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4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, bill for tho ropoal of tho jurora' test-onth roquirement, but are determined to resist the prossuro bronght against them in the pro- posad abolition of all Fedoral supervision of Congressional elections. It wonld be much moro comfortable for the Dom- ocrats if both these mieasures wero stubbornly contosted, and a doubie oxouse for on oxtra session furnished, It is mot clonr to tha Baranp element that the conn- try will approve of an extrn scssion forced in order to ropenl the Bupervision law nnd promoto Mr, Tnurmax's Presidontial pros-| peots’; whilo the Ropublicans have every renson to enjoy tho situation as it Las boon croated by thoir antagoniste, and can afford to stand firm in the position thoy have taken in opposition to'the bulldozing taotics set- tled upon by the caucus, Thye Tribanre, DT MAL,—IN ADVANCE~TOSTAGB TREFAID. ally Edition, one sraf...... 12, 'orth 01 & year, per manih. Clubof teenty. £ pecimen cop! A Gfve lost-Oflice addrees i full, fncluding State snd Coanty, D Hemittances may bamade either by draft, express, Fost-Ofice order, or In regtatered letter, at our risk. TRAMS TO OITY BUDSCRIDERS, Datly, dellyered, Sundsy excepted, 25rents per week. Tally, dellvered, Bunday fncluded, 30cents ver week. Addrens THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cqsner Madiron and Dearborn-ste., Chicago, T, Orders for the delivery of Trix TRINUN at Evanston, Erglewood, and iiyde Park ieft fn the counting-room ‘Willreceive promot atteation. Pl TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES. The lotter of Mr, A, J. Gat10WAY, an old citizon of Chicago and an ominently sound, practical man, printed in onother column this morning, might well sorvo as n rominder to tho Illinois dolegntion in Congress of tho opportunity that still remains to labor for an adequnto recogrition of the claims of the Tlinois River improvement and the onlarge- meont of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, It is not yet too Inte for the Bonators and Repro- sentatives from this Btato to unito in a #tronuons effort which ehall securs a suit- ablo appropriation in tho River and Harbor bill. 'The showing made by Mr, Garroway of the vast importance and nationnl charac. ter of the work is based on a thorough knowl- edgo of the subject, aud his estimates of the cost of securing steambont navigntion from the Misaissippl River to Chiengo nra those of a civil engineor well qualified to form an ac- curato judgment, = CritcAno TRINTN® has established branch ofices n‘:‘:hrmmvt of subscriptions and dvertiscmenta as follows: »NHX:W YORR~Toom 20 Tridune Dulldiog. F.T.Mo X, Manager, France—Xo. 10 Rue do 1a Grange-Batellere. wents Eng.—American Exchange, 440 Strand. 1im, Agent. BAR FRANCISCO. Cal.—Pifhce Hotel, WASHINGTO! . 1310 ¥ strest. MoVickor's Thentre. Msdiean street, between Dearborn and State. Faoe gagement of Misa Ada Cavendlsh, **The New Magds- Jen," Tinverly’a Thentre. Dearborn strect, corner of Monroe, Enmcn‘mnfi of Uates' Comlic Opera Com: . **La Perichole.” Hooley’s Theatres Mendolph rtreet, trimeen Clark and LaSslle. Ene gagementot Mme, Jansuschek, *'Chemney Wold" AMERICAN AND ENGLISH PROSPERITY, ‘Will tha revival of prosperity in this coun- try, which has unq uestionably set in, be fol- lowed by a similar revival in England? This is o quostion which is just now oliciling seri- ous attention in Groat Dratain, whero tho signs of American recovery havo beon eagerly noticed, and whora tho statosinen, the press, the manufacturars, the business men, and the lnboring classes aro nnxiously awaiting simi- lar signs at home, A Judging from the oxperionce of tho past, many of tho leading public men of England, jncluding the Premier, are of the' opinion that Amerioan recovery Isa forerunnor of English rocovery from industrinl dopression, nnd that the people of Great DBritdin will sharo with the American peoplo the improve- ment of business, the renowal of confidence, * Academy ‘of Music. Tialsted strect, between Madison and Monroe. Vas' tlety entortainment. Hamlin's Theatre. Clark eireet, opposite the Court-House. Tuck." Variety entertalnment. o “*Nip and Metropolitan Thentre, Clark street, oppotlte Bherman Houss, Detootive." *'Tho Boy *» SOCIETY MEETINGS, A ST, ANDREW'S, BOCIETY,~The mem. et o s T ARrEw's Shcleiy 4ro Teauoaied ol erman Houso £ (Feb, 13, P ey oclock. JR8IW BROCR WAL, Réce THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1870, Tho bill in the Massachusotts Legislature 5 A T i SN R ¥ to compel raflronds to carry members of that ‘body frea was defeated by a close vote, e e Tho Honso yeaterday ordored tho printing of the testimony taken by the Judiciary Sub-Committeo in the BrobarTr fnvostiga. tion. - 1t hing beon found necessary to adjonrn the llinols Legislature for n weck on account of tho absenco of nenrly one-half its members on the perambulating picnio committees. Tho Republican caucus of the Michigan Legisinture will bo held this ovening, and it is considerad settled nnd certain that Craxn. 2an will be nominated on the first ballot— which i3 equivalent to an election. bl ey Gen. Braoa’s vigorous nssault on the works of the Southern claim-ngents has secured ,for -him a very complimontary rocognition at tho hands.of the Democracy of his own State;' The Demiocratio caucus of the Wisconsin Legislature yesterday passed o resolution indorsing his Pposition “velative to tho paymont of Bouthorn claims, e - Tho Northwestern Dairymon’s Associntion yesterday appointed a committco to confer with the Stato Board of Agriou.ture withaview to holding n daity falc in conuection with the Fat-Stock Bliow to bo held in this ety on the 16th of noxt November, 'The com. bination of the two interests in a national exhibition would make up a poworful attraoc- - tion. The gns war, which has so long busied the Chbicago Common Couuncll, is to be carried into the Legisiature. Bonator Wintre, of Chicago, yesterdny introduced a bill to rostrict tho prices that mny bo charged for g8 in citles of various sizes in Illinols,— just the sort of bill to bring a big gas lobby down to Bpriogfield and moke thinge plessant iu a general way. The Cincinnali papers aro rogaling thelr roaders with a list of tho depositurs and tho amount due each in tho cxploded ¢ Gorman Bavinga Inslitution," The grand total ns far as heard from is $075,267 aud soma conts, The swindled creditors nuwbor a couplo of thoueand induatrious, saving Gormaus, tho whole loss appearing to full.on that nation- ality, 1t is snother “ Myens' Bachive " bank, with the honey all sucked out by the coufi- donoo robbors. % e ———— A complete dead-lock still exista betwoen ne atriking workmen in Liverpool, Englaud, und their employers. 'The shipping intevest is the one moat affected by the lockont, and ‘busioesd'at tho docks is slmost entirely sus. pendod, Many ships with cargoesare waiting to unload, but the merchants are unablo to sooure mon for this purposo without com- plyiwg with the demouds of the sirikers, As 5 consequence of this state of things, the fitteen ®teamora chartered by the Dritish Government to carry reinforcomonts to the troops now operating in South Africn will bave to be fitted out at some othior port. "The visit of the Logislative froe.lunchers at the Northern Iusanu Asylum at Elgin yestordsy was & fair snmple of the servico boing doms to the Btate by thess ofiicial dendheads, They took two bours out of the time allotted for thaeir social and gastronom. {onl jamboree in which to *juspect the build- ing and the workings of the iustitution,” a ‘work which could unot be thoroughly accom: plished in less than a month, Thero ought to be an end of this biennial farce of frao rides and unlimitod gourmandizing under cover of !‘inspecting” State institutious; the thing 1s getting too transparent to de- colve anybody. There aro hopeful signs of statesmapship and good sense among a few of the Sonats Domocrats on the subject of tho recent caucus action, aud it is not uulikely thnt MMr, ‘Pounsan may find his latest flop, which lsnded him plump into the lap of the solid Bouth as o DIresidential candidate, Lag get the more oonservative men of his party to thinklug whetber tho solid North isn’t also of some oousequonce. Mr, Bavarp's strong opposition of the caucus measures Las drawn attontion to him asn man of prudence and wisdom, aud a dispoal. tion {3 shown among certain Bonators to quietly iguore the caucus aotion when it comes to o test vote, aud unite with the Republicans in defeating Mr. ‘TrupMan's little schemo. ‘The Repub- "losus wro perfectly willing to pass the doprossfon was o result of depression, but thero was o serious appre- and the release from the long period of hard times from which both nations hava been But the London Times is not able In ruffering, to take this hopeful view of the matter. o rocont article (which was reprinted in Tiz ToinuNe of yesterday) thero was an admis- slon that the busincss of Americn hns entered upon n coursa of apid im- and a reflection that British American provoment, hension that recovory will not go hand in hand in the two nations, *“ A recovery of industry in tho States,” eays tha Z'imes, *may begin and end there, if, indeed, it docs not aggravate our position by develop- ing the manufacturcs of Ameriea in a more formidable rivelry with ourown.” 'L'hie pict- nro is ndmitted to bo n * forbidding one,” but it §s held up to view as o necorsary warn. ing to be prepared for the worat, This opprehonsion that mnew American prospority will not be followed by a revival of Euglish prosperity is undoubtedly wolls founded, Tho time wns when the rclations between the two countrivs wero of such n character ns to communicate promptly to Togland the benofits or good times in the TUnited States, buv there is ronson to bolieve that these relutions bave been radieally changed. To go back to the boginning, wo were a ploncer people during thoe first half of this century, We were clearing the Eastern for- ests to get at the vast and fortile plains of the Northwest; we wore building canals and steambonts, and then constructing railroads to bring tho producing area of the country within the rddius of trausporiation to market; wo wero devoting our time oud onorgies to the development of the country and the wenlth of production which it promised, During this period, tho nttention of the American people was di- reoted to manufacture only to those things which could not be imported to advantago ; wo were always willing and eagor to swap our agrioultural produce for forcign manus fuctures. It was not till shortly bofore tha outbreak of the War that Americans were o« riously engaged in the effort to improve and enlarge tho manufacturivg interests, and thou this umbition mauifosted iteelf in par. ticular Hnes, such as ship-building. During all this time, for the greator part of whick thero wns n moderato tarilf for rovenue on imported articlos, Americans in n prosperous condition wero contributing freely to the prosperity of Eagland by libaral purchases of all kinds of manufactured articles, and good Umes hero found a reflox in Great Britaln, Then camo tho War, which pnt a sudden stap to the growing inclination to competo with Eogland in manufecture, ''he nation was engrossed in a tremoendous effort at self. proservation for n time, and then it wns found that the War had brought on n manin for speeufation and a degres of inflation which rondered industrinl competition with England out of the question. A high tariff was crented 0s n Jonns to encournge manu. facture for home consumption and protect it from foreign compotition. Under an in- flated oud fletitious currency system, Inbor wlvanced to uuprecedented rates, and land becamo too valuable for other use than as corner lots for vislonary cities. 'Ihis poriod of fictitious prosperity Inated twelvo years, It was so mueh lost time for tho American pooplo ko far as fndustrinl progrots was con. cerned, for thero was no special effort at ocon- omy inmuthods, and tho home maunfacturers sought merely & home market for inforior goods at prices equul to, or but a little lees than, the price of suporior foroign goods, with n tariffof from 40 to 100 per cont ndded, as woll as the cost of transportation, Monoy was pleuty, bocause it wae borrowed in large . quantities abroad on bouds ot all kinds at nny interest necessary to obtain it. 'The Amerienn people bouglit profusely of English manufactured avticles, o8 woll as those of France and other European nptious, ‘Lhero was no particulur cure in this country as to thio mouner of payment, and apparently na apprehonsion that this flotitious prosperity would not last foraver. Eugland was ono of the ohiof bonefiviarios of tha provailing con. dition of things, ‘Then camo tho collapse five yeara ago and the subsequent period of onforoed economy, Borrowiug abroad occased. Money at home Legan to get eoarco aud dearer, 'Cho prices of laud and lots tumbled down, aud wages shrank in proportion to the necessities of the new era of depression, Economy was studied ou all sides, More attontion than over bo- foro wns paid to improved machinery and methods of manufacture, Foreign purchases wero cut down to tho minfmum, and Amer- fean manufncturers began to supply those stnple articlen which it was formerly doomed necesfinry, to buy in Eogland. Iron, stecl, machinery, out. lory, furniture, earpets, woolon and cotton goods of nll descriptions,'were turned out nt home in qudkitity, quality, and prico to eatisty the homo demand, Thon our man- ufacturers, with thoir improved goods and reducod oxpensen, began to look up a foreign market, nnd eamo {nto open and successtul competition with English manufacturors,— in some oases even in the Lnglish markdt. ‘This i3 the situntion at the throshold of re- newed prosperity, which is contemporaneous with n return to a solid, uniform money bosis, There is nothing to hiuder the prog- ress of Amorican manufaotures in foreign markets, and, mennwhile, the demand for Amerlcan breadstuffs and provisions is in- crensing. Thus renewed American pros- perity finds inoroased intornal aud native rosources which not only ronder America moro indepondent thnn ever beforo, but at hosame timo doprive England of the Amor- jcan market, and to n large extont of other markots which it had praviously supplied. So long a3 the present American tondency townrds superlority and economy in manu- facture shall provall, Bogland canuot hopo to share our now prosperity to anything like the extont that it fornierly onjoyed, Grent Britain must have our coiton, broadsiufis, and provisions, but whnt lLas she to ex- change in kind? We no longer need her iron, or steel, or coppor, or zinv, or conl, or woolens, or cottons, or carpots, or nny of her gront staples. Wo do not even wnnt to borrow of Lier money, for during the last five years wo have beon rapidly paying off our foroign debts and nssuming the position of a craditor nntion instend of that of a debtor nntion 8o long oceupied. New prosperity will undoubtedly induce Americaus to reach out for luxurles, but those aro supplied by France much more than by England, Thero is only one condition which may anable England to thrive upon Americnn prosperity, 1If our workingmon shall, by strikea and strifes, force the wages to a point at which competition with Eoglish manufac- ture will be impossible, then Englich manu. factarors will drive us out of the neutral markots, and even find an eniry into the Amorican markot in spite of our high tariff. But even this danger will bring with it its own curg, for if wagos that are too high shall cut off American manufactures from foreign markets, there will be n corresponding do- creaso in American industry, and men will bo thrown out of employment; this ciroum- stanco will, in turn, tend to reduco wages ogain to the normal lovel and reopen tho foreign markets. It Awmerican industry shall continue to nlvaucs uuder prosperity with nnything lika tho strides it has mads in a poriod of deprossion, England will be con- fronted with the stern necessity of reducing its industry. and trade, and souding its sur- plus population to Amerien and itz colonies ns tho only menns of their salvation. La. gland must sooner or Jater transfer is com- mereinl supreinacy to the United States, if tho American peoplo make wise use of the enormous advantages which Natnre has luvishod npon them as upon ne other peopla, A BICK WORLL. » The woyld is slok, end the doctors 45 nof scom to bo helping tho putient mush., On the other hand, it appears to ba gotting worse, Tho plague which broke out at ‘Wotliankn, in the lower valley of tho Volga, near tho Onspian Sea, in Decombor Iast, seems to bo steadily Increasing and nd- vancing northwesterly into Russia. It northern limit is near Zaritzin, a town of nearly 20,000 inhabitants, and in direot rail- way cowmunieation with Moscow, St, Petors. burg, and nearly all tho principal cltics of Ttussin, Zaritzin has beon made the quar- nuotino station, aud Gon. Meuzorr, who go distinguished himself in Asia Minor dur- ing tho lnte war*with 'Lurkey, is thero with o large dotatchment of troops who hnve formed a military cordon to provent fugitives from tho infeoted district from crossing the live, Whether theso procautlous will pre- vont the sprend of thoe disense s doubtful, especially if tho soldiers themsolves should be infected, It travela by wator a3 woll as by land. ‘The Volga runs directly through the plaguo district, aud tho Don, which omptios into tho Bea of Azof, sweeps closa by the distriet, Asia Minor is in oconataut communioation with Russia by land and the Mediterranean ports by ses, and, if it onco gaing sufficiont hoadwny, neither nli- tary cordons nor quarantines will be of much avail. 'Though the original aren of infoction 1s small, ol Europe is alarmed, and not with- out cause, as dispatchos to the Grock Gov- ernment confirm the report that it has broken ont at Kavalvs, an island of the MEyean Sua, and a digoasa very closely resembling it has broken out 1 'Thessaly, Euglaud, Spain, Froance, Italy, Egypt, and Malta have estab- llshed quarantines not only ngainst Rtussin Lut Egypt; and Roumania, Sorvia, Austria, and .Germony are strotehing cordons along their froutiora to shut ofit this unwelcoms stranger; while in 8t, Poteraburg the authori. ties nro mnking proparations ngaiust {ts com- ing by rigid sanitary meoasures, Chey have not only the plagua to guard agalust but numerous othor opldemics, Small-pox and a virulont type of typhus fever ave incrensing alarmingly in Oontral Rtussia. An epidemic is raging in Biborin, aud unknown disenses hava broken out, sweoping off poople by thousands, Whorever large bodlos of men ara gatbored, fotal sickness bronks out. 'I'he Rnssinn troopd in the Bulkan Poninsula are suffering fearfully with spotted typhus fover, A lnrge dotachment of troops which rocontly arrived at Tripoli from Canstantinople was suddenly tnkon down with a mystorious disenso which provos go fatal thnt the Mediterrancan ports hnvo quneantived ngalost it, Meanwhilo the cholera is nt work in Morosco aud at other points fu Northoru Africa.. The plhysiclaus of England say thoro nevor was a timo when lung disenses wore so prevalent as now, and tho same ia true in the northern sectlon of our own country, Itisan almost universal complalut from Nuw England to Califoruin, ospeatnlly in tho casos of psople of advanced ngo, that, instend of shaking off a cold, it rapidly nssumes the form of pueumonia and proves fatal, ‘'here probnbly never has boen a timo 14 Chlengo whon discgses of tho thront and lungs wero so provalent as now. To add to tho calamity of the_situntion, the germs of the yollow fever, which were wupposed to have beon killed by the frost, hinve agaln wmado their appearance inthe South. Even the brute creation are not spnred, for the cattle in Russia, Gor. mauy, Eugland, aud to o cerlaln extont the United Btates, are sufforing with pleuros poounionia. T'rof. Law, of Coruell Univers sity, who Las been dlrected to invostigato tho causes and extent of the disense in New York Btate, visited & Long Island stabls the other day and found 800 cows sufferlng from tha direns 'ho hogs have the cholera, nnd {ho horses in sgome sections are coming down with the epirootio. The ontlook for the coming mmmer 18 not & vory encournging ono, What the cnuses may be wa loave to the doctors to determine, "Tho application of romedics is also part of their duty, aud we aro not disposed to be prejndiced agalnst them merely booauso the peoplo of Astrakhan the other day rose up and slaughtored all the dootors, and the dispatches this morning annonnes that the ploguo lina disnpponred at that place. Thero is much that overy city can do in tho way of preoaution that will mitigate the force of an epidemie, ovon if it does not altogother prevent it, With theso wnrnings beforo us, it will be a oriminal negloct 1f tho sanitary regulations of our large cities and the quarantino regulations of our scnporis are not rigidly enforoed. ——ees A CHARITY CIRCUS, Tha Logislaturo of Illinois has practically ndjourned to enablo onc-third of ita mombfrs to mako a festivo tour of the Stateat public oxpunse. Wo nro foreed to sny that tha pro- coeding 18 not eraditable to the Goneral As. sembly, nor {s i€ oreditablo to the mémbora who are thus “swingin' round tho circle,” The programme of the excursdon ison two sleoping-cars from Springfield to Lincoln, thenco to DBloomington, Norma!, Pontinc, Ohieago, Elgin, Knnkakeo, Champaign, Onr- bondale, Anna, Chester, Bt. Louis, Jackson- ville, and back to Springfleld, 'The oficially- appointed mombors number, we boliove, fif- teen Sanntors and forty-eight Roprosenin- tives, bosides clorks, State oflicers, mombers of the Board of Qharitles, besides Trustees bf tho soveral institutions, ‘togethor mnking n formidable body, nud ol travoling in tho namo of the State of Illinois, aud for what? Though tho number of membera of the Legislature engagod in this business i3 only sixty or soventy, the result isintended by tho profectors to b the snma as if the whole Gonoral Assembly woro on tho ** bum,”" It bias loft tho two ITouses practically withont a working quorum ; left the various cowmmit- tees without working quorums; arrested progress in tho two Houses, and poralyzed legislation. It has rendared a short, busi- noss, and economioal session nn 1mpossi- bility, and all this for what ? Thin expedition fs discreditable, boonuse undcftaken for falso protonses, If a per- sonnl inspection of the State institutions was3 all that was intended, thon such investi- gation could have besn performed by three membors from oach Honso much battor than by threo score. At prosont the railrond com- panfes are dragooned info having this battal- fon of dendhends rolled all ovor the Stato ; the Tuliman Company is sponged-on to furnish its palaco cars ; oach iustitution is required to propare and furnish dinners, suppers, or ‘banqrots to this hordo of huugry dendheads and freo-lunchers ; and, undor the thin cover of performing somo officinl inspection, these members are roystering, fdnsting, and por- ambulating the State, and for what? "'ho State of Illinois has boen launched in- to n systom of public charitics and of Stalo institutions that threntons with its annual growth to mako this Stato tho gonoral asy- lum aud hospital for the sicl, lame, halt, blind, deaf, dumb, idiotlc, insans, nud orphan of the whole West, and tho free wohool-louse of overy young womnn in the land who wants to bo a tencher until sho gots & husbaud, and as a reformntory for oll the youthful !criminals, and ns o place whero the sons of furmors can get the most finished instruction in Latin conjuga. tions and Greek roots, (Al these charitios aro maintained at the public cxpenso from the procoeds of tnxalion of the industrinl classes. Thich of theso inytitutions has been preceded by tho purehinse of a site, and the arection of buildiugs, and after that of wings and ndditions; aud is accompanied annually by the employment of a largo and incronsing forco of highly.salaried officers and the ex- penditnfo of Iargs aums for supplios, ropairs, and additions, The number of official para- sites supportod in this State as objeots of charity is not only already large, baut ia rapidly growing anuually, "Theso ivatitutions, though ostonsibly es. {nblished in tho namo of charity, owe their ongin ohiefly to thirst for office and to roal cstato speculations, and to tho desira to ad- vortiso local neighborhoods at tho gonoral cxpense. ‘I'ioy are theroforo distributed in oll sections of tho State; bub thoro are yet many towns in which the State has expend- ed no monoy for an ‘‘inatitution,” nnd which are growing restive uuder the par. tiality shown other polats, 'Thus two years ngo tho visitntipn of the legivlative mob ro- sulied in planting on additional Inenne Asylum at Kanknkoe, af'nn immanso cost to the taxpayers, nud an additionnl Penitentinry at an absurd placoe called Ohestor. 'I'he last of theso jobs is now £o confeasedly a fraud thnt the best thing the Stata can do is to ubandon all the expendituro made, and savo to tho Stata auy further waste in that diree- tion. Let the roal-catate grabliora keap what thoy havo geabbod, but let tho State throw 10 mare monoy away on that wretchod site, 1t will bo strange indeod if, from sixty to novonty inembiers of the Leglslature, thorois not ovolved the job of at lenst two or threo additional **Btate oharities,” Thero ought to be, in order to preserve tho guographloal balanco, o normal university west of the Iilinows River, aud the southoastern part of tho State hns beon thuy far noglected. It is safe to nsstmo (lnt ingans porsons enough in the West can bo found to fill ot lenst threa inore asylumy, nud this Comunittos of sixty can certuinly find places whoro sltes oan be purchased aud ambitious towne anxious to ‘o adorned with the bandsome buildings of some liborally-suppoited Btato iustitutions, Tho businoss—rol businsss—of tho mam. moth Committec is to recelve proposals, If any onv in the Stato has auy Iand to sell to tho Stato for a publio charity,—aud all the institutions from the Btate-House down to tho establishment for the Feoble-Mindsd may bo regarded a3 publio charitios,—lot this Committco bo informed, Eiwh of these fn- atitutions has a Board of 'T'rustoes or other officors, and bohiud thoso is tho Btate Board of Charities, Tho demand of thoss loenl Boards for monoy fs insatiablo, They take no account of hard timos, low prives, reduced wagos, but howl ia unison ¢ Glve, give," like the horse.leoch'’s daughter. IHore Is the demand in gold values upoun the prosent Logislatures Northera Invane, EIgin. ... 1. .$ 210,120 Centeal lnnano, Jacksonvill U0, 700 Soutnera Iy 00,000 Deat and 20,504 Bilnu Ay 31028 Feoble- 105,085 Orphans’ Homs, + bi,000 Ky und Bar L 4T000 Hiolorm Schnol v a0 Eastern Insun, + 400,000 “Ihe Siats Unt L 125,000 Chestes Poulten + 500, 000 Orand-tolalcay sens o0 sen sienen§2,450,641 Thix ia what the ealaried oflicers of these institutions and tho local Boards ask the Leglalatures to vota for their support. That tho domands are exceasive, wasteful, and ox. FEBRUARY 13, 1870-TWELVE PAGER pligrimage, tius wholesale visitation, diniag, nod banqueting, nnd bronkfasting, supporing, smoking, nnd dancing, and fenst- ing, 1s that tho leglslators bo porsunded to vote nt least hnlf a million or moro boyond what {a required. Tho Committee of sixty legistators and the accomnpanying lobby aro on this pilgrimage fo he perayaded into thi: reckless and spendilirift expondituro for the exiating charitios, and to have their eyes opened to tho great nccossity thero cxlsta for other charitios to be located in Honntorlal Distrlots whose most pratontions publio bullding at presont is the County Jail or the Almshouse. 'Ihe sixty honorables, nenrly equal to one.third of the whole Legis- Inture, ara expeoted to go bnok to Bpring. fleld *solid” for everything that has beou asked for in tha shape of money, aud solid for at least two or thres now institntlons to follow na soon ns the Kankakeo nud Choster charitles bave seoured their grabs,—espocial. 1y tho Cliester job, ‘This is mountobask legislition. All that this mob needs ix p brass band and a brass gun to put itself on a par with a cirous, parading the State, nt an onormons exponso, looking for placos in which to plant tho pub. lic money in tho name of chnrity. A PHILOLOGICAL FUSS, Our law roports yeaterdny contained meon. tion of n novel libel case in which ono Gor- inon sued nnother for eallivg him n * Spitz- bube,” The jury wns composed of Amori- cous, who did not know wipt the word meant, and some Germons, who were frank onough o ndmit that the meaning of the word deponded on its connection nnd the occasion of using it. Before tho exports who wero onlled to establish tho menuing of ,tho word wera through, the jury know so Tittlo ns to the merits of the philologienl con. troversy that they conld not dacide whether tho . plaintiff or the defendant was the “Bpitzbube,” nud so acquitted tho latter. The word **8pitz"” menus ** point,” and the word * Bube" *rasonl, knave, or cunning fellow,” Used togathor, thair significance’in Euglish would be the “hend rascal.” When wo cnll o man a “boss thief” wo call Lim a “ 8pitzbube,” and oven Beerzrnun may com- plain of tho world for treating him as s [ Spitzbuba when they stigmatizohim as the “areh-flend,” The moaning of the term, howover, lies in its appleation, - It may moun notbing, a very little, or n groat doal. It may be uszed ns a term of ondearment, nx when a father ealls his son a * cuuning little rascal,” or a8 an extreme term of reproach. Tt occuplos a wido field of application and involves slindes of meaning too eunning for an Amerionn jury to separate. In thus par. ticulnr onso the jury, to thoroughly ascortain whothier there was any libel in its use, saonld have ascortsined the podigrees of both plaintiff and defondnnt, their school of edueation, thoir trades, the brands of beer thoy consume and their capacitios for ns- similating that delightful boverago, their views upon the Schileswig-Hostain question, thefr shades of politics whon at homo, whether they aro disciples of Bourrorr, Kaxt, or Srietnacen, and to which school of music they belong,—that at Berlin and Vionnn, which contres around Joacmm and Dinamys, or that at Welmar, which flies the colors of Ltszr and Waoxen. Tho Germans have time emough to dovote to the elu- cidation of the- monning of n word, ond somo of them have spent the wholo Sorfpturnl span.in running down a Greek root, but with Americanslife is too short and they aro in too much of 8 hurry. Ilence it must have been that the testimony as to the word “Hpitzbubs” opened up a vista of such appnllivg possibilities and such endless exouraions into tho dictionaries and dinlects that thoy shrank back in terror and found for tha dofendnnt to nvart the endloss showor of philological perplexities that throatenod thom. It is lso possibla that the jury failed to seo any malice in the word, whatevor its meaning might be, that did not convoy any meaning to them, and regarded the defond. ant no more guilty of libel than was Dr, JonxsoN when he ealled the Billingsgato fish. womau o “paersonnl pronoun,”. Our Gor- man friends, howover, have n romedy in the promisos and noed not feel discouraged by the notlon of the jury. Whenover ona Gor- mnn {s oallod a * Bpitzbnbe” by another, lot him domand that he shall repent tho libel in English, and if ko won't do it, tako mntis- faction by kuocking Lim down, As *knock- ing down™ is n torm Americans understand, a jury would have no difficully in arriving at o doclsion, 0] TPerhaps tho despair of the Demoeratio party about its future prospeots, which isthe rosult of varlous ciroumstanoes, has nowhero boon botter illusirated than in the ndvice ro- contly given by tho Oinoinnati Enguirer ns to tho best policy for the party to pursuo. 'fho Enquirer says thnt tho way for tho Domocrats to eloot the next Prosidont is to make sure af carrylug the four States of Ohbio, Indinnn, Illinols, nud Michigan, whieli, with a * Bolid Bouth," will furnish moro Electoral votes than will be required; nnd that, to do this, they should brenk nway from tho hard.money Democrats of the Bast nud joln forees with the Greonbackers, Iforo is ite argumont : Thelden that any acnsible men In the South are golng to be dupod by tho bank orzans of the K into an alliance with bank Dainncrata of New York and New Jorsoy, or the hard-money faction of Panusylvania, is all nonsenso, Domocratic lead- ers uverywhore know that tho organizations calling inensolves Democratic n the three Htates of Perusylvanla, Now Jorsoy, and Now York areina deplorable minority. 'I'he Reoublicans have & plu. rallty in ol threo of tnose States, In Now York Jthe Greenback party numuver over 100,000, They have tho samo nunber in Ponnsylvania, and 25,000 in New Jersey, Wo have somo wise mon in both of the old parties who say thut tho Greenback party will soon disband, 'Uhe Ropublican party will dise bund long bofora the Ureonbackers will. 'Fhe Greondackors will dlsband whoa overy dollar of hank-pavier is banlshed from the land, and evory dullar that cirenlatos in the United States as money, b It gold, sitver, or papor, will by tesuca by tho Government, and will be & full legat-tonder for all dobtu, puhlic aud private. The Greenback party’ sud the Democracy huve, I unlted, & majority in all but four Slates 1o the Uplon. They have & majority of 330,000 votos in thy North, aud by the year 1680 whl have from 500,000 to 800,000 mas Jority overthe Mopublican party and all of fta ailies, Now, what bavo the hard-money Demoe cratsof tho'Rast 1o offer? What Btates can they carry? ‘Thoy aredn a minority in the Stats of Now Yorkof over 100,000, and tha satue in Penusyls vanin, They arq, ina mmority of 20,000 in New Jerscy, and 1n every Slatein Now England (hey are In aminorily. What combiuation can they mako that whil carry cltber Now York, Penneyl- vanis, New Jersoy, orany of ibe New Euglaud Statest Whero can they find alltes to help them? 1o they hope to get any portion of the Gresnback- ers? 1 they do they will be terribly dlsappotated. The Greoubackers would soanor bargaln with the muney-sharks uf Wall strvet at ouce. Tho so- callod Democralic leaders of the East have at last boen brought Lo whore thé road forks, Thoy bave now ot aither to sosk an jmmediate combination with the Gruenoack parly, or bo dlsgracefully de- foated next fall. This 18 tho real situstion of the threo partics, and It La time that our, frivnds in the | South and the Wast should look at facts, and guvern thomsgives accordiugly, This ia clear desperation, in viow of the faot that it was n practical alliance with the fallncien and dolnzions went, that lost the Blates of Obio, Michigan, and llinols to the Domoorats Inst fall, or nt least operated to that ond a8 mnol os any othor influenco in the eampalgn. If, then, there Is nothing left to the Demooracy 1n the futuro but such hopo naa it mny flud in a closor Groenback alliance, their ¢asa ia cortalnly a desporato one, Groenbackism, ro-callod, has nothing like the atreuglh now, and will not have noxt yenr, that it had last fall, ‘Then it was o problom whether resumption could be suc. censfully carriod out, and the Greonbnckers nnd eoff-money Democrats hiad tho advan. tage of theoretio demonsiration of ita im- practicability, They will no longer be ablo to appoal to the people on that basis, Re- sumption is an accomplished fact, nnd the conntry is beginning to realizo the benefits that wore promised for it. Fialism, puro and simplo, has nothing left tonatand upon. Tho only {asue that conld bo mado agninst the presont currenay system is the proposed aubstitution of Treasury notes for tho ont. standing Natlonnl Bank notes. That 1ssud will bo too intangible for party suoccess. It is difficult tp presait into view now, and the effort will bo sttonded by now difficultics in tho fnture, 'Thinking mon overywhers will doubt whether resumption can Lo main. tnined, aud its bonefits enjoyed, if the Gov.' ernment curroty be doubled, whilo they now feel n cortainty of an nssured equality and uniformity of all kinds of American our. rency on the present basis. ‘The privileges of the I'ree Bankiug systom wiil be a stand. ing refutation of the charge of monopoly which hos boon brought ngainat the banks, nud the mass of the people will oppose all tinkering with the currenoy in the face of ro. viving prosperity. It is probable that fally ns many so-called Greonbackers, and former followers of such Domoorats a3 Ewixo and Voonuzes, will prefer to act with the Repub- lican parly rathor than with the Democratic party plodged to an exploded fallnoy nnd a dend igsue. I tho Cincinnatl Enguirer i right in nssuming that the only hopo of salva. tion fo the Democratic pnrty lis in a nnion with Greonbackers, then the Democratio party will nover bo sived. We commend to the cnroful attontion of the Illinols dolegntion in Congross the lottor of Mr. OAnrter, attachod leroto. It ex. prosses tho sontiments of every man in Illi- nois, If Congrose would vote enough money. to build onto of tho looks and dams in the river, or an oquivalont sum to deopon the, canal, then the peoplo of Illinois might have #ome hopo that our delegation in Congreas hnd some woight, or had expended some labor in urging this work on Cougrosa. Tha $40,000 1s really of no practical use. Hora is tho lotters Ta the Edltor of The Tribune, Cntoaao, Fob, 12, —T olsorve that in the annnal grab the improvoment of FoZRiver gota $100, 000, Now, it they would tako that money uv there and distribute 1t pee capita {¢ woyld do thoss poor peonle a great deslor good. that part of 1t which finally finds 1ts way foto Fox River might as woll bo sunk in tho middle of tha Allantlo Ocean, Thore Isno local trade and never can bo any, for tho very simple reason that, it beine a poor agricultural country and 5o minerals or lumber, there never can bo anythingto send ont of“the conntry, nnd thorefore the people cannot pay for bringing anything into tho convtry. And if the Fox and Wiscousin Rivers were imuproved, the {n- torest on tho mancy thata boat lond of wheat wonld cost from the time it left the Misalssippl till it ar- rivod in Lake Michigan would pay for taking It across by rafl, -thore being no posaibiiity of any local or through traftle, xv'hy not disirlhnte the money as suggested? In the moantine, letus return our thanks to our powerlul 11linois delegation 1n Congress for secur- ing the driblot of $10,000 for the Illinols River,one of the vory few rivers in the United States on which the natlon should oxpend n dollar, M. W, Canran, - PERIHELIA AND PESTILENCE, About the time of our Greot Fire, soma searcher after the eurlous broached the theory that the visitations of pestilenco and other dls- naters to the human raco wern colncldont with the passages ol the mnjor plansts of tho solar system through the perlhelia of thelr respective orbite. The theory was ¢ supported ” by a cita- tion of historical facts sending to prove ity and the dreadful forccast was made that, as all these eronter planets will pass thelr perihella botween the years 1880 and 1885, the warld will bo visited by a plague-sweep, earthquakes, aud tempests, niuch more appalling thon aoy that have oce curred within many vast centuries, "Thoe predictlon attracted somo attention at the time, and was then almost forgotten. But the breaking out of the plaguo fu Rusela within a very short timoe of the perlod of perilielion geems to avo caused widespread alarmj and the dally papers “aro full of it Many lotters have recently been addressed to Tna Trinune asking for an expression of opinlon in rezard to it; und {n respouso. we present the followlug, written at our request by an expert io the scle once of astronomy: The years of perihelion passage wilibe: Ju- piter, 1880; Neptuno, 18815 Uranue, 1853; IIMP Saturn, 1833, Also, about the 23th of May, 1881, the platot Mars will be in the perthetion noint of Al orbit, In order to ascertaln tho momentum of theso facts s bearing upon sub. tunary things, wo note: Flirat—"Tho perihelion of a planct's orbit Is not a substance or thing that can excrt an nfiuence, neithier §s It o polat that niways preserves the samao position in the beavena with reforenco to thostars. If any effect be duo to thu passage of a planet through fts porihellon, it must bo slmply beeause the planct s then nearer than when in any othgr part of {ta orblv; aud ftis s noceasary fuference that thé effoct may be math oanatically correlated to some function of the dlstance, Second—The most reasonanle supposition with regargxo this Interdopendence of power and distadte {s that the effect varlos inverscly as tho square of the distance. That I8 tha relatlon known to exist in the case of the attraction of gravitation, and light and heat, If It be clatmed thut tho cfect Is eleetrle, or magnetle, then we bave no good reason ta suppose that any other ratfo prevatls; ainco i3 the absence of any lneal conductor (as a plecoof wire), any defluite quan- tity of power radiating from avy point inust be Aistributed over an area the mazuitude of which i3 directly proportional to the square of the dis- tance: whercfore the quantity of power jm- pressed upon & square fout or square mlle of stich affected area will bo in inverso proportfon to the sauare of its distance from the source of such vower. o Third—1ho planets arc always shiniog, and each ono {8 always stiracting s follows away from the average puth around the sum. It would be absurd to suppose that they aro not always ecting maguetically, or electrically, it they do so when fn perlhetion, 1t 18 therefore a fogleal foference that thedisauters referred to, it due to peribiclion passage, must be duo to the oxceas of the perihielion forco ubove the average forve,—that 18, the differcnce of the two, Thls 18 very nearly equal to the evcentricity of the arult divided by hal? the product of the perl- beliun distanca pnd the wesu distauce, The mathematival reader can casily verify this state- ment{ tho non-mathewatical reador must take it for granted, 4ourth—The gravitatiug fofluence of e plauet, for cqual distances, I8 directly proportioual to the quantity of matter it contelna; which, for equal dunaltics, 1s proportionat to the cube of the diameter. 1t distance and {ntrinslc flluml- uatluz power be both equal fn any two or more cases, then the light seceived would be propor- tlonal to the surface—that is, 10 the squarc of the dismeter. In the cas of magootlc or eloe- tric excitation, the ratlo of oxerted force must certalnly not be outside theso limits, Iu the casa of tho superior planets, which aro charged travagnus i3 not doubted; but part of this | Greonbackers, 8o fav as truckling to thelr | with the crime of makiog thelr peribelion pas- anges almost simultancousty, correct to say that their qfin[r:'t‘xl:l::p:fl'nm““’ and fotrinsle luminosltlce, arg n mrm“m' mamol. ralor 0 thal, wilont. sl e o) o s v va-n pp! Mo reaco! 10 each ni Fifth—\Wo may now Inquire, ;c( dflluu plancts on the eartt! s, docs it vary With thefr varyi from our planct? It yes, wo l::;'l.“.zg :,:mm" Important fact, that tho differences bm o thelr mean and least distances aro logs mclwun distonco of the earth from the sun, ’n,mI b ferciices are, for Mars, 18 millions; gy miltloas; Baturn, 60 millions; Urspyy pett 3 ons; und Neotuno, 24 millons, whils fre distances fa between 13 nud 63 miiltny of el The earth, thercfore, in each annual rnvolmz""' changes her dlstances {rom cach of fhege st mora than the change of distance with mm a to Uranus once In elglity-tour yearsy !Ef“ ahould givo a pestilential visitation cm‘y |: lzh months. , Tn the case of Jupiter, Which fs 1!1" ed by Dr, KNAPP and others to be the mu:y,. a tent of all, the differenco of dlatance fy ki about one-quarter; and, according o u.e“;" patlichls most favurablo to the theory of pe ) tary epidemle, the alfforenca of action J;nr one sixteonth (square of olie-quatter) ay m” every twelfth year, due to Jupliter's pzrlod'm 1t 18 every year, duo to the carth's annna) oy tlom. If, when the carth is fn Iing between Tn: 8un nnd Juplter, wo can detect the least exce; of clectric, magnetic, or actinle fore abope n:: mean, we may, perbave, be Justified In assarpy thnt an augment of one-sixteenth part mub will caure dirc disnsters, Otherwise, cmun;‘ not. Wo might casily show by figures thal combined excess of ull four of the larger ply, . ots, when acting together at simultaneous m; hellon, would tiot be moro than (say) one-tenth of that duo to the eacth's Searly cliange of iy tance from Jupiter alone, The fiea of earh epldemic, ns directly due to exeosslye action by the plancts whon at or near thefr Derlhelly, may, on this showing, be fairly called absur), Slxth—The most plausible hivpothests is thyy the plancts'will acton theearth Indireetly,- through the' medium of the sun; that they v}m excite lim to. unusual energy, luminony, magnotic, or otherwise,'and that this will cansg the predicted epldemie. The fdea is not Bew; and has, besides, the merit of having been ud: vocated by some great men. The Statement has been admitted Into at least ono selentise text book, that thers apocarsto boa congen tion between the porlods oy sun-spot vigar nd the perfods of revolution”of Venus, Jupite, Baturn, and -Uranus, A littlo fizuring wiy enablo us to fortn somo ideaof the valgsof this theory as applied to the case in pofm, Taking the auantity of matter in the earth, ang her mean distance, a8 the unlta of measure, and divlding the mass by the square of the dlstance, we have for rolative power ou the sun: Earh, 1; Jupiter, 11.40; Baturn, 1.03; Uranus, 004; Neptune, 0.02. The squarc of the relaiipe dinmetor belng takon {natead of the massMrires Earch, 13 Jupiter, 4.35; Saturn, 0.03; Uraous, 0.05; Neptune, 0.02. Applying the above given ruls for eccentridly, and multiplying foto these numbers, and alsy multiplying to make tho carth tho ualt, we have: nng 18 tho tnfye, neo A direct gney lh:.g Planet, Onmass. Oasurface, Jupiter ... 0.47 Eaturn, 0. Uranua 0,004 Neptuno 0.00001 Theso figures shoty that In tho case most fa- vorable to the theory the Increased cfect dusto Juplter is only about ono-fourtl greater than that duo to tho carth; while the power of all the rest 18 fusignificant in comparlson. The effect due to tho combined perihclion passazes of th four greatest plancts in the aolar system Is only about ono-third greater than that produced by the earth at tho beginning of each calendar jear, when ahe {8 in perthelion. > The navocates of the perfhellon theory may clnjm that thig comparison 18 unfair; int¥ores apectas First] that the cumulative force of thesa plancta, , acting.. through sevbral years, will amount to much more tnan il 1t were operating only during the short timo that theearthis ncarcat to tho sun. Secondly, that the larger plancts are confeasealy much hotter than tbs carth, and thercfore are enpable of exertiog a vory much greater olectric or thermal forcs, pet ton of matter or par square yard ol surface. Let us then take Juplter as the unit of compatison. The above flgures shiow that bis powerlsin crensed by only ono-thirtieth to one-tourteenth part, ~at most, by the adfuvaut sction of all the rost. Woare, therefore, not warranlel in belfesing that tho combluca perlhelios poassazes Will work more than 3 tu 7 pef cent mora of harm to the hunanraco thao caused by Juplter once In overy twelve years, of a little Joss, when he makes his perlliclion pase sage nlone, Of course no one can_nssert, knowingly, that the plugue now desotating Russia will not spread over other cauntrias of the Uld World orswet this Continent as with the besom of destruction, Such wide-soread devastation Las vccurred be- fore, and will undoubtedly oceur azaln, unless checked by aclentific Intorvention; s blstory alt ways ropeats iteell, HBut the above consilers~ t{ons show that it would be cntircly Independest of peribelion passages. Wo may aild, In conclusfon, that the perides Mon passages raferred to hove not yeb ks made, and Juplter, which s cestainly the motk potent of the lot, if there bo any potency in tbe caso, I8 yob ffty degrecs from the perlbelion point of his orbit; so that tho present plasst cannot bo due to peribelin- unless wo aré DIt pored to ndzlt that the offcct may occur belore the cause bis an existence. "I'hio phenomens so full of terror to the ml'fi will bo wolcomed by tho astronomer. Lo «ll probably be able to find out more than 8 no¥ koown of theso planets; ospeclally in thectsé of Jupiter, whoso perlhiolion passago will v«r: nearly colncido with his opposition to the su enrly tn October, 1880.. They wil ba p‘t;w with the opportunity which s dreaded by t! who, like the sllly sheep In the fuble, were ¥rightoncd at the sound So sweot 1o huntaman, gentlowan, and boans. ————— The blography of Geonas Davio Cu.u::; First Blatiop of tho Roformed Episcopal 40 ‘which has fust been publiahed by Dopp, i & Co., of Now York, contuins a pxlmomem from Blabop CLARESON, of Nebrasks, 10 I‘hfl? Quaning, animadverting soverely upon U "“ Wutraions®, The occasion of the lmef o Dishop Winitanous's ahibition of 1'19"‘"_ Cuassis from preaching in the Diocess b:lit“ noms, Referring to the correspondence o the two Bishops, which had boen sharp o b ot part of Bishop Wurrziouss, Bishon U!:::l i wrate from Omatia, under date of July & (A My Dranvy Detovep Brotncn: it Iu;f\*(“ “ trua thot a followship in_misfuriube 1 o ** wondrous Kind," Like you, I uad son whatsoaver, excapt Adolity in my Sroiner oct follen’ under tho ban of out bb Tilnots, and for fiftcen years suleron asp aslconld under hin m nmpmmmx‘a. asults, But entirely fndependont of n1 wo have both aulfered aliie, 1 totnk WitE Tony sonable people that sou liave been \nmuz"’ ik as Wi n e —tias vu\lt:f’fl'flf“fia mseif in his lLuulln npon you, o wiho Lius unne nmnl!: any man in muh onean Church (0 uly i Nothiny but the ciomency and loyally &t . nola cleray saved Al frow tris) 1 U3y oy Luometimen think now thut §t shoult Bogerel onder to vindicato belulr‘:' m_“:.m e ,2?- St g BB Ao shoutd bo prescuted 7 for fulse teacking. This lotter has nover before, edge, beon printod, at least not | < - presenta some interesting questions " light; and, though the mnuuvcrualm eart relates ara how dead and rous ¥ith 1 eaeof aud great man who was the princlps b thew i this Diocesc, the views ”“mo“ CLARKSON at that timp mey be mwr:,. batte only to his old parlshioners of 8t. Jw; o 1t the many friends sud adhiercats © Bisbop Wiuirauousz. koor!* to our Kool 120 In Chic i e which 1§ ALl The chargo ol plaglariun mads VTP ABLY sgelpat Prof, MaTusws tsmeh B by pacted it would be, by & frank -vn; Whee sppropriation complajucd of was ever knawa Prof, Mauswa will D5 =u e e rwe ]

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