Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1880, Page 4

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Enea mentof Clinton Ifall's Burlesque Company. ‘ Btrat~ exists.” Central Music Tall. Comor of Randolph and State streets. French ‘Lecture by Prof. fanvour, Subject: * Mollere,” ASHTAR LODGE, NO, Di A. 1 meeting Tuctday ovoning. Dec. Blonroe-st.,for businose und ae The, fraternity cordially tayited. RANE, Secretary, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7%, 1890, Tur value of a newspaper canvass, 50 called, depends upon the journal that makes itand the persons among whom it fs made. A newspaper may have a clreulation so Him- ited, and its subscripers belong so exclusively to one small political clique, that the expres- Alon of thelr joint views Is IIke a proclama- tion by the three tallors of Tooley street, -TueE officini vote of Texas was made up, It appenrs, without the returns from seventeen counties which neglected to report to the decretary of State. Tho Atstin Stetcsman estimates the aggregate voto of these coun- Hes at 26,000, They ara very remote and warsely populated,. The vote ns canvassed differs only by a few hundreds from that already reported In Tue Trinune, ‘The ex- act figures, giving the vote forthe highest Elector on each ticket, are as follow 'y 1393,170, h ty over all 66,926, No Democratle State wilt apply to take tho banner away from ‘Texas this year, fe Ir may be eratifying to readers of Tie Trmuny to know that the abstract of the President's message which was presented to thom three days ago was in the main a cor- tect and tolerably complete outline of the * document that is printed In full this morn- ing. ‘Tho abstract omltted the recommnenda- tion for the creation of tho office of Captain- Genoral, and dit not indlente the full mens- * ure of the President’s extreme views about tho greenbacks, but otherwise gavo 9 fair summary of tho document, whieh was proba- Diy read by many more persons than will wade through the entire Iungth of the mes- sage itself. Tire Trununn’s advance sum- mary was obtatned jn an entirely legithiuate manner from sources Ikely to be familiar with the contents of the document through consultation and from a knowledge of the President's opinton about the various do- partmental resorts which furnished a large part of tho message Ne enel AN oceastonally yeraclous correspondent estimates that Mr. Fair spent $160,000 in hls canvass for the Senate In Nevada, If 50, he Inust have Iald out an average of nearly $10 for every voter In tho State. The official canvass, returns from which have just been recelyed, shows that the total vote of theState was 16,531. ‘Two ‘counties were rejected,— Nye because it ‘sent in no returns, and Landers beenuse the-returns were In highly irregular form. ‘These two countles in 1878 enst n total yote of 1,770, which, being added to the ofticlal result, gives a possible aggre- gate of 18,301 votes polled for the State. ‘This would be n falling of of 1,300 from the vote of 1876, ‘he decrease by tho oficial canvass {3 3,100, Nevada ts tho only, North- ern State that cast a sinaller vote In 1880 than tn 1878, Hancock received in the counties re- ported about 900 more votes than ‘Tilden ald, while Gartield recetved 1,700 fewor votes than Tlayes did, It would seem eltner that the population has dlininished or that many Re- publlenns stayed at home on election-day aut of disgust for Sharon and a suspicion that tho Moroy letter night be genutne, —_———— A canty dispatch, discussing the new Irish Land bill which Gladstons, Bright, and other members of the Lritish Cabinot are traming, saya’ Itfe expected that It will bo very drastic. and will includy a great scheme for the reciundtion of waste land, Insure fixity of tenure on a wider ‘vasia than tho Ulster oustom, aid give tenants Uverty to reailze the vulue of tinprovemonte, It iay provide inachinery tour txing fair rents, and will probably include a scheme to encourage tho bwherabip uf land by peasants, Individual inem= eof the Cabinet polit out these ax the bases of tho measure. Whether thoy are correct ia Uetalls or nut, thalr views encourage tho goneral unticipadion that the House of Lords will not pass thulr proposals, ‘The Lords, of course, will 35 tho Mulotensuce of Order bill, but the Rad- cule in the House would upposy tt, und this niybt result in Mr, Gladatony huving to contend with an alllance of tho Iria und tho ladical members, with the couscquent evils of obstruce Yon, The Ordor Li tnuy pays tho House of Commons, but nobody ia hopeful about tho Irish Tand meusure, . Hut Gladstone has an oxtra shot in his locker. In guticlpation of ‘Tory opposition to the Irish Laud bill, he Is preparitig details for a bili to reform the county franchise, whereby the agricultural laborers shall have the right to vote, and to redlatribute the seats in Parllament, consolidating the little trifling boroughs, and giving the larga constituen- cles more meinbers. With this measure in prospect, which would submerge ‘Toryisin if enacied, and the tureat hanging over them of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE ; Qn appeal to the country on a platforms which would include a cry against the House of Lords, the Upper Chamber may be induced rather to “whittle tho Government bil’ than to reject it altogether, a I, K. Jackson In Dornbusch of Nov. 15, says; “tis no wonder the Western farmer, finding a guod current demand at home, should dawale over his deliveries.” This ts only a phase of the comptnint freely uttored weeks, ‘The truth Is that thrashing in a largo part of uid when the farmers got ready to deliver tlic process was hampered by.n scarcity of rail- road cars and clevator-room, which has since developed Into a regular blockade, - Wo may expect soon to hear another platnt from the Engtish authority about the sinnil: ‘ness of shipments at the seaboard, necompa: nied by more hints about the unwillingness of American wheat-holders to sell ut current Possibly the New York news- papers will bo able to see tho Injustice of the charge In that case, as they all know that the small shipments from New York are dus to delays of many stenmers in returning to this Jn New York within the past fe the West was retarded by bad weather, quotations, alde. Some of them are understood to ben sveck or more past due, owing to Atlantic storms, Butthoy will vossibly repeat tho silly charge agaist the Western farmer all the same. Itisastnpla story with them, and they wilt probably keep on telling it till the crack of doom, no matter what the faets In the ense may be proven to be, ‘Tue official returns from: Texas nnd Ne- yada, and revised figures from Louislana, Arkansay, and Alabama, change slightly the estimate of the popular vote for President given In ‘Tne Tnipune ten days ago. The following table Is believed to be almost abso- lutely correct. Itshows 9 plurality for Gar- field only 1,071 leas than that previously re- ported, ‘I'he total vote for President is 9,180,~ 813, which fs divided as follows Garfield... Hancock, Wen Tow. o Seuttoring.... Total., Plarality f¢ ‘Gare Tan feta, Malue . Maryland Mnaarelt'ts| Michigan. Sitnnesoit G.totats.| 18738 THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, ‘What is the fnrewoll message of Prestdent Tiayes to tho Forty-sixth Congress {3 printed elsewhere, and, though a dignified and well- written document, contains faw matters of spectal interest, excopt his review of and recommendations concerning finances’ and the currency. IIe renaws the recominenda- tion In his Inst year’s messnge to redeem and eancel the greenbacks, Hv would treat them, he says, the samo as bunds—pay thom of and burn them, and thereby contract the tegal- tendey monoy of the Nation oue-half for the benetft of the creditor class In caso of panic intrade, On thls subject tho President Is Bourbon, who learns nothing, aud pays no attention to the expertenceof other countries. Ie does not seem to be aware of the fact that all other natious have legal-tender paper money because ff !3 necessary to the public welfare. Ho has evidently not reflected on the consequences that would follow the adop- tion of his recommendation to abolish tho greenbacks and reduce the country to a legal- tender exclusively of gold. ‘The President indulges In his annual dec- Inmation against tho standard silver dollar, No wants it wade bigger; he wants its bull- Jon value to equal legal-tender gold, but ho falls to explain how he would make it clreu- Jnte If silver bullion should advance three or four cents per ounce, as its bullion value then would exeeed the monoy value ofa gold dollar. Would ho. then reduce the welght and recoln 18? How often ina year would he changetho welght of the silvor dol- lacand recoin {t? This is a branch of the subject the President nvolds discussing; per- Japs he never thought of It, ‘Tho message as usual opens with an agrl- eculturat introductory congratulation upon tho abundant harvests, the continued good health of the country, our peaceful rela tlons with tho natlons and the rest of mankind, the indications of a decadenceof sectlonallsin, —which are somewhat vague If not imagi- nary,—and tho hecessity for the largest spread. of untyersal education u3 the surest support: and protection of the right of universal suf- frage. He then passes (t) to “tho urgent necessity of a reformation of the Clvil-Servica system of the Government.” Upon this pojnt his views aro but reflections of the ar- guments which have been made over and TUESDAY, DEC MBER 7, 1880—TWELVE PAGS. being controlled or Influenced by Mormons, 4n caso this is not deemed best, he recom- imends “that tho right to vote, hold oftico, and sit on juries in tho ‘Territory of Utah be confiied to those who neither practice nor uphold polygamy’; or, in other words, to deprive polygamists of the rights of eltizen- ship, oh 3 Our foreign relations are in excellent condition, and we aro st peace with the whole work! After examining them to tho remotest corners of the earth with telescope ana microscope, he finds no disturbing ele- inents, ‘The only pulnt of interest in this connection is the fisheries questions at fssua between the English Government and our own, in regard to whieh his statements con- firm the encouraging nows recently received by cable, that more friendly relations hind grown’ out of the changes fn the English Ministry,‘and that the Liberal Government, speaking through Earl Granville, had re- versed the positions pssumed by the Marais of Salisbury, by recognizing our right to an Indemnity for the outrages at, Fortine Bay, “and by an assent to the ylew of this Government, presented in the previous cor- respondence, tint the regulation of con- iiicting interests of the shore fishery of the Provincial senconsts and the vessel fishery of our fishermen should be mace the subject of conference and concurrent arrangement between the tivo Goyernments.? ‘There are noothor matters of general inter- est Inour foreign relations, except the Pres- {dent's declaration that favorable progress is being inade as to the proper effect and inter= pretation of our treaties of naturalization with Germany. 4 4. 1n relation to the development of our foreign conmercint exchanges and the butld- ing up of our carrying trade, tho President's recommendations are antagonistic to the rent Interests of the country, Ills, main sugecs- tlon is the provision of regular steam-postal communication by subsidies from Govern- ment. in other words, ho would have the Government pay theso steamship compantes adollar for carrying © three-cent letter, tn- der the guise of helping postal communtea- tion, which fs only an oblique, anderhandad way of recommending a taxation uf tha peo- ple to help steamship enterprises, ‘The tariff on shipbuilding materials is so high that we can’t build fron ships. And now, when our foreign carrying trade is almost tar- iffed to death, instead of’ lowering tho tariff on shipbuilding materials toapoint where Americans can build and ron ships, the President's recommendation is to subsidize, to continue the nigh tarit, to Jevy a tax on the people, and to turn the pro- ceeds over to steainship companies to relin- burse them for thelr losses, under the guise of carrying mails, Such a recommendation as this would come better from a President hailing from tho vicinity of Roact’s ship- yards, or of Sfuscongus, Danturiscotta, or 34 | Passamaquoddy Bays, or nny other of the unpronounecablo inlets of the New Englanut coast, than from one hailing from the wheat and corn fields of Ohlo, Ifwe would make shipbullding as free hera ay it sin England our shipyards would ring with the cheery sounds of labor, und we would buy and sell Jn foreign ships as we do in other articles, It is one of the absurd, not to say arbitrary and unjust, anomalics of our legistution that, jcans cannot build iron ships whero they can compete, they are then debarred from buy- ing forelen shiys, “The ndditional suggestion, that ships of the proper construction: and equipment would be of value in time of war, passes for nothing, since such ships woul bo Just us valuable without a subsidy as with one. ‘Tho remaining parts of the message oro de- voted tonconttensed review and statement of the details of the reports from tho ‘Treas- ury, War, Navy, Postal, and Interior De- partments, which have been substantially set forth Jn our dispatehes and commented upon in these columns, Only ono point needs at- tention. With reference to education, the President snys: “I'he recommendation here- tofore made Is repeated and urged, that an educational fund bo set apart from the net proceeds of the public lands annually, the in- come of which, and the remainder of tha net annual proceeds, to bo distributed on some satisfactory plan to tho States and Terrl- torles and the Districtof Columbia.” ‘This Tecommendation 1s already before Congress in the shape of a bill reported at the last ses ston, and its inadequacy for thé purpose in- tended has already been pointed out in Tie ‘Trinusg, in av article printed in our last fs- sue, In that article, however, we assumed the revenue from the sale of public fands to be $2,000,000, whereas a reference to the financial parts of the message shows that it reaches only $1,016,506, which still further emphasizes the absurdity of the proposition to educate 8,000,000 children ata shilling por enpits, ‘Ihe real revenue to be applied should be that from tho sale of intoxicating Maquors, which amounts to almost one-halt tho receipts from internal revenue, and is almost equivalent to the surplus revenue for the year—n sum which would give a million of dollars to every milllon of people, and spread the blessings of education broadcast over the wholo country, without making any apparent drain upon the Treasury, —_—_——— SECRETARY SHERMAN ON SILVER, ‘The report of the Secretary of the ‘Treas- ury of the United States Is perhaps the most satisfactory official document of the kind Issued by any Government of the world forn score of years. Itisthe nancial record of ® peaceful, prosperous, and contented na- tion, over byain in favor of the system, and * * of the reasons which the regulation of appolntinents, promotions, and removals, - Io commonds the fompett- tive examination system in custom-houses ,and postollices, and to make them -more wifective recommends an ‘appropriation of $25,000 per annum to meet the expenses of a commission “whosa duty it shall be to de- visea just, uniform, and eflclent system of competitive examinations and to supervise tho application of the same throughout the entlre Civil! Service of tha Government.” Under the same head he very sensibly recom> mends some legislation by which public ofi- cers may be left frec toexpress their polltical opinions and at: the same tline prevent oficial authority from coercing the politica! netlon of subordinates or from levying politieal- blackmail upon thelr salaries, Ho also als @ wellallrected blow at the spolls system, by recommending “a complete dl- -vorce between Congress and the Executlye in the matter of npyolntments.” +. 2 Upon the evils of polygamy the Presl- dent speaks with no uncertain tone, and his radical recommendations will mect with the approval not only of the religious people of this country, but ofall people who recognize the stain upon our National morality made by this organized system of vice. ‘They wilt agree with him in his declaration that this is not 9 cuso for half-way measures, Ils ree- ommendations upon this point are two in number, the necessity of tho one belug con- tingent upon the success of the other, Ils first recommendation contemplates a reor ganization of the Government of Utah by legislation providing for the appolntment of a Governor, Judges, and Conunissioners by the President, aubject to confirmation by the Senate, which would remove tho Govern- auent of the Lerrltory from the possibility of have been 80 frequently urged for the adoption of fixed rules, establishing some uniform method for ‘Tho statement of tha finanelal receipts and oxpunditures of the past and current year, a4 well as the estimates for the year to fallow, have all been heretofore published. In view of the prospectivo surplus revenue for 1881 aud 1883 averaging $50,000,000 a year, the of all the taxes imposed by the Internal- Rovenue law, except those on bank circula- tion and on spirits, tobacco, and fennented Uquors. . . os ‘The Seoretary asks to bo Invested with au- thority, for tho purposo of funding tho $0s7,- 000,000 of public debt falllng duc In May next, to fasue Treasury notes running from one to ten years, or bonds of Ike. term with the 4 per cent bonds, but bearing 3.65 per cent fnterest,—the ‘Treasury notes to bear not oxeceding 4 per cent; _elther or both, forms of security to bo issued ‘as insy be found most advantageous to tho Govern. ment, Tho Secretary docs not Insist on ‘his do- mand ninde a year ago that.the greenbacks bo deprived of their legal-tender character and Tetired, and he now daclares them to be."In form, security, and convenience, tha best clr- culating medium known,” : ‘The Secretary of the Treasury of course urges Congress to order the discontinuance of Its coinage, or that the weight of or to such extent that “the bullion value of the silver dollar shal} equal tho Jegal-tender vatuo of a gold dollar, ‘This of course hus been frequently urged before, Tho Sceretary states ogo fact that this has been done for thousands of years, “but only by adopting as nearly as possible the relative niarket value of the two metals as the ratio for coinage, and by chunging the ratio adopted whenever fora pertod of years it was demonstrated that the market ratio bad having placed the tarlif'so high that Amer- | Scerotary of the ‘Treasury advises the repeal” renews his war upon the silver dollar, and |’ the silver dollar be Increased 10 per ‘cent,- changed.” Tho Seeretary thus elves a ver- sion of what has been done fn this country on this subject: Unilor this authority Congress provided in 1709 i that the rato should bo ono omnes of gold to fifteen ounces of silver: and on tho 28th of June, INH, (t changed tho ratio te one ounce of gold to sixteen ounces of silver, Technically this verston is.correct, but it Is fallacious to the extent that It leaves the in- ference that Congress at some tine changed the welght of asllver In the silver dollar. That has never been changed since It was vsinblished in 1103. Then the 871 grains of pure silver was declared to be the standard dollar of the United States, ond it has re- minined unchanged, ‘The dollar of the United States from that date to the present, except during the period when [ts abolition was un- known to the country, lias always been the same. In 184! Congress reduce the welxht of old in the gold: coins, but never dis- turbed the weight of the silver doliar, which was tho “dollar” of the United States, This business of tinkering at the colns 1s not new to Mr. Sherman, Jn 1863 he pro- posed a bil in the Senate to nbollsh the silver dollar because It had too much sliver in it (it was then worth 103 in geld), and “Dbecauso the -coumtry was 80 heavily In debt”? the creditors ought to consent to“his bill, which proposed to reduce the welght In the gold coin 3 per cent; that ls, to abolish the silver dollar alto- gether and recoin all the gold coin, taking out 3 per eent of the gold) Both of these absurd measures were of course suppressed, stifled by the Senate,” ‘The same scheme, only ii another forn, fs now proposed by tho Seeretary. ‘Then he demanded that the silver dollar be abolished beenuse it had too much silver tn it,—more than tho country could afford to give its ereditors,—and now he insists that tho silver dollar shall be abolished because tt hns not got cnongh silver In it,though It is of the exact weight and size it has always been,— for two centuries, ‘The relative welght of silver In the colns .of Europe is'3 per cent less than in the Amerlean dollar, In this country we give 16 ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold in our coin. In Europo. they only give 15}¢ ounces of silver to L ounce of gold. Our silvércoln Istherefore 3 por cent heavier than fs tho silver coin of Europe. But no Gavermmentof Europe proposes or has proposed to enlarge the weight of its silver coing the weight of that kind of coin remains unchanged, and this notwithstanding the fact that Frinco alone has more legal-tender silver in pro- portion to our silver coin than would equal our coloaga if 1b were six times ns great. Even England las §100,000,000 of light silver coin, legal-tender to the sum of $10, which {s nearly as much ns all the silver coln of all kinds in thls country, Gere many has stil! twice to three thoes as much legal-tender silver of Naht welght as we have of greater welght In this country, but no nation has yet proposed to put more metal Jnto its col to equallze its bullion value with gold; and no Finance Minister In Europe has yet proposed to adopt a system of coln the welghtsof which are tobe changed every thirty or ninety days, according to the fluctus ulions In, the value of bulllon, ‘Tho general supply of silver in the world ig not inereasing; even in this country the stock available for coinage has not materlal- ly Increased of Inte, Ilns theSceretury of the ‘Trensury estimated tho consequences of adopting his plan of changing the welght of metal In the — allver colus to meeb every change in tle bullion price of stiver in ondon? Sup- pose, atter he has recolned all the silver dollars ata cost o£ several millions of dol Jars, and put 10 or 13 cents” worth more of silver Into eneh -doliar, the price of sliver should advance even three cents an ounce, ‘Then the “ dollar * would be like the dollar wns In 1808,—too heavy. It woutd be worth several per cent more than the gold dollar, and, boing worth more, would be withdrawn from circulation or carted out of the coun- try and sold nabrond ons bulllon. ‘To increasa the silver dollar. in welght, as Mr, Sherman proposes, would bo to glyo 1734 ounces Amorican silver fur the gauiya- Jent of 1534 ounces of silver iu any country in Europe. Our silver dollars being thus overweighted would be slipped as mer- chandise out of (tho country, reducing onr metallic money to the one great end sought by all these schemes,—an oxcluslye gold cur- rency, ‘The Secretary has abandoned his destructive scheme to demonetize and abolish the greenbacks, ‘Tho almost untversal hostility to that proposition scared him ont ofit. Lets hopo that criticlsm of othors and reflection of his own wili lead lim be- fora long to peteelve tho stupid folly of in- creasing the welght of tho American dollar until other nations do tho same, THE OPENING OF CONGRES3, It is dificult to say just how much impor- tance the general public attaches to the opening of Congress. ‘Tho event assumes entirely different proportions as viewed from Washington and from Chicago. In tho former city thera Is a local interest in the occurrence which docs not oxtend to tho busy world of n metropolis, it cannot be doubted, however, that thosa who hava pictured to themselves & certain magnitude and Inpressiveness about the assemblage of the National Legislature would bo sorely disappointed If brought In actual contact with the spectacle, Lf there bu one thing more than all othors to which distance lends enchautment to tho yluw, itis tho quality of greatness, As no man {sa hero to his valet, 80 tho colossal charactor of tho statesmun Is - dwarfed by narrowness of vision, Nothing transpired yesterday at Washington which was calculated to warm up the patriotic blood of tho most enthusiastic American citizen, nor even to contribute materially to the store of politiéal information, Every now session of Congress bexins in a sort of chaatic state, Nobody knows exactly what isto bodone first, and !f it were not forthe saving grace of mere routing, which calls Tolls and presents n message, Congress would bein -hopcless sort of bewilderment when At meets after a vacation, ‘Lake the proceedings In tho Houso yester- day, A. quorum was aacertained by a ‘tedious process, A sortat forinal informn- tion was filed that the Senate had convened, Then g roll of States was called for tio In- troduction of bills, wiich resulted In’a num ber of propositions In which, whatever thelr merlt, nobody in the House, oxcept the men who offered thom, seemed to take the slight- est interest, An apt instance of this indlifer- ence may be found in the fact that ono resolution reflected severely upon 4 misuse ofthe franking privilege by a certain mem~ ber during the late campatgn, but the momber In question satin his seat unconcernedly read~ lng and seribbling. ‘The porson almed at was actually ignorant of tho aspersion upon hig oficial probity, and will probably not be aware of the fact unt!) he reads the newspa- pers or scans the Aecord “thls morning, ‘Then camo a recess for half an hour, and this was followed by the reading of the mes- sage, ‘his diversion served to clear the «al: forles, which had provloualy been filled, ‘ho members chatted and strolled about, The abundant recommendations as they were read in a monotonous’ tone fell upon vacant cata. ‘They excited nelther approval nor dis- sent, Thore was no sign of convern any- where. The completion of the message made way for a disctission over @ parliamentary polut, whereon the Hycaker desired to vost- / pone ndecision until to-day berause te . not being Monday ond bll-day, the polut could not be ratsed, and the Speaker would be relleved from the embarrassment of a des elsion, How long the quibble would have served to protrct Wie discussion, how many members could have talked at once, and how the Speaker would have declded, must ever be matters of profound mystery, since the memory ofa former member recently des ceased wag invoked to dissipate the pending quantary, A formal resolution of regret was Introduced In the nlekot tine, and the extent of fecting Inthe House was Hlustrated by a serainble on the floor and in the galleries to yacate the hall, in tho knowledge that ad- Journment always follows the antionncement: of death, "The Senate was dutlerthan the House only ‘because there are fewer members and more age, ‘The listening to tho message by court esy was the busliess of the day. ‘This isa sort of traditional fletion. Not more than twenty Senntora were in their seats, and of these noborly cold be discovered whe was absorbed In the ancssage, though two or three were listlesly moving over the leaves of the printed pamphlet contatning the doen- ment which had been pieced upon their desks, ‘The weighty matters of Govern- ment which were discussed from an Execu- tive polnt of view ‘falled to arouse any Tespotse commensurate with thelr impor- tance, and there was no portend anywhere of the sacred trust of the Hberties and wel- fare of 60,000,000 of people ‘which ts pre- sumably reposed In ‘the Capitol, Alter the perfunctory reception of the iessage the Senate appeared to have just “about life enottzh to disperse for the day. ‘There were some points about the opening of Congress which might have Impressed the observing spectator, One of the most obvious was the selilsh character of the oc- ension, Nothing less than egotlsin in tho philosoptile sense of the: word can rationally avcount for the universal indifference with which tho affairs of the Nation were re- ecived by the assembled Sofons, ‘There wns barely. respectability about — the ocension, but no solemnity, impressiveness, or picturesqueness, Nobody manifested tho slightest consclousness of responsibility. "The liberalists and secularizers cunt have Istened to the opening prayers of the chaplalns and watched their Inck of Impres- sion withont npprohending any serious encroachment of the Church upon tho State through the pro forma ceremony. Tho whole scene was humdrum and common piace. Astidy of the men and flowers on the floor would have revealed tho fact that the size and number of bouquets were as 8 rule {n inverse proportion to the Importance of the personages who were favored with floral offerings. ‘The most striking incident of the day was 4 consultation immediately In front of the Speaker's desk between the lute Vice-President of the Confederacy in his in- yalitehute and the late commander of the Rebel forces with a black band about his forehead, as if he hnd recently come from the battlefield, It might have oecurred to a eusual visitor that such a sight, the excep- tional prominence of two such men in tho high councils of the Nation they had saught to destroy, was a novelty in history. Butitex: elted no comment, and was not even thought of on tho floor of the Howse So in the Senate, any ono who was learning tho names and bearing of the grave nnd roy- erend setgnors In easy chairs before him might haye been surprised to find so many: whom nobody knew, and to learn they wero malnly ox-Confederates who had developed no higher capacity for government than a {uculty for voting in executive session for or against appolntments that elther suited or of- fended thelr partisan or sectional purposes, ‘Ashlie from some such observations, tho Amerlean citizen ean afford to be as Indiffer- ent to the opening of Congress as Congress was ntits opening to everything of 9 publle nature which was suggested, © THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Dr. Mitchell, of Memphis, tho resident member of the Nationa] Board of Health snd Director of the Inspection Service, has ob- tained from the Cotton Exchange and ‘trans- portation companies represented in that clty valuable testimony to the utility of tho work done by the Board, Tho Exchange pnssed aserles of very comp!imentary resolutions, ‘The steamboat and railrond managers sald that they wore Indebted to the Board for re- Net from quarantine regulations, which, ns tho cvent proved, wero unnecessary, but would have been annoying and expensive. ‘Tho Inspection Service confined Its opera- tions this year to tho Mississippl Valicy. 1t twlee averted a punic, and once atantped out tho germs of an epidemic, When the tow- bont Raven with jive suspicious cases of fever on board was ‘overhauled at Vicksburg nothing but the authority of the Honrd in- duced many towns to forego aqharantine. But examination showed that tho cases were “dengue? or breakbone fever, nud not at all qarning., The Board performed a far more important service in putting tho ship Excel+ stor under survelllance. ‘Thus ship escaped tho negligent Health-Onicor of New Orleans, and brought into that port five well-developed cuses of yellow-fever and a ship-lond of. cof- tee supposed to contain germs of the discase, ‘The National Board caused the crew to be quarnntined and the cargo to be disinfected; and it Is believed this prompt and eficlent action prevented tho spread of the fever, ‘The whole coxt of the Inspection Service Is about $60,000 annually, 1t Is worth fur more to the commerelnt interests of the country than Iteosts, Tho Cotton Exchange of Mem- phis adylses that it should be not merely con- Unued, but extended. Tim ‘Tnimuns sub- seribes cordially to this opinion, No duty of tho Government can be plainer or more imperative tian that of securing the health of the whole country, so far as possible, by aaupervision of the health- regulations of States and communities, We rejoice to sco thatthe vast majority of: tho Southern people for once are agreed in abandoning the doctrine of State-supremacy for the more convenient practice of National contro! of Natlonal affairs, In the words of the Memphis Exchange; It jw innnifestly Impractionblo for tho Btates or for comaninitics of themselves to inintain this rvico, which, to be elliciont, must be treo from local intluences, and uniform in its operas Uon beyond State boundaries, ‘This fact boing aduiltted, the Government will be disposed to deal with the National Board of Health ina liberal spirit. It may bo possible in thls way for Northern Repre- sentatives ta- evince thelr real concern for the welfare of the whole South, and the pro- motion of its miterial Interest, Tue ‘Borough of Sandwich, in the County of Kout, Kingdom of Grvat Uritnin and [reland, ever had tho deneiit of a visitation from the Atuetrious Churlos Dickens; but it fs desorlbod by wecorrespondent who knows as “Tho English Entanswill.” Tho Conservatives did not con- teat the viection In April; butin Muy, ono of tha Liboral members having been elevated to tho Poorago, thoro was a bitter contost over tho fille ing of the yacancy, ‘Sho Consorvative was ro- turned by an upparent vote of 1,115to 705. Tho totul oxpenses at tho uncontested —olec- tion in April waa €2,000; In Muy they wero $15,000 for tho Consorvutlve candidate, and $4,450 for wo Liberal candidate, Something over $l United States curroncy was oxpended for every yote polled, Tho Conservatives had ninaty-cne hotidquartors,"—one for every twelve voters, About 000 voters out of 1,850 swore that thoy bud been bribed,--une of them thrue times over, ‘and ifty twice, on opposlt ales, ‘ne dlupluy of Huge Was a9 extrucrdiuary that persons camo ity miles to rce tt, Tho bribing bs tags ia this: First the .bunting and tho pole ary bought of voters at exorbitant rates, then the ground to plant the pole fs pall for, and, flualis, a numborof watehers greene raged to guard the peectons roles, One polo cost £5; ittook thirty men threo days te erovt It, and two reliefs of watchers, cavh of six mon, stood sentry ovor It at 22 apiece, One voter skort £8) for a site on which to plant a flagstutt, bute entie down to £t; another got Lt for Swatoning’' a Mag —tho * watching" consisting of ™ touking at it" when ke wont to bed and when ho got upt -——— ‘Teoviitus Youxus has proved his iden- tlty, or rather hia daughter bas proved it for him.- ‘The lawyers brought the young Indy on from Hoxton, and this nickel-library convorsn- tlon took places “Have you ageur on tho thinl finger of your lore tad 2 . ‘ “No,” unawered tle man, . “My' papa ought ta haven sear on that Anger.” ‘phe man thorht for t tine, and dually broke into gome other conversation, with the remurks “Your atypia wnt hurt with a Baw." “Ypay? tld tho giel. A hind saw? : “Yes. my papa was ott with a band saw," “Youve made s mistike,” sild the alleged “You auld the sear was on the left hand, Look at my rlaht band He stretched out his right hand, and tho girl saw a long sear on the third Mager, ween it waa tho right hand, wasn't 12" sho sald. 4 ‘Thera was moro general conyersntion, and suddenly Alico asked: "Do you remember how Twa htirt 2" . ‘Tho minh satd that ho ald not. % * My papa ought to remember that,” satd tho girl “The conversation went an, Suddenly the mun salts "Do you kuow who held you when “ Well. ask me if [ know.” ‘Shu asked hin, “It wits Your papa,” Hid. Wasn't 19? “Yo: tvs my pap ate answered. A. “Let me seo your hand thit was hurt" ho gal, “No, the other hand," a3 sho put forth hand, ‘Thon ft wits seen that tho Index tinger of ber right land was shorter thin the others, Strawberry marks ara not nearly so rumantle now us insignly of tho buzz-asw. Theophilus was the heir to au estute valued nt aoine $60,000 in Boston, but sold out his interest tu a rolutive. Ho. disappeared mysteriously sume years ngo. Tho silo of hls tegni rights wus thon disputed by his supposed widow. He bas since come to life. Ills child recognizes him, but tis former wifo pretends thut he ia not the real Theophilus, —<——— = Lonn Monteaane, & young British Peor, recently delivered a fecture, at the closo of which be said that, so farns his ows feelings went, he should be glad if the Mouse of Lords were abolished tu-morrow, ‘The Upper House, bo ald, bad no power excopt that of vetoing the measures pussed by tho Lower Chamber, and was being continunily reminded that it was dungerons to exercise that power. Ho Colt that thore was nelthor great honor nor grent dignity in belonging to a: house which was thus con- stituted, and fer his own part be should prefer to mve the privllogo of beng returned as one of the peoplo’s representatives to tho House of Commons, ‘Tho Nrst Lord Montenglo, Mr. Spring Itlco, was n clover Limerick Squire, who beeana Chancellor of the Exchequer in England, and furthor enjoyed for mutiy years a valuable slicoure oftico, He was credited with thodlctum that * You should so humbug a huinvug thot be thinks he fs humbuyging a humbug,” and fs sate toliave perfectly suececded Iu practlolag what ho preachod, ————— és ‘Tne coffeo taverns which aro being estab- Ushed all over London wro proving very success: ful. ‘The mavameut Is supported by domo of tha® highost peoplo in the land, and Its success up to tho present timo {8 undoubted. The prices ehurged are remarkably low, A plate of ham of oxeellent quality, a cup of very good colfoe, and a rolland butter are supplied for cight cents, At Splers & Pond's refreshment room, at Victorias Station, & cents—30) per cent mors —Ischurged for precisely tho samo artictes, tha quality belng Httle better and the quantity less, The succoss of tho tavorns is awukoning tho- publicans to the necessity of providing non-in- toxicants for sale. Several public houses now put forth the announcement that ten und cotfeo fire always ready. Itts siucorcly to be hoped that ere long theso senstblo reforms will have a marked eifcot jn nbating tho greatest curse of the country,—druinkenness,—which is undonbt- edly the causo u{tnoro misery and erlino than any other vice, —<———__—_ Tne house of Rothschild has recently been roorganized with a capltal of $10,000,000. Tho flnaneial head of the bouse, and director tn its Jneger operations, is Baron Alphonso Rothsebitd, whois also bead of the house in Parla, Me is a man of Indofatigahle industry, simple In habits, and proverbial as a pedestriin, ono of his chict plensuces belnga walk through tho streets‘of Paris both peforo and after dinner, Daron Alphonse, and Gustavo, and 1, Rothschild, each furnish a third of the capital. ‘Tho registration of tho deod of partnorshlp cost $132,400, ——— A youna man in Indiana writes that he personnlly knows thirtoen fumiillos In his city of which the fathers havo yoted tho Democratio ticket, from seavengor to President, sinco 1852, but the oldest son in cach family, casting thelr {iret Presidential voto In 1880, gave tt to Gurfeld, Ho belloves that three-quarters of such baltots were thrown for tha Republicans this year, and ho naturally claims for this voto the crudit of the result in Indiana, and proudly sine himself “ono of om.” ‘Tire following recently appeared In 4 Dub- In dally paper: N Sie: Llast night returned from collecting rents, all tho time protected by two armat Con stables, 80 1 have vt followeteollig for Cupt. Boy- cott, and fnetose £t for his protcetion fund. Your obediont servant, Atyren MaoDenmorr ‘Tho humor of tho thing is that the writor is tho brother-in-law of Mr. Parnell, and tho ronta he was engaged In collecting wore thoso of Mr. Purnell'a brother! —————— Tie London Times says: “DBofore tho Mutiny tho British forces in India consisted of 00.075 Europoana and 214,083 native officers and men, of whom 8,172, were artillerytnon omployod with Held and other batterios of artillory, Since tho yenr 1854 tho British army In Indin has been mnintained at a strengtof somothing over 00,- 000 aflicers and mon, and tho native army at a strength of something over 130,000, Tho cost of these forces ts about £17,000,000 aterling # yoar.” ———— Asrnrincent Autl-Dueling bill has been in- troduced tn tho South Carolinu Legislature, By its provislons a person kitting unothor ina ducl, orso wounding him that-he. dics within 6x nionths, is to sulfer death, and a person carrying aehuttenge or belng present ata duel ts to bo imprisosed in the Penitontiay for two yours and ined. peas a ‘Tne Philadelphin Press proposes that Utah bo utded co Nevada, so as to givo the latter a large enough population for an avorage Stato, and xot tho Maguon population of Utah Ino State with a Gentile population big enough ‘to outyote the Mormons, PERSONALS, A New York house has just issued 0 book on “ Domestic Economy,” which costa §9, President Huyes' letter to Private Dalzell in roference ta Ine Ohio Sonutorahip consisted of threo words, Thore could be nothing better than this, untess It was a lettor of two words, Enna Abbott's husband says that she has’ never taken cold whilo suying her prayera. "Thora is nothing strange about this, Thousunds of Chicago pooplo can say tho symo thing of thuasolyes, It la all very well for Mr, Kelley to ascribe the recent advance in tho price of stvcl to the prosperity of the country, but thoughtful peo- plo haye noticed that skating Is yory popular with 8t, Louls young Indics this scuson, Skates aro mado of steel. It ts sali that there fs 9 skeloton In tho closot of tha now President of dMexico, Gen. Gonzales, and that for four years be hus been soparuted froin his wife, Mra, Gonzales 15 beautiful anda uccomplished woman, and {t {a hope by thoso interested that the domestic troubles may end, and aha be enabled to tako ber position as the firut lady {n tha Ropublic. A young gentleman of Boston, who ‘te- contly graduated from Ifarvard and bas come ‘West to fet the ouuntry grow up with him, ‘has tor soine time been paying marked attontlons to a beautiful girl on the West Side whose fathor 16 understood to bave one of tho loveliest bank uo-' ‘vauats in town, , Tho other eventugho remarked with a Joe Cook look thut " Endymion," tho title of Lord Beucuns -eld’s now novel, icant tho ect- ting wun, Bho looked Into the brightly-glowing yrute for a momout and thon gald sho thought his numo should bayo been Endywlon, as bo could sot around aa tong ng nny say, Clitcnge gir ary ngt alway: thoy ean bring w time, The following adverllsomont 7 peared In several newspapers min ey Province af Sllosls dermany: "ty tetra ag? wilt Stisa fidlth Porter, ony dau net Right Honorapie Ble James Pastor, of eke? extelen, United States, F honor mysett hy nee ishing: relunit of making any aheela a Holneemeny egnitz, Novembe o Can von dena.” ae aS fin ‘The cable dispatehes report that Afehunistan bs ft & vory:tnaettled condita, consequence of Turkomen plundering, We a lod that the gontieman at the Othorentot tre cabto has at hist uwakenet to the fet that ee aide of tho Natlun's Mnanchd policy tho poupig Of this country aro vitally Interested Iu mente Jeet more than tho condition of Northern tn Blunistan,: Bu “There Is only one Magar man than pa nell In tho Iris movement,” remuarke ‘ fis ho cauitonsly stuck his head instle the don Our huw Poet Accelerator was In thie working order, and never did a better job, as the fing porfime of overneuted pants Rinply proved, Ie delivers seventy-three kieks per minute, ana eun generally produce a summer tempernturo before tho victin) geta beyond ita reach, ‘The aut woods are gold nnd brown, Tho attumn winds are chill, And the purple tush of summer Hos faded from tho hill, © autumn loaves, tall thick and fasts O autumn winds, blow free, And speed the bitter months atong. ‘Thut keep tuy love fram me, FON she eyo, cultured, hat ts man to tho rerateh reny Northern rs PEN person The asphodel and violet Avo peeping through the plain, And the famo of golden crocus Aue Mit the land again, O bud und blossom, quicken fast, Hedeek the burren tree, And bring thospeing, for with the spring My love combs hick to me, —From Manhattan Ballads,” by John Kelty. —— PUBLIC OPINION. Utlea Ubserver (Dow.): The diMeutty of circulating the silver dollar 13 not so great ag the valu organs seem to inugine, It elreulates much more easily than tho gold dollar, Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette (Dem.): And now the Democracy of South Curalina come to tho front, and, Jolning hands with thelr brethren of Misslasippl, demand a puriiteation of tho party. It fs a healthy sign, and not to be ueuoredd, even though IE come from tho direge tlons where tho purifying process should rst be inaugurated. The new Senator from Alabama, James L, Pugh, said in bis speech accopting the nominn- tions “I shall yo fto the Senate of tho United States aud phint myself upon the Constitution, with all its amendoents and oblizations. f snull fix my eye Upon my rule of action as the Chrir- tian ixes hls eye upon the oly Cross.” So when the visitor entors, the Sennte of tho United Stutes and bohokds the way with bls oye “sot,” he will know at once that ho is looking upsn Vugh—tho great Pugh, of Alabama, Nashylilo simertcan (Dem.): The idea that tho negro districts are necessarily Re- publican Isa false one. Tho negro has a right to return Democratio members if he will, nid ho has exerelsed it in auine cuses; he will exercise Itin many more, In ensos of clear fruud or violence we are as much Interested and aside. slrous asany Republican thet oxuvt Justice shull bodone, As much of thly becurs In tho North fn aditferent way as in the South, and we desire it ontirely corrected, ‘The reason which did exit for holding of at any cost hua dlseppeared, nud we tre not willing to see aniitions wen ree tulned in pinee unless they aro elected. Montgomery County, Pennsylyanin, the birthplace of Gen, Huncoek, gavo him n major ity of 1,000 votes —n gain of 700 sinco Ii6— Naahodle Democrat. That is the way soma Dem oorntio papers {mpnse falschuuds on their read> ers. Tho latter, ignorant of tho truth, become tha unwitting propagators ot tho lies, and the editors lve the sutisfaction to know that thoy have suceveded fn bumbugging and mukiny fovis of thoir patrons and nelghbors. Insteu of Divine w majority of 1,000 in Montgomery County, Hancock was beaten by one vote by Gen, Giriicld, und that’s the truth of It. Memphis Avatanche (Dem.): If the Re pnblicans should uso every effort to rettle tho debt, and shold be prevented fromm dolug so by the Democratia majority, what would bo tho atfoct upou parties? It wauld be the. death of tho.Democratie party In ‘Lennessec. The people of Tennossee are in enrnacst on this question. Juitge Wright received over 80,000 votes, and Judge Hawkins recelved aver 100,000. Now, if the Democrats should refuse to settle this ques- tlon, there aro at Jenst 2,000 of the men who voted for Juige Wright who would: nover spain yoto the Demueratio Ueket, und this world give the Stute to the Itepublicuns. Can thero be my doubt that dudgo Fluvking, riniing ona Stato credit platform, would bave beaten Mer, Wilson 1 ‘or 20,000 yotea if thoy kad beou the only cundidates? Mochester Democrat and Chrontele (Rep.): “It fs shoor fmpudenco In any minor set of Wen toclaim that Gou, Gurflold desires the sucecss of any person fra canynss before the Legislat~ tre of any State for any olticus whatever, Aud yot, ina number of Btates—notably in thls Stato the contrary assumption is made boldly and alrculated industrioualy, It Is sald that tho cholce of: this or that man will by agreeable to Gon. Gariteld, and upon this claim the contest {8 wagod, ‘Tho impression of Gen, Garileld’s dee sires is endeavored tobe made, in order that cortain results inny be attnined. 1g fs a truss parent device, and nat at all uovel with whieo YoTrighten tinald souls. itis without tho slight. ost foundation In faet, and iy easily exposed. Ie phould be abandoned ns being ay proilttoss 28 1b 18 false, Philadetphia Bulletin (Rep.): ‘The in genious Hittle gamo by means of which an Une scrupulous Canadian olicinl persuaded tho Hallfax Fishory Commission to eheat our Gove ernmont out of five aod o haf million doltars will probably receive attention tn tho Prosident'@ mossage, It is now demonstrated that this ollicer minde false returns of the condition of tho Dominion fisheries in order to decelve the ihe mission respeoting tho aniount of Injury dane to Cunnda by the Washington Treaty. Tho Teas conatield Goyernmont refused to consiier sy upplicadon for a rohenring of the cue, based Upon the exposure of this raseality; but it i i loved that Mr. Gludstono's Government wi disposed to display a greater tequrd for Ae Fe quiremonta of honesty, At ny ritto, If is coe Tight and duty to press tho matter peralstont ly ntl e atN bE Pee: ator taut can be spared: but we cut it tamely to robbory under tho gulsu of friendly arbitration, New York Sun: Olilo 18.9 large, firps per ous, and enterprising State. Whether Its mnt a rial is thick onough to sprend out over tho anole country without auowing thin spots, bas it forgome time a feuding Isauo in Amorivan po e tea. ‘This scoms to bo u rood time to try tho ex perlmont, and gcttle tho yoxed question for! avers By acolneidence as atriking as it 18 fortune’ ns tho Ohlo names alroady monttoned easily oh range themselves into the follow ly ky Buuretury of State, tho Hun. Ldward F, hare Of Ohio; for Sooratury of the ‘Treasury, the wie dobn Sherman of Ohtoz fur Becrotaty of Nie Flold-Muraliut Surat Hulatoad, vf Obie ioe Seorotury of tho Nuvy, Private Dutzell, of Teg for Secretary of tho Inturior, the Hon. Voi, Fostor, of Ohio; for Poataaster-Gonerml, ii con Richura Smith, of the Cinelunutl (neg for Attoruoy-Gunerah Father Alphonso Taf a, MeCiuro's Philadelphia Times (Dom) haying condoinnod "tho tariff for ro¥ fog only” plant In tho Domooratio Paid Louleville Courier-Journal (Dow.) ropllon ie ing words! Glorious words! Not all tho enn nuy-stucks of all tho oligarchiva iu coe ~not all tho binzing bitlaldes 10 Ponnay ve oe not all the dikes aud ditohes wislet awoll Ui tint burrens of Now Jeraoy with nllon cer 7 tho mill-ponds in Counocticut—shall ana exude smoke onough and dfstill fox ener! ie obscure the portent or din tho naire: slnglo golden aylludte! Idiocy! Well Win ity ff It was (dlooy In the late SUN ‘was loat, why was it not {dlucy fu eae pan 1876, which was won? [uty fatocy | * stay, of idiogy of mon who rejoice in tt be itugo for ined who have not learned respect | re to eos Its own sake, wor to toh boro are com thontee tf siness, ' ho gous wane upon, out eo atu, uo. enatter Wo Ey ‘down in tho atruygio, until they bay ieltives of Of the public avrvice tho ald Feprenen ty rape orgaulzed raseulity und put ia thelr Aoperg for rouuntutives who will creck, IR yt sc tiwe a Toyenuy Only," a sories of Wise snd aystete @ aubutitute for the vilo pest Hog aaraghe whieh snublea tha fow to walk lnse eT TULUY) shod, und in trinuph over the heads OF MT Mate wa Gur Puiladalphia Protectioulet WOuld Sig pyer ours? One vbing tho rolled S “ry hordes of Villagery and Protea ait pend on; the doy of ‘quilibiing 6u! ty is overs servan eorpronniies 4 yu qs uly {ser Tae e trey ready aad. pallens Fists De i pt tho mnathead, tho raw of the ag eer, I. rine aaa add wguin wn tuo plrwted aud P aro driven frou the oat . freebvott iv umes 5 the pe