Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1877, Page 4

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EE- ] EETINGS, APOLLO COMMAXDERY 1, ENIGHTS TEM- PLAR.—Attention, Sir Kbi al Conclave on y evening next. Jan. 30, a2 7:30 o'clock sharp, 2t Asyluni, 74 and 76 Monroc-st. The Order of K. T. :‘m be gmug:dé{ All Sir Knights are courteously {n- ted. By order . G- J."R. DUNLOP, Recorder. VAR RENSSELAER GRAXND LODGE OF PERFEC- TION, A. A. SCOTCH RITE MASONS~—The Annual Assembly occurs on Thursday” evening next, for ihe election of aficers snd payment of o E. P. HALL, T." P." Go*. M.~ ED, GOODALE, Girand Secretary. LAFATETTE CHAPTER. XO 2 . A M._Hall 74 outoe-st. Specta Convocation Mgaday eventng, Jsa. Tlalthrs corgiatty the M.E M. P, 230 0'clock. for work on the P.and AL E. Degrees. Invited to weet with us. ‘UCKER, Sccretary. ST. BERNARD COMMANDERY, No. 35 K. Special Conclave Wednesday evening, Jan. 31 at ook, _Ysark on the Opder of U £ e Knlghts arc courteously favited. By order, L 2 ‘W. . BCRBANE, E. C. IMPERIAL LODGE, No. 37, K. of P.—The members will meet at the Grand Lodge Hall, corner of LuSalle- a0d Adams-sts,, on Monday evening, 29th {nst.. at § o'clock sharp. P BONREE £ ar 1. mia 5. RINTHIAN CHAPTER, XO. 69, T A. M.—Spe- ré;logm,\;_owhfie,\innd‘ &Erallnfi. Jan. 29, Workp:n . Srder. 5 A Degree. By O RAWFORD, H. P. SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1877. — At the New York Gold Exchange on Saturday greenbacks were worth 943@9} ents on the dollar. Judge Davis will accept the Senatorship, “but will not leave the Bench until the 4th of March, as the Chief Justice has assigned him - opinians to write which will engage his time until then, and also preclude the possibility -of his serving on the Arbitration Commis- islon, ! Presaspo Woop is still operating on his Aittle impeschment scheme. His plan is for “his Committe to report in fovor of impeach- ing the President, and by keeping the reso- Jution’ back until the Senate adjourns Jet Geaxr go out with tye odium supposed to be centeined in the passage of the measnre by a Democratic House. The four members of the Louisiana Re- tarning Board were brought before the House yesterday, and the clection returns of that State demanded of them. They replied to the demand that all the documents were inthe hands of the Secretary of State of Louisians, whereupon the House, by a strictly party vote, ordered the four gentle- men into the custody of the Sergeant-at- Arms, there to remain until they should con- ciude to hard over the papers. Mr. Guapsrosn, while disclsiming any werlike intections towards the Ministry of Ergland, Lluntly asserts that the policy of 185 country in the Eastern complication has been wrong and ruinous. In his speech at ‘Tounton yesterday, the ex-Premier criti- cised soverely the English attitude toward Turkey, cleiming that the British Govern- ment is largely to blame for the Porte’s treatment of the European Powers. The " Oriental savage has won renown for his dis- regard of treaties, and Mr. GrLADSTONE showed that the Paris compect has never been respected by the fez and tassel. Mr. Busy, of the celebrated Oregon firm of Lavop & Busm, appeared before the Sen- ate Committee on Privileges and Elections yesterday, and produced some significant telegrams which show the source of some of Gov. Grover's rigid integrity in sticking to Afr. Croxty. Fifteen thousand dollars heve now been traced from ‘““the barl” to the Cepital of Oregon, and it is demonstrated that part went into the pockets of the bold Crox1y and part into the capacious wallets of “‘counsel,” leaving still a- part unaccounted for, with opportunities for Gov. GROVEE to explain. — 4 The long dreary seven weeks of snow,. ice, aress of low barometers, and absence of aun- light, have at last been succeeded by claar #ky, bright sunlight, and a balmier atmou- phere, and every one rejoices. Coupled with the passage of the Compromise bill in Congress, it is certainly now in order to hopo that a great weight has been lifted off the people; that the uncertainty and appre- hension arising from the distractions of the political situation will diseppear; that busi- ness now will revive, and the great tide of commerce will once more flow in its old channels ; that epidemics will commence to disappesr ; and that we can all get ready to resume in the paths of progress and pros- perity when the spring comes. —_— While it may be true that Judge Davis ~will think proper to contiue in the discharge of his judicial duties up to the 4th of March, and in the meantime to withhold all intima- tion of his acceptance or rejection of the office of Serator, to which the Illinois Legis- 1aturo has clected him, we place no faith in the rumor that he will consent to serve on the Commission to decide the Presidency, even if there were any likelikood of his being called on. Judge Davis has too exalted an iden of the judicial responsibility to place himself in 50 embarrassing a position. Now that he has been elected to the United States Senate, he has entered into politics, aod it would be unscemly on his part, aud unfair to the country, to act as the final arbiter in a struggle which involves the ascendency of one of the two parties that are contesting. He could not undertake any such responsi- sility without subjecting humself to the zravest suspicion; and it is mot likely that the four Justices having the selection of the Afth will so much as think of choosing him under the circumstances. The Chicsgo produce markets were active Ssturday, endmost of them: weze easier. .Afess pork .closed at $16.424@16.45 for February and $16.673@16.70 far March. Lard closed unchanged, at $10.70@10.72} per 100 Ibs for February and $10.82)@10.85 for March, Meats closed steady, at Gec for shoulders, boxed; 8jc for shortribs; and 8ic for short-clears. Highwines were nnchanged, at £1.05 per gallon. Flour was qaiet and firm. Wheat closed e higher, at $1.263 cash and $L.267 scller Merch, Corn closed 2@Jc low- er, at 42c cash and 42}c for Febrnary. Osts closed ¢ lower, at 35c cash and 35c for February. Rye was 1c lower, at 70c. Bar- ley closed firm, at 60@G03c for February. Hogs were dull and wnchanged, at- $5.90@ G.75 per 1001bs. Cattle were quiet and eesy, 5.80. Sheep were dull, at §2.75 @5.00. One hundred dotlars in gold would buy £106.12} in greenbacks at the close. The policy steadily pursned by the South is to place their strongest men intellectually inthe Senate. After the 4th of March, Becx, of Kentucky ; Lasuz, of Mississippi ; Gov. GaRLAND, of Arkansas; Gen. Momgax, of Alsbama; Gov. Hannis, of Tenncssee; Gov. Coxz, of Texas; and Bex Hrwx, of Georgia, will have seats in the Senate. For the rough work of partisan debate Hrrr and Becx will be Democratic lenders. Hivr will find his old antagonist Branv: in the Senateto con- iront and match him, and Becx will find Judge Hoae there to match him. TLaan is a philosophical statesman—some say a8 dreamer—whose eloquence rccalls the best models of sucient or modern times, He will undoubtedly be the most elogquent speaker on the Democratic side. One good result at least has been secured by the scarlet-fever controversy. The peo- ple, the physicians, and the suthorities are fully aroused to the frightful spread of the disease, and there will now be every effort made to check it that can be secured by pub- lic, professional, and private apprehension. Professional jealousiesand conflicting theories among the doctors may not permit the pub- lic consultation of the physicians to be as pro- ductive of good results as they ought to be, but we are confident that thers are enough skillful and conscientious physicians in the city to prevent the trial of pernicious rem- edies. Meantime, the public authorities are prepared to act upon the best suggestions, and every family will feel the necessity of securing from the regular medical attendant advice as to the proper, sanitary precautions to.take. If there shall be a general observ- ance of the laws of health, with particular reference to the prevailing epidemic, there is little doubt that in a few weeks the disease may be confined to its ordinary limits. Elsewhere we print the text of a bill intro- duced into the House of Representatives by the Hon. S. B. CmrrespEy, of New York, providing for resumption of specie pay- ments by funding greenbacks at the option of the holder into jour per cent forty-year bonds. It is believed that the public would gradually fund them into such obligations. Those bonds would be at par with the greenbacks, and for all practical purposes would pass from haund to hand as money in all large transactions. As the New York Times remarks : There is not the slightest reason to doub?, that, with legal-tender notes worth 9435 (as they are wlien gold is worth 106), and with money lending at the rates which now prevail at all the financial centres of the country, funding in such 2 bond as ia provided forin 3Ir. CumTrenpeN's bill would gradually and without ehock bring the notes to par, and lead the way to complete and permanent resumption. No surer, more simple, or eafer method of fulillling the pledge to resnme in 1879 could be devised, 2nd none more sound in princi- ple. We hope that there is sense cnough in Con- gress to take up the question. And since the arga- ments for and against it have long since become familiar, there should be no objection to passing the necessary legislation before the 3d of March. The “items of taxation and revenue in France may be of interest to Amencans, who have for any years passed through a sys- tem of taxction such as few people have ever endured. In the figures given we have com- pated five francs as equal to $1. The total revenue of France for 1877 is put down at §547,000,000. . Of this sum, $34,460,000 are the proceeds of land tax; $11,700,000, per- sonal tax; doorand window tax, $8,000,000; patents, $31,000,000; $750,000 from mines; and §2,000,000 from horses and carriages. These are the direct taxes, The indirect taxes furnish the bulkof the national reve- nue,—some of the leading items of which are as follows : Registration and mo Stampa. Forests., Colonial snga Foreign sugar (customs) Fome sugar (excise). Alcoholic beverages Marches Income personal property. Telegraphs. Post-Ofice. The whole receipts from customs aresbout $53,689,000. The estimated expenditure equals the expected revenue. Messrs. Garrrerp and Hoar have been se- lected by the House Republicans to repre- sent them as members of the Commission which is to arbitrate the Presidential dispute. These selections will satisfy the entire coun- try, each in his own way being a leader of the Republicans in the Lower House. Mr. Hoan wasone of the Committee which re- ported the bill, and wes heartily ir favor of it. Mr. GamrEnp opposed the meosure, and, therefore, represents the considerable numberof Republican mem- bers who voted against it. Both of them are sterling Republicans, and firmly believe that Crov. Haves has been lawfally elected President of the United States. In making up and presenting tho case, which will be the principal duties of the Congressional members of the Commission, Mr. Hoar's eminent legal abilitics will be of material as- sistance to the Bepublican side, while Mr. GarrreLp's capacity for work, his long ex- perience in pablic affairs, his great energy, and his ability as o debater, will supply another important element. Thero are not two other members m the House who could better supply the demands of the occasion. ‘While the Republican caucus has not yet acted upon the selection of attorneys, there is no doubt that the ablest legal talent will be cngaged to argue the Republican cause. — One of the cheering circumstances of the time is the change that has taken place in the political condition of affairs at Washing- ton. Both political parties have given bond to accept the finding of the newly-created Court in the matter of counting the Electoral votes for President. This much has been gained. All uncertainty has been removed. This Court will make a decision, and that decision will be final, and will Lo accepted by the whole people, and, therefore, there will be peace, and the President-clect will enter upon his duties without the least question as to the legality of his election. The political cloud being removed, the country, which has been pass- ing through a period of anxiety and depres- sion, will feel measursbly relieved. Dur- ing the last two months there has been an oppressive sense of danger, which, added to the general stagnation of business, has made the prospect of the future a Lopeless one. The cheerful acquiescence of both Honses of Congress and of the President in a sat~ isfactory dstermination of the political trouble will have a reviving offect generally. There has been a great improvement mada during the-last year in our finencial condi- tion. The country has been reducing its debt. It has sold more and bought less; it has produced = large surplus. "The balance on the books hes been in our favor. What is true as to the nation is true as to individuals. There has been a reduction of incomes, but there has been an equal if not a greater reduc- tion in expenditures. Our people have been able to abendon many expenditures to which they had long been accustomed. Having geined this victory over themselves, they have conquered to a great extent the worst consequences of the panic. ‘Unfortunately, the commercial depression is not a local one. It is as universal as commerce itself. The interchange of commodities and the employment of - labor must be resumed, and already that resumption hes begun. We have added Iargely to our exports, conse- quently our production has increased, and with increased production there are incrensed lsbor and increased means with which to purchase for consumption. - The season has advanced so far that men now look forward to the resumption of trade, of building, and of many lines of employment suspended during the winter. The days aro lengthen- ing, and the wecks of probable winter are getting fower; the sun is growing warmer ; and there is o general increase of hopeful- ness and promise that within a brief period the conntry will enter on a period of renewed activity and prosperity. PEACE, GOOD-WILL, AND PROSPERITY. One long sigh of relief has gone through the length and breadth of the land upou the definite adoption of the scheme for arbi- trating the count of the Electoral vote. It is not yet determined whother Hayes or Trpex shall be President for the next four years; that is for the Commission of Su- preme Judges to decide. But a fair and peaceful settlement is assured, and thet is all the Americen people have desired. The great advantage to the country is that both pittics aro concluded by the agreement to abide by the decision of the tribunal ap- pointed, and that both aro precluded from the right of contest, or even of - protest, no matter what the result may be. The agree- ment has brought the country the assurance that neither office-holders nor office-seekers can appeal to party passions to sustain a resistance to the peaceable inauguration of the next President, whether .he be Mr, T DEX or Mr. Haves, but that ho will take the place with 2s much authority as if he had received a majority of one hundred Elect- oral votes instead of one, and with the unanimous assent of tho American people. There was no other way than by an agree- ment to arbitrate that this glorious result could have been attained. Suppose the counsels of the extreme Republicans had been obeyed, and the Senate had sustained its presiding officer in exercising a judicial prerogative by discriminating in ell cases where two setsof returnshave been made; sup- poss Gov. Haves had thos been doclared elect- ed by a singlo vote ; and supposa the Demo- crats, simply to avoid civil strife and blood- shed, had permitted him to be insugurated President under these conditions,—what hope would there have been for his Adminis- tration, for the Republican party, or for the country ? Every Democrat in the land wounld have felt in his heart that he had been cheat- ed, and to the Democrats would have been added a large class of Republicans who have not been able to persuade themselves that the Constitation authorizes and much less enjoins upon the President of the Senate the count of the Electoral votes. Haves would have been denounced s a usurper, and all those who assisted him to his office in that manner would have been branded as po- litical adventurers and scoundrels. The country would not have heard the last of it during the four years of his term, aven if he were allowed to retain the offico so long. The issue would heve been fought over at every State, county, city, and town election throughout the United States, and the peo- ple would have been distressed and the busi- ness of the country continually depressed by an interminable political uproar. Haves would have entered upon the edministration of the Government with a Congress opposed to him, and feeling warranted, under the cir- cumstances, to hamper and annoy him at every step. No policy he could have adopt- ed, no matter how wise or patriotie, would have conciliated the public so long as he should be regarded as a usurper. Hayes him- self would have retired finally under discom- fiture, and his party would have been so overwhelmingly defeated that a recovery would have been tho toil of years. On the otber hand, suppose the counsels of the extreme Democrats had been follow- ed; suppose the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives had assumed the right to elect Mr. TrprN without awaiting sa agreement that there had been a failure to elect by the people; and suppose the Re- publicans had submitted to this high-handed proceeding rather than resort to violent re- sistance,—would Trrpex have been Iéss a usurper, and would his Administration heve been beset with any fewer embarrassments? Then the whole Republican party would have protested, and they would have been joined by the conservative Democrats who have not made up their minds that a Con- gressional cabal in one House may with im- punity override the laws and the Constitu- tion. * The entire country would have lived under the apprehension that so desperate 2 scheme would not have been re- sorted to without some ulterior design of evon more sinister character, and the dread of a Rebel raid on the United States Treas- ury would have depreciated the Government credit. The battle in that case wounld like- wise have beon fought over at every local clection during the four years, and nothing that Mr. ToEx could say, and nothing that his friends could do, would have sufficed to quiet the public fears or satisfy the popular clamor for an atonement for the wrong done to justice. The Democratic party in this ense would have paid the penalty of its ragh- ness in subsequent defeat; but the business of the couniry would have suffered all the same. As it is, tho man who shall be inaugurated President on tho 4th of March next will have a clear titls to the office, and enter upon hus duties and responsibilities with the con- sciousness of rightful possession and the best wishes of the peoplo for the success of a patriotic policy. We believe that tho Presi- dency will be awarded to Gov. Haves; and, if it prove to be so, he will reccive it under conditions that will enable him to adminis. ter the Government without the thralldom of the extremists of his own party as well as +without the factious opposition of the Dem- ocrats in Congress. He will be fres from the outset to insugurate a policy of recon- ciliation as to the South, and of civil-service reform s to the whole country. No poli- ticians or place-hunters will be able to say to him that he owes his position to them, for he wilt.owe it to a high tribunal whick is called upon to arbitrate;in the interests of the whole American people; ~The result can- not fail to be of tho grestest benefit to the political ond commercial interest of the country. It means peace, good-will, and prosperity. TICKLED WITH A STRAW. A day or two since, an article was printed in Tme Trmuxe showirg the change of policy upon the part of the English Govern- ment in the administration of Indis, and how, since the mutiny, instend of seck- ingto elovate the farmers aud tenantry as before, the Governors-General were paying court to the aristocracy nud giving new priv- ileges to the landholders, as the surest method of securing the loyalty of the people and their permanent adhesion to the Crown. A late issue of tho London Z%mes, containing o description of the ceremonies at Delhi con- sequent upon the accession of VIOTORIA a8 Empress of India, contains several particulars which illustrate this theory of English policy. The correspondent of the Z'imnes, who was present at the pageant, writes that on tho following day a gazette extraordinary was published containing lists of the honors awarded. The first notification is the grant- ing of tho salutes of twenty-one guns for lifo to tho Maharajahs Scindia and Holkar, and the Maharajahs of four other places, while forty-five smaller Chiefs get salutes varying from nineteen tonine guns. All the Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, members of the Supreme Council, and also certain Maharajahs, are invested with the title of ** Counselor of the Empress.” Ti- tles of ‘“Maharajah” are conferred upon a number of native gentlemen, and of *“1Ma- haranee” upon an equal number of native ladies. Three hereditary titles are confer- red. The Guikwar is to be called *‘The Child of the English Government ”; Scindia, “‘The Sword of the Empire”; and the Ma- barajah of Cashmere, *“The Shield of the Indian Empire.” It was a happy day for convicts when Vicronia became Empress, for on that day 10 per cent of them, being 16,000 in pumber, were released, after the Oriental fashion, and partial remissions of sentenco were granted to those imprisoned for short terms. Even tho terms of the Mu- tiny Amnesty of 1859 were enlarged, and all the actors in that awful tragedy were par- doned upon condition of returning home and fature good behavior. A unique fea- ture of the pardon business was the release of zll civil prisoners whose debts are not over 100 rupees and the payment of their debts by the State,—a mensure of Exccutive clemency which will arouse a lively feeling of eavy in less-favored debtors' prisons in other parts of the world. The Punjab Col- lege has been raised to the dignity of a uni- versity, and has the privilege of conferring degrees. The native army is allowed several advantages of ‘increased bounty and pasy. ‘The military order of British India for native officers is increased, and every native in- fantry regiment is to have a brass band. These are the principal sgencies relied upon by the British Government to secure the loyalty of the native Chicfs ard eristo- crats to the new Empressof India. They havo at least tho merit of being inexpensive. It costs nothing to give the Maharajnh of Cnshmere twenty-one guns for life, with the probability that the opportunity may never occur when it will be necessary to burn pow- der in his honor. Titles of ¢ Counselor of tho Empress,” ** Maharajah,” “ Maharanee,” “The Child of the English Government,” and “ The Shield of the Indian Empire,” are dirt-cheap. It is possible, of course, that Great Britain may sccure loyalty at this ridiculously cheap figure, but it is also possi- blo that an emergency may oeccur of such gravity es to show that these Chiefs hare not been pleased with their rattle nor tickled with their str: TEE DOCTORS AKD THE SCARLET FEVER. Well, the doctors have met. -The allopath- ists have met. The homeopathists have met. The big pills have met. The little pills have met. The Superntendent of Heslth, who wanted them to meet, has also met, and he has been rewarded for his desire to have them meet by a corresponding desire on their part to bounce him. There are probably a thousand doctors in the city and four or five medical colleges full of fledglings who will soon have permission to attach an AL D. to their names, which indicates, even if it does not stand for, More Dosing. Of this number several hundred have been in coun- cil upon scarlet fever, diphtheria, and other epidemics now scourging the city and mowing down the children ot an sppalling rate. Mennwhile, those afflicted with these diseases in their homes, and those apprehensive lest the Red Death may any moment stalk in upon them and snatch away their little ones, have waited in the bope that there might be wisdom in many counselors, and that they would point out the avenue ‘of escape from the horrible malignity and cruel dispatch with which these epidemics seize upon and hurry their victims to the grave. The re- ports of their meetings, however, as printed in the daily press, will not bring much of comfort to the sick-room, or of assur- ance to those who are spprehensive of attack. The allopathists &t the outset do mnot agree with the homeopathists, and vice tersa. Neither do allopathists or homeopathists agree with themselves. It only.remains for the eclectics to meet and disagree with all the rest to make the confu- sion of discord complote. Dr. BEene's pre- ventive scems to have been the dete noir of both assemblies. The allopathists oppose it because Le is a homeopathist, and the home- opathists oppose it because he admimsters it in allopathic form. Dr. Beese bhaving used the sulpho-carbolate of soda with excellent results in Zis practice, not having lost a case, gives it to the public, when straightway uprises an allopathist and pats his foot on it because /i has used it end lost cases, and then uprises a homeopathist, who putsAisfoot on it because he has used it and lost cases,— the one because he followed in the wake of a homeopathist, and the other because he committed the unpardonable sin of depart- ing from the formulas. Forif Dr. Beese can use it in an allopathic dose and cure his patient, what becomes of the infinitesimal ? In other words, trample out the cure, but preserve the disease if the third decimal attenuation of the prophylactic is to be endangered. But, gentlemen, both of the big and little pills, if we may not have the sulpho-carbolate of soda, what may we-have? Shall it be belladonna ? This will not do, because it is a homeopathic remedy. The allopathists must not use it. If the homeopathists use it, to what degree of attenuation shall it be used, or shall it be used ‘st all? One homeopathist says it is dangerous to use it indiscriminately. An- other informs us that it acts as s predispo- nent. Another doesn’t belicve in it, because he has tried it and it has failed, while the most successful doctor in the city seefns to have been the one who has used it in thirds and sixths and other attenuations, and lost all his pationts. Have our doctors nothing better to offer us than this? Is there no remedy, no precaution or preventive, upon hich they may agree? If not, then a plague on both your houses. You have flooded us with zymotics, prophylactics, nntiseyfifs, therapeutics, sputics, and all tho other tics Lknown to the matoria medica. You allo- pathists inform us that belladonna has been proven obsolutely worthless, and you homeopathists inform us that it is success- ful. You homeopathists inform us .that the sulphates will extirpate the germs and disinfect the blood, and you allopathists in- form us that thera is no drug of any sort that can do this! If you who have made medicine and discase the study of your lives are still only in the region of experiment, s0 for as scarlet fever is concerned, and cannot agree upon anything that will save us from it, why not cease wrangling, drop jenlousies, and have the frankness to confess ignorance of the remedy, meanwhile giving us such results of your experience 2s may enable us atleast to isolate the disense and keep it from sprending? For, while you are wrangling, the Fever docs not wait, and Death stands by, grinning at your technical discussions. - Ho is reaping 2 fearful harvest while you are expending your enmities and humors upon each other. There are hundreds of saddened homes ell over the city in which the prattle of the children is heard no longer. There are bhundreds of other homes—homes in hovels and in marble fronts—whers the littlo sufferers are tossing about in their pain. There are hundreds of other homes marked by the Destroyer as the next to bo visited. You cannot restore the sun- shine in the darkened homes; but, in the name of common humanity, can you not agreo upon some relief for the suffering and some preventive thatshall bafile this malig- nant fever-fiend and keop it oumt of the homes where it has not yet come? Can you not for once, gentlemen of all schools, come together and concentrate your knowledge and cxperience to devise soms methcd of checking this horrible scourge? THE STATE-HOUSE BUSINESS. The State-House at Springfield is com- pleted; that is to say, the Commissioners have expended the whole sum of money,— $3,500,000,—authorized to be expended. = As the Constitution expressly required the com- pletion of the work for the sum named, and as the money has been expended, the pre- sumption is that the work is complete. We regret to havo it to sny tha§ this presumption is not warranted by the facts. The Com- missioners report that they have used up =l the money, and that it will require from $530,000 to $666,000 to finish the building. The Constitution adopted in 1870, before the contracts were let for this State-House, pro- vides: The G encral Aeeembly shall not appropriate ont of the State Treasury, or expend on account of the new Capitol grounds, and construction, comple- tion, and furnishing of the State-Tlousc, a sum ex- ceeding in the aggregate $3,599,000, nclusive of all appropriations heretofare made, without first sobmitting the proposition for an additional ex- penditare to the legal votess of the State ot a gen- eral election, nor unless a majonty of all the votes cast at such clection shall be for the proposed ex- penditure. p It can hardly be claimed that there is any ambiguity in this provision, or that any man having intelligence <nough to serve as Com- missioner could labor under any mistake as to its meaning. Novertheless, the three Com- missioners have procoeded, and have expend- ed all the money at their command, and the building is incomplete. In the report of these same Commissioners made two years ago they informed the Legislature that the whole work would be done 2t a cost within the sum limited by the Constitation. Though ‘the Constitution wos adopted as long ago as 1670, these Commissioners did not discover that there would be a deficiency until since the adjonrnment of the Legisla- ture in 1875. 'The foundations of the build- ing cost $465,687. In 1869 the plens and estimates of the architect were submitted to o committee of the Legislature and of ex- perts. This Commission made many changes in the original plan, which chenges increased the total cost $293,100, which made the whole cost of the building above the founda- tion §3,081,040. Including the cost of the foundation the total sum asked was 23,496,- 727.53, On this basis the State Convention limited the total expenditurs to $3,500,000. This wes seven years ago, and during that time there has been a liberal reduction in the cost of all kinds of labor and of all materials. The Commissioners, after going on nearly six years under the delusion that there would be money enough, now have the cool impudence to brave public opinion in the following gushing manner : At the date of their Jast report the Commission- ers confidently expressed the opinion that the cost of the bulding would come within the constitu- tional limit, to-wit: $3,5C0,000. . Before the close of the year 1875, itbecame evident there would be a deficiency. It hasarisen from different causes. As before stated, thesc changes incressed the cost much beyond what the Comuissioners had an- ticipated, and now they can only say, that, though the building will cost more than originally esti- mated, and more then the people had been avsured it won1d cost, yet it will be grander, more magnifi- cent and imposing in its appearance, more sub- stantial and permanent, moro’ beeutiful and sym- metrical in its proportions, much- finer and richer in its finish, and more completein all its parts, and still cost from $1,000,000 to $,000,000 less than it was stated under ozth by prominent architects and builders before an Investigating Committea the building could be erected for even after the original design. The Commissioners sec some things which they could wish were different,—which they would change were the work to be done again, But inall their acta in the past, relying onand confiding in the good taste, jndement, and skill of the acting architect, and theirown judgment as to what would promote the interest, please and command the ap- proval of the great massof the people, and acting honeetly with that sole purpose u view, they have ‘bronght the work to its present status, and now in its present unfinished condition tender it to the people through their representatives, not faultless, but a5 possessing many excellences and beanties, and submit to them whether or not the Commis- sioners have rendered a fair equivalent,—a just and equitable consideration. The incrensed cost of the building is charged to certain changes proposed and adopted in 18G9, n year before the constitu- tional limitation wasmade. All these changes in the plan were Imown and carried ont in the interval between 1869 and 1875. And it was not until the Commissioners had ob- tained the last dollar that could be appropri- ated that they discovered there would be a deficiency of $666,000. The people em- ployed these men to build a State-House, complete, for §3,500,000; until the Com- missioners had got the last dollar ont of the Treasury they insisted that the work would be finished within the limited price; and noW, in return for the $3,500,000, thoy hand over a building which they say will cost $666,000 additional, or nearly 20 per cent more than the sum designated by the Con- stitution. We do not question the honesty of the Commissioners. We do deny that they have scted in'good faith with the people. They have kept 2s a secret the fact that their style of building would leave this large defi- ciency, or they have gone along heedlessly or blindly, without knowing what they were doing. The resultis one forced mpon the people. The building must remain unfinished, or the people must approve an appropriation to complete it. There has been an unjust exerciso of power by the Commissioners; but under the circumstances we suppose they must be thanked because the deficiency was not & million or two millions of dellars, particularly as the Commissioners suggest that os it is the building will cost from one to four millions of dollars less than some architects had declared it ought to cost. The grave objection is that these men deliberate- ly evaded the Constitution by spending £3,500,000 on an unfinished and incomplete building, when that Constitution prohibited an expenditure beyond that sum for the whole work. THE USES OF TOWN-SEWAGE. The question of the utilization of town- sewage is being very generally discussed in England 2t the present time. The London Times arrives at the conclusion, after ex- amining the experiments of the past ten years, that ¢ time, which dispels many illa- sions, has for some years apparently destroy- ed the conviction, once firmly held, that Lon- don and all our larger towns possessed in their sowers and cesspools a subterranean trepsure-storo of manurial wealth.” Inthe report of a Committea appointed by the Local Government Board of London to visit 2 number of localities where town-sewage is employed on farms, or is disposad of by land filtration or by mechanical and chemical processes, it is stated that *‘the Committeo do not know of a single case of town refuse or of sewrge or its menipulated solids in which it has been sold ata profit. There has consequently been local disappointment and accumulations of some thousand tons-of manufactured manure, nominally worth sev- eral pounds sterling per ton, cumbering the places of manufacture because such prices ere not realized.” The ill success in fact which has attended the experiment in the use of sewnge a3 & manure in England is very clearly shown by the following extract from the report : ‘The euccessful management of animals and the proper cultivation of crops under ordinary circam- Btances reguire a fair amonnt of Intellizence ana experience, but successtully to carry out all the details of these matters upon s sewage farm, where there is so little to guide the practical farmer, and 80 much to confound his past experience and upset his previons calculations, is, indecd, a hard task, and as most sewaie farms are at present under the control of ever-changing Town Counclis and Local Boards, whose muembers must, asa rule, be igno- rent of practical agriculture, and whose theories upon the subject may be wild and visionary, isit surprising that such poor returns have hitherto re- sulted from the application of town-sewage to the growth of crops? On the Continent, however, very success- ful experiments havo been made. At Ley- den, Amsterdam, and Paris, by the use of the pneumatic system, tho refuse is carried direct from the houses through pneumatic channels worked fromn a pumping-station and delivered into receptacles, whence it is distributed over the land, and the crops upon such lands have been a . per- fect success. The City of Berlin has been divided into five districts for drain- age, each with its pumping-station. The entire cost of the sewerage works is esti- mated at $10,000,000. To utilize the sew- age, the city has purchased 2,000 acres of the light sandy soil north of the city and the same ares south of the city, over which 28,000,030 gallons of sewage are pumped daily. By this means the city is reclaiming 4,000 acres of waste land, as the sand com- pletely absorbs and oxidizes the sewage, and in addition to this is purifying the River Spree, which has hitherto been the recepta- cle of the sewage of the whole city. In- fluenced by the success of experiments on the Continent, the English Committee has recommended the process of land-irrigation for agricultural purposes whenever local con- ditions are favorable, and that towns on the seacorst or tidal estuaries turn their sewago into the sea below the line of low water. HENRY WATTER3ON’S LAMBS, The touching epitaph that was carved by some philosophic soul upon the infant’s tombstone, *‘ Since I so soon am done for, I wonder what I was begnn for,” may be con- templated with great profit by 3Mr. Hesny Warrensoy, shepherd of 100,000 con- tingent lambs, as plain Hesey Warree- sox, editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal. Mr. W. was an orpament to his profession and made a good newspaper, but thera has been blood upon the moon ever since the Congressional bee lit in his bonnet and stung him, and, to put it as mildly as possible, he has been making himself ridicu- lous. Mr. WaTTERSON'S most recent proposi- tion was to bring 100,000 Kentucky lambs to Washington upon tho 14th of February. They were to be weak, innocent, helpless creatures. They were to venture timidly within the shadow of the Capitol without arms,—not & revolver, shot-gan, bowie-knife, blunderbuss, or bludgeon among the whole hundred thousand.. The only side arms which they would carry were to be of that peculiar fashion and calibre that are liable to inflict dangerous wounds in the neck. The mission of these hundred thousand Kentucky Merinos and Southdowns was to exercise in a hundred thousend persons the right of petition to Congress guaranteed them by the Constitu- tion and its fathers, and to plaintively bleat for tho counting in of Tiupey. It wasto bave been a demonstration of grace, mercy, and peace ; a display of tender, patbetic, and patriotic mutton ; an eshibition of plaintive protest against the usurpation of the Repub- lican wolves standing ready to devour them, that would have overwhelmed Congress, saved the Constitution, and rescued TinpEN. Even MorToN, CEANDLER, and the President and renew the war of the Sheriy 5 Advert, ing. Gen. EEmNaN hes glg erlis. “wah " paint in vain, and nwmfl'& : sound Lis slogan and pre ar “goah.” The calm dfieriin:::m‘:‘f 2. people and the sober sense of Congresy e combined to clap an effectnal extin, ~hf'° over the whole pestiferous crew of xf:l“ roaring, shrieking blood.seeken, and hng, will be heard of no more, Meanwhi, case of Mr. Hever Warrzesoy is xmte' b gether without its compensationg : vf: he proposed to be so generois in the of Kentucky mmutton ss to fil} the wholy city of Washington with lambg, be evideng, bad not counted ‘the cost. . Whes Bess T, to reflect that, if his lambs had consuned bt two cocktails each per diem, —whichisgy tremely moderate allowance of fodder theaverage Kentucky lnmb,—f.heymuh‘. consumed the fluid equivalent of $3, 4 and when he reflects dpon fhe .;um'. enormous expenses of his herd in the “‘ of eating, sloeping, drinking," bagy traveling, and fighting the tiger, ha w1l o, doubtedly arrive ot the very sensibly conely.. sion that the services he and hislarbg render would not be an equivalent. for f, colossal draft it wonld make. upon_ Trpeyy *bar'L” The usafruct might be very enjoy. able, but what would have™become of u,; contents of the bar? S — 3, One of the attaches of Tae Trrpye seat g special to Forney's Presson +Wednesday nighy giving the result of the day's balloting for Senator, and closéd his dispatch s follows: i desorien By e o, tll o Dure - their votes for Liwnes y el to 65 on the SR e o ek i &fi' leaves th l!:g\llm:h?g very doudtfal fo: “v;._ B clected. oY Delng st Dans canay The reporter would not have_ventured ty eplujon if he had known that the Bridgeport’ byes were just then preparing nice caffins fo tho bodily wants of MiLes Kemoe and T, 1. Hickey, who had refused tovote for Davr, bn; persisted in supportingHarses., But the coffiag did the business, aud fetched the resusants toa realizing sense of their situation. The coffing. presupposed hanging, and that was 3 king of noose they did not like to hear, It our man kgt known that noose he would not have 20t the other news. 3 ———— After sufferlng sevcrely from the recgliss i, providence of issuing bonds by loeal muacipalt tles, the people of Indiana are now serioudj contemplating the adoption of an amendmen, to stop this folly. An amendment to the Con stitution is pendicgin the Leglslatare of that’ State which Is very favorably thoughtof. It absolutely probibits counties, witfcs, towns, md townships ever to subscribe to the stock of il roads or other corporatioas, or to loanor dotats money or credit to them, or to indorse for them, orto assume their debts; and, fartheritds clares that ** No tax shall be authorizel, levia, orcollected by any person or oficerof ay, county, city, town, or township, ex:ept for thy' necessury expenses thereof.” The people s oppressed with taxes levied to pay the iuterest on railroad debts, and yet there seems to be ny way of arresting the growth of such debts) &, cept threugh a constitational . measare forbid- ding it. Philadelphiz City has not been . sesport iy winter. Tke Delaware River has been lxms’7 over so thickly thag no craft hos been abletoay rive or depart. The commerce of the city sulfered louger interruption than in any win for o quarter of a century. The Preweaps: Nearly all kinds of produce of which the af) accustomed to receive 1ts supplies by water advanced in price.and the wability of veste's with provisions for this nort to reaci the ity |, dered the prospect of any decline in prces ingly . ‘hen, auuic, trace with foreignl* receiv check owing to this s our r1ver front wedh 10 proceed L sea, U and " these cargocd, ooy of being on their way, have been Iying idly, ely wharves, while from other poris compse’ little trouble wus encountered 1n edecting, ent, ance. The injury, not transient, Lot pef of such u state of affairs to our commerce be dwelt upon. . B — Says the New York Nation: ~ reported to have telegraphed the R‘i“m'{ 4 that LogAN was “‘needed’ at \sz’:‘:{'; 4 just what Secretary MorriLL is © oo+ bave telegraphed to Boston conm.‘:gl iy WELL. But the ‘nceds’ of the A and the Senatorial Group are no L % to the country as they ouce were.’ . THE EABTERH 5. II. HisSTORY OF TUE P.ugncx"fl-s““:l —In order to understand the et relations the actors in the Eastern W:and Kh{“'"f_ nature of the issues involved the mnflm,u: is necessary to call to onr algi¢ testimony ot history. z ' Of the history of Turkey {23r9P¢ vegfim ¢ is known in English-speald countries; ;w‘ 3 among the cducated classe This bas 0ot - because such history bas b lacking in mm. for the European provinceof the Sultaz, - stitnting a border-land befen thetwo 3"‘;“’: ilizations of the Christiand the Mosb;m, eild been the scene of perpesl struggle; w‘:&eo‘ deeds -without numbem the endless SR hostile creeds. For £ Teason the o question has been for OF than sixty Feas, most momentous of in Europen politis though its fmportans bas been by o mfi geeraily understoe But the muntryl o been difficalt of sess, latterday means o communication n¥ing thelr way in l:d L slowly, and a her/ fourteen centu_rles ol o separated the intésts of its inbabitants. e those of the peot of Cathotic countries; o ther, the Slave ¥ DO literary bistory lr‘:“lml of the Greek taive bim a hold upon the w; sympathics an jmaginations of the cdu:- o classes of the/cst- But now that M.u;‘m 4 ply upon th Danube, and other to :’ual oy Western civzation are slowly but making theivay into the heart of the country el interesh,: better kneledge is awakening 8 new 5 :nd '.hcerol(mdil!ennm born of ignorance, dis- lP’rhe CHistian populations of ‘Turkey fi oy Servonh e e M ¢ the Bul, ns, QI ’ %in}zm;;nnims, :Imugh nnmlmlly.owlnfe ll: b o to the Sultans, are so c.n.nrdyd x’h‘a rated (rom /the struggling Christians b Empi¢ that we may leave them out . cset acconnt. nr}.:‘:;m fourteenth century these yravlnce!wc: Chsstian Tarkey, together with the Bep]:n oot Matenegro, constituted the groat Serv! b pe. Long united by common descent 81 ke himself would have been moved to pity at the sight of these hundred thousand Ken- tucky lambs trotting up Pennsylvania avenue with the pastoral WaTTERsoN at their head, armed with no more dangerous weapon thav/| ‘his shepherd’scrook bound with garlands, ard his faithful dog following at his hzels. All this pretty bacolic display, howerer, will be dished by the passage of the :om- promise measure. The lambs will nit be needed. They must seek other pasures, and content themselves with the blue grass of Kentucky. Mr. WarrersoN must forego the proudest moment of his life, vhen he was to march at the head of his orine pro- cession, impersonating the sanctify of the right of personal petition. Te sumit up somewhat vulgarly, the Compromisc bill has Imocked Mr. Heney Warremsox and his hundred thousand nnarmed Kentucky lambs higher than a kite. They are not alone in their discomfiture, however. It has spiked the guns of the old Chicago Bulldozer, and its columns have grown as tame and peaceful as'an ordinary barn-yard. The Cincinnati Enguirer has had its pins knocked out from under it, and, not having now to prepare to fight, bleed, and die for the Coustitntion, can concentrate all its gell and Dbitterness wupon HALSTEAD mmon language, and still more by a common .:mz, all the provinces from the Adrlfltké lonllh: Black Sea acknowledged the sovereign! rm". powerful Czar, STEPHEN DUSEAN. For t;'h i three years this ruler governed ablybis 'nrlanl main. He codified the laws of Lhcm st provinces, ordaining 3 Natlonal Asseml }{a x supreme legal authority, providiog ’m;bu administration of justice, recognizing o tution of trial by jury, regnlating the & re property, establishing equable t.nxauhon.m.x sisting on free trade 28 necessary to the e Proj of the people. There still t_%-_fi!o‘ o gest of the laws of DUSHAN, 2 dmiflm Slavic tongue, snd which has been o into the German and otrffr lugmge;ommufl R Unbappily, DTsmax was lempled. ém e 0 and by the weakness of the Greek li;m. turn a covetous gaze upon Cansnnll(l;gflh : in possession of the Greeks. The e eyond peror called upon the Osmaull Tur‘,m S the Bosphorus, for protection ngfln:h lves! vians. The Turks came, bringiog the T5. protection, 80 characteristic of their = tradition, and before they tarned OPO it Servians they crushed out the last remn;‘“_ et the Empire of CONSTANTINE i lhcm; bore his name, and rendered both lrhu‘;e. Bosphorus alike subject to Moslem ety 308 Meanwhile STRPHEN DTSEAN had o the provinces had chosen his wmfll-fl‘". thelr ruler. Under him the Sla en" edm m“_’" gathered when the Moslem hordes,