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• •*% H .">v« St MAMl6l# EPITOME OF THE WEEK. ^jjr- ttoadwited telegrapliio Hews. | n • * , » 1 » • < » » « » - v * , * >^ ^virs^M mehr«4K'- <Hr tin evening i ' * ' •m •:#W" 3<H • • * . -A1 " ] ; • • • m if* 0d *« *u 3t hi *• m '• "THB February dividend of the I* guaranteed loan, amounting to £ IWw that th* treaty Mtely concila^d and Turkey bat b#*n ratted hj both the contracting Power*. j . „ /(.K<4 COHTAHXINOPI-E telegram of the )Hh apya strung detachments of troops p»- ttO)«d the streets of thai city day and night, WaccoutA of the great excttrtaent which pre- vailed OTOT the posting-of seditions placard®. A FBSTH dispatch of the 17th SAYS IK»4 Mnca Bismarck had' prevailed apon Russia ty( submit all the peace condition® fr- .the European Congress. •. pix THCus*.HD person* at- lacked with the meaale* at Lyons, France.' A COHSTAHTIKOPLE dispatch of the 18th says that, in the e?ent ol war between Bttssift and, fcsglaad, Turkey writfld rariatu Motral. ' I* was officiallystated, on the 19th, tip* fiarvia trawld not raeognise the Rosso- Turkish terms of peace until they were con­ firmed by the Congress. The state of siege In that country continued, and arms Were still ar* Httng. Turk- £77,448, paid by England. NAVIGATION has been tttbdj re- ;aflpned on the Danube. , A MOVEMENT to ereot Albania into a H l^ncipaltty, under the protection of Italy, was recently begun at Be rat. The ringleader was ' attested by the l urks. THE official text of the treaty be- t*Cen Russia and Turkey was published On th# 20th. It is substantially as heretofore published. It was reported in London tha England would resist by all the means at her disposal Russian absorption of territory in Afib Minor. AN Athens telegram of the 20th says 'that, Hobart Pasha having agreed not to bom­ bard the Thessalian villages, the insurgent leaders had consented to negotiate with him. It was reported that he had offered autonomy tQ the insurgents. A VIENNA dispatch of the 20th says- flan. Tcherkosky, late Provisional Governor of Bulgaria, had committed suicide because he ' had been threatened with removal. THE English Earl of Rosebegry was married to Miss Hannah de Rothschild, in Landon, on the 30th. The bride brought her hnabancf a dowry of from $15,000,000 to' 130, 090,000. A ROME (Italy) dispatch says the proclamation of the Catholic Hierarchy, in Scotland, would be made , by the Pope at the next Consistory. .THE Pesth (Hungary) papers of' the 31at announced that, on the preceding day, Gaunt Andragsy. the Austrian Premier, had definitively declined an alliance with England against Russia, and that thereupon Sir H. Q. Elliot, the British Ambassador, had declared that England would not participate in the Congress. It was believed in Pesth that an Auatro-Russian alliance bad been formed. ; THERE was a report, received in Lon« " don on the 23d, to the effect that a revolution, had broken out in Roumani*, and that Prince, Charles had been forced to flee the country. A telegram, received on the morning of the m, states that Rouinania had refused to re­ ceive britopeadence at the hands of Russia, or permit the passage of Russian troops through her territory during tha occupation of Bul­ garia AN Athens dispatch of the 22d says the negotiations between Hobart Pasha and the Greek Insurgents had foiled, the former refusing to recognise tke Provtskmal Uovern- ment olThessalj. .'A ST. FETEBSBFEG special of the l&l says that, no matter how willing Russia aHM be to withdraw her forces from Turkey, It eotfld not be done so long as the British teat remained in Turkish waters. The tone .o{the RnsBiau preea was exceedingly bellig- rWfent It was reported that Russia had cate­ gorically demanded that the fleet quit the Sea >0it Marmota immediately, claiming that ita •prase nee there was &'Violation of International aod a defiance o£ established treaties. luui mi' ^OUVEKA. WFL^ARD Wthe Chicago JMMM# /W, agDi alWWl-e^t«ie,«SH#wai': ytftrsefafffc ;> f- • DP to the ltth, titt «*bsorip a total of *3,612, T*« Secretary of the Treasury was before the Senate Finance Committee, on the lfth, and declared'it unwise and injudicious to repeal the Specie-Resumption act, as resump­ tion could be brought about tytnadatet fixed te the law without difficulty. * * THE general meeting of the American Social Science Association for this year will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mtftottlig Mar 18, Mi comtfnuiag until May 31 •Tiii. United States Secret Service force arrested operators in counterfeit coin at CMoagos on tha evsnlnjr of the 19th. A large quantity of metal dies and finished coin was gathered in with the gang. The names of the paftlea arrested were Qnigg, Lee, Hoofer and HMUaaa* THE National Committee on the Dairy Fair met at YJtka, F. T., on the 90th, find elected Col. R. H. Littler, of Iowat Sec­ retary. It was voted io hold the fair In New York City, the coming autumn. • THE returns from the late * New Ham pshire election show the following foot­ ing* for Governor: Prescott (Rep.), 89,377; McKean (Dem.), 37,863; Kendall, 251; Flint, 5)23; scattering, 99. I'lcscott's plurality, 1,514; majority, 941. The House stands: Re­ publicans, 205; Democrats, 168. THE Iowa State Republican Conven­ tion is to be held at DesMoinm, on Wednes­ day, June 19. THE Rhode Island State Convention of tha new National party waa held at Provi­ dence, on the 20th. William Foster was nom­ inated for Governor, Jason P. Hazard for Lieutenant-Governor, Henry Appleton for Secretary of State and AiidreW B. Moote for State Treasurer. THE next Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention will be held at Pittsburgh, on the 22d of May. AFTER a session of seventy-one days, the WiseoQsis Legislature adjourned tine die on the 31st. There will be an extra session in June to revise the statutes. THE Republican State Convention was held at Providence, R.. L, on the 21st. All the present State officers Wferi renominated. THE Rhode Island Hottse of Repre­ sentatives have defeated--19 to 85--the pro­ posed Constitutional amendment giving un­ married women and widows the right to vote on propositions to impose taxes, to appropri­ ate money or for members of the City Council. ISAAC ADAMS,the manufacturer of the printing press bearing his name, died at Sand­ wich, N. H., on the 20th. He waa Worth from $4,000,000 to *0,000,000. ';j A PROVIDENCE (R.' Iv) telegram of the 31st says that a family: named Murray then had four children lying dead of diphthe­ ria, and three others were not expected to live during the day. The father had been rendered almost insane, and threatened to stem! the undertaker, and pollceineii had been stationed in the house to prevent the catastrophe. THE bill granting female suffrage at municipal elections has been defeated In the Massachusetts House of Representatives by a vote of 93 to 127. ATT'Y-GEN. OGDEN, of Louisiana, has asked for a rehearing in the Anderson c a s e . - ' * • • • / • > • THE New Orleans Grand Jury report, ed, on the 23d, upon the charges contained in the letter of Ex-Gov. Wells, of the 18th ult, The report refutes^ in toto, thecharges made. A HORRIBLE boiler-explosion .occur­ red at Wm. Hall's saw-mill, near Richmond, Va., on the 22d, which caused the death of five persons and the serious wounding of five <tfh- ers. . IT was reported from Texas, on the 22d, that the Commission appointed by Presi­ dent Hayes and Gov. Hubbard to investigate the San Elizario and El Paso troubles of a few months ago had finished their labors and ad­ journed. They recommend the stationing of 300 Federal troops at EI Paso. The result of the Commission is said to have produced great dissatisfaction in Texas. Maj. Jones, who represented Texas In the Commission, will, it is said, make a minority report, which will recommend aggressive action and the punish­ ment of alleged Mexican insolence. < THE Rhode Island State Democratic Convention met at Providence,, on tha 22d, and nominated J. B. Barnaby for Governor and Isaac Lawrence for Lieutenant-Governor. THE Democratic State Convention of1 Arkansas has been called to meet at Little ou bka 4th of July. v mi T-1 •.DfTRWG the week r; ending March 16, , . tha Bscretajf of the Treasury purchased all- var bullion sufficient to supply the mints for aliout five weeks. The price paid waa hot al- iH ' together satisfactory to holders. • AT his tiome in Brooklyn, N. T., a fc>w days ago, an eleven-year-old boy, named Foley, died of hydrophobia. He was bitten , ,(|^small dog about aix week* before his ON the 16th, time Lechmtre -National Baqhof last Cambridge, Mass., waa robbed of 6&60a. A man and woman called at the bank Htm ashed the President to step to the door i • While they talked to him about financial affairs. .Dpitogitie abeeue*: &ain« confederates slipped . the vault and made away with the funda. . . httavie^t snow-stiMrm since the . mtjfWijjit of the ^M«ck HUla by white men recently oc^&rred that section, lasting five days. T&e enow #as four feet deep on a level 'at Deadwood, on Chfitdth, and mail and tele- 1 gnphlc canumaGieaiioti with ^ the States waa , entirely suspended, j -> th@ evening of the 18th, O'Dono- * rrfjp Rossa, the: Fapian, lectured atToronto. Daring the delivery of his„address the hall in ( fjklch he spoke was gutted by Orangemen, and the hotel w^ere he stopped was also de­ stroyed, nothing but the fram^ being left V atandttg. About 150 men were hurt* t s ^ H E S u p r e m e C o i f r t g a v e Ita decision, on the 18th, in the appealed cs»e n" JGeu. Anderson, of the 8tate Returning •"' i Board. It reverses the verdict of the lower ^pnrt, which convicted him of fraud and ner- . ,tl #ry, and orders his release. *t /. AT Kalamaaoo, Mich., on the 17th, V flr- E- VanDuesen, late Medical Superin- .ten^ent of the Michigan Bute Insane Asylum, Was mulcted in »6,000 damages for false im- ' " • "J^teonmeiit and malpractice, Mrs. Nancy New- ilOOmar, ot Chieago, being the complaiaiiig wit­ ness. Four tramps were burned to death > a car on the Iron Mountaih Railroad, at Fledmont, Ma, onihal8th. UDGE LeohARDS the Commissioner ( . tent by the President to Cuba to investigate • , %»aUeged kidnaping report^ died in HsTiwa, #fawdaj»alncc,of jellowfarar. . SENATE,--Not in session on. the 16th. HOUSE.--A bill was introduced and referred for the establishment of a mint at Indianapolis... .The bill making available for the payment of certain Southern mtte-bdlum mail contractors the sum ot $37S,000 already appropriated WM further considered in Com­ mittee of the Whole, and it having been dem­ onstrated that such mail contractors had been Mid, or payment had been provided for by the Confederate Congress and Postmaster- General, a motion was agreed to to strike out the enacting clause of tiie bUl, (mm! this action of the committee was concurred in bv the House, without division. 'f '• SENATE.--Bills were passed, 'oh' the 18th--House bill appropriating $275,000 for fortifications and other works ©£ defense, and for tlie armament thereof, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879; Senate bill to prohibit Members of Congress from becoming sureties osi certain bonds....Among the bUI» Intro­ duced was one making a] tecting trespassing on market publ appropriations for de- UDiIc lands, for brlng- ,, SENATE.--On th' bill to authorise th register to a pose of the Woodruff Scientific _ Around the World waa jiaiarfl without Blent....A JNii^d^^i^gawited am,....._ lecretar? of'^'^UH^tS^m^t^pcoa- ecutlon of timber taMnt..'.:! Conference Committee was ordered on the Senate umend- ment* to the Military Academy Appropriation MSI , , «. i. 'If": • ' , -I. HOUSE.--Majority and minority re­ ports were made on the metier of the charges against Doorkeeper Polk, the former declar- logKr. Falk toiM aait far *he peeMen, «ud recommending a resolution declaring the of­ fice vacant, and the latter declaring that bo corruption having bear proVen. nor even charged against M*. Polk, it would be a grievous wrong to adopt the ma­ jority resoiiitiou... .Bilia were paseed- fixing the compensation of jurora in United SUtes Courts, reducing It from three to two dollars; fixing tha fees of Clerics of said courts; fixing the compensation of United States Marshals anu Deputies, limiting that of the former to 96,000, Chief Deputies to *2,500, and other Deputies five dollars per day; Senate bill ap­ pointing Gen. Sherman Regent of the Smith­ sonian Institution, in {dace of Geo. Bancroft, resigned... .A bill was introduced to authorize the coinage of gold and silver on the same terms....The General Deficiency bill ($1,388,- 4ft5) was considered In (Committee of the Wnole, ••• SENATE.--Bills were introduced, on the 20th--for the protect!^ W homestead set* tiers on public lands; to repeal the Pre-emption laws and provide for the sale of timber on the public lands....The bil^ making appropria­ tions for detecting trespasses on public lands in certain States, and for other purposes, was further considered, the pending question be­ ing on an amendment by Mr. Beck, forbid- •lins any charge for wood or timber cut o»» public lands la the Territories for the use of actual settlers, and not for export, and pro­ viding that In the event of timber being ex- portea from the Territory where it grew, it should be liable to seizure by United States authorities wherever found.' HOUSE.--A bill was reported from the Printing Committee regarding the adver­ tising of mail-let tings, providing that notices shall be published in one or more papers in each State interested that the proposals for mail lettings will be received at a certain date, and that all information pertaining thereto can be obtained on application to the Second- Assistant Postmaster-General, An amend­ ment was offered and adopted providing that no sub-letting of contracts should be permit­ ted, and whenever such sub-letting did occur the contract should be considered as termi­ nated, and the bill as amended was passed The Deficiency Appropriation bill waa consid­ ered and amended in Committee of the Wholf, reported to the House and passed. SENATE.--On the 21st, the President's answer to a resolution of Mr. Blaine, adopted on the 14th, regarding the Fishery Commis­ sion and award, was received, containing the correspondence with Great Britain relative to the selection of Del fosse, Envoy Extraordina­ ry and Minister Plenipotentiary from Bel­ gium, as third Commissioner under the twen­ ty-third article of the Treaty of Washington, On the question of the fisheries The bill to employ temporary Treasury clerks and to bring into market public lands, etc., was fur­ ther debated. HOUSE.--A bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted, to estabHdh a Postal Savings Depository aa a branch of the Postof- fice Department, and to aid in refunding the interest-bearing Indebtedness of the United States... .A Conference Committee Was ap- ointed on the Military Deficiency bill... .The _laval Appropriation bill ($14,048,684--$1,500,- 000 less than last year, Including deficiencies, and $2,000,000 less than the estimates for the jsext fiscal year) was reported as unanimously Agreed to by the Committee on Appropria­ tions, and, after being considered in Commit­ tee of the Whole, was passed without amend­ ment. . SENATE.--After the transaction of some other tfasiness, oo the 22d, the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and making ap­ propriations for the same, and for detecting trespasses on the public lands, and for bring­ ing into market the public lands in certain 8tates, and for otiier purposes, was taken up, amended and passed, one of the amendments forbidding any charge for wood or timber cut on unsurveyed public lands in the Territories for the use of actual settlers, and not for ex- jort, and providing that, in the event of timber jeing exported from the Territory where it frew, it should be liable to seizure by the United States authorities wherever found.... Adjourned to the 25th. HOUSE.--A bill was reported from the Committee on Coinage to amend the laws oh the subject of coinage, to pcrfect a double metallic standard, to provide for issuing gold and silver bullion certificates, and to retire certain silver coins now in use....Bills were introduced and referred--providing that per­ sons intending, in good faith, to make actual qntry and settlement under Homestead acts, shall receive, through the Secretary of the In­ terior, frse transportation for themselves, fam­ ilies, farming utensils nnd personal cffects to their new koines, and also seeds for two years' cultivation; to provide for a more economical survey of public lands; to reorganize a sys­ tem of superintendence of railways A largp number of private bills (urinetpally pen­ sion) were passed Adjourned to the £5th. fiCt» FIGURES. •%* ing into market public lands in certain States, and for other purposes....An adverse report Was made from the Judiciary Committee on the bill providing that any woman who shall have beep a member of the bar of the highest court of anv State or Territory, or of the Diatrict of Columbia, for a period of three years, mav be admitted to practice in the Su­ preme Court of the United States--the ground of the adverse report being that there was no Obstacle in the present law to the admission of women to practice in the United States Courts, the courts making their own rules touching the admission of attorneys, and the proposed act would discriminate in favor of women, by compelling the court to admit them when it Was not bound to admit men.. HOUSE.--Bills were, introduced in the House--granting pensions to soldiers who en­ listed out of prisons; for the payment of cer­ tain Southern mail contractors, providing that no claims shall be paid which have previously been paid by the Confederate Government; establishing a mint at Louisville, ii,y.; repeal­ ing the law appropriating $375,000 for the pay­ ment of certain Southern mail contractors; to grant to the State of Ohio unsold public lands remaining in the State; granting alternate sections of land to the State of Mississippi to ai<i iu the construction of the Ship Island, Ripley & Kentucky Railroad; for the appoint­ ment of a Commission to ascertain on what terms a treaty of commerce with Mexico can * 'br the erection of a monumeat over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. THE decadence of the clinging skirt is announced. THE public debt of the City of New York has been reduced until there is only $130,000,000 yet to pay. 'THE number of persons, of nearly all nationalities, who have this year taken part In the pilgrimage to Mecca is 182,- W. • . •- •; i! >!,. . AccoRipraa to the last report of the Commissioner of the General-Land Of­ fice in Texas, that State has yet subject to location 57,682,240 acres. THE active working Granges in Ten­ nessee now number 566, with a mem­ bership' ranging between 12,000 and 15,000. Four years ago the Granges numbered 1,107, with a membership of about 80,000. - Of the entire number of Granges organized, 100 never held a second meeting. CHURCH organists in New,York gpt from $600 to $1,000 ai year,' though a few distinguished performers receive a much larger sum; sopranos receive fenerally from $40() to §500, some 1,000 or even $1,500; tenors from $800 down, save in exceptional cases; con­ traltos from $700 down, with some ex­ ceptions.""'"' ' :l " 1 "" CODE'S Tobacco Plant assorts that commercial statisticians estimate the quantity of tobacco yearly consumed in the world to be 4,000,000,000 pounds. This, it declares, is clearly over es­ timate; but placing the amount at one- half, i6 2,000,000,000 of pounds. If this quantity was made into the nsual two- inch rolls that'are afterward cut up and pressed into plug chewing tobacco, it would be long enough to go round the world thirty times. Cut into the tab­ lets usually sold at retail, it would form a pyramid equal in size to those of Egypt, or ground into snuff would cov­ er a township six miles square, equal to an ordinary German Principality, with a snuff shower six feet <Wp all oyer it. ILLINOIS STATU* NEWS. OotfUBifT tp the conaacrattaa of thajtar. George F. 34JWV, D. D., BishftHilictot new Diocese of 4pringfleid, has Malt .given all the Bishopa and a Committees. THE entire enrollment of pupils in the Chicago schools during the month of Feb- rtary.was 44,671. • 1 ,* •' • THE State Board of Agriculture hu decided1 to offer a list of premiums for the best apecl- otiens of public-sdhool Work exhibited at' the next State Fair. > THB people of the fttato ara to elect in No­ vember next State Senators for fojur.. years in each of the odd-numbered Districts of the State. The Senators who hold over, with their politics, are shown by the following list: Secotu) District--Daniel N. Bn»h, Repmblioao. Fonrtff District-- F, H. Riddle, Republican. Sixth District--M. A. Delmny. Demoerat. Twelfth District--H 1>, DefwenJi, Republican. Fourteenth District ,!. H. Mayborne, Repub­ lican. ' Sixteenth District--Thos. P, Bonfield, Repub­ lican. Eighteenth District--8. D. Feediek. Republi­ can. Twentieth District--H.J. FTMK Democrat. Twenty-second District--B. C. Talliaferro, Re­ publican. Twenty-fourth Diatrict~Wm. Scott, Democrat. Twenty-sixth District -- Jno. 8. Lee, Democrat. Twenty-eighth District--Jno. M. Hamilton, Re­ publican. _ Thirtieth District--CX P. Davis, Republican. Thirty-second Distinct--Maiden Jones, Demo­ crat. Thirty-fourth District--E- South worth, Demo­ crat. Thirty-sixth District-- Lather Dearborn, Dem­ ocrat. Thirty-Eighth District--W. R. Archer, Demo- Fortieth District--G. W. Herd man, Democrat. Forty-second District--F. E. W. Brink, Demo­ crat. Forty-fourth District--B» P. Hanna, Demo­ crat. Forty-sixty District-C. E. McDowell, Demo­ crat. ; . Forty-eighth District--Ambrose Hoenor, Dem­ ocrat. Fiftieth District--Jesse Ward, Democrat. JAMES JACKSON, a Swede, employed as a section-hand on the Burlington Branch of the Chicago & Qulncy Railroad, w?« killed near Ursa, about nine o'clock on the evening of the 16th. He was going north on a hand-car in company with, two other men when they were run into by a construction train coming south. Two of the men Jumped and escaped with only slight bruises, but Jackson was caught by the pilot of the engine and terribly mangled. A sharp curve in the road prevented the en­ gineer from seeing the car until close upon it. AT Shabonier, a small town a few miles south of Vandalia, on the afternoon of the 15th, while a gang of men were at work taking down a hay-press and building, part of the building fell In, killing and injuring the fol­ lowing-named persons: John Potter, killed; Barnard McConnell, leg broken in three places and arm broken; Henry Rightmire, jaw bro- ken In tWo places and three ribs broken; Johu Albert, ankle hurt, otherwise injured. The parties hurt were upon the top of the building, and none were hurt below. AT Litchfield, a few nights ago, a Mr. Car­ ter was killed In uncoupling the locomotive from the train while In motion. The whole train passed over him, cutting in two and fear­ fully mangling the body. JOSEPH MCLAREN and his wife were arrest­ ed at Pana, on the 13th, for counterfeiting the silver half and quarter dollars. They were taken to Springfield for trial. THB State Auditor has been notified thattht Town Board of Yellow Head, Xaskakee Coun­ ty, will apply for an Injunction restraining him from taking any steps toward the levy or collection of a tax to pay the Interest on the bonds of the town Issued to aid the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad. ON the night of the 18th a frelght-brakeman on the WabasL Road was killed, while coupling cars, at Brady Station, In Vermillion County, His name is Richards. THB following Postofflce changes occurred In Illinois during the week ending March 16 1878: Discontinued--Knight's Prairie, Hamil­ ton County; Wesley City, Tazewell County, Postmasters Appointed--Boynton, Tazewell County, ' William Coddington; Frankfort, Franklin County, Redding Lawrence; Ham­ mond, Piatt County, Lynn M. Templer. JAMES OSBORNE, thirty-eight years old, an employe at Pond & Soper's box factory, in Chicago, came to a sad, sudden death the other afternoon. While engaged in his work, a pile of boxes fell upon his right leg, and, opening an old wound, hemorrhage ensued. He was taken to a drug store in the vicinity, and after his hurt had been dressed, driven toward his boarding-house In a buggy, but died on the way. THE store of Herm & Reinhart, at Latham Station, was entered by burglars a few nights ago and robbed of goods worth 1150. E. V. 8UTTBRWELD, a lawyer, of Mt. Vernon* and his entire family, consisting of bis wife* and four children, were rendered very sick, on the morning of the 21st, by eating poisoned pickles. The family had partaken of sweet- plckled peaches for breakfast, that had been put up during laat fall In a tin fruit-can. Shortly afier the meal Mr. Slatterfleld waa suddenly taken eick, vomiting violently. Upon going to his home, he found his wife and oldest son attacked in a similar manner, and In a few minutes the remaining children, who had been taken sick In the same way at school, returned home. Upon examining the fruit can, it was found that the inside tin had been entirely eaten away, and the poisonous sub­ stance had, of course, became thoroughly mixed with the fruit. The sickness is not thought to be dangerous, an overdose probably having saved their lives. A OCBIOUS suicide occurred at Chicago, on the 21st. A boy aged nineteen years, of the name of R. Brogan, lived with his brother and sister at No. 409 Hubbard street. So far as they knew, his life, like that of Marcellus, ran " as peacefully as the stream that skirted the mountain 6ide.M On the afternoon in ques­ tion he went Into the back yard of the house where he lived, climbed up a ladder that had been placed against the building, and com­ menced to sing, "There's a land that is fairer -than day." He got away with the first stanza, and then drew a pistol, the muzzle of which he placed over his left nipple, and pulled. He fell some distance, and when he was picked up he was still alive, but before medical aid Could arrive he had gone to hunt that land of which he was singing. His relatives are unable to give any solution to the singular act. He was a boy who had been indulged in whatever h« liked, and had never made any complaints. The Trapper's Enemy. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) correspond­ ent writes as follows: " It must not be imagined that the fur-hunter has it all his own way. There are animals that beat him at his own game, his greatest enemy being the wolverine, or North American glutton. This curious ani­ mal is rather larger than a fox, with a long body, stoutly and compactly made, mounted on exceeding short legs of great strength. His broad feet are armed with powerful claws, and his track in the snow is as large as a man's fist. The shape of his head and bis trapperj and such Mrta* itifturies does fee inflict that he h*« received Ibe name from the Indians of kekwaharkess, or 'The Evil One.' With untiring per­ severance he hunts day and night for the traal of man, and when it is found follows it unerringly. Arriving at one of the wooden traps, or dead falls, he avoids the door, but speedily tears Ojpen an -entranoe in the back, and seizes the bait or animal with impunity. In this way he demolishes the whole series of traps, and when once a wol­ verine has established himself in a trap­ ping waik, the hunter's only ohauce of success is to change ground, and build afresh lot of traps, trusting to secure a few furs before the new path is found out by his industrious little enemy.'" The Financial Ticws of the Secretary •f the Treasury. ^ecretary-of-the-Treasury Sherman reeentiy had a consultation with the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, in which he took occasion to give his views at considerable length upon what he believed to be the proper course to be pursued in regard to finan­ cial affairs, and especially the duty of Oongreis ia respect to specie resump­ tion. Mr. Sbennah prefaced his remarks by the statement that the Treasury held in gold and silver, free from all liabilities, the sum of $71,775,860.56, and added: We nave in proc­ ess of preparation for resumption reduced the volume of United States notes. The amount was $882,000,000 at the time of the passage of the Resumption act, and the amount now is •348,618,024. Again, the amount of outstand­ ing bank notes has been reduced. On Dec. 31* -1875, the amount was $346,479,756: on Dec. Jft, 1877, $321,672,505, and on Feb. 28, 1878, the amount of bank-notes outstanding was 1321,989,991. But the amount of bank-notes of banks in existence not in pro­ cess of liquidation was 1299,540,475, and the difference between these two sums is the amount of the notes of banks in process of liquidation, although the notes are in circula- tioh, yet an equal amount of greenbacks are In the treasury as a special deposit to redeem them. If you eount the whole greenbacks as outstanding there would be $299,000,000 of National Bank notes. Then it must be remem­ bered that t|ie United States notes have been in circulation since 1862 and the bank-notes since 18(34, and that large sums are lost or de­ stroyed. He estimated that the aggregate of bank­ notes and greenbacks and fractional-currency outstanding at that time, deducting for those lost or destroyed and those held for outstand­ ing bank-notes of banks In process of liquida­ tion, was about $643,000,000. He said, speak­ ing of preparations for resumption, "we have already practically abolished the premium on gold. We have reduced the amount of United States notes and the amount of National Bank notes outstanding. We have paid off, practi­ cally, the fractional-currency, and now we have a very remarkable circumstance in our favor. The balance of trade is in our favor to the amount of #160,000,000 a year, bringing silver and gold and bonds back to us. In the last three years the balance of trade in our favor has been $414,034,666." To a number of questions asked, Sec'y Sher­ man replied: "We have got both gold and silver from England, but we must do it, as Lincoln Baid, unbeknownst to them. It must come by the natural currents of trade. To attempt to bring by any artificial movement a large sum of gold to this country would create alarm. All last summer and fall the accumulation wasjfrom $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 each month. Some of that came from our own mines, and some of it from abroad, but we accumulated It without any possible injury to anybody. Now, I do express my opinion officially and personally, that for the reasons I have given we can resume on the 1st of January next, un­ der the basis of the existing law." The Secretary stated that the passage of the Silver bill had not created all the bad re­ sults he had anticipated, although it had stopped refunding operations, and also stopped the accumulation of coin. Another bad ef­ fect was that It had caused the return of bonds held in Europe. 'Referring to its un­ doubted good effects, Mr. Sherman said: *' In the first place, the Silver bill satisfied a atrong public demand for a bl-metallic money, and that demand is no doubt largely section* al. No doubt there is a difference of opin­ ion between the West and South and East on this subject, but the desire for the remoneti- zation of silver was almost universal. In a Government like ours it is always good to obey the popular current, and that has been done, I think, by the passage of the Silver bill. Resumption can be maintained more easily upon a double standard than upon a single standard. The bulky character of silver would prevent payments in it, while gold, being more portable, would be more freely demanded, and I think resumption can be maintained with a less amount of silver than of gold alone. I think it can be main­ tained better upon a bi-metallie or alternative standard than upon a single, and with less ac­ cumulation of gold. In this way the remone- tization of silver would rather aid resumption. The bonds that have been returned from Eu­ rope have been readily absorbed--remarkably so. The recent returns in New York show that the amount of bonds absorbed in this country Is at least a million and a quarter a day. This shows the confidence of the peo­ ple in our securities and their rapid absorp­ tion will tend to check the European scare. The demand for bonds extends to the West wid to the banks. I have no doubt we can sell the 4}4 per cents., and I think within a month we can sell all we want of 4-per-ceut- bonds to carry out the Resumption law, for I would not accumulate more than $5,000,000 a month, and that largely In silver and gold Dullion. There is no special necessity to force the bond market in order to maintain resump­ tion. We now have from $71,000,000 to $90,000,- 000 on hand, and every one can measure how much more will be necessary to maintain re­ sumption. If the sale of bonds was ever so free, I would not accumulate more than $5,- 000,000 a month of both metals, and all sales beyond that should be applied for refunding (Vper-cent. bonds." Upon being asked what could be done to aid him in specie resumption, Sherman said: " I am very willing to answer that, although 1 think it is a legislative question. I think that you can aid resumption very much if you will allow me to receive United State notes in payment of bonds. If I could sell 4-per-cent. bonds for currency and then re-issue the cur­ rency in purchase of 6-per-cent. bonds it would be an aid to resumption. All I would haye to do would be to pay the difference be­ tween greenbacks and gold, but that would only be paying 1 per cent, premium. I have a right to call bonds, and I could use currency in their payment by giving 101 for the bonds in currency, the difference between currency and gold at the present time. I think another aid to resumption is also very desirable. If you could make it clear bv a leg­ islative enactment that the Secretary has pow­ er to reissue United States notes after the first of January to the amount of $300,000,000, it would relieve the people and relieve the whole country from the fear which they have that the greenback currency is to be entirely de­ stroyed. If we are to attempt on the first of January to pav off all these greenbacks as presented and to destroy them, I have my doubts of our ability. I think the law is perfectly clear now as to the power to reissue up to $31)0,000,000 of currency. An­ other thing I Would recommend: I wpuld, on the 1st of October next, receive United States notes in payment for duties, and yet provide for Interest on the bonds in coin. In other words, I would assume, on the 1st of October next, that our notes were as good as gold and silver, and would receive them as such." He said he did not believe that specie pay­ ments could be maintained without power to reissue United States notes. --Men are frequently like tea--the real strength and goodness are not properly drawn out until they have been in hot water. a R.^^m-ahtfora. - ij ft, ZEk *. s'a. Pbrwiant to a call. Mating of citi­ zens oi the Northwest iu favor of an »oaey stajite ̂#*s held in the City of Chfeago to-aa^£ltarch 14), and the following declaration was unani­ mously adopted as a platform of prin> ciples: Opposition to all pucr inflation and ««•» qnent depreciation. In favor of coiq apd paper of equal value and eqnal porchMing Epwer, and convertible into each other at the mil oi the we invite attention: of the mate uniformity in aios of "-&8SZ -- ---. experience of all dviliiod «md oommer- other wmmoditie* and are, therefore, the best standard of value, and, in connection with paper representations convertible into them on de-- taadhM only safe and uniform circulating "a! It is the duty of the Government to estab­ lish and maintain a sound and uniform currency system; the establishment and maintenance of such a system was oni of the ends contemplated by the foraden of ojir (Wernment in framing r.hA Constitution, apd to secure the advantaJMotf such a system requires only a ffirtji adherence C5 the principles and spirit of tire Constitution. 4. The ConsUtatiun contemplates only the nee of the precious metals us a standard of value. These principles were strictly observed by. the Government until a great National emef&nry compelled a temporary departure from them. That departnre was solemnly and repeatedly de­ clared to be only temporary, and only justifiable Eon the ground of extreme neoeasity in a time of ational peril, and the most positive assurances we been given bythe Legislative and Executive Departments of Government that when the exigency of the war should pass aWay the Gov ernment would, as soon m pmcticabTe, retnm to the Constitutional and stable metallic standard and measure of value. JkJbe emergency that made it nnosesar# for the Government to force upon the people aa ir­ redeemable paper currency havj-j- passed away, to now perpetuate that system ae a permanent linancial pohcy would be a violation of the spirit of the Constitution, and of the spirit of the tawa and pledges under which our war currency w&t issued; and, as the experience ef the world has proved, would necessarily be followed by «tii| further depression, to the great injury of. all legitimate business, and scM to the surferim* of uie laboring classes, ujpon wnom the evils of the depreciated currency inevitably falls most h^av- .6. National honor, and both National and in­ dividual prosperity, demand a return to the standard of value recognized in the Constitution, anu, with our present pnijer currency almost ai par with coin, to delay such return and author­ ize new issue of irredeemable paper would only add to further depreciation, till, as in all past experiments of the kind, the payer wuuldbe- come worthless, leaving us without any reliable circulating medium, and entailing destruction on all industry, and misery and poverty on the masses of the people. We have now an abundance of money to- supply all the wants of trade; our piper currency is rapidly approaching the uniformity and sta­ bility of the coin standards, and, if left tree • trom furtner legislative changes, it will soon, by force of naturallaws, go into general circulation, and general confidence and prosperity will be re­ stored to the country, , 8. We invite all our fellow-citizem who concur in these views of the nature of money and me­ dium of exchange, and the functions of the Gov­ ernment in relation thereto, to unite with w in an effort to maintain the honor and welfare of our common country, and in a protest against the adoption of an irredeemable paper money policy, which would certainly sooner or later be followed by all the fluctuation and depreciation, ending only in ultimate repudiation and general financial nun. Bushing the Bey. AT ten o'clock yesterday forenoon a- Griswold street office boy was making chalk-pictures on the office stairs, when his employer came bustling along from breakfast and called out: " Any callers, Sam P1' y " Not even a beggar," replied $ahi. " Have you swept outf" " Yes, three hours ago." " And dusted mv table!?1 <4 r > 441 have." " -V ;• - 44 And no one has been int*v "Not a soul." ; ' 44 Have you cleaned the windows and blacked the stoveP": . * . f< ' "Yes." • • .v/iAn ,-.r-i€j 44 Well, now, you rte$h dWrf #|^l!MK>n down here to the curbstone and clean it as if I had sixteen clients waiting to spit in it!" 441 have just cleared it, sir!" • | 44 Then go and borrow some!" shouted the man--44 borrow all you can find pn our floor! We've got to have an airjof business hanging around those stairs or we won't take in a shilling in a week! Bush up and down--slam the door#-- whoop--fly--make all the noise you can, and if any one calls forme tell ftm take a chair and wait two minutes till I clinch the bargain on a Mexican dBfrer mine worth $8,000,000!" Sam pocketed his chalkt looked after ~ his retreating employer, and Stuck? np- his nose as he whispered: ', *4 If he wants an air of business abound. hero why don't he set ont a frcc lphc^' --Detroit Free Press. • , . , GREAT BRITAIN PAID to foreign Ra­ tions for grain, cattle and meat during the year 1877, $484,898,685, while, dur­ ing 1876. the total was $435,646,980. Of the total in 1877, $315,961,120 was for grain. $86,568,370 for cattle afed meat, $47,691,525 for butter, $23,815,- 265 for cheese* and 012,360,405 for eggs.- ToBACCO-SMOirm} is on the mof-else. In 1841 the quantity of tobacco \n@d4n the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was less than fourteen ounces a head of population; in 187#?it was one pound seven and oiu^balf Ounces a head. »1 THE MARKETS. NEW TOKK. . _ ^ March 22, 187%. LIVE STOCOt-CatUe-...^.... *«50 ^*1016 HogsP...:. 4.2i FLOUR--Good to Choice 6.40 WHEAT--No.2Chicago ........ OOKN--Western Mixed 47 OATH--Western Mixici JM BYE--Western .71 POHK--Mess 10,16 LAKi>--Steam......» 7.J6 CHEESE M WOOIr--Domestic Fleece 82 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Extra f5.C0 Choice 4.40 Good..... 3.00 Medium S.G0 HOOW^-I^ve--Good to Choice.. 3.i0 8HEEP--Common to Choice... 8.80 BUTTER- Fancy Creamery.... 80 Good to Choice .22 EGGS--Fresh. • .91% FLOUR--Choice Winter 6.50 Choice to Fine Spring. 5.60 Patent GRAIN--Wheat. No. 2 Spring.... Corn, Ko. 2 Oats, Ko. 2 Bye, No. 2 Barley, Mo.2 «... PORE--Mess. _ LARD 7.i0 LUMBER--Com'on and Fenc'g. 10jj0 Shingles £50 Lath UjQO BALTIMORE. CATTLE--Best *5.00 „ Medium 8.S7V4 HOGS--Good 6.25 SHEEP-Good 4.00 EAST LEBEBTY. CATTLE--Best. *5.21 M.dioa 4J5 HOGS--Ycrkere 4,«> Hfj-B-J^jdeiehiae 4.60 StUD--Best 5JJ0 VttttWlHIMMtMMM IM ® 13.00' i l l $6.66 4.00 5.H7K. 6.26