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

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An Inspector of Flaxseed is wanted by tho wholesale dealers In secds in this elty, and steps have been taken to obtain the appolnt+ ment of such an official by the Board of ‘Trade, Tue Citizens’ Association yesterday dia- cussed the subject of cleansing the Chicago River, and the welght of opinion expressed. was in favor of the establishment. of pump- Ing works at Bridgeport as the best means at present,available for disposing of tho elty'’s sownge, AN excellent opportunity is now afforded Secretary Sherman to practically demonstrate nis sympathy with the objects sought to bo attained in the Alirich Immediate Trans- portation bill, ns the House. Committes on Ways and Means has requestec his views on that subject preparatory to entering upon the eonsiteration of tho bill, If Mr. Sherman is ts friendly to the mensure as he professes to. de, he can sceuro its speedy enactment by giving it hts support before the Committee. ‘Tue prices for No. 2 spring wheat in Chi- cage and -New York on Wednesday Inst were: Chicago, $1.233¢ ; New York, SL38@1.39 por bushel. Hallroad fretght from Chicago .to Now York, 24 cents per bushel; charges In Now York, 8 cents, * Deduct these 27 cents from the New York prico of No, 3 would leave $1.11 to the Chicago shjpper, Tho Chicago prices nro thorefora higher than those of New York by 13 cents. ‘Tho Now York buyers must pay the Chicago prices If they want Its stores of wheat, Anvices from Washington relatlya to the prospects for securing the Democratic Na- Monal Convention fur Chicago represent a ‘trong probability that this clty will be selected. Itis suid that already twenty out of the thirty-eight members of the National Committee are known to favor Chicago, and as Senator Barnum, the Chalrman, js among the number, and as he is supposed to reflect the viows and wishes of Mr, ‘Tilden in the matter, the outlook is curtainly favorable. Reports as to tho extortibunte designs of Chicago hotel-keepers are being circulated. by persons urging tho claims of other cltles, but there should be no diffleulty in disabus- ing the minds of the Committeomen in this regard when the stipulation signed by tho hotel men, pledging themselves to charge no more.than regular rates, is laid before the Committce next Monday. —— “ A-conrenuyce of merchants and lawyers who haye litherto been prominently identl- fied with the polities of Cook County was held last night at the ‘Tremont House to ~ consider meuns of defeating the nomination of Gen, Grant for the Presidency, A com- mittee of nine was appointed to carry out the views of the mecting. Itis sald that the Committes has agraed to draft au address to the voters of Cook County simply setting forth the fact that the persons whose sig- Natures are nppended oppose the nomina- tion of Gen. Grant; and tho intention is to circulate this papor as widely as possible among the Republican voters In the clubs, on the Bourd of Trade, and in the principal places of business. Gentlemen interested in the movement expressed the belief that from 2,000 to 5,000 signatures to such an wlitress tould cagjly be ubtuined, Tux enormity of the vutrage contemplated by the House majority In robbing the people of Minnesota of their rightful representa- Yon In Congress by the unseating of Wash- burn and the seating of a mun whodlidn't come within 4,000 votes of belng olected, Is recognized by Minnesota Demverats as well as Republicans, Mr, Lochren, of Minneap- olis, & member of the Democratic Na- tlonal Committee, expressed yesterday his Sndignation at tha proposed act of grand turceny, docluring that ‘there fa no doubt whatever os to the fact of Mr. Washburn's having been fuirly elected, and that the movemunt to unseat him is condemned even by the Democrats who voted against him. If the House Com- suittee un Elections and the House Demo- cratic majority ever needed the power to cur- rectly gauge popular sentiment gnd thereby refrain from perpetrating a blunder aud o their cycs It is expressions like that of Mr. Loechren. —=_=>>_>___ ‘Tire IWnols Press Association met in this elty yesterday, with an unusually large at- tendance of gentlemen @ntrolling the des- thifes of the rural press, ‘Tho President in his annual address said that were it not for the Inereased price of print-paper he should bo able to congratulnte his brethren upon an inerensa of prosperity. Resolutions: wero offered and referred, looking to the appoint- ment of n Commilttve to duvise means to se cure the removal of the duties on print-paper and the chemicals entering into its manufact- ure, with authority to. proceed to Washing- ton and use all posstblo means to counteract the efforts of the papermakers’ lobby to de- feat the pending measures for the relief of the newspaper press fromi tha crushing ef- fecta of the henyy tax Intd upon publishers by the combination of manufacturers. It's also proposed to invite tho codperation of other press nssociations in this righteous crusade agalust a consclenceless monopoly, _—_—. ‘Tre State Board of Health has been wrest- ling with the quacks and specinltsts again, several of this class of customers having been overhauled at yesterday's sesston of tho Board. Something in the nature of an ex- plicit code of professional ethies: has been formilated by the Board in deference to the ronsonable claim that aman should have a chances to know whatis considered “ unpro- fessional and dishonorable conduct” before being dealt with forsuch conduct. The code thus far adopted fs by no means complete, but {t will suftice very well for the present ns Anotice upon the fraternity of Irregulars to avold certain objectionable practices if they expect to stecr clear of dificulty. Included Aniong these are fraudulent and deceptive Professional transactions”; the practicing of medicine under two names, or under any other name. then the true one; and the resort to “advertisements or handbills or other mcans of attrncting public attention or se- curing patronage which shinll be deceptive or convey to the public’ any false or fraudulent Information,” Avortimen striking proof of the weakness of Afr. Sherman In his own State and of the rapidly-Inereasing force of the Blaine move- ment in Ohlo was afforded last evening at the large mass-meoting in Columbus of the friends and supporters of the Matne man’s candidacy, Tu the targe attendance, tho ringing speeches made, and the spirit manifested were to be found evidences of n determination to con- tust to the uttermost the “favorit-son busl- ness,” as some of the speakers contemptuous- ly charneterlzed the matter; and it fs more than ever apparent tat Mr. Sherman cannot possibly bring to’ the Chicago Convention. that united backing from hisown State with- out which ho stands no earthly chance of maklug a suceessful race for the Presidential nomination. Indeed, it begins to be doubtfut whether the gentleman has not mistaken his parentage after all, as Olio seems decidedly disinclined to recognize his claims to tho favorit-son distinction. ———— Tv print-papor is to be admitted treo of duty, ated! rails, Juckknives, books, and all ‘othor neevssities und luxuries, should beadmitted free. —bvening News. * But it happens there are more than 300 dit- ferent kinds of articles admitted duty free under the present tariff. Among tho com- tmotlitles on which no duties are levied are the following: apse etoile crudo of ovary desuription, fn- cluding ull grasses, Nures (other thun wool), waste, shuyings, clipplugs, old paper, rope-onda, Waste rope, wiste Lagying, gunny-bays, ane santana, old or rotuge, to be used in mik- ng, and tt only to be convorted into, pnper, and: anil for any other manufacture, and cotton waste, whethor for paper stock or other pur- poses. Rugs of cotton, Hnon, jute, and et and paperwnete, or waste oF clippings of any kind,— it onty for the munufaeture of paper, Including waste rope and waste bagging, Eaparto, or Spanish grass, and othor grasses, aud pulp of, for the manufacture of puper, Woods—Poplar or other woods, for the innnu- fucture of piper, Bleaching powder or chloride of Itme, What tho ten thousand book, magazine, and newspaper publishers of tho United States ask of Congress ls, to exten this free list so as to include wood and straw pulp, soda-ash, and unsized paper, and then the whole paper question, belng thus un- hampered and unhiandicapped, will take care of itself and flourish; paper will thon al- ways bu cheap and the profit of manufactur- ing It good and the business prospervus, —_—_—_——_ Tne House of Representatives at Washing- ton yesterday furnished 1 spectacle such as has not herctofore’ been presented by: that body, which has been prolific of extraordi- uury scenes since the Democracy obtained control. Alexander H. Stephens, one of the oldest members of the dominant purty, and one who has of Inte displeased the Bourbons by opposing their unsotnd ‘and untenable partisan schemes, desired to spenk upon the subject under discussion, tho Louse rule allowing the uttaching of political riders to appropriation bills, Several of the more rabid bullduzers—among thei notably Blackburn, of Kentucky—attempted to put in force the gag rule, In order to provent tho member from Georgla from expresulug his views, which were known to be in opposi- flonto thosa of the majority of his Demo- cratic brethren, This.attempt at tho sup- pression of free speech in the halls of Con- gress was resisted by the entire strongth of the Ropublleans, who, alded by ono or. two fair-minded Demoerats and the Greenbackers, ‘won a signal victory over the Intolerant obstructlonists whieh ‘will be gratifylug to the people of all sections of tho country.’ Tho Democricy appear to be determined to se construct the rules of the House that the folsting of political legista- tion upon appropriation bills, which during Topublican administrations was more hon- ored in the breuch than in the observance, shall become the fixed pollcy of the party, This polloy has, howaver, thua far worked much good to tho Republican party as evinced by tho weakened supremacy of the Bourbons compared with that attalued In tho Forty-fifth Congress, Veny little additional information {3 at hand eoncern|ng the formidable attempt on the Iife of the Czur and tho Kussian Toyal family in the Winter Palace, as it seems to be tho Government polloy to suppress as far ag possible tho publication of such detalts as havo been thus far doveloped, The investi- gation of the aifair is in the hands of Gen, Courko, Governor-Goneral of St. Petoraburg, and o atrict censorsiip of the telegraph wires and the Itussian preas ia muintalned to prevent the dissumination of news regurdlug the results of tho inquiry, ‘The press ls per- initted to give the facta as to tho huvas wrought by the’ terrific explosion, but the news-guthorers Hind it dificult to get any In- Jormation convoriing the parties known or suspected to have hada hand tn the fearful conspiracy, Among the persovs under sus- glclon are ald to be several of high rank, and it 1s probable that: the crime will be traced to some of these, as it la seareely pos- sible that the elaborate preparations for the explosion could have been conducted with- out the complicity of Individuals holding positions of importance and trust In the Iin- berial household. Expressions of sympathy and congratulution from the ditferonf Euro- pean Governments ara pouring fn upon the Czar, but it is a notuble clrcumstauce, us THE CHICAGO TRIB FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1880. showing the Intenso prejudice against Russia existing In Engtand, that the London Com- mon Council refused, by a vote of 73 to 45, to Issto a congratulatory address to the Czar on his miraculous esenpe from assasination. ————=$ Ir ever there were exeuse for applause In & court-room at the result of atrial, it was when the pent-up indignation of men, women, ant children found vent in every: possible manifestation of atelight and satis- faction as the jury brought in tts verdlet of guilty in the case of tho miscrennt, tho Rev. Edward Cowley, late Superintendent of tha Shepherd's Fold in New York. Io was found gullty of the most Intuiman and din bolical treatinent of Hitle homeless children, His trint was a falrone, and the evidences of his horrible conduct wero wimistakably elear and convincing, and all pointed to him. as an infamous and brutal wretch, who should be confined for the rest of his lito where there 1s no possibility of the gratifica- tion of his inhwmnn insfinets, Jt will be o motter of general regret that tho. extreme penalty in his case ts a year in prison and $350 fine,—a punishment that Is entirely inadequate to his abomntable offense. It ts to the credit of the-people of New York that thoy did not give way to tho Intensity of thelr indignation and take the Inw into their own hands by disposing of him In jp sum- mary manner. Thecrlines against humiunity which he has committed do not entitle hin tollve. Many aless guilty wretch has ex- plated his erlines with death or Ife-long im- prisonment. A BAMPLE OF RAILROAD FEDERATION.” Among tho most fmportant arguments made before the Commerce Committee of the National Monse of Representatives , pending the discussion of the Reagun Railroad bill was thatef Mr. Franklin 2. Gowan, Prosi- dent of the Philadelphia & Reading Rall- road. Mr. Gowan did not appear as an agent, attorney, or representative of tho rall- road interests, as did most of the gentlemen who sought a hearing before the Committee, He did not oppose the scheme of National supervision, but rathor favered it; but he criticised tho inadequacy of the proposed meagures. ‘The closing words of his argu- ment were as follows: ‘I linve no objection whatever to a Congresslonal Commission; I have no objection ton State Railway Com- iilssion, always provided that it be composed. of proper muterial; but I protest most onrnestly, ag a practical business-man, against such an insuflicient remedy for the evils complained of ag would be afforded by the report of a Railway Commission made two or three years after the Injury had been committed, and probably an equal length of time after the business of the com- plainant had been destroyed by, acts of injustice and of wrong, such as those from which relief ts now asked in tho form of remedial legislation.” It {s not to be dented that the Commissfon provided by the Hen- dergon bill, which was finally agreed upon by the Commerce Committee, is too much such a Commission o3 Mr. Gowan deseribed, and his words ought to be heeded by Con- gress to the extent of conferring upon the proposed Comission the power of making a Judicial order in adjudicating upon com- plaints which shall bo binding upon the offending corporation pending an appeal to the United States Courts, The mostsignificant part of Mr. Gowan’sar- gument before the Commerce Committee was that in which he exposed tho'practical opern- tion of the combination between the trunk railroad lines and the Standard Oll Company agalnst all other prottucers and refiners of oll, against all other ratironds, and alsoaguinstthe stockholders of the trunk Ines themselves, and agninst the public us the buyers and con- sumers of oll, ‘The oll-produetion of Jast year amounted to 20,000,000 barrels, of which 16,200,000 ware transported from the off regions, and 12,800,000 wero sont to tidewater; the great bulk of tho Intter ftun went abroad. At the beglaning of the year the publlc rate for carrying oll was $1.40 to New York and $1.95 to Philadelphid; but the Standard O11 Company had a contract, with tho railroads whereby it could ship of) to New York at about oné-half the public rate, ‘The consequence was that the Standard Ol Company acquired an absolute monopoly of the oll trafic; it crushed out or absorbed all the refineries In the country except threa or four; all othors who were engnged in the production of oll were forced to yleld to any terms which the Standard Company choge to dictate. Finally'nn effort was made by the oll-producers to save themselves from this ruinous dictation, A pipolinc was con- structed, at a Inrge cost fur right of way, between the of] region and Wiltamsport, where it connected with the Rénding Rull- roud,—a distance of 104 miles, A ren- sonable rate “wis mado by the Read- jog Koad, which also bound itself to earry for all partles upon equal terms, On the very day the new company was realy to move off, the representatives of the trunk linea and the Standard Company met and agreed that tho rato for carrying oll to New York should bo reduced to the Standard mo- nopoly to 20 cents a barrel. , Other reductions ‘were made subsequently to 15 cents, and then to 10 cents a barrel, This course was adopt- ed for the purpose of breaking down the Reading Rallroad and the new pipe company, with tho ulterior object of enabling the Standard Company to obtain possession of tho pipo Hne and restore their complete mo- nopdly of tho ol trade, which, we believe, was accomplished, Mr. Gowan demonstrated that this con- splracy between the Standard Company and the trunk railroads was rulnous to all Inter ests involyed except those of the Standard Company alone, and such rallroad offl- clals, If any, a8 were corruptly rewarded by that Company, ‘The stockholders of the various trunk tines were swindlad, because the rallrouds could have obtained from all parties a rate of $1.25 per barrel for tlie transportation of oll, and could havo earned B protlt of from 85 to 45 cents a barrel. Profits In the aggregate equal to $10,000,000 for the year, or about 3!4 per cent on the on- tlre rallroad stock, were deliberately thrown away In order to enable tha Standard Com. pany to reguin, its monopoly, ‘The otl-pro- ducers, a8 a class, did not enjoy even a tran- slent benefit from the conspiracy, since the unprecedunted reduation was made to the Standard Company alone, (The publie, ag oll- consumers, gained no ndyautage from the low rate, because the Standurd Company, knowlng the.rate was ta be reduced, had pro- viously sold the oll in Europe at prices whlch It would haye recolved had there peen no re- ductlon. Inother words, the Standard Com- pany shnply pocketed the millions of dollars which tho rallrond stockhollers Jost; the «railroads ,pald out four dollars to cover the cost of trans porting the ofl for every dollar they revelved. in payment for auch service; and the general shipplog public was taxed on all other bust- ness Itbrought to the railroads in order to make good in part the losses thug sustalned for tha benefit of the Standard corporation. Tho rallroad compautes carried tho ofl from the producing reglun to Clevoland to be re- fined, and then relouded Ut and egrried It back to New York, for the Standard Oll Company, ata lower rato thau they would carry ita couple of hundred miles direct from the well to Philadelphia for anybody else, ‘Ths con- splracy wag mmaintalned in detlanee of the Courta, whony the raltroad attorneys wero a customed to threaten openly with potitieal punishment in onse of judicial Interforence, Tho remedy suggested by Mr. Gowan for resisting auch consplracies for diseriminatton as that betwoen the railroads and the Stand- ard O!l Company ts the passage of an act of Congress declaring that the writ of man- damus may ba Issued by the United States Courts compelling the finmediate perform- ance by every common carricr of the duty which Is lmposed upon hin at common law, ‘That.Js to say, ho would give every shipper the right to compel, within a fow hours, a railrond corporation to recelve and move his consigtinent of ofl or grain, and leave tho question of rate to be adjusted and deter- mined by sitbsequent proceedings upon the common-law basis of fair, reasonable, aud equitable terms; in auch enso, if the corpora- tions should choose to avail thomselves of tho fnfinit delay possible in litigation, it would not serve them fn the way of exclud- ing tho public from the factllties of railroad transportation, ‘hq samo end could bo reached, with a better assurance of justice to both sides, by conforring upon the Natlonal Board of Railroad Commissioners powers similar to thoso exerclsed by the Rallrond Commissionérs of England, who renlly con- stitute a railroad court, and whose orders muust be oboyed dll set aside by tho superior Courts, THE STRAW-BAIL SY8TEM. We published yesterday a curious chapter in tho history of the adintnistration of the criminal law fn this part of tho State, The facts aro few, plain, and direct. A bank at Golesbury, in this State, was some iuonths ago robbed by burglars, who made away with several thousands of dollars. In duc time the pollco were able to trace the robbery to the extent of knowing that it was com- initted by four persons, and three of theso were captured, So strong was the evidenca that these were Indleted and arrested. Tho strongest efforts have been made from that time to tho prosent to obtain the release of these persons, all of whom are professionals, ‘The evidence was so convincing that they dared not go te trial, and hence they resorted to the erlminal’s most sueccasful defense, that of fraudulent ball. ‘Tho correspondence between the State’s Attorney at Galesburg and the Superin- tendent of Polles in this city, discloses the general operation of straw bail. Superin- tendent O'Donnell’s letter gives the history of Rothgorbor and Fitzsimmons, two of the persons offered as ball for the accused bank- Tobbers, and in doing this reveals that tho most sucecssful of ull schemes to defent the ends of justice is to obtain the dischargo of prisoners on bail, Tho persons giving ball for professional criminals are’ generally irresponsible pecuniarily, and it is safe to suy that not one-half of 1 per centof the bail- bonds forfelted in this county over finds Its way to the County Treasury, © ‘The sureties on the bonds accepted at Galosburg for the indicted bank-robbers are Patrick Carroll, ex-County Commissloner; Wiliam Fitzgerald, ax-County Commissioner, and, for a time, County Reformer; and Edwin Walker, contractor on the County Court-Ifouse. When the case was called at Galesburg a few'days ago, the prisoners failed to appear, and judgment on the bonds was taken. It{s understood that ordinarily in such o case the attempt would be In the last extremity to compromise the prosecution by paying to the bank ono-third of its loss, by paylng to the persons signing the ball- bonds another third, and tho prisoners retaining the rest of the money. In this . case, however, the’ money was divided among the burglats, who have spent it, and aro not. able to make any cash offers to tho bank, supposing the bank to be willing to accept them, ‘The bail- ors, thurefore, for the present ure reaponsible inthe amount of their bonds for tho sum of $56,000, and the public authorities will them- selyes be criminal If thoy fail to enforce the penalty, All these bondsinen are on onth that thoy are the Lona fide owners, of the property they have scheduled; and, if the Tuct should bo disclosed that they have sworn falsely, tho Jaw mukes such an offense por- Jury, and punishable accordingly. ‘rho business of signing ball-bonda in the cases of persons accused of crime has long slneo become an extensive and lucrative pro- fesslon. Those engaged in tho profession be- como wealthy from the profits, When-a thief fs Indicted and fn peril it fs cheaper to lire a baller thon it is to pack or Uribe a jury; besides, getting ball re- Tenses the: necused ‘immediately from arrest. Ilence,.. whenever tho arrested thief, personally or by his friends, is able to Ire n ball-bond that will pags the scrutiny of the Court, thatmenns is resorted to, It Is the first step in the defensa for the defeat of justice, ‘Tho person signing tho bond, if fr responalble, docs go, and makes tho necessa- ty oaths fora cash consideration, regulated according to the thief’s means and the cheap- ness of the man’s drendof the law. If butter ball be required, and mon of assumed respon- sibility be demanded, then the signer of the bond mustbe protected by amore liberal compensation, Jf the bail-bond be for $5,000, and two signers are roquired, then the sum to bapald ranges from the whole Nability down to $3,000 cash, or the same to bo so- cured, to be pald befote the time of forfeit ure, If the thief be Infunds, or his friends liayo money, ‘the . billers aro” pald at ones; If this cannot be done, tho aigners of the Dbpnd aro privately secured for thelr soryieds at the price agreed upon, and the released thief fmmediately tukes the road to rob and steal enough to pay up the price of his bail before tha thne oftrial, It 1s, wo supyose, rarely the ense that tho thieves fall to jnect their contracts, Hfence golug ona bailpand never involves tho loss of the sum agreed upon to be pald to the signers of the bogd. ‘The rogues are men of “honor,” and pirform thelr coutracts faithfully, Competition has to some extent reduced the percentags for signing bonds, and it ranges from 10 tp 80 per cent of the legul Hability, the termk being governed by tho ability of the thieffto pay and by the re. sponsibility of the signdr of tho bond, dsguisedly. Tho mer who follow the pro- fesslon are well known to the police, ta the slightly Into the estimate elther of the cost of the bond or the proift of the signer, As general thing, all that the bond-signer ean got for becoming ball {s regarded as olear profit, ‘he sui total {f such a case may be. thus stated: A commit} a robbery; he sells the property taken at 24 per cent of its valug; hv is urrested and the froof is clear; his ball Js fixed at $1,500; he pays down $200 cash and ugrees in oulusty days to pay $300 more for his] ball-bond; he fs relensed, and durlng te succeeding ninety days is engaged In birelory, highway rob- bery, Including wurderif necessary, in order to pay hla bondsmenj fn thne, his cage fs tujled, and, he falling # appear, his bond is forfelted, and that is fhe end of the matter. Occasionally a thief finder such eiroun- stauces pleads poverty,fias his bail tixed ut 8800 or $1,000; he then fnys the money boldly into court, and that fs fue Inst of that. We gssume it as possiblyfruo that, during the Jost ten years, the ugarfeate of forfeltud ball- bonds in this county h@ not bean less than $70,000; and that not pyer $500 of this sum dns gyer becn pald jutdthe County Treasury, It is possible that-the Gulesburg bauk-rob- nas been mollitted, bors, having apent tho proceeds of that rob- bery, are short of funds, and, Instead of pre- senting thetnselves for trial, have distributed themselves around tho country, at work try- Ang to ralse a suficlent sum of monoy with which to make a compromise with the bank, if possible, and, at all cvonts, to make thelr bondsmen good, by paying to the Stato what- ever sum tho bondsimon may have to pay. It ig possible that in Knox County a different iden of legat responstbillty may prevail, and that theso bondsmen may be prosecuted to the full recovery of tho forfelted ball, As the signers of tho bond all mado oath ton sumMiciency of property, the State authorities will probably by exveution collect the $30,000 forfelted ball from that property, So great {3 the protection to erlme fur- nished by tho present systein of balling pris- oners, and so notorious tho system of perjury under which straw bail is imposed on the Courts, tt may not be inapproprinte for the next Legistature to make Judgments on for- felted bail-bonds in criminal cases extend to the body as well as to the property. of tho signers of thebond. Thon, incnacs of jump- Ing the ball, the signers of the bond would have elther to pay the penalty In cash or go to jail until payment is made, or, confessing their perjury, go to the Penitentiary, ——__— NEW YORK FOLITICS. Mr. George William Curtis, in the latest nunber of Harper's Weekly, declares as 9 result of hia observation that Mr, ‘Tilden will not be nominated by the Demucratie Conyen- tlon, and he bases the conviction upon tho netual demonstration at Inst fall’s election in New York that John Kelly hus the power and the Inclination to give the Stute to the Jtepublicans In case Tilden be the nominee, Mr. Curtis concludes from this that the Dem- ocratic quarrel 1n New York will cut no figure in the Presldential campaign, and that the Republicans must be prepared to mect a solidly united opposition, ‘hero ts one feature about the quarrel, however, which Mr, Curtis omlts to mention. Mr. Tilden 1s a party to it .os well as Mr. Kelly, and he {is o power in the State as well as Tammany. ‘The Dem- ocratle Convention will not assure unity and harmony in the party in New York by simply refusing to nominate Mr. ‘Tilden. If it shall roject ‘Tilden in order to conecilinte Tam- many, it must also coneillate Mr, ‘filden by nominating a mau whom he will support. Tho Democrats cannot carry New York with- out Mr. Tilden’s codperation any more than they can in the face of John Kelly’s opposi- tlon, Nevertheless, it fs the part of prudence for tho Republicans to prepare fora united Democracy, and to select a candidate who will also unite the Republican vote, ‘The most significant conclusion to which Mr. Curtis’ reflections led lijm is set forth in the following paragraph: Mr, Spoukor Shurpo, {nan Interviow, rests his advocacy of the nomination of Gen, Grant upon the conviction that he fs stronger than his party, —thint is to suy, that he will poll all the tepublleatd votes, und Democratic and independent votes In addition. If this were a correct view it would establish tho expediency of the nomination, Buta nomination which would instantly throw: tho party upon the defensive against a yurled Jing of “attack vould hardly be constdered ex- pediont. It would forces the purty to confront the ungoubted allenation of the Germun voto: tho sincere and widespread objection to a third term, and. tho overthrow of sound tradition without tha glizhtest reason; tho fantea of two Administrations; the deep distrust of many persons nnd influences and methods that were thon pnramount; the fecling that the wholo movement was a vist revction toward aasltuation which bad nearly destroyed Republican ascondonoy, 11 {3 not onay to seo how it is supposed that tho only nomination which would nt once prouse this strong and ya- Fiona op pouttions which is slready poworfully declared, would draw yotes from Ueniocrnta and indepondonts. ‘Tho conservative sentiment, which desires to avold fnunclal or political dis- turbance, naturally and logleally hopes for tho prolongation of tho present sltuntion, under which trade and falaniry huyo revived, admin- istrative seundiuls aro unknown, and party spelt Tt would bo tho proinise of the continuance of these things, not of their in- ‘torruption, which would attract indepondentand moderate Demooratls yotes—votes which are in- dlapensable—to the Republican purty. It Is certain that the Republican party enn- not afford to hold in contempt an element which fsserted such great‘ strength in Inst iall’s campaign, and which, it iy now known, would have defeated Mr, Cornell if it had not been for John Kelly's opposition to the Democratle candidate. If the Newe York Democrats ara to be united for the Presl- dentin! struggle, the Kepublicans must be united as well in order to win. The thun- derbolt which broke over the heads of the Tilden-Robinson Democracy Inst. fall was not more destructive than tho stroke of lightning that threatens on objectionable Republican candidate next fall, Tho Repub- Mean atmosphere in New York ts as much charged with clectricity as is the Democratic atmosphere. rere Tux report of tho United States Govern- ment purty observing in Cullfornin tho solar velipse of Jan, 11 fs printed in another column. ‘Tho perusal of the document will undoubtedly surprise many who wero led to belleve that these gentlomon aaw an intra-Mervurial plunot. Thoy looked for it, but omit to atate that thoy suw anything of tho kind, It follows that the report. telogruphed all over tho clvilized workd fmino- diutely after the eclipse was not warranted by tho fuots, or by any remarks mudo by tho nstron- omors, Thelr observations did not furniah any confirmation of those mude by Watson and Switt during tho totu! eclipse of July, 1878, It ts worth noting, howeyer, that the duration of totality was veryshort, and tho sun near tho horizon, giving a much greater quantity of alr to bo aucn through. than wna tho caso at olthor Rawlins or Douvor a year and a hale pre- vioualy, If there be an fntra-Mercurin! planet, or more than one, the clroumstances Inst mouth were dooidedly advorsy to tho revognition through the tolcacope of any such membor of the solursystem. In thia conncation, wo note that tho lust, number of tho English acientitio periodical, Nedure; contains a long article from Dr. Swift, tn reply to certain criticisms on his re- ports ‘of the Vuleantte observation at Denvor, it scoms to have been quietly ussuimed that Dr, Swift's observation was of no value, becauay ho did not state ita upparent position so pruciscly ag mighthave been dono by some others, ‘Tho fuct fa, however, that ho had no trrangements for moniuring angles, elthor of distance or po- sition, and simply essayed in his Inter remarks ou the subject to show how his observation might be underetoot to agree with that of Wut- son. Tteannot be donlod that Swift did state to his compantons of the Chloago astronomloul party thut be suv his. two red stars," and murked down upon the stur chart of a member of tho purty tho position, as near ns he could vatimate the qumo, with reference to the sun and the horlzon, Tuy New Orleans pupors: are unanimously in favor of a change in the papor-duties thut will tend to wm reduction of the present high price of printiug-puper, The Assuclated Press dlepatcb ‘ylves this report of the substance of thelr netion on the subject: New Ontuans, La., Feb, 1%.—Owing to tho re- maurkublo inerease in the price af printing- papor, the proprietors of the newspupers in Nuw Orleans weemblud at tho olive of the Meayune lust evening aud tho following rosolu- ton was aduptuds Itaulred, That, the Nopresontatives of Loulstana [it Congress bo, and they are hereby, curneatly sequustod to uve thelr Intluouce to huye the duty an printing. anor, chomiats wd muturluts vad fh tho mand: jacture theruoe romuved oF uuturlully reduced, Four yeani ayo the 1-0, was flores fur- Utalno for Proaidont. 1t 13 now oppoalng bim in overy way itdaro. It tries ta holittle his prog pects, sidloulos bls supportors, suovrs nt every gue who kes him, suppresses protty much ull hows from ita columns that favors his chances, and plumgs itaolf on ite conalstunoy! But it is not a frou ayunt, and thorefory is oxcusuble, but winore condult of a Sunutor’s schomus and self- ishnoas,—simply the pomonul organ of a mine chino politician, —_ . {Tub First District Convention’ In. Utlea’ was @ moat Uprourious affair, Gon, Grindloy dud Diatriot-Attoruey Daly, an antl-Conkllng inan, word clogon simultunoously by the rival facgons 83 Chairman, and u tght with tlets ene sue Duly rushed upon Attorucy-Gencrul Evorett, and violently foreed him from tho ro- porters’ table. At this, Dolegnie Powers, 0 Conkling man and asclentifioe pugilist, made an attnok on Daly, and hiows wore exchanged, In- tense excitoment provalled, and it wns not until ox-Holicemnn Balles, who fa sevon foot in hight, took a bnnid init that the fighting wan stopped, an unsuccessful effort was mada to olenr tho ruom of ontalders, and, after more bear-gardon antics, adelegate mounted n table and proposed that the delegation bo headed byRoscoo Conkling. Antorm of cheors and hisses followed, Finally Gon, Grindley called tho roll. Ten of tha dele- gntes—a majority—voted for Conkling, and adjourned in one, two, three order. The count was tande with diMculty, owing to tho con- fusion.: Such wns the furor thnt no Booretnry was named, Taking advantnge of this fact, Conkling‘s enemics organized a accond Conyen- tion, and elected a delegation honaded by Sonator Lowory. An appeal will be mado to the Btate Convention, and somo odorous oxposurds aro promiscil., A dispatch saya: The feeling botween tho rival Republican factions hery is intense, Towlay Charles HH, Hopkins, who has been Conkling's Utica Post- mustor for over vighteen years, grve place to Erastus Clark, whose apnointmont was wrung from Huyes by Roberts, of the Herald. fenatar Conkling constries this aan direct insult, believed that Conkling could have proyented Clark’s nomitiation, but he took no steps in tha mutter, saying: “T have not ci asked a favor of the Administration, and I don't propose to.” ApIsBPATOH from Berlin, Fob, 1, speaking of tho great German Chanvellor, saya: Princo Bismarck looks rathor pate, but isin the enjoyment of good health aud splrita, and hus given nudicncos to sovoral inportant ‘per- sonnges, Tho Chancellor desires to open the Germin Parliumont as soon ns powihle, and it Is thorefore likely that the Prussian Diet will bo prorogucd for some months, When the Crown Prinee returned to Berlin yesterday from Pote- dam, tinmediately on his arrival he drove from tha station to the puluce of Princo Hlamarck, with whom he hada conference fasting about two hours. . Later in the evening the Crown. Prines had n long conversation with tho Emperor, and when “he returned to hla palace the Princo gave ordery that telegrams should bo dispatched to those Courts which he had tntended to visit on his return journey to Italy and to the respective raliwny stations, In- tmating that his departure {fs for the present: puto, Tho postponument of his journcy fins eatised much surprise, and baa beon much com- mnented upon tn alt potltienl elrcles. Tho Crown Prince, it aust not be forgotten, fa the President of the gh Committee for the Dorouse BE tho Country, and his Imperial Highness took great. Interest In the Army bill passed in 1874, It is, therefore, natural ‘to suppose that thelPrince wists to seo many important polnta in the new Army Dill settled’ betore his departure, Itia also reported thut tho Prince hag bnd lively dis- et with tho Chancellor on the Church question, TlAurer’s WeeKLy pays this handsome compliment to tho new Consul-Genorul at Parla: ‘The nomination of Mr. George Walker to bo Consul-General at Paris {sin overy way unex- ceptionable, Mr. Walker ia 1 gentleman of tho highest character and neeomplishinents, ‘who hus dlachirged public duties with gsigt bilit} and by his business experiones is alinely fitted for a consular position. Ho his alurge dequuintance with eminent Fronehmen and En- ‘lishimen, and wilt bring to his oflice a clear and. nclaive Intelligence and careful training. It fs | aAnnppolntment which Is altogethor honorable tothe Adininistration, aud cannot fall to be most serviceable to tho good unme of the country In Europe. Tho country 1¢ known abrond bythe character and bility of its importunt ropre- sentatives, and Mr. Walker belongs to tho clasa of Americans who ara especially quuliiied to represent us worthil; - A. Wasioxaron dispatch says: Secretary Sherman will without doubt secure tho two votes that will bo cust by the Utah dele- gettan nt the Chicago Convention. Tho now lovernor of Utah, Gun. Murray, of Kentucky, and the new Chicf-Justice, Hunter, of Oblo, are both netive Sherman men, and will seo thut thelr favorit gots tho Utah votes. How muny Electoral yotea will Utah givo Sherman in caso he fs imposed on tho Chicago Convention by the rotten-borongh votes of the Southorn Stutes and tho Territories? Here his Promised two votes in the Convention are in paymont of oflces he has secured for cortain Persons. What chinco would tharo be to atest & candidate folsted on the Convention by auch moans? Mighty small. et ———————— | Some of tho papers that do not like Tim Curcado TrinuNnR aro having dispatches ‘sont out from Washington saying that Sir. Modlll is trying tobe made Commissioner of Indiau Af- faira.—Dea Motnea Reylster, And it Incks the merit of orlginality. It was first invented ua fur back us 1870, was dig up in 1878 and mado to do duty again, and now for the third time the sare nincompoops have started thd silly falsehood, A now yrrn well told often amuses; buta stupid old fabrication iterated your after year becbmes irksome cven to tha asinine fellows who aro most anxious to guftaw, Machinist, can't you invent something now? ————— A pisratcy from Switzerland to tho London Zines, dated Feb, 1, saya: . For tho fourth timo this contury, and tho twenty-fourth timo sings 128 tho’ Like ot Zurich te entirely frozen over. OnSunday {twas ascono of Beat animation; thousands of skaters hastoned from all parts of tho country to take advantage Of go rare un opportunity, ‘Half tho Papalation of tho elty wore on-the banks of tho ke and on the ico, whieh was gay with tho brill- fantly-decoratod tents of tho wine-selters and, improvised restaurants, Tho Lakes of Morat, Neuchatel, and Blenno arg also again frozon, and the Arve, from ubove Carouge to fits junc- tlon with the Rhdno, below Geneva, Is covered with thick ice, —_. ‘Tie Democrats got scooped, as usunl, at tho imuniclpal cloction in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Tho Associated Presa” dispatch Bays: af ‘The olection resulted in the cholco of fifteon Republicang, seven rogulur Democrats, and one. Independent Democrat, Tho Select Connell stands twenty-six Republicans and five Demo- erata; the Common Council Le aati reguinr Republicans, five Indepondent. Kepublicans, and Hye Democrats, With thoso holding over tho Corainon Council will stand seventy-two Repubs Means and twolyo Democrats, Thists pretty rough on tho gang of office. huntora calling thomsclyes* Domoorats."” ————— Five Pennsylvania delegates havo already aunounced their Intention not to abide by tho Instructions of tho Hurrlaburg Conventlon, Thoy aro Messrs. Gurtatte, Waddoll, Taylor, Hit- ner, and Kinney, Many counties aru yet to be bourd from, Tho Philudelphia Prees ropoate ita Btatomont that Senator Camoron ts wavering in his purpose to force the nomination of Gon, Grant, but adds In distowy that the Senator is not at all Incliued to favor Blaine, 2 ——e ‘Tre subsidized ‘prohibitionist concern in this oity squirms Ike un col on a frying-pan at the exposure of its pertidy to the country press iu opposing tho bill to reduce the price of print- pupor by rumoylig taxes thorean. Tho country press have coddlod and kept allye that troacher+ ous sheot, which repuys thom. now after tho fushlon of tho vipor iu tha fublo, Sco Esop for an explanution and tho outconre of it, fr is said thot Fubor, the peneil-maker, who bogan bualness in Nuromborg about thirty yenrd ugo with a capital of £260, will commoms oruto tho event by sotting aside £5,000, the iuter- estof which, nt 5 cont—2260,—1s to be annually givon, undor direction uf trustees, to somo poor and worthy young man about to start in busi- ‘ness, and a native of Nuremberg. Tue Dally News happens to be on tho un- Ronnlr alde of this [paper] queation.—Evening avews, And what {s still worso, on tho wrong side of {t, To maintain tho oxisting crippling tax on tho meuns of diffusing popular intelligence in bared muguzines, and nowspapors fs shoply wickod, Tr ts proposed by somo of tho Federal of- ficials in Alapnmu that tho Republican State Kxeeuttyo Commmittoo shall quiotly meet ut Montgomery and nominate delegates to Chi- dayo, and that the yoto of tha Btato shall be equally’ divided botwoen Grant, Blaine, and Sherman, ——— SurepinteNvent of Tngurance Smyth's suup-caucus plan in Albany scoured tho approval of Gov, Cornell and Sonator Conkling in auch degree that ho has within 9 day or two been ro- nominatod for hig present poaltion, and will bo cusily contrmed by the Stute Sonate, ——— AN attempt fa ipaking to consolidate all the Now England strength outside or Maine on Scuntor Edisunds, Tho lve States of Masgae chusetts, New Iampahire, Vermont, Couneuti- cut, and Rbodo Island havo slxty-alx votes to bestaw upon somobody, J they vould agroo ibut thoy can't) thoy might maku Mr. Edmunds a possible candiduto; 2 pn . Doxs the editor of the Journal pretend to say that he would huve been nominated for Lioutonant-Governor from Evanston four years nyo jf Gen. Bovorjdge hud been nomingted for Govoryor. from Evanston? If he dovs, bo pos soased 8 Digger bump af egotism than oven thoso who know bim beat will claim for him, Was pot tho esachtial point in tho enso to defn not that make nn opening Tar she wie A Ba tho ghumt of a chance until 1, was aug Way? Tet Sh. *eonmult the ten qrat Oe sop how the road to the Capttal war open et! him. But ingratos have short memoret 2 riifowlous ambition bllids oicescenuee ss Md ecclng themsclyes ns others see thom, wate ent Front ayinptomatic wobilingstt to timos as if Joo McCullagh was. going Hie hin “boom " to hls frat Jove~dinine—unt eet tho “old man" in the Jareh. cary PERSONALS, After all, the Czar's boom Is the londtest, ‘The young Indy to whom Mr, Teported engaged ovidently docs that love lovels all Raneks. If things go on- in this way Mr, § will bo obliged to offer u roward for the ond {dontifleation of his boom. - George Francis Train appears ¢ only defender of Cowley, Io snys th party fed the chiliron scientific: p@fusely, Tho juror who provented the Roy, Haydon'a nequittal bas recelveit a pre a at fino watch from tho antl-Hayden propte Rockland, Conn, of An oxchango snys that Mr. W, p, Nh home bears tho quaint namo of 6 Teitopon : cral boys in Chicago with quaint, red heads ine tho same namo, ka Hop Wah, a Chihese , Taundryman ot Trooklyn, has gone into the heaplng. firo business by giving €200 fur tho rell fumine-stricken peopto in Ireland, ‘Thera isa sovlety young Indy in namod Honriotta Zipporah Rootitek, magonten dition to this mlsfortuno, sho was Teeently lett an orphan by tho death of her father, We notico that the colebrated patntin “Tho Youth's Chote," tn still on exhibitions, Boston, but tho papers of that city full to state wane tho subject is a stop-watch ora Veluole pede, Tho polltleal eampalgn in Indiana has opened up in lively style. Mr. J.C. MeCoy, of Cloverdale, hired an exodus negro, anda fo nights after tho event his barn was burned to inuke a Domocratio holiday. It will bo remembered that tho accldent which camo so near terminating the existence of the Prinvosy Louiso occurred immediately ‘Tilden wag Not hetteve herman, capture 0 he the 6 Fav erend ally, but too Conls-ofa lef of tho uftor tho announcomient that sho hut written wy Bays Nover forget that Nomvals ig always on ‘wateb, ‘The Intest advices from Canada aro that tho bluck and blue spot on tho left car of Loulso is gradunily assuining a Mghter hue, and [t ty belloyed that Lorno’s shuttered pants ean hy repalred without recourso to the Contingent Fund. : ‘Tho title of Mr. Ruskin’s lecture, to bo delivered in London St. Patrick's Day, is % Ait Invitation to Snakes,” and if the old: gentleman is a8 vigorous as usual Bt, Louls whisky will re cove a blow frora which it will not caully re cover, * ‘The Philadelphia Record ins the latest: “Mr, Tilden skips up the steep stalrways at Groyatono with: tho aprightlIness of an un- weaned kid.” In this part of tho country un- weaned kids lic on their buck most of tho tino and howl, Since the Chicago School Board has de elded that femalo teavhers must resign upon murrying a number of engagementa haye been broken. No prudent young tan will trust hla futyro ton womun out of a job, no matter how lov@ly she may be, —— POLITICAL POINTS, « 1s not thought that Mr. E. DB, Wash« burno's declination in favor of Grant takes him ttogatlicr out of the Preaitential field. Ontho contrary, it Is considered ight of Did for tha Geant rote in thotea teri tho inter should fall of tho nomination.—i'aeh- ington Star (ind.). ‘Tho rising man at this time is Bluine, Ho ‘hos just been the means of provonting riot and dlgorder 11 Maino, while carrying overy polnt for which ho contenden. The people want tho rulepf a civiltan, not of a Genoral, tnd Dliine ty Now ono of tho moat eminent citizens uf tho ites publlo,—Cukland (Cal) Tinea (Rep,), ‘The Iowa Clty Journal, a paper, which has expressed {te decided proferenge for Gen. Grant, says us to Towa: ‘Iowa will bo solid for Juincs G. Blaino at Chicago, no mattor what some of 14 may prefer. Nino-tenths of tho party tnt thd Btate are for him; and ng we have no Camerons to cheat the majority, ho will bave tho votes.” ‘Tho Washburnes aro all for Grant, as faras heard from. They aro— ® Elihu B., And Cadwallador C., And William D,,. And Isracl G., Euch of whom swears that, ho ey’ Bccrot hopo ret re by an: le —Detrolt Sunday He bia Cunning Grant! Cunning Washburne!l ‘These two men by staying out of the country havo pinced thomselycs In tho lend for tho Pres dentin! raco on tholr side of tho house. If ‘Til- don had in 1877 abandoned tn the burrel-fillin business and gone to Europe, or Afrioa for that matter, he would to-day havo ‘no dangerous ren in his Peary ane nothin; nee tryhug b the average statesnuin than stay! uthonic Atlanta (Ga.} Constiaution (Demy i “ Let Tho Chicago Inter-Occun says: Malno vote for James G. Jiatne, Ohio for John Bherman, and Ulnols for Grunt, The friends of the various candidates should be generous enough to concede this," Cotainly—if a majors ity of tho Hopublicans of the States named pres for tho candidates designated. Otherwise, “let the friends of the varios candidates be Ken crous enough” to allow the Republicans in the States named todo ae thoy plenxc, und vote 18 they wish.—Jowa ‘State Jteglat fer (Hejt.). ‘What the significance of the Don Camoron coup d'etat ag regards tho Prealdential nomine Yon fs, fs quite doubtful In our mind, It 1s true that the dolegates to Chleago were instructod 10. vote for Gon. Urant. But a few more such rubs us tho Pennsylvania ong, to got a co: ton to Instruot ita delogntea, will, we oping, | the General to believe that ho will have to en- suunter such o flery opposition that prudenca whl dictate n withdrawal of his name before tho meeting of tho Chlongo Conyontion.—Cuthbert {Ga.) Journal of Progress, edited by a colored man, We are not urging the nomination of Mr Sherman upon tho Chicago Cogyention. Itecre tainly docs uct appear that ho will muko much show of forco thoro, . . . Tho Seeretary’a chuncea are not yery promising, The provill- dug focblencss fn contemporaneous polities Is singularly Nlusteated by some of tha methits of his frionds, But one ‘thing ta certain, What+ ever Gon, Grant may say or think when ho hearg that ox-Senator Darscy hus come out hotly in |] bis eupport, Mr. Shorman nt least may cougrat- ulate himself upon the fuvt that ho dined ta Syasbington me Baturduy.—New York Post ide Theo enthusiastic ...cnds of other candi dutos muy safely dismisa tholr fears of any do- Moruizauon from the suppert of Washburue. It doos not appoar from ull their statements that ho peromptorily and alwotutely doclines the egndidacy not yet tendered by authority to anys body, tile fecling toward Grant will be appres uinted and respected, but the defining of his 1 altion as nbove will not dumpon the ardor af bis own friends. On tha cantmiry it will probably have tho offoct to intonsify their ndmiration and {ucrense tholr number, —[t world not be a good thing as the canvass now standa for Mr. Waste burne to decline peromptorily. The Republican pasty docs nut wish to be hutnpored in {ts choice nN any ovent—Grind Rapida (Mich) Baple (Rep) The nomination of Secretary Sherman for Prestdout would make the buslness boom the cornerstone of the cumputyn, whether the 1h pobiicie wish to have it so or not, We submit all thoughtful Rupubticans that this would he two risky. “Success in such a campalyn would depend Targely upon the continuance of the rodent heh prices of nll our gruat products oth ayrioultural and meobunical,—ieon, rl Ne cheese, meuts, wool, cotton, oto, and labor, rt sorious deetino fn almost any one of those ml! : throw our party on tho defensive, and tho munl- feat interest of the two other partles in proce Bg, such o result would glvo tom tho strona’s| in omen fu, foatne: Soratduatlons Ne ee lawn prices just ‘ure eluction, when gui bo ove. disastrous cleveland Leader ‘p.] In regard to the Instructions [of the Indk ans County Convoutions] and oxprosstons on tho Prealdontial’ question, thoy show beyond sof moun that Sonutor Blaine is tho first eae ie 4 teolded mnajority of Indiana Hepublicah if tho ‘quostion wore submitted tow pinay clection of apuyblican yoters tn thls state LY would be oasily victorious, Indiana Republic anlam is of #8, pretty rudical type, and paturu uy rallles to a pronounced ans russlye Male ine Opposition to # third teruy ts geveral ut uclded, but in exprossing it thare was u carcti proldance of any expression of porsonul disre poet Lowi Gon. Grant. So fur 4s appears u bpposition bias ts bused imalnly on the third-term (den, and, howaver somo may be ¢ aad to deary the iniportunos of this vunsiderte jan, It tnust be recognized ws a very we! one.—Indianapolts Juurual (ed,