Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 3, 1878, Page 4

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In New York on Saturdsy greenbacks ruled steady at 95} Raussia offered a sop to Austris by suggest- ing that she has po objection to the latter occupying Bosnia and the Herzegovine. Gen. Jor Jorxstox will not be allowed to walk unopposed into Congress. There are wen in Virginis who are so patriotic that, rather than seo the ex-Confederate in Con- gress, they will even run for the place them- selves. The Prince of BATTENBURG looms up as {e prospective sovereign of Bulgaris. Heis & nephew of the Czar, and is about to marry a daughter of the Emperor’s sister, the Grand Duchess Aania Nicorarvya. But he isn't sppointed'yet. Some ono mentioned to Brsyanck the other day the Paris Exhibition, and he is re- ported to havesaid: ‘‘L'Ezposition! vous 7'y croyez pas, jespere.” And yet the Ger- man papers are attributing to the Chancellor the most peacenble of intentions. An attempt will doubtless be made in the Houss to passa supplemental Silver bill, Toviding for unlimijed coinzge and for the osue of bullion certifichtes. It is expected that the bill will be introduced to-morrow by SPRINGER, of Illinois, who is known to have bad it in preparation for several days. Stimulated by the success of the Prince- ton students, a large party of young men from Yale College attempted o baze the Count Jbaxxrs while the latter was perform- ing in a New Haven theatre. Eight of them were 50 successful as to spend the rest of the night in jail. A little discipline of this Yind is needed in New Jersey. Gov. HARTEANYT, in an address to the free and enlightened conl-heavers of Pennsylvania yesterdny, rehenrsed the usual dogmas of the Protectionists. He generously admitted that the time might come when this country could da away with customs duties ; but,” he added, “it will not do to remove the reafiolding until the structure is complete.” TYet it is to be feared that, if this country were to be guided by the sapient connsels of Penosylvania iron and coal capitalists, it ‘would never reach a state of completion. —————— The most aggressive of all the Parisian Jjournalists is AL Pavs pE Cassacyac; editor of the Bonapartists’ organ, Lz Pays. No man in modern times has fought more duels or pinked his opponeats more skillfully. To the long list of his victories, including Gus- avE Froveeys, M. Veevoner, and the un- fortunate AuneLesy Scmory, he bas added snother in the person of M. Troasoy, a fel- low-member of the Chamber of Deputies. It is said that the Representative of the TaousoN (without & p) family is mortally ‘wounded, and the fighting editor of Le Pays 2an now rest upon his laarels for a senson. It issad to seo our idols of long yesrs smashed one after another; but we are pow- etless to prevent Congressman SrxoLeros, of Mississippi, from assuming the role of the fell destroyer. He avers that Jerr Davis + went into the Rebellion reluctantly, snd always declared that secession was not the mmgdyilat the wrongs of which the South complained. This sickening revelation. f:lumges the opinjon heretofore held regard. ing the ex-President of the Rebel States, for, whereas we bave been accusiomed only o Jook upon him 2s a traitor, we must now regard him either asaliaror as befriended by s man with a slippery memory. The seemingly remarkable feats of Dr. Saxenapo in hastening the decense of his paticnts bave been successtally rivaled since his time by medical practitioners less known to fame. There died tho other day in Brooklyn a quack who is estimated to have amassed a fortune of $500,000 out of the pockets of the credulous public. He styled himself a “wonder” doctor, and pretended 1o tell a patient’s disease by looking throngh & pair of glass lenses, Although his charges were cnormous, it is said that private car- ringes were to be seen almost always in front of his door. And it is alleged that more people died on his hands than were cured. Yet the people kept coming to hire snd kind- Iy enlarging his phylacteries. A London letter-writer says that the police Bave to guard GrapsroNE’s residemce in Harley strect now, so great is the popular anger ngainst him. The ex-Premier was walking down the Sirand a few days ago, when he was hustled by a2 mob ecrying “Praitor! traitor!” and was obliged to seck refuge in Courrs’ bank. These are signs of the times. A significant dispatch appears in the Po- litical Correspondence, a semi-official paper of Vienns. It states that the Russian army will enter Constantinople shortly, irrespect- ive of the signature to the peace conditions, TUndoubtedly such action has long been con- templated by tbe Russian Commander-i Chief, ond it bas only been postponed hith- erto by the delay in obtaining the consent of the Porte to the termsof peace. The Grand Duke could hordly hit upon a better plan of Joring England into o declaration of war than by seizing the present opportunity and walking into the Turkish Capital. In anticipation of Lue pussoge of the Sil- ver bill, the Director of the Mint some time 2g0 caused to be prepared a mnew design for the dollar which would be struck off in the event of the bill becoming alaw. We have obtained fac-similes of the obverse and re- verse sides of the new coin through the cour- tesy of Mr. C. A. Werore, Washington cor- respondent of the Alta-California, to whom they were forwarded from the San Francisco Mint. The above represents the obverse side, and bears a head of Liberty crowned with the Phygian csp and adorned with sprays of cotton and wheat. The motto *“ E Pluribus ‘Unum™ appears on the border, while below is the dato of so much historic interest, 1878. SRRTES Upon the reverse side the principal figuro is that of the eagle with outspread wings, sur- rounded by thic olive-wreath, and holding in his talons the arrowsand olive-twigs sym- bolical of peace and war. The familiar in- scriptions, * United States of America ” and In God We Trust,” are retained, the latter being given a more prominent position than in the dollar coins heretofore nsed. THE PURPOSE OF THE SILVER BILL. The silver question has been settled, and it may be said to be settled permanently. Now that the controversy has ended in the passage of the bill, and the bitterness which frequently characterized the discussion has ceased, it may be appropriate to give a calm and candid explanation of the opposing pol- icies 5o strennonsly maintained. ZLong snterior to the American Revolution, though our commerce with Great Britain was carried on in British money,—pounds, shillings, sud pence,—and though we had in all the Colonies a local money,—ponnds, shillings, and pence,~varying in value, the grand money of account was the dollar, aud that dollar was the old Spanish silver dollar, thousands of which exist to this day. This dollar had a standard valuo all over the world, and was the coin exchanged in trade between nations. The international trade of the colonial days was of insignificant pro- portions as compared with the trado of the present day. The gold coin in circulation most common in those deys was also Span- ish,—the doubloon, which, even as late as fifty years ago, was quite common, Therd were various silver ¢oins of different names aud values; but the coip—the stoNexy—of that day wasthedollar,—thesilver doliar. Afterthe Revolution, and after the Government of the Union had been put in operation, the ques- tion of n mational coinags was considered, and & plan devised by JerFessoy and Hax- 1LTON Was adopted, as set forth in the law of 179 This plan adopted the silver dollar of the precise weight of the old Spanish dollar as the umt of value of the coinsge of the Republic. This dollar was to contein 371% grains of pure silver. Thot had been the weight of the dollar which had been in cir- culation for a century, and which was at that time the money of the American people. The change was merely to place on the esist- ing dollar the stamp of the United States. The plan, however, cmbraced a gold coinage, to be called the * eagle,” and valued at $10, with smaller coins, the half and quarter eagles. In fixing the weight of the gold coins, the proportion was put ot 1 of gold to 15 of silver. This made the gold coin more valueble than the silver; the gold was coined only in small quantities, and silver was the money in general circula- tion. The important and vital principle, however, of the American plan of coinage was the adoption of the bi-metallic system. Both gold end silver had been recognized in the Constitution as the actual existing money of the country, and they were made the ex- clusive constitutional legal-tender. This policy was adopted in order to protect the people and the Government against any fluctuations in the value of eitber metal, such as might be caused by the scarcity and consequently increased value of either one. Both being legal-tender, the rise in gold or in silver conld mot work any hardship solong as the other and cheaper metal remained a legal-tender. A few yesrs later France edopted the bi-metallic system for the same reason, and, nnlike ourselves, retained it, and was sble when the emergenog arose to avail herself of the benefit of the option. Thus things remained until, in 1834, Con- gress reduced the weight of the pure gold in the eagle and its fractional parts. This reduction in the tweight aud value of the gold coin made it of less value than the sil- ver, and the Iatter was melted ond sold for gold. In 1833 all silver coins less than the dollar were reduced in weight, and tere made subsidinry and s legal-tender for only 5. The dollar remained undistarbed the unit of American money. The gold dollar was first coined in 1849. The silver dollar continued to be worth 104 in gold, and was worth about that when, in 1873, it was, as Mr. Wezp so aptly describes it, stealthily” discontinued, and the gold dolar made the unit of value. In 1874 it was deprived of its legal-tender act by & confessed” fraud in the revision of the code. In 1871, after the war with Fance, the newly-organized Imperinl Government of Germony took steps to unify the comage of the whole Empire, and to substitute gold for silver. This was not begun until 1874, when it was discovered that the mmount of silver to ba rodeemed greatly esceeded what bad been anticipated, needing an amount of gold far beyond the estimate. This gave to gold an extraordinary value, and reduced the price of ,silver, which was placed on the market in quantities beyoud tho demnnd. France availed herself of this to icrease her Iarge store of silver, and, when there was s possibility of n return to silver coinage in this country, it was discovered for the first time by the people that as long ago as 1878 Congress had abolished the silver dollar and demonetized it. In the menntime, Congress bad passed an sct for the resumption of specie poyments in the United States in January, 1879, which would have necessi- tated resumption in gold coin exclusively. The world’s indebtedness has in- crensed immensely during the last century. The onnual tribute paid Dby labor for interest has become enormous. The money-lenders have become dissatisfied, claiming that money gonerally was not valued high enough. Especiully has it been claimed that metallic money was too cheap, and that it was essential to jucrense its value by reducing its gmentity ome-half, and this could best be done by discarding silver and reducing it to a mere commodity. During the last five years, the valuo of money has advanced largely, not only in this but in all other couatries. The value of property and of Iabor has in like manner depreciated. In this country the rise in money and the decline in oll forms of prop- erty have been nggravated by the special sttempts to make the dear gold coin the exclusive metallic money, to compel the resumption of specie payments in gold coin, and to perpetually demonstize silver. The grent privilege of the bi-metallic system and of the option to select which ever of the metsls was the cheaper had been secretly taken away. These were the circumstances nnder which there was a demand madé for the restoration of the silver dollar, the restoration of the bi-metallic system, and the restoration of the right to pay all debts in either silver or gold ; and included in this demand was of necessity involved the repeal of the scandalous legisla- tion of 187374 There mover was any schemo to provide for illegal dollars, or cheap dollars, or 90-cent dollars, but to re- store to the country silver dollars of the same weight as the dollars that bad existed in this country and were the money of the people long before the Revolution, and at the time and after the adoption of the Con- stitution, and which, with American em- blems, had been the dollars of the country down to 1573, when they wero stealthily sup- pressed. The country had undertaken to resume specie payments in gold, which was an impossibility. The coinsge of silver dollars would rapidly fill the coun- try with metallic money, which money would so accurmulate that in due time the work of resumption could tske place withont dis- turbauce or distress. The remouetization of silver, by lessening the specinl demand for gold and increasing the demand for silver, would have the effect of restoring these metals to their ordinary relative values, thus giving to the country a general currency of gold, silver, and paper of an equivalent value. These were the ends sought by the res- toration of the silver dollar. Our readers can, without aid from us, resdily understand the inspiring causes and the hopes and fears actuating those who so long and so bitterly ‘maintained the perpetuation of the exclusive gold coin, with all its consequences, and especially its confiscation of the values of all other property. THE STENCH NUISANCE. A Though the City of Cincinnati msy be said to have practically gone out of the pork- packing and cattle-killing business, there is just remnant enough of their former trade left to sustain some rendering establish- ments which are making the lives of the n- habitants miserable. In the sweet innocence of their rural associntions, they bave thought it was only necessary to secure the passage of an act by the Legislature defining nnisances and providing a penally therefor in order to abolish these pestilential stink- pots. In complirnce with thispopular senti- ment, tho Ohio Senate passed a law the other dny providing a fine of £500 and the abatement of nuisances upon indictment and conviction, and laying special stress upon “the ercction, continuing, using, or mointaining any building, structure, or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment, manufacture, or other business which, by causing noxious eshalations, noisome or offensive smells, be- comes injurious or dangerous to the health, comfort, property of individuals or the pub- lic.” The good, confiding people of Cincin- nati will be surprised aud grieved to learn that this new statute has been modeled after the Illinois law, which has been in existence for several years, and which has utterly failed to protect the people from blasts of stench compared with which the Cincinnati odors must be as ‘ airs from Heaven.” They may rely upon our experience when we as- sure them that rendering establishments cannot be purified by statute. Having given Cinciunati this much conso- Iation, let us see how it is in our own case. A few months ago Mr. Commissioner De ‘WorF announced, with a considerable flourish of trumpets, that he himself had per- fected an apperatus for deodorizing the poxious gases generated in the process of rendering; that some of the establishments had agreed to adopt this remedy, and that he would constrain the others to do so by vigorous prosecution. In the face of this announcement the stinks have been more regular and formidable this winter than ever before. The inference from this state of facts is that either Mr. Commissioner De Worr's deodorizer is a snare and a de- lusion, or that he has failed to compel all the rendering establishments to adopt it or any other adequate remedy against the nuisance which they are nightly committing on the community. In either case, it is fair to hold Mr. Commissioner Dx Worr to ac- count, and demand that he shall give way to some more competent person. The con- tinuance and growth of the nuisance under his administration is tantamount to a con- fession that, with all the science be is master of and all the law bearing on tho case, he has not been able to protect the citizens of Chicago from & well-defined and sbiding nuisance of the most frightfal character. ‘What remedics are there ? the statute, which explicitly recoguizes tho stink nuisance and provides for a fine and imprisonment. Dr. Dz Worr complains that, having made an effort one night to induce some householders to track dowx the nuisance in his company, so that they could serve as witnesses, he was met with 8 refusal on all sides. Then let him *try, try sgain.” If he cannot find nny citizens or householders who will accompay him on s smelling ex- pedition, let him take his own sanitary police and el for some of the regular police, all of whom will be competent witnesses, and thus gother the necessary evidence for indictment. Second, there is a remedy which has never yet been tried, viz. : in the application for an injunction. The city supports some four or five able-bodied lawyers, and makes them a handsome allowance for legnl expenses over and above their salaries ; let these gen- tlemen, if not overworked, try to find time to rend the chapter entitled * Nuisances” in Hizuarp “ On Tnjunctions,” and ascertain whether it is not possible to get out s perma- nent injunction against these particular nui- sances, either with or without the co-opera- tion of the State’s Attorney. jnjunction would lhave s grent advan- tago over an indictment and conviction, since it would put a quietus on the nuisance for all time. It is well known that the vilest of the stench comes from those houses which render for fertilizing material, and the effort to gather evidence should be centred on them. This is a remedy, too, which, if Iawful, can be applied by private individuals without waiting for the slow-going-¢ity ofii- cinls. The Citizens' Association might look into it, if they have nothing else on hand. Third, another untried remedy is in the hands of the Common Council. The General Incorporation act (Sec. 62, par. 81) gives the Council the power ‘‘to direct the location and regulate the management of packing- houses, renderies, tallow-chandlerics, bone- factories, soap-fnctories, and tanneries with- in the limits of the city, and within the dis- tance of one mile without the city.limits”; and Paragraph 83 emables the Council *to prohibit any offensive or unwholesome busi- ness or establishment within, or within one mile of, the limits of the corporation.” Let the Common Council exercise this pewer, and pass an ordinance (which will take effect ten days after its pussage) prohibiting the business of rendering for fertilizing pur- poses anywhere within a mile of the city limits. There wonld be no injustice in this course, since it has been demoustrated that these noxious gases can be consumed or ear- ried off, and since the men engaged in the business mostly refuse to provide the mnecessary machinery to that end, and set themselves np in defiance of public health and comfort. The enforced removal beyond one mile outside of the city limits might not entirely abate the nuisance to Chicago, but it would be so summary a pro- ceeding that the owners of the rendering houses would probably conclude to adopt thenceforth the necesssry prevention against the spread of their stinks, lest some sub- sequent proceedings might drive them out of the business altogether. CHANGE OF VENUE. During the triel of the Escer burglary ense this last week, Judge JaxesoN, who is not inclined to coustrne law techuicalities in favor of the criminal class, was constrained to admit that the statute on change of venue is mandatory, and that a change mnst be gronted in every case whera the form of the spplication is properly observed. In the present wstance, it was merely the purpose of the criminal’s attorney to separate some of the defendants from the trial of his special client (EacEn), in order to diminish the chanees of the latter's conviction. The ex- pedient did not happen to succeed, but the Court was obliged to submit to it, knowing its purpose, on account of the law covering a chango of venue. The statate provides that when n potition for a change of venue *‘shall be accompanied by the afidavits of two re- spectable persons resident of the county that they believe the Judge is so prejudiced against the applicant that he cannot have n fair and impartial tria),” then the Judge ¢ ghall change the venue of said couse.” It would appear to people outside of tbe Iaw business that the terms of this law would re- quire some evidence of the reputability of the persons who make the affidavits; but such, it seems, is not the case. The attor- ney for the crimionl, TnupE, simply refused to bring the persons into court who had sworn to the affidavits he had drawn up, took the groand that their reputability could not be inquired into, and held that the Court had no discretion in the matter. On%of the per- sons making an affidawit, by the way, was then under indictment and awaiting trial on n criminal charge. Judge Jaxe- soN evidently satisfied himself that such was the law, and gravt:d the change, though he asserted that he (the Judge) lad never rend or heard anything about the case; that he had never seen or heard of the persous who swore he was prejudiced sgainst the defendnuts, so they could not know whercof they swore; snd, finally, characterized the affidavits as “ stuffed with falsehood from top to bottom.” Even Trope, the criminal’s attorney, whén asked | by the Judge whether he believed a word in the affidavits to be true, impertinently said e could answer easy questions, but not that one,~but still insisted on the change. The nbuses under this statate for the change of venue have never been made so glaringly spparent as in the present instanco. There is not n criminal arrested in Cook County who cannot, by his own effort or with the assistance of an experienced criminal lawyer, procure afidavits from a hundred persons, if they were necessary, swearing that one particalar Judge or all the Judges in the county are prejudiced against him. The procarement of such affidavits is even easier than the old-timo and easy de- vice of finding witnesses to prove an alili; for in case of change of venue the witnesses are not even required to come into court, but escapo the ordeal of cross-examination, and cannot be impeached either sas to their character or what they swear to. Itisno wonder that justice lags under such a law. A criminal can never be estopped from taking his case outside of Cook Couaty al- together, and by & series of delays ho can tire out witnesses and the prosscution, or succeed in buying off and running off those who wonld establish his guilt. Or, under this same law, a crimi- nal who has reason to believe that some one Judge is prejudiced in his favor, or that some one Judge has a peculiar and abiding sympathy with a criminal brought before him for trinl, may swear that the other seven Judges of the county are prejudiced against him. secure two affidavits to that effect, and thus actually make his own selection of the Judge who shall try him. It is a notorious fact that this has been done on more than one oceasion. Tt seeras there is no help for all this under .. First, thera may be an indictmont under | the construction that has been put upon the A permanent |’ statute by the higher Courts. Judge Jae- soN was evidently sotisfied of this, or he would not have consented to a change of venue under the circumstances we have cited, and believing, as he did, that the affida- vits were a tissue of falsehoods. In this case, neither the Judges can do anything to help the people, nor the people anything to help themselves for the present. Dut certainly the next Legislature should pass a law which will rescue the people from the clatches of the criminal class, and prevent the latter from distort- ing the principle of a change of venne into a constant menace against public safety. It is not likely that other communities throughont the State suffer from this per- verted statute to the same extent that Chi- cago suffers, and the raral districts probably cannot understand the dangers incident to it; but Chicago should send a delegation to Springfield next winter that will have the intelligence and the influence to secure & radical change in the law. **RELIGIOUS” ADVERTISING. Ttis & great pity that religious newspapers like the ~idvance and the Northwestern Advo- cate, which were founded by pious men, and intended to promote s pure Christianity, should have passed into the hands of vulgar money-makers, There can be no question that this has been their fate. They have been corrupted by prosperity, or they have become prosperous by practicing corruption. They have occupied for a number of years a position in journalism which isa cross be- tween mendicancy and blackmailing, begging subscriptions for the sake of the churches which they claim to represent, and threaten- ing with the Divine displeasure those who are deaf to their ‘appeals. They demand support, not becanse they deserve it as news- papers, but becanse they claim a peculisrly intimate relation with the cause of Chris- tianity ; while, at the same time, they engage in business which neither a Christian nor an honorable .man can for a moment counte- nance. The nature of this business may be judged from the following advertisements, all taken from the last issue of the Adrocate: T e B I $5' 1 *2‘]";‘:‘{“@-’ at home._Sample worth Safree- $6 5 week I Your owa free.Adaress — A YEAR, Towto Make It. B30 Srctiing neisar Soenia: “ast dress —— —— N A YEAR. Agents wanted. $2500 F Terms and $5 outfit Business legittmate. free. Address 9 GOLD PLATED WATCHES. Cheapest fn the known word. Sambie Walch Free o Sgents. Address —— ———. « Sninry. Salesmen wanted 1o sell our Staple Goods to dealer, No peddiing. Expenses paid. Per- These ndvertisements are fraudulent or illegal. They are fraudulent if they contain stotements intended to cheat the readers of the Adrorate and the Adrance. They nre illegal if they advertiso wares the sale of which is prohibited by Iaw. They must be ono thing or the other. Any legitimate business which promised gains of $5 to 820 per day, or 366 a week, or $3,300, 52,500, nd 1,200 a year, would be voluntsrily em- braced by thousands of persons. There would be no need for the proprietors of such a business to advertise for salesmen. Half the able-bodied male population wounld step into it at once. We are inclined to think that part of the gains promised in the ad- vertising columns of these so-called *re- ligious” weeklies is fictitions, and that the other part is derived from the sale of im- proper or indecent goods. When a man ad- vertises, for instance, that he has s secret worth 5 to $20 st home, and that he will send a 5 somple free, we set him down for 2 knave, sud we consider a partner in his kuavery the religious mnewspaper that propagates his lies for monmey. Of the other advertisements, some would probably be found to deal in illegal wares. “Staple goods,” *“business legitimate,” etc., aro suspicious phrases. [t ought to be un- necessary for o ‘‘religions” newspaper to assure its renders that the business in which they arensked toengage is “ legitimate.” But there is reason enough for this when they are boldly asked to scll $3 gold-plated watches, it being palpable to any person that a watch worth only $3 must be a cheat and a fraud. The exposure of theso “rcligions ” swin- dlers is an unpleasant tack for Tr TRIBUNE. It hos tried to think well of the -4dzance and the _Adrocate, not becruse it has any respect for the Generals” and *‘ Doctors ” who fat- ten like cormorants on the profits of these papers, but because it does. respect the de- nominations to which they belong. But it is timo the ‘Generals” sud “Doctors” were held up and shaken. They are wolves in shecp's clothing. They have not the specch of Christians, nor the mauners of Christinns, Pagans, or men. They imitate Christianity most abominably. % THE FUTURE OF THE REFUBLIC. Mr. Ravea Wawpo Euersoy lectured in Boston the other day on the rather large topic of ‘‘ The Future of the Republic.” It is no disrespect to the eminent sage and poet to sy that his prognostications wonld have been more valuable if they had been clearer. Obscure "as they were, they had their sig- nificance. They showed that one of the purest and clearest thinkers of the day had no deep anxicty nbout the essential morality of the American people; that, seriously as Lie might question or disapprove the expe- diency of particular acts of legislation, he did not assume fatal consequences to them ; and that his personal confidence in the growth and prosperity of the Republic was nnabated. Such utterances as these, from a man of Mr. Exessox’s character. ore particularly useful at this time, because it is quite the fashion in the literary coteries of New En- gland and New York to preach the opposite doctrine. We are accustomed to hear from the editors of Boston and New York that the country is in a bad way. Precisely why itis in a bad way they seem ubable to say. The chief symptom they have heen able to point out thus far is a habit of independ- ent thought in the West and South, and s comparative disregard of the opinions ex- pressed by the oracles the East bas ap- pointed. Wo agree with Mr. Exensoy that the fa-- ture of the Republic is pretty well assured. There is absolutely no impediment to its progress. With the great element of discord removed, as it has been by the War of the Rebellion, and the price of that removal nearly all paid in the financlal panic which is just clearing away, there is no reason why the Union should not be permanent. The principles of the Government are settled ss they never were before by the War. We un- derstand now that nullification cannot exist in practice, however it may be regarded as an abstraet right. The United States are a nation, whether created so- by the Constitu- tion or not, and the national principle binds the Republic together as no force before the War did or could. Having this cohesive principle to start with, we fiad that the condition of the Ropublic in other respects 'is better than ever before. Though the national debt remains as a Jegacy, it is not a serious burden. The interest charge is comparatively trifling, and the resources to meet 1t have been increased since the War in more than the necessary proportion. Meanwhile, there is alarge part of the public domain still unoccupied, and the simple profits from the land still to be taken up, or only just prepared for cultiva- tion, will more than compensate the loss of wealth incurred by the War. If, then, we have o nation without sections and a moral purpose withont taint, it will bo easy to_in- suro the material prosperity of the Republic. The abolition of sectional differences Las been partially accomplished by the War, and is being cnrried forward by a wise and en- lighteued public sentiment since the War. The West and South are now nearer together than the East and West, and these are sep- arated only a short distance and temporarily by political differences of transitory charac- ter. Thereis also promise of the needed moral purpose to insure the stability of the Republic, derived partly from the antecedents and associations of the people, and partly from the vast system of educa- tion which hns spread over the land and holds it in an iron grip. It will be impossi- ble for the nation to drift far away from the landmarks so long as it has these anchors of hope. It would be well if Mr. EsrsoN could communicate his habit of cheerfulness to his New England neighbors and friends. They need to be encouraged about the Republic. They are far more despondent than there is sny need of being. If they will learn first that it 1s o great secret of prosperity and comfort to believe one's self prosperous and comfortable, and, secondly, that mere dis- agreement about finsncial questions isnot s proofof dishonesty orignorance,they will have helped themselves to a bettor state of mind. They need to reflect, moreover, that their judgment is not infallible; that they bave st times occupied positions with refer- enceto the welfare of the Kepublic which can now be neither justified nor excused. They had & reminder of this the other day when Mr. BraiNe, from his seat in the Sen- ate, showed that Mlassachusetts obstructed and embarrassed the Federal Government in the War of 1812. They had another re- minder only last Sunday from WeNDELL ParLLps, who afrayed all New England for unfajthfulness to the best interests of the country. e do not so array or reproach New England. It is entitled to and receives the respect and cordial symputhy of the American people. But it cannot be permit- ted to dictate a policy to govern all. There is no repson why it should do so, or why, when some of its newspapers and public men are disappointed in & particalar measure, they should preach the decay of public morals. The habit is not healthy. In the autumn of last year Mr. H. Vrviax, 3L P., was a visitor in ourcity, and employed his time indastriously in gathering statistics concerning the productivo powers of the ‘West, and the importance of Chicago as a shipping point. Ina recent address before an agricultural society at Cowbridge, Gla- ‘morganshire, Wales, he favored his constita- ents with his views upon these topics. He began by soying: I must tell you that Chi- cogo is the great market of the West ; it is chiefly at Chicago that Western trade cen- tres.” After this preliminary statement he went on to speak of the large importation of American beef into England. It began in 1875 with a shipment of 24,310 pounds. In April, 1876, there amived in En- gland 1,193,000 pounds; in Septem- ber of the same year, 2,047,000 pounds; wealthy men well known in metro; mercial circles. Add to these nampc‘s’u:l‘zflb;?“ Dax Berriey, a member of Tweep's g zanz” in the Boss' carly days, and J, A. VaLzstise (“ King Jim™), s0 well know, all frequenters of American race-tracks ,gu;h the fast half-century, and it will readily be that the death-roll for February does mot 1. for distinguished names. s ———— There used to be a delizhtfal pa by a Lyonese quack, called Therlil:x::nc.t au’nT:,t professed to compound it once a year aite recipe ln\;enlcd by MITHRIDATES, . opinm in it, and that was the op| invariable ingredicot. \Vhenevn]: :‘;:‘::In;xl-;iv:d found sometbing unused in a bottle, or a dr:\\:‘ er, Or came Across a mixture in an unlaheln\; pbial which be couldn’t identify, or swept y) huak of some unknown substance from a d:x: corner, he tried it on the dos, and, §f 1t alda' kill the dog, it went unto the Therfakon, l' fact, bis inc of procedure was vory much K. that of the Indiana Democrats when they m;éu up a platform, only the Indiana Dumncn:: There wy in December, 3,624,000 pounds; .in March, 1877, the enormous smonnt of 5,776,000 pounds. By far the greater part of this came from Chicago. He estimated that the first cost of dressed beef for ship- ment st Chicago was four to five cents a pound ; the freight charges to Liverpool would make about one cent more; snd, adding the English local charges and profits, he did not see how American meat could be sold in England much under seven or eight cents o pound. These estimates of Mr. Viviay are general in character, and not qnite a5 accurate as they shounld have been, coming from & man who had made astady of the subject. It could easily be shown that tho freight rates to Liverpool, including cost of handling at both ends sand Jocal rates, do mnot nggregate more than one cent per pound. However, we are not inclined to find fault with the speaker, as he was doing a good work in enlightening the people of Wales upon the resources of the Northwest. His criticism upon American farming was that there was 2 rough, untidy look about it, contrasting unpleasantly with the bright green pastnres, | trim fences, and comfortable homes of agri- cultural people in England. Distinguished as were many of the names upon the deatheroll of January, among them those of LA MARMORA, PALIRAO, RaSPAIL, VicTor EMMANUEL, Sit WILLIAM STIRLING- MAXWELL, SAMUEL BowLES, Dr. Doray, and Sir EDWARD CrEASY, the obituary list for Feb- ruary is even longer and more britliant. On it we find the names of P1us IX., Pope, of Cardi- nal Goperror Brossais SaINT Mare, of ALEXANDER DUFP, the great missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, and of the Kev. DaBNEY BaLL, one of the most influential members of the Episcopal Church South. Of statesmen, juriste, lawyers, and politicians, ‘there have dicd GipEON WELLES, Sccretary of the Navy under LincoLN; Cuartes M. Cox- RAD, ex-Sceretary of War; Earl BATHURST, of England; GeorGeE W. Pascmsar, of Texas, the and constitutional subjects; TOWSSEND Harnis, once Minister to Japan, whose pame is intimately linked with the history of thesopening of that country to * barbarian ”” nations; Judge ALEXANDER S. Jonssox, of New York, one of the best Judges on the Federal Bench; and ex-Congressmen Cmsrees S. Lewis and Mever Strouse. In the domain of art and science the names are found of GEorGE CRUIKSHANK. England’s mod- ernHocartr:of CoaRLESFRANCOISDAUBIGNY, one of the best landscape-painters left to France at the death of CoroT; of THEODORE SCHULER, the eminent Alsatian artist and faithful inter- preter of the works of ERCEMANN-CHATRIANG of ALLAN-DESPREAUX, ont of the stars of the French theatre forty years aco; and of CaRLo pE Brasts, the famous dancer, ballet-master, and choreerapbic author; likewise of Father PieTRO SECCHI, the great Italian astronomer: of Fries, of Upsala, one of the most patient and csteemed of modern botanists; of Craupe BeaNARD, the greatest of physiolo- gists; and of Prof. ALBERT Syirm, of Darg- mouth, whose name is honored in the ranks of American medical instructors. Of wealtty men and merchants departed, we may mention Don AUGUsTIN EDWARDS, the Chillan millionaire: Joux F. Tracr, a railroad manager well known in Chicago; Wintiam ‘WeLsH, the Philadelphia millionaire and philan- thropisc; THEODURE Ro0sEvELT, of New York, who had been nominated only a few wecks be- fore for the New York Collectorship; and Jo- sseR W.ALsor and CuaRLEs M. CORGREVE,Lwo acute thinker and writer on legal | neglect to make preliminary exper; gy ¥ iments wity, ——— Prof. NEWCOMS thinks that ft woul, pay to take outa polies ‘in an unclde;‘n’!}:::lry ance. comnany on the earth azainst comets, and sags: “So small Is the carth, compared with s celestial spaces. that if one should shut his nyri and fire at random in the air, the chanes of bringing down a bird would be better than that of a comet of any kind striking the carth.” 00d simile, but it wizht have been made mach more powerful. Suppose the Professor hag &aid that there s as much chance of the worlg being struck by a comet as there i of the Jnter. Qcenn. being struck by an idea, or . Bryxg by the Presidential lightoing, ———— Cardinal Camerliozo Daxa I. has not yet succeeded in ousting the President, or reducing the army to 10,000 men, but he has pablished 5 Iot of weak, false, and scurrilous faventions about a sick woman who had visited this cogne try in search of Bealth, the work of 2 black. mailer, 2od refused to give up the blackmailer to justice, or to print the injured woman's ex. planatioc. The Sun, howeser, will continge g3 before to advise mythical Jovers 1o treat their fmaginary sweethearts With 1o end of chiralry and things. S The London Times wants an editor. It flops every day,~—sometimes twice, and neser toths right side. Irscorrespondence about ALrossy's wedding was wniten in an unknown tongue, and now it bas declarea four times over thas there is mood reason to believe that the “parallax §s within the liwits of 855 min. and 8.93 min.,” thouzh seconds must hars been clearly written. If the Times is correct, peoale should fose no time In ordering their summer clothes and taking tickets for the Pole. bttt kit “Pope stories being now in order, Victor Hrco has contributed one rezarding the election of 3 former head of the Catholic Church. Dursg the Conclave a wily priest went around toall the Cardfnals privately, saying: ““There Is my old master. He fs very near the grave. Vote for him once for the Papacy. and he will die bappy.” The trick was discovered just in time to prevent the entire vote'of the Conclave from being cast {or the individual who only wantels single honorary vote. e —c———— The Utica Republican is out with fts littls 4 coutribution to contemporary history.” show- ing how the President tried to bribe Senatar Bruce, of Mississippi, and falled. Utica Re publican—Ilet's sec: the name is familiar. Ls% it the paner started to punish-the Herad fa. stanging up azainst’ CONKLING and Tammany Republicanism, and edited by a man who was graduated at that school of stern facts and sound Radical faith, the Sun office? e i A Brooklyn man who was rich, although be held a lot of real estate, warned by the awlul example of other well-to-do people who hed left property and wills, and had their livers turned inside out in court, and been proved to be driveling idfots, left no wili at.all. Thay didn’t save him, for already the heirs have begun to talk of applying to the courts. + e There is o tanner in Santa Clara, Cal., who st the close of his last year’s business divided the sum of §1,500~the excess of profits over his calcalations—among his workmen. Yet, whea he was candidate for School Trustee, he was de- nounced as 2 bloated capitalist and an epemy ot labor. The rude fnhabitants of the far West ar nothing if not original. . ———— For the interesting and eritical poem on*Lord BrrOY, printed in another column, we are fn- debted to Mr. RYDER, the Cleveland publisher of Mrs. Moone's verses. Like all of this ladv’s efforts, {t 15 a mem of purest Alaska ray, and the dark, unfathomed waste-basket shall mot bear it into—perhaps—undeserved obscarits. ——————— Our griet for the untimely death of ttie sccom- plished chimpanzee, Nite, Esq, 302 measure assuaged by the comfortable reflection that Tammany Hall can't vote him sercateen” times or run him for Alderman this fall. R The aocient ARTHUR was called Flos Regum, but the modern ARTHUR can hardly be called the Flower of Collectors. Chicazo merchants will awalt with some aoxicty news of the offiaal Morte D' ARTHGR. ———— We know why the European Powers are 5 anxious to delay holding & Congress. They have been fixing their eyes on Washinzton, asd saying: “1f that is a Coneress we waot none of it in ours.” ——————— There was one Mr. Prrxax, phozog~ Rapher in the City of Hog; Hie wife beinz dead. He had her cre-ma-ted, Asif she were of cordwooda log. e The form of government fn the Easters Principalities has hitherto beena despotism hm- ited by assassination. Remains to be secn what the European Congress will devise in its steal ——— Westward the star of Empire holds its #af; butit is from SOUTHARD that the proposition to have a Republic like Cerberus, with three. beads, comes. ———— The opponents of cremation look upon “t! Cincionati stenographer who burned his wife's remaios as a sort of Bottomless PIT-MAS. | The average Congressman who voted agalost the Silver bill is now thinking oo the frosty caucuses, as SHAKSPEARE says. & £x BuTLER setteth himsell up as tho chsa™ plon American citizen. Everybody knew hat he was not natural-eyesed. PERSONAL. - Boyesen will leave Cornell attho endof the academie year and settle at New York to der? himeelf to literary work. Miss Kellogg declines to marry becansesh? 13 80 aceply in Jove with Miss Kellogz. Datt®l somebody else miznt be so devply in lose Miss Kellogg too, and then what? Mme. Marie Francoise Charles Michith Vaa der Meerachen-Vandertaelen has justdied Bruesels, at the age of 87, deeply rezretted bY s+ho bore any portion of her name, She was bur st Spint Josse-ten-Noode. where her epitapl be spread out on the cemetery-wall like 3 Sshisg" Bet. Sir Garnet J. Wolseley, the new Britih Chief of Staff, commanded the Canadian - tion against the Winnipes rebels in 1870; and the newspaper correspondents who have made his3t quaintante will, with hardly an exceptios. m‘!h that he may meet a soldier's death on the battle- feld. Henri Rochefort has published & cheerful articie on the Conclave. After describisg o Cardinals buildinz their hats **like beaver® e wondered it the Holy Spirit,.pein 1o a reckles? and merry mood. shuald nspire ther Renan or Littre for Fope, they woald obey the 2 spiration; then went on to describe the Cardinsls playing cards in the Conclave, **grinaivgiile m to vote O .