Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 5, 1880, Page 4

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M.S, Pinafore,” Wamtin’s Thentre. Clark strost, Letweon Washington and Randolph. Engagomont of Misa Dicklo Lingard. “ Gur Doys.* Central Muste-Hatt, Stato strest, corner of Handotph, Concort enter- talnment. Mise Emma ©, ‘Thursby, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1880, Paunetu spoke Inst evening in Madison Square Garden in New York to an audience of 8,000 people. Iv appealed for contribu- tions of money to be applied for two pure poses, the contributor to elect as between the two—viz,; the alleviation of present dls- tress growing out of the famine in Ireland, and tho promotion of the political movement having for Its object the obtaining of perma- nent relief at the hands of the British Goy- emment. ‘Tue subsidonce of Bayard’s boom by rea son of his zealous devotion to tho tnterests of ‘the gold-money sharks of Wall street seems likely to bring Hancock Into greater proml- nence than ever before as a Democratic can- didate for the Presidency, It is argued In ils favor that he has a fine intlitary and elvil record, und, having never “ put his foot in ‘Wt as Bayard hag Intely done, he would be entirely acceptable to the West and South, The fact that the Hancock Interest is for these reasons actively supported by. the Washington Sunday Herald, a Demoerntic paper of considerable respectability, Indi- cates tho incdption of n movement to that ‘end among tho party managers at the Nn- tional Capital. We print a report of a recent spoech snade by Jeqn Bright In Roghdale in England, in “which the venerable republican expressed his opinion of matters and things In Europe, ‘and eepeelally in England, ILis contrast be- tween--the pence and happiness and prospor- ity of republlean France and republican Amertea and the States of Europo was 9 striking and foretbto one, At this time there are nenrly 6,000,000 of men In the active mill- tary service of thé European States, In faet, Europe is un armed camp, though nominally ‘all the nutions arautpence. Mr. Bright, in contrast with this condition of affuirs, pointed to the United States with tho skeleton army of 25,000 men of all arms. ‘The speech is ox- -ceedingly interesting, and no one should omit “reading it, Sevenat Interesting local religious events gre chronicled in our columns this morning, among them belng the dedication to the pur- poses of worship of the new and beautiful Central Musie-lall, which fs to be tho home hereafter of the congregation of tho Central Church, whose pastor, Prof, Swing, preached a sermon uppropriato to the oven- sion; the dedication of the handsome new edifice of the Sixth Presbyterian Chureh, corner of Oak and Vineennes avenues, with & sormon by Prof, Franels 1, Patton; 0 mvet- ingin behalf of the reorganization of the Third Unitarian Church Soctety and the re- sumption of religious services; the organiza- tlon of a Welsh Congregutional Society at the ‘Union Park Church, where services will be conducted in the Welsh innguage every Sun- doy; anda sermon on “Swenrlng Oi,” by -the Rev, James Kay Applebeo of the Free Religious Churéh, SESE 4 In view of the absolute certainty that to the butchery at White River Agency was udded the unuttorqble horror of autrage upon the female captives, it js not so much to ‘be wondered that tho Ute prisoners demanded iby Gen. Hatch should not be surrendered. Knowing, aa they do, that testimony foston- ing upon them this awful atrocity would ‘doom them to certain death on the scaffold, oven if they were not soonor killed by the ‘aveuging bullets of the relatives of tholr vic- “thus, the Indians called for by. the Los Pinus Commission, sud to whose surrender tho’ Chiefe pledged themselves on condition that . ‘they be not tried olther in Colorado or New " “Mexico, have not- been and will not be , brought to the custody: of tha Fedoral author- - Sea," Beoretary Schurz will make auother “peremptory demand upon the Utes to sur “render, and will probably meut with no bet- “ter success than did Gen, Hatch; after that, “a wor of capturo and extermination If need be, 4 i Gpeat confidence fs expressed by Fer- nando Wood in the success of bis refunding scheme, which contemplates the Issue of a. , ftty-year bond bearing 83¢ per cent interest. “The rapid accumulation of wealth which has * recently ocourred in the United States ho “thinks will create a demand for a lovg bond ata low rate of interest as gu investment ae having the attraction of absolute safety, aud he cites the case of William H, Vanderbilt, who has put Into 4 per cents $21,000,000 which he did not need or could not use to ad- yantage in his business, and of Janes Flood, the many-milllonatre of tho Pacife Const, who lately bought $2,000,000 of registored + per cents In the name of hisdaughter. Mr. Wood calculates that there Is Hkely to coma with enduring prosportty a greatly-inereased demand for 344 per cent bonds from numer ous sources, nud he has no doubt of the ability of the Government to placo such 1 Tuan at par, Aatinr, further let-down on the part of the strikers from thelr propositions to the packers published yesterday morning. will be made to-day, It being nothing less than an entire abandoninent by tho Unton of every domand thoy made at the timo the strike was ordered. They will submit an offer to re- sein thelr aetion made at that tne, with the only condition that they bo taken back to the places thoy left, and that none of thom shall suffer loss of situntion “by reason of thelr allegiance to tho Union.’ If there wasn time when the strikers could shave deefded thelr affatrs In this way, that time has now gone by. For, ns several of tho leading houses say, this proposition ean- not be acceded to for the reason they have now nen in tifelr employ to whom they are under obligations, they have guaranteed them their places, and thoy aro bound to stand by thom; that, while this Jast offer yields every point the Union first demanded, the packers are not now In a condition whoreby thoy could agree to it; so that there seems no wry for the strikers owt of thelr dilema but to disband tholr Unton, take their ehaneus with ontsiders for employment, aud pocket thelr losses and fallure In the best spirit they may. Tins appearance of Parnell, tho Irish lentler, before the people of this country ought to be productiys of benefits to the Acricans ay well as to tho Trish, It wilt undoubtedly result In exeitlng widespread sympathy aud netive aid forthe Irish in their present distress, but tt ought also to disgem- inate a more, general understanding tn this country of tha conditions which impose ehronte poverty and practical serfdom upon the mass of Irish people at home. Americans will come to apprehend more correctly than ever before why It 1s that such vast numbers of Irish people havo sought Amerlea poor, Ignorant, and dojected, A result of this in- creased knowledge will serve to tneulcate a higher appreeintion of the advantages of tho American system of government and Jand-tenure, and it ought to develop not merely a keoner sympathy with the oppressed people of Trelund, but a loftier patriotism in sustaluing Ameriean institu- tions, Thoreisno doubt that Parnell Is as competent as any man living to explain the netial conditions of Trish tenantry, and thore fs no reason to apprehend that he will exaggerate or inisrepresent the situation. He ls nota refugee, but a patriot, who Ine tends, within a few weeks, to return to Great Britain, take hls place in Parliament, and renew the fight for Irlsh manhood tn the very teeth of the British Government. Hue will consequently be eaxeful to avoid libelous statements aud seditious utteranees, and thore is no reagon to Hsten to hls speeches with doubt or suspicion, Hones his visit will be nsoful to this country for the Instrne- tlon which, with the aid of the press, he will give the‘Ameriean people in regard to Irish affalre, THE SITUATION IN MAINE, Tho unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court of Maino in response to the qneations submitted by Gov. Gurevlon finally deter mines the electoral controversy in that State 80 far as the Judgment of the country is con- cerned, ‘The opinion isn clear and uncquivo- eal exposition of the Jaw and the justice in the case, ‘The Issue was confused as-much as possible by the form of the questions sub- mitted, but tha Supreme Judges avotded the trap whieh lind been Juld for them, and went, ilrectly to the merits of the case, ‘They haye proceeded upon the broad ground that nelthor the Constitution nor the laws wero framed for the purpose of defeating the popular will, nor for nufiifying the expression thoreof at the baltot-box, and they have taken the sume view of tho ministerial functions of tho State Canvassing Board that the Courts overywhere throughout the eountry have held In regard to local counts, They have decided that itis the Intention of the Jaw and the-duty of ean- yassers to nseertain the injority of votes honestly cast, and ta award certificates In conformance with such a judgment, unhoam- pered by any teelutenl or elerienl errors for which the yoters thomselyes were not re- sponsible. ‘The Supreme Court of Maine has gone so. far as to declare that, even where there hos Deen ne return whatever to the Beeretary of State, 0 Ropresentutive elected by the major- {ty of the people of his district cannot bo deprived of his rights slmply beeause mu- nicipal officers linve neglected thelr duty. It Ja held that the Constitution Is “alreetory? Th requiring an observance of certain forms, but that itis “mandatory,” by a traditional construction, of luw, when it ennbles tho ministerial Board of Canyassers to correct errors of form, ‘Tho Governor and Connell “are bound," Inthe words of the Court, by tho statute, which clothes the duty in lane guage of courtesy, “beenuse It could not bo doubted that IWgh and honorable ofielals would unhesitatingly avall themselves of all Juwful menna to declare the result of the election necording to the actual fact, In obed!- eneo to the fundamental principles of popu- lor government,” It would senreely huve been posstble for tho Supreme Court to con- demn the conduct of Gureclon and his asso- Clates In more cutting laugnage, In examining some of tho technicalltios Which the Returning Board have used ag a warrant for the disfranchisement of whole towns and districts, the Court not merely condemns the prnelple, but polnis. out that the Governor and Counell have been technl- cally wrong, In tho cases whore the returns were signed by three Aldermen Justead of four, and thrown out on that account, the Court shows that thereturn may atill be valid teohnfently (mud that the Returning Board has no right to assume that It {a not valid), because three constitute a majority of a fegul quorum of four, the whole number of Alder- men belng seven, When so attested the re- {urn “ fs conclusively presumed to be valid,” 80 far us the Governor and Council are con: ‘cerned, and they have no right togo behind the returns.” Su, when a number of votes are returned as “ scattering,” Jt Js held that the Governor and Council cunuot oficially know that ballots with “senttering” written - therean were = not netunily enst; nnd that, whether so cnst or not, such returns cannot affect the result in any. caso where, belng either nddeil or subtracted, they dy not change the plurality of yotes which constitutes the election of ona candidate, "Lhe snine principle applies inn easa whero the wholo numbor of votes or ballota is not correctly sintett, The other technlenlities Invoked by Gnree- lon to defent the popular will ore summarily brushed away by the Court. A deputy clerk, or a clerk protem., may sign a retum and innke tt as effective as if it hnd been signed by the regular clork, In the absence of the Intter, or in his fallure to do his duty. Selectmen pro tem, may be sinilarly chosen by tho people to savo their rightof franchise. Tt {s not even necessary that the person act {ng as Selectman or clerk shall bo ajeltizen in order te render tho return valid, The Govy- ernor and Connell cannot judicially deter- inine whethor ballots are marked or not, con- trary to the direction of the law, ng this Is the business of tho presiding offleers at an election, and the statute specifically pro- hibits the rejection of a ballot “after it {3 reeelved luto the ballot-box.” It 1s letd that the word “ditto and {ts abbreviation “do” and the dots indicating the same, aro perfectly well understood everywhere, and that their obvious meaning cannot be disre- garded) for the purpose of changlng a ma- jority Into 1 mtuorlty, and vice versa, Fie ually, it is set forth in the most emphatic lane gunge that the Governor and the Council have no right to reject returns recelyed at the office of the Secretary of State, except upon written notice of defects and ample evidotive necording to established rules, and then only after giving interested parties a fair opportunity to be heard und to correct errors necording to tha statute. Tho Court rests upon the fundamental principle that the Government of the State of Maine, Jike all other government in this country, fy “of the people, by the people, and for the people *; that elections should be condueted by the people; that the people, not versed fn the {echnical knowledge of Inwyers and in tho hurry and excitement of the ocension, may commit elerical errors; but that “ft fs enough {f the returns can be wie derstood, and, if understood, the full effect should be given td thelr natural and obvious meanlig; they arg uot to be strangled by idle technicalities, nor js their meaning to be distorted by carping and captions eritt- elsm.” ‘These are words that will be unt- veranliy comprehended and approved. Any other construction of the theory of election returns would at all times enable a corrupt ring to pérpetuate Its hold upon office and to disfranchise the people by dellberate and intentional errors ant defects carefully planned In advanee, Indeed, thore is evi- dency that such was the program In Maino, sinee blanks were prepared and sont to the Republican. districts which tndleatod the place for the signatures of just threo Alder- men, besides that of the clerk, and wore de- signed to mislead the election officers. This opinion of the Supreme Court leaves nota single plank for the Garcelon crowd to stand upon. It fs bonsted by those deepest in the conspiracy that tho dictum of the Court, cannot seat the men who wero falrly elected nor unseat those to whom certificates have been given without law or warrant, But the moral forco of this opinion will necom- plilsh all that fs needed. If the Democratic conspirators will not volintarily give way before it, thon they wilt be forced to stand aside, Tho opinion ts fortunately so intel- ligent and so unequivoent that tt will mold public opinion in Maine and throughout the country, The Republicans now know they are right in demanding thelr own, and the Democrats know they are wrong in resisting such ademnnd, With this universal agrec- ment upon the equities, supported by the clear Judicial eoustructlon of the Inw, the Garcelon conspirators wilt find themselves impotent to maintain thelr villainous posi- tion, Itis now merely a question haw much more contunely and contempt they are will- ling to add to on unsuccessful attempt to steal x Stato and break down electoral goy- ernment. CAROLINA COLORED YARM LABORERS IN INDIAN, As Anartlele In another column, written at Greoncastle, Ind., glyes much rellabloand Ine teresting Information respecting the negro migration from tho Carolinas into Indlang, After all the hubbub and fuss the Democratic politicians have made, the whole number of negro arrivals to date {3 only 000, although more are coming, a8 fayorable reports from the first comers are sont back to thelr friends and relatives, ‘The farmers of Indinna can utilize a hundred tines as much of thls use ful labor ay they have yet received, There fs a demand springing up all over the State for this sort of farm help, and no bulldozing of tho Dan Voorhees demnagogs can prevent It, Where thore ts a demand there will bo 1 supply; that iss Inw of political economy which partisnn politlelans will batt against In vain, An Indiana farmer states the whole caso In nutshell, Ho says: “Tho plan of having two or three colored hired men with their families an the place fa 9 new one with us, but a very ine portant one, AI! the year-round, winter and suminor, thelr labor enn bo depended upon, If sickness euters tho farmer's home, colored nurses are ot hand. The black wom- ‘on, too, can milk, churn, wash, cook, and make gardens, Our wlyes and daughtors have been drudges, and worked altogether too hard, because wo cannot get white do- meatics In the cltles and towns to live In the country and do farm-housework, We ean hive male help toa Mnited extent at high wages, but female help is not to be had by ono farmer in a hundred, These colored familles from the Carolinas supply this great need, Thelr children can also be made very useful on our farms in varlous ways, For many yeurs there has been w steady flow of our young men,and girls too, from the farma to the towns and cities, Thoy elthér dlailke the hard work and Nt tle soclety of farmers’ Hyes, or want higher wages than farming can afford to pay, Few of thom will work for any wages; they profer tuking a plece of land and farming it on shares for a few years, and as soon ns they have made a few hundred dollars they Gre attacked with tho Western fever, which carries them off—to Kansas, or Nebraska, or some other territory beyond the Misslsipp!, Evory rural district Is drained of its young wen going Into the towns or moving West to set up for thomselyes,"” ‘This Carolina colored farm Jubor would fll the gaps inado by the stendy drain of white men and cnable the owners of farms to Brow thelr crops aud improve thelr places, and Hghten tho hard drudgery of thelr wlyes and daughters which makes farm iife feel so oppressive and dsagrecable, It ts tha opinion of many reflecting and Intelligent Indiana farmers that there exists an Immediate demand for 20,000 colored farm- Inbor faniittes fi that State, The estlmate ts f modorate one, a3 there are 200,000 farmers {1 Tndlana, and this number would only furnish one.colorad faintly for every ten farmers, but it woult tnmensely augment the agricultural broduetions of tho State, to say nothing of the comforts of lifo on thousands of the larger farms, where tho amount of work ta bedone ts greatest and consequently moat Jaborioua on the whole household, ‘The help of a colored family of workers Is Just the thing that on overworked farmer mostneeds to handle his plantation and render Hfe worth living for, ‘The demand for this kind of farm help is not confined to Central Indiana, but comes from Ohlo and Ulinels as well. Mr. Langs- anole, and the Reva, Clay and Willams, at Greencastle, say thgy are “recelving hats Cull of letters ' from farmers of Hlinois and Ohio applying for colored farm hands with or without faruilies, The ngrieniturists of the ‘threo States will absorb alt the colored farm Inborers the Carolinas and Virginia can ture ulsh, and will treat them well, pay them good wages and find plenty of work forall of them, Dig and little, men and women; will protect thom in thelr elvil and palitien! Hbortics; will see that they haye the privilege.to vote and have thelr votes counted; and will provide rool freeschools for thelr children,—tho same schools they send tholr own to, ‘They will not be cheated in their labor contracts, nor forced to accept store-orders for goods at doubla price. In short, the poor oppressed. darkies will find thelr condition in Ife im- mensely Improved fn the Iand of freedom and equal rights, Let them come to theso threo great States, where they will be wel- come, Kansas Is getting more than her share. GANAL NAVIGATION, In 1873 tho State of Now York offered prizes to the amount of $50,000 for the frat, second, and third best models and Inventions of boats adapted to ennal navigation nnd pro- pelted by steam, “he end sought was an economy in time and in cost of transporta- tion, ‘The prizes were awarded to the Baxter bonts, nnd we belleve some twenty boats of tho prize modet were built by a company or- ganized for that purpose; these boats wera used for a while, and then were ald up and abandoned In tho meantime Ike experlments were made on tho nels & Michigan Canal, which have resulted Ina stecessful adapta- tlon of steau: to navigation on such canals. All the previous investlgations were dlreeted to the use of steam canal-boats, Asso much of tho space of the boat was taken up with the machinery, and the size of tha vessel boing Imnited to that of the locks, the carry: ing capacity was reduced, rendering the cost of transportation too high for any advantage over the old system of horse-bonts, ‘The use of steam canal-bonts for towing was also i failure, nnd we belleve this was the main end sought in tho experiments on Lake Erie, ‘Tha success on our canal was the adapta- tionof a steamer which, carrying a load it self, would at the sayre tne propel or push a barge with ttle = Be more power than would be oxpended in propelling the steamer alone. This deyieo was invented by Capt. Raymond, who subsequently associated with himself Capt. De Puy—bath veteran eanalters. Togethor they porfected the system. In use the barge is placed In front of the cangl-boat having theateam machinery. The twa boats are attached by an Ingenious but very slinple means, whereby the barge and the steamer ‘aro practleatly mado one boat for navigation, and both are managed, controlled, and di- reeted by the one engineer and pilot. On reaching a lock, the connecting apparatus {3 thrown off and enafly readjusted after pnss- Ing the locks. 'Phis system was so perfected on the Tinos Canal that It has superseded horse-power, and reduced the frefght on grain from the [llinols River to Chicago in the proportion of from O cents per bushel to Q¢ cents per bushel, In tho fall of 1874 Capt, De Puy went to Buffalo, and, though highly commented and , Well known thore, falled to enlist the slight est Interest In Ms Improvement in canal navigation. Steam navigation on the canal was unanimously yoted to be 8 dead fallure,— utterly finpracticable, . When the Erle Canal was opened {n 1877 nll the progress he had imade was to obtain tho permission to take one of the abandoned prizo Baxter bonts and to fit if up and run ft him- self, This ho did, and tho result, as stated by Afr, Do Puy In his interesting aceonnt pub- lished in. Tum ‘Trimune on Jan. 8, was, that the whole flect of the sixteen Baxter bonts ‘waa Inunediately adapted to the new made of propelling by pushing, and tho Baxter Com- pany, whieh was bankrupt, elenred $33,000 during the first year, and during tho three years have eleared more than tho original cost of the honts, Last year thora wore numerous otltor boats pushing barges In use, Capt, Hathaway with hisboatand bargeclenred in hfs fast round trip between Buiato and New York 81,000, which was more than the combined net earnings of two horse-boats for tha whole sengon. 11s net earnings from one boat and barge for tho season were equal to the net earnings of sevon horse-boats for tho game tine, As to the cost of operating Mr. Do Puy this writes; “'Tho above figures may seom incredible to tho reader. Therefore, the writer will moution that, by pushing tho barge with tho stenmer, thoru Is but one break fn tho water. Tho steumor rung in tho suctlon of tho barge, the two honts being held aa firm as ono entire bout with tho Do Puy and Rayinond couptings, which aro ine tantly detached at tho locks. Thus two boats are run byone bout's crow, “ It costa horie-bonts from 25 to 85 conta por milo to tow with mules or horses, “Cupt. Huthaway’s ontira oxponsea for ongl- néera, coul, oll, witste, repalra to wnyine, ete, wero only four vents and two milla per mite por boat (eight conta and four milla per mito far tho propeller and barge), ‘Tho propelter and barge move 15,500 bushels of whent (405 tons) quicker and chonpor than tho horse-buat moves 8,100 bushels (210 tons). © Most ull horgu-bouts roturn from New Yorls to Uurfale ght, on aceount of tho strong current minning east, However, thle depends on which the Captuln thinks the most of, hig boat or his wmulca; If tho lutter, ho goes lyht; If the former, ho will put tn 100 tons, which steadles tho bout, and the winds do not Liew her on tho stuno walls ‘of tho cannl, ' “ All propellers and barges carry west fram 550 to 400 tons oyery ting, and nover return to But. fala Hght." Mr. Do Puy states thaton a Jato trip he loft Now York with 950 tons of sugur on board his boat and barge, and on the same might sixty. horee-boats left ght, None Teached Buffalo before ho did. After paylug tolls and other oxpepscs, hls frelyht was $200, and none of the sixty horse-boats earned any- thing. On the way he passed 500 horse-buats between Buffalo and New York. For these bonts now bollers, engines, and propeller wheels have been invented, so sins ple and complete that the wheelsman can handle tho engine, enuge’ the water in the oiler, and regulate the fire, Hathaway's ine proved bont is so complete that tha entire ex- pense for moying propoller and barge only equaled eight: cepts and four auitls per site, while the cost of moving the same tunnige with mules {3 60 conta per mile, Mh De Puy points out that, 1€ tho Inke transportation companies would provite themselves with propellers and barges on tho frie Canal, to run in’ connection with these lakestenmers, they could contract for through freight from any point on the lakes by steam: to Now York, and could always have full eargoes of west-bound freight on the canal, if moved by steant. West-bound freight, which will not uso horse-boats, and fs now sent by rall, would all take stenmers and barges onthe canal. The writer gives tho names of the builders of some ‘thirty new cant propellors and barges, and all these boats will bo In useon the canal in the spring. 'fheso facts, and thoy ail seem warranted by the references given by Capt, De Puy, Indicate that the problem of steam navign- tlon on ennals haa heen solved, snd, if so, mako the canals of grenter futersst to the country than before, The transportation of 445 tons of grainon the cannleat a cost of 83¢ cents per mile 1g an necomplishinent of the utmost importancs to the country. ° It Is of special importance , in redstablishing the supremacy of water-trausportation over that of rail, Thorateson Inke to Buffalo, and thonee by steam and barge to Now York, can, by this successful application of steam to canal navigation, be reduced te the mini- mum, Ench of these canal propellers and barges will carry « cargo of groin equal to the highest enapneity of thirty-nine cars, ‘The slow, costly, and wn- certain horse-power will be forced to give way to the canal propeller and barge, glving spead, and enlarged cargoes, and a minimum cost, to the transportation not only of West- ern products to tho Last, but also of products from the Enst to the West. As Mr Do Puy snys, every canal propeller, and barge can gel oa return lnad of west-bound freight, and it 1s renson- able to expect that, when all the horse-heats on tho Erie Canal have glyen way to the pro- peller and barge, the great bulk of west- ern-bound frelght will be shipped by that route. Tho rallronds muy yet discover that with this improvement, which will-double the capacity of the Erle Canal, the water- routo will resume its supremacy, Tur following are a few of the absentee landlords and fancy London “ companies" who are sucking the [fo's blood out of tho Erish people and forcing thom to:ppenl to the world’s charity to presorve them from rturvation and enable thom to pay cnormous rents on thelr own Junds to alien olalmants who have no better titly thina feudal ano, based on contlsestion. ‘Tho “nnniual value," as given below, Is the rate on which the land Is taxed. The amount ex- noted for ronta by tho absontco claimants ranges: from 40 to 100 per cont above the taxation valua- tion. Bear in mind that tho & mark means 33: acres annual nulie, Name. owned, Tonoruite Trin tr Adtehurd Wa ar) Kitewiilia Nuke ‘uf Devonsiiira, Murauis of Lansdawi Marquise Lord Dio Marguls of Clat Lord Lecontiond Amaia of Bau Of thenbove Enrl Fitzwilllam and tho Duke of Dovonshire usually spond one month in eaeh yoar{in Irvland. Lord Pombroko's proporty {8 obiedy bullt over by residences in the nelghbor- hondot Dublin. He has no residence thers, and rarely viulta Ireland, His rontul is probubly over £00,000, Tun Arizona Silver Belt of Dee, 20 de- votes ita lending editorint to showing up the niining Interest of that Jorritory, It says that Hfonry Lesinaky has just sold h{4 one-third ine torest in the Longfellow Copper Mine, ut Clifton, for $400,000, and that those fumiliar with tho property do uot regird itas high price, It thinks tho allver mines of Arizona are tho rich- eatin tho world, and gives somo statistics that go to prove it, It prints the certificate of the State Assnyer of Cullfornla of ten Iota of ore which nasuyed 9 total of $40,401, or an average of $4,616 to tho ton of 2,000 pounds of ure, and one lot of loose dirt froin tho sume nine nssayed $120 to tho ton, Tho lust ton taken from tho Mack Morris Mthne ylolled ovor $700, In the Globe mining distriut §10,000 worth of oro was tukon from one shaft forty feot deop, Flat ledges in Richmond Buasln guve from 35,000 to $15,000 per ton, and tho Silver Klug ores’ usany from, $8,000 to 20,000 per ton. some {don of the richness of theao ores nay bo guth- cred from the fuct that thoy ara drawn 600 miles: by mulo teams to got thom to the ussuyer, Wella, Vargo & Co. oarriod from Arizona in 1875, of gold dust, silver Ingots, base bulllon,’and orea, $109,093, and durlug tho your 187? tho anne Company has shipped frum thls angle Connty of Pinal $1,100,000 fy provlous motu, whieh, the Silver Helt predluta, will ba but a titho of what will bo shipped tn 1880, ‘Tae Madison correspondent of tho Mil- -waukeo Sunday Tdegraph writes to that paper that tho Stuta Convention for tho purpose of electing delegatesyto the National Republican Convention will probably be held in Fobruary, and that “ dolegutos will be clocted favorable to IMatuo, but friendly ulsrto Grant. In cago it shall bo nppirent that Grant is to bo nominated without serious opposition, they will yote for him, Nut if Jalna basa show thoy will yoto for Mlaine.": Thia correspondent must be unusually: woll Informed if bo fa able to tell Just-how the wholo delegution will yote aven jn adyanco of tholr nppolntmont. Probably he moans to Buy, what fs emphatically true, that ff tho Btate Con- yontion retlucts tho wishea of tha Republican party of Wisoonaln thoy, will aclect delegutoa tayornblo to the nomination of Mr, iain, A State Convention fs sometimes controlled by pollticlans and wire-pullers, and the popular southnont of tho rink and Mlle of the party hag no volvo 418 It, ——_—_ When 6 certaln ignorant Justice of tho Penco had his attention culled to the partioular | gcction of tho law that flatly contrudtoted bie deolyton, ho replied that ho alwuys dleayreed with the Revised Statutos: in that particulur, Little Congressman Bragy, of Wisconsin, whoso photo was printed tha other duy in tho New York Graphic as onaoft the twenty-tlyo proml- nent lawyera ty Wisconsin, will: probably diua- urep with the Supromo Court of Malne,—Dragy having given bis legal opinion that Garcelon and his crowd of co-ordinate rasculs were right. Mr. Tannuny, in the December number of tho Nineteenth Century, hadu yery unjust, ‘Tory urtlulo, calling Greoce * the spollt child of Eu- yope.”* Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M, P., has delivered a mastorly ‘reply utterly demolishing the poat- tous of Hanbury, showing how very much tho oppasit of & gpollt obild Greoca had really been. Indood, she inight much better bo termed the Cluderella of Europe,—Turkey. having beon its “spotlt child.” Bho tad to fight fur sume years before Europe would Usten for n moment to her elaim for Independence; when at last ale gulued ft, eho wis resteleted within boundaries quite too narrow for her frea development; she ‘was, moreover, saddled with a thoroughly In- compatent monitrehs and of Inte sho ina been achooted nnd held ty by Europe, often to her ‘own great disadvantagd, wider promises that: have novor beon fulfilled, At Merlin aho was appurontly betrayed by Hngland: and oven now her elulna, acknowledged “by the Powers at Terlia, hang fro, whilo Turkey strives stoadily tobgnore or reduce thom, dtr. Lefevre showed tho astonishing progress which, it spite of all tHanityantages, Greces hua mide in tho list thirty years; and he carricd tho meoting with him in his eloquent demand that England shold full the hopes sho hus exeltod, Greeco would have dono better to fight, and not to trust to Eugllgh blundishinents,. eer eerennemeree THR open winter in many sections of the country, and tho preyatence of mud tnstend of snow In ]lltnols, docs not oxtend to the ox- tonsivo piheries of Wisconsin, Michigun, and Minndsota, whore tha slelghing is good and the cut of logs promises to be larger than for muny yeurs, The boom tn tho prico of himbor bis given inerensed aotivity to the market, and an unnsunily busy soason is anticipated. In Wise consin, cspectally, preparations ‘for an tn usually large business have heen made, and tho wooda In the vicinity of the Chippewa, St. Croix, Ka Claire, Wisconsin, Ovonto, and Menomonee Myers are already allye with men and teams, and logs by tho millon are being banked. In tho States named above, the plne lumbering {n- tereat has agsumod immonse proportions, and when itis in n prosperous condition its heulthy « imputus ia hnparted to nll departments of bual- negy,—" when tho logs come dows.” Tre London Life remarks that the mine bor threo seems tu ho unlucky for tho famous meh and wornen of the Old World. Three tllus- triqus femalo sovereiyna ire sick nt the atin tiie,—the Empress of ftussfu, the Queen of Italy, and tho Queen of Sweden. .Sortous ate tempts have been mada upon tho lives of threo of tho crowned heats of Eurone— the Emperora of Musafa and Germany, and tho Kingof Italy. ‘hrea forelyn potentates huve been disporsessed,—tho Amcor of Cabul, tho Khedive of Egypt, and tho Zulu King. Three celebrated actors have dled,—Falvoner, Buck- Stono, and Muthows, If tho Life had looked over here it inlght have sald that three am- Uitlous aspirants for the Democratic nominn- tion for Presidant had played out thelr bands,— ‘Tilden, Thurman, and Wendricks, ——— Tam: New York Stock Exchange has been Pushing an fivestigation Into the bogus con- cerns thit entice the Jamba futo the pen whero they aro deprived of thoir tlepeos, and find no lesa thon eight firms doing a purely swindling Duainoss. ‘These rascals soud out Nnely-worded clroulars, yet & yrout number of fools to send their money to onter a combination, thon report thut thoy havo made a good thing, but Invested the whole amount Inq ati better schome, which falls of conrse at Inst, and tho victim loses all. ‘Tho Postimater-Gonorn! is trying to protoct tho funocent purtles by refusing thoso swindling firms the priviteges of tho malls. Tr ta Iittle curious to sce the Socialists of Milwaukee, who hate tho Catholics with’ an Intenso hatrod—and tho Cutholles return tha compliment by vigoronsly opposing thelr = principles = and ~—smethoids,—holding public meetings to ald and sympathize with the down trodden pensantry of Ireland, nonrly alt of whom are Catholics. But it only proves that God has made of eno blood mi na- Hons, and: that there ts an Intuitive feeling uguinst Injustice, even when it Is practiced against those with whom we sro forced to ditfer in mutters of theologlenl opinion, ———— Tun pte-stickers flit they have stuck thomeelyes In undertaking to boss tho business of tho pork-paclars, ‘Choy Lave followed tho bad udvico of a Communist domngog until they huve loat not only a month’s wagos, but hun dreds of thom thofr situntions. ‘ Othor and wiser men huyu taken the places they abandoned, and will permanently keop thom. The fovllsh fel- lows aro now out of sltuntions, out of work, out of wages, and Indobt. That ia what comes from not letting well onowyh alone, and Istening to tho evil, absurd, preposterous counsels of mis- chlof-tnikers Hke Dan O'Connell & Co. Tite Bloomington Pantagraph warns the ex-soldlers of MeLean Country against boing too ready to sign a potltion to Congress for the passage of tho Weaver bill. Tt calts Weaver by hia right nume,—1 Greenback demngog from Towa, who fa anxtous to aequira a Uttle cheap notoriety by advocating tho passage of a Inw to refund to the soldiers the dliference between tho pay thoy received while in the army and the price of gold at the tho thoy wore pald, Axotien evidence of tho business pros pority of the country {4 found fn the {nerense of tho number of registered letters in tho post- offices in tho principal eltos, The pneknyges of re; {atered muil mutter in the Now Yori office hnve risen in one your from 160 n day to over 1,000 por duy,~and 0,000 registored letters were revolved in that elty on Friday, No doubt but that the iygures would show o almilar Increase jn the ‘Duslucss of tho Chleage Poat-Oillce, Wuy don't the Cineinnatl Gazette copy what Tue TRISUNE snys ngalnst the sehoro to demonetize wird abolish grecnbacks and reduce tho lugnl-tender money to gold alone whon It undertakes to contrudlet Tne Trisuse? it eoncouls from Its readers the fats and argti- ments ft endeavors to combat, If It were sure of tho atrongth und soundnoss of Its positions It would not resort to thi tof convenient, | Eveny man tn favor of Grants nomination is reudy to give some sort of w reason for it. Hore comos the Cleveland Leader ani says that tho frauds in Malne demand his ronominatton. If tho hop crop should fall the brewers would seo in it the necessity of having a strong man at tha heutl of the Governmont, . Tur Philadelphia Church Cholr “Pina- foro" Company “wont all to pieces.” at Hole yoko (Muss,) lust wouk, and the members wore only able to got buck hame through the [beru!- ty of tho rallroad companies. Now, when thoy aro asked if thoy nevor Intend to travel again, thoy ainile grhuly and ayy, Well, hardly ayor,’? ——— ‘TH Mehmond State don’t caro anything for the platform, and atill toss nbout the enndl- dato, onty 60 tho Democracy cin defeat the He- publican, ‘Tho Solld South will abit ity oyos, open {ts mouth Uke a young robin, and awals iy anything that tho Northern leaders bring tol. eee YestenDay no doubt but that the famtilar hymn was sung In many of. the churches of Maino with this rofroghlug and upproprlate: roe trains ni over tho right comos u ry ARMA yor ls fustacdones enon Gov, GAnoRLox ought to bo obliged (1) to ex-Goy, Morrill for euggosting an upper to the Bupryme Court, and (2) to tho Supreme Court for furnlsbing him with a respectable mothod of cs- caping from an untenable position. ‘Mau, Tit.pEeN thought Gov, Garcelon oceu- pled “ high constitutional grounds.” Sly Saminy Wit Ba chayrined to lonvn that tho Court of lust. resort In Maloy differs with hl tn rogand to the: legality of Gureclon’s position. —— Iy 1876 tho Demucrats were scooped by the deulsion of an 8 to 7 Commisalou, Now, In Malne, thoy are kicked out of court by tho de- elsjon of 6 to 0, ‘Tin: Supremo Court of Maine has ant down on Goy, Gureelon os heavily us the Bupremo Court of Wiaconsin sat down on Gov, Banitow in | Tim: Domocratio party of tho country ought now to clamor for tho iinponchinont of tho Judges of tho Huprome Court in Maino, “Tre Judtclary ts the eltadel of our Hber- ties," cried a Bourbon papor tho other day, Woll, it really looks like It up In Maine, | Tue Yazoo plan of carrying elections rare bo wore rellablo than tho plan adopted a Maino. “Ty Electors shall elect,” says the Maine Suprome Boneh. - . ; Go Sourit, Yuzvo, Miss. Gov, Garcelon, and grow up at iis duets WASHINGTON. Fernando Wood Confident that His Low-Interest Scheme Will Work. A Powerful Fuss About the Mat+ ter of the Governorshlp of Utah. Onrions Basls upon Which a Massachne sotta Fiatist Oontesta Dr. Loring’s Election FINANCES, WOOD'S REFUNDING PLANS, Speetal Dispatch to The Chieago Tribune. Wasinxaton, D. O,, Jan. 4.—Tho Hon, Fer nando Wood expecta to have his refunding vin rendy tofntroduce into the House some tle during the present wock, Io saysho fints the subject so deieute to handles that ho Intonds to draw the bill very carefully In order to cover evory potnt which the opponents of funding at tho rnte of By per cent can make. Ho says, howovor, {ut tho more ho studtes the queation, and the moro Information ho reectyes from abroad, the moro conyinced hy tg that a fifty. year i per cont bond will always bring par, The country has grown so teh of Inte, and capital kas — ageumulater foso great un extent, that thoro will always beg demani for atong bond fssued by the Govern. ment by the kind of Investors who domand safety more than they require Intercat. Mr, Wood Isof the opinion that tndividual wenlth has grown 80 rapidly of Inte that thore 18 n gond deal more money in the country than can posal. bly bo employed in business enterprises, IIe ine sinner in this connection, Mr. W. If. Vander bilt, WHO NODE TWENTY-FOUR MILLION DOLTARS of registered -£ per cent bonds, besides a largo amount of coupon 4s,and Mr. Flood, who has Just bonght 82,000,000 of registered 43 inthe mune of his datghter, Tho 6s and Ss that will mature this year and next amount to $781,071, 700. Me. Sherman, in his efrvular of Dee. a}, called for bids for $5,000,000 of those ata mito which will, in reality, amount to tholr funding nat tho rato of 3% per cent, and Mr. Wood polnta to this fact as cyldonco that some thing besides a fear that tho loan cine |no# bo flontod nt so low a rate 18 bo \Proposes actuates Mr, Shorman in his desire to have authority to fund at 4 por cout, and with tho commission of one-half of 1 per cont now pormitted by law. Inthe course of conversa- don this morning, Sr Wood polnted out tha tuet that of tho $780,000,000 or more of bonds coming due this yeur and noxt, more than $200,- 000,000 woutld be needed by the banks ns socurity for their clreulation, so groatly were these ine atitutions now increasing tholr clroulation, THEN THERE ARE : tho State banks, suvings Institutions, money In « Mitigation, trust funds of all sorts, and necumite - luted capital, which {s too timld to go inte speculative enterprises, which will, make many tnlllfons more, All these, Mr, Wood thinks, will be xlad toget a fifty-year 3% per cent bond, Mr. Wood thinks now that ho will reduco tho eonunisston for Belling the bonds from one-hult of 1 per cont, ns under the oxiating Invw, to one quarter of 1 per cent. Out of tho 3% por cont tho syndicate hns patd most of the expenses connected in its refunding, and Mr, Wood hes received 9 private letter froin Mr, Sherman, which he declines to make publle, giving tho figures which show_ tho auount of protlt nndo by the eyndieate. From what Mr. Wood enld, Uiningino that the 34_ por cont will not give the ayndlcato go much profit as tho present commlesion, notwithatand|ng it ls ty he rolloved from tho burden of tho expunse of placing tho loan, Mr, Wood expects that he can peat for tho reduution of the outstanding oun Ro that it will bo neccuyary to refund only £080,000,D0), MORE OF EMERY, 1118 SUDB OF THE CARE. Speclat Dispateh ta Tha Chicago Tribune, Wasutnaton, D.C., Jan. 4.—Tho contest oyet thereappolnment of Gov, Emory, of Utah, |s becoming anlimuted, and Ils Interesting in that tt - involves tasome extent tho policy af-the Ad- mintstration with respect to tho suppression of 1: polygamy, Tho story that Gov. Emory isin \ sympathy with the Mormons and has been using his ofticial position to Curthor thotr interests fs fintly donted by the Governor himself, who it now hore, ‘Tho origin of tho atory, ho says, I$ thla: Four years ago it became ovidont to the Gontlles living in that ‘Territory thnt tho crime {nal code wns vory deficiont.’ It had. been hulit up by enactments of the Territorial Lege islature, but, as tho Mormons wera generally lo a minority, the lawa wero always found to dle eriniinate in thelr favor. At mnas-mooting of tho Gentile population of Salt Lako, tt ‘was de termined to abolish tho thon criminal Godo and adopt another ready-made from one -of the neighboring Statos. ‘Tho code of California wat subseqiiontly choson, and, at tho begining of tho winter session of 1870, Gov. Emery, in bit. annual message, strongly rocommonded it ndoption, ss ‘THERE WAS SOME DIFFICULTY. ta in bringlng the Legistature to 4 direct vote upot 5 tif question, but fn the lust hours of tho aesetun, nt thotrgent dvice of tho Governor and a few of tls frionds, tho bill waa passeds' Tho gult Lako Tritune was loud in Its pralued of Gov, Emory for hla course {1 urging tho > passage of this DI, which gave tho Territory a vastly aitperior cade of criminal flaws to’ that whieh possessed bofore, Subsequently, and on the Ine comlug of tho Hayea Adjninistration, tho Salt Lake Lribune began to antugonizo Emery by chirging him with holding sentiments favor nble to tho Mormon religion.” One ita favorit charges’ was that Emory had assisted in bringing about the abolition of th- erhninal code of Utah, which was true go far a” {tL want, but thore was no montion of tho fact that the California codo bad beon ndoptod In {ts stoad. ‘Tho idon, Gov. Emory thinks, was to im+ press tho Enst with the notion that Emery was unwhtng to progceute Mormons for polygamout practices, What added to the geoming : FROVAUILITY OF THIG BTORY was, Goy, Emory says, tho tact that on several soousons the Deseret News, the tcadlug Mor » inon nowspaper In Utah, contained para: f graphs complimentary to the Governon ‘There {1s absolutely no ground * what+ ever, guld Gov, Emory, upon which “to. base the imputation that ho Is favorable ta the Mor eons In any othor gsongo thanagy Juat oxcentivt of tho laws, ‘Tho petitions and perannal letter with which Gov. Emory is supplicd aaking fot hile roappolntitent, came to hha, he says, ue sought. Thoy ropresont throe-fourths of the re spectublo Qcutlies and nino-tenths of the prop orty tu tho ‘Torritory. Gov. Emory trusts in tht Clyi-Sarvice rules to rotain him in place It it ruported, howovor, that ‘Charles Ewe Ing, brothor of the Congressman, clalms that 2 dlreat promise of tho offloo has ‘been mundo to tim by tho Presidont. It fs fure thor urgod, in support of Gov. Emory, that hl” Adnunisiraton was gatlefpctory to Proaidest Grant, und has, to tho prosent thm, boon so 10 this Administration, Gon, Grant, before loaving: the White-Housu, In March, 1877, spoke tt bly: torms of Gav, Emory, and declared that ho hal never hid a moment's peace over tha affutrs of Utah nntll he sont him there, It appears that thoucensation that Gov, Emery approved tht repealing luws of 1862, which punished polygamy and similar crimes, was fled In tho Interior Do, partment, and was {uvcstignted by the Depart mont, and digimiased as furnishing NO QNOUND FOR ONITIOAING THY GOVERNOT Papora on filo in the Popartmont contain Gok Emery's explanntions and the yoport of Mr Chuse, tho spuctil ayont who inquired {nto |b both of which documents Boorctary Schurz bs} anid aro satisfactory to blu, Goy. Emery eayt that the Murmona ‘at first hesitated to adopt tho Callforaiu ode, ‘oar! it there waa anne trick in it which ~would result Heiuctiico, Breed torte, “Whon ie Whe pre LUCO, sonted to the Governor for bis sliauture ne culled in the most prominent liwyors Lake City, iuoluding Judgu bse} opposes “hla rouppointinent, and thoy una nucualy advised hhin toupprovo It, At that tm? no onv auyyested that hu ought to voto this cods Tor Was such 8 siggostion made ti long afte. wards, when it was wuld In the futerodts of = val ecminsy tor the oficy, Gov, Emer rings with bin whut bo sonsldors a comple’ anawer to the uthorassortion, that the Goalies luck confidence bin; wo Isckt GME? an gtubeganoye In. “atter aot Petitions whlob he wil. prosput to the Presiden As to ily cournge and tidelity, Gon. Smith, cot manding at -Purt Tougtun snd Unlted Biatd, Marshal Shaughuesay hava wrilttou letters to th! Prosident, the latter giving specific {nstanoes & which the Governor mado the fullest prepurae to koup the peace when trouble ‘tbreatan This very preparation, which was kuown to t