Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 3, 1877, Page 4

a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1877. Thye Tribune, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, TY MAIL~1¥ ADVANCE~—POSTAGR PREPAID. iy Fditlon, one year.. 00 P i ey ek ot 00 330 200 30 Cme cony. per yeal .8 1.30 o uber 00 Frectmen coples sent ree, Gire Fost-Uflice address n fall, including Btate and Connty. Remittances may be made either hy draft, expross, Tost-OfMce order, orin registered letters, &t our risk. TERMS TO CITY SURSCRINERS. Taily, delivered, Sunday exeented, S5 cents per weeke Lavy, deifvered, Funday tncluded, 0 cen week. Address THE TRIDUNE COM Lorner Madison end fieashora-sta., C| Orders for the delivery of TAR Tminuxx at Evanston. Englewoud, nnd flyde Pack feft In tho counting:rvom “lilrecelve romnt attention. MeVicker’s Thentre. Madfxon street, between State and Dearhom, ““The Ttella™ and** I're Written to Rrown." Mesdames Maye, Stoncall, et Mesers Wheelocis, MeVieker, e, Randolph street, Le and Tacatles SEtrack Of1.” Mewdanies Moore, Smith, ctc. ; Mcsira Wililamson, Sulllvan, ete, Tinverly’s Theatre, Monroe sircet, corner of Deatborn, '*Acroat the Continent." Coliseum Novolty Thentre Clark street, between [andolph and Washington. ¥ariety performance, MeCormick Hall, Kladle, Lecture hy Wen- nce, MONDAY, DECEMBER 38, 1877, OOICAGO MARKET BUMMARY. The Chicaru produce markets were lcsa active Saturday, und most of them were firmer, Mess poriz closed 74e per brl higher, at §1 for new, spot, and $11.00%12,024 for Janu Lard clos 10¢ ner 100 1bs higher, at caehnnd $7.55 for Jannary, Meats were 3 at 43¢ for boxed shoulders and Uige for o short ribe, Whixky was auoted at $1.00 per jmilon, Flour was dull, Wheat closed #c higher, at &1.07% for Decemberand 31,041 forJanuary, Corn closed tame, ut3215@421{¢ for December and 40363 40%cfordanuary, Oats closed Jie higher, at S5 1424 c for January, Ryo was steady, Darley closed 1%¢ higher, at 61%c cash for January. Ilogn were steady, at .30 pee 100 Jbs, Caltle were in fatr at 32.021@4.80. Sheep were - quiet, storo ln Chicago, 4,803 bels, Pork in New Yors, 19,7H brla, forl do, 13,008 tcs, ITozs packed tn this city doring last month, 418, - b3 head. Received in Chleago lnst week: 09,0:91 Brle tlone, 450,671 bu_ wheat, O85,002 bu corn, 270,105 bu oate, 26,235 bu rye, 104,080 bu barloy, 117.411 live hogs, 13,057 head cattle. Exporte from New York Inst week: 15,000 bris flonr, i 010 bu corn, Inapected tarday mormne: 174 cars 12 cars vaty, 15 card eyc, and a2 Total (183 ears), 198,000 bu. Oaohandred aoliars In yold would buy $102.871; 1 greenbacks at the close, In Nuw York Saturday greenbacks mnged {hronghout the day at H7}, The President himself will adimit that he has wado some mistakes in his appointments. In tho matter of the Marshalship of Goorgia, tho almost universal opinion among Repub« licans will Lo that ho bas **blundered," and that probably not one Iepublican in a mill. fon will indorsa the appointment of ¥Firz. SIMMONS, Awmong tho religious matters included in our colluction this morning nre sermons by , Prof. Bwino and the Rev, H, W, Tnosns upon subjocts of interest; besides accounts of the dedication of the new and beautiful sudience-room of Graco Methodist Church, and of the dedication of the new synngogua of tho Sony of Abrahiam, and of the exer- cises in connection with the celebration of tho twenty-fifth annivarsary -of Dlymouth Congrekationn! Chinreh, e ———— OnyaN Pashn, beleagired in Plavna, is safd by doserters from his camp to contemplate n sortio of desperation {f not rolieved with. in n fortnight, Gon, Jawartierr and Prince Gontscmanxorr go to the hemdquariers of Nicnotas Tuesday, and it is to be hoped that the cfforts of diploniacy ny prevent n culiaination which wonld choko the gullies with & crunson fuundation beside which the previous Lutcheries iu those terrible re- doubts all put togather could furnish no parallel, ——— A trio of extrnordinary tragedios, all of thein having os their cause the crime-pro. ducing combination of love and jealousy, is rocounted in thy dispatches this morning, In Clevoland a singularly-deliberate and coolly-planned murder was perpotrated by a man upon his former mistress Lecanse sho sefused to live with him ngaln; in Mont- gomery, Ala., two lovers were found dead in the cemectory, oach with a plstol.ball in {he hoad,—u easo of murder followed by suicide; and in Norfolk, Va., o youth of 19 shot and Lilled a miss of 17, and thon gavo himself o probably futal wounil, T ——— A very intoresting lotter {w printed this morning from a correspondentin Japan, who, in visiting the snclent City of Kyoto, for n thousaud years tho seat of Govornment, scowns to hnve been fortuvato iu finding vast quantities of material for description not herefofore used by travelers, Tho anciont city i not only the most famous in Japan, but itis evidently one of the rare spots of tho world, with its six thousand temples, pa- godas, snd chapels, and gods by the huu. dred thousand. It is besides an almost nn- discovercd reglon, since fow travelers have visited and still fower have written of it. In the roport of the Bacrotary of the Navy attoution Is called to n samplo of #io econ. omy which the Democratie reformers of tho Torty-fourth Congress advertised to the couutry with such o tremendous flourish. Tho nmount astuully needod for the poy of the wvuvy for the present flscal year was 87,300,000, the catimato befug based upon the number of oflicers upon the pay reglster, and the puyment of whose wages, buing fixed by law, could not bo ovaded, Yet {he reformen reduced the appropriation for this purposs to £6,600,000, und hoasted a saving to the Government of 3700,000, Conse- quently a deficiency ta this amount is the rosult, und it must be made good ; no bogus economy cai wipe out that fact. What the Forty-fourth Congress failed to provide for tho poyment of the officers and men of the mavy the Forly-fifth will have to wake good, and that iv ull thero is of it ——— ey Becretary Bonusz, in his forthcoming an. nual report, discusses the Indian question ot great length, and outlines a policy which in Lis judgment will in great measure remedy existivg evils, Ho would bave the Goveru. moat keep faith with tho Indiags in every ruspect, uever promiging moroe than it iy sble snd williug to perforn, and then fulfilling its promises to the lotter, He thivks hunting should be as far a4 possilly discouraged, and the necessitics of tribes which now subsist by the chase supplied in another way—by removing them to emll reservations whero farming and cat- tle-raising can bo commenced upon a small reale, and the Indinns gradually nssisted to. ward a self-sustaining condition; by the employment to the utmost possible extont of Indians to do the work now done by white mon on the Government farms and on tho reservations. Tho law for the protection of lifo and property shonld bo rigidly enforced by tho establishment of proper tribunals and by the employment of Indians ns n police forco for tha maintenanco of order, and schools should be established among thom, and the attendanco of every Fifteen hundred morchants and manufac- turers of Paris yesterday drew np an ad: dress appealing to MacManox to yiold to the wishes of tho nation, a3 evinced by the recently-clected Republican majority in the Lower Houso of tho French Congress. -This would scem to indicate the nntonnbility of 3MacManox's position cvon ¢f et armix, a8, when tyranny has renlly threatened nation in the past, tho *merchonts and mannfac- turers " of great ciliea havo nsually sont in their ndhesion to the appronching regimo with all the alnerity that moneyed intorests could comnnnd. One hnndred nnd twenty members of the Teft in the Chamber nlso decidod yesterday that the projets for appro- printions should not recoive their votes until the Marshal shoulil havo roturned to coustl- tutional and parliamontary methods snd principles. We call attention to the lotter of the ven- erable ‘TinvnLow Weep on the silver question. o states some facts aud makes somo points which will prove hard nats for the goldites to crack. Mr. WEep says that * nothing appeared in tho debates in Congress on tha Mint bill of 1878 showing that any member was aware that the bill, npparently harmless, not only doprived the coun'ry of one-half of its monetary power, bnt was in violation of the Constitution.” He brings out Gnaxr's lotter, written Oot. 3, 187, seven months nfter the passage of the act demonetizing silver, to show how the President had Leon overrenched, aud did not know when he signed tho Dill that it prohibited the coinago of legal-tonder silver dollars. CGnast was wondering why silver was not coming' into the market after tha panic to relieve the monetary stringency, and he was nstonished still moro whon he afterward found out that the reason no silver wns coming uto civeulation was becanso he hadsigned a bill which proventedit. And yet we are assured by tho Nation, the New York 7'mes, the Boston Adrertiser, and other Eastorn papers, that the bill waa fally and elaborstoly disenssed in Congress, and that nll the membors well knew and intended that it should demonetizo tho silver dollar! Har- wteap, who lias lost his temper after refuting this fnlschood nbout five hundred timos, proposes that those who repeat it ghall have their honds well pounded with a stuffoed club, &0 04 to bring them to a realizing senso of the enormity of their porverse deception, THE_ RAPACIOUS ORY FOR QOLD. ‘The Nation continues to denonoco overy- body who favers the remonetization of silver a3 eitber dishoneator as Iaboring under an ignoranco mora disgracoful thun dishonesty, It is especlally concerned for the Western press, aud fails to find language sufficiently strong to exprews its disgust for the * fronzy of 'I'nr: Ciioaco Tmwone; and, beloving tho * horrible ™ ignorauce of this paper to Do feigned, intensifics ita Indignation, be- causa * no real jgnorance of the fgnorant, lowover brutal, 13 as alarming and kopoless n th.ing a8 tho sham 1gnoranco of the know- ing.” Ot courso the Nation denizs tho secrosy and trickery by which the coining of the silvor dollar wna abolished by the act of 1873; it repeats the story that the bill wes **three yenrs liefora Congress nnd the country ; was oxnmined in committee, and reported on, and debnted, with elaboration and minuto. ness,” Tho suppression of the silver dollar wns accomplishod by the omiesion of that coin in the list of thoso authorized to be colned; the law itself nover mentioned the silver dollar, and there was nothing . in its language to indicata that the further coin. ing of the dollar was probibited. Tho fact that the particular section of the law by which this act was done wps not known to the country is oatablished by ovidenco that tho country guocrally, and most of thosa who votod for the bill, wero not aware until 1875 that such a chango in tho law bhad cver been made. V/ill the Yation plenso refer the public to the dates and numbers of its own paper {n 1873 in which tho demonatization of silver and tho establishment of a sfugle gold stondard, ns thon proposed in Congress, wore explainod and dofended? Will it stato tho rensons then given for such a cliango ? Will it rofer to tho dates of other papers in 1878 in which tho fact that a bill demonetiz- ing tho silver dollar wny atated to be then pending befory Congroess, and in which auch Dill was *debated with claboration and mi- nuteness”? The Lill ns it passed the Houss was never read nor printed ; tho 1ouso was Just then engaged in doctoring the *Dback. pay " swindle, aud had no timo to finvesti. fate, and this swindle ‘wos pushed through withont ever having been read, ‘I'ho oceasion of this most racent ontbreak on the part of tho superciliona and insolent organ of the monoy-lendors s en nppoal to tho President not only to veto tho Silver bill now pending In Congress, but to veto any bill in any form for the monotization of silver and tho restoration of tho dual stund- ard. "Tho Prosident is not only required to do this, but ho is told that he must veto the Lill and give such reasons therefor as will satisfy the whole country of tho fniquity of lnving ooy other money then gold. Mr, Becrotary Buznaax profusses to be in favor of tho romonetization of silver, provided that it bo not made & logal-tender in pay- ment of the principal or intercst of the public debt. The MNation, hawaver, ropudiates this policy, and addressing the President tells him that tho money-lendors will not bo content with this; that the men who lent greenbacks worth 80 cents on farm mortgages are as much entitled to bhave metallio money made scarce, aud gold made more valuable, and to be paid in gold, as bavo the holders of uational bonds. It in. sists that when the policy of chesp property and dear money is enforced upon tho coun- try the holders of farm mortgiges skall have the ‘benefit of the robbery as well as the bolders ,of national bonds, Hero is what it says ou this point: Tt will, of couric, be well to secure the veto of the bill on sny ground whatever, but we make botd 1o aay that If the President refuscs tosign It sime ply outof constderation for the bondholders he ‘will make a mistaxe, and loss & grest opportunity ot hielplag to clear tho public wind on the whole of this currency questlon, The cry which the rep: distore and Infationists have used over siuce the beginnlug of thiy controveray, that ** tnere ought Bt to beone mouney fur the boudbolders and un- Othas for the people,” is really unsnswerable. It B vetocs this bill for the saku of tho Losdbaldes 10 objections; but on behalf of the peoplo scarcely tho monoy with which to pay them, Natioual Government. above and below New Orleaus will at onco he will give It fresh forca by making the ineqnality the more consplcnons, . . ., In short. there Ie no clasg of the community enzaged In an honeat calling, and needing security for their po<sesrions and thelr contracts, which & not jnst ne much en- titled na the hondholders to such protection agamnat the silver and anti-resumption legislation as the Preeident can give. Now, instead of demanding of the Presi- dent a veto messnge in which he will give such reasons for having gold coin only as a legal-tondor ns will satisfy the country snd put an ond to the double-standard dolusion, why does not the Nation itself givo theso rensons? Why call upon - the President to instruct the people on a mensurs of such nationnl importance when tha Nation, which considers itsolf compotent to instruct the President, ean dircotly inatrnct tho people? It would bo resented in the Nation ofilco na an arrogant assumption on the part of the Prosident or any other person to pretend to know ‘as mmuch on this or any other subject as does tho Nation; why, therefore, delegato this important duty of instructing tho Amorican people to a gentloman born and educatod fin tho Western wilds of Americn, when the editor of the JVation, fresh from Trinity College and thorouglly vorsed in the politienl economy of the Dub. lin school, may do the work so much more effectunlly, nnd diroctly, nnd satiafactorily ? Lot tho Vation leave not to others thoe work of publio onlightenment ; fet it utilizé the vast fund of superior knowledge it possessos, nor leave n whole people to perish 'in iguo- ranco when it nlone may save thom, We ngain muggost to all thoso organs who domand the extinction of all motallic money save gold to consider if their real interests aro not after all in the policy opposed to that which they urge with such wolfish rapacity. Who aro the people of the United States in whose wenl or woo the Govern- ment {8 to bo administered ? Throe-fonrths of them nt present, and with an ever-increns- ing proponderance of numbers, inhabit the ‘West and the Sonth, They arc comparatively tho ploncors who have inhabited what has alresdy becomo the seat of empire in the great Itepublic of Btates. In the East, capital is lying idle for want of cmploy- ment ; mines are closed; furnaces and mills and fnctories aro silent; labor i4 unem- ployed, destitute, and starving; tho cities and towna and the highwaya are swarming with tramps sccking food and rapidly tend- ing towards crime; industry is comparatively ot a stand, ond why? The roason given is that the thirty and more millions of people of the Southern and Woestern States do not or connot purchase so mnch of the products of the Northeastorn States as they havo done in former dnys. The BSouth hss been desolated and impoverished.’ The West hins had to open up nnd develop a vast aren. Tho West is rich in production, but it is in debt. It had to borrow * cheap” dollars and pay large rates of interest. It Las seen thoss dollara appreciate 16 to 20 per cent In value, but it fis barely paying its debts undor the changed circumstances. The demand is now made that the gold dollar whick is now represented by a bushel of grain shall horeafter call for n bushel and a balf; that a mortgage which now calls for 100 acrea of land will require herenfter 160 acros to eatisfy it; that all debts shall heroaftor Lo paid not merely in dollars of the ordinary valuo of 100 cents, Lut in dollars so sppreciated in valuo as to bo equivalont to 50 per cent more labor and 50 per cont more property. 'Tho peoplo of tho Wost who have borrowed the dopreoi- ated rags of the monoy-lenders will pay nll their dobts in the current monoy of the land, —oven In coin,—but they can never pny those debts if thore be no money save gold, rendered soarce and advanced in valuo Ly the demonetizatiou of silver and tho depre- ciation of all othier forms of property. Isit the best policy, then, of these money-lond- ‘ors to peraist in their schemo of co nflscation sud plunder, and destroy the peoplo upon ‘whoso success, and prosperity, and growth in wealth dopend tho rostorstion of business and tho rovival of tho iudustry in those Northern and Eastern Btates now overrun by tramps, and whoso labor is 8o largely unem. ployed? LEVEES AND LEVIES. Internal improvements which require the systematio obstruction of Nature are the niost expensive and usually tho most fruit- less n country can engoge in. There are cx- ceptions to the rule, as in the case of Ifol- land, but it is a sound principlo that im. provasinents of this description in n.now country are not worth making. Tho wise and economical wethod is that which em. ploys the forces of Nature to remove bar. riors, not that which ercots thermn in deflance of Nature. In the former caso tha work onca done s done forever; in the latter, thy expense of perpotunting it is grenter than its first cost. For this rouson, if fur no other, the schemo for building 1,000 miles of lovees along the Misaissippi River would be objectionable, While it is ovident that tho despening of outleta already existing would furnish to ownors of overflowed lands all the relief needed, it would be mere madness and folly to close those outlots and build up the river higher, This would be aggra- vating the disease for tho pleasure of apply- ing a romody,*-a plonsuro in which private individuals may have the »ight to in. dulge themsolves, but which is not appropri- ato forn Government. 1f thero can bo found individuals or companies rich enough and oxtravagaut enough to make the Mississippi River an aerial highway, we sball interposo who pay taxes, and wjio have at presont wa do objeot to saddling the work upen the The crovasso at Bonunet Carre aud the other openings which can easlly be made provide all the relipf that is nceded. Tz Tripuxs has repeatedly callod sttention to this fact, but has failed to elicit from auy of tho ndvocates of the schemne a satisfactory rosponse. Now comes the 8t. Louis Repus- lican snd shows that it levees wore Luilt slong 1,000 miles of tha river frout, 17,760,000 acres would be redeemed for cultivation; that tho value of the lands thus redeeniod would bo £25 per acre, or $444,000,000; that, it half of them ‘wero raduced to cultivation, they would pro- duce aunually not less than 5,000,000 balos of cotton, 1,825,000,000 pounds of sugar, 100,000,000 gallons of molasscs, and 40,000, 000 bushels of corn,—worth, at prosent prices, $400,000,000. This reads like tho ¢ Arablan Nighte." The droams of ALNas- CHAR were not wmore maguificont or more precise in all their fguring; nor did they come {o naught more utterly than these are deatined to do. Arvascua®m dreamed of every contiugonoy oxcopt that hiy trayshonld Lo upset and hiy glasswaro smushed; so did the gurl with the basket of eggs mako provis. ion for overything but their gotting broken; and thus does the Republican arrange for all but the sporopriation of 100,000,000 which | would bo necessary for its purpose, Nor will it splondid fignring recommend the scheme, ns it imagines, ta the sympathics of peoplo who do not live along tho river. It is merely o propasition to take $100,000,000 from the many for the bonefit of tho fow; to assist o great land speenlation by filching the capital for it ont of the Nationat Treasury; and to tax every producer of cotton, sugar, molnsnes, nnd corn in order that the eompetition ho now endonntens may be increased, be sure that as soon ns the landa nlong the Mlissirsippi aro worth reclniming they will ba reclaimed by privato onterpriso, never bo the dnty of Governmont to reclaim them merely beeatso they aroor can bo made Government is not a monoy-mak- It ought not to have an nere of land, oxcept what may be necéssary of both eountrivs, ‘I'renty of Washingtan waa to decide tha fish- eries question in such n manner as o gecure the cheerfal arsent of hoth parties and pro- mot1 .goad fecling botween them. For this renson an unnnimons decision on the part of the Commission waa desired and contem- plated. The present verdiot, without such an unanimous decision, is ealenlated to en- gonder {ll.foaling Letween the two countries, nnd it 18 not in any degrea charneteristic of the spirit which wuled at Gonova. If the verdict whould prevail, it wonld be a shock to tho principlo of arbitration and the pence. ful petilament of dlisputes from ‘which this country at lenst wounld not son recover, i nmazing {hat even aunch men ns HrstisoroN and Jar Gourp shonld have tho effrontery to proposa it, for ruccess consists in the snme system of bribery and corruption whereby the Credit- Mobitier swindlo was rendered possible. urge it in Congress will be confessedly to enter upon tho samo seandals, tha exposure of which shocked tho entire eivilized world and sent many pnblio men back to private lifo in disgrace, If thero ia any disposition in Congress to exact justico from tho Pacific Mailrond nings, this proposition will bo hooted ont of Congross, aud Mr. Tnonuan's proposition will bo promptly adopted. Tt only chanco THE CANADIAN CATCH AT HALIFAX. T'ho mota the circnmstances of tho Hali- fax nward aro inquired into, the moro does it becume npparent that the United States were overrenched. From the beginning to theend of the negotintions every disputed point was decidod adversely Lo our iutercsts; The appoiniment of n Belginn as umpiro virtunlly gave Groat Britain two reprosenta- tives on tho Commission, while the Unitod Whether inadvertance or favoritism controlled the choics of n na- tive of Dolgium by the Emperor of Austrin enunot be determined; we aro only concern- odat present with the fact that the choico Tho volations oxisting be- ‘tweon Belgium nnd Great Britain are almost 58 closo 08 thoso botween Grent Britain and Conada ; indeed, tha DBritish Government would go o war more promptly to protect Bolginm against aggression than to preserve the integrity of tho Dominion of Canada. The second ndvantage gained by Cane geloction of tho place for the meeting of the Commisaion, fax §5 the contre of the Caundinn interest in tho fisheries question. Local foeling there The sympathies of the umpire must havo beon affected by the tona of pub. lio sentiment around him, enlisted on the slde of Cnnada before coun- sel on cither side had boon hioard or the facts boon presented in an authoritative manner, The Commission might with as great pro- prity have convened at Gloucester aant Halifax. If it had beon called to meot t thie former placo, its decision would proba- bly have been difforent, 1t should have boen sppointed to sit in neutral territory, or in somo one of tho large cities of Canada or tho United States whore the fisheries aro not Another circumstance un. favorablo to the United States was tho ox- clusion of the question with refercuce to trading for supplics in Canada. Both nidos consentod to this exclusion becauso it was sgreed that trade of this description was mutually ndvantagoous. that the justico of the Causdion claim was not officinlly donfed by the Commission leaves it unsettled. It may ngain Le preo- sented, and unsed ne A loverngo to sccure reciprocity, or the concession of it may bo wrged as a reason why the award should bo promptly paid, Thus the United Btates have boen ndjndged to pay $5,500,000 without having reccived the assurance that this sum of monoy will romova tho fsheries quostion, oven for the designated twelvo years, from i dndltition: lighted to learn of the prospect that thera will soon ba n direet roilroad conection be- tween Chicago nnd Kansas City, under the control of the Clueago & Alton Itailrond. The Kt. Lonis newspnpors havo always boen gonerous enongh 1o oxpress the hopo that Chicngo will rench out into tho Southwestern territory, nud tho compleiion of the new rond projected by tho Chieago & Alton Com- pany will necomplish precisely this,. The Chicago & Alton now runs to Mexico, Mo, crossing the Mississippi River nt Luuisinna, Mexico is almost on a straight line cnst of Konsas City. and the Chicngo & Alton peo- ple have decided to build a railrond botwoen thesos two points,-—n distance of 102 miles. It is estimated that, at pres- ont low prices, the entiro work, in- cinding o bridgo ncross the Miseouri Ttiver and depot at Kansas City, can be com- ploted within n cost of §1,000,000, which represonts only $210,000 a yonr, whila the bnsiness nt low estimtto will be thrico that amount, The effect of the new rond will bo to make Chicago tho most dircet and desirn. Dlo outlet for all the grain and cattle trade which contres at Kansas City. As Bt. Louls hias boon constantly wishing Ohieago joy of all it conld gain from such- gounections, it will probably receivo this nows with un- alloyed satisfaction. can dispose of tho land it now at reasonnbla prices, tho ‘better it will booff. As for its engnging in any large schemes of land-improvement, the iden is The reasoning which wonld fnstify it In making Innd along tho Missis. sippi River would justify 5t in cullivating tho lands after ehey wora reclaimed by im. proved processes, and in solling the prod. uets from improved warehousos with the as- sistance of improved and *‘gontlemanty” clerks. Tt 14 time tho functions of Govern. ment should be a littlo moro clenrly under. stood by onr Somnthern brethren, those functions, Statos hiad only one. was improper. under ordinary circum. stances, ia not to keep water off from land for agricnltural purposes any more than to put water npon lands for similar purposes— to dan: in Louisiana and Arkansas nny more than to frrigate in Cnlifornia and Colorado, In shiort, tho Natlonal Government is not n national water-works; it caunot furnish min to the just aud the uujust, or sixty acres and a mnlo to ench and every porson upon the habitable globe. " Tho sooner the faolish notions that it can and will do theso things, vr any of them, are knocked out of tho honds of the Southern people, the better thoy will be off, No doubt he was* JAY GOVLD'S LATEST SCHEME. The Government advanced the Pacifio rail- ronds 864,000,000 in bonds, for the repay- ment of whioh no provision ins been maie, Tho Government liny been paying the inter- est on thesa bonds without any roturn excopt by tho withholding of one.half of the com- ponsation due to the rnilronds on Govern. mont transporiation, so that the railrondsare nearly ®27,000,000 in arrcars on interest Tho Government relonsed ita first mortgage on the railronds to enable them to rniso ns nuch woro money on the security, 'Tha ntock of the rilronds practically doos not represent tho investment of ono dollar, thongh Union Pacific is now worth 66 conta, and pays dividends after supporting a lot of porasito companies that livo on it. Union Pncitle lias passed into the hands of the Jax Gourp Rting; tha Central Pacific Las always been in the hands of the Huxt. The cuterprise enabled the original projectors to steal 40,000,000 or 850,000,000 by moans of- the Credit-Mobilior Construction Compauies, aud has since put other millious into the pockoets of tho specu- latora who posscssod themselves of the stock ot & fow conts on tho dollar, 1t is notoriously time for the Government to take some stops to securo the repayment of its onormous ndvauces, sud certainly to assuro tho current payment of the intercst The law by which the rail- vonds wero chartered Lina been flagrantly violated, nnd tho railronds under the prosent status dofy the Government. DBut Congross has the power to impose now lurms apon-the Pacifio ronds,~n right which was expressly reserved in the original acts, but which would bo vested in Congress even without such reservation. A bill has boon introduced into the United States Scnate by Mr, Tnun- AN with tho purpose of protecting tho Gov- ernmont rights, withont, hlowever, infringing upon the righta of other creditors or op. preasing the Pacifio Companies, in every respoct, oy 1t requires the paymont of 25 por cent of tho net profits of tho rail. ronds fnto the United Btates Treasury, if there shall remain that much aftor paying the intorest on other obligations, and stipu. Intos that dividonds shall not be declared to stockholders until a cortain sum sball bo pald runually to the Governmont by ench of the roads which shall bo applied in proper pro. portion on the ioturest account and to n alnking fund designed for the fual extinguish. mont of tho principal of the debt, Tu order to defoat this proposition, retain all tho present advantages, require new ones, and still further swindle the Government, Mossrs, Jax Gourp and HUNTINGTON are on hand with the most propostorous schemo. They propose that the Govornment shall- neeopt a cortaln small anunal paymont In mouey ou which compound interest shiall bo reckoned, nnd that their obligations shall be dischorged in this manmer; also, that the Coverpment shall tako back 12,000,000 acros of the land originally granted, and thus cau. col ontright 16,000,000 of the presont in. doebtedness, The compound-intercst schemo i4 obviously fraudulent, and the land schome not less rusoally, if ndt quite so apparout, "o begin with, the Govornment holda a mort. #ngo on these Iandy, aud, if that mortyago Is good, nothing would bo gainod by paying ¥15,000,000 for thom. Government mortgage, however, the Com. wmortgage on the limds for over 10,000,000, which smn the Ring divided umong themselves after November, {n Congress, what s conceded to he tho atrongest and ablestspeech yet madeagainst the Ewzsa bill repenling the Resutnptlon snct. We printed at the time o protty full telegraphie abstract of bis remiarks. The speech made a profounu lnpression, and causcd a large num- ber of members to vote azalnst the Itepeal bl Mr, 5. W, Buuckens, of Philadelpbin, a clesr. headed and well-read man, has written a erit- i} iclam of the specch which leaves it in"™ very damaged conditlon, We reproduce the maln polnts of Mr, Snvekzns review of the specch: it will prove Instructive reading to thoughtful men on a vitally important publ. e e a—— local intorests. f flea con be vegarded as camplete whose equip- mentdaes not inctude o big blue pencil and o rtill bigger club. Tho former {8 to mark off from (ho exchango st for 1878 all roptile con- temporaries that print that accursed pocm, + Hitflo Snow 3 the latter shonld be employed to kill subseribers who' bring in the poem and ask the editor to publish it, or authors who pre- tond to have written it. monometallte theorfes thut when bis prospective son-in-lnw sald that bla (the E. 8.'s) daughter had a sllvery voive, he kicked tho young man duwn the front steps, and chaeed him all round the block, o de young man to resuine payment of his addreascs to tho disconsolate girl. Tho award thus obtained will nover be paid unless Canada shall nko consldernblo nbatoments of her demands. The treaty im. plics that an unanimous decision shall bo re- quired to mako the verdicy of the Commis- Tho Oaunndisn nowspapers observo this fact, and spenk with little con. fidence of the prospect of gotting their Thoy hitve good reasou to doubt, Tho Unitod States Government is not dis- rosed to avall itaelf of technieal ploas, but it would bo untruo to itaclf 1f it nasented to n bargain that was consummated by frand and It would bo unwiso and woal it it paid 5,500,000 to sottlo the flshories dis- pute so long as one .part of that dispute is roserved for futuro use by tho Canadian Gov- Payment will not bo rofusad, ox- copt in nccordance with the lotter and apirit of the treaty; but if it slnll appenr, ns it doubtless will, that an unanimous verdiot aud s completo sattlement woro contemplated, Congress will be in duty bound to withhold its sanction from the rosult. Btates will not bo bullied or cosxed into pay- ing the nward as it stands nt present. Al mon, all newspapors, and all partios will bo of the samno mind in this matter, The verdict would be an expenaive ona for Onnodla if it wero onforced, ato a footiug of hostility in this country that wonld find exprossion in a most ungonoerous conunercial policy towardsCannda. Woshould Y0 sorry to seo such a polioy adopted, for it 14 a sound oconomical tmaxim that no country can injnro the commerca of another by local rostrictions without eventually injuring its own. But thero cau be no doubt that rotal- intory monsures would bo taken if the award woro paid on the presont conditious, and Cenadn onnnot nfford as ensily as: the United States can to suffor tho gemio. queneen. It in as trug, moreover, of arbitra. tion and awards aa it is of commerce, that no nation can in the long run gain by overreach- ing or attempting to overreach auother. an ortlelo printed recontly we showed by figures that cannot be disputed that Canada derivosn greater benofit than this country from tho articles of the Treaty of Washington per- tainlng to the flsheries ; that tho fisherios of tho United Btatos oponod to the subfects of tho Queen aro as valuable as those of Can~ odn oponod to citizens of tho United Btatea ; romission of duties on Canadinn fish imported intothe United Btates bas boen on the average mnoarly three tiines tho value of the total catch by Ameri- con vessels in Canalian waters, For Cauada, under theso circumstauces, to iake 35,600,000 from the United States for tho alleged privi- lege of fishing in Oanadian waters is a pro- ceeding of about the moral quality of high- The fnot that thero is a sur- plus of the Alabama award has nothing to do with this question, ‘That surplus is awaiting 8 decision as to whethur the claims of the iz. suranco companies or those of merchants who paid war premiums shall bo given pre- codonce. Xven if thore were no claims of this description to satisfy, and no purposo to which the surplus could honorably be ap- ylied, tho proper use for it would not be the paywent of a cooked-up claim of the Domin- ion of Canada. When the Alabama surplis becomes so heavy on our hands that it seems necessary to dispose of it in the paymont of bave no baws o justice, there will be no difficalty in finding claim- sute just ms impudent, and clalms just o8 fraudulent, as thoso which the Commission st Halifax has produced. Tho award is objectionable, finally, be- cause it iv mot oonclusive noticed, it docs not dispose of the fleheries question oven for thu desiguated twelve years. At the ond of those years, if the ver- dict wero allowed to staud, the ituation would be more criticalthanover. Tho United States would terminato the arrangoment, re- imposo tho heavy dutic¥on Canadian flub, and bring tho subject again before the courts wion binding. FEurope. ‘I'ic British and German Governments havo already made It part of thelr telegraph systems, It 13 rapldly revolutiontzing the transmiaslon of mensazes for short dlatances, Itis st} In ita curly infagey, and will yeb de- velop into uses not concoived of now. restdent of New Haven, as a girl of 14, who welehs 823 pounds, but the paragraphier lost an opportunity which he may never havo agalu this sile of thotomb to say thut she s a ** Solld SouTi,” Pasha politely to the Czar; “I have Plevia for Plenty 1208 1172111¢0) and day by a speclal Blormon guard of honor, onv of to-dav, will'belleve in God nnd peace be- tween all sectlony. 1t wonld goner- oxamined vach vthor In asithmotic, Boeckor broke down at nina tines six and Talmago at twelve thines saven. actions wero ineplred by over-indulgence in ab. slnthe, a Parlslan Lag boen roundly fined and sent to Jail. Tiavelock, M. P, as a war-correapondent, bit he had too hig s #ense of his own fmportance, and was' soon rocalled, used ta fiy nhout the room during dinuer, and bsthe In the Bngor-buwl of tle Secretary when he had doue using It. ada, deslres to correct tho erronccue beliof that there b no fascination {n a drunk, 3o ways thery Is Joy iu it, and he speaxs from experieuce, a beggar 80 years of ago in order to yot possorsion of hor fortune. 8ho ponslofiod hier husbaud line medlately, and hopes socn to pravide for b fu- nezal expenscs. In the faco of this which was offered him by citizens of Montreal in panies put a recognitfun of N sud. Hhat [ the thluk au a Judgy, and belloves it would b unba- comiug for bim to be publicly thanked for dolug his duty as a Judge, The common upinion on this sido the horder will ho that Bir Alezauder was not Judga enough at Hallfex o hurt, Credit-Mobilior ond mortgege be valid, then the acceptance of the land by tho Govornment would prob. ably make the latter liablo for the amouut it roprasents, so that' the Government would, in tho ¢nd, pay 25,000,000 for land that is actuatly and absolutely worthloss. This laud i1 the rofuse of tho Government grant. All the Jand in the original gront that had any value has been gobbled, in one way and another, by tho railvond ringa. which it is proposed to turn over to the Clovernment is ns orid und desolate ns the It cousists partly of tho alkali plains and partly of a ridge 6,000 foet sbove the level of thosea, It iy not worth Thero is uo uso known to man in whick it could be profitably em- Bo far from snpporting cattle, it would wnot furnish the wild buf. to live on; +doubt whether coyotes, prairie-dogs, or oven the grassiioppers could live ou it. ‘The Gov- erument would uover be able to scll a quar- ter-section. Indeed, the Government only received $250,000 last year out of the pick of its best lands, and at this rate it would roquire ono hundrod years to realize the $25,000,000 which the railrosds want the Government to pay aud assume by accept. ing & deed of the land. Indeed, it iv doubt- ful whether the railroads have the power to give a title to the lands under the various wortgages on it. ‘The whole schiewo is one of rank villainy. massacre, and the new Senator from South Caro- s, iv describod as 8 man who looks ke & lamb, of woud helght and Ogure, gentle features, wilh o ¢eneral aspect of oxtremo amisbility, He Jouke nelther Southern nor Northern, but simply & gen- tloman,’ It ls easy to sssoclate bim with housvhiold desert of Sabara. 10 cents o section. tention of tie he YORELG Osman Pasha Will Try™ to Break Out of Plevna if Not Relieved. Gortschakoff and Ignatielf to Go to the Headqunrters of Nlcholas, A United States Military Attaons Rewarded for Peranual Bravery. Tho good poopla of 8t Louis will bo_de- A b ek ety b Tho Popoe Insonsible During o xn of Threo Honrs' Duratio Merchants of Parls Begzing MacMalion to flend 1o Popular Will. WAR TELEGRAMS NEAR BATOUM. Toxnox, Dee, 20—A dispateh from Kars says that Intellfgenco lias been recelved here that the Turks have abanduned Khatzabanl helghts, near Botoum, aud that the Russlans have occupled them. A BORTIE. A dispateh from Bucharcst reparts that recent desertera from Plevnn assert that Osman Pasha has declared his fntentlon of making a sortfe if not retieved within o fortnkght. AEN, 1GNATIEFF AND PRINCH GONTSCHAKOTR go to general headyuarters Tuesday, TURKISH RETREAT, A Russion oflicial dispatch states that, after the eapture of Pravetz, the 'Furks abamdoned Novatchen, Skrivena, and Orchanle, rotreating to a Balkan defile near Uretchest. . The coun. try betweon the rivers Isker and Oust fs yquite frce from Turke, We have occupled Belobroy and Litchevo on tlle Ojrust. Loxvoy, Dee, 3.~A dispatch from Bogot re- porte that Capt, Ureeoe. United States military attache, has recelved the Russian order of St. Audrew for cootnoss In the battles nt Schivka Puss and Plevan. PFRANCE. AN APPEAL TO MACMANON, PArts, Dec. 2.—A meeting of 1,500 merchants and manufacturers to-day drew up an address appealiar to the patriotism of President Mac- Mation to yleld to the wishes ot the majority, in vlew of tho threatened ruin of trado and in the interests of the Internntional Exhibition, NO BURRENDER. At ameeting of 120 members of the Repub. lcan Left It was decided to refuse to vote any part of the budget untll the Government re- turned to parllamentary coursos, A DDEL. MM, Latsant and Do Ja Rochiette, members of the Chiamberof Doputles, fought a duel to-day. The affair grew out of the publication by Dela Rochette of a dispatuging letter n the Unlvers, M. De la Rachetto was wounded in_the thigh, THE HOLY SKE MUST 8X8 T0'1, Loxpox, Dee, .—A Paris dispatch says the Marquis do Baunneville, Minlster of Forelen Aflairs, hins confidentiuily notiled the Vatican that his conduct will be rulded by th strictest guod-wil to the Holy See, but e wiil ot tol erate uny direct interference fn the natlonal af- falrs of Frauce. : > Gen. Gani‘;nn delivered, on the 1ith of questlon. About this timo of year no newspaper of- e — An Enstern Shylock i 8o strangly wedded to ELECTIONS, Qen, Armandeau, Conscrvative, and M., Mas sot, Repuplican, have been clected Senators from tho Departments of Vienuo and Pyrenees Orlentales, respectlvely. . TIIE POPE. WRITING LETTERS, Loxnox, Dec. 2.—~The Pope has written an autograph letter to Queen Victorla, thanking her for permitting the re-ostabllsdmout of tho Beoteh Hierarchy, INSENSIDLE THREB IIOUTS. TRoup, Bunday, Dee. 3.—Tne Pope was in- sensiblo for threo hours this morning, This symptom is not now, but the Ot was unusually prolonged, ines to fix a day for tho e ‘The telephone is making rapld headway in e — e A current paragraph gots down Miss SocTin, o —— AUSTRIA. A1, DE TOURRILLE. VinyNa, Dec. 2—The death-sentence of M Do Tourrille, for wifo-murder, has been com wmuted to fmprisouinent for life at hard labor. e . e—— “Help yoursclf to Turley,” sald OSMAN myself,” (Query by n timid Printer's dovil— AT JACKSON Mawrms, Tean., Dee. Jackson, Tenm., at 1 o’clock thismorning says: # A fire broke out at 11:30 p. m. in the fur- nituro store of Robinson & Howitt, the entire Llock befng conswned, Including the following * business houscs: Wilkinson & Taylor und J. T. McCutchen, grocers; Robine son & Hewitt, furniture; Lindsey & Morrell, dry goods; Miss Jennle Blidsoe, millinery: Lindes & Burlem, carriage mant- factory. ‘The lire Is atil] raging, but {s confined to tho nbove-natned houses, which comprize the Dblock, fncluding the saloon of ko Lowls. Etren- uous efforts ure Lelug made to koep it conflned tothe block In which it originated. A dead calm provalls. Fears aro cutertained taat uvururpursunl were buriod under falling walls, 08 KOME NurTOW cacapes were ado at the thae.' ——— IN CHICAGO. The elurm from Box B23 at 1:30 yesterday morning was caused by afireln a bam in the rear ol No, 120 Bedgwick strect, owned and ve- cupled by John Kelley. Four horses in the barrrTirowly cscaped befog buined to death. Damage, §50, ‘The alarn from the samo box at 3:20 the same mornlng was coused by s fire in the bascment of No. 250 North Frauklin street, owned and occupled by Edward Mooney, The ftames orlglnated Iu some hay, Mooney” haviug been in the habit of Imuglu[»huno in the basewnent. Damoge, 825, Incendiuriam (s sus- pected fu both Instances, AT CINCINNATI. CixcixNary O, Deee 2.—A firo to-night par- tlally destroyed tho stables of the Vine Street Rallroad. Loss about $3,000. Insured. . o THE WEATHER, WasHINGTON, Uce. 31 a. m.—For the Isko reglon, falling baromeler, warner, southerly to westerly winds, increasing cloudiness, and pos- sibly occastonal raiu or enow, foljpwed in the western portion by risiug barometer, with northe westerly winds. LUOAL ORBSERVATIONS. - Cuioago, De i — . PERSONAL. Drigham Young's grave in watchod night Talmnge says the next Presidont, like the Beechor nnd Talmago . mot on the care and For suggesting that Marshal MnoMakion's The London ZVmes sont out Sir Ifoury Hecretary Olinso had o pet oanary which Mr, Rine, n temperauco leoturor of Can- A benutifal young girl in'Moscow married Bir Aloxauder Galt declined tho dinner services asa womber of the Hatlfsx Commission. 1o acted st llalitax ho M. C. Butler, the hero of tho Iambarg rather than a destroying angel—a handsome man, loves and Sunday-school celebrativus; with s sacres, never, The opponents of Bible-rending in the public schools have recelved a stroug reluforce- wont at New Haven, where the Buard of Educa~ tlon's Committes reported ou Friday In favor of abollahlng all religlous excrcises tu the Highe Sclwool, This caused & lively discuselon, sowe of the Board, including Uen. Francls Walker, ursing tho abolition 0f these vxcrclses fu all tho schools, on sccount of the disupder attending them, which wade them merely & farco. Deelsion on the ques- tlon was postponcd to the next weeting, Meusrs. G, P. Putnam's Sous add to their previous aunouncewents 8 monograph by Dr. Ham- wond, etitled, **Uralusnd Nervous Exbaustion the Heault of Over-Mental Work and Mental Disturo- ance'; two cassys by David A, Wells, vue cutitled, **Tho Bilver Questlon; or the bollsrof tho Fathers verius the Do)lar of the Sons, " and the other, **Why Wa Trade cad How Wo Trade ™' ** Nettie Cruik- shaoks,” o novel, by Florence Mabel Hurit, s novelist 11 years of age; ** Prometlious, & poer, by tho llev, Samuel . Putnsm; *‘Hobemu,"s collection of poews, by Charles Stoart Welles: and **The Paradox sod other Pooms,™ by J. Albert Wilson, ‘Thuy also snuounce o in preparstion for 1sst0 easly in 1878 a serics Art-Manuals, cdited by Mra. Robert Carter, of which the firet volumes will ba itowbutham's ** Skeiching from Nature, ™ Duf- flcld's ** Flower Paluting, ' sad Willuwe® ** Azt of Lsndscape Patoting.” GUENERAL UBSNUVATIONS, €100, De, 3—Mldaiybh Taur,) Tary)_ Wind, T EADS, Naw Osruaxs, Dec. 3.—Capt. Brown, U. 8. A., Inspecting officer at the jettics, bas oftictully notided the Sccretary of War that on the 1st of Docember there was & practic ably channel through the jetties 21 8-10 feet deep ut uvoraze food tide; that the ouly inter- ruption to a practicable chauuel of 23 feet was 0 fuet fu lenith, andthat u Loe of louudlm with 23 410 ot Teast depth extend through bar to deep wutur,