Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1880, Page 4

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Dearborn streot, cornor of Manroo. Blave.” E Mootey's Thentre. Randotph atrect, botwoen Clark and LaSalle. En- Fagomont of Jamos A. Horne and Katharine Corco- Tan. “Lloartsof Oak." Hamlin's Thentre. Clark stroot, betwoen Washington and Randolph. Engagement of Miss Katto Putnam, “Lenn, tho Maxtcap.” + “Tho Galloy TUESDAY, MARCIL 23, 1880, Tur Indian bands threaten Texas, but tho Btato militia are under orders and are prepared to give an oxcellent account of the sayages. AFTRn 8 fivo weeks’ strike, the clgarmnk- ers of Cinolannt! haye mado terms with thoir ‘ employers, and went towork youtorday morning. ‘Tun Rhode Island Democrats went through tho ompty.form of nominating candidates for Btate oMlcors yestcrdny, Of course thoy have {no hopes of olecting thom. Jauus Brown, a negro, who murdored G-year-old girl in Pugo County, Virginia, was captured by a mob yostertay, and after confess. ing his crimo was instantly put to death. —— ‘Tre pianomakers of New York, who havo been ona etriko for somo time, wont to work Yosterday.- Thoro wore mutual sonccesions on tHo part of omployers and employés. Turnr {fs 9 striko among the machine- shop employés of tho Missouri Paolflo Raticoad at&t Louls. Parties coming from other cities havo been intimidated from going to work for tho Company, ‘ ‘Tre City Council last evening gave por mission to tho North Chicago Rallway Company to lay a stroot-car track on North State atreot aa far as Dtvision stroct, and on Division strect from Btate to Clark, ——— Ex-Senator Bannus, of male notoriety, ia in Waghington, trying to infuse sumo spirit into tho Tildenites sojourning thore. This is re- garded aa proof positive of the Usufruct's in- tention to try for tho Cincinnat! nomination, Avrin a most oxciting contest the Oxford crew won the great (Rnylish) University bonat- Taco yesterday by about two and a half lengths, As usual on such occasions, thory wus a very great crowd present and: much money changed hands, # Tire elghty-third birthday of Emporor - William wascolobrated Saturday.’ Tha Gonornia of the army and tho membors of Bunidesrath, and-sevoral othor distinguished porgona pre- sonted their congratulations, Tho diy was ondod with festivitics in which 7U0 questa pare Lloiputed. NINRTEER porsons have been executed for Political otfouses in Russia during the last. two years, tho latost boing tho sou of o Greok pricst, @ university student. Thoro must he something rotton in tho Governmont of « country which i4 an abgolutian tempered by despgtism, supported ‘by the executioner, Tue United States Cireult Court in Call- fornta has docided that tho law prohibiting the employment of Chinese Jaborors by corporations or individuals {s unconstitutional, .An nppoul wastaken to the Suprome Court, but thore is Uttle reason to predict a rovorsul of the Cir- cult Court's decision. | ConanessMAN CLAFLIN, of Boston, intro- duced a Bankruptey vil into tho Houso yuster- guy. The aim of thla meaguro will be to make tho law moro intolligibloand scournte, to romody dofects of tho old law, and to simplify and cor- tuinly to cheapen ita ndminiatration. Thetmeas- uro has been commended by soverul Gourds of ‘Trado, including that of Boston, et Tue Utes now in Washinglon refaso to glvo uny evidonce to tha Committee on Indinn Alfairs ag to the parties concerned in tho inassa- cro ut Waite Itiver, and will probably be brought. boforu tho House of Hepruscutatives for con- * tempt, Buch a procedure, nithough it may bo Vtraintng tho Iden of tribal soyeroignty, 4 ron- dered necessary py tho course which tho sa uges bave taken ju combining to rofuse unawer- iow tho questions of the Committed. ‘Tre Common Council Inst evening adopted Qn ordinance providing that ouch ownor of a dog shall bo taxod $3 por your, or for any fructional Part of a yeur, for kouping adog. Under tho ordinance the Mayor will have tho privilogo of Appoluting ut lenat three Dow-Inpoctors, whose duty it will be to onforco tho ordinunce, It is probable that many will proforto part with thoir doga rathor thun with 82, and the city scavenger mun and tho sausage manufucturer will doubt- leas do a rushing buatnoes for soiny tinete come, —_—_— In obedience to the call of the Now Albany Lalyer-Standard “for 20,000 Kentucklans to come overand scttle In Indiana and vote the Domocratio ticket," it 18 roportod thut a onside erable nutnbor of the people of tho bluc-grass rogionbavo abandoned horic-rucing and fore saken Bourbou whiaky and beoomo Hooslers for the time being. Chicuxo bas ono Kontucky Democrat whom she could spare to Yan Vour- bees foralx months, He may yot float on his eagle Wlogs through the blue sunny sky of Mll- nol to jolu the exodusters from hisnativastate, — —_— Ting annual report of tho Chicazo Milk Taspector carries upon its fuco the evidence of (oat individual's untitness fur tho place be holds, Hohas copied from tho books of the diferent rallroad companica figures showing the total nuinber of gullons of milk brought Inte the city, and that isall. He husnuta word ta guy about the reat dutics of bis allice,—those of milk tospection,—and {wpart no iuformation ns tw thorelative propurtion of pure and adulter- ated or skiinmod milk. Tho pusition of Milic Inspeotar belng now virtually vacant, it should elthor be abollabod or clse filled. ‘Tux cable man takes the trouble to inform us that there were not mauy iutuential peuplo present ut the Cork Furmory’ Club bunquet to Mr. Parnell. {t was not uccousury to guy all thts.” Tho infducatial pervous aro goncrally isnd- Jordy, and Mr. Purnell nelther deaired nor exe pected favors from that class; ut it ls elguin. THE CHICAGU ‘TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH 2 cant that ho was banquoted by the Farm Cinb of tho largest Irish counts, and wna re- celved by deputations from the Homo-Rule and Itish Land Leagues, the two moat powerful vo- litteal organisations in Troland. Another font- ure which fa worthy of remark was the presen tation of an address to Mr. Parnell by tho stu- dents of the Cork Queen's College. ‘Thoro Is not tho elizhtost doubt but this incident will create astonishmont In England aud give great picas- ‘ure to tho Irish tenantry. —_ THF Methodist ministers at their meeting yesterday resolved that thoy would not furnish eburch-notices to the Sundiy papers, but would for tho ‘futuro give these notices ton so-called nowspiper on Lake strect published on atx days of the weok, Ineluding tho original Sabbath, mainly to supply doloful reading to {ts melan- choly reporters nnd deapondent compositors. It will be In kooping with this notion for tho Meth- Odlst divines to Instruct the mombors of thoir congregations not to rend thelr sermons as print- ed in the Manday papers because of thoir boing reported and printed Sunday —— Skcretany Evanrs stated last yoar, after Senutor Blalno's grent speeoh on the Chincse question, thnt be had commenced negotintions ‘with tho Govornment of China with tho view of concluding n treaty relntive to immigration from thut country, Bolioving It time for tho trenty to be concluded, the nows- Papers about a weok agu, with charactoristio entorprigo, published what purported to be tho treaty which tha Seerctary had nozo- tiated, but Mr, Rvarta won't have it that way. ‘The published instrumont ts not. bls handiwork, Indeed, ho baa not ontorod Into its construction up to the present, and he hna yet to lose bimecit in tha mazes of many an involved sentence be= fore itisconoluded. Even !t may so bappen that tho Secrotury's successor shall hnve tho honor of concluding the treaty. Mr. Byarts has Inthlans In most othor matters shown that Peculinr inattention to his duties and to tho in+ structions of the United States Souato which a 80 charaoctoristic of tho man, ——_ ae Tr {s reported In Washington that such positive ovidences of tho inerensing unpopu- Jnrity of the third-torm movement in Pem- syivania have been brought to tho notico of the Camcrons that thoy are seriously consld- ering the disposition they will make of their forces whon {t shall becomo yet more. manifest that Gon. Grant's candidacy must be abandoned. Last Saturday ond Sunday n conferonce wns Pheld at Simon Cameron’s house in Hur- risburg, wherent wore prosont Sonators Cameron, Conkling, and Edmunds, and tho old mau himgelf.. It is belleved that this ussem- bly of notables waa not acolitental nor dovoid of important political significance, and that {t portends tho posstblc transfer of the Grant fol- towing in Pounsylvanian and Now York to the support of Senator Edmunds for tho Presl- dentinl nomination, This, of course, {a mero spcoulntion, but the fnct that such & conference bus been hold, togethor with tho now upparent certainty thnt the Cumcrons will not be able to swing tho solld vote of Ponnsytvanta for Grant in the Chicngo Convention, indicates that crisis ia at band in tho affuira of the iwachine managers, ee Wuen tho canal-pumps are set In motion at Lridgoport, and the, depth of wuter is In- creased three to four fuot, tha velocity of the current In the canal may bo doublod without impeding navigation,—for, tho deeper the water, tho ensior it {a for a bout to pass through it. Tho Knyincor of tho Now York Cunale, Mr. Horatio Seymour, says that an addition of one foot of water would make a saying of ono cont 8 bushel on grain carricd, by reason of tholightor pull and the awifter motion of the boats, This, ho says, was illustrated in tho trip of tho steamer Emma and consort Inst season. “The canal from Butfalo to Rochester will averago olght feot In depth; and over this portion of tho routo one-third bettor time was made with ono-balf tho cout than over a like distunco with sevon fect depth of wator." The one-half or two-third mile curront now in tho lMnois Canal may be inoreasod to a milo ond a half when the column of water is Increased three or four feet, and it will be easier navign- tion than at presont The spumping- Works will bé bonoficial iu overy respect. They will maka tho canal carry off throg times n4 muuch water og it now docs, and improve tho navigation at tho snimg thine, ‘Tho effect of this inerensed flow will bo to keep the Chicngo River clear and puro, and to sond down the Illinois Itlver a compuratively pure tlow of water, and thus abate tho nuigauce of which theriver towns ‘at presont 60 bitterly complain, —_— Sexaton Ben Litt, of Georgia, Isoccupy- ing altogethor too much of the public attention with his scandal Itis only one among a score orroof Washington scandals. It really ought tohavo bosn avttled In Georgia, so that tho olf- spring cuuld havo been counted in this years -congua and nearodited to Incroase Goorgin’s rep- rosentation in Congresa. It may bo that the do- sire to jucrease the Congressional reprosonta- Uon from tho Southern States accounts for tho Tact that tho Southorn gontlumen tn Washing- ton are socking to monopolize tho scan, mag. cases. If this be tha truco explanation of tho alr it is cortainly very unjust in Senator Hill tosouk refuge in a counter charge of black:muil which ho shows no disposition to prosccute in theCourts. Itis nso tnjust to tue North to in- crease tho representation of the Bouth by producing infants who can't flud thelr own .fathora, and whoso mothers look in vain ta fndividual Oongrcesmen for support. At tho samo timo oxuct justice to Sonator Ill requiros 4 protest against tracing a resomblance botween him and a newspaper cut ofthis alleged offepring. Mr. Hill mugt bo hard-looking spooimen of bumanity, ovun for a “Cruckor,” if he bears a resomblance to any newspaper ploture,. Wa Incllue to tha opinion that any allegation of auch likeness would boo good onuse for n libel suit, whatever tho “true {nwarduoss" of bis relations with Miss Raymond may be, ——es Our readors will, porlups, be able to recall that a year ago thoro was a.inan in Congress namod Ewing,—Tom Ewiug,—ot Obio, who bad Bgreatdenl to say, und who said {t very often and vory loud, ‘This man wa then urging ‘the Domvorntic Congress to starve tho army, starve tho Judiolary, and starve the Government gen- orally, unloss the President would sign the vill repeating the Election laws, Aftor tho adjouru- ment of tho extra session, this man Ewing wont home to Ohlo, and -perhaps somo of our readers muy rooull the fuct that during tho good woathor ho was traveling about that Stato talking to the people about hard thus, und intimating that he was a candl- dute for Govornor. From that time to this, ox- cupt that bis namo figured among tho returns of wenttoring votes for Governor, nothing has been heard of Ewing, until the other day ho got up, like a curpse frotn tha grave, and bogan to spyak In tho House, advising the Domocrats to give up thoir ight agninat the Klection law, to concede ite legality, and, speaking ‘from an unplousunt consciousness of tho worms which have boun feeding on bita in bis tomb, warned them to Profit by hia untimely ond; that he know by ox- porlence that the Amorican pooplo would never approve tho repeal of any luw which sccurod an. honcat election or an honest count of au election, Having sald this much, ho wont back into the grave whore he had beon re- posing since last Ovtobwr; but the Democrats profited by hig advioo, and passed the law to pay tho eleotion olticors for superintending Foderal oleotious in the soverolyn States, | ‘Tire Introduction yesterday of the major- ity and mlnorlty ruports from the Committee on Blootions tu tho Kellogg-Bpotford caso pet in motion a discussion which promiecs to rovoat in & strong Ught the malevolent batrod und the desperate partisunship which have promptod, this proposul to unsoat Kollogy and seat hia op- ponent. Such o thing has ever before boon known fn the history of tho Bonate as the une soating of u Bonator whose right to his sont hud been affirmatively decided by a prior Senate, and nothing but mow ovidenco af the moat conclusive churactor could ever Justify the rvopening of a contested case once haying boon go gottled, That any such evidence was brought out In the investigation upon which the majority report ls naw basod cannot be for a moment maintained. On tho contrary, it may bo sufoly ussuimed that if the Domooratia courts: and grand jurics of Now Orleans could find no wround for @ criminal progeoution against Bonutor Kellowy, though porsiswnt offortg to that ond were made, certainly o Benstoriul Comunittes baa unearthed no such evidence 98 would warrant tho virtual expulion of a Sqnator. Tha Inujority roport {9 the product of Ben Hill's mallee and spite, and odds ono more scandal to his diaroputable carecr; for the mutilation and misrvpresoutation of testimony with which Hill was unequivocally. charged by Senator Ke loge In tho latter's impnssioned protest againat the outrage—n charge which Hill had neltner tho manhood nor the counigo to deny or resont amounts ton disgraceful scandal in a mem bor of a Committee whose finctions nro prop- erly thosd of a Judge Instead of a pottifogging prosecutor. * ‘Timex different scts of resolutions were introduced into the Houso of Kopresentatives yeaterday In reference to the intorovoantocanal, Me. Bilis, of Louisiana, favora tho abrogution of the Bulwer-Ciayton treaty undor which the United States admitted Grent Nritain to a Joint protectorato with itaclf over any such project aa that now proporod by M. do Lessops, and ine structs tho President to so notify Great iritain, The preamble to the resolution of Mr. Young, of Tonnesseo, intimates that the dlaturbances tikely torosult from the construction of the intorocean- Jocanal nro of 80 dangerous nchuracterastoout+ weigh any advantages Iikoly to arise from tho completion of suoh.a work, but the resolution directs the President to cali an International Canal Convention, composed of tho rupresenta- tives of tho Southern American Stntex, ta tako Into consideration the measures noces- sary for tho protection of tho vurtous countrics represented ayainst tho polittent intluence: which any Government of Europe might attompt to oxercise in tho affalrs of American Govern- ments, Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, depresates: nll attempts of the United States to ald.the proj+ cot, desiring that tt should be conftruuted by Pprivato partics, and {indicates that there ta no necessity for the too atrict application of tho Monroe doctrine in tho caso, implying that tho Prealdent’s message appeils more to the false patriotism than to the real common sense of the American people. The rights of tho United States, accorling to Mr Bayno's resolution, enn be fully protected by treaty, nnd bis resolutious avcordingly instruct the Prealdent to enter when necessary Into such Negotiutions as will protect {ts interests. Mr Ellis’ resolutions wore reterred to tho Bpeulul Committee on the Interoceante Cunnl, and tho othor rosolutions to the Committcu on Foreign Attaira. THE RISE AND THE COMING DEOLINE IN PRICES. Wo linvo repeatedly pointed out to our readers the consequences of the unnatural and unhenithy rise In prices since Inst July, and these consequences ara hastening to finanelal and industrial disturbance, ‘Tho first and most beneticlal evidence of recov- ery from the wreck of speculation and Inila- tlon was the aijustiment of prices which enabled the manufacturers of tha United States to become oxporters, Blessed with all the raw materials ana the necessary coal inan abundance which peeullarly marks the United States ns a manufacturing country, the revival from tho panto witnessed the new departure {n our National policy. Our manufacturers at ones gave full employ- inent to ‘labor, capital, and machinery by making goods for sale to all parts of tho world, ‘The importation of forelgn goods daily diminished, exports of American goods dally increased; American manufactures were welcomed In every market of Europe, Asin, and South America; all tho Ia- bor of the country was employed; the ‘United States from its surplus exports was able to recall from Europo all forms of American indebtedness, National, State, muniolpal, and corporate; Instead: of remit ting gold to pay interest on forcign indebtod- ness, the gold was retained and the Interest paid to Amorican holders. Having pald all our foreign indebtedness, thon the flow of coin returned in paymont for our oxports, and the country was enjoying a degreo of prosperous Industry and establishod credit such as Lind not been previously witnessed, ‘Then was started the mania for getting rich quick and without Inbor; then began a fresh era of reckless gambling, Railroad nianagers entered upon the plan of consoll- dation—combination, poaling, and robbery; ‘bankrupt ratlroads* wore galvanized into new life; stocks that had been selling for five conta on the dollar were. speedily: rushed up to 25, to 40, nnd to §0 cents; tho prices of transportation wore increased 190 por cent in porlods of a tow weeks, and from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000 were mided to the value of railroad and othor stocks, Lonest Inbor became irksome, and gambling and specula- tion ns a meansof getting rich guddenty have swallowed up time and capital unfortunately withdrawn from Industry. With tho rovival of speculation enino tho revival of shoddy and the demoralization of sucial habits, ‘Tho removal of tho enforced economies following 1873 has been followed by an extravagance in‘porgonal exponditure without precedent. It has axtended tuto avery circle, until to- day the cost of wonring-upparel of mon, women, and clilldren, the cost of furniture and houschold adornments, the expenditures for ontertainments, display, plate, jewelry, ate,, ete. oxceoils anything proviously known in the history of the American people. We aro rapldly adopting the wildest luxury of European peoples, and are dolng this upon the evancscont bubbles of speculation and gambling. ‘The wonderful gains by tho ratlroad mag- nates, sustained by thelr spolintions of tho public, created o spasmodic increase in rail- way construction, Tho irou-manufacturers therefore began their rise and their oxtor- tlons. All fron and steel productions were advanced 100 per cont, ond nalls 230 per cent Immense stocks wero acon- mulated, fortunes (upon paper) wero amassed by merely marking up prices; cost of living advanced, wages have followed, and the costof production has boon largely In- creased. ‘The consequences aro already upon us. Wohave stimulated the stagnant pro- duction of foreign countries, Our manufact- ures already cost too much to exyort, while ali Europe is sending hor wares to this coun: try. Our exports no Jongor exceed and no longor oqual onr imports, Our warehouses and factories ure filled with goods that cost toa much to sell, Weare overrun with fore olgn-made goods, Between the overstocks of forelgn and domestlomerchandise, there must be n sacrifice, ant 6 slaughter, and a loss, and acrash, that cannot fall to.be disnstrons, In the meantime Iabor is dewanding more'wages from manutacturers who are no longer abla to produce at 9 profit, or oven to sell the stocks of goods they have on band, Conse- quently the country {s entering on o season of labor strikes and lockouts which may be oxpected to last all summer, and must end in the fnovitable reduction of wages and of prices to what they wore before the unnatur- ul rise which they have had aince July, 1870, ‘How extravagant las been this riso can bo soon by acomparison of the wholosale prices of certaln commodities and the prices of stocks in Now York ta the third woek of March, 1880, and tho corresponding week of 1870, We take tho figures from the New York Publlo: Inerease Ariteles, 1891, 1879. per cet. Cotton, middiings, 100 ba$ 1325 8 0.76 fr Tron, No, §fuun 3050 18K 13 Sooten 2nd 20.00 az Halla, 65.00 8.50 bd Htoel. 2 am 90 Capper, 100 tbs. 2275 (18.0 48 iy Stra 275 18.00 40 Lead, 00 “OBO 0 Coal, staves... 400 «BOO Fi} Cotton priniés aah oy oe lows print, por Ib. E iatroas. alucke. “ 0 CLO BAIS, CUILIMNOM. wee Ohlog Matisipnions: aie | Tee eat Puoittu Muil, Buoy kod IT Lackawanna, 3.8 ATT wm Bh ne 53 BE 475 10.68 At the end of nine months the “boom,” tho result of speculation and. gambling in stocks and commodities, has reached Itahigh- eat, and the decline has begun. Many hun- dreds of millions of dollars have boon mace, all of which will bo lost in the downward turn. The greatest loss, however, ty the du- moralization produced in awakening the 3 YSU—TWELVIE VD. GIN, thirst for riches without tho necessity of tn- | by scores, ready to bebought. Ib is not only bor. Shoddy will soon dissipate its suddenty- acaulred gains, and volvets and diainonds will give piace ta plainer ndorninents. ‘Tho millions of money ventured in the thousand so-called mines will be hopelesty buried in the holes in tha mountains, In the mean- time tho country has lost its export trade, and has built up a new and (a largo debt Abroad, Prices will soon be tumbling, wages go down, and It will take porhape years to Teeover the prosperity and soltdity the coun- try onfoyed beford tho recent wild and un- natural rise in prices, and destruction of in- dustry, and of healthful social expenditure. —————— GIVING BACK THE JAPANESE INDEM- Opry, Itis in accordance with every principle of Justice and equity that the House Committes on Foreign Affairs ins reported n Dill for the proper distribution of the Japanese fndom- nity fund, Strict justice would have re- turned It to Japan long ago, but on the prin- elplo “better Inte than never,” It isn cause for congratulation that this money, which docs’ not belong tons, wil! probably be re- turned to those who are Its rightful owners. ‘The bill directs the President to pay to tha Government of Papan $785,000, which was the original sum wrongfully oxncted, and from the increaso and accrued Interest of tha fund to divide $125,000 between tho ofilcers and crow of the United States ship Wyoming and tho steamer Taklong, for sorvices de- seribed below, tho remninder to bo coverad {nto the United States Treasury, amounting, nfter tha above distribution, to something over 8600,000, tho original fund having beon inveated In United States'‘bonds, which have {nereased fn value and accumulated largo interest. ‘The story of this “fund” {5 an Intoresting one, and will,be fresh to most of our readers, After the establishinent of communtention between this country aud Japan in 1853 by Commodore Purry, 9 treaty was ratified and signod by the Tycoon, admitting foreigners to commercial ports and giving them priv- ileges of trade, and similar concessions wero granted to the leading European Powers. ‘The Japanese Princes opposed tho ratifention, and brought all their influence to bear to pre- vent, tho execution of the treaty, their hos tility at Inst culminating In an open rebellion against the Tycoon, organized and led by tho Prince of Nagato, who erected batteries, and declared hig Intention to close the straits against all forelgn vessels, Tho first vessol fired upon was the American merchant steamer Pembroke, for which the United States Minfster domanded and obtained $10,- 000 dninages from the Tycoon, Tho United States steamer Wyomlug was. thon or- dered to punish’ tho porpotrators of the outrage, and did so by destroy- ing three = Japaneso war yossels in the straita, . Subsequently an English and Dutch vessol were fired upon, which led to tho dispatch of astrong flect of British, Frenoh, and Dutch vessels to Jnpanesa waters, in which tho United States, howover, was represented by ® single sinall steamer, tho Takiang, with butono gun. The attack resulted in tho complote destruction of the Trince’s armament and forces, and ho was compelled to suo for peace. The Powors then united {In domanding an tndomnity of the Prince amounting to 83,000,000, which was handed over to their representatives and divided equally between the four Govern- menta, though the United States had taken little part in the attack, and really had no claim for indemnity, as full indemnity had already been paid by,the Tycoon for tho ate tack upon the Pembroke. On account of dam- Ages done prior to the joint naval operations, the French ond Dutch representatives clulmed an extra indemnity of 814,000 each, - and the United States Minister also put ina similar claim, which was allowed. Tho amounts divided, therefore, wore as follows: United States, $785,000; France, $785,000; Tolland, $785,000; while England, which had performed tho Hon’s share of the work fn de stroying the power of tho Prince of Nagato, received but $645,000, Although Secretary Seward recognized the gross injustice of the oxaction, and knew that {t was In violation of troaty stipulations, he retained tho first and subsequent Installments asa special fund In the custoily of the State Department, subject to ultimate withdrawal, and thoro thoy have remained overfiftcen years, though tho Injus- tice of keeping tho monoy has never been questioned. It 1s an open question whether the accumulated Interest docs not also belong to the Japancso Government, but whethor it does of not, thore can no longer be any ox- cuso for keeping the monoy. It{isan act of potty Injustice to a very friondly Power, and the only reparntion In the premises is to re- turn It 8 speodily as posslblo, Had Japan beon as strong as oursolves it would have been sunt back long ago, Japan's weakness does not offer any excuse; on the other hand, It Is an urgent reason why the money should have bean roturncd all the more specdily, ‘Tho House should pass the bit! Immedintaly, ‘Tho refusal or failure to do so will stamp tho Goyerninent with dishonor. PURIFY .THE COURTS, Tho prompt action of Judges Moran, Tuley, and Jameson In resenting the efforts ta im- pede the processes of justice and corrupt tho decisions of Juries in thote courts 1s timely, andhas Jong been needed. Tho thine has como when the Judges of our courts must take a decided stand against the conspiracies of rings of perjured villnins to corrupt jus- tice or no confidence will be felt by the pub- No that It can any longor obtain justice, As things have been going, it has become almost impossible to punish well-known scountrels, und some of them aro walking our streots with impunity though they hava Iong been under {udictmont, ‘There are three ayenues of escapo for them,—viz.;_ straw-ball, packed Jurles, and changes of ventie,—and thesothrea practices have grown {nto crimes of frequent Occurrence, committed with unbluahing audacity by desperate profesalonal vil- latns,. who in some natorious * Ins stances, like that of the Garritys, have boldly defied tha authority of tho law and the efforts of the courts to interfere with thom. Tt fs notorious that many of our Justices and Magistrates have taken bait of the filmstest and most worthless character from tho friends of noted criminals, not designedly, perhaps, but in the most caretess and reckleas man= ner, and without that thoroughness of scru- tiny that even ordinary cara would dictate, and often from professtonal ballers who aro known to be men of disreputable charactor who would not acrupla to swear to any stute- ment, Under such clroumstances, of what uso fg it to arrest criminala? What is gained by bringing them ‘ux for examination or com- mitting them for trial when they can open the jail doors and walk out with no real se- curity thot they will appear when they are J Wanted? What encouragement {a there for policomen or Constables to perforin their duty when gamblers and other notorious professional bajlers may stop in and take criminals out of thelr clutches? Of what uso is it to bring cases into court af all, if men like Gribler and Patten—and thoy ara not tha only ones in this clty—can openly ply thelr calling of bribing jurora? This man Gribler has been cought tu the practice and punished, but hls punishment ought to have been ten times aa severe. But his Js not the only case, There is every reason to believe that the practice has become a common one, and that profes- sioval jurors aro banging round our courts OQ Rross contempt of court and a prostitn- tion of Justice,” as Judge Mornn atyled 1, "In hor very temple,” but a direct nasault upon the rights of tho citizen, depriving him. of the Inst resort ho has for protection, and exposing him In life, proporty, and busi- neas to the mercy of the disreputable and dangerous classes of the community. It is this practice which has innde Turkish Justice notorious the world oyer for Its corruption, bribery, and perjury, In New York it took the forin of buying Judges until the people arose In thelr indignation and the dally press thundered out Its demands that the corrupt Judges should be hurled from thelr seats, In Chicago an easler wiY lins been found by buying the jurors, nnd thus dofenting the ends of justice with equal celerity and greater secrecy. There Is no crime moro heinous, because It tends to make the punishment of nll other erlines impossible, and encourages criminals to commit offenses and take risks when, they havo a very clear, hope at least that, with the help of the disreputable clnss of shystering Inwyers and professional jurors and bribers, thoy may escape. ‘The action of Judge Moran Is an encouraging sign, and if the other Judges will act with the samo Tesolute action and commendable prompt- ness in purging their courts of these scoun- drels, much may be done to break up thoir infamous practices. : The third mothod of defeating justica by. obtaining changes of venue fs hardiy less disreputable and infamous than straw-ball and packing juries, and fg the lust resort of criminals when the other two methocs can- not be mado to worl. ‘The case of the gang of burglara Garrity, Grady, Dwyer, and Adlam illustrates the general character of this fraud, which has now become of com- mon occurrence. In this caso one of tho defendants, Dwyer, had the temerity to present, through his counsel, the aflidavits of two men, working Ina shoe-shop, setting forth that he could not have justice becnuse the Court was projudiced sgaitsthim. Judge Jameson, never having heard of Dwyer untit the case was called before him, and never having heard of the two shoemakers who had inade this extraordinary ofiidavit, promptly overruled the motion, and defented the scheme of “the enterprising burglar? In such cases a8 this the signers of the aMlidayits should be Indicted for perjury and brought before tha Court tashow cause why they should not be punished to the full extent of the law, Thoy should be made to faco the Judges whom they gratuitoubly libel, and cithor prove the truth of thelr affidavits or be severly dealt with, The infamous nssaults upon justice by. tho scoundrels who hang about our courts, and Dy the class of disreputable shysters who re. sort to wll kinds of petty tricks to defeat Jus- tice, have put the public ina temper toindorse the Judges in any course they may adopt to purify their courts, and it will hail with de- light any measures thoy may take to sweep out the gangs of straw-bailors, professional jurors, jury-pnekers, and shysters, and any punisliment they may inflict upon them. THE “PRINT-PAPER" QUESTION IN CON- GRESS, Tho following dispatch from Washington. describes the present status of tho paper- duty question in Congress: The intentions aro that tho Committee of Waysand Means will report favorably to tho Houso Fernando Wood's bill to put wool-pulp ‘on the free list in anawor to tho demand “orn reduction of tho tariif on paper. -Fort’s bili will not, in all probability, be hourd from. If this can bo considored separately it will, no doubt, ‘puss tho House. Tho only dangor is tho attempe of those socking relicf In special ensos, who, It ia fonred, may attomptto tuck other mensures toit if ‘tho sugar-mon endeavor to add sugar fnd tho fron and silt mon tholr specinltics, ft ‘Will kill tho wholo thing. , “According to this Information, tho chief obstaclo in the way of repealing tho out- Tgoous duty on wood and straw pulp (which has a placa on tho statute-books really by virtne of nn error In revision) is the possible attachment to the repealing bill of oxtra- neous and irrolovant mattors, Tho defeat of the project by this means will bea cowardly and treacherous act. Every Congressman who moves or votes to lond down the print- paper queation with. other tarlf questions will thus betray his opposition to the pro- posed romoval of the tax on information and tha spread of knowledge, Ifit be assumed that tho demand for fires print-paper, stand- Ing alone, can command a majority of votes Jn the House of Representatives, then that majority is strong enough to defeat any effort to confuse and embarrass the issue and lond it down with riders, and the falture to do go will. bo ovidenco of insincerity ond treachory, If many of those who are In favor of modifying the tariff on stigar, salt, and other commodities aro among the friends of free paper, they certainly should not consent to killing the paper relict bill by 8 fullle effort to advance the other Interests, ‘There fs no question In this caso as ton gen- eral revision of tho tariff. Let each propo- sition stand upon its own merits. Tho public dealro naw that the imposition on the con- sumers of print-papor be abandoned. It Ia the duty of Congress to meet the fssuc squarcly, and determine, apart from all en- tangloments, whethor or not it will accede to tho demand. : It fs understood that Mr, Garfiold’s disin- ellnation to take an afirinative part In the effort to securo rellot from the unjust tax upon tho raw innterial for making paper, In which pulp and soda-nsh are the chief clo- ments, !s based upon the alleged approhen- sion that other interests may obtrude thenr selves upon the issue, Butit isin the power of Mr, Gariicld and other gentlemen who would agree to the remission of the paper duties, but not to other changes In the tariff at this tlmo, to secure a separate and inde- pendent presentment of the paper question, If those who ask for the repeal of dutles on other inaterials are not strong enough to carry thelr polut, those who are opposed to thom need not fear the proposed change In the paper-tax, for the pro-tarlif inen will still bo ina majority ngainst tho other low- tarlff propositions, Every ecifort to nasoclate other tariff revisions with the paper ques- tlon will be suggested by adosire to defeat the paper bill, and tho press and tho public will*hold every Congressinan an enemy of the proposed relicf who shall not insist upon & complote separation of the payer issue Ha all other tariff questions for tho thue bing. ‘The passage of the Wood Dill for the re- poal of the duty on pulp will not alone satisfy the demand, That would be a simplo act of justice, becauso itis well known that the intention of Congress was to put on the freo list all tho raw materia! that enters into the manufacture of print-paper, including wood-pulp, The newspapers demand tho re- tlasion of the taxon pulp and sodasash for the benefit of the papermakers; but thoy also demand the renilasion of the tax on print- paper in justice to the publishera, The pub- Msher, whether of a newspaper ora school- book, {s a manufactures, and print-paper is his rate material just.as much os wood or atyaw pulp is the raw material of the paper maker. Nelther the tax on pulp nor print- paper ylelds any revenue to the Government, because the tax in both cases fs substantlally prohibitory, If justice {oe the manufacturer of the paper requires the free admission of pulp ag a protection against monopcly Jn the providing of this material, then Justice to the publisher equally requires the free aunjission of print-paper us a protectiqn against the combination of papormakcrs, Eyon if this ting wore glyen {reo pulp and freo soda-nsh, | who now enjoy the apocint entoa ol atong with other freo materials that enter {nto tho manufacture of paper, a duty of 20 por cent on print-paper, nmounting to 25 per cent after Ineluding other Cutom-Ilouso ox- penses, will ennble tha paperninkors to overcharge even in grenter disproportion than thoy donow. _Eneourngement to mant- facturing Interests demands that the raw inatertal used by papermakers and the raw materia! used by book and newspaper makers shall alike be placed upon tho freo list. In this paper question Congress hns to dent with n,class of men who cannot be decelved by any specious device of tha encmy, An effort to defoat tha demand for relief by tag- ging on the heavy welght of other contro- versies over tho tariff will be untversally recognized by the press as a tréncherous trick and treated accordingly. Congress has already punished the newspaper press of tha country for exposing tholr Credit-Mobiller corruptions and salary-grabs, and other de- tected robberies and rascallttes, by compoll- Ing it to prepay postage, knowing that {t could not assess and colluct the postage from its swbseribors. If Congross iniagines that newspaper criticism can ba repressed or tho publio concllinted by any policy of reprisals, it Is very much mistaken, The press will not submit to any further impositions and discriminations without such an appeal to public sentiment ng will make tho nvoraga Congressman wish ho hal never had a po- litical birth, Tita slavery oxists nmong the Chinese In California has been observed by soveral writora; that tho institution prevails among thom in o modified form can bo ostablished by a grent many facta, obsorved whorovor these people aro Rathorod Inlurge numbers, It takes tho shapo, with roferenco to tho ndults, of contraota to Jnbor for long torms. In the caso of young boys and girla, the operation docs not differ in any ossuntlal particular from what a ebort timo ago ‘wus observable in the sinve-marts of Zanzibar. Gen. John F. Millor, in hls articla on “Certain Phasea of tho Chincue Question,” published in tho March numbor of tho Californian, says: “Practically, Chinn 1s the xront slave-pon from which laborers for this country-aro being drawn; ‘and thory aro myrinds now ready, and only stand walting for the beck and algn of the Chinese chiefs, to como and toll like galloy slaves for wages upon which an American laborer would starve." Speaking of this Chincso slavery in Callfornia, tho Sau Fruncisou Bulictin, a papor of modcrate consorvative views, remarks: So complotely is the system worked for tho bonefit of the Chincse capitalists or stavo-awn- ora that tho Amorivan staplerin Chincag can not coinpete with them, lon. Miller, in tho are Malo, in queation, refors to tnses where Chinese employora working tho low tanda bordoring tha Sucrumento have in tholr servico boys from Ching under long contracta at & per month. ‘Tho business in which thoy wero engaged wna rilsing patntocs, and so extensive wore tho operations that tho esculent would not pay on American farms for tho digging and hauling. The American farmer could vot compote with the Chinese while the latter havo labor nt $3 per month There is q second forn of Chincso slavery for Immoral purposes. Gen. Biller, ina note to the article tn question, says: “While Chineso women in California. ‘bring, in. tho Chinese market, from $600 to , 08 bigh aa 81,000 fa known to havo beon offered by China- yinen fora white womun as n wife, and frequontly $1,000 to $1,600." ‘Tho inforonce 1s In the cases of the fow whita women who huve boon married to Chinainon that somo adroit porson, relative or otherwise, In tho background, pocketed tho money, A ‘Those nro facta that cannot be gninanid, A” syaten of alavory only little less abborrent than, that which bas just been abolished in a bloody and oxhausting clyil war is beginning to grow up In thiacountry. It has shown itself first on this coust, because here tho first landing has been made, ‘Our people, understanding the facts, havo protested ugninst it with a unaniinity never before known In tlo political history of tho country, Hut, so far, thoy havo secured but ttle attention at tho hands of thoir Eastern brethron, The samo anifling cant that was 80 conspicuous in the onrly days of African slayo! ia now heard. It is tho will of Providence, it is ‘urged, that tho Chinose should come over hore, no matter in what condition, so that they may be convorted to Christianity, But, on this occa-. sion, tho resultis exnotly tho opposit. There ure at lonat two Christinn churches in this city 8 which tho (umimory, of Paganiam is now; card, and in which the Ubineso Joau has ns subatituted for tho Savior of mankind. Bounnon nowspapers in Georgia report tho reco!pt of various fluttoring oplsties from tho Shorman Bureau in Washington, requesting tholraupport for tho Scorotary of the Troagury in his canvass for tho Prosidoncy, Tho devetop- mont of the mngnificont resources of the South, ‘wo nre informed, would bo one of tho onrliestand inost urgont cares of Mr, Sherman If ho should bocome Président. The following is roported by the Auguata (Gn.) Chronicle and Constituttonaltat ashaving been added by the Scorotary, on his own account, to the ciroulur aforesaid: Iwoll know tho wondorful resources of tha groat Southern belt of States; and timo and again have boon allured by the charm of {ts fna- clnuting climate, the soft and witching moon light that lingers In tho memory as 0 procloug trensuro; no othor lund, not oven tha South of France or Southern Italy, has the charm to hire tho travoler seeking pleasure or health. ay Mr. Editor, cannot you and 1, and all true friends of tho South, unlto and move forward In thig Tun progressive march towards tho sucocsad- ‘ul development of tho great South-land, givin} her tho position ind power in the Counails o! tho Nation that so vast an emplro deserves? A heart of stono would be moved by such ontroatios, but the Augusta man apparently haa sohunk of adamant in his bosom, for he turns the whole thing into ridfowle, Afr, Bhormun may havo tho comfort of knowing that tho'Auguata nan couldn't mako him Prosident, and can’t alono defeat him. —————_— Tire Republican party in 1875 was opposed, fo the third torm, as appears from tho following resolutions; Rtenlved, That the Republican party of Towa Js opposed to the third term In tho Presidunoy.— Towa Republican Convention, June 9, 1975. Hesolved, That wo dealare ‘a, firm, tnquallfed adherence to tho unwritten law of the Republic which wisely and under tho sanction of the most yonorable examples Uimtta the Preaidential scrvica of any citizen to twa terma, and we, tho Repub- Menua of Ponnayivanin, in recognition of this Jaw, are nnilternbly opposed to the lection to the Presidoney of any person for.n thin! termn.— Pennayloanta Repubifoan Convention, 1873. The obscrvance of Washington's example in rotiring at the close uf a second Proldential ust, regirded rrcleaniness = Written jawoft tho Republic,—Oifo Republican Convention, June 2, 1475.” Recognizing ns conclusive the Prosident's ubiio declarution that ho is not a candi« lato for renomination, and with the aincercat gratitude for his patriotic survices, wo aro our unalterable oppoaltion to tho lection ofany Prosidont for a third torm.—New York Iepub= lean Convention, Sept. 0, 1875. Who are “ tho tried and truo Republicans," those who stand now whero the purty did in 1875, or those who sock to roversa the action of tho party dellborately taken In four of tho principal Ropublican Btates of the Union? 4 es 2 Sencrant Bares writes to a newspaper in Indiana that he kaa been quictly canvassing that Btate, and reports: “I hayeasked 644 Ropublican voters, £33 belug Union soldiors, the following question: *1f Grant 14 nominuted by your party, will you vote for him? I have kopt a rooord of the questions und anawors, with tho following roauita: Hepublicaus not soldiers who would voto for Grunt, 270; Hepublicans not soldiers wha would not voto forGrunt, 1; Republican soldiers who would yote for Grant, 151; Ropublican soldiers who would not vote for Grant, 18, One hundred and olghty-two (18) of the 23 Ropub- Moana opposod to Grant sald that In casa of Graut’s nomination by tho party they would vote for the Domocratio nominee, provided tho Doemoorats norainated a good man, whilo fortys one sid in caso of Grant's nomination by their party they would not voto for Presidential cand!- dates at all” 7 < ee Tne Hepburn bill to regulate rallroad traMo in Now York ts still the bone of conten- ton iy tho Legislature, Tho rallroads have beon working up sentiment very ekillfully In tholr favor, Ono day a delogetion of merchants {rom Syracuse puts in an appearance at Albany, protesting against the passage of the bill; ane othor day tho Produce Bxchango is induced to pasa resulutions against it, which are immodi- Btoly ecnt to Albany by telegraph, The Butter and Cheese Assouiation has beon provalled on to tuke similar aotiqgn. On the other hand, fow inv dividuals or asyoolations dare to brave the pow erful Influence of tho railroads; for itis a mate tor of common exporience that merobants can oaally be crowded out of business by tho grante ing of special ratea to their principal com- potitors. ‘The New York Journal of Cammerca Intimates that the opposition ty the bill ts en- gineorod wholly by tho favored class of shippers ft roads. Tho action of tho Produce Bxchan " 4 is enld, was taken when not over one-tenth tho inembers wero present, and they altnogt 2 clusively in tho ralirond interest. ‘Tho dency, ing members have prepared a petition eanbod ing thelr views, and have already recetyedt fortt some 400 aignatures,—far more than the orlgh 4 voto. A+ proposition to huve tho qtiestion de olded by @ socrot Uullot was rojected by ts Hoard of Directors. —————____. Astona the candidates for Governor ot Kanone is tho Hou.'f. G. Honry, tho great wheat. alfor of Abulino, ‘Tho Kansas City Journal sayy of hin: The career of Mr. Henry in Kansn inga porlod of twelve yours, in rit achievements attalned tndor discourn, Comprige tant. with cumstancent antl is the ocension of the enh ene Ratlo sunport of thoso who aro best? nequalitey with him. He eame to Kansus without Means oF influential friends, and locnted ina portion of tho Stato dominated by the Texng cnttle tends and supposed to be aultable only for Pastos Ruenes. Dickinson County has bevama the rst whont-producing county of Kansascant (02 counties west of {t have boon stimunted by io success to achlovomenta soarcoly lesauentifyings turd hs romale Ie autriigntnbio fargely, amt ett O trace directly, to @ ontorprisa le’ power of Mr, Hutiry, ‘ and wit Tre Hon, Alfred I. Littlefleld, the Gubern natorint nominec of the Rhodo Island Republics fins, 1s a woaltby thrend-manufucturer of Pay. tucket. Heian mombor of tho. present State Senate, where ho has mado n good record, No isneelf-made man, having begun bis businces life by working as an operative fn tho Natick cotton-mill. Ho is 61 years old, and ts Bald to pos. fess much enorgy and oxccutive ability. Hig election {s, of courac, assured. Gov. Van Zand: who hea been a remarkably popular Chiof Mag. istrato, deoliued a renomination for tho renso, it {s bolloyed, that he Intonds to cntor tho cons test for tho succession to Gen. Burnsido in the United Btates Sonate. ——— Our esteemad little noon News has mado “nm great discovory.” It waa inado yisiblo by tho olurificution of tho atmosphore by tho Orvis smoke-burner, The great discovery consists of frictloni electric oran, or rathor how to pick bran out of flour by lightning The plan in | volves a syatein of belts, pulloys, rotlors, and cloctricity, worked by battery powor, with backe fotlon, reversible, cocontric commotion. It inys ovor tho mysteries of tho manufuctura of gluoogo, and {s surpassod only by Oryly smoke-burner. For further particulars tho ine quiror fa roferred to the News counting-roon— ‘at tho regular rate por line. —— Betva Lockwoop's letter to Ben Fill was’ “smart” and pungent, but, os the New York Notion justly romarss, {t introduces tnto legal controvorsics an undesirable clomont which tho. foes of women sald might be tho result of the admission of tho gontie sox tothe Mar. Dr. Hill cannot refute Mra. Lookwood's chargo, even ff true, without bringing shame ond confusion on some family, “By keeping charges of ‘a dulle fente nature’ hanging over thoi bonds," ro marks the Nation, * Mra. Lockwood can mako tho proudost ond ablest men in the community drend her displeasure moro than luas of otthor health or monoy.” a A te Uron a full and fair vote two of the throa countics which compose tho Stateof Delaware would be Republican. Up to this timethe Dem« ocrata have porpotunted their rule by omitting to assess a Inrgo numbor of Nopublican voturs, Under tho Jawa of the State no person can voto without paying a poll-tax, and no pail-tax can, be pald unloss tho namo of the taxablo appears on the assesainont-list. Tho Election laws of the United States woro framed spociully to put down such practices as’ provall, oxtonsively in Dele waro, aud there would scom to bo a demand for thelr immediate oporntion in that State. _—————— Tiaxcoor in personal appearance fs tall, woll formed, and very bandsuino. His hight cannot be loss than six fect two inches, and ha welghs fully two bundred and forty pounds, Gen. Hancock had two childron, Russell Hancock god Ada Etizabeth Hancock. Tho lnttor died in Now York, of typhold fever, whon 18 years of age, Bhe wasn young Indy of grent proints, Russell Huncock, the Genoral’s only son, fs ve ing and is 9 planter in Mississipp!. Among Gen, Hancock's classmates at West Point wera U. 8. Grant, Georgo B. McClollan, J, F. Roynolds, J. L, Reno; Durnstde, Franklin, and W. ¥, Smith. See ‘Tnx Democratic newspapers of Tennessco Dublizh the numes of the residents of tho Btato whose War-olaima bave beon passed upon by the House Committegon Claims and reported favars ably to Congrogs. There uro 160 claimants, and tholr claims foot up 4 totul of $150,000, This total represents only a purt of the ciniins ofa ~ singlo Southern Stato, Tho lat gives signiticance to tho stateniont of an Augusta (Ga.) paper that oluiinants must walt patiently till attor the Preae {dential etection before making further ralda og tho Treasury. $$ Tire Detrolt Post has recelyed many add tional returns of Presidential preferences from ita subscribers. ‘Tho tally of the prinolpal numed now sthnda: Janica G, Blaine, TAN Elihu 2. Washburno,. Thomas W. Ferrs Jamos A. Garfio! ——— as Tu Herald canvass of tho Massachusetts Logislaturogives tho following resulta, tho numed of mombors In each instanco showing that tho pollisauthentio: Sonate—For Grant,6: lain, 6; Edmunds,8; Shorman, 0; Wushburne,4; G fiold, 1, House~For Grant, 83; Blaino, munds, #8; Shorman, 27; Washburuo, 17; Hayos, 15; Garileld, &, The majority against Grant in tho Senute 6 25; in tho Honse, 88% Tho Demo- crats voted as follows: Bayard, 21; Tilden, 103 Thurman, 10; Soymour, 8 od Tr project of deepening the Erle Canal Is again boiug agitated in Now York. ‘Tho Sault Ste. Marla and St. Clalr Canals hayo 4 dopth of sixtecn fect, Tho Eric has g depth of soven feet only, Tho Cunndian ayetom will onable the Passage of bonta carrying 2000 tons; those on tho Erlo ourry only 250 tons. ut it*is not probe ablo the Erio Canal will be muck improved by! Now York so long as tho railroad lobby remains all powerful at Albauy, oe Founreen out of fifty-clght mombers of tho Pennaylvania delegation have pledged thom solves to vote for Bluine from tho start. ‘This la givon out officially by the Ulutne Club at Waste ington, Siz or oight moro original Bigino mea uro expected to come over from that delegation before & vote Is taken at Chlengo. ———————_——— Tins less the Bourbon bulldozora of Lous jaluna and ‘Toxas auy in favor of Gon. Hancock, the moro thoy wil holp bim. If bis admintatrae tion of tho Dopartmont of tho Gulf ufter the War plougod thom, his frionds at tho North will bo sorry to know it, Se cama ‘ L. P, Montow, tho wealthy New York Congressman, wus tho porson who tirat offered to bear one-fourth of the oxponse of frelghtlog tho ship Constollation with supplios for the starve ing poor in Ireland. Put this not down to thy orodit of the Byndicato. . a A. L, Conger, Chairman of tho Ohio Re publican State CentralCommittop, who formerly announced himavif as a Grant mau, has come outfor Blaino, It scoms probablo that stanley Matthows will cast tho solid voto of the Third: ‘Term party in Ohio; ho Js always an off-horec, ——— ‘Tre Edmunds press 1s unnecessarily age tating Itaclf over tho’question whethor Mr Washburne sald to Mr, Conkling twonty yeard ago, “You lle." Tho important quoation is, nos whother. Mr. Washburne sald so, but whother Mr. Conkling did so, Iy Bam Tilden has the naming of the noxt Proaldent of course he will put up Nophew Pele ton, Noxt to boing Prosident onc's solf, tho ae Uon of “ confidential uncle to his Bxvoltoncy’ would sult Mr. Tilden, : a Epuunps now has. the inalde track io . Massachusetts and Conneotlout, : —<—<—$———— PERSONALS, ‘The springtime seema to ho here, but gon tlo Annio basn’t shown herself, i The force of habit was atrikingly {Iu trated in a sm@ll Connectiout villago tho othor day. A worthy citizen and carpontor fol! from the roof church and was instantly killed, whereupon his wifo and family wero arreato =