Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1877, Page 4

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W, RODDINS, T & TVINELL CHARTER OAK LIFE FAIRCHILD & BLACH ME LI W INGE. YE, W. U, Cuulsi. Loan Dep't.) SMONG R e R AR 1y Tl Lan * Offlces in the Boildiog to vent by W, €. DOW, Tievtn &, Piymouth Church, Cornrr, Tndiona wvenue sud Twenty-sixth street. verdl's Memoral egutent smi- Uy by Beethoven 5. tiaverly's Thentre, Itandoinh sireet, beiwern 1 Eieagement uf Churlotie Thomson d Lasall R o] Wood's Museum, Montor steect, netween State sudearborn, Vauide- il wud novehys Adetphl ‘Pheatre, Monton strect, vorner Desrborn, Varlety enters .4 tatoment, MeVicker's Thentre, Moudlron stiwety Vetween Dearborn and State, on o GHICAGO MARKET BUMMARY, The Chieago produce markets wero moderately o Mess pork closed for April und ed firmer, st 40 for April and 80, ) for May., aty were fic highr, closing at 4%c for loone ¢ for do shore riba, 1l T4 for do short clears, Dighwines were rmer, ut 81,04 per }p wallon. Floursaw quict and rtendy, W1 1c lower, ut 81 for March and '+ Aurll. Corn was Lic lower, clo T 4 Aprl and423ge for Muy, Oats were Y@ 4c lower, ¢, closing ut30%c for April and Hitic f dy, at 04 @Ose. Tarley M .. Sheop sold ot 83,250 One hundeed doltars in gold would by 8104, 1 wreenbacks at the close, Greenbacks nt tho Now York Gold Ex- change yesterday closed at 11533, Tho South Park investigation may ho rald to hvo frirly begun, Thero avo no chiarges egainst the Board, but the Committeo pro- ! pose to make a general inquiry into the ,: management of its affairs, and ns evory pos- , siblo facility is extended by the Comnnis. sioners for ascertaining the facts and figures, thero is no reason why the Committee should not be able to find out and roport all that anybody wants to kuow about tho manner in : which the South T'ark affairs Lave been ad- ministered. — ; If we may bellove M, Wann IamreroN, as . liounraveled hitngolf in his apeech at Wil mington yasterday, ho is going to Washing- + ton inaspirit that will provoke hostility, o states that he is on his way not to scek! or ask recognition, but to demand the rights ‘of the people of the State; and to take noth- 1 dugless. As hiw demonds cover the couces- . sion of all matters in doubt or dispute, ¢4 delicacy aud propriety " onglit to have in. ;'duced him to maintuin the discretion of i1 seerecy nntil Lo could prosent the purposes 1< of his mission to the Presidont. i S = { Tho billnuthorizing the purchaseot a build. iyy,ing aud site for n Northorn Normnal Sclool, und appropriating $50,000 for that purpose, 4 fuiled in the Seunto yestorday for lack of tho ) requisite majority, It was freely charged, i nnd very generally belioved, that the Bill ; had Dbeen cugincered with a view to * tho purchaso of an. abandoned semi. nary buildivg ot Dizon, and 1t was Lilled by the ventilation it received at the % haunds of Messrs, Rovinsoy and Warina, tho % " former pointing out the fact that no pro- i+ vision wos made for the acceptanco of tho it douation of the Cook Couuty Normal School * building sud grounds, which aro not for sale, i and would be givon to the State outright, bienm Becretary ToxrsoN Is making somo dis. ;coveries fn the Navy Dopartment which aro i+ far from creditnble to his predecessor, e finds the finances of the Department in a | shocking state, aud is daily encountering proofs of maladministration which the Dem. ocratio Investigating Comnmitteo fafled to meko the most of when they wero huatingup . Rourson'srottenness, If thefnvestigators had been able to dig a little deeper under the sur- face of tho skillfnlly cooked-upaccounts, thoy would havo uneartbed i system of borrowings I and deticits covering a term of yeors, and * they could have greatly improved thelr show- « ing ngainst Ronrsox—possibly to the extent of preparing articles of impeachment. It is .2 7: mo port of the polioy of the present Adinin. 3 M dstraton to cover up or apologize for the 171 shortcomings of any officer of the old rogimo i —that wuch has been very conclusively I' established already, The Louisiaua Comumission, as finally con- . stitutdd, will commence its work probably by tho widdle of the comiug week. 'The names of its membery aro a good guarantoe that tho work in hand will be prosscuted with encrgy, and, If success is not attainable through its efforts, the case may Lo cou. sidered o desperste one. 'Tho prop- osition of the Adwmiuistration is, 8s has hesu Lerclofore stated, to secure a settle- ment through the medium of the Legisla. + | ture, the uucontested inembers as shown by the Returning Board deciding upon the con- tested seats, and thercupon the body so coustituted counting the votes and declaring - the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1877, the result for Governor, such declaration to Do considered final, and entitled to the re- spect and recognition of the goneral Govern- «ment. If the legislators of Lonisiana can. not reach a solntion of the dificulty on this Lasia it is stated that the troops will be with. drawn from New Orleans and the rival Gov- ernors left to mettle tha dispute without Federal interference. Gen, Inamizer, the Russian Plenipoten- tiary, it & Vienna correspondent Is to be eredited, has now spokdn more plainly upon the subject of iy prestht mission than over before. He more than intimates that the ob- ject of his tour among " the monarchs s to discover whether the Eastern question is o Furopean question, or whether it ia to be considered entirely ns ona vhich Rusaia alone must denl with, The General is not at all complimentary in his comments on English diplomney, Mo considers England's course the result of n sort of hand-to-mouth policy which is dependent wpon n Pare lismentary majority of so many votes,— a policy which does not have in view the intereats of Europe, but simply those of the incumbent Dritish Ministry, The langunge 50 often employed by Russian journals in deseribing the animus of the Government at 8t, Petorsburg is again reiterated by IoNa- TIEFF, sud indicates n determination on the part of Russin to arrive ot n final solution of the problem which has so often cast its threntening shadow over the European Con- tinont. Frow the tone of Ionatierr's lan- Hunge it Is to be inferred that there ia little liopo of n favorable result from the negotin- tiona now peuding in London. o is out. spoken in his belief that, should war ensue, the responsibility will rest alone with Eu. gland. A great deal has been said about the letter written by Cmantes Fosten and StANLEY Martrnews, embodying what is asserted to have been & compact binding tho Preaident to the withdrawal of the troops from Sonth Caroliun ond Loulsians, and the recognition of Hamrrox and Nicrotrs, Messrs. Fosten ned MarTiEWS appenr to have kept no copy of. the lotter, which they wrote solely on their own responsibility, and withont pretending to speak othior that their opinion and belief of*what the President's. coursp would e, and both have signified not only their willingness but their desive that tho lutter be published ns the shortest way of demonstrating its nctunl contents. Accord- ingly, the Hon. Jonx Youvae Brows, of Kentnucky, at whose desire the lotter wna written, now publishes tha documant in con. nection with u genoral statoment regarding circumstoncos under which it wna written, He agroes substantially with the account given by Mr, Foster of the iuatter n4 to the definite wnderstanding that the President was uot committed by thd letter, but that the awwirances it contained were based on the jndgment and belief of the goutlemen who gave these assurances, 'Che publication of the lotter itself and of nll the factsand circumstances connceled with it complotely disposes of tho charge of bad faith which the Bourbons and Implacables have nndertaken to establish against Presi. dent Haves, o THF EASTERN AITUATION. ‘The Fastern question, wo faras it affects tho relations of Russia aud Turkoy with ro- gord to tho Belavie status, hos’ onco® more been handed over to diplomacy, andithe diplomats weem to be rpidly getting inte s wuddle. The London 7iges, which has warmly mdvoeated tho aceoptange of the Russian protocol by the English Cabinet, ia reported by eable ns wnying : A 0y When wo see liow now our Government Joss nothlng, promises nothing, utid exhibits only dise trust and condennation of Ruesla by restricting {t¢lf to thofaintest phraseolozy in which an agreo- ment can ba vouched, we cannot wonder that the negotiations are interrupted. Tho fart is, the two eunutrles havo gradually assumed such & poaition of antagunism that they are regurded on the Cone tneut o8 two rivals 13 great-controversy which 1aay possibly develop Into s great conflict. Tn viow of ‘this siguificdut declaration, o’ glance at tho stops whigh have led to it will beof Interest, The recent protocol of Ntus- in which was submitted to the English Cab. inet by Gon, JoxaTizer nud Connt Bomouva. 10rp 4 the latest effort for pence, in view of tha fuilure of the Constantinople Conference, submitted that if Ggeat Britain and the oth- er Powers would Agrao to mnintain the xote Uetment insisted upon iu the Conference and urgo it upon tho Torte, then the iussina Government would act in fall aud freo ac. cord with them, sud demobilize its armies now on the Bervian frontier, Although there was 1o hint of cocrclon in the protocol aud ,uo penalty proposed for nonulillment of the obligations, It conld nevertheless bo ro- garded Ju no othier light by the Turks than s 0 warniug from Burope, The Continental Powors favored it, aud ouly waited for En. gland to give it her sauglion Le. fore cigning . It has . met its first olatacle, however, éin the En. glish Cabinet, although it wos drawn up with speolal referench to Euglish favor, Everything that might offond or even alarm Eaglaud was omitted from it. It was an un. usually moderate documont to emanato from Bt Petersburg, No allusion to coercion of auy kind was nisdo init. It did not even specify nny tixed time for tho earrying out of Turkish reforms, It was wothing buta modernto proposnl for tho exerclso of moral sunslon with the Carkish butchers, but for some mysterious renson England objectsto it, probably from fear of boing entrapped into some complication or entangling nlliance whicl may yive Russia nn sdvantage, The Lobgot lin of Constantinopla is ulways befors Lnglish eyes. No step can bo taken by that Power which Eugland does not interpret as u step to gain passession of Conatautinople. Ity morbld wensitiveness and crazy jealousy haove blinded its eyes to everything else. ‘The visiou of the Itussian Bear hugging' and Libernating in Coustautinople rises befors it cyes every time a Russian wneezes or &nores, and this, too, uotwithstanding the solemn decloration of {he Czar to ihe Queen herself, pending the orgauization of the Con- ference, that Mussia bad no desigus npon Constautinople, cither at present or for the future, and the more vecent declaration of Gen, loxaiery, that Russia woald not accept that city eveo if it were offered her upon o golden dish. England baving declined to sccede to the Russian propositious, Conti. uental diplomasy imust now seek some com. promise, and tha Nussian Ambassador s uow In Derli, where the Conrt i intfull syw. pathy with him, t¢ woe if furthergiegotia- tions sy uot uccomplish something. The case, put in » nutshall, i about as follows: Russis, for bonur's sake, will not consent to disurm as a condition ; to disarm simultane- ously with ‘Lurkey would Le considered as on fnsult by placing ber o a level with Tur. okey ; and Euglaud is afraid to trust Russia to disarm after the protocol iy sigued and ‘Turkey bas disarmed. There is a characteristio incident of Turk. ish policy in this-diplowatic chapter, show. ing tho craftiness of that people. When the Asprassy Noto was suggested, the Turks published a reform “Irade” offering the samo propositiona in substance. When the Conference was fairly engaged in considera. tion of fta measures, the Porto published the now Constitution, ngreeing to mnke all the roforms tho Conferenca demanded aund more, too. Now that Russia hna asked the Powers to sign the protocol, out comes tha Porte with a Cirenlar Note to the guarau- teeing Powers offering to carry out tho very reforms which Russin proposes. It is ob- servable, howaver, that in overy ono of these Turkish documenta the very polnt mainly nt issue, namely, gnaorantecs, fs studionaly avoided. Asno Powor in Europe, howover, trusts the Porte to perform anything of its own niotion, thera is little danger than any of its propositions, howevor glowing thoy mny be, will ever be nccepted, THE THIRD CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR. Mr. Aoves TAYLOR was nominated for Mayor some weeks ago by a handful of shallow political amatours. Bnbsequently ho wns a delegate to, andy ns Qhairman of tho Republican Committee, called the Re- publican Convention to order and declared Mr. Aptuur Drxon temporary Ohairman of that body. e took part in the proceedinga which *¥csulted in the nomivation of Mr. Hearn, Mr. Wntonr was enrnestly and netively supported in the Convention, but he was defeated, nud nmong the most zealovs supporters of Mr. Heato are Mr. Wniont ond his personal friends, Me, Tayronm, it was expocted by those who knew him well, wonld Le one of the first to proclaim a sup- port to Mr. Hearn, Unfortunately, howover, the editor of tha Journal was a delegato in the Convention, and, under the impulso of an ardent, warm- lenrted tompernment, he indited and pub- lished next day the following- editorial para. graph ¢ The conduct of Mr, An¥en Tavton, the Chale- man of the Republlean Central Committee, In call- Ing the Convention to order yesterday, was most disgraceful. That he should meet with a cabal, and ntrange a programme to be carrled out in thelr Interest beforchand, was dishonorable, But ree fusing to recogniz delegatea who addressed him, s the Chalrman er offclo, and declintag to entere tain motions made by them, thus arbitrarlly suifling the voico of a mgjority of the Convention, wasa piece of knavery unworthy the lowest ward bum- merd In the city, Wo trus that thoso who have re- spect for the reputation, ds well as the decency, of the Repablican party will sce to it that ho ls nnt again piaced in a position where be can diagrace it. **AcuiLres’ wrath " was weak in compari- sonto that produced in Mr, Tavron’s mind Ly this paragraph, e nt oneo signified his purposo to accept the Greenback nomination aud smash things, unless tho Journal shonld retract, 'The editor of tho Journal retused to rotract, aud then Mr., Taveor scoepted the Greenback nomination, and has publishied i lotter stating what ho will do when eleated Mayor., Iowever justified tho editor of the Journal moy have folt himself to boin writ- Ing this olfensivo referenco to Mr, Tavron, it must bo attributed to hoste, and perhaps to iudiscretion. His refusal to retrnct is chargeable, porhaps, not to any disposition to wonud Mr, ‘l'axron’s feelings, but to mq.un- willingness to nppoar as if be dared not stahd up to what he had said. In the xume article in which he hod thus reforred to Mr, Tarron he bad sowe similar comments upon the ne- tion of Mr. Dizoy, who, however, being o votaran, wus too accustomed to that sort of thing to think of asking for a rotrac- Hon. 'Tuz Lninvne, howevar, knowing both Mr. Tayson und the Journal, thinks it can do what the Journal objocts doing directly, Tor the Journal, thereforo, the, 'Tninunc taken the liberty of withdrawing the language as imputes to Mr. conduet which was intentionally * disgrace. ful" or * dishonorable,” or which doclared that Lis action wns in fact **a picco of kuavery,” 'Fo s zenlous participant in the Convention, surrounded by vast crowds of excited men, tho conduct of Mr, ‘I'avron might look, to a person who did not know him, to be unfair and unujust ; but to thoso who consider the subject c¢almly ond con. siderately, and free of tho pariisanship which prevailed at the timo, Lis proceedings and action did not warraut the terms used by the Journal. laving said this much for onr noighbor, we hope it will bo satisfactory to Mr, "T'arron, and that tho wholo matter will bo sufered to drop and be forgotten, If, however, the candidacy of tho Green- back nowmivees be persisted in, it cannot havo tut one construction. - Most of those candidatos nre on the Domocratio ticket, and they might all us woll be put on that ticket, To rnn & thind candidate s, of conrse, in- tended fo defeat Mr. Hearn, but it would be more effective to vote direct for Penny Bairm. At tho ntiost, the Greenback can. didate for Mayor ean command but comparn- tively few votes, and these, withdrawn from Mr, Heatu, will incroase the possibilities of olecting Sxitit and his motley crow, If auy pervon desiros the continuance of the good Government begun a year ago, tho snfestand surest way to accomplish that end fa to re- clect that Governmont, There is too much st stake to engage in trifliug or experimonts, ‘Wa know Mayor Heatu ; wo know what lie hins beon, and can snfely assume what ho will bo ; and it is better to hold fast ta what we havo tried aud know to bo honest aud true than tg throw away votes to appense Mr, Tavron's wounded sonsibilities or to olect Tenuy Burrit aud bis tribo of followers, COL. INGERSOLL ON THE SOUTH. Thero was probably no public spenker in elther party that attracted so much popular spplause during tho Into Presidential cam. paign 0s Col Roorar G. Intemsorr, of Peoris, Boginnfng with tho brilliant specch: in which he nominated Brarxe in Cinciunati, —an elfort.which fouud its way iuto all tho nowspapers of all laaguages that speak of American affalvs,~and extending in the form of lecturoa the popular interest even beyond the final settlemgnt, there i3 no other man who hias been listened to with so much at. tention. DBut the point of epecial fmpor. tanco is that Col. INaznmsoui's campaign speeches wero consplcuous for the vigor with which he recalled tho ssucs *growing out of the War, aud inslsted upon the dangers still to be apprebeuded from the implacable and frveconcilable feeling in the South. Even Iun lis prosent political locturea, Col, INaensoLL says that he was bitter and velentless, aud there is no doubt that he lonestly felt all that he said. It wasa desperate struggle. Ho had spoken, votcd, aud fought for the jssues’ which ko belleved to Lo fuvolved again, and it is not to be wondered at that he revolted at the very idea of a failure of those principles which had Leen established only by'a long and bloody civil war, But the peaccable insuguration of Presi- dent Hares bas eliminated this danger. The incideuts of the loug-disputed count showed thot there are wen in the South whose potriotism and devolion tu the Governwment may now be counted ou who were doubtful before, or at least were doubted by Repub- licans at the )I'onh. Thers wers men who stepped from the golid Bouthern ranks and told the Northern extromists that their peoplo wanted no moro war, nnd insisted upon a scheme of arbitrating the dispute. Theso same mon provented n do- feat of the arbitration schemd subsequently when the obslructionists and implacables proposed to break faith, These wero cir- cumstances that nltered the case, nnd thoy could not fail to influence a frank, and gen- erous, and open-hearted man like Ixoxnsorr. Bo when President Ilaxes, after his inaugu. ‘ration, turned to thosa men and asid * Let us be friends,” no onoe was readier to join in the hand.shaking and peace-making than Col. Bon Ixarrsott. Il is n good fighter in fighting times, and 8 good peace-maker and friond when tho battlo is over. All of Col. InarnsoLr's specches since the inauguration of President Hares bhave cx- pressed tho same confidence in the good in- tentions and character of the man that the Apeakor entortained of him before the elcc- tion; but porhaps lio hns ot no time given such glowing and fervid nequisscence in the new Southern policy as he did Thursday ovening in his Chicngo speech, Concerning Haves' nction toward the Bouth he sald, with his characteristio oloquence: bl In my jndgment it was a grand act, grandly done. e sald to thosc peaplo of the Sontl, *‘\We have had war cnough. We parled at tho csnnon's month, dividedy the drippiug cugo of the sword of war. Lct us become' acqualnted, A debt of milllons anid mililone and millons plied upon tho shoulders of Amerlcan Industry ! Let us go towork and pay it. Wowant prosperity, The wheels of the factories are stiil. We wantn revival of busi. ness. Money lles {dle, and the safe of pradence s locked by thoe key of fear. Energy has empty hands. lonesty has empty pockets. Industry begs. Wo have had tfouble enosgh, Wo have had hard timesencugh. Letus be friends, and let us clotho tnis country once mora Ia prosperity as with agarment.” My friends, we have told the old story often enougl we have fought the Lattles overoften enoagh. Lotue forget them; let us forget cvery- thing, except the debt we owe to the brave men that saved the natton. Let ns forget our hatred; let us forget our projudices; let us forget everything that has been rald and everything that has been done, except what has been done, na Isald bLe- fore, by tho herole men that keut the flay of the Republic bLright fo the sky. Now, It scems to e under the clreumetances, the Presldent acted wisely, It was the best thing hecould do. I wiil not say that I would bave dono It; I maght have had a llttle too much feeling about It. Tdo not know what | would have dono had § beon U'resldent; but, If the President has dona oa I would have done, not being President, Idonot thiuk T would hava dono as he did, But, s he did it, 1sny give bim a faie trlal; I way, give that policy achanco, Iam nolgolng 1o prophesy ity defeat either, or its fallure, becauso no wan ever prophe esles the fallure of a thing that be don’t go to wark with all bis mignt to Tulall his prophosy, 1 believe tt will succcod, It will eucceed §f the Southern peoplewill accept it In good falth, Whatdo I me: by tho Southern people accepting it? Simply th 1 theso Southern people will stopshooting ncgroes, # thiey will say to every nogro, **‘Thero 1s tha land, you may plow ft: thero is the water, you mavdrink it; thoro {8 tho alr, you may breatho It; there Is the Lallot-box, you can vote for the Government of your cholce; thero ia tho land," as I sald betore, 4 plow it; wow, and you shall reap, and yon shall eat In yourlittle hut or your little cabin In peace, and protection, broad as the general alr, shall cover yousll.” Let them eay that; that le what [ call accepting this in good faith, Col. Inoensort belloves that, if even 10 per cont of the white men of the Bouth are gatued over from the implacables, and insist, in good faith, upon tho full accoptanco of tho constitutional amendments, that will be cuough to protect the colored voto of the South, and he might lave ndded that evon this small percentage of the native whites maintaining the political rights of the negro will afford them hetter protection for life, property, and sufirage than has been given by oll tho office-sdaking carpot-baggers who ever went nmong thom with the army and navy at their bnck, Inornsorv's peroration should Lo printed in overy newspaper south of Masox and Dixon's liné, and if it awnk- ens no responso, then indeed may wo dospair of over living togother ns one people. *The President,” ho said, “hag offered you this olive brauch, Acceptit. Accopt it I be- secch you to accept it. . And, by the memory of all who died for -nought, by tho nahes of your statesmen dead, for the sake of your sons and daughtors and their fairchildren, I beg, [ iwplore you, to accept it with loyal and with loving hearts. It will clothe your wasted flolds, It will 81l your coffers with gold. Tt will educate your chfldnm.‘ Tt will till tho sails of your commerce, It will fill with light the hut of the freedman, It will clotho the wenk in more than a cont of mail; wrap the poor and lowly in miensurcless con. tout. 'Take it, and the roses of joy will climb and clamber over tho broken canuon of war, ‘I'ake it; it will unite our nation ; it will make us brothers once agafu, Tako it; nud the negro will' wipo from tho tablet of memory tho strokes and scars of two hundred yonrs, aud blur with happy tears the record of Lis wrongs, Take it; the North will forgivo if tho South will forget. ‘Tuke it; and justice will sit in your courts once more under the b witlo outsprend wings of peace. Take it; ond the brains and lips of tho future will be freo. Take it; aud the dostiny of tho gront Ropublic will bo assured. Take it; it will bud and blossom in your hauds, filling your land, und filling your homes, with fragranco and with joy. Tuke it; aud wa will have passed miduight in the history of onr coun- try, aud the star of hope will herald ngain the risiug sun.” ‘THE GRANCER DECISIONS NEWLY APPLIED The so-called Granger decisions of tho United States Supreme Court are beginning, tobear their fruit, Tho genern! force of thasa dacislons, it will be reniembered, Is that Ieg- 1slative bodies caunot nlienate Ly charter or coutract the uatural or sovereign rights of tho people, and that corporations nre subject toregulation in the fnterost of tho peoplo, charters aud contracts to the contrary not- withstanding, Thus the maximum charge for transportation may be fixed by the State, and tho rallroad corporations must subumit and abide by it in the face of charters ob. tained from the Btate authorizing them to fix thelr own rates. So warchouses mny be limited Ly Btate law as to the chorges they shall exact for tho storage of grain. The underlylug principle is that sl corporations of a quasl-public character, oporating under public franchises, and enjoying exclusive privileges, must scrve the publio for o rea- sonable compensation, aud may be prohibit- ed by law from making extortionato charges and excessive profits out of the monopolies they havo or the public rights which Lave been grauted them. It is the same principle which, under the old common law, author- izes the limitation of tolls on ferries or pub. lic Lighways, or the regulation of charges by poblio hacks, cabs, omuibuses, etc, The effect of tho recont decision of the Bupreme Court is to lodge the ** yested rights " in the peoplo which have Lerdofore been held to lie in the corporations uuder their Btate char. tera, Mr. N¢ 18 Faimsayx, a well.known, pub. lic-splrited citizen of Chleago, possessed of large means aud' enjoying considerable leisure, read this decision, and coucluded that if railroad snd warchouse charges may be regulated by law so as to provent extor- tion, the gas cowpauies, operatiug uuder publio franchises aud evjoying valua. blo privilegea by comsent of the peo- plo given through their representative and legislative Lodies, shonld be sub- jected to the samo control. Ie con- sulted of his own motion some of tho lead- ing Inwyers of the city, and for the first time they waro able to give the opinion that the gts companies may bo controlled by Btate lawa na well ng rollronds and warchouses, Thin is their intorpretation of the rocont Su- prome Court decision. Mr, Famamaxx then hiad a bill drawn, took it down to Springfield himself, and it wns introduced Tucsday, Tho bill fixes n sliding grado of pricea hccording to the popnlation of cities, which {s probably a falr way of ascortaining the amount of gas consumod. It {an well-known fact that the cost of manufacturing gas is in inverso pro- portion to the amonnt made, nnd that o com- pany oan manufacturo and deliver a million and a half feet daily nt one-third the price per thousand that it can deliver two or throa hundred thousand feet. Tha scale fixed in the bilt {s as follows: In citles havingn population of over 150,000, the chargoe shall not exaeed #1,20 per 1,000 feet; in cities of bolween §0,000 and 100,000 populntion, 22,26 per 1,000 feet; in citics of Lotween 20,000 and 50,000 population, $3 per 1,000 feot; in cities of under 20,000 population, £4 per 1,0Q foet. Charges in excess of the limit fixed by the bill are made an offense, the penalty for which is 8500 for tho first offonse, nud for asecond offense a forfeiture of tho charter of the company, Any ngent of tho company who receives and demands payment at o higher rato than prescribed by the Dbill is subject to the penalty of 8600, We do nst care to express an opinion as to the- rensonnbleness of the chinrges it is pro- posed to prescribe; this is n matter to be dotermined upon proper investigation. It must bo remembored that the publie rights aro limited to n resonable charge, which is detormined by circumstances. Butif tho Lill Lo pussed in this or nny other shape, it will be sn interesting test of an importunt ' question, HESING IN THE LOCAL CAMPAIGN. The Chicago Z%mes, In tho interest. of Mr, Penny I, Surrir, has readily jolved in the effort to make A. C. Hesina n conspicn. ous figuro in the local campaign, aud devotos three or four columns a dny, in which Hes- o and the Staats.Zeitiung are associnted in- digcriminately with the Itepublican effort to re-eloot nn honest, eapable, aud economicnl City Government ns ogainst a lot of scala. wags and bummers who aro secking to ob- tain posacssion of the offices for the plunder they afford. The 7'imes very mnch mistakes the responsible and business sentiment of this community if it thinks it can be be- troyed into restoring bummerism because Mr, Hestno happens to be opposed to it in this Instance. Wo have nlrondy explained that whatever appearance Hrsixo miakes in this campaign i3 morely o matter of individunl choice, to which,’ as & citizen and n freo man, he is entitled with- out reforence to his past, It is the fault of tho law or of those who have administered it in this case it Flesixo Los not been suffl- clently punished ; it is folly to ask tho peo- ple to punish themsclves reroly to show their antagonism to him individually. Hesing does not ropresent anybody but himsclf in this campaign, Ho ia not a can- didnto for any office, 'Ilo hns not dictated the nomination of anybody on the Repub- lican ticket, nor prevented tho nomination of nnybody. He i3 not on nny one of the Committees, and so far as wo know has not made a specch for or against anybody. Wo do not know Liow he will vote, and, as tho ballot i3 secret, prolably never shall know, Ho certainly does mot repre- ment tho Staats-Zeituny any moro than a cleek in tho Z¥mes counting. room ropresents the Tmes. Whon the Staats-Zeitung snys the Germons are dono with an allinnes with the Irish which result- ed in an unparallcled era of local cxtrava- ganco, plunder, aud vice, it does not asy so on Mr. Hesixo's behalf; but because Mr. Rastes, tho editor of the Staats-Zeitung, bo- lioves it. Wo think Mr. Rastes is in n po- sition to know, and tho announcement i confirmed Ly its inheront probabilities, Wo have understood for some time that the editor of the Z7mes Liates Izstya rather for private reasons than for his offonscs against tho public woal; that ho carrivs thls Latred to Rasten for the same reasons, and that he hins no particular love for the German peo- ple. But we donot seo in all this any rea- son why the peoplo of Chicago should turn their local Governmont over to the bummers, oven though Mr, Sroney has the asaurance to make hLis private griovances against the Staats-Zeitung the bosis for demanding it, ‘The Honso of Ropresentatives of Illinols havo ordered to a third rending a bill fixing 8 per cent as the highest rato of interest that shall Lo legnl in this State even by contract. Iu the nbsenco of acontract, interest shall bo G por cent. This is a bill which has boen prosonted at ench Ression of the Logislatura for mauy yoars, 'The thoory of the bill {s to mako monoy * cheap” by limiting the rate of intorest. The bill is, however, incom- plete. It should make it a penal offonse to refuso to lend money ot 8 per cent, More. over, if monoy is to bo cheap, so cheap aa to be put withiu the reach of auy person, is not 8 per cont entirbly too much ? Tho bill rests upon the theory that moncy can always bo had at whatover thelaw wmay fix ns tho maxi. muim rate of legal futerest. If this be cor. roct, and tho wholo bill rests on that as. sumption, then why not fix the highest legal rate nt & per cent ? "Then monoy will be com. paratively cheap, Eight per cout intorest is greater thon a now asked for loans in this city, Formure thau a year past money has been freely offered ou mnortgage at 7 por cont. A million of dollars can Le borrowed on mortgogo ¢t that rate toulay, These monoy-lenders are now suthorized by law to tako 10 per cent, and the money could be hiad at 7 per cent, evenif the law allowed the lender to take 40 per cent, The law has nothing to do with the matter, Money s worth preciscly that rate of interest which cau be obtained for it,—nomore and no less. ‘The only efect of passing auch a law i3, that wheuever money shall be worth 10 per cont, then it canuot Le bad in Illinols without n resort to expedients which will be costly to the borrowar, Thus, when n present wort- g8ga on & far for 8,000, at 7, 8, or 9 per cent, falls due a year hence, when money is worth 10 por cent, how i3 the mort- gage to bo remewed or extended? In tho first place, the legal rate of 8 per cent will be exacted, and the differ. ence between that aud the value of the money will be put in the shape of commis. sions and other charges, ranging fronoi 2§ to 4 percent. Tho nlternative will bea fore. clogure. It s absolutely absurdto asswine that when money is worth 10 per cent it will be lonned at 8 per cont. The law may ex- clude loazable woney from the Btate, but it canpot reduce the rate of interest. More- over, banks cannot be compelled to loan money on short time at 8 percent. The law may close some of the Lanks, but it cannot compel them to loan money at lesa interost than they can got for it otherwise, The law mny close the banks and compel them to stop lending money, Lut that wiil not make money oltlor cheap or plenty. Heveral of the Dourbon class of Democratie nowapapera are having the fact forced upon them that they have been meanly and falsely mierep- resentiug tha Presldent In regard to the Louisi- ana Commission, The Chicago Bourbon con- cernand severnl other Tmplacables yosterday published the following special from Washing- ton: " Benator CocrnesL, of Miesonr), was among the Vlsitors at the Whito' House to-dny. It Is known that b hield a converaation with the President. e saya to-nlgh that o greatdoal uf wiid atuil hasoon published about the Luuistana cnse within the last Livo daya, and that the roal renson underlylug tha Comimnisalon business hus scarcely heen touched npon, 'Ihis reaeon, ho adds, [« simply un linpres- afon bordering uuon convictiyn amon 1he Prestiont and hisCabinet that neither Nicituks nor Packann has legal right to recugnition saGiovernor of Loulal- ana, becauss the State law requiring the vote for Uuoyernor and Licatenant-Goverior to becanvasseil by the Legidlature hns not been complicd with in cithercase, The Cabluet were thus led to the couclu- Alun that the only sutistuctory and legal way out of the trouble waa the uppointment of a Commisslon of fair-minded men of guod {nd"menl 1o go to New Otleans and Inquire epecally Tnto this question, He further thinke that this cottruc [s a reasonubly clear Indicativn that 1Havd Intends to act In nc- cordance with the strictly legal bearings of the cuse, oven to recummeniding that a new vlection be held, Judge Keetiy reached hers from Phila. delphia to-nlght. _Svon after his atrival hbe ex. preased to n friend the sue opinion held by Sen. ator CockuknL, KELLEY'S views ure strengthencd by an examinstion of the whole guestion while In New Orfeans In Decenber Isst, ile sayn there can Le o doubit that a strict intesprotution of the law u s parttentar would place w ydey different face on Louislana atfuirs from what nuw presents itself, Ju mnintnintme this view, KxiLey anlagunizes the Buatsx (dea that i thy Retuening Boned fs good enough to muke n Prestdent iinguud enough to make u Governor, 1t s held that the Returning Bourd had uothing whatever to du with canvassing the vote for Uuvernor or Licutenant-Governor, an that duty devolved by the alwolute statute vn the Legistuture, and that "the claimants ure buth revo- lutlonury in thele sttempts to seize an wilice to Which neither has been lenlly declared entitlud, 'Tlild ruther sovel view of the case b recelved but ittle uttentlon feom politiclaus hee etCR— . Another Kansus editor has been shot, This thie it §s BwAYSIE, of the Topeka Llade. Heo wus taken off in the flower of Mfe, leaving o wlife und children, for no offense except calling the mun who shot hin “a'gumbler and vaga- bond.” It 18’ u pity thut these things happen, Who will dure to speak his mind If they con- tiwuet To be shot to death for merely apply- g u few words taken at sundom from u re- spectable dictionary, und putting then together neatly n the cotumns of n newspaper, Is an elleet entirely tov fmmense for * §ts cause, What encouragement can there he for vigorims welting und the skilltul collocation of expletives 11 4 uan must run the sk of his lfe every time the result of his invention and thougnt is given to the world! One of the noblest lingulstlc studles fs to surround the nane of that royal creature Man with uporoprinte adjectives. e deserves overything that ean be done for him in this way, uud o terns can by too expressive to wet forth hs attributes truthfully. But If a mun hid Lo do this at tho peril of bis tife, ha gets discouraged, Tt fs to bo feared that the timidity of Journalistn will be more appalied at the shiooting of Swavsik thau its courace was exulted by the late successful rencontre of Mc- Coxtn, of the Alta-Callfornia, with a wun who sought his bluod. e — A Washington dlsputch of the 231 Inst. soys: The Presldent’s Sppelntment and siynatury of tha cominission of M. J, Watunon us United Ntates Marshal for the Wesieen Disteict of Tennesaus o0 day uttract some general uitention, by resson of the conteat which preceded tho Prealdcnt's actlos, Wasunox was warily wupported for the ofiico by Postmaster-teneral Key and othier Liberal Demno- cruta, and by the native-born element of Tennensee Ropublicaus: but waw strenuously oppusod by what 1 dlutinctiy known s tho **curpet-bay" clement of the Kepublican party of that State and . tholr nympntiiizors in Wasuington, Tho Litter uppossd WaLunox's nonifuation In the lute speciul vession of the Senate, ond, by Interposing an objection to ite consideratlon on the day of adjournment, pra vented u vots Lelng taken on the yuustion ‘of Ity conllrmntion, The present appointment will, of course, huve to be xent in for contlrmation by the Senute ut the next sesslon, When the news went back to Memphis that WarnnoN was appointed Marshal, seventy-five of the leading citizens of the Liberal sort met to urrunge for o banquet to be tendered to him ou his return home, und telegraphed Lim as to when he could meet with them, Helsln thiscity at present, scttling up some business matters, WaLDRUN {8 of Irish birth, and his countrymon InMemphls are delighted with his uppolnte ment. B e ——————— The statement has becn made that ¥ir. Moont was not proving successful In tis religlous work ut Boston; but the reports in the lucal press of Lis services last Sunday do not.sustaln this un. lavorable assertion, aa will be vercelved by the Lullowing brief extracts: - The andlenco at the Tabernacle n-nud-wm' al Work larger thun upon any day sinee thy reviv beyan hero, and the L'\'nmivlhll und thelr friends were rudlaut and happy all day, —ddeertiser, A Inrger congregutlon than ever In the morning, 8 female congreystion of uver 7,000 in the after- noan, and o wale congreation of about 6,500 in the evening, wade the ninth Sunday uf the Moopy and Saxxey meetings ono of the most sicceasful in the matter of attondunce that has yot been recorded, Tho evening congreulions of the precedins week diad all been large, tho mectings hoid each day bnd developed interest, and it wonld have boen s mate ter for surprisc hud Sunday uot been a day of lurgo fulwrluu-. klnr uron the day 3 a whole, wo ncline o (ake ity cation 0w poluting toward uore marked suc {u the futiro of the work than hins atfended In tho. past oight wecks, —Jour- nal, ‘Thu services at the Tabernacle vmurdndywere ate tended by thouwinds, and probably 3,000 miore caine whu cuuld not gut weats in the hail, — Foat, ‘The ninth week of " the great revival oponed aues spiclously yeeterday, At the three services thero were nearly 20,000 peuple in stivndance, = Globde, ————— The Boston Times, ever since Mr, Moopy commenced his campaign {nthat wickea city, has been burlesquing his sermons and accumne panying them with the broadest of carleatures, some of them approachiug the verge of blase phemy, The paper coutaluing theso lampoons hins lind a circulation fur exceeding the circula- tion of those papers which have printed verbatim reports of the sermons. Hadany of the Chicago papers printed o burlesque of this sort they waould havo been critshed by the ludignation of popular opinion. The fact shows the superfors tyof Chicago over Boston Iu vital plety, Witk Brother Cook's biuplaims and the Boston Timea’ blasphemy, cach attracting great crowds, it Is evident that that ungodly city is fast going to the demnition buwwows, 8t. Louls groansover the leasa of the Missourl, Kuusas & Texas Rallroad by the Chicago, Bur- Ungton & Quincy Road. *'It Is the samu old story,""—snys the Civbe-Democrat,—* 8t, Louls sitting down on f{ts natural advantages'and golug to sleep with its mouth open, while Chl- cago Is active, wide awake, ublquitous, and une tirlog In ts efforts to Increase trade and to ex- tend uow lines, The worst of it s that tne worst encmles of 8t, Louls are not {n Chicago, but In8t. Louls.” These Iittle confosvlons, so full of truth, are guod for the soul and for the next thiog to §t, Chicago. 8t. Louls will con- tinuo to sleep with Its mouth open until splders cover the opening with webs and flics, and the fabled lost city of tho continent Is made a reatity, Alread is hall forgotten, < —ee— The mob-ocracy of tho Moulders’ Unton, rul- ing at Albauy (N, Y.) with kaife and pistol, Is Hkely, ucenrding to the Ezpras, to result {cjurl- ously to the mauufucturiug ioterests of ‘that place. Violence has to a certaln extent ter- rorized capitalj and capital, always sensitive to unquelled disorders, proposes to ind fovest- ment In Jabor clsewhere. Workingmen have yet to learn that labor (s not obtained by threats, retatned by Intimidation, o1 managed bys mur- ders, arson, or lesser crimes. It vapital Hees o ulace, it leaves bebind It begzary,—a successor 1o be avolded. i —— 5 It Is lutimated that the family of the Presl- deut witl divide 50 a3 to attend two churches (ueither of them Parson NEwsan's). This will makea good deal of State for a small amount of Chburch, and will not, probably, give cause to apprebeusion that Courch and State are getting mixed. The worst feature about the compro- mise will be the suspense fu which the twu min- faters witl be kept, for neither will ksow whether ho i to preach a new sermon for the Prestdent or an old one for the rest of the family,” 8ul), If tho family can stand the doubtful Sunday sermon, the ch es ought not to complaln, - e t—— e * Tox Camnow has been a Democrat about two weeks; that s, he has pretended to he vne for that leugth of time, He managed to folst himselt for Alderman upon the bloody Demoe- racy of the Seventeenth Ward, which gayve 800 mejority for TiLoRN. Tost {8 not a pleco of ar. tlllery the Democrats have any faith in. .They prefer o stralght and consistent - Repubtican, such as WERYARD JAnsENs, nnd are bound to elect him, e {aamuch better mad for the place than Canxow, ag he {sa taxpayor, and has somo pecuniary fntereat In the welfare of the city, ———— The Zimes had ‘s long cditorial yesterday arguing that the Irish arc not thloves. The only ground for suspecting that they ure is the fact that tho Times undertakes thelr defenso; and tho only reason it volunteera to defend them againet on attack no one has made on thein Is because It hopes In that way to ge' even with the Germans, whom {t can nelther conx nor bully into the support of any of ity schemes, Possibly some [rishinen may be wheedled by the blarnoy of the 7imes; proba. bly most of them sco thrbugh ft e — Those of ns wha have advanced farthost from the gorllin hiave entirely Jeft off the low appetite for n stick; but thoso who still focl the Impulsve of lmrllln natire cling to u frall cane, which 1o noth- g more than the” rudiment of the organ through the aid of which the gorilla taaintalned an erect attitude,—ilwaukee Sentinel, This Is the wise Inference of the editor.aftera column of logle on *The Evolution of the Cane” Prior to th's® gxplanation noue of the friends of the griter knew why he carried a cane 6r why he‘walked on two legs, Dy thls confesalon everything fs clear. —— ‘The Sprinzfleld (I11.) Reglster says of the story that ex-Gov, Par.Mun is to be a visitor to Loutsi- ana ou the Investiwating Committes -that he has not Leen nvited and would not aceeot; nnd that he has wiready made a full {nvestia. tion. Yes! 8o ho bas. That octarcon ball was the color-line of hls investigation. Taking everything fnto conslderation, the Uovernor 1s wise In decliniog In advance an Improbable fn- vitation, ——e—e The letter of acceptance of AnNen Tarron a8 candidate for Mayor is a doeument which reflecta great credit on AnNEgn's opinton of him- self, He accepts the nomination tenderel him beceause he thinks the city needs o Mayor pos- scssing all tho combined virtucs, and, 19 acvept- fig, e leaves 1t to Lo interred, of course, that the name of the person having these virtues In o prominent degree fa—Anxen Tavron! Mod- sty s not one of An's merits. That s certalu, e e Tere {s no charity so prodigal as toat based uponand made cfTective by the money of the State, New York proves this, fer appropria- tlons for charitalld Institutions inteuded to be supported by private ald have ncreased In armount from 200,000 In 1867 to nearly 81,000, V) in 1877, This Ia taxpayers' henevolence ex- erelsed by leglslators, SR ‘The incorrigible Arkansas carpet-bagzer who 1a striviog to foist himaclf upon ihe people of Clifcago s City Attorfdy will discover, after the votes arc counted, that he should have walted Jong onough to become a taxpayer aud pay some taxes before taking a grab at 4 very {mportant offlco. Masaachusetts women want the right of suf- frage,—wunt to besomething more than the bio~ plasms of voters. They aro tired of belug angels, and yearn to cast thy ballot and be re- peaters. There Is no good reason why they stould not have this enjoyment, except that theru Is o law ugalnat it, | The death of the Mormon Bishop, Lk, is, called o judgment after tweuty years, Reully,” it was only a deferred paymeut, for the stone cross ahove ‘the Lomes of the massacred at Mogntaln Meadow sald: **Vengeance is wiloe, saith the Lord, and I will repay.” The Detrolt, Port_thinks that r. Moonr ought to return to Chicago at once to guanl thanorals of the city. If he should cBme buck, ft will be more than any good mun ever dld for Detroit, ——————— In legislating for life-fnsurance, it will be wise to remember that it is not so much what the companies want as what the people requlre, for decency and safety, that should bo the gulde of our law-makers, " ——————— . The Agricultural Department has bezun to distribute the sceds of discontent. That distri- bution las been thus far, fortunately, unly among the candidates for the Commmlastoucrehip. | ‘Texas is bankrupt. Sbe offers to trade forty lawyers for one Northern farmer, "The North does not want them, Keep then for fucl—fur Corx, wo mean, f There are several processes for converting - fron Into steel; but the country wants ture than that,—~a process which wlll convert steaiers {uto trons. | A cashier I3 catled s rascal when he steals any- tbing under 810,000. Above that sum b {s sl ply untortunate. | 'rox CarNgy and his boys are golng to give Tos Cannox the grand Louuce on the % of April next, INAL, PERSO! P Now Orlcans revels in gresn peas and new pota« toes. ‘The London Zancet claims that laales' highe hecled boots mre prpductive of hysterla in the wearer, : A Ballimore imbecile, named Derlsnger, swal- lowed enough phosphorus recently to kill 8 dozen men, and dled In borrible torture, A strunger walked quietiy into the Niagara River laat week, sad, swimming straight to the Falls, doubled himself up and went vver, Alfred Pleard, a Frenchnan, reslding Jn New York, becoming suspiclous of bis wife's fdelity, destroyed Uer beauty with y) trlol, Mr. George Dawson has relired from the editoria) mauagement of the Albany Erenlng Jouraul, after fifty-two years of Journallstic labor, A Frenchinan numed Delaunsy has wamed the French Academy that within the next two monthi o scrica of carlhquakes will deswroy the whole earth, Let some paper remark thag Ookey Hall did not know tow to play Hamist, snd that gentleman wil come fo the front in slx hours with sn elaborate dlsquisition ou hls biatrlonic abilitles, The laws of Utah permit the condemned to select betweon hanging and shooting. Generally tho ahooting {v dune by the SLvrl®, who fires at & black patel just over the doomed man's heart, By aslogular coincldence, & letter written by John D. Lee since hld conviction and addressed to ope of hiswivea reached the doad-letter ofice in Waablogton on the day sud near 1he Lour of bis execution. L Joaeph Stahl, a workman in a Qutteuberg (N.J.) brewery, was aslecpun abench when s brother - workiian saturated hiv ¢lothing with kerosene and set himon fre, Mle logered twenty-faar bours and dled. Blssonville (W, Va.) has been Indalgiog lo s cheerful romance. Rubest snd Fry Dawsoan stole Andrew J. Lily's wite. 1o followed thom, secap: tured ber, whea the two Dawsons mashed hiy bead to & jelly. Pry Dawion was acquitted sud his brother convicted. B 1a the mountalua of Peansylvania lives a bermit pawed Austin Sheldon, \gho forty years axo buried hitself 1u o cave, and bas siuce refused all com- munication with bly fellow-creatures. He wasal- lgious enthusiast, and the death of b8 ve bim crazy. Iy The spectacle of & murdered man's moiber pleading for the wmurdervr is amovel one. Last November Danlel Hart was kllled by J. J. €aln, 13 Cluclonatl. Caln was convicted of mauslaugbtens bLat, before bis sentence, bl victim's mother sought the Judgo snd begged him to make tbe puuisbmont a8 light as by coula, She bad kpowd what (¢ wae to lose Ler boy, and tearfully prayed b8t the Iaw would not rob the murderes's wotkes 84 he had robbed Lls futercessorn