Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 20, 1878, Page 4

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Mantan, Agent. LONDON, Eng.—American Exchange, 449 Strand. Hzxey F, G1itia, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO, Csl.~Palace flotel. e — AMUSEMENTS. MeVieker’s Theatre. Madiran #irect, hetween Dearborn *'Uncle Tom's Cabin." and state, Haoley’s Theatre. Tandoiph atreet, between Clark and LaSaile. TUnlon Bquare Theatre Company. **The Mothe: eret.” Ttaverly’'s Thentre. Monroe street, corncr of Dearborn. Tony Pastor's Comblnation. Terahey Musle 1all, Madtson strect, opposite McVicker's Theatre, The Midgets, Tnko Front Park. Tk shore, foot of Madlton strcet. Foropaugh's Clrcus. Merehnnts' Bank Baoflding, Corner Dearborn snd Madison, ** Tho Strasburg Clock." THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1878, Greonbacks at tho Now York Stock Ex- chango yesterdny closed at 99}@993. Tho contennial anniversary of the evacund tion of Valley Forge by the Continental army wns celobrated at that place yestorday, 80,000 people participating. Emigration to Liberia, nudor the auspices of the American Colonization Bociety, is Rtondily incroasing, Bixty-nine colored colo- nists sailod from Now York yesterday. The intimation again comes from Berlin that, in consequencoof tho oxcoeding’slowness of the Emperor's recovery, the appointment of Princa Fueorick; Witiax Imperial byfprocta- mntion as Regeat mny be looked for in n fow doys, Tho record of the Republiean parly in Towa is distingnished by a purity and ef- fickency of administration, togother with n promptness and impartiality in exposing of- ficial corruption, that in themsclvos make up s good strong platform, and ono which is cortnin to carry tho party through tho cau. vass of 1878, Yesterday's State Convontion brought forth n number of vigorous utter. ances on notional questions which aro just now ospecially prominent, and which rerve to sharply define the issues botweon Ropub- licaniam and Domocracy. s 2 The latest organized cxpodition for the recovery of the rvolics of Bir Jonn Frank- . eniled from New York yestorday on tho schooner Lothen, which bns boen chartered to carry tho exploring party to Repulse Bay, whero they will romain until spring, and then cross tho country on sledges to King ‘William's Land. Tho party is siroog in aumber, nod well nrmed, and tho intentfon 18 to lonvo no means untriod, whother pence- able or forcible, to wrest tho relics from the possesslon of the warlike tribo of natives who are bolioved to hnvo secured them, e w— ‘When Congress assombled yesterdoy it waa under a joint rerolution to ndjourn at @ o'clock p. m, Tho failure to ngreo on the items in the BSundry Civil bill necossitated the passage of threo additional joint resolu. tions fixing tho hour of ndjournment,—the first at 10 p. m., tho second at 1 a. m,, and the third ot 8 a. m., ot which hour tho sossion ended, 'and adjournment wns lad to the rogular dote of nssembling in Docember, Confusion and disorder reigned in tho Houso, and all at- tempts woro futilo to sccure tho paasage of measurcs of pressing neccossity, The Hali fax Award bill,;not being of this charnctor, was rendily passed. ‘The Benato waated soveral hours in dobating tho nominations for tho third membor of the Silver Commis- sion, and was bohind the House in readinesa to adjourn. 8o far a0 now appears, the sentence of tho law will bo exooutod to-morrow upon Buzsny and Conwenny, the murdorers of Huam McCoNviLLe. Tho Bupreme Court has ro- fused to iwsuo a supersedens, the Oriminal Court Laa refused to order a stay of exocu- tion, nnd Gov. Curroxm hns rofusod to intor. pose tho Executiva prerogative by granting a reapite or a commutation of gentonce. If the Governor romains firm in his detor.’ mination not to conulder the mat- ter unlosa tho Presiding Judge nnd the ftate’s-Attornoy join in o potition for o respite, tho two murdarers will certainly be hanged to-morrow—and thero {s small likeli- hood that the signatures of the Judge and fitata's-Attorney can bo procnred for such a petition. Tho condemncd have had awplo timo in which to preparo for death, and it ia not cany to see wherein it would bo merciful to agaln delay tho date of their oxccution, It ia groatly to bo regrotted that the Ben. ato did not adhere to ita action in rejecting thunominationof the Hon, Rzunxx E. Frxtox, of New York, as ouo of the thres Commis- sioners to ropresent (he Unitod States at the International Mouetary Conferonco soon to asemble. After the nomination had been rejected, ond the Presidont had sont in the nawo of the Hon. Cranres B, Lawuesce, of Cliicago, th Senate, at the request of Ar. Coxxwrxg, reconsidered its action in the case of Fextoy, requested the President to recall tho namo of Judge Lawuenck, and then oconflrmed the nomination of Funtow. It is inconceivable thet tho friends of silver in the Sennte should have tolerated this foolery, which began in an sppointment that shounld never have been wads, snd end. edin depriving the country of the services of a gentleman thoroughly devoted to the cause of silver remonstization, and whose sclection a8 o member of the Conferonce would have been in every way as suit. ublo and eppropriate s tho selention of Mr. Fexton unfit aod intmical to tbe object sought oo the part of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1878, the Unitod States In originating the move- ment for the International Council to fix the rolative values of gold and silver. The an. tire proceoding is calenlated to disgnst the advocates of the double standard. It looks vory much as thongh the Presidont and Son- ator CoNxriva woro agreed on ons thing— viz.: the dofeat of tho great popular move- ment for the permanocnt restoration of silver s alegal-tender. — Congress {llustrated yesterday how usofol, legislation, urgontly demanded by tho peo- plo, on which both Iouscs are practically ngroed by a large majority, may noverthe. loss be defoated by a few obstructionists, Tho Sonate, several days ago, passed a bill nuthorizing the Becrotary of the Treasury to sell 4 per cont bonds for curroncy, and to recoivo greonbacks for dutles aftor the 18t of October next. Thia is n proposition to which n large mojorily of the House is agroed; but it required a two-thirds voto, in the last hours, to reach the bill and concur. This was defeatod mainly through the offorts of Ewmo and Kzuiey, who pretonded to bo- lievo that the Bocrotary of tho Treasury would nso the bill to contract the onrrancy by locking up the gresnbacks received in exchange for tho 4 per cent bonds! Tho Fort anti-contraction law would provent this, and the Bocretary himself gave writ. ton nsmuranco that ho wonld mnot attompt to do anything of the kind; nover. theless, the Ewinag oppositfon was continued, Yosterday, howover, Mr, SouTianp sccured a susponsionof tho rules, and the Houso passed an original bill making the greenbacks ro. coivablo for dutios after Qot. 1, oxaotly simi. Iar in this respoct to tho Sonato bill; but the Bonato could not roach it to conour, because o singlo objection would put it over under tho rulvs. In this way an important messuro fails to become o law, though both Ilonscs arelnrgely in favor of it, and potwithstand- ing it hias notually passed Loth Houses, squandering ensh it is now impossiblo to determine, ns its fato is nndecided, and the bill may ultimately fail sltogether, Thin In the resnlt of & session continning cight months and more, Mach time was wastod in so.called fnvestigations which proved utterly barren of rosults, The Por- TER invastigation haa had the effect of arous- ing the country to s sonss of tha ulter in- competoncy of tho Democratie party to carry on the business of oven onc House of Con. gress, and much less of tho nation. The Houso, by tho oxerclso of bruto foron, ojected four Republican mombers who had beon lawtully olected, and after 8 wook's struggle dismissed a Door. koeper, and by a strict party voto repudiated o venerablo goldier who hnd been wounded injtwo wars fighting for the Union, ond oleoted n Robel General to fill the va- cancy. We stato the result of what Congress hes dono, and what it has not dono, up to tho timo of tho present writing. What msay be dono in tho hours of tho cxtonded acssion, nmid the noise and confnslon of excited and tumultuous controveray, with men broken down by passion, and intemperance, and reck- less disrogard of porsonal proprioty, cannot woll be foreseen. Sme—————— BUTLERISM. Bex Buten has fally oxposed his mali. cions design to harass Prosidont Hayes' Ad- tninistration by overy monus ho can com- mand, His individual nrgument submitted to Congross doy bofora yesterdny against the rosolution declaring the fnviolability of the Presidont’s title, against which thero wero only fourteen votes in the House, is signin- cant 8a a notice that, if the next Congression- ol oloctions shall rosult in tho roturn of o majority of Bourbons and Implacables, the offort to sot aside the validity of Prosident Hayzs' titlo will bo rovived, notwithstand- ing tho rocont disavowal of such 8 purpose. Thoro is no need at this Inte day of any eloborate argument on tho question of the validity of the Prosident's title as dotormined by Congress. Butien olings tenaclously to tho sophistry that it was the Electoral Com- misslon which sottled thattitlo. It was not tha Eloctoral Commission, but Congross it- solf, which determined the question, Tho Commission ocoupted no other rolation to the docision than if it had been a committao of either House, or a joint committao of (ho two Houses, to which the mattor had been roforred for consideration and roport. Con- gross found tsolf vested with tho oxolusivo authority of counting the Electoral voto, but there was no statuto or rulo in forco pro- seribing the method of the count. Thotwo Houses wero controlled by opposing parties, bat, aftor & long and hoated controvorsy, thoy agroed upon s law to apply to the caso in hand, Tt was in accordance with tho terms of that law that the vote was counted, tho result daclared, and Haves inaugurated, With that, Congress exhnusted ita conatitu- tional function so far as counting the voto of 1876 was concorned. Mr. Haves thon bo. camo Prosident for the constitutional torm of four yoars, and tho only constitutional power of displacing him was and {s by §m. ponchmont In tho House and conviction bo- foro the Bonato. Thoro was nothing in the Inw adopted to moet this caso which loft tho impresslon that it was a moro temporary makeshift to ill the offica til] the title could bo dofinitely sottled. That' thero was no such impression ot tho timoe Is suflielontly ntteat. ed by tho desporate efforts to dofeat tho final consuiamation of the count undor the law which was mndo by tho filibuators aftor tho Eleotorsl Commission's docision in the Florida and Loulsiana cases was announced. Besldes, no power was veated in Congrosa to provido n tomporary oxpediont for filling the Presidentinl offico during an intorim oc. casioned by o disputo over s title. Ita solo businoss waa to count the voto and doclara the rosult. Had it failed to discharge this constitn. tionnl daty within the proscribed tima thoro would bave been a vacancy in tho offices of President and Vice-Prosident, tho Presidont of tho Senato would have sucoceded to the Ex. ecutive Chalr ad interim, and & now elsction wonld hnvo been held under the provisions of tho law ns it stood. Borren's roforonce to tho sixth scction of the Eleotoral law in no wise sustainshisposition. Thatscotion, which simply provides that neither contostant should bo doprived of any rights ho might Liave ot law for a further trial of the title, ‘was probably Incorporated at tho instance of cortain bad lawyers who supposed thoro wora ulterior rights, and fn order to securo a gon. eoral acquiescenco in the Eloctoral schame for disposing of tho question. But there are no further rights at law for the uusuccossful contostant, Tho Prosident's office {8 not ono croated by statute, but by tho Conatitation. Ita tonure must bo dotormiued, therofore, by constitutional direotion, 'Take the caso of o membor of Congress us an Instanco, ‘The Coustitution providea that * oach Houso ehall bo the judge of the elections, returng, and qualifications of its own membors.” It is in vain, thoreforo that any State officers or tribunals, any Returning Boards or courts, undortake to determina tho election of o mame ber of Congress or Unitod States Sonator whom the Iouse of Representatives or the United 8States Benato doclines to admit; while, on the other hand, the favorablo voto of the House or tho Beuato for a contestant {s the final disposition of tho case without any regard to its merits, or former or subsequent decisions by other tribunals, Dut cortainly the President in ns much a congtitutional officer as o momber of Con- gress; thero ia just Lone oconstitutional way in which his election can be decided, and, having beon decided in that way, thero is no other power ahort of rovolution which can roverse tho decision. 1t is not from the law, but from the do- liberate violation end overrldiug of the law, that a fusther disturbance of the Prosident's tonure of oftice {a to bo approhended. And DBureen's latest appearance in tho matter is o warning that all danger of such an attompt is by no tneans over. Wo exprossod the opinion at the timeof Buries's appoint. ment on Por7es's Committeo that the Domo- crats were assurcd of his willinguess to lead or tako part 1u an attempt at Mezfoanization, 8ubsequont events havo fully confirmod this opinion. Bey Burien is the most consplcuous type of the reckloss and unscrupulous politicians who brought the Republican party to the vergo of mational defoat. He was chiof among the machino. men who scandalized President GraxT's Ad- ministration during bislast term, e was ono af those malnly respousiblo for the dreadful Republican defests of 1874, Theso defeats warned the Republican party that it could only retain control of the National Govern- ment by repudisting Butlorlsm in all its manifold ijnilquities. This policy was in. avgurated by Boistow, and a prowmiss of its being maintainod in good faith was given to the country in the nomination of Mr. Hayes, Tho machinists held on to the skirts of tho party, much to its disadvaatage, in the hope that Haves would provo recrcant to his pledges aud surrender into their bands, The clection was no roonor over than such moen as CoNkrina and Burien began to en. jolo, threaten, and blackmafl, Finding it was all to no parposo, they lont thomselves to dis- reputablo rohemes for raoponing tho question of tho Presidont’s titlo on tho basis of perjurios and forgeries, and enconraged the Democrats to adopt a policy which, it muc. cessfal, could only result in rovolution. The so-cnlled fnvestigation aroused a popnlar ap- prehonsion at oncs, and soon after rovealed its own wenknoss and malico by tho testi- mony brought forward by the Demacrats themselves. These two crcumatances ine ducod the Domocrats to rocede in part from tho programme they lad Iaid ont, and to ndopt a rasolution, about asbinding as n gon- oral rosolution against subsidies, with tho purposo of quioting the popular slarm and ylolding to the popular protest. But Bour. 128's doclaration against this rosolution fs a new warning that he, and tho Implacables whom ha ropresents, nre not disposed to givo up tho fight against Iaves, and aro propared to push it to any extrome, if tho personnel of the next Congreess shall encourago n raopen- ing of the quostion. Botrzn and his follow. era have nothing to* hopo for from the Re- publican party undor its prosont organiza- tion; guerrilla-liko, they go over to tho cnemy and arcroady for tho most desporate work, CANADA'S GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Lord Durrznixn, tho Govornor-General of Cannda, being about to roturn homo, it is announced that Prince Parstox, Duke of Connaught, will succoed bim, to which the Toronto Globe makes n violont opposition, saying: ‘*What is ncoded is & Governor. Genoral who has that strong intorest {n all that bolongs to public affaira—combined with an accuracy of percoption experlonco slone oan givo—~which makes plain speaking unnocessary ; ono who can feel the pulso of public gontiment quickly enongh to approcl- ote it,” nnd closing ita screed with tho fol. lowing oxpression: *Wo trust, then, that, in advising hor Majesty ae to tho solootion of lier next Viceroy for tho Dominijon, it wiil bo the special porsonal fitnoss and qualificn- tiona of the tnan, and not rank alone, how- ovor exalted, that will regulate tho cholce.” It scoms to us upon this aide of tho lino that tho position of the (lobde stultifics tho wall. known sontimont of tho 'Cansdicns with rogard to all Royal affairs. Tho Quoon rules over them, and thoy acknowlodgo themsolyes os her subjects. If thoy objoct to this young sprig of Royalty, the Duko of Connnught, tho Queon's own son, because ho is not a statesman like Dorremn, Dis- narwt, or Grapsrone, thoy must logically object to the Quoon herself. If cortaln con- ditions or qualities oro cssontial for tho Governor-Goneral of Conada, then why, to be conslstent, aro they not needed for the Qucon? OQught there not to bo brains under the bonnet of the ruler of England and Oan. odn.aa woll as under the hat of the Viceroy ? Tho Glvde cannot #0 oasily do away with the fiction of Royalty. 'Tho vory idon of a oonstitutional monarchy is that independ- cnco of party which can appoint Ministors roprosonting tho dominant faction of tho Btate, and who can do this botter than the Dako? To carry out what tho Globe wants, tho Canndians, ns dopondonts of tho Crown, must adopt tho American systom under which statesmon, commencing with Wasn. xoTox, have beon appointed to govorn, But if thoy are going to ndopt our aystem, why do thoy not cut looss from the Crown and have donme with it? The Duke 1s @ roprosontative of the Orown and of tho English system. He will bo the Vicoroy. Ho will bring powors-of. attornoy from the Queon and must represent hor and govorn for her, sho not boing ubiquitous. Why not lot her son govern? If sho has the right to rulo, why not ho? Dralus or no bralns, if tha reat of tho family should die, ho will ba the King of England, and if hois fit to rulo England, is he not it to rulo Cannda? Tho Glodé in fact puts itsclf in a ridiculous light, and shows that it {a not satisflod with the exiatingcondition of things, It likes n monarchical ruler at a distance, oy in London, but it don'’t like ong in Ottn. wa. To be logical, the Glode should domand an election of Governor-Genoral either by the people or Canadian Parliament. Why expoot the Queen to make nn appointment if sho cannot appoint one of her own sons who wmost closoly reprosonts horsclf and tho English systom? Tho Globe appoars to oc- cupy tho nnomalous position of an advocate of constitutioual monarchy with the mon. archy left out, WHAT CONGRESS HAS AND HAS KOT DONE. Congross has been in sossion over cight months. The scesion has beon far more re- mnrkable for what it hoa not done than for what it has dono. The session hns beon dis- tinguished for the amount of legislation pro. posed and which tho members intonded to nccomplish. It may be snid to have beon o sossion of grand intentions, and n sosslon of very diminutive performance. Outsido of the rogular appropriation bills, thero has boon but littlo goneral logislation, The law to remonotizo silvor which was onaoted gevernl montha ngo, and tho act ropoaling the Bankrupt law, are the most important cotuat nots of legislation of the presont session, Before Congross met, Mr. Ewixo informed Lis conatituonta and the country that in ten days after Congress was orgnnized ho would havo tho Rosumption law ‘repealed. Eight months have clapsed, and, instead of that Inw being ropenled, it is questionable whother o majority could ba obtained at this time in cither Honso of Congress to repeal tho Re- sumption nct. Over 4,000 bills were proposed in Con. gress during tho sessfon, and the number passod will be compnratively small. Among tho many mensures of nationnl importanco proposed, and which lave failed, may be meutioned tho following: ‘The bill to ropenl tho Resumption law; the bill doclar ing greonbacks roceivable for customs; tho Dbills creating postal savings banks; the bill outhorizing tho issuo of Treasury notes not legnl-tondera; the ill distributing the bal. anco of tho Goneva award; tho bill to reduce and roorganizo tho mrmy, as well s tho attempt to do the samo thing In the Army Appropriation bill; tho bill to transfer tho Indion sorvice from the Interior to tha War Dopartment; tho bill to reform and revise tho tariff on imports; tho bills providing for tho issuo of bonds, tho proocoeds to bo cxpended in lovecing the Miasie- sippl River; oll tho bills granting subsidica to tho ship-canals through West Virginia, from tho Ohio to the Jamos River, from tho Tennessce River to Savannab, and othor routes ; all the bills providing subsidies for railronds in Texes and elsowhoro ; tho bills granting subsidies to steamship linos, and subsidica for all other purposcs ; tho billa for the payment of claims for Robel losses during tho War ; tho bills to restore Robels to tho ponsion rolls of the Mexican War ; tho bills to creato n Commis- slon to examine and allow claims of Rebels for damages sustained 18 tho War ; tho bills to admit Rebol olaims to tho Conrt of Clalms ; all thoe bills proposing smendments to the Constitution in the matter of eleoting Presi. dent and Vice-President; all the bills providing new rcgulations for count. ing the roturna of Presidentnl eleo- tions, and of declaring the remult; ths proposed amondments extending tho Prosl. dential term to slx yoars and rendering the fncumbent ineligible to re-clection. The bill authorizing the isaue of $100,000,000 of 4 por cont bonds of small denominations, to bo {ssucd nt par in exchango for greenbacks or coin, which pasacd the Benate carly in the sosslon, was unacted on in the House, It will be scen that . substantially the ouly legiulntion was that included in tho nppro. priation bills, and in the caso of soma of theso the extravaganco was of the most reprehensiblo character, The River and Harbor bill was perhops the most scane dnlous nppropriation of mioney that over disgraced our legislation that was not the rosult of bribery and corruption, It might be called o fair specimen of “log-rolling.” A committes proparcd a Lill including appropriations to he oxpend- od in two-thirds of the Congressional Dis- triote of the country, and then demanded tho vota of the Reprosontative of each of thoso diatricts for the whole bill under n penalty of striking out the oxpenditure in his district bocause of his opposition to the whole job, The House voted 7,500,000, to which the Bennto added 1,000,000 more, and tho wicked, prodigal, and scandal. ous job was forcod through, 8o stroug and irresistible was the Congressional pressure for the passage of this shameful waste of public money that even tho President and his Cabinet dared not restst the bill, bat weakly submitted to the cbuse of legislative power, and gave official sanction to the law. The sppropriation bills wero also loaded down with immense appropriations for publio buildings allover the country,—a court-house, & post-office, o custom-houss, or some other nationalbuilding 1n nearly every Congroession. 8} District. There wns no pretense that many of such buildinge were needed or even would be needed; the objoct was to vote awasy publio taxes, adding to tho already burdensome toxation many millions of dol- lars which could have been far more profit- ably employed in the hands of the people. Ot the momoy oppropriated for so-called rivers and harbors, at least §6,000,000 witl Lo confiscated from the taxpayors and expended for no purposo of the least prac- tical utility. How far the Civil and Miscol- lancons Appropriation bill will succeed in WHY ST, LOUIS WANTS A MINT, It old King Core waoro iu roality a folly old soul, it is evident that tho Ifon, Natuan Corr, of 8t. Lonis, is & very noar relative of the master of tho throo fiddlera, A pamphlet ocopy of along spocch delivered bofore the Committos ou Coinngo, Woights, and Meas- ures of the House of Representatives, on tho 25th of Mnrch last, in behalf of the ostablish. ment of o mint at Bt. Louls, ia boforo us, It is o bonanza of richuess, and all the moro excruciating in that it was delivor- od in cold blood beforo threo or four mombers of a comlttes who were perfectly aoquaint- ed with everything ho said to them., Tho preas was not thoro, tho Houso was not there, tho gront public was not thoro, and yoi tho llon. Naruax Corm spoke his ploce with all the enthuslasm, and gusto, and empressement that might char- actorize Cantn Hagnisox on the Fourth of July, with 8tar-Spangled Bannors flying, eannon hooming, the Eagle swooping, firc. crackers flzzing, and poanut.peddlors shout- ing the merits of their tubers, VFor naivete and supertious buncombe it would bo diff- cult to surpass tho Hon. Natman Corr, For spread-cagloism, Our Oanten bas at last found his pecr, A fow of the snllent points made by the Hoo. Natman Corx descrves notice, Wo commence with his preface, which was to tho effect that Bt. Louis was *tho contral jewel upon that pearly band which, atretch- ing from the far-off plashing waters of tho graud old Pacific, Is studded with 8an Fran- cisco, Denvor, Kausas Oity, Iudianapolis, Oincinuati, Columbus, Pittsburg, Philadul- phis, and Now York, whose stately spires aro refloctod on the waters of tho mighty At. lantic.” Wo do not make any objection to theo orator's lapse of momory as to Chicago in this connection, bus El Paso, Kaukakeo, Michigan City, Goshen, Poduuk, Oshkosh, Terro Hauto, Coldwator, Grasa Lake, Ocon. omowoc, and Ontonagon, mot to mention Lebanon and Salem Four Corners, havoa right to feel slighted, for thelr spires aro a3 clearly yeflocted on the walers of tho mighty Atlantic aa tho spires of Den- ver, Kangas, or Oinclanatl, if they aro not quits as stately. Just as many founders and tomcods aro caught from the steamboat pler at Ontonagon as from the docks at Cin- cionatl, and the breezes that blow over tho marshes ot Kankakoe are as salty as thoso that ewoop around the brow of Pike's Peak. Bat to proceed with our orator. *8t. Louls, Alo., is situated in north latitudo_ 88 degroes, -only as it tive new cal 87 minntas, and 87,5 seconds, and in longl. tnde 6 degrees, no minutos, and 45.29 soconds west from Washington.” What of it? Thore are lots of other places just as many de- grecs, minntes, and scoonda wost of Wash- ington. Whoroin does this physlcal fact constitute a valid reason for giving 8t. Loms the right to #ofn doliary, halves, quartors, dimes, nickels, end coppers, more than any othoer placa? **It {s on the west bank of the Mississippi River.” Wo prosumo this may have beon of more importancoe in corracting the improssion of somo of the Committee that it is on tho cast side, which would have beon fatal to its protontions s a mint lacality, *‘It has benutifal eubnrbs aud a fine harbor,"—the harbor boeing o ninddy rmuniog river and a loveo, *Tho city is built on a limestone formation, undn. lating book, aud rising to quito a high clova- tion." Tho reader will not fail to be struck with the resemblnnco of 8t. Lonis to tho erab and the lobator, back, but 8t. Louls has the advantage of tho asb, Tho crab can only undulate bock, but 8t. Louis can undulate back and up, ‘Wa have no inclination to disputo the IHon. Natoax Core, for no one has over sconsed hor of undnlating forward. Bho has alwnya advanced tall foromost, and mado bnsto backwnrds, As we progross with the Hon. Naroan Core's argumetits why Bt. Louls should have o mint, wo are struck with the fact that * Bt. Louis was founded Fob. 15, 1764, by Pienne Lacrepe Laaguisr, nnd was intondod ot first to be o mere trading post.” The eternal fitnesa of things waa nover more clonrly manifostad than in theso two groat historieal faots. Suppose that eome other fellow with lors al- litorative cognominn had founded 8t. Louis, ond had orected his log cabin in the oozy, yollow, sticky, nasty alluvium of the Missis- sippi a yoar sooner or o year Iater, what would lLave bocome of Corz's argnmont in favor of n mint ot Bt. Louin? And again, how this fitness Is ghown in the absonce of any condition to disturb Mr, Liaoutsr's intentions! Ho intended it for a mere trading post, and & mero trading post it hasremnined over sinco. Oae hundred and fourteon yoars have flown'since M, Tuaouist hung out his shingle as a purchasor of poltrics. o hns passed away, nnd his hide ond skin stora with him, but his plans romain. 8t. Loula has boon truo to her des- tiny. Tho *‘moro trading post” of 1704 is still a trading post in 1878. Not contont with these powerful arguments, tho Ifon. Naraan Core advanced nnothor cogont renson, and fuformed . tho astonished Committec that *‘the city was namod in honor of Louts XV. of France.” Wo do not exaotly sce the logical outcome of tho nrgument, but it may bo that Mr. Lauisr, when ho christenod tho locality 8t. Louis, had n dim idca in his hend that it would be n good placo to make lonisd'ors, and, arguing from analogy, Mr. Cors may havo had the idenin his head that it is a good place to mako the dollars of our daddies. Procecd- ing from thia point, the Hon, NaToaN Corn fairly piled up points, and, as the dnzed Committoo llatoned, etill the wonder grow that one smnll head counld carry all he knew. Hemade o tenrful appoal for tho mint, becauss 8t. Louis remnincd under Fronch control until 1770, and wazxed clo- quent over tho transfer of the vast domain of Louisians, which took placo at 8t. Louls, March 0, 180}, THo advocated tho mint, boonuse ‘‘ita ecarly pop- ulation wera bardy and mirthful Pronch- man.” Ho pleaded foritbocause ** trado push- od ita voyngors up ol tho tributary streams," o wrostled for it becnuse ** the town was incorporated Nov. 9, 1809." Ho wept for it ‘because in thoso days '*the tow-path trod- don by tho blistored foet of men and tho batenu or kocl-bont wers tho mediums of transit.” o urged it becauso *‘ on the 24 of August, 1817, ouly sixty years ago, tho first steamboant, the Pike, Onpt. Rzep, bent her slow and toilsome way up tho waters of tho great river and anchored at tho littlo Fronch villago.” He pathotieally ontreated it because *“ on Deo, 9, 1822, the first Mayor, Dr. Winriax OArn LAKE, o noble epecimen of that historic raco fust passed awny, was elected and St. Louis essayed to be n city.” Ho cried for it hocaune ** tho groat flood of 1844 threatoned, and in fmct nlmost swopt away, the entiro resources of the poo- plo tributary to §t.” To what? The flood? In nn unguorded momont the IMon, Natuan Corn oxhibited one of thoso patont high. prossure indin-rubber population tablos for which Bt, Louis s famous, showing an in. cronse of soveral hundred thousand within tho last fow yoars. Theroupon Mr, Bozwen naked : “In what manner aro the last results which yon give ascortained ?” To which the Hon, Narnan Corp repliod, and thua gave himsolf away : 4 Thoy aro estimated. Tho lastis takon from our City Direotory, and calculated upon tho ngual basis.” At montion of the City Dircotory and the “qsual basls,” the Committee seemod to tako in the whola situation at a glance, Thoy quiotly r0se, and without disturbing the corator loft the apartment just as ho hind com- monced anothor argumont for the location of tho mint, which was to tho offect that * where wild war first reddencd the sky with lurid flames,” eto., oto., eto. In pmctlc{l effect, Sl new ocean cables havo been lafd scross the Atlantic within the last fow days, but It las been done so noisoleasly that tho newspapers havo scarcely notleed ft. The Nuw York Graphls explatos how 1t has been ac- complished. It says: Wo deacriped, somo daye ago, how the process of duplox telegraphing had at fast been success- {uily adopted by tie cable companics, sad explain. od how, as souD sa this wae dono, the capacity of oach cable was at once noarly doubled. 1t was not had Leen Iatd down; it was belter than this, bocause tho expenss of (ho now lines bad been saved, and the compunies sud- denly found themselves i 'the position of & rallway linu which had its track doubled without expunse, ur of a fanncs Who found his stock all bearing twins, aod bis felds produchog two crops where ono ouly Lad been expected. ‘lho inseneibility G the newabapurs to this sudden doubling of cably factiitics is uil the wors surprisiog la view of the fact that tho avent furnishes an excallent srgument for the iinnediats reduction of cable tolls,—s reduce tion benedcal aitky to tha presand the public, “I'wice tho husiuess can now be done over thu wires ascould have becn possible when the uicsaages could bo sent only une wuy atatime. This ad- ditional businces cun bo obislned, no doubt, by the loweriug of the rates, and it would be well for the Journals to Joln {u demanding this, In tiself, the auccensful adoption of tho duplex system to deep- s u‘hzuvhmiu a siguifcant end valusble scien- tific triuinph, Purbaps, ere long‘ it will be found that even moro thsu thia can bo dooe sod the capaclty of each cable fucrossed fourfola by the use of Epison’s quadruples e —— 8¢, Louls is still sgitated on the subject of municipal salaries and cxpenses. . 'The newapa- pere are insisting upon retrenchment, sud hold- fog up the sublime example of Chicago beforo the disgusted gaze of the 8t. Louls tax-caters. The Mayor's salary has been reduced from $5,000 to $4,000, and the Comptroller's from 84,0000 $3,500. The Mayorkcepa three private sceretaries, and tho papers are askiug why con't two of thew be restored to the quiet of private ife. “In tho Comptrolicr's ofice there is the same superfulty of high-priced clerks aud dep- utles. The trouble with the Alsyor aud Comp- troller ls that thoy waut two or three wen each to guard the digaity of their offices. 8t. Louls cau’t affurd quite 50 much diguity pow~sho L Thoy also undulate. wiling," snys the @.-D., **to get along with the simple transaction of neccseaty business on the part of her officlals.” A table I8 given showing the comparative and ageregate salarlea for the two clties for the year 1878. The figures givon are for salarics aloue. It will bo noted that somoe of tho offices bear different names in the tiwo cities, but tho duttes dis- charged aro the same in both: Mayor's offics Comptraoller' Auditor's ofiice . Treasuret'a ofiice. Regteter's aMce, Commissionor of Collector's ofilca. Tolteo Courta. . Law Department. Total... Mayor's office., . +9,000 Comptroller'a oflice, - 10,020 City Clerk's office. « B,500 City Treasurer's of . 2,870 Law Depnriment . ), B3 Talice Courta.... « 0,820 Clty Collector.. , 000 Totaliiee savene srseenroriveinsecesens® 71,358 Here 1s o difference of nearly 800,000, or al- most half, fn the salaricsof those ofiices. If the ontire salary lists of hoth citles wero given, the showlog would be stlll worse for 8t. Louts. e —— From all tho accounts that have reached the local papers, the Milwaukee merchants® excur- slon that Is now on fts way on a trip over tho Northwest did not creato as much enthusinsm among thelr bucolic constituency as was fondly wmticipated, The record says that at Brookfleld {Brookflcld consists of the depot building, en Irishman's shanty, ond o tamarock swawmp) tlie “tillcrs of the eoil werc out with dandelions In their button-holes.” At Hartland “a stop waos made to allow Gzonas I ieronp to get on the train,” and at Watertown a stop of twenty minutes was mode, but nobody was out cxcept a fellow ‘‘who boro a striking rescme blance to Buffalo BiLL® and a *‘lightning.rod ped(_llcr." The latter probubly “smelt” tho “forty-rod’ on board the traln, and thought 1t a good place to scll a wire. At Columbus there was no reception, though no less than fivo “representative mentlemen' atood on tuo platform to welcomo the cxcursionists. At Portoge City therc was o misunderatand- ing as to the time of the arrival of the traln, and no reception took place ne was in- tended, but a frea lunch was provided, and Geonram ALLEN'S speech sourcd on his stomach. At Kilbourn City there was another disappofot- mment, and 8 was not until the train reached Bparta at tea-time that a crowd was got together big cnourh to make m speech to. Altogether, the firat day out was ns damaging to the pro- pared apccches of the cxcarsfonists as it was to tho liquid resources of the Commissary Depart- went, —— ‘The following from o London paper, of the German fron-clads that recently cama Into col- lisfon {n the English Channel with fatal results, Is hifghly fnteresting: The Konli Wilhelm s & mighty monster, 865 foct in langth, with & aixty.fost beam. Sho carries a formidable brondside battcry, bears on her sldea eight-inch armor, and is furniehed with » steel ram projecting benoath the water from tha bow. Tha Grossor Korfurst (Ureot Kloctor) was a tarret ship, amaller in elze, similar in dosign to tha Britlah Monarch, and powerfolly armed, Sha wa divided Into twolve water-tight compartment, had a doublo bottom divided and framed in like man. ner, and wag thus suppliod with the moans con- siderca moat likely to_keep her afloat at Jeast for o reasonablo puriud in caso of o colltston, or o blow from Lostilo ehot. But when, tn womu clrcum. stances not yet preclsoly oxplalnod, the sharp concenled prow of the Koniz Wilbelm crashed into her hull ncar the mizzenmast, these sabtlo cone trivances proved valuolow to avort her dooni. ho raceived u fatal wound from tho doadiy weanon thrust inlo her stout framo by the force derived from the momentum of a ship one-tuurth hoavier than hersolf, and weighing 0,000 tons, and_ pro- ceoding under steam ot £1x, seven, of moro knots an hour. The ram muat have plercod through iron. and teak, opening a apace 80 largo that, in a fow momonts, it suficed to oversct the vessol, and scnd her down to the bottom of tho Channel, iving no time for tho use of boats, and drownlug men, or half horcrow. A calamity so dread- ful, tho Improssivonces of which ia augmented by the placld character of soa and sky, snd not only tho absence of & -lm\l- coemy, but the ncarness of frionds and hospltable sliore, brings homo to all minds the dangers which lnzk In these iron mon. stors, oven ia the piving times of peace, ' Mr. DANA, of the Now York Sun, has probs- bly written the word * Fraud " oftener than any man in Amerlca sloco last Novembor, And gow ho has printed a wholo scntence in referenco to Mr. Iayes in which his favoritc word docs not once oceur, and it reads so mildly that it almost convinees a person that bo has deen to one of Mr. Moopy's rovival meetiogs and *‘expetl- cnced religlon,” 'The Sun simply asks what Mr. Haxzs ongbt to do *'a8 an hunorable man, when ha discovers that ho was nefther honostly clected nor legally {ostalled.” Think of Mr. Harzs appearing n tho caustic typu of tho Sux s “anhonorablc man,” and not as ** his Xroud- ulency,” and so oo, Verily, the Millennium Is not far off when tho Presldent of the United States 1s thus reapcctfully referred to, sud DanA must be gottlog his asconslon robes rew_l’l 1181 d, hoals of Ti; tly round, ye who of mo, An’d‘:‘:lnz{hn )‘:!!h!l day. 5 —————— As Bex Butien Las talon the load in oxam- infog witneases bufore the ForTen Investizutiog Committeo **on the part of the prosecution,’ and now that hc has submitted his reasons at great length for dissentiog from the report of the majority of tho Committes, the public will bogin to think that TiLpEN must have “scon® Mr. BurLen before the disturbanco comménced, It was a very good joko to put Mr, BuTLER on that Committee and charge him to tho Repub- lcans. By any other maumic old Bex would amell as sweet. —————— Now that Congress has adfourned, Jot us sug- Rest that they visit the Paris Exposition in a crowd,—all go In a body, you know,—and then it the ship should meet with the fate of the City of Boston—nover be heard of azalo,~an lcoburg in tho widale of the ocean,—spontancuus com- bustlon,—a collision,—a bollcr exploalon,— struck on o submerged reef and all ou board perished! Bo-ho-o-0-0. Oh dear, ob dear! just to think of It! . Jomn C. Gaurr, Assistant General Manager of tho Chlcago, Milwaukoo & Bt. Paul Railway, is & wit as well as a good railroad man. At Rea Wing, where soine of the Milwaukce excursion. fsts had spoken two hours aud a half, trying to thank the people for thelr hospitality, Gaurr waa called out und elnply sald: *1 thauk you." Brevity 18 the soul of wit—cspecially on an ex- cursfon trip. It EpisoN only would—but then he can't— fuvent something that would take the placs of Congress; or, to be more mloute, i he could contrive some sort of a 'phone or 'graph, no watter much what ho called it, that could be substituted for the {ndividua) wmcmber, the patent would be popular aod the frauchise of focsleulable value. et The late Mr, Winans, of Baltimore, who ia reported to have left & fortuue or twenty mill- lous, hud a brother who was for s long time s resident of Jancsville, Wis. The latter died some ycars sinco, leaviog m large fomily of thildren who will not object to ind themselves remembered lo the Baltimorcan's will. ——— R — Boss Kmiux's right-hand msn, ex-Ald, Hznny D, Puknoy, who last year broke a dele- gate’s Jaw 1w a County Conveutlon, has sgain distinguished bimself by assaultivg s cripple, whose offenso was belonglug to the Auti-Tam- many party. As tne 8t. Louls platform says, +Reform {8 necéssars.” — ———— ‘Thero was a good denl of refolcing i Milwan- kee yosterday when the people thers read in 8 local paper that “all offers ol pay were re- fused?' by tho propls who fed the excursionlsts at Red Wing. At that rate tbelr money will probably bold out to the end of the jaunt. e —e— At achurch festival at Racioe, Dot long sgo, the Committev on Finance hit upon the uoique and taking way of raising funds by setting up several young ladies st auction sod kuocking then off to the highest bldder for cash. Tho scheme worked very well for swhile, but st last the supply was greater tban tho demand, tho ‘It elthet biddars loat thelr enthustasm, and it was in vain that the voluble and witty auctioncer ex. patiated upon the sttractions of his domestle and desirable wares. To close out the lot he had to dispose of several very stylish and first. clnss articles at the astonishingly low price of 25 cents each, e —— Graclous! didn’t tho monoy Oy during the closing hours of theacssfon! TheSenato scomed to be ne crazy ns tho House, nud did what it could to make times better by liberal appropei- atlons, Tha President’s veto s n goud thing to have, If judiclously exercised. — Among the appropriations last made by Con- gress was $10,000 for tho cstablishment of & loks coast llabt and fog-sinal station ot Ra. cine, Wis, It is an oxponditurc of money that is wholly Indefensible, but very like a great many others. e —— ‘The question now 1a, How much did that legal opinlon of B, F. Burrri, of counsel for SAMuELL J. Titoew, touching the matter of tho Presi. dent’s titlo to his office, which was submitted tothe Houso on Tuesday Iast, cost the sald SaMuEL J. TiLDERY —— CONRLING {3 said to be moro angry than Tir- DEN over the failuro of the Porter Investiga- tion. TiLDEN I8 disappolnted, but CONELING s downright mad— ‘That he 18 mad, *tis true, ——— Dang it all, we thought Conazress was to end on Tuesday, aud the country could lave a rost, but it had to stay anotner day. It cries with Macbeth— To-morrow, and to-motrow, and to-morravw. ——— The Communiata of 8t. Louis are about send- ing out patd agltators to work up *the cause in Missourt, and proposo nominating Congres- slonal and Lezislative tickets for tho fall elecs tlona, “Citizens' * tickets, as ono might soy. —— TiLDRN will have to wreck another raflrond soon, or cheat tho Government out of somo ‘more revenue, in order torepleniahithat * bar'l» :;m must be pretty much exhausted by this me. e Did MATT CanpaNTER'S retainer 08 counsel for 8.J. TILDEN ond with tho Electoral Cou- misslon, or A1 It cover the wholo case, and Is MATT now suggesting pointa for ButLen & Co.1 g If BLarn, CoNRLING & Co. had been named by the Prestdent as members of o Board of “Visiting Statesmen," that 86,000 appropriation would not havo looked 0 bad to them, * “* A noblo-hearted citizen of Georgetown, D, C., offers to give the poor all the green goose- berrles they want,” Bet that this benefactor’s daughter Is married to a doctor. TheNew York Herald * Roman Prelate otill continuca to translate four and fivo col- unins from French bookon Encyclicals {n the Astor Library. f 4 Wa should not be surprised to hear that STANLEY MATTHEWS had fnvested tho whole savings of a lifetima in KeeLY motor stock. e My Gop!" exclalmed BranLeY MATTOEWS as ho read GArL IAMILTON's allusions to him, “‘are my troubles never to have an endd” b e — Mrs, Jexgs, whom the Porrem Committeo did not scem to be fricndly with, fs no relation to Capt. JeNgs of the fHorse Marlnes. et—— Our esteomed Enstern contemporaries ars runaing Mr, BRyant into the ground. ————— The country is probably safo untll the firsi Monday ln December. — PERSONALS, Misa ¢ Littlo.Womon * Aloott is sald to be suffering from averwork. Mommsen is in Italy, comploting his his- torlcal and archalogical investigations. Bomo idiot in London has ot on _foot the story that the Queen is going to marey DisracH. John Morrissoy'a blind eister, Mra, Mary Morris, 18 dylng of heart-disenso at Troy, N. Y. Bon Batler is not going to sponk at Tenry C. Bowen's Fourth- of-July celcbration at ‘Woodetock, Conn. Mr. Gladstono's comiug is ddolared by an English correspondent to havp been foretold in Psalm Ixxiv,, 6, whoro It Is writton, **A man was famons according as ho lfted up axés upon the thick treea.” Mr. Bpurgoon says that somotimes ho hearn acrmons which make him feel liko the poor person who was once ssked to dine with tho Bquire, and who, on bolng requested to return thanks. did so In this fashion: **O Lord, we thank that we don't have such a good dinner as thls every day of our lives, for if ‘we did wa should bo suro to be fIl.** The Popo i so bothered by the constant opposition to all his reforming projects that it fs sa1d he exprcescs a doslre to resign. Cardinal Franchl, the Cardinal Socretary of State, roquests the Tope's sanction to a plan of general survelilanco, conlnlng the ewmployes of the Vatican to thete dutics, and uprooting the Camarilla which 1s favading svery department of the Popa's house- bold, Aftor tho wreck of the German ironolad, the Grossor Kurfurst, the crew of s flshing-amack brought up two bodies of drowned sallors in thelr nels, ‘Tho theifty Sshermon, bolng possessed of & foar lost thoy might have to bury tho bodice them- let thum sink again. \Whom they reached the shore they were picased 0 seo that the Qer- man Ambsasados had offored & coward of $10 tor each corpss recoverod. At a London Police Court the othor day Moses and George Green, two brothers, wore ined for kaocking down snd beating an old woman named Roborts. Thole mothar haa just dled, and hier sons, boing convincad that it was through the apells of Mrs, loborts, whom thoy regarded ssn witch, concluded that, 1o provent Lier from czor- claing hor Liack art on other unfortunates, it was thelr duty to draw blood from hor. Joo Hooker, st the reception of the Army of the Potomac, occupled a big arm-chalr, haviog & beaut!ful Jittle girl of 7on his kues, whoni be Kkissed repeatedly, One of the company remarked to the child: **You must remembor thls, ‘Ten of tfteon yoars hence you will be very proud of having boew kissed by Fighting Joo Jlooker." Wheroupun Lo General wittliy retorted: ** 1 should uot wind my dear, Lf you were (en ur 8lftoou yuars older now. "’ Thore died & fow dnys sgo at Hartford, Conu,, & man of some means but clouded lnteltect, who for tho last thirty years had doue nothing—bls considerable meaus sllowlng bim to live fv lelsaze —but walk up and down the strcets, removiug carstully from tho sidewalks all strsy pleces of orange-pecl and banaus-akin. 1u early life bislady love broke hor log by slipping on & pleco.of orange pecl, and cventually dicd from the elects of the accident. Thisaflested bis mind and led to bl unselfsh occupation for the rest of his life. AMrs. Annle Besant ia turnlng’ her tortures Into her clements of successful advertising in En- glsnd. Recently sha atastied the people of Lives- pool by imploriog her friends, 1f the police should attempt to arsest her whilo sho was delivering bor lecture on **Christianitys Immoral i Theory sud Denorallzing In Practice,™ not to tear the wyrmle dons of the law limb from limb, but led them bear ber toa felon's cell. The police never had any ln- {entlon of tho sort; probably this was the firt la- thiwallon of ber intended lecture that they had re- celved, buv Mre. Bessat had su oversowlng bouse. Charles O. Burleigh, the eminent anti- slavery advocate, dica at Florence, Mass,, on tho 14th. 1le was aleo s etrony snti-Ssbbatarisc, was opposed to the desth-penslty, favored womau's sights, and preached temperance. e was one of 1bo epeskers 1o Pennsylvanta Hall in Philadelphia, when that editice was buzned by the maob i 1833, When Mr. Garrlson was asasiled by rloters in Bos- ton, Mr. Burlelgh it was who closcd the door of the ofico in the face of the crowd, sud, confront- Ing the assatlauts, gave Mr. Garrison time to cs- caps. A kindly messago from bis old le chevred bl last bours. For 8ftcer: years be was % realdent spesker ** of the Free Congregationsl Hoclety in Mlorence, Masa. For ono year ho proached to & similar soclety in Bloomingtos, 18 thie Btato.