Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 4, 1879, Page 4

L S THE C:lICAGO 'THIBUNE: Trilbmne, g under tho Mexleau-Ponsion bill unlosshe wora #pealally exaepted) was suffleiont to enll out on finpassioned roply from Mr, Lastan, who 1# regarded ns ono of tha most eonservative among tho ox-Confedorates, Mr. Liastan con- siruod tho proposed excoption of Jeer Davia ns on insult to tha Bouthern people, hurled back saidynsult in true Bouthern of a Demooratio Commiltas to have delayod its roport until the very latost moment in the life of an oxpiring Congrosa, thoroby rondsr. ing it impossiblo to earofully waigh tho vl denoo and rondor n sound and impartial de- clafon, plo. and mora at work, nnd produeing niore in quantity nod valuo overy yeny, nud, whilo In somo loealitie thore may bo o deckine in tha valua of proporty, such decl’ue s not Ao genoral not ko oxtonsive as to give any just renson for nssuming thot the total valuntions of 1880 will fall below thoso of 1870, Tho grent chango in our trade hns worked couniry, thoy bave turned tho Honao into n ben «gardon, flled with brawling, wrangling politiciana, nrranging the dotalls of the next eampnigi; rqunudering time and monay in iuveatigations and raports to be used ns cloe- tioncering doowmeonts; Lrenking down tho safouords of the ballot-box; fighting and from the Hritish metropolis, Tle snyst 4 \With. 11 our awn tmemory dt least ten of Wnun's clty eluirches, Including some of his niost orlainal designe, havo passed away, Thelr materials havo Leen sold to the highest bidder, their stones ground down for Portland cement, their rich carved oak-work, Learlng the touch of Onintina Qunona' magle chisel, gane to fur- - WASHINGT —_— Proceedings Incident 1o g Closing Hours of TERMS Or SURSCRIPTION. EY MAIL—IN ADVANOR—FOSTAGE FREDATD, g oty haan, K Closely following upon tho campaign squabblivg for the spoils of tho noxt Con. | nish new ‘Queen ANNE' monslons, and thelr Con ress, .80 | stomp-spocch deliverad by Cranxsox N, faabion, and then préecoded to n culody of | 8 wondorful chnugo in our financial condi- | gross; voting nwny mouoy for stanls, jobs, | Monuments luddled nway fn alien churches,” 14 & ;| Porten, under tho thin dirgulso of & Oom- | 3y, 00 "oy oot exoggoralod and fanci- [ tion. In 1870 wo wora aclting but little and | and subsidios; sooking to bring about an arn e Bl A-‘_t i & —_— 10| mittes roport, comen a vorsion of the samo | 11y bt e 1t wan il timed fn delivery. | buying heavily with our dobts. Stuce then | of confusion and disorder, to that dema. ¢ Eoltimore Awiericant puta. theiease ratticr affair prosented by the finpuhllum miuority of itho Committce, Messrs, Hisooor, of Now York, Cox, of Ohio, and Rzep, of Maine. ‘The minority report is something more than an answer to Porrer's exhibition of partisan bing and. faculty of misropresentation ; it is rathor an annibilation than a retort. It meots and answors, with vigorous olearness and a most admirnble choico of the too strongly when it armies thint fts »stall" can ot out a Sundny cditfon ensier -than dlas- pose of Its "“great accumulation of matter" [ Mouday’s lssue. Why not sny frankly that 1t prints o Bundny edition because the peopls de- mand i1 "Theso circumatances naturally suggest an Inquiry why the Southorn people scom ta bo 80 unanimously favorable to Jevr Davis, nud why it is regarded ns tho duty of ovory ox. Confoderate to dofend him whonovor his nome {s mentioned, If this pretonded nd- miration is not genuine in focling, i& Jre Davis did not enrn tho love and rospeot of the Bouthorn people as L did, if ho has wo hiavo beou stendily buying less nnd solling moro; have been calling home our dabts, uational, munieipal, and corporate; tho country wasnovor so fall of monoy, s is ovi- denced by tho subscriptions to the 4 per cont Londs, which no man would look at in 1870; nnd, with this trado continuing nnd noreas. ing, money pouring in, debts reduced, intor. | 8 1.00, b of (0 §$ Clun of tWen(Fararvans Specimen conles sent free, 2 Givo Tost-Office Address fa full, Including Btat and County, Hemittaners may be made ofther by draft, expross, Yost-UMea order, or in teglatered letter, at our risk. TERMS TG CITY SUBACIIDRRS, Dalty, dellvered, Sunday excepted, 23 cents por week. Lilly, dolivered, Sunday included, 10 cents pee weok, ddress ‘THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dasrborn-ats., Chieago, 11, gogues may profit thereby ; doing nothing to onoourago bustness, or to help tho country in its struggle to reach ones mora its former prospority, but on the other hand piling avery obstacla in the way that mny serve to advanco tho aclfish greed of politicians, Tho old man's warning was well onough in its way, but it should have been moro comprobensive. Filibustering ‘and D) Motions Oitontimm].ly‘ltory Resorted To, ———. " A great deal of unnccessary sentiment is wasted whenever a noble Lord, like the late Duke of Nowcastlo, dissiptes a splendid patrimony, —_— Most of the Appropriation Dillg Agreed Upon in Con- £ Tz T t Rvanston, ¢ th it all ast lowared, and tho ourroncy all at par, the | It should have covered not only Sunday | The dllslrlhnllnn of an lc’:nmlnd estate in Ihlsbnr forence. L e T oo s | soliont points of tho controversy, ¢ al onoral conditlon of the country indicates a | from n moral point of view, but avery othor | any other mauner fs s blessing tocversbody but thi tng-room " not tho personal attractions to account for | gonernl condition of the ¢ Y m pul g y 5731:‘::;1; ;'nodml;‘y:: I::‘r': Toft In the counting-rao that PorTen advanced, and much moro, for 80 much dovotion,~then tho cxplanation of | Prospority which can hardly show olghtoon | wasted day from n useful point of vidw, | tho family most Immediately concorned, —— the Ropublican mombers of tho Committes months henco a declino in the valuo of the national wealth tb————— THE LAST OF THE VALENTINE BCKIP BWINDLE. Tho declslon of the Sucrotary of the Into. rior ngoinst the location of the VarenTiNg Ianc.sorip on tho lake-front property las boen roceived with gratitude not only by thoso immediatoly nffeated by the attempted blnckmnail but by tho whole city. Chiu serip wag {ssued by Congross in exchnango for Onli- fornia lands provionsly located, which the Government subsequontly dosired to roogou- py. It gave the privilege to the holders of locating a similar quantity of land anywhere among tho unoceupied lands of the country. The owner of this scrip choso to construe this privilego 08 a warrant to pounce npon any land that had originally bolonged to the Gonersl Government and the this general loyalty to tha ex-Presidont of tho Confedorncy must bo sought in tho fact that he beld that position, that tho Bouthern peopls largely continuo lo worship the dond Confedoracy in its living Chief, and that any publio slight put upon Davisis re- sontod na if it wore put npon the ontire poo- ple. Thoye is nothing which would pleaso tho ex-Confederatos ro well as Jerr Davis' restoration to full citizenship, or Lia recog. nition by tho Government in the payment of o Moexican pension, or by the extonsion of an offielnl Land in some way or other by the Government, ‘The personal preforoncos or ndvantages of Davis himself out no figura in this desire, which hns no other aim than to seouro the most complete recognition fram tho United States Governmontlof tho South- ern Confederacy. Whon Jery Davia shall have boen restored to citizenship, whon ho ehaoll draw Govornment money ns a Mexican TRIBUNE BRANCII O F:D‘ICEE. —— The Associated Press dlspateh from Chicago nbout the pleuro-pneumonta speaks of Mr, ThioMas Krerz as “an eminent medical pen- tieman*” Mr. Krers nover “doctored® any- thing more serious than olection raturns {n the whole course of his fife, . ———— 5 Unquestionably tho standard of the drama is belng very much ralsed fn this clty, as anybody can tell from the displayed lthographs of the actresses who appear In * Robinson Crusoe® and *‘Babes In the Woods® at tho Central Church Theatre, —— Besides Jonas, the new Benator from Loulsi- ann, there will be two other Israclltes in the Torty-sixth Gongress, both fn the Lower House. They are Epwin EiNsTRIN, elected fromn New York City, nnd LroroLp Monsz, elected from Massachusetts. — A cry goes up from Cinciunat! for KiMnatt, who f& wanted to raisc the Atchblshop's debt of There may be difft¥ences of opinfon as to the right or wrong of sitting on Sunday, but there is no diffexrence of opinion s to the neoessity of a specdy ovacuation of Wash- ingtou by overy membor of tho Forty-fifth Congross and the whole gang of corruption- tats hangiug' abont them, Tho job of ar- ranging the dotnils of {ho next political com- prign ean be intrusted to the poople, who will bo likely iu any ovent to havo nothing to sny. Ponding that timo they will feol liko rexterating the old gentloman's not vary uminblo sentiments every day in the wouk as they bava been doing for several woeks post. — ara not at all hampored or embarrassod on ncoount of any dolicaoy regarding the ciphor dispntohes, Thoy have, in tho abaones of & majority roport, and in ignoranca of what Lorn of the cipher dilemma the Democrats will choose, presentod a review of that branch of the investigation which ‘may well stand alone, for it is cortainly strong onongh, The Army and Legislativg Bill the Greant Boues of (gp. tention, N pee — A Bitter Fight Over the o, litical Clauses At. tached. ‘Tnx CirtoAao TRINUNR hias establislied branch ofices for Uhie receipt of subscriptions and advertisements as follows: NEW TYOUR~Room 29 Tridune Bullding, F. T, Mo FADDEN, Manager, PARIS, France—No. 10 Rue de Ia Grange-Batellerc, . Maunxe, Agent. " _LONDON, Rag.—American Exchange,. 449 Strand. Hruny F, Gritio, Agent. BAN FRANCISCO, C WASHINGTON D, -Palace Hotel. 10 F strool, POTTER'S PARTISAN REPORT. The legendary Inboring of tha mountains, followed by tho birth of the mouse, finds n counterpart in PorTen's rgport s tho result of dragging tho conntry for ovidence and expending thousands wpon thonsands of public monoy for so lame and fmpotent n conclusion. The Porren Committee wns organized with tho specifio purpose of fm. penching tho Presidont and other high offi. cors of tho Government on tho chargs of having corruptly bargained with certain AMUSEMENTS, NoVicker's Thentro. Madison street, between Dearborn and State, Ene gagement of Rice's Burprise Party, '* Dabes In tho Wood." . Both Parties Manitest 8 Firg Dotermination to * §ticy» It Out, For the information of correspondents who ore pestering the nowapapers with questions about the Presidents\the following table s sub- mitted. Tho Jutters * V.-P." ndded to a name slgnify thut tho President mentioned was pro- vicusly Vice-Prestdont; *! 8." indicatea that ho Wwasa mumber of the United Btates 8enate; Haverly’s Thentre. Dearborn Mrect, corner of Monroe, Engazement ©f tho New York Staodsrd Theatre Company. **Ale mont & Life.,” 2% Jlooley?n Thentro. Tiandolrh etreet, tatween Clark ond LaSalls. Ene agement of Mr, and Mrs. George 8, Enight, **Otto.” An Anproprint(on Secured for the Cyp pletion of the Chicago Custom. House, title to which might Lo disputed wup- | * " a member of the Lower Houso of Con- $6,000,000. But KiMpaLw s not that kind of a . Y 5 th oliticlana. Tho purpose of ronch. | Pensioner, or when ho shall tako n sent in y : St | Clark strest, :::;:I‘:'t‘h: c::.rf“l:;:n Fngogement ]S:; fl‘::nll:mflidflnt. hflm:o‘l". r‘lflfl distinetly | tho Usited States Sonsta (to which tho nn:ednn: of:ouh:nlf{:zlinnm:n ‘::nm:f;t‘hinm:;i g::::; :n?lm‘:; I‘B‘f?l?':,;::;:: R‘;l::llulse.rc:m“y e gfrfi'xf,':;":&.fzffiu‘fi?x .l'u"r.::;';"n'f.'fl::;:’n:.:if.‘f TILIBUSTERING. of Dominick Murray. *‘Innocent.” Varisty Ollo, dfsnvowed boforo the Committoe got to | Bouthern paople, for reasons alroady given, P Proporty Prestdents, & 3 city-lmits of Qhieago, now owned in part by the efty and in part by private porsons, as most likely to yield them rich roturns, They sccured n favorable construction of theirclaim, in some way not yot oxplained, from the Genernl Commissioner of tho Land- Offfee; nnd, had not Secrctary Bemunz re. vorsed that decision, they would have beon in n position to exact heavy tribute from in. ‘nocent purchinsers or subject the lattor to long, harassing, and costly litigation, Even partial success would have yiolded the own. ers of thir serip much larger returns than any to which they were over entitled under tho not of Congress, or by virtue of surren. dering the publio lands in Californin which they ceded back to the Government, A The poiuts on which Becrotary Somunz bnsos his decisions are so clonr and conctu. pivo that his interforonco will probably sottle the controversy for nll time, Ho holds that the salo of Fort Dearborn Reservation by the War Dopnrtmont in 1839 was made sindor proper authority at the time, and that no nu- thority is now vested in the Iuterior Dopart- ment to reviow that action. Ifo also holds thnt such land as hes been reclaimed by artificial moans sinco that salo (all the “mndo " land formerly covored by tho water of Lake Michigan) nover was public land be- longing to the United States Government; nnd henco thero con bo no claim upon it by want him clected), then the South will bo able to feel that it has resumed its old-time supremncy in tho land, and that no man thencoforth can cast any slur upon tho Confederncy, or upon sny of thoso who woro idoutifled with its disastrous carcer. And it is ospecially desired to bring nll this about without subjeoting tho late President of tho Into Confederacy to the humiliation of asking for nmnesty. Indeed, ono of hisSouth- ern subjects thought Davis would soorn oven a peusion from tho United States Govern. ment, Inothor words, the United States Governmont mnst be compelled to suo to Jerr Davis, ns Presidont of tho late Con- federaoy, to xesume his relntions as a loyal citizon of the United States, or it must pay him in tho shape of a pension or in salary as Sonator to roturn to his alle- ginuce, bofore the ox-Oonfoderates will ho sat- isfled with the pennneo dono by the peoplo of tha North for the sine of the peoplo of the South, e o e e NATIONAL WEALTH IN 1880, The impreasion oxists in somo circles and it is now gravely asserted that the returns of tho consus of 1880 will show that the prop- erty in the United Statos at that timo will have a less aggregate valuo than was shown by tho ccnsus of 1870. Tho valuations of previous perlods kavo boon given : 18; JAY Gourb, It appears, has two newapapars, both dally. Oune of them it {s unncecssary to montion; the other is the Denver News, which says that GouLp's “falth hos never been doubted, nna his word never violated." ————— Capt. BovtoN scoms bent on agvertising his Iite-saving suit by drowning himsolf in it3 and. the least ho can do for the publeis to furnish advance obituary notives to the newspapers. — Was it not the hight of absurdity for the Col- lector of Customs tu send a dotecrive out to the 8tock-Yards to asalst an eminent veterinarlan fo the dischargu of his dutles? work, partly bocnuso it was olear that no word or act could be fraced to Mn, Hayes that would warrant the chargo, but mainly because it was found that the propo- sition to reopen tho Presidontial ques. tion wns altogother too unpopular to bo encouraged. Bo Suensan and Noyes were rolnined as scapegonts, and Por. Ten 8 guilty of reporting thoso gen. tlemou ns consnrable, though they frank- ly met nnd disproved -every intimation ngainst their integrity. Nothing was more clearly demonstrated, for instauce, than that Socrotary Surmaan never wrote any such lotter ns ho was charged with having writ. ton; yet Porren contonts himsolf with giv- ing the evidence on this point, and implios by his consura of Mr. Suenuan that’ tho Intter wos convictod 'instend of ncquitted of the mnin charge agninst Lim. Minister Noves nppeured befora the Committee, and by his frank statemont nud the other evi- denco which that statement brought out, carned an exoneration from nll persons who rond tho teslimony; . yot Porren im- pugns Novks' motives ,and misconstrnes his conduet, while he commords Gen, Ban. zow in the most exalted torms beeause the latter, having consonted to go to Florida as counsel for the Republicans, did sll ho could to promote TILDEN's canse, Thero is n protense, strengthened by tho Acadomy of dusic, Halsted street, betweon Madlson and Monroe. Vae FHety entertainment, TIOE CLOSING 1HOURS, Wasmxaron. Apaxs, V,-P, . JrrrEnson, Sec. State, V.-P. Mavoy, 1., Sec, State, » Monitow, 8,, 8ec, 8tate, F, B, Auaus, B, Bee, Buate, o, Jauxsun, 1 ", M, VN Butien, 8., 'ee, Slate, V.-P., F. 3 Tanmson, i , F. M, Trien, 1L, 8., V.-P, Purx, 11,, Speakor, AYLOR, FiLvons, M., V.-F, Prence, 8,, 11, P B Bucutavax, I, 8., Bce, State, F, . LixcoLN, JonxsoN, I L, V.-B, . Gnaxe, A, 8! infec) War, 10, Uaves, H, In addition to the abave, Jomy ADAMS, Jep- PERION, MADISON, and MoONROE, were members of the Congress of the Confederation, and Apana nud JEPFRRSON represented the Confed- eracy nbrond. Jous QuiNcy ADAMS sat in the Lower and Avpnew JomnsoN in the Upper Houso of Cougress nfter belnyg President. Jee- FERBON, MoNnROR, VAN Buney, TyLeR, Pouk, Jonxsox, and HAvss, were Governors of Btates, and HamwsoN and JaoksoN Qov- cruors of Territorles, befors belng Presl- dent. LiNcoLy, beslde being a member of the Lower Ilouse, bad served four years in the Stato Legislature. It will Lo observed that, with three exceptions, oll the Presidents bad abundant experience of offlcchiolding before belng elected, und all but these threa passed through Congreos to the White House, The ex- centions aro WAsnINGTON, TATLOR, and GraxnT, —iilitary chicltolns who wero elected on ae- count of thelr war-records. The same may be Kpectat Dirpatch to Tha Tribune, Wasaninaton, D. C., March 8.—The Rowy reassenibled at 10 o'clock thia mornlyy, Iy W manilest, at every stage of the vroceedings, by the faction which secks delay has determlued ty take advantage of every opportunity, Accopd. fngly, to carry out these ailutory tactics, rol). calls were demanded on every pussible occasfan, aud, after two hours hod been uselesaly apent fy altemptiqipto pass sume bills upon the Spak. er’s tablo und the protracted lexfslative sesslog of Baturdny wus cnded, objectiun was mado to dispensluge with the readlog of the Tong journaly of Friday'a und Saturday's sesslons, utid auother hour wos occupled with that. Soringer came coustantly to the front with hiseffort to lmpea b Seward, Minlster to China, und {t was evident frow his every notion that it wus X THR PURFOSE OF THE DEMOCRATS who are mavaging the caso to press the nnfim to o vote, and to.present Minister Seward st the bar of the Benate for impeachment befors noon to-morrow, g0 that the Senoty miay take order and nssemble 8 a court of fmpeachiment in uxtrd sesslon. - Confereuce reports kept con. fog In to futerrupt Springer, and before § o'elock reports upon the Sundry Cisil aud upon the Fortlfleation bitie hiad hecn agreed to. There was a strong etfort Lo occupy time In considers- tlon of the roport on the Sundry Civit bill, Blackburu himself apyearing as a leader fo the effort to defeat the DI on the techules] pre tendo that the clause creating a sivkiuz fund for tho District of Colunbla Indebteduess oupht not to be approved. ‘The River and Harbor U Tlrat Roglment Armory, ¥ Jackson street, between Wabash and Michigan avenues. Panoramlc Plctures of the War of tho Re- Lelljon, Exposition Bullding, Lake Shore, foot of Washington strect. Msdame Aunderson, the Pedestrienne, . L. GE, XO. 408, A, F. & A, M.—Teaular m&'fi‘fluhl"l P Iammlnu (March 4), In thelr bail, 75 biroe- ushiess of cvening, ' conslderation | of gineidmoria fo by-laws, Al mem fera are requested to [; e W. M, Lot gy C. 1. CRANE, Beeretary, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1870, ! There's nothing Chlcago cannot beat the world fu, except pleuro-poeumonia. St. Loufs bas a better articlo of thut, und more of it Included in the Sundry Civil Appropria- tion bill passed by both Houses i an item of $626,000 to completa the Chioago Cnstom- House, $80,000 of this sum to be immedinte- ly available for fitting-up {ho basement of tho building for the oceupnncy of tho Post- Office. This insures the prompt and cconom- ienl complotion of a building much noeded to accommodate the various Fedoral offices now distributed around in rented rooms, | Weleara from a Democratic paper that Sun- set Cox has hopes of belng nowminated 1o 1850— 18 nu asspirant, as it wero. EDIsON snys that * the electric light is just ss certain ns sunlight,” More certaln, we bellove, than sunlight to March, ——— It is evident that some hich functlonarles at \Wushington want the nerve-food badly. — PERSONALS, Tilden and Thurman. T, T.—Too thin, | Congress at a lato Lour this morning wns at a deadlock on two important measures, both of a strietly political character, viz.: a +.8 7,135, 780,226 | °F ; sald of JACRSON and HARRISON, notwithstand- Tho hend of tho Demoocratic party s tho | was broueht tu ot the close of the day session that clanso of tho Army Appropriation Lill coloring which the Associated Press ngont | 18 "3.1"‘:15‘;:“1"-“'” virtuo of Governmont' laud-sorip, A final Ing thelr ra;;cntmr electlons to 'Stnl‘:: um;‘ 2‘:;- barrol-head, relative to the employment of troops as o has givon tho report, that Mr, Porren nnd | 2° 40,008, 628,607 | point, which will cover all gimilar atiempts ¥ % and passed, when the recess was ordercd. posse comitatus, and the nmondmont to the Legislative bill providing for tho ropon! of the Federal Suporvisors' Iaw, A strict party vote divides the Souiate and Housa on theso questjons, and thero are no indications that eithor sido will make tho concessious neces- sary to admit of the passngo of the bills. cressional ofiices. There Is nothing discourng- ing in this llst to any member of Congress who may have Presidential aspirations, though it is a matter ot common fame that many members of Congresa who sought to be Presldent nover succeeded, T ——— ‘The regular correspondent of the Assoctated Press ot New York must lave been detafued Inte at church Bunday night. In no other oy is It vossible to account for the extraordinary Democratic harangue, which, In the gulse of “news, I8 prefaced to the abstract of the Por- 12 Commlttee report, forwarded by tolegraph. Thus the Assoclated Press is mado to say that * Mr. POTTER'S report i rezarded by those who have perused 1t os elugulorly fmparttal and Judiclal," and that *it derives its forcosalely from a close, lozical deductlon of facts pre- sented to the Conunittee,” and much more to the samo effect. Now, the Assoclated Press does not belleve anything of thls sort} and, what {8 more, not one intelligent Domocrat n teu beloves ft. The Porren fnvestizu- tlon was a screaming farce; and the roport of the Committco s a Rrossly partisan statoment of ‘“facts® which wero not ndduced by any testimony before the Com- mittee. Wo hope the eatimable correspondent of the Assoclated Ireas at Now York, who fs u gentleman and a thorough uewspaper man, und understands his business as the agent of a non- partisan assoclation, will not again sclect Sam TILDEN, or MANTON MARBLE, or Nevvy Prrron for bis Sunday-night substitute. ——————— The New York Frentng Post draws a parallel between the Irish and the Chiuese in an edito- rial entltied * Celt and Mongol,” aud supgests that one race is about as capablo of sorving the country os tho other. To this a correspondent roplies that the Irlsh are Caucasianin raco and Clirlstlan In ereed, and as such are of our civlli- zation, while the ¢ssonceof the brejudics against the Chinese I8 that, as Asiatles and pagans, thoy areirreconcilable with our civillzetion. “8othe These figures, however, require explann- tion. The consus of 1860 was not & thor- ough onoj thot of 1800 was much botter, but still not asgeompleto as that of 1870 ; whila tho latter was taken nt a period whon the currency was largely deprecinted and values wero in the full hight of speonlation, It is now claimed that the aggrogate national wenlth will not have s grent n valuo in 1880 as it hod in 1870, and that this is to be attributed to the skrinkago of valucs sinco 1870. The nonibilation of slave property, valued ot $2,500,000,000, took placo botwoen 1860 nnd 1870, and still the aggrogate for the whole country nearly doubled, though por- Laps the destruction of the War otherwiso oqnalod nearly 34,000,000,000, Thoso losses havo already been disconnted. The speou- lative values which prevailed in 1870 had not made much progross at that timein tho Sonth- orn Blates. 'Thoso Btutes In 1870 had but slightly recovored from tho desolation of the ‘War, aud whatevor chango has takon place since then Las boen gonerally for tha better, Thero has boon an annihilation of many volucs since 1878; tho spocnlation has boen squeezed out of countless schomes since then; but thore has novorthioloss been n constant and unbrokon annual incrensa of production, and the incressed quountity produced has, deapite tho declino in prices, moro than maintained tho total valuo of the products, When tho annual production, both in quan- tity and value, oxccods that of the previous yoar, thero is hardly room to supposo that the valne of the nggrogate woalth hns receded, A tablo is given professing to be an esti- maote of the probablo wealth of the country, by States, fu 1880, to which, for comparison, wa have added the valuation in 1870, ‘e Chin=so will stay and tako in washing at the old stand, Bhero Ali s desd. Ho couldn’t outrun the palo. messenger, Pleaso turn off that electric light, Afr, Edi. son, It fa too dazzling, 3. Angoll forgot to take his night-dress and slippers alonz with him, : Woston Iins failed in his recent walk in England with his usual brillinncy, . Mr, Daun bas beon vindieated. Denny Kearnoy nlso snys that Hayes {3 a frand. ‘T'he British Cormissionor, 8ir P. Cunliffe Owen, won an omnlbu {n the Parls lottery, Square bats will Lo used by base-ball elubs next season. Square games are moro noedod. Assistont Poslmnator-Gonoral ond Mra. Tyner will go to the Pacific coast next month, McGarrahan hos another olaim before Congress—tne clalm that he licked Donn Piatt, Admiral Dot wants to marry, Judgiog from his namo, his wite will bo the girl of the porlod, Congress will not consent to the proposi- tion to pive Joff Davie a pensfon. Republics are ungrateful, = Jeft Davis has been rofused o pension, ‘yat Mr. Davis is the greatest traitor which this country lius ever produced. A Olark-streot barber refused to color tho mustacho of an lntoxlcated customor because he ald not want to dye adrunkard, Mr, Ingersoll's locture on * Job" {g not popular. A great wany peodle, It appears, would rather hava boild than Tugersoll, ‘McClellan doesn't boom, but ho is doing what ho can to crush out the cattle-plague ia Now dJersoy, —which, perkaps, {e nobler, The Ohiuoso must now bo instruoted in citizenship, Thoy must bocome naturalized, and stult vallot-boxua and sell thelr votes, Joff Davis hns not been montioned asa TIH BEWARD OASE is oue of cspecial enormity. Minister ew- ard Is under techinical arrest for contempt of the House, belug ou bail ouly upon bis owa ricoj- nizauce, yet without permitting the Judicary Committee to report the accision to which they bave agreed, nawely, that Minister Sewardis Justified in staudiug apon bis rizhts, und dedia. iugg to produco bis bovks. "Uhe Springer Com. mittee {s foreing his impeachment. ‘They thus arc attemptingto enforcs Rbadmanthine julg- ment, They bave first manacled an Americaa citizen, and then strilke him. They propose to oresent him at the bar of the Scnate foranad- Judication of impeachment, without releasisg Lim from imprisoninent for contempt. Itwa Invaln Gen. Bunks, Gen. Garllehd, ond Gen, Butler protested thut TIIS WAS NOT AMERICAN LIOERTY or Amerfvan luw. Partisanship kuew no-lsw Spoaler Randall, fntimidated by the sharpuess of the Speukership contest ngainst kim, sur- rendered his deelslons to the jndpment of Minfater Beward’s persceutors, and the Howe could only submit with a violent protest. At the day closed the probubilitios were that the 8eward casy would Lo the constant vecupation of the Ifouse during the remaining bours of the ression, eave only when it was cutoft by Appropriation bills. “Compromisa is King." As the closoof the scsslon, and of the Forty-fitth Congress 8- vroaches gentlemen who have sworn that thef would romuin In thelr scats until doomsdsy rather than yleld thelr views on some et st straction, are begiuning to plan somo way U whick they can toko seats in the vars for thels homes to-morrow afternoon. Landlords svd lodging-house keepers, who have,been for months paat industriously endeavoring Lo cresté the bolle? thut an oxtra sessiou was (nevitablt begin to-night to ear that they Wil have many cmpty rooms durlng he coming summer. Expeetant pluce-bunt ors, who luve hopod ‘to bucome olllerd at blackmail, is to the effect that the Varey. TN serip §s not logatable wWhon publio lnnds within tho limits &f an incorporated olty. This and all othor joptional scrip jssued by the Government conveys tho privilege of looating unoceupied public lauds, and Secro- tary Scnunz's point ia that lands within an incorporated city are occupied in n sonso to precludo subsequent location. The point is ‘b good ono, and will probably hold in all cases ; for an act of incorporation for munioi- pol purposes earrics with it a prosumption of ocoupntion, aud the fact of new authority, which glve all lands within its limits an added valuo to that which it is possiblo for unaccupied public lands to possess. It is not probablo that the VALENTINE scrip ownors will carry thoir proposterous olaims into the courts aftor this adverse deciaion. A PIOUS OLD MAN'S WARNING. Tt was something very liko tho handwrit. ing on tho wall which met tho astonished vislon of Beremazzan that confronted tho Houso of Representatives on Bundny, when an old mou roso in the pallery and with clenr, sonorous voica hurled o malediction at the Babbath-brenkers below: * Tho wicked shall bo cast into Hell, and all the nations thot forgot Gon, You are dishonoring Gop to-day, and may Ho forgive you for it,” ‘Warming up with his subjeot, the plous old theologian commonced what promised to bo a very cmphntto sermon on the godless chinractor of tho House, whon the Doorkeop- er, o man of unregonerato heart, cut the exhortntion short off by ruthlessly ojecting tho Jyneamam out of the gallory, Tlo had got in his work, howover. 1o n"ddontly folt that ho bad dono his duty, and he was his nssociates have not put any reliasnco upon tho testimony of such peoplo as AxNDERSON, Jexxs, and Wepen in roaching their con- clusions ; but, ns a matter of fact, all the -| spacific deductions made by Porrer aro based entiroly upon the testimony of these very people, whoso combimed oaths would not convict a starving darkey of robbing n bon-roost, Asido from the reflections npon Mossrs. Burnaaw, Novss, and othors, which Lave no warrant except that of palpabla per- jury, Porren's roport is just such an essny ou Returning Boards, and on the result of tho Louisiana and Florlda elections, as any loyal TNomocrat might kave written aftor the clec- tlon of Hayes hnd boen doclared. It may wall bo doubted whother tho conntry will bo satisflod that the money appropriated for the Porren Committoo has boen well spent in producing a roport which is simply like an clongated editorinl from tho columns of the Now York Sun, It is the very hight of Democratio jmpertinence to havoe oxponded tho publioc monoys without stint, and to have ongrossed tho publio attention for a year or moro, only to enable Porren to communicate his conviotion that: TrLoex and. Henpricxs wero ronlly elooted,—n conviotion which he ontortained beforo ns woll na fter liatening ton moss of worthless testimony, Tho only oxkibition of good tasto nbout the report is in tho fnct that, after charging corruption upon Republican leaders on the strongth of manufactured testimony, Porrer rofrained from whitewashing Troex on tho damning testimony of tho cipher dispatohos, It prob- ably ocenrrod to him that such a coutrast would by too striking, and so he left tho whitowashing of T1Le to somebody clso, e S —— Groat excitoment exisla at Augusta, Iil., over tho supposed disoovery of tho perpe- trators of the mysierious murder of Dr. Pransoy, of that place, who in November last was enticed from his bed by o protended call to sos o patient, and when in a secluded spot wns boaten to doath with bludgeons, Througlh tho confossion of a nogro arrested in Minnesota, three white men have Loen token into oustody a8 tho murderers of Dr. Pramson, nnd it is with diffionlty that the peoplo of Augusta and vieinity have boon re- strained from lynching tho prisoners. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United Statos in the csse of the Northorn Trausporiation Company, which sued the City of Chicago for domages resulting from tho construction of the tnnnel under the river, sottles some imporiant and long- disputod questions, It affinne the power of | the Governmont to make certain uecossnry public improvements withont beiug com- pelled to purchase the privilogo of doing so from averybody who adsumes that his prop. erly or business may bo “or is injured by what is essential to tho public comfort nnd convenionce, —— The pationco and persoveranco of Mrs, Beva A. Looxwoon, the femalo lawyer, bave ¢ lnst beon rowarded, and that professional lady hos been regularly admitted to practico B reastic parallel s searcely 80 well caleyl Democratic carididato for the Proslioncy, but we | 9L the Senato at noon to-morrow, sre tr)lngffl at tho Bar of the Bupremo Court of the JEFF AND THE SOUTH, St s probably the anly mon in that nasomblaga I.l‘:uurfztepln mlncl’;‘:la as ‘:a’ Iw(:'\l‘l::lc:c :ow:):: bellovo e could carry tho Solld south, ' bazray: monay "“D“m,' ‘?,Tku.,;;:fx:ln:x?l\fl’zrl; United Btatos. Ouoo refusod this privilogo ‘Thora 18 something very curlous about the fier who wont awny with cloar conscionca, : have contributed creatly toward the natfonal | 'The Duko of Conuoaught’s marrlaga’ with '?!“h‘ljfl.‘:::' ""f,lf:":m‘ :: :WSI‘L to obtalu ful «upon application to the Court, Mra, Lock. | Wniformity with which the ox-Confedorntes | Samomis 1t the dootrines of the theologiane bearing development and dofento, whose membors are | the Princess Loatss Margherlte will bo eslobratad u:uell"ulnnfll’wl the Government- which ther woop choso another routo to the gonl of her | ally about Jeve Davis whonover his namo }Efi}m:m npon tho obaorvanco of the first day of the | to bo found here in every station of life, and | at Windwor Castlu on the 13th of this month, funght 80 bravely to overthrow, und who hste ambition, snd sought nt tho hauds of* Con- | comes up in o public way, and the carnest- | Guargm woek are corroct; if tho tenchings of tho pul. | Whose blood 1s traceablo in half tho native podi- Au oxchange romarks that Mr. Tilton | gocared that they would not surrcoder the gross tho recognition of tho cqual right | ness with which thoy defend him. This do- | Hlinoiv it in rospect to tho Sun's-dny aro true, thon the old man stated unquestionablo facts which it is difficult to gt round or got over, Divesting tho ocourronce of its roliglous na. peats, the robukowas o pointed and portinent grees of thig, thelr, and our native country,” That does very well foran nnswer; but the argu- ment hardly descrves an answer. If the Jor | wore not an afternoon paper, and the editor not safo at homo by sundown, it {s probable that ho would before now _bave been convinced with a wenrs his horns with a good deal of grace, ana we supect that bo takes iy liorna In tho same mangor, An Angell went on a Pullman car, But back he came ona Shootlng Star, 1e'll atar it no more; hla ride 1s o'er,— He's only now 25—-0—i, of woman t{o carvo out hor des- tiny nccording to lher ability,. A law was passed providing for the admission of ‘women a4 attornoys to practico in the Fod. orral Courts upon the samo footing and votion would not be remarkable, porhaps, if Davis wero somo such man 03 the deconsod Leg, tho military loader of the Rubellion, or Gen. Jor Jouxsrow, the hiving’ hero of the War on the Rebel side; theso men had of- dotting of au “1'" or the crossing of n "'t a0 wetting Into the position of Byron's Countesh wlio, vowlng sha would nover consent, o0 scoted, The reports of the Confercnce Cufl: mittocs sro first made to the fouse; so th = 2 ¢ 17O COMPArE: e oue, No plon of nocessity oan bo enterod | club of his corror, as he descrves to be. Jom Mage is giving oxhibitions in Austra. f::::"“u'l’lm:tgg‘fi" ,“;,n,::c?;"::u‘;::wn what undor no restriotions that aro not imposed | ficinl rocords and porsonal attractions to n. R’nfi.’:’m".‘i.'h for tho viclntion, It was not Tigceasaty for Collector l\mun_u-c reform of | Uit Mr. Macotsa good dghter, notwithstanding is to{omu whennr‘s;:wn. fsmade, The Senstort upon men, and Mrs. Locxwoop yesterdny | bure a popular admiration likely to grow nu Mtunlyal Congross to have boon in sesslon. It did not 1o fack Lhat be Ina ieyor M eadvantanes ofin the Civi Borvico In New York by turning out three Deputy Collectors who were fricuds of Anrtiun; and this {n spite of a letter from the Prosident ndvising the contrary course, This «ction s asaumed to bo taken under tho clauso of the letter which ran thus: “There must, I assume, be o few confidential places lled by those whom you peréonally know to be trust- tha aotual oveuts of tho War rocoded. But Davis has no such qualities, Mo is not the sort of man to mako slrong porsonal attaoh. ments, 8Inco tho War ha has lived o lonely lito, and has been dosortod by friends exoopt whon ko has como before tho public from tie to thue as the lato Prosident of tho lato wera for some tins Iu executlve M"‘m and then they passed o fow unjmportant i whilo waltlng for the conferencs rflm‘)'m reach them. When (hoy bezan to yead il 3 was on oceaslons! manifestation of muumm dissent, But {t was evident thut, s0 far l.l ;m Senato 18 concerned, any reasonable wml: i mado by its representatives fn Commltte took tho bonofit of that law, the firat pf her #cx to obtain a recognition from tho highost tribanal in tholand. Tho conclusion roached l;flw Iouso Judiclary Committoo in tho result of tho in- vestigation of the charges ogainst Judgo advanco or seoura any important leglulation, It did not moot and overcome any throstened danger. ‘Thoro was no orlsis so grave ns {o warraut the session, Nothing at all was acoomplislied of any importance, and noth- ing that might not hava beon done Yyoaterday without delaying legitimato business, Itid collogo education, ‘Wao aro of the opinion that John MoCul- lough, who has recontly come into possession of conulderable money by tho death of a Iriend, 18 the greatest Il.vinc aetor, Sarn, the girl who could kick higher than any other girl in Boldene's troupe, hasrotired from ylvanl , 508, 340, 112 Rhode laland ,, 2110, D05, B4} t . "o i tho stago and marrled, and she only kicks now "auri . 'The Sepators 87 Brovaerr Is sot forth briefly and plaluly fu Coufodoracy to justify thot conspiraoy -E,'-';',',‘,:' Sarolius, ggg':l::ign‘hfl not avert the danger of an extra session, ;L?I::i:olu{;‘;‘cl:&:“&:l?\?:{&?‘;’:;n‘;:l(n:c:l: when ahe thinks or Hosband ncd it Sg:!;;::‘::e‘:‘In;l:’;o:;;“;!ulinmunt to the ¥ tho resolution which forma the last pago of | ngainst the Unlon. Ho is mot at all PR | e ] nor did it socolerate (tho closo of tho parativoly fow importaat officfals ln the Now | ‘“David tho Kid," who stolo Mrs, Do [ jetop auy portion of the Election laws. 'nu‘r; tho report, and which is signed by tho entiro | popular among the masses of tho South. S U80J0.000 | rogular sossion, By rosting on that day the York Custonr-House who could bo regarded by | Bary's diamouds, was sent to vrlson for twenty | f's rumr that Conover mid Pfllmwl:emw Committco. It s that the charges have not | orn whites, a large portion of whom | West Virginlu. 100,031, 401 15,000,600 | members would hiave been in botter physical | bis successor as * eutirely trustworthy, years, tho idea of the Judge apparently belng to Qesert to the Demucrats and throw boon sustaiued, and that no ground exists | bolieve that the fataof tho Confedoraoy | aorfipios wag O+ 676,000,000 | aud woral condition, nud mora likely to so- S hAtT Cbaorveas e daudliie g oA ks, " sponstollity of arepeal of the Election lawt ‘upon the Prealdent, MIDNIOUT. Z, The sesslon of the House has wu".nu.',::,l:n out disorder, though every one 18 wide: s The timenot occupled Ly conference for proccedings looking to impeachment and removal, Upon this portion tho Committes'a roport is unanimous, for upon this alone was tho Committoo nble to unite, The narrative part of the report emboedios tho conclusionsof Mr, Knorr, the Ohairman, who slone had the An Eastern exchango observes: %It s be- comlug mora noticcable overy day that tho States which aro howllng for GRant with the most {nsatiable frenzy ure those which cannot, by auy vossibility, give him au Electoral vote.” Thia 1s strictly trus “out West." 'The only would have been very - difforont from what it was if it had boen in more competent hands, His fin) abdication from power, when ha doserted tho Bouthorn Capital and flod iu tho disguise of n wonian, as i¢ his fear Districtof Columbia, ..o 245,083,367 275,000,000 Total.... .. 80,008, 518,607 17,120,000, 000 Tt will bo scon that tho ostimated losses aro located in the Northorn Btates. Now compl]sh what the suiering people of this ocountry are begging aud praying for, name- ly, that thoy will got through and go hoine, oud give tho politics, and morals, aud busi- ness of the country a chanco'te fmprove, The Buffalo Erpress soyas “ A lotter is now lying fn the Chicago Post-Ofico addrevsed “To any truo Christian In Chicago, and to none other.'" Thanks. Woshallcall for it immed!- ately, f Jesso Poweroy told Mr, James T, Fields, " Y has beow divided between Spriger’s ROV ol of-personal danger had Laken the placa of all | York, it is nssumed, will dechwoe 1,000 | It would have givon them an opportunity to | **Statea” that are bowling are thoso Ik Mis | recently, that the influence of dime novels had lod | 4 0 imposchment of Beward, and Cou;::r“n"' privilego of roading tho officlal printed re- | other thoughts, was cortainly not calenlated | millions, Ponnsylvania 600, Now Jorsey 100, | 80 to chureh, and, barron as tho soil is, some l‘lflfrlo ;r_"h 1t4 60,000 Demiocratic wmajority, and | him to bis crimo. We havo always supposed tha slstiug on tho recording, mejority, LNOTE port of the testimony, and whoso views and | to fucronso the respoct and sdiiration of & the auly part of thoaa tates that lowl ara the Massachusotts 800, Hlinols 200, Indiana 100, Missouri 180, Ohio 185, and Wisconsin 180 millions, whilo the border States of Kentucky, Marylaud, Tenncesoe, and the two Virgiulas will fall off 450 milliona, It must be romembored that the populs. tion of tho Northern States has largoly in. oreased during tho ten years, sud that the number of acres of land put under cultiva~ tion has mora than dombled; that all branches of industry have groatly enlarged ; seeds wight have found o lodgment, At losst wo should have been spared the spectaclo of the Amorican Congress in session on Bunday for political purposoa. It tho mombers of the prosent Congross had cars to hear they would have heard maledictiond of this sort on other mornings then Bunday, Yf the people wore accarded the right of stating their wishea in the Houso there would have been more than one man jn tho gallories during the past month romind. the little wrotch began his viclous career by read- fng Talmage's sormons, An oxolinngo saya that hugging Lot stovos {ea luxury all over tho West. A man might barn himsel! in tho opuration, we should supposs, but he won't gat Wls Aingees pricked with pins or get kicked out of tho hoave by the girl's fathor, Au oxtonsive slate-bed has recently beon discovered fu Keiitucky, and as the bibulous habits of thu Kentnckisus nocossitate tho use of a vast number of slates, the dlscovery {8 ono in which evory inbabltant of tha State feels & deop peraunal Intorost, und Butler's report from the Fotter C;;qu“‘e tee. The Bpeaker ruled that Cunuell;u ol right to call for the reading, and [ i bave taken tiHl morniug. It was flnnlly_”l 54 by withdrawlug all of- thom, und they v;m gt be made so late as not to interferd 1"“”“ thing, Members worked I.hcmul'filA Wi good bumor that the Hnrgenut-nl-_ e called on to trot arcund the House wht 0 the fun. i lm: ::5 x‘nlnuw- alter 13 the m““""f.f;: 0:0':" Army and on the Leglsiative bill dec oot striotures sre not conourred in certaluly by the Republican members of the Committeo, pud presumably by the Democratio members only out of courtesy to the Chairman, Even a8 1t stouds, the report ia not go partisan ns to impute fmproper netd or wotives to Judge Bropaerr, though in the opinfon of Mr, Kxorr somo of his acis are justly open to criticism, The text of tho report gives ovi. denco of hasty construction and of insde- «uate consldoration of so.grave a matter, and chivalrio people. In spite of all ths, how- aver, any attack aimed ut Jevy Davig brings out flerco reson{ment from the most con. sorvative of tho ex-Confoderates. Bome of tho most notable contontions in Congress of Into years Lave been over Davis. Tho fomous Braine-Hiurn debato, which came so nearnaking the former gentlsman Prosident, aroso from Braine's protost ogainst sdmitting Jerr Davis to tho privileges of a universal Amngesty bill, And Yyestorday, fu the early whisky erooks, In thelr eyes everything is “booming" for GuanT, e e— Ex-Gov. PALNER adviscs the farmers of TIlI- nols ta rlse fu thelr inight and smash the Re- vubllcan party, snd presumably clect Ba Tie- DEN Prosidont and bimsclt Vice-Presideut be- causo the resolution of Jaxzs C. Sxiga favor ing the establishment of a Blgpal-Service statton at Bpriogfeld was voted down by the Illinols House, *which {s controlled by Republicans.” I waats the farers to know .aud remember oI o N0 sud that jodustrial labor is now better em- | ing them that thoy wero dishonoring tho | the fact. Well, lev ‘em romember also thut tha | pfe, Chaudler, we learn, callod on the m:;gh?”fi::fi::t;ldflwmd':':‘h parties l:‘o uch of the weight and amportauce which | hours of moruiug, when tho Sonate was | ployed than it was in 1870, Our exports of | people who had sent them thoro, and warn. | YO0 Waa niof partisan, Prestdont and took s lomonade. The mutusl sury ::uunce% In confercuce that there cauhlufw_ should attack to the report is lacking | foggéd and faded, Mr. Hoan's muggestion | the products of tho farm havo fncroased with Prlso f the lenionade and Mr. Chendler's {utorior ther ing them to go home, 88 uo good could oome out of their scasions. Ynatead of logis~ latiog for the actual wants and neods of the e —— A writer In the London Saturday Keview be- walls the fact that the graceful church spires of Bir CnarisroPusn WREN are fast disappearing by rcason of the clroumstances surround- that Davis ougbt not to bio on {ho pension. fug its preparation. It is characteristio ‘sbandonment of the position {u el volls‘of the nation (which would bo the case cuce T -'Fhe debate upon theso coufereuce ¥ show whether there fs to be yieldug 08 unprecedented magnitudo, and that fncresss must hayo been vory great, snd their unexpected is atondily progressing, Wo have moro peoc- moeting as total strangers must have been very embarrawlng. ts ¥ Pmchh“ “