Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1875, Page 4

L] e e e e e i THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 18756. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATRS OF ATPICRITTION (PATARLE TN ADVAXCR), Pantnae I'repald at this OMce. Datly Edition, post-oaid, 1 yo 13.00 Parta of year atsame rats, 18 FOUR WEEK Litarary snd Kel et . Tri-Weekiy, pori-paid, 1 yer. Parts of yrar at rama rate, WEEELY KLU Gnecopy, prraer. tobof (fre, per eul Club of twenty, per cupy. . The poatage ls 18 conts a year, which we will prapay, Fipecimen copies sent free, To prevent delsy and mistakes, bs aure and give Pout-Office sddresa fn full, including Btatesnd County. Hemittances may be made either by draft, expreas, Fout-Office order, or 1n registerod lattars, ot our riak, TERMS TO CITY SUBECRIDERS, Dally, delivered, Bunday excapted, 23 cents per week. Daily, delivared, Sanday fncluded, 30 cents per week, Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlson snd D .. Chicago, Tl "SOCIETY MFETINGS. ORIENTAL LODGE, No. 33, A, F. and A. M.—An- nual Communieatim thin (Friday) ovening wb 7:0 ot lock, for Iusiness, election of oficere, etc. A ful attendance of members 1s requiested, By aruer of the Mater, E. N, TUCKER, Sec'y, ——— WASIHIINGTON CHAPTER, No. 43, R, A, M. ot Gomoralion this (Folday) eetning. s for the election uf officers and the payment of A full attendance 1a denired, JORN O'NEIL, I, CHAR. 1, TROWBHIDGE, Beo'y, LANDMARK 1ODGE, No. 423, A, F. and A, M.— Public Inatallation, The officers of this Lodge il ba publicly (ntalled Fridsy evaning. Dac. 17, st tho hall cornar ly-seventl-st, and Cottage Grove-av, Memn- bers and f1landa of the Frateraity are cordislly invited 10 attand J. L, BENNETT, Sec's. COVENANT LODGE, No, 626, A. F. & A. M.—Rog- elal (Annuai) Communication this (Fridey) evening at 930 wclock, at Corinthian Hall, 187 East Kiuzle at,, for elsction of oficers and payment of duew, By arder of the W. M, WAL EERR, Bee. CUICAGO OALEDONIAN CLUB—A Special meeting wrLif ba Beld af their bal, 147 Wastinglonat,, Biturilay svening, Dec, 1 8 o'cloc! WM, JAMES, Clief, AMUSEMENTS. NEW OHICAGO THEATRE—Clark sirest, hetwoen Randolph and Lake, Eeclly & Leon’s Minstrels, ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearborn sires?, corner Monros. Varlety entertalument, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Ilandolph strest, between Viark and LaSslla, Catifornis Aliustrels. MCVICEER'S THEATRE-Madison stroat, betweon Dearborn and Btate. Engsgement of Misa May How- sd, “The New Magdalen,” WOOD'S MUBEUM—3lonroe sireet, between Dears Ium‘ and Btate, ‘‘Aary Warner," Afternoon and Ivening, NEW ENGLAND CHURCH~North Dearborn street, sorner Dalaware plsce. Contonnisl Festival, The @hiengo Teihwne, Friday Mornmng, Docomber 17, 1875. Low tomperature, with oceasional flurries ¢f snow, aro predicted for thia locality to- day, Greonbacks, at the New York Gold Ex- chango yesterday, opened at 873 and closed w874, resterday of two Btate Granges,—those of linnesota and Nlinois, the former in session 1t Minneapolis and the Iattor at Champaign. The Michigan salt regions last yoar yielded s product of 200,000 barrels grester than that the forencon, but tha mnrket closed strong with the bulk sold, at $7.00@7.20 for pack- ing hogs. Cattle were moderately nctive and wenk, Sheop wero activa nnd n shady lowor, One hundred dollars in gold would buy 11437} in greenbacka at the close. Tho refusal of tho Domocrats in the Honsgo of Ropresentatives 10 acl immedintely upon the Post-Office Departnsent’s bill roducing the oppressive rate on transicut newapapers, and to undo the blunder which was made by tho Conference Committee of last session in placing the present exorbitant rates of post- sge npon snch, is, to put it in the mildest light, surprising. Tho proposition of the Postmaster-General was only to restore the old rates, not to reduce them below that standard. As Lhe rates stand now, they are n dnmage to every one who wishes to pur- chase orsend away s transiont newspaper, and they are of benefit to no one, not even to the postal fund. The refusal to repeal the bill and the sending of it to Mr. Luyun's Star Chamber can only be aitributed to mulish maliciousness and a purposs to harass the preas upon the part of the Democrats, of the most successful of provious years, the wtal for the ,twolvemonth being 1,026,979 darrels, These aro the figures of tho State Inspectors, and need not be taken cum grano, . —— Senators Truraax and Barano shonld have » pocket.edition of their speechas, nt Jeast those on tho Lonislana question, always at baud for referonce in any possible emergency. Buch an emergeonoy arose in the Benate yos- torday while the Miesissippi election.fronds were undor discusgion. The above-named Sen- stors, detormined to interpose objections to the proposed investigation, did then and there stultify their record of last winterby de- claring unconstitutionsl the very propositions thoy themselves had before urged with great earnestness and mors or less eloquence, The Democratic leaders in the House prob- ably greet the holiday recess with the matis. factlon with which a convicted felon bails o respite. The * Committos of Bafety” hope to see their way more clearly after the Gith of Jannary than they do now, which, howover, 1a not a vory enthusiastic view of the situn- tion. Meanwhile, for the gratification of those who are s0 anxious to do the gravd ‘bloody-chasm double-act, the displacement of all the cripled Union soldiers in subordi- nate offices in the House by ex-Confederatos is being effected, and the probability of the country's safely is growing proportionately healtby in Demooratio minds. The acquittal of the indicted judges of elec- tion inthe Fifth Ward suggests, in view of the sldlifal composition of the jury, that our judicinl system might be safely simplified to » considerablo exient. Instend of going through the costly process of trial, the same rosult would be reached by asking the Bherif's posss whether they meun to pack the jury so na to {nsuro convickion or acquittal. It thoy say the latter, the prinoner conld bo discharged forthwith, aud pechaps rewarded with a goat on the County Board, If the former, he could be sentenced off-hand. This, it will be scon, would mave the exponse of Judges, witnesses, jurors, prisoners’ board, ete., and attains precisely the scmo ond s the present syste Supervisor Turrox, the Philladelphia rove- une official who was ordered fo tako hc. Doxarp's offico at St, Louls, has written a letter to the Presidont reminding him that it wos himself (Turron), sud not Gen. Bap. cock, who succeoded in wrging wpon hima ,revocation of the order in guestion, The letter is written to controvert ex-Senator Ilsspruson's atatement in his Aveny ¢ argue ment,” that Cen, Baboocx bad been the xacans of McDoNarn's temporary retention. Thongh reasons for a disinclina‘ion to go to t. Louis would ordinarily be thought supor- erogatory, thoso which Mr, TurToN advances s bulug hisown are perhapsnot malapropos, and uro certaloly straightforward sud con- clusive, The Chicago produce marketa were more nnimated yesterday. Mess pork was qulet and 10@200 per brl lower, closing at $19.25 cash, and §19,65 for Februsry, Lard wasin good demand, and 5@7{o per 100 Ibs lower, closing nt $12,874 cash, and $12.02}@12.65 for February, Mests were active and steady, at 7fc for boxed shoulders, 10} for do short riby, and 1040 for do short clears, High. ‘wines were moderately solive and irregular, at 31.10@1.10} per gallon. Flour was quiet and weak, Wheat was sctive and closed {o ‘higher, at 96}o cash, sud D0jo for January. Corn was In better demand sud firmer, clos- ing ot 48]c for December and 4o for Jan- uary, Outs wero quiet aud firm, closiog at ¢0lc cash and 30jc for January. Kye wue steady, at $8@68jc. Barley was quiet und {rregular, closing at 8740 for Decewber sud e3jo for January, Hogs wers lowes during, who have no good will towards newspapers. Yesterday, in tho casc of Davis, who mur- dered CnanLes Waveano Thaoksgiving night, the prisoner came into court with an aftidn. vit alloging that two of his ilk—' Japanese Toxay” and WiLLiax ExMETr~were cognl- znnt of episodes in his past lifa which would strongly argue Jiis insanity ; that these men srere mow residents of Thiladelphin, but appoar in his behalf; and that in order to se- cure their testimony, whiLh was of vital im- portunce to his defeuse, a continuance would DLe necessary, which was asked at the hands of the Court, Mr, Reep, in warmly protest- ing, alluded to the equally tenable bypotheais of insanity in his own case asargued by quondam demonstrations even mora conclu- sive than his famous disquisitions on the duectile significance of aionion, but the Judge, refusing parenthetically to beliove the Greek- slinging prosecutor daft, still recognized the woight of the pelition, and postponed the prisoner’s trial to the January term. After tho lapse of noarly n week an intel- ligible though briet account of the terrible dynamito oxplosion at Bremerhaven hns reached this side of the Atlantic by way of the ocenn cable. It is now learned that of the immense mass of people that crowded tho qnay, cither as curious spectators or as labor- ers engaged in handling freight for the stecamor Mosel, 140 were either killed or serfously injured. The many disconnected and contradictory storics as to the person who propared the infernal machino which cnused this wholesale destruction of life have now been sifted down, and the hotrible details ore ot last given. The man Troyrsox, who has long beoun sniling under the name of Tuomas, deliberately planned tho de- struction of the steamer Deutachland to procure a ficlitious imsurance, and divide with other] parties who ecnter- ed into the scheme, but whoso npmes have not yot transpired. His machine was 80 constructed a3 to explode when tha vossel should be eight dnys at sen. Bomething in. terfered with his plans, and the Deutschland sniled without taking this destructive instru- mont, only to moot n fate almost as terrible on tho English const. Tmnoxrsox shot him- gelf after the explosion, and died from his wonnds yesterdsy, The facts nbove given are obtained from his ante-mortem statement, which also shows that he was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., was about 85 years of age, sud during the Robellion was engaged in ritn- ing tho blockade. THE BESUMPTION QUESTIOR ACAIN, ‘Wo print in another part of this morning's paper o long communication from TF. R. Cmanpres, of this oity, which cousists of twenty-one interrogatorios and flve proposi- tions on the question of specio-resumption! The communication is in the nature of & critivism of Tre Tornuns's suggestions rela- tive to tha plan of resumption recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury andindorsed by the President, and also a reiteration of Mr. Omaxprew's well-known fdeas on the same subject, to the expression of which Tur Turpune hos frequently afforded him space, Wae declino at presont to discuss the relativo merita of the two plans, and shall not weary onr readers with categorical answers to the interminable list of questions which ho pro- pounds, meny of which auswer themselves, ‘I'he Becratary of the Treaaury, Mr, OnaxpLez, nnd Toe Tainune agree upon the principle involved, viz. : The duty of the UnitedStates Government to resume specie-payment at the earliest possible moment in com- pliance with the Congressional pledge to that effect, If the present Congreag slarcs this conviotion, which we foar it doeca not, we do not doubt that eilher plan suggested would lead successfully to the result desired; but, meanwhilo, the real issup is how to re- gume with the least burden to ihe various interasta Gf the couatry, and especially to those who are in dobt, Mr. Cmaxpres’s plan and argument aro both based on the assumption that green- Dacks may be gradually appreciated to o par valug in gold within tho mext thres years: But suppose that this should not prove to be the case, thon thore would bo nothing for the Government to do bat sell its bonds and scoumulate an enormous mass of gold for re- sumption purposes, and make the commercial world suffor the serious oconsequencea of withdrawing $380,000,000 or mure of gold from the markel, The objection to Tar Tunuye's suggostion of 8,05 bonds that, be- ing worth not moro than 80 cents while grooubacks can be sold for 87 cents 1 gold, tho holders of the latter would not exchange thetn for bonds, is met by the statement that the combined Jegal-tendor character of these bonds and tho intersst thoy draw will necessarily render them worth ua inuch aa the, prosont currency. 'The very trouble with Mr, Onawpres's 4} per cent boud plan is that he offers no inducement to holders of greon- backs to exchange thems for bonds, but to demand their gold and wait till the date of rosumption to gotit. Nor does he ssem to cure in the loast for tho large body of citizens who recsived only 80or 85 cents in value when thoy contracted thoir debts, but who ore to be required, under bis play, to pay 100 centa in return summarily and uncouditionally, ‘We prefer that Mr. Onianpren shall himsel? argue out this part of the question with the willions of people he will find arrayed against bim on this point. TRegarding the authority of the Government to make the 8.05 redemption-boud s legal. touder, we reply that it hias as much author- ity to do this 8s o issue any new legal-tender notes to take the place of the old and worn bille. It is not proposed to increase the vol- ume of legul-tender, but to issue It in a better form, to take the place of the old and infarior until Jan. 1, 1877, on and after which all debts shall be cantracted on a gold basis, whils those legal-tonder boads shall continuo to be nlegal-tonder in discharge of all old and unpnid obligations, thus enabling the debtora to dircharge their dobts in abont the samo kind of money they reccived when tho debt was incurred. We conceive this to be afair and equitable compromise of an ex- ceedingly diflicult and delieate part of the redemption problem. 1t is not proposed, as Mr, CravpLER seems to think, to coerce anybody to taka these legnl-tender redemption-bonds in cxchange for the non.interest-bearing greonbacks, Ar. CoannreR, or any other person who pro- fors to hold the tender.notes instend of the tender-bonds for the next three yeors, and lose over 10 per cent on the money in the aggregate by doing so, ean do it and demand gold for the greenbacks at the end of that time. Lhers is, therefors, mo breach of foith on the part of tha Government in nuking an offer of a gold bond pending the date when Congress lias decided it to be prac- tieablo to resume., Mr, Cmaxprer must ro. member that he could not force the holders of greenbacks to take his 4} per cent bonds on or after Jan, 1, 1879, in the faco of the pledge to pay gold at that date on demand, withont breaking the covenant. His proposition to give the Government this option is, there- fore, worse fnith thau the proposition to give ' the peopls the option of taking a cheaper but legal-tonder bond, or waiting till the date fixed for the resumption to get the gold. As | to the question of uational Lonor, then, Tus TrinUNR'S suggestion {s fairer than 3Mr, Cnaxorer’s, and wo still think altogether more practicable, becanse vastly more accept- able to the millions of people who havo debts to pay which wero contracted in depreciated paper, DEMOCRATIC DOUGRFACES. Tho Northern Democratic ropresentatives in Congress are beginning to show thair bonds and to do the dirty work of the South- erners with the same alacrity and relish as before tho Rebellion. Indeed, they scem to bave outered npon the doughface aud dirt- eating business with oven more engernosy than in the dnys of slavery, when the whips of tha chivalry kept cracking about their enrs 80 industriously. They seom to have given themselves avor to the Confederatos, bodies, souls, and breeches. They have had their noses held to the grindstone by them until they bave consented to let King Lanan dic- tate the business of the House, enunciate their policy upon all questions, and tell them how to vote, They have thrown wide open the doors of tho House, hiave collectod togeth. er tha one-armed and one-Jegged vetoraus who wero given the minor offices asa rewnrd for their services to tho Union, aud kicked ther out into tho street at the bidding of the Con- federntes. The places of the maimed soldiers lLiave been studionsly fllled with ox-Rebels, To gratify Confodernte spleen nnd vonom, thess Northern doughfaces have penstrated every nook ond cranny of the House, and swept it clean of every crippled Unfon vet- ernn. They even went nosing about in the Indics'rotiring-rooms, and at last found an old colored woman who had been o waitress for years, and whom they also kicked out into tho streot to make room for an ex-Confoder- ote's widow. They havo, therefors, estab. lished the fact that tho only test for office. holding in the House is a proof that the caudidate was eitheran active participant in the war to break up tho Union or a sympathizer with secession. The boys in blue go to the rear; theRebelscomotothe front. Thisin just the condition of things that Tue Trrsuxe pre. dicted would take place as soon as the House was organized, and thig ia only the beginning of the end. The South i maving upon the Trensury, snd, a8 Mr, Laxan haa been given the control of the Democratic votes, the Northern doughfacos dars not stand in tho way of the ox-Rebels. Shonlaof bills are al- ready pouring in, the mojority of them from the Bonth, and nearly overy one of them in. volving a elaim or an appropriation to recom- pense Confederates for their loss and trouble in resisting the Union army. On Tussday, 233 bills were introduced, the majority of which were to enable ex-Rebels to get their bands into the Tyeasury and remunerate thomsolves for losses incurred in the only way this enornious expense could bo et would ba by heaping up taxes and mortgaging the futuro, If this determinn- tion of the Houso not to vote for sub- sidics, lut fo limit the expenditure of money to such amounts na are Re- tunlly demnuded by the public service, is ear- ried out in good feilh and is applied with exact impartinlity to every section of the country, it will be tha most hopetul sign for nntional economy that the couutry has yet bad. It will stop one of tho largest leaks in the Public Trensury. 1t will give the peoplo encoursgement that their taxes are not to be iucrensed for the purposes of subsidizing pri- vato rehemes, It will choko off the swarm of bungry and greedy speculntors, adventur. ors, md jobbers flocking to Washington to grab money out of the Publio Treasury, It will leave the subsidy lobbiea out in the cald, and compel them to loak for employment in other divections. It will end the Tox Scorr Warof the Rebellion. And thisis but the beginning of the eud, only the few firat drops befora the shower, the advance guard of the grand Bourbon raid upon the Troas- ury, which has been made possiblo by the dirt-eating ond doughfaceism of the Nurth. orn Democracy, Of these Northern Domo- crats, at least sixty ara holding their scata in the House—flve or six from this State alone —by virtue of Republican votes (who fool. ishly thought the leopard could changs his spote), and this is the manner in which they aro paying back for tho political advantages thoy havo pecured. 'Wo hope that the Re- publicans who helped eloct them ave satls- fied with their snccess in helpiug to throw tho control of the House of Representativea into the hands of ex-Rebels and to give Con- foderates precedenco over Unfon soldiers, THE ROUI OF THE LOBBY, The Housc of Represontatives on Wednes- day passod Mr, HoLman's resolution provid. ing thot '*No subsidios in money, bonds, public londs, indorsements, or by pledge of public credit, shonld be granted to associa. tions or corporations engaged, or proposing to ongage, in public or private enterprises,” by the very emphatio vote of 223 to 83, Of theso 83 nogative votes, 25 were Democratio and 8 Republican, and a number of Demo- crats dodgod ; olso of the 83 votes, 27 were fromn the South, If the Houso will but abide by iho decision it has expressed in this roso. lution, sud not yield to the blandishments and inducements of the lobby upon the very first pressure, it will deserve to havo a large white mark set down to its oredit, and the tarridden people of this country will breathe mors froely, as it relieved of anincubus, It was the only action that could save this Con- gress. 1P the subsidy eluice.gotes had been onge opened, the volume of corruption wonld have swept everything beforeit. Theschemes of the lobby which huve already acounulnted in Washington, and the thonsands of others which would have been encouraged to swell the torrent by the passage of the first aub. sidy, would have swamped the Government aud left it hopelessly insolvent, ‘I'o c: out thess schemes would have doubled the taxes. ‘The mout of theso schemes have orig- inated fn tho South, in the shape of appro- priations of every possible description, but it is idle to suppose that one section of e country would stand by and see anciher section putting In its subsidy joby, and obtaining aid and comfort, without setting a counter current st work sud fairly flooding tho House with railroads to build, rivers to improve, and canals to repair. It would not Do a one-landed grab, but a universal one— a4 the omators would say, * from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, and from Maine to Cali- fornia.” Thewo wubsidy jobs would Lave in- volved thousands of millions 6f dolarw, and, &8 there is not & dollar in the Treasury, the Texas Pacitic and other ronds projected ncross the arid wastes of the Southwest for pur. poses of peraonnl aggrandizement alons, and which ean never be of auy public utility or benefit. It will extinguish the proposed coustruction of canals, locks, and dams in numerous localities where canals, locks, and dams are of nomore use than a fleet of ocean. going steawers, It will sdminister o savero blow to the proposed general inter-State sys- tem of improving rivers with not watoer enough iu them to float a dug-ont. For thus squelching the lobbies and the subsidizors the House deserves tho thauks of the coun- try; if it shall ubide by its resolution, 1t will earn ita lasting gratitude, DMeanwhile, wo commend the action of the House to tho St. Louis newspapers, which have taken pains in discussing tha Southern Pacific jobs to inti- mato to Tur Trimuxe that they would worry it yet bofore they got through withit. We trnst the St Louis newspapers are not wor- ried by tho passago of the Horaax rosolu- tion, THKE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM, The large number of influential guntiemen attracted from all sections of the country to take part in tho fourth session of the Ameri- can Bonrd of Transportation is a fitting re- sponss (o tho wide public interest taken in the questions for which this Board has been especially organized to cousider, There is probably no other way than that of individ- ual sssocintion and agitation in which the railrond problem can Lo mot under our form of government. The only danger attondant upon this plan is that the Associstion will rather lean upon Govermimont intorfuronce in one form or another than look to its own ro- sources andinfluence. This tendency cropped out at the first day’s soasion in the report of the Ruilrond Cowmittee, The recommendn , tions of this Committee relative to Stato log- islation are, in a certain measure, valuablo, nnd almost entirely harmless, but the general conclusion reachod by the Committes is fal. lacious., The roport says : 1n conclusion, your Corumittes respectfu’ly submit that the remedics for the defects aud abuses in cur present aystom of transportation must comprisa the constraction, by tho Natfonal Govcrnment, or by na- tlonal aid, sud with natlousl control which will gise rasults equivalont thuroto, of u nationa) fron highway for tho movemont of frelght Letwoen the graln-grow- ing se:tions of the Went sud the Atlintlo scabosrd; and, a8 auxiliary thereto, existing water-lines should bo Improved snd suzi additloml ones copstructed as promise the Lest results fur the amount of cayital in- vasted, Your Commiltce respectfully recommon:l that this Qonventlon preseut & mewmorlal to Congrosw, ssklug that joint committea of both ionscs of Congresa be appolnted o consider nud roport attha nest wesston of Congress uvou the advisability of establishing snother Exeautive Department of tho National Gavernment, to Lo called the Department of Internal Commerce, which stiall bo sprelaily chiarzed with all mattery ro- Iating to the lutornal commerca of the United States, It the Board should sdopt this recommend. ation, it would fail to take nny higher posi- tion or develop auy more usefulness than the varions local nnd nationsl nssociations of Grangers, which have agitsted the problom for soveral years past, and thus far have only succeeded in making confusion worsa con- founded. The proposition is simply that the United States Government shall adopt the Belgian syatem of Governmont ownerabip of part of the railroads, This question has been discussed ot longth by the lending press of the country, and it is only neccssary to say that the Committeo lamentably failed to moot tha objections which have boen presented in ita own report for tho purpose of answoring them, Duo sllowaneo must be made for the enormous difforence between our form of governinont and of civil gervice and that provailing in Europo where the partial State ownership of railrouds las been found to work to tho advantage of the publie. We do not share in the apprehension of danger from centralization to the extent of making it an argument against the trial of this expe- dioncy, but prefor to confine ourselves to tho practical objection that, under, onr syatom of loose, disjoluted, and partisan-apoila systom of civil servico, no Govornment railrosd can e so managed to givo the relief sought with. out creating uucomfortable deficieucy bills ond rapidly dogeuerating iuto profligate cor- ruption. There is nothing in the past expe. rience of Gavernmental interest in business enterprisos which warrants the belief that the rond would be so economically constract- od or honestly operated aa to reduce rates of transportation without putting on tho Gov- ernment a doficlency #o large that tho people would be fully as badly off as they are now as rogards actunl! cost, and worse off by the in. croased patronsge and corruption of our party politics. The construction of a Govern. ment railroad, such as the Railroad Commit- tea have suggested, would not only open up a wider field for plunder than did the sub- sidien to the Union and Central Pacifio Rail. roads and the Pacifio Mail Steamship Compa- nies, but it would tend 1o a vaster systom of loLbying, and log-rolling, and trading, and scheming for the construction of other roads, thau has ever befors prevailed in this coun- try, All this would be st the expenso of the people. The money eaved in reduced railroad rotes, it the Governwent should put them down on its own lines, would be swamped in the increased appropristions to pay for this new means for sapping the Government ro. sources. The racommmendations of the Railroad Corn. mittee relative to Btato legislation ave not so wild and impracticable, though many of them have been tried without any marked improvement in tho relations between the railroads aud the people. Theys include the establishment of Btete Boards of Ruilway Commissioners, organ® zed on the same system as the Massachu getts Hoard ; a uniform system of keeping ra'/lyoad sccounts; the prohibition of stock inf mtion; laws forbidding railroad officials to ¥, 1nter- ested in mining companies, fast freis ht lines, and other débiemnes organized to abgorb rail, road profits; withholding from ra flroads tho right of acquiring and ownivg la*ad which is not used for railyond purposes; /e abolition of the pass system, ¢to. Thes s are reforma which would be highly desira'sle, and their euforogment by legisiotion i4 0nly open to the e e e ] objoctions that such lawa mny bo easily evaded, a9 they have been when tried, and hat this kind of legisiation ia too apt to over- rench itself and defeat its own purpose., THE FARWELL BILL ACGAIN, In nn interview published on another page, Mr. C. B. Fanwren explains his Specie-le- sumption bill introduced into the House laat Tuesday, and tries to show that the moderate disapproval of it which wo exprossed yester- day was unjust. Whon he spenks of rotiring £2,000,000 or $3,000,000 of groeubacks per month, Lo travela outside of his bLill. Iis bill provides for the monthly retirement of 1,000,000 ; no more, no less. No doubt, if wo, liko France, should adopt the heroic plan of canceling about 6,000,000 of our dishon- ored paper every month, and then accumulate $250,000,000 of coin in the Trensury, wo should, like France, speedily bring the rest to par. But Mr, FanweLs proposes nothing like this. He displays his own plan in a much more unfavorable light than we did, by avowing that it will necessarily provent resumption ot the timo (Jan. 1, 1879) which Congress fixed for the day of resumption. His own estimato of the probable date of rosumption is fire ycars hence, when nis bill, if passed, would have insured the withdrawnl of only five-twalfths, or £60,000,000, leaving $360,- 000,000 of “promises to pay” still dis- honored. What shadow of reason is there for thinking that the rotirement of one dol- lar in every seven will bring the other six to par? Aslong as the maker of a note refuscs to redeom it, and thero s no indorser who will, the holder can get it cashed only by going to a broker, who will infallibly shave it ot as heavy discount ns possible. As long, then, a9 the Government of the United States refuses to redeem its promises to pay on demand, they will rot reach par, for there will be =& constant demand, on the part of importers, travolers, and others, for gold in excliange for them ; this gold will be given only by brokers ; the brokers will only give it if they can moke s profit theraby, or, in other words, they will only redeem the notes at n shave; the amount of gold they give will necessarily fix the purchasing-power of the greenbacks ev- erywhere ; aud therefore the latter cannot reach par. Supposs the great mercantile Louse to which Mr, Fanwsrou belongs wishas to buy 800,000 worth of silk from a manu. facturer at Lyons, Francs. It must remit gold or gold-drafts therefor. How csn it do 80? Plainly, only by selling greenbacks to a broker or a bank and buying gold-denfts therewith, Now, the bank will not gcll these gold-drafts for greenbacks, dollar for dollar, because it would lose monoy by doing so. 1t will take the dishonored notes of the Gov- ernment ot some rate between 80 and 93, paying the same nmount of gold for thom that the Now York Drokers’ Exchnnge pay on the eamedny. This methed of fixing the valuoof tho greenback will prevail to the day whon the nation bonors its promises to pay, either by funding or cashing them on their presenta~ tion. TAXATION IN ILLINOIS AND SEW YORK. The New York Daily Bulletin keeps at the hend of its editorinl colamna the following dis- henrtening contrast between the growth of popnlation and tho increase of tnxation in that State: Stato tax lovy in 187 H.ate tax lovy {0 18.0. Increate, Population in Foyulation i 1650, Iucrei @) §p tazation. Incresse in populaty A similar comparison for tho State of Ili- nois, which wo aro enabled to give through the courtesy of State-Auditor Liprivcorr, is much to the advantage of our Commonwealth, It is na follows Btate tax lovy fn 1475, Biato tax lovy in 1:60, Incrouse., Tapulation fu 1473, Fopulation in 1560, IDCTOase. ssenare n Increase in taxation,, Incresse iu population. While the taxation of Now York State has incrensed 260 per cent, that of Illinols bas incrensed only 9 per cent, and the popula~ tion of tho lntter has grown 77} per cent, while New York hug increased but 28 por cent, New York has outstripped us in tax- entors ; Illinois is ahead in tax-payers, New York City has & municipal debt of 147,878, §71, Chicago, with & third of the population of Now York, has a dobt of $16,773,220. ‘Wo must not cougratulate ourselves prema- turoly. New York City has built its Court- House ; Chiosgo is laying the foundation for one, The Ohicago Ring ia as greedy as that of New York, and must bo better watched it Chicago is to retuin ita presont advantnge of Light taxation, Mr. Fapwzey, who roturned from Wash- ington yesterday, haa favored Tre TamoNe with his views on the Speoic-Resumption bill in the Hoase, on which we comment in an- other article, and also relative to the contra- dictions callod out by his Washington stato- ment relative to Bolicitor Wirsow, of the Treasury Dopartment, Concerning the ap- parent issuo of varacity botween Messrs. Farwewn ond Looan, Mr, Faswrii explaing that be did vot refor to ony recent effort on the part of Mr. Loaax to have Bruronp Wit soN removed, but to an interview which Meserd, T004n and Farwzrn had with the Trosidenfi in 1871, or shorlly afier the former's election to the United States Senato, and while Mr. 'Witson wna still District-At- torney of Southern Iliuols, This was Mr, Finwrew's statoment, and if it had been so reprevanted to Mr. Loaax, it would prabably not bave boen denfed. Wo still thiuk, how- oven, that Mr, Farwent will discover that Mr, Wizson is not acting with any personal mokive in the whisky prosscutions, but sim- ply doing his daty, The prblic will learn with regret that Mr. Geronor 8, Bavos, the efficient Superintend- ent of the United States Postal Rallway Service, hns tendered his resignation, to take effect, Jan. 1, 1870, Mr. Bavos has for s longy time contemplated this step, and only w fted the accomplishment of the fast mail s/ rvica before taking it. This having been t juccessfully inaugurated, he mow retires to engoge in private and more lucrative busi- ness, Daring his term of offica he has sarved the Goverunment and the public faithfully and efficiently, and inaugurated important re. forms for the publio benefit. The meagre salary of the position, howevar, is no recom- ponse either for labor or faithfulness, While the publio will not blame him for entering upon some other business in which he can make something more than his board, it wilt at the same tinie regret to lose the sexvipes of such a faithful and intelligent ofticial. As the time approaches for the meeting of the Ropublican National Ezecutive Commit- tee thero Iy & growing competition for the honor of obtaining the location of the Na- tional Convention. We Lad thought the se. lection of Chicago as the place for holding the Conventions of both parties bad becomo A permanent arrangement, only to ba changed by such extraordinary events as tho Exceed- ing Warmth of October, 1871, Thare is little doubt, however, that theso Conventions will gravitato in this direction An anonymous pamphlet, prepared by sorua lawyer, very severely assailing the profession- al charnctor nnd personal integrity of Mr, H, D, Horo, candidate for the Bupreme Court, is in circulation. It is being sont, we are in- formed, to nll the lawyers in the city and perhaps in the district, and also to hundreds of business men and prominont citizens, If the writor therco? belioves his eharges to bo true, ho ought to have signed his name to It Peoplo do not give much credeneo to snony- mous chnrges mado against candidates on the evo of no clection. We ean hardly believe that Judge Diciev, or any friend of his, with his knowledge and consent, would make an nttack on his opponent of this character. 1f ho is nny party to this pnmphlet, it should cost him the vote of every honorable msan, If the charges contained in the pamphlet are truo, the Campnign Committee should with- draw Mr, Hunp's name. REPUDIATION OF STATE DEDT3. The recent discnseion of tho ropudiatian of Btate debts, aud tire **scaling”™ thoreof, which la repudintion undp suother name, la atiracting o good deal of etioniion, sod has augcosted to an tpgeniouy correspondont the following ingmry, which coulaius just eaounh of suppesiive jus- tice to be calzulated to muclond. 1he natwica of the queution will bs best undorstood fim e roadingt of the commuaieation entico: o he Dilitogaf The Cidern dribunes Caicado, Doc, 15.—{tef -rring to the practical roymdi- atfon ot her debt hy the State of Tounessce, aliout which you have & br el 8 1. irial to-duy. I dsire ta ask 8 quesi.on, Buppowing btits owas & cobsidecably delt to citizens of a for. iy contry, which she due 't Iy, or at loat prac’i ally, repudisics,—as scoms fio be Ko present powtion of ‘Tonnowes,—m.8 suppong furtler, that thero tela: no Liibunal or otler ma-ane througli walch the creditors could obtuln or eufirco pymezut of the debt in & peaceful way, query : We uld xioe tha Governmeut of the country uf whi-h 14 ons creditors were cifizens, and as octing on thelr beb alf, be justidd in compolllng paymont, oven thougy it #bould be by me,ns of on_ srmed- invealou of the dis- honest Bialo? And would tno Govornment of e Unltsd § utes be morally entitial t3 Juterfare, unl asa upon axsumj thon of tho debt? 1 dnk fuls auest vn {0 futere tiog oue, anl worthy of o fall abaw:e, o ver lovrd of the tdea bewg broiched hefore, Bie- apectiully, TH 348 COURPENRY, Without foteuding to palliace Stato rapudiatron in any form, which I8 at onco a erime nnd o TA- tioual disgraco, it must bo romemborod that fhor- cizn Goverumonts biave 1o direct communicatiaon with our Siate Guvesnmonty, and suy grievances thoy may bave against any one of the United Btatey must be redressea through the repulsr diplomatic chavuels with tho National Govarn- ment, 1ho declara fon of war Is & matter whinb each nation must delermine for itself; und, 41 any foreign nation should cuoose to domonil of tho United States Governmont that it psy the dobt of sy Bta:e that bas repadiated its obligu- tions or go Lo war in caso of arefusal thoto is no quostion bus the United S:atea would (2Lt Brat, and detormine thofustice of thociue altorwards. Tha statup of Amarican States 18 vory noll kaown avroad. Thbey are & soit of vublic corvoration, 80 far 18 sssets and liabilitios are ccmncerned. Thers i» no moro ro:eon shy the Naiicnal Gov- erpment sbould becomo a guerantor of their dobty, either 1 fact or princi;lo, thaw for the dobte of cities, countios, towns or viilages, or iudividuals, It would be & most dangexons snd coptly precdent i the United Siates vhould over assume & renpontibil.ty for Btala debt b, leaving to the States » full power to cout;mct these dobta. It wonid bo very much ss though A mau of wealth and good crodit ehsuld plok out thirtv-seveu young men of dlssvlu Lo propes aitios, toll thom to coutsact dabts to Lh eir hear! content, and mpnounce to the world that Le would pav tliezs debts if the contract g parties slionld feil todogo. Thisplan would k onbout the very worst that could bs adopt:d to chock the growth of local jodelLtedvess o th'd country. Meanwhilo it Is probabto that foroirtn Govern~ wmonts will cncourago capitalista to ;1 otact thom. wolves by the usual meaus knowo to ocommerco, inscond of resoruug to war; and it §4-to be boved that noither Btate Gove-nmeu(s, 1 pr municlpal Governments, nor corporatious will do moything to bring ihe American credit fisto ciarepute abroad. Tbose who do will bo tho yrestest suf- forers from their bad fulth, thovezh the entiro American people must share tho di sgiaco and the ponalty of fioaucial discradit to somo extent. However disagreesblo this may Ly, it does not justifv in the romotest degrecany action by whicts tuo Gennra) Govoroment mny ‘pe regarded as & guorantir of any debiu except 'As own. An often 08 n heavy tank-iobhiery occurs, and the delectives, na is their wont, ffor a blg reward despotl 1he thioves of u sburo o1 the booty and return sowe portion theroof to the bank, letting tho thicves go with the remséuder, thero 13 a vast outwouring of public indiguation, And that e 8l that zowes of ., The detactives pocket tho reward offered by the bauk and that whiol they approyristed to themselves out of the sbare of plunder awarded tho thicves aa tho 1oward for thoir entorpise, and to stimulate theln to ropetition of tho Lle-euterprisiog per- formanco at the earllost opportumtv, Thls partaesehip of dotoctlyves with tnloves multiphes orime at &n alarming rate; bot is it worse than that sort of partuership betwoan the biggost thieves and lawyers illustrated in Tweco's case? Of Tweep's ‘*‘swag,” nenrly three- quarters of & mullion was pockeled by the Iawyers, and probably ut for bis untunely **ab- @uction " they would bmvo despolled him of tne romainder of it. In 1etura they defended his case by iugontous pettifogcing tactics to prevent bis buing pus upon bty defense before a jury, and throughous the prolonged lifigation not onco proscuted & defensa upon the merite. The defenso throughout wss s coufemsion that thoro waa no defenes upon the ments, and necossarily wnpliss knowledge on the part of Twzed's law- yors of bis guilt. Peorhaps lawyers bavo o right thus to dofond big thieves, not by making & de- feuss upon the metits, but by resori to all ques- tionablo clicanory to prevent the thlovea boing breught to trinl at all for their tlievery ; and perheos 1t is propor for tho lswyers to reward thewuelves for thoir labors in tLat bobalf by pockeliug the thieves' plunder. Dus, if that be granted, then wuet it not be slso gronted that Ilawyers are licensod to bo recoivera of stolen gouds, aud thieves' accomplicen after tho fact ? Tho Mil'ennium must be repdlv drawiog nigh, for shie 8,500,000 peuple in Loadon lived tireniy- four houre, Nov. 22, witbout bewg caught 108 pivgle cnmo. As morality nowadsys caosists matoly In not being cavght, this laz gratitvlug #ign of progresa, The Lord-Msyor of London sat In utato on tke morning of Nov. 23, aud noy & single criminal appesred. Ko expiessed bhis Joy therest, and bis chlef cleik reminded him that *1n sccordancs with time-honored custom " #$uch 80 cccurreucs was to be colebrated by the { rewentation of & pair of white-kid gloves to the clevk. Every *time-hooored custom™ 1n Eu- iand has & gratulty conpected withit. This1s #0 true that ¢ custom ™ and * mxpenon ™ become nemly synonymous tefmu 10 the miad of the American tourist in Eoglsnd, And as custom {8 tho basls of all common Iaw, this probably ex- plaina why Diltish sitoineys exacs so many fees. The recent fatal explosion of dynamite at Dremerbaven hsa provoked » good deal of curious comment in vanous quarters. Dyuame ita haa lutherto been cousidered a non-explosive. 1¢ is & composition of nitro-givcerine wnd porous eatth, put 10 thut hape axpressly to proveut ncci- deat. Il explouive qualities sie only developed when it la {gotted under preswure. The condl- tions necessary to au explowion of dynamite do Lot sbam o been jresout at Dromerkiaven ; sod the » myatery about the disaster which tewaiua to be sulved. The suppositicn of one paper tuat the dyusaite ln biy case waa uudor & plle of luggege, aud 80 subjected 10 the required presauro, {s manifeatly insuthiclent, 84 Alac Is the theory that carelens handling was thy #10 cause of tho exploajun. A more reasanably explanatisn 18 that the matetisl swas now dynam. 1o ap ail, hula more duugeroan exploivo, per hars n m xturo of nitro-glycorma alils earilingy adapted 1o abadrb fe. i The Bt. Louls press Is copying with much com. Dlaconcy an atticle from the Heatkeille (Mina,) Tumes, {n which, *simply ciphe:ing out & plaig sum in arithmetia.” that paper makes oot thy, ¥t, Louls, In tho year 2000, will be the lirgaw oity fu the world, having & populstion of 8,000,0001 To get at thin rosult, the Times sy, mates the prosent populstion of 8t. Louls oy *over lsalf & milhon,"—an incresse of 603 ver cont ainge 1170,—and concludes from thie thay sho will at least dounlo her population every tinrd of a cemtury; and, by thia 1ate of increass, ~which ft doolares ** much uader the mark"— the neat ntis aggregnte of 8,002,000 s reached iu the timo rpecilied. The Missleslpri papar (g aitogethier too modeet in ita calouiations. Why sbonld it rostiict them to the peity periag of 123 yeara? Latus goalittiofur.he:, nnd v yay bow tite o d thing worie." Btarting with 8,000,. 000 in tho yoar 2000, and procreding mo thy samo scsle of mulkiplication, 8t. Lot » will huve, in the yonr 2100, $4,000.0)0 peuple; In the vear 2200, 612,000 ¢00 ; anl tn the yoar 2300,~oaly 425 years from now,—4,000,000,000, or over three timea tho Topulstion of the entire world) A-suming that the @arth will bave s future ez. {stonce squnl in du ration tothe past life aseigned ot by tho popu.sr chrovology, 8t Louls wi) bave, in tha year 803), wheu Qannrer abal play bis trawp, a populatfon of——bnt no, tu sabjoot, like »paco mud etecri:y, is 400 vast for the humun intellect by grasp ; aad, beaidea, o columns &re tio crowlod with Whisky-Ring nows, nad other matters of immediate conte quenco, to perwit ua t> suirender the roog requisite for the prosentation of even sn lucon wluetable fraction of ' the de.naition total,” - The Congross of the Un'ted Statesand th Cowmon Couucil of Now York City sre botl wiesthug with tho botol bills of bis Majesty KALARAUA, King of the Bavdwich Islands. The bill owad by tho nazion has just been predented snd.will probably be pald nd4s00n a8 the cnme Lrous machinery of appropristing, suditlng, ote., can be brought 10 bear uponit. Tho bik agaiuat tha Qlzy of New Yurk was prassnted, on the coutrary, sumo montos sgo sod haa sinee been raferrod and te-roferred, much to the dis Rust of tuo proprietors of tho Windsor Hotel, whero Karasaua and his swte stoppsl during thoir stsy in tho motropoils. The bill smoauty ty .many thousanis of dolars, Liguors and clgara alone aro chisrged at $3 230 1—3 sum that ougbt to havo supplied KaLAmAUA with a chsm. pazoe bath overv moining and enough brasdyte koep him aud his suite protty steadity drank from daylight to darkuees nnd throigh the darkness boside, As another of tho [temsls 2600 for oue spoidod carpet. tha probablity ia that tho suits got drunk1f tho Kiog did nok The only or.gioal **pura-Havaua'™ 5-cent cigar, tue Introluction of wbiot bas so Rreatly des croaged the casiaaf liviag, waa aot k 1owa as the time of tueroyal visit, 8o tuat the Windsor was oblhiged to supp'y the dasky potentate with esbe bage-loaves at tho rato of about 75 cents per toll. On the wnols, the bi/l ssems 1o show that the Bandiwich Inlandor Las an enormous power of coneuming liquor (porhaps the Now York bummors helpsd him), avd profers to amoke threc cigars st omco. No wondler the asloom keepera of Hountalu form the wonsyed. aristoo racy ot tho Kiugdom, ————— The pomination of ex-Senator Hrwpersow for tae [iemdoncy by the German paper in Bt Louis of which Cant, Scmonz is part omnez would bave some signkficancs If (¢ could ba ehiown thst tho latior at all approved the idea ‘Thero is no ovidence to this effsct. Mr. Scaurt lms no contiol over the Westliche Pos excopt throngh the indirect (niluense which he msy oboose to exerolss upon the respormblo editor. In an 'intorview rocont ly pubhshed, Mr. Bonunz ssid that be bad ra« monaetratnd with the editor of the Fost il any atlempt to 1mplicata President Gaaxr in the whisky frauds, Tho Ianguago nsed o this luter viow, and Lho fact tbat Mr, Bontusz bas taken up bis reslionce ;n Now York, show that he cannot bo lield peraonslly sco.untable for suything the odi:or of the Pos! may chooso to say, As to the nomination of HexpERsoN, whethor Bouuaz s proved [t or not, it iy elwply preposterons. T only importance that has altached to Hxxps. 80N tlnoo lus rotiremeat from publio life hat arisen from an oodignlfied and aojost asuaalt upon the Chlef Msgistrats of thenstion, Wa havo yet to laarn that enmity tuwarls Prestdent GRANT 18 & wuliclent gualiication for the Proske dovoy, or that one who shows himself inospable of treating tho offce a8 well av the mea wha bolds it w.th respoot 1s for tuat very reasoa the beat fitted to direot the Executive Departmoat of tha Umted Btutos Governmeat. Mr. W. AL, Rosserrs has published a lettes from a friend of Lis at'Romes, which contaloss curions s:ory about tho death of BmzLizy. An old satlor, itla sald, haa jost died wb Spezis who confessed on his dasth-bed that ue wes 008 of tha crow of a bark which rsn down the bost containiog Surtrxy anl his frieud WmLtuus, "I'ho Itatlans thought Byeoy was oo bosrd. He had the dargerous reputation of slwaya Kesplng his ponkets stuffed with money. They ez pected tu board the boat, kil Braox, and share the spoila, An somidontal collision seat poas BuELLEY to tho boitom, A monib afterwards, tho body of thedrowned piet was washed sshore and burned ou a fuoeral-pyre built by the brother-pust whose revuted wealtl, according ta this storv, was the lnnocont cause of BHELLET' doat. Thetale of the ancle 1t wariner doos not seem much more credible than the wore tamons one told by Coremipom. It in faty, s befits sometning conceraed with thesoa, It s told by ous of the maiiues aud mught wall be told te the masines. % —— Mr. Ricasnp Suits, editor of the Oinclamtl Gazette, haw beeo apending 8 futtuight at Washe iogton. Whilo thero be placed hia legs under tho President's mabogasy about dinnes-tims, aud on his rsturn hows makes publlo the follow ing “luspired” remarks, 1n doubla-loaded typs, caucerning the Third Term ¢ 1t 1a siated on good authorit 1 vot caudidate for re-slsction, and would nol, ueé der any clrcumatanoes, scoopt & nomination, = ife dost 1ol cate 10 say 80 formaliy {or ressoua that the puotiq will appieciute when they rooolisct bow persistantly be lus been charged widh scakiog s third lerm bus nals not fu the firld, and the ton:ue of slsndcr ebould now basifent, Gen, Graxr, Upon ke tarmination of his present torin of oitice, ‘will retire to gomie Ule, aud Lio will be all the more te'psctad by bia rountryman foe having set st vest this {uitd-teem question.” The Traient, the Lieyublican party, atia the cousiry 19 tobe congratalated upon e deciaton that Aaa reached. that Prestdent Quawt Developments of eurplesiog richuesn fn regard te be cmmo wegment of the Wulaky Bing ste promised Ju s fuw days, Guoo. PaaNswoaTil la reporisd aa saye ing that taess devclopiaents will make Joax Loasx 8 great deal siaker thau hoe was in bis recent sttackol Fhoumatism of the brain.— Wusbmglon (Decs 14) sae~ Patch to the Cynemmals Enguirer, ‘That ls what the Clucionsit coocern Now hato ix what Becretary Baistow aod Fanxewortu declare in regard thessto 1 Speeial Dienaleh (0 FAs Chica20 Iribuns. Wasn1vazoN, D, C., Doc, 18.~The atteation Becrotaay of the Treasury was this 07 the rocent publications in the West in which the of Soualor Looa¥ Wad econnsatad Wilh Riog, Becretary Daistow sald; “ You there 1s no eviJence, aud never bas bosn, whish in way {mplicstes Loakn in theAVhlaky Hing, sud § doa belluvu thers will be,* . en. FARXGWORTM vay8 ihet he bas nob 0Gme hars muke any exposure of whisky oparatioos, and that kuows 1 0 ling whatever aboul tham (0 exjoss suye be kvows uothing whatever sbout Wi operations n Culiayo or soywhars slss, ) £3 E i i} EEH ———————— genoy firm in Toronto bas beex suol for damusges by aleatber-dealer of thstaity. Tae alleged damages socrued from s sale of stock on s certificate of solveucy furvlehed le the O8' diuary course of busluots by the agevoy. The Jury retusned & vesdiol for the full amouos of the foss, §L00. The leather-desles in & Mz, Mo Lzan. Heapplied t» the sgeucy of Drwx, W aax & Co. for fuformatiou respectiog the Soane aisl standing of & slios-merchant who Beps @