Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 11, 1878, Page 4

| LA CHICAGO "‘TRIBUNE ¢! FRIDAY. JANUARY 11, 1878, The Teibune. " TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. FY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE FREPAID. Enlly Faition, one year... 'l;.gu "arts of T month mnds; L 0 48 * 530 Thagie s n fall foclading Stste and o heet,. Eaturday Fdition, twelve pagrs. Tri-Weekly, one year.. by uf & vear, per mo; WERKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. e Yaler s Remittances may be made eliher br draft, express, For-Oftice order, of la recistered letters. at our Hk. TRRMS TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS, Datly, delivered, Runday excented, 25 cents per week, Latly, delivered, Sunday Incinded, 0 cruts per week, Addiens THK TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Msdiron and Dearborn-sta., Chicaxo, Sil. Ordertfor he dellvery of Tnx TAINONE 4t Kvanston, Emploweud, and Tiyde Park leftin the coubtiug-foow ®iilreceive promt ton TRIBONE DRANCH OFFICES, Tne Catcsso THINDNR has for (e recaiptof subscribtior Sollows: NEW YORK=Noom 29 Tridune Butlding. ¥. T, Mo- Favozx, Mansger. FARIR, France—No, 16 Rue de Is Orangs-Bateliers, B. Baurex, Agent. LONDON, K bilsbed hranch offfees od sdvertisements as -American Rxchange, 449 Btrand. AMUSEMENTS. ley's Thentre, Rapdoleh street, Letween Clark and LsSalle. Xo ment of fhe Atmee Opers Bouffe Company. + **La Raloe tadigo.” MeVicker's Theatre. Msdfeon eirect, belween btate snd Nearborn. **Trus Woman~snd **Neulhe Good-for-Notblog.” 1y's Thentre. Monree wireet, the fluflalo BUI Ly »nd Wou." ibinstton. **May Lody, New Chicsgo Theatre; Clark strecr, oppoalte 1ho Shermen House, Qer's Beurgla Mlustrets. Calien- Colweum Novelly Theatre, Clark streat, between Waehinglon aud Itandoiph. Vertety pesformance. WAUNASSIA LODAK, No. 100, A, V. and A 3.—. Tue Anguel Communtcstian af ils' Ledge, for tig Fleerion wf wficers wail paytnent uf Wiiee, with 1 betd Aite (Fritag) evening t Masonic fiall, No. 38 Muutoes Alull Sutendanes of metibers (4 ety L W 3, RIDAY, . A QUESTION OF FAIR PLAY, Complaints are frequently and numecously re- celved at this ofice from parties Mving along the Tiues of railway leading out of Chicago to the cect that they are oficn unablo to prucare Tue Tipess from the train-boys vn whom they depend for thelr datly papers, but are uficred the alternative of 1ake Ing elther the Tuavs or Iuler-(ean o wone atall. From the estent to which this practice ls curricd o1 1L 14 beleyed that 1t Is tho tesult uf a regular ayatem of forelng the aale of competing papersand discournging the demand for Tus Tuisuxe, Vo tho end that vigoronn measurcs may bo promptly taken for the suppression of {his conepiracy, if oy sball be whown tu extst, wu requost thatall ersons “who from i ur slmifar canses ars rovented from recelving their Titinuses regularly witl an each in- alnnce comuunicate tha facts and dotails 1o this of- fce by letier or otherwise, CBICAGD MARKET UMMARY, ‘The Chieago produce mackets were generally weak yesterday,, und aatlier gquict. Mess pork closed H@E T brl lower, nt §21,00 for Febru- ary' nud $11.1 ur Maech. * Lard- clined Se per 100 1bw-highor, ‘. §7, 157,585 for Fenrnary und $7.40@7 425 for March, Meats closed easter, nt JANUARY 11, 1878, $4.00 ver 100 1bs for boxed shoulders and £5.U3 Whisky w a3 dull, for do short ribw, ver gullon. Flour 1%c lower, st §1, caddy, ot $1.05 Wheat closcd 1@ autary und $1, 0385 loweer, nt 413c¢ for Junudry ond 40tic fur Vobruary, Oats eloeed te Jowcr, st :Hic, Hyo was dull, at 3ic, Burley 1% 14¢ tower, ot 50c ke for Fobraary. Tiogs were dull, and S lower, clusing at $9.00@4. 03 for packlug gruder, Cattle wergglet aod weak, Sales 2, 80, Xhoep auld slow, nt §7, 006 Wheat and Hour on passagy for the Uoltea Kinzdwn, 1,120,000 quarters: do 7.000 uuarters, Inepected Into store lu ty yesterduy mormng: 101 cars wheat, 126 €cra corn, U cur Oste, 5 cars tyv, 18 cars barley, Tol curs, or 100,000 by, Une bundred aol- zold waonld tuy 210275 In grecobucks at thuclose. lritteh cunsols wore nuoted at 93 5-10 sud stesiing exchango at 34, * Greenbacks at oW chunga yeatorday closed at 97), Baning eartbquuies and nceidonts, Geonas: H. Prxprerox will bo cleeted Unitod States Benator from Obfo, to wucveed Sranry Marrurws, whoss tevm expires March. 3, 1370, The astounding auuouncemont was tel- egraphed from London yesterday that the recent defcat of the Servisos was received there with gonoral satisfuction. Cousidering that n large proportion of the subjoects of Queen Victonta are Mohummedans, it fu in- deed strangs that they should exull over the misfortunca of the Servian Clirltions who ave fiehting under the Lonnera of the Chris. tian Russians. rient of Jiacvr asha as Com. mander-in-Chicf of the Turkish armies would scem to siguify that the Vorta is ready to make great couceswions in the approaching peace ucgotintions, Racuy bas beew Mliniy- ter of War in the Cabiuat controlled by Mauxorp Daaap, tho Sultan's Liolher.ju. law, whose voico Lns been for peace 1ather than for war during the cutire campaigu of Uaat year, ¢ ——— Senator Epaynps has embodied in a letter “tothe Presideut, at tha request of the latter, bils views of the relations which sbould esist bebween the Executivo and the Benators and Representatives in the matter of nominations and sppointwents to oflice. The nght or the propriety of dictstion by wembers of tho Leglslative Lranch of the Govern went i3 diatineily denled by Mr, Epuusps, who recogoizes the fact that o custom which was of itself uuobjectionabla hns grown into au abuss—that iu, that from being jurited to turnisk information coucerning tha character and filness of applicants for ofice, Senators snd Lepreseutatives have come to regard sppointwents as thele prerogative, The letter will be read with general interest, s showing that the differeuce between the President and the Republican Senators is not 30 wide but (hat s mutual understanding sy be'reached without much diienlty. ——— “The female tailors of Tooley street have been in sesilon in Washington for several days past, and have with grest unanimity sesolved that ** We, the women of America,” demand the sdoplion of a Bixteeuth Amend. ment "to the Copstitution of the United Blates endowing their sex with the right of suffizage. The troutls Is not so much with the merite of their demand as with the wesits of thelr pretension to spesk for * the- women of Awezica.” Beastor Tuvemad, in opposiog the resolution to bheld a seasion of the Benate to-monow fur the purpesd of listening to the-argumenta of the suffragiats, exposed tho fatal weakness of the shrickivg sistorhood whon ho msserted thet the Con. vention in_ Wnshington did not represent one.hundredth part of the women of Amar- jon; and the heavy majority cast against the rosolntion—31 nays to 13 yeas—waa an ovidenca rather of the unpopulatity of the movers than of tho movement. County-Attornoy Watrace has anrprised the Financo Commiltes of the Board of Commissionera with an opinion of a charac- ter quite uncommon in the esxperionce of that body,—an opinion based upon Iaw and sonud public policy, and not formshed to _orfltt. o8 Lins been the practice for meveral Years poat. Jodgn Warvraor has informed _the Committee that the propoeed lonn of R500,000 can be made agalnst the tax-lavy of 1877.'78, Lint the tazen, as they nre. received, tonst bo sot aside ag a provision for tho pay- ‘ment of the losn, ‘Lhisis not the sort of opinion. that was expected, but it is one which is in the interest of honesty and ceonomy. It calls n halt in the enreer of reckloss oxtravagance which i rushing the connty to bankruptey with raitrond speed, sud necessitates the sdoption of substantially the samo policy that obtains in the manage. ment'of the city's Sinancial affaira—a policy which, in tha case of the county, mny be nttended with inconvenience toa fow con- tractors, but which, in the long run, will prove advautageous to the credit of the county and the interests of the taxpayers, The defcote of the Tenurc.of-Ofico act aro well jllustrated by tho case of Postmastor Hixauay, of Mobile, is bond, which was Lantily approved by the Postmaster.General, was afterwnrds shown to Le fraudulent, the signatures being forgeries, On this state of facts hoing made known to the President, he removed Bivanam, and appointed n Mr, Wioxensuast to the vacancy. 'The Sonato uoglected to act upon the nomination of Wickensuas. Mixonast hos consequently Leen refnstated, aud is now holding an office of trust and rosponsibility without furnish. fug the bond usually required. ‘This is bnt one out of thousands of cases all tending to show the fnnpplicability of the Tenure.of. Oftfee act to present circumstances. It wns intended to be, when it wns pnssed, n tem- porary oxpedient to defeat the contumncions snd obstructive ** palicy " of Presidont Jony- 6o ; it js pow used to porpetuate the un- constitutional * prorogatives ” of the Senate. ‘I'he sooner it ia done awny with tho botter. It will not be reponled, the people need to be reminded, until the pressure of publio rentimont upon the Benato ix too strong to be resisted by that oligarchical body, [ v ‘Both parties in Congress court the fullest inventigation, but the Demoorata court it in n fashion that would give overy ecommittoo of tho Howsa full liconso to organizo fishing expeditions for genoral results, and without nny woro definite purpose in view than to make politleal eapital by creating the im- pression that investigation js needed In overy dupartmont of the Government. . Such was the seopo and purposa of tha resolution of- fored by FruvaNpo Woop ns a strict party nteasure, nction upon which was. deo. ferred by tho holiday vocoss, The meagre results sud the discreditablo failura of the dragnot polioy euforced by tho Domoorats of thy Forty.fonrth Congross justifted the Ite- pnblicany yosterday in their vigorous and elfoctive opposition to n revival of tha sys- tow, nad in fusisling {hat ue investigation +whall be ordorod uuless somo member..of tha ‘Ifousa becomes responsiblo’ for chiarges-ros «quiring nction by a commmitieo anthorized to |’ wsnd for persaus aod papers. With this rensonnble restriction, which the Republie- ans wore successful in finposing, uobody objacta to investigation ; on tho contrary, the President and his Cabiuot ofticors will be glad to recelve the asslstauce of the ousa cou- mittoes in the dotection and correction of any and all abnses in the public service. | ANOTHER RUSSIAN VICTORY. Tundiug negotiations for mediation and an armistice, the Ruxalans are losing no time In the active oparations of war, and are making thelr winter campaign quite as lively and stirving us the summer way, Sinco Plavna has fallen, Sotla ling yielded to the victorious Govuxo, nud now the redoubtable Shipka Y'ass hing fullen into the hunds of tho dushe ing Sromrreer and his fellow.Gonorals, Raversey and Miuzky, Forty battalions— about 13,000 men~aud ten batteries Lave beou eaptured, and thus another ‘Curkish urivy is wiped out of existenco, wo for aa the present war is concerned. - 'The evacuation of Sctla snd the capture of Shipka opous two yends for the Russians into Rou- wielin,—ouo from Sotla to Bazardilk, and the other from Shipka to Kezoulik,—with o clewr el before'them, smce tho force that 1t Bolla must now burry on towards Adrian- ople, or rm the rivk of bolug crushied be- tween Uounko's forco In tho rear nud Sxone- Lews's on the flauk. The Blipkn Pass has heen desperately defonded, It cost the Nus- wians origivally Leavy loss to capture the hetglits communding it, and siuco their ocou. pation the Turks have fought with the most Wler reckleanness to forcs thewm out of it, ‘Yliey hiave atormed tho lofty aud adamantine walls of the Ualkans over aud over agnin, only to be hurled back, erushied and bleed. ing, until thu Pass was almost chioked up with thefr dend, BuLzisan Pashs, while iu cownmnud, Hung sway bis soldiers by thou. vond, sucritieiug the very tower of the ‘Turkish armics. Ho earned his promotion to the comand of Menzser Aut's army on the frontier of tho Quadrilateral by his des- peraté Aghting, sud his succeseor has been bardly lees despersto. The details of the final victory are not given, or how the Pass was eapturcd, but its fall {s only the natural sequitur of the occupation of Hofla by Gousnko, which expoaed the Tarkish anmy to » joint attack, ‘The result is now that the Ruuslans have {wo practicablo roads into Roumelia by the easiest aud niost convenlent of all the Balkan passes. That they will follow up their advantoges with the ulmost rapidity is showu Uy the mauner in which they have pressed tho Turks to thewall since the fall of Plevon. Even it an armistige ahiould be concluded upon the status guo, the Russlans might almost bo satisfied to end the wur with the possession of what they have already obtained. The decisivo cugogement at -Shipka will uudoubtedly woke the Turks still more anx. fous to obtain anarmistice, and will makeths Russians even more exactiog as to the terms, Bo far as 'T'urkey i3 concerned, the armlstico bas already been ssked for, but thus far Rusala Is ominonaly silent. She Lias declized to allow Euglecd to negotiste terms for the armistice, Lut has consented to direct nego- tiations between the Lelligerenty, iu pureu- anco of which Meuzuer ALt bas been sent to the Hussian beadyuarters with a proposi- tion fora iz wecks' armistice, upcu condi- tion that tha tbelligerents maintsin (beir present ypositions, sod peace negotiations cowmency a3 soou 09 the armistice begins. Tt yill hardly bo safe to say that pesco is any nerer on this acconnt. It may bo assumed At the outset that Russia will not allow the Turks lo gain ' any military advantage by tho armistics, either A by mak. ing good their losses, strengthening their positions, or rovietunling any of their fortresses. 'The terms of the anmistico will be gavere, bnt the terms of peace, innsmuch #3 Russin is determined to tront dircetly with Turkey, is soverer still. If Nussia is con. sistont, they will bo tantanonnt to the end of ‘Carkey na a Earopesn Power. There is no doubt this has been the motive npon which Russia has fought from the very out- sot, because, with the pressuro of the Triple Allianco, the timo was never o favorable before for accomplishing it, and mny never be s0 again, Whother this ean be accom. plished without involving Eoglish intercsts also, which are closcly connocted with Tur- koy, remains to bo scen. Any othor solution of the problemn, Lowever, or any treaty which would leave Turkey as 8 war-making Power, would be an illogical and impoteut couclusion to tlie mission of Russin in espousing the canse of tho Sclavio peoples. A FLOPPER'S EXP] ATION, Wheu a person makes confussion of iniquity as preparatory to expiation and re- pentanco, it is charitable to cxtend him some sympathy, and smooth the way for reform. Bat there are confessions which arc intonded to deceive and openup now opportunities for mischief. 'Thus the Chicago Times, confronted by a correspondont with its past record as nn nilvocate of repudintion during a tern of yoars from 1865 to 1870, or Iater, rather revels in tho disgrace of admitting the charge; says that it was a proposition *‘to repudiato the difference between the denom- ination of greenbncks and the value of gold monay,” though it was worse than that; seeks to justify its coursa by maintaining that it then was the opinion of ‘*many nblo economista” that the publicdebt could nover Lo paid in full, After slam-banging abont in this way, it thon complains that 'f'ue TrinuNe s now * ro- producing orticles from the editorial columns of the Zimesof 1868 in favorof the Pexore- TON greenbnck mode of repudiating the na. tional ,dcbt,” nud that the editor of Tuz Taipuye, * who was then opposed torepudia- tion in any mnnuer or degreo, was greatly worried by the force with which the Z'imes prosented the sophistical arguments in sup- vort of the ‘lawful monoy’' rcpudiation schome.” Finally the Times crowns its own shamo Ly the nsertion that *“it misy be that for this nation, undor soino circumstan- ces, the course of wisdom would be to ro- pudiate a portion of the public debt, and enable all {ndividuals to repudiste o like pro- portion of tholr private debts.” Docs not this statemont, which is 5 mero condensntion of arccont Times articlo (lnst Tuesday), furnish a clew to the motive which prompts that newspaper at this time to ad- vocato resumption on an exclusive gold basiu? Aud {en't it the purposo of tho Chicago Tines to Lring about o condition of things which will warrant it, with its theory of morals, in returning to the advocacy of repudintion, in whole or {n part, of oll debts, both public ond privato? The cnse is one worth looking iuto, 1t i3 corlain that cight or ton yoars ago the Times, then under tho sawe managembont as now, was u blataut advocate of Pexnrrton's schome for paying tho public debt by mnnu. facturing irrcdeemablo paper unotes, This was not morely repudintion of the differonco between the astual value of tho' greenbacks at that time and gold coin,—sny 25 per cent, —~—becauso it way not proposed to uso the groonbacks os thoy came futo the ‘Trossury by payment of taxes in excoss of Govern- wment expenditures, but it waatotal and swoop- ing repudiation, beeauso it was proposed to set tho printing-presses running and manufacture aa many groonbacks in cxcess of tho ${0p,- 000,000 litnit a3 should be necessary to poy off ontstanding bonds. 'I'his meant nothing 1ore nor leas than absolute and universal re- pudiation, ond the Z%mes gavo tho project its unroserved support. It advooated the nomivation of Gronoe PrypueroN as the Democratic candidate for Prepidont on this rapndiation platform, and, long after Pespre- ‘sox's defeat, nud the defoat of Bryitoun, who was more or less weighted with Pendleton- ism, the 7'imes continued to insist upon the scheme of ropudiation. It denounced Presi. dent Grant for taking ground in favor of paying the public debt in ** coin,” and it was not till somo thme aftor the question was definitely decided by the Publiv Crodit act of 186Y that tho Z'imes nbandoned its rase cally schowe of ropudiation, Now tho Times ndvocates the payment of all debts, public and private, not in cofn, but iu gold alone, It now desires that the effort shall be mode to meot all obligationaina currency twico ns senrce aud twico ns doar as the vurrency in which paymont was prom. fsed, becauso tho coin resources will bo rov duced one-half by eliminating silver from the monetery system. This i not the sort of thing the Zimes would do without somo sol- flah wotive, 1f its repentsnco were genuine; if it felt that it was wrong in advocating the payment of bonds by munufacturing irre. deemablo paper promises; if it wero con. wvinced that repudiation fs another name for rascality 3 if it wero merely impelled to atone for the evil it tried to do in advocating re. pudiation,—it would now favor the shortest road 10 resumption and the surcst guaranty for the paywment in good faith of tho public dobit, viz, : by the utilization of both silver snd gold, the origival and historical coin money of the nation, Dut, it urges now thie payment of all debisin s money much dearer than that which was promised, aud dwells upou thia with as much persistence s it once urged that all debts should be paid in worthless notev. Tu it not an effort to attain by another road the object which the Z'imes sought and failed to reach by direct repudia. tion ten yenrs ago? f Right here thoe present declaration of the Chicago 7imes furnishes tho connecting link, It now soys that *‘circumstances are con. ceivable” where repudistion “‘is the conrse not ouly of neceasity, but of wisdom," and adds: **Jt may be that for this uation, under cestain circunistauces, the course of wisdow would be to repudiate a portion of the publio debt, and enable all individuals to repudiate a like portion of their private debts.” Tsn't this just what tho Times is aim- fug at? Wil it uot ** conceive” ropudiation to be st onco “‘the courso of neces- sity and of wisdom," after the uation shall have become committed to the payment. of all dsbts, public sud-: private, in gold slone, which is notoriously fnadequate to ac- complish the liquidation? JTan't thas the real reason why the Tiraes vowadvocates repump- tion in gold alone? Isn't the Tiries, as's wolter of fact, as much of a repudiationint now as it was at the tlme it advocated repu. diation opénly? It i3 cypeclally significant that the Times eays certain circuinstances justify not merely the repudiation of public debts, but atso the repudiation of private débts, Herein, pertiaph, may b fonnd the key to the selfish motives of the Times; for, i€ it shall maintain, in ¢ase of resnmption in gold alone, that the whols of the publie debt cannot be liqnidated, it will then advo- cente repudiationin part or in whole; but 1t will likewiso maintain, by a parity of reason. ing, that all thoe private debta eannot be paid in gold alone, and in this way it will defend tho advoeacy of entire or partial repndiation of private debts. Isit possible that this is the underlying ides of the Times in ils advo- cacy of tho singlo standard for the payment of all debta? —————— THE ROITEN INDIAR RING. The rovelations made- by the Board of In. quiry convened to fnvestigate the Indian servieo, and the accompanying lotter from Socvotary Bcnunz to Mr. GaLrrN, ths Chief Clork of tha Indian Ofiice, dismissing him from the scrvice, so far from creating any surpriso, will confirm the suapicions that Lave long beon public concerning the utter rottenness of tho whole Indian business, The report gives us in detsil what has here. tofora boen frecly charged and beleved in goneral. Itshows rottenness evorywhere,—in the Bureau itself, in !h‘a Agencles, the Iu. speotors’ offices, and among the contraotors. Thore has not only beon nn abseuco of all regular system in tho transaction of busi. ness, and an utter disregard of the instruc. tions of the Board of Indiau Commissioners, but the entire conduct of the saryioa has been characterized by ineflicloncy, cupidity, and the 'most barofacod dishonesty, and tho records have either beon s0 mutilated or altogother destroyed that it has been substantially impos. siblo to find ovidenco sufficient to punish the guilty. *"'The Lusincss,” says tho roport, “‘na at present instituted, conducted, and continued, {a simply a license to tho Agent and his proxy to cheat and swindle the In- dinos in the namo of the United Btatos of America.”. In summing up, tha Board con- cludes its report ns follows: *‘8ach are tho results of dishonest practicos {n tho manage- ment of Indinn affairs, and the nacossity to uncover aud secure the punishment of such porsons must thereforo be considered one of. tho firat duties of those responsible for the conduct of that branch of the sorvice.” Iav. ing performed this duty, snother onexemaina, =—to fill the Indian offices with honest men. It tho Govornmont can obtain loncst and capable mon for othor dopartmonts, it can for the Indian service also, and it coustitues ono of the strong. cat arguments in defonso of the Pros. idont's Civil-Service. policy. Tho rascals who liave been guilty of this infamons busi- ness obtnined thelr places and opportunitica through Congressional patronsge, When that system fs brokon wup, we may Lopo for Lonosty in the sndministration of the Indinn sorvice. Mecrotary Scnunz can in uo weny more gratefully com- mend himself to tho American people than by commencing war in earuest upon the whola Indian Ring, and, in socnring re- form in this branch of tho Civil Bervice, the peoplo will riphold him, It is timo that this rottenness was romoved, and, if the Presi. dont nnd Becretary of the Intorior will make it an issue, not only with the Ring, but with tho Implacables, who are responaible for the Ring, they will be susteined by honest men in all parties, ITALY UNDER THE SECOND KING. ‘The proclamation of Humnsur on nssum- ing the throno of Italy gives assurance of tho continued yeaco and prosperity of the Kingdom.” Il¢ promises to prove to the Italian peoplo that ** institutions do not dle,” ‘I'nis is something of a rhetorical flourigh, Tustitutions do die when they ara noglected or jll-treatod. But it will be only the fault of. King Hunpenr if the free institutions of Italy dio during hislifotime. He hnsstepped into an fulieritanes, nchifeved for Mm by the courago nnd patriotism of his father, and the prestigo which nttaches to him in conse- quenco of that father's act will at the start secure tho throne to him sgaiust invasion from without and robellion frow within, 1t lo 18 only a tolerable ruler, he will bo en. durod. Free Italy has roceived an fmpulso that will, under ordinary circumeatances, corry it forward in history a hundrod yoars. Huasznr's reign will consequently be n happy one, unless his incapscity makes it otherwise. Ilis proclamation iudi- cates that ho hoa just idess of the demands that are now imposcd upon him. He prom- ises to be mindful of his father's * grand exnmplo of devotion to tho country, his love of progress, and faith to the liberal justitu. tions which aro tho pride of his house,” If ha keops this promise, the Italian poople, for thoir part, will bo mindful of what thoy owo to tho sonof Vicron Essawver, and will accord him n hearty and gencrous sup- port, Two serious problems will engoge the at. tentlon of Xing Huanenr duriug the early yoara of his reign. Ho will bo first called upon to confront n financial situation of the utinost gravity. All that tho Govornmont Las been able to do has not avall. ed to Mt Italy out of its money difficulti, ‘Fhe deficits of recont years have been regu. lar and large, aud, although they have beon steadily decrensing, the budget is still far {from satisfactory, judged by all the standards thnt are ususlly employed among civilized .nations. Any considerable deflcit in s time of profound peace would bo judged by the people of Eugland to be little short of uational calamity, Tha Italian budget for 1876 showed a probable deficit of £2,500,000, and though It was estimated that the budget for 1877 would yield & surplus of §8,000,000, thero was & marked falling off in receipts during tho first months of the year, which indicated nnother unfavorable balanco at tbe end of the year, The new King can Bud much ground for encouragement, how- over, ju the fact that progress Las always been in the righit direction, 'I'he deficita have decroased 8o largely that it seems probable they will disappear altogethor In a short time. Al that will be needod then to bring some measure of financial proaperity to Ttaly will be & prudent and economical ad- minfstration. The fact that D2.76 per cent of the taxes were collected in 1 a3 com- parod with ¢1.96 per cont in 186Y, shows that the people havo of lata rallied wonder- {ully to the support of the Government, 'I'he other peculiar dificulty that King Huunear bas to contend with arises from bis relations with tue Church, This also is less serious than it prowised to be a few years ago, The Pope Las shown little por. socal Tesentwent towatds the Italion Gov. ernment for its occupation of kis torritory. It willbenoticed that he scothed the dying hours of Vicros Exntasvee. with the consolations oftheChurch, Thenew King, who is reported to be even better disposed to the Church than bis father, wiil probably find little hostility cherishied towards him by the uew Pontiff that will soon arise to occupy the place of PuwsIX, OId fouds and causes of division will bo buried with the two sepresentatives of the old fdens. Franéo will keep out of this, ns of all other foroign quarrels, for many years to come, and the shadow of tho tempo- Tal sovercignty will be largely forgotten be- foro the new King has been many years on his throne. It only remanins for him to see thot e does not in the future commit the cerror of concediag too much to the Church,— an orror which his fathor was more than half inclined to adopt. The rights of the peoplo and the nenessitios of the Btate have higher claims upon him than the Church or any of its reprosentatives. King Muusert thus finds the path of duty made plain and easy for him. If he pursnea it as ho promises to do, he will Joava s name only less glorions than that of his father, for he wilt confirm the fruits of his fathor's work to his people. The new King person- ally has not the disposition of his father, and little of his father's popularity. He is said 1o be saturnine and something of a recluse; mach bound up in his own plensures, and littlo noguainted with tho methoda of eivil government. Iis mlilitary education, which began in the strugglo with Anstria eloven years ngo, has perhaps not inclined him lo atudy the arts of peace. Ho lives unhnppily with his wife, his ‘own first consin, who is deservedly beoloved by the people, and this may have helped to bring him into dises. teem. It will ba ensy for him, however, to conquer the love of his people if ho desires to do 8o, and will try porsonally to merit it, It will only bo necessary for him to fulfill the pledges which he lns mnde nnd rovero his father's memory in onler to inherit all that his father left, THR NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. ‘When Congress made the land.grant to and chartered the Northorn Pacific Railway Com- pany, it required the completion of the road from Lako Buperiorto tho Pacific withina cer. tain time, ‘The Company undertook to build the rosd by tho issue and salo of bonds, and these bonds to the amount of $30,000,000 woro bought and paid for by persons of all pursuits and avocations m this country, The financial nifairs of the Compnny wero man. aged by Jay Cooxe & Co., and, while the construction of the road was progressing rapidly, tha failure of that firm precipitated the panio of 187 upon the country, nod in. volved tho Company in ruin and disaster. ‘The 13,000 citizons who bad pnid in this £30,000,000 of thoir hard-earned savings had nothing to wshow for their monoy but the comparatively wortbless Londs. Progress oo the road was suspended. Finally, a8 tho rosult of the judicial investi- gation, the proporty aud franchises of the Company were sold, and were Lought by the bolders of thebonds,—tho mon who had paid in lona fils the $30,000,000. Thosa reor ganized the Company and rid it of all asso- ciation with the Jax Coorz' nnnagoment. The Company thus roorganized have resumed tho construction of the road, working at Loth ends, building over thirty miles east- ward from tho Pacific during the last yenr, A lorgo and increasing business has grown up; during 1877 the roceipts over ex- penditurcs from traflo excceded $300,000, while the receipts from land sales were about $1,250,000, Thesa reccipts aro appliod to the extension aud equipmeut of the road. The country along tho route is fliling up with nctual settlers, and, the land being of good quality, the productiona are large nnd ncressing. As the work progresses, there will bo a continuous belt of country peopled by hardy and industrious producers along the wholo routo through Dakota, Montana, Idoho, and Washington, along_ the northern border, to tho Pacific. This will be'n more completo and perpotual terminntion of the Indion war business than can otherwise be devised. It will ben pormanent guaranteo of peace. "The now Company have no doubt that with tho land-grant and with tho carnings of the rond they can push on the construction to complotion, Thoy binve now comploted and in operation the following distances: In Minnesota’ In Dakata. in Washingion, Totaluiiareeinrniie cirvanrsane ses sereansBGL ‘The trafilo to tho Black Hills and Montana furnishes, and will for many years farnish, the Company with a large freight and pns. songer business from the Eastorn States, If the mesus of transportation from Bis- marck to Deadwood were grealer, as they will bo, the trafic would be increasod even now, Further gold discoveries in that ro- glon will inorease the migration, and conso- quently the permanent businoss of tho road. ‘The climate nlong the whole route is com- paratively mild, tho soil gonerally capable of production, especially of wheat, nnd even in winter the weathor 18 10 more extreme than In Ocotral New York. A large trade with the British sottlements over the line has al. roady bogun. ‘I'his Company is now an applicant to Con. gress,—not for money, not for bonds, not for mjore land, nor for any iucrease of Itu fruu. chives, It simply asks that Congress will take into consideration the financial calamity of 1873, which suspended all works of this character in all parta of tho country, sud will extend the timo originally fixed within which the yoad wasto be compluted. Hero ia & ense of persons who have in good fuith paid £30,000,000 of their money to construct this rosd, who nre earnostly snd zealously working to complete it; who ask uo Gov. ernmental aid of any kind, and who are merely asking that the time loat in conse- quence of the psnic arl the subsequent disturbance of finauces be credited them in the time within which It was stipulatod the road should be completed. Was there ever a more veasonsble request? In tho coses of two-thirds of the land.grant railways con- structed in this county, Congress made fre- quent and liberal extensions of the time for beginning and cowpleting the roads, llere 13 a caso where over 600 milea of railway bavo been already tomplated, and the Cow. pany asks Cougreis to vxtend the time in which the new organization, using its own weans aud credit, cun go on aud complety the road, opening up for permanent settle- wont a region which promises to be so pro- ductive of wealth, ‘This proposition of the Northern Pacific Railway Comprny furnlshes tho best and woat direct answer (o ull the schomes now before Congreas for subsidies. A company, using only the private capital and credit of the stocklLolders, has built a milroad from San Franclsco southward nearly 700 miles to near the Mexicau boundary and to the western boundary of Anzoos. It is before Congress axking permission aud the right.of- way 10 extond that line through Arizona and Now Mexico to the State of Texas, aud thence to the Southern Btates. It asks only the land herctofore grauted for this purpose, and wants no mouey or bond subsidy. ‘The Northern Pacific asks only an extension of time, fixed ton ur twelve years ago, in which to completo that route. These two requosts are not only seasonsble and just, but they llustrste how private capital, it not opposed by the Government, will accomplish all the railroad building that has the remotest pros. pect of sucoess, At the same time an ap- p.al ia made to Congress to vole from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 of money or bonds to Tox Beorr to enable him to build & road which tha Califorma Company nsks the privilege of building without anbsidy. Bcorr's request,~there being millions in it— Iins the support of an imimonse lobby, while the others, haning nothing to divide, must be urged upon the attention of Congrosa, The Board of Trade of Chicago bas adopted A memorial, published elsewhere in Tnx Trmuxe, asking Congress to grant tha just and roasonable request of the Northern Pa- cifle Railwny, and wo hope that not only will the bill bo passed, but that Congress will mark the justice of the mensuro by possing the bill promptly and unanimously, — The suggostion has beon made by soveral thoughtful newspapers that Judge Key, tho prosent Postmaster-Genoral, should be the Administration candidate for {ho next Gov- erner of ‘'ennessec,~that is, that e shonld bo nominnted by a convention roprosenting the people who npprove of tha President’s Sonthern policy, , The muggestion strikos us a3 a good onu, It will bo apractical meuna for tebting tho hmpression thet bins been mnade in tho Sonth by tha coucilistory sud pacificatory measures of the present Admin. istration, Such action wonld probably bave tho effect of nniting the Implacables and bulldozers against tho conuervative Ropub. licans and conscrvative Democrats, Judge Kex folily represents that class of Honth. ern men whom it wns thu purpose of the' President's policy to bring into closor political sud commorcisl sympathy with the North. It was this pollcy which haa been especinlly resonted by tho carpet-bag elemont in the Bouth, and also nntagonizad by the old Bourbon and’ original secession clemont, beeauso it was likely to oblitorate the old.time scctionat aunimosity, Judge Kev's candidature would present A Aquaro issue to determino the relative strongth of tho different factions, and {f conscrvative Democracts, especinlly of the Jonxsox wing, would unito with the conservative Republicans, it might be dem. onstrated to politiclans lhike Brame and Coxgring that Unionisin nud Ropublicanism have not boen crushiod ont in the Bouth, but doveloped into a powur which thuy never bLefore could wicld on thair merits and by tholr own efforts. 'I'he suggestion is cor. taiuly worthy of consideration unud discus- slon, A reeent paper in the Contemporary Jeview contributed by Louts Kossyru, may be takon to represent the feellng of that element of the Austro-Hungarfan Empire which bas all slong been passionately opposed to the udvance aud growth uf Russia. Fortunately that element is not large cnough to coutrol the politics of the real, althougl it has doubtiess lnfluenced the ANbiassy Cublnet to the cxerclse of extreme caution sinve the outbreak of the war, Kouse BUTH s0ys3 Ouly by the restoration of Poland can liussls be pushed back upon her anclent boundarlvs, where e could in her athll vast empire let hor subjects -omma free inen, and tt nwlllry a still glotioys and promtnent place at the round table of civilized Ttluns, but & piace whence she conld no mors thruatyn us Austria and Europe with huor neistical and uolversal-monarchical ambitions. Unly when it shail bs nade sare on the banks of the” Vistula that she can never more nuffocato Turkey, only than will the Kastern ques. tlon step duwn {0 an Internal, and, It you like it, o a hamanitanan level, und bo solved Insuch a Wiy asnot 10 be dangerous (o Kurope, Tint so lungas this does not happen, the Kastern ques- tlon will always remain o Russisn questivn of power. ‘o thie {t may be safd that there fs anothier solution of the Eastern questium, oud one that , 86,8t present mora llkely Lo be adonted than that proposcd by the Hungarlan patrjot. It is thoextlnction of Turkey, aud the division uf 1t8 torritory fn Europe {nto Indepeadeut Btates. — ‘The Washington specials to the Eastorn papers are as shamefully colored on thy silver question as tue editorials of the papera to which they uro sent. Every fact militating uguinst the goldites is cither suppressed or ininatated, Figures are twisted and perverted, und made to e most abominably, A speclal to the Chlaugo Post, remark(ng on this thing, says: Iy viow of tho roports 10 the contrary recently sent ta the country [that the President will veto the Bilver blli], this sy be regardod a3 an importaut tatoment.’ Tho truth i, all the attaches of the New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Daltimore Journale hera aro under positive ihstructions to do altin thelr powerta manufacturescolinent agalnat lver movenent, sud have done very much to t the vicws of the President and Unbi- n ubjoct, as already shown fu theso dis. patches, 1 bavo the beet of reasont for knowlng that tbe Silver LI ne it ds Ukely o pass tha Benato—that ls, tha BLaXD bill, with the Attt sox _amendmont not objectionable o the ¥ nd o majorlty of thu Cabinut, ~Evaties, cutiz, and SUENUAX Are the ouly opposin Iatbers on ihla subjuct, Ak thi bill u{:k&'fiogfi 10 tha President Lo fs almoat cortalu tu uiga it, The Washlagton Republican sppears to have the same Information. It suld yesterday: We now state, upon what we regard as high an. tbority, thai xecutive will sign thy Bilver bil) whauever it be submitted to bim. Ho be. Hoves It 10 be u monwury demunded by Ui busticss intercats of the country and a wajority uf the peo- plu of the Unitod States, and heuce will cleerfally iive 1t bls oMfclal sanction. Tho enhancement of the value of money, and ths correaponding sbrinkaze o the price of property, is making the taxpayers of Conucctls cut grosn, Bays un exchange; A Swto Commissiun, tucluding such men as Laravkrve Fostew, Oov. Jrwsii, and e MawLey, has boen gobng over thy public expep Rures In Conncticut with & viaw to retrenchiment, and they polat aut the places whers yublic oxpend: lure hsw grown b the last twenty-ive years, und where ILought to be cot off, Phe uxponves of the courte have {ncroaved tromendously within ten yuars, —from the Sherifls’ bilta for stabionery, fucl, 10 the Judyus' waluries ud th nuoiber 1t cust the tale for the insane poor §5,000 {1 16503 I 1870 bout §u7, b00, wustly for the Middletown Aweylum, which 1ue Comuiiwion (hink can bu managed mare cheaply. Thy ssiviauce W soldlers in Lospuals end 1o soldiors’ orphine was $U3, 000 In 187475 but has Dow fatlen Lo $30,000; und Wil soon tearly ceaser The wilita, Insuraice und Fiah Commiselune, seuvol Buasd, sud capecially the public peinting, ute proper subjects for praning. Several slue: curo utlices aru rocutameoded for nbolition, s well as_iennial sunstonn of (he Legislature, the cute Alng off of cxtrus, and other moasurvs of retsench. uent, h . The Hon, Jou ByrvENsnx, on ex-Congress. manand a promiueat lawyer of Clacinuatl, la thought to betusane, or, at least, rapidly getting intyu that couditlon. For some weeks be has been In Buston, where bis eccentric uctions have attracted much attention. Last Tucsday u correspondent of tho Enquirer visited him at bls hotel, but Mr, STRVENSON refused L0 bo futerviewed unfess the correspondent would telegraph to the Eugulrer s letter which he wished to dictate. The lctter, as transmitted, Is a jumbla of nonsensy, aud is 8 coucluslve s proof us could be alforded that the intelleet of the ex-Congreasinan is hnvalred. - —————— Sealskin sacques may be going out of style in England, but it la probable that they will sl- waya retain a good reputation u shis country of Boreal winters. The year 1877 was a prosperous aoe for the seal-ishurs of Dundee, Bcotland, who caught 76,000 of these shy habitants of the deep. 1tis not s pleasant occupation, elther, that af aeal-flshing, exposed as its followers #re o tho contiouons tashiugs of the salt spray and the shrick of tha * storm-wind of Labra- dor, the wind Eus y . ‘thie cry of * baxd thmes ! contioucs to come frow Eugland. s its surysy of the industrial altuatlon, the Labur News records discontent and strite 1 reveral places. In Northumber- land, 1t savs, the cofiicry mechanics have ac- cepted u reduction fn wages, snd throughout the district of the Northern Board ol Arbitra- tion thé tronworkers' wagcs are likely to be re- cunsidered at an early date. Thoe textilo trades are generally depressed, and at Rochdale' some il sz ou short time. In the Forcst of Dean snd Bouth Wales great distress atill prevalls, and measures have had to be takeh foritsre. lef. At SheMeld & large number of puddlers sud shinglers have received notlce of a reduee tion, and under prosent circamstances it a like. Iy to bo mccepted. In the buffding trades several important strikes still continue, ang 1abor 18 continually coming and going on the works affected. At Stafford the boot and stios trado is espeelally slack, and at Ilirmingham many of the ataple industrics sre but fndiffer. ently employed. v ——— . Last Monday the new officers of tho Uity of Philadelphia entered npon the discharge of thelr dutles. The FPresident of the Common Council fu his address stated that the municipsl ilebt was so snall that It only cost the city 45,000,000 annually to pay the Interest. Singa. larly enough, he did no! cxtend ths usual congratulations of the scason. . ——— ‘The trlal of O. K, Brapvon, late Consul ot 8hanghal, for emberzitng from the United States Government $4,349, took place ap Buafighat, Nov, 12. The prironor pleaded guilty, and appesled to the Howme Uovernment, 1l was placed under bonds of $10,000, and that will protably be the eud of the case. 1t would appesr that the volume of trade how twveen the Unlted Stutes and Brazil is sufficlent to nuthurize the establishment of a regular ling of steamcrs, such 88 has been projected. In 1877 vur imports from Brazil were valued at $43,418,041, and tbo cxports to that cuuntry were $7,498,114, st S Untimited sttver means, among other things, une Wnlted public debt,—~New York Tribune. We have unlimlted pubtic and private debts now, and want the siiver In Jarge auantities to help pay them oll, Tho sliver dollars will still e tauch larger than those in which the debts were contracied, = e — e New llampshire Crannrzit was fitly charao- terized as u pulitical tramp by the Republican sominittee of his own Btete. To paraphrnse s riptural Lext, hie Is & prophct without honor, even In his own country, ——— ‘The Chicago ot coldly remarks: " Tt Prof, Bumnzi fully uuderstood bimsel? on fluancial mntters, Uis tlsivg from bis chalr to addreis & Chicugo auddienve ought to hove been the st ruse of SuMNER." 4 e— . A number of once proud and happy Indlan post-traders may soon he expected in Chicago applylug for jubs around tne County Butlding und curslug the very name of Bonunz. e o et i ‘Ihe new tarlfl bill reduces tho articles taxed from 2,160 to 400, The country would seem to bo mnderately protected with 400 articles on the tarill. e — e Was the resolution allowing able-hodled pau.- vers to be free-lunched at public expenso passed chielly fur thy beuafit of the County Buardl ——e— PERSONAL. Col. Ingorsoll is lncturing in Pennsylvs. nia. Dr. 8chliomann has s large sum of money nvested In Buflalo City bonde. . ti Balvini made a failure in Jngomar in Paris, but succeeded in overy othor part, + J. C. Bancroft Davis took his seat on the Bench of the Court of Clatms Monday. Thomas 8purgeon, a son of the London mlnister, ls preaching successfully in Australls. Oapt. Eads is in Washington looking after payment for hia work on the Mississippl jettics. Henry Ward Beecler is aaid to be s good Judga of beverages, of which he 1 a temperate but critical drinker, Charles A. Dana notices the failura of Jacob Bunn ** with sincere regrot."* Thetwowers » formorly assoclated {n the Chicago Repudlican, and Dans aays Duno's invostment In that onterprise <ould not have been less than $200,000. ‘Lo Dictionary of Amoricanisms, just pnb- dished, containe this ltem of intorest: 0n yeh, terday' is & corruption common aniong editors and Congressmen, who ssem to bave forgotten that ° yesterday i an adverb as well as a noon, ** The Rev, Josoph Cook fa” credited with pronouncing Richter's ** Titen, " Goethe's ** Wil helin Moluter, " Huga's ** Les Miserubles, " Scott's ** Ivauhos, " Thackeray’ Nowcomes, " and Mea, Stowe's ** Uncle Tom'a Catin ™ ae the six greatest works of fiction of this century, in tho order named, and with & krest yap between tho first throe and the last three, A Jdispatch from 8t. Petersburg to the London Z¥mes, dated Dec, 24, aays: *‘Inreplyto adepuistion from the municipality of 5, Peters- burg, congratulatiog the Emperor on his retum, his Msjesty said: ‘1 thank, you, gentlemen, for r your sympathy, I sm very bappy to find myself ¥ with you, especislly after the consoling success which I had during the last few days with my chll- dren befora Plevns, Wo have done much, but there still remaine much for ue (o ao. Msy God help e tu carry out to the end this holy undertak- fogi' g Phillp Veit, {lio great painter and restorer of the anclent Christlan style of art Jn Germany, was burled at Mayence Dec, 24, Veit waa bora 8¢ Reclin in 1703, and was tho won of the banker, Himon Volt, & member of one of the wealthled Jewlsh familles of the Cupital. His mother, Dorothen, n daughter of the grest philosopber, Moees Mendolasohn, eloping with the poet Fried rich Behlogo), becquontly married the laiter tutned Roman Catholic, and caused bher two soss 1o ba likewlse recolved fnto the bosom of the Papal Church. Dorothea subscquently distin gulshed herself by translating nearly one-half of ‘the pleces contatued fo the famous German lon of Shakspearc known #s Hchlogel and Tleck's vatsion, Ono of hor sons becamo a priest; the otber, Phiffp, obtafued great ronown as a painfer, and, with Cornellue and Overback, revived the grand madimval styloof Christian art. . His plcture of **Qermany,” represented & & young matron, and lis partraits of some medimval Bmperors, established his reputation. Ue dled, s ho bad lived, & devout luman Catholic. The New York World says: * At Balford, In England, the other day, SirJohn Mantell, 68 lamulesiug » cliargo of obscens Isugusge ayainsts wan who bad sald *Whos, Emmal’ to n womas, ssked what that say|og meant, but could find no* body who kuew. If the World romembers rightly. the pliraso wae Arst brought out in s Police-Court trial ln Loudon or Wostinlustor last. year, whers & lady brought up & nelghbor for persvcuting wnd ‘sggerawating” her,onv method of *sggerawation' spucified being accoating lice oa tho stroet, in the bearing of all men, with a shout of *\Whos Emmal!' The lady objected to this fambst use of her Christian name; also 1o tha aubelits: tiog of ‘Whoa!’ for *$10p1" or even *Hullo!® The thiug got luto'all the papers, one ur two of which gave articlos commentiog un (his new apd peculiss wctbod of - persccutlon: the phrasa was made tb¢ chorue of 8 comlc song, and now is not only echd- iny over Englaud from end 1o end but has edfected & lodgment ia the Bowesy gallery, It may becont 83 popular here a0 ever was Tweed's * You koot Bow it is yoursell,” uow fullen lato disuse,” De. Tresham D. Grogg, who challenged Col, Ingersoll toa debate on tha metlts of revesled relizion, writce to the Mew York J¥orld Lo espiedt surpriav that auybody should Liave questioned bY position, Ile refers o bis public services fu No¥ York lu 1860, sud 10 bis acqusinlance with mas] of the best people of thatcity, As 10 (ho weibods which bie proposes to sdopt in the controverss, ¥ Col. Jogersoll can be induced to engage fo one. ¥ writes: **You bave, unpecessarily perbaph alarpied Col. Togereoll about tha porstbility of &7 drawlog llos luto such lutricate considerationssd those which bave been dug outsnd brought b the notice uf carious persons by Philosapher Der win, of Buglsnd, snd Phiiosopher Kaus, of Uet* maoy. ! am s wan of ove book—and that ¢ book which the gallant Colonel bas made the o Jectof bls sitscks and the burden of his very € Guent orstorical diatives, but one sluglo sylisbi of which, J am bold to say, he doce not nudure resie insoy language. Now, I know bow to cook Bis snd, it be mests e, § e4all accompliah tbis vpert; tion before the face of the Awmericsn people, Serve bim op Lo 156 wosld 8t Jargein the brotk his owa iguorsuce and imbechity. 1use (hm"; pellatives, saving tne Colonel's favor, and 830 1be striogent compalsion of troth. But wbed wiltes descants vpon subjects on which bo 1 &% Qualified 10 judge he is very lisble to Jay himse apen 10 the e3preusion of terms of animadreréd tho reverss of Asttesing,”