Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1880, Page 4

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Par- oll and Dillon ; ‘Tue lumbermen of Chicago yesterday vot- ‘ ed to ratse the price of Inmber an average of ry ybout 4 per cont, and they also voted to raise, : and did raise, 81,050 to aid In malntaining the State militin organizations of Chicago, es Dr'Lvésers is soon to vialt New York, as le Intends salling from Asptuwall on the Oth, of next month, He ts confident of his abil- ity to raise in France twice the amuunt of money needed for tho Panama Canni, and his faith inthe success of the project Is ovl- dently unbounded, -Frenou sclentists have no doubt of tho success of Eidlson’s clectric light experi- ments, They regard him as one of the great- cu est inventors the world has ever produced, and predict for him a lofty pinnacle of fama’ i “when his present critics and detractors shall + + yave been forgotten. emma . Tne letter printed In our Washington dle- patches, written by Mr, L. Z. Leiter to Con- +gressman Morrison, of tho House Ways and Means Committee, cinbod{ies a strong argu- ment in favor of the passage of the Immed|- ate Transportation bill Introduced by Repre- sentative Aldrich. ‘There fs not an importer or leading merelunt In the West who does notagres with Mr, Leiter in saying that the passage of this bill Is.demanded as “an act of slmple justice to n grent and growlng soc- ton of this country.” Tue Fuslon fizztera In Maine aro still dis- cussing the question whether !t is worth while to prolong the wretched flasco by sub- iitting a Ist of questions to the Supreme .Court. ‘There is much diversity of opinion “as to the wisdom of such a step, and the lu- “elination Js strong among a considerable ele- ment to, throw.up the spouge nud accept the situation without further contest. Present indications polnt to an carly break In the Rump Senate and tho joining of the lawful Senate by'nll those who were actually slected, ———_—_— - Tue course of justice has rarely been po awift in Chicago ns in the case of the burglar Davis, who. on Monday Inst entered a res!- dence on North Wells stroct at midday and at the pulnt of a pistol compolied tho Indy of {Me housd’ to ‘divulge where’ her’ husband's “money was secreted. He was pursued and .tapfured In consequence of the prompt alarm ‘given by tho lady, and narrowly ¢seaped. ~lynching at the hands of an exelted crowd, Yesterday on indichnent for burglary was vseturned against him in the Criminal Court, “and, realizing the uselesness of altenpting a -efenge, the ' prisoner put In a plea of guilty, and threw himself upon the clemency of the Court ‘Ho was thereupon nt once sentenced to fifteen years’ fiuprisonment in the Pent- fentiary. - Tny working-up of a Blalne boom In Ohio has been begun in Columbus by the organ- Watjon of a Stalwart Republican Club hay- ing for Its object the promotion of the Presl- dential prospects of the Maliw Senator, Aniong the movers in the matter Is Gun, Beatty, the man who Jed the faction that re- -volted agalust’ the policy of conciliation und good-will attempted by President Hayes cat the outset of his adiinistration, but aban- donéd Inter on as x melancholy failure. The Ohlo Statwarts evidently propose to keep ~: alive the grudge they bear the President for _ What thoy regard as ils abandonment of tho’ , Republican party in the South, und the tone >of quo. speeches at the Ulaine meeting Jast aight in Columbus indicates plahily that an‘ organized effort ls to be made to prevent the election of a solid Sherman delegation to the Chicago Convention, ed ‘Tur intense wallgnity displayed by the Democracy of Indiana toward negroes soek- fnga homo in that State has at last taken the form of a system of violence and terror- fam similar to that which“ has been found effective in Yazoo County. Inclted by the, speeches of Voorhees tu the Senate of the - United States and by the fuflammatory utter »" qpces and publications of local politiciaus .eago and New York furnishes on ample THE CHICAGO, from acorrupt lobby, from the organs and attorneys of the railroad monopoly, can be heard at the polls, ‘This bill for thelr pro- tection may be dofeated at the present ses- sion. It will, however, nye to be voted for or ngninst. Let tho suifering vietlins of Tailroad extortion sea to it tnt at tho next election no man who votes against this most necessary Inw shall bo redlected. Let no party caucus or party amergency condone tho great betrayal of public intorest. Let every man who contributes to defent this DIM be defeated If hie dare to seck A redlec- tion, Tet party Ihtes be dropped aud this question be made paramount. ‘The prompt defent noxt November of every man who naw proves false to the trust reposed tn him by his constituents may teach future Con- eressinen that In the endl the populnr will ts superior to the blandishments and profts even of the lobby of the consolidated ratt- ways of the country ‘RIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY tlonal distreas which fs equally the result of tho tenantsystem, because that system leaves the agricultural elneses without savings or resources In n senson of deficient crops, © Tt will appear to the unprojudiced mind, from tho bare statement of thesu to clreum- alances, that the people of this country have an Interest in tho subject of Irtsh Innd-reform which extends beyond the {mmediata relat of the present suffering. If a sclfish view wera to be tnken of the matter, the Amert- cans inight better refuse ttonatiohs for the mero rellef of tho suffering masses, and give only on condition that thetr money should bo uscd fn encouraging and promoting a reform ofan enduring character that would render national distress tess frequent and tess serl- ous, Tho suggestion that It ts unbecoming tha American people to assist the Irish agri- culturists to throw. off a bondage Imposed by aaystem which has the countenance and support af the British Government may bu fully answered by the mere statemont that no nation on earth ts so quick to interfere In tho affairs of others ns the British nation; the etlquet of fricndly Powers has never pre- vente the Engtish from exerting thotr influ- enco fn American affairs in any way which their eapital and standing admitted, ‘THE, NEW DANGER IN AFGHANISTAN. Tho intelligence brought by the cable dis- patehes to the effect that an army of 25,000 Ghilzals has aseembled within fifly miles of Cabul, under command of Mahomed Jan, and that it will be reinforced by another column of 20,000 men from the Lghmant tribe, puts a new phase upon the Afghan campalgn and introduces ah clement Into the strugele which may prove to be very dangerous to the present English occupation of that country. Tho very organization of such a powerful force within 50 short a distanee of Gen, Rob- erts' forces, and without Interference, shows of Mself that the English are hardly strong enongh to do more than hold thelr ground, and are not making any ineursfons to pre- vent warlike operations from gathoring lend- ways The dangorons character of tho sayngo warriors belonging to the Ghilzals Is shown by an article which recently appeared in tho London Times, and itadds to tho emphasis of the news to which we have referred that the mes concedes the desperate fighting qualities of these warriors, and anticipates tho dangers which nre now threatening Gen. Roherts, As for back as the campaign of 183948 they were the bitterest foes whom England had to encounter. They made the first sertous attack upon the English, ond after the entry of the latter {nto Cabul they kopt up thoir hostilities. During the first year of the war thoy were reduced to order by Sir James Outram, but in the next year they rose again and destroyed fora time the communications between Cabul and Canda- har. ‘They were once more defented, and fn arrangeinent was made by which they agreed to keep communtentions open In con- sideration of a speelfied paynient per annum, ‘Tho English, however, failed to keep their agreement, and -the Ghilzais then: rose en ‘musac in 184t., The Insurrection was 80 ex- tensive and so despernte that It took the En- glish army under Sir Robert Salo nearly 9 year to put it down, and even then only at immense. loss. and after several defeats, Folled In thatr attempt to destroy Snle’s army, the Ghilzats walted thelr opportunity for revenge when Lord Elphinstono’s ill- fated expedition should commence to retrace Its steps over the mountains. Before his rear guard had moved off Its ground tho slaughter commenced, and by the tima his command had reached the Ghilzal hills the warriors had mustered by thousands, The story of this expedition is well known, Of tho 4,500 men under command of Lord Elphinstone .but ono escaped, and ho by a Incky accident, to tell the pitia- able story. The brave army which had pene- trated to Cabul and held the Capital perished inthe defilesof the almost impassable mount- ning, after it had supposed its work was ne- complished and 1t was returning In triumph toIndia, Stil! later, In 1843, when Gen, Pol- Jock ndyanced upon Cabiil, he lad several severe encounters with the Ghilzals, and upon his return lterally bad to eut his way through them with sovere loss befure he could reach a place of safety. ‘These operations were the work of the Northorn Ghilzals, but the Southern Ghilzats were hardly less desperate in their move- ments against the English, In 1841, after making several attacks upon Isolated parttes, they invested the fortress of Kholat-l- Ghilzai, thon held by 2 British force, shut them up in it for five months, nnd annihilated one regiment of Ben- gal infantry, In attempting to carry the fortress by assault thoy wero finally re- pulsed, though thelr attack was mado with great skill and bravery, Subsequently, when Gen. Nott advanced from Candahar to Cabul, he found himself opposed by wandering bands of Qhilzals, who Inflicted great losses upon his foree, and when he returned, like Gen, Pollock, hnd to force hls way through, During the present campaign the Ghilzals haye proved themselves just os implacable foes to the English, and, though without general organization, have harassed them at every step, slain many officers and soldiers, and greatly prolonged the campnign, As to thelr recent operations, tho T'lmeca says: “ Gough, advancing in all haste to afford ald to his beleaguered chief, Js prossing through tho pnssos which we havo on four separate ocen- siona beon compelled to clonr before, Of his movementa wo Know nothing, except that ho renchod Bch Ituba on tho 22d, and was expected atCabul yesterday, The reson is not far to seuk,—tho cncemy bavo closed in on his rear, and, though we know not how It fares with our ad- vanulng culumn, wa do know that a hoavy ate tack, delivered yestorday afternoon on the Jag- dalak Kotal, was repulsed with heavy loss by Co}. Norman. Our own casualties wero slight; but in what wo hopomnay prove only tho tem- porury loss of tho scrviocs of Muj.‘Thuckeray, ‘wo aro doprived of tho valuablould of one of the best and bravest olticera of the Bongal En- winoors,—ono who, ut tho storming of Delhi, earned a Victoria Cross for what tho offictal dis- patch described as an uct of ‘cool intrepldity and characteristic daring,’ Theso attacks aro to bo expevtod; thelr only inconvenionce fs, that thoy cost valuable lives, and thoy tond to prolong the period during which communica- Uons with Cabul may be Interrupted, Tn fact, until Gun, Noberts fs enabled to fntiict u crushing defeat on tho enemy, and thoroughly to disporso tho masses which now hem hii in, wo must not hope for moro thun covuslonal scraps of infor ination from Cabul.” It nnist be remombored that the operations of tho Ghilzals hitherto in the campaign havo been confined to scattered bands harassing the English rear and flanks, If the news bo true that thoy huve now massed themselves into one compact column 23,000strong, under command of Muliwmed Jan, one of tho ablest of the Afghan clilefs, and thats second col- wn 20,000 strong Is coBperating with them, it places Gen, Roberts Ina very perilous po- sition, which ts rendered all the more crit- Jenl by the danger that the other tribes may “yluv again and cut off his communications, which he has just retstablished with great dificulty, bealdes preventing reinforcements from reaching him, With, ono column sur rounding him at Sherpur, and another clos ing in upon his line of retreat, it is ttle won- dor that the English people are growlng rest- less, and that the English press ls invelghing bitterly against tho polloy recently. adopted of shutting off the news from that country, ——— Ty the course of his remarks sgalnst Bay- ard’s bill to. demonetize and retire the legal- tender greenback money of the country, Ben> 1880), 23, and newspapers, tho Bourbons of Ilancock County have been wrought up to tho point of subverting the Inwsof tho State and tho Constitution of the United States by for- bidding not only the advent of any more colored cftizens of the United States {nto Indiana, but also the employment ns Inborers of the negrocs already there. In truo Ku-Ktux. fashfon they liave posted notices warning all pursons agninst harbor- ing or employing any of the colored mon and women who have latcly moved tnto that. locality, and to give emplinsis to the warn- Ing they are burning dawn the houses and barns of those who disobey the mandate, Soveral cases of this kind have alrendy oc- curred, and untess the State authorities of Indlana Interpose to protect the nerves and those giving them employment the Deimoc- taey of Hancock County will be able to defy the Inw and carry onthe reign of violonce and intimidation as successfully as thelr brethren in Yazoo and Kemper Counties in Mississippt have done, ator Beck, of Kentucky, jade an interesting statement, thuy reported: “In tho tari portion of his speech Meck de clared that tho St, Louis. Bessomer-stee! works arn reoalyiug $140,000 numinils for. eening thoir works closed ft tha Interest of tho Bessemer: atecl combination in Buropo, whiten ts making sone $23,000,009 mintually out of this country by tho tax of $23 per ton on miits,"" ‘The amount pald the Vulcan Steel Works by tho steel-anll! pool to remain tdle we had not before seen stated. If the pool can afford ta pay $140,000 n yearns subsidy to one of the steel mills in order that Ibmay not rminke alee, ft Is clear that.a tariff tax on tho public of $23 per ton ts not needed for any legitl- nialo protective purpose. Tho suoner that excessive tax is cut down one-half or two- thirds tho better {t will be for the country. Late reports from Panaina show that De Leaseps has gone through the ceremony of breaking ground for his tnteroceante canal, under the authority of the Republic of Co- Tombia, with tho backing of the Freneh peo- we and the blessing of the Church In the person of the Bishop of Pannina, ‘The sue- cess of the Sitez Canal presnges tho success of the Panamn Canal. Do Lesseps {5 not a man of theorles and words, but ® man of action, Whilo Admiral Ammen ond the American Congress are discussing the merits of the Nienragun project and the application of the Monroe doctrine, De Lesseps goes to work. Ho lias French moncy to start with, and that is all he needs, Ifo fs confident that, when lie shall have 20,000 or 0,000 men. at work digging and blasting, an abundance of money will be forthcoming from England and the United States to keep him going. Thu history of Suez Canal stock and the at- tractiveness of 6 per cent Interest pending the completion of the Panama Canal (even though paid out of the money subscribed) will se- cure beral subscriptions whenever the work shall be In actual and vigorous prosecution, Americans with money te Invest will not bo Influenced to withhold it by sentinental con- siderations when thoy shall ba convineed that the Panama Canal will be constructed, for all the world agrees that the enterprise will be profitable when once achieved. Tho distance across the fsthmus Is only forty-odd tnlles, and it will be level digging most of tho way. The engincering feats of the past few years warrant De Lessups’ couftdence In his ability to overcome the two great obstacles, —tho deep cutting through the mountains, and the danger of flood from the Chagres River, which he proposes to avert by turning tho waters Into another channel. Ho will Nave tho use of a rallroad already built, in- stead of being obliged to construct one ,na he did along the Sttez Canal, for thequick trans- portation of materials, men, and supplies. Alls past successes will assist him in his new undertaking, and the world’s commerce wilt sympathize with him, encourage and ald him, as tho agent who promises to secure quickest a practicable water-way betweon the Atlantis and Paclfic Oceans. ——_—_—_—— AMERICA'S INTEREST IN THE IRISH LAND-QUESTION. It ig not ensy to determing the prectse atti- tude of the New York Nutlon on the Irish question, In the Inst Issue of that Journal {teltes the signifeant comparison made by the London Timer betweon the prosperous people who Inhabit the Isinnd of Guernsvy. and own their farms, and the miserable, pov- erty-stricken ngricultural tenants of Lreland, and says there fs Httlo question “that the best remedy for Irish poverty is to be found tn the great multiplication of peasant freehold properties, and not by emigration, as many suppose? Yet, In its preceding issue, the Natlow had a long. article in which it took the ground that the Americans have little knowledge of, and still less tnterest in, tho Irish struggle for emanelpation from the Feudal land-system, It said: “To-day all tho leading Journals in the coun- try seom to unite In ridfouling or throwing oold water on the political part of Sir. Parnell's mis- sion, while ungraciously foreing on him, ovl- dontly much to his dissatisfaction, tho roloof a collector of contributions for tho relief of hun- gry pensantry, [The Nation moans by “all the lending journals in tho country"? the Now Yorlc Herald, the Nation, and two or threo other New York papers.) Thoy all declare that ho ought jo get plenty of monoy for this latter object, but none at alt to holp in effecting changes eithor in the political relations of Ircland tu Groat Brit- aln or in the Irish land laws, These things, thoy say, are tho aifatrof Englishmon and [rishinon tosottle between thomselves, and not tho affalr- of Americans, who do not understand thom and gre not on tho spot. Whethor a peasant pro- prictnry would be u good thing for Ireland, and, Ifso0, whut aro the best means of catublisting it, are questions with which Irishmon living in Iro- Jand must be held excluaively competent todeal; Af they are not competent, nobody ts.” ‘The Nation goes on In the same artlele to enlarge upon this thought, and would have Sts readers bellove that there Js as dense an ignorance among the American people con- cerning the Irish Iand-question as there is about’ the German “ Culturkampé,” and. also an utter indifference os to the final solu- tion of tha problem. 1t is, perhaps, char- neteristle of the Nation to imagine that tho knowledge of all affairs Is so completely monopolized ‘in its editorial sanctum that people outside that sacred precinct ‘are necessarily ignorant by comparison; never- theless, there fs a very general and very cor- rect understanding of Mr. Parnell's mission among the American people, and the New York newspapers sre not trustworthy ex- ponents of the provalling public opinion of this entire continont. ‘Tho contracted and prejudiced view which is. taken of American concern in the Irish Jand-questton by the New York journals is not warranted by tho relations betweon the Americans and Irish. Perhaps one-sixth of the people Ilving north of Mason and Dixon’s line are ejther Irish by birth or Irish by descent, A large proportion of the remaln- Ing population traces its origin back to En- gland and Scotland, where n feudal Innd- system much the same as that of Ireland prevails, Enstern and Northern Germany have Hkewlse contributed Inrgely to tho peopling of tho United States. All these people must be forgetful, ungrateful, or neculinrly reticent If they have not spread in this country a large amount of informa- tion concerning the hardships Incident ton national system of lesssholds and Iandlord- ism, and the people of America must have less intelligence than thoy are usually eredited with If they have failed to acquire n good notion of tho exsentini difference between Individual ownership and the sert- dom of tenantry at will, or, in other words, between the American system and the Irish system. It is ns Incorrect to say that the American people are indifferent to all. pliases of tho Irish question except immediate suffering from the famine as It is to say that they aro fgnorant of the whole question. There are two elreumstances which give the Amer- Jeans a direct concern in Irish land-reform os advocated by Mr, Parnell, and both affectthe nintorial prospority of this country. 1, The Tory remedy for distress among the Irish tenants js emlgration, ‘That is to say, tho Trish landlords would dump upon the American eltles all the tinpecuntous peo- ple of Ireland who can no longer pay rack- rent. ‘They would first take from the ten- aut-fnrmers every ponny the latter had been ableto earn, then pack them naked Jn the steerage of tha ocean-steamers, and dump thom in New York penniless, for distribution among the towns and celtics of this country, The Amerlean people are In- terested in defenting this nefarlous scheme, ‘Ihe. prosperity of those who llvein tho United States, ‘as well as those who shall come here to lve In the future, demands that the immigrants who have been agricultural laborers abroad shall bring with thom suflelent means at least to Joente small farms in Amerlea, and resume here, under the more favorable conditions of ownership In fee, the pursuit to which the habits of o Hfctime have fitted them, But emigration from Ireland under such cireum- stances $s Impossible so long as the exactions of Irish landlords shall keep the agricult- ural Inborers of that country In a conil-* tlon of chronle pauperism. Emigration may be the proper escape for ® surplus pop- ulation in Ireland, but a frecholding system would prepare entigrants for self-support and progress In thelr new homes, which would not bo possible under the Tory theory, 9. Another circumstance which gives the American people a direct interest in the Par- nell project for land-roform Jn Ireland 1s to be found Inthecontinual contributions toviodt upon this country to satlsfy the rapacity of tho Irish Jandlords. ‘Tho Irish who come to the United States, and perforce enter upon domentio servico In the cities and towns tun- stead of seeking Httle homes and farms of thelrown, exhaust tholr savings and keep themselves puor by sending thelr money buck to thelr fathers and mothers, brothera aid sisters, and other relutives, ‘This monoy Is sent us a charity te people whom the gend- ers know to be poor and In distress, but lt fu these contributions which enable the, land- jords to keep up thelr rents, ‘There isa con- stant drain upon the earnings of the Irish In America to the extent of millions upon mill fons every yyar, and the money goes into the pockets of tho landlords, ft enables the ten- ants to pay thelr rent ond retain their leases, or else It supplies the bure necessitles of life when rent-exactions have reduced the ten- ants to aetual want. In addition to these regular contributions, perlodicul appeals are made to the American people to rend money aud supplics to Lreland for the relief of na- ————— Anour the time the American Revolution broke out—In 1775--n committee of the Contl- nental Congress drafted an appeal to the peo- we of Ireland setting forth American gricv- ances against. Britlsh rule and asking for Irish sympathy and support for the redress ofthe sane. This address or appeal of tho Americans to Ireland we print elsowhere, as iisa precedent that justifies the appeal of Ireland to the Americans at present, repre- sented by Messrs. Parnell and. Dillon; besides {t fs an interesting Kevoluttonary remints- cence, It is to the everlasting honor of the Irish that they refused to volunteer Into the English army to fight the Americans, The few Irish soldiers In tho British army took the earllest opportunity to desert as soon as thelr feet touched American soil; the En- Blish officers quickly discovered that no de- pendence whatever- could be placed on tho Irish among their troops, ns they desert- edat every opportunity. It fs not known that any of the few Irlsh soldiers fired low enough to hurt anybody in the patriot armies, Tho Britlsh Government felt com- pelled to purchase Tessinn and othor Ger- man soldiers from the little tyrant Princes that then ruled the Rhine States of Germany. Frederick ‘the Great, King of Prussia, per- emptorily refused to sell any soldiers for tho base purposes of British tyranny. Most of these German mercenaries were taken pris- oners by Washington's troups or deserted to the American lines, and afterwards settled in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and thelr de- seendants occupy large portions of the soll of those States, New England and North Caro- Ina were full of refugee Presbyterian Irish who ded from British religious and political persecution to America, and paid back the British with Interest in the battles of the Revolution from Concord to Yorktown, as tho historian Froude ‘confesses, —_———— THE RAILWAY-TRANSPORTATION BILL. There is astrong array of rallrond attor- neys at Washington opposing the passage of the Reagan bill, Worefer to .the attorneys who are not members of either branch of Congress. ‘The lawyers are reaping a rich harvest. Tho monopollsts who are controll- ing the rail transportation of the country are able to pay well, Forty-five cents per 100 pounds on lower-class freight between Chi- Tn recent promotions, changes, and trans- fers in our diploinatic service as a rile are very excellent; but is not Secretary Evarts elaiminga Uttle too much credit for Clvil- Service reform In thls matter? Ins not the reform beon carried out undor compulston ? Our Washington dispatches have already re- ported that at the time the Russian and En- glish misstons were vacant nn effort. was mae to fill them after the old-thno fashion of political favoritism, but no one could be found to take them, Tho offices fairly went begging, which is not usually the custom of offices. The English mission {s so expensive that millionalres only can take it with safety to their Individual fortunes. The Russian mission also isa very undesirable onc. The Court Is very cold. Tho climate is very cold. The Government is very unsocinl, and tho diplomatie representative always feols very much fn the condition of tho eat In the strange garret. ‘There is not a word to be sald nguinst the transfors that have beon made, Mr, James Russell Lowell gocs from Spain to England, Tho Ion. John W. Fos- ter, of Indiana, goes from Mexico to St Petersburg. Both these gentlemen are ex- eallunt representatives of the country, and will do it credit. They will both Jump from agalary of $12,000 to $17,500, and will tind no diMtculty In spending the whole of if. Pro- vided, tharefure, the ono doesn’t become a bankrupt, and the other dic of weariness and neglect, thoy will do good service for thelr Government, Itis hardly just, however, to credit Socretary Evarts with any special glory asa Civil-Servico reformer beenuse he Jans filled these offices so oxcellently, when It oventuntes that there was no other way to fillthom. At lenst it would be prudent to walt and aeo the fato of the new representa- tives before any ono Is credited with the glory of their appolntmente. fund from which to employ: the best legal talent of the country. Tho men who con- trol £4,000,000,000 of debt and so-called enpital stock of railroad property in the United States will spare no expenditure to perpotu- ate thelr monopoly, which fs now consoll- dated, Tho fact ts, the rallroad compantes have declared open war against the produet- ive labor of the country, Tho American people are only protected by those who are Representatives and Senators in Congress; they have no money toexpend to hire special advocates and secure the Inbors of the legal ability of the country, These attorneyshava assailed the hulls of Congress, they keep up an incessant warfare upon the Legislature, and seek to crush the only measuro of Na- tional Icgistation proposed during the last ten years in the Interests of the American peo- ple, Allthe roads to market, every high- way on which producers can move their products to market, or over which they can receive oxchange commodities, have been seized; tolls are not only demanded, but also such tolls as equal the value of the goods to be curried. At every cross-rond a new levy 1s made; theenrsareopenedand thelrcontents confiscated to pay the so-called rates of enr- ringe. ‘The manager of one trunk railway recently boasted that, by an addition to the rates of frelght, that trunk Ine had In four months added $56,000,000 to the value of its capltal stock, ‘The Constitution gives to Congress the power to regulate, control, and govern the transportation business of the country. ‘The courts have aflirmed the power of Congress to exercise this direct grant of authority, From the enormous and now consolidated monopoly the people have appealed to thelr representatives In Congress to exercise this power and to put un end to the systematic scheme by which n sinall junta of persons In ‘Wall street now plunder the Industry of the country by the wholesale confiscation of the merchandise placed in their hands for trans- portation. : Mr. J. F. Wilson, of Towa, one of the bri- gade of rallrond attorneys now engaged In reslating any legisiation on this subject, in one of his speeches innde 9 point that it the Dill should pass {¢ would injure the buainess of Chicago, becauso It would enubio tho Chi- engo, Burlington & Quincy Railrond to plun- der the Roce’ Island Rallrond, The polnt was extremely technical, and as weak ay it was technical, If the bill should pass, the Rook Island Company will undoubtedly find the means to protect Itself against any other competing company; so Congress should lose no sleep because of any fears on that polnt, nor because of any fears lest Chicago should lose any of her business, Let the bil! pass; Jot tha Inw be enacted, and Iet the experience of tino develop such {mperfectlons as may be remedied by future amendment, Chicago owes nothing to the justice, for- bearance, or honesty of tho'rallways. Ohlea- go has at her door the grand highway of tha lnkes, To that highway she owes her great- ness; iteannot be monopolized, and agalnst that cheap route for transportation are dl- teeted the whole enorgies of the railway syu- tem. Even tho raflways running west of Chicago combine.to divert business from this city, Thoy will ship grain from lowa to New York at rates which will give them only balf or two-thirds tho fare per inilo for thelr shure of the route of whut they de- inand per mile for bringing it to Chlengo. ‘They prefer to haul graln from auy potnt west as far ag Chicago on {ts way East, for 10 cents per bushel, while to. bring it to Chicago direct they will demand 15 or 18 conta per bushel, In. like manner they charge more per ton for hauling mer- chandise west from Chicago than they receive for hauling merchanlisy’ over thelr roads, when shipped at the Enst, Wero It jot for the lukes and cheap water-tranaportation, the rallways would imake Chicago a Tere way-statlon, So lowg os the lakes continue to-exist, and so Jong as thelr navigation is left free, Chicago will continuc In the future, as she has In the past, able ta defy {he railroad combinations, and go on doubling her trade year after year, The people have the remedy In their own hands. Anasppeal from a weal Congress, A Wasionaton dispatch says tho scene inthe United Statca Senate while Mr, Morrill, of Vermont, was delivering his address upon the rato of Interest at which the Natlonal debt should be rofunded was bhurdly complimontary to tho spenkor, and somowhnt surprising to those unucquaintod with the ways of this body, ‘There werv Just ten Senntors who pald nttontion to Mr.-Morrill, and nearly nll of these snton tho Republican sido, Tho remaining Senutors on both aldes were busily onguxed In roading or writing, or wore roaming about, talking with cach other and with visitors whom thoy chanced tomeot, The confusion was so grent that tho préalding oilicer had to frequently cult to order, A correspondent remarks that thoro used to be a dignity about its procecdings that in these days Is nover scen,and that the dlsregurd for the proprietics which suoh u body should observe has boon constantly increasing during tho Inst decndo, Thoso who yisit the Capitol for tho first time look down from the galleries upon tho House as thoy would upon a bear-garden, and wonder ‘how business can bo transacted in a body which some are pleasod to etyle a woll- drogsed mob, But they do not expect to find thnt those who benr the honored titles of Son- ntors of the United States conduct thir doe Uborations in almost as eurdless a manner, Mn, Epwarp Atkinson, of Boston, who ig now Speciul Agent of the Consus Bureau, has obtalned somo information of interest to cotton manufacturers in relation to the fuvorablo offect of a humid atmosphere upon the product of looms. Consul Staw writes him from Sfan- chester that bo fs convinced thoru 18 a great deal in tho question of humidity in the manufactur. ing of cotton, and that ft fs fur more tinportant than our peoplo appreciate, Tho great suceces of the cotton manufacture in the north of En- gland he thinks largely duo ,to tho provalling molat atmosphere: “Tio tranamnits a lotter from Monchestor milt-owner, who says that his experionce shows Ubutinthe mutter of weaving thoro Is, in dry weather, vapociully 1f exst winds and frost pro- vuil, a loss Of 5 Ree cont in tho amount produced, and of au additional 6 per cent cuuyed 2, faulty gud Hyht pieces of cloth. Mr, Bhaw thinks tho toss ingpinning t8 equal to that in weaving. Bir, Atkinson writes that the position tuken by the Engliah manufacturers causot by eustulned in this country, and that if a variation In product |, reuchos 5 per vont, somathing besides the weath- or needs attention. He thinks, howeyor, that a molst Atmosphere fs unquestionably favorable to bath spinulog and weaving, and apeukd of un Jogentous invention for Koopa up tho desired bumnidity which bus lately been introduced li soveral of tho best American intita. Siinlinr de- vices have been tried In England, hut havo been abandoned because thoy daingened tho clothing oF the spemtlvos and brought on rhoumatic 4 ‘Tre compiler of tho Wisconsin Blue Book for 1880, which ja tho nume of tho Legislative munual, has boen collecting tho facts in regard to tho nowspnpors printed fn that Stute, somo of which are curlous ag weilas Juteresting. The returns show that there ure 2v3 vowspapers printed in Wisconsin, of whith only soventeen aro dailice, U7 wooklics, eight scini-wooklics, and thirtecn monthiles, Qf tho dullios, palitice ally, ten are Republican, va Domvorstic, one Independent, and ono Socialist. Of tho weeklica, 210 are Nepublican, sixty-ning Demoomtlo, fours toon Greenback, and forty Indopendent, There \ ‘4 aro clovon religtous papers, tires tompornanes, fwo humorous, eleven Mtornry, four educa- onal, four legal, ono agricultural, and ono musical, Thirty-three are priuted in tho Gere man tanmungo, four in tho Norwegtan, and one in tho Bohemian, Asto ‘titles, thoro isn arent variety offered, Blghtean nrv called Times, thir toon Journal, twelve Preas, twolve News, olght Herald, soyen Port, alx Gazette, Ave Aryus, Cour Courter, and four Tribtne, Thoro nro fourtoon that fly tho namo of Republican na indica- tive of thole potitteal creed, and fourteen Demoerat for tho samo reason, Some of thom bave odd titles, mich as Telephone, Phontogravh, Stenograph, Speetroseope, Chrmo- te, and tho liko, Then thore is tho Sentinel, tho Shicld, the Banner, the Watchman, the Quard, tho Outlook, the Torch of Liherty, and so on, to remind tho readar that those papera nro looking: out for tho Hbertles of the people, Tho sharpest fellows In the business nro supposed to be tho editors of tho Spike and the Stckle, As the com= pller Is dealing with tho present and not with the past, ho omits all montion of tho various nowspiper ontorprisos that havo lived and dicd in Wisconsin during tho Inat twenty-five years, In that time moro than 1,000 papers have been “started,” and, faillng to meot tho oxpoctations of cithor thelr foundors or tho public, speedily: woupthe ghost. As the antiquarian delves among tho ruingof nowspaperdom he will atum- blo on this fact: that the shortest-llved news- papors goncrally wero thoso’ that selected ‘an cal name, mich as tho Batile-Cry of Mreedom, tho Day of Jwlyment, tho Irrepressibie Confitct, the Afidnight Cry, and tho like. Thoso with plain names secm to thrive the best. ‘Tit Peorla Transcript presenta tho namo of tho Hon. Henry W. Wolls, of that alty, for tho Attorney-Genenushtp, No hottor name has yot been suggested for that office. Mr. Wolls would make a must excellent Attorney-Gonoral, Tho Trensoript gives this briof sketoh of him: “Atmang the numes which have been pro- sonted on the Repubilcan side for Attorney- General of tho State of Mlinols, nono strikes us moro favornbly than that of Maj. ict Wells, of this clty. Although he was not born in tho State, bo has been a vealdont of it alnco he wna 6 yeara of a and can thorefore be put down agitgenuine Hilnolsan. Like muny othor enndldutes Cor ollico on the Republican side, tho Major “his an oxeellent: war record, having served through the Robelllon ns Major of the One Hundred and Cwollth Minois Voluntecr Ine fantry. Up to that thine he hid resided at Cam- bridge, Henry County, where he was Snead in the practico of tho Inw, Tho War closed, ho enme to Poorta nnd resumed the practice of hia profession, which he has followed evor sineo, except that perlod of his service in the Convons tlon whieh framed the present Constitution of the State, wherd he won n very creditable dis tinetion. Maj. Wolls is u wood lawyer, well fitted for the position ho aspires to, [an thorough Te- wblicun, and svitl do credit to the ofice, The Republican party of tha State will do honor to itself In selecting him for tho place, nnd he will in turn dy honor to thom and to the ollice.” Speanto of the damage done to private property by the elevated raflways in Now York, the Nation says: “Tbero has probably nover been 2 more high- hauded proceeding ina elyilized. and, faw-goy- erned community than the hpnropriition of tho streets of this elty by the Elevated Itnilrond Companies for thelr tracks and stations. The Ines rity inal tho streeta on a level with tho second or thin? story windews—on one line closa to tho windows. Inamuny places they seriously diminish the light. ‘The noise is ineeseant, and suilicient, expooinlly in Aummer, to make con- yersation tn tho front rooms of houses dificult. In one street in tho upper part of the sty, whieh Js narrow and oceupied solely by divelling- houses, the value of tha property has been low- ered over one-half by tho construction of tho railroad. Tho companies, which nre enormously profitable, lve recused ‘compensation, on the ground that the bed‘of tho streeta Is not the property of the householders, having been ceded to tho elty for street purposes, und thoy contend that the construction of 1 steam mitropd 1s legitimnte street purpose, whether the orfginal cession to the elty contemplated it or not. The cuso [3 now before the courts, we do not know with whut chanco of success, but tho tmount of money tnvolred fs enormous, and if the decision should go against tho rallronds {t would scrious- ly lower the valuo of their shares.” renee Rerty1ne to the State Reylster’a question, “Where docs Military-Governor Chambertatn, of Maino, get his Gubornatorint and Judicial authority, auyway ?" ‘Tie Carcagh ‘TuouNe, of yeaterdny, eiys: “Gon, Chamberlain gots lls authority from Gov, Gurcelon, and his appoint- ment has not been revoked.” But Tim Trip- Uxz should remembor that Gov. Gurcelon’s ap. polntment conferred upon Gen. Chumbertaln nefther Gubernatorial nor judicial power, both of which he hna assumed authority to oxcrolse, Chamberlain was sppolntod simply iis, Com. mander-in-Chief of tho * corn-statk nulitia of Muine,—State Register. “ + Tho Register makes assertions without belng able to prove thom. ,Gen. Chamberlain did not attempt to perform any “ Gubernntorlal or ju- alcial"’ function, that we know of, oxcopt what tho appointment of Gh. Garcolon tegally clothed tim with and necessarily involved. No person whose opinion fs worth n fig neeusce him of overatopping tho mits of his authority. Ho noted throughout the trying ordeal with eool- ness, polltenoss, courage, and good sonse, Tho “authority” that hurts tho Ieqlater most of all was his refusal to reoognize tho protender and fraud Smith as the lexnt Governor, To New York Eventng Post 1s the an- thority for the statement that “tho preaent ne- tivity in reul-cxtate circles is so yreat that experienced dealers do not hesitate to decluro that it hus never befaro buon equaled, Good Judges nasert that since Jnast Octover there has been an avernge general Jncronse of 30 per cent in tho yalue of city property. Tho healthy char noter of this revival in real estate ia shown by tho fanta that In mobt recont transfors tho wholo Price has been pald in cash, and that second miortgngvs have became practienlly obsolete.” It eltes numorous sules of business and real dence property that havo been recently mado at prices never before obtained for lata similarly situnted, Rapld transit has practically brought up-town real estute muoh nearer to the heurt of tho olty, and tho recent purolnse by Mr. John Jacob Astor, for $419,000, of 100 acres of lund in BMotrosy, {8 an indication of the extent to which this Iniluonce {3 Impressed, —_—_——_ ‘THERE aro somo bad places In New York og woll ag in Chicago. A disreputable danco- hougo and drinking establishment was rilded by tho polico on Saturday night, and neurly 900 pore Bons of both soxes wor arrested and locked up overnight aud brought the noxt morning before amagisteate, Some were fned, but tho most of thom got off with an admonition. ‘The pluco was licensed, but the proceedings had hecomo so disorderly that {t was thought best to break it up. Some of the newspupers protest ayainat arresting auch 4 promiscuous crowd of people, innocent and gullty uliko, beeause they wero found {nan eatabllahment that was regulorly Mconsed by the elty authoritlog, and whose pouctices haye been known to tho police for years, Porbups tho ownora of the ranch bad rofused or negiccted to puy tholr reyularnsecss- menta Into tho priyato police fund, Tim Cairo Bulletin says that the latest schomo fo swindle tho unsophisticated farmer is tho taking of tho census. A woll-drosgod, gon tlomanly fellow drives up to tho furm-house for statistics of tuo farm,—bushols of wheat, nume ber of cattle ralsod, acres undor cultivation, ete. Betweon tho tubloa and tho foot of tho page, where tho farmer aligns bis name attesting tho atatumont, is w blunk space, whose oxlutenco is accounted for as affording room for miscel- Jnncous information. Ina month more tho farm- er reovives notice from a nelgbboring bank that bis note for $160 is duc. Ha knows nothy ing of the note, but inveatigution shows that tho ‘census-tuker” his fillod in tho blank with 4 promiso to puy, whieh, boing now In tho bands of an (nnocent bolder, muat bo paid by tho un- Jucky dupe. | Mu. BLAINE 6 be guining ground rapidly tn Pennsylvania, if tho. Philadolphis Frees ty to bo bolleved, which sayat Dluine ap- pears to bo haying a ‘boom! throughout the counties of Pennaylyaniu. He ts capturing county after county and district after district, and this not through the power of orguuizution or the avtivity of politicians, but by the sponte noous action of the peoplo, who manifest 5 pure pose to redress the yreut wrong which, by the successful burgulnings and combinations of pos Aitical schumners in 1874, wos done hiin and them in Cincinnati. Unless tho ‘third-torm' sonti- mont should begin goon to show Itself, it may bo asked whothor {t cxista atall, At prosont it ap- poans to bo dormant," 3 aoe Or the new. postofiices that during. the year 1870 became Prealdential oifices bocauso tho receipts ure over $1,000 and the President ap- polnta tho Postmaster, Kansas gains twenty- two, New York and Michiyan fourteen each; and Mlugls ton, —_— ‘Sure negro. exodus will be much greater than ever during the yoar 1880. Eloven hundred and twonty-five left North’Gurolina for Indldna and Kausas during tho ‘Inst throo mouths of 1879, 128 followed thom from Goldsboro New, “s Day, and George T. Wasson, tho colored Republlenn lawyer who Is trying to porannds his coplato give up tholr nation, estimates thy 000 will go from Wayne aud Johnston Couns ties, North Carolina, thts month, B00 feom pp, County, and 1,690 from Green County.—nil trop territory right about Goldsboro. Tho Tefpoes from Miasiasippl and Lousiana nro reaching gy Teowis 150 {nn lot, and Laure 8 Mavoland, oeree tary of tho Kansna Freedmen’s Rettet Associ, tlon, reports the daily arrivule-in that Btato ay the way froin twonty five to 1,000. . It tookangiy tho stampede of enlored emigrants would by quite genarat all over the Houthorn States Many local pupers in the South pretend toloog with Indifference upon tho exodus, holling thy they will be supplied with a better class of whitg Inborors instend of the colored Tu Michigan Lenlslature will be en, grosacd nt the next acselon with & proposttion ty divide tho State, Tho upper peninsula ts cut og from tho budy of the Ktato by Lake Michigan, and n largo number of its Mhabitants wouldty better accommorated by being attached to Wig, consin, or organized Into a Btato by themsotyes, ‘Tho territory ts groatcr than most of tho Now England States, und tho population {8 much Intgre than of many of tho States that have recent: ly been ndinitted into the Union.” Tho questiog of Isolation from the main portion of tho state {a one argument adduced In favor of the separ. ton, and tho other fs the diverse and antagonh, tle Intercats of tho {nhabltunts of tho two sg tons, a ‘Tre coal-miners’ strike 1s getting to hes serious uifalr in Pennsylvanian, and n coal faming in imminont. It extonds all through the regio, of tho Monongahela and Mahoning Valleys, and tong the tno of the Pan-fandle, Baltimore ¢ Ohto, and Pennsylvania Rattronds, and ts felt ty ‘be particularly seyere Jn Pittsburg and vicinty, A fow wooks ago thore were millions of bushel, of coal In that clty awaiting shipment, but now ft {3 so searcu that prices have advanced from y to Ueentsa bushel. The fron mills that ay crowded with orders,and have been runny night and day, will soon bo obliged to suspend operations on necount of the lack of fuel. Som of the milts aro closed alread, RAmnoap companies will do well to tae notico that tn tho case of McLaron va, Tho Can ada Contril Rutlway Company, recently tried tg Michigan, the platutif? was awarded damnges t tho amount ot $100,000. In this caso the sparks from the locomotive, which carried a ilefecting bonnet, Bet fire to the lumber piles of tho plain if, which were consumed thereby, and damages were awarded by the jury for tho larxo amount mentioned. -Porsons iving on Hnea of rail. way, Whose buildings and fences are Mable to be destroyed by fire from engines, a8 well os tho railrond companies that are to bo called on to foot tho bills, will be Intorested fn the deelston, —— Pronta, Ill, Jan. 10.—A petition Is helng circulated here and algned by everybody, ask. Ing Congress to approprints n sum of inon sulllelent to_ereet sultable Govornmont Hue ings here. Peorfa pays over a million dollan every month to tho Governinent, and Is certalaly entitled to. some consideration. Tho million of dollars hero referred to, of course, means the whisky tax. Thogeneral mul is that tho consumer pays the tax. 1a it possible that the peoplo of Peoria drink whisky to an exe tent that requires a million of dollars a month to pny tlo Government excise thoreon? If s, they are certainly ‘ ontitied to somo considerae tion.” Tite New York World reads Senators Beck and Voorhees out of tho Democratic party bes cause thoy deom it inexpediont to destroy tha legal-tender quality of tho greonback at tha present time. Tho World had better go slow with tho reading-out process, Ita party west of tho Alleghenics and south of Mason and Dixon'é line would de complotely decimated If that rulo should obtain. Mr, Thurman, Gon. Ewing, Mr Iendricks, and Mr. Pendleton will probably bo found holding tho samo optolons of Beck ant Voorhees, if tha Work will tate tho trouble ta Ond out. ‘Tire Grant men in Pennsylvania are dally being asked what thoy think of tho following resolution pnssod by the Hepublican Stato Con vention In 1875: “That wo declare a firm, unquallficd adher ence to tho unwritten law. of the Republic, which wiscly, and undor tho sanction of the most venerable pf, axuinples, Jimjts-zho Presidential service of any cltizen to two terms, and we, the Republicans of Ponusylvaula, in recognition of this taw, are unniterably: Suposod to tho election y ny person to tho Prealdenoy for a third rine” Tne Belvidere (Ill) Northwestern says that tho Town of Manchester {s ontitled to tho pulm for ratsing bors hoge, Messra., A. Bloke, E. Hinkloy, and A, H, Manloy sold a lot of bogt that avoruged about -450 pounds apiece. Tho henytest lote wero Hinkloy's and Blako's. Hink« loy had ninctoon hogs (about one-half of which yore not quite 11 months old) that wolghed 8410 pounds, an average of 4H. Blako sold soven that welghed 4,270 pounds, an average of 610 pounds onch, the three heaviest weighing 6), 060, and 700. ee ‘Tre Evening Journal denies 9 report 16 has heard, that. parties in Now York aro nogotl+ ating for ita purchnéo for tho purpose of con- vorting {t Intoa Democratic pupor, Tho editor says“ thore is not 2 word of truth in tho report” On its face tho story {6 nn absurdity. Whatdo the Democrats want of two Democratic ovening papersin Chicago? Thoy now have ono and half of nnothor evening paper, and that ought toeutlefy them in sunset Journalism. Tire Maagac Journal, a Republican paper of Southern Tiinols; gays the Hon, Joba I ‘Thomas, the proaont Incumbent, is tho only man thought of for Congress from tho Eighteeath District, Itsays: “He isa good Ropublican, o young man.of marked ability, and will win {a tho ensuing race.” If any Republican can bo elected from that district it {a Capt, Thomas, Whew the winter is so mild ‘in Chicago that house files aro un annoyance in tho midi of Junuary, it is timo to nppeal to Old Probar bilities to furnish a section of a polar wavo for faunily use. Rerennxa to the mild winter on this sidé of the Atlantic, tho New York Stn says tho tne coming steatnors report tho coldest and storml+ est passages thoy huve known for yoars, ——— Tint Stark County Herald says nobody noed passa sleeploss night ovor Gon, Hawloy'd candidacy, a8 ho * can't come within two rows of opple-trees of tho numination.” ‘CONONESEMAN Mommisoy, of Tllinols,’ ts named by the Now York HWorldnsa suitable cam didaty for tho Presidency. Tim: Galesburg Register favors the nomk nation of Col. Carr for Governor. PERSONALS. ‘Wendell Phillips is worth $150,000, whieh {a moro than Xantippo mado at. tho ausne bust ness, : George Alfred Townsend has a book in pross untitled, * Talos of tho Chesapeake.” Any person fuding a true atory in this work will please guy 80, ? ‘The San Francisco Inwyer who broke Mr Lick's will on behalf uf the doceagod man's s08 Jobn bas sucd tho luttor for #140,000, Hoork dently wants to breuk John also, ‘Thomas Purr is often roferred to as having lived to un ago attainod by no othor mania modorn times, byt Abraham Jobnson, a resldoat of Scrantun, Pa.; died recently, aged 108 year which was clght above par. * The Boston Herald says that Miss Sara O Jowott, the author of “ Deephaven," 18 very Protty, Quito likely, but what the people are anxious ubout Just now ts to know where the “bh in hor front namo has gone to. Tho Duke of Argyl, in ils book on Amer fea, expressea his entire approval of Ningara Falls, and regards thom ag onoof tho wonders tho world, it’s Jucky for tho old: creck that the Duke didn't order it Mlod up before leaving thé country. . Even Queen Victoria has hud a touch of tho alurm so provaltent among savorelgns lately, and bas ordered that Inspevtor Fruser, thé guardian of public order In Hydo Park, sball be attached to her guite and wcoumpany hor ou hor journeys, Princeton Colloge Is to have a new chapel, ta cost $100,000, From the performances of the bigbly cducatod young mon at Princeton during tho past two yoars, wo should judge that por tlon of the money might bo profitably expended in building a first-class lock-up *