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Tue Union Passenger Iullway Depot of Polladelphia and soveral mijacent buildings wero destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Wanrter, a London forger, who hag pre- viously distinguished bimeclf in betting frauds, was yesterday sontenced to twenty yorrs’ penal sorvitude, Recent frosts have injured thegrape vines in Franco to such an extont that it Is feared this year's crap will bo considerably short. Tho Vines of Burgundy and Champagne have suf- fored moat. THRER nen were Injured by tho falling wallsof an unfinished buikiing at Detroit yea- terday. One of the purtics will die, Tho escape of the other workinginon, of whom. there were about twenty, was little lees than miraculous, MILWAUKEE Intends to establial n por- Manent Exposition, after tho munner of that establishet hore, and sybscriptions to tho AQinount of $110,000 have been already secured for that purpose, The bullding willbe erected during the coming summer, QuzEN Vioronta appreciates any rorvico dono to tho memory of her husband, the lute Prince Alvort, ‘Theodore Murtin, who has just completed a _vory culogistle, indeed fulsome, biography ‘of tho dceonsed Prince, bas been knighted ‘by hor Majesty In recognition of his Tene wns vu wholesale discharge of pas- senger-conductora from the employment of tho Hannibal & St. Joseph Raltrond Monday. No cause has beon assigned for this action, but It is thought that somo Irregularities on tho part of the discharged men wero discovered, . Freiyht- conductors will take the plices of those who have beon dismiasec Tum steamer Clty of Mexico, bearing Gen, Grant and bis party on thelr return from tho nelghboring Repubife, regched Galveston yes- torday in snfety, dissipating the fears that bad been ontertainod for tho safety of tho distin- gulshod passengers by ronson of the delay in the arrival of tho vessel, Gen, Grant will travel northward by rail from Galv ton. ‘Tue antl-third-term movement in St. Louls ising fate way to assume large dimensions, 1s the Republicans of that clty who are opposed, to any departure from precedent and unwritten Jnw in this important matter have decided upon issulpg # call fora Nutional Convention of lee publicane holding that fuith, tho Convention to bo beld In St. Louis somo time during Muy next, Mns, WALTER SNxariiAy, a Indy of very respectable connections, quite handsome, and only 10 years of age. committed suicide in o fashionable boarding-house ut Pittaburg yester- day afternoon. Her husband becamo 80 excited over tho event that he solzod tho revolver which hiswifo had used with such deadly effect and attempted to shootihimseif, Tho causes which led Mrs. Snenthan to commit the terriblo decd are not understood Mns. Crmtetiancy created another sen- Batlon at Washington yeaterdny. Ono of hor lady companions of 4 rather sensational turn of + mind asked tho young wifo If she had not taken Polson, to which tho Iattor anawored jokingly in the aflirinative, Tho sensational companion took it in all sorlousness, an! soon atl the avuil- able doctord in Wustington were bending thelr stops towards Mra. Christlanuy’s house, only to find tholr servicos were not required, Tne Minnesota Democratle State Conven- tion4o solect delegates to the Cincinnat! Con~ vention will moot ut St. Paul on tho wth of May, All persons who ure opposed to the Republican party-Greentackers, Flat-lunntics, Bociullata, Communists, Kearncyites, etetaro invited to unite In clecting delegates to the Convention, ‘Tho preferences of tho Contra!’ Committee 1 to the candidateof tha Democracy fur Prealdent were ruthor mixed, ‘Tilden did not soem to be a Tuvorit, however, Moxy prisous ure wanted In Siborla In consequence of the increago in the number of political prisoners to that country, Thu prisons wi certulnly be forthcoming, but it is not so cortain that the Russian Government will take such meaeuros aé will render political ofendors Jess numerous. Neither tho Czar nor bls advis- ers have yot road the signs of the thuce, It te not finprobable that a rude awakoning ts in store for thom. The Hurtmanns, ff not tho schooltasters, hava been abroad in Russia, —— St ly tobe regretted that Mr. Townshend, of Llinols, did not lot woll enough alone yesters day when he had suceceded in defoutiug Gen. Garfold's attempt to take from the Committee on the Revision of the Laws and placo inthe pigconholes of the Committee on Wasa and Means o Did proposing ta admit froo of duty paper, printing machinery, type, and ull chem icala cutering into tho composition of puper. Inview of the avowed determinution of thu Ways gud deans protectionist majority to smother any measure lovking to a reduction of thy daty on paper, Mr. Towushend was justified in resorting to strategy tn order to keep his bin outof the clutches of known enemies, and It is pity that he did not rest content when tho House by a majority vote sustained his cours, His cause was righteous, even though his methods were open to objection, and all the frionda of free {ntollizence should aco to fl that the House has an opportunity to vote on tha ‘Dil, a Ben Ttruhas fited an afidavit in the office of the United Statos District Attorney at Washington, donying oxplicitty and In dotall the Allegations of Miss Josalo Raymond ngainat him, ‘The affidavit, with another ona by a party who alleges that Miss Raymond threatened the lifo of Senator Ill, and a letter from os gentleman at Macon, Ga, stating that Mlas Raymond was no better than ashe ought to bo, wero turned over to tho potice authoritics of tho District. ————— Lorn BEAconsFIELD lias been laying the flattering tinction to tho soul of John Butt that. thoro isa very gencral revival of trado In Ene xland, prophetleatly adding that it fa sure to last. The depression which is now passing away is owing, the Piomicr thinks, to the succession of bad harvests, What means Lord Bencons- ficld has of knowing that tho era of bad harvests has prssed he docs not let tho world know; but many Britons never question tho wiedom or the Prophetle insight of the leader of the Jingocs. Gasmerra’s paper, La Republique Fran- eafsc, intimates that thore is no ronson for the French Radicals to four that the Goyernfreut will not enforce the laws ugalnst tho religious orders. The publio, {taays, will bo fully sntis~ fled nt tho action of tho Governmont, and a failure to carry out the Inws would mean the speedy ovorthrow of the present Cabinet. There cannot he the least doubt but thoy will be, speedily onforced; nelthor is there any prospect: that tho enforcement will not be resisted, and that serious complications will not arise in cons sequence. Tue Czar has reciprocated the good wishes of tho Emperor of Germany on the occasion of his Inst escape, and writes to tho Intter congrat- ulnting him on tho attainment of hig &td birth~ day, The Czar gets onthusiastio over tho affair, and onds by drinking the health of hts imperial brother, The crowned heads of Europe are kept pretty busy nowadays congratulating onch othor on thoir mutual escapes from agsasinn- Uon or on their attainment of certaln or uncet- tuln ages, In tho meantime tho conspiring Nihilist and tho sanguino Socialist are perfoct- ing tholr plans and concocting thelr schemes. ———e A rract of land comprising about 2,000,- 000 neros, situnted in the northeast part of New Mexico, and known us tho Maxwell grant, has by a decree of forceloytre by Chief-Justice Prince, of tho Territorinl Court, passed into the control of the Dutch bondholders who in 1870 Recured the United States patent to the grant. Iestdes being one of the largest and most im- Portunt transnetions of tho kind in the history of American reat-catuto transfers, the fore> closure possesses a local Interest from tho fuct that three well-known Chicngonns—Sfessra, N, K, Falrbank, George M. Pullman, and George 1. Carpentor—ire members of tho Bourd of cight- Directors who wilt have control of the vast domain for the next ton ycars. ArTen soveral weeks of comparative quiet in San Frauetsco, {t now appears that all cfforta torcach a satisfactory understanding betweon tho represontitives of tho’ morenntile interests ond thoso of tho workingmon have resulted In complete fallure, While there 1s no indication of immediate troublo, thore 1s yet a fecling of feverishness among all classes, caused by tho existing uncertainty aud fear of somo overt act. on the part of tho oxtromists. What rendcra tho altuation still moro tnsutisfuctory {s the fact that the city {4 on tho evo of n local political con- tost, and it 1s feared that tho oxcitement and Dittornesa attendant upon sub ovcasions will be 80 hightenod and increased by the Intoniperate actions of tho workingmon's londers that the sence tho city is Unble to be greatly endan- gered. = Sir Srarrorp Nontncore took Mr. Glad- stone to task Inst evoning for hia strictures on Austrit, and rend adispateh from the British Aimbassador at Vionna, which stated tint tho Emperor disnvowed tho uso of any offensive Sanguago towards the Liberal leader. Tho Chance lor was proceeding to spenk further on tho subject, but tho lovers of Uritish fair play would not allow him. The crowd became so obstreperous that the speaker had to «desist. There is evidently a chnnge in motropolitan sentiment since the thno Mr. Gindstone's win dows wero smashed by the mob and ho bimacift Was hooted and pelted in tho streets, Whatn chorus of lectures tho London newsprpors would Preach tous if disorderly procecdings of this oharacter occurred atan Amoricin ineoting nd- dressod by any of our prominent politicians. ee Tur sensational clergyman is becoming ‘alarmingly numorous in France. Pére Didon, whilo dollvering a Lenten sermon some days ago in Paris, inate usc of an expresaton which drow from his congregation such unmistakablo indications of disupproval that he was obliged to withdraw tho offensivo words, Father Ponche, nnother preacher of the samo sort, was hooted and hissed out of bis putplt in Dunkirk for dollvering a sermon offensively political, Didon has been summonod to Romo, and will’ doubtless return a sadder and mayhap wiacr man. Sonsational pulpitocring is not por- mitted to any grout oxtunt by tho Roman Church, und If tho Parisian priest wishes to in-' dulge in that practice ho will probably have to follow tho example of Pare Hyacluthe. Mn. Jases Repratir, the well-informod, clearsheadod correspondent of tho Now York ‘Tribune, saya that the assaults of Mr, Parnoll on tho Irish landlorda wero honost and desorved. The lenders of the Land Leaguo have not, he says, advised the tenants to puy no rents, but they advised them not ta pay oxccssivo rents, Ho thon givos an account of the uviction of tive families during a. pelting rain-storm, notwith- standing tho protosts and entreaties of the Cath. Olle priest of the district, Tho evicting land- Tord, it may be added, 1s Lord Gormuanstown, 0 Homan Catholic Peor, descondant of one of that menial and servile crow who rotulnod thelr prop> orty during tho ora of confiscation by menns the mnost abject. The. trish landlords prate abont the rights of property. Have tho people not a right to live? a Tits Bourbon purpose ‘of unseating Mr, Washburn and glying his seat to tho Irrepresal- bio blathorskito Ignatius Donnolly ts not Hkoly to suvcoed, and Dil Springer is in a quandary. It now appeara curtain that Clark of Now Jor- fey and Speer of Goorgla, Democrats, and Weavor of Jown, Greontucker, wilt vote with tho Ropubticans of tho Committee agninst tho Proposition to ylve tha seat to Donnelly, Weaver will, howovur, vote to declare the sent vacant, but in view of tho notion of Speor and Clark it is doubtful if tho Houso would voncur in this action, and the Demovrate know full wotl ‘that fn ease of n vacancy In thé Third Minnesota Distriet they would havo no possible chance of success, Springer has reckoned without his host this timo, and doubtless feels rather cheap ovur tho flasvo, ‘Tun folly of selecting an overgrown vil- Inge as the place for holding a National Convan- Hon ts being Just now domonatrated in a mannor that is likely to convince tho Domouratle Ex: coullye Cominittes of tho blunder tt mado in Voth to take the Convention to Cincinnati, Among tho vital necessities tn conngytion with a Preaidontia! Convoution thé item of tetewraph faollitics oceupica a foremost place, for without: tho means of tulegraphing tho proccodings ofthe body direct from tho hull it will bo an utter Impossibility for tho diferent aswocinted press and newspaper reporters in attondance to report tho Convention, Iguor- ing thia important consideration entirely, the plghouded Common Council of Clncinnat! has refused to permit the erection of poles upon which may be stroteed wires leading Into the hall of the Convention, This state of things hus been brought to the noties of Bir, Barnum, Chairman of the Democratic National Comutit- tee, who has in turn notitied the lopal Committeo that unless the priviloge of running vires into the 3fusto- Hull {s promptly granted 9 meoting of tho National Comimitteo will be called forth- with, and wnother city will bo gclevted for the Convention. ‘Vine London ‘fimes thinks—and the wish ia father to tho thought—that Mr, Parnoll's determination to put forward candidates of ad- Yanced ideas in reference to Homoe-Rulo and ‘Lund Reform, Ju opposition to ieoicrate (Ubat 4s tosuy, mock) Home-Kulers and Whig, will result tothe beneft of the Torles. This deter- mination of Mr, Parnell was long ayo an- nounced, and i¢ is only whore tho Tory candidate could baya no possibility of slipping in because of tho split that Parnellites wil come forward to oppose tho Whigs. Mr. Parnell must. havo resolute party of honest men nt his back, or tho agitation enrriod on by him will result in very Httle good tothe Irish tonnntry. That such n aystom of fond-tonure ns now provails in Ireland oxiste ts owlng to tho fact thnt tho Irish members bave been in most Instances masquerading patriots and inveterate place-huntors, who, having obtained sents In Pariiamont, did nothing ta redeem thoir prone isca. All ameltoriations In the condition of Ire- land are duc to agitation and to tho friendly alsposltions of tho EAgiish Hadicata. It isn ro markablo fuct that tho best provisions of the Tand act of Mr. Gladstone were originated by Mr. Shaw Lefevre and Mr. Bright. It is very desirable of course that the Tory majority should bo overthrown, but tt {s just ns desirable that tho Opposition should contain a goodly train of righteous men, in order that needed reforms of a radical character should be adopted, See ‘Tre bitter words of indignation and scorn which Sonntor Kellogg Inunched at Rea Hill in his spocch of Monday on tha occasion of the presentmont of the malignant roport which IftIt had drawn up in the contested-olection caso ealled forth no response from the Georgia Bon- ator at the timo of tholr utterance. Ho ree muined sllont under Kellogg's taunting chal- lenge to a comparison of moral characters, and wisely silent, for he had to dent with a mun who, whntevor bis encinics say against him, bas nover been aceuscd of cowardice, It svema, however, that Hitl has been adinonished by somo of his Southern frionds that he fs under tho necessity of tnking somo notico of Kellogg's offensive ro- marks, nnd that he- has sent to tho latter an omlssary to Inquire whether he 1s prepared to stand by what ho snidin bis speech. As might ve Imagined, tho messenger met with tho prompt response that Kollugg was roady to nf- ford tho aggrieved Senator from Georgia all the satisfaction and of whatevor kind he might sco fittodemand. It is not tho frat time Ren Hill has been skinned live in debate In the halls of Congress. Janes G. Blaine once held him up to scorn and contempt In a way calculated to arouso his eensitive honor if be had any, but Hill didn’t fight thon, and won't Aght now. Ho will walt fora safor customer than Kollogy with whom to undertake that sortof bluster and blutt. THE PROBABLE EXPORTATION OF GOLD, ‘The general reader has doubtless failed to understand the oft-repeated ngsertion of those who Insist that gold alone shall bo the legal-tender money of the country, that if silver were not colned in tho United States thero would now be an additional amount of gold equil to that of the silver in the country. ‘The argument {3 that the Government when {6 purchases silver for coinage expends an equal sum of gold for the metal, when, if the Government did not purehase silver, the latter would be sent abroad and sold for gold and the gold be brought back; and hence the argument that the coinage of silver displices an equal amount of gold. The fallacy of this proposition is evident to every one who does not argue this ques- ton in aelrcle, These people start out with tho assertion that gold is the exclusive money of commeren; that all civitized nations make their exchanges In‘ gold; that the United States having made both metals a legal- tender has put itself beyond tho pale of civ- ized trade; that all the world outside tho United States having made gold the exelu- sive standard this country must lave a cur- reney all silver, and therefore must lose its Rold, ‘The premises in this statement being substantially untrue, the conclusions are of necessity equally so, Tur Triunn has shown that, with the exception perhaps of Holland and one or two other small States of Europe, there is no nation in Europe which has an exclusively gold legal-tender currency, Wherever there is not a suflicteney of silver, lit addition to the gold, to furnish tho country with the needed supply of legal-tender monoy, there §s a supply of legal-tender paper money. "Thus, France and Germany supplement thelr gold coinage with legul-tender silver, while England accomplishes the same end with legal-tender paper money. In no country of any magnitude Ig gold the exclusive legal- tender money. . We adinit that it is somewhat anomalous for the Government of the United States to be purchasing silver, and coining It; but tho anomaly is one forced upon tho country by the opponents of silver, who defented tho free colnngo and established the present Umitation, _ ‘The argunent, however, that the purchase and coinage of $25,000,000 of silver annunlly excludes that much gold, and eiudangers to that extent the permanency of speclepnay- ments, cannot bo sustained by any process of rensoning,. In the first place, gold 1s an artl- ele of Internatlonal exchange whoreby com- merelal balanzes are adjusted. When Europe buys of ourexports she pays for them Juexchange merchindise. If tho excess of sales be In her fnyor, the :United States have to pay that excess In gold; If the excess be In our favor, then Europe remits gold to balance the account. It is finmateriat whether we have paper or silver money or not, the balance due to or from Europe on fe- count of exports will have to be pald in gold, For several years prior to 187 wo {imported Jargely In excess of our exports, and had to pay tho balance fn gold. Since 187 we have exported more than wo imported, and have been pald the balance In gold. Prior to 1878 our silver was more valuable than gold, and was not coined or exported, and the gold flowed away from us exactly to the sum necessary to pay what wo owed. Since 1875 the gold has flowed back to us, though during tho Inst two years ye have had silver, The Inflow and tho ont flow of gold have been and are now and must of necessity always bo governed by the relu- tive condition of the balance of trade, and not by the fact whethor we havo silver cuin- Age, Or | paper currency, or an oxclusive gold currency. ‘The silver purchased by the United States since 1878 has been bought of and pald for to. ourown people, ‘he ioney has been patd out as anyother money disbursed by the Government. ‘This silver coinage remains in the country, 0 reserve, the great value of which will be recognized when, If the bal- ance of trade be reversed, wo havo to oxpurt gokl to pny the losses Incurred by the recent extravagant rise in prices, ‘Then, as ls the caso in France, the scarelty of gold for do- mestie currency will be made gooil by a sup ply of silver coin. ‘The theory that If there had been no silver coined in this country it would have been shipped abroad, sold thore for gold, antl the gold brought here fo swell our supply, ls an absurd one, If Europe or any other part of the earth wants to exchange gold for Amerl- can silver, the colnageof silver In the United. States toes not Interfere with the trade, ‘The Ancrican production of silver is not exe housted by the purchases of. our Govern: ment, There ls no possible objection to the bunkers of New York purchasing silver and sending it to Europe and getting gold for It Suppose they try the operation; there 1s no Tegal fuipediment in the way, . ‘The fact is, the moncy-leuders—the gold hdvocates—nre somewhat terrifed at the present rathor unpromising aspect of mut- ters. As we expliined yesterday, the rall- road comibiuations have so Inflated railroad stocks, and, as 4 consequence, Inflated tho prices of certain classes of manufactures, that we largely have destroyed our export trade, and swollen our imports foun extent that the balance of trade bas been neurly, if not wholly, changed aguinst us, ‘The inllow of gold has stopped, and thore ts danger that the gold will be slipped. In the meantlne | patriotism. the monoy-lenders have advanced money on Inflated stocks of raltroads and on high- priced goods stored In warchouses, and which have cost moro to produce than they will ever sell for. When the reckoning-tay comes—and it fs hastening—when stocks and prices shall tumble, when the extraordinary importations must be palit for in gold, it ts possible that the country will discover that the only dis advantage in our silver coinage will bo that it has not been three thes ng gront ns it has been, When the gold shall have departed, the value. of the silver reserve will be fully understood and experienced, _—_—— HITOHES IN THE MONROE DOCTRINE, A more mature constderation in the House of Representatives of tho Interoceante-canal project promises a more conservative attl- tude than waa outlined In tho President's iessage and the resolutions roported by tho Spechil Conunittee.. At all events, there Is now an cyldont sentiment in the Mouse that it will boa gratuitons pleco of folly in the Amerlean Government to throw down tho glove to all Europe at the bare suggestion of a commercial enterprise In one of the South American States. -This fact is attested by the soveral sota of joint resolutions that have been introduced touching the subject, and by tho effort to transfer the juriadiction over the matter from tho Special Interoceanic Canal Committes to the regular Committee on Foreign Affairs, It has been discovered rather late In the day that, if the United States Government designs to declare war upon any foreign Government whose citizens, or any number of whose citizens, propose to construct a canal across tha Isthmus, then tho first step toward that extreme position fs to terminate the Clayton-Bulwer. treaty with Great Brit- alin, By this treaty » compact was formed between tho United States and tho British Governments, establishing a joint protector- ate over any canal project for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through any of tho South American States, and agrecing that nelther. Government should take Inde- pendent imeasures for the construction of such canal. If the brond interpre tation of the Monroo doctrine which President Mayes hos enunciated be correct, then the Clayton-Bulwer treaty should never have been made, or, having been made, it should be terminated in due form before the United States Government can fairly assert an exclusive right to build an interoceanic canal. Mr. Cusoy Young's resolutions, sug- gest another prudent step that ought to be taken if tho Government proposes to resist the construction of a canal across the Isth- mus by forelgn capital—viz.: to confer with the Governments of the South Amert- ean Ropublics relative to the policy and measures that should be adopted for mutuat protection against political interforence which European Governments might make by means of a canal built by European cap- ital, Finally, Mr. Bayne’s proposition is timely In so far as it condemns an invocation of the Monroe doctrine in the Interest of American speculators and deprecates a raid upon the Public Trensury under the cover of patriotic protest agninst European inter- feronco In American affairs, In dealing with this {nteroceanic-canal project there has been a tendency all along to put the cart before tho horse. The sug- gestion of the Monrose doctrine has been ac- cepted as an Irresistible’ appeal to American Tho politicians on both sides were prompt to display their willingness that their first wives’ relatives should take up arms in defense of American rights. A specinl committes is always anxious to make out any caso with which It Is Intrusted, and the President was not Inclined to permit o Democratic Congress to outdo him {in patri- otic phrases, While this emulation may be well cnough in”’o general way, it Qvould have been ‘tore prudont to start out with a dellbernto constderation of tho danmers, If ary, that threaten the American policy in the construction of a eanal by private capltal subscribed abroad, with an oxamtination of existing treaty ob- Hgntions, with a conference with othor Goy- ernments In interest, and with the practical means of resistance at the. command of the American Government Incase of neod, In tho absenco of a satisfactory disposition of these prellininary mattors, any loud threats made by the American Government to resist @ Voutrance the constriction of an Inter- ocennle canal except with Amerlean capital ‘will be received with derision tho world over, THE KELLOGG CASE, Tn some respects the proposition to deprive Kellogg of hily seat In tho Sonate ts the most disgraceful of all tho partisan efforts that have been made by the Democrats since they came Into control of Congress, This cnn bo infintained without going back to defend any of the pecullar methods of Louisinna politics, without discussing tho status of tho Legislature which elected Kellogg, and with- opt revamping tho interminable arguments over the conductof the Returning Board. Tho Kellogg caso isa rca adjudieata, ‘Tho authority and finallty of its scttlement Is even less subject to dispute than that of the Presidential count, for the United States Sonate exercised an unquestioned constitu. tonal right when it gave Kellogg his seat and decided against his contestant, If the ease can be reapened and tho sent be taken away from Kellogg at any time, then no Senator can feel scouro in the tenure of his place, and w change in the partisan mnjority of tho United States Senate will always carry with ita menace to every member of the minority. It ts from this view of tho ense, without any reference whatovor to the original merits of the controversy over tho seat, that the Denioeratle proposition Is reyo- lutionary and destructlyo, ‘ But the new movoment to unseat Kellogg {s tho more disroputable because personal Ding seems to be back of It, and because It Is based upon testimony which is uttorly un- worthy of consideration, Hill, of Georgia, Is tho leader in this movemont, and he has given evidence within a few days of personal animosity against Kellogg, Hl! has endeay- ored toconnect Kellogg with Inciting thoscan- dat with which tho former's name has been associated, If the Georgia Senator really bu- Neves that Kellogg has taken any part in bringing this scandal into public notics (whichis a proposterous assumption), thon tho spectal desire for revenge which 1 inst entertain unfits him to sit as Chief dus- tleo In Kellogg’s caso, If TiN has merely put forward the ‘theory that Kellogg had encouraged the publicity of the alicged basturdy case in order to projudica Kellogg's rights, then cortaiuly there la more reason why HII should be a defendant than a pros- ecutor. Inelther event, matters have come to w sorry pasa when a disgusting afatre @amour exerts a controling Influence ina partisan effort to deprive a United Stutes Senator of his rights, It appears also that Senator Till declared from the outset that ho proposed to reverse the former deelsion of the Senate and to‘aust Kellogg at all hazards, To this end he hag shown suspicious personal activity In gathor- ing testlmony and prosecuting the cnse, though he has occupied, as the head of the Comuulttee, tho position of Judge, The test!- mony upon which IM demands the unseat- ing of Kellogg proves to be that of au ex-con- viet, who hus passed a considerable portion of his life in State Prisons and who ought to have been there the remainder of the time, Nothing has happened glnce Kellogg was seated by voto of the Senate which could affect his rights, but Democratic agents have been nssiduously engaged in working up tes- timony relative to his election, Experlence hag demonstrated that it is not dificult to procure any amount of testimony on elther aldo of a politienl controversy in the Stato of Loulsinnay if Mr Bon Hill's stronuous efforts in this way have only resulted in securing tho evidence of an ex-convict, hatched In 9 low groggery, the result would indiento an extreme poverty of materin! In Kelloga’s ease. But, oven If trustworthy evidenes had been obtained that Kellogg secured his elec- tion by bribery or other corrupt means, tho only competent jurisdiction of the Senate nat tho present timo would be to expel him. The Democrats ovicently daro not undertake Kullogg’s expulsion upon the ovidence thoy have, and thoy have yomoral nor legal right toturn over tho seat to which ho was nd- mitted by vote of tho Senate to his contest ant simply because they now have o ma- Jority of the yotes. If they shall do this in defiance of all justice and precedent, thoy will furnish the country with another. atart- Ung instance of their partisan and Jawless designs, and again warn the American people agninst the folly of committing su- preime control of tho Government Into their hands, A DIPLOMATIC DO-NOTHING. A A year ago, when the Senate was constder- ing the Chinese question, Mr. Hvarts in- formed the Committee on Foreign Relations that he had begun tonegotiato n treaty which. would satisfy nll parties. Thisassurancediad tauch toward securing the assent of Congress and tho country to the President's veto of the Chinese bill, Sinco then s quarter of Mr. Evarts' wholo term of office hasslippedlawny, and he has but a romnant of a year loft in which to accomplish anything, yet we aro told on his authority that nothing has been done toward the fulfillment of his promises, Tle hag been deliberating whether to confide the duty of drawing up‘a new trenty to tho Minister now in China or tos new Minister or to a special commission; if to a Minister, to whut Minister? If ton commission, who would be the best men to compose it, how many, where its place of meeting should he, what its authority, and so on? Meanwhile nothing has been dons. There are frequent mails to China, ‘he Government {s repre sented In that country by o well-paid Min- ister, The State Department In Washing- ton contains .an army of clerks who are capable of carrying on an act- ive correspondence with all the foreign Governments of tho earth. But Mr. Evarts adnilts that all these agencics together, with himself. at the head of them, have accom- plished absolutely nothing Ina year toward the sottloment of ono of tho gravest Interna- tional complications that the United States have ever had to den! with, We should Iko to know whether Mr. Evarts fully under- stands the meaning of the word Nothing, and, understanding It, desires the American people to accept tho estimate of his efficiency as Secretary of State which ho has put upon himself, If Mr, Ivarts hns done nothing in ® year toward negotiating a new treaty with Chins, it must bo because ho ts Indolent, or incompetent, or hostile to the purposes of Congress and the people. If negotiations for & new treaty were begun 4 year ago, as Mr. Evarts then assured the Senate was the case, they ought by this time to be completed, Elthor his assurance at that timo was prema- ture, or he How stands convicted on his own testimony of neglecting his duties and trifling with tho interests of the country. When the catalog of the things that Mr. Evarts ought to have done, and has not, ts made up, it will be considerably larger, wo fear, than the Ist of his important public acts, Tho case cited abova is one outof many, Another instance of delay quite as flagrant, but inn way little short of amusing, is that of tho negotiations relating to the Canadian wreckers. Representative Davis, of Chi- cago, lins Interested himself in this matter, Ho has talked to Secretary Evarts about it. Secretary Evnris {s a flucnt talker. Fow men in Washington can discourse moro aracefully over ndinnor-table. In the Stato Department, also, Mr. Evarts is fruitful of remarks, ornate little speeches, conversations, wisesaws and modern instances, promises,cx- planations, and every varicty of observation. We aro glad to know that Mr. Evuris has talked to Representative Davis about tho Canadian wreekers, and that Secerctary Eyarts takes a decp Interest in the subject, and that the Secretary {s going to write tho Canadian Minister about it, and “make a formal request” for something or other. Itis ungrateful for Representative Davis, after all those promises, to distrust the sincerity ofthe head of tho State Department, But such, It seems, 13 the caso, In tho dispatches ‘wo read: Mr. Davia at the firat opportunity will intro- duco a resolution requosting the Department of Stnte to enter Into diplomatic correspondenco with Canada, with a viow tothe modification of thoso commercial relutions, Mr, Davis must be careful, or ho will soon make a reputation as aCongresslonal humor- ist; and that is sald to bé fatal to any pros- pect of soltd fame, For supposo Mr. Davis should get his “opportunity,” and suppose is resolution should go through ail Its varl- ous stages, and finally reach the head of tho Stato Department, would it bo regarded by that official In the lightof anything but an eccentric act of an fnforlor department of Government? No doubt Mr. Evarts would -enter into “ns diplomatic correspondence with Canada,” for ho can write as fluently ns hecan talk. But nokpdy famlllar with the Polley of the Stato Départment can bolleve that the “diplomatic correspondence with Canada” would stop bofore the close of the present Admliniatration, Mr. Evarta regards talking and writing as ends in themselyes— Not ns means to somethingbeyond. Actlon— “noble, divine, God-llke action”—Is a word not In Mr. Evarts’ vocabulary at all, Instances of Mr, Eyarts’ gonlus for pro- ernatination and delay are plenty, Besides those already mentioned, there ure those of the Canadian fishery award, tho Fronch commercial treaty, the Seward fnyestign- tion, and many others of Iess note, Every- body In Washington knows of thom, and overybody admits that the Secretary of State has earried to absolute perfection the sclenco of “how not to do it’ Ibis soggral months since Mr, Blaine introduced int tho Senate Hresolution directing the State Department to Inquire into the statement of Prof. Hinds, a Canadian witness against Canada, that the yordiet of the Fishery Commission at Hull- fox was tainted with fraud. Mfr, Evarts has not nected In accordance with that resolution, No may haye talked it over with the British Minister at dinner, and they may both have decided that tho American Senate was n meddlegome body, But as to paying any at- tention to Its action—Mr, Evarts {9 entirely frea from such n design, * The people may be Irritated and indignant at the conduct of the State Department, but ‘Mr. Evarts fs serene. He vibrates between his law-oflice In New York ond his luxurious, apartments In Washibgton; and, whatever Dress or people may say, nothing rufties his composure, Whether he {s stirring up the animals In New York, or writing letters, like Wilkina Micawber, to his friend agross the table, the British Minister, Mire Kvarts is conscious of hig own virtue and thé rectitude of bls own intentions, What he seeks fe do fs to “stave off atrial,” whether his case is in New York or Washington, Ta ta con- Atantlyscheming for a continuance,” This, ho thinks, Is the Inwyer-lke thing to do, ‘There's nothing like weartng ont the patience of the other sido. Tho value of delay in Inw 1s priceless, Honea he con- eludes ft =must bo so in diplo- macy. Wo might ba disposed to agreo with Mr, Evarts woro It not that “the other sido” with which he fs now contending Is the Senate, and the clients that aro worsted by his fnterference ara the people of tho United States, With the exception of using Ils influence to secure thé payment of the infamous fishery award, and keeping ! China Minister Seward, who Is accused of corrupt practices, and lending the Prealdent Into an extreme and perhaps untenable posi- tion on the Interoceantc-canal question, wo are not awaro that Mr. Evarts ins dono any- thing whatever in fulfillment of his duties as Secretary of State, Ho must bo pronounced the most conspicuous failure in the tong Ino of Mlustrious men who have ocetpled that position, from Thomas Jefferson down. ———$—$————— On the Sth of April tho people of Indiana will vote upon several proposed amendmenta to tholr Stato Constitution? Ono of those proposed “amendments has roforence to suffrage qualifiea- dons. Tt fans follows: In all elections not otherwise provided for by this Constitution, avery malo citizen of tha United Btntes of the ago of 21 years and upward, who shall have reaided in the State during tho ste montha, and in the township atrty days, and in the ward or precinct al anys, immedintely preceding sich ctection, and overs male of for eign birth, of tho ngo of 21 yonrs and upwards, who shall havo rnsleed inthe United States one year, and aball hnve resided in this State during the aix months, and In tho township sixty days, and inthe ward or preeinet thirty days, imme- diately Broceding sich, election, and shall have decinted his intention to become a citizen of tho United ktates, conformable to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vot In the township or pro- einet whoro ho may reside, if ho shall have been duly registered according to Inw. This changes the presont provisions of the Constitutton by substituting tho term “overy male cltizon" in tha place of “evory White male cltizon,” aud requiring © bona fido rosktotics of sixty days ina township and of thirty days ina ward or voting preeinct. One would suppose that any honvstly-disposed and fa(r-mindod man In Indjana would, without hesitation, sup- port thia amendment, whosa sole object is to pro- yont fraudulent ond corrupt voting. tis ine conceivable that thoro should be any objection to this amendment; and yet thoro!s. Tho Demo- cratic lendors all over tho State are calling on their followers to turn out at the apring election and vote It down! They confess tunt tho amend- ment will stop colonization from Kentucky ana othor adjoining States,—that it wili reduce and prevent much fraudulent voting,—but still thoy oppoge its ndoption. They allege that tho Re- publicuns have cheated more than the Demo- orats heretofore at tho elections, by importing yoters, but strange to suy the Republicans are all supporting the amendmont, while tho grent bulk of the Democrats aro opposing it, but aro unabto to offer oven a decent excuse for thelr opposition, ‘The quulifications for ctectors in Indiana are much lower in the proposed amendment than in Illinois. Our Constitution prescribes that ovory man who has resided In.the Stato one year (In- diana amendment, only six months fs requirod), inthe county ninoty days,find in tho oloction district thirty dys (Indlana amendment, sixty days in tho township and thirty in the clcation dlstriot), and who is a native-born citizen, or hag been regulurly naturalized after five years’ resi- dence iu the United States, shall bo enti- tied to vote; whereas tho Indinua amend- ment only requiros that tho foreigner shall hayo declared hia intention to become citizen of tho United States, Honco thoro ena bo no objection to the amendment on the score of {lliborality townrds nativo- borns or altons; tho only objection is, that it in= terferes with freo frauds, colonization, repeat- ing, movablo voting brigndes, and other ris~ callty carried on by corrupt partisan scoundrels todefenttho popular will and folst mon into ollica who were not clected. Many of our Indi- ana Domocratic exchanges are calling frantically on tholr readers to yote down the amondmont, telling them that if it bo adopted the Republice ans will aweoptho State noxt fall, and nt all aub- sequent oleations, ‘Chis is a plain confession that tho Democrats bavo' been carrying that State, and hold possossion of it now, by fraudu- lert and corrupt voting, mado casy by tho ex- isting loose and defective Eteotion lnwa of Indians! Js not this n high and honorable posl« tion for a groat party to ocoupy boforo tue coun- try? : Sars the Cincinnati Commercial: ‘Tho cditor of ‘Tne Cut0ado ‘Trinvns moy find 8 paruurnph of intoresting reading in the speech o tho Hon, W. Bf, Bateman at Cumminsyillo Inst evening. Tho following oxtrnct from Mr. Vnteman's speech we understand refera to Mr, Drediil, of Tue Ciyoago Trtnune: About a reat before the date of resumption n lend Ing frlend of Mr, Sherman called upon bitin and do- panded that he should nok attempt 19 carry out the Resumption act, and urged thet {t would break up bualness-mon in the country, He sppoalod to tho Secretary on his bohnif; that he was involved in dobt.und that It would brenk him up, Krom peranas sion bo procaoded to thrustunini, and told Mr. ber man that if ho persisted bo would dos! Shorman told the oditor for itwas the editor and owner of one of tho most powortul Itepublican papers {In tho country, that both the nw and, yublto potley ro quired that ho should go on, ‘This ‘threat hos boon carried out, and tut papor has, on ang pretext and auother, kept up th@ warfara upon Ar. Sherman ever sinco. If Mr, William Bf. Bateman ‘refers” to the editor of Tnx Cutcaco Trrnune, as the Com- merctal scema to supposo, os the person who held that remarkable conversation with Secrotary Sherman, ho {is utterly mistaken in his man, and is rolnting & falachood in every word and son- tence, whethor he 1s aware of it ornot. The editor of this Journal nover had such an inter- view with Mr. Sherman Jn his life; nover tried to" persuade him not to carry out tho Resump- tion not," and nover “ throutened bim if he per- sisted.” Tho wholo patagraph—every word of it—Iga malicious fabrication and slander, if it Js Intended torefer to the editor of Tne Trm- une, Wilt the Commercial givo this emphatic donial as generaln publicity in Ohio as it has tha basoless insinuation, and much obliga? ———————$$_—_ evan: Trenr {is sald to be a movement in the Second Ward to cause n division among tho Ro- publican voters In. tho interest of Pat Sandors, the Democratle nomineo for Alderman, and to threaton In 8 certain ovont tho running of an indopondont candidate, There ts still time for tho Ropublicans to strangle any tricky schomo of this kind, Tho primary meoting will bo hold on Friday, and if tho reapectnble and taxpaying: citizons of the ward will take tho timo to yoto at that meoting thoy can nominate a proper candl- date by so largo a vote that all dangor of a split or bolt will be averted, Tho Second Ward ought to bo represented in the Councll by ono of ita most roputable and best-known citizens, and nothing short of inexousablo blundering can provent the Hopublionns from carrying out that program, Tho result of tho eleotion will depend taninly upon the interest which the Republican votors shull evince in tholr primary mooting on Friday, ‘Tire Kansas Republican Conyention, to bo hold on the Uist of this month, will almost core tainly chooso a full Dinine dolegation to Chicago. All roporta to the contrary aro misleading and intended solely for effect on public opinion, Tho following counties havo choscn solld Hiaino dologutes to attond the State Convention: Doniphan, Jofferson, Marshall, Mitcholl, Smith, Lyon, larvoy, Jowell, Pawnoe.Clay, Baling, Jack- son, Shannon, Leavonworth—1t, Tho following countios send divided dolegations, but the mae Joritiesare for Blaino:; Thorne, Miam!, Chorokec, Bhawnco, _ Labotte—5, The following in- structed for Grant: Cowloy, Sedgwick, Doug- lus, Tho Grant mon thomsolycs claim but ‘70 delegates to87 for Biaino, and 15 uncommitted, tho lutter avowedly favoring Blainc. Kansas may safcly bo put down for the Plumod Knight. <= .. Some doubt hag been expressed about the standing of the Ihodo Istand delegation in various papers. Here is what tho Providence Journal, 4 Grant organ, said about tho matter tho day attor tho Convention, and presumably it know what it was talking about: Tho gontlomon clocted by tho Ropublican Stuto Convention ne delegates to the National Convention ut Chicago sro understood to be unanimous in favor of the nomination of James }» Bluine for Prosident. This ununimity doce not eccuraWly repreenne the Kopubifean senti- ment of tho State, although the Malno Senavr has a great many friends In Rhode Island. —— i Tue ordinance passed by the Common Counell on Monday authorizing the North Bide Horse-Itallway Company to lay a trick on Stato streot from Luke to Division street, and thonco on Division to Clark street, will probably be. ve- toed by the Mayor. Tho charter of the Railroad Company antodatos tho present Ounatitution, : ; ‘ ‘That charter conforred upon tho Cor Dowor to constrict a railway on an: tha clty, with the consont of the City Council Sino tho «Into of tho new Constitution the eon. ont of the awnors of a majority of tho frontage ‘on tho strect proposed to bo used hae Deen ree quired. ‘Thisconeent has beon refused by the property-owners on Division street, Tho Com. pany, howover, insist that they have tho eniny righta nuw that wore conferred by thoir orginal chartor, and that tho torms and conditions of that charter cannot bo changed by Subsequent, law. Tt haa been proposed to pass this or: nancy {n order to givo an opportunity to havo tho Tegnt question cetermined Judiotally, butit ts under. stood the Mayor is not disposed to act in that ways x mpany the Y Btrect in ———— Ture bulk of Canadian imports is receivert from Creat Nieitaln and the United States, In tho fiseal year ending June 90, 1876, tho feeres gato imports from Great Britain wero 260,317. 067, and from tho United Etntor, $50,802,800, The, dutinble goods from Great Britain were $0.2, 110, and from tho United “Btates, 822,027,008; the free goods from Great Tiritnin, 811,t07,018, ang from tho United Btates, $23,779,2H. Tho statin. tos for 1878 show a falling off In dutinblo goody from Grent Rritain to tho oxtent of 817,000, white thero was n decrense of over $1,000,009 from tho United States. ‘Taking into conaldora- tfon the shrinkage in tho value of goods, thera can be no doubt that tho volume, 1f not the yalue, of Canada's imports waa greater in 1973 than in 1878, ———— ‘Tne pretty, musical Italian phrase, “Ttalta, Trrodenta,” was created by tho Radleal Liborals of Italy to describe such portions of Europe ovoupled chiofly by inhabitants of Italian race and language as are yot governed by foreign Powers. Thaoso aro tho Tyrol and the region known as tho Trontino; Istrin, inoluding tho olty and seaport of Tricate. and Dalmatia, which belong to Austria; tho Canton of ‘Ticino, of ‘Tossin, bolonging to tho Swiss Republic: Savoy, which was ceded to Franco by Victor Emmanuel acting under tho ndvico of the groatest of mod- Italian ‘statesmen, Cavour, himsolt q Savoynrd; Corsica, whicb belongs to Franco; and finally the Island of Maltn, which England holds and menns to hold whillo sho has strength whcrowith to hold anything. a A PRELIMINARY conference of Misalssippt Republicans at Jackson Inst week doveloped a protty little row botwoen the aupportors nf Grant and Shorman. About forty parsons wera Prosont at tho meoting, and thoy wero 60 ovenly alvinted that no action could bo taken. Another meoting will bo held noxt Friday, Much wilt dopend oventunily on tho position ex-Goy, Alcorn may take. Ho is n wealthy planter, and tho most {nfluontin! Republican in tho Stato, ‘Tho Mepublicans of Migsisalpp! havo becn out of office so long, and are so feeble in numbers and organization, that anything thoy do can hayono effect at homo, but must be intended solely ta {nfuence opinion abroud. te Ix 1800 Douglas had 1 majority of the Con. vention for fifty-saven ballots, Tho two-thints rulo defeated him, split the Demoeratio party, and four years of bloody war followed. Twenty ‘oars havo elapsed since the two-thirds rulo ied Dougias. During that time tho Domo- cratic purty has enjoyed tho felleity of looking ovor the top fonce into tho Government partir, whore tho Repaplcens could bo seen uninter- ruptedly feasting on the fat of the land. Itis time to abolish the two-thirds rule.—A©emphis Avalanche (Dem). Now wo know what tho North fought for, It was to put down the two-thirds rulc, nominate the best Democrats for office, and put them into the Governmont pasture, Down. with tha two thirds ruta! ‘Tim firat effort to commit the Republicans of Tenncssco to 4 third torm met with 9 signif cant failure nt Momphis on Tuesday last. Tho County Convention washold thore to elect forty« tour delegates to the State Convention. Reso« lutions wero passed that tho delegates go unins structed, and an attempt to have an Instruction, for Grant voted was tabled “amid shouts of laughter.” This wasn grent surprise to the ade vooates of Grant, who would not have forced a voto had thoy suspected the possibility of defeat, a A aoop story comes to the surface at tho expense of Bob Toombs, of Georgia. During tho War, Jof Davis visited “ the front,” and was atonce assailed by Toombs. Salt Boh: “Mr, Prosidont, Iam a Brigadier-Gencenl and senior in rank to Brig.-Gen, MeLaws. Yot ho hag 10,000 mon under his command, while I have but 1,000," "Ie that sor” said Jett. “I will rectify it at once." And that very hour he commis alonod MoLaws a Major-Gouernl. ————————__ Private advices from men in a position to know, in Massachusetts, nre to tho offect that (ho third-term crazo {s ontirely ovor in that State, and Edmunds {6 the coming man, Tho chict source of tho third-term strongth all along baa beon tho hostility of some of tho lendiug men of Massachusetts to Mr. Dinine, and tho inability to unite on anybody else. Butslnca Edmunds bag como to tho front all doubts on this score hare been removed. Setn Green, the plscloulturist, nominates BR. B, Roosavolt for Prosident bocauso “ho bas braing and sonso enough to go fishing.” Now if that is the styloof man wanted, William Almon Wheolor willdo. Dutasa mattor of fact, aftor & Presidential olection {t 1s the follow wha doesn't got olcoted that goes fishing. _—————_—_ Mn. Goppand, editor of the Boston sd- vertiser, now traveling in tho South, says that three millaare to bo builtin Alabamn this sen son with tho Clemont Attachmont,—taking tho atapla os it comes fram tua flatda and by a simplo procoss converting It into yarn. —_— Art tho outbreale of the Rebellion Bort: bastes Furioso Bob Toombs, of Georgia, satd ha would drink all tho blood that would bo shed In tho War. A notghbor, knowing Dob, sald: Ni butyou may drink all the blood you will sted ns “Tnm advantage of supporting Blaine,” gays a shrowd old polltictun, “1s that ho will re« ward hia frionds handsomely, if nominated. Under Grant the best placos are prompted already.” ‘Tne best statisticians catimate that tho Population of tho Republic 2s shown by the noxs census will bo 47,000,000, or n gain of nonrly 9,000,+ 000 over the population of ton yonrs bofore. Tup loading Republican newspapor of In- dlana, the Journal of Jndlanapolia, is breaking: put with nico Nttle paragraphs about Mr. Waah- burne. Senator ANTHONY lost the grip on his State when ft Instructed for Blaine, ‘This puts Senators Logan and Carpenter on the anxious sont, Tue oMiccholiers’ stampede will be ono of the most dramatio inofdents of tho Chicago Conyontion, They'ro for tho winning mun, PERSONALS, Prince Leopold of England will visit this country next summer, Mrs. Van Cott, the revivalist, Js now manus facturing and soiling a patent medicine, Thus far this year Dr. Mary Walkor has generously rofrainodyfrom proposing to any ‘body. Better times aro surely here, Over fifty professional basc-ball players aro without ous gagonionts for the coming sonson. “Recluse”—Thero are too mauy alligators in tho rlvors of Louisiana to make tho Buptlst Church popular thore among colored poopie. Christine Nilsson’s health 1s very much lime proved, and tho poor thing Is now ablo to drag hersolf around and collect $1,000 per night for sioging. Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the Call foraln millionaire, will have an income of #100, 000. your whon married: The futuro Mr, Jens aio Flood Js to be enviod. A school-teacher recently electrified her puplis, who wore annoying her with questions; “Children, Iam engaged.” Noticing the gener Bl look of astonishment, sho added, * put nat to any fool of & man." and the excitemont died away, = Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who shot Victot Nolr some olovon years ago, bas abandoned bis troo-thinkor fdeas and become a devout Catho~ Uo, He doponds for bis ivelizood on tho boul: ty of bis cousin Jeroine, which appears to ba grudgingly bostowed. He is tormented by gout to that degree that ho seldom Joayes his poor quartera Iu the Hotol do Franco, at Veruuilloa, exoopt toattend mass. His wife lives, in povor ty matching his own, with ber daughter Joanne, Dow 16 years old, in tho Huo de Lille,