Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1879, Page 4

-TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: 'TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, IB7I=TWLLVE PAGES. in Merch of that year, voting an increass of pay to sll subsequent Congressos, and pro- viding for a back-grab of $5,000 to each of the thon members ? 2, How many members of the . Literary Roreau ” wero members of Congross when that hill waa passed ? . 3. How did they vote on the final passage of that back-and-forward salaty-grab? 4, How many of them returned tho $5,000 stolen money to the Tresaury? 1ow many, and which of them, kept the money? In what nowspaper was the salary-grrb money invested ? It the * literary fellers” of the Burean will only write all this up, and tell the peoplo of the State how Ooxany, FABWELL, and all he other candidates for Benator voted and acted on this question of back pay, it will at traot great attontion at this time, A fow words also abont the subsidy to the Preific Mail Steamship Company, which rpent $750,000 in Washinglon that winter for votes, wonld be interesting reading from tho Bureau's organ, The Tribane, TERMS OF shBSCHlPTIOS- RY MAIL—IN ADVANCR—TFOSTAGE PREPAID. Inlly Kdition, one year. . Parta ol e ear, per mont 10 knndsy Kdition: Literar) hhect ., Epectmen roples sent free. Give Fost-UMoe eddress [n fall, incloding Btate and Connty. B flemittances may he made efther by draft, express, Fost-Ofica order, or In rexistered tetter. at our Hlak. A TRMMS TO CITY SUBACRINERS. Dafly, Gelivered, Sondsy excepted, 23cents per week. Dally, delivered, Sunday Inciuded, 0 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNR COMPANTY, Corper Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chieago, 11l Orders for the dellvery of Tux Tninyx='at Kvansion, ‘Englewsod, and Hyde Park teft (o the counting-room willrecetye promt attention. e r— TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. Cmrcaco TRIBURR has established branch ofices em. recelptof subscriptions snd advertisements as ollowni NEI YORK-Toom 20 Tribune Buflding. F.T.Mo- avuse, Mansger, PARIS, Prance—No. 10 ua do ia Grange-Dateitere. H.Manvzm, Agent. LONDUN, Fag.—American Eschauge, 449 Btrand. FHxxxy F. Giris, Agent. BAN FRANCIH TAMUSEMENTS, MaoVieker's Thentre. Madison rureet, betweea Dearborn and Slate. tioy. HOW LOGAN AND HIS HENCHMEN BOLTED THE CAUCUS NOMINEE IN 1877, In January, 1877, the Republicans of the Illinois Legislature, in caucus, nominated ‘| Jomn A. Locax as the party candidate for Senator, There were 204 membors of the General Assembly, and it required 103 votes to elect. The entire Republican vote was only 100, On the first day of the joint bal- loting, Jan. 17, Jonx A. Looaw received the entire 100 votes of the Ropublican mem. bers. After a sweek's ineffectusl voting, he failed to roceive any accessions from either Democrats or Independents. Gen, Loaax, on the night of Tuesday, Jan. 23, attended tho Rtepublican caucus. Ina speech to tho membors ho admitted his inability to be elected, and, though it was known that he was opposed to tho eloction of any Republic. an othor than himself, he relcased tho Re- publican members from the caucus obligation to support him, and declared that he was no longer o caudidato for Senator. The cancus thereupon procaeded Lo make n nomination, Judge Jawsnexce, MirTox Hay, E. B. Wasunvaye, and Jeauy Daxzn woro voted for. Judgo Lawnexoz, having o majority, was declared the dnly nominated candidate of the Republican caucns for the Benate, p ‘The next ddff, Jan. 24, the thirty-fifth joint ballot was taken, with the following re- sult : Whole numberof votes cast, 198 (there being 8 pairs, making O absentess) ; neces- Aty to n choice, 100 : Republicans prosent, 97 ; Judge Davis (Opp.) received 97 ; Judge Lawnexce (Rep.), 86; J. O, Hames, 7; Conrow, Panisir, Baxes, INozrsoLn, Rav, Bevzainor, 1 each, It will be seen that Judge Lawnexoe, the TRepublican canous nominee, was bolted by eleven Loaax-ites oven on the first vote. The trenchery was thus inaugurated and kopt up {o the end. On the noxt ballot he roceived but 81 Repnblican votes,—flve more of Lo oax's benchmen flew the track, On the thirty.soventh ballot Judge Lawnexce re- enived but (0 votes. On the thirty-eighth ballot but 40 votes,—the Looax-ites going over nlmost in a body to Jomw 0. Harves, antl.Republican. The caucus nominee of the party was openly and deflantly bolted by tho frionds of Jonn A. Looax. In the meantime the attempted alllanco of the Demoerats and Independents on Davis had failed, and, ot the close of the thirty. eighth ballot, the fiual defeat of Davis woa conceded by the Democrata, Tho thirty.ninth ballot (the fifth that day) was therefore taken undor great excitoment. After tho roll bhad been called Benntor Haxxa (Dem.) declared that, as ho could not get Davia, ho would change his vote for Lawnevce, aad did so, Other Democrats changod their votes. Tho following Demo- craty all voted on this ballot for Lawnexos, tho Republican caucus nominee: Benators DBuewen, Deansory, Hanva, Knosg, Ropix. sox of Cock, 8nurr, and Wanz, and by TNopresentatives Borp, Hrrninatoy, Kear. NeY, Mennitr, Powswy, ltonison of Fulton, ond Wirriaus; total, 14 Democrats, which, added to the Republican vote, wonld have elected Judge Lawrxnce triumphantly, and given the State o Republican Senator and a man of great learning, ability, and purity of charneter, ‘and who would have been an honor to the State, ‘Where was the obligation of the cancus then? Why did the Loaax Republicans bolt the party caucus noihination with success in their hands? The timd had come when tho Republicans could elect a cancus candidate other than Looax, and Looan's friends re. {fused to vote for the caucus candidato, and openly repudiated the party nomination, Judgo Lawnexce received but 28 Republican votes on that ballot, the frfends of Loaay giviug thewr votes for Joun O, Ilarves, of the Fidelity Bank, who was himsclf not act. ing with the Ropublicon party, and a few other Loaax-ites *‘ucattered,” in order fo oako sure of the defeat of Judge Lawnesce, the regular caucus nominee of their party. At this time it was but o quarter past 2 a'clock in tho afternoon. The Democrats Lind dissolved their alllance with the Inde. pondants, aud, it was known, ‘wero going almost to a man to voto for Lawnexox on the uext ballot, and so end the long strife; but tho moment tho result of the thirty.ninth ballot was aunounced, and the certainty that Laweence would be eleated on thenextvote, o motion to adjiurn was made by Me, GraNaen, wholiad just voted nguinsthis party candidate, and tho Speaker, who had ulso voted ngainat tho nomines of tho caucus, refusing to divide the llouse, declured the jolut wsossion dis. wolved, though the souse of the bLody was overwheliugly the othor way. ‘his action by the LoaaN wajority of the Republicans, this open, deflant refusal on tLeir part to olect the caucus eandidate, was +0 glaring aa to leavo no doubt on the minds of the Damocraty, aud upon tho minds of overy ono olie, thut, though Lawresck was the Ropublican nominee for Benator, it was not tho purpose of Looan sud Lis friends to lot. auy Republican other than Locay Lo elected ; 80, availing thomselves of the pre- mature adjournment forcod by the Logan. tes, tha Democratic negotiations with the Indepeudents were renewed, aund before mid- night all differeuces wero compromised, and it was agroed that Davis should be elected nest dsy. When the joint scssion met on the next morniug, the battle had been lost to the Republicans, ‘I'he Duwmocratic offer to olect the Republican nominee having beeu spurned by Louay and big hoochmen, Davis Lad been agreed upon, sud it only required the formality of a vote to elect biwm, Yo prevent even theh svy Denocrats vot- iug for Lawoescz, and thus enabling him to bo elected, when the Seusto roll was called Basu led qff by voting for Haixes; all tho other Republican Benators, except Box- yieLp, did the sawe, until Kenor's vote was given for Pavis. Boryp, Dewmocrat, voted Qut answeri for Lawszincr. Republicans, however, to 1. Was there & bill passed by Congress to- | more than fifty, voted for Joux C. Haives, wards the close of the session of 1873, soy § Eavton voted first for Davis, in redemption -Palsce Totel. “Des- Tlaverly’s Theatre, . Dearborn street, corner of Monroe, Engagement of {he Park Theatre Company. *‘Hurricsaos.” Hoeoley's Theatre. Pandotph street, between Clark and T.afalle. En- gagement of Hess Opera Companuy. **Fra Diavalo.™ Academy of afusic,’ TNalsted street. hetween sdison and Monroe, Vae sty entertalument. Hamlin's Theatre. Clark street, opposite the Court-House. . Engage meat of Miss Fanny Herrlog, **Red Haud.” Metropolitan Thehtre. ‘Clark street, opposite Sherman House. tertaibment. White Stocking Park. Lake shore, foos of Washlngton street, Orand Ekating Carnival. TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1870, —— s ——————— THE REQENU FIRE. 1n yesponse to numerons demandn for eopies of fux Tanuse of Sunday, Jan, 5. contuinlog & graphic and comprehensive account of the burning »f Honore Block, in which wers situnted the Chi- age Post-Ofice, the headquarters of Gen. Suzar. aX, and other offices, o cunsiderablo quantity of that edition has been reprinted, and coples may he had from and after to-day at the Countlng-Room. Vatfety en- Justice Huxr, of the United States Sn- preme Court, has been stricken with paralysis, and little or no hope is enter- tained of his recove: L MontoN MoMiciars, editor and pro- prietor of the Philadelphin North American, ond aveteran in journalism in the United States, died yestorday in Philadelphia, The desperate condition of many thou. sands of the unemployed workingmen and their fawilies in England bas boen aggra- vated by the exireme cold, and the local ro. lief and charitable organizations find them- selves overwhelmed with applications for help to keep from the door the wolf that gets hungrier as the weather grows colder, Thers {3 a flavor of trne economy and re- form in the actjon of the County Board rela- tive to tho election and fixing the malary of the County Attorney. In place of tho third- rate lawyer whom the old Ring nused to pay $7/000 a yenr for furnishing * opinions " to suit the jobs ns they came slong, there has now been elected a compotent attorney at 93,000 n year, with the added duty of attend- ing to'the trial of insano cases, Onco more the Common Council and tho gas companies are squarely at loggerheads. ‘I'ho latter refuse to conform to the Council's recent ultimatum, $1.50 per 1,000 cuble feet of gas, $1.05 belug nsked on the South Side and 32 on the West Bide, There is no great haste manifested in carrying out the threat to burn oil in ense the companies refnsed to accede to tho Council’s termns, and another attompt at adjustiment will be made. The probability that Senator Tuumaan will persiat in hia rofusal to be regarded as a possible candidate for the ObLio Governor. ship next year is strengthoned by his fail. ure to attend the Jacksonian colebration of to-morrow at Columbus, A savere cold Intely contracted and the inclement weather are the reasons he assigns for thinking that it would be imprudent for hiw to wako the trip, The cold he now suffers from is nothing to the * chill his Presidential prospects will experi. ence in the event of tho nowmiuation and defeat of a weakor 1nan ag the Democratio candidate, Whether or not the Amcer has left hin country for his country's good can hardly be kuown at this distance from thp scono of oporations, but it is certain, if forvign dis- patches are to bo bulieved, that the Afghan potentates followers are not of tho gelf-sacrificiog kind, It is roported that most of -bis body.guard, having an inborn love for their native heath, declined to accompnuy the Ameor ncross the border, and thus his Excellency's pligrimnge to the Russian shrine will not bo attended with that pomp aud circumstance which should accompavy the ruler of a nation whose Government aud laws are proclaimed 28 God-give; The immenso popularity of the 4 por cont loan is again evidenced in the fact that yes- terday's subscriptionsin Washington umount. ed to $11,093,650. That such a sum in greonbacks, which are now receivable for these bonds, should be invested in one day ut 4 per cent interest, shows that tho coun- try is full of idle woney seeking wi. ployment, sud that the faith of the people o the Government is unbounded. As fast as the requisite blocks of the 4 percents are subscribed for an equal quantity of the 6 per cents are called in to be canceled, and their places are token by securitics bearing a lower rate of inter- est. The saving in interest on the public debt effected by yestordsy’s subscriptions alone amonnt to over $2:21,000. » Which Las undertaken to make personal allegisuce to Joux A, Louan the Wit of Nopublicanium in Ilinols, and, a3 tho organ of the * Litcrary Bureau,” to publish the excommunications by Louax of ull thoso who do not fall down aud wonhip Lim, may perhaps be in pousession of the facts and can answer & fow timely questions. Loug Jonm, Fuaxx Parurs, Git Souzyony, or Dax Buxpizp, of the Buresu, cau write of a pledge the day before to do soinre. turn for four Democratic votes given for Lawnesce. When, however, the roll had Leen completed, and it was known that Davis woa elected, tign the Loaax brigade, having secured the defeat of a Republican 8 enntor, added bypocrisy to treachery, and, trying to hide both by meking a record by which to swesr, clianged their votes from Harxes to Lawnexce. This was not done, however, until Davia had been nctually clected., In all these movements in this protracted effort to defeat the eledtion of any Tepublican exoept Loaan the over-present, inspiring, and controlling power was Looay himself, . An election for Senator fs now again pgnd- ing. Loaawisngnin a candidate. His fol- lowers, nnd strikers, and bulldozers, and claini.agents, and subsidy-seekors, and back. pay jobbers, and Texas Pacific Railroad lob- byists have been vehemontly declaring that be had alrondy ** secured " encugh Republican ‘mombers of the Legislatura to defent Senntor Ootzsny and to elect himself. Perhnps, in his excossiva vanity and sublime conceit, he hes induced himsel? to believe that ho hns in fact subordinated to his personal service n majority of those who will tako part in the Ropublican Bonatorinl caucus. Sopator Oovessy, Judge Lawsexce, Mr. FanweLy, and their friends havo been canvassing the State on the Senatorial question, and the prosa havogivenitconsiderableattention, Aud right hero we must state a curious fact, No Re- publican politician or newspaper has sug- gosted or hinted at the probabilily, under any circumsatances, of any Republican mem- bar of the Legislaturo rafuaing to support the Republican cancus nomines, whoaver he might be, uutil Jonx A. Locix started the quostion, and through his * Literary Burcau” propounded tho gategoricnl question, not only to members.of the Legislature -but towall other porsons and newspapers ont of tho Legislature, * Will you support me if I I bo nominated for Sonator by the caucus?” Until Gon. Looax issued this question, do- wmanding peremptorily an answer, no person, g0 far 0s we have heard or scen, had sup- posed that any Republican member of the Legisintura would refuss to be bound by the nominntion of, his party. The fact that this extraordinary question should proceed from Mr, Loaan has attracted much attontion throughout the Btate, and tho inquiry is froely made, How is it that, while Oavrrany, Mr. FAnwrLy, nor any other condidate, actual or possible, has any doubt or fear "of receiving the full party vota in caso of a nomination, Looax should have any dread or feor on the subject? What is thore in /Ads past record to mnke Aim afraid that in cnso hie should bo successfol enough by the promises of foreign misslons, Indian Agen- cies, Paymasterships, Indian contraots, Whigky Collectorships, Post-Offices, and other offices, and by votes for claims and subsidies, and railroad and other jobs, to securo a majority of the Ropublican caucus, there will be & refusal on the part of mem- bers to vote for him? Wo are asked, Can it bo that Looan fenrs the poisoned chalice ho forced the Republicans to drink two years ago, in cauging Republicnn members of the Legislat: to vote agninat and - defeat tho regular cancus nominee, will be prosented to his own lips now? And we frecly confoss that we can explain his recont frantic domands that every ‘man shall swear to vote for him if ho bo nom- inated upon no theory than that ha dreads his own treacherous conduot of two years ago, in refusing to let hia henchmen vote for and elect the regular candidate of the Re. publican concus, may be nsed ns n protext and o justification for a like dofeat of him. solf uow, particulariy as his defeat now does not involve, as the defeat of Judge Law- nexce two years ago did, the dofeat of o Re- publican and tho cloction of s Democraiic Benator. ‘Then tho Republicans were in a minority ; now they nre in a mnjority. Then o refusal to support the caucus candidate cnded in the olection of a Democrat; now, Lo the nction of members what it may, the clection of a Republican Benator is a moral certainty. Has any person heard Oavresny demanding whether this person or that, this newspaper or that, will support him if nominated by tho caucus? The gallant old Ropublican has nothing on his record which he fears will farnish o pretext for bolting his nomi. nation, Eight years ago ke did not bolt, nor ‘permit any of his friends to bolt, the nomi- nation of Looav. e never betrayed his party, nor by act or deed aided in ita defeat, His consclence does not mako him the cow- ard that.demands an oath that the party will not refuse to voto for him. His record 18 clean, and tha only Ropublican in all Ilinols who ever defentod the clection of a Repub- licau Benator by refusing to support, and by rofusing to permit his friends to support, the regular eancus Republican caudidate is Jouy A. Looax, THE WISCONSIN SENATORSHIP, ‘The Legislature of Wisconsin will com- mence its annual sesalon for 1879 at Madi- son to-morrow ot noon. All the membors will be ou the ground to-day, and a caucus will bo held this evoning for the purpose of nominating candidates for Bpeaker, Chicf Clerk, and Sovgeant-nt-Arms. As the Re. publicans have large tanjorities in +both brunches, there will bo no delny in organize ing and setting the machinery of legislation in successful oporation at once. Gov. Sawurn's anounl message s slready com- pleted, and will probably be delivered to the two Ifouses in joint couvention ou Thurs. day next, ‘'ho oxciting topic of conversation at Mud. ison just vow fs iu regard todthe election of a United States Senator to succeed 'Fistotity O, Howz, whoso terin of offico cxpires on the 4th of next March. Upon this subject the averngo Republican politiciun is very much worried, sud the miuds of the iucipient legslators are very much torn up and dis. tracted, 'Fho thres prowinent candidates fu the field at the present writing—to vame them in the order of their wupposed strength—are the Hon, E. W, Keyss, Scuator llowe, and ecx.Bemator Marr 1L Cine paNTER. All of thess gentlumen bavo strong supporters amoug tho working Republicsus of the State, snd with equal truth it way stated that all of them bhave violent and active opponents, who will reslst their election as zoalously ag their friends will advocate it. Sonutor Hows bos Leen in the Bonate thres tertws, of cightven yoars, and, until the cowwmenceent of the present Administration and his weworable anti-Hayes 25th.of-March specch, ho wos probably the most popular sud highly.es- teemed Republican in tho pasty in Wiscon sin. Ho was twico reclected Benator by the Leglslature of Wiscousin without the inter- vention of & caucus, ond, exsepting the speech referred to, bis courso has generally been approved by his porty frieuds. His slility aud integrity were so well recognized in Washiogton that he was offsred thoap- nolutmaut of Chief Justico of the Bupreme them in defoating his re-olcction. judges sny now that bis election is ntterly out of the question, but his friends olaim to stil *a chance,” The Milwaukeo deloga- tion have beon bulldozed jnto signing an probably abaudon him as o forlorn hope at an early day. His election would be a dis- grace to tho Ropublican party of Wisconsin, ond it {anot likely that the present Logiala- Princess Auice of: Ieeso, from which it ap. poars that her death was the result of her davotion to hor family, five of her children hiad been strickon down with diphtherin, and, although her physician had strictly warned ber not to coma in closo contact with any of them, tho strength of her affection led Ler to take her place by the bedside of the snfferors and to minister to come with grief, to embrace one of the chil. sald in his address to Parliament, roceiving tho kiss of death, The peculinr circum- stancos of her death, and the alarming man- ner in which this insidlous and malignant disonse swept through tho Princely house. hold; has given the Loundon Zimes occasion which possesses unusual interost nu disclos. {ng some facts not generally known, Oourt of the Unifed States on the death of Mr. Caasz, the appoint- ment of Heerefary of State and of Minister to Fugland,—all of which he declined beennse the Democrats had the power at the timo in his State to elect one of thoir own party as bia successor. Tlis active career in the Senate, and these tempting offers of promotion, which were rejocted by the dictstes of parly fenlty, ars suflicient evidences of the Senator's high character and the esteem in which he has evor been held by his associates in Washington. It can in trath be added that Seantor Howe has to-day some of tho best elements of Republicanism bearlily at work in Lis favor, and because ho Dbns not more support is more tho fault of the nid elements than of hisown. It is general. 1y conceded that ho now goes into the cancus the second in the raco. The Hon. E. W. Krres, who fs conceded to be tho atrongest man in tho field, oven by the estimates of the eandidates opposed to him, has nover hold nny offica excopt the Madison Tost-Office and the Chnirmanship of the Republican State Oentral Committeo for eight years. Ho is what Col. IncEnsoLL said of Brase at Cincinnnti, **a leader of men," and a shrowd, vigilant, and ruccessful politician, Ho hios mado United States Sen- ators, Btate officers, Governors, Congress. ‘men, members of tha Legislatare, Postmas. tors, nud *‘bossed” things gonerally for o long series of years, and now it probably ocours to him /that he might as well knock down a persimmon for himself after using his long polo go cilicloutly for the benefit of others. It is enid that ho will go into caucus with 3G to 38 votes,—40 being sufficient to nominate. e hins the advantage of being on the ground to commaud his troops in person, and s aided by a large number of well-drilled lisutenants who are among the most activo and vigorous workers of tho party, Ile is being very vigorously denonnced as a ‘* machine” poli- tician, which is the rewnrd he gots for act- ively participating in the business of discip- lining and fighting his troopa to the best ad- vantage whilo bo was Chairman of the State Central Committee. If Mr. Keves {s not olected, he hns it undoubtedly in his power to mnke the solection of the next Senator, and bis second choico fasaid to be Mr, Hows, The third horso in the ‘rco is Marr If Canreexren. Ho is alroady so well known to the readers of Tne TninvSe—not favorably, 'Wa are sorry to say—that we neod waste but n fow words upon him in this connection. 1fo wna clected Henator in 1869 by a most remarkable oversight npon the part of the Repnblicans of Wisconsin,—a mistake that has beon so often emphasized by My, Oan- rrxTER'S own ofllclnl acts that thero is little dauger of itk xopotition at this session. On the expiration of his first term of sorvice his conduct had become so offensivo to the moat respectoble portion of his party that a large number of the members .of the Legislature refused to support him, and their constilnonts justified Good hold the balance of power, and that he has ngreoment to support him, but they will ture will precipitato sugh n disaster. DIPHTHERIA IN ENGLAND. The current English papers are filled with the mournful details of the death of the ler husband and them, and In ono incautious moment, over- dren, thereby, ns BraconsrieLp touchingly for a disquisition upon the disenso itself Although we are accustomed to regard diphtheria na an old and famliar disenso, and although it bas existed in many coun. tries from very ancioat times, it is comparn. tively now in Europo, 1t did not attract at. tention in England until thirty yenrs ago. In tho winter of 18480 it became very prevalent, and in those two yenrs it swopt off 20,000 people. In 1860 the number of denths declined to about 5,000, In 1878 there wero 2,31 deatha; In 1874, 8,5660; in' 1875, 3,206 ; and in 1876, 8,010, thus show- 1ng a yearly average of about 5,000 deaths from a discase concerning’ the propagation and provention of which it is apparent that the Lnglish practitioners are still densely ignorant, . The utmost lght that tho Times can throw upon it is that it certainly spreads by contagion, but that the notlvity of its contagiousness is so influenced by individual suscaptibilitios that ¢ is diffeult to draw napy lino Letweon the cfects .of fnfuction and the conscquonces of per- sonal liberty, While the communi. cution of the dlseaso by porsonal contaot in uncurtain, it thinks that the ordinary wodes of proppgation sre ratber “from jufection Jurkiug in houses or places than by avy such conveyance ny that which is fawiliar to us fu wany othar maladies,” Ous of tho best medical authorities in Englaud, cited by the Times, comes no mearer certainty than the following: *Iknow of no instuuce of the diseuse beiug carried from one house to ane otlicr by the passing to nud fro of those who wero thomsclves uvafected; but tho pres., clice of oue sick person in n bousa is sufll. clent for it communication to the suscepti- ble, however carefully kept apart; so thcot the infection must to somo extent bo dif- fusible in the alr, and the danger bos seccmed to wo to bo greater frowm this source than frow direct contagion.” As a matler of fact, tho English practition. era not ouly scem to bave uo specitio remedy for the disense, but are not as fawiliur with it or os suceessful in {reating it as the Amor- jean. They huve veachied that poiut where there recogniza the similurity of sowo forms of scarlot fever aud diphthoria, but they do not appenr to have buscd uny theories upon this coincidenco that cau evolvo practical and succensful resulta ju treatmont. Asone auloug wavy doctors iu this country who have mada o special study of this discuse, the late Dr, Bxxug, of this city, whose close aualyticol powens nud bolduess of yesearch aud practice were provorbial, may bo cited. Acting upon the germ theory, and extending his iuvesti- gativns & far a3 tho resources of the zicroe fng in the sulpho.carbolato of sodn, ho the United Btatos, then that the proper steps bo taken to limit and regulate the immigra- tion, A of this subject on false premises, and the homo of the brave,” they are inclined to think ita mission is to open its doors to all who knock, without any regard to the com- fort or wolfaro of those who aro already in possession. From this they reach tho falss generalization that the Government has no right to exoludo men of nny race or limit iinmigration from any quaiter of tho globe. dnys of independonco, it offered the induco. ment of self-governmont and declared itself tho choson rofuge of the oppressed of ‘all nations, o nelflsh intorest has beon served along with the philanthropic protense, and that, while millions who have been plucky and enter- prising enough to avail thomselven of this offer have contributed to the growth and well ns partaken the common benofits of dovelopment. Whenever immigrationthreat- material or political prosperity, there is no doubt that the Awmerican Republic hes the sawe moral right to exclude, regulate such immigration as pertains to tho sovereign powor. of every nation, presorvation is the firat law of communities as well as of individuals, and it is cssential omplre or a monarclly, No school of phil. Immigration v only rostrained by the torms of tho Bunrrinaaxe Treaty of 1808, which ia stances under which scope and natural vision wiil allow, he not o only eatisfled himself that the charnoteristio symptoms of scarlet fover and diphtherin were frequently intermingled, but that they wore of & septie character. In his search for an anti-seplic remedy he first used car- bolic ncid, but found that it could not be diffused throngh the blood in sufllelent gnan- tity to kill the living germs. Ho next tried sulphite of soda, but this Incked energy, and hence efficloncy. Iy n chemical combina- tion, howaver, of thess two clemonts, result- tion. remain, to become n part of the Amorican. nation, stitions to their own Flowery Kingdom, and nenrly all como undar a contract providing that thoy shall bo taken back at the end of a term of yoars, or that their bodies shall bLe transported to yest with their ancestors if they die in America. They bolong In China to the pauper clnss, and produced s remedy not new In itself, but, as he claimed, now in ita ap- plication to the pravention of these disenses. Byits use he claimed a complote disinfection of the blood, and announnced to the commu. nity with certaiuty that was born of honest conviotion that its use in time would act ss an absoluta preventive, and that even after the disease had attacked tho patient it would mitigate its sevority. The test of the Doc- tor's theory was in his practice, and in this he waa cerlainly very successful, Wa cite this case as one instance among many of the originality and boldness which has charnc- torized the Amorican investigators. Whether investigation on tho basts of the germ theory ean proceed further is questionable, until scionco onlarges our:powers of vision and the resources of the microscope. The En-. glish authorities, howaver, seem to stop short with their theories and make no applieation of them, consequently we see them, as tho Times indicates, working in the dark, with no specific remedy, with different forms of trontment, and without any concurrent sys. tom, Hence the undiminished progross of the disense and its startling mortality in Great Britain, Perhaps our own physiclans con go no furthor until science removes the obstacles that stand in the way, but the effort should bo mado upon Dr. Beene's basis or tpon any other reasonablo basis that offers a hopo of success. Both diplitherin and scarlet fover oro becoming moro provalent every winter, Tho one attacks children and the othor persons of all nges, and between thom they aro aweeping off their victime with fear. ful fatality, The hint which the Zimes throws out to tho English physiclans in the following extract, *‘an epidemio which fa closaly circumscribed at its commencemont must, a8 n rulo, presont comparatively simple problems to tho investigator, and it is to be hoped that theso problems will be submitted to those who are capablg of appreciating the relative values and importance of any facts which iuquiry may bring to light,” should also be acted upon by our own, ory for a fow yoars ns a moans to the enjoy- ment of a bettar condition at home therenf- tor. They do not come, a3 do the mechnnics or agricultural Iaborers of England, Ireland, 8cotland, Gormany, Norway, Bweden, and other European countries, with individual aspirations for free citizonship, and with the smbition and enterprise to identify them- selves with a new nation, They bring with thom nll their Asfatio habits, and seck to conserve them na much as much as possible. Their pigtails bave a ganctity for them that the ballot conld never mequire in their eyes. They make no effort to acquire the language beyond what is necessary for menial service, they ara contant to live here ns meagroly as they lived in China, and are ready to cut into the wages paid to labor to any extent that may be necessary to crowd out the Anglo. Saxons. The women they bring with them almost entirely belong to the prostitute class, and the only white women they ‘con- sort with aro of the vory lowest order in the samo clnss, Their intelligence is mere shrewdness aa it is exercised in this country, and what {8 good in their naturs, cxcept aacility and stolidity, seoms to bo left at home to be resumoad +on their return, They leave nothing hero when they go away ex- copt the product of labor which thoy cannot toke with them, sud they havo nothingin common with a single phaso of tho con- glomorate population of, which this country is composed, . These aro general facts which only need be stated to find goneral acquiesconco ; tho exceptions aro g0 rare ng to cut no figure, They cannot be ignored in considering the prospect of an immigration greatly onlorged over the prosent proportions. On the Pacific Const, Mongolisn labor occupies very much tho same relation to white Inbor that African labor did at the SBouth befors the War, and an incronse of the Chiness in this country undor these conditions could scarcely fail to bring on a conflict of races with results as gerious ps thoso which grow out of the prosence of 4,000,000 Africans in slavery, Auy such prospect not only warrants but demands that the General Government shall secure such a modification of the Bunu. aane Treaty ns will enable it to place Chinese immigration undar certain rostric. tions and rogulations. This can probably be seenred wilhout forfeiting American com- mercial rights in China or Ohinese commor- cinl righta in this country, and it is a mat- ter in which Mr, Evants shonld exert his bost talents, The Hon, J, B. 8stitit, who dicd In Milwaukes on Friday Inat, was at one time quite s promi- nent politiclan and business tan fn the Croam City. e went to Milwaukeo &t an early day, and, being o man of. cducation, ability, and en- terprise; hu: was 'soon T6und’ ot tHd Yrdiit, At took an setive’ part in many fmportant publie fmprovementas and wvolitieal movements. Ha was Mayor of the city, President of the Mi- waukee & Horicon Rallway Company, State Benator, aud, during the War, was President of the Union Learue thot had Its subordinate lodges fn every conslderable village and city in the Btate, and 'embraced In its membership a large proportion 'of the Republican party of Wisconsin. While Mr, 8311711 was & membor of the Stato Bcnate he was the author of a pro- hibitory liquor aw that so incensed the galoon- koepers of Milwaukee that thoy ralsed 5 mob, proceeded to his house, and de- mollshed the doors and. windows., 'Tho city afterwards held a public meeting at which the Mayor presided, and at which the action of the mob was denounced, and Mr, S3tit's losses ro- finbursed, After the retirement of SUBAMAN M. BooTit from tho publication of the Daily Free Democrat, Mr, 8sutu for a short time was the paper's business mauager, with tho late Judge A. D, 8vitir, formerly of the Supreme Court, as cditor-in-chief, Mr. SsiTu was 67 years of age. —————— Mrs. Benator Rnuce is atill an object of In- terest In Washiugton, She fa sald to bo a very baudsome woman, well educated, bighly ac- complished, and all that, with only a alfizht dash of African blood In her veins, fer hus- Land 1s no longer a vassal but a peer, and one of the Benators from a soverelgn Siate, Many of the fashlonable gentlemen called upon her on New Year's Day, while othiers fznored her, The correapoudent of the Boaton Journal says that sho wore **a mnagnificent black velvet dress mada for hier by Wouru during her recent visit to Paris, und haodsome diamonds.” Thoe Hart- ford Times corrcspondent says: ** It has been tried and deckled by soclety—and tho thing called soclety in Washingtou alwaye tosdles to wealth or officlal position, whethor richt or wrong—that Mes, Broce Is just os grood to call on or to receive calls from as It sho was pafoted up as white or 8s handsome g4 oy other Bena- tor's wife. Bhoddy suclety, and most of it hiers Is shioddy, accepte the verdict, snd governs itself accordingly, As a rexult, Mrs, Duvce has already recelved calls frow the wives of soime of the Judzes of the Buprews Court, of many Hevators, Representatives, and othurs holding ofticial position,™ e ———— Moblle {s another city that fa boasting of last year's prosperlty. ‘I'he seceipts of cotton were larger during the previous year, whiln the valuu of expurts aggregoted over 19,000,000, au n- crease of more than $6,000,600, while the im- ports ran updrom $H8,404 1o 81,148,443, The vulue of the lumber expurls incroased $50,000, and the lmportution of all staple articles of merchaudise was lsrgely lu excess of the pre- vious year, The reccipty of colfes advanced from 27,000 bags In 1877, to 51,400 bags Iu 1678, ‘Ihe sccond cottou-mill was put in operatich ln Mobile during the past y ‘This mill began work with 1,344 spludies, and produces from $00 to 1,000 puunds of yeeu, rope, twine, carpot- warp, ete., per duy, using from teu to twelve balcs of cotton per week, and emploving aboul thirty-tlve operatives. With its preseut caacity it cau use 800 bales wunualy, The factory bias been so profitable shiat its” capitul stock bus re- cuntly been fucreased $50,000. i i “The Cinclonatl Commerclal grives some borrl- ble statistics for the year 1573, Acvondluy to this Hst there were 1,203 murders In this country, Seventy persons were killed fu Jaouary, 70 fu February, 04 In March, 123 in April, 87 iu May, 410 fo June, 129 fo July, 133 u August, 134 in Beptembor, 103 fn October, 100 fn November, sud 100 in December. - Now Year's-Day ovened with - a number of muarders, and there Is littie doubt but that veople will do In the future pretty wuch 28 they bave fo thoe past. THE CHINESE QUESTION, The Clineso quostion is rapidly assuming o national importauce, The timo is not far distont when'tho Goneral Govarnment will be required to take gome definite action, and it is said that there has nlrendy been some discussion in ,the Oabinet with a view to brioging the subject before tha new Chineso Embnssy, ‘Tlie growth of Mongglian immi- gration and the peculiar status of the Chinn men residentin tho country seem to domand (1) that the probable influence of their pros- onco in large nnmbers shall bo determined as far ns ¢an Lo by tho oxperionco of thosa sec- tions whero they aro alroady numerous; and (2), in cage tho concluslon be unfavorable to a Inrge increase of the Chinese populationin Many people start out in a consideration Assuming this country to bo'the * land of the free It is truo that the apirit of our Government is lnrgely misstonary, sinco, from tho enrliest Buat it must not be overlooked that America has offered a freo homo and full equality to the pooplo of all tho world, the progress of tho nation, nnd lave given as ous loss or disaster inatead of an increase of limit, or Bolf. that A free government should assert its natural rights fn this regard as well asan antbropy and no amount of sontimentality can change this law, The right to lmit and regulato Chinese subject of courio to modification or termina- tion. Tho latter would be undgsirable for both tho United States aud the Chineso Em. piro, and hence tha proper course, if any stops bo taken to check the jucreased AMon- gollan flood to the Pacific Coast, will be through o negotiation with the Chineso Gov- crument, The termns of the present troaty require that tho Chiucso shall cnjoy in Amgrica aud the Americaus in Cbing all rights in respect to travel and resi- denge which are occorded to tho citi- zens of sny other uation., Under this wrovision the Chinese may cowe to this couns try by the millious as well us by the hun. dreds, and China, with a population variously ostimated botween 400,000,000 and 500,000, 000 souls, could cantribute Aslatics to thu nawmber of our aggragate population without a3 much 88 missing them at home, It is this possibility, and the growing tendency of the Clinese to seok America as & sort of Eldo- rado, along with tho influsnce of their pres. cuce on our own institutions and Auglo. Baxon civilization, that demand a thorough considoration and early disposition of tho protiens, 'ho American Labit of regarding, or pre- tending to regord, all won a8 frev aud equal caunot euablo our people, with the best of intentions, to close thelr eyes to tho radical diffurcuces between tho Clinese immigeants aud every other race or class that seck our sbores. The great mass of our people are of European ongiu; our laws, customs, asnd commercial and social churacteristics pertain to European civilization, Uunder the most favorable circumstances it would bo almost imposaible for the Asiatics fndividually to sssimilate in language, pursuits, aud per. sonal Labits with the American and Euro- pean whites that coustitute the breina and muscle of this cooutry; but the circum. e —e The past vear has been most important In the history of modera missionary effort. Tus New York Times s3ys that fu Indla, where moretban 8 half century of work sccmed to have made little §mpressiou ou the Hiodoos, there bas been the lasgest movement toward Christianity nese come to us nre positively unfavorable to siich assimila. They como meroly to sojourn, nat to Thoy bave no notion of becoming Amor;can citizens, of marrying and ramsing familles, of adding their earninga to the stock of acoumulated production, or of otherwise contributing to the material pros. perity of the nation as they wonld do if they expeated themsslvos and their offapring They are bound by their religion and supor. bind themselves to n quasi-condition of slay- that Protestantism has ever witnessed fo heathendam’ The Bocioty for the Propagation of the Gospol (High-Church Anglican) has hiad nn accession of no less than 23,000, tha Dutch Reformed Mission ono of 0,000, tho American Baptist Mlssfonof nearly 10,000, and the Charch Misslonary Soclety (Low-Church Anglican) ot 410 familles. Thus in one year about 40,000 Hindoos have embraced Christianity, and ap- parently this ts onty the begidning of n great movement. The missiohs In Central Africa have met with reverses during the year, but there ts no thought of abandoning any of them, ‘The London misslon, alter aevero reverses, hias reached fts destination on Lake Tanganyika, and the English Baptista. have sent an expedi. tion slong STANLEY's route on the Congoto prospect for a new mission. ———— One of the Courts of 8outh Uarolina has re. cently conflrmed the dectston of the Bond Com- missfon which teported that §1,577,645 of bonda and stocks, {ssued under the Consolidation act, were valld, and that 2,818,454 were invalld, s having been Jssued in exchange for invalid bonds, coupons, gnd certilicates of stack, But this 87, 818,454 18 only invalid, bond by bond, to the ex- tent of tho Invalid vouchers that cach bond rep- rescats, the pereentage of fnvalidity ranging down [rom one hundred to a trifle. The whole recognized publie debt of Bouth Carolina, on the 1st of November, therefore, was of consolf. datton sccuritics, 85,130,005, less £2,818,545, or 2,312,511, To this amount should be added about $150,000 for consalidation securities which camo beforo the Bond Court, and were admitted by the 8tate to be valld, ——— Mr, Moopy has the rare faculty of sclecting those citles for Itis evangelical labors that stand most in need of his services. e har.a way of putting himeelf where ho.will do the most good, and hence it is that he Is now hard at work in tho wicked Clty of Baltlmore, Notlcinz his preseoce thero last Sunday, the American says that *“*A very cousiderablo portfon of tho re- ligious prople of tho city are unquestiouably belng stirred up to rencwed interest and cffort by the tnflucnce of Mr. Moobpy's preachiny. ‘Whatever any one may think as to his success - in bringing men and women into permuncot connection with the church previously living apart from it, there can be no doubt that he dues inspire professing Clristians with fresh cnery and devotlon,” ——— The Courier~Journal has a criticism unon the life, writings, and character of WiLLIAM CuL. LEN BRYANT that Is not In uccord with the pop- ular estimate of most other people in rezard Lo the great poet. For instance, the writer says: It may scom an ungracious taing Lo suy, yct be. ing true ft mnst be ruid, that BivaNt, with hls transcendant virtnes oa n scholar, gocirinatre, and lmnt, and in spite of certain marltariour qualities n journalizm, had vices, or at least weaknesscsof character, which kept him from grestnessas na editor, which hardly kept him within the wavering boundarlea of morality, His bosctiing min was nvarice. Bince the thne of Lord Bacoy thero has not been so muagular a combination of philosovhy and sordidness as WiLLIAX CULLEN BvaNT, Inor- dinate love uf moncy was not with him an ecesn. tricity of manners, It was the fundawnental Lase of his nature, 1t was Inwoven In the warp of g _peofcanional dally lite. S — New Orleana does not lack for excltement at present. They have the Yellow-Fever Com- wisalon, the PorTer Bub-Committes, the TeLrLer Committee, and are dally expecting the Chleago delegation of merchants, on thelr way 10 Mexlco, to whoin they ars to give s banguet. Onc of the clty papers says that joy Ilke this cannot always loat. * The yollow-fever gentle- nen will soon load a freight-train with doctors’ views nnd be carrled speechiess back to Washe fuirton the Tertens will find that thelr mud- hooks don’t grapple anything [n particular in theso waters; and Mr. Porrzn wiil gracetully furl his wost resplendent scarf and shoulder bis lunch-basket ln genteel wo." X = b thuby + CiiicAno, tween two parties whetier o poreon can be elected President of the Unlied Stated threa timea in suce cession, and the purtics hiavo acrved to hiavo this question decided by you, and_respectfully roquust your declelon ou this point. Yonrs reapectfully, 3 Tiere i dotifig i Yo Constitution thatpro-" hibits a native-born citizen of suitablo age from being clected threo times, or four, or ten, Tue peoplo may re-elect a Prealdent overy four years us loug as ho lises, if thoy choose to do so. ‘I'here is nothing fu the Coostitution that stands in tl.xe way, — There fs a rumor afloat that Fraxg Paruen, Postmaster, and Jonx A. LogaN, ex-Scvnator, or ona of themn, voted for tho $5,000 salary-grab iu March, 1873, when both of them held ecats in Cougress, Will the [.-0. fuform us whether thls rumor I8 trucl Jt.1s also reported that both of thons fobbed this Hl-gotten money and wallced off with it. Wil the J.-O. statp whetler that bo a fact] Ifit refuscs to answer,«will it he good encugh to explain why it declives to teltd i The Baltimore Amerlcan wants GRANT to set- tledown and enjoy himself, after hisreturn from Europe, and “enfoy the repose he bas falrly earncd,” But what {8 easier than sitting mthe White House, rent free, and drawiug $50,000 per annum, after you are used to ity 1t that isn't enjoyment, we should be glad to have the American detine it. e e—e Will some friend in Wiscousin send to this oflico a copy of the speech that Marr Canpes- Tr made iu Janeaville once upon a time, in which hie defended the salary-grab, back-pay steals, Credit-dobitier swindle, aud otber fu- moral aud disrcputable acts? | . e et———— The Clevoland Jerald saya that thereds proba bly no truth in the report that Joun SueruaN wunts to run for Covernor of Ohio next year, with the view of golng back to the Benate. It ndds that “after sixtcen yeors' service Mr, SBuERMAN lult the Benato for the Cabinet, Itls not to be expected that he will Jeave the Cubi- net to return to the Scrate,’ —— SBome of the Inflatiun lunatics oxclaim: *“Itls truo that resuwption ts & fact, but look au the bankruptcies in the backzrouud.” But mis takes aud fallures 1 busiuess do not depend v resumption. = ——— Tei.Lun is determined to show the country that bis Commitiee will do sowething. ti— v Senator 8ARakxT i3 n Florida In bsd hoalth, CALEB CUSHING. Fuueral of the Decoused Statemuan at Nows Luryport, Mass. &pecie) Dispateh (o The Tridune, Boaton, Jan, 6.—The funeral of Caleb Cush- Iniz, from his residence at Newburyport to-date was attended by Gen. Butler, Cul. Wrighi, who served under bim fo the Mexican war, Willlaw E. Chandier, Richard 8pofford, the City Gov-* ernment, and 3w promluent Gien from the Eastern States. The onlv floral display wad seut by the Cushing Guurds,~a Uel'mul'uvtmd of white raruation, edeed with fmniortelles aud friuged with smilux, ‘The llev, Dr, Fisk, Geo. Cushiux’s pustor, conducted the seryices, which wers vurr slinple, aud the remalos were taken 1o Vak Hil | Cemetery, where they wors placed tumb, " Busiuess was suspended, ere tolled all day, wany of the publie butldings were haudsomely decorated. NEWDUKYIORT, Mass., Jun. ~Caleb Cushie i’y funeral was desigoedly as plaiu us u vom- man ctiizen's n rural towns, Thecorpss bore 8 remarkable naturel abpearauee, The servicd was very stmple,~reading of the Scnpturcs and pruyer. Humndreds vislted the house to view the remaing, sud the restdence was crowded guning the scrviee. Many distiugutshed gentlemen were present from Wasbington, Buaton, Cui- coril, snd Essex Cunnty towas, ‘The City Government will Lake carly measures to houor s nemory. WasuInNGTON, 1). C., Jan. 8.—The Department. of Justie cluscd at uoon to-day in bouor of the memory of ‘the late Caleb Cushivg, ‘Kl faxé ou tbe bullding sre fiyiug at ball-must, e e CHICAGO BURNING, Rueciul i ch o The Trivune, La 8arrx, 1, Jan. 6.—Much excitement wos occasioued bere on Baturday evenlng sud yes terday furenoon by wildly-exsugerated rumors regurdiug the burniug of the Fust-Olitiy, i 1o Culcago.