wss burt. It is still more remarkablo that, after tho lapso of mearly a quarter of o century, aud when both mon have reached au age at which the blood usually cools, their animosity still rages with all its old-time tiorconess, Mr, Davis is now 65 yoars of age, and Mr. Footo is 78. 'Thoy bave reached o time when most men turn their attontion toward the mysteriousand solemn ovents of the future. Insteaa of this, wo see two old men glowering florcoly at ocach othor, baudying the cpithots of bullies, and chattering botween thoir falso tooth the convon- tioual Lombast of the Cade. It is o pitlabla alght, this spoctaclo of two gray-haired and fooblo men, who havo lived to an advanced age, and yot have not lived long enough to forget a quarrol, but must wipo it out with the scanty blood lett in their tottoring framo THE MINISTERS' MEETING, Tho sooinl meoting of tho clorgymen of the various Protestant denominations of this city, which was hold at the Pacifio Hotel on Monday logt, podsceses mora than usual siguificance. There were pregent at this meeting for tho firat timo in our local Listory, Presbytorins, Bap- tists, Mothodists, Universalints, Epiccopalinus, and Bwedenborgians, 'Iho Cougrogational pas- tors wore not thore owing to a misundorstand- ing, which is to be regroettod, as thoy are vory social and good eaters, Woare inclined to regard this novel move- ment of tho miniaters as an oxcellent one. It will give thom an opportunity to got botter acqualnted with each other, and to com- pare views upon ocurront toples. It will draw thom out of their sholls, and give thom & wider range of viow than they havo ever hud bofore, Laoh will gain somothing from tho othor, snd thus tho genoral fuud of knowledgo will bo fncrossod. While thorofsn tacit consent upon tho part of tho ministors that they will leave their crecds at home, the croeds will novertheloss bo bonefited and mollified by this brotherly communion, The Moethodiat will find thet the shell of the Laptist ls not as bard a4 bo supposed, aud the Baptist will fnd that tho Mothodist's sbout is not as deafoning as he tad lmsgined, The Episcopalian will wltimates Iy concodo that the oxaggorated viow of tho Divine morey in tho Unlvoranlist oroed is not noceusarllyproductivoof fmmorality, oud tho Uni- vorsallst will sokmowledgo that, tho Episcopalian vestmonts may fllustrate decorum rather than Topory, 'Tho DProsbyterlan will ncknowlodyo that 8wedenborg may hiavo bad spiritual sights and illwainations, and the Bwedonborgian may concedo that tho ono honven of the Prosbyterian i as comproliensivo ao all Bovou of his. All of thom will become broador-sighted, moro cos- mopolitan and conciliatory, for this poraonal contagt, snd wo may autloipato from it a ooftoning of thoological asperities, o popu- Inrization of roligious truths, moro com- prohonsiveness in proaching, bolter music, and porhaps & reduction of pow-ronts. Wo may oxpoct, furthermore, that the ministors will mako a stronger fight agaiust tho Princo of Dark- noss, after consultation with oach other, than ovor boforo. Hithetto they have boon fighting oway in the dark, without much mutusl sym- patliy, and with littlo knowledgo of each othor’s plang and weapons, Tho consolidation of forcos, howover incomplata it may bo, will prove of groat sorvice, as thoy can prosent a moro compact front to tholr enemy, and not run the 18k of belug picked off in dotail. s GERMAN EMIGRATION, Onoof tho.mnost hmportant questions beforo tho Gorman Government to-day is tho question of emigration. Tho numborof Gormans who have forsalon tho Fathorland within tho last fow yoars Iins reachod unprocedonted figures. While from 1832 to 1839 tho avorage number of Gorman emi- grants was only 12,000, and from 1865 to 1860 107,670, tho numbor in 1872 roso to 215,000, ond tho numbor for the first half of the yoar Just past Is groater than that for the corrospond- ing half of the procoding yosr. A grent donrth of agricultural and othor faborers has boen the cousoquenco; and the Government las awak- onad to tha importance of puttiug an end to the wholozslo oxedus, and tho rosulting loss to the country of both labor aud capital. It has been caloulatod that Gormany loses on an average $150 in monoy with overy omigrant, Tho amount of monoy brought to this country in 1856 by German omigrants was oatimated at 1315,000,000; and the total Josa to Germany sinco 1819, £875,000,000, by far tho groater portion of which left tho country after 1832, the date at which emigration assumed suy remnarkablo di- monsions, During the last two yonrs alone it has lost probably 804,500,000 in money by emi- gration, This is, however, only part of hor logs. Hor loss iu labor is aleo to bo taken intonccount, and, in cstimating it, it must bo borne in mind that it s the strongest and most enterprising of hor laborers that emigrate. None but theso lonvo their homes. ‘Tho cauges of tho omigration aro manifold, A 8pirit of adventure no doubt brings some, & de- sire to avoid military service othors. The main caune, howover, of the emigration, wo are told on protty good nuthority, is the difficnlty expe- rienced by smnll propriotors to hold their lnnd for any great lougth of time wnder the law that obtains in & great portion of Germany, and which considers immovablo property to have the attrib- utes of both real and persousl property. It deeconds to ona beir of the family, who is obliged to indomnify his co-heirs in money for thoir aliare, tho {itlo to tho whale vesting in him, To obtain wherewith to offect this indomnification, he is obliged goneraliy to have recourse to credit, which emall propriators hava great dif- fleulty in obtaining. Besides, the property vory froquontly desconds hypothecated for provious debts, For ronsons of this kind, it bocomes 1m-~ perative in numberloss cases to sell tho estate, aftor which the slmost invariable movo is omi- gration to Amorica. ‘Weo are not surprised to find that a German wriler liss eallod emigration tho greateat social ovil of the day in the new Empiro. It draivg tho country of much of its capital and much of its labor, of its strongost arms, of its ohterprise ond hoalth, Tho Empire has lost more men during tho past fow yesrs by omigration than it lost during the war with France. Nor has it any oquivalont gain in any other direction, If Ger- many lost only its turbulont classes, tho work- mon who are ingculated with the doctrines of Xarl Marx, hor loss wonld be in ono senae s gain. Dut this is not the cavo. Bholoses not the work- men of tho towns, but her peasantry. A stray Communist may leave hor, but for ous Com- munist sho losos a hundred honost farmers. The Govornmont of the Empire knows all this, and Lnows, too, that emigration has grown to bo an unmitigated ovil. What stops they will tako to romedy it, wo do not know. To sup- pross it would be to produce an incaleulablo amount of discontent. Thero is but one rational mode of inducing Gormans to somain at home, and that is to afford thom the opportunities at homo which thoy go across the soa to seok,—if that be possible. ——— Ono of the poots hns a vory folicitons meta- phor of an eagle sorely wounded by the crucl archor, and regarding tho arrow that has piorced its breast. It is sorely moved whon it digcovors that tho foathers upon tho barb were pluckod from one of its own quills, and that they directed tho flight of the unerring shaft, The English people are just now in the plight of this unfortunato sagle, and are lamentiug the fact in o very pluintivo manner. During the present war in Afriea, tho English army has on soveral occasions mado prisoners of Ashnutoos and captured their arms. An examiuntion of these srme shows that they were made in Dur- minghai, and, 08 thoy aro now, that thoy muat havo beon sold to the Ashantees just boforo tho war commencod by the umprinelplod tradors of that city, who mado thom for export to Asbuntee, for tho purposes of the war. The Dritish Lion doos not enjoy the fact that he is to be shot at by uubroeched Ashantees with gung made in Birmingham undor tho protooction of his roysl mogis, aud the noble benst is lashing bis 1ail and roaring ot » foarful rate ovor it. Thore would be more sympathy with tho auimalif it wero not for the fact that tho people for whom bo roars Lave never beeu considerato of the rights of others in this reapect, but have sup- plied overything from bullots to vesscls-of-war to combatants, in violation of tho provisions of futernational law, and with uttor disrogard of tho obligations of noutrality. In this cuso, com- morcial grood in Birmingham Los supplied guus of Fuglish make to the Ashantoos for tho slaughtor of Englishmon, Howaver bittor tho draught may bo n their own chulice thus com- mendod to thelr lips, there 18 such & strict poot- {eat justico in tha epavation that itis very difi- oult to feol uny sympathy convorning tho bittor- ness of the drivk, If the Ashantces hud sny #kill in the uso of tho Birminghnm guus, thoy might popper the hide of tho Iritiah Lion in such a maunor ns to mako him conscious of his past aggressions nod intorforonces with tho rights of athors, aud feel more keonly thsn ho doos now the offects of hiy double-dealing, e An intelligout, cultivated actross, who had gnined » fuir repute, but nothing more, during Lor four years of dramatio exporiencs, diod in Now York o fow duys ayv from shoor griof ab her inability to win fame, Her doath 18 » lesson to the aupiriug idiots who think they oan foottights. Tho slage Is tho most oxacting and most niggardly of mastors, Its high prizes aro fow and liedged shont with difieulty. If it wore nok for human vanity,~tho vanity that lends a man Lo piay the hind legs of an elephant for the #nlio of roally golting on n stago,—tho ranks of tho dramatic profossion would be sonntily filled, As it e, this real tragody will not have tho thouaandtl part of tho offact of o sliam ono. Tho London Times publishes a leltor that pretty thoroughly disproves the * paupor labor thoory, ko far o8 it Is applied to England, and s at tho samo timo an incidontal contribution to ono side of tho discussion correspondonts hovo boen carrylug on in our columus on the relative wagen of labor thero and hore. The lstter is in roply to Prof. Fawoott’s artlolo in the Fortnight- By, in which tho Professor avgued that the value of English labor is only a triflo, it nt all, groater thau {t was sonio years ngo, Tho writer shows that the averago oxelso-tax paid by each porson wos 0s Tigd in 1851, and 163 7% lh 1872; that tho averngo consumption of sugar has incroased from 36 Ibs. In '61 to 66 Ibe, in '72; of tos, from 214 ths. to 637 of provisions, from 5 {0 19; and that, although tho home-production of meat hag incroaged in a greater ratio than population, its prico hias advanced 50 per cont, From theso and similar facts, bo infors that tho laboring classos lave more money to spond now than they had thon, ——— Of the half-dozon candidates forthe Bishoprie of Wisconsin, Dr. DoKoven I8 the most prom- inont, Iis ability, uis conneotion with Racino Colloge, and his rocont oanvess, under the auapicos of tha * Confraternity of the Blessed Bacrament,” for tho Bishopric of Massachusotts, bave combined to mako him widely known. e has oxtromoly bigh viows, so Ligh, indeed, that mony peoplo canuot very clenrly distinguish them from Catholiclsm, In' tho Inst Genoral Convontion ho sald: ** I bolleye in tho real, ac- tual presonce of our Lord, under tho form of brend and wine, upon the altar. , . . . I bolieve that in the Eucharist, after the conse- cration of the cloments, by tha pawer of the Holy Ghost, the very body and blood of Christ " oro presont in the elements.” Dr, DeKovon's principal opponents are Dr. Hugh Milter Thompaon, of Now York, Dra, Egar and Kempor, of the Nashota Sominary, and Drs, Ash- 1oy and Keono, of Milwaukoo, — An advortivoment in tho Athenzum informs nuthors whero thoy can get **etudies of char- actor” for ba. 6d. onch, *convorsations” for 8s. Gd. ench, and *original word-portraits” for 2. 6d. ench, All tho suthor of to-dsy will Lave to o, then, s to deviso bis plot (or, moro ensily, to stenl it from tho Fronch); ordor his quota of charactor-studics, convorsntions, word-portraits, ate,, and patch the pieces togother at his leisuro. ‘Thackoray sighed forsman to whom hecould say : *Kill the Bishop iu tho noxt chapter; lot tho disonse be goue; read up tho symptoms, ate., in tho medical dictionary," and who could, in fact, do all the mochanical part of novel-writing, leaving the author only the pleasure of vreation. If ho had lived till now, be might bave had his wish, Tho seientific world Los been in commotion over the roported discovery of a live Dodo, Tho bones of its ancestors havo loug beon, a8 somo- body eays, boues of contention., At lest tho problom of this Tomarkablo bird, With manner absurd, was to bo solved, Bui Prof. Owen has killed the new illusion as thoroughly ns Timo has tho old bird, Ho doclares that tho bird now en route for England is only a Dodlot, & dogeuerato, diminutive descondant of the geuuine fowl. 8o all the to-do over the Dodo kas been in vain, e The South is beginning to manufacture its cotton. Mills havo boen bult at ali the more important ports and in many of the intorior towns. Thoy furnish a market for nearly 800,000 Dulos & yoar. 'The fact shows that tho contempt for Inbor which elavery alwsys involves, aud which lay at tho root of the Bouth's industrial inoficionoy bofore the War, is on thoe wano. S SRS S, Bovoral Spiritunlists of Now Havon wish to form a co-operative community in which all woalth, but no wives, shall be held in common, As thoy all como from poor but bonest parents, and havoe inhorited only the first of the ancostral charactoriatics, thoy are perforco waiting for a boliover who can, and will, endow the com- munity. Hore is pathos! When tho San Domingo xobols captured the Capital, thoy freed the poli cal prisonera and solemnly dropped the Govern- ment's floe assortmont of haudeuffs, ote., into tho mea, Bobor second thought suggests that thoy threw awsy the mauacles bocause thoy meun to shooi future captives 1nstead of imprisening thom. . NOTES AND QPINION.: TIn Philadolphis, whore munteipal officers are to bo olected Feb. 17, all caudiduies in opwo- sition to tho Ring Republican nominees havo withdyawn, becauso, unloss there can be o fair count of yotes, it would be folly to oppose tho men wlo Lave solo power to do tho counting. ‘Tho Logislaturo is in the intorest of the Ring, and thie Philadolphin Press suys: ¢ Tho nows is not very chicoring for an honest election law.” ‘Tho Philadelphia Age sermonlzos from tho text: “Woe to tho Venal City when its purchaser is found.” ~Theroe ia no use mlnclns( words about it; the rospectablo element in the Itopublican party will no longor submit to the dictution of the bume mers who control its organization, stuff its bal- lot-boxes at primary elections, pack its convon- tions, and couut m thelr favortos,—Pitlsburgh Erening Telegraph. —Gon, Ames has said without reservation, ainco tho [M(uuiusiupl] Buprome Court dacision was prouounced, that ho came from Washington undor & pledge from Gon. Grant to put hit into oflice, no mnctor how tho Court might docide.— Jackson (Afiss,) Clarion. ~Carpot-baggers havo *¢ overweighted” tho Ropublican party, tho Presidont sayy, nud bo, like o wise rider, 18 fiohxg to got rid of them. « + » Thosooner the country snd the Repub- lican party aro relioved of their bad intluence the bottor it will be for overybody. Thoy hayo evory roaeon to keop open the bloody chasm botwoen Noxth and South, and,-rogarded in any way, they ara simply uuisauces that showld bo abated ot tho uurlil,mb moment possible,~Philadelphia Tele- raph. "ot avo very fow who will not agres with tho President that it I8 time fox his party to e load. Perhaps Grant might advautageonsly bo- gin himaolt by throwing ovor that 525,000 of au- nupl salary-grab, But wo foar tho rotten old hulk is too doep n the water to bo saved even by this process, Botter lot her sinkl—DBupalo Qourier. ~—Coungress nover nooded watching a8 much as now. 'L'hero will bo stouling by the million to compensate for the *roposl™ of the * grab,” which loaves the buck pay grabbed aud the dou- Dle pay untouchod.— Cincinnati Commeroial, —Now that Congross has fiually repealed the iucroauo of walury bill, wo far na it applies ta mombors, but ouo thing remains to be dono, ‘Those Congrosmmen who have already drawn sud pocketed the surplus should at onco return it to tho Nationul ‘Lroasury. It mny comon little hard on somo of thom, espocially those who have already exponded their quola, but thero is no ol,l;nr nonorable path opon.—Fond du Lac Jour- nal, —~T'he Houso of Reprosontatives [Congreus] 18 a queer lot, Very likely mombers have opin- ions on tho ourrensy question, but somoliow thoy are not ablo to stick to them from oue duy toanother, It is not & subjoct to bo played with, « It may bo that tho business men of tho country may discover by some mysterious process what those contradiofory voten !m})rm:, but we doubs if tho membors themselves have auy idea what will cowms out of this boyw’ play.— Harlford (1) Post. —~It our grooubnoks aro conceded to bo a ver: good currency, as thoy aro, can we have too much of thom? We tlud reully intolligont won ask- ing thomsolves this quedtion, “he ensweris lain, ‘Phe individusl oanuot have too soueh, ut the nation can. Iu otlier words, the largor the proportion of tho oxisting volume any per- wou eant pookes tho bettor ho Iy nfl’f but i’f tho whole amount in the country is incroased, it simply oboapous 1t in proportion to tho Inoroaso, w0 that t 18 really worth no moro than befora, mako groat namos 84 woon a6 4UeY got belynd ta | It is very much the vame a8 with any aticloof merchaudide. Buppose thore were a cortaln aup- ply of sugar in tho conntry; the largar the sharo any doalar could poness lilmsolf of, tho ralior ho wonld bo; but if tho aggroghto quantity woro fucroasad, the tondenoy woulg bo to eausn & docline of pricos, The law of money is & good donl like that of any othor commodity.—Albany Tvening Journal, ~—* L4mit " in a handy word somotimos—con- ‘voniont for Congrossmen, too, ‘Thoy proposn to timit the irrodoomnbla papor oucrenoy o £400,« 500,000, +T¢ was, £ill rocontly, §866,000,000; aud thon it wos sunonnosd thab wo wero' golng to spocio Enymunm. that groenback clroulntion wad to bo curtailed. Bo Congross progroues, Te “limits ¥ the circulation—Dby adding enough to mnko it $100,000,000, Tho noxt [lnitation will probably run it to 85600,000,000. Jolin Doa was _worth 81,000 He fssued notos to thot amount, and thoy were worth thelr par value, ‘'hon 1o limitod "his note fksue to 82,000, and thoy sold at 60 conte on tha dollar. Whon ha Ispucd 84,000 ho couldt got only 26 conts on tho dollar for thom, aud couldn't buy a farthing's worth moro_proporty for his 84,000 of notos than he could for the original $1,000, which he was ablo to rodoom. But Cougross hins nover beon introduced to John Doa. den. Grautnover met him st ono of Tom Murphy's dlunors,— Harlford (CL) Times, —Uongross has pitchod into the question of specio payments iomewhat aftar tho style of lit- Ho boys leaping off a spring-board into the water, and, scomingly, with ubout as much pur- pose. . . o It's sbout * which aud 'tother ™ withthom. . . . Just how n boat that fa llnnly fillod with wator 18 to bo kopt from sinke ng and brnu{:ht safoly to land by pouring in moro wator, {s what wo do not undorstand, un- lous 1t be that she go to the bottom aund find & snto landing.—Pittsfleld (1) Oid Flag, ~The sittings of ‘the Committec on Banking and Currouoy uro iu a sort of fluancial baggage- room, tho soveral piscos, or propoitions, tagged hnphazard and with no partioular koys to fite— Boston Post, ~—I1 has bocome certain that tho House ia both recklesn and ignorant on the curroncy question. ~—Detroit Tribune. —1t 18 surprising to notice what hair-brained achomes and falyo philosophics ato broached in connection with this subjoct, Sonator Froling- buysou wants to soll more bonds, snd to resunia on the proceeds of this salo,—and declaims vory stronely agaiust irrodeomablo dobts,—ns thongh we would owe something loss, after wa nad sold 225,000,000 of paper, to redoom the samo smount of papor.—Pittsburgh Gazelte. —A vote of tho Houso really scoms to mean nothing, Porhaps to-morrow thee{ will vote, on somo impulso, “ noinflation.” Such an uncortain Houso is o dangorous body.—Harlford Conrant. —Imporeoptibly the Govornmout is gliding downwards to_contralism and an oligarchy of corruption. The ]xrojncks to that ond make thoir apponrance almost daily, Now it is o Noe tional Univorsity, and now a Burcru of Come werce and ‘Lransportation, A National Bank to- day, and o National Education Fund to-morrow. A plan to establish State Goverumonts ot ono timo, and o plan to control the ballot-box ovory- whero at another. Railroads, cannly, schooly, univorsitios, voting, industrios, businoss, oven roliqlouu opinion itself, aro all swept into thia maolstrom of contralization, with intent to ac cumulato power through thom for sclfish and corrupt cuds, A spoll scoms to lis on tho Con- gressional mind that doludes it into the belicf that tho sorvant has mysteriously bucomo groat= er thau tho master. It ja fast appronching a sharp and decisivo iaguo botweon continued Ro= P"hg.‘v",'“m snd dewning centralization,—Bos« fon Fost, STARVING INDIANS, The Destitution at Vermillion Lakes n of the Report Concerning Cannibalism. Speetal Dispatch to The Chreago T'ribune, 87, PAuL. Minu., Jan, 27.—Gov. Davis {8 ade vised by Commissioner Smith, of tho Indian Bureau, that on the 19th inst. ho notified Agent Mahon, at Doyflld, of the destitution among tho Indians ot Vermillion Lake, and placed at his disposal for their roliof $1,600. Tho Gov. omor is also advised that Mohsn arrived ag Duluth, aud yosterday sont forward cattlo, Dlankots, flour, and aunuity goods. It appesra that tho Agont desired to deliver the annuitios at Duluth, while the Indians claimed that, according to trenty, they should bo deliverod at Varmfillon, Lonce the annuities have beom bold back since Novombor last. In consequence, tho traders withdrow from Vermillion, and the Indians bad no way of reliof from the dostitution cnusged by tho failure of rico and gamo, THE STORY OF CANNIDALISN originated in tho fact that a crazy old woman, whose topoo was noar tho DBritish line, was dis- covered by & huntor to have oaton partof a child, the remains of the body hanging in & trea liko tho carcass of s deer. The huntor wag frightoned and tled without loaking for the rest of ‘tho family; and his roport spronding among i the Indians, who havo a superstitious Lorror of oaunibalism, finally roached the whitos in the whapo firet ‘given. In all other respeets tho ro- ports of gtarvation aud suftering from want of clothing havo boen more than confirmed. ———————— EKNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, The Indiana Grand Lodge. Special Dispatch to The Chicago I'ribune, Ixpraxarows, Ind., Jan, 27.—Thoe fifth annual ucasion of tho Grand Lodgo of Kuights of Pythe ias hogan to-day, all the ofticers being preseut, slso roprosentatives from nearly every lodgo in the Stato. Tho Committoe on Laws aud Supor- vision presented two reports, a minjority and minority, upon the quostion, * 8hould nsuspend- ed brotherboroquiredtopay duos,” The majority roportod that he should not pay more than thy uwnonnt due nt tho date of his tuspension ; the minority, that ho should pay ducs during the suspounson, if it does not oxceed ono hour, The ‘minority roport was adoptod. ‘Tho reports of officora wore submitted this aftornoon. ‘I'he Secrotary-gives the following statistics of the Order throughout the Btato : ‘Nuinber of Lodges cliartored, 43: nutaber of wor! ing lodges, 99; tncrease in lodges during tho year, 1 presout - fnouiborabip, 2,160; " inereats durlug’ 16 year, 695, “fl?' ipta since July 1, 1873, $12,078,10; expensca sluce Ju'y 1, 1873, $0,267,21, 'Cusli on hnnd Jan. 1, 1674, $4,880,18 }{\Widows’ uud Orphuns’ Fund, $5,002,7: amount juvosted, $16,858,73, Totul resources, $20,» 416,18, "L'hio olection of officers will occur to-morrow. It is thought tho session will continuo until Phuraday, The XYowan Grand Lodge. Spectal Dunateh to The Chicago Tribune, DAVENPORT, Ia., Jan, 27.—The Graud Lodge of Town Knights of Pythias assemblod in this city this mormug in-their third snuusl convene tion, Delegates from lodges in Davenvort, Burlington, Council Bluffs, Ottumws, Fort Mad- ieon, and othor placea wora prosent. ‘This Grder was instituted in Towa in Muy, 1870, and now thero aro 28 Imlll;us in tho Btate, oll with a large membership. In tho Unitod States thoro are 1,200 lodges, with 100,000 members. During tho past yenr disponsntions to fivo now lodges have beou granted, and threo othera huve boon susponded. Tho scssion of the Grand Lodgo continues to-morrow. This ovening tho doloe pates will bo treated to & bonquet by tho local todgos of the city. {CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE, Ilo Resigns ¥lis Presidency of the Ohio Constitutional Convention. CiNaiNNATI, dan, 27.—~Chiof-Justico Waite re- aigoed his Prosidency and soat i tho Constitu~ tional Convention to-day in the following words: ‘¢ For roasons known to fyn“ oll am compelled to roturn to you the high ofico with which, at the organization of tho Couvention, you honored me, and to resign my place ug ono of your uumber. Uader some oircumstancos this could be dono with u single word; but in the middle of thesa surroundings you must indulge me with some- thing more, Itis now moro than six months since wo ¢nme togother to entor upon the important work to which we had beon assignod by our cou= stituents. Wo were than strangers, Few of you kuow me porsonally; I kuow personally bug few of you. DBy the partinlity of the majority of those voting I was callod upon to plosido over your deliberations, Without oxparionce as pro~ viding officor I rohed upon your forboer- anco #nd assistance whilo porforming it respens siblo dutics. You wore not long - discovering my lack of oxporionce, It took mo longer to leurn that uil I could gk of you or tho oflicers, you bod called to “your assistanca. as to bo motod fout to me in full measure, From comparative strangers we havo beouma. warm friends, 'he memories of our jont labora: lioro will alwuys bo chorished by nio ws of the ploasant things of tho past, sud, Whilo I am now compelled to dissolvo our oftloiul ties, I shall evor pray that tho word muy never Lo epolou whicls ean dissolve tla tla of yiersanal (rlendship by which 1 now fool mysel to be a0 closoly Lound to you sll.” Hore Prosidsnt Walto resigned and retirad, I'ho Convontion took a recoss of ton minutor o tako loave of him. A committoo of nine wore appolnted to draw up resolutions oxprossing the sause of the Ccns veutlon an the subisots