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Its ode that s0 many tracks should be found leading to- ward the lion’s dei ‘Titre blue blood of Boxton hns been mot- tled by erlmson clots, due either to Indig- Nation or {inperfect cirewation rising from the apeech of Gen, Sherman at tho New Englgna banquet. ‘The General ls reported as having sald: Tam not certain, birt most surely a inne by tho name of Dune—l think Willlam “Dan, waa it not? (he dicd within tho” Inst fow yenrs)—pub- eed a Higela: work entitled “Two Years Lefore Oo Masts” ‘Yo tho Boston mind this ts much Ike say- ing: “Lhave an Impression, not founded on personal knowledge, I confess, that a person oftho name of Washihgton-—James Wash- ington, I belleve—was the Father of his Country, Lhava road his interesting poem on ‘Partidise Lost,’ but tomy mind the great- est work ho ever achioved was ‘The Eman- vipation Proclamation’ * Richard enry Dana, the author of “Two Years Vefore the Mast,” still Hyves and flourtshes, is tather, Richard Wenry Dana, Sr, dled more than a yenr ago. . Iv would be Interesting to know by what authority Senator ‘Teller, of Colorado, has Adentified the exuye of Ben Lollnday with that of the Great West. The report of tho Associated Press on the Holladay cluim con- tains the following cholce passage: + Me. Tollor supported it. Ho thought evory pinim that originated in tho West was rogurdod, With susplolon in the Senate, There bad al- Way's beon v disposition not todo Justice to tho West. ‘This wos x sactonalluin that had mostly eecaped conunont, - fhe West la not clamoring for tho passage of Mr. Hotladay's ttle bi. "The West has tasted none of his good dinners, and Its belly Is not filled with hls Chateau Yquem, It knows very well that his clulm is hinpudent and unjust; that he has no standing In the Courts, and does not dare to subinit hls ease to the adjudication of on inpartial tribunal; that he has been Nberally paid for his sery- feva, having twice recelyed extra compensa- tlon; and that ils present plea for“ damages" 4s shply an audacious raid on the ‘'reasury, ‘Tho West is not Infavor of giving Mr, Bon Tlotladay $500,000 ns’ a gratuity. There are sovontcen snijilon cltlzena in the West just as'much entitled to halla million aplece as he Is, Tr is ctirrently reportod and belfeved In Ohio that the Cinclunath Guzette’s earnest auaustion of Gon. Grant for the posltton of Secretary of State is dua not so much to fondness for the General ne it {8 to hostility towards Nr. Blaine, The Gazette Is well Aware, of course, that the mnssed of tho Ite- publican party would bo glad to see Gen. Grant filling any place in the Cublnet that he would accept; but if he has already declined, as has been reported, to enter tho Cabinet, and this partienlar place has been offered to Mr. Blaine, aud accepted, itis o mora impossibility for Gen. Garileld. to avheel about and offer it to anybody clse, ‘Tho Administration cannot afford to ignore she just claims of Gen, Grant, but neither van tt jump the elnius of Senator Waine, tf the place ta still open, and Gen, Grant would accept It, the. President-clect and the peuple would doubtless rejoice to have hin: honored with the appolntment, The: objec- tlon which the Cineinnat! Cormeretat has raised, namely, that the Secretary of State would “overshadow” the President, would prove by experience to have just as Ittle foundation as the shnilar foreboding that Wiilim, YH, Seward would “ayershadow” Abraham Lincoin. ‘There ts room forall the leaders of the party Inv truly representatifa Administyation such as that of Gun, Garileld, promises to be, ———EEEE > Mi. Warrenson, of (he CourierJournal, has formed a characteristic theory concern- lug the Christlancy ‘case. Moe halts that, whether Mrg, Chrigtancy has been?pullty of erlulual conduct or not, she hos heen the > glethin of a conspiracy,’ The scoundre) Giro was Iutroduced to her as hi Iignd; he accompanjed her io th {com Peru to New York. husband's at cupnelty it te wow up THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES. a parent that he studiously sought from tho start to compromischer, Ifedkl compromise er. It makes no difference whether sho was guilty as charged by-him or not, a cloud rests upon her title to the name of honorable woman, It is possible that the letters may have been weltten as charged (and we bee Neve they’ were) and Mrs, Christinney still Ue a yirtuons wom, But Mr, Watterson brushes this Inst inquiry aside ns quite fim iaterial, and declares: “To be betrayed by on “scoundrel no more constitutes tho unpardonnble sin thon ta be brutnily used and driven out by a selfists naband" Giro. for no assigned reason, turned suddenly about and gave evt- dence on behalf of tha husbands and tho whole proceeding, in the optuion of Mr. Wat- terson, “looks very Ike tho set-tp job of n cratty old kawyer with money. Wiiatever miny be thought of the merits of the case in other respects, it would seenr to be quite thine for Mr, Christianey to come home from Peru. ‘There are matters for hint to attend to at home amore imperative to aman of honor thiin the Interests of the United States in that far-away Init.’ c Mi. Witttas Smerxagi, a Domocratia mem- ber of Congress from filntols, fs preach lug the very un-Democratic doctrine of minority-rep> resontation In connection with the reapportion= mant of Cougressionel repreyentation, hug ‘been tried tn [tinels, and tins been suecosaful— bn glviyg the Democrats the organization of the House of Hepresentatives tn one inatance when the Maplin had fn majority In tho State,— Mile ce Republiatt- News, What yerr was that? We hnve uo knowl- edxe of any such election. The Democrats have nover had control of the Iilinots Jonse of Representatives slice minority-representa- tlon'\vas adopted. In 1874 there wers three tickets ran—Republican, ‘Democratic, and Granger—for’I'rensurer of State, aud the Re- publicaus won; but, for Superintendent of Publi¢ Instruction, the Grangers and Demo- erats wilted and defeated the Republicans by 30,500 majortiy. ‘They alse elected 1 ma- fority of the mombers of the House, and or ganized it by aking BE. M. Hales, of Wan kegun, Speaker; but Halnes belonged to the ranger wing of the coalition, and was not n Demoerat. Tho Repupticana elected’ gourt many more members of the House than did the Democrats; but the Grangers, who polled 76,000 votes, carried enough districts togive them a balanea of power In both Houses. ‘Two years Inter, in 187, when tho tgpublicans only elected thelr Governor by OVE majority, they carried the minority- representation Housy as follows: Republicans. Democrats, Greenbuokers. While the Senate, which single districts, stood: Repubttean Democrats 2 os 2 OF by Is elected As wé have before stated, the Republicans haye never fulled tg carry the Ilouse, under the minority system, when they were In o majority in the State, Tur Ohio Leulslature has just passed a Dill to prohibit: the seliing.of pools upon the reault of any tint or contest of skill, or Speed, or power of enduratice of aman or beast, which we commend to the considera- tion of our own legislators at Springfield, It proyides that. any person who shall keep any rooin or building with apparatus, books, or other dovices for recording or registering bets or wagers, or of sclling pools upon the result of any trinl or contest of skill, specu, or power of endurance of man or beast, or who shall be the ownerof such rooms and rent then: for such purpose, or any person who shall becomo the custodian of anys». 3.ey or property pledged’ in tho above*-janner, shall ba guilty of 9 “‘mtsdemennor, and Mublo to fine or “imprisonment, or both, Our own gambling laws, though very comprehensive, do not cover pool-sell- Ing, and an aimendiment shunilar to that in Ohio ought to be adopted at onee. Pool- selling, as carried on in Clncago and other places In thls State, is an unmitigated evil, and one of the worst and most Insidlous forma of gambilng, as it appeala to avery class in the community, The passage of some such lnw ns that proposed in Ohfo would be one of tha most important and useful acts of legislation that our Solong can necomplish. As the Oblo bill is quite short we copy it in full: Bucrion 1, Ic it enacted by the Generdt Adrem- bly of the State of Ohto: ‘That whosoover ahall keopany room or buifuing, or any portion of any room or building, or occupy publie or private proud upywhere within the di tate of Obko, with *upparntus, books, ar other evico for recording or registering bets or wagors, or of selling pools, ana any person who: shall record or reglater bets or wagers, or sell poole, upon tho result of -any trial or conteat of skill. speed, or power of cnuduratce of inan or beust, or being tho owner, lesseo, or oceupant of any such rooms, building, part or por- tion thereof, shull knowingly permit tho saine to bo used of coupled for any of the purposes aforesald, or shill therein keup, exhibit, or super any devices or apparatus for tho purpose of royistoring or recording such bets or wagers or for tho sciiing of such pools, or eball become the custodian or depository for hire or roward of any money, property, or other thing of yaluo, stuked, wagered, or pledyed 1s aforcsiid upou any auch results, auch persor shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and khall upon conylotion be Qned net wore than ad nor loss than €5, or iinprisoned f4 tho County wil for not more than six imonths norless thin teo days, or by both fino and impriaonmont at tho dlucration of tho Court, Sec. 4. ‘This act shall tuko effect and be in force from aud wfter its pussaye, PINANCIAL WisDOM IN CONGRESS, Congress Ix thooretteally a body of wise men, of men who have devoted much of thelr lives to tho, mastery of all problems of economlen! Kclence, and especially to the knowledge of finances in Government. FI- nance fs supposed to be to thom ag familiar ag the multiplication table, and when fn ses- slon they are generally supposed to consider all questions with the same: intelligences and fusiiarity with which a board of directors would consider the aifairs of a corporation. ‘Theaa. members of Congress, it is assumed, know everything concerning thea buslness intrusted to them, they bulng selected for that purpose because of thelr alleged ability aud thelr superlor knowledge, - ‘The Funding bill was considered In the louse of Represontatives on* Thursday, and never was there such an exti}bition of stolid ignorance na was shown Py those. who byoke and by those who Hstened and did not tebuke thelr moro blatant assacfates, Leny- ing out of viow the vaporings of Woaver and his faction, and dlamigsing the nonsensa of tho Ittle goldit@'screamor fram Brooklyn, dudge Kelluy was permitted to makean argue nient that would be wonk {na schoolboy, and in that whole dubating club.of 203“ states- wen" thdra was seemingly ‘no’ one’ well enough Snformed to make response-ant point out the sophistry and foolishndss of ila polnts, . Mr, Kelley's argumerit: was that’ to pay {nterest on bonds ut 8 por cont running. forty years’ was to pay ‘uring -that-timo 120 por cent for the use of the money, ‘Tho majority of the House wero able to understand the Proposition that 3 Uines 40 was 120, and have Ing understood -that much .they necepted Kelley’s “whole” argument us necessarily equally sound and correct in Its conclusions, Now lot us oxamino Afr, Kelley's propo- sition, ‘The Government Is called upon to pay $687,000,000 of Its debt falling due next duly, ‘This it ls proposed to accomplish by the issue, In place of the present bonds bear. ing 5 aud 6 per. cont Interest, of. allies bonds Yearling only J. per cont Interest. . ‘This sin af 387,000,000 is nop the whole of the debt. Lhere are over §1,000,000,000 outer bonds stil outstanding, aud bearlug + wu 4); per cent tnterest, ail whlel caumot ¥ place upon |. be oxpected-to be pald under the most favor- alig circumstances In tess, than thirty to forty -years, . ‘The propositton before the House fs, to take up te 6 and & por cent obligations now falling due by an issue of 8 per ect bonds, and postponing any demand for the principal thercot to a dato Inter than the maturity of the other bonds bearing + and 4!¢ per cent interest. ‘The direct point Involyed 1s te reduce the rato of interest from & or 6 per cent to 8 porcent, as the nearly 700 millions of bonds will continue drawing that rate of Interest unthl redeemed, After tho tst of next July the Gofernment has an option to pay them off ns fast agit pleases, which It can to ine stantly by refunding thom into a bond bear- Ing a lower rate of Interest. Mr. Kelloy’s argument that 8 per cont In forty years will be equal to 120 per cent, might have some foree If the Government owed no other debt and find the money lying ile to pay them; but his proposition to tnx the country to Hauidate the principal of this portion of the debs in ten equal annual installinonts, to save the ‘Sper cont {ntorest, leaving the 5 and 44 por cent bonds still ontstanding, Is a glaring cont. fession of his tnabllity ta comprehend tho ‘question before him and of the equal dull- ness of those around tim whio approve of both his limping logis and his soplilstical arithmetic, : Supposing that tho whole debt of tte United States could be funded at 1 per cent on bonds payable atthe end of ciglity years, then, aceording to Mr. Kelley and his foliow- ers, that would be equal to £0 per cent, aud it would bo cheaper for Congress to collect $190,000,000 annuntly by direct taxation, ant pity the principal in ten years, than to leave the money In the hands of the peoplu at the cost of f per cent per anni, ,The Government of the United States Nas no revenue or Incomo save what, it es- torts from the American people In the shape of taxes and excises. It lives by extracting their bleod—by confiscating a portion of their cutrent earnings and working enpltal. Tlow mueh ts this’ money—some 800 millions & yenr—worth to the people? How much would it carn them ff left in thelr business? ‘That fs the question which Mr. Kelley never luoked atar thought of; nor did the gawks who, with open mouths, swallowed his 120 “per cent nonsense. ‘ The farmers and Inndowners, the manu facturers, tho ntners and builders, the great corporations, the merchants, those: en- gaged in nayigation, and, in short, | every class of persons engaged in agri- cultural, mechanical, commerctal, snd transportation industry, find that every dollar they can command is worth to them not Jess than 7 and Inrgely 8 per cent, and even 10 percentayear, With the money in thelr hands, to be employed by them In their own industries, they ean make Jt produce to them ona general average between 7 and 10 percent, and the great mass of them, have need of every dollar they can carn, Now comes this wonderful statesman Kelley and tho other stutesmen who are cap- thyated by his discovery that} times40 fs equal to 120, and thoy insist upon taking out of the hands of tho producers by a war-tax system—out of the industrial means of labor | —this $607,000,000, which is worth to them from 7 to 10 per cent, aud applying it to pay a. debt which may be made to bear only 8 per cent Interest! And that ix the fuanclal wisdoin which sits iu the Jlouso of Repre- sentatives and coutrols and directs the poticy of this’ most enlightened Nutlun on the globe! i What fs the value of money to tha people who are to be, war-taxed to pay this debt? There can be uo protense that it ts notsworth, to those engaged in “production, twice to thrice tho Interest on a 8 por cent bond, Left in the hands of tho people, if will pro- duco more than that. Now Congress isasked to extend tho existing loan at pordly per cent Intorest, or by war-taxes tako from the people this imoncy,, their working capital, worth to tham over 7 percent at the lowest, in order to save the payment of 3 or3}4 per cent, But no rellef is to bu given the peoplo of this genoration by repealing war-taxes, , until the debt Is all paid, twenty or thirty years hence. All thelr lives the war-tax bur den fg to be borne, in order thut thelr chil- dren may ba saved 8 per cent on what would otherwise remain of the debt. ‘This Is states- mmanship with a vengeance, It is about of the character of pig-lron, The duty of Congress Is too plain to be inistaken, Muke thigjonn at tho lowest pos- sible interest. Lenve the money in the hands of the people, to be by them turned overas often and as profitably as possible, until It isdoubled or even quadrupted, Let the public debt be pall off gradually from , any surplug revenue. ‘Cho debt will be paid Jong before tho creditors ask for it, Instead of taxing the country sixty or olghty millions | a year to pay off 3 per. cent bonds, fet Con- gress repeal the onerous wartaxes which have been continued much too long, Let Congress leave something for posturity to take cure of, Let the present generation, which has pald off $700,000,000 of the public debt by direct taxation, havo n breathing spell, If, however, the repeal of war-taxes be considl- ered as something too merciful, let Congress approprinte say $50,000,000 oy $60,000,000 of the surplus revenue to support schools inthe soveral States, and thts relieve the peoplo from thatimuch of thelr local land tax pald for that purpose. Wutlet thera be no more levying of wor-taxes to pay olf bonds draw- Ing only 3 per cent, when the money In the hands of the people will earn them threo thnes as much ag they could save, REPRESENTATION IN CONVENTIONS. We print in another column the elreular of the Nationnl Committca of the Republican party relative to the constitution of the noxt Convention, accompanied by n request for the submission yf any sugecstions In the matter before the Ist of March next, Plans have-nlready been submitted by Mr, Chin dlor, of New Hampshire, and Mr, Martln, of Kansas, ‘Tho former proceeds upat the basls of represdntation that has heretofore pre- yailed, with. the dinpertant conditions that tho cholceoft the four delegates-at-large only shall be conferred upon the State Convon- tlon, and that ench Congressional. district shall appoint the two delegates who are to represent ft. Me, Martin's plan contemplates @ reduation of the representation of Congres: aslonal districts to one delegnty, and provides that additional representation shall be apportioned to every Stata, In‘ propor- ton of one delogate ta oyvery 13,000 Ropublican votes polled for Vrestdent in 1880," ‘This plan fg Hkely to- lead ty much coufuston and posufblecontilet, Moreover, it would dofent tho principle established by the Chicago Convention, whieh jt tf highly ide sirable to maintain, that énch Congressional dlstrlot shall have such ropresontation as It secs fit to appoint without updue tniluence or Interference from: the remainder of the Btute, ‘Che contest for vindication of this principle was flerco and bitter Ju the last Con- vention, nid no oecaslon shoul be given far Q roylval thorvof at any future thue, No party can afford to bo subjected to. su severe & strajy within its own: councils, District Topresentution Is deslgned to avert "Boss" rule, no mutter what faction or Intorest it insy represent, Hence the Incorporatjon ot this feature in tho call for the Con- vention cannot reasonably offend any class, while at will provide equal jus- thee and fale representation to all The wembership of the Convention ean be most enstly determinetd by the old rule of doubling the representation in Congress, fneluding the menibers of tho House of Representatives and thd ‘members of the Senate; and, aftor providing for representation by distriets, there 1s small danger that the ruling senti- ment of the Republican ‘party throughout. the country will be defeated. It has been assumed in some quarters that tho instruc tons of ‘the Conventton to tha National Com- milltee muy be construed to mean that the questlon may ba postponed Ul onu year within the meeting ot the next Convention, and It is suggested that thera bo this delay. Such postponement, however, does not seem to be necessnry, and tt will be better on many accounts if the matter can be decided at the next mecting of the Committea in keeping with tho sentiment which provalled in the Inst Convanttor AMERICAN RAILROADS’ INTO MEXICO. The bullding of the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fé Road to Guaymas, on the Gulf of Culifornia, and the efforts now being made to obtuin concessions for rallroads from Et Vaso and Austin, Tex, to the City of Mest- covhave filled to arouse, wo think, 80 great an Suterest In the United States as the tm portance of tho subject merits. Even the statetnents of Gen, Grant, strong as they are in favor of extending our rallroad system Into Mexico, have ereated little more than a passing Snterest. Tlo studied the subject on the ground, and has certainly spoken within rensonnblo bounds. So great, howevor, is the ignorance of our peoplo regard: Ing Moxteo and its eapabllities for trade, that no adequate iden of tha ad- vantages wae ehintl derive by ratlroad connection has been arrived at. We do not ealtate to say that, when the roads we linye “mentioned nro completed, we shall stot only find at once a capitt! market for our minufactures, but* one susceptible of enormous development. Wy assert, with “eanal certainty, that no other country in the world, not excepting even our own, will then, offer such rare ndvantnges for the enterprise of our citizens and tho employment of our surplus capltal. pear extravagant, They are not so, but are fully sustulned by the facts, By tho “ Memoria del Ministro da Gober- nacion, 1879," the population. of Moxieo Is sald to be 0,086,777, Much moro than half of these are Indians, nmong whom, as yet, no idea of {proving thelr condition exists. The Andinn requires little more than a few yards of cotton cloth for clothing. His house is of, the most primitive description, and needs nothing the Immediaté surroundings do not furnish. Ills food, principally drlad meat and corn-meat, {s obtained with little exer- tlon and tess ensh, and, it may be sald, he is alinost ignorant of the products of other countrics. Even If this ignorance did not exist, tha exorbitant prices at which In- ported articles ara now, sold place them be- “yond his reach, It would bo dificult “to say, Just whut proportion of the Mexican people ara purehasers of foreign merchandise. ‘The estimate has been made py those best qualified to judga that at ledst two-thirds inake no use of forelgn articles, and yet the average annual Importation of Mexico ta in the nelghborhood of $80,000,000, Undoubt- edly tho completion of tho roaus tn question must, year by year, largely fnereaso this mnount ‘They will, by cheapening transpor- tatton, lower the priees at which forelgn ar- tivles aro now sold, eausg a greater mingling with tho people of tha world by those of Mexico, increase the intelligence of tho Int Giang, develop on thelr. purt a desire to better thelr position inv Ife, and create among them new wants heretofore unknown, which gan -only: bo supplied by importations from. other countries, Tho probability ig alimost,a certainty that but a few years will elapse after theso ronds are built before the entire Indian population can bo counted on to the extent of thelr menns us consumers of forelgn products... - “It we except the growth of sugar and tobacco, Mexico can never become our rival in any branch of trade. Sho produces a large amount of raw mnterlalof various kinds, but who hag nelther tha conl nor water-power to pormit her manufacturing them. In those things constituting tho main,elements of our weulth she can In no sense compote with us, Mer soll 1g of ineateulablo fertlilty, but her ellmate is such that grain can only: Be raisod to any extent by irrigution, The precious metnis constitute much. the larger part of her export trade, and the deposits, es- peelally of silver, are perhaps as riechas any in the world; but sho has neither the enpl- tal, nor skilled Jabor, nor enterprise, nor mining futelligeneo sulticlent to develop thei, Iron ora of excellent quality fs abundant, but, In tho absence of fuel, can only be worked toa Hmited extent. In faet, we have no enuse to fear Mexlean rivalry in any of our leading Industries, except, as we havo stated, In the production of sugar. and tobaccu, Tho district of country sultablo for tho ardwth of the former !s more extended than oura, The climate also fy better, Aud ft 1s probable that when Mexico ‘Is moro fully developed and her labor systom better organized, her sugar crop will be Jargely In excess of our own products. In the quantity of tobacco which Mexlco will be ublo to produce, It is believed she ean never equal us, er‘ tobacco, however, bs far duperlor to ours In flavor, It equals that of Cuba. As yet tobacco fs ralsed In com- paratively siuall quantity, ‘ho lands sulta- Die for Its growth, however, are much larger in extent than those now cultivated, and its production Ja, therefore, susceptible of con- siderable increase, + But, besides its lnportancots a market for our products, Moxicu nifords us another ad- vantage of incalculable value,» tt offers at our very doors, and of the best qual ity, many of the most tnportant articles used Incommerca and trade, and which wo ure now compalled to seek from all parts of the.world. No country equata her {n the ereat variety of its productions, and none fs. 80 capable Of growing thom of such generale Jy superlor guallly, Bestdes these, shu pro- duces niany others of (importance which can scarcely ba found olsowhero, Mer connec- ton with us by rail will place all thesa va~ rlous products nt our disposal, nnd we shall bo able to obtaln them at groatly reduced prices, ‘Their praduction, it is true, Is yet ip Its Infancy. Jt will bo for our Industry and gur capital to develop and control it. Rall-, roud comniupleation once. cstublished, 10 other country can with us lu getting possession of this trade, Although SMoxlga produces so large an amount of gold and silver, shots stly greatly iy want of capital, Hor gold and silver are gunt abroad to pay for her imports. Sexi cans who succeed In-‘nccunulating woalth ure. waualiy foreed to Uye in ether gonntrics to avold forged exactious by sume*one or other of- io various politteal factions, Seurcely such a thing ag u banking system exists, Littl ts known or wnderstoad of commercial credit, Hisinesa of every kind Is conduoted on small capital and in the Inogt prhnitive manner. Much of this has!) luwed been due to the instablfity of the Government auc to tho turbulence of political and milll- tary ‘loaders, ‘The Government, however, during the last few years has become more permanent and seoure,: Eyldence ly aforded by the recent peaceable end qulot Inaugura- ton of Presldept Gonzales that pronupelas montos jn futute: will’ scarcely bo possible, ‘These two assertions ap: for a moment compete” and that security for the investuient of our capital may reasonably be expected, ‘The commerces of Mexico has heretofoyo been principally with the United States, En- Riond, France, and Germany, Of Inte years, wo have succeeded tn obtaining about two- thirds of It, Our sticeess lins been In apite of tiany Ulsadvantages, not tha least of whieh was tha antagonism andl” disitke “felt for us by tho Moxlean people, This feeling, howbver, has almost disappeared, Mexlenns now tndorstand that tha Interests of both peoples Imperatiyely demand warm sympnthy and closer busifiiess connections be- tween then, Wecannot doubt the wisdom of this concession on their part. It Is enormourly to thelr advantage, and still more 80 to ours, that we should aid In estnb- Ishing theso relations by every menns in our power, Having this object in view, wa re- tard tho completion of n rallrond from the United States to tho Clty of Mexico ns second in Importance only to that of the Unlon Pa- elfic. : AN ALARMING DANGER ON OUR FRONTIER, That Irrepressible and offensive binther- akite, William Cornell Jewett, hus turned up again, and ina letter fram Parls to the New York World, impudently addressed to Prest- dent Hayes, says: “ Do Lesseps will proba- bly dispateh a steamer from Mavre the 6th of January, with men, ete, to touch at New York, Mr. President, now Is your oppor- tunity to follow up the bold and states- muntike policy of your Administration by notonty detaining the vessel on its. arrival, but dispatching men-of-war to the isthmus, to prevent any work from being dene,” Com- menting upon these recommendations of this Irrepresgltla Botiemlan adventurer, the World snys} Adlepntch from Paris to-day makes it cloar that Lesaeps wid his assochites: Intend to prose- uta thelr enterpriso in Panama without delay, Itis to be hoped thut Congress will undoratans What this menns, and logo wo thine in enneting the mensures recommended, both by the Execu- tye and a the Naval aud the InterovennicCom- iittees of tha House, ng necessary to sectire tho control of the isthmus on both ité shores by tha feets of the United States, If American work~ men ure to be omployed in digging n French cnnal, and to be feil hy proves purchased in the United Btutes, the United States should seo toit that the power of the Unlon [6 effectually exertgd, to sce Justice done tn all respects to ite eltizens. A itty tincly deelsion now will obvie ate a world of troublu herenfter, If the Government of the United Sintes is golng Into the canal-suppression business, It it fs polng to adopt the dog-In-the-manger -pol- fey, we submit that the Du Lesseps scheme Js far legs dangerous than others which are in operation right under our very noses, Un- anestionably that bold filibuster, Da Lesseps, invading theso shores with its piratieal steamerg atmed forward, amidships, and astern with piekaxes, spades, and drills, her’ tlecks swarming with toflers and delvers, and having belileoso designs upon tho soll, rocks, and trees of Panna, ought to be su pressed before he throws things Inte e1idless confuston by uniting the waters of the At- lantle and Paeifle and tralls tho Stars and Stripes in tho dust by letting American ves- sels go throweh a canal made by French money, What right has this audacious ad- _venturer to come over hereand spend Frenel money direet, without firat having It sifted through an Amoriean Credlt-Mobiller ring ? What right ins the Gaul to invest money over hero unless that highly. moral ‘and be- neficent Institution,an American ring, can have the Ulsbursing of itand the recelpt of conunissions? What right las De Lesseps to disturb the slumbers of Monroo by cutting his ditch hundreds of miles away from our frontler? Lut, conceding that his plratienl stenmer ought to be seized, and,its armory of spades and pickaxes be duniped into New. York Day: and himself hanged - from: the yardarm of bls own yeasel, wo submit that there are other dangers nearer home which are making Mr, Monroe very uneasy in his grave, and catsing that departed worthy to rollover and over fu his indignation. .If Congress 1s golng’ to suppress forelgn enterprise, working with its own money for American benellt, let It suppress the work on the Welland and LachinuCanals, What right have the binsted. Britishers to spend thelr British gold on these great improvements, to connect our grenf Inkes with tho seabonrd, to carry our _brotdtcts to the ocean, and chexpen our trans: portation? We gubinit here are outrages to tho purpose, beenuse they are committed before our very eyes and on our own frontler? We can hear tha sound of thelr Wegal pick- axes and all the anti-Monroe policy spades that are turning up the soll in violntion of tlie Monroe docrine. We can hear tho noise of their binstings apd seo the smoko from Americun soll, The enemy Is at our very doora, and has designs upon the” commerce of the Grent West. ‘Unless John Bull fs speedily checked and driven off, ha will make such Improve ments, with his own money, in these water routes, that tho West will feed tho world chenper thin ever, If the Monroe doctrine isto be putin force ugalnst these viotaters of Amerlenn soll, let Congress commenco with tho British and Canadians and order them away from these canals, and if neces- sary clcse them up, Bo that the great railway monopolies, may have control, of our com- merce and make thelr own rates of transpor- tatlon, Whon this is done, thon it will bo thine to selze De Lesseps and his bloused and: overalled crow of treebooters, and demand that France shatl not spend her money for the benefit of Amerieat commerce,—unless: aring of Amerlenn Shylocks hive the dis- Dursal of it and the Conversation Kenges and Vholeses can ent It up in costs, If tha shado of Mr, Monroo fs disturbed by De Lessops, what must bo [ts agitation as {t secs the work. going on In Canada without hindrance, or” even conment? If his doctrine is powerful hundreds of miles away from home, ought it not to have more force right at our very doors? By all means, lot tho Welland Canal be suppressed, ' DYATH OF GEORGE .B, CARPENTER. Fow young men in this or any other com- munity have ever made thenselyes 60 widely known and go universntly eatesmed as Mr, George B. Carpenter, whose untlinely death occurred at an early hour yesterday morn: ing, Thero ts a moral both ty his Ifeand fn iis death that should not bo passed over In Bllence now tnt the first shouk of hls sudden cand premature denise has partially spent its foree, fed ' Mr. Carpenter came to this clty about fif-) teen or sixteen years ago,—a big-bralned and Dig-hearted boy of 19° or20, Ie hind been reared’ Inrgely on a {ari and had enjoyed the advantages of- aschool education only, Uut ho was made of the stuff for rapid de .velopment,—not In any contracted sphera por Aslugle direction, but, alinost in equal parts, “In culture and business enterprise, Wad he devoted himpelf entirely td” the former ho would unquestionably: have been ono of tho moat conspicuous men fu literature or any. one of the professtons he might have chosen; had he ulven, hiweelf. up, exclusively to bushiess ho might faye been ono of the wealthiest of Chicago's — citizons, But, —befure all elie, ha was pub- Nie-spirited. Personal ambition, was. swal- up Jn, tha. higher - ambition te contribute to the greatness of Chicago jn enterprise, in Hteratuye, (In music, In art, and Inculture, Hp belloyed it ta be tho mlasion of ils Jife to promote by hig own personal effort ajl projects that: promised: 9 develyp ment of esthetic taste and contributed to the renown of the elty with which he had fdenti- fled IMmself, Jo thug nuturally and almost P necessarily ctrifted Into publle IHfe, and tt fs in the character of manager of public enter- {nitments that ho Is best known to the muttl- tude, ‘Those who have known him In- timately, however, aro better aware how sin- cere and unsolfiah Ils defotion ins been to many of the leading features of Chtengo metropolltanism which brought himself 10 retiir in proftor reputation, Tho Central Muste-tnll will hon standing monument to hia untiring onergy and courageous enthu- sinsnt. The orginal members of Central Chureh can took back to the eritien! perlod of Ns Inception when he was tho one to Ine fuse Into Ita spirit of organization and the auality o£ permanency which Prof, Swing’s great ability. has since maintained. He was tho first and the most ef- ficient in many other — movements to give Chicago artistic and cultured prom- inence, and educate the taste of n community too much abandoned to plodding and moncy-getting, In all this his Mfe wasn model of self-sacrifice. {a convictions were 80 firm, his contldence so boundless, lis en- thusinsm so intense in all he undertook or Indorsed, that he rarely failed to mature his fhanifolt projects nt least for the benefft of others and almost always to the common good of thocity. His own Interests seemed {nail eases to be of subordinate consitera- tlon. If George 1. Carpenter's qualities of hopefiiness, belief in hunimnity, and mental and physlenl energy could be generally tmi- tated by young men, along with tho high moral standard, blameless private Ife, and oxtiuustless spirits that were equally char- acteristic with hin, soclety would be tho better and individual happiness the greater in this busy world, As his life had its moral, so also is denthy Mr. Carpenter failed to temper his energy and enthnsinsm, lis devotion to. his friends and to the public, with proper consideration for his own health and condition. Ho worked himself to deaths IIe was one of the men who “dicd at the top,”—and that atso early anage and at such short warning as to startlo thosa who knew hin, ‘The times have been, ee el tho brains were out, tho man would ‘And there nn ond, So they ara now, except as men leave be- Kind them, as Carpenter dit, yome monu- iment of thelr energy. Dut the end comes now ne ever whey tho brain fs ont, From a practical point of view, death is rather the benalty of overwork than the wages of sin; the Jatter fa common lot, but the former an Individual -menace, Gearge 13, Carpenter cane of a long-lived family. Ile had no organic disease, except as he brought upon MMimself tho inevitable result of overwrought mental friction, Ile was endowed with atrong nervous force, a wiry frame, and ex- eeptional vitality In constitution, His habits and his surroundings in life were frvornble to longevity. And yet he dlvd at an age—3i— when he onght to have beguivto jive. Such part of his minbition as he reserved to hin- selfand hig family was cut off in the very bud, and hoe fell a victim to tho rest- less, cengeless, oxhaustless, -and cruel netlvity to which he . disclplined his imental faculties. It fs not a conditlon to blame, but one that ought to serve ns a warning, ‘Theres are men who inust curd their zen! and energy !f they would liye, He was one of them, Had discretion and solf- preservation put a check upon his activity, ‘ho might Maye been spared many years to work out new benefits for his funtly, hs friends, and the public, Muchas he aecom- plished in the brief space of his career, he might have accomplished still morait he had ceonomized his brain foree and retrenched his lavish expenditure of physleal energy, ‘These are tho two lessons which the funeral services of George 13. Carpontor to-morrow nt the Central Chureh will teach in an Im- preasive manner, It is peculiarly fit that the Inst respect to such n man should bo paid fn ahall which would not have been bullt but for him, under the ausplees. of a central and Mberal church with which he was identified from the start, ane beautified and solemnized by the musle which he has done go inueh to promote and malatain, r —_—_—— » No Exodus from Canada. | Tho Canadian Parliament ts discussing the question of tho exodus tothe “States.” Tho allegation of tha Port Huron Colloctur that ti,-. 000 Cunadinns passed that polut inte the Unitud States lust yonris pronounced utterly untruc, ‘Tt Is contended that thero Is practienlly no migration to tha “States,” and that all stato- nents to the contrary urafaise, The Port'lturon' figurea are denounced notonly as bogus, but ridtculons. Qno of the mombers,a 3{r, Popo, made wapvech oxposing tho fnlsity of the Port Huron stuelstics, which is thug summarized: otal alleged immigration to the United States, vin Canada, ¥1.8%53 praportion from Cans, 7,-. 659, “Look ‘nt tho tures given by tho wuditors of the Canadian rallways, : Dy the Grand trunk tho total number of pas. senyers from Kurope, the Eustern States, and Canndn to Western points, Inatuding Munttoba, Is GOST, total roturniug west to onst, 45,070; diter- ence, WAGL, Toml number OF paaonnenr trom Conada only to nll poluts was, 00,t20; total from: the Western States to Canada, 2,10; dittor- ence, 6837, Hy the Great Western Koad: Town) tumbor of passonwers from Canada: to tho Western Stntea, 1,719; ° tutal from the Westorn States to Canada, 12633 difference 457, From the United States Consul at Barnins ‘Total number of emigrants with Consular gore Hiltcaten, 700 cortiticutes, including 8,050 persons. ¢ From tho Canadian Collector at Sarnia: ‘Totat wuimber of enilgration ontrics for the year ond Ing June 80, 1880, 88 entrios, Including w,861 pers Buns. Ly thus yetting at tho actual facts and criticising clusuly the Heures presented, wo ure rlyvo nt the probable emigration at Port Muran, Adding together the ditfercicos batween the wostern and enstern figures, the total emigra- ton from Canada to the Western Btates was no more at Port Huron than 6,745 Inatead of orl 45,000, During tha quarter ending tho September tha tlyures are more favorable, By the Groat Western at Sarnia thera ia. dilferonco of aix in favor of Canada, By tho Grand Trani thore fv only a difference of 660 nyninst Ounnda, It ts obvious, therefore, that tho Amerlean tye urcs are falec. fh Mn. Conaun was nominated for Sdnator in tho Michigan cauona on tho suventh ballot.— not tha sucund, ag a tolegraphic blunder made itappear. The bullote wore us follows; ' fo 3 3 ¢ 6 @ 7 J.J. Bagloy w.... 48 45 4b 4b 43 48 87 ILD, Batdwin, ,. oO 3 ow 36 US UO. 0.1) Conyor,. 03 Bh eB OD J, d. Woodian, ee Xt will be soon that, while Conger was nom: innted by tho votes of Mr. Baldwin'a fricnds, the. latter could not bo transferred fn p bady, Fourtéon of thosa who cast thelr frat baltota for Baldwin voted. for Buyley before all was over, while twenty-six went over to Congor, for whom the solitary auppert of Woodwan also voted, It ts clenr that Haldwin would havo beon’ olooted If Bagloy had not beon in the feld, and vico verua,, Hut the {ll-feeling ongendered bo- woon the twu factions In tha preliminary can yasalug resulted in the chotco of a thin man, On tho Just Laliot Wfty-clght votou wero at first pocorded for Bagley and (Mty-nino for Conger, being one more than tho wholy yuniber of meme vera present, and it was. neceasury to tuk tho. bullotoverugain, Itthen appeared that Page Joy, not Congor, had boon credited with one voto toa imnany, Conger made a neat little speech to the caucus, losing With this sentiment: “Tho Michigin tnan who fultors in his duty, whowe backbone La woak, who fa fuithlosw to any prin- cJple, Ig doomed, and worthily doomed, by the people of Michigan.” es . eur number. of the Chicago , Field la not tho least noteworthy of the holliday! productions of the nowspaper prosd, It cone tains, Dosides Wo greut amount and varicty of reading muttur, a tumbor of wood engravings, and an excellent chromo-tithogruph of " Liewel- -Iin's celebrated setter Dan.” ‘The majority of readers muy not kuow. who “Livwollin's volo- ‘brated settor Dan" ta, but thoy muy still adiniro hla Huo portrait of bin.» Tho Well te a bluh lass sporteman’s Journal. ~ Under tha ublo editorahtp af. Dr, Rowe, it hus shawn the pubilo that 1¢ {¢ possible to treat of tipld-sports and the nows reluting to them fa a sedned end glenty: fled way, and tocutom those which ary traly appropriate for gentlemey from those which: ayo nesectutions worv or leas vulgur and do- grading, Wo are giad to know thnt tho Acco of tho Chleago Feld tins bean nearly, if not quite, commensurate with its morits, et j AN lastern Journal has kindly stolen Tun Trenmune's three appordonmont tabled and cone densed thon Into one, which, for the suke of future raferonco, Is worth presoryingy: ig] NEW ADDO Hasta, nf 203) Taste lof a0 0| inemne bers, Ries erate, 8) 4 1 1 1 4 ? lala by 0) q ty a EH 15) iP] if w 10| Hy Cs ai hi 7 t Ly 10) Ht) = ‘6 O) Ci a i 4 A Tbe ee 1 1) 4] 7 3) j q 4 Di 1 Hy fy i u i ; ay 1: 4} i i 7 i i We i : ae alt Ra 1} B} a 2) v | hii} * H 4 dal 4 ul shin Tho fotlawing table shows tho yin and losses * of the chief weographieal divisions of "the couns try under each apportionment: or TES, anour STA’ ‘Total Narthor! Houthorn, rotate, Now mombers, — Owrna to somo fnefllcient management in the Post-Onice, for which tho Superintendent of © Mills fs belioved to bo respanulble, tho Now ty: York newspaper mutl is permitted to te undie ay tributed for several hours, if It happens to come by” {unfter noon, In thie weathor the fasteinql of train Is frequently Into; hut without reference Kf to Its urrival the distributors go olf duty whea Mi they havo disposed of tho workon bund. The‘ consequonce fs thit tho mail whlah getain att o'alock fs not thrown until after 3, an unnecee Lb sury delay of six hours. Tho oftentlon of Pos inustor Patter should be eqlted tu this matte, fle has taxon somo pride ia having tho servi in his department prompt and elticient, and the * reputation of the office should not be permitiel ‘to sulfer through tho negllgenco of bis subordl * nutes, oo . Tun. Brontng News has discovered tho following death notice, of Interost to Americans,” in the Cork (Ireland) Constitutton: . NOGERS—On tho 13th Inst, nt Portarlington, Toulsn Russell, witow of tha Inte Roy, aun Ceoll Rogers, formerly Iector of: Nohovnl, County Cort, and youngest und onty aurvivt duuubter of tho lute Cupt. William Fiteh Rrnoit of Little Missentton Abbey, Ducks, and granddaughter of Gen. Benedtet srnel Funeral will (D. V.)-leave Ghinmlre Btavon ghout ls Lhuraday afternoon, the th inky “ Blessed are the dend which dle In the Lord.” ‘The descendants of the traltor hve never re = turned to hig native land, Yot if England had subitued the colonies they wouljyhava coma A back probably as grout landed proprietors, and 2? they would bnyo been swolts in Fifth avenucct Loncon street, ——— - Ir 1s found, says “ Gath,” that tho new Constitution of Ponnsylvania, prepared by & Constitutional Convention and voted by: the peo plo, Is go contrary to the spirit of Ponnsytvania politics that there are not enough men tn tho State to maka n Loglstaturo if tho Legislative oath fy honestly taken, A Democratle Sonntur from Luzerne County, tho seat uf tho massncro * of Wyoming, rofused to take tho onth, and tha Lexlataturo fmmadiately Adjourned, every mon to protest and syinpathizo with him. ee Englon Acconbixq to tho Herald, the Rev. Robert Collyer likes New York moro than he ‘kes Chi engo, Ho hustwo daughters who nre school gicls yot, but who aro eid to Inberlt much of thalr fnthor's fore of charactor, Wo don't how. tho Inhoritanee of, their father's forco of charactor mukes hin ike New York better than Chicngo. Tho metallic loudneys of New Yor'* enll," wo suspect, has gomothing to do with hit partiality for Gotham. eee siees ‘Tur lection of Gen, Thomas, of Chicago + oa Speuker of tho Minos Houso 18 uae i teat of “our exteomod «but. ulwayn dlesoutinnt friond," Mr, Jaseph Modll],—Glahee Democrat. That {sa very inaccurate remark an the p ofthe @-D, Gen. 'Thomus was nat opposed by tho editor of Ti: TiumuNK for Spenker of the House, Ontho contrary, ba fa much pleased at tho high honor conferred on tho Gonoral, ant hopes ho will prove worthy of It, ‘Tie Itom going thé rounds of the papers ,thut the Now York Nation, nccording to a Cink bridge University papor, would eithor bo. suse ponded at the close of the yenr or converted into n magazino, haa nota word’ of truth init ‘Th Nation haga largo and Incronsing elrcular ton, and is 0 profitable publication, 4 —————— A connesronpeNr from the country a2" to Jingnal s < : What {a tho meaning of "full SS toadtea’ costinnest so fu drean” na applied It moans about butf-dressed, ‘and the otnitfi half no clothos on to spank of, a — - Wren tio Pooria papers blow about the production of whisky in that town over nll other pluces, they hend thoir articles '* Still Aboad.”* <a 4 PERSONALS, Tha youig’ lady, whom Govornoretect Tubal et Malno, is ta marry ig Miag Muble i), of Exeter, Iu that State, Sho ts ol While Bir Pniston see o® OBO 18H) vents Oly Tt {3 said that Gen, Grant invariably turns hia wino-glass down at dinner, except whed partuking of tho White Houso hospitality. P B.—Thore aro no wine-ylussca at tho While House, . : “War is a drondful- destroyer of humea Nfo," remarks n correapondont in beginalng 29 article on Thu Deatiny of Tberty." This 14 indocd true, but for steady work give us 4 oll tamp,, y < Geatge M, Robeson was consulted by Pree ident Huyea in proparing bis voto message od the United States Marshals bill,=Mr, Hayes bays Joy wot tho wutorial from for hia yotoca, ' ae iv Tho Independent politletan is eaming out - strony in Goorgit,., Dr, Felton te gatug ta mak @ spocch, tuking the ground that a ropublice” movorumont in the Bauthern States ts only Robeson's argument Saree, aud that nano of the elections are bonell there, . Boeehor said, at- tha anlo of his pews Thuraduy nlgbt, that It coat the Coureh $20 ‘to bo prosecuted by Theadaro Tilton, one-bell “of which had teen puld back by tho business management of HB. Clatltay—who forthwila pald &20 for tis pow fur the coming year. _ Tho wife of Jolin Russell Young, whodled the othor day In Now York, was tho daubtor ot an aged employéof the Unitad States Senate dur ‘ing John W, Fornoy’a gomtnatton ¢here, whed Young, as’ Fornuy's’ associate, Ived In ber fam ily, -Anothor sistor wareiod Johh Foley, edliot of tho Phitadolphin Thnes, Linc * From Lord Leaconsfelt’y, “ Eqylymlon"! “Tho unfortunate are always egotlatical’ “Those who havo known roul grigf seldom soot i sud. “Desperation 4s sometimes tiv power an inspires ov veulun". *Eydrybody Ia bated bY somighody,? ;* Woo 1 un bulress, -L abould bave hy little objevtion to be mnurried for my fortune Ag ny fuoe, Husbangs, av E-huyo beard, do oe cure fur the Iytter tap, long,” “Life i 8 sey curious thing, One ciin't ask ong person ove to meot wnothor {n’ona’y awa bone without so tng theopah a: stin of mory) arithmetic.” “The only nso of oppositton’ ff,” that ‘we may enloy ourselves.” * Sensible men ard ull of the su",