Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1876, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE RATES 6F EUNACAIPTION (PATABLE IX ADVAXCE). Pestnge I'repald at this Ofces Dally £dition, post-nald, 1 year. s Parts of year atsame rato. N a tor. K By 24T et 2.00 Tri-Woakly, pos .00 Qnacopy, per yesr., Clyof Hves por €ob7. Glub of twenty: pee coss, Tho pastage ix 15 eents Bpecimen copies sent fre: To prevent delay and mistakes, ba gure and give Post-Oftice addresa In full, incluiling Btateand County. Itemittances may be made either by draft, express, Post-Offica ordar, or in registered lettern, at ous rirk, TERMB TO CITY BURSCRIBRRS, Dally, delivered, Sundsy excepted, 25 centa per weck, Dujly delivared, Sundsy Included 10 cents bee ek, ress THE TRIDSE COMPANY, Corner Madison snd Dearborn-sts,, Chicago, il AOADEMY OF MUSIC—Ialsted _street, Atadison and Monroe, * The ‘Iyo Orpbane. WOOD'S MUSEUA-—Monros strect, between Dears born and State, Afternoon: ™ Poluhunias ' and ¢4 Qulet Family,” Evening: * Tho Hidden Iand,” MOVICKER'S THEATIE—Maditon tireat, hetween Desrborn apd State, Fopegement of Miss Minnis Palmer. “Laughing Eyos.” "btiwnn TOOLEY'S Tl Plark and JaSall ADELPHI TAEA’ -Dearborn Monros. Varisty performance. EXHIBITION DUILDING~Iske Shote, foot of Adams strect. Natfonal Eshibition of Poultry, Pige sons, and Dogs. amiolph atrest, T between The Californis Minstrele.” atreet, eormer SOCIETY MEETINGSE. ORIENTAL LODAE, N #3l_Communtcation_ (bis iho . 3L Degren. Dy or KT 3, A F, & A, M—Spa- ‘riday) evening, Work on (e Worsbipful Mas- TUCKER, Secretary. WAGHINGTOR CHAPTER, NO. 47, R. A #31 Convocation this (Fridas) eveud clock, for work on tho I, A, Deyraes Virlting Corapsnioss y invited. Ty order of tho M. B I, P CHAILES D. WRIGHT, Secretary. Spes THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870. choico packing grades. Oattle were quiot and weak. Sheep woro nnohanged, at $4.50 (6.00 for good to choice. Ono bundrod dol- larain gold would buy $112.87) in grecn- and that incroased exponso of living is en- forcod by statute. Repeal tho law which compels a man to pay moroe for each article than it is worth, and' tho expense of living will instantly decline to its honest ptandand, If nll these artificial oxpenses, which swell tho cont of American productions and exeludo them from all other conntries, were ropealed and removed, then oue manufactures would find a foreign outlet for tho surplus, Instend of running threa months in the spring and three montha fu the fall to supply domestio demand, tho fires and forces would ho con- ‘tinuous. The mills would run from Now- Yenr's day to the last night of tho year, La. bor, instead of n precarious subsislenco pick- edup from half or quarter time, would be cmployed the whole year through permn- nently. Instead of making goods for the home market exclnsively, end meeting the competition of an excessive supply, tho sur. plus as fast as produced wonld bo shipped to whatever part of tho world in which it could De sold for o profit. Thero would bo no sus- pension of milla in order to get rid of stocks on hands, Thoe mannfacturer would bo pro- ducing for an unlimiled market. With this chango in the laws, with this un. loading from the shonlders of the industry of tho country of the great sud crushing weight of limitations nnd prokibitionn of produe- tion, there would bo s reviral of faith and confldence. Each mau, whether engnged in mining, or in the forest, or on the farm, or at the furnace, or the loom, or the anvil, would Le producing remething beyond what ho con- sumes, and tho aggregate surplus, srupple- menting the agricultural surplus, would ex.’ Libit o growth of national wealth that would inspire confidence, aud give a solidity tojour commereo that it now utterly lacks, Then, no mstter what we imported nor in what extrsvagances wo might indulge, the great, upiied productive industry of the country from its enormous rurplus would draw hither Wixstow, the Boston forger, evinced re. maerkable judgment and discretion {n the cholca of o ship and a landing-plnco when ar- ranging for bis European tour. Ifo emhaorked on n Dutch pteamer bonnd for Rotterdam, and various partios who would be pleased to communicato with the gentleman throngh the medium of n deteclive armed with extra. dition papers have ascertained from Secre- tary Fian that that ploasuro will bo denied them. Tven if the ateamer should stop atan English port, as had breen expected, thera would be no power to srrest WiNgrow, un. 1ess lie ret foot on Britlsh rorl 3 but it trans- pires that the vessel will proceed straightwny to Rotterdam, where the eminent rascal will bo perfectly scenro, ns there is no extradition treaty with Holland, TIn the trinl of Mr. McKee nt 8t. Louis yes- terday tho defensa wero successful in getting the Government witnesses by {ho oars and in mnking them call ench otler liars aud per- jurers to & degreo which must have been di- verting to tho spectators and perplexing to the jurors, who might be pardoned for almost donbting whether thero ever was n Whisky Ring in St. Louis. Mronuz, Firznor, Coxcaxxoy, and Maguirg, wero all used n3 witnesses for the defeuse, aud the damnging evidenco thoy gavo for tha prosoention was badly demorelized by their flat contradictions of each othor's statemonta. The Brooklrn scandal.trial produced no more bewildering mixture of averment and deninl under onth, Added to tho discomfiture of lis ndversaries, Deacon dicKes's good chor- acter was sworn to by a host of distingunished people, aud altogether he lad a good day of it, The @hiengo Tribame. Friday Morning, January 28, 1870. Greenbacks at the New York Gold Exchange yestorday closed at 88}, Snow or m;n. with slight changes in tem- porature, are the conditions for this region to-dauy, ————— Tho anuouncoment is made from Paris of tho death of Frroznro LnssaiTnx, the veteran Freneh actor, at the nge of 77 yeara. The Senate yestenlay pessed the bill pro- teeling tho rights of seitlens upon lands with- in tho limits of railway land.grants. Various smendiments if tho interests of railrond com- punics wero sought to be tacked on, but all were defested, and the bill passed by a vote of 44 toy, Mrs. McKexze, the cloping wife of o Alontreal merchiant, has retnrned to that city in tho company of lier father. Her friends clgim for the lIndy a spotless character, and expect to be ablo to convinco her husband thot she comes back without tho stain of criminality, At ncost fo the Government of $12,000 per day the Democrata in the Housoaro using up the larger part of n week in debating the West Point appropriation, with an excellent prospect that in the end the proposed reduc- tion will not bo agreed to, It is the era of economy and retrenchment, The conservative and neutrnl policy of tho Prince MiraN has bred a formidable opposi- tion among the Servisn sympathizers with the insurgents of Herzegovinn and Bosnia, who are kot for participation in the revolt. An orgonized movement {o deposo the Prince is reported ns having gained headwasy in Bervin, France is at present under a Republican form of Government. Peoplo having a doubt of this may be assured by learning the fact that one Bnosszr, of Paris, presumed to in. vite his friends to join in celebrating a mass for the late Emperor, and the additional fact tho said Brnosszu now ocouples acoll in o Srench prison. Later nccounts of the bank robbery at Northampton, Mass., give tho affair o dif- ferent aspeot from that at first reported. Tho robbery proves to have been one of the most successful and extensive ever known, the plunder amounting to between $600,000 and $700,000 in currency, Government se- corities, bonds, stocks, ete, The burglars have not been apprehonded. ‘The Board of I'rado Cowmitteo appointed to inquire into the matter of unjust digerim- inntiona in railway freight rates have finished tho taking of testimony, and will shorily present their report. Enough haa been as- certained in the conrso of the inquiry to prove beyond question that the commercinl interests of Chicago bave suffered and aro still suffering severcly in consequence of on outrageous inoquality in freight rates, where. by business is diverted from its natural and legitimate channels, and the community will await with intereat tho conclusions reached and the remedies proposed by the Board of ‘Trade Committce. Minister Scunnex's connection with the Emma Mine affair has never been explained 1o the satisfaction of his best friends. 'The British authorities, urged on by the vic. tims of the far-reaching swindlo, have ! token steps to iuquire into tho' .yfEi ter, omo of theso mteps wvelug the serving of warmunts upon Nir. Sclesck, Ar. axet Graxz, and others supposed to lmow sowething ubout the operativny of the coun. cern, It s o be hoped thut the investiga. tion 0 be wade will disubuse the public mind i this country of the unavoidable and pain. ful conddusions which have perforco bocome prevalent on aecount of the unsatislactory way in which our Minlster at the Court of St g :;ms hes met tho ontspoken chorges sgalugt wim, The Chicago producs markets wero rregu- lar yesterdny, Mesa pork wua gniot and n shede firmer, closing at #1920 cush aud §19.50@19.523 for March, Lard wea more active and 5@10c per 100 tbs lower, closing vt 21195 cash and BU2.12) seller March, Ments were In better demand ond firm, st 740 for boxed shoulders, 10}o for do short xibs, and 10jc for do short clears. Highwincs ‘were more active and unchanged, st 1,06 per gallon. Flour was dull and unchanged. ‘Wheat was less nctive and Jo higher, clouing at90c cash and 09¢ for February, Corn wes the trade of the world. Tt is n sad commentary on the intelligenco of {ho National Legislature that during tho nearly two months of tho eession of the pres- ent Congress, theInrge mnjority of whossememn- bera are theoreticelly in favor of the lorgest freedom in production, not a singlo messure s been proposed having for its objeet the repenl of the erushing weight of tha * pro- tective " laws, And tbese men, oblivions of this great obstacle in the way of national recuperation, sro Qaily jumping up with patent schemes to make money cheap, to water the carrency, to atamp leather and de- claro it money, to remodel the Coustitution, to prevent tho people electing whom thoy plesse to oflice, and every othor possiblo quack nostrum for imaginary or real political ovils, JUBILEE OF THE CITY-HALL CROWD, Tho ofileial organ of the usurping City Government of Chieago nunounces that Mayor Corvis held aleves at the City-Hall and received the congratulations of Alder- Aiter the general expression of indignation called forth by the cumnctiment of Judge Pouaxp's outrageons Gag-law, Congress i3 disposed to make haste slowly and with czu- tion in tho matter of legislation affecting :he liberty of the press. A bill introdueed by Alr, CaNNoN, of Illinois, providing pecaltics for the sending of obscene metter throrgh the mails provokedn spirited disenssion yesterday. Tt was urged that under such a law Post- masters would be practicelly vested with o power of press censorship which no man or set of men should ever be permitted to ex- orcise in n free ond enliphtened land,—a power which might be so abused as to ex- cludo newspapers from the mails for political or theologienl reasona, 3r. Cassox's bill was considered nltogether too sweeping in its scope aud provisjons, aod Was recom- mitted, A HELP T0 RESUMPTION. The great helpmato of specie resumption is inereased exportation of manufactures. Tho moro manufnetured goods can find a foreign market, ths less American gold need ba exported o psy balances of trado. This in on importont phase of the resumption question for Congress to consider. The soil, climate, natural position, and the natural de- posits of the United States, fit this conntryto be one of tho greatest, if not the greatest, of nll the manufacturing countries of the world. Of tho great staple, cotion, wo bave n prac. tical monopoly. Of Lrendstufls, vegetables, snd provisions,—the food of the manufactur- ing population,—~wo have an immense sur-| of the Bnpreme Court to decido whether the Legislature had anthority to continae a men clected to un offico for a definite term, in oftice from December, 1874, to April, 1877, without any clection. The Court, it seems, wercunable to reach a decision whether the Legislatare could by law, dircetly or indi. rectly, designate tho person who shonld Lold the offico of Mayor of Chicago for the term beginning in April, 1875, and ending in April, 1877, and Alr. CorLviw, according to the offi. cial organ, was happy because tho Supreme en and others upon the opportune inability | Court had * rebuked Tie Cuicaco IRINUNE, si::;fin}l‘;“ i‘:;]“ 'l‘kp:;‘fi:]““‘f:f‘t °: tho Zimes, ond the Oitizens' Associntion.” A 5 fow but in mony localities. We have Uhy(Supreme . Court; zuay. have disldod ity membera equally in order to robuke Tar Tripuxe et al., but wo fail to soo any ovi- dence of any such robuke, Tz Omcave ‘Trmuxe docs not seck to instruct the Su- preme Court, or fo influence ita decisions ; the Suprewe Court, it is to be assumed, nots independently, holding the siales of justice evenly, uninflionced by outsiders, In this case the Court held the scalos so eveuly and firmly balanced that tho Leam would not yield, cither to one nide or the other, and law ond justico were adjourned sine de. Tho cffect of tha iuability of the Court to render n decision fs to perpetuate one of tho most disgraceful and lamentable instances of municipal misgovernment, as well as usurpa- tion, that ever dishonored and oppressed any community in the United States, If thatis a “robuke to Tuc Cmrcaao TRIDUNE," we ac- copt it ns a4 compliment. Thero is not a thief in or outof ofilce, not s pimp or black- mailer, o pensioner upon the City Treasury, o sceker after dishonest contracts, or o man with n vote or othor official duty to sell, who will not join Mayor Corvix in rejoicing that tho Supreme Court could not agree, They all feel like eriminals whose scntences havo been reapited, whose cxccutions have been postponed. Their liceuses to commit crime have been extended by o divided Court. The victims who, by this disagreement of the Court, are compelled to submit to an usurpation of Government and despotism of dishonesty are the people of Chicago, with whom Tne Crmicado Taisuxg shares what- ever rebuke may have beon adminiatered to thoso who asked for relief and encountered o divided Court. the Isrgest supply, of the best iron- ore in the world, and can produce coppersud lend and their combinations in any needed quantity. We have the greatest supply of the raw material for all the leading objects of manufacture, and even in the mattor of wool, with o free market, would stand on an equal- ity with almost any otber nation. Bounti- fully supplied by Nators with all theso materials, with plonty of cheap fuel noces- sary for their fusion, and tho food growing chenply at tho dooraof tho operatives, why is it that at the end of a century of national existence wo produca little or nothing to sell, excopt tho mere products of tho farm? The Government of the United States hos chosen the policy (ealled protection) of sup- pressing tho utilization of the raw materinls of manufsotures, and has prohibited their production in commercial shape beyond the supply needed for local consumption, Wo have copper, lead, and zine wines eapablo of supplying any foreign dewand now idle snd unproductive; wo have scorcs of iron fur- naces gut of blastand other scores of rolling- mills stonding idlo; we bhave cosl mines worked only part ¢f the year; we bave one tanuory in operatitn where we might have half o dozen; wo have cotton mills which work a few months in the year and woolen wills which aro operated on the same short- time principlo; and wo lavo the highest protective toriff in the world, which oper. ates to limit production to tho local de- maud; when that' fx reached, mechan. ical labor is dismissed, machinery stands still, production censes. Capital by tens of millions has been for threo years lying idle, unemployed, and unproductive, wait- ing for investment in somo industry that doea not cshaust itself in threo or four wmonthy' production. I{niug nothing that can bo sold abre oy oyt petroleum nnd ag- ricultura) proqncts, wo gead sbip-loads of 1894 to settle vur balaners With foreign no. foms Wo purdhuss vur tid, coffee, sugar, silks, Iineny, dye-stuffs, mecicine, wnd all our other imports, with broal 0 mest, cot. ton aud tobaceo, and ofl, uy 8¢ 84 they go, and, instend of welling our iros cutton goods, woolene, leather, boots aud s! “¢% 10D, Jua- chiuory, erockery, gluss, catiérys sud other goods with which to pay for (o imiports and our foreigu indebleduess, wo send our gold and silver, ¥ "T'he wanufactures of this co Pitry, Hmiled, and in some vases smoll na iy are, huve long since nttained tho capecityf Aupplying the local consumption. Ileycid that ey cinot go. Haviug thoe capit:d and the . chinery, they conld produca out-third or one- bilf more ut n much reduced au. mags cost of the whole, but what can they do with it ? “T'iere §8 no profit in making goodd to pile up in warehouses withont gulo. Now, suppose this policy bi changsl Suppose Congress shall repeal all thesw ve. straints and prohibitions ; suppose it should permit the manufacturers to purcisas the raw material in the cheapest murkeli; that Congress shall repeal everything iu ths shapo of duty or tax which is not purely fo: rove- * MISBING LINES." The poople of thia city—the public who never tako part inaoy Ringy and have no counnection with them except that of suffor. ers—Llave overy disposition to value nt their full worth tho labors of tho United States Grond Jury now in seusion here and the patriotio services of the counsel under whoso direction the Grand Jury are actiug, ‘Thero was genorsl satisfaction felt yusterday on the purt of all cloases nt the number and im- portance of the indictments found for whisky frauds, but it is undeninblo there was alsoa feeling of disappointment, There arc any who belivyo the ¢* half has not yot Leon told.” Tho stret talk ran on *alighor ring of offunders not yet touclied,”—** a claus of cor- ruptionists that worked between the local *Bosses ' und o power sbove therm,"—** Miss. ing Liuks,” thoy were called. Btorokeepers sud Gaugers bave becn appointed and re- moved; shubled from ono placs to another; even higber ofiicers in tho service have been manipulated; scerets of the Govermuent have bheou betrayed; raids hesded off and. frauds mede easy, Much—indoed, most—of this {s work that it is not easy to seo how o local * Boss,” however powerful e might be, could accomplisk, 1, us tho Grand Jury assort by thelr indict. meuty, the Jocal Bosses held ono end of tho line, who was it, peoplo were asklug, on our strects yesterday, that held the other end of tho line? If appointinents and removals of quict aud 4@}a lower, <losing at 42{o cash, and 42@4240 sellor February, Onts wero qulet and §@fo lower, cloalng at 810 cash or seller Felruary and 81j0 for March, Ryo a8 steady 6t 67G674o. DBarley was quist snd steady, olosing at 79je cxsh and 700 for Pebwuary, Hogs were sctive and 8¢ higher, eloakng finn ad §7,0537.30 f tbmmon 18 nue, which increases the cost of livinyg, and, of course, of the cost of producing. Letall taxes Jovied to enhance the cost of preduc. tion and make goods dear be ropealed. With all kinds of food, and all that enters into the cost of domeutlo living, cheaper than it Is in a0y othor wsoufacturing couwiry, the ex. punsd 6f Living 14 the United Blates ls groutes, Gaugers and Btorckeepers wero made for the Whisky Ring, who 1nisled the appointing power? Who was it, tho queation wont, that administered the patronsage of this district in tho fnterest of the Wlliky Ring? There wete other Mising Links {n the work of the Grund Jury that Wete eanvamed in the reed yesterdaye Alon who bught | fosd will be fignro of specch. Tho wholo country west of the 08th paralledl cannot bo called “gouth,” It all Lolongs tothe West, and nover was cmbraced in fho South. Tho money for tho contruction of tho Arizonn rond would not bo spont in the Sonth. It would not bo spent Ly Sonthern men, The road would not Lo a Southern road. ‘The solo purposo of this project ia to cn. rich Dhiladelphia speculators and benefit the Pennsylvanin Central Itailroad. The profita will go into thopocketsof n Construction Ring of Enstern speculntors, It will not bo worth anything to the City of Loniavillo nor to the Siato of Kentucky, Thoy cannot got back ono cent on tho thousand dotlars from it. It isnot going to Lenefit Maryland, Vir- ginin, North or Sonth Carolina, Ccorgin, Florida, or Alabamn, to tho valuo of n nivlo apioce. Kentucky Lns nothing to export over such a rond, and it will convey o her uo goods with which she is not now abun. dnatly supplied. It will run through a sec: tion of country destitute of poputation and dostined to bo forover scantily populated, From the 95th pnrallel to tho Pacific const it will traserso o dry, sandy, nlkaline desert, voleanio in much of its formation, aud grow- ing but little moro valusble than the enctus. There is nothing on tho Pacific const at 8an Diego which the South can get ooy chenpor thun it gets now from San Francisco, There is nothing that California con got any cheaper from the Sonth than it gets now; nnd between Californin and the Southern Stntes, nlong the lino of tho pro- posed desert road, thora is nothing, and never will bo anything, that eitiior of them can get, no matter how much they may want it. Will the Courier-Journal demonstrate, in somo convincing ranner, how this rosd will benefit ony one but tho Philadelphia Coustruction Ring, which is snxious to gt its hands into the Tublic Treasury ? New Orleans thinks it will bo benefited. Will the Courier-Journal point out what New Orlenna has to scll to Arizona, New Mexico, and the alkaline desert, or what they lave to sell to New Orleaus? Its nssumplion that tho South will be enriched by it, or even that the South is in- terested in it, is n very violent one. If tho Courier-Journal would state the facts just ns they are, nnmely, that it would be a wasto of tens of millions of public money, that it would take live money ount of important in. duatrinl enterprises and invest it in n schomeo that would b abortive at tho very outsot, that it would pledgo the national eredit to help line the pockets of privata speculstors, sud that the whole scheme s & palpable fraud on the American people, it would be doing 1more sorvice to the South than it is now, in advoeating and bolstering up this project of Eaatern speculators. to Lo wellinformed were heard rofer- ring to quondam Nank Tresidests, and quondam (iovernment officials, aud gilont partners in distilleries, ns Missing Links that would go far to make the Ring complote. As far ns theso complaints aro conderned, it minst bo borno in mind that thera oro always persons dissatisfied, no matter how well every work Is performed. And it 8 too enrly ns yot to pass judgment upon a Grand Jury that hins not yot adjourned. Dut theso questions and mnrmurs are evidonco that tho people aro fikly in accord with the Govern. ment as to the fmportanco of Lrenking up n Ring that has demoralized loeal and np- tional politics. ‘The peoplo hiavo heartily ac~ cepted tho President’s watehword, Tot no guilty mau escape. Thoy have mado it their own, nnd will nccopt no loss complete n ro- sult of tho Chicago prosccntions, The pub- lio nro jutensely interested in the crusade againat corruption, nud will support the Gov- ernment to tho uttormost in its honest en deavors to break up and erush under foot tho Ring, including all its links. SENATOR SHERWMAN'S CANDIDATE, Senntor SugasaN, of Olio, has writton a letter to Stato Senator Bunys, which we print elsewhere, and in which he says ¢ * But con- sidering all things, I beliove the nomination of Gov, Hayes wonld give us more strength, taking tho whole country at Inrge, than any other man.” This may bo Senator SHERMAN'S opinion, and he is undoubtly sincere in it, but it would earry moro weight were thers not nt least three othor ien in Ohio who would be more likely to get the nomination if it wont to that State, Gov. Haves hes made n good, fair Execative through two terms in n Stato whoso Constitution confers very littlo power or gives tho Governor much to do, 1o has nn excellent record as o soldier, and heisa mon who ls moderate in his judgment, and not a rabid partisan, but his best friends will not claim for him that brendth end depth of statesmanship which shonld charactorize the man who s to fill the Prosidential chair. In none of tho qual- itles which go to congtitnto n states- man does he compare in ebility er expericnce with any of the promi- Dent nawes slrendy mentioned as eandidates. 1t the Republican party should decide to go to Ohio for their candidate, there are at least threo men who would take precedence of Gov, Fayrs, Tho first is Senstor Suunsun himself, who is an able man and very fomilinc with public affnirs, aud who has hind great cx- perience 04 n logislator. Ho would be moro satisfactory to tho people of Ohio, as well as to tho country at large, than Gov. Hayea. The second man we may name is Judgo Tarr, of Cincinnati, whose speeches last year upon finoncinl aud other isanes were the ablest de- livered in tho great Ohio campaign, excepb thono by Oanw Scrivnz, In dopth and breadth of view, in clenrness of couception, in firm- nese sud corroetness of opinion, ho was not equaled, on either side, except by Camu Sonurz Wimself. Fo is a mon of groat ability and possesses nll tho natural nttribntes of statesmanship in a very marked dogres. The third nama is that of Gen. Ganrcrn, whoso brilliant record in the present as in past Congressos hes left him with fow peers in Congress. Like Senator Snenaay, ho is s man of great experience ond vory closely familiar with tho administra- tion of public nfiairs. These three gentle- men shonld take procedence of Gov. Harrs in the National Convention, and would strike tho public mind as the smost suitablo men that Ohio could prosont for the cendidacy. Nothing here sald in thoir praiso cou detract from Gov. Havzs' honorable roputation. Ho is an oxcallent man—for the place he holds, and ho might mako an availnble candidato for tho socond place on the rational ticket, Wa are comewhat surprised that, in ennme- rating Gov. Haxrs' qualitics for the position, Senator Buerstan should have ropresented him ps ** o pitusted in regard to the ques- tion of finance as to be able to support any plan that promises sucoess.” Thinis o fatal ohatacle in the way of Gov. Marrs, The country oes not want, and will not aocept, & trimmer, It wants no man of tho Hexonicks sort, carrying water on both shoulders, It dewnands and will have a positive man, * JUSTICE BETWEEN NORTH AND BOUTH.” Under the above caption, the Louisvillo Courier-Journal once moto roturns to its old job of seeking to show that the *‘ North " hag bLeen favored by the Nationsl Govern- mont at the ezponse of the * Boath,"—the point of its argument being to tho effect that tho South ought to have s Pacific rond, to be constructed out of thoPablie Treasury, fortho building of which tlo Louisville Courier- Journal has bocome o chronic andnotorioualy public beggar, The Couricr-Journal ssys: 4 It {s & startling fact that sinco the inaugura- tion of the National Government thero hos boon spent mbout $190,000,000 of publio mouey on publio improverzents in tho North- ern Btates, whilo the exponditures in the Bonth have not exceedod $17,000,000.” The sbove statement iw the key.noto of nearly two columns of supposed argumont to show that the * Bouth,"as a matter of justice, should have a Pacific Railroad built for it by the North, We will asswne that its figures are correct, for the sake of reply. Tho bolk of tho hundred and odd millions of dol- lars spent in publio Improvementsin the 4 North” was for tho Union Pacific Road and its Southern branch, a groat central national route constructed to comnect the At- luntio and Pacitic Oceans, and to bring Californfa and the "erritoties into a com- mercial union with the Eastern and Sonthern Htates, for tho mutual benefit of all con- cerned. ‘Tho line from New York and Chi- cago to the mountaing, and tho otler lino from Baltimore and Lonisville, via St. Louls, to tho mountaing, converged at Cheyenne, and fromwn that point a central line wwau built erogs- ing the Nocky fonutains to a city further south thau 5t. Youfs. 'The only bonds which tho Governient has given, guarautend, or loaned to railroads were devotad to the construction of that voad, which is not only a groat commerceial highway through tha Ter. ritories, It also o military and netional ne- cemsity, ‘The expenditure bay been limited to this one rosd and its branches, no bonds by ing been givon to Jay Cooxr or Tou Siorr; snd tho expenditura is goaranteod by il na- tional necessities in the case, and has 3ever been guostioned either by North or 8uth, There is no railroad project in the Bouth of the character of the Union Pacifio betgro it was built, requiring bond or cash ald ¥om tho Governmont. The railroads that|the South has needed have beon built inltho main with foreign or Northern capital, an{ all that it will need in tho future will be & sitoilar monner. What {a ft that the Loulavills Cou Journal really wanta? It wants Congred to —_— THE MONTREAL BENSATION, Tha recent caoo of elopemont of o married lady of Montreal, the wife of & wenlthy and distinguished merchant, with an ex-oficer of theo British army, and their adventures in this country, have attracted considerable atten- tion. Tha ladyis but 25 years of age, hag been married but fivo years, and hes four children, She ishandsome and accomplished, and of immense wenlth in her own right, It is now explained that o sorious disagreoment, arising from incompatibility of tastes ond temper, hos rondered tho married lifo of the McKeyziss an unplonsant one. How this would hove ended bad no third porson nppesred on tho stage, no ono can tell But this third person, 3Mr. TFaeorniox Brypaes, a young man of plensant exterior, of respectablo family, and an old acquaint- ance, did appear. Mrs, Mclnnzm sought from her husband a separation and a divorce, to which bhe refused to consent. His unwill- ingness to a separation, and his refasal to act on ber determination to live with him no longer, induced hor to resort to an elope. ment, in order {o givo such publicity to their disagreoments a8 would compel him to seek n divorce. Leaving s babe two months old, she left on tho 10th by rail for Now York, wns joined on the road by Bsypars, and proceeded to Now York. On their arrival they wero mrrested and kept in prison ono night, In the meantime her brother and brother-in-law undertook to tako ber home, but, eluding their vigilance, sho joined Brypaes at his hotel and proceeded to Philodelphia. Iere tho noxt day her father and mother nod the father of Brynoes joined them, and Mrs. MoKrsze explained that the purposo of the clopoment was to compel her husband to seck n divorce, after which sho and Baypars wonld got married, With the ' understanding that this arrangemont would Do carricd ont, the partics returnoed to Mon. trenl, In tho menntimo Mr. Mollexziv has to ba heard from. Hia sido of the story is to be heard, and it is just possiblo that tho clopement buainoss is of that class of cnuses which, whilo affording the husband grounds for divorce, will exclude tho wife from mar. rying again, Divorces in Canada aro not the Inosa procecdings they avo in this country, The guilty party cannot escape the conso- quonces, and the decroe which releases the injured prohibita the guilty from getting warriod again, It {s posalble, therefore, that, unless Mr, MoKrwzr haa given bis wifa cnuso for divorce, ho holds the fature matri- monial arrangoments of that lady etill in his liands, MEROHARDISE IN THE MAILS, The laat Congress made a miscrable mis. take, to call it by no other nwmne, in changing the postage on what {s known s third.class matter to ono cent por ounce, or fraction, The provious rate of postage wes ono cent for ench two ounces on transient nowapapers, The House of Represontatives have just passed o bill which rcstores the old rates. 1t in questionable, however, whether this Dill woight not be wisely awmended 50 as to ronko another classification of matter, dis. criminating betweon what is logitimate or or- dinary mail matter and that which is mer- chandise. Third-claes matter now fncludes : Pawphlets, occasional publications, transient nowspapers, mngazines, hand-bills, posters, unsealed ciroulas, prospectuscs, boolus, book- wannscripty, proof-shoets, corrocted proof. wheets, maps, priots, engravings, blanks, flexibla patterns, articles of merchandise, snm- ple cards, phonographio paper, latter envel. lopes, pustal envelopes and wrappers, cards, plan and ornsmental paper, plotogruphia ropresentations, seeds, cuttings, bulbg, roots, scions, and sll other matter whick may be declared mailablo by law not oxceoding four pounnds in weight. ‘T'he groat losscs of the Department sre sus- tained in the transportation of sccond and third class matter, but especinily the third clasa, The revenuo from this class of matter bears a lamentable proportion to the oxponse of its transportation. The total proft on tho transportation of first.class matter (let- tors) last year was §4,212,890, aud {ho loss on third-olass matter was 84,118,015, It will indorse Tox Boorr’s bonds forthe of | be seen, therefore, that tha whole profit on a rairosd through the arld dessrts of lotton-postage was absorbed by the loss on Bouthwest t0 4he Pacifio, The idea that third-alsss matter, The loas was squal to § & Bouthwa fod fx m | aadl $-10 otnis 6o sach puand of alais matter, A loss, howaver, {8 inovitable, and it mo moro than just, to a large extont ‘Whero tho injustice operaten is in permitting 5 man to sond a pair of boots, or half-n-dozen umbrellas, or articles of merchandiso such as catlery, silver plate, and other narticles of puro merchandise, through tho mails, for any distance within the Unlied States, at the samo ro‘es of pamphlets, occasional pub- lications, photographs, or other printed or engraved matter, Now, it Congress wonll crtablish n distinct clnss of nnil mntter, confined to **merchandise” as distinguished from printed, engraved, or written mattor, and not including secds, cte., nnd fix the rate of postage on theso nt 4 conts per ounco, thon those who wished to send merchandise through tho malls could do so at their own oxponsoe and not at the exponse of the publie, Under the Honso bill a man can sond six silk hats, done up in six boxes, ench packnge weighing 10 ounces, from Maine to Cnlifornia, for n total postage of 30 centw, Boots nnd shoes, suits of clothing, overcoats, put up in packages not exceeding four pounds edch, are transferred and handled by the Post. Offico Department for 8 cents per pound. Tha uso of the mails for merchandise is something ow: of place. It was never intended that freight shiould be carried in the mail-bags. But if merchandisois to bo earried, then those who employ the mails for that purpose should Lo compelled to pay tho cost, and not havo their freight bills charged against the postage pnid on Jetters and other logitimate mail matter, — The dispateh which was forwarded by the Associnted Press a fow days ago to the effect that President Gnanr has signified to Sena. tor Coxgraxa and others his docision not to Lo & candidato ngain for the Prosidency,seoms to have worked the Democratio newspapers, chief among them the Naw .York 1World, into nsort of frenzy and spasmodic fndignation, ‘Why aro thoy all so anxious upon this point? For tho last year thoy have been unanimons in howling at tho Prosident and cnlling him 4 Qamar,” “dictator,” *1mnilitary tyrant,” and other cpithets, and now when ho comes out and gives n positive nssurance that he will not aceept a renomination, tho pack sot upon him again and sock by every means in its pover to show that ho will. All of which shows that thoy want him to run again, and that his assurances aro a soro dissppoint. went to them. The Kansas Legislature has managed to bribe itsclf and the press at the same time, paying the bribo, of course, ont of the pock. ots of the peoplo of Kansns. By n vote of 53 to 46, tho House has provided twenty daily papers, at public expense, for eaclk of its membera during tho session. No mon with ony regnlar occupation has time to read twonty nawspapews n day, por tho quarter of them, nor was it intended that they should. ‘They will simply subseribe for twonty copies each, and receivo oue or two. Tho cost of tho other eightoen or nineteen will be drawn from tho Trogaury and divided between the wembers and agents of tho papers which were subseribed for, This i3 tho way the (hing unsed to be done by the Ilinois Legisla- ture under the old Constitution, and which contomptibla littlo steal was cut off by the now ono. THE TRIEUNE OF 1060, Wa are indebted to J. B. Newoomb, Eaq., of Elgin, for coples of Tue Cutcaco Tuinuxe of Dee. 28, 1350, and of Jan. 4, 1851, As compared witli tho life of tho city, those aro very anclont documonts. ‘That of Doc. 38, 1830, is-very val- usblo, for it contains the commorclsl roviaw for that year. Alongslda of thoso which now record tho results of & ysar's trado, shioy are very small iudeed, Take tho following table of tha ship. ments: Wheat, bu, 1850, 1678, 1,879,000 34,093,813 Carn, b, 044,848 26,407,420 Oats, bu! 28,840 10,230,903 This comparison Low how rapidly onr businoss hias tuercased in a quartor of a contury, and it will hold equally good in moat other arti~ oles. ‘The papor is only about ono-fourth the slze of the present TrisuNg, snd we are told seriously that it had & dally cireulation of 1,200, Winter whoat Ia quoted at 65@77 cents ; epring at (0@ G0 ; corn at 34@85 ; oats, 20@29 ; bogs, §3.60@ 8,84, These prices now look {unsigoiileant enough. Vory fow of thoso advertising then are dolng business now. Most of them biave gone uub of trade long ago, and many, far too many, are where cares and trialscan tronblo thom no mors. Thero is noarly a column of telegraph news ; but tho column {8 short and tho type large. About s column of editorial, and threo or four columns of selectionn, make up tho eutire papor. Vorily, newspapora in Chicago, aa everything olso, wore very different things thon from what thoy aro now in the yesr of graco 1876, Jomx E. WuezLer, Jouy L, Scnrees, snd T, A, Brew- AnT woto thon the oditors and proprietors of Tug Tnmuxe, all of whom, after doing well and nobly for tua city, have long ‘since gons to thalr account. It Is sweet to thiok that Chlcago is doiog so’ much good nowadays, Our eminent citizens, Messrs, Moopy, \Winrrer, and Driss, are sd- ministering torriflo knocks to 8stan in some of tho latter's strongholds. While Moopy turns sinners to ropentance in tho wicked City of the Plain called Philadelpbis, snd does all that mor- tal can to Christianizo the membors of Plym- onth Cliurch in Drooklyn, Wiuirrie and Briss, the colobratod firm of ovangelists, have bearded the lion in Lia den by attacking Satan in his atronghold, Bt. Louls, Tho dlspatched say that they Lad 92,500 auditors on thelr opening night, The whote populsilon, it Is oxpocted, mil tarn out to hear thom. Bomo of tholr friends are rash evough to uay that they will convert as many sluners as thoro ars wortgages on the big bridge. This would be fodeed s mnral trlamph. Whon our trio have redeemed the oumtlying Sodoms and Qomorrabs, they should como back here, for during their absence ®n haa cropt juto some fow sonla in sod about tho ;City-Hall and Juil building, Thoy must concontrate thelr offorts on our Mayor, Alder- men, and County Commlssioners., —— Civil rights are fally recognized in Weat Vir- ginia, whero psople a0 buug by lynch-law with- out any regard at all to rxce, color, or previous conditlon of sorvitude. Tucsday was quito a flold-day in Oharleston, In thac Btato, There waa firat & morder, which provided one cadaver for tho rogular undertaker aud oue body for the ametours who uudertake to do tho lynching bosinces of the neighborhood. The murdsrer was colored. A few days bofors, two whites Liad Willed a thira. Tho threo man-slayera wore all s Jail together. At 10 p, m., 200 whites viaited the jall, took the whites, aud wens into the woods with them, ‘Thls stoused a noble emula- tion in the minds of tho colared population, Soon after, & dusky mob waited upon thoe oblig« iog Jalles, who politely bandod over the negro prisonor to them. They went into the woods, t00. Thore were three bhavglogs, The trees hore strange fruit in the ahape of one dark and two white corpaes. ————— It {s evidont from the St. Louls press mat'St, Lools editors are mot iho finest and amartest apeolmens of mankind, but yet wo are surprised 10 800 Ly the Olode-Demooral that somebody dohineated with the Hepudlioan is & “h paunched aod lean-pated purson whobe gentus durous by beams (ram wader Be tuiish-itrt gsged mansard roof.” Denr me—or ought a papor to say **Dear ne"?—how sad. sl iy 1t 1a fortunata that the Jate olection of Coanty Treasuror reaultsd as it did. MinLrn retirod from the office, and thors srero three candidaton, Iemixno, Keevxy, sud Hocz, The first three Liavo boen arrested fer allogod complicity in the whisky atorls, so that the only one of tho four not struck by lightning Las chargo of the publie {unds. —_———— PERSONAL Mardi-Gras, the 25th of Fobruary, is to bo cek ebrated fn Clncinuati, . Donjamin Bhillabor, the original Mrs, Parting. top, la preparing for a trip to Californis, Capt. Paul Boyton proposes to swim in hig lifo-saving suit from Alton to Bt. Louls, 30 milea by channel messuromoat, to-torrow, v Ex-Honator Betiurs has Indoflaitely postponed all his lecturo eogagemants in tho Wost, in con- soquence of the dellcato hosith of Mra, Behurz, Thio Floroncenara playing ** The Mighty Dol lar" at Cinclunati, The unaccustomed placard 1 8tanding Room Only" 1s exbibited in the lob. by overy night. Canon Girdloatons writes that the condition oy tho Devonshire peasants bas beon much im. proved by « system of plece-work which he was instrumontaf in having adopted. Prof, Max Mullor soems to soften a littls to- warda Prof. W. D. Whitney. In s recont lettar ho confines himgolf to an expression of mild in. credulity as to tho veracity oz the wisdom of hig oppanent, It was “Jeonio Juno,” not the Baltimore American, who eaid thas almost every promis nent journaliot in this country 1s an exception. ally good aod larze-heartod man; nud, asaholy tha wife of an odltor, ahe ought to know. Theodoro Tilton bas roltorated his statemant tuat wino was druok to oxcoss on tho funeral train which brouxht tho romaius of Vice-Presi dent Wilson from Washiogion to Boston, The Phliadelphis Committes did the drinking, Victor Hugo hopes to fonud in France a De- mocraoy which atsll end foroigs war by arbites- tion, civil war by smnesty, and distresn by odu. oation, But the formals of most Franchmen ia: ** Alsaco and Lotraine firat, and educatlon nfter- warda,” Among tho newapaper men called to the city Ly the Turf Couvention and Poultry Exbibition are Hawllton Bueby, editor of tho Tury, Field, and Farm, New York; Dr. E. N. Rowe, of the Rod and Gun, ond Horsce Smith, of the Foresi and Styeam. Tlorence Nightingalo hss subecribed £10 ¢4 the Goliath Reliof Fund, by which the tratnlug elups for boys are sostained. In her lstter or tho eubject to the Lord Masor she aaya: “Evory tralned and dispauperized boy 15 1 bequest to England.” The Now Yor! Assembly has accepted the o vitation of Mosaru. Jarrett & Palmer to attend the reprosentation of “*Julius Ciesar™ ob Booth't 'Theatro in a body, It is thought the excursion will bo made the occaston of & contennial spree which will have no parallel in tho bistory of this country. Tho provocetion to the rocent challonge of ftilson Hutchins by Fraok J. Bowman, both ol 8t. Louls, was the publication in Hutchins' pa por, tho Times, of thcsa wurds; **Bowmaa is ¢ dirty Yar, n coward, sod 28 thorough & cur in fa. stinct and converaation a it has ever boon my lot to kuow.” The Japancso Gavernment fs to be represont od at ti:o Philadolptia Centenulal by a Commis clon of thirty promiuent mea of tho country, in. cluding Qon, B8algo, who conducted the war egalnat Formoss. Alroady ninetoen car-loads of goods havoe arrived. Tho Governmeot approprie ation for the pnrpogo is now £300,000, and £t will doubtlesa bo incrozsed to $000,000, HOTEL ADRIVALS, _Palmer House—W. G. Weller, Twston: New York; N, M, AlcFarland, Uhica, N, ¥,; Chirlst R Liptn,8ycamore; E, P, Dounel, Clacinnati ; W, T lnck and dsuahtor, Erfe, Pa.: R, 2, Carvenier, Philadelphias J. M. Fittaburg § T, J, Dunbir, 1aCrosso,.....Grand Pacyfe—Judie Willfam Boolhy Uuited Giotes_Court ; D, d, Dresrer, Leavenworth: {he Ion, Milo Norton, Topeka : Col. Hobort Beochier, Hariford, Coun, ; Judke A, P, Hodges and Qoorye Wadsworth, Luffalo; the Hon, Gecorgd Durwin, Han Franclsco’ Gen, Jamos Gwyu and Lau- sing Warber, Philadelphia; B, T. Scofieid, Carthgo, Iil,; 8, Woods, Csrliale, Pa....Tremont Houser! A Einkel, lor, ‘Now York: ihe Hou. D, A, dolph, Loginsport; @. L. Docker, Bt, Paul; K, A. Diowd, Graod ‘Tapide? J. 8 Hualyp, Peorla ence, Xak . ¥ox, Peo.ia} . Ban Francis ol. Joun White, [+ ew Yorks; A, Mo iadolphin: J. A o, ygon! uae—S, B, Mortil, Generl Honager MK Bt P s J. W Carery &8, PR 3 the llon, N.W, Green, Pekin, J Fritz Cunllffo Owen, Japancas Centennial Commisston | Col. Josophs Harsls, ' Philadciphls; D. T, Leahey and W, L. Taylor, New York; I H, White, Gloveland: A. Allan, Now York T. M, Fiynn, Rochesler; E. W, Fone Beld, 'Bantoul, A POLITICAL NOTES, Prof. Soalye is talking n good doal o Cone groes, Bolog a schoolmaater by profossion, he naturalty can's Lolp {t. Thoe Boston Journal's * Blx Spoctators,” be foro writing tho Hendrioks loiter, sgrecd that Blaino would have the Republican momination. The Now York Express denies that it has beon, or {s to be, bought by Jobn Kelly and converted to Tamiusny purposes. It madly noeds couvere sion of somse kind, Prof. $umbper’s paradox in the January nume ber of tho North American Review, that the reason Why we spposr to be degenoratingasa nation [a because wo are not, seems 2o tho lnids- pendent not ovor clear. Doad members-elect of Congresn are not en: titled to eulogios. They can havo *' forward. pay,” howavor ; and this {s & more vataabls per- quisite than the othor. There is a nico dlating: tion heto which the abls parliamentarians might trouble themselves to oxplain, The Now York Zribune, which made a mlatake in ita treatmont of tho Blrive amuesty spoaches, now consents to asy: **There are many fndica- tiona that Blaiuo is raliylog from the bad affecta of hla amnoaty speeches. The trath fs that DlalosIs *“ratlying" in consoquonce of those spesches, Qay, * Tom" Osborne, of Kaness, i sald to bo an active candidate for Harvey's seat in tho United Btates Senate, and to be making prepara~ tions already for a vigorons campaign. lo hxa seoured a0 organ, and hss many atanch adho- rents. The seat does not become vacant uotil March 8, 1877, ‘The Bpringfleld Republican is glad to hoar that Deck'a eloction 8 likely to lnjure the Demoorstic party o Keutucky. The Graogers, it seems, don't like Bock; and thoy are a power inthe State. ** Nothing conld be useful to Kentacky,” the Republican ssys, **as for its Democraio par- ty to go to pleces. Itis t0o hig and Bourbonlsh for tho higheat usefnlnoas."” Dr, Nowman—or Parson Newman, s he it irreverently callsd—was able to give valuable {uformation to the House Committes duriug the preparation of tho Diplomatic and Covsuiar Ap- propristion bitl, showlng that his roviug tour way something moro then & mero pleasure-trio. Dut ho must bavo been pretty active to have squeszod $15,000 worth iuto & fow minates’ falx. Barnum, tho colobratod absentee member from * Copnecticut, stsuds nobly by his vecord, He bsa been at hia homa io Sslivbury most of the time since Congress mes, Ha can honestly say tbat ho bas done more good there thau many of bia colleagues {n Washiogton, Barnum wants to be Unuted States Bonator. If hie will promise to sisy at home Lo will be s worthy auccessor to aton, A conversation between two members of Con- gross, which is t00 witsy ever to have taken placo in real hle, is reported by the Washington ocorrespondent of the New York Herald A Wastern member 1 ropresented as aaying; **Alr. Blaloo haa put new life iuto our party n the Weat, He bas certaloly waxed up the Republis cag party, sz To this, IV s eald, » cyniesl Musesokinastie member teplleds ' Yes, Bad a8 tbey wats Up they sheus Ser Mortoa) thaty Alin bnlsahied £y Blatng