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

‘THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, ' FEBRUARY 7. 1819—TWELVE PAGES Thye Tribane, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. AT MAIL—IN ADVANCE—FOSTAGE FREPAID. inily Rdition, one year. . 12 718 O & yOAT, peT mont Pl Bunaay Kdltson: Literary. e 2.5 AREEL.iy.ans, e g Eaturday Edition, tweive paj pot E WEEKLY EDITION, Qe copy, per yesr. ] :l’.u’a G o e 1 122;3 Cinbof tweh 20 Fpeclmen coples sent fres. N li‘:z Post-Ufiice address In fall, Including Stata and County. Uemittances may be mada either by draft. express, Test-Office order, or tn registered letter, st our risk TERMA TO CITY SUBSCRIDRRS. Dally, deltvercd. Sundsy excented, 23centa per week. Datly, deltvesed, Bunday Included, 0cents per weeke Addrers THE TRINUNE COMPANT, Carnes Madison snd Dearborn-sta., Chicago, Tl Orders for the delivery of Tns TRinUAK at Evanaton, Englewood, and liyde Parx (eft {n the counting-rooa willrecelve Frompt attent ARIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. 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F. a0d A, 31.—11all 112 lMlH}-‘l‘LLoh!{g(%dxzummunll‘lllfln this (fi'ld {aeala aTnoClock NI dofumly nvitea by leran th Samer ™ W RTOCREL, Secrotar. —— FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 187, —ee Tho bill providing for tha taking of tho United Htates census of 1880 pnssed tho Beuato yestorday. ———— 1t is stated in n Washington dispatch that a consolidation of the Intorests of the Southern Pacific and Texas & Pacific Rail- ronds has been effected, and that ovidenco of the fact will be shortly furnished in tho fonn of a bill satisfactorn to both parties. Archbishop Texst's golden jubilee, colo- brating tho fiftieth anniversary of his olova. tion to the prieathood, oceurred yeatordny in Milwaukeo, and was mado an event of great interest by the participation of eminent ec- closinstics of the Romsn Catholie Church and of a large number of civio organizations, The jubllec sermon was pranched by Arch- bishop Punorrr. The Nlinois Sennto yesterdsy ndopted, by o nearly unanimous vote, n resolution pre- sented by a Demoerat, requesting Illinois ‘Benators and Ropresentatives in Cougress to favor such legislation as will forover prohibit the nppropriation of money for the payment ¢ Bonthern war-claims, There was no party Jivision on the question, and tho two nega- tive votes were cast, one by a Republican and the other by a Democrat. Nearly a year ago Owzx Muoneny, Exciso Commissioner in New York City, absconded with £40,000 of the peoplo’s money. Ho haa found it convenient to remain an exile, but appears in the person of a ** next friend " and brings kuit in the Suprome Court {o re- cover the amount of ealary ho would have veceived it he had not stolen the $10,000, ‘Thera may have been coolor things than that during the wintor, but the thermometers have failed to indicate them. The agitation of the question of the im- provement of the Illinols & Michigan Caual has finally found its way to Congress, Mr, Havs, of Illinols, yesterday introduced a bill appropriating $500,000 for the construction of a damand lock at Beardstown similar to thoss already at llenry and Oopperas Creek, The object named in the bill is the eularge. ment of tho canal and the improvement of the Illinols River &0 as to make both navi. gable for the largest Mississippi River steam. boals. Nephew Pruron was yesterday before the Cipher Cowmittee, and having told his story on the direct ecxamiuation he was put through o sovero and searching ordeal by Messrs. Hiscock and Reep, tho Republican members of the Bub-Committes, Prrron attempted to give himself alrs with his croas-oxaminers, but be was soon made to feel the sbeurdity of the situation of aman who, baving engaged in a covspiracy to boy up a Returning Board and one or more Presideutial Electors, pretends to be insulted when asked to explain his conduct aud mo- tivea, The ioaugurul message to the Obambers of M. Gsevy, the vow President of the French Republic, which was delivered’ yos. torday, is iu toue culculated to grutify the Republican majorily, whose ropresentative heis He anuouuces Limself sincorely sub. missivo to the greut law of parliamentary government,—the law which BacMinox found it so bhard to obsy when the msjority was against him,—aund prombes nuver to oppose the national will constitutionally expressed. Ho also . proposes Lo weed out the eueties of Repub- licanism, and (o take care that Frauco is served by ‘‘functionsries who are neither ber enemies nor Her detrsctors,” Gamser. 7Ta's address on sssuming bis office s Presi- dent of the Chamber of Deputies was mod. erate and conciliatory. The Democratio prletice of incorporating vew and specific loguslation in sppropriation bills the better to force its adoption snd beat down opposition was brought into play yesterdsyin the consideration by the Houss of the Army Appropriation bill Legitimately, this bill should only provide the funds for the maintenance of the srmy, ther the demanda of the South, and has earn-’ ed not only the contempt of the North as the sleokest and most fawning doughface in Congress, but has also enrned that degree of contempt in the Bouth which a mnater al- ways focls for tho dog whining ronnd his Loels and licking his boots, ITa Lias shown himself to be unfit to represant any Btate in Congress. 1is ehicf compotitor inthis stylo of bnsiness appeara to be Towxsmexp, from Iilinois, whose dirty doughfaceism received a fitting rebuka from the Towwssexp withont an **h " from New York. If over a membor of Congress was out of place it fa this man ‘TowssnEnp, hailing from a State whoso mil- itary record in so ronowned, whose sons did 50 much to crush out the Rebellion, and who furnished the President and General who lod the armies of the Union to finnl victory. e THE INVIOLABILIY OF TELEGRAPHIO DIBPATCHES, The unanthorizod and seholesale manner in which Congroas has seized npon private dis. patches in the possession of tho tolograph companies haa called publio attention to this great wrong, and it is now being dis cnseed with mugh carnestoess in the leading public journals, aa well s by the Bar Asso- clations of our larger citics, The ovents which precoded and followed the last Presidentinl election have brought this ontrago more prominontly into view than ever before, and the time is now an opportunc ono for the definite establishment of the legal status of tolegraphioc communications, The Gov- ernmont has recently selzed hundreds upon hnndreds of privato dispatchos and dragged them into Congress to bo investigated by committess. By what nuthority can it take theso dispatches when it cannot take private lottera? The Weatorn Union Telegraph Company carrics on its business under a charter from the State of Now York, with some nghts from the Gon- oral Government. Do theso rights give it any mora nuthority to seize dispatchea than its carrying of lottors would give it to soize them? It is simply anact of justico to the business community and to private citi- zons that their communications by telegraph should be as secure from seizare and pro- teoted by the same safeguards that are guar- anteed to thelr communications by mail, Under the recent resolutions of Congross do- manding all the dispatches that passed be- tween certain dates, a general drag-not has been thrown out, and scores of dispatches of a privato nature, having no bearings upon tho partieno investigations, have beon read and printed. Have wo not been sleoping over this groat outrage upon private righta? IHave we not tolerated it for purely partisan purposes, careless of individual rights, if only oneaide could administer telling bLlows to the other? 1If this state of things is allowed to continue, how long will it bo before the publio will be afraid to send dispatches of a private naturo at all, not knowing how soon an order from Congross may secize them for partisan pur. poses, although thoy have no bearing upon at the Evorett Honso end ono at Gramercy Park; thata telograph wiro ran from the Everett House into Gramercy Park; that the cipher dispatolies were delivered at Grameroy Park and that Prrrox bad the key to thom that TiLoex bad a “barl” and Perros had nothing but his salary; and that Burrn Werp, a lobbyist by profession and political adveniuror, waa a confldential friend of hoth Prrron nnd Tirpex, Pulting this and that togather, ie it likely (hat Prurox, nfter baving been threatoned with expulsion from Mr. Troex's honso, would have kept on negotinting with referonce ‘both to Boutk COarolina and Florida? Docs any one beliave that Perrox would or conld have kept thesa corruptions from the knowledge of TrupeN? When TiLpEx beeamo aware of thom, why did he keop I'zt7ox any longer a3 his confidential agent? After Perroy had been canght in his wickeduess, why did the Committeo continue him in his impor. tant ituntion ? If Mr, TiLoey had been an honost man, his first official act would have ‘been to kick his nephow ont of doors, request- ed the Committeo to expel him from any fur. ther connection with them, and notifled the country of the infamous uso that was being made of his name and of the dastardly at- tempt to injuro his roputation. It is too thin, too thin,~—thinner than water-gruel. Men have been banged befors this upon slighter testimony than that which has laid this burden of corruption at the doors of Gramercy Park. Syrrn Weep says that ho destroyed both tho’ key and the copies of the dispatches, but heis suro that tho dispatches in the New York Tribune with referenco to Sonth Corolina are mainly correct. If these aro correct, then thera is no roason to doubt that thoso relatiog to Florida and Orogon aro mainly correot also. If they aro only half correct, they will do. Lot us hopo that when * Fox"” Woorszy and ¢' Moses " Maxton Magnre ara bronght to the stand, they will bo mamly as truthful as Syrrm Weep has beon, and let us know how the negotintions that slipped up in Bouth Carolina wero com- ploted in Florida. probably be within, limita in estimating it at requiring twico ns much monoy ; so that the total cost of the * eheap” survey wonld bo abont £150,000,000, aud of the cadastral in the neighborhood of $500,000,000. Thaoro aro staggering figures, and we cannot feol that tho people are prepared to look them calmly in the face just nt present, A third objeotion to the proposed transfer is that it wonld cause the dismissal on the 1at of Juno of about 500 persons now em- ployed in local land offices under the Bur- voyors-General, who aro fully acquainted with all the intricacies of land affaira in their districts, In thelr places wounld be put appointees of the Coast Burvey ute terly ignorant- of the duties of the offices. The confusion that would be caused by this change should bo nlone a sufficlent objection to it. For it involves not only the displacement of anumber of worthy men, but the putting of the Government at a seri- ons disadvantage in the prosecution of many important cases under Indian and Mexican titles. . The ndvocates of the Const Burvey have changed ground so many times since this matter came bofore the Appropriation Com- mittee that it is imposaiblo to say where thoy are now,—whother they ars arguing for national survey, or for n survey of the terri- tory not included in land surveys, and lake and river survoys as far as prosecnted. But, whateverthe nature of their proposition may be, it is impudent and impracticable. Thero is no reason why the system shonid be | changed. All the compotent suryeyors in the country are not containod In the Coast Survey. Tho army has many of them, The Land Offico has many others. The snrvey of the national domain should naturally be intrusted to ons of thess Dopartments or tho other. If they have not officors compelent to carry on tho work, thoso they have should bo discharged and others employed in their places. - Thero is a suspicion of a job in this extreme anxic- ty of tho Const Burvey to spread ita triangles all over the country. Triangulating work, we fear, ‘contalns unusual opportunitics for crookedness, In no other way is it possible to dxplain the * cadastral” zeal of Congreas- men,who ordinarily are not onthusiastio dev- otees of sclence, for tho prosecntion of this echome, but under tha specious plea of economy, Speaker Ranpenu allowed the jaterpola- tion of two important measnres, both of which should bo considered separately and carefnlly. Tlie Buansipe Commission bill for the organization of the aymy and the bill for tho transfor of tho Indian Servios from the Interior to the War De. partment bavo been hitched on in the ex- pectation that theso mensures will bo taken long with the main bill, instead of receiv- ing the nttention their importance demands, This is Spooker Raxpauy's idea of Reform legislation. The Secretary of the Treasury, having suo- ceeded in ridding the publio service of the great protection of the sugar and other wholesalo frauds in tho New York Custom- Honse, and having got a Collector and other officers who are cognizant of all the means which render such frauds possible and the meana necessary to break them up, ean now demand of Congress the proper logislation. The change of Collectors in New York will probably prove a loss to the dishonest sugar. refinors of several inillions of dollars a year. It will also probably securo to the Gov- eroment, with the proposed change of Inw, several millions of dollars additional rovenue without any in- crense of taxation, The Becrotary of the Tronsury has officlally reported to Con- gross that the present acale of sugar dutics is unjust and dishonest, and under them tho Government is deprived of its just revenne, He hns furnished Congress with an equitable nnd a distinct classification of sugar duties. The Committce of Ways and Means, thongh strongly in tho interest of the sugnr-refiners, ling been compelled, in consequence of the clonr case presented by the Treasury, to re- port a bill readjusting thesngar tariffl. While this bill is not what it ought to be, neverthe- lo8s it is in the direction of honest importa- tion and an honest collection of revenne, It shonld be pnssed. The strong lobby which labored so hard to defeat a change in the Now York Colloctorship opposes this Sugar bill, and it remains to be seen how many Representotives and how many Sena- tors will be controlled in their votes by this lobby, and vote ta sustainone of the grentest frauds over perpetrated in tho history of the dishonest ecxecution of the rovenuo laws, Tho only question involved in this bill is the substitution of au honest law fora frandu- lent one; of an honest collection of honest duties for the fraudulent evasion of legnl dutics. A vota ngainst this Bugar bill will bo a vote to continne a gigantic monopoly, mnde more infamous because enabled by tho present law to defraud the Government of millions of revenne annually, and defraud the consumers of sugar of other millions by poisonons and disbolical adulterations of sugar palmed off on the public as pure food. CONFEDERATE AND COPPERHEAD HATRED OF THE ARMY. Neither time nor circumstances are of avail in mitigating the Confedo-Copperhend hatred of the army. It may slumber for a time, ‘but ony allusion to it on the Republican side, of the House, or any nccident that calls their attention to it, haa the same effect npon thom that the red rag has upon tbe bull, and they go over the samo old ground of malig. nant vituperation nud bittor batred that thoy have been traversing ever sinco the War of the Rebellion, The consideration of tho Army Appropriation bill in the House on Tuesday waa the signal for nnother outbnrst of calumny, malice, and venom, principally from the Northern donghfaces, whoso con. cern for tho liberties of the Confederatos is oven keener and more persistent than that CHARITY RUN WILD, Tho list of Btate charitics already sup- ported by taxation in this State has long sinoo becomo formidable, and the tendency of logislation is not only to inorease them, but to make Illinois a general asylum and hospital for the unfor- tunate of the country. In addition to these institutions there are the Ponitentiaries, the Reform BSchool, the Industrial University, and the two Normal Universities. Herais n list of the charities and the money asked for their mapport for the next two yoars : Northern Insane Hospital. . § 237,120 200,700 THE CIPHER INVESTIGATION. The investigation of the cipher dispatches i Central insnne losplal N opeus well. The first witneas' to be called | of tho Southern Brigadiora themsolves, who . Sonthern ] TXoepitai, £00°000 admita cnough to show that tho extent of | are porfeotly satisfied with that degreo of them? 'lu" :‘l“:““h °°‘3‘p“’l““ ayenr {:fi'fi'ifi ‘lg::'m": Assfum,. ouhd0s Democrtic rascaty foucking the proposed | freadom which allows thom fo bulldoza Ro. | their employes to secrecy and place them. | Bling Agghua. . Tno8s selves upon their honor not to divulge the contents of tho dispatches intrusted to thom for transmission. But what safeguard does this afford the public, when Congress may nt any timo scizo tho contents of a telegraph offico, without reference to the nature of the dispatches, nnd turn them over to commit- teces for oxamination, carcless of what d Haldlers' Orphans' Iom: Eveand Ear luirmary. Stato Iteform School Total.... In addition to theso are the following in. stitutions: Industrial Colleze, ... Normal University purchasa of the Presidency by Mr. Twoex for Mr. TiLpex, or by Mr, Titpex's proxy, ont of Mr, Tiunex's bar'l for Mr. Troey, has not been overatated. Mr. Bautn Weep i n very glib and brisk witness, with no ob- jeetion to talking. Unliko most of his class, he appearu to bo fond of notoriety, and so dolighted with reaching that elevation publicans, kill nogroes, stuff ballot-boxes, and defy the Government authoritics to exe- cute the laws, with perfect impunity from penalty, The cause of thess periodical outbnrsis against tho army by Democratic members is thoir old hatred of it for the effective part it played in putting down the Rebellion and becomes of thom after they have 582,000 nchieved by Bus. Jexks, Anpensox, and 8t. | saving the Unlon intact. Tho talk sbout ¥ Southern Penlteutiary.. 2, Many, that ha told all o know and a good | danger to the Diberty of tio South, which | Sbtatned what they want, or leaving them to | ©5, s dool that ho does not know. What he does S 30 alodt, from ana politician.to ¥ 1 runs ail through the debato, is the veriest twaddlo, nud so transparent that it is aston- ishing these vonomous army halera did not invont some new motive for their opposition. Tho army has been gono from the South for two years, upon tho promises of the Houth- ernlosders that they would secure nll their citizens, black and white, in the undisturbed cnjoyment of thoir rights. Those promises have been deliberately violated over and over again, and the Admislstration would have been justified in returning the troops to thair old quartors, but not a soldior has been sent there. ‘Tho United Btates laws aro - continu- ally violated and the local Goverument au. thorities are powerless to enforce them, but not agoldier hns been sout to their ald. Re- publicans havebeen atrippedof thoir proporty and tholr rights, havo beon denied justico in the courts, have been hunted down nand killed {or politieal rensous, but not a soldier hns beensent there to protectthomin tho boasted rights of American cltizenship. Tho whites hinve control of tho last State fn the South, aud they aro running them to soit them. selves without any roforonca to tho rights of citizons or the rights of the General Gov- ernment ; and, Laving secured absolute con- trol over them and mado them solidly Dem- acratie, they are now coolly dictating to the North, Having crushed out the Bouthern Republicans by bulldozing and ballot-box stufling, thoy bave now shown a dispesition, encouraged by Democratio dpughfaces in the House, to bulldoze Northern Ropublicaus, Thoy have sccured provisions in the law forbidding the use of the army as a pose eomitatus, They have everything to suit (hem, aud nothing of which to complain, ‘Phis doea not look as if Southern liberty was very serlously threatoned ! When these huters of the army can show that 25,000 men aro not needed to garrison tho forts oll round our consts, to guard our long 'L'oxas froutier agaiust the predatory in. cursions of tho Mexlcan thieves and grensors, to subjugate wanderiog fribes of Iudians over s million square wiles of territory, to regulato the tribos on widely-seattered ruser- vations, and to answer tho imploring appenls for help to savo life and property, such as were mada by Democrats during the labor tlots, then it will bo proper to reduca the army, Until such tune their opposition is simply malicious snd illustrativo of their determination to punish it for ts sorvico in suppressing the Rebellion. Each time, however, that they make the ottempt it s feebler, The venom remains, but they bavo not the back. ing, 'The peoplo of thia country will nover consent to the abolition of the army, which is their safeguard agninst forcign foes and domestic dangers, and will ‘remain so unti] the Millennium™®lnes, when it will bo safe to beat our swords ict> plowshares and our spears into prunivg-hooks. Thoe North is almost a unit on this point, and the cooler. headed men in the South have no sympathy with this hatred, which is largely confined Theso institations aro located geograplic. ally throughout the Stato so as to secure the Inrgost possible legislativo support. It is not cxtravagant to say that sevoral of theso owo tholr establisiment more to local demands for Btate buildings and institutions for tho benoflt of cortain real-estato ownors, and to give prominence to certain towns and localities, than to mero charity. Jaclgpn- villo was onca the great contre for Stato institations. Then Blgomington, Joliet, Aurors, Carbondale, Elgin, Pontiac, and Champolgn successively demanded some of the State patronags. At the last sceslon of the Legialature there was a grand move for o Bouthern Penitentiary, but ns an offsst to this an Insane Hospital at Knnkakes was also domanded. Separately, nelthor institu. tion had merit onongh to command favorable action, but united, the Legislature eatab. lished the Btate Prison nt Ohestor and the [nsano Hospital at Kankakoe. Thus were added to the permanens expenditures of the Btate two institutions which will strongthen for nll tima tho Public Building Ring. Other fnstitutions will of neceauity be demanded. Bome years ago {horo was a strong effort to eatablish a State Normal School in the neigh. borhood of Dixon, This county has boen gullty of tho wasteful folly and extravagance of establishing and maintaluing a Normat School, with costly grounds and buildings. The'offer was mnde to transfer this Normal Bchool, with all tho bulldings and the grounds, free of clarge, to the State, bat it was declined. 1f there was to be no appro- priation for land or for buildings, then the Stato had no uso for tho institution. Whatever occasion thero may bave boen twenty-five years ngo fowa Normal Univer. sity, it bas long since passed away, Normal schools exist in every neighborhood of the Northern Btates; every county in Ilinois hoes, or is authorized to have, such a school; we have a large one in this county utterly useless. But the domand for *equalizing™ the State cxpenditurcs geographically de. manded o *Houthern” University, and, of course, one was built and is maintained by tho Btate, To make things more even, there ought to bo another at Dauville and one at Quincy, Bosides an Insane Hospital at Shaw. neetown, a DBlud Asylum at Gelens, and somethlog else at Waukegan, Peoris, Carmf, and Parls. No oce objects ta s reasonable and a liberal expenditura for the insaue and other- wiso afilicted poor who bave no means pf support, Lt the Blate of Illinols fs offer- ing attractions to the insane and idiotio of the whole Northwest. We are providing bhospitals and asylums for the unfortunate of tho whola Mississippl Valloy, This county has an Iusane Hospital and Asylum where soveral hundreds of unfortunates are main. tained at the public expegse. Nearly all thesa persons bave been brought into this State cxpecting that they would be provided for by the Btate. The State institutions are filled, aa they would be if there were another? The soizure of the cipher dis. patches should bo tho 1n3t of theso outrages, It is time now that the pooploe demandan understanding on this subjoct. Either the telegraphio companles should resolutely defy the right of Congross to seize its property, which it holds in trust, and which it is sworn to preservo ioviolato, or pubjlo sentimont should demand the passage of some law definitely fixing tho statua of dlspatches, and dofining the dutios aud obligations of tho compnnies, 50 that the public may know tho exact extent of its rights in the promisos. The publio cortainly kas somo rights which even Congressioual partisans aro bound to respect, and it should mske ita sentiment known in such s manner that Congross will give hoed to it. THE COAST-SURVEY JOB. ‘The first effect of handing the public-land surveys over to the Const Burvey, aa contem- plated in the Genoral Appropriation bill, would be to nunsettlo all existing titles in the Western Btates and Territories, T'hose titles now rest upon surveys ordered by the Land Offico. ‘That the descriptions and bounda. ries fixed in this monner would be affected by a new survey undor the direction of the Const Burvoy is admitted even by the advo. cates of the change. This is, indoed, one of tho main arguments used by them in favor of the transfor. They desire, thoy say, to fix the boundaries of Btates, counties, town. ships, and sections more accurately. Tho proposition to run now Btate boundary-lingy, apart from the consequences that would ro- motcly flow from it, is In itsel? mizchiovous and impracticable. It would involva many Btate Governments in costly and fntermina. blo dispules, and embroil the peoplo possibly in serious quarrels. Until thero is some general demand for such resurveys onthe part of the Btates moat immediately concorned, there scoms to be no good reason why tho QGeneral QOovernment ghould inter. fere ot oll In the matter. It would bo impossible to chango the point from which all reckonings are mado without altering the value of tho reckonings them. selves. It is desirable, of course, that mathumatical accuracy should be attained in fixing the great lundwmarks of tho conatry ; but tho changing of all the land.titles rest. ing upon previous Goverument . surveys would be too heavy a price to pay for this purpose, Whatever new surveys may be uecvsdary for geographioal reasons can bo mads at comparutively small exponse, and there scema to be no rosson why they should not be made in the futare, as hersto. fore, under the direotion of the War Dopart- wont and the Land Office. - Avotlier objectlon to the proposed new survey, if it is to be a national sur. voy, 15 the enormous ‘expense that it would involve, Gen. Howmrusys esti. mates that 8 rough topographical survey based on nstronomical deterwinations would cost §49,200,000; a rough topographical sur. know we have no reason to doubt, for it tallles exactly with the contents of the cryptograms, nothing mare, nothing leas, and does no violenco to the methods of re- form which Mr, Trrpex has been practicing for some years past, and which he firut inangurated in political partnership with tho lata ** statesnan," Boss Tweep. Mr, Ssuri Weep tells & very straightfor- ward and consistent story. He went first to North Oarolina, taking with bim a cipher undor instructions from the Everett Houss— parenthetlically, tho Everctt House was the headquarters of the Democratic Exccative Committee, Not being wanted in North Carolina, ho weut to Bouth Carolina, and the first man he mot was AMr. Cox—paronthioti. cally, again, it is nover very dificult to avoid meeting Mr, Cox when thero is any dirty political work to bo done, The first use to which ho put his cipher was to inquire of Mr., Havexeyen if any money could be had, Finding that money could bo had, it is not markable that n proposition was made to him to soll out the Siate to the Demoerats for ®80,000. 'The nogotiations, howover, foll through. 'The telegram ront on the 22d gvea tho reason ¢ ‘¢ The goods could not be delivered and the bargain or agreoment was off,” When asked if ho supposed that the £80,000 could bo ralsed, the witness replied : 41 know that tho Executivo Committes of the National Demcoratis party would bhavo given the money, if asked for it.” The woney was not forthcoming because tho goods could not bo dolivered, but Switm Weep, atill hoping that they might, nmvely confeases that ho kept Sovoiox, tho go. between, in Now York, and eaya: I kept him here that they down Bouth inight give us votes in oxpectation that ho would get money.” " This little scheme, however failed, It i{s ovident ecnough from tho tcmor of Ssuti Wren's ovidonce and of the ciphers why the conspiracy failed. In the first place, Wape: Haxrrox, having made sure of the Btate ticket, cared very little what bo- came of the National; and, in the second place, the size of the pilo was too steep for the bar'l which Tuvex says bolonged to Perton, and Peuron saya belonged to the Committes, and Weep says belouged to Mayor Coores, and Mayor Cooren says he never beard of, The details, however, mat. terlittle. 1t is anbutautiated thata proposition was made to sell out the Oanvassing Board to the Democrats; that this proposition was discussod and favorably considered ; that Santu Ween, representing ——, was the party of the finst part, and SBoroxon, repre. senting the Canvassing Bosrd, was the party of the second part, and that, when the time came, the purty of the one part could nnt deliver and the party of the other could uot pay. ‘That is all that has ever been alleged. ‘The only point rumsining usexplained is, Who is the —— represented by Sairs Weep? Wiep Limsclf says ke waas acting undor instructions of the Democratic Fxeo- utive Committee. PrLTON was the Secretary | to the Northern doughfaces, Last year the | voy based on triungulation, $02,400,000; and | ten more of them, and the ex. of the Cowmittes, and Weep, therefore, | army was saved from beiug orippled by the | a thorough cadastral survey of all the States | cluded are left to find such care holds him respousible, saying that ho had | Tesas Democrats, This year, twenty or | admilted beforo 1800, exclusiveof California, | a8 msy be had in the jails ®and the key to tha ciphers, that he mado the proposition to purchase, visited himat Balti. wore to complete the negotiations, and telo. graphed to Cooren for the $50,000; and that Mr, TiLDEN was vory angry when he heard Pruron bad been engaged in this business, and gave bima picco of bis mind! As aguinst this touching exposition of injured invocenco sud indigoaut virtue, it is to be remarked that Pevton was not only Secre- tary of tho Committee but SBecrotary of Mr. Tuors; that be bad two headquarters, ono thirty Democrats joined bands with the Re- publicaus aud defeated the hot-headod South. ern Drigadiers aud their Northern dough. fuce alliey, It is not remarkable that in this list of anmny-haters Bhoo-Fly Cox, of Now York, ap- peazs to be the chief, for he has ployed this olo many times before. Io was on bLis kuces to the slavebolders before the War, and be hus been on his knees to the Bouthern Bngadiors over since. Bervile by nature, ho bag beon superserviceable in Lis zeal to fuz. ‘Texas, and Oregon and the Territories, .ho\l §163,000,000, Thoso figures—even thoss for tho low-priced susrvey—are startling; but, it will be observed, they make no account of #Ahat part of tho country which most noods to be survoyed, namely, that which lles betwecn the Misalssippl River and the Pacific Ocean. The expouse of survoying this territory, particularly the Rtocky Mountain part of it, would bo much groator than that of & survey over the sur- faco east of the l&u!ulypl. - We sbould alms-houses all over the Blate. For every 400 persons who are abla to find provikion in the Htate institutions 1,200 are broughtinto the Btate expecting to Snd homes iu the public institutlons, and, failing, are left to fiud such horrible carc as is furnished in jails and slms-houses, Bullding additional bospitals, therefore, only lucreases the evil, Every uow iustitution of the kind brings into Illinois three times ssmany sdditiousl insane s such hospitals éan take care of, and, st this rate. of progression, ad additional insane - hospital every year will not keep pace with the incoming inmane popnulation attracted by the widesproad fame of our State charities. The Matron of the Holdiers' Orphans' Home, in the report two years ago, looking forward to the time when the pretenss of a home for the orphan children of the soldiors of the Iast War wonld have to be abandoned, put forth the eclalm that the Institution should not bo abandoned. Bhe argned that the 8tats shonld establish a genoral home for tho orphan children of Illinois. As one such institntion would not equal the demand, this charity opens up a grand scheme calling for the purchase of thirty or forty sites, snd the ercotion of as mopy buildings in 08 many places in the Gtate, fo draw hither all the orphan or absndoned children of the Western Btates, to be educatod, clothed, and supported by the peoplo of Illinois, The tendency of our public charitlos is all in the diretcion of sup- portinggverybody at the public exponse, converting Illinois into one grand eleemosy- nary institution, and Inying broad and desp the fonndation of Communism,—the con- fiscation of the substance of thoss who labor to mafatain those who do not labor and produce, and who never will labor and pro- duco 8o long as the policy of the State is to encourago pauperism and ,P“‘ & premium on idleness and vagranoy, Tt is timo for tho Stata to call a halt in this business, Charity ianll beneficient, but charity may be abused and mads a pretext for plunder and disbonesty. ‘The Chicago Medical Journal and Erzaminer for the current month calls fora thorough re- vision of the law relating to the commitment of tho Insane. Ita objection to the present law is that it often sctsat liberty persons suffering from insidious and dangerous forms of insanity not recognized by unprofessional jurymen} that it makes a public epectacle of the insaue; that it drags into court aged and Infirm persons who cannot bo moved except with great Incon- venlence to thefr friends; and that it fosters tho feoling among the pcople that {nsanity fs not simply a dlsease,—an afMiction,—but & dis- grace. For these reasons the Journal advocates the passago of alaw creating a Board of Com- missioners in Lunacy, whose findings might bo supplemeuted by jury-trials before the courta as at present, if requested by the partles inter- ested, There {s much to bo sald in faver of tlts plan. Butit should bo distinctly under- stood that any bew law on the subject would not havo the effect of deprising & person sup- posed tobo fnsane of a jury trial, it desired. "The evils of a system of cxclusively private ex- amination and commitment have been proved to be, on the whole, greater than thoso of, public triale. . e —— Dr. Enwarp Ecareston, of the Church of the Christian Endeavor, celcbrated aleo as a novelist, has Introduced in his pulpit tho perllous practice of *preludes,” or current toples of the aay, first mada famous by Joszrm Cook. But there is this difforence between Coox- and Egonestox: the formeris onlya Iecturer, and the latter 18 a preachor. The for- mer hasno coogrezation, the latter has one, Tew congregations will stand **preludes.” Thero are not many good Christians elther who carato goto church {o hear BzACONSFIELD compared to a Chatham-street Jew, or to bo Informed that, if the cipher dis- patches should convict ‘TILDEN, he ought not tobe a candlaate for offics agpin, that ConkLing §s not exactly the proper timber for a Benator, and that TALMAOK'S way of pay- ing cluren debts indicates aslow a state of morals as cxists evon in politics. In pofat of scosationalism Dr, Egonxsrox may soon be sbloto give ‘‘pointa” to TaLMacx. If the preachiers become journalists, ss the journalists have become preachers, who will bo able to tell usapartl Wp would profer not to bo mixed up in questionable sociéty. A Parls papor relatcs that a man dressed like a peasant und bearlug & heavy burden on his shoulders fell agalost s shop-window in Parls and,proke o sheet of plate-glass worth at least 500 trancs. The proprictor scized him, but he averred that ho had no moncy to pay with, Two passers-by advised the shopkcoper to search tilm, which was done, and on him was found a baok-note for 1,000 francs. Hoaverred with felgned grief that 1t belonged to his employer, but the shopkoeper fnslsted on paylng himsalf out of it, and to that effect gave bim 500 franes and scnt him away, sobbing bitterly, Tho note was forged, the advisers were confederates, and ho victim not only lost bis piate-glass window, but 500 fraucs futo the bargain, ————— 1t is not yot dectded whether DARRON, ‘Treas- urer of the Dexter (Mo.) Bavings Bank, wasa hero or a thief. Bomo persous, who bavelooked clorely fnto the affalr, think una way, and some another, Among thoso who still have fafth fo Bannox's honesty 1s Mr. Wiacins, tho detects ive of Boaton, who worked up the case at fho time of the supposcd murder aud robbery.” It is'noticeablo that the New York Zribune, which recently published the other viow of tha case underthe heading of ** Not a flero, but, a Thlef,” is now profuso in its expressions of doubt. A 1bcl suit on the merits of the case, supposiog BarzoN really to have been & licro, would bea very awkward afflalr for somo newspapers. —— The Lrooklyn Presbylery’s cxamination nto Mr. TaLMAGE'S methods of conducting his busi- ness will certajnly bo thorough. This is the Presbytery befors which our Prof. Patrown, afterward famous in the 8wixg case, won his spurs in the prosccution of Dr. Curven for rermitting Miss BxiLey to preach in his pulplt. It may be imaeioed that this body will bave lit- tlo sympathy with the antlcs of the Rev, Mr, Tatsmaor, Good Presbyterlans geoerally, who hold thelr diznity to be next to, if not a little before, their salvation; will heartily wish the Brooklyn Presbytery godspecd fu their now un- dertaking. et “The Virgiola Confederates in the State Senato have exhibited their Calhounlsm agatn, Tbat body has adopted by a unaniinous vote s sorics of nullification resolutions. They deny the right of the General Government to protect a citizen in life, Mberty, or property, or the exerclse ol rights where the Stato clalms jurisdiction; de- clare the logislation which has grown out of the coustitutional smendiments to be null und veld; deny the riglt of the Geners) Government to enforcu the decisions of its own judiclary where the Btate intcrposes its veto, ote. They are evidently firlug the Virginla hears for another war, ————— Women are admitted this year, for the first time, to all the examinations and degrees of the University of London, without exception, on precisely the same terms as mon. At the win- ter matriculation, two weeks ago, thera were nearly 600 candidates altogothur, and elevon of them were young ladics. One lady presented herselt ut the examinatlon for the dewree of Bachelor of Laws. These are the first twelve tadies who have been admitted to the regular ‘examination of any English university, e e—— - The dsy of ConxriNg's *‘great effort® in the 8cuato Collector MERRITT spent au unusa- ally quiet day In Lis ofiice fu the Custom-House, It was uotigeable that be bad very few callers, “It 1 am confirmed,” sald the Collector, smil- fog, **there will be plenty of callers and cou- gratulations to-morrow.” Which shows that fate-weather friends occasionally move cven the Umpld depths of New York politics. e mem—— The Laocaster (Pa) Ezaminer selates the fol- lowlug War lncident; “ Theother day astranger, visiting Lancaster, called with & fricud upons clergyman settled here. Both baving been in the army, the conversalion turned upon the ‘War, and in discussiog the battls of Chanccliors- villo the atranger cited, sa the best oxsmple of bravery he bad scen in that engagement,s young stafl otficer who sat upon his white horse for ten minutes {o the midat of o tillery firo, apparently tntent s the position and strength of thy Loulsiana, aro turning up in a) country. Another nephew has by in Cincinnatl, Tho new Benat, elected In 1877, when Srorronn agninst Kzrroga, both Houses, and attorney for 1 Orleans, and Is eald to be able lawyer. nnd the cxports he Fuctivg g, 100N Bxceryyygy, © enemy § o revort the samoto his superlar, 1o man went up stalrs to his atudy sy down a photozraph of a beardless form, asked his visitor If it resemble, officer whose conduct he’ had dese instant answer was that the pleturs the ofticer in question, 1t was the bimself.”* ————— TRelatfons of Joxas, the new f e Ex-Senator ANMSTRONG, who was Scnator Bogt's *erm by apnofntme unceremonfously turned out Missouri Lealslature, is “hopp wanta to break something, and it {a to by hy he will get after COCKRELL. As ho ential Democrat, and has a little | vote to the subject, he may be heard next time. kG ———— The consumption of beerin the wh Empire last vear was 811,059,764 noarly 20 gallons por month of populatioy, The importations amousted to 8,833,814 Rallony to 19,008,208 gnllons. Bapypy leads—523¢ gallons per head, What thig oog try falls bebind the *faderland" @ thy o sumptlon of beer it makes u whisky. “The lergy, d, bnnm'z boy fn g, d the g, tibed, fi: W23 that o clergyman Senator from | Dart of 1p, °en Ulscorersy OF Wi neyrly wag ch Ifo hasbeen o me;‘l:e'::’ he Clty of Ngg a8 cullivateq T8 and flliog er. o, and gy 1o grany by i, Ing 't mag, 18 a0 foy. elaure (o g from 1y ole Germey Rallons, o P In drinkag Jiex WiantoN, the Marshal of Ly who was kept inofflco when the other Federy officials were dismissed, looks like & priy figbter, and, In some important” respacts, 1y likoone. Buthacan tell mora and betterstoriy than any other man of hisage In the Biate, ing he courage of o fighting-cocks Nobody wiil be apt to bulldoze bim. ‘There were reported in New York during thy month of Jaousry flfty-three failures, withap. gregato liabilities of $1,412,8%4, and assets eathe mated at $354,000, In January, 1878, thers wery 120 fallures, with labllitics of $7,500,000. Thly shows a declded dusiness improvement, and by outlook is for a continuance, Toor men who dream of felicity no loger thiok of belng street-car or ras Directors. Thy lucktest men now going are sald Lo be bloodre. lations ot EprsoN and members of Cras W, FirLp's clevated ** Pool of Fifteen. P Wo beg leavo to advise our excellent contem porary, the Springfleld sepublican, th hat It shoal} print a newspaper on Sunday if it printaany. thing on that day. It has made a great mistake in golom into the tract business. } A member of Congress who voted thirtesn times in favor of the Brazilian subsidy grabhu procurod & copy of **Bongs of the Banctoary" {»¢ Government expense) to esse his conscieacs, i Lato tuformation from the Free-Lunch Ere. ditlon {n Mexico is to the effect that threo miney ples and a boned turkoy have been foundla & reglon never before visitod by a whito man. The electric ight Is sald to bo much better than gas for matching colors. No prudent dry+ goods deater will want to ljave oue of the suiy things sround. Bteam has beon tried on the Sccond Avenus Horso-atlway in New York, The el ovated rosty are kuocking stocks down in o most beartrend ing way. —_——— The most {ncxpl'cable clpher in business, accordlug to Syt Wer TILDEN himsolf, | this whole D, was fix BA3t TiLDEN 18 not the unly publle character with a nophew. | Bey Buruen has one. Joxasalso declarcs that tho beat way tokeey the Miseisslpp! down is to butld fz u § The crime of belng PELTON'S . uncle, Byt T1LDEN can neither palliate nor deny. | PERSONALS. Mr. Gould'a U. P, stock makes him bl U. P Gon. Grant and party have left Suezfor Bombay. Sonator Conkling's machine néeds more grease then his hair, Paul Boyton, we beliove, is awlmmer of New York, the sweet 4 The Rev. W. H. H. Marray denles that bt {s the author of **\Whoa, Emms." The soldiers in tho lato War fought forthe Unlon, $13 & month, and back penstol Horatio Beymonr has accopted the Preds dency of the New York Btata Agricuhtan! L4 cloty. . Wado Hampton foels that ho might neret Jost bis log had he flted Mr. Tilden's order foe mules. 1t Mr, Tildon is innocent wo may well ¢t clalm: Innocence, what crim thy nsme! are commiied Jo Cook calls fashionablo ebarches S day clnbs; but what does Jo Cook churches, auyhow? » know abost Oune of M, Oobb's little poems begin +411ad 1 the wings of & bira." But unfortuastelfy tndeed, jail-birds have no wings. Dr. Carver wonld make au oxcollent Freach duelist. Ilis atm Is 80 perfoct that ho shoot without hitting his oppanent. lend, plague in Russla, rinderpest and Clarkson N. Potter in Americs. ‘I'he compotition of caseful that the mule I8 22 an able snd accomplished **kicker. "'he difference botween Willism Beilod and the old sexton appcars to be thi gathers them in and the former doesn’t. We believe that the editor of York Uramatie Neics I8 buliat.proof. Later= Clars Morris basn't bean able to 8ud hin. Prot. Lubbock recently res wasp, and tho wasp, beltoving that one & desorves anothar, resuscitated Prof, Lubbock: Horatlo Baymonr looks as young 8% tweoty years ago, Yo attributes it 10 that ho acquired, ealy In life, tho checs® habit, # Joaquin Miller,” says th‘a Ierald, **loves to hold s woman's awn,"—rather than bave her pull his we auppose. ‘Tom Beott has regained his will soon return to enter beart and Grant movement, We refer, land-grant movement. Mr. Coukling makes a good resentations, not the jeast of whic represcatation of the State uf New United States Senste. They are said to be making eggy patonted pocess; and, if ¢his a trues hensforth be of nouso except o P taurants for spring chickons. Mr, F. Hassaurek, the well-kno of Ciuclunall, whu wus United sme;“ Az Ecuador under Fresident Liacolu, romunce called *¢ Tbe Becret of the Amanin New York with & stumps any other man in the coun endowed, to walk & hundrod-milomate 1ina donnas {8 sosu® elaking loto obecanty coatd slmi? Hard times in England, suailpox io I o Prosid at the laite? {be ov uscitated j0od 174 bo dil fd estisd Now York hand 1o B4 r wiss o health, sod b soul late M gentle readen w many BiET 1 48 bl B Yotk ls 4 now b4 ess 4 241 0 wo edit! Altotstes @ wrlies § b . o0 ;:o:m)wll b with % We aro afrald both men would soon ped 08 The price of wules Bouth, and Mr. Pelton, recently boen unknows, way, periap sectlon of the country nepotiatiug fres! Mr, Talmage ssyy that **God 000,000 Chinsmou and ouly ono earoe] thoughtless man might ace na Feaso is advancis whosa whereabos! jo te 4 Mt 8, be b puressts o 400 o wby Be' the 1e89% ney was not omlited altogether, but e reated log was knows that he was ¢ el M us with gratitude and 8 there are BO Maie OF Rum. P e - I L L A T e i