Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 19, 1872, Page 4

o eolea e v s -+ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY; DECEMBER 19, is73. e e ———— e e e e e e, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF EUBSCRIPTION g"m I~ mflfl).fin -512.00 | Sen .82 Palgpoppet SR80 | ey :53:80 Perts of a year ab tho ssmorato, To provent delay and mistakes, bo suro and givo Post Oice address o full, Sncluding State and County. ‘Remittances may bo made either by draft, express, Post ‘Office oxder, or in registered letters, at our risk. Enes 7o et sovsCmmERS. , Sun xcepted, 25 cents per B gi‘l‘l:::‘;. indey Sachided: 50 conts per we Addren "THF TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cotaer Madison and Peasborn-sts., Ohicago, [l TRIBUNE Branch Office, No. 469 Wabash-av., i the Bookstare of Mesera. Cobb, Andrews & Co., Whers ndvertisements and subscriptipns will bo received, and will hsve the same attention os if left at the Main DiEce. AY’S TRIBUNE. CONTENTS OF T FIRST PAGE—Congrosslonsl Proceedings—Miscellane ous Washington Items. BECOND PAGE—Weshington Letter—Condition and Prospects of the Indian Territory; Its Biography and Resources—Swindles: More Abont the Grest Dismond Frauds—Chicago snd St. Louls: Inter- Dependenca of Eastern Oties and Chicago. THIRD PAGE—The Chicago & Northwostern Raflway: ‘History of Its Varions Organizations and Construc- ‘tions—A Wifo's Title to Real Eatato—Tho Stato In- surance Company Investigation—Advertisements. FOURTH PAGE—Editorials: Thurlow Weed on Clvil Bervice Reform; The Murderers’ Ssnctuary—Cur rent News Items—Notes and Opinions. FIFTH PAGE—A Brace of Enaves: , Operationsof Two Remarkable Western Confidence Operators—Tha Enickerbocker Insurance Company: Stock Manip- ulations—Out of the Jungle: Three Reportorial Tiger-Hantors Boscued by Scalls—Revolution by Injunction—Adrertisements. SISTE PAGE-Monetary snd Commercisl—Raflroad Time Table—Advertisements. “SEVENTH PAGE—Railrosd News—The Law Courts— Evanston Items—Small Adsertisements: Real Es. tate, For Balo, To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodg- ing, Ete. EIGHTH PAGE—Forelgn, Politicsl aad Miscellaneons Telegraphic News. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. ‘M'VIOKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, betweon State and Dearborn. Engagement of Miss Jane Coombs. *+ School for Scandal.” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph street, be- tween Clerk snd LaSalle, New Comedy Company. ¢ Fan." Operatic Bagatelle. AIEEN'S THEATRE-Wabash avenus, corner of Con grass strest. Engogemeat of Lawrenco Barrett. “* Julius Casar.™ ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halsted street, sonth of Msdison. Tho Lydia Thompson Srompo. ¢‘Robin Eood.” MYFRS' OPERA HOUSE—Monroo sivest, between State znd Dearborn. Arlington, Cotton & Kemble's Afinstrel and Burlosquo Troupo. GLOBE THEATRE—Desplaines strect, betweoa Madt £on and Washington. The Lelia Ellis Ballad Opera Oom- Doy, NISON'S AMPHITHEATRE—Clintonstreet, between Washizgton and Randolph. Morlscchi Troupe. **The Beout.™ —— BUSINESS NOTICES. SALT REEUM CURED BY USING JUNIPER TAR ..ai.]' o Facused by Cacwel, Hazird & Go New ‘or] ROYAL HAVANA IOTTERY, GEAND, EX- 1 e ing;.wholo tickets 860, J. B. MAR- TrodiPam R Tty W, SHox e B0 New Fork. DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, DEPRESSION of §i D : Bost fostee Made by Caswell, Hezard & Go , Now York, 234 sold by Druggista. =irdye is the bostin tho w fect ge. ‘Harmless, reliable, an intaneous ; nodisap- : noridicalous tints or unpleasant odor. Reme- o ill effects of bad dses and washes. Produces im- wiediately a superb black or natural brown, and leaves the kbair clean, eoft, and beautiful. The genuine, ulfi:fl W. fi. ‘Batchelor, Sold by all druggists. C. SATCHELOR, Proprietor, N. ¥. YE. THIS SPLENDID rid. The only true and per- d instar for, if they break down now, the whole crevasse will follow. Postmaster General Creswell has made & deci- gion which, if sustained, will gofar to relieve the Post Office of 5 just reproach, Hitherto, al- though charging an exirs price to insure the transmission of money through the mails, the Department has refused to account for the mis- carrisge of any such remittances. Tho Post- master General now rules that, in case of the loss of registered letters, the Postmasters in whose hands they shonld have been safe are to be held responsible. Mr. Creswell's ofder, that double postsge be charged on maiter not pre- paid, is not approved by the House Committee on Post Offices. Very fow people know that the Chief of the Cherokees i8 & graduate of Princeton College, and s man of culture ; that the Cherokes Nation has & society organiZed on the model of modern civilizations, with newspapers, schools, Court Houses, and the like ; or that the highest prizes for cotton were won at the St. Louis Fair by the Chickesaws. In the letter of our Washington correspondent, this morning, will be fonnd a very full snd interesting account of the social and industrial state of these and the othor tribes occupying the Indian Tersitory; the dangers which threaten them from the pressure of the white population gathering ronnd them, and which must soon overflow the lincs of the reservations, and the different plans which are proposed by their lesding men, like Ross and Boudinot, for & solu- tion of the Indian problem. In another column is given & sketch of the growth of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, beginning with the lsying, in 1852, of the first rail . ‘the Tllincis & Wisconsin Railroad, which, by successive consolidations, became the mon- ster corporation that now controls 1,900 miles of track, and earns a million or more each mouth. New branches are being added to the network of lines under the control of the Company. Through connection will soon be made between Chicago and Dakota; the inexhsustible iron and copper deposiis and lumber tracts of Lake Su- perior are to be brought within our reach, and its branches will drain the rich farms of Iows, Minnesots, Michigan, Wisconsin,—of the whole Northwest, in brief. The total of lines built, snd to be built, mounts up to 2,005 miles of track, all of which will feed the commercial in- terests of this city. Afr. Oakes Ames seems to have experienced s change of some sort since last summer. In his address to his constituents before the election, he allowed that he had never offered any Credit Mobilier stock to any member of Congress, and intimated that he would regard any such trans- sction with indignation. Mr. Ames now main- | tains that, if he did offer to sell Credit Mobilier stoclk to members of Congress, and if members of Congress did buy thia stock at any price, it was a simple business transaction, in which LILLY & PHELAN'S AROMATIC LIQUID PEP- st ke poemed porsta, O ok roonid o fetarinr st by erposure (and all preparations made from the red are proportionatels less effactive, sometimes in- ngr lixe ‘candemn 4 Bor by aduitoration of the powder), i dics in those forms), inflame and unnat Tite the stomach by the Alcohol they contain, Our Aro- G L o o e prpaims 1s 017 agent, containa the clfoct of pure popin 3 agreeadble to ), will not freeze nor spo! - Bietant B Gonetinily Talastlo i dyspopsis, indigos- Hon motaing slckness, and all dlspases arisiig from & aveak and disordered stomach, Sce prosaic ptomatic Gané, bavanth colnmd, aiso. this place, 1o g:"y]& T, Until yofi druggtst con sup- A3 deliver to houss frae, on Feceigt of price, i st EILLY & B na. il resding of onr cirenlars, of which we r carriers to-das. TheChivags Tribune, Thursdsy Morning, December 19, 1872, = The Spanish Government, it is announced by Zorilla, will soon introduce a bill into the Cor- tas (or the abolition of elavery in Porto Rico, The New York Zimes objects, in rather a fen- der way, to Becretary Boutwell's proposed as- sumption of power to expand and contract the carrency. The gift of omniscience having been denied to ordinary mortals, the Times plaintively £sks the Hon. Secretary whether he is quite sure that it has been conferred upon him; and if 80, whether he is equally certain it will fall to the lot of his successor in office. e ‘There are other people than the Americans who =0 complainof being governed toomuch. A Lord Chiet Justice of England has formally proclaimed from a Court of Queen’s Bench that * the whole object of legislation seemed to be to embarrass 30 Court of Queen's Bench,” and complained that his “ whole time was taken up in constru- Ing Acts of Parliament incapable of any rational ronstruction.” — Tne sonual report of the Commissioners of .the Tlinois State Penitentiary shows that there £re now confined there 1,239 males and 16 fe- meles. The labor of the conviets has been let b7 contract at an average of 65 centa per day, The financiel results of the year's business is & garplus of esrnings over expenses of $36,000. Mhis ig 2n improvement over the old system of 20 annual cost over expenses of nearly £100,000 B year, ———— Stokes’ second trial began yesterday with the empenelling of thres jurors, An application pnbehalt of King, the murderer of O'Neil, for 1 stay of procesdings, was denied by Judge Io- praham, and his trial will follow that of Stokes. Bimmons, who killed Daryea in New York, Mon- fiay night, bystabbing him fourteen times, claims hat he acted in a pezoxysm of inssnity. Four- Yeen paroxyams would have mord nearly covered ks case. The most stalwart protest sgainst the over- throwof the State Government of Louisiana, by the military force of the United States, comes £rom a qusrter whence we shonld least expect, it, $o-wit, the Washington Sunday €hronicle (D. C. Forney, proprietor). As the Sunday Chronicle ia insids the party, its calm snd forcible warning of the consequences of such proceedings will Dndoubtedly commend attention among those who would be deaf to the same teachings com- tog throngh a different channel. We republish Jes article elsewhere. The resignation of Colonel Eastman, as Post- msster of Chicago, has been in contemplation, 76 understand, more than a year. If the Civil Bervice Tegulations so successfally applied in the Philadelphia case are still in force, the ap- pointment will now be given to Colonel Squires, the efficient and capable Assistant Postmaster. The Washington despatches, however, say that Colonel John MeArthur is to bo appointed. We ghall see in due time, MMeanwhile, we hope that the President will stand to his expressed deter- snination to enforce the new Civil Servlc’ rules, both he and they had a perfect right to engage. It is obvious that, so far as Mr. Oskes Ames' iron-clad conscience is concerned, eir- cumstances alter cases. The circumstance that ‘has sltered the case is simply the fact that con- conlment of the truth is no longer possible. —eeee The hasty action of the President, under the advice of Attorney Genneral Williams, in recog- nizing Pinchback as Governor of Louisians, is illostrated in the fact, subsequently disclosed, that Pinchback never wes Lieutenant Governor of that Btate, and, consequently, could not suc- ceed as Governor. He was a member of the State Senate, and presiding officer of that body ; ‘but his term a8 Senator expired on the 4th day of November, and his successor is now serving a8 member of the State Senate, The Attorney General, ignorant of this fact, advised the Pres- ident to recognize Pinchback as Governor, ss- suming that he was Lientenant Governor ; and he actually telegraphed to the Committee of One Hundred Citizens not to come to Washington to explain the facts, because the President was fixed in his parpose to recognize the Lieutenant Governor as Governor, there being, in fact, no Liountenant Governor there. Both Houses of Congress yesterday gave most of their time to paying the usual parliamentary ‘honors to the memory of the Hon. Garrett Davis, of Eentucky. Three bills were brought before the Benate bearing wupon the Indian question, which grows dsily more diffi- cult and pressing,—one by Senator Pomeroy for the reliet of settlers on Cherokee lands ; another by Senator Harlan to secure & cession from the Creeks of partof their regervation, and a third by Senator Frelinghuysen. The last seeks to gecure & more honest administration of Indizn affairs by having sl the papors and rocords of the transections of Indian Agents kept open to public inspection, and all distributions of goods made in public, and by forbidding the practice, under which gross frauds have long been com- mitted, of signing vouchers before they were fuily made out. — e The telegraph reports that Peru has become intensely indignant over the affair of the ship Maria Luz, and has ordered war vessels to Japan to demand satisfaction. The Maria Luz isa coolie ship, engaged in the slave trade. During stress of weather, sho put into s Japan- ese port, and, when the nature of her cargo ‘became known, the authorities of Yokohama boarded her and removed the coolies, sending them back to China st their own request, and also at the request of & Chinese High Commis- sioner, who was sent by his Government to investigate the case. The action of the Jepanese suthorities was entirely creditable to their humsanity, although heathen, and, if the Christian Government of Peru insists upon demanding satiefaction, we trust that Chins and Japan will combine and render satis- faction by blowing the war vessels of this Chris- tian Government sky-high. It is not likely that the interests of the Western Union Eelegraph Company are in any way concerned in the recent purchase of New York Tribune stock by Mr. William Orton. No means could be devised so certain to create newspaper hostility against the Telegraph Com-~ pany, and public hostility as well, as for the Company to dabble in newspaper property. On the other hand, nothing would so quickly im- pair the market value of the New York Tribune a9 the belief that it had become an adjunct of tho Telegraph Company. A more wunfortunate glliance could not be devised. 1MIr. Orton is a politician of consider- ablo prominence in New York. Probably, the interests of the Western Union Telegraph Com- thve premises, he would have seen that they were not in the way of active advancement by mixing them up with one New York newspaper to the exclusion of all the rest. Mr. James Brooke' tirade against Colonel M'Comb ‘“ wont wash.” Mr. M’Comb is neither & perjurer, nor a bandit, nor a highwayman, nor & blackleg, Bo far 2 anything yet appears. The telegraphic report of Mr. Brooks’ speech makes him say that he nover had any stock in the Credit Mobilier or the Union Pacific Railwey. This must be an_ error of the reporter, for it is quite ceriain that Mr. Brooks isnow, orhas been, one of the Directors of the Union Pacific, duly elected at a stockholders’ meet- ing. Mr. M'Comb's charge is that Brooks not only had stock in the Credit Mobilier, but’ that be never paidacent for it. Mr. Brooks' protestation that he never used his influence with the Democratic members in favor of the TUnion Pacific Railway is aside from the purpose. The question is, whether he had the property, and how he came by it. If he never had it at all (as he .says), then he is innocent, We in- cline to the belief that a thorough investigation will corroborate substantially Colonel M'Comb’s statement. Among the propositions before the Pennsyl- vania Constitutional Convention, which is now in sesgion at Philadelphia, is one to amend the Constitution with regard to prosecutions for libel. The Constitutions of most of the States contain express provisions that the truth, when published with good motives and for justifiable ends, is » sufficient defence in an action for libel. In Pennsylvanin, however, the truthof an al- leged libel constitutes an insufficient defence, except where the conduct o public officials is concerned. It is mow proposed toamend the law g0 88 to ehield a person who has pub- lished the truth with & justifisble pur- pose in view. Without such gn amendment, thereisno real freedom of the press in Penn- evlvania. It is a serious reproach to the laws of Pennsylvania that an editor cannot proclaim the truth concerning any citizen, where the publica- tion of that truth affects the well-being of society, without being confined within the walls of a Penitentiary. A public journal shonld be left entirely fres to publish facts when those facts are published With s proper motive, and there is & necessity for their publication. An order is enforced in the London Police Sta_ tions similar to that lately issued by Buperin- tendent Washburn in this city, prohibiting Ser- geants, r the officers in. charge, to take bail for the appearance of persons arrested and commit- ted to the Armory. Ina case of recent occur- rence af & London station the practice resulted fatelly. A woman had been taken into custody, on & charge of misconduct, ono Saturday night. Her frionds went to the station for the purpose of giving bail, but bail was refused, ena they were not even permitted to seo her. She was, consequently, detained over Sun- day, and the apprehensions and physical suffer- ings she endured brought on a dangerous illness during Sunday night. On Mondsy morning, she +was found in a dying state, She was then trans- ferred to & hospital, where she expired ina few hours. Examination into the caso proved that there had not even been sufficient cause for ar- rosting the woman, much less inflicting the un- necessary hardships, which could bave been avoided by the acceptance of an sdequate bail. The case is one which seems to teach that officers in charge of police stations should have some discretion in the matter of accepting bail. The Chicago produce msrkets were rather quiet yesterday, and the majority were easier, highwines and barley being the principal excep- tions, Provisions were dull and & shade lower, closing at $11.62}¢@11.75 for mess pork ; $11.85 (@11.90 for do seller March ; §7.06% per 100 tbs for 1ard, $7.50 for do seller March ; 83gc for part salted shonlders, 53¢c for do ehort ribs, 6¢ for do short clear, and 7}@7%c for green hams, Dressed hogs wero quiet but firm 8t 5@100 de- cline, at $4.50@4.55 per 100 Ibs. Highwines wero less active, but }4@1c higher, at 91@913¢c per gallon. Flour was quiet =nd steady. ‘Wheat was quiet and easier, closing at $1.123§ cash, and §1.18Y seller January. Corn was dull, and 34@Xc lower, closing st 303c cash, and 803¢c seller Jannary, Osats were dull, and 3@%o lower, closing at 23%e cash, and 2ic geller January.- Rye was more active, and %@ 34 higher, closing at 63}¢c. Barley was quiet, but firm, at 62)§@033¢e for No. 2 ; 483@4936c for No. 8, and 63¢ for seller January. The largo receipts (about 85,000) caused & decline of 15@ 20c in prices of live hogs, the market closing wenk at $3.60@8.80. The cattle and sheep ‘markots were unchanged. THURELOW WEED ON CIVIL BERVICE RE- FORM, Mr. Thurlow Weed has made proclamation against the reform of the Civil Bervico system. In olden times there were followers of the army, who had the privilege, 2s soon as the battle was over, t8rob the deed and wounded. When, in the progress of civilization, these gangs were disbanded and the practice Prohibited, there 'was.probably just as vigorous a protest as is zow made by Mr. Weed against a reform of the Civil Service. He insists that the Republican party, by making & reform of the Civil Bervice part of its platform, yielded to a bewildered public sentiment which it should no longer re- spect. He declares the reform to be utterly impracticsble, and says that sn attempt to en- force it will lead to abuses greater than those which exist; that it proposes to establish an office-holding aristocracy ; and he illus- trates what he calls the fatuity of the reform by saying that Dean Richmond and Commodore Vanderbilt could not pass an examination needed for a subordinate officein the Custom House, All this is very childish, but very much in keeping with Mr. Weed's lifellong business of a distributor of patronage. If Dean Richmond and Commodore Vanderbilt did not possess education enough to enable them to keep books, compute duties, receive and de- liver goods, or to appraise merchandise, then neither one of them ought to have been ap- pointed bookkeepor, revenme clerk, store- keeper, or appraiser. Being unable to perform the duties required of them, they had no more right to expect such an office than they had to be made eurgeons in the army, surveyors of public lands, or professors of theology. The illustra- tion serves only to show the injustice and im- propriety of appointing men to office who have not the qualifications necessary to enable them to perform the duties, To say that s requirement that every man hired by the public to perform official duties pany were as far &s possible from his thonghts when he banded his check to Mr. Sinclair. If he had given those interests sny considerstion in 24 shall be competont to perform the duties that he shall receive no compensation therefor save the salary fixed by law, and that #o Iong ag he is honest, is competent, and attends to his business faithfully, he shall not bo removed, is to create an aristocracy, is one of those absurd- ities info which Mr. Weed would be very likely tofall. Mr. Dean Richmond would not have tolerated in his private service, mor in the service of any corporation of which he was & member, any person who was either incompe- tent, dishonest, negligent, or unfaithful ; nor would he have permitted any man to be dis- charged who was honest, competent, and faith- ful, because of his personal opinions upon mat- ters not connected with his immediate business. ‘Was Mr. Richmond thereby establishing an aris- tocracy ? Or was he doing any more than every other business man in the United Btates always does, exercising & prudent precantion of making merit, and fitness, and honesty honorable, and their possession the sole test of business confi- dence ? 2 Ono year ago, o Commission, consisting of three able and experienced officers of the Gov- ernment, and three eminent citizens, to whom the President had committed this subject for examination, made a report, in which they pre- sented to the country a graphic description of the Civil Bervice ag it is. They did not write 28 partisans ; they had no political or personal ends to subserve ; they were all political friends of the President, and all agreed politically with the majority in both Houses of Congress, and with the party which hed been in power during the eleven preceding yemrs. These gentlemen described the system as & wholo, pointing out its more glaring and notorious features. They called attention to the fact 1hat, in the begin- ning of the Government, all appointments were ‘made from considerations of character and fit- ness, snd all removals were based upan the same considerations. Nr. Jefferson resisted the “ torrent " of applications for office, and there 'was not a single removal of a subordinate from office, except for cause, from the days of Wash- ington to the cloze of the Administration of John Quincy Adems, In 1892, the new policy was begun, and it has been followed by every Administration since. ‘What tho result has been is stated by these gentlemen. They say : In obedfence to this system the whole machinery of the Government 1s pulled to pleces every four years, Political caucuses, primary meetings, and conventions are controlled by the promise and expoctation of patronsge. Political candidates for the lowest or highiest positions are directly or indirectly pledged. The pledge ia the price of the nomination, and when tho election 15 determined pledges must be redeemed. The business of the Nation, the legislation of Congress, the duties of the departments, are all subordinated to the distribution of what is called the “spoils.” No one escapes, President, Secrotaries, Senators, Rep- resentatives, are pertinaciously dogged and besought on the one band to appolnt, on the other to retain, sub- ordinates, The great officers of the Government aro constrained to become mere office-brokers, Mean- time they have their own hopes, ambitions, and designs, They may strive to make thelr patronage secure their private alms. The spectacle is oa familiar aa it is painful and humilisting, We sccuse no individual, We appeal only to universal and deplorable experfence, The influence of this system upon those who held office may be inferred, Officers appointed chiefly as a reward for personal and party service snd not upon proof of fitness, who know that therais no certain pro- motion for merit, and that they hold their places only until others with more influential friends can thrust them ont, can have neither pride nor hope in'the fal- filment of their dutles, * * Taught by the system to regard the office 03 a prize, and warned by the same system that their tenure {8 neither character nor fit- ness, they are sorely tempted to make the most of it in the shortest time, both to repay the trouble snd ex- ‘pense of procuring it, and to provide sgainst an early Temoval. Meanwhile, 8a s part of the vast scheme of patronsge, an officer who s sppointed solely in def- erence to political pressure 1s judged not by the man- merin which he does his duty, but by the zeal with which he serves the influence that secured his placo, When public offices are regarded only as rewards for political service, they will be constantly multiplied to supply more places, There will be incessant tempo- rary employments, 28 they are called, and consequent Qeficlency bills, and supplementary appropriation bills, Mesnwhile, the influence which has obtained the office, not for the public service, but as a private reward, will e slow to seo ineficlency or actual dishonesty in the conduct of the incumbent. * * * But when tho application ia urged upon the Execu- tivo Department by & member of the Legislative branch of the Government, the mischief becomes intolerable, Itis often by the power of patronage that 5 Repre- sentative is chiefly known to what are called the active politicians among his constituents, Heis held to be their ngent and broker of ofices. They have done his work and ho must do theirs, snd his position often depends upon his fulfiment of pledges. When, therefore, ho applies to the ap- pointing power, there is o kind of urgency which it s hard to resist, It is not a favor only that he asks,—it is the means of fulflling & bargain, * ® Tho place is demanded in the name of the party. Yet, granting the favor is not necessarily a benefit to tho party; it is ofton & profit to one man only and his followers, The Commissioners refer fo cases where an opplication is thus made to a head of a Depart- ment who has some messure before Congress, and for whichhe must secure votes, and the temptation is to give the place and secure the vote. “Thus the evil system increases oficial temptation and makes honesty difficnlt.” ‘They insist that the evil theory of the Civil Bervice tends to make the President and Secre- taries merely the appointment clarks of Con- gress, and they atate as 8 fack: Thus 1t 18 not denied that the chief National appoint~ ‘ments in the several States ate now really made, not 8y tho Prosidentand the Scnate, but at the pleasure of the Scnators from the State in which the office s to be filled. The President may have personal knowledge of the unfitness of cortain peraons whose appointment ia sought ; but if Senators from the State are in favor of those persons, the President must yield his knowledge totheir pleasurc or the offices must remain unfilled. ® ® * Tt is impossible that the Legislature should absorb the Executivo function of sppointment and re- main pure, Ono of the wisest of American political ‘wmnters remarked, before the Constitution was adopted, When the Legislature is corrupted, tho people are un- done. They declare thet to say that patronage is in- dispensable to party organization is s mere palliation of an evil practice; and they meet Mr, Weed with the following emphatic asser- ticn s If the money that a man has pald during s politicsl campaign, and the time and effort that he has devel- oped to the success of principles and policy which o must be supposed to approve, are ta be considered claims upon an office, then they are tho price of the office, 8nd his relation to the office and to the contest 13 venal, which is the precise evil of the present prac- tico, * * * Forif offices may be bartered for party servico, 1t is not surprising that appointments should bo sold for money. Against the remonstrance of an office-broker of forty years’ standing we submit this state- ment of the deplorable condition of the present system, and its corrupting effects upon the whole country; snd we submit to the great ‘body of the people who are not office-seekers, whether the perpetuation of this evil and this wide-spread corruption is more desirable than to place the Civil Service upon the basis of hon- esty, competency, respectability, and perma- nence. THE MURDERERS' SANCTUARY. The citizens of New York seem to be divided just now ints two classes—murderers and Grand Jurors. That portion of the community which is not engsged in killing or getting killed has the largest demands upon its attention in the consideration of the murders that come before it, There is no {ime wasted upon the other metters which sssume an absorbing interest smong other people. The excitement incident to one murder no sooner subsides than another presents its claim. Who next? is the question which society asks, as soon as one murdered mav_ or woman is hustled away by the Coroner ar.d the murderer has been passed over to ‘his Iawyers. What unkuown variety of killing will prosent itself next? must be the daily inter- rogatory of the peaceable classes. V/e can imsgide the mingled anxiety and interest with which the morning papers are scarined for the sensational head-lines of some new and stariling murder. The city suthoritie 3 were in a quandary several weeks ago 28 to what they should do for the comfort of the murderers. There were &b that time mora than thirty per- sons in the Tombs awaiting trial on capital charges. Since then the list has been augment- ed by a dozen at leaxt, the more prominent ones alone commanding tho sttention of & people overtaxed with, bloody sensations. Even then, there was a disposition on the part of the mur- derers in the Tombs to organize against Scan- nell, the new oandidate for admission, as having increesed the dangers of thoir conviction by ex- citing public indignation at the spread of crime. ‘When Scanvell was finally admit< ted and recognized, he joined in the some indignation against King, the next candi- dste. Ho we suppose each murderer has come to regard his successor as an enemy, whose act is calculated to diminish his own chances for escaping the gallows, Perhaps there is a lurk- ing suspicion among the criminals that there may be a limit to the safe-guards of the criminal law, and that the indicted murderers are be- coming 8o numerous a3 to exhaust the various pleas of emotional insenity and justifiable hom- icide, coming chary of their resources. It will bere- membered that Graham and one or two others deserted Stokes because he persisted in writing cards to the newspapers; and now those who re- 'main as his counsel threaten to abandon him un- less he will give up the dangerous practice of talk- ing with the reporters. While this circumstance may indicato thst there is a limit to acceptable pleas in extenuation of murder, it also indicates a lasting confidence among the criminal lawyers of their sbility to free the culprits, i they are only permitted to manage the cases in their own way. The man who murdered Maud Merrill, the other day, walked into & police-station with the most perfect self-possession, and gave himself up, in entire confidence that his action would be justified by an intelligent jury that never read & newspaper, never heard of a murder case, 2nd never formed opinions. The murderer of Maud Merrill “killed her for her mother.” He could no longer bear to see his niece, the deughter of his gister, in a houso of ill-fame. The circum- stance that he had himself seduced the girl, and had hounded her into the life of shame she was leading by his demands for all her earnings, ia probably regarded as sdditional evidence of insanity. King, who stepped out of & court- room end shot O'Neil as he was going down stairs, presents a clear case of “emotional in- sanity." Bimmons, who stabbed Duryes half & dozen times and unto death, has the reputation among his friends of being the most amiable and harmless of gentlemen. Both murdorer and victim bhave been regarded a3 men of good standing, though éngaged in the lottery busi- ness; and it would not be surprising if & new variety of insanity should be developed in justi- fication of the murder, based upon the nervous excitement incident to speculation in lottery tickets, At all events, Simmons knows enough to keep quiet, and trust to the genius of experionced counsel, who wunderstand much better than he what particular ples may be suited to the time and occasion. Meanwhile, tho second trial of Alr. Btokes has begun, 8o far a3 the empanelling of the jury may bo said to begin a murder trial, and he and his friends are perfectly confident that he will be acquitted. The Btokes case was & first-claes murder, and it would be a dangerous precedent to convict him. The only hanging that has taken place in the neighborhood of New York for many years was the execution of & poor, ignorant, trembling, and fainting brute in Brooklyn, the other day, and the sympathetic newspaper &ccounts of the exhibition have con- tributed toward msking hanging odious, The aristocratic Stokes can scarcely believe that so plebeian & fate can come upon him; and as King, and Simmons, and Maud Merrill's mur- derer do not come to trial until after Foster, the car-hook elayer, and Scennell, the champion of the Vendetts, shall have been tried, they cannot contemplate their fate with anything like serions apprehension. NOTES AND OPINION, No less than twenty-four amendments of the Constitution of the United States are said to be pending before Congress. —The Janesville Gazelle says the opposition vote in the South Carolina Legislature elected Patterson. Since only 7 of the 31 opposition members voted for Patterson, who had 90 votes to 67 for all others, will the Gazetls riso ond ox~ plain? —Tho Toledo Blade denoances the gecrecy of the Credit Mobilier, and says: "There is 8 goneral impresslon abroad that Comumit- tees of Congressappointed o iuvestigato charges of corruption against its own members, are generslly selected with reference to their whitewashing abili- tes, and in this instanco we confess to s want of the ‘most implicit confidence, ? —It is an undeniable fact that lpgislation in States and in the Nation is influenced by dobas- ing means, Look st the lobbies, What do they import? They gather strong at all the State Capitels and at Washington every winter. They spond money lavishly. Af the present time, when the Republican £urty is sole master of the situation, it cannot divide with an opposition the odium of this corruption. It must take the initiative in xeform, or die.—2lilwaukee Sentinel, ~—Tho secrecy of the [Credit Mabilier] oxam- ination has the lopk of some necessity of con- cealment, and, at any rate, defeats the very end of the examination £0 far as_the public i con- cerned.—New York Etening Posl. —Mr. Duell, M. C., from Onondaga County, wants a duty on teazels, which are a prickly burr used in dressing cloth. They grow wild in this conntry, but several farmers in Duell's district have gone {o cultivating them, and, of course, they want tobe “protected” from for- eign competition. The cloth-manufactarers of the whole country must therefore pay tribute to s dozen men siear Skaneatoles, Thare is 35 good reason for this as that there should be & prohibitory duty on nickel, wood-screws, and many other articles. Teazels must be '1‘pm- tected."—Buffalo Courier, 7 —General Howard has given Senator Pome- 0y, of Bansas, a character, and_unhesitatingly affifms tast “ Christian people everywhere honor and love Mr. Poméroy 28 a Christian tatesman.” On that point, at least, we trust “H, V. B.” who telegraphs this nows, is in sweet accord with his oid enemy, especially as we gre assured that Senator Harlan’s organ in- dorses Genersl Howard, There are mow some hopes of Pomeroy's re-election.—Cincinnali Times. —Senator Harlan and General Moward have indorsed Benator Pomeroy, who iS'a candidate for re-election to the Unjte& States Senate from the State 6f Kanass, In another place we print an article from the Worcester (Masa.) Spy on Senator Pomeroy, which should *be read in con- nection with the indorsements referred to, Itis o be hoped that the people of Kansas will not be further disgreced by the re-election of Pome- yoy, Harlan aod Howard both need indorsement, and they must, s matters stand, have & goo deal of assurance to pretend to go on the back of anybody's paper.—Cincinnati Gazelle. lan and Pomeroy cre the Pecksnifts of —Haal ¥ae Senate, anditis fit and meet that they go ont ‘on the same dsy. It will bs an affecting sight fo seo theso vaunting, canting hypoerites ilasve, on March 4, of the place theyloved 80 well.—Fond du Lac Journal. —Thepeopleof New Orleansappealed to Cesar, snd Cmaar has decided for them. *Give us gesca," eaid they, and immediately a United tates Judge decides who is lawfally elected; and the Central power at Washington *recog- " its own partisans as necessarily havin, the best right to rule. The old fogy method o] canvassing the returns, and deciding, according to the expressed wishes of the majority, is alto- gother too slow and ronndsbout s method for our Paternal Government.—Peoria Democrat. —At this distance from the scene of opera- tions, it looks as if the legislative body in ses- sion at New Orleans wers inclined to rush mat- ters with s precipitancy that cannot fail to work evil. The abolition ‘of Courts because the Judges have used their power arbitrarily and corruptly, and ojecting legally-elected members Dbecanse they have failed to take their seats in the B?ublicm ‘body, or have entered the War- moth Legislature, looks as if there was more of vindictiveness than wisdom and regard for pub-. lic peace. So precipitate an exercise of extremg power is calculated to embitter prejudices, 7nd awaken a doubt a8 to the fair intentions of the Republicans. There has been entirely too much of * arbitrary sction.—Harlan's Washington Oy contitationsl theory th —Any constitution: eory that les the foiling of Warmoth’s plot "uau.rp!tm" is a ‘mockery of common sense. _The whole notion of superior safety under local to that under gen- eral government i8 absurd.—S¢. Louis Globe. —The Administration is doubtlesa di!g'.mtafl at the [Louisiana] squabble and with al; con- The criminel lawyers themselves are be- f cerned in it. But such dis; onght not to, hinder the President from sup- porting the decisions of the Federal (Courts, and recognizing those who claim tobe lawfally in ‘anthority and possession of officirl position.— Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. —The New York Tribune has p assed out of the hands of Bipley, Reid, Hay, ancf others, who, in 24dition to Mr. Greeley, have given the paper Teputation. The Cherry Pect'oral man and Sam. Sinclair are in possession, through a sala to Mr. “William Orton, President of! the Western Union ‘Telegraph Comg&ny,- and that means Schuyler Colfax editor, the abandonment of all independ- 1 ;nt t;hxmcler, ‘1‘3 cch}:afifion with the Times or the regunlar Republican atronage.— cincfnnalfl’lommcial. pm’, iy 7 . Colfax is not s tyro in the editorial T00m, and yet ho is without that experience which is ~requisite to conduct a paper Jike the New York Tribune. He will, of courss, ‘be cortain of his yearly stipend, and will have ndisputed swoy n shaping the policy of the Tribune. But whether he can show himself competent to ste%into the shoesof the lamented Greeley, bring the paper back to ita former standing with the Republican party, and retain the popularity he has already achieved 2s & pub- lic man, remains to be seen. Thers are now many journalists who, as writers and mansgers of Dewepapors, are ungusstionsbly far superior {0 Mr. Colfax. They will not concede to the now Tribune editor the palm they so cheerfally awarded to the late one. Mr. Colfax must earn that distinction before he obtains it, and this he +will find no easy task.—Buffalo Ezpress. —There are schemes already before Congress, and othera under consideration, that if pressed %0 o guccessful conclusion, would dispogo of five ‘hundred millions of acres of public land and fake five hundred ‘millions of money from the ,Treasury. If the National Legislature were to “pass & 14w that everybody ahiould bo rich and do Just s he pleases, then all the fools would have ‘t‘i’l mLxllanmum— ill dinner-time.—Afilwaukee Sen~ el —The gole course of the South to-dayis o turn her back resolutely upon the past; to live in the present s best she may, and to keep her eves steadily fixed upon her material future.— 2Mobile Register. —Good heavens, think of it! Democrats— Democratic members of Congress—requesting tho appointment o office of & Higger ! —calling him Colonel, and spesking sbont his high char- acter and qualifications ! @ are lost in amaze- ment! Now let the yesty waves confound and swallow navigation up, the heavens fall, or Ben Butler_reform! We are ready for nnythini! Tom Bouton, what but death ‘is left for hig toned Democrats now? Let us become desper- ate and reform. Let us sy railroad fare snd hotel bills, and dead-head no mora! Niggers for office! Recommended by Democratic members of Congress! Order out the hearse!—Cairo Bulletin. ~The Philadelphia Press advocates the ex- tension of the Presidential term to six years, with o restriction sgainst re-election. It says that this must be done sooner or later, and that now is the time to do i, ~Emoe it interferes with nobody’s claims, and comes in collision with nobody's ambition. We are in- clined to believe that the mindsof the great ‘mass of the American people are gradually grow- ing in fayor of the limitation advocated by the Press. It certainly would tend very much to %revent many of the evila now complained of. esides, it would promote greater independerce on the part of the President. He would then be free from all temptation to saerifica his own honest convictions with view of securing & re~ election.—Allon Telegraph. PERSONAL, st _does Tiof, and _The County Clerk issued fifteen marriage licenses yesterday. General Spaulding, of New York, is at the Tre- mont. : Thomas King, Esq., of Pekin, is at the Gard- ner. Hon. Joseph Utley, of Dixon, is at the Gard- ner, 2 Hon. Blake B. Robinson, of Dresden, Ohio, is at the Briggs. C. E. Lippincott, Auditor of State, is at the Tremont. Hon, W. P, Eerr and Miss Eerr, of Granville, Ohio, are at the Tremont. ? elle, Judge G. Edmunds, Jr., of 8 (e Giand ety > oo enors Ml dab General George E. Hoey, United States Arm; 1a at the Grand Central. " Ry 3. L: Sullivant, Eaq., of Burr Osks, TIL, the grest prairie farmer, a4 1ady;, ero st the Gard- zer. Gilbert Dutcher, Esq., proprietor Metropoli- tan Hotel, St. Pau, Ia a¢ the Shorman. 0. Chanute, Esq., of Luvrence, Kan., Chief Engincer Kanses Facific Railroad, is st tho Tre- mont, Robert McWade, of Buffalo, he who sleeps as long as Joe Jefferson, is at tho Sherman. Ex-Chief of Police Eennedy left the city for Alabama, last evening. He intends to spend the winter in that State, and will return to this city in time to go into buginess in the spring. She following were ab the Grand Central yes- terday: R.K, Lewis, St. Louis; Loring C. Gage, Lewiston, Maino; Dr. C. H. Faster and wife, Boston ; . E. Wiley, C. H, Jndd, 8t. Paal, Minn; Alfred Home, ~Montivodio; Frank Browa, O At an election of officors of tho Ada Street Methodist Episcopal Church, held on Saturday evening last, the following were chosen s & Board of Trustees for the ensuing year: Samuel Brown, President; Ira Brown, Vice President; E. Jennings, Treasurer; Robert Brausted, Secrotary. L. L. Bond, J. L. Fulton, and John Braidwood. Tho new church edifice is tobepushed forward to immediate completion. “ Among the armrivals at the Tremont House, esterday, were the following : Daniel Lowery, Tochostor; W. B. Blorcs, Boston : 3. 1. Treat, Hannibal, ‘Mo, ; George ' Lessex, Easex, Md. George H. Mayars, Louisvillo; 'W. B. Piarcs, Boston ; W. P. Kerr, Granville, Ohio; Georgs R. Collins, New York; F. M. Malons, Pangs E. S. Bailey, J. B, Howe, Clinton, 1.; W. H, Whitney, Gensva Lake, WWis, it The_following were at the Sherman yester- day : P. F. Avers, Bostor ; George H. Govingion, Ky 1 A- B. Sanford slamia in: B. P. Wilon, Galveston, Tazas ; ¥, L. Bartlett, M. D., Aurora ; B, ¥, Shippen, Roston; F. B, Clark; St. Panl'; T. 8. Coakley, New York ; O. E. Grant, Galesburg ; John Bourne, New Bed- ford, Mass, ; G. R, Kilsey, Connecticut; F. H. E:llai' Montreal ; John L. Whetstone, Cincin- The following were at the Gardner House esterday: D. M. Peck, Williamaport, Pa.; oseph Utley, Dixon; W. 8. Badger, New York 3 J. B. Calhoun, Cedar Rapids; George C. Per- , Hartford, Conn. ; W. Heber and wife, San Francigeo ; L. H. Esmes, Ottawa 5 B. F. Vanin- en, I. N. Vaningan, ~Philadelphis; H. H. own, Detroif, Leavenworth ;;A. McLay, J. Buckle, New York ; J. A. Stevenson, Bloomington ; A. A, Rice, Pe- oria; Cgrus E. McFarland, Cincinnati; L. E. Miner, Cleveland ; H. H. Thompson, Baltimore; Peter Whitmer, Bloomingion ; Edward Home sud f_nmi!;é, Geneseo, Now York ; L. F. Mastars, nd. The fact has been developed that the injuries sustained by Miss Flora Newton, who was re- cently burned by the taking fire of her dress on tho stage of the Academy of Music during the performanco or the “ Black Crook,” were more serious than at first supposed. The young lady has been cormpletely disabled for several weeks, and in view of the great expense attending her medical treatment and recovery, we would sug- gest to Manager Gardner the justice and pro- glety of giving Miss Newton s benefit in hia eatre, It should be done by all means, and at 8 early date. SR D=y AMUSEMENTS. THE CHARTOTTE CUSHMAN SEASOY, at McVicker's Theatre, beging on Moudsy even~ ing next, to continue three weeks. The re- appearance on the Chicago stage of the world’s. greatest tragedienne will constitute one of the: ‘most important events in the dramatic annala of ourcity, not alone on acconat of Miss Cush- man's high position and renown, but also be- cause of the strong probability that her ensuing engagement will be her lagt in Chicago. Thou- sands of our citizens have never seen Charlotte Cushman act, while those who saw her meny years ago will be doubly desirous of again wit- nesswng her grand impersonations. Although ‘her engagement, and that of Mr, Levick as her chief support, involves enormous expense, AMr. MecVicker will increase the regular prices but 25 per cent, relying npon well-filled honses at these. rates to justify the risk and expendi- ture. For the first week ‘“Guy Xlan- nering” will be produced, with Misa. Cushmsn in her grest impersonaiion of 2feg: Aerrilies, to bs followed by Queen Catherine. in: “Henry VIIL.,” and Lady Macbeth. The sale of seats for the season began at the box office yes- terdsy, and will continue through tho wesk. The sales ysaterday were very encouraging. NTXON'S AMPHITHEATRE. This long-neglected place of amusertent hiry suddenly loomed up as the most largoly pat- ronized of any in the city, the audiences mak- ingup in quantity whai they lackin_quality. The droms entitled ‘‘Scouts of the Prairie,” written in Chicago by Ned Buntline, and intro- ducing two frontier celebrities, is the immediate oceasion of the large sttendance. It orta o bo s vivid piscao of lita 1 the Webtera: wilds, and is such to & certain extent,—as much 50 a8 are the average sensational novels on the. same subject, and, like the latter, full of in- consistencies. The original plan tras to con- coct & play to suif t.Ee material et command, end it is_apparent that the design wag carried out. “‘Buffalo Bill” (William £. Cody), now & member of the Nebraska Legisla- ture, and Texas Jack, both widely-known scoats, 2nd 3 half-dozen genuine Pawnes Indians, hav- ing nothing in particular to do, stood reads to accept a histrionic engagement. They had never been on any but the overland stage, and the copper-colored portion of the troupe had gener- ally' been_ nccredited with a greater capacity for robbing than ranting. It occurred to Colonel Judson (““Ned Buntline”) that here was a chance for a sensation. The * Scouts of tke Prairie” was_the result, and it proves to be a sensation. The Pawnees, however, failed to keep their engagement, probably on account of Eressmg duties with reference to a projected orse-stealing expedition, and in their places. there have been substituted & collection of tal-- ented supers in tan-colored frocks and cambric: antalettes. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack are on nd, however, completely equipped in buckskin: shirts and leggings, snd fairly bristling wi revolvers, kmives, riflos, etc. Of couris, theg. look like *‘Scouts of the Prairie,” but they. seem to labor.under a distressing uncarteinig- 83 to what they ought to do with their- hands, fidgeting uneasily when silent, and when in iogue poking out the right and then tha loft atregular intervals, with an evident Qatormi- pation to show no favor between the, two. Their elocution differs somewhat frow, Rooth's and Barrett’s, but then Edwinand, Lawrence- .{e ngo'. chm'l and ?en,n;tt bo expected to stand as examplars under the g 1 Tiho' fact that Bill "end 4 hfjl,:"mmm after the manuer of a dif2do",¢ gchool maiden effort must DGt “pe iaken dence of meagre drazaatie talent or training; all this wealnesa of oio’; and nervouszess of do- portment is but an »';tfal assumption, designed to show that benes’h the rough exteiior of the daring 8000k thrrebeats s heart as vender 83 a ohicken's, while his reckless bravado is merely put on to conceal 8 delicate, ghrinking nature, The illasion i3 so complete, 1:owever, that one would be almost ready to sw.ear that thesq ienflgmm are mot great actors. What Wich the aid of numeroms bloody eonflicts, Wwherein persons who, a minute before, were twenty milea away, are telegraphed bac:k, and get there just in time; the besutiful Ingian mndtan gfihlanelluhfitsccmltba?fl wealkniss for scoats; the lovely white eld in capti-si the aborigines ; the poeg“ua.\ lmpperpnndt’hg folicitous homilies on the besuties of naiure and the superiority of water to rotgutasa bev- erage; the cambric-clad Pawnees from Blue Teland evenue; the inexplicable inebrizte who- manages to keep drunk for several days without 8drop of anything; the prairie fire, th fight. for life, the vengeansewreaked onthe marclerous. redakins, and the grand tablean at tho clorse—all. these put_together firnish rare entertai nment for the toiling masses who patronize the.show. There is & plentiful lick of ventilation at the: amphithentre, where, in the presence of' 2,000 bad breaths and tiwics a3 many unclean feet, it is_well to adopt the tactics of Casca, who “ durst not mfih, for fear of opening hiss lip= 8nd receiving the bal air.” These defects are easily remedied, and should be looked to at once, unless Mr. Nixon courts an indicimgat. for ughter by slow poison. d ACADENS OF 2(USIC: #Robin Hood,” one of the neakest of bur- losques, besides invelving tho prettlest of drosses, and some handsoms scenio effacts, is being given at the Academy of Music by the Lydia Thompson orgarizatisn to large andiences composed of goung mep, and old *‘roosiers,” who discover that the entertainment is pecaliar- ly epicy, brilliant, »2d ploasing. The story- of “Robin Hood” is worked over to suit. the emergencies o2 burlosque, with s distri- - ‘bution of characters tallying perfectly with the e_ge::hva resources ?f the company, and with &. sprinkling of music, dancing, and elegant, costumes. Edotin and Bicko't huya parts well’ suited to their extravagent capacity, and Misses Thompson, Vfeathersby. Atherton, Dubois, Ger- bine, etc., all appoar to advantsge. The vocal gems are & peautiful Frencharia by Miss Dabois, and a song apd dance by Miss Wealhersby, though the music throughout is excsedingfy ood, After this evening * Robin Hood " will e withdrawn, and to-piorrow night, on the oc- casion of the complimentary benefit to Miss Thompson, “* Lurline” will be produced. The Praeger family, vocalists and instrumyental erformers, give a concert at the Academy of [usic on Sunday evening. kS —_—— The Pride of the Great West. The Wilson new under-feed sewing machineis ex- tremely simple in its conséruction, elaborately Anished in its design 8nd ormamenting, combining great ca- pacity snd adaptation to every variety of family sew- ingand light manufacturing, Ii embraces all of the important and essentinl elements embodied in sewing ‘machines patented within the past twenty years, to gether with the late and important improvements and patents of eminent mechanical experts and in- ventors in the employ of the Wilson. Company. Cleveland has reasan fo beprond of the Wilson ma- chine, Salestoom st No. 573 West Madison street, Chicago, and in all othor cities in the United States. The Company want agents in country towns. — e An Important Invention. ‘The express and freight transportation compantes af* Chicago are now testing a new invention, the patent for which is held by J. Kendall, G, Gates, and J. I Orcutt, for the equalization of the draught on. wwaguns, Tt 1 claimed and Qemonstrated that the apparatus pro- ‘vents the violent swaying of the wagon toogue, and, in. cases wheel strikes an obstruction, it throws tho draught equall | ly upon both horses, It s an important matter, and well wortby of attention. We will take occasion s00n te givo the opinions of several persons wwho aro using the equalizer as to its merits. —_— Artificial Limbs. Drs. Bly & Gordner’s artificial limb mantifactory, comner of Sixieenth street and Wabah avenus, Chl c3go. Mr. B. L. Marsh, tho gonisl and popular Treasurer of the Gldbo Theatre, and for many years connected with Colonel Wood's Museum in the same capacity, is to take a farewell benefit a6 the Globe on Monday evening nest. Ho is to leave Chicago on a four or six Weeks’ visit to his old home in Canads, and then will return to Chicago for the purpose of joining Colonel Wood in looking after a new museum, e meny friends of Mr, Marsh will see to it that his farewell benefit is a solid one, The following wera gt tha Briggs yesterday: E. H. 8mith, New York; E. B. Earle, Detroit; Tom. MoNulta, Schulesburz, Ili.; E. &, Durfes, —The Geneve (N. Y.) Gazttz, which is well posted in canal maitérs, urges the Constitutionel ommiseion to propose an amendment for the abandonment of several of the lateral canals—ix fact, of =1l canals except the Erie, Oswego. Champlain, and Cayuga & Senecz, We were ones suown Some figures by the late Semstor Hardenburg, then Chairman of the Senato Cana? Committee, proving the fact that it would be egonomy for the State to give away ane or more of the lateral canals and pay s & gratuity to ehippera tho cost of the transportation of theic no!z;:v by wagons.—Rochester Gnion.