Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-15

German Chancellor has TOT long time been trying to check the heavy emigration of the subjects of the empire to America, and
 resorted to curious means to stop that to
 the Dominion. He found that certain laws
 of Canada prohibited music and the sale of
 beer. on Sunday and knowing the Teutonic
 disposition to make Sunday holiday, Bis
 marck caused abstracts of those laws to be
 scattered broadcast over the empire. The
 result was that emigrants turned toward the
 more liberal States of our northwest.
 mammoth electric lamp has been con-
 structed in Cleveland, Ohio, and it is said to
 be the most powerful generator of light ever
 made by man. It's Illuminating power is fifty times as great as that of the ordinary
 electric light, being equal to that of 1o0,O candles The lamp was built to order for the British government, and is to be used in the navy to scan the sea for torpedoes, and to furnish light in night engagements and manoeuvres With the aid of simple re- Hector beam of light, it is estimated, can be projected fifteen miles sufficiently strong to read by. The carbon candle used is two and half inches in diameter, and a heat esti- mated at half a million degrees is generated. An engine of forty horsepower is required to produce the light.
 It is proposed to establish in Denver, Col orado, next September, permanent exhibi- tion of ores and all the implements of min ing. Prominent persons throughout the country have expressed an interest in the
 
 pleted on an effective basis. The Exposition Company, whose members will secure no personal profit from the undertaking, has se- cured forty acres of land and will erect sub stantial building costing $25O, 900, consid- erable proportion of which has been already subscribed. This building will probably not be completed for the opening of the exhibi- tion, btussis designed as the armament home of an extensive and varied collection of spec linens and machinery. Mir. Clarence King has promised to loan one set of specimens from the triplicate geological collection which is now being made under his direction. It is intended that this exhibition shall display every natural fact and every artificial process known to mining engineers. It will be dis tinctly national in it's character, but collec- tions, machinery, illustrations treatises and from abroad will be welcomed.
 Some remarks concerning corners' which Horace Greeley made nearly ten years ago before western chamber of commerce have been resurrected. They are well worth reading at the present time. Said he: You will bear me witness that for the last two or three years, we have heard more, felt more, suffered more of commercial collapse-I might say of commercial difficulty the operations of what are popularly called rings than ever before in the history of this or think in the history of any country. Corners in wheat, corners in oats, corners in pork, corners in gold, corners In stocks, and so on and so on. Now, gentlemen, l am not here to say that this particular l clique which tried to force up prices, or that opposite clique which tried to force them down | was right or wrong in any instance. am not sufficiently familiar with the facts to judge What say, and I think you must believe with me, is that these exhibitions, these ebullitions, are symptoms of financial weak 1 ness if not of financial disease. They are in- | cidents which are not likely to occur in a perfectly sound and healthy condition of the business and the currency of the country. We'll, we get on with them as well as we can, or, rather, we chase one away and another l soon presents itself, and every now and then in the great commercial centres, where every l work has been carried on, there comes su- perior corner, kind of Black Friday, or something that threatens a general dis | aster, and then appears the Secre l tary of the Treasury with his horn of plen- | ty, and he lets loose something or other. | He either buys stocks or he sells gold, or he | does both, and he puts us at ease for & little ! time again. Now, am not here to decide | that this is not the best that he can do; I 1 don't know about that but I do insist that | the business of this country ought not to be l in a condition to require the continual apph- | cation of something artificial, something let | down from above that there should be state of things wherein business men and | business interests should take care of them | selves and not require the continual lnterpo- | sition of some public authority in such die | tatorial form. Some men are swamped when the Secretary appears; other men are relieved. Perhaps the greatest good to the | greatest number is accomplished; but want 1 to see state of things where the government | is not continually called upon to help us out | It reminds me of the state of things that ex- isted in my early days, when once in while l Nicholas Riddle was called to Wall street ln about the same capacity as the Secretary of the Treasury is now, to put his shoulder to thea wheel and lift us out of the mlre or ward off some catastrophe.