Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1878, Page 4

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THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878, } Greenbacks at the New York Stock Ex- change yestorday closed at 98} in coin, According to the report of the Iilinois Btate Auditor the fire, marine, and inland insurance companies dolng business in this State received in 1877 an aggregate of pro- miums smounting in round numbers to 85,000,000, while the losses paid wero 22,000,000, leaving o margin of a trifle less than $3,000,000 for prafits and expenses, In the invostigation of Recorder Broox- wax's management 6f his offico maliciously set on foot by Commiesioner Firzaxnmirp the only developmonts thus far aro in sup- port of the assertiona so frequently mado at the time the job was consummated, that the county paid Pryurzes far moro than tho books wero worth, and that a large proportion of the expenso of the Abstract Depariment hns been necossitated in the supplying of defects in the books. Frrzoznatp has thus far failed to put in writing tho charge that tha Recorder lins lovied nssessments on Lis sub. ordiuates, and tho inveatigation thus far has the appearanco of rosulting in a farcical failure, The calmness of (ko Prosident under tho recent attacks upon him and his polioy Is the wmost frritating thing in modern political his. tory. The man does not scem to know when hie ia struck, o is impervions alike to the shafts ‘of satiro and tho heavy blows of au- ger. The sfiots almed at kim’ by the impla- cobles have glanced hnrwlessly from hia aides, and produced only a plonsant titillat. iug sensation. e knowshs ia right—wheth- er hoisor not. His confidenco in himsolf is sublime, 1o appeals for vindication, not to Congresa or the Campalgn Committes, but to ¢t the tribunal of history.” Whatis tho av- erago Congressman, who looks no further than tho noxt election, to do with o man of this description ? ——— Tho Illinols Nationals held their State Convention ot Springfleld, ond put in nomi. nntion candidates for Stato Tressurer and Buperintendent of Public Instruction, ns woll as well as throo Buprome Court and four Appellate Court Clorks, For Treasurer, Mr. E. N. Bates, of Chicago, was nominated, n gentleman who has twice been elocted to tho samo offico by the Ropublicans of Illinois, o has horotoforo beon, and prosumably is now, o Ropublican in all reapeota savo the curroncy question, and his nomination by tho Nationals would seem to preclude the posaibility of n trade with tho Domocrats, aud may have been intonded as a notification that no proposition looking to a dicker would beaccopted. Tho platform adopted is tho samo ay that put forth at the Toledo Con- vention of Fob, 23, Mr, Tiroxx has been counted ont agaln— this timo Ly Judge Brarcuromp, of New York, who docides, by a vote of 11101, that the lato claimant shall bo ameuable to prosccution for tho incomgtax out of which he defranded the Unijted States, It scoms unlikely that Lo will have as fortunate a tor- mination to bis irlal as Anderson had in Now Orleans, for tho evidenco ngainst him is unequivocal. It is in his own hand. writing, and cannot bo contradicted without a forfelture of his own rcputation for veracity, It would bo asad thingl? & man who had no roputation for veracity should bo ngain nominated for President by the Demooratio party ; and still sadder it s man convicted on his own word of dofrauding the Governument whould got the nomiuation, Either way Mr. Tiory is badly off, e ——— 1t will be well to wait until the other side is hoard from before placing impllcit relianco ib tho narrative contained in the Washington dispatches concerning the visit of“the Wis- consin delegation to the President to ossure him of their disapproval of Soena- tor Howz's harangue, and tho trick played upon tho declegation by the President in permitting them to bolieve that their . tecommendation relativo to the vacant posi- tion of the Registry of the Treasury would Lo favorably considered. The story goes that the President allowed his visitors to de- part with the impression that their repro. scutations had great weight with him, when at the very time they wore speaking in praise of their candidato the nowmination of Mr. Scuorizenp hsad boen made out and sont to the Beuate. It does not seem likely that tho President wounld Lave incurred the risk of turning the friend- ship of the delegation into resentment by this sort of fooling, ‘There is probably au. other aud more cosToct phase of the affair to be presented. ‘Tho Woop Tariff bill, now under consid. eratlon in tho House, Las beon deprived of its wost valuable feature by the striking out of the provision for free shipi. Tle in. flucnco which was brought to bear againat this clause of the bill is not exactly known, bat it can bo guessed at. It probably in. cluded all the lobby which Mr. Roacm has to command and all the sacred Pennsylvania interests which cluster about him. The ao- tion of the Committes in this respect is a virtual surrender to the High-Tarift people; but the New York Post, which has given soma time to tho cxaminatios of the bill, assorts that it is, in spite of this bad change, worthy the support of Free-Traders. The good changes, it says, proponderate over the bad changes, Though the bill has *‘half its braing knocked out,” it has vitality left; and whila there is life there is hope. — e Oablo advices leavs no room for further speculation regarding the sssembly of the Berlin Congress according to tho arrange. mont alrendy adopted; the Chbngress will not be held, Russia's reply to England's demand for the submission of the foll treaty for discussion and revision is pow known to bave been & firm refased to recede from the position taken by Gorromaxory at the outset, and maintained throughout, viz.: That, whilo willing to abide by the judgment of the Congress as to tho points in the treaty which, being of Con. tinental interest, were proper subjoects fo? discussion, Russih could not consent to n theory of the scope of the Congress which contomplated rather tho undoing of what had alroady been accomplished in the direc- tion of a permancnt peace than the consum. mation of a lasting sottloment eatisfactory to Europo. England stuck for a quibble, and Rusaias has snubbed her palpably and soveroly. What will she do about it ? Gen, Burzer has thrown another brick, this time hitting tho Republicans of the Third Massachusalts District fall in the face. It was o sonsational achievement, and if it shall result in unsenting Mr, Fierp, the law- fully-elected Republican membor for that District, the coup will not soon be forgotten. Already Gen. Burren has by his vote pro- vonted the scttlement of the quostion in favor of Fixup, and has gained the dis- tinction of boing the only Ropublican in tho House who opposod his claima. Upon the adoption of the minority report in favor of tho Roepublican contostant the voto stood —yeas, 120 ; nays, 110, Burzer voting nay, while nine. Democrats were sufflciently im- pressed with the moerits of FizLo'a claim to go ogainst the partisan majority and record thoir votes on tha side of right and justice, Right and justice wonld have provailed in apito of the sinistor member from Essex but for the interposition of tho Speaker's voto for the express purpose of making the votea tie. Thus the minority report was defeated, and the prospeot is that snother outrago will bo added to the already long list perpetrated by tho Democratio majority in the Housa by the ousting of Fizrp and the seating of Deax, the Democratio contestant. ¢ Benator Hruy, of Goorgia, in his apeech yosterday upon tho Pacific Railroad Binking. Fund bill, opposod the plan reported by tho Judiciary Committee on the ground that it proposed to compel tho ertablishment of a sinking-fand withont the consent of the Companies. He characterized such an en- actmont as palpably unconstitutional, and as having no precedent in the courls of law or in tho history of legislation. One would supposo, to hear Bonmator Hrmy talk, that the Congress of the United States waa bound hand and foot in the matter of providing for the collection of the cnormous debt due tho Government from the Pacifio Railronds, and that only through the grace and mercy of thoso sonlless corporations could any moiety of the debt cver be so. cured. Grest furists hold the conmtrary, among thom Judge Davip Davis, Judge TrunMay, Judgo ComisTraNcy, Judge Eb. MuNps, Bonators McDoxarp aud Conkvinag, and the QGeorgin orator wounld find it hard to got into more distinguished com. pany so far oa the law points of the question are concerned. Tho robuke administered by Judge Tuunmax to Mr. Huz, for his whole. sale style of belittling tho abilitles of the mombers of tho Judiclary Commitiee was woll dosorved. It tho Committeo {s mado up of idiots or villains, it ought to be dis- banded ; if it is composed, as many believe, of tho best logal talent in the land, Senator Hn ought to foel ashamed of himself. In comrhon with several other wards in Chicago, the Republicans of the Third Ward aro suffering from their own negloct with on Aldermanic candidate who is not wholly satiefactory to tho more rosponsible property. owners and taxpayers. The nomination was mado by the Ward Club, which has n mem- bership of about 820; nevertholess only abont 140 persons put in thelr appearance at the time the nomination was made, and of these the successful candidate—named ‘Warrz—rocelved only eighty votes, Yet, by virtuo of this frail tenure on Republican support, Mr, Wma asks all the Ropublicana of tho ward to voto for him. A good many Republicans havo decided to exorcise their right of free cholco, and prefer ‘the altornative of puttiug up another Re- publican candidate, or supporting Mr, ‘Purreg, the' Democratic candldate, who i8 o rospectablo man, a proporty. holder, an old reaident of - tho ward, and be- lioved to be worlhy of confidence. Tho ob- jection to Mr, Wit is sald to bo that he hos been for some time tho spokesman for an frresponsible clement of the Roepublican party in that ward, and that Lo has had 8 chronio dispoaition to run for Alderman, which is certainly o bad sigu. Heretoforo the rosldonts of the ward have been ablo to ourb Mr., Winre's political aapirations, but, having relapsed into indifference again, thoy are now confronted with the natural result, ‘The ward fncludes some of the best people in Chlcoago, as it is one of the most deulrable rosidonce portlons of the city, and usually givos a large Hepublican majority, but, it Mr, Warre bo as objectionable na it is as- serted, it will probably be discovered that a nomination is not always equivalent to an cloction, Tho Loulsvilla Courier-Journal must have & poor opinion of the intelligonco of ité con. stituency if it imagines that continued mis- ropresentation will impress its readers that it 1s tolling the truth. It reitorates tho staternent that Tux ‘I'sinowe is advocating a subsidy for the Bouthern Pacific Railroad, although wo have directed. the Courler~ Journal's atteution to tho winority report of the House Railroad Commitiee, which recom- mends & bill giving the Bouthern Pacific Company the right of way, but uot s uingle acre of land, nor a dollar ia money, nor a guarantes of any kind. This is the bill which ‘I'us Tmisunz advocates in preference to every other, and it requires that 116 miles of road sball bo built every year, underipain of the forfeiture of the charter, and imposes all the couditions upon the Bouthern Pacifio without any subsidy that the Texas Pacific bill iinposss in conslderation of & Govern. went guarantee oud ¥isk of wnearly $100,000,000, It it should come to choico botween subsidies, wo should cortainly favor turning over to the Southern Pacifio Company the original land- grant to the Texas Pacific, in preferenca to sssuming a new risk of noarly $100,000,000 in favor of the Texas Pacific Company. It Is the sheersst nouvsonse for the Couriers Journal to repeat thata Government gnar- sntee of 2100,000,000 is *'no risk,” and only o ** nominal obligation,” 1f the obliga. tion were only '*nominal,” and if there wero absolutely **no risk” in assnming it, Tou Scorr wounld not maintain a lobby at Washington to force it npon Congross; and if the security were parfect, s tha Courier- Journal hopes it can persuade somo irre- claimable idiots, then Tox 8cotr and bia na. sociates would find no diffioulty in securing tho necossary advances from private eapital- ista tho world over, whose mioney goes beg- ging, oven nt somo rigk, at 3 and 4 per cont. The Courier-Journal wants no Southorn Pacific Railroad except with a Government guarinteo,—not that the C.-J. loves tho Bouth less, but a subsidy more. A OASE OF FLAT! CY. The Hon. Tixorny O. Ilowe, of Wiscon. sin, haa been suffering. Exactly what was the matter with him no onoe knew, nor does it seem that ho knew him sclf. Ife hos beon querying for a long time. o hns attributed his tronble to CarwBonunz, and Postmaster- Gencral Key, and Prosident Hayes, Senator Howz resides in Wisconsin, nnd there are maoy persons in Wisconsin who labor zenl- ously for the success of Republican prinei- ples. Mr, Howe lays it down asan estab. lished fact, verified by his long oxperience, that partios are sustained (1) by officchold. ers, (2) by ofice-seckers, and (8) by those who aro pald in casli. Ashe makes no excep- tion in tho case of Republicans in Wisconsin, his claasification of party men 1aust bo taken a8 intonded by bim to apply to tho politi- oians of that State, Thore was a yoar ago a vacancy on the Bonch of tho Bupremo Court of the United Btates, nnd Mr. Hows found himsclf, according to his own clnssifi. cation, a party man seeking office, Tho President had gono back on Paczarp ; hnd withdrawn the troops from Now Orleansa ; had permitted Nicrorta to bocomo Govern- or; had allowed n Domocratic Legislaturo to organizo and ofect the others; had absu. doned Craupenraty and allowed Hameron and a Democratic Logislaturo to become tho Government of South Carolinn; and had, in the language of that day, **given awnay these Ropublican Btates to the Domoorats.” Novortheless, Mr, Howr was o party man, and, scoking office, was of course prepared to stand by the Prosident ard the administration of his party. He had alrendy voted to.confirm Somunz and Key os members of the Oabinet. Ho had somo friends In Wisconsin,—true party mon, office. holders, offico-seckers, or those doing a cash business,—and theso wanted a now deal in the matter of Pension Agents. Mo laid tho case beforo Bcuunz, and Scaurz would not liston to the domand—in point of faot per- emptorily refused to do what Sonator Howe desirod. Seuator Howr, however, was still an offico-secker and atill supported tho Presi- dont and tho Republican Administration. The Prosident rojoiced in tho friendship of such an unselfish supporter, and, in order not to loge his sorvices in the Sennte, nomi- natod Gen. Hanuax to be Judge of the Bupremo Court, 3 Blnco that momorable day AMr. Iowz has boen grievously pained. He could not got rid of tho affllotion, In foct, a8 is often the caso, ho did not understand what was tho mattor with him. Hisintimato friends could hear the rumblings of the inner man, but the Benator declared his symptoms were peculiar and novol. Io had consed to bo an office- seoker, was rapidly approaching tho time whon he would not be an officeholder, and it was too late for him to try tho cash busi. ness, In fact, i appeared to him that ho was about to experiouce n change of life. Ho thereforo put himself in preparation, and, after protracted consultations with ConzrivNg, Brame, and Banoeyr, detormined to make agrand deliverauco and tell tho story of his pain and anguish to the ocountry. Ilo resolved to lot the county know the true in. wardness of tho President and of Bononz, aud to mako revelations such as would firo the heart and elicit ocry of ““Revongel” from , overy- politiclan in this broad land, ‘The timoe and tho oceaslon wore extensively advortised. Crowded galleries and a thronged Benate greeted tho Henator, The lightning hsd been proviously engaged to bear the burning eloquence from the centro to the oircumference of clvilization, that mankind should know what orimes wore committod and what pains endured fn the nameof Liberty, The Benator spoke, and the rosult was winp ! The Bonator hod mistaken his own caso as well as tho remedy. It was not mental dys- popsis, nor wera the faculties weakened by time, * What ho had needed was a carmina. tive,~aniso, carroway, cummin, or fonnel; camphor wounld have served Lim well; aud any old lady at Washington would havo sug- gosted peppermint, especially when mingled with a little gin. The SBenator now foels bet- ter, and in osse of & relapso will know how to find relief without alarming the Benate or tho country by his di smal descriptions of in- ternal disturbancus, supposed to be national iustead of belng porsonsl, o T p—— THE BANKRUPT LAW, It was predicted ot the opening of the prosont Congress that tho effort to have the Bankrupt law repoaled, which hus been gain. ing strength ainong the more prouperous of the commercial olass of late, would bo ‘suce oussful during the presout sesslon, Tho ro- porting of a bill tothls effect by the Judlclary Committeo of the Senate gortainly makes this more probable than cver bofore, The Houso passed a ropeal bill u couple of yoars 8go, which tho Bonato then refused to con. our 1n, but It is conceded that the temper of the House on the subjoct remaing the same, The fato of the bill remaing with the Senate, snd, if passed by that body, there isro doubt that it will become o law, Thetextof the Lill reported by Benator OmpisTiaNoY is 25 follows : Be {8 enacl proved Marcl ursupplemen , #le., That the Bankrupt law ap. 8, 1807, and all scts in amendment \beroto, or ja explanation therg of,be and the e aro hereby repealed: provided, bowever, thal 1 repeal aball in no manner fn- ‘yalldate or affcct any csve lu bankruptcy Instituted df ny court prior to the day whon eiloct, but, 84 toall such pend- Inil cascs an {uture proceedings therein, the #ots licroby repealed whall continue in full force and ‘efuct untll the sama shall be fully disposcd of in llo‘rsl msuner a¢ if such acts hod not been re- pealed. This provides for an absolute repeal of the law except as to those who may begin pro- ceedings bofore the dato when the repeal bill shall tako effect, and the anpouuccment of the probable passage of the bill will most likely persusdoe large numbers of ‘perdons to Lurry into the bankrupt courts who would Lave kopt out in the hope of escaping from their embarrassmeuts without taking thiy Isst resort. It would have besn manifestly unfair, however, to have shut out thoso who haq alroady incurred the expense of tho first steps in bankrupt proceedings. ‘Wo are still inclined to hopa that the infla- euce of some of the ablest lawyers in the Sennte who aro opposed to the bill, among whom are mentioned Senator Davis, of Ili- nois, and Senator Epsuxps, may provail upon that body to substitute a bill amending the presont law instead of repealing it outright. It the law bo wiped from the statute books altogether, there will then be no uniform system for winding up tho affairs of those who are hopelessly insolvent, Tho justice snd advantago of discharging from future and Indeterminate liability those who have becoms ®o much involv. od that their entire possessions will not liquidate their liabilities, has beon al. most universally admitted. There {8 no doubt that, after tho repeal of the national Iaw, all the States will pass stay.laws, assign. ment Iaws, and other expedients for attain. ing the same end sought to bo reached under the national law, The difference will bo thint, instead of & uniform practico applying equally to all sections and all eitizens, a num. ber of laws, as numerous as the States in the Union, will como in constant conflict owing to the necessary intor-Stato oharncter of commercial dealings; there will bo desperato efforts mado on the part of debtors to secure ndvantages over urud{ton, and on the part of creditors to harass and oppress debtors; a full and final discharge from liability, after surrondering all property, will be ont of the question, and litigation and expense will necessarily bo increased. It would seem aa thongh more damago is sure to result to commercial intercsts from this complex sys- tem than from the national law even in its present unsatisfactory shape. Thero is no roason, however, why the National Bankmpt act cannot bo so amended ns to remove all the practicable objections that are made toft. It is not practical, it must be romembered, to object to the prine eiple of bankrupt prococdings, because 1t is cortain that all the Btates will formulate this principlo into laws of their own. Tho real objections to tho prosent law are (1) that thero {s not sufficient protection agoinst fraud, and (2) that thé proceedings are too costly. 'The first objection is made by the prosperous classes, who feel that thero is too much opportunity to defrand them of their rights, and the second by thoze who con. templato voluntary proceodings in bank- ruptey ond aro appalled at the expense, Ex- cessive costs, howevor, are a frand upon the creditors, by eating up assets that should proporly go to them. But we cannot under- stand why it is not practicalle for Congress, aftor a thorough investigation of the abuses under the law as it stauds, to reshape it in such o manner as will shut off the excesaivo costa, and prevent or punish the frauda. If this were domoe, it would leave tho prin. ciplo of the law intact, with facilitios for applying it uniformly throughout the coun- try. Thero is no doubt that, for two or thres yoars longor at lenst, a general bankrupt law will bo a beneficent vehicle for rendjusting the embnrrassmonts and complications that havo grown oat of the common misfortune of hard timos, Therois no fairness in the domand that all the lossea of a speculative orn followed by n long era of dopression should fall ontirely upon one class, leaving them burdened with an indefinite liability to pay nnother class not only the profits but tho losses of the spoculative epoch. Tho honest and economical administration of a National Bankrupt law, protecting one class from fraud and the other from oppression, is tho most equitable plan for & proper division of the hardships of tho time, and an effort should atill be mado to put the national law - into this condition. THE EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIOC WAR. The Earopean diplomatio war continues, but is as yot barren of results, sad the ulti- mate docision waits upon the pationce of Russis in bearing with the sullen obstinacy of England, Tho controversy lhns turnod upon the single point whother tha treaty of Han Stofano shall ba submitted to the COon- gress for actlon upon overy articlo, Russia was dotermined that no parts of it should be disoussod or entered upon oxecopt such as affects general European interests, and her position wounld probably be sustained by Germany, Austris, and 1taly, if brought to tha test. Englaud, Laving voluntarily Iso. latod hesself from concerted action with the other Powers and remained a sulky spectator of the war, of course haa little to hope from the Congroes, nud is dotermined not to go into it at oll unless it can pronounce upon the whole treaty. Ponding the answer to hor Interrogatory to Russia whother the lat- ter Power will consent to the submission of tho troaty, she has gono on preparing for war, It Russia refuses to submit the treaty, thero s no altornativo left for England but to fight or back squaraly down, The answer of Russia has been mado, but it is of sn indefinito character, and shows that, ns GonTscuAXOFP «onco said, she iy “moditating.” Bho declares that sho still odhercs to Ler former views, aud nothin, moro definite can be expected until she has aacortained tho intentions of Austria, snd to that ond Ioxatrery, who so deftly manipn. lated the Constantinople Conference and frustrated the plans of England by making an alliance botweon Turkey and Russia, ia now in Vienna with suthority to offer almost pny terms that will detach Austria from an English alllance, since that will all tho more strongly oconsolidate the Triple Alliance. Among other considerations which ho is au. thorized to offer is & dchomo for annexation whigh will give to Austria the Provinces.of Hounla end Herzogoving, the northern part of Albanla, and perbaps even a portion of Macedonia. Tho Russian pressure upon Austria is strengthened by that of Germany, which is exercised both on account of hor own interests and her obliga: tions to Russia, The annexation of these proginces would erect a powerful Sclavonio Kingdom in Eastern Burope, and give the Belaves the prepouderance in the govern. mont of Austris. Whatever tends to promote this result—and Austris cannot expand in any other direction—tends ultimatoly to se- curo to Germany the German provinces of Austrin. . The second reason for Germany’s action lies, as wo havo said, in an obligation to Russia, During the Franco-German war Russla held off Austria from o French alll. ance, although Count Vou Bxusr was ready and eager to plunge into the war, Germany ia obligated now to hold Austria off from any allisnce that would be dangerous to Russia's interests, and there can be little doubt that, ‘with the aid of Russia, Austria will be kept in the Triple Alliance, Thus, whether the Qongreas does or docs not meet, and it now lockg aa §f it will not, England is equally jso- lated from any influence as & working Power in sottling - the political status of the question. If sho iakes war against Russis without an ally, it can only be bocause she 18 aoctusted by tho very infotuation of madmess. If Austria enters fnto the war, it can only be to protect her own intorests, which are mot jdentical with thoss of Eogland. Russian diplomacy may be trusted to guarantes those intorests, snd to make such concessions as are necos- eary to relieve her from any monace, AMean- while, in the present dead.lock, the London T¥mes seemn to bo the only prominent organ in Europe that racognizes and nrges the real solution, In ita issuo of the 27th it enys: **To surrender the hope of the Congress is to nbandon the Eastern question to the drifts and ocurrents of separate fealousics and ex. citements, and to throw away the only means of snbmitting it ‘to quiet consideration, to sacrifice snbstantial principles, Even for the sako of avolding such a danger, it should be the objeot of all the Governments, that of Russia inclnded, to promote the meeting of the Congress by ail means which do not ob- vionsly and necessarily involve such sacri. fice.” The complaint from which Becretary Bomunz is said to be suffering—overwork— has 1aid low very few of his aseailants dur. ing the prosent session. They seom to be suffering chiefly from an excess of spleen, which is produced moro by idlencss than by any other canse. If they would go honestly to work and attend to tho business which they aro sent to Congress to do they wonld Lo much happier. Mr, Hows, for instanco, might find better employment for his time— or rather tho people’s time—than in airing his private griefs; Mr. Brave might dis. cover questions to engage his attention closer to the national welfare than tho protection of timber.thieves and the description of the superficics of Prussia; Mr. CovxriNg might givo the go-by to the New York Custom- House until the approprintion bills at least aro disposed of ; eud, in goneral, both Ben. atora and Ropresontatives might give the first place to untional interests and the sec. ond to the gratification of ‘porsonal feelings, It {8 curious that thoy view their duty so differently, . The lossof that English training-shio, the Eurydice, with so mauy lives, recalls the fact that another vesscl belonging to the English Navy, the Orpheus, was lost on the New Zea- Iand const In 1808, with 100 lives. A corvette, the Pluto, was alsolostin the Enzine duriud® the Crimean war. The mortality among English warships bearing classlesl names has begnas great aa it has been among Missisalpp! steamers whose names began with “M," as witncss this list, the figures Indicating the loss of life: Z/Eneas, 840; Alax, 250; Ampnion, 200; Androm- cda, Apollo, €0; Atalanta, —; Calyoso, 1215 Cato, ==} Circe, —; Daxlalus, —; Flora, 9; Leda, 273 Medusa, —; Minotaur, 400; Orpheus, 1005 Pallos, —; Pandora, 29; Penclope (twvo) —; Plue to, —; Proserploe, 15; and Thetls, 16, e, ‘Thia phonograph Is golug to be a big thing. ‘We will then bo ablo to secure all the eloquence of alt the orators of the Forty-fifth Conxress upon » few sheets of tin foll, aud to troasurcup thelr apeeches for future gencrations, and when about the year 2303 four hundred millions of American frecemen learn that some venerable building is tho repository of ail this eloquence, they will gather about It reverantly and joyous- 1y and burn it down, —— It always pays tobe politc. Asthe ateam. boat Magentawas descending the Hudson River last week, being crowded with passengers, an old gentleman was unabloto finda seat. A young man noticing this gave the old gentleman his chalr and went torward. Two mioutea after- ward tho bofler blew up and the old gentleman was Kitled, while tho man who bad given up his seat escaped unhurt, e —— The Intereatiog correspondence between the Sultan and the Czar, on the occaston of the lat- ter's birthday, recalls the essurance of Vicron Duaofa *Les Chansons des Rues et do Bols; " to people who went out and got killed : All for the sako of their High Mightinesses Who, when the grave you've barely got in, ‘Wil be exchiangiog of polltenessest Mosawhlle yowll bo dead®nd rotten. ————— Mr, T. 8. Antuun is publishing & milk-and- water—{t would be moro correct to say o rume and-water~romance whereln ono ot the charac~ ters givea a wedding banguet ot which he serves seven kinds of champagno and ovo sherry, We aroquite prepared to see the giver of this reck. less fenst—orgy, wo belleve, is the proper word —ki11 s wife with a bottle In the last chapter. ———— To the Editor of The Tribune. MiLwauxze, March 20.—Where and when was Txxny M, Sraxsay born? A Rravzn, You cennot have read very attentively, or you would have seen tho statement (published prob- ably u every nowapaper in the United States) that STANLEY was born in o Welsh poor- house. —— 8astver Cox is very anxious to have n tomb- stone erccted over tho grave of TioMas JEr- ¥ERsoN; and if tho Sage of Monticello knows anything about BaMives Cox and his distin. wuished services to tho Democratic party we fancy that tho late T, J. {8 quite willing to bave s tombstone crected over the grave of 8, 8. C. The Commencement scason fs near at hand, and the inspired words of the poet will com- mend thomselves to averybody: ‘There was a Jolly person ouco ‘Who purchasad 8 deg: for anybody Baldhe, * Imdd Who D, D, ———————— ‘The sadness with which Mr. Dana makes the discovery that the big head-llue he saw fn an exchiange, * No Fraud Hero,” had no reference | whatever to Mr, Haxes' titlo, but was intended to attract attontion to a taifor's offer of all-wool pautaloons for §2.25, is simply indescribable. —e— - ‘The bulls having had thelr dsy, the bears have begun to operato o tho rallroads. A bl black bear was run over by an cxpress traln ou tho North S8bore Railroad, not far from Quebec, the othor day.e ———— Tt doel m very odd to sce in these days of coplous Insolvency almost every item in Lho st of suspensions begin, * The firm Of wmv, In point of fact, it {su’t firm at ull. | Monty BraIk may be calied the Liver-Eating Jouxson of the Staryland frontler. Mrs. Havns scares Lier children to sl ecp with his name, } EstrepoctLes is belleved to hiavae been the first man that ever took a drop of the crater, PERSONALS, Queen Viotoria will, in all probability, visit Ggrmany this summor, A Belgian murderer is on trial for killing ‘bfe wife, whom he cut Inty 153 pleces. Though Lord Rosebery is sald to be a very seueible young man, he has Lought s newspaper—~ the London Ezaminer, Garibaldl is lylog sick in Caprers, and In 1} probability will not be able 10 visit the Expoal- tion at Puris this summer, Christine Nilséon has been named cauta- trice tbo Court of Russis, and received a deco. ration forher **dlstingulshed services to art—~and acleace," When Leo XIIT. was a Oardinal he used to goout shootivg alome, in a plain hunting-suit with scarlet leggings. He prefere shooting birds to shooting animals. “Bpuds " and *Bprats” are the pet names by which the futare King of England and bls broth- «r, the 5008 of the Prince of Wales, are cslled by tholr irreverent shipmates on the tralning-ship, Henri Roohefort gracefully counsels the Count de Chambord to rymala et Garits, sad not to §oto Parle, ** Lo will be apt to live loager if he stays outslde of Paris," says the leading wrlter ot the Becell. Thad Btevens once said that the veason why the managery of the impeachmant trial drow up thirteon sritcles was ** 10 bold Jobn Sherman, " for {f there bad not boen an odd number he wonld bave straddled. f STATE- AFFAIRS. Final Adjournment of the lowa Legislature Yesterday. Passage of the Act Restoring Capital Punisiment, Appointments by the Gavernor of Wis- ¢ consin-..Other Btates. . TOWA. Bpectal Correspondince of The Tribune, Des Moixes, fa, March 20.—~The closing hours of the seventeenth Genergl Assembly were full of importaut events and wrly-burly. Important measures, put off until the last mo- ment, wers vending, and thelr varfous friends were anxious to save them from wreek; and thus both Houses wero (o constant tumult, ‘Two of the moat Important were the Capltal- Punishment bill and the Revenue bill. ’ TR CAPITAL-PUNISHMENT DILL, The former, scveral weeks ago. passed the Beuate; and, a fow days later, the House, ignor- ing the actlon of the Benate, took up Its own biil on the snme subject, and passed It to a third reading. Thera not being majority enough to suspend the two-thirds rule and pass it the same day, ft went over and to the bottom of tho calendar. Both bills were precisoly alike, except that the Senate bill fixed the peraity of wnurderin tho first deares at deathi, whilo the House bLill gave the jury tho power fo fix it atdeath or fmprisonineut for Mfe. There was a clear majority In both Houses for the measure. Yeaterday morning the Bifting Committee of the House reported the different classes of bills 1u the order of fmportacce, when a rulo was adobted that the urder aould not be changed, except by & two-thirds vote, About 2 o'clock 1t was discovered that the Sifting Committce had put the Capltal-Punfshment bill fn thelr pocket, and not reported it at all. There was a lively scene on haud imimedaiately, and a res- olution was presented fnatructiog the Commit- tee to return tho bill to the House. An effort was then made to fet it sdded to the list; but the opposition fought it under the two-thirds rule for two bours and a-balf, when the {riends of the bill declared that not another bill should rm tho House untll the bill was placed where t belonged, The mlnorug. finding further fighttug would defeat othier bills in which thoy were mure or less foterested, yielded the rute; the bill was passed and sentto the Senato, where it was passed W engi ent last night, and this torniog passed—ayes, 303 nays, 16, When retutned to the House by the Senate Clerk, the aunouncement was received with loud applause. THE TAX DILL. Another bill was ttnt providing for the assess- ment and collection of taxes,—an entircly new law, preparcd with greal caro by Senator Lar- rabee, io order to obviate the objectlons {n the prescot law, secure uniform taxation, and fo- crease the revenue; o measure of vital tmpor- tance to the State, It passed tho Beuats, und the House amended it oy o pro- vislon for taxing vpersopal property by a aystem of ~ schedules, which the taxpayers were toflll out and make oath to. Under this provision, all property would bo reached. 'The Benato rojected the amendment, the Ilouse refused torecede, and thero wasa deadlock, An effort was mada to pass n bill to raisethu tax-leyy onc-half a mill, to meet thecur- rent oxpenses of the Btate far two yenrs, as it {s. well known that, under thao present law, not revenus cnough can be ratsed to doit. Tho House refused positively to raise the tax-levy, although the'Democrats tried hard to get the Rapublicans on the record tLerefor, under the spcclous ples of uecessity, Tho onus of the defeat of the Revenuo law {s again, as two years 8g0, ou the 8cnate, whero it appears the repre- sentatlves of personal property preponderated. Thiswill not leasa the people,when it Is known that already there are outstaudioz over $400,000 warrants ognfust the Btate Trensury, and $800,000 in war bonds, dua before another legis- {;&(vc sesslon, and no provision made to pay om, . APPROPRIATIONS POT BTATR INBYITUTIONS. it cver tho unwise policy of scattering the charitablo Institutions over the Btate was mani- festy it was during the present session. ‘The tendency Is to the formation of a Ring to se- curs for each tha largest possible amount. ‘Thelr needs snd the merits of the caso are left out of the question, ¥From tho outset thers was disagreement Jbeteen the Houses, Tne Ilouso passed all” {ts afpropriation bills and sont them to thd Benate, where they wers gen- erally ignored, and its own bills passed and sent tothe fotse, Disagreement was tho result, which was only hormoulzed by hasty and oftea unwise concessfons. The Insane Asylum bl camo very ncar golng down in a Jdeadlock, and it was ouly ot the last quarter of tho last hour, on the curnest exhortation of Mr. Stone, o! Marfon, Chairman of the House Committes on \\lnyn and Means, that, rather than there should Lo wno proviston made, the liouso should concur in tho Benato bill, though agninet its will—that a dollar was iven to support 80 important an fustitution, ow to bresk up and crush out thiseolidarity of voting thess appropriations, s a question which tho people will have to decide very soon, (':;x be ground down with puplic debt and” heavy es, STATE DOARD OF CONTROL. ‘The Housu bill providing for a 8tate Board of Coutrol, to havo supervision and managcment of all 8tato Charitable and Reformatory Insti- tutious, which was passed to a third rexding, ln the Senato yesterday, owing to the prolonged discassion of tho Capitai-Punishment bill, went down under théfinal blow of the President’s gavel. 1t had a majority vote, FUNISUMENT OF ¥RAUDULENT DANKING. The Ilousc bill to punish fraudulent bauking, . aod prevent the brescut legalized robbery of uo- positors by bavkers, was squalched fn the Ben- ute. In facs, nearly all House measures regard-, lug money or banks werc defeated in the Scoate. TUB NEW GAME LAV, Chicago sportsmen would do wall to romem- ber that a new game law isin force in this dtate, which {8 very striugent, The following {’0‘ tkl:alcl‘fow scason for game, fn which it cannot od: mflrmm or pralrie-chicken, from Dec. 1 toSept. o Woodcock, from Jan, 3 to July 10. Hulled grouse, wild tutkey, p‘culnh or guall, frow Jan. 110 Oct, 1. A Wild duck, gooss, or braat, from May 1 to Aug. Bear, elk, or fawn, from Jan®1 to Bept, 1. Ueaver, mink, otter, or muskrat, from” April 1 Nov, 1, . Nonao of the aboved can be trspped or caught at ony tiwe, No person can buy or sell any game during e closed season, excopt during the first five days thereof. No game can bo shipped out of the State at uny thues but, duriog the unclosed season, zame may be shipped withiu tho Hrate, not to exveed one dozou fu oue day, pmvldefi they are not shipped for sale or protit; sud, bo- fore llllyr?hlfi. the sender nust give the com. oy carrler an affiduvit that they are not fgr sale or profit, wiuch afiidavic ‘shall be a ro- lessy o the carrier . from Msbit for carrylug in violatlon of the law. The penal- ty for violatlon of uny provision of the is not less than $10 for each bird or ruimal; and possession of any blrd or anltmal 1s to be prima- tacls evidence of violation of the law, Cowmwon carriers will be llied not less thau $100 for each bird or aulinal trausported. THN NRW YIS LAW, An entlre yow law hss Decu enacted for the protection of Hsh. The law» prohibits catching or kulm‘)( -ni fish, of whatever kind, fu the waters of this Btate, except private waters, bo- tween March 1 snd June 18, brook-trout ezvept- ed. The closed season for brovk-trout and walmon 1s Nov. 1 to Feb. 1, The penalty is §10 for cach fah found in odksession. No person cau use suy scine, net, trot-ling, out-llne, or spear, of fabe-dam, to catch fab. Tho uull{ Is aw 823 for' a violation of the law. The also provides tbst all willi-dams Iu the wmers of the State shall be provided with fl.h-\n{l to bLe conatructod uu- dey the supervision o the sah Cowmissioucr, The penalty ls & |§ood deal more than a fsb.way will cost. Tho plan of fish-wayg adopted, I b~ Ieve, is that adopted ln Michigan, which {s not cxpenaive, is easily applied, and gives free pass- 39 1o flsh by & series of step-pocls (n thecentre tho dauw, Hawkars. OHI0, Corumpus, O., March 37.—{n the Benate, Beuate bill to provide for tho sunual exsmina- tlon of life-insurance compsaies doiug business 1n Obio by the Insurauce Commissioaer, aud to forbid such companles fuvestiog thelr capital in railroad atocks, was passed. Also s Senats bill to secure to policy-bolders ‘who have paid three years’ premiums the equit. able surrender value of their policies untdl such time as uet death Josses shall exhsust 75 per ceut of the reserve accumulated at the date of discontiuuance, sod thereby continulug the pollcy until the holder's equitable fntorest is exhausted. o the House, a bi!! was introduced ta prevent fraud {u *Muz security for judgwment deblors by compelling the partles sgulug the bonds to swear thev aro worth more n real propersy thau the swmoyut of the proposed bond. ‘Tov House bitl to provide thst the Excmption 1aws ahall only appl Ol;m:'v‘nssdele’h g ;" n the Benate, | was lotrod: anthority to Councils of cities %foi!?;egrfl':nfi sccond class when they deem ft NEcessar; 'p',o prevent evils resulting Trom the salo of m{m cating liquors to pass ordinances authorfzing the Introduction of tho Mofit ldor-purey, > °8 The Seunte folnt_resalution to submit o :{nu}dn‘nlent l‘o‘tha Ctsmt:xl’uuon to provide ru': he elcetion of township olflcers £ was adopted. P o ires yeurs $o bona fide resldents of WIBCONSIN, Bpecial Dirpgfeh 10 TAL Tyibune, . Mapison, Wis.,March 37.—Gov. Smith to-a, fssued commissions to the following mnfl:me: to il vacaucies on the various Boards which ex. pire [n April: To A. E. Elmore ang Jonn Mather, Managers of the State Industrial 8cho) at Waukesha, reanpointmenta; to H, 8, Hogo. boom and A. Vankirk, of Jauesville, Trusteey of the Institute for the Blind, In placo ot J, B, Whitige, M. D.,and Willlam_ McLane; to Ey. ward D. Holton, of Miiwaukee, Trustce of the Deat and Dumb Institute, in place of Josh Hamliton; to C. G, Cheaver, of chlv’nlon. ‘I'rnstes of the Deaf and Dumb fnlllluk, reappoint. et 2 Dpr o the Wikl Commissioner. 5 TeE — NEW YORK. ALpany, N. Y., March 27.—The Benate to-day voted not to removo S8myth, Buperintendent of the State Insuranco Dopartmient, who way ehnged by the Governor with violating the lay in the matter of the payment of bills by fn. surance companies for the officlal examination of the sald companies. PENNSYLVANIA. Hannisnuno, Pa., March 27.~0. F. Bullarg tho member of the tlouse who embezzled cer: tain building nssociation funds, and who cscapsy from tho custody of tho Serzeant-nt-Arms [y February last, svas this mornlog expelied from the House, FIRES. CITICAGO,. The alarm which was struck from the bog coruerof Eighteenth and Grove streets early @nst cvening was froma dangerous neighbor. hood, and no ono wasastonishea that the second and third alarms (struck together) shiould have 80 8000 followed tho first. The sky was beauts. fully tit up, and, barring the rainyand dis- couraging weather, thero was an exccllent ahiow for o Mvely fire. Tho fact that the N, K. Fatr. bank & Co. lard and ofl works were in the yin mediate ncighborhood led the people down. town to oxpect from tho blaze that it was that concern that was on fire, It proved to ba tho planing-mill and box factory of Goodwillle, Wagner & Helsler, whicl occupfod tho premises from 42 to 50 Blackwell stroct, fnclusive, It was 8 rather stimly-bulit two-story building, on the fiest floor of “whicly were situated the planers, and in the second story of which wore tho saws and tho naflers’ benches. The flrm did & considernble business, {:'\‘1.:‘“ waa not of that character whichdemanded srgze stock be carried, The proximity to the s rolieved the firm from carrying much :tocb and they had on hand comparaiively liitlo lumber. Upon the breaking out of tho firs tho Depart- ment was somewhat hindered by the awful condition of the roads, which prevonted it from getting its machines in action s socon as conld have been wished. Tho tirm had beon located at the scene of the fire_about two years, nnd from a small begin. ning had grown into & large and brospervus business, employing about filty men, Tho senlor member of the firm has been burned out twice befure,—once on ‘the North Sids five or slx ycars ago, and just prior to locating ot thelr Iats place, and on Twenty-sccond street in pho vicioity of the rver. The buflding uumgeu was owned by the Western Unlon Telerraph Company, and its contents by tha firm, the con- tents, however, being far inora valdable than tha structure, The alarm was given by one of the employes of Fairbank & Co., doing busiaess & few doors away, who was first to discover the firc, and the first water thrown was by the engine owned by that firm. Mr. Wagner, one of the partners, said to s Trinuxs reporter that the firo semed to him to have its origin in the uffice, which was on the second floor of the bulldlng, flow it could have caught thero he could not understand, be. cause there was no firc at that potnt. He sanl that tho lira mast bLaye been the work of sono enetny, He cstimated thestock at from $10,000 to $13,000,—s total loss. Ouly a few Jul ago tho flem bad put fn ‘s new saw which cost nearly 81,200 There wero flfty-fve men worklog iu the fnce, and they lost all tho tools they possessed. In fact, the cntiro contents of tho bullding, Mr. Wagner sald, were destroyod, with the excep- tion of threa horses, which were liberated wheo the fire tirat broke out. The sale was {n tha of- fice, and went down in tle rulns, Mr, Waguer said that thebullding and contoniawers fosured but for $2,000. Quos poticy of $1,000 was In the Royai Canadian Insurance Company, the other hie could not locate, Marabal Benns tanding In tho mud and haviug a consciousnces that the firoc was oge which ho could handle, said that he had fora lnns timo expected themill to go up, wod was glad [t had taken such a night for it. Al Kirk, Chatrmsno ol the Council's Com- miltos on Fire and Water, appeared on thesceno sllghtly alsgusted. He had come from his North 8ide resldence on the mpiled promise that it was tho Fairbapk lard works, aud naturally falt toa certain dcfir:c swindied by the mistake. ‘The alarm from Box 153 at 0:20 last cvenlug waa cauyed by s burning chimney at No, 1455 Wentworth avenue, owued yand occupled naa residence by Peter Urber. amage slight. ‘The alarm from Box 160 at 13:08 gumdly afternoon was causcd by a_ burning chimuey ut No. 70 Laurol street, owned by Thoinas Lyncin, nfldh:ccupled by 8amuol! Davidson. Damaza slig The alarm from Box 853at 4:05 yesterday sfternoon was caused by a defective chimaey la tho houso No. 43 North Curtis streot, owned T::ll. occupled by J, B, Banders, Damage uom- A still alarm to Engine Company No. 17,2t 8:00 yesterday afternoon, was caused by a chim- ney burning “outat No, 83 West Lako strect. No damege. AT KEOKUK, TA. Bpecial Dispateh to Ths Tridune, Kznoxux, In, March 37.—At ag carly bot this morning a tire broke out lu the dry-good! house of 0. Kiser & Co., and, befora It could bo extingulshed, the stock was dsmaged by fire and water to the amount of $20,000; insured for $16,000, as follows: Girard, $5.000; Amazon, $3,000; Penmylvanis, $1,000; North Americs, $5,000{ Atm, $5,000; loss on_bullding, $1,000; insured ‘for $5,000 fn the Pharalz. Tht tre originated from a defective fue. AT AURORA, ILL, Epscial Dupateh to The Tribuns, Avmona, 1L, March 27.—1he City Hotel barns, on an alley {n the resr of River strect belonging to Mr. Haines, n barn edfolning the rawrty .of ‘Mr. Willett, and Capt. Colllas® ivory-stable oo Holdrook strect, were totally destroyed by firo thls afternoon. Loas 68\000. with up luuranca except $300 on the City Hoted ! rabably t| ugl 10 carelessncdl of lcmafl;hulll:l’ who bad boen permitted to lodgetiese, ‘AT NEW ORLEANS, Nxw: OrLxaxs, La., March27.—Hugh Flynn's furul store, No. 160 Poydras street, was burned .1ast night, Loss, $20,000. The fursk guuwnl.mun In'local companics. ” iAoty .. IN PUILADKLPHIA, PrmapsLruais, March 27.—The total Joss by tbe firg on Fourth aud Cherry strests on Moo~ day nigh isestmated at $750,000, Total Io- suranos, §261, % NEAR 'Pl'{'rswoxm, N. Y, RocusstEr, N.Y,, March 27.—The distillery of Jarvis, Lord & Co, ed Tots, $00000 Inaarances gos oo 1t buse ——————— A DEAD MAN'S MONEY. Hpeslal Dispateh to The Tribuns, Nuw Yonx; March 97.~Wheu the spn of 8 couslg gets through with his contest of a willy there may not be so much afterall of Bamuel ‘Wood’s princely gift to found & college of musis in Now York. The will tlled to-dsy makes be- quests to collatcral relatives of soma $150,000, R o 8 oy monne & 4 * the wi nearly :AL o 000, to prolect. The contes! the ground of fluxmlndlun::;‘ SISty rand “Hoke NAILS. PIITIBURG, March 27.—At a mecting of the Westesn Nall Association, held o this city to- day, it was agrecd that the wills of the Assocl atlon would only suspend operatlons two weeks Lu April Preseut prices were nog changed