Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-04-24

EDITORIAL NOTES.
TOOMBs declares that with Grant and
Tilden on the track, Grant would carry
Georgia by 10000 majority.
ONE of the experienced fOrecasters OF
political events predicts Blaines nOml-
nation on the second ballot.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided to resume coinage at the United
States mint at Carson, May LIST, suf-
ficient bullion having been accumulated.
THREE or four new companies, formed
with the object Of tunnellng the ot.
Lawrence opposite Montreal, will apply
for incorporation at the next session OF
the Quebec legislature.
AN examination of the calendar of the
house showed that there were over 1,Ol9
bills reported favOrably from committees
and awaiting action, and there are at
least 100 more in the hands of the COM
mittees ready to report.
SENATOR BALDWIN has introduced a
bill to authorize the purchase OF ground
for the enlargement of the present gov
eminent building in Detroit, or for the
purchase of site and the erection OF a
new government building in said city.
The Whitaker trial at West Point now
appears likely to fzzle out without throw
ing any light upon the question OF who
perpetrated the outrage. If military
methods of investigation prove 1neffect-
ual, it will be best to try the ordinary
civil machinery of justice.
Hon. FERNANDO BEAMAN has resigned
the Lenawee county Probate judgeship.
The Governor has appointed Hon. Nor
man Geddes to fill the vacancy. Mr..
Geddes is very prominent citizen OF
UNREASONABLE honesty and integrity,
and is thoroughly competent for the
place.
The house has passed the bill apprO-
priating $4,000 toward equipping Cap
tain HOwgate's expedition to the polar
regions. Captain HOwgate has vessel
the GammOre, in process OF building at
Alexandria for this expedition, and will
have her ready for launching by the 1st
of May.
SPEAKER RANDALL said that he did not
believe that there was any foundation
for the report that Tilden had written a
letter declining to be candidate for the
Presidency. The speaker still holds to
his opinion that an early adjournment
of Congress is entirely practicable, the
LIST or the 18th of June for instance.
THE Secretary of the Treasury received
from New York package containing
81 900 and marked Income tax" He
gave it to the conscience fund.-" CIPHER
Sammy's conscience does not trouble
him sufficiently to cause him to pass in
to the Treasury any of the income tax
which he swindled the government out
of.
THE Democrats have just carried an
other election in YazoO City, Miss, by
their favOrite tactics, and the YaZOO Sen
| tinel. Boosting of the result, says: 1T
| is time for the negro to see that as a
political factor he is dead, except as a
means of increasing the strength of the
/
Congress"
THURSDAY night of last week an i'm
mense mass meeting of those in favor OF
| the nomination of Gen. Grant as a can
didate for President was held in Music
Hall, Chicago. There were about 5000
persons present, and the meeting was
very enthusiastic. Gen. Logan, Robert
II A A
Douglass and Leonard SWEET were the
speakers, and were greeted with rounds
of applause.
1T seems to be a pretty well settled
| fact that the people OF Michigan think
that $1,000 salary is all the guberna-
tiOnal chair of the State is worth. The
number of aspiring and anxious candi-
dates before the people for the position,
even at that meagre salary, would seem
to indicate the same, or that they con-
sidered the honor of being governor of
so great and grand state was sufficient
to compensate for the little pay they
would receive.
The Indianapolis Journal has full re-
turns of the votes of all the counties of
Indiana on the constitutional amend
ments, submitted to the people at the
late election from which it appears that
not less than $4,000 votes were cast.
The majOrities range from II, 484 for the
| first amendment up to 10000 for amend
ment No. 5. which equallzes the fees of
public Offices. The total votes pOlled
were about $4,000 less than for Secretary
of State i'm 1878.
THE most gratifying thing that comes
to the friends of the African race is the
rapid advance they are making in intel
ligence. The teachers in the schools of
the South bear testimony to their eager
ness to learn. Old gray-headed men and
women are as anxious as the children to
learn to read and write. The tour of the
Tennessee Singers through the North;
the pluck and enterprise illustrated by
the exodus; the hero of the six days walk
in New York, all show that the cOlOred
man is looking up, and is coming to be
considered man among us. Fifty-twO
newspapers and magazines in this cOun-
try are edited by cOlOred men, and many
of these with real ability. The sooner
such petty prejudice as has recently
been displayed at West Point, gives way
the better. The better class of thinking
people everywhere will demand fair play.
SOME time ago man obtained the num-
bers of some United States bonds held by
an acquaintance, and to raise money on
them cOncocted story to the effect that
the original owner was dead; that pre-
vious to his death he gave the bonds to a
brother who embarked for Europe on a
vessel which went down with all on
| board. This story the man related to the