Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1878, Page 4

. fized by tho presont law that the supporters tho country when to the supply of gold is added tho supply of silver? If to this bo added the measnro of solling 4 per cont Donds for silver or greenbacks and tho pure clinse of 6 per cent bonds with the proceeds, thorond to & general equalization of the valuo of the currency is far mora olear and di- roct than it was over before. There is, howev- er, n disagreemont between tho banksin New York, and tho Chemical and Park Banks have repudiated the opposition to the Becretary of the Treasnry. As theso nro twoof tho largost and best banks in the country, it is likely that other banks will follow thom, aund that the mnlico of the disappointed Gold Ring in Wall strect will bo dofested Ly the banks themselves. The policy of keaping up tho fight on the silver question aftor the mattor hnd been disposed of, merely for tho pur- pose of accomplishing mischief, in order to verify prediotions, is both vicious and uu. becoming men claiming to be intelligont as well as patriotio finanoiers. whole Presidential election of 1870. A part of the evidenco wonld involve the necessity not merely of roviewing tho nction of tho Returning Boanls in Lonisiana, Florida, pnd Bouth Oarolina, but nlso of snmmoning scores of witnesses from all the Southe ern Btates whero thoro was intimidation or fraud of any kind. This would be the work of many months and itfinite cost, aud et Mr, Bramz wants twelve United States District Judges taken from their duties to act a8 the jury for trying tho ssucs of fact, besides employing the entire Bupreme Qourt to sit in the cnse daving all this time. For. tunately there ia no danger that the Supremo Court nud twelvo othior United States Julges will enter upon this intorminable job, e~ causo, if Congress should pass snch nlaw, the Supremo Court would pronounce it un- constitutional on the gronnd that the several Btates are tho judges of their own Electoral votes and the manner of returning them. This effort to reopen the quoestion of the President’s title will find no support oxcept namong domngogues who desiro to ngitata tho question with referenco to the next Presi- dontinl election and politicians who carry partisauship to the vorge of fanaticism. It has no countenance from the peoplo of aither party; tho people, as a whole, would rather not henr of the Iate Presidentinl eloction, or any other Presidential election, for yoars to come. If Congross sceks to ropresent tho people in this matter, the Brain proposition will not got a dozen votes in the House, whero alono there would be any hope of passing such a bill. 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BAN FRANCH Cal.~Palsce THotel e —— The prominent feature of this morning's European nows is the correspondence which hina recently taken place botweon tho duthor. ities at Bt, Potersburg and the Roumanian Cabinot. 1t appenrs that in nddition to tho question of tho cession of Bessarabin to Rus- sin, which has beon nnd is even now boing opposed with all possible pertinacity by Roumanin, tha treaty of Ban Stefano contains soveral provisions relativa to the occnpntion of portions of Princo Cuantes' dominions, and also the privilego of moving troops through Roumanian terri. tory. These provisions havo raised the iro of the Roumaninns, who claim -that such concessions shonld have been sought from Roumonis herself and not from the Porte, and Russia’s action is an undeserved blow to tho dignity of the Principality, Gonrscna. xorr's reply s totally devoid of that courtcons tono which has characterized his communications with tho Groat Powers. Io nassimes an overbearing aud haughty stylo of talk, and informs the Roumanian Minis- ters that tho cession of Bossarabia is & fized fact; that Russian troops must bo moved AMUSEMENTS, McVickor's Thoatre. Madison street, between Dearbarn and State, * A Celebrated Case,” Ly the Unlun Squarc Compaoy. Hooley’s Thentre. - Randolph street, Letween Clark and LasSalle. Eugagement of J. K, Emmet. **Fritz.” THE IRIEE MURDER. Tho assassination of tho Earl of Lrirnixt cannot, of course, ba excused by any refer. enco to his harshness ns a landlord; but it is o comfort to kuow that tho causo of it was peculinr to Lim and to bLis estates, While lLuman nature remains what it is, it canuot sympathize fully with a Inudlord who carries his legal rights to tho extent of oppression nnd eritelty. Particulatly is this truo of an Irish landlord exercising almost absolute power over thousands of people who bave New Chicago Thoatra. Clark street, oppatite Sherman House. Rogagee ment of Ninou Duclos’ Burlesque Troupe. **Littla Do Peep.” averly’s Monroe sirect, curner of Kirsify's Opera Boufle Troupe. entres. m. Engazement of **Telp to the Moon.* Coliserum Novelty Theatre. Clark street, opposita Court-Llause, Varlety vere fonnance. ———— SOCIETY MEETINGS. ORIESTAL LONGE, No. 33, A, F. & A, M.~Hall | wherovor they aro mnceded on Rou- | neither tho means to pny their ront where :31:-;17:(‘"5"'&! 5&“531‘ Sor CinTacas and word ohtha | mauian territiry, and Russian orders | they are nor to move elsawhere. The Earl i Giaadiess, o e bectdtarse | to this effect will bo enforced | of Lrirnme Lind the character of o hard man. = at all hazards, Tholittle Principality in hor | The press dispatches, which aro always con- FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1878, sore distress hasappenled to both Austria and | servative in tone, roport that ho was shot op- England, nnd theso Governments have given her ndvice which, could she profit Ly it, might be of service to her, but tho mighty arm of tho Russian military power holds TReumania in so fiem n grip that littlo short of actanl Interference by the combinod Poswers would rcleaso her. posite o cottage from which he had rocontly ovicted n widow; that cighty-nine of hia tenants wero under notice to quit; that his Lordship was very particular and oxacting in Lis doalings with his tenantry, visiting with unspnring soverity the slightest infraction of *¢the rules of the estato”; and that tho Rib- bon Socloty have a strong hold upon the county, owing chiofly to Lis severity. All tho ovidoneo thus far in poluts to the conclu- sion that he made *“tho rules of tho estato” supremo, and ordinary humanity subordi- nato; it is not surprising that inhumanity, baviog so illustrions au oxamplo to follow, ot last roso ngainst him and destroyod him, This shocking offair is an indication that land-reform in Ircland has not been carried 1o the point which it was supposed to have reached. It 18 truo that no Parlinmentary measures can mako landlords morcifal, and AMr. GrapeToNg's Lill was not intended to nccomplish 50 sweeping a change ; andit was ‘believed that tho public sentiment which de- manded and supported that bill had by this timo taken firm hold of tho Irish landlords. 1t was snpposed that tho policy of wholeaale eviction had boen genernlly abandoned; and, tho evils of nbuenteslsm haviug been cured, that rolations of mutual confidonce and esteom had been, for the moat part, ostab- lished between landlords aud tenants. This 1y still bo true of tho mass of the poople, but the dovolopmont of so shocking a case of barbarism on both sides scems to show that a good deal romains to be done, Wo Inyit down ss a principle, that o wholesalo oviction of tonantry is in itsclf a proof of Incapacity and cruelty on thopart of the land- lord. It can only bo duo to cortain canses,— such as previous lax administration by the landlord, or common misfortuno among the tenants,—either ono of which should dic- tate o policy of forbearanco and gradual reformntion, If cighty-ono of tho Earl's tennnts were delinquent at ono timo, it wns probably becsuso they had boen too gen- orously denlt with in the pnst, or bocausa o common misfortuno had overtaken them, Tho severity in this case, however, was not modern ; the Earl was an old man, and his iron will os boen enforced for many years. But in either caso tho tenants descrved to be treated with some consideration. Thoy wero nttached to tho soil ns fixtures, Any attempt to remove thom instantly and suddenly from it could bardly holp belng an nct, of cruclty, Their delinquency was uot an ovidenco of fault on their part; for the margin of pro- duction above the usual wants of labor is niserably small and uncortain in Ircland; and, whatever their idleneas and jgnoranco may have been, theso qualitiea of the ten. sutry helped to fix tho valuo of tho cslate, There may, indeod, have been urgont noed of reformation, but thero could have been no justification of a swoeping act of pro. scription to tako offact at ouce, without ap- poal, ‘The tenontry, no doubt, had a large moas. ure of right on their side, - It {s™to Lo re. grotted that they did not stop while they were in possession of it, inatead of advancing to a position so wicked, so abominably wrong, w3 tho murder of their landlord, For an act of that kind {s sure to retard reform, to nrouse the old apirit of barbarity among tho landlords, nud provont logislation favor. able to the tonants, It has only a pailiation, not & oxc! in the citcumstancos. Greenbacks ot tho Now York Stock Ex. chaugo yestordny closed at 99 in coin. Another mu yestorday sentenced to bo hanged, this timo at Paris, IIl. Thero hins been n romarkable linrvest of gallows- fruit within tho past fow weeks, 'I'be fleld waa ripo for it. having been pained by the very plain talk of Judgoe Enxoyps about the operations of the Pacific Railroad lobby on the floor of the Benate. The fnct that the ngents of theso powerful corporations are permitted to ply thelr vocation oponly seems to have caused no distress of wind to Mr, MarTHEWS, and hence it ranst bo the mention of the fact by Judge Epyuxps that pains him, Senators Matruews, BLang, and othor friends of the roilroad companies havo had a good deal to say about a decision of the Suprome Court with whichi the bill of the Judiciary Com- mitteo couflicts. This protext for opposing tho effort to compel tho companies to make provision for tho payment of thefr debts was effectnally disposed of by Judge Tmunsan yosterday in tho common-sonse statement that the decision npplied only to the law as it stood when tho deciston waa rondered, and hod no benring upon a law that might Lo subsequently enacted. It is astonishing to noto tho profound distrust of the power of Congrass ontertained by the Sonn. tors who aro so tendorly considerate of the rights of railroeds, Mr, HiLy, of Georgia, ovon wont 8o far 03 to dolare yesterday that Congress had no powor to compel a railrond to pay its dobta; that a railrond wns incor. porated to carry freights and passengers and not to pay its debts, and that their paymert could only bo enforced through tho courts, It had not beon genorally suspeoted that the supremo law-mnking power of tho land was 08 impotent as all this amounts to,—nt all cvents nobody but the rallroad companics who moan to chont tho Governmont if they cnn had suspected It. Jonx Lovenoan, of this city, yosterday filed o claim with tho Clerk of the Court of Claims ot Springleld for $172,435.80 alleged to bo duo Lim on a canal-contract made with tho Btato of Illinois in 18:18, which contract ho was not permitted to flnish, and for the completed portion of which ho recelved only scrip greatly depreciated in valao, As predictod yeslerday, tha enforcoment of ndministrative reform in the Democratic Houso of Representatives was only necom- ylished by tho nid of Ropublican votes; tho Democratio majority was in favor of condon- ing the offenso of Doorkeoper Porx nnd of refoining him in offico, nnd it was the solid strongth of the Ropublicans, coupled with the votes of o fow Democrats who foresaw the con- sequencés certain to follow o successful at- tempt at whitewashing the offense and tho offender, that passed the resolution roported by the Committeo on Civil-Servico Reforn declaring the office of Doorkeopor vacant, There woro oighty Democrata who could seo 10 necossity fur reforming the Civil Bervico in any casos excopt those of Republican ovil-doers. e The appeal papors in tho VarNTiNg serip cnso hinving becu filed in Washington by tho law officors of this cily, thevo is littlo reason to doubt that Secrotary Scuvaz will prompt. 1y veto tho very remarkable decision made by tho Loand Commissioner, snd tell Varesting & Co. to lacato their scrip on “ unoceupied ond uuspproprinted lands of the United Btatos,” aud uoton any occupled land bo- louging to tho City of Chicago., Wo bave reuson fo think that Bocrotary Scuunz hns slrendy given he cnso somo cousiderntion, and aro sure that Lo will instantly recognizo the gross injustice, from overy point of view, of permitting this city to bo harsssed or blackmailed by land.sharks, with the per. miseion and encouragement of the United Btates Govornment, MONTGOMFERY BLAIR'S FOLLY. It isnot much wonder that Senator Wirre, of Maryland, shoald express himsolf ag humiliated by the foollsh nction of the Leg- inlaturo of his Stats in passing tho Bram res- olution directing the Attornoy-Gonoral of Maryland to inatituto procecdings in tho Su. prome Court to test tho Presidant's title, If the Attornoy-Genoral of Muryland follows theso instructions,the Stato of Maryland inlus person will probably bo kicked out of conrt ina yoor or two aftor the expiration of Mayes' torm, which Is about tho time the suit will bo heard. It is probable that the Court will decide, if confronted with the caso, that it has no jurlsdiction, and there tho matter will end; but, if the Suprome Court shall claim jurisdiction, it will nnques. tionably hold that the merits of the casemuut bo presentod in a differont proceeding, To ontertain o suit brought by tho Attornoy- Cienoral of Maryland, who is in this matter uo moro than any other citizen of the United Btates, would bo to give anybody and every- body tho right to go iInto court at any time to test tho validity of any President’s titlo ; tho Bupreme Court will probably not bo anxious to throw its doors o widely open to adventurers nnd dig- oppointed politicians, Finally, it the case should ever bo brought to a hearlug, thuro is not the alightest question but the Buprewme Court will decide that Congress determined low the Electoral vote should ba counted, asit had tho constitutional right to do, aud that this count resulted in the seating of Maves, who thus acquired a cloar title to the office, 'That ia all thero is of the mattor, Mr. Mosraoxesy Briin will soarcely bo 80 successful with Congress as he Las baon with the Marylaud Legislature,—for ho also desires Congress to pass a law which shall give tho Court the necessary jurisdiction. Even the most desperalo encmies of Mr, Havesin Congress will not oare to carry thelr spleon #o far s to roopen this Preui- dential question, Most of the lawyers in both Houses will bo opposed to such a proposition on purely logal grounds, sinco tho Constitn- tion provides that Cougress, and not the Suprems Court, shall determive the count, which was done. Nor does it need any knowledgo of law to foresce the danger of confiding o purcly political controversy to tho jurisdiction of tho Bupreme Court, If ihe highest tribunal ju the land, tho court of last resort, cannot be protected from politic- ol jangles, then there will be no institution in the country safe from the vitlating in- fluences of partisaaship. The bill which Mr. Brais wants Congress to puss would require the Bupreme Court to go “bLehind the returns” (a phrase that forlunately bas not been Leard of thuso many months), tuke evidence, and recauvass tho Becrotary Suensan was beforo tho Ifouso Banking and Currency Comunittco again yosterdoy to lecture that body on the sub. Joct of resumption, Io s very confident in tho ability of the Government lo resist and defoat any combinationof the National Banks having for its object tho drawing of gold from the 'I'reasury or tho scoumulation of legal-tonders in sufficlent quantitios to com- pel tho susponslon of specle payments ofter they Lad once begun, Tho Bocrotary is o positive in bis bellef in tho entiro feasibility of resumption at tho time of the Repenl bill find it impossible to cor- mer or puzzle him with thelr system of sharp calechizing, Iy avowal that thero will be 10 necessity for reducing the present volume of legal-tenders ought to stagyor the infla- tionlsts, if anything can. Beforo tho possage of the Bilver bill the Now York aud Boston banks, nud the banks generally of the Eastern cities, insisted that there should bo rosuwaption of speclo pay- ments on tho day named, and that there would Lo no difileulty whatever in finding gold coin sufficiont for the purposo. They olso insisted that tho passage of tho Bilver bill would instantly drive all the gold ont of tho country, and leave no coin with which specie poyments could bo resumed, Scoro- tary SuessaN jolved in thoso representa~ tions, and declared that the resumption of specio payments would be indefinitely post- poued, that gold would ba exported, and that it would run up to o high promium. After tho Siver bill bhad becomo o Jaw, and gold was mnot exported, and foll to 102, Bocrotary BuzmaN was wise enough %and candid euough to recognize and declare the fact that the coinsge of silver Lud removed many difi. cultics in the way of resumption, and would greatly assist the Government in that partic- ular. The New York banks, however, which had - bought largely of gold, anticipating & ¥ise and having lost by the operation, havere- mained sullen and discoutented. They still publish statements that specie payments cane not bo resumed becsuso thero is ot and can not be colu cuough in the country. This incousistunoy is too evident to deceive any ove. If thoro would have been coln enough in the country with which to resume when gold was dear and scarce, whby will there uot be cqin enough in ENOLAND'S POBITION. There is a truco in the diplomatic war in Europe,—a general breathing spoll, pending the reply of Russia to the Euglish circular recontly sent to the Powera by the Marquis of Savssuny, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs, ‘This circular contains the first di. rect and succinet statement of her position that Eugland has mado since (he war com- menced, sud is much moro to the poiut than Diszaeut’s mysticism or the display of the English fleot in tho Bosphorus, which even the English papers now concede was a seri- ous mistake, growing out of undue ecxcite- ment aud ill-advised judgment. What an. swor Russia will make to this clroular re- mains to be seen, though there secems to be on impression in Europe that Russia may mako some concessions that will prepara the way for a Congress without humilistivg her a8 a conqueror, especially aince Austria has substantially afirmed the position taken by England with regard to the treaty of SBan Slefano, Sbould Russis continuo to autag. onizo the position of England, war must in. ovitably cnsue unless tho one or the other Power backs squarely down. In case of war, therefory, it will be of interest to know the yeasons why England takes the fleld. The discussion, both ofticial and otherwiso, has now been so thorough that it is not difficult to nscertain the grievances, Itslould bo borno in mind, in the first instance, that the original demand of En- gland, mado by Lord Drapy just befora his resignation, was that overy article of the Ban Btefano trenty shonld be placed before the Congress, not nocessarily for accoptance, but to consider what articles affected the interosts of tho several Powers and what did not. In other words, the English Govorn- ment took the brond position that tho trea- tion of 1856 and of 1871 established a con- dition of things that is now modified by tho San Stefano treaty, consequently the lattor treaty shonld be nnder the cognizanea of the Powers summoned together by the anthority of the former. This s the attitude of En- gland with regard to European intorests. 8o far as hor own interests are concerned, Eagland now recognizes the fact that the Ottonian Empire is completely overthrown, and tbat In its destrnction Russin has over- comeo the first barrier to Sclavie progress. As an clement of the tern question, Turkey has ceased fo oxist, and there. foro it is that England is now seceking to intorpose Grecco, and offset tho now Bulgaria with an Anglo-Ifellento alliance that shall make a new barrior. Turko. philism is n thing of tho past. Philhel- lenism must tak its placo in nntagonism to Sclavio idoas, and thus, it is hoped, for a timo nt lonst, Russian nggrandizoment will Lo stayed before it imperils English com- munications with India. For the same reason Eugland objects to the eroction of Bulgaria with greatly onlarged boundarios into a now Helnvic State, by which a’considerable Greck population will be swallowed up and the new State will bo Russianized. As tho terms of tho troaty give to Russin tho organization of tho new 8tats, tho choice of ruler, and for 1wo years polico regulations enforced by her army, it s evident to any one that the new Bulgaria wonld speedily becoma to all intents ond purposes o Russinn province, exercise ing n powerful inflnenco upon all the minor States so cut off from ench other that thoy could not at any time combine against her. Buch a Stato would givo Russia the prepon- dorating ivfluence in Bouthenstern Europo. The acquisition of Dessarabin and Batonm would give her the comnercial supremacy on the Black 8eas, and that of Armenia would dominato the European trade with Persia., It {a this solicitude growing out of the prox- imity o the Russian outposts to the fron- tiers of English possossions that has at lnat aroused tho very positive protest mado by tho Marquis of Savwspuny. Thers aro othor dotalls to this treaty to which England mokes serious objections, and tho first of thoeso Is the indemnity. Not- witlistanding reports of Russian concossions, it ia apparent from tho treaty, which will be found clsowhere in our columus, that tha in- domnity remainsas originally statod,—1,410,~ 000,000 roubles (31,029,300,000), of which 1,110,009,000 roubles ($810,800,000) are to bo ropresonted by cessions of territory, while the balance, 810,000,000 roublea (3220,- 800,000), is loft to be fixod at some futuro time. To this the English objoct, becanse no guarantecs aro stated, and no timo for payment, which would loave the Russians free to moko a demand at any time, and in defanlt of payment perhaps annex still moro territory, and complete tho Russianizing of Turkoy. England ia ns to the fature disposition of the Btraits, ond on this peint the Pall Mall Dudget, which {s owned by a gontleman holding & high position in the Government, BAyRS The last sorious objection.made by This shonld bo considered with constant refer exnco to the gonersl effect of the treaty as n whole, —what it smounts to, of what saila aecomptis §i In the cxpress record, of of what changed conditions in the fulur it is the visible announcewnent. 1t is with o ‘Turkey under 8 Russian protectorats that wo ahall havu to ol hereatter. In alscassiug any changes in the public taw of the Straits, wo huve tostart from the fact that the nominal owner of thuso Htraits ¢ no loager o frou agent, and that Ahetr res] owner, unless the work of the war s to ‘o undone, Is henceforth Russia, Such a cousid- eration as thisgives a Iflltullrl{ ominous look to tho statewent that *'the uaviyation of tho Stralts 14 tu bo declared frev far merchant vess thmo of peaco and war," This proposal both in nust be & D! little mura uccurately defined before 13 can bo ad- vantageously discuaecd; but on the face of it it ap- ears to be @ blow simed at onr right of blockading ho Black Bea, ~tho solo weapon of maritime of- Tenso which, with Turkey under the complete con- trol of Iuwsla, we might conceivably fnd at onr divposal in tho event of foture differcnces. Such are the conditions which, under tho novw treaty, tho English conccive menaco tholr intercsts, and which, if thoy are ratified by the Powers, tho same paper ia satisfied will 1make it impossible for England to keep her place in the world *‘excopt on condition of establishing and maintainivg forever after armaments on a liko scalo to thoss which now oppresa every great nation in Europe,” MR. TILDEN'S EXPENSES, Mr, Samuzs J, TiLoes's vory dear frionds teatify that ho was under an expenso of £870,000 during the late Presidential cam. paign, Thisisa protty big sum to pay for the privilogo of boing an unsuccesaful candi- dato for tho Presidency. If the income-tax which Mr, TiLoex neglectod to pay the Gov- erument, and which his Presidential candida- cy called attention to, bo added to the amount directly expended, his whole invostment can bardly fall short of $500,000. There are very few mon in tho country, wo venture to say, who can afford to pay such nsum of money for tho Presidenoy—aud not get it. Ar, Troey, lowover, not only profassos to ba able to stand this draft, but is understood to Lo willing to spend ns much more for the grotification of his dosires, Being an old man, uomarried and childless, ho has no prosent use for tho milllons he owns., Ho would rather bo President than boe rich. He would rather give 1,000,000 more for the Presidency than not got it. Being n patriot and o Domocrat, he yearns to divide his great fortune among patriots and Democrats —for votes, Mr, Tieozn's disbursements, though lib- oral, were nol, it appears, equal to the ex- pectations and dosires of his party friends. The Hon. WirLiax EaToN, member of tho Central Committee for Kansas, frankly avows that tho object of the nomination at 8t, Louis wos to bloed Mr, Tipex. IHe de- clarcs that Mr, TiLpzN's ogents * guccoeded, by appealing to the capldity of every impe- cunions Democratlo editor, iu enlisting thelr asalstance, they hoping to be remunerated for their work aftor the nomination.” We aro inclined to think thisis o ocorvect state- ment of the case, It is well known that one Demooratio editor ” in this vicinity made & surprising changs of front about that time, and his movements were probably due to the promiso of Alr, Tipea's money. Whether he got sny of it or not, he bas never condesconded to ssy, but, in view of this revelation by Mr, Eatox, it 18 to be presumed he did not. It the dis- sppointment of the impecunious editors is as general as Mr, Eatox says it is, Mr, Tiwpex ust be prepared to come down handsomely before tho next Counvention. Proumises to pay will no longer bs received. He will have to pay up arrears and advance mouey for future services. On the supposition that he owes now about $500,000 to *‘impecunious editors,” $1,000,000 will be required to ar. range matters for another campaign. This with what he has already spent will meke an outlay of $1,600,000. Add £500,000 for the plus of §3,085,000. THIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY- APRIL 5, 1878. Reneral exponses of n campaign (exclusivo of the compensation of Democratio oditors), and hia tota: oxpenditures will bo $2,000,000. This, according to Mr. Hexpricks, {s the whole amount of his fortune, If he gots the Prosidency, ho oan live on the salary ; if Lo fails to get it, he can dopend on the gen. orosity of his frionds. In any event the monner in which he spends his fortune will bo as honorable ns tho moenns by which Lo got it. REDEL CLAIMS, A Washington dispatch states that Mr. HartzELL, Of Illinois, has proposed to the Houso of Representatives an amondment to tho Coustitution of tho United States pro- hibiting the payment of claims for losses sus- tained during the War within tho limita of the Iebel States. This proposition was un. fortunately not jacluded in the Fourtesnth Amendment prohibiting the paymont of the Rebel dobt. The reason why it was not so includod was probably beeauso ‘of tha al- ready well and universally established prin- ciple of law that thero can bo no logal claim for nny damnges resulting from war to tho citizons of tho enemy’s country, and that all persons residing within tho cuemy'slines are, in legnl contemplation, onémies in war. Buat thoro is no principlo of law or justice which stands in the way of a man having a claim for monoy, and that claim paynble at the disoretion of a loginlative body o large proportion of whose members are dirgetly interested in tho same kind of claims. It is hardly possible, nt thia time, to adopt such an amondment to the Constl. tution, There aro but thirty-eigt Btates; of theso the 'nmondment would cut off all the lato slavololding Btatos oxcept Dela- ware, Maryland, West Virginin, Kontncky, and Missouri, These five bordor Btates would in all probability stand by the eloven olher Btates, and united would dofoat tho ratification of nny such amendment, Such on amondment could not command a two- thirds vote in oither House of Congress, and Mr, HantzELL's proposition, therefore, how- ever commondable, must be treated 08 son- timontal rather than practical. The resolution, certaln to Lo defeated, will fur- nish the Northern Democratio allies of the Southorn claimants with an opportunity to go on rocord us against the paymont of such clalms, but that will not of itsolf defeat or silenco tho clnims. It tho Northern Domo- crats want to mako n rocord that will amount to somothing, lot them take up, one nftor anothor, a dozen of the moro conspicuous claims and reject them; thon lot them by lcgnl restrictions on the Court of Claims, and upon all other branches of the Government, golimit tho jurisdiction ns to prohibat the allowanco or pnyment of any claim for losses resulling becanso of tho War to any person within the torritorial limits of the Btates in jnsurrootion. Let then do this, ani tho country will give them crodit for practically earrying out Mr. IIantzeir's schome to ox- tinguish all these Rebel claima, RUBSIAN AND ENGLISH FINANCES, ¥ An army moves on ite bolly,” says the military proverb: it might bo said, with equal accuracy and vividnoss (particularly in theeo days whon nations set out 85,000,000 iron-clads to be battored to bits with $800 shelle from $300,000 cannons), that when o country goes to war it draws not the sword but tho purse, Somo figures as to tho finaneial condition of the two countrics may, thorefore, bo of intorest, when a war ‘botweon England and Russia is threatened. Tho financinl yoar in England ended on the B1st ult., and the roceipts for that poriod aro stated by the cable to Lavo excoeded tho cstimates 80 considerably aa lo leave n sure ‘aking the exponditure ot thofull figure of tho estimate, we have this showing for the yoars 1877.'78: Tovenua, $380, 530,000 Expendif 404, 347 During the sixtoen years since 1802 there havo beon doficit In the rovenuos in throo years, thoso of 1808 nnd 18G9 being due to the extraordinary expenditure on socount of the Abyssinian war, but tho other thirtoon years bove shown surpluscs, those sinco 1869 amounting in tho sggregate to $93,070,096, At the same time thoro has becn a reduction in taxation, thenet diminution being placed at $120,807,800, Tho oxpenditure per head of population has boen reduced since 1802 by 67 conts, while the rovenuo per head (tax. ation) has been reduced by 18 cents. ‘The debt of Great Britaln, including terminable annnities and chargo thercon, amounted nt the closo of tho last financial year for which wo have returna to $3,775,018,736, 'Tho ro- duction sinco 1863 has boon $237,256,682, It is not 8o casy to frame a procise statos mont of tho financial condition of Russin, so differont ia her system of public accounts, which do not show till some years later the detalls of tho receipts and expenditures. Thus *The Btatesman'a Year-Book" for 1878 can only givo the accounts up to 1878, As wo havo, however, in the latest foreign files the eatimatea for 1878 and tho war nc. counts down totheend of 1877, we can make up a fair schedule for comparison. 'The budgot for 1878 is as follows, the rouble boing convezted at the Troasury rate of 78.4 cents: i Rovenoe...... +$305, 133, 338 Expendituroe,,, seeres 413,840,187 ‘This is tho vrdinary revenuo and ordinary oxpenditure, ' The showing for tho eloven years sinco 1807 is an oxcess of exponditures over receipts of $50,810,282, to which is to be added tho nmount of lonns contracted, The Linporial Treasury paid out in 1877, on account of war oxponditure, §317,468,841, so that tho war bas beon waged at a direct cost of ot 'cast a million dollars a day, to say nothing of the derangoment of indusiry and waterial loss. As Turkey canuot pay an indemnity save in territory, which mustin the nature of things be non-productive for many yoans, the bill must be footed by Ruasla, IHor dobt (including the last in. ternal loan) way estimated ot $1,448,778,000 on tho 1st day of July last; it has, of course, boen largely mcreased &lnce that date, Bosides, Russia is laboring in the trough of asca of paper. The circulation ‘was, on the 1et of January, 1876, offcially stated to be $585,226,034 ; the issues during tho war are estimated to have amounted to $205,620,000, making o mass of paper amounting to mnearly $800,000,000, which has always beon far below par, Tho last quotation gave the value of tho paper rouble at 22d, gold,—in other words, gold at 8t Potersburg-is at 170. The Pall Mull Gazetts recently copied an instruotive article on the insolvency cases decided by the Moscow commercial tribunals, which showed that the fallurcs in 1676 involved a loss to credit- ors almost six timos as great as that incurred {n 1874, while the cost of living was incross- ing without a rise in wages VrsszLowsui's * Annuaire des Finances Russes " does, how- over, give & moro encoursging account of afairs from an immediato standpoint, The excessive lavguor which prevailed in ocommercial circlos in tho Arat half of 1877 gave place, he eays, in the latter part of the year to an unwoated nctivity ; the volumo of business done at the grent fairs waa notably increased; despite the blockade of the Eunxine, the exportation of grain and flex to Nov, 1 was larger than it had boen in the precoding yoar ; and mana- factures of iron, cloth, and loather, were stimulated into remnrkable briskness. Amer- icans who have so recontly been through a period of war and inflation know too madly tho meaning of such things—what it is to produce expensively an oxcess of goods to bo consumed in war. We can thercfore sym- pathize with the Czar, who finds himsolf with the difficult choico botween accepling a war which must in any event throw back tho so long tenderly-nursod financés and de- volopment of his country for many, many yenrs, and declining the challengo at the rigk of precipitating a rovolution disastrous to his dynast; The City?!ou;;irfll a;T!cnnty Board have reached o point of defined differonce. The County Board insist npon a domo cost- ing o million or more, and have built the fonndation of tho semicircle, or couniy's portion, at n cost, for only that fragment of n beginning, of $70,000. Tho repro- soniatives of tho city refuse to agree ta the dome business, but are willing to compro- miso on a rotunda, which will necessitata the destruction of the greater part of the work already oxecuted on tho dome, To tho ordinary citizen who is not ‘interested in contraots or contractors the question sug- gests ftself, What ocension is there for either domo or rotunda? The two wings of the building will bo soparated by a wida court, and why obstruct this court by a building of any kind? If this court ought to be covered and yet not obstruct the light, why is any- thing needod wmore than an fron framo with o glasa covering, oxcluding rain and snow, and capable of belng warwed in the winter? Through this, if neccssary, such passages might be coustruoted ns would enable per- sons to go from ono bullding to tho other. ‘What moro is necossary at any time, but cer. tainly what more is wanted now, when the financial condition of the city is considered ? Thero should b no thought entertnined ot this timo of any costly or oxpensive orna- mental bmiding outsido of the two wings which are needed for public uses. It 1s possible that Gov. Bxrrm, of Wisconsin, will bo compelled to call out the militia {n order to keop tho peace batween tho Village of Bara- boo and tho City of LaCrosse, The prescut bel. ligerent attitude of tho people, and capeclally of the newspapers of those two corporations, is qulto ag threatening as that assumed by England nud Hussla, aud dlplomacy hos secmed to have had {ts last word. Thocauso of the quarrel may Lo briefly statcd: Last fall Oscau WissiNoeR, in & it of jealousy, shot and killed Dr. Ert CuAMDERLAIN fu open day in the City of La- Crosse. Heafterwards attempted to kitl him. sclf, but falled toaccomplish hia purpose, more’s the pity. The murderor, belng 8 worthless, dissolute fellow, desplecd by eovery one, ond the victhn having g useful aud highly respectable citizen ond practicing pliysician of LaCrosse, it was all thio authonitivs could doto keep WissiNGER from belng lynched. talned, oud the case sont to Barabuo for trial before Judge 8tewant. The trial Jastod eight days, and was prosccuted on one slde and de- fended on the otuer with signal skill aud ability by some of tho best lcgal talemt In tho State, Bat for some cause or other WissiNamn got into the good graces of tho citizens of Bara- boo, warmly collsted thelr sympathies in bhis favor, aud every opportunity was embraced by all classes, cspocially and conspleuously by tho ladics, to maulfest their sympathy with the prisonor. Everybody scemed toassumo that Dr. CuAMDERLAIN had been gullty of malntalulng fmproper relations with Mra. Wisawvarr, and that the cuse was oue of justiflable homi- cide. The ladles orzanized a soclety to lovk after Wiisinaen's bodlly comfort, and two of the clorgy preached discourses during the trial calculated to fnfluenco tho jury In favor of the defendant, and to patliate such cximes as had been committed, under certaln clrcumstances, Thu outcome was ns might have beon expectod. 'The Jury acquitted WissiNorzn on ths ground of fusanity, The ladles rushed in to kiss him, aud tho pleasure of tho crowd was unrestratuod. Over such an outrage, perpotrated In the namo of law, tho Clty of LaCrosse, where the bloody Qeed was doue, 18, metaphorically speaking, on fts car., A public mcoting has been hold nt which the Mayor preaided and in the procecd- 1ogs of which many of the best and leading citi- zens took part, when the whole matter was re- viewed. The faith of the citizens in the fnteg- rity and virtuo of Dr. CHAMBERLAIN was ex- \plictt aod emphatic, and tempt for tha worthless lis silly femalc sympathizers in Baraboo {3 cxpressed fu the plalneat English. In the menntime, with tho kisscs of the ladics 1resh upon his lips and a photowraph of the intelligent jury thatacquitted bim fu his pocket, ‘Wissinaan does not dare to return to his wife and family In LaCrosse, but hics him off to Oblo, where the atwosphere js more congonial. Taking it all in all,—~lucluding tho charge of the Judge who told the jury that the verdict must cither Lo murder {n the Orst degreo or not guilty on the ground of insanity,—the case {s onue of the most curlous that has recently gono on record. thelr con- murderer and ——— The {ntceminable abscnce from hia seat of Benator Busuon, of Nevada-S8an Franclaco, is uow nccounted for. It has puzzied many per- sons why bo nelther resigued nor returned tobis ofticlal duties; but It 1s now explamed. It will bo remembered that RaLsToN abstracted several millions of the moueys of the Bankof Callfornia, of which he was Uashier, to purchase for bim- sclf acontrolling Iuterest in the * Bpring-Valley Water Works,” which supplied the city, at a monstrous charge for water, Rarsron's scheme was to inducs by Uribery the City Couucil to purchase those works at sometbing like ton millions of doliars, When RirsTon's defalcation camo to lght, Senator S11aRoN sssumed tho refundment of & large part of the stolen moneys, aud relwburscd himselt in part by taking RaLsTon's interost In the Water-Works. What Bnanon and bis con- federates aro now dolug Is wmaulpulstiug the Legislature to tolst the works on 8au Franclsco at a cost vl Sif¥en millions of dollars! Last yesr the works were offered to the city at cloven milllous, and the offer was rejected; but the expeuses attending thls forced sslu are great, 20d to cover them tho prico has been ralsed four willlons. ‘This job occuplcs all of Buinox's time ond attention, It 1s understood that the Senator's fortunes depend upon the auccess of the sale. Mence ho has larger Gsh Lo Iry than can be found {u the Senate Chamber, e —— Benator EDMUNDS’ referenco to certaln news- papers which print editorfals to affect ratiroad legislation &t tho rato ot 50 ceots alluo has paturally excited some curiosity as to what newspapers heo bad tu mind. Of course it is not 0 be expected that be will nawe them outright, but he might ssy whether he referred to news- papers published in Philadeiphia, Loulsville, or 8t Louls. If it s either a Louisville or 8t, Louls newspsper that is getting the movey, wo warn the dispensers thercol that they are pay- ing too bigh a rate. Not only do they not get the worth of thelr monsy, but they could proba- biy procure the same editorials in the same pa- pers at a very much lower price. o —— e ‘The New York Sun (Dem.) holdsup Benstor Watrracs (Dem.), of Peonsylvanis, sud Seustor Baunuy, of Connecticut, as tho wire-pullers on the Dewocratic side who are lavurivg in the futerests of Jox GouLd sad HuwTixarox to cheat the Governmens out of its clalm against the Pacific rallroads. Tho Sun says: Senator Warracs (Dem. ), oI Penusylvanly, s segarded at Washinglon as the most ul of the long beon =& A change of venuu was ob- managers who are now workIng In the in| Gourn and TluNTIxaTON to carty Tho Bl veeoCh from the Ratlrond Committee for thelr bunehr o laan adroit nolitician and n shrewd wire.ifies with grest fertility of resources nnd ' pisusings #peech o enforca tlie cause Which ho snoper 1lin experience with tlio' Troneury Rine ‘1o ports: eylvanis, and his well-known conncction swith 1o CawenoN clan. qoalify him particalarly for the servico in which he is now engaged, Mr. Waria, {5 the standing Chalrman of the Nemaeratic cameet in the Benate. Tn that capacity, ho appoints o volitical committecs, and ezeréings o pont dS of power aver the 'party orzanization and chinery, lla knows Tiow o ufilize sl ihe portuniles which sach A positfun confers will not fall to mnke them eaberviont (o 1 Kaitrosd Ring, of which he may be fairly copal. ered the pflnt{rtflpmp on the Democratlc sida, With Benator Hanxuw at the head of the Natheo) Democratic Committes, and Mr. W deal ma. op. and Chelrman of the cancuy, tho Democrats ‘ase ot recisely in the beat position to a1 Faiaty: T They hoth boIong to the. e T politics which their party most profeises to can. dewmn, and they both practice the corrunt miethady of thelr adversaries, which the Democratic plat- forme habitually denounce with tho most vehoment adjectives. Tho spectacle of WarLach and Iixp. NUM o8 -un%ur and Iuntinatox, i the largest jo! been pressed beforg Congrenss in n decade, {» not edifying in theas days of reform. Butitls unufllg conaistont with thesp character and tralning. Theea cornorations can well afford to pay sovers! millions dows to' pays the Matrizwa bill, and, Joaging from thelr Dast carcer, they will not allow mz ant of money tg revent completa success. T well understood inside and ontside of Congres nd patriols who ;lo }ho legialation will gulde themaelves accord. ngly. ————— The funniest law-sult in tho world s belng waged at Parts. Tho Princesso e Camauay Cnivay, & Belglan, marrled Gen. do Bayy. PREMONT, n Frenchman., They didn’t and scparated: first legal proceedings. Therg ‘was a sccond suft over tho custody of the chil. dren, which the husband won, but the wifs simplificd matters by leaving tho country, tak. Ing tho children with ber. This brought about a prosccution for contempt of court, and meap. while the woman becamo a German cltizen, Bot 8 divorce at Berlin, and marrled M. Geonoy Binrsco, o 'Roumanfan, The Uerman divorea 13 good In Germany; thero s no Court in Roy. mania that can take jurlsdiction of the case, ang 80 Gen. do BaurrnnyoNt has suecd bis for. mee wifo to have her second marriago sct aside and in tho hope of bagging her French estates, ‘The casc has for the fourth timo reached the lighest tribunal, where Mme. Binzsco lias fn. terposed a wonderful plea—to wit: that it gho fs, as ber former husband claims, his wite, sho should have obtalued his anthorization tode fond the suit ho bas brought against her; thly - she d1d not bave, hence the sult 1s {rregular and must be bozun over againat the bogioning! Everybody ls disgusted except the lawyors, ———— Bonator Howa's speech was a good deal like atwo-edged sword. 1t ¢ut both ways—1or the Senator. ‘The attack upon the President placed 8enator Hows in dlrcct autagonlsm with tho Republican party in bis own Stato aud In the natlon, and his attack upun Becretury Scuves wiil insure fm tho {H-will of a very larze and intelligont body of German Republicans iy Wiscousin, who regard the eppoiotment of Mr. Scuunz to a position in the Cabinctosa compliment to the forcign-born populs- tion. Tho Germaus will bo likely to remem. ber Mows's Insmit offered to themselves through their cloquent countryman when Mr. flowE asks the Wlisconsin Legislatura {o re-clect him again to the scat ho now holds, It will be remembered that Secrotary Sonunz ro- sided for somo years fu Wisconsin, where ho married, and when he was o candidate for Lieutennut-Governor 1o 1850 on the Republfcan ticket with the late ArzxanpEn W. Raxpate, Ho afterwards practiced law in Milwaukce, sod Is, therefore, quito as well known to the people of that Blato as Scnator liows himaelf. ——————— Tho Chicago Acadery of Sclences is mantfest. fognew sigus of life. Tho Trustees and old members are of the opinlon that an fostitution which s so large a factor fn the public guod ought not to languish for lack of mouey, and to prove the alncerity of thelr convictions they ars odding to the generous sums slready contiibut ed o fresh aud vigorous subscription and as they are ready, as they term it, to **doudle up,” they call upon tho citizons of Chlcago to Juin with them {n lfting the Academy into u more proaperous cendition. They have Jald hands on thelr Librarlan, Dr. Awruuit Swazgy, whom they have mude Chairmanof a comunlites of regenoration, and who is now devoting o large part of his time to the laudiblo york. If thero” {s anything next to the malutenouce of the cone mon schools which Chicago ought tu succor,itls this very Academy of Helences. And if therobe unything fn which tho moro intelligeut and ‘wealthy citizenas should tako pride, it is an fnstl tutlon which bas already reflected so much hion- or in tho sclentitic world on our great commer- clal metropolis. v e Benator McDoxawp, of lndlnd’-. let o clear ray of Jight through tho rascally Gourp-Husr- 1NaTon bill offored Ly Scoator MATTHEWS to cheat the Government, in these worda: 1t 1 owed you $10,000, secured by bond and mortgage, and’1 should say to you: **The security you have lanat good; 1t will not bo worth the monoy whon it bacomos duc, 1 awm deriving large incomrs from the mortgage property, but that [ want 1o keep. [ witl now give you $1,000, ant ou keepitand chargo yoursell with compuund ?nluult on It until 1t amonnts 1o $10,000, and then you would have your payment.* In otber words, as a contemporary remarks, ““Theso corporations will bave to pay the prini pal and accumulated intorest fo 1000, or Lwenty- two years hence, They propose to pay one mille fen a yoar each In semi-anunual fustallments, aud to compound tho Interest on thoso psy- ments at 6 por cont, 80 that in 1000 they would haye n credit of $47,717,833 in inferest on $32,000 actually paid 1n, This is certainly an expedi- tlous way of extinguishiog debts at swmall cosly and it {8 worthy of the genius of the Rallroad Hing, and of tho support of the Riug Senators” —————— ‘The Washington Post objects to the sdmission of so mauy renegade Republican bumuers st are striviog to worm themaelves lnto the Dem. Confed. party, in expectation of getting offlce. ‘To let In those soldicrs of fortuns will be the same thing as snatching bread from the moutts ot the otlice-hunting lazzaroni of that party, The Post thus protests agofust tho acceptance of thoso recrults: 1t would be amuwng If 1t wero not dlsgusting andsomowhat pitiful withal, to watch tho transitiva of the professional oficsholder fn Washlaglon from ono party lo suother, according tu bie cun® cuption of pulitical emergencles. We could print the muster roll of & thousand chronlc placa-hotds ora bers who not loug ago wore leather-luoge 1varers in the Radical camu, but ars now so wube dued {n apirit aud gentle in manoers as o be Inca- sble of waylng & word that might grate Larvbly u b most sensitive Dumocratic eat, ‘They are drifts ing tbiole little froight af adjustablo priuciples and trimming thelr tiny sails of expudiency in the bupe that the coming Domocratic brevze may wats theid amoothly sud conddingly aiong, Too indolent 10 dig, too proud to b‘i' ihoy aue no hope iu the fu* ture but in thls pitiable scif-stuitideation. —————— PAUL D8 CA83AGHA0 has been brought before & Parly court at the sult of & poor carpenter 10 whom ho had owed'a bill of §20.43 slace 187 The great duc-clist ngreed to pay Lalf of it 18 thirty days aud half in sixty, and, an arrango- ment having becu arrived at, cocked bls bab over hls left ear and swaggered out, tacitly io- viting the universo to tread on tho tail of bis coat, which—such at lesst was tne Jmpression hie conveyed—was 840 feet long. ——— 111 bo solidiy Democratle, and ea )3’:‘;‘0&:“:‘: rl.\'l nc:el l'l!lld:':uu election, sad will be represented in the Mouss of It tu-nl:; ives of iho Forty-alzth Congresa by neasiy, if i completely, sn unbroken Democratis colunm Flue fu the' acblevement of Mr, ilavss sad policy inono year,—Now York dun. How sad thls must make the Sun feel,—iho Sun which for years bitteriy denounced 80 other Republican Presldent becauso under policy thie South was not solidly Democratic! ez Tho statistlisn of the Now York Zime has taken tho trouble to fnvestigate the antecedents of the siguers of the testimontal to Boss Kxuihy aud hes made the discoyery that of 1bo twenty-three emioent baokers and commer clal men who declared that ths chiel of Tammany, s & Comptroller, way hardly ssy lower than the sogels, eikbtecn bad ouly 8 llu&- while before agitated the sbolition of KsLtY 'y whole financial system, while ten had t- Iy protested agalust bis appointment lo the steau of Comptroller Guuxx! Five oblikiof geatlemen sigued all throo peutions! There