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Master ‘Masons are especially invited to be presen Pee preseAMES SMITH, W.M. CHAS, H. BRENNAN, Secretary. FAIRVIEW CHAPTER, NO. 161, HR. A, M.—Hall corner Thirty-seventh-rt. and Cottage Grove-av.— Regular Convocation Thursday evening, April 2, 1840, aibo'ciogk. Work on the M.A and Fi Degrees. ting Companions are always 5 S. IL. 8. TIFFANY, M. E. H. P, MYRON HARRIS, Secretary. §T, BERNARD COMMANDERY, No. 3, K. T.— Special Conclave Wednesday evening, April 23 at § Qelvek. Work on the Templar Order, | isiting Sir Tt ir orde: Rulghiaare con. Dal. CAitiy M- D,, Commander. J.0. DICKERSON, Recorder. ILLINOIS MASONIC BENEVOLENT SOCIETY— ‘Whe Chicago members are requested to mect at Ori- ental Hall, No, 122 La Salle-st, Sunday Afternoon at Zo'stock, April %, for the trassuction of important asiness. SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1690. NASHVILLE, Tenn., celebrated the centen- ‘ial of its incorporation yesterday. Secrerany Simms visited Philadelphia yesterday and received a cordial reception from Xhe members of the Stock Exchange. Over three hundred families have been Yendered destitute in Ocenn County, New York, by therecent forest fires. They lived principally by the cultivation of berri Tue inhabitants of Kurdistan and Meso- Potamia in Asiatic Turkey are starving by the thousands, and appeals in their behalf are made by the Christian missionaries in their midst. A CYCLONE swept over 2 portion of Adams County, Illinois, Friday night, which did consid- erable demage. Trees were uprooted, cattle in- jured, and houses leveled with the ground, and several people seriously if not fatally injured. A Dexocratic darky, assistant to a white Democrat who displaced a Republican Assistant Librarian of the Senate some time ago, was yesterday indicted by a Washington Grand Jury for purloining books from the refer- tnct library. Carr. Epwanp Wniant, who committed ‘uicide yesterday at Washington because of warital troubles, was tho son of Judge Wright, who was imprisoned a few wecks ago for as- saulting Mr. Delano while the latter was Secre- tary of the Interior. ~ * —_—_—— Tue Senate Committee on Appropriations thas agreed to report the Naval Appropriation Dill just as it came from the House, This is done in order to hurry matters, and is an indica- ton of the desire of the Democratic Senators tor an early adjournment. Tue delegates from Oregon to the Chicago Convention have been instructed for Blaine. The West Virginia State Convention yesterday {astructed its delegates for Blaine also. An- other break in tho Solid South, which is solid for ‘tho third term no longe! Ir is proposed to restore West Point, which aiew years ago was made a separate military department, to the Military Department of the East, of which Gen. Hancock is the commander. The object of this move seems to be to get rid ‘of Gen. Schofield as Superintendent of the Na- tonal Military Academy. Five hundred coal-miners have struck for higher wages at Stilson, Cherokee County, Kas. ‘They threaten ell percons who would take their Places, and are said to be organized and deter- mined. The mine-owners propose to employ colored men in their places, and have called on Gov. St. Jobn tor protection. ‘Tse Cuban insurgents have not yet been wholly subdued. In arccent engagement they would have captured a dotachment of Spanish troops but for the timely arrival of reinforce- ments. As it was, they wounded two officers and killed six men, and retreated to their shelter {o the mountains in good order. ——_—— ‘Two delegates to the Chicago Convention were chosen in tho Twentisth Ohio (Cleveland) District yesterday. They were instructed for _ Bherman, but, as they were also instructed not wo vote for a third-term man, except to make the nomination of the National Convention unanimous, their votes will eventually be cast Yor Blaine. Frank Gart, who was hanged at New- ton, N. J., yesterday for the murder of his own auughter, was rather fastidious asto the manner of his taking off. He asked permission to oxam- ine the gallows, and requested to hare the noose ‘warmed before being tightened round his neck, »A brass band discoursed musio under the jail \walls immediately before the execution. ————— Tre death of thirteen children on board the German passenger steamer Ohio is safd to be entirely owing to the crowding and the inade- quate sanitary arrangements of that part of the wessel set apart for steerage passengers. An wfficis] inquiry is likely to be instituted in regard to the matter. The prices paid for passage ‘Uckets would seem to warrant fair accommoda- tions, yet it is notoriously the fact that for years ‘the unfortunate immigrants have been treated scandalously on board these emigrant vessels. ‘Che food is bad, the cooking is worse, the bed- ding is vile, and the ventilation horrible. The steamship companies should be forced'to mend in these matters, A pry-coops store at Paw Paw, Mich., was struck by lightning yesterday morning and set on fire. The flames extended tothe adjacent buildings, and before the fire could be brought under control several business houses were destroyed. ‘Tue officers of the relief ship Constellation are being treated with the greatest cordiality in Ireland. All classes unite in extending them courtesies. The Duke of Edinburg, at present in charge of the British fleet stationed at Queenstown, has invited them to dine with him, the Cork Councilmen propose to banquet them on Thursday, and the hospitalities of the princi- pal Irish cities have been frecly extended. —— SHERMAN delegates were chosen in Frank- lin County, Ohfo, yesterday. In Cuyahoga County twenty Sherman and fifteen Blaine dele- gates were chosen. The Maine Senator scored an unexpected victory in Lucas County, where the delegation was instructed for him, notwith- standing that the county a week ago was con- ceded to Sherman, and even yesterday a ma- jority of the delegates to the County Convention were believed to be for him. ———— Conventions were held yesterday in Menard, White, Boone, and Lawrence Counties in this State. Lawrenco and White Counties, which areentitled to three delegates each, have in- structed for Grant. Tho Menard County Con- vention laid resolutions in favor of Granton the table. Boone sends five Blaine delegates headed by Gen. Hurlbut. The primaries held throughout Iroquois County indicate beyond doubt that the delegation from that county will be solid for Blaine. To-pay is a gala day in Maarid. The Royal family and the courtiers will proceed tothe cathedral in the morning under protection of* a military escort. ‘The streets are lined with troops. Flags and banners are floating from all the public buildings and from many of the pri- vate houses, while music fills the air. In tho evening there will be grand, banquets, followed by dancing and other festivities. Ail this because the Roya! physicians have announced that the Queon will become a mother some four months hence. GopELLE, a Bonapartist, in a speech in the Chamber of Deputiesafew days ago, asserted that “ injurious suspicfons rested on the head of the brother of the President of the Republic.” This language M. Gambetta, the President of the Chamber, declared to be insulting to Presi- dent Grévy, and he sentenced M. Godelle to ex- clusion from the Chamber for fifteen days; to receive only one month's pay for two months’ service, and to bear the expense of placarding the offensive expression throughout the district which he represents. The punishment is re- garded as very severe, for language as offensive as that used has been frequently indulged in by other members without calling for any reproof. M.Gambetta’s action smacks of his old-time dictatorship. ‘ —— Fnmay the desk on which Thomas Jeffer- son wrote the Declaration of Independence was presented to Congress, and on motion of Mr. Crapo, of Massachusetts, was accepted in the name of the “Nation.” Some of the Demo- cratic members—notably Randolph Tucker, of Virginia—privately objected to the term “Nation,” and wanted Mr. Crapo to substitute the words‘ United States,” but the latter objected, and the matter was not further pressed. The Congressional Record has the words “United States,” however, while the House journal has the word “Nation.” Tho change was evidently made at the instigation of the Bourbons, whose devotion toState-sovereign- ity doctrines impels themto resort to mean and disreputable practices to give effect to the'r ideas. Mn. GrapstTone spent yesterday in com- pany with Earl Granville, Lord Hartington, and Mr. Adam, the Liberal “ whip,” in the selection of hisCabinet. Mr. Gladstone himself will take the positions which he filled toward the close of the last Liberal Administration, the Chancellor- ship ot the Exchequer and First Lordship of the Treasury. The duties attached to these positions are very onerous, but Mr. Gladstone is a thor- ough master of finance, and there is scarcely any other member of his party whois. Mr. Lowe, who was at one time considered a master on this subject, utterly failed on a former occa- sion, and even if he were more in accord with his party he could hardly bope to be allowed to experiment again. The only other appointment announced with anything like positiveness is that of Lord Selborne, better known in this coun- try for his connection with the Geneva Arbi- tration while Sir Roundell Palmer, who will be Lord Chancellor of England. ‘Tm shooting of Charles De Young by Ealloch, junior, seems to have been done with- out any immediate provocation. The murderer had been on one of his usual sprees during the week, and made frequent threats against his Victim, but no notice was taken of what was considered the mere vaporing of a drunken bully. The shooting took place in the Chrontcle office. The murderer approached his victim with- out any warning, and fired four shots in quick succession, all but the fourth being without ef- fect, and De Young was about to raise his pistol in self-defense when the fatal bullet crashed through his skull. He died in a few minutes. The unfortunate man’s mother, who seems to have regarded her son with even more than a mother's affection, has been completely pros- trated since the occurrence. The statements made as to the purpose of De Young's visit East seem to be entirely without foundation, Great part of the time he spent in Washingtorl urging the Congressmen from the Pacific Slope to use their best efforts to ob- tain a repeal of the duties on print-paper, the remainder of the time was spent in making ar- rangements in connection with contemplated improvements in his paper, so that he did not have much time to hunt up the elder Kalloch's bad record. Indecd, that was an entirely un- necessary work, as the reverend Mayor's history is black enough just now, and does not need to be presented in any darker light. ——— THE COMING PRESIDENTIAL STRUGGLE. ‘The May number of the Atlantic Monthly contains a thoughtful article on the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination. It was evi- dently written by the same hand that con- tributed a similar review of the Republican candidates for the April number of the same magazine. The two articles, considered to- gether, reveal a desire on the part of the writer to impress upon Republicans the party necessity of selecting the most avail- |- able candidate, regardless of personal prefer- ences and the pressure of cliques aud Sen- atotial syndicates. The most important cir- cumstance bearing upon the Democratic nomination is, that the date of the Cincinnati Convention has been fixed three weeks later than that of the Chicago Convention, with the purpose of leaving the question open ns to who the Democratic nominee shail be un- til after the Republican Convention shall have committed itself and done its work past recall, and with the idea of taking advantage of any mistake that the Republicans may make. There is scarcely any doubt that the Democrats will nominate the man whom they believe to be strongest before the people. They did so in 1976, and the result proved that their judgment was correct. However Mr. Tilden may stand before the public to- day, it cannot be denied that he had astrong hold upon the people in 1876, Abundant proof of this may be found in the fact that he received 4,284,757 popular votes against the 4,033,950 votes cast for Mr. Hayes. ‘The Atlantic writer inclines to the belief that the Democratic Convention may be con- siderably embarrassed by Mr. Tilden’s “claims” in case it shall feel that he is no longer the strongest candidate they can run. But there are several circumstances that will help them out of this dilema if they shall conclude that their chances of success will be improved by selecting some other cand!- date. Though the New York regular delega- tion will go into the Cincinnati Convention for Tilden, the Tammany delegation will be on hand with ample demonstration of the power it represents in New York State. It will find 8 strong backing in the antagonism to Tilden’s candidacy at the South, Mr, Tilden himself, recognizing the formidable opposition and no longer possessed of the physical vigor he had four years ago, may be content to exercise a controlling influence in the selection of a candidate most likely to win. Finally, the two-thirds rule will be a fortification behind which the oppo- nents of Tilden may intrench themselves, and the common aspiration for Democratic success will prompt the Convention to unite upon such candidate as shall promise the most effective campaign against the Repub- Jican standard-bearer. The candidates named in the article to which we have referred as more or less prominent are—in addition to Tilden— Thurman, Hancock, Randall, Fieid, English, Seymour, Bayard, Hendricks, Randolph, Palmer, Jewett, and David Davis. Groesbeck and Payne, of Ohio, would probably have been added had the article been written two or three weeks later. Hancock is regarded as having the best chance, in case the Repub- licans shall select a military candidate. His elements of strength consist in his high posi- tion in the Union ‘army and the fact that he has no bitter antagonisms among the politi- cians, and would be acceptable to the South. Mr. Randall’s chief strength lies in tho friendship which Mr. Tilden is said to enter- tain for him; the same may be said of Judge Field. Mr. Payne, of Ohio, is believed to enjoy this advantage, and also intrinsic strength in his own State, which will be the battle-ground of the preliminary struggle in October. Bayard’s Southern origin and sympathies will damage him in the North. Thurman was badly damaged by his signal defeat in Ohio last fall; and Hendricks’ un- soundness on the currency question would beat him in the Eastern States, and the same fact will diminish the chances of other Western sspirants, unless it would be bhard- money Palmer. Aside from Tildenand Han- cock, the chances of the “dark horse” are regarded as the best, and the choice will be largely influenced by the action of the Re- publican Convention. The Atlantic points to one very significant feature of the situation. The Democrats have no National issue upon which they dare go boldly before the country, and they are waiting and watching for some conspicuous Republican mistake which will provide them with one, The case is put in the following terms: A National canvass cannot well be conducted by any party without some issue, real or imagi- nary,and the Demcerats,in their embarrassment, are hoping that the Republicans will furnish them with one by nominating Gen. Grant. They would be relieved at once of their trouble if the third-term scheme should succeod at the Chica- go Convention. They would take the offensive in the campaign, accuse their opponents of im- perialistic taudencies, of violuting the sacred tradition and unwritten law of two terms only, of placing Grant above Washington, and of in- tending to make him President for life: and they would claim for themselves the credit of resisting an attempt to undermine our free in- stitutions. They would pay no attention to tho counter-attacks upon them for thelr revolu- tionary Fentormances in Congress last summer, but would hammer away on the single point, “No third term,—no perpetual President—no Cosaz!" That they would be able to carry with them the independent vote which constitutes the balance of power in the closo States I think uo one can question who has not an overween- ing faith in the popularity of Gen. Grant. When it isremembered that the State of New York, which will, beyoud any reasonable doubt, elect the candidate for whom {t votes this year, gave a majority—divided and ineffectual, it is’ true, but stilla majority—against Mr. Cornell last fall for no other apparent cause than his identitica- tion with Grantism, it will be seen how stron; will be the Democratic chances of success year if they have Gen. Grant to fight. The current number of Harper’s Weekly resorts to the same line of argument, but gives it a somewhat different though not less striking bearing. It points out that, in the first two National elections in which the Republican party took part, there was the | distinct issue of the restriction or extension of slavery, and there was no difficulty for the voter to determine his preference and standing. In 1864 the issue was the prosecu- tion of the War and the maintenance of the Government, and voters took sides accord- ingly. In 1868 and 1873 the elections involved reconstruction and its settlement, and the Republican policy wassustained, In 1876 the issue was obscure; the result was that the Democratic candidate received nearly a quar- ter of a million majority of the popular votes, and the Republican candidate was finally de- clared elected by a single Electoral vote, and would have lost had the result depended upon the vote of a certain Republican Sena- tor—Mr. Conkling. Tho issne of the ap- proaching Presidential election will not be any more clearly defined than it was four years ago, unless the third-term issue be obtruded upon the country. The deduction is that “the can- didate rises into importance, and the practical objections to candidates become vital consid- erations.” If a candidate be put upon the Republican Convention by the delegates who represent hopelesly Democratic States in combination with “instructed” delegations that misrepresent a large proportion of their constituents in Republican States, it cannot be reasonably denied that the Republican party will go into the struggle at a notable and dangerous disadvantage. Itis unsafe for the Republicans to count upon a Democratic blunder this year to off- set any possible blundering on the Repub- lican side. ‘The situation is of a nature to avert Democratic blundering. The Repub- licans are in far greater danger at the pres- ent juncture of affairs. A Republican blun- der may be fatal, for the following conclu- sion of the Atlantic article from which we have quoted is palpable: “A party that con- trols the Electoral vote of every Southern State, no matter what principles it may pro- pound or what course it may pursue, and that, consequently, only needs to carry New York and one other Northern State to win, is not beaten in advance.” ——— THE WESTERN INDIANA RAILROAD FRAN- CHISE. ‘The new ordinance pending before the City Council granting the right of way to the Western Indiana Railroad Company provides substantially and practically for the occu- pancy ofall the land, including the streets, from Twelfth to Harrison street, from a line 100 feet west of State street toa line 100 feet east of Clark street. This is a solid block of half a mile from north to south and 400 feet wide. ‘The ordinance, of course, requires the consent of the owners of a majority of the frontage on each of the streets, but the con- sentofa bare majority carries with it the abandonment by the whole of all the proper- tyincluded within the limits described. It includes also the vacation for all purposes other than that of the Railway Company of ‘Third and Fourth ayenues and of Dearborn street. Tue Trmune has on repeated occasions urged the City Council to deal liberally and encouragingly with this and all other rail- roads seeking admission fo the city. The general and public interests of the city ought not to be subordinated to private Interests, but at the same time private rights should, in the spirit of the State Constitution, be care- fully and studiously, as well as legally, pro- tected and observed. The franchise pro- posed to be granted tothis Railroad Company is a large one; it is 1 permanent one, and, though of great value now, it will be even in the near future one of the most valuable held in this city by any corporation. We have urged, and do now again urge, that the Council should grant to this and all other railroads desirous of gaining access to the city the most liberal privileges. Chicago has opened her doors wide to all the rail- and franchises greater than have ever been given by any other city, gnd we do not think this policy should be abandoned so long as there is another railroad wishing to obtain facilities in this city. The railroad system of which Chicago is the central point has not yet been completed, Within the next twen- ty years the number of roads coming to Chi- cago may be doubled, and the amount of business done by this city through their agency may be increased tenfold. But all this does not justify the city in relaxing its vigilance in providing for the present and future protection of the public rights and in- terests, and in securing to private persons all their tights as property-holders. Since ‘the failure of the first ordinance a new question of public and private interest has arisen. The city some years ago, by ordinance, provided for opening Dearborn street from Jackson to Fourteenth. The condemnation proceedings ended ina judg- ment for damages to the persons whose prop- erty was condemned, and a judgment against those whose property was found to be bene- fited, and a judgment against the city for its share of the cost of the improvement. ‘The city made partial collections, made par- tial payments of damages, and took posses- sion of part of the condemned property, and then repealed the original ordinance. In this way it abolished its own authority to collect the assessments for benefits, and, in a case decided recently in the Circuit Court, the city has made itself liable to those whose property was condemned for the assessed value thereof. It is true this decision has yet to be passed upon by the Supreme Court, but the present decision isa sufficient warn- ing and notice to the city of a possible liabil- ity which ought not to be overlooked. The present ordinance vacates three streets, including Dearborn street trom Harrison to Twelfth, and possibly to Fourteenth street. It vacates a street for opening which the city at this time is under a possible if not probable debt of $1,000,000, and for which the adjoining and neighboring property of private individuals is liable for nearly a corresponding amount. ‘Technically, these streets are not vacated, but practically and substantially they will be rendered impassi- ble so soon as the Railway Company takes possession of them. To the extent that these streets from Harrison to Fourteenth street have been improved by buildings, those buildings will be rendered comparatively yalueless, and the question which now ad- dresses itself to the City Council is, ought this immense franchise to be parted with, unless there shall be incorporated within the ordinance proper provisions protecting the city and private persons dn the following points: 1. Protecting the city against any and all liability and responsibility to owners of prop- erty taken or condemned for opening Dear- born street for compensation for such prop- erty, and against all claims against the city for money paid for opening Dearborn street by persons assessed for benefits accruing to them from opening such street. 2. Protecting all citizens against any and all liability to the city or otherwise under any ordinance or legal proceedings for bene- fits arising from opening Dearborn street. 3. The payment to citizens for damages to improvements upon the property included within the limits covered by this franchise from Twelfth to Harrison street, After the verdict in the case of Shepard against the city the Council cannot afford to refuse to take notice of the prospective lia- bility of the city and of individuals growing out of the abortive proceedings to open Dear- born street, which proceedings have been be- fore the Courts and Council during the last seven years. Having thus protected the city, and haying also protected the private persons in their rights of property, the Council should grant the right of way without hesitation. The time to adopt these precautionary measures is now, and before the ordinance {6 passed, and we feel assured that the companies seek- ing this franchise will not hesitate to furnish these legal protections against loss and liabil- ity, public and private. THE ENGLI8H LIBERAL VICTORY. The unexpected defeat of the Tories in England, the permanent displacement of Lord Beaconsfield, the overwhelming tri- umph of the Liberals, their accession to power, and especially their accession with such a man.as Mr. Gladstone, the “‘ Plumed Knight” of the victory, as the leader of the House of Commons, are all steps in the direction of republicanism and of a larger popular participation in the Government. In this country such an event would have been hailed as a sweeping reform victory, for it was not fought as against Lord Bea- consficld or upon any single issue of bad government, but for change and reform in every detail, both of foreign and domestic policy. It was an uprising of the people in every sense of the word. The battle was fought against the aristocracy, the Estab- lished Church, the’ publicans, the plu- tocracy, and the oflicial classes, and in the face of these odds there was a gain of nearly half a million of votes over the election of i874,. when the Tories secured control of the Government. Among all the London daily papers there ‘was but one, the Dally News, that supported the Liberal party, and yet of the twenty-two members from that city fourteen were for Mr. Gladstone’s cause, and of the voters 205,000 to 204,000, Such a victory as this in the very citadel of Toryism shows that the people were aroused to the determination that personal government should give way to a Governinent more in accord with political progress, libetal policy, and republican ideas, —and that determination will be all the stronger since the Imperial consideration that followed the retiring Beaconsfield and the Imperial snub that greeted Lord Iarting- ton when summoned to meet her Majesty. That is a line of argument in favor of repub- licanism that even the wayfaring man, though a fool, can understand. Among the various steps which lead toa more republican method of administering the Government will be a reform in the in- famously unjust Land laws, which bear with such ctushing weight uot enly upon the tenantry of Ireland, though they feei iis burdens the most, but also upon the tenantry of England and Scotiand. It may not amount toan absolute emancipation of the British agricultural serfs froin the gtinding rule of the land monopolists, who now take every- thing that is produced and reduce their vic- tims to the point of starvation, but it will at least lighten their burdens, so that they can at least live and‘will not have to look to this country for their means of support. It may not be able to allow them actual ownership of the land they. cultivate, which was filched or confiscated from their an- cestors, but it will furnish them with ‘inducements to labor and to make improve- ments upon their farms, without having those improvements charged over to them again in the shape of Increased rentals. Land reform will be followed by electoral reform, and the old condition of things which existed hundreds of years ago, and has come down without change, will be wiped out. Rotten boroughs will no longer appear in Parliament with the voting power of great cities, and the owners of deserted, worn-out estates, with a few hundred squalid people on them, will not be allowed to exert the roads in the past, giving them conveniences | same influence as large, industrial, growing centres teeming with wealth and population. With the equalization of suifrage will come the reduction of taxation. . With a Government that cannot be other- wise than popular and pervaded by the senti- ments of the people will come the end of the personal government that has been exercised by Lord Beaconsfield, and that has originated and enforced policies even without the knowledge of Parliament. Foreign wars, inaugurated in the interests of his dramatic vainglory and for conquest, will cease. The oppressed nationalities will hail this election with delight. Suffering Greece may now expect relief from the last vestiges of Turkish misrule, and that enlargement of her boundaries which the Tories first prom- ised and then refused to grant. The Ar- menian Christians may look for their free- dom from Moslem intolerance. The newly- fledged Slavic nationalities can at lenst ex- pect friendly sympathy and counsel, instead of coldness and indifference. We may now look to see the Treaty of Berlin executed in sympathy with its spirit and letter; a policy either of frank accord or frank defiance of Russia; the pacification of Afghanistan, with some guaranty for its independence; the inaugu- ration of reforms in the administration of India and the relief of its suffering people; a demard upon Turkey that she shall execute every reform forthwith thatshe has promised over and over again to the Tories upon penalty of the extinction of the last remnant of Turkish rule in Europe. These are the leading features of the Liberal program; every one of them is in the direction of amore republican form of government and in con- sonance with the spirit of political progress; and with such a man as Mr. Gladstone at the helm there will be a resolute effort made to execute them. The surest proof of the republican tendency of this great victory is the bitter feeling manifested by Tories every- where, and especially by the German,’ Aus- trian, and Turkish Courts, towards the Lib- erals, and especially towards Mr. Gladstone, whose sympatiies with the Slavic Christians and with oppressed nationalities everywhere are well enough known to them. What Afr. Gladstone’s. power will be is foreshadowed in an editorial article in the London Times of April 10, which says: “‘ In office or out of it, he will have it in his power to sway to an incalculable extent the destinies of the new Ministry. It will be impossible for them to arrive at any decisions or introduce any measures without taking into account the views he may be likely to adopt.” ‘WASHBURNE AND GRANT. A correspondent writes us that the friends of the third-term candidate everywhere throughout the State are urging those Re- publicans who wish the nomination of Mr. Washburne to vote for “ Grant delegates” as the best way to promote the nomination of Mr. Washburne! This is a snare, even if it may notbe calledafraud, Mr. Washburne is not a candidate for the Presidential nomi- nation in the sense of opposing Gen. Grant. His candidacy will in no event begin until that of Gen. Grant has ended. The persons who fayor the nomination of Mr. Washburne are generally those who op- pose a third term of anycandidate. The per- sons who favor the nomination of a third- term candidate have of necessity but one choice, to whom, from like necessity, they will adhere until his nomination ceases to be possible and is abandoned. If there bea majority of the delegates elected in favor of a third term, then Gen. Grant will be nominated on-the first ballot, as his friends claim he will be, and the candidacy .of Mr. Washburne will die before it has been born. For those who prefer Mr. Washburne to a third-term candidate to elect delegates to vote for the third-term candidate, Is to vote to secure the nomination of the third-term candidate, and thus not only defeat Wash- burne, but prevent his being a candidate at all. If, however, the Republicans who prefer Mr. Washburne to the third-term candidate wéll elect Washburne delegates directly, or elect delegates who will vote against and defeat a third-term candidate, then they will vote to remove from the can- didacy the only man who keeps Washburne out of the list of candidates, and will thereby permit Washburne @becom e not only acan- didate, but probably the nominee of the Convention, and it is admitted by all observ- ing and reflecting men that he will be elected President if nominated. DOWNEY’S POETICAL SPEECH. It often requires great abuses to produce great reforms. It is often true that notorious abuses, disgraceful practices, and shameless inconsistencies are perpetuated year after year, and are endured and submitted to de- spite the flagrancy of their wrong. Suchis the case of a Congressional publication known for many years as the Congressional Globe, but of late years as the Congressional Rec- ord. The Globe was a private publication; the Record is a publication by the two Houses of Congress. The publication has grown iu magnitude of proportions and in cost. The annual cost of the work -now reaches, we think, $250,000, / ‘The Record has degen- erated from a register of debates to a mere record of personal puerilities,— a sort of album in whick members write the evidence of their own ig- norance, imVecility, and vanity, As a pho- tograph of actual proceedings, evén if such a thing wns desirable or creditable, it is a fraud, a falsification of what does take place, As a register of debates, it is a disgrace to the Congress and to thecountry. In fact, buta small portion of the ponderous volumes even profess to give debates; the bulk of the vol- umes is taken up with controversies as to the order of proceedings, wrangles over the prece- dence of bills, and to such an extent is this carried that in the hands of a. competent ed- itor nearly two-thirds of the Record might be cut out without lessening its value, or the loss of a single idea, a practical thought, or intelligent statement. But the greatest of all abuses is ohe of Jong standing by which reams of so-called speeches /are filed with the Clerk of the House, afd published in the Record, which speecheghave never been delivered or read in the House. Under this fraudulent ar- rangement the greatest possible amount of trash has been published at every session, which has gone on the record, when not a word of ithas been uttered in the House. Members unable to make a speech, and wholly ignorant of any subject on which a speech could be made, have obtained speeches made for them, and have had these speeches filed and printed without having been delivered. In this way mem- bers have astonished their _con- stituents with printed copies of speeches of which the reputed authors were as innocent as babes unborn. This disgraceful abuse will probably be now abolished in conse- quence of the latest and most extraordinary performance, Mr. S. W. Downey, a native of Western Maryland, an educated man, a lawyer by profession, and one who has bees fn public life for some years, and now a Delegate from the Territory of Wyoming, recently intro- duced a bill into the House of Representa- tives declaring the United States to be a Christian Nation, and holding the faith re- cited in the “ Apostle’s Creed,” and appro- priating half a million of dollars for Paint- ings to be placed in the Capitol commemorat- ing the life and death of the Bavior, This | lowing words: - ‘A bill providing for certain paintings on the walls of the National Capitol. Waeneas, The people of the United States are a Christian peopie and firmly bellove in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of neaven and earth, andin Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; the third day he rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on. the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He shall come to Judes the quick andthe dead; and believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Therefore, Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress ase : That the sum of $500,000, or so Much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the architect of the Capitol, to commemorate in suituble paint- ings by the great living: artists of this century, upon the walls of the National Capitol, the birt! life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ, as_told in the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Jom. Having delivered himself of this bill, the gentleman asked ahd obtained leave to filea speech in support of it. The next that was heard of the matter was the appearance on Thursday of the Record with the argument or speech of Mr. Downey in support of his bill; and this speech consisted of poem con- taining 2,600 lines of blank verse, at the head of which was a notice that the same had been copyrighted by the author, and that “all rights are reserved.” The House, or a portion of the members, seem to have become indignant. Men who for twenty years had been witnesses to or participants in the great frauds perpetrated in the matter of publishing unspoken speeches seemed to regard the publication of a purely original document, evincing scholarship and intellectual ability, as an insult to the House, particularly as it had been copyrighted. The members of the Ways and Means Committee thought it an insult to free trade for a mem- ber to protect the product of his own labor by a copyright of his own poem; and Gen. Garfield directed an inquiry 2s to the ex- pediency of prohibiting any member copy- righting his speeches—delivered or not— in the House. It is to be hoped this Committee will require that hereafter not one word shall be printed in the Record save what has been actually delivered in the House; but that every member be at liberty to copyright anything he may deliver, in which case the copyrighted production shall all be omitted: Never was the monstrosity of this abuse so conspicuously presented to public atten- tion as it has been by Mr. Downey. It is trite the thing he has published has some literary merit, and is therefore far above the ordinary character of what appears in the papers; but it is wholly inappropriate as part. of legislative proceedings, and, not having ever been delivered in the House, is a dis- graceful abuse of even a most disgraceful practice tolerated in the House. Itmay lead —in fact, ought to lead, and, if the House is not wholly lost to all shame, will lead—to the prohibition in the future of all undelivered speeches; and the reform, now made 50 glar- ingly necessary, should be extended to the curtailment of the Record by the exclusion therefrom of al! matter extraneous and for- eign to the specific purpose of a register of debates. A judicious editor could, as we have said, reduce the trash now published 50 per cent, and greatly improve the value and character of the Record. If Mr. Downey’s inconsiderate exaggeration of an old and dis- graceful abuse shall have the effect uf ac- complishing these reforms his defense of the Christian religion will not have been made altogether in vain. - ASTRONOMICAL. Chicago (TRIBUNE office), north latitude 41 deg. 52m. 57.3 west longitude, 42m. 18s. from Wash- ington, and oh. 60m. 90s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of ris- ing of the moon’s lower limb, and the official time for lighting the first street-lamp in cach cir- cuit in this city, during the coming week, unless ordered sooner on account of bad weather. Also the following times for extinguishing the first lamp: Day, Aon rises. Light. Extinguish. April 25..... 8:254 p.m. 7:0 p.m. 9:80 p.m. Monday. 7:10 p.m. 30:40 p.m: Tuesday. 10 p.m. 11:45 p.m. Wednesdi 10 p.m. 0:40 a. m. ‘Thursday. Op.m. 1:25a.m. Friday, 10 p.m. 2:00 a. mm. Saturd: 220p.m. 8:15 a.m. May 2. a.m. %:25p.m. 3:10a.m. Thesun's upper limb rises Mondayat 5h. 02m. a.m. Souths at Ih, 67m. 36.08, a.m. Setsat 6h, 634m. p. m. The sun's upper limb rises Friday at 4:561¢ a. m. Souths at lh. 6im.01.0s.a.m. Sets at éb. 58m. p. m. Sidereal time Thursday noon, 2h. 2m. 14.103. ‘The moon was at the full about 5 o’clock lass vening. To-morrow morning she will be at Fher least distance from the earth; hence very bright to-night if the sky be clear. She will be in her last quarter at 8:08 next Saturday morning. Monday morning Mercury will rise at nearly his greatest elongation, 27 degrecs west, froma thesun. He rises at 4:12, or only 50 minutes be- fore the sun, though so far removed in longi- tude, and hence js a very dificult object to rec- ognize at thet time. The reason why is the fact that the line joining Mercury and the sun will rise nearly parallel to the horizon, owing to the great southern declination of the pianet as compared with the sun. Mercury is now near the most southerly point in his orbit, in addi- tion to being near a portion of the ecliptic which rises very_obliquely, giving the harvest moon a few months Iater. Venus will rise Thursday morning at 4:17, and is then only about two degrees west from Saturn. The distunce will diminish to about three-fourths ofa degree, Saturday morning, Venus being the most northerly of the two. ‘That is the time of their nearest apparent ap proach. Venus souths Thursday at 10:43 a. m. and Saturn at 10:50a. m. Jupiter will rise Thursday at 3:44 a. m. and south at9:32a.m. He is now the most Westerly of the four planets which rise béfore the sun, and is a conspicuou§ object in the twilight, when the sky is clear down to the eastern horizon. Mars will south Thursday at\4:14 p. m., and set at 11:34 p.m. He isnow aniong the stars of Gemini, and not a very brillidnt object, being stationary, which means thathe i8at a much grenter distance fromthe earth than when in opposition last autumn. Neptune isnow with the sun, and invisible, even through the telescope. “ The observations on the planet Jupiter from the Dearborn Observatory made from Sept. 25 jast to Feb. 10 show a period of 9 hours 53 min- utes 37% seconds, sideronl rotation. This gives 10,4741 sidereal days, or 10,4736 solar days, on the planet in each year of Jupiter. Tho observations referred to were made on the position of the big “spot,” which the measures show is 22,000 miles long, and its centre 0.410 (of the polar radius) south from the pianct’s equator. They showa uniform rate of rotation, which indicates that the “spot” about which so much has been said is really a fixture on the surface of the planet; resembling, possibly, the result of an upheaval such a8 has given some of our mountain chains, ‘The spota that have been at different times ob- Served near the planet’s equator, having a vari- able movement, and a short existence, are un- doubtedly of another character to this. The “pink spot” above referred to appears to have been observed by Madler in 1844, and away back into the timo Srey pee la of the Cassini family <<< Soxe two weeks ago, at a meetin; friends of Senator Blaine and Mr. Watkboree comprising some fifty of the most rellable and influential gentlemen of the Twelfth Ward, a committee of six wns selected as an Executive Committee to conduct the canvass in the in- terests of these two gentlemen, and to combine all opposition to the nomination of Gen. Grant fora third term as President. Mr. Blaino’s in- terests on that'committee are represented by Ald. Everett and Rawleigh and J. Frank Lawrence, and Mr. Washburne's by R. E. Jen- kina, W. H. Beebe, and Alexander White, with instructions at such time as they deem proper toreport a ticket for delegates to be Supported ra nation of Senator Blaine and the wt’ Nome favorable to Mr. Washburne, such delegmue elected to report in Convention thes of eight delegates to the Springtield Com tion equally divided between Mr. Blaine and a Washburne. This Committee are gentiome such character, and so earnestly devoted ae got ‘Interests of the candidates they represent the friends of Blaine and Washbume wn, 2% on a delegute ticket of characterand pitirtend reported, and one which in its action wil, pee Out the wishes of the friends of both these didutes in strict conformity with the viet the meeting then assembled. This Commut are eurnestly at work, and in daily consulta ace and we foel safo in saying that the inter a Mr. Blaine und Bir. Washburne coula see or been committed into sufer or more re! ae hands. ‘We are advised that there wil sn meeting of the friends of Blaine and Washby ve in the ward, to be uddressed by able oak from abroad, and where measures will be adn ed to make the canvass an effective one. basa —————— Tur Cleveland Herald claims th - le re the primaries in that city’ gives the dele zitat Me toSherman. Per contra, the Leader oa ‘The results of the primary elect # night Indicate a ositive” majo fold laa Blaine, both in the County and District Gorge? tions. "The former will secure a delorm ee oe Blnine from this county to Conner for latter the election of two friends of Senge to Uhicago. Cuyahoga thus joins the other counties of the Western Reserve in ae cee Its preference for the Flumed Knight eo lead the Republican forces to an overwhe victory i, November. ‘The contest hastens hot one, in which the officcholders, with no: shameless use of money on one hand, mad on the artifices known. tc drilled politicians na he beett fought te erie o he free expression of the popular predilection for our bra) the Pine-Tree State. ve leader trom In regard to the Ashtabula distric! epree sented by Garficld in Congress, the Lesa A The Nineteenth District of aoe and grand old district that ot ehke Retzione sey, Joshua . Giddings, and James 4. Garfed to wield such power snd intluence in the one cils of the Nation through so many years of | usefulness, has spoken its mind on the f dential question, and made that expression cle gad distinet beyond all question. tis ins language of one of its delegates to Chi “for Blaine first, second, and all the time? This decision was reached in the face of an active and earnest struggle on the part of the few Sherman men sent to the District Convene tion. This district is composed of five of ths most populous and intelligent counties of Ohio, and in which the popular feeling is cectalm make itself felt in representative conventions, ce ‘These tive counties are Ashtabula, Lake, Geans Trumbuil, and Portage. Pesbeld ar Warren, anda fait rey Geneon be found in this morning's telegraphic colmmms, This decisicn is significant, in that it shows how: strong a hold Senator Blaine hes upon the aller tions and in the respect of the people. = Srvce some of the third-term organs have! already nominated Gen. Grant, and find theme selves with plenty of spare time on their hands, perhaps they will now turn their attentionto the necessity for carrying Obfo. There is tat one October State this year, and that State tg Ohio. A defeat there would be ‘There is very little, if any, genuine Grant senti- ment in Ohio. The Germans are against the third term. The Independents are against it, The Western Reserve is dead set against it, Ohio at the best is a close State. Hayes could carry it by only 7,516 majority over Tilden, ang Hayes was a favorit son, perfeotly unassailable, except on party grounds, who had never been President, but had served the State with honor and credit as Governor. In 1877 the Democrats. elected Bishop Governor by 225% majority, chose a strong Democratic Legislature, sng sent Pendleton to the United States Senate in place of Matthews. Last year the Re Publicans elected Foster Governor by 17,000 majority, but they had hard work to do ft, and might not have done it but for the money issue, which drove thousands of hard-money Democrats away from Ewing. ‘This year, if the third-term issue {s forded on Ohio, there will be trouble among’ the Germans of Hamilton County, and disaffection in nearly every county in the State. It might pay the “Yoom" managers to go to Ohio and study the situation there before they carry things too far. a In regard to the report started in Washe/ ington, and now going the rounds, that if thei Blaine delegates from Ohio do not vote for Sherman as long as the latter is before the Com vention, the Sherman delegates will punish Blaine by going over to Grant aid nominating him, the Cincinnati Commercial—Sherman's' Ohio mouthpiece—makes this comment: The suggestion is a shrewd one, butit lacks the backing. of truth. There.is nosortof alll- ance between Sherman and Grant, and possible that one can be made. € pI upon whieh Grant is being run for the Presi- dency is that the office belongs to him,—that the Prosidency of the United States is the personal perguistt of the savior of his country, and ths ¢ isthe savior. The candidacy of Sherman is, therefore, regarded as an impertinence, and Grant will never more forgive him than he will condone the sin of Stanley Matthews in being with Carl Schurz and George Hoadley in the Cincinnati Convention in 16:2. If the conteft betiveen candidates nt Chicago narrows down ta. Grant and Blaine, the Obio man who goes for Grant will misrepresent his constituency. But if Grant does not go into the Convention with votes enough to nominate him at once, he not be nominated at all. ’ a ‘VANDERBILT'S large investmentsin United States bonds excite the concern of the Keatuk Gate City, which in a lending article, entitled “The Rich Man's Folly,” says: “If ever ths National bonds get into the hands of a few per sons they will be repudiated. There will be little use to argue about the wickedness of It; 1 will be done. The wide-spread latent desire sl ready existent throughout the country that the bonds should be repudiated has been easily kept from getting much vitality by the thoughs that the bonds were in the hands ot farmer widows, orphans, gaving-banks, working péoplé, small cupitalists, a great body of investors. But let a few very wealthy men or corporations get ownership of the bonds and the situation be changed.” Y —__— In 1868 Seymour carried New York, Ore gon, and New Jersey against Gen. Grant. It the Demoerats had had the Solid South then, as they will have it this year, Seymour on the old appar tlonment would have been elected by a, malo ity of 8 Electoral votes. Gen. Grant New York in 1872, but not against a Democrat Many Democrats yoted for Grant In preft toGrecley, and thousands refused to vote a all. The Democratic vote in 1872 was 42,000 noder that cast for Séymour in 1803, allowing notbis for the great growth in population in the - terim. ———___—— Tue Oregon Republican Convention bas been held, but at the present writing ag. secoun! of its proceedings has been received. Some ides of what its action will be may be derived from the following vote taken in the Yain Bill Coun\y Oregon saved the Republican pi tho aid of Cronin’s nose. ——_— Tne Presidential situation is clearly plained in an able Bohemian exchange ¥"™: says: Grant n Binine json nyni_nejeelnesal y Presidentskem dostihu. Grant ma tedy No iz 0 24 hlasn vice Jistyeh nez spojens, opoal cf ‘ymohou-ii muatenti jeho jediny stat tog pry miti vyhrano. Kdyby ne, byla by, ele als naramna biamaz, nebut ¥ tum statu nes 0 To Blaincovi privraenci ovsem vedi 8 Foy nuituji zimnicne a do upndu aby de-legact Statu svemu oblibenci ziskull. << As Far as beard from, the County ventions of Ohio have appointed 202 Bi 187 Sherman delegates. But this er Cuyahoga County to be cuunted for Lage which the Sherman men dispute. Thelal ect to carry Cincinnati, which they clatn Tt give them control of the State Convention, merry as the carrying of Cook County for Grane oe rive him control of the Illinois Conveal both Blaine and Washburne. 1 Jupce Tourser, author of “The seid Errang,” has retired from tho eaitorship 2 Denver Times, and will hereafter dev " self wholly to literary labors. Hes now ty work upon a new political novel to Prgal wits “ Bricks Without Straw,” which will some aspects of the negro exodus. _—<—<—<——_—— ‘Tue cheertul rumor pervades the alt fst, while many of the boy's” fell into Mer term procession out of courtesy 1 Tes, Logan, they don’t propose to work ‘themsel death at the primaries. Tur Committee charged with the ae tion of a plan for organizing a Home ee ables have very nearly completed the! bye ded. in which they say they have been gui sz exporienco of similar institutions elsewBer¥ Com o-