Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1878, Page 4

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Hizxay F. thtrie, Agen SAN FRANCISCO. ce lotel. AMUSEMENTS, McVicker’s Theatre. Maditon sireet, between Dearhorn and State. “The Exiles." Afternoon and evening. Ilnoley’s Theatre. Tandoiph street, between Clark and LaSalle, *The Exties.” Afternoon and evening. averiy’'s Thenire. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Engsgement of Kiralfy's Opera Bouffe Troupe. **The Ueluge,” Afe tornoon and evening. New Chicago Thoatre. Clark street, opposite Sherman House, performance, SOCIETY MEETINGS, Varlety CHICAGU Cf ‘Twonty-secon day) evening af otk on the M. [, SRR dereds? Viding compaions caraially In: - Syer 15 Ul oy b a8 KU1 SMITIL Secretaty, 'TEI 0. 127, . A. ‘WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878, Greenbacks at the Now York Btock Ex- thange yesterdny closed at 99 in coin, The action of the Council on Mondsy night 'n repealing the ordinanco opening South Dearborn stroot is likely to, subject the.city 1o nlegal linbility nmounting to at least n million dollars. The nction was hasty nnd ill.advised, and we are astonished that such o proceeding should have taken place. It is to Lo hoped the Mayor will veto the ropealing ordinance, if for no other reason than to give time to comsidor tho grave probable consequences. The injunction cnse of Foruxm vs, The City of Chicago, the object of which is to restrain tho city from payiog its cortificates of indobtednoss, lins baen politely shown the door by Judge Brovaerr, of tho United States District Court, to which” it waa trans- ferred from tho Suporior Court, Judge Bropaerr fails to perceivo wherein his Court Lins jurisdiction in a mattor purely within tho scopo of the Stato law, and the caso will therefore go back to tho Buperior Court, —— ‘Wo print elsowbere in th fssue an intor- esting communication from our Milwankes corrospondent, giving a brief history of rail- roading in Wisconsin, which is permeated Ly a practical philosophy that. will not es- cape the attention of the intelligent render. ‘Pho fnferonces that nro {o be logitimately drawn from the articlo referrod to are : (1) That lakos and rivers are poor commer- cial outlets in winter, ns compnred with rail. roads. (2) That nu attempt to buildupa system of railronds in tho West without coming to Chicago must rosult in o grand failuro. The Now York World saems to have been seloctod by Sonator Conrrixa as the medium for giving to the comtry his views respect.’ Jog tho political outleok, and moro par. ticularly his sontiments townrd the Ad. miniateation of President Haves, From tho interview which is transmitted by telograph, through tho sagency of the Associatod Press, it appears that Ay, Conuzana has choson to spook outside tho Bonate, and to mako his declaration of war Jn an unofficial and nformn! manner. Ho s ropresented as denouncing the Administra. tion in the strongest tcrma, — It tho Sonate Lill requiring the Pacifle Ralrond Companies to pay n part of their debt to the Government shall hinve the effect of tarning Jay Gouwp and Tox Bcorr against each other, it will be doubly Llcased. It s said that Jay Gourp attributes his defent to tho hoatility or lukewarmness of Scorr and lus Texas Pacific partisans. If this {s so, there oan be no further ocoasion for delaying & declaration of war, Jay GouLp ought to order out his heaviest artillery at once, be- ginning with the Now York T'ribune, and never stop until Tox Scorr iv put in s bad o position na himself, Whon Credit-Mo- bilier Rallrosd Prosidents fall out, thoy say, honeat men got their dues, z Russia's most troublesomo nelghbor just at present is tho principality of Roumana, which lies between the Czar's old territory and that recently counquered south of tho Danube. Every procaution has boen and is Loing taken to avoid an' actual conflict be- twoen tho soldiers of Prince Cuanres and the Russlan troops now intruding upon Houmanian soil. The Roumaniun Minutry and Chembers are ovidently uot in entira nccord, tho latter desiring to presipi- tato 8 war which the Ministry foreseo would result evon more disastrously, angd leave the priucipality in a worse condition politically than sho would bo if left to take Ler sharo under the terus of the treaty of Han Bte. fano. ‘The tone of the English press would {ndi- cate that thero is at present no immediate prospect of war. If the utterances of the Lall-Mull Gazette ore to be crodited, En- gland’s policy 18 to remain an observant spectator, taking every possible precaution that noy suggest itself in tho way of preparing aud perfecting dotails in its military and paval cstablishments, and belng thus prepared to move at n mo- 1ent’s noticy, She can afford to bide her timo until Russla ehall have becowa satisfied that gnly with the concurrent saction of the troaty Powers can slio utilizo or endow with Lifo tho treaty which hos siuce its negotis- tion been tho great bone of contention, Ope item of significance, whon taken In copnection with yecent dispatches from Vienos, is tho announcement that pll the rogular ‘Turkiyh troops now stationed in Bosnia and Herzegoviua are to be fmmedi- ately withdrawn and sent to Constantinople. This tallies wilh the report, several times sepoated, that Austria hos under serious con- siduration the proposition to occupy the THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878 above-named principalities, assuming nt tho samo time, with the full consent of Russia, A protectorate over the whole of Western Turkey. Bonator Bramve feels nggrieved at the ac- count telegraphed to Tue Trinune by its Washington correspondent of the memora- ble oxcoriation which hesufored attho handa of Senator Epyunns in tho closing hours of the debate on the Pacific Railrond Fanding LIl It s difficult to see wherein Alr. Brare was misreported or the skirmish in qdlation in any manner misvepresonted in our columns. That bo should, upon mature reflection, fecl sore over the rough bandling ho suffered that day is not nt nll strange; but‘that ho should nsk anybody to believe that ho was not specifically referred to by Judge Enmuxps in that stinging thrnst con. cerning Senators who had been thoe subject of seandal in conneotion with raflroad cor- porationa—that is a little too much, Bonator Howe's nttack upon the President not having met with the approval and sup. port that he so confidently expected, tho people of his own Btato having consplonous. ly abstained from any mnnifestations of the Lind, it scemed proper to the Sonator yes- terday to make n personal explanation for tho purposo of disclaiming any malico townrd the Administration, His denial, in roferenco to the Supreme Court appointment, that ho over solicited it personally of the Dresidont or spoko of It in his prosence, will hardly be nccepted as covering tho case, since ho does not deny baving intensely desired tho appointment to the Supreme Court vacancy. It is somewhat unusual for a Senator to arise in Lis seat and reply to newspaper criticisms of his political course, and the explanation of yestordny indicates a disposition to climb down which ought not to go without n suit- able recognition and appreciation, MRS, TILTON'S CONFESSION. The latest confession made by Mrs, Trt- 70N of criminal intimncy with Mr. Bzscren, following upon previous confessions and de- nials, will be regarded by the public as ono of the most nnusentivg doses it hns been compelled to take since the Beronen scandal was firat sprung upon an afllicted communi- ty. It has bLrought out onco moro that familinr and indecorous ‘procossion that fig- ured so long in tlis social opern.bouffe—Mr, Beeonen and his assistant, Mr. Hasvioar; tearful Toansr Sneanuay; the mutual friend, AMovrton; Tnacy, Monnis, sud Evanta; tho gossiping nrtist, Oancentes; e, and Mrs, Tturox and tho wother-in-law Monsz; the inevitablo four women in Plymouth Oburch who scem to have been the recoptacles of Alrs, T'izton's confidences: the inevitable old women of Plymouth who always knew the affnir would turn out in thik manner; and tho unmerous herd of gossips, male and fomale, who will eagerly leava Aine, Res- TeL's rowaing eud the obsconities of tho Nuweri-BoAunMax case to faston upon this new phoso of the Beromen scandal. They reiternte their old stories with renewed gusto, nnd emphasize or condemn the now declaration, according Lo their projudices, as if it wero of some consequence, The most disgusting feature of this busi- ness is tho uttorly barren and impotent noturc of Mrs. Titron's confession, It sot. tlesnothing. It will not change the opinion of any one. Those who have bolieved Alr, Drecuen to bo an innocent man will con- tinue to baliove so, nud those who bave be- lioved Lim guilty will not bo strongthenod f1i thoir bolief. With all respect for Mrw, TiLton 88 a grass widow, and with all sympathy for her a8 n poor wesk woman, it is none the less npparent that she i an uarellable wit- nesa, Bhe has proteated and donied too often what Mr. Rrgours calls **tho great tranegrossion” and his nsslstant pastor ‘‘ unduo behavior,” to induce any ono to be- Hevo her lntest declaration of guilt. No Court would accopt suchs testimony, noither will the grent popular tribunsl to which she makos it. If it bave suy cffect at all, it will induco , many people who havo had no sottled opinfons upon the guilt or Innocence of Mr. Brecnen to Lollove that ko is a persecuted man, and that this oconfession, coming at this distant day, and dragging the hideous nad rovolting scandal from its grave to the light ngaln, is only another step taken by cunning und de- signing persons to injuro the influcnco of the Brooklyn preacher. Thore iu no useful pur- poso subsorved in Mrs, TizTox'’s sudden and surprising act, becauso she has forsworn her. sclf too often to attach any credibility to her effort to criminato Lerself and Mr. Brroun, Sho solomnly voafirms her statemont and leaves the truth with Gop, to whom also she commits homelf ; but four years ngo, in her statoment to tho Investigating Committeo, she afirmed with equal solemuity beforo Gopthatsho wes innocont of the crimoallogsd ugninst her, If there were a pressure laid upon kor originally by Mr. Tiron to charge Mr. Beecuen with the crimo and in the Iu. vestigating Oowmitteo to deny it ogain, tho first question that ocours now is, What fresh pressuro hos been brought to bear to induco her to reaffirmn tho charge? Thero will not be wanting many peoplo who will iee tho kand of Mr. ‘TiutoN in this dra. watio and repulsive surprise, and it will lend confirmation to their belie? that he has been quictly propariog the way for s reconcilia. tion and reunion. It may sevwn o very dls. gusting condition to a roconcilintion that he should require his wifo to sign a confossion of ndultery, oven if she Le gullty; but jt suust e rewembered that Mr, TrLtox bas nover beon squesmish in his mothods, and that he has conducted himself throyghont: this scandal in &4 manner that woald never havo characterized a gentlemau possessing the true spirit of mauliness, Had ho raally belisved Dreomen to Lavo boen guilty of distionoring him, he would have taken somo other course than that which he pursued, less public but more ewplatic, This is the wuy many poopls will argus, and they will olso take it into account that Mrs. TirtoN i3 a very fmbenile woman; that sho is morbld in her dispo. sition and scts upon emotions and impulyes; tlist sho is casily impressed Ly wtrouger na. turca; that when sho was with Bzcurs she was directed by him, and when she was with Tuxon she was influenced by Aim, ond that botwoen the two sho was tossed bither and thithor like a shuttlecock; that sho bus boen deserted by TwwroN end by Brrcsen uud by Plymouth Church since the trial, and Laa been cowparatively alone in the world; aud that for the sake of herseif snd Lier childron she would be willing to do any- thing that would re-establish ber old home. ‘Whether these theories are trus or uot, there is ono thing certain: people aresick and tired of the Brzcues scandal. They had Loped it was Luried forever, sud that they should nover hear of it sgain, when lo! it comes to tho surfuco in all its original lothsomencss, and with no suclont ex- cusy for the resurvection. Ity Toop- pearanco {8 an outrage upon public senti- ment, and the sooner the repulsive thing is thrust out of sight again the better. If Mr, Tirtox desires to be reconciled to his family, let him do it privately. Tho people are tired of him. If Mrs, Tirrox is ronlly guilty, she bed better keop quiet about it. The people are tired of her. They arc tired of Beeonen, of Mourtox, of the mother-in-law, ond of every man, woman, and child who hashad any conneotion, direct or indirect, with this mis- orable old seandal. Thoto aro fresh seandals eonough occurring every day without digging up ancient ones. The best thing that Tretox, and Mrs, Tiurox, and Bexones, and all the rost can do is to make themselves eo small that they will ocoupy no place in the public ntteution, lost peoplo may even wish that they woro dead as well as the scandal, THE RED FLAG IN NEW YORK. The Iudisnapolis T'imes, a Communist organ, prints **a correct illnstration of the Red Fisg flung to the breeze at Besthoven Hall, Now York, while Joux SwinroN de- livered bis famous speech nt the celebration of the Commune,” It also reports Swixtox's speech in full, We do not know which is more remarkable—the flag or the speech. Neither fs likely to mako many friends. Neither is in any senso tha representative of good government, or sound, economical truth, Both are allied with incendiarism, rapine, murder, and pillage. The only jus. tification of Communism which can be imng- ined is its purpose to romove the condition of inequality which exists among mon. This inequality is so firmly fixed in the order of things that it can only be removed, if at all, by bloodshed and robbery. It cannot be re- moved even by thesa means, for it isa part of human nature, dating back to the origin of man ; but, if it could be s0 removed, the question is whother it is desirable. Ia it de- sirable to plunge the world into misery in or- der that the rich shall be poorer and tho poor richer ? Is thore any logio in'the rea- soning which - toaches the poor to covot riches, {f riches are tho source of wrong aud oppression? Is there any power in man to keep all tho property in the world distributed nccording to population, after it has once been axactly divided? Tho Communists, to bo logical, must be prepared to advocate sharing terms with the negroes, the Ohi. nese, and the inhabitants of the Cannibal Islands, They cannot claim any suporiority aver these people which somo of the presont ‘possessors of property canuot justly claim over thom. Tho fundamental error of Communism is that it secka to abolish distinctions not mado by man, and over which man hns no coutrol, namely : tho distinction botween sogacity and stupidity, thrift and prodigal- ity, idleness and industry, Accumnlations of property in tho first instance— porticularly In & country like this— were duo to distinctions of this natore; and they cannot be nbolished by any arbitrary and criminal redistribution such as Mr, Swin- rox and his partisans advocate, Supposing the plans of the Communists to bo success- ful, and oil the property to bo pooled for reapportionment, nothing can provent wis. dom, economy, and industry from getting their roward ngain in the longrun; so that aroturn toa condition of inequality would Lo nmero question of timoe. On any other supposition Communismn would bo the most inequitable systom that could bo devised, for it would then scek to make tho idlo ;uan as good s tho worker, tho thiof as good as tho honest citizon, and tho genius who contrib- uted an invention worth a million dollara to tho common fund of no more nccount than an jdiot. Under such a system thoro would bo no incentives to good notiod| and very grent ones to dishonesty, Communism would then be oxaptly described in the Corn-Law rhymet What is 8 Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal divielons of unequal earninge; Idier, or burglar, or botb, he 18 willing ‘To fork out bis penny oud pocket your shilllng., It ja said that thero are 90,000 Cowmu- nista in tho country,—14,000 in Now York, 8,000 in Chicago, 9,800 in Cincinuati, 5,000 1n 8t. Louls, and 8o on. Tho Soclalists in Chicngo. clected an Alderman at tho last clection ; so did the Socialists in Cineinnati. The New York leaders of the Bociety speak of forming nto n natiopal party, comparing thelr presont feeble condition with that of tho Abolitionists in the early days, and pre- dicting for themselves an oqual monsure of success, Thero I8 just this tobe said against their echemo: that the bottom has beon knocked out of it by the restora.: tion of thoe ourrenoy to a -gound basis. With tho hoalthy expansion that will follow tho restoration of gold and silver to circulation, busincss will revive, tho work- shops will be set in motion, and all tho honest Communists who want work will get it. When gold and silver begin to jingle in their pockets, thoy will be luss anxious than they now nre for *‘equal divisions of un. equal earninga.” Without thom it i safe to eay Commuuism will make no progress; for it will then be simply n struggle between oriminals on the one side and tha honost por. tions of the community on the other,—n struggle which the police can bo trusted to deal with, The bill for tho repeal of the Bankrupt law scems destined fo go: through both Houses of Congress with & rush, as it has alrendy passed the Benate by a largo majori- ty, though on & small vote, Perhiaps there isnouse In repining at this result, which uny bo only an indication of the popular will, It is a perfoctly aafo prediction, bow- ever, that the evils of the Btato systoms of insolvency and baukruptey, which are virta. ally no system at afl, will make the enact. nment of o new Dankrupt lawn favorite mensure williln o dozen years, As soon as the poople have practical experienco of tho difficulty of collecting debts through thirty- eight States, under thirty-eight different laws, they will egain demand the ennctment of & uniform measure. 'Tho present lawmay bo defective, and no doubtis; butitisin. fluitely better than none at all. It might havobeen ameonded at very littlo trpuble or expenss insuch & manneras to satisfy all reasonable expectations. ——— It 1 sald that the smount of money the Cook County delegation to the Democratic Stats Conventlon demunded of Mr. AL M. Poow for thelr support of bim for Btate Treasurer was $7,000. This sum would indicata $100 apleco forseventy of the seventy-six emnbers of the delegatiou. It i3 understood there were eix who Were not parties to this blackmall attempt. A Dewwocrutic paper fn tbe rural districts ways: A lke proposition was wads ta M1, MayzisLp, of Logan Cousty, and the acoundrels mot 10 better. succcsd, i ie judeed aaad commentiary upon the trunsaction in cora, whvat, of tlety, oo 8 e — ‘The Republicans of Bloomington, st seversl maunpicipal elections, baye been dlstracted and divided on side-lssucs, snd in consequence bave beendefested, as might naturally oc expect- cd. At the election on Monday last they con- cluded to preseut s battle-line to the enemy, and the result i3 they swept tho city as of yore. The Dewocratsfand Copumun'sts ranan *lude. pendent " ticket to catch auch Republicans as are inclined to {sms; but the little gamoe did not win this time. The vote cast was n vety hieavy ona for Bloom{ngton, viz.: 8,0:0,—divided aslollows: Col. John Reed (Rep.). Thomas J. Bunn (Ind.) Repnblican majority. At the previous election De: ried the city by 142 majority. The Republicans have carried four ot the six wards, ‘The victory was handsomety won. The Republican expeti- mentalists had discovored that the city was bet- tergoverned by thelr own side than by the other which contalns a disproportionate per cent of bummers and spollsmen. ——— + 1t 1s remarked with trath that the late Demo- cratie Stato Convention was the most respectablo body of men of that parly ever assembled in the Btate, The Democratic party has for a long time been endeavoring to imitate the Hepublicans In genllemunlr deportment, and it is not remarkablo that In the lapse of years they hayo beon cnabled to loarn something. —Springfeld (Jil.) Gazette, Red-Ribbon RurxoLps {s entitled to the chief credit for the *‘respectable” appearance and “gentlemanly deportment? of the members, In his lectures and temperance exhortations he ‘won them from thelr cups, and thus the change for the better In thelr looks and mannors Is ac- counted for. Democrats, when sober, are pretty decent mnd respectable tellows as o rule, and behave themselves tn meoting about as vrderly as Republicanss One of the officers of the Con- vention told us that out of some 550 members ho observeg not more than half a dozen intox!- cated persons, and most of them helmzed‘lo tho Cook County bummers, who had never takon the red-ribbon pledge. ——————— Some of the Democratlc smelling committces in Washington find out moro things than they want to. Grovxn’s Committeo ia one of thoss in bad luck. It sotout to exposa Republican froud, and ran Into a nest of Democratic rascal- ity. Defore it could stop and back ahip, the na- turo of the discuverics leaked out. A Washing- ton dispatch says: The Monnisox Committee of the Houge taok about 812,000 of the Contingent Fund when it ntarted out for a fair count to detect Republican n Loutsiana 1n 1870, Abont $10, 0 ! rne out to be unaccounted for, and thus Groven's evidence fixes the responsibility for ite misappropriation upon some of the Democratic aficers of the last Honse, The discovery was made altogether by aceident, GLoven was not looklng for it [of coursa not], and his experta de- clare it was not their fagit, and they seem to bo fn great fear of losing tholr places. The matter fe certain to mnke & sensation in the House, a8 the matter, as it now stande, 19 & vory clear case of stealing. . —— Scerctary SHBRMAN expeets to have about thirty millions of silver dollars in his vaults on tho day set for resumption, with four millions o month moro coming in. The gold speculators who may want to make a “run™ ou the Treas- ury for yzold must surrender thirty milllons of their greenbacks before they can touch a penny of the gold, If they let Zo any of this silver In order to replenish their stock of grecobacks, sald silvar will immediately begin to flow back into the Treasury, and the rold-gamblers will have to take {t azain before they can reach the stock of gold behiud It. They will ges alck of their *‘run " on the Treasury if they organfze one. The passage of the bill remonetizing sil- ver was the very salvation of tho Resumption act. With plenty of sllver, resumptlon is made practicable and casy; without silyer, it would be exceedingly difficult, 1t not impossible. —— In giving a list of tho Illinols Democrats who voted azalnst (ien. SmizLps for Doorkeeper, and for the Georgia Rebel Fizwp, we omitted Our Canten. We republish the st of Demo- crats wno voted to pluce the gray above tho blue: Canten 11, 1lannsox (Dem.), Chicago. Rouent M. Krare (Dem,), Adams District, Joux . Epex (Deny.), Efingham District. WitLiax A, J. Sranxs (Dom,), Fayetts District, Wirntan It Mongisox (Dem. ), Madison District. WitLtax Hanrzee (Dom. ), Calro District, 1. W. Towxsuzxn (Dem. j, Gallatin District. In justico to Hanmsox It should Lo stated that the newly-clected Rebel 18 understood to boa codsin of his. With* Our CanTER,” blood Is thicker than water. Nepotlsm has more influence wiih him than patriotism, ——— ‘Very little damago appears to have been dono to the fruit crop, notwithstandiog the sharp frests and snow-storms that have provatled in some scctions of late. Says un exchange: owers aro jubilant ovor the development uring tho past fow days, Careful exam- , 1t 1 oelleved, warranf the followlng sum- mary for Northern Ohlo, Southorn Michigan: Fosches, cherrles, peats, ap. plue, and the saller fruites, grapes, currants, rasp- Gerrles, und shirub products onerally, have safel; pusred the frost period, and are '@ 40 far as col weathor la coucerned, and at ¢ carcoly started, of all s promised. Apple-buds but peach buds bogin to show color and ary plentls 1 y pears havo alone suffored, but only and plenty rami foro large crop oreafter. Quinceandapple trecs aro frosh and promising. e —— The friends of the Hon., Tromas 8. Ring- WAY arc pushing his name for Stato Treasurer with cons{derable vigor. ‘The Rock Island Unlon Bays: The T Tuowas 8. Tupaway, of Shawnes- n, n tho lcad an tho Repubficau candidate to 'I'resanrer, 1a previous administration of the ofice sinm hiin na bolng without excep. tion the Lest and inost ofiiclent Troasurer that it nots has ever had, and loui calls for his nomination this year como from all erll of the Ntate, Whlle ho is undoubtedly the wu‘ul wan hie own sec- tlon can present, he is cquaily popalar iu the con- tral and northern rectious, and we look forward to his nomiuation In the Republican Conventlon by a large majurity on tho firat ballot, Mr, Iinawar hag many friends in ftock Island County who will take pleasure In dolng what they cau (0 sdvancae his interests, —— ‘Thedcath of the Boss of the first TammaLy Riug {8 o cruel, cruel blow to tho Deputy- Sheriffs who got 810 nday for escorting him to court and back, and the hackmen who were pald 37 a day for the samo sorvice; also, to the in- wenious Bohemiaus, lke CAROLAN O'Bhixm BrY'sT, who used to peddle confessions, and reminiscences, and things, to awe-struck editors. Hut somo hundreds of honeat statesmen when they retlect that the Boss Is gono wherp thero is neither confessing nor giving n of stubs from cheek-books whil rejoice and breathe more freely, feellug as if w lcaden statue of the old man's size hiad been lifted off of their breasts, which will uow be suffered to swell with honest {fudiguation If any ono says “TweeD " to them. —— ‘The students of Triuity College recently plugged up the college belt with shingle-uatls and plaster of Paris by way of a witticlam, Thea one of thelr number died and went presumably to that brighter, better land, whera there is no bazing, ueither wiving of degrees, and whea Fresident PyxcuoN decllued to go to the ex- pense of having the bell cleaned out so that it mighs bo tolled at the funcral, the students waxed wroth, It 1s not known as yet what foria thelr indignation will take,—whether they will blow up the President’s houss with nitro- Rlyceriue or only palnt tho frout of it aky-blue, — e ———— A nuwber of yromiaent and influential Irish Democrats of Chicago telegropbed to Cantan H. Hlangisox requesting bim to vote for tho Kuliant ola Unlon Geu. BHIBLDS for Doorkeeper; but ho treated the request with disregard, and cast bia voto for the Georgla Hebel, Cantsn will be after makine a plous pllgrimage through the soutnwestern wards next fall, explaining that vote for *Cousin FieLo.”” If the byes don't make Wi do penance, cat 'umblo ple, and take a back scat, It {s becauso they have de- generated. ——— Joux KeLLy's puver, the York Expres, sald of TWEED that kg “was no worse than many of iz assoctates who still claim to be re- spectable aud parade as refornicrs, The moral of his lifc is too abvious to need polating vut,” added Misther KmLLy, with theflue contempt for detalls of the mon who f50't quits sure what the moral Is, or doesn’t care to point ft out. . ———— Ex-Chief-Justice DixoN bas just brought an Important suit in the Bupreme Court of Wis- cousin. It s for the purpose of anuulling the charter and vacating the frauchises and ecxisc- ence of the Milwaukee, Lake Bhore & Western Rallroad, ruuniog from DMilweukee worth through Sheboygsn to Manltuwoe and thence west to Appleton. The sulk is in the uatuso of Northern Indians, and- aqno warranfo procceding. and fa brought in the name of the Attorney-(eneral of the State, The petitlon sats forth that the principal and gencral offices of the Company are not in the Stato of Wiscousin, as required by law, but are held fn the City of Now York, and thatthe bouks and records haye never been kept in Wis- consin, The suit Is brought under a general law of Wisconsin requiting that all rosds oper- ated wholiy within the Statc shall have thetr woneral office and keep their records open to Inspection in the State. A’ $20,000 judgment against tho Railrond Company is the stimulat- ing cause of this sult, and the prospect now is that it will have to be pald, as tho SBupreme Court of Wisconsin has become somowhat famous for holding raliroad corporations to a rigid accountabllity. e ——— . It certainly cannot Lo sald of Mrs. TiLTON that— She letd concealment, }ks the worm, Feed on her tsmask cheok, The fact s, she does not secm to be able to con- ceal worth a cent. To altcr & somewhat noted passago of SHAKSPRARR to fit the case, it would read thus: i 5 ;flw‘r?:t' :;,? :::I&:;‘t:“:r:: worm 1" the bnd, F¥eed on her damask chesk: She pined in thonght, And, with a green and yellow Melancholy, Bhe wat, like Patience, on a monument, Hmiling at Hexny Wanp Bercien. — Tow comparatively recent a thing college boating s, even in England, appears from the fact that o few weels ago o genticman died in ons of the northern counties who had pulled stroka In the first clzht-oared crewy put togetler ‘at Oxford, while last week died Bishop Gxorax Auousrus BELwYN, Bishop of Lichfleld, & mem- Ler of the Cambridge elght that rowed In tno first race with Oxtord, Juno 10,1820, He lived to within one year of the sewl-centennial, and to within one day of the annual race, —— ‘The Democratie ring of Quincy recelved an uncxpected order to take back seats at the clection on Mondsy, The Republican candi- dato for Mayor was elected by 820 mojority. It fa aaid that somoof Gen. Buiztps' indignant Irish friends contributed to thisresult. Con- gressman KNare of that district voted against Gen, Butrrps and for the Robel FizLp, and his vote {a not indorsed with much cptbusiasm by Gen. 8urzrps’ countrymen. —————— The Richmond Despalch offers to Ropresent- attve Dovavas tho flrm support of & lamppust, and describes bim as “a most estimable won- tleman, and 2s to abilitics far superior to uine-tenths ot his Yankes traducers.'” Thazzo, alefler! But why shiould the Despateh only cer- tity asto his **abllitics,” and meke him out a sort of drunken geniual That lamppost will ap- pear to Mizzer Dovaras to be golog round avd round, —e—— * When Twgsp was Orst arrested, he naturally went to his fricnds for ball. Of Lis flve bonds- mep, two were JAY Gout.p and Huax J. Hast- 1nas, now proprietors of tho two Ropublican ncwspapers of New York City that oppose President HAY®S on tho ground that e does not represent true aud pure Republicanism, —————— . Mayor ErY, of New York,in an Interview with a rpeently-landed Heraid cditor, deliv- ered the following aphorism: * Whoover robs tho people in gencral robs each other individuate ly." In o grommar tournsment, Mayor Evy, or the cditor, according as the caso may e, would be very aot to take the firet prize. ———— Saturday last, gold eold for ¥ percent preml- um over greenbacks; ycatorday it wayered be- tween ) and 3§ per vent. Groenbacks were, therefore, within !¢ of 1 cent of the value of gold or allver dollars; and yet Goupr's platform demands the immediate sod uncondt- tional repeal of the Resumption uct! e e o Jit Bratye wasn’t able to put Ji'Y Gourn's bill through fn the 8cnate, and Jax GouLp Is comlog back at him. GalL-HAMILTON'S essays are now packed into an obscure, corner of tho supploment, and lctters showing how unjust oud Inacurato GALL is a8 & critic are tagged on fo them, —_— ‘Those Democrats who were Unlon men dur- fug the War bave stood a good deal of Confed- crato imposjtion tor tho sake 6f party succoss; but when they are commanded to put the gray above tha biue thelr gorge begins to rise and fire flashes from thelr eycs as of yore. ————— It is not kuown how much property TweeD left, but his executors can probably realize from elght to ten millions of dollars by peddling his check-stubs, letters, and private memoranda to statesmen with whom he was on terms of flnan- clal futimacy durlog his iife. ‘The New York papers are wrangling over thelr circulation, Our nomesake goes to the superfluous troublo of publishing certificated from the Post-Oftico Department to prove that it is the heuvicst paper that goes through th‘n malls. . A verson who professcs to know, asserts that the spiteful and wallcious attacks on the High- School system of Chicago, which appear in tho editorial columns of BTOREY'S paper, are nearly all written by an ex-member of .the School Board, Peruvian bark, Dr. D'UNoxn suys, (s a perfect specific for alcoholic eppetite. Autaphrodislac 18 tho remedy ozalnst the temptations BRxcnan 18 charged with belug unable to uvercome, | 1 Judge Camearit, an ardent Tammanyite, fainted when bo heard of Boss Twxxp's death. What can the Boss have known about him to {nsplre such joy? 4 Notice of the Confederate-Copperhead House of Representatives: * No Lrish need apply.” % Moxraouzry BLamshould offer a chromo for overy vote for hls sixty-day plan. Twaxp knows how 1t is himself, B —— PERSONALS, Gathorne Hardy, the British Minlster, has two sond In Parliament. The idlotorial corps of the Herald" is what tho Washington Fost calls it. Col. Delancy Kane {s spoken of by an un. concilisted Southern vaper as the most popular hackman in New York. ‘Aimee {a on her woy home from Ouba, but 1t is not kuown whether sho will be able to saczidce another sulcidsl prompter on this journey upon tha altar of advertisiug. Murat Halsted made up his mind to go to Earope 1n such & husry—or rather, after so Jonga —thst he will haveto wear Mark Twaln's on the’ passsge and use his wife's bale brusbes, Rhods Broughton lives in the beautiful Valiey of Choyd, Walcs; sho ls **about* 30, splr- {tual in expresslon, with o light, quick, impatient manner, and » good figure. She I8 of about the average height. Forty members of a fashionable club in London are ssid Lo bave bound themseives by oath 'whip the editor of any paper that prints 0 of any of thelr lady frieads wilh dispar. 0glug remarks. . Prof. Thomas Luoy, Vice-Principal of the Daltimore Femalo College, who died & few days 840, was an intimate friend of Dickens, with whom he srepurted In Patliament. He clalmed toboa descondant of Shakspesre's Blr Thomas Lucy. 8. U. Kirby, & sewing-machine agent in Little Rock, is now on trisl for conspiracy to de- froud the Goverament by taking stamps fruin coun- try Postmasters at & large discount. - His business pald, however, for the net profts wero $30,000 & year. At a London police court a few days ago o vocalist who aings st seversl public resorts appesat- ©d to complain of some ssssilante wbo bad baoled bim about rudely, done ncazly $10 worth of dam. age to his wig, and spolied & camelliain his button. bole. 1t came out in the evidesce that this man, who wears cameliias in s bution-hole and keeps house In & very ezpenalve style, 1s a'crosalng. aweeper. RAILROADS. Annual Report of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Some Historical Reminisconces Con- nected with Railroading in Wisconsin, Gen. Miles® Report i!egnrdlng the Northern Paciflc—Somo Statistics, Another Pooling Schome---Missonri River Rates---8t, Xouis & Southeastern. ey G,y M. & 8T. P, 178 FOURTERNTII ANNUAL REPORT, Fourteen years ago, there wero six or eight littlc acraps of rallroad lines in Wisconstn, some short and wome long. léading from thelake shore into the tuterior, ali operating undersepa. rate charters and controlled by different Boards of Diréctors. There wasano such thing as a gen- cral system of saflways in the Btate cftherin theory or practice, no rational plan of Inter- communication by the use of this great modern method of travel ever seemed to have taken posseaston of the minds of the projcctors of these scveral roads, but each company went blindly at work, running its own machine and trying to carve out thelr crude deslgns as best 1t could with the means at hand, The Legisia- turo of Wisconsin excrcised as littlo discretion Ingranting rafiroad charters as the companies did to whom the charters were given, so far as the development of a definite method was cou- cerned, but it generously gave to all that asked, without much regard to the good of the people in tho future and In deflance of any settled public policy, The result was, that, from 1850 to the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, A RAILROAD EMDEMIC prevaited In Wisconsin as contaglous as the small-pox and scarlet-fever, and almost every clty, towd, and village was down with the dls- case. Numecrous lines were projected, funds: obtained by every expedient known to shrewd Nnanciers, bonds, stocks, and mortgages wero forced npon the market, contracts let, work commenced, and the future was bright with sn. ticlpated profits and success. Citles, towns, and countles yoted bunds, loaned thelr credit, wgave large sums as o bonus, subscribed for stock, gave mortgages upon thelr property, and many of them arc in debt to this day, Farmers mortgaged their farms, and merchantgtind trad- ers along the lino put their surplus carnfogs fnto the maw of some struggling corporation to help the eonterprise along and dovelop the country. Everybody wanted a rall- road, aud every one put his shoulder totho wheel. -But in a fow years tho fever subsided, and tho pattents hind a rolapse. Many of them died and were burled under the monuments crected out of thelr unpald bouds and mort- Rages; others slecp In uomarked graves, whilo a few survive aod are now enjoy- Ing & falr degree of health and prosperity. Beforo tho Chicago, Milwaukce & 8t. Paul Rail- wny Company wss created, the roads ih the Btate that had built and were operating o portion of thelr projected routes now consolidated with it were six In number. TUB MILWAUKES & MISSISSIPPL, runnivg from Lake Michigaa to Prairte du Cbien, 198 miles In length, was,the ploncer cu- terprisc of tho kind, and puue«! through many trials and tribulatfons boforo It reached the Fatber of Waters. ,Its name was changéd tlreo times, and its_history from beginnlng to end would furnish Mr. Herbert Spencer with admirable data for a chapter on the evolution of rallroads, Next in tmportanco was the “La- Crosse & Milwaukee,” stretching 200 miles across the Btate, and that, too, has a history still more curlous and Inatructive thau its former rival, If it was not comcelved In sln, it was certaluly brought forth fu inlquity, and, liko somo other rogues, it was often tompelled to asaume ou allas and’ adopt other dlsguises and conccalments In order to cscapothic consequences of fts acts und avold tho clutchof the law., Tho -unmo of “The LaCrusse & Milwaukeo,” that {t was originaliy chartored under, waschanged to “The Milwaukes & Minnesota,” then to “The Milwaukee & 8t. Paul,” and now it finds peace and respectabllity under the able man- ugement and ownership of “The Chlcago, Mil- waukee & 8t. Pabil” Its record makes ono of tho darkest pagesin the. domestic history of Wisconsin, and fts recital here would be forelgn to tho object of this communtéation, It is sulflclent to say that, botween the swindles that it habitually porpotrated upon privato fo- dividuals, the frauds that it was guilty of com- mitting undor the forms of law, the litigation that it causcd its honest creditors, wnd the cor- ruptions that it pructiced upon the inuocent Wisconsin Legiatature, 1t will stand asn warning and a rebuke for all timo tocome. The man who remombers the famous LAND-GRANT INVESTIGATION mado by the Legislature during the scasion of 1856, or will read tho official account of that remarkablo trinl, will fcel tho full forco of the un(n\';:'nbln critfelsm that has been passed upon it, * pNun in Importhnee were soveral lttle apura of ronds jutting out into the country from these main_lines, but, being cut off by ihe untimely finaucial frosts, they wero so soon done for that 1t was & puzzie to know what thoy werd begun for. About sixty mlles from Milwaukece, the Horicon branch started and pushed its liog up to Berlin, a dlatanco of & littlo over nn{ miles. From Mtlton,in Rock County, the polut where the Northwestern Hoad crusses the 8t. Paul, the Monroe branch leads out some fifty odd miles, heading for the lcad miues, Auother unfinished fragment stretchivd from Milwaukee to Columbus, with a fork at Watertown, thut ended In the ground at Bun Prairfe. The Elvl between tho last-named place mud the City of Madison, and between Columbus and Portaze Clt:&;mvo been titled up by the present manoge- ment, and the line from 3Medison to Portage completed. A CONFLICT OF JURISDICTION, Added to these roads ond Dbits of roads, whou‘or partly constructed, owned and man- sged scparate and hostile Boards ot Direct- ors, and with conflicting futercats, there woro othiers of maraudiug dispositions and with the bablts of the guerrilla, which weie frauds In thelr fuciploncy, snd sp continucd to tho end. 1n that disreputable category may be placed the two defunct companies, the Belolt and the Mll- waukee & Bupoerior, in afd of which tho City of Milwaukee gencrously donated bouds to ‘the amouut of ), for wuich shue will never secure a sjugle dollar, tor seo u milo of the pro- posed runds constructed, It Is caay to sce that there must be & constant brofl betwixt those rival corporatious, aud that the best thing to be done {u the juterests of the peuplo, for tha benellt of trade, and to promote the advantages of the stockholders was to con- solidate all tnese lines, place them under one managenient, bufld a line to Chicago, the b railroad radius of America, and thus solidify aud systematize and tnake available the crude and hap-hazard work of twenty years. A L8B THEORY, of Wisconsin, s0 far as tein, was or(zimuly pro- jected upon a falss theory, It wos tha dream of Byron Kilborn and his cuntemporaries to make Milwaukvo s great rallroad ceitre, usiog Luke Michigan on the east aud the Misslssiopl River on the west as the naturul outiets and oxtensiuns of the swtem, and thus cutting off and lfinorlnx tho City of Chicago altogether. But the hyperborean clinate which closed river aud luke for tive months in the year, ou the oce Laud, anda tho overshadowlug futuence aud fm- vartauce of Cbicago as the great busiuess cen- tre of the ullu{ of the Mississiopl on the other, dispelled this illusion ufter awhile, but uot untlf the theory bad fulso Ly & practical appllcation of it the laws which povern commerce. The two 1liues sirst built across _the Btate, beginning in Milwaukee, and obo endlng {u Prairie du Chien aud the other o LaCroase, were found 10 be cupfined to the mero local traflic during six mouths fu the year, aud jt is ot to be woudered at that ucithér of thembaid aoy dividends upon the cost of conatruction atter deductiog the nccessary operatiog ex- peuses. And it was uot untll the ablest fivan- cler and railroad manager west of the Great Lakes undertook tho herculean task of bringing order out of this chaos, aud making an immevse property avallable to its owuners wulle It sub- served the purpoacs of commerve. ALKXANDEN MITCHKLL saw what was necded, aud gayv to the accom- plishment of & noble purpose the ald of amplo ineans and the geuerous solicitude for thy vest interests of his adopted State. He bad no sgon- er extricated the differcut lMues from thelr fnancial ewbarrassiuents, aud placed them uo- der able and ceouvwlcal wauagement, than Lo been proved to b built a connection with Chleago, thus | his rouds with the busy world of tm::k-':& business outslde, and making the trafile of Lake Michigan a mero fncidont, and not the principa] factor In his enterprise, which is wholly g vorlanco with the theory of Kilbourn and Iy old fogy assaclates, but which has the sanction of common sense. Mr. Mitchell pop only t Into the heart of the City of Chicago with hia rond as qurckiy 28 possible, but he changed the name of hig corporation to the Chicago, Milwaukee & 3y, Paul Rallway Company, thus recognizing tis fact that, while a rose by any other name mizhy amell 88 aweet, a rallrond company might better bave a cognomen that sizniflcs bustaess iy o way that the whole world may read. But I am historical whin 1 ought to be statis. tical; o I come down nt once Lo the facts and figures of this Company's FOURTEENTII ANNUAL MRPORT, i““ published for the Information of the stock. holders, which discloses n business that {s both gratifying and sizoificant. The ontire cost of the whole property, including equipment, bridaes, clevators, wareliouses, cattle-yards’ and grounds, {s as follo: " Mortaags bonds Preferred stock. Common stock, .. 20,054, 12,225, 00 15,104,20) o veenes. 867,038,244 600,760 203,000-8 1,703,730 (830.613 eose 100 855,034,404 p: g8, expenses, and gep. cral condition of the Company for th 1870 and 1877 are as follows, viz,s oM Grosn earninga—1870, sg.m,xm 1877, 88,. llll’.«m‘: Incresse, $60, 72! 5 44 onias erating e 53,324 4,510,405 o 039,324 181, et enrning 00, 847: 1877, 80,674, bonds—1870, 400; increase, $173), Inlerest on morigag 3 ll;xu.{'!lhtzx nctc‘;nu snuaai:no . re moved—1870, 1,7035,801; 1877, 087, 037; 'r"g' I T 1 18, umber of pas h 1,15 s 1877, 1,130, di1c s, 14,500, Al 3ayy rose carnings per mile of road—1870, §5, 75 1877, 86,143 snerease, $31, 70, 83,752 The bonded debt of the Compnn: creased during the year £56,000, Theycg:pgnn; constructed a branch road from New Lisbon to Necedol, on tho Ycllow River, a distance of thirteen miles, It also ndded to the equipmen, of the road 6 locomatives, 2 passenger-cars, 40 Lox, 100 stock, 13 caboose, aud 3 postal cars, and lald 835 mflc: of steel rails. The corpora. tiou {s free from floating debt, and has no leages to sbsorb itz carnings. It ownsa majorlty of the stock of the Western Unlon Railway running from tho Racine to the Misslssippl River. The gross carnings of tho Comapnn for the first half of the year 1870 were 83,960,517; and for the first balf of 1877 they wers $2,058,153; com. If-"“"" decrese for first half of 1877, 81, 2 or the last. BaIf of 1670, the wross saris were $4,003,654; and for the lika perlod of 1877 thuy wers 85,150,740; comparative {ncrease for last half of 1877, 8$1,003,080. An cxplanation of these fluctuatlons is to bo found n the fact that tho wheat crop In tno States traversed by the ronds of this Company was very deficlent for 1876, while for tho year 1877 It was above an average, 8o much for the past. The corparation opens the year 1878 by sccuring a fine grant of laud fa Towa, and undertaking to build an extensfon of its line from Algong to Bheldon, a distance of eighty-fiva miles, where it will con. nect-»with tho Sfoux City & 8t Paul Reilrond, The contract hus been talen by responsible parties, and large gangs of men ara already at work aloug the new route, It has also under contract a continuation of fts Hastings & Dakota " Division in Minnesots {from Glencoo, clzhty west to Graolte Falls, on the Mluncsota River. The territory through which these extenslona will pass is” the most fertile portion of those two famous ngricultoral States, and 1s being rapidly developed by a fru- gal nod industrious population, An srea of nuw country, 80 nlles wido and 200 mllesin length, eapable of producing a large smuunt of surplus farm products, wiil be brought Into closa communication with Chicago beloro the trees agaln shed their leaves. An Interesting chapter for the Chicago and Eastern readers ilght bo written upon the history of the lowa and Minnesota di vislons of thls great corporation, svd the writer could draw pmwn : facts, and not upon his magination, to clothe the s count with thoalr of o rural romauco; butl forbear. Kuough has becn sald, and the history of railroad-butiding fn tho three great States of Wiscousin, Iowas, and Minnesotn proves that tho effurt to fgnore Chicago in any system fs like playing * Hatnlet ¥ with the vart of Hamid leftout, Andso I close this already loo lonz communlecation by saying n brief word fn com- mendation of the rare skill, signal fidelity, sod indefatigable industry of N. 8. Merrill, Esq.,the Gencral Mauager of the Company. Hls pecullar adaptation for the position has developed Into a genlus for tho service, ana ho has been to Mr. Mitchell what Marshal &ey ‘was to Donaparte, or what Gen. Sherman was to Urant, THE NORTHERN PACIFIOC. GBN. MILES' HEPORT. St. Paul Pioneer- Press. We quote the following extract from the very able report of Gen. Miles, recently filod In the War Department at Washington, in relatfon to the immense Importance of thisroad as a transit and protection in the great Womaln of the Mis sourl and Yellowstone Valleys, and of opening those regions to setticment and cultivation: The occupationof the Yellowstone Valley bas divided the Indian country Iu_twaln, and, second fothe subjugation of the Indlans, the abjectof military occupation has beon ubtained In uhiain- ing accarate and' valuabla informatiun regarding the character of the country and opening the way tosettloment, Although the lndians, when hos- tile, naturally seck the most broken counlry for their retroats, and ono in following them woald form an unfavoruble impression of such dlatricte of Montans, yet the porcentage of ** bad I 1 b{ 1O means great, in comparison to the vasl of rich graxing, sgricaltural, and mineral | this Territary, will give more stzength to horses and mules thast that found in any Torzitory botween this and ibe 1tlo Gpande, oud, judeing from tho condition of the game which abounds, snd the excollence of the boef which has buen furntatied the command dut: ing {ho past tweive months, Tam satisfed thst country will 8001 become one of the bwst sock- growing reglons on the continent. I think the re- ports of the medical otticers will ahow this cilmate &8s healthful as any that troops ever served i, the natives of ib{wsection, 1 think, are 3¢ vigor- ous and hud( & ruce a8 can be found on the glube. 'The occupation of this district bas given pro- ?cllun 10400 milos of steamboat navigatton of the wilowstune Hiver and thrown open to seitiement, besides the Yellowstone, the rich Valleys of Big lorn, Rosebud, Tungue, Powder, und Luite Missoarl livers, The folegranh s s militaty *necessity, and | would carnestly racommend ibst these pusts be conuected by mlitary telegravh with as little delay as practicablo. itapiaand direct mall communication fe neaded with the terminos of the Northern Pacifc Railroad at Blemarck, sud the constructiun of that great nationl enterprite should, In my oplnlun, ba encourayed by every legltimato means, ‘The nilitary advantsges to bd derived from ile cxiensiu, though very ureat, would be Incomparabla with the pol]tical and cout- inercial interests developed by opening tbe lytll‘": of {ree communication between (he Edstern Slate and tho sottlements of Montans and the Pacide Slope. The followlug comparative statement of the earuings of the Northern Pacide Lallwav (Aflrx the mouths of January, February, and Marc {u 1877aud 1878 will giveanidea of the Jucresie of traftic upun that Lighw e nsturul grasves of Mootans Tercentagt of, Incraass) ancreuss 0f in 1478, earnings. | $16, 003 21,718 20,620 MISCELLANEOUS, ANOTHEI POOLING SCUEME. » The lake aud rall routcs to the Eust heve been competing a0 sctively and successfully agalnst tha all-rall routes during the 1ust k: weeks that tbe latter have been unable to ¢ business. The all-rall rate on graiuto 1:;\1 York fs st prescot 25 ceuts per .10 pou !; whils the luke and rall routes meke s 20 ced rate, and therefore take all the business. T:- latter can do this and make money, but U : former clalim that they can wake no money n‘ 20 cents. They are therefore very nlumna to roduce 10 that figure, and yet they will hn; to do it if an wrrangement canuot bo mlhfl with the ralland lake routes by which ‘d:- buslvess origluatiog bere can bo equitably - vided, in tact to pool the tonnage oo the sam plau between all-rafl and luke sud rall mne; a8 isnow dons by the raitroads lesd!nx!numm Western poluts. To arrange & plas of this 80! s meeting of railroad wansgers and owners U Jake steamers will bo held st Clevelsud to-dsJs Of course, the meusgers of the roads lndm; East from this city are grestly in favor of lh‘ new pooling scheme, as it would give them fair sisare of tjp business during the luuxmu"; How the steamsbip men stand oo this maiter ¥ uot known, but ft 18 not thought probadle lh‘d they will allow themselves to be hoodwinke! by the wily raflroaders and joln i 8 scbeme which raust necessarily prove disastioud