Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1880, Page 4

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Mavyerls's Theatre, Doorborn street, comer of Monroe, Engagement of Hor Majesty's Opors Company. “Linda di Char ‘mounl.” Mamlin’s Theatre, Clark street, between Washinton and Randplp. Engagoment of Frank ¥. Aiken, "Under the Arch; or, Tho Love That Lives." Afternoon and evening. Olympic Theatre. +. Chnrk atzoot, botwaen Nandotph and Finke. ‘entertainment, Afternuon and ovening. Yartoty WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1890. GAMBETTA has once moro been elected President of the Freuch Chamber of Depu- tles, having received yesterday 259 out of 308 votes recorded, Two London newspapers, the Telegraph and the Standard, ste inaking a feature of the situation Iti Ireland, and from day to day print accounts forwarded by thelr special correspondents of the terrible distress pro- vaillug among the peasantry. , . Bankspae, in the BMississippl Senatorial -caucus, still sticks at G34 votes, Evidently he has disregarded that portion of Cromwell's “notto which relates to the condition of his powder, ,Proper care of Ils ammunition and “p fudictous use of Ils breech-loader would have settled this question some days ago. 2 8 Tue grief-stricken mother of the French Prince Imperial, who was killed by the Zulus in South Africa, ins conipieted her arrange ments for the Journey to the seene of her son's death. Shots to leave England on the “R6thof Murch next, and expects to arrive at * “the Capo of Good Uope in thne to reach the spot where Prince Louts felt by the Ist of June, one year from the date of the tragic occurrence, a y ‘ Jupastenta to the amount uf $1,200,000 ‘have been obtained in Pittsburg by several corporations “which suffered heavy losses ‘through tho Jncendlary fires started by tho rallrond .rlotera in July, 1877, These judg- - ments are agninst Allegheny County, and + ‘must be pald by'taxes levied for that purpose upon the property af the taxpayers of tho “county. Rots ara costly things when fooled “with us that of Pittsburg was by the local - authorities. 7 re ‘Tims have been in all seven deaths re- “sulting from the recentexplosion in tho eoll- slold works Jn Newark, N. J. ‘The yerdict of , ‘the Coroner's jury, rendered yesterday, tilldly censures the proprietors for carrylng ‘on dangerous experiments ins room crowd: ed: with workmen and supplied with tinper- fect monns of escape. The trouble was, that - the experts, who were testing the chemlenl combinations of celluloid had nota thorough “understanding of the dangers attendant thereupon, boing in somo mensure ignorant ~ of tho properties of the torrible explosive, : ———— . -Sronerany Evatrs lias taken occastoy to sdeny: certain reports asserting that ho «ts connected with the Panuina Canal scheme 4 the capacity of annttorney, and that he fs therefore not In hamony with Gen. Grant, Adiniral Ammen, and President Hayes fn in thelr preference for the Nicaragua route, -Mr. Evarts denies emphatically that elther Dimeelt or his law firm had ever had any Tolations with tho Panama Company, aud ex- ~ “pressed the opinion that the question of the * application of tho Monrog doctrine In the ‘caso will nover come up, as fn all probe ability, DeLesseps' project will como to Nothing. here ———— -.Buiom the annual report of the President * of the Citizens’ Jeague for the Suppression Of the Bale of Liquor to Minora {t appears thereare 9,000 driuking-aaloons in the “ City of Chicago, in which thera ts annually - “expended the big sum of $11,000,000$ while In tho State of Ilinots thero are 10,554 sn- Joons, In which the inhabitants of the State Spend about $10 cach, or nearly $52,000,000, <Bonually. The League hws done a good “work during the year past in battling against : the {niquities that tempt boys and girly to drunkenness and ruin in the low saloons of - this city, and deserves the respect and sup- ' port of all good people, ‘Tre annexation boon In Canada has found le way into the Churen. Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, ina lectnre a day or two since, “endeavored to impress pon the minds of his, hearers the fact thatthe Dominion hos the beat government under the sun, which was * + more than he could any for the United States, -sand he claimed to-have “been there.” His Eminence was at Jenst n little chreless In his ‘ gelection: of turms when he declared: that : Canada’ would’ rue the day If she allowed ‘herself to become “aubject” to the United States, He has cyidently forgotten that that particular phrase doesn’t apply on this sida of the inc, : GEN, CHAMBERLATY proves to be tha right tian fo the right-place Iu every emergency, “Paving enabled the Republicans to'exercisa unmiolested thelr lawful Tights in the orgun- Uization of the only lawful Legislature of “Maine, Gen, Chamberialn now Informs Laine | {°. “won, the bogus President of the bogus Sen+ ‘ate that he will be treated as a bogus ‘Acting-Governor if he shall attempt to ex- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: erelsa oxceutlve functions, doubt that Gen, Chamberlain: will similarly trent any pretender whom the . Fustonists may assume to elect as Governor, Matters, in Maine are In safe hands pouting the de- elsion of the Supreme Court as between the two legislative organizatton: ‘Tite somewhat sensational reports printed yesterday afternoon regarding the situation of affulrs at the Stock-Yards proved happily tobe much exaggerated, and tho gory riots which were treated as fmminent did not oc- eur. There were, it is true, many manifes- tations of n troublesome and violent dispost- tion among the unsucceasful packing-house strikers attendant upon thelr application for work In grent numbers at the places which they deserted inabody four weeks ago, and some disorderly ncts were com- initted when {ft became known that only a small portion of the strikers ean now obtain work on any terms, ns thelr places havo been filled by satisfactory workmen; but in all such fnstanees the poltee acted with prompt- ness and vigor, and amply demonstrated their ability to cope with any force which the disturbers enn organize, ——— ‘Tue Chief of the Utes—who acknowledges thathe has not atall times controfof the entire force of his natlon—fails to understand why he and his associates In the Uncompahgre tribe should be held accountable for the erfmes perpetrated by the Indians of the White River region’ And the diptomatic savage putn poser to the elvilized Seerefary of the Interior yesterday when, in asking why he and the other Southern Utes should be punished for the misdeeds of tha north- ern band, he interrogatively remarked that, were a white man in Wash- ingfon to commit murder, the offictals woutd not make the entire population of the’ coun- try snffer for it. There is a good denl of shrewaness, much wisdem, and display of tact In this observation of the Indian, and it is not fo be wondered at, perhaps, tat Mr. Sehurz, like a somewhat notorious boy often referred to by way of ibustration, had “nothing to sny,.” Mayon UAnntson deserves the commenda- tion of the people of Chicago for his veto of the “ sixteon-foot-shed " ordinance. It was atimely and necessary interference to pre- vent the -erectlon of inflammable bultd- ings on every street and alley in the city. It js tobe regretted, however, that, in his message, he advised the modification of the fire-limite ordinance to the extent of per- iitting * the erection of a Hinited number of moilerate wooten buildings on the vacant Jands comprising much of the outlying dis- triets of the clty.” ‘This would be the grant- Ing of special privileges to the owners of four or five lots on each block, which priv- Heges would of all the other lots, Such an ordl- nance would not stand the test of lnw, and It would certainly be an unjust and unwarrinted discrimination, Such a modifl- ention of the ordinance would Invite the erec- tlon of, 8 will—perlinps 4 nile deep—of wootten buildings on three slides of the city for the orlgin, promotion, and feeding of gen- eral contiagrations, ‘This wall of wooden buildings encircling the city, and to the wind- ward, Would be an admirable deviea to secure. a big fire, and nsweeping fire, aud a whole salo fire whenever oceasion demanded It. Every word of the Mayor's veto of tha shed ordinance will apply with as much force to this suggestion as to tho ordinance itself, THE CHICAGO RIVER AND CANAL. - It 1s now an ascertained fact that the pres- ent canal, go far ns Ht 1s 4 means of carrying off the Surplus‘water and thereby draining the Chicago River, is no longer suftieclont. ‘The deepening of the canal below the river level adinitted the uninterrupted flow of the water from the river to the canal, but it did not inerenge the capacity of the canal for cnr- rying off the water of tho river. The canal, therefore, failing to carry off sufficient river water to afford any rellef to tho city and to the public health, in the way of cleanslag tho river, the original evil not only exists so far os the health and comfort of Chicago are concerned, but it has been ex- tended niso to all the towns along the canal and river through which the mere sewage stream passes. The original purpose, and the end originally sought by the improvement of the eannl, was to provide a current of pure water from Lake Michigan through the Chi- cago River, and through the eanal Into the Miinols River; but, owing to the growth of the city, and the constantly increasing {mpu- tity of the river, the Sinprovement of eight years ago is no longer sutliclent to keep the riverclean, The necessities of the city, and the loud, ff not Just, complaints of the people of other, cities, now demand immerinte at- tention, Tho communication of Dr. Rauch, read to the City Council on Monday evening lust, suggests a remedy capable of furnishing im- Hivdlate rellof, at acomparatively sinalloutlay and af & reasonable oxpense for maintenance, Owing to the low water in the Iake, which has now provailod for several years, thocanal level Is greatly reduced, and at the Summit is. frequently Insuficlunt for navigation, Be fore tho canal was docpened water wns sup- piled py the pumps at Bridgeport, and tho ennal level was soine eight feet higher than at present, During the winter, aud at other times when the water Is low, the flow through the caunt Is very sllcht, and may be sald to ‘be substantially sewage, and its offensive ness, for want of oxidation, ts greatly {ntensifled, When the flow of water fs Increased the sowage ts diluted and the stench diminished, ‘Ihe Fullerton avenue improvement will havo the tendency to cause tho filth of the North Side to flow into the South Branch, and thus be added to the foul water of that strenim; the canal being now unable to keep the South Branch elenn, the addition of the North Branch will latensify the already Insupportable evil. Dr. Rauch recommends tho immediate re- establishinent of the pumping-works at Bridgeport. All thatis needed Is to restora the lock at tha head of the river, putin tho puinps, and thus fill the canal to its utinost capacity, thus furnishing such a flow of water as to bauble to carry off utall tines enough of the rivor water ta keep the latter clean, Inodorous, sud inofenalye, The canal is n drain fur the country through whtolr it passes, and at tlmes the flow of water into tho canal from the adjoining territory and’ from the Ogden Ditch {6 so great that the water runs into the rlyer, and thus stops or sluils off the sewage of the city from passing into the canal atall, Dr. Rauch in- slaty that the * retstablishimont of pumping works at Bridgeport will accomplish tho eleansing of the Chiengo River at all stages of the Juke level and under all the known conditions iinposed by unfavorable winds, rainfal{s, and tidal waves, und that this plan will also furnish a sufilclent supply of water in the canal and Illinois River to so far dilute the sewage and fiellitute {ts oxidation as to render it innioxiqus and odorless at all the points where it ls now recognized aso nul- sance? : Buch o result is worth all the money that it will require tg accomplish It, and no man in Chicago will object to any expenditure which, will secure sucha dellyerance from the prevent evil and its prevention in the future, ‘The togufticloncy of the canul to carry off enough water to keep the river clean, or be denled to the owners. ‘Thore {s no | even to approxiinate stich a result, is amply shown by tho following letter from Mr, Thomas, Seerelary of the Board of Canal Commissioners, He says in Is reports "Tn conelttston T wish to cntt vour attention to the considemtlon of the condition of Summit level, or ‘Deep Cut’ as it fs sometines ealled, When tho water was tet Into this level, the lake was three fect and over higher than it is now or has been tnoat of tho fall months, making that. meh lesa water in the oan. Nuvinetion his been badly interfered with on this account, Hithor tho whole length of bottom must be lows cred, or tho water at Fridgeport must be rated, Trmy Judginent ft was a groat mistake that tho old hydruulic works and lock at. Mrtdgeport had Not been preserved, for with tho works ft {5 welt known that the water could bo tuted nt that place to any hight dualned, and at “avery telting expense, compared to the migaltude of tho work and {ts worth to. the Clty of Chtenzo, With those works restored and tho canal in its Present coniition, with an expanse not to excced 875 per day, all the water tn the South Brinch could be kept nearly 19 cleat ns the tnko itself, tho navigution of the Summit level be made good, and all complaints: about stink done away with. Llttly or no dredging would be needed, as tho high stage of water in the cami would prevent ita banks from Pliding In, Tt seems to me that the City of Cht- cago ond your Bound should tuke steps immed|- Ately to Inquire into this subject, The question of raising the water there by stonm and cleans. Ing tho river is no new one, nor is ft an expert- ment, #8 many well know {t ting been success- tully done. Tho elreumstances are much more favorable now than heretofore. Then there wha adiference of ciyht feet between the surfice of the water in the canal gud river nt Bridgeport; now the difference would be whatever you should nuke ft. Thou there was no declivity in tho canal from Bridgeport ta Loekport: now there Js a fall of three feet, Then the the water in the cannl most of the way ¥ high as the surface of the carth along tta banks, and mich of the distance higher, and ony rie jug of the water produced an overiiow; now tho surface of the water in tho canal fs from elght to ton fuet betow," What will be the cost, immedinte and In the future, of this plain, direct, and nfl-sut- ficient remedy for an evil which threatens to inake Chicago an untuhabitable pest-house ? ‘The Items are as follows: (1) ‘To replace the lock, part of which has not been removed, $10,000. (2) The building in which the pumps were Ineated is still standing, hut held by private parties; it will cost possibly $5,000 to obtain possession and put it in order, (3) The pumnping-works erected by the State and long in use, cost, twenty and more years ago, $42,000, Putting all the items together, the works, which ft is elatined could be put in operating order in ninety days, may eost from $70,000 to $75,000, If these figures furnish even ny approximation to tho cost of putting of the pumpling-works Mito operation, then the cost becomes insignificant as compared with the results, ‘This fs.a matter of such vita Importance that it should attract the fmmediate and active interest not only of the City Council, but also of the Citizens’ Association and of all citizens, Its tuportance to the city cannot be estimated in dollars and cents, It In- eludes the health and the preservation of life in this elty. ‘There may be some obstacles In the way of enrrying out this plan, and the cost may, upon examination, be found to be inuch greater than is estimated; in fact, It hins been strongly suggested that after all the most certain drainage can he secured by 1o- cating the pumps xt the dam erected to shut outthe water of the Desplaines River from tho Ogden Diteh. This would obviate the linme- dilute necessity of any Joel or dam on the canal, and would require only an {nexpen- slve dredging of the Oxden Ditch. Tho con- nection between the Chicago and Desplaines Kivers would bo complete, and the water pumped from the Chicago River would be carried off by a natural and all-sufticient bed. ‘The pumps at that potnt would not in- terfere with the navigation of the canal In any way, ond the amount of water that could be ‘pumped would he Imited only by the capacity of the pumps, ‘Tho remedy of punping-works, however, ts conceded to be tho only ono that enn meet the emergency. The cost of operating these pumps would not exceed £100 per. day, antl the pumps would not by used more than 150 days inayear, An snnual oxpenditure of $15,000 would therefore be the whole cost of operat- Ing.” What we wish to impress on the publle Ig tho urgent necessity for enrly uction. The whole subject should be investignted, and, whatever plan bo found tho best, let the propor steps bo tnken to havo it put in oper- ation at us enrly a day as practicable. THE BOURBON NEGROPHOBIA. The Invdlanapolls Sentinel, the most In- famous, unscrupulous, and malicious Bour- bon sheet in the United States, with the ex- ception of the Okolona States, but not pos- sessing the ability of the latter, takes some. recent utterances of ‘Trt CiicAgo Tamuns with reference to the recent anfinus of tho negro exodus from North Carollua Into Southern Indiana, and by misrepresentation und actual forgery distorts those utterances soastoglya them an entirely different sly- nificance from what was really sald. ‘The Sentinel saya; “Tne Citoaco Trinune does not hesitate to say that the fimnported pauper negroes aro brought Into the State of Iniiana for the pur- pose of changing tho political complexion of a. Congreasionni District, for the purpose of muk- ing the Legleluture of the State Repubitean, and for tho purpose of defeating the Democratic party in tho election of oa United States Senator in tho place of the Hon, Joseph E, McDonald.” Tux Citosco Trisuxe sald nothing of the kind, elther directly or by implication, It never hns sald that negroes are imported; that negroes aro paupers; or that negroes have been brought Into Indiana by Republic- ans for political purposes, or that they came thoreon thelr own motion for that purpose, The declaration of the Sentinel, therefore, isn lo made out of whole cloth, It would be just as consistent for Republican papersto charge that Irish altens are brought into In- dina by Democratic lenders to defeat Re- publican candidates and keep the State Dem- ocratic, because after they have been in the State six montha thoy will be handled like sheepby the Democratic leaders votefor Dem- ocratic candidates whom they have nover seen or known, and for the dogma of State-sover- elgnty, which they do not even understand, ‘Tue Curcago ‘TuxinuNe hns never assigned but ono reason for this exodus, because thera ig but one reason, and that tx, the operation of great natural law which has existed from the beginning of time, namely, that men ol- Ways nifgrate from one place to another when they can betler thelr condition, and that when men are reduced to the pitiable alternative of starving or leaving their homes, they naturally enough choose the latter, ‘The negrovs are leaving North Carollna for Jndinna and other localitles In the West for preclauly the same reasons that the Irish leave Ireland and come to thls country, It the negroes are imported, then the Irish are Muported, If the negroes are panpers; then the Irluh are paupers, It the negroes do not como well dressed, as the Sentinel says; neltber do tho Irish, If the negrocs suffer en route, so do tho Irish, If the negroes ore deatltute, Itis for the sume reason that tho Irish are destltute,—because they have been stripped of everything they possess by the landlord-class,—the only difference belng that the negroes havo suffered more than the Trish; hence thelr necessity to migrate ‘s all the moro urgent. The negrocs come to Indiana just as the Irish do, tut they may have opportunities to laboy, that they may have a chance to support them: Belyes aid their familles, that they may bo WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1880, pald wages for their Jabor, and hove tho ght to enjoy their wages instend of baling srobbed of them, and that they may escape the perscentions of brutal taskinastors. ‘Tho: neatoes come to Tndlang nlso for the enjoy- ment of their civil rights, which they cannot lave in the South, beeause thoy are entitled tothem. They come to Fidlann with the in- tentlon of voting, becauso they have the right to vole. If Democratic lenders com- plain because the negroes, who are native citizens, vote the Repitblivan tleket, thon Republicans have the right to comptain be- cause allens, after they have been In Indiana alx months, will vote the Democratic tiekut. If this right tobetter one’s condition by re- moving from one place to another bad not existed, how would the poor whites of Southern Indiana have been enabled to run away from the oppressions of the dominant class in the Sonth during the days of Slavery, and seitle In Southern Indiana, where they have had the opportunity to bet ter their condition, which originally was worse than that of the negroes? The manner in which the negro will exer- else his politleal rights has no more to do with the exodts of the negro thin it has with the exodus of the Trish, In both eases their Hight Is a ght from Intolerablo persecution, In both cases the inotive ts the sane, nantely, tobetter their condition. The locality where thelr condition ean be most quickly Improved will always be determined by the Inwa of supply and demand, whieh the Sentinel can no more impede than it enn the law of gravl- tation, and the right, to ga to such a place fs aright belonging to every American eltizen, whieh no action of a political party or Congressional committee can hinder, If thera” $s work In Indiana to be done, and of this thors is no question, and If that work pays, the negro will go there, and if there is no work tobe done there he will go somowhere else, More than this, the Sentinel may lay this tlattering unction to its soul, that, if there is work to be done there, he will stay there, however offensive his yotlng proclivity may be to Bourhon hopes, and that he will have all bis civil rights. ‘The Sentinel raves ns if the Mississipp! method were In operation In Indiana ant Jef Davis were President. It will diseover its mistake whenever the Southern methods of bulldoz- ing and shotgun aro attempted in that State, MORE OURRENCY VAGARIES. The mania for currency-tinkering seems to be inseparable from the average Congres- stonal career. If a new or mediocre member rises to tho dignity of a public bill (nearly all are equal to private bills), It is pretty sure to contain the gratultous suggestion of sume quack remedy for Imaginary defects In the money system. ‘Lhe country is well content with tho present abundance, stability, and uniformity of the currency, In which no dis- tinction Iy made between gold, silver, United States notes, and bank-notes; but Congress- men riding hobbies, and those acting as the agents for factions and cliques, are willing to disturb the harmony of tho present system, and to Inillet upon, busiicss tho evils of new agitation for the gratification of selfish alins, Mr. Forsythe, of this State, is seeking to rival Weaver, of Jowa, tua display of finance Iunacy. When Weaver proposed to issue $00,000,000 In greenbacks, under the pretense of making good to the former soldiers the difference between the depreciated currency: In whieh they wore paid and the par value thercof, it was thought that the extreme Unit of flat Ampertinence had been reached. But Mr. Forsythe has given an Indication of . new posstbilities in the same direction. He hins introduced a bill in which it is proposed (1) to withhold from the National banks tho Intarest on the bonds which they have deposited In Washington aa security for the redemption of thelr notes, and to npply this Interest to the Hqauidation of the principal, and (8) when the banks shall retire thelr elreulating notes as a means to secure their bonds and save them from repudiation, legal-tender Government notes: fo the same nmount shall be putin circula- tlon by tncans of purchasing United States bonds, ‘The only recompense which Mr. Forsythe proposes to give the banks for the confiscation of their bonds Is to release them from the tax of 3¢ of 1 per cent half-yearly upon their efreulation; but even thls con- cession docs not seem to have been prompted by any desire to mitigate the injury done to the banks, but In order to provide for a fur- thor issue of legal-tendor serip in payment of current, Government expenses, equal to the amount of the bank tax thus repealed. So far as the Forsythe bill applies to the bonds owned by the National banka, his proposition fs an avowed schome of repudin- ton. Jt has not even tho merit of novelty, for {ft was at one time Andy Johnson's opinion that the Government should pay off all its bonds by payment of interest alone, or, in other words, by iridlorsing the payment of every installinent of interest upon the bond and reduclng the principal to thnt ex- tent. Mr, Pendleton improved upon this ilen by proposing to wipe out both prineipat and Interest, and substituting nondnterest- bearing and irredeemable scrip, Forsythe’s scheme {3 half-hearted and disingenuous, Tho bonds helt by tho National banks are precisely the same Government obtigutlons as those held by private individuals; no ren- son could be Jnvented for repudiating the payment of theso particular bonds and not tho others, ‘he fact that the National banks have deposited thelr bonds in Wash- ington ns security for their cirenlating notes in nowise changes the character of those securities nor affects the obligation of the Government. ‘The truth 's that Forsythe’s purpose, like Wenvor’s, Is simply to: arrive, by 9 circuitous and dishonorable way, atvan overwhelming issue of flatscrip, Ie knows that the bunks would with one accord with- draw tholr circulation and go out of tho ‘yanking business In order to save tholr bonds from confiscation, and this action would give the Government, under his bill, the coveted opportunity for the fiat Issue, which, once started, would not stop short of a deluge, A Mr. Warnor’s new bill, though not so Inex- cusably senseless nor go deliberately vicious ns Forsythe’s, contemplates, nevertheless, an unwarranted and dangerous Interference with tho present admirable workings of tha Free Banking law. In response to the de- mands of trade, and. under tho elnatic priyl- leges of the law, the National banks have been. enlarging thelr circulation during tho past fow months at a rate varying from $2,500,000 to $5,000,000, Mr. Warner proposes to prohibit all further National-bank Issues in the future, and to enable any Incrense of currency that may be needed by tho issue of gold and silver certificates bascd upon the deposit of coln or bullion jn the hands of the Government, The lssue of certificates repre- senting an actual dopostt of coin or bulljon which is retained Jn the Treasury for the re- demption of such cortlficates is certainly a very much wiser and more honest schome than the isguo of Government serip which ‘represents nothing of tangible value; but Mr. Warner seems to ignoro the important fact that the increase of bank currency with: in the’ past few months has been in addition ton very large reaort.to coln certificates,—a fact which seems to show that the Increase of bank currency has been demanded by the business of the country over -and above tho coin resources, Ho also appears to be indif+ forent to the fact that the National banks are Giving the people a currency absolutely ee cured by a deposit of Government bonds to tho amount of 10 per cent in excess of the notes they Issue, and that thosa notes are re- deemable on demand in legnl-tender notes, which, In turn, are redeemable tncoin, The Jaw under which tho banks are operated ena- bles them to expan or contract thelr issue nveording to the publica needs, which are de- terinined by the demand upon the banks for currency. There {4 nothing In the nature of stonopoly about the system, since anybody ennorganize a bank. who has the requisite capital, ‘Lo fiupalr this excellent system of banking, at ones frea and sdeure, ty so obviously unwise that it should+ never havo been snggested by aman ike Warner, THE SITUATION IN MAINE, ‘Unless some overt act shalt be committed by the Rump Legislature or by the mon who pretends to be acting Governor of the State by warrant of this Rip, the situation in Maine now seems to promise a peaceful and Jawftl solution, The Republicans, having a majority and a quorum ft both Houses of members ‘con- fessedly elected by the people, formally or- eunized on Monday. ‘Chis Is what they should have done on the first day of the ses- sion, It fs probable that this olvlous course was postponed in the vain hope that the Fustonists would give way before the moral force of public opinton, the dictuin of the Supreme Court, and the palpable Injustice of thelr own claim. But the tard-hended and hord-hearted character of Maing Demo- erats, who nro as intractable, obstinate, and perverse us they are selfish and Uigoted, should have warned the Repub- leans that no sense of shame or injustice would cause them to snertiice the smallest prospect of partisan advantage. Gareclon isa falr type of the Malne Democrat, and his conduct was a suilleient notice of the per- sistenee with which his followers would puraio the temporary, advantage he had placed In thelr hands, ‘The Republicans should have asserted their right to orgnn- ize the Legisiature from the very beginning. The Legislatwe organized by the Repub- Means ts the only lawfully-coustituted Legiss {ature Maine has had this year. If is the only Leaisinture which hos bad 9 quorwn. If alithe members who took their seats in tho Rump hat been honestly entitled to them, they would still be powerless to pass any legislation, or elect any ofll- cers, or da ony other act that would be binding upon tho State,’ because there hive been at no timo enough members in both Houses to muke up a constitutlonal quorum, The reverse is the ease with tho Legislature organized by the Republicans, Every man in his sent had the prima facie evidence of his election in tho shape of the original returns, and the aggregate number in cach House was large enough to form the quorwun required by law, Nevertheless the Republicans evinced ne disposition, as did tho Fusfonlsts, fo foree themselves upon the people of the State, nor to proceed without further ceremony to elect n Governor and udimintster the State Goyernmont, Iecog- nizing the complication that had grown out of Gareelon’s high-handed proceedings, the Republicans merely organized for the pur- pose of asserting their rights, then invoked the authority of the Supreme Court to de- cide thereon, and have adjourned till Satur- day in order to procure a judicial interpre- tatlon of the controversy. If tho Fusioniats hope to save themselves from the Insting contempt of the people, and desire to avoid the responsibility of revolu- tion and bloody confiict, they will now follow the example the Republicans have set them, quictly awalt the Supreme Court’s action, andsubmit to, the decision, of that tribunal, whatever it may be, The State property and the public pence ara safe In the hands of Gen, Chamberlain, who has developed the judg- nent and courage adequate to his responsi- Dillty, The Supreme Court fs constituted by the organic Inw of the State the final author- ity for the interpretation of the laws. The {nets of the caso are really notin dispute. It only remains, therefore, for a law-abiding people to peacefully await the opinion of the Court as to the lawful status of the contend- ing partles. Now that the Republicans have assumed thiy conservative position, any vio- Iené resistance on the part of the Democrats, or any further chicanery designed to cheat tho people of their lawful votes, will warrant the most. extreme measures that may bo necessary to vindicate the publie’s rights and punish the conspirators against electiva government. THE LEGAL-TENDER CASE. Tho Supreme Court of the United States has declined to advance upon its docket the ense now nending bofore that Court to deter- tine the constitutlonality of tho reissue of auch of the legul-tender notes of the United States oy may have been presonted at the Treasury amd redeemed fu coin. The case will therefore take its regular course, notwithstanding the urgent appeals of tho New York press that It bo acted on at once. The Now York Times, in a recent Issue, used this language: , 16 fe presented In a tegitumate form, in a legal sult ponding botwcon citizens of «different States, Involving individual propurty rights, and com- ing distinctly within tho jurisdiction of tho Court, howover rigidly dotined. A dcelsion ron- dered with all tho promptnoas consistent with proper deliborution not only could injure no general fntercst, but would promote Interests of tho highest possible Importance, oxtent, and permanonce.”” z It will be diMenlt to wndorstand in what special way any interests of tho "highest possible Importmico, oxtent, and permn- nonce” could be promoted by oa decision of thts case at this thine The notes, besides belng a legul-tender, ara redeemable in coln ondemand, and tho fact that they are not presented for redemption or exchange for gold iy evidence that they are proferred for goncral uses to the coin, If they were Irre- deomabie, or ata discount, we could under- stand the Importance of having a currency at par; but the present preference for the paper shows titat no interest, public or pri- vate, Is to be promoted by thelr forced with- drawal, ‘ The original act making Treasury notes a legal-tender was sustained by the Supreme Court on the ground that Congress was in- vested with all the powers necessary for tho preservation of The Governmentot the United States; that, during the ‘existence of a pro- tracted war, the use of money beyond the ordinary needs of the Government was essentlal; that Congress, having declared that the yso of this money was a necesalty, and that to meet thls necessity this money should be ralsed in tho form of legnl-tendor “promissory notes, the Court recognized the exclusive authority of Congress to judge of the nocessity and to provide the means for meeting that necessity. It was clearly a case folling within the judgment and discretion of thu political department of the Government, whose decision was final and could not be disturbed by the Court, = * The Court, thorefore, determined that the act of Congress directing the issue of legal- tender paper money by the Government was constitutional at the time and under the cir- cumstances when that act was passed, Tho caso now, pending before the Court does not undertake to reverse the deciston of tho Court, nor to question the constitutlonality of the original Issue of legal-tendor papor, It is a case assuming ‘that ‘after -Jan: 1, 1870, certain of thea legal-tender notes were pre: -sented at the Treasury and were pald In gold; that thoy were thon redacmod; that thoy had performed tho iuty for which thoy wero originatly Issued; that, belng tha evidence of n debt, thoy ceased to have any further leant vitality when that debt wos paid; and that thelr furthor use as money—In belng pald out to public oreditors—was tha creation of n new debt, and the paper had no longer ‘tho legal-tendor clinracter which pertained to It before It was pald at the ‘Treasury. * Congress has by no action provided for. the retirement of the legal-tender paper original- ly authorized In 1803. ‘Tho notes were to bo used as money; they were to be recelved at the Treasury and paid out by tho Treasury continuously, so long as ne other legal pro- vision concerning them was made. ‘Though nt no tins between 1862 and 1870 wero they exehangenble at the Treasury for coin, they nevertheless were as effectually redeemed and patd each thie the Treasury received them as money as they have ever been sine 1870, Their recelpt as money In payment of tnxes was as clenr u payment of them as It would be to alve coin in exchange for thom, Thelr payment and redemption ling been as frequent and as continuous as thelr receipt by tha Government asso much Jawful money. The recetpt of n greenback {nh payinentof adebt at the ‘Treasury has been ball réspects as distinct a payment or redemption of the note as would haye been tho delivery of so much colin in exchange of the note, and it does seem that the relasuc of the note after having been received at the ‘Trensury ns money in the payment of taxes Was no more legal or authorized than the re- Issueof thernme note after having been taken inexchange for coln. If tho Intter proceeding divested the note of ils legnl- tender character, why not the other? The law on the subject is silent; but the legal-tender character having been given to thenoteorlginally by actof Congress, and that. act having been declared to be constititional and within the exclusive authority and dfs- eretion of Congress, 8 8 political act, itdoes seem reasonable to suppose that the oxelu- sive authority to preseriho when, and under What clreumnstances, and in what mauner the legal-tender character of such notes should cense to exist fs also fn Congress. If the act authorizing the Insue of legnl-tender paper was the conslitutionnl aetion of the politfeal branch of the Government, and therefore beyond the jurisdiction of the Court, then it would seem to follow thas Congress. is fn fike manner the exelusive judge as to when the original necesstty for such legal-tender paper notes has ceased, and has the exelustys authority to declare when and in what imanner such notes will lose their legal-tender function, I¢ tho original making of fegal-tonder paper notes was a case not failing within the scope of judicial revision, why is not the question of terminating that fegal-fender paper niso within the exelusive diseretion of Congress, and equally beyond judicial revision by the Courta? Must not ail proceadings to tonnti- nate the legal charactor of the greenbacks of necessity originate with Congress, and, un- til Congress sha{l take some nefion in the -form of legislation, must not the legal-tander notes continuo in the same condition, and have the same legal stats which they have possessed since the act of 1862, which act has been declared to be constitutional by the Courts? ee Mn. Joun Russeut. Youna reports Gen, Grant assaying in a conversation during an {dle hour ut sen: “Tt looked for a timo ng if Washburne would ho the dark horse instead of Hayes. But his frienda wore unwleo in thelr ‘untaganlams, especially to Logun, Luxsed to reason with thom about It, and try to make pence, and emooth Waehburno’s way. Logun fa a man who will pout andget cross, and become unreasonable; but when tho tlme comos for action—when tho party: ofthe ovale neutls hia gervices—ho fs’ first: at tho front, and no man is more trustworthy, £ never could see why Logun’s_ tempor should in- torfore with his career, espocinily because bo was athonrt, nnd in avery trint, as true ns stcel. These diksensions in IlMnole defeated Wash- burno, Eshould have been delighted to have had Washburne as my suceessor, Apart from our perronal relations, which are of tho closest nature, Thaven great admirntion for Wash- burne, | Ho has been ny triend always, and ain gratoful for his friendship, He fs nm true, high-minded, patriotia man, of great force and abllity. While ho wiasin France somo of our enomics tried to make mischief between un, but ithnad no result, Ihave ontire faith in Wash- burno, and if T could havo cloured tho way for him In Cincinnatt Twould have dong so. But bis Tilnols friends mado that iniposslblo."* ‘Tho Cincinnati Commercial adds this moral ro- fection to the above: “Tt would not bo a bad doa if, ns soon ns Grant roturns from Mexico, ho should busy himself to smooth the way for Wushburne at Chicago, ‘That would certainly he much hettor than the pursuit of the third-torm illusion.” THe New York Herald compiles the sta- tistics of thoso who suffcred capital punishment. by hanging during the yenr 1879, and finds tho to- tal number in the United Stutes to havo beon 101, of whom 55 woro whites, 87 colored, 8 Indlans, and 1 Chinuman. Tho number of executions wero ns follows: North Carolina, 12; Toxas, 12; Pennsylvania, 10; Oregon, 7; Virginia, 6; Goorgia, 6; Arkansus, 6; Californin, fy Missourl, 5; Indi- ann, 4; Vorinont, 3; Now York, 3; Alabama, 2; Now Hampshire, 8; Tonnossee, 2; Nebraska, 2; Loulsianu, 2; Mississippi, 2; South Carolina, 3; and New Jersoy, Ohlu, Kentucky, Mussachusetts, Colorado, Utuh, West Virginiu, and Maryland, ench 1, BSoventy-four men wore muniered by mobs during the year in the following States and Worritories: Kontucky, 4; Colorado, 9; Callfor- nin, 6; Lonistann, 5; us, 5; Tennessee, 5; Qeorgin, 4; Missiastppl, 4; Nebraska, 2; Wyoming, 2; Mllnois, 2; Now Moxico, 2; Weat Virginia, 2; Arizona, 2; Bissourl, 2; Blinnesota, 9; Alabama, 2; Jowa, 1; Ohlo, 1; Maryland, 1; In- diana, 1; Kansas, 1; Bouth Caroling, 1; Mon-! tana, 1, Onm of Prof. Swing's statements In his recent aditrablo sormon on “ King Progress indlentes that modorn oivilization calls for tho exhibition of 9 higher morality than of old. Ho sald that “if wo should adopt tho morals of Moses wo would bo arrested and sent to prison ngorininals.” And thon ho added: “However dofectivo or false the evolution theory isin its) radical form, no one can any longer doubt that our enrth {8 tho arena of a luwot progress which declares thut all things must march on- ward and forward, and, ke Lot’s wife, must nover wish togobuok. . » . Qld philogophics, old agriculture, old domeatio arts, old scfonccs, medicine, chemistry, ustronomy, old modes of tmyvol and commoroe, old forms of Governmont. and religion have all come in gracofully or un- #ravefully and havo eald, ‘Progress is King, and Jong live the King." A CORRESPONDENT, Who doesn't like the machinists and bosses reminds the manipulators that {t is not boat to aliennto any class of voters, and gives these oxamplosof what might happen: “Tho voto of 10,000 Independont Republicans in ‘Ohio cast against m Republican candidate in 1880 -would maka that State hopelcas to the lie- publicans; the vote of 5,000 Independenta in Now Vork cast tho samo way would do the sama thing, and 1,800 discontented Republicans would maky Connootiout Democratic.” —_ A GERMAN increhant in Philadelphia whom tho Times correspondent hus Intorviowod sald he voted for Grant !n 1868, but would not do so again because ho {a opposed ton third term, Ho sald “ The Germuns foel grateful to E. B. Wash: burno for his protection of thir follow-country- men in Paris during tho relgn of the Commune, whou ho wag Minister to Franco. I would yoto for Wushburno for Prosidont, and E think’ most Gormans would stand by him," —— Rerenuta to the Presidential “ boom” startod in tho East in favor of Gen. Josoph RK. Uawley, tha Boston Transcript suys it would bo a matter upon which to folloitate the country if’ it wore certain of gotting 40 “ ft" a President to be Mr. Hayes’ suocossor as the onthusiastic, capable, and wholo-souled ‘Conneotlout Hepre- sontativo, ’ Aas to Jolin Sherman’s hope of securing tha Ohio dolegation sold in the Chicago Convention, ho ls not 60 gure of It aa he might ba.’ The Cin- cinnatl Enquirer lots a little light on the subject ia the following paragraph: , ‘Jobo as poyox boon the popular man in hls party that Garter is. Whatovor he hns got'fit. tirios past he (* had to work for, and (tIan't Wkely thut hisdy, mt will change x0 Inte in Ifo, It ts pretty wet known that Congor, the Charmin of the of Mepubiticnn Central Comnittes, ts opposed iq John's ambitton, Ho hus taken Atty rooms tho Sherman House at Chicago for tho Convent tion week, and the occupants of these quarien will make It quite Uvely for Tobmnson's, men, who will be quartered at the Grand Pacific, py! tween the two, John fs Inble to have tho Prog, dontlal stulling knocked out of him." 5 ee Tur, Democratic npjorlty in tho Present Congrera, Ike the majority in tha Inat Con, will probably not report pr tet upon any: Dill fog the moiifention of the tarit laws. ‘The Demon eratig party's love of freo trade and hostility t4 protective tariifs, like its professions in favor op around currency, tro things of tho past, aro no longer n part of its political creed, r bypocrisy In this respect Igy na noticeable as ig many othors, ¥ Tim Quincy Whig has favorably mentioned Mr. A, C. Matthows, of Vike County, og a candidate for Attortey-Gonerat. It {3 stateg that he will bo brought forward “a8 tho repre, sentative of largo ond most. important Recllog of the Stato that lins not fortwenty yonrs hada repreamntatlyo on the State ticket.” The Pitts Neld Old Flag nteo warmly supports the Whigs nomination of Mr. Matthows, Grex, Ganrirsy represents a famons dig. trict, Elisha Whittlesey represented {t trom 3823 to 1859; Joshua 1. Giddings from 1% to 1850; John Hutchins from 1849 to 1863; and yp Garfield from 1863 to the presont time, his term oxplring in 1881, Threo mon, Whittlescy, OM. lage, and Gurfteld, ropresonted the distelet top fifty-four years, eee Mn. Srysovn tells a Kanaag Timea lye. vlewer that If tho Democratic Conventiog should nominate him he would not feol Ike de elining, becatse that would Jook as if ho sae, spitred of the success of tha party in advance Tho Presidentin! maggot has scoure tod; place Jn fr. Seymour's bonnet. He will Aten if he la asked to, eee Wuen the Fuslonists of Maine were. sworn in and seemed to havo everything thoir own may, Old Solon Chnse telegraphed to Now York thet “Veople muy rest ensy, Tho Maino Yankee § equalto the emergency." ‘Tho lutest adyleey fF from Augusta scom to indicate that tho Malm Yankeo fs smurt enough to checkmate hy onemles. | Wuen Garfield appeared in his seat tn the House the next morning aftor iis nomination for the United States Sonate, Jo Blackburn, of Kentucky, was one of tho first to go over and congratulate him, Jo is one of the florcet Confedornte Trigadiors ‘in Congross, and isa. ways ready to lock urme with Garflold tn de ate, AxoTHEn evidence that Grant Intends to catnbilah tho Empire Is found in tho fact that tho other day, in Florida, hy was presonted with ~ an cagle, nnd tho ongle, when bo was caught, « war in tho net of seizing an, innocent lamb, ,,. Straws show which way tho wind blows. . kK —_— ‘Tue Inst districting 11 Olito. was done by tho Democratto Legislaturo in a most scandalous and unfair manner, and now tho Republican proposo to try their hand at the business thir winter,—a Dill having been introduced for thit Purpose on tho flrat day of tho ecsslon. Ir Grant should bo clected for a thin term ho would probably have his‘hands full fy executing tho Inwa and in establishing repulk Mean forme of government in samo of tho ex Confedcrato States, instead of fuvoring tho an noxution of Moxic | BAe leads In Iowan by 8 large majority, ‘This is tho aacertaiped result of a great many interviews among prominent Republicans of the Btato, tho Chairman of the Contral Commitite included. a Eastern Democrats would Ike to seo Sea- ntor Thurman appointed toa seatin tho United _ Stites Suprame Court If tt wero not for bis fool f | Jahnese on tho currency question, ‘Rui Augusta Chronlete. (Dom.) says that tt Gen. Gartield is an_nblo and unserupulous me, and will give tha Domocrnoy uo ond of trouble whonover occasion requires, ‘Unnen tho clreumstances, {t docsn’t sound well to hoar Democrats complain that the Be publicans are trying to Moxicanize Muino,: Tpat boot belongs to the other foot. : Tue Rockford Journal speaks of CM Brazoo and Stuto-Senntor Joslyn’ as probable Sendldaies for Congress from that district next fall. ‘ Senator Tuunsan says ho needad res. Tow kind in tho Ohio Logislature to givo this overworked man a chance to recuperate, Now Mr. Gareelon probably wishes that ho bad not nppolnted Gon. Chambarlain Com mandor-in-Chiel. 2 * nly apross # tul er ee PERSONALS. If achool-children could voto, third terms would hnvo no show. Miss Rachel, Gen, Sherman's youngest daughter, will inake her first appearance i ‘Washington socioty this winter. 1 It {s now generally beloved that whom te sods would destroy they first sond to the ope with an anti-strect-car but pro-oystersuppt young lady. Mary Anderson {8 in New Englind, sn numerous young gentlemen of that sectloa wold liko the Job of boing bor lamb, Thoy 4° tho following part now. Mr. Murat Halstead has found it necessary to writo.a lottor to a Loulsyille papor denying the curront story that overy night boforo goltg tobed bo prays that Gon. Grant may not : elected, ‘ és The Rey. Dr, Sonnescholn, of St Louls , feotured in Popo’s Theatre fuat Sunday oventis on “Shikapenro'a Shylock," and argucd that tbe celobrated * unclo" waa a natural and work? character, Wagnor’s recont illness, which come neat resulting in his death, bogan with oryslpelas of tho fuce. It ts hnrdiy necessary to state thet commercial travelars are nover troubled wit this discaso—or any othor that depends upon curing a foothold in thelr chook. “Besalo Blne-Eyes—According to th Constitution of the United States nothing It this country outranks the Prosidont, but at (bt timo that dooumopt was written boarding-hou# ‘butter was comparatively unknown, Jt is DoF consldored to bo tho rankest thing In the uk | VErBo, Mr. Georgo Augustus Sala enys that i young men of Now York “are eminently, looking.” If dtr, Sula can speak thus of New York young mon, where will be fiad words” express his opinion of the lovely and bowitchlas ercaturoa he will seo bebind tho countert lt Chicago dry-goods stores ? Chester Goodale, of - South Egremonk ‘Masa, the grandfathor of the girl poots, {6 sl - improving from the offocts of the terrible & sault received [aat summer, and {a abie to? about his house, “ Aftor a fow more casos of kind, pooplo will be caroful how thoy ao! edge rolationsh!p with poots. : ‘An item wna copted the other day from tht Rochester Democrat stating that the second ¥! of Garcolon, the ox-Gavornor of Maine, bale husband in California at the timo sho me Garcclon, ‘ Wo aro assurod on the best ae thority that tho item is utterly untruo, andis unwarranted attack on a most ostimable 4% tho alstor-inslaw of a. prominent Republics Congressman {n Maine. : It Js gomno timo sinco Mr. Childs furnished tho public wi® any pootry suitable for obi! cy purposes, and the followiug are therefore all ™ more imeloones . eal . Put jar in lone! 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