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

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An attempt will be made to collect from his seeuritles, Jrrsteamslilp Seandinaviun, whieh sailed f1¢m Liverpool for New York some twenty- one days ago, has not yet reached port, and thore 13 considerable anxiety us to her safety. rr Tris rumored that Mr. Jolin Russell Young has been tendered the position of American \. Minister to China, but on account of the de- “mands on his attention by literary work it is doubtful whether he will accept. Samuen Tromas Myens was hanged yes- terday nt Dallng, 'Tex., for the murder of his stepmother. A-person named Parson was hanged at Rochester, N. ¥., and Thomas B. Hopper at Springfle ‘ru Gernmn Government and the Popoare said lo have come to so perfect an under- ntandin; that diplomatic relations between is not the motto of Leo XILL as It was of Pius IX. Tae London reporters are kept rather busy by Mr. Gladstone, His speeches to the People of Mid-Lothian Ml five coiumns of the London Pines each day, At the age of 70 few men possess the vigor of tha grent Liberal statesman, Pano Le enme In first in the race for the Liverpoot Cup yesterday, but was not so Placed by the judges on the ground that he crossed the track, and thereby Impeded an- other horse. ‘The American horay wasa halt Jength ahend at tho finish, —— AN appropriation of $100,000 for public printing was agreed to yesterday in tho House vf Representatives. Mr. Dofrees, the Public Printer, represented that unless an iminediate appropriation was made tho priut- lng shoujd stop next Mona: ‘Tue Empress of Russia is ina yery dell- eate stato of health, She partukes of only yery little food, and her sleep is broken and not refreshing. She weeps constantly over her troubles, and tho Czar Is sald to be luck- Ing In that sympathy whieh becomos a hus- band, ‘Tum Miners’ Convention at Pittsburg yes- terday resolved that bitumtnous coals hoult be welghed before sereening, As the mon are pald by weight, it ts thought that the milue owners and operators will not subinit to the terms of this resolution, and a strike fs, anticipated. Ph yi _——— ee: Ir makes all tho diiference In the world as to who violates the law In the State of Louisiana. Some negro laborers are on a strike in St, Charles Parish in that State, and the Governor has ordered the Field Artillery to that disturbed district, ‘Lhe colored men will doubtless be shown seant mercy if*thero Js the slightest provovation,: Anour 200 Southern merchants will arrive hero to-lny to sca tho ely aud to take 5 look at the goods which our merehunts and man- utnetirers cun sapply them with. Chicago ean discount Clncinnatl, St. Louls, or any other city us to the quallty of its wares and tho moderation of the prices asked therefor, and the Southern visitors wilt do wisely to Invest here, —_—_—— ‘ Fon the present the constitutionality and validity of the Federal Election laws stand recognized by the Democrats in Congress, but the understanding is distinct and explicit that these wholesome taws aro ta be ex punged ‘from the wtatutebeuks so soon’ as‘ tho Democracy shall have obtalnud entire ‘control of tho’ Government. “Such wus the result of — yestorduy’sanl- mated debate In the Mouse over that. portion of the Deticlenoy © bill which appropriates money for the payment of Deputy-Marshals appointed to supervise Federntelections. Tuoumendment requiring that these officers shall bo of ditTerang politis- al parties was 9 concession whieh the Re: H publican minority might reasonably ‘make; while tho tacit pecognition of the binding fores of tho existing Inws was n concession which virtually acknowledges that. the long, and bitter warfare waged by tho Democrats at the extra sessfon over this same question was a blunder and a crime. —y : Ix adigpatch from Detrolt !s given on t- terviow with Mr. Henry C. Christiancy, the son ot the present Mintster to Peru, in which he denies most omphatically the slandcrous and absurd charge that his father recived n pecuniary ‘constdoration for resigning the Michigan Sennatorshtp, and that he (the son) ‘was the go-between in the transaction, The denint bears tho stamp of honesty aud truth- fulness, : —————— ee ‘Titk Itallan Chamber of Deputies tins not Presented a very pleasant and peaceablo ap- pearance for somo days past. ‘The Ministers and thelr opponents have been indulging In a kind of parlinmentary squabble, during which tha most offensive epithets wore ban- died about on all gides. The result Is a change of leaders by both parties, and the Mallan gentlemen promise to make less dis cordant musie than thoy have hitherto been doing. ————— ee Axono tho appointments made yesterday by President Hayes wns that of Charles Adanis as Minister to Bolivia, who recently Negotinted the treaty with the Utes, and Bret Tlarte, now Consul at Grenfeld, Germany, to a similar position in Gtasiow, Scottnnd. ‘Pie Intter appolntinent, taken In connection with tho rumored selection of Jolin Russell Young tobe Ambassador to Chinn, and the promo- tion of James Russell Lowell, indientes that President Hayes has not such a contempt as Mr. Stnon Caincron would wish for " the — Iterary fellows.” Tue Senate Committee on Pensions have nearly agreed ona plan for the reorganizn- tion of tho Pension Bureau. The new scheme wili provide for n Commission consisting of an experienced lawyer and an experienced surgeon fn ench Congressional Dis- trict, who shall hold court fn every county-seat thres times oa year for the purpose of examining applicants for pen- stons and their witnesses, ‘To accommodate penstoners aud to save expense, the evidence will be taken, where possible, in the fmme- diute vielnity where the pensiorers reside. ‘Tho members ot the Commission shall be of opposit political parties. It is thought that by the adoption of this plan the necessity for claim-ngents will no longer exist. Tire Irish peopls are making very exten- sive preparations to greet Mr. Parnell, who Js expected to arrive home thls afternoon, with a yory hearty welcome. Deputations, musie, banners, and bonfires will ba the or- der of the day, «An effort will be made to utilize the ovation for political purposes, and tho Land League, of which Mr. Parnet! Is the President, has made arrangements for his presence In the doubtful Parllamentary diy triets, whore his spéeches are expected to produce a goad effect In faver of the Land- Reform candidates. Another distinguished Irishman, -Charles Gavan Daily, one of the founders and the first editor of the Nation newspaper, fs expected from Australia about the same time, and will share in the wel- come. Irlshinen dearly delight to ‘honor those whom the English Government have , 8tiginatized as seditious persons and rebels, Tur withdrawal of Prince Orloff from Paris !s said to have more significance than elthor the French or tho Russian. Govern- ment ts willing to admit. ‘Tho relense of Hartmaun-by. the: Frovich ‘authortties is be-, leved to have given great offense In Russia, and It Is certain that the relations between the two Governments are not so cordlul as they have been heretofore. The least con- corned party seems to be Hartmann, who has been boasting In Loydon about his well- Inid plans to blow up the Russian Emperor at Moxvow, end who excused Ilinself for Iuyolying several innocent people by stating that, although such a result would be very Tegrettable, it was necessary to adopt mens- ures of the kind for the time being. He adds, and the intelligence will not.be very comforting to the Czar, that lls fellow-con- splrators are netive in St. Petersburg, and may be heard from at any moment, ‘The them will be soon resumed. Non Posstemus’| conspirator Intends to visit the United “States, whero, In case he has suffictontly mastered the English Innguage, ho wilt most likely enter tho lecture-fleld. x Tue minority report of tho Mouse Elec- tions Connnittce on the Washburn-Donnolly contestéd-election case lins been written and printed, and a synopsis Is given In the Wash- Ington dispatches this morning, The report characterizes as unworthy of admission In any court of justice the hearsay and unrell- able evidence on which tho Demeeratic ma- jority of tho Committee bage their conclusions in regard to the proof of bribery, aud nion- tions the significant fact that Mr. Wash- burn lind go ‘little respect or sollcitude regarding this testimony that he con- sidered {t beneath hls dignity — to Sntroduce evidence in rebuttal. The throw- Ing out of 2,253 ballots because thoy were munbered fa declared to be nn unjust resort tu a technicality ag 0 pretext forserying piirtl- son ends, and the same is trueoft the thraw- {ng out of countles'and precincts wherefrom the votes were Informally, returned. With the charge of bribery and fraud wholly un- supported by competent nud trustworthy evl- dence, and with the cloquent fact iirviow that the district which gave Afr. Washburna ma- Jorlty of 3,013 has uniformly given even larger inajorities for the Republican candidates for, Congress and for Governor, tho report of tho Democratic majority of the Committes In favor of seating Donnelly and ousting Wash- burn appears In its true Jight as un act of gross ant Indefensible subversion of the popular will as expressed through the ballot- box. ‘Thora fs not the shadow of a doubt that Mr. Washburn was the cholco of a large iuajority of the voters of his district, or that his election was fairly and lawfully obtained, and the setting aside of such an election will be an Infamous disgrace upon the party that shall be gullty of it, — SHALL THE OSTRICH POLICY BE PURSUED! ‘The ostrich burles Ys head In the sand and Delleves {ts pursuers cannot sec tt, Curtain Republican nowspapers of tho silly sort are Just now fmitating this foolish bird, and con- -demn Tir Trumuny for not doing likewise, Eyor sinco the discussion of the Presi- dentin} nominations began actively, Tun ‘Tiuuune has opened {ts local, telegraph, and news colunins to such communications, tele- Grams, and extracts from other newspapers as would present In tho nggregato a falr reflection of pubNcsentiment, Among these publications there has been a wass of antl- third-torm Hterature, A portion thereof has deen directed against third-term per se, but giuuch larger purt ngalnst tho failures and abuses of Grant's sccond term as threatening similar failures and abuses in a third term. Tue Trmuns cannot fairly suppress this expression of opinion, elther In justice to ite charneter a8 a8 newspaper or in the interest of the Republican party, Nover- tholess Its course lu this respect has attracted the censurg-of thuso who are blindly com- iiltted to the third-term movement; Its mo- tives have beon inpugued, and it js warned that, when Grant shall be nominated, if the | third-teriners triumph in the face of all op- position, then Tre Trmune will be obliged, to turn about,.defend, and expiatn the objeo- tlons to which. it noly gives spnee.. \ - Do the organs and advocntes of tho third term really suppose that, if Tur Trinuxr and all other Republican Journals suppress the objections’ In’ the public mind to third-termisin” until ‘after’ the nomlia- tion of Urant, ‘theso objections’ will ‘riot | then be mado public? Do they tnagine that, if Grant's nomination for a third term be achloved, by detuding the Republican Convention with the Idea that there 1s no pop- ular hostility ton third term and n restora- tion of * the old crowd” to power (if such. deluston were possible), that hostiiity would be silenced forever? Do they beliave for ono moment that the Democratic manngers and | newspapers, aud the Indeupenddht votera, and tho dissatistied Republicans will refrain from. uraing the — arguments agalnst the princlple ‘of a third term nud against the Mkellhood of a return to power of the very class that dragged down Gen. Grant's second Administration? All these arguinents wilt be urged thon with ten- fold more energy and force than now. If the objections and protests agaiist a third term and the associations which {t may earry with {tare offensive and damaging to the movement at this time, they will be infinitly more offensive and damaging to the Repub- liean party’ from the moment !t shall bo irrevocably committed to third-termism. If it shall become the duty of Tire Trinuxr, 18 a Republican newapaper, to combat thuep- position to the third-term principle and to beat back: “the old crowd," In ense Gen, nt be nominated, tt ts not less Its duty as a Republican newspaper now to reveal to the party tho line ef attack that is sure to be imade upon third-termism, and the elnss of arguments and obfectlons that must be inet. Forowarned ts forearmed. Nothing Is gained by shutting one’s eyes to danger. ‘THK ‘Tnmuse does not propose to place liself in the unreasoning atiltnde of tho bilnd lead- ing the blind. If€there are Republicans who eannot or will not sce any popular strength in the ontagonism to the third-term movement, that fact would not excuse Ti: Tutnust for persistently tgnoring or sup- pressing such antagonism, This journal might pursue tho ostrich poliey along’ with some of its contemporarics; it might throw Suto Is waste-basket all communtenttons, and dispatches, and proceedings of mevtinis pro- testing against a third term; It inixht re- Jigiously suppress every.speech and newspa- per article attacking “the old crowd” of corruptionists who disgraced the Inst Ad- nulnistration, and brought the greatand noble Union Republican party to defeat and grief, and who are now ravenously eager to ride the Republican party to its death; [6 might print arguments designed to provethe fallacy of the objections to that same old crowd, and eulogies of the Belknaps, Babcocks, Robe- sons, Murphys, Williamses, Delanos, Levts, snd Shepherds who betrayed Gen. Grant's confidence, disgraced hfy second term, and brought overwhelming defeat upon the Re- publican party. But, if Tine ‘Trimune were todoall this, the hostility to the third term would still exist unabated, aud there would still be the same popular approhension thera is now that the election of Grant for a third thnemay return to power tho very men orelnss ofmen who disgraced and broke down lis secon Adininistration. Tho most persistent concealment of the opposition could not wipe out the defents of tha Republican party ata tine when third-tormism was regarded ng i possible Issue, nor tha desperate strug- ale which the party hud to make in order to elect its eandidate In 1876, though it had then endeavored to cut off tho parasites of tho see- ond term,- ‘Tho Hopuvliean party:will cor- tatnly havo no ensy victory this year. Ib se cured then the Electoral yotes of three South- ern States which it will lose next fall. It must practically be prepared to curry the en- tire North §n order to assuresnecess, It can- not lose & per cent of the Republican vote In New York or Ohjo withont making defent certain. It must gatn votes in Indlana, Con- neeticut, and New Jersey, and hold its own fn Wisconsin, and its strength must not be tampered with In Titnols, If there is any. nomination or any issue which threatens to allenata any part of the Republican vote any- where, that nomination or that issue ought certainly to be ryolded, Tf‘any of ‘the champions of « third’ term ean demonstrate to popular satisfaction that the precedent set by Waslilngton, and fol- lowed by Jefferson, Madison, and Jaekson, has no longer any sentimental or other force In this country, and that the mistakes, abuses, scandals, andkeorruptions of the sec ond term will not operate to the projudice.of tho Republican party in caso Grant be again n candidate as they did operate In 1874, then Tite Trmune Will no longer feo! con- strained to give room to the current expres- slons of opposition to Gen. Grant's nomina- tlon, As yet, the advocgtes of third term have made no such demonstration. Indeed, among all tha flattering and well-deserved encomlums upon Grant which his return from abroad brought out, not a alngle orator or newspaper, 80 faras we know, eulogized hls political carecr, or prulsed the record of his second or first term, or enumerated them {n the lists of his triumphs or tho sum of his greatness; but on the contrary, passed then ovor In sllence,—leaving n great gap, an aching .vold, n missing link, in the sum of his greatness, If the advocates of n third term reply that such n demonstration as Tur TrinuNe asks Is not possible, then let them bring forward gome authoritative assurance that a third terhh In Gen, Grant's casy shall not finply a return of “the old €rowd.” Such an assurance will go tar to- ward siienelng the opposition to Gen, Grant's nom{nation now, and to his election when nomlnated; and THe Tamung will have done the Republican party grent service If {ts course In giving oxpreaston to the popular opposition to “the okt crowd shalt call forth an authoritative assurance thut it his been relegnted to private life forever, whethor Gen, Grant bo nominated or not, « PaaS EAE NO PERSONAL QUAREEL, Ex-District-Attorpey Warner M, Bateman, of Ohfo, one of John Sherman's under- strappors, returned ta Cinclinatl the other day, and was interviewed by the Enquirer, tho Democratic orgiun, Me ylolded with alacrity and cheerfulness the exclusive Ine formation that’ John Sherman was not only sweoping everything before him, but was the vesiduary legates of Gon, Grant, Ilo went on in this strains Grant can’t bo nominnted on the firat ballots Grant will realize this before ho allows: b name to bo provented, and In case be tan nomlnatod on the first allot ho will withdraw, Such being tho case, Shorman with galn mich more from the Grant forces than Blaine, for tho bitter tyht in Ponnsylyania, Now York, Mnols, und other States between the Blaine and Grant backers {4 culoulated to drive the Grant men to Shoriman rather than Blaine, should Grant once reure, Morvaver, Mr, Batemun thinks Shurman, wil wut allot Grant's support from, the South when the latter pulls out of the Convention, When asked whother Wushburie would not probably tuke Grant's place ‘in the Convention, should the latter's name be withdrawn, Sr. Bates min guld he thought it ikely, but that Wash burne contd not command thu strength of Grant among the delegates, He 1a not thought so much of in tho Rust ug ho Iy in somo purty of tha West. Hut oven fu Tilinola Wushburno bad powerful onemics, oven umong the Grunt loud. era, auch wa John A, Logun, for instance. “What does Secretury Sherman think of Grant's candidnoy?* “Mr, Sherinan bolds Grant {nu tho highest re- gurd, personally, But Sherman is un anti-third- termar, and will violently oppose Grant on that principle alone." ° “Do you not think Grant will got the whole Diinols delegation?" : “1do uot, Bluino has gono right tuto Grant's Stute, and Js fighting fortho supremacy. He has tho aid, also, of Tum Cricago TrintNr which hae for soino rongon abandoned Grant gnd taken up tho fight for Hinino, | Mr. Medill has dono this hat 60 much for tho purpose of holpig Blaine as to hurt Sherman, He haa indo up his mind to fight Shorman bitterly from personal and not from political grounds,” “What fe Mr. Meditt’s quarrel with Shorman?” “That tl would not make public, but it grew ont of disappolntmont in office, Or, tather, out of offense tnken at some appointmenta," It ts an old trick of professtonal polltictans of the baser sort to invent an unworthy or ridicutous motlve for on action of an op ponent. We do not belluve that John Sher- man nsslstel his henchinan to concoct thts foolish falschood about tho editor of Tite Trung, but suppose that ho evolved It from his crantumAmatded, nnd ta therefore entitled to all the credit of it % Sveretury Sherman nover offended the ed- ltor of Tite ‘Trinuxit by refusal to appoint anybody to office or by declination of any other personal favor: Indeed, hoe has no rec ollection of having ever nsked any appoint- ments at Mr. Sherman's hands that were either granted or refused. Nor has he had any “quarrel with. Sherman”; nothing of the kind, for thore has been no equse or oc- easion of “personal quarrel!’ Tres ‘Tu use has differed with “Mr. Sherman on his financial policies,” When he fought tho re monetization of silver so bitterly, it opposed him, and, ag strongly as It cauld, advocated a restoration of tho silver dollar to its old place as a constitutional legal-tenders but this was In no sense a “ personal quarrel,” In lis tast annual report, Secretary Sher- man proposed and urged the demonetization of tho whola volume of legal-tender green- backs, and ns he is‘also in favor of demoune- thang silver, he would strip the people of the United States of all legil-tender money exeept gold, of which there {8-1 wholly In- adequate supply ‘in this country. . This alarming and, revolutionary proposition to abolish two-ttifrds of the debt-paylng money of thé Nation Tam Tammune lost no tiie in combating and poluting out Hs destructive consequences to the business Interest of the People. Shortly after comuitting himself to this evil scheme, Secretary, Sherman an- nounced bilmself aga enndidate tor Preal- dent. How could Tun Trnuse look with favor upon his candidacy while he was nd- vocating such a fisenl scheme? It belleves that, If he were running for President on that greenback and silver demonetization issue, he woul beloverwhelmingly defeated In every State between the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains, For these reasons it does not regard hin as an available candidate for the, Republican party to nominate for President, and it has the Independence to say so, and none of its readers will think any the less of ‘Tins Tun uNE for its frankness, whether they all agree with its conclusions or not. ‘Che opposition of Tim Triwuss to Mr, Sherman as a Presl- dential candidate {s,\ therefore, not “per- sonal,” and has not particle of office broker- age In It, but fs based solely and exetusively upon his unavailability by reason of lls destructive hostility to all the legal-tender moncy In the Natlon. except gold, It does not belleve that 1t would be snfe or prudent to arin such «man with the powers and patron- ago of the Presidency to enfuree his sweep- dng contraction policy upon the country. THE ILLINOIS RIVER CONVENTION. ‘The proceedings of the Convention at Ot- tawa, to consider thé best mode of promoting the completion of the steambout-eanal be tweon Lake Michigan and tne Tilinola River, must direct public attention not only.to the great Importance of that mensure, but also to the necessity and prppriety of the work bo- ing cone by the Generp] Goyernment, To tho indiffereneashowit to this subject by the Illinois delegation {n Congress is due tho fallure of the Government to complete a work of such Natlonnk linportance, and upon whieh the State of [iinots hns already ex- pended so much, Allthat is asked Is that the Government finisli what the State hos so largely constructed, ‘Thora aro at this tthe before the country two entirely practlogvle mensures for tho Improvement of the navigation of the Bissls- sippi River aud for-seeuring to the great valley the enlargemont of its commerce and tho regulation of the rates of raltrond trans- portation, These are vital questions now oc- eupylng tho attention pf the whole country, and In no part of {t-}nore closely than in these populous and powerful States of the Mississippi Valley. One of these measures fs that of Impound- Ing the spring tlouds.of the Upper Missts- atppl and its tributaries by means of dame,? thus holding In reserve an accumulation of from six to ten feet of water over many thonsaitds of squara.miles of Inkes, low lands, marshes, and: swamps In North- weatorn Wisconaln aud. Northeastorn Min- nesota, This water which It ts propdsed to ulilize covers territorysvholly useless for any other purpose, Gathoring and holding thls vast body of raing and‘ melted snows in the spring of the year, Instead of allowing it to Tun off In floods and, torrents, it ‘is pro- posed by this scheme, in the season of tow water fn the Mississippi, to ralso the weir gates and let this hoarded water run out gradually from the regervolra, As it Is re- lonsed It will find Its way into the Mlrsis- slppl River, giving to. that stream a navign- Die channel of from five to six fost during the summer and fall wonths and down to tho tne when navigation is closed by, the winter frosts. ‘This scheme, which the engineers pronounces perfectly practicable, will supply the river with a sufllciency of water from St. Paul to St, Louis and Cairo, ‘Tho gur- voys and reports of ;the Government en- Binecrs show It to beentirely practicable, and atamoderate cost comparcd with tho vast valuo uf such a permanent improvement of navigation, The humensoly Increased water- power secured on the upper streams below tho reservolra, and the Inerensed fucilitles furnished for getting out lumber from the pinerles, and tho navigation for small boats that would be secured on tho Root, the Wis- consin, the Chippewa, the Black, the St. Croix, tho Misslssippi“abovo St, Paul, and other rivers during tha -wholo season, arodl- rect benefits the vatng of which extend to many mnlilions of people and to tho produe- tlons of the whole valley, ‘This scheme util- izes the vast volumes of watérnow exhgusted uselesly tn tho spring, making them nh per manent fountain to matntain a novigablo dopth in the jatn river during the summer season, whon navigation is now suspended for want of water, : ‘The second branch of this plan to accure bermanent river navigation, nud the really more inportant of the two, Is the completion of the work of steam ndvigation between tha Missiasippl River throfigh tho Ilinols River to Lake Michigan, thus connecting and unit. ‘Ing tha 15,000 nitles of river navigution of the: Misslas!ppi Valluy with the lake system, ‘The magultude of the results to be accomplished are the more surprising when the faellity and the fnexpenslyeness of the work necos- sary to produce these résults are considered,. On the one hand is the Jake system extend-: Ing tathe AtInntlc, through’ the St. Law: rence Niver, andthe Erly Canal, and the HIud- son River, On tho other {3 the Illinols River already, at the cost of the State, nearly made navigable for steamers for 800 miles from La Salle ty the Missis- aipp! Hivar, Between the take and the river there ts already @ canal, adapted for 8 now-pyssed date, but only needing an enlargement to make a continuous water- Way from the-Lakes to the Gulf, and from every part of tho Misslasippt Valley to tho Lakes, This canal during the grenter part of Its route fs through a level piatn, whers the exeavation fn elny, nid the expensive cutting {s for a comparatively short distance, and the work {3 already ‘half done, Tho communication actually exists; alt that is needed is to enlarge and adapt It to steam Navigation and tt will be tho most Important work of the kind In the world, > But the general result sought by these two practicable schemes of Improvement of the navigable transportation systems of thocoun- try Is tho cconomie one of establishing n permanent, competing water-way, to cidure and protect the producers of the country ns & regulator of tho rates of railway trans- hortatlon. ‘The cust of transportation governs the earnings and profits of all the Inbor of the country, It {sin the power of rallroad cor poratlons to confiseate the bulk of the sur- plus carnings of the producing populatton of the whole West, In the advance Inst fatt from 20 to 40 cents per 100 pounds on grain from Chicago to New York, and -provortion- ately more frum tho Misstsalppl Rivet to the senporta, may be seen the means whereby the railroads may conilsente tho profits of the producers from their-annual crops. With water-ways navigable from the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and from the headwaters of {ts tributaries to the Gulf, or from all these points to the Lakes, no such rallway pooling combinations would be pos- sible, So long as the 15,000 miles of free’ water transportation nro open to producers, so long would railroad combinations and tonilscations be defeated, ‘The two branches of this one grent Nu- Hlonnt interest are so closely allted (n every respect that thoy should combine for tho promotion of the common benelit, ‘Phe Rep- resentatives and Senators from Illinois and from all the Mississtppt Valley Stntes should eodperate to advance the same. general end. ‘The union of the Representatives of Minne- sot, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri, and the other States west of the Misstasippl, and of the States enjoying the benefits of the lake system of navigation, in demanding of the Government ald {n the mprovement of these permanent wator-ways, cannot. fall to com inand that attention and suecess which they merit, ‘The schenio to butld mud-banks on the Lower Mississippi, and also jettles and other contrivances, Is not worth to the commerce of the country a hundredth part as much ns either of theso measures to make tho rivers navigable. and to connect the natural water highways. Yet this mud-bniik seheme will cost at least §100,000,000, one-fourth of whieh would secure an unfalling permanent supply of water to the Missisalppl River from St. Paul toCalro, and connect the lake system and the Missisaippl system forever for steamboat unvigation, ‘The people of Iinols will see {f their Representatives have the eapacity to understand the situation and the ability to promote Interests so National and compre- hensive, A cuntows enso was tried in the Washing- ton Crimfnal Court yesterday which recalled memorics of the Inst days of Grants rule, Judge J. W. Wright, a contractor of those days, was charged with assaulting Columbus Delano, then Seeretary of the Interior, who seems to haye tneurred the enmity of Afr. Wright by rendering 9 declaton which de- prived hin, xs he claims, of some $20,000, ‘The assault was made with a heavy eane, and Mr. Delano was serlously hurt, as was proved by several witnesses, = Judge Wright did not deny the assault, but disclaimed an intention’ of killing the ex-Seeretary, Hoa sald that being of Trish descent he was too well skilled In the uso of tho shillalah to produce different re- sults from those which he intended. IIe ene tured by way of explanation into 9 sclentitic disquisition on tho uge of tho thne-honored weapon, and concluded by saying that he felt he was dotng a moral and rollgions duty in using Its stick on tho head of Mr. Delano, The defense was rather novel, but It may explain much that has not hitherto been un- derstood In the Irlsh character, ‘Cho con- bative, tread-on-the-tail-of-my-cont disposl- tion of Irishmen on tho 12th of July and other aceasions may be explained on the hy- pothesis urged by Judge Wright, ——_—— Tur Lowls will ease, which has come to tho end of Itslong and Intricate course in the United States District Court of Now Jersey, is destined to bo noteworthy in tha history of our Jurisprudence. Josoph L.Lewls, a mun of 85, died at Hobokon, March 6, 1877, leaving an estato of ‘mora thi $1,000,000, His fortune was all in stocks and bonds, and contained in a box kept in the vaults of tho Manhattan Company, ie had no helrs, near or remote, Hts whole eatato was left by will to tha United States Govern. ment, with tho. proviso that it should be applic tothe payment of the debt contracted in tha suppresston of tho Rebellion, «Shortly after his death a caveat was ftled-In the Orphans’ Court of Hudson County, Now Jorsoy, by Jano Lowls through Charles H. Winfield, her attorney, alleging herself to bo bis widow, A cavant was utso Oiled on bebalf of. John Cathoart, who alleged himself tobe a nephew of Low!s; and subsoquently a elulm was made by ono Thomas Lowis, who alleged himself to be bis son. Thoso lama were contested by tho Govornmont. The testiinony filled five closcly-printed volumes of 600 pages onc. On bohulf of Jano Lewla, n marringo certificate wag . produced bearing dato Nov. 18, 1858 Boveral witnexscs swore to personal nequaintance with hor before, after, and during her marriod ifo with Mr, Lewis, One witness swore that ho was presont at the ceremony, Anvthor, pretending to be an sttorney, dopeaud that bo bad boon rotained to bring an action for dlyareo against Mr. Lowls by the pretended Mrd, Lewla, and that n compromise was arranged in his ofiice, ‘The Govarnment proved, with the ald of tho Chief of tho Engraving Department of tho Trousury, thut tho alleged murringo cortifl- cate wasa pluin forgery upon a blank taken from a plate, which, although oxisting in 1858, hod beon mutertully altered it 188. The con- aplrators attempted to break tho force af this wvidonce by showing that other marriage cortiti- cates of procisoly similar character had beon mundo and signed os fur back us 1853, and that, thorefore, the testimony concerning tho plite wns Insufficient to catablish tho forgery, A large number of momentos of Mr, ‘Lewis wera Introduced. by tho pretended wife, Tho consplracy was on tho polnt of being succossful when Mra. Lowis* was avoidontally {dentifiod us a porson who hud pré- viously personnted & Mrs. Jonnio Hammond and sought to binckmull a gontlemun with whom sho had been Improporly intimate, Tho whale caso broko down st once, Mra, Lewis—this really waa hor name, though she wus {n no way rotated to tho dond man—turned Btuto's avidelico, con- feasod that sho had uovor segn tho testator, anil rovenlod. tho mature and extent of the con- splrucy, Tho Goyernmont has sinov progocutod the persons chiotly ongagod in tho alfair, and four mon have been found guilty and sentenced to fine and {mprisoumunt,—two of them being awarded a fine of | $10,000 each and two years’ imprisonment, and the othors one year’s im- Prisopmont and ¥1,009 Ane each, Sentence has Leon postponed on Dr. Androw J, Park, who was tho author of the scheme and most active in carrying it forward. Howill undoubtedly receive 48 heavy & punishment as tho law will allow, —_—_—_— + An Imporial Zollverela, which should in- cludo all tho British poascssions and tho mother country in ono comniorclal wystem, hae long ‘been A favorit doa with some of the statesmen of Canada, Now {ntérost has of lato boon givan to the discussion of it by G correspondence votween tho Non, J. BF. Forbes and Jobu Bright. Mr, Forbos takos the position that the present uttompt of Canada to covrve the United Brates Into reciprocity by catablishing a retaltutory tariff ts fraught with the greatest dangen to the British connection; that tho exnjuplo of the Unitod States is buving a powerful pect on the people of tho Douiuion; that anew genoration ia yrowlng up there which knows not tho fecllng of loyalty to England; und thatthe ouly possl- Tak? blo way to hold Fngiand and ber ‘eolontes togethor fa to have them united by intimate contmorosal ties as against all other nations, Td thoso urgummenta Mr. Bright replied in the fol- lowing statesinantike lotter: DEAK Stn: Your plan ts not now, but it fatun- wiso nnd is totally tinpraoticable. We have dono all you wish, and all wo can do. Not an articlo coming boro front Canada, or Victoria (Aus- tralin) is charged with duty; yot Canada and Australia pinco hoary dutios spon our exports fo thom, Willthoy give up protection at or ro- quest or advice? 'Thoro fs not a chance of {t Or nt ourdemand or command? On tho contmry, they would have rovolutions declaring tholr {1- dependenco of Ruginnd. But, if the ‘schema wer possible, it would requiro us to place hoary: dutles on corn from Itussin and tho United States, which world cna great discontent hore, for nny supply wocould obtain from tho colonies would be wholly inauiliefont. Lam quite auro that to dmposo duties on Americnn corn and got- ton would not foreo a gies on tho Btites, whilst ft would not bo ondured in tha country, Av duty on cottan world be on burden which would lesson our wer to oom- pis with othor manufacturing — nations. regrot the course taken by. tho Canadian Government. I reyard It ns tho first atop in tho (rection of separtion from tho mother coun- try. Thavo no hellef in the maintonanco of tho Emplre on which the sun over acta, but It Rrleves mo toses the colonies departing from Principles which all romnd theory and our ex- Periones have shown to be wise. Tf tho culonios wero wise thoy would follow our’oxample. If thoy will not do go wo must teave them to tholr own course, but T think thoy should not come here for loans or for guurautees for loans. T fin, respectfully yours, Joun Baran, Mr. Forbes sent a rejolndor, {n whieh ho as- serted that tho colonies should bo troated a4 a part of tho Emptre and not ns forelgn eountrios, “You may be sure," ho says in conclusion, “tf something is not dona soon Canada will start housekeeping on her own account, and England will havo only herself to bine," ‘Tit defent of the Five-Cent bill In the New York Scnnto cost the olevated rondso pretty sum by all accounts. If the thing hus to be done every yeur, Jt would be chenper to necept the reduced mte at once. The surface ronda also pooled thelr tssues against tho bill, and sent an {mmonse fabby to Albany. The bill had on onore mous majority in the Arsembly, but was beaten by 2 ta8 in the Sonate, The feeling is that there has been quite n needioss waste of money, and that in future the clovated and the surface routs should have some concert of aetion at Al- ‘many. Tho New York correspondent of the Phile ndelphia Ledger saya: There nre many who affirm that tho bill yas pornitted to go through the Lower Houso in ordor to enable Senators nnd Assemblymen “to get in at low prices,” and that, In order to en- ably them to jet out nt u profit, the Sennte now performs its part by defeating the measure, ‘This may bo a very unclvil way of looking at thluga, but it must Ue confessed tho movement of tho stock of the Manhattin Elevated fn the carltor part of the dny goea to show that somo. folks must hive bad a foreknowledge of what. was to bo the fate of tho bill, the price advance ing a clear 3 per¢ont. Atter the result was an- nounced this was partlully lost, but intermed!- ately handsome profits were reallzed, Tho bill, of course, will bo ‘resurrected, and, a Uke us not, the same tactics will Ue resorted to again. Itianot n plonsunt reflection that legisintion is thua made tp run so closely in tho stock-gam- Dlers’ groové, but us long os tho rallronds and the fentes arel nal politicians maintain so intimate intlonship nothing clac Is to be expected, f South Carolina has uvassed by the Now York Jerald corre- spondent with a view to ascertaining tholr opin- fons congerning the next Presidential election, The result {s as follows, derlyed from the opin- fons of 132 Democratic members: First Second hte, chotee, Dayar at ‘Tilder 5 Saymou! 55 Field 8 Mane oO. pty Thurman we. it MeCletlan 4 & Hendrick: E34 Ewing ; ‘Taking the above table naa fuir ostimate of tho strength of tho various candidates—and it does fatrly expresa tho public opinion of the Confederates of South Caroilnn,—ft would ro- quire no ustuta polltienl astrologer to predict that the Palmotto Stuto will sond a solld doloya- tion for Bayard ns first choleo and Soymour as second choles, The Republicans boing fow and far between, in oonsequenco of shotguns:and tlesue-paper ballots, thutr proferouces are casily stated: : First’ Second chute. cliotce, ‘Tho ox-President, i 8 Blabie.. CONKHE sreee Short... forerett | IxFrLvencns havo been at work to procure tho closing of the Bonnet Carro Crovnsso, a fow niles abayo New Orteans, Tho consequence In, tho river becomes dangerous, The following lottor oxplains tho situation: New Outnans, Murch 1, 1890.—To the Editor of the New Orleans Limea—Dean Sit: In to-day's isauo of the Times Treo that Sanger ia appro- hended from aun overiiow of the levees by the river, Lum sony to say that tho authorities of our Stutospend the peoplo’a monoy fn destroy> ing tho sntety-valve ol that ta, by trying to atop *Honnot Carra Cree vussa.” Tf my voice had any weight with Gov. Wiltz [would recommond hiin to apply to Maj. Howell, United States Engineer, for the loan of tho Esaayons to dredge out or decpen tho © Bon- net Carre Crovaaso.” Sho would lowor tho water in tho riverin twenty-four houra, and I sce ho reugon sie tha -oity drodyo-bouta should not bo sotto work nt once, niga, (Thore is 0 fall from tho river tothe Inko of nineteen foot, and the diatunoe fa only four and three-quarters milca,) Thug, assisting Nature in hor own remuds', the water can be lowered five foot -in one week, Vory roapoatfully, JouN Ror, io Miasiasippi River, Mu. Vernon, of Montreal, {6 now explaln- ing to tho Rovheater Express, Ho writes: “It was dlinply the rathor too strong wording of my February forecnst that caused nll tho rumpus, Tho prinolples I work upon—namely: that of recurring porlots and general compensation, as regards heat and cold, snow and ral fall—hayo invarlably proved correct, The very fact of my having forecnat the wouthor for four years, yet, rotaluing a reputation for gencral accuracy, and causing consternation by un occasfonnl *rias,’ proves the soundness of my system, On this princlplo of compensation, T fear that, fy all pluces whero ‘exceptional’ weathor hans boon oxporienced during the past winter, cold storms and gonorally backward wonthor will yot be ox- perlonced during tho spring or subsequent sim- |,’ merimonths. My predictions ns to tho wenathor” for Murch ure being born out by tho facts hero abouts thismonth, ‘foronto Ruy fd frozoptigain, forries aro stopped ut Kingaton, aud Montreal te stlll frozon sold.” ae es Wuen a boy takes up rusly old pistol or fowling-nlece, anil Kaya, 'Tdon't belleve it Is foaced,” wud points It ntsémobedy, in nine cases out of ton ft isn't lpddod, ‘But it la tho tenth thno wo hear about, find that Is tho experiment that costs, So It,is with the polley of intrudu- lng netrange {dou winecessarily Into party-poll- tos. It might powslbly turn out that the third- term fidun isn't loaded that the people don’t mind it, ,Dut suppose thoy do, Bupposo {t Ine Yolves # log of 10, or oven 4, por cont of tho Ro- publ{can vote. Whore will the party be In tho next Congress? Tho repulse would bo disaa- trous, and woll-nigh fatal. [uit wise to tako the —_—— Tux Judiciary Comnitteo of tho Bfaino Legislature have voted to report a bill ylviig all oltics and tawns owing 40 por cont of their valu ution tho right to go into insolyenoy, Tho bill was drawn for the bonofit of tho Town of Wise onssot. Ip fa denounced by many membora os praotical repudiation, -Ex-Stato'Treamirer Hatch anyay “T-would rathor voto fr @ regolyo ox- vinpting Wiscnsset from taxation for toh or evon twenty years than I would do auch an un- wiso or injudioious aot.” The Portland Adver- eer romarke: “livory town ought honoatly to Pay ite honest debt." Nut Wiscnssot ig in a pare tluularly bad way, and must cithor He down or bo run ovor, ——d Junay Rrves, of Virgipta, has written a congratulatory icttor to “Attorney-Genural Dov- ons on the success of his-labors in tho nogro Jurors’ cases, A part of tho letter: is as follows: He enectorth: the. Fourteenth ABeoauient Mi wa eevidtyy, ‘uroy - states, ond Rvailable to tho bumblese oltizen, Ucretofore ft was regarded at the South on a Iper guaranty that it wus commendable tate ollicers to deride and oyudy, while it was vstonatbly hold as binding on the State, 1 ane tibpate tho buat results from these sentenves in and Supeessinis that have been suck 9 dlsgraco to the South, * Vest, of Misxourl, ls a aember of tho Sennto of the United States whose eloction was uw surprise to everybody, and whose gonduct sinc his alcotion has beon palufully noar what everybody supposed It would be. His Oklahoma bill, providing fur the favaston of tho Indian ‘Torritory, fa auld to ke in the Interest of.Jay Gould, who wishes to run a sullrogd through that Territory. The mensure itself ts not ag 0b. Jectionable na tha mannor of tt origin and the motives which aro said to havo actuated ie |, Ruthor, who is charged with boing n large owne; of tho Ma K. &, Htallrond stocks. Sune ort leading Domocratio Journals of Missouri have opened a fusitlade on Vest, and ho promises? hnyo nn unhappy the of it betweon now ang tho oxpiring of hie‘oMotal life, which will tnt doubtedly and with this term, _—— ey Sava the Chicago Telegraph (Democr, org), Kpenking of the misorublo attempt, ils siniroh Mr. E. A, Storrs: Whntover porsonal enmity. thoro toward the Hon, Bmory A. Storrs by aones felt sons, and howeyor obnoxious his politient ver uy bo nnd aro to tho majority of tha peopis’t Chiengo, the Daty aeeyraph $8 convinced. that, thoro ts not an honorable man in this city whe q it Mr. Storrs over had ‘ng connection, yor Indirectly, with an attempt to bribed tron, or with any othor unprofessional get, Tt Is the custom of fellows ongugod in dirty work of that: oharecten te try to snio! i thomec ves with 10 xoud Hamto of some man whoso churnotor fs boyond reproach, Professional —— “ Locmen, Tocitttite bewaro of the day When tho {owlands shall meet thoc in battio. array!” 5 No English poot has sung so tunefully or a9 well of Pennsylvania: ‘as Campbell, Not only did ha show the inost minute acquaintance with tho sud story of Gortrudo of Wyoming, but bo projected his vision forward, as it were, to the time when old -8imon Cameron, the Lochtat chioftain, should louve bls sentp In tho hands of his foome: TALKING of close States, thora ts Ohto, Mr, Hayes, an Oblo man, carried tt by Rlittle more thin 5,000 votes In October, 1876,, Thore ts absolutely uo Grant sentiment in Ohto; no Grant Howepaper, to Grant Club, and no Grant man og any prominence, tnless Stanley Matthews can te elussed as suoh, Can tho Republican party af. ford to risk Ohlo? We don't want tho Topublic. mie of ‘Toxus or Missour! to decldo this question ‘or us, Enwrx Cowsrs, of the Clavoland Leader, 1s out with n long artioto in favorof Blaine, Mr. Cowles formerly hnd strong leanings towards rant, lo has,porsonaily no objections to the third torm na sitch, but bolfeves that many Ie. publican voters, especially tho Germans, hayo, and thinks {t would be Injudicious to antagonize that olomeut of the party, —_—— Tue chaste “family organ” of the third torm prints tho following reading for the home elrelo: “ Last Friday soyen members of Con: prepcutca Md petition to tha House from. ti mith, editor and publisher of the Chicago Bz: ‘preas, praying for tho avolition of tho duty on: typo, Now who the — {s $imith, and whero tho —is Chicnyo rpress? ee A promivent Ohlo mhn stated few days ago that thosousof Henry B., Payne, of that State, hud avowed their dotermination to throw $600,000 into New York, Obfo, and Indfana to so curo tho election of tholr fathor to tho Proal donoy on tho Democratic tickot. ———ee Dox Caurnon 1s nelthor n prophet nor tho gon of a prophot, ns John I. Hartranft can most sorrowfully testify. | Tnopr Tstannis another State that Blaine didn't have in 1876, and {s sure to have in 1680, * PERSONALS, | Elizabeth Cady Stanton announces thatthe prorent 4s tho firat of a serios of annual farewell ura, If, ns asserted, Gen, Mellkoff wears a vest of mail, it is certain that he keeps {t pulleddown ull tho time, Gen, Grant lias serft a $500 silver pitcher to Thing Chang, 9 Chinese Viceroy who phid the General marked attention @bilo ho was fo China, ‘The subscriber who wants to know what I tho most diftioult thing to ratso ona farm is informed that the farmer's son will Ml the bill: pretty well about dn. m. Senator Edmundssays he never was spolled by going to collogo, from which we infer that ha, {a entirely ignorant of those useful accomplish monta, baso-ball, rowing, and prizo-fighting. “ Divinity Student ”—Yes, {6 is generally belloved that {t was 2 church choir that. Dante! entered, Instend of a Non'adon. It looka more Nike what a mun who wanted to test bia courage would do, docan’t it? ? ‘ Of one mathematteal work written by tho vonorable and accomplished Prof. Petree, of Harvard, ho himaelf snya that there fs only ons man Hving bostda himsolf who could read !t- and understand it. Toe other man has our deop sympathy, Ve ‘That touching little story to tho effect tha tho object of Quoon Victoria's approaching visit to Gormany was to woop over the gravo of tho Princess Allco, turns out.to bag truud. The trip will bo takon with « viow of suleotiog a huaband for the Princess Beatrice. An honest farmer's iden of Communism: “ Aftor ali," gays tho triond who te oxptaining tho subject to him, "if all the monoy owned in France were to bo put togothor and equally die) vided your share would bo only 603 frincs B5 centhines.” “Well,” saya tho honest farmer, “that, with whit IT alrendy havo, wouldn't bo Bo bud l"—French paper. : ‘The editor sat at his inlaid dest, His brow wna furrowed with caroy Tn front of him lay a poetic gem ‘That #.achool-yirl had brougtt to hie lair. It was wiltton on paper of delicate tint, And told of tho benutics of springs But tho editor only frowned the more Asho gazed on the harmicss thing, ‘Thon softly ho presscd his Jowelod hand On nupring concoaled in the wall, A sccrot panol flow opon—ont camo An nsaistant, Doth strong and tall, “Tako this slush tothe mun that reads it, Mike”? (Tho vassal hastenod away.) & Tn the chilly depths of the pootry-bin ‘That little gom soon lay. . . . + 8 . The stars lookod down In pity that olght On a malden in hor room. - Tt was sad that ono so young and fatr Should bo struck by the poetry boom, Hor wan, pale face tho pillow pressed, Ag sho murmured soft and low: “T wonder mo ff that drondful man Will give iny vorsca a stow." Oh, blue-hosed maid, of beauty rare, Ttepine not at cruol fates ‘Thy little gom on the heautics of spring Burns to-night in the oditor’s grate, € Old Prince Suwaroff, grandson of tho fam ous General, is avoustomad to go and ptay whist overy night with bia sovorelyn. ‘The athor even: ing tho Itoyal family notioud that the Prince did‘ not put In an appouranco, gid ono of them asked tho Czar If the Prince wasn't coming to tayebls usual gamo tn tho Palady, ' No,” responded, Aleck, os ho got roady to dodgo tho halr-brush which tho Czarina was proparing to throw at hin, ‘Unt gotng to Suwnroff.” When tho Ninil- ista heard of this thoy sald he had got to go any; how, . : ‘The malden went out on a day that was oold; Tlor stockings were crimson, hor hair i¢ was g gold; : Onher back was 4 scalskin, her hand held § muff, ‘This charming young crosturo waa quite up t aout, aes the loaves of the forest whore Iittlo birds Dil ts "3 ’ r ‘Like that daunttess young creature, the wild . Ury-goads clork; $ Liko the waves of the ocean when yossels cA roon, ‘ ‘The hat of this beautiful maidon—was grecn. ; ‘Tho Angi Of Froozo' spread bis wings on the sty ‘ " > ‘To 9 slippery spot camo tha maiden at lasts Hor foot started" up, brightly yleamod bor red- hose, And a wild, fomale shrick o'or the towpcst ‘nroRe, 4 Aud thore lay hor bustle distorted and bust; By ts tilling, the maiden was quite upper crust ‘By tho loa on ber nose and the took on ber brow, ‘You could yoo that this girl was just ripo for 6 row, - ae ‘Tho girls of Bt. Lou!s aro loud In thalr wall Conournjug the alzo of tholr fect, but thoy fall, ‘Toseo tho adyantuge they have when earth's froze, ip 2 On account of tho grip of thelr ‘prehensile toch