Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1878, Page 5

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PAIIS, France—No. 16 Rue d¢ ls Graoge-Natellere. M, ManLn, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchaoge, 4490 Etrand. Wrxny F, Giuie, Agent. BAN FRANCISC s 1oteh MeVieker's Thentre. Madiron atreet, between Dearborn **The Extles.” Afternoon and evening. and Gtate. Tlaoley’s Theatrn. Randoloh strect, between Clark and Lasalle. *'The Exltes.” Afterncon and evenlng. Hnverly’s Theatra. Monroe street, corner of Dearborn, Engsgement ot Riralfy's Opera Douffe Troupe, **The Deluge.” Afe ternoon and evening. New Chicago Theatre. Clark street, opposite Bherman lfouse, performance, SOCIETY ME! Varlety CAGO CHAPTE! ‘WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1878, Greenbacks at tho Now York Stock Ex- thange yestorday closed at 993 in coin. The action of the Council on Monday night 'n repenling the ordinanco opening South Dearborn stroet is likely to subject the. city to a legal linbility nmounting to at least a millien dollars. The action was hasty and ill-ndvised, and we nro astonished that such n proceeding should have takoen place. It is to bo hoped the Mayor will veto the ropealing ordiunnce, if for no other ronson than to give time to consider the grave probable consequences. The injunction case of I'oriem va, Tho City of Chicago, the objoct of which is to restrain tho city from paying ita certificatos of indobtedness, hns been politely shown the door by Judge Brovorrr, of the United States District Court, to which” it was trans- ferrod from the Superior Court. Judge Bropaxtr fails to perceive wherein his Court lins jurisdiction in a matter purely within tho scope of the State law, and the caso will therefore go back to tho Superior Court. etab o g ‘W print elsewbere in this issue an inter- eating communication from our Milwaukee corrospondent, giving a brief history of rail- ryading in Wisconsin, which is permented Ly o practical philosopby that-will not es capo tha attention of the intelligent reader. ‘The {ufergnces that are to bo legitimately drawn from tho articlo referrod to are: (1) That lakes and rivers are poor commer- cial outlets in winter, as compared with rail. roads, (2) That an ottempt to Luildupa syatom of milronds in tho .West without coming to Chicago must resultin a grand failare, Tho Now York 1orld sscms to have been selected by Benator CoNrrixa au the medium for giving to tho covmtry his views respect-’ jog the political . outlook, and mora par- ticularly his sontiments toward the Ad- ministration of Presidont Havis, From the interview which s transmitted by telegraph, through the agency of the Associatod Press, it appears that Mr. Covkrva has chosen to spesk outsido the Bonate, and to mako Lis declaration of war ju o unofficial and 1nformal manner, Hels xopresented s denouncing tho Admintstra. tion in the strongest terme. It the Senate Lill requiring the Pacifie Ralroad Companies to pay a part of their debt to the Government sball hinve the effect of turning Jay GouLp and Tox Bcorr againat each other, it will be doubly blessed. It ds #ald that Jax Gouwp attributes Lis defeat to tho hostility or lukewarmmness of Scorr and hus Toxas Pacifio partisans. If this is wo, there can be no further oconsion for delaying a declaration of war, Jax Gourp ought to order out Lis heaviest artillory at once, bo- gioning with the New York Zribune, and never stop until Tou ScorT is put in o8 bad a position ns himself, When Oredit-Mo- biller Railroad Prosidents fall out, they say, honest men got their du Ruasia’s moat troublesome noighbor just at present is tho principality of Roumania, which lies botween the Czar's old territory and that recently conquered south of tho Dannbe. Every precaution has boen and is boing taken to avoid an' actual conflict be. tweon the soldiers of Prince Cuanves ond the TRussinn troops now intruding upon Roumanian soil. The Roumaniun Mimstry aud Chambers are evidently not in entire accord, the latter deslring to prosipi- tate a war which tho Ministry foreseo would . result even more disnatronsly, and leave the priucipality in o worso condition politically thon she would bo if left to take Lor sharo l;ndcr the torms of thoe troaty of Han Bte. 00, ‘The tone of the English press would fndi- cate that thero is nt preseut no imwmediate prospect of war, If the utterances of the Lall Mull Gazette aro to bo crodited, En. gland's polioy 18 to remuin an observaut spectator, taking every possible precaution that ey suggest itself -in the way of preparing and perfectiug details in its military and naval establishments, and being thus prepared to move at o mo- ment's notice. She can afford to bida her time until Russia shall have become satisfied that guly with the concurrent action of the troaty Powers can sl utilizo or endow with Life tho treaty which has since its negotia. tion been the great bone of couteution. Ope item of significauco, when taken In copnection with yecent dispatches from Vienns, is tho aunouncement that all the rogular Turkish troops now stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina are to be immedi- stely withdrawn and sent to Constantinople. This tallies with the roport, several times repeated, that Austria hus under serious con- sideration the propositon to occupy the above-named prineipalitios, assuming at tho samo time, with the full consent of Russia, & protectorate over tho whole of Western Turkey, Bonator Brars fecls nggrioved at the nc- count telegraphed to Tus Tninuse by its Washinglon correspondont of the memora- blo excoriation which hosuffored at the handa of Senator Epxruxps in the closing hours of the dobato on the Pacific Railroad Funding bill. Tt fs difficult to see wherein Mr, Brane was misteported or the skirmish in qflluun in any manner misrepresented in our columns. That he should, upon maturo reflection, feel sore over the rough handling ho suffered that dny is not at all strange; butihat ho shonld ask anybody to believe that ho was not specifically referred to by Judge Enmoxps in that stinging thrust con. cerning Senators who had been the subject of seandal in connection with railroad cor- porations—ihat is a little too much, Benator Howe's nttack upon the Prosident not having met with the approval and sup. port that ho so confidently expected, tho people of his own State having conspicaous- 1y abstained from any mnuifestations of the kind, it scemed proper to tho Senator yes- terdny to make a personsl explanation for tho purpose of disclaiming any malico townrd the Administration, His donial, in reference to the SBupreme Court appointment, that he over solicited it personally of tho President or spoke of It in his presence, will hardly bo acceptod as covering tho cnse, since ho does not deny having intensely desired tho appointment to tho Supreme Court vacamoy. It is somowhat uuusual for a Senator to arise in his seat nnd reply to nowspaper criticisms of his political course, and the explanation of yestorday indicates a disposition to climb down which ought not to go without a snit- nble recognition aud appreciation. MRS, TILTOR'S CONFESSION, The latest confession mado by Mrs. Trz~ 70N of criminal intimncy with Mr. Bzsonen, following upon previous confessions and de- ninls, will be regarded by tho public as ono of the most nauseating doses it has been compelled to take sinca the Beeonen scandal was first sprung upon an aflicted communi- ty. It has bronght out onco more that familinr and indecorous ‘procession that fig- ured 8o long in this social opern-bouffe—3Ir, Beeonen and his nusistant, Mr. Hartioay ; toarful Toarux SueAnxaN; the mutual friend, Movurron; Tracy, Monnis, and Evanrs; the gossiping nrtist, Oaneexten; Mr. and Alrs, T'rox and tho wother-iulaw Mozsz; the inevitablo four women iu Plymouth Church who soem to have beon the receptacles of Mrs, Tiutox’s confidences; the inevitablo old women of Plymouth who alwnys knew the affair woull turn out in this manner; and tho numerous herd of gossips, male snd fomale, who will eagorly leava 3ne. Res- TELL'S romains and tho obaconitios of the NeweLr-BoaupMaX caso to faston upon this new phaso of the Beeomen scandal, They reilerata their old stories with renewod gusto, and emphasize or condomn the new declaration, according to thoir prejudices, as if it wero of some couscquence. Tho imost disgusting foature of this busi- ness is tho utterly barron and impotent nature of Mras, TiuToN's confession, It set- tlesnothing. It will not chango the opinion of any one. Thoso who liave bolfeved Mr, Beecuen to be an innocent man will con- tinue to beliovo 8o, and those who havo be- lioved him guilty will not Lo strengthened in thoir belief. With all respect for Mrs, TiLtoN ns o grass widow, and with all sympathy for her n8 n poor wesk wouan, it is nono the less apparent that abe 4 an unreliable wit- ness. Bbu has protested and donicd too often what Mr, Rexcuen calls **tho great tranegrosulon™ and Lhis nasistant postor * unduo bebavior,” to induce any one to be- liovo her Intest declaration of guilt. No Court would accopt such testimony, neither will the great popular tribuaal to which she makes it. If it havo auy cffect at all, it will induco maoy people who have Lsd no sottled opinions upon tho guilt or innocenco of Mr. Bercuen to heliovo that ho is n persecuted . man, and that this confeusion, coming at this distant day, and dragging the hideous and rovelting scandal from its gravo to tho light ogain, s only another step takon by cunning and deo- signing persons to injure the influenco of tho Drooklyn preacher. There ia no useful pur- -poso subserved 1n Mrs, TirroN's sudden and surprising act, becauso she lais forsworn her- self too often to attach any crodibility to her effort to criminate herself and Mr, Breouex, Sho solomply voaffirms her atatement and leaves tho trath with Gop, to whotn also she commits horself ; but four yeara ago, in hor statement to the Investigating Committeo, sbo afttrmed with equal solemnity beforo Gopthatsho was iunocent of tho crimeatloged ugainst hor. If thore wero a pressure lnid upon ler orlginally by 3r. TiLtoN to charge Mr, Beeeuzan with the crime and in the Ju. vestigating Committeo to deuy it again, the first quostion that ocours now is, What fresh pressuro hos boen broughi to bear to induce Ler to reaflrin tho chargo? ‘Thero will not be wanting mmany peoplo who will'seo the hand of Alr. Tirxon in this dra- watio and repulsive surprise, and it will lend coufirwation to thoir belief that he has been quletly proparing tho way for a reconcilia. tlon and rounion, It may sesmn o very dis. gusting condition to a roconciliation that he sliould require his wife to sign a confession of adultery, oven if she Le guilty; butit tmust bo rewentbored that Mr, ‘TruroN has never been squeamish in his mothods, and that ho has conducted himself throyghout: this scandal in n manner that would never lavo charncterized o geutleman possessing the true epirit of mouliness. Had ho really believed Brzouzs to have beea guilty of dishonoriug Lim, ho would bave taken soma other course tlian that which he pursued, less public but wore cuiphitic, This s the wuy maony people will argue, and thoy will also take it into account that Mri, 'lizroN ié a very imbeaile womanj that slie is morbid in her dispo. gition aud acts upon emotions and impulses; tuat abo is easily impressod Ly strouger na- turca; that when sho was with Beecurn she was directod by him, and when she way with TicroN she was influenced by Alm, ond that boetwoen tho two sho was tossed bLither and thither like a shuttlecock; thatshe baa been deserted by TiwtoNw end by Bexcuesand by Plymouth Church sinco the triul, and Lias been comparatively alone in the world; und that for the sako of Lerself and Lier chitdron sho would bo willing to do any. thing that would ro-establish hor old howe, Whether these theorles aro true or not, there is ono thing certain: people are sick and tired of the Bxecmes scandal. They had Loped it was buried forever, mnd that they should nover hear of it again, whea lo! it comes to tho surfuco in all its original loathsomeness, and with no suiclent ex. cuss for the resurrection. Its resp- pearance ia an outrage upon public senti- ment, and the sooner tha repulsive thing is thrust out of sight agnin tho better, 1f Mr, ‘Tirrox desites to be reconciled tohis family, let him do it privately, Tho people are tired of him. If Mrs, TirTox i8 really guilty, sho had better keop quiet about it. Tho peoplo are tived of her. They are tired of Bexones, of Mourtox, of the mother-in.law, ond of every man, woman, and child who hashad any connestion, direct or indiroct, witl this mis- arable old scandal. Thero ara fresh scandals onough occurring every day without digging up anciont ones, The best thing that Trvtox, and Mrs, TizroN, and Berones, and all the rost can do ia to make themselves so small that they will ocoupy no place in tho public attention, lest people may even wish that they were doad as well as tho scandal, THE RED FLAG IN NEW YORK, The Indianapolis Times, 8 Communist organ, prints *“a correct illustration of the Red Fiag flung to the breeze at Beethoven all, Now York, while Jony Swintox de. livered his famons spocch at the colebration of the Commune.” It also reports SwiNTon's speech in full, We do not know which is more remarkablo—the flag or the speech. Neither is likely to mako many friends. Noithor is in any sensa the reprosentative of good government, or sound, economical truth. Both are sllied with incendiarism, rapine, marder, and pillage. Tho only jus- tification of Communism which can be imng- ined is its purposo to romove the condition of inequality which exists among mon. This inequality isso firmly fixed in the order of things that it can only bo removed, if at all, by bloodshed and robbery, It cannot be ro- moved even by these means, for it is a part of human nature, dating back to the origin of man ; but, if it could be so removed, the question is whother it is desirable, Isit de- sirablo to plungo the world into misery in or- der that the rich shall be poorer and the poor richer ? Is thero any logio in'the rea- soning which toaches the poor to covet riches, 3f riches are the source of wrong and oppression? 15 there any power in man to keep all the proporty in the world distributed nccording to population, after it hns once been oxactly divided? Tho Communists, to bo logical, must be propared to advosste sharlng terma with tho negroes, the Chi- neso, and the inhabitantsof the Cannibal Islands. They cannot clalm any superiority over these peoplo which somo of tho present possessors of property canuot justly claim over thom. ? ‘Tho fandamental error of Communism is that it seeks to abolish distinctions not made by man, and over which man has no coutrol, namely : the distinction between sagacity and stupidity, thrift and prodigal- ity, idleness and industry. Accumalations of property in the first instauce— particularly in & country like this— were due to distinctions of this nature; and they cannot be abolished by any arbitrary and criminal redistribution such as Mr. Swin. 7on and his partisans advocate. Bupposing the plans of the Communists to bo success- ful, and all tho property to bo pooled for reapportionmont, nothivg can provent wis. dom, cconomy, and industry from getting their roward sgain in the long run; so that araturn ton condition of inequality would bo nmere question of time. Oun auy other supposition Communism would bo the most inequitable system that could bo dovised, for it would then scek to moke tho idlo mon as good as the workor, the thiof as good as the honost citizen, nnd the gonius who contribe uted an invention worth a million dollara to tho common fund of no moro account than an idiot. Under such a system thero would Lo uo incentives to good notiow| and very great ones to dishonesty., Communism would thon be exactly described in the Corn-Law rhyme: What fs a Communist? One who hath yearnloge For equal divly of unequal earnfnge; Idler, or burglar, or both, be s willing o fork out his ponny sod pucket your shilling. It §s snid thot there ore 00,000 Commu. nists in the country,—18,000 in New York, 8,000 in Chicago, 9,800 in Cincinnati, 5,000 1n 8t. Louis, and 80 on. The Soclalists in Chicago. clected an Alderman ot tho last clection ; so did tho Socialists in Oincinnati. The New York leadors of tho Boolety spenk of forming ito n natiopal party, comparing their presont feeblo condition with that of tho Abolitionists in the early days, and pro- dicting for themsclves an equal meonsuro of success. ‘Theroe is just this tobe said against their ecbomo: that tho bottom has been kuocked out of it by the tion of tho ourrency to a gouns baais, With tho healthy expansion that will follow the restoration of gold, and silver to circulation, business will revive, tho work- shopa will be set in motion, and all the Lionest Communists who want work will get it. Whon gold and silver begin to jinglo in thelr pockets, they will be loss anxious than they now are for ‘‘equal divisions of un. equal earnings,” Without tham it is safe to say Communism will make no progress; for it will then be slmply a struggle between criminals on the one slde and tho honost por- tions of the community on the other,—a struggle which the police can be trusted to deal with, — The bill for the ropeal of the Bankrupt law seems destined to go: through both MHouses of Congress witha rush, as it bhes nlrendy passed the Benato by o large majori- ty, though on @ emall vote, Perhaps there isno use in vepining at this result, which may bo only an indication of the popular will. It isa perfoctly safo prediction, how- aver, that {ho evils of tho Ktate systewns of insolvency and bavkruptoy, which are virtu. ally no system at all, will mako the enact- ment of n new DBankrupt law n favorite measuro within o dozen years. As soon ns the people have practical exporience of tho ditiiculty of collecting debts through thirty- eight Btates, under thirty-eight different laws, thoy will again demand the ensctment of n uniform measure. Tho present lawmay be defective, and no doubtis; butitisin. finitely better thonnome at all. It might havebeen amonded at very littlo trpublo or expense insuch a wmanneras to satisfy all reasonable expeotations. It 13 sald that the smount of monoy the Cook County delegation to the Democratic Stute Convention demuanded of Mr. M. M, Poow for thelr support of him for Btato Treasurer was $7,000. This sum would Indicato $100 apicco for seventy of the seventy-six wnembers of the delegation. It is understood there wera six who Were oot parties to this blackmall sttempt. A Detwocratic paper in tho rural districts says; A like proposition was wade to Mr. Mavristo,of Logan Cuunty, snd the scoundrels met no betier success. 1t ls'Indeed a nad commmenlary upon the Dewmucracy of Chicago that they mako polltice u waller of gambling avd barter, as thoy would 8 {ransaction 1 corn, Wheat, or whisky. e ——— - ‘The Republicans of Bloomingion, st sevcral municipal elections, haye been distracted aund divided on side-lssues, sud in consequence bave been defeated, as might naturally oo expect- ed. At the election on Monday last they con- cluded to present a battle-line to the cuemy, und the result ls they swept tho city as of yore. The Dewocrutsjand Copmuntsts ranan **Jude- restora. pendent ! ticket to catch such Republicans as are Inclined to Isms; but the little game did not win this time. The vote cnat was a very heavy one for Bloomington, ¥iz.: 8,0:0,—divided as follows: Col. John Reed (Rep. 1,673 Tgmnll J. Buan "‘f:d? 1,408 Republican mAJOrity: cocesiconss soe sers 2067 At the previous election the Democrats ear- rlcd the city by 143 majority. The Republicans have carried four of tho six wards, 'The victory was handsomely won. The Republican expeti- mentalists had discovored thas tho city was bet- ter governed by thelr own side than by the other which coutains a disproportionate per cent of bummers and spofismen. —————— It 1 remarked with truth that the late Deta- cratlc State Convention was the most respectable hody of men of that parly ever assambled o the Stale. Tho Democeatic party has fora long time been endeavoring to imitate’ the Kepublicans in pemlemnnl{ deportment, and ft is not romarkable 1hat in the lapee of years thnfiv have been e ed 10 lesrn sometbing. —Springfeld (111.) Oazelte, Red-Ribbon RBYNOLDS {8 entitled to the chief credit for the *‘respectable’ appearance and “igentlemanly deportment™ of the members. In his lectures and temperance exhortations ho won them from thelr cups, aud thus the change for the better in thelr looks and mannars is ac- counted for. Democrats, when sober, are pretty decent aud respectable icllows as a rule, and behave therg-ulves in meeting about na orderly as Hepublienns. Ono of the officers of the Con- ventlon told us that out of some 550 members ho observed not more than half a dozen Intoxl- cated persons, and most of them belonged to the Cook County bummers, who had nevor taken tha red-ribbon pledge. ———— Bome ot the Democratlc smelling committces in Washington find out more things than they want to, GLovER's Committec Is ane of thoss fnbad luck. It setout to expose Republican fraud, and ran into o nest of Democeatic rascal- fty. Befors It could stop and back ship, the na- turn of the discoverles leaked out. A Washing- ton dispatch says: The Monrinon Committee of the ITouse took about $32,000 of the Contingent Fund when it started out for a fair connt to detect Republican frauds Jn Loutsiana 1n 1870. About $10,000 of this turns out to be noaccounted for, and thus Groven's evidence fixes the reaponsibilily for its misappropriation upon some of the Democratic oflicers of the last Ilouse, The discovery was mnde altogether by accident. GLOVER was not looking for it [af course not], and his axperts de- clara 1€ was not their fanlt, and they seem to bo in groat fear of losing thelr placos, The matter is certain to mnke a sensatlon in the Houavse, a8 the u:ufir. as it now stands, i€ a very clear case of ntesltng. ——— . Sccretary SuEnRMAN cxpects to have about thirty millions of sliver doliars in his vaults on tho day set for resumotion, with four milllons s month more coming In, The gold speculators who may want to make a “run’ on the Trens- ury for gold must surrender thirty millions of thelr greenbacks before thoy can touch s penny of the gold. If they let go any of this sliver In order tu replenlsh their stock of greenbacks, sald silvor will immediately beein to flow back into tho Trensury, and the wold-gamblers will have to take it again before they can reach the stock of gold behiud ft. They will gev sick of thefr “run* on the Treasury if they organfze une, The passago of the bill remonetizing sil- ver was the very salvation of tho Resumption act. With plenty of silver, resumption s made practicablo and essy; without silver, it would bo exceedingly difflcult, it not impossible. ——— In giving o list of the Illinols Democrats who voted arainst Gen. Buigwps for Doorkeeper, and for the Georgia Rebel Fisup, wo omittea Qur Canten. We republish the liet of Dento- crats wno voted to pluce the gray above the blue: Canten 11, Jlanniaon (Dem.), Chicago. Touznr M, KNare (Dem,), Adama District, Joux It, Evex (Dem.), KEdingham District, WiLLiau A. J, 8rarxs (Dom, ), Fn&ul(c District. Witiax It Monwisox (Dom. ), Madison District, WiLLtax Hanvzess (Dem.), Calro District, 1t. W, Townsuexw (Dom. ), Goliatin District, In justico to Hannisoxn it should Lo stated that the nowly-clected Rebel §s understood to boa cousin of his, With'*Our CarTER," blood is thicker than water. Nepotfsm has more Influence wiih him than patriotism. —— e ‘Very little damage appears to have been done to the fruit crop, notwithatandiog the sharp frests and anow-storms that have prevailed in some scctions of lato. Bays un exchango: Frult-growers are jubllant over tho development of budn during tho poat fow days, Careful exsme inations, 1t 18 oelleved, watrant the followlng sume mary for Northern Ohfo, Northern Indians, an Routhern Michigsn: Peaches, cherries, pi p- ce, and the smallar fruits, grapes, carran D~ Borrlow, and shrab produccs generaly, tave safel pasred the frost period, aud aro safa 80 far as ol weathor {s coucerned, and at this time & large crop of all Is promised. Apj udeure scarcoly started, bat peach buds begin w color and are plentl- ful, " Early pears hav auffered, but only shight damage, snd plonty remalus for a largs crop 1f uninjured herentter. Quince andapple trees aro fresh and promising, — ———— The friends of tho Hon. Tuosas 8. Ring- WAY are pushing his name for Stato Treasurer with conslderablo vigor. Tho Rock Island Unlon saya: Tho lon. 'Tnowas 8, Mipaway, of Shawnee- town, takes tho lead a4 the liepubjican candidate for Biate Tressurer, Iis provious administration af the office stamped him ns belng without excep- tlon tho beat and most efiiciont Tressurer that Ilil nois b er had, and loud calls for his nomination this year como from all parts of tho Btate. Whila he {e undoubtedly the strongest wan hle own suc. tion can present, he {a aquaily popular in the con- tral and northern sectious, and we look forward to his nomination in ti® Hepublican Convention by n large majority on the first ballot. Mr. Rtbuway hins many friends in Hock Island County who will 1ake pleasure in dolng whot they can to advanc lils foterusta, —— The death of the Boss of the first Tammaty Ring Is o crucl, cruel blow to the Deputy- Sherlffs who got $10 a day for escorting him to court nnd back, and the hackmen who were pald $7n day for the sane eervice; also, to the In- genfous Bohemians, lilke CaroLAN O'Brixm Buy'sT, who used to peddle confesstons, nnd reminiscences, and things, to awe-struck editors, But some hundreds of honest statesmen when they reflect that the Boss Is goue whero thero is neither confesalng nor giving in of stubs from check-booka will rejolce and breathe more frecly, fecling as if & leaden statue of the old .nan's 81ze bad been Mited off of thelr breasts, which will now bo suffered to swell with honest fudiguation If any ono says “TwWEED' to them, et — e ‘Tho students of Trinity Colloge recently plugged up the collcgu bell with shingle-uails and plaster of Paris by way of & wittlclsm. Then one of thelr number died and went presumably to that brighter, better land, whero there is uo bazing, nelther giving of degrecs, and when President Pynouon declined to go to the ex- penso of having the betl cleaned out so that 1t mighy be tolled at the funeral, the studeuts waxed wroth, It fa not known as yet what forin their indiguation will take,—whether they will blow up the President’s house with nitro- Rlyceriue o1 only pailnt the front of it sky-blue. e ———— A number of promioent and influential Irish Democrats of Chicagzo telegraphed to Canrten 11, Hanmisoxn requesting bim to vote for tho Kallant old Unton Geu. BuraLps for Doorkeeper; but he treated the request with disrezard, and cast his voto for the Qeorgla Rebel, Canrsn will be after making & plous pllgrimage through the soutnweatern wards next fall, explalning that vote for **Cousiu FieLn.” If the byes don't make bl do penonce, cat ‘umble ple, and take a back seat, it 15 becauso they have de- generated. SElEmEr ew Joux KzrLy's paver, the New York Ezpress, naid of TWHED that lie “ was no worss than many of s associates who still claim to bo re- spectable snd parade as reformers, The woral ot his life 1s too obylous to need polnting out,” added Misther KnuLy, with the ine cootempt for dotails of the man who [su't quite sure _what the moral {s, or doesn't care to point it out. ———— Ex-Chlef-Justice Dixox has just brought an jmportant suit in the Bupreme Court of Wis- cousin. It is for the purposs of annulling the charter and vacating tho frauchises snd exlst- ence of the Milwaukee, Lake Bhore & Western Kaliroad, ruoping from BMilwaukes north through 8heboygan to Manitowoc and thence weet to Appleton, Tho sult i3 in the nature of ‘at Oxford, while last week dled Bishop Gxorax fquo warranto proceeding, and {a broughtin thename of the Attornes-General of the State. The petitlon sets forth that the principal and general offices of tho Company are mot in the Btate of Wisconsin, as required by law, but sre held inthe City of New York, and that tho bouka and records have never been kept in Wis- consin. The suit is brought under s general law of Wisconaln requiring that all roads oper- ated wholiy within the BStato shall have thelr general offics and keep their records open to Inspection in the Btate. A’ $20,000 judgment against the Rallrosd Company s the etimulat- ing causc of this sult, and the prospect now is that it will have to be pald, as thoBupreme Court of Wisconsin has become somowhat famous for holdlng raitroad corporatious to a rigid sccountability. It certainly cannot bo aald of Mrs. TiLTON that— She lotll concealment, ko the worm, Feed on her dsmask cheek, The fact is, sho does not secm to be able to con- ceal worth a cent. To alter s somowbat noted passsge of SMARAPRARS to fit the case, it would rvead thus: . 8he never held her tongus, Nor let concealment, like a worm {* the bnd, Feed on her damank cheek: She pined in thought, And, witha vun and yellow melancholy, Bhe eat, like Patience, on 8 monument, Hmiling at Hexny Wanp Bercuzn, e — . How compuratively recent & thing college boating fs, cven In England, appears from the fact that o feww wecks ago a gentloman dled in ons of the northern counties who had pulled stroko in the firat clzht-oarcd crew put together AuausTus BELWYN, Bishop of Lichfeld, a mem- Lor of tho Cambridge eight that rowed in the first race with Oxtord, June 10, 1820. He lived to within one year of the seml-centenntal, and to within one day of the annual race. e The Democratle ring of Qulncy reccived an unoxpected order to tako back seats at the clectlon on Monday, Tho Republican candl- dato for Mayor was clected by 820 majority. It 1s sald that some of Gen. Bnixups' ndignant Irish friends contrlbuted to thisresuit. Con- gressman KNATP of that district voted against Gen, Bu1ELDs and for the Rebel FirLp, and his vote s not Indorsed with much egthusiosm by Gen, BRIELDS' countrymen. ———— ‘The Richmond Despatch offers to Represent- ative Douaras the firm support of a lamppost. and describes bim 8s *a most estimable gon- tleman, and as to abliitics far superior to nine-tenths of his Yankee traducers.” Thazzo, oleficr! But why shiould the Despateh only cer- tiry asto his **abllitics,” and make him out a sort of drunken genius? That Jumppost will ap- pear to Mizzer Douaras to bo golng round and round. — + When Twezb was first arrested, bo naturally went to his friends for ball. Of Lis ive bonds- men, two were JAY Gourp and Huon J. Hast- 1xas, now proprietors of tho two Hopublican newspapers of New York City that oppose President HaYes on the ground that he does not represent true and pure Republicanism. ——— Mayor Ery, of New York,in an interview with o rpcently-landed Herard editor, deliy- ered the following sphorism: * Whoover robs tho peopla o gencral robs each other Individual- 1y In o grammar tournament, Mayor ELy, or tho cditor, according as the case may Ve, would be very apt to take tho Arst prize. K ———— Saturday last, gold sold for ¥ per cent premi- um over grecnbacka; yestorday it wavered be- tween ¥ and 3 per cent. Grocnbacks were, therefore, within 1§ of 1 cent of the value of gold or silver dollara; ond yet Goupr’s platform demands the immediate and uncondl- tlonat repent of the Resumption act! —————— Jist BLaINg wasn’t ablo to put JAY Gourp's bill through fu tho Scnate, and Jax GouLp {8 comivg back at him. GA1z-HAMILTON'S essays are now packed foto an obscure, corner of the supplement, and letters showing how unjust and inacurate GAIL is as n critic arctagged on lg them. — ‘Thoss Democrats who were Unlon men dur- fng the War have stood a good deal of Confed- crate imposjtion lor tho sake 0 party success; but when thoy are commanded to put the gray above the bluo thelr gorze begins to rise and fire flnshes from their eycs as of yore. ———— 1t is not kuown how much property TWEED left, but his executors can probably realize from elzht to ten millions of dollars by peddling his check-atubs, letters, and private memorands to statesmen with whom he was on terms of finsn- clal jutlwacy durlug his Jife. The New York papers arc wraogling over thelr circulation. Our namesakg goes to the superfluous troublo of publishink certiflcated from tho Post-Offico Department to prove that it Is tbe houvicst paper that goes through the malls, g 4 t A perdon who professcs to know, asserts that the spiteful and walicious attucks on the High- Behool system of Chicago, which appear in the cditorial columns of BTORBY'S paper, are nearly all wrltten by an ex-member of .tho School loard. | Peruvian bark, Dr. D'Uxoxn says, is a perfoct specific for alcoholic #ppetite. Autaphrodisiac is tha remedy oualost the temptations BErcusn is charged with belug unable to vvercome. | Judge Casmrnsrf, an ardent Tammanyite, fainted when be heard of Boss Twxro's death, What can the Boss have known about him to fosplre such joy? & Notice of the Confederate-Copperhiead House of Repreacntatives: ** No Lrish neod apply." | MoxraouEny Branshould offer o chromo for avery vote for bis sixty-day plau. TwszD kuows how {t is himsell. PERSONALS. Gathorne Hardy, the British Minlster, has two sons in Parliament. “'ha idiotorial corps of the Iferald” is what the Washington Post calla it. 2 Col, Delancy Kane is spoken of by an un- conclliated Southern paper a3 the most populsr hackman lo New York. Aimee is on her way home from Cuba, but it 1s not known whether sio will bo abls to aacrifice nnother sulcidal prompter on this journey upon the altar of advertistug. Murat Halsted made up his mind to go to Europe in auch 8 hurry—o0r rather, after 80 long & will haveto wear Mark Twain's | lives in the beautiful Valley of Choyd. Wales; sho la **about" 30, spir- {tusl {n expression, with a light, quick. tinpatient manner, and a good figure, Bho s of about the avarage helght. Forty members of a fashionable club in Landon are said (o bave bound themscives by oath to horsewhip the edilor of any paper that prints the pame of suy of their lady friends with dispac- agiug romarks, Prof, Thomas Luoy, Vice-Principal of the Daltimore Femals College, who died & fuw days 850, was an 1atimate friend of Dickens, with whom he reported in Farllament. e clalmedtobos descendant of Shakepesro's 8ir Thomas Lucy. 8, U, Kirby, o sewlng-machine agent in Little Rock, is now on trisl for conspiracy to de- fraud the Government by Laking stamps from coun- try Postmasters at & large dlscount. His business pald, nowever, for the net profits wera $30,000 & Jyear, At a London polico court & few days sgo a ‘vocallst who sings at seversl public resorta appear- ed to complain of somo assallants who had bauled bim about rudely, done el $10 worth of dam. age to his wig, ang apolled Lole, 1¢came out lu the who wears camellias in s batton-bole sad keeps. house in & very ezpensive style, is a'cromalog- aweeper. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY. APRIL 17. 1878 M RAILROADS. Annual Report of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Some Historical Reminisconces Con- nected with Railroading in Wisconsin, Gen. Miles Report Tegarding {ho Northern Paciflc-~Some g Statistics. Another Pooling Schome---Missouri River Rates---8t. Xonls & Boutheastern. V. | At O,y M. & BT. P 178 FOURTEBNTH ANSUAL NEPORT. Fourteen years ago, there wera six or eight 1ittla scraps of raiiroad lines In Wiscousin, some sbort and @ome long. leading from thelake shoreInto the Interior, all onerating under aepa- rate charters and controlled by different Boards of Directors. Thero wasno such thing as a gen- cral system of rallways In the Btatc eltherin theory or practice, no ratfonal plan of {nter- communication by the use of this great modern metliod of travel over scemed to have taken possession of the minds of tho projcctors of these scveral roads, but each company went bilndly at work, running its own machine and trylng to earve out thelr crude designs as best 1t conld with the means at hand. The Legisla- ture of Wisconsin exercised as littlo discretion fo grantiug raliroad charters as the companies did to whom the charters were glven, 80 far as the davelopment of & definite method waa con- cerned, but it cenerously gave to all that asked, without much regard to the good of the people in the future and In deflance of any settled public policy. The result was, that, from 1850 to the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1801, A RAILROAD EPIDAMIC prevaited fn Wisconsln ns contaglous as the small-pox and scarlet-fever, and almost every city, towi, and village waa down with the dis- case. Numerous lines wero projected, funda obtained by every expedient known to shrewd fnanciers, bonds, stocks, and mortgages were forced upon the market, contracts let, work commenced, and the future was bright with an. ticipated profits and success. Cities, towns, and countes voted bunds, loaned their credlt, gave Jarge sums ns a bonus, subscribed for stock, gave mortgages upon their property, and many of them aro in debt to this day, Farmers mortgaged their farms, and merchantddnd trad- era along the line put their surplus carniugs {nto the maw of some struggling corporation to help tho enterprise along and develop the country. Everybody wanted a rail- road, and every onc put his shonlder to the wheel. ‘But in a few ycars tho fever subsided, and the patients had a relapsc. Many of them dled and were burled under the monuments erected out of thelr unpaid bonds and mort- pages; otbers sleep in unmarked graves, whilo o few survive and are now enjoy- Ing a falr degres of health and prosperity. Beforo the Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Rall- way Company was created, the roads 1B the State that had built and wercoperating a portion of thelr projected routes now consolldated with it wore six i number, THE MILWAUKES & MISSISSIPPT, running from Lake Michigan to Prairle du Chien, 188 mliles in length, was,the ploneer cu- terprise of the kind, and passed through many trials ond tribulations beforo it reactied the Fatber of Waters, .Its namc was changéd threo thines, and {ts_history from beginning to end would furnish Mr. Herbert Spencer with admirublo data for o chapter on tho evolution of rallronds. Next in importance was the “La- Crosse & Milwaukee,” stretching 200 miles scross the Btate, and that, too, liusa bistory etill morc curlous and Instructive thau ita former rival, If it was not concelved In sin, it was certulnly brought forth in iniquity, and, like some other rogucs, it was often compeliod to assume ao alias aud adopt other dlsguises and concealments 1n order to escapotho conscquences of its acts and avold tho clutchof the law, Tho name of ‘“Tho LaCrosso & Milwaukes,” that {t was originally chartored under, waschanged to “The Milwatles & Minocsota,” then to “The Milwaukes & St. Paul,” and now it flnds peace and respoctability uuder the able man- agement and ownership'of *“The Chicago, Mil- waukes & 8t. Pahil.” 1ts record niakes one of tho darkest p‘fi“ in the. domestic history of Wisconeln, and ita recital here would be foreign to tho object of this communication. It 13 suificient to say that, between the swindles that it habltually perputratea upon private jo- diyiduals, the frauds that it was gullty of com- mitting under the forms of law, the litigation that it causcd its houest crediturs, und the cor- ruptions that fu practiced upon the Innocent Wisconsin Legistature, it will stand nsn warning and & rcbuke for alltimo to come. The man who remombers the famous LAND-GRANT INVESTIGATION mado by the Legislature auring the session of 1850, or will read the official account of that remarkabla trial, will feel the full force of the unfavorable criticism that has been passed upon it * pfiux: In Importhnce were several littlo spurs of roads jutting out into tho coumrfi from thesa main lincs, but, being cut off by fhe untimely finaucial frosts, they were so soon done fur that it was o puzzle to know what they werd begun for, About sixty miles from Milwaulkee, the 10 Berlin, a dlstance of & littlo over fifty miles, From Mifton, in Rook County, the poiot ‘where the Northwestern Ioad crosses the 8t, Paul the Monroe branch leads out some flfty odd unfinished fragment stretehed from Milwaukee ended in the ground at Bun Prairle. The tmu between tho lust-named place aud the City of Madison, aud between Columbus and Portagze ment, and ths line from completed. A CONFLICT OF JURISDICTION, Added to these roads and bits of roads, wholly or partly constructed, owned and tman- aged :{ separate and bostlle Buards of Direct- ors, and with couflicting futervsts, there were others of marauding dispusitions and with the babits of tho guerrills, which weie frauds in thelr Incipiency, and so continued to tho end. In that disreputable category may bo placed the two defuuct companes, the Beloit and the Mil. waukes & Buperlor, in ald of which the City of Milwaukee geucrously donated bonds to the smouut of 000, for wutch she will never securo o stugle dollar, uor sce a mile of the pro- posed roads constructed, It {8 easy to sce that there must be s constant broll betwixt those rival corporations, sud that the best thing Lo be done lu the juterests of the people, for the beoeflt of trade, and to promote the advantages of the stockhulders was to con- solidate all thess lnes, place then uuder one management, busld a liny to Chicugo, the great railroad radius of Americs, and thus solidify aud systematize aud make availavle the crude ond bap-hazard work of tweoly years. A PALSE THEOKT, The rallroad system of \Wisconsin, so far as ftcan be called & systein, was originally pro- focted upon a falss iheory. It wus tho drean of Byron Kilboro snd iis contemporaries to take Milwaukco & great rallroad ceutre, using Luke Michigan on the east and the Mississivpl River on the west a8 the patural outlets and extenslons of the svetem, and thus cutting off and igooring the City of Chicago altogetber, But the hyperborean cliwate which closed river aud Iake for tive months in the year, on the ote Land, ana tho overshadowlng Juduence aud fm. vortauce of Clicago as the great business cen- tre of the valley of the Mississiopl vu the other, dispelled this Hllusiou after awhile, but vot untll the theory bad been proved to bo ludison to Portege false by & practical application of it to ths laws which povern commerce. The two lincs first bullt scross the Btate, beginoing in Milwaukee, and ovo cnding Iy Prairie du Chicn and the othier 1o LaCrosse, ‘were found to be cunfined to the merg local trafiic during six months lu the vear, and it s ot to be woudered ot that neithér of thembald any dividends upon the cost of cumstruction atter deductivg the nccessary operatiug ex- penses. Aud it was not until thie ablest finan- vier and ruilroad manager west of the Great Lakes undertook tho hereulean task of bringlug order out of this cbeos, aud makiug su immeuss property svallable to its owuers whlle it sub- served the purposcs of commerce, ALEXANDNG MITCUELL saw what was zecded, sud gaye to the accom- plishment of & noble purpose the aid of swple meaus and the generous solicltude for the best interests of his adopted State, 1o bad no soou- er extricated the differcut liues frown thelr Buanciat ewbarrassoents, and placed them uo- der sblo aud ceonowical wauagement, than by Horlcon branch started and pusbed its Jine up miles, headlng for tho lead mines, Another to Columbus, with a fork at Watertown, that Cllsl;mn been filled up b% the present manage- bullt & conncction with Chieago, thus Iy s ronds with tho. buisy worid’ of ey onk bualnesa outslde, and making the traflic of Lake Michigan & mera incident, and not the principal factor in_his enterprise, which fs wholly nt varlance with the theory of Kilhourn o hiy old fogy associates, but which has the sanction of common sense. Mr. Mitchell ot ot {nto the heart of the Cy; of ~Chicago with his road as quickly s possible, but he chanzed the name of hiy corporation to tho Chicago, Milwaukee & S, Paul Rallway Company, thus recognizing thy fact that, while a rose by any other name mignt amell a8 aweet, o rallrond company might better have n cognomen that signifies businesaln a way that the whole world may read. But I am historleal when I ought to be statis. tlcal; 8o I come down at once to the facts ang figures of this Company's FOURTRENTIL ANNUAL NRFORT, ’usl published for the Information of the stock. iolders, which discloses 2 business that s Loy, gratifyinz and significant. The catire cost of the whole property, Including cquipment, bridees, clevators, warehouses, cattle-yands, and grounds, is s follow ¢ Mottzago bond: 820,054,509 Preferred atoc 12,250, Commaon stock s + 16,404,201 Total. 867,038,244 Less cost 1on atoek, . 1,600,760 Lesn cost of Oshkosh & Missleaippl Rivor bonds 203,000-8 1,703,730 Cost of 1,412 miles of road ($30.013 pee mile) ouseer savniiinnines 856,034,404 ‘The comparative carnings, expenacs, and gen. eral condition of the Company for the years 1870 and 1877 are aa follows, viz.: Grom earningi—1870, $8,004,171; 1677, g3,. 14,HD41 Increase, 2. 870, $4,030,324; 1677, 870, 1,705,801; prignt 70, 1,705,801; 1877, 2087, 18,764, Number of paw ers carrled—1876, 1,15 " 1877, 1,300, 0217 decrense, 14,700, 1;-' 11 rose carninge per mile ‘of road— 5,702 1877, $5, 303+ increase, 831, ™, 85,77 ‘The bonded debt of the Company has creased durlng the year $56,000. The’Cam;udne; constructed a branch road from New Lisbon to Necedaly, on the Ycllow River, a distance of thirteen miles, It also ndded to the equipmen; of the road 8 locomutives, 3 passenger-cars, 430 Lox, 100 stock, 13 caboose, aud 2 postal cars, and Jafd 835 milcs of steel rails. The corpora. tlon Is frec from floating debt, and has no leases to absorb iis earnings, It osns a majorty of the stock of the Western Unlon Rallway runaing from tho Racine to the Mississipp! River. The gross earnings of tho Comfaa{ for the first halt of tho year 1876 wero & ho173 and for the tirst ball of 1877 thay wero 82,058,153: com. arative decreso for firat half of 1877, §1,002,863. For the last half of 1870, the gross enrnings were $4,003,054; and for the like perlod of 1877 they wero 8511641,740; comparative increase for laat_half of 1877, 81,003, An cxplanation of thess fluctuations Is to be found in the fact thot the wheat crop fn the States traversed by the roads of this Company was very deficlent for 1876, while for tha year 1877 It was above an nverage. 8o much for the past. ‘The carporation opens the year 1878 by sccuring a fino grant of land o Towa, and undertaking to build ‘an extension of 1ts line_from Alf:ong to 8heldon, n distance of eighty-fivo miles, where 1t will con. nect with the Bloux City & 8t. Padl Rallroad, The contract hus been talen by responsible parties, and largo gangs of inex aro already ot work aloug the new route, It has also uuder contract n continuation of i lastings & Dakota " Division {n Mlnnesots from Glencoe, cighty west to Granite Falls, on the Mioncsota River, The territory through which theso extenslona will pass is” the mos fertile portion of those two famous agricultunl States, and Is being rapidly developed by a fro- gal and industrious population. Aun ares of new country, 80 wiles wido and 200 milesin length, capable of producing a large amount of surplus farm products, will be brought fnto closo communication with Chicago before ths trees agaln shed their leaves, An interesting chapter for the Chlcago snd Eanatern readers might bo written upon tbe listory of the lowa and Minnecsota db visions of this corporation, and the writer could draw ‘upon acts, and not upon his iniagination, to clotho the s count with the alr of a rural romance; butl forbear. Enough has been gald, and the histor of railroad-building in the three great SBtates of Wiscousin, Iowa, and Minnesots proves thst the effort to lflnom Chicago in any system i like playing * Hamlot " with the vart of Hamld teftout. And so I close this already oo long comnunication by uyln‘z a brief word in con- mondation of the rare skill, signal fldelity, scd indefatigablo Industry of 8, 8, Merrill, Esq.,tle Ueneral Mauacer of the Company. His pecullr adaptation for the position has developed fnlo a genlus for thoe service, ana ho has beca to dr. Mitchell what Marahal Ney was to Donaparte, o what Gen. Bherman was to Urant. ' THE NORTIHIERN PACIFIO, GRN. MILES' REPORT. St. Paul Pioneer-Press, We quote tho following extract from the vey able report of Gen. Miles, recently flod inthe War Department ot Washington, in relationto tho immense Importance of thisroad as a traost and protection in tha grtat domgla of the Mir sourl and Yellowstone Valleys, and of openint those reglons to setticment and cultivatlon: The occupation of the Yellowstone Valley by divided the Indian country In twain, and, secosd (o the subjugation of the Indlans, tho objectol military occupation has been obtained in obtsls: ing accurato and' valuablo Information regardiy the chiaracter of the country and opening the wi) tosettioment. Althongh the lndians, when bot- 1lle, naturally scek the most broken couatry fot thelr retreats, snd ono in following them woult form an unfavorable lmpression of wuch dlstrics of Montans, yet tha porcentage of ** had lanas" 8 by no means Kreat, In comparidon to tho vast areis of rich grazing, sgricaitural, and mineral taodsta this Territory, The nutural grasses of Mopuss will give inore strength to horses and mules thss that found in any Torritory between this and tht 1tio Gpande, and, judging from tho candltion ¢ the gamo which abounds, and the excellence of b becf which has been furnished tho command 3t ing tho past twelve months, [am sotisfied 1Bs country will soon becomas une of the bmat slock: growing rezlons on the continent. Itnink tber the medica) oticera will show this crimit s any that troopw ever scrved In, st the natives of this soction, L think, are s vipr ous and hardy & race as en be found on tho globe: ‘Tho occupation of thia district bus given pr wction to 400 miles of steamboat nayigation of it Yellowstone Rtiver and throwa open to scitlemet besidus the Yellowstone, the rich Valloys of 1t g Horn, Rosebud, ‘fungue, Powder, und Littt ourl Htivers, ‘Tho tolograph fs’a il wity, and & would oarnestly recommend 18t o puats be connected by nnllut{ telegrauh witk ¢ littlo delay as pructicable. itaplaand dired mall communication ts nesdod with the termlss of the Northern Pacific Itailroad ot Biumarck, 8¢ the coustruction of that great nationsl enterpriet should, in my upinjon, be encouraged by everl legitimata meany, ‘Tho military advantages tot derived from ite cxtension, il nu*h very urest would be Incomparable with the polltical and co wercial inlcrasts develuped by oponing (he aye: of free cummunication belweon the Edstern Sttt nh;nl tho sottlements of Moutsua and Ihe Facité Slope. The followiug comparative statement of 1b¢ earuiugs of the Northern Puclc Raslway o the months of January, Februnry, sud Mar 1n 1877 and 1878 will give anidea of tho lncresit of teaflic upun that highway: Karn Percentaqt o/, wereast 9 —— dnerease 1877. in 1878, | earningd. $16, D63 81.0 21,710 105.4 20,020] oa¥ MISCELLANEOUS. ANOTURIL POOLING SCHEME. . Tho lake aud rall routes to the East bt been competing so actively snd successful] agsiost the all-rafl routes during the lust fer weeks that the lattet have been unsble toget business. Tho all-call rate on gralu to Ne# York is at preseot 25 cents per 100 pousdh while the Inke and rall routes mako s 20cest rate, snd therefore take all the busiuess. T8 Jatter can do this snd maka money, but ¢ former clalia that they can wake no money 8 20cents, ‘They arc therefore very relucts® to reduce to that tigure, and yet they will st to do It if an srravgement cannot be DA with the ralland lake routes by which &4 business origiuating bere can bo equitably & vided, 0 1act to pool the tonnage ou tho #45¢ plan between all-ratl and lake and rail routeh s {8 now dons by the railroads ieading Esst fro3 Western poluts. To arrange a plan of this & a meetiug of rallroad mansgers and vwoeré Jako steawers will be held at Clevclaud todsF: Of course, the managers of the roads leadlad East from this city are greatly In favor of t pew pooling scheme, a3 it would give thed 4 fair suaro of thp business during the summet How the steamabip men stand ou this watter ¥ not kuows, but it 18 ot thought probable they wiil sliow themselves to be hoodwink by tbe wily raflroaders and jolu 0 | scheme which must uceessarlly prove disastrvdd