Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 24, 1876, Page 7

POLITICAL. How Gorman Emigrants Are .Treated in Louisiana. ' The " Nation™ Thinks Joff, Davis Unfit for Amnesty, Clerks In tho War Dopariment---Hene dricks and Morton, LOUISIANA KNOW-NOTHINGISM. Tumnois State-Zeitung, atat st Tha Slaals-Zeilung of Friday last Las tho fol- Jowing oditorials I'or tho laat tifty yaars Know- Nothinglam hae chiefly raged in the throo former Blava States of Maryland, Kentncky, and Lonls- jans. It hine to & groat extont disappesrcd from tho dret two, bt In Loulslana thera ntill provaila smong the native Crooles, aa woll as those who call themnolven poor Anglo-Saxons, the gloom- font and most peraccuting splrit of nativiemand hatred for foroignors, ) This focling provails espeolally in tho rural sectiona of Loulslanaagainat German emigrants, Tho telogeaph briefly announced rocently thial in tho Parish of Wost Fellciaua two Gorman families, Kruso and Albers, hiad boon sssailed by s band who burned down Kruse's houso, and drove tho familtes In s bitter cold night from their bedsont on to tho road. Jobn Albors doacribes this doublo violence in a [etter to the Dettache-Zeitung of Now Orloans, aa follows ¢ 1 On tha 23d of Decembor of laat year 1 reached Nosw Orleansin company with my wifo and five children, ono of whom waa 13 years old. On_tho 4th of Do cember, with my brothern-daw, W, E. Kruse, wo Trached {ho Parish of Woste Foliclana, Huddenly, 2 oclock of the morning of tho th of January, we were awakeued by & fesrful mnoise st the door of my broiber-nlaw's dwelling. bouse, and wero violently expelled amid . threats and fnsults, After we all had Leon driven out of the Louse, wo saw about Ofteen men .onhorseback armed with uns and pistols and maskod, Our pravers and en- §lcattes tuat tioy woutd allow un to at least tako cov- ering eoough o cover us were in valti, 'They bardly gave us time enough to get out of the Louse, Tho children wero put ont naked, and my wife, who has beon_ pregnant for saven months, was beaten and cruslly malireated, Then tho band set fire to the dwolling-hiouse sud to the outbullding, snd, when any of our faislly trled to fave soma_ cloihes, tho atticics wers thruat into_tho fa L lont ail apers, tool, clothies, bedding,~in ahort, ail 1 had,—and was suddenly reduced to a destitute coudition, Tho above doecription of Albers is confirmed by tho Stiorlff of Weat Feliciana, Mr, Koffmaan, who eays that the atrocity iuflicted upon thoso poor people cannot bo panted in toe broad col- ors. That tha sbove atrocity {s not an isolated inatanco Ia contirmod by a furthor statoment of tho Deulsche-Zeitung of eimilar ocourrcnces ‘which have taken place sinco 1873, Tno Legislature of Louisiana has roquosted the Governmout o gond troops to those dise turbed sections, and fo case of nccessily to call upon tho Federal Govornment for aid. ~The in- fernal apirit of hatred to foreignors canuot bo expellod by such moasures, Itis only chocked for the time befug. Therofore it is tho duly of eovery honost paper to wan tho Gormsns” of Lho Unpited States and of the old Fathorland against emigration to Loulsiana, Aftor tho War the Robola 1n thonterior of Louis- fana perseouted the nogroes with all tho fury of which thoy were capable, but for some yoars thoy have turned thelr rage ngsiust tho Ger- mavs, It wero better that the productive soil of Loulsiana should porish than that tho indus- {rious German should cultivate it and make himeolf and the country prosperous. tThis same spirit diaplays itself, though not at first in #o broad a faswion, in tho Robol Democ- yacy ot Texas, which Las ot aaido all provis- lonn for tho benefit of omigrants, es.| pecially Cermans, with a wstroka of the pon, and, by tho passnge of o stupid and tyrannical local option tomperanco law, is trying to arve away from Texos that Gorman fmmigration to which it mainly owes its prospor- ity. Buch shameful aots on tho part of formor Rebols mx;nlnn: Germans must certainly bo con- domaned {u this Centonolal year, although thero ara not lacking those among tho Gorman-Amor- fcans wlhio scom to think that overy condemnato- r? word ever mentfonod, ovon of tho misdecds of Robels, in an attack on tho spirit of general forgivoncns and love. Wo desire to bo excused from aoy such (Mllnfi, which makes hundreds and thousands of worthy Gormaud tho objocts of Its assaults, THE “NATION ™ ON JEFF DAYIS, ‘Tho New York Nation is toall intents and pur- poaes o Democratle paper, and the atropgoest cuo of all aa a captious fault-finder of everything dono or proposed by tho Ropublican party, In its last fesuo it devotes its loador to tho Amnosty question, and comes ta the conelusion that Joff Davis oughit not to be politioally rebabilitated. \Wemako the extracts from tho articlo: We, for our part, should be inclined to excludo him from tho benefits of the proposed amneaty, even 1£ Lo bad dono everything {n Lis power ta secure proper treatmont for Federal prisoners, and even it tho troatment of the Confedorate prisonsrs had been all that it is safd on tho Noriborn sido $o bave been,—for roasony which wo produced, in great part, after his capturo in 1805, and which, a8 it secma 10 ug, havo lost nono of tholr forco, 1f it bo asked, why solect him for punishment any moro than any other man at tho Bouth? the snaner s, that it {s tho Southera poople who eo- loctod him, Thoy made Lim tho Presidoeut of the Confedersoy pocanse he was tho most promis pont man in tho movement which lod to the Qunfedoracy. He bore a leadiog part in organ- Izing and dirocting it, and was tho foromost rop- resontatlvo of ita temper and alme,” In aliort, tho solcotion of him was & strong but careful recoguition of bis claima to be considored, moro -tban any other man, responsible for the Hebell- lon, and he did bis best durivg the War to jus- tity the seloction by Lis acts aud language. Ha never once, durlug hisadministration, suggested {n the remotest way n possibility of peaco or ro- conciliation, and s spoke in published spoechies of tlh:nmrtlmu people io terms which probably o lo syen in modern times, employsd towards a rivilized Cnem‘{. Dowa to the fast kick in the 1ast ditch, he did whas he could to provent tho warraugement of suy modus vivendi between North and Bouth, Lo aliort, if any one ought to suffor for the War by apocial legisiative desigue- tlon, ho s, by the choico of Lis own aasociates, tbo vory man, Iint, then, thero is no practical end that we ¥mow of to bo served by making JeMlersou Davis sgslu competont to old oflice, for thia s all that hus inolusion in the amnesty would amount to, Uis presont disabilittes in no way damago him in body or eatate, Lo holds properiy, can sua and be sned, come aud go, like other men, If be suffors at all for taking hia share jn the Rebellion, be suffors only in mind, and that Le suffersin miud thers 18 no good reason for believing. If ha woro amuoatied. howovor, tharo can bo little doubt than an early opportunity would bs taken %0 send him back to the Ilouso or the Benato; sod the question now is whother the North can zeally, even by falr-minded Bouthorners, bo ex- reuted to exposs itself to a contingency of thio ind, aud whetber it would be well for it to do so, Tho Honth can, after completo defsat in war, —sad such & warl—hardiy oall on the violors for the lungmulou of evory spcciea of susceptis bility and tbo effacoment of every trace of or- dinary human pride, 0 are some sigos of Indignation over the paat, which peoplo swho bayve woo, after Sghitlog bard aod losing half a willion of. men, mn{ aurely bo sllowed to dis- pll‘yl, and thors could Lardly be a wwaller or Dilder sign than the relegation of Mr, Jefferson Davls to private life for the reat of his days. Then, too, the position the North took during t, and has taken eince ita closo, in ita ro- to foreign opiuion, must nok be forgot- lon, 1t distinguished tho Iato Rebellion from Miother previons rebellions on two grounds,— lbat {ts objoct was the preseryation aund pere potuation of ulavery, and that it had broken out duder » Coostitution which gave porfuotly Irea play 1o all peecsful efforts to offoct toustilutional changoes, On theso grounds I called for the sympatby of the best Ion af othier countries in terms such as no Blate belore whou engaged in civil war hss folt Justi- 1ed {o using, and on these grounds, too, it de- scribed tho morsl gullt of the promotera'of the meurrection in terma of unprecedented veho- mence, Now, it will not do (o act as If this talk was all buncombe, 141t wll the moral heas and wrath of that \r'nrloa Wore duo to the passions of the battle-flord, and bad na root in cold and sot- tled principlo. “1¢ will not do, after describivg Jefforson Davis aa all our moralists ss well as politiciane described Lim, to treat him as i bo wore simply aken palitician who had oute lived his orrors. A decent rogard for the oploion of mankind, even if wo are not burdened with Bolt-yespoct, requiros ua to exciudo him as Josst {rom pmhynhonm the couucil of the Nation e tried to doatroy, Thete is s pownt in legula- 8102, sain social” Laorcourso, a which chazity ing ofticor of a bolligerent powor has, - and mercy bocome vicos dangarous to the social ordor. CLERKB IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT, The Hecretary of War lss soat to Congrass, puraosnt Lo law, list of clerks employed o the War Department from Dec, 1, 1874, to Nov. 80, 1875, {nclusive.” ‘Tho Mot in aa follows: Office of tlio Becretary of War. Oftice of {ho Adjutsnt-Uenerai Buresu of Milliary Jus Office of the Quarier: o i Onice of the Chief of Ordnw corner of P an Vi ORica of the Tnepnctor-tieneral Oflice of the Clief Bignal Utlice: Thia includea clorks, euporintondonts, messen- gers, laborars’ aud watolineu. Ihey recoive in payment for their sorvloos varlous sums, from $2,000 downward. ‘Lho averagais moro than & thousand dollars & year. ‘Tho Beorotary says that thoy aro all **usefully employed.” For- hiapm thoy sro; but it cannot be donlod that there aro a grost many of them, snd somo per- aons may wonder what they all ‘fina to do for an aroy of only 25,000 men. [t 18 worth while for tho Commitieo on Appropriations, or some other committen, tu inguire. HENDRICKS, Bays s Washlugton correspondent: In this Prosidantial connection thero is a littlo anccdoto which I reapectfully commend to our friond tho Governor of Iudiana, Tho other ovening I went over to call on tho oxcellent Senalor from Bouth Carolins, ‘* Old Tom Robertaon,” as ho la called in tho frroverant phraso of ihia locality, aud in the couran of conversstion tho topis of thio I'residontial flold exmo up, + llondricks," mald Soustor Roberison, * will ba vory strong, both in the Convention and then bofors tho pooplo, if Lo is nominated. He ro- minds mo,” pursusd tho nrbane Benator, *of a darky I used to own 1n Bouth Carolins. Onoday tho darky, Bob, was setting a dead-fall to oatch a coon, and I noticed that the concern was oven at both ends and bad tho triggor in the middlo, uvliko the customary colored dead-fall, which could bu entored only from one direction. “+Dis {8 o ‘provement ober devo traps dat de common bigrere sets ‘round hyar,’ said Bob, contamplating his work with much satisfaction. +You ace, Mase’ Tom, de common Diggers only sots ders triggers to kotch do coon a comin’, but I sots mino to kotch Lim jess do samo a comin® or a gwino.' " e MORTCN. The Tadlsuapolla Journal of tho 19th contains a loog article in favor of Bonator Morton for the Presidoncy. It roviews his coarcor, puttiog on tho lights and shades to tho hoat advantago, no doubt, fur, owing to tho octupation of our valua~ ble time, wo have not read tho whole ariicle. ‘The conclusion in as follows: Oue more reason may bo named why the Republi- caus of Indlana desire the nomination of Benator Morton for Yreaident, viz.: Lo can carry {his Siate agalnst any Jiving Democrat, and s the only man who cun carry it for that offico againet Gov. Hendricks, It 1s mpossible for persony outaide of thia State to know the full extent of Bonator Mortou’s streugth in tuis State, Timo aud sgaln the MNepullicans of Indians have experienced his power 88 an organizer and a Ieador, Timo and sgain ho has suatehied victory out of tho jaws of defeat, Ilis eno- 1nies lere Lato bim chiofly for his powor and lus con- summate lesdersliip. Ife ia the only man that Hen- dricka fears fn thia Stats, and beiice the efloris of Lundricks paper fo divide the party and provent his nomination. ‘The attermpt in as puerlls ba the mative i8 obvious, = Ninety-nine per cont of all tho Jtepublic- ana of Indiaua aro for Morton sgainat the ficld, The Ropublican party of Indians is mors nearly » unit in favor of Morton than any patty of any Btsio over was for any man, e can carry Indiana against Thomas A, Hetidricks by a handsome majority, sud ho is the only man living who can, Therefore, if tho clectoral vote of Indlana i3 of consoquence o tho Republican riy, tho nominativn of Henator Morton 18 of pruns poFtance. THE TWEED CASE, It ia not impoesiblo that tho continued auccesa of tho crudite oud Ingenioua Mr. Fioid iu trip- plog up Justico with techoicalitios may havo saquiels npon which that eminent counsel has not counted. Studying on Mr, Tweed's case, honost New Yorkers are hoginning to mek whothor it s at all ossontial to havo any dofonso on tho thor- its, provided Ean only bave money cuough—no mattor how obtained—to foo Mr. Iield. 1t not, thoy aro boginning to inquire whether 1t fen't about timo to be gotting moro common senss and equity into tho courts—ovaen though some of tho law suould bo crowded out.—Springfleld Teepublican. SUNDAY’S NEWS, LOCAL. Tho atory that the Infer-Occan pald €1,500 to Tom Foloy to secure tho city priating, is em- phatically denled. ‘The Amorican Poultry Associstion docided, snu‘zduy. to hold its noxt annual meeting at Doston, Loca) whisky matters wero unprecodontedly dull Saturdsy. Tho District Attornoy was Lusy all day preparing indictmonts. In tho Criminal Court Saturday the term of Colo, tho bigamist, in the penitontiary was ro- duced from throo years to ono. Tho Polish Political Bocioty celobrated the thirteonth annlversary of tho laat Polish rovolu- nminl, Boturdey evonivg, at Bohomian Turner Uall, The Hon, J, Russall Jones olectad Presl- dont of tho Chicago Woet Division Railway Com- E-uy at » moeling of the Bosrd of Directors eld Bsturday afternoon. The Rigal-Carteron wrestling match at McOor- mick Ilall Baturdsy oveuing, resulted in a vie- tory for the former, he having succeed in throw- fng Carteron twice {n throo rounds. ‘The Fourth Ward Republican Qlub elocted ad- ditional otlicers Saturday evouing, and digcussod the question, *'That au honest City Govorpment i8 best sccured by contralization of power." ‘Tho ergument in the tax auits waa contloned all dsy Baturday bofore Judges Williams and Far- woll, * Mr, Borden, ou behalf of 'nz Tnnune Company, the Uabeock Manufacturing Company, sod ltichard Pennington, occupled thio groater part of tho morning in continuation of his argu. ment of theafternoou provious, Mr, D. Y. Wilaon spent tho afternoon in upbolding the action of the city In the mstter of tax colloctions, ELSEWHERE, Senatorial dignity in Franco almost cortalnly awaits Viotor Hugo. It was sunounced in the ITouss of Reprossnta- tives at Washington, tuat a vote of that body on the Contennial-subsidy bul, would be takeu st 3 a'olook, Tuesday, An English officer has eloped with the wife of Bir Hoghi Mackonzie, of Montreal (not the Pre- wmler), and her four children, Tho guilty couplo and the children aro 1o Now York City. The Pekio whisky crow bave not boon pur- sued with the succosaful vigor which has abiver- ed the Bt. Louls conspiracy, and their prospocta sre unfortunately gladdeuod with—impunity, In MoKes's trial at Bt. Loats, Baturday, Thorpe and Engoike testifod {n & manner that did uuan- ticipatod dawage to the defondsut, and mo olinchod tho aliegationa sgalnst nlm that little hiope is left to thosa who mourn that the nawe whioh ho brightonad in warfaro for humau freo- dom should thua grow dull aud unlovely 1n bis revoroud yoars. Tloven persons were killed by a colllsion in England, ov the Great Northorn Hallway, Satur- day. A froight-traln, during a blindiug snow- atorm, ran into the Scateh expross tralu coming south § then, before the wreck could be cloared away, the Londoo oxpross zolufi north mado an unauccessful attompt to reach fis destination on tho samo track. Moses Colt Tylor, of the Michigan Unlvoraity, Is not at all pleased Lo come forward snd talk on the hazardous subject of Ienry Ward Beechor and his fame, Tho former, however, furnishes an uuoquivooating statemont that the New York Bun's recont publication regarding Li t aud hia knowledge of hidden and welghty fasts in the premisos iu & gross miarepressutation, actsho S A 1t Was M Datroit Fres Press. At an esrly hour yestorday mornlog s polico- man balted & colored man, who was lugging a Iarge basxet up Obio street, and domsuded to kuo whore ho got it, . # Dat basket hsz bin in my family six yesrs," replied the colorod man. * Dat ar basket way born i Vargiuy, removod to dis town when youug, and bez bin Lebaviog biwsslf tho fust- Tatest kind ever since,” *I didn't know but_yon picked it up In somo yord," obgorved tho ofticer. * I sea do pint ob day remark very elearly, but I ain'tdar, If I wasonde z:iek. and if [ bad plcked din yer baaket up, sud if you had picked ma sud de basket up dis morning, dar would Lave bosn animsl life in do basket.” * Chickoon ? " queried tho officor. * I beliove dat chickens, snd clothes-lines, snd hack-saws come undor de bead of animal life," gravely ropliod the oologed sman, and he moved o THE CHICAGO TRIBUN TIE CURRENCY. . A BLAST AGAINST THE NATIONAL DANKS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribuna: Tho Coustitution very properly places tho coinago of monoy exlusively nndor the control of the Governmout. The framers of tha Con- stitution thonght thoy had maved the country from tho dangers of paper monoy whon they probisbited tho Btates from omittiog billa of credit, or making anything bnt gold and siiver & legal-tender. Whlle this intordictlon doos not oxtend fo the Federal power, it was never (u- tendod tho Governmont nhould Iasuo forced pa- per-monoy soy farther than the eoxigencies of war, or any ather groat emergency, roqaired. It is quite possiblo that, had sur fatbers antici- pated the great changen of a cantury, they might havo forescon Low imposaible it would bs for this country to adapt its vast businoss-coucesus toan oxclusive motallic curroncy. It {a biardiy worth whils to dieouss the eur- roncy question in tho light of the Conatitation, #inco wo must admit that, in lecislation and practico, wo have gono widely astray of the fundamentat law, Allowing this transgression to have beon somewhat pardonablo by tho omis- slon of the Constitution to provide some sort of & paper-curronoy, sud partly condoned by almost a coutury of calamitoud banking, it way be woll to {nquiro whethor everything has boen done that can be done to romoedy the defects of oatly projudico and partlsan Icpinlation. Tho War produced the Natious! Banking nct, and taxed tha circulation of Btsto banks out of exiatonco, This was a movo in the right direc- tion. Whilo tho new system in a groat improve- mont on auything in the shape of banking we evor liad before, thero iy roason to balievo that its usefuluoss will bo serlously impaired on the resamption of specio-paymonts (?),~not so much owing to defects in the law, as from the inabili- ty of so many banks to rodecm their notos In ooin, Under tho old Btato-bauk system,— notably in Olio, Indisos, Missouri, and Iows,— thore wan 8 community of interest amoug tho branches, which redeomed for cach other. No such fratcruity can oblain under tho Natlonal system. For obvious zeasons this would not bo practicablo when applied to so many banka opor~ ating in every Stato and Torritory of the Union, ‘I'ue Comptroller of the Currency boasts that only forty National Bauks havoe failed, As thoy have never been required ta redcom thelr efrcu- Iation In coin, no trial of their strength and in- togrity has over boon mado. 1If 2 por cont of the numbor have failed during a period of gen- oral suspension, what will bo tho fate of tho balanco on resumption? In all parts of tho country thoro are woak and sickly institutions, ateuggl g to conceal the skolstons in their vaults. Thigs Is not tho fault of tho system, so much an it in ioherent In the business itself, Thore are good merchiauts, and good farmers, and good builders ; aud thera are poor ones, A higher standard of success ought not to bo ox- pected of those who enter the fisld of banking, 80 long aa it is opon o all sorts of people, with or without caplial, Aa tho National Banka offor no Lolter sccurity to dopositors than that offerad by vrivate or Btato institutlous [As a matterof faot, this state- mont is untrue.—Lpn.], the futereats of (ke publie would be botter protected by banks of deposit regnlated by Btate laws (7). Bich insti- tutions baving no ciroulsting totes to provide for, n more rigid aystom of examiuation could ba onforced. Not complicated by false lignts in tho way of *'bonds deposited to secura oircula tion,” and * promium ou bouds,” the oxperisnce of an expert would not be required to aualyzo their publio statomenta. Tho Govornment gives tho banks a fictitious charactor by indorsing them as¢ * National” in- stitutions, and thea, in caso of thuir faiture, dis- clalming all responsitalicy for their ilogal acts, and uttorly repudiating the claitns dus daposite orsl A Graud Jury bas indicted the Prest- dont and Cashier of one of the sz Na- tloual Danks which have failed in Chicago ou the chnrge of embezzlemeut, preforrad by an injured croditor. Tho Government, it would soom, nover ioterfores with tho illogal transace tlons of a bank, except where it 18 & craditor. It assumod no moro responuibility ovor their man. agomoot than to collect the somi-annual taxes, a8 \houfih thoy wero tobmcco-factorics or dis- tillerios ! Whon o hanlk fails, the Government up&:u(uts sn undortaker to wind up ite affara. It redgoms tho ‘circulating notes with the bonds hynathecated for the purpose, quiotly pocketing tho 10 or 25 per cent margin over the circula. tion, Jeaving tha dopositors to look out for them- aolvos. [Thie is utiterly untrue. Every dollar lott after redeoming the notes 18 f’,,‘“ over totho croditors of the bank.—ILp.] Thls {4 about all tho considoration there fs for tho high-sounding titlo of ** National" bontowod on somo 2,000 banks, And on this slender apology wo have orected tho fabric of a national curroncy! [As tho assertions nro falae, such conclusious fall to the ground.—Eb, p ‘Tho systom of poriodical examinations and officlal roports ina pleasant decoit. ‘f'he ap- pointment of Dauvk-Examinor is ususlly tho re- ward of party-servico, and not for any spociat adaptatlon for tho work., If Lo is “on tho mako,” ho will aim to ropress, instead of expose, tho financial foibles of his wards. Iesponsible tothe vurrenoy Dopartmont only, hia fleld of operation is 80 remoto that thero can be no di~ roct supervislon, either over him or the banks, by tho Goverminont, - A supremwe objoction to the Nationsl Banks is tho dangor of their combiniug for political pur- ponca or for their own solllsh interests, [Bosh!) &u mauy banke, working under the same tncor- poration, moved by the same motives of golf- Intorost, aro abie to exorcise a gigautic foroo in their own belslf. Buch a combioation would load to orgnnizod ogpomllun. Whila oue party would sustain tho banks in - their do- mevds, tho othor party would unite to dostroy thom, eithor by modifviug or repenling the law, or by ovprossive taxation. ‘The rosult of such a conllict could nat bo otherwise than disastrous, With coin-redemption, the public must bo pre- pared for an arbitrary and expensivo systom of exchanges. [Not 62.—Ep,) Westorn sud Bouthorn bani-notes will bo at a discount in Now Yorlk of i lo 1§ poercont, while Californin eurrency will be discountod trom 1 to 2 par cent, —doponding on the cost of couversion, [This in shoor nssumption. Tho prosent law requires all tho bonkd to redoom thoir notes in legal-tonder st the” Uressury in Washing- ton. Bo they may be reguired to do aftor reanmption.—Iin.] ~ Contral redemption will bs impracticable, except in the viciuity of largo eitica. The New York banks will rotira their circulation, and thon force the couutry institu- tion to redeem in coin. [Not if thero ia a profit in olrculation,—En.] The Exprese Companies will bocomo the Olosring-House for eurroncy re- domption. Five per cout bonds will go below Ppar in coin. E\Vh so? Buch statement is non- Ep.] Yanloand alarm will seizo upon the publio and the banks, ending in a collapee of the system, [All tlus is boah. ‘I'bore i no panio and slsrm among the Canadian baoks, which redeom tholr notos on demand, and hiave dous sy for Arty years, ‘I'liorols none amoug tho English, Irinb, Sootch, French, Gorman, Holland, :Bolgian or Hwiss banks. ''he baukas of the Unitod Statos, wliose notes worp socursd by sound stocks, and whoue chartory did nos pormit wild-catting, kept in crroulation n general average of $200,000,060 of gold-uotes for fifteon yours preceding tho Liobellion, and redcemed ou domaud in coin, When tho ?nmo of 1857 burst upon tho country vory fow of them succumbed; somo bent bofore the atorm, sud suspendod apocie-paymonts for & fow woeka or mounths; but uearly "all of thom sither redeomed rig\xt along, or rosumod i & littlo timo, Onr correspoudont willfully forgets those facts.—En.] Hiatos bave ttiod the bond-security systom, from which was moldod the prosent Natlonal act, Thore can Le no permanent bank-curronc, in this country, so imnmonse in extant, witl such varied resources snd industries, sod with such an unequal distnbution of capital, [Did tho bond-security systein fail in the caso of the Now York, Ohio, or Indians banks, which tried it for twelve to ulfhmn years bofore the Civil ‘War broke out? \herover thia bouds were thoge of solvent Htates or of tho United Btatos, thore wero no failures.—Ep.] A banking sys- them that meets with somo succoss on tho Cone necticnt River will not do woll on the Minsinuippl, or lu auy sgricultural section com tively des- titate of surplua capital, Ohio and Indiaba at- tempted to imitato the excellent bankig law of Now York with only partial aaccess [With porfect —succoss.—En]; while [ lilinois and Wiscouun, substantially the eamo sys- tomn was a failure, endivg “in thoe hietorical **stump-tail,” |Simply becanse thoy wero secured by tho bonds of repudiatiug and sccesslon Statos,—En.) Wo will novor have good banke so long as we mix doposite with clroulation. ['Tho Causdian banke mix Ihnm.—En.l Beparato tha iwo, and wo niay kave good bauks of ait, When the time arvives {or specle paymen ho depasitor will bave o furnish the funds to redesm the circulating notes, or the bank must olose, and thio bilt-holder look to thé bonds for rodumrllon. [Tust is what tho bonds are for.—En,] 'These #ra s0mo of tho Tessons in favoy of s direct Government ourrenoy. - In anawer to the objection that e Government has no comstitutionsl right (0 lssue & papers currency, it may be aaid that the objestion will apply with equal forcs to the Natlonal-Iiank cur- rency, which 1s authorized by the Uovernment, and which the Government sasumes to rodeem, [The Government dou't make bank-notes a legal- tonder.—FEn.] Why should the Goverament ot~ ploy the dubious agency of thousands of banks to issuo s ourrency, which, in casa of failure, tho Govornmeut must redeem? [Hero in an- otber batch of falne assertious. In cazo of the fafluro of » National Bank the Government does not redeom a dollar of its notes, except by sell- ing the bonds of tha bank, and with the procecds redooming lts notes. Again, tho objection is not to the Governmens issuing notes, hut to making them legal-tender, forcing craditora to accopt thom in payment uf debis, aud then fails ing ro redeom theso notes when presented for ps{manl.—}:n‘] ‘our vonerable oorrespondent. Mr. Richmond, oxpressed the exporieuco of hal entury whea Lo says that * DBanks with an issuo payable n cuin_aro only good and useful in fair weathor; iIn cloro financisl timos, thoir fears and activna only add to the common distroes.” With a finan- cial history blacksued with the wrecks of papor- mouoy banks, 8 GovERN®EN? CCRIENCY—A cure rency issuocd and redeomabla (n eoin by the Gov- eroment—is tho only way out of tho Isbyrinth of blunders which "havo misled and deceived logislatora and peopls for nescly a contury, {Qur correnpondont proposes that the Govern- maent shall furoish the currency, aud rodeem it in coin, But that is just what o Government Liss ever beon ablo to do. No particular plan has ever been presented, in or before Cougrers, whoroby the Govtrnmont can maintain a redeotn- able curroncy. Our correspondent suggosis no lflm, simply bocause bis cau’t. Iu the sbsenco boreof, bis_diatribo lfinlnu tho bouks is non- sonso,—1ip.] And, without flu;;;l'onlluglny dofi- nite plan; without complicating the subject with . lnlInlun," or “bonds,” or any otber quostion of the bour, the following goneral principles are restatod ; Firsl—Supplying tho circulating medium of tho cotintry—whother it be coin or paper—is a prorogative of noversignty, too important to bo surrenderod by the Gencral Governmeus (o the caprice or projudice of privato capitaliels, or to tha cupmu; or jutereat of local banks, Second—Tho law allowing bauks to lssue cir- calating notes should bo repealed; as deposito. ries of local capital, they should be Leld to moie rigid accountability, and not allowed to ondaugor tuis sncred trust by assuming to furuvish the country with a currancy, which, in timos of dis- turbance, tuu( will bo’ called on to rodeom, and at tho samo timo respond to tho domsnds of their unaccured deporitora. Third—Legielation, however eafely guanded, has over failed to mako a bank-currency either safe or of = standard value: in tunes of crists, when most needed, it suddenly disappenrs’or becomes useless (?); at all timea unroliable, if not unaafe, it chavging volume and fluctuating yalue aro o constant menace to the stabllity and wolfara of tho business of tho country. Fourth—Tho proper function of banks, and tho only one In which they are of sarvico to the public, "is to supply the community with tho facilitios of oxchauge, and a safo place of depogit, lero thelr usofulness onds, L. M C. FINANCE AS A ECIENCE. To the Edllor of The Chicaqo Tribune : West DePene, Wis, Jau, 19,—Past oxperionce, and tho presont condition of all industrial enter- prises througliont the country, give unmistaka. ble evidenco that wo have not ss yet reached that degreo of porfection and wisdom in the mansgetment of finaucos eesentinl to eocurity. Tho political parting uf the coun.ry sro sgitated with discusetons as to the best means of secur- ing somethiog more permanent and eatisfactory tliao bos a8 yot boen reached,—wilh how much Buccoss Is apparent from the intermiunablo cou- tost that is being waged betwoen tho parties,and factiona into which they are divided. I bellove it possiblo to evolve out of tho hetcrogencous mass of flnancial experienco and sccumulated facts somothing bottor as & syatem than at pres- ent cxiste. In tho first place, the subject of finance shoutd not be troated ass political ono. Its foundation and basia {s ono (orshould be) of fact, poesible of* classification aud definito soalyeis, Itsposition in tho world of knowledgo should bo that of a sclence, and its laws and principles, whon onco ascertsined aud verified, nesd bo no more o open yuestion than is the law of gravitation. It must bo sdmitted that thero is nothing moro ossonlial to the progress, prospority, aud bappinoss of a peoplo than to give thom a syatem of financa certain to decure to industry tho fruit of ita labor. It i8 very ovidont that tho manago- ment of tho exchequor. moro than any othor de- artmaent, affoats diroctly tho daiy condition and Elppmenu of tho people. In viow of this, it bo- comoes ‘Smm“ tlat no greater servico can Lo tendorod than to socare to thopoopio & nystam of finance, if possible, 88 permanent sud unchang- lu%u the arganto law of tho land. ‘et it {8 obvious that, as loug as our finances are subject to the control of our political par- ties, wo can bardly hope for anything perma- nent, a8 the marscs who do tho vating sct from convigtions forced upon them by the logic of somo horse-politicians, 88 the Nation vory ap- proprintoly bias defined o olasa of stump-orators who aro driven in whatever direction thoy ap- probend tho people waut them to go. At pres- ont tho country is divided between two classos whose positions aro well calculated to diepel tho confidonco thot it would bo desirablo to restoro, Tho roason of this is vory apparcnt, ns it is woll kuown thas capital ks very sensitivo to ev- ory approbondoa chiange likely to distarb ite value § henco, when thoso changos appoar, it in- stinctively taftes counci of fesr for protection. ‘Tho effect of such a condition of tElngl upon tho movoment in exclanges is so well under- stood thiat it is bardly noconsary to describs the result. It is claimed by somo that s return to specie [m(munln will fully restoro coufidonco, and sottlo things generally. “Yot this thoory is mut by iu- flationista with the argument that the most dis- astroua panics wo havo ever exporienced havo beon in timos of nominal specie paymonts. (ln thin they have tho ovidence of kuown facts to sustain ‘them.) ([What about ' the disastrous [umcof 1878, when jutiation was rampant ?—Fu. | t cannot bo dented bul that a specio basis ia casontinl to stability, and tho only pormanent basis of valnes that we can bavo. Yot this will not eavo us from disastrons panies in timea whon credita are exceasivoly extended beyoud the possibility of gold to solve. Uold, Jiko iron, lead, copper, lamber, snd wheal, haa ap Intrunsic valuo tor n specifio pur- poso, [Many purposes.—Ep.] Prior to' tho discovery of ita use, orses, catile, and sheop roproscnted a standard of valuo that wos used in makiog tho oxchanges; but In 1717 (?) tho samo law of nocossity that ham uthlized tho matorial of the universa for man's comfort and servico assigned to gold the position ft has oc- cupied in the world stoce that date, (It occupied the position of mobey in the days of Abraliam, and over since then.—Ep,] Boms have argued, bacauso gald hoa uot the use of iron or wheat, that it bad no fatrinsio valuo, and have con- tonded that tho coin-stamp dotermined whatover valuo sttached to it [Only crazy foolshold that opinfon.—ED.}; but i, Paul tesches us that *Wa aro morely mombors_of our body"; and, while gold may not be nubstituted in” use for iron, 1o mare 18 i posaible to substitnte iron to do t‘\ouarvh» of gold, lorty yeara aftor tho discovery of tha use of gold |No man knows within 1,000 yoare whon gold was first used as monoy-~ED.], tho value of crodit as 8 moaus of oxchaugo was discoverod, and, for tho firss timo in the Liistory of the world, was recognized In tho form of bank-huls as sn exchiangeablo com- modity. Ia other words, it asaumed to repro- sent gold, and since then has boen used vory Intgoly in ita stead, At times Lhis ropre- sontative Las so well answered tho purposo ollfnhl that many have sought to give it a valuo indopeudent of tho gold it represonted. Yot exparience hine domonstrated that this was sim- ply imponsiblo, an was verified by the Bank of Eugland after the suspeusion of 1796, wben aho sought by every possible moans to sabyert tho olioe of gold as a represontative of valao, Par- hament and g‘ublm opinion covspired with the bank to make its oredit tho atandard of the coalm, but with what succosa is well known ; and, after an experionce of tweaty-soven years, sdmltted, by resuwption {n 1823, that tho ox- perimont waa a failure, 1t 14 wpparont from experience, and tho excoss of paper that appears in all countries, that a too froo uso of credis ls tho roal cause of tho fluan- cial ovila that arlso to distross us, Whtlo this iy truo beyoud contradiction, it is oqually truo that crodit is oo absoluto necesmiy in making the exchangos of tho world’s commerca, Whtle wo muust accopt the fact that credit is an indispensable reprosentative of valuo, we should avuid a common error of bolioving it possible to puarmsuently substituto it for the world's recog- nized standard, gold. Mero wo reach m point tlat opoos boforo us n fHlimitablo ses, upon which we may embas! bject to tho meroy of wiud and atocm,—the ger befog increased or dimuished in {rmporllon 88 wo sproad out or tako [o these saily of papor, ‘Tho nacessitlos of the Government during the War required tho floating of a very large amount ot rapur; and, aubjecs a4 it 13 to tho vagaries of political control, it ia not surprising that, at the spproach of every importaut eloction, a feeling ¢! uuneasiness and t eshould prevail. I8 has evor boen found ' that political influence in tho coutrod of ftiuances MONDAY, JANUARY 2a, 1876. has proved very unsafe, sad liabls to abuse tha neo of “Ita power In tho issus of its svidoncan of eredit. a record of hiatory gives abundant evidenco of tho tondency (n this ro- epect, And itin the oonfirmed opiulon of all political economists that governmoent (anuos ara coriain to exceoll a safe aud consistont limit ; In proot of sthich, 1t in only nocessary to refer to the Bank of Btackbolm, established in 1657 by the monarch of Swodet. Ita tanes from excors deprociated 00 llol coat In w remarkably short time. Alno, the Dunk of Copenhagen, created by Donmark in 1785, and which, within nine yeara from it foundation, suspended. rodomp- tlonn altogotlier. ‘Tha experionco af the Regency of France, in_connection with ** Law'n Missin- aippl Bubble," affords a triking ilustration of Low uusafo for Goveromonta to bocemo their omn bankers, The amount of & Governmont's lasucs will be limited only by 1ts requirements, As we Lnave alroady learned in our own experienco during our struggle for indepondenca and in suppress- Iug the Rebelllon. Thero is danger also that moneyoed power 80 great, In control of our politi- cal parties, tnay bocomo an alluring tempiation for corruplioniuts. It does nol require any great atroich of lmagination to perceivo a dis. troasing condition of Lolngs throughout the en- tire counury, and in overy deparimont of tho Governmont, if, by some turn of the political wheel, our fluancea should fall juto tho bands and bo under tho control or such a combiuation 84 once ruled snpromo in New York City. Evory consldoration indicates grester mafoty, froater pecurity, and loss danger to tho perpe- tuity of our Republic, wore it possiblo to sectre a systom of finance oxompt from the fluctuation incidont to political control and chiango, To eecura auch & reanlt in possible, and, with tho progress that bias been made In our system of baukiug through the ovtablishing of our Na- tional Banks, the matter s groatly facilitated ; 88 wo now have a Lasis of organizatioo, and o syetem of reports and esaminations, that only roquire 10 bo proporly adjusted tn control of Buareau to mccure for tha conntry a complote, eccure, and pertaanent scionte of finauce. C. A. Wirrinp, BRINGING GREENBACKS TQ PAR. Tothe Edstor of The Chicago Trioune ; HoLraxp Gity, Mich., Jan, 18.—To meet tho ezpenses of tho War, the Government fssned interost-bearing bouds, principal snd interest payable in gold ; also, legal-tonaers, or greon- backs, without interest. Tho greater part of tho former wero taken by partics abroad, by whom they woro conslderod a safo aud profitablo in- vestment, whilo our citizens wero compolled to secolve tho Iattor. 1f tho former wero entitled to thess pold bonds, with interest payable in gold, why not the latter? Why tlus discrimina- tion? Iam spoaking of the justico of the trans- action, ‘This debt having boen created, lob us oo how the Government is paying tho eame. As fast as possible it is taking up theso gold bouds, even bofore thoy fall due, and allowing tho logal- tenders to remaln unpaid, compelliog its citizens to recoive thom at a discount of ~10 to 20 per cent. What would bo thoughtof o merchant who would conduct bis business on this same priuciple ? These greenbacks are all over-due, with no time fixed for payment. \What wooid a baaker pay for this clags of paper, 1f made by a private {ndividual 2 The ooly possi- bie value thoso greeubacks have is the faith of the peopls in their redemption at some future time, [Their legal-tender character in payment of dobta gives them a largo part of their curront valua,—~ED.] To romedy this glaring wrong, the greonback must be made equal with gold. If the plan proposed by Bauator Mlorrill is followad, tho groonbacks will all bo atsorbed in the bonds, aud the National Banks will seck protoction by drawing in thoir circalation, Nor will Mr. Mor- risow’s bill, calling for s resumption of specie- payment on a basia of 30 per cent of coin, pro- toct the Governmont from » *“ran" for the 70 per cent uoprotected. Any good businees-man findiog himsoll with a large amnnut of labili- ties, all over-duc, with abundant available soctiri- tics, would negotiste s losn, pay every dollar, aud protect his credit. Why vot lot the Govornment convert sufficiont honds into coin (less the surplus gald now in the Trensury) at tho lowest rate of iotorost, and with thig coin redeem overy dollar of the legal toudors? '[lio fractional carrencycan bo re- doomed in sllver, as now proposed. This plan will not ndd to the natioual debt; overy dollar returned to the Tresaury will bo replaced by s dollar in gold ; in fact, it will and 10 to 15 per cent to our prosent circulation, or tho difference botweon tho present value of grocnbacks and gold. It will keopthe groanbacka in circulation, for they will bo at par with gold. abd can bo cone vertod intu gold at the option of the holdor, and very fow of them would ever bo offerod for redomption. It will bo eald that, by thia plan, you mako tho dobtor pay 100 cents on tho dollar, when ho only received 80 or 80 centa, Very true ; bul how is it at present ? Can any one wake ‘s loau at 60, oreven ot 30 days, and not oxpoct to bo the gainor or loscr by tho fluce tuntions in tho value of our prosont paper-curs roncy ? [Ho does not expect to gain or loso 15 to 20 per cant.~Ep.] Tho tman who, 80 or 60 daya since, Jooned money payablo at the present timo is a losor to the amount of 4 or b per cont (7). If we wait until all arc freo from debt, wo shall mever arrivo ot epocie-resumption, {Why not let the old debts bopaid in greenbacks, worth 85 to 88 centa on the dollar ?--1in.] Tha only objection to the proporsd plan ia the matter of intorost on this now loan. Now the Government pays ioterest ou all jta debts, ex- cept_on thia papercurroncy. Wby not on this? 1Is it right that every porson bolding ono of these promirca to pay, stsmped a dollar, should be compoiled to atand & shavo of 10 or 20 por cent 2 Placo sgainet this malter of f{nter. et tho present staguation of busincss, and who wiil daro to say our galn in this respoct would not bo much moro than the loss of intorest on thoso bonda? Oar national debt, in prosperons timos, befors the panic, was redncod {anrly R30,= 000,000 to £60,000,000. Tho roduction for tho present yoor & cstimated at less than 820,- 1f wo aro over to bave a revival in business, 1t will pot bo until we come to a sound currency. Then, and not until then, will wo seo mosey seeking investmont, and prosperity in_all branchoa of Luuincss. H, W. POLD AND FOUR-IN-HAND COACHING. Special Correspundence of T'he Chicugo Tribuns, . New Youx, Jan, 21.—* Youog Jim Bennott," 04 ho is familiarly ealled, ortherwise Jim Jamos, proposes toinstitute polo at Jorome Park as well a4 at Newport, Ilo hns purchased a cottage and grounds adjoining the track for the Coaching Club, which will muster at lesst (wotva four-in- hand coachies of the orthodoz build and rig at ho Juno aud October parodes. William Jay is Pres{dent; J. G. Bonuctt, Vico-Prosident; and W. P. Douglass, Bocretary and Treasuror. em- borship fu limited to owners or part owners of drags who cau haudio four horses. Yolo I to Lo the fashivablo sport this yoar. It fs an Indlag or Persian gamo of ball lutroduced luto Kngland a couplo of soasous sinos sud now vqripullulnr. To play it {uu roquiro a lovel ;fleld with at loast 250 yards Liotwoun the goals, that aro 24 foot apart, Each player is wmountod on s pouy of not more thau 14 bands sud armed ‘with & sort of shinny-stick, flat or hookod sccording to tasto, Tho object of tho gawo 18 to drive ball started frow” tho ceutral oo througl the adveresty’s goal, thore bewng, as in foul-ball certain restrictions as to piay * off your side,” ole. Light ployers on each elde coustituto s tickl, pudd tho game ds full of sliort races and nuwic tilis wna encounters, Our ponios from tho plaius should angwer admirably for this sort of work, since thoy are swall, tough, fast, and uimble, aud wotne of your Chicago deslers could mako s baudsome ponny by being early fo the flold with a dozen of them well broken. "It {3 to be boped that thia may mprove our youth in ridiug. From what I have scon at Jeromo Park and Monmouth £’ark, the Awerican geniloman ridot oo the outside of » horse is a balng whom it were grosa fiattery to call a rider. e s A it ‘The Coaching Club, Now York Zimee, The Coaching Club of this ity Lids fair to bo a brilisnt suocess, Binco the sutumu yaces, when tho tiret mnustor was bield, and the appear- auce of five coachies in line to Jeroma L'ark made such a decided seneasion, tho organization of tbe Club hss boou comploted, and soveral enthusl- asllc moelings have been held; avd wuw ot least twolve coachios ara counted upon a4 aure to make tholr sppearance in the spring parsdo, Amoug tho raley adopted 18 ons_providiog for two parades in esch year—one in Juwo aud onae in Octover, Those will bo similar to tho parades of tho four-in-bsnd clube in London, Ou theso occarions the club is expecsed to turn out in full forco, and every coach s required to appearin porfect regulation triw. ‘Ihe course will by from Badison Bquare up Fifth nvuuuu&puamo ¢ pormitting), round Cen- tral Park, sud back again to Madisun Square, Ou raco days aluo there will bo s full turuout, Lut tho oo on thosy daywaro not r‘oqulred o koep togathor, ‘Fho oflicors of the Club are r, Willisw Jay, President; Mr. Jawes U, Bon. nott, Ylou-l'mufliant: aud Mg, Willlam P Doug- Iasy, Socretary and Trossurer, Mosurs, DnLlncg Kone sud Frederick Lrongon, togothor witl tho thrse ofticers above named, compoye the Ex- coutivo Committeo. No one can bo s member who is not owuer or past owuer of a drag, aud able to drivo four hLorses. The object of tho Club 1a to encoursgo coaching and other oute door aporta, such aa polo, lawn tennls, racket eta., and conaldering the tasto, wealth, snd spirit of the gouttemon who have organizad It, thore can Le 1o quealion of jta succesn. Mr, Bonoett, with bLis accnstomed liberality, has purchasods besutitul cobtago, with smpis grounda for polo and other games, adjoiving Jeromo Dack, end placed tho eame at the dis- posal of the Club, 0 membots of tho Coach- ing Club, being all members of the Jockey Clab, will of courao maka freo uss of the Club-Louss, ill'uunds, and stables of the Amorican Jookey Zlul STATE AFFAIRS. 10WA, SATURDAY'S PROCEEDINGS IN TRE LEGISLATURE. Des Morxgs, Is., Jan. 22—In the House, the Committeo on Constitulionsl Amendments re« ported adveruoly to the resolution nwking Con- grean o provide for United Htates Sopators bya vote of the paople, The Committos on tho Penitentiaries reported in favorof a continuanco of tho work at tho Anamoss Ponitontiary, snd an appropriation therefor, Bills woro passed to s necond reading provid- iog that no poraon shiall bo eligible to the ofico of County Huporiutendent of Hchoola who has oot a lirsi-class cortificato, or haa actually boou 8 teacher within tho threa years uext precoding tho eloction; afno, to regniato the reports of insurance companies to tho Stata Auditor ; also, to tax loan and building mssosiatious, by agacesing shares of stock; also, to pro- vide for tho eatiefaction of liens on real estate, the proporty of debtors first ta be exhisusted ; then, next, tho realty alionsted In lnverno order of alienation; also, to exompt mortgaged proporty from taxation tothe awount of iho morigsge; slso, to requiro a petition signed by 100 electors for licenso to eell fiquor; algo, to compel tho attendance of witnesues in criminal cases Lofore a Justico of the Peace, without feca; siso, Lo authorize cities Lo levy o spocial tax for sawerage of not more thau 2 mills on the doilar; algo, to compel Bchool District Treaeurers to mako financial reports on the first Monday in Soptember: also, to defino a lawful fonco ; alwo, to provide that sny peraon polnting & pistol or deadly weapon at another shall, ou couviction, bo fined not exceeding £100: alsv. to allow Townehip Clerks Lo administor uatlia ; also, to sulborize the conatruction of cattle-ways scroea public highwava ; also, to allow citien and towns to eottle and adjust their liabilitios by ro- uewing thoir securities ang bonda, Bevaral private bills woro passed. ‘The 8,000 Quakers of lawa prosented a pro- teat azainst restoring eapital pumshment, The Houso adjourncd to Monday, In the Senate, committees wero appointed to visit the Btate institutions, the Ponitentiary, the Orphens' Howe, sod tho Desf and Dumb Asy- lum, to return ou or beforo the 25th instant ; the Insano Hoepital, the Rtoform Schools, the Fish-Hatching House, and the Stato University, Letwoen tho 26tk and 31st instant, and the Col. lego for tho Blind, botwoen tho 1stand tho 3d of Fouruary. Tho Quakers Jarcscnled a protosat banging for murder, Billa wero passed to their second reading to allow cities and towns to_vote nid to railroads on the petition af one-third of the voters; also, relativo to the labor of the Anamnsa Penitentiary convicts, and to eatablish a reform school thero: againgt also, to punlsh the msle of liquor without the prescription of o doctor by a fine of from &0 to £200; also, to fix the ealary of County Buperintondent of Schools at €3 per day ; also, to compel owoers of land along public highwaya to aet out at loant one shado tree for each acre, for ten years; 8l0, to provide Superior Courts in citioa of more than 6,000 population. ‘The Judiciary Committea was_aathorized to report & bill to” tax mones loaucd by jusnranco companies, Tho Railrosd Commitice waw fu~ structed to look into tho justico of tue Railroad Tariff law, and to report a bill. The Spocial Committee on tho State Doard of Charitios reportod back thelr bill with severa: amondments, : The bill ralative to the jurediction of Justices of tho Peace was placed on file, A resolution was presonted to ameud Art, I, 8ec. 20f tho Coosttution, so that all offonses lews than felony, where the fine in less thau $100, shall bo tried summarily beforo a Justice of the Teaco or other court of liko jurisdiction, saving to the defendant tha right of ajpoal. At 1:13 the Beuato adjourned to Mooday at 2:30 in tho sflernoou. ———— KANSAS, LEGISLATIYE PROCEEDINGS, ToregA, Kan,, Jan. 22.—The Houato was not in scasion to-day. > Tho Houso spent tho forenoon in dlscussing s resolution directing tho Attornoy General to bring sulta against railroads for pob keoping their general offices in tho Btate, and finally adopted it. Tho bondemen of Lappin, on tho first criminal charge, havo at his roquest sur- rendored him, and releasod the praperty ho had given thum aa socarity, Ho romains in’jall, and probably will till Lus trial in April, Kentucky FProznostications ... The Goose-Nouno nud the Weather, Leurille Commereials The gooso-bone lim‘d.\ulonl aro, perhaps, moro clusoly watehod ip Kentucky than any- where olse, and it may bo called the Kentucky weathor-prophet. _In tany parts of tho Stato the farmors consult it, and propare for handling their crops in accordanco with ita predictions, It is said that thero is.s family in Woodford County that haa fifty of thesa littlo proplots carefully laid away, ond declare that nos ouve of them mado n mistake in their predictions, TLet us turn to thia year's prophecy. Wo must take tho breast-bouo of a last spring's goose,—nouo uthoer wilt do, for the prophocy does not extend boyond the year ju which the goobo in hatched. Thauks to & friend, wo havo such a bona. It must bo divided into throo _ parts, which ropresent the three divisions of winter. Tho brosst-bone of a Roono is travalucout, but at piscen has clond-liko blots upon it. Theso blots donoto cold weather, Looking st tho boue beforo us, we tind a littlo cold weathor about the 1st of Docembver, which wo have realized ; and there is snother blot bo- yond tho centre of tho bowe, douoiing cold weatlior about tho middlo of January; this cloud we are passing uow, and so far our little proguosticator L guided ua zight. We are to bavo warmer wenther aftor o fow dayg, but tho worst I3 to comoe, ‘[he darkest blots are near tho cnd of the bono, and, if the prophocy fails not, winter will verify tho saying of coming |in liko o lamb aud going out like n roaring lidn, Our coldost wenther will come after tha middle of Febroary, and our warmest fires will bo ro. ulred for the parting dan of winter and tho ilm doya of spriog. This fa tho gooss-bano prophecy, and, 88 wo bave tho word of a good old farmor that It has not failed for fifty yoars, wo would sdvieo the laying in of & good supply of coal, and general proparations to moect cold waathor—for the goose-bone hias eaid it, aud old Winter will bo aftor youug Bpnug with o great big iclcle.” The Sonora Revolution, Bax Francisoo, Jan ., 22.—A dispateh from Tue- san says, r[.:nnling tho Sonora ruvolution of the Gthinut. 1 Boruas' forcos dofonted tho Btata troops uuder tho Ewreur{lot Stata, who lad bean to Quaymas for supplicd aud wmouoy, cap turing the treasuro, aruw, ote. Beruas’ headquar- tors aro now at Hermosillo. Noarly all ttio nuigh- boriog towns hayo doclared fur hum. The Stato hoadquartern are st Agusgs, 76 miles north of Guayinas, whoro they have 1,100 men, aud will sooti march to (luaymak. 'CARRIAGES, CARRIAGES. ‘Wo beg to notify our trlondsthat during the next thirty days we will sell, at greatly reduced prices, our entire stock of FINE CAR- RIAGLS, comprising LANDAUS, LANDAULETTES, CLARENCES, COACHES, COUPES and COU- PELETTES, Our GLASS-FRRONT Landanus, for beauty of design, simplicity, and thoroughness in construction, are unsurpnssed ; the front being perfectly balanced by o Tatent Balaunce Spring, ean with easo be lowered and ralsed with one fin- zor, F ‘Wa ;i:unmnmc all our work to be FIRST-CLASS, and to pleaso in every particular, H., KILLAM & €0, 29 Ohestnut-st,, New Haven, Conn, Q. O, TEN BEOKKS fs cur Axsa) la Oblcass, k4 AMUBEMENTS., " EXPOSITION BUILDING, NATIONAL EXEIBITION POULTRY, AND PIGEONS, IN AGRICULTURAL IALL, FROM 9 A, M, USNIIL 0P M, TUE OREAT SHOW OF DOGS Opons in Art Hall at @ p, m. this Hvening Adumisalan to all, 60 centa; Chilidren, 25 cents, " HOOLEY'S THEATRE, aovinz & ITAvenLy, Leercen, 3, IT, HavERLY, Manager MUNDAY, 4 urn of e fanun, Jed . CALITOINTA MINSTRELS On a scals of Hbfl:dlly‘lln!qflllcll 1n tho minstrel world. Firnt woek o AR, PAT ROONEY, CUARLEY HOWARD, AND BOUOULCRAFT & COES, and reappearsnce of ARLINGTON, RICF, COTTON, ROBINBON, Rey- nold Bros., Kemble, Tilla, Predericks,Obenst, Murply, ‘Wednesdsy and Batutday matinees. Admission 63 and 25 ccuts. Monday, Jan, 31, resppoarauce after an abaenco of five mantha of “the world's groatest come- dian, BIIL WILLIAM EMERHON. Open at7; eome metice ot # o'elock, Carriages inry b ordered af 10:15, McVICKER'S THEATRE, LNGAGEMENT FOR ONE WEEK ONLY of the cliarming tilo artleto, Mirs MINNIELZ PALMER, In hier romantic drama LAUTUGHING BETES! LA BELLE OERTRUDE, MINNIE PALMEL, With sonun and dances, MONDAY, JAX, 31, BEN DEBAR AS FALSTATF. AUADEMY OF MUSIG, Evory evening aud Wedneaday and Gaturdsy Mati- ancs, graud production of the TWO ORPHANS Tith an immenne cast, Popular prices, 25c, bio and 75¢; matinees, 25¢ and Coe, Diagram of iho theatrs and reserved keats delivered ot Soulter's Munic tore, 100 East 3ndison-st., und st the Academy liox Oilice without extra charge, COOL. W00D'S MUSEUM, Every ovening during tho week sud Weducslsy and Saturday Matimoes, HIDDEN IAINID! 1n which the Great Plantation Bcone will e given, Monday, Tuoaday, Thuradey, ond Friday Mitfuees, A QUIET FAMILY nud PO-CA-THIN-TAS, NEW OHICAGO THEATRE. Becond Week! Fecond Week! Pronounced Succees) THE FRATHES fn §1 SLOCUM! Every Evening snd Wednesday and Satunlay Matinea &0 and 25 centa. ADELPHI THEATRE, EVERY NIGHT TUIS WEEK AND MATINEES Lutire change of programme, THE BEAUTIFUL LADY MINSTIELS tnd THE DRILLIANT STAR OLIO, ©One more weck of DEN THONPSON a3 Uncle Sorh Whitcomb, Tho biggest bill of {he senton. Sceurn your scats eariy. Another tremundaus trinzph, LECTURE UPON FINE ART. 4 Tle Amatour Carfeaturists, Thackeray aud lfood, o tho artislic quatiies of some literary men who havo used the pencil an woll 8 the quill.” " Thin even- ing, Jan. 34, in tue parlors of the New England Church, corner North Dearborn-rt, and Washington place, at # o'cluck, The eocond of Mr, French's teries of Tluse trated Lectures upon artistic topics, SPLENDID ICE At the Exposition tkating Park, Quadrifles and Waltzes to-nipht. Grand tournatnent Tuesday even- ing, January 25, Three ladics will Lo choscn Zrom tho andlence and crowued Queens of Beanty by the winness of the tourney, AMasqu-rade Thureday evening, January 27, Prizea for Lest costumens on exbibition at Doot & Kotis, 150 Btato-t, Pervona in full dress ad- mitted frev; admlssion o children under 12, 15¢; 1,400 scats, none reserved, WEST SIDE SKATING BINK, OPEN DAY AND EVENING, GRAND MASQUERADE and Carnfval Wodaeaday Lvening January 26 THE COLISEUM. : Every evealng this week tho beautiful and talentsd WESTON SISTIIRS, AND ALL TUE OLD FAVOKITEN, Leck Hospital, cor, Washington & Franklio-sls, Chartored by tho Gtata of Iilinals for the cxpross pur- Pote af giving immedinto relial {0 ail catos of privato, chronic, and uriuary disoascs i all thele comblicat forma. It 1 well kavwn tbhat DR, JAMES hasatood as o hesdaf the profession fur the past 3 years. Axo and cxporience ary wilimportant, *Neminal WenKienne Bl (oasrs by dreamms, plinplos ou the faos, lust jaan. hued, can poaitivaly ba oured. “Ladlos waaty ey elicaly attenuion, call or write. l“nunt honio for pae- Hlumts. “A book for the million, Marmege Guivo, which "I:«.—‘\T."‘hu“‘m".d‘m.“l’_“ mA:‘ulu:l’mu,-wl:i not-10cents to pay postas, 11r, James haa 3) toois an yariors. You seu bi ono but the loctor, OMce hoars, Y. m. !o'llr. Sundays, 10t013a. m. All business sriculy contidential, An [lunted work 213 [ privale counsrior [5"ih warried aod mar- risgeable un th ries of the peual avatem. ite Sbiiwedy ets, | e trly harpy ia e ine Tand should” res s I Sung and pAIdle Lovutul tnrormaians g i a n . Frice $0ceals ¢ may be consilted persurially or by yany of thesubjectnmentiuned in bla wurk Addices 11,'A, 0, OLIN, 1 Washingion, DrLATTLE Thirty years! London Hosplial tiractioe, curos private dis- Fihen il it hont micreary s alan 3T AN JLOI0D, norsuue dGLilly, cauted by orrarw of sonth T youns sl uld are quickly restored 10 waaly sigar, Stran- gera shuald call ue witia, 1s quito safi., cioat, Offies strictly t Madisouat, NOCURBE! % Nosuii Dr. Kean, 175 Sonth Clark-st, corcer of onree, Chieaza, May boconsuliod, personally or by mall, freg of cuarge on all chrvulc ur Barvous dissases. RIAN vt ouly plipaician in tho city whio wi Uikios bours, ¥ a. m, 10 8D, 1, A BOOK FOR THRE-MILLION. i A Privato Uouus ‘or haso eLuut o 1warry, o Cho phys; Iinlo.flcd wystoricsand iovelatiouy ot il szual aystont, wits tha latusy euca of repruduction, prussrving tha is 1 a5 futereating work of 200 jagos, axraviogs, and eontalns valuabla fufur- ove who are ‘married or contamplate mar [lawe; still ¢ ia 8 Look dliat guais bo be under lovk 07, 8ad nat 1otk carsleanly about tho ho one (post-paid) for ity Us A ost-paid) foe Mt Wress DIt BUTTS DISYENSARY, 13 North Eixhtb-t., bt, Louli, 3 The ooly Hpeclalist ia the sity DR. STONE, ,[i.3 it th el ol ) s il treata ald Glironto sud Pl eahnuss, Jnpotency, Fomale Dife ruralsled l-::"‘i‘h Sl 1 eurey od. Consultatione coadden. K for but stamp, Uuy_intarviow’ No I usg. Raut Lo any las the United States chartursd expresely for the cure of Private, Quroule, and Specis! 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