Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1875, Page 4

TH Clit GO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 187 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. netive. and 1¢ lower, closing at 964e cash and | as important ag the speculations of the I: s6%e for February, Corn was dull and fe] peror of China would be upon this subject, RATER OF BUTE TTI ATA Te!” | Lower, closing at A73e fur December and 4820 | Members of Congress, and newspaper corre. Dally Edition, post-paid, 1 5 313.00 | for January, Osts were duit and }@ielower, | spondents, and the small politicians and asiiitdaaer stones ee closing at 29% cash und 204¢ for Janunry. | gentlemen of the lobby at Wash. Bunday Malition Ryo waa easy, at O8{@6sec, Barley wan |ington, are accustomed, every four TH Weekiy; pov stendier, closing at 864¢ for December, aud 850 | years, to exerciso their talonts in Asuuary. Logs wera dull and closed weak at | President-mnking; but, unfortunately, the 10¢ decline ; snles at 86.70@7.0. ‘Tho cattle | Conventions raroly, if ever, select tho man : trade was duil and wenk, and unsettled prices. | named at Washington. ‘The peoplo have a Tho portage $s 145 conta a year, whloh we w Sheep were unchanged, at $3.75@5.50, | way of their own in making Presidents, and eee Pars aia FAR be nore and give | One hundred dollars in gold would buy | that way in not the way they have at Wash. Pest-Uflice address te full, including Stateand County, | 2113.60 in greenbacks at the close. ington, It is safe to predict, in ninety-nine Remittances may be made either by draft, exprevs, : rae cases out of one hundred, that no man named Poat-UMtice ordor, oF in registered letters, at our risk. Mr. IT. B, Uvno’s ablo defense against the | i, Washington for the Presidency can be altar, the Church and tho private school supported by private contributions, are in reality (ho propositions demanded by tho Catholie Churoh, Says thia writer, upon the Inst-named proposition + What a bitter rebute those wonts of the Prosident contain for that party, aimaM and contemptible in itaolf, but powerful hy reason of the times, which hae over sought to widen the gulf between ne and our trne-hearted countrymen! It t# not enongh that wo should be entranged by the traditions of $00 years, It fa not enough to whisper into the popular car every wtale and loathed calurany, Tt ts oat enough to bring our bolicet rites and bellofe futo the obecene literature now elreulating amongst the depraved youth of our country, It fe not enough to drown with a thousand nofay, insolont tongucs every attempt wa make at ox- pound. They would be worth less than the Fasehodn and Holset Kaka, in the upper Confederate money today, which has, per- | region of the Bahr Abind. If all this ean be hops, somo value to brie-n-brac collectors. trie, we do not seo any good reason to doubt When the assertion is mado that, whothor | that Prof. Nornexsxonp reilly visited How- n greenback in said to bo worth 86 cents or ero-Wostonsthnoi Ostrow aud the Sopotsch- 100, “it will buy just as much in ono caso as maja Korga, aud bought a mukaumer and the othor,” is almost too absurd to ba treated | tachiror before leaving for Ssostrowskoj and soriously, If a greonback is worth 86 aa Makeuninskoj, twill only buy 86-100 as much a8 a gold es ates ie se worth 100 conta, it would | Hoxrtxatox, of the Central Pacific erowd, buy justas much, ‘Take away all promise publishes a lotter in the Jailroad Gazelle, in and hope of its ever being redeemed in gold, | Which he says that his corporation 43 rondy and ite worth—that is, what it will buy—will to build a trans-continental road along tho gradually vanish into thin air, If tho rag- B2d parallel, if Congress will givo it the baby organ wero offered gold to-day for whnt original prant of 1871 to Tost Scott's com- waters of Tanganytka pour through the Lukuga, Buch knowledge ia priceless. Wo are grisvod to neo, hawever, that the connection botween the "Yanganylka and the Albert fa still uncertain, and that nobody koows whothor the Wolla ts the Shary or the Ogowat. It ia nad to think that such probloms should romain ansolyed, BERS fo et Relig Dicery would make s bettor Judgo if ho were not so very old,—bo and Stoney are tho same age, coach having turnod 66 yoars. WER Opseapy, par sear. Vinh of dive, per e: Thib of twenty. per copy. 5 Se Eee LS If thore ia a largo voto caat to-day, Huo will bo cloctod ; if a light vote, Dicgry will win. ———_e For Suprome Course Judgo—'' May the boat man win.” ALAND TO CESS PEARSE allegations contained in the Brown pamphlet i planation, Ita not enough for this malignant, perte- | atvartisi it would soll its columns | Pany,—the right of way and 20 sections of : Valls, delivered, Sunday excepteds 25 cente per week, iN him many vot : ‘ni 1 aa i elected, or even nominated. Culiug powor to drop ita poison into every erovice ot | “1¥ertising it ape i r than it docs for | !and per mile, Hontworon is n much | Tho clection for Supromo Court Judgo takes Daily, delivered, Sunutay tucuded, HO cente per weeks | WO SACHEE ND Na een ion and rows SATS SE onr eocial and religious system, from the parlor tothe | 14 to 15 per cont cheapo woalthior aud much moro responsible person placo to-day. Addrean THE TKIRUNE COMPANY, viously been lost to him, Huro and Brown A DIT OF HISTORY, eewer, from the temple to the lupanar; but the nation | paper dollars, Any man who offers it gold Corner Madison and fearborn: Chicegy Ill, | werg partners, and had ‘Sn falling out” in TInsny Reep, ex-editor, well known in cettling up their partnorship business, which | Ohio and other Western States, publishos in led to 8 long and bitter litigation, and’ Hunp | the Washington Gazetés an account of the ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Halsted street, between | won; bnt tho suit left rancorons feelings. | history of the intrigne to placo the Demo- Nadinou and Monroe, "* The Two Orphane, Dehind, and now, when Brown found Hvunp | cratic party ona soft-money platform. ‘The ADELPHI THEATRE—Dearbarn street, corner | as a candidate for o high and important | shibboleth of the intriguors was, ‘ Thero is Monton, "Forty ‘Tpleyre ee office, ho hurled his pamphlet at Hunv'shead, | but one god, and Was McLean is its UOOLES'S THEATUE—Randotph atrest, between | hitting him a hard blaw; but thelatter struck | prophet.” The god was tho rag-baby, The Slashing a taSalle CallseaiseN taal elk back vigoronely and promptly. How much | intrigue bogan in tho spring or early summer ‘RE—Clark atreet, between aS aie tains mischief the pamphlet has dona IHvrp can | of 1868, when Rexp was nominally editing must bo organized against os, Our religion must, in nome way or other, bo dragged into politics, For shame! wo cry, with the Preaident, Ins country of euch varied religious belicfs as ours, there is bit ono way to order anil peace—"kesp the Caurch and State Forever separate” ‘The peroration—if we may so term it—of this article is so remarkable that we make o liberal extract from it: Language,” according toa groat diplomatist, ¢ yas given to man that ho might conceal hia idoas,"’ But PERSONAL, Tlow many “Gil” Havens mako a "pint"? in- quires the Boston Post. Ask bir, Richard Grant White. Swinburne has written a play of 1,790 lines ce tha Greek model, ontitled ‘* Erechthous,” which ‘will bo pubtished ia London about Cliriatmas, "Pho follotring, it 1s sald, was written by You Bulow in» fricnd’s album in England: In art bate respectability, tal ‘ 2 to 15 | than Scorz, whose only chance of escape’ Sine ie eee eileee from hankraptey is supposed to bo gotting 0 stale round subsidy from Congress, Whilo be ANOTHER ALLEGED OFFICIAL SOANDAL. | wants right-of-way, land-grant, and n cash Tho Now York Sun is not tho sort of news- | donation of #231,720,000, HuntinaTox offers paper which is entitled to much eredit in | to build the road in return for the first two charges mado agninst Gen. Grant's Adminis- | grants, without thnt little bagatelle of $251,- tration which aro not fully substantiated out- | 729,000, The bost thing Congress can do is aido of tho Sun's allegations. Tho malice of | to leavo all subsidies alone, in strict adhor- its editor has betrayed that nowspaper isto | onco to the HouscaN rosolution; but at any . AMUSEMENTS, Pe NDOL ELD S Ng | juin maxim bas nover been accepted by honorable men, i . a i : only be kuown aftor tho returns of the elec. | tho Gineinuati Enquirer. Ho says that ite | jursumintag thuv briedy the = Des Moines speech,» | We Most reekdesa charges ogainst tha Presl- | rato the proposala of the Contral Pacific ma PERCU a e~Madieun trent, between! | tion come in, originator, o prominent farmer of Tlinois, | we have followed that other canon of eriticiem which dont and every person connected with him in | should forover destroy all chance of the auc- | Tho Hartford Post views with considerable ment of Baker aud Far- ——— requires that words shall be interpreted in thelr literal souse an far ae possible, Hnbmitted to this Jurt criti clem, tho language appears tous finraortal, aud worthy of the high place which is even now being prepared forit. Some may marvel, and may wouder how the Preatdent camo to bo filled with wo high a degree of tho prophetic epirit, Like Bataan, the aon of Bror, he. either a personal or official way. We should | cass of Scort’s schemes, not, therefore, refer to the latest official ———— scandal put forth by the Sun, if it had not QASSELI/S SHAKSPEARE, already beon given currency by n part of tho press of this city, whero the chief parties in interest reside. Tho charge is, in brief, that camo to him aud said that the peopto of the Middle States were wild for unlimited green- backs; that the winning ery of the campaign would be “moro money”; and that tho Democrats must take it up before the Republicans did. It was to be slarm tho roport that Gen. Badean is to be ap- pointed successor to Gon. Schenck as Ministor to England. Somebody who saw Joaquin Biller at the Arm cadian Club dinner in Now York says of him, “Ho cata much, drinks much, and picke his —— ‘The worse than usclcss ottice of City Mar- Wwoon's MUSEU atte alecety elwen Sear shal ia now filled, the Cornmon Council hav- born and , _ dae] larkaway's ventures . A + tna tet Wing-Wood.” ‘Alternoon and evening, ing confirmed tho notaination of Mr. RE. Goovens,, The voto upon the confirmation CENTENATY M, ¥, CHURCH—Coucert Oratorio, | indicates that several of the Aldermen voted by jah,” Anew edition of Stakepoare, undertaken in ® proper spirit and with tho moans nocousary to 7 z tho enccessfnl completion of tho work, is an | teoth all through dinnor.” ————_- in tho afirmativo a+ a compliment to Mr. | incorporated into tho platform to bo adopted Tee iscarel: ay ie nani as bot Senator Loaan, Col. Fao Grant, and H. H. | ayent of some importance in the literary world. | yank Loatio finds himself at homoin the SOCIETY MEETINGS. Gooncut, but intending to subsequently sup- | at New York, Pexpuzton would then bo | with whom ho preslously conversed. Tut there in no | Hoxonr, Col, Grant's father-in-law, used | Mosara. Case, Petren & Gareiy, No. 606 hougo onco owned by W. Bf. Tweed, having Loughit tho mansion with the procoads of his va- rious successful literary piracios. Tho offico of Chaplain at Harvard Clasa-Day has been abolishod this year, bocause a man of notoriously irregular life had boon nominated for tho position and rofused to withdraw, President Asa D. Smith, of Dartmouth College, asxorta that no proof has yot beon found that tho lato Treasnrer of the College approprinted a cont of its funds to his own uses, At auy rata, the College {s secured againat loss, Mr. Korr is said to enduro the stratn upon his physical enorgies incidental to the Spoakership Termarkably well ; and, though it is.yot too soon to indulge in congratulations on the subject, his frionds aro already mach encouraged. ‘Tho roport that Miss Clara Loulso Kollogg ia goon to marry Mr. Bradish J, Smith, which was repeated in Tne Trinune Sunday, has boon cir. culating through the papers for soveral weeks andhas not been denied. It is probably true. Mr. Bradish Smith iss augar-rofiner, and counts hia woalth by millions. Ono resson for Charles Bradlaugh's suddon re- turn to Europe is said to be that be has falloa heir to a largo property, bequoathed to bim by an infatuated English admirer. Ie will, doubt leas, procacd at onco to giveit away in small lota, or devoto it in bulk to tho propagation of the principles which ho preachos. Miss Grundy writes to tho New York Graphic: “Mr, E. B. Wight, the Washington oorrespond- ent of Toe Cutcago Trinone, will bo married on the 29th inst, to Miss Mary, the oldcat daughter of Col. Clapp, editor-in-chief of the Boston Journal, ‘Tho young Isdy was educated in Eu- ropo, and is highly accomplished.” Donn Stanley again vexed tho English Ritual. late by inviting Dr. Moffat, the octogonarisn Presbyterian missionary, to dolivor tho annual mission-sermon in Westminster Abbey. Dr, Moffat was a missionary for Sfty-nino years, and iis son-in-law, tho great African exploror, is buried only a fow yards from the pulpit of tho Abboy. Judge Van Brunt, of the Supreme Court of Now York, has arrived home from Europo, hav- ing hurried back to deny cortain mawspapor arti- clos publishod during bis absonco. He admits the obtaining of a divorce by his wife, but do nios that there was any coorcion beyond this, Tho other part of the story, in rogard to hia romarriago, the Judge denies in tota, Tha Tromont Houso is entertaining tho fol « lowing well-known railroad oficiales: Goo. F. R. Myora, Goneral Freight aod Ticket Agont PennsslvaniasRosd; J.D. Layng, Goneral Man- ager, and B.II. Ruble and E, ML. Byors, Pitts burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ratlrout; Jobo C. Gault, Goneral Manager, and O, E. Britt, Gen- oral Freight Agont, Alilwaukee & St, Pau! Baile road. Z The Springfield Republican notices tha Hov. Mr, Smitu's accossion to the Presidency of Har- yard University, and says: ‘Tho appointment {snot an ambitious one on the part of the Uni- yorsity. but wo can boliovo it will prove a usofal one. It iano reason that Mr. Bmith will fall ay College Prosident, because ho fell before the savage probloma of tho Indian Bureau. With Columbus Dolano sbove him and contractors and Indian Agents eround sod below him, the wonder perhaps is that ho didn't do worse.” ‘The vorsatile and volatile ‘'M. HB,” whe now sigue her nowspaper corrospondenco “3. HF," prononnces Mr, Daly's new play, Piquo,” an instant euccess. Fanny Davenport has won high honors by ber personation of the principal part, A most ridiculous featuro ox the spotlcosis of gavoral delight is the entrance of the two inforaal scoundrels Dainge and Hartin- brink, When a how! of outraged inquiry salutes thom, and thoy are queationed ss to how they are at large, it comes out ‘thoy havo baen tako® ont to drive on the boulevarda”—a hit at Twood that bringa down tho house. Mrs, David G. Croty, “Jonnie June,” writes tothe Baltimore American au follows: ‘It it undoretood in press circles that a now venture hag been detormined upon in weekly journalism. Threo prominent gentloman—David A. Well Ool. Groayonor, and Carl Schurz—have pute chased or obtained a largo proprictary intorost in the Financier, which {x to take the now name of tho Public, and booome the organ of admin+ iutrativo nancial reform. With auch leaders ita tone will necessarily be jodicial and stateaman- ko, and it will doubtless, in s great dogroty take the pleco of the Nation, which hardly mu taing the {mopression upon tho public mind Is firat crested.” ‘Mr. Oskoy {fall waa called bafozo the cortalm when it fell for tho last me on iis now play, mystery about it. Ho has grown up with the instincts of atrue American, and ho has spoken accordingly. Not only aro the words on which we have commented true, but they aro fn uceordanco with sound Cathollo principles, We aro ready to take him at bis word, and his words in their true meaning. To thoso who will Jon ws wo nay, without dixyuise or reserve? “dentlomen, you will never regret having trusted us, atid dealt fatrly with us, according to the laws and Con- stitution of this country.” Wo behevo wilh the Pres [dont that, {f tho only honest moaning of his tanguogo boas honestly carried ont, "the battles whieh created tha Army of the ‘Tenncsses"* (whlch, by tho way, a Gatholla (heneral once commanded end in whose ranks hundrods of Catholic hearta bled)—wo believe, wo nay, that these battles # will not have been fought fu vain,” Tho children of the soldiera of the Union will at least bo the prera of those whom their fathers overcame, ‘Tho nation's horoes will not look down to eco thelr hotrs defrauded of equal rights in “the Unlon and tho freo inutitutions for which they died.” Tho President will yiold to hls comrades {n arms at loaat as much an he {u 20 ready tu accurd to his late opponents, Aud an for our countrymen throughout the Union, wo are prepernd to walt, trusting that, when fully onlighten- ed, they will agree to our obtaining, Indepondently of all political agitations or party organizatlons, our juat aud equal rights as American citlzeus, We have in the above extracts presented tho salient points of this remarkable review, and we commend them to our readers a9 n temperate, thoughtful, and scholarly dis- cussion of tho subject, entirely froo from narrow projudico ond sectarian dogma. Especially remarkablo is its declaration that the Church and State must be independent of each other, and, in discussing this point, tho writer goes beyond what we have quoted in declaring that the Church: cannot enforco, interfere, or even influonce, socular education with any color of right, Wo have frequently referred to the manner in which the liberal tendencies af tho age aro pervading the Roman Catholic Church, and that, while the Church still retaina her anciont forms aud ceremonies as important parts of her working machinery, they do not have the meaning that they had oven half ao century ago, ‘his review, emanating from so high an authority as the Catholic World, is o sig- nal instance of the truth of this declaration. It shows that men of thought and influenca in the Catholic Church stand upon tho sane plane with conservativo mon in the Protest. ant Church upon theso questions, and, as their solution rests jointly with men of this class, the ravings and abuses of religious par- tisans, without respect to denominational charactor, may bo calmly disregarded as not affecting the matter in any degreo, ATTENTION data [onlatea Conslava'et | At! the ordinaneo abolishing the Marshalship Apollo Commandery, Now 1, K. To, thie (Tucedsy) altogether, There were, however, several eventing at Moveloek. At t oe biplita, foe Lmniuatns Nite sudden and convenient ' changes of convic- Sir Ki ‘ vited. Hy orde =H : Hy ea Ralahe cous? TE BLW. LOORE, itecorder. | ton” on tho latter subject, aud the friends of the ordinauco were uuable to do more their influence with the President to securo | Broadway, New York, aro now issuing in parts the removal of a United States Judge in Col- | an edition which promises to moot the conditions orado, and appoint another person in his | montioned. The parte oro supplicd to eubscrib- place, for tho purpose of securing adeciston | ers only. ‘Ton numbers hava alroady surest favorable toa cerlain silver ming in which | Te® beginning is mado with the comodies, o these persons had an interest. which ‘Tho fempoat,” “The Midsummer Night's Dream,” “The Two Genttemon of Verona," Tho Sun tells tho story avout as follows: | wp Merry Wivos of Windaor," ‘ Measure for ‘The Pelican Mining Company was working a | Measure,” “The Comedy of Errors,” “Much auilvor lodo on one sido of a mountain, near | Ado About Nothing,” *Lovo's Labor Lost," and Georgetown, Col., and the Dives Company | ‘+The Merchant of Vonico,” have thns far boon began operations on tho opposite side, Tho | published, All these plays are profuaely illustrat- latter fun o cross-cut into n veln claimed by | ed with wood and steol engravings, each bong the Polican Company, wherenpon tho Pelican supplied with o frontispiece of moro than or- Compauy sued out an injunction against tho diuary merit as a spectmon of the engraver'a art. =f r Tho text is liberalty—porhaps too liberally—an- Dives Company. Subsoquently tho Dives | notated. Wo do not underatand tnat thoro is Company secured an injunction against tho | gny protousion to origiual invostigation on tho Pelicau Company's going beyond o certain | part of the editor. The notes aro mainly in tho line, At tho trial of these suits the Pelican | nature of » glossary, and they aro vory properly Company is said to havo beon successful, { arranged at tho bottom of each pago, thus sav- But it seems that tho case was reopened and | ing the reader from occasional perplexity or the js still ponding. Meanwhile the Sun charges | Necessity of turning to the ee or the vole thot Messrs, Loaax, Hoxone, and Frep for tho explanation of an obscure wor 10 1 r . letter-preas ig gonorally freo from aefocta, and Gnant secured an interest in tho Dives Mine | 7. typographio excallence tho book may chial- on condition that they would uso their influ- | jonge comparison with apy ordinary aditiona of once to have the President remove Judgo | gnakspeate now extant. Wo like the unproton- Betronp and appoint a man named Stoxx in | tioua maurerin which tho publication is being his place. The Sun further clinrgea that | mado. It is not, aud docs not assumo to be, a since Stove has been appointed he has | work for scholora, but it is what wo granted an injunction proventing tho owners | have long — sought—a popular, correct, of tho Pelican Mino from operating their own | 1d beautiful edition of Shakapoaro, It is cal- cy iat a culated to do good wherover it goos, if only it fa Lagi poate arate rian proporly appraciated. A pnblishing-house can- ar eas . ei not undertake any task moro doserving of public English company, whieh pald $500,000 | oycourayoment than the popularizing of Shak for it. apeare. Such a task, we boliove, Mosars, Cas- Wo aro in possession of no information in | srxt, Perren & Gauri havo wadortakon in thie this case except tha statement of the Suwa, | instanto, whothor consciously or not; and woe but in that statement wo find a serious dis- | wish thom all success in the effort. Mra. J. Bh crepancy, which considernbly diminishes the | ADs, No. 73 Monros stract, is tho Chicago probability of its correctness, It is that | 9809t for the book. _ Judge Beurorn, whose place has been taken | Further devolopmenta in tho mysterious mur- by Sronz, did not grant the original injunc- | gor cage recently reported from New York con- tions nor try the cases, but that thoso pro- | firm tho euspiciona cast upon tho man Runty- ceedings came before Chief-Justice Hanterr, | stzin. The faota of the caso may bo briefly who still holds his placo. If thera had been | summed up into s connected story thus: Tuea- a combination to remove anybody on nccount | day night, Dec. 14, the body of a Jovish girl, agod of these cases, it wonld have been against 19, was found in a cornfield at East Now York, Chief-Justice Hanser and not against Judge | 1 ¥8# subsequontly anaes a Be at ‘eas Betronp. In the next place, it scems that Pac aun obineneprt ear hatlet 4 lacg Mera tee nation showed that at tho time of her death sho Judge Berronp was not removed, but that, | way for advanced in prognancy. Whon tho when hiv timo oxpired, he was not ro- | finding of tho body was roportod to her frionde, appointed, but Judge Sroxz was appointed | a male cousin of tho murdored girl, named P. F. in his plase. For tho rest, the caso seems to | Roniutz1y, reported that ho bad droamed of bo one of thosa intricate mining litigations | her death after hor disappoarance, and that tho which has not yot beon concluded, so that it | circumstancos of his droam altel caaaally with isnot possible to assert with any certainty on | to#0 roported by the police, Suspicion fell upon hich gido th tice fi this dreaming cousin, and ho was arrested. Me itl ope ile i Tat is agate: TH When confrouted with the body, and asked to is possible that Mesars. Logan, Honone, } ioox st tho foarful gashoa which the knifo bad and Frrp Gnayt may be jointly iuterosted in made, ho fall back with s scream, and bid his a Colorado silver-mine, and wo know of no | taco in hia bands, Me was then takon to jail. law, written or unwritton, that forbids such | It las gince been found that his boots axactly a business association, But this fact, along | correspond to footsteps discovered in the corn- with the othor fact that Judge Sroxz-eucosed- | fold where tho murdor took place, ands young ed to Judge Brzyonn's placo, does not carry | sit] testifies thet abo sold the khifo with which sth i tho murder was committed to Rusrvetzin. The with it any presumption that thoso gentlo- : . knife wes osally distinguishable by a peculiar men inflnenced the President to-bring about | aoreet in ite construction, The most curious this chango for their own purposes, eapecint- | rect connected with the murder is, that tho ly as anothor Judge had prosided over tho lit- | frionds of tho girl, on loarning of hor siamo, igation in which they wore interested. Mfr. | said, without reservation, that they wore glad Hovonr, who isa resident of Chicago, can | she was dead, and expressed sympathy only probably explain the exact relations of him. | for tho man held on « charge of murdering her. self ond his associates in this matter, and in Buck is tho code of morals sale provalla among justice to the President he onglit to do so, the Voliah Jows of Now York. The French County Clork Luzp appears to bo vory anxious i Division of ¢ de fi sprightly little pamphlet of 800 pagos on tho ho Bopelye, the North, Ory secneree in x tho now apportionment under tho present char- English purchaso of Suct-Canal atock. Tho | tor, That division has now yo wards, If tho most interesting thing init is a dispatch from | Weat Side gotw fen, tho North will be cut down to the French Minister at London, sent only | three. What objoct Liz has to subserve by do- threo days after tho announcementof tho pur- | ing thlvis not yet explained. The rocont eleo- chase. Hoe says he asked Lord Denny “ what tion abows that there is just about sa many citi- lind decided England to buy tho shares,” | Zeus and votors in the two wmaller divisions as Tho English Minister of Forolgn Affairs re- in the large ono. As theroia = far larger por- centage of people of foreign birth in the North piled that the stock wos bought "solely to Divislon than in tho Wost, and noarly ae largo s prevont alarge foreign influence from prd- | per cont im the Boutb as in tbo West DL ponderating.” Ho went on to say that tho | vision, it is reasonable to suppose that tho Khedivo had only offered Kngland his shares | number of atioas in these divieions must that week, and thot he was first urged to] be an groat aa in the West Division; keep them himself, Whon it was discovered | and ss tho number of citizens {a shown that ho was bound to sell to somebody, En. | by the lest election to bo aa large, it fae tale gland felt obliged to buy. Lord Denby itn. conclusion that tho population of thetwoumallor 4 the opportunity to hit at bis father's divisions ia just about the samo as that of the PrONe ad Pps y + . laego ono. Ign regards it aa '* Know-Nothing: grent enomy, F ATADERASOM: Ho waid that En- jvm” to speak of auyclazs of people as “aliens.” gland blundered in opposing, instead of aid- Woll, mhat shall thoy be called? They cortaioly ing, the construction of the canal, And he | aid not call themselves “citizens” somo years ended the interview by saying: ‘What we | ago whon they took out thonsands of BDritieb have dono is purely defensive.” protection-papers here in Chicago to scape be- nominated for President, aud McLean would be his right-hand man, aud distribute tho spoila of victory. , Rep, who, judged by his own account, acted with great sogacity, e on 7a" thai eéngén, to. av. tenipiority; toate warned his interlocutor that tho Eastern ‘ ia 7 : a Democrats would not enter into such he bicaga Gribune. Ponement... Vending the settlement of | gchome, snd that the result would be tho di- = aL MESSING may bo presumed | vicion of the party and its overwhelming de- @uoaday Morning, Decomber 31, 1875, | that Mr. Goonrnt will decline to enter upon 4 : fent, He told hin that the cry for “ moro a <= = —= } tho dulies and draw tho salary of the Mar. money” was an utterly inistaken one, aud that ho must know this to bo o fact, ‘Lo his astonishment, his visitor promptly acknow!- shalship, unless, indeed, the Intter considera tion is predominant and the good of the Po. lies Department a matter of secondary conse- | cdged that ho did, but went on to say hee PCS idiweh quence in his estimation. that tho delusion wonld have to run its A New York murderer, under sentence Tae a + that it was bound to cal tho death for killing his aweethcart, has been de- 4 ge Wee of me ot at cats apt Athy ; and that the Democracy siight as vlnred insnne, and will end his days in the | dered a decision yosterday witch will be O° | <a sido into power upon tho tidal wave. Stnte Lamutic considerable interest to money-Lorrowers and Would Reep help th b ff é pe ba lenders, especially to banks, ‘The Judgoheld | Would Rrep pak RLM Stee a oe An wmeual exop of fires aud ouicides is re- | that a bank could not, when it lind taken | Boldly in the Enquirer sa iraphart of aces ported from various sections, Defective in- | usurious interest, bo compelled to produce in dictions of Benecatis dafuak: the ‘intestine ternal arrangement may bo assigned as tho | evidence its on pers showing et illegal ended. : : causa in a majority of instances both as to | transactions, unless the party who was en. | °°), .” 4 buildings ond wieopls titled to exnct a forfeiture should waive | pane as pene ee eprepale oe —— it. If tho opposite party could prove tho | “CSP! it io an € sa eds ted ‘Tho colored Republicans of tho Second | usury without tho books, ho could compel | Sows if true, that a Knot of desperate in- Ward have organized a political club, aud | the bank to loso all intrest ; but, if ho was | ‘Tiguers resolved to commit their party to a have mate # good beginning by casting their | indebted to the bank for the evidence, he | it and dishouest scheme, in which they fortunes with the Republican party in the | must pay legal interest, and could only com- themselves had no faith, but with which they Presidentinl campaign of 1376, pel the forfeiture of tho usurions portion, | tought tho masses could bo gulled. ‘Tho decision would seem to favor wrong | Zho success of (their, plan’. ds: matter doing and illegal practices, but it is based on of history. They put o noint-ropudins ono of those broad rules of law which, tion plank in tho Platform, but Szyvoun thongh in special and isolated instances work stood upon it instend of Prxpzrron, and injustice, in the main aro beneficial, and ae = bea ae a lei must bo upheld completely or not at all. Sinstbta an able eae anything et rae THE HOUSE COMMITTEES, stantially the same plan this yonr, They ex- It is roported from Washington that there | pected to carry Ohio and mako their Govern- is serious dissatisfaction among the Demo. | or or some other greenbacker tho Presiden- cratic Congressmen at the announcement of | tial candidate of the party. Their plots Mr. Kern's Committees, which are given | agnin failed. McLean should bo satisfied by elsowhere in this nforning’s paper. This | this timo that it is not his function to play would probably hava been the esse in any | Wanwick in American politics. Ho may event, oa every Democratic member who | sometimes make candidates in Ohio, but ho foiled to get the Chairmanship of the Ways | can nover mako Presidents for the United and Means Committee was sure to regard | States, Mr. Kenn’s selection ns ill-advised. We aro aa eo inclined, however, to think that Mr, Kenn | 72 “OATHOLIO WORLD” AND THE fn PRESIDENTS SPEECH. did aa well as could be expected with the ma- The President's Des Boines speoch, in terial he had to work up. In anaking Mr. | which he alluded to tho school question, has Monnason, of this State, Chairman of the | recontly recoived one strong Roman Catholic Committee on Ways aud Means, Mr. Kxnn| indorsoment, which is in striking contrast not only rewarded the man who was moat ef- | with the abuse which has been heaped upon ficient in scenring his clection as Speaker, | nim by tho Freeman's Journal, tho Boston but he aleo selected ono of the sblest and | pot, and other Ultramontano Catholic jour- most trustworthy members on the Democrat- nals, and the charges so recklessly made by io sido. Frnxanpo Woop has the second | the same journals that President Grant is at place on this Committee, which is regarded as | tho hond of an anti-Catholic secrot order. equivalent to a Chairmanship, but it is } Those papers, howover, and othors like thom, said that he is affronted and ill | are fanatical and religiously partisan. Their decline all Committea work, Tho pnb-} opinions aro based upon prejudice, and their lie will not tako it to hort if bo} statements oro mado in the heat of tho docs. ‘The Republicans on this important | inoment, With them, as with all othor parti- Committoo are Buarsx, Ganrreip, Buncuand, | sans, tirade and personal abuso take the placo ond Kenrzy,—all able men, Kenney was ens | of rengon and argument. Fortunately, the titled to this much distinction as ‘‘ Father of | settlement. of the school question will bo in tho House." Mr. Ganrieup might better | tho bands of thinking, reasoning people, havo been left on the Appropriation Commit- | both Protestants and Roman Catholics, teo, of which he was long timo Chairman; | which will exclude journala of this class but there wns probably a fear that he would | from exercising any influence upon tho ulti- minke it too warm” for the Democrats on | mate disposition of the question, Tho rav- that Committee with his special information ings of this class of journals can safely be in this lino, ‘Iho best thing abont tho Ap- | dismissed in comparison with the calm, propriation Committeo is that Mr, Ho1atan | thoughtful, philosophical review of tho Pros- (who has ulways watched this branch of leg- | idont’s speech by the Catholic World, month. islation with pertinacions faithfulness) has | Jy journal, which roprerenta the intelligence been placed noxt to Mr, Ranpant, who wa | and scholarship of the Catholic Church, and probably given this Chairmanship because ho | has always been noted for the fairness and was the leading contestant for the Spenker- ] candor with which it treats oll questions, ship. ‘The trouble about organizing the Mil- | whother religious or otherwise. The general itary Committee without placing a Confedor- | tenor of the review is a thorough and hearty ato Goneral at the head of it has boen solved | indorsemont of tho President's speech, u dec» by making Gen. Bansio Chairman, who was | Joration that the Catholic Church will be per- first electud from Cincinnati as un Independ- | feotly satisfied with his sentiments upon the ent, who was in the War on the Union side, } school question thorein oxpressed, and that ond who is a gallant sort of fellow, The | ail good Catholics can consistently follow his Banking Committee, with Cox at the head, | recommendations in the fullost dogree. ‘fhe is said to bo unquestionably in favor of sound } prticle iswritten in such excellent teroper, and money, ‘Tho most dangorous indication ia | with such manifest sincerity, that wo repro- relative to tho Texas VPacitio Railroad raid, | duce a few of the ualient points, After con- which, with Raxpann at tho head of tho Ap- | ceding to President Grant remarkable succoss propriation Committec, and Lanan at the | ay an indopendont statesman, the writer head of tho Pacitic Railroads, will probably | gays: get afull hearing for its monstrous subsidy | ‘Those who may difer from him in political con- scheme, A yood selection was Hoisan us | victons, or who inoy retaiy o partiality for some of Chuirman of the Committeo on Public Build. | Mit les slecorstul competitors for the highest prize Greenbacks nt the New York Gold Ex- vhange yesterday opened at 8%, and closed at Bst. A stationary or falling barometer (damp air), south winds, with clouds ond rain, aro predicted for to-day, with a possibility of o thange to colder wenther in the afternoon, from the arrival of an oxpected northwest wind. Vataasena, tho Captain-General of Cuba, having become disgusted with the policy of interference peculiar to the Madrid Govern. isnt in reference to Cuban affairs, has ten- dered his resignation, and will embark forth. with for Spain, Kansas is tho victim of another successful raid upon the public moneys, Another big boned swindle has just been brought to Nght, and Stato Treasurer Tarren has tendored his resignation upon demand of Gov, Oszonn, who proposes to make a awift and thorough investigation of the fraud, and of Troasury gMuirs in general, Tho long-pending claim of the heirs of Menuy McConnrty to tho strip of land at the month of the Chicago River, upon which is situsted the Northwestern Railroad depot and other property of that Company, has been settled for the timo at least by the Secretary of the Interior, who decides that the Railroad Company hold a valid title to tho land in’ question, THE WORTH OF A DOLLAR, The Chicago oracle of the worshipers nt the shrine of the rag-baby has delivored it- self of on utterauco on what constitutes o “dollar.” Tha Inw of Congress, which it epoaks of a8 tho /aghest authority in tho land, has decreed it to be a pieco of paper with an image stamped thercon, and theroforo it saya: “It makes little difference, so far os tho real issues between tho bullionists ond tho scrip advocates are concerned, whethor Q groonback is snid to bo worth 86 conts or 100; tt ecill buy just as such in one case us the other/* The Supreme Court of tho United States scems to differ from the mg- baby oracle as to what odollar actually is, “A dollar note," says that tribunal, ‘ia an engagomont to pay dollar, and the dollar intended ig the coin dallar of tho United Statos,—n certain quantity in woilght and fineness of gold aud silver, authon- ticated os such by the stamp of the Government.” When Tar Turmune speaks of a dollar, it incang a dollar, such as the Supreme Court has deiined it in conform. ity with national and commercial usages the world over,—just a3 tho Englishman means a certain weight and fineness of gold when he specks of g pound sterling, or a German when he speaks of thaler or a florin, or o Frenchman of a frano or Napoleon, It iv evidont that the rag-baby organ does not moan this sort of a dollar, buta dollar note. A dollar avte is only equivalent in valuo with o dollar—that is, a certain weight and finenesa of gold authenticated by Govern- ment stamp—wwhen it is exchangeable at any time and conventent places with a gold dollar, Otherwise it is only worth the rato it ia taken at in exchange for valuable commodities, Gen, Bangs has been assigned to the tail end of the Committee on Rules in the House of Representatives, which is neither ono thing nor another. Perhaps it was done on the ground that Gen, Bangs as a politician is xeither one thing nor another, Still, his friends will be offended at the unlooked-for slight pat upon him, Hoe confidently ex- pected to remain at the head of the Military Couunittea, The stockholders of the Chicago Railway Construction Company, which owns the Chi- cago & Ilinois River Railroad, yesterday turned out their old ofticints und elected n new set throughout, ‘Thoy also passed reso- Jutions declaring that the former ofitcers wero sngaged in a conspiracy to rain the Company and pennit its proporty to fall into the hands of the Chicayo & Alton Railroad Company, — A consummation which the new Directors ond Mflicors are specifically instructed to defeat. The Indies of Eost Hampton, Maxs., havo adopted a novel aud effective method of en- forcing tho town ordinance relative to clean- ing snow from tho sidowalks. Sixteen in- dignant maids and matrona, duly armed with shovels, mado on nttack upun tho neglosted walka in front of the Seminary building, aud in leas than no time bad the snow nicely cleared away, The Seminary authorities felt cheap, the citizens applauded, and tho ladies, looking all the more charming for the out Saturday night, He responded in shess words iT i 3 *, ; vs To-doy it may be worth soven-eighths of a — : ing drafted to Aght aa suldiors for the Ualon, “T have begun to-night to be no lower door exercise, were deliglted with the suc-| ingy and Grounds, Illinois baa two Chair. | OX millary glory. ami eyen those who go ao far as to ne : é Z uestion bis greainose—sll i$ adnult eal do! f —— maker, excepting in so far as I epesk the w! vas of their project. inanwhips—Morntson the leading one, and | true American, formed and miolded by the evente ta | rey line, to-morrow only thtee-tourtha, and |. "We eegmt torwes thel:the telegeapt te: dit: cls soon, Tho trouble ig that tho ygreenbackera, without any authority in law, precedent, or reason, eliminate all idea of worth or proporty value from thecharacter of adollar. If this were actually the case so for as the dollar- note ig concorned, i¢ would censa to be car vent. Uf Congress shonld ropeal the act of last spring providing for the resumption of speclo paymenta Jan. 1, 1879, and at the same timo dooclare that greonbacks should never be redeetned in gold,—and this is the theory of the rag-babyites, puro andsimplo,— then tho only valuo which these greenbacks would have would consist in their character of logal-terider for past dobts, contracted ona greenback basi. People who are in debt would buy them in to forve them on their creditors, and for that purpose would pay somvthing forthem. This alone would give them value, which would gradually decrease as the debts should be discharged; and, after they had lost their function in thia reapoct, they would sink down to zero—ocemse to havo any purchasing power whatever, If Con- tress should declare that greenbacks should not only nevey bo redeemed in gold, and abould likewise ceaus to be a legal-tender for debts already contracted, greenbacks would immediately couse to have any other } value than thal of old paper,—a few cents @ written by others; I now ask your consent to ale low me to full my words, But I thank yoo-I thank you with a yory foll heart--I thank you from tho bottom of that heart, Iman now 0 longer here a convict, except, aa I font, in your estimation.” Thoro ie too much reamin to fear that {n the Inst sense, Mr, Hall did Indeed stand convicted. His fault haw always been the falling to do right rather than the doing of pos tive wrong. a ‘| Me. County-Clerk Lio in hia Union is dis- Boved to be tog tie ersten ee treased over tho report that “ Brick” Poxznor Intends starting » Democratic paper in this city Centennial banquet o fow ovenings ago in | tg advocate Ft promulgate rag-baby currenoy Philadelphia, In the frateoven papers which | aod repudiation. “Brick” sald to the inter- have come to hand, we find our Oanzen figur- | viewer: 1, Tdon't th ing as thoHon, 0, Henny Hanntson, the Hon, | | Mr. .—The reg-baby fs 9 good dolt, Flatt meee ©. 1, Mounison, the Hon, Hznty Hanrisoy, Ta ee eae laeldaal sae poor sby lava tho Hon, G, H, Hanntson, Mr, 0, H. Hanns | suit bias mors debe than sho cia O80) if the thtevon son, tho Hon. Hanutson, and GC, Ti, Hanns. | propose to hang on to the Government, I am in favor ‘The party who made tho spooch, and with | Of upscttalg tia whole. | sn tne ¢uture by purus whoso burning eloquence the rafters of the ing such & Polley. in sabiintinn Tow yin baum Centennial halls rang, jaour Oantzn Taner. tep diviiied, wits Aleson and Dixon's ino TunLIDg con gon, and the eloquance waa his and is ours. | usrwiso, leaving New England oot tu the cold, Wo protest against any further telegraphic | _Commanting on these oxproasions éf the old torture of his name, Wa do not intond to eit | Democratic war-horse, Lite sayy: Democrat rt ft quietly by and seo him achieve Braon’s dei. paneraey ienty De foupat ye ta poco as toe nition of fame,—to have your name spelled | fought in war—to the wrong in tho gazette, Muynwhile, where i Phe controversy betwoen Bnowx and Hunp our Banvex and his budgat of bills? Ishe } 4... kicked up co much dust that many people going to allow his illustrions colleague to | yoom to think that the election to-day in betwaen complotoly overshadow hin ? Hunn and Brown for the Bupreme Court Judge- — sbip, sod are arranging themselves accordingly, ‘Phe foreign advices by telegraph yesterday | some iotending to vote for Brows on the reported that the British troops from Porak | atrength of bis allogations, and others for Huap have retired to Blonja, preparatory to attack. | on accoupt of his uatlafsctory roply. But the ing Kinta; that Maj.-Gen, Sconetorr, on the fact is Baowm is not a candidate, and the con- 28th of November, made an attack upon the | +8! ls between Huan and Dicesr. Kiptschake at Balyktechi with the clite of the Lieut. Oammnon’ aeabental Journey across Namanghan troops, and established socurity | Africa bas been indeed fruitfulin results, He bag on the Sys Daria; and that the Ghillook ne- | shonn that the Lasuge tows into the Luataba; groes on the ih of November attacked | that the Zualaba is the Congo) and that the Epes on War Claiina; and, ufter a diligent | which he haw moved, and truly reprosnting the search, we find that of ottr two brilliant | Soumiry and thetinies, We aro disposed, therefore, to ‘ ih attach the fullest importance to his words, whother Demoeratio members from Chicago, Mr. | spoken oficlally or frow thu couvictions of ble huart, Cautrterp hos been placed on tho Judiciary | aud to pouder them respectfully and thoughtfully, Committee, sud Mr. Hannon on Publio And this is followed by the following un- Buildings, But there is one compensation; | conditional indorsement; “ Our Cantrn,” otherwise O, Henny Han. | ‘Trying os hard as wo can to lash ourselves into fury, son, is a member alyo of the Centennial Corn. | 'F¥in3 te fancy ourselves tusulted, Ly repreceating to 7 oursclves that the head of this nation bas yono out of anittes, und will bo ublo to air his maguificont | jis way aud abssod hl dinity, 1m ordar to cast an as oratory in the most approved spread-cagle | perviou st « large aud respectable claas of the com- styla in conuection with that inspiring sor- | munity, we are forced to give lt up, and toy down vice our peu, for wo fod nothing tn tho oration with whlch , ol wo aroin the leat dinposed to taka fee, Ou the The work of Dresident-nuking has com. eaulseryy wo are petnared ty jon our tribute to tho cana <A or it of Nausu which ec th fh the land, continue up to the timo of the mevting of tho | wuich it merits, the country at large, aud Catholles In? Conventions, Among others, the Washing. | particular, will treawuro tho “Dos Moines speech * {ou correspondent of the New York Tribune ainong tho “eying of the Fatbors.” Like Wasiixa- undertakes to bring forward some cundidatca | 728" Aree a aa ed erat paca for the Ropublicaus, Hoincontinently snuff | grom tuo vulgar atmovpher of party strife into the out Mr. Monron, Mr. Conauina, and Gov. | pure aud esreuo empyrean of immortality, Hayes, of Ohio, o4 having wo following, ox | ‘This is praiso from Sta Munenr, Tho serty that the only available cundidates aro | writer, howsver, does not stop with this gen- ox-Spoaker Busing and Seoretary Buwrow, | cral indoraement, but analyzes the specoh with the probabilities in favor of the latter, | eontonce by sentence, and finds that tho prop. and congratulates the Republican party on | ositions enunciated by the President with tho probability of its making a choice be- | reforeuce to tho appropriation of money for tween two men so well qualitied to fill the | sectarian schoola, the demand .that the com. and 10go for do short clears, Highwince wore | Presidential chair. This is very pleasant | mon schools shall fornish rudimentary edu. quist aud steady, at $1.10 per gallon, Flour | news froma papor which is anti-Republican, | cation unmixed with dogma, and that the ‘was dull and unchanged, Wheat wan leaa | but at the same time the intelligence is about | matter of religion shall be left to the family An Ecclesiastical Conneil, made up of thir. teen Chicago Congregational churches, was yesterday convened for a purpose altogether diferent from that which of late is usually associated with Congregational Councils. ‘Tho Chicago brethren had for their object a handsome compliment to a valued member of tho ministry in this city, aud they gavea very graceful wend-off to the Kev, Dr. CO. D. Hetaueu, who leaves the Union Park Church to accept the pastorate of a Brooklyn flock, Dr. Uerurn's future co-laborers should be thankful to Chicago for sending ‘a brother in whom, Christian gifts aud graces are tem- pered with o raro discretion and gentleness.” A pastor of that sort will be sure to bo appre- Wated and valued in Brook MOTEL AUMIVATS. Palmer House—Vhil Warren, Bprin;sfe McCutcheon, Cairo ;Q, 2 Washburo,, Ne Gay, Baird, U, 8, A.W, IL, Bchackleforii, Den G, Hanks, Sydney, Anutraila; 8, G, uric, Watee Miz d. 0. Waterman, Bavauneh ; 0, W. :Douglas, tus Christy, Tex; DU, Elltott, Vittaboza; i. fans, London ; G, E. Bliven, Tolody....(irand Pacts —Dutroit Gun Club; A, Blone, Clevel OL B, , Nott, Wi, 0, Wardoll, apd V, N. Tansey, it Loulé; A, Warren end G. BR, White, SprinuBel’ 3 #, A. prague, Cairo, ll. 5 H. 0, Gunstouy Bag! mi Dr, George IL, Noyus, New Harapebire; of. Ht. Rent Votre Haute; Judge Li, Ml, Aller, thu Ion, W, Bet land, Harvey Biryani, and the Hon,'3, B, ose, Leotss waErement Houser, Haas,” Gress | Soule arn’ allroad, “New York; tho Mon. 2. F, 3or, ry, Graud Maven; 0. E, Uritt, M, & Ht Pe Be i tho Hou, W. IL Bradley, Ahoxcedou | wy, D4. Nowe. tt, ¥, Wilcox, snd 4, D, Gone, Sheridan, IL; G. H.C, Davinport, Marry Douglas, Davangiorts fo oy ¥ady, Miuugton ; Ueorge &, Black end De Lavi Dubuque, 13.5 J. ¥. Ihodes, Clovaland.., Shera ‘Houss—Louls Stunt, Rusalas' 21. Hull, fond du bo D,D, Brown, Dollalb; J, VU. Hays, Fittsburdi B,D, Wigginton, Washington j 0, D. Dunia, Harter’) J.B, White aud’ G, W, Davis, Cincinnatt ; Ih W. Glaiighry and Samuel’ Jacobs, delice; 200, Bt, Louis; ‘The Chicago produce markets were gen- erally on the dowpward turn yesterday, Mess york was moderately active, and 100 por brl lower, closing at $19.05 cash and $19.00 219,325 for February, Lard was active, and 1ue per 100 tbs lower, closing at $12.10@ 12.12} cash and 812.40@12.42) for February. Meats were dull and go per lb lower, at 740 for boxed shoulders, 1040 for do short ribs,