Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1877, Page 4

I'HE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: " 3 8DAY, BEPTEMBER 27, 1877. w O copy, per year. Clabog 1o Cinb ot t Eyechinen copics ent tree. ‘To prevens delay and mistakes be sure and <ive Post- Of'ce nddres in full, Including State and County. Remitianees maybe made cither by draft, exaress, Turt-Office order, or in regtatered letters, at ourrisk. TRMUMS TO CITY SUBSCRINERS. Pafiy, delivered, Eunday execpted, 23 cents per week, dettsered, Sunday tnclided, 20 centa per week. THE TRID OMPANT, or Madison and Dearborn-ats., Chieago. il Orders for the dellvery of Tur TRinrxeat Evaoston, Faglewood, and Hyle Park lets in the couating-foom will recelve prompt attention. TAMUSEMENTS, Mevicker’s Thentee, Madtron strect. hetween State and Dearborn. Fne gazement of Fdwin Nooil Don, iasings, Maye, etc.s Mesrrs. Booth, Wheelod Pleree, ete. . Ilaaley’s Theatree. piandolph street, hetween Clark and faSalle, Fn- gigement of George 8. Knfght. *'0ito." Mcsdames Worrrlla, Thompson, etc. Messes, Knight, Thompson, White. ete. Adelphl Thentre. Monror street. corner_of Dearborn. Engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Frank I Frayne. **5i Slocum." Wand’s Musenm. Monroe stieet, hetween State and Dearborn. Fne gacementof lernandez Foster. **Jack Harkawar.” Variely Olfo. New Clileago Theatre, Cinrk stroet, opposite Sherman louse, Haverly's Minatreln. Mesars. lfoward, Rymso, Thatcher, Hey- wood, cte. Exposition Buflding. Michigan avenue, foot of Adame street. Day sud evenlnx. THURSDAY, BEPTEMBER 27, 1877, CHICAGO MARKET SUMMARY. The Chicago produce marketa were steadier yosterdny, and mont breadatnfts were Srmer, owing o the storm, Mean park closed steady. nt $17.45 for October and $12.07%@13.00 for January. Tard clased quiet, at $8.05 for October and §8. 353 8,374 seller the year. Meats were steady, at O'4c for loore whoulders and 7xc for do short ribs. Take freighta were firmer, at4!{c for corn to Dof- falo. Highwinea were ateady, at $1,08 per galfon. Tlour was dull and firn.. Wheat closed 11721%c bizher, at $1. 1415 for Septemnor and $1.00¢; for October, Corn closed $3¢0%¢ higher, at 42 cash and 41%c¢ for October. Uata closed e hizher, at 236 tor October. Rye closed %c lower, aLhdise. y cloacd 57 1¢ higher at B1c for September and 21ie for October, Tlozs were active, at igg10c de- cline, closing at 85 10%5.85 for poor to extra, Cattle were dull and wed vith sales at 82,500 5,50 for common ta extra There was inapected Into storo in tis city day 378 cars wheat, 385 cars and 41,000 bu corn, 1% earn onta, 32 cars rye, and 80 cara bar- Tey. Total (1,014 ), 451,000 bu. One hun- dred dullars {0 jrold would buy $103, 1244 in green- buckn at the close. Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex chengo yesterday closed at 07, Tho subject of tree-planting and the aani. tary value of forests engaged tho atten. tion of the American Public Health Associa. tion at yesterdny's scasion, a paper by Dr, Ax. nrew, of Laporte, Ind., being received with interest. Among the other papers read, that by Dr. N, 8. Davis, of Chieago, on * The Means of Diminishing Infant Mortality from Bowel Affections,” 1 n contribution of valuo to nnzious parents, who will do well to keep in mind the simple and ensy remedies sug. ,gested. £ After the secret conclaves of the four rail way magnates who fix things to suit them- sclven with regard to freight rates for gnods carried ncross this brond land, thero regularly como the owlish convocationa of Red Lincs, ‘White Lines, and Blue Lines, Groat Western and Great Bastern Dispatches, and other mysterions parosites upon transportation, to convinee the incrensingly-disgusted Ameri- ran citizen that the milway service of his country rolls, like the false system of Proseay, with “cycle and epicyole, orb in orh,"—in other words, with rings and inside rings, and more Credit Mobolier than you can shako a stick at. Two first-clnss sonsations wore furnished by the Grand Jury of the Criminal Coart yesterday in tho finding of indictments against Bypxey Myens, Into of the Beehive, and five of the ofticers of the swindlo known a3 the Protection Life-Insarance Company. Ewmbezzloment is the charge in each case, and, so far a3 the public are at present ad- vised through the developments in connec- tion with both collapaes, the true bills are truc indecd. ‘Tho maladministration of sa- cred trusts is gottiug to be 80 common now- adays that o fow criminal trials are needed to wnforce the commandment which ssys, i Thou shalt not steal. Among tho fimt of the visitors at the ‘White Iouso after the return of the Presi. dent from his Bouthern trip was the Hon, Avexanpen IL Steruess, who called yester. day, and in the course of an interview of the most cordial character expressed his admira. tion of what he cliooses to designato * the sdmivistration of the Government in nccord- anco with the constitutional prineiples of Houme Rule.” 1o went so far as {o declare bis belief thot President Hares had done wmoro for the pacification of the country than BIr. TiLpex could bave done had he been in. nugurated, and to tender to the President bis entiro support and spprobation, These are ignificunt wonls when spoken by the foremost msn of the South, the man who woro than any other is entitled to speak for the peoplo of the Sout! A variety of views prevails among the Na- tional Agriculturists on the questions of the protective tarifl and the grauting of subsidies to raitroads and private corporations. YWhen Mr. Moxtox, of Nebrasks, in his interesting puper on * Ruilronds and Their Relation to the Public,” declared that the systems of protection and subsidy were the two biggest fics uttered in America, he uttered a truth which the furmers ought to be the last ones to deny; but, singalar as it may appear, there were those who, though plundered overy year for the bonefit of the protectod interests, und taxed every year for their por- tion of bonds sud subsidies granted to rail. rouds, and receiving no benefit from either, thought the speaker was * going too far” in denouusing these twin frauds upon 'the agri- vultural clasues, All doubts concerning Senator Coxxring's relations toward the Administration wero sct at rest Ly the action of the New York State Ttepublican Couvention yesterday, Mr. Conx. Lixg was a member of and tie ruling spirit in the Convention. He spplauded conspicuously o vicious attack upon President Haxzs by ex- Congresswon Prarr, the Temporary Chair- wau, sud still further advertwed his approv- ol of Pravs's views by insistiog that the lat- tur be retained ag Permanent Chairman, The Lixa’s own hand, then of his brin, and ho s, by his own declaration, responsible for the action of the Convention in repudiating tho President's efforts toward the re- form of the Civil Service. 'Tho Hon. Gronor Wittty ConTis represonted the friends of tho Administration, and his efforta to secure a moderate indorsement of the President wore defoated by an over. whelming vote. Nothing but platform- making was nccomplirhed during the first day's seasion of the Convention; the nom. inntions follow to-day. ‘The fiag that dizzily flntters on the doms of the State-House at Bpringfield has been intrepidly hoisted fifteon foot higher, and the heart of the growling Granger, steeled 8o flintily against the Ring which naks for sdditional millions to * keop it np,” is ex- pected to soften precipitately and enthnsins- tically at tho statement that the Stars and 8tripes now flaunt onr glorions freedom to the world three hnndred and eighty-threo feet clear of the terrestrial ball which grovels beneath, Bpenking for Chiengo, thero aro abont 14,000 of its citizens who would fns- tify this Inxurious altitude if they were given the privilege of utilizing it for abont half an hour, whenever they may be nble to given public reception to the Mr. Srexcen who wont from among them so unostontatiously o fow weeka ago. The Wisconsin Democracy have gone and done it. At their State Convention yeater- day at Fond dn Lac thero was a fearful clat- ter of broken slates, and the ent-and-dried schemes didn't scem to workntnll. After four ballots for Governor, in which the for- merly-recognized leading candidates had the honors nbout oven, the dark horse cavorted into the Convention in the per- son of Judge James A. Manrony, of Mil- wankes, and won the race in a single heat. Jndge Marrony's views on financo are reprosented as tho softost of the soft. 1If so, he will find no tronble in accepting the platform adopted, which is tho pulpiest of thepulpy. In fnct, the resolutions, after referring incidentally to Mr, Titoex's fatlure to convinco tho Elcctornl Commission a3 to the logality of his claims, is very largely devoted to tho financial question, which is tackled with a will and torn to tatters. Mr. Davis, ono of the candidates for Governor, was nom. inated for the second place, but would have none of it. Btill, it was decided to keop his namo on the ticket whether ho would or no. The Convention was mado up of many con. flicting interests, inasmuch as evory third man wanted an offico of some kind. The casualtien are therefore numerous, and it ia bardly to bo expected that the team will pull well togother. Tho partial destruction he Patent.Office building, and tho total destruction of a por- tion of ils contents, has sct on foot an inquiry which ought long since to bave been made— that is, whether all tho public buildings in ‘Washington and their contents are not liable ot any time to bo destroyed by fire. The Patent-Office buikling was what the archi- tects called firo-proof, and was in this respect undoubtedly superior to most of the Governmont buildings, Yet it canght fire and narrowly escaped completo destruction, just 88 any of the others mny do. An investigation reveals the fact that a fruit- ful sourco of spontancous combustion and of uncontrollable conflagration exists in tho attic floors of all the Luildings, where tons of old papers nnd records have beenystored away, and for this reason it is serionsly doubted whether nny building could be saved from grestdamnngo, if not entiro destenetion, in the event of a fire breaking out under the roofs. Tho storage of wvast quantities of combustible mnterial ia o matter which the hoads of Departments should attend toat once, while it belongs to Congross to remedy the architoctural defects whicl endanger the nafoty of probably every Govcmmnnt/\mfld. ing in Washington, and threaten the burning of records and nrchives the loss of which would be n national calamity, Tho editor of the Clicago T'imes has evolved a cabal from his innor conscionsness in which Mr, Wasununy, Mr. Hesina, Mr, Mepiy, and others figure in a sort of heter. ogoneous combination to carry out a pro- gramme which {a alio ovolved from tho same unsavory locality, 1t is notorious that there isau unplensantness cxisting between Mr. Sroner nud Mr, Hesiwa that dates back to tho time of the Iatter's whisky misfortunes, It ia notorious also that they have indulged in some very savere personalities at each othor's expense, nnd that at last Mr, Sroney became 8o odiously offensive that Mr, Hesmva notified him ho should hold him personally reponsible at sight if ho did not modify his assaults, Consequently there is no cordiali- ty between the two men, Thore is not that unity of sentimont and affoction that or- dinarily charncterizes sincero friends. This being the status of the HesiNg- Sroney relations, Mr. Bromrr conceives there is an opportunily now to got aven with Mr. Hesinag, because My, Hrsina's son iu a candidate for o county office. Honco the Times 1s daily filled with vulgar diatribes di. rected against Mr, IesiNo and hisson, It does not soem to occur to the rabid Mr. fironey that he s overdoing the thing, and that hig course may have the contrary effect from what he intends, or that ho {5 produc- ing sympathy fn this community for Mr. Wanninoron Hesine by reason of his coarse and brutel sssoults. It does not ocour to hiw that be {8 teking the surest means of securing his nomination aud election, be. cause people can discriminato between men, Ar. Wasumarox Hesivg §s not responsible for his father's actious and misfortunes, No ouo has charged him with belng mixed up with the whisky busiuess, or with seekiug to defraud the revenue, or with illicit business of any description. Ho s not responsible for his father's faults, and fair.aninded men can see it. There has hitherto Leen no serious intention to nominate Mr. Wasama. ToN HesiNg, and probably notone Repub- licon ins hundred has expressed a prefer- euce for him over any other, To what ex- tent he may now figure as a candidate, Mr, Sronxy is responsible. If these bruial sttacks should continue, and sympatby for Mr. Wasaroron Hrsing 6o increaso as to secure his nomination, Mr. Srosey would be responsible for this also, To whatever ox. tent Mr. Wasnpiorox Hesixa msy stand to- day as & candidate for any oftice, Ar. Byonzy is directly rusponsible. He is slmply over- shooting his mark and bringing sbout the very result he wishesto prevent. Hisal tempt to drag other parties into his imagin- ary combination for purposes of assault is oalicionsly impertinent. He will soon find that he bas undertaken a larger job than . he can ~exocute, and ihat this scurvilous sort of journalism doesn't win in the long run. e pur. sued the same tactics against Mayor Hraty and was beaten. He is now pursuing a simis resolutionswere the work, if not of Mr. Coxg- Iar abusive conrse townnls Jndge Winrtams, Lecauso the latter, in the performance of his dnties, bind to enforco the laws against him. No ono can read these bratal and vuigar ti. rades withont thoinstinctive feeling that both tho charges and inferences nre falso and mali- cious, IfMr. Stonex thinkathat Mr, Wasnrxe- Tox Ilrsva is incompetent for office, that he would bo nunsafe in it, that he wonld preju- dice or endanger the interests of the com- munity, or. that he conld not give a good bond, it wonld be. clearly legitimato for him to point out such facts nnd comment upon them; but Lo load himdown with dirty, contemptible, and libelous epithots, merely becaure the young man's father lias beon in tronbla and because ho has o personal griev- ance with the father, proves nothing against the ron, and will not command the approbn- tion of fair-minded men., HAVE WE ANY LEGAL BANKS IN ILLI- Nois One of the leading Inwyers of this city has been investigating the legality of special Lauk chartors in this State, and hias arrived nt the conclusion that they ara nll unconsti- tntional. In a conversation with. the said nttorney, he stated the points of the ques- tion substantially ns follows: Tho intercst which has been excited by the recent failnra of n number of so.called savings banks in our city has necessarily directed public nttontion not as to their mansgement, bt to the manner in which thoy camd into cxist- enco. Every ono of thess banks purports to exiat under specinl charlers granted by the Genernl Assembly of the Htate of Illinois prior to the ndoption of the new Constitu- tion, It{asconcededon all hands that no such charters could be obtained under the present Constitution, and' no banks what- ever can bo authorized escept under and by wirtno of A law which shall bo first passed by the Goneral Assembly and then submitted to a vote of the people, and it now becomes necessary to inquire if nny greater power existed under the Constitution of 1818, Tho tenth article of that instrtment specifies what corpora- tions may be organized, and in the first sec- tion provides that * Corporations not pos- sessing banking powers or privileges may bo formed undor general laws, but shall not be cronted by apecinl acts, excopt for municipal purposes and {n cases where in the judgment of the Genoral Assembly the objects of the corporation cannot be attained nnder general laws," and under this clause almost every speoies of corporation has boon granted spe- cial charters, and in several justances their legality haa bLeen upheld by tho Bu. preme Conrt, on the ground that they were cages where, in the judgment of the Gen- oral Assembly, the objects of the corporn- tion conld not bo attained nndor general 1aws,” although cverybody clse knew better. But such a reason cannot be madoto apply to bnoking corporations or associntions with banking powars, beeause the Coustitu. tjon mnkes cxpress provision in rogard to them, aund they nover could bo legally orgnn. ized except in the mannoer pointed ont by the Constitution itsolf. The fifth scction of Art, X, of tho Coustitution of 1818 rolates particularly to corporations or associntions with banking powers, and expressly provides that— . Noaet of the General Assemdhly authorising cor- porationa or astociations with banking powers ahall o info effect or in any manner ds in force nnless the same shaki be submitted 1o the people at the next qeneral election next succeeding the pas. sage of the same, and e approceddy a majority of all the votes cast at auch election for and againet such tawe, Now tho definition of o bank is incommer. clal law * & placoe for thodoposit of money,” and banks are of threo kinds, viz.: of do- posit, of discount, and of circnlation. See Bouvien's Law Dictionary or any treatise on bauking, By the Constitution of 1870 the proyjsion of the Constitution of 1848 was substantinlly ndopted, and is in these worda: Noact of the General Assembly authorlzing or ceeatlng corpuratlane or assoclationa with banking powers, whether of jesue, depoatt, or dlscount, nor amendments thereto, shall go into effect or in any manner ba In force unless tho same shall be submitted ton vo1e of tho pouple at the genoral election next succeeding tho passage of the ramo, and bo approved by a majority of all th votes cast at such election foror against snch law, Hee Art. XL, title, * Banks.” Now if the Genornl Assembly of the State of Illinols waa, by the Coustitution of 1848, absolutely prohibitad from passing any nct cither authorizing or creating corporations or associations with banking powers, and if it was further declared that no such nct should ever go into effect or in any man. ner bo in forco unless tho samo should bo submitted to the people, we would like to know if there is a single baunking corporation or association in this State which purports 1o exist by virtuo of a apeelal law or speoial charter which has any validity whatever. It may, however, be argued that Sco. 2 of Art. XL of the presont Constitution saves these corporations, The provision is as fol- lows: 5 Al existing charters or grants of special or ex- clusive privileges, under which orgenization shall not hava taken place, or which whall not bave been in operstion within ten days from the time the Constitution takes offect, vhall thercafior have no validity or ¢ffect whatever, But if, as we have just said, the Constitu. tion absolutely prohibited the General As. sembly from pussing ony law organizing o corporation with bauking powers, and ex. prossly declarod that if suchs a law should be passed it should not go into effect, or in any manner be in force unless tha law was sub- mitted to the peoplo, and it was nover done, then we submit that thero is nothing what- ever in the present Coustitution which saves them, and thelr charters aro all null and void, aud they must be regarded as mere voluntary associates, und every gtockholder ligble as a partner, By Boc. 6 of Art, XL of tho present Consutation it ls' provided that *‘Every stockholder in a banking corporation or in- stitution shall bo individually responsible and lisble to its creditors over and above the smount of stock by hum or Ler held to on amount equal to his or her respective shares 8o held for all ita linbilitics ac- crulng while he or sho remains such stock. holder.,” In many of the private charters of the various banking institutions in this Btate there aro provisions that the stockholder shall be lable to depositors for double the amount of the stock while the same was held by him, and for six months thereafter. But even if thero was no such provision in noy one. of these charters, the Constitution ‘would probably make stockholdery linble to the extent provided for by it on the authori- ty of the case entitled *Tn the matter of Ouiven Lxx & Co.'s Bank, 21 N. Y., p. 11.” Our attention bas been called to this matter by Tromas D. Rosestsow, Eiq., a well kpown citizen of Rockford, formerly a lawyer and banker, as a matter of great public concern, und we are of the opinion that if a ‘‘general clearing " is to take place, the peoplo of thus State might as well com. mence the job at one time as snother. It has in some instances been decided that if a body of men are pretending to act under a chastor of incorporativn their acta wonld be valid until their charter ia fore feited by interforence on tho part of the Btato. If that bo so, it is the dnty of the Attorney.Genernl to bring n test enase at oncs, and see whether tho various State Dnnks seattered thronghout Illinois are exer- cising sovereign powers or not. GRANT ON AMERINAN POLITICS, An enterprising correspondent of the New York J[ferald bntton.holed ox-President Gravt at Edinburg, and succeeded fin ex. tracting from him the frat public expression on American politics that ho has made since he vacated tho office of Chiof Mngistrate, Wa print extracts from the reported inter- view this morning. Many of the statements thero attributed to the ex-President are very remarkable, and all wil| bo found interesting on account of their ponrce and tho binntness with which they are made. It will probably be o surprise to many of Gen, GraxT's warm- est friends, who have ranged themselvea among the Tmplacables since the adoption of tho peacs policy toward the Sonth, to find that he gives that policy his warmest indorse- ment, sponka of the object nimed at as n noble one, hopes it will succeed, and aays, if ho were home, he would exert all his influenco in fdvor of President Haves' plan of reconcilintion. This is n frank admission that the policy of suatain- ing the carpet-baggers by boyonets was o failure, and it is confirmation of what was often suspected, viz.: That Gmaxt, when President, rather yiclded to tho pressure of the bloody-shirt politicians than aaserted his own conviction in pursning the policy of nrmed intorvention, So far from nppre- hending thnt Prosident HAves' course may destroy the Republican party, Gon. Graxt has au nbiding faith that a Republican Presi- dent will be elected in 1880. But, while ap- proving heartily of the President’s Southern policy, Gen, Gnaxt very illogically scoffs at the efforts made in tho direction of Civil- Servico reform,—illogically, becnause, whilo Tresidont, ho always professed tho greatest devotion to this particnlar reform in theory, whatever his practico was, Now the practico of the presout Administra. tion is certainly very differont from that of the proceding Administration in the managemont of tha Civil Sorvico,—ns diffor- ent, in fact, ns President Haves' Sonthern policy is from that to which Gen. Graxt al- lowed his Administration to be committed, If Gen, GrANT hns faith in the change of policy in regard to tho South, why cannot he trust to n now departure in Civil Sorvice?’ He erra whenhe intimates that the now Ad- ministration is denling only in theories and with theoriats ; the fact is, that there had beon noeffort to put tho eardinal principlesof Civil. Service roform into practice till President Haxes nssumed tho responsibility. Gon, Graxt's utterances on tho subject of his dispnte with Senator Smxer, which broadened ont till it took in Morrey, then Minister to England, are characterized by more rancor than would have beon expected from him, espocinlly as both Somyer and Mors.er have passed boyond the dissensions of politics, It is natural cnough that Gen. GranT, on occasion, should state his sido of the quarrol, and sny what ho can to justify {s position at that timo, But to do thisit was not nocessary to intimate that Mr, Sumnen was an hiabitual falsifier, ns he does whon he snya ho told Mr, Geonoxr WirLiax Cun7is that Sustxzn bad ““mado statements knowing them to be falschoods,” and added that ho (Bunxes) “hind frequently been ennght in similar misrepresentations.” Nor does the particular instanco cited by Gou. GnanT warrant any such conclusion. CurTis clnimed on behalf of hisfriond Busxenthat the Iattor lind discharged his dutles as Chairman of the Benate Foreign Committee promptly and efficfontly, and added that Bosven had told him that the new Chalrman (OauEnoN) wonld find *n clean docket.” Gon. Grast now says that he proved to Mr. Cunris at the timo that Buaner had persistently ob- atrncted the work of his Committee, and that he was not a truthful man. There may still ba a differonco of opinion on this snbject, and it is not unlikoly that Alr, Quntis will bo heard from in rogard to the Interview to which Gen. GraxT refors; it is posaible that the difforent estimate made by Grant and SvuNes as to tho manner in which the Intter managed the affalra of the Foreign Committoo did not convince Mr, Cunris that BUMNER was eithor an Intriguer or an untruthful mau, It is evident, indeed, that Gen. Gaaxr atill cherishos moro rosent- ment for the opposition he encountered in his favorite San Domingo Echeme (with which Dascoox was conspiononsly asso- ciated) than for any other incident of his Administration, Proof of this may bo further found in his putting down Oann Bcnusz as & humbng,—Mr. Bcnusnz, like Suvuxen, having been ono of his flercest and most persistent antagoniats in this matter. “FOR THE BENEPIT OF THE SOUTH." The Louisvillo Courier-Journal is a per- sistent advocato of every raid upon tho Nn tional Treasury which is mado under tho name of ** tho South,” and its line of argu. ment in all cases is the domand of an offset for some similar expenditure made, as it claims, on behalf of the North, 'Thus its main dofenss of tho Tou Scorr Texas & Pacific lobby has boen based on the assump- tion that the existing Paciflc railroads—the Unlon and Central—wera subsidized for the benefit of the North, and hence it clalins that tho Government ought to devote a hundrod millions, more or less, to the construction of & Bouthern Pacific railroad for the beuefit of tho Houth. We have before exposed tho inacouracy of this statoment by citing the apparent fact that tho existing Pacific rellroads were intended to be, and practically are, a central route connect. ing the Atlantio aund Pacific oconsts; i tho Pacific railroad subsidies are to be regarded in ® sectiona! way, then the pro- posed Southern Paciflo 1aust bo treated ns an offset to the proposed Northern Pacific, and tho one cannot be subsldized withont creat. ing an equal claim for tho subsidizing the other. The only patrlotle course is to op- pose granting Government aid to either and both. But the Courier~Journal pursues the same line of arguinent in its present support o? the scheme for mnaking levees along both sides of the Mississippl River from Cape Girardeau to the mouth. It holds, bocause certain sums of public money have been voted from time to time for the Fox. River improvoment, therefore Congress should grant $80,000,000 at once for the Lower-Misalsaippl scheme, and as much nore subsequently as may be found neces- sary to carry it out. 'Wo are not among those who have sny faith in the Fox-River improvement, and do not regard the project of carrying the grain of Iowa and Minnesota by water to Green Bay, andso into tho northern part of Lake Michigan, as afeasible competition with reilroads, no matter how much publio money inay bs squandered upon it. But the indefatigsble lobbying, aad ca- Joling, aud threatening of ita partisans have ancceeded in getting a fow millions from the Governmont, and on Lhis gronnd the Courier- Journal says the Lgwer-Mississippt schemo should recoivo hundreds of millions, which tho embaukment scheme would cost be- fora its completion, Tho nrgumont is that beeauso one fallacy has re. ceivel A certain amount of favor, nvothor fs entitled to public confl. dence, and because n fow millions of public money have been misused on n Northern rivor, a grent many millions should be mis- approprinted for n Bouthern river. The claim ia that the proposed embank. mentof tho Lower Mississippi is a national work on the ground that it {s the duty of tho Government to protect cortain sec- tions of the country from an overflow which lessens prodnction. But the Governmont is not respousible. for this overflow any more than it is for the arid nature of the soil in tho Far-West Territories, 1If it is theduty of the Government to protect private lands from too much water, it ia equnlly ita duty to supply water to private Jands that have not enongh. There are millions upon millions of acres in the gront Wostern desert that aro in this condi. tion, nnd the Government shonld nt onco enter upon n geand scheme of irrigation,— constructing, perhaps, tho artificial sea that hns been snggested, and certainly digging thousands of miles of ditchea and providing for n permanent water-supply. The favorite, sectionnl argunient of the Courier-fournal will be fonnd to apply in this case, The embankment scheme is now thought to be n moreadjunct to Mr. Eaps’ jetty sys- tem at the month of the Mississippl, and nocessary only in order to supply tho requisite volime of water to wash ont tho ennd-bar, and the Cincinnati Commercial esti- mates thnt this would furnish a fino naviga- ble stream into tho Gulf at a cost of about £4,000,000 n mile, We doubt whether Mr., Eaps' project s worth that much to the country, howsver nd- vontageous it might bo to New Orleans. As to the Jowlands along the Lowor Missis- sippi, the bronkiug of tho embankment at Bonnet Carro illustrates how protection against tho floods can bo obtained most quickly and cheaply. Sinco tho water of the Mississippi hins been nllowed to find o natural outlet through the Bonnet Carro crevasse into Lake Pontchartrain, tha river has beon lawered abiout four feot, giving ao much additional protection to tho lowlands, A fow miles below New Orleans another out- lot can bie quickly and chenply made into Lake Borgne, which is, in fact, n bay, and a further reduction of soveral feet will thus be secured. Other crovasses may bo used in the snme way, and tho floods of Red Ltiver diverted by the samo menns aud mndo to dischargo in the Gulf through the western part of the State. It is believed that a couplo of million dollars thus employed will relievo the Lowor Miusissippl of at least fifteon foot of water from Vickaburg down, and protect tho entire country lelow Memphis. But this plan would not hielp ont Mr. EAps, nor contributo a construction fund of a hundred millions * for the benefit of the South.” Anidon can bo hiad of the manner {n which the national debt of Franco fs°distributed umont the people from the following figurcs. The number of men fn France over 21 years fs about 7,000,000, and the number of bondholders nearly 4,600,000 Number of hold- ers of renles, Amount of an. nual rente, France, 25,111,783 304,947,151 440,000 07,450,470 601,248 < Total vieseoaid, 380,003 748,404,071 Intercst in Federal money equal nearly to 8150, 000,000. A popular loan bond, principal and in- terest payable In currency, would undoubtedly be subscribed for by millions of poople In this country, just as has been the case in Franco and Great Britaln, ———— Mr. CaTacAzT, the former Minister of Russia at Washington, has published a pamphist in Taris on **The Eastern Policy of Great Britatn.” o holds that the present attitude of England is Inconsistent with her fundamental principle of recognizing and making the most of every social or political fact. The decay of Moslom {nfluence in Europo is, ho says, afact. En- gland's refusal to admit it I8 a departure from ler teaditional policy, due to her antiquated notlons about Russian power on the Bosphorus, endangeriug the English commercial road to Indin and tho Persfan Gulf. A really great commercial nation, Mr. CarTacazy adds, ought to desplise policy “*based on exploftation and monopoly." This Is, perhaps, as clear an expo- surc of the Inconslstency and absurdity of the present courso of English diplomacy as has ever been made. — The fullowing is from the St. Peterstiurg corre- apondence of the Philadelphin Press: Tho price of provisions rixen 10 and 40 per cent, whils the paper money, thay is poured ont In fncesennt voluines, has depreciated over Arty per centy and s _constantly prowing more worthicss, ‘The'calling ont of the’ rescrves has atripped tha fieldw of thelr Isharers, tho railronds of their mokt experiencod employow, the mannfactorles of thelr vikliled workmen, and even tho streat-railways of o large purt of their men and horscs, Conmerco s ata stand, and most of tho heaviest merchants at 3Morcow, Lero, and st Odossa have falled, 5 We have a class of poople in thia country ‘who are clamoring for the Government to pour out * papermoney * in linitlcss volutne, “Yheir {dca s that if a carnlval of gambling and infla- tiou could be once more Inaugurated In this country, they would have another chance to be- come members of tho stoddy aristocracy, e ———— A Washiugton dispatch says that it “is cur- ront talk here, among thosy opposed to the re- clection of RANDALL a8 8peaker of the House, that Col, Triomas A. Bcorr Intends to take o hand m the Hgbt and do all he can to defeat RaNpALL, unless the latter pledges himsell to ald the passaize of the Texas Pacilic Rallroad Bubsidy bill. The managors of the road are al- veady here Jooking tho ground over, and it Is sald to bo Col, 8cott’s purpose (u renting the residence of the late Chilcf-Justice Cuasx to en- tertaln in princely style, and by this means sc- cure the votes of memuers (n favor of bis bill," SR A Marbla counters aud plate-glass are at a dis- count {n the savings banks now, but the depos- itors are to blawe for them, The tigures showed that they patronized this kind of institutions more than the other, Tho eyidences of wealth wero intended to nspire them with confldence, aod did insplro them with confidence. 1€t bad not been known that fgnorant people demanded such things as conditions of patronage, they would not have been provided. e — Mr, CHAMBERLAIN, late (iovernor of South Carolina, i3 invited to rise and explaiv, or to ex- plaln’ witbout rising, or to contess judgment by sllence, Thu period of bis apotheosis Las pass- ed. Howas lnaposition to know the facts in connection with the KiueroN frauds, and fur hiin not o know them was a public offeuse, un- der the wircumstances, as fagrant as it would bave beea for him to kuow the truth and con- ceal it In his speech at Chattannogs, Postmaster- Geotral Ky sald that ho had gone with his section sud enterod futo the Rebelllon as bon- estly as any Bouthern man could, aud though he thought st the time be waa right, and would make no confeassion of repentance for the part Lo bad taken, he would say frankly that we made 8 very great mistake, committed a very serlous error”; and, after referring to the ef- forts of the South, sald: Ve accomplished no resutta, exenpt it be the emancipation of stave- ry. which we certalnly did not ficht for. It was an error, an unfortunate error, as the num- berless widows and orphans, the 500,000 graves, and the public debt, which all had to pay snd no result accomplishied, couldl testity." e —— MENRY WaRD BarcnEr showed his wisdom when e made the most of the notoriety that thescandal-trial gavehim. The profitable lecture tour heenjoyed then was probably the last of his financisl successes, Ilis printed sermans are now adrug fo the market. The plates and copyrights of the period between 1861 and 1573 were sold for $475 recently, and the new serles never yet printed was disposed of for $230. —e— The New York Independent roemarks that President Havzs is simply carrging out the principles to which both himsell and hls party were cxplicitly committed. lle s sceking to givo them the form of facts, as well as that of words, doing as a8 Presfdent what as a candidate he sald ho would do, if clected. If Republicans did not mean It, they shonld have said it. Thelr candidate both sald {t and meant it. g — e President HATES aptiy sald §n the Routh that when Greek met Greek the slde which had the most Greeks was bound to win, Modern war- fare Is slowly but surely extending the applica- tionof this nphorism, and we shall soon be oblized to say, *When Man mects Man, the side with the most’ men Is bound to win. The rule has aircady been established as between the Turks and the Russians. e g— e x Mr. Hesay Watrzason, the brilifant and genial editor of the Loulsvillo Courler-Journal, pald a ying visit to the vity yesterday, and re- turned homo last night. He says ho has not been fu Chicago befors since 1809, and In the meantime has gained Afty pounds avoirdupols, and is glad he Is no longer a Congressman,— prefers to be an editor. e —ma— The military attache of the United Btates with tho Russian army s a raw boy named Green, formerly private sceretary to the Secre- tary of War, now a Lleutenant in tne army, England is represented by Col WELLESLEY, an officer of world-wide fame; and It does scem that our Government ight have chosen an of- fleer of 1arger exerience with credit to isself, e — Thero sre two things a woman cannot do-— throw a stone or sharpen & lead-pencil. The deflciencics of the sex in this respect prove that women are constitutlonally Incapable of success Inthe higher walksof journallam. For what {8 “ journalism,” so-called, but throwing stones and sharpening lead-penells? ——— The 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat propascs to form # muscum out of tho assetsof the broken Chi- cago eavings banks. We will agreo to let in the Bridge bonds, the 8t. Louls Chamber of Com- merce stuck, and certificates of devosits in the baaks down there that started the troubla here. A reporter in New York asked MAX MARETZER whether he thought opera-boutle lkely toretain It hold upon tho people. * Why should iti" queried MARETZEK, scemingly unconscious that Le had put the whole argument in an eplgram. ————— Dr., Tunrix, the Fldelity Recelver, Is a person- 8l friend of Judge Moons, who appointed him, and a brother Elder with him in tho Third Pres- byterlan Cliurch. The capacity and Integrity of the Reeclver have nover been questioned, ettt Mr. Broner still prates about Infldelity, just 88 BATAN rebukes sin. The two old gentlemen ought to bo suthoritics, for they have had vast cxpericnco of the ovils they preach avout. o —— . BYpnEY Mrxns' asscts appear to consist of a tooth-brush and one change of linen; and sluce ho has been in bed for the last fow days we are not g0 sure about the latter item. e —— MacManonahould be more tender of TIERs' poathumous fame. He may have only that kind of fame himsclf a few months hence. e Postmaster-General KEY has no need to ex- plain that * crring brothren ™ {8 an orthodox phrase. Tho twang fs unmiatakable, e g — PERSONAL. The Popo's death will pr;)bnhly be kopt secret for days after its occurrance. Prince Bismarck on the war: * I think each army is getting joet the thrashing It de- The S8an Franciscans are still unable to dectdo whether Miss Kellogg or Misa Cary Is the greater ainger. Alden, of the New York ZTimes, has writ. ten a delighttul article on the anggostive toplc of ** Flshingns an Infatuation."” Schoeppe, the German mmnrderer, forger, sedacer, and frand, was Iately seon at £t. Loanls, which he saysecems more llke home te him than any other city in the Union. John E. Williams, President of the Matro- politan Dank In New York, whoss death wae lately notlced, was prominent in connection with the Children's Ald Boclety and tho Sanltary Commis. slon. ‘Wooden revolvers wero found on the body d Lioutensnt. It was surmlsed real weapons in gambling, and ubstitutes 1o conceal hia fanlt The way they haze a new girl at Wellealey Colloge, in Massachusctts, is Lo give her s bouquet, {nvite her to s reception, and kiss her all sround, No doubt the younz men st colloge will agree to treat now girle in the same way. When Gen, S8herman was in Montanas, his host asked at dinner: ** What do yon 'sposs them grapes cost by tho pound?" The General politoly gnesecn; 't About twenty-five cents,” *‘Far from it," was the triumphant reply, **They cost nearer a dollar,** Cole Younger, the mnotorious Northfield robber, condemned to imprisonment for life, has becomo very devout, and l{lind-l ‘much of his time realing his Bible and roligions books, 16 saya he s well satisficd with his present situstion, and thinks be Is juat where he ougut to be. Baruum is twenty-seven years older than his wifo, She wss engaged to marrya former treasurer of his, It becama mecessary for her to write him seversl lottera her lover's death. Hie waa captivated with I yle, offered marrlage, ted, Thus was manifested the fine nd other sense, such as he has—of Phineus T Barnam, & Mr. William Henry Fox Talbot, whose death in London has already beon announced, had renched the advanced sge of 77 yests. He willbe remembered as the discoverer, aimaltancously with Daguerre, of the photographic process, —the Iattor uslng & tablet of silver-plated covper Ihe formera shieet of paper covered with & changeable salt of alver. Mehomet Ali recently had a very narrow escape from capture. Tle was making & reconnols- sance with his staff, whon they unexpectedly came upon & large pazty of Cossacks, who at once pave chase, and met and several of his party were saved only by the superior feetness of their horses, As It was, & Colonel, two Captains, and & Licaten. a5t wers overtaken and made prisoners. One of the eccentric things done by William E. Baker st his ** Governor's feta™ at Wellesley lsst week, was to provide his 1,500 gueats with toy balloons, to be let off at the mo- ment the corner-stone of his trypho-phagian in- stitute was lald. ft wass comical sight to bebold grave clergymen clinging to the gaacous baubles usually consigned to the bandsof juveniles. Matthew Aruold admita the irregularitios of our langusge, but be says that **the Boglish uatlon will not be induced, " In the bape of makiug opelling casier, ** Lo take to writing * Loed us not futa temtashun,* " **\Whst changes are made," bo adds, ** will not bo mads in the hope of making apelling essler to chilaren, bat because certaln things In our present spelling are ireational.* The Rev. George Daffield, D. D., of Lan- sing, bas beon sppolated & Regent of the Univer- sity of Michigan. Dr. Dufiield is well known ia tho central past of 1Ninols, whers ho was & most successful pastor, Trustoe, 8ad member of the Ex- ecutlve Committee of Knox College. No better maa could bave been found in Michigsn to Il the Jmporiant pusition for which he bas becn sslectad, WASHINGTON. The President Perfectly Satisfied with His Southern Trip. Alex, H. Stephens Expresses Himsolf Openly in Favor of Hayes' Course, Result of an Inspection the Prominent Public Bulldings. of Only One ot Them Considered to Be Btrictly Firc-Proof. The Buga-Irmportars Ahead in Thelr Way With the Treasury Department, THOE S0UTH. NORTII CAROLINA APPOINTMENTS. Spectat Davatch to The Chicaga Trisnne, Wasuinaron, D. C., Sept. 2he~A prominent Repubtican from North Carolina says that the President’s appointments in that State haye miven very great satiafaction, and have encour. aged the Republicans to more decided action then they have taken for years. There is 39 dissatlefaction among tho North Caroling Re- publicans with the Presldent's policy. The old line Republicans at onc time had feared that Dockery and a number of so-called old Whigs would dictate the Presldential appolntments, but these recommendations in nearly cvery instance have Ucen disreganded, as it was (s covered that the men they had selected werg not geuerally men of suflicient character. ALEXANDER 1. STEPHENS had an interview with the Presldent this attee. noon. Mr, Stephens was accompanted by ex. Representative Young, of Georgla, and by g nephew. Stepliens has greatly improved | health sinc ho left. Washington in the early part of the last Congress. After being lifrey trom his carrage ho was able to support himsclf uton his crutches to tne Blua Parlor, The card of Mr, Stephens found the President ot Tunch, but the Iatter immediately came down to gea the leading man of Georgia. The Interview between them was. of the most cor- dial character. Mr. Blephens took occa- slon to congratulats the Presldent upon the policy of the Admintstration. Iorelterated the view which he has recently expressed in oublie. Mr. Btephens ¢pngratulated the Prest- dent that the Boutliern policy, or, as he pre- ferred to call It, the administration of the Gov- ernment In accordance with the constitutional principles of home-rule, had gained for him the cordial approbation of the people of Georals and i OF THE ENTIRE SOUTIL Mr. Btephens safd that the coursc of tho Prest. dent was dofng much to remove the barriers be- tweon the scctions, und to assuage toe Dbitter feclings of the War, and he tendered to the President the assurance of his entire support and approbation. Mr. Btephiens prefers constitutlonal policy to Southern policy, and {8 of opinion tbat Presl- dent Hoyes is acting In accordance with the dJeffersonian doctrine of home-rule, Mr, Steph- ona does not hositato to say that {n his oplnion President Hayes hiad done more for the pacifica- tion of the country than Mr. Tliden mflx bavo done had he been inaugurated. A RECOMMENDATION, In his conyersation with numerous political fricnds who have called upon lilm, Mr, Steplicns advocates the appointment of a Bonthern man to the vacancy on the Bupreme Court beneh, .,l‘?l mmrér'nmemu ex-Gov. Herschel V. Jobnson, of Georgia. Mr. Stephena is for Ranaall for 8peakor, es lmel.\lly on the ground that his course durieg he Electoral trial, which was opposed to thoss Democrats wha desired to prevent the decislon of the Electoral Commission from belng carried out, was such that Randall ddescrves tho thanks of the entire country. Mr. Stephens also favors the Texas Pacific subsldv. RETURNING PROSPERITY, To the Western Assocated Press, Wasninaron, D, C.. Bept. 2—ten. A C, Jones, who mode an extended and oflicial tour ihrough the Southern States, represcnts that everything throughout the Jouth Bcnrl the ap- pearunce of growing prospesity and reviving traae. A TALE WITII TNY PRESIDENT. President Hayes, in aninterview, says that, as far as he was sble to Judge, the Mouthern peo- ple were enthusiastic and loyal to the represent. ative of the common Governinent as auy, and he hoped there was no particular South; that Southern Intercsts and Northern Intercsts wero {dentical, and that the maln object to be con- sldered was unity of interest in improving the material prosperity of the country. He desired to learn the wants and conditions of thie peoplo throughout the Unlon, and that tho people wers ho beat judges of the effect of lus Southern visit, Iu summed up Ly saylug: * Nothing could be pleasanter than my trip throughout, The country is apparcntly recovering from Its extremo business prostration, ond the agricult- ural portion of the South scems to have (et the hard times leas than others. 1 believe the era of good teeling between tho North and South is permanent, and they are sincere in thelr cx- preasion of a conimunity of fnterests.’” PUBLIC BUILDINGS. ONLY ONH OF TIEM BTRICTLY PIRE-FROOF, &peciul Diapaich to The Chicago Tribune. ‘Wasuinarow, D, C., 8ept. 20.—The exack condition of the roofs of tho different publie bulldings, according to the Evedny Star, which has given the subject a thorough invest!gation, Is ns follows: The now State Department fs of ron, covered with sheathings of copper, be- neath which, instead of sheathing of wood, 158 Isyer of concrete, a patented substance pre- sumed to be fire-proof, The now wiug of the Treasury Depsrtment has an Iron roof fnlajd with the same concrete material as tho Stats Department. It ls sald to be fire-proof, The other portions of gghe building, the older oues, wiile haviog what is deemed iu architectural eclence & safe roof, Is not fire-proof. It has a layer of sheathing boards of white pine cBvercd with copper. For s layes between tho roof and bullding there are ARCIHES OF CORKUGATED IR0X. In the space under the eaves of tha entire bulld- ing, however, tons of old records arc stored, and If & fire got In among them incalcuablo damago would bo done belore its progresscoutd bo checked, ‘Tho roofs of the War and Navy Departments are of plne wood, dry almost as cinder, sud s firo which would gain headwsay would swecp away the buildiogs and records before its progross could be arrested, Undertho eaves ol both are stored papers aud records, theaccunus lation of years. The roof of the Post-Ofico Dcepartment I8 somewhat similar to the portion arnm Patent Otlice destroyed by Monday's fire, except that brick arches rnu been placed betwecn the ruof and the lower floors, Thess archcs would CURCK TUE PROGRESS OF A PINE, but inasimuch as tons of ol papers and records arcstored away in the space between the roof and the arches, it is belleved thatif a tiro caugit among them the expansion of heat would be s great that tho arches would give way, iall to the tioor below, and thus give the famcs & good chance to sweep through aud around the bullding. The Cuvltol bulluing Is likewise dofvctive in the roof. AMuch of ita construction {s of fron, but sheathing bosnis covered with copper aro used as a layer iu al rtions of It, except that po:tlon occupled bY be Congressional ibrary, which is DREMED TO BE FIKE-FHOOT. Under all the wings, however, lke the otber buildings mentioneq, there are tous upon tuuk .of docuincnts which, if ouce in a msas of tauie, inight produce heat sutficient to topple in the dome. There 8 not s pubilc bullding in the clty, with but one single exception, that can be ed absolutely fire-proof, und witn but the same exception there is not ouo that is nob fAlled with a powder mazazing, waiting vnly 1bs application of the ini THE TEXAS PPACIFIC. BROWN, OF TENNK3SNN. Bpecial Disvaich to Tha Chicage Triduss. Nxw YOBE, Bept. 20.—A Washingtop specisl says ex-Gov. Brown, of Teunessoe, Vice-Fresl- deut of the Texas Pacific Raltroad Company, i at Washington, and bis Dresence sugzests tbe supposition that be bas come her In the lnter- est of that cuterprise. Oun belng Intervieweds Brown sald ho was mercly pasalug throuh Wasbington oo bis saturn fram the East, asd