Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 16, 1874, Page 6

*=5hich tho official reporters of tho Housos of Rep- i $10.45@10.60 sollor June, . Ments wero in good 5 domand and 6tondy, nt 0o for shoulders, 88.75 xziN® OF sUDSCMIPTION (PAYADLE TN ADYANGRL - | o7 ghort ribs, D0 for short clear, and 104@11370, 81580 :83:88 | tor swoot-plokiod Lams. Lsko frolghts. wor 0 8Ama Tato, R quito aotiveand unobanged, at 434o for. wheat to ¢ k A o lon, flour 0 e 33.’;‘3.5 o:vfi: agtivo it stronget, " closing,,. nt ©ffios order, or in rogistored lottars, At our riske I 1 P T #1,203¢ cash, $1.99 ‘moller Juno, and #1265 for nte per wooke TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE Dally, delivored, Bunday excented, 25 eante DIT Do), 0 No. & Minunesota. Corn was aotivo, and 3¢o high- Y, 3 Tnoludod, f0 conta 2. . ] 2 P 1o U RN CONPANY, | o ociug b 630 onsh, d 090 sellor duno. Uhlongo, Jil d Dearbo Onta wore qulot and Sgo highor, olosing at 463, casly, and 470 sollor June. Ryo' was nominally unohanged, at 08c. Uarloy was dull and nominal, at 93@U0o for No. 8. Hogs woro aptive and firm- orj salon at $4.25@0.00. COattle were in fair do- ‘mand at firmor ratos. ' Bhioop dull, and 26@b50c lowor. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. —_— toan fadlaon oteot yonol, MVIOKER'S THEATRIE-M Heon exai UBIO- Ilnhwdwtmnll{mtwufin li"nd- ACADEMY OF 31 coment of Dullato Bill, Moro it stonr, SRS e, Khomoon asd fiseit voning. P S A % stroot, batwoon | Bpoculation is ag 8" OFRHA-IIDUBE Maonron i ombio's . g ::x'{f': i late: :flfi‘::,',,"fl':lflf:’;:‘;nhur osquo ** 144 | tion of Presidont Gr ighnds Nots.” Afternoon and oveniug. nanco bill, in its prosont shapo, Is prosented to ;~Cornor of Wabash .avenuo | him for approval. ‘L'ho balance of opinfon s on by porformanco, ~Loom ) *“Thireo Dwarfs." Aftor- | tho side of nnothor voto messago.: It,should bo, | romemberad, howover, that the balance of opin- {on {8 not & good monsuro of . tho . Presidont's in- tontions. A common-soneo "' view of . the onso {8 thot tho .Prosldent, .has not marked out any irrovooable course of action in viulv'o! & contingency 80 remote as the ono under :on-‘ldumllun.' The - prodictions of cnflusp&nd- entd and reports of confidontial intorviews with ‘| tunt storootypod myth, “ & prominont Western Congressman,” aro about a8 unsubstantial fare | 28 cin bo offeredto anxious inquirers. v {USIO HALTNorth Olark stroo BOORMION MUSIO HALT ot nds ¥ON B, Ktiornoon aud evoning. MUSTO HALL_Olark atreot, botweon D Ro. Ballock's Teoy Sasionation, "AL &?nm ‘and evoning. 5 X PHEATRE—Nox, 318-91 West Madlson A Borormason. ie: Fontalabiont Loos Brotusn, "Attaraoon and evoning. SOOQIETY MEE’ COUNOIL, No. 53, Tt Ay ol bor i il o busl- il af - : : i a. 3 Weostorn Union Telograph stock h: . I BIRD, Raoordor. , b graph g a8 long beon the foot-ball of speculators, and presont indi-* *| ‘eations are -that it will soon-bo kicked up or down with more than ordinary suimation, A roport wae_curront in Now York yestorday to tho offeot that tho Atlantio Tolegraph Compnny o ety Lios dotormined to’ btain control of Woatorn 1t ronulte “aithiough X will admit I ‘waa somewtint dise | URi0D8 and has already formed'a pool of 16,000 souragai atfor “'3:‘;""'.&'-‘:2‘!:&9":":'}}?:3&’353; pk ookt | ghares. Tho design of this movo, it it hias been R * X D . “‘K;{.’.‘;L‘fi.fifn ,,‘H“;h'_‘,’"u'?mma.?,fi"a'fi‘.h (i g made, plainly is to ‘cut off the new ocean tole- . — BUSINESS NOTICES: TING TO INVALID LADIRS, T o tamute oy Yo Dol B . D., Buffalo, N, ¥.: - - k) ur favor fa Just rocelved. T {ntonded to ¢ You avo wridion to jou sever o0’ concorning tho l Epmmnm in _my ‘hoalth, wl & 5. el Srotafuly Witet it S ruaki it aliay | BFaph company from comtinioation with foland A e, e ) o ol e B2 S8 | points on tho Amorican Conginont, * Ruch on at- lehuld od tomy distross waa y would, proveke litigation, m_hi in the Bavo suftored toreibly an: tho comeipimans of ol procuciag allof mourgest,. At times it seomed shout, nall . &ront was tho distrass. Al of th ore aigy bave disapooared, tiioy wora sa lind at tim I ‘walk without somo axtornal_prossure. havo Talt hie like maglo, suddenly, and havo had i havo bag ntnoss have.disappoarad parative suao rom ordinary | end it would vory likoly bo defoatod, In genoral, the rumors of the Street are not of such charag- ter that thoy morit attontion, but this one is . dignifled by.circumatanco % i outora Vs oF 1y npeswounin, tr L anpiai | - All England—_thio Qoweraad fhe. Joit. of the e e | et & ey St ot fos gonsidér'the benolicial results pormanent. . Acoopt of my ™ i S - m:.fl;u_:‘..fnr g:l;tll\‘mx?lnwm and your kindnosa in [icordinl roception, A broskfast-hall has boon Hins. a1, wmrose snypr. | built sololy for bie-bonofit. o hng hoon ro- " colvod at Windsor Caatlo. o has boon given spartments in Buckingham Palaco which com- i mand a view of the most ‘boautiful scenery in tho island. His sonsibilitos have boen con- sultod by. the romoval of trophics of tis Crimenn /| War whick stdod. in. public places. No paing 'l bave boen spared to mako his visit honorable uliko;to himsolf nnd the British nation. Al this wo Lnow; but, ihe purveyor of Europeun the now Finance bill, Persons who have 00 | nowshas neglactod to toll whothor the infolict- opinion of tholr own.ns to what the practical | gieg Of ¢ tho: -Princoss Marlo's housohold have workings of the bilk would b, if it should bé- | beon romoved, or, whethor the now Liboral come & law, may pin thelr faith upon thesagacity | « ylup * gives forth an uncortain sound. Tho ©of Wall gtreat.operators. " | people's curiority has been oxcited by allusions to theso itoms of nows ; to balk it now is cruol. The Chivagn Tiibune, Satardsy Morntng, May 16, 1874, Gold declined slightly in New York yostorday, in consoquence of the passage by tho Sonato of Souator' Ohandlor called ] Premdont of tho Bonato to ordor yostorday, for words spoken: | from tho ohair in the financial debate of Thurs- | uncoriain country fortho politiciana to reckon day. Tho Senator.from Michigan was a"little | ou in mmiing ‘tloir ealeulations, Its presont off from tho beaten track of parlismentary | Governmont is o lingering effect of Rousseau’s wsnge. He was apprised of the fact by Mr. | exploded Social. Contract. To-morrow it may Carponter, and induced to tulke his soat. hocome n Monarchy, and tho next day.an An- . mmm—m—msew' | arghy, Recont’ advicos aro not reassiring. Tv Dy tha torms of the troaty stipulations undef. |'js negorted’ that tho Dukoe do Broglio will whioh Grnt Brltaln seumen oontrol of tho Fift | gon | bl fu tho Assembly for tho olands, the King 14 to ransiva a enlary of D1o,000° fliih}fi&i‘fiirTiivihnimi“indfiilfiaku porsunuw, For a monarch of the onco famous L it s dirack lgane, Prosidont Thiors offorod tho Cannibal Ielands, tho allowance is rogal. There ¥ gumg i)ropnfllt,inn, and was obliged to resign in 1a evident:tairnoss in bis obtaining the meensof |- congoguenco'of. its rojection. Tho prossiog of it patiafying bis wants from tho olvilization. which | sgain monns that tho MacMabon-administration bas mulfipliod thom o thoussnd-fald. ......7 .. | 4y rondy to bring on anottior erisis, aid to stand e ;or-fall by the rosult. Of course-the tenure by which tho Presidont holds will not bo affectad by the defent of hLis Ministry. Ho will stand, whero nohad long boon, on tho edgo of o precipics,: over which ho may. go at any timo. .. Tranco, undor the rule of the Asscmbly, is an Mr. Cox took ocension yeut_m:dni to-‘protest, _Bgainat a” rocont ruling of , Bperker. Biaine, by regontatives wero instroted. ‘to, ofnit from' the Congressional Record the, words “lnughter,” ¢ appladso,” ** senantion,™ cto. The improssion Teft upon the Houge 'by Mr. Oox's remarks was that the worda referred, to.constitutod fhie casen- $i) part of bis ordinary.spooches, | -, 4. Bwing’s addrosa to tho Chicago Prosby- tory. is. published in full this moming, It Is worthy vof “him, ‘and it does 'ample jus- A tice to Prot, Patton, Tossibly “tho Int~ - 5 tor , !gontloman . may rogrot by this ,0f Ast , |Bor Alfonep, Prince,of Asturiss, {s.eaid to be tha | ;- 3 that ho_did not, tako tho procaution of coming man in Bpain. The. obscure. Ministry | 5, S Y k i mensuring swords with so formidable an antag- that lately took offico is understood to.be formed onist {beforo’ venburii. to sond’ Lim a cartel. In his interost. Tho-more intelligent pooplo, of ! B N .0 sl valie b sieiaty ave Ebkinad of the tuieell ’Thnre is.a voin.of’ puro humanity running : ‘through.tho romarke of ‘Prof. 8wing, which wiil and distross which have-prevailed 1n-the coun- | /- - 5 o )t T b . at oncb dommorids the speaker to the' heartiost try since Amudous. resigued, and they are mow thlos fot nletagnthseant “Ho- i xoady for s foablo-minded sovereign whoso vory | *72Peion ‘°U: St T woalness will bo sccurity againt tyranny, whila | #9 Uk of & Ghriatian, 5o liitle of pottifogger, bls person will offor & conveniont sallying-point | °°, 2PURdinG in big lovo of the' bosutl- ful and good in’ ovory oreature, 80 " little for ganillie lw § skilled in-tho trickeries ‘of theological fincgso, It ialnorder for the Judges of the Suprome | thats if hobe not u good Presbytéran, tho mis- Court In Arkanans to inform the country what. | fortuncis not his but:that-of tho Prosbyterian i8 their opinion of themsolves. Buoh a deliver- Churels. { . anco, iwhllo it would bhave, no woight, might [ nrr, Fr. W. Tarloy, of Oswogo, TIL., Lis fnvent- satlsfy o pardonable” curlosity. - The" Judgos | od 5 machino which ko considers dostinod to atultified tholr proviotis record, and adcompliehied | gilye the choap-transportation problom., Itcon- nothing by doiog 60, Tliey have eariied; tho slats, rouphly spesking; of a grain'clovator lnid: contompt of honost'men, and forfoited tlie ro- [ yorizontally instead of porpendioularly, in which | oot ovem of Drooks aid Liy calloagues. . By { tho bolt runs on putioysplacod at its sido instond, wll meang let {tiom spoak out, of boneath. Thus tha same side of tho bolt is always uppermost. . If it provos'a practical in- vontion, s "V Horizontal” Convosor" will bo 1aid between Ohicago aud New York. The belt will bo made of wire ;cable, sn inch.snd a half thick, running. on iron or wooden pulloys four foot above tho ground and sixtoon foot apart. The_cable will-support _stool" plates, on which will bo’ placed: tho -4 oars,” with & carrying capaclty of two bushels of grain cach, Station- ary engines, ton miles spart, Will supply the motivo powor. Buch n helt would move, it is ,calonlnted, about four miles an hour, and could tearry 200,000 bushols of grain on cach trip, st & cost of not ovor 10 conts por bushel. _Mr. Far- loy ia & gkilled mochnnio; His vlanhas boon indorod by several well-known onginoors, A Rigid Eplscopalians will take s mourafal in- torest in tho procoedings of the Roformed Councll in Now Nork. Buch sharp, work with venerable institutions “has ok, ‘boen "oen within the memory of man. The Ro- formera aro in onrnest, They smond, in- terpolato, or rojoct, and caro not what becomes of tho proyer-book, rubrics, or Apostlas’ Greod. Thoy disposed of that Listorical stum- fling-block {n. tho Crood, **He descondad into holl,” by supproasion ; and arranged convénient services for wloked Amorican. logialators by vig- orous alteration, It will be many years beforo the moss grows on tho Roformed Episcopal Church, - On thoe third pag of this papor—the first of tho sapplemontary shost—will befound a lotter from Bonutor Carponter to hig constituents, in rogard to tho Wisconsin Raliroad law. The Seuna- tor holds that the :Loglalaturo Las ample pnwar’P to alter, smend, or totally ' ro- poal tho, chartors of railroad corporationy. It mey give thom onlarged priviloges,’ orrestrict or umend thoso which thoyalready pon- sogs, Mr. Carpentor controverts tho assumption of Mcsers. Curtis md Evarts, that raflways ore private estatos; -aud; quotes copiously from Judicial doclslons in support of the contrary viow, that the roads are public domain and high- Tho Chicago produco markots were gonerally waya for tho use of tho pooplo. Tho atrong yesterday, with an aotive businesa in the | opinlon of so ominent a lawyer s Bana- loading dopartments; Moss pork waa in great | tor- Oarporitor 'l doserving of serlous An oxplanation has been given of the roported arrost In ‘Bt. Petorsburg of the Graud Duké Nicholay, The porson arrosted was Prince Nicholas, & son of the Grand Duke There was nothing _horolo mbout his offense. Ho: stole @lamonds from Lis mothor and_ beatowad, thom upon & Fronch actross. Anybody possoased of & motbor who wours dismonds can. emulate the Prince's action to-morrow, and the Princo’s fate will probably ovortake him on Mondsy. This young Nicholas Is known through all Rus: 8 young rascal, dostitute of & sonse of honor, a shama to the Royal family, and an offenso to the nation, pooted from him ne from M : Quetinand Evarts, who woro rotalnod by the rallroad’ com= panios,’ Ono polut Ia not Eatisfactorily cstab lishod by him, viz: fim.mmn] 1-Igl§\‘7 of any Gov- oriimont o soize the proporty of ‘one class of mon for the benofit of anothor clags, i gl ol Vi Atlngt tho suthorities In Washington have takort sides In tho Ariansaa war, Tho Prosidont inanedl p° proclamation yoatordsy, in whioch o rooltad tho facts in tho caso, . xooognized Baxter 88 Governor, stated the . conatitutional obliga- tlons, rsutlug upon himself, and ‘ordered tho disporsion of turbulont and disordorly - por- ,8ons In Arkensas—moaning tho Brooks militin —within _ton dnys, The proolamation s bosed npon an opinfon rendered by Atty.-Gon, Williama, whioh is in sovoral rospoeocta & ro- ‘|l markablo doliverauco. It aflirma that tho do- cislon of tho Cireuit Court of Pulaski County, undor golor of which Baxtor was drivon from the' Btato-Tlouso, was procured by , collusion’ botwoon Brooks, the Judges of tho Courts, and tlo protended dofendsnt in the suit, and that tho proceodiug was only takon for the purpoas of making up case on which to ask Fodoral intorvention, Another pointiof interest in cofincclion with' tho opinlon s the ontiro absorico of argumont from any of tho ovents which have transpirod in Arkansas sinco tho do- clslort of the Lowor Court was carriod into -effect. . Tho mooting of the Legislature and the second doclelon of -the Bupromo: Court ap. porotitly 4ind ‘no- wolght at all with'Atty.s Gon. :Willidma. "If, thon, the proclamation’ of Prosidont Grant is doduced from thie advico of *biy confidontial law-officor, it might have boon “fssod 'whon tho Arkansia insurroction first brokoout. We bollove that Lo ought to havo dono at that timo what ho has just'dono; but it would bo ungracious to withhold from him tho 'n;o’dlg of having reached a correct concludion in & tortuous and roundabout way. ST —— i | - BENATOR SHERMAN'S BILL, ' Notwithatanding tho fact that Sonator Shor- mon yotod agalust bis own finauco’ bill aftor it 1ad beon amondod by tho Iato infiation party it “thid"Sonato, wo aro porsuaded that' ite’ passago, oven Iu ita prosont rugged and mutilated sbape, would result in an improvement of ‘tho- public oradit, and in tho gradual elovation of the greén- bidk | curronoy to the lovol- of ‘a- 43¢: por cout ‘gold ‘bond. Suol ‘s bond 18 now worth .about 05 cents in coln.' Auy messuro whiclh lovks to' tho oconyersion of :our frredecm- ablo { paper.. .into o gold-bearing bond, of liglor valuo than tho grooubnok itsolf, must raiso’ the currenoy to tho valud of the bond whonoever tho timo "oomos for offecting the' on~ vorsion. . Tho timo fixed in tho blll.as smendod. is tho 18t of Janunry, 1878, 'This ls noarly four years off ; mnovertholoss it Is & atap toward spo- cio:pnymont, ‘and therefors must tond to im- prove tho public credit—to lift up all olasacs of 'p(xblx? obligations, including the 43¢ por conts into which the grooubacks ‘aro ultimately con- vertible. Thowo bonds would go as: high, as 97 boforo tho Iat of January, 1878, if a mischlovous " ammondmont had not been adopted limiting the’ time thoy have to run to ton yosra. Novertho- loss they will go 4bove 05, aud if 'wo ovor gob within & per cont of full spocie payment tho publio will domand that the remaining step shall bo takon. Tho provision'of tho bill which ro- quires the Bocrotary of the Treasury to, roftaue .tho greenbaoke which ehall have boen sont in for oconversion into bonds, will dofeat itaclt, to's groat'oxtent, because the” groonbacks: cannot be kept out, Thoy will -flow back for conversion into bonda ‘Whicnover the volumo outstanding, is such a8 to dopross : their valuo bolow that of the bond into which thoy areconvertible. Tho most objectionable feature of the:bill. is that which authorizes the Becrotary to pay out theso green- backs for’ tho’ current exponsos of the Govorn- ment. Thore will be an acoumulation of cur- roney'in the Troasury when the procoss of con- vorsion- bogins, and, if it can bo paid_out for aui¥roht.exponsos, like monoy collocted by taxes, tho" temptation . to make, oxtravagant . ap- vropriations *will . ba ever i. prosont < bo- foro Congress, and tho sppotites of the lobby will ‘bo: whettod ! in proportion ‘to. 'the mount of the accuraulation, Tho greonbacks receivedtin:exchango :for the 43¢ por cont bonds should not bo sgain paid out of tho Trens- ‘ury, but, if paid out at sll, it should be ouly for the purchage of other obligations of the Unitod Btates boaring a highor rato of intérast. The current oxpenses of the Govétnment should b6 paid by taxation, and not by borrowing money at 43¢ por cout intoreat. ) - Thd amondment which socms to liave boen most~ offensive -to the original . friends ot ‘the il is' that which roducos tho ' porcontago. of groonbacks relired, ms -now Natlonal-Bank notos aro Issued, from 50:por gent -to 26 per cont, As tho bill now mads,‘lnn bauk- ing is authorized, and, whenever 8 new bauk is establishod and takes out $100,000 of.ciroulation, 826,000 of groonbacks shall bo rotired and can~ ‘ueln_d.‘ Holding, as we do, the opinion that very littlo new bank currenoy will bo ealled for in any evont, and that a5 ruch will, be surrondorod aud retired by.cxisting banks in the largo citios na will .bo called for by-the smallor, 'towhs . for somo timo to .come, we fall to. por- coivo the dangers lurking in the amond- ment. In. our view;'tho rotiromont and ‘cancollation of any greonbacks' wlhiatsoovor i n'stop toward specio paymiout. The retiroment of 50 por cont would bea greater atop than the retirement of 25 por cont; hovortiioloss ‘the ro- tirombnt of 25 por cont'is & stop in tho samo di- rection, If {hio inflationiata fancy that thoy have. ' gainod snything by the bill, they ave vastly mis-; takon, Thoy know as Ijttle of _tho rosf offoct ot tho measure they have votod for s they did,of tho one. which tho'Presidont votood. Tho bill “even nsnmended is s.surrendoraf all tholr olafma and protontiona, If tho Proeidont votoos it, as it 18 rumorod ho, will, ho must do ao for somg othor renson thin its oharscter as a monsure of infla- tion. ! PROCEEDINGS IN BANKRUFPTOY, JIn our court report of yostorday was a stato- mont that, in the maiter of the Joliot Iron and Steol Company, Thomas Blakoy filed n potition averring that tho Third National'Bank of tuis ‘clty was & croditor ‘of said Compmny to tho ahqunt of "$08,000, secured by property Valued | at 875,000 ; that thodebt was due, aund that tho *bank would sell the'seourltios unless rostrained. An {njunction was granted rostraining the salo, ‘Dhus: tho Third National Bauk finds itsolf ontt- tled to $63,000, with ample soourily to make good tho'debt, but ite bands tied by an order of court, —and for how long no ono can toll,—all because thio Joliot Iron and Btosl Company happons to 'bo in’ bankruptoy, aud spito of tho fact that it was in view of that. possible contingenocy that tho bank demauded and obtainod collatoral see domand, and 10@160 por brl higher, olosiug at | consideration, Itmaybotrue that hig sympa-| ourity for tho monoy advanced by lt. Thisls $17.00 cash, sud $17.05 selior: June, . Laxd wait?| thios have warped his judgment; but a candid © 1 ‘yiow of the. witustion may a8 réasonablybo oxy, fuledaud 15@175o per 1001be bigher, oldalng b not tho only Justanco . in which & similar Injuncs tlon_king’ ‘boor grauted ‘on proclsgly slmilas T THE CHICAGU DIILY, TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1874 gra/umlu Wo rdfer to this ‘only beonuso it hap- Dotta ta bo o latest ono. ; A'gontieman 'ty Now York, ihe holdor of trust-deod socuring tho pay- mont of money, wroto to his lawyor in this olty, aftor tlio dofault of his creditor, to aall tho prop- | erty convoyod by tho deed. An order was mado: by’ the 'Court ‘probibiting the salo, on poil- tion of snothor -oroditor. . In ‘a third Instance, ‘ono L, borrowed n largo sum of money from tho United Statos Mortgage Com- pauy, giving ns’ npnurlly & mortgage on cortain roal oatato, L. aftorwards sold the samoroat - ealato to acortain hto-inanrance company, sitbject to the mortgago just named. Tholife-insuranco company bosamo. bankrupt, tho monoy becams duo, and tho Mortgago Company wiah'"to forg- ologo, but are hindorod by an injunction granted at tho instanco of Mru. X., o eroditor of tho lite- lquurg;anco company, on tho ground that, it the mortgagoe bo now foreclosod, tho real estato will bo sold at m eaorifics, ! Unloss thore bo somo very good reason for the lnlor(orqnco of, the Oourt In the promisos, ita action in granting thoso injunctions should ro~ colvo tho most unqualified condomnation, It the Iaw requires an’injunction to bo ‘fssued in all cagos, whoro & dobtor—aftorwatds s bankrupt— hn‘glv:cn collatoral ssourity to a cortain oroditor, ou tho prayer: of snother’ croditor who has no such doourity, no blamo, of courso, attaches to tho Court. But thefo is o such Jaw; nnd it is hard fo #0b how the dlsarotion aceorded to Courts onn'bé pushied to silch an oxtept aa to involvo im- gub-ln;g‘ the obligations of acontract. This action of tha Court cannot but have s very bad offoot on commiorcialorodit.i Collatorals ara required mainly from partios of whosa future_eolyoncy thoro’ ‘is somo doubt. 1f collatorala aro- mado worth- lean or uncertain, there will bo vory littlo londing of manoy to such pattios, and basiiess in overy branch'will foel this laok of confidonce.’ Boou- rity I8 givon” aud, roquired ouly booausa it is | ™ ‘foarod that by reason ,of bankruptoy or somo othor.contingency tho debtor will not bo able ,to diachiargo his debt ht the time'agroéd on. Monoy: 18 ndvanced on such scourities only becauso it is supposéd that thoy'nro'ah absolute protaotion to* tho’ londor, "and booauso, bolng a protoction baged ‘on 'contradh, ' 1t i taken for grant’ ed .that noithor “ courts nor- Leglalaturos can’ | dostroy’ it. “ If‘ londors ‘are to bo » hafipored rathor “than ' nésisted by ourts ; 'it seouritios cannot bo ‘sold :aud dobls dischargod; 1f :partios lending monoy to A on mortgago can ‘bo :hindered from foroolosing on - ' potition of partioa whom tho eroditora have nover” &con or hicard 6f, what fs tho uso - of, n mortgago or any othor soourity ? What protection is thore in' {7 "If ‘tho Courts aro going to provent tho salo of Aoouxitios in. this way, or to dolay such enlouutil it can bo made without a sscrifico, slmply bocatise tho dobtor: Is & bankrupt, snd somo/ othor party I creditor of tho banl: |. rupt estate, it s well. that -tho publio should know it. But at tho same tima it would Do wall to ask how Courts aro to loarn that sales will iavolve & sacrifico, and whother the fnjusc- Honis aro to romain in forco ufitil the condition of the markots will whrrant. o salo'of the securi- |- tics, If the Bankrupt act impairs tho obligation of contracts ontered into botore bankruptey takes placo,—if It vitiotes the rights of creditors to'Becurities actually plodged,—it should be ro- poalod, for, instoad .of Loing a law to facilitate tho colloction of dobts, 1t 18 alnw toretard or proveht thelr collection. | | - But we can discoyer nothing in the Bankrupt Iaw'which akos it an act to inure the non- piy-m‘nn“l of dobta.’, It provides (Seo. 20) that ‘*whon"'n creditor hos a mortgage or plodge of, real or porsonal. property of -the.bankrupt, or & lien theroon for securing the paymont of a dobt, owing to him from tho bankrupt, ho shall ba ad- mitted ;a8 & creditor only for the balance of tho dabt, _after 'deducting tho ° valuo of sich (proporty, to bo ‘agoortained by, ngroo- | mont. botwoen him and the. assigneo, or by a salo thoreof, to be mado in such manner as the Court shall direot.” This is tho only part of the Bankrupt act which boars” on miortgages or col-, laterals.. 80’ far from warranting . interferanco ‘with the salo of ‘socuritics, it provides for a aalo of thom,—n salo *'to bomade in such manner as “thot Court shall direct,"—implying; of course, ‘that thoro should be a salo., The Court may say hotw tho salo aball bo mado. It certainly has no power to keep a craditor out of his rights for o day, nor. until such time as, in its judgment, tho gccuritios moy bo sold without loss, In point of fact, partios have been kopt out of their rights for months by injunctions restraining tho anlo of Reourities whore thore was no protenso or allogation of fraud. ¢ THE CABE OF PEN. FITZ-JOHN PORTER. The Socioty of the Army of the Potomso, ot its recont sesslon’ in Harrlsburg, Pa., unani- mously adopted n momorial to the President and Congrosa asking for & now trial for Gon. Fitz- John Porter, hot 08 & favor but a8 & right, as something due not only to him but to the whole Army of the Potomno. ~ At his first trial, Lo was charged with baving' caused or allowed * troa- sonablo'disaffoction™ among the soldiors of that army, 50 that they refused to fght, and it was clafmed that such rofisal lost us tho ‘second battlg of Manasssg. His conviction implied the belief of tho court-martinl. that theso chargos: might bo true. The houor, not-only of the Fifth.Corps but of the wholo-Army of tho Poto- mao, I8 thug'bound up with that of Gon. Porter. Thog, a4 well a8 bLe, domand Justica from the nation for winoh they fought. For cloven years tho old Fifth Oorps commander has ploadod for a ‘rehoaring. Bloven yoars of disgraco that may bo undesorvad, of dishonor that moy bo unmior- Itod. | Tho conntry Lins: no right to rofuse the hata ‘justico of ‘s now trial. 1ts cost'and it trouble Woild nifke Bo nominal. "Its rosult,.if it froed a gallant General aud & gallait army from unjust suspiclon, would bo gréat, - . Titz-John Portor was acoused of two substan- tial oftonsck, firat, that ho dlsoboyod Gon. Popa'a order :to march at 1.n. m,, Aug. 28, 1862; and, second; fhat hié disobeyed Popa's ordor- to attack Btonewall Jackson's fauk,—an ordor that waa sont Aug. 29, at 4:30 p. m. In the first caso, it was mado optionsl with him-to oxccute tho command,’ Ho gava his’ worn-out men two houre' oxtra rost, and thon renched tho rendoz- .vous at the appointed time. Qon. Porter's ox- " planation of . this matter has always boon rogards od *aa - tolly . satisfaotory. - . Tho * four-thirty “order," ng 1t {8 onlled, WeR not received until hnlf-past 0,—too lato to mako an attack. ' More- ovor, tho opposing forco was not simply Jaoke son's corps, but Loo's whole army. If Portor Lad attacked, tho Fedoral force would have hoen annibilatod, 'Ihe fact that Leo's army was iu 1ino was pleadad by Porter and denied by Popo. | Tho declsfon hinged on:that point., The Court bolioved: Popo und cashiored Portor. The lat- tor'now offers tho teatimony thiat was unattain- able at that:time—tho statementa of Gens, Las, Longstreet, E-rly,.W_Unox,v-ud Hood~to prove lifa ples, Tlils fs a strong case, It wonld #ooure. - npw feinl for & .thlef, Much more | forosts of even groator ‘wmterest than.thess, ‘spoetal oultivation, and the bonofits derived from, . For the caroful oxamination of these subjects .thom, ‘pationt and caroful investigations “are should 1t do go for a soldior whoss famo, in this ¢ago, involvés that of un ‘army. Lot justico bo, oo, — N FOREST OULTURE, ;i Tho subjeot of forest culturo {a ono which has racolved os yob but little atéontion in this coune trys (It fa truo that from timo to timo of lato yoors sonsationnl statomonts of the rapid dostruction of our pino forests Lnvo boon mada, and saga predictions of the not far distant timo when tho pino tree wonla bocomo oxtinot and ‘Inmberivg becomo n lot art, But, with rogard to tho establishment and care of plmhtlonn‘ul Wodds, little hina boer done. In forolgn countries for many yoars—in somo for conturos—tho pros- ervation of tho forosts and the planting of troes upon' tho wasto lands, tho mountain sides, tho souraos of strenms, ‘and other broken and worthlosd lands ‘wnfitted for cultivation, lna boon| n mattor of caroful study aud govorn- montal control. - It is to tho reaults so ronchod and tho information thus placed at our dis- posal that we must now: turn as tho necossity of thio measuro bogomos moro_apparont to us,’ . Tho -Committeo on the Publio Lands in'tho ‘Houno, acting upon n momorial 1aid bofore them by o Amerlcon Association for the Advanos- montof Sclonae, havo propared a bill and pro- sented a roport {n which tho mattor is fully dis- cussed, and tho appolntment of 'a Commisslonor of Foroatry under tho authority of the Secrotary of tho Taterlor rocummended:. Not to go, fully Into the statistics of the roport, Wo may presout a fow tables' which will bo of intorast.”. © A careful eatimato of the percontage of wood-, 1ands in tho followlng countries is: + 8|Portugal, .. United Btatos and Torritorio Bouthorn Btatos come firat, with amounts-rang- ing from 40 to 60 porcont. Tho Eastorn, Middlo, and Northwestorn Statos from 20 to 40 per cont, nul'qm ‘Westorn and Pralrio Statos from b to 20 por cont. Tilinols is placed at 19, Wisconsin at 29, and Towa at 16 por cont; whilo Novads, Ari- zona, Dakota, Colotado, Utul, Now Moxico, and ‘Wyoming aro comparatively trocless. Thia tablo 18 nodossarljy an approximation, ns much land ia owned by non-rosidonts, and large tracts of un- improvod land afford but uncertain data. - Of 'pino, tho estimato la a8 follows:- . Total in'Btates cast of Rocky Mt Dominion forests, . Total of Rocky Mountains, ‘Weat of Rocliy Mountains, ... .. ‘Total United Sates and ' Canads. .. .218,440,000,000 - The, problem of tha, destriction of tho piné forosts is ono which may, and'doubtlos will, roach a solution [n the substitation of othor ma- toriale—atono and. iron—for, many of .tho pur- poses for which pine is now used. For fuel, conl is gradually becoming a substitute for wood, and with ‘increased facllities for transportation its -consumption will inorcaso, In the matter of foricos, the uso of wiro and ‘the enactmont of proper Iaws will furnish a remedy. But thora are somo points involved in tho destruction of 178,440,000,000 7::000,\300:000 which demand earoful conaidoration, Among thom aro the importance of maintaining a sufficioncy of woodlaud fo keop up the eupply of wator in atrenms, for protection agalnst winds, and as footing tho climatioand sanitary condition of the country, i e ‘The report plainly shows tho ill-offedts of the destruction of timber to prepare thesoil forsome planting troos, whoroby tracts formorly dsmed valuoless and -often unhoalthy have boon xon-: derpd yaluablo and availabla for thio use of man. and the devising of .propor menns to rogulato necesgary, For tho presount, perhaps, tho estab- lishment of claborato schools of forestry, as in other countries; would be unnaceesary ; although it may b questioned if acourato, and’ thorougn | Imowledgo of thia kind can bo too widely spread.. But 1t will bo wide for the people of this country to tako up the subject -in time, A troo is not the -growth of 8 day, and, even though it be growing whilo wo are elooping, “the hand that plants the acorn' will ' never cut tho full-grown ok that springs from ita gorm.” There i nothing .that is * fast” about troo-growing. Thero are no rapid gains to be logked for. The forasts that wo plant to-day we may not seo ready for the ax, Butws owe a duty in this matter to thoso who como after us, and any one who hns seon—as insomo wild moun- talnous parts of Sootland or Germany—side by sldo :with somo newly-planted slope of rocky ground the dense, black, silent wood of, sprucos, tho growth of snother gencration’s cara. aud forethought, will appreciate: the impulse whioh prompted men to plant troes for their "posterity to use and enjo; OPERA-MUSIC-IN CHURCH, - " ' The proceedings of thie Methodist. Conforoncs of ‘the Oburch South at Louisville, npon tho “question’of muslé in church, are amuslog, to eoy. the least,. Tho origiiial resolution requostod the Blskops in tholr pastoral addrcss to “call atton tion to, and oxpross thelr docldod disspprobi-) :tlon 'of, -opora muelo, , “now 8o common in churéhies, which sa. sioarly.drowns Lin ‘affaut of, the einging.” : Wo are not oxaotly clear: what thid monna, unless it bo that the organists South’ baveia babit of intorfering: with congregational singing’ by loud and florid accompaniments, 'and. stortling dovolopmonta of fioriture, which ara | not of tho approved Bternhold and Hopkine' pattorn, 'If ‘it doos not menn this, we @ive ip | the conundrum, If it does, wo cannot 800 tho difforonco botwoon praising God in long metro, and with tho same notes disposed in triplets, and trills, und runs, Dr. Poterson Wes opposed to the practice” Uecause it cools ‘tho ardor, When it comee to this, no ono' will acouso the colorpd Mothodlst brothron of being cool ju thefr ardor, -and yet their musio’ {s ‘quite opor-. atio, In the sense foronce, ns . comparod - Tonge drawn pealma of their white brothron. Tho negro bymn {8 8'hop, ekip,: and. & jump, which usually oxhiausta the rosources of exsoutlon ho- fore it ia ended. Dr. Winflold didn’t know how to sing, and, on this acoount, was. opposed to proludes, and wanted to got back to tho good old songs of Wosloy,—an unfortunato. allusion, cholr for half & contnry,, was opposcd to Lhe uso of all Interludos and -proludes, bocause thoy killod the spirit. -Wo foar that the killing of the splrit 18 not so mucl tlio carso of Dr. Paul's ob- Joation as.tho fact thut tho proludds and intor- luden ‘must bo played by an organtst. Now it Is juat* a8 nxlomntio in music that an orgonist and | oholr-leador' mnst” bo at swords' points 84 'that two Dbnif-notes make n whols ono.! . They nover - agros in tompos.” Tho organiat always makes it a spoctal pointto drown tho cholr-leader, to striko falc ohords nnd throw him oft, and tho choir-loador “always roprosents to thio Muslo Committen that tho orgnist ploys oporatio-muslo, and throws out dark bints about Offohbach and Btrauss. Wo fonr this is the real trouble which projudices Dr. Paul ngainst pro- Iudes and intorludos. “I¢ ho can gob theso abolishiod, howover, io hny got thoupgior hand of tho organiat for all timo, as theso aro the very oconslons when tho organist haa froo awing and thraiva Limself, with all tho stops pulled out. .Xho lagt sponker in the dobato, Dr. Groon, was ‘timorous booatiso 1t Waé ‘so diffoult to start n tuno'in tho propor key. This rominds us of tho nad oxporioncos of a worlhy Doacon in one of our own Mothodisb chiwrches, who was s groat stioklor for * congrogationnl singing, Ho finally, succoodod in ousting tho choir and organ, and,; to his great delight,” was ~appointed to.lond .off ‘the singing on the noxt Suuday. Tho good Doacon eame to ohuroh with moro than his customery prido. . The minister gave out tho hymn, and the Doacon fiross and commanced tho tuno, Beforo ho had got through tho first lino half the cougregation quit singing. Ontho sec- ond line two or throo vory ‘high sopranos kept bim company s littlo ways, and thon also sub-. sided.. On tho third line tho Dencon was going it . slono, but. very foobly.. Then thero csmo ‘n sudden jump ' to. & mnote abovo. +tho ¢ “hno. -"The ‘" Dencon'* had -- pitched’ tho tune threo or four tones abova tho koy. - Ho . misdo s desporato offort to hit tho high note and misgod t.” Ho tricd it again, but weg BHll fur- ther away from it, and thon ho quictly sat down. From that day to fhis’ ho has nover ‘snid: & word” about singing, and makes no objeotion to the quortotte choir ' and_ organ which lielps him praise God, In tho - Conferonce, the sub- ‘stituto asking tho Bishopa to urge tho neceseity ' of * congrogntional singing was finally ~ adopted. . A compromlse, however, might * osslly havo' beon -effcctod. Becu- lar'music con bo changed into saored “without “Johliny Gomu‘u‘h_mrolvnlng Home,” and oven’ Yapkeo Doodlo;"if the tompos are slackonod sufflclontly, cannot be rdcognized as secular, ; 1"qu following figuros show ‘the number of ‘'vesselg of 'tho difforont linos lost on the Atlantio Ocenn.-from 1840 till tho loss of tho Ameriquo : ———. | During'thia time thore has been totaliy wrocked sovonty vessols. Tho ' President stands at the' head of tho Het ‘and "tho Ameriquo.at the bot- tom. -Tho Ounard (English) Lino, during thig interval, notwithstanding its gront number of vessols, lost only ‘two,—the Africs and the Trippli. It'has been’ freor ‘from michaps than any otherline. - Tho. Allan- Ling, which has at prasont ‘slxtoon vessols, has.lost sovon siuce 1852; and the :Inman Line slx sinco 1851, -The Oollins Lino (Amtican), which existod from 1852 01857, lost two of the foiir it owned,—the Hum- (English) lost in tho thirty-two years it has beon In oporation fifteon voseels. Tho, ! Massagorics ‘Marltimes” Line, with sixty vessols, hae- lout fourteen in- its twenty-ono yeats of. existence, and the Compagnio Gonerale Transatlantique” four,—the Darion, Ville du Hayre, Europe, aud Amoriqué, 'The Hamburg & Bromen Lino, cs- tablised in 1853, .have lost four vessols; the National Lino, one; the Anchor Irine, ono; tho Guion_Lino, two sinco 18083 thio WWhite Star, ono.; 'T6 those must bo added about tivelve stenmors, bélonging to inforior lucs, . Tho ships of the soveral lines, it has bopr ‘estimated; kave orossed the'ocoan, since 1840, in all, mbre than 16,000 times. Thus there "Las been ouo losa to overy 228 trips; and the chances of n traveler's .coming norosa-the *bigpoud” sil safo aroas ‘228 to 1. —_— A porson bori déaf has hithorto been consid:?| ored tobe dumb also. Therg névor. was any ne- coaslty for this, as tholr organs of specoh” arg’ porfectly woll dovelopod. There i ‘now at No. 13 Fitzroy square, in London, nn inatitition ‘undor tho' dircction of tho Assocjation . for tho Oraj Instruction of tho Dest and Dumb, whers tho systom of instruction taught s century ago by. Mr. Amman, # Swiss physloian, and sinco per-. fected In Holland sud Gormany, s adbpted. Amman required his deaf :and dumb pupils to watch closely the changes that ceine over his faco and lips when he spoko, aud to imitate thom with a glnes boforo thoi, * Mr.' Praag, who has chargo of the school in London,, has airondy mot, with great succoss. Ho has thirty-six pupils, wnd, although thoy cannot epesk, a word, they con undorstand - tho : motion - of tho lips, and, what {8 moro, sponk themsolves so 8 to be hoard and understood by atrangers. Tho_ Loundon Times of April 2-gives an account of a visit mado to Mr. Praag's school. The teacher' ‘conghed in presonco of tho Lttle unfortunatos and asked one of thom, a boy, what that was. Ho wag soswored “A cough.”: A second eaid after him, “How do you do?” *QGivo me a picture,” 8nid the toachor, and a Jittle boy ran and brought a pointing of & farmyard, Among thopatrons of the fustitution aro Lord Granville, Mr. Edward Majoribanks, soveral of the Rothschilds, Lubbool & Co., Bir Edward Ryan, and Mr. F. D. MuCotta. - Tho gontloman who has potitionod the Senate to abolish tho English lanigungo ia about to start in the name, for 1t moans, 8o hig circuinr in- forms us, friondship, bonoyolonce, justice, frank- indmirable things. .Thoro.is to ba no marrisge jn° ‘:Fll‘]md."<I1fl"l'..mllnk(nd becomés fally "happy. Love is to ‘o ‘aholished. ' This fooling, Indogd, is fh womhn induced by odnoation ‘or fashion.”, The Farists ill, . fortunately, .'bo- ..entirely 1 froe - from tho ¢ last™: ein/ .‘Thoy-‘are to ‘wear, ‘with- out ‘duntinotion of pox, . “'a” loozo . blouse rosohing to the kneos' and wido pants doming down, taperiug, to theankle.” All Farists nro to cilticlee, with tho utmost froodom, their uneighbors. - Nobody i to work moro than ho wishes. Those two provisions will allure por- “The prusndora will' hoar withi joy that tobacco aud aléoliol ara to, bo sbjured, *Mombors of - the Farist Sooicty ought $o tako part fn the poli- - ties of the country, try to bo olocted menibars of Logislaturos, ete.” Thoy' should seo thatall oitics are’ conflued to & width of ono.or ‘two .stroots, . Towns may Lo of any length, but thoy must bo narrow, . Tho ronsou for this odd- rule {a not given. Nolthor, indacd, is ko reason ‘foir any other part of all this'bosh, Whon the ‘pro-, joctor geta Englisly abolished, ko msy get his Raridt Comiaunily started. A flo’ury Watd Beocher hos been dofining him- solf upon tho temperanco question 11 rospouse to lottors whigh Lave ‘béen written to him. In s answor to one of thouo, ho takes the ground that total abstinonco is tho rational andsafa romedy for intemperance, Ho'ls in favor of all ‘monsured for tho provention and suppression of trafiio In alooholio driuks, which experionce has shown, to bo fenelblo; 'at the esme time, lio is as it was \Wealoy who struok for a higher class’| OPPosed to bigotry, or violance, or partisan fool- of muslo. Thon &' substituto was ‘offored that the Dishops bo roquested to urge in tholr sddross tho' necoasity of uopdrgzltiurgfl slogwg, D, Paul, who .has boen: leader of . ing in behal? of temporance. - Ho holds that proventlve lawa aro rightiin prinolple, but whilo, 8s ‘at prosont, the toie of ‘publlo sontiment fs so low, that stringont legialation wouldbo worse than. ugolqss, Another corrospondent asks the ques. the slightost diffoulty. * Pop Goes tho Wessel,” | boldt aud the Franklin, _Tho Royal Mail Tine’ tlon, * Was not tho wine mado Ly Chriat real wine, and hence formonted? ” and algo oites the Qhidagoministor who remarlkod, ' It would bo ee abyurd to eny that Christ mado fermonted wine as fo say that ahy power could mako n 3-yont coft in o minute,” To this Mr. Doochor replics ¢ Such elaptrap an that quoted above 1s tho despale of ull wisy temperanco men, Lot ua advocato tempers ance on 1t truo ground—namoly, {hat in this olimata and with out racé of mon experiouco snd commion #etino whow Lliat wine-drinking n dangerous to nor= aln, Iut lot ua nover bring disgracs upon & good catieo by llloglenl and_tnscholarly quibbles to show that wiien {lio Boriptures say wino thoy mean some- thing olso, . e It might bo n dangorous oxperimant to invite ox-Oonfodorato soldlors to nrmy xeunions, but it would bo a graceful thing to do, aud It might regult in good, 'Tho object of theso rounions is not to rojoico over the killing and wounding of Bouthorners,” but to fraternize with old com- rados. Why should not our goldiers holp to fln~ I8l tho Wor in which thoy fought by making friends with the foomon who have alrendy won thelr rospect? Gon._ Shorldan's sposch agalnet the plan soems ill-advised. Wo have hnd enough of sectionnl soparation, Tho mon who enved ug from physioal, can now, porhnps, save us from montal, disunion. If so, it will bo tholr noblgas victory, . P I SE— + "Although Mr, Golfax has rotired-to privato, life, io In beginning to find that. private lifo fs . even busior than publio life. According to the" Bouth Bond Tribune, ho has spokon in the past’ mouth in ninoBtatos, During the coming month 116 1 to doliver tireo orations at collogo_ com- monconfonts, sud haa declined twonty othors; :and tho Young Mon's Chrtstian Associntion of ™ Cloveland hiave put off tholr annivorsary oxer'" clses from May 14 to Juo 12, the only day he could promiso to bo with thom. ; . —— ** *A olork in & Paris dry-goods storo swellowed a . fork = fow days ago,—a -conclusive but rather . unhenlthy proof that ho Aid not oat with his’ knife. Io is bohind the countor again, and the ddctors nro disousslog whother the fork will be ‘roolved into polgons, or will lio still somewhoro and caugo an abeoss, or will stick through some organ and produce intornsl hemorrhage, or will kill ita possessor in somo otherway. The differ- ont opinions are accompanied with bonutifully- ‘colored dingrams, showing how -holos could bo ‘mado in tho man at' differont . points in ordor to " oxtract tho fork, All of which must furnish the ; viotim'with a plonsant course of reading. 2 . —_— The wrecl of the Ville du Havre roduces tho wealth of the Trausatlantio Lino from 55,544,860 trancs to 60,821,700 ‘francs ; that of 'tho Europa costit & sum equal to 4,400,000 france, —_— The number of failarcs in the United Statos in 1878 was . 5,183, with total IHabilities ' of 838,000,000 i = e ‘.7 . CURRENT .COMMENT. v * CONGEDNING OROARERS, . From the New York Bulletin, ‘Wo like tho summary, matter-of-faot -stylo in “which Chicago bandles theso dismal peopla. Of Into it hna beon the habit of momo writers to :xeprosent that trade and business out there wore protty much all going - to’. dostruction, Roal estalo " was rapldly -doprdcisling, bundrods of stores and warchouses woro empty; nobody was ‘buying or solling .anything: wortli' montioding 3 merclinnts syore goiug-into bankruptey, property of every doscription waa bronking down under d?btu ?nd mortgages thal oould nover be.lifted, eto., ote. 3 ' . To silence these dismal utternncos, Tum Omr-" '0400 TRINUNE hns gone to' work to- thoroughly oxamine the businecss-gittation in'all ita ramific catious and detalls, and we have the result bo- fore, us in an’ontiro page of facts and statiatios, dnmonstmflnlg not only tho imaginative charac- ter of the allegations alluded to, but also the fact that the genoral business of tho city, and . oll:that section of the umlntr[\: in fact, is more prosporous now thad it was thia timo lnst yoar, “whon no.ponio was dresmad of. Thers had boen actually ‘more business transacted during tho firat “four ‘months*of tho ourront year than in" tho corrouponding porlod. in 1878, though in some cases tho Jereontago of profitd bas Doon loss, As for tho farmors of. the. . Northwost, it is ‘conclusivoly shown that, s cluas, thoy huvo not. boen o well off for g groat many yoars Em ag thoy are at the prosent ' momont ; and, when thoy are prosperous, all other mtorests are necossarily thriving also, .. -« We might continue tho calalogue, woro it -. | nocossary, t6 shiow tho groundlossness, ot only as rogards the business aspect in Ohicago and tho Northwoat, but in its various relations noaror bome. Tho complaining bubit i, largely. ab. . stract ond_seniimental,—tho most xadical oura for it i8 a rigid application of hard facis: of tha kind wo bavo horo adduccd, What has boen said to tho disparagomont of Chicago in often maid of - . New York also, but, a4 could littla reason other.” T L Sl ONICAGO AND NER NEWSPAPERS, 3 From the Evansville (Ind.) Journal, . ’ "The following commuuication lins renched the aditor’s dosk: A : zusm.s-l#uf q{"@ulgnnl;;l:, g il s *81m: - You do not, {n comparing, the a port extondod (h.papers of. Childae ey | e, soom 1o tako into: consideration. the vast aiften. ence n tho ize of thie two cijien; Thd Inrger tho town, of douree thogrtater the nmonut of ndvertling i b public. priuta, Beaides, can you not ‘ses’ the wide - differenice in tho charatter of ‘tho Journuls'of Chitags und those of Bvausville? Thors exisla no eonditing 2 bo- shown,.with ag or justico in ono. case nag.in the | withiouta cauko, P S To tho first sssortion, without discunatng it, wa pubina positivo discluimer._ Lot usloolk more. - losoly at tho'saooud. . Au 8 Fiio, it ingol courao, truo that the papors of (Lo largor plagos eajoy & - gronter ‘nmount of adverlising support t\han: those of tho-smailer. But how is it with oitiog of aqual or vory nearly aquul size? Do all placas the Farist Commuinity.” Thoro's a good deal! nous, uprightucss, dignity, and o lot of othor, ““only,a kind ‘of ' craziness” #ons,who wjll como to scoff and romain to proy. | of eny 260,000 inhnbitancs support thoir papors aliko? Taking; for instanco; tho journais of Chicngo aud Cihoinnati, do we flud an equal or pearly equal showing of business announco- - monts in cao? . Gilanocing ab tho Bunday.dssuo - of Tus Curcaco TmnuNz and the ,Qinclonati , . Commercials lasuo of tho samo duy, we find in tho fornior 'sixty-one ‘columns ‘of tho vory' best clnss -of ndvertislng, and- in the lattor only twonty-six columas. - S g . And out of this vory fact loaks an important part of the secret of the vest diiforonoo in the - growrh of the two citlos, The Chicago peaplo, yenrs ago,-whon their city ‘was scarcoly ona-’ Tourth the'siza of Cinoinnati, raw that, -to out. - strip their formidiblo rival, thoy would-have to oglipse hier at overy turn. Tirst of all; thoy ane . noyneed to tho world, through their newspapors, such facts as thoy desired to have known, E‘er 8oon cupital and poople commencod to flow in to strongthen. and . dovelop the city ; morchanta and ‘otliers of tho smallor towns, who had -pre- viously gone clsewhere to mulke their:purohases, found that thoy could do bottor . by.dealing nears - er home; and, in a very abort time, a vast trado, which: wonld nover of its own:accord 'gona - thore,~—for rival oitios were vllzornusl bidding for.it;—grow up, uud - tho pooplo saw tat thoy hud takoen tho right course.. Tho' nowspapors " laborod unnunnh\ul{ to furthor.theso good re- “sults, and Chicago bogen to bo talked of mora than almost. any other .city in the country. Capitaliats - abrond, . rending " of tho wonderful - results. being accomplished, were - innrade uloum,: wud -vislled: Wy’ olty ;-to. ascortain - tha acts for thomeelves. Thoy found the Chicas goans' bonuting not_boasting aftorull, and did what all othor sonsible mon would hnve-done: thiey took up their realdence thero, and put thoir capital to uko, . ¥ What has boon tho result? Tho growth of-the clty, notwithstanding the torrible misfortuno thai Bofoll Lier & few yoars ago, 1as beon unparnlloled, aud gtall the people aro rolinquishing. no offort. The newspapoers have continued to incroaso, on- largo, and improve, until they are éecoud to nona in -tho United States, ono or two Now York Journals oxcopted: " > fi ' OUR WESTERN TRADE, \ < From the Henry County (LiL) News, Tt is our opiuion thint tho gontlamnn who apoke of Qhfengo ns n *Skoloton 'City " waa = littla ‘tout™ whon he spoke of hor as hayving miles of unocoupied atores, “T'his is a mistake,” Porhaps® thora is not a hulf-mile of unused store-buildings in Clifeago. Truo, Clhicngo may uot havo tia “solidity whioh oluraotorizes® Boaton, Now York, or- Philadolpia, but it myst bo botno I ming ° that sho is & moro iufant in ago compared tq' the Lastorn citios named. 8ho has Just ns good merchants, and more entorprising, publio-spirite ed cltizons thno canbo found in the Esstorn cltios. Ohiuuglo {4 not o bubble, a trausparano; ‘or o ekeloton, b acily that contains wore unlli! ity n woalth, brains, and fact, than any other cily on earll., g’hiu ts not o bombastical statos ho mont, but - simplo assortion of Tain’ trath, - that ca}x be p:ovou h? n: nilnite * numbor of ways, Our Westorn olties, our Wastorn iniatitutions, ‘and our Wests ern pooplo, aro abont as far from bolug mythe, or skaleton, ag nutyzhln;: that conld bo imagineds Morohants say that thoy ean buy in Chicago as cheap as iu the Enstern murkots, for the reason that wholossle morohants in Ohicago buy from Linstom wauufaoburery in uch auautitios (Lad