Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 16, 1877, Page 4

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New Chlengo Theatre. Hadl bet: Lake and dolph, Cc 43 SOCIETY MEX' INGS. ORIENTAL LODG Btated Communicail a'elock for busl By order of the 5. 0. 83, A F. & A, M= tiits (Friday) evenlog st 7:00 sud work on the E. A. Uegres. . E. N. TUCKER, sce, . TOME LODGE, No, 508, A, F. and A, M.~Ttegula; Communication hix lel{l evening i Tweaty: second-st., at7:90 0'clock, Workan the ., A. Degree, jatuing techrea coratally lavited,, By onfer Gf tho W. N 1t 2. MERRICK, sec, FRIDAY, MAROH 16, 1877 e ——— Greenbacks at the New York Exchange yesterday closed at 05, — Bocrotary Scuunz notifies the subordinates of the Interior Dopnrtment that his policy will be, briefiy: No removals except for cause, and no promotions except for merit. To this announcement the Secretary ndds, for the boneflt of the thousand-and-ono appli- cants for positions, that thero are at present Do vacancies in tha Department. —— The Becretary of tho Tressury yesterday issued o call for $10,000,000 of 6 por cent bonds to be redecmed or funded in tho 4} per conts. The frequency of theso calls and tho rapidity with which the funding process goes forward is n gratifylng evidenco of tho popularity of United States Government so- curities a5 o channel for tho investment of European capital. S ——— It is evident that nothing leas than the offlial count will determine the result of the election in tho First Congressional Distriot of Now Hampshire, ns betwcen Manstox, Ropublican, and Joves, Demoeratic. One town remains to bo Leard from, and it hap- pens curiously that, reckoned by the vota of o yoar ngo, and if the same proportion is kept up, the rosult would be a tie, ———— The Senatorial prizo in Ohio has been car- ried off by Srantey MaTTnews, who, having recoived the Republican enucus nomiaation last ovoning, s remsonably certain of an clection. Judge Marruews' muo- cess wos a practicnl indorsemont of the Southern polloy of President Haves, ‘whose good-will and personal confidence e onjoyed to a degree that admitted of no question as to tho satisfnction with which Lis eloction as the successor of Mr, Sugn. AN would be regarded by the President. The nomineo is an enthusinst ou the subjeot of pacification and local solf-government ; and ho is, moreover, o man of pre-eminent ability and integrity. Another murder was committed in Chicago yesterday, the slain aud slayor both being somewhat conspicnous membars of that non. descript order of society which s included in tho general and comprehensive desigun- tion of Bpiritualists, It was o deliberate, sickening murder, done out of revenge for on alleged criminal intimacy botween the victimand the wifo of themurderer, and under circutstances which, if all sccounts are true, woro tho farthest from furnishing an ade. quate provocation for the taking of hmnan Iife. 'The whole affair, 50 far as tho attend- ant particulurs have a4 yct been doveloped, is o grotesque mixture of the tragic and the abominable,—n curious addition to the list of extraordinary murders that kave occurred " in this city, ———— An unpleasantness appears (o havo come pon the West Chicngo Board of Park Com- missioners, and tho members thercof aro chiefly cugaged at present in calling hard nomes and telling bard stories about oach other. There i a genornl desiro wnong them for investigation, each faction evident- 1y confident that whatever tho developments may be the other fellows will get tho worst of it. It would do no harm togive the Board a thorough airing, and o littlo judi. cious weeding out by the Governor would not boamlss. If current report and the records of the courts may be believed, thero is some- thing too much of bankruptey in the Com. mission,—bankruptoy as to mousy, morals, ability, and reputation,—and an improve. ment in this regard is grestly to be desired. ——ee The Joint Committee of the Leglalature yesterday listened to speeches by the mom. bLers of the Chicago Board of Trade and to petitions signed by 10,000 grain-growers in Ilinois, Towa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan in favor of tho sbolition of the presont system of grain inspection in this city, and of its restoration to the control of the Board of Trade. The result was the adoption of a resolution {o the effect that in the judgment of the Joint Commiittea the system of Biate inspection in Chicago is not in the intercst of the grain-growers or groln. shippers of the Missiasippl Valley, With a unanimous report of this kind from the Committee there should be no difficulty in securing from the Legislature the desired change, which is of vital cousequence to Clucago and the wiole Northwest, T —— ‘Tho Chicago produce markets were less active yesterday, and generally firmer, with moro steadiness, Dess pork closed 740 per brl Ligher, st £13.30@13.82} for April and #13.50@18.52} for May. Lard closed 2}o per 100 1 higher, at $9.05 for April aud §9.15 for May, Meats closed steady, at 4jc per b for looso shoulders, 7§o for do short ribs, and 7§o for do short clears, Highwines wero , steady, at £1.0¢ per gallon. Flour wes in foir demand and steady. Wheat closed 1o higher, at 1.3} for March and 81244 for April. Corn closed fo higher, 8t 39jc for April and d3}o for May, Oats closed firmer, - #t 830 for April and 85§c for May. Rye was quict, at 60@63c _ Barley closed 1o higher, ot 52jc for March and 513@h26 for April. Hogs were in good demnnd, and averaged higher, the bulk of the sales making at £4.90 @5.16. Cattle wero active and steady. Blieop wera dull and ensior. Ono huadrod dollnrs in gold wonld buy $104.50 in gresn. Dacks at tho close, o —————— No diffleulty is experienced in finding con- rervative Demoerats in the Sonth who are willing to receive in good faith the overtures of the Administration and nccept office under President Havea, Tho only difficulty seems to be in the cnse of the Sonthern Republic- ans, who wnnt all the offices themsolves, The President has just selocted for Post- maater of Potersburg, Va, Col. D, W. Warrs, n gentleman of high stauding, and who i strongly recommended by the busi. ness men of thatcity. Mr. Jonaexsox, the Republican Congressman from the Poters- burg District, had other views in connection with this appointment, and ia grieved to dis- cover that in the matter of indorsement and recommendation a Congressman counts one, —na much as any other gentleman of char. acter and prominence in Lis district, and no more, Brsatancr is having an unhappy experience a8 Chancellor of the German Emptre, and he complains that his health is suffering under the worry and tronble that he ia subjected 1o by his political adversaries, and also in con. sequence of the lnkewarm support he re- celves from some of the Cabinet Ministers. In o recent speech in - tha Reichatag he cited the case of Gen. Vox Srtoscu, Chief of Ad- miralty, who forced upon the Promier n vast amount of labor in preparing the correspond- enco to show the necessity of the rednetion in the Admiralty estimntos which Bisuanck advocated, and then, when the matter cnino up for disoussion in the Reichstag, Vox Sroscm at onco consented to the desired re. duction upon the demand being mnde by the Liberals. What he would not do for the Chancellor he would do for the enemies of tho latter, and when Bisstanck narrated the cireumstances in his specch Vox Stoscn at once tendored his resignation, 'The Emper- or, however, declines to accept it, nnd thoe unfriendly Minister vomains to Larass his Chief. THE BOLD INITIATIVE. Evory good canse requires n leader, and tha leader requires united courage and wis- dom. A necessary reform is not nlways im- mediately practicable becanse it is morally or prudentinlly demanded. Time and instru- mentalities are requisito, na well s a desirn- ble object and a good motive. A clear hend guided by moral principle may see with per- feot vision that nroform is needed in n given direction ; but it does notfollow that the peo- plo see it, who yot must ordain it. And tho professed politicians will probably be the Iast tohave falth init, for it will bo pretty certain to run counter to their selfish plans. Hence the well-conoeived ides must gain currency. To thimend it must be annonnced, and then denouncedf -must bo ndvocated with zeal, sod enduro opposition with pa- tienco ; must be called by some a good thing theoretically, only mnnfortunately imprac. ticable, and bo ridiculed by others as an absurdity equal to Jlon Quirvte's attack on the . windmills. Its aytliors must expect to Lo fwpenched ns to. their mo- tives and their sanity, nnd to hear them. selves styled fanatics, hypoerites, Pharisces, marplots, sentimentalists, nnd demngogues, who are simply ambitious of fame and powor, serving self under plen of protecting tho poople. A number of years will olapse, with this experionco, and the public mind will grodaally become aconstomed to the idea, which, when familiar, will not appear quito 50 absurd, or yob so eutirely impracticable. Other voices wiil occasionally be raised in its Invor, and, onoce in a while, a resolution ia its behalf, mildly and vaguely phrased, soas to commit nobody to anything definito, will actunlly be passed by a political convention, By-and-by tho timo will come, if only somo ono is wise enough to mso it, whon a strong aud courngeous lender cau champion aud carry the reform, Tho Civil-Service Reform has beon passing throngh theso succossive stages sinco the wearly efforts of Mr, Jrxores, of Rhoda Island, to draw tho onrnest attention of Congress aud of the people to the mibject. Mo was jecred at for his poins, but yot sowed much gowl sood, which now bids fair to bring forth fruit, Ho indeed only represented what hud been in the minds of honest, unpnctisan citi- zeun for o generation,—ever since Axpnew Jacrsoy futroduced the corrupting * spoils syutem” of distributing the public ofilces, ‘Lho reform iy Indeed Lut a retumm to the purer practice of tho early days of the Jte. public, and ought, therofore, to bo practica. ble nod proper; whils its ubsolute necessity is created by tho vnst fncrenso of oftices within tho gift of the Adimniuistration as re. wards of mero partisanskip. Hut though the reformers Linve waxed comparative- ly npomerous, and the public mind has Deon mensurnbly loavened with their idons, thero wus neoded both *the man and the bour” for a successful attempt to reduce theory to practice. And the nation may well bo thaunkful that both have arnved, M, Haves belleved in the principle; was nomi- nated through the efforts of those of like faiths, over rivals who representod, nt Joast in cortaln ‘ cases, the *‘machine” policy of “running’ Government'in the interest of party-managers; accepted the nomluation on that oxpress ground, and wns voted for by enough of those who had the reform at heart, and who trusted his capacity and good faith, to elect him, Nino nionths between the nomination aud the inauguration wns not o sufliciont period to enable him to forget the principles to which he stood committed, and so he propounded them a second time, in his inaugural nddress, to the great aston- ishuent of the politicians who cultivate short momorlos, Thelr ejaculations of surprise, not always plons in character, may still be, lieard at Washington aud elsewhers. Yes, tho hour bas struck and the man has come! ‘Tho Fresident Las the matter prac. tically iu his own hands, even without Con- gresafonal legislation, Lecauso the Coustitu. tion makes him tho appoiating power, di- roatly or indirectly, of 60,000 or 50,000 oflice. Lolders, But, to jnsure success, ho ust have subordinates of like mind. A Presi- deut must have a Cabinet who will heartily carry out bis polioy; and this My, Haves has sccured, ‘Next to himself, no one could in. fuse groater confidence into the learts of re. formers {han Mr, Bonunz; nor could ho have a botter Department out of which to make awodel in this respect than that of the Interior, to which wise rules can be ap- plied with great appropriatencss. The Presi- dent has taken the bold initiative, perceiving that the auspicious time had come, and that the waitiug solation, so to speak, would crystalliza around him. With continucd coursge and wisdom, the transition to the new order of things may prove both ropid and casy, so that the won. dor will then bo that it was not accomplished JLERE B LA MOIDTR e .. under President Grant, But thero ia a dif- ferenco in the men, in their advisers, and in the cirenmatances, Eight years have do- veloped pablic sentiment, changed party trength, and tanght politicians several im- portant lessons. The fact that the conntry is o evenly divided politically, that the new Touso of Representatives in nearly a tio, that the Republiean mnjority in tho Senate is small, that the Presidency Itsclf has been technically decided bya single Electoral vote, after n dangorons dispute over the returns, nud a universal doubt na to what were the actunl merits of the caso, and that the new President hasdevelopeda conciliatory policy, which threatens to divide the opposition,—all this rendera the time suspicions for the in~ auguration of reform. Wo predioted that Mr. Haves would be sustained by the people, and " that opposing politiciana wonld find themselves without a backing. Our words have been abundantly verifled, ns our readers know from tho ex- pressions of public sentiment in all parts of tho land . which have been given in onr col. umns. And the Democrats aro about .as much plessed as the Republicnns, being natuenlly willing that the latter should initinte tho new moasures, DBut let us be consistent. The President canuot act npon opposite syatems at the same time. 1le can- not retain thoso who are now in office, and are satisactorily discharging their duties, and who on the principle of reform are en- titled to permanence of position, and yet bs ready to make a chango in these same cases to yratify clamorous offico-seekers and their zealous backers. Dnt this is what not n fow Republicans are urging Lim to do. Thoy want the principle of o firm tennre of oflice, so that it shiall be helid during good behavior, to apply to all the offices but such ns aro coveted by their friends, and to these only after their friends bave becn appointed. This ia a very con- venfent theory, but unfortunately does not differ essentlally from that upon which the politicians bave been acting, and would place the President in n most awkward dilemma. It is much as if n free-trader should oppose a protective tariff, excopt in regord to the products of o manufactory in which he was interested. Lot tho incompe- tent and the corrupt oftice-holders be inexo- ably weeded out, aud let the competont and the honest Lo ns inexorably retained. The Bresident and the heads of Depart. ments must be enconraged to carry out the principles of reform .impartially, in all sec. tions, and with respect to all persons and positions. THE BEVERIDGE APPOINTMERTS, The Republican delegation in the State Sennto are not acting judicionsly in the matter of the confirmation of ex-Gov. Bev- zamot’s appointments, nnd the whole Sen. oto in it socret session on Wednesday ncted ina very unscemly manner, seiting® very bAd example to the Lower House, and placing itsclf in the contempt of the peoplo atlarge. 'That the reader mny clearly com- prehend this very remarkable acene in the secrct scssion, the facts may be briefly stated, QGov. Bevenmpor, beforo he went ont of oflice, mada cortain appointments for the asylums, Board of Charities, and State iustitutions in geveral, and some forty or fifty of these names nre, or wore, boforo the Bonate for confirmation, there boing an aver- ngo of thrce members to each Board. The Democrnta elnim that they shounld have one momber in each of theso groups of throe, but the ltepublicans nro not willing to con. cede it, mpon thy ground that the party in power kosps thq offices, or, in other words, that to the victors bolong the spoils, In the most important Board of all, that of the Warohouse aud Raflrond Commisslon, which has. boon already filled, Gov. Currox gave tho Domocrats o mombor, and now thoy Jvant kim to do the samo for the Peniton. tiary and Canal Boards, the asylums, and all tho institntions mausged by Commissioners, and, as they have tho control of tho Senato, they are very likely to enforca it. What harm would it do if tho Domoorats woro sllowod a minority representation on thesoBoarda? Would it not Lo a practical aud Judicious stroke of polioy? When Gov. Harrd wnde his appointments in Ohio he olways placed a Domocrat on the various State Commissions, notwithstanding the offenso it gave to his party friends, Whore there was n Bonrd of threo or mors, ho al. ways appointed oveDemocrat. Whero thers was but one to b uppointed, he always se- lucted & Ropubliean, 1o held it was better that euch party should ba represented, both from notives of public interest and political courlesy, 1Mo nrgued, and hls theory was borns ovut Ly tho faots, that there would be miore binrmouy in the workiug of the Boards, and that the people wonld have more. confldenco in tham, because thero would be a representation from bLoth sides, which in the way ‘of criticism and scrutiny ‘would prove nsnfeguand ngainat oxtravagance, corruption, nud maladwinistration, When ho stepped from tho office of Governor of the people of Ohlo into that of Prosident of the Unitod Statos he immediately put his Stato theory into practice by placing one Damerat in hia Cablnot so that the minority might be represented. If the same course were now pursued by Gov. Cusrox, it would not only redound to the interests of the State institutions and fuspire the people with more confidence in their management, but whon the Republicans go out of power, as moy happen, thoy will then have a good prece edent for claiming a representation upon thess Boandy, instead of Linving the Demo- crats acizo nll tho offices. The Republicans in the Henate, being in s minority, should thereforo make n virtue of uccelnlty sud compromise on the precedent set by Mr, Hargs {n Obio, which has worked 8o well in that State, and, baviug worked well there, of course would give eminent satlsfaction to the whols peopls here, . JEWISH NATIONALITY AGAIN, The recent vroproduction of un article from the London Saturday Rteriew upon ¢ Jewislh Nutlonality," with sowe local application of it4 stutoments, in Tay Cutosdo Taiuune, hay called forth some replivs from Juwish citizens, who soum to apprelicnd that Tue ‘Turpuse may have some syspiclon of Jewish patriotiimn, The most fmportant of thess cowmuuications i that of Dr, Kourss, printed iu our last issuo, which covers the ground so completely that a publication of the others iy uanocessary., ‘I'mx Trisune hos no exceptions to take to Dr, Komurs's eloquent doclaration of the patriotism of tho Jows; ontho othor haud, itis gladto ro. colvo the nssurance from so competent an authority that, *should Daniel Deronda or S1n Moszs MonTerionr, the noble Jewish phi- lanthropist, who, I am sure, sat to Georox Euor for a porlwit of ber hero, oven venture to call upon the Jews, cilher of America or of FEngland, France, or Gurmauy, to help bhim in restoring a Jewish Kingdom in Palestine, Le would hardly Sud ton wen to follow him.* And again: “For & coamonolitan fresdom AAx,- mMARGH dvu, 18¢/. and trme humanity, the Jows havo ever aince longed and prayed, whether belioving In n peraonal Messiah, as the conservative En- glish Jows, or adhering only to the kernel of tha Messianie hope, disengaged from ils national form, as Reformed Judaism in America most decidedly doos.” Thess two oxtracts stato the case perhaps ax strongly s it can be done, and they convey in a positive statement what was mennt to bo implied in the summary of the Review nrticle and its spplication. The idea moant to ba convoyed was, that, while the Jews liold officss of honor and trast,while they are patriotio, ns a refer. enca to our Jate War will show,while thoy are good citizena and perform all the duties of citizens, and while they sra stricter observ. ers of tho law and figure less frequently in criminal records than nlmost any other nationality, still they aro not 8o complstely absorbed into the body _potitic as to be un- recoguizable. They retain their nationality. It stands out clear and distinet. In becom- ing part and parcel of the American nation, they aro still the Jewish peopla or Jewish nation, Thoy suffer no loss of identity or charncteristio, This is the historical phe. nomenon, and it s as a phenomenon that wo nre disposed to regard it. Probably no other peopla of equal numbefs could nceept a citizenship and perform all its duties with the same patriotism and faith that characterizes those to the manner born, and not lose its identity altogether. If our critics, therefore, ave disposed to discuss this s & phenomenon, it might not be nnprofita- ble; but, so far as Jowish patriotism is con- cerned, we have no discussion {0 make with them. The wholo case seoms to be in Dr. Kouten's nutshell of **cosmopolitan free- dom.” At the same time there can be no doubt that it was this very idea that some daoy the Jowish peopls would migrate to the Holy Laud and set up an independent na- tion that has given people tho general im. prossion of their bLeing ‘*sojourners,”—a fecling which hns Leen emphasized Ly the reluctance of the Jowsto becoming land- holders. All this has now changod, especinily in this country, and wo are glad to have Dr, Konrer's emphatic indorsement of thae fact. MEMPHIS INDORSES THE PRESIDENT, The action of the business-men at Mem. phis i indorsing the President’s polioy is peculinrly gratifying. Before the Rebellion there was n powerful Secessionist elemont in that city, and it was one of tho most active Confederats cities m tho whole South, It was o groot trouble to the Union forces to take it, and It was a great trouble to hold it. It was in all respects an ugly customer. It is the business centre of portions of thros or four States, It is tho sscond city in the South in point of population and wealth, It has extensive business connections with Ar- kansas and Mississippl. It ships more cot- ton than any other city in tho Bouth except Now Orleans. While it wns such a strong Becension city before and during the War, there hins alwaya been a atrong conservative eloment which hns robelled against being run by the bulldozing Bourbons. Theso men have had a disposition to bo mod- erato, snd to meet the Ropublican party half way whon it was ready. It bhas mot herotoforo beon ready to meet them, consequently for sixteon years thoy havo antagonized the party. At tho vory flrst ovorture, however, which came in tho Prosident's promulgation of his policy in his inangural, tho conservative businoss-men of Memphis have manfully come forward and expressod their willinguoss to co-operate with the President as non-portisans, The move- ment crystallized in the issuing of a call from all the prominent membors of the Chamber of Comnerco and Cotton Exchange for a meeting to bo bLeld on lnst Baturdny. The meating was the largest nssemblago of business men evor known in Memphis, em- bracing ropresentatives from overy businoss houso of prominence in the city, 'The meoting was addressed by four of the Judges, ond by bnsiness.-men. A fow oxtracts will show the disposition of the meoting. Judgo T, W. Browx sald : . The plain resnit ls that Havxs is inovitably the Prosident of the Ropublie, and that lns polley will shapo the deatinles of the country, for wesl or for wae, during the next-four ycars, It Is simply foolish to make months at him, When 8 real mat. ter of complaint ariso peak out lke freemon. ‘When he proposes what we desire, aa he hae thus far dune, let no factivus opposition ba offered, but let & licarly onconragement in sll good works be tendered. Judge ANpERsON said ¢ Mr. flavea lins helid out the ollvo-branch; he has asked one of us Into hfs Cabinet, and now how whull wo recolva his kinaness? Bhall we spurn the proffered help and tho hand of ald and frlendship ¥ Do it, and hear lira ayto Mr, Jayes, ** Ab hat uce how their papers are snarling sud sullen. Soo their gratitude; sce how they. recelve your kind- nesal” Oh, no, sirs;letus show him that we aro with him, heart and soul, fn all his eforts to ro- form and benedit our common couatry, Judga Janxaoin sald ¢ ‘The President of the United States nvowed his intentlon todo right, aud has given satiafactory proof of his sincerity, It Is our duty snd privilego to sastain hitn vo Jong as he continues patiently in weli-dofng. Bo far as understuod, his polcy is an appeal from the partisan rulings of the last Ad- minlutration, and a promise of broad, deep, and thorough reform, ‘The Gouth nceds 16, Wo will cheerfully sccept it from the hauds of the only man In the world who can glve it. May Qoo help lm, and keep him true to his purposs| After such earnest indorsemonts as theso, the meeting passed a series of resolutions in unlson with these sontiments, which have been alrendy forwarded by telegraph, 'Tho reault {1 siguificant ns showling that justice, equity, aud kindness have already wrought wondors and begotten similar sentimoents oven in {lie mtrong old secession City of Memphis, aud that if the Prosident keeps on os he has cotnmenced, as mont undoubtedly Lo will, he will receive a inost friendly and powerful support in tho commerclal motrop. olis of Tennosses, and the third principul city on the Mississippi River, ——— BETTRR TIMES. e the expoctation well founded or not, thera is nn active preparntion in all the manufacturing distriots in the Eastern States for au increasod production to meet ou in- creased domand for consumption in nll the bLranches of trade. The paufe reduced the menns of consmuers to make purchnses; it reduced expenditures to sums needed for vsseutinle ; it cut off largely trade in many lines of goods, and consequently stopped mauy branches of ukilled and other labor, The susponsion of wages took away the moans of a large portion of the people, and one of the needed stimulants for incroased production is the employment of labor and tho rostoration of wages, 7There Las been an incronse in certain lines of manufactares, due largely to an export demand, and this is really & most healthful vecovery of a trade which bad been practically lost nuder the delusion of tariff protection, More than threa years have passed siuce the collapse of the inflation of credit, durivg which the business of the country has been gravitating to the bottom of prices and to the Lottom of cost of production. It is hardly possible that prices of labor, ratos of interest, rents, aud other items entering into the oost ef all manuer of wprodug- tion, can fall muach lower than at prosent. Manufactured goods are therefore now produced, and are for salo at prices lowwor than they have beon sold for twonty yenrs, Tho comparative cheapnosa of goods in of itself a stimulant to increased consnmp- tion, provided tho goneral mass of the popu. Intion hava the monns fo purchase, The re- samption of Iabor, and the renawed distri- bution of wages, must therefors proceds, or atlenst accompany, any incrensed demand for merchandise beyond those kinds which are indisponsable. The recovory in this respect must be gradual, na it has beon slow, One difffonlty in the way of revival is tho largs amount of monoy invested in real estate in all the largo ocities. During the *good times” proceding tho panio, speculation in renl estate was gigantic. Men bought reck- lossly, Money was abundant, and loans wors ensily obtained,—speculators offering any rato of Interest that was asked, For all this land, which had purely speculstive values, there has since been no sale at any prico.. For much more of this land, im. proved, thora hins beon no sale, and from it no income in proportionto the prico paid for it. In many instancon mortgages havo been foreclosed, and the property taken by thq creditors for the debt duoe thereon, and the creditors offer it for sale even at a loss, and find no purchasors, The fact is, real estate in the speculative days had reached values that were mostly fanciful, and {there was ten times mora in the markel than there was any substantial derand for. ‘The sus. ponsion of this trade has, of conrso, Leen at. tended with n reduction of building opera- tions to the actual domands of business, and in this respect there hias been a reduction of expenditure for building materials and for wages, We are passing through the paraly- sis following a season of wild nnd reckless speculntion and gambling, and the recovery must bo slow and protracted. The nctivity in trade cannot bo expected to bocome gen- oral at onco; it must begin in certain branches, and then gradnally extend to others, and ench expansion will include n largor amount of labor, and consequontly causo n largor distribution of wagen and an increaso in the purchasing means of the peo- ple, and thus the increnss of Inbor nnd of production and the incresse of consump- tion will attond each other nnd make equal progress. For nearly a year thero has boen au improvement in cortain branches of trade,’ Tho oxcitement of a Presidential election, followed by a severe winter and the disturb. anco of a threatoning political complioation, forn timo interfersd or suspended this re- newal of notivity; but politically the country 18 nearer a general peaco, union, and recon- ciliation than it haa been for years, the pub- lic eredit waa nover so high, the currency is approximating par, and there is nothing special in the way of o revival of trade this spring on a firm and enduring basls, A RIGHTEOUS DECISION. A now nnd very important point has Intely been decided by the English Courtof Ap- poal, the highest judicial authority of Great Britain, Tho title of the case, The New Bombrero Phosphato Company ngainst Er- LANoeR, hos no apparont interest for an American public, but the principle at stake was ono that concerna any publie that, like ours, is continually sollcited to invest monoy in corperato onlorprises. Tho defendant— tho Baron Errasoen, who * financed” the Robel debt—purchased, through an agont, for $276,000, the plant and lonso of tho phosphate doposits. of the Islavd of Som- broro, in tho British- Wost Indies. The Baron thoraupon formed a company for the purchase and operation of the deposits, In making up his company he neglected to in. form tho subscribers for shares that it was really owned by himself, and had cost Limn but $275,000, The sum the Company had to pay for the property was just twico that amount, or §650,000, and the difference, $275,000, went into the pockots of Enranorn and his confederates, Thers were other con. coalments, such as that the deposits had been always worked at aloss, Tho new Company wns unsuccessful in its working, and, its stockhiolders finding out through some. leak the truth nbout the concealod purchase by Enzayaru ot half the price he had made them pay, brought suit to recover tho $275,- 000 he aud his decoys had pocketed. The London Z'imes reports the docision of the Court of Appeal in its issue of the 27th nlt. The Court decided uunnnimously that the trausaction wus ‘‘craft ond sub- tle device,” it not frand, and (that tho money must bo refunded by Enranorn and his osociates, The latter wers Sir ‘Tuostas Daxiy, Lord Mayor of London, who was mildly consured for inadvertontly lond- ing his name to a scheme he liad not examin. cd; Admiral Macponary, who was, said the Court, the * actual agent " of Ertanaes, and ¢ whose position, cousideriug his high rank in tho navy, was rather panful to conlom- plate " Mr, Eastwicx, a member of Parlia- ment; Drouyy pe Luvuys, the well.known French stateaman ; and one more, who was tho mero puppet of Eauanoen, The lan- guage of the Court in defluing the relations thnt should exist between ‘the person or syndicate that gets up a company and those ho or it induces to take stock i very explicit, The relation ‘“is a fiduciary oune;" “full and falr disclosure must be made of all oircumstances when about to sell property " such as that in ques. tion, Tho contract of the promoters of this Company to pay Erranaes's agent 560,000 waa “‘nothing more than a mere sham or pretense,” The promoter of o company was the trustee of the stockholders. Yord Jus. tice Jawmes, iu concurring, sald a promoter was in a fiduciary position towards the Com. pany which he promoted, sud if he had property which hae wished to sell to the Company in courso of formation, although Lie was entitled to soll at nny price he liked to ask and could obtain, he was bound to mako o full and fair disclosure of Lis inter- esl in tho subject matter of the coutract. ‘This is commouplace morality, but it has never before been recoguized by the law, and the Court of Appenl avowedly stated- that the priuciple laid down was not “a tochnical yule, but a ruls of equity and worality,” "This decizion shows that, ua far a8 cuncerns the obligation to impart all rele- vaut infornation freely and falrly, tho rela- tion a mon sustaing towards tlose he invites to joluhimin a speculation are shuilar to thoso between attoruoy and client, guardian and ward, trustee add cestul que trust. En- gland is not the ouly ocountry where opera- tions like those o? Baron Earaxarn and his syndicate are onrried on. It is to be hoped the courts of this country will insist upon the same honorable dealings in such cases, and will compel those who deviate from them to return their victims the spoils. . PSEL O e i The new Becretary of tho Navy, Col. R. M. Tuosmpson, of Indians, is 64 years old instead of 3, as the reports at fret mado him out to be. e is a hale, hearty, cheery old gentleman, 1t {s sald that tne Preeident has so selected hls Cabluet that every elemcot In the past, present, and futurs Repnblican party fa represented. Col. Dick TnioMrsox was ona of the old Whiga of tho dars of CLAY, WenstrR, and Comwiy. At present he represcnts tho average sentiment of the Republicans,~Inclining rather to the con- scrvatlve than the radical wing of tha party. His appesrance {n Washington has re. called many reminiscences of oid party Uimes of the generatlon that preceded the origin of the Republican party. Ha was clected to Congress In 1841, and agaln In 1847, He was a Presidential Elector in 1840, and cast his voto for Gen, Hannisox. e was also an Elector In 184 on the CtAr ticket, and wept over the defeat of that idol of the Whig party, The old Whig vetersna in Washington have wel- comed the new Becretary of the Navy with great enthusfasm, and at thelr meelings the leisurs | moments are cmployed in Bghting the old bat- tles over agaln, and shouldering thelr crutches to show how the battles with the Locofocos were won and lost—chiefly lost. He {s meeting many of hisold Whig friends of Virgints, Maryland, Delaware, and Fennsylvanis, who remember him well when he was in Congress, e — The Bhreveport (La.) Zimes, horetofors an ex- treme Southern paper, feels impelled to speak well of the new Cabinet. 1t remarks: Mr. 11avEa' first step I8 & good one, Considering the menwho might have been sppolinted to hid Cnbinet, we must commend him for the velections he han made, 1lis Cabinet Is ansbls one. Thero Are men in it of different dearoes of ability, ahd of ditferent kinds of public experience, He did not, Tike timaxt, send a acarch warrant through the country 1o bring together all the fmbeciles in the party for the purpose of sedking the weakest to act 2 hin constitational advieces, The weakest mem- Der of the Cabinet of the now Presllent I auperior 1o the ahleat ona of tho twenty-two men who, at different imes, ncted as Cabiriet inembers o hia predeceesor; while tho eplendid lerai ablllties of 7, Evants and the transcendent genius of Gen, Seitwnx would adorn the Cabinet of any of the old= time Presidents. Again, Gen. layzs has not rought ont tha thievesof his party to receive the ligbert party rewards. Among the members of the new Cabinet we recognizo nelther a BRLRXAD nor m Rosgaox, We have before rald that Mr. Ilaves, in spite of his doubtfnl title to the Preale dency, wonld never mecl any factious opposition from’ the Sonthern Nemacrais in bis efforta to da right. We thoreforc commend his Cabinel an & good first step. Wo ate always ready to *givathe deril hls due," . ———— The Omaha Republican says that it s pleasod to sce that— Scnators PAnpock and Saunnzns, of Nebrasks, plant themeelsea nquarely npon the Civil-Service plank of the Republican platform, and glvo their gmnrly support to the policy of Preaident layxa, in their prumpt indorsement of hia Cabinet. They are too good Republicans to be found waverin] when the whole conntry denires the purification of the public service, and n\:{am too wine 10 ba caught in the indelicate position of being com- elled toslt as judges npon the men whom they ave recommended, It Is degrating 1o the Chief Maylatrato of this natlon to uitin the Exccutive Manalon, with soup-jadia in hand, to deal out pan and Iolllrlnw 1o the followers of a Senatorial nnf or factlon in the party, and Mr. Hayrs has done right in aencrting the privileges and llltfm".y of_hiahigh oftica as Prasident of the United States, In thin iu has been overwhelmingly sustaleod, so far, in the Senate, and hr the natlon, Let him trust the American people, and they will teust him, 1n no place will' that confidence be more unanimousy shown than In the overwhelming publle sentiment of Republican Nebraska. Once divested of the eternal din made by the seekers for place, onr Henatots will broathe ensier, and have more timato devote to the materinl interesta of thele cone stituents through tha benefits of wise legislation, —— The Vicksburg Zierald claims to bea thor- oughly reconstructed Confederate and a stanch Unlonist now and hereafter. Itls very indig. nant and waxes wroth at S8cnator BLAINE'S re- cent specch throwing doubts on the present loyalty of the Bouthorn whites to the Uniun. It says: ‘The Bouthern pm{lo have accepted the resnlta of the War; they bad secesslon whippor ont of tiem, Onthe other hand, the extzeme Iiadicala have not acceptod the "Gl{gmll!ll resnit achieved by the War, for thoy contlnue to talk and treat the beat class of Sontherners as disunionists, and hold npas wodels the Paokanps, the Keuuoans, tha Axgs, the Srzncens, and other cattlo of that sort, whoeo whola henrts are nothing but a raging thiret tornlo over people who despise them. A Core oral's guard of disuntonfsts conld not be ralsed in he South, under any circamstances, nor could a decent regiment be rained o support 3r, TiLORN'S claima, aithough Boathern people believe them to be just, ‘nulr. Br.aixn denounces nine-tonths of the Inhahitanta aa disnnloniats, and spplauds the sconndrels to whom we have above alluded, ————— Bax Howrxs' bowels of compassfon are moved in behalf of various politiclans who fafled to make thelr calling and election sure, and ho pours out his sympathetic soul in their bohall thusly: It wlll be l|on;vnd Fllnrnl process for the poll- ticlans who have been thirown aat of places, in hand or nxre:unl. by the llavzs Adminisiration, to re- establish thomaelves in the orzanism of soclety. Home of thom arc bravely undortaking It mmo- distely, Hourweer rasumes the practice of Iaw in Boston: Donsumixen folns & law irm in Now York; Glov. CuaMarRLAIN (8 reported to ba com- ing u);'(rom Bouth Carolina to tho same clty for the samo business; and Joix Loua talks of golng out to Colorado to cuitlvate his znllllcnl chances. A good many of the uthers are likely to be bummare for some flma to comme, Anythiog llke real Industry in any of the practical channels of life is foreign to thelr natuze, Ofiica-holding [s damoralizing, ko trumping or rlnpcrlnm of any kind, and renders Its victima unfit for anything but some fonn or other of pabllc dependence and begying. : Tlere is more ground for Indignation on the part of Tue Ci T e, ninuNr and other ‘*anti. LAINE, A Washington o statesman dined with unz Baturday evening. —Springfleld Journal, “Indignation!” On the contrary, pleasure. It indicates that JAMRS s turning over a now leaf, and Intends to support the new programme of concillation and Civil-8ervico Reform. e could not dine with better mmen than Becretaries Evanrsand Bcuunz, nor consult with safer ad- viscrs, nor act on better advice than they wowd givo him, }g can make a very useful man of himself by giviog the President a generous sup- port, and promote his own standing aud influ- enco at the same time. ——— The Omaha Ierald indorses tha assassinstion of lHaxvonrp, while the Kepublican sees that matter ln this lights The second great trial In Chicago of Fmancra 1lanroun, the dead man who was_murderad by ALBXANDER SULLivAN, 18 ended. Tanronn has now beei found gullty'al cansing himsolf to_be Kkilled by BuLLivaX. Poor BUtiivax, who has been walking the strests of (hicago under the terrible load vf 83,000 bonds, Is once wore & frue man. There is no dead welzht on hia pocket, and 10 body of death welrhl down his conscience, LUe ¢an now go wbout hia businces, nntll the mext scoundrol stations himsolf in his own front yard with his wife and childron around and allows him. aelf to be uttacked by BuLLivaX, whboccan then *+plck bls dint and try it agaln, ™ —————— Notwithstandiog the unaatisfactory results of the recent Arctlc expeditiou of Cupt. Nanxs, the English explorer, & scheme for another Americun expedition is already on foot to reach the Nurth Fole by way of Smith's Bound, not- withstanding that Capi. NARES has pronsunced it fuwpracticable. \While this way be com- mendable to Aincrican grit and perseverance, what object is to be galned by It? The world bas already fouud out all it wants to know of that Inbospitable region of everlasting snow aad feeberg, aud probably sll it ever will know, Any further explorutions can ooly be a waste of wmoney, of tine, and posaidly of life. Lejeun'en vaul pas la chandelle. i e —— It has aroused a Democratic sucer becauss President Hayxs after his (nsugural address chivalrously greeted his wife before turning to the Ligh Juints. It ls not remarkabls that the aversge Democrat, who looks with complacency upon the Democratic statesmeu daucing the double-shuflle in the arms of negroes, should fail to uuderstand how & gentlewsn cau ever be reapectiul to his wife, PERSONAL 1t {s sald that Moody snd Sankey bave decided to hold revival aervices st Amberst, Mass, Haunibal Hamlin comes to the bead of the For eigu Affairs Committes by the retirement of Senas tor Cawmeron. A son of Atlorney-General Taft has chosen for hia subject at tho next Junlor Exbibition of Yale, **The Vitality of the Democratic Party," Col. Fred Seward. it should be remembered, was Auslstant Secretary of State under ble fatbor. Hig reappolatment ls & true fostance of Ulril-Service Reform, Postmaster James, of New York, is pretty sure tobe reappointed without oppoaition. He b been antisfactory to sll the business men of il city, Civil Service Reform will find good material to begin with in the New York Post-OMce. Some- body who Lias been overbauling the records fnds that no lesa than (orty-nine of the 651 subordinates v were appointed yafare tha Wa* while the veteran, Charles Forreater, Buperintendent of Reglatey, - gan service way back In 1623, M, Dagnerre, who gave hia name to the dagner. reotype, and M. Niepce, hls co-lahorer, are about torecelve a monument from Paris. Thoe ecnlptor 18 M. 3. Meunler, Edward Honry Howard, the new English Car. dlnal, belongs to the great Docal family which heada the puerage of Enaland, and was A favorlio in soclety befors he took holy orders. Iie Is the youngest af the Cardinals, The Rer, Dr. Muhlunberg, the anthor of *'¢ wonld not live alway,* and who Is widely known In connectlon with Bt. Luke's Hoapital, has been serionsly Ul for two weekn past. Good hopes arg now entertalned of hls recovery, 'The Springficld Republlcan suggests that Senator Morton made & falee step whon he took mennnres to keep Uen Hacrison ont of the Cabinet. It wonld ot be plesaant for Morton to find in Harrison & competitor for the Benate st tha next election, Preaident Ilayes §s a.regular atiendant upon church, and lias 8 hich and reverential regard for the Christian religion, but he does not helonr to sny soclety, Mrs, Hayenlan devont Methodiar, and takes the lead {n dally honsehold devotions with her family. Offenbach’'s book was written by an Anglo- Franch boulevardfer, whose maln purpose was to get himeelf **earried through another slx months, " ‘The voiatile Jacquea now openly tella the trath in tegard to the matter, since jt bappens to be more convenient than a falsehood. When the Popo was asked, In connection with the selectlon of Monelgnor loward fora red hat, wly he had so atrong s predilection for England, lie replled: *¢That country, though Protestant, shows {ar more respect towards Catholiclam than many which call thenselves Cathotte.* A ridiculons rumor haa been In clrcalation to the effect that Ada Dyan, the leading actress of \Wal. lack' Theatre, and Montague, tho stage Adonie, are tobe mareled, They hare been in the same com- pany, and know too much of each other, it is be- Heved, to deslra matelmonlal relations. A wag suggests the formatlon of an Unknown Publishers' Series, whlch might be made up of very poor books, He thinks the curlosity would bo grea. to know which one of the publishing howses con- cealed under this entorprise had undertaken to 1saue each particulae mediocrity in the list. Mr. Conway eays the new English magazine callod The Nineteenth Century must be regarded &8 the strongeat periodical in resourcos which has started since the Inventlon of printing, **and when Caxton's statno I8 eet up ho might be aliown holding his block-type In one band, and with the ,other pointing to tha first copy of * TAs Nineteenth Century,* " { The 75th birthday of Victor Hogo was celebrated in Paris by the appeurance of two fresh solumes of his ** Legenda dea Slecles.” The Republican pa- pera yesterday were allowed to publish a number of selections from the work. Victor Hugo an- nounces that tha conclusion will soon be published, **unless the end of tho suthor arrives befors the end of the book." ‘The Londan 71mes® obituary of John Oxenford, which was extromaly fattering and cordial throngh- out, contalned the following: ** Flis enmmary of the plot of & new pleca was frequently a masteeplece of clearncsa, A collection of Mr. Oxenford's analyses of plots separated from his always kindly, mume- times too kindly, crlilciams, wonld be & precious acquisition to our dramatlc ltoratue, " The original of Oulla's **Strathmors® was n dashing young Callfornia woman, Tha story goen that she was employed by en Wood to coax aut of Dickens a novel for the New York Sunday News, and that sho didit, Dickens concludingnn agree. ment to contribute ** Edwin Drood to that paper, beforo he knew ita low repute; that Ticknor & Fields had to pay & latge sum tv ransom the work. A Charleston paper has rathor capped the cllmax of dramatic criticiam. Speaking of the perform- ance of ‘‘Our Doye,* a play written by IL J, Byron, a living sctor and author, the critlc in ques- tion sald: ‘*Byron, though one of the frat pocts of the language, never obtalned any eminent suc- cess as a dramatist. 1lis plays, with one or two exceptlons, never mot with great favar and ap- planso with the public." Young Schwendtferger, who committed salclda at Cornell University tho other day, was another victim of the pernicions collega prize-systom, Ils was pushed beyond hia capacity untll he could nelther study nor remember what he had learned. Conocfous of his falling powers, and apnalled at the prospect of Insanity or fdiocy, ho blew ont hle bralns and thus terminated what might otherwise have been & rilliant career. Miss Bary Knox has at last succeeded In estab- 1ishing horself as the Jegal wifo of John A. Merritt, ‘The husband Is unwilling, and atoutly protests that he was never marriad to the Indy In question. e {a at present safoly locked in the County Jall ot Carmel as a precautionary messure to prevent dis- orderly conduct on his part. 1lls disorder consists almply in a pomowhat partinacions refusal to sup- port tho wife which the court hasawarded and the law decreed him, Mr, Lowen, In reaponse to a letter, thi wife, *@eorgo Kilot, " never reads newapaper ar- ticles about herself. 1lu has, lowover, himsell read recent sketch of her which appeared §u the Boston ferald, and says 1t is wholly Imaginary. One single instance of Ita Inaccuracy Ia sflorded in the statemeont that Mr, Merbert Spencer was her Inatructor and tanght her languages, **Ilad the writer troubled himself lo mako tho slighteat in. quiry, he wanld have learned that Mr. Spencer knowa very littlo of any one language Lealdes hiv own, whereas ahie, bofore alie knew hiin, was mis- tress of sovon," Tho {rrepressiblo Daly ia at It acaln. Thoe 44 local drama of contemporancous tntcreat* which ho has advertised fu New York undor the title of *4Blae Glass" proves to be anotber tranalation, almost literal, from the Gorman of Roeen, the ane thorof **Lemons.” Daly announced It as about 1o be given ‘‘for the first $imo on any atage, " and boldly proclalmed it to be by - the author of **‘fhe Blg Bonanza." This was a naive confosslon, since tha aathor of the original from which **The Big Bonanaa" was taken happencd to be alao a Ger- man of some ropute as & playwright, But the Im- pudenco of Daly scemnas to be absolutely illimita. ble, ‘The new book on Amarles hy Bir Lambert Roso baw the ususl amonunt of astonishment In it con- cerning Chicago, and we grievo to add that in thls Inetance astonishizent {s not at all synonymeus with_sdourstion, The newspspers hero—one of them in particular—startied him mote than any- thing else In the Golden Weat, The blasphemous head-lines of the Chicago Zimes are quoted by him a4 & specinien of the license permitted Ininfinontlal nowspspers, Bir Lambart Rowe doce not half un- derstand hils subject 1f he does not know that there s & vast differenco betwcen the fimes and the other newspapers of Chicago in regard to the gs- cency that prevalls in their columns, Blr Jolin Lubbock's srucle *'On 'the Habits of Ants " fn the current number of the Forinightly Zteview 1a of ns Iaacinating Interest as bis casays in rogard to becs, Iils experiments {n both cases wore exhaustive and curlons, Ils has kept In captivity uearly half of the British apecies of sals, and at the presans moment has fo his room wmore than thirty nests, belonging o about tweuty apecics, soma of which, bowover, are not Knglist. 14 Is strangs for tho untaught reader to hear that snant's nest, like & beehlve, consists of tiree kinde of {ndividu: workers, or imperfect fe- males, mal, ‘Thereare, how: over, often sa ut's nest, while, 88 wo all know, ihere is never mors than one 4ueen In & hive, The food of suts consista of in- ~great numbers of which they destroy,—of , honey-dew, and frullt; indeed, scarcely any animal or aweet substance comnes amiss 0 them. Thelr worst enemy {4 8 peculiar kind of simallfly, The snt lives about ons season. ————— . BREACH OF PROMISE. Avectal Correspondence of The Tribune. Laxsing, Mich., March 14, sult for breach of promise was commenced at North Lansiug, sgainst A. Lanyenbacker, tby Mrs, Stortz,— the damsges belng lald at $10,000, Mr, L. docs not deny that be was once engsgzed to her, but says that she alterwards wrote him a letter askioyg to be excused from wareylng bhn, and thereupon be cuwmenced sceking some vtber ‘woman for a wife, and found a very worthy ono in the widow of Cbristiau Brelsch (who was drowned a lew weeks 820), and was marricd 1o ber last weck, though AMr. Btortz tried bard to prevent the marrlage. ————cw——— THE WAR OF THE 'PATHIES. Special Corveapondence of Ths Triduse. Laxsing, Mich., March 14.—~The Committes on the University, in responso to tho question whether the Lospital at the {nstitution was open to the uso of the entire medical departinent, of only tbe Allopathic school, revealed thst the latter was the cesc, sud bad been sanctioood b the Rogents. Prof. Joucs, of the Homeopathlt school, says Prof. Douglass bad stated tlat tbt posscasion of the hospital by the University was duc to his_ cfforts, and no Homeopath'e Professor should cver crosa the throshold