Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 15, 1878, Page 4

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Mc- Fabvrex, Manager., PANIS, ce=~No. 16 Rae de is Graogo-Datellere. . Manrxe, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—Amerlcan Eschange, 440 Strand, Heszy F. GILtig, Agent. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal MeFickor's Thentro. - Madlron strect, between Desrburn and State, *The Two Orphans,™ 3 . 1looley’s Theatre. fandolph #treet, Detween Clark and LaSalle. Engagement of liss Fanny Davenvort. **Geliool for Ecandal.” New Chicago Thoatre. Clark strect, opposite Sherman IHousc. Engages ment of Liaverly's Minstrels. Tiaveriy’s Theatrn. ‘Monros street, corner of Dearborn. Cabln.* **Uncle Tom's Colisenm Novelty Theatre. Clark street, opposite Court-House. Varicty per- ormance. —— SU_LIET! MEETEINGS. ORIRNTAL LODUE, No. 33, A. F. & A, M.—Iall 122 Lasall Stated Communication this (Friday) rvfl:(n ot 0‘::]ucl{' “lllr!bt, hfi' ,;l:lfll"l‘l‘ I‘iul"n‘r‘K the . C. . Visttora corifal od to ate Tend. YRR CREI Bocrotity: WASIINGTON CITAPTEIR, No, 43, R, A, M.—lleg: uinr Gonvoeation thils (Fridsy] evening at Tiait corner of isted-ats., AL7:30 a'clock, lusiness Mark Degroe. crut tive ery nieniber requesied o be present. By vrde M, K. AL, Py Mk dias, b, winenr, seey. TOMF. LODGE, ¥o. w6 A. Fy, & A. M.—Spectal Communication at 4 o'cluck thin (Friday) afiern work. teyuiar Cominunication at 7.0 o'clock for 1t 2. HERRICK, Bee, work, Visitiog brethren cordlatly fnt! FRIDAY, MARCH 135, 1878, Greenbacks st tho Now York Stock Ex. change yestorday closed at 99, Tho intimation having gotton abrond that o sceret understanding exists botween Rus- sin and Turkey whoreby the action of the proposed Congress might bo nullified in ad- vauce, the /Agence Ruase laughs the idea to scorn, nsserting that tho Ilussian Ambassa- dors have too little confidenco in tho Tark- ish nuthoritics lo pursue such n course, and declaring that Lavanp, the British Minfater ot Constautinople, is, and has been, con. stantly ndvised by the Turks ns to tho progress nud character of all negotiations, ——ee The HMouso yestorday passed the bill ex- tending to threo years the timo dnring which whisky way remain in bond without the payment, of tho Government tax. The “onsuro benefits only those prodncers o distill whisky thet s jmproved P nge, nnd does not affect the big -illing intorests of the West. Two 2-ndments wore insisted upon which Jd soem to bo falr and reasonable—ono Wring the annual payment of 5 por cent wi it tax and the other providing that the ultimnte payment of tho tax shall bo upon tho original gauge of the whisky, — ry Evants is much disgnsted at the . i -imony practiced by the Democrats *i+, with tho Diplomatic and Consular : ints aut somo of tho wischievons +aducing salaries and abolishing . moro especially in the firat-clagg © . .=l tho Ministers and Consuls to Sonth America. Upon the Democratic plan o vory undomocratio result is finally reached —that of rendering it impossible for any but wealthy mon to accopt foreign appointmonts, All this would be in some measure cudurn- bie if the policy of retronchmont wera every- whero applied, but tho fact is that the sams watchdogs of the Trensury who cut down the appropriation for foreign represontation bavo got their pockets full of claiins nnd grobs aggregating o thousand times tho amount #aved in the Diplomatic sud Con- sular bill, 1t is hecomning dally more and more ovi- dent that although the proposod European Cougresa may formally nieet at Berlin at an carly day, thero is litile harmony betwoen the Powers to be represonted thereat. England, Russia, and Austria aro at present the principal pusscssors of real or faucled grievances, and the burden of their present complaints is such as to give little hope of n finnl equitable adjustmont. Meantime En. gland is codenvoring to strengthen her position in tho Congress by the exponditure of o yoodly portion of the extrn grant of money recently voted by Parliament in tho fitting out of new iron.clads and making other ontward demonstrations which are in- tended ns o wnotico to ull concerned that Dritain has o mission, and intends to mako & show of fighting for it it she does uot really mean to draw tho sword. , Ttisof the in charge of the Lake-Frout matter in Wash- ingtou should not allow the wmxty-days' Ymit to prss in which au appeal oy be filed with the Becretary of the Interior. The Varex. TiINE-serip sharks confidently roly upon the grod-will of the Land-Ofiice Commissioner to issus patents to thems promptly upon the cxpiration of the sixty deys, and wuech tedious litigation will be eutailed upon tho rightful owners of the property if the oppeal is mot properly looked ofter. Itis quite probable that tho whole wmatter may be settled by Congress befors a final deciston by Becrotary Scuusz, as the House Committee on Public Lands bas agroed to report a bill confirming the original acts and intentions of the Government in the matter of tho donation and dedivation, and no op. poeition is anticipated in either the Houso or Senata, Seccretary Bcausz bears up bravely under the assanlts of the plamed knight who has entcred the lista in behalf of the timber. thieves who are being crushed to death by an officer tyrannically bent upon protecling the property of the Government and recov- ering some portion of the value of that stolon. Mr. 8cougz, in reply to tho mesn insinuations of tho Henstor from Maine, points to s fact which his assailants bave carcfnliy failed to tako cognizance of,—~which is, that the prosécutions have been directed, not ngainst settlers and miners taking tim- ber for their own use, but against wholesale depredators who have stolen the timber to sell, 'Tha muecess of the Secretary of the Interior in dealing with timber-thefts alono is cnough to entitle him to credit and dis- tinction ns an encrgetic and efficient officer. Heis to the timber-thioves what Baistow was tothe whisky.thieves,—whichis precisely tho kind of publis servico the poople admire mnost, & — Tho savings banks of Boston being gener- ally belioved to bo rotten by the unfortunate people who lave deposited funds in their vaults, a panic which gave evidonce of spreading yesterdny broke out, in the shape of n run on the Five-Cent Savings Bank of thnt city, With this symptom as an argu- ment in their favor, the big-salaried finan. ciors of the othoer hobbling monetary institu. tions provailed upon tho Massachusolis Houso of Representatives to suspond all rules (including those unwritten onos called common 80uso) and pass a law allowing the Bank Commissioners, at any time they find rot in a bank, to limit and regulato payments to depositors a8 thoy please, officially keep. ing up the fiction that tho institution is sound. Aoy person nggrieved by this ex. troordinary oxtonsion of power may appeal to the Bupremo Court (if ho or she be rich enough to stand it), which tribunal is kindly suthorized to sunul the operations of the Commissloners if thoy are found to havo Leon unconstitutional! The Senato will to- ‘morrow pass the samo bill in the same way, with the hopo of getting the remedy rondy in time to try it on tho Five-Cont dog pro- vious to his death, THE MINORITY BEPORTS ON THE TEXAS PACIFIC RATLROAD, “The majority of the Houso Committea on Pacific Railroads have roported favorably the bill which proposes to guaranteo the Texas Pacific Railrond bonds to the amount of $38,600,000 at 5 per cent intercst for fifty years. This action is now antagonized by two powerful roports which are before us. Ono is made by Mesars. Lurtnziy, Laxpens, Hexpy W. Brai, W, W, Ricr, and Hewrrr, who propose n bill scenring to the Govern. ment tho Innd-grant that has lapsed by fail- uro of tho Toxns Pacific to comply with the conditions of tho originnl nets, and giving tho Southern Pacific tho right-of-way through tho Territories without bond, or money, or land subsidy, to meet at the Rio Grande River the Toxas Pacific or auy other road in tho State of Texns that shall hava arrived at that point. The other minority roport is mado by Ar. Wirrrax R, Monnsox, mem- ber of Congress from this State, who tokes the Lrond ground that all subsidies are unconstitutional ; that past experience with subsidized railroads teaches that Govern- ment guaranteo means payment by tho Gov. crnmont ; that the South is not now at any disadvantage in tho way of Government fa- vors which is not tho resnlt of tho war it Lrought on; that tho Texas Pacific is not, s claimed, cssentinlly of o Southorn character; aud that, generally, the Tox Scort schome is n decoption and u snarc. A good many people ijuside and outside of Congress will undoubtedly sgrea in thoir hearts with Mr. Monnisox's couclusions, . But it is the rogular minority roport, submitted by Mossra, Lurrnees, Lanpxos, DBratg, Rice, and Hewrrr, that will com- mand most attontion and respect, as it isa critical examination of the relative condi. tions of tho Texas Pacifio and Southern Pacific schemes, aud as it suggoests o practio. al method of sccuring a through Paciflo connection for tho Southorn States without tho expondituro,or risk of o single dollar of Governmont woney. It will be a serions refloction upon both the intelligence and honesty of Congross if tho recommendations iu this report shall not command ndherence in preferonco to the othor proposition to the affect that ono corporation willing to build tho rood without subsidy shall be excluded from that priviloge, and that another corpo- ration shall bo given n Government guarantees of nenrly 40,000,000 at 5 per cent interoat, without sufiicient sccurity, to do the .samo work which can bo secured free of cost to the Government. ' The Texns Pacific Company has now no claims upon the Govarnment even for the land originally grantod. 'Lhis Company waa incorporated March 8, 1871, with a supplo. wentary nct spproved 3May 2, 1872, rolioving it of some of tho original conditions, But it was required to build 100 miles,a year on the direct lino of the road, and to complete the ontire distance of 1,574 miles between Mar. shall, Tox., aud Ban Diego, Cal., within ten years from the date of tho franchise. As a watter of fact, this Company has construct. od only 183 miles on tha diroct line; tho re- malnder of the 4438 miles it has bullt con. slits of branchios which it constructed in or- der to acquiro the rich land-grant mado by the Btate of Texps., 'Ihoro remaln, then, 1,491 nules to build in four years, while only 183 mileas have been built in uix yesrs, The Company confesses its inability to proceed without Government-bond ald. It asks uow #£i8,500,000 at & per cent, after hav- ing failod {u an application for #60,000,000, The differenco between tho intorest at this rate and the {oterost at which tho QGovernment can cany bonds of ita own, would alone amount to more than the cost of the rond, it invested as o siuking fund. ‘Tho report naturally infers that * tho Government would Le far better off to build tho road and give it to the Toxas & Pacific Company outright than to guarantee the ins terest onthe 5 per cent, fifty-yoar bonds, according to its rdquest.” Theso gentlemen making this report have also satisfied thom. aclves that the road can be constructed and equipped at o cost of 20,000 & mila at the outside, go that the subsidy asked wonld leave ou cxcess of nearly 10,000,000 **to be taken from tho principal for the bonefit of thoso who manipulate the bonds from (ho start, and who do not proposa to risk a dol. lar of their own in the enterprise.” The to. tal amount of interest asked to be guaran. teed would, if invested in o sinking fund, result in $700,000,000 in the fifty years, or twenty times as much as the road will cost. The following is Tho conclusion of the mi- nority as for as the proposcd subsidy is con. cerned: Wo are opposed 10 a1l pecuniary subsidies and gusrautevs by the Uovernwent. iu'whatever form, for the benedt of railroads st tiis time, however dusirablo thelr construction. lutivie of pus private capltal seckivyg prodiably fovestmert will generally Kmmuw commercial development quite os fast as Is conatstent with sufuty and permanent prospenty, It the men in chargs of & weritorious enterpilse com e cunl- deuce of capitalists or ¢ven the Loo-eastly won trust of the middie classes there in 0o need of calling upon the uation fur subeidies or guarantecs. toe Tezas & Paciic Company te controlled by uicn of greal experlence fn aflalrs, who have lor wany years bevs prominent in the dovelopment of soms vortious of our rallroad system, we sre forced to the cou- cluslon that this coterprise undor thelr manugy- ment I8 ot oo¢ whicl comwands the confidenca of satule busincss meu who have Lu luvest fu desirable sccuritlea. It s tbis waut of capital and public conddency which rengere it im ble for the Tezas & Pacidc Company to busld the road along WHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1878, the 32d parallel. Wero it a corporation with capl- tal and credit, or wero the project ono command- ing the confidence of business men under this management, (o road might be bullt by tho Texaa & Pclfic Company. Tiut, in our bellef, uniess the Uovernment assumen the' burden of tho nndertaks ing, while ita manacement s left to the Texan & Pacifc Company, there wonld be no posaibllity o tha constraction of the rond even if the Company should profees 1ts purpose to accomplish it The. Bonthern Pacifle bas alroady con. strueted 720 miles of road from San Fran. clsz0 south and east to Fort Yumn, nnd is willing to construet withont any subsidy 600 miles more ncross Arizona to most the Texas Pacific or any othorroad st El Paso. Tho fact thatthe line of road already constructed by the Bouthern Pacific was built with the oxpecta- tion of an Eastorn conncotion is evidont from tho circumatance that this Company oncegave Tox Scorr the right to build this portion, ntd the desire for an Eastern connection, in order to make its present road profitable, is the moving cause of its proposition to go abead. The Committoe dismiss the cry of monopoly by taking the only tenablo ground that combination is equally to be apprehend- ed, and that nothing but law snd tho en- forcoment thercof by tho Government ean protect the public. **Restriotions and con- ditions in a oharter can bo cnforced by the machinery of tho law against ono corporation ns well as anothor.” The poiat is also made that, oven if the Bonthern Pacific and Contral Pacific shall be owned by materially the same corporation, ita own interest will bo to protect 1,300 miles of tho Bouthern Pacific as against only 800 miles of tho Central Pacific. The fact that tho Texns & Pacific during the last Con. gress notually combined with the Bonthern Pacific to seonre 8 joint subsidy and build the road together, also shows that tha Tos 8corr people do not bolisvo in their own talk about competition. The minority report a bill to rovest all the land.grant west of the Rio Grande in the Govornment, to give the Bouthern Pacifia the right of way to build thelr rond as far s the Rio Grande, and oven to continue further cnat if thoy shall not be met at that point by o connecting road. Of course, the SBouthern Pacific peopla desire to acquire the land. grant, but the report does not recommend this mor incorporats it in the bill, bo- cause it is believed the Southern Pacifio will construct the road without the land. gront. This s rather an ungonerous viow of tho matter, innsmuch as tho only competitor wants $40,000,000 to do the same work, Novertholoss, tho bill roported imposes not only all tho conditions upon tho Southorn Pacific Company that wore con. tained in Mr, MoNzy's original bill granting this Company tho right of way, but also all the conditions proposed to be put upon the Teras & Pacifie Company after giving it $40,000,000. Tho right is nlso roserved in the bill to nuthorizo the construction of other independent and compoting roads along the samo lino, and to control the mtes of transportation, connoctions and running arrangoments, telegraph-charges, nnd all powers of every description, Thore is no oxcuse for any intelligant and fair-minded man to hositato batwoon theso two proposi- Uons. As tho gentlomen making this report say: ‘It would scem impossible for any man to justify himsolf to his constituency and to his country at large in n courso which doplotes tho Treasury, whon all that is desired is attainablo without oxpensa to tho peoplo,"—in tho practicable moasure pro- posed for the construction of -a Southern Pacifio Railroad without risking a dollar of Government money. A CHICAGOAN ON HIS TRAVELS. Mr, Lezowanp Swerr i8 on his travels. This important fact was clicited from what purports to be tho account of an interview held with bim by s reportor of tho New York Star, n part of which was ropublished in Tng Taiune of yestordsy. Inorder to bo eatiraly falr in tho mattor, it may bo ropeat- od that 3r. 8weTT is reported g saying that “ ninoteen-twentioths of all the best cltizons in Chiengo are bankrupt”; that * the fail. uro of half adozen of the large merchants has swallowed up tho small dealers,"—from which wo infer thoro are no *“*suall dealers” left in Chicago; that ** the property in Ohi- cago wouldn't sell for tho mortgages,” nud that land lield at £150,000 a few yoara ago cannot now be sold for 12,000, Thero is not much wonder that Mr. Swerr, basing Lis opinion on such assertions, should tell the Now York roportor that tho condition of things in this city *‘{s worse than any man can conceive of.” Probably Mr, Bwerr in hia right mind cannot * concoivo of” any- thing half so terrible s ho is alloged to have plctured to the morbid imagination of a Now York reporter to eatisfy tho latter's des- porats search for libols on Chicago, Mr, Bwerr boing still on his travels, it is not possibla to verify the alleged interviow Ly his personal admiasion, thereof, and we aro disposed to mako some allowance for reportorial coxaggeration. For Instance, in the courso of ths article it fu stated that Mr. Bwerr is *‘tho ablest lawyer in Chicago.” Whether or not Mr. Bwxrr comwunicated this statemont to the roporter along with the others, docs not appear, but it is per. missible to cito the remark as on indication that thero was o disposition to exaggerato in tho report of tha interviow. 'fho furthor remark that Mr. Bwsrr, besides baing “‘the ablost lawyer in Chicago,” is also ‘‘thoroughly conversant with the situs. tion of affairs in that city,” must alio bo taken with some grains of allowance, aluce Mr. Bwerr, whoso law-practico is largely among tho criminal practico, nata. rully looks upon the dark side of lifo. Be- sides, it is not unlikely that the Now York reporter was drunk; or, if not, thon Ar, BwzrT, when ho returns homo with Lis in. separable red-ribbon in his button.hole, will ba abla to give soma other reasonable avd satisfactory statement of the manner wherc- by he has been misrepresented when sccred- iting bim with slanders’about the city and people who furnlsh him with o very good living, Wo are not williog to bolieve that Mr, Lroxaxp Swerr has gone around New York, or auy other place, telling such unreasonablo and incrediblo atorics about Chicago as this New York journal has put inhis mouth, We know 1t Is popular to maligu and rail against Chicago in the other large citles in the Unlon; but AMr. Swzrr, belog o very tall and upright man, would not . stoop to such @ low device for gaining motoristy awsy from home. It i3 just possible that Ar, 8wt i on torms of intimacy with one or'two persons who aro badly in debt, but his mental and moral vision i certainly not 30 constructed a3 to regard all other peoplo 03 being in the same condition, He must bave koown that even those whko are most violently prejudiced againat Chicago would not swallow such enormous whoppers as aro contained in this alleged interview, in tho faco of Chicsgo's continued growth and tho enlargement of its business in various dircc. tions, Of course, there has been a shrink. ugo of values in real estate. Now York peo. ple can understand this, because they know how it is themsolves. Dut, it Mr. Bwrrr happens to bo,an attorney of any large property-owner or moncyed corporation, it will not bo difficalt for him to ascortain that tlio shirinkaga in Chicago real estate has not been so serious as the shrinkage in the valne of roal estats in New York and other large citios of the country. Wo scarcely think that ovon thoe statements said to have been made by ‘‘the nblest lawyer in Chicago” will keep away from Chicago o single one of ‘the largo jobbers and manafacturers of New York who have concluded that it is noccssary to catablish thomselves at thia point fu order toratain their trado, At the same time wo shall, in justico todr. Bwzrr's probablo good condnet when away from home, afford that gontleman, just as soon ns he returns, a full opportunity to explain. ——— THE RED-RIBBON LEAGUES, ‘The meoting which was held in the Taber. nacle Tuesday to celobrated the closs of Dr. Rzxyops' work as a temporance reformer in this city hol a ludicrous onding, Affairs wont along swimmingly until an imprudent spanker annonnced o collestion. 'Thon a stampedo began. Efforts to stop it woro na- ovailing; aud Dr. Rervonps, who had or- ranged to make n pnthatio farewell address, was compelled to dismiss the congregation with n hasty bonediction. The facta aro not creditable to the roformed drunkards, If their ropentanco is genuine, and they are fully consclons of the degradation from which they havo esoapod, they ought cheerfully to contribute for the bonefit ot tho cause. Theo prico of one drink all around would make a handsome purse; aund, while the sacrifie in any individunl caso would be small, the ag- gregato resnlt would ba large. The temperance work in which Dr. Rxy- Nowps js engnged desorves encouragemont, 1t takos hold of tho reform question at the right end. It attempta to curs the desire to drink instead of attomptling, ns prohibitory 1aws do, o take away the power. Tho chiof benefit of the A former systom over tho latter a that it makes iteclf eof- footnal by controlling tho wills of its subjects, Prohibitory laws are always partial and temporary In their operation when they do not reach the consolences of mon. Thoy never justify thomsolves in the minds of drinking mon, and thoy ard conse- quontly only respected and obsorved by the good men who neod no repentance. As o source of constant irritation against tho State thoy aro highly objectionablo; and it i8 n quostion whetlier thoy do not maka mora drunkards than thoy save by exeitinga spirit of lawlessnoss aad deflanco among the peo- ple. How differont is tho system of tho Rod- Ribbon reformers! Theirs is n puroly missionary onterprise, using only the woap. ons of statemont, cxhortation, and por- snnsion. DBy enlisting the foolings of the poople on their side, they seoaro not ouly a promise of porsonal abstinonce, but of co- operation. All tho bost tomporance advo- cates are roformod drunkards, but none of them, wo vonturo to say, owos anything to prohibitory laws. The co-operation and sympathy which tho Red-Ribbon movemont gots is not moraly that of tho porsons active- 1y engaged in it. Everybody wishes it well, oxcopt perhaps the saloon-keopors. No moderato drinker objects to it, even though ho may profer not to join it. It is consc- quently o popular movement at all times and in all places, and its influence is not bounded by the powaors of a Loglslature or the lhmits of a Stato, Another virtuo of this kind of temperance roform is, that it mindgits business. It docs not meddlo with persons who neither desiro nor need reform. The principle that men should not indulge thomsclves for fonr they mny caugo their brethron to offond is a propo- sition of morals, not of law. The momeut Govornmont intorferes with personal hablts which are jnnocont in themsolves and decont, it touches a private right which is more uacred than Government itsolf, It s a sheer wasto of onorgy to attempt to rogulate the habits of all men, when only one oant of a hundred neods to bo regulated ; end, sinco Governmont is for tho ninoty-nino more than it is for tho one, it should consider tho com- fort of the formor moro than that of the lat- tor. Reoformation, which is in no sense o function of Government, must be under- taken by private organizations, 'This is pro. olsely tho work of the Red-Ribbon move- ment. It soparatos tho diseased from the healthy, and confloes ita philanthropic ef- forts to thoso who roquire attontion, recog. nizing tho force of tho old saying that thoso ‘who aro wlole need not a physician, Tho movoment thua galusstrongth by cutling ont its work clearly, and oxciting no unnccessary projudices. By omploying only logitimato neans of advancoment, it lays claims to the reapect of good citizens. Discussion is al. ways respoctablo, Persccution noveris. It is to bo Lioped, therofore, that the Red-Rib- bon Leaguo will nover bo tempted to use its power badly. Wo observe that a temper. anco organization in Towa has threatonod to tar and feather a young man who refuses to sign the pledge. This ju not the right method. Tho Ned-Ribbon roformers in Uhieago should prouptly condemn this and all other acts of porsecutior A MODERN BOCIETY DRAMA. Tho scandal of the Lonp marriage case hos hardly eoased to interest the public be- fore another extraordinary marriage crops out in tho Now York courts, Tho actors in this now and somowhat cccontrio drama are Mr. Faepruick 8. Monsow, a wealthy old real-catato dealer of 73, described by his servonts as an * old Log," and afictod with thoumatism to that cxtent that life hasno particular charms for hinn; his daughtor Grorotana, o yonng lady of 24, not pretly, norvous and delicate in body, and weak in mind, and, according to her rhenmatic fath- er, not capable of discriminating botween right and wrong; 8anan Lirias, tho up-stairs girl in the MommoN muusion, a sharp, shrowd, plotting womnan, who wound the wosk young lady of tho house about her thumb, and was to all intents and purposes mistress of the house; Samau DoNauue, scullion, probably neither better nor worso than the aversge of scullious, and dominated by the up-stairs girl; Miss Jexwis Masos, o little, sharp-voiced, and respectable dress. maker, with o tongue of Ler own sud a way of her own, whowmight have stopped out of one of Dicxexs’ novels, aud who iu the Nemesis that has brooght the villain of the play to gricf, and bids fair to thwart his well-laid plans ; and Joserm Lorez, a low- browed, swarthy California adventurer, who would make up well 25 one of Bary Hanty's Leavy villains, ‘Thero aro the dramatis per- sona, and the sction of the story runsin this wiso: Inwomo mysterious way, Lorzz found out that Momsox was rich, and that his dsugbter was weak, aod, becoming ac- quainted with Saxas Lius, the up-stairs girl, he &0 impressod himsclf upon that Becky Sharp that she lent herself to his scheme of marrying the girl Oge day Haum 50 managed matters that Lorzz met tho girl in the front basement. Bhe introdnced thom, and ho invited hor out into tho aren and had a conversation with her. Tho foolish young creature waa flat- tered by his attontions, nnd Samam Liruas frequently managed to bring them together, thoold gentleman meanwhile not knowing what was going on, tho accommodating scullion, at Sanan's instigation, making the basoment so cold that Lo conld not ventaro down thoro withont dangor to his rheumatio back., Thus tho weak Georatana went drift. ing along, urged by Sanay, who rallied her, and tantalized her, and kept her courage up. GzonoraNa wroto a lotlor to Lores every day, and it was 8anan who addrossod and for. warded them, When the poor girl had mis. givings ot doceiving her father, Baran point. ed out toher that Lorez loved her boller than her father did, and told hor not to be a fool, and that Lorzz was o very nice man and hiad lols of money, and would take her to California and treat her liko a Princess, The scullion doos not scem to have played o vory dircet part in the drama, far- ther than to give tho up.stairs girl tho freedom of tho kitchon and keop the old gentloman in thodark, On the 4th of Inst April Lorzz induced Geonorana to go to walk with Lim, Bho says in her tosti. mony that she went ngaiust her will, but Lorzz and Sanan Lizts had almost bothered the life out of her, and so sho consented. Ho took her to a ministor’s house, the Rev. Dr. Torany's, aod befora sho sufficlontly comprohonded the situation she was marricd hard and fast. Aftor tho marriage Lorez nskod her if she felt happy, declaring that ho waa, They took n little walk, which an. sworod for the conventional bridal tour, and he then requested her to go homo, which sho did. The marringo flually lenkod out, and camo to the cars of the old gentloman, who promptly put his daughtor in an asylum, opparently to provent Lorzz from taking possossion of her. Tho latter then brought suit for her custody, to which the old gentlo- man roplied with a suit ontered by his daugh. tor for the nonulling of the marriage, upon the ground of fraud, and tho case s now pending. Of courso thero wns no diffionlty in prov. ing tho marriage, but thers might have boon great difficulty in proving the fraud, had it not boen for that truthful old adoge that ** Hell hath no fury liko & womau scorned,” and in this conncetion tho littlo dressmaker appears for tho first timo upon the scona. Lorzz had once promised to marry her, and bad deceived hor. She quietly bided her timo, and whon the snit was brought sho intimated to the old gentleman that sho kuow something sbout the mattor. Sharp 08 Sapan Livuias was, sho bad the falling of hor sex, and could not kecp a scerot, In a confidontial mood sho informed her littlo dreasmaker that thore was going to bo o marriago in the family and lots of fun, and that Lorgz was going ** to knock a fow thou. sands out of the old man,” and that sho (8a- nan) was going to moke a handsome thing out of it also, Tho httlo dressmnker merely shrugged her shoulders. After the mar. ringo, Samam Litus camo to her house and offored her 3200 if sho would agroo to swoar sho know nothing about the matter, but Lorez's perfidy was to her of moro account than $200, and go she got even with the whole gang by telling the tmth; and tho scoundrol Lorez will probably be thwarted in his conspiracy to knock a fow thousands out of the old man in considera. tion of having the mamriago annulled. It will bo soon that ol tho cloments of n first. clasg modorn society dramn aro contained in this story out of rool life. . What tha logal denonement will be remains to bo soon, but askillful playwright, consnlting the unities and equitics, wonld hang the heavy villain of tho pleco, invent a modern ducking-stool for Baran Linus, put tho scullion on bread and water tho rest of hor days, appoint a guard- ian for tho old gentloman ns well sy his daughter, and bring forward the little dress. makor nmid blue and red. fire, clapping of Liands, and showers of bouquots, in testimo. ny of gratitude at tho handsome manner in which she helped oxpose the Leavy villain and his confedorates of the kitchen and garrat, Tho McGanranay claim now being pressed upon tho attontion of Congress has an incip- fent parallel in Wisconsin, In 1858, one Evrias A, Canxmg, of Madison, thon oditor of tho Argus, was awarded tho contract for doing tho State printing. e did his work well, and got his poy. A disputs arosoc ns to tho interprotation of tho law under which tho printing was dono, and Carxivs put in a claim for oxtra work, and this claim has been bofora tha Legislature, off aud on, for twenty yoars, and is still unsettlod. It has boon paid twico, but, like Zanguo's uncasy ghost, it will not down at anybody's bidding. A pavment was made in 1870, whon the Jolut Cominitteo on Claims pald a supulat od sum on condition that Oarxiss would eign a receipt in full, which ho did. Cavnxing, dil not get all he asked for ot that time, aud tried it ogain in 1872, and uotually got & bill passed by the Legislaturo of that yoar appropriating him tho balanco of his claim. This bill Gov. Wasununy vetood. In 1873 the Democrnts hod o majority in the Assombly, with that distinguishod Granger aud political econu. mist, WiLLiau R, Tavron, in the Executive chair, and CaLxing got some $12,000, This ‘waa encouraging, but not quite eutisfactory to the claimant, Tho claim provedto havo woro lives than a cat, and its tonacity in this respect woa crystallized into an anocdoto by tho thon Chicf Justico Dixoy, who asked Oarxixs what he would take for the old claim after he had got done with it In 1874 tho Legislature of Wisconsin, in ut. tor dospair, and with the Lope of final et. tlement, passed a rosolution appointing the Attornoy.Guneral, ‘Trensurer, aud Secrotary of Btato a Commiusion to determine what omount, it any, the Btate owod Carkivs. ‘Thelr roport nssossod his dsbt at 3,200, and a bill for this amount has been pending all winter, and creating much discussion. Tho other day it was indefinitely postponed in the Assembly by s tie vots, 46 to 40. It wes a close shavo for the Btate, and a still closer ono for Col. Carxixe. The Colone) is a noted Democratio politician and editor, &nd his violunt sbuse of Gov. Wasnsusy for vetoing his appropristion bill in 1872 no doubt groally prejudived his case. Daxizy Baxres Launted the Legislature of Wiscon. sin for twenty years, and only deslsted when doath ended his troubles; and now tho CaL- x1xs claim seems determined to go into his- tory o3 oue of the debts that can never ba paid, nor quisted by the atatute of limite- tion. Hlow to make a prison cheerful snd homeliko has occupled tho attention of plilsuthroplsts in this coustry for many ycars. While thelr effurts bave not becn especially successful fo the West, where crime 1s lookod upon by the masses as deserving of punishmeat,—even if, through the negloct and prejudica of certain Judges, it bas 1oL always vome Lo griel—It 1s worth secording that the State of Massachuscits vossesscs a prison that compares favorably with the best amt most expensive hotels in the country. The Boston terald publishes a deacription of the ‘Woman's Prison at Sherborn which must striks the ordinary reader as truly interestiog reading. The cells aro alry and comfortable, and the win- dow-sllls aro covered with plants and flowers. ‘The work-rooms aro provided with overy facility for labor, although, as the reporter says, ‘¢ the work 18 such ns requires no special ingenuity or capability, and, in fact, {s a kind of recreation, 84 far 68 one con judge. Thera are laundry- rooms, kitchens, and roception-rooms, and all the modern convenlences, Even looking- glasses arc supnlicd to the fair occupants ot the prison, who, wo loarn from the report, sre not infrequently claimed in matrimouy by honest and industrious young men. But, 1f this kind of thing goes much further, it s just possible that tho candidates for free lodging In the prisons of tho country will scarcely bo within tho bounds of computation, It looks very much like placing a premium upon crime, e —— A correspondent desires to know the natare of the Egyptlan tributes which were among the securities which Russia stipulated as gunrantees for tha payment of the Turkish pecunlary fn- demnity. The Eggptian tributes or sums of money, payable by Ezypt to Turkey at stated times, have been relied upon by the latter as sccurities upon which to ralse loans, The Turk- ish loans of 1854, upon which the Crimean war was carried on, and of 1856 and of 1871, wers based upon these tributes. As England and France hold theso tributes as security for the vayment of thelr bonds, they object to Russia coming in a8 a prefetred creditor and leaving them without dividends, As the assignment of the tribules as sccurity was confirmed by tho Porte, it {s diicult to see how the latter can now allenate them to the servico of Rusafa. It wns on condition of the payment of the trib- utes, now amonnting to about $3,500,000 an- nuaily, that the Khedive of Egypt obtaincd his absolute sovereignty, the right of maintalning armics and of making treatica with forcign Powers. 4 We nrre respectfully compelled to puncture another romance of the temperance press. We have reference, of course, to the old woman of Ashcott, Somcersctshire, England, who dled ro- centlyat tho age of 104, ** having spent in the last forty ycars £200 a year for gin. Two hundred pounds a year would represont somo- thing over a gallon of gin o day, or (taking tho averageof seventy driuks to the gallon) sbout one drink every twelve minutes during tho old lady's fourtcon waking hours. The London Times now expluins that the old lady had ro- celved an annuity of trifling amount for forty years; for tho Inst twenty vears of her Mfea charitablo gentleman gave her 28, 3d., eay B7 cents, & week, *the three-pence having been added many years ngo, when sho was rccome mended gin during lliness, and not belog taken off again.” Carry tho news to Gouom. e —— . A dotiog Chicago father has fust recclved his son's cxpense nccount for tho last quartor at Princeton, Among tho ftems arc: 80 for a re- volyer, $2.00 for ammunition, $4 for o burglar- alarm, §27 for blacksmitl’s and locksmith's work to mako the atudy door SBophomore-proof, $17.60 for holf-interest fn o bull-dog, $0 for sword-canc, $2.60 for loaded ditto, and $20 to doctor for digglng buckshot out of the calf of hisleg. ‘the sympathizing progenitor says that it I8 very expensive work fittlnz o young man for the ministry. e ——— The Pall-Wall Gazelle’'s Roman correspondent is reaponsible fur an {diotic story about tho new Touo that ia infesting our Eastern exchanges, to-wit: that he sald, when it was desircd to know by what name he would be proclaimed: **This {8 the feast of 8t. Lro,—lct me be called Leo XIILY 8t Lro's day is April 11, though another sajnt and martyr of that namo claims tha 18th of February, and tho Popo was clected on the day whose putron s 8t. Evcnsniva. o — ‘The alumni of Haverford College have offared o §250 prize for tho best cssay on the most prace tical metbiod of inducing nations to scttle their differonces by judiclal fnstead of violent means. ‘Essays to bo scnt in before the closo of the year. Hero Is our cssay: “Fit people with new dispositions,” The alumn!, In remitting the §250, may deduct tho dlscount from now till Dec. 81, 1878, ————— The Jorscy polico are on tho tral of an anony- mous benefactor who Las been burnlng down tho Long Branch hotols, thus savine millions of dollars to tho traveling public this summer. Thus {n all aj;cs are thoso who would bleas thelr fellows misunderstood ana persccuted. e e To the Editor of The Tridune. Cnicano, March 14,~—Is silver fractional car- rency legal-tender for any amount? Please age awur through Tits TRinuNE, J. D, Mcltata, Yes, to the nmount of tve dollars, silver,five, teo, twenty-five, and fifty cout pleces are legal- tender. —— ‘They have several kinds of puuch in the Rich- mond saloons, viz.: whisky-punch, clarct-punch, champagno-punch, Roman-punch, brandy-punch, and the Morretr punch, The last is the only ono that {s In scuson alf the year round. ———— Evangelist Moopy doubts whether Connecti cut deacons * who ralse tobacco do It for the glory of God." No necessity for having any doubt whatever on the subject. They do it bo- causo they kinder kalkerlato It'll pa-ny. - —— ‘Thoe Now York Iferald has & licading, ** Truant Whales,” over an aunouncement of the appear- ance of somo struy cetaccans in Hampton Roads. They had probably wandered from sheir school. ————— Prazil, too, is complaining of hanl times. Business Is dull, heavy losses are reported in the colfee trude, and there {s no woney fn thoe Natloual Treasury. Oncof the Nlustrated papers is advertising extensively fta wew story, * An Abandoned Daughter,” though It ineans "'A Daugliter Abuudoned. ——— Tiow wouli 15 do to attach tho MorPRTT bells punch to the bars of the Misslsstpp!, so as to keup che:k on Capt, Eaps workl y sl et de Bl ‘Tho fashlonable colora at Purls this spring are to bo brown, cockroach, Parls inud, copper-red, duck’s wlug, and wad rooster, e m—s Freedom of opiniun {n Eogland mcans liberty to entertaln the same views as tho majority on the Eastern question. e~ EUROPEAN NOTES. Pharsala, where the Insurgent Thessallang have just defeated the Turks, is a noted historle place. It was there that Cgsan with 22,000 wen vanquished Posery with twice aslargea force in the year 48 B, €., and beeame solo ruler of the Rowan Empire, 1t BeacoxspisLD expects to gain anything by having Urecew represented i the European Cungress, that 1 where be makes bus mistake. The fricodsbip of tho Grecks for England 1s about equat to their luve for Turkvy. 1t docs not strike the unprejudiced observer as sston- isbing that the Czar gave & prompt vonsens to tho udmission of Greeee to the Cougress. ‘There seems to be souwo differeace of opinion between the Sultan and tho Kucdive's helr. Prince Hassax Las refused to evacusto Varus, which s ongof the strungholds on the Black Bea wmnentidhed fu the peace couditions as to be occupled by Russians, It it 1s true, os surmised by a French correspondent, that the Prince is lmplicated fu 8 couspiracy against the Sultan, Lig uuwlilingucss to leavo Vurua cao be readily cxplained. A Ll bas passed the Lower Chamber of the French Assembly, sud {s now befors the Beu- ate, forbidding magisterial fnterference with tho sala of uewspapers. This most Lmportaut pleco of legislution bas reached a stage where thore (s at last 8 prospect of its becomiog a law, and of tho Parislau press becowing freed from . the censorship which has so long been fatal to its nsefulness. During the crisls In France last autumn, none of the French papers were pere mitted-to publish anything calculated to (nfiy. enco the votes ngalnst the Government canaf. dates, and this restriction was often extended even to tho selzure of the Times and other Lon. don papers which commeuted unfavorably upon the Marshal ?rmldnxlm The noble army of repudiators fa about to he reinforced by the Spanish Kingdom, which, it ts sald, has declded to pay no more interest on a certaln class of Louds amounting to over 81,400+ 000,000, Porbaps n more honorable method of seitling theso littlo difficnitics would ba to let Cubn buy her freedom, and to apply the pur- .chaso moncy to paying her debts, instead of pro- curlog gewgaws to adorn the marrlago cere- mony of o trumpery King. ¥ Conatantinople Is not well supplicd with news, altlough that city supports elghteen daily papers printed in English, French, Turk. ish, Greok, Armentan, 8paniah, and Bulgarian, Reporters aro unkoown, The editorlals of the Urcek and Arminlan newspapers are on Church matters alone, while the Turkish papers aro tilled chiledy with translations from the European press. Tho way news itens are bandied abont fs amnusing. ‘The Turkish paper, Dassiret, pube lishes sn item in the mornlog, which fs served up in slightly altered garb In the Levant Jierald fn the eventug, and {a copied next morning Into the Dassiret ms indcpendent testimony to itg truth. On the third day tho Dassiret learns that it 1s false, and says s0. "I'he action of the House of Commans lu re- Jecting a motion to censure Lavanp, Minlster to Turkey, for his connection with the Nrono- TONTE correspoadence, Is significant us showing thut the tide of anti-Russlan scatiment bas not apated any of its strength. It was wear the middle of last summer when the Constanti- nople correspondent of the Dully Tderraph sent a long Alspatch, charging Mr. GLADSTONE with fuciting the Greeks to Insurrection through the medium of M. NEOROPONTE, & leading Greck politiclan. Mr, GravsToNm idenled the charge and demanded the proofs. The Teegraph cor- respondent replied, relteratiog thé allegation, but declaring that the proofs were i the bands of his informant, who had decided not to give them up. It was well underatood in London that the {nformant was Minlster LAYARD, yot so orejudiced aro the English people against Grap. STONE that, as we have scon, a simplo act of Justico to that gentleman and a ftting rebuko to LAYARD lins been denied by an overwhelming vote. It 18 protty clear tbat LAYARD never had any proofs whatover for his statement, or no would long ago have produced them, to tho dis comflture of the Liberals, e —— PERSONAL. Toomba has invested 830,000 in a hotcl o Atlanta, Barnum adds overy cont he makos by lect. uring to his charity fund, § Baron do Mosquito, of Brazil, owns thir. tecn palaces and wears plald pantaloons, Philadelphia proroses to extend an enthusi- nstic greeting to QGen. Granton his return to this country fu the autumn. Bishop Feron, of Clermont, France, who waa consecratod Dishop In 1833, is, since the death of Pius 1X,, theoldest Prelate in the ltoman Catho- lie Church, Joo Jefferson has painted threo new piot. ures,—one for the Royal Academy, one for the Paris Salon, and ono for tho French Galleryin Pall Mall, London, Proaiderit Lincoln's widow is said to bo living quiotly in a litile Prench village, declining to roturn to this country leat sho should again be immured in an asyjom. Mrs, Marilla Ricker is the Prisonors' Friend of Washington. Sho visita tho captives avery Sunday and distributes among them tracts, tho papers, tobscco, preserves, and flowers. Holmes (the namo looks unfamiliar with. out the Ollver Wendell) writes threo honrs n day— always in the forenoon. 1fe Lias unly nsed one pen in twenty yoars, a broad gold one, fastencdin a quill handle, Beocher ia going to California this sammor toloctare. 1le will sapend soma days at Salt Lake 1o seo tho " Mormons and study their instltutions, which he thinks will dla out now that Brighsm Young is dead. Mr. P. F, Connelly, an English sculptor, haas ot last succeeded In ascendihg tho celebrated burning mountaln of Now Zealand, Tonguriro. ‘The Maorle, regarding it as a sacred hill, have hitherto Interposed obstaclea In the way of tourlsts desirous of scaling It. Benator Plumb, of Kansas, moda s sposch, and was 50 highly successfnl that he sccared a con- vert right away. The bIll which he opposed passed, withou endment, by a vota of 85to1,— tho nay baing t| For & mow bo- ginner tho Sonator from Kansas did well, Benator Davis weara an atrocious old brown felt hat, Jammed down over his oyes, and 3fr. Conkling's tilu {s oven more shockingly bad, It 3 an Indescribable structure of Japancso slik, looking like a collapsed balloon, and has s stiff, tound brim stretched over wire, and an utterly Nmp and {nconsequential low crown, Mr. Moody has boen warning tho good people of Springfleld, Mass,, against theatrcs, card-playing, ¥ horso-racing, novel hopes that the timo will come when minieters will preach against such marriages, and refuse to per- form the cercmonles, as Mr. Spurgcon altcady doas. Baron Blane, the Italian Minister, will be married next month 1o Miss Terry, of New York. An unususlly handsome snd costly trousseau is belng prepared at Pans, Tho Baron was Cavour's vrlivato sccretary, a fack to which he owes his won« derfully-rapid promotion, for he was mado a vUAarge &' Afaires a2 once, tnstead of haviug to ase ceud slowly the ladder of tho regular diplomatic career, The Duc do Montpensier i disposing of his daughters to the best possible advantage, The cldest married the Count de Parls, of the flower of Pronch aristocracy, the next went to the King of Spaln, and the third feannonnced 10 be joinedtothe Duke of Genoa, nephew of the late Victor Em- manucl, aud possessed of {minense catates bosldes an annualallowance of $23,000 from the Italian CQovorament, Onoof the quiotly useful institutions of New York ls 8t. Mary's luspltal for Children, which, durlug tho past year, has treated 103 patients, A wiovewentls ou fout tu erect 8 more commodious bullaing at a cost of 830,000, and children throughout the country arv nvited to con- tribute bricks for §t. Each brick i eatimated to cust 10 cents, snd already £0,000, or one-8fteonth of the whole numbar, havo been recolved. #What o losson," says the Paris Francals, 4sMr, Hayes has given 1o tho Republicans of the Old World. lie does not belung 1o the Catholic religion, and of its 10,000,000 Inhabitants the Ametlcsn Repubhe only geckons 7,000,000 of 8,000,000 as Catholics, and yet Mr. Hayes has at- tended & solewn sorvice in memory uf the late Pope, while the mewmbers of the French Quvern- munt, representing & nation of 36,000,000 paople, af whom only 400,000 sro Protestants, declined to attend & memorisl servico at Notre Dame.” ‘The maguetism attaching to a broomatick 10 the hands of 8 well-developed wruman has ofien subjuct of philosophicsl specalation 0o sulfering husbauds, Of coursc, the re- lo faature uf this kind of mugnetism 1 that the ottraction s ail tho other way, tbo threatencd Individusl belng Immediately acizod with ag unsc- countlable impulse to seck tho freshair. Inthe sbéence of any tensble solution of the mystery, it ia somo consolation (o leara that une of the sternct 80z bas discovered an sntidote 0 tha evil cffocts of the broomatick spplication. Xrs. Flanaghan. 8 resident of SheMvld, Engiand, came howme one ovemng rocently somawbat the worse for liquor. aad proceeded to maks it llvoly for Thomas through the sgeacy of the famillar ssticle of furnituro bitlerto mentioned. Us endured this dalliance for soms time, bot fvally in despsle struck 8 match, applieditto hor dress, and beld her while tho flames rolled up snd devoured the greater portion of the now repentant womau. He has since beon arrested, and will probably bo found gullty of mur- der, the new fayhion of cremation ol belng as yeb povular iv England, where the people are cus- Besvalive’lo o sminens degres.