Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1877, Page 4

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MOy e ente” ATEFOOR AB EYeUIuR, Vae New Chirago Thentre. Clark street, hetween lake and liandolph, Mume. Esalpot's Fisgo Cuncert at2 . 1. W. . WARREN LODGE, NO. 208, A. P. AND A, . AL, ~Regulsr cominunication this {(Naturday) evening, : at'74 ang 76 Maaros-aL,, for installation af ofcers and L. work. Visitars welcome, ug order uf uf tl; 3. 1, VUNLOR the W, , Becreiary. = 5 +, BATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 187, Greenbacks at the Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at !4, f Several bills have been introduced in the + Legislature having for their object to make + .ailver » logal-tender in the payment of all i debts, We notico also that n member from Boone and a member from Stephenson bnve introduced bilJs to make wolf-scalps n logal- tendor at s viluntion to be fixed by law. ‘Thers 1way be «wolves in thosa counties s, which onght to bekilled, but to give n \ bounty for them ont of the Ktato Q'rensury **; might have tho effect of astablishing a lively (trade fn wolf-scalps across the borders of 'Wisconain and Iow: . Once mor’u the cablo lliflplltch‘l.‘l solemnly tassert that m limit hos been sot to the ) 1 patience snd endurance of the Plenipoten- : tiaries who lave been o long engnged 1 1.0." in pegotinting sn agreement on the . .Hastern question—this time with the > ;0. probability that the news is wuthen. ., te, as it is well known that several of ~"'the Powers, notably Germany, are getting % disgusted at the slow progress of affairs at Constantinople. It is now announced that the Plenipos have decided to de- -mand of tho Porte a categorical answer to the roquirements of the Conference, which will meot noxt Thursday for the pur. pose of receiving this reply, and if it is not ! matisfactory the various representatives wiil i all quit Constantinople on the following day. .- ‘There must be an end to all things, and it . looks as though tho Russo-Turkish business wasin a fair way to come to o head. e mem—— , The Tilinois Benatorial contest has now ss- '+ 1" sumed a four-cornered pbaso, ‘Fhere have i:g;-- been nominated, in addition to Gen. Loaan Vij,m by the Itepublican cancus, Jous 3. Paracn by the Demoarats, Wirrtax B, Axpxasox by i34 : the Bonate Independents, and Judge Davip $}#+’ Davie by a number of House Democrats 2|" ! calling themselvea Independents until further i ‘ motice, It must uot be supposed that ]! " these anti-Republican nominatious mean $11. business in the msenso that each of .'_' ;' the three candidatesis to receivo the stubborn i 2 : 1, support of the parties who nominated him ; . {1" the mow development moans busiuess in ‘1‘ ;" quite another scnse. It auesns that the oppasition to the Rtepublican candidate laos been put into s shapo that wlmits of a va- rloty of contingencies which mny elect either , of the four candidatos or may clect neither, . Both Houses have adjourncd until Monday, * and noman can toll what the over-Bundny jnterval will bning forth. s et ¢ TS : The Democratic majority of the Ilonse " have by astrict party vote decided that Mr, | Banwes,tho mansger of the New Orlecna telo- " graph office, shall be perpetuslly fmprisoned . for failing to do whnt it is absolutely im- ' possible for him to do—thut is, to produce ; i dispatches which, by the action of tho Ex. ecutive Cainmittee, lLiave passed out of his control. President Ouroy, who I8 equally + powerleas to produce the dispatches, is to be arraigned before the Housa to-dsy for con- the same priaciple be imprisoned for Next will come the members of the Executive Commitee, one of whom, Mr. Cuarix, of Massachusetts, is also 2 a member of Congress, aud in this connec. "', tion will rise the interesting question whether 41t the House can imprisou one of its own mew. ;4 bers for contempt. ‘I'hiere are oth:r ques- tions involved ju this unprecedented action of Congress that will be heard of hereafier; the outrage of yesterday will undoubtedly bo zeviewed Ly a tribunal in which Damoeratio majorities are not held to be superior to the Constitution and the law: . The Chicago produco warkets were active and irregular yesterday, provisions belng very weak. Mess pork closed 550 per brl lower, SY517.10@17.15 cash and §17.35 for Feb- suary; Lard closed 230 per 100 lbs low- ox, ot $10.62)@10.85 caah sud $10.97}@ THE CHICAGO, TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 187—TWELVE "PAGES: ) 11,00 for February. Meats wera eaafer, closing at 6o for new shoulders, hozed, 8jc for do shortribs, and 0c for do short.clears, Highwines were quiot, at 81.07 per gallon, Flour was in mod- erate demand and firm. Wheat closed 1c higher, at $1.272 cash and $1.29 for Febru. nry. Corn closed firmer, at 433c cash aud 44cfor February. Oats closed {@je higher, at 33jc cash and 3530 for February. Rye was steady, at 72c. Darloy was dull, closing at 6{@64jo cash and Gijc for February, Hoga were dull, and for heavy grades ir. vegularly lower. Bales were principally at $0.20@6.25 for light. Cattle were moderately active and ensy. Sheep were quict, with sales at ©3.00@5.25. One hundred dollars in gold would buy $106.37} in greenbacks at the close. [ — The announcoment is made in a semi. official manner from the legal department of tho Laka Bhore & Micligan Southiern Rail- rond that the Company willrefuse any and all compensation or damages on acconnt of in. juriea or death resulting from the Ashiabula slaughter, upon the ground that that calami- ty was an act of Providenco. Apart from the moral and humane aspects of the ques. tion, it is open to doubt whether, as a busi. ness mensure, this policy will in the long run prove cconomwical, The aggregato of clnims arising from tho damnge to life and limb at Ashtabula {a estimated in round numbers at $500,000, and it is a question whether Mr, Wirtram I, Vaspropwr could not botter afford to spare this sum from his fifty or sixty millions than to face the falling off in publio patronaga of the Lake Shore route that would be likely to result from the pop- nlar ill.will and resentment quite certain to be engendered among the Ashtabula suffer- ers and their friends and sympathizers in consequenco of this refusal to recognize claims for damages, 1f the Lake Bhore people especially desired to porpetuate the harrowing memories of Friday evening, Dec., 29, 1876, they could not have sadopted a bat. tor plan. — e The Electoral Count Committees of tho Senate and Iouse held their firt joint session yosterday, and the Benate Committes pre. sented a plan which is understood to have been mgreed upon by Senators Ep. stusps, Frpevivenursex, CoNkuise, Bay. Arp, Tuonuay, and Ransoy, Mr. Mon. ToN alone disngrocing, Entire secrecy has been resolved upon by the Committee, but the dirpatohes assumo to give an outlino of tho basis of adjustment. It is said that the Sennte Committes, Republicans snd Democrnts, with thoe exception of Mir. Mon. TON, are united upon two important points,— first, that the President of the Heuato has mo power to decide disputes as to the count of sny vote, aad, second, that the vote of no Staje can be rejected unless by tho concurrent aflirmative action of both Houses. It is further atated that Mr. Bootu's plan of submitting the various questions to the Supreme Court in the event of u failure to agrce by the two IHouses is favorably entertained by the Senate Commit- tee. All thisis, of course, Iargely specnlntive, bt it {s interesting as indicating the drift of wentiment regarding the probabilities of a compromise, Whatever the propositions submitted by the Henate Committee, the House Committeo did no more then receive them, ond nsked further time for their con- sidoration. Another meeting of the Com. mittoe ia to be Leld to-day. 'The very ablo aud intoresting specch on the Llectornl question, delivered yesterday in the Sonate by NewroN Booru, of Califor- ula, is given in full in our colunins thismorn. ing, eud will bo ecertain o receive the thonghtful attention and consideration of our resders. ‘Lie speech is in wupport of the resolution offered by Senator Loorn, looking to an opinion by the Supreme Coart of the Uunited States concerning tho questions of constitutional law iuvolved iu the Pros- idential complication, wand tho meccept- anco by both IHonses of Congress of this opinion as conclumve on all the points in ocontroversy. Senntor Booru favors this mnode of settlement, but oxpresses his readinoss to support any other proposi. tion that shall seem more just and fensille, Ha i, howavar, firat, last, and all tho time, unalterably opposed to ko much ns the sug- gestlon of force or violence in connaction with the grave complication which presents ituelf for ndjustment; he has, to repeat his own langnage, no words of condemnation strong enough for the men who, in this time of supremo difiiculty, appeal Lo passion, fo. ment disordor, and threnten violonce, Ilfs eloquent appeal for the exerciro at this erit- ical juncture of **a wisdom and forbearance which are abovo statecraft" will find a henrty response in the henrt aud brain of every man ‘who cnres more for his country than for any individual whio may or may not be declared to have been elected its Dresident for the next four yoaru. Of course, the Legislature would not be a Leginlaturo unless it was called upon to con- Aider o Dill to limit tho rato of interest upon lonus, and fixing & penalty of pains and for- foiture for taking move than a preseribod rate. ‘Che limit proposed this year fs 7 per cent, but why 7 per cent we do not under- stand, The object of the bLill ix to make money chieap by fixing « limit for its rent, Now, why not make tho cost of living cheap by fixing a maxfuum rent for dwellings, aud u maximmn price for all articles of food, and for rent of land, aud & maximum roto of fees for medicul und Jo- gal services, and for labor of all kinds? The proposition i3 not mors ridiculovs 1 sny of these cases than in the oue named in the hill. We do not underutand the reasoning by which it is concluded that money shall Lo loaned at 7 per cent. The bill of necessi- ty assumes that monsy must be loaned ot that rate if the Iaw permits no higher inter- cat. Why, therefore, if the law can control the matter, allow niore thau G, or 5, or 3 per cent interest? There ure many millious of dollars in this State which have been idle for months becauso unable to find satisface tory iuvestwonts at even 7 per cent, though the law allows 10 per ceut interest. Money canuot be borrowed at & loss rate of interest than the money i worth to the borrower. Bo long as it is worth 8, Y, or 10 per cent to those who uced it, it will not Lo losned ut 7 per cent. ‘This watter bas been so often be- fore the Leyislature, and its absurdity so of. ten exposed, that we bave uo doubt the bill will be rejected again. In the l;“dfl ycutex:{!&y. ?;:urning the political classification of the members of the General Assembly wo gave the tigures us follows : Rey v Den, Ind. 25 5 i } [ T v 35 In this list Beustor BursLrx, of this city, though elected in 1874 by the combined os. position, is included among the Republicans. Panmg, Proue, Hanrorp, and Grassrono, In the Tegislative reports from Springfield thore it a body of ten or more Reprecenta- tives who are sclf-styled Independents, but this is a mero deception, They are Demo- crats, every one of them, ond will not vote for any man for Henator who i3 not n Demo- crat, or who is not expeeted to be a Demo- crnt when he gots to Washington. This body of Independents have nominaled Judge Davip Davis, quite assured that the Judgo, on leaving the Bench nnd taking a seat in the Henate, will blossom, like Browsina and otlier old Bourbon Whigs, into s firatuclass Democrat. In the Senate, the list of Inde- pendents is nominally incrensed to oight by the addition to those we have named of Sen- atora Joxes of Donglas, Browy of Schugier, and Fravtz of Woodford, but the Inde- pendence of theso three gentlemen is newly born. 'Thoy are voluntcers who bave joined the Independents to strengthen them and encournge them to vote for no Iopublican, aund to indnce themn to vote for somo * Independent ” who, like Judge Davis or Mr, Srtevexsow, will, when wanted, davelop intoa Democrat, The actunl condition of parties at Springficld, therefore, is, as we have stated, 100 Repub- licans, 99 Dewmocernts, and ' Independents. All otlier Independents are Democrats, and s cortain to voto for a Democrat for Senator 88 {8 Sam Buemtastir or Mites Kenor. Of the 5 Indopendonts, 4 ropresent Repul- lican districts, and at least 3 of them are men of Republican nntecedents, and ought to vote for no Scnator who 18 not a Ropub- lican, Tha most ridiculous proposition mede by the Chicago Times recently is to the effect that ¢ If this Republio shall continue to ex- fat, it will bo owing to tho existonce and in- fluence of an independont, non-partisan press,” which proposition was supplemented by the reduction ad absurdum, ** such a paper to-day is the Chicago ZWmer.” (We should rather any that if the Republic shall con. tinuo to exist, it will be necessary to blot out such incondiary and tressonable parly organs as the Chieago Bulldozer, which adopt tho garb of independance merely Lo insinuate themselves among o class of people they would not otherwiso reach, and then seck to corrupt the morals and prostitute the intelligenco of a stolen constituonoy, Since TieoeN purchased his nomination at St. Louis, the Chicago Z'imes hos boen tho most viclous, scurrilous, and conscienceless porty organ in tho country. Being under no re. straint 0a to truth, morality, decency, hon. esty, or patriotism, it has been consfstent alono in its truckling to the orders of tho porty manogers. In tho complications that lave arison out of the dispute over Louisi. nan it has evinced a willingness to sce the Union destroyed rather than submit to tho defeat of ita party, and it bhes led off in all the revolutionary schemes for selzing the Government without any regard to the Con- stitution and the lInwa, And now, it claims, this is tho sort of journnlism upon which the safety of the Republic depends. “lhen Hoavon help the Republic ! THE DEMOURATIO CONSPIRACY, It is now very evidont that there is and has beon for some time n determination on the part of the Democratic mnuagers that the present House of Represcutatives, elect- ed more than two ycars ngo, shall assume by n separate and indepondont sction to (1) re- ject the vote of one or more States that have voted for Haves, and (2) then procecd to elect I'rLoex by a vole of the House, The articles in the Democratio nowspapers for some weeks past have pointed to thin plan, aud now the report of the mnjority of ‘the Houge Commiitee on the Fresidentinl Connt sgrees with it in effect. Ihat report states ud thoe sentiment of the Democrats that no vota can be counted without the nssent of the House, which means that the Houss pruposes to assumo the right to refect any vote without the nssont or concurrenco of the Senate, Dut the achieme doed not stop here. It {4 also in. tonded that the ITonso shall declde, without the ausent or concurrence of the House, that thore hias been o fuilure to elect, and then proceed to elect Mr. 'T1LDEN just as if it Lad been lawfully ascertained that thers lind been o tie vole. 1f this is not o trensonable schemo, thon none was ever concocted by a legislativo body, 1t is obvious that the right to choose the President might a4 well have been vested directly and solely in tho House of Repre- sontatives asto give it the privilege of de- termining at any time when it shall assne that right. If such had been the {ntention of the framers of tho Constitution, the cost aod excitement of Presidential olections would not have been put upon the country, but there wonld have baen a plain dircction in the Constitution that the Houso should from time to time proceed to the election of President and Vice-President of the United Btates. The very fact that the Ifouse was given n roversionary right to clioose the President when the majority of the Electors could not sgree npon & man, 0 far from be- ing evidenco of the intention to confer upon the House the right todetermiuo whether there hns boen such an agreement or not, iy au evidenco that the House, of and by itself, was not to have diseretion in deciding when it khould exercise the power of choosing o President, It was the contemplation of the Constitution that the Electors would vofe freely for their several preferred candidates and that there would ba o number of caudi. dates; and that it was tie purposo to deprive the Houso of any discretion in the matter is furthor shown by the constitutional limita- tion of tho Ifouse vote to the three persons Laving the lighest number of votes in the Electoral College when no ono of them should receive a wmujority of all the Electors appointed. Another etriking illustration of the pur- pose to deprive the lonse of the discretion to determine tho contingenvy when it should chooss the President is found iu the circum. stance that the contingeut chioica is virtually vested fu the outgoing House, chiosen by the people two years beforo. Ihls coutingent suthority was based on the supposition that the majority of people, clecling Congress. wen at the same time as voting for Presi- dent, could not agres upon a President, and that the choico in that ovent should revert to a body chosen at a diffcrent timo; but it would Lo absurd to suppose that tho iutention was to give the Houso chosen two years Leforo the power to defeat tho later expression of popular will by sssuming of its owu molion to elect & President, whether or uot thero had been & failure by the people through the Electoral Collego to make a choice. The palpable in- justice of such power will uppear from a cowparison Letween the prasont outgoing House and the new Houso already elected. "Tho old House represents the popalar senti- went of two years ago, the new House that of to-dsy. In the old House the Democrats The fiva Independents aro Messrs. Haixxs, | control 23 States, the Republicans 18, aud - ono (Lonisiann) is atie. 1In the new IHousa the Republicans control 21 Staten, the Dem. ocrats only 15, one (Lonislana) is n tie, and one (Now Hmmnpshire) has not yet been chosen. In the Iouso elected in 1874, the Democrats control the States of California, 1llinois, Ohio, Yennsylvania, and Ore. gon, all of which voted for Harves; and they lhave refused to admit the member from Colorado which also voted for ilaves. All of these States, besides In- diana nand New York, have sont & Republiean majority to the now House. In the Califor- nin delegation, thore are 3 Democrata and 1 Republican in the old House, but 3 Repub-. licans and 1 Domocrat in the new ; from fili- nois, 13 Domocrats and i Republicans in the old, but 11 Republicans and 8 Democrats in the new; from Indiana, 8 Democrata and & Itepublicans in the old, but 9 Republicans and 4 Democrats in the new; from Ohio, 14 Democrats and 6 RRepublicans in the old, but 12 Republicans and 8 Democrats in the new; from Pennsylvania, 17 Domocrats and 10 Re- publicans in the old, but 17 Republicana and 10 Democrats in the noew; the member from Oregon in the old House {s a Democrat, but in the now IHouse '» Republican; Col orndo has a Republican member in the new House, but nono in the old. Shall the people of Illinois, who voted for Hares, be swindled out of their choice, and forced to abide by a vote of 1874 which they have recently repudinted? And sholl the other Republican States nomod be treatod in like manner? If the contingent election by the Housa may always be decided by tho IHouse, then the peoplo of this country in effect vote for President more than two years before ho is innugurated. Instead of voting for Presi- dent in 1880, we will really vote for him in 1878, when the Congressmoen aro elected who may afterwards nssert their power of choosing the President. Buppose in 1878 the Republicans shall gecure a ma- jority of the dclegations in the Ifouse of Represcntatives, nand in 1880 the Democrnts carry a majority of the Elects oral votes, will the Democrats submt to the Ntepublican House taking the malter in their own hands and clectiug a Republican President? Yet this is precisely what the Democrats propose todo now. They pro- pose that the majority which they secured in the country two years ngo shall be made to supplant the defeat they recently auffercd. If thero had beon an nctual failure to elect,— that is, if Trupexy and Hayes had recoivod ench the samo number of votes, thoy being the only two caudidates voted for,—the pres. ent House would constitutionally ba entitled to chiooso the President, But whero on earth daes the present House deriva its authority to arbitrarily determine thero ins beon a fail- ure to elect, when there hasn't been, and then proceed to make a choice? Andif it does arbitrarily exercise that power, what is it if not treason? THE NEW DEMOCRATIC GOSPEL. Tho Chiengo Times is again becoming very glb and voluble in the use of epithets, and deaignates every ono ad & traitor or revolu- tionist who is opposed to the counting-in of TruoeN by the Democratio House, o far ns the Zimen ia concerned, this apithet businers is nothing new.’ It used thom with the ut- most freedom at the time of the Rebellion. Then, a8 now, every one who opposed the schemes of the Democracy was a traitor, It ‘was treason to resist socession and rebellion. It was trenson to object to the violation of the Constitution and the laws, It was tren- son to coorce the Southern Btates back into the Union, and every one who proposed such caercion or engoged in it was a traitor, mc- cording to the Chicago Times. Mr, Tiors did not exactlycall the Union troops traitors, According to i view they were * trespasn- ers,” who were linble to be shot without criminal consequences to those who shot them, or if thoy survived the War wore liable in action for damages in an action growing out of trespass. Now our ears nre saluted with the same old howl of treason and revolution from the Zimes. The partiean 1majority of o Houso elected upon side issues in 1874, when there wns no Presidentinl jusue pending, having sot forth the pretenso that it has tho right to reject the vote of auy Btate for reasons sufficient to ituelf, in order to doclare that the people have not elected n President, and thereupon annonnce the election of TrLoey, immediately up jumps Judge ‘Cavnpyrn and echoes the howl of the T'imes in declaring that any one who opposes this view of the situation is a traitor, Whoever apposcs the right of the partigan majority in a played-out House ta ¢o behind the certificates of Btates, throw them out, and declaro Frnvex elected, is a traitor, Every man who does not helieve in the election of TitoeN, in tho Mis. sissippl pinn, in the Lonisiana bulldozers, in the right of intimidation, terrorism, fraud, and assassination, as parts of the machinery of elections, {8 a traitor. 'fhis is the new Democratic gospel as preached by Gen. Kee NaN, editor of the Chicago 7'mes, by the new convert 'I'munnuen, by thoe Jnmping-Jack it Serivaen, by the whitewasheg of bull. dozers BiLt Monnisoy, by little 8iu Cox, and all the rest of the patriots who are now howling ns lustily for the old flag and the Union, provided T'iLpey is st the head of it, as they howled agalust them a fow yearango; and we have the Chicago 7mes, which op- posed every effort to preserve the Unfon, uow hurling its epithets of traitor and treason nd if it wero the very incarnation of loyalty, und had slept in the Amedcun flag all its life. In tho furtherance of thix scheme of electing a President by the House by throwing out Statey, it {5 pro. posed that the present delegution from Illinols shall east her voto for 'TiLoex, slthough the Btate cnst lier vote for Javes aud clectod a Ilavss delegation, ‘I'o oppose the casting of tho vote for Tiv. bEN in thls manner is treason. Ohio, Mr, Haxes' own State, cast her voto for him and elected a Hares delegation. It is now pro. posed to cast her voto for TiLDEN, because two yenrs ago tho Democrats hiad a majority in that State, "o oppose this is treasoas, says Judge Tuumsure, It is proposed by theso bulldozers to throw the vote of Penn- sylvania for 'TiLpey, although it voted most emphatically for Haves aud elected a two- thirds Haves dolegation, To oppose this is trcason, says Gen. Kezvax, editor of the Zimies. Oregon is to ba declared for TiLoex, although it elected Hayes and a Haves del. egation, ''To oppose this is treason, shouts Juwping-Jack Spuivcrn. 'The Golden Blate of California is also to ba declared for Tiv- ey, although tho large wajority of its peoplo voted for Iaris and elect. ed a Republican delegation. Whoeyv- er opposes this i a traitor, howls Bin Monnwoyn. Colorado is to bo sup- pressed altogetlier, and have uo vote at all, although it is o Btate of the Union and cast its vote for Hayes. To object to this out. rago is treason, shrieks the whole Democratic pack. From all of which it is to be iuferred that patriotism, loyaity, love of country and dovotlon to ita interests and institutions are limited to the Chicago Times, Gen, Kzrvax its editor, Judge TrunnurLy, and the partisan majority in the Honae, and all ontaide thesa patriots ara traitors and rovolutioniats, But it the entiro layalty of the country is in the hands of the Chicago 7'imesand itacrew, who songht to overthrow the autherily of the Constitution and break up the Union only n few yonrs ago, Heaven save the country! HOW TO CURE FODDER-CORN. ‘The extraordinary quantity of corn-fodder that can be produced to the acre has long ‘boon known to intelligent farmera; but thero I8 groat diffculty in curing it, preventing it from heating and molding, and becoming unfit for use. Numorous altempts hnve boen made to cura corn-fodder chanply aud satis. Inctorily, but thoy have all resulted.in fail- ures,—at lonst, none of the methods have gone into goneral uee,—and, while farmers look longingly at this promising and abunn. dant sourca of live.stock sustenance, thay bave not yst beon able to realize it. If sown corn could ba cured aud haudled as easily ns onts or grass, it would epeedily be- como the most popular fodder in the United States and Canada, for it can be grown from the 8t. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, and from the Hudson to the Bacramento, An avornge crop of corn-fodder on good Innd is siz tons per acre,—the range buing from three to ten tons. Thae production is five to six times that of the hay yicld per acro. When well cared, it is worth for nni. mal sustenance fally a3 much as good hay or eheaf oats or sheaf rye,—perhaps more, ns it’ 18 vory richinpaccharine and nutritions prop- erties. The ronson is, that the nutritive substances which go into the ear of corn re- main in thestalkof fodder-corn. Every farm- er knows that it timothy or clover hay is cut after it becoman ripe and runs to seed, the stalk i dry, julceless, tasteless, and of littlo value as fodder, just as the ripo straw of any kind of grain contains but little sus- tenance. We presume that sown fodder. corn, when properly cured, {8 worth namuch for cattle.feed as corn on the stalk, ton for ton. All kinds of liva stock—horses, eattlo, sheep—eat it with equal fondness and ben- efit, The Ilon, A, C. Wares, of Stark County, Ohio, who is a very intelligent, oxtensive, and thorough.going farmtr, scems to have successfully solved tho problem of cutting and curing corn-fodder. Mr. Wares is n large sheep-grower, feeding at this time 2,260 hesd. He has slways boen fond of sheep-ralsing ; but some seasons his hay crop would bo o failure by renson of drought, or bo damdged by wet weather, and in those years hio would flnd it expensive to Import lay from a distance to subsist his flocks through the winter, although it had to be done. Beveral years ago he commenced n series of exporiments to produce a good articlo of corn-fodder, and, by the applica- tion of perseveranse, observation, and reflection, ho has sucoceded to his full oxpoctation. He has now no diffieulty in growing and curing all the corn.-fodder for his flocks and herds which he needs, and no longer depends upon the small and doubtful yiold of hay per acre. Last summer he cut and cured about 5600 tons of excellont corn-fodder, which ke fs feeding to fifty head of horaes nnd cattle and 2,250 shoep, and this immonre amount of fodder Lo has obtained from eighty screa” of clay soil, upland ; and he is carrying his stock through the winter in beautiful con- dition, Mr. Wares has not confined his experi- monts to overcoming the difficulties of curing corn-fodder for stock, but has been con-, ducting other Interesting and valuable ex- poriments in steaming of feed for sheep and other live stock, tho results of which he al- so gives in his communication, In n subse- quent letter, dated a fow days ago, he writes: Had there not been frequent welihings of the aheep, and had they not maintained & steady rate of increase, [ should have thought there mignt bave been some miatake, [am now feeding 2,230 sheep and lambs on steamed feed. Thelr dally ratlon 14 3,400 pounds of fodder-corn, 500 pounds of bran, and 12 bushels of corn, ‘They are doing wonderfully well. One fluck of 150 that I have Just weighod Las gafned three pounds per head fn eightdaye. . . . Iamagood deal enthuslustic over steamned feed for sheep, and gress that old Jasox was a wool-grower, and that the twa **fire- breathing monsters' whosc aid was essentlsl to securing the golden fleece were slmply 4 couple of steam bollers. Iie ndds that *¢ the wolting and steaming of fodder.corn vestoros its gucculence, and puta the sumimer back into it again." Tha editor of the Country Gentlanan snys that tho results of Mr, Warxs' experiments and expericnce of the past two or threo years in steamiug oattle-feed **are richly wortlithe careful examination of all intelligent formers, Jtis the first undertaking of the kind on a similar scale within our knowledgoe, and appears to bo eminently successful.” THE NEW COURT OF APPEALS, - BMr. Westwonra had introduced & bill in the General Assembly having for its purposo the ostoblishment of an intermediate court to hear appeals. ‘The provision of the Con- stitntion on this subject reads as follows: Alter the year 1874, Inferior appellate courts of uniform organization and Jurisdiction may be created fu diatricte formed for thut purpose, to which such appeals aud writs of error os the Genera) Ansembly may provide may be prosecuted from cireait and other courts, and from which ap- pealaand writs of error shall Mo to the Suprenio Court, in ali crimlnal cases, aud cases in whicha Jranchlae or freehoid or the validity of a stulutels Inrolred, and In such cases as sy be provided by law. ‘We have not scen this Dbill, and do not know its provisions, It it bea Lill to compel all appeals from ths Cireult and other Courts to pass through this new Court before they can bo taken to tha Hupreme Court, then it provides for o vast incroase in the cost of litigation, and gives no relief to the Supreme Court, In such on event, tho Court will be. come a nuisance, sud ba only an incrensed obatruction, If, however, the bill provides that, in the clasies of cases montioned in the Coustitution, appenls and writs of error shall proceed direct to the Supreme Court, aud that appeals nud writs of error iucll other cases shall bo heard and disposed of finally by the now Court, then the bill is Lighly commendable. It will arvest all liti. gation for mere deluy, cut off Lalf the cases which now crowd the docketsof the Bnprewe Count, promote the cnds of justice, aud gen. erally be a wholesomo reform. This system of an intermediato appellate court has been in oporation for many yeary in Obhio and in New York, and in both States the courts serve to obstruct tho adiinistra- tion of justice to the extent that appeals to them may be carried to a higher court. What is wanted in Illinois is some restraint upon dilatory litigation, It has not been very long since a Judge of the Bupremeo Court of this Btate, iu pointing out the cvil of our system, declared that tho Bupreme Court of 1llinois was compelled to try all questions of fact and of law in a largo part of the litiga- tion in the State. 'Whenover a cow or s calf ‘was run over by the cars on & railroad, the company forced the owner to bring suit for compensation, aud from the verdict for damages appealed fo the Snpreme Court, wlere, in one form or another, the whole cnse had to bo tried over again. By the Constitution the Supreme Court Iing original jurisdiction in all caxes relating to the revenue, in mandanmvs, and habeas ¢orpna, In the section nuthorizing in- ferior appollite couss, the right of appeal And writs of error to the Bubreme Court nro retained in all eriininal cases, and cases in which a franchise, or freehinld, or the validity of astatuto is involved. The business fall. ing nnder theso classes, and thoso nrising un- der its origiunl jurisdiction, are amply suf- ficient to give the Suprems Court full accu- pation. Jiut there nro classes of business whic1 might be committed to an inferior Court of Appeais. 'fo such a Court final jurisdiction might be given in &l actions of debt, of trespass, of tort, and other matlers not reserved by the Constitution for final de. termination bLy the Suprome Conrt. Snuch a Court is much needed, Dut it the decisions of this new Court are not to be final, but mnay still be nppenled from, then it would be much better that no such Court Lo estab- lished. ALEXIS CABWELL, D, D., LL.D The numerous alumnl of Brown University seattered through the West will he vained to learn of the death of the venerable and heloved Prof. ALEX)s CASWELL, late of that {nstitution, He graiuated fron Brown University fn 1822, and was far a time Professor of Languages in Columbla College, Wushington. Iu 1828 he be- came Professor of Mathematics and Nntural Phitlosophy tn Brown University, lolding tho position until 1850, when he was appolnted to the chair of Matliematics and Astronoiny, which he filled until 1805, In 180 he was Acting Prestdent of the College, and in 1868 was chosen President, voluntarlly retiring In 1872, At the time of his death hie was a member of the Board of Fellows, and alen a member of the Advisory Committee of the Alumni. Since his retirement e has lived qulctly In Providence, beloved and respected Ly the whole city, The New York Tribune snys of lim: * Iiis ereet figure, unbent by age, was one of the most familiar on the streets of theeity, Tn every charitable move- went he was foremost, with practieal adviceand generous ald. IHs genial bearing has for years been n constant benediction to a eity which was crowded with his friends, but contained for blin not a singlo cuemy.” RASMUS WINTIER, Hasmus VILLADE CHRISTIAN FRUDINAND WiNTiER, the famous Danish poct, whose death was announced by cable a day or two sluce, was born July 20, 170, In Fensmark, Zealand. During his early wnanliood he tray- eled through Furope, and upon his return, fn 1841, was appolnted tutor to the Princess CAro- raxNe, of Mecklenburg, Ills first atttempt in poctry was a student’s song,'which became im- mensely popular. 1is published books are “Nagle Digte, or, Some Poems, Songs, Tradl- tions, und Sketchies,” *“Trofs Recits,” and “Quatre Nouvelles, *Judith,”” and & poem written In German, besides many volunes of tranalations from the German and Itallan into Danisl, 'To his poetieal works he also ndded n M Dlctlonary of the Idloms of the Laaland Islands,” “A Ilundred Storles of Danish Pocts," nud * Herote Songs.” He was regardea ns one of the greatest poets Denmark has ever produced. MERMANN BROCKHAUS, The eminent Orleutal linguist, ITErmMANN Brocxusus, who has just died In Germaony, was born in [lolland In 1803, He was educated Iu the Unlversitics of Lelpsie, Goettingen, Bonn, Copenhagen, Parlg, London, and Oxford, and gave most of his attentlon to the study of Sans- crit and the relntive langusies, In 1848 he was appolnted Professor of Indfan Languages and Literature In the University ot Lelpsic, Schole ara are indebted to him for the adoption of the Latin character fu the printing of Sanscritworks, His elder brother, lEisnicit, was the founder of one of the greatest publishing houses in Lelpsle. ONITUARY NOTES, Among other deuths of prominent persons which have recently oceurred aro those of Bre- vet Brig.-Gen. Joux J. AnencroMuie, one of tho ofdest aud inost galfunt officers fn tho United States army, who entered the service in 18225 of HAT 3A YOSIINAN, one of the first Japanese students sent to this country, a graduate of RButgers, and afterwards Dircctor of the Imperial College at Toklo; of the Rev, RopERT ARMSTRONG [ALLAM, Rector of 8t. James' Church, New London, Conn.; of Karn Abpene Uspenrwoon Covue, wile of Joux 8, CoYLE, for many years editor of the Washiog- ton Natlonal Inteligencer,~n lady who was fu- mious for her heauty and convernational powers; of Kanw Ensst von Baen, one of the most eminent of the philosophical zoologists of this ventury, who nade wonderful discoveries with the microscope In embryalogy ; of KANNAIR Einennixa, the wife of Esquistaux Jog, who, with her husband, was one of Capt. Hanu's euides in s Polar expeditlons; of the Dowager Countess of CHARLEMOST, graudmother of the present Duchess of SUTHERLAND; of the Rev. Dr, JounN KLy Bearp, o prominent Engitsh Uniturian preselier, who was the author of o dictionary of the Bible; of the Rev. Dr, W. L. Burckesnipoy, of Ruymond, Mo., son of Joux Bugekexuinge, the Attorney-General of the United States In JEPPERSON'S Administra- tion, and the uncle of the late Gen. Joux C. Breekesminee; of Gen. JouN J. JACKSON, President of the Becond Natlonal Bank of Parkersburg, W, Va., und cousin of “StoNe- waLL" Jackson; of the leyv. Janep B WATERBURY, vne of the oldest Presbyterinn mintsters In Brooklyn, N. Y. P Mr. Davip 8 Puniiies, of the Bpringfield Journal, has dlfcavered a dreadful consplracy between the Tlon. J. R, JoNes and the edltor of Tk TrinuNe to elect WAsnsunse to the Unlted States Senate! o devotes the most of two volumus to the discovery, and turns the matter over fn 1ts varfous snd terrible aspecta, For the purpose of setting his mind at rest, and freeing bls editorial space for othier subjects, we Iuform him thue Mr. JOXES has not so much us mentfoned WasuBunsEe's name to the editor of Tue TmsuNe. What he may be thinking or dolng in regard to the Scnatorship we know not, and have not fnquired, i e £ PERSONAL. ‘The pewen in Mr. Beecher's church sold this year for 48,421,220, or §15,258,50 lees than last year. Claftiu obtalued first cholco for o prewium The Marvard Facalty have agreed to give thelr voices In favor of (he adinfeston of women to the full privileges of the Unbversity, Thelr nction has to be approved, of conrse, by the corparation, Many of the Uitled ladles of JFrance burposo spending the winter st Mudrid, fostead of at Parle, in order to lend eclat ww the Court of a seal, blueblooded Suvercizn of Baurbon descent, name- Iy, Alphonso X1f. Dr. Deems, of New York, fs sald to be much aurprised snd gricved at the smalluess of the be- quest to hhw fn Comnodore Vouderbilt's will, ie had boped (o recelve more thau §20,000, which wis & small sum for the magnllicent Cowm- wodore, The London AtAcncun deats sdkercly with the New Englend coterde of female anthors—Including Mias Alcott, Mlas Phelps. N, Whituey, sud Miss tbat thelr ideas aid run §i; tha sume groove. und deacribes this ** grovve ™ aa bee ing ¢ conmon use of a certaln setof vul gozivma, " The Alumuz Assuclation of Vasear Collego met at thy St. Dets Hotel, In New York, last evening. About seventy of the members were present, A banguet was served and fulerestiog speeches were made. The Asrociation ks working to procure such accommodations at Vassar as (hat students niay ba allowed single rooms, snd to vbitafn the founding of scholurebips, ~ The New York 7¥mes has attempted to show that che3p artls better than nono—that the siga-paluter, the village editor oud poet, the valentiug and the clromo, a!l bave a misslon (o fulgl), aud falfll 1t to the advantage of tho human race. The misilon of the village editor and poet will ho indifferently understood by them if thoy do not make returus g kind for the eotteniptaous alinslon ot the Zime, The New York 7imes lLian apologived 1o the Graphle for the nrticles innpired Ly Mr. Jenningy reflecting on the Gooilsell Brothors, proprictors of the latter publication. 1t s presumed that, fo). Towing upon thia apology, the libel muits naninst tig Times will bo withdrawn. ‘The sty against My, Jennings perronally will alau, it Iy underetood, e allowel to go by default. Ife ts now under 819, 000 bonds to answer, Lut will probably not be com. pelled to appenr, G Fome of the lterary critics have pralsed the publishers for patting red edges on thelr books, hoth becaure of the warmth and benuty of the color and becanse of its tendency to keep the edges from belng sofled. - But {n it not trne thag ho red wears ot from & houk that Is much unedy ‘There 19 no certain recipe for keeping clean bonke that aro constantly brouglit {nto contact with dist, and the effect of dirty and halfsworn red-edges fe by no meand to bu preferred to that of respoctatly, it dingy, white, £ Tho annnal dinner of the Willlams College Alumni at Boston wan attended by o namber of distinguished men. Presldent EMot, of Harrard, responded to one of the toasts, Ex-President Jopine, in o letter of rogret, sald: **The (o). lege, strong {u the affection of Ite alumni and o the confidence of the publle, enters upon the sec. ond century of the Republic with the prospect of Velng a more efiiclent promoter of light and re. Jigion than ever before. T do not belleve bettey work 18 done Anywhere. An Amerlcan lady, the wife of tho trazedian Sa) vinl, tecently sent to Richard Wagnor at Florence 8 basket of flowers, The centre waa a bed of white Llosrome, on which were worked the five lines Iy musie, and the treblo key was picked out In v, Tets, Notes wero marked in pink’ Llossoms. The whole was a representation of the two opening bars of the song of the Khine daughters In **Rheln. Rold.” When o vieftor, on sccing this testimonlal of regard, salil to him, **Macstro, you ehould yu to Amerlea hefore you dle," he shuok his head sadly and replied, **Dazu ben lch zu alt,* The prevailing rage for baby-Jewelry is deplorable In rome of it phases, and Justly excites the indig. natlon of the censors of the press, Objection Iy taken In particular to the dressing of little Julla Grant at the last White-1louse recoption with s necklace, bracelete, and a solitalre diamond ring, Jtissaid that moro baby-jowelry was sold during the Iato holfday-scason than over bofore. The fond. neas for personnl adurnment grows xoon enouzh In the female child, and need not Lo gratifled by arraying In Jewels the innocent little creatures that have not yet larned to express thelr desires, ‘The.Now York Independent objects to the com- mon statement that Commodore Vanderbilt was ililberal and degclent In publicapirit, It should L remembered to his credit that he fonnded s univeraity in Tennessce wilth an endowment of $1,000,000; bullt a church on Staten Ialand; maine tained in New York City a free church for stran. gers;and ho gave to the Government during tha War tfs great steamahlp which had cost hlw nearly & million doltars. The Independent la au. thority also for the romarkable statement that hls hanefactlons wlhich were never heard of avetnged 81,000 dally for many years, Tho Springeld Republican nayn: **The slmpls fhctaboat Mr, Bennett fs, that lic cannot take even a amall amonnt of liguor witliout loaing oll respon- »lbility for his actions; o drought which the aver- nge club-man would hardly notiee may render him for the time really insane.," This s not, most persona will sny, **asimple fact," but an exceed. ingly complexand important one, it true, Ifa man who gets drunk on a small amonnt of liquor, and while In_this condition insulte a young woman, |s Tesa to Liame than another who daes precisely the same thing whilo staggering uader a heavier lond, 1t 18 high time that tho unwritten luw on the aub- Ject should be known, 'The cold nnd unfecling world will may that Mr, Benoett has no right to render himself crazy, cither on o emallora large allowance of stimulating drinka; and, If be Govs #0, he cannat, as the Repuliican aays, **lose all respunsiblilty for bls actions.” Tu it too Iate to suggest to Mr, Bennett the propricty of rbstaining from **that small amonnt" which **ronders Lim for the tine reslly fnsane "'t ' ‘The announcement that the Grand Duke Alexls fs nowon hiswayto this country bas some fne terest for the young women of Ameries, who treasure the memory of his love-locks and the penetrating glance of his Royal eye, Notall the barbarle splendors of his futher's Court Lave dis- enchanted him with Ameriea. But it fv humiliat. Iug to learn that the Amerlcan woman he uost ad. ‘mires 1s not a Washington belle skiiled In finerse and the diplomattc language of tha hieart, ora York coquetts, knowing fu the gonsip of clubs and boasting of the blood uf the Kniekerbockers, or a Boston membor of the famous class in Sanscrlt, or even 8 Chicago divinity comblalng the graces and acquirements of all the others. Ho loves mont, they soy, a Kansas girl who once shota Luffalo while the Roynl Duke was lookingon, Evldently the Tartar llood lingersin him. The women of thie Rast will be abave the feclings of their sex if they do not hold the loyal Tartar lower than the Kansan girl; and ehie, 1 the oplnton of all well- regulated persons, must be estecrmed o nasty, mean, desigulng thing. NOTEL ARRIVALS, Sherman_ House—The Hon, WV, II. Sherman, Ds D, Dement, Dizon: C. C. Fuller, 5t. Louls; A. L. Conger, Akron, 0.3, Breckens ridee, Milwnnkes -A. Nrown, ngor; M. Il Sutherland, St. Paul; ¥, M, Finney, Peorla .. Tremont House—The Hon. 1, Tutner. Mayo) of Quincy; the Ion, W, ney and the Hon, ¥. 1. Aldrich, Quincy s B. Kupnenhelmer, New York* Q. E. llutchingon, Clevelund; ¥, M. Apperson, cw Orleans: David iien, Wew York: Col. E. Maxwoll, 81, Louis: W, V. Porter, Now York: M. J. Fogerty, New York: Gen, Simeon Smith, U, 8, » + Whilain' ¢iratton, Owaba Hee! A, K. Hackett, New York wlmer llouse—Phllo J, Bev- erldge; Springticld; ten. I Foster, Alsbamaj the flon, ¥, McGiowan, Pitisbur, . B Meeehl, Bustons H, il. DI, Baltimore: .. E. Snow, St Louls; W, Hammelle. Parls, France; the Hon, T, A Egery, Bangar, Me, ; H.'A._Clark, Doston O Whevler, Winonas thy 1lon, R, I', lugties, New Jersey: J. 11, Tate, Wisconsins the lon. I, Mus- grave, Minsbosiopl:' D, F. Hroughton, Mudlaon A, Thomuson, Steveus Point: . E. Rockwoor Ht, Paul; the Hon, F, Ureen, Otegon. ... rand l"f‘;jl(-—\\'. . Klucald, Noew York; W. I, Le- cand, Philadelphta; 1%, 1, lloward, 8t, Louia: D). M. Parker, Detroit; €, U, Washhurne, Mudivonj Ao W, Shaw, B. Longnecker, aud J. W, Shaw, Nova Heutla: A, Androws, Clevelund; U, Wrlehit, Hovton: W. J. McLaren, Mllwaukee; O, M. Webd, Ciuciunatl; 1. 1 Shalts, Muianoutl, Special Dispuich to DaveNrort, la, Jan. 127, A. Ryan, & hatter of this ¢lty, has fulled, with liabllities of $10,000. ¥, Wallace, general merchaut, snd Jones & Atkiuson, mauunfacturers of splces, have also falled, each with Habllitles of avout $10,000, ) HosToN, Muss., Jan. 12.—~The Mechanles' Suv- ings Bank, cstablished In 1874, has suspended. Ih{o amount due depositors on Dee, 24 was 446,001 Suecial Dispatch to Tha Tribune. Forr Wavny, lnd., Jon 12, —The statement I8 anade on belal! of Thanbauser & Wiler, job- bers i notlons and fum-ry ¥oods, that the firm 13 perfectly sound, aud wifl pay 100 ccuts on the dollar, thelr asscls belng Jargely In excess of liabilitles, Baukrupley procecdings wers fnetl- tuted by'one of the partners on account of o ,n ooal ditieulty with other members of tbe i e faiture of N, B, Young & Co,, merchaut taltors, ia announced. Liabilitics, 33,000, wA WALKING-MATCH, Avectal Dispatch o The Tribune. Lavging, Mich., Jun, 12.—The uwost exciting thing In thls city for the last twenty-four hours has been the walking-ateh betwecn 1a)l Dion, of New York, and Miss Henderson, of Caunda. Dion was to walk 100 miles to Xixs 1Tenderson's vlghty-elght. ‘The fest he readlly sccomplished Inside of twenty four lours. Miss Hendersou guve out on her seventy-ninth inile, which was the fastest mile elther “made, she making the mifle in 7:40, which fe the fasteat thine ever made by & woman pedestrisn. —————— THE MONOPOLISTS DISAPPOINTED. Spectal Digpaich 1o Tha Trivuns. RBourtn Brrureus, Pu., Jan, 12.—The trou- blesin the coul reglons bave ended by the miners acvepting the operators® proposition of reduced wages aud golug to work. As there is » probability of astlll further reduction of wages, trouble may yet ensue. The operators will hold another necting soon, snd, i1 the meanthne, the winers will arrange s basis, About 15,000 miners are working, snd 10,00 are still unemployed, A HEAVY FALL. Special Dispatch (0 Tha Tridune. Dusuque, [a., Jun, 13.—Tho case of Nigtte engale va. The City of Dubuque for .$20,000 dainsges for injuries sustained by a fall upoa the aldewalk, resulted to-dayin & verdics of 4,000 for olaloat®, .