Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1878, Page 4

- 64, . thu report of tho Iatest Democratic brutal. Tlye Tnibuwe, RIPTION. all 188 votew, or thirleen more than the necossary majority over all,—a echemn which Incks, tn begin witl, a very essential eloment of sicaess, viz., a rensonnble probn- bility of hin being able to control tho votes of thoso State¢ in the nomjinating Conven- Louisinua, s tho stufling with tiesue-paper votes did not involve mnr- der, '"These damming and henrtless vutmges, it mnst bo remembered, ocourred in a State from which the President withdrew the troops nnd ousted the earpet-haggors upon TERMS OF SUB! TT MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE Yty K dition, one year.. tion, the golemn promiso of its (overnor that the A erary T ! rights of the entira peoplo of tho Btats At yestorday's conference of Inwyers, it- | ghoyid bo protectod. In past senrs the izens, and Representatives-clect to the Tegis- fatnre from Cook County the drscussion and 38:U8 | expression of views covared soveral impor- tant mubjects of legislation, such as the question of providing snltable appronches from tho business and residenca parts of the olty to the publio parks with which Chicago is surrounded ; the necensity for aninerensed Appropristion to cover the cost of ade. quately maintaining tho State militin ays- tem; the extansion of the requirements of the present Registry law so na to require segisiration as a proventive. of frandulent voting at the county and municipal elec- tions; and tho changes necessary in the Revonue law of Illinois. Al these mattera ara recciving » thorough oserhanling which ought to be productive of & better under- standing than has umally. prevailed among legislntors regarding the needs and desires of Cuok County at the liands of the law-making powar of the Stale. Confederate bulldozers had earpot-baggers aud United States troops with which to justify their shot-gun policy, Iu this campnign they werawithoutpretoxt of any kind. The lendérs orderod a wolid Domocratic delegation in South Carolinn and Lonisiana, In tho for. mer it was obtained by the most infanious frands and in the Iatter by the moat diaboli- cal massacres ever known in the political his- tory of this conntry. The investigation of tho ono shonld should be just ns searching 88 the investigation of the other, It is too much to hope that these bogus Congraszman can bo ousted, but it i the duty of tho In- vestigating Committee and of tho Republie. sn party to show theso men to the country in their truo light,—tho one delogation suenk- ing into Congress nnder cover of thousands of fraudulent votes, the other boldly taking sents which they have socured by tho mmr- der of hundreds of unoffending negroos and tho {ntimidation of the remninder. e e One copy, per CinL ot font.. 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Mack at Janesville, Wis., for tho wurder of her husband was bronght ton closa yesterday, the jury finding a ver- dict of * guilty of murder in the firat de- gree,” for which the highest penally provided by the laws of Wisconsin is imprisousnent for life. After the brutal conlfession of her paramour, DicersoN, mpon the witnees. stand in court, which the defonse utterly fniled to brenk down, there remained no room for doubt that the husband of the condemn- ed woman met his death at hor hands, Dickensoy is yet to be tried for his share in the tragedy, the proof of which, fur. nished in his own statement, is suflicient to fusure him n punishment of equal severity with that impoyed upon Lis partner in tho crime againat Loth the houor aud tho- life,of the mordered man, At 8t. Louls tho sen. tence of death was yesterday passed upon Jissar J, Repemever for the murder of Fnaxe Vosz, the exccution beng set for Feb. 14, 1870, , THE ISIANA OUTRAGES, The narrative of tho outrages upon Re- publicans in Louisiana during the recent Cougressionnl campaign, which was printed in Tup TRibuNe of Wednesday, discloses o condition of things in that Stato wore hor- rible it possible than anything that has yet been recorded in the long, black chiapter of Confederate injustico, persecution, and bra- tality practiced upon Ropublican nogroes who attempt to vote in nccordanco with their vonvictions. ‘The story ia told by nn intel- ligout colored woman who bas found a refuge from these ontrages among her friends mn Cincionati, and is so completely confirmed by letters nnd newspaper reports from Loulsiana a8 to Jeavo vo doubl of its trath. ‘The subatance of her parrative is o tho effect that theso outrages commenced ns soon ns the cawpaign opened, Avrnep Fain- Fax, thoe Republican candidate for Congress in the Fifth District, being the first con- splenous victim. Immediately nftor ho had delivered his first speech, o gang of bulldoz- fug rufllans headed by one Capt. Pecr made a uight attack upoun: his house with the in- tentlon eitber of killing him or driving him out of the parish, Fainrax and his friends made 8 temporary defonse, and then suc- cuoeded in excoping into the woods, Prck's gaug sent for roinforcéments, and o sccond one appeared, headed by Judge Convery, of 8t. Joseph, whose ruflians nmused them- selves by shooting down thirty-five colored persons—mon, women, and childron—whila at work in tho flolds. Alarmed for their safety, the nugroea of tho parish be. THE NEW YORK GOLD ROOM. - What is known ns the * Gold Room " in Now York City was n peculinr institution thathod ita origin in the War, and thrived nnd flonrished ns long ns the influences of the War wero stronger than the counteract- ing conditions of penco and recovery; it has been in nstate of decline for two or three years, however, and it will pass out of sight aud miod next week, ‘it is to Lo hoped, forever. It was the scone of the wildest speeulations of the speculativa ora from 1861 to 1873, and duriug vight or ten years made and unmnde more fortuncs than the stock and commercial exchanges combined. 1t atarted on n “street corner, roso to tho di- monslona of n news-stand, descended to tho deptls of n dark cellnr, and finally occupied expenaive quarters, nud established exclusive- ness by fixing the priceof 310,000 o member- ghip, 'This was its riso, and its fall Lios been marked by suceessiva reductions in impor- tance and quarters wuntil the fundof tho Gold Exchangs wna divided, nud the busi- ness relegated to one room of the Stock Exchange. But it has taken fourtcen years to break down n practice of gambling that nttained national dimensions in three or four . McVickes's Theat Hadlron street, between Dearborn o anof the PPeuple,” and ** That Blesse — Taverly’s Theatres Desgborn atrect, corner of Monrve, Engagement of Mr, and srs. Willlamnson. ' Siruck 1" Nantey's Thentre. fondolnh trect, betwecn Clark and LaSaie. Eae gagement of Miss Fanny Davenport. ** Divorce." Acndemy of sfusic, Tlatsted street. between Sladison and Monroe, Va- rlety qutertaninent. HUamlin's Theatre, CTark street, opposite tha Court-Houwse. Ehaolstan Carmen. ™ *‘The Af- Metropolitun Theatre. Clark treet, opposite Slierman Hause. tertamment. Vstlety en- White Ktocking P'ark. Lake shore, foot uf Washington strect. Grand Bkating Uarnlva). ven! wurk f the {ink cutnpaalons coratelly iy lted. Wy vrd e Pl ATELES . WItGHT, Seeratary. POE, ¥O. 31, A. P. AND A, Fpecial Communlvation th Nng 8t o'elock Tor wurk vo F. RIe. Meinbers and Visitors frateroady invited o be prisent. 1y order of the Master, ’ A F. N. TUCKEIL. Becretary. NOME LODOE, NO. &%, A, F. AND A, Mo~ Teeulor coinmnieatton this ‘aveningat 7:50 welock. instaliation of uflicers. iny brethreu conllally 10+ vited, 1t Z HERHICR, Secretary. M.~ (Frle years. It was not till the opening of the year 1862 that gold nssumed o well-defined premium over paper money, Provious to that timne thore biad been charges and commissions for bandling the coin, but from thot date on it becamne a vehiclo for speculation. Anindefi~ nite suspension of specio payments alone wouldhave placed n preminm upon gold, but thoe provision for the payment of customs dutfes in coin and the heavy foreign pur- chases made by the people of this counlry gave this premium o decided influence over business, and made it more svailable for speculative purposes than was any othoer commodity, From this guasi legitimnte spec- ulation sprang up o despernte spccies of gambling, aud buying or selliug gold soon came to be vory much the samo thing as staking money on the turn of asinglo eard. It followed the varying successes and roverses of the War, went up or down as tho chances of ultimnte specle resump- tion grew moro or leas remote, and was the favorits material on which large combinations operated to squeozo the outsiders, It resched its highest point in July, 1864, when it required #2806 In green- Locks to purchoso ©100 in gold. ‘L'bis wos the time just before day whon it ia ¢aid to be dnrkest, nnd the progress which the Govern= mont made towards the conquering of peace WAUBANSIA LODOR, NO, 100, A, ¥, AND A, M.— Recular Commuyivatior this (Fridap vening at Ma: sonie Jiall, 70 Munroe-st., for businers wnd work, Visitiog brethreu condintly fuytred. WELL, Bccrotary. RIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1876, Avriosso, has ot Inst been sentenced by the Spavish Supreme Court of Juslice to suffer death for his crime, all pleas of emotional insanity and otherwiso having been ignored, It is 8 pleasant contradiction thnt is cabled this morning from Paris—that which rolates to the statemont in yestorday's dispatches ns to tho drowning of forty.eight childven by tho breaking of tho 1ce on a pond at Chapelle Moche. Thero 18 no truth in the story. Numerous orgauizod bodies of educators ary just now lolding their annunl sessions, 'I'he TWlinois Btate Tenchars' Association met st Sprivgficld yestorday, aud a varisty of in. teresting papers, together with an addross by QGov. Cunrov, were the features of the tirst dny's sessiof gau to wrm themselves, but as Conprun wecured a decline, though hy no weans o uni- B = form ono; gold gambling want on vigorous- The natl terfal § sont for wtill stromger relnforcements 3 y Ay 1h AR Te ot foving | they bero compeied o lay ~down | by anil the puuio f 1873 brought, most of 1o by a very valuablo ndjunct. Thus far éuo their arms. ‘These reinforcerhents wera this kind of speculation to a cloge. Tho most of the now recruits haa boon sentenced to | Made up of rullius from Arkansas notabls: spoch Ju: thelditary oF. the Guid Room ocourred, indeed, as late as 1869, A Lull movement was formed ln the fall of that year which ran up gold from tho quoted prica of 134} In greenbacks to 162§, which was the point where it tumbled on that dreadful “Dlack Iriday.” It was the bonst of the clique running this corner that thoy could send gold to 200, and it was widely belioved that the Government, or some of ita chief men, wero back of them, DBut the cor- uer was broken by tho sale of gold ordered by the Government, aud the prico tumbled to 133 moro suddenly than it had climbed up o 168, Guaxt's Administration wns vefy generally eriticised for the part it ployed in this gold eornor, aud charges wers freoly mado that the Prosidont and others near to Bim wera i{ntercated in the movement; but snd Mesissippl, who in pure wautonuess drove -women and children off into the woods aud killed the men who made any whadow of opposition, Large wnmbera fled from the parish in tho night, crossing over {0 Vicksburg and making their way north. ward. 'Fhose who remained were required to tako an oath to voto ouly the Domocratio ticket and those who refused were shat or hanged. The result wns a partial depopuln. tion of the parish, ctops ungathered, prop. erty destroyed, over 100 imnocont men wlnughtered in o pingle week for presuming to exurcluo the vights of citizena guarantoed to them by a counstitutiona! wnendmuent which seeiss to bo binding in tho North and barren in the Bonth, and the triumphant suc- cexs of tho Domocrntio ticket, " 1y tho horrible agoncy of murder, by the mns- snera of unoffonding smen, womon, aud children, thove who were spared were pointimidated that thoy feared to exercise their privileges, und the Democratia cundi- date in the Fifth District made a good run end was elvoted, becauso the . Rupublicaus conld not even atteinpt to vote without pay- juy tho pennlty of their lives for it, Y'ho parish (‘'lensas) in which this horrible mansacre wis perpetrutod hus o population of aver 12,000 persons, of whomn 10,000 nre col- orad, 'I'he lands are devoted to cotton-rais. ing, and most of tho colored people aro en. goged as Seld Lands, though many cultivate onshares with the whites and soma own their farow. ‘They are all Republicans, aud thus this parish, whick went al. most vonnimousty Democratic, is in real- ity Republican by a vote of about Bto1. ‘Ehis voto was wiped out in Llood. A dispatch to Tue Cuicaco Tnisvse on the morning after election sayd: * In the Fifth District, some of the sirongest Republicsn parishos, particulurly Tensas, the vote for the Democratio candidato includes nearly the solid vote of the parisk.” ‘'he story is ugsin told iu a dispates to Tue Trivune of Nov., 8: “Tensns—which is the parish adjoining to Concordla, and which gave Keivods,in 1972, 2,400 mafority; in 1874, Repub~ denth for nctunl trenson in uotifying his conn. trymen of tho approach of au English force, nud quite & uumber of others huve been nwarded ponal servitude for desertion after a Lrief term of servi Tt being donied that a suflicient number of Democrats in tho Legislature of 1877 had voted for Mr. E. B. Wasupunsz to havo en- ubled the Republicans to bave elected bitn Senutor, we reprodueo the names. of thoko Democruts who nctunlly so voted, They wers Henntors Mcbiowms and Hvirw, awd Representatives Moongynan, WiLvrmax, Wirsiass, and HanNa,—six in all. Tho trouble with ‘Fiunsan scems to ho thut if he cousen{s to take the nomluation for GGovernor of Ohio Lo will he compelled to muko Lhe convass on @ pronoguced greon. Lack platform, nod thus stand committed to u doctring which will deprive him of the vupport of tho hard-mouvy men of thoe East, Yor this renson he wihild liko to be excnsed from making the raco noxt year, but he will find it difficu’t to suswoer the objection that o mun whe is unwilling to take that risk for his party is not tho 1nan to reprosont it in the bigger contest of 1880, Present sp- pearatices indiento that Tnumian will buve topay the pennlty of his flop saud como to thy front bku o mu, ot that tine put a stop to gold corners for rood sud all, It is said that the transections in that corner amouuted to 500,000,000, and the disasters were so numcrons and compli- catod that they bavo not yot been closed up, aud probably never will ho seitled. Hince the panic of 187:3 the decline in the gold prowiumn has beon gradual and tolerably uniform. ‘Cbe «uotation for Jan, 1, 1877, was 106}, aud for Jan. 1, 1878, 102}, A prominent gold broker is reported as having recontly sald that thore would have beon no speculation in gold during the last two yenrs i 1t had not Leen for Congress, Itis only tho uncertajuty as to yosumption, oceasioned by threats of hostlle logislation, that hes kopt it at n preminm, For montha this premium has been mmpy nominpl, sud the sunouncement of reaumption, along with the accoptanco of greenbucks in paymont of duties, will wipo it out altogether. The Gold Room §n New York, which has 50 often been the scene of the wildest exciteuiont, j8 uow deserted, aud the fow brokers who hang srqund it from habit are waid to Lo thor- oughly convinced that resumption will ben succoss, and that ‘they must look'up another flold for the employment of their talents. THE PIGHT OF THE SUOAE RING. ‘The United Blates Grund Jury in wassion ut New Orlewns is considering the ontrages connpitted lust November, oud many fudiot- ments huve been found against porsons al- leged Lo bave been guilty of whipping and Lilling in the name of Democracy, ,Although uo detinite information cau be obtained at present, the sasurance is forwarded that the Stute Goverument stands ready to cut ol its right hand it it have offended. tiov, Nicuoirs tolks os well as Iamrrox did, but prowises from Bouth Carolins now wuter Northern ears with sound as sinlster as ity, ond this fuct gives at least 8 sobor color. iug to tho lip-righteouvness proclaimed in s " C00 1 The Bugar-ltefiners’ Rlng aro mwakivg des- the hmmuzaif““‘“’ L[f,;:;_giflmv’,,q ml‘tw "{;.,mf;m 1(‘;:;:: perata elforls to prolopg the present vystem Seuator Bavanp no louger concaals the | Tho large uumber of munders inju. of sugar duties under whicls tho Goverument is plundored, aud the publio swindled, and tho trade made secomplices in falie swoar- {ug, sdulteration, aud wholosale polsoning. The latest trick is the virculation among the wholesale sugar doalors of the couutry of a potition to ba forwarded to Congross. Hlere is tho petltion : 5 Memorial of Wholesals Grocers and Uealera in Sunar (o he Honorable Sinateand Honse of Licpre- aentatices: 1t has been oficiaily repressutcd to yuuc bundratle bodies thata chango 10 ths Larltf ou UGN 13 Decesdary. The reasou given 18 tnat cortain suars Of bigh teut come 10 under thy preseut luw at1to estue duly aw luw-tast supar wiien Lhe color faslike, 'To remove tuis objection. it ls recuw- wicaded that theas pigh-gridy und low:gradv vakury bo sduwltted #t & one-rato duty, whics would, of cunrse, probibit the hwportation of tue Jatter, asd 40 awuy i the Uned Slates with the reduue of (v a e wost lurgely used, snd divort it 1o Eogland, and elacwhuze, Asthts Cluss of sugars (any all reSocd sugars) cun e produced fn $hiw country wore cheaply than 1 suy forelgn countey, us pressnt aud Javt prices prove, aud as it would bo Sugrantly uujust S the Gorerbsint o CLarge ol ber part a8 WUcl 10r s fuct of his aspirations congerning the Presi- dency iu 1550, Already Lis headquarters are eatablished ot bis home in Wilaington, Del., ut g convenient distance from the real centra «f operations, New York-City, whers the Lurd-money Democrats of the Middle and New Englund Stutes will concentratu their torces, 'fha Presidential fever has npver turued his bruin on the currency quéstion, sud Lo Lins no flops tg spoil a couslstent rec. ord for honest money. That ke will be the «usudidate of that ¢lement of the Democrsoy Vhich refuses to surrender to the inflationists, there now rewelns little doubt, nud that thiv clewent b quictly dropped 'f1epeN out of its eulculations is equally certain. - Bavaup is 1.uid to bage his expectations upon the Balid Houth and the Electorsl votes of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersoy, uumbering in divioysly comuitted a short time beforo election day accomplished the purposs of the Confedernto leadery, sud gave them another member of Congress. 'Fhis, too, is the his- tory of East and Weat Feliciana.” In other purishos the samg. ngenoies wéro brought to bear to wipe out the Republican majority, and succooded; o that theso parishes, which in 1876 gave from 1,500 to 3,000 Ropublican wajority,sppesrod almost solidly Democratio. Concordis, adjoining Tonsas, which has 800 registered Damocratic votes snd 2,000 KHepublican, scarcoly returned a Republican vote. ‘The Congressman from the Fifth District will toke with him to Washington & record staiued with blood snd occupy 8 seat to which he was never glucted. Infamous ss the South Carolina frauds are shown to be, they ar uot as Lad o thoso in certain it is that the action of the Governmont: TRIBUNE: FRIDAY per cent of arainst th your honaraiile Rtid unfasurable to the interosis of the sugar-d er, rellnor, and coprumer, intien whonld be reilated on the ad raloren {renciule, and suonld ot discriminalo against the mporiation of any class of sugars. hix memorial supprosses the trath ond mistates the facts. 'Tho present tariff per- mita frauds which naro largely perpetrated by tho refiners, 1t hes driven honest re. finers ont of the business, and driven honest importers ont of tho sugar trade, Under it, the reflnors have obtained almost exclusiva control of the sugar trade of {ho country, and thelr cnormous profits, inereased by frauds in importation, and rank, wholesnlo adulteration enablo them to forca their “mannfactured” sugars on the couutry at thelr own prices, Bugar has become, nnder tho modern but now notoriously goeneral practice of adnitoration, s clearly a ** manu- factured ” article ns is chigose, butter, lard,; vinegar, or wines and brandy. Consumers of sugar can vest uuder the mornl cortainty that what they buy is not pure sugar, but a proparation sold as sugar and loaded with cheap ingredionts, all unhenlthy, but afford- ing the manufacturer n large profit. This nicmorial protests ggninat any change in the presont law, and tho wholesalo grocers of the country are asked o potition Congress to perpotuato a system of rovenuo swindling and sugar adulteration which nerit the ex- treme ponalties of the law. ‘T'he great objection made to a chango in tho law {g, that, if all sugar below No, 16 bo chorged the same rate of daty, the sugnr- refining business in fhis conntry will bo broken up, and all our angar will bo refined aver in Cuba, Mr. Dr ALpama, o Cnban, fur- nishen the New York Sun with n statement of conclusive rensons why Cnba can never become au exporler of refined sugars, Theso ronsons nro thus stated : 1. Cuba has no coat, The Average price fn Tnvana 1 from 88 to 810 ner ton; liere, from $3 to 4; and in Kurope fram 8 to 10 shiliings, 2, Cubn has no bone-biack, It wunld have to be impaorted, and would cost ot least twice as much aa hers or n Eutopr, i1, Hiricks worlh here 33 to 87 per 1,000 cost in Havana $:10 to $40. 4. Lumber worth here $10 and $12 per 1,000 fect costs 1 Cuba &30 to §40, 3. Unwkilled Jabot v worth more to-day in Cuba that periiaps auyswhore elde in the world. 45, 8kllled labor 1n Cubn has to be imported from Rurope of feom this country at very hieh cost, and commands at lenst twice as minch as elsewhere, and, what 1a worsy, It is frequentiy not obisinable at mi‘mw when the demand for it is most urzent. 7, Even werc all the reaulrements for sugar ro- fincrs obtainnble in Cuba a3 easily, as reliably, and ne ecunomicatly as in other countrics, the enor- mous 1axation fndispensable for Spatn's sule in Cubs would alone prevent her from competing with sugar-refining _industrics oisewhere, This very taxation, added to the great price pald for labor, In alrendy cripplivg her enormous sugar- producing {ntereats, In nddition to this, the high protoctive daty on refined sugar which it is proposed to leave in force would exclude mny sugar which might possibly bo refined in Cubn from coming to this country, England is largely supplied with refined sugar from France. Tho fact is, and these refiners all know it, that thero will not be one pound loss of sugar needing refining finported un- der tho law recommended by the Secrotary of the Treasury than thero 13 now, but there will bo an end put to tho scandatous frauds papeteated by importing rofiners. It ls possible, too, that tha sugar trado will conse to bo o monopoly in the hands of the re- finers, and that the sugar trade may bo car- riod on logitimately and honestly by mer- chants who may not bo refinera. The great profits,honostly as well asdishonestly, enjoyed by the refinors hias made this Bugar Ring fu- rious at the suggestion that the sugar busi- noss bo rostored to principles and practices consistont with common honesty and decen- cy. ‘Thoy appeal to'the wholesalo grocers to aid them in their extremity, which appeal *wholesale grocers will understand how to treat, If half the euergy and porsaverauce displayed in tho effort to maintain and pre- scrve a dishonest law for the purpose of rob- bing the Governmont and the public was given to an honest and legitimate trade in honest and noadnltorated sugar, thero might be, perhaps, loss woney made, but thera would cortainly be less domornlization of public sentimont by the disgracoful falae wwontdng nud cciminal practices to whicl great wealth resorts to incrense ite storo. — THE CANADIAN FISHERIES, It is not surprising that the British ext8r. tion of 5,500,000 from the people of the United 8tatea for a privilege which eannot fuirly bo figured out ms worth more than &5600,000, if anylhing, during tho ontire period for which it {a granted should lead to an agitation for terminating the Treaty of Washington which rendored such extortion possible, This wonld look something like locking tho door after the horse had baon stolon, slnce the extortion Lns boen pusillan- fmously subintted to by tho Btate Depart- ment nnd the money paid over; aud, all othor things being equal, it would be wiser to enjoy tho benefita for which the country has pald so dearly, But it has becoine a serious question whether these bonefits aro not otherwise accompanied by conditions which render them too ekpensive. ‘'This sama troaty, which has enabled Englond to exact #5,500,000 for catching about 10,000 barrols of flak o year in the insbore fishing- ground of the Provinces, nlso stipulates that, Jn additton thereto, tho Canadian fisbermop shall also buve the privilego of flshing within (he threo-mila lmit ou our const, aud introducing their flsh into our mnrkets without paymeut of daty. This stipulation deprives the Ameri- cau Government of about §300,000 annusl revenuo, which is the avernge amount it wouli colleot for duty on the enrrout fn. portations of fish from Canada, and it s said to have diminished the thihing trade of New Euglad, which employs 40,000 people, nt least one-thind, ‘Thostatement is mudo that Benator Ensunps intends to propose aml nrge a Lill terminat- fug the Fishories Treaty at once, which will not expire by Minitatlon tilt 1885 If it ho objected that such termination would be for the interest of a certain clasd only, the suswor 1s that it was in order to galu a privie 1ege for that clags that the lisbility to incnr tho subscqueut asscssmiont of F5,5%),000 was ossumed; aud, mow that it s found the damnges to that foter ent overbalance tho benefits it derives from the sgresment, the Government has the samo reason for (crwiuating thiv branch of tho trealy that it Lad original. ly for pgreciug to it. Dosides, o deslro to ket even ™ with our Cavadian neighbors nust naturally exert some Sufluonce in tho cusv, i that satisfaction can be obtaiued without suy additional sacrifice. The yoar beforo the ‘resty of Washivgton went luto effect the umport of inackerel from the Prove inces was only 19,734 barrels ; it increasod tho very finst year of free lmportation to 41,367, and in 1877 ronched 72,634, 'Fhis shows that Canada is benefiting by tho terms of the treaty, though the Unitod Blates bave beon mulcted in §5,500,000 to bring about tho condition of thinge that sccures the Proviuces such gre. § benetit, ‘The story of New Eugland. fishermen is thut the free fwportation of fish from Cau- ada is ruining theic industry, partly becauso Republican Senator, of tho ex-Senator, DECEMDBER 27, 1878 the ermen of the Provincea ocenpy R vantage-gronnd by a division of Inbor and partly becaure they aro introdueing into the United States matkets an inforfor quality of fish which they can afford to sell chonpor, and which nt the same timo lowers the price of all fish and rednces tho demand for homo consumption, The Canadian fisher- mon have farms nlong the coast which they can work in connettion with their flshing; this gives thom an advantage in competition. But work on thelr farms in the morning and avening leavea them the middle of the day tor fishing, and their ‘‘catch" becomes soft and partially rpoiled while lying in the boats, This nccounts in part for the {uferior quality of the Canndian fish, but tho matter 1s rendered still worso by their ignorance of the proper metbods for curing their fish, The Americans, too, do their fishing in ves- sols with o crew of fiftecn mon, which en- ables them to catch more deepewater fish, Lut also costs thom more for the ontft and fabor. Thus; they contend, thoy are st o disndvantage on all sides in competing with the Conndian fishermen, after furnishing thiem n froe Amerioan market. There will be sgme opposition even from New England to Mr. Epstuxns’ proposition to tertninata the treaty and refmposa a duty o? fish imported from Canada. The mer- chants of Boston, who denl largely in the spoiled Conadian fish for export to the West Indics, and the merchants of one or two of the const towns whera the Onnadlan fish ara Ianded, enjoy advantages in tho reduction of prico, 'Iliey aro indifférent, of edurse, ns to whero the flsh come from, and aro not so porticnlar s’ to their quality. There may also bo some opposition to the measure com- ing from thiose who aro opposed to every species” of ** protection.” Butitisa ques. tion which hins merits on both sides, and, inflnenced by the payment of the swindling Halifax award of §5,300,000 for a privilego which Liaa resulted moro benoficially to tho Canndiane than to the United Btates, n grent many peopla will favorthe termiuation of the fishery provisions of the Treaty of Washing- ton who would ordingrily be averso to such naction, Tho Juter.Ocean asks Tre, Tainonz whoth- er it consldors the offer of Mr. FanweLr, in 1877, in case he waa clected Bonater by the nid of Domocratio votos, to resign that Gen, Loaax might bo appointed to flll the vacancy, leaving bim and Oarespy to both canvaas the Stato in 1878, as candidates to be their own BUCCERBONS, ble”? The Republican voto alone in the was ‘‘honest aud commenda- Lagislature not being suficient to cleat a the acceptance of Democratic votes to olect Wasnnoang, Law- nexce, Looan, FARWEL, or any other Ilepub. lican, would have been both honest and com« wmondnblo. The offer to resign so that Gen. ToaaN might be appointed by the Governor was certainly an act of friendship which can- not ba denounced as immora!l by the friends Tor TawuNg is asked further whethor the offer was one that Gen. Looaw should have aceopted and acted upon. Aa tho offor was declined by the person to whom it is made, it follows that he did not think it should bo necopted, Fanwzry conld have been clectad on tha other proposition, of resigning in case enough Indepondents signified subsoquently a desire to vote for Loaax ; or he could have been elected with- out conditions of any kind if Loaan had given his consent, But ho was too Intenscly solfish, egotistion], and jenlous-minded to consent to anything. The resnlt was tho elaction of Judge Davis, and tho loss of n Republican vota in the Sonate, the Re- publicans have causo {o regret such result, 10 watter to what cause it may havo boon due. The Republican State Committeo ia a larga body, representing the whole Republican party In tho State. Bince the eloction this Comumittea bns boen nud is now in daily sos- sion in this city. 'The members of the Com- awittes, excopt the Chairinan and tho Becre- tary, having no committee work to do, aro at their homes, whilo tho head and tail of the Committeo are st work in Chicago— ropresenting officially the whole Committee —in the intercet of ocoo candidato for the United Btates Benate. It may bo nuws to the party in the State that it is any part of the legitimate busincas of tho Btate Commit- toe to make war upon Gen. Oorsnr and to labor for bhis dofeat. Members of that Comuitloe, rosidonts in the va- rious parts of the BState, will liear with wurprise, perhaps, that the Committoo, of- ficially, is in session in Chicago mauaging aud running the Bennterial campaigy, and that Ouresny and nll other Ropublicon as- pirants for the Henatorship aro regardod s political cneniles, to ba defeated 2f possiblo by Republicans, How do the members of tho State Committee, who are noither Ohair- man vor Hoecretary of that Committeo, feel sbout the "jufluonce, authority, and mnchine ory of that organization belug used in tho interest of uuy one person to the extent of defeating all othors? What has the Btate Committes to dn in any wsy with tho clec. tiou of Bonator? And where did it ot its authority to discriminate belweon lepub- leaus? Abous forty years ngo Jonx C. CLARK, & very pour furwer fu Indtaug, deserted bis wifo und two children, and weat to New Orl From New Orleans he went to Texas, and that was ihe last ever heard of him by his fumily until thoy hourd of Wls death, which oeearred about fitteen years ago. His wife wus theu dead aud Lath his chitdren bad married, one remainiog In Todianu, where she now lives, the other remoy- ug to Keotucky und locating in Hardia County, Wien Crak divd he uwoed wu csiate in Jand and uney valted at §8,000,000, which, in the abseuce uf any kuown heles, went to the Biate, 83 CLARK Bad wever tommunicated with any of Dhis -tamly, and they were lg- norant of bLis whervabouts, cxcept turough cinigrante who bhad seen him in Texus They wers uever apurlsed ot the fact thut durhg the long years of hils restdenco lu Puxus he bad prospered fu a way aud bad amassed such o fortune. It wus ooly » fow days that Mri. MajiNps Buekies, who was g daughter of Crank, received, by reading an actount of the suits to recover the mouey, thy first intellivence that sio bhad cver had of her fatber's death sod the fortuue awuitiug hey claln, 8he put hersell at once In cqmmnnles. tion with her sister tn Judtana, sud contided her pluns to lawyers who will st once set sbout proving Mra, Huckies sud ber sister ss the lawful heirs of Jonx €. CLauk, the Texas millnalre. The estuto fs ntact, nune of the clalmunts thus far havisg beeu able to prove thietr title to i, sud Mrs, BrckLgsa ud her sl ter, who can set up 8 rightful claiw, will come 1 for a good round $1,600,000 cuch. 4 e —r = Last week s couple of clerks fuughit a terriblo Auel fa Baltunore without the ald ol secouds. ‘Fucly vamnes sru . B. Hi¥py and W, M.Jauss, und the trouble was, us usual, sbout & wowan,— Miss Lizzix Jangs, 8 alster of one of the partics, who has vustelocd improper re- Jatlons with Hivps. O the day of tho 8gbt Jaugs met Linog and asked, * Well, are you goluz to settle that watter or not!” 10 this Hunps replied, 1 koow nothivg about 1%} aud JaMEs ‘wmediately drew bls plstol wud cutpmenced 10 Ure, the iret ball siriking Hisos cashier. In the hea o 1att roed the fire, they being not more thun o aput. A murderous duel at onee Lewan, JAWRS Jdi- recting his afm to Hivns' iead, while the Iat- ter aimed for his opponent's heart. Ench bad u Sauti & WEssox seven-shooter of the amalleat size, and JAMzs continued to fire until every chamber was emptied. fliNnsreturned thecom- pliment, when friends rished in and separated the combatants, and doctors were sent for. One tall had struck Hinos fo the forehesd and glanced upward and out sbthe crownof his heady snother entcred below the angleof the right oye and lodged behind tha ear: agother passed through the lobe of the left ear, as o foutth fractured the little YNngerof hisright hand. JAwEs received onc ball in the cliest to the left of the medlian line, one inflicting a ek wound on the tight clbow, and o thind grazed the top of his head, Neither will die, and it is #ald to have been one of the pretiiest ighta that ever took placo In Baltimore, / e ———— This conundrum is puzzling the bratn of the editor of tiie St. Louls Repubitcan at the present moment: “ How can the Chicago operator pur- chasa prodace in the Indlan Terrltory, bave it transported through or by 8L, Louls to the city by the Iake, and then hsuled back s distance of nearly 285 miles, and sold on advantsgcous terms to the purchaser? We confess to the im- plleation that we aro much mystifled as to liow snch thinga can be.” Can snch thinzs be and overtake us ltke a summer cioud without our special wonder? We could easily enlighten our contemporancous quili-driver upon the point in- votved In his Inquiry §f wo had the time, but we aro at present otherwise engaged. 1bls sufficient to sny In genoral terms that, being the great business centre of the West, Chicago traders, mnerchants, and capitalists liayo waya and meth- odsof dolng thins not understood nor appre- clated by the village grocer or the tin poddler. 1u a business Jine there are many things not yeb dreamed of fnthe 8t. Louis philosophy that are as easy as rolling off a log to our people. e — The troubls that Jomny Enzusax will get peo- ple futo nfter Jan, I 1s well Nlustrated by alit- tle anccdote told by one of the Washington papors, Ono of thecity banks that had been paying out gold for some timo was entered by adarkey from one of the Southern States who lauded up a Ove-dollar chieck to bo cashed. ©@old or grecnbacks?® sald tho busy cashlor, laconically. *‘Gold, massal What's dat you say?? sald Bamno, hiscyes extending till the whites alone wero visinle. " Do you waut gold or greenbacks for your check!” cxplained the “ Dis chile takes do @old, boss, every time.”” Two shining bits were handed out in shape and size very Ilke the littlo yellow pen- nles, but each stamped $2.50, BANDO's face fell as they dropped into his palm. *Is these yer 851" ¥ Yes, that is 85,~82510 cach.”” Baxso walked out slowly, stopoed on the sidewalk a moment, te-entered amd sald: I say boss, it ye jcas as soon 1so take de paper—Ise more use to i, and I Jose theso vere little fellahs, sure.” e — The soven young gentlemen who cdit the Amlicrst Colleze paver ealled the Ohio have been suspended by the College Faculty, and thelr Journal incbntinently squelehied. Theee cnterprising young journallsts wsed the Hberty aof the press to lampoun the Professors, and to Iibel and ridieule other members of toe fnstitu- tion, official and otherwise, Those chaps wers evidently troining themsclves for situations on the editorial sta® of Democratle newspapers. e A The Hallfax awatd bothers them. Therelsa promise of a lively squabblo between Ll prov- incer. The maritime proviuces think it bulougs. to them, and Newfoundland puts {n a claim for the lion's share. Great Britain can do with this moncy a8 she pleases, and advices recclved are to the cffect thas tho upstiot of the whole cou- troversy 18 Jikely to Lo that it will all go into the Britlsh Treasury, and be used fot the beneflt of the whola realm, . e ——e Clevoland i trylog to rival 8t, Louls In fur- uishing first-class facllitios for committing sul- cides. A leao over the viaduct raiting npon the fee below, a Mundred feot or more, would set- tle the.euse for:nny:ong:: Sti:Liania furolehen:| unrivaled oppartunities, with all the depressing climatic Influences thrown In, by a jump from the big bridee. e ——————— . Gnaxt would fun well {u the South. Gen. Toowns snys he “has never forgotien how gracefully ho treoted Lz and our soldlers at the surrender,” And how gracefully ho treaj~ ed your roldicrs at Donaldsan, and Vieksburg, aud scveral other places, too, General, it was a way UnANT had,—a sort of habit e got lute. e L — ‘Fhe 8t. Louls papers are boasting about their cold weather, They didn’t brog last suminer, when thev were rossting over tho heat, Dives was so unvomfortable that he bezged Lazanus might be sent north fora section of u polar wave. . —— An enterpristug Pennsylvanio politiclon sug- gests ex-tiov. Parsen, of this State, as o sult- uble candidate for Vice-President on the Dem- ocratle ticket, ‘That man §3 respectinily in- formed thut we have no Presiteiflial second- iddiers in Llinots, It Gen. BANKA con't get to be, United States Marshal of Massachusctts, worth $15,000 a year, he will conzent to take tho Berlln misslon In- stead, worth abous the sumo per anuun. The Ueneral L8n't 80 very particular us some people are. ————e——— CranssoN N, Porren s sald to have a down- cnst Jouk, 110 thinks the country has too much Congress. It has hud gulte enuugh ulso of Torrun's Investigation Cownmittee. ‘Thut bas n very dowtieaat look too, e e The Cleveland Leader wunts to know: If, as Bouator THURMAN suys, * property, inteligence, aud cducation wust rule tho country,’ what will beecome of the Democratic party fn theo North” We give it up. ————— A Dubuquoe woman has sued her hushand for £5.000 damuges for not cleanfug off tho side- walk in front of their own residence. 8ho fell und broke one of her limbs, It s a warnivg to ull dilatory busbands. —————— The lute Bayaun TAviLon's friends have writ- ten a request to GEORGE WAVHINGTON CiILDA uot tu du auy obituary poetry on the occaston, and [t Is thought Cineps will destst vut of ru- spect to their f e —— Gen, Guant will not omit Ircland fo the countrles be 1 Lo visit hefors eumlug howe, Thera aro @ lurice number ot voters (n this coun- try who wonidn't Jiko it 12 the Geueral should skip the Ureen lule. —t— Boath llaves and Evaums soem to have he- cunte converts to the subsidy swindie, A vun- ber of “bulldogs of the Troasury” would be uscful In Cougress durlug the present sesslon, ; * Hukoktrs undertook to report alecture of Prot, SwiNa's ot Burliglon. Hosturted fu well, but aftor a few minutes threw asido his peucil »and let hits soul go ou & spruet? e et A Boutliern paper thinks that BLAINR'S re- cout speeeh oyght tu uave.been printed lu red Ink. KroLubly because it wudu the bulldozers Lluah, ¥ T Bomo sort of au foveution that will atilize the averuge - grecuback omtor after reswinption takes placs will be a good Jabor-saviug wachlue, e —— —— TaLuags bangs the Bible so much bke a rall- road luywugo-mau durs s truuk, that oue privted ou sule-leuther 1s to b niade for bus, E e —— 1 it s as cold in Cauada ns it 18 bere, Priucess Louiss will do well to revoke hat onler boub low-uecked dresses. ———— A contenporary wunts to know if the “dark lorse® welgind He will probubly not say usyto au clection. ———— ‘There wus @ good deal of beaduche lu Chicugo yesteraay, but then Christwes ouly cuwes guce u year. Y I ()N FERENCE. Members of . th | egislature and the Citizens' Agqciation. Interchange of Views on « Number of Tmportant Subjects. Iow to Becure Ilasy Access + the Parks. N T sity of Inoreased Appropriations for the Militia. A Registry Law Wanted for Munleipal and Connty Electlons. The Taxation Question—Suggestions by Oounty Olerk Klokke, PARKS, 1OW TO MAKE THRM ACCEISINLE, Another conference between the members of the Ultizens’ Assovintion, distinguished lawyers and citizens penerally, and the members of the Cook County delegntion to the General Aesem- bly, was kel yesterday alternoon. at 2 o'clork in the rooms ot the Citizeas' Assoclation, Mer- chants® Bullding, - The meetlng was called George F. Adama, to order by Mr, and Mr. John M. Woou- bridge was chosen to preside. The Chalrman rend the list of topics reported by tho Commite tee appolnted for that purpose at tho Monday afternoon meetine, and whien embraced Toxa- tlon, Reclatry Law, Militia Las, Parks, and City Lealsiation. Mr. Woodbridge added that lie un- derstood that Mr. Charles Mitchcock was pres- enty and had something to offer fu relation to the fourth tople. MR, TUTCTICOCK sald he had been called upon by some gentles wen interested in procuring a enitable drive to the Bouth Parks to look Into the ditficulties involved in Bouth the question, and conferring on the Park Commlissioners power over somfe avenue that would lead to that park, and In giving them police and other control of the street, which power, however, they pos- sessed under the general law eo far as boulevards and parics were concerned. He had cxaminéd the question shmply with reference to that aspect of It, and to undertuko to prepare and submit to some other wentlemen fnterested in it tho draft of n b}l for the purpose of procuring such driveway or South Park, He had found opproach to the that it involved the loquiry as to how far this must be " done under some gen- eral law that would be applleabis to all parks, and (£ had occurred to him ghat iv was & necessity, in order that tne publle mizht ¢njoy the parks, that such an approach should bo hind, tlon were made by the city or 1t was now about four uifles and abaif to the entrance of the South Park, overan lcon- venlent street, and one which, ifjany approprin- tha citizens forite improvement, would be destroyed by its uso by traflle teams, No material had yet been obtained for Improving strects whicl: met the ordinnry demands upon pavements, and in n very short time thy strec! however well fruproved, would Le destroyed. There was a necesslts, there ot excluding heavy traflic from such a slre Tho West Parks were, if possi more _ Inaccessible by the strects in the West - Division, and, b order to muko the Investment i park grounds ~—which had already worked o practical con- flacation of all thorenl cstate two of them—ol aily use Lo the cll.?', there must be somo convenlent and proper drive or Lo vord 1o approach them. It within & milo or uler seeined to these gentlemon that Michigan avenuo was o propes approach to the Bouth Parlk, and ft was with reference to that porticular street that the broj- cet was suggested, It scemed to Mr, flitehe cock that there could be but few objeetions 1o taking that street, for instance, and o Jections to takiyg sume atrece an the We: ta uuslrum.-h the West Parks. several the t a of the cltfi' Wi Biate l\li\:l AL . bt R e coudemnatlon of property, Tew ou- st Slde Thers were arullel streets that would furnish atl ith convenlent roadwoy— Whabash avenus oW, to Turnisn & ‘The project [l fnvolved very littlo cost, for there could be no and - real-cataly would bardly be Infured to any extent by the tmprovement. The original road-Led could b diverted from ita present use, or that uss conld be llmited or modified. Provislon could I made by the police nuthorities, or the Comm'’s- slon ers, permitting tho teatlle, by way of lond- {ue or unloading, within a Lluck of the entranve, of auy traflic teams un the street, thorohy ex- cluding trafil denta on th greatly enha duced, snd rect. ¢ and not_Incommoding - the resl- ‘Tho real-catuto would ho d fu value, Inatead of hoinw r = certainly, nu compensation cau ever go to the ‘original jrovrietors, for tho fee street Lelonged and trust, but to for the ety In uses wheo wight be moditled from timo to time. T.o Comulssloners’ powers Were extenslve, ivie g them aathority to plant trees, contrel pub it uaes of the streets, appropriate mouey for the fmprovenient of the roud-bed, und 1o exervice genceal polles superviaton of un entiro street, which they unow exercised to the sdvanture ou the publicover tha parks generally, questior that oceurred to him hitl, The vuly lu preparing thin which they proposcd to subuit to the lark Cominissoners, was the question whether thero atould be un assessment Tor the lmprovement of thu atreet, und bow far it shouid b louted, Under the Park Taw ft would appear thit the purchase of parks had vers e proverty inthe nei wtute notween State sircet the ‘Towns of Luke and mululy pafd the orlgiual ultimately _pay he ailginul cot, of y lurgcely rested uton orhuad—that t, real and the lahe, i Nydy Pork, had costy or woull the purchase of the park, ‘The busden ol the uriz. nul pitrchiose peated very sllechily upon the prop erty of South Chleugo or eliy property, but the Durden was very great upon the other property, amounting to alinost contlscation In i:any cos About S50, wus rulscd by ur wight be, upon the way of tuxation, ;l\fuu;rly of the threy towis of Sutith Chicago, Luke, aud Hydo Purk, “Tha Commissiotiers had vulled for u consideruble 1ess suw during the last ong ur two ycars, but they might cali wind fuslst upon o tax smouuting £300,000, “That large suni of INousy Was 20w to apphivd entizely to the lmrmvcnwm. of praper ty that waoe substuutial Chieago. I y outside of South Lhers wus o halt-mile ol boulevard, frow Thirty-Nith strecy to the Hnhie, which was Jeps ln epulr out of this il:'é l‘(wrl\lnlll of the EU00 Tisde Park and_ ke, fund, but the remain- wus expended i Bouth Chicugo pald niteteen-twonticils of this tax, which wos an- nuslly levied und Wl pruvements outsido ol ited cutliely to the fme thy einy, 1t seemod Just 1 bis optufon thut thy Park Comonssioucrs whould have the power to expend somw portion of this fund ju the nprovement o1 s0mo aveude by which the public could w A 1t sconied also but Just, pursaci the purk § L wuro o fact that the property would o fucressal fn value by. constructing o dnveway olong the strect, thut soie portot ul the exyensy ahould by usscsscd upon f, He thought the Park Comtlssonces stiould have the u portiun of the $ cost of the Lwprovetent. should bu subject to the was dong becsuse tho, v ower £o leyy special asscss- Jucuts, not éxceeding @ certoln fractiou—7sikich he ond the other gentlancn bad uot agreed upou—of the lrst cost of the luprovement, w\‘firh shiould be for future repalrs. I hat was, 00,000 should be applicd to Keepin repsir und pay a suitable portion of the “The act would bave to be & general oue, and. the West Bidy rks could avall themualves of 8 5T they saw d ‘e bith he had prepared provided thal street should bs sclected uuh{ of thy City Council, apd that s revocation saine body, sud_this supposed that uo Purk 0 Y it ect to the co Cowwissioners, who m?ulll change from time to e, should be vested with thy power 10 take al possession of any strect, sud 50 because the Council was the proper gusrdian of the publiv sircels, of revocation fu cuse the v Mr. and wus the best judze of the vropriety aracter of the stiect chavged, 88 wus often the case, Hitcheock said bo would sumethivg of the kiud Introduced t the 1u vonclusion, Le glad to have i cgis- Juturs by the delegation, provuded they upe roved of it Y etor lash reauested Mr. Jlitcheock to read. bill whichi be bad prepared. "';lr. llllbtmck :rw‘;l:cgd tho document, and read it its provistone. would ba glad to hear thein, 1lo biad aiready stated the substunce o€ It thera weie objectivua bhe Koo one sukucated that Mr. Egos Agres be M. Ayre s0 thorguully wotbing to jeck. ho{vuvur, sald Mr. Hiwhcock had y covesed the ground thut he bad add. He - would Mke sowe action takeu, to know whether thy meeting or disapproted the wcasure, uud wov was sho sense of the mectlng that the Cou Coutty delegation to the Legislature ber quested to priscul the bill sud urics s passage. spproved mfllm [0 Mit. JULN L. WILSON bl a word toouy. This wus bad beard ol e propusitiou. the first tme ke He poticed thub