Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1879, Page 4

THE CIIICAGO 7. MOND/ CRIBUNE FEBRUARY 24, 1§79, 4. Tiye Taibmwe, TERMS OF SUBSCRLIIION. TY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—TOSTAGR PRETAID. 1jeily Edition, one yrar. ..me.us Jortsotn yont, permonili 1 HipaZ Welve pazes, WRRKLY EDITH Gno copy. b oy, Fpecimen coples s 4 U'I,vu Tost-Oitica addresa in full, Includiug Btate and County. Remittances may be mada efther by deaft, express, Post-Office order, of in reglstered etter, at our Fisk, TERMA TO CITY SUBSCRIDERS. Dally, delivered, Bunday cxeepted, 25cents per waek, Dally, delivered, Sunday Inciuded, 20 cents ner wecks Address THE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corner Maditon snd Dearburn-sts., Chicago, 1l Orders for tho dellvery of Tne Taintax at 1t anston, Englowood, and 3pdoTark Joft In the couut! g-roon wiiireceive promptattenton. TRIDUNE BRAN( Thiz CiticAqo Trinux, for therecelpt of nubmlb‘ followst . ‘;F“ TORR—Room 20 Tribune Bullding. F.T.Ma ADDEN, Manager. PARIA, France—No. 10 Ruo do1s Grango-Datellers, 1, MANLYR, Agent. ’Lusl)on’," E::\—Amerlc.n Exchange, 440 Btrand. Bsxny F. GiLrra, Age BAN FRRAKCI! WABHIXGTO! L AMUSEMENTS, " MaVicker's Theatre, Madleon streot, between Dearborn and Btate, .Hn~ gagement of Rice's Burprlse Varty, ** Itobinson Crue or" tahilshed branch ofices and advertisementsas lgce Hotel, 310 F strect. Haverly’a Theatre, Dearyorn street, cornce of Monrou, of the New York Standard Theatre Company. most & Lite.” Engagement Al Hanles?/n Thentres Randoiph street, between Clark and LaSalle, Enae wagoment of J, K, Emmet, **Fritz.” Hamlin's Theatre, Clark aireet, opposito the Court-House. **Our Inno- cent Pastor,” Varfoty entertainment. A DMetropolitan Thentre, Clark street, opposite Bherman House. ** Tho Falls of Claralt." Acadomy of Alusle, alsted street, between Madizon and Monros, Va- rlety entertainment, Plymouth Ghurch, Michigan avenute, between Twenty-fth and Tweaty- sixthstrects. Lecture by Prof, 0'Nellt an ** Selence, Art, Literature, and Travel," with {llusirations, — ] MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1870. —_— e The French Atlantio eablo is Lroken in 500 fathoms of swater 160 miles from shore, Tho remnins of the late Bishop Forey renched Baltimore yesterdny, and were at once conveyed to tho residenco of the bo- reaved mother, ‘Tho public obsequies occur to-day, Arclibishop Gippoxs pronouncing the panegyric. 5 Qon. Avauste Cruaxzy's appointmont by President Greve ns Fronch Ambassador to 8t. Potersburg hns boon offloially nunounced. Ho was voted for by the combined opposi- tion to Gnevy when the Intter was elccted Prosident. Extraordinary faciiitios aro furnished 3Mr, Truoen by the Porres Committeo for placing himeelf in the beat possible light before the public in referonce to the unplensant cipher business, Tho Committee hns sont him proof-siips of his testimony for ** ravision ” by himself, as he is understood to be very particular as to how his statemonts are glyen to tha world. If the ssmo privilege hnd ‘boon accorded to redhonded Jist AnpersoN, who knowd but he might have **revised” his testimony so as to makoe himself nppear rospectable ? As the Anti-Chineo bill has not yet renched the President, nothing is deflnitely known ns to his intentions regarding it, thotigh it is belloved Le' inclines townrd a vato, Fiva out of the seven mombers of the Cabinet ara outspoken in opposition to the measure and in favor of a voto, and it is not known that Beerctary SuenmaN, who is not included among those, is in favor of auch a law. Henco the fato of tha bill is vory un- ‘cortain, as it is impossible to figure out strength enough either in the Housa or Bonate to pass it over n velo, Ficld-Marshal Von Roow, tho great Gor- mmt General and Mislster of War and Marine, died yesterdny at the nge of 76, Ho ‘was almost born o soldler, receiving his edu. cation at the Berlin Barracks and entering the Prussinn armny at 10 as Becond Lieuton. ant. Through varlous stagos of promotion lio' xos0 in 1846 to tho position of Military Govornor to Princo Frenenws Criantes, Ho | Lind beon thirty.soven yenrs in servico before ho reactiod the grade of Oolca’l, which oc. carred fu 1860, but his advadcement from thot timo forth was rupid and stendy, In 1869 ko rocoived the porfolio of Minister of ‘War, and two years Inter wasin addition made * Miniator of Marine, His part was that of an organizer of the armies of Prussla in the campaigus of 1864 and 1866, and of united Gormany in tho war with France in 1870, while upon Von Mortre devolved the chief direction of tha field oparations, & e aa— Benntor Conrrma's ** greatost efforta " aro .olmost invariably called forth by tha pon- denoy of a nomiuation to efftce, and it has usually happened that when the question of confirmation or rojeotion hung in the Lol ande, tho highly-wrought condition of the Benator's nerves ling rondored him peculinrly linblo to bocome insulting and offensive to brother Benators, And it s not nlwnysn Now York nomination {hnt fires bis tomper to tha boillug point. Just now it is sbout n TRhodo Island ofMecholder that ho hins Lad o furious row with Gen. Bonisine, whom le is snld to havae grosaly affronted in oxcoutlve seuslon on Baturday, and who retorted with such bittorness and vehomencoe ns to startle the grave Bonators with asudden senso of the possibility of tho affalr lending to sorious regults. Mr, CoNkrina's noxt ** grontest effort” evidently sliould Lo to keop fram mnking a bully of kimself upon slight prov- oention. — A correspondent in o lotter given in suother column offers tho sensiblo wuygos- It {s timo tho distressing torturs woro wtopped, an it would bo if it trera n lotno or n dog, instend of n womati, that was boing £0 shatnefully overtaxed. Tho condition of )\rn‘l‘lbhho‘fi Ponotrt's finauces, ns revenled by the Intest dovelep- . monta, is that of more hopelesa and appalitng insolvonay than had Leon rupposed, the la. bilities belng now eatimatod nt £4,000,000, whilo tho nssofa will not execed 700,000, fndopondent of {ha oburch property of which the Archbishop is tho* Tris. too, !but which, according to a de- oision rendered by Ohlef-Justico Tangry, enunot be held for debls coniracted oulsido of his logitimato offelnl eapacity, All of these liabilities nra of this charnclor, and tho money must be rafsed in somo other way. A lottery scoma to be tha achomo most in favor among tho frionds of the Church who aro trying to doviso somo way ouat of tho enormona entangloment in which the Archbishop-is involved. e e—— Thio Knnans Leglslaturo has taken a high- banded step in committing tho mnonger of the Western Unlou Tolegraph Compnny at Toneka to the Sorgoant-at-Arms for impris. onment for rofusing to discloso tho contonts of tho dispatehes that passed rolative to the recont Senatoriol contest. As the. manager noted under the inslruotions of the Compn- ny, it is now tho duty of the Compnny {o defond its ngont, nnd to make a test onse at onco before the Supreme Court upon the merits, that it may bo judioially dotermined whether o legislativo committeo hins any moro right to scize private dispntches than it hins to soizo privato lettors. It ia timo that some declzion was roached in the mat- tor, that the pnblic mny know shother pri- vate communications by telegraph aro to bo protocied ngninst the poriodical raids of mousiug politiotans, THE LAST OF THE CU. N INXERING, ho action of tho louse of Neprosenta- tives in Inying on tho table-the bill to repoal ilie Resumption law, and {ho nmendments theruto, by tho declsivavote of 141 ayos fo 110 nocs, ling signnled thoe Inst gasp of flat folly ond final noquiescence in the snceess of re- sumption. ‘Tho original of the bil thus contomptuously pushed nside #ine dis wns passed Ly his samu Tlouse of Representa- tives at ils provious session by two-thirds majority. The fact that it received at its unexpected rovival only two-fifths of the votes marks, the progress, of events during tho past fow months, and fairly indicates the grent and henlthy change of sentimont on tho wholo subject. It fs probable that many of those who voted on Satnridny with Bwise and Kenney to keep the subject alive wers prompted to do 8o by a woak and ridiculous desire.to ba * cousistont” with thoir former utterances, and that they rejoico necrefly at this final elimination of the curroncy quos- tion from tho politiesof the dny, It may bo prodicted with safoty that tho proposition to re-vpen tho issue, which lins just mustered 110 votes,—n decrensa of 70 from tho number that voted on tho same side at the lnst kession,—would not receive much moro {han half thal number if thero were auny liltelihood of ils being revived in the succeoding Congress, A conservative Republican Senate pro. tected tho peoplo of this country lnst year from n rash and damaging ropeal of the Ite- oumption law at a timo when such nction wonld have doprived the counlry. of all the advantago of fivo yonrs' woary progress in tho direction of 4 return to sound and slable curreney, and when that repeal would hiave been followed by the wildest fiat foolish- ness ovor dreamt of, and by a disturbance of commoereial interests from which thera would have been no healthy recovery for mnny yonrs. Profiting by this restraint put npon the recklessness of tho demagngues of tho House, the Beerotary of tho Trensury pro- coeded, undor tho law of 1875, fo proparo tho way for full and snocessful resumption ot tho date promis®. Iis preparations wero 8o thorough and ample, and inspired so much confidonce in tha accomplishmont and permanenco of tho purpose in view, that tho CGovernmont notos stondily and gradually appreciated 1n valuo till, on Jan, 1, 1879, the announcement that they would be redeemed in coin on presontation cronted scarcoly n ripple of excilement; met with no demand for coin, nnd .only found n grateful response inn relief from post coufusion and in the hopefulnoss of futnre uniformity and sigbility in the cutrenoy of the nation. This publio confidence ling been fully jus- tified, nnd the fruits of resumption nre al- rendy boiug sensibly manifestod by incrensed nactivity in commorco and improvement in tho demnnd for labor. It would have been unparalloled temority on the part of Con. gress, to bo righteously punished by the peo- ple, had that Lody taken upon ituclf to cm- Larrass and provent the restoration of pros- perity which Is now going on so bravely. 'l'oxt Bwina, the lingering prophet of ex- piring Fintism, sought to justify his proposed iuterferenco to undo what has been done, by stating that the Goverument has sold $100,- 000,030 of bonds for gold and continues to poy iutorest thereon ot tho rato of ¢ or 4} per cent por annum, in order {o acenmnlate tho requisite coln-resorvo for resumplion purposes. Ilo choso to ignore, howover, the foot that the Governmont never munds so good an Investmont for itsolf and thy peoplo as in that very transnction, ‘That sale of §100,000,000 of low-interest Londs for coin und tho results whioh it helpal bring nbout have ennbled the Govermmeut, since the 1st of January, to converb £200,000,000 of G per conts iuto 4 por veuls, sud thercby accomplish within less then two months o soving equal to the entiro investment in coln on nccount of reswmption. ‘This pro. cess of converling tho national dobtintoa rate of iuterest at which only Cirent Dritain and the United Statos cau Lorrow money willsavo tho Government ton times overy year what it will cust to maintain the coin rescrvo necessory ton spocio Lasis, 'Fhe saving of Intorest to the peoplo ot large Ly ronson of tho same influonco {8 almost boyond compu. tation, Bltates, couutios, oities, corporations, aud private individunls who owe thousands of milllond are borrowing mounoy to-day nt tion that the cxcesalvo enduranco and strain which would be considercd oriminnily crucl it cxaoted of o horse s not less soin the case of the woman pedestrian, LaCuareLLE, who, after baving accomplished the uscless task of 2,700 quarlor-wiles in as many quarter-hours, is egged on to continuo the torriblo tax on bher enorglos by trying to do 800 quurtor-mtlos in 800 fifth. lours, Bomebody is making money out of tuls half-dead woman, whoso suffor- ings ond privations would excito the koenest pity if fmpesed upon hor by some eavage tnskmaster in tho heart of Africa. ‘Tho palaful exbibition is evidently incited by selfish greed, since it sorves no useful pur pose that a woman should be subjevted to this enormons sirain, and the display ac- cordingly takes on the sspoct of eruclty.und brutality rather than of pluck and endurance. 2 or 8 por cont lower ratos of interest than thioy would bo obliged to pay on tho basis of on jrredoemable, uncertaln, and vacoilfating enrrency. 'Tha Illinols, Wisconsin, and In. disua Logislaturcs will, st this sesslon, ro. duce tho maximum rate of interost allowed Ly law from 10 to 8 per cent, Tho Alichi. gon Legislaturo will probably ryeduco the legal, rato in thot Btatoto 7 per cent, and otlior Btates will' mako similar reductions, Cook Uounty {s now borrowing money on & per cont twenty-yene bonds, and the City of Olicago could readily convert its 7 por cents futo & per couts if the former wero duo. Ttailrond and other corporations are renewing their bonds at 2 aud 8 cents less interest ns rapidly as they wature, and tho farmers thelr wortgages st o liko reduction, 'These ara sowo of tho fruits of resumption, sud tho Govornmont con well afford to pay iuterest on tho #100,000,000 in coln lglng In the ronsury to sectira tham, 'Tho advovatos of rosumption promited nn cxpansiont of tho curroney s ono of tho ro- sults of cnrrying out the Inw, ‘'hora hos Loen an cnormoud oxpausion im varlous ways, Lirst, thoso samo 4 por cents which the Amorlean paople hg.v{u beon tuking so freoly furntsh ona slement ot expansion ; the chrroncy pald for thom comos ont agaln, and thoy thomsolves, being oxactly nt par, can be mado to do the servica of ourteney on nuy oconsion whon desired. Becondly, at oxpansion of the ourrenoy has beon pro- duced by the enduring npprecintion of the groonbacks and National bauk notes; tho voluino of the ourrency Jan, 1, 1870, was Iargor than that of Jan, 1, 1878, Ly tho ad- divion of the percontage of incronsed valno during that period. Thirdly, there hns beon expangion by tho relonso of groonbacks hold ns resorves in banks, slneo comn s rapidly taking the placo of such greonbacks, and thus indirectly but effectunlly " coming in. to notual use, TFourthly, thero hns cnormons expausion by renson of tho in- croased confldenco of overybody in the ifn- provementof pricos and onlargomont of trade. For somo yenrs past, it hos notunlly boon profitnble to hoard greonbacks and bank- notos, sinco they proctically onrned nn inter- eat while lylng in safes and vaults by their steady gain in purchasing value. All this has censed, and tho holders of curroncy nro now anxious to invest it in somothing that will earn an interest thereon, 'This inclina- tion hias Lrought out millions upon millions of monoy looklng for investment; and such investment, going on nud incrensing constant~ 1y, will stimulate prices and specnlntion in thé very way iu which the deluded Fiatita hopod to accomplish by false and tranaiont inflition, Wero it not for the Lappy cotclusion which hng beon reached in this matter thero would be good ennso to single out for punish- ment overy man who voted on Haturday to deprive tho country of all the benefits and ndvantages incident to endariug specio- rosumption, Bince tholi efforts wera xo futile, howaver, it is onough to remembor them rather as fools than ns deliberato con- gpirators ngainst tho welfare of the nntion. They failed, and in that measure saved thomnelvea from the full measure of punish- ment which success would nltimntely have brought upon thom, but they cannot esenpo popitlar contempt for the Quixotic ¢ffort to Lreak down resumption after it has hoon fully estnblished. Thoy wore mostly Demo- erats, and Intgely thoss xwho rotiro shortly to privata life. Thanks to the prepondor- nnce of good sense, considornbly doveloped by the result of Inst fall's eloction, this last nattempt to interfere with tho progress of business recovery has boen a ludicrons finsco ; kome good mny como of it As an as- srance that there will be no more currency tinkering in this country for years to cowme. THE' OHIO MARPLOT. Mr. Tnuayay will do well to take warn- ing in thmo from the sad fate of Samuer J. I''!nneN, wiio was once n eandidate for tho Presidency of tho United States. Mr. T~ pex stands beforo tlio country to-day with a reputation very much damnged in tho esti- mntion of all good men, becanse he cithor voluntarily consented to n conspiracy to pur- ‘chiaza the Electoral votes ho needed to mnke him President, orhohindranson to suspect that something of tho sort was going on among Lis intimato associatos, aud ho kept himself *‘ purposely iguorant” of what was trans- piring in his immediato intoreat. Itis not of much consequonce which horn of tho dilemma Mr. Trzoen takes, either one being too sharp to ride in comfort; and tho con. clusion nrrived at by the public is, that ho has beon guilty of and respousible for n premeditated attompt to dobauch the public morals and defent tho will of a majority of tho American people by the unlawful use of monoy., 'This is the eentenco alroady passed upon Trubey, and we greatly fear that the lonrnedand profound Bountor from Ohio has not studled the moral phases of the T1LoEN shipwreek with ns muoh eritienl neumen as will be wholesomo for him in tho future. Mr. Titpex's politienl carcer nnd examplo ought to bo to other Democratio candidates for the Presidency what tho red lights aro on o railrond, the signal of danger ahend, and whenever they are scou it is high time to shut off the stonm and whistle down brakes, Mr. Tnunuan'd great anxioty to bo nominnted by his party in 1880 for the high. cst office known to our Constitntion has seomed to Inspire him with nzoal in parti. sanship that i likoly to overlonp itself and utterly destroy its victim. Trupex's crook. cdnesa and viclous methods mauifested them- selvos whon lio took tho hoad outof his *bar'l ” of money ot tha St. Louis Conven- tion, and thoso suspicions of irregulnrity be- forn the claction lod to the detection of the cipher dispatchos and thy shameful oxposurcs of conspiracy and corrnption that hava sinco startled tho conntry., t Mr. Tuunaan's recont courso docs not in. spire us with tho hope that o hasthoroughly abgorved tho 'TrupeN flasco, or that ho in. tonds {o profit thoreby, 1lis Inst Saptomber *flop " on the currenoy ¢quostion, when ho wantonly abandoned the time-honored and traditional polloy of tho Democratio parly in fuvoring honest money aud cspoused nn absurd sud Dlogienl “idoe,” was not ealeulated to win thg approbation of intelligent men, or to iuduco the public to admiro the profundity of his gtatosmanship, or to give him the cradit of being n sincers and upright man, Hois just now hard at work in Washington ap. parently trying to supploment his bad blunder on tha subjeet of fluance by others of o political wml partisad! mature that will soon return to plague the inveutor, 'I'he racont politieal row raised in Congross, which now threatons the country with the exponso and exoitemont of an extra session hiad its origln in the fortile brain of tho Hou. ator from Ohlo. 1Io ia not ouly guilty of concocting cortain partisan mensures nud forelug their adoption by tho Domoceratio caucuy, but the menus and the mothods that Lo recomsmendod Lis party followers in Con. gress to resart to in ordor to iugraft such nofarious logislation npon the statute-books were ominontly unpatriotio, mean, and un. statesrnanlike, and uttorly nuworthy of any man who aspires to bo tho Ohief Maglstrato of o great nation, Sointontis Mr, Tuun- MAX ta scoure tho voto of tho Bolid Houth in tho accomplishmont of his personal ambition that he proposed, as M, Jlavny expressedit, “to tako boldly and violently the whole body of orimingl Iaw regnrdiug elections and repoal it,” Not content in urging tho Domocratlo majority in Congress to delibor. ately aid that party intbo Bouth to commit any sort of freuds upon the electivo fran- chise that tho party leaders pleased, oud climjuate all laws from tho stntute- books for tho punlshment of such erlmes, but ‘Caunaan ndvised in caucus, and his ad- vico was promptly accopted and acted upon, that his rovolutionary schome should bo ploced a8 n nder upos the Legislative. Appropriation bill, aud the wheols of Qoy- ernment foread to stop unless tho Tepube lean minority Wiwld connent ts heeept such viciows nud nelarious legislation, That a Mr.'Intensay's last bid for the support of Uia. Bolld Bouth in tho mext Democratic Notionn! Uonvoution that mnkey up the ticket for the eampnign of 1880, Whon the Setintor from Ohio first brought forward this $nfamouy proposition in eivend and urgad the Qx@rnnnlhmry rule of proceed. Iyt by which 1t conld bo foreed throngh the House, it wag' donounced aa revolutionary by suoh fairmsiided men ny Davaup, of Dolawnre, and Krnwax, of New York, who atlll entertain somo rospoot for fair play and constitutionnl yontriotions in accomplinling results, but tho balt wa3 too tempting to the Confodoratd Brigadiors to bo ro- sistéd, and tho Domoorntic misjority was committed to it at once, The augry po- litical disenssions, that grooted this immoral pla of Tuunyan's to enablo ballot-box stuffors and bulldozers to cscapo tho just punightnont of iheir orimes was not unox- pected, and it the Ropublicans in Congress hiad not resisted it to thonttormost the loynl peoplo of the country would have sovoroly critiolsod and donounced their unpatriotle nc- tion, It is thoir solejnn duty to protect all mon in tho Bonth in the oxerciso of tho cleative feanchise to tho oxtont of their abil. ity, apd tho country will bo entisfled with nothing olse. With Mr. Truraax nnd his ngitators and coufodorates bolongs tho eradit of plamming vielous legislation and adopting questionable mothods of securing it. Why is it Northern candidntes for the Prosidoncy will continne to rend thoe lossons of history backwards, and continme to do- lude thomselves with tho iden that the South holds tho keys to the potitienl Kingdom of Heaven that they wish to enter? Look at Daxter Wensten, Lewia Oass, Stepnex A, Dotarnas, Miznanp Finuyorg, and all othora ¢ho woood all their lives this solled dovo of the Southern Crosy, Lut never won hor over to their soft ombrace, And wo say to Mr. TrusyMAN, *Bownro! 8o is fooling thee,” "'HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARS” Week by week and day by dny the Inbors of the Porren Investigating Commiltea draw townrd n close, “L'ho session haa alrendy been 60 protracted, the cloud of witnossos in at- tondanco Las seemed so illimitablo and vast, that n wenry and long-suffering couniry might well avo oxclaimed, ** What { will tho line strotch ont to tho orack o’ doom ?” Tor nine loug months the Committeo have pursued their tedious task; and if thoy avo Luman they must rejoico that it is so noarly finished. A fow more witnesses to appenr bofore them, r fow moro quostions asked nud answered, then the report, the dismal mnss of testimony fo bo printed in ponderous vol. umes, which no ona who ean help it will over rend,—and thon wo fervontly trist * tho rost is silonce,” To the membors of the Commit- toe, of not to a fow of the witnesses who have figired bofore them, that silenca muat bo the moat grateful thing in the wido world, Wikt the report of the Committes will be, in o matter in which the public feel but littlo intorent. The public has Jong sinca coma to loolz upon the thing as an interminable and well-nigh insufferable bore, relieved only by tha hunor, and the surprises, and sonsntions which it hos doveloped. Whatover tho ver- dict of tho inventigators, the public has nl- rondy forostalled it by nvery raw but very diroct one of its own os to the chief results of tho trial, which will not bo likely to bo changed by tho mgst claborate conclusions of the Committeo..” It is, in effact, as {o the, investignted, thot they have proved them- solves stich unconseionablo nnd stupendons lints that if they haven's stolen Electoral votes it must be becausa thoy couldn't; nud as to tho investigators, the verdiot is— 4 17olst with thelr own petars,*” Two fonturcs of tho investigation have mainly nttractod nttention: tho sensationnl charncter of some of the tostimony and the complete reversal which bas taken place sinco the beginning of the investigation in the direction townrd which it has tended. Just how that reversal has been Lrought about we doubt if even the Commitice them- selves quite nnderstand, Starting out ns o Democratio measuro, whose avowed purpose wag to unenrth and place on record Leforo tho country tho frauds by which it was charged that Mr, IIAves was made President, tho inquiry not ouly failed to substantinte such accusations, but developed so much evidenco of a determined and concorted pur- poso to eclect TmoeNy by fraud and bribery that tho direction of the nl. tack was spoodily turned, and the Democratic party have sinco been nctively oceupled in keoping on the defensive, 'Fhose who wont forih to shiear have come back not only withont tho Inrgo crop of spoils which they had hoped to gather, but with a suspleiously mengre nmount of their natural woolly covering. So eompleto has beon the chango from atinck to defonse that an im. pression ling becotue gonoral that tho move- ment ia a Republican one, originated for thp purpose of inveatigating Mr. TtLoen and his fuglomen in tho last campnign. Tho fact that it has takon +this shape of its own accord, and in epite of tho cfforls to make Domocratio eapltal ont of it for tho woxt eampnign, Is a suf- figiont comment on tha relativo forco of the ‘testimony on eithor side, This testimony may ba summed up 48 proving that, while no actual fraud was established in Lonlslann, yet tho political mothods moat approved in that perplexing and comploxing rogion aro not such ug would form u desirable model for other Slates, Dut nll that wos dis. covoraidl there that could bo a ropronch to the Republican party sinks into Invisibla In. significanco whon comparod with the revelns tions of Demooratio doviltry in Florida, BSouth Caroling, nud Oregon, whore Tresi- doentinl Elcotors aud Telurning Doards woro dickered for Hko so many goods nud chinttels, "T'hat moto purchases wero uot cousummated {8 evidontly duo less to consoionco thau to uiggardliness on the part of thoso who owned or controlled the all-potent ¢bar'l,” From a standpoint ‘of literary ability tho humors of the invoatigation are the richost partot its dovelopments, Bome future Jonx Prasix will find in them material for hu. morous treatmont which will - justify him, if no ono olse, in reading tho report of tho Committee, ‘Then wo shall aco.ngain al] tho niotley charnoters and incidents that have givon that varlety whish was tho spice of the investigation, Wa shall behold once moro tho volatile Jexss, ‘aud shall admire her audacity, if not her proprioty, ns sho quletly Lulliea the Committee, and oven dares' again to benrd Bex Buyren-in bis den, the Chalr. man in hls chinlr, But forvontly do we hope to be apared furthor b_u]uniutnucn with An- pERsoN, who {8 not ¢ plonsant reminder of tho investigation, ang whose colossal lylng belongs more ulrlc:iy to tho rogion of the sublimo thau ,of tho huwmorous, When, howaver, our genial chronicler roachos tho ciplier phaso of thq investigation, ho may well exclafm, Hovo'a:richuoss.” Tho sad- dlivg of Blackstoue, and tbe purchase of tho Mlind mule, and tho vonsultations In 1tam. Burg and Patls, ntl tiluminated by tho refloe- tion from , Ononu's Oragonfan wono, will Llend in the njfda of auch an nrlist inton most onlivents olure. Tho noone whon M, Yo apponrs before the Commitloo to teatify that ho " havdly ever" tolls a le, shiould bo totolod ns gently ns possibley but the Now York 7'ibune wnst not bo forgot- ten, whoae elafm fo linvo firat disguvered tha truo Inwardnesy of tho alphior dispatehes will probably go into listory ns one of tho choicost bits of humor of the wholo Invasti. gation. "The Damockatic enginoors, who plammed and conducted the slego with such aatonishing rosults to thomsolves nnd thelr parly, will doubtless bo put under contribu. tion for nslinra of the plensauiry of the oc. caslon, 02 thom our future humorlst can b least sy with Jamlet ! 5 44}or 'tis tho sport to have tho englnser 1lolet with his own potar. " ot iy THE “TENABLE AND ENDURING LINE! I'ha legisiation of tho National Oongress has at Inst renchied that pitah which onght to be entisfnotory to Mr. HENny Warrensox, editor of tha Loulaville CourierJournal, Thnt paper of the 17th nst, contains o lend- iug avtiolo upon tho # duty of Domoerats” which fs unusually plain-spokon, and has loss of that exnggoration, scutimentalism, oud sophomorienl rhotorio Which Mr. Wart xensoN recontly complained wero oharactor- istio of tho South, and in which ho himsolf indulges at times vory boautifully, In (he artiolo we find at last {he grent object for which bo has boen working go many Yenrs, expressed in very plaln lnngunge. o ‘says: *4 For ton years tho Courier-Journal hos had +but ono nim and object,—~ths unifiention of the opposition to Radicalism on o line not only tenablo but enduring. In order to nohiovo this, tha abrogation of many obsolete idens and tho dissipation of many mistending projudices woro nceded, and to these wo bave dovoted ,ourselves without core. mony,” Avd ngain: “’The trouble with Deomoorats is that thoy ara perpotunlly gush- ing and boshing, and going off half-cooked, g it wore,” The line which s **tonable” s at 1nst beon reached in Congresa by the Domaocrats, and if thoy aro not driven from that Iino it will be made ** endurig.” That line in tho unification of the South by per- mission to stufl bnllot-boxes with impunity to bent opposing majorities, by the abroga. tion of nll nationnl control over mnational alections, aud by tho removal of Supervisora of Election 5o that thoro shtall be no check .upon Demoeratio illegal voting. “The ropeal of the Fodoral cloution statutes is the de- nnand made npon the people of this country Ly tho Into Confoderate Btates and by the party of which Mr. WarrznsoN is ono of tho recoguized Houthorn loaders. 8o long aa the anti-fraud law confronts thom there is somo check on tho work of destroying majori. tios in tho Ropublican parts of iho South and in the great Stato of New York, T'o prevent Ropublicans in the South from voting at all in the Kopublican States or dis- triots, nnd to restore Tammany to the suc. coeaful systom of operation Ly whichi it per- potralod its mousirous aud unblushing frands in tho first Granr enmpaign, aro tho objects of the Bracxnunx-Woop leglslation which han suddenly beon sprung upen tho Homse, Not only to mako theline * tenn- blo,” but also * enduring,” comes tho Dbill from tho same source to take swoy from the Nationn! Govermnent all control over tho nationnl consus and’ relogato it to the Gov- oriors ‘of th Siates, thus omabling the Bouthern Governora to increaso the numbor of thoir population and ropresentstion ab will, sud, thus control tho Houss perma- nently, = The Sonthorn purpose contomplates tho removal of ovary safoguard of every Repub. liean voter in the South; the prostitution of the elective franchiso to conupt and fraudn. lout ends ; tho ropenl of every lnw that pro. vides o pounlty for such infamy; tho in- crenso 0f ropresontation by a fraudulent census; the practical disfranchisemont of tho ontiro Republican party dn the South, and the rostoration of the Tammany naturali- zation machinery in New York which in 1868 suppressed the Ropublican mnjority in that State. Mr. Ganrieno complotely cov- orad the ground when he said to the Southern Brigadiora: * You seck to cut out n scction, a living "scction, from the crimival laws of tho United Btntes, and to sny that ballot-box - stullug, fraud at cleotions, intimidntion, outrages, polsoning tho veory fountain sprivgs of tho olective fran- chiso shall bo no crimo, and that tho ma- chinery by which snch crime can be punish- od shall bo destroyed.” By WaTTERSON mny think that his live is a * tonable and endur- ing one,"” nud that tho solidification of the South has roached that point whoro any monace may bo offered to tho North with impunity. The North, however, to uso Mr, Warrensox's own words, doos not ** gush or go off half-cocked.” It may move slowly, but it will movo very sure, and Mr, WATTERSON moy roly upon it that the Northorn people will not stand idly Ly and witnoss the con. sunmation of his tén yoars' Inbor without o protest that will nstonish him by its vigor, and omphasls, OR-SAVING IM- AN ARGUMENT FOR LAB PROVEMENTS, Tho argument made by Citannes CARLETON Covrix before the Congressional Committes upon tho labor question, in January lnst, lins been issued in pamphlot form from the Govorument Trinting-Offlce, and is an acces- sion of great valuo to ho history of that question.® My, Corviy hins made a study of it for mnny yoars, und brings to ita discns. slon nu ecxhaustive citation of facts and iigures, and a rich fund of illuatration benr. ing upon the vexed ¢uostion of the results of labor-saving mnchinery. Whilo {he points which ho makes have often been stated bo. foro by writera upon tho subjeot, ho pro- sents them in o now and stronger light, and forlifica thom with incontrovertible statistios, ‘I'ho papor i question Is an exhnustive ono, nud will bo rogarded as tho strongest and ost complote argument {hnt has yob boen mndo in favor of labor-saving machinory, Porlinps no section of this country has employed labor-saving mnchinery to such an extont a8 Now Bugland, and for this reason tho results thore mny be accepted ns apply- ing to its uso everywhere, Mr, Corrin shows by o long compilation of figuros that tho incronso of earnings sitles 1800 is 24,4 pex cent in Massachnsotts aud the inorense of exponeo 14,5 a3 compared with 1800, and this on a bnsis of G0 hours per week os against 763 hours in 1860, thus showiug that the Inborer is gotting one-fourth more wages ond buying one-fourth inoro wilh his money, As compared with 1880, the earnngs aro from 40 to 60 per cont gronter, and the cost of living is but 14 per cent in oxcesa of what it was in 1800, while tho great mosa of tho peoplo aro botter fed, clothoed, oud housed, and in possession of wore of tho comforts of life, than thoy have over been beforo in tho history of tho world, As Ar, CorwiN says: **Tho cum. forts and convotioncas of lifa have vastly incronsed. Tu other words, onch honsohold hoa mora nud botter materfal things to nso nud toconsumo 1han it bad formerly; tho incronwo fn consumption hns kept pace with 4ho incrende of production. 'T'ha Inborer at the ond of lis envoor to.day may hava Iaid up nothing, Lt it is n good denl that during Iifs life ho hns lived in a wooden housoe with n earpol and deaent furnituro produced by tho manufaoturer, Ihatend of in n hovel with o dirt floor and logs to sit upon, This n. crensod production ha hes consumed. o Tins not destroyed {t as o firo dealrogs § ho has worn it out in onjoying it,and this {s tho fato of most things that aro prodncod for tho o of mon,” ‘The fntrodyotion of improved machinery in any csfablishmont menvs. o Inrgor production and a cheapoer product. A choaper product always implies n larger con. sumption, becanse if thinga are chonp peoplo will by wmoro of thom, For instance, if an antomatio maohine shoutd ba constructed that would make boots and shoos for litllo tmoro than tho cost of lenthor, thousands more of Loots and shoes would bo used, and thoro would bo an inoronso of labor not only in making the machines nnd distributing. the product, but in gotting out the leathor. Be. sidos that, tho development of invention constantly londs to new industries, ** Many branches of trado and business to.day wonld be impossible without stesm transportalion and telographs, Thofhnbits and powors of business men hinve been greatly modifted by tho sleeping.car, The Bessemer process for making stesl not only employs, cortainly in this country, for moro men than tho ofd procoss, bmt it has made possible many things which tho old process forbade from tho high, cost.” The fallacy of the oppo- nents of lnbor-saving machinery lies in the nssumption thnt as many atticles would bo made by tho old method as by the new, ‘whilo tha roverse of tlls is trite. Moro arti- clés aro produced, moro ara consumed, and morae Inbor 1s roquired in the produation, Tnke tho easo of the ratlrond, for instance, the most prominent of all labor-saving ma- chines, and ono agaiust which n great outery has beon made upon tho ground that it wonld diminish Iabor and reduce the number of horses and wagons used in transportation, On the other hand, tho immenscly-incronsed production hns ealled for s lnrger number of horses and wagons in’ trausportatlon to and from stations, Desides this, it is to bo con- sidored that thomsnnds upon thousands of men aro given omploymont in buildivg the roads and oporating thorn ; in mannfacturing locomotives, baggngo, prssonger, aud elcop- ing-cars; in rolling rails, ropairing roliing stock, bridges, and vinduots; in building depots and warchionges; and that every rail. read hins a small ‘army of nion upon its pay- rolls, It has ‘doveloped now industrles uot diveetly undor its manngement that call for incronsed lnbor. It opeus up grent scctiona of tho country for now gettlers, and dots the rogion through which - it passes with farms, villnges, factorics, and mines,—nll busy with labor. ‘Uhousands of men must bo engaged gotting out coal and ore to mont its domands, Every now farm that ia started in the groat Northwost makes n new field for Inbor, and the momout that the farmer commences operations somo mechanio in tho Enst must go to work io snpply him with tools, Io feeds tho mechanic and tha mechanic furnishes him _with his products, and in the meantime o third man fs sot to work carrying the exchanges betweon them, Tho,ntgruinont bl (6§ sutiitacd dp 1a“the’ broad nssertion that labor-saving machinory inorensos tho wages of the laborer and the amount he can purchase with hin wages; and that it incronses productlon, which is al- ways followed by an incroaso of consump. tion nnd consequently by an incrense of tha aronof Iabor and the oponing up of now iu. dustrios; and thesa propositions rest not upon mero assertion, but avo susceptible of slatistical proof to thoso who ara 8o bllnd that thoy will not sec. As the ommon Council scem to linve for- gotton oll sbout the conditions in the ordi- nances poased in 1872, granting thoe right of way to sovernl railroads to onfor tha oity, it mny bo well to remind them of the fact that thoso raflways are obliged to build vinduotn by tho terms of their contracts with the city, Tho langnego used in all, those ordinances is substantially the anme, It reads nd followa: “‘“Tho permission, authorily, and privileces heroby granted are upon tho express condstion that tho sald ratlrend company shall erect amd malntain viaducts over any of 1ts sald tracke, or nuy streot or streots of maid city which may bo crossed by ity sntd tracks, whoro and aa tho asld Board of Public Works of aaid clty may, from time to time, require, and erect and construct the approaches to all such vindacta with proper arcas on olther eide of such approachoa; sald approachea to an eclevation of not more than ono foot to overy forty fect in lemgth thereof; And promided, however, that whon any such viaduet cannot bo bullt at any ench streot-crossing without the samo bo Lullt over tha track or tracks of somo other rallroad company or com- pruies, then the sald company shall only ba obliged to joln with such other Iast-inen- tlonod rallroad company or companles in the conatruction and maintenance of such.viaduet, and to pay thelr fair proportion of the cost of sch via~ duct or vinducty; and It such othier raflrond come vany or companies shiall not join in the erection of any anch vinduet, then if the praportion of such othior eomimny shafl be otharwiss provided, the snid (Chicagn & Canadn Rontherfi, And the Chlcago & 1linots River Naliroad CompAntes, or any other roudy that may bo namod) companies shall pay thelr fate proportion of thq cost of ‘wuch vladuer,* ‘I'heso conditions or othors in almost jdon. tical lnnguago apply to all the railrosd com- panies that havo obtained right of way iuto the city durlng tho Inst soven yonrs, ‘I'hree vinducts, with thoir approsches, and fitling, and arens, were built by tho railrgad com- panies in 1873.'74 undor thoso ordinances nnd spuclal agreemeonty with the old ronds, ‘I'he city was only at tho exponse of paying tho cost of ralsing tho houses on oither side of the approachos to tho now geado, and this ia nll tho exponse tho ity should ovor be re- quired to moot, Tho railronds moke tha streob obstructions that conso tho necessity of vinduots, and tho very Jeast that ean in venson and justico bo Yaquived of tha railrond companies fa to furnish the publio aate and unobstruotod menns of orossing thele tracks by vinducts, Thaold companies, with whom no speolal agreomenta Liave been mndo to orect vinduoly, ean Lo forcod to do so by the Oity Council uudor its polica nowers aud au- thority to olear the street-crossings of dane gerous obstructions and provide for the safoty of the persons and vohicles of the citizons, When the threeamblion pubsidy to Jouy Roacn'’s Drazil Stonmship Lino pnased ko Honato last Thursdny night, two of tho wombers in effact broko their pairs to seouro the passage of tho job, There were only presoat thirty-eighit unpaired Senators, which wasnot a quorwm, whercupon Bsu- otors Fenny, of Miohigan, and Pavpoox, of Nebraska, who wero in fuvor of tho measure but paired off, voted in the negativé ju order to make n quornm,—their votes raising tho number to forty, tha nycs belug twenty-threo aud the nocs seventeon; so by this rather dishonornblo trick of the men the thros-miflion kb country was earried thray would {roublo Mossrs, I to rxpinin to their con tlonlar fntorost {he yy and the peoplo of Joux Roacn's steamors taxed to support them, out conlradiclion or de dlolng well n\'ml making thon, should' Jotts Roson bs per stick his hand into tho Puhliau ’1‘:;::::(‘: i fxlrlnct Euol()(.fll()f: & year ta uphold n plr'iv:!‘: business which is alr ing well? Weo anmlv ey Ul 9 propound tho g, queations to Seuntars InoALLs, of Kr.;t:;n 5, Hrrxwoon, of Tows, Baunntny, of N & ebra and Winpos, of Miunesota, ltia vnrynt:n!:: to seo Benntora whoso constituonts have nfig tho slightest intorost fu Jouy TRosen's honorahlg gontle. idy swindlo on thy gl Lo Honate, 14 ERRY and Pappogy atituents whny x:l:r'. soplo of* Michigan Nobraskn haye in that thoy Ahonld by Tt 43 roported with,, ninl that tho liny is money noy, Why, have schemes voling away their monge: for 4! richmont of thnt Indivldul. 2 ‘There have been qulte & number afloat fn repard to the oblect of I:fsx::::\n:“ Parsen's suddon vislt to Washington, B o report the anxlous publiz was iuformeq nm{ :{"’ U'aryzn went to Washington to confer with u;. authoritles concerning the romoval of the P Oftice, und another was that hlammnl:”' much mora fmminent than fhe removal of u" offiee, and that b had gone forward 1o \vmfl: ate the powers that be, If he conld, Bat \::bo.. Heve that common rumor is n liap 1n both Iy startees, find that Wwe are able to reveat the u.,n‘ cruso of Mr, PALMER'S visit to flg }'mmfll Capltal, A foeal Washington paper peserts whon gifIng an aceottnt of (he Loos receytio there, which took placo on the evening of u.:,l 20th—that thé flrst man to meet and weleamg LoaAx ns tte stepped from the traln swos Tost. master ParMer, ol Chieago, But Just h;ra arises anotherimportant question tiat 4 some- what puzzling, toaeit: Did Jous go down tp Washitigton on prrovss 10 help keep Frask in ofllee, or Al Fraxg go down nsnkhul‘ol forcruter for Joris,—a sort of Jony fhe Bap- tist, 80 to speak, crying hir the wilderness of the city of marnifivent distances, “ Prepare ye iy way for blaek Jack, and mako his path smooth and stralzht to Willard’s [lotol"} [ cither enso It was kind In one friend to do It for g other. a ——tt— Benator Vaonnt:zs, of Indfann, has never hay cause to complain of having been too muen vralsed fn thessenlumnsj hnt wo st oot of our wiy n Netle to say that he spoxe a true and hanest word the other nizht when le dewsunced the Jous Roacu 8ubskly bill as “ong of the dirtiest jobs that he bad ever known ju Con. gress.!? Huch chavacterization must havo heen somewhot emphatic and slentlicant when ft fo remeinbered that the Tall Sveamore bas been g good many years in Congress, and Is supposed to bo famlllar with ahout every scheme that has been proposed in Wastilnzton of late for robe bing the Natlonal Treasury under one pretensy or another. This RoACK businassovertons them all, Voomitees deelares, and (s really worthy of the good.oid days whon salary-grabs, and back-pay, and Croatt-Mobilfers wera in order, Possibly we are to have, with the resnmption of speclo payments, o return Lo other extravazant methods of Tegisiatlon, sl may ho tiat the lobLy at Washington has scen the bow of promlse ngaln spanning the politleal heavens, and [s {napired to new lhope and couraze by re- cent Senatorial events, e r—— Bnys the New York Z'ribune: % Are we never to know the exact trath, or even the approxi- mato truth, respecting the operation of thy Prohibitory law in Maino? A report has jus been made by Mr. InanAnas, of Portland, which is foll of discouraging statements. Ace cording to Neat, Dow, who eends a letlerto that effect nbout onee a month to be published in England, the policy of Prohibition hes enc- poeded ppnfactly.in diteinishing erime, tn tessens Ing the agerezate of pauperism, and In redae. Ing cases of deunkonness, Mr. INonAIAN tells the Leglslature fis Nls roport thatunder the operatlon of the law drunkenness hs increased; tlie number of hinnties made so by haed drink- ing has nearly doubled fn the hospitnls; Massa- chusotts und the Provinces have supplicd Mafna with liquors, dralning the Stato of miilions of dollars, whils the amount pald by countles for enforeing thie law reaches the sum of §205,00 cuch anually, Who {8 right, Mr. Dow or 3Ir InoRAMANT e —— A London papoer says that Mr, Ert Jonssoy, the seulptor, 18 now recolying sittings from N Joux B. Govam for n statue, and that 3 (Govott will ho represented In ouo of his favore ite attltudes when delivering an oration Wo don't'quito understand this, * Slttings™ fora statuo representlng Mr, Govan “in onoof Efl! favorite attitudes when delivering an oration "= that's absurd. If the ftem had eofd 18 now recetving somersanlts,” or something of that kind—thnt would have been fotelligibte. And we are atso somowlut at a Joss to understanl which oue of Mr, Govan's favorite attltudes is 10 be roproduced fu marble, or 1 the oralor has fnventdéd a totally now one for the express pur- pose. A colossal efatue of Mr. Govet jumping up and cracking his beels together, el splitting his coat up the back, for Instance, though it would be very Nfe-like andad that Kiwd ot thing, scema to us to offer remarkable diMeats tlea in technteal treatment, ———ctT—— g The Ottawa Kanucks appear to bg siow aT\A awkward In getting the hang of the Ih);ml Court etiquetty sutroduced fnto the Doméaion stnco the adveat of the Privcess. An exchuoge suysi a ” Ottawa §a tho natizal centro of the l“mh"xsllnlh: aud not of the society of the Doininion n_mm' #oud peaplo who ga to the Vicercgal drawl ki und are admittod to the prosencs Of Royulty 466 600 of thelr glement, At tue un‘s-\v""mm evening thers were fewer i d dresse: non than were seen (o provious eventog, aod (e KESE er4of Jow-uecked drosseanra sald to have KOS far ay fashion peenits and somewhat 'mh"nu}m decency dutaiads, When the |-m-u"luflf’["‘c“m' wiany of the iadies lost thelp heas and wees K0 pletoly upnorsed, Mars than one bo d. Fen .\'lurq uls arfil furgot |ulul:'ymuu;ll»({:(:‘ 'm« u‘;'fi 'flm‘n thy Princess, bat the latter, 1t 14 s comfort o Wit diil not nuticy the oniasloi,and bowed a3 s 4 wittingotlundor azatnat ancred et (Ir-mlem;m n)u‘;l mnnu:hmm‘ advancud, und, wprending Huatera Halny as noarly s Eoropon e prred witted, whilo athors buwwed tno e, uidt P frous bunath the syabrows at tne face ol e C—— The brawllig Basnise, of Cinzhunatly wlx:. holds o seat tn Congress by tho vates ""Q;‘hfl victed repeators, Iy very anxlous to Im\lul A Congresafonal Supervisor law repealed, :u =t featud him Jast falt by preveutlg the old k‘“ of batlot-box-stufling, Mo tas tted 9'!1 \'.-[»N ugalnsy “the infamous Election law bn ’;ur vetirlug into obseurley, 11 it liad vot bee R that odlows measure o Jara part of ‘lu‘Afl 4 stlituoney would not hiave beet thrust o A Penltentlary, and would have been mmf < industrlous In voting for his socoud M-m‘ Winve re-clected-nim, §le can speak \vlku“&wm focling ou the subjoct, forhols o mmpu o sufferer, Nextto connting tho tissuc .:M which a son of chivalry crams into 8 lull:mm to *‘redecm” his State, there Is mnhln,.mn atrocious than tointerfere with on 1,-::11;1!:“\m son of froedom who I voulng carly and oft “roform,” e ¢ ¢ fo Trn Tamosn fa ewabled to mako publle ) dav tho most fmportant plece of lltcmy"c:::& America has had for o long while. )’ e Wanp Buzcnen hag contracted with nn"t publisher to. writo bis antobjograohy s presens ongaged on the work, The ‘l‘m;zli"lflu’ trreat presclicr's aucevssivo adyanced -; e Tiberalism und of the developments o o derful mind will have a yare v!'ur)mm:mun i vhflosophlcal Intoreat, and Lis owi BEG the Tirrod scandal wiil be mlgurl{ aw e quite auothee, und f posstble mmn.m—x.yJ e veaders, tiy-tho way, 1ho story o omend Bezcusn's carings fn tho Herd (] v.md o7 don toead a sheor abrication, coueoeter Howaun, o, A receat Glasgow strike of rivotert 09 o kerbe ships has euded quite disustrous!y to |:;‘L ‘c':' It appears that the 400 riveters whod