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SEPT. 12, 1878. POLITICAL MEETINGS. HON. IGNATIUS DONNELLY will address his fellow citizens as follows: Northfleld, Tuesday, Sept 17. Litchfield, Tuesday, Sept 2i. Btillwater, Thursday, Sept. 28 The above meetings will be be held in the evening, commencing at 7 10 o'olock. Mr Donnelly will also speak at the Anoka fair Sept. 25th, at 2 M. THE Chinese lanterns that lighted the park wheie Kearney delivered his speech in Brooklyn, must have mocked him, for they didn't seem to '"go" at all in obedience to his demands. THE churches of Chicago are $6,432 be hind the liquor dealers in their contributions to the yellow fever suffereis. But of course the contributions as well as the prayers of the righteous avail more than those of the wicked. "THEBB is little in .he result of the Ver mont election to encourage the Democrats," says a stalwart exchange. We don't know about that. There's lots in the result to dis turb the Republicans, and that of itself is a good deal of comfort. SENATOB WALLACE, of Pennsylvania, falls into line in favor of the substitution of green backs for nt tional bank notes, although he denies the power of Congress to increase the volume of currency. It is very evident that the national banks, like the Chinese, must go. THE prohibitionists in Massachusetts are forsaking their chosen candidate, Talbott, and flocking to the standard of Old Stra bismus. Ihey don't seem to realize that while Butler is in favor of a prohibitory tariff he is not in favor of a prohibitory liquor law. THE New York Times bemoans a reduc tion of the banking capital of that city to the amount of over fourteen millions of dol lars within the past three years. The fact is not a matter to be mourned. It shows that more money was invested in that line than was needed, and its release will place it where it will do more goodin some pro ductive trade. MEHEMET ALI, who was murdered by mob of Albanians the other day, was a Ger man by birth named Shultz. He apostatized and became a firm believer in the dogmas of the prophet, and arose to great distinction in the Ottoman empire. He was one of the Turkish plenipotentiaries to the Berlin con gress, and his fidelity to the provisions of the treaty framed there was the cause of his murder. THE New Hampshire Republicans admit in their platform that "the country has reached a period demanding the largest ex perience, wisdom and courage in the conduct of national and State affairs, and cannot afford to commit its destinies to the keeping of the party that for twenty years has shown itself incapable and unworthy of great trusts, and cares of State and nation." And yet, in spite of this frank admission, they do not propose to turn the government over to the Democratic party which has for nearly a hundred years shown itself capable and worthy of great trusts. MB. HAYES again recited John Sherman's epeech on Tuesday to the people of Madison, with a few remarks of his own "hove in" as a sort of seasoning or relish. Of course he tried to cast ridicule upon the paper cur rency of the country, and grossly misrepre sented the opinions of those who demand that that currency should have a fall legal tender value. It is a characteristic of Re publicans everywhere to cast discredit upon the government, and to seek to convey the impression that its guarantee or indorse ment is of no value whatever. It is apart pf the repudiating scheme of John Sher- ^fe&eiia-l man, bat it mast be humiliating to the peo ple to witness the President of the United States going about the country and assisting in the disreputable business. THE testimony before the commission in vestigating the case of Fitz John Porter con tinues to be entirely favorable to that gentle man. Thus far not the slightest suspicion of the truth of the charges against him can be proved from the evidence, and there is no reason to doubt bat the verdict of the commission will fully relieve him of the odium that has for so many years clung to bis record through the hasty judgment of the court martial that passed upon his case in 1862. It is not improbable that one re sult of the present inquiry will be the con viction for perjury of one or more of the witnesses who testified against him in the first place. THE CHANCES FOB WASHBURN'S DEFEAT. A Minneapolis newspaper, evidently alarmed by the union of the Democrats and Nationals upon Mr. Donnelly, seeks to derive a crumb of comfort from the vote for Gov ernor last year the counties comprising this Congressional District. According to that paper Pillsbury's majority in these coun ties was 7,795. Every one knows that so far as the Democracy were concerned the canvabS last year was absolutely dead. Mr. Banning had no help whatever. Not a speaker was pat in the field, no documents were circulated and even tickets were not supplied. Probably a hundred dollars would be in excess of the amount expended by the State Central committee making the can vass. As a result the Democratic voters weie not brought out. The Republicans having control of the patronage made a vig orous canvass and the returns show that they polled for Governor only 1,572 votes less for Pillsbury in 1877 than for Hayes, while Banning polled 7,271 less than the vote cast fur Tilden. Pillsbury's large majority was entirely due to the fact of no canvass being made by the Democrats, and is in no sense a criterion of the result when national issues are at stake, as at present. If the Washburn organ desires to give fig ures which can be taken as a fair basis it will go back a little farther than the dead campaign of 1877. In 1875, for instance, Albert Scheffer was the Democratic candi date for State treasurer and he actually ear ned this district by 1,931. In 1876, Stewart, (Republican for Congress had but 2,096 majority over McNair, Democratic. The fol lowing table will be found instructive as indicating what Donnelly will have to "over come" to be elected: Treasurer, 1875. Counties. Aitkin Anoka Decker. Benton Big Stone Carlton Cass Chisago Cay Crow Wing Douglas Grant Hennepin Isanti. Kanabec Luc qui Paile Lake Meeker Vlille Lacs Mornson Otter Tail Pembiua. Pine Polk Pope. Ram-ey St. Louis Sherburne Stearns Stevens Todd Wadeua Washington. Wilkin Wright Yellow Medicine., Totals UongresB, l7o. Pfiender Schefler Stewart. McNair. 1 20 41 375 47ft 153 29 119 Al 507 169 5d 381 205 349 60 23 1 92 15 602 97 130 121 14 677 416 1MJ 9 110 644 171 276 8 138 10 289 152 121 644 f-3 9b6 352 141) 8i6 21*. 8,342 391 12 10b 21 673 4'i 137 9J4 8 1 15 29 1,23 61* 317 648 81 376 43 932 88 984 144 2,687 53 9b 2 4,725 619 105 27 5,749 165 ^3 !5 1 77 146 14 194 158 130 207 3,517 272 265 2,388 136 252 20 1,444 41 1,435 116 706 200 311 1,0 137 30) 1,38! 9' 132 219 641 2,852 469 388 1,145 lb7 489 54 1,641 88 1,326 451 3lH 171 12 4,811 149 li,8 1,880 8 217 1,169 2+ 1,263 18 14,0 16,016 Scheffer (Dem.) 22,823 majorityi 20,727 in 1875. Stewart (Rep.-) majority 187 1,931 2,119 These figures very clearly show the pos sibilities and demonstrate that even at the worst a change of from ten to fifteen hun dred is sufficient to elect the Democratic nominee. Albert Scheffer did secure that change, proving that this district is not nec essarily Republican at all times and under ali conditions. Another interesting feature is the respect ive votes of Ramsey and Hennepin counties at the two last Congressional elections. In 1874 Hennepin County gave King 609 ma jority while Ramsey gave Wilson 2,031, making Wilson go out of the two counties with 1,422 majority. In 1876 Hennepin county gave McNair 1,024 majority and Ramsey county gave him 665 majority, making McNair go out of the two counties with 1,689 majority. With the aid of the greenback vote Hennepin, which is large, Mr. Donnelly is reasonably sure to go or.t of these two counties with 2,000 major ity, but, granting that he has no more than McNair, he then has to secure only 1,100 votes outside of these counties to be elected. He will gain a large number of Republican votesprobably a good deal more than the necessary 1,100and the Greenback vote will swell up his majority handsomely. That is an unknown quantity which cannot well be estimated this year, but it is certain to be large, and sufficient to make up for any such delinquencies as befell Mr. Banning's vote, with a few thousand to spare. The indica tions are that it is only a question as to how much Mr. Donnelly's majority will be. THE MAINE ELECTION AND ITS ZESSON. Returns from the Maine election continue to come in better and better. There appears to be no doubt whatever of the defeat of Powers and Hale for Congress, and the Re publican candidates for State officers, from governor down, lack a majority, and the election will, therefore, have to be decided by the legislature. That body, according to the latest reports up to the present writing, is composed of sixty-nine Republicans, twenty-one Democrat and fifty-four Green backers, with seven districts to hear from. If the Democrats or Greenbackers carry but one of the districts yet to be heard from, they can control the legislature, and select a combination State ticket, thus completely overthrowing the power of the Republican party in the State. This result is something to he proud of. It is the capture of one of the most import ant strongholds of the enemy in the very beginning of the contest the infusion into their ranks of a powerful disorganizing ele ment that will cause their phalanxes to melt away like snow before the midday sun. It will also have the effect of cementing the opposition to the party of spoils into a solid army bound to march forward to victory. It ought to have the effect of causing Demo crats, Nationals and Greenbackers to lay aside their technical differences, their trivial UijfS^r-zr^x^tm SSC"Si 1K**TW* disputes, and unite for the common good into a solid, irresistible advancing army. There is really but a technical difference of opinion between the Democrats and the National Greenbackers. On questions of finance their theories are almost identical on all other questions there is no appreciable variance. Then why, in view of the grand results they can accomplish by joining their forces, should they remain apart? To maintain separate organizations and to run separate tickets is simply to invite defeat. To unite under one banner is to assure success. Some fear that a coalition between the Democratic and Greenback parties would result in disaster to Democratic principles. This is nonsense. Democratic principles have survived worse ordeals than that. And it is not certain but the Democratic idea needs a little toning downthe infusion of new bloodwhile there is no donbt but the Nationals need bracing up ballast such as they can only receive by association or amalgamation with the Democratic party. At any rate, the end in this case will justify the means, and the Democratic and the Na tional parties will be exceedingly foolish if they do not learn and act upon the lesson of the Maine election. v-* HICK THOMPSON ON THE FINANCES. Ihe dauntless mariner of the Wabash, Hon. Dick Thompson, secretary of the navy, has been telling his old neighbors what he knows about government. The result was apparently satisfactory to himself, but will hardly prove as satisfactory to those who heard him or those who may take the trouble to read his speech. He is more can did in some of his remarks, however, than other of the Republican orators who have ventilated their views during the campaign. He announces that he does not believe that the Democratic party throughout the United States favors an unlimited issue of irre deemable paper currency, and in this he is right. He might have gone further without doing violence to his conscience, and de clared that none but a few hair-brained fanatics with no knowledge of finance favor such an issue of currency. He very truly observes that the currency question ought not to be a party questionought not to have a Republican and a Democratic side to it, for it concerns us all of every party. It is much to be regretted that any part of the people should attempt to exalt one portion of the currency at the cost of the debase ment of another portion, and that the Re publican party should by such means play into the hands of the speculators of Wall street who live on the depreciation caused by such conduct. But such is the fact. The instigators of the financial policy of the Re publican party which John Sherman, Dick Thompson and the rest of the administra tion uphold, are the speculators whose occu pation it is to create and maintain instabil ity in our finances. To prevent the green back ever having a legal tender value is their only hope, and to that end they are bending all their energies. The dauntless Dick then proceeds to ask a question and to answer it himself. He says: What does every man of common sense un derstand by a dollar? The very term conveys to everybody's mind the idea of coin, of gold of silver, or some other metal representing that much of value. In this Mr. Thompson is slightly in error. It may be that coin enters into our concep tion of what constitutes a dollar, but to no greater extent than the idea of a greenback. Ninety-nine out of every hundred men prefer a greenback to a gold dollar, and gold and silver, on account of their weight and bulk, can never become the circulating medium to any great extent. In small sums they are a desirable form of currency, and for exchanges with foreign countries they are indispensable, but in the transaction of our domestic trade and commerce paper money always has been and always will be the only medium of exchange. It is far more essential than gold or silver, because of its greater convenience, and it is therefore more essential that it should have a tegal tender value. Mr. Thompson states the truth when he says that what we want is confidence in the government and in each other, and stability in our finances. This confidence is precise ly what the Democratic party is seeking to establish, and what the Republican party is seeking to overthrow. The Republican party repudiates the entire paper is3ues of the government, and a part of the coin issues. The Democratic party proposes to honor all issues alike, and to thus insure stability. Holding the views that he does, it seems rather inconsistent that Mr. Thompson should support the financial policy of the Republican party. He evidently desires to see that accomplished which the Democratic party is seeking to accomplish, and to defeat the financial the ories that are distinctively Republican. Arguing the financial theory from the Re publican standpoint is evidently not Dick Thompson's forte. He had better stick to his navy. That is small enough for his comprehension and he may be able to handle it in a way that will not bring ridicule upon him. THE St. Louis Republican gives currency to the report, coming from Washington, that the national banks, alarmed at the growth of the demand for thtir abolition, are about to enter into an arrangement with the Re publican party managers by which the patties of the first part are to furnish a con siderable sum of money, with which it is hoped to carry certain doubtful Congres sional districts for the Republican candi dates, thus securing a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, in con sideration for which the parties of the second part are to protect the interests of the national banks. Whether there is any truth in the report as thus given we will not pretend to say, but there is no doubt of the fact that individually the bankers will do all they can to assist the election of the Republican candidates. The Democratic party has arrayed itself against the national banks, and it is to be expected that the banks will do battle to the Democratic candidates. It is questionable, however, whether the Republicans will dare to form an open alliance with these corporations, although secretly they will no doubt claim and receive all the aid they can render in the pending campaign.t fi Closing: Up Business and Reducing. BOSTON, Sent. 11.The capital of the Black stone National bank has been reduced from S2.000.000 to $1,500,000. .r "V RATHWAY, N. J., Sept. 11.At a meeting of the shareholders of the Union National bank yesterday it was decided to go iuto voluntary liquidation and close up its affairs. f1 *HB ST. PAXI DAILY GLOBE, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1878. FAIR AT RED WING. Firemen'* Parade and Opening Exercises Much ttpouting and Other Similar Non senseExibitor* and Officers Hard at Work About Their Business. I Special Telegram to the Globe RED WINO, Sept. 11.The formal open ing of thefirstannual fair of the Mississippi Valley Industrial Association took place at the new fair grounds and driving park yes terday afternoon. For the first day, the at tendance was larger than was anticipated. Like the beginning of all similar enterprises, the day was devoted largely to arranging ex hibits and getting ready. The assemblage was estimated at from 1,000 to 1,500 people. Goods and stock continued to arrive from early morning until late at night. The grounds selected are on a beautiful plateau near the upper edge of town, and on the second bench or terrace back from the Mississippi. The site is picturesque and beautiful, with the great river creeping lazily along on one side, while over beyond and boldly outlined stretch miles of the serrated bluffs that fringe the western border of a sister State. To the southeast, with its jutting headlands, Lake Pepin nestles in its primeval bed. Half encircling the grounds on the west is a grand amphi theatre of bluffs adorned with alternate belts of timber of grasslands. Half a mile awav, and lower down, throbs with busy life the young city with its 7,000 souls and rich manufacturing industries. THE GBOUNDS embrace an area of twenty acres, surroundpd by a close board fence eight feet in height. A half mile track has been prepared with great care, and, with proper age and use, it an extremely good one.. The in will be judges' stand is the best one the State. It is three stories in height, twelve feet square, with one story fitted np in good style for representa tives of the press. Tho main building is the form of a maltese cross, 120 leet in length each way, arranged in fine apartments, me chanics' hall, merchants' hall, agricultural hall, floral hall and art hall In addition there is a carriage house 38x60 for the dis play of vehicles and other similar articles. There are fhirty-five box stalls and a large numbe of the more common ones. A building has been erected by the association for Madam Da Pree to exercise her pedestri anism in. She is to show the people the kind of medicine they need to cure their physical and mental disabilities. THE OPENING PBOGBAMME. About 1 o'clock p. M. a parade of the fire companies was formed in the city under the direction of the chief marshal, Sheriff S. C. Chandler, and headed by the Red Wing cornet band, marched out to the grounds and paraded once around the tiack and drew up in front of the grand amphitheatre, where the band played, and short speeches were indulged in of a dedicatory character, and much gratulation expressed all around. The speakers were Judge Wilder, Pi of H. B. Wilson, Goidon E. Cole, lion. J. A. Thatcher, Sheriff Barton, of Rice county, E. J. Hodgson, of St. Paul, Col. Jennison and five or nine more happy fellows. Of course the speeches were brief, pithy and full of the glories of the rising future. Goodhue county came in for her full meed of praise. Mr. Cole told the people they must have the Cannon Valley railroad, as the people of Ramsey and Hennepin coun ties had them at their mercy by monopolizing their chief industry, the wheat and flour trade. There was a large discrimination, he said, both in freights and the price of wheat in favor ot those two counties and against Goodhue county. He was only indulging in a little soft solder favor of his pet schemethe Cannon Valley railroadwhich scheme he drummed into the ears of a few listeners in oi.e of the halls the city. Of course Ramsey and Henne pin counties caught an awful scoring. They were bulldozing the rest of the State general, and Goodhue county in particular, and the people should rise up and call them cursed. Should speeching break out on the head of a dunce, I have a plaster that will bring away all the long speeches at once. After the opening formalities were through with, a race came off around the trackdistance a half milebetween the three fire companies, Cataract engine, Red Wing hose, and Niagara. It was won by the former in 3:28, drawing 300 feet of hose. At least 3,000 people are on the ground to-day, and the fast horses are being exer cised preparatory to the races that are soon to take place, 2:50 and 2:32 classes. From 4 to 8 p. M. Madame Dapree and one or two of hex children are to walk against time. The fair, taken together, promises to be a very excellent one, the entries are large, and in the horse stock department the showing is very fine. THE ATTENDANCE to-day was quite up to anticipation. I the am bnilding the display is. fur a county fair, large, and the exhibits are tastefully arranged. The art display surpasses the exhibits of many a State fair. I the agricultural, mercantile and mechanical departments the displays are remarkably good. Of agricultural implements there are not many on the ground. Dairy and household exhibits are small and few in num ber, but good as far as they go. The display in horses is first-class. Cattle, sheep, swine and poultry are not largely represented. Thu far the attendance has been just large enough to suit th' se who want to see and not be jostled. There has been room enough without crowding or being crowded. To-morrow a large crowd is anticipated. SENATOB WINDOM is here and will deliver his address at 11 A. M. to-morrow. At 4 p. M. to-day Madam Pree began her long walk, and while the lamp holds oat to burn she still continues to wnlk and turn. She is to keep it up until 8 o'clock and then retire for the night. Hers is a sideshow, and it is earnestly hoped she will win The day has been as glorious as nature could make. PROGRAMME: In the forenoon a lady equestrian rode horse back for a prize. Two gentlemen tried their equestriansbip for a pair of prize spurs, a la Santa Anna. A 2 P. a came the races, firt the 2:50 class, three in fave to harness, for a parse of $200, mile heats, hrst, second and third moneys, $100, $60, $40. E A. Parker, Minneapolis, names bay gelding Chester: Frank Hall, St. Paul, b. g. Marabrino Prince, and V. Simpson, Winona, Daisy Dean. Chester took the race in thiee heats, Prince second, Daisy Dean third. Chester 1 1 1 Marabrino Prince 3 2 2 Daisy Dean 2 3 3 Time2:41K, 2.34% 2 39%. The second race came under the head of the 2:32 class three in fave, for $300 $150 to first $90 to second, and $6 0 for third money. F. St. Germain, St. Paul, names b. s. Fearnaught J. C. Oswald, Minneapolis, ch. m. Flora Belle and E Parker, Minneapolis, b. g. Charley Champ. They scored in the summary as fol lows: Fearnaught 1 1 1 Flora Belle. 2 2 2 Charley Champ 3 3 3 Time: 2:32 2.35 2.36%. It should be borne in mind tha* this was a half-mile track, and the first time horses ever trotted on it for money. Fearnaught is a great, strong, long-strided horse, and it is evident that there is lota of speed in bim Flora Belle is the same pretty, honest little creature that she ever v. as. She never throws a race, and Reldom comes out last. Charley Champ has more speed in him than was shown here to-day. I11~" "TTO-MOBEOW'S PBOGBAMHE is of a mixed character. But Friday brings us to the principal races, one of which, the St. James Hotel purse, amounts to $600. Escorting Dead Knight TVmplar. CHICAGO, Sept. 11.An escort of distinguish ed Knights Templar passed through here to day route to Boston with the body of Hon. Frank Welch, M. C, and past grand master of Nebraska -_,/-, iCT^fi fe* *& ^*i^c^^fS@fv^P THE NEW NORTHWEST. I A Glowing Tribute to tha Northern Pacific Country and Extension of Zand Grant Urged. lEdltoriol in Chicago Times, Sept 7.1 Everywhere in this number of the Times will be found another of the interesting and instructive letters from a Times commis sioner who has been making an extensive tour of observation in the country traversed by the Northern Pacific railway. The observations and general conclusions of the writer coincide with the impressions made upon all intelligent visitors to that re lon since the beginning of aotail ssttl ement and cultivation, and famish additions to the now entirely satisfying mass of evidence showing the error of those who, at the out set of that great enterprise, affirmed that muck of the country through which that railway must pass was an inhospitable and uninhabitable desert. There is, in truth, no section of country, of any considerable ex tent, anywhere in that region, to which such words are applicableat all events, there is no such country, north of the forty-fifth parallel, between the M'ssis sippi river and the Pacific ocean. The poor est portion on the whole line lies between the head of Lake Superior and the Missis sippi. It is a lacustrine region containing a great deal of 'tamarack swamp," and a great deal of more or less valuable timber, but only a light and scanty soil. Crossing the Mississippi at Brainerd, the country begins almost immediately to improve, and grows better steadily until its fertility culmi nates in the marvelous valley of the Red River of tbe North, a vast plain that is hard ly surpassed in agricultural capabilities by any equal area on the globe. From the western margin of that remarkable "valley" to the Missouri river the country is undulat ing, treeless, and bears an imperfect resem blance to the more southerly region called "the plains," but possesses much greater ag ricultural resources. There are no "desert" places no "bad lands none of any consid erable extent that do not present a rich, deep soil. Probably not less than 80 per cent, of all the country between Brainerd and Bismarck is a region of good agricul tural land. Soon after leaving the Missouri the to pography of the country changes to broad valleys and intervening water-sheds. The valleys of the Little Missouri, the Yellow stone, the Poudre and many other large stieams furnish everywhere, in the luxur iance of vegetation, evidence of extraordi nary fertility and a hospitable climate. Tim ber begins to be plentiful, and the hills con tain coal abundance. Throughout its length and breadth, Montana is a country of noble rivers and broad, magnificent valleys, separated by hills and mountains clothed with forests. On account of its general aspects, as well as by reason of its varied and vast mineral resources, it has been styled the Pennsylvania of the Northwest. Al ready in many of the valleys its thriving settlements, where herds of catt may bs counted by thousands, and where orchards of apples and peaches yield unfailing har vests in sight of snow-capped mountains. Perhaps of ali the Northwestern territories Montana is the one which in the variety of its lesomces and capabilities, the advan tages of its topogiapby, the beauty of its scenery, and the hospitality of its climate, holds out the highest inducements to rapid settlement Such is a general glance at the country, east of Washington Territory, traversed by the line of the Northern Pacific railway. Comparing it to the country traversed by the Union Pacific, the reality is not a com parison, but a contrast. The Northern region is in every respect vastly the better region. Between the Mississippi and the Pacific, along the Northern route, not 20 per cent, of the country is bad, for purpose of agriculture, wheieas, between the same ex tremities along the central route hardly more than 30 per cent, of the country is eood for any puipose. The local traffic possibili ties (nay, certainties) of the northern road the traffic resources that must appear along the line of the road by consequence of its existenceare incomparably greater than it would be possible to claim for any other con tinental line constructed or proposed. Anything like correct ideas of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific, any cor rect or even approximately correct no tions of its fertility and wonderful capabilities, have only been acquired since the completion of the road to the Missouri river, and in fact since settle ments along the line began to spring up. As actual knowledge of the country and its lesources increases, it becomes more and more apparent that the Northern Pacific is, of all the projected railways to the western ocean, the one which must be of the greatest value and importance to the American peo ple. It is tbe one which will open to settle ment by far the most extensive, most fertile, and every way most desirable regions. It is, therefore, the one for tbe construction of which it was the wisest policy to give public aid in tbe way of a grant of public land. And it is for the same reasons that it will be mamfestlv wise policy to extend the time limited for the completion of the road. The necessity for such an extension has arisen by no fault or omission of the able and energetic gentlemen composing the present company. They have fairly for feited no right have failed in the fulfillment of no undeitaking have done nothing and omitted nothing to change any reason that ever existed in favor of the carrying forth of this great enterprise. On the contrary, stronger and more cogent reasons can now be urged favor of an act extending the time for the completion of the undertaking than any that could have been given at the outset for beginning it. One or two of these reasons it may be timely to mention. The comriietion of one railway to the Pa cific gave rise to a stronger argument in favor of a second than could have been made in favor of a first. A single line of railway across the continent is of course a monopoly, unchecked by any possible competitor. To bring such monopoly within a reasonable power of control, a competing line becomes a necessity. The foice of this argument is shown by the recent action of the Union and Central Pacific companies in doubling their rates of transportation. Last winter, it will be remembered, Congress passed an act, (the Thurman act, so-called) to compel those corporations to pay the interest, which they had solemnly engaged to pay, on the bonds issued to them by the govern ment, but which they had never even pre tended to pay. What was their response to the act requiring them to pay what they had agreed to pay? As it to manifest their con tempt of the Congressional act, and show that they would devise away of evading it in effect, they doubled the rates of transport ation. What was it but to say: Congress has compelled us to pay the interest on the country's bonds, as we agreed to therefore we will compel the country to pay it back by doubling our freight charges thus, in spite of Congress, we propose to avoid an honest fulfilment of our obligations. It certainly looks as if this were the real motive of those companies in doubling their freight charges. It looks as if their leal purpose was to make the coun try pay what Congress declared that tbe companies should pay, as they had agreed to. What answer can Congress make to this? How can the country escape the conse quences of such a power in a rail road companyvirtually a power to over rule and defeat the supreme mandate of the national legislature? It is plain that the only certain and effective way would be tbe opening of a competing railway to the Pacific. The most appropriate, as well as the most effective, answer to the outrage ous proceeding of the Union Pacific line, which Congress could give would be the pas sage of an act extending the conditions of the ff^ W lflgl 4 land grant to the Northern Pacific. The company are asking for an extension for ten years but if it be granted, the Northern Pacific will most likely be in operation throughout the whole line in less than six years from this time. The Times has no hesitation in saying that such extension of the N' rthern Pacific grant can be put upon tbe highest ground of public interest, jrstice, and propriety. It is an exceptiontional case, if there ever was one. It is a case in which the reasons now manifestly justifying and demanding an ex tension of this particular grant are ten-fold strorger than any that were or could hav been originally urged in favor of any railroad grant whatever. WISCONSIN NEWS. The*money order business of Milwaukee aggregated $321,490 during the month of August, against $273,626 for the same month last year. The Central Wisconsin fair opens in Wa tertown, September 16th, and continues un til the 21st. A pair of trained elks, driven in harness, are among the attractions. Otto Bernhard Heniki was drowned in the Menominee river by the accidental capsizing of the skiff in which he was fishing. He was 41 years old and leaves a wife and eight children in destitute circumstances. The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway in August amounted to $523,000 against $677,050 during the same period in 1877. The earnings of the road during eight months ending Aug. 31, aggre gated $5,428,000, an increase of $1,237,188, or 29.5 per cent, over the same period in 1876-77. A Trempealeau man had an old horn that had been used for powder, which he filled with shot. Finding that some of the old powder had caked on near the mouth and heating the tine of a pitch fork he tried to burn out the hole, when there was an explo sion, the pitch-fork going out of his hand and some of the shot into his leg. According to a La Crosse telegram to the Chicago Times, considerable alarm is felt in Buffalo county over the supposed presence in that locality of Jesse James, one of the celebrated James brothers. The telegram states on what is considered reliable authori ty that Jesse James, the notorious Missouri outlaw, has been in Buffalo county, sixty miles northwest of that city, during the past week. Mrs. Lena Fnldner,of Milwaukee, has com pleted some needle-work that is as fine a piece of art as was ever exhibited in Mil waukee. It is a picture about 16x20, and represents a quiet foreign interior. The figures are a lady and a maid, the latter en gaged in dressing the former's hair. The work is so finely executed that even the fea tures are as smooth and perfect as in an oil painting. On the 8th of September, 1860, eighteen years ago, the steamer Lady Elgin sunk in Lake Michigan by collision with a schooner, carrying down to a watery grave some 500 persons, excursionists from Milwaukee. Many a bereaved household has canse to re member, at this distant day, the sadness, the anguish, the suspense of that terrible hour. Less than 100 were saved out of the great number on board. On Sunday, the 8th mst., at 12 10 o'clock, Edward H. Ball, for sixteen years a respected resident of Milwaukee, died at his residence on Jefferson street, surrounded by family and friends. For the past few days his end has been momentarily expected, and there fore his death caused no great shock of sur prise, but only one of grief. It has now been several weeks sin *e he has been partially prostrate with a complication of diseases which finally terminated in dropsy. Stephen Coulter, aged 55 years, died sud denly at his residence Milwaukee. For some time past he has been suffering with premonitions, so his friends supposed, of brain fever. At periods he became quite excitable, and was with difficulty controlled. The hot weather lately seems to have in creased his malady, until yesterday he be came extremely violent, threatening to tear up the carpets and furniture of the room. Only his wife could quiet him, and he died in her arms suffering untold agony. Attempted sharp practice at Neenah was nipped in the bud. The bank at that place ordered 10,000 Mexican dollars and began to pay them out at par. The citizens ac cepted them for 100 cents, and transacted business with them at the value fixed by the bank. But when the dollars began to be re turned to the bank they would only take them at a discount of 20 cents. The citizens held a public meeting, at which they re solved to withdraw their patronage from the institution unless its managers would pay 100 cents on a dollar. This had the de sired effect, and the bank officers an nounced their willingness to comply with those terms. Hayes' Omissions. To the Editor of the New York Sun. SIB*. In his recent speech at St. Paul, R. B. H. Hayes gave a glowing account of tbe sonnd financial condition attained under Re publican rule. But he was careful not to allude to what it had cost the people to reach that result. The primium paid on tbe bonds purchased to effect the reduction of the debt would nearly pay six months' interest of the present debt, and, according to Senator Dawes, of tbe taxes levied during the ten years, $100,000,000 were stolen by Republi can officials. Tbe return of our bonds in such large amounts from Europe he thinks a benefit to us most people think otherwise He says that in 1866 our taxes amounted to $488,000,000, while in 1877 they were less than half that sum. He omits to state that about 50,000 office holders were sufficient to collect and disburse the first, while tbe smaller amount required 100,000, A mer chant doing business that way would be thought either insane or a fraud. T. JONES. The Presidential fraud. [St. Peter Times.] The President of the United States has gone to Iowa, where his troupe, it is said, will meet the Forepaugh aggregation, tbe whole forming at once the largest and most majestic show on earth. As the "Presiden tial fraud" shoots off his mouth while ped dling his opinions, Forepaugh's elephants will build up a pyramid, and Mr. Billy Bar low, the king of clowns, will keep the audi ence in a roar of laughter. Rams is expected to be present also the blue elephant that has hair all over him on the outside. Such a combinationtaking in Hayes' circus, Forepaugh's menagerie, Rams, Mr. Billy Barlow, the woolly elephant, and a museum propelled by steamcosting $2,000,000, may never be witnessed again. Return of a Democratic Member. [St. Louis Times.] Ignatius Donnelly, Greenbaok candidate for Congress in the Third Mmnasota dis trict, now represented by Jacob H. Stewart, is a man of some note and unquestionably of some ability, thongh he has at times a queer way of showing it. He is now about 47 years of age, has been lieutenant governor of tbe State and was for three successive terms (1866-72) a member of Congress, elected as a Republican. At the last election Stewart received 22,823 votes to 20,727 for McNair, Democrat, and Donnelly's nomina tion may open the way this year to the re turn of a Democratic member. Ignatius Can Beat Him. [Hastings Union. Ramsey county delegates to the Democrat ic Congressional convention for the Third district are reported as favorable to Mr. Don nelly. The feeling is if any man can beat W aahbuxn Ignatius is his name. GLOBET.ETS. Literary fellers in France are long-lived. There are scarcely any old maids in Russia, Baltimore boasts the wickedest boys in Amer ica. London possesses nine cemeteries, with a to tal area of 2,225 acres. The Vassar college sylphs consumed 82,000 pounds of meat last year. 8chnyler Colfax, it is asserted, has read his Bible through twenty-one times. A son of one of the late Siamese twins is a student at Chapel Hill Institute, N. C. At the present moment the fashionable drink of the English female aristocracy is gin. There were 100 miles of tunnel in Great Britain in 1877, which cost about $50,000,000. On reaching home the Shah of Pema spent the first day hard at work kissing his ninety wives. The French have refused to award a pre mium to Edison's phonograph at tho Paris ex position. Ex Gov. Seymour has induced the vest de partment to experiment in the use of cheese as an army ration. Bntler is subjecting himself to a great deal of wear and tear for a man who hasn't any thing new to say. A Rt. Louis justice offers to give any one who will pay him 82,000 his entire fees for one year, marriages included. The beanty of a man's parting his hair in the middle apnears to be that it gives both ears an equal chance to flap. Jesse Pomerov has made another attempt to escape from the Massat husetts State prison, his second vitbi a few weeks. Emigrants to Cyprus should take their throat wash along with them as whisk} is retailed there at thirty cents a drink. The Princess Louise is having a private studio erected in the garden of Kensington Palace. It is nearly finished. The yearly revenue of Denmark is $12,920,- 000, and its expenditure $11.445,0110. It pub lic debt in 1877 was $51 970 000, Dynamite is being used in Australia as & means of discomfiture in rabbit warrens. The farmers rejoice proportionately. New York A/ar- Beecher was beaten at cro quet up in Minnesota. We are afraid they didn't give the old man a chance. President Hayes owns about tho only brick building in Diiluth. It is the most conspicu ous landmark in the town viewed from the lake. New Hampshire has a hay fever association. At the regular meetings of the body every member knows that he can lelate his own ex perience. The Rev. J. W. Armstrong, who was a Methodist preacher and the President of the New York State Normal School at Fredonia, died last week. Talmadge says that the average boj begins the pernicious use of tobacco on a cigar stump which his father or some minister visiting tho house, has thrown away. The city of Rochester claims a nopulation of 80.000, and there is not a snihcient amount of enterpribe among her inhabitants to establish a first-class reading room. The Icanan commumtj of French Socialists in Iowa, is reported a failure, and three trus tees have been appointed to wind up the af fairs of the community The next meetinsr of the international con gress on prisons which has just adjourned in Stockholm, will take place in Rome. Ameliora tion of prison life is its object. The Rev. Mr Cowan, formerly a Piesbvterian minister, and recently of the Reformed Episco pal Church, hss been confirmed by Bishop MacLaren, of the Episcopal Church. A Presbyterian paper reports that a "worthy minister" desires a decent suit of clothes in which to appear in the pulpit. gives his height six feet and weight 180 poundh. Mr. Hogstuffer, of Cincinnati has petitioned to have his name changed. It would be an im provement and more in harmonj with tho eter nal fitness of things to dub him Mr. Pork packer. A French senator and magistrate has been caught cheating at cards, and the authorities are somewhat puzzled to get at him, since as a senator he is inviolable and as a magistrate not to be removed. An artesian well 3,250 feet deep has been bored in Pesth, Hungary. It is the deepest in the world, being nearly tice the depth of that in Paris. I send* up a jet of near boiling water forty-two feet high. English steel penF are almost entirely made by women. I 1828-21 the first gross of three slit" steel pens was 6old wholesale at 7 4s. tho gros. I 18*50 they bad fallen to 8s. and in 1832 to 6s. the gross. A better article is now fold at 6d. per gross. Mr. Frederick Yokes, the leading member of the Vokes family, has sustained a severe loss by the destruction by fire of bis picturesque suburban residence, Lilian Lrjdge, Fulham road, London. The house, formerly known as Arundel house, was erected tbe reign of HenryJFIH. 1 The Roman Catholic episcopate counts 1,127 o'elates, 30 of them of Leo XIII.'s creation, 1.020 of Pius IX.'s, and 77 of Gregory XVI.'s. wo hundred and fifty-two of these3 cardi nals, 2 patriarchs, 47 archbishops, 194 biBhops belong to the various orders of these only 10 are Jesuits. Tbe letter boxes at Liverpool have a spring attached to the flap, and when a letter is push ed in a plate moves and shows the hour of the. last clearance. People can thus tell if the} are in time for a certain mail, and a check is had on the postman charged with empt}ing the box. The Duke of Westminster recently enter tained the company from tb London Op ra Comique at his riderside retreat at Chiveden. They went up in a steamboat dressed out with pinafores instead of flags, in allusion to the piece, "H M. S. Pinafore," which they are playing at present. Mrs. Gross and her 10-year old daughter made up their minds to drown themselves in the river at Alton, 111. They waded into the stream, and the mother obligingly aided the child by holding her head under water, but her courage failed when her own turn came to die, and she got ashore. Snakee in the boots are common with many men who love poor whisky, but A. Hawley, of Syracuse, found a live rattlesnake in one of his as he was about to pull it on. was camping out at Oneida lake, and had used bi boots as a pillow, one of which the snake had pre-empted during the night. Christian Brietenbach came out of prison at the age of 20, went to the residence of his aged grandparents, near Detroit, and cooly told them that he intended to live with them. They keyt him out of fear, for he was a bully but he was not satisfied with bare support. killed them in the night with an axe, and run away with their money. The consumption of coal in London is stead ily augmenting:, both in an arithmetical and a geometrical ratio. Thus in 1681 the consump tion was within 200,000 tons in 1851 it in creased to 8,500.000 tons in 1861 to 5,078,275 tons, and in 1877 to 9,000,700 tons. For manu facturing pnrposes alone 1.500,000 tons are used up annually in the huge city. Western Union Dividend. NEW YORK, Sept. 11.The Western Union Telegraph company to-day declared a dividend of 1% per cent. dJ*...