Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 7, 1880, Page 11

PENNSYLVANIA. Action of the Recent Republican State Convention. The Ylews of Prominent Journals, Repub Mean and Democratic. ing Opinions Expressed by Them on bi Hes the Subject. Swat If MEANS, Cleveland Heratd Utep.). ‘There can be no possibility of mistaking the meaning of the proceedings at the Penn- sylvania Convention, It means that Gen. Grant is openty In the fleld ng a candidate for the Chivago nomination, It means that those acting in lig interest are. determined to so- cure lity nomination at all cost. The minori- ty are to be coerced or crushed, when they cannot be won over to the support of Grant, The appeals and protests of those who recog- nize the perll of such s nomination are to be disregarded, ‘The threatened opposition of a host of voters destrous of acting with the Hepublican party Is to bedefled. Itis to be" Ant Cesar autnihil,’—Grantor nothing, ‘The tactica employed In Pennsylvania will bo repeated in New York, and, with those two States bulldozed Into sending Graut del- egates to Chicago, It fs belleved that some other States will follow suit, and a plrang outside pressure brought to bear on the Chi- cago Convention will do the rest. ‘fs far from our purpose to suggest un- atrlotie or seliigh purposes In those Hepub- Reais who tre dolug thelr utmost to forve Grant upon the Republican party, or to sus- pect Gen, Grant hhnself of such motives. hey are unguestionnbly pushing lim) be- cause they belleve hin to be the strongest candidate,—tho man for the exigency, No unprejudiced reader of Gen, Grant's his: tory, and certainly no ian at all acqualnted with his personal character and sentlinents, will for 8 moment question tho stneerity and purity of lis motives In becoming a cnnti- Ente, But the fact remains that hls nomina- tion would be agatnst the judgment of what we believe to be the great innjority of thinks {ng members of the party; that it would pre- yenta great many Republicans supporting the ticket, If not alienate them from the party ultogethers aud that it would subject the party to perils it would be wise to avold, Que tilng the Pennsylvania Convention has made clear, Gen, Grant caunot get the nom- ination without a hard fight for It, He had teen credited with the declaration that, in thoeventof a unanimous call from the Re- publicut party, he might perhaps consider the question of acceptance, Us near friends, asserted that under no elreumstances woul he take the nombnntion, and that on no con- sideration would he engage ina scramble for it. Through hls friends at Uarrlsburg he served notice on the party thatje wants the nonination, aud moans to get byt possible: and le was in turn notified tt he could only win itatter a fight a Voutrance. Sher- gna and Blaine are in the field, and neither will lela an inch because Grant lins entor ed the llytson his ownuceount. Sherman has already shattered the alleged solid Grant strength in the Southern States, and will guto Chlengo a formidable rival, Blaine has hosts of friends who will_noyer yleld whilst a single hope remalos, Benind both these, and be- Ind ni the other probable or possible enndi- dates In opposition to Grant, is arrayed the powerful unyielding sentiment against a third term of the Presidency to Gen, Grant, or to any other citizen of the Republic, His plactng himself i open antagonisin to that senthaent fy a mistake which we deeply de- Moregandl which we believe he will live to Tegro! “Tite FInST GUN.” St, Louts Globe-Dernucrat (Ren). Tho first State Convention for the choice of delegutes tothe Republican National Con- vention was held In Pennsylvania yesterday, ‘There hag been a great deal of talk about tho defent of Grant, and the declination of Grant, and imauy of the strongest admirers of tho great soldier had begun to belleve that his cause was on the decline, Tho result of yesterday’s proceedings makes 4 contrary showlug. Probably no convention syas ever more fully or inore fairly polled, and yet a eleur majority voted In fuvor of Grant as the dirst Presidential choice of the Republicans of Punnsylvania, ‘The reasons which Induced usto put Grant forward in the first place are still potent to urge hig nomination at Chicago. Our opin- fons of Mr. Blaine have not changed in the least. We still adinire him as precininently the statesinan of the Repupllean party Iv the active life of to-duy, ay le was four years’ ano. We know, however, that his candidacy ‘will be flercely contested In Stites where hat- mony and wninimity are essential tor epub- Mean suceess, and we fear that to press him at Chicago would be to foree upon the party, after a bi er strugpls soine weak compro- inise ke Mayes, “Tho vote given hin in Pennsylvania Isa well-deserved tribute wiielt we are glad to record. It aang, of course, that he fs the second echoes of that gren State; so ho fs of nearly every Republican In the West who can think of a second choice withont fearing defeat nt the polls In Novem- er, But while Gen, Grant consents to the use of his name, wa do not think it wise for Republleans to discuss thesubject of a sccond choice, We chonsoto Interpret the vote at Harrlsburgin this way: For President, U.S. Grant; for Vice-President, James G, Blatue, PENNSYLVANIA AND GHANT. Cincinnatt Enquirer Den.) The action of the Pennsylvania Republican Convention yesterday is almost decisive of the uomination of Gen, Grant at Chicago, Itcertainly makes univalling the Presiden- tial usperations of John Sherman In this year of our Lord,’ It Indicates that, If Grant should refuse to accept. the nomination, or if future politteal necldents, unforseen, should prevent his nomination, the mantle will fall upon Biniue, itis Grant or Blaine, Sher- win 1s already nominated to be out, The Republican candidate for the Presl- dentlat nomination who, ubove all others, has enghe red for it, Who lus used ma- clilnery foy it, who has used patronage for It, Joh Sherman, Bintne has no patronnge, ornext to none, to olferasa bribsa. Weare got aware that any man tsauthorized by Gen, Grant to say that he isn camulletate for the Pres- {dential nominutions and therefore he, taluly, 1s not enginedring or contriving to be the next Republican candidate. He is in command of no patronage whatever, He ts out of power, In this respect he 1s In oven a Mory melancholy condition than Blaine, Sherman has guided this Admlulstration, When John Welsh was appointed by Presi: dent Hayes Envoy Extraordinary and Atinis- ter Plenipotentiary to Great Britain there is every reason to believe thit this appolntinent Wis n part of the Sherman. policy to con- ciilate and cox. Pennsylvania, John Sher- wan has enormous patronage is lis own De- bartuent of the Governnent:"but he has inore; he has really control of the patron- ie of the Adininistration, all of which has been used to secure his nomination for the Presidency, Ho has vetoed bills at he pleasure, As ho largely helped to steal this ii Tesldency, he has claimed a parthersiip tn ti ils enormous advantage In the contest or the nomination for the Presidency is un- dentable, Notwithstanding this tremendous Slvantage, John Sherman gets not the lightest inpport in Ponnsylvania; it is own that hie has none in New York, the fiuplze Stata; it fs known that he has scarce. iy but of the friendshlp of lis own State, e tird potiticut State in the Union. He 16 not in the position of a “dark fiorse,” ag ‘Ayes was four years ago, le ts an avowed candidate, He cannot in the Gitcazo Con- Yention take the attitude, which for him Would be onvinble, of a “dark horse! He i II go before the Chicago Convention an o3- canta ambitious, advertised, but beaten ‘Tho tight made by Blaine in the Ponnsy!- vanta” Convention wus. Tor second placa; it Brats gig ttlous Funuet jasaluse Geen wt vigorously against any piber man than Quik ag The frlonds of terman in Ohto will learn. Blalny already ys notice that In John Sherman's own State tite pining) ins About, pnefourth ar, on he Republican friendship, g no’ Teported that an: Republlean in Hatne is in favor of John Sherman, i, 22 Cameron hus again successfully tested Contewer in Pennsylvania, ‘Tho power of raking tn New York has recently been fered. The Republican temper of those ° kreat States Is known, ‘The politleal hoard now points toward Grant as the Hegeoltean nominee, Will it be Grant and ¢ “REVOLUTION,” ‘The eri Cinetersdournat (Dem). Republicans who are honestly opposed tho restoration of Gen, Grant to the head ‘ the Government may cousole themselves the nofion that the expression which . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES Don Cameron has wrung from Pennsylvanian hag a liiteh in Jt, and, at most, Is but partial and qualified, ‘They may lay the flattering anetion to thelr souls that it la the result of cocrelon and ehfeane, tho irlumph of ore sonlzation over numbers, And, Indeed, ao tt fs; but what of that? The Keystone State affords a falr tests and, taking it as such why imay the forces which have prevalied at Harrisburg not prevall at Chileno If it be true that clyht out of every ten publleans Jn Pennsylyanin are averse to the numination of Gen, Grant, and yet, the Camerons were able to pull hin Uirough and throw the State for hin, what reson can the dilettante politicians of tho Republican press give or tho belief = that tha boom, thus started, may nob thus proceed to the end? Speedily the maneuver fn Penne sylvauin will be followed by Rmovement In New York, against whieh tho gentlemen fn Dird-tail conts and white cravat and kid gloves will be powerless, With New York and Pennsylvania in lho Bast, and UInals fn the West, the Grant people have possessjon of the keys to the position; aud nelther Blalne nor Sherman has given any proof of 0 diverting strength suMelent to stand against a perfectly drilled body of resolute and expert managers, who know what they arunhoutand iiean to have what they are nfier, “Brag ts ngood dog, but Holilfast is a better,”” Dire ing perlods of exeltement,—nay, of revolu- tionary Furlong —tenayty and passion send Tenson to the rear, and the objections of those who, consider Gen, Grant a weak will be treated ns the fallngae nolly-coddles who Tet “I dare not? wait upon “T would, After the nomination, it Is calculated, there will be no bolts and, as for threats, braye men do not care for them, ‘This, however, is but n surface yiow of tha case. Belnd if we must seek for the real source of Gen. Grant's strength. Just as, in 1870, there was, long in advance of the Tte- publlean nombnation, a tolerably well-defined eonsplracy to belie In the Repubilean neml- nee at any cost, have we already formed 9 conspiracy to bring In Gen, Grant, no matter how the vlection may go. Te is theone man, the oniy man, under whom the revolutlonists for such they nre—think they can steeerd, ‘Thelr idea ts to makes hot canvass for 8 solid North against a solid South, Lf, by stirring up the Wwarilke passions of the North, they succeed, why, well and good, But, if the fall, the leadership of Gen. Grant furnishes thei still another chance, The two Houses of Congress are Democratle. | TheSouth fur- ashes the Demycratic majority In both, They think that, after the election, they will only need to inuddle the returns that they inay sectire a protest for overriding Congress on the ground that Consron is a mere body of pardoned Rebels, who are about to turn the Government over to the distoyal South, and practically to put the Pan tederey: abuve the Union—n_ thing not to be brooked by Ioyalanen, Thus, with Grant, the hera of the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, in the saddle, and the Grand Army of the Republle ready to take the field, they expect fo accomplish In 1881 by forea what in 1877 they necomplished by fraud. ‘Ihe Democratie party, by long domination, made Its final exit from power the ocenslon of aseetional war, which tools the country by surprise. Tho Republican party, by long domination, fg able to force the country to chooge between it and elyil war, ‘This Is the meaning of the Grant booms and, ag in animating principle, it is worth all the Jeaders Which Murat Halstead and George Willian Curtis may Indite twixt this and doomsday, | The stalwart leaders know very -well that both Halstead: and Curtls will fall in Mne after Grant ty nominated; and they know very well that, when the Etcetoral voto ig muddied, nnd the issue of the Confederacy yerstis Grant {8 fulrly started, thoy may ag surely count upon the two great editors ag upon any two Corporals in the ling of the Grand Army, “SEEMS VERY UNLIKELY OF NOMINATION.” Toledo Made (Hten.). Cameron will go intu the National Conyen- ton committed from first to last for Grant, who now seems very unlikely of nomination. Early in the Convention the success of some other candidate will become so apparent that the floaters In the Pennsylvania delegation will hasten to array themselves in the anuti- Grant ranks, and so—if the rule adopted H = terday Is ndhered to—plump the delegation solidly against a third term, and greatly dis- comilt Cameron. ‘The outlook fs not ut all picnannk forthis gentleman, Grant's streneth ls undoubtedly much greater in Pennsylvania than anywhere else. if Cameron, aided by this boum, eannot maintain is aseendency, Ms relgn of leadership Js destined to bebrigt, “A GRAVE MISTAKE.” Milwaukee Wheansin (Rep), Senator Cameron has committed ‘a grave nistake in forcing through this resolution of Instruction... The Pennsylvania delegates should have gone to Chiengo untrammeled. Cameron hing shorn Grant of Ils moral strength by making hima contestant for a candiduture with which he Jias repeatedly declared he would have nothing to do unless it was willlugly nnd voluntarlly tendered, In truth, Cameron has done so much to damage Grant that one intght think that tits act was that of 2 man who wanted to render Gen. Grant odious. Now, we believe It to be the feneral conviction of the hepple that nothing but a reat and overmasterthy neces- sity should call out Grant fora third term, and as yet there Is no certainty of suelt n- necessity; nnd, therefore, to thrust him upon the Convention In this way was the surest plot to bowstring him when the delegates as- semble in convention at Chicazo, Of courso we cannot understand Myr, Cam- eron’s motives, but he may bo using Grant to brenk somebody else down, and then to bring forward another man, “THE MACIINE." Milwaukee Sentined (Rep). Nobody belleves that Grant Is the choico of a majority of the Republicans of Pennayl- yanla, The action of tha State Conyention shows slmply that tha machine can carry a nieastire as nynlnst the sentiment of n major- ity of the party. Itis well to keep in mind that the expressions of convention are not nesessarily representative of tho sentlinents of tho party. By machine work such as tho Camerons fave done in Pennsylvania, States are julsrepresented in National Conventions, and nominations which do not express tho popurr will are made, It is asserted by 9. Republican Congressman (whose name in. the’ New Yark Tribune, that. the delegates from _ Wis- consin ean be instructed for Blatue, It is true that a few years ago the power of tho Boss wus great enough to effect such nv resultcontrary to the wishes of the party, but we believe tho machine fs not in good working order {n this State now, ‘The Boss? candidacy for the United. States Senate caused soveral cogs to slip, and it has never workert smoothly since, What the Boss can do to give Blaine the delegates will be done, but le will not be much, ‘There is no Cam eron rule in Wisconsin to-day, though it will he attempted. In every State there will be a Seugele and, if Grant carries Hnols and New York, as he may, his nomination is as- aured, The yotes of the Southern States will be given to Grant. At present It looks very much as though Granf Is destined to get tho now!nation, “A BANREN VICTORY INDEED," Dee Moines Register (Rep. This result Intho Stato that had its Con- vention called first because 1¢ was conatdered the surest of all States for Grant, and be- cause Camuron had promised It would in- struct unanimously for Grant, fs a barren victory Indeed. All the customs of the party in the State, in the manner of selecting delegates, wore ridden down with the some imperious disregard of falr play that char- acterized tho entire proceedings. 1t took all of the Immense power of tho Camorons, backed by all the power of the Grant move- ment in the Nation at large, to bring this ro- sult outof an unwilling and yet subservient Convention. For the State that was to In- struct for Grant unanimously, and for tho Staite that gaye Grant 125,000 majority in 72, the victory of yesterday certalnly cannot be clalimed by the Grant finery a8 pis thing yory extraordinary. ‘lo Binine this fs nots de- feat, Agalnst all of tho skillful or ganization of the Cumerons and 8 workings of tho most perfect political machina in the Nation, and without any counteracting aystemads effort or organiza- tlon, Mr. Blaine carried the State by an up rising Ghat was &3 spontaneous and over whelining as it was wiexpected and surpris- ing. ‘That he has been cheated out of tho result of [t by the artifice of the Camorons, will not harm hin nor cian benetit those is not lyon who have thus deprived lifn of what was fairly his own, ‘The result will give hlin the aypupathy of the great ninsses of the party, and will nerve his friends into renewed vtfort in hig behalf. ‘This bold action of yesterday introduces the radical resort of {ustructions futo the campaign, and makes the Grunt pare ty responsibly for tt, Other States will now bo forced to do tho same thing, and the Grant arty will huye tu gtaud everywhere by the fist they have themselves originated In Penhaylvania, For this test we aro ready In ON OWT. « That Pennsylvania Jed In. the betrayal af the popular wish of the party Er 187, will not Jessen the popular indignation now at seelne i again fend of in betraying the will of Hy own State fri 1880, “A USK NEITHEM HE Non Mis PANTY CAN AFFORD TO TAKE.” Bt. Paut Pioneer Press (iter.) ‘The Republlean candidate for President fs not named fn Harrisburg, and Don Cameron may find a limit to hls power to smother op- position and control the action of his party, The Influence of the action in Harrlsburg upon the nomination of Chicago will depend more tipon the view taken of It by Republic ans in other States than upon the positive strength tt brings to Gen, Grant. ‘There are newspapers apd politicians, anxious seanners of the horizon for signs of the coming man, ready to grovel at his feet when he com who will hall this nection as the beginning f resistless boon for Grant, and shout them selves hoarse for iim, aa thes would for ay othor enndidate who showed sheng of suc. cess, ‘There ure others who will see It in Its {rug ight as a peeparcat triumph of the muchine, without real Hopi. Jnr support or political vitality, which hus only to he Isolated ta logo its “Smportance, Gen, Grant should bo tha first to see It In thls Nght, and to understand that, while a purty inaehine ean secure delegates ina nominal. ing convention, It cannot secure Electoral votes. Gen, Grant should know better than any one else that he needs far different sup- port than that of Don Cameronand the Penne sylvania machine to. make him President, and he should know better then to. let his nate go before the Chicago Convention with no More substantial beeking-than this, Re publican Conventions in other States have a lesson to learn from the Pe Ivania Con- vention; but itis a lesson of warning rather than of encouraement—of warnlig — not fo blindly follow o senseless * stam- pede —sogkilifully — coutrived by — po- itien) Intrigners, and help to nominate a candidate who fs weak and dangerous from the mere character of his support, Grant would be a strong eandidate—nny candidate ‘Would be strong—with a vigorous popular following nt his back, Grant would be 2 venk candidate—any candidate would be weak—with nothing but n party machine to depend upon for his election in & sharp pop- ular contest. Itis tolerably clear that In Pennsylvania Gen. Grant has little depend- ence outside of the party muchiie. If the re- sult in other States Indlentes that the same conditions exist there, ils nomination at Chi- cago will bea risk neither he nor his party can afford to take, “CHAS CROSSED THE RUNICON.” Buffato Courter (Detn.). It fs safe to predict that the narrow victory of Cameron in Pennsylvania will be put hn the shade by the sweeping triamph of Conk- Mug in this State, Grant lias erossed the Rubleon, and he will fight it out on this tine if It takes all sume: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Who Wero the Brides? To the Hilltor of The Chieago Tribune Gnranp Ravips, Mich. Feb, &.—Can you fell me the origin, or, if not, the first allusion in print to the “ Brides of Euderby”? ? ( The Brides of Enderby” ts the tit poem written by Jean ‘Ingelow. We are un- wble to furnish any other Information about. A Public Nulrance. TM the Editor of The Cheago Tribune. Cmicaco, Feb, 2—I haye business which calls me on Clark street, and between Wash- ington und Randolph streets am accosted and stopped from one to hinlf a dozen tines by runners asking if Lam Jooking for 9 rajl- rond tieket. It {s annoying, to say the lenst, nnd no credit to the raltroi is When they em- ploy such men, For my part, L can’t see wuch difference in them and the guinbling- house runners who-at one tine thronged the wane street, A Sunseninen, Mother Shipton’s Prophecy. Kanasazoo, Mich, Feb, 4.~L have to thank you for once before anawering some questions which I asked you with regard to the “French suecession,’ and now would be very much obliged If you would tnform me as to what grounds we have, tf any, for belleving that “Old Mother Shipton’s Prophecy” was written at the tlmie elalned, and what she dld prophecy, aud who she was, If you can tell me about It I should like to have you before tho 18th inst. Tex. {Tho so-called ' Prophecy of. Mothor Ship- -ton” Is admitted to be a literary forgery per- petrated about 1850,] ¢ Ratiroad Abuses. To the Eulitor of The Uhscugo Tribune. Ciicaao, Feb. 5.—I have been reading the past few weeks your able and convinelng ar- tlelus on tho rallrond question, and It does seem that if the press throughout the Iand would labor as does Tae ‘Trnone we might hope for relief. But when we turn and look tha othor way, and see those who make and exeente our huws,—see them all bribed with free passes and other special privileges,—we lose hope. Only the other day I saw in my travels something of this great evil, On the traln with me was a Judge of our Court and ourmember of the State Board of Equallzu- tlon, both using free passes, the Intter even having an anmial pass of the Pullman Car Company. 1 tell you, Mr. Editor, there ts work to be done before we linve rellef, God speed you In your efforts, : Jonny B, Ganwoon, Chiengo Sowage. To the Bultor of The Chicayo tribune, Critcaco, Feb, 6,—The complaints madeby the Ilmols River towns 1s proof that the deepening of the canal hns grently assisted Chicago, sewage, Butto advertise the fact that the Cann! Commissioners have obstructed tho facilille ,of the canal for suwage purposes {s tho abjc st of this communteation, At the Summit level there has been constructed a fate for safety aguinst breakage In the canal nok, The closing of the gate will shut the wnter of the Jake out of the canal while tha break is being repaired, But the construc- tlon of this gate, which Is just large enough for n boat to go rough, Ifmits the canal for drainage purposes to the size of the gate, It ig just the sano ns if the canal had been dauumedthis much where It connects with the river. Tow easy It fs to enlarge the canal by removing the gule or by a dilferent con- struction thereof, No wonder water does not rapldly flow through the canal, or as the engineers who deepened It expected, when this guty Is so constructed as to contract lis capacity, (NGINEER, Thoy Want Warm Stroot-Cars, + Tp the Editor of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Crrcaco, Feb. 5,—In behalf of many citi- zens on the South Sido, I bey leave to say a fow words to the public through tho best ine- diumnat our command, A great Indignity Jins beon suffered by this portion of the com- munity for the past few days, and there BoUS no prospoct of Its being inttlgated un- 48] we rise In army and demand justice. Yes, justice! that is the word, For it!s not Jus- tica when poor working-women and working: girls have to ride three or four miles In the street-cara these cold mornings and nights, ta and froin thelr wark, und slewith nuinb fect all the way because tho managers of the street railway on te South Side are elthor too poor (?) or too derelict tn the duty which they owe every portion of the wublic to sup ply thelr cars with hay or straw. ‘The man- agora In question must have very sanguine tumperaments to hope that the warn days which we lad were zulos to last, and, as a result of thelr miscalculation, now | that weather In genson 1s here we Who aro help less ara made to suffer, O, Mr, Editor, were your feet ever freez- Ang for an hour straight ahend, or did you aver have to ride to your work morning alter morning in winter ina cold streetcar with No straw on the floor? If go, take the purt of many working people who In this brief lotter appeal unto Cusar,” y A Work1na-Gint, Bridgmuns Blunt, To the HAltor of ‘Tre Chigago Tribune, Crrcago, Feb. 6.—This {s the title fof an artlely in Tie Tripune of Feb, 5, which ap pears to have been written by some one inter ested, whethor iu the Indlau Bing or Ju a de- sire that justica be done, your readers can judge. Your correspondent truthfully says that Bridgman has petitioned foran investlgu- on (which petition has stuce been granted) of the charges Drought agalust blu by Comuils- sloner Hayt, and then goes on to make fulse statements calculated to prejudice the public agalnat Bridgman, IInving personally known Maj. Bridgman for the past twenty yeara, and never having had reason to doubt In the least his honesty: or inoral character, J. feel that It Is dus to him and his most excellent wife and family Uhat he should bo allowed an appeal from Hayt’s decision and liave a falr trial. The statement that he Is “without sympn- thy execpt In. New England where his bondsmen reside” $s especially false and unfair. It ts true that he hag sym- pathy In New England. ‘Cltere he was born and spent most of his Ufo, i4 widely known, and universally respected. There he did secure his appointment through the Infltence of those who know him best, and there he lind no dificuity in securing rellable bonds- men, Now let justice decide between hin nant! lls neeuser. r) df Maj. Bridgman has tiftned thtef and srontndrel Iet him be punished, severely, If, on the other hand, tt Is proven that Hayt and te Indian Hing of Wisconsin, having found Mnj. Bridginan an honest wan, who would not Join In with them to defraud the Govern. ment, and desirous to get him out of their way are persecuting hin without reason, [eb us hnve the truth and Jet the gulity suiter, Tt is quite true that some of these Govern- ment thieves were transferred to the State Prison, and not almply kleked out of office, or, as more commonly, allawed to reslen. Maj. Bridgman was not removed for cause, but went out at the expiration of his commis- salon, At the instigation of his enemles, the ‘Timber Ring, he was twice Inyestignted dur. Ing his counntssion, and each time was hon- orably acquitted, The religious bady who first nominated him recommended his reap. pointment, and Huyt consented to reappoint tin, showing that there was nothing proven aalnst him nt that tine, The influence of the Timber Ring, however, secured the ap- pulntinent of a man who lived in that lo- eH ‘. Ma own hellet ts that all the charges men- tioned agninst Maj. Bridgman are utterly false. Twillonly attempt here fu prove the falsity of the Inst statement, viz: “That there has been no intention on the part of anybody 1o proseente Bridgnan?? n the deeqat Netus of Dee, 27, 1879, it ap- penrs that he was Intely indicted in the nited States Court in Wisconsin, and also prosecuted by civil suit, These prosecutions were for alleged irregularities as Indian Agent, He voluntarily came from Massa- chusetts ny soon as he knew he was indicted, Aud gave bail, About two weeks ago, on the dlay set for ls tril, he went to“Allwaukee a second time and his accusers were not ready for trial, ‘The case was postponed, he went home, and now holds himself In readiness to come out tho third tine, ‘This statement ean be verified by the Court records at Mil- waukee, and by his atarneys Messrs. Finches, Lynde & Miller, of Milwaukee, Your readers can judge whether, as your correspondent says, “There has been no In- tention on the purt of wuybouy to prosecute Bridgnien,” or if thera is’ anything ise por- secution golng o Atust. LN. DIANS, The Fetonr, Vanktons, Assiniboines, and Crows=Growing = Scurelty of Buffalo—The Hostiles in a Miserable Condition, ‘ Special Correspondence af The Chicago Tribune, Porsan Riven, Mont. Ter, Jan. 10.—We aro all greatly amused at the very futile imagina- tions of sumo of the correspondents of Exstern ppers, who roprosent tho hostiles under tho omnipresent Sitting Bull as murdering Amer- jenn settlers aud whites generally, Strange In- vod} Where aro the white settlers? In a personal acyuuintance of tho Missourl from Fort Ruforl to Benton, I have failed to sco the alurmed settlers. Tho onty whites found area fow wood-choppers, who certainly are not at all nlarmed, ay most of them huve Sloux wives, and ure not of atinid nature genenilly. Besides, wo nil know that tho ‘Lctons are not disposed to hurt private cltizens, It Is the United Btutes soldier they nre after, I speak this from a dally intercourse with them, extending for yearn; und, belng able to converse with thom in thelr own Inngtuige, have been able te get a toler ably comprehensive tdea of thelr feollny. Wo betide uny unfortunute United States soldicr who ever gets into, thelr clutches! Ho had ; better commit sulcide, as his death would not take place until bo hud endured all tho tortura that u savage mind could dovise,—tortures that nll the Imagination of Cooper has not imagined, Let us hope no soldier will be sa unfortunate us to full uto their hands, Tho hunters of tho Toton camp aro nt present hunting south of tho Missouri, in the nelgbbor- hood of Fort Peck, The plan they adopt is a yood one, ‘They leave thelr families close to the Ine, and from thence start out hunting, taking only a few women along, Thoy take only a few lodges, and those small,—so that, in the ovent of wanting to move rapluly, thoy would be able to dogo, They keep a guod outlook, so that any chance of surprize would be almost impossible. And, besides, thoy know that the United States oflcers do not generally care about winter. cuppalgng. ‘Thoy ure decidedly unpleasant, and not neevasury for the heulth of the troops, us soing Jule cninpuigns were thought to bo. ‘The Tetons and Yanktons have not affilated neurly ns muck this winter ns before, Thera was n feeling engendered during tho late ouim- palgn of Gon, Miles, that has since grown into mutual distrust, and, in the case of tho -Agsini- botnes, of opon hatred, thut nt any momout may breuk out lute open rupture. Gen. SMiles’ ome ployment of the Assinibolnue as scouts was a very unfortunate circumstunco for tho poor Dog-Exters, us it left them to face the Tetons A alone, The Assiniboines realize their itlon thoroughly. Redstone, thelr Chtef, sty Gen, Miles came and asked otir young men to go and tight the Tetons. They went. One young mun goterippled for Mfc, And now Gen, Milea ts gone, and we have no ammunition, nor will he jut our traders éell ammunition to us. We do not understand I." We all think that old Red- stone is right. It Is etrange that so well-behaved Indiana ay the Assluibulnes, allies of the United States, ahould be forbidden taed ammunition, ‘The Indians bave hid w hard thne this winter. ‘Tho snow has been more than ordinarily deop; and the cold an auveral occasions haw reuchee 40 below zero, and on one occasion It reached 40 degrees below, It hus been so cold that the Ine dlans have not beon abloto hunt. The Indians, both hostile und frlendly, do Indeed havo # wretched existence, Gamo is gotting more and more scarco; and the aunultics provided by tno fostering caro of the United States Inilan De. partment aro not sufliclent to keep body nnd sout alive, and oven this ration docs not last all tho year round. The Crow-titians,a fow nighta since, stole fifty-one horses from the Yanktons, This horse-stealing business 18 a great cause of trouble to the Indian Agent. He will advise tho Sloux not to goto war against tho Crows; the Sioux will udviso thoir young men not to ga to war; and all will be lovely, when, some dnurk night, an enterprising Crow will slip in and lifta Dand of horace, Thon it ia good-by to advice, An ontorprialng young tick will start up a ware party for tho Crow country, und althor come home with a band of crow ponlea or leave big hulr to docorute some Crow warrior, Somehow orothor tho Crows have hud the best of tho gume for some time, as forty-nine Bioux—Teton: and Yankton—aro ‘not uccounted for—have ono to War, aNd not como buck. Tho Crows have the advantage of having bottor horses and penty of ammunition,—great odds in plains wur~ are, ‘The buffato are gotting alarmingly scarce. In places whore only a fow years ago the buffalo wore plonuiral, now there aro none. We bere all think that the buffalo will wind up inthe next ten years; and then tho Indian troublos will commence In reat carnest, unless the Ine diins are inudo sclf-aupporting. Tha Assint- boinos are rapidly becouing wo, They have been very fortunnte tn buying 9 purtioularly suitable man as thelr Ayent for tho snat three yours. ‘Tholrcropauf potatoes and corn have onthe greatest help to them; and, whilst othor Indling have been starving, they have bid Ah of potators, lunty.. One Indian sold 8300 wort Rate very bad thing for an Indian, who proba. biyoverbad $0-In cash before.” Last yenr, willist portion of the Sixth Infantry were wt Wolf Point, tho Indians transported: ‘tholr camp and supplies, and did it in a first-rate manner, Tho Indians take great pride tu thelr wagons, and are good teamste tt, US & THe, ary Fath er disposed to averiond. They are alk very wile Ing to work with thoir teams for blro, Lust fall the Trader At Poplar had 8 lot of freight that ho wanted moved, wilhe cinployed Indians with great mutual witixfuction. Autwliataudton il reports, tho Yanktons aro behaving well, and cortumly du not merit the very stringent prohibition of tred ammunition, whf{eh prohibition docs nut mount tow row ov! bouns ay proventive, us 4 ellquc of lawless whites from Silos City supply tho Yanktons with ammunition, Tho oll proverb of look ut homme, {4 quite apropos in the cuse of Gen, Miles. The {doa of 4 fort yomewhere tn tho nolghbor- hood of Wood Mountains tide universal faver, Itisknown by all who wre famillar with this country that Fort Assinibolne is a good deal out of the way, and thata fort in the vicinity of Wood Mountuina would be very well located ta operate agulnst the hostilesy,—nitbough, for tho ite of us, Wu cannot deo whut barns the poor, dnlgorable, sturving wretches are doling, oven tt thoy do kills few buffalo on this side of the Ine. Wo'whitea who live here, unl who do not mike campaigns for the heulth of the troops, do net huve any approbensionsof tho ‘Tetons, 1 think T can suy 1 know tiem 18 well as miost peuply, and Tyan assure you that it is p vase of tho Devil not belng us black ws hu bs palnted. ‘To ve the poor wretches thelr duv, thoy vertalnl; jo behave rowarkably well avross tho Iino. mim not golpy juto the reasons for {t, but am = quite content wiih tho fact, Here, no one thinks of traveling without arma. Across tho line, to carry urms Is the exception. We have recently heurd of a decision by the Attorney General of the United States that will have a yory serioua effect on same of the truding interesta of thia Territory, The decision is to the ef that Miltary. Post Tenders have 0 ht to trede with Indlans—n decision that will be very beneticlal for tho Indians, and wilt cop thom nf home, and in n great measur prevent thoir wandering. A Post-Trader certainty ought ta be content with Aaolier tride, and a bur with whisky at 2h cents adrink, and not genorally an oxtra fie articla at that, Fitep Cap, THE FISHERY AWARD, Fraudulent Falattications In the 8t: tlatten Used to Suatain the Canndian Claim=Prof, Mind In Rebuffed When Mo Calls British Government Atten- ton to Them, iby Telegraph to New York Ierata, Hauirax, N. 8. Feb. 3.—Uncle Sam's objec: tlons te the payment of that $5,100,000 fish bill have received nid and comfort from an unex- peeted nource,—In fact, from a alatinguished Cnnadian who woe connected with the Fishery Conimission, I refer to Prof, Henry Youlo Hind, who realdes at Windsor, forty-five miles from Hullfax, and Ja ane of the Governors of the vencrablo King's College in that town. Al- though his statements now reach the public for tho lirst tine, itis probable that the Btate De- purtment at Warbington heard of them some time ngo, and that thoy bad some influence in moving the United Btates Government to remonstrate against the decision of the Commis- alot. Prof. Hind ts un eminent velontist, who bus soen service fn all parts of Canada. While engaged in investigating tho fisheries of New- foundland he was summoned to Halifax to take. a hand in tho work of the Fishery Commission, Mo was employed to compile nn anotyticul Index tu all the ducutnents and proceedings of tho Commieston. He afleges that while engaged in this work he obtained information which sutis- fied blm that the official stutlstics procured for the British cue had been falsified before their presentation to tho Conunisefon. Hosnys he ob- tulned documentary proof of the fuct, aud pro- ceeded to England in Noveinber, 1878, ta Iny it -hefore the British Government, On the steam- er he met Sir Alexander Galt, of Cana- da, who was tho ritlsh Commissioner, ond) told him tho story, Sulisequent- ly he wrote (na letter to Sir Alexander tothe snine effect, which fs now printed. Tho Foreign, Ollica he says he found fenced against. him, Sir Alexan Galt characterized the charges ag wbsurd, expressed the utniost contl- dence in Messrs, Ford und Bergene, tho Uritlsh ollicials necused, and added that us bis duties in conneetion with the Fishery Cominission had ended he could do nothing {nthe mutter, This Was the substunce of several communications from Sir Alexander, But Prof, Hind persisted, and fluutly, fr November, 187, nddrcesed 0 yery eluborate paper to him, going into the whole ense. Meanwhile, however, findjog that nelthor the British Foreign Office nur Sir Alexander Galt would entertuln his churges, Prof. Hind, in Sep- tember last, wrote to Mr. Delfusse, formerly Belgian Siinieter at Washington, who bad pro- sided over the Fishers Commission. I quote this letter from the voluminous correspondence M, Maurice Detfune, Prealtent’ of the Matifar Mishery Commistiom—Sine 1 by coed ave tho honor to request your Excullency's attention to the ine closed copy of the statistical tuble in the case of her Majesty's Government, presented to you at Ralifux, N.8.,on the 15th day of June, 1877, for your Judginenit, as Presiding urtltritor in the recent contention between her Britunnle Mi- esty’s Government and the Government of the United States. The corrections in ink on the faco of this copy of the table, Jointly with othor: sources of Inforination, led me to the discovery of extensive fraudulent ulterations of officlil records of the Governnient in stutiatical data, formiug part of tho cnse of her Majesty's Gov- orninent, and formerly presented to you Bs 1 core rect statement Inn contention with tho United States for a pecuniary compensation. The taublo now eubinitted for’ your scrutiny, us Presi dont of the Hulifex”Commisston, and to the scrutiny of your colleague, was placed in iny bands eae of the cuse of her Majesty's Gov- ernment by the Secretary of the Comtisafon, Mr.J. H. G. Bergene, along with copies of all the other records of the Commission. ‘hese docus mente were officially given to me in eumpllince with the Instructions of the agent of tho Uulted States andthe agent of her Majesty's Govern. ment, with the concurrence of thy Minister of Blarine and Fisheries of tho Dominion of Cana- du, | Sty inatructions were to prepare s completa analytical index af the documents and proceed- ings of tho Commission, which index wus printed inJunuary, 1878. Mr. Dergene was appointed by er Excellency to tho ofiice of Secretary of the mmiselon. in aecontance with the twenty-fifth article of the ‘Treaty of Washington. His ox- ponses were paid by the two Goyermments, In equal moieties, by virtue of tho same articte of tho same treaty, and hig dutics wore tu" nsslat the Commissfoners ju the transaction of the busi- ness Which uuty ovine. before them." The cor- rections in writlag on tho fuce of the document otticiully given to me by the Secretary of tha Cainnilssion and now subinitted for oxatnination to yourself aod your colleugues point to the Promoters of tho fnlsifcations it embndies. ule table Is thus referred to in tho case of her Magenty's Government, subinitted to your judg mont “according to justice and equity." Chup. ter 1, oxtent and value of Canadian fisheries, ft uppears by tho subjoined statement qappendix Ajtbat the produce of the fsheries cuught by British subjects hus greatly ucreased during soven yeurs ust. Their stexdy development and increasing wealth, us shown by this return, proves that a very considerable amount ef In- dustry aud enterprise is embarked thoreiu, and also that they ure enpableof still further ex- pausion, ‘Chis marked iinprovement in their condition and yield for the period speci- fled in tho table is an important cir- cumstance ju relation to the present in- quiry, It shows that as an articlo of commerco and a source of food thelr actun] productivencss keeps puce with the sane increasing demand mudeun them for all tho’ purposes of foreign and domeatic trido aud of local consumption; nlko thoy aro new of much grenter value thun thoy, wore during the existence of the Reelproc- ity Proaty. The udmission ef Amoricin fishers men to concurrent rights w the Trenty of ‘Washington fs therefore In every respeet Wighly advuntugeons to the United States citizens, EXTENT OF THE FALSIFICATIONS. T have shown, In correspondence with the proper Imperinl authorities, that the approxl- mate known oxtentol tho wlterations of the oficial records of tho Dominion Government, as revorded Inthe tablo submitted in the British caso, amounts in the aggregate to—less mack- erel, 10,000 barrels; more herring, ¥1,000 bar- rola} leds cans of mackerel, IK,710 cans; moro stoked salmon, in boxes, Wye boxes, Also that these {tems in gross are tho resulta of nuincrous chunges in the tables pres sented In quantities, in denonitnation, and in rices, which run through nll tho years 180 to 875 Inclusive, Notwithstanding ciforts pro- longed through fifteon montha, four of whieb Aspent in England, | have not succeeded tu ne. curing aeerutiny of thiscopy of tho falalted table, and it reninins, a3 a consequence, till tn ink osscssion, imposing the gravest reaponsi- bilities, Your Excellency will percelve thut this miarepresonting document, coming otticially from the eae cats of tho Commission over which your Execliency presided, dimples uw knowledgo on tho purt of that gentlemanof the origin aud object of the corrections it carrivs on its face, Dut it husn wide bearing, If your Rx- cellency will reforto page U1 of tho documents and pincocd ints of tho Hulifax Commission, printed ut Washington, you will find in the col- umn of totul quantities opposit the wonls “ mackerel barrel ty the number 810, a whoreas in the imperial Hlue-Rook, entitled © Correspondence Ieapecting tho Hiallfax Fishe orios Commisaton,” printed in London, tho atdl- ton of the Bano totals is elven on page 78 as ‘Bed, 00245, whieh corresponds with one of the vore rections In writing on the copy of the xame table now submitted to the arldtritora through your Excellency, If this were « tumpornry mntter, merely alfecting a moncy compensation between Individuals in a commercial transaction, Linight bo Justified ty leaving it ns it now atunds, but it concerns un arbitrition betweun nations which has to be renowed, In one form or another, withs 4n tho short period of five years and whlch was originally designed In good falth by wolomn treaty avoid or lessen discon! and disputes between the British American Frovinces and the United States. 1y is, thorefore, invested with an importance difticult to express tn words, beenuss fataified yocords of Govern- ment wreck the most earnest ace bts at inter national arbitnition in matters leading to sieh disputes, Your Kxecllency ts fauillinr with the troublés which for the pust hulf century have ‘been associated with tho North American fehors jes, and it will not. cree your natice bow mv tho iucronse of Ill-will and discord between Holbboring Peoplos fs iikely. to by enhanced, IC oxplunations be not specdify mude, upon tholr disvovery In international contention for moanoy componsation, arising out of these dls- putes. ‘That tho frauds cannot escape discovery s evident not unly from thelr nature, but ulse from tho cireumstunco that they consist of altored ofMftcial records of the Government. These ure cuslly aceesalble and now forin the only recognized officlat basis of econoinic und solentiily inquiry ona subject of great inter nationul finport. PRACKAULE RELATIONS BNDANGENED. Tho ground I have taken in pressing for a thorough oxamination uf the whole mutter may ho thus Deleily stutod: Apart fron tho dishon= orablo and egal nature of the transaetion, tho good relations wid Harusuny of tho United Biates and tho Urithkh North Amerlean Provinces shoutd not be placed tn Jeopardy by the unluw- fuluctsof two or three iudividuals, Newthor should the olliclal records of Government bo kuowingly stained with the proofs of promed- Ituted fraud in an intermstional eontention which must bo Doulpot to Uyht within tive years, aud with growy tnerowied responsibill- lea, thus fopeta ig futh fu goxl guve orumont ai {ts olticial” ~—srucords, of Baye attempted to show, tu corre- ndenes which Les be sitbmitiot to you, at thy promoters and patrons of these indudd suliiahly throw upon the future the revpouslbill- ties they bave ereated, besides incrowiug and diverting the conseyuunces juto wider channels, : hh thereby inviting retailatury mensures which may a ectother industries, Your Execttenoy will bo tho frst to recognize that, while the treaty of Washington waa designed to bon step forward [n tho mareb of elyilization and Chris- thoy dealing among nitions, tho recon! T now bmit te you throws all buck again te the erude devices of ernft in which trith has no part or representation, It Is, therefore, In the interesta of Inmanity that F now address your Hxcel- leney and restore to the custody uf the Come mission the document taken from ita records, and anelully Preinted to me, which furnishes proof of the statements 1 have made, The tenor of this letter will be communicated to Sir A. T, Galt, and tho Ion. Ensign Kellogg, your Excellency's co-arbl- tratora in the contention. [ huvo already In- formed tho Marquis of Salisbury of tho nature of the step left for me to take in the dizposal of thisdocument. I have the honor to be your Excellency’s obedient servant, Heany Youur linn, M. Delfosac, who received tho letter In France, replied in inuch the eamo terms as Sir Alex- mider Galt's. Itis evident from the whole core pearantlenca that Prof. Hind bas a very strony freling against Messrs. Ford aud Bergne, never= theless his position in the sclentflc world gives force to whatever ho writes, and the facts ho adduces certalniy call for explaination. ee A PRAYER, O Father of all Jove, look down on me, And have compassion on thine erring ehtld— For I have deeply slimed, and my wenk breast Is tempest-tossed, and torn by anguish wild. O why must nll the bitter shame be mine, And oll the agony, and all the grief? And thoy hnve scorned me—those whom I hold dears Dut unto Thee I came for sweet roller. And, O my God, Thou surely wilt forgive, E’en tho’ my soul be dyed with scurlet's staln— For ‘Thou bust suld, (f 1 but come to Thee, ‘That Thou wilt surely wash me white ugain, And, for the sake of Thy dear i} Who gave Hie life, a rananin, ¢ OGoLT pray Thee toblot out ve ¥ siti, And let me in holy peace with Thee, Jo WINTENGHEEN, ————_ Financial Condition of European Countrics. The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes an fateresting. comparison of the budgets, na- tional debts, and wuilitary expenditures of European States In 1865 and 1870, First of all as regards Germany, her financtal re- quirements in that interval have inore than doubled. In 1865 she rejoiced In. the com- parative innocence of inaking both ens neet with n budget of 231,000,000; but she now finds it no cugy task to satisfy the pub- He needs with £60,000,000. ‘The henviest budgets In Europe are at the present moment those of France and Russit—France with an expenditure of some +41 19,000,000, and Russia with one of £107,000,000, the Intter now ranking before England by some £22,000,- 000, In 1865, Russia—like Gerniany—requlred an fucome of less than half asmuch. Hi budget then amounted to £51,000,000. ‘The: Is not an European State bul hus Increased its expenditure since 1865, the total for wil Faroe. having risen from £393,000,000 to £585,000,000,_Asregards the national debts of the different European States, the same may be said of all, exeept En- gland and Holland, which alone show certain diminution of thelr debts. Russia especially has iunged tobring up hers from Av modest £205,000,000 to the respectable figure of £000,000,000, and she has been closely fol- lowed by Spain and Italy, France now rank- Ing first of all; while bn 1865 England wis by farthemost heavily -Dinloncdsatandii before France to the extent of £250,000,000. ‘The total debts of the States of Europe hi front £1,260,000,000 to: £4,324,000,000, But the most interesting of all are those of the mill- tary expenditure, Of a total expenditure for Europe of £585,000,000, £160,000,000 nre devat- ed to -malninining armies,’ In 1865, of 45308,- 000,000, 42117,000,000 were devoted to this de- porement: Here, ton, nearly every State has. iIncrensed Its expenditure,—Gerimany, France, and Russia heading the list. Both in 1865 and 1809, however, Russia and Enuland stand first, Russia spent last yeur 4233,0000,000, En= gland £4,000,000 less, France 427,000,000, nnd. Germany £1,000,00), In 1865 the Gerinan expenditure on war was estimated at £10,- 000,000, the Austro-Iungarian nt 211,500,000, the French at £17,000,000, the British at 427,- 000, antl the Tissfan ‘nt 422,000,000, Only Italy and Austria-Hungary have since then reduced their army expenditures, rt Minister White and Moltke. Minister White was presented to Count Moltko atone of the Court entertainments xt Herlin. A noted statesman, who had rend a blographtenl eketch of the American Minlater, which np- Fonred shortly ufter his appointinent in tho Dewache Rundschau—a Germia magizine—per- formed tho introduction in the following mode: “Count, let me present to you n gentloman from Amorica, who was born In Homer, Hyves in Syri- cure, and bis founded a university in Ithaca.” The Count looked very) much puzzled ut this union of Americn with so many classical numes. ‘The Mlifator hastened to explain the yeouraph= fen} muddle by eaying that the custom formerly had been in America tosclect names from an- Hawt fortho many new towns coming {ute existonce, but that now names of the heroes of tnodern times were chosen, and that Jn the Far West of the United States there were atrenty places which bud been christened Moltke. The Minister's neat turn of tho matter created o xenoral ernile, in which the Count jolned, saying that he should like nothing better than to go tw AaeHey and visit onc of his ycographicat nume- sakes, ———— FELLOWS) 10X¥ POPHOSPUILES, aa eI pnreres Testionial 10 Me. Eellovs, WE, the undersigned, Clergymen of the Metho- dist Church in Nova Scotla, having uted the Preparation known as FELLOWS' COMPOUND SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES, prepared by Mr. JAMES I. FELLOWS, Chemist, St, John, N.B., or having known cases wherein its effects were beneficlal, believe itta bea reliable remedy for the diseases far which it is reommended. JAMES Q. HENNIGAR, Pres. of Conference, JOHN McMURRAY, Ex-Pres. of Conference, ‘WM. SARGENT, JOHN A, MOSHER, JOHN W, HOWIE. STEPHEN F, HUESTIS, RICHARD W. WEDDALL. ALEX. W. NICHOLSON, CRANSWICK JOST, ROWLAND MORTON, JOHN JOHNSON. 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The Great Oriental Tea Co, Increases Its Usefulness---A Branch Opened at 137 Twenty-second-st.---New Goods Retailed at Whole- sale Prices, Standard Granulated Sugar at 9 t-2¢.; Best St. Louls Winter Wheat Flour, $7; ‘ Best Garden Growth Japan Tea, Goc---Best in the World, Anchronicars of Important ovente, tt {s our ploas+ Uretocall the attentlon of residents of the South Sida tu the hicreused focllitles thut arc afforded thom through the enterpriso of the Great Ortontal Tes Company, who havo just opened, at 137 Twrenty-sco: Gad-st.,8 branch extablishment, the cumpletencsn uf whlch will Ga want long experienced in this section of tla city, Messrs, Lindbers & Lawson, tho propria: tors, have long atoud nt the head of the wrocery triule of the city, anu their extended experience und high reputation ore xunranters that the patrons of tha new atoro will be na woll servod and as thoronzhly provided for anxre the putronn of the old establishe ment.corner of Clark and Kinsle-ata, ‘These entore brining gentlemen havo started their new venture In Amanner to folly entitle them to confidence, ‘The atock In extensive, entiroly tew, of tho very best quality, and wit! be retailed at wholesaln pricos,which rondered poxelble by the axtenied buslnoss uf the Gunpowder ‘Tess, warranted to be equal to hat’ sold ulaewhore for $1.25 Is uttered for 90 eentas Bhd Japun ‘Teas, Kuammterd tw bo the very best, IA arGicenta. ‘Tha cash system prevalls, and shrough ite adoption 4) per cent 14 saved ty consume era whe ure fendily Iniuced tu throw uside thele credit toyks, Musers. Lindberg & Lawson are lrlak and cnergotic managers, and wa how thit they will Meet with Unt succosn their enterprise entitles thent to, ALES. THE PREMIUM SCALES OF THE WORLD. PRICES REDUCED From 30 to 60 per cent. Wagon Scales Hay, Urain, Coal, Stock, Coton, and Merchaudiso, Now sold for one-third former prices, 2-Ton Wagon Nenles.,... 4-Ton Wagon Seale Other slres tn proportion. All Seales mado of the bost Material, with Iron Lever, Steol Bearings, Hrose Benn, nnd Beam and Hux included. irory Scale Warrantad perfect, and to givo satisfaction, Luy the cheapest and best, und suve munes. Any informa- ton furnished, of full price list nent upon appilealon, Addruss CINCAGO KCALE CO., 161 Kouth detfersonsat., Chicago, 1 ‘THE CHICAGO TRIRUNK. Tue Cuicaco TRIBUNE FOR 1880. 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Addross > « Bie TaruUNR Company, Corner Madison und Dearborn Sireats, Chieuyo, th NOTICE. “To he ‘Woldrs of Bods of the Westra Rallroad Company of Minnesota.” NOTICE, ‘The underslgned are prepared wo purchase, pursus nat io tug pitrou ot die band Croat Murugaas made py the Western ttallrund Company of SMinugso- ‘te we theo us ‘Tru 1s, Uitoen (15) Douds Of the series of #WLUQ, secored by sald murtyagy, and will ruculye ruposuls frum $82, byldure tar 1 pu rat auld. bowls ‘aunt ‘the Urst way, of March next ab No. $23 South Bovauti-st, Poli elpat Purchases to be tuade of the bunds ofered a lowest prices, but the aight to recs ang aud all propusals iy re sory rele P PiVALLY gustinses, | *Tuateos Volladvlphia, Jan. i, Led 3 b uM oars