Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1875, Page 4

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Varisty enterisfument. strcet, corner TIOOLEY'S THEATM Clark aud Lagalle, Californis Stlustrols, MoVICRER'S THEATRE—Madison sireet, between Dearborn and State, Fugagement of Niss 3ny How- ard, * Hunted Down,” WOOD'S MUBEUM-~3onr barn snd State, Aflernoon: **Cawilia's Husband ” and FARWELL HALL—Madinon sircet, tatween Olark and Lasallo” Reading by Airs. Beott-Siddons, eet, between Dear- v Eventog: TSOCIETY MFETINGS. ATTENTION, BIR RNIGIITS I—-Special Conclavo of Apollo Communiders, No. 1, K. T thia (Tuekdsy) eve. ning, st 7:30 o' iock, for foatallution of otlicers rlect, Visliing BiF Kolghts coueteously invited, By order of the E. C, , B, W. LOCKE, Levorder, ASIILAR LODGE, No. 333, F, and A, M,—Rrgulaz Commmunication this (Tuesd(y) ovening, iu their i, 58 Movrou.at, for work on the M, M. Degrer. Tbe Eraternity conlially invitad, C. 11 ORANE, Sec. Bhe Chicaay Cribune, Tuesday Morning, Decomber 14, 1875. Another clear day, with stationnry tempera- ture, is the prediction for this region to-day. e Greenbacks ot the New York Gold: Fr- chnvge yesterday opened at 87% and closed ab -4 "I'ho St. Louir Mayoralty imbroglio is once more relegated to the City Conncil by the Aiseolution of an injunction restraining the elivery of the baliot-boxes to that body. rox has boen in possession under = proposed amondment to the . prohibiting the sectarian con. trol or division of public-school funds in any State. will be introdnced to-day, It is re- wroded 8 improbable that the amendment will be mnde o strict party measure, ag many prominent Democrats aro known to faver its wdoption and vill snpport it heartily. e e et Orie ndvantag in having a new deal in the Conuty Board is apparent in the drawing of the Grand J of the Criminal Conrt. Tho lisfdraswen yesterday i notable for tho absence of the names of several old stagers who have heretofore hind singular kuceess in getting on tho Jury. A little fresh blood infused into that body should have a wholesome cffect in quickening the percoptions of the judicial in- Quisitors, Ry o mereifal dispensation of Providenes tha colobrated publio functionary who rarely opens his mouth withont putting his foot in it will not deliver tho address of weleomo to the delegates to tho Nntional Transportation Convention. Mayor CoLvrx sonds word that ho cannot be present, and the loeal Com- mittes, fearful lest he might chango his ming, have lost no time in sclecting some- body else. The Hon. 8. 8. Haves, City Comptroller, will ba the orator of the oc- cnaion, and it is snfe to predict that Chicago will not fsel mortified ot snything ho will say. A consus of the paupers of Cook County tins been ordered by the Board of Commis. sioners. 'Tho effact of an nccuratoenrollment of tho persons who roceivo public charity will doubtless bo to rid the county of the expense of supporting n large number of un- worthy recipients,—~impostors whore names should be made public and dropped from the County Agent's books, It is n move in the right direction, and if followed up by n more rigid syatem of inquiry and surveillunce than has obtained herctofore in the dispensation of food, fuel, and clothing to the poor of the - county, it will prove to bo o moasuro of economy, juatice, and sound public policy. Although the cell in Ludlow stroet knows TwEep no more, it iy thought quite likely that that corpulent mass of inlquitous hu- manity is snugly secroted within the corpora- tion limits of the modern Gotham. It is even hinted that the Old Man Binful is wait- ing the completion of o compromise now in courso of nogotlation with the Tammany Ring, whersby tho thioves will bind thom. selves lo tarn‘over to the city 4,000,000 of their fil-gotten plunder on condition that the pending proscvutions ehall Le dropped. Another interesting fact conmectod with TweED's casa ia thut tho bail bonds in all the criminal suits are discovered to ba defective sud void, A beautiful sensation, as the reportors would call it, wus pormitted o brief vxistenco yes. terday, only to be entirely wpoiled later on, The evening popers published a New York dispatch giving the particulars of a tremen. dous robbery—nothing less than the stealing of bonds represonting $15,000,000, in the keepiog of Bonor Don Vicenta Danpow, Eu- voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary of Guatemals aud Salvador, who wa. about to apply the bonds towards the pays ment of A clalm of the United Btates Govern- ment. A later dispatoh from Washington re- duces the sizo of the robbery somsthing like $14,599,000, Senor Dannox stating that tho trunk stolen in New York contained no bonds, Lut only his porsonal outfit, — lar yesterdoy, Mess pork was moderately active aud 150 per brl higher, closing at $19,82}@19.85 cash and $10.55 for Febru. ary, Lard was in foir demand and 2}@5c per 100 tbs higher, closing at $12,27}@:2.30 cash and $12.47} for February.. Moats were quiet and steady at T4@7}o for shouldery,10}0 for short ribs, and 10}e for short olears, all boxed. Highwines were dull and unchanged at $1.11 per gallon, Flour was dull and weak. Wheat was sotive and irregular, closing 1jo lower, at 38}c’ cash, and ujo scller January, Corn was dull and o lower, closing at 48¢ for Docember and 440 for January, Outs were quict and easier, closing at 800 cash and 30}@ t0}o for Jaauary. Rye was steady ut (3@ G8jc. Barley was dull sud easier, closiug at 80a for Ducember aud 83}0 for January, Logs THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1875. wera netive, and closed atronger. Sales wero at £6.60@ Cattle were quist and ensy, with sales ot 22.60@6.73, Sheep were in good demand nnd ruled steady at $3.75@5. One hundred dollars in gold wonld buy §114,25 in greenbacky at the elose. The City Marshialship atill hangs firo in the Common Council, n majority of the Alder- mon being unwilling to take action upon the contirmation until after tha Council shall have decided the question of abolishing the offica nltogether. A test volo was token Inst ovening on the motion to adopt the minority report, which con. templates the continunnce of the Marshalship, and which was laid ou the table 1y n voto of 20 to 1t Tho matter has been postponed for one woek, aud if the majority stand their ground aud ‘resist the pressure 1hint will bo brought agaiust them, there fsnn excellent prospect thnt the useless office of Marshal will bo abolished. Tho Democratic majority in the House of Reprosentatives have enthroned King Cancus in royal state, and have invested that potentate with the most absolute power over the liberty and proporty of his subjects. The Cnucus yesterday adopted a resolution pro- viding for tho appointment of a Joint Com- mitteo of tho House and Senate, which shall originate all measures of pasty policy and dictate the party vote on ali wmensures, by whomsoever originated or introduced,~this cnliro Commilteo to bo -appointed by cx-Cohtederade Laxar, permancnt President of tho Cancus. A fow of the more fenrless, independent, and conservative Democrats, such ns Hotuaw, of Indiaus, and Joxcs, of IKentucky, violently opposed the Star-Cham- Dber system, and declared that they would re- fuse {o submit to its dictation, but they were ignored aud outvoted, the Caucus even refus. ing to modify the resolution so s to allow on the Commiltes a mombor from each Stato and Torritory, Tho SBouthern clement insisted upon the restoration of ther ante-bellum su- premacy—the right to erack tho party-whip a8 in dnys of yore. Thoy carried their poiut Ly forco of numbers, but there are indica- tions of n revolt which may nssume formida- ble proportions when the lash bogins to be applied vigorously. THE THIRD PARTY. The clearest sign of the politicnl times, tinco tho elections of last fall, in tho formna tion of a Third Parly, which is destined to enter into the Presidentinl eampaign of next year with n regnlar organization and a com- plote ticket, 'The Republican party will bo & sound-money party in that campaign, The Demacratic party, as a party, cannot and dare not do otherwisa than aapport a hard- money caudidate, nnd are already committed to Kesn and Twmory, Thy disastrous ex- periences of last fall have taught them this useful losson, In Ohio, wiere they had wmore ecloments of success on s shine plaster platform than in other Statew, in placa of securing a victory for ir- rodeamnble serip, ti2y loat heavily, and their large majority of the previous year was re- varsed to o respectablo minority. In Ponn- sylvania, the sound-money victory was easily won, In New York, Wisconsin, Iown, Minoe- nota, Maino, and Massachuselts, they did not dare to make an issue sgainat resumption, With tho reverses in Oliio and Pennsylvanin staring them in the faco, the Democratic party, s 8 party, will not venture to go into the Presi- dential campaign upon the Rag-Buby platform, T'his accounts for the Rapublican and the rogular Democratic organizations. But there in still another lavge and at prosout nunrop- rosonted vloment to Le taken into account. The country is full of Rag-Babyites. In Ohio they reprosont the bualk of the Democratio party. In Ilinois thoy have nwmerous represontatives in both parties. In the other Northern Btates thoy aro a strong minority, and it looks asif the South in spots were full of them. Those men will not stand idly by in tho campaign, Thoy will not vote for a sound.money ticket, nor will they take part in a campaign upon a resumption platform. Bupposs, for instanco, that the Democrats should nominnte Tmun. aaN or Twpey, nud the Republicans Brave or Wasununye, What could the Rng-Babyitos do? They could not vote for any oneof thase men. What is there loft for them but to nominbnie nsoft ticket of their own? Thia they will undoubtedly do, having both the material for n ticket and the determination to mnke it. The indications that this materlal is rapidly cryatallizing into practical shape are alrondy appearing. The action of the Executive Committeo of Wostern Independents in their meoting held in this city a week or two ago was the first gun in the third.party campaign. At that meeting, resolutions were unani- moualy adopted in favor .of an unlimited isaue of irvedeomable paper carrency and the ropent of the Bpecio-Resumption act, and do- claring *“that we will onter the Prosidential contest of 1876 with candidates of our own choosing who shall be plodged to uphold our (Rag-Baby) principles.” In view of thesc res. olutions, and togive them a practical bearing, a Delegute Convention was called at Indianup- olis, May 17, 1875, to put in nomination rag candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presi. dency. Evou more significant than this is the intelligencefrom Washington of the irreconcil- able wrangling aniong the Democratic mem. bera of tho 1louse upon the issus of Rag-laby v, sound monay. Upon that jssue they are alrendy hopelessly dividod, and Presidential rivalries havo already cropped out with so much bitternesa that gy unauimity upon a political poliey is hopeless. Prominent Northern Democrats publicly anncunce that thoy will not abide by caucus deoisions unless thoso decisions agree with their views. Itis alruady au irrepressiblo conflict, which will not down, and will make very lively musio be. fore our Independents hold their Nominating Couveution next May. The infeotion will sproad meauwhile, and this Third Party, which will draw mainly from the Domocratic ranks, will wio securs a not inconsidorablo constituency frowm the Repablican party. It would be premature as yet to forecast the candidates of ths Third Party, but its loading and its ook and file can alroady bo seon without spectacles. Prominont atmong tho loaders of the Iag-Buby party will be Fog-Horn AztxN, Wexoe, Puigues, Bex Buries, Pig-Iron Ksriey, Wass MoLraw, Oaurnery, B, M. Sarry, Tueveruick, Jox Fonnest, ToNatius DoNNELLY, Bucmawax, and other nurses of the Buby, who have boon noarishing and feeding it since its slckness of last full, It will have two orguns in the West,—the Cinclunati Euguirer, which hos already repudiated Tirvey, Kene, aud ‘Touesan, and the Chicago Jnter-Ocean, which lus steadily opposod the fiuancial policy of the Republican party, and is in sympathy ‘with the enunclations of the Rag- Liaby Independents ut their recont meeting in this city, 'The following of the party s somewhut heterogeneous but well dofined, It vill bo made up of Communists and that ele. mont of discontented and turbulent working- men which exists in every large city; of broken-winded spoculatora and balloon-flyers; of that large clasa which s ineumbered by debta that ean only be paid by the unlimited issue of irredoemable bnd enrrency, which fs tantamomnt to legnlized repudiation; nod of that class of people who think that a flood of this cheap, depre oiated, irredeemablo rng monoy is the only panncen for their tronblos. These classes ara to bo fonnd in both the old parties and in all the States, and the work of gathering them in and erystallizing them into a homogencous party hns alrendy conumenced. Whila they ennnot gathor strength enough to earry tho election, they will at least poll a considerable vote. While they will not ha nble to carry any Stato aun wholo, they may at lonst se- cura some loeal victories anda certain amount of the minor spoils, They will go into the campaign with strength enough sud votes enough to make them a very important and distarbing faction in the contsst, and one which should be taken into account by the eampaign-mappers, especially upon the Demo- cratic sido, THE USES OF QOLD. Mr. Boo's bill would substituts legsl-tendars for srecte in Lie payment of custome, This would permit the export of fhie aniount now anuunliy paid for dutfes, and would conscquently sllow the stk of epcele bold in this country to ba further reduced, Wero it pos- sible W supploment thia sbeurd measure by nuothier sulistituting currency for gold i the pryment of fo- torcal on thia publle debt, there would Le mo furthar use for apecte, aud It sonld dfssppear front our mnarts of trade, Tho thing necded fa to have tbe dermand in- creased fnstoad of decre. sed, 80 @hat larger quaniitics will bo retuined to meet the l:gitimste rojulrements of business,—Luto Commercial Advertiser, The Adrertiser, which is a sound Ropub- lican paper, and so usunlly somd on financo, fulls in this paragraph into an odd error, to which we wish to ecall its attention, in n friendly way. Even if Boax's absurd bill became law, and if the nation should then cheat its creditors by paying the interest on its bonds in mere promises, {. ¢., greenbacks, instead of gold, there would still ba * fur- ther use for specie,” and it would not * dis- appear from our marts of trade.” Tt would be used in threo ways. In tho first place, it wonld be needed to buy imported goods. Theso cau only be got Ly paying gold for them, or giving other goods in exchange. The New York merchant who orders iron, tin, glass, ten, coffes, sugar, quinine, silk, cloth, linen, Indin-rubber, or anything clse, from o foreign coun- try, muist remit in payment a draft for which he hns already paid gold in New York City, or he mnst ship the gold direct by express, Even if an ingenious system of barter could be arranged, by which our ex ports were exchanged directly for our imports sithout nny use of money,—and this i3 mani- featly impossible,—the dilferonce between tho valne of what we shipped sud what wo re- ceived would have to be calenlatad and paid in gold. Hero, then, is ono graast use of the precious metal, which is wholly independent of its preseut uses in the payment of duties to the nation and of interest by the nation. Secondly, even if the interest on the debt wero paid in greenbacks, they would have to be sold for coin, and the proceeds would be remitted to Europe—which holds from one- third to one-half of our bonda—in the shape of gold. Therepresontatives of foreign bond- lolders would take the deprecisted papor and sell it on Wall street for what it would bring in hard money, The gold thus ob- tained would be gent abroad. Thus, as often asthe interest matured on any of our bonds held in Europe, thers would bo an active de-~ mand for gold here. For the paper paid out st Washington would not circulate abroad. "Tha recipionts would thorofore promptly ex- changa it for gold in New York. In thethird place, thore would bo a steady privato de- mand for gold outside theneeds of importers, Every European holder of a milrond or American munieipal bond wounld cither draw his interest in gold or exchange tho green- backs in which it was paid for their equivalent in gold. Every Ameri- can tourist would require to have o letter-of-credit rodecemnble in gold on the other side of the Atlaatic, and while he might buy this bere for deprecinted groen- backs, his drafts would bo forwarded by the bnnkera who had cashed them to the banker hero who isgued the letter-of-credit, and would have to be met by romitting gold abroad. These are some of tho ways in which gold must nocessarily be used hero, no matter what Democratic madmon may do {n the way of legislation and the nation in the way of repu- dintion, Wo would have to becut off from the rest of the world by an ocenn of fire in order to provent the conveysion of ourpaperinto the world’s currency, gold, within our borders, and 30 fixing the value of the dishonored promises to pay given in exchange for it. GOVERRMENT RAILROAD. In the article which we printed in Tun TnisoNe of yosterday under the head of ‘* Btate Ownership of Railronds,” we did not intend that tho general indorsemiont of the system as it works in Europo should be con- strued as o rocommendation that it should be tried in the United Btates. In all Europe, with tho exception of Great Britain, all Gov- ernmonts hnve retained the right of super vision over the railway traffic in a manner and degree not exercined over any other business, In Franoe, tho Government has somo railroad intorests, acquired by the advancement of money or the guarantea of bonds, but it ex-. erolses the most absoluta policy of *dictation without reforence to ownership, It raises or roduces the rates, revises the time-tnbles, ratifies or rejects the officials appointed, aud in all otheressential relations to the public de- terminos the managementof the roads, What is known ns the * Belgian systemn"ia the partiul State ownership of railronds, whereby the railroads belonging exclusively to private corporations are brought In competition wilh the public roads maunged by the Gov. ornwent, ‘This plan has also boen adopted by Germany, which now scems disposed to follow the Russian plan and acquire posses. sion of all the rallronds {n the Empire, ‘The Russlan Government owns all the railroads within its jurisdiction, and operates thom as ilitary as well as commerolal railroads. In Ttaly the Belgian systom was adopted. Italy subsoquently sold its best roilroad interosts, and js now negotinting for their repurchase, In Englaud, railroad enterprises, which now own property worth £300,000,000 in round numbers, hava always been in the hands of private owners, and their manngement is ubout os unrestrained as that of the United Btates ruilroads. The purchase of all the Hritish ronds ot a capitalization of 4 or 5 per cont on the average earnings for ten years Ly heen agitated for a long time, but the increase of the natlonal debt would be so enormouy thut it is extremely doubtful whother this additional burden will ever bo assumed—yet it has many advocates. But any notion of spplying the recognized sdvautages in Furope of the State ownership of railronds to this country is mot nt the out- set by the radical differonce in the form of Government. The Europenn (fovernments have a system of civil service which insures 04 economical o managemeont of great enter- prises na where tho latter are intrusted to in- dividual eapital and diseretion, This theory was tho basis of the Belgian system of partial Btate ownership, Intho United States, how- over. the only system of ¢ivil sgrvico s the old Democratic ** spoils ¥ system, ‘There are two great politient enmps in open war with each other, and fighling upon the mutual un- derstanding that ** to the victors belong the spoils.” The nccesslon of sither party to power means n summary «evolution in the tenure of oflice from the highest to the low- est degree. Tvery individual ofilce-holder and every office-seeker aro then nclu- ated by the ruling motive of making a3 much out of their ploces ag possible, They bave to muko up for the time they were out of office, aud anticipate for the contingency of being displaced at the next clection. It is to such a system ns this that tho mnnngement of Government rail- roads would have to Lo intrusted, jusi the same ns thio management of the Posi-Office Department, the revenuo system, the col- lection of the whisky tax, tho pension dis- bursements, and the Indian-frands service, Itisin tho contemplation of this ‘‘on the make” system that all ides of Government railronds must be dismissed: & partisl owner- ship for competition would probably justify the privato railroad corporations in maling higher charges than they exact at present, nud an absolute ownership of all railronds with such mnnngement would bo the speediest road that could be tken to national bank. ruptey. ‘The only counterpart of the Continental systera of State ownorship of railronds would be their purchase and opesation by the Gon- eral Government. Tho States themselves could not go boyond their own Dboun- daries in the control of nny roads they might buy, snd there 18 no likelihood thnt there would he any more agreement nmong the severnl States thon thore is now in tho rail- road legislation. If thore wero, the railroad servica would still be subjected to tho party- spoils systom, and, unfortunately, our local’l political Governments are no better in this regard than the Guueral Governmont, except 8 their opportunities are 1nore contracted. Eularge theso opportunities by the addition of a State railway system, and the public sor- vico of the States would be a8 corrupt as that of the General Grovernment under the samo cirenmstances, In considering the Governmont ownership of railronds in this country it must bo re- membered that it would invelve an invest- ment greater than the present national debt, —somewhero in the neighborliood of ¥2,500,~ 000.000 perhaps. About a illion men would be added to tho public servies, who would be increcsed at eloction times by many thou- sands, The money handled by theso officials wonld exceed every yenr the entire revenues of the State and National Governments at the present time, and the {emptation to cor- ruption would bo increased in proportion. Local and Congressional elections would therenfter depend upon tho local jnterests growing out of the railroad question, Every city in the tountry would waut better advau tages and lower freights thun 1ta neigh- bors. Every villogo would insist on hav- ing o new and Inrger Dbrick or stone depot. The location of ecar-works, and rolling-mills, and general offices, would be subject to Congressional lobbying and log-relling. Tho salnries of railroad offlcials and employes would be an important element in politics, and so would the number of employes in this vast branch of the publio service. Evory city of any sizo wonld desiro to be nn important railway terminus, and every side-tracking in the country would in. sist upon an ornamented dapot. Tho Rail- roads Department would run the Government instend of tho Government running the rail- roads. The public might, for a short time, nominally enjoy botter accommodations and better rates tlan at the present, but the coat would be 8o dear when it should come to the payment of the deficioncy bills that the public would in the ond be glad to give the rilronds away to anybody that would take thom. All idea of Government ownership of railronds under onr present party and spoils system of officeholding should be dismissod as impracticable, MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT, The Cincinuati Literary Club had the g : pleaaure, o fow days ago, of learing & quite romarknble esssy on municipal govern. ment, to which tho Commercial ‘rightly calls attention ns n valuable contribution to the gonernl knowledgo on that subjoct. The re forms proposod are not new. 'Thoy are thus summarized ; 2 1, Lamit the dutled confided to your Government as narrowly a8 possitle, 80 that fow Doards will be neces- wary, 3. Give preference, in moat cases, to tive ofiicers inatead of Boards, 4, Lengthen tho term of offi s, 4, Appolut all officers sxcept & very faw whom the poople may be relied upouto sulect wilh rossonable care and success, Tho gist of the cusay consista in tho new lino of nrgument followed. Tho suthor, searching for firat-class methods of organiza. tion, finds two admirablo oxamnples,—the Rowman Church and the regular army. In each, implicit obedience i required, and thore is a rigid gradotion of rauks, The Ligher positions in both are reachied by slow promo- tion through n series of lowor grades. The sovereign authority in ench has asetafl of confidential advisers. In short, * tho organ- ization through which Pio Noxo combats Buswanck is sarprisingly like that with which tho latter overcame France, although the weapons are o differont.” 1t ia cortainly o striking thought that the loading principles of these two widely-differ- ent organizations, both of which are such perfoot pleces of mechanjam, should bo the sanio, Tho traits of the Roman Olurch and rogular army organization to be retained are tho gradation of official ranks; tho gradual passago from lower to higher; serv- ice during good behavior or for long terms; the concentration of power in the hauds of the Executive, not Boards; and one siipreme official. Tho lessovs drawn from these two highly-organized institutions are strongly xe- inforcod by the oxperience of great private corporations. Nbno ot thess latter could ox- ist for five years if their managers were se- lected as those of onr wunicipal mat- ters are, Their employes sorve during good bohavior, and risy, if fit therofor, from low to hugh posts. There is apt to be a strong esprit du corps smong them, as thero isin ?h- army and the Church, and as thers {s not in any munioipal corps. ‘Their duties, too, are all strictly defined, ‘There iy noclash or conflict betweon them, Whatis truo of private corporations iy also true of great firmis. This i ono of the first, 89 it certalnly is single exacu- ono of the ablest, @ posteriori arguments in support of n new municipal system, The plan which hns succeoded so woll in go many other great' organizations, and which hns gradually been adopted by tens of thousands of the shrowdest business-men in the world, might serve as o model for the needed now municipality to replace the rolien and cor- rupt old systen v Itisonly in comparntively modorn times tbnt wo have learned to blow ourselvew and other peoplo to pieces. The explosive in all its various forms of gunpowder, nitro-glycer- ing, dynamite or ginut-powder, ete,, ls somo- thing new. We aro unfortunately ncouss tomed, however, to wholesals murders com. mitted in mines by natural explosives, and in magazines and on shipbonrd by those of arli- ficinl make, One of the most horrible of all theso accidents is that of Saturdny morning, when a casa of dynamits blew up at Bremen and killed and wounded, sccording to the ofi- cial report, 100" persons, of whom sixty were slninoutright. It sooms that some gigautic fool had carufully packed a package of dynamito in his luggnge, and then token pnssage on the stenmship Mosel, from Diremen to New York. Dynanito looks like damp Grae ham flour, nud is composed of silicions ashes or pulverized enrth saturated with three times its welght of nitro-glycerine. It burns slow- ly in the open air, but explcdes with tre- mendous, incomprohiennible foircs when cou- flied within a small space. Under the latter circumstonces, a sudden thunip sends it fly- ing into flame. No botter material could have been selactod if the Bremen e:tplosion had been intended, The Mosel was lying & short distanco from the wharf, and hee shoreward side wns doubtless covered with, passengers, A tug lay by her, The passen gers' baggage wos being transferred to the ship, Some- body may have stumbled, scmmebody mny have dropped n package,~just how the ex. plosion came we shall probably 11ever know. It did come. The tug was blosrn to picces. The steamship wns so damaged that wshe cannot snll, Four passengers: were killed. The rest of thoe sixty murdered o nes wero prob. ably sailors, porters, and lon gshoremei on the wharf. Anothor passenger has since tried to commit suicide, but has Lween prevented. Ilis deed excites tho suspicion that he owned nod packed tho dynamite, and. that his crim- inal carelossness is rosponsible for the hor rible massacre. Ilo is to be exomined. If the explosion had to occur; it. i perliaps best that it took place whoen and where it did, Had the Mosel been on mid-icean, she would have sunlk with every soul on board. r—§ A resident of Ann Arbor, Alinh.,‘ in consid. ering the proLability that Senator Femmy ‘would become President of the United Stotes, by virtne of his position ns President of the Senate, in case of Gen. Gravr's death before tho expiration of Lis ferm, asks thewe questions: 1. Has Benalor Fznny the right -locall s membor to tho chalr, sud taka the foor and debate the samo aa othar members 7 2, Cun he hold the office of Benritor while acting as Vice-Troatdeat 1 3, If not, 18 Michigan not entit'ed to apother Sen- story 1. Senator Ferny is not Viee-President of the United Statos, to which office there is a vacancy, but a Senator frcon Michignn; but tho best opinion is that he would succeed to the Prosidenny a3 President of the Senatein tho contingency of Graxt’s daath beforo the expiration of his term, though we cbserve that somo of tho Democrntic Henators hold that the Speaker of the 1liouso would become Presidont, 2, Senator Fenry, hcdding the temporary position of President of tho Senate, does not loso his character of !Senator, and has the enmo rights in debnte und otharwise as ho would have if Vice-Piesident WirsoN wero alive and he were mere'ty presiding in hia ab. Benco. 8. Thero is no vacan oy in the United States Bennto from Michigan, and therefors Mich. igan is not entitled t anothor Senator. If Gon. GRaxT were to (fio during his term, and Fenny were to becom.a Presidont, thers wonld thon be n vacanoy which Michigan could £l But, the United States Senate being a por- manent body, it i# belioved that it could desiguato another of its membors to act as President of tho fienate, and thus displace Senator Fznny, at .any time it might see fit, unless thero should meanwhile bo & vacancy in Goaxt’s placo. The Benator so selected would then be President of the Senate, snd, Dby virtuo of the kaw ns it atands now, would suceeed to tho vacancy madw by Gen, Guant's death, Tha successorship fs in Feany untl the Sonate aclects some one else to actas Presidont of the Benate, Elsewhero will be found the proceodings of the Ropublican Judicial Clonvention which yoaterday put a candidate in nomination for tho vacancy on the Bupreme Bench. The contestants wero Mr, Tooxas Dent and Mr, . B, Hunp, After an irdormal, a formal ballot was had, which resulted in thenominn. tion of Mr. Hosp by a mujority of 7—the voto standing for Tonp 60, for DNt 53, The latter had made no canvasa of the district, and did not know that his nnne would be pre. sented before the Couvention ; but thostrong voto he recoived under those circumstances shows tho high, reputation he has achioved 8s o lawyor possossing a judicial turn of mind, The nominee is ono of our oldest citizons, aud is personally known to almost every member of the Bar in the entire dis. trict, and therofore it wonld be superfluous to explain to them his ability as o lawyer or his fitness for Bupreme Judge. He is prob- ably botter ncqnainted with the statutes than any lawyer in tho Stats, and possesses a calm, clear, judicial turn of mind. It is only a week until the clection, and the friends of Blr. IIunp must be active and en- ergetio in gotting the Republican voters to the polls if they woald elect him. Judge Diceer's supportors, who {nclude Corvin and his Court-House crowd, are not idle, They know their man, and want him clected. Capt. Weeus, o good ship Richmond, wag bound for a whaling cruiso in the North Pacifio, during the War, Ashe sailed, as he sailed, he heard of a compeer of Capt. Krp, who was ravaging the eeas and burning the whaling fleet. o saw one ship in flames, ond was presently hailed by another with the news that thera was o ‘prate close at hand.” But ho get all sl for the mnosth, Presontly he saw gtill another +Lip, which hailed him and scot & boat to hig. The boat was full of shipmaators, masters of ships no longer. ‘Thoy besought him to take them home. Then the hoart that had defied the pirate ylelded to humanity. The Richmond, loaded with men insteid of with oil, sailed for Honolulu, and the senson was lost. The other dasy, tho clsdm of Capt. Wxxxs and the other owners of flhe Richmond eame before the Court that is -pettling ** claima arising out of the Alsbama award.” Under the terms of the law, it wes necessarily rojected, but Judgoe Jewkrn honored himsolf by saying, in tho decree of dismmnizasl, that ** nothing more lionarable or moro praiseworthy " than Capt. Weers' eonduct hatd yel heen heard of before bis tribunat, e e e It will he hearl with some surpriso that Dr. Lixpursan, the Superintendent of the United 8tates Mint, lhas determined to ree- ommend to the I'rosident its location at In. dianapolis it silver alone is to be coined, or ot St. Louia if both silver and gold are to ba coined, Dr. LixperMav ovidently hsan't mado n vory careful study of the railroad sys- tom of tha conntry, and the relative position of Chicngo to the gold and silver distriets of tho country, It is snid to bo extremoly doubtful whether tho Presidont will concur with Dr. Lovprmwiay to mako this recoms mendation to Congress. It in rathor curiony that, when the Texas Pacifio subsidy is un- der discussion, wo nro told that Chiengo has nll tho advantages of connection with tho Pacific slope, but when tho loeation of the mint is at issue, then St. Louis suddenly ac- quires them, Tlow is this ? 8ax Bowwres is ‘at Washington. He tol. ographa lin papor that Briive will ** make au early and aggressive currency-reform speech,” We hops wo, Thera is evidently no danger of the Demoerncy’s being ag- gressive in reform, They held n caucus yes- terday in order t other all the proposals thay could, and it i3 said that Kenn is under heavy bonds nover to pive Banxny Caviriun the floor to introduce hin currency and other bills. Aflor all the retreating, and wavering, and equivoeating, and faint-hearted feints at advancing,in which politicinus have indalged on the currency question, it is gratifying that o man with a claim to tho namo of statosman is abont to make nn *‘ecarly and aggressive” movement for currency roform. Itcannot bo too early or too agyronsiv The application for what is known ags a “struck jury " in tho suit against Tweep has been granted. Two gentlomen have been appointed by the Court to select the jury. Provision for this practice might well be in. corporated into our imperfect code and made to apply to Grand ns well as Petit Juriea. Too many friends of our Sheriffs are tried to maka it altogethior safe to leave the sclection of every Potit Jury in tho Bherifs hands, sud too many County Commissioners aud their crontes ought to be indicted to make the selection of Grand Juries by the Commis. sioners always satisfactory. 8 pasged Into legendsry Listory as endowed with miraculous powers, In theso mote modern times, tho widow's lesso of lifo is tye most miraculons thing oxiant. The Unitnd Btatea pays pensions to amultitude of widows aho 8t mature sgo witnessed tbo Lirth of tho nation, arc about to celebiate its firet centenulal, and mav, for aught we know, aseist ac its biconteaary loo, Tuese rolics ot dead Rovolutlousry heroes differ from the oflice-holdets, who never rosign and seldom die. Thoy somolimes roaigu the weods of widow- bood in fasor of somo filskv centenarap, but tboy never dio. Wo foar that somo of thom exiut, fudeed, only for tho purposs of draw- ing ponsiovs, and that = sirict Investigation wou'd show that they are mere simulacra,— shadows which hide claim-agonts with slustio conscionces aud empty pockets, Immortality is no more a disingwahing featuro of the aged widow-pensionor than fruitfulpess is of the youngor, Pouvsions, be It explmwmed, increase with tho number of minor children with whom tho femalo yonsioner 8 blorsed. The reanlt is, that tho average widow ia surrounaded with such s multitade of olive-branches that ilie family looks like s forost. And the odd thing js that the minora never become adults. If the pen sioner bad thirtocn minor children in 1865, when she firat reccived Unclo Bam's bounty, the de- cado makes no difforenco ; sbo hoa still thirteen in 1876, The childron of our soldiers havo ap- pareutly’ sll found the fabled fountain which Poxcr: pg Lo sougut tn Florida, and so stay youthful forover. ————— The Br.Lzoxanos will cage, which has just been decided in England, in full of intereat. Home of ita featurca are uew and noarly all are rematktable, Tho testator waa the son of a amall tradesman {n a provincial town ; he ross to be Lord Chancellor of England. His hife was toug and useful. Ho did mors then any other man {o his position evor accomp'lshed to settle tha chaucery practice of Eogland in reapect to wills, a0@ now bis own property has givon risa to Important litigation which hes ostablished a valuable priucijle, The Lord 81. LxoNABDE wes 8 carcful businoss man, In tho coursa of Lls long and bhasy lite he smaesod a large prop- erty. Ho bad {skon paits to draw wup his wll with precision, nod to guard it against Joss; yet upon his death no traco of it could to fouod, Tlhe document was kopt for months before his death in tho room of his daughter, whoiad tho gioatest in- terost to proservo it. Tho contents of the will wero known to soversl poreons. They natab- lished 12 In court, and tho Indge cf Probate bas decided that the property shall be divided so- cording to the expreased wishos of the testator, 1t fe @ elogular coincidonco that tha property of that maa in sll England who had the most expe- 1lence in probate maiters, and who realized mont decidedly tho necoeaity for care 1n drawing snd preserving wills, should bo the object of litige- tion, s Marraew ArNorn's uew hook, “‘God and the Dible," appeared in tho torm of s series of arti- cles published by tho Contemporary Heview, It Is dealgned to be & roply to various objections directed sganss * Litorature and'Dogma,” bug Mr, Saarrry, who has scen the new book, writes to the New York Tribune that ¢ iaas mucha aubstantive hook as the oue In defenso of which it ia maid w0 bo written. Mr. Anwoupis, if wo may be allowed the oxprossion, ‘‘a Dible-pound- er,"” rather than o Blblo-expoundor, 1le searches for the woeak pointa in the sacred volume, and oxposes them, not from a vicious spirit of icon- oclasay, but with thoavowed purposo of strengthe ening tho faith of those who reject the Dible altogother, Iiia method {s open to objectiouw, Probably fow porsons who reject the Bible will accept It on the suthority of Mr, Arxotn. Itie possible, however, that he may be dolng & g00d work in putilug tho theologiaus on their mettlo, and o stripping off the covering whiok supor- atition and ignorsnce Lave drawn over truo re- higion, Mr. AnroLp'y philosophy {8 summed up by bim iy the two propomtions, that men cannot do without ruligion, and csnnot do with [tas it 18, Bluce all wen are now dolug without roliglon, or with it, or sro indlerent on tho snbject, Ar. ARNoLD iu likely to find fow followers o tho ex. pedition which he bas undertaken. s own wanderlogs will be followed ouly with the same {nterest ay shose of any advent; ¥ explozer. ————. The triat of Mr. Brxpuzy WestoN Hesvr in Florence, aud his sentoucs to fiftuen days' im- prisonment and 1,000 fraucs Noo, bavo revived the whole subject ut controversy betwean him and tho American scuiptors ln Italy, Mr. HyaLy wae sued for calumny by Mr, Covorry, of Plorence, who folt tust bis rislog reputation would suffer seziously by the imputations of hr, Heauy unlesa thoy were mes aud refuted foa cours of law. By the Itatiso practice a defend- »nt in & suit for libel is not allowed to plead jus- tlfcation, *“The greater the truth tho grestor libel " is the principle of the lawia Italy, 1In this case, however, the plaintif offcred every opjortunity for Mr, HxaLy to prove hls charges, und he sigually failed toao so. The workman employed by Mr. CovorLy, who was sald by . HeaLy to bo the autbor of important worke for which bis smployer recelved the credit, lus dulged in much tergivorsation on the witness. . atand, bus documents signad by him were pro. duced, showing that Mz, CoNOLLY was a8 truthe ful sud geanina an artist a4 conld bo found [n Ttaly, Mr. Heary b appesled hia case, and in the meantimo the ovecution of judgment has been Auspended, The developmeuts thua fap proso tuat rank injustice has been dooe, espe. clally to the youuger American mitiste iu I aly, Mr. Stony and Mirs Hosxxn, who wers equally inaluded tn the attack, facted by the fnjurior fpread by Mr. Mzary. stood too high to be af. nd malic.ons reporiy —— Thoe municipal election to be held ia Doston to-dny neomns to be nerrowsd down t0 m contest botweon Conp. the present Mayor and bolting ttepublican candidato for re-eloation, aud Boanrpe MAN, regular Nepublican, aud, as well, nomines of & noundesacript **Ieople’s and Labor-Reform™ conlitionn, LoanpMAN carried the HRepubllean Conveution hy o majorily of one, whercon the Cosn men bolted, aud both eandidates claim to be 1ogular Republican nowinees. Thn Adcertiser and Journal (both Republican) wupport Cons, and charge that Boazvdax is the candidate of riugs which eapturad tho Repablicau Convention, Tha Transcript (ltepublican) slso supports Cons, Lho Demusrata woro to bave ratified BoAnnuax, but the Puat, tho feading Demociatic organ, hag nlso declared for Coun. The Herald. independ. out, alxo tlies tha Coun colors, a0 that oractieally tho contert (8 between tho pross of Lhe city und. o wmajority of one in tha Republican Convention, TwreD's latest vietim Ie cne of bis lnwysrg~ not Davip Duprey Fietp, but ex-Judge Coy- ATOCK, Who was chiofly fustrumental {u securing tho eetting aside by the Contt of Appea's of the cr.malative sbutence on whioh the Boas trag sent to Blackwell's Island, CowsTock svidently basn't beara that Twzep was kiduapped, and indignantly imparta to & World repoiter thst “The rascal ran away without paving me” Saddost of all ia it that Twrep dide’s treat the 1emninder of his lawyara in'the ss ne way, T fact protaoly is, that it didu't occur to the Doss to get bimself abducted until after the lawyess pad plucked bim of his etealings. Iad he bad money enough left to continne to buy ap the boat lega! taleut, thers would Lave been smalt oocasion for Lis ** going uj bis wite," But, beiug out of mvallsble fande, and, as ¢t ware, abont to ba cast by bia Iswyers upon the teuder mercies of a cold, unfesting.world, the Boss gracefully sufferad himself to be kidnapped The Inter-Ocean baving uodertaken {o ssize all the printing patronge, &s ususl, sud oot leb the Evening Journal have 80 much s & smeil, Tnz ToinuNg a8 & dislntereated third party mitdly suggeated tho porcine character of such cooduct, whereunon our Chriatian neighvor lost control of {ts temper, and in a sadden gast of ange alloges divers and sundry dresdful thioge of ‘Tae Toipure, which it mixes togetbor fu an ine cohierout jumble having not the siighteat relse tion or relovancy to the sttempt to gobble al the official printiog, of which it is gality, Whetuer ' Tux TRISUNE wanted to be Mayor" inside or outside of the *Republican party,” ax ¢ desired a foreign missioe,” or was ** smbitions to go {6 Congiess,” or what mot, are thinga knowa only to the Z-0.; but, whether true or imneinary, it is not fair that the Rag-saby con~ corn should suck all the milk of the muniupsl cow. Give the old Journal a chance. The Brooklyn Eajle bas put tse merita of the Bezcnza-Bows¥ business in w nutsbell. It. says: ‘' If Brothor BowzN Is not a Jiar, a sneak, a syatomatio hypocrito, and & elandeser of the viless type, Hexry Wanp Bxecien nught not ta presch in any Chrintisn paipit, and, it Brothe Bowsxy is these things, Plymouth Churob ought clener to turo him out oz closs its doara.” Ibis puis the whola case in & very faw plaio words, and will refloct the gonoral reasonming of tha public. —_— Tho resders of the Post muat ba gatting alike e tired of the ** §7,000 and forty acrea of land ™, lie, and tho aillv remark sttributed to Gor, Bev- ERIDOR, which have bean repsated in that prind about a hundred times since it jolnsd the Oppoe sition party, Al it conld invent a conple of new falseliooda to take tho placa of the siale oney, the bummers would bo gratified, as the old onss bave become rather monotonous, The editor of the Milwaukos Sentinel, it will ba remembered, 89 managiog editor of the Ohl-! cago Times, loudly advorised eox-Ssuator Case PENTER In copueciion with that Long Bransh story, Bo the youog man yet tolls to maze vioarious stonementby btackguarding Tas Tats« uNE through the calumns of Mr. OareeNTEs's Sentinel. Harper’s Weekly republishes & prophetio plct ure by Naer, which first appoared in 1672. I8 rapresents Twxep going in oo one slde of Lud- low Btrest Jail and comiug out st the othes ‘The coming event cast its shadow before, and Nast put tho shadow on paper, - PERSONAL. Fanny Lear, better known as As. Blackford, ia buay writiog ber second book. 1t in smid that Mr. Trenor W. Park is tosail for the Isthmus of Panama by the steamar of tbe 16h. - Mrs, M. H. Burmham, {bo woll.known zomi- paper correspondent, has married Blr, Stophes Flake. i The New York papers tell about a_**drawbsck on sugar,” That's pothiog. There has beec 8 fearful pull-back on 'lasaes all summer, * Hoasekespors in London sre obfiged to ad- vertise for ** ]ady " Lelps fo order to get such ré sponses as thoy desire, The sarvant-girls seed to have vanished from the metropolis. Dr. Strousberg’occupies an aparrment n the compartmeat for nobles of tbe debtora’ prison (& Moscow, Heo i8 as sumptuounly entertaived a8 thosa who euffor for contempt of cours in Mik wankee, i Witliam Eddy and bls two sisters have found now flolds and pastaros greeu in Oolorsdo. 19 to ba bopod, lu the loterest of their spintusl manifestations, that the people there ars wd green as the pastures, M. Moncuro D. Conway {a agueat of the Hose Jobm M. Bigolow in Now York. o ix booked for many dinners, recopilons, and numuln; menta. including s evening at the ** Oentary " and s dinner at the Lotus Glub, & It fsramored that the Duo d'Aumale, fourld son 0t Louis Plulippe, is 6oon 1o marry s 86000 wifo, and tuat his intended is the Prinssss Thyrsy daoghter of tho Iing of Donmark, sad slster 10 tha Priocoss of Wales aud to toe wife of 806 comivg Ozar, ' + And caet thon always ove thus, Alfred, she murmured, ** aven when ago has crept upoR mo aud laft bis traces here?* There was % pattse on his pact, but 'twas only wmomentsty, when ba replisd {n a tone of deep remonstradcs “Can o duck swim ? " Mr. Oharles Bradisugh's health fg stlfl io & very precarious condition, e hiad neatly recovs erod when Lo suffersd s rolapss that slmost proved fatal. Within the Inst few days he hss {mproved greatly. The cause of his illaass wad ovarwork and complete nervous prostrstion. Mia. Abel Heywood hes presentod to the Oity ot Mauchsater, Eogland, & bronge satus ot Ol iver Cromwell. It is D foet bigh, welghs upwards of » too, and hias coet £1,600, Cromwell s repe resented in the military costutne of the p sad the features are dignifled and sxpressive. 1t I8 rumored In Englacd that Quesn Victoris will abdicate 1n csso war 18 declared by Groab Britsin on any Power with the Court of which sbo s intimately coonected. The Prince of Wales wiil then ssoond the throns, For ihis venson it Is beliaved the Prioce would cut shord bis Indinu tour and basten to England war st any (ime appear imminent, Mett Morgan, 1o s [card publisbed n the Ne? York papers, asserts ihat the clasalo pictures fof exhibiting which he s to be prosacated sTe exact coples of ert-works which Laog in stect