Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 9, 1880, Page 4

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WATANSIA LODGE, NO. 190 A. F. AND A. Mi Special Communijention thls (Fridny) afternoon at 4 or work. Rogular Communicution ats Y} mh, shatp, for business und important work, Full st- tendance of members desired. a ny, brethren core alshy Invited, 1d, TUSTIN, W. Mt 4.8, CHURCIL seo'y. : WASHINGTON CHAPTER, NO. 4, 1 A, ginl Convocation this (Friday) ovoning at 7:0 o'clock. Work on tha Mark Alnster degrev. Visiting compan tons continity HE Mod, 7 onder OF HO ACHLAS, TI, WHIGHIT, Bocrotary. wvcloek, Spa- FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1890. ‘Tue strike nt Cohoos is nearly at an end. ‘Tho strikers aro anid to bo willing and anxious to accept tho torms offered by the management: ‘Tire Russian Government proposes not to ‘bo cought napping, and five large war-vessels havo boon ordered. to Chineso waters to look after its interests. Tue Now York gas compantes will ad- vance tho prico of gas after tho 16th inst. ‘The Incronso in wages 18 glyonas 9 reason for the proposed action. » Tumee convicts made no desperate but un- successful attempt to cacape from the Pittaburg -. Ponitontlary yesterday. Tho snapping of n ropo alone proventod tho complete auucess uf theat- tempt. ‘Tne English Secretary for Forelgh Affairs has replied to Secrotary Evarta’ note in refer- ence to rights of. American fishermen in Cuna- dian and noutral waters, Tho naturoof tho re- ply is not known. Some of the moro moderato ecclesinstics jhevo concluded to conform to tho requirements oa tho Fronch Government in referonce to tho educational institutions. The Archbishop of Paris ia the first to acquicsco in tho change. —— i’ Mn, Hanpnuny, a Tory, who has been un- * remitting in his assaults on Mr. Gladstone, call- {ng him ‘a volled Papist,” 9 traitor to his Queen "sand country, and other such epithets, fins beon obliged to yield his sont to a followor of tho man * whom ho maligned. Kent, tho Pennsylvania bribor, refuses to submit himself for sentonco or give ball. This ho calls “taking the bull by the horns.” It would appear that tho Pennsylvania authorities oughtto tuke the gentleman by tho shoulder and place him in jal ‘Tne Senato yesterday passed the Tous resolution wuthorlzing tho Secretary of War to allow tho loaning of flags belonging to tho Gov- erument to the Knights ‘Templar on the occa- slon of tholr grand triennial oncampment In Chicago next August. ‘Tue Blaine Club of this city has advices from about 130 diferent points in this State, which plainly Indicate that not only is James G, Diaine tho choleo of Milnols Republicans 18 cane dldato for Prealdent, but that the focling in his favor [s rapidly growing. —_—_— ‘Tire coal-miners of the Durham (Eng.) mitica to the number of 1,800 have struck work hecause the managers havo refused to put out a bulletin-board showing how much each man ourus, Ithas been the custom heretofare to so publish the fodividual earnings, ee “Love can level rank, and therefore” the Duchess of Nowcastto, tho widow of a rakish nobleman, haa murrled a party beuring tho plobelan namo of Tom Holer, who hus followed the plebelan ocqupation of muslc-tuachor slice his failuro behind tho foottights, Tue Sceretary of War has recommended tho Senate, to approprinte $100,000 for thu pur ‘pose of building a military post at Tho junction of the Grand and Guunison livers... Tho post would commend the country of the Uncom- pebeees and other restive or hostile Indian CB. Tux Torles charge Lord Derby with at- tempting to forco or inducu bis tenuntry to voto for the Liberal cundidates, As itis broach of privitege on tho part ofa Peer to inturfere Jn election conteats In any way, the churgo will probably come up later in the House of Lordsin some form, Ay effort Is bel we mand - Iaanagemont of tho Northorn Vaciflo Rond to extend tho timo in which to fultlll the condi- tions on which tho lund-grants wero made tothe Company, Jumes F. Wilson, of lowe, spoko bo- foro the House Committoo on Pucitio Railroads yesterday in fuvor of the extensidn, i ——————— on the part of the ‘Tite Iowa brewers yesterday adopted reso- luttons denouncing the Legislature of their State: for having pasaed a prohlbitory law, and pledg- ing thomyelvca not to yoto for any candidates for Stute or munteipal oificcs who are not op- posed to such legislation, An effort to consure tho itepublicun purty wus dofentod, ‘Tne German Emperor refuses to accept . tho regtynation of Bismarck, urges hit to re- tatn bis position, and promises to aswst hilt in any Cifart to conie to at agreement with tho Uundearath. ‘fhe Eurperor ulso pays a uraceful + compliment to the Chancellor for hls great abil- “Jes and patriotic, consclentious motives, Mu. Pause. ts creating terror in the runks of tho moderate Home-Hulers in Ireland, Wherover he has attempted to dislodge one of . them to givo the pluce taa moro pronounced udvocute of land reform ho has so far buen suo cessful >There romain w fow placcs yot where the Moderates are candidates for lection, and Mr. Parnctt is waning wur to tho knife against nd ¢ THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1880—TWELVE PAGES, thom, Tt fs probable that thoy will huve to go. The Irish people recognize tho ngitator ns thoir tender and will foltow his ndvice. Tur steamer Syrin, having a cargo of 5,000 hates of entton and 200 tons of ofl-enke, becamo disabled and unmanngeablo on hor parsnyo from Now Orleans to Liverpool, and had to be abandoned. The steamer Gellert, from Hamburg, which tried in vain to tow her into port, brought tho crow to Now York yestor- day. ‘Trp Conservative members of the French ‘Chambers propose to challenge tha actlon of tho Governinent in reforonce to tho expulsion of tho Jesults. ‘The Cabinet 18 said to bo far from unanimots ns to the wisdom of onforcing tho deerces, and it {a probable that the action of tho Conaurvarivey Ja Inspired by « knowledgo of this act. : AN agitation against restrictions on tho pressand ngainst o Mmited suffrage is boine earticd on In Spain, The Madrid ropubiicans havo issucd a manifesto of complnint in reaanl to tho matters. The King, who scems to differ from all other Bourbons fn being intelligent and progressive, promiscs to inquire into the abuses with a view to remedying thom, ANumugn of charitable Indices and gentlo- mon of Chicago have bogin to move fu tho matter of tho establishmont fn this city of a home for Incurnbies, No such Institution now exists hero, and It !s proposod by sollelting con- tritutions of funds to start ina small way and eventually work up tho worthy charity to lurge dimensions. Tue Carlisle Internal-Revenne vill, which materially modifica the Inw in _regurd to dls- tillertes and the exportation, of Hqnors, and which, it 1s clatmed, will remove many hard- ships which tho present law entalls, waa yester- day adopted by the Ways and Means Committen bynvoteof&to, Tho minority consisted of Conger, Garfield, and Mills. nd Wr print this morning a communication froma“ Wavering Qrant Man” prupounding 1 numbor of questions, We neither {ndorse nor Justify any of tho tmplications, The writer {s, howaver, an old Republican of this State, who hasbeen conspicuous in its polities, and wo print tho letter because It conveys tho Judgment of the author and perhaps of others. Tne law of England excludes all persons who recelye money in any shapo outof the Na- tional Treasury trom tho Partinmentary repro- sontation, Tho Liberal member elected in Dub- Ain over Guinness, tho brower, fa threatened with tho Joss of his sent Decnnso tho salary ho re- cotvesnd vislting physician to a charitable Instl- tution comes partly from that source, Ar the meeting of the Canal Committee nt Peorin yestordny steps were takon toward being- ing bofore Congress the subject of the entarge- ment of the Itinols & Michigan Canal, and tho Improvement of tho Ilinola River. A commit- teo was appointed to prepare nn address to Con- gress and to tho people of Ttnols sotting forth tho Importance of tho canal as National work. TitpEN indignantly denies, as was to bo expected, that ha fs in tho feast responalble for the acts of Finley in reference to tho Wash- burn-Donnelly case. Tilden nlwnys denies. Ha denied all knowledgo of the elpher dispatches, of the Crouin-Grover-Polton intriyue, of rnil- road wrecking,—In fact, ho denies overything. He may bo spoken of as tho Great American Denlor. Tum English Liberals are making Saree galug In tho agricultural constituencies of tho north of England, Scotland, and in tho Province of Ulster, Ireland. In Scotland tho ‘Tories will have only a following of five nt most, and In Ire land thetr representatives aro being rejected in all plnces save the rotten little boroughs, where tho purehasablo rumseller clement hold the balance between both parties. Prov. TPiren, the well-known mi soopist, contributes in ourcolumns this morning anintoresting paper giving tho results of ox- aminations of olcomnrgnrine, with plates show- ing tho kind of creatures found by tho mngnity- ing gluss to exist In artifelal butter, His conclusions aro that oleomargnrine.{s nelthor healthful nor harmless, but contalus germs of discase and should not be eaten. AciEan case of Incendlarism seems likely to be doveloped In connection with the destruc- tion by flroof the premises occupled by John Arbuckle x few days ngo, Tho evidence poluts plainly to Arbuckio himself aa having set the store onfire for the purpose of renlizing on un overinsured stock of goals, and he bas uccord- ingly beon held In $3,000 ball fortrinl iu tho Crim- final Court on tho chnrye of arson, Anout 1 o'clock yesterday morning 2 fire broke out {nn flour-mill at Dixon, in this State, and beforo It could bo gotten under control threo four-mills and ono flax-mill were entirely do- stroyed. An explosion which occurred In ono of tho mills caused the death of two men and serl- ous Injury to seven others, ‘The property de- stroyed was valued at $200,000, ‘Thé loss Is suid to be fully covered by Insurance. Tur Military Committee of the House has appointed a Sub-Committee, conslating of Sparks of IUnola, Browno of Indiana, and Johnston of Virginia, to investigate tho nileged outrage on the colored cadet Whitaker at West Polnt. Tho’! first ruporta concerning tho affair wore gross exaggerations, n thorough examination showing that he only recolved a few alight cutsand bruises. His fellow-cadets pointedly dony ull knowledga of the affair, Osx of the students of tha Cork Queen’s Colloge, who presonted an address of welcome toMr. Parnell on that yontlomnan’s recent ar rivalin Ireland from America, has beon suspend ed for ono year by the Colteye uuthoritiea, Tho potty Iittloncsa shown by tho governing body of tho College will doubtless be thoroughly venti- Jated in Parliament soon after ita assembling. The Incident Ia thoroughly characteristic of the pro-Enugllsh purty raland, a \ ‘Tie House Democrats yesterday failed wholly In crowding through tho pol(tical riitor on tho Army Appropriation bfll withaut debate. Having frat agreed to ullow tho Republicans an opportunity to. discuss tho mvasure, they sub- sequently sought to repudinte tho ngreoment and bring to an immedlute voto the aimendinent by which the President {8 to be forbidden to stution troops near polling-pincos or ta nllow them to be used in tho suppression of disorder or violonce. ‘Tho Republicans, howdver, were not disposed to pormit this revival of the tuctics of tho extra session to go forward unopposed, and gaye thet oppanonta a distinet notification that thoy were prepared to enforce tholr demand for the right to debate tho bill, antl the Democrats were at list compelled to abandon the giyg-rile and allow full diseussion. A day was wasted In usoloss wrangling over points of order. ‘This proposition to attuch to tho Army bill a clause forbidding tho President to do whnt he fs expressly authorized by tho Constitution to do has got to be thoroughly vou tiluted, und tho sooncr tho debate begins tho sooner it will end, — COLLAPSE OF THE IRON BaoM. Tuy Trimune has frequently pointed out the certain outcome of the boom in Iron, which has led to so inuch speculation and has contributed so much to tho general ad- yanco in prices, ‘l'ho price of plg-lron ad- yanced between Muy, 1870, and January, 1880, from $16 per ton to $43 per ton, thereby ne cossitating a corresponding increase in all the manufactures of iron and of steel, and espe clally of stev! rails, Tue ‘Tnmune pointed out that the high prico of Iron would neces- sitate a reduction of consumption, and that as soon ay pending contracts were filled there would be 8 suspension of orders, and eventually p suspension of work, until prices wore reduced, In the meantime the orders sent abroad for plg-fron, and for steel manufactures, and for steol ralls, bar Iron, and hurdware, have beon immense; but, 680 soon as foreign prices advanced to the samo enormous scale that provalled in this country, these orders ceased, * Tu Tuiuune also poluted out that, as prices advanced inthis country, the prices of labor would advance, and when the prices of fron and steel fell the attempt to reduce the wages of labor would bo resisted, ‘The fall Jn the price of fron has come even sooner than was expected, Here is the story of the fall In pig at Philadelphia: Pinvavenputa, April 7.—There ts n decided downward, tontanyy ti tho prlers af Iron, The Glendon Company has tesued circulars making & reduction of 8f0 per ton, bringing the Mates: from 640 to &,/ Kome nai overproduction 1g tho rengon for tho fall, while others claim that it is due ton determination on the part. of Amerl- enn producots tocheak fimportation of English fron. Sinee dust Call tron has been goins up with Brent rapidity, rising, almost dally, Httle hy to from $23 upto S40 and S41, und, In the onso f the Glendon iron, which rules generally nbout $10 ton higher thin the remalndor of the roduct of the Kehny kit aud Lehigh regions, to 42. Rorap and other classes have miko shared in the reduction, and those denlors who have been holding stock now seo thofr mistuke, Tho market first changedfor tho botter to the producer Inst July, when prices, that had fallon to $14 and $18, began to advianee. The fact is, manufacturers of pig-tron, have Ing kept the price at the highest possible polnt so long as thoy had orders to fill, have gone on accumulating stocks, which now have no sale. Whatever demand ts needed ean be supplied with foreign fron, which, though it pays $7 per ton duty, ean still be sold for less than the high-priced Ameri: ean pig, The Pennsylvania Steel Mills have been providing thomsclves with foreign pig, leaving thelr neighbors without a market. Tho Philadelphin manufacturers of pig- fron have done wisely. ‘They have re- duced tho price of thelr metal, and ean now for a timo sell it below the present prices of Imported pig; but the reduction In the prico of Amerlean pig will at once bo followed by a reduetion of the for- elgn, and the probavillty Is that before July foreign and domestte pix-lron will bo selling for $20 per ton, This will, of’ course, be fol-. lowed by a like reduction tn all fron and steel manufaetures, both foreign and Amerivan, and, though the great boom”? will have col- lapsed, Industry will revive, the market for fron will bo reopened, the consumption will bo Increased, and the sales witl far exceed those In tho days of the boom. Immense fortunes have doubtiess been maide since last July in all the iron mills; now will follew the losses. ‘Those who are holding large stocks must sell at a logs, and ns a whole the sudden rise must prove to have been a great mistake,—n Inmentable misfertune. With tho reduction in prices must come n reduction of wages, and here will be found the severity of the loss, Already the mills and furnaces at Pittsbiire are closing thelr doors and putting out their fires. They pro- pose by refustug to make fron to produce n scarcity and compel an ailvance in prices, But the discharge of workmen is all tho samo as if wages were reduced. Giving a man work ten days only In a month is a greater lurdship to him than reducing Ils wages 40 percent. Ilere {s tha state of the caso in Pittsburg on the same day that the Philadel- phin mills reduced their price of plg-iron $10 per tou: Prrrautma, Pa., April 7.—The dull state of tho tron trade in this continues to bo the prine clpal subject of discussion in manufacturing clreles. None of the milla shut down to-day, but it is probutle that sovernl of thom will stop bofore tho end of the week. The real cause of tho diifleulty seems to bo tho earelty of orders, which many fear wil be permanent, A proml- nent piz-tron denler sald that tho prices of pix org are higher than the mills are willing to pay; orders are not coming in as fast 9a thoy anticl- pa ind tho result Is somo of the mills huve nud to euspenton tbat avenunt. ‘The lack of onters, In his Judgment, tsina mannerattributa- blo to the adoption of tho four-cent curd: hence it is that thore fs 0 dullness in the ple-iron trade, It was his iinpression that the curd should ba ree duced to three or.threo nnd x hulf conts at the outside, If this wore done pig-fron could bo sold nt prices manufacturers would -be justiflod in paying. If they.enn't hold manufactured fron at the fourcent card, thoy can'talford to buy ply-tron ait the rate at whieh It {3 now selling, Thoy have been nnsuecessful in mating sities under tho fonrcent curd, and ho thought the card will have to bo changed to a lower fygure. Atthe date of this dispatch from Pitts- burg the action taken at Philadelphia was not known. Tho decline in price tn all kinds of fron 1s 9 necessity In order to meet the competition of foreign irom and tho fall- Ing off In consumption. —=__———— - WASHINGTON S80ANDALS, Tf there were a department of impure so- clat affairs corresponding to the Signal Serv- fee, the arrows on its map of Indications and probabilities would all point towards Washington as the centre whence emanates the most of the salaclous gossip, smutty senndal, and corrupt morals that are now fill- ing the newspapers, and the largest arrows would point to the Capitol and Departments as tho nuclens or storn-centra whence orlg- inate the Impure winds that gather thelr force In this dirty eave of the political ulus, ‘This condition or area of low social thermom- eter would seem to Inidleate that the repre- sentatives. of the people of thls coun- try who go to Wnhshington to look after the interests of tho public, and who are supposed to represent the sver- age morality of tho community at large, elthor have vory little concern for thelr own morality when they go there, or that there Is somecontagious nilnsma thatselzes upon them after thoy arrive, blunts the moral faculties, and transforms then into moral lepers, who do not even seem to be aware that their diseaso fe wnelean and abominn- ble, Cull ovor tho list of tho lnst fow weeks, Amember from Lowsiana against whom rests the chargo of seducing ® woman and thon hiring a man to marry her, to cover up his conduct; the son of a Senator from Aln- bama, employed in.one of the Departments, pursned and phot at bya won attached to the Treasury’ Department; a clerk In the Executlys Mansion playing tho infamous rdle of procurer, sone of his patrons belng in Congress; - venerable 6x-Senator from Mlehizan, but recently married to a young wile, the two bandytng all sorts of unclean stuff about each other, the bridezroom not hesitating to charge the Infidelity of his bride with his ows son; the private secre- tary of a Cabinet ofllcer smirched with ine morality; a woman with her child—n yorita- ble young Japhet In search of Sts fathor— following up ® Senqtor from Georgla with the very natural, even if it he inconventent and embarrassing, demand that he shall ac knowledge patefulty and provide for the off spring by voting a personal appropriation on hher.motlon; and Jastly, an officer In tho navy suing a distinguished Adiniral to recover moneys deducted from his pay and alleged to bo applied by the Adinlral to the Ventenants wife, with whom he was kesping upa lialson. ‘These are the cases made public, How inany are concealed no one can gay, but, allowing tho ordinary proportion and Judging from the fudlentions on the surface, it Is pretty safo to infer that whera ono has come outa dozen are covered up, for cuses of this sort ean usually bo concealed by money, or the victiins have not the money or influence to prosecute thelr claims, while others console thomselves with blackmail, But, as each day brings Its fresh scandal, thore will soon be an overplus, wittiout stonping to consider those that may be concealed, At the present gratl- fying rate of progress, tha contingency may not bo very remote when « convention of victlins will assemble in Washington to de- vise ways ond means for suclal subsidy, and, falling In that, murch into Congress and the Departments some fina morning with babes at all stnges, from a palpable sugges- tion toan actual reality, and demand their ‘ppropriate sustenanesor fnumediate adoption without reference to committees or even walting for recognition by the Chalr, It does not add anything to the enjoyabillty of the situation that the violation of the mornll- tlesis matched by tho violation of the political proprietics, and that as each day furnishes sone fresh seandal of the social sort so each day furnishes some fresh instance of perr sonal yituperation, : biliingsgate, and bad imannors that would not do discredit toa ‘Tammany caucus. Between tha twa tha country has some warrant for the nutichpa- tion net only that tho halls of Congress may soon become founding hospitals but bes gardens ns well,” Tf any remedy fs to be applied {tls evident that it must he a lierote ane, or the epidemic will soon gather such headway that It can- not be stopped except by earthquake or gen- eral conflagration, ‘The moral forces of the Nation at leastought to arouse thomselves and exhaust every agency of appeal and imeuns of grace in wrestling with this great evil, ‘The Young Men's Christian Assocla- tlons, the Mouilys, Coles, Pentecosts, and Whittles should mass thetr forees and march ngainst this {immorality ‘Che churches mixht sot apart certain days of fasting and prayer. ‘Che Army of Salvation, with Its panting, and extortations, and banners, should plant Itself tn the Capitol, and never budge until tho frults of Its Inbors were ap- parent. There has been too much neglect In the past. ‘The evangollsts have assailed tho Devil in all his strongholds extept Washing- ton. Why delay any longer? Is not the field white with the harvest and the laborers few? Tho people themselves might do much to relnforee those agencies by making ita condition of nomination that tho Congress- man-elect shall take his family with him to Washington, and,stf necessary to resist the temptations that environ him, “his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts.” Every pos- alble safeguard should be thrown around lum, and family discipline might be eftica- elous when all other remedies would fall. Meanwhile, tho next Washington scandal Is in order. THE DEMOORATIO FRAUD CONSPIRACY, Mr. Sparks, who came very near extin- gulshing himself day before yesterday by coming i contact with Mr. Clymer, further brought the Milltary Committee Into proml- notice by offering In its behalf the following tunendment te the Army Appropriation bill: No money appropriated tn this act is appropri- ated or shall be pe id for tho subsistence, equip- ment, transportation, or compensation of auy portion of the ariny of the United States to bo uso ag n police force to keep tho ‘penee nt tho polis at any election held within any State, This is. the position at which the “Inst dlitehers’? rested nt the close of the contro- versy over the Election Inw at tho extra ses- sion of Congress, The renawal of the amend- ment.in conneetion with the new approprin- tion bill, along with the amendment which has been attached to the Deficiency: bill re- cently passed, shows that the Democrats are itching to keep the controversy alive, and that they Intend, just so soon ay they shall be complete masters of tho situation, to strike the Election law from the statute-books. and give full scope to fraud and yiulence as elect- oral agents, How far it will be advisable to retard the work of Congress and prolong the session by antagontzing the Democratic scheme for loatling down the Army Appropriation bill, and perhaps other appropriation bills, with political “riders,” can only be determined by the anlmus which the Democrats shall re- veul.in debate, It may be that the above amendment will not Interfere with the exe- ecution of the Inw. It is very certain that thore Is no Intention on the part of the pres- ent Administration to uso the army asa po- lice force or in any other manner atthe polls. At tho samo thno the amendment Is objec- tionable because it Is irrelevant, beenuse it alms nt constraining the President’s judgment ns to his conbtitutional duty if called upon by the Governor of any State to furnish Nutlonal troops, because It Is 2 manifest effort to control the Executive pre- rogative of veto by incorporating in. an appro- priation bill political legislation whieh he might disapprove separately, and because it Is. an encouragement to tho State and focal managersto nullify the Election law wherever thero' Is a Nispositidn'to do s0,* It {8 certain that the amendment Is offensive enough to warrnnt the most determined resistance from the Republicans In Congress, If they shall de- elie that the welfare of the country demands another exposition of the reactlonary spirit which undoubtedly contrpis the Democratic councils, * ‘The constant recurrence of the Democrats to the Election Inw means something more than an exhibition of spleen at thelr defeat in the extra session, ‘They cannot hope to secure the assent of the Executtve. to any open policy of nullification, such ag they first attempted, nor do thoy dare to antag onize public oplnion by anothar such offort. But they desire to go just as far in this direction as they enn without becoming avowed champions of fraud and violence, and they Intend that their political “riders shallpon notice to the ronghs of the large elties, the bulldozors of the South, and tho ballot-box stuffers everywhere that the Elec- tlon law and the National officers may be defied with impunity Inthe approaching Presidential eampalgn. If they ean accom- plish this much, they will have gained thelr point and prepared the way for counting In thelr candida! A OURIOUS STORY, Itisacurious and somewhat bewtlderhtg story which Gen. Boynton has told In tho columns of the Philadelphia Lines concern: ing the conditions which Gen. Grant imposed as to the Inauguration of President Hayes. Gen, Boynton 1s a sturdy Republican in poll- tles. Io fs the regular Washington vorre- spondent of the Cinclnnatl Gazette, which is & trustworthy Ropublican newspaper, IIe has Jong been inn position to nequire Infor mation relative to oMelal aifalrs In Washing: ton. Ho tsa man of good character, whose word and motives are not to be lightly ques- tloned, Yet, in tho course of a biographical sketch of President Hayes, he relates a cor tain elreumstance connected with Gen, Grant's support of President Hayes’ lnaugu- ration which reflects very seriously upon the former, and will not be cheerfully ao- cepted as , strictly accurate by Gen, Grant's — friends. Gen. Boynton — says that “Gen, Grant, through different ehaunols, had insisted to Gov. Mayes that, if the ‘inauguration was congum- mated, Gen, Bristow should not be recog: nized by the incoming Adaoilnistration,” and he adds that “this demand was coupled by conditions,”* ‘Tho fuference implied by this atatement and by tho tenor of the article generally Is that Gen, Grant would only lend Goy, Hayes his Influence and ald pending the controversy over the Electoral count, afld in the face of a posstbty. violent realstance to tho Inauguration of President Hayes, upon the condition that no favors should be granted to Gen, Bristoty by the new Admin- futration. Gen. Boynton says plulnly that tho condition “wag littio Jess than a threat,” and uscribes it to the feet that the support of Qen. Bristow by the Yeform element of the Republican party "Iuul rendered It neces sary for Gun. Grant to nbandon the cherished idea of a third term.” |, Tho theory of this remarkable story fa thdt Gon. Grant desired to be a candidate fora third term atthe oxyiration of his second term; that he proposed to face down all the scandals of the whisky ring, the Washington ring, the post-traders’ ring, and other corrupt combinations that disgraced his second term; that he was prepared :to defy publlo senti- ment, which wus opposed to a disregard of tho precedent against a third term; that it was not until Bristow’s strength as a Repub- Neun candidate, and the earnest opposition of Bristow’s trends to the rendmination of Gen, Grant, had become ‘apparent that the jatter deelded not to be 9 candidate; and, nally, that Gan. Grant hald Rristow versonally re sponsible for the events which impeded the third-tarnt project, and was willing to use the closing hours of lis Executive rulo to work out his revenge. itis certainly diMlcult to betlove that a man like Gen, Boynton could manufacture such astory out of whole cloth, or that ha would make ft public without sufictont war- rant, Itis likewiso not tu be concealed that Gen. Bristow, though ono of the prominent. candidates before the Cincinnati Convention, whose friends finally turned the sente in Ilayes’ favor, was persistently ignored after Preatdent Hayes’ inauguration in defiance of precedent and the usual ordor of things, At the saine tino, the bearing which lias been Bivon to this story, and the vorisimilitude of tho cireumstanecs subsequent to the alleged threat made by Gen. Grant, Imply an un- worthy motive and the misuse of Executive power which even many of those who are opposed to tho third-term movement, and who deprecate the posslble return of “ the old crowd” that formerly sur- rounded Grant, will credit very reluctantly. If the truth of tha atatement should be con- firmed by evidence that would show that lt lins recelved no coloring from Gen. Boynton’s prejudice, It would certainly Increase and In- tensity the opposition to Gen. Grant's nomina- tion. Innny case, Itisa sample of the obstacles that will be putin the way of Gen. Grant's election In case he bo nominated, No man who understands and appreciates Gen. Bris- tow’s services to the Government in exposing and breaking down the whisky ring, and otherwise rescuing the public revenues from thisves and conspirators, will patiently for give any deliberate effort to exclude him from public Iife, and to deprive the people of his eminont services. A BILL AGAINST COMPETITION. Washington advices report the introdue- tlon of a bill into Congress by Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, which appears to aim at the suppression, or at least the curtailment, of tho transportation of frelght, whether im- ported or domestic, from one ‘part of the United States to another part through the Dominion of Canada, Tho full purport of the bill cannot be deteynined from tho telegraphic sdvices that have been given so far, but, if ita intention or its effect be to cut off from the pub- lic in whole or in part the advantage of Canndian railroad competition, it will be the most astounding impertinence yet at- tempted In the Interest of the railroad mo- nopollsts of thiscountry, Itis diticult to be- eve that any imenasure with such an object can recelve serious consideration from Con- gress, and yet it Is seareely reasonable to sup- pose that a man like Hurd would propose a Dill without some assurance of support. It {s well known that tho manngers of the rallrond pool in this country have not been able to whip the Grand ‘Trunk Railroad Into servile obedience to the terms of the pool. Tho Grand ‘Trunk has recently acquired a direct and independent connection with Chi- cago, and is now in.a better position than ever before to compete for through business between the West and thescaconst cities. It has the three ports of Montreal, Boston, and Portland as outlets for tlie Western produce which goes to the East and to Europe, and it has the good will of shippers who have been persuniled to look to it for relief from the extortion of tho trunk-line pool, against which Cougress has persistently refused to furnish any protection. If ft were pos- sible to oxctudo the Grand ‘Trunk and other Canadian roads from competing for this through trade, or to tmpose. upon the Cann- dian ratlroads such conditions and restric tlons ns would cripple their competition, tha Gould, Vanderbilt, Scott, snd Garrett roads would hays everything their own way, and the public would be more than ever before at the morcy of the monopolists. . * Any stteh proposition is so outrageous that wedo not beliove that it can be passed in any shape. Nevertheless the matter Is worthy of serious public attention in order that no,bills may bo worked through Con- gress, under a mlsleading title or othar false pratense, which will fn the Jeast embarrass the Canadinn railronds as carriers of goods to or from United States territory, In the meantime the discussion or even tho pendency of such. a mens- ure many be used for the manipulation of American railroad stocks, which may bo the renl purpose of the agitation, There is Mitte wonder that Gould aud Vanderbilt aro sald to be behind this schome, ‘The raltroad Jobbers svem to have mado up thelr minds that they can use Congress in any manner they please for the furtheranee of thelr proj- ects, but they will somo day carry tholr dic- tation so’ far ns to bring downs popular storm upon them and thelr Congresslonat agents that will sweep them all away. Tho Turd bill In question, if tbe of the nature which has been described, may be the provo- ention for an outbreak of indignation that will not merely kill it, but force Congress to ngree upon some plan for the Natlonal super- vision of Inter-State rallrond commerce in the interests of the people, _—— THE CURSE ‘OF BRITISH LANDLORDISM. Mr, James Redpath, the special corre- spondent of the New York Tribune, who ts now in Ireland juvestigating the causes of tho widespread misery In that unfortunate country, contributes a lotter to that paper, dated at Westport, Mayo, Murch 8, which throws some fiow Nght upon tha subject by showlng that landlordisin Stself is the chict causo of tho oxlsting wretchednoss, that {t has fmpoverlshed the people with Sta oxac- tlons, the rents In many cases belng far in cacess of the Government vuluntion, and that In these days of Ireland's troubles, when all the world !3 touched by her pitinble condl- tion, hardly ono of tha Irlsh landlords has reduced rents and hardly one of them has contributed anything to the rellef funds, Mr, Redpath fastens this charge upon Iand- lordism by the cltation of numerous estates, with their stutistles’ of cultivation and rent, which we have not the space to reproduce, We can only state: the general substance of IMs letter, which is to the effoetthat through the west and south of Ireland the rolations of Iandtord and tenant are those of “exaction on the ono side and execration on the other? and that this fins produced tho unthrift and genoral wretchedness of the tenants, “As soon asa tenant out of a sour, wet bog (that no farmer in Amoriea would toneh), by cone stant spading and manuring, creates an ara- ble patch, up goes the rent without warning or consideration; and jf he will not pay for his own {mprovoments, he is summarily evicted," Aud aguin says Afr, Redpath: Remotnber that Jn Sreland the landlords do ab- golutely nothing but take rent. | ‘The tonant fonces hia little patehes: be builda his llttio aot tugo; ho draing the land; ho roclaimy tho waste wg; be creates, very often, at loust throce fourths of the value of the estate, Just ne that na be does so, hy 14 tned, da tho form of bighor rent, as if be had done a wrong, ils tne is culled *ruok-rent.” ‘Tho Government valun- tion is higher thun most of the estates aro worth, bevause it was nade whon the population wus donsor than it is to-day, Yot everywhere tho rente ura vory much higher than " Gritith's valuation.” Among the proofs. which Mr, Redpath presents of Yhe truth of hig assertion are tho following: ‘The Government valuation of the town land of Rockfield, now belonglpg fothe Eurl of Lucan, was about 8350, and the rental has been $500 for twenty years past, Whon crops are good they cun baraly pay this rent, and now they are-eturying, In Ballygurman there are three tenants whose valuation amounts to $115, and theypay 8350 rant. Tn Thrahoen during the past few years the rents hnve been raised from $225 year to $805 0 year,—a sum immensely In advance: of the real yalue of tho property. He writes: “You must remember, morcover, that the whole of this mountatn village Is theereation of the people themselves, and for this bulld- Ing and reelnmation—thelr own work—thoy haye been charged this vast percentage.’ Lord Sligo’s estate is anothor notable instanes of the burden and curso of Innd- lordism, It was orlginally a barren waste ofatony hilis and wet bog not worth six centa an ere, and now its rontal, is over $100,000. Tako the cnse of. one vilinge, a\rdannn, and {t 1s 0 fair fllustration of all of them on this estate, Mr. Redpath writes: ‘Thi holdings in 1851 was 424, a cluster of bovela—wns bullt by tho tenants themselves. Ii 1863 tho rent was roixed to £81, and in 1260 It was raised to £04, ‘Tho tenanta nro also compelted to pay ull tho taxes, “Leaving taxes out of the quostion, however, they have been paying for tho Inst twenty-five years Bo) por cont over tho original rent, Whon tho vali ation was inndo there wero thirty-two houses and offices on tho property ol means outhouses and barns, and these were, ayn mut- ter of course, taken Into necount. . . 10 houses wore all built by tha tenanta thomeclves, Peers erefore upon this Government est! mato of tho value of houses and land together we find the tenants rated upon twenty-four houses which havo long since passed out of ox- istence, and that thoy pay n rent of about £0 n yenr oyor and above what the Government thinks Jt worth, evon neglecting the fret that tho whole price was conferred upon an absolite- y worthless place by the tenantry without one farthing outlay or belp by the Inndlord. No wonder that Mr. Redpath says, after having seen Southern slavery infiine differ- ent States, that the Irish tenantry on this g@rent estate aro moro iiserable than the Southern slaves ever were, So far as physical comfort Is concerned, and that tho Intter would not havo exchanged places with them. ‘This letter more than corroborates all that has been charged ngatnst the rapaelty and brutality of British landlordism, and [It gives: emphasis tolts statemonts that the writer is a dispassionate and unprojudiced observer. It shows that these Inndlordd are charging rentals far in oxeess of the valuation of their lands, and that they refuse to reduce thom, It shows, leaving aside the manner {n which those Innds were untowfully acquired from the original owners, that these tenants have reclaimed these'lands and made thom fertile, and that, so far from recognizing any rights of possession estublished by years of Inbor, tho tenant is made to pay for his own im- provements by enormously Increased rentals, “Dozens of trustwotthy men,” says Mr. Redpath, “have told me that as soon as a tenant, more ambitious than his neighbors, whitewashes his cottage, or gets n decent dress for his wife, or Is exceptionally tn- dustrious and Improves his holding, the rent is ratsed fn nine eases out of ten, and despalr takes the place of hope.” Sich o system as this destroys every {ncentive to Iabor and encournges idleness, Of what avail Is It for a tenant to improve his place or increase his production, with tha hope of getting ahead a little or Inying aside something for n rainy day, when the Inndlord, who has contributed nothing, absorbs everything that !s produced, and leaves the tenant unable to pay the increased rentals, and when he ennnot meet the demands upon him turns him out upon the highway and coltly refuses to subserlbe a penny to pre- vent him from starving? By what Jaw of consistency does the English Government demand of the African States that they shall abolish human slavery when an equally brutal and abhorrent system of slavery is practiced at its very doors, and it lends all its power to enable these Innded taskmasters to perpetuate it and keep Its wrotched victlins in a condition equally ag degrading as African bondage? - THE CANADIAN CANALS. The Canadian Minstry have made ft known to the owners of shipping on the St. Lawrence River that tho tolls on the Welland and other esnals will not be reduced this year. ‘The now Welland Canal will be prac- tleally opened by the ist of May, but tha deopening-and other improvements on the other cannls will not be, completed until: a yearhenee, Tho great benefits expected to result from the Hberal policy of enlarging the St. Lawrence canals will of course be de- feated {f the present rates of toll are to bo maintained, ‘Lhe action of the Canadian Ministry suggests the question why the Do- minion hns expended ten millions of dollars on the Welland Canal, unless It was to bo opened. to navigation, ‘The mnintenance of tho tolls closes that Improveinent. to any serious increase of business, indirectly it. ig true, but as effectually as did tho former lack of wa- ter. Last yenr during the season of navign- tlon if was a common oceurrenco for twenty- four hours to elapse without a vessel passing either way through the canals. Tho general adoption of tha stenm pro- peller-barge boat on the Erie Cann, by which tivo large bonts aro locked endwise and pro- pelled by steam at a nominal cost, and the abolition of all tolls, has given a new life to the trade of that canal, against which the Canadinn canals will In vain compete, Another objection which is urged by Cann- dian navigators 1s the exaction of ‘enormous portchargea at Montreal upon all ocean- going stenmers. Instend of offering to these ateamslips, without which Montreal would bo 8 mere Inland villnge, all the Inducements and facilities possible, Montreal has adopted the polly, so long prevalent in New-York, of plundering them, The costs of taking a steamer to and departing, Montrent fre 80 «enormous that the owners ofthe lines prefer to deal clsawhere, ‘Tho ocean service at Montreal fs thorefore un- certain and trregular, he continuance of the present tolls on the Canadian canals lookalike purpose to make the Yankees pay the coat of the {mproyement, Tho real policy of tha Dominion should be to inake the navigation of those canalsand of the riyor absolutely free, and te so encourage the occan-steamship lines that they will furnish constant and sufficiont service during the whole season, Otherwise the great expend- iture on the canals will’ prove a total waste and loss, Tlowann Cannot1, 0 Grant man himself and correapondont of & Grant newepnpor,—tho Now York ‘imea,—udmlts that Connocticut de- clarad positively against the third term: Of the twelve goutiomon who conatitute tho Chicayo delegation, it 18 reasonubly curtuln that jive, and perhaps six, will vote for Maino, threo or fonr for Edmunds, and‘ two or threo for Washburne, One may be won over to Gon. Grant. In view of tho fuot that Bluine revolved no votes from Conneatlout four yenra ago, his frionds are porbaps justitied in clalming that tho ‘Coaveatiqn resulted ine doolded triumph for im. Now comparo thia admission with tha follow. ing from tho 8t.’Louls Globe of Wodnoaday, wrlt> tan before the Convention mot: ‘ne Connectlont Republicans hold thalr Btute Convention to-duy. Tho delegation will probe ably be divided botween Grant, Edmunds, and Hhihe, with tho understanding thut aftor the fest bullot the Ramunds delogates stall vote for rant. Why “after tho firet ballot" should the Ed- delogutes vote for Grunt, If thoy will not mund: voto for him on tho ret ballot? It is perfuotly clear thut the Connectlout Republicans, while divided as to men, were united as ayaingt the third term. The “boom” wus badty repulsed in tho Nutmeg State, which had beon represented ag containing 4 large proportion of Grant man, and which was counted on to sond ut ledst four Grant delogates, and aot nono. si ——— ‘Tire alleged-third term bolts In the Sec- ond and Third Kunsas Distelets wero vory small ,Ufairs, Tho caucuses called after the Conven- ton were attended obietly by the Grant men, but tn both districts a majority of the delegutes elected to the Convention were forBluino, There were nu delogutes to the Nutlonal Convention elgoted by tho Second District, On this point tho Lawrence Journal snya: Fourteen delegates out_of over eighty tm tho Second District met attor the Stata Conve tton adjourned and anincad an advisory co: mittee, “Wut na dolowates to Chlongd werg cleoted, Nong can bo without a reguine con vontlon should bo enlled, 3o far as wo have con. yersed with tho Grant mon from tho Second ‘District, they proposo to abide by the action of tho State Convention, Thoy are not of tho butt. ing kind, Of tho Third District tho Atchison Champion says: 4 Sovernl papers In this State havo sald that “y majority of tho dolegates from tho Third Con. gressional District were for Grant.” This tq not true, In tho Binine caucus for that district Aifty-nino votes—n aloar majority of nll tho del exites to which tho district was entitied—wero | pulled, OnF. of tho delegates from Rhode {stand ta tho Chteago Convention writes to tho Now York Tritunes The Convention was for Biaino, and tho dele- gites {t olected are for Blaine. and properly so, na the Repubticans of the State nro for Mining beyond alt question, and have been for four pene. There bus been vo sudden convorsion here reapeoting the choice of onndidates: no resolution of instructions was adopted or sub. mitted, and the deloyntes are freo to oxorcina tholr Judgment for the best Interests of the Re. publican party. Since the Convontion ad. ured, the vested atrongth of ite various can. didates hus beon estimnted with such varying opinions by the press and the people that canig of Inquiry have heen tasted to each delegate, requesting him to designate hia first choice for the next President of the United States, and out of tho entire nimber, 108, replies havo been ro- ecived from Bi, resulting ne follows: Binine, 00; Edmunds, 8; Grant, 4; Shorman, 3; Garfleld, 13 Iiristow, Ty Hawloy, 1; no choice, 1,—whict tne dentes very strongly tho public rentiment of tho State upon the Prealdential question, a8 thoy are the expresstons of representative men from neurly overy town In tho State, ———_— ENATOR MAnsit writes to the Syca- more True Republican giving Is reasons for opposing the nomination of Gen, Grant and favoring that of Sonator Rinine. Tio anya: T bollevo that Grant Is the greatest Hying Gens eraland nitrite patriot. Incltdlog bis milltary record, he 14 tho pecrof any man: excluding whieh, and ho falls below other prominont can- didates; for there fs nothing tt his ite prior ta tho War or slueo its close indicating pretminent ability 18 manager or udministrator of practical or cl¥il affairs. ‘Tho Nation hus honored him twlee with tho Prosidonoy, It should hold him In highest respect: but thore is not sufictent reason for bronking n thie-honored usage in nominating and elccting him (if possiblo) ton third tern, ————— Mason County Is not divided between Blaine and Grant, ns nt first reported, but Is - solld for Blaine, as the fottowing aispateh shows: ITAVANA, HL, April 8.—Tho United States Mure shal to,ghe contrary notwithstanding, Mason County Rends a Blaine dulegation to the State Convention, C. B. Kercitam, Mason County. was coneoded to Grant by Mr Bluino's felonds, and the cholco of a Blaine dele« Ration under tho circumstaices {8 surprising, Tho tally will have to be correeted to read as follows; Hlaino, #3; Grant, 1; Washburne, 1; Sherman, 1. Four counties ont of five thus far held havo chosen Blatne delegations. eas Tue antl-Crant Republican nddress in Massachusetts knocked the Loutwell-ftico mant+ feato into neocked hint, Among tho signers of the address, tho substrnce of which was telee graphed to Tim Trimune, were tho following eminont men, many of whom are retive poll+ fleinns: Wiltiam G. Russell, Henry L, Pierce, Withtam Endicott, Jr, Abbott Lawronce, Samuel M. Quiney, John F. Androw, E, It, Hoar, John M, Forbes, Paul A. Chodhourne, H. Cabot Lodyo, Justin Dewoy, and elghty others. a Tite York County (Pa.) Convention called to protest against tho action of the Harrisburg Convention was tho largest and most ene thustnstic gathoring of Republicans ever known inthe county, Ilaine resolutlons were adopted and Binine specches inne; conferees were ap- potnted to choose Blatino delegates to the Chleago Convention in connection with tho other countles of the district, all of which have takon slinitar action; and, with ‘threo rousing cheers for Blaine, the Convention adjourned. | Frank Parser went to Cincinnatt tri 1876 us one of thy Iinols delegates howling for Blaine, What hus Mr. Blaine done since. 1876 to forfolt the confidence of tho rost-Oltico ” boss," and whut hus anybody also dono to gam it? Has Mr. Tatiner taken his orders from the Senatorial syndicate in Washington? If so, he has reckoned without his host in putting the people of Iiinols duwn ns servants to tho same mastera, 3 —— Tir Inter-Ocean must know that it has a great deul of grief betore It, go far as Iowa ts concerned.—loiva State Reyleters And ao far as Inols is concorned also. The stock of “grief ™ now bolng salted down for tha 1-0, is enormous, nd ‘Tire still, small voice of tho Washburne boom is heard in tho land, It will bo louder anon, Conuceticut and Indiana have taken up tho chorus, r PERSONALS.. : “Your paralyzed candidate I cannot be." S.J, Tilden. ‘Tho Enrl of Danmore is in New York, Ho might haye gone furthor and done worse,“ “Tam coming o'er the sea with v gun and a lawyer to settlo my fumily alfatrs,"—Minister Christianey, Signor Uriarte Is tho Spanish Consul In Now York, Ho is no relation to Morlarity, wno was "there,"”” _. W. H. English, of Indiana, {s. the Intest brunct xolding for tho Vico-Prosldoncy on the Demoeratie ticket. Mr. Boucteault should dramatize his own enso.. Ho his beon howling about tho want o home-made dramus tong anough, i Jov Cook calls Ningnra ‘a datoless roar,’ Whon it comes to chopping up tho Engllab Inne guuge beyond recognition, Joo takes tho biscuit. ‘There Is no doubt about Its belug leap year in 8t. Louls, a8 soveral young men thero have Jumped town to uyold a sult of an Interesting nature brought by a young lady, Although Mr, Tilden's condition 15 one that calla for symputhy, he should remombet that Ibis better to be paralyzed wttla just now than nx good deal the day after clection. “Young Editor"—Yes, the’ New York World {9 run on a cash basis; at toast wo novor discovered it glying any credit for tho numerous urtleles which {t absorba from othor papors and ‘uses ad origlial mutter, Tho Health Journal says that an ordinary woman's walst isthirty inches around. Perhaps, the editor can ulso tell us tha “style of boot worn by an ordinury womun's indignant and sleoptess futhor about 11:90 p,m. Col. Mapteson writes n card, wanting to know why « $12 London bonnot coats 803 in New: York.. Somebody in Now York should write to tho Colonel asking why it costs $3 in Now York to sev 8 2f-cent London singer, ‘Tho Marquis of Lorne Is afiilcted with in- somuia, which has como upon him within the past month. Wo thought all along thero must be aomo punishment In store for tho author of tuut Canuck National byinn, =” ‘Tho Rochester Unton, referring to n reeent tragody in Its neighborhood, says: - “Tho couple ved unhupplly togethor, though throo children wero tho resultof tho union, mainty owing to tho preaence in tho noighborhood of ono Georg Smith.” _ Tt fs salt that Queen Victoria cannot find a suitable mutoh, in point of monoy, for Prince Leopold. By sonding an Ambassador to this” country on a tour nmong the daughters of mil- Nners and summer-resort hackinen tho diticulty might bo removed, ‘Tho Princess Vicoyra Bolognatt! Cenci, by birth Miss Lorillard Spencor, of New York, has been appointed Lady of the Palaco to the Queen’ of Italy, Wo suppose tho Lady of the Palace 1s 8 kind of high-toned housekeeper who keeps away mop-pedulers,oto., and secs that the kitchen a kopt cloar of Dukes andCountsin tho eyonlug ‘Tho following $s extracted from s letter ts the Loulaville Commercial from Cambridge, Muss., and of Ita boing tho work of ono of tho most talented students of the School of Journal- {am attached to Harvard Collogo there can bo no doubt: “Springtime is‘upon us, and Damo Naturo {sdonulng hor lovely garments of flowers and follnge of green, Tho yery alr is vocal with tho muaic of tho birds of song, and the zephyr richly froighted with the ambrosial breathlogs Of the gods, kiss the chooks of tha agod sires and watrons ys well as the young men aud tmuldons, theilling thoir hearts with Joy and glad- ead, Tho hoavens are rodotent with smiles, and the earth, cutchlug tho inspiration, but echo and retcho tho lnspircd declaration that‘ Tho heavens