Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 13, 1874, Page 10

R A R A o § TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. AU OF NUDSONIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADYANOR), Rzt Parlaol & yesr af the sums rate, s e of To prevent delay aud mirtakos, be sure and give Port #n.conddress in full, Including Btats and County. Remittanoes may bo mado oithor by dratt, oxprass, Pos), ©ioe ordor, or in reglsterad lottars, ak our tiske TERME TO OITY SUDACMIDRIS, ally, delivered, Bunday exceptoa, 3 cente per wesk. ally, dolivored, Bunday includod, 80 canis por weeks Addrens THE TRIBUNE COM v - Gorner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Ubloagos 1. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. 'VIORER'S THEATRE-Madlson atrosts hetwesn Per e Sstmta Ainghaomeat ol Magels Mitoboll " Fanchon," talstod streob, botmesn Mad- yfi-"fn‘."“}t‘:g,‘n’x et ot Iaffato 1T, Mot~ cchi) oto. -+ The Soouta of the Plalns. 3 piital ol faitd MYERS' OPIRA-HOUSE- Maniros straet. botwes: 3 ington, Uotton, Al embio's Bitiering e, SO i ™ rigands Noir." ADELPHI THEATRI-Comer :'l’nm:lwg\ n;:g‘:: jia Ocharers sitect: s 1 S irutoa Dwacie? Ktiers ‘Baon and eroning. s A MUSIO HALL-North Olark finfll-" "Alternoon and ovening, gl ALL—Olark stroot, between R e Ro7et Sarioaction. EATRE-Nos, 218~123 Wost Madlson gf’..’l’."‘%’iflu{f‘iufi.m.m"'mw. Fontalableay, Leon s!flfll‘m‘l. ‘oto.” Aftornoon and ovonlng SOCIETY MEETINGS. T. and A, M,_Rogular Bo'clock, = All lavle bY O WITENLEY, Beots, P . Rl BUSINESS NOTICES. BLANEY LODGE, N munlostion thls ovoni OAUTION TO THE PUBLIC. COUNTERFEIT ALLOOOK POROUS PLASTERS. Dangerous Imitatlons and Counterfelts of this valuatlo modioinalartiolo aroin the market, whoro uss {s aloulatad 0 make worso affections, which tho Truo Plasters iny lably rollove or oure. X ‘But tho cat0 18 oven much worse, for xomo of theso vilo countorfolts possess absalutoly polsanous qualities, pro- ducing, whoro appllod, Blotchos, Gangreno, and mortifl ention of the part. ‘Tho mon who mako theso imitations should be rowned @own by an tndignant and autraged people. Those men aroincapablo of making anything of thelr own earn a mamo, thorofore, thoy stoal tho repiitation of colebrated artioles tn which to olothio tholr misorable and nofstious ‘soncostions, - ) Tho ALLOOCK’S INDIA RUBBBR POROUB PLAS- TERS aro proparod with fotolligent, consofontious ward, to socuro thoso groat curativo proportios which mado tho plastar cclobratod throughout the clvllized world. v . ©OW 70 SECURE THE TRUE PLASTER WITHOUT DOUBT. g Obsorvo that on tho Plastorts a U. B. Governmont Btamp printed in Dlack Ink, with B, BRANDRETH on thosamo In White Letters, sll others aro Imitations or Qounterfoita, B. BRANDRETH, . President of POROUS PLASTER CO., of New York, Principal Agonoy. Brandroth House, Now York. The Chivags Tiibune, ‘Weodneaday Morning, May 13, 1874. © Tho regular finenolal and commeraial reviow witl bo found on_tho wolfth pago of to-day's paper (tho last page of tho supplomontal sheat), inatoad ‘of the placo to which it is usually as- signed. Prof. Patton has begun hla' argument in the Bwiog trial, and 18 likely to finish himeelf and the Preabytory and tho ourious spectators by his aftornoon. Ho has made no - new - develop- ‘mont worth mentionin, The American Toilway --Mastor-Mechsulos' Association iathe rather formidable title of an, organization which is doing in & quiot way much good work, Ite seventh snnual session opened 1in this city yestordsy. Mastor-Mechanics aro roally not abovo loarning some now things; thoy are far more tractable thau is commonly sup- posed. % Se—————— Having gslned tho Gold Const in honorable pombat,- the Britleh Government proposes to nnito it with tho Logos, and mako of the' two ©ne province, under a ‘Governor to ke ap- pointod by -the Crown. Buch a course is in sccordanco with tho time-hanored potioy of tho Empire, which contemplates” tho retention of a1l dopandenclos which yiold & proftable trade, and tho liberal treatmont of thosé which are not worth having that may wish to booome inde- pendont. = = The Fronch Assembly s agaip insession. Tt opened yesterday without ceromony of’ any kind, Nomessage was transmittod by Prosident Mac- Bfahon, .There was a .corain propriety in -the omisgion, inasmuch a8 tho Assombly in Franco i8no longor a co-ordinate branoh of the Govern- ment, but the Government itself. . Itmakes and unmakés Prosdonts, ns MachMahon. himeolt ad- mits, and o messsgo from one. of its creatures ‘would not be entitled to as much respectas a potition from the people. A FrenchAssombly is everything or nothing. A certain Col. Hayes was olectod Tressurer of Hansas In 1870, Ho was scaused of defaleation and was thoroupon *indorsed by & ro-olaction. Tho spasm of honestyin Kausas politics atter. tho fall of Pomeroy brought sbont Hayes' imi- peachmont. His guilt has boon proved, in ad- vanco of bis trial, and ho Lias rosigned. It i now gravely argued that nothing more shionld bo dono sbout tho motter, since Lo has “‘mado all, the amends {u his power by rosiguing.” Rogues will doubtless hafl suoh reasoning with delight. It is much pleasantor to resign than to be kick- ed out of oflico and into jail In tho way of cmmulativo ovidence to show that Chicago's commoerce is galning in an un- yaralloled proportion, womay atate that the busi- noss of one of the frolght lines running to tho East was 60 per cent groater during the first four months of thia yearthan during the corro- sponding time last yoar. Whilo the line in question sent out about 4,600 cars during the months of Jsnuary, Fobruary, March, sud April, 1879, it dispatched nearly 8,000 cars during tho samo months of 1874. In the flrat sisteon days of April of this year, this line sent 000 moro cara East than durlng tho sume time last yoar. The gonoral business statistics of the four months, alroady published in Tuz ToIdUNE, ghow thut the business of thia one freight line was not an excoption to tho rule. The OChicago produce markets were rather quiet yeatorday, and most of them were easior. Moss pork was in light domand, and & shade easlor, ologing at $10.05 cash or goller June, and #10.8714@10.90 geller July, Lard was dull, and Ko per 100 1ba lower, closing at $10.225¢@10.25 w©ash, and 10,35@10.80 seller Juno. Meats wore «quiet and stoady, at 6o for shoulders, ©8.75 for hort ribs, Oa for short olesr, and 103§@11}{o for wweet-plokled hama, ILiske frelghts were less aotlve, and steady st do for corn fo n?flllo, Blighwines wero qulet, and 3o bigher, at 0540 por gallon, Flour was dull and unchanged. =] Whont was more sctive, snd 3o lowor, closing At 81313 oash, $1.323¢ nolior Juno, and #1.243¢ for No, 2 Minnasota, ,Corn was loss active, and 3go lowor, oloalug at 013go easli, and 03 @03%0 sollor Juno, Oats wora dull, and 3o lowor, olosing 8t 403(@403¢0 cash, and 403fo mollor Juno. Ryo was qulat, and 2 highor, élosing at .08c. Barloy was dull and lowor, at $1.00 for No, 8, On Ssturday ovening last thoro was in storo 1o this olty 1,635,450 bu whont, 2,949,709 bu corn, 547,052 bu oats, 16,100 bu rye, and 121,853 bu barloy, Ioge -wore in bettor domand, and stondior, with sslos at $4.35@0.123¢. Cattt woro dull, and 10@160 lower. Bheop firm, A strange announcoment, which may bo the firat rovolation of ‘& politioal conspiracy in Rua- s8la, bng boon made’ in London. ft is that the Grand Duko Nicholns, brother of tho Czar, has ‘beon arrestod for reasons not made publio; that hia houso Lias beon searchod, and that the pro- oeoding has creatod intonso excitoment among tho people. Tho Czar s now on the way to England, whoro ho goos: to visit his dsughtor, the now Duchees of Edinburgh. In tho abseuco of authentlo information, it may bo conjoctured that the Governmont in his ab- sence was loft in tho Lands of the Ozarovitch, or of the Grand Dukes Constantine and Nicholas. Buppositions as to the causos which lod to tho arrcat of tho Iattor may bo indulged in to any extont by persons who have time to sparo for such businoss. At the rounlon of the Armyof tho Potomac in Harriaburgh yosterday, Gons. Sheridnn and Burnside mado epoaches that wero not without some significance. Our Ohicago brave touched unheppily wpon tho . one sore spot that was within tho ronch of a olumsy speakor. Ho gald he was unwilling to make the firat overturea to men who fought on tho Con- fedornto sfdo, but ho would consent to shake hands with any ono who soliclted the favor. This sentimont hios not tho true ring of thoso which we have beon acoustomed to hear from Gon, Shoridan; it is unworthy of o gallant sol- dier. Tt 3n the privilogo of a conqueror to tale the firet stops in tho dircction of smnosty. Gon. Burnside's speech was noteworthy for & nalvo declaration of his candidaturo beforo the Rhodo Jsland Logislature for olection as United Btates Sonator. Btill anothor point of interest was the unanimous adoption by the Fifth Arniy’ Corps of s momorlal to tho Prosidont asling that tho cage of Fitz-Johu Porter ba reoponed, Butlor has come upon the melancholy daya of bis oaroor. Ho has secn & roproscntative of Massachusotts **blue-blood” oxalted to the Gubernatorial chair, and romoved thence to ihe United States Sonato. . His friend Banborn has come to griof. His pet greenback schomo has beon . brokon in pleces. Ho has boon caricatured by Nast. Ho has beon pros- irated by itlness. - Now comos the most ter- rible blow of all. He has loat favor in the Essex Distriot, and runs & considorable risk of misalng a ro-election. Tho most prominent newspapor in his Distriot assorts that tho only difficulty in tho way of rotirlng bim s want of hirmony smong those' who fsvor such & course. Tho Eesex reglon will 4o magnanimous thivg by keoping Gen. Butler at home. Itis o guestion whether his powers for evil oan be curtalled in any other way; but we must admit that tho Dis- trict will not profit by the operation so much as “the rost of tho country. 'The regenoration of France may . ome: from tho same men who are largely -rosponsible for her fall,—her workingmen. In'Parls ot first, snd recontly in tho . provinces, Workmon's Olubis have boen organized, composed of first- class mon,-and. aiming at tho improvement of the goneral aonditlon of labor. Dolegatos from sllof them mot jn Paris & fow days sinca to roporta gratifying progress, Misslonary offort ia carried on In three ways,—byconferences, books, and missions, Tho lsst are roligions, iand sre mainly in the hands of tho clorgy. The firat t\vo are managed by tlie men and thelr ad- visers. The books, treating of sll eubjects, aro sold st baro cost. Thousandsof them have been put in cironlstion. The couferences are hold every night. In Paris thoro aro six of them nightly. - ‘Admission costa nothing. Every sub- Joct of literary, hiatorlo, soclal, or sefentifia in- torost is tronted of In turn. Those lectures aro attendod by great crowds. Tho whole thing is & schome, on a glgantio scalo, for tonching the world's grown-up childron. Its menagers-are dolng a good work for France, Mormonism:in the concrote form of Elder Connon, Dologats in CGongress from Utah, has suatalned & knook-ddmn blow. The Elder con- fesaodly recelved a majority of the votos cast in tho Turritory ; but his seat was oontostod by & 1, Maxwell, who resled hieoase upon the sup- posed ineligibility of a Mormon to hold & seat in Congress, The mattor camo up before the “Houso yestorday, and was deolded as follows ; (1) Cannon was olectod ; (2) bLis right to a seat : 18, incontostibld ; (8) he may bo expolled up- on proof that ho has been guilty of polyga- moua practices, or that ko has ' taken an oath contravening his- dutics as an American citizon. The Committoo on Elactions was diroctod to insutute an inquiry with reforenco to this last point, and to inform the House when it bas sat- factorily detormined Mr. Cannon's atatus., Thero is roagon to beliovo that tho Mormon Dolegate will bo relogated to the bosoms of lis family bofore the expiration of tho session, Tha action of the House will bo generally approved as ex- actly moeting tho roquirements of the case. It concodes the right of every district to choose for its reprosentativo a man of bad moral char~ noter, ‘and assorts tho prerogative immomo- rially apportalning to all legialstive bodles of prosorving thelr own good roputation. Tho differont Trades-Unions of this city are about to hold o mass-meoting to protost agalnst tho repeal of the Eight-Hour law, and to do- nounco Suporvising Architeot Mullett for dolng hisduty by recommending its ropeal. It s hard that Mullott should be howled at for the ono good thing bo has dono, The law in ques- tion waé & mero bid for the workingman vote, 1t has done nobody not employod on Govern- ment buildings an fota of good. It Las mado those buildings cost vory much more than thoy otherwise would, and Las thus plundored tho peoplo at lagge for tho bonoft of the few. A day’s work, like n day's wagos, depends upon tho ratio the work to bo dono bears to the num- ber of people ready to do it. Passing a law about ¢ is like regulating , by law tho voloolly with which wator shall flow over Niagars. Con- gross can, indood, arbitrarlly dooroo that & fow men, employed by ita suthority, shall bo given ton hours' pay for eight houra' work, but this is mere charily, not business, If- the Trados-Un- fons want' to got mare for thelr labor than it a Wostly—Want, {a othor wogds, to oarn olght hours® ‘his boon the weaknoss of Gon, pay and Bog two hiours' pay bosides, lob thom say 80 plainly, ‘Thatls what tholr protest will moan. An Intorosting dlscussfori took placo in the Bonato yostorday over ‘{ha Genova Award bill, Mr. . Thurman's emendmont striking out the soction which dobara fuaurnco companios from ahiaring in the bonofita of the bill was rojeoted, it having proviously boen agrood to in Committeo of tho Whole by 81 to27. Tho amendmoent was supportod by 8anators Gauk- Jing, Schurs, Thurman, and Bhermon, and oppossd by Beuatora Anthony, Frolinghuyson, Edmunds, and Oarpontor. There is no questlon of its soundnoss in & logal ‘and moral polnt of view. Mr. Edmunds holds that tho award was made to the Govornment, not to ocitizons, and in thie be s undoubtedly correot; but ho uiterly falls to eatabllsh tho deductlon which ho acoks to make from his premiscs, that iho award should not Do distributed among all tho Indlviduals and corporations who sustained notual lossos in oxcess of thelr gaina by the oporations of tho. oruisers covered in tho troaty stipulations. The bill, without tho Thur~ man amendment, passed the Bonate by voto of 26 to 17, S ———— Prooks sont a dispatol to Prosident Grant yostorday in which lio refused, {n rather insoent languago, to rotira from the State-Houso ot Little Rook and disband his troops. Ho snid thero was slonder prospect of his oscaping .\vltb & wholo skin if he followed Prosident Grant’s advico; that tho President ought to docide peromptorily for one side or the othor; and that it is time the agony wera over, This dispatch, it ia bolloved, haa finished Mr. Brouks, so far as tho favor of tho Presidont Is concorned. Tvery- thing now points to an ez calliedra decision in favor of Baxter, and the oxpulsionof Brooks from tho Btate-Houao at tho point of Fodoral bayonots. In pursulug this course to-day, or to-morrow, the Prosident will no more bo aoting according to law than if ho had slaughtored DBrooks whon he first came to the surfaco. But it Grant to regard "his porson as sanctified with the divinity that doth hedge a King; and disre- spsottul treatment of himeelf will almost cor~ talaly bo considerod sufficiont ground for swaep- 1ng Arkansas cloar of Brooke and his cohorts, leaving tho questions of law involved to go by the board. s e e — ) THE VOIOE OF THE WEST, Wo publish this morning a four-page supple- mont containing lottors from the editors ana publishers of over 600 nowspapers in the Statés of Tilinots, Indians, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, Tows, Missouri, Konass, and Nebraska, on the Prosident's veto of the Bonate Currency bill, and inoldentally on tho politioal situation, Thoso are additional to the quotations from the ‘Wastern pross previously published in our col- umnsg, and the whole coust{tutos s completo con- sus of publio opinlou, 88 roflocted by tho pross, on tbis important question.. The olassifieation includos 025 nowspapors in the nino Statos named, and Is 08 followa: Sustain the Oppore the Neutral, celo, belo. 7 129 u7 "9 41 B 8+ 2 b 20 4 T v 80 o ke 28 58 - 20 2 o 9 8 Total 514 408 n A furthor classification by politios shows that partion are divided 1n about equal ratlo, thus : ‘Sustatn the Opnose the 0, eln, Republican piid pri Democratio, 128 m Indopendo v oL 6 © otal..... 514 s The question will be asked whethor theso newapapors corroctly represont tho pravailing sentiment of tho localitios whore they sre pul- lished and the constituencics among whom thoy olxoulate, -For tho most part wo think thoy do. Out of ten editors, it may always bo assumed that nine ondeavor to reflect tho viows of tho community from which their patronage is ob- tained: on overy question which exoitos much popular-interest. The tenth man, being, per- haps, cast In an ‘obstinate mold, or hoping to convince the majority that he is right aud thoy wrong, may for the time’ being “misrepro- sent"” (if that phraso . can be properly spplied fo & mewspaper) tbo locality in which it is published. Buch papera are altogother oxceptional, though wo are grati- fled to notico that thoy are bocoming more pu- ‘morous than thoy wero a fow yoars ago, Onthe wholo we soe no rorson to doubt that tho balance of opinion in the States of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnoaots, and Iowa sustains tho voto, while in Indisus, Missouri, Kaosas, and Nebraska, it ia adverso, and that in the aggro- gato tho majority sustaining the veto is in the proportion of 514 to'408, Incidentally the writers, in many instancos, give their opinions of general politics and the condition of partios, which' constitute not the Jeast interesting part of the lottors which wo publish. £ g ¥ RECIPROCITY TREATY, We understand that for some weeks negotin- tions have been in progress at Washingtou be- twoon Mr. Fish, Becretary of Btate, and MMr. Thornton, the British Munistor, and Mr, Georgo Brown, of Toronto, roprosenting the Dominion of ! Canads, concerning tha re-ostablishment of reciprocal trade botwoon'tho United States and the British Provinces. Apart from the general importance of baving such rolations restored, certain treaty stipulations botweon tho two countrios are rendered nocossary undor tho Troaty of Washington. Under tho 22d article of thiotreaty, Commissionors wore to bo appointed to doterminenmoney componsation tobe paidbytho United States for the enjoyment of the const fisherios of the Dominion, Ponding the appoint- mont of this Commisslon, it Is proposed by Great Britain and the Conadas te walve this olaim, or to include it In somo goneral adjustment of com- moroial relationu hetwoon tho United States and Canada., This friondly offer was received with Bntisfaction by tho Prosident and Becrotary of Btuto, and the roprosontatives of both Govern- monts have nddressod thomeolves to tho con- eideration of somo form of troaty which shall eomprohend moro than tho old treaty of 1854-'66, and whiok shall bo mutually advantageous, The rosult of those nogotiations will probably result in a treaty that sball comprohend s 1. Tho walvor of the monoy compousation by tho United Btatos for the fisheries under the ‘Washington Treaty. 2, That tho Osnadian canals, from Lako Erlo to Montreal, shall bo oularged within throo yonrd, at the cost of Canads, 8o na to admit the passago of voseols 260 foot in length and 45 In breadth, and with a depth equal to the capacity of tho lnke harbors, 3 . : 8, That, during the continuance of the treaty, #ll the Onundian oanale, and }ho Erle, Whitolall, vanazaxy A X 19, 1874, Bault Bto, lilrl., and Lake Bt. Olalr Osunls Ball bo opon to tho vossdls and boats of otli countrics on the same conditions snd terma, 4. That the froe navigation ot Lake Miohigan bo put on the samo torma ag tho froo navigatio of the 8t. Lawronco River, % 5. That the navigation of the Bt. Clair fiats shall bo malntained at the exponee of hoth coun- trios in proportion to tholr commerco thoroon. G. That tho products of tho farm, forost, mines, snd wator, and also animals, moats, and products of tho dalry, bo admitted into both countries duty free, as was provided in the treaty of 1864, Thia list may possibly bo ox- hndpd 20 a8 to include agrioultural implomonts, manufaotures of iron and stecl, and of wood, mineral ofls, ssltj and a fow othor articlos. ‘Thoro may ho other thinga which the contract- ing postios may conslder propor and just to in- cludo In this {roaty, and which would be equally #atisfaotory, ) The objoctions to this or any similar troaty with Canads aro of two kinds: 1. That it would intorforo with tho thoory of protoction. 2. That it would admit tho Canadians to many of tho ‘boneflts of Ameriean citizenship, sud would, thorefore, yotard the sunoxatlon of the prov- incos. Fortunatoly, tho faols In this caso oro opposed to hoth of theso objections. In tho poriods from 1831 to 1839, the svorage annusl traflo botweon tho United States snd Cauads wes . 8,500,000, =nd from 1838 to 1846, 6,600,000, and from 1846 to 1859, 814,280,000, 1t rose during the twelvo years of tho reolprocity troaty to an ng- grogate purchaso by tho colonies of Amorican commoditios to the .valuo of #850,607,000, aund the purchase by us from the colonies of pro- ducts to the value of §107,000,000,—both values ingold. After making duo sllowanco for differ- encea of valuation and the profits of trade, itis shoivn that thore was a balance in gold in favor of the United States during tho ten yoars of noarly $06,000,000. During thase twolve years, our oxports to Canada oqualod in value our totat oxports to Obina, Brazll, Ttaly, Haytl, Rus- 'in the DPooplo's Party. sln, Venezuela, Austris, tho Argoutine Ropublio, Donmark, Turkey, Portugal, the Sandsvich TIslands, Central America, and Japan. But our trade with thoso Btates showed that wo had im- yorted from these countrias over 102,000,000 in oxcoess of our exporta other than gold. 'Tho ‘balance of trado with Canada was noarly $00,~ 000,000 in our favor. Of our exports to Canads, no less than $161,000,000 wero in manufacturos, Tho treaty was ropoaled mainly on account of political fooling engondored by tho War, but partly on the ‘ground that 1t admitted foreign products in compotition with ourown. Yot tho ropeal of tho troaty did not ‘stop such importa- tions from Oanada. The importations from the Dominion in 1878 wero 82,000,000, or nearly as groat as tho bighest amount ever imported in oneyour under tho treaty, During tho troaty, 525 por cont of tho forelgn trado of Canada was with the Unitod Btates, while in 1873 but 85 por cent was with this country.. Tholumber intorest ospecially thought itsclf aggrioved by tho treaty, but the jmports of Canadian lumber in 1806, under the tréaty, woro lass than 0,600,000, whiloin 1872-8 they reached $11,184,956, Tho Jike increage has taken place in other atticles, so that tho result of the reposl of tho treaty has ‘boon that the trade‘in competing sarticles hay doubled, aud tho {rade in non-competing articles bas béon driven to other countries. Tho objoc- tions to the troaty on the. thoory of protecting homo productions are by this showing utterly fallacious. " F Tho other objeation, that by freezing tho Cana~ disns " out of commerae witli thé United Btates thoy will incline to sunexation, is also disproved. The foreign trade of Cauada has incrérsod im- moneely slnco tho abrogation of tho treaty of 1854, and, owing to tho want of such n troaty, ‘lbn‘lunreu‘a of trado hes gano to other coun- trics than tho Umted Btatos. Tho Canadians sre presumod to be like othor people, and, it they are over to bo warmed into a dosire for annexation to the United States, it will be dono not by treating them s enemies with whom we desire to have no trado relations, but by treating thom a8 friends, and admitting thom to the closost aommercial amity. Tf annexation is do- sirablo, tho law of gaod neighborhood will bring itabout. Tho opposite principle can tend only to postpone and dofeat it. But the great and overwhelming considoration in favor of this tronty to the Wast is tho agree- mont on tho part of Cannda to onlarge, at bor own oxpense, tho Wellond and Bt Lawrence Canals witbin & speaified time, and to permit the uso of thoso canals to’ Amerioan vassels on tho samo torms a8 Canadian vessels. Tho impor- tanco of this concossion cannot bo overestimated, Tho cost of thoso works will not bo losa than §8,000,000, aud whon completed thoy will give the long-neoded wator-route to the ocosn and to an Esatern market. The opening of this routo will inevitably be accompanied by the connection of the Bt. Lawrenco River with Lake Oham- -plain, and thiis, during the whole soason of nav- igation, therowill bo & continuons water-route of unlimited capacity from the Iake ports to the in- terlor of Now England and New York, It will reduco freights from . Ohloego to the ocoan mar- ket vory largely, will shorton the timeof tho water-routo at Jonst ona wools, and, the oapaoity. for transportation being ' unlimited, thero will be mo compleint, of inability to movo the prodactions of the West, In view of this opeMiog of a practically now routo to the ocean and to tho markots of tho Enst, apd the consequont saving to the peoplo of tho Valloy of tho Diiaslaslppi of 6 to 10 conts por bushol in frolght charges, wo trust that this troaty will bo spoodily maturcd, and that tho Bepato will not adjourn until itls ratifled. Moan- whilo, Buoorotary Flsh 14 to bo congratulated on &0 hanpy & complotion and Founding out of tho Troaty of Washjugton, with which his name Is now indissolubly connected. THE NEW COURT-HOUSE, ‘We print- olsowhoro articles from the Union and Staafs-Zeltung upon the proposod mnew Court-Flouyo, which protest very atrongly agaiust taking any steps towards tho ercction of the bullding, if it must involve any additional taxa~ tlon of the alroady overburdoned people. Theso artiolos will recoive tho hearty snd unsnimous approval of tho tax-payers of Chicago, who aro now trying to solve tho problem how thoy shall poy tho taxos of 1873, Tho position of these papors {8 gralifylng s showing that tho respootablo olasa of Gormans are in favor of publio economy, but there 18 snother and & largo olass, composed of bummors and emall ward-policlan; “whiloh 1a “bont upon going ahoad with the work for tho sake of tha piok- ings and stealings to bo got ont of it. Thelr tracks are visiblo In tho proccedings of the Common Counoll, .Ju order to scoure the ad- vantageq of “addition, division, and silence," tho bulldlog of the Court-Houso hag beop mad | » politieal-job, and tho disrespootable eloments of the Poople's Party are alrendy forming rings snd combinations favoring cortamn architoots. Tho Gormana want anothor. Tho Irlsh want tholr national oharactoristios roflootod in the Court-Houso § tho Gormans want thelrs, Upon tho question of building -tho Court-House, tho two papors wo bnve quoted arc sound. Upon tho quostion what the Court-Ilouso shall bo when bullt and who shall build i, they give nosign, Itis understood that Mr. Hesing do- slros {6 to bo, when the propor time comes to build it, a trlumph of Gorman gonlus, It is highly probable tbat Mdrk Sherldan would like to have it o triumph of Irish gonius, Whother any ono would liko to have it & triumph of Amorican gonius la quito immatorial, a8 tho Amorican -oloment doos mot figure Now, in tho oroo- tion of tho Court-House it would bo mani- fostly unfair to have it oithor all Gorman or all Irish. Why not compromiso lot the job to an Irish architoot and a'German architoct, and have tho bullding & triumph of Hibernico-Toutonlo gonius? This could ensily be accomplished by glving the Irish one-half of it and tho Germana the ofhor half, and thon instruoting the ro- spective nrolutects to exhaust thoir nattonal abilities in ornamonting their rospective por- tions. In this manner one wing of tho Qourt- Houso might havo a glorlous sun-burst emblaz-" onod upon its front. A, placo of tho original Blarnoy-stono might be fusorted In the walls liko tho fragmont of PlymouthRook in the New England Church, Obnracteristio logends, Mko ¢ Exin go bragh" ana * Coad millo fafithe might be chigoled undor its cornicos. Home chioles Trish bulls might guard tho ontrancos, like their Aesyrian sncostors in the old tomplos, Druidical round towors in profusion could shoot up from its roof, and on tho loftiest of thom might porch & Milesian Vonus. Green stones from Luke Buperior might reliove the masonry horo and thero, and, abovo all things, the sham- rock should plentifully bestrow the_ structure with its fiifoliato clusters. This done, thon hoist tho greon flag upon tho highest peak of this triumph of lrish genius, The Gor~ man architeot should havo equal latitudo’ with his end of tho building, Lot him rovel in Gothio gargoyles and froscoes from Faust. Lot him docorate bis friezes with fantastic combina- tions of the intorlacing ‘Protzel and lnked ‘Wara, 8o suggestivoof architoctural ormamonta- tion, Let him write '* Wilkommen,” * Frigch, froh, und frei,” * Gomuotlichtkelt,” and * Zwel Logor,” “wherover and &s frequently na he plenses. Let him oonstruct & versnda upon which aGorman band may discourso Btrauss, and Lanner, sad Gungl, in tho summor evonings. Lot Gambrinns’ rosoate face snd portly form confront tho Milesian Vonua from the highost gable. Let the Prusslan Esgle, looking two ways for Bunday lost it be violated, scroam a deflant duet at Muclkoers -and Wagser-sompola. Let bim loavo & Hole-in-the-Wall for s beor and bouillion whop. Let him combino the most ‘beautiful samplos of architocture from Nurom- berg, Holdelberg, Magdeberg, Schwartzborg, and sl the othor borgs, This doue, then holst tho tri-color upon tho highoet poak of this triumph of Gorman genius, Bome such compro- miso s this might Do agrocablo, sod tho Poople's Party would undoubtedly find somo mutuslly .agrooablo plan of compromigo &8 to tho monoy to Do divided. "Wo are glad that tho Union and Staats-Zeitung are agrood that the Court-House ought not to be built with money derived from taxation, ‘Bofar, 80 good. Thoy havo no objection to building it out of tho proceeds of the salo of unproductive city property. Thatalsols well enough, porhaps. Now will they not go & step farther and explain why It is necoseary that ono ring should be formed In ordor to make it 'a triumph of Gor- man goning, and anothor for tho purposes of,** ad- dition, division, and silence "? . MB. FLAGG'S. LETTER, ‘We publish to-day a lottor ‘from Mr.'W. O. Tlagg, Progident of tho State Farmers' Associs~ tion of Illinots.. The letter is dererving of com- ment, 88 tho Btato Farmors' Asgociation is, des~ tinad to play an important part in the politics of tho Htato. Mr. Flagg ocoupies a prominent pa- sition in that body. Thoreforo, botk on hia ao- count and aa giving somo inglght_into tha at- titude of tho Association at tho . hoad of which ho stands, his lottor will be perused with intorost. Tho roport has been circulated that Mr, Flagg is & *‘strong ndvocate of the Presidont in his veto of the Infation bill."' The letter we publish will show that it is rathor of tho voto he is an_advocato, and ‘only for tho renson that he bolieves our monoy noeds *‘im- provement - in quality rather than lnoreaso in quantity.” That Mr. Flagg is xight in thinking that- our ourrenoy does mnot mneed &n inaronso i{n quantity, - overy one at " all familiar with tho situation of our banks and tho condition of the money market will agree. Thoro is emplo evidenco that money ia plenty, and ean bo had, by any onme who omn give security, on ensy torme, That our ocurrency is’ in noed of pn improvement in qualily, all who favor spocie resumption, all who oppose ropu- Qintian, a)l'who lndorsa the Proaldont’s voto, will acknowledgo. g It may be, 88 Mr. Flagg asys, that in indorsing the President’s voto ho Is uot in acoord with the ‘majority of tho farmors of INlinois. Howover this may bo, wo aro convinced that heis in ac- cord with mojority of the people of the Btate. Of tho 246 nowspapors in Illinols that have ex. prosxed an opinion on the question, 139 sustaln the Prosidont’s voto against 117 opposing it But oven If Mr. Flagg 8 In the minority now, among the farmors, thoro 1s tenson to believe that Lo will not long bo so. ... 4 § 4 Undoubtedly the curroncy quostion is an fm- portant ono, and * possibly dangorous for' the Farmers'. Assoolatioli to meot " ; but, ng Ar. Tlagg very truly remarks, tho chancea of sur- vival of the Farmora' ‘Asgoclation aro quito as good ag thogo of the Ropublican and Demo- cratio porties, Wo will ‘go even farther than Br. Flagg just bhero. tho chancos of survival of the Farm. ors' Assoclatlon much groater than those of tho Domooratic party; for ik Ia young and_ more vigorous thsn that party, andits record, unlike that of tho lattor, {8 a ‘good one, Its prospocts are cortainly bottor than thoss of thie Ropublioan party. The Nopublican party hias boon at loast a8 much divided on the money queation ns the Farmers® Asdociation ; and has this additionsl fact mgainst it, that its opposing factions have already comoe into open and violent collision with each othior, and that welthor of them can now rotroat. It s difffoult to imagino what tho Logang and ortons will say whon thoy come homo, or dur- ing the next csmpaign. The quostion beforo the coutitry, and tho ouly ona on whigh they can tako lssuo, la. tho Presldental veto, To be pllont on the subject of .the yeto. is o bp defoated;. mod to -opposo it Is | Wo thinlk | to doolare war ngmnst tholr own Captaln, Bhiould the Farmors' Assoclation bo divided on the ourrenoy question, it is no more In dangor of amnshing on tbls rock than any othor party, while tho ** ohancos of survival® aro at least 50 por cont groator than thoso of tho Ropublican party. THE QOLLEGE, AT COLORADO SPRINGS. Thia fostitution is tho first regular collego founded in tho Rocky Mountaln licgion, and la contrally located smong tho poople of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, sud Now Moxlco, who are far romoved from tho educatloual advantagos of our oldor communitics aud States, It has notonly & rapldily iucrensiog achool populstion in the Rooky Mountaln torritorioa to provide with col- Jogiato opportunities (in Qolorado alone are 10,000 youth, 8,000 now in thets graded sohools), but {t biag a work to porform in proparing tosch- ors for tho common schoola of tha coustry, os- poolally among the Bpanish-speaking peoplo of ‘Bouthern Colorado and New Moxico, snd 1t 18 nooded also 88 o resort for thowe under- graduntos and youth in our Middlo and ‘Eastorn Btates who cannot complete thoir dosired educa- tiou in our chmate, but who might eafoly and successfully study in the more salubrious oli~ ‘mate of Colorado, and especinlly at Colorado Bprings, which lLns come to bo regarded as the great eanitarium of the Wost. Tuo nat- ural advantafes of an education securod amid tho' grandest Aconory of Amorica or the world are roadily apprecinted by the lovers of Naturo ; and tourists and all good judges of our Rooky Mountuln sconery agreo that thore could not havo boen solosted & moro suitabte sito for a Rocky Mountain University than the young and thriving town of Colorado Springs, Tt is oharmingly located among tho grandest Iaboratorios of Naturo,—such as Monumont Park, Glonn Egrle, Gardon of tho Gods, Ghoyonne Oanon, Pike's Poak, and Ute Pass, whilo east- ward lios adjacent tho richly-diversified sconery of tho Ohiosgo Ranch of many . thousand acros, snd tho vast plains formerly known 08 tho Great Amerioan Desert, It has an Intelligont population of mear 3,000 now in the third year of its sottlement, and yet will nover be 8o Jarge o city that a good college will not be & londing power in tho placo ; it is also n highly moral community, and has a valld tomporance olause in its landed titlos, like Evauston, the sont of tho Northwostern Umiversity, Tho col- ooy, moreover, hns made most liboral appropri~ atlons of land and money to help found tho University on & broad and permanent basis. Thoy havo dovoted their best publio square of 20 aoros ass sito for tho collogo buildings, have givon ten- onc-noro lots nenr by—oach worth §1,000—for Faculty residoncos, 70 actes of un- ®old lots within tho corporation imits to induco educntional familics to como and purchase rosi- dondos in aid of the colloge, and §10,000 in oash, according to tho ratio of funds to bo raised out~ sido tho town, to the amount of somo 350,000, Buch 'is' the nature of tho oducational enterpriso undortaken in Colorado, and rop-: resonted by Prof. Haskoll, who has been appointod by an able Bonrd of Trustees to seok financisl md and sultable porsons to constitute & Faoulty for both the malo and fomale depart- monis, Prof. Jonathan' Edwards, of Massachu- sotts, has beon already socured, and ia at work organiziug a proparatory dopartmont 1n tho pub- lio halis furnished by tho town, and roceiving &lso such undergraduates of Eastern Institutions ag may apply for instruction, Tho firsk sununl mooting of the'Board will bo held in June, when full corps of inatructors will be clected and the - regular collogo your provided for. Wo aro confideat this important cause will have the most cordial encoursgomont, especially by thogo of our citizons who have property in- torests in Colorado or who hive over boen thore. O eee s Thoy have a Lappy way of sottling lnsults {n Tppor Bavoy. M. Paccard, Anneoy, was onbad torms with tho Commandant of Gendarmerie, Ouno ovening the lattor, while sitting tpon Lis baloony, hoard o sucezo under- neath him:: Ho looked over tho bulcony and beheld his enemy preparing to sncozo sgain. “Ha blood boilod, but, bofore ho could proteat, . Paccard drow. out his bnndanva and blew a trumpot blast upon his moso which mado tho Anrieoy wolkin ring. This was too much. A quar- - relarose, and spocdily tho wholo population took sidos. Tho Mayor roaigned and thon the mom- bera of the Municipal Council resigned. Fol- lowing -tho resignation, the Commandant brought tho ox-Mayor bofore the polico tribunal, In order “to Aco " what the ‘Govornment had to sey about this weighty mat- tor, tho Court witbheld its dociston for eight days. How muoh better thia is than our South- orn'practica! A gontloman in Loulsiava, for in- stanco, who should bo guilty of eneozing and ‘Plowing bis nosoe in the noighborhood of anothor gentloman with whom he.was on bad torms, would bo obliged to go ovor into Missisaippl and shoot tho gontloman aneozad at, or bo hot him- 80lf, and thus forovor be deprived of Lord Dun- dreary's favorite luxury, The affairs of honor In tho Bouthern codo are no leas ridiculous than tho Savoy Mayor’s -enceze, and might bo settled in the same legitimate mannor, —_— “Come, s0e how & Christinn can die,” Addison ia roported to havo snid to his atep-son on the day of his desath. The anti-Christian proes of England has just been orying “Sce how an ‘athoist ¢an dio,”” over the grave of Austin Holy- onke, 8, brothor of George Jacob. Holyoake, the woll-known sgitator, co-operator, and athoist, whom the notes to Mili's ** Liborty " first intro- duced . to this country. Austin Holyoalke knew for months that ho must surely die soon, but his nop-faith never waverad. Ho went to his death as onlmly as though sustainod by a cer taloty of a blissful otéraity. IHe dled with as ‘muck rosignation s theroligions usually do and aa the athoists of tho French Revolution did. CObarlos Bradlaugh, his businoss-partnor, oulo- gzod him at tho grave. Tho funersl core- mony conslatod of tho rouding of 2 curious ‘burial-servico, writton by the docoased Limself, ‘Ita tono onn bo soon'by tho followlng extraota: “He derlved his belng from the ‘bountiful mother of .all; he returns to hor capncious ‘bosom to again mingle with the eloments. , . Tor yoars ho rosted placidly in tho' huvon of solt-knowlodgo. . . Thisisthe only immor-- tality af-which wo know, the immortality of tho. grontonos of tho world .who have benofited tholrngoand raco, . . Afan hms o Dhoaven t00, bus not that droamad of by some, faf, ' far away, boyod tha, olonds, but Lora .on oarth, oréatod by the firosida and built up of the lova and rospoot of ‘kindrod aud frionds.” ‘About 400 athoists woro prosont. —————— The firat praotical move toward tho - construc~ tion of a tunnol between Great Dritain and TFrance has beon taken. The Council-Goneral of Arras has epproved the proliminary reports, the diplomatio difloultics have beon -gettled, and the two railrond compames chiofly intorested—tho Northorn of France, and the Southoastorn Oom- pany of England, have arranged to supply tho fuuds nooossary for tho preliminary work. Por- hinps thore has boon nothing which has kept tho English and Fronch spart 5o much as tho Chan- nel passago. The Fremchman raroly travels, loagt of &ll by sea. A gront work like this will bo very likely to bring tho two nations together aud moke thom bottor aoquainted with each other; aud better aoquaintance will do more than anything eleo to remove tho old-time proju- dlcos botweon tha two. ————— The Now York Arcadian mukos the charge that plaglarivm {8 bocoming of daily acourronas, eupocially in our periodical literature, and brings forward two notsblo iustanocs, Tho fst of- thoso is & long illustratoa artlolo on the stago, printed in the April numbor of Hurper's Alonthly, slguod by Olive Logan, which ia & litoral brans- Iation from » well-known Fronch work, outitled “1'Envors du Thoatro,” by M. Moyron, with the exception that somo of the phrases aro Americanizod and-American plays are substi- tuted for Fronch oucs, -Lven the outy are pils the Mayor of: forod, Thosocond Ipatanco fa sn article fn the Now York Observer on “Tho Tirolosn Bratn," by J. R. MoDouald, which Is takon almost bodily from tho ' Autoorat of tho Diroakfast Tablo,” 1t ia bighly probably chat hoth Mr, MoDonald and Miss Logan wero absent-minded when they * committed theso thofts, but poople troubled with such mental Inpsos should not make chojas ol works 80 woll known for tho gratification of thelr Jittlo idlosynoracios, —_——— Tho Now York Commeroial Advertlser aays it I8 o rematkabla feot that *“whilo the wholosalo enles alono of Chiongo for 1878 amountoed to £630,000,000, and her manufaotures to $105,- 000,000, bor notunl financisl condition, as shown by hor lst of dolinquent tnxpayors and her prostrato Iabor-market, wa novor worso,” It i vory strange that n journal like the Commercial Advertiser should not discovor that there isa radioal defoct in such reasoning. 'Wlio dofeot ia that tho taxpayors It rofers to aro delinquont only ln namo, While both tho olty and county toxes aro past due, thoy have mot yet haen advertised, and will not bo for moro than & month, Threo wooks' public notica 18 raquired before application for judgment can bo mado, and it Is gonorally sevoral wocks after nuch judgmont Is rondered boforo -tho property 18 8ol for taxes. It will not ba fair- t6 mako up Chleago's delinquent tax-list, thoroforo, bofora thoe 18t of August, sinco the majority of tuxpay- ©ors have como o understand that no conlderas ble ponalty for fatluro to pay is incurred bofors that timo, It would bo very patriotic 1 large taxpnyors would antlolpate tho lnst momont of payment ; but this falluro to do so con ‘scarcely’ to used s ovidenco of Chicago's bankruptoy. Thia is ospocially truo in view: of the recent bank statemonts, which show that thore is mara monoy in Chicago than over beforo. g ‘Whon Nast, of Harper's Weekly, employsd bis pencil carloaturing the Demooratio party and tho Liboral loaders, the Republicans found the cartoons very funny, and cousidered tholr author tho king of caricaturists. But since ha Das found » fow laughable subjacts among tho Ropublicans thomaolves, all tho fun haa do- partod, and Naat is discovered to bo very nasty indood, Togan, Mortor, snd Yerry have had tholr piotures takon by Mr. Nast. Thoir organ in thig ity thinks that thelr fenturos wero, in & fow instancos, oxaggoratod—to say tho loast, not very carofully raproduced; but thet thoy wora mnot altogothor unlike their prototypes {8 evident from tho .fact that they wero found recognizable. Tho rmathotio tasto of the ropudiation organ is offended. Afr. Nast is not o Raphael. Ho 18 pronounced to ba absolutoly *coarse,” This is, of courso, very impropor in & *Journal of Civilization,"—n Journal not devoted exclusively to fun and bur~ leaquo. Had Logan, Morton, oto., boon caricas tured by any one eléo, or in & journal devoted to burlesquo, it would have boon all woll. Whon Nast ridioules the Domooratio party or men.of Liboral ideas, he is & Lero, When ho ridioules tho Republicans, ho is » buse follow, nothing moro, R e, Bwitzerland hag, by 185,000 mnjority, adopted & new Constitution. By it education is mado compulsory snd seoular; and put ontiroly under tha regulation of Government. It provides for & contral univorsity to which the adliorents of all croeds shall bo admitted. It was thought nocossary to {utroduce an article to tho effoot that tho Govornment should protect thorights of sllits citizons sgainat the encronchment of eo~ olematical authority. WATER TRANSPORTATION: The Construction of tho Georgian Bay Cunal Before the Canadinn Pariiax ment, Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribuns., OrTAWA, May 12.—Blain, in tho Houso of Commons yosterday, moved his resolution inm favor of improved wator communication, with reforenco moro particularly to tho Georgian Bay Caual. Ho ontered into an elaborato statistionl statomont of tho graiu-producing capacity of the American Continont, and {ts offect on the mar- kots' of tho world; oxamined: questions of freight and cost of water-carringe by existing routes, aud showed that the tandency of trade wae to come by moro mnortherly routes. Ho. argued tbat thero was a large enving of distanco by - usig tho Canadinn routos, and that o further ECONOMY OF TIME AND DISTANCE would be sacured by tho construction and adop-~ tlon of the Huron & Ontario Canal as & means of washing the wators of the 8t, Lawronce from tho Wost sud Northwost. Thero would be a large saving, too, by using ships of rroater ca~ pacity than’ thoso now pagsing through tho ox- sting canale. At progont there wero millions of dollara worth of grain wasted anuually, owin morely to the want of moona of tranaporting i to market, whilo tho peoplo of Europe wero paying oxorbitantly for the nogessnrios of hifo, Tha present canals could not reliove the acoumn- Iation of trafile. TIE WORK WAS A NATIONAL ONE, and degorving of full sttention and considern~ tion. Enfilunorfl of tho highost stunding in En- glsnd had pronounced fuvorably upon tho Boliomo, and thio aid asked for tho work.was bub o triflo compared with the bonoflts that would, necrue from it. Oook, of North Bimico, defonded the scheme and Notris, of Lincolu, opposod it, and appaarad n8 tho. advocato of tho Welland Canal. Dy~ mond, of North York, who i aleo & meimbor of tho Globe's editorial staff, recommended that the scheme bo dealt with by the Government rather than by the plan proposed, Promier Maokenzie supposed the mover had gained what ho expected by the discussion. Ho neserted that Lhe Government was NOT PREPARED TO TARE STEFS {n favor of th &choma at present, nor could the House commit itsclf to tho motion. Doth Mac- kenzie and Polton alluded to tho fact’ that the House had alroady doliberated and deelded uson tho enlargoment of the Wellend Crual, and to proposs w-now sohiemo wna practically o revareo that polioy, aa thoy could not undortake both improvemants, As only a fow duys yob_romain- ed of thio session, aud a5 inquiry could, not ba made, thoe Promier rocommonda .7 THE WITIDRAWAL OF TIIE MOTION; He also pomted out the groat diversity of opin. ion provailing, and thought an adverue voto of the Ylousa 4t pronont would aid tho undor- aking. e Hon, Dr, Tuppor, of tho Opposition, also Joined in this advice, and the resolution wah ao- cordingly witharawn, Tho Tmprovement of Fox nnd Wiscon= sin Rivors. | Svecial Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tribune. Osttiontr, Wis., Dny 12.—~The Board of Trado appointed & ocommitteo consisting of Gabo Bouck, Mavor Jones, K, M. Ituchinson, J. B. Davis, and T, 8. Allen to draw up & call fora oonvontion of the paoplo of Wisconain, Iow aud Minnegotn; -to disouss tho improvoment of tho Fox and Wisconsin Rivors. It is undorstood that tho ofticars in cliarge of thio impravement dosire such action by tho pooplo, and will ons courngo tho appointment of & committeo to act tor tho peoplo. ¢ e o & SPRINGFIELD, The Auditor’s IRoport—Gove Hova oriidge’s Movements, Sneetal Dispateh to iho Chicago Tribune, Bruixorierp, 1N, May 12,—Tho Auditor's semi-annual report for the six montbe ending Barch 81, 1874, made to Gov, Doveridge, shows the amount of bis rogistration and insurance facs to bo na followa: Raglatration foes, $ 570 Inauraiico fou 13,160 Total,. 315,70 Gov. Bovoridge leavos to-night for Anna to fospoct the naw Inwne Asylum fn procoss of araction there, o §°BB from thoro to 8t, Louls to atteud the Prison Reform Oonvontion, [ UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION. New York, Moy 12.—Tho oighth anniveras: of the Amorican Branch Unlvogmnl Peaca Uuiorx’: commenced to-duy. ‘The avnual roport was road congratulatiug tho membors on the succoss whiol attended thelr offorta during the pnst your. A highi oulogium wus passad on iho life oud oharactor of the lato lnnented Charles Sutn~ ner, whom thoy mourned as’a statesman apd putlauthroplst, whoso world-wido reputation was much incroasod by his faithtulness ‘u tho cause of poncn. Tesohitlons wore rend and adopied udvgunt{ng tho objeots of the Soclety, '