Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO 'TRIBUNE: THURS]EDAY, JANUARY 11, 1877. & TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BY MAlL~IR ADVANCE—FOSTAGE TREPAID AT Sheet . P 1 Wei tpald, | year,, WEEKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Postage prepald. + Brectmen caples sent free, To prevent delny and mistakios, be sureand gve Poste Tffice nddress In full, incinding State and Caunte, Romlitances may be made either by draft, cxpress, Fost-Uice order, or In reglstered lettern, atour risk. 7ERMS TO CITY SUNSCNIDERS, 25 cente per week. conta per week COMPANY, Chicako, I . Dafiy, delt eered, fanday excepted 11y, deilycred, Sunday Includ Iress THE TRIDU Lorner Madtson and Dearborn: TRIBUNE BUILDING DIRECTORY. Rooms. Occupants, 1. CHATITER OAK LIFE (Insurance Dep't. ), 2. TO RENT, & GUSTIN & WALLACE, J. T. DALE. 4. DUE MAN'F'G COMPANT. 5, ROBUINS & AVLLESO! Ew ORI WATCH COMPANT. N . BROWN. W, RODDINS, Wt W. BRIDGE. DLISILING COMPANT. 16. Ci 1AL 17. M. D, JIARDIN, 38-19. D, K. PEARSON 5. J. A, McELDOWNEY, UM BUREAL. 51, COMMERCIAL EDITOR. t. OE L. TIATCHELR T E . CITY EDITOMR. Otfices In the Dullding to reat by W. C. DOW. Room 8. Adeiphl Thentre. Monroe rtreet, corner Dearborn, Engagement of Gharlota stanicy. **Crime; or, The Car-Hook Sur- or,” Ilnverly’s Thentre, Ttandotph street, hetween, Clark and LaSaile. Ene gegement of Frank Mayo. **Lnvy Crockeit.” MeVieker's ‘Theatre. Mudion _street, hetwern Dearborn and State. ‘Engagement of John McCullough. **Corfolanus,” Ye Agademy of Music, ilalsted street, between Madlon mad Mooroe. Vs ety enteriaiument, McCormick Iall, North Clark street, corner Kluzfe, Lectureby O, 8. Fowler, **Belf-Culiure,” THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 187 Greenbacks nt the New York Gold Ex- _ changed to-day eloscd at 94}, Among tho bills of cspecial interest to ‘citizens of Chicngo introduced yesterdny in the Illinois Legislature vos tho Lill prepared *by tho Bar Associntion of this city, providing for the establishment of n District Court to be intermediate betweon the Circuit and Su- peror Courts and the Supreme Court, aud the new Revenuo bill deawn by Mr. I'naxcis Apas, and herotofore published in this pa- poor toextra. One hundred dollarain gold would buy €106.00 in greenbacks at the close. — The election by the Tennesrce Legislatura of Isnaut G. Hannis a8 United States 8enntor from that State angurs badly for the conserv- an original secossfonist and one of the moat rabid fire-cators, e was Governor of Ten- nesseo at the outbrenk of the Rebellion, and, though n majority of the people of his State had voted against secession, ho officially tcok the Blate over to the Confederacy along with its archivesnnd a largo part of its publio funds. There is not auother man in tho Bouth, searcely excepting Jers Davis, whoso treason-record is o odious. Io was nomi- nated as n Tizoey Elector Inst fall, but ro- tired beeause he was so obnoxious to a large part of the Tennessea people that it wos feared e would damage the Presidential ticket. That he hns Lecn elected United States Senator on the first ballot wonld scem to indicato that, if there are any couserve. tive people in Tennossee, they bave been badly swindled. Dispatches this morning regarding the Turkish situation nro peculiarly intercsting to those who desire to know the trne atate of affairs in that benighted country, Firstly and primarily tho listening world s informed that the Conferenco is likely to continue fta sittings in the lopo of convincing tho stubborn Mussulman of tho determination of the European Pow- era that the Porte shall do tho right thing for ita Christian subjects. Then we are gravely informed, and this whilo the Conferonce is solomnly deliberating, that Russion offi- cers have been dispatchod to Servia, via Noumania, to explore and fix upon o voule to Le taken by a Russian army corps which is supposed o ba on the point of strapping on its knapsacks preparatory to starting for the realms of Prince Mirax. On the heels of this nn- nouncement we are told that tho Russiang formerly sorving in the Servian army have left that provinco in disgust, and the Servinn Miunistry is in nfair way to make & scparate peace with tho tyrant at Constantinople, Whilo all thess important events are transpiring, tho Conforence is fondly belioved to have Leen an utter failure, all the diplomatic stitches are dropped, aud overything is confusion worse confounded. Concerning the Senatorinl situation at Springtield thero is no new development to note that points with anything like signifl- canco to tho final result. The soall coterie of Independents nro tho strong men of the struggle, nnd are doubly strong in knowing their strength and resolving to use it. They are closc-mouthied and shrowd as well, and %0 seerot have their counsels been kept that any attempt to tell what they have decided or are likely to decide upon would be little better than guess-work, They held o caucns of their own last ovewing, but tfo ncither Itepublican nor Domocrat have the proccedings been di- vulged. Of Gen. Loaax's prospeets it may Lo said that thero is no visible nlteration for better or for worse, and that unless a perfect fusion between the Independents and Demo- and it shall be ascertained nnder” that law that no person hag received the votes of n mnjority of all the Electors appointed, then, but not till then, will the Honse of Repre- sentatives have any right to clect the Presi. dent, If it procceds to an election befora s the Jumping-Jack of tho National IIouse of Representatives, has been subjecting him- self to an interview with a nowspaper corre- spondent, in which ha fully reveals tho Dem- ocratia conrpiracy to organizo the House into o Returning Board to scratinizo the Electoral vote. At first it was intended to rely upon the prima facie case, and it was for this pur- poeo that tha bogus vote for TiLDEN Was se- cured in Oregon, But By, Srmixcer says that ho and most of kis collongues have abandoned this ides, probably becauso tho villainy of tho Oregon job hias been exposed, nnd beeanse tho way ia which the Cronix vote was returned doesn't give the Democrats the prima facle caso after nll gramme hns been sufficiontly outlined in the Chicago Témes, and BraiNaen now gives his authority that it will be followed by tho Democratie majority in Congress. It is that, when the two louses coma together, and the Senate refuses the rcjoction of Louisianas vote when demanded by the House, ** then,” soys SpmNoer, ‘‘the Ilouse will consider that no cholce has boen 1eade, and proceed to tho election of a Fucsident itself.” Brrinaen does not protend {c pive any au. thority for such a course either in tho Con- stitution, laws, or precedent, as of course he could not; the programmo is simply revolu- tionary, and tho only question is whother ‘BrniNaen may be reganded as an authorized spokesman for his party, The only cxcuso o pretends to give for tho project is that tho ‘The new pro- Touse represents the popular sentiment ; bnt this is falso, sinco the presont House wns clectod more than two years ago, while the Houso elected lnst November showsa complete revulsion of popularsentiment, and gives tho Republicaus at least twenty-two aad probably twenty-three out of the thirty. cigit States, TUE MUNICIPAL DEBTS OF ILLINOIS. Wo have not the cxact fignres showing the nggregato of the municipal debts—tho debts of towns, countles, cities, and dis- tricta—in this State, but wo supposo it is safo to nsenme that it is not loss than $40,- 000,000, ‘This dobt benrs interest ranging from 6 to 10 por cont. The 314,600,000 of railroad -ald debt bears an average of over 0 per cont ; tho dobts of cities will averago 7 per cont; and the debts of school districts, towns, and countics bear varying rates of 7, 8, and 10 per cent. Wo eatimate, in the ab- senco of exact flgures, that the whols of theso municipal debts bear an averago of 8 por cent interest, leaving the an- nual tox for intereat on local debts about throe mfllions and a quarter of dollars. It is well known that these debis ara n gricvous hurden to those who owe them, and that in many instances it is so crushing thatall hope of pdying tho princi. pal bas been abandoned. In some in- atances the paymont of intorest has been stopped, and the effoct of the overwhelining dobt has been to akpreciato the valuo of property, prevent purchase and settloment, nnd hos actaally caused mon to gell out their collectod as other taxes, and ns collected would be applied to the purposes for which it was collected. The effect on the municipalities would bo most encoyraging. Assuming the wholo debt to be $40,000,000, and the averagoe rato merce, and with such a disposition of the money the T¥mes wonld evidently be pleased, ns it only hopoe is * that Congresa will give as mnch satisfaction jn distributing the £8,000,000 still at their diaposal as Gon. GaaxTenys the Commissioners have given.” during the racent Presidential campaign that one of the chief canses for the united action of the native whitos of the Bonthern Ststes was the hope that Democratic rule would open tho doora of the Treasury to Bouthern claimants for losses during the Wam Tho chargo went home and made so deep an im- pression that unusually vigoroua efforts were adopted to counternct it, and evon Mr, Tir- pEN was persuaded to brenk over the usual silonce of n candidnte for President and write n lotter to tho public pledging himself to discountenance all attempts to reimburso distoyal men for their war losses, ns well na to veto overy measure which Congress might pnsa for such a purpose. After tho assem- bling of Congress it was thought tobe a wise step, pending the dispute as to the result of tho -election, to still further allay public apprehension as to the designs of tho ex- Confederates, nnd a resolution was intro- duced into the House of Ropresentatives in- structing the Judiciary Committee to roport within twenty days an amendment to the Constitution providing that the Government shall nover pay any claim to disloyal men for property used, damoged, or destroyed by the United States troops during the Rebellion, It was noticeable that all the votes negativ. ing this proposition except two were by the Southern Democratic members, and that fact waa cited at tho time jn confirmation of the justico of tho charge made during the cam- paign, Thero is now a more striking illustration of the fact that the resolution, like Mr, Tiozx's letter on the samo subject, was meraly designed to deceivo the people of the North, for tho twenty days in which the Committao weroe to binve roported hava elapsed and not a word has been heard from thom. Tho resolution was mandatory, and it is an exceptional occurronco that a Com. mitteoflagrantly disregards n mandate of the House. But,oro than this, Mr. HuNTER, tho mover of tho resolution, asked the House Inst Monday to compel the Committee to report the amendment within two days, but tho request was defosted ona vote. Thus ends tho matter for tho present Congross, 1t is not likely that anything more will be heard of it. It is vory ovidont that, pond- ing ita consideration in committee, tho Southorn Domocrats in caucus gave notico that it must be dropped, reassorting the old power which the Southerncrs always wiclded in the Demo- cratio cancus befors the War. The Northern Democrats have in every way yiclded to the Confodorates. It is not sur. prising that they should, in view of Lhe fact that 1t is tho South which farnished the par. ty with tho bulk of their votes, and that tho Southern mombers form a majority in the Democratic caucus, ‘The point in intorest is that, it the South- ern members rofuse to permit oven tho pro- liminary roport of n conatitutional amend- ment ot a timo when this formal action might quiet publio apprchension, thore is little per cent interest, as would ovontnally ba the cnse, the annual tax for interest will be £2,000,000,—n saving of 81,200,000 n year, equal to tho paymont of the whole debt in thirty-threo years. But while this would be the measure of relief to the munieipalitios generally, the benefit would be folt toa much grenter extent in particular localities, as tho following illustrations will show : Six town- ships in Vermillion County owe a railrond. nid debt to the nmount of 2413,000, bearing intercst at 10 per cent. Under the chango of bonds the account of theso towns would ba: Whole deb. ..., - 413,000 4 Annual tax for intereat, Under the exchange of bon Annual tax for interest, 2 percent for principal Total ANBNAL BAZuusieieecses vaonsnees 828,010 There would pe a payment of the intorest and 2 per cont of the principnl, with n tax of 228,910, against a present nnked pnyment of interest with an annual tax of %41,300. Bangamon Couuty, and the City of Spring- ficld, and threo townships, owe n railrond- aid debt of $102,000, Of this sum, $150,000 bears 10 por cent interest, and $262,000 8 per cent. Its annual nccount under the present condition of affairs, and what it would be undor the exchanga of bonds, may bo thus stated : Present annual tax for interest. . $20.000 $35,100 Tax under exchange of bonda for interost. §20,100 Tax of 2 Dot Gent for PrIBEpILsseasors 040 Tolal A%, eveverersernes +e0ssn$28,140 An annual saving of $7,000 of tax, in. cluding an annual reduction of the principal of the debt and proportionate reduction of tho interest. Summed up briefly, the exchange of State ‘bonds for the outstanding municipal bonds would permit the reduction of taxation for interest to the extont of 1 per cont annually, and with the reduced taxation pay off tho whola debt, principal and interest, gradually but rapidly. Buch a scheme would conflue taxation to pay this debt to those who owe it, but it would enable these municipalitics to do that which wo groatly fear they will never be ablo to do otherwisa, Of conrse an approprinte, and it may be said necessary, part of this measure will bo a peremptory restriction on the creation of any moro municipal debt. This extraordina~ ry uso of the Btato eredit to onable these municipalities to get out of debt can nover bo permitted to be used to onable them to got into the mamo condition again. 'Tho ¢ pay-as-you-go " syatem, alrondy compulso. ry because of the shamcless extravagances nnd the abuacs of the powor to creato debta by selling bonds, had better;becomo tho ab- solnte rulo,—the only protection there is or can bo againat the waato and profligacy of bad local governmont ; and bad local govern- mont is inevitablo so long as thero is power to sell bouds and expend tho proceeds. THE ALABAMA INDEMNITY, ‘The Loundon Z'imes of Dac. 23 contains a or third time, The difference between wronght iron and east iron fs that tho former nequires a fibre and certain elasticity from the puddling, and it Is n question whother, with nga and undor conatant vibration, the wrought fron doca not loss this fibro and re- which will not, at some time and without outward sign, giva way under pressura or vibration. We know that most of tho civil engineors of the country are committed to a proforence for iron bridges, and that rail- way companics prefer them on account of cost, supposed durability, and less neccssity for watching, tosting, and ropairing; but, novertheless, there hnve been warnings enough to demand n mors thorangh investi- gation of the subjoct on scientifie principlos than has over been given it. In such ou in- vastigation it is not likely that the Chicago Z'imes will be called upon for its aid and advico after tho silly ignoranco and contra- diction it has already shown, THE SITUATION IN NEW ORLEANS, The situation in Now Orleans hns ita piti- ful and lndicrous, ns well as jis legal and illegal, ospects, The opposing forces con- {ront ench other in a very frantic and furious way with plonty of clubs, pistols, guns, Dlunderbuses, and cannon, and amplo dis- position to do violence, with the Govern- ment bolding cach party at arm's length by the cont-collar, This ia the ludicrous side ot the situntion, but there is a pitifal sido as woll. Why is it that part of the existing Stato Government has so suddenly crum- Lled away withont o blow being struck or any rosistanco being offerod? It has yielded the Supromo Court, tho police stations, the arsenals, and all thoe public property, oxcept the Btato-louse, to the White-Liners, with- out n touch. It tumbled down like a child's card-house at & mero breath, Just a pufl, and it wns gono withont the striking of n blow or the firing of agun! Tho secrot of this sudden tumble may be found in the fact that this weak Govornment leaned for support almost exolusively upon the de- moralized and bulldozed blacks, whosa very life hna been torrorized out of them to such an extent that thoy are not capablo of strik- ing bnck or offoring any resistance. The Na- tional Government evidontly seoms, inclined to do no moro than it is now doing. All that it feels incumbent upon it is to preserve the peace and prevent bloodshed between the two partics who aro wrangling, for possession of the Htata offices, Tho Prosident takes tho ground that he cannot step in and commence shooting either side until the public poace has been broken, And this brings us ngain, as it has many times beforo, face to faco with the fact that there is lt- tle prospect of maintaining the Republic. on party in Louisinna, or any other Southern State, until there is & very considerablo nd- mixture of whito Ropnblicans in the party. When the whito population of the Btato divides up into parties with any dogreo of evenness, then the mass of the blacks will side with that part of tho whites who most noarly favor thoir intorests and sentiments. Buppose, for instauce, thero had beon 25,000 white Republicans in Lounisiana, instead of & mero 2,600 or less, to support the blacks, There would not have beon any such situg. — e i the time-honored relation of 16} to 1, If w, dosira toretain n'double currency, we mnat not dopreciate ono of its constituents. T, do so wonld Do to repeat the provions mis. cnlenlations of our coinage, which at ong time gavo us silver alone and at another M8 OFPICE. this, the nction wiil be revolutionary, of intercst 8 per cont, tho presont annual - ————— nequiro the brittleness of cast iron. If it | gold alono, but mnover yot & true doubly ity Editt ative sentiment of Southern Democrats which T ———————— tax for interest is 23,200,000, In onse these THE D F THE S80UTH. does, then it is not possible to build iron | standard, i"fl'fi{fi'm'. e/ fom has been ro nesiduously claimed for them by | Dint, Beixaze, of Illinois, botter known | Londs bo replaced by tho State honds ot s _ It was froely charged by fhe Ropublicans | priqges under any system of construction Buday Edito L“"""’:__""‘ Mehin their Northern allies. This man Ifanns was The Btato-Soversignty Domocrats are up. ablo to contain or ropress their engerness to avow their political dogma until they es whether their man Truosy will bo ‘{naugurs. tedor not. On Monday last Mr. R. Q Miris, of Texas, moved to suspend the rules of tho Houso and adopt the following: Resolred, That the maintenance invlolate of the rlghts of the States, and espcclally the nght of each State to order and control Its own domentle {natitutions according to its own judgment cx. clusively, Is esscntial to the balance of pawer on which the perfection and endnrance of onr politics) fabric depends, and wo denounce the lawless 1p. ‘aslon by armad forco of the soll of any State or Terrltory, no matter under what pretost, as among the gravest of crimoe. The dispatch goos on to report that— The second reading was called for, when My, Kansox suggested that 1t did not contaln the worls *‘subject to the Federal Constitution.' Severs) members on the Democratic slde Who did not seem 1o apprave the policy of offering such a resolation suggested to Mr, IfoLyAx to move nnadjonrnment, which he did, while on tha Republican slde & sug- Restion went around to appose an adjournment ang forco n vote on Lhe resolutlon. The motion to ad. Journ was defented, 70 to 05, and a vole waa taken on the motion to suspend the rules and adopt the redolution, It was lost—yeas, 107; nnys, 82, Tho atmonunt of tho mnitor is, that the Democratic-Confoderate House earried resolution by 25 mnajority, which avows aa bold noything State-SBoveroignty doctrine wg evor ndvocated by JorN C. Cav. nouN, The resolution for which the Demo. crata voted olovates the State abovo the Nation, and places tho marching of National troops from ono part of tho Union toanother, by order of tho President, on constitutional business, %among tho grontest of crimes,” and denounces it *“ns alnwless invasion of tha soil of a Btate.” 'The supporters of the resalution promptly rejocted Kasson ment of 'amend. the words * subject to the Federal Constitution,” Tho resolution rules out tha jurisdiction @ tho National Government, ond ,treats it ns an alion enomy. It alsoin effect deniea the Conatitution as the suprems law of tho land, higher and paramount to Btato Iaws and regulntions. The territory of the Union coverod by loenl State Govern. monts is mado sncred and holy ground. Be- fore the Robellion wo used to hear of the **sacrod soil " of the States which protected, tho “ peculinr institution.” This sacred-soil ideats in ty aa n Domocratic dogma. Lot tho princie ples of the Miris resolution be enforced, nnd how long will it bo boforo slavery will bo ro-established in Toxas and other cotton States? Deforo the olection the Democratio demngogaes in Congross would aa to touch Miws’ resolution in any other way thon to Iay it ontho table, or consign it to the pigeon.hole of a Committeo; but now that the that cnn havo Leen secured, they are no longer bash. ful or timid in showing the cloven foot. Iow do TiubeN Republienna liko Mirrs’ resolu. tion, which froats the National Government asan alien, and sets up the local Govern. o fair way to bo rovived into actisi- soon have handled red-hot iron a3 clection {s” over, and all the votes be obtained under false pretenses ¥ 9- monts as independent sovereign powem, ‘whose sacred soil it s among the gravest of :¢ crimes for National troops to tread, and for doing which thoy are to be denounced aud troatod ne “Inwless fnvaders” ? long articlo upon tho sottloment of the Ala- Lama claims, with which upon the whole it’ professes to bo eatisfled. It will'bo remem. bered that tho Arbitrators originally awarded the United Statos $15,600,000, s n sottle- ment of thess claims, and that tho Commis- slonors to mako tho awards have distributed about $10,000,000, having a surplus of #3,600,000, upou which thore is no individual clnim that is allowablo. At fimt it would appoar that thero {s n disoropancy, and that Grent Britain hod paid five and a half mill. ions more than is nocessary to satisfy the claims, The Times, however, polnta out to itareaders tho very natural distinction that, whilo the Arbitrators considered the respon. aibility of Great Britain with reforence to all the cruisers which had committed dopre- dations and the direct destruction of prop- doubt that, oncoe in power, with n Prosident and Congress to command, they will avail themselves of their opportunity for pushing their claims, and squandering thousands of millions of dollars of public monoys in re- warding former traitors. It is very evident that the danger is not over by any means. farms ot o sacrifice and movo elsewhere where tho land wns not mortgaged so heavily. In 1869 tho Legislature onncted what was afterward ‘termed the *‘grab law,” under which all State taxation on valuations in ex- cess of those of 1868 was retained in the Treasury, to Lo applied to the payment of the railrond-nid dobt. The injustico and ju- equality of thw law, in transferring to the whole State the payment of local debts, led to the Iaw bLelng sot aside as uo- conatitutional Ly tho Supreme Court. Tng Curcaco 'Irinuxe opposed that law and made war onit from the doto of its onactument to tho day of its virtual ropeal, not bucausoe of any hostility to the indebted municipalities, but because of ita injustico to others. We aro keenly nlive to the present distvessed condition of many of tho counties, more of crats can bo prevented, it is not easy to dis. covar tho Rource of the strength necessary to sccuro Lis election, Among the names most recontly mentioned in connection with the Senntorship is that of Stoxcy Ssutu, of Chi- cngo, n n Itepublican eandidato aceeptablo to that element of the Republicans who would prefer that the defeat of Loaax should not necesanrily involvo the defent of the Repub- lican party, and Judge Davin Davis, of the United States Supreme Court, a3 o candidato upon whom the Independonts and Democrats ean unite, tion in Now Orloans ns there {u to-day. Thers would have beon no bulldozing of blacks, nor would thoy have been forced to vote the Domocratio ticket, take a beating, or fly from their parishca. Thera would have been no question about the election nt all, It would havo Leon as fair and froo as the clection in Illinois, and the ryesult over- whelmingly Republican, As matters stand, it looks as if thera can bo no peace or prosperity in that State un- lesa tho color line {s sbolished nnd the blacks are absorbed in two competing white partica,. Thero appears to be no other practical remedy for the chronio ailment of Loulsiana, per. Tho iden of n compromise botween the B contending forces of 'acranp and Nicironrs in Louisiann wns embodied in o resolution offered in tho Republican llousa Ly Mr. . Wansors, providing for the appointment of ;% n committco conmiating of five from tho House oud three from tho Senato to confor with a eimilar committeo of the Nicnoris Lygislature, and devise 84 soon ns practicable mensures to seeure n lawful and penceful rettlement of the exist- ing contest for the possession of the Stato Government. The resolution went over un- der the rules for nection lereafter, and no chango in the aspect of affairs ot New Or. in tha dispatches, MoxTaomeny Bram, a rencgaido Republican, hos started o so-called Democratle puper fn Washington callod the Unlon, The chief busl- ness of the organ at prescut is to crack o partl- san lash over the lieads of such Southern mem- bers as have exhlbited pacific tendencles and a distuclination to rush thelr section into another civil war. A Washington dlspatels, speaklng of Bram's bulldoziug dlatribes, says: The new Democrutic orzan In Washington, thy Tnlon, edlted by MosTaowzny Dran, has been cxceodingly restive for the last weel umler the evident tendeney of the Southerners Lo cat loowo from the Northern Democrdtx, Tho paper bst contained trequent articles flied with tho most abusive denunclations of all who are Inclined 1o adsiit that there fs unly one way—mamely, by con- IRON BRIDGES, Wo had thought that the discussion about tho relative merits of iron, wooden, and stone bridges brought out by the rocont Ashtabula disaster would be likely to throw some new light on the subject of bridgo-building, nnd nsalst in dotermining the euperiority and re- liability of ono or tha other for railway yses. But so long ns nowspapera like the Chicago Times axe manipulated ench by two cdilors of n difforont opinion, or change with any It is very ovident that the Democrats in Cougress have abandoned all idea of claim- fvg any rights by reason of Cuoxty's bogus vote. 'The evidence that it wns procured by bribery, and the tracing of the bribe-money HOLLAND THE BIL' QUESTION, Holland is, proportionately to ita aren and v Othor Sountorial con ewiden that fu | 50 nearly to the Dewoeratio candidato for | th towns, ond of n large portion of tho | orty oceasionod by thom, the Commissionory | ** infiucnco " that may be ronght to bear on | population, tho richost country in tho world. | Mitational yresnezus deal ity i Frouentsl } Tinola aro sufliciently vigorous and uncer. | Presidont, would, if thero wera nothing | cities, and, nfter maturo deliberation, aug. | 4ave had to decido Low far individuals wero thom, thero {8 not much hope of newspaper | 1ta financlors aro amang tho ablest in exist- I}::I{innrln,::l"lunl’f:,lllfi'tl::l.l‘;y‘:;:u:fi:c::g"rmlficllmlll'. {: tain of insue to attract general attention, In | o180, rendor it too scandalous nsa basin for | gewt n practical mewmro of rollef, which, | dsmoged, and to sdmit clalms only so far as | iscussion contributing toany fuprovemonts. | ance, and todsy, ss for generations back, | JRCEL MG RRIVEINT REFGURARUTE, (A 1 theMussachnsotts racebetween Senntor liovr- | electing and insugurating o President; | whilo it will enablo theso municipalitios to | they could bo substantiatod. After th lapso | We subjoin samples of tho iutolligent and | operato in the most jnportant financlal ne- come the Innlde mantvulater of tho Republican varty, a1d that to accomplish hin mysterfoun pir- 0ves o has put on fuol A move for an alllance bee ween tho aderatu ftepublicany of th Northand the Democrats of the South, ‘Pwo or three of theso articles have contalned attacks upon Mr. Laxan, with Insinnatiuns more or less broad that he wau seeking o position in layes' Cabinet, This undisgulised avnault upon Me, Lasan las createl quite n scnsation here, and that gentlemnn has Lut it is also apporent that Croxiy's bogns vote is not cortiflied to Washingtou in n manuer that ontitles it to nuy consideration whatever. Had Croxiy, after his appoiut- ment by the Governor, insisted upon acting with the two Republicau Electors, Canr- 1 wees and Geronaz F, Hoan the vietory is con. i fidently claimed by both, but now comes a now 1. candidate in ths person of Prof. JuLius ! Sezurz, who has authorized the aunounce- 8 ament that he would nccept the Benatorship [+ if tondered to Lim, but ho will mnke consistent manner in which tho Zimes has discussed tho subject : The Tlnes, Jan, 0, The Nimes, Jan, 0. With reference to thel There {8 a most ex. ordinary fron truss traordinary amount of bridge, such as fell ot bosh perpotrated In tha Anhtabula, Llglu, anddiscussion over the Dizon, snd wsuch pa |a cunses of thy Ashtabula extricate themselves from debt, will do wo injustico to othor portions of the people. ‘I'lio credit of tho whols State will bo subject to criticiam should any considerable portion of theso municipalities default in the pay- ment of the interest on these bonds and of years, it hns been difficult sometimes to traco tho various persons interested in the ownership of vessels, Whora the vessel was fully insured, tho ownors roceived their compensation and tho underwriters also received thelrs, as thoy ifusured at war gotiations, whother the payment of the Fronch indemnity or the refunding of tho Uuited Btatea debt. In 1847, just before tho flood of now gold from California and Australio, Iolland adopted the eingle silver standard. After the demonetization of sil- | o effort to kecurs . In Tenucsseo | WaiauT and Ovenr, who woro admittodly | other forms of public debt. risks,—in faot, insnzed themaclves for igh | DG at 8t “Laute ‘and tshier, in’aitunce of | vor by Gormany, fn 1871, Hollaad stopped the | [iuTiaciaungen sy i mlicous. - 1130 1! the Legislaturo hias undertaken to chooso | clocted nnd eligible, ho might hinvooccasioned | 1y was suggested at th last scssion of tho | Promiums oguinst the' vory lowses which | ecriahly 'yrava objce- o case, and . without | €0insgo of that motal lato monoy, and | blslntention b bytieh ihe canl tis shtethoon it ¢ L a successor to Scnator Kev, who was ap- | thom somo embarrassmuent. But, in view of | Legislaturo that the Stato should nssumo all | 0ccurred. Thus, although the Comuission- %::"::u“zr“? ‘ifi'u"'ufflfii.r‘;“{- 2?{!::‘1?:‘:::5“‘:2‘;“‘&"’ ddppled Ibe Rifglh gc'd. acantlacd, VLIS Ye- :r-h&"r' niml‘;u“n!;llrl‘thl“l :NII:F"*).;m:as:“'fi bl 1" pointed by the Governor to fll tha vacancy | tho fact that ko withdrow and refused to act | thuso debts in tho interest of tho wlolo | ors may not succood in distributing tho | prrfect: i reat vallie lavtunces of ‘tie isastor, | {aining a lurge amount of sitver in ciroula- | BUSLE INUIHAL S WIS Atk £ Gecsion by o e of Anutw Jomane | Wil thon, i ot thle rguaiz- | pioplo af (1o Site, ach a propousion | Wheloof the e, 1 was fu for the Ari. | FIS Han o, XA it SEBMLS S | tom. ‘This atlr alp ol bo rogardud n | eiemintTirsome i ALy (it y :" and bas ontered upon neanvass which, in the | ton of the Eluctoral Colloge, he loft 8 va- | would bo manifestly unjust to ll thoss com- | trators to award tho amount they did, since dallan teasyecied OF Grls|reuched. e Lare o ';" ':lm“;"a"’ o the limitation by the | (3¢ Ganser, of tho flaltimore & Ohlo, and ot vy 1 number of aspirents and the length of time 3‘“‘?" “ll”flh "’\‘i}' ‘;"m’l" ::X“I,Z‘:‘ln;l:nb fllllm:' munitics which owo no dobt, by compelling l];l\;usflzéln 1wanner "lm whola people of tho gouno by uo’ amount ul;nn:ln:rll.y"y'n olage I;“;:lbyfi “;h‘ ‘::b:f:':';g:’:: 3‘;’:;1!:‘: di;: Az, Concates, the biskus, as wat leligyed. 4 or the lnw, and which thoy di y elect- | them to may tho local dobis o ® | Unitod Statos woro losers, Therv wore in | theoretical demonstra-land boulilan, equally ase A e - = ] o eeiod vontas of 1371 which cuded . | 8 Warrs, who bad mesnwbila Decomo. ol | savaiton i which they have nor itares. A | Folity two.clotes of wullsror. who wore | Hobimd AL’ i Bistmehia Ui oy |an fovor of ‘tho roosablishuent fn | 1 theSprugleld correspondent of the Ccw di tho olection of Mr. Jousso. giblo Ly resigoing Lis position ns Postmms | plan that would reliovs the distrossed myaio. | noithorowners nor underwritors. Onoof tiosa | o1, Cousiractink " theacchynai value, and tro- | gonoral uso of the doublo standard of silver | €0 Jourdal reslly dusees tie ce-ehuctlun bt G i L - E —_ tor, Consoquontly wa honr little or moth. | jpalities, wocurs tho poyment of tho debts, | classes, which we have slready indicated, is e werkit apon them i beldies: 'In viow af the | 3ud gold. Molland ia rich enough to be able | S0P 16, 05N Ly ewlnging thé cancus-lash Rt Tho return to Washington of Mr. Cuarvo, | ing more from tha Democrats sbout the | and tax no ono unjustly, might bo found in | the wholo pooplo of tho Unitod Statos, and | Hrunies becomes thels fuct that thero are lron to buy for Lerself the gold standard,—mucli | poeq sparingly over the heads of those metuberd E". of Masauchusotts, n Ropublican member of | prima fucie case, but they wcem with 0o ae- | an amendmont to the Constitution which | the other is that large class of navigntors | I fact. s han beon res i uso for nearly hair » | better able to buy and hold it than Ger- | who do some of thelr own thinking, Tho bull- i« thellouso Committes appointed to investi- | cord to have turned their attention to the | would provide: who paid war ratoa” of insurance, and whose Effil::vll,;::h:fi?';htv{;\gm Suntiley, o pudils many, which Les sot up a much more ox- | dozing kind of argument wurks cffectively i - gato tho Louisiann election, aas uforded an | rovolutionary project of deciding tho whole 1. Thot on the 16t of July following the | Vessels wero not destroyed. Tho Zimes | wuch losa than that "uf atintand the strain travagant mint establishment than is justi- | Loulslana, when spplied to negroes, but we opportunity for obtainiug somo {uteresting | quostion In’tho Houso of Roprosentatives | ratification of tho amendmont, the Stato of | takes the samo viaw of the case, und fllus- | eV tesk: Notoniy fhuw jaud which Lave never | fed by ita income, But tho Hollanders aro | question whether K will be a wuccess vo e f]%+ facts gy to the mothods employod in securing | without any regard to the Seunte, with & | Tilinols shall issuo its bonds, having fifty | tratos tho terms on which the ariginal sum | culated o support @ et show' 1o siyne of | 8blo to soo that tho use of sllvor and gold :;:’c"';‘:‘“h‘u :'r‘;’:":; Brbeith ok jéstaare t1" . testigony on tho wubject of intimidation. | view to eleoting Mr. 'I'tLDEN by & voto of tho | years to run, bearing 5 per cont interest, to | 8Warded and tiio surplus may be held by tho :,‘L',:,';' w:’:f.,’h‘",,‘ Bry s weakues, the aasertion | for monoy i more’ economical and stable, 2 ! Mr. Cavo was the ouly Hepublican member | present Iouse, now wlmost defunct, which | any person surrondering therefor nuy of the | Unlted States by su exactly porallel case in | ars, sevoral " of thesuiron s wimply siwnrd. | both for thomselves and tho reat of tho civil- | ryq 81, Louls Globe-Democrats Washington I of the Sub-Committes ‘selected to hold sea- | motoriously misroprosunts tho sentiment of | outstanding bonds of any county, town, city, | tho rolations of tho Crown to China, arislng | PIgkStibich e lu wee [ fact, fhe | uuetlity, | ized world, than tho use of auy singlo stand- in thivcity overrallwaya; compactness, and tendci- correspondent says: their coming down, 1 heard lately of o Virglnis Democratic M. C. who, aftor hearlngd RaxnatL and FEaxaxvo Woon bluster on the floor of tno House, remarked yuls 1y, **0d— thoso fellowa: they're mere wind: buge, 1t waa they who declared that their dvsd hodies should bo watked over befure wa should by invaded In'0l, Ay Stato was invaded, riddicd, torn to plecea; 20 wan the wholo South{ but thelr dead bodlea didn't dle & bit, “Fhey ure uesd cnough, ko far os Induencing thy South'is concerns ed; Lut the foolw dun't know they're dead; s when a politician 14 dead, and docan't kuow Ity he's ibe cusscdeat kind of a fool." ——————— » PERSONAL. Mr. B. P. Whipple makes & good hit in bisre view of **Daniel Derunda® when ho says the lladr.y suddeuly stops ruther than artlticslly ende,” Mre, Lander, who began scting very young, ¥ the original study from which Dickene druw bit portsalt of the Infaut Phenomenon. She 1s now, 10 cting {n Dostan. Vauderbilt was no speechmaks 1th was propqscd ata banquot In L +¢ Gentlewen, 1 hiavo never mad £ in ny Hife, and [ nin not golng 1o £in now. ro isa friend of mine [bis Jawyerli he can talk all day. " Mr. Rusiel) Sage, slnce the death of Commodord Vanderblit, becomes moro prominent an a Wall- strect maguate, Ho began lifo as s porter, made his way 1o a bigher position, was elected Aldermss sod member of Congress, snd then retired from politics to devote Limuclf to bustuess, Iila wealth is cotlmated at $5,000,000, which, the New York Zribune says, 18 more 1ikely o be uuder than ovet the truth, ‘Thers has lately been an attempt In the Englbk proviuclal press to ahow who wa the womun 12 154 cosc of the Crimean war. Tho story is that Stratford de ledelife, when wtlll sir straford Cannfug, quarrcled at Countant'noply with 13¢ Crarowltch over the possession of 3 young and ety beautiful Atbaulan alav The Bugitshmsd was successful tn oblaluing ber, but the peroust fealtug srising betwevn thy couteslants was of 160 blttersat kind, When both sfterwarde rose to o slons in Ounchita DLarish, and from * his account of the conduct of the investigation In that stronghold of the bulldozers it s easy to under- stand why it was impossible to bring - . the frightened negroes befora tho Committee and elicit from them thu truth concerning =ho outrages perpetrated in that parish pre- vious to the clection. It s evidunt that the Democratic investigntors plauned and exe. euted their programmo with especial refer. wsnce to this result, and they wero entirely wuccessful. It i3 also cvident from Mr, Oraro's deseription of the Houso Committeo proceedings that the only full and fair inves- tigation of thu Louisiaua case is that prose- cuted by the Senate Committee, and that the only fair report will be the report of the Benato Comumittee, tho country, under tho treaty of 1842, in which it was Lield by the Courts that one of the persons in view of whoso losses the Chineso paid a war indomnity had no legal claim against the Crown, aod it rewwrks io this connection that— sltnllnr principles, in different terms, would apply o such sn Indemuity as we paid to tho United Htates, sud 1t would fullow, thersfore, that tho moncy was paid (o the Governmient of the States, not In the were capuvity of & trastea for iu- dividualy, but as the soveraiin suthorlty of the na- tlon. It way paid, In otbier wordy, to the United Btates in compensation for lovees which the United States an & whiolo might bo bekd Lo bave austained, and not for thuse which ludlvidusia fu the States could be proved to have sustalued. Congresy, ac- cordingly, is perfectly within i competence tn cousldering how tha surplua vhall ba appropriated, and it ls anoounced that soveral bilts for tlla pur. pose are awalting jte docision. Of courss no distribution conld be made to the whole people of the United Btates or to that class of navigators who suffered, ale though their ships were not destroyed. It is equally true, s the Times itself suggests, in alludiug to the surplus, that * it would La too much, perhaps, to expect that any conscience in Congress should Le sensitivo enough to inquire whuther, ull such allowances aa wo have candidly suggested being made, tho dis- cropancy betwegn the two estiates indicatos that tho Geneva award was too Ligh, and, congequently, that a portion of the unap. propriated balance wight be most justly dis- posed of by being returned.” The only prac- tical distribution would be to invest tho sur- plus in United States bonds and place it to tho credit of the Goverument for the benefit of tho whole people who wuffered construct- ively by tho depredations of the Algbawa and or any other municipal bouds or interest- bearing evidences of debt. 2, Uhat upon the surrendor of mny such bonds, undthe issuo of Htate bonds in ex. change, the taxable property within the county, city, or téwn by whom such bonds were issued shall thereupon becoma charged with an snnual tax equal to tho annual in. terest upon such Londs and tha cost of col. lection, and equal to pn additional amount equivalent to 2 per cent of the principal of such bonds, 4, ‘Ut the tax for interost and the 2 per ceut of priucipal be held by the Stato Treas- urer, sud applied to the payment of the in. terost on tho State boudy, and to the pur- chase of such bonds in the open market, Bliould this smendment be adopted, the holders of thio municipal bonds would have the option to take a 5 per cent boud of the Stato, which will always Lo ut per, in ex- chango for the municipal bond, whose wventusl paymont may bue considered prob. lematical, ‘Cho ncceptance of this oxchange of bonds must continue optional with the creditory until such timo ns tho present Louds mature, when the State bouds may be sold on account of the municipality, and the proceeds applied to the paywment of tho old bouds. "The practical operation of the law would result inno loss to tho State. The tax would bo like the 2-mill tax of W{8, @ constitutional one, and irrepealuble until the purpose of it shall bo accomplished. 'fhe Auditor, kuowing the amount of Btate bonds issued on account of each mu- nicipality, would certify each year to such county the amount, needed to poy the inter est and 2 per cent of the principal of such | other cruisers which were sent out from portant positlons fn thelr respective countried 189 : bouds ; that amount would bo extended and | English dockyards to proy upon our cow- diplomacy connocted with tho Crlneau was wea 18 . » 3 A . B & L B0 DL IMMEPEE RTINS | ] EITRNENASY N & W ard, aud that the genoral welfare is suro to bo injured by the violent subversion of the usage of u thousand years in the joint stand. ard of silver and gold. An addross recently issued from the Netherlands * Bocioty for the Progress of Industry” contains a strong argument for the doubls siand. ard, and wurges that an Interna. tional Couvention be hLeld to bring this about, Tho Hociety regard tho causes that have rocently depreciated silver as, with ons proviso, temporary, This proviso s that the Governmental crusade agaiust silver be dlscontinued. If the leading nations couldby a conferance be brought to agree to use silver at the old ratio to goldof 15j to 1, the Boclety exprosa tho firm belief that the price of silvey would recover itself and re- main steady. It {s a strong recommendation of the sagacity of the men uttering theso views that, although their address was given tothe world in July, 1876, when silver was at 47 pence per ounce, its Jowest point, they insisted that the fall was but s momeutary one. The subsequent rise to 57 peuce shows how just their opinion was, The most far-seeing ud- vocated of monetary reform, men like M. Crenuscur, now favor the same courso as that recommended by the Netherlands Bocl- , ety, that this question be settled by an Inter- uational Congress, Ons nation cannot move safely alone. If such a Congress were held, thero can be little doubt that its declsion would make it mnocessary for the Uuited States to reduce tho weight of its silver dol. lar from that of tho dollar proposed by the of Iron make it an ex- thew of the record of.cepfionally good material thalr class, Is simply a,for bridges. question of time. i ‘Wo presumo Mr., Bronry was the authorof the first articlo, and that the second articlo, taking preclsoly the opposite view, was in. sorted as soon o4 Col. Kxexaw couldbo heard from. Iuthe first article tho various dis- asters in iron bridges for some years wero recapituluted and described, and the railroads were charged with building them because thoy wero cheaper. In the second article it iu claimed that jron bridges are the best in tite world, and Tue 'faiouxe is hauled over the coals for mildly suggesting that the sub- ject might be investigated to good advantage by scientifio and impartinl men. Of courss, there is no arguing with a person who does not know Lis own mind two days in succes- sion, and nothing is to ba gaiued from such discussion il conducted wimply by vacillating 1guoraImUses, As to the merits of the case, wo suppose that the chief advantago of the wooden bridge over the iron bridge, whers solid masonry cannot be used, is that the formeralways gives signs of decsy while the latter does not. The coundition of the wood wmay always be tested by the simplo process of boring o holo with an augur; the work of dotaching iron from the supports of & bridge structure and subjecting it to a rigid teat is uot easy, sud scarcely practicablo in the case of railroad bridges. ‘Thero Las been no evidence us yet which justifies the theory of ‘the civil engi- neers that tho train was off “the track on tho Ashtabuls bridge, ¥ut the bulk of tho evidence teuds to the belief that tho | Brawp bill, The Brawp dollar of 412} grains, Lridge suddenly gave way, suapping as anold | 900 Sius, is in thqratio of 16 to 1. ‘Thisis uail does often when drifen for k second | 3 per cont more than would be allowed by, ‘The following is from the Chicago Bull dozer: Bayd the treason-organ on Madison street: 1t 14 only within the constitutionul power of the Housa uf ltl.'{lrru’nlllh‘cl o ve 4 U'realdent when f4 shall Liave feen aace that, of all the persots yuted fur by Electom, u as reeeived w majoriy of e whole Bumber of E wppuinted. Very well; but who bs to detormine for the lfouse of Representatives when that contlngency hos arlsent 11 the treason-organ knows of any power Inths Conutitution, vutside of the louss itelf, which In to dutermine o condition upon which the House shall exercive fts constitutional power, why dou't tho treasou-orgun meation what that power nr It ‘Tur ‘Unwvse, which printed the para- graph referred to, is called a * tresson-or- gun " because it is hostilo to an sssamption of power by the lHouse of Representatives for which thero is no authority in the Con. stitution or tho laws, theu it is neceasary to find n new definition for treason, nnd that which has heretoforo been regarded us pork closed #0¢ pur brl lower, ot $17.62) | beinous will bo commendable and @17.65 cash and $17.85@17,90 for February, | patriotic. The simple fact ja that Lard closed 22} per 100 1us lower ot $11.20 | the Chicago Dulldozer Las ndopted . cash and $11.806:11.322} for February, Meuts | the rogne's devico of seoking to conceal its , Wwere easicr, closing ot 6¢ for new shouldens, | own infamy and that of its party by churging ., boxed, Yo for do shortribs, and Yo for | it upon others. It will bo treason for the s do short-clears. Mighwines wera active, at | House of Reprosentatives to arrogate to | 10T per gullon. Flour was in mod. | itsclf tho power which is claimed for it by t, eratodemand and firm. Wheat closed l{c | the Democratic politiciany, When it is asked lower, at §1.273 cash and $1.29 for Febru. | who is to determine for the Houso of Rupre- # ary. Corn closed e lower, at 43]c cash and | sentatives when tho coutingency for its % 44jo fgr Februury. Oats closed je higher, | choosing 8 President has srisen, unless it be # + 8% 85jc cash and 83jc for Februsry, Rye | the House itsclf, the auswer is obvious i . was steady, at T2c. Darley was quict, at 65@ | enough. It is Coungress. The Houss of 660 cash aud 6bo for Fcbruary., IHogs | Representatives fa not Congress, though the were active aud averoged So higber, with | Chicago Lullduser constuntly proceeds upon sales gt £0,15@7.10. Cattle were netive sud | that willy hypothesis. Whenuver Cougress ATy, .Ehup were quict, at §$3.00@5.50 for | shull ngrve upon law for counting the vote, i ST 7 H § The Ch.iutngu pruduc; woarkets wero less .'2 active in tho aggregate yesterday., Mess i e T ; i