Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1877, Page 4

The Tribae, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. BT SAIL—TX ADVANCZ—FOSTAGE PREPAID AT THIS UEPICE. i i1y Bdttlon, postraids 1 year.. $12.4 ot pie et e ear, per monih.. Matled 10 Any sddree four wi dition: Literary and el v 5, postrald, 1 g'::n T'aris of & year, per i0onth... WEERLY EDITION, POSTPAID. one capy. Pustage prepatd. Erectmen coples sent free, ‘Lo rrevent delay sod mistakes, be rreand gire Poste OF ce address tn full, Incliniing State and County. e Remittances may be made efther hy draft, express, ' Yorl-Utuce order, or tn registered letters, atour rlak. . 7ERMS TO CITT SUDSCRIDERS. '} Dany, cetivered. Sunday excepted, 23 caits per wesk, Laty, deitvered, Sundsy Incinded, 30 cents pee week TIE TIMBUNE COMPANY, arbor Acdrers Loioer Madtron and Chicago, Lk AMUSEMENTS. Hnveriy's Theatre, Randolph atreet, between Clark and Lasalls. En. gagement of the' Oate's Cowls Opers Company. “T.a dulte Furfumeuse.” MeVieuer's The Madison sirect. betw gaxcineat of Miss Lettio Alien. o And State, - rabbed Age,” Adelph) Thentre, -Mopron gireet, curner Dearborn. Variety enter- taipment, SOCIETY MEETINGS, DGE. Noo ot A, F.and A, Mo=Tlall Bpeetal Communtestion this (Fris 20 weloek, for work on the B, A, . Ny urder uf the . N.TUCKEI Bec. WASTINGTON CHAPTKR, No. 63, 1L, A, M,=fpe. elal Convacation this (Friday) evening at 7:3) w'clock, for work :m’ l}lll l“”r( ) ll-’h “I’V‘Il’::l’fi Visiting Com- puntous conltally tuvited. Ry orde, \ on, w. P CHASB, 8, WIIUAT, Kec, MOME LODAK, No. 8o, A, . and A, M.=Jtegnlar ot 17 At Do PO ek cordtay Wi u e Ao jred W et e wyted oo L PR ETRAUGILLy Wbl Tt Z. MERRICK, Sec. COVENANT LODGE. Ko, Epeet, unication this gelock, witinan Hall, 17 it e-st, on the M. M. Degree. Vialting brethiren cordinity ine Red: "By order oF the Wo Mo ™ T, K HILH, Hee: WAUBANSIA LODGE, Nn. 1m, A. F. and A, P (l"’r‘?dn() crening. Feb. 24, wt the Masoule Hall, 72 Moaroe-sf. ORI, iing, Vialturs trateruaily Ia A, F. and A, M.— feqrontog ‘s wion Tnele-st, Work 3 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1877, The Illinois Banate yesterdsy passed tks bill appropriating $51,000 for tho complotion of, tho dam at Coppuras Ureok, a work of 1 primo nocessity for the improvementof navi- 2 gotion in the [linois River. Tho morits and +, importance of the m-nsure aro so thoroughly understood and so generally recognized that thers should be no uncortainty as to the prowpt passage of tho bill by the House. — ' Jobbers and mers in Indinnapolis havo ‘.. fastened their grippors und fangs upon the ! prosperity of that municipallty, and bave ., obout sccured legislative approval of o con. tract whereby the Common Council of Indi- anapolis {s to loan tho credit of that city ton atock-yard company to tho extont of $500,- 000. Four-tifths of the victimized populnce are said to recoguizo tho munstrous uuright- cousness of the project. 1. 'The bones of.Jony U'ManoneY, now on .+ their way for interment in Ireland, seem destined to create a broeze among the aons of .1 Erin, A number of lending Home-Rulers 21 refuse to tako part in tho funeral demonstra- *+ tious, und Cardinal Coruv donles pormis- sion for the remnina to le in stateinthe . ; Dnblin Cathedral., There are plenty of ", churches, howover, which will receiva the . oolllu of the depnrted Fenian lender, and the tunoral is certain to be an imposing affair, , In the midat of tho excitoment and pres- sure of political affalrs which have monopo. + lized uttention and interest in Congress, tho fuct has almost been losp sight of that suit- able official uction iu relation to the denth of ", Speaker Kenn has not been taken, Senator McDoxaLp yesterday gave notice that on Saturday of this woek Lo will aal that husi. , uess ba suspended in order that fitting eulo. . ! gies may be pronounced upon the life and cburncter of the lamentod Speaker of the + House. S—e—— r The arguments in tho Oregon case laving i been concluded, the Commission yesterday . sfteruoon went into secret wesslon, but ad- Jjourned until to-day, with the undorstanding that the deciding vote shall bo taken at 4 y o'clock p. m. An opportumty is now pre- sented for certain Democratio newspapers to sssert thnt, inasnuch aa the Oregon cnse hny lredy been practically decided, the mem. ‘ Jers of the Tribunal aro holding off for bets, They huve said about everything olso that " was abusive and scandalous, and thoy might as well improve the few remaining chances, ———— Emperor WiLLiay, In openiug the Gers man Parlinment yesterdoy, expressed the opinion that the peace of Europe will uot be brokeu ju consequence of the Eastern com- plications, ]mah:g that opinion upon the be. . lief that tho united demands of the Powers upon Turkey for gunrnntees of reform will } be complied with by the Porte, and war thus . averted. Hlis Majesty, howevor, took occa~ 1~ 4 sion to add the slgnificant remark that his +.. Government will continue to exerclae its in- * " flaence in behnlf of the Christiuns in Turkey, * " sud of the preservation of the pence of Eu. rope, but, ** above all things, strengthening 1" its own good relations with the Governmunts <1 sllied or otherwiso friendly to 1t.™ ik —— The astonishing developments of ‘ frauds perpotrated at the Bt. Louis charter clection by the Democratio repeaters and ballot-box stuffers who were intrusted with the job .bave been such as to turn the stomachs of two leading Democrots and lawyers, Col. ., Broapuean aud Samuer 8. Guovea, who -, yesterday made a pledge that hereaftor they « will serve as judges of election whenever ap- + pointed, and without regard to the injury of i |tbeir private business, It is a wholesome ‘resolution, and might be tsken with ad. antago by some of our prominent Chicago JJawyers and business men, who bave had u ;‘ .taste of similar frauds at charter and lown i elections. It might even be advisablo to i+ jbave a law like that suggested by Mr. {Groven in St. Louis, imposing a fine of ! £1,000 upon soy man who refuses to aot ns election judge when i ] A ol T i bt It is said that Judge Orirvomp hLas an. .y - nouuced that e will not vote to vecoive the hc‘;\vobe of Croxnty, but will vols to rveceive but PHiwo of Oregon's Electoral votcs, excluding *both Csoxty and Warzs, This policy, _which will probably be adopted Ly all the Democrstic members of (he Commission, . sumply means TiLoey in another form, or by Janother process, since the exclusion of tho vote of one Hepublican Elector in Oregon would reduce the Haves vote to 184, or oue luss thon 13 necessary to elect, and thus + throw the election into the Houge, Notling “could bs miore satisfactory to the Democrats 1han to bring about t.is result, but they sy »u well make op their minds that Hayes aad WHE CHICAGO "TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY '23, 1877. Wneeren will receive the threa Eleotoral votes whicli <the peoplo of Orsgon decided should be cast for the Republican candidates, nnd that the Houso will not have the oppor- (nnity ot electing T1zoex, The rule in ref- erence to cligibility 1aid down in the Florida and Lonisiana cases will undoubtedly be fol- lowedin the Oragon case, and by the same vole—8 to 7, Some of the Sovons of the Bpringfield Leg- islature aro taking n pin.hook view of the proposition to establish a Tloard of three Fish Commissioners for this Biate. The ob- Jections made to'it would indicats that the objoctors have never got beyond fishing for minnows, and that they still earry: the worms in their 1month when . they start ont on an angling expedition. Tho fdtt i, that it is high time for Illinois to imitato tho example of its neighboring States and give proper enconrogement to the great and productive industry of fish-culture. Thero is no way in which so abundant and excellont n food.supply can be assured ns by keeping up the stock of fish in the lakes and running wators, ‘The-oxpepso is insignifi- cant compared to the rosults, The first atep proper to be taken is to provide for Commis- sloners, whoso services are to bo given gratis and whose aununl expensca are limited by the proposed law to %800 for the entire Bdiird. These Commissionors are necessary to receivg tho fish-spawn distributed by the General Govornment, to locato hiatching and breeding establishments, nnd to provide gomo goneral system for propagating tho fish native to the waters of this region and in. troducing new varistics, The bill seems to Lo fully protected from nbuses, and the ob- juct sought to be oblained isin overy way desirable. It has boen very difficult to make Demo- crats comprehiend the question at fssuo in re- gard to tho Louisiaun controversy which the Eloctoral Counnlssion hua had to pass npon, Mr. E. W. StovonTtoN gives this terso and exact dofinition of the duties of the Arbitra- tion ‘W'ribunal s ** It s to count the Electoral vote, and not to count tho votes by which the Electors were electod.” If the Commis. sion had entered npon the labor of counting the votes by which tho respective Electoral clalmants wero clected, they conld not, by any smount of assiduity, have comploted it during the yepr 1877, Thoy would not Lave got through one of the bulldozed par- fshes bufore tho 4th of March, Jnst imagine how long & would take the Demoerntic lawyers to explain to the satlsfactfon of the Commission how - it happened that %ot ons Republican vote in Fast Feliciana Parish was cast for Hares for Tresldont, Pacranp for Governor, for the Ropublican candildata for Congress, or morn. bers of the Logislataro or county officers ! And this, too, in face of the fact that thero were 2,147 nrdont Republicans registered as voters, aud only 1,066 Dentocrats. How did it occur that the Democrats, not contont with excluding the colored Ropublicans from the polls, returned neatly twico their party sireugth? Was this sstounding result caitied by ballot-box stuling or by com. pelling colored Repuablicans to vota the bull. dozer's ticket? The Repnblicans contidently caleulated on. receiving at least 1,000 major- ity for Taves aud their whole ticket in that strong Republican county, but thoy did not got a solitary vote, while the Democrata polled 1,786 votes for their whole ticket: Do the Democratic editors and Congressional damagogues who are ranting and raving and blackguarding and libeling tho mombprs of the Arbitration Board think they conld have vxplained aud justified this obvious and transparent villainy? They would have been vovered with confuslon (but not shame) in their misorablo attempt to wsupport the sooundrolism, But, howover willing the Arbitrators might have been to count and canvasy the votes by which tho Electors wers elected, it was utterly imnpossiblo to have gono through one-tenth of tho disputed pre. vincts aud parishes by the 4th of March, 1877. ‘The job which tho Democrats out out for them way the Inbor of years, JOHN TYLEL, JR.'S, BALLOON, Mr. Jonx Tyien, Jr.,, the not very re- markable son of a not very remarkable Pres. ident, hns discovered na remedy for the proa- tration of iuglastry, which he hastons to con- tribute to the New York 7'ribune. ‘The general features of his remedy 1s for the Government to come with its resources to tho rescuo of thounemployed, and commence tho building of canals north, south, east, und west. Tho ingredionts of his romedy aro A Governmental investment of o thonsand million, an annual taxation of fifty mill- ion, the leveeing of the Mississippl, the Jomes River & Kanawhu Canal, the Tennes- seo, (tcorgla & Alnbama Canalf a canal around Ningars Falls on the American sido, a ship-conal from the Lakes to tho Missis- sippl, an inland coast-canal from ‘Foxas to Floridn, & Bouthern railroad from the Mis~ sissippl to the Pacifio, and numerous other public improvements, lacluding, we pre- sumo, a railroad to the moon and a ship. canal from Alaska to the Polo. Set all this in notion, and theneveryone will be happy. 3r, Joun Tyrrs, Jr., may at lenst bo ered- itad with having set atloat the Inrgest balloon that Lins yet been atarted, sven in these kite. flying days. His sohems necossitates tha selling by the Government of a thousand million of bonds at 5 per cent, provided they will sell at that per cent, and the raising of un annual tax of $50,000,000 i addition to the presont onerous taxation, How is it to be ralsed? Certainly not by an increass of tanlf, for the tariff is already too high, for revenuo and’ imports are falling off rapidly, It must be ralsed, therefore, on internal rev. enus loxes,—taxos on incomes. manufac- tures, trndes, sud occapations; . in other wordy, he wonld reatore the odious war taxes which have but recently boen ropealed by universal demand, ‘fhis would be ome effect of Mr, Tyres's bolloon, Thers are others. Wo came out of the War with a debt of two thousand seven hundred and iifty imillions, and, after twelye years, with the ntmost possible production of tho country, this dmount has been reduced to {wo thousand oze hundred millions, and now comes Mr. Jouw Trres, Jr., with s proposi- tion to replaco all that hus been paid off, sud, by adding another thoussud million, saddle npon the people & debt of three thou. sand one hundred millions. The interest upon the debt has been reduced from one bundred aud forty-seven millions to ninety. eight millions. Now he would add ffty millions to the jnterest account aud bring it upto the old standard sgain. This is the procious legacy which Mr, Joun Trers, Jr., Pproposes to send down to our children. ‘Tho object of Mr. JouN Truen, Jr., isto give employment to the idle common labor- ors,. What would bo the effect of it? Let us suppose his schemes would give work loa willion of laborers. Then would follow a rush of laborers from Europe by hundreds of fbhousands, ‘There would be & sourt in the ' creasa of prices. Farmers and manufac. turers wofild hiave to pay their handa o Jittle more. Then the downhill grade wonld be & steep and rapid one, Importa wonfd in. crongo and exports fall off. Tho valus of money wonld decrease. Fluetnuations in val. ues wonld set in. Speculation would become rampanl. Then the bubble wonld burst, and panie, with all its demornliza- tion, would be mpon wug with worso ravages than the last one. '.sho works once finished. the speculators, and rings, and Credit-Mobiliers wonid steal the monoy, and a carnival of villainy, stenling, awindling, and general immorality would be trium- phantly inaugurated. | What aro tho public works Mr. Jomx TriE, Jr., proposes? In tho first place, he would loveo tho Mississippi River from St. Lonis or Cairo to ils delta, and enter upon tha fatile, foolish, impuasible task of confin- ing ils waters within embankments, which in the doy of its fluvial wrath wonld be no more protection thau ant-hills. Every wise and scientific engineer in the conntry knows that the only way of proteoting its banks is to open more ontlets and lower the bed of the river by turning it through as many channels as possible, mstead of restraining its mighty volume within sediment banks. Not all tho resources of the United States aud not all the efforts of puny man con ever prevent the overflow of the Father of Waters with lovees. In this ono work hundreds of millions would bo thrown away. IHis canal projects are still mora absnrd, and the most absurd of all is the Kanawha, the most impracticabla nand uscless canal routo that has ever. boon proposed since tho Chincse commenced ca- nalling. There is not one of these canals that would be nllowed to carry freight onough to.pay for the locking and ordi- nary repairs. The railroads running by their sido are able to Lill the bost of them. Even our own'canal can do but little against tho ilroads, which are not in nctual competition with it, but with each other. The report of the Erio Canal business of last year asnf- feeted by the Now York Central Rail- road might be profitable reading fo Mr. Jomx Tyren, Jr. After his millions liad Leen squandered upon theso canals, they would never pay for the cost of repairs, giuch less would they pay anything towards principal orinterest of the construction, Most chimer- feal and ridiculous of nll is his proposition for a ship-canal around Niagara Falls on the American aide/ In tho namo of all that is dear to & Tyren, what does ho wantof a canal on the Americah side whon the Cang- dinns are alrendy digging one on their side, which will opon two weeks enrlier and closo two weeks loter snd carry ships through just as cheaply ns an American canal could? Wedo ot see the special point to this Iatter project, unless Mr, Joux Trren, Jr., offers it as a bribo for Northern votes to carry ont the Bouthern projects. If Mr, Jonx Trren, Jr., wants the Gov. ernment to go into a communistio nrrange. ment to secnre. labor for the nuemployed, there are more fonsiblo projocts,—among them the proposition bronched nt Philadel- phia, that the Government should mark opt a list of staple articles of manufncture, such na cotton und woolon fabrics, iron, steel, cut- lery, paper, glass, leather, clothing, imple- nionts of all descriptions, ste., upon which it would poy a bounty, to Lo taken out of tho general tax, sutficiont to pay for losses in shipping goods, thus enabling our manufac- turers to undersall foroign nations and fur- nish employment for our own people. Car. rying out this .plan of bouuties and draw. backs, although it would eventually end in overlasting smash, wo should for a time ot least got back something of value in goods wo do not pro- duce, It is at least n more useful proposition than that of Mr, Jonx Trien, Jr. Perhaps n still better plan for Mr, Joux ‘Trren, Jr., would bo to suggest to the Gov- ernment the establishment of a vast national infirmary, whera all Amerlcan citizens, ro- gardless of race, sex, color, or provions con. ditlon of servitude, who are too lazy or shiftless to work, might go and bo supported without work upon free lunches for life at the expense of the people. There might be n littlo objection upon the part of the hard workens to be taxed for tho bonefit of tho shiftless, but as Mr, Jony Tyren, Jr.'s prop- osition involves tho same principle and thousand times tho expense without nccom- plishing any result whatover, they might prefer it to his colossal ballooning operation., THE BENATE FINANCE DILL, Tte Benate Cominities on Finance has re- ported a bill which partially proposes to carry ont some suggestions by tho President fo a recent mesasgo on the question of spe- cie-resumption. - The bill authorizes the issuo of §100,000,000 of bonds, having thir. ty years to run, and bearing 4 per cent inter. est, and to oxchange thom, in sums not ex- ceeding $256,000,000 in auy ono year, at par for legal-tender notes of the United States. The bill further authorizes the issue of sil- vercoin to an mmount including the wum heretofore authorized of #60,000,000, and oxchango the samo for legal-londer notes, the latter to be applicd as bonda now are to the sinking fund required by law, ‘The mnount of silver now authorized is $50,000,000. This bill, therefore, authorizes an incroaso of %30,000,000 to take the place of a4 many greenbacks, The bouds are to bo {ssucd mouthly to the sum of £26,000,000 ayear, This bill will therefors furnish o practical test of a long-controverted point, ‘The bond will bo worth in gold of necessity tho value of tho greenbuck ju gold, plus the intercst. ‘The bond, Lowever, 4will boa form of money, and can bo used in large payments in liouw of greonbacks, . It will Le wore convenicut for remittauce, It can be used in foreign countries. 1t will afford all porsons having mouney temporarily idlo, or beld to mako future payments, an oppor- tumly to put their currency in the boud, thore to draw intorest until such time ns needed. The bond, being always of equal value to the currency, can be used for any purpose that currenoy can be, or can, if ro. quired, bo converted into currency, Prac. tically, therefore, thers will be no con. traction produced Ly tho passage of thiy bill. The bouds themsclves will supply the place of the currency for which they havo buen exchanged, and the silver coin will take the place a8 curroncy of tho notes for which it will be exchauged. The point geined by this bill is not so Snnch what it prevides for as the direction which it gives to the tinancial polioy of the country, It is an additional step towards the restoration of silver coin as & national currency, and it Is an “Indication and an assurance that the paper money of the Government fssued under the exigencics of a war {s in the coume of, ultimato extinction, 1t is a small stop, it is true, towards retiring the greonbacks, but it Is a step, and once taken and trisd will tend greatly to disarm the spprohensions of those who have been educated to the belipt thata disturbance of the paper monsy will lead to ruin and dosolation. The measure fails to earry out the meore radical recommendationa of the Presidents; but it {s probably tho ornly measura that <on command a favorable mnjority in tho pncsent Congress. s i =] FACIFIC-WAIL SUBSIDY, REREWED. Five yoars ngo, Cougress, in its lnst hours, pnssed the back-pay swindle, and the same Congress passed the bill granting o subsidy of half amiilion of dollarsayear for five yeam to the Pacffic Mail Ocean Bteamship Company. - Bubsoguent disclosures revealed the fact that the Company had expended ovor ono million of dollars to procure the pasage of the subsidy act. That procecding was ns disgraceful and as shrancless ns was the back- pay business, and, like the back-pay fraud, alhonld have been repesled. This subsidy expiros with the present flseal year, In the Senate, on Wednesday, when the bill making appropriations for the mnext fiseal year waa considered, Mr. Senntor Iayuin moved nn appropriation of $500,010 a8 a subsidy to the Pacific Mail Company fee corrying the mails Dotseen San’ Francisco nnd China and Japan, and despita the past history of that kind of legisiation, and thoe notorions character of the grant itself, it was dopted by n vote of 27 to 18. ‘There is no apology for this vote. It iz a donation from an almost exhausted Trensury to Lolster up the credit of a bankrupt corpo- ration, The service for which this half-a milllon of dollars 1s givem i nominally for carrying the mail once A month to and from Chiun’ from San Frooeisco, Frem Now York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baitimoro theroe is almost a daily 1nnil to Europe. This mail {8 earriod, and thore is a strong compe- tition for the work, for the ocesn postage, which is two conts a lotier, The whole daily servico to Europa does not cost over $240,« 000 a year, which is paid by thoso who nse tho mail. All ether countries have nbnn- doned thoe ‘subsidy business, nnd the only compensation now paid for ecarryilng ocean mails {8 the procoeds of the ocean postages. At this very time thero is a stonmship com. panyon the Pacific Const sngaged on the same route, which offers to carry the malls for the mero ocoan postages, Bub Mr, 1lanriy fsno such kind of man ns that. Ho s not denling with his own money. If he had to buy a now swallow-lail coat bho would hardly pay %500 of his own money for the garmont when ha could obtain au equally good cont for ono-tenth of the money. Ho, howaever, waa doaling with the public money, and, in the face of a deficiency in the rovenne, he did not husitate to move n. donation of half a million of dollars—a gra. tuity of that sum—to n corporation whose past leglulative hstory is a racord of orime. | We supposa that Mr. Hasturs will move to levy an additional tax on books and roading matter, to raise the money to be given awny to this dishoneat and insolvent Company. It is but just that tho public should have tha names of those who voted for this fraud, and tho record i as follows: Alllson, Canover, Kemnan, Barnum, Crugin, MeMillan, Bogy, Dawes, Morriil, Baoth, Dennis, Paddock, Burnalde, Ferry. Patterwon, Cameron (Pa.), Goldthwalts, Harcent, Cameron (Wia), Hau.iln, Wes Chulrce, Xni‘ll.. Windom, Christlancy, Jvhunton, Withers =27, HATS. Aleorn, Hiteheock, TRansom, lulley, Mey ll'er‘V: Ttobertuon, Clayton, MeDonald, Hherniun, Cooper, Musey, Spencer, Davle, Mernmon, Teller. Uereford, Handolph, Weighi—~18, ‘Wo can understand the pressuro of local demands compelling tho Senators from Cal. ifornin, Coloralo, aud Now York to vote for this gift of tho public money; but we fail to undorstand what spacial interest the peoplo of Towns, Minnesotn, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Knnsas have in psying half o million of dollars to carry the mails to China, when the mails could be went thero without cost to the publie, Neithor do we nnderstand why Sen- ators from Florida and New Hampshire, Maino and Bouth Oarolina, Rhode Island nnd Virginis, should take such pains to securo o mail service to Japan, that n bounty of halt a million of dollars should be paid for it. Of coursa there is n trade, = Other subsidles equally dishonest are to bo asked, and rec- iprocity will probably carry them through also, Itisto be haped that the fouse of Roprasentatives will promptly reject this ap- propriation, and by so dolug crush out the subsldy for all timo to come. : FALL IN PORK. Tt is well known to all of our commorolal readors that a sovero downward movemont in prices haa recontly ocourred in pork and wheat, which has mors or less influenced nearly oll tho other produce markets *in the samo direction, The inciting causes of this break are not so well understood. Indeed, there are'vory few, even among thosa most deoply intorested, who have taken the time to stop and think cut the conditions which have dotormined tho march of events, much lesa take a calm view of the situation, as it is probably a foreshadowing of the future, Both of theso doals have been exceodingly, srtificial for a long tinte past. In the case of wheat, wahave Lad the opinion of the West carrying things with & high band in opposition to the views of all other parts of the civilized world. An undoubtod short crop of wheat in Minacsots and adja- cont Btates has induced the bollof that very high prices vould be realized for the dimin. ished surplus. A powerful combination, which has its headquarters In Chleago, took the bull mde, and forced up quotations, while tho consuming markets resolutely refused to respond, The combination now holds all the whoat of the speculative grade in store in this city, probably most of that in Milwaukeo, and is ** long " for future deliverios to tho axtent of several million bushels more, The whole deal {8 varlously estimated at all tho way from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 buskels, Little wheat lins come in rocenily, and it may ba that there is little more to comoj but it js now whisporod that vast quantities of flour are stored up in the West, aud jutimated #4 probnble that Great Urilaln can supply all hor wants elsewhers at lower prices than those asked by Western holders. Under this condition of things the magket has weakened badly, 84 very miny peoplo have becoms sellers for foture delivery in the bellef that they will be able to buy the proporty ia at a big profit. Trading yestorday was not authorized by the rules of the Board of Trade; Lut the com. parison of viswa among commercial meu, which was all the more free a4 they had time to talk instead of to trady, indicatod a gen. eral expectation of a farther downward movement, and some professed o look for & big decline, The break in provisions has been far worso than in wheat, but there are reasons to hope that the worst is over in this cass. Au.un. usually large stock of pork, which was man. ufactured to meet & big speculative demand from country operators, has been used as & aledge-hammer to fatten out the market ou all descriptions of hog product. Last Weduenday saw the lowest point, when pork and lard sold far below tho cost of manu. fncturo at ourrent prices for hogs, and tho fact induced a better demand from consumers, who had previoualy held aloof, It may bo that speculative manipulation is not yot satisiod, but it scems probable that prosent prices for lard and meats are low enough to tempt buyers, especially if next woek should witness a decline in rail freights, a8 is confidently oxpected by somo. As for the pork, it does not yet appear how that is tobe consumed. The demand for barreled pork is annually decreasing, while that for saltod mentd is enormously augmonted with each succosding year. In both theso deparimenta thors has been far too much epeculation for henlthy trade. When the entiro stock of wheat and pork in tho Northwest changes handa (eithor nom- ioally or actnally) two or three times jn a weok for months. together, the rosult is a steain which neccssarily rosnlts in a break somowhere; and the reactions above referred to are only repotitions of similar effects which lavo many a time boen produced by like causcs in the past. e ea—— THE " TRICHINE " POLITICIANS. Some of the * bloody.shirt™ shrickers, nnd particularly those who belong to what may be called tho frickins claes of peliti. ~cinng, affect nstonishment that Tax Trinuxe should suggest placing Mortor in tho chiair of presiding officer of tho Senate to the end that he mny nct ns President of the United States in caso tho extrome Democrats defoat the count of thp vote by the Electoral Com- misaion befora the 4th of March, Wo aro reminded by the maggoty ham and decayed sow-belly office-bnmmors that Tnxk Trinvse has not leretofore been in favor of the Southern * bloody-shirt ™ policy, 'and has on moro than one occasion eriticlsed Mr. Montoxy naud others for their devo- tion to it. Wo had not forgotten that fact, aud are mno more in favor of keeping a lot of carpet-bng nnd knavish politiciana at’ the Bouth in de. flanco of the popular will and by the power of Fedoral bnyoneta than wo havo been hero- tofore, Keeping tho peace is one thing, but making Govornments by the bayonet is some- thing else. But it ocourred to us that it would be an apt vindication of the principlo of, retributive fustice if, in case the Demo- crats should d.foat n solemn compact by periidy and rovolution, the traitors shonld bo dealt with according to their desorts by those who havo. no faith in reconcilfation, As Democrata would, in that case, provent tho realization of tho polioy of pucification promised by the Republican parly, -they would be responsible for the maintenanca of thoold liostils feelingon both sides and shonld themsclves bo forced to partake of ity bitter- ness. It would not bo against tho South, as saction, that Mr. MonTox's vigorous methods would bo dirccted, but ogainst the entire clasy of porfidious and bulldozing Democrats, North und Boutl, who wonld be responsible for preventing the inauguration of President Haxes, The bham.nnd-sow-belly office-bummers who insist upon flannting the * bloody shirt” in case of peaco and reconcilintion just a3 much as in case of porfidy aud vie- lence, forgot that thoy aro belying the ite- publican party and maligning President-Elect Hayes, 'The platform adopted at Cincinnati st forth explicitly: that **the pormonent pacification of the Southern section of the Union, aud the complete protection of all ita oltizens in the free onjoymont of all thelr rights, is o duty to which the Republican party stands sacrodly pledged.” Gov. I{ayes' interprotation of thia declaration gave it ad- ditlonal force, In his letter of accoptance he lald speolal stress upon the pol- oy of pnclfication, and, among othor things, eaid: *The moral and national prosperity of the Southern Btates can bo’ most cffoctually advanced by a hearty and gonerous recoguition of the rights of all by all,—a recoguition withoat resorve or excep- tion § with such arecoguition filly accorded, 1t will be practicable to promote, by the in- fluence of all legitimate ngencica of the Gen. eral Government, tho efforts of the peopla of thoso States to oblain for themsclves the blessings of honeat and capable local gov- ernment,” “If electod,” he continued, ** I shall consider it not only my duty, but it will bo my ardent desire, to labor for tho at. talnment of this ond.” Tur Tniouxz has not the alighteat doubt that Mr, Haves will keop his word if Inaugurated, the ¢rickine politicians to the contrary notwithstand. Ing. If he shall be kept out of his office, howover, by Democratic perfldy, the time for reconciliation aud pacification will hecossarily bo dolayed, and the *bloody- shirt " politiclans will have full awing, and with more justification than they have had for many years. The hopes of the (rickina offico-bummers, therefore, like those of the desperato Dewocrats, seem o rest mainly upon keeping Mr. Haves out of office by perfidy and fraud. THE TOWN ELEOTIONS BILL. The bill introduced fnto the Btate Senato by Mr, Kzuor, to supploment the one passed Iu tho Senate & fow days ago, fixing the mu. nicipal and town elections on the same day, is commendable and necessary as a whole, and it should have the active nid of the Cook County delegation to push it toa prompt adoption with the emergenoy clause. Chica. go lins & vital interest in this malter. Tho mere change of the day for holding the town elections will not acoure the noeded protec- tion from the bummers and ballot-box stuff- ers It would still be within the power of tho bumimers to locate only one voting-place in each town, in which case 33,000 persons would bo obliged to vote, if at all, at ono pro- cinct in the West Division, 17,000 the Bouth Division, and 18,000 in the North Divislon, But, evon if the town bum. mers wero generous onough to locate ono voting.placo for overy ward, thero would still be only one precinct to abont 4,000 votes iu West Chicago, one to 8,600 in Bouth Chl- cago, and one to 8,000 in North Chicago, Of course the bumnmers would have matters all their own way undor such a dispensation, Tho new bill provides, however, that in all towns which lie wholly within tho limits of an jucorporated city, like the three towns of South, North, and West Chicago, there shall be a town voting-place wherevor there ‘is a city voting-placo; that the election judges sppointed for the city clection shall likewise bave control of the town election; and that separato ballot-boxes shall be' provided at every precinot for the deposit of the town tickets, ‘There is one objection to the bill as {t has been reported, which Mr, Kxuos should be ot palng to' remove beforo theé bili shall be Tu providing that the returns of the town votes shall be certified by the eloction judges to a Canvassing Hoard, consisting of the Town Clerk, Assessor, and Oollector, Mr. Kruozhas probably qverlooked the confusion certan to arise in the casg of Bouth Chicago, whore two of theso officos are in dispute. Mr. Carvwin is in actnal possession of the office of Town Clerk, but the mnn Grezsoy is 8 cloimant nevertholess, and he will un- doubtedly reek to exerciso any duties of the position whereby he can Lo of mnse to his bummer associnles. So Mixx Evans will be anxious to gerve on the Canvassing Doard, cither in his own interest or the intorest of somo friend or partner. It will be botter to constituto the Canvassing Board of the County Olork and two of the Justices of tho Pence whom ho may sssociate with him. solf for that purpose. This is the Canvassing Board for county elsctions, and thers is' no reason why it should not serve for the town olections. In that case thera will b no moro. danger of ballot-box stufling or false count- ing aftor tho returns are madoe than thero in in tho cnso of genoral clections, If thore iz any legal objection to phie County Clerk and Justicos acting as 8 Canvassing Board for town elections, then at least the Town Bu- pervisor (about whose position thore is no contest in Bonth Chiengo) should be subsii- tutod for tho Town Olerk or Coliector. Amended in one of thase two ways, the bill ought to bo pnssed at once. Tho Rov. Antnur Mitcuerr has. dons wisely in modifying somowhat his views npon tho alleged interforence by Divine Providence to work a sudden and mirnculous cura in the cnso of nervous paralysis from which Mrs, JeAwETTE RonEnTsoN was sup- posed to be suflering for some years. Dr. | Mrronery, it will bo remombergd, wos re- sponsibly for tho Impression that took hold of ceriain people strong of faith that Mrs. TRonentson's recovery was the dircct result of prayer. Thin impression, to the extent that it might increaso the practice of pray- ing, wonld not be objectionable, but it might bo injurious in that it would lead some sim~ ple peopla to proy from falso motives, and o subsequently denounca and re- vila prayer becsuso thoir supplications for direct intervention from Hoaven to cure their ills had mnot been favornbly answered. Besides, after it came out that Mrs. Ronentson had some months befora passed hersolf off on the witness- stand o8 a Mra, Davis to give testimony in behalf of ndepraved son on trinl for mur- der, it might be said by irreverent pooplo that Providence in this caso scemed disposed {o suspend the operations of naturo as a ro- ward for conduct that, at tho best, was ox- ceedingly questionablo from a moral point of view. Dr. Mitcureir still belisves in tho woman's {liness and curo ns she related them, and aleo belioves that the Creator may and does somotimos interveno to suspend patural Iaws to answor tho special end of prayer, but he no longer thinks that the prasent case illustrates any aspoct of prayer whataver. In viewof all tho circumstances, porhaps it is just 03 well that Dr, Mrrcarry has resched and announced this conclusion, . In the debate upon the South Park biil, pend- Ing In tho lousc of Repreacntatives, Mr. Henary H. Cnxsrey, member from the Forty~ fourth District, composed of Clay, Wayne, Richland, Edwards, and Wabash Countles, on the northeastern llne of Egypt, rose and de- livered himself of a statemcut tho other day to tho effect that ho thought “Tun Citicaco Trimusz perhaps a lttle better than o flve- cent novel, but it didn't comparo with a dino novel. It was no authority for anybody, and had, so far as reliability was concerned, passed beyoud the pale of decent journalism. 8till, ho wanted to act Intelllzently, aud would prefer a little more time,”” Wao have no disposition to quarrel with Mr. Cuzstev’s tasté, A man's tastes dépend upon his bringing up, and if he has heen brought up on five or ten cent novels, flashy French stories, bloud-and-thunder tales, and yellow-covercd literature, ho will not he likely to aporeclate or read Tus Cmoaco TRIBUNXE, or to understand §t if he did read it. ‘Tho jdiotle character of his remarks during the debate shows the general drilt of the gentleman's Intelligence and the pabulum upon which ho has been accustomed to feed. Wa can readily understand that a fiye-cent blood- and-thunder novel, the Day's Doings, the Dolice Gazette, and tho obacene criminal column of the Chicago Times would be mors apprecla- blo and acceptable to Lim, and that the columos of Tug Critcado Trinuxs would bo above the comprehenalon of & man who has fitted himgelf for his legislative duties by a vigorous Atudy of the life of *Fanny Campbell, the Femalo Tirato-Captaly,” and “ Buffalo Bill, the Ruarinz Bull of the Vralries.” It Is somewhat of are- flectlon, however, upon tho lntelligenco of the dlstrict that elected him that it could tind ne better man than & ten-cent-novel reader, A ton- centenovel reader can hardly help belng a ten- cent sort of man {n cverything clse, and this is ahown fo 8r. CugsLey's case, whose valuc as o leglslator seems to range between tho prices of his favorite novels. —_———— &ome specimen Democratic logiemny be found In the following extract from a Muntgomery (Ala.) newspaper: Loufsiana. And these declarations ure declants tious of fact, supported by abundant evidence, {f tho llouse |e honest In these declarations, it fols, lows that there bas beon no electlon by tho Klectoral Culleges undeg tha forms of law, and {v muust 80 declure the fact to be. Then, fnaccord- ance with the Constitutlon, the lonso of Kepre- sentatives must procead to elect aPresldent for the term cmnlnom‘lnfi March 4, 1877, Thie {s{ts plam duty,—u duly which its members owe to the vvurla fhor vyl fe iy Sonlnle, sl N i :fl::afr hey w:lluau:lurun lhh‘dnly like wen. 1t such a suggcestion had becn confined toan obscure Southern newspaper, It would not have been . worthy of any serious notice; but,asa matter of fact, {t was only a few days later that a slinllar proposition was actually introduced In the Democratlc caucus. It fguores ultogether the taw passcd by Congress providiog for the count of the Electoral vote. This law, for which all the Deniocrats fn the Scnate except one, and all the Democrats In tho Houso ex- cept elghteen, voted, expressly stipulates that the declsion of the Electoral Commission shiall Dy (Inal unless sct aside by the voncurrent voto of both Houses of Cougress. ‘The single and uvsustained obfection ot the House of Hepre- eentatives, therefore, In no wise vitiates the couut, and It would be revolutionary for the Huuso to chooss the President whena Presidont had been chosen and declared elected accordlng to Jaw; but perhaps tho extremists don't care anything about that. e ——— Bpeaking of the South Park Board the Jour- watsays: **But fruuds are charged upon the Park Board which, if. proven, should sweep it out of existence. Bealdes, it {s contemplated to condemn additional Jand, adding one or two milifons more to vur taxes. Inour opinton, the park is largo enough now for all practicable pur- poses,” Nioety aud nine (n o hundred taxpay- ers widl agree with tho Journal that the park Is Jarge enough now, and wilt resist to the utinost any atiempt to enlarge it. It might also safely Lavo added that the number of taxpayers who would vote ta surrender the Jand water, marsh and mud of the unimproved portion of tho Southeast Park coustitute about 99 per ceut of the taxpuyers. Upou what grounds does tho Journal think tbat the Board con- template to condemn additional land, * adding ous or two willions more to our .taxce i ‘The statement, we suspect, is purely fanciful. ‘They would uot dare todu it If they could, sud could mot'if they would. If *frauds mro vbarged upon the Park Board which, if proven, s3ould sweep it out of existence,” It Is very ro- nwrkatde that nobody here hus entercd com- phalut against the Board before the Cook Coun- ty Courts, as the law provides may be done. Why bas uot the Journal veutilated the nature of thoss charges, if it bas avy information or S S —————————— facts! Tam Tamoxs certainly would 1t It coulq find any basis therefor. And it will herealter, 17 any grounds justifying such vague intimat| can be found to oxist, - e o Journal may feel at llverty to explatn why Corznous, DuxLevy & Co, have caused the resolntion of fnquiry Lo be ntradaced by Row. ETT. It may alev explain why the same AWaInp. Iand ring drew a bill and placed 1t in Benator Boeneen's hands to leglslate the Board ont of existenca and deprive the courts of this county of the right to appoint a new Board, Lut trang. {er the appolutment to Springficld. It may ex. plain, farthermore, why the swamp-land ring ara 8o anxlous to get rid of tho Board. Ty TRIDUNE 18 opposed to no honeat Inveatigation of the Park Board's dofngs. It has supposed they would all bear tho full lignt of day, and atill thinks s0, 17 one-quarter of the ospersions and{nnuendoscontained in CoLemtour, Dunseyy & Co.'s*preambls ‘and resolutions aro teue, the sooncr the Leglalature shuil Investigate the Board the.better. The publle will then lave an opportunity of learning. how mueh Cotznoun, Duxtuvy & Co. are, prévared to prove, and what grounds thero are for thelr fp. slntiations. Let the resolution b amqnded to include an investigation into the ynodus operand{ of procuriog verdictasof furics for five to eight times s much as they bave sold chur land for In the'same park to tho Commtssloncrs. et — T3 editor of the Toloo Demoerat, who casts wistful aud longing eyes on tho Toledo Post. Oflice, unabio to contaln himself longer, Iet fiy a hroadside at the New York managers of the Democratic party last Bunday, Says the valiang editor: 1t i axlomntic that 0 L W] tho dyapentie P \:ll:uhu::cln‘m:n Kins Pn‘-‘nh:;: of Climiriuan of the Natlonal Demotratic Conmite tea declined to entertatn the proposition for a e of a Natlonal Convention upon’ the ground that Gnaxt might arrest him for treason, such physical cowardice was exhibited as placed the manipuiators of tho party machinery outaide the pale of formleas ble palitical opponciite. The Liemocracy of the land raw, with ahiame, that there was more man- hood In tao syphilitic Jogs of Monrox tnan In the wholo carcnss of llEwitr—that GANPIELY, SHER: MAR, LogaX, CHANDLER, and CAMERON had nerve ‘nnd Bazon plnck, while we liad pitted ogalnat thews a half dozen fellows of tho Scorr Loun and Hew. 477 Idnd, whors cazcer commenced by bartering in airings of onlona and rolls of tepe, and whose L.8licat por stient " exlstenco_had made of them Scankers of o culm world und 8 long peace.™ Ata thine when men ware needed at tho front, two or 10 tho baby bushimad i poitics, o 1O WeY e em—— BOLAR MATHEMATICH, * A correspondant who has been reading the tne teresting articlo on tho sunby Prof. Young, in the Popular Saience Monthly, asks it it be not vossibla that some other methiod exists for find- ing the eun's dlstanco from tho earth than thoso dependent on mcasnres of the parallax of Venus nnd Mars, and the velocdty of ifght. He suggests that If we know the sizanud weight (mass) of the sun o nearly as thero stated, wo ouglt tobe ableto calculate his distance from our knowledge of thioso facts. As{t is not jmprabnblo that some such {den s entertnined by others besides the entleman who makes the sugiestion, the astronomer of Tne Trisuxz bas boen requested to give s statement of the casc, ° & ‘The truth of the matter fs, that we only kuow tho sizo und mazs of the sun u ferms of his dis. tance, Our statcments of those ‘are fn error it our estimate of that bo st fault, Lev usfint consider the question of magnitude. The sun's average angular diamecter is 102304 sece onds of arg or a little more than cight-ifteenthaof a degree. By trigonometry we know thatunity divided by tho sine of half thls angle gives tho distance In terms of the sun's lincal somi-liamoter. Hence, we can cale culuto that tho dlamoteris to the average dls- tance as 1 to 167.2203, ucarly; or a circular diso of oo foot in diameter at the distance of 07 feet from the eyo would subtend the same age glo as does the sun. Now, this simply tells us that I€ the sun be 107 miles away he s ouo mlla in diamoter; if 107,220,800 miles away he s 1,000,000 miles fn diameter; and if we tako the sun's distauco ot 03,050,000 miles, the dlameter will * be (uearly) 838,600 miles; ory it the dismoter ba taken 28 860,000 miles, this number multiplied into 10i% will give £2,215,000 miles as tho averags distance.® Henco, if the nstronomer says that the sun's diamcter is 853,500 mlles, he mains that thisfs thelineal magnitude which corre- spouds ton mean distance of 93,050,000 miles, Itia evident that the statements of diameter a0d distance arc londed with an equal per cente ageof error, if uny error thers bo: and the nstrouomer hasno present means of knowing the diameter dircctly, except the traositsof Venus,—ono mede of caleulating from the ob- servations of that phenomenon gives the dis- tanco In terms of the diamcter, Next, with rezard to tho welght (mass) of the sunt Wo only know that by the work it per- forms, in puiling .the earth and other plancts continually from the direction of a stealglit line into a closed orbit. Tho force of attruction, or pulling power, varies directly as the quantity of matter in nu‘ mass, and inverscly as the square of tho distance. Wo can calculate that, If the dlatanco bo 02,050,000 miles, the sun putls the carth away from the straight litis at tho ratoof shout one-ninth of au Inch In one second of time; and wo know, also, that the force c1- erted by tho earth at a dlstance from ber centre cqual to her mean equatorial radius, averages somuch us fs equal to the task of pulllug s atone through 1025¢ inclics in the first secqnd of {falling towards her. If we divide this last named quantity by the square of tle number of times that the carth's oquatorial radius is contalned in 03,050,000 miles, wo find it to bo only one part in 820,410 of tho ore ninth of an Iuch which the earth. falls ‘towards tho sun.. Wo are therefure oblizea to conclude that the snn contains 823,415 times as much matter ns the earth, It operatiog at that distance. But It is evident that It we decreaso our estimate of the ono we must also decreasc our estimate of tho other. Wormust reatly multiply the abovo statement of mass fnto the cube of the rolative distance to find tho quantity of matter contained in the sug, fo earth units, in order that he shall perform the work of pulling the cacth sround biin once in each year. In ustronomical calenlations the mass of the sun is usually gompared with the combiued mass of the earth and moon, and most of the text-books fall Into the grava error of confonad- fug the carth plus moou with the earth alone, in vegand tomass, or the quantity of matter they contaln, The wass of the carth belog about eighty-one and & Lall times that of the muon, If tho mass of the suu be 823,415 times that of tha carth, it is ouly 810,500 timos that of tho earth and moon taken together. o havo uow good reason to belleve that the aversge (mcan) distance of the sun from the earth is not {ges than 03,000,000, nor more thao 92,500,000 miles, The value, 03,050,000, appesrs ta the writer of this articlo to be, at present, the most probable, The following table gives, in round numbers, the sun's diameter inmiles, and his mass, that of thecarth being taken as tho unlt, for different values of distanve between thesc limitat Distance, Vit de miled, The diameter Ths mass ut ? ‘"::;ul [N s carth, 822,000 415 00 000 000 100 ) 27,1 o2, 803,000 324,200 “The dlameter of a globe of cqaal volume with the spheroldal earthis 7,017 miles, The ratioof thao sun's lincal diameter to this nwnber must bo _cubed to obtaln the relativo volume; It 1 1,275,000 tor = distance of 02,050,000 milos. The density of the syn, equal to' 0.254, that of l;fl carth being taken ns the ult, is found by ¢ vidiog the mass by the volume. The caleulas tion of density gives the same result for any l:' sumed distance, as both the mass acd the vol umo vary inthe sawe proportiou, viz.: s the cube of the distauce, - e — Edilor af The Trivune. ulcmo.mi':.h‘. '.1.—’»\'?;’&!11 you bo kind !n'nil y m‘iu e kpow fihfl"h’@“; :fi‘&"'fla“;mur Obiigeno St S Vel pecunay Axswez—Tho Rorusomup famlly