The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

ooiO 'i'oih JuSt HOW dtuOllS bnTee UT IOul
aspiring Republicans over the Speakershir
of the House. Mr.. Cowgirl, of Champaign
County, claims the position by reason Of
long service; Mr.. jones, from Delaware
County, because OF his having once been q
member of Congress; Mr.. Townsend, OF
Athens, because he is from Athens County,
and number of friends of DIR. Scott, Of
Warren, because he is the Megatherium of
the party. AS it stands now, it promises to
be pretty close fght-The En-
quirer charges that the case stands
out plain and undeniable that the
Clerk of the Federal Courts and the Marshal
have been plucking the unfortunate liti-
gants in the way of fees, which, by law, are
made generous but which, under their
system of overcharges are often doubled
and even trebled in amount. Now, how
ever, we show that officers of United States
Courts have Systematically overcharged the
litiyants whose rights they we're sworn to
protect; that they have disregarded and de-
fled the laws under which they were ap-
pointed; that they have collected large
sums of money to which they were not en-
titled, and run riot on the misfortunes OF
Others. The case is one which demau ds
prompt and thorough Investigation, and
the Department of Justice at Washington
owes it to itself to see that no time is lost
in looking after 1.-THE Enquirer says that
the Convention of the National Board of
Steam Navigation, now in session in this citv,
has for its object the change of the Federal
laws upon the equipment of vessels, the
rules of navigation concerning collisions,
the inspection of steamboats,, the laws of
wrecks and salvage, the laws concerning pi-
lots and the liabilities of vessels and their
owners in case of accident The action OF
the Convention will have an important
bearing upon Congress, and will be looked
to with interest by the people throughout
the country.-Tho Enquirer saws that ar
rangenlents have been made between the
Democrats and Republicans of Mississippi
to provide for joint discussions between the
parties Such an arrangement will hardly
be agreeable to those at the North whose
political future depends on violence and
bulldozing at the South.
The Gazette says in an article on what it
calls the last opportunity of the South:
The time at the close of the war was the
South's great opportunity She might then
have had tide OF men and capital from tile
North which would have continually grown
greater by the conditions itself created.
That opportunity was sacrificed by the bar
barism of the Southern people, and in par
ticular by their barbarous politics. That
tide was soon turned back not to be re-
sumed in this generation. Meanwhile bet
ter information of the wealth of the soil in
the new Northwest has turned the tide of
movement in that direction. The
North is progressing in every part,
and the remote Northwest might
- 4ho h.,
comparison to be standing still and even
retrogradng.- dispatch to the New York
World, printed elsewhere, says the Khedive
States of the obelisk of Alexandria, known
as Cleopatra's Needle. This nonolith dates
back fifteen centuries before Christ, and
1--WE have the Worlds word for iD was gazed
upon bv Moses.-In an article on the
greater interest felt in England about
American affairs the Gazette says: Wheat
raising in England costs much more than
in our Western States, but the average
Weld is greater in England. Still the cost
is so much larger fat no tenant farmer has
any motive to improve his land or premises
beyond what may rebound to his present
advantage. 1t is obvious that every year
the Western Hemisphere Will become more
and more the feeder of the Eastern.-A
Canada paper, in noticing some time ago
q Government advertisement for proposals
f r certain sections of the Canada Pacific
RAILWAY, in British Columbia, making
about 127 miles additional. said that by The
opening of the next session of the Domin-
ion Parliament the Government would be
able to report the whole section between
Red River and Lake Superior under process
of rauid construction, the rails now being
laid on a considerable part, which is 4lO
miles; 100 miles west of Red River under
contract and in forward state; the Penn
bina Branch in operation; and contracts for
1877 miles more in the British Columbia sec
ton, besides extensive surveys made for the
rest of the line, and l 200 miles OF telegraph
lines.
The Commercial says: The Washington
Post has discovered that Ewing's defeat
was due to the fact that 10000 illegal
votes were cast in this Sta te for Charles
Foster. This is important. if true. But
no intelligent man in Ohio believes there
was more fraudulent voting on the one
side than on the other. The chief concern
of the Republicans in this city, where
fraud is more likely to be attempted than
elsewhere, was to prevent it, and get their
voters to the polls and ballots
in the boxes in spite of the Demo
cratic police, who were so manipulated as
to make plain the purpose to arrest voters
and hold them over on suspicion. But this
game was understood, and the means of de-
featjng it were efficient-The betterment
of our money that is wanted is the replace
ment of greenbacks by bank notes and con-
vertiblc Treasury notes of large denomina-
tions, the abolishment of the trade dollar
and the surplus subsidiary coin, the with
draw al of all small notes. the establishment
of cheap posta-order system that the
p stoflices may be the clearinghouse OF
the people using small sums. Then
we would have bank and convertible
Treasury notes for large sums, gold
for ordinary Transact MS, silver for
smaller exchanges. This would he a
system worthy one of the most en-
lightened and wealthy of Nations.-lt is
reported that Senator Blaine will visit
Tennessee during the month of November,
and speak in Memphis, Chattanooga. Nash
vile and one or two other points. 1t is
matter OF some surprise that Northern Re-
publcans have not hitherto given more at
tention to the South, and especially to the
larger towns, where it is not likely the,
would be disturbed by mobs or threatened
with shot-guns. There is at least 10 rea-
son why they should not make their voices