Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1879, Page 4

CIIICAGO TRIBU finds its ennse largely In the great difficulty in fighting fire with the mercnry away down Lelow zero. At 8t Yonis the Seeond Baptist Church, a new and bonutifal atruct- ure a3 yot not dedicated, was complately burned, the loss belag nbout $140,000; at Quincy, Til,, the loss on the Presbyterisn Church woa abont $00,000¢ at Portland, Me., thers was a loss bf 30,0004 ot School- cratt, Mioch., a lors of $20,000; at Reess, Tye Ttbawe, TERMS OF BURSCRIPTION. . BY MATL~=IN ADVANCR~T'0STAGR PREPAID, Jisi# Fiftron, one yeur .1y 2.5 'avin OT & YORT, 11 ont Lhterary and ieiigious ounis Iy - WEEKLY RDITION, FOSTPAID. fi'}%fir"‘ i_' D | Mich., $10,000; at Decatur, Ind.,, n hotel Clubof twenty. l &3 was burned, and at Waterloo, Ind., s rail- Epecimen coples sent frea. Give Post-Ofiice address la full, tacinding State and Covmty, ltemittences may he made efther by draft, express, Poet-Office order, Or in rogisterrd fetrer, at our risk. | TERMATTO CITY BURSCHIBNRS, Dafly, delivered, Bundsy excepted, 25 cents per week. Dally, deltvared, Sunday Incinded, B0 cents Der week. Addren THB TRINUNE COMPANTY, + Cotner Madison and Desrborn-aie.. Chicago, 11l Orders for the delivery of Tnz TRIRUNS &t Ryanston, Eogle Park 16t {a the counung-room road depot. What with the doublo danger from froat and heat, the weathor of the past three days has been most nnpleasant, The thing to look sharp afteris that your pipes don’t get too aold nor your flues too hot. ‘Tha notles of contest filed by Col, Macrzr, the Ropublican cnndidate for Congresa in the Charleston District of South Carolinn, is » document of excaptional intorest in view of the light it casts upon the explorations of the Senate Bpecial Committe, Hoero isa man who knows beyond question tlat he was fairly and honestly alocted by the ballots lawfully cast, and who also knows just how iie was swindled ont of a prima Juasis eleation by the unblushing frauds prac. ticed by the use of tho tissue ballots. Thero ought not to be tho slightest question of Col, - Maoxey's success in unseating the Democrat who Las wrongfully received the certificate, He will make his cage so plain a8 to throw & heavy burden upon ths conscience of any Demo- crat who shall vote to deprive “him of his scat. But there wiil bo plenty of votes of this kind boyond a doubt, and it will be rather surprising than otherwise if tho frauds are not countenanced and the Republican claimant bLarred out by the .Democratio Houso. OFFICES. TN CuicAuD TRIBTXE has established branch oftcen of the receipt of subscriptions and advertisemnents as ollows: ‘ NEW YORK~Room 29 Trisune Bullding. F.T. Mo ADDER, Maoeger, FARIS, In::‘ 3 NanLer, LUNDON, Kog.--American Exchange, 449 Btrand. 0. 18 Rue de 1a Grange- BateHers, McVieker's Theatre: ‘Magison strect, etween Desrborn und Biate, Engaxa- ment Of the Titus Opera Compauy. ** Hells of Lorae- wille.* Afternoon and aveniug. 3 Haverty’s Theatre. Dearborn strect, corper of Munroe, Engagement of Tue Burgdr Vaumlly 80 50l Smith Husssl, Atieruvon 8ad ¢1€010R, P - . Hooley’s Theatre. Rendoiph strest, beimeen Clark and Lagsile, Foe sgement of Mis Fanny Dsveapurt. Afternoun, **¥Frou Froo." Kvenlng, '*Londun Assursuce* and “ Otlvet Twis” . Academy of Music, Halsted street, between Madison and Monroo, Flety satertalnment. Hamll Theatre, Glark street, oppotlte the Conrt-Touse. Blangbsuo.™ LET US REJOIOE. Tho ovanta of tho first business day aftor the formal annonncement of the resnmption of specio payments furnish the occasion for great national rojoleing. They conflrm the predictions of those who hiave boon tho most confident in the easy success of rosumption ot the date and under the terms ilxed by the law of 1876. Among these Tum Cmcaco Tamuxe claims a foromost place, It has inslsted steadfastly upon a return to a specie basin, not merely 0z a mensuro domanded by publie faith, but as the wisst policy and ensy of sccomplishment, It has ventured the prodiction on more than ono oceasion that the ottempt ab resumption would not only be anccessful, but would actually result in poaring more coin- into tho Government vaulta than would be takon therofrom in exchango for groenbacks presented for re- domption, The very first day under the new policy verified this prodiction, The Govern- mont recolved at the Sub-Treasury in Now York nearly four . times a8 much coln s Va. “The : Natropolitan Thestre, Glak mtreet, opposite Sherman House, Varlety ens tertatntent, ; eraticy Musle Hall, No. 84 Mudlson street. Prof. Carpenter's Lectures on Pavetology. ¢ . White Stocking Park, Lake shore, foot of Washington streot, Grand Skating Carntval, ° Unlon Park Congrogational Ohuroh. Ashland aveaue, near Washingtoo strect. Concert Py Withelm) a4 3 p. m. SOCIETY MELTINGS, e HAPTER, 197, . A. M.~Companions o A A T e dmatdtC Vceat Lhe Aaiom ol Apoilg_Commsudery, K. T., American Express S, N tne dhneral e u tals comspantos: 3orgaa L. Relti. ‘WL BAITH, Bocrarary. © ; LOUGF—~Membera of ffoms Lodgs will sucm- bie at the Asylum of Apolio Cumnandery, 72 10 4 Mouroa-st., this (Saturday) moruing at 10:00 o"cluuk it - paid out in exchange for United S ron e R TEo el iy omers funers! OF WUF | gyntou notes. As amatter of fact, the coin resonraes of the Govornment wers oven mora lnrgoly increased thaz this singlo fact would indicate, for the interest-coupons . M, HOLMES, W. M, . BATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1870, The James River, in Virginia, has been {frozen over for the firat timo in many years, und the peaple of Washington find it dificult to remembor when fans and linon dusters were so unsuitable 2 now, tirely in groenbacks, wharens gold would have been exacted by the -baldors, ag it always has been, under s condition of sus- pension. The experience of the first dny of resumption is but a foracast of what will oc- cur undor the new order of things; the Govorriment vaults will become o vast safoty- deposit tor coln, and tho stock will continuo to increass, in the absonce of disturbing leg- ielation, until thero shall be dollar for dollar of outstanding Gavernment notas, Thursday’s experience in Now York was repeated in nll the largo citios throughout the country. The banks had provided them. selves witl a stock of com (not that they wara obliged to pay it out) to accommodate avy customers who might desire it; but, when the question was nsked whether tho porson drawing tho money desired greenbacks 'or gold, tho preforence was al- most without exception in favor of green. backs, ‘The Now York banks had nothing to do but turn back their coin into the Sub- ‘I'rossury, and somo of the banks elsewhero sre luclined to think thoy have provided more coin than they can use convenlently. Gold, greonbacks, aud the silver dollars wore on an equal basls, and oven tho associnted banks of New York, which had foolishly ro- solved to treat the silver dollars as * uncur- Chicago has expended for buildings and improvements during the past three yesrs the handsome total of %23,242,340, or an nverasge’ of nently $8,000,000 por year,— whlch doesn't Jobk like such terribly hard times, | Gen. Graxt yosterday roceived tha free. dom af tha City of Dublin, accompanied by the most cordial expressions of regard for the ex-President of a Hepublio which has always hod a warm corper in its hig heart for Iroland, Twenty-foyr Communists w Caledonin have reccived s most agreeable proof of the bepefits of established forms of govern- mant. They rondered good service on the side af thé Colonial authorities in the recent conflict with. the insurgents, and for their roward have been pardoned. The thirteentl anuual banyuet of the Chi. cago Alumni of Yale College whioh ocourred last evening proved lo be, like all of its pre- decessors, an occasion of peculiar iuterest, maturiog Jax. 1, 1879, were paid almost en-. the mora so as steps were taken o give effect to the recent eatablishment in thia city of un annual examination for sdmission to Yale. ‘Thore sooms o be no such thing on hand Just now as good, straight, square, lovel, rea- sonsble winter weather, Vheuever buslnoss isnot frozen up it is snowed up, sud very lit- tlo_ partiality fa shown as botween sections, About every form of objoctionable outdoor experience, oxcepting sunstroke, is to b met wifh, 3 Tho regular January thaw is o trifte late heresbouts, but is on Land promptly in France, where the rivers are overflowing thoiz banks. In Hootland thoy are huving it more on the Awmerican plan,—henvy snow- storms, travel interrupted, outdoor work sus- pended, and everybody oursing the awfully- cold weather. The inhabitants of Podgaritza are desper- ratoly opposed to being handed over lo Montenegro, in accordance with tho terms of the Berlin Treaty; and have notified the Sultan4lat thoy will not subwit to the carry- ing out of that stipulation. Thoy will, Lowever, be likely to find somo difienlty In redoneiling the Montenegrina to this depriva. tiop of their rights under the treaty. . T ———— By.n combination of Democrats and Green. backers the dominant party in Maine s re- duced to obscurity, and the candidates recoiv- ing the least number of votes at the Btate election are dsclared to have buen eleoted, ‘The Republicans, who cast more votes than eithar of their opponents, are outnumbered in the Legialature, which yesterday elccled the full Blate ticket from the two purties clearly in the minority. 5 Shoriff Hovwuann's defonsa to the action at law contravening his right to hold that office pn the ground that he was not clected consists in » general and specifioc denial of the allogations set forth in the petition for » recount. ‘There Is no attempt to dodge the jusue by raising the question of ‘jurisdiction, but a square fight is made on the faots in the case, 'I'here is not the fainlost possibility that e recount will show errors of such 1usguitude as to slter the result as to Bherift, sud nothing I to be gained by ralsing the question in the conrts. - S ——T— With the advent of cold weather and the extra anount of fuel used in makiug com- fortable the isteriors of houses, lotels, churohics, dqpshl, etc., comes the usual rush of oconflegrations fvcident thereto, and all of thew attended with & heavy percentage of dustryction a5 cowpared with salvage, which form of legal.tonder. rent funds,"” repented of thoir folly and set- tled their balonces indiscriminately in either Tho distinction be- tween cain and Government notes has beon abandoned in the kuoping of the Govern- ment accounts; the clerks in the New York Bub-Treasury who had beon agsigned to the duty of redeeming greenbacks had searcely work enough to koep thom out of inischief ; there was not a ripple of excitement, and there wonld have besu no sign of anything unusual had it oot boon for tho flags that wore flying from the Government Luildings aud the canunon that wera firvd off in bonor of the event, ‘The ot significant event of the day was the closing of the famous and infamous old “Qold-Room,” where fortunes have been lost aud won dnring tho last soventeon yonrs withont coutribuling & penny to the dovelop- mont of trede or the natlou’s prosperity. ‘The annouucement of the Reguster, as ho olosed Ly desk, that * You've seen the bnd of it,” was tho gladost tidings that this country has iad sluce the nows of Lee's surrender. ‘The closing of the Gold-Koowm was more properly the ending of tho War than was the event ut Appomattox, for it signitied the final recovery from tho tuanciul distress which the War brought npon the nation, Ameri- can mouey and American oredit are once 1ore upen a lovel with the-money and credit of the most prosperous nations on earth. ‘The publlc faith hns been fully viudicated ; the United States greenback, like the Dauk of * England note, will be current honceforth in the remotest quarters of the globe; the merchant can condaot his business on a logitimate and cartain footing; the Amerioan laborer will roceive his pay in wmoney worth all it pro- tends to be; no clique nor combination cau ever sgaln {hreatou s corner on gold; the dollar of yesterdsy 18 & dollar {o.day, and will bo a dollar {o-morrow,—thus assuring stability, unlformity, aud universal coufi- dence, i The easy success of resumption i s tri. umph of the conservative classes in this country over two sots of extremists who pre. dicted failure and threateued tronble. There were the Fiatists, who maintained that ro- sumption was Lmposiible uuder any circui. stances, and propliesled ruin and desolation a8 tha fuevitable results of any attempt to carry out tho law. On the other side, there were the goldites and striot construction- ists, who maiutained that there could bo no resumption except on & single gold basis and by the actual retirement sud caucellation of tho greenbacks, It iu recalled tlat one of theso ¢xtremists—a Now York banker—had offered $50,000 for the tirst placo in the lino of those demunding gold for currency ; but SATURDAY JANUARY 4, 1870—-TWIL thore wns no line, and eyen this particular individunl was not aronnd on the first day. It was a trinmph of good senso crer ravings, of a practieal, businesslike people over. theorists and temporizors. Wo shall hear no mors of Fial money in this conntry for some years {o come, and the people who be- lieve or arn willing to urgoe that gold slone can be used na the Government basis of money will bo few and far between from now on. A WARNING TO THE BOUTH. ‘Tho documenta relating to the outrages in Touisiana during the rocont campaign, which will be submitted to Congress by the Presi. dent when it roconvenes, tell a story of cruclty, torture, and death inflieted npon Itopablican negroes which for flendish parti- san malice rival the worst scenes of cruolty that charaotarizod the daya when the negroea wete chattcls, subjeat to the horrors of the lash, tha branding.iron, and the bloodhouni, These doouments will show that, bacause the Republicans in Tensas Parish insistod npon holding & Congressional Convention, armed gangs of rnffiana rode throngh the parish, and, under pretonse of foaring a negro insurrection, shot down defensoless mon right and left, drove awny many othors, and produced such a state of terrorism and demoralization that the fow negroes who did vota voted the Democratio ticket. Thay will sliow that in West Fellciann Parish promi. nent negro politicians wero tied to trees ahd whipped fo make them drop politiea; and that gangs of armed men appeared at the polls and compelled tlo negroes to voto the Domocratio ticket; and that mnenr Bhiraveport and in Borsier Parish hundredsof negroes wero killed or run off ; and that when negro voters nppeared nt the polls they were driven off with clubs and guns. It will ho shown upon the afidavit of Deputy-Marshal Breanaax that Judge Luprring, a Ropub. lican candidate, wonld bave lost his life Lut for the vigilant protestion of his friends; that numorous murders wero committed in Monroe, and that his own life was repeatedly threatened whila he wss making tho vain attempt to secure wilnosses, so that the guilty porties might bo prosecuted. It will bo sliown upon tho afiidavit of United States District-Attorney Lrovarp that in Caddo Parish the Demoorats took forcible possos. sion of the polls, drove away Republicans, killed soventy-five nogroes, ond drove groat numbers from’thoir homes; that in Natchi- toches Parish all the loading Republicans wore driven off; that in numorous other parishes & Democratio majority was secured by the ssmo means; and that in New Orleans fraud was subatitutod for vio- lence. The aggregate of testimony will show thot such & condition of torrorism oxisted all over the State, brought about by whip- pings, hangings, tbroats, and murders, that neither whitos nor negroes dared to vote tho TRopublican ticket, Theso horriblo outrages were perpetrated by the White Loague of bulldozers, reinforoed, whore it was neces. sary, by ruffians from Arkansas and Missis. sippi, during the campnign and on election day, and sinco that timo this same League has been engaged in thwarting the efforts of the United States authorities to institute an investigation, The officors who were hunt- ing the witnosses have been driven off, sev. eral of the witnesses hava boen hurriod off out of sight, and two of them, Witz and Cranx, on their way to New Orleans to testify, under snbpeona of the United Btates Court, were murdered in the moat brutal and cowardly manner, It is & cheoring indication of a growling unanimity in Northern sentiment that some of the Demooratio papors are no longer dis- posed to glosa over and pallinto theso out- rages for the sake of partisan advantage. Among thesa papers, the Peorin Democra?, which cannot be convicted of ever having had any sympathy for tepublicanism, indig- nantly denounces thess outrages, especially tho murdor of witnesses, and says: The sooner Brainz and his whole Committes, and the Fedoral urmy 100, got after tho parpatraiors, the botter for the peace af the countrv, 1f those Bouthern dovlls think that the Nurthern Democ- TaCY Bre foln 10 back them up 1o all and any sort of dinbollsm they may perpetrate, they aro very much mustaken. " They have cursod tho Northeen Drmucr-cg.lnm: enough and often enongh by their fnhuman barbarism: and, if they want any further support from Northorn Democrats, thoy must act like clvilized whits men, and not like demoniac savages. 'I'he country haa nad exactly enouzh of that sort of conduct, and ng mora will be tolerated. Let us hear no ore about tho bluody ehirt of Southern sutraves in o singlo Northern Democratia B:pun ‘These Bouthorn devils have made thelr d; lot them lle in it Many more Démocrta aro feeling and ex- preasing their Indignation in a strain similar to the nbove. However much the arraying of one section agaluat the other is to be dep. reeated, it i 08 inevitable as fato that if the parties guilty of thess inkuman outrsges and wanton violations of law are not promptly punishiod, aud that if the Bouth does not fur- nish satisfaclory nssurancos that they shall not oceur again, a Bolid North will bo arrayed agaiust the Solid Bouth as compactly aa it waa in the War of the Rebellion, and that it will contlnuo solid untit theso savnges are stamped out and the rights of every wman in the Bouth are sccured. ‘The North will de- mand something moro than the mere prom. isoa of men like Gov. NicnioLrs that the peo- plo of Lis Hiate shall have protection in all their mghts. Tiaving brokon hls pledges, they will not sgain trust him. He was cognizant of the infamous work of tho White League, but paid no attontion to the roports that wora continually brought to bim. Bo far from investigating or punishing the authors of these outrages, Lo haa shown uo disposition to nid the ofiicers of the United Etates Courts fu their offurts to bring them to justice. If ho had kopt hls promises, if he hod performed his duty promptly and fonrlessly, theso horrible cvents yould never bavo oceurred. 1t was within Lis knowledge that these White League bands wero organ. izod, avd he knew full well from past expe. rionces what their purposes were. Instead of speakiog the word that might have dis- persed them ho wassilent. No remonstrance came from him when day after day the tid. ings came of intimidation, violeuce, and wurder. And now, when the olection i over and theio outrages have ceased because there i3 no further occasion for them, the Btats having been made solidly Dumocratio, this violator of Lis pledges to the Prosident, made upon coudition of the withdrawal of the troops, lifts not a finger ta aid in the prosccution of the wretches, but sits calmly by while witnesses summoned under the subpeenns of the Courts are kid. uapped and murdered, and not & word of remonstrance comes from him. 1f this hor. rible state of thinge is to continue, it thero 13 to bo no enforcement of the law in Louisi- ana, if the Governor of that State, either from partisan maligoity or from cowardice, ; refuscs to protect the Republicaus in their righits, then the troops wmight as well be placed back there sgain and assert the Gov. ernment’s authority. We can assure the Bouth that the North is rapldly coning to that conviction, and that it need not be sur- prised to we Dewocrats as well as Republicons arrayed sgainst it, and demasud- ing iu & manner it will not fail to understand thut theso saveges shall bo rsiraived frow their bloody work, The North hasbeen patient until: it has coased to be avirtne, It has manifented avery possible desire, both in {ta words and fo its ncts, to cultivate friendly faelings with tho Bonth, but it will hear very littlo more of reconciliation until every man in the South, blsek or white, lias his conati- tutional rights, B3r. Warrznson, of tho Lonisville Courier-Journal, lives near enongh to the North to know its tomper and far away enough from the Lulldogers not to be inflaenced by them., Wa would like to hear from him ns a fair-minded and representative man his honest opinion of these damning crimos. THE CANAL AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT The Illinots River and Canal Improvemont is perhaps the most important, as well s the ‘most sensible, artificial work in aid of inter. nal commerce now in progress in this conn- try orin any other, It is designed to con- nect the whole country betweon tho Alle- ghanicaand the Rocky Mountdins by por~ manont inter-communication with the system of Northern Lakoea aud thence to tha North- arn Atlantio. The canal, 100 miles long, is the properly of the Btate. The Illinois River, thonoo to its mowth 230 miles long, requires improvement to ronder it navigable at all times, The State hesimproved the river by tho construction of ,two dams nndlocks, one at Ilenry and the othior at Cop- peras Creek, whereby permanent river navi- gation has heen secured for 100 miles south of tha canal. Three other locks and dams are jncluded in the scheme,—one at Donrds- town, ono at Bedford, and one at Grafton,— and when thesa ave completed the Illinols River will be n grand highwoy of commerce, navigable for the largeat steamera to LaSalle, whers connecting with the canal will catab. lish direct and continuous water connection betwoen the Inkes and the whole country renched by the Mississippi, Missonri, and Oblio Rivers—from. Yankton, 8t. Panl, and Pittsburg to the Gulf. No such complete work of internal improvement exists in any country, and, when this shall bo finish. ed, it will stand unrivaled as a commercial highway, S8ixty years ngo its importance was foreseen, and steps were thon taken to open it, but even then, when railroads were unknown, it was of greater importance than ftisnow, Sinco tho State of Illinols obtained posaossion of the canal it has beon practi. cally o freo highway, the tolls being reducsd Bo a3 tp cover the cost of repair. The sur- piusearnings of tho canal have been applied to the river improvement, and, with some aid from the 8tate, two of the five locks and dans have been completed and paid.for, The canal, however, is now threatonod with destruction, The railrosds bave com- Dined to destroy it. 'The tolls of the canal being so low, transportation by that routo has beon so cheap that ‘the railronds havs contrived to dostroy the canal, and re- move it from competition. For this purposo they Lave adopted the practice of miaking robates to shippers, thus reducing the notual ‘cost of tiramsportation bolow that .of the tolls and freighta on tho'danal. .The law of the Stats punishes discrimination in rates of froight. 'The rall. ronds mako contracts and issue bills of Inding nt tho regular rates of the companies, and then romit or robate sa much of the oharge 8 s above the cost of canal transportation, TFrom shippers who caxnot uso the canal, the highest ratas aro exacted; to shippers who can nso the conal, rebates are allowed suf. ficient lo mako rall transportation cheaper than by canal. 'Tho result is that the busi. nosa of the canal has boen o reduced that ot tho present low tolls there has: not heen o suflicient rovento to' pay the cost of repnir and maintenance, much less auy surplus io bo applied to the complotion of the river improvement. The purposo, of course, Is to stop tho canal; to take away the means for keeping it in repair; to putan end to tho river improvemants ; that, when the canal be abandoned, the railronds may demnnd auch rates oa they pleass, Tho railroad attornoys in and ont of the Logialature have discovared also that the Constitution prohibits the Legislature from making au sppropriation from the Btate Treasnry for either the canal or for river jm- provoment. The Constitution provides : ‘The General Assembly shall never loan (he credit of tho Htate or make appropriations from t Y'roasury thereof in aid of railroads or canale. Provided, That sny surplus earuings of any canal n‘ny be apprupriated for its enlargement oz exten. sion. 1t is now clalmed that under this provision the Btate {s prohibited from making any ap. propriation to onlarge, improve, vopair, or maintain the canal, und that, therefore, the oanal must ba supported out of its own reve- nue or bo abandbned, We have no doubt the wholo railrond interest, which is deeply concerned 1n forciug the abandonment of thae ocanal, will urge this argument in the Logis- lature at tho coming session. Nevortheless, 10 intelligent man, in the Legislature or out of it, can suppose that this clause of tho Conatitution, in spirit or in lan- guage, can be so construed s to pro- Libit the State from appropriating monoy to presorve 1ta own property, or to probibit the State from repairing, enlarging, or fmproving its own canal! The prohibl- tion wai to apply to the Stato, as in another part of tha Coustitution tho prohibition was applied to municipal corporations from loan. ing of credit or donating money in aid of railroads or canals to Lo constructed by pri- vate corporatious or Individuals, Thesaloof the canal wus prohibited, and tho State was of necessity under obligation to maintain the canal svlong a¢ it remained the property of tho State, Atthe time that provision was adopted the canal was hald and operated by tha bundholders and uot by tho Btate, ‘The Stato is now practically out of debt, and tho Legislature should apply not only the surplus earnings of the cansl but so much of the incomo from the Illinois Cen. tral Railroad as may bo nocded to the - provement and enlurgemont of the canal, ‘fho Legislature sbould slso direct or author. izo the immediate continuation of the work ou tho river improvemont and the comple- tion of tho additional locke and dums, so that this great work—a moat potential and permanent regulator of tho cost of railroad transportation—uway be cumpleted at as early & day as possible. ‘While the State should, in its own interest aud in that of the couutry, relax in no effort to push thiu grest work to an early comple- tion, tbe Ilinols delogation in Congress should use their eudeavors to obtain from Congress at least half o million of lollars to aid tn the speedy completion of this groot link in the iuter-State comwuuication, and which unites the intoroal navigation system of twelve or filteon Btatea. If tho Wisconsin delegation, or perhaps more properly sponkiug Mr, Porxp, a member of that delegation, - ¢an successfully persnade Cou- gross iuto the exponditure of $4,000,000 for tho absurd, useless, aud preposterous Fox River aud Wisconsin juprovement, certainly the ninetcen Hoprescutatives of Ilinois ought to be uble to induce Congress not to begin und Qotsh this work, Lut to aid the Stato in completing thls grent inter-Biate improvemont, already half exsonted at the Htato's exponso. . Tho river navigation should extend from the month of the river to the month of the Kaoknkee, and the canal thencp to the lake (66 miles) should be enlarged as originally designed, and then it wonld romain s per- petual regulator of railroad freights. It would havo the effeot of raducing the cost of transporting grain produced west of the Mississippl River 10 to 12 cen's per 100 pounds, and several cents per bushel on all the grain produced in Illinots, The like ro- duction would' apply to lumber, coal, salt, fish, and sall heavy merchandise. Buch a work would cnormously Increase the trade botwaon all the Btates on the sevoral West. ern vivers, It would put Pittsburg, Wheol. ing, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Memphis, Bt. Panl, and Omaha in direot cheap water com- munieation with the Iakes, and with the in. terlor of this and other States, In tho menntime, the combination of the railronds to destroy the canal and force the abandonment of that route, and the total loss of the vast expenditure made by the State, dating back half a century ago, will call from the Legislaturo the most stringent aotlon concerning such proceedings. If the Rallrond Commissioners or the Courts need nny farthor powers or authorily to proteot the public against the most odious of all discriminations, that of issuing rebates, let such leglslation be prompily applied. It Is simply n question whethor tho Legislature shall pormit the milronds to close up the canal and river, or whother the State will assort ita unquestioned authority to maintain both, - BEORETARY SHERMAN -AND BILVER. The oonslruotion which Beoretary Smxn- Y, {0 an interview with Tas Truse's ‘Washington correspondent, has put upon his recont circular in regard to the standard sil. vor dollara reliuves him in part from the criticism whioh was called forth by a differ- ont and somowhat more obvious construction of that document. Mr. SnxsuaN says that it is not his purpose to limit the exchange of silver dollars for greenbacks oulside of Now York city to sums of 1,000 or muitiples thereof ; that this provision of the circular waz designod to apply to individual consign. ments, because the Government contracts with the express companies do not provide for consignmonts in smaller amounts; but that large sums of silver dollars (inclnding 8500,000 for. tho City of Chicago) have already boon shipped to the varions Sub. Treasuries to bo exchanged for Gov- ernment notes in sums of 81 and up. wards. ‘The wording of the circular itself certainly did not warrant any such deduction a8 this; but, if it be tho Becretary’s purpose to instrnct hus subordinates to give the cir- cular this mesning, then he must be relieved to this extent from the charge that hoin. tended thoreby to discriminate agalnst tho standard silver dollar, . Bo far, so good. DBut Becretary Smenwan pleads guilty to the principal charge of die- crimination by reiterating his intontion * to poy out to pablic creditors the kind of cur- roncy which they prefer.,” Hosays that he abides by this polioy becausa it is ** tho only way in which a double standard can be main- talned," It would be more truthfal and philosophio to say that thia is the only way in which the silver dollar can be kept out of activo circulation, and the only way in which practically the singlo gold standard can bo maintained under tho law, The option neces- sarily incidont to thodonblestandard pertains to the debtor or payer of money and not to the creditor or receiver of monoy., If the latter shall always onjoy the option of exacting one wetal in exclusion of the other, then he will alwaya olect to take the dearor of the two, and tho demand for the donror will incrense and the supply fall off in proportion, thus keoping it perpetuslly the dearer and limiting the standard to that metal. The theory of the donbls standard, on tho other hand, iu that the tendency of tha debtor and purchasingand paying classes to avall themsclvos of the chenper metal will incrosse tho domand for and lossen the aupply of that motal which is temporarily depraciated, and thus rostore the equilibrinm, Bocretary Surmmax's interpretation of the meaning and soope of the double standard is illogical and unreasonable. It deprives tho Government of the enjoyment of the very advantages which prompted a universal de. mand for the restoration of tho double standard, azd at tho same time keeps this advautago out of ‘tho hands of the people in their fudividual transactions, becanse his bonrding of the silver dollars in the Treasury vaulte preventa their genaral eirculation, Buecretary Buxmuan s more obstinate in this matter than the New Yerk gold clique itgolt, It wna in obadience to the mandate of this dlique that the New York Clearing- House resolved that the silver dollars should ba treated as *‘uncurrent funds,” and re. celved only as special deposits. Dut the associated banks of New York, after canvass. ing pullio sentiment, evidently concluded that they coald not afford to thua dofy publie opinion gnd the spirit of the law, aud the telegraph yestordny brought the information that **gold, logal-tenders, and standard sit- ter dollars 1wers indiscriminately in sottlament of balances.” That was o frank aud mauly acknowledgment of the debtor’s option to pay.in olther form of the legal. toudor provided by law, It is this aption which tho Becretary af the Treasury con. tinues to deny by refusing to pay out the sil. ver dollars to bondholders and Govern. wmeut employes, uulesa they bo actually domanded in preforonce to either gold or greenbacks. . Bo long as he shall adhere to this policy ho will ba discriminating againat the silver dollar, discouraglug and provent- ing its active circulation, and contributing to the extent of his offleicl powor to the fure ther deprociation of ailver. The shuple enns for getting silver into active eircula. tiod is to pay it out in fair propartious on all salaries, juterests, and lnterost-conpons; the simplo mneans for kesping it in the Gov- ernment vaults s tho rofusal to pay it out exoept when it {9 especially demsnded. Iu adopting the latter courve, Beoretary Suen. MaX 18 runniug counter to populsr senli- 100ut, and is virtually pullifying the purpose of tho Remonetization sot, is noglecting sa an agent of the Goyerninont to sgoure to it tho advantage to which it is entitled, and iy depriving the people of their rights under tho law, It will be the duty of Congress to inatruct the Beoretary of the Treasury that he wust abandon this policy now that it bas becomo certain that he will edbere to i un- loss compelled to recedo by some lLigher power. Z ee———— Ba mauy complaiuts have rcached this oftice through various chaucels of the close-fsted penurfousucss of employors fa this clty that it leads us to belluve there oughttobe somo steps taken to guanl the pooraud helpless sgelnst the rapacity ana meanness of this class of men. Not ouly are poor men, women, aud cbildrea epgoged to work for nexs to notling, but, after their scrvice is performed, the amall plttanco earned is efther dented thetn in pome instances, or on soma flimsy, pretext the amount {s still further reduceds To the shame of womankind be 1t safd that theso complatnts come oftener from poor sewing-women, who go out to work by the day, than from almost, sny other source, and tho chsrges aro against ‘'ladies” who are. often prominent iIn the churches and whose husbands ars well off. A poor, friendless woman, who earns from 30. cents to 81 a day with her needls, and has herd work to kéep body sud soul togetber,~espscially if she have chfldren to support,~is in no condition to enforce her clalms fo the courts, and these mesn peovle know it snd take advantage of it. 8o, 100, many a triendless girl is cheated and rob- bed by her soulless smployars, and many an ignorsat, timid man is wronged, and there is 1o one to abpeal to tor holp or encouragement. 1n Boston these skinfints, male and female, got 80 bold that it become necessary for the philane thropic people to organiza a soclety,—not for the provention of cruolty .to antmals, but to vrevent ecruelty bolog inflicted on women and children, Accordingly, the Women’s Educa- tional and Induatrial Union was formed, and it alms to prowmote the Interesta of working wom- en by providing them with legal protoction from the frauds and fmpositions of dishonest em- ployers. It deserves to bo ranked smong the best of benevolont institutions, It has been n operation for fiftcen years, undor the manage- ment of someol the most fnfluentlal and philan. thropic Jadies of the city, and, during that time, has adjusted over 6,000 cases; collected by legal process and paid to working women, in sums varying from a few cents to twenty or more dollars, upward of $20,000. It keeps an office open two days each week whero grievances may bo heard sud complaints entered to the Charman of the Protection Committee, who Rives the cascs immediate attentlon. Theycm- ploy two excellent lawgers, one =s consuiting counscl and the other as prosecutine attorney. Humane Indics and geoticmen contribute fands to defray the expenses of tho Boclety. IS can: readily be scen that the Influences of such an association, for snch beneficial purposes, are praventable as well as remedial. Many a grasp- Ing rascal, with the fear of this gencrous organi- zation befors hs eyes, would be deterrod. from practicing his lttle awindles ‘upon the poor and frendless workiug peopls in hts employ. fere 8 a hint for some of tho kind-hearted ledies who have the time to give to It, and the reward would be the consciousueas of haviop helped those wha could not help themselves, Cnnist sald, *The poor ¥a have ever with you,” and there are olenty of this class in Chicago, Some good woraan msy lay up a treasure for herself I that vlace where resumption js never s debatable question by taking upon herself the caro and responsibllity of organizlog and putting such a Soclaty in suc- cesaful operation In this city, ——————— Tho Boston Glols Icllow ot Washington bLas gotit all figured out for Jonn BusaMax, lo nays the Becretary is tho central figuroto Amert- can politles to-day; that ho s the supremie autocrat of the Treasury Department, and not delorring to the l'resident Wimself. Ilo will have him resign about July next, haviag got all thore is of lonor out of resumption. Then he will bp nominated us the Republican candldate for Governor, will bo clected over (THURMAN probably) the Democratic condldate, and as Oblito is to be the mother of all our Presidents {u the futore as Virgiola has been In the past, Mr. S81znratax will be inexcellent sbapo with hts little dish right side up when It raios Presiden- tial porridae in tho vear of grace 1830, The young man of the Globe sums up bia case in tils way: 1f Buznwax resigns his placo in tho Cabinet, JMfie the Hepublican standard in Ohlo sna carrica Lhe Ntute, even if ha falid of the Presidentinal nomi- nation, he will be vastly better off tuan if he re- maine in the Cabiust.” Far it he can carry the btate, he cau very easily accarea Legisiutura whioh will return him to the Senato In unfx as the successar of Mr. ‘Puu) and- that would be yaatly Uetter than to be sl d, SUZRMAN I8 nob 8 manof brute force and lmperturbabllity that Unaxt was. Mo I3 no posturer, like CoNKLING, {Im“ [} hdl 3 m‘ui‘ t monntabank, like BLaing; but ho I8 o luuuznéed“l? fmt Lo+ Y ou may’ of thess possivilities of the future has cecaped him, and Lience the importance of this new whisper which has sprung up, especially as it startea from & chanco word dropped by one of Surnxax's kin, Many thioge are pomible in two years, but my fuluil that tho Itopublican nomination In 1881 iow potween JonXSBuURRMAN and Uen. UnaNT, ] a As in every other State, 80 Massachusettafinds the caroof the insano to bo u constantiy-increas- fni burden. The State bas four Insano Asylums already which are full to overflowing, there being 300 more insane persons taken to tho in- stitutions ,during tho post year. The cost of taking caro of the lnsanc In Massachusetts is nearly $000,000 n year. ‘I'he cost of the asylum buftdings has beeo about §1,500,000 apicce, and still larger bulidings will have to be orected to meet tho demand. In oll the States of the North fusacity Is so ranidly increasing that the question of fls prevention ad well ‘as curs is seriously attracting the uttention of all persons {nteroated in sockal aclence, | ————— Tha way to take tho wind out of tho salls of the 'I'eLLEy Committea is for the Democeratic wewspapers, North and Bouth, to emphatically deuocuuce and repudiate all butldozing, ballot- box stulliug, and all that sort of thing. Let them do this and help to bring to swilt and merited punlsbment every person cogozed in violsting the lsws, whetbher whita or black, Domocrats vr Republicans, and the report of that Committes will not burt anybody, But it they abatruct the investigution and decry its olfurts, the suspicion wilt arise in the public wind that they are afraid of dumaging dsclos ures, and declde accordivgly, A farmer resumed specic pavments the other day tn the Bhensudoah Valley to his sorrow, A peddier slept in his house over oleht apd dreamed a dream, In ghe moralug o took the farmer 1o the forest and polatod out a tree that Uelda large amount of’.money, They cut it down snd fuund 5,000 In sllver in a cavity. This they divided equally. But tha peddler was a (reenbacker sod didn's waut.-to jug the silver around, The accomwmodating farmer ave him the currency for it, and after ho was Koue found out that the whole job had been put up on biw by a ganz of counterfeiters, o —t—— A Boston forger is payiog dearly for the display of a bt of temper, On the first trial hu got ¢lear upon some lezal techuleality, hut he supplied the mixsing link In the other iue dictment ugaiost bim by furnlshiug pecimon of lis handwriting which was wauted. Em- boldened by his first lnck, ke writes an insult- Ing letter 10 a detective agalnst whom Lo had a particular grodge, and by weans of that letter tho fetlow was senteuced to the Peuitentiary for tou years, . e — Tu verforming fts varied functions ns s great uvewspaper, Tuz YRibuNs ia somctimes com- pelled to refor to what are regarded by common consent as public nulsances, andto call for their abatement. In thissense it oceasivnally aliudes to & cerlain pestilent sbees in Milwaukee, whereupon thst perfodical handbill takes to it- &elt pralse. As woll saight Bildgepart put on airs whon the soutbwest wind s strang, aod the atmoaphere is permcated by & terrible stench, ——————— Judge BumrsaN, of Cleveland, whose recent death bas siready been aunounced, was older than bis two Jamous brotbers, JOHN, vow Socs retary of the Trensury, sod WiLLiax T., “the General” of the United States Army. Mra, Scenator DoN CAuEROX was bis dsugbter. He was boru w¢ Lsocaster, vracticed law at Mans- field, aud was subsequently appoluted Jndge of the United States Court of the Cloveland Dis- trict. - ———— The QGovernor of Virgiota will scon issue a vroclawation foran election to bebeld fo M) out the unexplred term in Congress of Bxvas- LY Douoras, whuse duath bas siready beecn snnounced. i —— The Bostoo Herald says that Bex HurLgs has selzed upon 8 paragrapb printed o that paper and fusended as & bit of sarcasm to prove voters in Massachusetts, That paper anticl- pated Benator TrunmAw antt said facetiously: “tluman nature fs much tho same In Massa- cliusetts and Missisaippl. Only methods are difterent. Bfains, capital and- ehterprisa wiil tell In any communits.”. The Herald rdds that *There i1 not another community In the worlil whero the ballot 14 0 pure, 80 free from any form of trammels, a8 in Massachusotts.”” ' e — Among the tmprobable things that will hap- pen this year, according to the New York Graphic, {s thist Y Tuxonors Titrow and Mr, Bexcnsr will anew family journsl of a highly moral character, entitlod the siaUnlon, Mr. MourLTox will be the manager and Miss Brsan Tunxzss will contribute art and theatri- cal gossip." e Things bave come to a pretty pass in Miooe- sota when thousands and thoussnds of intelll- geot Republicans wanted to vots for layaTios Doxnsiiy but couldu’t, and were compelled "to voto for W. D. WasRROURN. tlence, Dox- " WELLY goes to Washington to contest the former's seat. Michigandors have just dedicated s new State- Housa that cost §1,600,000. They will now pro- ceed to cut down thelr Governor's salary in order to enablo them to pay for the new Capitol, Tho Governor recelves the princely esuin of $1,000 per annum and nd contingent fund to steal from, i } Borma will go., GRANT has favited his old Becretary of the Navy, Borir, to nccompany him abont the world, and he has sccepted. Bonra was a great favorate with GRANT long mlnre the country got much mcqualuted with m, . 4 We do not understand that the Jaw specifies the day that the 1.-0.-U. shall 7o fnto an elec- tion of United Btates Senator. Our neighbor has got a wrong idea In regard to that daty, 1t 18 the Legislature of fiInois that will do the job, ot ‘The aympathy that was expended on the poor coal-dealers at the boginnlog of winter on ac- count of tho mild weather was another exam- ple of misplaced confidence. Tha boot is on the other foot. | The delogation that is soon to visit Moexico .will be pleascd to know that they executed elghty fellows there in one day not long sfoce, But then thoy were not from Chicago, f . Tue falture of a prominent tea firm In Eogland is announced by telograpb. 1s it fairto pre- suma that the tea was poor, because it would not draw—the money required to pay debts. 4 A Bourban paper Is so angry because ho hos had leavo of absenco to joln his father that it calls Frao Grast a “puppy | Licutonant- Colonel.” f Those muskrats that gave out that this was to be an open winter - woro engaged yestorday lu :uulng up furoaces in the basemeut of thelr ouscs. . } - Gns-stock companfes are not so Ladly fright- encd over Enison's clectrie light Inventions that they have yet reduced the prico of gas. | i Chicago has some fine parks, but ‘they wore not thronged with pleasure-scekers yesterday, l ¢ Turn off the water to-night. It is cheaper than to got the plumber to-morrow. Now, Mr. Scrionz, Littls Pz has filed hls ouswer. Let us hear from you. - JUDGE SHERMAN, The Cleveland Bar Pass Resolutions of Bor- row mnd Submisslon to the Overrullng T'rovidence on Which They All Implicltly * Trust—Some of the Distingulshed Iiela- tives of the Daceased Snowed Up, Apectal Ditpatod to Ths Tribune. Cravaranp, O, Jan. 3.—A meeting of tho proininent members of the Bar of tho Northern Dlistrict of Ohlo was held to-day to take action he te. the greatoobemer of We. | In regard to the death of Judge Bherman. - Vauinay BEwued oot hoy oo’ ' Numorous eulogiatic dudresses were made, and the following resolution was adopted: Wusnxas, Throughout the petlod of the ofiiclal servico as Judge of the District Court he wi s earneat, capavle, and impartial in tho discharge of bis ofticial auties, und urbanc, considorate, and . {Jnn to all suitors and practitioners wno appesred eforo him, #0 that & vaat amonnt of important busineaa was transactod by his Court in difiicaltand laborious departments of the luw o the genersi :uumul and satiaiaction of tho Barof this Dis- ric Jiezoleed, That wahave learned of Judge Bher- man's decense with deep aorrow and regrel; tont, although advancod in years, and for savural months an {nvaild, we had atill confidontly hoded ghat the eveulngof his days might be prolonced for con- tinucd enjoymient of -tho society and sffection of his kindred, friends, and nuigbbors, Ilut over- ruling Providenco has decroed otncrwise, and we submit, ‘as we wuut, 1o lis docrees, Tho several members of the Bar expressed sorrow that atnceting which had demanded Judge Sberman’s resignation some yesrs azo, when the unfortunate affalr with LeGrand Lockwood caiue to light, bad over been heid, Buid ono of them after the meeting: *Thero was a great desira to obtain the office, and that lostigated the meetlng.” In receiving the reso- lution Judge Wolkor sald ho had known the de- ceased for many years. Durlng that time he hiad been closely associated with him, both as a mon eud as a public officer, and ho could say that hoe fully .aud cordlally {ndorscd every word of tho resolutious. In refor- ting to Judge Bherman's decisfons, Judge Welker sald be was glad to bear testimony to the high legal ablilty gé evidenced {n them, and also o his vood comuon souse as & lawyer. (len. and Becretary dhorman have not arrived yot, on scvount of the delay of trains on the Penusylvania Road. ‘They are cxpected. to- wmorrow morning. Bonator Concron and wite arrjved this evening, Geo. Miles arrived yes- terday. His wile was here at the time of the death, Bishop Bedetl, of the Eplscopal Diocess of Ohlo, will officlate at tho funeral, whizh will be held to-morrow at 11 & t, at the fawmily resl- dence on Prospect streot. \ —— EDUCATIONAL, Spacial Dismatch to The Tribune Fr. Warng, Iud,, Jan, 3~The Iudians State Teachurs' Assoclation concluded its convention to-day,’ Among the most Interesting papers wore the following, all of which proveked Uvely discusalons: “llow Can Public Bchools in Al Their Grades Best He Made the Means of Culture for Pupilsi” by George P. Brown, Buperlutendant of the Toledo Bchouls; * tlow Cau Couutry Schools Be Graded to the Aa- vantags of Puplisi’ by J, C. McPherson, of Richmond; “ What Kuowledge Is of Most Worth{" by H, B. Brown, President of the North Indiana Normal 8cliod), Valparalso; and “To What Extent Can Industrial Technology Ba 'Taught fn Qur Benools ' by President White, of the Puraue Unlversity, The Committce ou Soclling Reform reporied a resolutlou ureing that the Leglalutire ba mo- morialized 1o appolnt a Comuwission to consider the sublect of shuphfying the present system of Eoglish spelllog. Tnls was negatived on aclose vote. . ‘Khia followiog Were elected officers for the pext year: esident, T, T, Mercill, Lafuyettc; Vice-Prusident: "Kellev, Evavayillo; Laura Agan, Newpor! T, Caldwell, Scymour; Duncle, North Vernou: . A. reland, Buenettsville; Jossio Still, Wabash; W, F, Yocum, Fort VnAyne:Eucuuvu Commitiee, Il B. Jacobs, New Albany; J. R. Hall, Consbraige City; 1. N, Btudy, Anderaon; Prof. Tucbell, In- disbapolis: 8, 8. Parr, Terrs Haute; E. B, Swih, Llfl?'ule;s. D, buuc. Lagraoge; 8eee retury, Anole Lermmon, Resolutions wyre udopted indorsing the pres- eut school svsiem: opposlog the provosed changes in tho Bchool lawe: urging the -estab- lishment of public lbruries ; and advising news~ wn‘eu to devote more spuce to educatlooal watters. ‘The Conyentlon sdjourncd to meet nexs Jau- uary {o fudlanapolis, | e —— A BIG DIVIDEND. - Bwectal Dirpatch ta The Tribune. lxprawarors, Ind., Jan. 8.—The Hecla Min ing Compavy, composed of promioent residents of tbls city, among them Gov. Hendncks, wil) divide $200,000 a3 tho net result of Jast year's work. Thu gross reevipts were £500,000, cqual I that there was bulldoziug and intiwidition of | to the copltal stock.