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

HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 'T'HUKRSDAY, DECEMBER 28 1870 of silver. Wherever gold nnd silver are both used na legal-tender, tula propor- tionate valuo is subject to but slight apeaker of the Hause of Representatives, and | ing oxtract it will bo observed that he | original ecash Investment—while the Intorest | wo ed over the Jolnt eonvention of the two | onoqko it gpocial rofornce to the three | on the Govornment bonds in loft unpaid. | th as formerly can now be transmitted gy he samo time, which ought to have a tendency to cheapen tho procesa of telegraphy, 1f thiy . :',:,,t;m,:“fd ";s:m::::n",'“ ‘:'hc, ifi.‘,‘:‘:, ?fii‘flf‘d principal Powers concernod in the prosent | Thia report of the Government Directors @ é and firm, at 630 for new shouldors, bozed, &4 8)o for do sliort-ribs, and 8jo for doshort- @’12 1’ thunk 4 | clears, Highwines wero unchangod, nt $1.08 — per gallon, Flour wns less nctive and | changes, If tho lending mnations of | Mr. TnumnuL, the teller appointed an the part of | political erisis: ought to prompt Congressmen to inquire ;’[:‘(’l”"‘)":‘: :;‘;‘:':flg‘;:‘ug;lle“g"“;fill&l’e ‘l”r\l‘xl:fll:lup TERMS OF SUBSCRIPLION. strong. ‘Wheat closed o higher, at$1.25} | tho world should by sgreement adopt | the Senate, and Measrs, Puetes and Wasunurxs, | Oue relatlons with Russia are really too fatimato what bas becomo of tho Lawsexcs bill, as by putting anotlicr company into the feld v ::“‘1 1,263 bi Co hat i lanti nd bave their | the two tellers appolnted un the part of tha llouse, | to b disturbed Ly theso matters, The German | goon na the holidaye are ovor. Sl ety Y withe for Jnuuary and $1.263 for Fobraary. Corn | that proportionate valuation o v r 3 out delay. IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGEPREFAID AT THIS nr:ll;:& clased tame, at Afdo cash and 4540 for Jan: coinage on thatsealo thint is tosay, the sitver took thelr eents at the Clerk’s desk. Emperar and nl) the Princes of tho Kmpire are e s +HI2.00 'y 2 Iy The Vice-Prealdent then eald: *iThe {wo | convinced that while thy Rnsslan Government per- 3o i Honses being assombled in pursuance of the Con- | mits us to romain on friendly terms with them, 1t A very simplo computation, which tia B e ton e o counted and 4o- | fata antntorest 10 follow the policy we have so | Yoriest yro in figures cannot misunderatand, atte of n year. onth 0 Ay address four Literery and liel }:f;} unry. Os closed j@Jo lowor, at Bl for January and 84je for February., Iyo was dollnr, shilling, franc, or mark weighing 16} times as much ns the gold coin of tho same —————O—— F."' ‘:‘m“"m mefl,‘h £1R ‘The Savannah Nets, fice-cater, Is quite severg g on BEN IiLL because he docs not bellow for y “ywah " and roar for “goah. It taunt 3 be. pa larcd for President and Vice.I'restdent of the | jong adhiered to, Mostility to Rasala la it too disposcs nt once of tho fustian nud nonsenso wal nts him I3 firmer, nt 713@720. Barley closed weak, at | denomination,—fluctnations in the compnrne | ¢ a8 § the dth g 4 4 with having been a Unton man of the Wy i 5}c asked for Jonuary, 1logs woro in fair { tive values of the two metals would bo very “,(n,,‘f,‘ulrllca'u'l‘:r(g‘n[:ec':::e:mr:';n;::;.z ::dun th | Somiman with cortaln partles In thia country, With | paraded about Truoew's majority. To make g some It fa & political and horeditary prejudice; S ot Cor AL o S, | wiriotberd 1o the sesmi of relioashias, Tat. | V. Whst arithmotiolana who clamor for e ‘presence of tha two Honsea of Congress. £ | mo teh theno gonticmon that neithor they nor any. | Post-oficos or *tgoah ™ figure out Trupen's now proceed to discharge that duty, ** body elae will he strong enough to embroll us with | majority on the popnlnr voto is wholly ig- The Vice-Prestdent then proceeded to open and | Rnesia uniens avents bring un & rupture. Untll | nored what in fact is tho popular vote. ‘Tho land to tho tellers the votes of the saveral | {hen we shnll continuo on friendly torms with tha Btatos for Presidents and Vico-Preatdent of the A e O e maring. rilh. | 2 nauaof. 1870 shows what number of votes, United Etates, commencing with the State of Wkewise, and wo. cottalnly have no | O the uaual ratio of votors to tho entiro Malne. The votes havingbeen upencdand counted, | wish to disturb tho harmony established by the population, which sliould have been east at the tollers, tbrough Mr, Truxpuis, reported the | thres Emperors® alliance. As regards the rela. o Presidentinl eleotion in the States which followlng ns the result of the count: Annanast | (lups between Anstria and Russia mors particular- | returned tho largest majoritiea for Tiupen, LixcoLx, 180 votes; Joux C, Bxcrinnino®, 723 | Jy, they aro excellent, notwithetanding all that hos | o0 00raq with the total vole cnst these 8. A, DovatAs, 12§ Jouy Dert, 39; and for Vices | ficen eald to the contrary by the Austrion press. D! , Fresident, HaxxinAL TLAxLx, 180; Josepis Laxg, | Yet 1t would be erroncons to fmagine that the futl- | figures are significant, ‘They nre as follows: 424 I, V., Joussox, 12; Evwanp Evensrr, 39 macy between the three Imperlal Governments Vote should stripe before the Tebellion, who epposed Beces. nlon, but was foreed to go with his section wheyy 1t seceded. It saysho felt towards Ltho Beceasloy cause ns coldly as the Copperheads of the Norty felt towards tho Unlon canse. It calls him, 1 elfeet, & Bouthern Copperhead. Mr. i, it says— was opnoreid {o Disunlon. Thongh he did y L lrart I tho way b ny 0f' dne heieominet rhells with fuseain procees of combustion, o whicl he atluded in Msreply to Mr, Waon as exciting sncy & powerfil conservaflve infinenco, he was promyt 1o aceept ofce under the Confederate Governmeny, 1f, ne lie eays, lie was 8 Unforr man then unt fjoa Unlon man now, hut dld not abandon his ection 1y fight for the mals demand ot a trifle cnsior prices, with sales 2 | chicfly nt ®6.76@0.10. Cnttle were notivo Liunpe tueniyse, W | ond unchanged. Sheop wero dull and nomi- et aonles seatfree, nal. Lest Baturday cvoning {hora wos in To rfl;vxtn‘l.'dl;|;{’fin;:':}::‘;?::\ml‘.n‘;mfllag:‘:";I'M" storo in this eity 8,263,648 bu wheat, 5~ Cec addre i 3 i o " O rade aither by drafs sepress, | 867 b corn, 47,837 bu onts, 141,724 burye, Post.ORico order, or in registered letters, stourriak. | and 1,147,307 bu borloy, One hundred 7ERMS TO CITY BUBSCILIRERS. dollnrs in gold would buy $107.12} in greon- Defly, delfeered, Eunday excented, 20 centaperweeks | o Sy oreeo Lsity, delfvercd, Sunday Included, 50 centa per week . Aditress THE THIDL: PANY, i N — Cotuer Madison 41 Dearhy gangs I The House did somo talking yestorday on TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. the Lonisiaua question, and the Democrats slight. A, Cernvsomi, the eminont French writer on¢fiuanco, hng mado this almosta demonstration. 11e hns made the advantages and benefits of the doublo coinngo plain and clear gyen to {he most ordinary comprelien- slon. Ho has shown that it tho general or nniverenl valuv of gold for money was estab. lished at 15} times that of silver, and both were made n logal-tonder, any sudden increnso in the valuo of cither could work no publio injury and would promptly he adjusted. Thus if silver were to riso In value and gold Qne copy, per Year. clubof ten, = ntenance of the Unlon, with what . The Vice-Prestdent then safd: ** Anranaxt Lix~ | alms atinjuring England, For the last hundred Vote cast, hazé cast, | grace can Tedenounce those Northern and Westerg : succeeded in fncorporating fnto the record | becomo the chcaper metal, then thero would | cory, of llinols, having recelved a majority of the | yoars w,“]l,.,vn'mf on friendly terms with En- UL i g’,,"&“&‘,.’:,‘,‘.{,’:fl et L D . o, : Rooris, Ooevpanit, it Gou. Suenipan's roport derogatory to the | bo such an incronsed demnnd for gold and a | whole number of Electoral votes, i8 elected Preal~ | plond no loea than with Russta. Tho Engliab, in- 140,001 and invisible inwac"t Porhiaps Me. et can sx. T Caren GAX LIFE GanrsaceDest): | charaator of Gov, Watas, To his estont | diminished domand forslver that o ifr- | dentofthe Ll stals L foue yors comuent | e have, baen ciroged from uh very o7 10,00t b i & WALLACE. J. T. DALE. they were willing to nsa SnERIDAN 88 o wit- Ry would of necessity bo rapidl; ng the 4th of March, . HANNIDAL Ny | and then; but wehave neverceascd to wish for a 205 i ), there ever Leen much affeee : }‘.}{if,‘,{‘nw)\’,‘-m,‘,_? ASE MAN'E'G COMPANY: | ez bt when gm eamo to that part of his :3;":8:: a n‘“}?o such variation frgm tho fv { of Maine, having recelved a majority of the whole | good understanding with them, Nor have weany ik tlon between tho origiual Secesslon Democracy ' 5. RONDINS & APPLETON, J ¥ 2 '8 | number of Electoral votes, fs duly elected Vice: | particulnr prejudice ogainst Turkey, oxcept that Total.. 1,030,166 3,283,370 | of the Bouth and the Unfon Whigs whom they . 8, NEW YORK WATCH COMPANY. testimony which :eng;\n‘cfidhtha Im:ihznnn lar proportionato values could be of long | Prestdent of the United States for four yeare, com: | wo wish to ace clvllization promoted In every part Deficloney 1 this Voie of iheso six States, 246,204 7. T0 N White-Liners ns ¢ banditti,” thoy wore driven duration. Both being o legal-tender, the dragged and bulldozed fato Sccesslon and Re. dearer metal would be let nlono and the RENT. # WM, C. DOW, A.J. DROWN. W, ROBBINS. bellion. meneing tha 4th of March, 1801." of Europe. 1f you wiil consider the vast political Theso figures tell the whole story of tho . WRIGHT & TYRI T'he busines$ for which tho two Honses were as | yuferest fnvolved in thie Eastern question, you | manner in which the South was bulldozed into a cornor from which there wasno logieal ———— . o sembled having been finished, the Senate will now | will, I doubt v t i The Cincinnatl Commercial d at 0 f’;{fi{fifi'i gtknl;ltg é{fl‘?; Dep't.) eseape. Snzrsxmm on. Wrrrs nnd BnEnipaN | choaper used. Thero conld, moreover, ba | rut R T own chomber, g‘“;em n‘;!“nm “:.‘-“:Fm';; n:“;’ I"I“fl'; :n:"’e‘r'::. for Tiuoex, Ronms of affdavits will not do | rxarnsors, untll the Lo’,.d,,'“ Times come uaunnfx': : 3 D, COOPER. on Intimidation wero conflicting nutliori* | no exportation of silver and gold on specula- | " my o gonate headed by tho Vice.President | another. swoy with thom, They roprescnt precisely ‘mm‘ Al .:'..5‘{’:‘: l‘l’:: W"("‘i:tr.m::cm uxi_e‘l:nln:? en- 1 W. BRIDGE, ties which thoy did not succeed in reconciling, | tion; wherever the motals were taken they | oo o, m;' {hion ratired from tho hall. Tho most significant featuro of this re- the voto suppresecd by threats, intimidation, | hasof Lorrowing sowe ono pi gt o g NIAL PUBLISHING COMPANT. and the Republican debnters were not back- | would, 18 money, hove tho same valuo,—15} cinnal Times, The Times' chronology Is crroncous. Tho next mornfug after Col. INGERSOLL made his specch in tho Republican Convention present. On tho seturn of tho Sonnto to its own | markable speech is the officlal nasuranco it and rifloclubs. They show oxaotly how chambor, Mr, TavMousy submitted a resola- | conveys that tho nlliance between Austris, States liko Miseissippi and ‘l\(;“hm“-- which tion that a committee of Senntors and Rep- | Russin, aud Germany yomains unbroken. Xo atafair, freo olection would certainly bo + | ward in taking advantage of the wenkness and inconsistency of thoir opponents on this subjoct. In the course of tho discussion of silver to 1 of gold, Part of any nnd of every syatem of coin. age should bo the utmost freedom of coinage, Ly the Republicans, were made to re~ 3 resentatives bo appointed to notify Apgamast | even goes beyond this, aud conveys the ad- carried by P ing Blaine's nome for President, the Com. l;m‘}.xgil\'"‘l;:gfign Got, Grnyiztn sdministered o very mevers [ Auy mau l}nving either silver or gold. should | yovoonx and BA:I:Emu. Hasrawy of their elec- | ditional assurance tlm'.’ there ia no disposition | 4T majorities for TrLpen ; Low the Repub- | mercial was quite enthustastic of l,l.\e'lpcnkcr a,:nl 25, ASSOCIATE EDITORS. . and woll-mrited robuke to Gen BanstN for | havo tho liborty to taka it to tho minb sud | yio "0y st s adopted, and’ subsequontly | on tha part of Garmany for a disturbance of Hean majority was reduced in Louisiana and [ the speech. The edltor sald that, if ever ha 20, L. C. EARLE. indulging in war-talk at o timo when, a3 lie | havo it exchanged for coin, At the presont |, Houso adopted the snme resolutions, and | her friendly relntions with Englond, or for tho Republican voto in tho other States | had n candldate he wanted nominated for o7, W. J. BARNET & GO, - | &ald, such o speech was * esteulated to fira | time, thongh silver bullion is warehoused by i < : 3 pamed cut down. 'The 246,204 votes defi. | President, he would sccure Bon INgEnsoLL 1 28, WILLIAM DLOSS 8 this closed the whole business, ontongling her in a war with Russia, and A e 4. A. MCELDOWSEY, | Powder-trains that lead fo tho magazines of | tho ton in this country, the law does nobDor- | .7, Tl seen that tha entire proceedings, | that should the latter event ocour Germony clency in tho poll in these six States should, | 8dvance fo make the presentation-speech. It 20 WEDPATI LYCEN DUREAU, public pnssion,” ond when * thoughtful | mit its colnage,—notually prohibits its being | soyowing the long line of precedenta wora | will be rondy to contributo hior good officos | 12 order to truly foot up the popular vote, l‘?’::;}':n;:"“‘ll’&;f::“‘fnflg o::{fis:i:hu wll:m: ?’Iu s, W. W. DEXTER, men in both partics should try to keoppublic | coined into dollars and tho smaller silvereur- | .\ ijqted and gavernod wholly by an order | 8s o nedintor botweon them, - Such o swoop- bo ndded to tho Havea column. THO | yonryyy and ts candid enuughpto contoss . 3, GEONGE L. THATCHER, sentiment in a calm equipoiee. renoy. It must romnin idlo in tho hands of | 135,400 1y both Houses, and having, there- | ing declasntion s this, mada officially na the suggesiivo fact is apparont upon the | Giyothe d— man bis duc. ‘ 35, NIGHT EDITON, e tho holders or be oxported to other countries " § i thal bt ¢ th faco of tho figures in BSouth Carolina T e g to sent by W, G, Doy, | Nothing that recklosa sud unscrupulous | wharo aoro liberal polly prosall. fory tho forse o . Tt e e Trent ol cossion. thar homlty, if 1t | What reduction bosides hould bo mado from | The Duldo Commerdal Aderiier sage: Roow 8. oy A audncity can accomplish will bo loft undone | ~ Congress should not pormit another month provines, o/ o Y qat ility, : {0 ngreo now on o jolnt regulntion to govern | comes, will be locnlized ns betweon Russin the voto for TrmozN as Sgured up by the the grpmcm:d!ng, and in tho absenco of such | and Turkey. Tho Chancollor himeclf gives u‘{m"“m"“"'sl’“:"g‘“';i or ibha?. The joint rule the wholo businoss js dovolved by | this sssurance in tho following memor- total vate of Bouth Caral hm‘ “‘ o ratlo tho Constitution upon the Presidont of tho | able words: *Supposing the Confercnce of tho full voto to the entiro popu. Sonate, Q is wrecked by the disagrecment of the Pow- Jation should h“"" beon 156,801 But === ers or tho nnwillingness of Turkey to yield, the vote roturncd was 182,778,—which ex- THE MIOHIGAN SENATORSHIP, tho war that may possibly ensuo need not plnins most satisfactorily how the Domoeratio #Onp of the most offensive Congressmen in his assaults upon the Administratlon fs cx-Gov, ‘WALRER, of Virginia,—n man of fine presence, but very limited abllities, and who owes his polltical guccess entirely to Gen. Manoye, rall- way-magnate of the South, WALKER was most humble In urging the conservative Republicans Dy the Ring majority in tho County Doard to negotiate $1,000,000 of bonds without Adelphil Theatre. submitting tho issuo to a popular vote as pliontue strcel, corner Dearboru, *'Jack and (60 | required by law. A resolation authorizing uwp Shic Mot such {ssuo wag pnssed at the last meeling by Clurk strecs o EPuad Handeiph, Miberata | & voto of 11 to 4,—Messra, Avans, Firzoen. to poss without pnssing tho bill now in the Bonate dirccting the coinngo of a silver dollar of tho ald stondard, and making it a Jegal- tonder, To this should be added a provision for froo nnd unlimited coinage. At the snmo time, Congress should adopt the recommenda- TAMUSEMENTS, G 5 B : 4 to support him when running for Governor. . and Irlah Comiedy Company. ALD, G.nmrm:n, and SexNg boi.ng the only | tion of tho Becretary of the Trensury nuthor. 1t is gratifying to noto from thotoneof | \oiume Europesn dimensions." Perbaps no wajority in Edgefield and Laurens Counties | They did so, and, when elected, he made him- ' Itaverlyn Thentre. Commissioners who voted against it. We | jzing tho coinago of §80,000,000 of subsidi- | the discussion of tho Senntorinl question by singlo political utterance during the year has excoeded the whole number of voters inthose self disgusting by pavdering to the extreme Lind the effect upon Europo that this speech counties, Tho figures from these seven Tandolgh street, hetween Clark ond Lasalle. Cal- | hinve fall faith in Mr. Huvor’s porsistent: re- Democracy. He now out-Herods some of the ¢ ary silver. On this Inst measiro thero i3 no 1eilerd deorila asizeln fusal to sign theso bonds ns County Trons- A the Michigon Ropublican journals that thero division of opinion,Znnd, unless somo such is lttle doubt but that Senator Fenny will, 5 Sintes nlone show that the wholo of the ma. | Sontbern fire-caters, although he never had a f B 3 14 Staltian m':'&f‘“‘f;'t‘“ e L anit! St O until th validity of their fssuo shall | 1pg passes, thio country is liable fo bo over- | at the coming sossion of tho Logislaturo, bo :vun"{,‘;‘;f,';fl,fm’fg::&mfigu'f,f:{‘if,g jority on the popular vote claimed for T1z~ dallde's Worilh of {oteresy; gt tha Soutlibrfory ; **Our Boys." " | have bioen npproved, cither by popular vote | taken with a famine of small currency. Tha alooted to bo his own successor in the Unitad | yor ¢ thero bo one, will bo entirely local, | 2= W88 ihe resultof bulldozing and fraud, theclote of thia Wap,"t States Sonnte, There ought to be no doubt f — Rboatitatal, Thoposition which M, Fenne | Somomi e e oton that Gentionate | Theroia i o s ke holds as President of the Senatois ab this | Govornments, as well ‘as England, may look DILT flu::a{nti ol o x;uw nrr‘nnzomune in time a most important and delicato one, for | (ith ealmness {owards nppronching events, “‘fl'iu 5 rll: gh ::0:!; ly n'; n onlzlpornry 0X- the Quties of which ho §s well qualified, 80d | o1 that war, it 1t comes, will bo only alocal P“d N&‘; ‘; '{Vlll::xt :h n bd rusl Z’f lm'll:in onoss to which, with view to -the P’f:’m"“' calamity ; and it gives out an intimation, an ‘u &r r:l‘lgl 0418 600 O:Ifld‘:‘ all 289 tinl muddle, this is not the time o ""swap | yjch i still more important, namoly: that 5ot in sinco tho low ratos provailed ho would horses while crossing tho stream.” ¥o | fqy, t and a Lo protty suro to get his shave, owing to the should bo re-elacted if for no other reason ke miit wndarstond. Englud will st Tinlsted Bivert O) 1 . or by a judicial decision g{ving the Board a i Talsted n;‘c:t',cv:ulm.‘:t;r:rrllg:."u ‘the O Domlatos right to make tho issne without submitting ' By TR, e it to tho poople. We do not think it will be } 3 SOCIETY MEET H on easy matter to negotiate any bonds which fractionnl poper has been substantially ro- tired, snd the valuo of silver is approximat- ing that of the grdonbacks,—threntening o retirement of tho coin so soon as silver equals the value of the legal-tender paper. — s T —— The London ZVmes remarks: “The law- abiding disposition of the Amerlcan people Is oneof the noblest and healthiest of national characteristics, but, like every other virtue, It has its weak side, 'The politica of the Unlted Btates are perplexed aud contorted by the fo- cessant multiplication of quarrels over techufeat *points,’ and for these controversies the loose language of the Constitution supplics abundant the County Tronsurer refuses to sign for 7, I8, of P.—All members " Wi ¢ held on I rhia) ening, 20th s T0 2 L 0 It Vol dlection of urdoers. By prder. ony approacn ) ! J. BONNER, K, of 1. 8. tion can bo brought up for judicial doter- minntion in an ngreed case betweon the IMPERIAL LODG! COUNTING THE VOTES, In judging of what ought to bo dons, of tho powers and duties of the President of VELAND LODGE, No. Al —~The AF & A, innbility of tho other ronds to furnish tho 5 ' towaiation ot the slucers éleet mg:h?unAnd co thin | County TTroasurer and the Citizons' Associs. | the Senate and of the ;;m Houses of Con- | 4y "thors may bo no chango in the ll‘;:?lmrl: ;flyl‘:t:;l::;‘ (il;l;l:mx::;tl:n:“w&:n;g cava novessary, Thevo muy bo little somo- matter. 1 it T UE G R, HAZLATY, Sec'y. | tion in an opplication for an injunction | gress in regard toopening tho certificates Presidonoy of tho Benato nt the most | o ying oround tho combatonts, dnd that thing in this. We beliove shippers just now PERSONAL, i = S = agoinst the issue, If tlmfn ia'nny possible 4‘1;:(1 c;l;:!t;ngt the V;fl:i]fl x‘m‘l I’r!esid;)jn: n;lnd eritical juncturo, whon, if ho bo ro-cleetod t0 | (1o wae must not progrosa boy t;nd cartain | 2 * anxious to sooure onrs for acortaln | o0 Queon of England whl bo solemnly and THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1870. | mgans for defenting the Ring, it should not | Vice-President, o atatoment of Wuab H8% | 4hq gonate, it moy safoly bo assumed ho will | y5ungg class of froight that thoy nre not using thoir | magnidcently proclalmed Empress of India ab ' Do left untried, been dono heretofora may be pertinent and | 4 o 100t0q President of that body. Nore g it usual serating with rogard to comparativo | Delui, Jan. 1. i 1 Groonbacks ot the Now York Gold Ex- — of interost, It should boremombered that | o'y o4 41 only, though itisn most cogent, THE PACIFIC RAILROADS. rates, But this will last only o vory short | Mrs. Gen. Landeris to produces dramatization §-. change yesterday closed nt 933, SILVER COINAGE. there has nover boon o case of disputed| oo why ho should bo ro-cleoted. Ho is The Governmont Dircotors of the Union | time. Tho Incronse of rates will of itselt | of lswthorno's *'Searlot Lettor*! attho Boeton — Tho Becrotary of tho Treasury clnima that | eloction, Thoro have beon eases whero cssantinlly o ropresentative man of his Stato, Pacific Railrond aro Francis B. Brewes, of | check the shipmonts, and it willsoon becomo ‘Theatre, next Monday. * l" The Common Council yesterday voted to | tho bonds issucd by the United States pay- | thero wora questions whetlier tho voto of a | (A % 3N e Sd the fntorosts of | Now Yorl, J. H, Mmsaup, of Nebraska, J. | more important to shippors to know what dl,fimsn“.:‘““'," TG el N b Fomantle T poy tho West Side Gsa Company $2 per sble—nnder the Inw in forco at the date of | State should bo connted or not ; but, na the po! 4 0 c flavors of Trish which io hins nctively promoted duringhislong | F» WiLsox, of Tows, J. G, B. HannisoN, of | road will offer the choapest rates than what public cnroer. Ao Congressmon he grew Indiana, and Joux A. Trooerts, of Connoo- ( yond will furnish cars the quickest, Then up o & prominont place in the House, and ticut. Thoso gontlemen have just made a | Ar, Vaxpeeninr and New York must snffer a8 o Sonntor ho has won for himself s higher raport to the Government, which would in- | the consoquences of his folly., Two yoars placo still, Ho {s n man who is not liable to dicato that thay aro thorepresontatives rather | ago the reccipts of flour and grain in Now bluster, nor to splutter, nor to ndopt any of the Union Pasiflo stockholders than of the | York wero 51,8 and of six otherscaports 48,2 {njuditions course, has » large and intimate Government. It iy a proposition, in effect, | of tho nggregato, while for forty-oight weeks acquaintance with affairs, is of unquestioned to onable tl:h rond to pay rogular dividends | of this year Now York's proportion was only ability and intogrity, ond should bo kept | 02 its 856,702,000 stock, which was distrib- | 45,6 and that of tho six other citios hd.4, whero hois. Tho Bay City Chronicle sums | ted mainly among tho Crodit-Mobilier Ring | Mr. VaxperoizT hns apparontly re-entered up the quostion when it saya: aud which represonts no cnsh investment, | upon s policy that contributed mainly to "Tho pooplo of Michigan have trlsd Mr, Frany, | Without any veforonco to the Govarnmont | this rotrogression in Now York's businoss, and no man Yna evor dared to hint that he bas not | loan which rendered the construotion of the | and if tho effect ianot percoptible immedi- proved falthful to every trust commitied to hls eaible, All the G e e e road po: e. ho Government can get | ately it will not bo long delayed. Of course boen placeils i 4 out of tho rond now is ono-half of the sum | tho loss of businoss to Now York is not fully :‘;,:";w, :efd ,:,"L fi,’ ::,:, ‘;:“,’l:f,‘:‘;',‘,‘:{;‘;‘,‘,’l,"‘_fii patd the road forGovernmont transportation, | ropresented by the transfor of grain receipta years' acryice, not one hes more carneatly, ably, | which moy bo withheld under the law. The | to other senports, but oxtends to merchanta and falthfully served Lis constitucnts snd dis- | effort mado by tho Government to withhold | jn all trades. Baltimore snd Philadelphin ol e Atkaliad st wop | (o ntirs, amaunt joarrenly - dus, " the | hinvo axialvautagoois Werleru-bomni frughis Homanty beating,or establlehied o Ligher reputation | Foad for Govornment transportation failed | os well, and can nndorsoll Now York by an for Integrity, purlty, and honcaty. Notono hns s | in the courts; and ng tho rond charges | amount equal to this advantage, if necessary. more honorablo record, whether yiorsonal, ofiiclal, | the Government the very highest prices for | Tho new arrangement affocts New York D B L oo | tl public: scrvies, th yithholding of half; | smusk'smod-thas it oos Olilengo, whith ot breathed agafnst his falr fame, payment stilt leaves it protty full compensn- | proteot itsolf ot the present rates, and it Is Not leas unequivocal is the indorsoment tlon for the work dono, Meanwhile the | for the Now York merchants to labor with r, Fenny recelvos from tho Grand Rapids | Govornmont has to pay tho interest on tho | Mr, Vanoenpur on their own account, Eagle, which says: . Pacific Rallrosd bonds, aud there is no pro- | though he probably won't pay much atten- Tho truo key to the abrolute faith and rellance fn | Vision for the payment'of the principal when | tion to thom until his own rond begins to him 80 carnestly maintained by the partlesn and | it shall becomo duo. feel tho disadvantny personal frionds of Mr, Feniy lies in the proof he H B el ot e sty o satoatt |y v mnulit: £hla obndition of thinge that Sy nd Qlschi tho Government Directors of the road sug- A notable public meeting was held in Lon- :’&élrl::;:“r:; :, h,‘:' ,‘,’l,:,fi";,,}",'e'd‘{il“,;‘,{‘:ff;,‘}f gest the establishment of o sinking fund | don on the 8th inst, to which the foreign Yo has Inbored falthfully, effcctively, and succesy- | Which shall accumulato $25,000,000 by tho | dispatches have given very little attention. fully, and boen trusty public scrvant, expirntion of the original thirty yonrs, This, | It is o matter of supriso that the cableshonld And in that siatoment, the Republicans of | thoy say, the rond will nccopt. ‘Weshould | have brought such meagro detalls, conaidor- Michigan will concur with an wnonimity | ¢hink it might, as this sinking fund is mado | ing the character and importance of the that should find oxprosdion in an unsnimous | conditions! upon the melling of tho same | great gathering. The meeting was composed vota of {he Republican members of tho Leg- | pmount of bonds, aad ss, in tho law, it | of delegateschoson ot hundreds of publio {slature for Lim on the firat Lallot, merely cancols tho Interest on tho Govern. | meetings all over Great Britain. to protest == ment bonds, and scourcs au oxtonsion of the | against the Tory programme of support for Pril Bomm’?lhl’l?iznmg' Dbold. Government loan, As it lenves the earnings | Turkey. It was s ropresentative gl:uherlng tinco Bastance, W customary bold- | o¢ 4 yond freo to be divided among the | of the anti-Turkish eloment, and included noas ““l‘:‘ "'“‘ll;‘;m"' ‘l’:‘ ““’“““““ Dis opinfon | gock for which not 5 por cent was | such prominent mon as Mir. GrapsTone, the upon y 0 po! lll 7 cx ; d“ Euaropo, in reply | oyor paid in, tho inforonce is n fair | Duke of Wesmainsren, Mr, Faworrr, tho to ““be““"'m ‘“D”“ o '1""“‘1 to bim by 8 | ong ghot this suggestion comes from the [ Duke of Anoriy, the Rov. Dr, Puszy, Mr. m“‘l‘;‘; ‘:f l“:“ °m;'l’lm"° V:,"ly in tho I“"i Jax Qovwp ring mow supposed to | Lowe, AL P., the Bishop of Oxford, and 5‘:' 3 °‘=l’n“ “‘;"' d o ‘1‘:"’ -on "“;F:"m” own tho control. It shows s purposo | hundreds of othors from every rank in lifo, du?.i:ac::bo “:; “!“‘m“c‘;':l" ‘:l'l':‘“!“ + gpfgg to carry out to tho end tho polioy which | Iho spirit of the meoting was expressed in b g D fgth ';’qm °“d ““ swindled the pooplo in lio construction, | the determinotion that tho country per ‘"’: ?cram |° "" aril, and it wos | 440,00 Qongrossmen to barter away the Gov- | should use its influence on the side ‘““"";” it tauutingl ’h“"’:id °'hm"‘ it this | ormont's original soourity, and has curiched | of the oppressed, and tho warning o xnl.urn] for the friendship lavished | o' umor of shrawd and unscrupulous oper- | to the Minlstry that tho mation “Pfi'“ "“’h{}“‘l‘ “"‘ 0‘;;":“‘““'; 2 T"‘"t orh""x" ators at tho Government cxpensa, would not tolerato A war on nny pretext 46 ":,' f wal:l“ n‘{l 9 “‘;:ck ‘""; ! ‘B Instend of ncceding to any such ono-sided | whatever for tho defonso of the Ottoman g:l‘;‘;aoam l(t:c:lo n‘::‘g:g'e o'f’ G:c“ ‘°“i © | proposition as this, it wall be well for Cou- | Empire. It was asolomn doclaration from b nsp(:ha e truuohe:l-"::m{x‘u:; gross to look up Judge Lawnenoe's bill, | the power bohind the throne that the Gov- olitical orisis nnld e mado the nfisxr o a providing & sinking fund for Government | ernment will be compelled to heed. It was flmnner that lén 10.d6ubt. 4516 tio phsitian security, which passod tho House by an | tho volce of the peors and statesmen, the Gormanywill cccupy in casathio resn‘z‘:tunm- almost unanimous voto last sesslon. What | men of lettera and aclence, the professors uenumf Taaiie w!’ e Mw“}: Trussta auq | has becomo of {47 What influences aro at | end clorgymen, sad tho lending commeraial !1’,‘"“ bt Siatle boloe a th ““‘“ work In tho Sonate which prevont the adop- | men of England, speaking publia opinfon e oiv e oo ‘:::mn anmutanl:l:m ;hllclh tion of gome measuro which shall, in part, | into the ears of the Torles in a mannor thoy Allibe ot ncla{ Ttitéredt 9 Dot ipon compensata tho publio for tho provious be- | could both Lear and comprohond, As'n dis. tha “umm‘l’ of. tho gonaral nmh?:lnpot trayol of its futerests fn denling with ‘the | play of national fealing, the London Zimes E ‘1‘0 towards the "g“’l Y 1 Pacific Railroads? According to tho show- | affirms that nothing like it hes- over occurred AROp0, S0 PORIILIO AT, 0 Posl- | 1, of tho Government Diractors, the grosa | in England before. tion of Germany towards tho Conforence i carnings of tho Union Pacifio hove nearly sl :.lu‘lll;alu:‘llrl hd:n:l:n :01:1'5::;«2 :x;il‘:d:’l:‘:::::mn’:;; doubled within the lnst seven yeara; 'Tn:‘ Dun;o;ti Pat lE:I‘" u; lavos true under- ! o a8 this progresslon has ady | standing of Knorr'a bill. It says: ‘' Procron e S s o ot vonceiaet| A llorm, aak sren. atoropiod: by Ienorea bil proflalie & eystent Joe. eolbine 1l Conferenco for the improvement of the posi | tho panic which alfected many other :,h,:hl‘lw";"'l ;‘"r‘l'fi""" 1:0 b‘h““"”"“'ml‘y tion of the Chrlstisns 1 Turkey,~n purpose to | railrond intorosts disnstrously, §¢ ‘is bt Wit n_.‘.’,ff"ui’x'i'in;‘;:ct".?.‘i}’,‘.f hich our Kuoror sud aut nalon willugly oor | fof (o prosumo that it will _ooutinue fa (b | + 3 i eacte, e, That the Consibution shull e boyond afl question, ' Thi aupport Iv Justisiod by | Tuture, and in that ovent it will bo better for | bo and ls hereby suspnded, aud that the Houso sympathy for our co-religionists and fur the pur- tho Governmont to rest upon its second | of Representatives shioll do as it ploases In ro- posa of civilization. mortgoge thau entor jnto tho new srrange. Rard to the counting of the Eloctoral votes.! " In m;o;her brief declaration the Chaucel- | mout proposed. DBub theso Direotors also The propo;d mn‘nl—zummon of the Dircct lor plainly intimates that thore must be | show that the surplus of gross earnings over o war if tho results of the Conferonco are not | the cxpenses uf“:lx’mmung tho road hEs been United Stites Cabli Campung aud the Arglo- Al ble C hicl i accepted by tho Forte, and that Russia will { more thau 40 par cent of the whole on the c;x:(';:::u::: 1,7 E::;::S?',;é:,:‘,:‘:f wm\: "nf: hove the sympathy of Gormany in that | average of eight yoars. On this showing | schcmoof the Qlobe Telegraph & Trust Com- vent, Ilosays: ¢ Itussia does not,"how- | thero is neither hardship nor injustico In ve- | pany, u speculativo coucern, to yecover losses ovar, ask our asslstance for that purpose, al- | quirlug 5 por cont of tho gross earnings to | from bad fnyestments, In other words, townake though no ono will expect us to interpose | apply on the indubtedness to the Govern- good its losses in telegraph atocks, it proposes our veto agaiust it, since cbjoots are con. | meut, if it can be done lawfully, Tho hard- mb""“‘ ““l" nbmmnu‘utlnn. l‘"""g“"‘l“;’ “fi":"_“' corned for which we are ourselves striving." | ship and injustice are found in the fact that mm'::xf.‘:“ 3:.«1"&:.'5“2:1’35 :u:: 5:; rfle‘: Upon the general question of tho relations of | uearly 10 per cent dividends on tho capital o) i on the public,~a result which always follows [ v b truth is, that 1y suy* Germany to Europe, tha Chancellor spoke | stock Lave been declared within the 1ast | tho absencs of competition,~aud this, to0, not- b:"’l:’,; Elf:f‘;: ::: a:".'m k";u“.: U:‘T;:‘fl'&l:fii i o uncertain manner, and in the follow- | eightoen wonths—stock that roprnonh no | withstending thet four or five thues as wnany | aud almoat nobody cared about it vota of -such Btate in no wise altered the ro- sult, the decision of tho point was evaded, This happened in the caso of Missouri in 1821, in the caso of Wisconsin in 1857, and in tho coso of Georgia in 1868, Thero have been uo less than twenty-two Prosidontial olections preceding the presont ono, and ox- copt thoso in 1808 and 1873, when the twen. ty-second joint rule was in operation, the procoedings attending the opening ‘and counting of the Electoral vote lnve been substantially tho samo.’ In the very great oxcitement precoding tho War, ond after several Btates had soceded, the timo arrived in the winter of 1661 for counting the votes for President given in the election of 1860, when -LiNcoLN, Brecxsknnay, Dovars, and Beuu were candidntes. We give from the Congressional Globe nll tho procoedings in Loth Houses of Congress on that occasion, and they ara all substantinlly the same as had taken placo during the provious govonty years of tho Union. . In the Scnate, Feb. 1, 1861, Mr, TrusmuLL submitted the following resolution: Resolred, That a committee bo appointed by the President of the Scnnte, to conalut of threo menie bers, to Join auch committeo as may be appolnted by the House of Heprosentatives, to ascertain and report & mede for examining the votes for Proul- dent and Vice-Presldent of the United States, and notifylsg the persons chosen of thelr election. On Feb, 20 this rosolution was adopted, and Senators 'I'nusnurn, Foor, and Latmax were appointed tho Committee. On the #amo day, tho ITouse agreedl to the resolu- tion, ond Messrn. Wasununye of Illinols, Apriax, Cnaia, Evy, and ANDERSON were ap- pointed®tho Committee on the part of the House, On Feb, 5 Mr. TruMpuLL reported the fol- lowing resolation : JResolved, That the two Tlouses of Congress will assemble In the chamber of the Housc of Repre. scntatives on Wednesday, the 13th day of Pebru. ary, 1801, at 12 o'clack, and the President of tho Senate ahall bo the prestding ofiicer; that one per- won bo sppointed o teller on the part of tho Benate .and two on the part of the liouso of Roprosenta« tives to mako & Hat of the votes as they shall be do- clared; thet the result shall bo delivered to tho Presldent of the Scnate, who #hall aunounce the #tate of the vote and the persons vlected to the two Houses mesembled a4 aforesald, which shall bo deemed o dec! lon of the pervons clected Presl- dent and Vice-Proaldent of the United States, and, together with 8 Jlst of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses, ¢ This resolution way adopted, and Mr, Trumpurs was appointed teller on tho part of the Benate. On the same day the Houso adopted tha game report, aud Messrs, E. B, Wasnsunye, of Illinois, and J. 8, Puewrs, of Missonri, were appointed tellors on the part of the House, On Fob, 13 the House directed that a mes. sogo be sent to the Bennte notifying that body that the Housoe was ready to recoive the Honate for the purpose of procecding to ¢ opon and conat the votes of the Eleotors of tho soveral Blates for President and Vico. President of the United States,” On the re- caipt of this message by the Sonate, Vico- President Bueoxinnioae aunounced that the business in order wag in roference to the couuting and declaring the votes for P'resi. dent, He added: ** The Chalr will stato that be usual order of provseding to the House of Represontatives Lias boen for the Bergeant- at-Anms to go in advance; then tho Soore. fary aud presiding offizor, with a messonger “bearing the votes; and then the bady of the Beuate. If thero be uo objection, that order will bo pursued.” Tho Henate then pro- ceeded to the Hall of tho Houso of Repre- sontatives. The record states that, at twenty minutes past 12 o'clock— ‘The Scuate entered the ball preceded by the Ser- geaut-at-Arms sud headed by the Vice-President and thelr Secretary, the members of the Uouse rielng 10 roccive them. I'bw Vico-Prenldent took Lis seut oo the sight of 1,000 foet for gas consumed by the city, this {hotr {ssue—in coin, bave become payable in rato to tako effeet Oct. 1, 1876, the dato of | gold, becouso sinco that time tho United Mr. Biuaaves' original proposition. 'The States have nbolished the silver dollar ss o Intter's recent offer named Doc. 1 as tho time | legal-tender, The argumont insists that, for beginning the now contract, nud it re. | dusing tho period covering the crection of mains to bo scon whother the Gas Company | the debt, tho eoiunge of the American silver will consent to datiug it back two months, | dollar (the only silver coin & logal-tender) hind been suspended, and silver was only Wo print this morning the sccond aud con- | theorstically a logal-tondor, while gold was “luding portion of the Cuamsennam-Ren- tha recognized standard, and was really tho eatnt intorviews, the first installment of | coin contemplated by the laws providing for which was given in Tue Trmuxe of lnst | the issue of the bonds, Taking this posi- Tuesday. It willbo seon that Gov. Omas- | tion, it follows that the Becvetary of the DBERLAIN entertaius no very oxalted opinjon | Trensury opposes a return to the bi-metallic of the Burin and Gan strike of South | legnl-tender or donble standard, The argu- Carollua politicians, and that he does not | mentupon which this policy rests is falla- lesitate to place npon Mr, Trubey individual- | cious, In the firat place, the reason why * 1y o lnrgo share of tho responsibility for the | the silver dollar wns not largoty coined nd did bitterness nnd violonce of the rocent canvaas | ot onter into general circulation was that it in that State. was worth moro than the gold dollar, That e e is, the dollar contnined pure silver in a suflicient quantity to command more gold than waa contained in the gold dollar. Belug worth more than the gold dollar, the silver dollar was hoarded or sold as bullion, Even when the farther coinogo of the silver dollar Was forbidden, in 1873, it was worth 102.8 in gold. All the legislation of Con- gress in regard to the poymont of interost or principal of the debt uses tho word *coin," and in no inatance refors to gold. Gold was the cheaper metal, and the Government having the option, it naturally was seleoted as the coin to bo used, but character-acting, "—which almost tempts the reader to inqulre whether an Irlsh bull was cover beforo plunged into anclent tircece. Capt. Boyton lately accomplished the feat of swimming down the River Po from Turinto Fer rars, 8 distance of 800 miles. He mado several stops on the way, but accompilshed two distances, of 200 and of 280 miles, without a brenk. Prorldent Smith, of Dartmouthk College, has re- slgued becauso of lli-health. The Trustees, how- ever, decline o accept his resignation, and give the Doctor o vacation, though he thinks ho shall never be ablo to reaume the dutles of the office, Noah Brooks® ** Boy-Emigrants* {s spoken of a% ono of the vory best of the boys® books uf the sea- son., It isantory of hls personal exporlences on the Overland Itonte fn 1849, Mr. Brooks is now one aof the chiof writing editors of the Now York Times. The retirement of John Rolly from the leader- ebip of Tammany 1lall canses a great fluttering among the politicians, and there ia considerable anxiety to know who the coming man la. The cholce wiil devolve upon tho nowly-elected General Committee, which will organlze early in Jonuary. Mre. Mason's novel, ‘*Mac Madden," Is thus commended by the London dcademy, a high crit- fcaY authiority: **A pleasanter story (considering it alightness) we never yead. ‘Of courso therd wero English who scowled at the Americans,’ says our author somewhery; but wo don't think, judg: ing from her book, that wo should be In the ullghte est danger of scowling ot her, orat her herolne." ‘Weston has been beaten In a walking-match by thres Engllsh pedesteions,—his ongagement betug to mako a longer distance In alx days than his come petitors could, allowing two doys' contlnuous walking for eachoneof thent, Ile accompllshed 400 miles, and his oppononte 480 miles, 'Tnere fad suspicion thiat he did not do his beat, O°Leary, thy Chicago pedestelan, now in Englaud, ay chulleng- «d Weston to walk for §2,500, The Orleans Princes have recovered 1,200,000 france more of thelr anclent property, con: of a numbor of canol-shares, which were gl the Flrst Napoleon to tho Leglon of Honur, After tho Hestoration, the Assembly decreed that these sharcs should Lo returncd whengver the Leglon should be out of debt. The. Princes, having sinco Leon mblo to prove that there was sshort thme, many years ago, when the Leglon waw not In debt, have obtalned an order of court returping (o property to them. It i rather an astonishing thing to hear that Mr. John McCullough, the popular (hentelical manager and nctor, who long slnce passod the age at whicl youhful indlscretions aro easlly pardoncd, had been writing and compoaing & sony called **1. Year Has Come and Pawsod.” Tho feelings ol gratitude which awell tho "heart of youug bache- Tors, in view of thls interesting circamutance, may well bo shared by Mr. McCullough tmt he ls hard- 1y justifed In expressing, both in poetry and music, his private joy. Tho demand of Austria for the. extradition of Henrl Diendonne Plerrou de Trouvillo hav be¢n complled with by England, He Ju tho young mas charged with having thrown his wife over a preci- vice un the Stelvlo Faxs, for the purpuse of obtain- Ing possesalon of her propesty. Thu evidence of the trath of the charge was very sirung; aud, althongh England fe not under treaty-obligutions lo aurrendor one of her own subjocts on u demand for extradidon, sho has never deprived herself of the sight to do s0, and i this Instance chooses toald tha cotrse of juatice by turning De Trouville over to the Austrisn authoritles, Ina now editlon of Wesloy's hymns, lately pub+ MNehed In England, tho liue, **The dark Amerjvous convert," in the Hymn for tho llenttien, has buen changed, and the couplut now reade: T ‘Tho Saturday Reviaw 18 wroth with the suthor of thenew verelon, charglug Lim with sickly seutl: mentallsm. It 18 plain that anybody of sense nevd takeno offense at the phirase **dark Americans,” on tha score of its reflection upon the nationi tutsome people, who donot know that Weales and Sankey aro not products of the wame gyners~ tion, may be righteously puzcled to declde what kind of Amerlcans **dark Amerlcans ™ ure, Out might suppose that tho words woro o uphemleut for negrors, or for disty Amerlcans, or for the brunstte branch of the notlon. Mew not conver: sant with the circumstances would jmagine that Wenloy intended s referonco to the unceators of ©gitting-Bull” and **Capt. Jock.™ 1f there i one ihlug moro swusing than the chango of the lne, 1t fu tho excitoment of the Saturday Reclews which traditionally foamsat tho mouth when the word American is mentioned, 1t scems tu labot under the erroneous fupression that & large part of the Awerican uationls fua state of suppresscd pleasure in conseyuence of the violence dune t® Tho slmost unpracedented duration of good sleighing in Chicago has proved a tomp- tation too strong to bo resisted by the law- abiding citizen who owns a fast horso nud o nontcutter, and the result has been a very gen- oral tendency to ignore the city ordinance pro- hibiting fast driving. A resolution looking to the enforcement of this ordinance and the spoiling of au immenso quaatity of rare sport was introduced in the Common Coun- cil yesterday, and reforred to the Committeo on Police, and if it should bappon to slum- Ver there for a time, say until there comos n thow and he slaighing be spoiled, thero | jt wny a mero selection and not an would probably beno very extended com- | cxclusive adoption of gold. The funding nct plaint, as it does not appenr that auy extra | of 1870 provides that the bonds issued under injury to lifo or limb has attonded thisox- { that act «hall bo payable in coin of the ceptional poriod of enjoyable sleightug, weight and fineness dofined by the lawa of N TR N = tha United States in force at the date of that It is now regarded as cortain that the | gy This included silvor dollars of tho Houso Comunittoa sent to investigato tho | yejunt of the thon legaltonder dollar, and South Carolina clection will presont o unani- | ¢),e4s Londs nro exprossly payablo in coin le- ;um:a report ithnt the Ilaves Elcotors woro | gat ot that time. airly clected; while as to Florida it s | ™y 4 t1is doen notin tho lenst oppose any sinted tht n recount of tho volo in nccord. | 0 why the silver dollar at its £d weight anco with the mandate of tho Bupreme v shall not bo recoined, and be made a logul- Court will raverso the result as to Btalo | /' 0 "0 it had been from 1795 to 1878, ofticers, and show tho Democratic candidates | to ba elected, but under the rule laid down ll‘l IS naves Wae b mt:ro W eised: prooeed; by tho Court, th oting: svil) shiow. an ne | PE than the domonetizing of silver, It wns s e RO 8 n t of wenk judgment, and was an unpa. croased mnjority for the Haves Electors, "m" ag! d b " hsehi : though tho vote for Proxident is not to be in- ictio‘ast, il o whoss ulushiovous efut cludod 4n tho new convass: Taoolslans 6 should be remodied at once by a pru:x{pt " now tho forlorn hope, aud unless the Benate x;uior;t:?n of itha lal-mn!nll‘:u icnlnn;i;o. i e und House Committeos agree in declaring uitod Btates aro futercstod n aaintainivg that thero was o froo aud fuir eloction in that thodomand for soversl products of which they Htute, aud thot Mr, TrLoex is entitled to the :’::Zztlggu‘::;‘;lcf l‘:’ml::]:;’:;fu :‘::::“l::t: D y y ] ) Fieotors! ww-‘fl’ o oo lowm, and silver. Each pound of these pro- Tho subject of “optional studies,” om- duced aud sold is an addition to the national bracing instruction in Gennan, music, and | weslth, Logislation Laving for ita effect or drawing, has finally been disposed of by the | purpose discrimination agalost tho general Chicago Bonrd of Education by the adoption | use of any of these articlos of American pro- of a rule pormitting parents or guardians to | duction must certainly bo regarded as bad determing, at or before the commencoment | Policy, and ss aimed ageinst tho general j, of each term of tho primory sud grammar prosperity. In abolishing tho uso of silver i schooly, whether or not tha pupil shall pur. | 368 logal-tender coln of tho United States, i suo theso optional studies, but, huving be. | Congress, uuintontionally or otherwise, | = i L ~. LT s gun thom, 1o pupil shall bo excused during | stuck o Llow not only at the intor- thot term oxcept for reasous satisfactory | edts of our own miues, but at the to tho Buperiutendent. Under thi Dest intorests of the nation generally, Gold compromise nobody's child will be and silver have furnished the world with compelled to learn Qerman, musie, | mouey from time immemorlal, Tho use of or drawing, but the privilege of the two metals hos been univorsal, Though full instruction n thess importaut and valu. | ot times the ono or tho other hos been ablo studies still romaing a notable feature fu | adopted by particular nations, the two have " tho common schools of Clhilcago—n featura | continued to supply mankiud with money, which our citizens can be proud of, and for | Neither metal has over beon produced in “}i which thio rising genoration will have couso | sufliclent quatity to moct the whole demand, i 1o be grateful in after years. and both have beon required. As has been —e e e froquontly shown, tha relativa valucs of the The Chicago producenarkets were irvegular | two motals Lave been maintained with but yesterdny, with moderate nctivity. Moss slight variations for centuries. So slight hns . pork closed o shade firmar, ot $16.55@10.67} | beon thuse variations that the relative value j for Januury nnd $16.80@10,82) for Febru- | has been ascertained with groat cortainty, ury. Lard closed 7)@100 per 100 Ibs Ligh- | and this proportionate valuo has boen 15} er, at 10,82} @10.85 for Jauuary sud $10.95 | parts of the one to 1 part of thaother; or @10.97} for February, Moaty were uetivo | ono cunce of pure gold is equal to 15§ ounces