Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 11, 1876, Page 4

- " THE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SA’EUR'DA‘Y. MARCH 11, 187—TWELVE PAGES. s U R R R R R U R e R e T R e R R e A R R S ‘TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, RATES OF BUDSCHIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANCE). Poatago Prepuld nt this Ofiice. Dally dition, postpald, 1 3eaesuerons " Darisof sear atsamo Iress FOUR WEERS for, TLiterary and Religlon: 1.00 8,00 (1] WEEKLY RDITION, FOSTPAID. ar.. Oy b ey cary Club of twanly, per "{lie postaga ia 105 conts Epacimen coples sant (res. To provent delay and mistakos, be rurn and Offico address 1n fall, tncludiog Stata and County, Romittaucos mway bo made oithor by draft, exprest, Poat-Oikca order, ot In rogiatered lottars, at our risk. TERMS 70 CITY KUDECTINERS. Daly, delivercd, Sunday escaptod, 205 ceats per week, Dally, daltvored, Bunday Incladed, 110 centa per wesk. Addren ' TILR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Gorner Madion and Dearbom ats., Chlosgo Ll i anditintiasji B 1 AMUSEMENTS. MOVIORER'S THEATRE—Madicon reat, between | oxtra. Ono hundred dollars in gold would Dearborn and Stata. Engacemant of John Dillon, “ Married tn Haste " and * Trotior Southdown.” Af- tarnoon and eveniog. - WOOD'S MUSE born and Etate, Troupe, Afternoot -~ Monroe :ln:!. botween Dear- ty,* 0d ogy 100LEYS_THEATRE—Randolph street, between o i Galforaie’ astrel. Roon and svening. ADELPOT THEATRE—Deatborn street, cornar Monros, Variety peeformance. Afternoon and evening, SOCIETY MEETINGS. AASONT0.—Thero will bo s fzea lecturo, to Masons only, on Freemuonry in tho Orlent and how the Hlifh Priest of New Jersay, Saturday nv:nlnj; at 8§ o lor.k.‘m Cloaveland Iall, corner of Halsted and Ran- o t The @hicago Trthume, Bnturdey Mormng, Maroh 11, 1376, WITH SUPPLEMENT. Greenbneks at tho Now York Gold Ex- changoe yesterday cloged at 874, War has been declared by Japan agninst Cagen, and the ports of the latter have been blockaded and hostilitics nctively inaugurated, Lis Richings-Bernard | Committee which permitted Mansu to escape After- | summoning newspapor correspondenta who g8 was organized, by John Bhevillo, Fast Grand | the 22.25 for April. Tard was dull and 2}@bo per 100 Ibs lower, closing at $13.17§@18.20 cosh and 218.271@13.80 sellor April. Meats 13.00 | wers dull aud ensy at 8} for boxed shoul- ders, 120 for do short ribs, and 12jc for do short clenrs. Iighwines were quiot and unchanged, at $1,05 per gallon. Flour was quiot and atendy, Whent was less active sad e lower, closing at 98}a for March and 98}c for April. Corn wns quict nnd ensior, closing at 4830 for March and 433c for April. Oats t. | wero quiot and easior, closing at 82}a for March and 34jo for May. Ryo was quict at Gic. Barley was dull and 1}@2¢ lowor, clos- ing at 55jo for March and Gdo for April Hogs wero dull and averaged 100 lower, clos- ing wenk. Sales of common to good grades at $7.80@8.25. Cattle wero quiot and casior, with sales at $3.00@5.65. There was a good domand for sheep at $4.00@6.50 for poor to buy 114,50 in greenbacks at tho cloge, . Mr, Iicaten Crymen, Chairman of the befora Brrexar could be indicted or fm- penched, is now exhibiting great energy in have boen instrumental in giving currency to the roport that ho was informed of PsNDLE~ Ton's rlations with tho Bruusars relative to the nllowance of n claim, and neg- lected to investigate it on account of the ' injury that might onsuo to Democratic party. Mr, OnyvER will do woll to turn Lis energy in another di- rection. Instend of summoning newspaper correspondents for the purpose of justifying himself, he ean best accomplish this by now pushing the investigation in the Pexpreron case, whioli was not pursued ns it ooght to bave been, The absenco of Mrs. Mansm, who i snld to have been possessed of the confidenca of the transaction, will not per- mit the investigation to be as thorongh and satisfactory ns it would have been at firat, but atill moro can probably bo dona by summon. iug Mr. Pexpreron and such witnesses ns may bo suggested than by badgering newspa- per correspondents with the purpose really of punishing them for their criticisms of the Committeo's ciumsy work. At the samo time Mr. Cryen docs not appear to bo anxious to The Sonata yesterday passed tho bill for | €0t hold of the correspondonts who can_best tho ndmission of Now Mcxico as a State in enlighten tho Committeo, becauzo Gon, BoyN- tho American Unfon. Two Senators and ono | TON'® volunteer statomont was not acospted, member of Congress will represent a con- stitnoncy very littlo Inrgor numerienily than and o subpoona for his appearance was only issuod after ho had left Washington for Cin. ono of the wands of Chicago, and with a do. | cinnath, ccording to his provious arrange- greo of intolligenco and cnpacity for Stito | moBts, and undor tho improasion ho ‘was not Government too inconsidernble for compari- fon with any region north of the Rio Grando. An extraordinary yarn comes from Kon- tucky about a shower of scraps and frog- ments of animal flesh, which fell from a clear gky at 2 o'clock in tho afternoon of Friday, March 3, at Mount Storling. Quanti- tios of tho seraps havo been preserved, and aro pogitively pronounced animal flesh by sclentists. The stnff is said to havo tho flavor of raw mutton, but the story has a pronounced flavor of fish, wanted. TUNBEEMLY EXBIBITION OF PARTYISM. It is certainly not very creditable to our Government that a simplo proposition pro- fessing to contemplate an improvement in tho means of collecting the revenue on whis- Ly cannot bo discussed in the higheat logisla- tivo body of the land without calling out a bittor partisan wranglo sach ns might bo ex- pocted on the stumpin s hoeated political campoign. This is carrying tho spirit of portyimn too far, It is exalting tho selfish intorest of tho politicians above the common e — ————— All the big scoundrels are not collected | Weal of the whole peoplo in having the rove- within tho boundarics of tha United States, naes wholly and honestly colleoted. Thig Belgium hos just furnishod o magnificont | W08 dono in tho Sanato on Thursday ponding proof of this nssertion. A clork in the | the resolutions introduced by Semator Gor. National Bank of that Kingdom has recontly | DONs of Georgin. Theso resolutions were of brought to a close operations in embezzle- thomselves ontirely proper aud commendn- ment oggregating $1,200,000, Ho had set | ble. ‘They proposed, in viow of the notorious sail for Now York on the steamship City of | losses of rovenuo undor tho present system Paris, but was arrested at Quaonstown yos- ot collecting iho whisky tax, to instruct the terday. Financo Committeo to ascertaintho defocts of the existing process, and to report especially Accounts nro reccived of o fearful tornado | whother it bo practicablo and advisable (1) which yesterday visited Hazel Groon, Wis., n thriving town situated in the middle of n large and fertilo prairio about 12 miles north | eroate an excise corps romovable of Galens, L. Death nnd destruction were denlt ot at o terriblo rmte. Nino persons aro Lnown to have been killed outright, a 1 number were soriously injured, and the dam. nge to property waa nppalling. The storm. wave rolled over Dubuquo nnd vicinity, though with ita force far spant, and consid- orable damnge was dono by the lightning, rain, and wind. In the Tower Houso of the Wisconsin Assembly yestorday the Bpenker, Mr. Frriep, was prosentod with an clogant set of silver tablo-furniture, and replied in an eloquent and felicitous manner to the spocch of presentation. Tho Apportionment bill bronght in frdm Committee moots tho solid disapprobation of the partyin the minority, and does not securo the support of all the Bepublicans, Tho time likely to bo spent over ita disouasion, it is feared, will impode to lovy a whisky tax directly upon the formenting capacity of the tubs, and (2) to o only for incapacity or malfcasance in offico. This was in itself a proper resolution, and if it 0rge | had been reported and roceived in the proper spirit it might lead to valuablo improvomonts. in tho system of collecting the whisky tax, 1t was not propesed to mako a radical change in tho systom, Lt simply o afford an oppor- tunity for investigating what changes may bo mado to advantage. It is fmown that the practico of taxing distilleries nccording to tho amount of malt purchased has been found to work well in England, and that of taxing them according to the full capacity has boen suc. coasful in Germany. Both systoms are bo- lieved to bo open to eome objections in this country, butit is not impossiblo that a now and indopendent system made up in part from both might be devised which would insure tho collection of a larger proportion of tho tax than under the prosent system, and ronder the Government less dependent than | and wholesalo corruption of tho Indian Ser- offices. It ‘was during Jonxron's term that tho grontest losses of reveniuo wero incurrad. But without stopping to consider the re- spoctive merils of the partisan disenssion on either side, tho point we desire to make is, that the tone it nssumed was out of place. Tho Sonnta is essentially o calm, deliborate body, composed of old, gray-headed men, much further removed than the Houso from tho partisan influences of the masses, consist- ing of nsmallernumber of members, and gon- orally rogarded as the ablor and more dignified of the two Tonses of Congres. ‘Why was it not possible, thon, to discuss n simplo revonuo proposition without going over tho entire rocord of the Republican and Domoeratic partiecs? Why could not the Senate decide upon investigating the system of collecting the whisky tax with a view to its improvement without fighting the Rebell- jonall over again? Why conld not both Democrats and Repuablicans unite in the com. mon and patriotic purposo of devising o sys. tem for-the moro thorough colleotion of tho taxes withont stopping to wrangle over the ondless discussion as to whether the Ropub- lican party or tho Domocrntio party had coma mitted most blunders? Tho mud.throwing i3 80 much easier, tho goneral political erimi. nation and recriminntion so well understood, that our logislators fall into it on overy oc. casion when o subject suggests itself that re- quires moro sericus nttontion. It {8 a dis- graceful proctice, costly to the publio first in the waste of time, and second in the fail- ure to improve the existing practices and oustoms, THE INDIAN BUREAU. The Committee on Appropriations in the | Hounso of Reprosentatives at Washington have roported what is known ns the Legisln- tive nud Exocutive Approprintion bill, and in it provide for n reduction from Inst year’s ap- proprintion of $18,734,000 to $12,709,000. In this reductionall the members of tho Com- mitteo, of both parties, coneur, But the Committes provido, also, for tho trausfor of tho Indian Burean from the Into- rior Department to the War Department, which will allow n reduction of $1,000,000in the Indian Appropristion bill, and an esti- mated reduction of $3,600,000 in the Army Appropriation bill. Further provision was mado for thoe transfer of tho Pension Burean to the War Department, by which the ser- vices of no less than 800 persons will be dis- pensed with, Thero is no mensure in which tho country will moro cordially rejoico than in the totnl lrreaking up of tho thoroughly corrupt Indi- nu Bureau. Tho country is weary of the uni- versal tostimony of prolonged, systematic, vice, with the attondant robbery of theTrens. wry and of the Indinns, Tho surprise is not that tho Indian Servico is to bo transforred to the War Department, but that it has not boen done years ngo. The powor of the In- dian Ring operating on membors of Congress of bothparties hins been conspicnously shown in the defeat of the many propoaitions hore- toforo made for tho transfor of the Bureau to tho War Department. ¥ 'The Committeo state that the direct result of the change will be o reduction of the cost of $1,000,000 annually ; and they state that they havo tho sssurance of Gen. SuzripAN that tho chango will permit the reduction of $3,600,000 in tho sonual exponses of the army. It was amusing to read tho testimony of tho variousstipondiaries of the Indian Servico as to tho probablo effect of this change on tho Indians, and their almoest invarinblo pro- diction that it would bo injurious. The stnke thoy were playing for waa tho million of dollars now disbursed among them, and they could not but regard their own dis- 1misanl ns most, Inmentable to the country and to civilization, Tho chango will not involve the bresking up of the F'eaco Commission, nor any of the rool civilizing ngencies, It will introduco the responsible honesty of srmy officors for tho undsnubted dishonesty of the civil agents, Contrautors furnishing beef will be held re- sponsible for tho delivery of beef in quantity oand quality as required; there will be no short or fabulous hords delivered, and’ they will get no pay except for what thoy furnish, It is possible, too, that thero will bo a shrinknge in the numboer of Indians now roported as requir- ing to be fed by contracts. But at all events the Government will bo honestly rapresented by Gen. Suenway and Gen. SmermoaN, and there will bo no dishoneaty practiced or allowed in the dotails of the Indian Service, The transfer of the Indian Sorvico to the mists strongly objoct to this destrable redue- tion of tho annual tax of tho publie debt; they have takon the alarm that it will pre- vent the funding of the dobt irto 3.656 bonds by purchaso with paper monay. The isaue of greenbacks in sufficlont amount to pur- chase five hundred miltions of 6 per cent gold bonds would of itself constitute a magnid. cent debt., Assuming that they could be purchinsed at GO conts on the dollar in green. backs, it would require £870,000,000, which, funded at 8.6 per cont, would eall for an an- nuel {nterest in gold of over £10,000,000, or o groator sum than the present bouda call for nt 6 por cont, It will bo n reduction of the rato of intorest purchased by nn inerenso of 40 per cent of tho public dobt. But the Democratic Houso of Represontas tives do not caro for facts, They know noth- ing of finances or taxation. witnessos of the robbory of the peoplo for fifteen yonrs at tho rate of £250,000,000 un- der the tariff, but oven that subject cannot got o hearing. 'The majority of the Houso is composed of petty politicinue eleoted by acci~ dont, who know bat little, havo no time fo learn more, and whosa desiro is to avoid all questions requiring an intelligant judgment. These men aro keen after sinnll things ; thoy cut off a fow buttons from the uniform of tho boys at Wost Point, reduced tho amount of blacking to bo used on their Loots, discharged three or four Inborers or messongers, and nro loud in donouncing tho extravagance which they havo corrccted. Accidontally they eaught a publio thiof, and in their excite- ment sent tho witness ont of tho country, thereby letting the bribed man and the man who bribed him cscapo justice. Thoy havo been Mere is n practical question which certainly ought to bo intolligible to any man. The average momber of Congress ought to under- stand that if thers wero & mortgage on his property bearing 74 per cent interest, which would fall dus boforo lio was ablo to pay it, and he could exchnuge that mortgage for n new ono having a longer time to run and bearing 6 per cont interest, the exchange would bo largely tohis benofit, That isa simplo proposition, ensily underatood by avory mon. Now, the proposition in the bill be- foro Congress is to take up tho five hundred millions of 6 per cent bonds, which will fall due long before tho country ean pay them, by issuing in lou thereof, at par, an- equal amount of bonds having n longer time to run, and bearing one-fourth less interest. Is not that a plain, business-like measure ? The weight and oppression of the public debt i in tho annunl chargo for intorest. If tho debt bore no intorest, then it would bo of no charge to tho public save for such voluntary payment on the principal as the country might mnko. tho rato of interestis a rolief to tho people who are taxed to pay that interest. Five millions o year have been saved by tho ex- ehango of 5 per ecnta for G per cents. Evory reduction of It is proposed now to save sovon and 6 half mill- lions more a yoar for thirty years by ox- changing 4} per cants for 6 per cents, and the Democratic Houso of Ropresentatives can- not bo induced to pass the bill. Thoy pro- pose to spite the bondHolder by compelling him to take 6 por centin gold in placo of 4} por cent, and to accomplish this rovenge they lovy an additional‘tax of seven and n half millions of dollars annually to cover the difference! This is statcsmanship of the Domocratio order. i THE REW FRENCH GOVERNMERT. The French Governmont as organized un- dor tho now Constitution has just been put in operation, After conturies of all manner of Governments, France is mow organized with & Govarnmont having o National Legis- lature chosen by the poople, composed of two bodion, onch having s veto on the other, and with a responsible Miniatry. T'his plan of Governmont is as near that of ths Amorican model aa the territorial and political divisions of Francoe will pormit. 1o this hos been addoed thoe English fonturo of a Ministry responsiblo to Parlinmont. It ia a quostion how far the two systoms ean bo harmoniously oporated, and the operation of the blended - systems will be watched with anxiety. The creation of a Sonato which will be elective, and at the samo time couservative, hias beon always o problom in France, Americon mothod was not practicabls, be- cause Fronce hod no political organizations oquivalent to our State Legislotures, But o syatom waa dovised to meot the emergency. The peoplo within tho respectivo districts met nt the polls and chowe A body of Bena- torinl clectors ; thewo elootors thus appointdd The ond jeopardize tho transaction of morg ini- portant legislative business, ee——— The Democrats in the House yesterday pansed in their mad carcer of investigation: N i Jong enough to furnish a rominder that thoy| ® 7 osolution on its merits, and with single have not lost sight of tho grent principlo of | Mforenca to s noedad reform, but made ‘it economy in public oxpenditures. Thoy voted jriheipralext foranaring wspelbon the Tie- solidly for tho publication of 800,000 copica Pabliosn P"fl.y' 16 wes -nok palsiotian, b of tho Agricultural Report, n publio doen. | Povtyism, which suggosted it. Ho was notu. ment which nobody ever thinks af roading, ated not by a desiretosecure thoreform which and which, in 1874, Ropublican Ccngmm' his resolation outlined, but bythe purpose of refusod to publish, Throo hundrod thouzand, | 92Hivering a palitical haranguo. Ho procaed. Grangers will complacently rodeive tho re. | ¢4 10 this at onco, noteriticlsing the defective vort, provided th postago I propaid, but syatem, but indicting tho party in power. will nover attompt to resd it Tt will cost Mr. Gonpox conld not expect to flaunt the tho Democratio Congrezsmen 30,000 oat of flag withont exciting Mx_'. Moxrrox thoreby. theiz own pockets to mail the trash st 10 | 102 1ster promptly piked up tho glove conts por copy, unless they decldo to. restoro which Gonpox had thrown down, and a par- now wpon tho personal honosty of a grent army-of office-holders. Tha subjeot is well wort'a tho deliberation of Congress. Yot Mr. Gonroox could not introduce such direetly by the people chose tho Honatora. ‘This was as near the Amorican plan a3 was possible in France. To this SBenate was olectod the ablest and most eminent men in Fronce, and all partios and factions were reprosontod. At last Franco had a Bonate which was somothing more than an enlarged council of the Executive; it was an inde- pendent branch of the Governmeont,—n co-or- dinate lwanch of the National Legislatars, Having sooured this body, the nation pro. cooded to eloct by popular euffroge o repro- sentative body of some six hundred mon, and the popular choice included men of all fac- tlons,—Republicans, Radicals, Conservatives, Moderates, Clericals, Monarchists, and Bona- partiste, But tho Republicans ‘were in the majority in both tho Senate and thoe Assem. bly. army will have tho wholesame effcot of dis- missing a large body of men who, taken col~ lectively, can render the country more and botter servico in poma other branch of busi- ness. Thero will bo less monsy expended on nocount of the Indlens ; the Indians will be infinitely better providod for; and there will be no Indian wars. Tho Indian country will bo relloved of o scandalous population of canting thieves, and civilization will be re- lieved of the reproach of robhing ignorant savoges in tho name of humanity. BEFURDING THE DEBT. There aro outstanding United States bonds to the amount of 385,000,000, bearing 6 per cont intoreat in gold, amounting to nearly 860,000,000 annually. In 1870, Congress nu- tho franking privilege, in which coso tho poitage will bo added to the wxpanse of tiran duol was hegan at once. A war of w ords followed, in which tho worst was dono by each party to make tho other appear voost monstrous. MontoN was not slow to the proof that at the timo when the whisky tax was $3, and the amonnt S —————— ractually ocollocted was less than * whon 1t now goes apon record that Afr, Bass,of | the tax was only 70 ecents, Awpnew Now York, one of the Ropublican members | Jomnson and his Democratio sttaches of the Committea on Expenditurcs in the [ Were in chargo, and that the Republican War Department, strenunusly protested | Party could not bo held roaponsible for that, sgulnst the diacharge of Miansm and the op- | Tho only answer that this provoked was from portunity afforled that i'nportant witness to [ Wrriens, s Democratio Senator from Virginia, sbscond, He was overuled by Hirsres | Who mado himselt ridiculous by kaying that Ouruzn, who, bmcked by tho Democrats on | *‘it Was tho firat timo in his life that he had the Committes, unanimously diacharged | Meard Axpuzw Jomison's Administration was Mausm, and, 83 thoup;h fearful lest he might | ® Democratio ono.” Mr. Wrrnens must stand not be able to mako tracks for Oansids beforo | 8lone in mnintaining that it was anything stops could b taken to secure his detontion, | €180, ANDuEW Jomxson was always a Demo- the Obaimnan kiudly vclunteered to go with | erat. e was an intenso and dovoted Union him and get his fees, or if neceasary | a0, ond it was this which, in connection to send than by mail, together with | With the service he had dona the Union asa the docamentary evidenco to ba left bohind, | Bouthern man, that secured him the nomina- In thin statement of the case Mr. Bass was | tion of Vice-President on the Republican supperted by Mr, Danvonn, his Republican | ticket in 1864, during the crista of the War. colleagus, and all the eveslons and quirm- | I% Was supposed, of course, that his Union ings of Ouvaxa and‘Bracxauny will not wipe | Sympathles wonld lead him to st with out the fact thut the Republican members of | the Llopublican party, bot when Le the Committoe wers kept in total jgnorance | succeoded to tho Presidency on the of the meeting and of the investigation until | death of Lmvcowy, he sorely disappointed after Mansn had finished his testimony, and the party who plsced him in his high posi. that the witners was hustled out of reach by | tion. Ife msade desperate rosistance to every printing. But for this little incidont in tho proceedinga yesterday, it might be forgotten that the party of economy hos the say in the Housa this year, Cxvuxs, Brucxnury, and tho rest. The ' Oicago produce markets generally distinctive Republican measure, and way in. dorsed and supported by the uuited atrongth of the Democratio party. He removed Re. 410ded downwards yesterdsy. Moss pork | publicans from offics, and replaced them W lyyg active and 10@200 per brl lower, cloalyg &) §33.10¢/93.15 ok ) ofther with Demoarsts or with Republicans and §52.22§@ | ready o sdopt Dainoaracy (u crder to get the thorizod tho Becretary of the Treasury to ox- change $500,000,0000¢ &percantbondsfor an equal amonnt of 6 per conts, and §300,000,- 000 of 4} per, conts and $700,000,000 of.4 per cents foroqual amounts of 6 por conts, Ho Lo oxchanged the G per conta for the 6 per conts at an annual saving of 35,000,000 an. nually for interest. The Socretary has ap- plied to Congress to incroase the smount of 4} per cent bonds to $500,000,000, and to maokes tho bonds paysblo thirty years after dato; at that rato and on that time he thought he could make the loan. Buch an «xchange of bonds would be equal to the re- Quction of the aunual interest $7,600,000. Tho successful negotintion of this loan wonld prepare the way for tho exchange of the re. mainiug 6 into 4s. I'he saving of Interest on the $500,000,000 of debt, at the rate of §7,600,000 n yesr, would smonnt in thirty years o §225,000,000, or equal to 45 paroent of the principal of ths bonds. Now wo have the statoment by Mr, Moz. nsoN that it 18 extremely doubtful whether the Bonate bill authonzing’ this exchangs of bonds can pass the ‘Demooratioc Houso of Representatives, Tlo despairs of the intolli- gence of the majority of the House in which he is o leader, The advantages of the meas- ra aro obvioud to all, but the members have no stomach for anything that is preoctical Moreover, they bhave an idea that this ex. chaogo of 4} per cont bLonds for 6 per conts, ‘while it saves saven and a hial? miltions of dol- lors annually in gold, will in some way bo an abstacle in the way of paying off the publio debt 8% some tuture day in paper dollars, Tlie Philsdelphis sahool of politioal ssons. years for which he was originally appointed. ‘Co him is delegated tho power of sppointing whether it will bs permanont. Tor tho firat ‘The Exccutive of Franco comea down from tho provisional and tomporary Governmont following the war, The Presidont holds office during the romaindor of the soven the Qabinet, which Oabinet in turn is respon. wible to the Assembly., As in England, this Oabinet must be supported by tho Assombly or it must leave offico. «T'o those who are familiar with the history of French Assomblies, this kind of Govern- mont in Franco will suggest doudbts as to timo o Fronch Assembly electod by the peo- ple has a rostraint and a voto upon ita aotion by the Benate, also a representative as well ad conservative branch of ‘the Government. Tt will at onca present a savero teat of French patience ond patriotism under rostraints hitherto unknown. Tho Executive issubjeot to the Assembly ; the Ministry and the As- sembly must act harmonlously, and yot the Benata has a veto upon the Assembly, Leg. islation must be by the joint aotion of the two bodies. Marshal MaoMamox has nppolnted & Oab. inet choson from single division of the Re- publican party. Alresdy GauprTTA has do- clared his opposition toit. e insists that tfis Cabinet should have baen & homogeneous one, representing all branches of opinion, and this deolaration by GaunxrTa is perhapa but o prelude to astorm which will test the permanenoy of the new Government, and at tho samoe tlme test the capacity of the Brench féx salt-governmenk If the new Ministry be unable to maintain themadves in the eoim,; fidonco of tho Arsembly, o chango of Minis- tors must tako place, nnd it will depend on tho temper, consorvatism, and patriotism of tho Amaembly whothor the Excoutive will not Do roducod to a more committeo of tho As. sombly, to bs clhanged by ovory fluctuation of an oxcitable and uncontrollable Lody. THE DEMOORATS AND THE OURRENOY. It was Mr. Lincoun who first applied to tho Democratio party the Biblical aphorism that “ A houso divided against itself canuot stand.” Tho application ia asapproprinte to- dny na when he mado it, and tho prediction just nalikely to be true. Tho Democratio party is ngain a **houso divided ngninst it~ nolf,” torn by dissensions and harassed by differencos which have bean pressed with so auch hot blood that the prospect of rocon- cilintion i3 ns forlorn nnd dismnl as when slavery and sccession were the monsters that threatoned it. The full oxtont of the disagreement among tho Demoerats would not hove been discovered so soon, perhaps, if 1t bad not been for tho umhappy fate which placed then: in control of the popular brauch of Congress, and thus gave thom a daily op- portunity of exhibiting thomsolves, and do- nonstrating how diffioult, if not impossiblo, it will bo for them to unite on mny pro- grammo that will insaro harmony during tho coming Presidentinl campaign. With o secret canens arganization, reprosonted like Congresa itself with various committecs on ihe various leading issues of tho day, the Democrats havo still been unable to ** har. monize ¥ with anything like the success that Mr, McDoxazp in tho Sonate and Ar, Mon. n1soN in tho House havo striven for; unity of purposo and notion alone conld enabls tho Domocrats in n Prosidential cloction to dis- turb tho strougth of tho Ropublican party, but such unity now appears to be unnttaing- Dlo on auy ono of tho lending questions of the day, and the nearor tho necossity np- proaches the further off does the realization soem to bo, The eonspicuous disagraoment of the Dem- ocrats nmong themaselves ia illustratod by the omphatic declaration of the Now York World that ** Tho success of the Domoeratio party depends upon the nomination at St. Louis, Juno 27, of a hard-monoy Democrat on n bard-money platform.” Asa mere enuncia- tion of fact, thero is no disputing that n soft- money Demoorat on a soft-money platform will be moro surcly defeated than such n candidate os the World would have the Democrats nominate. But, on tho other bhnnd, tho Cincinnatt Engquirer deolares with equal cortainty that tho success of the Democratio party doponds npon pan- dering to the dishonest sentimont in favor of inflating the ocurrency. A candid survey of tho Presidential candidetos on the Democratic side and their support would indicato that the Znquirer ismore likely to have ita experi- ment tried than the World 13 to have its man nominated and its banner flung to the breeze. 'Thero is but one outspoken, blunt, persistent, and uncompromising hard-monoy man among all the Domocratic Presidential candidates 3 and we think that tho World will bo con- strained to concede tho unlikelihood of Gov. TrpeR's roceiving the nomination ot Bt. Touls, His chances aro cortainly second to thoss of Hrvpricny, ArtnN, Tnumauw, or PrxprrToN, any one of whom would soatcely fill the bill sot down a9 tho sine qua non of success. Mr, Davanp, of Dolaware, is only thought of ns n compromiso candidate, and tho probabilities aro all against his choice. Tho simplo fact is that the location of the Domocratio Convention at 8t. Louis was in the interest of the soft-monoy Demoecrats, and that this faction, both in Congress and out of Congress, are daily gaining boldness and influenco 1n the party. Tho hush that was put upon them for o time by tho Ohio dofent has been forgotton; ths influence of some of the leading men in Congress in fa- vor of honest monoy, resisted ns it has been in cauous, has lost its power; tho certainty that the Republican party will honestly ad- here to the good faith under which the green- backs wore originally issued,—all these oir. cumstances havo boen ealculated to bring the soft-monoy cloment of tho Democratio party 1o the foreground, and will probably give it o majority in tho Convention. Tho Domocrat- io nomines will probably bo Afr. Henpnyaxs; or, it not Hexparoms, thon some one still moro docidedly committed to the groonback- ora. Then what will the New York World have to say the next day ? RUBSIAN FINANOES, The London Z¥mes of Jan. 81, inita finan- cial column, roproduces the substance of the Inst Russian budgot, which shows some very romarkable exhibits of tho financial condi- tionof this great Empiro, and an outlook for tho future whioh is not oncournging, to say tho lenst, Binco 1870, the statement of in. come and oxpenditures is as follows : Teceipts, Expenditures, 10,645,000 40,380,000 ee UTLIG5000 304,765,000 199,018,000 307,215,000 07,440,000 407,160,000 o ond of 18756 wos 81,775,~ 000,000, and the charges thereon 376,850,000, to which also should be added $500,000 of irredeemablo papor money, oirculating at o discount, Commonting upon these figuros, the Times snys : One won!d naturally expoct that the tafallible test of true prosperity, an fmprovement {n trade commensn 7ate wilh this sdditioual outlsy,would bo vislole in such Russian trade relurnd na are o be had, This, hows evar, {snot the caso, Russiam trade has certainly @rown rapidly In recont years, but tha total of imports and ozporta togethier for 1871 was about £109,000,000 (2348,000,000), a8 agaloet £53,000,000 ($363,000,000) ln 1804, and tho Importd exceoded tha exports then and sinoa #0 far a8 is yot known, proving that to s certain extent this trada was dus (0 borrowed wonay, At tho Doat tho galn to Rossia haa boen nothing commansu- rate with tho outlay aud incressed burdens; it is not surprising, therofors, to find that trada {8 beglnning to suffor from the strain. The peoplss who {nhabit Tiusais are rude and poor, If not barbarous; their sole dependenca s upon ihe soll,—on thelr crope and flocks aud berds,—~and thoir coudition i not, thorefare, ons caloulated to bear the sudden pressurs of burdens multiplied st » pace those budget igares raveal withe out sudering more or Jasatntanse, Examining tho detaills of the budget for 1876, as it is cstimated, and making tho proper deductions, the income will reach $882,030,000, and tho expenditures $381,. 035,000, leaving o surplus of $05,000, a state- mont which suporfiolally appears encourage ing, but which is shown to be far from such, ~—the least sntisfactory featuro being that the dobt wervice and the army absorb more than half tho revenus, taking ovor $255,000, 000, leaving but $155,000,000 for all the other departments together, The dabt burden has been incurred in part for the construction of railways, but the railways have not beon bullt with a view to the publio utility, bnt to the wants of the military systom of the Ewmpire. The moat unsatisfactory part of the budget to the Z'imes 18 the fact that it does not explain what is done With the enormous suma bor. rowed by Russla. Itsays: Noarly avery year for some time past Russta has tsxen £10,000,000 ($75,00,000) oF 80 out of the marksls 0f Laudon sad Paris, or L all sboul 470,000,000 (§380,+ DU,000) aizos 1070, exclusive of £3,100,000 Tob aiiware sud £,000,000 (T, 508,000) tez L 11,800,000) Dasls, Bha took £15,000,000 ($75,000,000) Isst yosr, snd pre- sumably that money {8 not yot all apont, yet the only fndication of borrowed capital which tha budget gives ta conlatned in tho ftem * Extraordinary Expendi- turo,” amounting to only £1,650,000 (§7,780,000), It thio whols of Iaat year's loan I already gone to ihat small balance, the rumor wo hosr tust Rursis witl shottly bo in the market for a further advancs fo & conaldersble amount would seem to ba woll-forinded, for without o great deal more borrowad money it would Lo impomsible to ozocnto tho great rallway profocts which ara now on foot for extending miiitary Hnes in Asin westsard ant southrard. Tho point of all this is the fact that it iz n red-hot shot firad nt Russis, and hitting a vory vital point by her_jenlous rival, Itisn cnveat against ler coming into the English lonn market nuj longer until sho has com- menced paying up what sha alrendy owes. It i3 o warning to hor that sho must rest awhile before going any deeper inte dobt,and thnt if sho docs @ot stop borrowing sho must soon he plungod into & commercial col- Iapso that will permanontly nfToct her credit. Tt remning now to bo scon what defonse the Russian journals, which are never slow to reply to the English, will make to this oriti- cism upon their national finances. The English House of Commons resently dovoted o whola night to the disonssion of o proposal to mako nn nddition to tho title of Queen Vieronis, in order to indicato hen sovoreignty over Indin, tho debate moinly turning upon tho point whother Her Majesty should stylo hersolf Queon of tha United Ringdom of Great Britain and Ircland and of India, or Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of Indin, Ono objection was made that it would imply absoluto sovercignty over Indis, and that the natives would grow restive undor this assumption, but the London Times nnswors this by saying that tho natives know they aro under absolute sovereignty, snd that it is tho only form of rula they can compro- hend. Mr. Lowr offered the objection that tho phraso ¢ Dofendor of tho Faith” would ba objeotionnble, to which the Z¥mes rotorts that the Queen ia alrondy defender of ono faith in England, another in Bcotland,-and a third in Ireland. Mr. Lowe's second objec- tion, that nothing shonld bo said about In- din in the title of the Queon, lost Indin might some doy bo wrenched from the English dominions, subjocted bim to the following spirited rap from the Z'imes: All Emplres aro, of canrse, mortal, but tho wisest cotirsa 8 for each to sasuma that §t will have a pee- petulty of existenco. If wo wors to amuso ourselves with spoculations about thio loss of Indis, and to take procantions against such & calamity, tho natives and tho poople of foreign countrics would #oon bellovo that we lacked oither power or aplrit to malutain our Em= pire, Thobest way to keop India s to actas if we could nover surrender It It is protty cortain that the frauds of the War Dopariment in the disposal of trader- ships are much moro extonsive than the ex- posures thus far would indicate. In nddition to the gonoral suspicion of the army offlcora now fracly expressed, tho ovidence of this has beon incronsed by Gen. Cusrem, who tolegraphed to Mr. Cryamn n fow daye ngo from B8t. Paul that an investigation of the traderships along the Missou.i River would exposo as disgraceful a stnte of affairs as has recontly been discovered in connection with Fort 8ill. The Committeo has evidently renchad only the threshold of the abuges in this way, and it is to be hoped that ita furthor investigations will ba handled a lttle mors carefully than that in which Manan furnished the ovidence, The Cherokes Adrocate is o national news- paper, inasmuch as it is published by the Cherokee Nation and by virtuo of a national Inw. Tho establishment of n newspaper by law is o mther novel proceeding, and it ia flattering to tho guild to have a National Council, oven if it bo an Indian Nation, ncknowledgo in ita statute-books that the press is an important menns of cdueation. At the same time it is significant of the dan- ger incident to a national control of the preas that the editorial rooms of the Cherokes Ad- wocato aro located by law in the uppor story of the jail building. As a solaco for this un- natoral nssociation, however, '$2,000 was voted for material to sst up the establish. mont, and Q500 for ‘‘contingont expenses® during the ensulog year. Thore is many a nowspaper, wo are Inclined to be. love, that would ocoupy the samo quar. tors on tho same terms. Tho Advocats i published partly in the Chorokoo and part- ly in the Inglish language, but all to' the honor and glory of the Chorokee Nation. Thero is n subgcription prico of 1 for thoso who can read English, but tho papor is fur- nished grataitously to all Cherokees who can- not read English; whother this was intended to encourage or discourage English reading ‘we oro at o losa to dotermine. It is pleasant to note, however, that all the Judges of the Nation aro fornished with n number of the newspapers gratuitously, both for their own edification and for distribution. 'This is a sort of compulsory newspaper-roading, since it is requirod by law. The Chorokees aroa nation of progroas, and it is o pity their spirit cannot bo infused into all the remnants of the aboriginal race on tho continent, Tho ascendency which the reform cloment of the Ttepublican party is gainingin the conncils both of the party and the Govern. ment is nowly illustrated by the rocent decla. ration of the Union League Club, which avows tho conviction that tho success of the Ropublican party is not possible oxcopt with o candidate who has no connection, direct or indirect, with tho abusos of the day or those who have boen guilty of them. To assure so far ns it can tho roalization of this necessity, the Union Leaguo haa pledged itself to op- pose every manipulation of the New York delegation to the Cincinnatl Convention in favor of a particular candidate, meaning Coxxrno, and to insist upon a fair ropresent- ation of the independent and disintercated Ropublicans of the Btate,—that is, tho non. office-holding Republicans, The Union League 18 a powor, inasmuch as it represonts tho best cloment of the Ropublican party in Now York; and, in adopting this straightforward and ontapoken course, it Is co-operating with the Central Republican Clob of this city and similar organizations elsewhere, which aro bringing to tha front men who have held nloot from politics too long, and permitted the professional politicians too complete a sway. ‘The success of tho Republican party will depend upon its identification with the interests of rveform; it ia to the Ropublican party everywhere, and nowhere to the Dem- acratlo party, that the people are looking for this, S—————— President GRaNT, of all men living, may be justifiedin & personal application of the preyer to be ¢ delivered from his friends,” including a good many of his relations, Ha ia especially unfortunate in having a brother named Onvirrz, & meddiesome busybody and vaurien who hes lived mainly upon his rels. tionship to the Prealdent since Gen. Gmawr was elocted to that offics, without at any time baving received m-commission of any kind from him, or {u any other way having baen benefited ditestly by the patronage of the » Prosidont. o haa from time to time, bo'.' aver, coma before the publio in a disreputs. bla political way, and has boen hanging on tho outskirts of political jobbery by the throad of rolationship botwoen him and hig brother the President, Wo should say from his tostimony relativo to tho post-traderships, from his position of * solicitor™ to n firm of contractors at $200 o month, and from hig provious apponmnces on the surface,that this 3fr, OnvinLe doos not hesitate to ropresent that his relationship to the Prosident gives him peculiar influonco in officinl ciroles, Thig may ho truo as far as officials of the charac. for of BeLeNar aro concerned, but the faet that Brother OnviLik's carcer is mainly not able for fallures and chronic impecuniosity ought to sufllce a3 evidenco that his influcnce with the President is in inverse proportion to Lis rolationship, Of coursa his reappearance, at this time will farnish n new protext for howling at the President ; but candid peopls will be moro inclified to sympathiza with, Gon. Graxr in the sore affliction of such 5 brother than to blamd him for tho misfor tune, Upon the queation of title theres is consid. orablo dobate in the English papers. The T%mes objects to ** Empress,” becnuso the titlo is not English and it is not a title known to tho Enst; whilo tho learned Spectator afllrms that thero is no word for Empress in any langunge derived from the Banscrit, and urges the uso of tho word * King.” The most of tho English papers, however, favor the uso of the phrase *‘ Queon of Indin® ‘Che dobate does not possess much intorest in this country, excopt so far as it indicates how happy a peoplo must bo who have nothing more serious to trouble them than the difl. culty of moking their ruler a prosentof a new namo, Wo have rocolvod o pamphlot copy of a momorial addressod to the Finance Committea of Coogross, embodylog ** A sorivs of moasures to rogulate the flnances and scouro s atable curronoy.” Thoso messures provide (1) that the amount of curronoy {n the United Statoa shall bo fixed at $800,000,000, to bo fncreased with tho Incroose of population at ths rate of €20 poc head ; (2) sl papor monoy to bo fssuod by tho Treasury ; (3) that gold-interest coupons bs rocoivablo ot the Custom-Housea in paymont of dutios ; (4) to prohibit tho exportation of gold or butlion by aduty on exports theroof; (5) nuch an Increaso of duties on all imported goods a8 will probibit importationa to such an oxtont 8a to securo o balance of trade in our favor, Tho fourth and #ifth moasuros to continue until thero s gold enough in tha country to resumo mpocio-payments, Accompanying thoso pam- philota is a noto (snonymous) which states that thoro is “an organization composed of mem- ‘bors, somo of whose polmm antocodonta would tend to dofeat thoso moasures it koown, but who have tho moaus, 1nfluenco, and position to advacato publicly and privately, as may bost facliitale the prompt adoption of them.” Wo hardly think thoro s occoslon for any mystory sbout the advocacy of euch a sorfes of absurdi- tios as is proposed by this eecrot organization, unlesa it bo the unwillingness of sny sane man to bo known a8 giving thom tho loast couute- nanco. —_— "The Post and Mail is not satisfied with Tim Tnipuxe's explanation of its presont visws as to tho logality of cortifieates of indebtedness irsuod under tho now charter, and professing to bo issned undor the provisions of the old char« tor, which aro dofunct. Dut it is not expected to bo satisfied with what Tug Trinune saya. Iis rolo s (bnt of an Irroconcilable. 8till, for pru- dontinl rensons, {t might bo well for it to look over tho opinions of tho eminont lawyors who indorsed the viowa of tho Comptrollor in Aug- uet, 1875, and soe whether any of thom expressed the boliof that those cortifioates could bo fssued undor the provisions of tho now charter; or whother thoy advised the Comptrollor that tha conflicting prohibitiona of the now charter gava way baforo tho.parmissive provisicns of tho old ono ; or whother {t is proper to set forth on thy faco of tho cortificatzs of indoblednoss thab thoy woro 1saued by virtuo of the provisious of the old charter of 1865 and tho smondmenis made thoreto in 1869, As the old chartor la dead, and its dobt-croating provieions are null snd vold, T'ie Taivuxne i8 puzzled to understani Liow cortificatos of Indobtedness can notw be lo- gally lssucd which sot forth that they aro created by virtue of thoss dofunot asctions of the old chatter. Wil the Post and Afail ploase ex- plalnit ? A devout bollef in the devilis no longero? the easence of orthodox Christisnity—the which may now bo nfirmed upon authority. 'The authority, oo, i of tho lighoat, bolug no less than that of the Lorde of the Judiclary Comunit- teo of the Privy Council, consisting of the Lord Ohancotlor, tho Archbishopa of Canterbury and York, and the Lord Chief Baron. Their declsion was roached aftor solemn argumont by tue learned counsel, among whom was Frrz Jases Srepuens, in the caso of Coox, Vicar, agsinet Jexxing, his parishioner, JunmiNg ropudiatad tho dovil, hoof, horns, and tall, wherofore tho minor ecclealastical tribunals found him to bo + n dopraved livor," and sustained the Viearin refusing to administer tho sacraments to tho horotical Jexxing who hootad at the dovil. Btill scouting the dovil, JexxkiNa earried Lis caso up on appoal, and now, by the judgment of tho highoot tribunal inthe Church, bas virtually suceoodod in kickiog tha devil out of tho cresd. Henceforth Boslzobub is left with tho other fictions orscted by snd then exploded Ly authority, to be turned over to tha tonder mercy of urions historians and phllosophie looturers like M. D, Conwax, Thoe sugar-planters of the Sandwich Islands, through thoir hirod sgonts, are lobbying hard to carry tho reciprocity treaty through the Houss of Ropresentatives. The following state~ meot of trade_between the United Biates sad the Hawalian Islands during the calondar year 1875 {8 furnishod by the Chief of the Burosu of Btatistlear it ik i 163,161 1,204,501 pl i STOWL urererserassansesssensassanconsara$l 388,20 Among the principal datiable articlos wore the followiog: Bugar, pounds Rice, pounds... Haw wool i Valuaof Valuo of forelgn exporta, Tolaliaes van 431,602,668 $1,113,331 .'xu‘m e % $780,600 Ay ones §783,560 The Hon. B, 0, Coox his just returned from Californis, after a five weeks’ trip. e ox- peesaes surprise at a utatomont he found (nthe moralng papers that he was counsel for the llinofs Distilling Company, or the parsans coo- nected with it—Mesurs, LAWRENOZ, BALLENTINE & Ron1nson—or thathe had zecently or remotaly voturnod from Washington, where be is alloged to have made certaln propositions of compro= mise. M esys hia misslon in thelr behalt did not fail, for the good reason that ha was not act ing for them, or sny other distliler or persod connected witlithe whisky business, in thacs pacity of attorney, agont, Iriend, or in any cs* pacity whatover, This disolaimer ssema brosd enough to cover all he ground, snd the report in undoubtedly entiraly erroncous. —_————— The Omshs Republican states that of {l® 14,000 tons of lead smelted from the aresin that clty, 12,000 tons of the ssme were shio] 10 Obleago during he year 1876, This is a trade worth looking after, developing, and enooursg* log. 3 A misslonary from Chiosgo recantlyatsted ia & poblio mesting s$ Beojsminvills, IiL, thatitis seommon bing here foy *m hundred ladish rustling o silke, 10 akiter 4 qalocs lagither, ssld