Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1879, Page 4

THE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY., JANUAKY 21, 1870—TYV Tlye Trilaore, TERMS OF RUBSCRIPTION. 2.40 . TY MATL—IN ADVA iotiy Editlon, one yerr “.ri8 of & year, Sindsy RaitioR: Lierary sod EBhect. . Faturday Fali el WEEKLY EDITION, FOSTPAID, {me copy, per yeal 8 Clut ot fon CIuD of ten. Clnb of twent £pecimen coples sent fres. Give Post-Ofice address [n full, facinding Btate and County. Itemittances may be made efther by draft, express, Ton-Ofice order, ar In regiatered letter, atour risk, TERMS TO CITY BUDSCRIBERS. Tolly, delivercd, Bunday excepted, 23 cents par week. Duily, delivered, Sunday included, 50 cents per week. Address THE TKIDUSE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-sta., Chicago, . 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Variety en- tertaloment. BOCIETY MEETINGS. APOLLO_COMMANDERY, X0, 1. Conciave Tuesday evening, Jan. o1, IS It 18 ex- Viaiing Mir nighie are Always woivomt, By ories ot #iting Sir Kn ways wolvomi tuo Conymander 118, TIPFANY, lidcorder. K. T.—Kiated TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879. AxoazLy now s on the wing, and will soon ‘be nmong us once more, The bark Shonting Btar, with the elogant dofanlter on board, lies cleared from Ligbon for Now York, The Directors of tho City of Glasgow Bank aro now on trial in Edinburg for fraud, theft, and ombezzlement, Thore is something bracing in the way thoso canny Beots are making it unpleasant for the bank offictals, The Common Oouncil lust evening passed tho ordinance providing for the inspcotion of passenger-clovator nachinery, doors, and shafts twico a yeor, at a foo of $2 for each inspection, the monoy to be turned into the City Treasury by tho Suporintondent of Buildings, under whose cliarge the work i to bo done. —— Tho Demacratic idea of rosenting Federnl supervision nt Congrossional elections cost n nun in Baltimoro n fine of $100 and four months in the city jail. e wan a Bourbon jndge of elections, and ho concrived it Lo ba his duty to teach n Deputy United States Marshal o losson in ‘State's-Rights. o in turn was tought n lesson in Foderal strength by Judgs Boxp, ns abavo related. —————— Bonator Coxxuno ia Eaid to be In some douger of having n cnso of contested clec. tion on hand in which he will bo an iuter- ested porty. In the ovent of hiaretnrn to tho Senato of- tho Forty-uixth Congreas it is rumored that his right to the scat will bo contested on tlio ground that the Legislaturo which appoluted him was not n legal body, not having beon elcoted in compliance with the State Constitution requiring o reappor. tionment to boe had prior to its clection, The Democratic caucus at Bpringfiald fafled to do its share in the vindication of Looan's solary.grab rocord by tha nomination of Jrar Ronrvson, another grabber who has mever gone through the process of restitntion and ropentanco. Thoy nominated instead Gen, Bracs, a gallant soldier, o man whose record hins nothing of tho grab odor about it, and whoso olection ns United States Senator would at least reflect no disgraca upon his party. The {ssuo ralsed by tho Donmncrats of Ala- bama, regarding the right of the Foderal Court to rotain the cnstody of the bellot- boxes and polllista taken posucsalon of for proof of fraud upon the {rial of clection oflicers indicted by o Grand Jury of the United States Court, should suggost lo the Trrren Commmitteo the proprioty of so ecx- tending its inquiry ns {o take in Alp- boma frauds. 'The Domooratio =Htate Courts bave undertakon to get hold of this proof, which Is oxpocted tolend to tho conviction of soveral election officars and disclose tho amouut of frand resorted to, and havo lad tho temerity to punish a United Btates Marshal aud District- Attornoy for failing to surrendor the docu. nenta and ballots, A counflict of jurisdiction Lias ariven which, beforo it is sottled, will bring to adjudication the question of the right of Foderal ofliciala fo suporvise Con. groasional clections, in accordance with a law of Congres The French Ministry, having concluded that discrotion is the better part of politics, especially when tho power to romove s waiting and anxious for the opportunily, hLas bowed to the will of tho mojority of the Legislative Obambors, aud promised to shape its ocourpe u such a way 28 to meet the spproval of {ho Repub- licans, 'Tho thing was very nontly doue ; in fact, was accomplishied In o very quiet man. ner. Buch amomentous crisis bas never in the history of Fronch politica been so shrewdly jturned, and never wore seri- ous complications s0 happily avoided. Tho epokesman for the Moderato Tett had only to state the caso of the majority, and give tho Cobinet an opportunity to consult as to the probabilities, which they did, thelr conferonce ending in a virtual surrender in tle shapo of a prowmise to woed from the sdwinistrative and judicial offices all persons who have not proved them- selvea frionds of the Republi When the anti-salary-grab resolution was cffered in the Republican caucus it was de- clared out of order and smothered, the pro- tense being that the proper place for its in. troduction was ia the legislative body proper. Yestezday it was introduced in the Houso, whereupon the vindicators of Loaaw promptly sunesked and skuiked bohind the privilege of referring the subject to o Comumittes, where it will bo carefully prc- served until thy Sevatorial election hoy passed. There are Republicans who con. rcientionsly believa that it Ix tho duty of ench member of the Thirty-first General Assembly to use all honorable means to defeat tho election to the United States Sennte of any person who, while a member of Congress or the Bouate of the United States, voted for and took the increased pay under what is com- monly known ns tho Balary-Geab nct,” and who wonld be glad of tho privilego of recording their votes to that effect. Thoy are forbidden by the cancus to exerciso that privilego, and compelled instead to vote to bestow tho highest honor within the gift of the people of Tilinois npon n man whose case is exactly covered by the language of the resolution, It ia indeed m bittor dose for honest men to swallow. Yesterday, for the first timo, tho salary- grabber's organ orawled ont of its shell far onough to talk about tho grab business. Until aftor tho manipulated caucus had nomi- nated Logax it naver ventured to open its hend in defense or explanation of the $5,000 back-pay stenl. No lashing or kicking conld make it utter o word on the sabject, It was tongue.tied or lock-jawed for two weeks, It daro not even whine or yelp when kicked. This marks tho independenco and dignity of personal orgauship, Now that tho grabber, by undorhanded means, promises, and trick- ery, has secured Oorrsnt's seat, the muzzle is takon ont of its mouth, and ita master orders it to bark in dofense of tha grab. Who would not be sn organ.grinder? Itis tho most ennobling and dignified ocoupation in the world! i The salary-grabber’s porsonal organ in Chicago and his chiof fugleman, ** Long JoxEs,” aro claiming tho Inte caucus voto as a * personal trinmph " and ** vindication " of the salary-grab candidate for the United Btates Scnate, nnd uccessarily a robuke for Gen, Oarrsny, who dencunced tha gmb\lm\‘ ond voted for {ts repeal; and nlso a speclal defeat of Tar Cnioaco Tripune, who de- fonded Oarxspy's voto, Whother thia claim is well-foundod or not can be best deter- mined by analyziug tho character and results of the Inst Btate campaign snd comparing them with the character and rosults of pre- vions campnigns. Tho chiof ond ahsorbing issue of the last campaign was the moncy and resumption question, The Republican party of this State, ns well as in most of the othor States ot the Union, charged itself with the advo- cacy of honest mouoy and the resumption of spocie payments. There wns a clique of shinplaster Fintists who mnade themseclves appenr mora formidablo than they really woro by ronton of their splnttering nctivity and loud-mouthed brawling. Tho Democratic pnrty, in part decoived by thia false show of strongth and m Iarge part inclined to an in- definite suspension of specio paymants, pan- dored to tho Fintlst inflationists, and ex- liansted nll tho arts of demagogism to coax them into thelr ranka and to carry the day. I'ur Cntcaco Trisuxe, however, jusisted stendfastly upon tho oxecoution of the Tte- stmption law, exposed the weakness of Fiat Lumbug logic, pictnred the delusion and daugers of n prolonged era of suspension and donbt, impressed upon the Western pub. lio the ndvantages sure to result from a re- turn to a speclo basis, and did its full sharo in holding the Republican party togathor on the grounds of sound, honest money, The result was that tho Btato wont Repullican by 45,000, and twelve Republican Congress- men wera electad as ayainst wix Domocrats nud one Indepondont, ‘The conspiracy for ousting Oarespy and putting Loasn In his placo was not in issue during the campaign. Tho poople of this Stato were genornlly ignorant of it, or not rogarding the success of tho ‘schoma as probable, subordionted tho Sonatorial ques- tion to the principle nt stake. If the peoplo had been enlled upon to vote diveotly on the anlery-grab question, and if the Republican Convention had openly declared itself in favor of displacing Ooanesny because he voted to ropenl the grab and rewarding Looax beeauso lio had voted for the grab nnd pockoted the moncy, no sane man doubts that tha Republican party, inalead of currying tho State by 45,000 majorlly, would have lost it by 100,000 or 150,000 votes, Tut this possible outcomo of a Rte- publican victory wns carefully concealed by the conspirators who worked up tho plot, Joux A, Loaan's porsonal organ in Chleago was giving what alid and comfort it could ta the enemlcs of the Ropublican parly by printing Fiat spoeches aud instilling Fint poiron into the minds of Republican read- ers, Tooax himsolf was making harangues on dead issucs, and only referrod to tho Jeading question of tho dny in a giugerly, non.commital fashion, Ilo conducted his campaign fn wuch o way that if the Fintists had securod the Dalanca of power he could lave taken shelter bohind tho dootrines preached by his organ, snd porhaps claimed many of ity Fist articles s his own, sud conld have pointed to hix inflation sposchies in thoBunato o8 representing his prosent position, His quasi hard-money kpeeches mnde during the campaign wera all susceptible of n doubls or Pickwickian conatruction, 'Thng, ho was shooting to bit it *{f o deer and miss jt it a ealt."” In the meanwhile, * Long Joxnzs” and his wholv gang were proatituting the State Con. teal Connuitiee, and resorting to olandesting and underhended mothodw, to pledge and commit a mafority of the Republican candi- dutes of the Legislaturo to Loaan's julerests, Lhey perverted and misused a Ropublican victory, which they had no share in achiov- ing, for their own salflsh purposes, which would havo compassed an overwhelming Re- publican defeat had they been oponly avowed, This fa the sort of *personal iri- umph " of which Logay eud his Lenchwen can bonst. How waa it when LoaaN was profoasedly and openly running the politics of thuStata? ‘Tho year 1874 furalshod a test of Mr, Lo aax's wonderful *mognetism® and influ. ence, 1o wes thou in tho hight of his publio carcer. Hu was a United States Sou- ator. 1o exercised, undor the ¢! inachine” practices of that timo, almost absolute control over the Governmeut patronagae for Illinols, Tuw Tawuwneg, under ‘s former wanagement, did not embarrass him with its support of the Republicau party. Ha ran thivgs to suit hiwself, and his *““organs” ground only the tunes he ordered and directed. 'Fho Btate had been carried by the Ronublican purty at the previous election of 1874 by 50,000 majority, thore was a lurge Republican majority in the Congressional delegatiou and in the Btate Legisluture, aud everything seemed favorable for a great Looan *“wachine™ triumph in 1874, Dut, under theks ausplicious conditions, Loaan's undisputed manegement of tho party resulted in o wost disastrous defent, and luss of tho Stnta by votes, n Toss of Loth branches of the Legislature, and tho olection of thir- teen Opposition Congressmen and only six Republicans, That wna ncampnign in wuich Looan's newspapor organs and himseif hiad everything their own wny, Iis personal presenco was conspionons, but * Long Joxza'" and Xoaan's personal organa do not refer to it as o ** trinmph " or * vindication " for thelr salary.grab leader, Thescheme to esiza Oarzsnr’s sent wns sup- pressed in the late campnign. The State wns carrled by the Republicaus on the strength of Tepublican devotion to sonud-monoy prineiples, and with, the goneral understand- ing that Senator Oaressy wonld bo olected as his own successor in case of Republican snccess. A mnforily of the Republican membors of the Legislatare were secured for Loaxx in ndvance of the election by secrot bargnins and promises that will nover be ful- flilod ; and very many of these members who votod for LoaiN in caucus wonld not have heen olected if their constitnents had boon spprised of their purpose. It is imperti- nent, therefore, for Loaax, or his Fiat con- cern, or “Long Joxws,” or any of tho salary- grab blowers and strikors, to claim the result nsinany menss n ** perponal triumph " for tlieir ringleader or a 44 vindication” of his enlary-geab record, 1ad his candidaturs and the * grab " doctrine been in fssue nnd the Topublicans committed to them, the State Legislature to-day wonld be Democratie by far larger majority than it is now Ropnb. lican; sud the eleotion of Loaax to the United Btates Senate, in the face of this fact, mny causo the Republican party to suffer in 1880 for this yenr's trenchery ns it suffered in 1874 for the sins of this snme rol of ma- chine-men and salary-grablers in 1878, PO A—— DR. SULLIVAN'S RESIGNATION. The resignation of the Rev. Epwanp Sur- LIvAN, Reotor of Trinity Episcopal Church in this city, was formally annonnced by him- solf to his Vestry on last Sunday. Ordinnri- 1y the resigoation of a clorgyman doos not ocension much surpriso elther to his congre- gation or tho public, na it ia very generally conceded that ho has beon called to a larger galary or to less work at the sama salary, the call varying in loudness according to the wanlth of the flock that wants him. If tho flock that hins him cannot raise tha tender of tho other, the call Is nearly nlways poremp- tory and in one dircetion. If it can roise it, then there are usually two enlls,—ono awny and one to alay,~nnd the minister swings like a pendulum betwoen them until the excess of wealth deterinines the jondness of the call and the oscillating minister is ot rest, No blamo of course nltaches to the minister. It is only human nature. It was all very well for tho Apostles to travel without mouey in their purses, They did not have to keop up any style, run auy strawborry-festivals, minister tolarga and fashionable churches, visit ox- pousiva old ladies, pay grocars, aud butchers, and tailors. A minister of thoe present day who should follow their instrnctions and onrry neither gold, nor silvor, nor Lrass in his purso, nor serip for his journey, nor coats, nor yet staves, and tako possossion of io bost house iu town, shaking the dust off his feot upon it if tho owner objected to taking him nsa gratultous boarder, would speadily bo the subjact of n writ de lunatico inquirendo, or would be writton up in the newapapard a8 a olerieal dead-beat. The Rev. Mr. Burtivan's resignation, howover, doen not taka the direction we have indicated, Ho resigns from a large salary to o smaller one, and is thus freod from the suspiclon of greod in the promiscs, Buch a resignntion, it must ba concoded, howavor, partakes of tho nalure of n rara atis, and ot onco suggosts that there must have boen somo vory prossing reasons for his step, since human nature placed botweon two piles of money always gravitates to tho Iarger one, Fortunately, Mr, BuLLivan ro- Hoves the publle curiosity by giving thom, Thoy aro, first, Lis unwillingness to labor in o churol that {s haompered with dobt fiom which unless *sho aronso sho will ultimate- ly.find herself in articulo mortis," espocinlly aftor Lo hns labored to reduco it without symosthy or help from his parishionors. Hoecond, tho *'restless focling” has beon growing on him over since aquartet cholr usurped tho place of the congregation,~a state of things which, whilo it doos not ro. flact npon the good pastor's plety, is a ead commentary on his musical esthetics, for if auything tends to make one **restloss " it ia tho distressing obaracter of the music when a congrogation lots itself out. Third, Mr, BorLivax is discouraged becousa the peoplo do not turn out to Sunday-night-meetings and to the prayer-meetings. In stating these reamsons, Mr, Suruivay, elthor consclously or unconaclously, has atated the threo groat obatacles which stand in the way of all our churches, and if all the ministors wora to follow the oxawmple of Mr. Bunuivan and quit for theso threo causes thero wonld be a goneral emptylog of pulpits all ovor the country, and thonsands of flocks would bo without a shoplierd. Ilow many churches ean lift up thoir hauds nnd solemnly swear thoy are out of dobt? llow many of them aro free from the clatches of lifu.in. suraueo companies or othor morciless credit- ors and graspiug money-londers? Ilow many church freasurors can make affidwvit that thore is no meortgags on the Luilding, or tho furniture, or tho bells ? Whero will tho unlucky shepherd who deserts his dobt. hawpered flock find another fold whose ledgers are not dark with debita 7 Wae come to musfe. Whero will Mr, Svrrivvax flud o chiurch whose choir 14 uot in a row with itself, aud whose congregation is not in o row with the cholr? ‘fhis has been an old quarrol from time immemorinl, It js tho chronio diffioulty of every church, If a quartet of angely with Genstes voices, accompanied by four archangels with Lizvy trumpets, wero to occupy the choir.loft, the congregation would fusist upon its right to sing, though it jrregular modulations aud choolie dissouances might juflict vory keon pain upon the heavenly hosts, it they lave ears for music. It bas long beon o mystery tous why o good old dencon, whose voico loug ago chouged to a shrill, squosking treble, and whose pacy is so slow and agou- izing that ho usually- comes out behind all the reat in fautastio variatious upou tho original melody, should want to sing at all outside of bis own hearthstone, Tho fact, novortheless, romains, sud the waddest featuro of it all is that thosws who are ¥ unmusical a8 calé aud a3 uuvoiced ay cows insist wost strounously upon display- ing their vocal torrors. Henco it happenod that in Trinity Oburch, when the experiment was tried of letting a clorus of the youug men and waidens lead the congrogution, that there wero wranglings and heart-burnings in the chorus aud atrocitivs in the congrega- tion that seut Mclody shricking through the air until sho was out of sight of the spires of Urivity, 'Fhe last causo assigued by Mr, Surttvax is ono that coucorns a large ma- Jority of churches in which poopls dg not like to como out twios day amil meetings are comparatively desertod, are many reasons {hat might bo eitcd for this noglaat, but it wonld involve tiresome repetition -to go over them all, as they have wmoro than onca been expanded upon in theso columns, It is not fair, howaver, to place the whole responsibility wpon the congre. gation, It is mot fair to sny that it is the veault of ‘‘an intense, sonl-absorbing, all-pervading Mammonism which i3 honeyoombing the religion of this peopla throngh and throngh,” and teave it there, This hns somothing to do with it; Lut, then, may it not Lo possible that the minister has somathing to do with it also? Wo throw this out as a hint that might be considered by some ona mors versed in chnrcl oparations and mora skilled in theols ogy than wo, Whilo we, thereforo, do not recogniza any- thing new in Mr, Sunnivan's causcs for his resignation, or anything that ho will not find anywhero else, wo nevertholoss beliave in tho sincerity of his motives, and undoubt- edly his whole congregation will join us in tho hopo that he will find an absenco of thesa provocationa in his new charge, and that his carcer of usofulness will bo in. creased and his ministratious richly Llest, There THE SALARY-GRAB--LOGAN'S DEFENSE. ‘Tha Inter-Ocean, tho organ, advocate, and defonder of every robboery and plunder of the PublioTroasnry, thus vainly and of courso falscly comes to the defense of LoaAw of abstrncting and retaining the 5,000 back-pay ‘valary. Iioro is whal it saye: ‘' Did the people of Ohto Indorsa the salary-grab aimply becanse they tivico or thres times sinca its passuge retnrmed Mr, GANPIRLD to Congrens, who reported and sapported 1t? Does Tix Tninuse indarse the menasure becauss it has always referred In tho most flattcring terma of pralss to Ganrienn and urzed s re-election? DId the people of Mas- rachueetls indorse It bocausa thoy twice re-elected Mr, Baxs, who voted for 1t? Did Mr, Mznins *approve the grab' when he urged Maweer, of Connecticut, for Benator, who 100k the money, or Uawear, of our own State. who did the same (hing? Did he do so when ho urged Bunenanp's renomination, or Foaren's, of Olifo, or any of (he 200 or 100 uthers who took the money? Ihd he manifest any uneasiness upon this ubject when Prosident laves appointed to onu of the must Important positions In Washington [Scuunz, we suppose,} amun identifled with tho pasence of the bill, or when ha appointed to varl ous oftices of truat o balf-dozen others notorionsly connected with the affalr? DId Jaxen and the Re- publican party fndorse the measures when these men were nppolnted? DI tho Demucrats indoras it when they returned Bavann to the Henate? Tho fact is, theso mon wera ro-elected or appointed to place in spite of theie record In this regard, and becanve tho prople aro not disposed to let an of- fenso of this kind remain forever a bar to a man's advancement. If thoy offended, they answered for It grievously, Gen. Looax voted for tho measure, o8 did many other good men,* Thio answer to all Lthat is plain, simple, and diroct. In Tur Cimcsoo Tnipune of Aprily 29, 1873, I3 a liat, furnished by Mr. BrinNen, then Tronsurer of tho United Blates, giving the namen of the Senntors and Represonta. tives who lad, up to that date, covered back into the Treasury tho money awarded to them by the Salary-Grab law. Oonspicuous among thoso who hind at that enrly data thus refunded the money aro the following names: Jastes A. Ganrixy, of Obto, Joszrr Iawrey, of Connectlout, J. B, Hawsey, of Illinolu, T% F. Bavanp, of Delaware, Canx Scrvnz, of Missourl, At a later date Mr. Bunonanp, of Illinois, paid the moncy into tho Treasury, as did Mr, Fosten, of Ohio. Gon. Baxgs, ot tho first election after he lind taken that money, was defeatod for Con. gross, na he was n sccond time, and ngain the Republicans of his district rofused to nominate him, Io is now like the other men who took tho plundor—discarded by all parties. An cditor of tho Inter-Ocean, then o mem- bor of Congress from Iows, took the back- pay, and did not caro to go back to Town. ‘With his 86,000 back-grab ho bought. an In- terost In tho Fint concorn, Ilo is now Dost. master of Olicago throngh Looax's procure. meont, and s one of Looax's * Literary Barean,” and 1naists that it {s *“menn " to be reminding peopla of the baok-pay swindle and of those who voted for it. It the Logislature of Illinols shall eloct Joun A, Looax to tho United Btates Sonate, it will be the only State in the Union in which the Republicans have re-elocted nny Senator who voted for that Lill and kept tho money. Baranp, of Delawsro, n Democrat, voted for it, but ho rofused the monoy, Wo believe he i the only Domacrat who voted for tho bill who has beon ro-clected, excopt o Seuator from North Carolina who will be bounoed at the next clection, s 1llinols is to be the only Btate in tho Union thiat indorses thot brazon robbery, ‘I'ho Ropublicans of Tinol nre mada to be the ouly Ropublicans in the Unfon who as- suino tho shame nud disgrees of that robbery by voting through thoe Loguslature for the man who lelped to ougineer the job, and who still retains the monoy, Looax's election, a8 a Ropublican indorse. mont of tho back-pay stenl, will hnng as a wuight upon the party in this Btate for years to coma. AmongthoDemocratsof Illinofs who got that monoy and has kept it is Jaxes O, Ronissox. Loaax 13 very enxious that the Domocrats shall “vindicato " Loth himsolf aml Ronixson by voting for Nopmvson for Senator, But no vindication of that kind will avail, No legislative whitewash can hldo the stain ner deodorize tho fouluoss of that act againat ofiloial honesty, e ———t— The sole of 4 per cont bonds sinca the 1at of Januury s somothing hmmense, 'Tho sales of Louds during the War wore nover mado at the prodigious rato the 4 per cents are uow golug off, Binco Now-Year's Doy the following aro tigures of subscriptions for 4 perconts: On— Subasriptions. Subacrlytions, dan, i $ 40 0,005, B335 57,050 Tho saly of bonda sinco the 24 of Junuury —a little mora than u fortuight ago—will re- duco the Interest of tho natioual debt more than a million and three-quartors of doltary. Bofora thls week end, tho sale of & per cents in Juuuary will exceed ono hundred millions, oud tho saviug of interest will be over fuo millions 8 yeur, Ou Saturday last the Socre- tury made another call for the redemption of 6-20 bends; this time for tweuty millions, tho {uterest on which will ceaso April 18, 1879, These enorutous subscriptions are enabling the Bucrotary to call in the remain. ing 5-20 Londs outstauding at a .speed ,their holdors littls dreamt of & yoar ago. ‘There is one dauger growing out of theso cuormous subscriptions for 4 per cents, sud that is they may causes Leivy exportation of gold. A g muvyof the 5-20s are held abroad, aud ouf 4 porcent bonds do not find much market in Europe—tho rute of intorest buing considered too low fora foreign seou- rity. Iu giving up their 5.208 they do not, therefore, exchange them for the new ds, bt reqnire coin or ity equivalent, A« long ng the balance of trade runs hoavily in our favor the enlled bonda in Enrope ean bo paid £3r with bills of exchange, but if the honda in Europo ara callad faster than the market furnishos produce drafts on Enrope, the goll will hava to be exporled, Btill, theve is not much probability that tho drain of coin to pay for bonda held abroad will bo heavy cnongh to disturb the stock in the Treasury and coming in from the gold mines, —ren THE NEW PENSION ACT. The Trensury Department estinntes tho amonnt of money that wihil be required to pay tho back-peusion gratuities under tho Bastrrox-Inaarts bill, which passed Congress lnst week, at thirly-eight mitlions of dollara, Bome exports who have baen figuring on it arriva at the conclusion that it will consume not fur from fifly millions to satisly tho re- quiromonts of the bill, The incronsed ex- ponso in the Ponsion Bureant to adfust the half.million or more clafms will amount to throe millions, and the Tnterior Depariment is aaking Congress to approprinto that sum to do tho new clerical work made necessarry by the bill, Those who have got on the ponaion roll during 1878 will have bnek pay to the time of their dischargo from the army, Some of them will recoive back ponsions for saventeen years; others who got on tho rolls in '77 or '76 will raccive back pensions for fittoon or mixteen years, and so on. Somo men or their heigs will draw £530, others 500 dr 81,000, and soma na high as §1,600, and sums of every amount between those extremes, . No provision lias yot baon made by Con- gress for paying the money. There aro threo propositions looking to that end : One is to suspend the Binking Fund and divert tho surplus revanues herotofora applied to roducing the public debt to the liquidation of thoso gratuities. Anolher proposition is to sell bonds and uso the proceeds thersof to pay the back ponsions, and nadd the bonds to tho natiotial dobt; the third plan is to re. stora tho tax on tea and «ctfeo and nse the proceeds to pay the gift o the pensioners, This would probably be the bost way of ralsing the monoy. The tax would not bo soriously felt, and it would avold tho neoes- sity of issning bonds and increasing the dobt or of censing to pny off any of the dobt by divorting the Siuking Fund from that ob. joot. . Largo sums of money will ba needed for sovoral dacades of yoara to sottlo back pon- salons on tho principle just established by Congresa, The thirty-cight ar forly millions now estimatad os needod are really only the firat installments that will ba required, Thousands of new names will be placed on the ponsion rolls each yenr until- after tho end of this contury, nnd ns timo runs the nmouunt of back pay will ever increass. The averago for now ponslonors added this yoar wlill take about 31,400 por man, ‘Thoso who go on ten years from now will got an average of 22,450, and thoso who aro admitted to the rolls twenty yoars henco will draw botwoen throo snd four thousand dollars aplece, It claim-agonts shonld demand G per cent n. tercat on all back pensions, thoy can carry such a bill easy ouongh, and that will add fifteen or twenty willions to the amount tho present not cnlls for, and double, troble, aud qunadruple tho back pensions of thoss who mny hercafter got on the rolls, as tho intorest after sixtecon years equala the nmount of the principal, A ressomable tax on toa and coffeo, stondily maintained, will perhaps yicld enough revenue to meet tho sonual demands of this tew Pension bill, in- cluding tho back intorcat that will be claimed and granted by the noxt Congress, If it should not bo sufilcient for both, then n part of the Binklng Fund can be taken to make up tho deficit. It is better to meot thia now addition to the oxpeuditures of tha Govern- meut by taxation than by solling bouds and incrensing the national debt, as that will in- crenso the interest, and, in the ond, the bonds will bave to be paid. Pay as you go 1s tho batter way in all such mattors, —e BISMANOK'S NEW PROJECT. Tho telegraph nnnounces that Prussin {e nogotiating n yenunciation by the Duke:of Cumberlond of his rights to Hanover in ro- turn for tho cession of Northorn Schloswig to hun. It will bo remembered that ot the close of the Hohleawig-Holstein war Prussin pushed hor conquost tao far north and solzed a portion of Bchleawlg that was largely in. liabited by Danos, tho Germau olement be. ing nlmost entirely wanting. From that lime’ to thiv, Danmark, feoling hersolf aggrieved,” lias made complamt aund more than onco re- quested its recesalon, It was, if we mistake not, provided by ngreemont that thore should Lo a reconstruotion and that the territory shiould be reatored. It was nover olaimed by Prussin that sho bad any right to it, but it wus selzed for military purposes aud be- «ouso Yrussia wanted certmn parts, It las over siuco boen a thorn fu the sido of Denmark, but Bisstanck has shown no signy of carrying out the sgrecment until now, 1Mo hos put it off on all sorts of pre. tenses, until now thero appears to be a good opportunily of waking tho transfor and securing substantial bonefits in retury, The futhor of the Duke of Cumberland was dotlroned, bis properly was corfixcated, ani his territory was aunexed to Prussia as tho penalty for bis tokivg sides with Anstrin against Prussia in 1866, There was nothing unnatural in the transfer, as there fa no moro differonce botwoen the people of Iavover sud of Prussin than there {8 botween the peoplo of AMalno and Vermont. The Duke of Cumberland’s claim upon the throuw, however, remnainy, and Royal clalnants never willingly relivquish thelr rights, exeept for o valuablo copsideration, Tho Duke of Cumberland recently murded the King of Doumark's daughter, and Busxtanck ovidently considers it will be a neat stroke of business to havo the Duke set up ns a Prince or Grund.-Duko of North Schleswi;y undor the patronsge of the King of Denmerk, and in return got rid of a bitterly-hoatilo terrt- tory, maka friondy with Denmark, and extin- Kuish the title of the Duke to tho Hano- verinu succeasion, which some day may make troublo fora future Ewperor of Germany, Asabird in tho boud is worth two in tho busb, the Duke would do well to sgll out in auover, where ho ia a nobody, sud set up in Bchloswlg, whore ho will ben somebody, As one good tuin deserves auother, it {s a little remarkublo that Bisaancx hos not adopted the same policy with regard to Lor- raine, Alsuce is & thoroughly German prove ince, as much &0 as its wvighbbor, Baden; but Lorralne §s and always has been Freuch, aud is hostile to its new relations e o part of the German Empire. By selliug Lorrajue back to Frauoe ond cs- tablishing tha Vosges Mountaius os the Ger- mau boundary, he would got rid of a Lostile people, meke friends with France, avd re- move a very serious cause of dissatisfaction ou the part of tho latter, France has the mouey, aud iy smply able to pay handsowely for the provinco und the railrowds whick (lermany bought, Meanwhile Gorman' is andly in noed of money, and tho prica aho would receive would go far towarda rolloving tho present distross and allaying the diseon- tont of her people. Bhould Drssanck sno- coed §n hia first trado and detsrmine to make tho second, he would do more for the pro- perity of Gormany and the penco of Europo than a dozen Dorlin trentios can accomplish, ey According to the Governor's messags, the financial affairs of Kansas have beon honeatly and veonomicsily managed. The roceipts fast year cxceeded the expenditures by 811,000, The pondea debt is tnt 81,182,000, and of this tho State holds $i03,000 in the Sinking and Behoot Funds, The valus of achool property is $4,527,000, and tho permanent School Fund amounts to nearly 1,430,000, The latest figures of the ruflrond busiuess In that reglon show a remarkable auvance over last year, and are con- frmatory of the cheerful outlook suggested by Gov. 87, Joux's message. Thus *Bleeding Kansas,* the child of strife, blondshed, and con- tentlon, takes her place as one of the most pros- perous States in the Unton, ~ Gen. SiierLps s not only the “hero of two wars,? but e Is a *'Senator from three States.” His career hins been remarkable. He was horn in the County of Tyrune, Ireland, In 1310, ang settied in Kaskaskiagin this #tate, in 1832, He has been a member ol the llinals ana Missourl Lemisintures, Auditor of the Btate of Ilinols, aJudeo of her Supreme Court with Douaras, her 8cnator in Cougress, a Scnator naleo from the State of Minnesota, a Major-General fn the war with Mextco and the War of tho Rebellion, Governor of Oregon Territory, and Commise sloner of the General Land-Offiee, ilo will now be ecleeted by the Missour! Legislature to A1) out the termn In the United States Scuate of the lata Mr. Boar. ————— Bince the fallure of tho largest wholrssle dry- goods house and the largest boot and shoe house in St. Louls, the newspapers of that city have hadl less to say about Chivago mortgages, The bont and shoe houso that yecently failed not oiily did the largest Lusiness of any catablish- ment of tho kind in 8t. Louls, bat, untll a few years reo, had miore trade than any similar trm in Chlcago. Tha falluro uf both houses (s casily oxplalned. It was duo to tha fact that Chicaro bad taken the cream of the trade inboth depart- ments—the trade that pald cash on short ime— away from 8t Louls, and had left the long- time, bad-pay trade to the Clity at tho Dridge. The latter trado was enough to ruln any mer- chant who bad the misfortune to sell it. ———— .. The rapld-transit business {8 on immense suc- cess In New York, i€ the roport of the Presl- dent can be relied on. The track of tho Klo- vated Nallrond Company ta thirty miles lony. Its trolus carry nearly 100,000 passengers o day, and run, ou an average, the enormous distanceof 27,000 miles,~more than the clreuit of the globe! Tho financlal showing s stil more favorable. On May 10, 1877, it had less than $10,000 In cash and owed $278,000. Now it owes not adollar and hus $763,000 In bank, The President snys the road will pay an annual tax to the City Treasury of from $25,000 to §30,- 000. The opporitlon on aceount of the racket mado by the cars lins almost subsided, ksl it The expondlturos at the Institutlon for tho Education of the Biind, fn Wisconain, the past year, have been §20,000, JTho average number of pubils in attendance was soventy-seven, and the total during the year ninety. The Trustees ask an appropriotion of $18,600 to onable them to mect the expenses of tho present year, At the Wisconsin Instituto for the Education of the Deat and Dumb 180 puplls were enrolled, and the average number (n attendance was 140, The expendltures wera $20,622.45, and the Trustees nsk an appropriation of $30,000 for the current year, e e = A woman has solved the problem which baffled the wits of Episox, of dendening tho nolsc of the New York elevated railways. She clavped o hand(ul ofsand between two shinglos, brought tho outflt to the mansgers of the road, and asked them how much that idea scemed to bo worth, Thoy touk time for reflection aud experiments, and sald it seemed to them worth about $10,000, and gaye her $1,000 down. But, at course, woman I3 nothing and nobody, hasn't gut theonstructive convolution in her braln, and oughtto stay at homo and mind the baby. ——————— The Cinclunatl Commerial thinka that Mr, Loasy must haye had a rush of words to tho braln {mmcdiawely atter his nominotion 1n cau cus; otherwiss hie wouldu't have used together words s0 ncarly synonytious as * forco and power,” “encry and strength,” “unity and harmony.” It ought to bo understood that, when nobody else Is around to weop for Loaay, the shade of LiNDLEY MunnaY will do so, It there Is & purgatory, and Lixpiny Munnay s there, wo fecl sure ho puts n all his worklug hours reading LuuaN's spocches, A ——— It 1s a little curlous bow & man onco fu offico contlnuen to hanker after the same forover- more. A Btato officer longs to be Governor, then Congressman, then United Btates Benator, und then a forcign Minlster or a Cabinet ofl- ver, Ofllce-sockiug has become an epldemls fn tho United Btates, and thoussnds of citlzens who were once competent aud worthy persons are converted Into beggure for place, loufers, wire-pulicrs, nud worthless follows who aad uothing to the wealth of the Commonwealth, — . ! The report "of the Rallroad Commisstoner of Wisconsin showas that unly ulnety-one mbles of new roud have been coustructed fin that Biate during tho lust year, The total nuwber of miles now in operation {s 3834, lncluding nlncty-four miles of narrow-gauge trock, The total number of puescngurs carrlcd wos 2,420,023, un fucreass of 476,007 uver lust year. The tons of frelght carrfed were 8,443,490, an Increase of 414,109, Of the whole number of passengers carried only two wers killed and two injured. e —— “John Bull™ 1s temporarity stopping at a firat-clasa hstel In New Yofk, He writes to one of thu newipapers that lls uarrow babits of thinklug prevent bim from admiring tho way younye fadics have of pickiug thelr teoth In the Sutevator " or “itt,” and tho way youog men huve of smoklng clgareties ln the sawe placo. **Juhn Bull " §s hard to sult, Ity only a con- cesslon to his prejudices that nakes Hotel young Jadiea plek thetr tecth out of the dluing-roow, © ———— e Ll wholevalo e arzrevaio of 030,000,000, 8 ayainat A5 G0 1 1677, ~ah lucrease & Vou, VOO, , VOO, uring the year of $5, - Thu above f{s clipped from ono of several shects, the proprictors of which coolly appro- printed the annual statistics of Tue Cuicago TRIUUNE a8 thelr own. e The new Senator from Conpecticut, Mr, Pratr, bus ouly a local reputation, He has been lu both Mouses of the Leglstature, sod Bpeaker of the Huuse, serving with erediv in every ofilce ho hes huld. “The New York Tribune suys e {3 3 man of ablility and convie tlon, uud his chiet computitor pald bim & very warui tribute In she moment of defuat, e —— The Firat Assietaut Fostmaster-Uencral has written to Mr, Briss, Geueral Agent for Ept- sox's Electric Pen aud Press, that the suliog of the Departwent requiriog electric-pen matter to pay letter yotes has peen suspended uuttl Con- presscauact, A bill s now before Cougresz Tatiug olectric-pen toatter a8 third class, aud 1t will probubly puss, ——— The Little Rock Democrat says that Bonator EpuUsps 15 “vogazed fn bullding two or thres Trofan horses,”—which means that be fs about ta play the game of “irue luwardaess on the Sulld Bouth, ——————— The now Seuator from Colorado, Prof. N. P. i, beld for tnany years the Chalr of Chem- tstry tu Brown Unlversity, Providonce, R. 1. He woved 1o Colorudu somo time sgo to take chinrze of Jarge smelting-works, and has bee: ever sice promiuent o volitla, Il experion. machenist has enabled bm to bt ) oo in making eombinatious and rmlurmunvfrma; elements. Wo hope ho will try his hand gy thy honorable the Republican Senator frun N York when he gets to Washington, Sl —— Newloundiand was promlscil 81,000,000 ¢ e fishory award bofore the nwan? was madg, 4 that sum has been placed to the credp ul' the Prosince In tho Bank of Enzlaud, T iy o used to buill a rallway across the fsland, Whay are those poor injured flslicrmen Zolie o .i about it} This Is worse tian Crodit-Mobier " ——— i ‘The Now York Z'ort says tiat Stanrey Mir. Tnews oazht not tobe made a Juilze heegy he losn’t *‘tho Judiclal temperament,» B H wo'd ke to know whother he nasn't decided : both sides of .every question that hag come bo-‘ fore the Stnate. If ho hasn't “yye Sudidyy temperament, who hast e —— ** Fow dlo and none raslan.” used fo g 4y in reqard to tha Judges of the Uniteq Statey Bupreme Court, Tho story In now polng the rounds of the press that old Judge Crarropy #tlil holds to his purpose that *he'd bo d—g I he would either die or resign until thers wyg s Domocratic President.” o ———— ‘The great estate of E. B. Wann, estimateq i, be worth $10,000,000 when he diod a fow Fern aince, I8 now declaren insolvent, The (raphe asks Innocently, * flow many lawrers have gop rich trying to’ find out exactly how inuch 1hiy property fs worthy" e — It 18 trie, Loaaw, with bts $5,000 1n Dacket, voted to repaal (ho law for the fulur, i dld not vote to make the reponl rotrosetive. g voted with his poclets full of plunder, and by kept that money cver sinces o ———— When tho salary-grabber of tho J.-0, hns [ scurrillous slush to nddress to the editor of Tz TiinuNg, why don’t hosign s own namety 1t, Instead of akulking behind “Jou iy xa"{ ——— Wanp Lasoy, ex-blographer of Taxcouy and ex-Marshal, savs that * Gath ! faq 4 cardfal prostitute.” 1t tha New York Trdey will ouk tnto this efpber, 1t may discover sone tuing, The malaria aboat the Capital, tho Washing. ton Jiepnidican declares, i caused by nof dnogs ing Jmpure water, e —— POLYGANY. A Gentllo View af the Divino Institutten, Sarr Laxg, Jun! 20.=The mecunz of thy Antt-Polygany Soclety to-dny ndopted the ful. lowing resolutlons: 2esoiced; That wo have appeated to anr canntry. wonen to Jonn us 0 urgime Conreeds 10 paes a 10 onauly tne cotirtn to areeat wnply 1ho frher spread of polysumy. 18 was not e Gentlies, s tho Utah Legtalatnce, commd atnost colireyof Polygumiate, whicn took tie pignt of duwee siesy from Utal wives, Tuo Qontilu ina Moruon oy bury wwas but shubbily compeneated foe by veauing the' elective franchive. Voo Antl-Volycannts of Ltaty, ol o the minonty, would be uiragte if boy damitent 1o aillict the Mormons or rob tien, 0 Gonttles have ounid for or erovted what they awi b Utall, 1o minme ey have bwonty anlhos invested. and ure ba tnterested oa thy Moraon i the maintenancs of persunal rignts, Biuco tue uinonttement of thy decllon of thy Suprense Coust 10 Lhe Noynolds cade, there are 1o wlnd o Utai of o chauge of senthuent i repaed 10 polypatny. Conzress i ‘::‘hcd. and the “Court that sistaned, I nw, are denounced oy all Murmon edilor: proachiers, and the delormination to ndh polygamy s almost univeesally oxpressed. I, unidor oxisting circunistances, Congeess ahoal] Erant amtieaty 10 Lhy polyitamlste, or udjouru wiz. wat action, 1t would be regurded oy tiio Mopmo: oz the trlumph of UGold sud bis salnts orer the enemicd, d of granting Amucatr fo pet on the more prostse ol ohcalence in tho fi tiire, we aek Congross o onfores thy esisting pe libition to polygamy m futuee, 'Ihe diiculty o onforcing the l4w arisos from the imnossibilityof wecuring legal evidence of vlural marziaces, st from tho fact that juroes, grand and petit, i 1y polyysmaus, “Lot Condress provide tht nall be excludod from tho Jury lists, andtas Poiyzimune turriaues muy be proved by the s evidance as {8 recolved in civll acitons, oud cogns could at once blscs poiyeatuy n procexd of ulliass extinction, whech de ull we sui, Such o law coald uut be adused, as it would bo entirely witnla control of tho Government, Thuw can Co oofurce the cbandonment of ‘ml gamy, and au even tho appearanco of hareh froatmient of th Mormons, " Those polygamous delowatcs char thut dram-sgelling, deani-drnking, prostitatioe, and kindred vices wera nikuown in Ulah previvé Lo the advent of the Uentles, whon it a matterof ublie notorlety thut lingoam Young owael i Furizo Unetiory who.h aupied tio Cialy Sslotsseh many outeders with w that 7 Instita: largely in Intoxle a well-known fact that at s meotlng pricathood, prestded over by Jrighnm 2 evary man confessod humulf gulity of adulterq outslao of his yolygamous relations, and that Morinoen proachers publicly lament the ¢rest nue: bur af illugitiuiate birtue in puroly Moruion seitle wents, - P AGRICULTURE. A Meotlng to Told at Springfield for the Purposo of Forming u Slute Assoclatlon 8pecial Dispatch to The Tridunt. SrriNorieD, ik, Jan. 20.—A mecting o delegates from cach ageicultural assoctation o tho Btate will be held at tho roomas of the Stau Bourd of Aurlculturs this week for the purput of organizing an Agrleultural Union, The ob Juets proposed for the Unton are simila o those af the Slate Busrd ol Agriculture, witt which It fe expected toact In fursierivg thesr ricultural fnterests of the State. ‘Lo meetlt will boein Wednusdoy morning. The programmye pieparcd for theso meetho 18 as follow: Waednesday morning—Organization, Alternuon seasion—Discussiun, Subject: **Af rlcultural Fajru: Thele Proper ‘Ovjuct snd Mis agoment," To bo oponed by the flon. D, I, Gili ham, President Stata Honrd Agricuiture, Evaning session—Address by D J. M, Greporsy Tewont of Hlinots T nive ‘Ihuraday mornim BRSimmed by donathan Teraime of G 0 oponed by dus , of Culc Alrl‘::'nwu,lunmn—- "Tie Bost Muthods of Mo nfucturing aud Proserving Dairy U'roducts, wils Pruper Lawa for the Insnection of the Name,™ T e openud by Dr, J, ‘Feft, of Eigin, Evening sesston—Elcction of ofilcars, miscels nuous businesy, and discassion. s Friday morniny, Jan, 24 —~Discnsston, Subjed: stPublic lloade: the 3Most Encient Mode o Workiug Them,and the Laws ) wary ‘Iecvie. In responso to applications for roduced farg tho Chicake & Alton, the 8t. Louts & Soutls western, and the Wabash Hond have inforsed Becretury Fisber that they will carey detecudt at ono and one-titth fore for the round urip, 8% the Indianapolls, Bloomiugton & Westeruwilld) the saima for ve cents per mile. An cffort le bolng mutde to vbtain the neer sary funds to sccure the location of thoSult Fairot Bprivetleld for the next two vears mooting ot tue stockholders ol the Sauao® County Agricaltural Board will be held toad row to cousider the subject. CREDIT-MOBILIER. This Famous Political Comatory ltourrectd In thu Courts of Massachusetis Ayectal Dispateh (o The Trioune, Bostoy, Jan. 20.—In tho equity session & tho Bupremo Cours to-day, a fuatter come 8 bofors Judge Soule pertainiog to the Crodi Mobiller, aristig out of traussctions with 19 Unlon Paciic Rojjroat Compuny. A sult o law and one fn_cquity are now pendiug bt the courts of Mas:a:lnsctts tonchime the uer inzs of the Credit-Mobitier nn the Unlut : cffic Roady and the question yalsed to-day ¥ on npeullon by the executurs of the estate d Oakes Aes sud a savines-bauk ln Uulllh:»’lk:‘ to be mude parties to ung of the Wb It wppears that, on Aug. 4, 1w 1Y Unloa Pacitle Company guve s vote for n 000,000 to the Credie-Mobiller, gud the la.ir subsequently broughit suit and obtajned "::a- went_on satd vote. The Unfun Pacitle CoF pany fled a blll I equity aud obtaincd 88 Juncon restrutulug the Credit-Mobiiier 105 enforcing its Judguicnt, and In May, 13T A Uould, who waa Jureely Interested tn the Lfli” Pacific, and had a controlllog futereat (803 Credit-Mobitier, obtalued, 1t s allewwd, oo o ¥4 to dimiss the suit of the Union l‘nw agolust the Credit-Moblller. An lulflm ton 10 provent the dismissal of ‘the sutt = obtalned frum tho cuurts of Penpsylvault, 350 ay the sane question 1s now pendii s llju chusotts, the executord of Oukes Awmed 3000, sayinis-hank wsk to be made partivs mcug{m of tue Unlon Pacille guinst the Credit-3103 S oo tho eground tuat they represeat ""S‘:nd 5,000 and 8,000 shiarvs, and thac Juy Guil e others aro trylug o defraud thiew ulv % righte. ‘They wlen pray chat tho Judoy inst the " Uuiou Patifle un the bt 5 004,000 be eoforced. Judge Souie losue ary fnfunction, and au order of B9 W March 1, ary 10 s