Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 19, 1877, Page 4

THE CHICAGO TRIBUN. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1877. The Trihune, TERMS OF BURSCRIPTION. DY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGR PREPAID AT THIS OPFICE. afly Fdition, pontpatd: 1 year B e o, Malied ta any address four Bunday Edition: Literary and Religi sheet Tostage propadd. gpecinien coples sent free, Toprevent delay and mistakes. hgsmreand girve Posts Cficcaddress in full, Including 8taln and County, Remlitancea may be inade cither by draft, express, Tost-Ottice order, or In registered letters, at our risk. 7 ERMS TO CITY SURSCRIDERS, Tafly, dfelf rered, Ennday excepted, 23 cents per week. Daily, dellvered, Sunday fnclnded, 3 Auriters TIE TRIBUN. Loruer Madison and Dearbos TRIBU. BUILDING DIREQTORY. Roomr. Ocenpants, 1. CITARTER OAK LIFE (Insurance Dep'ts) 2. TO RENT. 3 GUSTIN & \WALLACE. J, T. DALE, 4. DUERER WATCH-CASE JAN'FG CO. 6. ROBRINS & APPLETON, 6. TO 1 3 7. LUEBKER & TUTCHINS. 8. WM. C, DOW, A..J. BROWN. W.ROBBINS, ¢, WRIGHT & TYRRELL. 10. CHALTER OAR LIFE (Loan Dep't.) +13, FAIRCHILD & BLACKMAN. AMES MORGAN, 1R, W, BRINGE, Y £. SBKELYE. W, D, COOFER, 10, 1 EARSONS & CO. 20. HUTCHINSON & LUFF. a1, 0. L. BASKIN & CO. ASSOCIATE EDITOIt . EDITOI-IN-CHIEF, MANAQING EDITOR. 8SUCIATE EDITORS, C. KARLE. DARNEY & CO, 29, WILLIAM DROSS, 20, 11, F. NORCROSS. J. A, McELDOWNET, 0, REDPATH LYCEUM BUREAU. % 1. COMMENCIAL RDITOI. 32, W. W. DEXTER. 33, GEO. L. THATCHER. A, F. STEVENSON. 43, NIGUT EDITOR, 30, CITY EDITOR. Offices in tho Ruflding to reot by W. C. DOW, foom &, | AMUSEMENTS, TWond's Musoum, Monroe street, hetween Btate and Dearborn, Varlety performance, st .llnve‘rl!’u Thentre, T andolph street, between Clark ang Salle. Engugement of tho Boucicanlt’ Comedy Compsay, *Forbidden Frult." Adelphl Thentre, Monroo street, corner Desrborn. Varlety enters talument, MeVicker's Theatres Madtson street, between Dearhorn and State. Engagement of Ion Boucicault, ** Tho Shaughraun,™ SOCIETY MEETINGS, CTIICAGD COMMANDERY XNO. 19, tention, Sir K X K. T.—At- Snights, You arc hereby notied to ha e Atylitin, corner of Randglph and Tiatsted: esduy morning, March 41. at 10 o'clock d tho funeral of our, Tate 8ir Knight, Members of elster Comminadarica aro fied fo joln withue. = L1 SANDORY, Bm. Com. 031 A B and A, M are licreby notloed t0' be present at emple, corner of 1tandolpli and Finisted:ste.s g, March 21, & 10 o'cluck sharp, at Ta our late Brother, Jamea Trons Membera of siater Lodees sro traternally lavited to Soln with us, GEOIGE F. BINCLAIR, W, M, WASHINGTON CIAPTER, Companfuns are lereby notincd Musanile Tensple, corter of 1 on Wednewday morning, March 31, st 10 'clock sharp, janitoud the_functaluf our inte Companfon, Janics rans. Members of uther Chapters sre cordlally tne ited'to Jutn with ug, o) ulnbp'!u'lllt; CLEVELAND LODGH Memlers M nd lalered-ats., MONDAY, MARCIL 19, 1877, At the New York Gold Exchange on Satur- dny greenbocks ranged at 05)@053. —_— ‘The Rov. HeNny Waup Beecurn has com- municated to a 8t. Louis interviewer his opinion of President 1aves, the Bouthorn policy, nud tho new Cnbinet. 1lo approves of tho Admiuistration generally, and is quite onthusinstic over Secrotary Evanms, whom ho Laa nmplo renson to regard ns a man of cx- traordinary cbility. Lato ndvices from Japan ‘tend to dissipate the popular notion that Satsuma and *“ Little All Right " aro one and the same thing. In the provinco known by the former name ““oll wrong"” better doscribes tho condition of nflairs, A formidablo insurrection is in progrees, headed by $a1ao, o Marshal of the Imperinl army, and the Government is under tho necessity of taking vigorous mensures for the suppression of the movement. Gen. Iavartieee, having concluded his inission to England satisfactorily to hils own and her Majesty's Governments, is improy- jng the opportunity to be lionized. Satur- dny evening he loft for the country-seat of the Marquis of Satisuuny, whero a distin. guished cowpauy of Miuisters, Ambassadors, and political Teadent wero fnvited to mecot him; to-duy ho dined with the Dritish Promier; to-morrow will have un nudienco with the Queen; nud on Thurslay ho loaves for the Continent, 'Tho superiority of steamships over safling vessely for the transportation of ocean froights is curiously illustrated in the ceso of the English stenmor Spartau, which loft Now York on Saturlay with a cargo of 814,000 gallous of refined petroleum, Her destination is Java, and by poing through the Buez Canal sho will headl off largo ship- ments of oil on gniling vessels which startod in Janunry and February, when tho prico of keroseno was from ten to fifteen cents per gaollon higher than at present, The Spartan is the first ocenn steawer over loaded with petroleum, and of conrso carries no passon- gers. —_— ‘Tho announcement is recoived of the doath yesterday, ut Cawbridgo, Mass,, of - ex-Gov, Evony Wasnvvny, Ho was born Feb, 14, 1800, in Lelecster, Maosa,, aud after gradunt. ing frowm Williams College was admitted to the Bar in 1821, and thereaftor was clected to various positious in the State Judicinry, In 18534 hu was clected Governor of Massachu- setts, und at the expiration of his torm of offico hecuine a Professor {n the Cambridge Luw $chool, and retained his connection with that institution for over twenty years. Gov. Wasnsuuy wos promiunently identified with various sclentifio and historical socletics of New England, aud he has writtea many Papers upon Lilstorieal and legal subjects, Lis wost important work bolug ** A ‘I'veatise on the Awericau Law of 1teal Property.” The Chicsgo produ ets were qulet and cusier Baturday, except provisions. AMess pork closed 12jo per brl higher, at $13.621@13.63 for April and 918,62} @13.85 for May. Lardwas stronger, closingat §9,17} @9.20 for April and §9.37}@9.30 for Moy, Ments closed stronger, at 4Jo per Ib for leose shoulders, 7)o for do short ribs, and 7ic for do whort clearw. Highwines were Ligher, ot $1.05 per gallon. Floor wes in better demund and finn. Wheat closed casier, 6t $1.22) for March and §1.23) for April. Coru closed Iclower, at88}cfor April aud 428c for May, Oats closed §@}o lower, ut 38l@S3fe for April and ¥3jc for May. Hys wos guiet, of GlGUdo casl, Barley closed at &3¢ for March ond 52}e for April. Hoga were active aud 10@20c higher, selling ot $4.85@0.65. Cattle wero in fair domand oud stendy, at £3.50@05.75. Sheep wero firm, One hnndred dollars in gold would buy 104,62} in greenbacka at the close, Numorous interesting lotters are printed this morning from farmers in Kansns, No- brosks, and Minnesota on thé subject of the grasshopper.orop prospects in thosa Btates. Tho goneral report is that it is too early in tho scnson for ne- curate proguostication, and that the effecis of tho oxtremely sovers weather of March following the warm tempern- tore of - Fobruary eannot be determined until vegetation commences in earncst. Tho farmers have tho advaninge of being fore- warned, snd of being fully alive Lo the ne- cessity of using overy possible. means to ex- terminato tho young locusts boforo they arrive nt n dangevous stago of development. ‘We published yestarday nn-claborate papor on tho subject of tho gradual but inevitablo war of the wind and water against the Crib, This isamatter of decp publie concern, Tirat, tho trath of the statements should Ve nszertained, If it be discovered that the safety and permanency of the Crib are im- periled, then immediate steps shonld be taken for its protection. Tho matterof cost is of small significanco. Chicago conlil not survive a supply of water; itisas esscntinl nsair. If thore be danger, then nt whatover cost tho additional ‘proteation should be fnrnished. Wo snpposo that this is fensible, ‘Tho water in the Inko at that point is from thirty to thirly.five feet deep. An outer breakwator of double piling filled with stono could be made of suflicient strength to pro- tect the Crib agninst the furious forco of the water that now beats against it. The ma- terinla for such o form of protection are to bo lind in abundance and without delay, and aro comparatively inoxpensive. The impor. tanco of tho matter suggests an immediate investigation, nnd if work shall bo fonnd requisite, it should bo delayed no longer thinn is necessary. Thohand of tha carpot-bagger is seen in tho refusal of the Scnato to confirm the nomination of Waronon na United States Marshal for the Western District of Tennes- see. aLproX s not a carpet-bagger, and very likely voted for Trpey, and his ap- pointment by the President upon the strong indorsemont of Postmaster-General Kex was considored n dircot menaco of the interests of a class of Ropublicans who wont South chiefly for the purposo of holding office, and has been fought desperately by them, Warpnox’s nomiuation to tho Marshalship wns fn pursuance of the President’s Houth- ern_policy—n recognition of the conserva- tive element in tho South whoso aid the President has thought proper to invoke in order to thoroughly carry out the plan of pacification and solf-government ; and the mon who opposa any change for the better in tho Southern situntion scom to have Leen successful in proventing definite action on the question of confirmation. Among oth- crs who interested themsclves in the wattor wns Commissioner Fatox, of the Bureau of Education, who would be a proper subject for tho spplication of tho Civil-Scrvice dis- cipline which Scoretary Semunz bhas intro- duced in the Interior Dopartmont. UNITED ETATES MARSHAL FREDERICK DOUGLASS, "The nomination and confirmation of Fren- entox Douarass as Marshal of the Diutrict of Columbia constitute one of tho most gratify- ing rovenges of time. 'Tho runaway slave now occuples ono of the most important oflices in tho gift of the Administration, and it Is part of the otornal fitness of things that s old-timo onemies havo confirmed him, Tis carcor has reached o denoucment which is consistent and complote, and tho black race may now congratulate itaclf that its rop- resientative man holds & high and honorablo position in close proximity to the Whita House, and In intimate official relation to the supremo legnl tribunal of the Republie, 1t ndds to tho fitness of this appointment that ho will hold his office through the graco of the Democrats, who, by virtue of Repub- lican nbsentociam, had control of the Sennto. It will, howaever, raise the gorge of all rock- rooted Bourbons that this half-blood negro should step into this coveted office, e hina fought theso Bourbons for over thirty years, undaunted by opposition, taunt, and pomecution. IMis trumpot tongue hos vouuded all over tho country, north of Mason aud Dixon’ # ljne, deflauco to slavery nnd slaveholders aud invincible opposition o the Bourbon Democracy. Ila Lns couie up to his present exaltod position from the most menial boginuing. Ho was o runawoy slave, not even manumitted or omaucipated, liko tho rest of his raco. Iio did not como North under tho Emancipation Proclamation, but by tho underground raitway, with the North 8tar for guide. ‘Tewmporarily cheating his moator out of fifteon hundred dollars' worth of blood and bone, when ho stood upon free soil ho was not countent until he had pald for himself and struck off tho last shaokle that linked him to slavery, What he has accomplished sinco that thoe in the crusndo of froodom is aa well known to the poople of this country as a fircside story, An tho nextact in tho drawa of his lifo ha ap- pears a4 the High Sheriff of tho Bupreme Court. of the UnitedStutes,—nn oflico coveted for its soctal position, for its delicato and distinguished dutics, uml for {ts emoluments, It will bring him onch year Jarger poy than that of Cungress or Cnbinot, and nlmost ten times s much as ho had to pay for himself, o will havo tho fmportant duty of Marshal to the Hupremo Court, audl ex officio will also introduca ominont peoplo to the *White Houso, snd tho goneral allairs of the Capital of the United States will be under his jumo. dinte supervision, A competent deputy, of coursy, will 'do the recoption work, and a first-clase wau will Lo sclected to do the oxpert work ; but the prime fact remnius that bo is Marwhal, that ho has tho Louors, and that o will lift the pay, And thisis well, In selecting Mr. Dovorass for this high offico the . President put the Seuato to a test of sincerity, aud a hard oue, It nfforded him tho opportunity of kuowiug whether he was really to bo supported in the great work he has laid out to accomplish ; whethier Loth races were to bo treated justly and equita. bly; whether the blacks wero to be protected and tho whites would fur. nish that protection. This was the real test. There wore some Domoorats who flinchéd, upon the ground uot that ho was g uegro, but that he was not competent for the office. To the eredit of the Duemo- crats, howaover, there wore enough to secure his nowination, and his most earncst sup- port came from those Bouthern Domocrats who Lad most cause, perhaps, to antagouize him, since ke had fought them from the days of sluvery to the present time with the utmost audacity and pertinacity, No IRe- publicans voted ngainst him, but thers wero carpet-baggers who dodged. These ungrate- ful wretches, who wero lifted into their Con- gressionnl positions mpon tho shoulders of negroes, refused to voto for the representn. tive man of the colored race,—nn indignity which their constituents will Lo apt to remember by giving them an indefinite lenvo of absence from Congress when their torms expire. By this nction, indorsed by mom- ‘bers of both pariies fn tho Scnnte, the Presi- dont has greatly strengthened his position. By showing that he lins confidence in the black race, ho has taken n most important step in the pncification of the Somth, It completely refutes the infamous chinrges of tho Democratic Bourbons and Republican implacables, that he is selling ont, weoken- ing, and surrendoring the bincks of tho South o the White-Linors, It shows that ho will make good his professions, and that step by step he will bring about barmony botweon the two races, after which Lo can safaly with- draw the army and navy, and leave them to work out their own salvation, COL. INGERSOLL'S LECTURE. In reporting Col. InoErsornr's recent lec. ture upon the political situation, delivered in New York, tho telegraph hardly did justico to the eminent spenker, Itlimited itself to the exordium nnd to some of the more caus. tic passages and sallies of wit with which his nddresses alwaya abound, sud omitted iho mora serions portions, which weo ropro- duce elsewhere. Passing over his picturo of tho campaign, the counting of the Electoral vote, his sketch of the Bouthern question, and his discussion of tho remouetization of silver, lLie comes nt once to the present situ- ation, and demonstrates that it is the time for penco nnd compromise, and not n timo for war or wrangling, * There must bo peace botween the North and Bouth soma timo; not a conguored peace, but a poaco that conquors,” With this Lroad view of the situation, he conccives that tho Prosi- dent hina enterod npon tho work of pacifica- tion. Mo oulogizes thoe members of tho Cabinet in tho most glowing terms, Although when ho first hegrd of the nominn- tion of Mr, Ker he did not like it, he is now satisfied with the appointment. “It wasn brave thing to appoint him, It wos a brave thing on the part of Gon. Kex to nccept.” Tn drawing his pleturo of the present situa- tion, he does not forget the Bourbons and implacables, and Inshes thom with all the fury of his indignant elofuence. ‘*They dine on hatred and sup on regrot. They mourn over the lost canso and partako of the communion of revongo, They strike down tho liberties of their follow-citizens and ro- fuso to cnjoy thelr own. They remember nothing but wrongs and they forget nothing but benefits. Their bosoms aro filled with tha serpenta of hate. No one can compro- miso with them. Nothing can change them. They must boleft to the softening influences of timo and death.” A moro grophio picture of tho implacables, tho bulldozors of tho Chicago Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sraixo- En, Cavrrizrp, and EatoNy stamp could not be drawn. They are skeiched from the very lifo in oll their meanness of hatred, their narrownoss of view, their Dbitterncss of spleen, and selfishness of pur- pose. If Col. Ixormsornu had nover dona anything olse, he should bo famoua for his perfect charactorization of Bourbons and implacables. Not any tho less should be commended his romarkablo tribute to the Sonthern mombers who in tho lnst Congress rofused to nct with tho Bourbons, took a patriotic stand, stood up in canous and sald, * We like this couniry ; we know what war is; our land was laid wnste; our homes and towns and cities were reduced to nshes; thero shall bo no more war that wo can pre- vent; n President shall be choson, and that President shinll bo inangurated,” and thus saved the country from civil war, It is upon the action of theso men, their desire for pence, their patriotic uttorancos, ond their detormined resistanco to Tipex implacables like Srrixoer and Earoy, that ho declaras, if tho clection lind been thrown into the ITouse, r. Haves would have been clected by the Soutliern vote.. Tha beauty nud mnjestic eloquence of Mr, INazusort's peroration would only Le marred by any attempt to roproduce it. We loave it to tho enjoyment of our readers, Be- foro he delivored this remarkablo lecture, he made a statement to a friend that ho shonld givo Mr, Haves’ Administration ns good n lift a8 ho know how. Ho has more than redeemn. ed his word. o has como to thesupport of the Presidont with tho same cnthusinsm, cloquonce, and power that he displayed in urgingthe claims of his owncandidatein the Convention, ond Lo has placed upon record n speoch which, in its candor, sincority, con. vincing power, and foreiblo, eloquent state. ment, will strengthon tho hand and heart of tho Prosident in lhis great work of reform and roconciliation, NATIONAYL INSOLVENCIES. ‘Tho remark often made, that it is onsier to make money than to save it, scoma to be truo on a largo as well as a small seole. The terriblo losaos suffered by the English in for cign loans are at onco n measure of thelr great wealth aud an indictment of their Inck of shrowdness fn investing it. The great dry-good:? prince who Iately died in Now York wnu successful Leyond precodent in making money out of dry goods, but his roal cstate invostmeuts wero almost always poor, ‘The conl nud Iabor-saving machinery of the nglish huve made them the richest nation in the world, but their losses scem more ns. tonishing thun thelr galux” What thesa hnve boen in the whole range of stocks, from Covernmonts to rail. road, wo bave no means of knowing. In a tablo propared by the L'elegraph, of London, it Is shown that, out of thosixty-seven securi. ties dealt in on the Loudon Stock Exchango, {here was, in 1876, a declino in tho vulue .of fitty.five, nud in many of them it was very sovere, ‘The Egyptian 7 per cents of 1862 fell 29§ per cont Lolow thoe quotation at the end of 1875, aud the Santa Fe 7 per ceiits full 80 per cent, Tho London Keonomist statos that, in the ouo year 1875, the markot valuo of tho obligatious of 'Turkey, Fyypt, nud Perashowed a reduction of §:350,000,000, ‘I'o samo journal printed a table showiug that on other Government bonds thofe bad Loeu in the same timo a depreciation of #130,000,000, Here is n loas to ths holders of Government bouds of $500,000,000 in twelvo months, What must the loss bo when preseut prices ore compared with thoss at which the bonds ' wero flrat sold? ‘Thess lossos aro uot mere fluctu. otlons ou the Stock Exchange. Most of them are final, aud caused by defoult or re- pudiation. Mauy estimates Lave beon mado of tho loases of the Euglisl; and others in de- faulted foreign loaus, but uono that can bo considered nuthoritative. Ouo of tho latest is put forth by a Mr. Crovex, of London, in o pawphlct. ‘The total sunk Ly English and forvigu investors—uwost of it Ly Euglishien —i8 put by him at $2,700,000,000. The de- faulting nations hnve been Dolivin, Costa Rien, Feundor, Greeco, Guatemals, Hondnras, Tquiqui, La Horin, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, 8an Domingo, Spain, Turkey, Urngaay, and Veuezueln. The dobts, except $14,000,000 of Grecion bonds fssued in 1824 and 1825, were made betweon 1851 and 1878, The nominal amonnt of the defaulted bonds, —that s, the faca of the debis,—ia over £3,300,000,000. Thia is nearly a thousand millions "more than the United Btates debt nt ita highest point; it is more than throe times the amonnt of the iudemnity exnoted from Franco by Ger- many. Itis almost ns much ns the British national debt to<lay, Of course, overy ono sees that this appalling sum is not at all o correct statoment of lossos. A great doal of tho monay put inte these defaulted securi- ties lins beeu roturned by the oxorbitant in- torest paid. 1In a great many casestho bonda wero sold considerably below par. The first Turkish lonu, that of 1854, was fssued at 805 that of 1865 at 47}, and that of 1874 at 48, Besides, large portions the Inter loans of the defanlting nations did not rench the pub- lie at all. For instance, of the second Hondnras and Paraguay issuds very little wns marketed. Tho London Zimex criticises Mr, Cror1e's figures, and thinkd thoy should be cut down considerably. Mr, Cnoriz al- lows £300,000,000 margin between the fnco of the bonds and tho prico poid for them, and puis the latter at abont £3,000,000,000, 'The presont valuo is abont $300,000,000. This makes the shrink- ngo nbout $2,700,000,000, which is bad enongh. Tho lhenviest defanlter is Spain, That country owoes $1,970,000,000, Turkey's burden is $675,000,000; that of Pern is $170,000,000 ; and of Moxico, 8175,000,000. Egypt's case is vory serious, Itsdebt is now abont $432,000,000, and the Zimes, in ro- viewing Mr. Goscuex's plan for a compro- mise with the Khedivo, openly exprossed its belief that Egypt can not and will not pay hor debt, If theso figurea of Mr, Crovrr's nro approximately correct, tho amonnt of " defaulted Governmont debts is moro than 10 per cont of tho nggrogate national debts of tho world. Theso amounted in 1875, accord- ing to the Westminater Revicw, {o 223,- 000,000,000, to which amouut tley had grown from $1,600,000,000 in 1715, Tho trnth appears to bo that ‘Governments hnve borrowed and spent most of tho savings that hiavo beon made out of thoincrense of wenlth in the Inst century through the amazing devel- opmonts of modern industry. Government bonds have boen the fuvorito scourities, It did not soom ns if money conld bo lost that was intrusted to so great and good a thing as Governmont. Experience.has not sup- ported thia iden, Tho lesson of thoso gront lossea is that tho same careful inquiry must be made nbout a borrowing nation as about a borrowing individunl. Had tho English, who are the chiof sufferers by theso nation- aldelinquoncies, observed this sound precapt, they would not have lent $432,000,000 to the Khedivo of Egypt, who has under him n tax- able population of only 5,000,000 people, and’ very poor people at that. Nor wonld they -hnvo lot Now Zealand, with a popula- tion of 800,000, run in debt to them $100,- 000,000, Tho stern British virtuo that led Lady Sartsnpny, on her recont vislt to the home of the Vizior of Turkey, to snub his secondary, tertiary, andotherary wives, might liave boen n saving virtuo if it had restrained the British from londing the SBublime Porto $075,000,000 for his harema and dobnuch. ories, THE ASSERTION OF PUBLIC RIGHTS. * Tho recont strike of the locomotive on. gindors on tho Boaton & Maine tailrond ovoked a now priuciplo and o new power in thieso controversion, and the general publio will rojoico in the successful application of the new sgent. Tho locomotive engineera constituto a brotherhood including about 13,000 members, tho organization extending all over the Unitod Btates. The Chiof En. gincer, nt present I M. Antnus, has his headquarters at Clovelaud. Ilis power Is absoluto, No strike.can bo made withont his consont. If one is made, the brather- hood itsclf supplies the needed engineors; but n strike, sanctioned - by him, binds the whole fratornity., A half dozeu ormoro striked of engiueors have taken placo within less than a year, and nll have been success. ful in bringing the comnpanies to torms, The rocont striko on tho Dosten & Maino Road inatantly suspended tho whole oporations of that rond, 'The strike wans 6o nrrangod aa to stop traflio from one end of the rosd to the other, 'I'ho traine wero arrosted where thoy Liappened tobo at tho moment, and wero scattored nlong tho wholo routo, When this had bLappened, tho Railroad Commis- sioners of Maasnchusetta intervoned in the controversy. ‘They nsserted that the «question was not,erely -ono betweon the Ttailroad Compnny and the engineers ns to rates of wages, but thero waa’a [gronter and higher right involved, and that was theright of tho pubiic, The Stato, reprosonting tho publie, knd the right to compel the rumoval of any obstructions to the right of trafilo, on o public highway. The Company and tho public had the right to uso that bighway, and any attompt to provont its use wos a vie olation of faw. T'o compel men to abandon thelr omployment on the rond, or to prevont others performing work, or any othor com- biuation to provent tho use of the road by tho public, was o conspiracy aaillogal as any other conspiraoy, and to bo punished as any othier conspiracy to do an unlawfulact. Tho railrond company which, on any question of Tates of faro or tolls of freight, should refuso to run its trains or to carry passengers and frelght, would be deprived of its chartor, or ut lepst have the road taken from its nanage- meut and committed to othor hands, o be operated m the superior {n. torcsts of the whole public. But the President of tho Drotherhood, by nerely nodding his assent, claimed nnd exercisod the powor to arrest all business and all travel on a great public highway, becauso certain men wore not paid the wages thoy had de- manded. This action on tho part of the State ofticers put a new light upon the whola Lusiness. The declaration of Mr. Astuus, that by merely lifting his hand ke could bring to a stand-still any train entoring avy city in the country, lost its significance. s dis- covered that the public had some rights, and had thie power to euforce them, and that the attewpt to srrest tho operation of railways was 0s much au interferonce with the rights of tho public, and ns clearly a violation of law, a8 to place obstructions on the track, wmisplace switohes, tear up rails, or auy other criwninal procedure to stop the running of traius, The end was the discomfiture of the brotherhood, the abondonment of the strike, and the resumption of the operations of the rond. : ‘The wounder is not that in this controversy therightsof the public wore asserted, but that they have notbeen asserted inallgiwilar casos. ‘Tl cngineer at tho Water-Works in Chicago might strike for higher wages; Lisrefusal to work wonld be n mattor of his own choico; but when there was a combination to provent any other man opernting tho engines, and thus lenve tho paople of ‘this city without water, corlainly tho rights of half n million of persons must rise suporior to a mere quos. tion of wages, and the Government wounld ba sadly dorelict that did not interporo its power to break, even by forco, the conspir- ney, and punish the conspirators. It is fors tunato, oven at this lato day, thatit Lo cstablished that the general publio have some rights, and that Governments liave the power to cnforce them whenover combina- tions, nnder the form of trades-unions or any other form, aro made to obstract, em- barrass, or destroy the privileges, or conven- {onco, or interests of the public. Buch a com- bination becomes of necessity n conspiracy ngainst the Btato, and must bemot promptly and vigorously, A number of very worthy and very oxcol- Iont gentlemen, who have for many years ‘been in office, have been, or aro abont to be, tumned out upon tha cold world to shift for themselves. To many of them the futuro in clonded with uncertainty, and the minds of ‘many must be oppressed with the®gravest ap- prohensions aa to whether thoy will be able, by their own unaided exertions, to earn an honest living. Thoy must, perforce, drop back into the varinus professions, trades, or pursuits in which they engaged before thoy Decamo statesmen; ond the publio are in- terested in knowing whethor the talents which they have employed, at a liberal com- pensation, in the publio service, will prove .eqnally remunerative when brought in con- tact with tho active compotition which thoy mnst henceforward enconnter in the groat business world, ‘There aro many roasons for suspecting that many of our rocently-discharged statosmon will fail in the offorta which they will now bo compelled fo mako; that, grent as their abilitios have been, and are, in the perform- ance of public and caucus duties, the sharp and ongor competitions which they must now meet will prove too much for them. In other words, that, compelled to rely npon their own oxertions for their own puppért, the support will not come; and that, at the ond of n fair trial, there will be founda yawning and impossablo chasm botween re- celpts And expenditures,—between tho wants ond tho supplies, 8uch a condition of things cannot be con. tomplated with any other emotions than thoso of unmixed seriousness,—almost sol- emnity, The picturo which the imagination draws of the unhorsed aud unofiiced states- man and officcholder toilsomely struggling for tho commonest necossaries of lifo, at the bar, in his shop, on 'Change, or painfully secking omployment, is ono which no humane mind can long dwell upon without deop feol- ings of pity, which must oro long find rolief in tears. That thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of othor people aro daily making theso exertions, and manfully taking their chnnees, withont execiting our special sym- pathy or compasaion, is nothing to tho point. They are used to it; and e would be cruel, indeed, who would seck to limit our pity for the poor nud the helpless ox-officcholder by any such considerations, Somothing must Le done. Humanity deo- monds it. Considerations of pullic econ- omy demand it. Thero jsno good reason why public offices should bo filled by those who aro catirely ablo to eam a comfortable living otherwiso. Indeed, to flll our offices with men who are able, in the privato walks of life, to support themselves by thefr own exortions, is a shamefal wastofulness of use- ful and romunerativo Inbor, which ought not to bo tolerated. Tho Governmeut—Siato, National,, and Municipal—should, in this rospect, bo like unto a Politicians’ Reliof and Ald Bocloty, and should help those, and only those, who abgolutely noed help, and aro not able to help thomsolves, & Lot the ex-atatesmen of all grades—ox- Governory, ex-Senators, ex.Congressmon, ex-Forelgn-Ministors, ex-Everything—Dbegin tho trial of earning thoir own living on the 18t doy of April, or within ono month nfter thoir removal from or ceaasing to hold offico and continue that trial ono year. If, after tho end of one year, thoy can produce from tho Reliet and Ald Society, or from the County Agent, certificates that they have Leen compelled to apply for, and have notually roceived, charitablo nssistance, then lot them ot onco be restored to office. If, however, {t should turn out that, during tho yoar, they have succeeded in holding their own, that should bo regarded ns an insuper- ablo objection to an election or nppointment to any offico, ‘Thus, and thus only, can the really meritorions bo rowarded, Thus, and thus only, can tho patronage bo distributed “whoro it will do the most good.” LIFE-INSURANCE PAILUKES, The large number of lifo-iusnrance com. povles which have falled during a recent poriod Lias proved not only o sorious loss to thousands of individuals, Lut has proven n grent scandal to tho business and caused wido-spread foeling of distrust and alarm. There is an immenso sum of money invested in life-insuranco. It i1, nsn goneral thing, the invoatment of savings from scant earnings, investmeuts modo in carnest faith, with forvent hopo thet In due time tho money will be pald to the widowed wife or the or- phoned childron, Theso inuvestmonta aro generally mado by tho hard.working and thrifty clasa who eacrifico much to sccure a certainty for thoso dependent on thém. Yo them the wrock of o life-Insurance company is of calamitous import. The Nation, in dis- cussing this subjoct, points out certain dis. tinotivo features of American lifo-insurance, 1, That in this country life-insurance is rare. 1y souglit; it is forcod upon tho insured by the importunities of canvassers. 2, Thatthe maas of insured understand little or nothing of the principlesor methods of lifo-insurance; that their information is limited to the notion that, if thoy pay 83 a year, their rap- reséntatives will rocolvd $100. 8, Tho rutes of insurauce are vastly in exaesa of any legiti- moto need, if the business wero transacted in any safe, prudent, aud sconomical way,— the excess of income reaching from 80 to 100 porcont. 4. This gurplus incomo ia disposed of—got rid of ; is spent in costly competition for custom; in unreasonable commissions to agents and canvassors; purchasing sites and erccting palatial offices; the expendituro of o greater sum annually as “‘expensea” than is required to meet losscs by death; and tho bad seleotion of securities for the fuvestment of surplus. Itis stated as common among new cowpaaies to spend their entire receipts for years in drumwing-up new business. The receipts from dropped and forfeited policies make o largo item of income. On this point the Nation says: ‘‘The number of policies which fually cowne to matunty is, in the case of all the smaller companies, 40 small a frac- tion of the entire number issued, that any consideration of the functions of these cowm- panics, founded upon thy idea that they are engaged mainly in the buainess of providing for the familfes of tho insured, in entirely in- adequate. It would Lo nearer the truth to regard them as organizations for trying to persundo each henlthy and respectable young man in the country to pay once in his life money for a service of which, after mn- ture doliberntion, he does not feol himselt in npeed.” Undor these circumstances, it is n quostion whether the dostruction,of compnnies which has begun and is still pro. gressing is not really the best thing for the country. ‘The Nation forcibly declares that to make any permanont improvement thero must bo o stop to tho ohartering of new com- ponies. **The cnse is ono in which compe- tition, instend of heing the *life of trade,’ ia tho dostruction of good management. If the competition were diroctod towards furnish. ing the moset insurance for tho least money, whilo atill keeping up the logal reserve, it would ba henithy, but ita direction would have to ba' the opposita of that now taken, If overy man woro well acquainted with the subject, and made up his own mind as to the adviability of getling insured, this would Lo tha form which competition would take. The question wonld then be, which company conld transact ita business most cheaply.” There will hardly be any hesitation in in- dorsing the declaration that ** The more difil- culties which aro thrown in the way of thoso companies whoso expenses of managomont exceed their death.losses, the better it will Do for the morals of life-insnrance,” A valued friend, private note, writes to the editor: * X must call your attention to the following statement, clipped from a leading ar- ticlo fn the Jnter-Ocean of this date, purporting to give o history of Gen. GRANT'S cfforts to ro- form the Clvil Bervice, viz.: ** *Howover, Measrs, Meoirt, and Gronar Wite 1M Conris had {neabated and brought forth an claboratosct of mlos, drawn a portion of the appro- ;v(lfllloll of $25,000 at the rate 50 per day each or thelr aerviced, and retired to privato lifo.’ T have observed the samae charge In the £-0. perhaps o dozen times within a year, and also n various other *tnachine’ organs. I thinkitls duc to your fricnds at least that you refutoor explaln{t.” We have heretofore palil no atten tlon to thls false allegation, supposing that no oncbelfeved it or cared anything about it. Fortho satisfactlon of this or other friends who may fcel any Intereat in ths matter, wo stale tho facts, as follows: In May, 1871, the editor of Tus Trinuss was appointed by the President o member of the Clvil-Service Board. The commisslon he recelved fixed the compen- eatlon at $2,000 or $2,600 for the sorv- fces to bo performed, reiardiess of the time that might be cousumed in the work, The cditor of Tz TrisuN continued to be a mem- ber of the Commission until March, 1873, when the President accepted his resignation. During this perfod of nearly two ycars ho rendered such scrvicons ho was able, Frevious to the Chlcago Fire ho drow the swm of 8500, the same us the other members of the Board. After the Fire, whatever service he performed was done gratultously; he dirceted the undrawn $1,600 (or morc) sasigned to him by the Tresl- dent to remain In the Treasury, A very small part of the actual labor performed by the mem- bers of the Commission was donc in tho ses- slons of the Board. As Inlegislation, the prin- cipal work had to be done In committee or alone. ' Tho services were rendered as o ** labor of love” in thecauso of Civil-Servico Reform; the pittance received is scarcely worth naming, and only a quarter of what was allowed was accepted. et If Ald. Peanson, of the First Ward, will con- scut to be a candidate for re-election, ho should recelvo thodiearty aupport of every good citizen of the ward, 1o has served the city well and faithfully during the past year. No better man can be found in the ward for Alderman. Those who ralso political objections do it iu Ignorance of the facts, Mr, PRAnSON ls no partisan bigot} hin always votes for the best men. The ticket ho voted at the last clection had on it more Re- publican than Democratic names. It would be well for the city it the voters generally would pursue the same rule of voting for the best men who ara running on the oppoalng tickets. B e i 2o A New Orleans dispatch reports that the Re- publican State Ceptral Commitice adopted o resolution of expulsion of PiNcunack py a voteof 22to4. PIxcnpack’s offenso s oppo- sition tothe Packaup fuction. For the last ten yenrs one of the occupations of the office- holding and oflice-sceking classes of Loufsiana Republicans has been ‘passing resolutions ox- pelifiyg cach other from the Republican party. Pincinack fs just as guod, pure, houest, and unselfish us any of the rest of the oflice-grab- bers and thleves who have shed so much honor and glory on the Republicsn party iu the Pell- can State, 116 Is nelther better nor worso than the average corruptionists down there. ———— Benator Lasan, of Misstssippt, says that he would have voted for the confirmation of Frap Douarass if ho had been In the Benato Chamber at the time, The Democratic Senators who voted for coufrmation wers Bex Hiy aod Gonbon, of (eorgia; Jonms, of Florlda; Mon- AN, of Alabama; Beci, of Kentucky, and (anLaxD, of Arkausas. Twelve Democratic Benators, affileted with coloropliobls, voted fu tho negative. e — There are slgns of abatemont in tho life-in- surance panle. Because some companles ‘aro bad, it does not follow that all aro so. SBome, indeed, are superlativelygood. Thelr vast funds Tave dono much to rebulld our waste places, and it Is thelr compotition as lenders that has given us mortgage loans at low rates, It Is thne to scriminate betwoen the evil and she good fn ife-lusurance. Heason, inatead of panle, should guldo us, ——— Judge Davip Davis, not having thoe fear of color or vasto before his eyes, voted for the con- firmation of Fuep Dovarass for Marshal of the 8upremo Court, In contrast with tnis vote of the Illinols Indcpenacnt Senator is that of sev- oral earpet-bog Senators who dodged, skulked into the cloak-roots, and falled to go on the record, —— 8enator BeN HiLL, of Georgla, voted the same aa Scuator JiM DBLAINE, of Malne, for the con- firmation of Frup Dovarass as Marshal of the Bupreme Court. Who would have thought it a year agol PERBONAL. - ‘The March number of the Westrainater Papers, 8 famous English chuoas publication, contalus & por- tralt of Mra, J. W, Gilbort, of Hartford, Cona,, of whom It speaks as having **achleved a wide diy- tinction fu the world of chess, ™ ‘The original Uncle Tom of Mrs. Stowe's novel ls flouriehlng largely In Eugland, and Las acig- ally been **commanded ™ by the Queen. MMr, Jen- ninge «uestious whether the claimaot is so much an *toriginul Uncle Tom " a8 an original fraud, The London XNews lately printed & vlashing ar. ticle malntalning that'classical learnlng ls on the decline, and is regarded by collegu students as mere **shop.' Too much time ia wpeat at the univeraltics g grammatical construction sad com- position. Thoe Roman and Ureek literatures are a4 rich and luvigorating as evor, Marrisgo wlth a deceased wife’s sistor 1s pormit- ted, 1t Is woll known, 1n certalu colonles of Great Uritals, but forbldden in the mofher country. An sttempt s now wmaking to secure for persons within tho forbidden ltmlts of relationship who have been marned abroad logal recoguition at home. The bill bas been passed Lo & second reading. 1t it bocomes alaw it will present a curioas anomoly In practice. ‘Tho reviow of the Admialstration of President Grant in the current number of tho Jateractional Zleviaw has cxcited great foterest throughbout tho couutry. The publishers clalm that, althoogh §t sppeared before the late Adminlstration bad ended, **1¢ 1s 80 putirely in barmony with the purposcs and palicy of President Hayea that it wmight bo sup- ‘poscd to have Influcaced bim sonewbat Iu bisviews ‘ou the Bouthern question saud ia his cholce of Cab- inet advisers.” Such sbeurd talk aside, there can be no quostion but that the article has merls, Tho anthor's name {o not given. It has Teen attribnted to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Doston; Parke Godwin, of New York, and Horace White, of Chi- cago. Atlcast, so tho publishers ‘ssy in 8 senit- official notice, ; **Simon Camoron, " says the Springfleld Repnd. liean, '‘scquired his familiar title of ‘the great Winnebago Chiof® almost forty years ngo. He was appointed by Prestdent Van Buren an agent tosettle and adfuet the claims of the Winnebago' Indiany againat the United States, and was charged with paying the mavages in notes of the Middle. town Bank, of which he was prinoipal owner, {n- stcad of gold," - ¥ Young Bifon. Ileron, daughter of Matilda, has chosen for her guardian Me, A. M. Palmer, of the ~ Unlon Square Theatre, with which establishment she now has an engagoment. All efforts to induce her to return to her father or to enter a young ladice’ neminary have proved anavailing, ssshels passionately wedded to her profession, She is only 15 years of age and onec of the most promising | young persons now upon the atage, The new London paper, T'ruth, fmitstes tha Amerlcan freedom in the nse of words as well 2s in the printing of personalitier. The last number containe an_edltorfal on Lord Salisbury, In thich thie sentence ocenat ¢* We danot take nponour- selves to sny that our unfortunate Plenlpotentiary himeelf ambitioned such sensatlonal honors,” ete. . This If equal Lo tho Amerfcan ** snapicioned," and almost rivals the Towan ** burgled,” ‘The lirahmo paper of Calenita contalns fn n late desue thé following prayers **Itis not the hopa of an uncerfain futuro Ifcaven, but o present 1teaven, that T fmplore Theo to vouchsafe, Twiil not go away with A mere promise; but T will ro- main prostrato at Thy feet till Thy redeeming grace creates in mo a small Heaven amldst tho things of this world, Give me cash, O Lord, out of Thy fnexhaustible treasnry, and do not send mo away, I'beseech Theo, with o mere promlasory note." A comparatively new periodical, bearing the In- spiring title of Tom-Ki~Jon's New York Voleano, has Lroken forth upon an inoffensive and unsus- pecting people. The editor modestly announces that this fa intended to bo & successor to the influ- «ntisl newspaper formerly printed by him at Bos« ton and called the Zunatic, Tha Lunalle flour- fshed In Doston threo years, and only explred at last In tho modorn Athens because It had ceased to be new, . 2 Mirs Mary Beal, danghter of the Hon. Edwanl Fitzgerald Beal, Envoy Extraotdinary and Minls- lstor Plenipotentiary of tho United States to Ans- tria, was married at Vienna, on the 11th of Feb- ruary, to G. DBakmatefl, attacho to the Rusalan FEmbasey at London. The marrlage ceremony wan verformed nccording te the Russian scrvice at the Russian Chapel of Vienna, and repeated according to the Episcopal service at tho house of the Amer- fcan Minlster. Hepworth Dixon has juat printed his firat novel, called ¥ Diana, Lady Lyle," Ttis thestoryofa young Virginlan Indy named Randolph, who mar- ties 8ir Teonard Lyle, an English baronet, and snf- fers persccutions arlsing out of her having conceal ed from her husband certala circumstances con- nected with her Lirth and orlgin. It concludes by the discovery of a complete series of legal papers, which have been stolen and withheld by a ruffian for purposes of oxtortion. The Palt Vall Qazetle notices that the namds of all the Presidents of tho United States, save that of Van DBuren, aro Englich, ** or, perhaps, remein- ‘bering Presldents Buchanan and Grant, and belog mindfal of Scottlsh aneceptibilities, it would bo better to aay Niritleh.” The same authorlty ndde that of the six Prealdculs who have borne the title of **Qeneral," only one, Taylor, has been a nole dler ns the term is nnderstood In tho 01d World,— that ls, amere poldler. **(len. Grant has bocn tanner, farmer, and deht-collector," **Nicholas, or Ricolinl," writes Edward King from Parls to tho Now York Erening Poal, ** i very anxions that Pattl should nnite ler fortunes with his fora grand operatic tonr through the Unitod States; and possibly, after her London en- gagement Js conclnded, the palr may conclade to undertake snch an engagemont. 1t 1s sald that the effect of the scandal concerninz Pattl and Nicolinl hae een to shut the doors of fashionablo soclety In Parls upon her, and to make fatnro ndiaisaion to It very dificult for any opera-singer, " “Holen's Tiables,” the book published by Lo- ring, of Boston, at GO cents, la sclling In London for 12 pence. On tho other hand, '*Kismet,' which brings but §1 In America, hes been expand- ed into threo yolumes In Eogland, and aclls thore for 85.26. Mary Healey's **Btorm-Driven," also a dollar-book in America, has heen sublected to elmilar treatment, and the Englivh price {s 87,60, One would think the publishers might be more reasonable, since thoy pay no copyright, and ale low no gratuity Lo tho antliors in any case, The following good story le circulating in the newspapera: **An the new Hecretary of tho Navy was passing ont of hle hotel ‘Toesdny morning he vas saddenly accosted by a gentleman, who sald, “Ts your mame Thompson? The reply, * Yes.' *Wall,* said tho stranger, *my name 18 ey, Wo are Loth In the Cabinets let us be frionds,* They shook each other by the hand In old-time style. Mr. Thompson remarked, *Tknow we will boinnch botter friends with such an introduction than if we ‘had been formally presented to each othor.*" ‘Varlous newspapers have clrculated the report that Allce Oatos wan followed around the country by s young man of family and wealth from St. Louls, who wearled Lior with his importunities. Friends of the young man in gnestlon may be gratified, or not, to hear from tho Dramatle News that his importanities have had the usual result, and he bns been seen in an opera-bor with tho boaffe singer. Tho young man has made an offer of marrlage, Whon seennt the opors ho was any- thing but sober, having been colebrating, no doubt, tho signiugof Lis matrimonial contrnct, Mr. Willlam K. Lincoln, who has been studving the commerce of Doston, says It has not declined 80 much as may at first appoar. ' Tharalling trade, which tormerly made a great show, ls now largely carricd on by rall, and tho great ocesn steamahips, each one of which carries as mnuch s several suil- ing-ships, come nnd go in onceAfth the timo re- quired by the latter. The grain exports of Doston, Mr, Lincoln says, are developing Ite other coms wmerce, oponiug forelgn markets for its manuface tures, nnd making return cargoes possible, Nearlyall the grain at present is shippod by Bos- ton fAirms, not on through bills of lading, ns fqr- marly, A correapondent wants to know: **What under the sun can the admirable Tennyson mean by & —roaring moon of daffodil, etc.? There 1o an obligation upon us to admire every- thing from his pen, but must we do It blindlyy* “Pennyson means by *‘a roaring moon of daffodil aud crocus ' the monthof Murch, In which the first numbor of the NineleentA Century, containe ing l\ls sounet, appearcd, Tho correspondent can adinirs the Aguro or mot, 8s ho pleases; he Is wrong In saying that thore fs an olligation on us tondmire overything Tennyson writes. Many of us, who hava outgrown the callow age, do not ad« miro *¢ Locksley Hall™ inall its parts; many mote do not comprohend **Queen Mary ** or **liarold, * It s only an implicatlon of Lod taste fur any one not to admire **In Memorlam* orsuch exquialtcly melodlous verie as **Claribel,” and some of the “lgylof a King." : Bome one writes to the **Contributors® Club* of the current Atluntic of a grudge ho has taken aguinst the postal-card In consequence of thelr tendency to develop 8 new affectlon of the eye. ‘This affeclion the contributor—taking & hint from Me. Richard Grant White—callu heferopsts ¢ **that Is, tho tendency to read ugalnst your will po cards not nddressed to you," e hosleardof & postal-clerk who has had his walary rodaced for sponding a larzo share of Lis timo In rending the cards passing through bis hand, While Interced- Ing fur the poor clerk with tho Postmaater himscl! the coutributor had occaslon to try the uerve even ©of that ougust functionary by dropplug before him acard addrussod to bis unmarried sister and algn- €d withs fictitious name. Tho Postinaster read It ttrough ko a man—of course he did. “Everybody will scek justification for veadiug postal-cards} bat, really, Is the matter contained in thewm auye body's Lusiness except that of the person's Lo whom they are addressed? MIXED. Bpecial Dispaich 1o The Tribune. Broounatox, Ill., Maren 18,—3ome weeks ago Tus TRisuxs related that W, A, Pennell, of Normal, had obtalned judgment agalnst the Chicago & Alton for $15,000 fu o sult brough! by Llm to recover tha valuo of the Norma Hotel, burned In 1873, as was argued, by the carclessuess of the Chicago & Alton ln usivg 8 defective locomotive smoke-stack. Before b taining this judzment Pennell had recelvet from varlous fusurunce companles $1L.000 ¢ Iudelnuy his los4, and now thesy com 8= thy JEtud of Hartford, the Hartford Fire, and the Insurance Compuny of *North Amenca~ briug sult for a share fu'the Pennell judgzment, Baturday these Cowpanles asked the McLeat Circuit Court for leave to becomne benetlclary plalutiffs, aud share iu plalntifls juoguent 4 realized by