Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1876, Page 4

! i i i i \ 4 woro in better demand, nnd A@]c bighor, closing at 8o for boxed shoulders, 11j¢ fordo short ribs, and 3% for do short clears. Highwines were active and unchanged, at £1.06 per gallon. Flour was quict and fimi. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, AATES OF RUDSCRIPTION (PAYABLE 1N ADVAXCE). Tostnge Prennld at this Ofico. Daily Rdition, postpaid, 1 year.... cerensn 813,00 Parta of year at ramo rate. Malled to any addross nu;x)l.f 1.00 Banduy Kdition: Literary » Whent was less nctive and {@le lower, ey porip, 106 399 | closing at 3101 for Februory and 90)e for Partaof March. Corn was dull and steady, closing at e 41}o ensh and 41dc for March. Onts wera qujot 0 815 » 8}.“'{’,% ,“r':‘n%:mw '53-‘{'§ nnd firm, closing at #1ic cash and 31 Theposo s 16 cont Swiilsros.” | for Morel Ry wns quict ot G7c. Darley Enecimen coples sont free, was nctive and 1@ile lower, closiug at 62}@ Gie cash and 620 for March. Hogs wore active and avernged fio highor, with sales at #7.76@8.75, Cattlo wero in fair domand and ruled firm. Bheep were stronger. One hun. dred dollars in gold would buy $113.62% in greenbncks at the close, Tn pravent delay and mistakes, bo wure and giva Fost- ©Offico address n full, tncluding State and County, Temlitancos may be made either by draft, expross, Post-Office order, or In reglsterod latters, at our risk. TERMS TO CITY BUBSCRINERS. Datly, delivered, Bunday ecentad, 206 conts por week, uily, delivored, Bunday Included, 30 eents por woek. QOMPANY, Chicago Il A ourioun caso was yestorday declded in London by the Judicial Committes of tho Privy Council. One JENEINS, ncommunicant of the Church of England, disputed tho cx- istence of a personal, tangible, red-hot, roar- ing Devil, and his Rector, the Rev, Mr. Coox, conceiving these views to be dangor- ously herotical, therenpon proceeded to deny JrNrivg the sncraments. An appeal to the ADELPHT TIHEATRE—Desrborn [atrest, corner Monroes, Varety performance. ; THEATRE—Tiandolph strest, between aggolfi'!‘ffllflc- ‘Tho Ollllum!lplllnllnh. MOVIORER'S THEATRE--Madieon street, between Dearborn and State, }:nfllurmcm of Mr, snd Mrs, W J. Florence, * Tho Mighty Dollar,” WOOD'S MUSEUM—Monroa sireof, between Deare born and Ktate, ¢ Devotion.” FARWELL HALL—Matison sireet, between Clark | Court of Arches resulted in a victory for the Lasalle. Jecture by Dr. I N, Yiper. intect | Rov. Coor nnd His Satanie Majests, but Jzx- xixs wos stubborn and carried the caso to the Privy Conncil, and the Judicial Commiitea Inid down on tha Rector and his infornal hobby, condemning him to pay all the costs, and admonishing him to respect Jrnkixg' sacramental privileges in future. SOCIETY MEETINGS. YIOME LODGE, No. 03, A, T, & A, M.—Members re notifled to sppoar at their Hail, 134 Twenty-second= st., Thursdsy Morning, at 10 o'clock sharp, io sitand tho funeral of our lata brother, 1, B, W, Locke, . P, TODEY, W, M, APOLLO COMMANDERY OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR, ®ir Knighta: Yon will report at the Aaylum this Thurs- «day morning, at 10 o'clock precisely, to attend the fu. aeral of our lato Tlacorder, Hir I, I, W, Locka, Car- urch snd cars to Rosehill, EUGENT B, MYERS, Commander, The @hicage Tribome, Thursday Morming, Fobruary 17, 1870, A conflict of jurisdiction between the Federal and State Courts in Tlinois bids fair to result in o spirited contest for tho uppor hond. Tho Gilman, Clinton & Springfield Tinilrond litigation is tho bone of contention, Judgo T1rTox, of the McLean County Cirouit Court, having set his foot down firmly ngainst any interferenco in the caso by the United States Circuit Courts nt Springtield and Chi- cago. “Five lawyers havo nlrendy been pro- ceeded ngainst for contempt by Judge P'rr- Tox, and are cited to appear and anawer at tho bar of his Court. An order of Judge Treton's relative to the custody of 200,000 worth of first-mortgage bonds deposited in Clicago wns yesterdsy thwarted by an in- junction isewed by Judge TneaT at Bpring- fleld, and the conflict of jurisdiction is rapidly nearing a point where somobody must beat o rotreat or elso engago in o pitchod battle, 1t remains to bo seen which side will weakon, ‘Warmer weathor i predicted for thisregion to-dny. 1 Greenbnc]:—a_nt_tin:fiow York Gold Exchango vesterday closed at 883, Lrwis Stewanp of Kendall County, was nominate,d for Governor by the Nlinois Inde- pendents ot Decatur yestordsy, Who is Brewano, anylow ? The Republicans of the Louisiana House are confidont that thoy will receive the aid of @ stfficient number of Conservative Demo. crals to sccure the defent of the impenchment regolutions brought forward by the Demo- eratio Committeo. QOLD BANES: HOW TO COMMENCE RE- BUMPTIOR, Tho Nationnl Banking act contemplated two forms of ‘‘currency,”—one that of the ordinary bank note and the other gold notes issued by banks, tho former redcemnble on demand in greenbacks and the latter in coin. There was somo differences in tho regula- tions. Legal-tender bank notes wera author- ized to ba issued to the extont of 90 per cent of the bonds deposited as seourity. Tho gold banks, however, wero not allowed to havo notes exceeding 80 por cent of tho bonds deposited as mecurity, They were, moreover, required to keep on band in coin for purposes of redemption 25 per cent of the smount of their notes, This discrimination hns sinco been changed. The legal-tender banks bave now to keep s greenbnck reserve of & per cent at Washington for the redemp- tion of their notes, and that is the only re- serve they aro arbitrarily required to have on account of their circulation; while, if we understand the law correctly, the gold banks havae to keop a reserve in coin equal to 25 per cent of their circulation. Under this adverse Important successes by the Royal arms in Spain aro chronicled in the cable dispatchos, Tho Carlist forces, yielding to overpowering odds, havo retreated with hoavy losses, and it is believed that after one more struggle tho rovolution will have beon effectually subdued. "The relatives of Oanros in Vienna expoct his nrrival in that city within o short time, Postmaster-General JEwELL is said to con- tomplato au early retirement from the Cnbi- net, with n view to improving his prospects for olection oy United Btates Senstor from Connecticut. Tho Cabinet can't spare him and the Sevrate can; and, besides, the second place an tho Presidentinl ticket i not so far xemoved that Mr, Jeween might not reach it. A horse-thiof was on trial in the Chicago Crirainal Court yesterdny, and pleaded guilty, Serience was passed but in'xmndlntdy BUS- | giscrimination, the bauk that deposits ono paded, ehd tho Court, fiatotw-Attomey, aud | 1yjijon of doliarw of bonds as sccurity for its Juzy joined in 4 contribution of monoy o | ;11 yotes rocerves only $800,000 in notes, eupble tho prisoner to reach his Lome. It 0, has to keop 200,000 coin As n reserve, :v:fi:pm;“fi“ lc‘:"' but s“h::“m;:‘%“& besides its resorve on its deposits, thus prac. pliciin xi: m:n:nrefia:nd:r m{m ey | teally limiting its circulation to $600,000. 20 Eagil CC8 | Tn addition, it has to pay a tax of 1 per cent - on its wholo circulation, and is taxed like the other banks on its doposits, ‘The law hina not been of such n charactor 88 tooncourago tho establishment of gold-note banks. Tho Iaw has been so prepared as to ronder such banks unprofitable, The fow that were started were found to bo unprofitable, and, with the excoption of ono in California, have pussed out of existenco, Tho legislation of Congress has been per- siatently opposed to nny roturn of the banks to a specio basis, Ilad the legislation of Congress been of such a character s to have permitted specie-paying banks to do a profit- ablo business, it is more than likely there would have been, long before this, a chain of such institutions from all tho principal citics of the county, both on the Atlantic oud Paciffo consts and in the interior States, But, under the strangulation laws of Congroess, no such bank can expect to live. Ttis not, howaver, too late to repair tho error, and, in the ovent of Congress doing nothing else looking to specie resumption, wa suggest that it emond the existing bank- ing Iaws, and offer dome encouragement and give somo opportunity for private capital to establish and conduct specie-paying banks, 'l'o do this requires_bnt few changes in the law, und thoso only of the most reasonable clharacter. Tho chnuges absolutely needed may bu stated as follows : 1, Upon the deposit of United States gold bonds with the Treasurer, tho issuo of notes to tho bank shall be equal to the par valuo of the bonds, 2, Placo the gold banks on the same foot- ing with tho greenback banks as rogards the amount and place of keoping rodemption re- Berved, 8. The ropeal of the tax on cirenlation, ox- copt 8o much as will cover tho actual cost to the Government of printing the notos, 4. 'The ropeal of the tax on deposits of customers, ‘The security of United BStates gold bonds, with the doposit of & per cent in coin in Washington, aud tho constantly.acerning interest on the bonds, are certainly amplo to proteot the noteholdor, and exceeds auy se. curity ever given for note circulation by any bauking systemn known In the world. Under such a security, o loss to the noteholders would bo an impossibility, The coin roserve Leld for redomption ot the Lank countors maoy bo safely left to the management of the banks, just ayitisin tho case of the legal. tender banks. No banker would fail to pro- tect tho local demand for resumption, which, 84 is tho cose with the legal.tender bank notes, would be emall. ‘Thesa gold notes would circulate ns freely inone part of the country as in the other, would purchase coin exchange ot par, would serve as coin bills of exchange, and, anawer- ing every purpose of gold, would ciroulate ns gold, because convertible on demand into coln. They would be used in purchasing greenbacks, as gold now is; without refer- once to their place of issue, they would be receivablo as gold by all business men ; they conld bo takon abroad and would bs ex- changeabls there for gold. Perhons buylx, wheat in Chicago for Ohnads, ot foz Europd, The counterfeiter Bry Borp, who was eonvizted in the United States Distriet Court in thig city & fow days ngo, was unsuccessful in the effort to obtain a new trial, and yes- terday was sontonced by Judge BrovaerT to ten, yenrs of imprisonment at hard labor in the Tllinois Penitentiary, besides a fino of $%00, Borp and Daraas will have an oppor- tianity to compare notes, but not counterfeit them, for several yeors to come, — ‘The dispatches intimote that in the Texas Btate election, which wns held on the 15th inst,, the Confederate tickot was succossful, 1f this be so, Riczanp Coxe and Ricuann B, Hunparp aro re-clected. In 1873, Coxe's wnnjority was 47,681, 'Tho adoption of a now Constitution was also pending in this elec- tion, but thero is a probability it may be de- fented, since not only the Republicans but many of the Democrats were opposcd to it. he Independent Greenbackers at Indian. apolis yestordny instructed their delegutes to the National Indopendent Convention to stpport the Hon. Newron Boorw, United Btiastes Senator from California, ns their can- didate for the Presidency, and nominated for Governor Congressman Lavpens, tho most inflated of all tho Indinun Inflationists, and a fiue collection of kindred spirita for the rest of the State offices. Pleasant company this for the Independent Benntor from the hard. money citadel of the nation. Tho Northauipton bank burglars have suc- ceeided in keeping the dotectives at bay until an amicable settloment, satisfactory to all prrties—including the detectives, no doubt —could bo negotiated. ‘I'he arrangement is now ready for consummation, In considern- tion of the privilego of retaining £12,000 of tho stolen cash and of enjoying immunity Irom arrest, they will restore the rest of the plunder, including 1,200,000 worth of ss. ouritles, This plan of compounding tho felony will probably be nccopted by the bank officers and the owners of ths stolen bonds, The Brooklyn Advisory Council proceed- ingn yesterday were highly interesting, A guahing admirer of Mr. Beecuen's, the Rov, My, Berr, of Mansfleld, O., greatly per. turbed the brethren by his persistent offorts to secure nction upon a resolution declarato- ¥y of the faith of the Council in Mr, Berou. En's complete purity. He was ruled out of or- der, and the almost unanimous vote by which the Moderator was sustained donotes that the Council {s not disposed to open up the * main question,” A disposition was, how- ever, manifested to bring Plymouth Church to asharp reckoning for the manner in which 1t has doalt, or failed to deal, with the scan- dal. It beging alrendy to appear that Plym. outh is not to enjoy uninterrupted felioity turing the deliberations of the Council, rately well patronized yeaterdsy, Mess pork ‘was active and flrmer, olosing at $21,10 for Aarch and 991,87} for April. Lard way active sad stesdier, closing ot 912,78} per 100 s fo¥ Mash and 91250 for April. Meats THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1876, " —_— e o — e could pay for the same in gold notes, reduo. ing tho lognl-tonder prico to ita equivalent in gold. It would gradually bring all tho huai- ness of the country back to a computation in actual and not fictitious values ; it would fa- cilitate buying and selling and goneral con- trnats on n specio Lasis in placo of n fluctunt- ing paper basis, It would practically furnish a coin currenoy to the country. A sories of theso banks in Now York, Boston, Philadel- phia, Baltimore, Chicago, Riclmond, Charles- ton, Atlanta, Mobile, Now Orlenns, Galves- ton, Memphis, Louisville, Pittsburg, St Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, In- dinnapolis, Detroit, 8t. Paul, Omnha, Bur- lington, Denver; San Francisco, and the Pacific Coast would seon familinrize tho country with gold values, would soon furnish a new bagis for contracts, would place within rench of trade the meaus of conducting busi. nesson o fixed standard of values, aud ro. store Lo the Anterican mind something more than a theoretical iden of what constitutes n dollar. If the law wero amended so ns to pormit such a chenge, wo do not queation but that many of the existing National Banks would elect to becomo gold banuks, aud substitute notes redeemable in coin for those now re- decmnable in legaldender. But to induco such a change,—indeed, induco tho banks to maintain any kind of a currenoy,—there must be some modification of the existing laws. To redeem their notes, it ought to bo suf. ficient to deposit with the Trensurer gold bonds equivalont at par to the value of the notes, and to further deposit coin with the Trensurer at Washington, the same ns other banks, for redemption on demand. As the protection of the bill-holder is the only end sought by tho required deposit of bonds, nothing beyond ample security should be de- manded. All pdditional requiremonts aot as o prohibition on the organization and work- ing of such banks, Tho taxes on circulation and on deposits are in tho nnture of confiscations, A man hold- ing currency in his own safe cannot be taxed thereon; why shiould it bo taxed when he de- posits it in bank for mere convenionce and safety, nnd ns tho basis of eredit? The tax on deposits and curroncy are an incentive or spur to rockless banking; the exnctionsin the way of taxation in n mensure compel the bankors, or at least tend to compel thom, to Aqueezo nll tho profit they ean out of their lonnable funds, and for this purpose to ac- cept paper of n charnoter morae desperate and speculativa than would ordinarily be dis- counted. 1t Congress finds itself unable to adopt any measures looking to the resumption of spocio ‘payments by the Government, it con at least repenl the legal obstncles, amounting to pro- hibitions, againat tho establishment of specio- poyiog gold banks in all parts of the coun. try. It might lot private capital resume spe- cio payments by furnishing a gold-note cur. rency, securcd beyond all peradventure of loss to the bill-holder, and thus gradunlly fa- milinrize the country with tho monoy of the civilized world. CHICAGO AS A GRAIN MAREKET. The subject of charges on grain passing through this city is now being thoroughly discussed, not only by dealers in produce, but by commorcial men generally., 'The whole city is interested in the topie, because whotover tends to lesson our trade in farm products also tends to diminish the volume of transactions in dry-goods, grocnries, cloth- ing, bardware, and the numerous other articles which Chicago dealers supply to the Gront West. ¢ It is genorally admitted thot tho charges on handling grain in this city have been higher than thoy ought to be, and oven the ware- housemen aro agreed that they should bo reduced. ‘There is roason to hope that tho foes hitherto imposed on grain loaded into cars, other than those for inspection and storage, will be materinlly reduced, if not al- togather abolished, With this change, nnd the mbolition of the late odious dis- criminntions made against us by the rail ronds, Chicago will roturn mora nearly to an equality in tho grain trade with those of other places, the merchants of which have been nble to outbid us for tho favors of a portof the grain-buying world. This point gained, it will bo well to look at tho other sido of tho question. There can be 1o doubt that, with reasonable charges, our city is a botter market in which to buy than avy of tho (so-called) * country points.” In the summer the lake system of navigation, with its low freights and smplo facilities for moving tha crops, gives an ncknowledged nd- vantage. And in tho winter season, there nre 5o many points gained by, or secured to, tho buyer here that they have provented a large portion of our grain trade from leaving us, notwithstanding the increased cost, In tho first place, tho Chicago market is largo enough to ennblo a buyer to scloct wlat ho wnnts, and to purchase it, by him. aelf or his agont, without materinlly advanc. ing prices upon himself by the operation, un- leas the order be avery large one indeed. And, secondly, the valuable gunrsmtecs of ‘woight and condition furnished hero are not obtainable at the other points indicated. Tho Eastern dealer who sends Lis order to a country station for a given quantity of o designatod quality not infrequently ro- coives grain for which ho rofuses to pay without impartant deductions or not at all, becauso the grain is not what le ordered or is deficient in quantity. Bo much of this objecting hag been done that the pigeon-holes of some of our commisgjon men ara fitled with documents pertaining therote, and they have become so thoroughly disgusted with tho whole thing that they refuso longer to nct as agents for purchasing grain in this way. 'Fhese difficultivs seldom occur in the cudo of grain bought in Chicago, or, it thoy do occur, they are casily romediod. 'Fhe con- dition s passed on by the State Inspection Departmont, which can bs sppenled from to 8 committee of disintorested exports ap- pointed for that purpose, and tho woighing in and out is performed in such a methodical way that vory fow disorepancies oceur, and then only of small quantitics, The safeguards thus thrown around the trade, nnd the saving in annoyance and ex- pense of vorification and protest, ore worth to the buyer a considerable part, if not all, of the charges hitherto imposed. Not a few Eastern buyers profess to have found, by dear-bought experience, that Chicago was the cheapest mart on the wholo, oven while theso unnecessary costs were imposed, "Thoy will certainly come to that conclusion after the trade has becn purified of what may properly bo characterizod as extortion—the charges for awitching and trimming, ‘The action of tho House of Representatives in reducing the approprintion for fortifica. tions from $1,034,000, which was the sum sppropriated last year, to 8315,000 for this yoar i worthy of every commendation. The sppropristion of money for building stone forts hés bees an anndal sbute for many yenrs, aud a closo inspection of the work that has been done would probably revenl the fact that the bulk of this money has actually Leen whasted in the constrintion of o clnss of forti- fientions that wonld be battered down at tho first nitack. Tho oiporienco of tho War of tho Robellion tanght, or should have taught, the Government ihat enrthworks and fortifi. cations can Lo thrown up at short notice which aro more effective for dofenso than tho most costly and claborate fortitleations of brick and stone. There is not n seaport in tho country where it wonld not be possible 0 gather sufficient men at ‘any timo of threat- ened danger to provide defenses imimnediately thet would be superior to those on which the Government has beon exponding millions of dollars aununlly for several years back. Tho reduction in this item is nltogether the most sensibie thing that lins been nccomplished by tho presont IHouso in the way of retronch. mont. THE RAG.BADY INDEPENDERTS, Tho Indisua **Independonta” lold a Cou- vontion yesterday in tiiat State, intended to forestall the nominations of tho other par. tics, especially the Democratic.Coufedernto party, by proclaiming n platform of tho most unndultorated demagogism on the eurroncy question, Ifere is tho sum and substance of the financinl policy declared: Tho resolutions demand tha repeal of the Resump- ton net; declaro that it {s tho duty of the Government to catablish a mozetary system based on tho falth aud Tesources of thonation; that tho noten of Btata and Natlonal Dauks aud all focal curroncy bo withdrawn and bills fssued by Government instesd, snch billa to ba legal-tender for all debts, duties on Imports fn- oludod, axcopt such as aro by law payable in metal ¢ theso bills to be intorchangeabl for Government 3,03 per cent hondls, Thoy demand that the prosont bond- & debt be refunded into registerod jnterechangeabie 4,66 per cent bonds; declare that the pubiia domaks, belonga to the peoplo, aud show/d bo aiven in sixzy - acre plata to soldiery, without.occopation, snd ins'.st on severs rotrenchment, The most of this stuff is so old as to lrave become musty nnd stale. The domand for o monotary system basel “on the faith and resourcea” of the country is ropeated, and then this system is declared to Lo ar, issuc of irredeemnblo paper money. Exnotly whera the ‘“resources” of the country are inany way put in pledgo for that whic'a irs never to be redeemed is not disclosed by-thio * Inde- pendents.” When no * resourcos™ whatever aro available, or intended to ba available, to redeem the irredeemablo papen, it is rank stupidity to nssumo that suzh, *resources” sro in any way a security, nod it is super- flucus to nsk people to repose *faith™ in what it is intonded shall nuver be done, Tho Governmont, it is +domanded, shall bo- como tho great scrip-morioy.minker, and that this serip shall bo interchangenblo for serip bonds boaring scrip irderest. And the fur- ther demand is made that the sixteen or seventoen hundred 1nillions of dollars of national bonds sball bo taken np with an issuo of sorip 'houdu,henxing 8,06 per cent serip intereat ! All gold recoipts by the Government are to be nbolished, andto pay the interest on the public debt the Govornment is to buy gold with its own irrolcemablo serip. At this time thoro nve at least one thoueand millions of dollars of tho gold bonds of the United States held in Europe, and theso Indopend- ents essumeo that the holders will surrender them and tako scrip bonds benring 8,65 per cent interoot in irrodecmnblo paper! They have oither assumed this impossibility or they have nover estimated how many scrip bonds benring 3.656 interost in sorip—tho serip redaomnble in nothing—it. will require to purcheso one gold bond. It may be, how- over, that tho purposo is to make the ex- change compulsory, and thoe cost of thisre- pudiation they have never probably consid- ered., Tho smmn and substance of their wholo “monotary system " is to inflale and detorio- rato tho currency indefinitely, and then to roduco the debt to the scrip standard, and then to let debt, currency, and public and private credit perish out of sight in a national and individual ruin such as the world has never witnessed, FISH-QULTURE IN WISCONSIN, A bill L been introduced into the Wiscon- sin Sonato appropriating $10,000 to the Fish Commissioners of that State for tho purposoe of cstablishing and maintaining hatching- houses for tho propagation of fish and the restocking of the Inkes, Thisis n wise and timely measure, and it should receive the ready support of every intelligent man in tho Legilature, Tho wholesalo captura of the whiteflsh in Lako Michigon, and the indiffor- enoo that has provailed heretofore relative to the evidonces of a rapld decrense in the sup- ply, bave become almost alarming, and it would be reprehousible for the Btate to re- fuso to avail itself of tho opportunities that science hos furnished at 6o emall a cost for maintaining the fish supply. As it is now, there aro thousands upon thousands of white- fish and salmon trout canght at Greon Bay and other points in Wisconsin during the months of October and November, which is their spawning season ; from theso fish the spawn oro scraped off and thrown to the hogs, which, with proper core and at a small ex- pense, could bo propagated into millions of fish tobo roturned to tho lakes,—not meroly to Lake Michigan, but to the numerous smaller Inkes which dot the manp of Wisconsin and mako it so dolightful a8tate. Thero is no longer any question about the succoss and profit of propagoting fish, When for the sum of 10,000 hatching-houses can be orectod and put in working condition, which will serve to produce millions of fish that will grow and thrive when roturned to the lake, the fact forocasts an important indus. try for Wisconsin in the future, and the poo- plo of the Btate should insist with one accord that the monoy be speut to that end, ‘I'he whole Northwest is intorested to son:a extent in this project, and wo shall favor an appro- printion by the Illinois Legislature, when it nieels, to asslst in the general work, though Lllinols ean never have any special trade-ad- vantago from it ; but Wisconsin Lias not ouly & common interest in the Northwest in main. taining tho fish-supply, but a special interest in the industry it will provide for a largo class of Wisconsin people, and in the contin. ued fertility of its smaller lakes and streams, which have mado that State the favorite sum. mor.resort of tho West and South, As an in. dication of the value of the proposed hatch. ing-houses, we print the following letter re- ceived by Szt Gaxey, Esq., ot his home in New York : Oaranpa1avs, N, Y., Feb, 1L—Mr, Seth Qreen— DrawBin: Your favor of the Tth fust. cane duly to band, You msy sond down sll the salmon-trout fry {that ls, the young fAish] that oue mau can bring (the mora the better), and we will meet him at the cars snd sos that the sk are properly dopositod in Canandatgus lake, For thalatthree yoars wo have mado it polut 1o get from 60,600 to 100,000 salmon-trout fry nd soe them doposited iu cur lake; and lat spring we wers rewarded for our labors by such an abun. dance of (rout 2a has not boen known hare for twenty yoard, a single fisherman having caught ss many as twunty-one 1n & day, and othisrs caught them fa lots varying from six to sighteen perday, Buch fiahing ‘with hook and lind furnlatind spord such M8 shany of s nuvar sdw belare, Buich aubstautisl evidence oughi to convince the most skept lesl; but we have in our midst a few who hold “ihiat artificial propagation of fish {n & fatiure, But bar pily thero oo enough be- Hevern to encourago the § ood causa and belp It slong, YVary reapectfully yours, « O, A, Fiuer, Koo two weeks 0 o Tur Trinuss printed an interesting descr iption of tho hatehing- houses which Mr. N, K. Famnaxg, of this city, haa eatablinhedd at his country residenco on Geneva Lioke, Wisconsin, Mr. Famnaxg ling oxponded sowrethiog moro than £2,600 for his own privalo yralification and for tho loeal bonefit of Uer.ova Lake, and ho hay dono 5o after a ‘horaugh and porsonal inves- tigntion of tho msnuer of fish propagation which o bos ndopted. Mr. Fampank is too good n business man to have invested this money on nny uncerlainty. Io secured from the Now York Stato Hatching-1louse tho spawn of 250,000 salton trout and 100,- 000 whitefishy, from Californin 25,000 of tho California fal non, nnd from elsewhero a largo lot of blee¥ and Oswego bass and brook- tront. The capaeity of his private hatching- house ia 5,/)00,000 spawn, and ho confidently expeets w,thin a yenr to stock Ganeva Lako by his si*aglo effort with 2,000,000 new ilsh. If oo ryentleman who lives in Wisconsin but o pution of the year can afford to spend £2,@0+ to do this on his own nccount and for the b inefit of the public, certainly the Stato of W jseonsin can afford nn expenditure of 10,000 for tho beneflt of the entire peoplo ant, overy lake in the State. A BERVANT'S TROUBLES WITH A MASTER, Uneasy lies tho hend that wears n crown,” “out unensier lies tho person who wears the robes of DPremier. Tho significanco of the Iatter statement is shown by the confldential reports to the King which have been recently published by Prince Bisuarck in the Reich- sanzeiger, and which go to show that Bis- amancyk, like nenrly nll the great European Premiers, hns not only to contend ngainst French intrigues and jealousies and the in- sidious influences of tho Vatican, but is also constantly warring against the German Min- istry, which is independont of him, and is coustantly in a struggle with his master, the Emperor, With one hand he wards off ex- ternal encronchments, and with tho other ho wrestles with German Liberals, tho Ger- men Ministry, the German diplomatic ser- vice, and the Gorman Emperor himsolf, This kind of two-banded mtruggle has been Brsyanck's experienco all through his public life. In his enrlior days, cspecially when Minister at Paris and 8t. Petersburg, ho chafed under it, and moro than onco was on the point of throwing up his commission and rotiring to take caro of hiseattloand sheop at Schonhauson, As time has passedon, how- ever, warfare hias become his modo of life, and ho has fought Austrinns, Frenchmen, Gor- mans, Liberals, Ultramontancs, Jews, Am- ‘bassadors, Cabinot Ministers, Faepenio Wirt- 143 IV., and the present Emperor, and fought them quite successfully. Ho fought tho Gorman peoplo and the Emporor before the war of 186G with Prussia, by which he sc- cured Schleswig-Holstein and placed Prussia at the hend of tho North Germanio Confed- eration. Ho had o long and desperate wrestlo with tho Emperor upen the dothronoment of tho petty German Princes. Io fought the Tmperor fiercely beforo e could induce him to give Bohemin baclk to Austria, by which he hended off an allinnco of tho Intter with Franco in tho Franco-Prussion war, Ho evon had to strugglo with tho Emperor to per- sundo him to accept the Imperial Crown, and, although thia was followed by his promotion to tho rank of Prince and the Chancellor of the whole Germon Empire, his strugglos havo not yot censed. Ife is still fighting the Parlinment nnd tho Ministry, and in Par. linnent has moroe than onco made his complaints concerning tho status of a Almistry which can deal directly with tho Emperor and is outsido tho pale of his con- stitutional suporvision, ‘Cho gist of this complaint lies in tho fact that whilo ho thoroughly distrusted tho Count Vox Anvns, Ambnssador at Paris, ho could not remove him, and this fact forms tho burden of tho confidontial reports recently published. In these reports he complaing that he Las actually to competo with Von Anxn for the confldence of the Emperior, Tho fact shows that, notwithstanding tho power of tho German Empire, and notwith- standing tho supreme recognition of the di- vine right of Kings by both the Emporor and Biswarck, things do not work smoothly in tho Government, nnd that tho latter finds tull play for his peculiarly belligerent dispo- sition, not onmly in fighting the Pope and Frenchmen, but also tho Emperor himself. The London Spectator, commenting upon this sifuation, says: In ordinary times, the sltustion only produces col- Iistons, iu which tho msn of genius,even if mot beaten, finds his etrongth wasted; or, as FPrinco Dis- MAnCK in this case Las done, voluntarily wastes it lymself on what {s no better that an {atrigua, 1lo has not the resouree of the staleaman in a freo country of finging himself openly on Parliament, aud is com. pelled to scek its support indirectly by bills, such as tho prescat ono for the modification of the Penal Code, No doubt ho s seeking it, and it {a this, wa imagine, ‘which the National Lierals have scen, and which is gotten his native langusgo, and s only able ta convorao frealy In English, He Ia » vory amis bla youth, and has boeen the lion Iately at sovers’ partios in the Wost End of London, Mra, Pholps, wife of John S, Phelps, ox-mom, bor of Congroso from Missonrl, while aboard a steamshlp on iho Pacifio Const, fell through hatchiwaye, o distance of 20 feet, and broke her right arm into **a hundred or moro pieces." Honry W. Longfollow, Olivor Wendell Holmes, Nalph Waldo Iimoraon, and 600 other profes. slonal aud solontifio gantlomen, have potitioned Cougresa for tho admisslon, duty fres, of al hooks printod in othor thau the Eoglish, Latir and Grook languagos, - Deo. 1, 1875, Mamie, the youngest daughter of Commodoro (iarrison, of Now York, was matried to Alr, Melvillo O. Day, of Bt Louls. Bho was thon in full health, and so continued for about two moutbs, when slie waa eelzed with bilious fover, and died on the 12th fost. Tho late Reverdy Johnson Jonves talve chil. drou, sbout fifty grandchildron, and savoral groat-grandchildron, noarly all of whom wore prosent at the annlversacy of his golden wed. ding, Nov. 16, 1869. It is said that Mr, Jobne son's lifo was fusured for $100,000. Bonator Chtistinncy'a brido bias lot millions of dollara siip through her fingers, and las long boon n young Iady of note.—Cinctnnati Com. mercial. Aye, and of titlo likowlso; for the Sonator's bride was for many years s couutesa In tho Treasury Department.—Delroil Tribune, I Ono night during Barry Sullivan’s engagement at Dittaburg the nctor who played Zoratio dresncd tho charastor in a stylo similar to that in which the star dressed Hamlel; swhoroat Barry became fncensed, and, to revengo himsolf, cut Horatio ontirely out of tho plsy aftor the frer corps in $015,610, or nearly n million of dol. Inrs, showing that it costa tho Treasury more than £600 n yenar for each man, which is consid- erably more than the West Point eadets cost, who nro of somenscs as they take posilionain tho nrmy. In the records of the Marino Corps, on tho other hand, there {4 not a caso wera n private has evor boen promoted from the ranks, the offices being managed by nepolism, ‘Tho whola institution is a sine- cure. It has novor been of any servica to tha country, It is only an asylum for orna- meuntal sailors on shore, who nover got nearer tho salt water than Washington. A million dollars might well bo saved by abolishing the whole corps, and sotting ita ofifcers and pri- vates adrift to earn o living in somo other manner, It secms that the demand recently made by tho Common Couueil that the insuranco com- pavies doing business in this oity shall pay 2 per cont on their not receipts is not only war- ranted but exneted by the Incorporation not of 1872, under which Chiengo is now governed, Tho rection of the new chnrter which refers to this subject provides expressly that all companies not incorporated under the lnws of tho Stato *“shall pay to tho 'Frensurer tho sum of $2 upon tho £100 of the net receipts by their ngency, and at that rate upon tho amount of all preminms which shall have beon received for any insurance cfccted or agreed to bo offected in snid city,” Tho money collected from thiu source is to bo p- plicd exclusively to the cost of maintaining the Firo Departmont. Tho collection of a similar tax by the Btate doca not rcleaso tho insurance companies from the city tax, bo. cause tho State law provides oxplicitly that its tax *ghall not bo construed to prohibit cities laving an organized Firo Department from lovyitig s tax or liconso fee.” The fact is, as tho insurance ngents say, thnt tho tax will come ont of tho citizens who insure; but, so far as this goes, it is not an objectionable way of lovying a portion of the city tax, Tho renl trouble is that it will bo used by the insurance companies as on ex- cusa for placing rates higher than thoy ought tobe. The insurancoe companies have earned onough monoy in Chicago during tho past yoar to pay this tax without increasing tho rato on that account, but they will probably rofuse to concedo ns much. act. The Watertown (N. Y.) Times publisheg an advertisemont signod Ellen Tinnoy, ia which *tho undersigned, having circulated throughout tho city baso slanders ogainst the characlor of Mary Bmith, acknowlodges the slandera to bo wholly falsoin each and every particular,” A Patorson (N. I.) cosl-dealor, convicted of clhonting by the ude of faluo weights, and sone tonced to a fine of £250, publishi which ho announces his intention of proceedlogs roviewed bofore snother tribunal, and, it ho fails thoro, of taking them boforr + the Etornal Judge." Mrs. Moulton hss pasred an oxamination bo- foro thio Examining Committeo of the Church of the Pilgrims (Dr. Stors), and will Lo pro- wounded from tho pulpit noxt SBundsy a8 s cane didste for memborship. Joshus 3. Van Cott was alocted to the Examining Committee of Dr Storrs’ Clhiurch rocontly. Tho peoplo of Ifuntingdon., Eng., showed so much sympathy on the oceasion of the funersl of Mr. Dion Boucicault's son, kitled io tho late railway-colifsion, that Mr. B., a8 & tostimonial of gratitude, has offored to give tho town » pub- 1o drinking-fountaln or any,othor usefal article tuo Town Council may solect, Bome young Jadies of Whitmora Lake, Mich,, undertook to got up = donation for the Rev, T, E, Piorce, by rotailing kiesos, and saccoeded tn disposing of ninely, for which the sggregate recolpts wera 24,50, A 5-cent kisa can't po of much bottor quality then a G-cont cigar ; in other words, & nickel * busa must bo about on a par with a nickel **boss.” Tho New York Sorosis hold a mosting on 88, Valontine's Day, which was tho twontieth aunl- wvorsary of the wodding of tho Prosidont of the Association, Mre. (Jonnfo Juno) Croly, to David G. Croly, managing editor of tho Graphic. Val- entines applicable to Mr. and Mra. O. were con- tributed by E. 0. Stedman, Albort Rhodes, Qol. Nicliolas Smith, and mnny others. ‘Fheodoro Thomas gavo a coucert in Wator- town, N. Y., last weoel, and, whon a Wagnor se- lection was roachod, achap leaned toward his girl and explainod, ** Wegnor was horo lnat nigbt and gavo o coucort. X im and Thomaa are groat {frionds, and Thomas alwsys pats two or threo of his pieces in the programmo.” Tho Wagnor re- ferred to by the Watertown connolsseur was “Happy Cal," of negro-minstrel fame. Mr. Spurgeon, in a recont address on open-aly preaching, made tho following romarks : 1lo had known preschors whoss manner was simply execralile, Home men closed thelr fists,and frous thelr action it would appoar aa if thoy wore going to givesomoone a black eyo, Home men could not preach nnless they chopped and sswed the alr; and he Dud soen men preach with thelr Lands behind them lifting up thelr coat tatls. Somo preachors imitated others, k0 tust wome who hoard them would say, +That's liko Sprgeon,”,and of others they would sy, #That's lke Mooay,” Io recoumended them by no means to imilato anybody, but to bo themseivic, Preaching-monkeya would not do, thoy must Lo proaching-inen. e would not bave any minister of Ghiriat bo 80 grotaaquo that ha took awny the attention of Lifs hioarers from his aubjoct and drow it upon him- salf. Then, thoy should regulato their voice. It was a grand thing to havo a sonorous voice, but they shonid not bawl themselves to death. e Lad known open- air preachers who secmed to think that the power of ttie overlasting Gospel had somathing to do ‘'with the power of thelr Jungs, and they Lawled 80 loudly that they had to atop overy now aud thion to pump alr inte thelr Jungs, Tho City of Cniro, which is probably as- geased on a valuation of less than $1,000,000, modestly nsks & Government bounty of 34,000,000 to protoct it from tho danger it apprehends of becoming an island! The in- ference from tho character of the demand is that, if the United Btates refuso to como to the rescue, Cairo will quietly await its ulti- mate destruction without doing anything to savo itself. It will occur to & good many persons that a city of no more enterpriso, en- ergy, or internal resources than this would indicate, is scarcely worth $4,000,000. To othoers it will ocour that the Governmont might about as woll undertake to rebuild tho City of Cairo on a now site. ‘We supposo the shortoat way out of a laugha- blo but annoylog error I8 to admit and explaln, Wo find In the Inter-Ocean of yoaterday tha fol- lowing : On ¥eb, 14, Tnix Circaco Trinuxs: sald editorially ¢ #47Tho prescut tarkir on stael in perfectty uscless, Jor- eigners can enter our markets aid sell ateel in competi- lfln wilh American manvfactures, ituty or no duty.” On Fub, 15,—Sust ono day nfterward,—the samo i endd editorlallys * Not o ton of Engitah steel couid be wold {n th1s country if the duty wers reduced to $5 ver ton,” ‘This outragoous seif-contradiction urgently suggents o proverb about a class of porsons who should Tiavu good memorics, Thoro waa writton for Tue TriboNe of the 14th a short articlo showing how proteotion in- jures cotton manufacturers by increasing tho cost of production and thus proventing exporia- tion, Atthoeamo timo thero was propared o paragraph commenting on an item from tho Washington Chronicle in regard to Commodore Vaxpenpirt buylng 140,000 tons of American steol at $63 per ton in greenbacks. This itom was crowded ont of tho Issue of tho 14th, but the cotton artlclo was insorted and a sontence be- longing to tho steel parsgraph injectod into it. To make * confusion worse confounded™ tho word *not " was omitted from the estray steol sentonce, which read: Tho presont taritf on wteel is porfectly useless, Forelgnors can [not] enter our markots and sl stesl in t;'lnn‘lpnl.lllun willh American manufactures, duty or o duty. ‘Flio * Comedy of Errors " or accidonta is what the 1-0. calls *an outrageous self-contradlo- tion," whict io the absouca of explanation’ it certainly I8, We suspoct our amiablo nelghbor Lnew that it waa o mistako of tho types, bat the cbanco for making o point was too tempting to bo omitted, Tuo romsinder of the 1.-0.'s arti- cle consists of n dreary drivol of words, vainly ondenvoring to show tho necosalty of maintain. iug tho existing prohibitory duty on steol, whioh fa %28 por ton in gold, and which it ndmits is wholly unnccasesry, becauo, 8a it says, “The price of steel has declined o that tho homo- made articlo ia placed on tho market at only the fraction of o cout more than the invoice of tho foreign articlo in the port of shipmont, oven wensuring values in coin,” which ia literally truc. Thon why fs a duty of 28 per ton im- posed ? It producoa not one cont of rovenue, snd is complotely prohibitory. TOTEL ARNIVALS, Palmer Iouse—W, II. Bt John, New York; L. C. Dut, Clovelaud; G. W, Cuniniugham, Nashville; @. C. ‘Taylor nud F, L. Lidgoly, 8t. Louls; M, D, Landon (I Terkins), New York 3 3, A. Hart, New York ; 0,1 Hbiras, Dubuque ; T, C, Lates, Boston; J, K. Doo- little, Denver ; W, Packard, Warren, O.; Gen, E, Dur rub, New Jersoy ; tho lfon, N. Bperiug, Dowon.... Grand_ Pacil—Amos Woolland, Dolleviio, 0,; the Hon. N, T, Murphy, Milwaukes; tho Lai. J, D Campbell, - Iowa;' Judge L O, and Judge E. B ‘Minnesota; tho Mom. D, M. , Green Moyt Judge B, It, sfoon, Kaukakeo: Gen. George 8. Dangs Wasiiington; D, Youtfor, Montreal B, Auderaon, To: ronto; the ifon. G A. lilske, Luffalo: Attorney-Gun- crul 4. . Edsall, Springfield.....7yemone_louss—D, Witlis' James, New York; Davis, Boston; the on, G, ¥, Nach, Oltaws; O, B. Bimpeon, La Foyet! T, dicSiawart, Now York; thio Hon. G, N. Talbot, Bos ton; Willia Evaus, W, 'W. Futton, 'and Gen. i, 0, A1 luifs; the Hon, W, E. McCaormick, . H. M. Luck, Cinads: W, tho cause of the great offort praduced on thom by the PERSONAL, publication of tho reports, They {hink that Prince —_— ekl Disuancs {s fighting, consclously or unconsciously, Yn Kookuk there Is a man named John Plaster » A. liouton, New thelr battlo, that ho s malintaining the power of the removable Premicr agatust that of the irremovable Savervign, and sro dlaposed to let him strengthen hiv ot bunds fn hils own way,—thst s, to enablo him to . . Dorel 1. York; W, IL Huuter, Binglsmto Han Franciaco: O, 8 Alsbsator, The Boston Post remarks that Lawyor Evarts hag a now Bowan to goaw, * N. ¥.: D, Allon, 1 Point, Wis,; the Co.; J. prosecuto s diplomatist for s disobedience which tho Anna Dickinson {s not golng to Cuba after all; | M, J, V. Farwel 1 daughter, Lake Fores Emperor might overlook, They are purchaaing o | and it fn stated that she will make hor theatrical | Mickok Springdold ; N, 8 Jonca and won, wad 8. b, temporary vietory st aterrible price,—that of deatroy- | dobut at tho Globa, in Boston, on Easter mora- | Shermas: allivay e i g > —_— e ing tho Indepondence snd frankness of tho German dlplomatio sorvice,—but still tholr course bocomes yartially intelligible, From this view of the struggle it would ap. pear that Connt Vox AnNix may be the alter- native Premier, and that the long struggle of the servant with tho master is slmply a strug. gle to provent the possibility of another man's stepping into his place. Although this may seem more in tho nature of anintrigue than o pieco of diplomacy, it nono tho less reflects credit upon the consummate genius and state craft of Bisuanck, that withoutthe confidence of the people, with o Parliamont distrustful of him, with a Cabinat indopendent of him, with Ambassadors for whom he is responsible *nnd whom he cannot remove, and with an Emperor who is sn Emperor ‘“by his own right,” ho should nevertheless have held hia place and brought his rival to puaishment. At the samo time it is not an impossibility that he may yet retiro to his cattle and sheop at Schonhausen and end his days os a plain country squire. The occasion may come ‘when the master will not yield to the sorvant, ing. It bas boen decided by medical exports that Mra, Ellen Tupper, tho noted bec-cuiturist of Tows, whose forgeriea hiave attracted so much attontion, is hopolessly insave, and must be sent 0 an asylum. Tt {n suggestad that a * Farn Loat from the spirit-world would now bo mighty Intorest- ing roading ; and the bollof ia oxpresded that it would embody the assortion that there can never bo any Parton in Heaveon. Qideon J. Pillow bas filed a potition in bank- ruptcy,~his financial troubles, as he alleges, baviog beon cansed by the faot that he is held rosponsiblo personsily for acts committed while actiog as Major-General in the lata War, Mark Twatu, baving made such & good thing out of *Tho Gilded Age," is endeavoring to add to bis dramatlo isurels by writing a five-act play, the sceno of which {8 tald partly in Ban Frao- cisco and partly in the Novada silver-mines. Mra, Buroham-Fisko stated that tho creditors of the Yark Theatro, knowiog Mr, Btuart'a pockots aze empty, Bre going for Oakey Hall, and gotting judgmenta agalnst him; which he doesn's worry sbout, sahe says: ‘¢ If thoy find any property of hls hehopos they will divide with bim." In West Roxbury, Mass., s few days ago, Goorge Lord got a pleco of mest in lis throat, and was i a falr way to choke to death, when a doctor pulled it out with his finger, Then & cur~ reut of alr began to circulato botween tho skin ;sud fleal, puiling the msn up even to his fingers toes, and causiog him intenss pain, soon died, aftar which his body resumed its nore msl size, Theodoro—the son of that monarch of Abys- slois 10 whom the British gave such an unmerci- ful whaling, and who perislied doring tho opsrs tlon—has been educated iu Eogland sod has nBow aerived ad young-manhood, Bo complote hasbean us Eoglish irainisgg thed he has fore Blnco the beginoing of tho present year, the mortality smong ominont porsons in Frauce has boen something vory remarkable. Among those who have died aro M. Cueviox, the engraver; M. Aporrne Pictet, the inventor of the percus. slon shell ; M, JuneNAL, tho srchwologiat ; Mar- quis pe 81, Geonaes, tho Hbrottist; Viscompte Antnun pe LA QuERnoNikrBe, journalist sod politiclan ; Avexis Azeveno, the wmuslesl critic; M. Joes pr Mony, tho Ortental scholar; M. LAvioNE, the tonor; M. pe LA RoonerTa, the Logitimist Houator; IirroryTe DussAmD, sho statosman ; Frepenio Lesartay, tne actor; M. Derorere, lesder of the Opera Comique; Eb- oNp pE CoussemurLen,. musieal antiquary; Pienne SepasTiAN LAURENTIE, author; GADRIEL Anpnar, the pathologist; Comte os Canxz, the publicist; and Baron NeqQuies, tho scientist. 1t scoms that some of the Ultramontsnoes ob- joot to tho Pope’s disponsstion permitting the Protostanc daughter of Mr, Srony, tho Amarican sculptor, to marry s Cathollo gentleman of Ita- ly,—»dispensation not roquired, by tho way, in Ameries, Euglaud, the Gorman Empiro, and some other countries, DBut the Uliramontancs sro the most implicit boliovers in thoinfallibility ot tho Pope, Ilow, then, can they with soy roason object to thie Pope's action in thie con paratively unimportant matter? And la not such an objection a confesslon of their lack of faith in the doctzine of infallibility, upon which thoy have tnulsted o energotioally ? —_—— 'hs Chleago Triduna T sinycanis T, ot Lt Will you plesas el the Teaders of Tax ‘TuinyNE what Lu the prospect for the passage of the Fiouse bill for the restoration of furmer retea on third-class muail matter through the Ssuate of ihe United Statea? The bill rassed tho Nouse, 1 Jan, 26, - 'Fruly, ¥, K, Paaux, Wo refor thia inquiry to Benators Loaax aod Oorxsny, and hope they will let the readers of Tus Tauna koow what bes becoms of the House bill, and what the influsnce s that pree ‘youts its passage La the Benate, Departmont for the ensulng flscal year presont some gignift. cant facts relative to that very ornnmental and useless branch of tho public service kuown as the Marine Corps. From these es- timates it appears that there are 475 officers in this corps, n paymaster, an apothecary, a drum major, 80 musicians, 96 drummers and fifers, 10 clerks, and 2 messengers, or on en- tiro force of 018 men required to manage 1,600 privates, who aro of no use to them. selves or to any one else, The pay of the officers of this corps amounts to $819,700, ‘which is nearly $50,000 more than {a paid to the 1,500 privates, The whols vost of the