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Afternoon and ovenlng. Olympic Thentre, }. _ Clarkatrest, botwoen iandolph and fake, ‘Variety ‘wentortainmont. ASternoun and evoning. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1890, { _ Tue latest things out in the way of com- /Dinations to regulate prices of manufactured, articles are the organizations perfected in {caso by the tombstonemakers and in ‘oledo by the wheelbarrow men, | Aw Inspection of the North Branch yester- day by tho Hnarbormnaster demonstrated ue fact that a marked improvoment In that ‘hitherto atagnant cesspool has taken place ag the result of tho introduction of Iake water through the Fullerton avenue con- duit. AN advance of 10 per cent upon tho prices fixed at their meeting of Decembor Inat wns . yesterday voted by tho National Wagon makers’ Association of the Unitect States, the increased price to take effect Fob. 15, The advance in the cost of material since prices were Jast agreed upon fs the reagon assigned for the action of yesterda: | In tha English fionso of Commons, after a. three-inya’ debate, the Moime-Rule amond- meut to the address in roply to the speech from tho throne was defeated, receiving only 66 votes, and tho address was thereupon adopted, ‘Tho amendment did not command the support of the Home-Rulo faction as 1 whole, und several of the most prominent Liberals spoke strongly aguinat tt, ‘ ne A NusmEn of destructive fires occurred yesterday at various points In the country,— at Albany, N. ¥., where the Clty-Yall was burned, seven firemen being crushed by tho ‘falling of the domo, and a large quantity of reeords belng destroyed; a cotton factory near Pinttvillo, Aln., loss $100,000; the Sinte © Normal School building at San José, Cat., Joss $250,000, In the eases of both public bulldings incendiurism is suspected, ‘Tur local produce markets were generally firmer yesterday, There was & reaction in provisions from the weakness of the previous ' day, with not much new business doing, but. u rather active transfer of contracts from March into April, Wheat wag firm, closing one cent higher than on Monday, with tiews of nbetter Continental demand In England for cargoes off const, and more export Inquiry in Now York. Othor grain markets were dirmer in sympathy, es, Tue Prealdent’s recoptlon at the White *House Inst evening Is described ng excep tionally brilliant—the result, ne doubt, of the avoldance of the error ot a year ngo, When the nowspapor-correspondents were relegated to tho level of the footmen and flunkeys, This year tho soclal standing of the membors of the Journalistic profession hus received a distinct and well-defined rec cognition, and they now hava the profound satisfaction of knowing that they outrank Captains In the anny and Lieutenant-Com- manders In the navy, and dou’t huve to go in at tho basement door any mare, een ney CENTRAL AstAN diplomatic correspond- ence, as it slowly leaks out, tends to Indicate ‘a determination at one tine on the part of Tussin to cheek the growth of British influ: ence In that quarter of the glube. It ts now pretty clearly shown tnt the Czar’s agents shad 8 secret understanding with several of the most poworful Astatle elilefs, by which tho latter wero to oppose intervention or cn- croachment by tho English, and at tho sume time, for certain considerations, ald’ in strengthening Russia's hold upon her re cuntly-acquired provinces, and tncidentally fo assist horn grasping other territory as oc+ casion offered, el Tue hotelkeepors of Chiengo yesterday met and took joint action In reference to the yates to be charged during Natlunal Con- vention-tlne In thiselty, ‘They Inve signed O paper to be forwarded to the Nutlonul Democratic Committee in Washington tn which they pledge themselves to adhere Strictly to regular rates in the evont of the Democratic Convention being held here; that ta to say, they will adjust their charges to correspond with tho accommoda- tlons furnished, as is the practice In the ord!- nary course of hote! business, ‘The same reasonable polley will, of course, be pursued ou tha occasion of the Republican Convention, the’ desire of the hotelkeopers evidently being to provide comfortably for oll the strangers who may visit the city, and at the sani tle to adliere to thelr regular seale of rates, ‘They expuct & great crush, which Will strufn thelr accotumodations to the ut- most, and will be at a heavy expense in pre paring fur the emergency, and their formally- expressed Intention to charge their customary prices for boyrd and lodging {8 sufliclent to slfence the reports that a wholesule system of extortion will bapructiced. Shere can be ty @f the Chicago hote)-" THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880—TWELVE PAGLS. Keepers to take care of a larger people than contd be accommodated in any other city In Amerien, New York excepted, and ito ft ereditably and satisfactorily to all concerned; nor {fs there any doubt that per. Fons Visiting our elty on the oreaston of elther of the large gatherings that nre to occur lero this summer can come without any fear of being fleeced by the hatel: Tne discussion tn the Senate of the reso- Jution providing for a Speeiat Committeo to consider tho subject of interoccante canals ig Itkely to be conducted with closed doors, as Mr. Edmunds, always thecareful consery- ator of tiles points of procedure, yesterday interrupted the remarks of Gen. Gordon on the canal question by giving notice of n mo- tton to conduct the debate with closed doors, This practico has fallen In disuse of Into yenra, nnd is now to.be revived because of the probability that tho question of treaty relations with -the Governinent of Nicaragua, which are sald to be in n very wn- satisfactory condition, will come up for dis- cussion in the same connection. In tho Mouse a resolution was adopted that was re- ported from the Committea on Interoceantc Canal, calling on tho President for coples of all correspondence on the subject that has passed between the United States and fors elgn Goyernments;and for information in reference to our treaty obligations with other Governments bearing upon the canal aues- tion, Coxaness should romove tho pretext of the papermakers for adding 60 por cent to tho market price of unsized paper, by placing on the free list the Imported chemicals used in Dieaching and dressing print-paper, A Washington dispatch to fue Cutcaao Tam UNB yesterday stated that the various in- gredients on which the papermakers paid uty yielded last year the following reve- nues ¢ Roda-ngh,.. $ 600,000 Cauntle ao 407,000 Belting for si 68,000 Alu 60,000 70,000 Only part, however, of this tax comes out of the papermnkers, as these articles ure largely used in making glass and bleaching woolens and for other manufactures, includ- ing sonp-making. The placing of these tn- gredients on the freo list would materially benefit glass, soap, and woolen manufactur- ing as well as paper-moking, and to do so would be inthe direction of wise protection of American Industries, and no protectionist can object thereto If he is sincere In his pro- fessed belicf. The Government does not need the revenue derived from the tax on soda-nsh, ete., ns its in recefptof ten to twelve millions a month of surplus revenue, and Congress {s puzzled how to spend it. So large 9 surplus revenue wrung out of the taxpayers necdlesly is a tempting, corrupt- ing thing, and leads inevitably to extrava- gant appropriations and defeat of economy, ——_— THE “NATION” AND THE GOLD FAMINE. ‘Tho New York Nation blunderingly and unwittingly warns Congress against the de- monetization of the greenback and the de- monetization of the silver dollar, two meas- ures to which that paper Is intensely devoted and In behalf of which it hes expended many pages of rhetoric, Inthe Inst issue of that Paper, commenting upon the largo incrense of Imports and the falling off in the propor- tlon of our exports, it reaches the following conclusions: “Without doubt, howover, tho country {a on tho road tos change in tho foreign-trade bal- Mico, Although this change may not he renched. for soveral months, fortho reason that EBuropo is aguin freely tuking American sccuritics of approved yaluo, “It ig well to keep In mind the fact that when the foreign exchnogea Anully turn against us, and specie exports become necessary, gold will disnppenr, and all tho beauties of tho ‘dollar of fo eather * will bo mado apparent even to tho ullest.!” ‘Thu two facta stated aro that there is & dan- ger that (1) even In few months the balance of trade may be changed agalnst the United States; and (8) that when this takes place, and this country ins to export specie, the gold will be exported becnuse we have a sil- ver legal-tender coln, It is a strange rule that does not work both ways, When the balance of trade wos in our favor Great Britain had to send gold to thts country, though sho has no silver; and the Nation now complains that when we have to pay our balances wo will have to export gold because we hnve silver, Tho fact fs, that Groat Britain could export gold to this country to pay bainnees due us, and that France could do tho same, beenuse both countries have, exclusive of gold, an all-suMclent supply of legal-tender debt-paying money,—the one paper and the other s!lver,—and, therefore, there was no danger of drain or of scarcity of legnl-tender money in elther country, The exports of money by all countries in payment of balances are always in gold, and the flow of gold to and from this country has no more connection with the fact that our silver dollnr is a tegal-tender than it has with tho earthquakes {u Central Ameriea, ‘The gold went out from this country down. to 1877 because the value of our exports did not equal the value of our imports and the ninount of our interest ppyments In Europe, Since that thne our imports of merchandise have decreased, the yalue of our exports has inereased, and our bonds haye been sent home and the Interest thereon fs not now pald abroad, The Nation vow warns tho country that the balance of trade Is nbout to be reversed; that we ure importing mer- chandlse In excess of our exports, and that in a fow months we will have to pay the balance In gold. All this is true; but suppose that, before this takes place, Congress, at the request of the Nution and Its confederate orgwus of Wall street, shall demonetize the $340,000,000 of gteenbacks and tho $50,000,000 of legal-tonder sllver,—In What conilition will the country be to mect the change in the balance of trade? Now, whether the gold rewaln with us or Ro froin us, the country will have a supply of Jegal-tender money, including greenbacks, and standard silver dollars, and subsidiary silver, amounting to about $40,000,000, There will be no seareity; the money will be suficiont to supply all domeatle exchanges, and thera will bu no contraction, no atrin- gency, no difllenlty in finding currency with which to meet all debt-obligatlons, . But, assuming thedtemandsof the Natton bo carried out, and the greenbacksand the silver be demonetized and uo longer a legal-tender Ju payment of debts,—what then ? ‘The export of gold to pay the balances abroad will go on just the saine. The whole volume of Iegni-tendor money In tho country being reduced to the supply of gold, and that belng needed for export, all other forms of money will depreciate. Tha Gold koom will resume Its operations, Every National bauk in the United States will be driven to withdraw {ts clreulation or closo its doors, No bank-nota being redeemable in legal- tender money will be recelyable in payment of debta, and will have to be sold at a loss for gold, ‘The gold, boing acarce, and utterly Insutliclent for the purposes of busineaa, will command a high premlum, ‘The banks will bu ino position to demund gold in payment of all debts, and depositors will be in a post- tien to demand gold for thelr checks. Every demand on the savings banks may be for gold, The banks of all kindg—Natlonal, State, and savings—will bo forced to suspension, The business of the untry will be prostrated. Industry will be atrested, Inbor discharged, and general wreek and ruln brought about by tho sudden destruction of the dobt-paying currency of the country. Thero will be the worst of all forms of distress, that of au enforced stop- page of the payment of debts, for the worat possible cause, the destruction aud famine of debt-paying money. Every dollar of gold will bo honrded. Necessity will foree the {ssuo of shinplnsters; Legislatures wl be convened to ennct stay Inws for suspending the collection of debt; tho collection of taxes will be paralyzed, and finanelal wreek—Na- tlonal and tndividual—witt be the end, And for whut purposo will all this be accom- plished ? : Theriso in the valuo of moncy, and In such ease gold alone wil! be money, means a cor- responding decline In the value of property, fn the value of Inbor, and In tho value of all the productsof Inbor. Asthe valuo of money rises the value of property falls; the value of Ainortgngo on Iand rises, and the value of tho Jand falls; under the two proccsses the Jand soon becomes insitMclent to pay tho dobt due on It; the mortgagee thon takes the Jand, and also a judgment. against the debtor for the deficiency; in fact, tukes the prop- erty and an rdditional mortgage on the future Inbor of the debtor, The demonett- zation of the greenbacks and of the silvor dollar would add perhaps 25 per cent to the moncy value of the hundreds of billions of public and private debts of tho country; would ndd proportionately to the money yalue of the {interest on-all debts, public and private, In the United States, and to the snine extent reduce the value of tho property in the country with which. theso debts aro to be paid, That is the grand cllimax, the golten harvest which the Nation 80 piteouly mourns for,—the harvestin which the property of the country will pass from the ownership of the many to the possession of the money-lender and the security-gamblor. England, which ts the great monometal- {st of the present day, and which dfscards sll- ver as a legnl-tender, carefully provides against a scarcity of debt-paying money by authorizing legnl-tender paper, which may be {ssued to an indefinit amount by a mere or- der of the Government. France fortitics and Protects her people against tho crushing calamity of a famine of debt-paying money by the abundant supply of silver and gold legni-tender money. Germany, which has attempted to establish an exclusive gold standard, still retains n supply of some hun- dred millions and more of legnt-tender silver, Nowhere outside of the United States is there any Government, or any respectable body of financial men, or any body of news- papers, so blind to the platiest considera tons of fact ns to propose that the legal-tend- er money of the country—the debt-paying money of tho people—shall be Hinited and confined to gold. Until the Natfon and its confederate orgnns of Wall street can first show an Instauce of such supreme folly on the part of any other commercial people St ennnot expect the idiotic pulley to find ac- ceptance in this country, THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Sinco it has now become evident thata considerable party in Congress intends to setup the “Monroe doctrine” asa basis of opposition to the construction of an Inter- oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama bya French company, It ts important that every one should acquire as clear a notion as {s possible of the character, force, and bear- ing of that doctrine. In his annual message to Congress in De- cember, 1823, President Monrog stated cer- tain general principles which havo sinco been accepted by all parties as the policy of this Government In relation to foreign rule on tha American Continent, modified, of course, by tho Interpretation put upon Mr, Monroe's declaration and the elreumstances to whieh that declaration was to be applied, ‘The princtples Ind down by tha President wero called forth by the pending proposition for the settlement of the Northwest bound- ary, which was to determina the relative possessions of Great Britain, Itussia, and the United States. Tho most significant of Mr. Monroe’s utterances were the following: “ In tho discussions to which thia intorest has given rise,and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the ocensfon hna been Judged propor for asserting, as 0 principle tn which tho rights and interosta of tha United States are involved, that the Americin Con- tinenta, by the free and Independent condition which thoy havo asaumed and matntaln, are honceforth not to bo considered na subjects for future colonization by any Europoun Powers, “ Woowo it, therefuro, to candor and to tho amicable relations existing between the United States and those Powers to declare that wo shall consiier any attempt on tholr part to oxtend thelr system to any portion of this hemisphere ns dangerous to our penco und safety, With the existing colontos or depondoncies of any European Power wo have not {uterfered and 6bull notinterfore. But with the Governments who have declared thelr independence and maintained {t, and whose independence we have on great conaiderntion und on frat principles acknowledged, we could not view any interpo- aition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner thelr destiny by any European Power in any other light than ag the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States, . “Our polley in regard to Ruropo, whfok was adopted at an early stngo of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of tho globo, ‘nevertholoss remains the same, which 1s not to interfere In the Internal concerns of any of Its Powura; to couslider the Government de facto a6 the legitimate Government for us; to oultivate friendly rulations with it,and to pregervo those relations bys trunk, firm, and manly polley, miceting in all Instunces tho just clalms of every Power, submitting to injuries from none, But in regan) to these continents clreumatances arc emlnently and conspicuously different. It is impossible that the allicd Powers should extond thoir potiticnt systom to any portion of eithor continent without endangering our pence and hupplucss; nor can any ono belluye that our Southorn brethren if left to thomselves would adopt itof tholrown accord, It Js equally im- possiblo, thoreforo, that wo should behold such. interposition fu any form with Indliference,”. ‘The application of these general principles toany doubtful assertion of foreign power over any portion of the American Continent, or to any possible interposition of n European Government in matters that concern estab- Nshed American Governments, depends in partupon the scope which is given to Mfr, Monroo’s declarations, and tn part upon the clroumstances of the apprehended Interfer- ence In alfairs regarded as oxelusivoly American, There is, cousequently, ample Toom for differences of opinion and lively controversy among those who are practically agreed upon the maintenanco of the Monroe doctrine as u National polley. ‘There are two ylews to be taken of tho principles lald down by Mr, Monroe. ‘They may be regarded ag having a direct applica: tion to the circumstances that suggested thelr utterance, oras a broad and progressive policy luoking to the eventual expulsion of European Powers from the Western Contl- nent. In the former case, Mr. Monroe's assertions must be considered not merely with reference tothe settlemontof the North- west boundary, but with reference to the so-called “Holy Alliance” between Russia, Prussia, Austris, and France, which had- charged {teelf early tn the present century with the proselyting of monarehical princl- ples, 2t was contemplated by this Allauce to asslst Spain in her effott to regain control of the South American Governments that had reyolted and established thelr independ- ence, Great Britain proposed to resist such | acon on the part of the allied Powers, aud asked an assurance from the United States Government of ita support ti auch resist- anee, Ithns been held that this particulnr situation prompted Mr, Monroe to make so broad n protest ngatnat tho extension of Ruropenn power on the American Continent, Against all European intorposition to oppress any American Government of an_independ- ent charactor, and ngninst all schemes of European colonization on the Amerl- eon = Continent, -It was thls cons trneted view of tho Mouroo doctrine, applying it specifically to tho con- templated Intervention of the allted Powers in behalf of Spain or to any stuilnr effort, that was taken by Mr. Calhoun in 1845, when ho was the only surviving momber of the Monroo Cabinet. Yueatan, then a quctst-In- dependent State, though really a part of Mesleo, had appented to Great Britain for protection aguindt the Indian depredations that were ruining Its people, and President Polk had Invoked the Monros doctrine ns n warrant fur proposing to send United States troops to Yucatan and forcibly resisting En- elish intervention. Mr. Calhoun contended that the Monroe doctrine, as he interpreted it, had no application toa voluntary nppert made bya separate aud independent people on this continent ton European Government, sven though such an appenl amounted to a tender of sovereignty. A similar con- struction of the Monroe doctrine now would cortainly prectude {ta application to the pro- posed opposition to the Lessops canal. The broader interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, which would warrant the oppost- tion of the United States Government to na business-enterprise that might possibly lend Frauce, as the national protector of the com- pany undertaking {t, to dictate terms to tho Independent South American Government Known as the United States of Colombin, ‘logically Inyolves the ullimate extinction of all European foothold upon the American Continents. If the polley of tho United States Government requires thatat no time and under no circumstances shall any Gov- ernment of Europe assert any sovereign right over any part of the two Americas, thon It fs not with France, nor with a busi- ness-enterprise undertaken by a French com- pany, that the nssertion of such polley should bebegun. Great Britain exercises a sover- eign control over 3,000 miles of Aieriean frontier. Spain governs the American islands of Cuba and Porto Rico with an oppression that discriminates directly ngalnst the United States, Canada is geographically and sym- pathetically closer to tho United States than any other pnrt of the continent not em- braced within our own Government. If the Monros doctrine contemplates ulteriorly a denlal of European rights, even to the extent of protecting 8 company of capttalists in a commercial enterprise, then the United States should first say to Great Britain and Spain to withdraw thelr flags from the Western conti; nents; tell them they have worn out their welcome; remind them that the New World demands absolute independence of tho Old; and warn them that no semblance of Euro- pean authority will longer be tolernted in North or South America, Is the United States Government prepared to take this po- sition? "Is it politle or desirable to make such an issue? Whatever the answer inay be, {ts certain that the policy of excluding al) European Governinents from all anthori- ty in the Aineriens should not be inaugurated by a demonstration against tho French, to whom, next to the aspirations and cournge of tho American people, the Republic of tho United States owes its freedom and Inde- pendence, It is not to bo denled that the construction of an Isthmus canal by a French company will make !t the duty of the French Govern- juent to protect that company in its rights, and will even afford the opportunity for creating such differences between the Colom- btan Government and the canal company as would warrant the Government of France in neserting its sovereignty for compelling tho United States of Colombia to subject itself to French rule or French dictation, At the same time it is not apparent whit Interest Franco or the French company would find in bringing about an exclusion of American rights in the canal. Tho Unlted States would furnish so important a part of the business for an Interoceante cnnal that its owners and the Government protecting them would be naturally disposed to favor and en- courage Aneriean patronage, The Ameri- cans have also other refuge besides tho Monroe doctrine; they may become the clief owners of the Lesseps canal by subscribing tho necessary capital, or they may build acanal of thelr own on the Nic aragua route, Finally, it 1s doubtful whether French capital will be forthcoming for the coinpletion of the proposed work in the faceot American hostility to Ils prosecution. The solution of the trouble may be found fun compromise, whereby equal and neutral rights shall be guarantead, and an inter oceanle canal constructed by a sort of inter uational effort, ‘This was Lesseps’ plan orlg- Inolly, and he only designed to go ahead with French capital when he found that his schemo met with no favor In the United States, The position which this Goyernment holds to the Panama Canal fs very analagous. to that which England held to thaSuez Canal. Do Lesseps builé the Suez Canal in spite of English opposition, but tho English haye since become large owners of tho profitable enterprise. Some such result may be reached’ asto the United States and the Panama Canal, though It Is obviously desirable that itshould bo assured earller In thoday, In any case, however, it seomsto be premature and IIl- advised toassort the principles of the Monroe doctrine in National opposition to the canal Project, since such a position would involve obronder authority than the United States Government tg ready to assume, and possibly lead to complivattons which It isnot prepared. to mect, —<——$_$—$ THE BONNET CARRE CREVASSE OLOSED, Somp days ago tho announcement was made by telegraph that water in the Missis- sippl River in the neighborhood of Now Orleans had reached tho danger Hue.” ‘The following Stems trom the New Orleans Pica- yune of the 4th Inst, indicate troublu: “City-Snrvoyor Brown yosterday, finmodiato- ly upon the recolpt of the dispatch notifying him of the break in the leveo in front of Caze~ bonne's plantation, about seven miles below Algiers, proceeded to the spot and went to work ropalring the break, aud fs sttll down thore. Tho crovasae, which at ane tae threatened to be very serlous, ts about twenty-five foot in width and two foot six inches dvop, It will bo offectually oluecd during tho day, ‘“Asalstant City-Surveyor Blanchard visited tho loves in front of tho Urauline Convent In the Third District Tuesday morning, and found that, for distanco of about 100 yurds, tho loveo was sinking aod cracking, and {f not soon Strenythened would cave in entirely, Three fect adiled to the thickness of tho lovee and the outalde slope protected by mattresa-work would prevent the destruction of the embankment.” It was regarded In this part of tho country as very strange that there should be an actual danger of overflow In the middloof win- ter, and jong before the spring thaw and rains haye brought down the floods of the Obto and other connecting rivers, We sind the explanation in the following paragraph from the Memphis Avalanche; ; “ The crevasso montioned above is the logical reaultof tho cloaing of the Bonovt Carré cre- vasse, Had tho Lake Horgue outlet beon opencd, the crevasse at Cazobonne’s could not have ococurrod. Hud even tho Bonnct Carr crevasse been left open there would bave been Uttle danger of a lovoe breaks But it sulte tho vinns of the levee and Jetty jobbers to clos up tho outlota, beeause to closo tho outlets will roe quire more levees, aud more toyces require inore monoy, And it fs monoy those Jobbers afd after, not river Improvements,” Tho fact seems to be, therefore, that the people of New Orleans have caused the Bon- net Carré crevasse to be closed, and in doing Bo thoy have demonstrated absolutely that tho outlet plan Is the true and natural rem- edy for Misslasipp! overflows. This fs the very reverse of what tho schemors for n levee appropriation desired to show, It 1a nn incontestable fact, however, that durhig the several years the Bonnet Carré crovasse has been opened, allowing the waters of the Missfastppl to pass freely Into Lake Pontehar- train above the Clty of New Orleans, there has been no overflow even nb the flood sen- son in spring. Now that this opening has deon artificially closed again, danger ts threatened at a senson when there Is no flood and ordinarily no apprehension of ovorflow. The result of closing the nat- uml outlet Into Take Pontchartrain, which wns elther fl-advised or. dellber- ately planned in order to bring on on overflow and thus furnish an excuse for urging forward the levee scheme, will bo efthor to brenk down the artificial barrier at Bonnet Carré, or to loud n part of New Or- leans or some of the neighboring plantations, In either event, however, the superiority of tho Cowdon outlet plan over the embank- ment plan has reeelved a new, practical, and convincing demonstration, THE PONCAS’, CASE. ‘The Secretary of tho Interior fins recently printed some interesting correspondence bu- tween hinself and Mrs. Helen unt Jack- son (better known by her Iterary nom de plume of “1. U.”) relative to the efforts of the Ponea Indians to secure suflcient funds to prosecute their elnfins against the Govern- ment. In her first letter, duted the 9th ult., Mrg. Jackson stutes the ense of the Ponens, and intimates to him that, if he approves these sults and will make that approval pub- lie, there will bo no diMeulty {n° collecting the remainder of the funds neccessary to enn- ble them to prosecute the elniin to their fands, while if ho does not approve of them sho courteously asks him to give the reasons, A week later Secretary Schurz replicd, set- ting farth that the Poncas cannot maintain a sult ngninst the Government, henee it is un- necessary to waste any money in employing. couns¢l His first renson is that an appeal from Judge Dundy’s habeas corpus deciston ean procecd only from the Government and not from tho Poncns, for the simple reason that the declsion was in favor of the Indians, Hissecond reason, which concerns theirright to thelr old reservation on the Missouri, Is that the Supreme Court ling repeatedly de cided that on Indian tribe cannot sue the United States or a State in tho Federal Courts, Instend, therefore, of collecting money fora thing which cannot be done, he attaches “much more tmportance to the pas- sage of legislation providing for the settle ment of the Indians in severalty, and giving them individual, lite in fee shnple, the resitus of their Inds, notoccupled by them, to be dis- posed of for thelr benefit, than to all tho efforts, however well Intended, to procure Judicial decisions which, as I have shown, cannot be had.” Mrs, Jackson replies to this letter In a peenlinrly feminine way, by ask- Ing the Secretary a multitude of questions, every ono of which Is settled by tho position taken by Sceretary Schurz, She desires a moro specific answer, and, In the fnce of the hnpossibillty of instituting the sult, asks the following curious question: “If your only objection to this movement {s the one objec- tion which you lave stated,—t. ¢., thatit woul! bo futile,—can you not say that if lawyers of standing are rendy to undertake the case, you wold be glad to see the attempt made In the courts and the question settled 2” Secretary Schurz wasted notimein answer- {ne Mrs, Jackson, and In answering so em- phatically that It ended the correspondence, We quote from his “Inst word” the follow- ing oxtract, which will give the clew to Its spirits ) What I doobject to 1s the collecttan of money. from philanthroplo and public-rpirited persons ostensibly for the bonefit of the Indians, but, In fact, for tho benoft of attorneys and others who ure to be paid for again testing a question which has been tested more thau once, and bas been decided by the Supremo Court 80 clearly and comprehensively that furthor testing seems utterly futile, You say that there are lawyers of skill and: standing rendy sto undertake the euso. Of course therenre. You: can find law- yors of skill and standing to undertake for a good feo ahy cnse, however hopeless, Thnt is tholr business, But I am by no incana of your opinion that, whethor It be futile or not, the ox- Porimont should bo tried ounce more, and for thia purpose the collection of mancy should be furthor encouraged, It cunnot be said in this caso that If the attempt will not holp {¢ will not. hurt. Thore scems tobe n most genulno and active intercat In tho Indian question apringing up. Many slncere friends of tho Indians aro willing lo spond timo and monoy for the promo- tion of tholr welfaro, Such a moyemunt can do great good if wisoly guided in the dircotion of attainable objects, but, if It be go conducted that. itcan roswlt only in putting monvy into the pockets of private individunis without any bone efit to the Indians, the collapse will bo ag hurt- ful n8 it seoms to be Inovitable, It will not only be apt to end a movement which, If well direct- ed, might hayo become very useful, but will also deter tho sincere friends of the Indiaus, who contributed their monns inthe hope of accom- plishing something, from further efforts of that kind, so that we may tnd it yory diMeutt, for a Jong Umo at Icast, to engayo this active aympa- thy again,” In view of the circumstances as stated by Seeretary Schurz, there can be but one prac tical answer to the efforts of thesa well- meaning but i!ogical philanthropists, and that Is to suspend the contributions, It amounts only to the collection of monoy to be wasted upon shystorsand lobbyists, whose Tapacity would not be curbed by the knowl- edge that the Indians could not bring sult, It would only make ther the more euger to get tho fee, knowing thatthere was no work to bedone, inrefusing to give his public ap- proyal of the sentimental but useless work of the philanthropists, Secretary Schurz has done good service by showing how com- pistely thelr money will be, thrown away upon the pack of lobbyists who ure always ready to absorb fees, especially, ag In this case, where no services would be required of them. But even suppose that the suit could bo brought, and admit, what is In the highest degree improbable, that it would result In tha Indfans’ favor,~what then? What more would bp accomplished than to send thom back upon tholr Innds, where they would Inevitably como In collision with the advancing waves of emigration and be sweptolf by the white settlors? Thera ts but one practlea! solution of the Poncas’ case, and that is for the Government to make citizens of them, give each head of 8 family acertaln Area, as It does to white settlers, and make his ttle and that of his sticcessons iuallenable, ‘he Ponens have earned this right, ‘Thoy have always been peaceful In- dians and have shown great aptitude for in- dustrin} purausts,—more so perhaps than any other unsettled tribe in the West, Thoy would rapldly adopt the habits and occupa- tlons of the whites, and become self-support- Ing and develop Into an industrious and Iaw- abiding community. As there is yery good prospect that sonie logislation of this sort will be obtained bofore long, it would seem the proper thing for philanthrovlsts to do to tur their energies.in this diroction, instead of collecting money for a inyth and squander- Jog ft at last upon greedy lobbyists without accomplishing anything at all, and leaving the fndians worse off than they wore orlg- Analy, Tuner or four years ago Congress changeit the Postal law tn regard to newspapers, com- pelling the postage to be prepnidl nt tho placa of mailing, ‘Lhe taw had always. previously made postage payable by the subscriber at the ofitee of delivery. ‘Lhe change of plnco of piying the postage on newapnapors had the offect of putting the wholo cost of it on tho publishers, The aggregate of this nowspa- per postage Is n million of dollars year, It would be twhee as much If weekly newspn- pers were not curried free through the mails in the county of thelr publlention, Thfs frea carrluge applies only to weeklles or less often, and not to dailies, The postage on Ti Day Trmunr ts $1.55 0 yeur for six days, and if the Sunday edition is included 81.70 per year, Tho charge is by welght to regular subseribora,— two cents per pound, yen newspaper exelinnges aro taxed to the sender the samo as papers sent to subseribers, ‘Tho regular mailing price of Tux Damy Trinuns Is 8123.0 yenr, but after the prepaid postage is deducted It only leaves $10.65. Subscribers always manage to forget this pustal loss that falls on publishers. Ab first, after the Inw wont Into effect, sume publishers altempted to add tho postat expense to the subsertption prices of thelr dailles, but ft was found to bo Impractlenble, and they silently abandoned {6 and sue- embed to the Inevitable, and since thon have charged the postage up to cost of publica- tlon and stood the loss. As long nas tho tentency of white papor was to lower prices publishers did not grumble much. at having to pay the postage for thelr subscribers; but, since the rapld rise in the price of paper they begin to think of what a friendly act it wagon the part of thelr representatives in Congress to tnke the expense of postage off the public and put {ton the publishers. The newspaper men now flud themselves caught between the upperand nether inilistoncs, Tho papermakers havo pooled thelr issues and formed a secret combination ty force np the price of paper arbitrarily to the forelgn price with the heavy duties and freight added. ‘Tho only justification for this sudden and great advance in the price of paper Is the ability of the combination poo! to effect it, Theexcuse is the duty they have to pny on soda-ash and some other chemicals, and the alleged rise In the price of cotton rags, But, as the paper used by the newspapers ts composed of 95 per cent of straw or basswood, the rise in Tags amounts to the marest fraction In the expenso of making print-paper. Tr is now sald that E. B, Washburne ts anxions ta be the next Governor of Hlinole, and that he has informed his friends that he Is it enndldate, and from now on would Wee to have their 'netivo support. ‘The Washburn family tuku to polities and bricehold ing its nueturally ag a duck does to water.—New Lampahire Patriot (eaat-tron Bourbon Dem.), In the flrst placo, Mr. BE, B. Washburno ts not only not “anxious to ho the next Governor,” but is natn enndidate. Ife has not informe his friends that he wants thelr‘active support or any other kind of support for Governor. Tho only “support” he secks is for his old friend Grant, whose renomination he desires. Tut, passing all that, tt fs trite, ng charged, that “tho Woshturn family" has been prominentin pub- Ho affairs in this country for twenty-flve years, and Itisa family of which any honest American citizen may well feel proud, no matter what may bo hfs political opinions. Israél Wash- burn, of Maine, the oldest of the family, repre- sented his district in Congress sovernl terms, and was ifterwards Governor of the State, Elihu 3. Washburne, the second son, spent sixteen years in Congress from Mlinols, and sight ycars a4 Minister to France. Ho {s too well known to tho peoplo of the United States to need Ine troduction or culogy. The third member of tho family {s Gen. Cadwallader C, Washburn, of Wiscousin, Ho served ten yenrs in Congress from tho Suventh District, raised a regiment and wont to the front in 1862, afld fled tho Guber- natorial office of Wiseonsi@ to great acceptance from 187! to 1873, defcating the Hon, Jumes BR, Doollttle by over 10,000 majority, His donations tothe Btate are worth recording, Ho built and equipped a Ane observatory that bears bis namo for the uso of tho students of the Wisconsin Btato University, that cost $00,000. Ho donated to the Btnte his country reaidence in the vicinity of Madison, valued ot $20,000, to be used ns an Industrial School for Girls, Ho gave an Agricult- uraland Mevhanical Association forty acres of land nenr Miaernl Point ta be used as permanent. falr-grounds. It fs now conceded on all hands thut the Wisconsin Legislature mado a grent blunder In 1860 in not electing Gon. Washburn to tho United States Senute Instead of Mutt 31, Carpenter, Willlam D, Washburn, the youngost. of the family, represents the Minneapolis (Minn,) district in tho present Congress, They sro nll big-bratned, clean-handed, cininently patriotic, Mboral-minited, stendy-going oltizens. Thoy nro men of affairs, 'Thero fs no taint upon the Private or public record of either of thom, The farlly {san honor to the Amorican name. —— Tire Auatrian Mintstors decinro themselves highly satisfled with the progross of rocupera- tion and improvement in tholr now provinces, Bosnia and Herzegoyinn. Ordor, thoy sny, haa been restored, the most completo religious equality has been established, and the frightful syste of farming the lixes, and expectalty tho tithe or produco-tex, which onabled every Turk- ish collector to use eokliors for his own profit, haa been totally abolished, Tho taxes are col- lected by Stato officers, usuntly Rosniansor Auge trians, tho Turks baying dopurted; and, op- pression haying ceased, tho revonucs come in so reguiarfy that tho Ministry ask nothing for Boantn for 1880. The ngra- rian question {s not sottled, but disputes aro dininished by inelsting on contracta In writing, and of course by tho absonce of Pashas, who always sided with the rich, A great dent, of course, remains to bo dono, but it fs o most significant fact that the moro doparture of tho Turks and tha presence ot commonly just aiiclals have restored tho .Bosninn Tronsury, ‘The Ministry are cuthusiastlo on the capabllitioa of tho provinoe, which, indved, is, after Lom- bardo-Vonctia, porhups the richest by nature of all the States the Hapsburgs huve yet guined, Austria owes the possesslon of this fine acquial- tion to Hlamurck, who wanted to plnce that Emplre under a debt of gratitude and conquer any grudges that hud survived from the memory of Budowa in 180, nod ulso to rescue the Chris {inna of Mosnta from tho tyranny of the mon- strous Turks, ————— Senator Prusi has introduced a bil! that 1s bound to oreato a good deal of discussion. It authorizes the Sccrotary of the Interior to os- corjain tho amount of publio lands in the States of Ohfo, Indiana, HWiinulw, Missouri, 3lohigan, Wisconsin, Siunesota, Lown, Nebraska, Kunsas, Arkansas, Loutsiann, Alabama, Misalaalppl, Florida, Oregon, Novada, and Colorado, whose enabling acts of udintesion into tho Union con- tulned a stipulation for tho payment of 5 per centum on the sules of the public lands therein, ‘The plan is to pay to those Btates the sum of § Der cont on the amount of lauds thus located, catimating the yaluo of these lands at $1.25 per acre. This would give the Btato of Mllnuls nearly §1,000,000, and would be a nice way to res plenish the Troasury of some of thoothor States, It would help thom to Anish thelr State-Houses and diechurge the Indebtedness Incurred in ald- Ang to put down the great Kebollion, The claim act up for the passage of the bill is that thesy lands wore enhanced in yaluoin the concession of Spor centum on sales, and that the United Btutos, by taking thon out of-the cluss of gal- able lands, did injustice to those States above named, 3 Lonpow Spectator, Jan. 23: “The Khedive has accoptod a scheme of Mquidation for Egypt which the Financial Controllers have submitted, and which he bopes ‘tho Powers’ will ratify, Undor this schemo the unpaid coupons are ro. Pudlated; tha short loansexchangod for unified tucks unified stock, which was to have paid 7 per cont, is reduced to 4 per cont, and then only £8,657,000 of the total revenue {s to bo devoted ta administration. Of tho remainder, £4,30,000 ls doyoted to tha bondholders, and £880,000 to the tribute to the Porte, That 1s, In round numbers, ‘out of £8,500,000 [$42,800,000} revenue, £5,000,000 {825,000,000} 1s sont out of% Egypt to pay for money of which the faspayers have bad ony half, anda protection which tho su} affori. ‘There imnoectatey in the warn ete Troland, from whieh moro thn halt we geht revenue, which menns in Erypt hait ity mae earnings above tho bare cost of subistateneg, tied over been oxactad, and poor Investors et) 1 well to remember that even the Intereat fy allowed depends upon Mr. Baring and 3p Dllgnidres not quarrelliy, ttpon tho otveye, bi of the Khedivo, and upon the visi ot ex. SrrEDMAN, Ohio, lets Mght upon tho hostility that 'Ttten inantfest lug townrds Senators Thurman and Bayurd, of Delaware. It seems th, splration of his hate hor a deeper el, ttn that they all whontd be agptenn Preshtonoy, Steedman anys tint Tin consulted ubout. the Eleutoral Comn and that ho ‘did not know of ity Howitt that tt had beon agreed upon, When bi said to Mr. Hewitt that he (Tilden) tnd not been consulted about it, he was answered that Sem ators Thurmnn and Bayard were ftetiny in thes publia capacity as Senntors, and would not en sult. any one outaite of tholr sphere, ‘Tililon tho; declined advice, but throw the whole Teeponal bility upon Thurman and Bayard. te now Dro. pores to hnve thotr aerlps. Steerinan says thas Tilden expected the House would elect bim, and tho latter said: “1 woutd bave token thy oath nnd gone to Washington to take tho fice, belleving that my friends would havo put mf into the White-House.” ———s Ir looks as if Blatno ts going to “scoop Michigan at tho Chicago Convontton, ‘The “stniws” allecem to bo moved by the wind of public opinion tn that direction, ‘Tho Evening News of Detroit publishes the result of 0194 In. terviews In soventy futorior cities and towns of Michigan, and thetr preferences for. choleo of Q nomince for President stands ns follows: Maine, 1,620; Grant, 827; Shermnn, O11; Washes burne, 154, Edmunds,. Conkling, and Garfield hada few senttered frends, & dozen or moro ench, porhaps. Tho onnvnas has been mnde ime partially, ant by the News’ own regular report. ers, Among Interesting pointa adduced tg tho fact that the State olliciala appour almost solid for Blaine, The expressions wmong them arg generally unfavorable tov third term, Four yenrs ayo the Michigan delegation voted solid agutust Blaine on every ballot, under the lenders ate of W, A, Moward, now Governor of De ota. in so has tees Of Ohio, Nt tho Ine eiffleancy 18 Cor the len WOS not mAsston hilt nntil told by Is discnssing the proposed increnso of the German army, tha London 2hnea gives usaty #innce tho rolative strength of the three Powers, Gormany, France, and Russia. It siya: “An acourate and detalled _stetistical sume mary of tho military forces of Franco and hue ala forms tho busls for tha new Incrense of the German army, and it appears that, oven with tho contomplited inereae both tn infantry and artillery, Gertiany would still remain in intlitary strength inferior In, point of numbers to cither Franco or Russia, Whilo Germany hns 470 bate talfons in the first Iino, France hia 65t, and Rus gin, not reckoning tho army of tho Caucasus, 363 battallons. A similar proportion applies to'tho artillery. While Frince oun plaice 42 batteries in Ine and Rusain 60, Germany can put but a buttories In (he tirst ine. If now tho Eeapeeet increase fs carried out, Germany will bave but 504 battaltons, with 310 hatterics In time of peace, which ia but an increaso on the pence effective of 26274 men and 140 puns, In tinte of war, howe over, with the Reacrves and Landwehr, the now ee ymsni anon would yield nbowt 60,000 mon and Ww guns,"” = THERE was xo inueh spitting of tobacens Juice at his lecture in Hamilton, 0., that Prof, Proctor took notico of it and mide a mathoinate fen caloulution in regard to It. “Let us supe pose,” continued Prof, Proctor, * that tho moist> ‘ure extruded in thie unplensing way in Oblo in. tho course of a yenr would, {f twiformly diy tributed, corrospond to tho nddition of a film of inoisture no thickor than a postal card over tho entire Btate. Then if thore are about two hun« dred postal cards to the inch thoro would Ina iniilion years bo formed a sor about ono hune dred and forty yards deep ovor tho entire State. And asin the course of my lecturo [lind occae sion to spenk of tho carth’s future during two thousand Nye hundred miltions of yenrs, ttwould Been to follow (droudful thought!) that theses would riso over Ohio and neighboring States of. equal salivary potentiality to a hight of nearly! two hundred miles! Noah's flood was nothing to this.” New Ontnans Times: “Mr. John By Lyon, of Chicngo, offers for salo four eplendld plantations which he owns on Rayou Teche. Tho reason which Mer. Lyon gives for wishing to dls- pose of those plantations is thnt ho docs nib wish to possess property in a State that repue alates its debts. Ho was one of tho first men, outside of the Stnte, to invest moncy inthid Btato after tho War. owas undor the impress sion that In avery fow yoars Louisiana would recover her former prosperity, and that, cons quently, thero would ben very grent riso In tho Price of land. It scoms that ho was disap pointed, Whethor Mr. Lyou’s example will be followed by othora wa onnnot, of course, Bay, but wo should not be surprised if it were.” ‘Tur first careful and complete canvass of any township of Iinols on tho Presidcutial question ts that of Itock Crock Township, Care roll County, reported to Tia Tuwuns as fok lows: “ LANARK, TIL, Fob, 0.¢A canvass having been taken for Presidential preferences) out of a total of WL voters in Lanurk and vicinity, tho result waa a8 follows: ‘Thurman, 10; Bayard, Vii Tene srluks, ri} ‘Tilden, 2; Duvid Davis, a; Seymour?; jon Butler, 1, “On tho othor sido, out of a total of 2M votert In Lanark and vielnity, tho result was as fole flows: Mlnine, 153; Grant, 8; Washburnic, Dy Shorman, 21; Hayes, 2; W, T, Sherman, a,’ “SPRAKING of Fort’s bill for a reduction of the papor duties, tho Ewing Journal remarks! “Thore is a pressing demand from ath purts of tho country for a repent of tho {mport duty oW print-pnpor and of all tho ingredients thst enter Into {ta minnufacture, Congress shou!d act promptly in this matter, and in ovory other case where unconsclonublo manufacturers at tempt to rob the public by combination or cons apiracy for purposes of extortion, A tariff fot protection is a good thing, but when the pr teoted Intoresta show thuinselyes unworthy {t,"by taking ndvantage of tho tarlit to tur robbers, there is only one alternative, and that ian repeal of tariff dutics.” Tuene {a o story, originating jn the Pifile detphia Press, golug tho rounds of the papers professing to give the particulars of a fery de nunclation by old Bon Wado of Charley Atbere ton, a Senator from Now Hampshire, because ot tho lattor's support of the Kansus-Nebruske bill, Now, old Hon Wade's fearlosucss in de bute, and espectally ou nll questions portalnbge to slavery, 1s too wall known to nocd tho fabric cation of this story of bis annthitation of the New Hampshire Sonntor, Aithorton was nt Sonntor during the timo when tho Kunzsas bi was pending, having dled in Now Hampshire some te previous to tho lutroduction of thst Dill, “LAWYER Cranton’s little bill of $2000 ngalnat W. 1, Vanderbilt tsa fair eamplo of Le grood of many attorneys, Mr, Clinton oto i Vanderbilt in tho sult brought by the 0! i childron to broak tho "Old Commodore's” is Probably tho actun! legal services perfonnel e tho caso wore not intrinsically worth more ¢ a 85,000, and, If Mr, Vandurbilt had stipulated hla counsel on the start, he would haye ur tee taken the defoneo for that sum, But Mr. Cl . ton probably sized bis client's pite and put (a Dill accordingly, Mr. Vanderbilt very Datu! refuses to pay tho bill, ON tho 15th of December, 1875, tho follow {og resolution was introduced into the een Reresontatives and passed by a vote of yeas: ing nays, 18~-noarly all thy Hepublicuns vo! yee Tv Naat f this Hou “ Resolved, That, tu tho opinion o the proosdout oftabllatiod by: Washington A othor Presidents of the United states, tu melo from the Prosidential office ufter thelr Lane a tori, has become, by univer! couaUrT et part of our republican ayatom of yoveran et and that any dupurture from this time-be $ custom would bo unwise, unpatriotic, fruught with peril to our free instituuons- es Tur man who complained that he bad hover realised anything ou bis lito-insurm polluy should imitate tho conduct of ono 0! viotms of tho recout ruilwuy ncoldent Ped 4 Lazare, France, Ho gut bis lite Losier tbe $20,000 Just before starting, und was kilo sue day. It may be cttud asone of tho © where Hfe-insuranco is decidedly profitable. _——— ee Acconprna to the statistics of the W er ain Pouttentlary, tho men who go wrongs 4 curly, Nearly ono-half of all tho convicts at Quod there wore sentonced between the 8a 2% and 80 years. Of nearly 9,000 confined {9 Prison elncp 16 wus oponpdy 1.209 meat Lnupl,

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