Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1880, Page 4

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Hngagemont ‘of Her Majpaty’s Onera Company, * Higolatto."* Hamiin's Theatre, Ciprk streot, batwoen Washingtonfand landalph. Enguyoment of Frank #. Aiken, “Under the Arch; ‘or, Tha Loyo That Hives.” ' Olympic Thentre, Clark atreot, botwoen Randolph and Laka. Varioty entertainment. ‘TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1860. Tire sale of tho stock of gobds left on hand at the time of the collapse of the dry goods house of Stottauer Dros, & Co, yester- day renlized $81,007.00, or 583¢ per cent of tha valuation. —_ ee “Tne City Controller Inst evening submit- teil to the Common Council his estimates of + the amount of appropriations necessary for municipal and school purposes and interest on the bonded debt for the ensuing year. Allowing 10 per cent for probablo deficiency in the collection of city taxes, the Controllar submits the sum of $9,183,050 as his estl- mate for the year., Tire annual report of the Inspectors of the House of Correction makes an extremely creditable showing for that Institution. It has proved to be a little more than self-sup- porting during the year 1870, and its mannge- ment reflects credit upon the city. ‘The low deatli rate, five out of an aggregate popula- tion of 6,472 for tho yenr, shows tho location to bo heqlthy and the dict and sanitary regu- lations wholesome. - SevEnAz !mportant nominations were yes- torday sent hy the President to the Senate for confirmation, tho list including the names of James Russell Lowell} of Massachusetts, 28 Mintater to England; John W. Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Russia; ex-Gov. Lucius FBairehild, of Wisconsin, Minister to Spain; Philip 1, Morgan, of Loylslana, Minister to Mexico; and Ei Tf, Murray, of Kentucky, Gayernopr of Utah Territo eee Wm enjoying tho hospitalities of the City of Mexico, Gen. Grant and party will -oceupy the famous Castle of Chapultepec, about two miles outside tho efty, Tho his torle eltadel Is to ba especinily prepared for tho reception of the distinguished guest, who, somathing over thirty-thres years ago, gasiated in its capture by storm, and asa re- ward for bravery on that occuslon reccived his brovet as Captain In tho United States Amy, ‘Tue long, tedious, and expensive trial of the Rey, Mr. Hayden for tha murder of Mary Stannard has come to naught, resulting vir- tuully In the acquittal of tha accused. Tho Jury, after being out three days and three nights, were obliged to report thamselyes unable to agree, and were accordingly dls- charged, For the first threa or four ballots after thelr retirement they stood at elght and nine for acquittal and four and three for conviction, and nt the Inst all but one of tho twelve were ready to bring in 9 verdict of ac- quittal, ee Tyan interview with Mr. 0, W. Pottor President of the North Chicayo Holling-anitt Company, printed herewith, that gentleman expresses tho bellef that the present excited condition of the fron and steel trade, with prices twice or thrico as high as they were 9. year ago, is unhealthy and abnormal and gannot last. Mr. Potter also pronounces Chicago the best point In America for tho manufacture, and in proof of the sincerity of that opinion cites the fact that the Company of which he !s President proposes to Increase its present facilities for manufacturing tron snd steol at an outlay of about §2,000,000, gist Sree < ‘Tue Dill for the regulation of IntarState commerce Is under consideration by the House Committes on Commerce, before whom were made yesterday some arguments by Yallrond represontatives in opposition to its passage, The railroads have It in thelr power to bring forward an arguinent mors poworful than words agninst regulation by Congress of Inter-State railway trafficy they have.only to cease plundering the people by extortlonata rates, nnd show a disposition to be satistied with a falr and equitable tariit for transportation, It is thelr own gteed that hing furnished reasons for lvglsiative restric. tion which the cloyarest of thelr lawyers can- hot argue out of existence Goy. Davis is to be commended for the wladoi and firniness he dlaplnyed yesterday In refusing the Flat Rump permission to hold % weating In the Statellouse. They had In- tended ta assemble at 4 o'clock In the aftor- noon and go through the form of transacting business asa legisintlve body, but the Gov- erhor, wisely concluding that the farce had Bune far enough, ended it by refusing them xdmission to the Capitol, He very justly re- ards hg Fusign gang 98 9 public nutsance got ta bdtolerated any Jonger, and ilscourse “{s eglentnted to restore affairs In Malus to tholr normal condition, eee ‘Try telegraph has heretofore briefly hinted “at an (uterruption of the ciplomat{e relations petwoen Turkey and England, and the foreign malls now at hand supply: tho Teason, which ts almost ludiccous. It nypeurs that the Turkish Goyerninent recently tonk Away 0 mansorlpt translation of the Berlpt- ures from ona Dr. Kootler, a clergyman of the Chureh of England, and a German by birth, and arrested ona Ahmed Towlk, 2 Mussulinan schoolmaster, who had nasiated in the tranalation, and sentenced him to death tor being 9 traitor to tha doctrines of Islam. He would hoya bean executed had {t not beon for the Interference of Sir Henry Layard, the English Minister, who com- pollad tha Porte to return the Scriptura manusoylpts to Dr. Koollor and act the un- lucky schoolmaster freo by brenking off diplomatle relations. If England would cuinpel ‘Turkey to do Its duty tn larger mat tera ag ithagin thisthera might’ be some hope for the future in that mlaorable country, ee Titu Maing sltyation Ia fast attaining 9 fixedness which {s a9 pleasing to the honcat Jnw-ablding people of the Pine Treo State as ft Ja discournging to the Fiat-Fusion body which altempted to cheat tho voters out of their rightful Legislature, Gov, Dayls, du termined to have no more nonsense, haa given orders to refuse admission to the bogus body with Lamson at thelr head, and yestor- day the Fuslonists came to the Capitol only to find the gates closed against them. Thera waa very Ilitle threatening, the counters- in who demanded admission numbering seareely half s quorum of either Iouso, and thelr only alternative was to make the dest of tho adversa circumstances and quiat- ly sucetumb to the inevitable, ‘The Inevitable consisted of holding a siduwalk meeting of the barred-ont conspiratora, at which savernl pointless speeches were jndulged In, and the only practicable motion, that to adjourn, was made and carried, They now propose to Wire a hall and meot daily until the Fusion members who were legally olectad shall can- elude to apply Individually to the legal body now fn poasossion of the Capitol for pernis- ston to oceupy thelr seats, ‘Tho. Republican legistators did little business yesterday be- yond confirming several Gubernatorial sp- pointments and getting the machinery of the State Government In working order. ‘Tne editor of the New York World la eredited with a strong senso for the humor- ous, and it was probably in the exercise of tls faculty that he recently proceeded to borate Senators Beck and Voorhees as traitors to the Democratic party, because they refused to sustain Senators Bayard and Kernan in the effort to demonotize greenbacks, In assuming the Legal-Tender act to be ‘flagrantly unconstitutional,” despite the Supreme Court's opinion to the contrary, the World’a humor is something like that of n low exhibition in a London bor-room known ng “Court and Jury,” In which the Engllsh tribunals of Inw are traves- tled Ino vulgar way to sult the taste of chronic tipplors, Itisalsoexceedingly funny for a Democratic newspaper to recall the fact that “All Democrats originally denounced the legal-tonder scheme as not only unconstitutional, but unnecessary, wasteful, expensive, and demoralizing”; for this reminiseence places the subsequent flat sehomes and bond-paying schemes of the Democrats inn particularly ludicrous Hght. ‘Thore ts also rare humor {n the cireumstance that tho avowed organ of Belnjont and his clique should demand that all Democrats should prostrate thomselves before overy edict that Wall street issueg, While all these things are calculated to oxcite tha risihillties in everybody familiar with the humorously contradictory ciraumatancesof the case, Dem- oernts Hka Beck and Voorhees and thelr followers may not relish abuse nt the hands of, the World nor approve tho porsistent effort It makes to give the Repub- Neans all the credit that attaches to the prea- ent legal-tender and redermable-greenback system. Thero are vast numbors of Demo- erats throughout the country who wilt not appreciate the World's Mitle Joke, Those who take Its phillpplo againat Book and Voorhees au serlevz may demand from the World some good reason far wiping aut of oxistence three out of every five debt-paying dollars. Such a demand would be embar- rassing. For the World, in common with the other New York dailics, has porsistently neglected to point ont haw the Government oredit or the business of tho country fs to be improved by this tromendous contraction of legal-tender money, and tha consequent panic among all the debtor classes. A little less humor and a Nttle more common sonsa woul! be acceptable In discussing so serlous a matter. Tue annual reports 6f tho President and ‘Trengurer of Harvard College present some facts worthy of conslderation by all intor- ested in that University, At the beginning of the acatlemic year 1878-'70 there were 1,533 students in the differant schools of which the University is composed. The academic Freshman Olass numbered 297, and tho Sentor Clnss200, Thore were ten coriiflentes Issued to women in 1879, The Medical School hind 238 students and tha Law School 160. A new hall—called Sever Hall in honor of Mra. Sever, who gave the corporation. §100,000 for the building and-an unrestricted fund of $20,000 to pay its annual expenses—had beon finished. The Trensuror’s report shows that the College hay in general {nvestinents 93,014,511, and in special Investments $857,070, making 0 total of 85,002,181 Invested, with a net annual Income of §205,819, This is, of course, Indepondent of the revenue derlyed from the studonta, The rate of In- come shows 4 fulling-oif of 0,18 per cent a8. compared with that of the yéar precading, Tho ensh recelved from the undergraduates amounted to $159,034. ‘Thanctual surplus for the yenr amounted to $708.0, Among the oxpenses were “ University salarlos and ex- penses, $20,749; Colloge axpenses, 830,11 Itbrary sniaries and expenses (not books), $20,007; gynasium salaries and oxpenses, ego sulartes, $129,000, naurer esthuates a deficit In the yeur 1870-80, owlng to “the Jorge Increase of oxpenditure for tho service of the new gym nasium and the loss of income fram room- rents of students,” and svea no way to pro- yont or remudy thia deficluney, In tho Divin- ity Schoo) thoro wasn deficit of 89,851; in the Law School of $4,557; tho Medical School hasa surplus of $16,703; tha Denial School hos p surplus of $183; and the Lawrence Betontific School has a deficit of $200, ‘Tho largest bequests were $140,000 from ‘Mra, Saver, 850,000 from George Bemls, and $40,000 from Mra, Mary Fileston. ‘The library Account shows $11,876 expended for books, Itisalso gratifying to note that the Univer- sity has go great faith In Chicago's municipal bonds that it derlyed $108.10 of Its Incoma from thot source, Thanet Increase of the College funds for the year 1876-70, apart fram gifts, was $15,103, On tho whole this report is unusually com> pleto and Interoating, and aliows tho old Uni- versity tobe full of vigor and strength and ina remarkably flourlahing condition finan- elally for an institution of learning. One statement made in the President's report Is noteworthy, Dr. Elliott says: “Nearly three-seventha of the candidates annually examined for admission are fitted at private schools or by private teacher, About two- sevenths come from high or public schools, and about the same number from endowed acadeules and schools, About one-twentieth of the whole number come from other col- leges. Of late-years thy endowed schools and academies haye been slowly gaining upon THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1880. the public schools fn tho number of canll- dates presanted and in tho quality of tho tralning given to their puplls,” Of the Hel- entifle Schoo! {ts frients will be sorry ta hear that its future fa not particularly bright, and the number of {ts ptudonts diminishes an- nially, In this respect the Yate Solentifia School has the advantage. : Seer Gx, Henan Lien, ex-County Clerk, and at presant Superintendent of the Water Dopartmont, {san frropresalble demagog. Wa nead pot roferto his administration of the County Clork’s oles, nor to the general qur- prise, {f not regret, when Mayor Tlarrison appointed him to the head of tho Wator Of- fice, Tho water-rates aro assessed against Property, and not against individuals. ‘The elty hag its remedy for non-payment of wwa- ter-rntea against the property asseascd, It has also the power of cutting off the water- supply, Payment of wator-rates fs a mattar of contract between tenants and landlords, with whiah contracts tha olty has nothing to do. Tho water-rates are duc in Bay and No- vembor. Notlees hayo recently heen gent to all those who have not paid thelr May rents for water that, unloss the sama be paid with- In five days, the water will ba cutoff, Mak- ing his own official acta pretext for 9 sinall pleca of chenp demagogism, Lich, on Saturday, published o letter ure ing that all water-rates from persons too poor to pay them should be rebated or remitted, and commented on the hardship of the law which compelled him to itive the five days’ hotice of intention to cut off the water, This was silly nonsense. If 8 person be too poor nnd destitute to pay the waterrate, thon that 1s n matter between lim and the Iandlord, the waterrate heing part of the rent. ‘To remit the water-tax would be a relense of tha property or of {is owner, and not of the tenant. Lieb knew this well enough, but he could not resisttho opportunity to advertise himself as an un- mitigated humbug, a chronic demngog. Commissioner Waller, however, yesterday ant down unmercifully on the Suporintend- ent, crushing him with the following efletal lettor: CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Gen. Jf, Lieb, Superintend- ent of Water Department—Sin: In your pub- Iehed latter of Saturday, nddressed to me, you state; ‘Delinquents aro now being notifled that unless paymont is made within five days tho water-supply will be cut off. ‘The rigid and uniform enforcement of this rule {s necessarily causlug n great and I may say necdlesa hard- ship to individual familics, ns in many cages parties pre absolttely destitute, muny of thom being objects of charity,’ “Pleaga inform me why you are so rigidly en- forcing this *flyo duys” notfeo which you char- notorizo as a ‘necdless hardship" to the people. By what authority and under what conipulsion aro you noting? It Is my duty ns the head of tho Departmant to seo that needless hardships In this purtloniar shalt net bo {mposed upon the people, Hespectfully, Citas. 8. WALLER, “Commissioner Mo Works." —————— RAILROAD COMBINATION, Thore was long ago goarl reqson to suspect ‘an Intention on the part of the railrond kings to make a geographical partition of the rail- roads of this country into 9 certain number of “systems? that would work together har- monlously in the common atm of robbing the people. Tho ovittenees of such a scheme have been accumulating recently ata rapid rate. Mr, Vanderbilt, acting through Mr. Fink, has now thirty-four distinct raflronds under his dictation, Mr. Gould has been al- lowed a large field in the Southwest, and has been active and successful in establishing his away. The Central Paeific coterie has un- disputed control of the extreme West, And now the Loutsyille & Nashville corporation announces the cnpture of tho Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and the control of alt the latter's leases and connections, The two systems will now be worked as ono, and this acquisition is probably the forerunner of n complete absorption of the Southern terrt- tory by one clinue, Such giant combinations as contemplate a complete partition of the entire country, 90 far as railroad service goes, ara naturally of gradual growth, Thoy have made more hendway thus far than would hava been be- lteved possible a yenr ago, The scheme 1s far more comprehensive and menacing than anything that wes formerly unterstood by combination. Formerly thera wero “ rall- road monopolies the design Is that there shall bo at somo future day, not far distant, oné great monopoly, Whatthe German Gov- ernment has been dolng in behalf of the peo- plo, the feuctal chiefs of tha railroads in this country desife ta accomplish in thelr own selfish interest. A central dictatorial ring of manngement is the afm, which shall have the power to Issus its wkase at any time, establishing arbitrary rates from‘which no appeal will Jie, A fow offices, located proba- bly in New York City and connected by telephone, would then be able ‘to mako simultaneous levies upon the people In all sections of the country, and producera and consumers alike would be powerless te help themselves. * ‘This scheme for the centralization of rall- road management is a violation of Inw and Justice. Itis an organization for resistanco to the principles which have always applied to common carriers, for deflance of popular tights, and for the abuse of the public fran- chises and privileres which emanate from the people. The inducemont for granting chartors freely, and encouraging the build- ing of rallronds by Hberal donations of Innd and monpy, was found In tho hopa that com- petition would result, and that the people would benefit thereby. Tho mavemont of tha railroad chiofs 1s In the opposlt dires- tion, Combination defeats competition. It has been dong partially by means of pools; it is now sought to be dona wholly by common ownorah!p, Ithas been done locally; It is now sought to be done Nuttonatly, Raltroad combination fs now no longer an evil that certain communities must struggle against from tno to thne; It is a menace against the entlre Natlon, and North, ‘South, East, and Wost ara equally concerned sn averting it. When tho railroad “systems,” divided Inta four, five, six, or any other small sumber, and mantpuluted by o few clileftaina who have formed an alliance offensive and defene sive, shalt embrace the whole of the United States and Canada under one dictation, It may bg too Inte to provide n retnedy short of revolution, All the great staples of the con- tlnent will then be under the control of this eNque, When the tariff on. breadstuils Is marked wp, so will bo the tariffs on petroloum and coal and on cotton and tobaceo, These tariffs, subject to one-sided and arbitrary dic- tation, will only stop short of actual confis- cation, The money-power, now brought to bear vicariously upon the law-making power, will then be concentrated and overwhelming, ‘Lhe peopla may then appeal In yaln to their State Legislatures and their National Con- gress for legal remedies; they may find them- uelyes in tho grip of a consclenceless, heart- legs, soulless Iting, whose power can ouly by ahaken by a regort to force, It {a tle to say that the usa of private capital forthe private acquisition of private property cannot be provented bylaw. That statement docs wot cover the case, The scheme for comblulug all the railroad Inter- ests on tho continent under a single clique of funts is slmply the usurpation of public powers to acquire public franchises for Ine Juring public Interests. If such a conspiracy agalnst the people cannot be prevented, then Government Is 4 delusion, It can be and must be prevented. The right to head olf juatsuch a conaplyney was reserved by the wise mon who framed the Constitution of the United States whon they conferred upon Congress the right to regulate commorco Among ihe States. ‘Miough the steam-ongine, stenmbonta, Jocomotives, ratronds, and tram waya word all unknown fn thelr day, they understood tha possibilities of op- pressfon in the hands: of monopoly, and oft to thelr deacondants n law- ful means for combating it Though tho men who are striving by means of pir- chase and Intrigue ta acquire widlapnted control over the rallrond system of the cantl- nent, and who would transplant the polson- ous weed of primogentture to this country In order fo porpotunte the monopoly, are private citizens, thelr power Is oxerclacd by virtue of Public grants and franchises, and they cannot ‘escape the subordination and accountability which thot condition earrles with it, It Is time for the American people to inalat that Mthe public corporations shall be directly and practically, 8 well ns theoratitally, subject to Governnent regulation. That 4s the quick- est and inoat effeative way to chealk the grow- ing evil of combination; the railrond kinga will na longer bo tempted to new conqucats whon thoy understand that thotr powor is subnrdinate to the Government and enn only ho exercised so tong na they trent the people fairly, rengunably, and without-dlserimina- tlon. ‘ -TILDEN’S NOMINATION, ‘ ‘Wo think there can be na longerany doubt that Mr. ‘Tilden will bo the Domocratte candi- date for President in November next. Tho most serlons objection made to Mr. Titden is his physical Snfirmity, wlileh Js variously represented, Uy some ft is asserted that he fs acrtously paralyzed, that his strength fs oxhausted, that he iano more than a shat- tered wreck, walling for the flnal but speedy collapse. On tho othor hand, thts 1s a8 vehe- mently denied, and it fg claimed that in his general health Mr, Tilden is as vigorous as ig consistent with hls advanced years. It is also given out by his enemies that Mr. ‘Tilden will, if elected, Hve out but a small por- tlon of his term, But this objection has been made use of by lls friends a8 offering a strong Inducament to aome legion of others totnke the second place on tho ticket, with A probability of succeeding to tho Prosl- dency. Of course Mr. Tildon’s greatcommendation for the nomination is the cortalnty which his friends hold out of his obtaining the vote of the Stato of New York,—a certainty which they Insist {s not possible with nny other candidate, As the yote of Now York ts casen- tial to tho election of tha Demoeratle candl- date under every eonilition of probabilities, his elafm that he alone can carry that State cannot be ignored, It is precisely an im- possibility to elect any Democrat withouttho vote of New York, so the whole contest, in the Democratic party, is limited by tho auestion, Is there any other Democrat than ‘Tikien whe can carry New York? It ts not n sufficient answer to say that Tilden will be opposed by John Kelly, and that he cannot carry the State; the question remains even In that case, Where js the other man who can get the voteof Now York? If Tilden demand the nomination ag a personal vindication, and bo refused, then the Democratic party will bo left without his ald, and Tilden's friends assert that the Democratic party has not carried the State of New Yark since 1860 except at thosa elections where Mr. ‘Tilden devoted his brains and his money to secure success.’ Without Tikten’s personal and active efforts the State of New York will go Republiean by 40,000 majority, It is more- over denied that John Kelly and Tammany Holl con repeat the sticcesaful bolt of Inst year, It was then o personal fight against 2 single candidate on the State ticket, and, though almed personally tt Tilden, the Intter was not neandidate, That bolt was: a loca! one, and for a State office, 11880 'Tammany Tall will have to tako tha responsibility of defeating the whole Democratic party of tho United States, and In doling this would be Indignantly repudiated’ by every Democrat in the Jand,” However willing Kelly and his traln-bands may be to defeat Tilden person- ally, they will not and dare not put them- selves {n diroct and open Woatility to the whole party of the country, and defunt the election of s Democratic President. Any expectations thot Tilden, if not nomi- nated, will take any atep towards clecting any other candidate must be dismissed as idté Tilden holds Soymour, with othors, personally responalblo for the success of Kelly’ bolt in 1870, Ho has no interest in any other candidate, He claims the office as adebt duo him by his party and by the coun- try, and If ho ts to bo repudiated nt the Con- vention he will simply drop out of polltles ant let tha: State of New York go whitherse- ever it will. Another story cirowlated by tha antl-Tiiden Democrats 1s that, {f Tilden will agrea to de- aline the nomination as soon as made, he can he nominated unnnimously; and ft 1s even {ntimated that ho might -indiento his suc- cessor, and Sam Randall fs mentioned as one who would bo acceptable if he could only get Tilden to agreo to this arrangement. 'The fact that THden's opponents, make thls suggestion If an oyldence of thelr consclous wenkness, If thoy did not feel that the old man holds the fate of the party In his own hands, and that hla nomination fs an absolute. necessity, they would never make such an absurd proposition, Talk and rout as they may, the Democratle party, North and South, Enstand West, know that Tilden muat be nominated; that the party has really no other candidate; and that, unless ha ba the candidate, the Convention will practleally yoto an abandonment of the contest, ‘The yote of New York {3 as essential to Demo- cratic auecess ng $s tho yote of tho Solid South, and Tilden fs absoluta mastor of the altuation, The nomination of Tilden by the Democrats will narrow theelection to a emall area. New York will bo tho battle-ground, with some contest In New Jersey, Connectl- cut, and Indiana, It will make uo difference who may be the Republican candidate as agalnat Tilden, —the whole election will turn. upon the result In New York and the other three States named, Tilden muat obtain twelve votes bealies the Solid South and New York, and outalde of these threo Statea he has not the remoteat clinnue of a voto, _—— THE FUTURE OF SIBERIA, ‘The London Spectator of a recent date con- talng ® paper upon Siberia, largely based upon the recent successful explorations of Prot, Nordensyyild, contammng much infers mation that Is of interest regarding that com- paratlyely unknown country, It §4 $00 years since w mero handful’ of Cossacks under Trmak, o brigand of the Don, overran that vast region and captured It, and yet since that tine It has been regarded by Russia only tg an advantageous locality fora penal acttlo- ment, It hag shipped [ty Nihilists, Socialists, antlother political prisoners there by lun- dreda and thousands to work In its mines, Dut has systematically neglected every sehome of internat Jmpfovement.and every effort that might develop Its resources, It probubly 1s not beyond bounds to say that its posslbilities have not been considered at St, Petersburg or Moscow: with any mare t- forest thun they havebeen In London or New York, 4 ‘The area of Siberia ts as great as that of the ‘United States west of the flsslesippl, and of Canada west of p ling drawa north from Lake Bunerloy, It’ les" In about the sane Intitudes, ‘Tho northern Ihulta of each are washed by tho Arctic Ocean, It ls traversed by stintlar chains of mountalns, and pene tratod by slinilar systems of rivers, The ag- rieultural capacities of the two arenas nrovery much tho sama, especlally in wheat-growing. Whenever the mines of Siberia are properly developed, {ts mineral products undoubtedly will be found to bans valuable as our own, lts| population Ig considorably smaller, amopnting to about only four millions, though it has the capacity to support forty millions, ‘The gient River Yenesel divides It into tiyo distinct parts, as the Mississtppt docs aur own country, Tho chief difference between the two regions Js that, white qur people and onr Government are doing every- thing todavelop our Pacific Slope, the Russian Government has done nothing nt all to dovetop Siberia, And yet, aecording to Prof. Nordensk{ptd's statomenta, It isa practically houndiess country. eapabla of produclug corn," and wheat aswell, “in almost inex- hauatlbte quantities, and at a price fabulous- ly cheap, and contalning in its bosom mineral wealth of all deser{pttons to which the mines of England Would bear but a very inslgnja- eant proportion,” Tho most {mportgnt feature of Prof, Nor- denskjild’a discoveries, however, is hla an- houncement that, white the Ritssian Govern: ment hos systematically, neglected the deyel- opment of Slborin, vast changes have taken piace thore during tho past few yoara, owing to tho energy and Inbor of the Siborfans thomselvea, Cities have risen whore for generations there were only vil- Inges, and sometimes nothing but block- Nhonses; great rivers are belng navignted; a systomatic plan of irrigation has been drawn up and in part carried out; and nn ex- tensive and growing trade has been foatered, untli at Inst Siberin has became not only a country with what la styled a future, but the province of Agia which holds forth the mast promising prospect to tha Russian people of affording a remunerative outlet for their an- ergy and capital.” - The Spectator also refers to the fact that trade 1s rapidly Increasing, especlally with England, that there is a fine imarket there for many English products, and that they can he easily and safely landed at the northern senports, which aro open three months in the year, thus giving ample tine for steamers to make the trip to London and return, Asan Inatance of the profits of the trade, salt, which sells In London for 15 shillings a ton, is taken ag fast ag Itarrlyes by tho Siborlans for £15 a ton, It {8 somowhat remarkable that Russian statesmen na well as merchants should havo so long shut tholr eyes to the Importance of Slberia, which ts thelr main dependeney In the future, Thelr lino of progress and growth lies in that direction, and in that di- rectiononly, Itistho only vent for Russian energy, and the only direction where thero will never bo opposition, Ag the Spectator says, “it would almost seem as if Russian statesmen had purposely shut tholr eyes to the oxistence of the great fleld that has al- ways been open to thoi and their country.” Now that tho Siberians thamselves, however, no longer content to be shut out from the world, have commenced the development of their own resources and the establishment of trade, we may naturally infer that Russia will see the importance of her vast colony in these respects, and aid her, ——— Tue anti-third-termors ara reproducing Gon, Grant's lottor of May £0, 1875, in which ho sald: “Now for the 'third term.’ Tdo not want tt any moro than 1 did the first. T would not write or utter 8 word to change tho will of the people in ox ruse and having thelr chojao, he question of the numbor of terme allowed to nny one Exeeutive can only come up fatrly in the shapo uf proposition to amonad tho Conatitu- ton,—ashape in which all political partios can partialpate,fixing the length of tle or the number of term for which ny, ane ponion shall bo aligitte for tho olive of President. Until snoh an nmondmont is adopted tha people cane not. bo reatrinted In thelr choles by resolutions further thnn they aro now restricted as to aye, natlyity, ote. “Tt may huppon in the futuro history of the country that to chinge un Executiyo because ho bas beon vight years in oftice will prove un- fortunate, if not disastrous, Tho idea that any mun could eteut, IMimeelt President, or evan re- nomlunte himsolt, is propostoroaa, It Is 4 ro- flection upon the Intollfgenco nnd ‘patriotism of tho peoply to eupposo such a thing possible. Any man oan destroy his chances for tho oftica, ‘bué no one enn force nn elegtion, or evon nomination, “To recapltmlute., Tam not, porihove T beon, fn candidate far a ronomtontion, 1 would not aocept a nomination If it were tendered, unless it ahould comg under auch gircumstances us to make it an tmperative duty—olreumstances not Ikely to arise," ‘Th{s ig quated now to provo that Grant will not nccopt another nomination unless it ts tendered quite unanimousty, and they Intend to make tho opposition to him so demonstrative and emphatic. that bis uccoptanco will bo Im- Possible, ‘Tire New York “I'v! Almanae for 1880 fsout. This publication Ja the politicinn’s fa- vorit stutivtion! text-book and standard nu- thority on past clactions. Tho prosent Jase hat been compiled by tho Hon. Edward McPhorson, a statistician of National reputation, who has conducted tho sericea for soveral yours, Tho pico romaine as bofore—3h conta for euch copy. “Tho gonornl Tablo of Contenta of the prodent Isauc will be familiar to tho public. After tho ewondar. pages and astronomlunl observations ig placed a digest of the publio laws of tho roy- ular and_oxtris sessions of Congress, with sume martes of the party platforms adopted in 1879 and tho constitutfonal amendments ennctad and sunctlonad in various States. The chuptor on the electiona of United States Senators ty next iu ordor, and Is followed by a tuble of the Eleatoral voto forProaltont from Ids nnd lstsot tho prinoipal executive, departmental, diplo- mutio, and judialloitions, Alnong the Govern ment,comnicrofl and mixcelinncourstutistics are tubloa retuting to rallraud anlloaice and business, importa and exports, fron ship-building alneo 1810, revenues and expenditures since 1876, wpproprintions for 1879 and 1880, inmigration sinee 1870, colnago in 1870 and previous yours, Production of gad and silver in. 1870, importa and exports of coln and bulllon, National bank, eurrengy, and wavinga bank tables, internal rev enuo statlatles, public debt of tha United Stutos, and yalua In United States money of foreign coins, Among other civil Hats ara tho ralla of tho Fortyesixth Congress, tho Gavornors of tho Statox, and tho Now York Stato Government, ‘Tho body of tho work 1a reserved for election return from all the States."* —— Unner the heal of “A Sensible Plan” the Tollat Ropublican sayar “Tho atonch froin that ovespool of corruption, the Chicago sewor, othorwise known as the ca- unt, which divides tho two sections of Jollot 1s with w wall, which stands naa pillar of nolsomo vapor by duy and a pillar of almost impenotra- blo and sultocuting yuu by night, la ko Intenaltied Ot this season that passage neross the bridge te uttonded with di Wo baye hold public daunyor, meetings and naked for rellof in vain, No plan 1 towns can bo within tho reuch of thou suyyoata. Vue Cicado ‘TupUNY hie now published a plan that is fonsible. which 4 to ro- catablieh the pumping»works at Bridgeport, ... “Tho old pump Fyorke Are leased to a pris vate firm, but he euse expires In the spring. ‘The entire Sxpen of buylog muebinery and patting every! ng Ht shape for pumplug will bo leas thin $75,000, "Yh ig srl ox pondititru aul indeed ta Chicugo—will seouro to that suffering etty tho sowerwge upon which her bealth do- Res Ingo large a degree, while it will rellove luo towns on the canal and river furs hundred miftes of nn almoat uncndunitilo stonch and nul: mance. Tho sunual oxponditura of $13,000 or $15,000), an amount not to be noticed in thy tix levy of Chicago, Would accomplish a reauit worth ton tines tho many, and bo u blosaing to Cit the people within fing distance of the canal,’* A Wrst Vinainia Republican writes that tho first choice for Prealdont fu that Btato is elther Wuabburno, Bherman, or, Blaine. Thoy all Ike Grant and honor bln, butdo not want to bo asked to aupport him agatn for Prealdent. The writer eays: “Whilo we baye the highest admiration for Gon, Grant, aud accord to hin superlative honors ag @ military chioftain, wo are opposed to placing bim in nomination for a third torm. Gen, Grant has proyon to the world hia great military ability, and wo arc, out hore, Juataa ready to acknowledge it and do bin houor ag any othor poople. But wo arg not willing to sacrifiog tho interests of tho party to gratify Grant or those who seok to forco him on the Conyontion,, Sy Tux Washington monument Is stilt unfine Ished, But it must bo comforting to the surviv- ing wembors of the Washington Monument As- gociation, aud particularly ‘to those whose framed diptomna starpa thom tn tho tacp when: yor thoy open tho bost parlor, to know that tholr grandetitdron, i¢ they live long enough, may seq {¢ comploted, It. may be lke tho Hell Gato mino—so lang ns Congress votod appro- prlutiona Lor ts completion it was over fn fahod, but as aoon as tho uppropriations atoppodl the loug-walted-for explosion tonk place, and the work wasdonoe, ‘Thero Isa about $100,000 un- oxponited and avaliable for tho work, and this will suMoo—sn Col. Casoy thinks—"* to completa the fonndations, carry up the tron feamowork of tho stairs 240 foot, and ta add twelve foot ta tho shut.” To tlatsh the whoto to the highy of (00 foot with staira, olevator, and n “ pyras midion of glasa and Iron't will coat about $680,- OO more, And whon ft a fnishow the spirit of Gen, Washington aught to haunt lis architect and bullder go long ag ho lyos,-and longer, too, if perfectly convenient, —— Tux Iowa State Reglater says that Mr. Inmes Grant, of Davenport, said ta be Towa's richost myn, {s sotting a geod oxample for othor wontthy clilzons to imitate. Ho hna no childron of bia own, and yot haa raised in his own homo, and eduvated, and set up in business; somo fifteen of the children of dond or holptess parents, Inthieho has deposited somo of hia yast fortune in the great bunk to como, and It will pay him tho largest dlyidonds of all his ine vestinents whon dividends moat will holp him. Newronrt, Rhode Istand,—it was In that Sinte whon Inst hoard from.—is to have many adiitionsto {ts summer attractions, Mr. Hen- nett 18 gong to put up a block of stores, and tho Casino Association has just awarded tho con- tract for building a enfo with pinzzas, and a. summer thontre, About €70,000 Is to be exe pended tn this manner, and the work is to be Anished by July t, A bowling-alley and racket- court nre expected to ba comploted about the sametime. = * ee! ‘Trust Ropublicans ‘of Southern Tinos propose to press the Hon. Jumes McCartney, of Wayne County, as a cand|date for the nomina- tion of Attarnoy-Gonoral, (1) because ho js a gontieman of fina ability, who would honor the oftee, and (3) besnuso he comoa from a section of tho State that comprisos twonty-alx countics, giving 46,000 Republican majority, and that bas novor had a Slate offlco, or even a candidate for ono, Tr_was reported’ a whilo ago that both the Wisconsin antl tho Misaaurt Penitentinrios woro solf-supporting. It now turne out that nelthorof thom fa, Tho Wisconsin Inatitution hus been Sving on supplies and tho avails ot Btook purchased yenrs ogo, qnd the Missourl prison requires $19,000 to caver a dofiest in tho exponse nevount, The prison that is eelf-aup- porting Is a rarity anywhere. Cot, Tl, D. Dement, who is now State Senator from the Leo County Distriot, and who isn man of ability, intelligenco, and oxperience, ia named and stronyly commended by a dozen and mora ef the Ropublioan -papers of tho northern part of tho Stato for tho Republican nanination for Secretary of Stute, Tis nomi nation wil] meot with a hearty response from pll parts of HMlinols. _————— Tur Sanitary Bugincer gives an elaborate description of tho different patents taken out in this country aud In Burope for tha production and mnnnagemont of clectrie Mghta, and ends Its article with the declaration that "It way} cor+ talnly scom alificult to find in tho latest doacrip- ton of Mr, Edigon'ssystom anything not claimed by Inventors who have anticipated him fully twenty years.” | Winn the Trish peaple are starving for the want of dally food, the following gentlemen manago to koop body and goul togethor by re- celving this daily Income In wold: ‘The Czar of Thusata, $25,000 a day; tho Sultan of Turkoy, $18,- 000; tho Emporor of Austriu, $10,000; the Empor- orof Germany, 38,200; the King of Italy, $6,400; tho King of tho Dolgtans, $1,64), fn nn | Tun Atlanta (Ga.) Conatitution is sound whon It anys; We do nat want tho presont status of the currency disturbed undor any pretensa, Wa want tho greenback to remain Just as itis, na good os gold, Wo want no more tikering with tho currency for the present at Tenst.”" Tim Pontine (Ill) Sentinel says that “Washburne a supported for Prosident by the New York Timea, Tr Ciurcago Trrpune, and the Staate-Zeltung. Yo ta the first cholco of nearly every German Republicnn newspaper in the country." —_—— * Some of the country Republican newspa- pors do not object to R, J. Oglesby for Gavornor, but thay profer to avg blm returned ayuin to the United States Sonate tn place of David Davis, Tie New York Mall still believed in Mr, Edison, aud that bo bag not overstated his cnso, no matter whut bits Indiscreot friunds may hava done, ' ———— ‘Tire Rockford Gazetic puts this brief co- nundrum to its Republican contemporaries: “Why not re-olect Gay. Cullom?”” Now anv the old political adage, gentle mont “As govs Maino, sp gaca tho Union." : PERSONALS. Ohlof Ouray weara a plug hat. ‘The Empress of Russta ts better. Queen Margaret of Ltaly Ja suffering from hyaterin, si The engngoment between Misa Dudu Flotoher, quthor of “ Klemot," and Lord Went- worth hia boon broken off, A report was ourrent In New York last wook that Charlog O’Conor was about to marry Mra, Hicks-Lord, but reportorlal Invostlgation Proved {t to bo false, : Areporter of the Kunsns City Timea has mado tho startling dlsoovory that Emina Abbott onta oyators, and that pho is tucked Into bed ov- ory night by hor maid, Mr. Beecher says that in order to keop from downfall man must cultivate “ the othics of conselonco,” Heroafter any person who euos skutliy with o oloxr oonsclonco is all right, One of tho snddest features of tha peasc- fulsotiloment of affatra at Augusatu wus tho fact that It rendored nocosgary tho destruction of about two hundred poworful and leaded odl- torluls on “ Tho Crisis iu Maine,” - Tthink of thee, dear William, Ani long to hear from you} Sond maa missive, won't you, ploase? Oh, come now, billet doux, Sweet Striger of Michtyan, The Princess Winnemucea is lecturing in tho Pacific Stutos on tho sorrows of the Indians. After tolling qn audionce at Winnomuvea, Neve, neur tho home of her tribe, of tho wrang that tho whito man had dono -by Introduolng fire- water umang hor poople, she got hilariously drunk, If Bon Franklin had not died some timo ago, ho wonld havo boon 17 yours old Inst Bat- urday. Mr, Franklin will bo remembered by all students of the Fourth Neador" as a somo- what eccontrio porson who Invented a maxim to the offoct that immense wealth coutd invarlubly be seoured by getting up at 6 o'clock in tho morning, ‘Tho young Indles of Chattanoogs, Tenn., organized 4 lenp-year party, hired a ball, or dored a suppor, and wont around io curriuyos to hunt up tho youny mon to compel thom ta come in. Everything was lovely until thoy went to sottle tho bills, whon thoy Joarned that the young men had slrendy paid them, Tho young ladies say now that it was “roal mean" In tho boys, and dcolare they will never give another loup- yoar party, i Tue Trinung is in receipt of a rocently- published song, the work of Mr, Anatolo Rod- rigues, which will doubtless soon run out of the niuarkot that popular lyric, * Grosse the Griddto, Tirdio Darling," and other productions of alike nature, It is entitled * Georgie, Ratsa Me from My Pillow," hut tadediouted to another young lady, which would seam to Indicate that Guorgle ralsod-the bard with such succosa that ho ro- covered and got anothor wirl Tho frat vorve informs Georgie that tho patient will leave bor “are tho robln’s chocrful song tolls the waking all around us that it 4a the early morn," tho timo of tho uddrosa belng apparontly about 1 p.m. Dut tho chorus ts whoru the author turns himgelf lovso and fulrly rivale Mr, Childe. “Ie Teds aa (allow - Saas i ‘ee lcoryie, ruige mo my pillow Aare A aa ih las my aa shoe! aigall orehpady | 801 tT «| peitnged gaat Gramitee ae sul - WASHINGTON. House Commerce Committee Listening to Arguments on Reagan's Bill. Railrond Attorneys Opposing the Measure with Ex. treme Vigor. A Growing Desire to Indeftnitly Postpone Bayard’s Logal- Tender Resolution, The Exodus Committee in:No Huny to Summon the Negro Witnesses, No Prospeot of Congres$ Com ing to an Barly Ad- journment. Gon, Fisk Before the Committes Inquiring into the Hayt Charges. A Batch of Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court Yes= terday. INTER-STATH COMMUROCE, AIQUMENTS ON REAGAN'S DILT. Bpectal Dispatch ta The Chicaga Tribune, Wasitrxaton, D. C., Jan, 19,—Tho House Com morco Camnmittee reaumed its hoaring on the Reagan bill this morning. Mr. J. K. Cowen, counsel for the altimore & Ohio allroad, con oluded his argumont, Ho confined himself ty tho fourth section of tha bill, which probibity tho charging of a highor rate over a short than along distance. Ho argued that in all cases thy reault would bo.disnstrous to towns which now complain of unfalr oxaction; stil the discussion would do good. Thq roads would themselves cura tha vil, Government interferon with rallronds had fallod in England, a it wonld fall hore. Sir Honry Tylor onco said that if the State did not own the rail rods the rallronds would own tho State, Time proves that this, though’ 2 pretty saying, way nottruc, In this country, as the railroads be come richor, the country Nkewlso grows richor and more powerful. The most powerful rll road comb|nations In the country to-day, hear gued, hayo not dono any injury, but a grant deat Ju building up ond strengthoning tho tate, fg Congress has powor to a: AWAKE THE LIYE OUT OF TH RATLNOADS, | & butitistimetotnke stops to that end when some harm has been done, As an illuatrationct the alloged injuatico of the bill, the speaker in- stanced tho Ulinols Central, which, lying wholly B within that State, would not be affected, byt ity Caira connections would be sywopt away,—is other words, its Btrto traMa would not touched, and Its local rates might be mado higt enough to compensate for its losq on inter-Btate commorce, The Hon. James F. Wilson, of Towa, who it counsel for saveral Wostern roads, spoke atrong- ly against tho bill, Hetook for an illustration tho rlval Ines haying for thoir termini tho cltlet of Council Bluilsnnd Chicago. Those rondsarethe ff Ghiguio, og aetna area pad tip Guice urlington & Quiney, ne {a tho Cl Ree nit frog Counell Plutts to Ttock Island, and thonco to hleago ever tho ches ? uincy Compa 3 from tou Tsland to Chicago, which, addod to THB PROPORTIONATE RATB tothe former point from Council: lugs, is % cents per 100 pounds lose than tha ero fh rate of tho Chicago, Rock Island & Paolfie. A ship. ed at Council Blutfs delivers ten onr-loada of relight to the latter Company, requiring It to ‘bo transported to Rock Island and there de Itvered to the Chicngo, Burlington & Quincy for shipmont toChiengo, How can the Rock Island &Vacltic protect itsolf under this bill? Iti complies with the demand of the ship two-tifths of tho huul from Council Bluffs. It § cannot meet tho rate over the rival route, for that would bo ndlscritnination against all other fh shippers of Uke frolght to th over {ts line, It cannot change ita rate ns to all, and thin sceuro this.cluss of froighta, because tho freight must go. forward fmmudiutely, and under the fifth section of tho.bill ive daya are required for a change of rato to be mada, Ir canner cranaz poe 9 grontor proportion of {ts through rate to Ch & Gago tor tho hnul frota Itook Taland, because this would ylolate ita awn schedule rites, All the rand enn do fs to aubmit to o-great loss, and content iteolf with being a feedor to the Chles- go, Burtington & Quinoy Tine, Mr. Wilson & spoke at somo length to that seot{on of tho bill which — requires all inter-Btate roads to post up schedules of — throu rates, Ho anid St gould nover worl It a farmor wished to ship ucargoof wool from Paris, Ta, Gtr. Wilson's hori to Boston, be woutd want the through mto, nathor, #10 mesa pork to Now York, would want, that through rite, Anothor, a lot of something cl ta Now Orlouns, would demand 0, through, rate; and go on nd infinitum, until no depot, building gould be erected yes pnough tohold this gom rohensive: schouie, for the reason that rates ‘rom uverywhore to gyerywhore ole would bare to be furnlehed. - LEGAL-TENDERS. STATUS OF DAYAND'S RNSOLUTION, Srectat Dispatch to The Chicago Twoune Wasntnaton, D. ©. Jan, 10.—In conversation with Senatorial frionda of Mr. Bayard to-day, gome Interesting fnots in regard to the real situation of tho Jayard resolution in the Senate Financo Committeo wore developed, Both side aroanxtoustodolay discussion on tha subject un til they have heard more gonerally from the coun try, ‘Tho class wh{oh supports the resolution ls largoly confingd to the Enat, and has made itell henrd through numberless potitions and lotterh while the opposing clemont has glyen littlest tention to muking itaclf known to tho Com mittee, Tho oppanonts of tho resolution are also quite at sea, and altogether willing @ allaw the aubjoct to ropt for the presen Another curious feature has beon dovclo both in committce and on the Democratic side of tho chamber, which shows that quite a nur ber of Souators, who are privately in favort tho Bayard resolution, aro oppoalng it, or ar tomnpting to throw ODBTACIES IX THE WAY of Ita consideration, chiolly beanuwo thoy do nd desire that Mr, Bayard ahguld gain any strong for the Prosidontin! nom{nution through an able spooch which be {9 ready to muke in fayor of bis rogolution, Anothar curious feature of tho at uation in the Sonate Finanoy Commltve is that the vory mon who, at tho clot of tho extra session, wore erylng lout for tho decapitation of , Mr, Vay because of bie opposition to reportiag tht Warnor Silvor bi!l, aro now thomaelyog in fayor of allowing tho subject to rest. It appoara that at the first mocting in Decomber Mr, Baya progonting business whioh was upon tbe. ‘dockot of the Conimittoy, laid tho Warnor bill botore th and asked the mombors what thelr desire inte ard to IE thon waa. At thy Br, Voorhoer, who gon fron tho bealining In favar of Wor: rd, ae ret to. ond wi moval of Mr. Dayar rosponi tho suyyeation that tho had botter vo pole poned for the prosent, COMMITTED Work, RELATIONS WITH MEXICO. Bpsctat Dispatch to The Chieago Tribvns. Wastrnatow, D, ©,, Jan, 19.~The House Comr mittoe on Mitl(ary Affairs has made a somowbat sousational report on the rvlationa af tho Tated Btates with Mexico, 1 connection with bill whivh propose ta-eppropriate monoy for the erection of additional military posts on the Ric Grande frontior, The Comnuttes report saree ably upon those bills, and, as an argument in favor of making the appropriations dosired make the following declaration relative to tbe cater on our Southorn border; ‘Ago je your Commit Hy Join and con eur tn tad gong eutulaone ae iy ereaioat his lave annual inessuga to Congress us tp tle vod and encouraging aatuitloh of out iy) afulrs upon tha Mexican bordor, ve ae nal eit coil eels as Of the Ito Gran: e reapcotva Qo FAHOn| Taide und dere v" WU ar aha rete Fault ty or it loses io same deatinution B