Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 12, 1881, Page 4

Res SFR SS Bs ees aS AH 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY “12, 188i—TWELVE PAGES. Oe Tribune. TERMS OF SUBSCHILTION, TOBTAGH PREPAtD, 12 NY MAIL-IN ADVANCE Dally edition, one rear, PTT i tnd raguriny, nor Yeates jaoday, nnd Petty.» page edition, poryear, WHERLY EDIT: Pre copy, Wer Peat ae Cluibot tire... Tranty-ane copies... peelmon coping aant treo, . Give Post-Ottico addrosa In full, including County and Htato, Iteinittances may bo mado olther by drat, oxneess, Post-Uiico oriter, or in roulsterail latter, nt our risk, TO CITY BUBSCRINERS. Datty.dolivored, Sunday excepted, 933 conta per woek. Daliy, detivered, Sunday included, 10 conta por wack, ‘Address MIE TRIDDNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Daarborn-nta. Chicago, iit. Entered at the PosteOftce nt Chteago, Ti, ae Seconte Clasa Matter. ho benefit of our patrons who ¢eairo ta send sldniscoplen OfTHE THUUNE through tha pall, we Biveborowith thy trnsicnt rate of postagar Domestic. 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Clark street, opposit new Court-House, Kneage- ment of Mr, F,8, Chanfran and Miss Henrietta Chane frau. Aftcrnoun, “Mystory of Paris.” Kvantiu, HIG the Arkansas Travel Olympic Thentre. Clatk atreet, batweon Lake and (andolph, Engage: ment of tho Thioinan and Woyland Dramatic and Bpecintty Combination. "'the Miantom King” Af- ternvon and eyoning, . Academy of Muste, Tnlated streot, noae Madison, West Side, Variety Shtertalnment. Afternvon nnd ovening. td dnnste trout, Whato oxhl- Exposttion Lako front, opposite Ada dition fromda.m, to 10 p,m, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1851. A Great ery. but no wool, hasbeen the chief circumstance attending the Senatorial canvass In Tennesseo up to tis time. Tho Bourbon press has ralsed charges of corrup ‘toh without a particle of evidence to sustain them, the purpose being of course to frighten off nny Low-T'ax Democrats who wight otherwise bo disposed to unite with tho Ite- publicans, Notice of political damuation has been served on all such beforehand, But po- litien? damnation involving 9 post-ofllce or 80 Js not a bogy in Tennessee. Intrsvots farmers aro no longor borrowors. Boney sent on froin the East to be invested Jn farm mortgages has to be returned, ‘The farmers generally anticipated the payment of the Janunry interest, aud reduced the principal of thelr debts, ‘Iwo more good seasons will take the blanket off from many afarm. Then, porkaps, the oll folks will by able to Ieave. something handsome to tho boys who have moved, out to the rainiess prairles of Kansas and Nebraska to make their fortunes and have mado nothing except exporience, Senator MAxey Is tho only Rebel West- Pointer In the United States Senate; and tho oldest fossil. In polities lic hasn’t got pnst talking nbout “tha party of tho Constitu- tlon,’? and claiming that the Democracy is that party, Yet if there has been any party that has repudiated the Constitution, and Bpat upon it, and sought to nullify It, tho party referred to by the yenerablo Scnator from Texas ig the one, Whatcan bethought of the consistency of a native Kentuckian, educated at West Point at the expense of the General Government, who followed Texas out of tho Union, and fought in tho Confed- orate army, rising to the rank of Mnjor-Gen- eral, and now talks. nbout “the party of the Constitution’? = * BinaurEyrs was an alleged Indian maiden, but she didu’t got her giibness of speech from that side of the house, and it Js prestined that any slight exaggerations of which she miay have been gullty will-not be charged up to tho Indian duplicity acconnt. Sho has been plainly caught in two or moro dcviations from the truth within the Inst week. ‘The boundless faltl of the Washing- ton correspondent in her veracity has been shaken, On tho whole, Mr. Schurz is got + ting much the best of the Ponca controversy, Tho Boston philanthropists ara coming out exceedingly small, ‘They should have been suspicious: of a man named ‘Tibbles, Tho name might do for ono of Dickens’ Ameri- eon characters as that of ono who made a profession of philauthropy, “THE British Government sont out Prof. Sheldon as a speclal Commissioner to exam- Ine and report on the advantages of Canada agan ngricultural country, Tho object of the Commission was, of course, to direct the strenin of Britlsh emigration to tho Domin- fon, But the report will not have that effect, ‘The Professor has apparently 6 judiclal and Ampartini mind, and his conclusions are only: moderately encouraging. Ile objects to Man- {toba because It has no tinber, or good roads, or an abundance of good water, while Its winter islong and severe, ‘Lhe Province of Ontarlo 1s a gardon-spot, Lut the farmers. * there are selling out and removing to tho ‘United States in large numbers. The general conclusions are that the farmer in Canada suflers froin violent storms; ovcaslonully front grasshoppers, potato-bugs, weevll, anil Heastan-tly; and that the severe’ winter weather is a spacial drawback, Still the country has made groat progress, and its ex- port trado fs yet In its Infancy Avis not improbable that tho stand taken by tho English Radical wembers will have the effect of Inducing or coupelling Mr Gladstone to Introduce a much tore swe ing Irish land bill than will beat all pleas- ing tothe Whig members of Is Cabluet, Tho members: whe ure thus presalng for rudical measures are the eblest, most intelll- gent, ond most promising members of the’ LAberal party, anid they represent tho tntelll- gence and sense of justice yf the Engilsh snngses, Prof, Thorold Rogers, the member for Southwark, was at one time Professor of Volltical Economy In Oxford University; Mr, Arthur Arnold, to whom the snobbish Lane dun correspondent of the New York, Tritaine yefurs as a polileal doetrinaine without polltieal tnituence,? Js meguBer for the mans facturing town of Salford, dtul is the sand © qucuber whe ied fast seasiun to have te nhstiril restriction against Importation of Aimerienn enttla Into England madifled. We is one of the editorial writers af the Pall Mutt Gazette, the beat-written paper in England, Mr. Stansfleld has long been fdentified with politieal movemonts on the Continent, notably with the movement for the unifleation of Italy, Ashton Dilke Is the brother of Sir Charles Dilke, and ts proprie- tor of the Weekly Dispatch, next to Rey- nolde’ Newapdper the most popular and widely-clrentnted workinginan’s paper in Cngland. Itty quite well understood, too, that these inen have the sympathy of Mr. Dright, Mr. Chamberlain, and perhaps of other mombors of the Cabinet. If tha Irish mombers who foltow the lend of Mr. Shaw actup to the expectation o€ thelr constitu- ents. and unite with this radleal section heartily, Mr, Gladstone will have ta maka constlerable concessions, and tho Irish ton- auts will obtain a substantial Installment of Justles, Dut Mr. Shaw's following ts_sinall, and ts mostly made np of that class of thne- serving, half-hearted, and Jusincers demn- goes whoso action has so often led to the disappointment of Irish hopes and prospects, Gov. Loxa, of Massachusetts, argued on both sties of the enpltal-punutshment ques tion in his tnaugural address, Ie said: I feel it my duty to catt your atteution to tha matter of cipltil punishinent. Tt ls an ontene ‘on human sonstbilitiess itis out of accord with tho spirit of the nye it tins undoubtedly. 1b tonny cases, Induccd Juries to acquit men who, although renlly guilty of murder tu tho frst dogrod, have thus gono unpunished; aud noths ing can Justify it but the conviction whieh ts In the public niltd, and which, t ndinit, nivects my own tinind very dilferently the moment P look at tho matter under a sense of oficial responsibil ity, that the dread of this extreme penalty f3 it safeguard to life. This !s ns much ag to say that theorctleally ential punishment ts ail wrong, but practl- cally It ts all right. The Governor thus takes tho position that a thing may be good and at the same thie lmpracticable, whieh isa mis- use of words, A thing which is not work- ablo is not and cannot be good. It is bad, faulty, defective, erroneous, or radical- ly wrong. If there fs any foundation for the public conviction that capttal puntsiiment fs Asnfeguard to life, itis not “out of accord with the spirit of the age,” nor “an outrage on human sonsibilities.? On the contrary, the abolition of It would bo preelsely de serlbud by these phrases,’ supposing It to have tho effect which the Governor says he cannot but belleve It does have. Evorne 1118, of Mafne, will be one of the youngest members of the United States Sunate, IH Is 44 years of age, having been born in 1838, . Butler, of South Carolina, was born in the same year; Plumb, of Kansng, in 1837; Groome, of Maryland, In 1888; and Bruee, of Mississippl, In 1841. ‘These are the only Senators under 45, Hale has been In public life longer than many older men in Congress. Me was chosen Proseeuting-At- torney of Hancock County, Maine, when he was but 21, and held that office nine years. ‘Then he was clected to Congress for five terms, He has been twics offered a Cabinet position, that of Postmaster-General by Presi- dent Grant, and that of Sceretary of the Navy by Prestdent Hayes. The fint-money craze swept him out of office in 1878, and his dls- trict ns been ever since constiered the only hopeless ono in the State, Mois personally very popular, being calm and fair-minded by tempornment, nud haying excol lent tact and judgment of men. There are few better parifamentarians fn tho country than Mr, Hale. - Yet he Is better fitted insome respects to to good service In the Senate than in the Touse, ashe is not naturally n rowugh-and- tumble fighter, but understands finesse and delleate management better than the hand- sluggers usually do, His judicial hubits of and will meke hina dignified and intl ential member of the Senate and give his opinions In that body some welxht, CentAIn Enstern newspapers, among which the Phitadelphin Times ts conspleu- ous, have fallen jute the grave error of sup- posing that the State of ‘Texas maybodivided into five States without the consent of Con- gress, ‘The Limes says on this poluts Tho divislon of Texas rests whoily with tho Togislature of tho State, and can be curried ont thin tho proaont. sersion-of Congress, ‘Tho pros cedont conditions to the division were that cach State should be of convenlentsizo, shall havo suiiciont population, and shall be organized by tho consent of tho Stute of exas, not of the ‘United States, as tn case of 4 Territory, This is wholly wrong. Tho language of the statuta Is: New States of convenient sizc, not exceeding four in number, In addition to sald Stato of Texas, and having suilicieut population, may hereafter, a tho consent of enid State, be formed out of the territory thorcof; ‘wich shail be entitted ta adintsston under the provisions of the Fedend Constitution, Now what are tho proyistons of the Con- stitution relating to now States? Simply that they may be ndimitted by the Congress into this Union.” Congress {8 supreme’ in tho matter. No contract entered into bya previous Congress can alter or qimend the constitutional powers and rights of the Con- Gress now In session or that which Is to as- semble next December unless sooner callod together in oxtrn session, Nor has ‘any con- truet beon entered {nto with that fntention, It Js clear from tho Janguage of the Enabling act that Congress was to take the initintive in the division of ''exas, as the new States wero to be formed, not by the original act of the Legislature, but “by the consent of such State’? ‘Tae memorial performance which tt las beon determined to glye at Central Musie- intl next Saturday evening: in commeinora- tlon of the late George 1, Carpenter's sery- ices to muste and art In this elty will bo one of tho most notable and interesting events that lave ever occurrad In this clty, ‘Tho busis of the project Is to secure the erection ofa memorial window In the handsome hall which stands a4 a inonument to Myr, Carpen-- tor, and the surplus receipts will bo added to the fund which the Directors and stocklold- ors of the hallare subscribing in testhmony of Mr, Carpunter’s eminent services to the public, ‘Chis entertainment would ba at- tractive to tho publle under any elreum- stances, but it will be rendered espectally so by tho appearance of Mile, Sarah Bernhardt, tho omlnent French actress, who will give Tecltatlon for the first {ime in this coun try. ‘The announcement of her appearances atn testhnontal glyen to Sir Jules Benedict, the musical composer, served to add £700, or $3,500, ta the reccipts, which were in all $0,000, ‘This lady’s generous proffer of her services on this ocenslon will commend her to tho cntire Amorican people, and especially te the prople of thiscity, When Mr, Cur ponter’s character, work, and devotion to art wore oxplilned to heratthe tne she was told that a memorial pertormunce was con- templated, sha Immediately exclatined, © Can't Edo something?” ‘Tho crowded und elegant house that will greot her at Central MusleeHlall next Saturday eventug will sate Safy her that sho will haye contributed her full shara to the honor to be bestowed upon ndesorving frlend of art, though personally unkuowan to hor and in a strange land, Mayox ILannison professes to be deeply ogarloved and Injured by tho- strictures of Tu Trmunxe on his conduct In relation to the now pumping-works, Ho has oxplalned toa reporter of this paper that the money appropriated by the Common Connell wasin- adeqiinte; that tha appropriation could not be Incrensed durlng the fiseal year except lo ensa of emergency; that the enirgency did not uslst, and eo ou, ‘The exe planation fs not suiticient. ‘The Mayor has shown ne disposition to do the work, Hean- nounced his opposition to fe when tt was first broached; and he lng not changed his mind since, so faras appears from any of his public acts, Where thre ts 0 will thore Is a way. Mayor Harrison may not have been able to do all that was desired with the means at his command, but he was able todo mutch, Ile hus done nothing, Ue might have shown his good intentions by prosectit- ing tho matter as far us possible. Ito might lave completed the bullding, dug the cut-off, putin the necesanry gates, and prepared everything for tha englies, Te could probably havo matte arrangements with somo responstble builders by which tho en- glues would be now atleast in process of con- struction. ‘There was no exense for hagellng or delay, or any question of tha desire of the Counell and the peoplo that the improvements should be begun and hushed as speodily as practleable, If the Mayor had done his whole duty tha works might bo In operation by spring, and 60,000 cuble feet ot water per mminitea pouring Into the canal, Instead of one-third that quantity. ‘The question of tho enpacity of an enlarged eanal to drain the elty and carry off suftelent water to neu- traliza the sewage would then haya been in course of speedy derhonstration, It woult have been franker and imanilur of Mayor Harrison If he had put his opposition to the pumping-works on other grounds; or at lenst had offered to the people some enriter explanation of the difieulty with which ho was confronted, so that it might hava beon lon ago removed, and tho business gone for- ward, THE MONROE DOCTRINE AND THE PAN- AMA CANAL, Tins Trimuse Intd before Its readers yes- terday the remarkable paper written by Gen. Grant concerning the rlval schemes for an Interoccanie canal to unite the Atlantic and Yaclfie waters,—the one by way of Pana- ta and the other by Luke Nicaragua, Gen. Grant's paper will leave no doubt on any mind ns to the yast superiority in cheap- ness of construction of the Nicaraguan route over the Panama raute, which 1s fo ba con- trolled by French capitalists. Tho enormous differonce in the cost of tho construction of these two canals Is startling. Gen. Grant places the lowest estimate for to Nicara- gttan route at $41,000,000, and, allowing Hbar- ally for the difference between estimated and netual cost, he fixes the maximum cost at Jess than $100,000,000. Ilo computes that 4,000,000 tons of freleht will pass the cannl annually, which, at $2.60 per ton, will yleld an annual income of $10,000,000, which, after payling expenses, will leave $8,600,000 profits annually to the stuckholders. Gen, Grant states the probable cost of the cnnal by tho Pantania route at perhinps $400,- 000,000, ‘This nearly corresponds with a de- tatted statement published in the New York Tribune of the 10th inst., which foots up the cost nt $800,000,000, or four times the maxi- mun estimate of tho canal by the Nicaraguan route. If itbe true that the Panama Canal will cost $10,000,000, or the half of it, then we do not understand that the Ainerican route has anything tofearin the way of competition from the Freneh-built cannl, ‘There can hardly bo any ovenstou for Natlonal inter- ference or belligerent demonstrations ta pre- vent tho construction of the De Lessops eanal, if tho latter dupend on the expendi- ture of $400,000,000, ‘Ihe American Com- pany can safely go ahead with their work without any dread of competition from such neostly undertaking ns that projected by De Lesseps. Upon the relative merits of the two schemes there ean therefore hardly be nny differenco of opinion In this country, when all tho facts are known, and when both sides can have the fullest hearing. It is not at all possible that there will ba much money subscribed for the De Lesseps schemo in this country, whatever may be the case in Europe, where the De Lesseps canal stone 13 advocated, ‘Lhe publication abrond of Gen, Grant's letter will do mucli to open European eyes ns to the comparative merits of the two schemes, Gen, Grant, however, makes a speelal -ap- pealto the’ American people In favor of what ho consiters an American canal, con- structed by at American company under an Atmertenn charter, and to be controlled by Ateriecan authority, a3 against a canal con- structed by a European company, undor a European charter, and under the protection of European Governments. Ho Invokes tho spirit, if not the leter, of the Monroe doctriue, which Inis beer tho procialed polley of the United States for haltacentury. Ue quotes the recontdcclara- tlon of President Hayes on this subject, and claimg that tho construction of tho canal at Panama, 28 proposed by the French Company, would be a substantial violation of the cstab- lished Amerienn policy, While there is probably no question as to the superiority of the Nicarnguan over tho Panama route, we fail to seo wheroin tho construction .of a stilp-cannl across tho isthmus, by the desire and with the consent of the Government of Colombla, by a com- pany, no matter where organized, can bo a violation of the Munroe doctring, or of any American doctrine or polley. Mr, Monroe, in his message following the reeoguition of the independence of the Spanish-American States, Uius asserted what has passed Into Alstory ns the Monroe doctring: . With tho movements [of “forelun Govorns Toute! in this “hemisphere wouro of ucecasity more aneelstcly connected, and by cused woloh must be obvious to all enlightened and ftnpurtial observers, Tho: polltical system of the allied Powers ie cesuntinily diiforent in thls respeet from tht of America, 'Thty diference proceeds From that which existain thelr respect= ve Governments, and to the defense of our own, Whieh has Deon avhieved by the loge of 80. miueh blood and treastre, and matured by tho wisdom of their most onilghtoned clilzens, und Under which wo buye unjoyed unexuinpled fullelty, this whole Natlon la devored, Wo uwo ft, therefore, to cxodor, and to tho ainteublo reluitons oxteting hetwoon tho United Siutes and those Powers, to declare thut we should consider any attempt on thelr part to extend their syatem to any portion of this henlsphery us dangeruus to our peace and safety. With thooxisting colonies or dependen- gles of any Burgpoan Puwer wo bave not Inter fered, and shall not interfere, Wut with tho Governwonta who dave dechired tholrlndopond- eneo and mulntained tt, and whose judepund- onee We have, on great conaidoration and on dust principles, ue! fuplodeed, wo could not View any intorpoaition for thu purpose of ope pressing thetn, ‘or, pontine: in any othor inunuor, thelr destiny by any Ruropean Power In auy otbor ight thin na tho manifestation of ao ubteionly diaposition towarda the United tates, ‘That is the whole of the Monroe doctrine, It was adeclaration that ff any European Power should renew tho war to reelafin its Amerlean colonies (as was then threatened) which hud become Indopend- ent, the United States would feel obliged to make tho cause of theso colonies her own, Leven If the constructlonof n.canal in Panama by acompuny with French capltal, with the consent of the Colombian Government, and atits urgent solicitation, should be conald- ered a “menace to free tustitutions, and o perl! to the American Union," there fs noth Ing whatever in tha “Monroy doctrine’ whieh forbids such a proceeding, any more than there fs iu tho construction of rail- ways Jn the Unlted States by British capita, Tho warning by Mr, Monroo was that no political interference with or contros by any European Government of any Gov- ernment on this continent would be tol- erated, ‘To clainy that this would prevent the construction of s railway or canal on any partof the continent bys forelgn com: pany $s to stretch the Monroe doctrine be- youd all reasonable or defensible grounds. If Mr. Do Lesseps enn serape wp $100,000,000 and plant that money in the swamps and volvante rocks of tho isthints, let him do tt Tho United States aro not his guardians, nor guardians of his French victiins. If tho Niehragtinn Canal is tho better ronte, and can bo constructed for one-fourth of the monoy, It ling no reason to fear tho other scheme,: Certalnly no Atmerienn cay itat will go Into the moro costly work, So eminently superior in all respects, and espes cially In tho cost of the work, and therefore soiuch mora advisable, ts tho Nicarngunt scheme, that wo think its promotton Is wonk- oned rather tinn strengthened by tho appeal to the Monroe doctrine. ‘Chat appeal has no potitical, moral, or. rational founiation, be- cause, in the absence of nny political pur- pose or.deslrn, thore can be no justification in denying to the Panama Government the right to build a canal, or to authorize any parson or company to build such s canal for the commercial purposes of tho world. A COPPERHEAD ATTEMPT TO DISGRACE INDIANA. Gov, Porter, jn his Inaugural message to the Ladinnn Legislatere, mate a statement in regard to tho memorials deposited in the corner-stone of the new State-Louse which will bo a revelation to most people, anit which describes n disarace to the State of Indiana whieh ennnot bo too quickly obliter- ated. Ste sald: It {a an ocension of regret that I have to fool myself constrained to refer to a most disngreen- Ulu tuple, Jn pluchuz in tho corner-stone of tha now Capitol iemorlils of the blstory and prog. ress of tho State, nono was placed tn It referring to the decds of yulur of her soldiers who went forth to battle to preserve the Union, and to gave Indiana from becoming astute upon the border, subjoot to hostlly ralds and, tneurslons, “ond expos hat tho first approach of war, to the {nvasion of hostile artles. In tho address do- lvored upon tho occasion of laying the corners stone, inany minor fnaldunta in the bistory of tho Sintu were rlwelt upon with cloquent copl- oustess, but no reference was made to the tlad- trlowta dnd whose lives wera offered ua tt sic- rifles for tho welfare of tholr State and tho preservition of their country. Nor was mon- on made of the no less Auatrioua lying, Whose gentefal presence umony us f4 a continued re- inembranver of tho immortal eanse for which they fought. If memorials of thotr aurvices Had beon placed in this repository, the onilgsion in the address would have been unlmportunt; but none having beer placed there, the address scetns to omphasize tho sitppusition that ne ruc- oguition wis to bo mado of thole servicos, thelr sicrifces, or thelr heroism, . 6. It hay been duupested that this omission may bu redressed ‘by placing some statue oe other object In tho dome commomorativeof their services, and thus show that, while we could nut remember thom while Inyling the base of tho Cupitol, wo wero constrained to remombor thom when rearing tho: innectes, T hive no hesititton in snying that if tear be done without releasing tho surctlca upon bonds of tho contractors, this corner. stone xbould bodald bare, the reposltory of Its treasures should be apened, and thore should be placed therein o careful record tn relation to the War, of whatoyer 1 great and putriotic Stato might doetn best worth preserving in a record of Its moat illustrious eltizens, ‘Tis cornor-stone was lald under tho aus- pices of a Democratic State Governmont, Ex-Gov. Hendricks, the Democratic leader In tho State, dellyered the address on the occa- ston, Tho omission to deposit any evidences of the noble part which Indiana took in tho dofonse of the Union and to make any men- tlon of the eminent services which Ita states- mon and heroes rendered could not have buen duo to accident, It must have been in- tentional and deliberate. Ifso, It was a vitor manifestation of Copperheadism than any that was made by the “Sous of Liberty” or the "Knights of the Golden Clrele” during tho progress of the War, and It will render Impossible any future defense of Mr. Hen- dricks’ loyalty, It was also an Insult to the patriolisn of the loyal mnases of that Stato, and an Injury to its reputation In the history that shall some day be mnde up from the State urchives, It is an incident which gocs far to identify tho Democratic party ot Indiana with, sho * Lost Caugo,” and init. cates that irreconcilability to the result of tho War Is not altogether confined ta the ox- tremo Bourbons of the South, Wonre dls- posed ta maintain, howover, that this dis- grace to the Stato was committed bythe few men In a position to control the matter, and that the actlon would not have escaped tha censtreof tho ninssesof the Demucratic party Mf it had been understood, ‘Tho war record of Indinna is so gratifying, on tho whole, that [t ought to bo the greatest pride of every citizen of that State, Indiana ‘wos threatened with Invasion on its south- ern border and the loyal people wore ha- rassed by tha “fire-in-the-rear” stny-nt- homes, In spite of these dangers and dis- gensions, largo armies wero promptly re- erulted within Its boundaries, funds wero liberally subserlbed, and Indiana was glori- ously represented nt most of tho great Dat- tles of the War, ‘Tho Governor of the time —the Inmented Morton—was perhaps the most conspicnous and most successful of all the so-enlledl War Governors; and the span of four or five years during which Indiana contributed so notnbly to the prosecution of tho War !s cortainly tho moat conspicuous in the history of the State up to this time. Gov. Porter simply exucts Justice to the loyal peo- ple of Indiana when ho demands that, If pos- sible, the proper deposits shall yet be mado in the cornerstone, or that otherwise somo other fitting testimonial shall bo Identified with the building which shall commemorate Indiann’a record In tho war for tha preserva tlon of the Union. —_————_ REFUNDING AND BANE OLRCULATION, Vho New York Tribune of Inte has printed soveral articles with the apparent purpose of discouraging refunding nt tha lowest practl- cable rate in tha interest of tho banks and the Wall street brokers, ‘The fellowing ox- tract will suiliciently indicate tho Hne of argument it employs: The discussion in the Houge on Baturiny did not justify increused hopefulnices In, respect to tho passage of agrood Funding bill. Vory strong rensons wore ylven tor the beliof that Conyresa had potter do nothing thin to paua tho pending o percent bill, ff it could be carried into full otfect, beonuse it would cause in violent con traction of the bunk olroulation, und cone kequent industrial and commorelnl disue- + Tho stronyost reasons oxlet bellof that tho National banks, for tho’ which now hold 200,403,000 of Band 0 por cont bonds on deposlt far circulation, would retire more thin bulf that amount of notes within alx months, If forced ta choogo between u taxed cire oulation based en 3 per cont bonds and no cro. lation, It would sult some monoy-lenders and some apeculutord, ho doubs, to have & contrac. tion of 875,000,000 or tore before duly}, Dut the consequences would not suit mombors of Congress Who causo thom by thelr vutos, "In othor words, it would seom to bo tho purpose of theso articles to threnten tho country witha disastrous contraction of tha eurrenoy If the lowest avaliable Interest shall ve insisted upon by the Government, Ago matter of fact, there is no real danger of any such result, A shrinkage of only $75,000,000 $n bank-note circulation Is threatened, but the bank-note circulation might be reduced by one-half, aud the deficiency could Lemade up Ina lawful manner from the resources of the Government, aa may bo easily shown, 1, The volumaof greonbacks now amounts only to 810,000,000, und a considerable part of that sum fs: held in the ‘Treasury, which may be relensed,—for Instance, the ten or twelve jnlliions held for the redemption of the fractional currency which has been de- stroyed and lost, and will never be presented for redemption,., But tho Government has authority Ju any emergency to Incseusa tho Breenback fund to tho $10,000,000 fixed as the Hilt, and comprehended within the do olsion of the Suprome Court which naln- tained tho constitutlonallty of tha issue, A contraction of the issue of legal-tender notes within the preaeribed Jini was wade during Johnson's Administration to 83d milifous, and under Grant it wan extended to u82 ailll- fons at tho timeof tho panic of 187% Tho saiue may be done agaln upon contingency, more especially ns they are now redeemable In coin, and, with the releasu of greenbacks unnecessarily retained In the Trensury, tho volume of legal-tonder and redeomnble cur- rency can thus be Inerensed futly $76,000,000, orequat to the threatened contraction of Natlonnl-bank notes, 2 Direetor-of-the-Mint Burchard reports that there fs sufictent gold bullion avallable from the stock of forelan zold that has coma into the country In oxehange for commadi- tles to ocenpy tho mitts fora year, Probably $50,000,000 of gold, and perhavs more, may bo thua minted fn the current year by coln- Ing large pleces, and that sum added to tho circulation of the country, % ‘The colnazo of silyer Is not limited by Taw to $3,000,000 a. month, ns the New York Trihune seems to suppose, ‘Tho lawful Milt Js Just double that amount or $48,000,000 dure ing the year, which, with silver now In tho 'Trensury not represented by certificates in the elreutation of the country, may add $60,000,000 more to the clrenlating medium in the conyentent, safe, and popular shapo of ailver certificates, Add to this the gold that will be tmported during tho year 1881, and produced from our Western mines, together not less than 80 to 100 milllons. 4, Ifnll these resources should prove to bo insuflicient to make up any deftetency in bank cireutntion, the Government can issue at any tine any amountof ‘Treasury notes, not legul-tender, which it can keep at par by redemption, Heneo the thrent of acontraction in bank eurroney by reason of a low bond Is merely 9 foollsh bugbear, ‘There ly not. much danger that tho banks will refuse to Issue notes to any extent which busiuess really demands, ‘becuse thoy cnn always make so much of an lasue profitable, Butif thoy should not do so, the Government has tho power and resotrces, ns wo have shown, to fll up any deficiency. Consequently the only question as to refunding Isasto how low a rato tho new bonds can be negotiated at par, If ats per cent, then lot refunding be agreed upon at iat rate; If not, thon, at B$¢ or 4.05 per cent. In any ense, however, tho action of the banks with referonco to thelr Issues of cireulating notes does not requiroany special consideration in the matter. MORE PROHIBITION FOLLY. A new focal option prohibition bill has beon recently Introduced In the Ohta, Legis- lature which Illustrates the thorough im- practicability of the prolibitlonist class. It provides thnt on tha lat day of May next special election shall be held, at which ‘all persons having the qualifications of electors, without distinetion of sex,” shall be ontitied to voto for or ngalust the suppression of the traMlc in intoxicating Mquors asa beverage. It at such election “tho majority in tho State is nentnat tho sale, then itstinll be untnwful to sell after tho 4thof next July, In case the yoteis not a majority against suppres- sion, then the law shall apply only In coun- tles, cities, towns, and villages which have glvon a majority in its favgr.” ‘This Is the substance of the bill, From the gencral charactor of this scheme one would suppose that tho Ohio statutes were destitute of all logislation aguinst Hator-selliug. ‘To show the real condition of prohibition legis- Intion in that State, however, we quote the following from tho Cincinnati Gazette: Secs. 4,150 to 4,004, inclusive, contain what fs Known ts tho Adair law, ‘This holds persons sulling tquora aud tho property where sok ro- sponglula in damages to nny person who may suiter Crom the acta or negligence of the person drinking tha sning.+ Now, tha noint wo make 19 this: If the Inwa wo bave are not enforced, what Is the use of additional legislation? What fgsurance havo we that now Inwa woutd bo en forced nny more than old onca? Tho law is now tinple to close avery suloon whore distilled Hquora are rotalled tw the State of Ohio, ant Ie 1g tho privilege of any cltlzen or number of oltizens to enforce the inw, Iolding inectings and passinur resolutions will accomplish nothing, Culling upon the police or constables wilt ne- complish nothing, ‘These wo huve alwnys with ‘us, and there 18 tho result,—2,000 lawbrenkers nt work night and day in Clacinnati, and 2.500 housos, inelyding hotels and roatnuranty, able to be devlardd common nulsinees, aud their pro- prictors sent to the common Jail. For thirty yoars tha Constitution and stat- utes of Ohlo linye sought to forbid the salo of liquors, and have refused to grant Neenses, and yet they haya beon 2 complete failure. ‘The only success of thls legislation has been to turn the State over to tha Dentocrats more than once, For thirty years the Adair law has been fn force, and yet it has not stopped tho drinking of Hquor, it has not reduced the demand for Hquor nor checked tho supply, nor lings itarrested tho desire for drinking, ‘Khe people of Ohlo drink as much per enplta ns the people of Inols, or perhaps any other State, aud the people of Cincinnati, in pro- portion to thelr numbers, probably drink more beer thai tho people ef any othor city {In the Amorican Union. ‘The law literally goes for nothing, and yout It 1s one of tho most stringent, inquisitorial, searching yprohib- tory laws that was ever passed agninst sell- ing Nquor, So far as words go, there isnoth- Ing that the most fanatical Prohtbitionist could add to ft that would’ add to its strength; and every form of pollt- feat machinery was put in motlon,— with what) result? Liquorselling and Nquor-drlnking kept on unabated, altho no saloon wns Heensed in Olio. Tho State was given over into the handa of the Democrats, And now after this disastrous politlenl effect jhns pnssed away the same simpletons re- eoinmence thelr ngitation against the vend- erg, and if they are allowed thelr way will reach preclacly tho sano cntl again, Like most unreasoning people, thoy go ata thing wrong end foremost, 'Thoy make thelr attack upon those who supply to those who demand, 1f Prohibitionists want to prohibit, Jot thom make thelr assault uvon those who drink, because so Jong us there is a demand for Nquor there will inevitably bon supply. If the demand can bo dried up or cut off by daw or moral suaslon there will be no supply in tho human nature of things. No satoons will be opened and no saloonkeopors will in- vest thelr monoy in the business. No hotels aud no drug-stores, or groceries, or country stores, or peddlors will keop it for their customers, But ns long as tho bulle of tho threo million people of Ohio aro thirsty, and -demand drink, it Is useless to seck to - prevent it by trying fo stop the supply without haying the reproaslyo law apply to those who drink, aud an overwhelming public sentiment of toutotal- fym to enforce tho Inw everywhere, In citles and towns ag well ag rural} districts, If those reformers want to stop tho practice of drink- Ing, let them make Ita crime to drink; pun- ish the practice severely; pay informers handsomely for betraying; make it the busl- ness of thelr Ilves to find out who drink; Inultiply thelr jalls, tholr Sherlifs, Baillits, oud thelr police and constabulary forces; adultorate their liquors with something which will sicken a driuker, and yet will not unilt Mquors for uses in tho arts and Indus- trieg, ag Is‘done In England with untaxed alcohol Intended to be used In the arta, In this manner they might perhaps stop somo ut lenst from drinking. ‘ if theso roformers could over be Induced to tako s practical view of auything, thoy would know that theycannot stop the supply af an article which entors by iniliions of gal- lons {nto the arts, and sciences, and trades, which is usod in palnts, in dycstuis, Indrugs, in snedicines, and which figures in overy doctor's prescription, And yet, with the long and notorious fall- ure of the Ohlo law clearly before them, our own Prohibitionists are working at Spring- flolil upon exactly the aame lines. They are actively engaged in pushing the Hinds bill, which vrovides for tho registration In each muntefpality of tha mon and women over St years of age, and requirea any Intonding snloonkeeper to present a potltion slaned by the innjority of such registered persons he- fore he enn be granted n license, » ‘This Is equivalent to x vote Int such muntetpality. In connection with this bill the Woman's ‘Temperance Union ts ngliating to secure “Jocal option” by makimg all women over SL yenrs of nge eligible to vote on tho Heense question, Aa usunl, they take this position without regard to logic or practical results. They proceed upon the absurd assumption that It Is only necessary to have a majority of the votes to prohibit the Ieons- Ing of saloons in order to stop men from drinking! Tho only reason why female vote ors are required uf course fs, because thes reformors tre satistled they cannot got male yoters enough, Dut how fs this going to work?) Let us suppose that Inn certain mu- nlefpality there are 8,000 mala yoters, ‘The electiow comes otf; 2,500 of the men vote agalnst tho prolibitton' law, but the women, by adding suificlentof their number to tho ml norlty of 500:men, carry it, How ara thoy golng toenforce {tagninst the majority of men, who are tho pliysteal force of tha municipality ? They have the masculine popular sontiment against them, the innfority of men opposed. to them,—tho great bulk of themiitia, poles, and constabulary force of tho community against them, If the majorlty. of men In the community oro in favor of the Jnw tho women’s votes are unnecessary, If tho majority of tha men are opposed to the Jaw, It, fs useless to talk about women enfor- elng it, for it can’t bu done. ‘This may not be avery gallant view of tho subject, but it 4 the naked truth, tho practical ylew neverthe- less. But, whatever they may do, there {s but one logieal way of doling It, and that is to ect at tho drinkers rather than the sellers, for by stopping the drinkers tha selling will bo dried up, whereas, on the other hand, those who supply Itquor can fever bestopped ag long as there 1s a demand for lt, There Is something not only Wlogical but Inughable in trying to stop Mqnor-selling, and at. the samo. thie leaving the nullilons of thirsty men perfectly free to supply themselves in any way they plense. ‘There ts no saloon or hotel In Ohio which has a license, and yet iniitlons of Buckeyes ensily gut all the Nquor they are willing to pay fore So it will bo in Illinots. ee Bio stories aro told by the Albany: Journal of tho profitsof the Ico business, Tha giat of one told Inst summer was that a donlor. down at Cnaticton hud pockotod $20,000 on 4 smoll investment. This incidont might have been truo or fulso, It is certain tit tho fold has lately looked very iuviting to enpitalists, Tho Ice-houses immediately about Aluany have Bo multiplied that they enn hold 100,000 tons moro now thin thoy could ono yenr ago, Thoro are at pregont 6,000 men aud boy's nnd 1,800 horses nt work on the river housing ico, Tho harvost whan completed will reneh 2,500,000 tons,” ‘The total cost of guthoring tt will bo 2,000,000, Last winter only 160,000 tous wero gathered, $$. ‘Tim wiles-of tha stock jobbers of Now York uave no ond. Only a day or two ago tho oity was thrown into n stute of gront oxoltemont by the report that thore hud been a horrible ne- eldent on the Elevated Miltrond at Third street and Sixth aventte by which sixty lives worv lost, Thon tho seeno of tho accident was changed to tho Second avenue ine. Roth reports wore false, and intonted only for effect on the stock market. Manhattan stock was hammered down half ncont, but Metropolitan would not budye, Tho second story was too much like the ary of wolf, ~ Mn. Wesker, of Philadelphia, ike Mr. Hoycott, of Ireland, has become a verb. fo Henkellzo ” Ja to return to {ts proper place be- tween tracks tho snow whioh a etrect-railrond company pites up at the side of thoutroct. Mr. Henkel {8 an enterprising merchant on Arch strect, and he won tha belt a few dayengoina shoveling mutch with a squad of atreet-rallway employés, Ho hugs bad many imitators since; and Ienkelizing fa tho fashionudle pastime of the Quaker City th{s year, ‘Tus Orlontal tuxurlaneeof the “laughter”? and “appluuso" with which tho gontiomen of tho New York pregs grocted Gen, Grant's heavy sarcasin does not find Imitators In otnor citles, AL must be that there was something in the man- ner of the Genoral'a speech which did not appear Inthe matter of it. The Baltimoro and Boston editors are equally at aloss to uecount for the wild cothusiisim with which tha Now York brothron reeelyod tho General's woll-dirceted Kicks, —————_____— A POSTAT-CAND correspondent wants to know why Monday's Trung thinks “thoro will bo a great export of lumber from Washing- tun ‘Torrltory ta. Manitoba?” Tt don't, but. tho Provf-render and type-sctter nro of that opin= fon, Itis into Montana ‘Tun fiuunn thinks tho great oxport of Sumber will bo. ‘That vast Terrltory nearly adjoining Washington, ex- tonds cast and weat 500 miles, and [s almost dos- ttute of building timber. —$—$——__—— Tris that if the City of New York wero built of Eas, 80 that everybody cauld Koo what overybody elay wus doing, the Inorality of tho elty would risa 60 per cent In ouv your.—Henry Ward Beecher at the Press Club Dinner, : It tho City of Traoklyn hud beon built of glnss.a few years nyo, thoro would havo beon porbupa a large demand for spy-ylnsses umong moral mombers of the community. EEE Ture: Cinclunatl Laqutrer hasn't cnough— not sand In ite gizzard but muslo in its soul, olse it would not givo thia unfeeling noticos A Mr. Gorner sounds us 120 Panwa of rhymea in small type—udvance shouts, us it wore—und ro- questa us to read tho work “through to tho und,” aud thon oritiolse’. Tula able editorial iy for tho purpose of Informing Mr, Gernur that. Methusolah ts not conuceted with thia paper, —$—$—<$<———$—$ Tun Memphis Appeal gtves its constit- Venta this stern command in regurd to white-Hverod seatnp: * Tho deapleablo Edelborto Girol Klok him, ovorybody, who can yet foot nour enough bis vile carcass.” -1f Giro must go near Memphis ho should vaccinate hitneolf agalnst this sort df thing by carrying a smooth. Ang-iron in each coat-tull pocket, —————— Tus Senatorial canvass In Minnesota Ig beeomtug itoresting, Tho St, Paul Pioneers Press claks tho statonient that Sonator MeMilan had not more than fortysfive votes pledged, while the opposition bus from seventy-flye to soyonty-clyht yotes, Ramscy’s friends are now conildent of hiaelection by an ovorwholming majority aftor a fow ballots. —<——————__— ‘Tie Cinclnnat! Enmetrer opines that * If the Virginia newspapers do not atop talking about Koadjusters and Funders, people will soon begln to think tho Old Dominion owes somobody something,” E —_—_— Ir may bo an honor for n Now York nows- puper cditor tobe oloyuted on the too of the boot of tho hero of Appomuttox, but tho gulld in other cities aro not so humble, . oo Ir the Monroe doctrine {s Jn the way of the Panama Canal De Lessops will lick itor tunnel tt. Nothing can stop him, PERSONALS, Klsalng fs somothing ike seven-up, Ifho vega, and she thinks Bhe cun make points in the ganio, she will give one, An Eastern paper says that “Jay Gould hasbeen studying tho possibilities of Dakota," We aro sorry for Dakota, A Ltterary ‘Review hag been started In Omaha, Curson City and Toad Man's Guich uy bo expeoted to soon wheel Into tine, , Itis very gratifying to pick up ao paper in which there Ja not au editorial on the Congres- sional trouble in Utah headed “A Spiked Cun- non.” . ‘ 3 aly : “Madam, you said your son waa a lawyor, Ithink, Hus be much priotico?'? Why, yes, air, ha has 9 groat pruotico~of smoking and chowlng tobacou."* Not long ago‘ Senator Mamlin, of Maino, and Poutinaster-General Maynurd wero talking of the unsatisfuctory Ife a publia man leuds. Mr. Muynord pomplained that he bad beona quarter of a century in pubile life, ang was * ‘fhe oneo pro-slavery Tenry W. lillian, : | py poorer than thon ho entered. * Well,” replied Hamlin,“ Tam not, 1 had nothing when t come inepeed and £ have nothing now." ‘ Gin Sling Is the euphontous name of 4 Chinese Freshman at Yate, Who knows}, Unt ut soma thie In tho vast future Gin gi) iny become oie of the ornaments of the foun Har? i Tluge frauds are sald to have been Dorp. trated in tho construction of the now uaata torpedo boat Butoum, and the matter ta Weing Invostigated. We hopo tho Batoum facts Willig fonehed, Aun Irishmnn, who was very near sightes, About to fight a duct, Inslated that ho shovif atnnd six pneoes nenrer to hla antagontat than tho other did to tim, and they woro both tu fre at tho same thine, Salvint was recently given a dinner by (hg Papyrus Club of Boston. Tho only tronbig about a Noston dinuar fs that the tat Atout biology aud protoplasm fs palnfully in excess of tho rouat beof and potutocs. “Keutuckinns should look boldly at the future,” suya the Loulsyilla Courter-Journal io unless tho futuro contains a raco-conrso and 4 hottio of whisky prominently dispinyed we ara afraid tho ndyieo of uur esteemed contemporary i will bo unheeded, - “What aro our vrinting-presses doting” & Inquires tho Cloveland Leader, In Chiengo they Are removing fugers from smnll boys who foot Around thetn, aud‘ also disseminating soms of thought, ‘But this fe really an important quen tion, and wa ahoull ko to sco it discussed—tg in some other paper, Little noses, Rel as rosos, Pass us duily on the street? low wo long to Bing a song to Eyery one wo obnuce to meet, From “ Songe of the Rowd," by Chartes A. Dam “Your visits rembil mo of the growth of BO successtul nowspaper,” sald Unale Jabez, lean B {ng his chin on tila onne, and glunctug ut Wilting Henry, who wag eweut on Angelica, “Why sor! Anquired William flenry, “Well,thoy commenced on a weokly, grey to bo a tri-weokly, and haya now become dally, with a Sunday supplement," & Tho Phitadulphia fines says: ** When the Wrong man kisses the right woman or the right innn kisses the wrong woman—and both somes § times huppen—lt doos not always follow that thoro fa nidisturbanca nbout it, ‘The world can never know how much unauthorized kissing bas B Deen done and forgiven and forgotten.” Edlter MeChura bas ovidently returned from his Southe ern trip. Gen, Grant is sald to smoke x hundrat clyura in two weoks. He gives away ne any as hestokes. [Ho has used tho snine brand of tm § ported clgars forton years. They cost $2200 hundred. Col. Bob Ingersoll pays $60 for 2 bor, and uses from five to ten cigaranday, Gen, Butler pays $10 and sometimes $20 fora bor, Senator Mutt Carpenter, who nonrly kilted bliin self by amoking, bas beon reduced to three clyara a day. ‘ There must be something after nll this woos A swoct fruition from the harrowed pa Rest some dny for this pneing to and frog A tundor sunbeam and doar flowers at Inat, ‘Thoro wil bo something when these days ore (Am done, r B Something moro falr by far than starry nighte~ A proapect limitless, as one by one Embodlod cnstles crown tho airy bights, —Gen, Hancock, Twas Christmas Eve. Near tho brightly glowing fire snt threo yong men engaged In carnest conyorsation. Well dressed, and with ‘Urlght, Intelligent faces, It was ovident from thoir onrnest look and conversation that some thing of moro than usual import waa being die oussed. The whut whistled shrilly through the Almost desortea strect, while in the houses formas wero flitting to and fro in the tnlf-lyht of tho turnod-down Inmps. It was a season of merry-making and Joy, Aner. Anothor hour had pussod, The threo young nen were still beside tho brightly-gtowing fire, ‘Tho wind still whistled shritly down tho street. B Suddenly tho motlow tones of the chimes ina nolghboring church foll upon the night afr, One of the young men held up a finger, Another man approached bint. -< ere “Santo agin, BL" “AL rlght” They hud ordored anothor drink. Christma bad come,—Enille Zola, $a PUBLIC OPINION, now United States Minister to Brazil, having bee come strongly anti-slavery, tho Bloblic. (Als) Ttegister onlla him a renegade, Albany Jounal (Rep.): When Mr, Blaino gova Into the Cabluct, if tho Ottawn Parlinment docs nothing before that thne, tho “Plumel Knight" may bo trusted to lot daylight shine on that fishing bustness, Sonator Maxey, of Texas: ‘The Demoeratle party will agnin come to power, for it Is tho par Bi ty of the peoply, and, When rengon in tho North shall have reeumed {ts sway, tho poopie thera will como back to the purty of the Constitution, and thus, think, out of this nettle, danger, We pluck thle jlower, sufoty, Baltimore American (Kev.); Gen. Grant not being highly skilled in tho uso of tho lyhter weapons of sarensin, bis romarks night be read as somewhat offensive to the profession to which his hosts belonged, wero ft-not thut the reporta are go plontifully tnterspersed with applause and laughter as to make tt ovident that thoy ace cepted ib all in good humor. Cineinnatl Enquirer: A Now York paper, whilo aubatantinily admitting that tho Weetera pross has tha lead in news, solemnly congratue lates itself that“ New York jJournalisin ia still ahead In the question of honor.’ It isu little aiogulor that this high moral critio ty at this tine engaged In one of tho luryest mud-allugtog: enterprises that aver blavicened white paper. Boston Zranseript (Rop,.): The very good avawer Is returned to the carping critics of Eurepo whocomplain that the United states Jo nothing for tho reat of tha world with thelt powor and prosperity, thut tho proof wo furnish that u pront uation of fifty millions can Iyo{ia peuce mong thomsolves and with afl the world without a standing army’, is tho greatest thing any nation over uve to the world. Phitndolphin Bulietin (Rop,); According toovory rule of Jaw and right that monoy still belongs tous, We are ‘precisely in the attitude of a mun who hna puld money upon a forge check, Wo have been dupod by sharpers, Io the caso of an Individual tho law would not only renuire restoration of the plunder, but {t would sond tho awindions to prison, Why, then, should wo husitate to require that wo sliall have out ‘own restored to wet Nordhoff in Now York Herald: Repub Ncau Sonators aro wondering bow Mr. Georg Bonntor-oloct, so-cullod, of Mivslssippl, te goles to pot Into the Bonath, or how tong ho will tay in if Mr, Hit and other snpient Democratic Bene ators demonstrate that the Sonate may overbatt the record uf n Stata oloction, and one holt! four yours ago ntthat. And Mr, George, of Missi wuts ig not the only Democrat who will, on Mr TNs argument, tnd it a troublesome mntict horoafter to get his seat in tho Bunato or kecplt after be has got in, St. Louls Gtobo-Democrat: We presume thoro {6 not a decent man Ilving to-duy who would not rathor be anybody elye than (20 Wrotebed crenture Giru, who figurea ag tho cblet witness agalust Mrg, Christlanoy. ‘Thery are a! forms of Lusences fu this world, but tho volun teer witnogs ayalust a woman's Bin, In which ho Aimsvlf was sinner ulso, touches tho lowes dopth of them all, Whutever tho courts may do, publloopinion in this country wilt never condemn Sirs, Chriatlanoy upon tho testimony ef Buch 2 wroteh as Giro, ‘Yoronte Globo: The public have heart onough about Prof, Hind’a “disclosures” It thor aro not tolvad to something moro duflnit thid now appears. Wo cannot in tho fizurcs ho bat published seo any justitication for tho stad lungungo he has beon indulging in for year Ho hns ulways asserted that he was keeping buck fucts,—glving his roasuns, It fs true, bu’ still eroating auapleion of bis yood faith all tbe game. Purliawont is now mn gvssion ut Guava und, we there {84 motion for the papers ont ne subject, thy publlu may expoct soon to kil about it, New York Times; In accordance with® roconimendation from tho Poat-Onice Deptt Ment, {¢ is proposed to appropriate $1,500" for the purpose of componanting steam ines cH waged in parrylng the United States mulls bo tween our own porte and thoso uf Moxlco, Cel tral America, South America, and trans-Iacitla countries.” It is ugrcod that this volley woul develop trade and cucouruge tho eatabliahiney of Amvrican'steatmship service. Certainly: tho anoual expenditure of a sain no grote than this can be mude to result in startle tbe Ines of communication, ua ti allegyd wil nea doue, the apprupriution will be a judicious &