Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1878, Page 4

4 : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY. JANUARY 31, 1878, The Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. PY MATI—~IN ADVANCE—TPOSTAGE FMEPAID, aily Fdltlon, ane yeat.. 12, ar £ of 8 yedr, per nioi Eunda; Edition Douie shre 209 £ iy BAdition, twelve pages, Y Tri-Weekly, vne year.., aon FAIROT & TeRr, por Mo 150 WEEZKLY EDITION, POSTPAID. Oni 3 2 Gl it C e 53 Brecimen copieasent 1ree. Give Poat-Gflica addresa in full lacluding Btateand County, Itemlttances may be made either by dratt, express, Fost-Ofice ordder, orin registered letters, at our risk, TERMS TO CITY SUNSCRIBERS. Taily, delivered, Sunday excented, 25 cents per week. Tatly, delivercd, Ennday Incinded, 20 cents per week. Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ats,, Chicago, 11l Orders for the Oelfveryof Titx TRIDUNE &t Evanston, Englewcod, and Hyde Patk left In the caunting-room ‘wilirecelve promt attention, e TRINUNE DRANCU OFFICES. Titz Cniicaao TRINUKE has catabliahied branch offices for the yeceipt of aubscriptionsand advertisements ag Tollows: NEW TORR—Ttoom 29 Zribune Dullding. F. T. Mo- Fannxx, Monager. rance—No. 10 Rue de |8 Grange-Datellere. TAMUSEMENTS. Hooley’s Thentre, Randolph etrect, between Clark asd L Ecgagement of Ttobson and Urane Combination. Bachelors." e, Our MeVieker's Thentre, Madiron street, between State and Dearborm ‘*All the Rage." averly’s Theatre, + _ Monroe »irect, corner of Deatborn, Engagement of 3tilton Nobies, **The Pheentz,” & Colisoum Novelty Thentre, Clark street, hetweea Washington and Randolph. Varicty performance, Now Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Rlicrman Honse. * From the Altar to the Seaflold ™ and ** My Mather-fo-Jaw.” THURSDAY, JANUARY a1, 1878, CH10AG0 MARKET BUMMARY, ‘Tha Chicaco produce markets were generally rironger yeaterday, with more dolng in provisions, and a fafe voluma of trading In breadstinfla, Mess pork closad a shade firmer, at 810,75 per brl for Febroary and £10.00@10.02t4 for March. lard closed 215¢ per 100 Ibs higher, at $7.309° for Fevraary and $7.40@7. 4244 for March, were steady, ot 83,80 per 100 1bs for boxed shoul- dersnd H%ec for doshortriba. Whisky waa steady, nt $1.03 pergallon. Flour was in falr demand. Wheat closed 1'4c higher, at $1.04% for Januacy and $1.05% for March, Corn closed 1i¢ higher, at 30%@39%c epot and 41%@4%c for May, Uats closed steady, at 20%c spot and Z4c for March., Ttro swas !¢c higher, ut GOc. Daorley closed firmer, at 40%4@50¢ for February and 502 G033c for Mnrch. Tloes were actlve and firm, closing at £3.80@4.00, Cattle were actlveand strong, Salen wereat 5@5, 7%, Bheep wero unchanged, at §2.75@4.25. Inepected into atore in this city yesterday morning: 84 cars wheat, 88 cara corn, 32 cars onts, 3 cars rye, i3 cars barley. "Tolal, 230 cars, or 00,000 be, One handred aol- lars tn gold would buy $102.25 in grecubacksat the close, Dritlsh conrols were quoted at 053 and sterling oxchange st $4.00, —— Grecobacks ot the Now York Stock Ex- change yesterday closed at 977, The trinl of Miss Arviva MoKex for the shooting of Constable McErLigorr is well uader way in the Orimingl Court. A jury has been impanoled that is belioved to be nnusually well qualified to give the defend- aut afair and impartial trial, and to render a verdict in sccordanco with justice and cquity, ———— Capt. Eaps yesterday delivered an address befors tho St. Louls Board of Trade, in which ho sct forth that tho only practical woy of controlling the volume of wa. tor comprising the Mississippi River wos by deeponing its bed in the shallow places, This moasure, ho believed, would obviate tho necessity of levees, and regulato the propeusity of tho Father of Waters to run to cut.offs, bnyous, and sboals. A liboral synopsis of his remarks is printed elsewhere. e A defeat of considerable mognitudo and importznce to all concernod was suffered in the Housa yesterday jointly by the distillers, the whisky speculators, and the Commlttes on Ways and Meavs. By avote so emphatic thnt tho attempt will hardly bo renewed at the present sessjon, the House refused either to reduce the tax on whisky or to extend the tlme during which distilled spirits now in bond may be removed. Tho friends of the producers of tho ardent, and of tho speonla. tors who hoped to profit by the proposed changa 1o the tax, came to grief all around, ond tho cbief Committee of the House got o sot-back that wns ng unexpocted as it was significant. —————— J. MapisoN WeLws, of the Louisiana Ro- turning Board, ia reported to bave Lown ar- rosted at Petersburg, Va., as a fugitive from justico, and detained thera pending the ar- tival of the proper authorities from Loul- siona. Rumors are curront in Washingion of the indictment by the New Orleaus Grand Jury of Sccretary Summuax and Stavter MATTHEWS RS accessorios Lo tho act of alter- ing the returus, but thers scems to be no suthority for thoe story, and no likelihood of its trath, In connection with the trial of the Returniug Board members, tho vesponse of Maj. Buzkz to one W. E. Cuanpren's application for proof damagiug to the Presf dent’s friends will bo read with intorest, Mr. W. L. C. haa ovidently caught o Tartar. ————— The voto at Yesterday's susslon of the County Board Committeo on Publio Iuild- ings and Public Service ou the * estimates® in favor of Brxtox and Warxen suggests the iuquiry whether there isn't a mistake somowhera sbout the election last fall of fiva “ Reform" Commissioners. Nothing that the old Ring ever put through surpassed in audacious favoritism, oad few of its jobs had n more pronounced fa- vor of rascality than, the allowance of theto *‘estimates.” All tho circumstances swrornding the award by the former Board of the dowe contract to BxxzoN wero indioas tive of a buge steal, and the cordial concur- renco therein of soveral of the newly-elacted ¢ Reform " membens, as shown by the vote at yeaterday's session of the Joiut Commit. tee, will bo a matter of surprise to the tax- payers, who were hardly prepared for the perpetuity of the Sexvon-Walkre-Iiing co. partuership iu the present Board. ——eee Now that the nltimate passsge of the Silver bill at the present session of Congross is conceded on all hands, the goldites are busily engaged i tinkering up compromise propositions which shall break the force of the blow and, as far as possible, doprive the fricuds of the silver dollar of the bouetit of their strength. For this purpose amend- ments buve been introduced to fix the awount of silver in the legal-tender dollar at various quantities, all, however, in excess of the 412} grains which the Braxp bill ocoutemplatos, and which was the amount contained in the dollar that was snr- reptitionsly abolished from the coinage hy the legislation of 1873774, It scems qnito probable that the Artisoy amendment,which aims at giving the Government tho benefit of whatevor profit there may be iu the coinage, may be nccepted by the silver mon, but we are glad to say thero is no probability of their being cajoled into accepting any eom. promise whatever as to the weight of the dollar; that they will hold to 412 grains, and consent to nothing more nor less, Thoe dispatch of a Iargs nnmberof tor- pedoes and a big quantity of cannon-powder to the British fleet in tho Mediterrancan tonds to confirm the prevailing impression that England is reslly gotting ready to do somothing in the event of a contin- goney mnow but vaguely understood by the world at large. As betweon the principals in tho peaco negotiations a curious state of nffairs is rovealed in the in. ability of the Porte to nscertain what has beon done at the Kezaulik conferonco. The Turkish plonipotentiarics were in. siricted by telograph three days ago to close with Russia’s conditions, snd the repeated attempts by the Porte to ascerlain what had been accomplished at tho coofer- ence had at last accounta elicited no re- sponse, although telographic communication with Kezanlik was uninterrupted. Thers scoms to bo no end of hitchea in the business everywhere. In another column i given the report of the Bub-Committes of tho House Committee on Waya and Meaus, to bo submitted to the full Committee to.dsy, embodying the bill for tho revision of tho tariff. It is claimed for tho bill that its genernl effects will be thioso of reduction and simplification,—two consummations in our Tarif laws devoutly to bo wished. Tho aversge reduction’ is nbout 20 per cent, though no decrease has been made in the duty upon brandy, wines, cigars, and similar articles of lnzury. Com. ponnd duties aro.abolished, the aim being to mako the system oxclusively specific so far 08 possible, and the freo list is to be done away with, all articles not named in the bill boing cxempt from duty., The number of dutiable articles is brought down to about 600, and it is calculated that undor the re- vised system thio cost of customs collections will be reduced from $7,250,000 to loss than £8,000,000. Tho customs revenne to bo raised under the provisions of the billis ca. timated by Treasury experta at $164,016,000. SCHEMES OF DESTRUCTION, > Among those in Congress and out of it who support tho restoration of the silver dollar nud its remonetization ara many per- sons who seek to idontify that mensure with two other propositions with which it las no substantial or theoretic connection. These schemes aro: 1. The ropeal of the Rosump- tion act. 2. Tho abolition of tho National Bauk cireulation. Theso persons endeavor to make theso two monsures parta of a gen- eral currency schemo of which the remone- tization of silver is another, These thrao monsures violontly conflict; they are mutu. ally distinctive, nud ara wholly inconsistent, 1f silver bo romonetized and tho Resumption bill stands as it is, then the paper currency of the country will have the exact valuo of tha silvor dollnrs, unless such dollars shall beecomo moro valuablo than the gold dollars, Every dollar of silver colued, thoro- fore, will bo an addition to tho amount of cwrrency in circulation, and the wholo volume of such currency may thus be incroasud ot the rate of 850,000,000 & year, until the country suall have all that it can find uso for. This will be & Inrgo and hberal inflation, but it will be o henlthy, safe, and logitimato inflation,—an inflation of; substan. tial money, having an abiding, intrinsic value, When gold and silver shall bo ro- stored to their equivalent values, both will enter with tho papor into the common circn- Iation of the country. Tho threo forms of money being in general and common circu- lation, tho Government may jssue and circn. lato its paper freely to the extent that it can tako caro of it, and redoem it with the silver or gold coin, In the same way, the silver beiug in sbundant ciroulation and the gold baving lost ita superior value ond being in free use, the banks witl bo nble to isaue thoir notes, and koep them at par by redecming them on demand. ‘This {s on the assump- tion that the Resumption law shall stand and silver bo remonetizod. How will the case be it silver be remone- tized ond the Resumption law be ropealed? In that caso the groonbacks not being re- deemable In any kind of coin must fall s much below silver as thoy would be below gold if silver had not beon restored, Silver canbohnd in comparative abundance, and gold ia scarco, and, in tho absence of silver coin, s artificlally dear. One object in re. storing silver is to furnish tho country with a motallio monoy in such quantity as will render rosumption practicable, which is not posgible with gold alone. The attempt to resume in gold slone must fail, because the gold cannot be bad in sufficient quantity for that purpose, and the mero offort to obtain it has largely advanced ita market value, With silver, bowever, there will be uwo such difffoulty. Our own mines will furnlsh the ailver for $10,000,- 000 o year, and, as this silver will remain with us, resumptlon may practically tuko place without nny trouble. It the Re. sumption bill bo repesled, then the paper will becomo of less valua than tho silver, and the lntter will bo sold as a commodity . just o4 gold is now. In that event the addition of $50,000,000 to the coinnge aunuslly will be of no avail ; the purpose and end of such coinage will bo defeated. If the silver s uot to circulato, of what use will it be to coinit? 'Toropeal the Resumption law is thereforo to reuder the rostoration of silver wholly useless, and of 1o possiblo bonefit to tho country, Hnch a proceeding will be stupid, shortsighted folly,—defeating the ‘whole valuo of remonetization, Nor s the abolition of the Nationa! Bank currency suy more rational. Buppose their bank circulation to be abolished, what then? Is the land to be flled with silver? Cor- tainly not, By the repeal of the Resump- tion law the greenbacks are to be made por- manently ‘irredecmable, and therefore at a discount, The smount of paper curroncy now {s, in round numbers, 350,000,000 groenbacks and £315,000,000 of bank paper; totsl, 665,000,000 As the mnximom swn of grecnbacks is limited to $400,000,000, the abolition of National Bsnk notes will contract the currency $205,000,000. Is tho country in a condition to endure a contrac- tion of the currency to this enormous extent ? In what way is this void to be filled? Itwill bo snswered that Congress moy suthorize and direct the issue of forced irredoemable notes in excess of the §400,000,000 limit, Aduittfng, for the moment, that such & law could be enacted, there will be an earncst and deternined protest. Thou. sands will rofuse to acpopt such notes for any purposo. The nitimate decision of the legality of much an fssno hy the Courts can hardly be donbted. The validity of tho ariginal fssne of legnl-tender notes was only sustained becanse of the supremo and over- whelming necossity, Tha nation was at war, and to enable tho Government to protect the Union from dismembermont the Court held As p necessity jnstifying Congress. In the absencs of any such nacessity, and in a time of profound peace, with nll the ordinary menns of collecling revenne and meking Yonns in fnll operntion, a resort to a forced loan by tho issue of irredeemable paper would be rejocted without hesitation by the Courts. o then have as the sequel to thess wild measured 1 First, by the ropenl of the Re- sumption Iaw, the defeat of nll beneficial ree sults of the romonetization of silver, and the perpetuntion of the depreciastion of tho greenbacks. The romonetization of silver will have the direct offect of inflating the curroney by the yeatly addition of tho coin- age, which may be estimated at 850,000,000, To ropenl the Resumption law snd abolish the National Bank circulation is to excludo silver wholly from tho curroncy, snd roduce tho possible paper money to $400,000,000, a contrnction fully as fatal to the country as resaumption in gold. Resumption a yoar hence in gold, and on gold values, is one thing ; but resumption in silver and gold, reduced to a common value, is quito anothor thing ; aud the important differonce scems to bo overlooked by the promoters of these wild schemes, HUNTINGTON V8. TOM BCOTT. The adoption of the antl-subsidy resolution in the House of Representatives, if it was honestly meant, gives Mr. Huxtrxaroy and his Bouthern Pacific scheme an unsuperable ndvantago over Tox Bcorr and his Toxas Pacific scheme. Toxt Hcorr asks a bond- subsidy which Involves the payment of about $160,000,000 interest by the Government, snd hia raid on the Trensury is ono of tho most gigantic of all which the anti-subsidy resolution was intended to exclude. Mr. Huxriverox's Company, represented in tho Moxvgr bill, asks no bond-subsidy whatever, and not ovon & new land.grant, but only a trausfer of tho land.grant proviously given to tho Texas Pacific. Indeed, a friond of the HuvtiNaToN movement, in n recent in- terview with n correspondent of Tug Trinvxe, says that the HuxtivotoN Company will not even domand a transfer of the original land- grant, but will extend its presont road from the Colorado Rivor to the Rio Grande—that is, from Fort Yuma to El Paso—without any land-grant whatever, but merely in consid- oration of the right of way, and tho abroga- tion of the land-grant alrendy made to the 'I'exas Pacific; this Ia certainly as reasonsblo o proposition ns it js possible to muoke, as thoro would be no justice in allowing Tox Bcorr’s Company covery alternate section along the line of o railroad constructed by the Hustmxatox Company. As an evidence of the good faith of the HuNTINGTON propo- sitlon, this gentleman cites the fact that the Southern California Company hns already constructed 750 miles of road and bridged the Colorado River, and that it has tho material wherawith to build 185 miles mora this year. It is also obvions that the Huxtveton Company would not push a railrond into o wildernesa without tho expectation of ultimately forming an Enstern connection which will give it o through trans-continontal business. Btrict adheronce to tho Baxzn rosolution will force the Southern Congressmen to ac- cept the IlunTiNaTON proposition or go homo withont any prospect of a Southern Pacifio route being furnished them, present opposition to the HunTiNaToN schema can only be accounted for by a desiro that tho Government shall furnish the funds for anothor construction ring (like the Credit- Indeed, thoir Mobilior) to live on. The HusTineroN scheme oau bo plnced under as many restrictions relative to rates and prorating with Eastern connections as the Toa Scorr schomo, and tho former is moroe likely to re- sult in o distinctive Southern ronte than Tox ScoTr’s sclieme, since Beorr will un. doubtedly scck to nmiake any road he may build a feedor to the Pennsylvania roads. But if the Southern California be pushod on to El Paso within the noxt five or six yoars, it will rest with tho Sonthern peoply to pro- vide tho counnections with their own princi. pel gities. The HuxtinaTox Company will cortaiuly encourage such connectlons, since tholr mnpin chance for earnings will bs in eatablishing a connection betwoon San Fran. cisco and the prosperous secotions of tha Bouth, The great differanco betweon tho two schemes is that one proposes to furnish s road from Ban Francisco to El Paso without calling on the Goverument for ooy nssistanco, whilo the other demands o gigantio Governmeut subsidy for building {rom Sap Diego to El Paso, As good faith in tlio auti-subsidy resolution will absolutely shut off the Toxt Scorr subsidy scheme, the Bouthern members of Congress will do well to make the best torms they can to ascure n prosocution of the work on the Southern Paclfia schomo, T THE LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARD SUTT, The bulldozers of Louisiana are doter- mined to koep that unfortuuato State in political confusion, aud, notwithstanding that they have regained control of the oftices aud Lave put the negroos out of sight, are still bent upon wreaking vengeancoe upon all thoso who were Instrumontal in declaring *tho Electoral vote of tho Stato for Mr. Haxes, Tho latest developmeut of their conspiracies is shown in the arvest of J, M. Wews, T, 0, Axpenson, L. M. Kennen, and G. Oasavave, members of the Returning Board, upon tha charge of forgery in altering the roturns, Thess gontlemon were arraigned npon this charge on information filed by the Distriot- Attorney by direction of the Grand Jury, ‘When brought befora the Buperior Oriminal Court they mado an effort through their counsel to have the caso transfeired to the Federal Courts. ‘Failing in their application, they took refuge, with the exception of Mr. Wrrws, who forfeited his bonds and took leg bail, in the Castow-Houss, ond placed thembelves under the pro- tection of the Collector, who summoned marines from the United States rovenue ves- sels to defend them, The Sloriff of the county theroupon attempted to arrest them and was himself arvested by a deputy of the United States Marshal, under tho ndvice of tuo United States District-Attoiney, upun a warrant {ssued by the United States Com- missloner, chargivg tbe Bherif@ with inter- fering with the Collector in the performance of his duties. The Shen{ was subsequently released upon Lis own recognizance. The Attorney-General of tho Btate thereupon telegraphed to tho Attorney-General of the Umted States, asking whether the General Government sanctioned the conduct of the United Btates officials. After consultation with the President, a roply was sent in the form of & uotification to the United Btates Marshal not to interfere with the rights of 1he State Conrts, npon recelpt of which the prisoners were remanded to the Blate au- thorities and ono of them is now on trial be- fore tho Btata Court. Such ia the atatus guo of the complication. So far ns the arrest of the membors of tho Returning Board is concered, it was mado under duo forms of law upon a specifio charge made egainst them by fhe proper law officer acting npon the dircotion of the Grand Jury, It is also equally clear that the President and Cabinot are sonud in their declarntion that tho Fedoral Government has no right to intorfere in their behalf with the operations of the State Court in which they wero indicted, aud that the United States District-Attornoy, Marshal, and Col- lector exceoded their functlons in harboring them within the Cnstom-House under the protection of the United States satlors, thus obstructing the naturnl action of the State Inws, Thers fs, however, another sido to the pfeture. Immedintely upon the escape of Lhe priscmers to the Custom.Houso, the Now Orlenns Democrat, which is the official organ of that city and of the State, and has been tho official organ, advocate, and de- fondor of the bulldozers evor since the Loui. siana tronbles commonced, filled its columns with the most. malicious vitupera- tiona of tho FPresident and tho Genernl Government, without learning what action the President would take in the premises. It represonted the action of tho Custom.-House officials as the fruit of the Presidont's Civil- Service policy, nnd called upon him “to blush at the shameful and disgnsting spec- taclo” presented *“by his own tools.” The malice of the attack upon tho President re- flects the melicious animus of the whole prosecatiom. It will be difficult to convince reasonable peoplo that this suit is not part and parcel of that same bitter and vindictive hatred of Republicans that during the cam. paign manifested itself in the persecution, massacro, and torture of megroes, audin a terrorism so intonse ond dangorous as to ostracizo them, and thus wipe out tito entire Republican mnjoritics in some counties, Not being ablo to prosecute the members of the Returning Board for throwing out returns whers they were manifestly fraudulent, the law making them the absoluto judges, thoy bave now turned wupon. them with the charge that thoy have changed returns ond indicted them for forgery. Thero is little hope that they can obtain n fair triol in the State Courts, every official in which ia their bitter political enemy; but if thoy aro convicted they can take their case to the Bupreme Court where they can have n fair hearing. Considering the sonrce of tho prosecation and tho motives that inspira the bulldozing eloment of the Louisisna Do- mocracy, and remembering their infamous record in the past, having killed or driven from the Stato all Ropublicans who had the manliness to defend their political rights and substantially disfranchised tho remain. der, it is next to impossible to conceivo that this suit is not an effort to wrenk vengoanco on the only victima left,—the members of tho Returning Board. THE VALENTINE SCRIP CLAIM. Thore are just two points in the claim set up onthe bosis of the Varentmve sorip to certnin property included in the original Fort Dearborn addition, which includes tho property lying north of Madison streot and cnst of Btate stroet, bounded on the north by tho river and on the east by the lake, One concerns tho technical legality of the snole under the law of 1829 by the General Qovernment, and the dodication under that act o Congress of those portions reserved in tho platting for streots, alleys, and public grounds; and the othor concorns the legality of locating theso lands in 1872 by the Var. ExTINE family. Troaas B, Varextove had an equity in soma 13,000 norea of wild lands in California which Qongress satisfied by authorizing him to locate 13,000 acres upon any othor of the unappropriated and unoccupled lands owned by the United Btates Government,” The in- tentlon, of course, was that Varesrive, under authority of this act, should select United Blatos land to whick thore was no dispute and on which thero was no proviona claim ; instead of doing this, VALENTINE, or his attornoys, began to search for flaws in titles mado by tho United Btates, with the purpose of locating on property that bad scquired special valtia by improve. ments or surroundings, and hit upon the Fort Dearborn reservation undor the claim that the eales by the Government Liad been made without the authority of a apecial act of Congress, It is gonerally conceded that all dona fide purchasors, and all persons who have acquired title from the original sale by inhoritance or tranafer, will be fully pro. tocted by the courts, but thera has been somo rullng representing au irregularity in tho platting, which might leave the title to the publio Jands still in the United Htates QGovernment. This would include all the streeta and nlloys in the district desorib.d, the square known as Dearborn Park, and a part of what s known as Lake Park. The logislation nsked of Congress now is an act tranaferring to the City of Ohicago any title that may rest in the Government to these portions by reason of such irregularity in the original platting. Congrosa certainly should not hesitate to take this action, Indeed, it will be anact of gross infustice to rofuse it undor the cir- cumatances, No ono doubts that the inten- tion aud purpose in the platting was to dedi- cate tho public lands to the Uity of Chicago for stroets, alloys, aud public grounds, and that the sales mado by the Governmont wers under this ocoudition; for private parties would not have carcd to Luy lots fronting on streots subject to bo closed up and sold for private use at any time, The same good faith, thorefore, which requires that the Government should protect the private own- ers la thelr title to land under this salo sug- gesta that the city shall be protected in tho titte to the strcots, alloys, amd publio grounds held for the joint benefit of thess private owners. Another consideration which should prompt Congress to pass any logislation necessary to secure either private owners or the city is that the Varesting claim is fraudulent in itself. It ‘was noé the purpose of Congress, in voting Varesmise the authority to locate certain unoccupied lands, that he should be permit ted to grab 13,000 acros of valuable city property wherevar he oould secure & cotor of title on sccount of original irregularity, in exchange for his 13,000 scres of wild Cali. fornia lands; and thero is mo more reason why the City of Ohicago should suffer from such a perversion of authority than why private owners should bo the victims. It is not likely in auy case that tho Courts wounld countesance the VaLextrve claim, ns it bas not a shadow of equity from any point of view, but it is only right and proper that tho Government, having intended years sgo to paxt with its tilo to all ¢4is reservation (sclling mostly to private purchasers and dedicating the rest to the city for atreots,- nud publio grounds), shonld now protect both tho eity and the private parohasers from blackmail and from the cost of litigation in dofanding their rights ngainat a claim which ot once swindles them and the Government, It can seareely bo donbted that Congress will grant tho legislation asked for this purpose. A subseriber asks us to reprint the Branp Bilver bIlt as I passed the House, and as amend- e by the Senate Committee on Fioance, It fs gliven belaw. The House blll ends with the words printed in brackets. The Scnate Com- mittee on Flnanco struck out the worda in bracketa and ndded the words which follow, printed in italics. The reader thus has both bills beforo him, and will bo able to understand tho references made Lo thom during the debate which has begun on the bLill: An Act to auihorizs the free coinage of the stand- ard aliver doltar, and To restore (s legal-tender character. HBe il enceted, ete., That thera shall be colned, at tho several minta of the United Biates, silvor dol- lara of the weight of 41316 gruina Troy of stand. ard silver, as provided In tie act of dan. 18, 1847, on which shall be the devicos and enperscriptions Drovided by eald act; which coins, together with all silrer dollars heretofore colned by the United States of 1fke weight and fineneas, ahall bo a legale tender. nt tholr nominal valie, for all debta and dites, public and private, except where otherwise gm:\a:d by contract: land any owner of sflver ulllon may deposit the same at sny United States colngge nint_ or nn’ office, to be coined dollars, for benedt, upon tho same terms and conditions as gold bull. fon s deposited for colnage nnder existing Iaws]. Anq the Secretary of the zwmuu-’ i authorized and directed, out of any money tn {ha Treasury not otherwise appropriated, lo ‘mr.'lmn. Jrom time (g lime, silver bullion at fhe miarket price thereof, not less than firo million dollars per month, nor more than four nwilion dollars per month, and cause the same to de cotned into auch dollars, . And any gnin or aciantoraqe arising Srom thle cotnage ehail be accounted for and pald info (he Treaanry, as l/vramml under elating laws relating to the rubzidiary coinage; provide: " that the amonnt of money at any one time incested in sueh siiver oullion, exclusire of auch resulting cotn, shail not exceed five million dollars. Bex Burtrer got in his work quite snccess- fully on the Unitarlan clergy of the Norfolk (Mass.) Conference, who sent a memorial to Congress declaring *‘that honcsty was a vital port of religion, ond protesting ogalnst the vassago of the Branp Silver bill.” BurLer, cocking ono ege on tho memorlal and tho other on the Speaker, fn an opposito dircction, sald: 4 Afr, Hpeaker, will you bo kind enough to aend ma the Dible from yourdesk! After scarching for tho passago he desired, amid great Iang sent to the Clerk's desk and had read a pasesge from the sccond chapter of St. Joux, which de- #cribes Cuinist driving the money-changers from the temple and eaying o them, *Make not My Faothor's house & house of merchandiss.” 1t was rather cheeky for those holy saints whosc treasures should not be of this world to undertake to instruet Congress on the question of restoring the silver standard to its old place, and they caught just what they deserved. Thoso saintly individunls assumed that it was dishonest to pay debis according to the con- tract. Thelr idea of honesty ia that the creditor has a right to have his claim enhanced by legis- Iation at the cost of the debtor, and that ft is frrellgious for Congress to undo the injustice and correet the wrong. It those clerfcal gen- tlemen preach as unsound doctrine as tbey memorialize on finance, thoy are blind leaders of the blind. 4 * Nothing is galned by undereating the danger. It will requiro the most strenuous etlorts of all sdvo- cates of honest money to save tho country from tho passaga of the Silver bill. Publlc meotings #shoald gt once be catled in all the bualnoes centrea and the Senate e flooded with petitions. Aean- while tho debato must Lo smtm:un in the Senate until the pressure af public sentimicnt can bo hruuqht tobear upon the aliver men.—ANew York Herald. ‘The longer the debate is protracted tho worse it will be for the goldites, For overy petition they can send In, the silver men can gend ten. Outslde of New England and a few diatricts in New York, the silver men can and will defeat every member ot Congress who votes agalnst restoring the sllver dotlar to the currency of tho country. Tho great industrial masses havo been wronged and robbed by the demonetizing trick about as long as they intend to put up withit. The *“pressurc of publlc sontiment ' doca not consist of o class of men who loanod cheap money, and novw (nsiat on being ropafd in dear money, who fovested littlo dollora and now demand big dollars In return. Tho people are swgrossing on nobody’s rights, but are simply standing on the defensive for their own. ——— Gen, McCrrLran, Governor of New Jersay, 18 already i hot water. As on exchange states tho case, **He owed his nomiuation snd election to the New Jersoy Ring, a well-known organte ation fo thot State, and in remcmbrance of its acrvices scut in the names of the Ring’s candl- dates for varfous officéa of the State, The Leg- islature, it is salg, felt so outraged by this pro- cecding that many of the beat members of both Houaes refused oven to ateend the reception given by tho Governor last week. It is ovident that McCLELLAN, it brought forward as a Presi- dentlal candidate In 18580, wiil not appear In the role.ot refurmer, but bis scrvices as & General n the army and as Superintendent of the im- provements of tho docks In New York, to say nothing of his valuable supervision of tue Brrvens Battery, will go o great ways. Hacan afford to spare JosL PARKER any crodit to be derived from the role Baxt TILDEX played with such flue effect in 8t. Louls.! That herole explorer of tho frozen reglons of the North, 8ir Joun FRANKLIN, bus long been given up as tost, but it is probable that many years will elapse before the search for his re- mains will be entlrely relinquished. Therels always a cortaln fasciuation about the cliffs and caves of jee aud tho storm-bound Polar Seas, and even the yet half-told dangers and hard- slilps of aun Arctlc voyage scem to passess an attraction for adventurous muavigators. It is announced that an exploring party will leave New York in June next, under the command of tho veteran Bannr, and will not return until the fall of 1880, Tho vessel, It Is expected, will reach Republic Bay in Scptember, where sledges arc tobe built sud Esquimaux hired prepara- tory to making the journey ot 1,200 miles across the fce-ficlds to the cairn of the Fuawxiix Expedition. ——— The legal-tender sllver of Franco {s not *‘of lcsa™ but of greater **comparative valuo than the Braxn sllver dollal French coinage bolds 1% 1 to 1 auuce of gold; tho Liold 3U ounces uf silver , w0 that iho French siiver coinage is of higher comvaratlve value by 3 per cent. This plece of oracular wisdom {s from Jax GouLp's New York orgsn. Accordiog to this, tho less sitver o tho doliar, the “greater” the value of tho dollar. Fifteen nud one-half ounces ot sliver are, In ¥rauce, equivalent asa legal tender with one ounce of gold. In this country the ola silver dollar was cquivalent with the gald dellar in tho proportion of 10 to 1. Aud yet tho objection to tho recoluage of tho Amerd- can siiver dollar s that §t docs not contaln envugh sfiver! To the Edilor of The Tribune., Cuicago, Jan. 30.—1s 4 Mexican aliver dollar of 1877 colnage of the same value ‘as the Amorican trodadoliar? If not, pleass giv ‘The Buperintendent of the Mint computes the, silver Mexlcon dollar as worth 104.7 in the sub- sidiary silver coln of thu United States. The trade dollar, which contalns 120grains of sliver, is worth about 103.4 as bullion iu tho samo American subsldiary silver cuin. Regarded as allver bulllon, the Mexican aliver dollar ia worth. more than the Americau dollar of 4134 gralus, und somethiog less thon tho American trade doller. If there 1s any truth io the story now belng circulated fu Parls, the downtall of tbe Boxa- PARTE dynasty was in great mcasure due to s necklace, The lato Comto de PALIKAO was at wne time duriog Lovis NaroLEuN's reigu com- wander of au vxpedition to Chioa, sud, think- Ing to please the Empress, ho brought back sa & present to ber 8 curious chaplet or uecklace of small grecn stoncs which he bad tound in the Sumwer Palace. But it happeued that rumor had already preceded his asrival, and, a3 (s gen- crally the case, his trifllng gift bad veen wag- oified by popular gosatp futo a necklace of black pearls,—anld to be taluad 2,000,000 francs. When, therefore, tho Empress saw the present, and realized that It wasn'z worth & thonsandth part of that sum, her disappointment was ex- pressed {n an open manner, and she never really forgave PALtRAo. But the war came on, and the veteran General chanced at lnst to come into almost supreme command of military affairs. Then, in tho dark days be- tween the first disasters and Scdan, it was his turn to triumph, and Evaexix's to becomen suppliant. Probably no ono cnn aver show that PALIRAO proved a traitor to tho Imporinl fami- Iy, but it has been Alleged that he might bave shown greater energy, not perhaps to hinder the victory of Germnny, but to save tho for. tnnes of the Imperlal familv. If Eoannis had not received her necklaco contemptuously In the years gone by, perhaps the attemot to pre- serve the dynasty mdght have been made, and made suceesstully. e cB—— Althouch snubbed by her unduttful son, tho King of Spain, that lively ex-Queen, ISADNLLA, is far from ncknowledging hereclf defeated. Her first act after bolng forbldden to attend the wedding was to reopen communication with tho other ex-sovereign, Evornin, and ft is now sald that s marriage has been already plaoned be- tween the Prince Imueriat and the Tufanta DAt Prean. If this union is consummated, it will doubtless complato the slienation of King Avroxeo from his mother, as ho long ago em- phatically sct his face against an ailfance beo- tween his siater and the BoNAPARTES. ——eE— ‘The right of the Government to Interfero in relizlous affalra is strongly maintained fn Ger- many, Tho Ultramontanes lately got up a petition, with 158,000 slgnatures, asking for the abolitlon of the laws by which the Catholic schools gnd clergy arc placed under Uovern- ment control. To this the Minlster of Ecclesi- astical Affairs replied that the Government de- clined to discuss or even consider the nossibility of modifsing theso statutes as long as the right of the Government to lerdsiate on these matters was dealed by the Ultramontaue party. ——— The London Times continucs to publish nue merous letters about doators’ bills. One of the M. D.'s writes: 8tn: Tho ziat of the whale mattor Js that peopla do not like 10 pay the docior atall. No peculiar- ity in the way of making out his acconnt tvould ever atono for tho fact of his wending it in. I have met somewhers wilh the following lines, lwr;mh faithfully onough xpresd the popu'fn foel~ ng: . ‘TATOO faces wears tha dactors when first souht, n $oxel's; and a Uod's, Tho curs sl wrougntt ut when, that cure cumblote, ho sceka hls feo, Tho deviltooks less teribly than he, ——— An Ingenlous German contractor has proposed o schemo for making Herlln a scaport. He claitns that the configuration of the land bo- tween the Capital and tho sen {s such as to ren- der quite feasiblo the construction of deep-sca canals which would sdmit ordinary vessels. An expenditurc of only $40,000,000 is required, and tho contractor figures up an xonual protit of 10 per cont on the investment. —— e — ‘The New York Herald weakens on the sfiver question. It heads & long editorial * Danger that the Silver blllwill becomio o las," and gives a columnu aud a half of reasona far thinkiug the bill 1 bound to become a Jaw, Tho Zeraid is notued for belog a weather-vock, showing which way tne wind is blowing. Now that the chances aro strong, and every day growlng stronger, that the Silver bill {s bound to become a law,"” ths rcaders of the Chicago Tlmes inay as well bo prepariog them- selves to see & suddon flup of that chapgeling concern on the sllver question. —e— e Jax Goorp, In hia Now York Tribune, con- tlnucs to ght silver as solfishly as hedid green- backs on * Black rriday,” wlen ho ran them down 25 per cont o value. ——e—— Look out for a flop of the Chicago Times on tho filver bill, . The Z¥mes 18 nearly ready to flop, PERSONAL. Boldene is in Australis, 'nnd doing ag well 28 could be expected. The prosent prop:ietor and editor of the Princeton (N, J.) Zeriew is Mir, Libby, sonof the chief partoer inthe house of A. T, Stewart & Co,, of this citr. Co), Bob Ingersoll can jump out and make 820,000 lccturing against Christianity while an orthodox minlater ia Jaying the ropes for a dona- tlon party. This gocs to snow that the country ia drifting. — Washington Post, A Philadelphin advertisement starts as foliowa: **W. 11, Stawnt, a gentloman of cultnre and vefinement, has opaned an wmsthetic clup- room,* The conclusiow 1a more practical: **Al- ways on hand, the best winea, liquors, and cigars," The Quincy (Til.) FWhig, speaking of Jo. seph Cook, whose plajiarisms wers recontly ex- posed by Mrs, Doggett, ss.ys that in another of his Iectures the philosophor has appropriated largoly from a book weitten Ly the Ilev. M. Bmythe, of Qulncy, At the beginning of the presont century ‘Wapoleon had a reinrn made of the probadlo num. ber of Jows inthe world. It was computed that there wero a million 1n the Turkish Empire; in Peraia, China, India, 300,000; 1n Europe, Africa, snd America, 1,700,000 A Portugueso grammar published in Parls & fow years ago ended with the following curions remark: **Co then what the llttle book who fur bis correction and hersoundness will bo of greatest much useful to tha studisome youth, both Portngal and English, at which we dedicate him varticular, ‘The late Lord Mayor of London, bosides ble **allawance™ of £8,000, was provided with threa naw robes, viz. : a violet traln guwn, st cost of £17 18u. 6d. ; a velvet reception rabe, &t n cost of £05 s, ;A slate train yobu, at a cost af £113 18s.—or & total coat for the three of noarly $1,000. 3 Robert Wardlow and Miss Martha Draper, of Newport Land!ng, Csl., belng both under age, wore unsble to get 8 liconse, and on Sanday last Kobert hired a boatand a minister, and, putting oot to ses, wassoon beyond the three-mile Hmit over which the United States has jurisdiction, snd there the kuot was tied. Donald G. Mitchell (Tk Marval)is a well. presceved Littlo gontloman of 53, with & thoroughly Now England head and face, and perfect broeding of menuer. But for hls sparkling, elogueut cyos, Mr. Miichell might be taken for a Boston Htate atrcet banker, or & college I'resident, or almost anyibing save the wrlier of romaacce and fdeal sentimenlaliasm, » M. Gunzburg, the great Russian banker at Patls, is doad, The residonce bo bullt for himsels 1 the Rue Tilsitt ls one of tho most aplendid specimons of tho recent doine: srchitecture of Purls. ‘The foundations af his g fortuno werg Crimean war, when he wastho priu- cipal Russian army contractor. Ho losves an sri- galtery of siogulsr valuo. “ Latterly,” sald Mnrk Twain, ‘I have been down in the mouth. I bogan go think my luck wss down ou me. My spoech at the Whittier dine ner dida't exactly take. I meant it merely as & cheerful concelt, andyet poople woulda't laugh. Myasticle fu the Atlantic, contalnlog the joke sbout ibeiwo dying soldiers quarreling for first choice of cofiing, scomed to fall flat. A good wsay well-meaning peaple refused to aes 1t in the apleit tntended. 1 got gloomy " ‘The late Mr, S8amuel Bowles had an insur- snce of §25,000 on his 1ife, and his will leaves $10,000 of this to Mrs. Bowles, together with tho personal property at thelr home un Central street; $5,000 tu Miss Alathes Eastor, long sn esleemod Jnmate of the hoaso sod fread of the family; and tha remaindor of the insurance mozey, and all bis other personat property and real eatate, to Hawuel Bowles. bis s0n, and Charles Allen, of Boston, as trustees. : . Spurgeon has been leoturing on *! Sermons fn Candles,” with {llustrations, putting ltcra} candles under actual bushals, lighting candles at both cuds snd showing how a dip Iu a silver can- “ digstick looked bettce than one 1o a ginger-beer bottle to enforce tho lesson that & preacher with sducation snd soclal advantages might be regarded and have an opportusity 1o work where one as plous and scalous, but neglecting to uso all advan- tazvs, Would not be nouced. THE KETURNING BOARp, Reported Arrest of J. Madisop Waells at Petersburg, - Va. Basoless Rumors of the Indictment o Beoretary Sherman and Sen- ator Matthews. Procoedings In the Trial of Ay, derson at New Orleans Yesterday. What Billy Chavdler @ot in Respous His Tologram to Maj, Burka, IN WASTINGTON, WELLS AND BHERMAN. Spectal Dispateh (a The Chicagn Tribuns, ‘Wasnraron, D. 0., Jan. 80.~8ecretary § man, referring to tho reports that he had gigy, J. Madison Wells, of the Returning Doard, o antea agalnst prosccution, pronounceq the statement “‘mere fudge,' and Without g, slightest foundation. While ho Wwould pergy, ally be glad to akl Wells, aod Anderson, ™ Cassanave, ha seca noway but for them to stang trial. Ho thinks that the methiod of organ| the jury will arouse popular indignation in the North, Blierman consfders the arrest of the Returning Board as 1l-advisea, and ns dlrectyy contrary to the polles lald down by Gov. Niy. olls and naproved by the conservativa people of Louistana. Keports have been curront all day that (b, Grand Jury at Now Orleans have nctualiy . dicted Scerctary Suerman and Scnator Matthery 88 accessories to the alleged Plegal act in cop. nection with the Returning Board ot the tim, of tha count of tho voto of the Btate. Afiy Inquiries of many who would be likely to kugy, the real 1ufurmnuonteeml to be reduced 4 Udds: namely, tnat onl of the officials of Ney rleans, In o position to know, telegraphef here this morning to a friend, saying that jg. dictmonts ngalust the Secretary and Scnatey were probable. Randall Gibson, Representatiry from New Orleans, to whom the dispatch reported to have been send, says fo-night gy midnight that ho has recelved no such dispateh, WELLS ARRTSTED, A dlspatch Irom Petorsburg, Va., tonigh says J. Madison Wells, of the Returning Board, was arrcsted thers while on the train comingty Washington, and detaincd as a tugitive from ustice, and will bo held and surrendcred to thy oulstadn autlorities. A Loulstana Congres. man claims to have a dispateh In which iy stated that Wells said bofors leaving New Orlesns that I he bad to go to the l’cnlllcllll';q ast dis- John 8herinan sbould go also, This pateh I not verified up to midnight. NQT CONPIRMED, Senator Eustis statcs at midnight that hehy recelved no dispatehies trom New Orleans cone firming the ropurts of the indictnonts of Joay Sherman and Stanley Matthews. THE TRIAL, PROCEREDINGS YEATEIDAY MORNING, New OnuEANs, Jan. 80,~The trial of Anden son was rcsumed this moralng. The cour. room was filled with spectators, At 11 o'dock the Jury entered the court-room and occusie] thelr scats, The Clerk read the (nformation agninst the prisoncr, to which ho had pleadsd not guilty. The rst witness, W. I, Smart, deing swom for the State, said: Am Clerk of the District Court of Vernon Parish, I was Deputy Clerk before. The document shown me contains my oflicial signature. It {s an election return, Mr. Ray objected to the document, as thy indictment speaks of tho original returns of election signed by the Bupcrvisor of Electloa and Reglstratlon, whilo tho document offeredts o consolidated statement of returns, aud under the law there I8 no such officer known, as th Bupervisor.of Election and Registration. Mr, fay offered ga an additiopal objection thut the documents have been signed by the Clerk of the Court, instead of by the Deputy Clerk, and that as they aro charged with utter. ing a forged document, tho, forgery muat tint be proven before the um-rh!d. Tho Assistant Attorncy-Ueneral contended that ho did not purposo to et out a fac simile of the documont prescnted. “The law docs re quire the documnent to be described accurately, 1t was cortitied by the Clerk; that was a clent. ¥ Mr. Castcllanas said that objectlon was not as to tne furn but us to the substan.o of the i formutlon, Judge Whitaker ssld the objection was® PURELY TECUNICAL. The information could ba sniended under the statutes Mr. Castellanas read a bill of exceptions. He sald he had been refcrred to Bue. 1,047 of the Revised Statutea by tho Attorney-General asto the ameudment of information in forgery, Like some otlhier crimes, thero wera well-seltled rules, A varisoco between jndictruent and of- fenas was alwuys fatal} also the omtssion of aop words. The document alleged to bo forged s * defective, If not in form, [n substance, T'huin- dictment s null and vold, Attorney-tieueral Ogaen replled thay the Court was right in the poaition it took originale ly. llo haa Fropeml under the statutesto amend thy indictment, The riehts of tho de- fonse would not sulfer by it. Tae mutter was to be declded by tho sound discrution of the Court. Assistant Attorney General Egan aupported tho uwendmenta made In the fnformation, Le quoted suveral authoritics. Thu statutes ie quired lall‘.m awendment, The varlance was not nuater] Mr. Castellanss abjected to the smendiog of the information, which, howcver, was overruled, aud tho District Attorticy amended thoiuforms: tion by luserting the words **Bupervisors of ::emurluon." instead of ¢ Bupervisor of Elee oa, AT THE EVENING BESSION ‘Thomas Frayiiln, Bupervisor of Registration of Veruon Parisn, lc-hfled, after {dontifying re turns shown him, to thio alteration madae after he Lad eigned them: that only at Poll No. 4 were any Iiepublican votes cast, and thero were only two for sume of the Haycs Elcctors, sev- eral of thom recelving none at all, Loukivg over returas from poll No. 2, the votes were sl tered fn giving each fiayes Elecctor 07 vofes while they had recelved none, At poll No.§, Bl votes were given the Hayes Electors, whilo they had received none. “Yuls was after he ba smgued the returos, " IN THE CONSOLIDATED BETURN of all the voles cast in the Parlsh whers tbo Republicau Electors had recelved two voleh 174 wero given to Kellogg, Burch, and Josepl and 150 ta Marks, Sheldun, Jofirlon, Brewster, and Levissce. The Democratle Electors bad received $47 votes, which was altered to 469 votes, A question §( roturus for other offiiate had been altered was opposed l:{ the defunse, 88 :llm tdmnfil m:['oulfl'l :‘a'h to Electors for Prest- .l reslded “Tl}u‘{l‘b cction was overruled and a bill of ex- contious taken, A;nn o'clock the court adjourned untll to- morrow, when tho witbesscs will be calied uin, lm’l‘n:m 15 no news of ex-Governor Wells. BURKE TO CHANDLER, A TELLING BLOW, Nuw OnLBANS, Jan, 80.—Following is As). E- A. Burke's reply to W, E. Chandlcy’s telegna of Jan, 33t b, Naw Ontzans, Jan. 90.—7o W, E.' Chandlers ubject ashington City: Before considoring the \‘-!au‘ur' T teicaramn recervad thissday, slgoed W, K. Cbandl 1 deaire to ek 4f tu thor 18 tho Chandler a3 Arslstant becrel of the “reasury traveling io the South in 1845, corrupty Mnlcip!ud 1a the spolla gathered by Hupervisiug Teeasury Agents enzaged o robbing thelr Gaum' mgnl, and 1o delflumn the distressad peopls ndler who, 88 Becretary of the B- u Natloasl C-mmlttes, with certain Repab- rom Loutslans, at a conference or confer- % tle Fifih-Avenus Hoiel, Now York, con: % Louisiand affsire, about Octobor, 1672, 20 cernls retly sod corcuptly conspired 1o take advaulige ST1L% Shecuce from' Louialana. of tho GOVerudF taereof Lo asscmblo secrutly the Legislature, lm& peach the Goveraor, seiza the Goverument, an use its wachiucry to carry tha election of LH:H‘ o "o 1t the Chandles who carried ana reccived 8 (¢ from Kelloeg of $3,000 11 1373, sud the cncum!u_-\xl-. ** You buve doue wore for Wim (han sny oue ok cept Atwwroey deneral Willlaws, 1o lwllm.llm‘7 Lis foul sod dmpions usurpation of the oifice Governor of this dlate ™'Y a8 Is 1t the Ubaudler who cocouraged, abetted, 350 conapired with Jufamous allies 1o this city Nhl;" 12,000 cittzens of New Urlcans of thels fianchin and drag them before the Fuderal w\lfl',““‘n‘ avout tha day of the late election; whbo, 10 hv!em bor, 1070, by telegraph, giarsntved Kellogg & .