Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1878, Page 5

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1878. ! H R T VSR s S S L - e SO A P TS st Sl o PO ookt S o i iansiedec I i sinh ol ye R e O S S P L S e ho Tawn Ifoute to repal of Michigan: M. 1. Buckham, President Uni- | morslity stall, but{s simply one of expediency STATE. AFF aed a A D our time, and 1cangratulate thia gssdmbly dpon | On Tuesdar toihe Fown oot (0 7604y ape, versity of Vermont; Peter Saxe, Lon Angles, Cal. : | of policy, that, 1f adopted, workano Injury to the 2 ALRS, 48 now provided by law, and to reduce the salary VERMONT. Toe cccavion 1ot seiad lbwnnen. Aol R e armer froo his el Tdge Tames Narreits Woodstotk s B oo Tenanit, | cretor, bat will assiee e daviat o Aneharse hie = of Tattond Commisiioners Trom. $5000 (3 . (R JAMRION, Likeold Achllles @aini tu acour ie ehishl. Worcerter, Masy.: M, ehenry: Frederiek Gk The recond tanst was i ¢ Dllinga, of Woodatock: T) Her Sons and Daughters Celebrate Her Natal ) Day. And Send Back Their Greetings to the Old Mountain Homes. -Yitting Tributes to the Schoolmastars, Morchants, and Boldiers of the Btate. IAadresses by Messrs, Hibbard, Jameson,y Isham, Chandlery Keith, Grout, and Others. ‘The lorles of Tune Training—~The Ben« nington Monument—Qenaral Jollification, "Pientet annusl banquet of the Sone of Vermont was glver. nt the Grand Pacide Hotel 1ast evening, end it Is ;no exaggeration to eay that It wne Al fineat ‘lu every respect ever given in Chicago, “There were 432 scated ot tho tables, the large —— ‘diniag-hall being nsed, and among them were ‘Quite & number of the best known citizena of Chi- «@go. The organization has In its membershlp men from all over the State, and a large num- ‘ber of theso wero algo In attendance. A feature of the banguet was the proscnce of ladles, thero being nearly aa many of them as of gentlemen, The Sons think too much of the daughters to ex- clude them from thelr celobrations, AYONG THOSD PRESENT ‘wera L. L, Coburn, Mr. and Mre. E. 8, Isham, Kr, and Mes, Norman Williams, Mr. and Mes, 11, E, Bawyer, Prof. Iager and wife, Mr, and Mre. D, W. Kelth, Mr. and Mra, ilarry Fox and Mire -Chamberlain, Mz, and Mrs, Norman C, Perkiny, ohn N. 10ills, 3Mr. and Mrs, W, 1L Chandler, ‘Col. and Mrs, Joslah Grout, Thomas J. Suther- land, Mr, nnd Mre. E. A. Jowall, the Ifon. and Mrs, 1. N, 1ibbard, the Tlon. and 2irs, John A, .damesan, Lient.-Gov. Andrew Shuman, the Itev. and Mre, O, N. Doardman, L. 1L i bee, the Tlon. W. K. Bullivap, the Hon. and ‘Mrs. D. K. Pearsons, the Hon. Mark Bkinner, Mr. ind Mrs, Frank Glibort, (b Hon, and Mrs, E. B, -Sherman, the Rev. Simeon Gllvert, Capt. S, . "Drown, Dr, and Mrs, Norman Iiridges, Mr. and Mre. Franklin Denleon, Mr, and Mre, L. B, Jameson, Mr, and Mra, §i. 11. Nash, Dr. nnd Mre, Fasett of St Albans, Mr. and Mre. Edwin *Clapp, Mr, and Mrs. D, Rantom, 8. It, Walker, * the Hon. and Mrs, C, I, Casg, Col. aud Mes, 8, D, Swalp, Mr, and Mre. N. 7. Qasecile, .Dr. E. A, Kilbourne of Elgin, the Ilon, John Dore, Qen. Btockton, Mr, and Mrs. W, C, Grsnt, ‘Washington Hesing, Col. Jason Marsh of Iock. ford, tue Hon, Xugone Canficld of Anrora, Mah- Nun Crane of Uardner, Cotk., W, T. Nichols of Maywood, Dr. F. L. Fond 'of "Aufora, Charles ‘Htewart of Neposet, L, Wnlker of Champuign, he Hon. John Mattocks, Dr. J, Adsma Allon, At A, ¢ Calkinv, It {s perhaps necdlces to may anythine of tho mena bevond that 1t wus {n Grand “Pucitic wtyls, Which i8 nbreast uf any in the conntry. 'The Hon, 3, N, iibburd proslded, and pgrace ‘®as sald by tho Rev. Mr. Glibert, of Iittsford. Mhile eating was in progress a l&\lurlclm. nanw © of Pru’. Habin. J. M. Mubbard, Willam Bjeague, aad J, 11, Atwood, samg TIE YOLLOWING ODE, toaposei for tho occasion: O hfth, O vales of pleusuro, O woads with vorduro drest, ‘Whera ail the charms of lelsure ¥0 uft bayo calmed my breast, “Whle fur from yo I wuudor My heart wiil faadly poadur And sighYor yo akain, And now [ have resizned yo For scenes of toll and strife, Ahl why does fato consign nie Tolth{ tha 8 of life? The' jed from ye by duty, Tia aplHL O Your Bty Will never {I“ll'll. <At s quarter of 10 o'cluck . Irtixots AsxociaTion, ¢4 Soxs 1 rise to give a differont diroc- vities, and fn gome measnre to changu the current of "the pleasares of this ce- caslon, T desirc, first of all, to muke my acknowi- wdgments for {he honor Conferred upon me by calling e to the Presidency of your Society, —an onorot which, 1 trust, 1 am duly senutbie, —tha Autics of which | am not'quita. ecrtain § mhull B Torm catirely 10 your satiufuctlon ormy owu, Ido- alre alvo to uxpress my apvreciation anit the thunks ©f your Executive Commiitee for tho hearty to- wperailon wo have recelved from you i prepuring for this festival and for .the great and goodly come pany herg suseinbled. Ladles and gentlemen, cluldren of Vere monty wa ste assenbled to-nigbt to commotwo- rate the day on which, 101 years agu, the veopl of Vermont declared thewmaelves Lo buan independ- ent Commonwealth, Wo gather to do honor to those wise and brave men who, notwithstanding the hoatility of the English un’ tho_north, New Hampshire on the east, and New York un the ‘went, did for fourtesu years, from 1777 to 170L. 08 In(lhln an wbeolutely fudopendent State, Un- ke the ina) thittvan States, Yermont nevor was undera charter_fruni Kiog Jomncs L, of any otber King, hut in 1701, from Its own soverelzin chofce. 1L was udmitted the firat Btate tuto tlvs American Unlon; and, unitk all other States, sdmitted Into the Union, it was neither congueres. Bor creatud out of fetritbry under th Jurisdictiois « or control of the Unlun, " 1f, therefors, wo tako + any pride In the nsmu af Vermont, we owu it to hese men: for bad thoy been leas brave or lews v putriotic, there never would huya been o Vermon, We hava coms togethor on this annivorasry fu raur now home aleo 0 Tovive the wermury of other 1days, 1o call back the remembrunce of the homen 1w hiave et behind us—tho pluces Whore we wers Iborn—-the mountalus, the hills, the valleys vo dear 10 s, L0 600G of W long #Ky, when wo werw lton person who wpeaks alizhtingty 2 ovon thougli ahu bo noither wise and we all uust plly & mun_who doed 1, W foolu prude fn his uative land, but 1 venture th @ ssmurtion, without fear_ of contzudiction hore, 1t 8 hiomew wo had Ty Vermout were presided uve,* by nothiers who should rank wmong the pur. %y lovellest snd buat of curth's women, u tie. % une hiers, wiio, returng 1o hix birthplace amuny 'the Lills, would not tmpuleively way with ald ticy Ua's mhstrel— “; ‘vates there the man with soul so dead , W BOVEF L id eIt hakl) rutd ‘THL $lazy owa, my UuvO 1 Dui whit o are thus ibled to honor the ‘men aud 1 Al tho events uf the fest, b cou- nectlon with GuF native State, wo should nut weein 10 be unming tu! of the poodly city aud Siate of wrd I congrestulata yud thut wa hsve ks hunored gutale soiia of the 2 Btives uf buth, 'n £ madu Jor gho proper considora- toplc.! 1 hiave seguesivd, aud othicrs; aund 1 will uot Y.m ¥r stand belween yod and the better taings ta fofl, . With your permisss vit, Iwill now read the firet regular toant: And o laud? B EDWARLY 3. MIAM. The first toaut was: +'*'[he day wo cclobrate," ®eing 101 yearssincu the dav ‘thwlhl‘“'l}‘l: | tl rauLs were tracts of Land, some- re X Trackiu by 1w todt Hoitacta Vo of all the Yaakoo nae ow “Whet Etlian Allea raled ties, Wt with steel audatolen serfptur, ‘mem-!g..l'i'-»mmun wai*agalnit New York, amt i wok und whips Ler, -C, G. an, To s (he llon, Edward 1% Tshamzesponded, He sald; Mp, Parsipexr, Lapres axp Oextimwen: I think this splendid sasembly 11 ves betler expry #iou thau any oste of specch cag give tu the sent uent that bus called us together, Wu are a tnoue sund milea frow hows to-uight, 1a dlve snd gentle- meu, and 10auy of Us ey never geb back thew, Lut We are nut forgetful ueventhehves, Comug o wo do frum 8 llitlo country, —a laua of wountains aud wido vulleye, of cleat strcams a:ad great, overe llnull)wlllfl tres lustrious full of the usochiions of xn ii- hhu( —slthough ww ure proud of our. i the great Ropublic, and thouyh 1t ven Now York, sluce the wen of 101 yeurs ago «succeeded In kevpluy the lund yhey fought for, Atill tho wind reverts to tLat litils cooutey oot of wich wo cawo with u seutiment sometiring liko that of tho wanderlug Bcythlany, who told the Porslan King 1o touch the ‘graves of their futhery ':’:u'l.h- would s00n sco whal manuacr of mew they Now, Mr, Presideat, the resglution and apirit of ‘$he mea uf 10L yuurs upro, u ulllqlr:&nn.?\tlm:h tbe day wo celebrute comuicuurales, ure oo Ju- wlilar to call for present review, ‘fhey conducted -8 cobtrovezey which fuvolved great questions of _bublic and privatusight, of civil hberty, sud of private property. They were loyal’ to their political " principles to the eud. Uut it way not be Hnmpmu. while e aro.commending their *eXsmple, Lo remember that when thelr contzovomy . Y¥asended they and their Tues uithe put away its bit- teruess, sud juined i evtablishing the uonor uud +EIcatuces of & comuwon uationallty, } uw wure, sir, Justwe sruali gratificd at what we believe to Lo ‘teus,—that wur Duo?lu ot home stll upuold the Bigh cuaracter of thelr sucestory, aud command fur Khelr own present the bonur which tiey and we ury 8d t0 tendor 10 the past. They 10vo s blcas- 04 UL peac, for they thrive by the sfteand in- dusirias of pace, but they never surank from war Whea the natioual houer aud socurily sesmed Lo rdewtnd it They bold their ublication o the pay- ‘m:utof public sod privaws devls, but they Lojd i utter sill tot W bave avy debis. LUpod all the sbriuciples of civil rights and political order thy sterling riugof thelr wpiulun never fullito be Beurd. “and they perpetuste wuch opinion throagh Shv baptlaw of subsfantisl education whicy 1hey &8 Whuls &, Ust, sis, lwuat sotuccupy Vermont—The eatilest stronghold of Ameriean tr dom, the hest exemplar of Liepubiican simpllcity, Let her fong remain Bwltzeriand and Areadia combined. Jndga Jameson responded as follows: BMit, PRESINENT, LADIES, AND (GENTLEMEN: The Seat Canstitution of Verinont was ndopted tu Jaly, 1777, amidet one of the most violent thunder- storig ever witnessed i the State. Uhis eireunt- stance woe typical uf the earlier yeura of Verwont history, ‘That history Ifas been summarized by a Vermont poet: The old Thirteen united fougnt. [The Kevainiton (Brough; While single-handed o Vermont Fought tiem and Eogland (wo. Ever efnce 1705 the State had been engaged in A bitter, and not nlways blooalers, contest with New York and her ally, the Continental Congress, for teeritory clained by both States. The earifest attack upon Dritish troops in America was maile Uy Vermonters. Inthe May followlug the battle of Lexington, —a battle In which the Britiah were the sttacking parly—and Lefore that uf Dunker 1111, the Green Mountain Boys tovk Ticonderoxs and Crown baint, and poshed, on t St John s At the very hout then the Vermont Conventiu ‘was framing the Orst Constitutlon of tho Etate Burgoyne wae invading New York, and sending his detachmenie on tuwarde Bennington, whers the rons of Vermont and other New England men were soon to Inflict upon him his firat great defeat. 1t fa a notable {act that the three earlient battles fongnt upon New York sofl, including Lhat of Ben= nington, which waa then in New York, were fought, not by New York troops. bat by Vermont. ‘f'he milltary chnracter thus early established wan afterwards dustained, under similar circum. etances, when, in the recond war with England, the victoriea by Iand and water gained at Platte. Lurg, also i New gYork, were largely gained by voluntears from onr old Sate, Ta the record made by Vermont fn the late War of the Rebelllon, 1 necd not refor, Inthe 8ty ye: of peace that hodrrrculml. the aplrit born of vu {raaitipne and_of moustain mr wae foutd not to have been extingnished, ‘'Fothose familinr with the peoplo of Vermont, thelr atalwart propurtivie are woll known. It s told of the lafe Uov, Heeeh, of tint State, that, vislting Quebee and inting at the samo table with some Britisl oficers, sirapgera to him, they had the bad taste Lo bluster in respect o the supposed superority of thelr ol diers to the Americane. declaring” that with o single regiment of redconts they could march through \ylrnlmll to Boston. Tho Gavernor, who wag a mon of glyantic proportions, weighing, I ba- Hleve, ronte 40 ponnds, bringing his fist down apon the table with u craeh, rald tothem:* ‘tien. emen, the old wamen of Vermont alone woald drive you back with (el brooms,™ and wound up Ly deelaring that ha kimdel! was ane of the mmnall- ext en s blw county, I wnce knew & Vermonter, 4 townsmusy of mine, who had been present at the tatje of Viattsbung Jle war six feet and o half hnl‘fllll.‘ nnl‘"fi'lelll Dl’:vt,ull:l:‘d’, narksd fo L that, hore weto h; Lo him At that batlle, T pitied the Hers hike P e aiied that thern were matly such: and wpoke of what La saw & man from the Town of Troy, In the maue county, do. As the Jiritleh churged across a bridge to where the Americans stood, he waw Iim saveral fimee bayonet a red- coat wnd pltch him over hil shoulder, ax be would huy with a pitchfork, into the river. My in- fotmant bore the gppropriate name of Mood.” | Consldering the ‘goographical poaitiou of Vers mont, it fa well (hat it 1s [nhavited by 8 stalwart and martial race, € yow will ook st ant northern frontier, you wiil mee that from the Gull of St Lawrence (o the Pucifie Ucenn the Unfon can be fu- wided nowhere, without grent diliculties, nave through the Valley of the Chawplatu orof the Momobratnagog lake, When the peaca of 17&icame, o new ara opened for aur native Stite, Al communication with the British provi: cat off, and onr fathers dwelt, aw It wes s pocket, having only an opening to the sonth, This Isulation hus left an sudellible fuprevs upon their charscter aud rondl. o, OF commerco there wus pone. Hoads were few and poor, and snch s thing as 8 raroad had 1ol buen dreamed of avu present poseibilisy soy. whiere. certainly not tn Vermont, ¥ remember auce when 1 was n lad, walking from my vatfve tawie to an adjolulug onie, fo attend the acadamy there, I met an old aequalutance of my futher, Hemarking to uw un the chniges that lind accurred in Vermont since s b\lrhm ald he: ** When 1 wana buy, had s gwddier comn aloui with s box of Jucofuco mtclies for wale, the people would buve hune him for & wizard, But1 woulin't wonder I you suight lMve Long enoughito seo n rallroad 10 Vermust.” ls defauit of ratlroads, the only megns uf ranspontulion wero tho six- inrac tenms that m‘n‘:h their regulor Lrivs from the incipal towns to tho seatout P o anly mArkss \was o Boston. What was sold out uf the Stato—oud it wos very little~—wod sold there. Al our ** boughten guode '—do you ru. member the term?—came from that city, The result was that pretty much everything ralved in tha Staic was esten by its own prople. Old resiunents will remember the gruaning tables of forty ycars ago, We think we have before ne now un”abandunt provivlun for the innerman. Hut Jet mo describe tw you & candle-light breakfast 1 once hud sot beforo tie st s littlo stago tavern few hours' rlde north of Montpelier, ~ 'There ware mysel! and the bage-deiver only, and we had |:pu|; /tho. tably thrug, kinds uf meat, two or youltey, freal trout, three varletios of cake, 't threo or four of ble, besldes te cotfee, donghnute, and the numberiess oth knickknucks thut wentto make s ** sqoare mos In Vermont at that time. OF course, the Ve monters of that day wero mighty men of stomach iy rd, only $1.40 per week, including fire, lights, and adtinte and ono who shiould bave pald B2 & weak would have beenliable (o bo sct down se ** pop- mlar, "—iliat v, ae arwlocratic. Of books thore warn scarcoly aay, and of news. pepers but fow. 1 have no dunbt some of you will tecsll the Aorth Star, published at Danville, an outl-3asonle and Democrutic papar, that slmost ‘alone sbud Its livht at tiat tline tpon Northern Vermoot, It was ainyatery and a horror to my chilldhood, for my fatlier was o Whig and u Muson, and, fu the Jattor character, the object of sdistrust aud hatred to aome of Lis sntl-Masonic noighbors, Tiie North Star bul 8 printing.press n the contro ol tte hnadln“‘. a0 this, 1had no doubt, was an infernal machine with which the anti-Masons and Vumocrate squuezed the Iife out of thelr vpe nonta, Iml will detaln you forther, ladies aod gontlemen, only (0 #ay that our fathers canic matnly from New ampshiro and Connocticat; thut It was only the most sdventurous spirits who would abandon thelr hiomes foe such o wildornces as Vermont; and that in poiut of religion, they wers Independents, not FPurluns, The circumstances 1 lave detslled madv of them ¢he sell-relinnt, oftun eccentric, but always downright, us well se upright, people, ‘whot we 80 woll rewomber, They havo ever beon more dlatinctively Kogileh, or New Lnglish, c}m.}clcr uud spirit, Lhau sny other Nuw Ene clandery., ¥ ¥l Vermont Lilla are groen. and the dwellers in citice have been wont to k ol thuse who live wmanyet thein as green ol 1t this were adiml, tad, you would foln me {n the hope that the ver- duntzing of both mickt remuin unchansed fora thunsasd years, §f upon that condition ouly might our Jeseendul infierit the virtuo, the vigor, aud the pluck of vur fathers, 31Ad, GROUT, ‘The third toast wa “Varmoat's M\Mfll 'whose blood fs tetcted from atliis uf war proot. Muj. Jostab Graot, of Newport, responded. Ho wald Vermont had & lae of Hevolutlonary soliiers sccund 10 nonu, At thelr bead wus Kthan Allea, 2 Retl Warner and Nemein- Twer Bake: nuwn ns the Ureen Moun. 1ain Boyw—~were not only her dret tlitury wen, but ber statesmon, Thelr legiviation wae not of the imodeen type, but in sll whelr deliberations obsorved must sctupulously tho sptrit of Tlght * and - eayunce of flnlleu, slways vhact: ing on “the sido of virlue, ' They declared Vermout W bea free State, sud it had ever beon. 'Slicy germiusted and protected thuso forces of which were bom her ludopendence, her purace, Lor Canatitution, bur weparate o as 0 ¥tate, bor past aud her prosent prosper Heulluded to the part the woldiers of Vermuut Yl\iycll tho Runelllon, paying a Ligh teibule to buir bravery ait attention to duty, Dit. JOARDMAN., The fourth tosst wa: dior be abrond 1t i witys thers (s anotber vl fu Ui oyes ut road, ~Hroughnnt, lutas of Veruunters, In response, the Jtev, Dr, Boardmay sald no one would surpass bim ju geatitude lowsrd the soldlers, Dut bo rojolewd ihat thelr butldes wero shorter that thosy the scboolmuster had todght. Home thought educatloyweant to lead out, and othurs that it neant to 811 1n. 16 profersed thelattor, (Lauub- "',j‘ {v thero was uuy unulogy between muind and ¥, V. body, Vermounters nsturally wer cducated men. W upias ‘The whols Histy scemed 10 be & wpirol- but therw didu't seem to bo any toy &o g8 wystew, —nounlversity, —but It secmed to dil outaye inassca=1o reash theta all, More could bo learnad by powg (hrough a’ Varinout town tvaa through oy utber, Tha peuple ware ful of lems, Their education had wote Lradns dhan work. 1t vccureed 10 nhin if the Geuerat Govornment. instead of do- awting land for & fort 1 the ‘Vurritorics, would Uuy Veruout and turu tha whols Into u Noruial Benoot, 1t would eonfer u great blessing oo the us- tlon. (Applsusc. | If Vermont wad gbliged to yo wut and teach tho ceantry, and nad authority 10 dictate oplulon, civilizations woald bo greatly ad- vancud. My hoped thebr murals would apread all over thu country, The apcocts was full of Lappy hits, und was woll received. i NOMMAY FEEKING. The following pouny, entitled **Juno Training, waa then read Uy 840 Butbur, Norman C. Ferkius, of Fonfurst: i o wad, long since, wheo each Greea Nouo! A Eona e caad 1b Do fur aw day b Gl yoar. et Toteil ! -'Iutlnmdlluuln uliapa, T march, i Ilues. W) hesded with Lell ¢a G Thut g, est duy, Whet each hesoic L wrched 71 118 Lown's dsfense, Lo-uizh Auong the ' big guns " Lere. and W lacrvase Tavit tuar, pertispe, &1 o uiy Lttt pluce. Soring's worke vas doner the old, low fences Dol e T drec, o sl els Beocrosond "o Excentiug wast the Lotsetelt saved fur yara o Kalt Loys’ it €08, wud batcliance 1o tockly (@6 OF that Laatiug kind s teutiicpart'y Ut leavs (Ule ieus benind The wheat ro grey Ghon (08 ateop alde i _\rvun- yet th bin ueh b s flm » z‘fi‘n“n‘m atlued Ty tendar c Lt 15 s alog e The hors SO T call bl 19 bls dinpey o ed boaus, WL ryatund-Taahes or Sad 'oF salt pork bolled with frecas The Dungry farmsr wovd, Sod wreatled wihth the weeds And Biveled st crowth from evil sceds. With bustling ksite, across the new plowed land, Slalked the Towd Cotstasly with [ Ju Lla'nand, A0 wily Bta s fettds leaued poon il buvy The soleinn Waraog vead (8 weasre] phrase, asd s Ul aré commanyled, now," OF WOrds 0 ket ellech, Aruiel wud scoou) erid a1l owa durect, i g o A e ke i s wooden oo - blact, Of nirde saciont SHll. LR Y ' from flanker Hill, AhiTe e B e 30D ik DT aiail destre To see aiich weapons by her Kitehen fre, Treclared the gan was lo1ded and foryo HThe thihg woard biow hifs heai ut, Jus S true 18 15, througly afl e chunging year An'Empty pun's the thiug & woman fanre, 116 8¢ not.” s and in that realm of, duat AT s Uy omet i 10 SReAGh atcoverad 'et with hts priming-hrash and wire, o A s wes hraepebee If they drdns His oack ot neat's leather, handed down to him Who FoT wern fton his shomders fn the fght at Pen- ningtont ith the {njtials radely earved upon Ity head, ARy who deank from (t, and I8y down beatd i, The mf:'cjlrmm-mx. ow empty, which held many & te gw.-:’:": Chated the fed-skins a1 they fed to . From the deed they did at Noyaiton, where, as soldters row, I vealved the peaple while the Drftish purn- T e e P ‘Thue the farmer found his armor, ‘med 1tke burulshed golds e lsteued wid. On the morning when the \Waralng Catied (e Cumpany to life, Esel new coniter hrard the drummer— Meard the bugle and the dfe, Baw the Captaln all enwrapped n Gorgeuus uniform and lace, TILL A (enther altogether Ut uf color and of place, — Meard the ped Cryingofl their stoc! Tokers tendat, and aigpendec ews rumby, and lenionadej— BAw the aIEnACE BAIRIY Yenger 0" OF those cards of gliigerbrosd Walelyno uaker or ureal-inaker Could niake N0, 10 Save hi¢ hesdy= Bak Lo g valdlers driiag e aw them oiarching fn and out, *THI they Kronnded aring, astouaded, Aud siwod fa2I0E Mght about, Corporal Cottle nassed the bottlo Allnlong the singie 8lg Abje-bodied sutdiers nodded Apd hy Lo 0aclt and took # ** smtley” ur 1t {4 a credic it lthough the grog (4 free, vt Il!l’rr t“ t .N ter i ouE Company rehi mf In |’nlnm-' 1t wiil e l‘l{ int = Th! ntie tie cost otl down to Boston— Fo'bence ha'peany a pintt And ihough the haudy chivr brandy Uf the Kind we have to ium Wa delight in, yet fur fgntin, Glve us good New Ruglsnd lumr Thus Tratnlug-Day worc ons and when the night drew car Each warrior grim cast off his martial pear, And 100k Iiand at Honest ball wnd bat—= Kot +*base-batl, " mind you, Ut Food **two-nid-cat " D whea, quide wenry of ihg catet ad tov hodt hie homa a1t Nunxey, {ired. s cron Hils thoughttul lelpmate, knowing low 'twould be, Hootlied all hils woes with nutcakes and hot tea, LIBUT.-GOV, BIIUMAN After anothar sung by tho quacieite, The fourth tos ‘+'{'ne State of Our Adoption, * wny responded 1o by Lieut.-Gov, Shuman, ile waid it was didicnlt to ay {lmnx to such an io- tulligent assemblage abunt 1Winola that would be new oredifying. What they didn‘t know ahout het was not worth knowlne, ~ She was grent in ex. tent, In popuistion, 1 resunrees, in prodnction, o commerce, fu ali the clements and forces that went to make the yreatuess of g people, They mixht Jook back with pride upon tho Siate they liad leit, Lut felt that they hiad cause for fellcitating thom - suives, and congratulating each other upon the fact that they hnd cast their lut hero, (Appiause. | W. W, CHANDLER. ‘The 0fth toast was: The (nflusncs of rallroads tn eradicating narrow prejudices aad exteading the byundury Hues of what Was fornierly known as Y aokeeduus, Mr, W. W, Chandler, of Kandolph, responded, Hewnld Mu. Pnxsipent, Soxs Axp Davontens or Ven- MONT, AND LADIES AXD GRNTLEMEN 1N OZNEnaL: Tho sentiment to which 1 am called to respond ia altogether too broad and suggestive, and the teme fat {00 prolifie, fur the fre minutes’ talk to which lam yery properly limited. —Tho subject, Low- lu\‘uryfuml unv, and 1 propose N [{ copyrighted, since I don't know what minate am fisble (o Lo Invited to deliver an oddress 13 Cplumet ar Oghkosly, in which event 1 shall hgpe 19 bp u]- lowed at lcaat sixty minutes in which to enamerajo somo of the mauy changes, cven in social life, which have been wrought, mare lnrgely than lhmuqn sny other fusirumentality, by tlie con. struction and opening of raflroads. FPeoplu of different scctlons of this great and growlng conntry bave intermningled and assimilated, nd huve theroby lost in o good degree many of the 'allum:um features and charactoristics Ly which they wero rtldl!{ fdentifled, and thelr Josalties easily recognizad, before the *‘iron borse* and ron ralls bronght polnts remote from each other within halllug djstance, The direct reault of extonded Intercouree ningng mun which ratlroads alone have renderea powsinia i4, that ywo see thy uers, custons, havity, and eyen the dislects of persons residing fu differant localjties have become tuore uniform iau when we wersboyaaud girls au. were endesvoring to scquire s knowledge of our. own country aud its fnlsbita brough tho study of Olney's Geography, ‘Thoso of you wha nro a8 ueatly 80 years old sy 1 am areaware that originally genuine Yankees were ouly indigenons to tho sol) of thy six New England Statos, and that thoy could no mors bo produced in any other Btats of thy Unlon thaa they could have been successfully propagated in lre land, Germany, or Patagonia.” Now, however, all in changed, ond we nd that as bealihy and ro- ;UU’HI'I o Yankees can ba ralsed In Minuesots s in iaine, B ‘Whoover hinlts on Droadway, Now York, to scan the crowd constautly throniniethat groat thorouyli- faro, connot determiue by the galt or divss of the passcrs.Ly those who bofl from New vatire and thosa coming from Wis- consin, aince gentletuen frowm all acctions pretiy enorally wear mustaches, and vory many of hem woar litle, insignificant, round-topped fiats, whether they bl from Montpsller or from Umaha, Tadiow visiting New York frdm Kunkakeo or 8t Louyw cannot bo distinguished by thelr bonnoets or by their accomplishments from thoss who belong 4 Itutiand, Beandon, Luriluglon, St. Albine, on §t. Jolinsbury, for tbe slmple reavon that **pull- bucke " broke oat {n ull sectiona of the countpy sinwitaneously, or thereationts - Beforo reaping-machines, friction walches were | ng-machines, aud entud, defore (jeorgu Francis Truln wus discovered, befare the advent of tho magnetic telegraph and’ womun's-rizhits con- ventionw, before rullrouds penetrated every Btate of the Unlon, o¢ thev mow do, thero existed in many sections of the cuuntry, even nordn of **Muson and Dixou's hne,'™ b very mou'pm{ndmn ogainet Yankses in genoral, und Vermont Yankees {n particular: and 1 must ey st Yankeod weru almost equally Intolerant of ** Buckeyes," **1looslers, * and ¢ Michiganders. ™ Stalir far more than colieges and ** fomalo weminaries,’* have wrought tho chanze, Yaukees tranaplanted have grown broader, and spmewhat less cunceited, while nattves of other Statesfamony whum Yankees have weitled have gradually erown mure chaptable, nnd Lius the jnteemingiing hos proved mutually benuficln), “Flie duy Lua pusaud whon Yankees can bo recog- nized by the dresdful oaths ouce so common among tisn, Crlvumi o leanum !t 00 awow i aud ** Dary it1"—or by thelr nskiug, **Neouw, Jim, absout hoauw longbefure you will ) 10 st Teady L Drepara o commence Lo wake B start Cu go und fetch that are ceauw 'K Westorn man. iy na jonel used 1o call hiy ** biled abirt, and **right-smart chauco ho dlflfl"lll rendored him ** powerful weak, Ityen wo Vermont Yankees boro to-nivut, asee bled tu magadlcent Grand Pacile Notel, whi canuot bo wurpassud outslde of Lostan, clannish us wo may buve convidered, can ‘and do mast heartily followship and fraternize with thuse of our guvets Whu were s0 unfortunale os 10 have been born ontlde the comparaiively usrrow ures of New Encland, however nuch wy tiay coniin. wrate them for thelr mlvfortungs, or however much wo may indalge 1o sulf-gloridcation that we wero barn 18 @ country wlfuriug so nieny luducemcaty for us tu lenve i}, LENNINOTON, Mr, B, (. Isham thun arwes and offerad the fole lowing resulutivnes Jeesolved, ‘Clist tho victory of (Jen. BLark ¢ tho Bat. 10 of Seonfuatou will oyer teatify’ G tho velur and berulsutof tho American soltor. Titnased. “LHAL e Avunctation indorsa the pur poss Senningtun Bario SI0nwuenE Assocksisui, tored by the state uf Verniunt, ly srcel wad inaiu: 1alu a vwoyuinent lu cotitneniuraty sel Kesoloed, That thls tion bt only apbrovo nf the eiectiun of the monument that shall perpeiuste the it ‘0 the hurues uf fieoufngiua iat thiat v, B0 Commonweslih of Vors b 81 Lvuor Lo They wore unanimously adupted. TUE GOVEINOK, Prestdent Iibbard read tho followlng dispatch which bad been seut to Gov. Falrbanke: Fuur hundred snd afty sons deughlers of Vers mout, residsnts of Chics urd s proud of muther of u 0, b thia Connnunweatth wiicli fa th o1nUled 1o Wikt at our Urat aunual feative), et logr 49 us. you, 1o i} Vermunte “Tiie Wious vallevs of The everyrec a val st ery Bt o wuty, pud hur Sutlune wre stll} Dur bussty Udr Menwry 18 paaslvuate Witl gratefulues sud bescdictious, Mr. E. B. Sherman, of ‘Le Lxecutive Commit- tee, next read tho regrets, Among the letterd was wny from the Hoa, Horace Fairbauky, tuvernor of Verwant, fu which Ly wald: **Kvery loyal Verwootuz will rejoice with me to Kuow that ouf brothers who bave gone foto yolun. tary exile are atill, o the povi Lath 1%, thourh not $u the wame Iguable seue, “Truo patriots sll, for be (¢ Gads We 161t GUF COULLEY 1UF GUF COuutry s §0O, A4 Whilowo at bame fecl the drain ypoy vur wen- tal. worsl, end industrisl resvurces, by reasou of the exudus of so Zany of our noble son sod daoghters, o « We ‘know that our Juss fs others gain, . . The Oret century of our uational’ exiicnco Bus wore than fulslled 100 e, of prophetic promive, Whethive tow futare furulsh s fulldllicnt of thoss pruphetic vislous, 1o thelr fal@ilioent will depend upon huw well we catry on the great work a0 well bevuu. Lot ué se Lo I that Wy transmit 10 our children uplmpalred al} thuso incstimavle blessings of civil and relighiue Nberty whicls we received ua 8 pre- cluus Jeyacy frou out ancestors, " Lotters_were alw_recoived from Willlsm M. Eywris, Becretary of biate; Justio Benstor; George ¥, Edumunds, Yolaud,’ ex-Representatlve; Thmothy field, Judge Supreraw Courty L. tenden, ex-Regleter of the Tresaury ; George' Nichola, Hucreta: tate of 1) of Veritiunt; daiues i, Auguil Brestdsas Usiversiy Nichols, Tutizoe, | . Joyce, presentative frien 1ge > Ttyland Fletclier, Proctorssille: ¥, Tlolbrook, Drattlebora: E. 1, Phelphs, Bartington dubn B, Page. ot 1 furhngton; itiand §fali, Dennington: A, Worthen, ' Springleld. 1 : 0, Il Tiatlow, Roringteld: ¥o E. Woodbridge, Verzennes; G, 1. Bigelaw, Barliugton: W. 1. 1, ingham, Stowes . Bennington: Ii. Galushs, Troy, N, Y. : d. C. Merriam, Logansport, Ind. ; 1.0, liiske, Worceter, Mase, ; O, Welch, Clinton, Mass. ; A, }. Copeland, Chenoa, Tl Copeland, Lincoln, 1. 311, L. Geach, O 4 Uianchard, \Wheaton, I, ; Morse, Scotts W, C. Flagg, Nora, § siderable number of Vermontes Chicago, ELORIDGE 0. KEITH. ‘The noxt toast wae: Vermonters as merchants and bsinoss men. In her quiet valiess, and In Lier Tural hiomed, Vermont glves Terbays the edgcation snd tralning Which form the aurest basia of snceess. Elbridgs U, Kelth, In response, said the teuth of the eenttinent was shown by the men around him, who lelt the grand old State with only willlog liands, strong hearis, and active brains, 1o reek their fortunos In the West, —Hut that wos not ali they had, They had been taught lessuns of frugality, of thrift, of undaunted cueegy in stern echools of necessity and adversity, and by the praclous exam- ple of their wiree. “Thele characlers had deen 1wolded by them, and this wasa capital far better than that recelved by the inheritors of fortune. Thoy wero taught to be unswerring in delity to overy contrsct, and to rigidiy adhere to the right and the trath—principlce of uiore benefit than sny others to tho business man. {Applause.] 1., MEACHAN. ‘The ast toast was; etmont editors and newspaper mes. +* Worda ara things, ana 8 swail drup of Ink, Ealliuy, fike dew. upun a thought, produces That which tuakeatlicusaude. perfisps millioar, think," yran, Louis Meacham, of Middlebury. in response, a8id there were three exceptional mawspapers in the State the Jke of which haid never been scen in the country, They were all dewocrsiic, ai) fear- leas, apgressivo, aind, in tha words of one of thi editors, ** Fea nor devil, Une dled, the o d and circulated in the State, tho third never publislied in the State atoll, _He refarred to the Courter, the Argus, ud tho Chicagu Timer, The peopla of the biata never lind inuch taste fora lll“{ presd. There find been aix dailfes, but they swallowed each other down to three. Thu press was not fts mlcets, or tho editors, but the principles which thowe sheets and edltors advonced and maintained., For these be backed Vermont agninst the world, In the papers would be found no apolozy for crme, no word of morsl #ith or degeadation, snd for this reason: The editors did not print what tho peoplo did not want: and the purity of the press proved thie purity uf thy neople. AI‘I\DDIAIIML In'the absence of Mavor Jesth, who was to ha esponded tu **Tha City of Chicago, ' Ald, Pear- ras called on, hul, as the hour was late, he only nald, This sudience of beautiful women and hrave men i the best speech that can be made for Caicazo, ™ ‘Tlio programme was ended at o guarter of 12 with prayer by Elder Kent, but more than a majurity, capecially the younger people, remalned until 2 veluck thiv murning, the thoe belog spent in dancing sud cunveraation, THE CURRENCY. TIIE CONTIRACTS. 79 the Editor of Thr Tribuns. Co1cAGo, Jam, 17.—A natlon Is exempt from all the ordinary processes by which o debt can be collected from it. Soap judgments, mort. Rages, executions, liens, have no force—~in fact, have no exlstence—in the case of anatfon, If onw natlon is fndebted to another nation and re- pudlates {tsdebt In whole or In part, the creditor country has but two horns to its dilemma,~ clther to pocket the loss or toresort to that dire calawnity, war; fn which event the creditor nation may lose more than it gains, ever though it may recover s debt. For thls reason, then, eyery potriotie and right-thinkiug citizen should regard his country's debt to be a somethiug akin to the scntiment ecxpressed of Cmsar's wife—4'not only virtuous but above suspiclon.” In studying the sflver auestlon, we witl flud that the monometalists, or goldites, gather from tha above sell-evident maxime tho vnly argu. ments that sceis to bo worthy of noties, to-wit: to remonctize silver and make dollars from it worth only 43 ceunts, with - which to psy _the fnterest and prinaipal of our public debt fstodo a mean ond dishonorable act, tends to lower the standard of morality in the eftizen, and would bring fiuancial calmuity Upon our country. A uupi)oslmloun case might be made up in whicl all thls would be truei but let us look into this caso and sce liow much of thlssevero arralgnment Is ustitled by the facts. Nearly il not all of our national ilebt was contracf be puid In coln (gold or silver) at a speciticd time; had it been nominated fn the bond that we shiould_demouetize one of the metals (to wit, sliver) boforu the debt bacanie due, oud wa done o, and then shiould reniunetize it vgaln before tha debt bscamo due, that fndeed would Le @ dishonorable aad vacillating act, unworthy of a tlon: Lut thero was uo such nourination fn aro that A bLolf-dozen cain when the thouht of the conntry wi pon that subject, a Jaw possed, asenming & now obligatiun, entirely uncalled for, and mot morally binding on the nation, because the contract lind not Leen legatly oponed foralioration, amend- ment, or. adjudication by bath of the hugh cone tructing partice; toar'y, therefore, that Congress, by ft9 own valition, can bind the morsl sense of the nation by adding to tho contract, is lo sy that Cangrews can biud the moral sense of the nation by faklig fram th cantract, 1f Cagreet cuo alorg iter thy ngrecuent, and say that tho bonde shiall e o pald i ope coin, then Congress alone ulso has the sight to alter tho contract, and say that th Londs whall be paid in three colny, and” monetize nickel or_copper for that parpose,’ It secuns foal. faly, thorefory, 1o say that tho caunt: ‘moraily bound not 1o repeal an act of Congs thal wes pussed at o thioe when the cunn(? at large, ntve- eoths of the Congressmen, and (he Iresidont, wera In Lotal ignarance of the wost vital clause of the act, and when expoved o the red heat of div cussion, Investization, and resvarch, broves (o the Lptier scive of the country to have been unwisy and hasty Iegistation. Again, we are told that the **dollar of the dad. dies " if romonetizod wili not ben dotiar, but will bear a liuupon dtaface. Lebussee: Downto 1873 even milvor dollacs were at & premium in goid; after thut time the Uoited Siater and Uernany de. mionctized stlver, throwing 1 0t of v s wanvy, und onte thy markets as uierchamdise, bences glut- e the markets, and ts consequent fall in value pered to fts more favored companten which b peen vxalted to the hizh pod. ud by tlat act | No wouder that el gold lovked oy with complacency while legislators were thus look. — tug after their tutecests, “Flierotore, I sikver fe)l in valuo by reason of de- monetieatiol, 1t followa that it wil rso tin value Ly reavon uf remanatlzation, and thue tlic arxu- nent of u depreciated dolar falls to the ground; but, ll{l tha goldue, there will nob euough of tue’ natlons remionetize ailver to Lring it 10 full value, We aek huw o you know thatt 4L sigus uf iy tines cettalnly polnt touditlerent conclusion ; it 18 oven now u mauted guestion whether there can be gobil enungh oStained for the wants of the world ux mongy and merchandive, without In- creawing Its purchiuing power (o a divasirons exe tunti s the Increase of v purchasing power tieunea ding decrease of sll otner “kiude of prope t meuns that every dollar that au vidual or nutlon owed shull geow in vize, eir avility to puy decressu n ke proporifons wus o hotler schome dovised o make the cher anid Lo soor poore) And ugain, theso United States 15 one of the most Intelligent und one of the most powerful nations of tho varth, wud {f unt of the tires of discusnon and Investigaiion hor volco apeaks fur b aiis, e masured, Mr. Goldite, that that volee will u heard on the other slde of the Atiantic in thun- doer tanes, Monumetallsm on the othet aide of the Atlantic s to-day In the ascendancy, butf the efrnaof the timee speak truly to-morrow this Gollath of gold will mect tie David, Aund, agaln, wo are told with fearful warninge that il we Femonetizo sllver our I Lack ou us wilh dlsastrous results bomde will flow 11 this bo an boldr n 10 ex- wich Valuuhlo” vecuritics foF & depred e mixut wlace a littlo ut & p wi-cent doltar? ahle ducreane in the voluine of hiv interest, but o wunld Jouk twice bwfoi be leaped, and would by very likely to walt toe appreciatios o the price of siiver ikely to ocens by reasou of remonciization before parting with hls bunds, 111, We Lisve nol the sligbtest evidenco that our” Europeun bLondhiolders are at all tucasy about wur resonctization scheme; but vupposs that bouds are went back, what thenr Fhete is Sdle capitsl enough 1o tne couniry to take all aud wore theu ali ol the Gand U per ceut boads that will returss, Tho question of houor being sboit tho unly point iu the discuslon that thy goldite haw succeuded du rateing, dud this fn tho kbt of discusalon Lavieg bLeca fully snswered, aud shows 1o have Do welght, 1t {s uow ju order for the inouonictallsts to put in thelr argu- nont in favor of thelr pet Lheory s how, uxu bation or judividuals, ¢ citcd by that Klud of Jegislation wiich will make wvery dullar that wu owo gruw larger, aud the pruperty vut of which we exvect 1o pay our debt Lrow correspondiugly lovs, a1 the day of setilement approschce. Perhuje in tho dim fature thls country may sce its way clear o adopt musowetalist views, but it will bd when tho quustion 18 but uben tu Lk Curgy of cluss-legelation, 10 wit: the taking of wealth from tby debtorand giving it to the creditor. ‘I'bs churge of reuudlation whicn Lolls Yuod - sgaiust the paper dollar te unworthy of when uttered syatuat tho silver advocats, for the reason Lhat Lhe adlest advocates of the gold staud- ard wduwit that rewouetization of sllver will bring it to par, Thy question then does not vater the domaln 9f "‘mlzmev" in the clauses clted, ohlizations, and will promote prosperity throngh- Sutan the tamd. ! ks COINAGE PROFI'T---WHO SHOULD IAVE ITt Ta the Editor of The Tribune, Bnenoraaw, Wis, Jan 16.--Until & few dsys ago [ suppoced the ground taken agafost the free-cotnaze feature of the Bland Silver bill was Lased un correct principles, and thot the Senate should amend ft, at least In that particular. But, in undertaking to write a defense of that view, I fourd I was getting hazy, and on further re- flectfon convinced mysell that the ather side fs the solid and correct one, and now hope 1t will prevail. The reavons therefors b The advantazes that can accrue to the Gove crnment are g0 doubtful, and accompanied with such chances for loss and possible corruption on the part of mint officials, that the amendment that some deem 30 Important to tnsist upon s unlmportant in one sense, and a myth, & delu- slon, and a disgrace {n anothier sense. First, € sfiver {s the precious metal we cfafm 1¢ s, and worthy to be restored to the function of belng & legal-tender to dischargo so sacred an *obligation as an honeat debt, then it §s as good a ‘metal ns gold, and descrves the treatment at the miniand elsewhere, we call It to ourall to perform the same proper functions that gold docs, then we wust give it equal rights. Second, the nssumption that there will be eat proft cunnected with coining, which can nure to the Government, is chicfly delusiou, Profits sre predicated on the wssumption that bullion will remain in price the same a3 now, and that the coin made from ft, being worth fta face, will make a clear prodt to the Government of Hor0 per cent. Men reaton in regard 10 silver as thiey a0, or did, in recard 10 the paper on which greentacks were printed. —that the Government can mnake the margin between the cost of material Aeed Lo reacrve the legal-tender stampsud the cur- rency {nrm]ncml. Jut they forget that paper is a commadity worth only n few centa per pound, and that it takes no more of 1t 1o make o thousand-dollar bill than it dued 10 moke an one-dollar uote; and thst atlver bricke arc worth, Intrinsically, aimoat semuch un- ¢oined a9 milled, and that vne dollar cannot be stainped Into a thourand. They forget the green- back'1s only s promise to pay, sud that preity mich ail tiete (s 1t u colned_dolfar (s pa cmbodied redeemner itscil, The i vmuc(‘ul into L by the stamo, and tho promise be- hind it while, even at present prices of silver, ainiost tweive-thirteenthe of 1o sflver dolfar will fake carc of jtecil without Governinont ald or recornition. - This belng the case, the moment the Silver bill {3 0 faw, and thy eliver doliar s & ireal-tender at its face value, that moment ellver bulllon goce up in aympathy with the coin, as fuevitably as wheat rocs up when flour appreciates Jn vaiue, aud 10 res Govesrnment can prevent it; and that wipes out the great profit fn colntnz just ns surcly an a riso in wheat cnamalle milling” profits. The only chanco (0 make n bl probt 1§ ROUFIE 11 10 1aY 1n 8 stock of clieap wheat. Tho ouly chance for thie Gurernment to maka targe profity by colne ing temonetized sliver 14 to lay In a stock of chesp uitlon, pending the passave of the bill, Alter the LIl jo Inww,git will be tou Iate, This Governmnent con't take the ground that it 11l coln_no buliion except that ft buysata given price, That would be partis] conflecation of the pruperty of its ctl- zene, 1f the proposed amendment “cantemplates no such compulsory way of getting 1o raw materl- al, then the prospective profitaof colning ure clitefs 1y delurive, the effort of remoneiization uf milver will bageyou teach, and anl fally belleve, then the llver dollar will risuto par, and sllver bullion will ¢o up on the name traln, and tho own- er of. the bulllon will pet the margin, If remonett- zation doew not have the effeet you hiold it wili, then there will be no such profita in"the business to any party in colming 89 is msaunied, Private individu- ale cannot wskeany prodisspeculating In 8 product of any kind unles they put their money or_good creditintoit, Neither cau w Governnient, To jet the profit of coininy silver It must become an vb- presaive, monopolizing speculation in and large urchascs of bulllon, —a position thut we lind bet r forbear putting our afiictals into, There s muotlier point: If (aking the legal chainu off of stiver epables 1t to take its Blace In tho tinanclal world as before, then that wiil ahow that the Government perpetrated 4 rosbery on the owners of bullionand allver mines wavn it outlaw. ed onu of the conetitutional prec etuls of tho nation. To degrude silver by process of law, and (hcnracke( the praits of letting it up sgaln to Hfe, sud fiverty, nd constitutional rigats, o akin to the morality of the stock-gambler who degrades s #mall smount of hiu atock to-day that he inay buy aunt fo-morrow, Thu oas wners—let it ot clalm pay for committingthe deed. 8o, looking the whole field over, I conclude that 1t would be disuraceful {n thy Uovernment 1o ciainy to make the profts of colnsge, and it it ald by, it would ouly be rasning for " ''Dead-Sea . fruits that tempt the cye, bat turn to aslies on the lips, " for the uwner of the baltion (s master of the sitastion, 1 would suitle tho qacation Ly dotermilning, by tha best attainablo light, which {s the better way to conduct & Governwent mint,—tu work for the owners of buillon who find the capital, or et it be 8 nanufactore, temxc ol to provide 8 stock of materlal to curry o mees, Lot the queation be su settled, and I fully believe the free-coinngy featura of the Biand bill will bo retained. J. A, Bxiru, < A CONSTITUTIONAL PHASE. To the Lditor of The Tribunt. Watznvoo, Ia., Jan. 16.—Is there not a con- stitutlonal phase of the allver questiont If so, shiould it not be prescuted and discussed ! Boverelgnty rests with the people. - Both Fed- eral and State Governments are limited, The Constitution was ordained and estab- Ushed by the people, and from that Insyrument the general Government derives all of the pow- ers which ft can exerclae, and these are enumier- ate Congress s empowered by the Constitution “to coln money, regulate the valuo thercof and of forelgn coln.” By the same fnstrument 1t is provided that ** no Btato shall coln money or “mnke anything but gold and silver colna tender fn payment of debts,' "Ihe followlng would scem to be logical de- duction: 1, The exclusive right to coln mouey s vested in Congress, 2 Tuls exclusive rizht imposes upon Con- gress the duty ol exerclsing this right. 4, This excluslve cofinge power Das for its ul?wcl; uniforiity of money in kind and value, . This money—~i. e,, the teuder money estabe lished for the Btates, by thy Coustitution—is old and allver coin, 5 Uniformity of monev In kind and value be. Ing the plais intent of thesw elauses of the Con- stitution, it would scem to nocessarily follow that tender cofn_ of the generul Guvernment must be that to which the Btates are confined, viz.: gold und sliver coln, Othierwise the obe fect aud futent of the Coustitution would be deteutedd. 8, Gold and sflver colo beine defined ani fixed by the Cunstitution as tho tender money for the Btates, and the excliaive right being conferrvd and the couatitutional duty mposed "upon Cou- ress to coln this muney, Congresy has uelther the righit to refrain frum cololng gold aad sliver, nup the cunetitutional power to doprive the States of citber or both, by demonetization or otherwise. Does not the clauwe which fubibits the Ntates from cufniug wiuney, sod als from muking anys Ahibug but gold and silver coln a teuder n payient uf debts, luve tha forco of a positive cnactment, declaring that the teuder money of afi the States, aud couseguently the whole conntry, shall by 8 uniforin uue consteting of gold and sfiver coln? 1L has beun veltled, | bolieve, that the truw i of constitunional interpretation fs sowethlng Nke tifa: The words of thy ¥rant ar 1o bu takva fo the cominun wad pophInr scnee, 1 that senve 1o which i poopl inuy bu sujucd 1 ve dudsraiusd thyw when they iatiied the Coustitution, for the Couwtitution owes s Jorce and authority to ita sutifieation by the people, sud the people judged 1t Uy the meuniug wost spparent on its fuce, Apply this rulo of tulerpreiation to the word What was fte comuton aud accepled wicaulne vrior to and ut the Hime of 1he sdoption of the Constitution? w seventh cdition uf Jacob's Law Diction. 'd 1 1351, defiues the word os ful. 'y (Moucta) s that metal, bo it Goid or, that recelves Autliorlty by the Princa’s s {0 pase current: forus Was le not s Seal without a Irint, 80 Metal fs not Money withous linpiession. Sluney is wald tu bu thy commun wmeasure of oll Cowmerco throuzh the World. snd cunslsts principally of tiree Vurtss tho Mretal wheredf it i mwade being bilver sud Gold; the be. nuwtualio of Extrinste valus fivon by tho King :'E virtuo of Lls Precogative; snd the King's Stawgp ereo. " English money answerine fo the sbove was current dn this country prior to aud even after the aduptiou of the Constitaiion, and that money in its comgon snd accepted venss meant gold ‘snd silver coin would sec to hardly sdmis of question, Such uioucy waw at the tiue understoud Lo be Ll **Cotwinon messurs of 811 commerce through the world " and thls d to the term **snoney Language of thy second. cited: ty shall coiu wouey, " or** make auything bot gold aud atlver colu u bender 10 paYmcnt Of dubte.™ ‘That **wupey * melnlruld and silver coln st the tiwe of thy adoption of the Constitution, sud that tbis was the meaniuz wost appareut snd uatural frons the reading of the instruient fteelf, aud 1hat it was ih (bl conwod aod popular sens that thy people ratiticd tices Clauscs of the Con- stltation sectis clear. ¢ 1 au correct lu my Inter- bretatian, lhe power of Congtees I 404 brumlaus lo Clearly defued and lunit The people ordained sud catablished the Consti- utlon ** o promoty the geovral wellare.* lave they not tu right to demand that Congress shall teusonctize allver as & constitillonat duiy, as well &8 ** 0 promaote the gensral welrare 1 s . Huateo, The New Republican Administrae tion of lowa Inaugurated Yesterday. Principal Features of tho Inaa- gural Address of Gov. Gear, Adoption by the Minnesota Senate of Resolutions Demanding Re- monetization. TOWA. LEQISLATIVE PHOCEEDINGS, Spectal DispateA ta The Chicago Tridune, Dxs Motxes, Ts., Jan. 17,~The most {mpor- tant bills introduced were for regulating the vontrol of private bauks; to provide s Recefver of deposits made when a bauk Is Insolvent, and to punish the officers; s joint resolution In- structing the Committee to report a bill amend- ing the Constitution abollshtng the Graud Jury: a Jolnt resolutlon asking the repeal of the Na. tional Bankrupe law, which was adopted and the bill passed to a second reading; waking sil- ver o legal-tender for all debts In this Ntate, public and private, unless otherwise stipulated Ly contract. At 2:30 both Houses in a body, with the State officers, under an escort of two companfes of State Guards, marchied to Lewls' Opera-Honse, where the inauguration ceremonies began with music and prayer. The oathof office was ad- ministered to the Governur and Lieutenant- Governor by Justice Rothert of the Supreme Court, when Gov. tiear read his INAUGLURAL ME83AGE. The fnaugural sddsess states that all the po- litfcal parties in the State have adopted resolu- tions tu favor of the remonctization of siiver, which wontld Jead to the fuference that a ma- Joritv of the peaple are united on this question; and ft s to be Lboped that Congress will at an early day restore tho colnage of the silver dole lsr and make fta legal-tender for all debts not otherwlse now provided for by law. Gold and silver have been the “muney of nccount ! of the world for ages, and should be matntatned ne such. The effect of the restoration of silver to 1ts former position in the tinances of the natfon will, in the opinion of- mauy of the best writers dmmce. advance its value, avd ut the same time slightly deoreciate the value of gold, und thus each would bave a compensating elfect un the other. and both metals be brought to a unj- form value. Remonetization of sflver, In his opinlon, would have n marked effect In helping to smooth the ditliculties which in the minda of tuauy natr acem to surround the resumotion ul specie payment. THE STATE TAXES. during the past tweuty-three years have aver- aged but n tritle over two mills on the dollar,— aud thisona \-er{ Jow valuatiun of proporty,— and during this Jong term of years lave been Juzs “than those of any othier Western State. This, coupled with the fact that the Statg hus, comparatively lue:klug. no debt, ias doubtless contributed Jargely to her growth and raofd fn- creunse of populatfon, and ft fs most desirable for her prosperity and reputation abroad that taxation should ve restricted to the lowest pos sible point compatible’ with her actunl necess t He recommends that all appropriations of an extraordinery character, such as embrace the construction ‘aud repairine of the State bufldings, should be drawn from the State ‘Treasury 1o Inatalluents trowm time to time, ns the work on such bulldlug progresses, and thenonly on the fillng of proper vouchers with the State Auditor, that the amount drawn previously had been expended fn accordance with the faw appropriating the same. In view of the fact that the State bas, faliing due in 1881, 3300, of *War and Defense Fund bonde," it will be well for this Geueral Assem- bly to consider tae propriety of providing funds 1a order that the State may'be inu position to honur her obligations at inaturity. To do this aud to meet extraordinary appropsistions,—if any are made,~—1t will be necessary to authorlze the Exceutive Council to fucrease the tax-levy sbove 3 mills ou the dollar, the maximun now allowed by law. OMPULSONY EDUCATION, The aystem of public schouls lllliultly the pride of all, and thetr etliciency shoutd be’ nro- inoted by all proper means within our power. Watle tho overage dafly attendance on the schools throughout the Siate is large, yet it will be found on examination that a large” per- centare of children do uot attend school at ull, and it s feared that many of these are growluz up tn lznorance which *1s near akiu to vice,” The success of a republican form of government, sitch &8 we are blessed with, rests ina large degree on the fn- telligence of {ts cftizens. [ecogniziog, there- fore, the broad fact thut the education of all the pnople ds for the best Intercst of the State und natlon, has not the thne come fur lowa, which has ever been foremost in fosteriug cducatfonal interests, to adopt sume nystem ol compulsury education] 1t1s a well-grounded conviction {n the minds ol many that TUE PINANCIAL INTERESTS OP TiE CITIES of the State would be better subserved by plac- fuz the management of their altwrs in Boards of Commuissionera—clected at larg. mewhat similar to the system under which the atfairs of our countles ure so well managed, aud I sugizest thut a commirsion be appointed to report to this or the next Ueneral Assembly the propricty of placims the cftivs ad tuwns of the 8 under somie twore stmple, uniforu, and eco- .nonical sveten o muuicipal guvernuent than We uow have, TIR PROCESSION then reformed, marched to the State-House, where Uov, Gear was welcomed to the Executiva ofllce by the retiring tiov, Newbold aud Licat.» guv. Cutopbell to the President’s chair {u the caate, WISCONSIN, . TUB HOUsw. § Bpsctal Ditalck to Ths Chicaga Tribune, * MapisoN, Wiv., Juu, 17,—1n the Assembly to- day most of the sessfon was occupled fu discuss- ing aud aniending a resolution Inviting the res!- dent clergy to open the sessfons with prayer. 1t was nally killed by a vote of 43 to 47. Three Lills were Introduced for change in the Reglatry law; to make the Circult Court Clerk tha County Clerk In Esu Claire; restrainiog uni- wmals from running at lorge: dividing the Coun- tlea of Chilppewa aud Tuylor and erccting the County of Flambeau. A memorial to Congress tur uld in the construction of the Bturgeou Bay Canul, was pussed. IX TIX BENATE arcsolution passed fuvoring the repeal of the Resumption act by Cougress; also a resolution thanking Goy, Washbury tor his handsomy gift of Edgewoud for au Industrial Bchivol fur Girls, Bills were futroduced ameudfug the law reitive 1o stereotyping Supremu Court regorts. A bill was concurred fu wmending the charter of Oatiki A memorial to Congress nakiug for an exteusfon of thne for the coustruction of the Northern Pactiic Rallroad was ordercd to a tkird readivg, uud will puss both Bouses. MINNESOTA, x TUB LEGISLATURE, Speciat Divich tu Tha Chleuan Tridune. 81, P'avr, Jan, 17,.—Tho Benato Finauca Com- mittec report fts jnability to agree on the siiver resclutions, After svme atscussion and nega- tive votes on substitutes and amendmncuts offer- ed, tho Beuate fOzally adepted, with but three negative votes, Fesolutions declaring that the Silver Demonctization ‘act stould be repealed aud silver colnage restored to its poaition prior tothatact. Tha followiug Exccutive nomina- tlous wera confirmed: A, K. McQil), Insurance Commissiouer; Il P, VanCleve, Adjutaat Gener aly D. W, lugersoll, Munager of “the IReform Behwoly J. A, Kued, Warden of tho Statu's Priaon. A resolutivu favoring the repeal ol tho Reswmption uct was wude u sbeclal urder for Wednesday vext. ‘fuo tlouse debated sliver remoustization without coming to a vote, CALIFORNIA, TilB BTATH SENATR. Bax FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.~The Btate Senste, after a long debate, passed a coucurrent resuln- |llnu advocating the repeal of the Desert Laud AW, —— 01110, LBGISLATLUE, Coruvanrs, 0., Juu. 17.—lu the House, House bills to strike the word ** white " from the wili- tia laws; to limit the charges of Notaries Yublic and Justices for certifylug to pension certiticates 10 10 cents each, were Dassed. Ln the Senate, bills were introduced to amead the Liguur faw 80 us to reqquine » persoval volice 10 the suluou-keeper, 84 well us o writtsu notlee, _from youth o s OTHER BTATES., MARYLAXD, \ Anwaports. Md., Jau. i7.~The Lagistature, in joint conventlon, today balioted for United States Senator, with the following result: Den nls, 22; Robinsan, 23; Groome, 20; McLane, 141 Btelner (Republican), 8; Thomas and Stump, 5 each; Blair and Pearse, 2 each; scattering, 4. ‘The Couvention then adjourned. + Anxarorts, Md., Jan, 17.~The Domocratic caucus to-night nominsted James B. Grooms for United States Benator. SOUTI CAROLINA. Corumpta, Jan. 17.~The House of Reore. sentatives to-day seated Jobnston, Republican, from Smnpter County, where election Loxes were stolen and destroyed to prevent tho declaration of thae result at the special election in December lnat, Ex-Gov, Manning, choten in December, was sworn in as Senator fy Clarendon County. He Is & brother-fn-law of Wade Hambton, KENTUCKY. Fraxgronr, Ky. Jap. 17.—QOen. John 8. Willlams was elected on {olnfi ballot Unftea Btates Senstor from Kentucky, to succecd Thomas C. McCreery, by a vote of 128 ta 11 for Boyd, Republican, RAILROADS. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN 1877, ‘The last namber of the Rallway Age contatns & carefully prepared table showing ths mamber of mew roads and extenstons constracted during the vear 1877 and the milesof track 1sld. Itappears that daripg & year of continned depression toall Indostry, no less than 2,205 miles were sdded to the rallway aysters of the United States, which are dirlded soionyg the varjons States aa follows: a. by E8¥aze = 2% oz Tent 4 Hhode Istaud. Bouth Usrulin: £82 i3 -2 Wisconsin. .. ) Total g LI ‘Tlia i3 almost cqual to the new mllen{u reported at the corresponding thue for the year 1870. It s o uotable fact, huwever, that the cost of coustruc- ton and cquipment never ruled wo low as during the past year, and alsv that railways wers never befote ballt sa neatly for the cash cost and with w0 little fictitioun capital; go that the aguregate of capital {nvested in the of s0 miles of now r0ad {1 for lean 1 that represented (nn cors sponding Increase of milenge 1 former yeare, 'Ta show the remarkable gruwih of the natrow-geuge -{-\m Inaugurated only half a dozen yesrs ayo fa thin country the Age Las glven in its summary ths figures for ** wide-gauge "' (fucluding, fn two oz three Instances, rondof five fect) and narrow- guuge scparately, No less than (5 per cent of the rosds {n number,. and 65 per cent in milenge, wera of the latter clase, —three-fect gauge,—except (0 one or two canes Where three feot alx Inclics was used, and In another where tho novel width of two fect was chorer, Thesa nacrow-gaug rusds have all been constructed very cheaply, and in many cares where it would have been aifiicult or Impoguble to ralse the money for even a »*light" standard-gaoge road, In some cases o mistake han been couunitied In varying from the ueunl ytandard of tho country, butin’ many others thy three-teot gauge le equal ta all posstble de- mands that will be made upon it, and he roads are Intended solely to supply limited locsl neede, ‘where the people have no expeciation of or ur tlon for bo! """Rll‘fl of n great **through ™ a tew, they ara welt adapted to their localitica, TIIE EVENERS, On account of the difficulties fn regard to East- bound freight rates, nothing has been done lately about the vexed evener system, which needs regu- Iating much more than any ofber trouble from which the railroads aro suffering. At the late managers’ maeting at New York, tho frienas of the *teveners” acain demanded that the rates on dressed beef whonld be ndvanced, {n order (o in- cresse the profits of the ring, and thie meavure would have been pasced bad §t not been fur the determined opposition of Mr. Uarrett of the Haltimore & Obfo, snd Mr. Ledyard of thu Michigan Central. The oppoaition ta the eveners arcangement fu gelting atronger every day, and most of the railroad wanagers declare it on of the most barefaced frauds ever perpetrated on the rall- roads, yet they arv powerloss t bring abont fia dissolntion, owing to the teaaclty with wuich botl Vanderbllt and Scott cliug toit. 1t s admitted that thu eveners nerform no adequate service fur the millton or morv of doilars they recelve ennual- Iy from the ratlruads, Lot the above fi:mlemfll want the arrangesent upheld merely Lecause it acts eutirely tn favor of tho New York Central snd Pennwylvania stock-yards, which are controlled by them,” As long as this srrangement exists thera be no permanent peace among Lhe varlous Eaetern roade, and the troubles which have caused 20 much bad blowil In rallroad circles lately will recur at regular futervals, aud may finally reqult in 8 sioat dissstrous war ANOTNER VANDERBILT SCIIEME, The Troy }¥Alg containe a statement thut Mr, Willlam i, Vanderblit bas been chosen ono of the Direytare of the Troy & Boston Rallroad, The fact {s significant, 83 it is tho first wicp taken to prevent the Boston, lloore Tuuuel & Western Raiiroad from affording to the Erle Railrosd a con- nection whth the tunnel, as Mr.’ Vanderolit witl no doubt prevent i pussllle the' utilization of sho tuoiel by any rallroml Bntagonistic 1o the New York Coutrsl. In blaiu Englleb, Mr. Vanderoi)y Propuses (o te up the tutme) (o ault hiv own Inter- enls and to prevont the State of Maveuchusetts from making the tunnet k highway tor sil why can reach it. Tl Troy WALy say MWultam 1. Vanderdile wig yestentay eleciad onn of tho Directors uf the Troy & fiostun Rallroad, Uccur- Ting at this tinie, tho event AttraciS Much &t s Is cuuslieréd o biatter of wreat signtic thv Bostut, Hovest Tuunel & Wester od 14 in- sunded clitély a3 au castery outlet fu (ho Eric Haliroads Lringiong Aie Inter in direct competition s Rew York Ceutral, 16 18 probable that cvery will be fotroduced {0 prevent lt coustruction, ¥ & Hustou Halirusd wilk now have the wupport of Mr. Vauderbilt 1 the, caitess With thia Doston, 1loosc Tunnel & Western Company (P tho of the bed of thu oid Alhany Northern Italiroad, i Tie futercats uf the Troy & lioetun aud New Yo tral In tLs matter are (Jeptivst, the wAr will be waj 10 Ui LIEr i, aad the huliding of Shy bow rosd Wil doubiiess bs Indéauttely pustiwued, TTEMS, The regular monthly meeting of the General OMcers and Divielon Supetintendents of thy Ji- 1inois Central Rallroad was beld at the ofMice of (1o Company, coruer of Michlgan avenus and Like sticet, yesterday, Tho tepurts made by the vari- on Division Superintendants abow au fmproved condition of the business slong, the whale ine. The coustry roads fu Jows and linots are now 1n a faur condition, aud shigments ars coming for ward very freoly, 1f tho weather contloues culd during jihe uest thres wonths tho sosd s ex- pected (v do a better Lulsluces doring this winter than It hiaa during the ast. ‘The ewruings of the Kanss Pacic Rallroad for 1ha firet week of Jannary were as follows: Freight, S8, 500, 60; uasscger, | 815.770.84; misc 1aucous, $713.52; Total,” $35, 203,00, ‘The ea ings fur e correspondiog time laat yeur were 47,130, 63, tenttun, ce, fal e eet—— GERMAN PUBLISHERS, Coruxnus, 0., Jau. IT.—A convention of publisiers of Geiman newspahers was held biery to-day. Twenty papers wers represented. Comumittees were oppointed to socurs moro uulform orthoeraphy among German publish- ers; to urze tho sinendment of the Postal laws; to revise plans for collecting subscriptions fur nowspapers aod on official sdvertlslue, A wemorial was sdopted saking the Ueneral As- sciably, 1o tho nauio of tha publishers ot Ger- mau papers, which (¢ is clalmed are read Ly 50,000 people fu Uhlv, 0 pass faws which witl provide fur publishiog 1o the German news- pers leval or offlelal records which sre uow required by law to bo published in’Euglish aeWapupery. = Magio of the Mouth, Odoriferous Sozodont renders tho mouth chauting, composed of rure, autiseptic herb fmparts whitencsn Lo tho luatl, 8 delicious fower- Iiky aroma o d prescrves intact, BUSINESS NOTICES. 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