Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1880, Page 4

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Bixtoen Iago Paper TRIBUNE BRANCIL OFFICES, THE CiicAco THINUKK has aatabtished branch offices for tho receipt of subscriptions and ndvertise- mente ns fallows: NEW YORK—Room 2 Tribune Bullding. F.'T. Mo FApbEN, Manager, PAIS, France.~No. ‘H, MALE, Agent. LONI Eng~Amerienn Exchange, 49 Htrand. Hexny F. Gitta, Agent. j WASDING'TON, D, 1329 F streot. Tuo de Is Grango-Batolora, AMUSEMENTS, * MeVicker's Theatre. Madison streot, botwwoen Dearborn und State. En mngement of Mr, Gus Williams, “Our Germau Son- ator.” > Maverty's Thentre. Dearborn street, cornar of Monrve, Engngment of Mr. Maurice Grau’a French Opern Company. “ Barbe Bieuo." dame Hootey’s Thentre. - } Randolph streot, between Clark and La alle, En- Radementof Miss Dickio Lingard. “Los Fourchan~ bault" Olympie Thentre. Clark stroct, between Randolph and Lake. Engage- Mucnt of Goorge Learuck. “hilly Gurdon, Mflner,’* 4 Homtn's Thentre. * _ Clark atreot, between Washinwton and Randolph. ;, Engnyeinent of Mr, Frank Chanfmu, “Kit, the Are 5) kginons N'ravolor.” a f FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1890. i + Anorri E, Bontr, Secretary of the Navy :, in President Grant's first Cabinet, and a companion of the ox-Prestdent ns faras India {du his travels around the world, died in Phil- , adelphia yesterday, aged 71, + ‘Tn remains of a young Indy, Miss Dolly © Hiartnan, a Pittsburg High-School pupll, are " to bo reduced to ashes at Dr, Le Moyne’s . erematory to-morrow. It was her particular dealre when In full health that such should be tho disposition made of her mortal remains, By tho verdlet rendered yesterday by a iG jury In the United States District Court the + Home National Bank is held responsible for * the fans belonging to the Post-Uftice depos- ce dted. in that bank by Gen. McArthur while Postinester and by him drawn out and used for his pyivate purposes. ‘Che verdlet against the bank fs for $21,225, and Its effect ts to re- { Heve MeArthur's bondsmen to that extent of ; thelr Hability for ils misappropriation of Governinent funds. en + ‘Turspay’s telegraphic news teeined with ;, Munerous and pecullarly shocking instances * of suicide, while that of Wednesday bristled with erlmes of the most horrible description, Fire took its turn yesterday ns the destruc- ' tive agency, the deaths of nine colored peo- + plein South Carolina and twelye Chinamen in San Franelsco belng -recorded. In tho Jatter {ustance oplum fs belleved to have been the prime cause of the catastrophe, the victims being so stupefied ns to be unable to + Bayo themselves from the flames, it {. THE lltnols Supreme Court has rendered i Adeclsion, the text of which is given in our ‘. columns this morning, in the ense of the Cook County Commissioners ys. ‘The County ‘Treasurer, being a petition for a mandanus to compel the ‘I'reasurer to comply witha reso- . lution of the Board providing for tho invest- | ment of Idle funds in Cook County bonds. « The Court holds that there is no rightful au- thority in the County Board to make such an order of Investment, and the petition for a mandamus is therefore denidd. —_—_— ‘Tine admirable auxiliary accommodations provided in connection with the new Central Musle-lHall were Inst evening opened to the dnspection of the musical societies of the city, for whese comfort and conventence provision Nas beon made ona scale pronounced supe- rlor to the arrangements of any institution of the kind da America. In grateful and i graceful recognition of the valuable aid Mr, .,, Curpenter has recelyed from Mr. NK. Fal. + bank, of this city, In the work of providing i/ Chicago with this beautiful hone of music, tho smaller auxtllary auditorium, construct- ed for the use of chamber concerts, has been christened Fairbank Mall. Ir has been evident for somo time past that tho Keiltucky Penttentlary ts altogether too small to contaln the number of porsons who ought of right to be sent there, but It has re- malned for a Legislative Investigating Com- nilttee to show not only that the prison Is too sinall for the number already there, but that its management and sanitary-condition are horrible almost beyond hellef, Overcrowd- ing, defective sewerage, want of cleanliness, { and the lack of proper food for the epn- * -ylets has led to s shocking provatence of y scurvy, the horrors ot which have been i augmented by barbarous floggings and In- ¥ suficlont clothing and bedding, ‘tho state of 4] things In Kentucky's penal Institution Is about as loathsome as It could by made If Dr. Wluckburn, the colebrated yellow-fevor sclentist, had a contract to introduce disease. among the convicts by means of infected * clothing. In hia statement yesterday before tha Nlouse Committee on Ways and Means, Mr, . Bamuel M. Felton, President of the Bessemer Stee! Association, had some trouble in mak- ing o lucid explanation of the arrangement by which the Vulean Works at St, Louls Was kept ito for the benefit of the rematn- ing steel manufacturers of the country, who ‘contributed “ubout $70,000 a year” upon the ‘ condition, a8 expressed by Mr, Felton, that _ the Vulean was to remain idle until the other milJ-uwners permitted a resumption of opera: , fons, It took some clreumlocution for Mr, Felton to xet down to the simple fact that the Vulcan people were patd to keep thelr fires out, but under the close questioning of Mr. Carlisle, a mem- ber of the Committee, ho was finally led up fo a defiult statement to that effect, Mr, . fitorrs, of Chicago, who appeared ag the at- _ torney of the Chicago steel-manufacturing duterest, went a little too far in denying that pny of the great trunk Nunes were asking for a reduction of the duty on ateel rails, and ‘was corrected by a statement from the Chal a, Sao ee, sng the Pacific rallrond companies, all the South- ern compantes, and many Northern and Kastern companies had mneiortals before the Committee asking for the reduction of duty. ee Tiere was a break In the pork market yesterday, prices declining fully 50 cents per barrel, making a drop of 60 cents since 'Tues- day evening. The stock of pork here fs estl- mated to exceed 200,000 barrels,~un enor- mous quantity as compared with anything in the shape of past supplics or a future de- mand for tho article, This, with larger re- ecipts of hogs yesterday, broke the market; and lard and meats wero also weak in sym- pathy, though the stocks of {he Intter are relatively small, ‘Tho graln markets wero steadier, though they were somewhat de pressed by the weakness in provisions, Our receipts of grain aro now small, belng kept down by the fact that tho elevators havo very little spare room. Tire utmost promise for Ireland that can be gathored from the Queen’s speech at tho opening of Parliamentis that of some scheme fer rellef of those actually suffering from starvation by an application of funds to bo secured by advances on church property, The acheme Js vague to the Ainerlenn reader, and at the best indicates that the Tory Gov- ernment thus far contemplates no greater concession to the Irish tenantry thau tha actual considerations of humanity dictate, and proposes, If possible, to make Ireland sustain In tho future the burden of present relief, The Irish question will very speedily assume more formidable proportions In Partia- ment than the Queen gives it in Ianguage— “That keeps the word of promise to our car Aud breaks It to our hopo,” REFERRING to the action of the Harrisburg Convention, the proceedings show that the majority of the Republican people are disin- clined to run the risk of a third-term Prest- dential campaign, and, pushing aside the mantpulntions of Don Cameron, It would ap- penr that the choice of n grent majority of the Republican yoters of that State Iles be- tween Blaine and Washburne, with a numer {eal preference for tha former.. The Repnb- Neans of Pennsylvania would evidently en- Joy voting for both Blaine and Washburne for President, Jf that were possible, Next to this they would like to vote for ona for Pres- Ident and for tho other for Vice-President. The popular sentiment of the party in Pennsylvanian would seem to point to such ticket, thus combining two of the most popular ‘and avall- able men of the East and tho West. It is not improbable that the Influence of Pennsylyna- nin inny be ultimately asserted to bring about such 2 combination, If Gen, Grant shall manifest now the same disinelination to a factionalgtruggle that he ling felt hereto- fora; if thé friends of Blaine In Pennsylva- nia shall then develop the preponderating strength they now seem to have; and if Washburne'’s friends would consent to ac ‘cept the second placo for thelr favorit,—then Blaine and Washburne fs the tleket to which Pennsylvania is most likely to give the weight of its unquestionable strength Jn tho Chicago Convention, * PENNSYLVANIA AND THE FRESIDENCY, ‘The people of the whole country have been ooking forward during several weeks past to the Republican State Convention of Penn- sylvania as likely to shape, if not actually determine, the proceedings of the National Convention to be held in Chicago next June, It is not anly by the heavy vote which Penn- sylvanin casts In a National Convention that its influence Js to be measured this year; that Influence {gs notably enlarged by several other elreumstances which seem to have deleanted to Pennsylvania a sort of decking vole upon the candidacy of Gen. Grant for the Repub- Nean nonituatton, It was to State Senator White, of Pennsylvania, that Gen. Grant ad- dressed his views upon the third-term ques- tion In 1876 for submission to the State Con- vention of that year, It was the Pennsylyanin Republlean Convention at that time which declared that’s third term would be unwise and {mpolitte, This year Pennsylvania has asserted Itself in tho person of Seuntor Don Cameron, who first succeeded to the Chalr- mauship of the National Committee, then de- elared himself a “Grant man,” and: then brought to bear in his Stato tho whole forea of his personal nnd poillt- Teal Influence, and that of his father, to secure an indorsement of his position. It was known, too, that both Grant and Binine counted thelr warmest friends and most en- thusinstle admirers among the people of Pennsylvania. - For these reasons an unusual importance has been wniversally conceded to attach to the Pennsylvania Convention, and noiy that !¢ has met, acted, and adjourned, It {s of equal Import to ascertain the real bear- ing of Its decislon, ‘The records of the Tarrisburg.Convention show, In the first place, that Gen, Grant has been most highly complimented by securing ainajority, even though very small, In favor of his candiducy for a third term, when the struggle was so fierce. ‘They show, in the next place, that Senator Don Cameron sue- eveded in holdlug together the followlng which the Cameron family: has commanded among the politicians of Pennsylvania these many years. Going outside the bare record, it would appear that these results were brought about by the most tremendous per- sonal efforts, and rather nggpite of than with the assistanes of the masses of the party. Wien the Philadelphia delegation was ehosen by the Republican members of the clubs, {t was uncerstood that the grent ma- jority of them were for Blaine and disap- proved of a third term, but Senator Cameron secured, by some means, the unanimous vote of that Blaine delegation, It ts"notorlous that the overwhelming stnthuent of * the Vittsbury Republfeans ts in favor of Blaine as the first choice, but the Pittsburg dele- gates were not appointed by the partf, but by the County Committee, In order to prevent the selection of Bluing mon, So tho dele gates from Lanenster were packed by tho County Committes in the Cameron Interest, as the rank and filu of tho party wore op- posed to athird term. In this way Cameron. secured coutrol of a majority of the State Convention, Astory not allogethor creditable to Cam- oron's dignity is told of the huniliating ap neals ho made to tho Iarrlaburg dotegution to stand by him in ths contest; his appents were suecessful, though the yolco of tho gal- lerles clearly proved that Blaine is the favorit of the Harrisburg populace, These aro some of the extrancous elrcumstances that indi- cate how much personal influence and politic- al wire-pulling 16 was necessary for Don Camcron to employ in order to get a majority of twenty ina yote of S46 for tho support of his program, It is now n question how far tho Instruc- tons of tho Pennsylvania Convention, under ‘auch elremfgtances and tuilucnces as we have dexeribed, will go toward assuring the nomination of Gen. Grant and of his ace ceptunce thereof, It is by no means certaln that the unit rule, which was a part of the Cameron scheme, will bo regarded ag binding by tho antl-Grant delegates from’ Pennsylvania to the Chicago Convention, Itis an unreasonable and gen> erally unjust rulo under all clreumstances, Itlsarelc of State-soverelgnty, since it Is calculatad to inake ull tho voters of any ona party Su u National contest subservient to the THE CHICAGO TRIRUN a FRIDAY, FEBRUARY man of the Commilttes to the effect that all | dictation of o faction In their Sinte, The iden of State citizenship is thus given pre- eminence over the idea of Nutional eltizen- ship. ‘Tho rule was overthrown in the Cin- elnnat! Convention, and the very emphatic expressions of opinton among the strong mi- nority in the Pennaylyania Convention indi- eate that antl-Grant delegates will assert thelr independence, untess the powerofclioos- ing Chicago delegates which was plaved in the hands of aspeclal committee shall be so exerelsed as to eliminate all antl-Grant sentiment from the Chicazo delegation, As amattor of right, the instructions of the State Convention should be binding only upon the four delegates-at-large, while all the others should represent the prevatling sentiment of their several constituenctes. Moreover, the methods whereby Don Cam- ron secured control of the State Convention fare eniculated to encovrage independence of action anong these delegates to Chicago who shall not be In: full synipathy with the instructions imposed upon them, f 43 Tt remains to bescen how Cen, Grant will construe the compliment pald him by tho Pennsylvania Convention under the «direc tion of Don Cameron, It fs not improbable that, In his matter-of-fnot and clear-headed fashion, he will accept the proceed- Ings of the Pennsylvania Convention as on forcenst of the struggle that may be expected in the Chicago Nation- nl Convention {n caso he shall come before Its a candidate for the nomination, It will then be for him to decide whether or not he desires to be a party to stich a strugale, even with the prospect of such a victory as his frlends have secured for him in Pennayl- vanla, Unless Gen. Grant has materially changed his opinion of Inte, ho Is intensely averse toa factional strife for the nomina- tion and a bitter partisan struggle for his election ns President. In ono of his conver- satlons with Jolin Russell Young during the “Tour Around the World,’ the intter re- ports him as referring with great prite and satisfaction to the practical unanimity with whieh the Republican party called him to office in 18603 and 1872, Following up this ine of thought, Gen. Grant proceeded to say? ° ‘ “Thon enmo all the discussions about tho third term. I gave ny views on that in my Ict- tersto Senator White, of Pennsylvania, It Is not known, howover, tow strongly I was pressed to enter the canvass a3 a candidate, I wns walted upon formally by a distinguished mun, representing tho Intluences that woukl have controlled the Repubileans in the South, and asked to allowmy nameto be used. This re- quest wns supported by mon in the Northorn States whose position and character are un- questioned, T suld thon that under no elrcwm- stances would I become a candidute. Even if a nomination and nan oleetion were assured, 1 woutl not run, The nomination, if fran, would be after a struggle, and before it had been unnn- imous. Tho election, If I should win, would be after a struggle, and the result, would be far diferent from what it was before. If I sue- ceeded and tricd to do my best, my very best, 1 should stlit have a erlppled Anlnistration, This was tho public view. [ nover had any Illusions on the subject, never allowed myscif to be awayed for an Instunt from my purpose. The pressure was great. But personally Lwasweury of ollico, Lnover wanted to get out af a placo as much nal did to get out of tho Presidency. For sixteen yeurs, from the opening of the War, it had been & constant strain upon ine. So when the third term was sorlously presented tome I peremptorily deciined it" If Gen, Grant, In the flush of actlve pollt- ical life, and with the machinery of Execu- tive patronage, had the moral courage to re- sist the temptation of a prolonged tenure of offics because he foresaw the bitterness of a contest and the embarrassinents of an Ad: imlnistration when his payty was no longer practleally united upon him, 1¢ will be strange if he shall consent to become a can- didate now under stuflar elreumstances, | Since Grant retired from the Presidency he has had ocension to note the high estimate the American people placo upon his past services, nud tho exalted piace in history which the whole world fs ready to accord to hin, From this point of view he is less like- ly than ever before to rolish being the cholca of faction, or the representative of a fac- tlon In the Government, and a penetrating anulysis of the action taken by tho Pennsyl- yanla Convention (such as he Is likely to make) may induce him to decide upon a withdrawal from political ilfe, except upon some wnforeseen emergency in which the whole people shall practically demand new service from him, AN IRISH LANDLORD'S VIEWS, There was printed in the last Issue of Tan Cicaco ‘True a letter from an Irish landlord, having 650 tenants laboring for his support, to a friend in Brooklyn, touching the present terrible distress In Iroland and tho mission of Mr. Parnell to this country. ‘The substance of his letter fs the contplalnt that Mr. Parnell is “ruining the country by is agitation” for Iand reform,—striking 2d tha roots of its prosperity, and destroying all faith and credit,—nand that he himself is so discouraged that he is tempted to soll out and come to this countrys. which wo think would be n wise thing for him to do, alnce he appenrs tobe one of tho few spechnens of his class who are gencrous and humane mon and look after the Interests of their poverty- stricken tenunta,—qualifleations which would give bhu a good start hero, ‘The obvlous answor to this Iandlord’s com- plaint is the Intefrogatory, What “inter- ests” or " prosperity? are there in Ireland that can be “rulned” by Parnell’s agitation for land reform? Ireland has been In a ehronte state of ruin for two hundred years, and durlng that tlme has often been dopend- ent upon the world's charity to keep her out of the grave, ow much more ruin ean be worked by Parnell’s land reform, or what prosperity [3 there inthis universal wretched hess. that cun be affected by him? What prosperity has Lreland had for two centuries that any landlord should talk so glibly of its belng Injured? Can a country which haste ship away everything it produces and call upon its friends abroad besides to help pay Its rents be injured any more? What pos- sible damage cun Parnell or any othor agitat- or do, unless ‘possibly the landlords should still further incrense thelr exorbitant charges and starve tho wretched tenants out of ox- istonce? What does Parnell propose that this Iand- lord fears is gulng to rutn Ircland? Shmply that with tho aid of the Government the land- lords shall ba required to sell thelr feudal tights obtained by confiseations at 9 falr prica to bo determined by valuation, giving the tenants such lorms and time that they can pay for their lands and thus retuke pos- session of thelr own. How {3 It going to “ruin prosperity ” If tho Jand of Ireland pass Into tho possession of six or soven hundred thousand farmers who have stripped them- selves to pay rents to tha verge of starvation ? WIL It put thom in any worse condition than they ary already in? WIL It ruin the Jand- lords, who complain that thoy cannot col leet their rents and that thelr tenants are Insubordinate, to convert property which Is uncertatn and unproductive, and which cannot bo wannged except upon the most disagreeable coniltions, into money which can bo Invested elsewhere with profit? ‘Tnke tho case of this particular Jandlord, for Instance, According to his own statements, he has not been able to collect all Lis rents for threo years past, and sees no prospect of dolng it in the future, Would It not be Inflnitly better for him to soll out to his 690 tenant farmors ‘and Invest his noney whero ho would haye uo difticulty Inman. country. needed for renewals or new roads, aging It, where ft wonld de in safe hands, and where It would yield hina fate profit on his Investments? It would be better for hin and better for then in every way. Thero is nothing In Mr. Parnell's land-roform ngita- tion that tends to ruin or hurt anything or anybody, Jt may be unpleasant to landlords to give up tholr nabob grip upon these un- happy tenants and to ccaso strutting about England ag patrician nobles and sceuring offices on the influence of their estates, but would It not be ns compensation that thoy “would no longer be obliged to rack-rent, evict, and starve these wretched creatures? Would it notbe s consolation that the blame for thelr murder could not rest upon their conseienees? Would tt not be better to lot tho Irish have Ireland than for 10,000 Enelish landlords to keep them In the most hopeless state of poverty, distress, nid confusion? Would not the sight of these thousands of farmers working upon their own Innds be more edifylng than almost. universal pauperis appealing to the world to save it from suffering and starvation? ‘This (a nll that Mr. Parnell proposes. Ile ts pleading for help to relleva men who are starving because everything tins beenstripped from them; for legislations which will set then on their feet and enable thom to earn o living, pnd which will fairly remunerate the landowtiers who arenow, according to their: own statements, unable to collect thelr ronts,, Whatruin is there in this? What interests aro to be Injured ? “THE OVER-DUTY ON STEEL RAILS. The Interests of tho rallronds and of the People accord in having cheaper steel rails. Both are seriously injured by tho present ex- cessive duty, which wns levied at s tlne when very few stecl-mills existed in this country, as the Bessemer process of making ateel is only of recent Invention. In 1809, the year before the present immense duty of $28 per ton was fevled to protect the “Ine fant” Bessemer mills in thls country, the price of steel rails in England, free on board ship, averaged 855 por ton, on which $28 per ton was St percent. For the previous eight years the prico had averaged $69 per ton, on which $23 fg 0 little over 40 per cent, Tho American manufacturers, in 1870, repre- sented to Congress the helpless condition of their “Infant industry,” and oblnined a law fixing a specific duty of $28 per ton, that being considered necessary to make the duty on the new manufacture cor- respond with the general duty imposed on all fron articles by the high tarlff of that day. ‘The duty at the time was equal to about 50 per cent; 1n1875¢ renched 68 per cent; in 1876 It was 87 per cent; in 1877 It was 96 per cent; and In 1878 and upto June, 1870, it was. equal to 100 percent, Steet rails wero sell- Ing in England in May of 1870 nt $23 per ton,’ and in this country at $10 per ton, and at that price our manufacturers were able to pay the Vulean Works $140,000 9 year to elose up. Then came the sudden “ boom,” since which American stecl rails hava ad- vanced to $90 por ton! The manufacturers of steel ratls enjoy the advantage of low duties on foreign pig-iron and serap-lron, and of only 45 per cent on steel blooms, and also of a low duty on tron ore from which to manufacture plig-iron. Prices In England lave of course followed those In this coun- try to some extent with a margin of $23 per ton to pay the duty. The reduction of tho rate of duty on stect tails fs not merely a measure of relief to the railway companies, but to the entire country, Every cent added to the.cost of rallway-con- structlun ling to bo pald by the consumers ‘and producers, by tho merchants and the traders, by the farmors, mechanics, laborers, and persons of every avoention and trade... It is n direct tax, and serves ag a pretext onda Justification for other tnxes of even greater enormity. Every man who has s lond of corn, or of hogs, or-of cnttle, or of flour to ships every man who has need of lumber, or salt; overy man who has something to sell orsomething to buy,—is taxed directly to pay the cost of transportation, and the cost of steol rails forms an Important item In the costof transportation, Any addition to the cost of construction or nfaintenance of rail- ways reaches every person In the country, and has tobe paid by him tn proportion to his production or in proportion te his con- sumption ofarticles transported by rall. 'Thoro are 80,000 miles of railway In this With the double tracks and side- tracks there are not less than 110,000 miles of track laid in this country. Tho manu- facture of stecl tracks is of recent date, and there are not perhaps more than 25,000 niles of steel tracks now {n use in the United States, leaving 85,000 iniles of track lald with soft, perishable iron. To lay stecl In tho place of these Iron rails will call for 8,600,000 tons of steel rails, not Including the amount At the present prico of stoel ralls this substitution of steal for iron rails must be suspended. ‘The uso of steel rails is an economy lurgely entering into the cost of transportation, ‘he life of a steol rail {s not only threo or four tlmes that of iron rails, but it admits of greater work and heavier loads, The maxt- mum woight of « load of merchandise run over Iron rails cannot exceed with safety 20,000 pounds, or ten tons; but, on roads lid with stcel rails, the ears are now loaded to the extent of fourteen to sixteen tons, and new cars are constructing which will carry evan twenty tons. ‘The use of steel ralls will ‘also admit of’ heavier and more powerful locomotives, capable of draw- ing heayler trains, Summed up, the uso of steel rails admits of longer trains, and of cars carrying from 50 ta 100 per cent moro weight in each car, with comparatively very little Increase of tho cost of hauling, and the steel rails have a life thrice as great as that of the iron rails, It will be scon, therefore, how Inrgely steel rails tend to reduce the cost of transportation of farmers’ products on railways, and how directly the whole country iy Interested In having them subatl- tuted for tho Iron rails now in use, AS tho steel rails are Inld on tho principal railways, the fron ralls, sach of them as are fit, are put upon side-tracks or small connecting lines, or on new and not much used rods, to Anish out thelr lives, Tho total production of steol rails In the United States daring 1879 was 650,000 tons, and there were 60,000 tons Imported. Even atthis onormous rate of production tt will bo seen that {t will take many years for the Amerlean works to produce enough ralls to take the place of the fron rails now in use, not making any allowance for new ronds or for the renewal of tracks already laid, ‘Tak- Ing tho ascertained Hfo of ateel and tron rails, it Is found that 12 per cent of the iron rails must bo relaid annually, and that 500,000 tons of rall will bo required for new rails annually, ‘This will glve as the mint- mum of new rails required In this country annually fornew and ald roads 1,500,000 tons, Shall these be stoel or fron? Our American mills produced Just year 050,000 tons of steel rails, Even admitting that this production enn be advanced to 800,000 tons, thore are still 700,000 tons more needed wnnuully, Can the rallronds and farmers afford to pay $00 por ton for this enormous welght of iron, which eight months ago could bo had for $40 per ton? * iy ‘The railways must suspend tho adoption of stev! rails, or the price must bo reduced by the admission of stee) ralis in quantities equal to gupply the dentsnd, and at such prices as they can be obtained for, Thotarlit’ 6, 1880. imposes nduty of 823 per ton on tmporied atcel ralla; If this duty wore reduced te 8t0 per ton there would ben drop of $18 per ton In tho cost, and all the steokmills would be sebat work, as the pool could not afford to pay n bounty out of thelr protected profits of $140,000 a yenr to a mill to stand dle nnd enable the others to get a corner on tho rallroadaand the farmers. The present prices of steel ratls are un- natural and unjustifiable, and niust prove InjJurlous to the steelmakers’ themselves. Such prices eannot bo maintained and Gre really furnishing tho British manu. facturers with n harvost such as they have not enjoyed for mony years, The country wants 1,600,000 tons of rails annually, Our own manufacturers will surpass all expecta- tions {£ they produce 800,000 tons In 1880, ‘They command the market. If the tarlif be reduced to $10 per ton, the home manufact- urers will enjoy that protection of n bounty and tha axpense of foreign freighta against foreign competition, no matter to what ex- tent that competition may be pushed. Tha country needs twieo the rails annually that can be produced at home, Under these cir- cumstances, to Impose a tax of $23 per tonon all stee! rails imported to supply the de ficlency {s 9 gross and oppressive abuse of the power of taxation, Mon who cannot sup- ply the market really do not need any pro- tection, and when tho offer {s mado to fix tho duty on steel rails nt $10 per ton tho stecl- ra{l manufacturers should themselves unite In the measure so much needed for tho rellof of the whole country. Tr fs related tn the Enstern Journals that aneecentric clergyman, who recently died in Worcester, btnss., Joft behind bim a most siugular will, Atto®proyiding for tho paymont of his debts, he directed that the balance of his estate should bo applicd to defraying the ex- penscs of eerviccs in the Tabernacle Congregn- tonal Church, His books ho gave to one of his parishtonors, with whom ho mado bis home somo timo before his death. All his sermons, mnou- scripts, and papers, letters, ote, were to bo thoroughly turned, unrend. Ie forbade any announcement of hisdenth In any newspapor, and requested the papers to take no notlco of his death. Hedirected that after death ho be placed Ina box of unplaned boards, dressed tn his poorest clothing, stockings, drawera, and shirt, and no other garmont, and Immediately nalled up; that na onc be allowod to look upon him athls funeral; that thore bo no flowers, no minister, and no publicnotice of thefuneral;nnd no other religious servico than the rending by Deacon Bowker, or seine othor member of his church, of Panlins xxiii. and xe., and tho slugine of his favorithymu, “Lead, kindly Mght,” and tht no strangera bo allowed to attend tho func- ral. He thon provides: “That, after the above oxorolses, [bo taken In an express-wagon, or any other chenp convoyance, to be interred in any lot, or place, or purcel of ground tifat any momber of my church will, for the love of God, give me. Lam uot ashamed to ask this, for my Lord and Bavior Jesus Christ had to be undér a almilar obligation, and to be favored with a Uke disposition after Iladcath; that no heudstone, floral wreath, or other sign be used to mark tho place of my burial, ns my Lord and God needs no such reminder of tho place where my dust reposes," Hethon denies his wife, with whom ho hud trouble and separated from some tinic before his death, any prrticipation in hig funeral, and gives dotniled directions for the sottlement of 2 mortgage. Ir ts sincerely to bo tted that the two Confederate Trigadicra, Gen, M. W. Gury and Col. John O. Haskell, son-in-law of Wade Hamp- ton, all of South Carolina, did not meot upon the field of honor and fill cach other with buckshote Tho point atissue between them was purely polltieal, Gary belioving that no election could becarricd in South Carollna without bulldozing tho negroes, and Haskell belleving It was fensl- ble to concilinte them. In the course of various dlecussions, each churged tho other with Irregu- laritics growing out of Gary'a Edgefield mothot of killing negroes and Huskell’s connection with Tiidon's attempt to purchase Electoral votes. Both pot and kettle wore pretty binck, and when tho challonge passed between them thero ‘was a woll-dofincd hope that both utensils might get smashed In the encounter. As one was afraid, however, and the other daresn’t, the two Drigadiors atill live to abuso onch othor and en- Ughten tho world on the pecullar processes by avhich olections nro carried in South Carolina, Ex-SenAtor Timoriry 0. Tower's article on“ Tho Third Term," in which tho writer takes strong ground in favor of cleoting a good man as often us the people wish,and showing why tho carller Presidents were denied a third term, hna generally been construed in favor of Gon. Grant's third candidncy, The Cincinuat! Gazette, however, reads it differently, and anys: “ All its arguments apply more strongly against chang- ing Presidents ‘now by cutting off President Hayes with ono term, and it {s, howover woll musked, an array of rensons In favor of renom- inating Mr. Huyos.” When it is remembered how bitterly hostile Mr. Howe was to Presklent Hayes, tho interprotation of tho Gazette reads Uke a sarcasm. A President was never moro florcely attacked by a member of his own party than Hayes waa by Howe In his speech dellyered in the Sonate on the 25th of March, 1877. A “SPRCTAL’ correspondent of the Now York Tribune tolographs this precious chunk of foollshnoss: “An intorosting bit of Presidential gossip comes from Minols, It ls to tho effect that the old feud between Login and Washburne hus boen henled; that tho Logan mon are to: support Washburno for Governor; that, jn case Grant should be out of the way whon Nationnt Convention mects, tho Washburne men should turn in and give Login tho solld voto of tho State for Presilent; and, galls if Logan's nombnation should appear imporall fo and Wash- burno’s possiblo, the acount should be squared by a friendly turn about of the delegation.” Sometimes Washington roporters for sonan- tional sheets, when thoy get outside of a few wlusses of whisky {n too rapid sucecssion, And it ensior to pump thofr imagination for nows than to senreh for it, As Mr, Washburne fs not a candldate for Governor, the bottom necessarily tumbles out of tho rest of tho allegod bargain, ee 3 ‘Tre clatter of tho sensational New York pupors that England, France, and * Prussia” ine tend to test the practical value of tho Monroe doctrine by butlding the Panuma Cunal under European Government auspices, and with an intentional disregurd for the United States, waa manufactured in too clumsy a manner to trighton this country. A Boston papor catls at- tontion to the fact that Prussia has no forolgn polluy, all hor foreign affuira boing conatitu- tlonally transferred to the Empire. A Prussian polloy in Contrat America is us impossiblo as a Muasachusotta polloy in regard to the South Atmerican war. The Fronch Government bas deemed tho rumor important enough to do- clare in & formal manner that M. de Lossepa 4s @ private citizen who acts on his own ree sponsibility. N. P, Onpway, of New Hampshire, w'o acted ns Beryenht-at-Arms of tho House of Representatives tor many years, and an nctive Republican polltician, was Interviewed In Now York tho other day, and eaids “ Washburno ig my man, I want to got somo. body us close up to Grant as possible, but L don't want Grant hiinself, A candidate can do nothing in his own behalf, Neither Hayes nor ‘Thien ventured to open his mouth when tha coutest over the election of 18d waa in [yrosress nt | Washington, Grant could back up Washburn, und would do ft, Ebelluve. Besides, Washburn. nd w good dent of exporionce with ub revulution white ho was in Parla) Looking forward to the possiblity of trouble between next: November and March 4, 1881, J bellove tha bust way fs to yet a8 sug Up te Grant us Fpestbt, and that wo can do this by tuking bis old and tntimate friend ‘Wasbburne,” Quincy Herald : “FN, Mates, Greenback candidate for Yeate Treasuror in 187%, was In Springfleld the other day, and beld a very long consultation with Gov, Cullom, 3t fs undore atood that tha purpose of tho Goneral fs tu unite the Greonback vote In favor of Cultom this yeur, on terms which uro sald tobe sutisfuctory to both vontracting partios.”” A PHILADELPHIA paper, commenting on tho opening of unexchungo for female stock- gumbling, romarks: “A wild and wicked at- tompt has beon made In Now York to entico Murray-HUl (arlatooratio vicinity) womanhood. tuto stock-yambling. In a west-sido, uptown atreot a daluty little office has been oponed, and thonoe dainty ciroulurs have been sent out ‘to ladies belonging to the pest circles of society,’ urging thom to come in and try tholr pretty. hands nt tho bewilderingly dolfctous game of ‘putatand * calls," Inthia assaultupon tho Knlok- erbockcr doves the wisdom of tho serpont has heen apparent at overy tum, Tho clremara have been addressed to tho doves in tholr full namo; tho doves selected havo been ‘those hav= tug property under thelr own control or Ikely to net Indepenitently in mnttors of businoss,’ and the promise has beon artfully held out that ‘the: Ladica’ Exchungo'—for so tho new Institution la styled—offers exvoptlonal facilities for the transaction of Wall-street business In perfect |- privacy anisectusion.’ All Murray-Hill manhood Ia up In arms at this Inaldious and dondly nesault: ‘upon its womankind. It is horror-stricken a8. it contemplates its femnlo relatives transformed Into cows ond bearcescs, In short, Murrnf Hitt rages." Tim Clneinnatt Enqutrer (Dem.) {s trying its hand at Interviewing everybody on his Presi- dontial preferonces. It gives tho result of 1,300 personal Inquirtes of Democrats and Republics ans in vartous parts of Ohio; alao, tho expres- sions of over 1,000 citizens of Indiana of both parties. Tho reports so far show Sonator Thurmin to be ty s good ond among the Domocrata of Ohlo, though ho commands less Han half of all tho Democrats 80 far reported, Mr. Sherman {a tho cholco of WT of 777 Republicans interviewed, Blalno lead- ing him considerably. In Indiann, Mr. Hon- drioka, #0 far, hasalead among the Domoerats, and Hinine “throwa dust” on Sherman among the Ropubileans, Rocxronn Gazette? “The ChienazoJournal In working quito faithfully for tho success of Llont- Goy. Androw Shuman in’ the contest for the sepa Ucan nominatlon forGovornor."—CIlicage TRINUNE, “Our readers know thot the above is an un truth, and, being so, why should tho Gazelle utter it, or THe Tine repent (tt? The Chier- go Journal is ‘working for tha success’ of no particular candidate."—Chleago Journal, As the Journal. is the alter ego of Mr. Shuman, and as tho Intter ts working liken nalter for Goy. Cullom's placo, why should the Journal pretend to newtrality ? Come, okt man, as tho Lientenant-Governorahip tatoo small for your ambition, and your heart ts act on tho Executive oftice, let your personnal organ blow your trump: et, Remember the Mormin maxim, “ Blessed ‘bo ho who bloweth his own horn, for, if ho blow St not, verily {t shall not be blown,” ~ Gen, Burnrn sald last winter that tho tlino might camo when he would yote fora bill to penston Rebel soldiors, Bpenker Randall said tho othor day, In commenting on the passage of -tho bill relioving ono Tallinferro, of Virginin, of his disnbilitics us a Rebel, that he would ercot them all to full oltizenehlp, and those who have suffered ho would have ponsioned. ‘Tho bill was finally passed,—yeas, 172. Mr. Randall hans beon Inoked upon as a probable candidate for tho Presidency on the Demoeratle tickat, and ne tho friend nnd favorit of Sam Tilden. As Tilden !n- Jured himeclf by writing a Iettor against tho payment of Rebel claims, so Randall has taken warning in timo not to offend tho Solid South, and gocs in for pensioning the Hebel soldiors. — Mr. Antnun B. Jounsox, a Republican polltician of New York, Js quoted bythe Times, of that city, ns follows: “T am for Conkling frst and Grant. next. The wholo business 18 ecery delegate in this Committee has a declded preference,—he ts for whoever Roscos Conkling tants.” Tho machino must work yery smoothly and beautifully when It reduces Its adherents to this automatic condition of nonentity. What an able, intelligent, Independent delegation New York will sund to tho Chieugo Convention! ——. IN 1875 tho Mouse of Representatives of Congress pnsacdl the following resotution,—two hundred and fifty-one alllrmative votes: “That, In tho opinton ‘of this Houso, the prec ene cra by Washington and othor Prealdents of tho United States in retiring from office after thoir second terns bas become, by universal coneurrence, a part of our republichit aystem of govornmont, and that any deperture from this time-honored custom would bo un- wiae, un ntrlotic, and fraught with perli to our freo institutions.” Tum Alexandria (La,) Democrat takes a rose-colored view of tho situation In that loonl- ity, It anys the colored population are content- ed and prosperous, many of thom having Inld by snug sums from the proceeds of Inst yoar's crops, and that none of them have expressed any yonrning for Knnsas or Indiana, If we could onty betleve this, it would be gratifying; but, unfortunately, tho country has learned to fecept statemonts,from Southorn newspapers which pertain to the colored people with salt. ‘Tire New Orleans 7¢mes notes a “boom” in real estate. Tho vast tnflux qf monoy into tho South ls producing a very marked effect on tho value of country property, Commiaston morchants have hnd to carry a heavy burden In tho shape of Innds, takeg to secure bad debts, Such proporty has foralong time beon unsnl+ able, but now finds ready purohascrs. Prices fro stil! comparatively low, but the {mproye- ment in tho general feellng ta'vory marked, France has had its speculation in stocks agwellas America, Tho uggregato net ndvanco of tho sccuritica quoted in Paris from Dee. 31, "78, to Deo, 31, "7, was §540,705,888. Nearly ono- third of this, $160,728,077, is In tho nppreciation of French rentes or Government bonds, but French ratlroad shares bayo incronsed tn valuo 107,000,000, and tho funds of forolgn Govern- Inonts $120,000,000 net. Tr Is well remarked that “it is worth bear ing in mind that Garcolon and Pillsbury would never hnye conspired to steal the State of Maine unless thoy had been convineed that tho Demo- cratic party would have acted na reculvers of tho stolen goods, ‘Tho opinion of thoso oxpertr, expressed in such a practical way, ought to be Recopte? ns an authoritative estimate of tho Domocratic character.” nn) Tr Atlanta Constitution (Deu.) tmplores ite party Jn Congress to innko some modification in tho existing tarlif laws.. It says tho issue in- volved in this policy is romote from secttonal- tam and partisanship, It appenis to vorers every= whero. It lean easentiul fssue, It isa contest botween tho people and monopoly,—between the producers and consumers on one hand and un- just and unnecessary taxation on the othor, Tie mental activity of Ameriean Seere- tories of Stato ls bronght into shurp contrast with the elyht Premiers who have served under Queen Victoria: Lord Melbourno, tho first, has 10 publications ontercd under bis uname; the Earl of Aberdeen, 24; tho Eurl of Dorby, 48; Lord Palmerston, 9%; Sir Robert Peel, 12; Karl Ttussell, 181; Gladstono, 242; and Lord Bercous+ Held, 118, > Two New Onrnvans editors exchanged two shots at ten paces without hitting each othor. Editors of this clusa ura a disgrice to Amerienn Journals, What, hol there, ‘'enr thy pens from thelr trembling’ fingers, bind thon fast ton stenmship, and send thom to Europe to shoot at Kingy.—Pidadelphia Denven Tribune: “The ‘business boom? ‘has struck the nowspapers a back-handed blow, Tie cost of white paper has advanced 8 per cont, and there hive been advances in ull other departments, Tho cost of publishing a nows- paper now te neurly a third greater than It,was six months ago.” ——es Avuitt is now before the Wisconsin Legis- Inturo providing for ponsioning the Judges of the Suprome’Court who retire at the age of 70, Tho pay of the Judges ia now $5,000 per annum, and the bill proposos that tho ponslon sbull be 2,00 per annum. ‘Tne largest slo of real estate thus far this Your ig that made by tho St, Paul & Sloux City Rallrond Company to tho Land Colonfaation and Hunking Company of London, England, The trade Je for 200,000 acres of land ut $6 por nore,— dying In Iowa, x Tr will detract somewhat from the flerce denunolations of the Domocratio press uguinst: tho “ partisan Bupeme Court of Maine" when It {a undoratood that the lust opinion was written by Judgo Libbey, a Hourbon Democrat, eens Tire people of Wisconsin are so clamorous for bicnutal sessions of tho Legislature that tho plan fs Ikely to bo adopted, and the preliminary steps will probably bo taken by tho Legislature ow in eeesion, i ——— Onz of the greatest outrages perpetrated in this country jn the name of justicy and wader the color and form of law 1s the retentiqn and ‘{mprigonment of persons acoused of crime. Mre Binith and “Cove Bennett, who were sot at liberty lust Haturday by yerdict of acquittal, hayo apent olghtcen mouths $n prison avwnitin, trial, ‘The Rev. Mr. Haydon, who war charged with tho mitrder of Mary Stannard and ne quitted, spent fifteen months tt fait bofure. he could obtuin atrial, Buch delay ts au outmy, on tho part of the State, ts Save our New York namesake: © Titdon having obeerved that ‘Fraud ' fs tho only livin issuy, the country at once remarks: ‘or rad that brings you to tho front as tho wblest Uving embodiment.’ Tun Nashville Amertean says that the winter in Tennessee and all through the South hna been unusually favorable for winter wheat, and that a flue crop muy reasonably by ex. peeted, * ‘Tite Republicans of Now York will hott their Stato Convention, to appoint delegntes to tho Chicugo Natlonal Convention, on tho eth day of February, * Pronta Journal: “It ts becoming appar ent to every one that Washburno's chances for o Presidential nomination aro improving.” | Tun New York Malt (Rep.) says that Conkling is. a great doal stronger in Now York than Grunt. OVER $20,000 has already been ralsed to erect a monument to tho memory of Geu, Kobe ort E. Leo, : ‘ PERSONALS, | Mr. Hnyt’s son appears to have been the wicked partner in tho Indian business, Those two glidy young things, Charito O'Conor and SaMny Tilden, seum to be carrying on a great many desporate filrtations this wine ter. Seth Greon thinks fish talk to cach other Jnat ns reguinrly os people do. Who right wholo is too woll known to need moro than u men. Uon fn this connection. Mr.;Ends is sald to be very sanguine of the success of his jetties. For tho same pny that Mr, Ends receives most people would bo not only sanguine but wildly enthusiastic, Tho best book-revicwers aro those who have the curloalty to read a book and see If it ig anything Ilo tho notice thoy baye already writ- ten and published about ith—Exchange, When a man {3.so poor that ho $3 obliged to. use one alinanad three years in succession, It is high timo au American agitator was sent abrond to aolfclt ald for him.—Hrchenge, A sockoty journal annotnces that “The Misses Jones of Cincinnat! aro tho Intest addin. tuntes in Washington society.” Whera are tho Smiths and Browns in this trying bour? Sojourner Truth, 105 years, recently went M6 miles acrosa tho prairies of Kansas inun open wagon to help needy colored immigrants. Kansaspaper, What !s home without 9 Mar? "Tha St. Louis papers havo discov during his recent yislt to that eity Campanint suffered from “a profound syncope.” “Stif. for’n a wedgo” 18 what thoy call it tu Chicago, An exelinngo says that Rachel, the great actress, hud sacar upon her cheek, It ls doubt» ful ff ay weapon short of 2 columbind wontd ba able to inillet a sear upon the check of a modern actress, ‘They were speaking of Count. Aman of the world, but of queationnble wit. A tady remarked, * The Count is ke glass without: fall—udmirably polished, but ineapable of re- Heethng.”—Krench Paper. In a lecture not long ago, Joseph Cook re- imatkedt that Kings and Queens had been the ‘puin of many nations. This may bo true, but it Jaa little singular that ho sould completely ig- nore tha rest of tho pack.—Exchange. A well-known manager was applauding 9 protty actress the other ovening ina New York thentre, whon he suddenly discovered that it was one of hfs former wives, who bad murricd some othor man, Io stopped applauding her. Mrs, Jennie R. Smith, who, in company with Policeman Smith, bas Just been acquitted of tho murder of hor huaband in Hrooklyn, Is diving with hor sister, having agreed to stifle her confessed love for Bennett and regard him sherenfter os a stranger. « The latest’ fashion fn Clneinnati {ts for a young lady to rush {nto the oltice of a bachclor friond, kiss him, and any sho accepts his offer of marringo, although of course the unfortunate creature bas nover mado any. Their only ex- cuso {a that this fs lenp-year, Tho Philadelphia Press says that some of James Rugacll Lowell's pooms, on belng read in public, have drawn tears from the audiences. Poems are recelyod at THe TRIDUNE olfico every day that, if printed, would cause hysterics among tho unfortunnto readers, Conductor W. M. Putnam, who has run a Now York Central train twenty-soven years without eyen bumping 0 passenger's hend, has left tho rond. It Js seldom that a conductor !s £0 Inattentive to his business a3 to consuine half his lfo in securing a competency. Sentimental dinlog between a young mar- ried couple: He—O, adored Virginie! Is It pos- alble you persist {n wearing another woman's hair on your head? Sho—O, darling Paul! Is it possible you perslsteln weurlng anothor buck’s akin on your hand?—Partatan Wit, ‘The Italian journals annaunce that Signor Caroni, u Florence sculptor, hna Just finished & group in plaster, representing tho lute King Victor Einmanuel on hla death-bed, Tho King islyingstrotched on his cotch, white wear hint stands Prince Wumbort, hla son and: successor, to whom ho Is confiling hls lust wishes, Tho groun, It Js said, {8 to be excouted In marble, and will thon bo placed fn tho room in which Il Be Gnlantuomo oxpired, A singular affair recently happened In China, A young widow publicly aunounced that shu would hang herself rather than yield to tho wishes of her paronts and murry nyuin, and tho encritics was actually consummated fn broad daylight, A crowd of tho womun's friends and adintrera assembled, and tho tragle ceremony, was preceded by a reception of visitors on & platform erected for tho occasion, After Te eelving tho mingtod applause and condolences of her frlonds, tha poor young ercuture mounted wohair, placed the rope around her nect and swung herself off in tho presence of tho gathere ing. An Eastern correspondent tells this story about Sccrotary Thompson: A navy ofticer of some prominence, who felt Mmself ‘aggrieved that ho had been passed over In the aolection of Dr, Wales ag Surgcon-Goneral of the Navy, made A personal romonstranco to the Beeretary, and sald very pointedly that the Becrotary was more ally wrong, and had no legal right to appoint Dre Wales over tho heads of u dozen or twenty other worthy men, Mr. Thompson emphatically re tortod: “You disputo my authority! [will give you a practicnl test, Lwill onder you olf to se and next day an order was glyen that the oilleer, who had becn on duty in Washlagton for several yenrs, should proceod at onco to duty in Chines ‘waters, Gen, Brisbin delights in telling anecdotes, and sometimes retutes'a good ono, as per this siunplo: “Old Hen Wade ono day asked tor the promotion of a military friend, and, when Blane ton refused, proveedod ta disensa it with fail stamping of feet, flourishing of his cane, a angry expostulation, Stanton sat quiotly, and at lust Wado roured out: | You will do this thing for mo, Mr, SeerctaryY Twill nat,’ eurtly re sponded Stanton, ‘I aay you will,’ aguin roared Hon, striking tho lounge with his cane, + And guy I won't, ropiled Stanton, Tho two La stood facing and Jooklug stench other for fu five seconds, and then Wade began Ina volo trembling with rago: ‘It's nll very well for yous Btariton, to treat mo this way now, but [remem ber whon you hadn't a ley to stand on fay I atond for you,’ Mr. Stanton’s hard Tacs rolaxed and he sald quite mildly, sve, well, Mr, Wado, if that fs ¢ ‘ way you put [t I suppose T shall have to gives! A what you want. ‘Thank you slr! wil i Wade, and without uttering another wie turned and walked to the door, Ag bo was gold long tho hall of tho War Dopartment, mopping tho sweat from bls faco, Wade sald: “Did a over sco 4 man with Buch a temper us iF man Btanton hast! 1 could not help. iad ing, and tho Senator, without ncelne to think Lo bad iu tho least exhibited avy Bot por, wont on to say, *E think Stanton fa tho me i-natured man [havo over inot.’ ‘his was § much, and I laughed outright, ‘What to tev nre you laughing at, alr?’ tartly inquired WwW ag ST wos thinking, Mfr, Bomator, you showeil ol us tompor yourself. ‘Did 17 ald Jy Well] ¢ pect T did,’ ho gald, and thon ho corn nun +4 inughing, and Jaughed until. tho walls of War Department pang.” cul that .