Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 15, 1879, Page 4

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Collinsville, a little town in Illinois, about eleven miles from St. Louis, was yosterday afternoon visited by a torrible cyclone and nearly reduced to ruins by tho forco of the storm. The Common Council last evening made short work of tho Mayor's voto of tho ordi- nance establishing new water rates, passing the ordinanco over the veto by a vote of 28 yeas to 4 noys. Out of 1,846 bills introduced in the Illi- nois Logislature only eight have been enacted into laws and reecived the Governor's signn- ture. Yesterday thoro were eighty-two ab- sentees who foilod to answer thoir namos at roll-call, But the sossion hos been anything but a failure; Mr. Nevrne is still in jail. An ordinance was last evening submitted to the Common Council providing for tho surrender of Michigan avenue te the control of the Sauth Park Commissioners as an ap- proach to the South Park, in accordance with au act just passed by the Logislature. The solection of Michigan avenue isin har- mony with tho viowsa and wishes of tho property-ownors interested, and thore should be no obstruction to the prompt passago of the ordinanco. Tho Ozar of Russia was yosterdny mado tho target of another Socialist nsunsain, who fired in rapid succession vn number of shots from a revolver concenlod under his over- cont; but, boing a bad marksman, nono of his'bullets took effect as intended. Thonamo of the would-be rogicido is Sxotor, and ho is believed to be an omissary of tho Internationals, choson by reason of hia sup- posed bravery and accuracy of nim to mur- dor tho Russian sovereign. He had poisoned himsolf just before commencing his fusillade, intending to cheat tho Government of tho pleasure of behending him for tho assnssina- tion, but it sooms probable that his life will bo saved for a moro fitting and satisfactory tormination. ‘The Swiss Council has passed a resolution which will bring sorrow to tho maudlin breast of Mantis Van Bonen Dover, It is not a resolution requirmg people to return borrowed favors, but re-establishing capital punishment in Switzorland. In 1848 tho “now Swisa Constitution abolished the denth- penalty for political crimas, In 1864 tho varions cantons nbolishod it altogether and substituted porpetual imprisonment. Tho new penalty has been tried for fifteau years aud murders have increased. It was also found that porpatual imprigonment did not mean imprigonment for lifo in Switzerland any more than it doos in the United States. As {t soon ceased to have any detorrent effect, tho, Swiss have now returned to the old-fashioned penalty, The country genorally will applaud tho notion of the Honso Republicans yesterday in resorting to pnrliamontary tnotics to pro- tent tho introduction by tho Groenbackers and Demoorats of a vast volume of goneral legislation tho consideration of which would Protract the oxtra session until the timo arrives for boginuing the regular session, ‘Through the successful mancuvres of tho Atepublicans tho amorning hour was con- sumed before tho bundlo of billa conld be introduced, ond thelr onthors wore forcod to tho potition-box to got thofr measures referred to Committoes, Rut it fe evident that clavor expedients wil! not ahvays be so successful in restrict ing the scssion to the businoss for which It was convoned,—that fa, the passage of tho appropriation bills, Tho House, by a voto of 108 yeas to 117 naye, yostorday defoated a resolution reciting that the business inter- ostsof the country require the undortaking of no logialation rolative to tho currency or the tariff at this oxtra sosslon of Congroay; wheroby it is manifoxt that the evil day has only been postponed, and not wholly avoided. * Tho progress of the Stzvzne murder-trial {fs watched with close attention by the poo- plo of Chicago and vicinity, on account as well of the interout taken in tho tragto ele- ments of the caso asof the sharp and spirited encounters batwoen the lawyors engaged in tho case, Mr, Munts, the State's-Attorney, is fighting the temporary-insanity defense with wary watebfulness and a dogged porso- yorance that is evidently animated by tho conviction that justice is id groat danger of belng cheated; while Mx, Sronus, of coun. veot “for the priyoner, with consum. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1879-TWELVE: PAGES, mato .skill and 4 poralstonco equal- Jy ‘unfingging, strives to construct 1 theory of cause and effect that shall convince tho jury of the defendant's montal aborrn- tion nt the timo of tho killing of Maxi Srevens. ‘Tho defense gained o victory yesterday in tho ruling of tho Court in favor of admitting in ovidenco acts, appearances, and clroumstancea tending to show a condi- tion of insanity, but the prosecution havo managed to offsot this advantage in somo measure by socuring the exolnaion of much testimony relied upon by tho othor sido to atrengthon their enso, and punish local violonce in eleotions which concern the common interests nnd common wolfare of tho nation, No charga of sec- tional nnimostty or dangerous contralization of power can be fairly brought against tho prosont Repnblican Administration ; all tho sectional tegisiation is threatoned by tho Domoornta, and it is the imporative duty of the Ropublicans to resist it. INDECENCY AT SPRINGFIELD, An important bill ponding in the Logisin- turo—probably in both Ttbyges—is ona to change tha mode by which the State Board of Equalization shall ascertain the valuo for taxable purposes of tho capital stock of rail- rond and perhaps ofhor corporations in tho State of Illinois, Some two weeks ago wo published a letter from Springfield in which this bill was doscribed, and in whioh it was pointed out how tho railroads of tho Stato could be made to fontribute almost onongh ravonne from taxation to pay the oxpensos of tho Btato and local Govornument. Tho lottor stnted that the bill had not then been ma- tured, but it cortainly would be offered, nnd would be pushed to onactmont untoss it was allowed to drop unacted on, ‘This bill proposed that tho prozont mode of valuing capital stock and franchise should bo abolished, and that hereafter oach corpo- ration should make out a roturn of {ta gross recoiptsannunlly; that aftar deducting thoro- from the expenditures for cortain items pro- scribed by tho bill, tha remaindor was to bo declared tho ‘not rocofpts.” ‘Tho State Board is thoroupon to take theso not receipts and cnpitatizo them at 6, 8, or 10 per cent, and tho result is to bo declared tho taxable valuo of tho capital stock. In the lottor we print- od, whioh was writton in tho inlorest of tho Ring which got up this scheme, tho opora- tions of tho act woro illustrated by applying the new rulo to the estimated receipts of throo or four railroads of the State, showing that nnder that system of taxation, if made general, tho corporations of this Stato would have either to surrender their charters or fnrnish all the taxoa required in tho Stato, ‘Tux Tnipuns at onco pointed ont the char- acter of this scheme, and suggested thon that it was not really intended to becomo n Taw, but that it was s notice that in the meantime tho railroads might find it to their advantage to satisfy the authors of tho bill that it was an unjust measure, ‘The bill on ita face iss trausparont job, It is a Spring- field bill, got up by some parties thoro, and these real movors have somehow or another induced some membors of the Legislature to introduce the bill, It has not, wo boliove, boon pushed for passngo, Whether any rail- road company hns taken tho hint to negoti- ate for the supprosaion of the bill or not wo cannot say, but‘tho bill on its faco is a pal- pablo invitation to somebody to visit the Cap- toin’s office. It is possible, if the numbor of porsona intererted in tha job be not too numerous, that $10,000 or sven 6,000 would satisfy the projectors that tha session in too late to attempt to pass a mensuro of such magnitude. Wo have looked for the Springfield Jour- nat to denounce this bill, that paper riding the hobby of logisIntive rectitude. The editor has frankly expressed his opinion that no Legislature could porform ita duties faithfully to the poople that did not prompt- ly punish ony aspersion upon its members snch os was mado by Mr. Nevins. Itia but a fow days sinco that some paper stated that a well-knowy woman of tho town, in an in- toxicated condition, visited the State Honso whilo tho Legislature was in session, and sent in her nomo to a member of the Houso with o demand that he coma out and join her, whioh domand the mombor accoded to. ‘The nowspaper in publishing this statement gives the noma of tho membor, and de- nounces tho occurrence as disgraceful. Tho House has taken no notico of this publicn- tion ; it submits to having ono of its mem- bors thus disgracefutly published to tho world. ‘Tho moral sonso of the Springficld paper was shockod at the suggestion of a possibility of corruption, but rojoices in the publication of the porsonal degradation of tho members, It has porhaps nevor hoard of this Railrond-Capital-Stock bill, which is roprasonted to be tho production of & woll- known citizen of Bpringfeld, and has never a word of reproach for tho measure to which some members of tho Legislature, oll uncon- scious of its purpose, have been induced to givo thoir ofiicinl sanction. ‘Will the Spring- field papors gratify the poople of the Btato by publishing tho tariff of prices which tho Springfeld lobbyists demand for tho snp- pression of blackmailing legislation? Lot the peoplo of tho State have some light on the fact that 1,500 bills are ponding in the Logislature, and what tho billa are for, and why it is that they oro not pressed for passage—if that was tho purpose of intro- ducing them, It really scomed, whon the Touse had passed the Army bill, that the merits of that meaguro, including the political amoudmonta, had boon so thoroughly discussed ns to leave little or nothing that was now or of intoroat to bo said when tho bill should ronch tho Benate. But it must bo owned that this waa a mistake; Senator Bias found sbmothing now and interosting to ray in his speech of yesterday which opened tho debate on the Republican side, Ie showed, with all bis chnracteristio vigor and aggros- sivoncss, how porfectly insincera and disin- gonnous the Democratio plea is that the Ppresonce of Federal troops nt tho polls is 1 bar to the froe exerciso of the right of suf- srago. By figures and faota irrosistiblo in their logic ho demonstrated the ab- surdity of the protense that the dis- tribution of the United States army could by any possibility operate as 5 hindrance to free yoting,—showing that in no Stato in tho Union, excepting those in which Indian or Moxican incursions create o nocessily for their presence, nro there troops enough ata- tioned to do more than guard the Govorn- ment proporty, with nono to spare for men- acing the rights of froomen at tho polls, GEN, GARFIELD'S POSITION, An effort is being made in Washington to create the impression that Gon. GansTeLp hins damnoged the Republican case by two circumstances, viz.: (1) By denouncing as revolutionary the Democratic purposo of forcing the political amondmonta na parts of appropriation bills, while ho himself hnd proviously voted for appropriation bills with extranoous legislation attached thereto; and (2) by declaring that he would vote for tho Army repeal mensure if dotached from tho appropriation bill and proposed as s sor- arate and distinot piece of legislation. Tho* actual uttorancos of Gon. Ganrreip have been distorted and misconstrued by the Democrats to suit their own purpose, and cortain Republicans, we aro sorry to s00, accopt, from motives of personal envy, tho false coloring which the Democrats have put upon his language. 1. Gon. Ganrizin's position is porfectly consiatent so far ns it concerns the uso of tho legislative power to vote or withhold sup- plies ns a means for intimidating tho Presi- dont. He did not contend in his speech that it is revolutionary to attach ony mis- collaneous logislation to an appropriation bill, so that ho cannot be charged with in- consistoncy on that score if ho has previous: ly supported ao similar practice. Ho did con- tend, however, that it would be revolution- ary for tho majority in Congross, in caso it should fail to pass such legislation over the Presidentin’ veto by the constitutional two- thirds vole, to persist in a refusal to pass tho necessary appropriations for the support of the Government, This is the Democratic intontion, clearly announced in party caucus and on the floor of Congress, and it is this purposo which Gen, Ganrretp has denounced 3 a rovolutionary proceeding without in the least abandoning any previous position ho had taken. Tho act of facilitating cer- tain legislation upon which tho President anda majority in Congress aro both agreed Ly attaching it to an appropriation bill isa vory different procecding from resorting to such measuro as a monns for coercing tho Prosidont into a surrender of his voto-power. It is tho Inttor proposition to which the Democrats aro committed, and which they threaten to carry out in caso tho Presidont shall voto the appropriation bills with their “riders,” 2, Gen. Gaurienn’s declaration that ho would vote for a ropeal of the sections in tho army rogulations to which the Democrats object, if such repeal wore admitted sepn- rately, is in keoping with tho attitude of the Republicans in tho last Congress on thesame subject. It applies solely to tho proposed change in tho army rogniations, and, if the soctions in question were to be repealed and political logislation should ond thero, tho uso of tho army under orders of the President os Commander-in-Ohicf would bo free under constitutional dircctions and limitations. But tho caso is vory different whon the Dem- ocrate propose to amend the oxisting statuto in suob manner that no civil officer of the Government may call for tho assist ance of United States troops to THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES, koop tho pence at tho polls, and | xt scoms to bo admitted on all aides that when thts prohibition ia oxprossly Speaker Ranpaxy’s selections for Committos work in the Houso of Representatives have beon ag unwise, taken all in all, ns it would have boon possible to make thom. Thero appeara to have becn no system about tho allotment of plnces, and the Speaker was cortalnly not govornod by any well-defined position-on tho loading issnos of tha day, Even in trimming to plonsa the various -fac- tions, he has merely snceeodod in making up ajumblo from which no man can predict, with anything like certainty, the ontcome or influence In the caso of any leading quostion, ‘To judge from the cowpomtion of the Com- mittecs alone, one might conclude that tho Speakor is thoroughly identifiod with the rov- olutionary projects of tho ex-Confederates, and also that ha is opposed to thom; that ho is in foyor of giving freo wcope to the Green. backers, and also that he isnot; that ho is conservatively inclined in tho matter of taxation, and also that he fs prepared to onter into the most radical and recktesa rovenuo, moosuros, It is palpably unjust that a majority of tho Ohalrmanships should have boon given to tho Bouth with its sixteon States as nyainst tho twenty-two Northorn States; in that ho followed the preponderanes of Southern influence in tho cauous, while in other respects, such as tho appointment of Baraca ns Chairman of tho Conuittce on War Claima, he seems to havo taken ground against the Southern elemout, Whether gnided mostyy by partisan or por- sonal considorations, his selections novertho- loss fail to indicate how any purpose is to bo definitely seryed, whilo the individual com- poajtion of cortain Committecs throatens the bout intersats of the country, , In confiding to Sromaxa, of Htinols, tho Chairmauship of tho Comittee on Elections, Raxpary mado euro of o partisan construc. tion of every contested case that shall como up, for the recut of tha Committes is com- posed of new and obscure members, who will bo like putty in Grerorn's hands, This disposition of tho Election Committes was nocussury from a party point of view, since tho WDemocratio majority in tho Houso 18 50 frail that thero must he constrnod in connection with the project for emagoulating tho National Election law. ‘Tho Ropublicaus in the lnst Congress woro will- ing to consent to tho repoal of tho jurora’ test-onth and tho proposed modification of tho Army law if the Domoorats would allow the Eloctlon law to stand as itis. That fs Gen. Ganrrexn's porition now, as we undor stand it, aud probably a majority of the Re- publicaus of tho presont Congress would fol- low him ; but, if the Domocrats will be con- tont with nothing less than a repel of all National protection of Notional clections, and if thoy insist upon a repeal of the jurors’ tost-oath and the army soctions aan part of this schemo, then it is the duty of the Re- publicaus to opposo this part as woll as the other parta of tho conspiracy, Gen, Ganrrezn has probably been govern- od in this ontiro controversy by the wamo spirit which prompted his notablo speech at the oponing of tho Inst session of Congress, in the course of which occurred the follow. ing expression "Bo far as I bave atudlud the current of public thought and of polltical feeling in this country, no feeling has shown iteclf more strougly than tho tendency of tho public mind in the past low monthe, The man who attempts to get upa po- Mitical excitement in thie country on the ald sec- tional fesucs will And bimeelf without a party and without support, ‘The man who wants to serve his country must put himself in tho iine of its leading thought, and that fa the restoration of business, trade, commerce, Jadustry, sound political econ- omy, honcat money, and honest paymont of all obligations, and the man who can add anything in the direction of the accomplishment of any of these purposes 1s a public benofactor, ‘Thiagontimont {s as patriotic now as it was when it was delivered, but it oertainly doos not exclude a resistance to the very agitation which it deprecates, Tho rqyival of “tho old sectional ixsuos,” which Gon, Ganrrexp then deplored and yot doplores, cannot be lnid at the door of tho Republican party, It is the Democratic party, over-confident in the mojority it has in Congress, which is making a desperate effort to ronssart tho doctrine of State-Sovereignty in ite most obnoxious fori, by denying to the General Government the right to prevent local frauds somo trustworthy moana for increasing it, whon ocecasion domands, by oxelnding Re. publonns who wore olested and admitting Democrats who wore not elected. Tho Com- mittea on Waya and Means was loft in oharge of Fenxanpo Woop, whora cntcer as political adventurer oud whose demonstrated inon- poity in that vory position rondered such appolutment particularly offensive; other. wisa, tho Southern clement preponderates in thin Committe, and it will probably give a willing ear ton nchemo for an income tax, uniess such Ropnblioans ns Ganrieun, Con. crn, acd Frye can provent it by their supe- tior ability In dospite of thoir feoble niinori- ty. ATKINS wag retained at the hond of tho Appropriation Comunittes, and this was a direct concession to the bulldozers in Con- gress who hope to forco through their ob- noxious political legistation in tho shapo of ‘‘ridora" to the appropriation bills. With Bucsxen ns tho nominal head and Ewro os the netual head of the Banking aud Cur- rency Committee, backed up by a majority moro or less given .to the financial heresies, thoro ia little doubt thot, with propor opportunity, this Committes will serve the inflationiats, Tho ificlinations of tho Pacific Railroads Committee to Lom Scott's schema is loft in doubt by the appointment as Ohatr- man of Molsany, n now momber from Mary- Tnud, who was Inst in Congress somo thirty yoara ago, but itis reasonable to conclude that the Southorn sontiment in favor of tho project will prevail. ‘ho appointment of Reaaay, ex-Postmnster-Gonoral of tho Con- fedoracy and n Reprosontative from tho remote Stato of Toxas, as chief of tho Com- mitteo on Commerco; of Wurrrnonne, the anctont mariner of tho interior State of Ton- nesseo, as ‘ruler of tho Queen's navac"; of Sranzs, a warrior from Southern Illinois, in chnrgo of military affairs; of Tannts, to rovise tho laws in conformance with Virginia ideas, nnd other minor solections, indicate either an indifference to the public welfare or an active sympathy with some of tho worst schemes bofore Congress. The only appointments which seem to havo been dic- tated by patriotism and good judgment aro thoso of Braga os Ohnirman of tho War Olaims Committec, Knorr of tho Judiciary, Cox of Foreign Affairs, and Srermens of the Coinago Committoe. Under the new rules that havo beon adopt- od, certain of the important Committoes will have a Widor opportunity for mischief than ever before, and the oxtent of injury which Mr. Ranpaux’s selections may inflict can only be dotermined when it shail become evident how broad a latitndo is to bo given to miscel- Jnncous legislation nt this extra session, Tho Socialist domagoguo Wniaut, of Pennsylva- nin, has been plnced at tho head of tho Com. mitteo on ‘Causes of the Deprossion of La- bor,” and tho mombors with well-known Communistic and inflation tendoncios have all been allotted to placos where they can do most harm, ENCOURAGING MODERATION. ‘Tho business men of Now York City have taken hold of the temporauco question in o practical manner that promises to bo pro- ductive of valuable results. ‘hoy held their firat public meoting in Chickering Holl, which was largely filled, on Friday evening last, and a sketch of the proceedings of tha meeting may contain somo valuable hints for our own bnsiness mon, The Society isn now one, having boon in- corporated Jan, 28, 1879, and its objects ond modus operandi have already boen oxplained in Tus Tainuns, The platform was oooupied by such men as F, B. Tuunnen, Henny 1H. Mantry, Peren Coorgr, the Rev. Dr. How- app Onosny, ‘Tuuntow Ween, tho Rey. 0. 3. Froramanan, Wart Wuttuan, Epwann E. Tuonnz, andothors prominent in tho vartous walks of life, Tho Presidont, Mr. Trunnen, oponed the procecdings with a briof addross,in which ho said that tho object of tho Assooin~ tion was tho samo as that of other temper- anco socioties, only it proposed to mako the attack upon tho common onemy fromanother direction, and to utilize a olga of persons in the work who did not boliove in total ab- stinence, Tha Sserotary of the Bociaty fol- lowed in n abort address, in which he stated that tho Socicty had determined to advocate the cause of moderation, because, after n con- tury of Isbor for prohibition, drunkonnoss was on tho increaso, They therefore pro- | posod to direct thoir efforta against oxcds in drinking, waiving tho quostion of the right or wrong of muauufnctur- ing intoxicating liquor, and abandon- ing the possibility of over stopping intoxi- ention by legislation. “The Society offers four forms of pledges. Tho first, of a red color, ia a plodgo of total abstinence, Tho second is white, and binds the siguor not to drink during business hours, Tho blue pledge prohibits treating at public bars, and theo lasz, on which is a flag of red, whito, and ‘Line, limits tho signor to nothing strongor thau wino and beer, and pormits these only at menls and in modoration.” In these pledges there is nothing moro binding than o man’s personal honor, ‘Tho Rov, Dr. Crosny, in the courso of his addrous, advanced opin- fons which haye boen' so frequently stated that wo reproduco them, Ho sald: **Thia looka like bualncss, ft looks moro ike busincss than anything I have seen to thirty years, When the buainess men of a country take hold of sucha thing as this it inspires hopos in me that ‘novor were inapired before, The geod men who have been fighting intemperance for thirty years started with falae theorica. They confounded moderation with oxeces, and their principal shatts have been almed not at Intemporance but at mod- crate drinkers, You stand on 4 broader basis and seok a trng fratcrnization with them, As I looked at the four pledges, I thought that 1 preforred tho blue one. Tho great troublo tn the commanity, I beliove, graws ont of tho misorable business of treating, I never bellovod for n moment thay mod- oration leads to excess. XI think that from this ume forward the rum-shope of this city will recog- nize you ag thelr greatest and most formidable enomy."" ‘Tho Roy. Mr, Fuormmanax followed with romarks in a similar strain, adding: *'Thoro Ig no solitary drinking. If tha practice of troating is oboliahed, a heavy blow will bo struck ot drinking usages, This {s tho emphatlo and declsivestop.” Pzren Coorzn, Enwanp E, Tuonng, ond F, F, Miran also spoke to a similar purport, and lottore wora read from the Rev, Dr, Henny ©, Porrzn, Gunton B, Fisz, and other prominent gontlemen, oxpresaing thelr hearty sym- pathy with aud jndorsemont of the purposos of tho Bocloty, Wo havo given the above rather dotailed sketch of the proceodings of this remarkablo meoting that it nay serve a3 9 model for our own business mon to follow. It embodies a plon of attack upon intemperance which ‘Tux Curcaco ‘Tarpune, rocoguizing the fail- ure of prohibition yoar after year, has re- pentedly urged. The attack will gain addi- tional strongth and force since it is on attack from within tho lUnes, mado not by total abatinonce men, but by men ac- customed to drinking. It is an attack also which will come from the strongest and most influontial clomont of tho community, ~the business men, who havo thousands of young men in thelr employmont, who will ho greatly, oven powerfully, influoncod by some of Mr, VaNDENUILT'S transactions, purchase fs a sroall affair for him, but it rans up into the millions, tho oxamplo rot thom, by their suporiort, | raved n fragment of the force to which be be- ‘Tho business mon of Chicago eau do untold good in this city If they ean only atop drink- ing in busluosa hours and brenk up the ovil hibit of tronting, As Dr. Onosny said, tho faloons will soon recognize thom as their Rrontest enomy. It is useless (o quibble or ovado tho issue, ‘Tho onforcomont of pro- hibition by legislation has fallad. Tho frionda of prohibition hinvo had n fair fleld of work for tho past fifty years, and drunken. nossa has steadily increased, Since total ab- stinonca cannot be socnred by force or ponal Btatnte,’ thou both ronion aud common sense suggest that an offort should bo mado to secure modorntion as the moat offective step in the proveution of intoxton- tion ond ita attendant ovila, ‘Thoro is no power in the community that can do such offiective work in this direction as tha busi- uesa mon, In overy othor work of reform, in social matters, in political revolutions, in tho work of forwarding grent charitios, thoy always take the lend, and invarinbly by thoir enterprise, energy, and practical methods push thelr schomes to success, and why not this great queation of temperance? If our lending wholesale merchants nnd the Boord of Trado of this city wonld put thoir hands to tho work, thore is no question thot they would soon {naugurate n revolution in tho prosont abnso of drinking. Is not the ex- periment worth trying? Who-will set the ball rolling ? It is a peculinrity of the constantly-reonr- ring wars in Bouth America that thoy usunl- ly get into full headway before any one can find out what thoy are about, This has been the caso in tho prosent struggle botween Ohili and Bolivia, which has boon in progrosa for a long timo, It appears now that tho dispute is in the mattor of boundary. As hitherto tho border las beon considered to bo o barron and worthless territory, tho two republics got along very comfortably, but uot many years ago no largo trade in guano and nitrate deposits was developed in this district. This led toatrenty for tho joint rogulation of the district which did not work vory well. Five yoara ago a new tronty was mando, drawing a definite boundary, in which it was also stipulated that as tho nitrate works on tho Bolivian sido of. the lino wore chiefly establishod by Chilinn ontorpriso, thoy should bo oxempt from export duties for twonty-fivo years. ‘The Bolivian Government, however, being hard up for monoy, violated this provision by Inying a tax duty upon all nitrates oxported from its torritory. ‘Tho owners refused to pay, wheroupon the Gov- ornment attempted to colleot it, Tho owners then placed themselves under the protection of the Chilinns, who warned tho violators to desist. ‘Cho latter persisted in their offort to collect tho dnty, and then Chili declared war, and, sending o sufficient forco, occupied tho nitrate territory. It j8 intimated that tha ront strugglo has not yet begun, ns Porn threstene to espouse the cause of Bolivia, in which caso it is not impossible tho Argontino Republic may como to the help of Chils, and thus precipitate a continontal war, Loglslation is roducod at Springfela to such an exact sclence that when a bill 1s in- troduced itis at onco assigned mentally to one of threo calendars,—(1) public businoss, (2) local businoss, (8) blackmailing. ‘Tho 1,600 and moro bills which havo boon intro- duced at this session Lelong to these classes, and any one familiar with tho subjects in- volyod cau have no,difficulty in pointing out tho class to which each bill belongs... The uatno of the momber introducing tho bill doos not of necessity indicate that ho {fs tho outhor of the bill or is nwaro of its charav- tor. The practice fs for the authors of dis- reputable bills to hand thom to somo othor members and have tho latter introduce tho bill. In this way several of the most ro- spootable members of both Houses now find thomeolyos on record as having introduced bills which aro notoriously for blackmail, Our advice to mombers of rural diatricts is to avoid introducing any bill unless thoy havo the rocord mado to read: ‘Introduced by Mr. A at the porsonal request of Mr. B, who was ashamed to do so himself.” The 10,000 tons of steel rails bought by Van- DERBILT abrond will, {tis esthnated, cover only eleht miles of the road, supposing thut all the tracks are relaid, The rails cost, duty and all, $53aton, The duty will amount to 8280,000, which will pay a year'a {uterest on $7,000,000 of the 4 percents, Vanpenuint has also bought 7,000 tons of American rails at $13 per ton. They oro not av well mady or so durable as the English rails, hence the difference In price. Tho flcures give an inaight {nto tho ei of ‘he a The engagement of Miss Et.in STANTON, 6 daughter of the Isto Sccretury STANTON, to Ruatust Evrenpt, Secretary of the Russian Legution, was announced Inst week, but the next doy it was reported “off. Further In- quiries developed the amazing fact that the young mau had refused to go ou with the offatr unleas ho could be promised absolute control of Miss Sranton's property aftor marriage, aud her guardiana would not covsunt to this. Rus- vom Evrxnpr is, by all odda, tho worst Turk ever known fn this country. He ought to bo scent home, —_ Mr. ALEXANDER Staruxns donics with somo indignation the report that he spoke of Presi- dent Haru og “the borus President” in an interview with a nowspaper correspondent, “1 never did,” bo writes, “usu such lunguage toward the President of the United States in auy spocch, interview, or conversation what- ever.” Mr, STHrMENS entertains for the pres- cut Crlof Magistrate too much respect to apply to him persoually any such epithet; and he bas the old Whig respect for the oflice which some of bis present party associates have forgotten. One of the famous tax-resistors of Glaston- bury, Conn, the Sarita sisters, ia dead, and the other, who ie somewhat advanced in years, has married Mr, Anos G, Pauxen, of Now IIamp- shire, a lawyer und a gcutleman of 86 eumrncrs, Mr, PARKER will baye to pay his wifo’s taxes or go to jail, and it ia presumed Mra. Pauken haa assurances that he will do what is right about it,—namoly, pay tho taxes. Mra. Panter has sayed her ruputation for couelatency fn this sim- ple way, and she has come under the away of the tyrant man all the same. ——— “Old Probabilitica" Mysns went to Europe Saturday on tho same steamer with Generen and Cauvanint. Ho had bis weather eyo aut for operatic squalls, aud felt that only he could report them properly, With free music in the eabin by the eminent operatic artists, a superior article of weather guarantcod by the General, and Cuin Lan Pim to talk to the company at odd moments, the passage in the ritanuic should bo memorable, ———— Dr. Howanp Cnosny was asked during the ‘TaLstage trial {f he padcalled defendant ‘a liar and a scoundrel." “{ don’t remember," he re- piled; “I may have sald it." The remark 1s one & Doctor of Divinity would be apt to ro- member; but then it applied to Taumaga, Cuaun and Bromusa, the two young British Licutenanta who “hela tho fort” ot Rorke’s Dritt in Zululand, bave received promotiva to Brovet-Majoritics aud the insignia of the Bath, and will haye the Victoria Crovs, Buowmsap longed as Reno did at the Little Big Horn, A correspondent writes {tn thls connection: © Ltont. Brosnan comes of n fighting familys lis great grandfather tt was who, on the Pinna of Abrahatn, answored to the dying question of Worrs, ‘Who runt! The Frotuch, sir? IMs father fought at Waterloo, aud all four sons of that father entared the army,—ono dying in Hurmah, avother distinguished himself fu Ashantec, and the other tivo maintaining the family's renown at Candabar ond Rorko's Dritt.” The TiiMBy organs have been instructed to open fire un ox-Senstor Bansus, Chalrman of the Democratic Contral Committea, This indi- cates o little want of harmony in tha camp. ‘There ts, of course, some frietlon between, Tie DEN's personal Durcau nnd the party managers. ‘The latter do not authorize, for Instauce, the attempts to bribe ountey wewspapura, reports: of which ore current now. a The Army and Navy Journal a much gratified by;the report of the Board of Inquiry in tho ¥rrz Joun Pourer enso, and coustders the ex- oneration of tho accused complete; but it thinks the orfalnal Court was perfectly honest and Im- portlal according to ita Hghts, It wasn mora organized to convict than this Board of Ingulry was organized to exonerate, ‘ i M. Ptennn Manvazin, a humorotts Partatan, complled ‘9 comfe Bible,” but the municipal tribunal did not enter into the aplrit of hts jokes, aud sont him to jatl for threa mouths. | Lord Cretssronn lost the whole of his bac- gage, Including his stars and orders, at Isan- dulo, and ho {s said to be inconsolable without them; nobody will belleva ho 1s a aoldior, re ‘PERSON ALS, Tho Chinesa must go—South, Minnio Hank has sailed, aud {s now on tho high ‘C's? “Pinafore” promises to float lovger than tho old **Constltution.* Mark ‘iwain is writing a book which will be completed in abuut three months. Tho belief is spreading in England that Cotewayo isa '*biger’? man than George Wash- ington. David Davis says ho docan't want to bo o third party. Hoe had rather be ** Dear little But- tercup." Tho Marquis of Lorne will be much obliged if Amorica will annex Canada and take it off his hands. Owing to the inclemoncy of Charles Fran- cis Adams, a very backward spring {s reported in Maseachueutte, : Mr, Hendricks cannot condono a fraud, and consequently refuses to bo scen on tho samo teket with Mr. Tilden. ‘The clerk of the weather is nppnrontly not asefMficient as ho ought to be, and sn Ohlo moo should be put in his place, Stanloy Matthews wauts to lend a life of quict acclusion, and wo suspect, therefore, that ha wants to be Vice-President. Winter is still lingoring in the Inp of spring, and we feel protty certain that Spring ts no better than she should be, Misa Julia Smith is going to marry, and we presuine, thorefore, that fighting taxoa Is not the only kind of fighting she can do, ‘Lhe Rebel yoll of the editor of the Okalana Southern States was harmless; but, Heaven help ne! ho has taken to writing poctry. As Chinamen can't vote, they would bo safe in the South from bulldozers. Tho pastime of bulldozing departs with tho nogro. 5 ‘There is uot a saloon within twonty miles of Greeley, Col,,and as a consequonce many oxcol- lent pedestrians ara belng developed tn that town, An outhusiastic oxchango charges the Dem- ocrats to atick to thelr colors, Thelr colora will atick to them, Thetr colors aro worn Jn their noses, F Sorgt. Bates is“lecturing in Indiana, He might bo enyaged ina nobler work, For Instanco, ho might carry the English fag through Sout! Africa. . Notwithstanding the offorts of its polica force to keep $f down, the population of Now York fs believed to havo incrosacd since the last United States census, A-calculating correspondent of the Hort. ford Times cattmates that an ounce of honey con- summed at luncheon cost the Lee. who manufactured it 060 miles of travel, Standing Bear, ono of the Poncn Ohiofs, is kalng to Oght the country in the courts, where ho wil tind that a packed jury will **lick” bim worse than the whole American army. John Appol, of Madison, Ind., has under- taken to drink 1,000 glaeses of becr in 1,000 houre. A demi-John ought hereafter to be Jubn Appel's appelation.—Detrolt Free Press, Or Appel Jack. Mr. Latouchere, editor of the London Truth, says he hae drank sevontcen quarts of becr Atono sitting, Mer, Labouchere, it would scom, is about as woll qualified to edit London Yruthas EM Perkin. Prof. King, tho balloonatio, talks again of crossing the Atlantic in a balloon, and tho Detrolt Free Press saya: ‘Now, ace hero, Professor, wa have had enough of this talk, Are you golug, or aoronautr"” An Ohio man, whose jaw was broken by a Cincinnati dentist, sued the Intter for $10,000 damages, but recovered nothing, ag It was proved that be could stil] articulate wetl enough to ask for an ollice, AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER’S. Edwin Booth’s reappearance upon MeVickor’s stage lust night was welcomed by an audience which, if not large In vumbers, was at least en- thustastic in its appreciation of tho actor's of forts, Wo may safely afliyin that this tragedian has rarely appeared qurrounded by ou abler company than thut sclected for his support dur- ing the coming engagzementof four weeks. Mr. ‘T.W. Keone fs a tower of atrongth along, and in- deed the sume may bo sald of Mr, Milnes Levick, Both aro conscloutious, actora, aud possess intelligence and abUity far boyoud that usually found nowadays among a star's sup- port, These two gontlemen were in the cast of Tost = eyentny,— Hamlet,"-tn — conjuuetion with an excollont aclection from the stock com- pany of the theatro, Mr. Booth's fame {6 forever linked with the role of Hamlet on the Amorican stage, For many yeara bis presentation has been popular with the people, scarcely, however, we think, because he makes men and women sympathetic with his conception, but solely owing to its beautiful and melancholy pleturesquencss, Ho hazards much who says that bis conception is not the true one, for the most yaried and con- tradictory opinions from the highest sources havo been expressed upon the character, Since the frat Humlet—Richard Burbage wo are told— how many Wuudreds lave adjured the ghoat, reproached the Queen, and elain the King, have frotted thelr Mttta hour upon the atago and passed into obscurity or fatne, and still a unt- versally-aecepted definition of the charactor has not been found. Keoree and scores of eritics have attempted to “pluck out the heart of its mystery.” ‘They have fulled. He remaius the mysterious dramatic Sphinx; be bailles his in- terprotera. He isa coward accordlug to soma; he fa not a coward according to others; ho ts niad, ho fs not mad; be ts alternately mad und ane. His thirst for roveuge actuates bis con- duct from firet to last; he is acrcature of clr cutmstance, and ia swayed by every idlo wind. ‘Thus do actors and critics disagree, und go overy one bas lls own Jfarniet, but all of us have ap {mage in which we discern ial picty, impreasible inueinatlon, high dreamin, warm feeling, and a tordly disposition, bowever wo may differ over the shading of the picture, Mr, th's pere sonal attractions aro well known und recog: nized a8 pecullarly fitting Lim for the character of dlandet,—bie light und graceful Ggure, his pals faco bordered with dark and ellaglug batr, nls features woll chiseled und mobile, and bis large, expressive exca, But this imaue should uot charm awey the judgment from the con- || tewplation of ao work of urt which must be rucagured by ite mentul features and vot by its. accidents. We may dislike, eveu condemn, the Hanstet of Tawin Booth, yet the study hestag bg hin upon ls tdoaly “and: the tide which he carries out” the concert? te mands our “admiration, The! Gere Hava | analded | the Princo ot Dent Into a sentimentollat aud, in with the fashion of' eee that stage Toot the metitattce element tn. Harney turo tins appeared most essenttal, He is in prince of philosuphical speculators; he 13 tle most nmlable of mlsanthropes, ani i wee dettake to polut out the most ‘apparent weal neas of the performance, while recugulzing ty many striking beauties, we would gay that it lacks variety; {tis played without a due aypree clatfon of the undulating Wnes,—in sho the ‘pursonation Is deliberate ‘atid formate wt actor's ussuniption of that dreamy, UnDractheat look, ts nerfoetion, and it is shown in a hundred wavs. [le throws out hfs answers Uke one un. willingly uwakoned {from a ft of abstrasiee, Into which he promptly Telausee, Throughout the — atronger 4 basslons futrong as little as Posalule non his solitude, st chiy occunled with a play of the tnteliects ye influence of his emotions fa loss yisihlo than th birth of histhought. And the pretense of mai. ness changes bis manner but st + Yel with the addition of a Heht Inimfeal tung coupled with the preduminant meditative element some of the solilogquies acquire a very Temarkable choractor, ‘Tho gentlemanly sito of Hama stands prominont in tho consideration of Mp, Booth, and thus throughout the entire. tragaty ho fs the very “pink of courtesy.” At times Mr. Booth rushes over ils evatences in 4 wholesale disregard of those shades of meaning and nicottes of expreselon which make Up the charm of good reading. Occustonatly he rouses himavif to a4pitch of passtonnte carnest. ness—notably fn tho scone with hls mother and in his speceh upon the appearance of the ghost, Yet tha acems to us to be toomanufactured auf external. However, there ts effective bus. ness”? In the aceng, and if the ear cravesy better rondition of the Hnes the eye 1s filed with a striking dramatic pleturc, Tarely have wo over Boon presanted with a better Hin thay tint furnished by Me. Levick. Unsnalty this parg faila tu the lot of a medivere actor, set the rolg 46 n difficult one to accurately embody. Mr, 7, W. Keene rendered admirably the hot ang cholerie Laerfer, 1n the Jast scene with Opie, he was sypathetic, tender, manly, and won thy andicnee completely, while in the incident a the grave le fairly divided the honors with the star, Miss Aflic Weaver's Ophe‘li, with ths musle omitted, wag a flue and a touching per formance, which made a good finpresslon, Dotunius, the ofliclous and tnperthicnt buy. body and courtier, was well pinged by Si Uarry Pearson, white Mr. Roland Reed repeate} a farmer success as the {Hirst Crave- Digger, Aunie Graham was the Queen, Mr W, wards the Ghost, Mr. Walter Kelly the Hora’ and Mr. J. B. Everhain was the Jrat tetor, ‘at gave creditable support. “Hamlet” will ty repeated this ovenlug, HOOLEY’S, This house was filled last evening by the frionds and admirers of Robson and Crane, eto turned out to witness thelr presentation of the two Dromios 10 Shakapeure’s “Comedy of Er. rors.” It is not probable that a hundredth pay of the audience Inst evening had over seen tho play, much Tess read it, It was Robson and Crane, and not Shnkspeare, that broushy them there, and no greater compliment could bave been pald to the actors than thiy fact conveyed. Of tho play itsell it my bosald that, under the suspervision of sr, Charles Webb, it was presented fn a complete ness not often sean, and which, fully warranted the applause received. Of course the loteras was centered in the two Drom os, thele various entrances, exits, and the mishaps and perpler- Ing blunders into which their relationship ant resemblance led them, ‘The make-up of Messrs Robson and Crane was simply perfect, and ther rendition of the characters beyond critielsm, Tez squeak {1 Robson's voice waa falthfully imitated by Crane, who really carries the burden of tte play upon his shoulders. Tho sAntipholt wera admirably rendered by Messrs. Cottlter and In! Jon, their make-up belny fully equal to that of Robsou and Crave, Miss Kate Forsythe, Adriana, pleased Ute audienco by the Intelligens manner in which she tnterpreted the part, and Mr. Wetib, ag Ageon, did not bello the repr tion that had preceded him. NEW York. Special Dispatch to The Tribuns. New Yon, Aprit 14.—Easter Mondsr 1 looked upon by theatrical mauagers as 9 cvh send.ivith all the tntestimprovemcuts. Throvsh Lent all dramatic people keep up ao preter nataral solomnity os to thelr present, aula corresponding and all-pervading deliriousnesss to their immediate future, Thatts the woy i has been in New York during seasous {inimexo rlal, and that is tha way ft Js this seas. ‘The bills offered at the vartous theatres to-night wero in some cnsca fresh and fy inany Instances polished up for the ovcastoa. At the Standan! and Hifth Avenue, for instant, “Pinafore” was mounted by partlally ner crews, At the former placo the chorus was cx larged, the old acenery replaced by new, aid “Box und Cox" were musteally considerol Laurent was bounced off the Fifth Avenue deg with great eclat, og also was Miss Corel ‘Their placos were satlefactorily Miled. At tho Lyceum Mra, Oates elambered through “Gir fle Glrofla” with amore or less artistic ee cess, und to the satisfaction of an audicad , whose critical abillty was uot at all to be compared to its numerousness, At the (irsnd Opera-Houso the bill offered was Mr. Augusta. Daly's “Pique,” toxether with Miss Fanny Davenport, Charles Fisher, und a generally yoo! cast. At the Olympic, a Miva Martha, Vairdeld fe announced to rastle with “Love's Sucre. Thursday night the Union Square will iNustrate the infsfortunes of Cazauran’s “Lost Chillidren, snd, two nights lator, Steele Mackaya will oxa lus hew shop with bis pew amateurs In * Won at Last.” This ig the programme for Eastet week, go far as the returns are iu. Truvme. BOSTON. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Boston, April 14.—Heury E. Abbey, the olf successful rival of J. 1H. Haverly aaa theatrical manager, opened the Park ‘Theatre hero to-ulzi with Lotte in La Cigale.” ‘Tho new these fa a vory beautiful ote, und will ‘scat sbant 1,200, and few persons could believe that the old Becthoyen Hall could be so transformed f8 loss than Ofty days. ‘Tho audience to-vlgbs Wes enthusiastic, and the success of the enterpriss seats already‘assurcil, ‘The great theatrical event of the season Wil the production of Pinafory” at the Bostea ‘Theatre to-night, with uo cast comprisiug: Myroa W.-Whituey, the famous basso, as Cuztin Coe coran; Henry ©, Barnabeo, tho comic singes as Sir Joseph Porter; Tom Karl, the tenor + Halph: Mme, leabella McCulloch, ay Huiteres?i. Mary Beube, as Josephine ¢ and Georgie Cayrity the “reader, as Jfede, Four thousand peo crowded ‘every inch of sitting sod standing room, and the sald ie seats for futures performances hus The music, us might batt pected, was oxcuedingty fing, ‘The iereat success Was nchieved Mr. W Leica ene crented a furore with his frat solo, ‘The chal nud orchestra were exceedingly strong tw qoud, the stuge was magnificently set, a net ‘eneral verdict is that this ideal presentatle at the plece fs far ahead of suything yor atten on the other side of the Atlantic. | It wil nerd ably run for several weeks, nnd will be follut by "Fataultaa,” by the sane artiste. —— SAN FRANCISCO, 1 BAN Fxancisco, Cal, April 14.~At Baldw this evening Strakosch’s opera-troupe bt In “Luca” to a crowded house, At the fornia Boucicault opened in the * Sbaugbraue Btunding-room only, remarkably heavy. DRAMATIC NOTES. ‘Mr, Wilts! new play, to bo produced at oF Haymarket Theatre, fa called " Helew,’ doala with Jacobite timca, saat Col. Hayerly, so ho says, made €1,100 Yas profit durlug the first week of bla AvH Fourteenth Stroet Theatre, + Lord Lytton, Viceroy of Indl bis Dt ‘“gtruck ' by 9 spangled c'reus-rider at Cs ta—Victoria Vook by name. y Lester Walluck, during his forthcoming, i gagemeont at Hayerly's, will provavly only pearin Rosedate snd Ours.” ‘is New York people do not tako much ae at tho Missiasippl story thut Kato custo ie band, Charles Btevonson, haa becu whiPe her, Nelther do Chicago people. o ‘The novel plan fy under consideration {21 enetit at New York for the widuy of a Ue actor recently murdered in Texas, OO gl older and more diatlnguahed actresses I the young und pretty ones act as ushers sc “There tx a tradition,” says Nyin CHOey “that Maggs Mitchell nnd Lotte were oy, iris, but ddoubt it. ‘They were ouly We fog. ‘The real truth, probably, is that uae Beir toto the world specially adapted to decely ae) that particular, Lotta alwsys convince