Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 28, 1879, Page 4

4 THE CHlCAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870—TWELVE PAGER. Thye Taibae, TERMS OF SUDBSCRIPTION: bittarnoss shown by Mr. Conxtana snd his | thoarmy, and the eivilian work is dononn- | sa the fall from New Orleans to the anti-Administeation friends, Senator Tror- | dor so loose a syatom that the demnnd for | mouth of the river, which is a distance of auax tonched upon what should be considered | police work is alaost constant. As tho ci- | 120 miles, This steep fall will lower the & very essontinl point in tho controversy | vilians caunot do the police work, and will | flood-angle and necessarily produce a greater when he declared that the Committes on | not do their own work as they should, it fol- | velocity of current, which operntes at oue Commerco had not made the investigation [lows as a matter of coume that | and the same time to keop down the high- ealled for in Becrotary Burnsax's lettor om- | the Indisns caunot be managed withont | water mark and keep tho chanuel clear of bodying the charges against Gen. ARTRUN, ihe services of the War Dopartment, hence | bars. In proof of this, Capt. CoworN oligs and that the Senato had the right to insist | the army is constantly called upon o correct | not only the Bonnot Carro ontlet, but varions that such an investigation be made Lofors the grievances oceasioned by the mismannge- facts from the Army Engineara’ report touch- voting npon the mominations. Tho fight is | ment of the civilians. 1t somo system can | fng the floods of different yonrs that tend to 10w an opon one, Senatorial precedent hav- bo inaugurated which will obviate the neces- corroborate thin view of the caso, which, for ing been met aside by removing the bar to | sity of emploging cither Department at all, | the rest, in }hs most natural and obvious. publicity, and the poople will judgo of the | wo mny then hope for n simplification and | Tho case cited by Mr. Ertasin regard to the morits of the case. responsibility in managoment which will lead | Red River is not in point, even if correctly - to good rernits. We believe such a ystem | stated, becanso the two rivera nro not at all Ex-Secwtary Hasrox Fism, In the in. | canbe put in operation by trenting the In- | compnrablo a8 to body of water or force of tereating intorview with a New York 7ribune disns as citizens, not as foreigu nations. The | curront, reporter printed elsowhero, explains how whola tribal systom should bo broken up. We have been sccustomod to opposo the Gen, Gnaxt found the funds to take a | They shonld be collected and placed on | mud-smbankment schemo on tho ground Earopenn trip. About the timo he left roservations and mode to sdopt civilized | that it involves an outlay of 50 to 100 mill- offico hie speculated in California mining | habits in dressing, cducntion, nnd Iabor. | fons of dollars for an oxperiment not war. stocks, and clenred $25,000 in gold by the | Thoy o not noed naturalizing. Thoy were | ranted by scientifio deduction. As a matter operation, This $25,000 he &t once set oltizons hicre befora wo wero, but they do { of fact, howaver, thore Is mora reason to apart to defray his traveling exponses, and need to be dismounted, disarmed, and set to | treat the levee syster na o demonstrated %o will come back when it is spent, o has work, and made to go to school, and obey | failluro than as an experiment, and been 8o gencromsly troated sineo he went | the laws like whito citizens. They should | this renders tho proposed oxpendilure abrond thint in nll probability a largo part of | no longer bo congiderad aa wards of th Gov- | still moro outragechs, The history of the his original fnnd is still nnspeut. Ho may ernment, with the privileges of annuities,nnd | loyoe system dntes back as far ns 1818, when official cateérs of Collector AnTaun and Chiof-Deputy Lyproxea, We nasame now that the Lrpecxsr caso will he Iald bofore the Bonate, iand with it the statement that ou its submiskion to Collector Antrum that officlal noglected or refusod to take action upon it by the removal of Lrproxen. To thia caso we, ‘enrnestly requost tho attention of Bonatorm. We snbmit (1) that it is con- clusive, on ita face, of the guilt of LYprcxzR, and (2) that AnTmon's failuro to act in the promises ‘is equally conclnsive ot lesstof incapaoity equivalent to oriminal carcless- ness in regard to the publio intereat. | em——— ure, The genoral reduction of the rate of | wnited with the Ropublican bolters tom interost comsoquent upon tha with- | elcction of Mart IL Canrxnren, ond ,\‘,,: drawal of all Govorument © per | CAManox was chosen. (Gien. finice nw;ed: conts, and the snccessful negotintion | lav offica ln Milwaukee I 1870, bat, not mewing of 4 peraonts, will be of even groatar re. mz':n‘::‘:m;:fl:‘:g:":"& 'P?"" abandoned 2 = liet o tha mnss of the people in thelr per. | pucen oS L0 Sopedeiin da Le, sonal, corporate, and manicipal debts, The | Gen. Braca ls In the habit of m.’lkln; (:..l‘l,‘f 'i“ averaga rednction of interest on the private | He made the most serious ons of his pq;]?“"' sud public debt of the aountry, even if the | lfo two years ago when, a8 Chalrman of E: rednotion ba of only 2 per cant, would ba o Committes on Resolutions in the Democrayy relief of groat aggregate amonnt. Itwould | State Convention, e reported the softest king be equal to nearly $200,000,000 a year. It "“'““""“"::d"mh""' und by his zeal g, wonld be leaving the products of Iabor to ;:r::; t:plunlm:.n‘;l. TL:;T:;&"‘ In getting by g8 ancd traditho that amount in the hands of the producers. | on the currency question and encoura . It would bo equivalent to that much ad- | fiat Junacy. Iledid this with the hope of! :n(cl[l: ditlonal substance rotained by the indastrial izg '2" are;nl‘v:ek vote; m:‘l tho latter ru(uué labor of the land. Tho issue of 4 per cents take the bait and adhered tu their own cand hias begnn this work of the general reduction | dstes. He 1s not the sort of man to remaln hflt of the rates of interest; and as the work ’c‘l‘“?:l’%g’fi“' "l": “l‘l“" d“"’:’ the Southern progresses, and the wholo bonded debt shall | o¢'ypo ::“".':: eh.:‘!: N st '|:||II’; 8 secimen Lo converted into 4 por cents or oven bonds | rectiomrlast spring just before the Mf];::’ d of lees intorest, then tho intercst value of | of Congress, which was noticed at some |.'::f,‘ monoy will of necessity so decline that the | in'Tra’TninoNS at the time. If Bragcols whole porsonal, and munieipal, and corpora. il tion debt of the country will find ready in- vestment at §, 6, or 7 per cont. No groater ported by any considerable number of yiy Northern party sasociates, ns now scems probs. financinl relief could bo devised or nccom- plished than this, NY MATL—-1N ADVA 1)y Edition, one yaar. ATt OF 8 year, per mont mfl: difion: Literary aod el £pecimen coples sent free. Give Post-Uttice address tn full, Inclading Blate sad County. Kemittances may be msde either by draft, express, Ros-Office order, of in registered letter, at our riak. TERWS TO CITY AUBSCRIBERS. Tislly, Ectivered, Sunday excepted, 23centa per week. Daily, delivered, Sunday included, 30cents per weeks Addrers TIE TIIRUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-ss., Chicago, Ht. Qrders for the delivery of Tux Trinuxe st Evanatan, Englcwood, and TiydoPark left {n the counting-rooum ®illrecelve prom ntio THE FOUR PER CENTS A KIND OF CUR- RENOY, Tho wonderful salo of the Govornmont 4 per cent bonds marks a rovolation in Amori- ean flnsnca aud credit. The negotintion of this lonn ia unprecedented in the history of this counlry. Those who remember whon 6 per cent bonds—interest and principal psys- Llo in gold—sald at less than par in depre- cinted paper will nnderstand tho wonderful change that haa takon plnco in the national credit. Oo the 1st of Janunry specie-pay- monts wera legnlly resumed. From the 1at to tho 25th of Jauuary, both inclusive, the mmfimz BRANCIT OF_I’ICES. ux Cateano TRIRERE hix establlsied brarch offices for the receipt of subscriptions and sdvertisements as tollows: T TORK—Ttoom 20 Trisune Dolldlog. F.T.Mo: AUDEN, Mansger, TARIE, France—No. 10 Rue de 1a Graoge-Datellere. . Manirn, Agent. TP e American Exchange, 40 Strmnd. ble, there will be a Democratic cotifion lo Cop. gress before the fourth of March that wilt pe- somewhat amusing to all disinterested spects. tors. Uen. BrAca has wisely planted himaelt li d troaty stipulntions to fall back | the first 1 tructed. ‘Tho system suberiptions to the 4 per cont lonn smount- 1, yylgar phrase, Sonator Laatam, of gn':?:.:"l:wf{"’tlfim‘fi:m:;u':5 Ullh Hon R Tinve to stay abroad o long time to get rid of | supplies, and troaty stipulations o o first lovoe wna constructed. Tho B ? y i , to-wits nlon mey raky F. GILLI6, ARent. Y 4 Re A .| ed to $132,000,000. In the same time tho n&;‘f‘;,?nigféc% ?m n“rmflm ) it. However, wo fanoy it will be gone, and | npou. They stionld bo doalt with as En-. | was extended, firat nt tho cost of planters, Tasery lx' 1 4.: atled f £130,000,000 of G per Mississippi, bos taken ‘“the rog off the [ In the Bouth during the Rebellion, and that u e will be back in tho country by 1880, gland deals with ber African coloniats, who | then under compulsion, then by s combina- aro overy way ns flarco and mnch | tion of Statas, and finally underfluuv]om& -Arrenrs . | mora ignornnt than our Indlans. En- | mont snbsidy of 26,772,870 ncres of lan w:';".:?::,“.:;t‘:f:,’;:;:::a o' ‘1:‘,‘11',;";‘;, gland mnkes of them Crown subjects, | (granted in 1850), uatil in 1868 the Chisf and the immediate demnnd that will be mado | 884 gradually assimilates them to her civili- | Enginoer of the Army reportod, ‘! The river upon Congress*for immongo appropriations zation. We havo no difficulty with our In- | was lavied, with fow exccptions, on both to meet the requirements of this new law, diane In the territory set apart for thom. | sides, averaging four foet in hight, from will considerably impair tho prospects for They have rapidly snd clicerfnlly nrllnptcd Capo @irardosu to Now Orloans.”. Theso carrying through the Bouthern subsidy the forms of our citizenship, and, whilo sc- | *mud walls," ns Capt. Cowpey calls thom, schomos, and espeelally the pet projocts of cepting its privileges, have not complainod of | cost huudreds of milliona of dollars, first and thie Texas Pacific Railrond nnd tho Missis. | 1® pennltics, The army 15 not noeded thero, | last. Their operation, os long o8 theysorved sippi mud-baok improvement, While thers and in tho way of self-government thoy nre | any purposo, was not meroly to 7also the is o prospoct that tho * pension.arrenrs” alrondy farthor advanced than somo of thoir | water but to lengthen the duration of the will exhaust $150,000,000 of tho publie white brothren in the Southern States. | flood. Jligh water lasted 100 days st New monoys, far in excess of the current surplus | When once brought under the taw and mado | Orleans 1n 1858, and only 172 days in 1840, ,."w,"', nd requiring & matorial incronse to feol that they will be punished for its vio- | though the leves systom was much mora in the national debt, no Congressman who lation ns whito citizens are, and that they | elaborate in the Inttar thon in tho former has tho smnllost rogard for the Government will havo to labor and earn thele living liko | year. In spite of the vast expendituros crodit or hopes to maintain a specio bosis white oltizens, there will Lo no opportunity | made in tho past, which have failed to give will lond his nssistanco to any further for the scoundrels of the Indinu Ring to | the deslred relief from the floods, but have deoplotion of the Treasury or pledge of the stenl, and no need of th army toact s a | given wny to them generally, the United Government's liability, ‘The Pension-Bonus police forea. Htates Government is now asked to invest at tnw will bo a stnmbling-block in the way of | THE TWO0 PLANS AGAINST OVERFLOWS "“’: ";: ':r;gg:flh’“:l :‘;dul;:::"\m! touch all subsidies, and in this capaaity it will be OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. mote; P“b P wolcomed even by thomo who woro opposed | Mr. Etuis, of Loulsians, recently nddress- 1f tho outlot scheme bo regarded simply as to its passoge on its own merits, Conserva- | od Congress i favor of the Mississippi Levee | A2 “p"flm::“' thon it s one whioh will tive non, not influenced by the interests of | bill, which starts with n demand for an ap- cost only $250,000, for that sum slone is de- the demagogues or the appeals of the claim- | propriation of about §4,500,000 on au em. manded as a requisito for tho oponing of n; agents, have opposed this gratulty measure | bankment scliemo, the ultimate cost of which “““‘““\l into Lake Dorgne (or Mississipp a8 o rockless nod unjustifisble assanlt on the | is beyond all cstimate. The Louwvillo Sound, which will serve to_test tha outlet taxpoyars, but nearly all such persons will | Courier-Journal, in favor of this a8 woll gs | Bystem. But it must bo admitted that, in unite in giving proference to a division of | 8l other schemes for the squandoring of the light of experience, tho outlot syatom has this amonut of money among the men who | Government mouoys for sectional advantage moro to commend It than the lovoo system, raorifiond hols bonlths and tho helm of thoso | of the Sonth, selects n pssogo from Mr, | if eithor bo rogarded ss experimantal. The o Inid down thelr Ttves, in Lelplng to sava | Evtas' spaoch which, as it evidontly belioves, | Oxporionco is that lovecs ralse the waler, the Union, over every schoma for subjecting | prescnta the strongest argument in bohalf of overflow the country, and retard tho current, the publio revenues to the plunder of con. | the embankment system. = We subjoin this | While outlets lower tho Water, incronse tho struction rings. extraot, thoreforo, as A fair basis for examin- velocity of tho current by ateepor falls and Lush,” baving given notico that at on early dny he will futroduce a bill providing that Benntors shnll be furnished at the publio expenso each with a private secrotary. The gentleman from Missisalppl is_ evidently nothing if not high.toned and sumptuous, ond is dotermined to sdd still more style and importance to his office. Having a pri- vate racrotary, it will bo necessary of conrse to have an offica and n janitor for him, Then, to presorve tho unities and not appear 1moan, tha secretary should have a clerk, and the clerk should have an assistant, and there should be a messenger to do do the running, Thus each Benator wonld have a little court about him of which he would be tho head, and would live in style and state like the old Knights with their squires and retainors, It does not seem to have occarred to Bonator Lasan, however, that there aro 500 gontle- men in the other Ilouse who already look upon tho Senators ns too airy and important; that these 800 gontlomen of the lower crust will have the voling of the approprintion for the gentlemen of the up- per crust; and that those 800 will sce the sevonty-six aristacratio gentlemena good ways farther before they will vole them a ponny for any such nonsense, unless they can have tho same priviloge. Aa they have sense onough to know that such a raid upon the Treasury would bring down a popular harri. cane upon their heads, thero neod be no fear that they will ever vola a cont nutof tho Troasury for the payment of BIr, LAsaw's retinuo of soribblers. Tho only way for Mr. Lasran to get his privato sacrotary isto pay him out of his owa pocket a umall stipend, man s acheat and a fraud who naks to bere. imbursed for the loss of property beesuss of his loyalty. cent honds, 'The demand for the new bonds continues undiminished (yesterday the sales exceeded £33,000,000), and will not probably decllue so long as thero aro any such bonds to bo issued. A year ngo, on the 1st of Jan- uary, the ontstanding bonds embraced : Gper centa $748, 007,200 G per centu 703, 200, 650 445 per cenl ), 100, K0 74,000,000 Al McoVicker's Theatre. Madiron ptreet, detween Dearborn and Btate. *Two Women." ——— A correspondent of the London Globe I of the opinfon that the attompts to assassinate Kings and other high personages which hayg 8o often been made of late, 1n Most cases ary the result of a mania which Is certainly physo- logiesl and vot polltiesl. This theory s con. firmed to some extcnt at least by the leter writtca by one Kart Avaust MUNK to the QGovernor of Finland, and printed in the Fis- lander Zeitung. Mr. KAnL assuroes the Qovemor that ho I8 plagned with an irresiatible tempta. tion to kil Im," and declarcs with the most admirable candor that ho came to Helslng. fors for that IMudable purpose. **In the hop of finding = favorable opportunity,’” he goes on tosay, 1 have waylald and watched you, but the opportunity has not yet occurred. Inmy better moments I resiat this violent temptatios, and Itell you what a aangerous person Iam, It your ownp lile is dear to you, send your offlcers and arrest e, forif I meet you,as | belleve in Gob, I would stick at nothing.” The police went to the house designated (o the let. tereand found a crazy young man of 18 prano ing abont the room with n daguer In hils belt, A clear case of ‘' emotlonal fusanity,” no doubt. —— Haverly’s Thentre. Tearborn street, comer of Monroe, *'Around the Wvorld in Eighty Days." ilooley’s Thentre. Tandolph sirect, hetwveen Clark and Lasalle. En- gagement of the Eoglish Opera Company. AR M. (8. Pinatore.” 4 per conts. Thero are now $337,000,000 of 4 por cent bonds dssned in exchange for an equal num- ber of ¢ per cont bonds, Thera are still out. standing and uncalled ¢ per cent twonty-yonr bonds to tho sum of $282,736,350, These TDonds aro not subjeot to eall, but fall due in 1881, They may be purchased with the pro- coeds of 4 per cont bonds, Of tho 5.20 Londs, $218,000,000 ara yot uncalled. These comprise nll the G per cent bonds of the Governmont, and amount to $500,000,000, bonring $30,000,000 of interest. At the prosent rate of demand, or anything like it for 4 por cont bonds, all of them subject to call will be converted before the oxpiration of tho presont year, Afier theso have been disposed of, then the whole issua of old & per conts may bo converted into 4 per cents. This will loave tho aixcsof 1881 and the fives of 1881 to ba changed into 4 per conts. So that 218 millions of. 5-20 and 19¢ millions of 10-40 are nll the bonds that can Lo * colled” or foll due for two years and upwards. There ia littlo doubt that they will all bo called in long beforo that time, The sauo of 4 per cent bonds, and their absorption by our own people, do not seem to have priduced noy contrnction of tho currency, mor any reduction of the Academy of nfusle. % Tialsted ntreet, between Aladison and Monroe. Va- /ety entertatament. Hamlin's Theatre, Clark street, opposite the Court-House, Variety en+ ertsinment. Hersliey Munte-fTall, Madison street, opposite McVicker's Theatre. Dala- Brega the Wizard, —_————— TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1870, —_—————— Macoupin County, Dlinois, has a rathor aemarkablo facalty for getting itsclf in the newspapers. Just now it is n cnso of mis- takon identity that brings Macoupin into prominence, Thoy have bLrought a man 4,000 milea—all the way from Olympia, in “Washington Territory, to Carlinville—only o discover on his arrival that ko is the wirong man. A London correspondout of the ANafion, speaking of tho Royal famlly of Great Britain, makes theso observations: After all statenients are made, the monarcy bas #tiil a great hoid upon the aflectlonn of the pougle, The people take grreat comfort in its Royal Lnnlp Tha loye of social grenlnces i3 extraordinadiy strong in England, and the loyal family sopesly voty conventently 1o this sentiment. Peonle In the fmmense abscarity of (Bt middic-cians which con. stttuites the bulk of the English world like to fec! that they aro related In soina desrea to someing that Is soclally great, They cannot preiend bl they sra ralated to Dnkes and Karia aud people of that sort; but thoy are oble to cultlrate & —ee The Comptroller’s estimatoto the Common Conncil of monoys required to meot the ex- ponses of tho City Government during tho curront yoar.wero submitted Inat ovening. 1Mo finds that a material reduction can bo certaln sense of * being related 18 ih moade upon tho expenditurcs of 1878, and e ing the relative merita of the ‘*ewbank. groater dynamio forco, aud thus avert the | yongy aynilable for busiuess. The 6 per which wo believa oven thon the hircling {Q;.;«:l" f:'v‘r:lilyl; "“;K‘cr:::l‘ mar, ol ot u'::"‘:; shapes his recommondations nccordingly. THE INDIAN PROBLEM. ment” and the * ontlet ” systems: * overflow. With this oxporiouce, it 8 ob- | 4oniehave beon sent bock to this country in would find difficulty in earning. Mr. Laxan, | mombers of tho Pecr: ay do 1o more than that; Bome of tho cxtravagant Departmont esti- The report of the four nembersof the | **Idesiretoappesl tothe experience of every viously wiser for tho Government to risk smntes hava also heon cut down heavily. Joint Committeo of Iho two Houses of Con- ;x;‘n'-;;gh; h;fl 'fi"':fi":’.‘.’p::f' '.';":,’,’,‘,",';3‘,’,';},‘,'(‘."2} wo,wflhfor tho‘ms:lgo testing tho outllut gress, favoring tho travsfor of the manage- o S e el i it ey systom than to visk $100,000,000 to test tho mont of tho Indinns from tho Toterlor to tho | Sondiusively that wherevor an ouslet ortark, wher. | 10780 Ayatoin, which Loa buen fouad wanting War Departmont, sota forth some very strong | ever a crovasse occurs and tho water s divorted insofar as it has beon triod in the past. It 1s arguinonts bearing upon tho rolution of the | fromits channel, h;l:w that cr:vms:] uuN river fn- | only those who want millions of publie variably fiilv up nod bars are formed. Nature ia tto Tudinn problom, Tt asmumen, what very few | 18R LML P 1R L s uas | D00 Henbeted o o ot will care to deny, that tho management of | ;more room than shie requires; and It stands to rea- | ™ prospesiyy % tho Tudians from the very outset hns been | son that in scdimentary streams, where the densa | Ously advocate tho contrary, characterized by frauds, peenlations, and | sedimeont is suspended and carrled along by the e ——— goneral confusion, and that oven prior to | SWeDt 80 soon n you check that curtent o¢ do- | SECRRTARY SHERMAN AND THE FABLE. SRy el W wan i dhocge uf Hio Wee Do | (e s mlum s monsrat Wellor wiich s | iy Iabie o the: fiiee who il o die " lodge tho boy from his apple-tres (1) by en- partmont, it wns little botter off, becausa | curIn exact proportion with the check and decresso B neither the Becrotnry of War nor nny officer | of ower. Divertono-sizth of the water at any | tronties, (2) turowing tufts of gross, and in tho War Dopartmont had the appointment f:;l‘l'l‘ l':‘::“‘;m"::“l"‘r:“"lflf:« ':ol"a"v"'“"‘h::";":l‘l""' (;‘) l’"m“l!!hgn with HS’N“- ln npplilcnbla to of Agonts, nor wns the Wnr-Oflico charged | ana thereforo connorvative Nature fila it up. In ;{"’ cu‘? ‘;( :,".'imwn mm’:n'fl:“ ;’:‘“ with tho duty of suporvising or con- | support of this theory T clto the remarkabla case of | NeW Yo e lonse’) o T trolling them up to 1834, Aftor that date, | the Tano's Bayou,a Iittlo outlot, which occurred In | BIERMAN, it 1y roported, now scos tho futility naud until the formnl transfer to the Interior | the Rod lhlvnr n;:; lw‘unly or :wunzrnn years | of o warfaro of words and tufta of gross, e ago, whichinthe uning wasonly twenty or twon- 1 Department In 1810, tho system was not | 1y iyg fea wide,Lut which deepencd and strongth- ":'d nprop\ovn:-;l:tn ;‘::” ::;t‘{’n ‘11': 'I'(‘,““ ot much better, bocsuse the Presidont was ouly | cned until it abaviutaly threstened to closa up the | #1000 T oo Inte. Cover- permitted, not compolied, to select military | navization of Ited River bolow, o that Congrons tng up o crimo and {rifling with the perpe- men. Tho result waa n prossnre whioh led | ¥a4 abllz\ml to nnfruprlntu‘ monnyd to close the | trators of it is not only a political blunder in bayou, Yon gentlemen who voted for the lsst b to the appointment in tho mojority of canes | yyyer'and Harbor bill avpropristed 225,000 for “"y‘n;:dmr‘ffi:"g::'m b ‘\)Vhw:ms °‘!‘:':° of civilinns who wero thus rowarded for thelr | tat purpose, und $23,000 had been appropriated | 28" P uncy. on Beorotary portisan servicen. From that timo to this, | before, making inall $0,000 sppropriated for the Buxmyuay discovered, through the Bixomax tho offort fo civilize and rostrain the | Purpose of waving the navigation of Ited Rivor Ly and Ilxps Cominission, that Collector An- Indians L Loon macked by failure, and | S'°%InE ‘Fone's Bayou. Since it has heen cloved by | raon's chief doputy, Joux R, Lroecxxn, had dam and the whole powor of the river currents | trands and frrugularitios of ovory doncription | Soafned to the chanael, the water hos waehed gu | UeoD found gullty of n hofnous cffenso havo cropt futo the systom, until ot last n | the bars bolow and ua fgation fa resiored as com. | DEAInst the laws of which ho waa the sworn Iing has been formed with the deliberate | pletely aa before.” oxecutor, it was hiz fimst duty to take purpose of swindling both the Indians and As Mr, Ecsts nppoals to tho experience of | tho publio into his confidence by pub- the Governmont, which they aro enablad to | 6Very man who has traveled up and down' | lishing tho fact to the world. Con. do with Impunity becauso tho system fteolf the Alississippi River, it Is proper to cite | ocaling the remults -of investigation i w0 woak and confusod that thoy cannot bo' | that of Capt. Jonx Cowpey, of Memphin, | oud playing dotootive nbout tho people’s circumvented, Tho minority of tho Com- | Who, s boy and man, Las spent forty yoars businesd is no part of the dnty of the Execu. mittes, therefore, aro of opinon that the of hislifo In teaveling up and down that | tive branch of tho Government, The peo- ovils complained of under this syatom will rivor and ils branchen, snd whonay besald to | ple wont to know, and thoy have n right to continua until the caro of the Indians is | bens familiar with it naauy other mwanliving. know, what their scrvants aro doing, And given to the War Dopartment, bocause tlere In & memorial prosonted by Capt. Cowney | it one servant fluds out the crimo of another aro fower abuses in this Departmont than in | tothe House Committeo of Commeros, a few | it is his imperative daty not only to romove auy othor brauch of the service, It belioses doys ngo, may bo fouud a complate, scientifio, | the guilly man it ho bas tho power, bnt to thnt oflicers of tho army can perform the | and satlsfastory Ruswer to tho poiut made | tell the conntry fraukly the reasons for his duties portaining to Indian mansgement by Mr. ErLis on facts dawn mainly from the | summary action, Otherwise the publio may moro bonestly and officlently than ecivil | vory report of tha Army Enginoers, Ifva. | conelndo that no suflicient canee existod, and ngonta; that thoy can purchaso a3 chesply; | PURETS and ApuorT, npon which tho advo- | lience that the act of romoval. was arbitrary that their mennu of transportation are snpe. | cates of tho cmbaokment schome ero accus- | and onjust. In the case undir cousldera. rior; that tho systema of fuapeotion aro tomed to roly, tion thore was the strungest posaible ground oqual; and that army officers, not being par- | 3r. Eutas asiorts that a divorsion of tho | for frankness, siuce Mr. Buxuman's power of tisauw, and holding ofMce for lifs, kiavo uot | Waters through crovassos or outlets resuits | romoval was uotabsolute. To purgo the serv- tho sumo motives or temptations for dishon. | in the forisation of bars which iinpode navl. | les of ineficient and corrupt servants, it osty that surround the civilians, Hence the gution, ‘I'he fact is proved to be the con. | Was necessury that Mr. Suxauan sbould conclusion that not only will Jutice bo se. | trary by tho notual operstion of tho Bonnuet | Imve the co-oporation of tho Benate. 1iad oured for the Indlan, but that the present | Carre outlet, & short distance above New | all the grounds of the suspension of expenze will bo greatly rodnuced. Orlonns, which the rush of waters forcod in | Gen. Antnun boen publisbed, the Honate Pho four members of the Committes who | At of tho embankment some five or six would bavo been pluced in possession of want the transfor make a strong showing in | yours ago. flis outlet into Lako Pontchar. | them without the formality of o spocial ns- ita favor, and it may bo added that the oppo. | truin hos reduced the walor-mark fonr to signmont of vauscs, Iustesd of pumsuiug nents of the transfur alse wmnke o stroug show- | Aive fost at New Orleans, where the rise aud | this open couno Loth with the Seunte and ing, and thiat Becretary Bouuuz in hin famoun | foll wus seventeon feet, and vight or nluo tho country, the raports of tho Bixerax and countrovery with Gen. Surnipan madv a very foet as high up a8 Vicksburg, where the rise Hinps Commission were locked up fn the vigorons defense of tho mansgement by his | and fall wos Oty foot. Inwpito of this re- | piguon-holes of the ‘Iressury Departwent Departmont, and a very sharp criticism of | duction, which Mr, Futas rogards os threat. | sud socurcly guarded as Btute secrets. And tho sbility of the War Department to per. | ening to fill up tho river with bars, tho Chict whon an entorprising newspaper corrospond. form tho dutics with any more cffioiency or | of Engineers found, npon examination, thnt | ont unearthed aud published thom, a great Lionesty than the civiliaus, Whils, howover, | *tho velooity of tho current bulow the | outery wns made pud an fnvestigation insti- arguments are being piled up and controver. | Bonuet Carro break [ontlet] Is more than one | tuted to discover what particular Govern- sics are myging, the confusion will contiuuo, | Jut per second greater than above, and there ment ofticial bud *leaked.” It is now inti- and the ontlook in not proniising, Becrotary | 1s nctually au jucraasud velocity of G per cont mated that, through tho ascrotivencss of the Scuunz uudoubtedly s doing his bost for | in the rivor.” ‘Ihis fuct searcoly bears out | Treasury Dopartmont sud the oconsequent honest wunagement, has delected somo of | th theory suggosted by 3r, Erris. On the | ignorance of the Seuate Commerco Commit- the scoundrels and guillotined them, aud | contrary, it demolishes it, too ns to tho grounds of the suspension of accomplished some reforms; bnt Indian Capt. Cowpex catimntos on tho basis of | Gen. Aszuun, Benator CoNxLino hes been Rings outlive Cubivet offfeers. Becrotary the motusl operation of the Bonnet Carre | able to loodwink his brother members and fAcuvnz bas but two years of ofi. outlet that o similar outlet below Now Or- | so procure an ndversa voto on the confirma- cial lifa fu tho Cabinet left, ond | leans into Borguo Bay will fucreass the | tion of Gun. Mxuuirz and Maj. Buar, must then meko room for his sne- | curvent of the river {ully one-fourth while Bo mach for the woft words and tufts of cessor. If he shou'd bo a Republic- | still further loworing the water.mark, and | grass policy, Secrelary Burnyax las re- au, there i no certainty that he will have | thus operate to prevent the formation of | solved to try the virtue of stones noue too the capacity or the eourago to coutinuo the | bars iustead of assisting sach formation; | soon. In & governmeut of "the poopls, by reforin business, which is at bust upasmodio | for if a reductiou of five feet fram the high- the people, for tha people, there should be in churseler, no matter wherv it is attenmpt- | wuter motk gives an inereased velocity of 6 | nosuch thing as o Btale secrot. Mr. Joun ed; and if he shonld be a Democrat o swarm | per cout, then a reduction of six fvet (the R. Lyveckes was deull with too tondorly. of bungry and rupacious cormorants would | estimated reduction that will follow the | o was permitted to rotire ss if of his own Da let loose upon the Iudians who would not | opening of the Lake Horgne outlet) will give motiol, when ho ought to have beon rudely only steal all thoy have, but rob the Govern- | an incroased velooity of 8 to 10 per ceut, or | kicked out and prosecuted after he was out. ment hlind, 1lence tho same miserable and | one-tenth more than bofore. Such an act of justice would bave shown to infamous frauds and scoundrelism confront | ‘T'he theory of this coincident roduotion of | the country (het the Administration can thie country 1n the future that it has had to | high-water mark sud increaso in tho velocity | feol disgust ot crimes and Indigno- cudure in tho past, unless some way out of | of the current W thorouglly scioutific, sud | tion sgainst criminals. Bub it is wot it can be found, yet so stmple that every one can undurstand | too late. It Secretary Barswan has It isa dofect in all the suggestions and | it upon m were statement of tho cave. The | gall, he may compel Senator Covzrmia reports thus far officially wmade that they do | increased velocity ia the natural result of sn | to show his hand. And if we donot estimate not suflicivutly recoguize the fact that it | incresse in the sngle of fall. ‘Thus the fall | Mr, Coxzrina too highly, he will hesitute takes two depurtiments to mansge tbe In- | through an outlot into Lake Horgue (which | before suuouncivg himsclf to thoe country as dians, ‘The civilian work is dons by the Iu- | ix really a purt of the ocean) will be as lasge | the cawpion of gross inefticiency and gross terior Department aud the police work by | through a distance of five or six miles cosruption ns illustrated, respectively, in the 4 they may poisess pholOGFAPHA Of Eho Queen's cbil dron, and read of thelf dally comings and goingy with' an agreeable sento of properly, and withoot incurring thut fcprosch of snobbiahness which eomatimen nttachen to too cager an inietert fn the doinga of the great novllily. There 1A no reasanfo -up{m-a that the Queen takes thu humorous vie? of thls sitnations her Majenty fa ndeed ceedited apart from his personal notions of the dig- nity of tho offics, evidently procecds upon tho basis that rosumption hos mad® monoy a drug, and that the Government cannot find ways of getting rid of it,—n fallacy which is not shiared by tho poople who have to pay tho taxes. pnyment for American farm products, and the salo of tho 4 per cont bonds has enlled out the millions of money hitherto hoarded andeltept out of sight, nnd which has gona into gomersl circulation ngain, Instend of tho large investments in 4 por conta produc- ing any soarcity of money, thoy have in some monsuro produced an inflation, 'To the ex- tont thot the indebtednoss of the Govern. ment has been transferrod from European to Amorican hands, and this indobtedness has been put into 4 per cont bonds, thoro hms bean that addition to our avaflable active cnpitel, Theso bonds lave practically be. come nn additon to our currency in making payments in largo trausactions. These bonds nre at par, and likely to romain 80, and, thoughnot n logal-tender, thoy are takon ns rendily ns bank notes in payment of any considerablo sum. 'They ars more con- venlent than coin, and botter evon than the ordinary paper monoy, Any porson intend- ing to hold his money for a time will prefor the 4 per cent bonds, aud, a8 they aro readily convertible, they anawor all the purposos of curronoy. They ara convenient nlso becauso thoy are all suflloiont socurity for lonns, and the bondholder may thus, upon depositing tho bond, employ an equal amount of cur- roney in businoss. Practioally, thon, the snle of the 4 per cents has added 837 millions to the availablo monoy means of the country ta bo used in traunsactions as may Lo neodod In busiuess, Brrrmio Buw is in the very sub-collar of gloom and despondency, and is ready to consider any proposition which includes for- givenoss aud food for tha 15,000 bucks, squaws, ond papoosea now ongoagoed in n strugglo ogainst starvation in the wilds of Northern Montans. He lns sent word that biagpirit is broken, and ho wants peace, and 18 willing to give up all his guns and ponics to show his sincerily, Ile wonld probably even bo willing to sign o bond not to go on thé warpath again until he can wecura o fresh supply of improved arms and s ohoico collection of ponies culled from the herds of white settlors. with & comfortable, matherly confidece in the salntary effces of the court circles npon the mind of tho mlddle ctass: and thero i a kind of genenl feelu that, sociatly speaking, the Queen and the widdle clas atand oacli vihe Tho rocont incroase in tho bullion valuo of silver Is pretty well maintained in the Lon- don market, in spite of the fact that Ameri. can mintaga doos not consume oven tho cur- ront Ameriean production. The quotation yesterday was 51 ponce por ounce. Gormany evinces no disposition to soll any moro of its disused silver ot presont bullion rates; fn fact, the Germnns may conoludo that, as silvor thalora still dischargo the function of logal-tpuder monay, it will be wiser not to buy up and exclude auy more of them from current monetary use, If the United Btates were now colning, or if Congross shall without too much delay ordor the coinage of, standard silver dollars freely, so that not mercly the product of the American mines may find a morket at home, sbut that thera may bo a demnnd on tho Europesn atack on hand, thera will bo a rapid approach to the former reolations between gold aund silvor. In fact, if Sécretary Burnmax con bo per- suaded to coin the full smount of silver dollars nuthorized by tho presont law (21,000,000 a month), there will be a stoady fucresso 1n bullion valne. Relutively, of course, tha American ailver coins contain 8 per cent more bullion than the silver which olrculatos s legal-tendor in Europe. ———— The oxlstence of the mysterious plrate cnft #n1d to be scen burning up vessels ofl the cout of Irclund for the sake of supposed {nsurance is very much doubted by the bardy mariners of New York., Tho description of the steamer— “painted black, Jow [n the water, with black ‘poln nasts, black funnelsbetwecn fore and male 'maste, with no name on stern or bows "—reall Alkeapagooutof Nep BURTLINE. A corroiponds ent of the World oxplains the optieal delusion of the Captain of tho British ehip Kalston by quoting from the new comlic opera, * M8 Pipafore," as follows: Little Bultercup—Piratcs sometlmes go to ud, Pleates burn and plunder fres, Pirates cruol iurderers e, The Captatn—Frequestly £0 they e, The Communistic mensura Introduced by Yexonick B. Waiont, of Pennsylvania, who has a bhankering aftor tho Mollie. Maguire sapport for Govornor, which proposes to roalizo the ilen of a paternal Government by giving 8600 to every man who professes o desiro to go Wost. and pre-empt o quarter section of land, waoa sat down upon bard by thoe Iousc yes- terday. It roceivod 22 affinnative and 212 negative votes, nmong the formur being the names of Gen. Bureen, * Sunsat” Cox, Judge Krerey, ond Wwienr bimself, The ouly wonder is that there should be so many ns {wenty-two candidates for Bocialistic support in the House. The Captaln (continuing)— + Merchant Captaina, as you know, When the wintor broezes blow Hhip moro rum than they can atow, Little Buttercup (doudtfully)—Ves, I know That is s0. ———— Enwanp Kina writes from %-mn st arrangemonts have beon made for t birth o the White-Mau’s Indcpendent party two years bence, The White-Meu Independents hope td get enouh votes from the good negro elemest to carry them all through, 8o the bad whites and tho bad negroes whil be left to ualte anl muke the beat opposition party they con. pist arrangoment can be carrled through, oll the #aints in South Carutins whil be on one #ids of the fence snd nll the sinners on the othe This is & Truly-Good plan, Only we are for prised to learn that any “good * white msn [l Houth Carollua can bo found to admlt that st “niggers M are morally better than sume whin men. Au intercating cose in admirnlty s now pending before the Britlsh High Court of Justico which also involves somo rather nico juternationnl questions, Ownors of a tug- boat that went to the assistance of the United Btates frigate Constitutionnow pat in a claim for ealvage amonnting to #7,600, which ja counsidersd exorbitant, and paymont has beon rofused. Now tho clafmmauts havo under- takon to onforce their demand in the samo munnner that they would upon o vessel owned by private citizens, but tho British QCourt is extremaly reluctant to meddle with the matter at all, much less to apply the ordinary processes for tho collection of salvago claim: EFFECT OF THE POUR_PER CENTS ON INTER The insno of the + por cent bouds hns Tad tho offact of reduoing tho ourrent rate of uterest lu the country, Government bonds, Lecnuso not subject to tax snd for other rossous, will command por, thongh they Lear nlower rate of fnterost than other bouds, ‘When Government bonds ennnot be sold at par for less than G per cont interest, money will command in other forms of investmoent from B to 10 por cent, The roduction of in. torest on Governmuot Londs to 4 por ceut reducos tho valua of monoy iu other good bouds to 6 or7 per cont, according to the orodit of tho company issuing them, 'The withdrawal of all Governmeut U per cont bonds renders it possible for Btate, munici- pal, and all other corporntiona that havonain. talued their credit to refund all thelr indobtodnuss at & much lower rato of inter- st than they have been paying. Towns snd counties nll over the country whish have boen mervilesaly punished Ly tho exaotion of 10, or ¥, or B per cont intercat, can now go upon tho warket when the Governaont is only paying 4 por cent, and find willing purchasers, oven among their own people, for bonds at 5, 8, or T per cent. The policy of lusuing these local bonds in small denom- inations, rendering it poasible for small de- positors to juvest in them, 14 » most desira. ble one, That commanity which can dis. posa of its own bonds among its own mem. bers i most fortunate, aud tlis can be ac- ocomplislied beat by ‘putting the new bouds within tha reach of every Lousehlder who lins 25 to $50 spare cash. ‘The fudebted wunicipslities'who have sullered so long uu. der the extortion of high rutus of interost may find in the redaction of interest on the public debt 10'4 per cont a favorable time ty fund their presont debta at 6 or 7 per ceut, fustead of the 9 and 10 per cent they uow POy . ‘I'be burden of a debt is the smount of an- nual interest to be paid thervon. It hias not been 8o long but it can readily be remem. bered when the annual intercst on the ma. tional debt was $146,000,000. Each reduc- tiou of interest reduces the burden of annual taxation. Municipal debts, contracted dur. ing the last fiftcen years, Lave generally borne a 'bigh rate of interest. 'Lhere are millions of these local Londs of Western countics and towos which call for 10 per ceut intergst. Under this enormous, confls- cating exaction it has been impossibla for mony muuicipalities and for thousands of porsons to mantaln their crodit, aud couse- quently they have been forced to protest, souming repudiation, and loss by foreclos. During the past winter Mrs. Ma0K, at Janos ville, Wis., und Mrs. Conn, at Norwich, Conn., Lave been convicted of the murder of their hud- bands by the ‘evidence of thelr guilty paramours. Inboth enaes the women swore polut blank that the men wero Nars, thus adding the sin of pere Jury to the crime of murder, ou the supposition thut they were gullty ascharged in tho indlet- ment and found by the jury. But the trials scetued to eshow that women can keep a sccrot botter than men, and that they are nore con~ stant than men Iu times of trouble, The two unfortunate women scerued to elicit considera- bl sympathy also because of the sneaking und cowardly conducet of thelr male asaociates who turned Rtate’s evidence, and upon whose testl- inoay the twowonica were convicted, But bere comes a case whers the man was faithful to the woman, und probably committed perjury to screon ber. ‘Tuoxas Down was bung fn Bt. Andrews, N, B, lsst week for the murder of Mr. Wanp, Towp uad Mre. Wanp killed him (WarD), but Dowp malutalned to the last that he alone was guiliy. Althongh few betloved bla story, the Court gave her the penefit of the doubt and her death senlency was commuted to hinprisonmcnt for Mfe, B0 Dowp passed in his checks with at least one more manly trait, if it can be called such, than will characterize clthor DICRXRsON at Jancsvillo or Bisuor at Norwich, At least Dowp assumed his full share of the sesponat- billty, und did not try to skulk behind the woman b had wronged. ———— The army hias had ite turn, The navy o come next. Unfortunately, the navy lalcesable to defond Itscl! than tho srmy was, Thereliuo doybt that tho Navy Departmont [s Tiard put to find any duties for he otlicors it now has and yet the Naval Acaaemy goes on grinding (e out ot the rate of about Aty u year, Waut of dutics for the ofticers Is much more o fjurt 18 the navythan fn the army, Atls absulutely necessary, In order that a navil ofticer should be good for much, that he have plenty of sutvict ateea; but, without ships Lo go toses It naval officers cannot go. Two schomos of petly vxiruvagauce were yestorday voted down in thy County Lioand, —oune which proposed paylng out of the County "Trossury the expenss of a juuketing excursion which can jost us well be dis- pensed with, while the other was to provide mombers of the Board with bidges of office, to the end that they mmy be more readily recognized among tho employes of the county, ‘Tho dauger isnot so much a lack of recoguition as oo much of it, 1t the Commissioners could managa to presorve an incognito in their visits of iuspoction and Inquiry they would bave far loss diffioully m golting s true josight into the maoner in which the county’s work 1s attended to by its officials aud employen, e ——— ANew York Herald * personal "' advertliet for udoption in lermany, by & Prussian officet #f high runk, an Americau gir! batween Jaudld years old. * Bhe must be bright, lnullh{. i protty, aml posscasa fortunc of at least " 000, Children of predsely this charscter, with the $0,000_ attschment, wro nob ghven %87 (‘: this country evety day, but some effort bou! be mada to accommodate tha modcst Prustss Bome match-making mamma who s willivz 10 put in American cash againet & (ferman [T may close with the offer. ' e — = Jxrrenson Davis, whose patriotlan of e years bus bean well known,—too well hoosy iudeed,—has writtvn suother letier on -:w: tionof gruvu political inportance, namelys Nespousibllity of the Representative 10 Constituency.” He holds that to deuy that /& sponsibility wouldl be toattack the fuund-floz our political system. This lagood doctrine does come from Mr, Davie. Wo aresurts & 1t in bls power, however, to attack a twatl bed bis superior fu all the yualities of political e eaty as Mr., Lastan. Thisfs evidently tbe 360 vurpose ot his letser. ——— Gen, Enwarp 8, Braag, of the Fifth Con- gressional District of Wisconatn, who has just stirred up tho Confederate Brlzadlers with s long pole, is o recognized leader and orator smong the Domocracy of his Btate, and la lack- fngin uclther the courago nor abllity to make himself f81t und respected In Congress. 1o was a¢ the frout during the bloodiest perioa of our tato Civil War, und for 8 itmo commanded the tamous * Iron'Brizude,” which wou & repuia- tion for ite bulldog tenacity and brill feht- ing qualities that wade its nams bisto and its famo the eovy aud sdmiratlon of every sol- dierIn the anny. For ten yours, during the dark days of the Rebellion, BRaaa’s District was repreasentod fo Congress by tie Hon. CuARLES A, Evpripon, oncof the moat violeot vud virulent + Copperheads," with all that the term lmplies, that ever set a foot in Congress; and Geu. DBgaca’s wanly and consistent opposition to Boutbern clalme is fn striking and prascworthy contrust with the courss of bis prodecessor whenever the Bouthern Democracy de- munded anything at bis bands. Beaca’s name is not new iu the political history of Wisconsin. For many years he practiced law (o Foud du Lac, and, being 8 ready speaker, he always took an active part fu political discussions oo the stuwp, He served two terms o the State Scuate, vl recelved the caucus nowination sud vote of bia party for United States Bevator in 1875, uutll the Democrsts 1o the Legblatuso fhe Bunale yesterdoy bad an interesting debate on o Southern war-claim which Las been rejected by the Court of Claims, the Baoprems Court, and by Congress. It was oue of those **loyal " claiins which Lave not the slightest basis of justice, aud which ought to be barred from presentation In Cougress, ‘The chief foature of the discussion was the wpeech of Ben 1y, who emphatically op- posed the whole busivess of Houthern war. claims, whether of ltubels or Unlon wen, Ho professes a strong dosire to sce removed for. over the distinction between loyalty and dis- loyalty, and to kear no more about Coufud- erstes and Union men,—a Lops which will never be realized so lovg as Cougress is con- tinnally called opon to psy soms old and worn.out war-clalm. . g~ WiLtaRD, of Indians, when ke uominl‘i Vooxuzxs for the Benate, spoke of bus o ul finsocler whose heart la as cold as the omx . glaclers on the summit of Mont Blaue W i seductive fatterics of capital; s stales whase cliaracter s the apotbeasls of P! honosty, and whoso fotegrity is 08 mm“:m . s the plumage of the dove that dcmudul' h tho bosown of the Father at the bapiisit ¢ Jordau. It is quite evideut thut nclapse were not the only things mixzed iu Tudiaus during the Benatonal cauvass. e — By the action of the Henate yesterday in voting to ranove the oustomary injunction of seciesy regurding the papers counected with the Nuw York Cuatowm-House that con- test I8 mow madd pullic, wad it will bo the foult of Secretary Huzs- MAX it he does pot conduct his end of U with the viger sud e —— = . Preaident Bascos, of the Ulversity 0:“:' consiu, bas published a letter fn whish 410 uounces some bmportaus chanizes i (he 1 o of the fusticution. Two new I‘rn{:s“"m boen secured from the Michigut Uoifen o, Prof. Jaugs C. Watsox, wno wlil mnll:“"& ton 0 peactical sstrouumy, wud Pk &