Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 15, 1876, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. RATES OF STDACRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE). Foytnxe rrepald hits Offce. Dafly Bditlon, post-paid, 1 yos Party of year ddress YOUR WEZKS fo 1.00 e QA TR 12 TR Wil pon-paidy Uiof Parta of yoara WEEKLY EDITION, Tho pouiags 1a 105 ocnts & 7esr, Which we will propay. Specimen copies rent free, To prevent delay and mistales, be sure snd give Pon-Office addrees In ful, including Stateand County, Remittances may be made eitber by draft, exprest, ‘Post.Office order, or in registered letters, at ourrisk, TERMS TO CITT WUDSORINEDS, Dafly, delivered, Bundsy excapted, 23 cents per week, Dauly, delivered, Bundsy included, 30 cents per woek, Addreas NE COMPASY, Corner Madisop and Dearborn-sis. Ohlcugo, Tl MOVICREN'S THEATIE—Madicon street, between Deatborn and State, Engagement of George Riguold, 4 Henry V" Afternoon and evening, HOOLEY'S THEATRE—Tandolph street, between Clarkand Lefialle. Evgigement of tho Keilogz Opera- Troupe, Afterncon, *Tho Talluman.” Evening, * Fra Dlavolo.” NEW CHICAGO THEATRE—Clark strest, betwoou Tandolph snd Lake, fogagementof Callender's Geor- gia Ainatrela, - Aftarnoon and svening, ADELPHI THEATRE—Dosrhorn street, cormer Aonroe, * The Organ-Griuder.” Varisty performance, Afterncon and evening, WOOD'S MUSEUM—~Monroe strent, between Dears born end State, * Underthe Osalight,” Afterncon and eventog, ACADEMY OF MUSIC—Tialsted street, between Madison and Monror, Lngagementof tho Ueorgls AMinstrels, Afternoon and evening. The @hieago Tribune, 18706. Satarday Mornmmg, January 15, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbacks at tho New York Gold Ex- changa yesterdny closed at 88}, Clear nad warmer weather aro tho condi- tions prodicted for this region to-day. Tho Homse Coumitteo on Judiciary hns agreed to report n bill fixing the Presidontiul ferm at four years, and making incumbents forever Incligibla for re-cloction, The Pension bill was yesterday passed by the Honse. The total appropriation for pen- sions, fees, coto, is $29,533,600,—~about £3500,000 less than was voted last year. The Coroner's inquest in the Garrzrrry murder cnse yesterday terminated in a ver. dict holding ex-Policoman Rosry without bail for trinl in the Criminal Court upon tho chargo of munder, Roxry ndmits the killing of Gaerzrewy, hut claims that tho fatal shot was fired in self-defansc. Tho Hon. J. Russerr Joxes denies em- phatically the malicious story that a momber of Gen. Bascock's family had been the re. cipient of n gift of valuable diamonds from the St. Louis revenuo officials, Mr. Joxes states that tho dinmonds in question were purchnsed abroad by Limself and brought to {Lis country. y 83! borne fruit in the Virginia Logislature, which i tho first to augurate the policy of Con- fodorato rovengo, The Housse of Delegates yestorday refused to reconsidor the vote re- jecting the proposition to order ton third rending the bill allowing 310,000 for State vopregentation nt the Centouninl Iixhibition. Cincinnnti is scandalized by tho develop- ments in the Kinoy will case, from which it sppears that the dend millionaire frittered away almost the entire estato in bequests to women of doubtful repute and illegitimato children. The heirs at law will contest tho will, and with o fair prospect of success, a9 it 1s expected to prove by competent witnesses that tho deceased was not of sound mind. Gov. KeLroog, being notified by n Com. mittee of the Lower Houso of the Loulsiana Legislaturo of the clection of Evatis ns United States Scuator by a joint convention of tho two Houscy, declined to issue credon. tials to tho new applicant for Scnatorial bonors, but informed the Committee that he would certify to the proceedings of the Leg- islnture relative to snid election, upon which the Commlitee retired for further instruo. tions, Tho Amnesty bil 10 form proposed by Gen. Baxgs was reported to the Housa yes- terdey by the Judiciary Committes, ‘I'he Derocrats, however, refused permission to debate it, or to offer amendments, and thero. fore tho Republicans voted sgainst it. Tho vote stood, yens, 182 ; nnys, 7. Thera not being two-thirds in favor of the bill, it was defented. The Dewocrats refused to allow a direct voto on the question of excepting Jrrp Davis from the nmuesty, andthe Republicans will oppose the passago of the Dbill until a vote on that question is had and a record made up. One effect of tho debate which has been Liad on this subject is that tho Demo- crats do not dare to vote directly to remave Jere Davis' political disabilities, After all their bluster, thoy refuse to put thewmselves on the record, —— Abill in the interest of Civil-Servico Re. form was yesterday brought forward in the Tlouse by Ar, WiLrap, of Michigan, It is designed to operate ns a sort of Executive armor against the crafts and nssaults of mom. bers of Congress, who aro forbiddon to urgo, advlse, or recommend, or in any manner in. terfere with the appointment of any offfecr, unlesa such advico i sought by the President, or heads of Departments, or Buronus,—the penalty for gratuitous interfcrenco being fine of nmot lens than £100 nor moro than $1,000. A provision of the Lill requires that when o member of Congress is culled upan for information or advie respecting tho quali- ficatious of an applicant for a position, tho information or recommendetion must bo sub- mitted in writing and placed on filo for sub. sequent referouce, ‘The Chicago produce markets were irregu. tar yesterdoy, Mens pork was quict snd Lo per brl higher, closivg at $19,20 cosh and $19.87} for February, Lard was less nctive and 2{@de per 100 Ms higher, closing at $12.00 eash and $12.40 for February, . Meats were quiet and firmer, at 7{c for shoulders, boxed, 1030 for do short ribs, and 1030 for do short clears. Highwines wero in better de- mand and unchanged, at $L08 per gullon, Flour was quict. Wheat was less netive und unseitled, closing ot 99}o cash and Y9 for February, Corn wgs dull aud jo lower, clos. ing tame at 4840 cash and 4240 for February, Oats were qulet and {o Ligher, closing at 800 cash and 810 sellur Fobruary, Rye wasfirm t$%e Basley was dull and sasior, closing ab THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1876—TWELVE PAGES. 836 for January and 79}a for February. Iogs were active at sbout the closing prices of Thursday, selling at €6.76@7.15. Cattle and sheep were atoady and unchanged. One hun. dred dollara in gold would buy $112.87} in greonbacks nt the close Another hiteh has oocurred in tho ar- rangements for o Mutnal Council to decide the dispute between Brs. Movrtoy nud Plymouth Church, and the Uounoil will not convene. The churches of Drs, STorns and Bupisaroy had accopted Mrs, MoyLton's invitation to sit in the Council, but their nssent is now withdrawn in con- sequence of the extrnordinary action of Plymouth Church in protesting ngninat their participation on tho ground of confirmed enmity, Judge Vax CorT, connsel for Mrs. Mourtoy, thereupon nddressed n let- ter to Plymonth Church, complaining of tho unfairness of the protest, sud giving notico that Mrs. MovrroN will abandon the plan for the Mutual Conncil, 'This leaves tho matter in worse shapo than before, so far nd concerns the position of Plymouth Church, which seems to insist npon' having n Council favor- able to Mr. Bexo: or nouo at all, Tho aversion of the Turkish Government 1o foreign intervention in tho mntter of ler colonial policy bas all along been apparent. ‘Whilo appearing to receive thoe various prop- ositions of the Powersin n spirit of nmity and good faith, there hasall along been a deo- termination on the part of the Torte to man- ago tho affairs of the Ottoman Ewpire in tho way that best enited itself, Itis becoming moro and mora apparent that the proposition of Count Axprassy, to which most of the Powers have subseribed, is a movement in tho intercst of reform which is not to be abandoned nt tho behests of tho Sultan and his Ministern. Thoforeign representatives nt Constantinopls, particularly those of Russia and Austrio, have began to talk plainly on this point, and it is intimated that the Turk. ish anthorities will soon be informed that the grievances of which Terzegovina and other provinees hava long complained, and for tho mitigation of which they are now' fighting, must bo abnted through the instrumentality of tho proposed compromise, The dull and uninteresting progroess of the rovenue cases in tho United States District Court was yesterday culivened by the entor- ing of n plea of guilty by fifteen of tho dis- tillers indicted for connection with * crooked"” whisky operations. In every case the plen of guilty was entered as to ono count only in ench indictment,—that charging conspirncy to defraud,—and no asgrecment or under- standing (if any bas DLoen made) ns to the other counts is announced. The highest panalty prescribed for conspiracy is a fine of £10,000 and an imprisonment for two years, though it is within the discretion of tho Court to imposo tho lowest fine, $1,000, nnd o merely nomingl imprisonment, If the dis- tillers who have plended gnilty to tho lenst important counts against them sticceed in thereby escaping trial nnd conviction upon the heavier charges in the indictments, they mny rogard themselves as extremely fortu. nate,—more fortunato, indeed, than was to have been expected in view of tho uncom- promising policy which has hitherto ob- tained in Washington regarding the whisky. fraud cnses, OUR FORGETFUL CONGRESSNEN, It wns sumowhat unkind of Mr. Brarve in his closing specch upon the Amnesty bill to drag Barney Caurritip and our OanTen out of their eloguent silence, and, running n pin through through them both, to hold them up before beforo the Houso and country in such an uncomfortable wriggle. Banwex Cavrrzerp did not go to Congress to be sum- moned for cross-questioning like & school. boy who hns not learned his task, and to be plied with quostiona until ko i3 wound np in o snarl, Ho went there to remodel the Con- stitution nnd to correet tho mistakes wadoe by tho fathers in tho organization of the Gov. ernment. Our Oanrer did not go to Con- gress to be twisted about Mr, Braive's thumb unmercifully, but to make orations ; and how could ho mako an oration inside of Mr. Brave's hour, of every minuto of whiclh Mr, Bramxe was fealons? It was unkind, therefore, to both of onr mombers. It wos projudicinl to the ono as a statesman, to the other as an orator. It will tend to impair tho public confidence in both of them ps reform. ers, If Banxer Oavrrieen, after his inti- matae connection with Camp Dougles, cannot remember that the Camp Douglas acenpied by tho Rebol prisoners was the eame Camp Dauglas that was ocenpied by the Union troops, and if our Canten cannot remember that Camp Douglas where the prisoners were retained was not tho same as the Camp Douglas whera tho volunteers were, how can wo feol confident that they will not forget to make their reforma for which an impatient country is waiting? Buch forget{fulness ns this, ko complete, blank, and exhoustive, is not common. It is out of the ordinary courso of things, Wo aro glnd, however, that AMr. Bramve kopt our two Congressmen wriggling nutil they reluctlantly remembered and confossed thero had boon no cruelties practiced. We avo glad also that, while our Canten hore Lis punishment meekly, DBanvey Cavirmip wriggled in a deflant way, showing that he has woro spirit thun our Cinten, and that, if hio is not ‘‘responsible for his strange recollection,” ho will not allow Lis veracity to bo impugned. It was o capital recom. wendation of himsclf to his Confederato friends wben Le replied *severcly” to Mr, Brase: "My dear sir, I want you to un. denstaud that when I state what my vecolleo- tion is about & certaln poiut, I do not wish youtostand on this floor and question my veracity.” This was In the good old.fashe joued Bouthern Democratio stylo, and was a w'v;xniug to the Ropublican sido to keep hands off, Lest thora may still bo a Ungering donbt of tho facts in the case, owing to the trencherous memories of our lwo Cougressmen, wo will refresh thelr recollections, “The Camp Doug- 1as in which the Rebel prisoncrs wero kopt and the Camp Douglas in which the Union troopa wero stutioned wero ono und the same, They lied tho Lest water in the world, instead of tho slimy and nauseating stufll of Ander- sonville, Thero was no dead.ine cutting thow off from} good water, a8 at Anderson- ville, They had the seme ratious ns the Union troops. They never cowplained of lack of food or water. Home of tho sick Rebel soldiers were permitted to go to the houses of relatives or friends in tho city for cara, It wius not an unususl thing toseo Rebel soldicrs on parole in our streets. The doors of Cawp Douglas were always open to friends of tho prisoners, so that they might bring them comforts and 'delicacics, and the opportunity was liberally improved oven by Banssy Oavrrietn himscl, notwithstanding the fact tLat he could not remember whethor the Quup Douglos whare the prisoners were Jkept was the same Camp Douglas whero tho Union troops wero stationed and which Lo was nccustomed to visit, There were un- doubtedly many deaths at Camp Douglas, but it must bo remembered that great numbers of tho Confoderates came to Camp Douglas lialf.starved, disessed, nnd suffering from wounds and esposure, The Fort Don- clion prisoners and tho Island No. 10 prisoners were, 08 n rule, maimed and disensed ond worn out with the campoign, and that many of them sue. cumbed to the sudden chango of climats was not remarkablo. Theso are the brief faots in tho case which Messrs, Canten Hanntsox and Banxer Cavneicey have so much difi. culty in remembering. We trust, however, that Mr, Braisc's punishment will induce them in the future to brush up their Iagging and rusty memories, and save them the neces- sity of another such mortifying exposure. TRE GRAND TRUNK'S OPPORTUNITY. It was raid long ago that thero ia a tide in the affairs of men; and ro there are great opportunities in the history of railways. That opportunity is now offered to the Grand Trunk. Chiengo sadly needs another great trnnk raflway line to the seabonrd. For two yenrs the Baltimore & Ohio Railway was the pride and the hope of the Northwest, It gave us low freights, and, had it romained truo to tho interests of Baltimoro and West- ern shippars, it would have distaneed all com. petition, and becomo the great thoroughfare of the commnereo between tho Missinsippi Valley and tho Atlantic seaboard, But at length, from mistaken avavico, possibly from neces. sity, it consented to pool its earnings with the Vaxprnoier and the Tox ScosT lines, and its managers lave therefors forfeited tho respect and should loso tho patronago of the West., Theso pooled roads, by discrimi. nating against Chicago, are using their tre. mendons power to ruin the business of the city. They have rgreod on n certain tarill on tho business they get hero, while their counecting romds tako froights from cities ond scetions scores of miles west of us at lower figures than tho charges from Chicago. Such a pol- icy, if suffered to last many months, must have o most disastrous effect upon every de- partment’ of our trado and most seriously affect our prosperity. Now, while theso discriminations and ex- tortions have thoroughly exasperated our business publie, is the time for the Grand Trunk Railway to open its lino to this city. Mr. President Jor wns pleasod to stylo this nnd somo other ronds **bankrupt concerns.” Well, if the imonngers of the Grand Trunk could in a fow weeks, or ronths at most, open an independ- ent line to this city, it would nt onca secura business enough to lift it out of tho dauger of bankruptey. With its long trains of cars winding nlong to the seaboard at Portland, Boston, and Now York, Ar. Jor might possibly be forced to regnrd it with cuvy sad spare his sncers at the Grand Trunk. It is understood that it controls some ronds lending wost from Sarnin, and that 100 miles, certainly less than 200, would mako it an in- dependent competitor for the business of this city. Now it is entirely at the mercy of Alr. Jox’s rond for its Chicago traflio, Even grant- ing it to bo bankrupt, ns Mr. Joy kindly suggests, its croditors could a hundred-fold better afford to ndvance the money to open therond to this city rather than to have it remain at tho meroy of the Vanprasiur lines, That would render its 1,100 miles of splondid road productive, nnd make it a pay- ing concorn. That was the poliey which the creditors of the Siato of Illinois pursued in loaning 1,600,000 to complete the Nlinois & Michigan Cnual. It proved a very pro- Wuctive investment, aud it will work equally well with the Graud Trunk, In winter it now ends ‘‘nowhera;” open it to Chicago, and it will draw it business from the largest and wost productiva valley upon the con. tinent, It will pny the bond.holders of tho Grand Trunk splondidly to do i ettt et BILLS OF LADING NOT EVIDENOE OF OWNERSHIP. The mercantilo community hag Leen dis- quieted by somerecent decisions of the courts with regard to bills of Inding and tho trans. mission of the titlo to pervonal property, In tho case of Davip Dows & Co., of New Yorlk, agoinst the Nationnl Dank of Milwaukee, tho United Btates Suyprome Court lLins decided that o warchouseman or baileo, who had re- ceived property—in this case wheat—iwhich ho had ordered but not yet paid for, conveyed no title when ho sold it to an innocent purchasor,—Davin Dows & Co, This was owing to tho fact that the consign- or, the National Bank of Milwaukee, although it direeted tho carrier to delivor tho wheat to the warchouscman, had at the samo time ad- vised tho lattor that tho wheat was to bo con- siderod ** delivered ” only when the drafts wero pald. Whila thus by tho outhority of the consignors in possession of the propor- ty, bub without laving paid the drafts, tho warehousomen, A. F, Syatu & Co,, of Oawe- g0, s0ld tho whent to Davio Dows & Co,, of Now York, This enle the United Btates Su- premo Court has declared void, The ground of tho decision is that, the drafts being unpaid, the warehousomen wera baileos, not buyers on credit. ‘Thoy could convoy no title, ns thoy hind none. This declsion revenls unexpeeted dangers in pnrchasing property. Tho apparent owner may be simply a ware- houseman. In the caso in question a gross fraud was porpetrated ou a firm of shrowd and succossful morchants, Tho act of the consignons in putting iuto possession of their property 08 warchousemen the sumo partics to whom they refused *‘delivery” before peyment was made was dircetly produce tivo of o most ' dongerous delusion. They left the wareliousemen s Dallees to deliver possession to themselves s purchasors, As the Suprome Conrt has made this decision 1t must be accepted as law, and purchasers of property from intermedinte parties aro held to acquaint themselves with tho whole clinin of title. They must know whethor the seller s owner or agent; it agent, with what powers ; if owner, that he i rightfully owner; and if apparently owner, that he is not really n batlee, clothed by the rend owner with simply the semblance of proprictorship, The caso above shows that the posscssion of the Lills of Inding and other papers of ownership is not conclusive evi- denco of title, Tho holder may hold thoao as a warehonseman. Not until he pusses them from Lis left hand into his right Land does he puss from laileo to propristor, ‘Lhis is an upprrently extrems application of the doc- trine of tho law that tho buyer must beware, —careal emptor, Wo reforred somo time since to a decision Ly the Cincinnati Court of Common Pleas jn the suit of Boyp & Meryszy ngainst the Lits tlo Biami Valloy Railroad, which introduces tho most distressing uncertainty janto transae- tious based on billy of lading. The gist of the deolsion was that the common carvier was not bound by the fraudulent or uegligend mot ,ceived, and that consequently they wero not of ita ngont in mnking out false or faulty Dbills of lading, aud that any one who made ndvances on such bills waa presumed by the Inw to know their real charncter, and conse- quantly had no redress for the swindle, "Tho two casea abovo aro somewhat aliko in their underlying principles, nnd resemble ench other in their reforence to very much the samo class of transactions, and throw ob. structions of tho most serious nature in tho way of trade and bring great diseredit upon bills of lading, whilo the tendenoy of modern commorcinl practico is undoubtedly to rogard them more and more a8 negotinble instru. ments, like promissory notes nnd bills of exchange., Tho ruling of tho Cin- cinnati Court, hat bills of Ilading are not negotinblo instruments, and congequently convey no better titlo than the assignor had, coincides with the decisions of the courts in New York and Illinois, But the other point of tho Cincinnati decision, that the carrior is not bound by the fraud or fault of its ngont in making out bills of Ind. ing, is believed by eminont lawyers of this Btato to be contrary to the spirit of the Iilinois decisions. A dedision has just heen mnde Dby tho New York Commission of Appeals, bLut not yet reported, which shows that this part of the Cincinnati decision is not law in New York according to tho highest New York Court. Tho Michigan Central Railrond issued bills of lading in Now York to o New York party for several hun- dred tierces of Inrd upou the indorscment to itsclf (tho Rnilrond Company) of warehouse receipts afterwards proved to be forged. 'Lhe bills of lading wero then used to procure nd- vances from Ansous & PraxzivoToy, of New York, Of course they never reccived tho lard, and the railrond, when cnlled upon to mnke good its bills of Inding, fell back, like the Little Mimmni Valley Railroad, upon the plen that their ngent had no authority to give bills of lnding for property ho had never ro- bound. This mny bo law in Olwo, but the Commimsion hold it is not law in New York, The agent did not exceed his apparent suthonty, nnd consequently, no- cording to New York Inw, tho principals aro bound by his ncts so far that thoy are estop- ped from raising any question with regard to them. The Ohio decision still ling to bo ro- viowed by tho Appellate Court of Ohio, and may bo reversed, A cnse in which this preciee question arisos hns not, we believe, yet come up in Ithnois, but tho courts of this Sinte have uni- formly held that a principal is boond by tho amcts of an agent, when per. formed within the nauthority which the principal had appnrently given, nnd that, where one of two innocont partics must suffer, the ono who can bo shown to have causod it, wholly or partly, must bear tho loss. In the present uncertnin stato of tha law, buyers of produce must boware, They must remember that a bill of Iading is not & negotiablo instrumant ; that they ean get no rights under it that did not belong to the original holdor ; that, nccording to some decisions, they are logally presumed to know of any fraudor inaccuracy in it; that parties who sell by transferring billa of lading mny be not the owners but simply bailees. In short, in the presemt stato of the Inw, thoy must, to bo sscure in advancing upon bills of lading, or buying property upon their security, follow the chain of titlo to its origin, and inform themsclves that all the conditions of ownership and limitations of agency havo been fully observed. I it is snid that this is oftentimes so Iaborious, intriento, and tedious s to be impossible, thora is no auswer except that tha courts must bo brought by public opinion to raise bills of lading to tho dignity of negotiablo instru- ments, ns in tho casa of bills of exchange, or olso thnt men must coutinue to trust ono an- other ns now, to thoir occasional gront losa. CIVIL AND RAILWAY BERVICE, The Govornment of the United States, ontside of its judicial and diflomatic depnart- monts, is very little moro than a great busi- ness corporation, tho legitimate objoct of which is to sell its stockholders the best possiblo articlo of Government at tho lowest possiblo prico. The analogy between it and suy othor grent business institution is suffi. ciently exact to justify tho application to both of the samo rales in selecting, retnining, promoting, snd paying employes, The methods which thousands of the shrewdest merchants, manufacturors, banlkors, railway manngers, and other large employers of lnbor have found, by long experienco in myrind ways, to bo tho best adapted for securing faithful servieo, can be applied with confi- fidence to our National Civil Servico. Honco all plans for reform in this mismanaged de- partment of our Govornment aro based upon theso methods. A striking proof, Loth af- firmative and negative, of their cflleacy is given in a lotter from Panama to tho New York T'ribune, in which tho writer describes the prosperity and decline of tho Panamn Railroad, apparently with no conception of the direct application of his facta to tho Civil Bervico of tho United States, Between 1860 and 1870, this railroad was ono of the best managed and most profitnble picces of property on the faco of the earth, Its business is cosmopolitan ; its invoiees and accountd aro in every languego ; and its ngonts are in every grent commercial city. It was brought up to a high standard by tho most careful managemont. Thero wns no favorit. ism. Men wero chosen for their fitnoss, and Lnow that their tenure of office depanded upon themsolves. ‘The pay wns high, though not oxtravagantly 8o. As o result of this stato of things, the rond wns run st a fair cost and Inrge profit. It was kopt in thorough repair. Thero were no mistakes. All this is changed now. Thé new admin- istration, in whish Gen, Scurscs's friend, ‘Tuezon W, Park, plays an important part, won control afler a fight, and at onco carried out the doctrine that tho vietora own tho spoils, Men who had nequired ekill and gray bairg in the servico of the Com- pany wers summarily: dismissed and their places fllled with a hordo of needy and fgno- rant adventurers, the personal friendsof Panx and the other manngers. Thoy know noth. ing about their business, and they are contin. ually moking blunders, "Tho other day s lo. comotive dragged from Aspinwull to Panamna o long train of empty freight-cars which should have contained the carygo of a steatner just entered at the former port. ‘To atonefor this blunder, the engino was hastily seut bock to Aspinwall—at tho hend of o truin of load. ed cars containing freight that had just beon Lrought to Panswa to bo shipped to Pacific ports. Confusion and delay aro the yule. Meauwhile, in order to keop up tho quarterly dividends of 8 per cent, the expendl. ture for 7rcpaira has been wholly stopped and th local rates have boen roised until they ave practically prohibitory, Tho last is in violation of the contract with the Colombian Goveromeont, and hasled to the institution of a multitude af suils for heavy All othier canals, cust over I AdQ Profils.cevessansrassresese robberies committed in the cost of poirs” of the Erie Canal, that improvoment hos yielded to the State over 43,000,000 moro than hns been expended on it. ed over the Erio Canal. York has syuandered all this immense sum upon the small and petty ditches it hns dug, that is its own business, aspacially the Great West, hoy paid tho State %63,000,000 besides. Tha Oswero CADAL..esy Tl Cayuya and Sanoes Canal. 143 Chemung Caual, Tlio Crooked Lk Ca Tho.Clienango Canal, Tho Dlack River Canai, “Tue-Geneseo Valloy Canal the surplus revenuo of the Erie Canal peoplo of tho Weat who for s0 many yenrs damages, Lack of repairs haa slmost de. stroyed tho road. Its rolla are bent and frayed; its ties are rotton; its rolling-stock is used npj and its wharves are tumbling to pleces, The sum of the wholo mattor is that the Panama Rosd was n great succoss when the principles of Civil-Barvico Roform wero ear. ried out in it mnnagomant, and bils fair to ba n great failure, now that tho motkods of our presont Civil Service aro copied by its ownors. ERIE CANAL REVERUES, The report of tho Auditor of the Stato of Now York for tho year 18G5 gives au officiul statoment concorning the Erio Canal which is full of instruction. completed in 1825, or fifty years ago. It was enlarged somewhat about 1834, time it was found nocessary to spend somo money on it, and, Lefore tho Legislature would authoriza tho outlay, it insistod upon the eoustruction of 6 number of Iateral canals, ronching to localitics which wanted their share af public 1nonoy. there wns the Oswego Oanal and the Cham- plnin Cannl. During the last twonty years the aanual expendituros for *‘ropairs” of theso canals have beon enormous, and of which it i3 now nacertainod at lenst one-linlf was stolen by tho infamous Caunl Ring. ‘The Auditor gives us o statownoent of {ho cost of maintainiug nll of these canals from the beginning, including in that cost the expend- itares for repairs nnd of operating. He atrangoly winps those of the Erle and the Chamnplain Oanals, but as the Champlain Cnual about covered its own cost of construc- tion, repairs, nnd maintenance, the figures of surplus receipls over expense may bo wholly crodited to the Erlo Canal, aro the details of the reccipts aud expendi- tures for tho counls Grons racelpts on all tho Total operating expenno. 'Tho Erie Canal was At that Besido theso ditches The following 124,219,073 W,615,036 Rocelptn ovor exponditures, ‘This exhibit does not includoe the cos 877 of “ extraondinary " ropairs, damanges, ote, The fallowing figures give the cost for all pur- poses of the scvoral canals and the caruings of each with tho allowance for interest : Erio and Champlajn Canals, gross earn- Net proat to the State,, Net profita on all the cenals 019,800 It will bo secn that notwithstanding tho * re. That is the profit which New York lins dorived from the tolls collected on the products transport- If the State of New The country, nud all the expendituro on tho Trie Canal and Tho Stato has in tho wmeanwhile rofused to enlarge the canal ; for over twenty years it has dono nothing to in. crense its capacity or to shorton the timo for transportation. It has been simply bleeding the country for tho bomeflt of a Canal Ring- interested in running eight or ten canals which have littlo or no revenue. In 1875, theso canals did not pay their oporating ex- ponses, leavigg out tho cost of largo ropairs, and the deticioncy of each canal was as fol- lows : . $50,9712.01 © 1805991 2, g “Total defictency.. Tho deficiency to bo mn;iu goodl out.of The Liave baon onormously taxed by excessive tolls on the Eris Caual have at last tha melnncholy satiafaction of knowing whoro tha money has goue. After having ecnriched an enormous ring of canal thieves, tho rost of the money has boen sunk In tho Orooked Lake, Black River, Genoseo Valley, Ohomung, and other ditalies, whose nanual gross rovenues have not paid the wages of the collectors and lock- keepors. Geuesco Vallay Canal, if applied to the en. lacgement of the Fria Canal, would have given to the latter tho capacity of a stenm- boat canal to the Hudson, and oarried into oxecution the originsl design of the canal,—a coatinuous wator routo from tho lalres to the ocenrn, wasted, There is not a dollar of the large surplos rovenucs at command, The canal hins long since ceased to bo ndequato to the wonts of commarce, nud railways aro ablo now to run nlougsido the slow-moving canal The $17,000,000 expeadod on the 'fhe money hns, however, been and take from it the bulk of jts businesa, In the meantime, tho trado whioh ought pormanently to bave followed that canal is going olsowhero, and in & very fow yeors the Erie Canal will conse to ronder rovenue to tho Stato, or bo tho principal roite from tho Weost to tho occan. A CENTENNIAL 8UGUEETION. At this season of the year, when the coun. ry is passing through tho calm that precedes tho Presidentinl storm, the question of wom- an-suffragoe is tnken up, indefault of anything moro important, with a certain languid inter- est. Wa aro informed that Chili has imitated Wyoming in endowing women with the fran- chise, and two or threo Western Governors hnve mentioned the project favorably in their messnges. If women aro so wadly anxious to get tho suflrage, suppose we turn over the wholo machinery of Government to them, It i o great bothier to try to rule ourselves, The persons who reliove us now aoro obliged to pursuo politics as o trado and meko their Lrend and butter by it, while tho mass of men get o very poor artlcle of Government fn return for much noney, trouble, aud time, If we were saved from the distracting necessity of constantly mak- ing political failures, we might make fower cemmoercial failures. Wo conld serve Mawmnyon with moroe fidelity than now. Besidos, turn. about {s fair play., Mon have managed tho affoirs of the United States with indifferent suecess during the first century of onr na- tiounl life ; suppose wo let the women try it now until 1976. By changing cofffures and dresses, thoy can “‘ropeat ™ at the polly ad lib., and their inentess of touch and tralned fingers can stuff ballot-boxes wuch botter than o maon's clumsy band oan. What more {s need- ed for administering municlpal affairs in the American fashion ? The doctrine that taxa- tion without represcntation is tyranny, to which the feminine agitators so confidently sppeal, and for which the Siwitn sisters sao- rificed their favorite cows, would, of course, bo strictly observed by our now rulers, and would preserve tho then subjoot sex from paying uny taxes, This glad prospoct iy in. expressibly gralifying. No tazes, 10 Evanses, 1o laviea, 00 PaiLiarsxs, no perjury, no tax. suits, no injunctions, no anything but amuse- ment over feminino mistakes, Tho snloons which Aldermen support will be changed into ton-shops for the Alderwomon. When tho 1atter aro badgered nnd voted down in their meotings, they will simply ery instend of awoaring. The Mnyoress will bo too houest to try to hold her offica a year or two after tho term for which she wns clected. The bribes made necessary by the American sys- tem will consiat of shawls, and searfi, and gilks, which will bo much cheaper than tho stocks, and bonds, and cash which brutal mon demands, Then, whon the women in- side politics hiave got all they waut, tho pns. snge of a fow simple commandments supple. montary to those provided on Mount Sinai will stop all drinking, and smoking, and awearing, and chowing, and vice in general, and wo shall all be so moral and happy. Por. hnps, however, just to make sure of this, we 1ind botter wait and seo tlie marvels wrought by womann-suifrago in Wyoming and Chill, The Repnblican National Convention for tho nomination of eandidates for President aud Vice-Presidont, it bas been docided, will meet at Cincinnnti on the 14th of Juno. Five months, therefore, will interveno during which the Republicans of the country will consider who nro the most fitling and at the snmo timo {he most available condidates. ‘Tha selection of Cincinnati can hardly bo ne- cepted a8 hnving any signiiconce. That place was finally selected by tho National Committee, aud was at most but an expres. wion by thot Comumittee, Wo think that, con- sidering tho question of the personal con- veunienoo of tho delegates and their comfort and sccommodation, tho Committea mado o mistake in mnot sclecting Chicago, Hero there aro ample hotel accommodations for all tho vast crowd that may atiend the Convention and n hnll not equaled by any in the country. But the Committee se- lected Clucinnati, snd we lhave no quostion ‘but the poople of that city will do everything in their power to accommodato the Conveon. tion and all others who may attend the ses- gion. The timo nnd place for tho meeting of thio Convontlon being dotermined, the next thing is for the Ropublicans to prepare for sending fo that Convention delegates who, whilo ablo and influential, will at tho same time fully represont tho wishes of their con- stitnonts, not only as to the persons nomi- nated, but ns to thoe principles and policy of the porty. This is no timo fur doubtful or evasive platforms, The country expacts and will demand positive declarations of policy, aud the nominntion of men well known ta be in sympathy with that declared policy. Our commercinl columns convey the in- formation that the total charges for trans. ferring grain at Indisunpolis, with storage for twenty days, if desired, is only three-quartcrs of a cent por bushel. In Chicago tho charge is 2 conts for stornge, B1 per enr-load for shovaling (trimming), nnd 2 per car for switching to the elevator. This, with tho fees for inspection, makes, on a car-load of 830 bushels, o total of abont 8 conts, or four times the chargo ot Indianapolis. We have horatofore called nttention to the necessity for reducing tho ehargos on handling grain in this city if wo would preserve our trado, and it has bosn roplied that tho work cannot be done at a profit for anything loss than is now charged. Our grain elovators aro mnore exe pengive than those in somo other citics, and it is probably true that “the cost of ware. housing could not b reduced to threo.quar. ters of o cent; but there is no pgood rea- son for the charge by the warchonsomen for trimming the grain, not by the railronds for ewitching the cars. The lsst-named item i3 especially noticenblo, as the. railroad ofticials make no charge for switching their cam to places at which they take on londs of wents. By keoping up these excessivo chargos, Ohicago will not kill the gooso that 1ays tho golden egg, but sho may drive it off to lay the eggs of the futnro in othor cities, It will b;r pome roliet to the peoplo of party has safely ocourred, notwithstanding the diatribos 0f somo of the ministers of that placo ; that it was largaly attended 5 and, as tho dlspatch snys, that it was the wmost nota. bio social cvent that has eover occurred in Tloomington, The evout has guined addi- tional interest add notorioty from tho fact ibot one class of minislers in that city bitterly opposed it, and ndvised their flocks not to attend it, boeauso daneing wonld Lo one of ite principal fentures, It isn little astonishing that any clergyman should have taken such a position ia this day and genera. tion; Dbut tho result was as might have boen expocted. Tho ladics availed themselvea of thelr leap-yenr privilegos and gave the party. Thae flocks who had been warned by their shepherds pald no heed to the warning and went. To give additionnl tone to the affair, Mrs, Gov, BeEvenmoz was in attendance, and erght or ten of tho Governor's Guards, with their ladies, from Springfleld, thus in an in. direct way expressing the Governor’s viows of some delicate little ndmonitions Lie himself had recelved from some of the Springfield clergymen, We aro glad tho dangorous affafr is ovor,and have no doubt tho clergy will find it was not half so bad a party as thoy had imagined. Tho Now York Merald bas discovered a diplomatio fact which isalmost too good to be truo,—nawmoly, thot Gen. ScrENck s to resign his post at the English Court, and that he will bo snceeeded by the 1lon, Joux W, Fos- TrR, tho present Mhuister to Mexico, The Herald avers that tho Prosident in person mado o formal offer of tho Minlaterihip to Mr, Fosrrn, snd that the Intter gave a favor. able reply, stipulating only that he might re- tarn to Mexico to armange the affairs of his Ministry thore, which wonld occupy about six weekn, Tho President mado the con. cession, and tho interview closed with this definito understanding. Aa we have already +intimated, this would be good news coming from eny other source. In ony event, the country will hopo that the ferald for onco, at least, has mnde true prophecy, In such case, the Unitod States will bo reprosonted by » Minister in England who may not kuow onything of poker or mining stocks, but who has at least mude o reputation in Washington a8 a first-class diplomatist during bls threo years' services in 3lesico, The Nution indorses BrLaing's amendment to the Amnesty bill. It says: * Thero aren good many rcasons why amneaty should be refused JevrensqN Davisand . . hismoral responsibility for Andersonvillo [is] one of them, . . . Itis worth while to remind Congressmen, too, that Wintz was found guilty by a court-martial of *conspiring and confedersting ' with Jerrenson Davis o o in the cruel treatment of Federal prisoners for which ho was hung.” The Republican party {s ready to purdon everybody clso, but thore are wastod skelotons drugglug out a lving doath in the North and wlits faces iying ‘Dloomington that tho Centennial leap-yonr under Bonthern soil in the unnamed gravey that bemn inthesite of the prizon-pen of Ander. sonvilla which silently protest agninstnllowing tho man responsiblefor such devilish barbar. ty to take his old seat in the Saonate of the United Blates again, If the Confederntes choose to refuse pardon o tho other ox-Rebelg now ander disabllities and to rofect the Cen. tenminl appropristion rather than loso the chnnce of honoring the * hero of Andemon. ville,” hero of dend.lines, and torturs, and starvation, nnd murder, that is thelr own af. fair—until the noxt election, when tho peo. plo wiil mako it their affair, Wo print the remarke mnade by Hexnr G, Miruee, Esq., on tho oceasion of tho organie zation of the Democratic party on the even. ingof Jan, 8, in this city. The current re- port published in tho papors was constdered a8 doing him injnstico, Tho high and ele. vated tona of the speech s altogether beyond tho rospeet and consideration of the Demo. eratio masses, who nre far more intorested in the political complexion of the Town Board or County Commissioners than they are In Jefersonian principles, especinlly in the mat. ter of oflicial honesty and capacity. Tha Cente;nlnl Comm(fismnn:u deny that thoy have in any way nccradited Ool. Fonyry to act for them in Enrope. This adds & sec. oud conundrum to the one about the Colonel - that is niready agitating the popular mind, The flmt was, ow abount that 25,000 of Pacifle Mail monoy? 'Tho socond {5, Whore did Fonsey got that titlo of * International Commissioner for tho Centennial Exposition® which he has been lugging from ono Enro. pean Capital to nnolhor? After all, howover, o probably has as much right to the titlo os to tho caal THE BAIE VERTE GUT. Wo publiah in another column the elosing pars graphs of a long and a very ablo articlo, with the abovo heading, by 0. N. Hixp, Esp, ono of the ablost of the Capadlan enzincers. Somo of our commercial roadord way know that thero 1 & low, awampy nezk af tand, lass than 20 miles ocros4, batween Baie Vorte, on Notth Umborland Strait, nud o snall bay that opensiuto the Bay of Fundy, It hos been surveyed for s canal sove eral times during tho last fifty years; but Mr, Iixn addresaes himself to tho tavk of proving that ap opon gut would soiva the purposes of coramerca much bottor than a canl, and, so far a8 facts and figurey are concerned, be scems to bave proved it. The =dvantages claimed for tho routa ara that & vessel could turn south on roaching the Gulf of &t, Luwrenco and roach tho Bay of Fundy nearly a3 goon #@ it could round the esstern ond of Nova Scotla, and Lonce that cominerce between the Gicst Lakes, Now Englaud, New York, and Europa would be greatly promotoi. The exhauntive asticle of Mr. Hrxb Is another evidenco that our Cauadutu neighbory wro do- termined to maks every poasiblo affurt to secura tho trade of tho Wost. They ara aclively en. Raged in decpenio and enlarging the Walland Caual, and Mr. Hixp'a schemo is prosentod 2o & supploment to Ltho great internal improveomaonts in wlch tho Dominlon 18 engaged. They havo tho cordial eymnathy and tho best wishes of tho outire Northwest for their abandant success, Smariing as they now are uuder tho moet outrageous ralimayex« tortions, and our city especislly thoronghly med nt tho dircriminstions rmado against ber by tho raflway monopotists, the prospeot of having s much greater competing routo by the lalkes and tho St. Lawrence {8 excoodingly gratefal. As in former yoars, and ag our pacple are to n great oxtent dolng now, thoy can bold bask thelr sure plus for water transtt il tho opening of navie gation, whenover Lhe railways put winfer froighta at an unressooablo figure. Itis rather curlous that the ouatom (nto which wo havo falleu of dsting eventa ss boforo or after our great firo s foliowed in other places. Tho Philadelphis Ténes, in dencribing the cop~ teanial anniversery of tho hirth of Ars. Man- oaner Douos, who had tho honor of dancing the minuet at 18 with Gronok WASIINGTON, gays ¢ “ Up to tho time of the Chicago flre, Mra. Boaan attended church rogularly and belonged to a Doress Socioty.” Whileuve have no objace tion to the wis of our fire by tho Philadoipllaus for calondar purposes, wo reeret that that lnrid avent ehould have praventod tho good old ludy from further atteudsnce upon church seryices. SRR N e e are raquosled to stato that tho sessions of tho Arbitration Commitioes of the Doard of Trado ara not so closa a8 genorally supposed. ‘Thoy are open whilo cason are boing heard, bul closed whilo the Committso discasaes tho avwe dence and dectdes on the award, The eurront number of flarper's Weelly dew seribea six differont ways of dying, T1his wili be usoful luformation for tho Inler-Ucean, PERSONAL, The Boaton Jlos! thinka it is discnssing Ture bular hypothesis. CGambetta standa for election In the citles of Paris, Lyous, Marasillas, Lille, aud Bordeaux &% one and the samo timo, Biskop Huntington, of Central New York, thinks the oxclusion of the Bible fromthe publie sclioola 1s & foregone concluslon, Tho Methndist vowspaper thiokw It {e timo the American people should stop taking tho Jocose viow of stoaling which has becoms common sines tho War. Woodhull and Claflin sro basleging & Cone groasional Committon to obtalu an appropriation of 50,000 0s damsages fur lllagal prosooutlon by the Qayernmont. Woyne oVeagh, Sonator Cameron's son-io- Iaw, has removed from Harrlsburg to Ihilse delphis, and il eotsr upon the active practics of law in ths Iateer city. Qeorgo W. Childs advises youog men who go Woet to teturn in e for the Centennial aod o nest articlo in the obituary line, which ls ak ways to bo fouod at tho old stand, Daronosa Burdoett-Coutts Ia again disgruntled becauso tho wicked mon of Eugland elhious litlo Lirds and soll the feathors 40 tho milliners, and buy bread sith tho proceeds for thoir own little ones, The Now York Tridune's articlo sbout Jobm Horu {8 of noconsoquance, ivasmuch as it8 principal object waato obiain s Governmepd modal as & roward for ko services. Xomn Las & wiedal alrondy, Tilton would ehine, the Hartford Times thiuks, If be wore only cousclous of tho raane fold laminous qualities ho pocsassps, Bbine ovd fair sun, till we bave bought a glaus, that we miay £00 yonr sbauomw ag you pass. Tho gontleman who writes tho personal ltemd In the Now York Lerald weerms to imsgins that all the rest of the wosld is atesling from him. Tho truth iv, that ha steals from tha roat of tbe world, Ehow your strawboiry-marks, gentles men, and Lo brothers. Jim James has bosn discovered in the New York Herald ofice. He arrivod at Caatle Gar+ den last weel, was promptly lassocd aftef night on Sunday, and wes fouud in gy an! fotters noting us mazsging editor of the Herald the next doy. His maoy relatives in Ireland mourp bim a8 dead. The City of Cleveland has lost (ts ouly titled daughter. The Heruld of Monday coutaion this sopouncement s * Tha many friends of Mr, a0 Mru, W, J, Gordon will ba pained to leara that # cable dispatoh raceivod in thle clty on Bundsy announces the death of thelr danghter, Mademé Yilaln XIV., In Drussele, ou Bunday mornldfs koy that hiss made Disracll fat. This Is tho gob- Jan, 8 Mr. Gordon aud wile sallad from Sa¥ . .| ez s R e |