Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 25, 1877, Page 2

5t R THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1877—-TWELVE PAGES. e e e e fhoth metals st certain rates. The fssuc | all this was changed, the postage on letters of _£50,000,000 of A differénceof 1 per cent, and there would be a cry for tifty more, and fifty more ow top of that, s creating a very disagreeable Kind of inflas tion. The silver wonld float shont fn the rafl- road cars for a while, and would ultimately be dumped into bank vaults. They would have to bnild new vaults for ftsreception. Ameriea has at this present moment the best standard of value in the world, and, unless the whale world can_be induced to foin in the ereation of & doubls staudard, {ts maintenance would be fm- ellver would not malke possible. Ie was opposcd root and branch to the Cincinnati resolution, and would vote arminst it. MR NCCANAN, OF TRENTON, wag opposed to a sliver bastard dollar, but ho was In favor of having all the metal currency n thfs country which we could possibly secure out of the gold anfl sitver wo had, He wanted to utter n word of warnint to capitalists_and the holders of the securities of the United States in behalf of a constituency which was oppressed by debt and felt the stririgeney of the times: Do not push them too far, He was no repudiation- 1st, “Iie detested tho pame. ‘The neople were willing to meet their oblizations to the ntmost farthing, but did not think it jncumbent upon sthem to further depress business and the Industries Uy doing mora than was bargained in tho bond. When the securities were taken they were taken with the oblization falrly expressed on the fneo that they were ‘Fnyn le In wold or sllver. No oue neked the holders to take a dehased cur- rency; but the peopls fusisted upon the option, and gy 50 dolng would be treatiug the creditors falrly, squarcly, honcstly, and justly., Iressing 1tho people ou this polnt would incresse the celing now so prevalent, and MTUREATENING TO ENQULF THE COUNTRY IN RUIN. The remonetization of silver should be provided €or, but, at the same time, care should be taken mot to rive the chuple a debased coin. Why hould we not add to the stock of our money? flc counted that money only which had intrinsic Weo bind silver and gold enough to sup- the world, le ‘wanted ‘to have In’ circulation all that could be colned, 5 fxmt limiting himsclf ag did the gentlemnn from { Ciucionati (Mr. Gano), who did not desiro silver Jto be too_cheap. Mr. Buchanan then auoted from the Bible o show the wealth ot Solomon in gold nud stiver, prefacing this excerpt by saymng that if thero was o time when silver was too cheap, ' It was not anvthing acconnted of 1n the dags of Solomon,” o then readto show ‘whether the Kingdom was prosperous or not, quotlng the passages referring to the prescnts sent to Solomon. Among them were apes and !geacocks, and Mr. Buchanan said hedidn’t know liow they coincided with the Imports of Boston, {Laughter.] " s yalue. 1N 1B ‘soLn’! MMr. Ropes—dince the gcmlumun has been Ine westigating the state of Solomon's Kingdom, I will ask I{ It was prosperous? Mr. Bnchanan—t'rosperous? I understand that Martin Van Burcn was & man who never pave adirect anawer to a dircct question, and once upon a time Lo gentlemen made a wager, the one that ho could get a dircct answer from the I'resident and the other that he could not. ‘They went into his presence, and one sald, * Mr. Van Buren, does the sun rise in tho_cast or the west” ¢ My dear slr,” said Mr. Van Buren, ¢ cast and west are conventloual tecrms,’ Lnughtcr.]K 1f the geutleman asks whether Solomen's Kingdom was prosperous, I _reply that prosperous is a conventional term. I onl know that they had lots of gold, aud lots of sil- v,ur. and lots of mules, and lots of everything elae, . Mr. Ropes—I agsumo that Bolomon’s King- dom was prosperous, but doea the gentleman infer from the passage read tuat silver was or was not a standard of value. Wasit “anything accounted of tn the daysol Solomon?? [Laugh- ter and applause.] Mr, nucl?nmn—l will anssver by ny!n that, as I understand it, in those days gold and sfiver ‘Were so common that they ceased to use silver as moncy, sbecause they bad so much of It, not Dbeeause you would not give them any; and all weask In this day and generatfon s that wo shall have an n;?mrmulty torival inthat reapect the Kingdom of 8olomon. MIL. TATLOX, OF CINCINNATI, wonld be very sorry to do anything to retard ihe restoration of specie-paymeats, and e be- Yieved that the remonetization of silver would tend to do so. He would not support the reso- Tution. He belleved that silvercould be remon- etlzed, and thot a very Inrge quantity could bo utilized in the domestic aflairs of tle country. A generation had grown up who knew nomoney “but paper, and who, 1f they could get hold of -coin, would hoard ttto u great extent. There was Do doubt whatevor that the United Btates dind & rizht to pay the bonds off fu silver dollars, but if such 8 course was to domago the ublle credit, it would be better to pay In gold. ‘}Iw apeaker would movo the Inscrtion of the. words *that ita colnage be resumed to the ex. tent of fitty millions of dollars,” omitting the clause in relation to making it a legal-tender to aoy amount. ML SXOW, OF NEW YORK, “felt n good deal at sea fn this matter, They had alrendy passed a resolution asking the Gor- ernment to lssue m commission to inquire foto tho advissbility of remonetizing silver, and uow they came In_ witl auother proposition. The country had becn Booded th propositions of one kind or an- otber, and he thought tho discussion would not teud to lmpresg Congress with the idca that tho Natlonal Board had_a scttled policy on -this .finuncial question. 1t might bo wiser to dis- pense wu‘l. further discussion at this time, and he suggested that tho Board might como tugether at o future dato and discuss the finan- clul question fora week. Hemoved that the Buard dispensc with further discussion on this «(wcsuou, t withdrow temporarily to give way or NR. MONTGOMERY, OF OREGON. Mr. .\loannmery hoped that the question would bu discussed at length, for it was the wust important one brought before the Board. e cams from o Btate where specle payments evailed, and ho favored the restoration of the siver dollar. A great many unintentional mis~ statements had Leen mode about the relative fuctuntions of gold and sllver and other pofuts, ‘The truth wes that the productlon of gold varled inuch more than that of silver, and the depreclation of the latter a year or twoago urusc entirely from the fact that Germany had thrown three hundred millions on the warket, Silver bad now returned to its old value and fluctuated very little, The speaker hoped the silver dollar wonld be remonetized. Mit, ALLEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, wauted to know whether, i1 Congress ordered the {ssue ol ity miiliuns of silver, it would be made & legal-tender for amounts of more than #5. tho present Hmit, < MR, OANO replied that ho had fnserted tho words, “and that it be made o legal-tender for any amount,” but Mr, Taylor had withdrawn théwmn as mero surplusage, the suppositivn belpg that the old luw woulll be restored. 1t wusligreut pity that | thig matter bad come up 50 lats on the gramme, aud fn tbis conncetion he protested Biulnst gentlemen delegated to the National Board leaying its scsslons before thelr conclu- sfun, ‘fhesu gentlemen owed a duty to both the Board and their own constitucnts, and should stick elose to work uutil all was tinlahied, e repeated gome of his former arguments fu fuvor of remouctization, and declared thai the cople demandud the silver dollar, nd would uvo it, Mr, Repe's arguent as to the fluctua- tiuns ot sliver in England was bot rcnlncm to the question. ‘That’ gentleman might as well bave urcued on the Buctuations in iron or wheat. The Bauk of Fronce leld fn 1873 495,000,000 of fruncs, aud tue following year It beld 681, 00,000, That did oot lookasit France hsd been dratned of silver, TUE ?UIS‘HON WAS TUEN PDT on Mr, Taylor's ameudment, which was adopt- £d by 16 ayes to 6 nocs, ¢ The resofution, ns awmnended, falled to receive the requisite coustitutional two-thirds majority, tho vote standlog: Yeas—Bayard, Willlar, Dorr, Egan, Taylor, Gsno, Daud, Davls, Chawberlatn, Huncock,, Al- len tMilwaukee), Iloffman, Malone, Montgomery, Buchauan, sud £xtun, Nays—Nloves, Hill, Oldershaw, Raymond, Mc. Leun, Btrunahian, Bnuw, Harton, Alln (Philadel- plis), Winsor and Wethereils Mr, llayes was cxcused from votlng, he not Aeslrivy to commit bimsel? on accounk of the omiug bankers' weeting in Now Yorke: TIIE MAILS, SPRECHES LISTRNED TO BY TUE BOAKD, Bpeoial Disualck (o The Triduns, Mirwauskes, Aug. H.~Oo motlon of Mr. Wethercll, the iwo wembers of the Postal Com- wissfon present were invited to address the Buard. : The Hon. Gardoer 8. Hubbard, Chalrman of the Commisafon, was then introduced. He said he had been surprised to find what a great want of koowledge fn regard to the wauts and capabilitics of tua Postal Bervico pro- vulled among the members of the Boanl ‘Tho Commission of which be was o member Lad been appsinted after thoe reduction in the uppro- priatious. The flrst thing they bad to decide whetber the Postal Departwient should be imnade sclf-sustoloing or otberwise. They found thag during the first seventy-five years of the ex- {atcuce of the Department the expenditures were Hinited by the awouut of the recelpts. pro- « Very little use was made of the Postal Depart. meut {a that day, only sbout three fetters per year belng recelved by each tobabltant, Io 1834 -tlon of the land should have an equal ang was REDECRD FROM 1iY TO B CENTS, and the postage on newspapers was also greatly reduced. The conmeqnence was an cnormous Increase in the bualneas, and to-day ecach n- habitant reccives twenty times as many letters as hedid twenty-five yeara ago, Theimmedt ate consequence of the reduction in the aporo- priations had been the diecontinuance of the fast mail, and the scrious impairment of the ruall eervice in tho most important postal route inthe country,~that between Chicago and New York. Tho system of postal cara was only ‘fn its inlancy, and the question mrose whether It was to be carrled onormot. If it were, America would ultimato- Iy have the best mall service In the world, As 1t s, the wages of the carrlers and clerks had been so grestly cut down that the best mon would UNDOUBTEDLY SBRK OTHER RMPLOYMENT a8 soon as times grew better, The speaker held that the limited tnall system should be engraft- ed on fhe postal service of the country, The fast mail had been cricd duwn s8 o mero newspaper-carrylng affalr, , but the speaker, who ot first thought this might bo true, found on Investigation . that tho sys- tem was of the preatest pesaible conventence to the whols West and Nortlwest. 1t was not #o much a benefit to Chicago es to the West, for of 100 letters received at Chicago only twenty were delivered there, the eremainiug eighty betng scnt on to points west and north- west, Another grestadvantage of the fast mall would bo to cnable the merchant to know that his letter, would leavothe day on which they werc written, - At presont the West-bound train leaves New York at half past 8 o'clock, to that letters from Boston haye to be mailed by & o'clock in- the cvening. The case is cven worse fn the mall tervico to Bt. Lonis, and the conscquence was that aday was lost, and that remittances received could not be put through the Clearing-Houso that day, All this would Lo amended If .tho fast mail woro re-cstablished. ANOTHER POINT was that tho Postmaster-General should be authorized to fix the hours st which the traius should leave,~a power which at present be does mot posscss. Mr. Vanderbilt refuses to carry the malls aver the New York Central Railroad cxcept at certain hours, and thus de- lays occur. Furtbermore, the Soutls demands better postal facllities, and fs cutitled to them. EX-MAYOR VOX, OF PHILADELPHIA, the other member of the Commission, spoke next bricfly. llc sald they came to the Board beenuse it was potontial iu its IfBuence, and was considering questions of interest to the whole country, ‘They were not tied down to mercantile matters, out looked into whataver would tend to the prospority of the country, and were donbtless nnxious to be lnformed upon gnd to interchange views. Ile had boen ninazed at tho Post-Oflice system, » THE EMPLOYES 1IAD TO LY. TRAINED, a8 were tmerchants’ clerks, The cousequences of o mistake wero tremendous, It had been the pulicy of the department to keep pace with the progress of the age, and to equallze all over the cuunlr{ as far s possible, the bene- fits “and ‘ell].lll'fil growing out of wiail transportation. s subject was closely related to everything nearard dear to him. ~ It was not merely a busineas matter, but a soclal one, involving as [t did commuuications between members of the fawity. Henco he belioved the community ought to be made scquainted with the necessitles for the most rapid transmission of the mnlls as was possivle. The country ufimwanunk upon the subject. No other body than the Board of Trade was bLetter cal- culated to Impress its importance upou the people. It was absurd to regard the Post-Ofico us o solf-sustalning Institution. Its operatlons should tiot be limited by its reccipts. Spenking of the *fast-mall scrvice,”” he sald the more ropld the transmission of the wall the mors did it promote the cunyenience aod lucreuse thy prosperity of the country. THX GOVERNMENT SMOULD NXXROISE TIE RIONT of saying when tho malls should start, Now the railroads fixed tho hour, and there was o constant dissensfon between them and the de- partment. He thought the community bad something to sav about thess corporations. All wore fntorested in their success, since they con- tributed to the reneral welfare, but tho dollar. nnd-cent question should not wholly control thelr policy, Tho West and Northwest bad o very falr postal service, but that was not truc of tho South, [ tho epcaker's oplnion, ever: |}glr- r sharo of the Govermnent's attentlon iothis mat~ ter as fu all others. [Applause.] THE RESOLUTIONS in relation to thls subject, introduced by Mr, Wetberoll, of Philadelphls, were as followss JResolred, That the interests of tha mercantile and Uusiness community, as well as the social in. teresty, roquiro that thie apprapriations for tha Post-Office Department be mada like thoxa for the other departments, commenanrate with the wanis of tha sarvice without special referenca to ita ordie nary revenues. Heroleed, Tnat the commnu{ increming de- tanda for o mora rapld and certaln transmission of torrespondence roquires 1he Rmmuu 1010 the scry- fce, asono of its recognized features, the estab- iishiment of two lNmited mafl trains bstween the K.:-?:ml West, and one botween the North and uth, Jtesolved, That to obtals greatast efiiclency in the scrvice, tho Postmaster-Genersl shonid have Lhe power to dircct at what bours and with what wpocd tho mallu should bo transmlitied, and thst pruvisions be made ta deterinine any differenco that may ariso betwecn the Government and the reying companics, Jietoleed, Thot iucreased sppropriation should g made to enable tho Post-Ofiico” Department to fur the Bouth with a postal scevice in propore tipn to thy extent of the forritory and population cfual to that of the othes sections of the ceuntry, MR, WETUERELL WAS THANKFUL to the gentlemen for the information they hud glven the Board.but thery was u rule which re- quired all subjccts 1o bo acted upon to bo placed ot the programme forty days before the mect~ ing, in order that they might b digested. As this was a most Important matter,~one that should recolve the carpful consideration of the Lody,—not dc-lrms‘]m itnpress it without the cousideration which ta .incrits deserved—he, moved that the resolutions be referred to the’ Executlve Council, with power to act. . MIL. TAYLOM, OF CINCINNATI, hoped ““the power to act ' clause would be with. drawn, He deaired the matter to come up at. the yext meetlug. ‘The Hmited mall servico was considerable of a humbug, and he did not waut the Executive Couucil (0 have power to sct un- til the subject Uod been discusscd. He was op- posed to the griuding of axes in the last mo- mcuts of the seasion. . MR, WETHERELL suid he biad such entiro contidonco in the Coun- i, belleving it tv bo the euncentrated wisdom of the doard, that ho would not Inault the fu- telligence of the body by sa "‘f that the Couuncll could not just us quickly detect hum- bug ag tho Board jtself. 5 - MR, TAYLOR . had as' much. respect for the Councll as Mr. Wethercll, but if it were Intended to confer up~ on them absolute powers, everything had better bo referrod to them. ‘Lo geutlemien had como in and advocated s scheme fn advance of tho report. 'I'bore wore s great many serlous ob- fcctions to tue limited mall service. Iio thoughs the matter should bo fairly discussed, snd z;)‘f\l 10 strike out the words * with power to ME. M'LAREN, OF NILWAUKEE, sald that one fact wust be apparent to overy buaiuess man,~that thers was » uecossity for increased postal fucilities, ‘The fast mail was & facllity which wus of Linmense service to every onie iu the country, and the withdrawal of It had boecu o great detrlment, Ho suggested that if the matter wero tefs fu the hands of the Execus tive Council to take such action and muke such recommendation to the Uovernment us they deemed best, tho Council would be left free to act as they might see 8¢ if they should meet in w.‘.'?lnz‘;'un, Bowo action should be taken ro- o s r. Wetberell aocepted the suggestion. MU, TAYLOK QVERIULED, Mr, Taylor, however, couldn’t sce the differ- ence, and luslated on his motlon to strike out. After sowe discussion, the resolutions, as’ modiled by tlw, wgg_e.ulon of My, MuLaren, wero adopled. — ODDB AND ENDS, PATENT LAWS. MiLwaukes, Aug.24.—~Aly. Hayes, of Detrolt, offercd the following, wlich was referred to the Ezccntive Couucls ¥ Jissolred, Thay tu the opfnion of this Board Con. greas should Lake acilun upon the sabject of & ro- . viglon of the pateat lawa, . TUANKS. 3 A resolution of thaoks to the Milwsukes Cbamber of Cowmercs for thelr hospitality, ete., was presested by AMr, Hofflay, of Philas delphis, and adopted. . YOITAL TELEGRAPHY. Mr.’ Taylor, of Ciucinuatl, moved that the aubjoct of postal-telegraphy vesgalu postpoued {a consequence of the abscace of Mr. Covington, of Ciuclupati, who had the reoort of the Com- mittes sud was expected to speak, be belog un. able to be prescon ' The malter was referred to tho Exccutive Councll for their consideration and roport. TIR CANADIANS. Mr. Rayes, of Detrolt, asked that the Cana- dian delegation be allowed to withdraw, they haviug expressed a deaire so to do. MR, ADAM BROWN, on bobalf of the delegation, returned thanks for he courtesies extended them in the delibera- tions of the Board, and for the hearty welcome which they bad recetved from the kind-hearted people of Milwattkes. The action {n regard to reciprocal trado botween Canada and the United States was satisfactory, and the most practlcal that had ever been taken by the Bosrd, Ho hopeid & strong and Influential deputation would - De sent to the annual meeting of the Dominion Bosrd in January, s0o 88 to ad in urging upon the Canadlan Government tho appointment of a commission of cnlightened snd liberal men to meet thoss appolnted by the Government of the United Blates, with a view of bringing about a treaty between the two countries which would be ad- vantageous to both. [Applause.| PRESIDENT PRALEY, inbehalt of the Board, bade the gentlemen an afllectionate farewell, and wished them u safo journey to their homes, and every prosperity to themsclves and thelr beloved conmtry. [Ap- plause.} TRE COMMITTES. The following was announced as the Commit- tee to conslder the treaty: Stranahan, of New Yorks Hill, of Boston; McLaren, of Milwau. 3 Hors of Portland; Dosr, of Buffalo; Bayard, of Baltimore; Hayes, of Detroit; Egan, of Chicago; aud the Presfdent. The Canadiaus then withdrew. THR BANKRUPT COMMITTER. The following committce was announced on the revision of the Bankrupt law: Allen, of Milwaukee; Allen, of Philadelphia; Chitten- den, of New York: Plummer, of Boston; Mc- Cren, of Chicago; Buchanan, of Trenton; Tay- lor, of Cincinnatf, and the President. DETROIT RIVER. Mr. Dorr, of Bufalo, offered the foowing: Wsznsas, The appropristions made by the Tnited States Government to remove the obstruce tiona in the Detrolt River at tbe Lime-Klin cross- ing belng exhausted; and Wixneas, That while deepening the channel considerably, It has left an Irregular deposit of stones and debrls, with ragged, polnted Ernjem tlons slong the aides of th channel, making it highly dangerous for the passagoof hesvy.draf yesscls, eoveral of which have recently struck and becn badly damaged there; Witznras, A small amount of money expendl- ture will remedy this dangorous obstruction, thus making & tafe, deep channel through thom, there- fore, bo it i Resolved, That this Nations) Board of Trade do momotialize Congress aaking that at ita next ses- sion it sppropriate a suflicienssum of money to remove these obstractions and finlsh tho work now #0 nearly comploted. & ‘The resolutions wern secopded by Mr. Egan, and referred to the Executive Countil, CONSULAR BENVICR, Mr. liayes, of Detrolt, moved that the reso- lutions of Mr, Raymond in rej to the Con- :‘uhrm&mlcn bo reforred the Exccutive Council, The President stated that the Council Lad alrcady acted on them. Mr. Ropes, of Boston, moved that they be outed, ‘They were as follows: Wngnzas, We roganl the extension of our forelgn commerco a8 of vital importance, and bellovo that the Govcrament of the United States shiould cxert all Its cone titutional powers o promota the same; therctate, lierolved, That a memorial bs addressed to the Presidont ‘of tha United Statcs by the National Board of ‘Trade recommending the appointment, as far aa practicable, of men do fofelgn Convulships who are fumiliar with the manufdciuring interesta of this cutnlry, nnd that some system of reports ba doviged which shall place before our manufactur. ora at least somi-annually the wanta and needs of ditarent countries which may be supplied by Amerlcan products. That the Meiem of reports of our 1al rolations with foreign countricn, which are publixbed on the average o ycar and & balf after belug made, 1a merely valucless for the par-, pose in view. Jiesolred, That the Oeneral Goveroment urge and Invite our manufacturcrs to Inve: througlh ite representativos abroad, whatever op- portunities thero way be for Introaucing American goods futg their various markets, Mr. Hill, of Boston, moved to strikeout tha word * seml." 2 Mr. Raymond explalned that his dbject wasto get !lll:;: nformation to merchants as soon as possible, 3 ‘The Prealdent suggeated that “‘at froquent and short intervals” Lo substituted for semi- sonual, Mr. Rayniond was satisfled with that phrase- ology, B < 2 Mr. Allen, of Philadelphla, dido’t think it would do. There should be a tefinito time, Mr. HIIl thought semi-anuuanl reports would be very valuable, but he doubted whether tho Uovernment would Am?ly them, At was better uot to ask too much, I¢ s prompt publication of the rcturns could be secured It would snswer the purpose, AMr. Ropes thought it would be much botter to luslat upon an annual report’than to use gen- eral ll;,rml, ‘The reports were wanted as fast as saible. p"’m motion to strike ont * sem! * was agreed to, and the resolutiocs thus amendod wers cons \currc BANKENA' TAXES. Mr. Iayes, of Detroit, offercd the subfoined resulution, which he wished put before tha Exccutlye Council without debato or comment : Resolred, Toat in the opinion 6f this Board the t1ino has eome when Congress shonid conslder the subject of Uovernment (axation upon banks and bankurs, with 8 view of making the amount of taxes collected by Municipal, cauutkuuu and Qeneral Governments combined to be equal with tho amount colleeied upon other property in pro- portion Lo the asscssed value of such property, The resolution was so referred. TR CUSTOMAKY RESOLUTIONS thanking the President asd Secretary for faith. fully discharging thelr dutics, sud “tho press, were presented and adopted. ; LUMBELR. Mr. Gano, of Cindnnatt, moved that his reso- lution in refercuce to the repeal of the dutics on 1umaer bo placed on the calendar for the next inceting, The Presldent informed him that it could ot be done oy a motion, but the constitucnt body of Clucinnat! could put It thore, WINDING UP, THE PRESIDENT'S LXTHOSPROT. Bpectal Dupatch to The Tribune, MILWAUKER, Aug, 2L—Alter sccopting an fn. vitatlon to visit tho Miiwaukce Chawmber ot Commerce in the afternoon, the Prosident stated that the hour tor closing the scesfon had arrived. Helsd felt great satlsfaction indeed with the proceedings. They hod been charac- terized by alinost perfect harmouny, -and so de- clalye fn all the Board Lad agrecd to that he thiought the delegatos would go homo convinced that, howeyer they might have erred (o judg- ment, they bad endeavored to make thelr judg- ments tho true convictions of thelr hearts. He then referred to the cordlal manner in which they had been treatod by the people of Mliwau- kee [spplause], saying that TUB DANQUET Thursday night bad impressed them with s pleasure they had never beforo experienced in any other city, with porhaps two exceptions,— iu Boston when the Initiatory proceedings of orgavizstion were taken, and in Philadelphla whon the orgenization was completed. In AMil- waukee they had beon taken Into the bosoms of tho families of thelr friends, and dsughters had taken groat interest {n them. In Philudelphls the dnleg‘u:n saw the Quaker City beautles, but “we» (the Presklent s from Philadelphla) were 8o sclfsh as to kecp thew In the vparquet aud boxes of the Acadewy of Musly, allowing them to the * futellectual bauquet, the material one sprei {Lsughter.] He hoped that horeafter, wherever they went, the example of lhl: Alflwaukeeaus would bo followed. [An- 7 LN AND HANDOLPM. The Board had awaln thanked him In congec- tion with the worthy Becretury (Charles Ran- dolph, El?;:) for what they had ‘been able todo 10 promoting the working-featurcs of the body, Bpeaking for both, they had honestly tried fo do thelr duty, Ho thanked them for ‘the many maulfestations of thelr confdeace le re- weived. Kuoowlug that ho bad a warnn place lu iy e T A 43 b ] ALHEH! 0] Were able to® by logether agalsy b iy take old frieuds snd” uew opes by the hand, and thas this brotherbood of theirs would go down purpetuated by the same devo- tlon to the public intercsts avd the same frater- nal feellugs which had always churacterized thelr sasemblics. He trusted that ‘TUSLY UKAVENLY FATURE - would preaerve them until they got (o their destinations, sud that He would watch over and protect and coufer upou them ail the bless- inge of His providence, [Applause.} 3 ADIOURMMENT. Whersupon the delvgutes dispersed. Most of thewn lels on the afternocu traly, but s few Wl rewaln over uuldl tu-wursow. . - and thelr wives MARS AND SATURIN. Their Conjunction, in Opposition to the Sun--A Gala Time Among the ["3 “:fl A0 o L o ; 8 **§® ! (t] @0 ag ®¥o o —— Y The eveniug sky Is now pecullarly interesting to those who take . pleasure In observing tho stars. Venus™is -in her evonlng phase, belng sbont two hours cast from thosun. Jupiter shines brightly to the west of south as tho twi- light doopens Into night; and Saturn and Mars are then coming up In the east, arriving on the meridian a little after midnight. ‘e two Jast named planctsare in conjunction in right ‘ascension during this morning (Aug. 25), being 4% degrees asunder in declination. Thefe nearest approach occurred - about three days beforo this date. Mars will arrive at opposition to the sun a little before 6 o’clock In tho eveniog of Sept. 5; and Saturn fn the morning of the 8th, Both are, therefore, very favorably situated for observatlon, the earth being directly between them and the sun. This 18 especially the casg with Mars, as ho Is also i that part of his elliptic orbit which {s nearest to the earth's path. Hls actual,distance from uns at the time of opposition will be ouly about 35,000,000 miles, or not much mors than one-third tho distance of tho earth from tho sun. Our diagram showa the apparcnt positions of these planets among the stars in their vicinity, the scale being four degrees to the fnch. They are In the strcam of Aquarfes, tho Wator- Bearer, which consteliation was probably re- ferred to by the Prophct Balaam as hethat should “pour tha water out of Lis buckets,” Wo givo the places of all the stars In that area that are ordinarly visfble to the naked eyo (the rein- tive prominence of the stars belng indicated by differences in sizc); - but the region i8 rich in objucts that can ounly bo scen with the ald of tho telescope. Tho atar ot the fonrth magnitude, numbered os 78, with tho sixth magaitude star ubovo ft, Is ncar the mouth of the inverted urn borne by Aqudrics, From thesc stars the stream curves to tha left (southeast) to tho stars numbered 105 sud 108, then bends to tho right (southwest) to numbers 83 and 80; nod onds, bolew tha limits of our diagram, In the moutk of the Southern Fish, the placo of which is marked by Fomal- haut, a star of the first magnitude. The position of the disc which ropresents Mars {u the diagram s the xlm hie oceuples at midnight of Bept. 8, The dotfed line Indicales liis opparent path amonyg the stars during one month, His present geocentrs motion Is retro- grade (towarda the right) at the rate of about a quarter of adegroe per day. Tha dotted lne ssing through the place of Baturn represcnts mu direction and rato of Als apparent motion toward the right (west) from Aug. 25 to Sopt. 17, his motlon being also retrograde at pres- ent, as geen from the earth. The phenomenon sffords a good opportunity for becoming acquainted with tho positions of the stars in this very Interesting but littlo recog- group. The threa teiplets of stars in tho tower loft are so striking as to bocasily remem- bered when ouco seen, though scarcely proml- nent enough to attract the casusl giance. The numbers upéwndml to the principal atars aro those given by Flamstead, We fixn also tho Greek letter names to the more brilliant, as fol- lows: No, 78 s Lambda; 70, Delta; 00, Phl; 01, 43, and 03, Psf; and 102 is Omegs. TN PARALLAX OF MAlla ‘There Is good reason to hope that a compart. sou of the positions of the stars with that of tho nearer planet will do far more than to E'mll!ynmem {dle curiosity, At many of the bservatorics which dot the earth's surface tho apparent distances will be nieasured with the greatest posaible accuracy, in the hope of ob- tainlog 8 more precise Kknowlodge than as- tronomers now Dossesa of our distance froin tho sun, At presont we say that the *inean dis- tance" ls about 92,050,000 milcs; but the condi- tions of the problem are such ss to involve an uncertainty of fully 200,000 miles, or 8 quarter of 1 per cent of tho whole. This fnvolves & corresponding uncertaluty with regard to almost all other celostial lucar maguitudes; because the earths distance from tho sun ls the unit of length to which ls referrcd all elso, outsida of tho luvar orbit. And tho reasoning of the mathematics proves thut our estimatcs of the quuutities of mnatter contained in tho sun and other bodles must be fucreased or dlininished as tho cubes of tho distancea so that our atatements of uass tnay bo very far away from the truth, unless we know the valus of ‘our unit-mcasure much tore closcly than at prescut. If atmospheric conditions be favorable, at a fow farsundsrod poluts on the carth’s surface, the comlag oppo- sition of Mars may euable us to narrow down tho uncertalnty to ahout 80,000 wmiles, or ono- quarter of its Lresent mairnitude, 1t 13 not dittienlt to understand the nature of the process employed. Let tho reader sit in the house, a few feet buck from the wiudow, and 1ook nross the strect. Closo the right oys and observo with the other the polat ou_ the” oppo- site bullding that is apparently cat by thy per- pendlenlar window-bar. Keeping the head steady, ®oso the left cye and perform th me “oeighting "' procesa with the right. Tte polnt on the opposite bouse that s cut by tho window-bar will move towards tho left. Move 8 wurle of fect nearer to the window, and the appareut dis- placement will be greater than al first. Tuo nearer the eye s to the window the wreater will be the space that is arpurenxly travorsed by the wilidow bar, while the eyes are opened and closed l.lurnnul&. Now I we remove the oyes ooe-thind of a mfle away from the wiudow, and watch the displacement of the bar on a supposititious wail a million of miles beyond It, 'we shall have something like a paralle] “to the candltions of problem to bo solved by ubserving Mars at hls cpposition, frow twa polots ou the earth’s surface which are 6,000 uiles apart, the uce belug measured fn & straight lve. THN TRIANGULATION. ‘The distances of the stars are o great, as compared with bat of (he plauet, that the: sy be practically regarded as {nfinite; whic! L _ . A Three-Xear-Old Uerolaa, Aududon (Htan.) Journal. A remarksble feai wse performad by the little 8-year-old daugliter Of Mr. snd Mra. Frank Smith, of Pehican, Mina., ands nlece of Mr, and Mru. &, M. Woodworth, of Auduboi. While Mrs. Wood- worth was on & visit w ber alstar ne day, Buith wes taken alarmingly ill. Mr. :\'ly {frqus huimo at the time, and Do onu near the ouse Lo render sssistance save Mrw, Woodworth aud the cblld. Mrs. Woodworth conld notleave, called Jitle Apgle sod ssked hsr bouse 10{ [y i D wou suslstence, Uhe cbild did as waa directed to aa icredibly sbort apace of time, wpou barsctura with the wl{nlmr. 1t was found Ducessary (o sumwon a physictaa, It was pow usarly dack anda storm brewiok:' yei tals va little beroine sZals tk the road szd want 10 the noarest ugigubur's Lousc, a distance uf ous oad 8 fourth tailea 1u the oppuelte dizection (rom whisky brought upon the s‘ace, where Mr. Gongh snatched up n bottle, held {t high up shove his heml, und delivered an fmpreseive funeral oration upon it. e tiiea dashied the bottle upon the stage, and the bottis not break- ing, Mr. Murphy smashed it to atoms with a spude. The vongregation loudly cheered, but fts enthusinsm reached s greater height when Mr. Murphy dug a big hole mnd burfed’ the whisky out of sightr Stars of Aquaries. SPRINGFIELD. An Avalanche of Clalms Growing Out of the Strike Now Smothoring the Auditores The Ample Chook of the Rollroad-Mone Other Matt . Bpecial Dispatch fo The Tribunt. BrPrINOPIELD, Aug. 34.—Tho Auditors’ De- Ppartment continues to receive bills for services in connection with the strike. A few of the most pressing local bills, about $1,000 in smount, have been pald out of the Governor's Contingent Fund, but no more can be 3o patd. The bills yet outstandinges are {for sup- plies and transportation. The pay-rolls of militla have not been audited, which makes little .difference, ns therc 18 no money to pay them, unicss an -extra scssion of the Lbfilllnmru is called and o nflucfllc apprapriation made. = Under the Militla bill, the "tax provided for, i Jevied and collected, would not be avatlable until alter néxt July to pay the troops, but, as no military appropriation whatever appears in the General Levy act specil Imfi the ‘anount and the pur- poses for which the lavy Is made, it ls donbtful, inthe obninion of some emineut lewal gentle- men, whether an; militory tax can be collected at all. If not, the responsibility tests upon those who refused the advics of old legislator, recommending difect appropria tlon, and, lnstead, jusisted upe direct mili- tary tax, Bevernl vallroads have rendered bills at fuil local rates. The bills and claims of all surts liave been by comsent referred to Col. Fred Coeh Chief Quartermaster of the Iirst Division 1linols_ National Guard, Chicago, .for Iovestigation, It {s predicted by thuse lu a po- sltlon to know that the total cost to the State growing out of the movement of troops, ete., ‘will not be lesa than $200,000. . The Commissioners to locate the Bouthern Teaitentlary returned this morning, met to<day, and sat all day, fioally sdjourning until the early part of next week, at tho call of the President. They are retivent as to thelr further Intentions. The chances mow secm to le be- tween Alton and Grafton, but an early dgcslon 1s not expeceted. An lm'unctlnn tssued by the Pratt County Circult Court was served on the Stato Auditor to-day, restraining him from making a levy to gny the pay the nicrest ou $30,600 bouds issucd Y Blue Ridgs Township [n aid of the Duuville, Urbana, Bloomington & Pekin Railroad, and the Blate Treasurer is enjoined from paging further interest out of the balavce in the Tressury to the credit ol such Interest fund, _The Governar to-day received (rom ofliclals of toe Centenninl Exposition eertificates of awards to the State Teachers® Assoctation, Normal Uni- versity, and Southern Normal University, for collcctive exiifbitions of progress made by cach of these institutions at Philadelphin last year. The State Board qf Equalization transacted no business to-day, but the Committeey are in sessfon almost touhnunusly ana greatly con- plain of irregularitics and {nformalitles tn tho returns of several counties, more especially Cook. Regardiug the latter llley allege glaring errors fn averages on real esta.s und persoual property. ~ K CANADA, Dishonorables Disappoarnnce~Iicavy Fall- ure—Fortunes Maie Out of Wostern Unlon ~BIg Geology~Lord Dufforin and the Menonitos. &pecial Dispateh to The Tribune. TonoxTo, Ont., Aug. 24.—W. H. Sterling Coen, of the firm of McNahb, Marsh & Cuen, hardware merchants of this city, s misaing, It 1s supposcd he has absconded to the States, ‘Tho exact awodunt of s dofRlcation is not yet known, but {s put down at 830,030 or $60,000. Cocn's departars canses a creat scnsation, as he {3 well known throughout the city and highly vespected, Lis friends profoss s:rongly to be- llove he wiil roturn and clear matters up, but his partnera do uot, aud, weanting, tho firig * B % o g 0 . ! Is the same thing as saying that straight lines drawn from thie centro of any one of Lhese stars to tho®earth and Mars, would be parallel. The difference between the angular distances of Mars from a star, a8 seen from any two polats on the earth's surface, will, thercfore, be prace tically equal to tho anglo which is fornred hy lines “drawn from the jeentre of the planet to thoso two polnts. - The distanco fn mlles be- tween tho tvo places of observation can be cal- culated, * when wo' know thelr longitudes and latitudes, and we ther, have s mam- moth triangle, 1n which we know the niagnitude of thebase, and of ite. opposite angle. Tho altitudesjand the other angles are casily cal- culated; and we thus find tho actual distance of Mars from tlie earth at the fimo of obaerva- tion, It fs already known. that, taking the earth’s mean distance from the sunas unity, her actual distance at the time of opposition will be 1.007, and that of Mars from the sun about 1.8315; whenca the relative distance of Mars from tho earth will b 0,376, or the mean distance of the earth from the sun will be 2.65 times that of Mars from ua nt thie date of oppo- sltfon. ‘Therelore, If the one should vprove to be 34,730,000 miles, the other distance would be 72,000,000 nearly, 'lic obscryations may bereduced 80 s to glve the angle at the planct, which is formed by a llneto the carth’s ccntre, and a tangent to her aquatorial suriace, - This angle is the equatorial horizontal pdrallax. In the preaent Instauco its value {s about 23.4 seconds of are. It {s evident that the side opposite to i, the earth's equato- rial ractiug, is tho shorteat sldo of a right-angled triangle, whence, by trigonometry,ithe cosecant of this, angle, mumgflud Into tlic earth's cqua- torial radius, gives the distance of the planot from the earth, ‘Tho transit of Venus in December, 1874, was observod for the satne purpuse, and theobscrva- tlons nre boing reduced on the same prinelple as it mlg‘:‘ eclal Dispatch 1o The Trib u ; i . , that to be emptoyed now, The chie! diffcrenco o‘x-uwnfm':m ‘;Ap?'—'rh: M(lmn"fi’vnnnmunz ia that in that case the Sun was talien as the hncktzronnd. on which to measure tho displace- ment of Venus; while In this the es'estial vault will bo taken s’ tho background ou which to measuro the displacement - of Murs, But thero are Im‘yomm differences of coudition whilch operated to disadvantage in the trifualt, ns compared with the opposition. The solar . outling is belleved to ba continuonsly changing; tho Jocal dufnrtureu “from ‘the sphcrical - form,: though relatlvely small, belng great cuough to cause considerablo difference (i the results ob- tajued by measuring the angular distauces of the planet from tho edeo of the solar disc, And the preat Dbrilliancy of the sun made it are about nrecfiux o huilding on Neapcan Polnt, on the Rlver Ottawa, near thia city, for the pur- poze of recelving 500 tons of ammunilon forthe artdllery, . &peclal Dispatch to The Tyibune. Mowrnear, Auz, 24—An Irish and Freach regiment of volunteers has beon formed hera, Cupt.” Kirwon, of the T'rue Witneas, has apptisd to the Uovernor-Ueneral, and recelved o Qaptain'scommission In.tha regiment, demand of *assienment has been made on Arthur Dausercau, publisher of the Afinerve, by Joan Marle Paperican, ‘Tho liabilitios of Victor Hudon, grocer and spirit merchiant, who m&%:ndul yesl&x;any. foot 10 > diioult to deterintne the instants of | up atotal of from $160, 000, apparent contact. The light of the Philip Pensonncault, Post-Ofilza clerk at the star Ly comparatively stcady; the outline of Mars {8 rolatively llmrP, owing to the tenufty of s ntmosplicres sud the time ullowed for obser- vatlon {s much greator in the case of Mars than fo that ‘ot Venus, The similur opposition of Mars, {n 1852, cunbled astrunvmers to correct the results obtained from the tranalts of Venus {n tho last ‘century;. and i {s not imprabable that the preseut opposition will give results lcas +discordnnt, and more trustworthy, than thosa of the trauait of threo yeara ago. . MAPPING THE BURFACE OF MARS, The opposition will be utllized for another fmportant purpose—~to tnap out tho surfnce of the planot Mare, We have already maps which were drawn during former perigesal oppositions, chiefly those of 1830 and 1862, showiog the lead- ing features of his surface; but it 1a not fin- possible that the finproved lnstruments of the prestut day will add” largely to our knowledeo of the minor detalls of arcography, and may cven lead to Important modificativns in our fdeas with regard to the physical conditious of his surfuce, The angular diameter of Mars ot the timo of ogponluon will be 20.8 scconds; about cqual to the anglo subtended by o circle one foot In diamuter et tho distanca of two miles from the ‘Tannerlos, near Montreal, was arrested to-day for atcalini moncy-letterd, A number of partiea liere, among whom s Bir Francis Hiucke, v inade largo fortuncs out of Western Uulon Telegraph stock since the rige, Spectal Dispateh o Tas Tridune, OTTaWa, Ang, 2H.—Mr. Veuner and staft, of the geological surveyors who lave been ox- ploring fu the vicinity of Whitefiah, Pemechan« Ro, an4d 8t, Mary's Lakes, on the Upper Gati- Bean, reports that ho has discoverad anfuinense mountain of pure crystalive phosplinte of e, showing on the surface hundreds of thousand of tons that will vield an averago of OU'por cent. Ho says tho two great phosphate belts running up by the Livyros and Gatincau Rivers, appoar to meet 160 miles uorth of Otlawa ot this mountaln, and the phosphate Is thrown up to such an cxtent thas the show is enornious, Mo believes also that the Luke Su- porlor sllver-bearing rock runs across the head- Waters of the Gatineau. 3 #peclal Ditvalch to Tha Tritune, Winsrene, Aug, 24.—Lord Dufferin mado an cloquent mp}y to tho address from the Mennon. {tes, ana fovited them to join hauds with the Canadiuns in advancing tho stang of civiza- tlon .weslward, Iu_tlie namo of tho Quean he obscrver. A clear, stith atmosphere will permit | welcomed thotn to_ Manituba, saying, © You are this discto bo -magnificd up to s muchlarger | welcome to our alfections, ad ’u aa our lands, area than that which tho full moon presents to [ our libertics, and our freedom.” Tho nddress the naked eye, ' The planet hias alrcady been | wog lutened' to with great Intcrest. Tho entire scanued mm»u{mflc by Prof. Asaph Hall, | Mennonite population of the at the Washiugton Observatory, The announce- ment has already boen made i Tux TRIDUNE that he bad discoyered one, aud possibly a suc- ond, satellita ou the ovenlog of the 16th fnst, ‘The officlal report of the Supcrintendent of tho Obscryatory contains the following: Prof, Uall finds, on examining the observing book, that thowntelllte which was drst diseovered, nnd which lio supposcd was scen for the frat timo Aug, 14, at 11 bours and 42 miuutes, had been in fact discovered Aug. 11 at 14 hoars and 40 min- utes, but a¢ bo had no opuortunity at that date towait for the planct's motlons ho falled to recognizo the objact a8 n salellite. It was, how- ever, recounized and abserved o sach on Aug, 16, and has besn obuvrved on the 17th, 18th, and 10th of August. ‘This sutellite hiad an apparont distance {rom tue centre of Mars of b2 sgconds, and (is time ot revolution around the planet is thirty hours, 1ts magnitudo Prof, altcatimates as the thirteonth wr fourteenth. Tho plane ol orblt has now a consideravle fnclination to the lino of 1he earth (o Marx ut Its elongations. position aro 72 degress and 232 degreo und satellita was discovered Aug. 17 nt sixteen hours. 1tappears to bu qulte as brieht as tho Arst one, and ite clungation has nesr] of pomtion which carrosponds rof | Mars. Itsapparent distance at elongulions ana ite periodic time not yet known, The following ure the prelimin: ments of the outer satellite, proviuce Is now esttwmated at 6,500, ‘ PRESIDENT HAYES. His Specch at Worcester—Arrival at Washe Ington, | ‘WoncesTer, Muss,, Aug. 24.—The following {s tho President's speech delivered on his arrival bero last evening: ' PrrnowsciTizens or Woncestsn: 1 need mot ny to {ou that th! o greal recoption, and ver) geatifylne to us. Government of tho Unite Stutes {8 of interest L0 all of yuu, and It fs bacausy of your interest In that Uovernment that you have wfned out in such vast numbers to welcome those 1 Whoso charge the adjalnlatration of this Gover ment bas beon, commfticd, We snderstand p fectly well that' thi 0 personal compliwent to us. You entertain very decidod opinions us to the courae the Governwaut shall pursue, und aé to who aball wdinluistes 1. Thore is wide diverity of uplulon na to the precise measurcs of the Govera- uieat, but there aro s few thines | Lave aequired thie hablt of waying siuce oar trip through New En- {lflnu began, upon which the whole people of the ‘1yted blates have subatantially agreed, (Clioerd. | ‘We are agreed that horealter, and for all time, the torritory of the Unlted States, ombracing as it does, tho best part of this contiuent, cxtending from the turrid zono on the south o tha frigld ou 1ho north; from the Atlautic Qcean on the ¢aat to tho Paciic on the weat, 1s foruvor Lereafler 1o be- long to one natlop, and to ono uativaonly, We arc all agroed that the Btates of tue Union shall bavo vqual xlfhu( that the States aru equal 1o cach other; that cltizens of the United States, liheknr whito, native ‘born or uaturulized, copitaliste or laboréey, sball have equal rights before she law, agd over all the Governwent h;r the peopis ahall coulinuae to bu ever suprewe. These are gencral ideas entertalued sbout ihe Government, ~There arc dilferences od Lo uiethods, and whatever ercors may be mads, you will roincmbar that it is our purpuse bouestly wxpunnu our coursy in support of the propositions I bave offered you, And now, haviog slready spoken too long, 1 must give way 1o ouy who, withough he bas nat always been with us, yfl.‘lu suppost zlllhulldwué hmhmvin You, x; ag suund as you sud I. DOw bava the pleasuzs ol lutroducing Judge Key, of ’I‘-nnuu«“‘p Judgze Key respouded In @ short speech, and was lollowed by Gen. Devens and Bocrotary Evarts, The party was then driven to Lhe resi- denco of Senator " Hoor, whero were gathored wewbers of the City Government aud a largs number of fuvited guests. After the recaption at 8enator Hoar's, the visltors were escorted to the depot, the strects beiog ablaze with red, greeu, wod blue fire, Romau candies, and Chi- bese Junterns. The \Purly took the 10:30 ex- prese-traln for New York, ¢ Niw Youx, Aug, 3t.—1The Presidentlal ver'y arrived here shortly after d o'clock this morn- lug, und, rfter breakfasting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, took the 8:35. train fur Wusbingtou. With the cxception of shree rousinz clicers from the crowd guthiered in front of the Lotet when the Presideut left, there was no demson- stratiou whatever, Wasuniuzon, D, C., Aug. 2L—The President and J.unv returoed thls evening from New Fu- xlnz‘ 0Ttm Prealdent leaves Sept. 7 for Fre- wont, O. as cajculated by’ Prof. dimon Newcowb: llnj% axls of orbit, 82 scconds; angle of msjor axis, degreen and 250 degrees; minor axle, £8 socol passage of aatellite through the m Iy N, Aug. 10, 10 hours, 40 miuafvs. The porlod of the {uner aalellite, or vatollites, is 80 short, probably leas than wight bours, that it cannot ba fized. ‘Thu planet Baturn is also a pecullarly inter- esting object in the telescope. Wo c&n now seo bae little'of his magulicent riog systein, as fts edge I3 uow towards us, aud ts plane witl pass through thy carth In the eorly part of nexi March. But for that veryreason the astronomer can study the planct iself, with hls mommi to greater advantage than usual, aud it may be that wo shall also increass our kuowledze 0f the phyalcal conditious of Baturn this fall. The opposition of uext au- tumn will, however, be o Uttle more (ayorable, 04 thio planet wiil then be further north than nm;L aud whl alse bd slittle nesrer to the ear! hez first teip, where she found 8 man to go fors phraciun, kre ber returu bome, tho storm bad e0 ncreasod a8 Lo render her progrons very slow, snd the lvid and constant lightalng wight well have stricken terror into the huart of mll&] an older po- dostrlan; yet this B-year old child bravely and :n‘l‘uall,ully performed bher mission and roturned iu ety, e - it Whisky at Falrpolat, New' York frivuae, ‘Whisky has sutfered g defeat at the Falrpolot Buuday-school assewbly. It Is sad to thiok that any ofte within the grounds wanted it, but sowme pérsous evdently did, for two wen at- tewpted to nmugln_:h a boatload of ft ssbus lrcady bottled. 'Thecongregatlon, upon_bel forméd of the selzure, appointe qudf furpky and Joun B. Gough u commities of destzuctlon. ‘Llese gentlenmen had the box of WASHINGTON. The Present and Possible Futurs Rol of the United Btates Senate. Miss Meade’s Claims ns Vieweq by the Pension-Bureau Oflicers. Bobeson Indignantly Denies that He I Bteering the National Re- publican, Prof. Nowcomb Qives Farther Informs * tlon Concerning Mors’ Moon# THE BENATE, + TPOLITICAL POSBIDILITIRS. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridune, Wasninaton, D, Cs, Aug. 26.—The polifles complexion of the next Scuate, which mects [y, spccinl session Oct. 15, {s o8 follows: Bo far a3 the politics of tho Senntors Is at present defined there may be some doubt about some of the mem. bers. Scnator Davis, of lilinofs, for instance, iy this list is putdown osan Independent, although hehas been placed upon the Commitices ns o e publican. The total number of Republicans fg 80; Democrats, 83; Iudependent Republicans, 1. There are three vacancies, one from South Carolina, caused by the retirement of Senator Robertson, and tiwo from Louisiana, one belng the yacancy caused by the retirement of Scoater ‘West, and the other belng kuown as THE PINCIIDACK VACANCT, which has existed for four or five years past, The applicants for the Sonth Carolina vacaayy aro David T. Corbin, Republicag, and M. ¢ Butler, Democrat. The nppti¥nts for theiwe Louisiana vacancles ara Willlam Pitt Kellogg, Republican, and J. B, Eustis and Jamea Levis, Democrats. It {6 expected that these thres vacancies will bo filed by Democrats. In thst event the Democrats would have thirty-six members in the Scnate, Bhould Senator Mor. ton not survive, ns fs %mvely fearced here now, liis succcssor, upon the appoiniment of thy Governor, would, of course, bo a D This would leave the Tepublicans with THE SCANTY MAJORITY OF TWO in thu Ecnate, with Dayis as an Indepenient, and in caso of the dentlt or reaignation of ang of the Ttepublican Scuntors from the States of Al aboula, Arkansas, Florida, Missiasipol, or Bouth Carolian, the vacancles would be filled by Demo. ourats, who would thus Lavesthe working coy trol of the Scnate. ‘The way the roster now stands, therg certaia. 1y is a very fair chance in any event for & Demo. cratie wajortity after March 8, 1878, MISS MEADE. TIER CLAIMS UPON TNIE UDVERNMENT, Spectat Dispateh to Ths Tritune. Wasmsorox, D. C., Aug. 24,—~Uflcers of thy Interior Department do not hesltate to deferd the romoval from a clerkship I the Pensln Burcau of Miss Meade, sister of Uen, Meade, so scverely eriticleed Ly Gail Ilamilton in her last letter to the T'elbune. They ray that Miy Meade was unable to do anything to carn the tolary which was pald her, and while they be lieve the Government ought to grant hers penslon, Itwould be neither legal nor Just for etnocrat, tio Commissloner of Penslons to pro- vide for ther ‘support out of the fund whlch Congrcas has approprialel to pay tho clerleal force of his Bureaw. In ed- ditlon to this they say that to retafn clerks who are Incompetent or iall to perlorin uny dulics for the salury thay recelve, no mmtter how de scrving they may be or liow much thelr countyy may owe to thom or thoir iclatives, would be A OIAVE INIUBTICD to thousands of persons equally deserving and equally needy., The business of the Peasion | Burean is years behindhand, and owlnge ) the fnndequate clerient foree allowed 1t by C angres, needy persuns intitled to pensions ureox oblized to walt ycars before their (nses cun be adjudicated. Under these cirammstane.r, the oftlcers ot tho Interlor Depaitiment cay that ustice to the soldicrs who aro actually wulfer- ngz, and to those dependent upon thew, de- oands that the business ut tho Penslon Burea sliall be adminlstered in tho most ceonumial munner {n grder that applications for pensions muy be aztedupon \ A3 EXPEDITIOUBLY AS POSSIDLE. To continue to plly » galary to Miss Meade out af the appropriations for the clerieal force of the Penslon Bureau, without securin;z In retum ofliclont service, whilo it might be nothing iare than the Government owes to her for the ines timable services of her brother, would «awe additionol suffering to many humbler but equal- ly deserviug persons, the adjudication of wi cases would thereby bo delayed. ———— MARS, : WHAT PUOF. NEWCOMD SAYS. Agectal Dispateh to Tha Tritune. ‘WasnixaroN, D, C., Aug. 9i.—Prof. New comb, of the Naval Obscrvatory, gives tid fob lowing additlonal interasting facts relative to the discovery of tho inoons of Mara: The res- son why thesy moons have not been seen befors 1s that Mara {s nearcrto the earth than it b been at any time sincs 1845, when tho great tel- escopes of the present day had hardly began o bo &nown, Tho next opportunity occarred lo 1802, but tho eatellites " did not scem to have been cspeclally sought for by the two or theso “lelL‘DFEl which alone could show them. Tho moat favorable posltion was in 167% but Maors was then so far south of the equator that it could not be obsorvod fn our latitude ‘The present {s about tha first position for ob- servation in the middle latitudes of our bLemk spbore. ‘Yhe next opportunity will occur ia ctober, 1880, aftor which the satclites will rmbublybu entirely fnvisiblo for ten years rot, Nuwcomb regards this plauct, perhaps, 83 :umng the moat remarkable of the solar sj& e, — NOTES AND NEWS, INCORRECT, Bpectal Dispaich to The Tridune, Wasnixoton, D, C., Aug, 24.—The report that E.M. Stanton, son of tholate War Socretar: Lad been taken to tho Government fusane Asylum, proves to have been lucoprect. Mr. Stanton'has been suffering for some weoka from the eilects of cxcessive overwork and exbaur tlonof the mervous system, and has beenfl forsome tmeathis residence with what has threatened to bo a scrious diseass of the bralt. He bas, howcver, beeo rational throughout bis ilincss, éxcept in tho temporary wanderings - which accompauy fever at times, and bis symp toms are now sald to be auite favorable. + RODESON MAKES AX ASBRRTION, Ex-Becretary - Robeson, who has been in town bere for a dsy or two on pub e busiuess, authorizes the following stalo- ment with to his connection whb the National Zepublican: ‘That he has not no¥ never had, never expects to have, and hurfi desire to bave, say relation with of contral over that paper; that his only connoction wl It Is that he bas loaned money to the pio rrlemr, and taken his property as security 1o he debt. TUR SITTING-UULL COMMISSION. .4 Professional engagements have preved Gen, P, A. Walker from accepting bcmug Schurz's invitation to serve as s meuber of ‘ll.l Sitting-Buil Commission. It &5 now doubtful . m‘fi clvll Commissioner tsappututed. The Imllk' Otfice bas no relations with Sittiug-Bull uud ¢ 3 hostile tribes who urs with blm. and the ool arm of the Government now authorized to u;’l with him is the milltary, which will be very 8 y rupresented by Gen, ‘Luery. Secretary Schur will probably consult with the President i ‘l’fl; gard to tuls maiter to-torrow, aud i Alr. Ha 't upproves of the piay, the idea of addivg a. Cuwmissioner will probably be abandoned. ——————— e Y s Spacial Dispaich io OcoNosowos, Wis, Aug. S4.-—Arrivals :5 Draper Hali: B. R. Chambers, G. F. Klmljr and wite, Fred N, Peck, H. Randtorfl, Henr)u * Nuclsen, Chicago; r, F. Eckstelu and w :_» Miss J. G, Ecksteln, F, Ecksteln, Ulnelgnsti J. Ii. Collins, Jr., San Francls M. 38, Hy - s0u, Miss Mattle Norfl, Pewsukes; D. M. t&," ak Grove, Mo.; ‘Laylor Beattls sud For’l Loulsville; F, 8 y N. Bal P, e Thougs Foley, P, McDunald, Willlam Emuiet svu, N. Murphy, E. Eaton, Walt Davis, J{;‘.‘, Harrisous E. Kojuo. L, Quintmieyer, Job By W. C. Stoue, Wakertown. * .