Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1873, Page 4

1 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY &2y, 1873. . | gt e TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERM OF SUBNCRIPTION (PAYADLX XN ADVANOR). all, 12, ggnd 3 G ookl tho samo rate. To provent delsy and mistakoc, bo auro and gire Fost Ofoo addrona fa full, Inoluding Btate and Couaty. Temlitancos mny bowads elther by draft, oxpross, Dilice ordor, or in reglaterad lottory, at our risk. TEni o OLTY BUDAGNLD ally, deltvorad, Sanlay oxoopted. 3 day Ineianods 50 3 B:n:flm‘nm.u, Bundes TRIBUNT COMPANY, ‘Gornor Madison and Deatbo sta., Ohloago, il e — 1 GONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. 3 GR—Washington Nows: Tho Invostigations; IR e i Congress—Advertisomonta, SRCOND PAGE—Washington Lottor—Prodacors vs. Non® Prodncors [communication]-Dus Bouth: Proposed Alr Lino Raliroad from Ohtcago to Nashvillo~No Scavongering In tho Sovonth Ward [communleation; —Bontencoof Drivor, the Murdoror—Tho Prosidont's Sonthern Tour, THIRD PAGE-Tho Law Courts—Amusomonts—In 3o tmorfam Lnlogles on tho Lio and_Oharacter of Jamos L, Stark—Ylorao Notoa—Sonth Evanston Mat. tors—Scott's Houlavard : Ono of thio Latast. Bohomoa for Dispasing of Real Estato—Porsonal~Tho- Por- toet Oaso—Advortissmants, FOURTH PAGE—Rditorials : The Polaud Committeg's Roport ; Mr. Colfax's Spoar of Truth ; Rallroad Freights and Tazos: Tho Presidont’s Votoos—Our- ront Newa Itom: FIFTIL PAGE—Notes from tho Stato Capital—Good Tom. plars' Bato Convontion—Markets by Telograph— Advortisomonts, BIXTH PAGE-DMonotary and Commorolal-Rallroad Timo Tablo, SEVENTH PAGE-Small Advortisements: Real Fe. tato, Tor Balo, To Ront, Wanted, Boarding, Lo ~ ing, eto, L EIGHTH PAGE-Forolgn Nows—Stato Loglslaturos— AMisoolisneous Tolegrams—Adsortisomonts, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, M'VICKER'S TIEATRE-Madison street, - botwson Btate and Dearborn, Rogagomont of Edwin Booth, *! Brutus," AOADEMY OF MUSIO—Halsted stroot, south of Madison. ** John] Garth," Matinco: Beneflt of Flora Nowton, g HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Randolph streat, be- twedn Olsrk and LaSalle, **Major Woelllngton De Boots," **Kverybody's Fricad," MYERS' OPERA HOUBSE—Monrao stroot, botwoon Btato and Doarborn. Arlington, Cotton & Komblo's Alinstrol aud Burlosque Troupo, Fthioplan Comicalitios. GLOBE THEATRE~Dosplalnos stroot, botwoon Madl- won and Washiogton, ** Neck and Noek," THOMAS' CONCERT—Michigan Avonuo Daptht Church. . e r——— BUSINESS NOTICES, TO ONE AND ALI~ARE YOU SUFFERING FROM a et S5, mathiar brongitis, urany of tho various innto fn consump: pulmoutey troublos thit so ofton, termiunta fn congimp; ** Wilbor's Puro o, o o and ofisnclots romey, i 1Y o agsox e AT e enelok? e ulty. Banufactured by A, O. WILBOR, Obomist, Et oot B Miiot ATOHELOR'S HAIR DYE, 7118 SPLENDID Bartive o Dot fho worll Tho oy trug and por- oot dyo. Harmlows, roliablo, and instantancous: riodleap- Bointmet; no cldidulous tiits or unpleasant ador. Hom dios tha {1l oToots of bad dyas and wasiiea. - Producos i modiatoly x suparh binck of matural bows, Betatitul, Tlio genulao, signod We Beiront ol “Deia’hy W drickiste, CHARLES ?‘A‘r"r:'ffwi’.'&‘ii, Tropriotor, N Y. The Thitago Titbune, Thursday Morning, Fobruary 20, 1873. e The Sonata, yesterday, debated tho Two Por Cont bill, but took no action upon it. BMassachnsotts bogine to ropont its hosty con- flomnation of o long-tried and faithful Sonator, snd potitions its Logislature to expunge the vota of censuro on Senator Sumner for his pro- gontation of tho famous Oblivion resolution, Onkos Ames ia confidont that ho fs in no dan- gor trom the report of the Credit Mobiier Com- mittee, Ho enys that a motion to expel tho Committes [would get more votes than their resolution for his oxpulsion The farmers of Will County met in Conven- tion, yostorday, at Joliot. Speeches woro mado and resolutions adopted donunciatory of the conduct of tho railroad companies. The Con- vention formed itself into » pormanent Club, in which all but farmors are refused membership. The House Committeo on Appropriations have approved, with some minor amendment, the Fouse blll passod by the Senate withholding grom the Pacific Railronds all that thoy may earn from tho Government while in arroars for intor- ost paid out of tho United Btates Troasury on the bonds issued to them by the Governmont. Thoe America and East Indin Telograph Com- pany, incorporated tho other dny by Congross, {8 now said to be a worthless concorn. - Tho par- ties in intercat aro bolloved to bo irresponsible, and to have sought the franchise only to make money out of its sale. A motion hag been made in tho Senato to roconsidor the voto'in their favor. * Ainority roprosentation has been eo succoss- ful in Hlinois that ita adoption may be speedily looked for in other States. A stop in this di- rection hag boen takon in the Michigan Legisla~ ture, whero s joint resolution has been intro- duced for tho submission fo the people, at the election of 1874, of & constitutional amoendment making the freo voto o part of the organioc law of that State, The amendment proposed follows tho provisions of our Constitution. Thero was & tomperauce debate in the House, yestorday, on Mr. Coburn's bill, forbidding the promotion of any army officor addicted to the kntomperate use of intoxicating liquora or 'drugs. Ono membor wanted to kmow what would have becomo of the Prosident i that rule had been in forco during the war, and another suggostod that the bill be mado to includo mem- -bers of Congress. An attempt to amond by omitting the word intemporate failed, and tho bill presed a8 prosented Onltos Amos Lias been beforo the Banato Crodit Blobilier Committeo to testify sbout tho checks !nr $10,000 given Senator Horlan by Durant, -Ames heard of them first from Harlan himeelf, 'who camo to him one day apparenily much wor- ‘alod, nnd #aid thet, If theso cheoks hnd come &rom the Pacific Railroad, Lo wanted to return thom. Asthe dato of this conversation s not given, it doos not apporr whother it ocenrrod bo- 'goro or after tho rocent disclosures. Ames said .that the road had nevor roclaimed tho money from Havlan. In this fssue wo print & mapwith a desoription ot o proposoed raflroad conncotion which will Jopon direot communication between Ohicago and _Nashville, aud add anothor strand to tho web of wailways which encirclo this city and feod its ‘growth, This routo noods only tho complotion of alinkof sovonty miles botween Vinconnes snd Owensboro, and a fow milos from tho lattor placo and Nashvillo, to give a continuous rall betwoen Chicago and Nashville, and to opon to the trade of this oity the extonsive railway sys- tom of tho South snd Bouthwos e —— Tho Detroit Tribune statos that when the lato Hon, W. A, Howard was stumping in Indiana, in 1808, ho had n conversation with Mr, Colfax upon the groat expenscs of tho campalgn, and that BIr. Oolfax replicd * that ho had frienda who had gonorously bejped bim to s conaidorabla extant. and thon rolatod hia rocelpt of 81,000 from Mr. Nesbitt, of Now York, & gentloman with whom 110 sald ho 1oas but slightly acquainted,” It now turns out that BIr. Oolfax hiad recclved no less ihan four difforent ohocks for $1,000 oach from Mr, Noabitt, which, considoring his ¢ slight no- qualntance” with Mr. Colfax, is the most ro- markabla caso of bonovolence on rocord. —— In nccordanco with tho requost of Sonator Pomeroy's connsol, Judgo Horton, the proscous tion wero ordered, yostordsy, to give o briof of ho namon of thoir additionnl witnesscs, and ot what thoy meant {0 prove by them. The ordor was inatantly complied with, and both thoe Sen- ator and his connsel will ind in it as much ns thoy oan woll attond to. Tho prosccution state that they will prove the actual pur. chaso of votes, by Judge Iorton, now Bon- ator Pomeroy's vounsel befora tho Committao ; ihat Pomoroy ordored othors to bo bought nt stoted sums; that ho pald hotel bills and othor oxpenses for a largo number of mombors of tho Loglslaturo; that he oxaoted contributions from railway companies inlia behalf; and used his in- finenco in other corrupt ways to procurs his own oloction. Thoy will also ldentify the §7,000 paid York by Pomoroy In overy stago of ita transmission from tho' bink, through Pomeroy to York, and from York to the Socrotary of tho Kansas Senato, who now holds it, . The Obicago produce markots wero stondy yos- torday. Mess pork was dull and 5@100 lowor, at $12.70@12.75 cash, and $12.75@12.80 ecller March. * Lord was aotivo and a shado ensfor at S7.50@7.52}¢ B 100 1ba oasli, and &7.55 eoller March. Moats woro in falr demand and stendy at 43@43¢o for shoulders; 63{@6}ge for short’ ribs ; G3¢@054e tor short clear, and 83@8%c B b for 18-1b groon hams. Oroseed hogs woro quiat ot §6.00@6.16 '# 100 1bs, Highwines wore dull and ensior at 870 per gallon, Lako freights wwaro quiet and flrm at 120 Torcorn by aail toBaf- falo. Flour was firm and more active, Wheat was in' falr domand nt unchanged prices, closing at 81.213{ cash, and $1.225€ sollor March. Corn was netiva and steady at 811fc cash, and 8iide goller March. Onls wore in uetter demand and firm, at 265{@20340 sollor March, Ryo was moro activo, snd stondy abt 06@05Y4e. Barloy was quict, bub 20 higher, closing at 72¢ for No. 2 cash or soller March. The eattle market waa fairly sctivo, bub the lorge asupply woakened pricos. Snlea wore reported at 82.50@06.8744. Hogs wore sotivo and stoady st $4.25@4.70. Shoop wero quiet and unchanged. Mesars, Nyo and Conlling aro described as having been *’almost beside thomsolves with rgo" during tho Bonato disoussion of tho Pomeroy caso on Tuceday, dononncing not only Pomeroy's accusers, but the wholo system of Oongressional investigation that has been pur- sued during the winter. Itisa suspiclous cix- oumstance whon Sonators voluntarily array themselves agninet investigations in gonoral. Thoro mny be pazticular casos in which & Sona- tor's convictions would lead him to oppose investigation a8 s uselesn investment of time and money, But nothing can justify o genoral opposition to all invostigations, and por- ticularly st a time when eo much Congrogsional corruption hes been probed ond oxposed by {his meons. If Measra, Nyoand Conkling pursue this mad-dog policy ot snapping and biting at" everybody who suggests the exposure and punisliment of corruption, it will be difficult for thom to suppresa.tho sus- plclon that thoy fear some exposure and puaish- ment on tholr ovn part. In tho sbsonce of sny cause for investigating their cases, thoy should be caroful to avoid furnishing one. The Cald- woll Committoo declared, sud rightfully, that it was just as corrnpt to buy off a Sonntorial can- didato, and thoroby to socuro his infiuence snd that of his friends, 08 to buy up o Logislature. Porhops it ia this doctrino that sttracts the lpnf:lal indignation of Mr. Nye, who gives way to Mr, Jones, of Nevada. Governor Bovoridge, at tho request of tho the gentlemon whom he named for Railroad and ‘Warehouso Commissionera, has withdrawn their nominations from the Senate. Wo understand thnt the roport of the Reilrond Committoo of tho Benate, and & convase of that body showed that DMr. Stillwell's con. firmation was impossible. His frionds could not consent that Lo shomld re- colvo the etigmas which his rojection alone would bring upon him,—a stigmn unwar- ronted by any of the facts of the case, and grossly unjust to him na » gontleman, On thig necount the names of all the nominees have been withdrawn together, We regrot that theso gontlemen should have thought any other courso advissble 4han awaiting tho re- sult. of the lawful aud rogular ac- tion preseribed by the Conmstitution. Xt romains now with the Governor to name for theso positions throo other gentlomon of oqually good reputo, sud loave with tho Seuato tho responsibility of rejecting them, if it chooso to oxorciso ita undoubted right to doso. The Senato Las the right to rejeot as tho Governor has tho right to nominate, and heither noed asgign any remson for - such mction. Yt 1is manifestly impossible for the Governor now to. appoint Mr. Morgan, in whoso bobelf such flagrant attempts heve beon mado to dragocn and cooreo im. Todo 80 would bo to surrendor his fanctions into the bands of importinent and irrosponsiblo busy-bodies. Tho State of Tlinols bas not sunk so low that ita choico of Railroad Commissioners is confined to ono man, or that its Govornor ennnot be trusted to make the no- loction which the Constitution and laws place in his hands, The Demoorats of C have nomi- nated Charles R, Ingersoll, an ablo lawyer of New Havon, for Governor. 'Fhey reassert their adlierence to the principles declared at Clucin- natl and adoptod at Daltimore, and give the second place on their ticket to n Liboral Topublican. In Now Hampshiro, there are four tickets in tho flold,—the Republican, tho Domooratlo, tho Liberal, and the Tomporance. It is nald that the Domocrats and Liberals aro not noting togothor iu the New Hampshiro ean- ‘'vas, bocauso thoy desire to throw tho olection into the Leglalature. As the Governor must bo eloctod in that State by a majority ovor all other candidatos, thoy hope to divide the vote In such away a8 to provent the Ropublican caudidate fromsccuringit. Practioally, thon,theDemooratic party and tho Liborala aro keoping up soparate organizations, and combining for tomporary advantagos. If it is tho intention to form & now party, this is cortalnly not the way to go sbout it. Thore are are two rog- ulnrly-organized partios, the Republican and the Demooratio, If there s to be n mow party, it onn bo.neither one nor the othor of theso. Each hasita traditions, its projudicos, snd ita obiectionablo fenturcs, Tho Liberals muat run thalr own machino, if thoy would have aparty, Thoso who desire to not with thom must dosort tho old organizations,—must conse to Dbo Domoornts and Ropublicans, and must bocome Liborals. It wae in this wpy thint tho Ropublican party was formod from be- ginnings that woro very much smallor than thoso with which thio Liboerals would start out. It is tho only way In which any now party can bo formed. 1Itis only a queation of timo and place whon nnd whoro such an organization, ontiroly indopondont of all oxisting partios, shall Lo o8- tablished, If Now IInmpsbire anud Connectiout fall to initiata it, 1t will bo dono elsewlhoro, — Tho Nation makes & bad showing for tho mo- tlvos of Congress in its prosont disposition to inoronro enlarics, by comparing thoe ratlo of in- creage horotofors of judicial and logislativo sa~ lnvien. According to tho proposed inoreaso, the salary listaof tho throo branches of Govorn- ment would bo ss follows : For nino oxocutive ofticers, £41,000 per annumj for niua judlelal ofiicors, §18,000 per annum; for 807 momborsy ond delogatos in Congross, $1,101,000 per an- | num. It rosts with Congress to fix tho snlaries of all threo branches, In contrast with this ox- Libit, the polioy of tho First Congross is noted. Tho subjoot of fixing thelr own salarios was ap- proached with delicioy and reluctancoe by tho Congrossmen of thoso days. They finally fixed tholr componsation at 6 a day, and, for throa of the most laborious sossions ever known, counting 530 days of sorvico, tho compensation of cach membor was only 81,660. Yet, whon they éamo to fixing tio salary of tho Prosidont and tho Supremoe Judgos, thoy oxhibited becom- ing gonerosity. Thoy wore anxious to givo tho Prosident o salary that would enable him to ad- mipistor his office with bocoming dignity, and $35,000 aycar was finally agroed upon. Thoir do- clared purposo In fixing tho salaries of the Su- prome Judgos was tosecurothomost eminont Inw-~ yors by paying more than they could make from tholr private practico, As it was sscor- tained thot an ablo and industrious Iawyer of those times could earn $3,000 & year, it wos decided that tho Chiof Justice should have §4,000 and the Judges £3,600. Binco that time, the modosty of Congrassmen appoara to hova van- ishod. In 1855, the salary of Congressmen was made £3,000 and that of Suprome Jud3os $6,000. 8ince thon, Congress has incroased its own pay 66 por cont, and that of the Supremo Judges 83 por cant. Now it is proposed that thoy shall in- oronso thoir own poy 60 por cont, and tho pay of tho Judges 25 por cent, Itis very ovident that tho Congressman of to-day has a higher opinion of logislative than of judicial sorvices, though the recont devolopmonts. scarcoly warrant tho conclusion. THE POLAND COMMITTEE'S REPORT, In reviewing tho conclusions roached by the Poland Committoe, it 1s just to romember that their task was nt once delicate and embarress- ing. Thoy were called upon to examine charges of bribery against somo of the foremost mon in the nation, Congre ~sional collongues whom thoy lind coms to respoct, gontlemon whose motives hund nover before beon impugned, This ciroums- stanco alone would have rondored their taslk dificult and harassing, Added to this, howover, wa3 o mass of conflicting tostimony, in which men of equally high standing bofora tho com- munity confronted each other with opposing stotemonts, and loft to the Committes to guess whore the lic, or rathor tho perjury, wes, Undér circumstsncos like theme, it ia Bearcely romarkablo thaet:their roport shoultd have been incomploto and inconsistent in some rospocts. There aro soveral notable points about it, which may be statod ng follows s 1. The Committos bave rocognized degroos of guilt in’ Crodit Mobilier transactions. In the cases of Brooks and Amos, whose oxpulsion they recommond, thoro was undoubted guilt, .In tho case of Mr, Binghom, there was an enjoy-~ ment of all profita from the time the atock was transforred to him to tho timo of his set~ tlemont with' Ames, in 1872, though the precise smonnt was not ascortained. M. fcoflold waa found to have eurrendered his Credit Mobilior stocl, but to bave retained $1,000 in the Union Pacifle stock, which was prosumably a profit. Mr. Kelley rocoived $329 st ono timo and $750 at another timo as his profits. Mr. Garfiold roceived 8329 a8 a divi- doud, but bad no farther transactions with Amos, Mr. Dawos roceived uo othor bonefit than 10 por cent on his investent, if that can be called o bonefit. Mr. Blaine nover taol the stock which Ames offored him, and was complete~ ly oxonerated. Tho implicated Sonators must Iook to their own body for judgment. Hera is a gradation from positive, conscious ,and persist- ont guilt, through soveral stages of disgraceful conngotion with the schemo, down to acom- ploto innocenco, The Committeo did nob at~ tempt to define thoe relative dogree in which theso gentlemen were guilly, nside from Ames &nd Bracke. « 2. The roport i defective in nlleging as the reation for Ames’ expulsion that Lo had bribed mombers of Congross, while it faila to stipulato ‘what members of Congress had beon bribed. In making no furthor roforence to Mossrs. Dawos, Garfleld, Kolloy, Scofleld, and Bingham than reciting tho circumatancos of tholr cases, thorowasno effort to charge upon them tho guilt of bribo-taking. Tho tonoof tho report touds rathor to rolivve these gontlemon of such & guspiclon, Now, Mr. Ames did not bribe Brooks, bocause Brooks dealt direelly with the Company, using his position as Government Direotor to socura a large amount of Credit Mo- Ditier stock. Who, then, did Oskes Ames bribo ?* Tho Committeo aro convinced that it wna the purpose of Oakes Ameato bribo whon ho allowed members to havo stock at par which wag worth 200 or 300 per cent, aud thon permitted thom to poy fov it out of its dividonds. 'This foature must have beon explainod to the gentlomen who recolved the stock. They must have known what they woro to psy and how they wore to poy. It Mr. Amos intended to bribo by giving proporty at ono-third lts valuo, the recipionts, boing iutelligont mon, must havo suspootod as much in accepting the property on such torms, 8. Tho most lame and impotont fonture of tho roport is tho failuro of tho Committeo to mako somo pointed condomnation of the conduct of Congrossmon who Lad boen proved to have en- tored Into a spaculation whoso profits dopended- upon tho avails of & Govornmont eubsidy, Even if it woro assumed, though it is not, that all thevo gontlomon wero ignorant of the chiaraotor of the Crodlt Mobilior Company, it would furnish no oxcuso for thoir conneotion with It, It was thoir businoss to know about it, Thoy ave sout to Congrees, and paid out of the publio money, for the purposo of knowing such things and of protooting tho intorests of the pooplo. When thoy are found associated with a achiome to divide tho profits that acoruo from tho Unltod Btatos Govornmont it s cloar that they Lavo goe intolt either knowlngly or ignorantly ; and it {a hardly possible to mupposo that mon slirowd onough to avold taking the stook in their own names woro jguorant of tho naturo of Ltho businoss, Thoy are oulpablo in olthor ovent, and it was a sorioua dofoct in tho report that it did not pass & storn robuke upon such transace tlons, Looso gonoralitios will not anawor. 4. The argument of reductio ad absurdam s applicablo to this Inat featurs. The ropork loaves it to 'bo inforred that Congrossmon may logitimatoly dabblo in speculations in which money {8 to bo mado out of the Govornmont, so long na thoy do not accopt tho opportunities In tho sonso of bribe-taking, or while thoy may bo in ignornnco of tho fact that Govornment money ia to bo got out of thom, If ono Congrossman, or half a dozen, may do this, then thero is no resgon why all Congressmen should not do it, and do it continmally, It Congressmon may own ono sharo apleco In Crodit Mobilior, they may own the wholo. Nobody would maintain this, Tho Committoa orred ecriously and fatally in not dofining tho real naturo of tho transactions bofora them, Wo say, furthor, that sll the Con- grossmon who dorived any profit, groat or small, from tho stock given thom by Amos, should re- slgn tholr sonts, and go bofore tholr conatituonts again, loaving it to the latter to dotormine how far thoy may be trusted in view of what has bdon dieclosed. As for Mossrs, Oskes Ames snd Jomes Brooks, it is difficult to conceive that Congress can take any othor courso than that suggeated by the Committes. Ifit foll to do 50, it will confirm s susplcion, which 18 alrondy protty well deflned, that Congress dares not expel Ames from fosr of further rove- Intions, Tho wholo of the stock which Amoes Deld ae trustoo has not boen accounted for, and . tho whole of his memorandum-book ling never yet beon noon. Does Congross foar to have tho full history of Crodit Mobilier unfoldod bofore tho world? MR, COLFAX'S “BPEAR OF TRUTH.” The position of Mr. Qolfax growa worge con- tinually. Evory time ho opons his mouth ko puts his foot in it.- Whon his caso was closed,” or supposod to biave been closed, a fowdays ago,” his friends wero quite euro he had accounted satisfactorily for his $1,200 deposit by the queer. donation of 8 $1,000 bank-note from the do- conrged Mr. Neabitt, and wo wore kolf inclined to think'so too. Dut n prowling member of tho Committeo wont to the bank whore Colfax kept ‘his account in 1868, and found that threo checks, of $1,000 ench, from Nosbitt to Colfax, bad' been doposited in the year 1868, ot intervals of thres months—nsmely, in April, July, and Octobor, Thero .| 18 no ovidenco as yot to show what disposition Mr. Colfox modo of this money, or why Nesbitt pald it, butitis in evidonco that Nesbitt wasa Government contractor. This opons s new fleld of inquiry, and contains some unploasant suggestions, but its chiof intorest is dorived from the antecedent testimony given by Mr. Colfax snd members of his family concorning tho 81,200 deposit. It will bo romembered that this testimony wont to show that Nesbitt wns a'comparative strangor; that ho was snxions to have the 81,000 remittance kopt mecret; that ho had probably ‘omployed . the oxtraordinary and bhazardous ‘mothod of romitting tho $1,000 bank-note in an ordinory letter, instend of sonding it by ox- pross, or roglstored lotter, or draft, or check, in order to keep it moro ‘secret, and thaf it was altogother a stirprising thing that Afr. Nosbitt should send Mr. Colfax anymouney what- ever. To this must bo sdded Mr. Colfex’s original testimony, that he conld not bave ro- coived so large an additton to his incomo o8 - 81,200/ without remembering it vory distinctly. How doos all this tally with the now discovery ? Mr. Nosbitt could not huvo desired thit one out of tour of his donations of cqual amounts should ‘be kept in & peouliar and speclal manner socret. Ho would not have boen likely to sdopt an oxtra~ hazardous mode of sonding 1,000, while ho was “making other remittances, both beforo and after, in a perfectly safe mannor. It could not lave beon o surprising tlung to Mr. Colfax that Mr. Nesbitt should sond him this $1,000, if hio was sonding bim checks for thet amount fre- quontly. Finally, his transactions with Nesbitt, or Nesbitt's with him, were so numerous, and amountod to so large n sum in.the aggregate, that ho would bayve romembered them in tho firat instanco when tho disputo arose concorning tho $1,200 doposit. ) The Bouth Bond Union rocontly took for the toxt of a protty caustic article on this subject, the following words from Mr. Colfax's Soptem- ber apeech : . Lot mo detain you for a fow moments, my towne- man, while I touch a fabric of fulsehood with the spear af truth, oxposing tho so-called Oredit Mobiller scan- dal, that you niay see of what worthless stuff campalgn chinrges aro mado, v . It muat bo admitted now that a fabric of false- hood has been touched with the spenr of ‘truth, and that it has tumbled sbout tho onrs of the Vico President. Mr. Colfax can hardly ex- pect even tho offico-holding newspapors to stand Dby him eny longer, RAILROAD FREIGHTS AND FARES. In the roport of the Maegnchusotts Railroad Commissionors tho subject of the reduction of froighta andfares is discussed, and - the conela- sions 'roachod, aftor a thorough examination of rnilroad business, aro cloarly stated. Those conclusions are: i ! 1, That & roduction of feres for long dis- tances, as for through travol, has hardly a por- coptible influonce in stimulating passenger travel. i . 2, That roduction of fares for way travel, or comparatively short distances, partioularly in tho neighborhood of large towns, doos stimulate travel, and to s degroe which rondors tho re- duced faros moro profitable than tho high ones; oud, whero soaaon or commutation tickots aro - aold, travel can be stimulated indoflnitely by the roduction of tho rates. y 8. That, with respect to froights, an opposito prineciplo, exiata. Throngh freights are cnor- mously stimulated by low rates, whilo local treights aro not. Theso practical rosults of & thorough analyaia of railrond businoss are important both to leg- lislators and to railrond men, It teachos tho {ujustico both to railonds and to the public of any rates, olther for fares or froights, founded upon mileage alono. The coat of makingup & passonger train from Chicago to 8t. Louis 8 tho samo Whethor thoro be ten or one hundred passongors, To divido tho aggrogato cost by the numbor of milos, aud adopt the rosult as tho rato to bo charged to enoh passengor, ia not Just, elthor to tho through passengoer or to tho way pussonger, Whon the train {a made up, tho ex- pense 18 not inorensod by tho oarry ing of & fow more passongers. Tho through passongor should not wunnccossarily be taxed' for hia groportionate exponss of the whole train computed according to milesge, when nino- tonths of the passengors, for whoso convenionco the wholo oxpenso hag boon incurred, rido huta shotb distanco, and are taxed only at the samo rato, - Nor, on tho othor hand, would It bo just to apportion tho cost of running tho wholo train &t 80 much por hend for ench passenger, without any roforonce to tho distanco travelled. In fix- ing tho rato for transportation, thors must bo somo rule adopted whoroby the cost of tho train shall bo oquitably distributed, with striot refor~ onco to a just compansation for the servico ron- derod. Exporlonca shows that the number of passengors travelling a long distance is not groatly incrensed by a reduction of faro; whilo it Is equolly shown thnt tho number of pas- songora travolling a short distanco is groatly Incronsed by roducod faros, cspeclally when tiokets aro sold Dby tho package or at commutation rates, Whon $ho ordinary faro bo- twoon two points is 50 conts, the smount of travel can bo grontly incrossod by selling these tickota in packages ot twonty for 88, and still farthor incronsod i roduced to twonty for 80, In overy caso tho company sclle the wholo packago of ticketn, and itis of vorylittlo concorn in its oxpenses whother tho purchaser rides or not, But this roduction of fares for wWay travel can only produco an incroase of ravenuo along a line whore thoro are numerous and closely-situs ated towns having cons{derable population, To admit of an incronso of travel, thoro muat bo s population from which this incroase must como. It is not onongh ihat tho roduced rates will induco an ordinary travellor to rida twics wharn ho would have riddon but once boforo, but it must indaco guch an increase of the numbor of travollers, and tho number of ridors, a8 will not only cover whatovor incronse of tho cost of trapsportation may have been incurrad, but will alag increrso tho rovenue in proportion. As the proportionato coat of transportation por pas- senger decrossos with tho incrense of tho num- ber of passengors, the company can afford, while making a larger proflf, to reduce tho rates of fare; and all oxporienco showa the incroaso ‘of travel on a.woll-populated line can bo continued: Indefinitely by tho sale of commutatton tickets or tickets by the package. Theman who travels thirty miles twico evory doy is cortainly entitled to transportation af less rates per mile than the man who travels 160 miles onco overy six months. Yot tho advocates or ascele of fares, computed by mileage, insist upon the daily travollor paying tho' samo faro por mile, cach day, as is paid by tho occasional traveller. Tho result of theso doductions by the Masgachusotts Commissionera is, that the railronds do mot incroaso travoel or rovenue by reducing through rates to tho mero cost of transportation, but that they do detor travel and losorevenno by maintainiug high rates upon way or local travel. Railroads, ss a gon- oral thing, in their anxicty for through passengers, carry | ab cosf, without increasing travel in tho least; and, while they conld Incrense local travel indofinitely at a large inorense of revenuo, sud without any addltional cost, they adopt the very reverse policy, and Lkoop ‘that local travol at its minimum, The some Commissionors point to the faota and figures concorning freights as having tho opposito offcct. Rodiced ratos have tho effect of incromsing through freights, and the longor, the continuous journey of the froight car, the greatorits daily earnings and profits, Whilo re- duced rates do not have tho direct effect of in- croasing local freights, thoy must do soin- directly, If reduced ratos have tho offect of doubling tho amount of goods brought from Now York to Chicago, thoy must have the offoot of doubling tho amount of goods supplied from Chicago to other points. Whilo it is true, as stated, that tho cost of londing, making up, and running froight trains, Is substantially the same, whether the distance bo long or short, and there- fore tho ratos of froight for shortdistances muist ‘bo groater por mile than for long distances, this does not furnish the loost justificntion for diffor- oncos in rates from pointa whero there is com- potition, and from pointa where theroe is no com- petition. Tho ‘principle of componsation, ac- cording to morvice rendored, cannot bo sacrificed, and must bo followed, and the railroad com- pany cannob adjust its rxates for froight according to tho degrae of compotition it may encountor. If it can carry freightin compoti- tion at a given rate, it can do so whon thero is no competition. ‘The attempt, thorofore, to fix arbitrary rates for passouger fares, or railroad froights, at so much per milo, is impracticablo, and operates sgainst both tho public and the railroads. A Lankrupt or unprofitable railrond company is s publie nuisance; it, cannot accommodato the publio except- at oxorbitant rates. A profitablo rallrond, on tha contrary, can not only increaso ita facilitles to mect tho public wanta, but, with down tho railrond by arbitrary oxactions, isto do- stroy tho bridge by which alone wo ean oross the -gtream, Railroads aro dopondent upon public oncouragoment, Thoy may assert their char- tored privilogos and proolaim thoir legal inde- pondonce of the publio, and may doflantly ask swhat the public can do without them § novertha- less, & railroad company, having the: confidonco of the pooplo with whom it does business, is in- finitely stronger than one at war with iis own customora, Every railroad is deeply interested in tho inorosse of the wealth and population of the district through whioh it pesses. Tho business of arond passing through o country filled with’ rich and prosperous people must bo immensely botter than that of o struggling and lmpovor- {ehed peaple. It the road gleans the country, lenving the poople nothing, it destroys tho very .mosns by which italono can bocomo continuously prosporous. THE PRESIDENT’S VETOES, . 'The Presidont has, on throo or four ocoesions, vetood bills making appropriations to pay for privato damages suatained in tho Rebol Btatos during tho war. Tho olaims thus votood by tho Prealdent avo small in thomselves, and, if thoy stood alono, thero would be no serlous objoc- tion to thelr payment. But thoso small casos aro tho more dangerous becauso thoy sro do- signed to sorvo ag procedents. Onco passod, & hundred thousand like claims, ranging from a thousand to a million dollers each, will be pro- gented, Theso emall bills aro meroly pushed for- ward for thoe purposo of having the bulwarks of thoTreasury and tho ostablishod prinolplos of Inw broken down, that tho others may bo prescuted. For sovoral yoars tho battlo was fought ovoern bill for tho reliof of o maidon lady in Alabame, named Sue Murphy. It was claimod that she ‘wad & non-combataut ; was a minor at the time, and was loyal; hence sho should bo pald for in- jurios to Ler estate suffered during the war. That bill psssed one or the othor Louse of Congross, but failed, It would have established a procedont for tho allowauce of claims amount- ing to porhaps a thousand million dollars, The strongth of thoso clalms has beon in the igno- ronco of those members of Congross wlho erectod " loyalty” nsa subsilinte forlaw. In tholr blind zonl for Ioyally thoy asaumod that evory loyal man was ontitlod to componsation for all damages sustalned, forgotting that loyal- ty was o thing that might bo proven by teati- mony, and that tostimony was as easily manus, faotured at tho South as elsowhoro, # Tho rulo of law fe, that no man has any law- ful demand upon tho United Statos that cannut o rottled by the officors of tho Tronsury, under gonoral lawa, Tho faot that nono of theso do- mands are now payable at the Trossury Is prima Jacle ovidenco that they ar but claima upon the bounty, liborality, aud equity of Congroess. Thoy hiave, thoroforo, no logal charactor; they aro not lawful demands, and, until recognized by Con- groes in tho form of a Inw, aro mere potitions for charity. Tholaw of this country, and of overy olvilized country, is, that all persons ro- slding In an onomy’s territory in timo of war aro public encmies, and that they have no claim for compensation for losses sustained In the prossoution of the war that might not bo pro~ souted by the Government ihen in force and carrying on tho war. Evory peraon, thereforo, reslding iu the Robol Statas, orin the territory subjeot to the Confederato forces, was, in con- templation of law, & public enomy, and ‘not on- titlod to any componaation for losses sustained by the war. .This rulo i3 applicable even to cltl- Zons of forelgn countrien residout In the one- my's country, Thera are claims eithor bofore Congross, or bield in abeyanco waiting for a prac- edont, which covor tho losmos sustained by ovory rosident in tho Robel Btates, To pay any of thom would not only bo favoritism, but would open tho door to enormovs frauds, The Prosi- dont hos, so far, rosisted oll apposls to open the door and admit these claims. Ho'| has Interposed his voto prompily and vigorously, and it is to Do - hoped that ho will continue to do so. Tho approval of those bills would call into oxistenco at Washing- "ton an immenso lobby, not merely of Bouthorn people, but of Northern speculators. Already we havo a lobby to approprinto sevonty milliona of dollars to tho Southorn States for tho roturn of tho cotton tax; wo havo also o strong lobby of Northorn brokers nnd baukors, urging that tho United Statos shall nssumo the debts of all tho Southern Bintes, snd it s duo to tho veto of tho President that wo have not now o friumph- ont lobby pressing an appropriationof millions of .dollars to pay privato lossos sustained in tho Robol Btaton during tha rebellion, The Italian Government has undertsken the oxpenso of publishing monthly the results of tho dally observations of tho snn, made by the Ttalian Socioty of Bpectroscopists, the publication including illustrations of tho phenomena of tho oruptions seon on the sun on every fair doy at Palormo, Rome, and Padus, togethior with such obsorvations as thoso of Bocchi of iho vari- ations of diameter of the sun at difforent times, —a question of vifal imporlanco in conneation with tho transit of Vonus and tho determination of our distanco from the sun. Tacchini is also studying tho distribution of magnosium vapor on tho golar surfaco, and this branch of inquiry will &roblblg furniah the cluo to tho vaviation of tha leat and light-giving powor of tha sunin differont soasons and yenzs, and porhaps onable us to prodict tho clisracter of an approsobing . genson, —_——— THE CITY N BRIEF, RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE. Annual Cominencement Exers . cises, Last Evening, Sizty-Two Graduates Turned Loose on the Publio, . Addresses by President Freer, Prof. Hay, and Others. Presentation to Dr, J. Adams Ale len by the Class. Tho commoncement oxerclaos of Rush Medlcal Collogo, nt Coutral Hull, last ovening, called togothor & large numbor of fashionably-attired ladios and gontlomen, fricnds of the students and othors, moro than onough to comfortably fUl tho bll, The studenta wore placed ia soll phalanx in front of tho platform, surrounded on threo sides by tho spactators, and confronted by the Faculty on the platform, Tho oxerclses woro oponed by a brief prayer by the Right Rev. Bishop Foloy, intorrupted by the outerios of an interesting infent, whoso paront had tho bad taste to bring it into & pube lic place. CONFEREING OF DEGREES, Tho prayor ended, tho Prosident, Professor 3. W. Froor. contorred tho dogrecs of M. D., spoaking in 8 low tono almost inaudible oven by tho students, and also intorrupted by the conse- loss wailing of the intractsblo infant aforosaid, Following is n complote lint of the graduates 1 « T. Ashbaugh, Franklin Bodford, W. H. Battin, 3., 31, Barclay, H. O. Dostwick, J. ‘B, Browning, C. 0. Birnoy, J, H. Cristler, 0. H. Caroy, E, B.Crommott, J. B, Corbott, O, Dodge, W. L. Duflin, M. Enfleld, D. W. Edmis« tou, J. W. Evous, J. Grass, Oharlos Vao Heddesson, W. A. Horton, 0. H, Hame ilton, W. J. Hurt, A, J. Hynds, F. A. Hegs, C. F. King, E. A. Kottoll, J. A, Kitering, M. H, Luker, W A, Lowis, N. A, Looflaurow,.. G. B, Littlo, 0. L. Myors, P, M. Mondenhall,' Goorgo McCulloch, M, G. MoLoan, J. H. Drear,. 0. 0, Oliver, D. W. Pearson, W. W. Rush, G. W.! Toynolds, H. R, Riddlo, M. G. Sloan, F. E, Shor~ man, F. Bhemonol, J. T, Schaofer, 0. H. Smith,' J., J. btono, G. D. Bwaine, E. R. Smith, J, N.! Storr, D, M. Slemmons, K. T. Stabeck, M. Shoo~ makor, J. 8. Thompson, R. N. Tarner, H. J.! Thomas, M. W. Wood, J. G. Welker, E. B. Woa< ton, G. C. Wellnor, H. A. Wintor, D. T. Walker. A ROST MORTEM DEGUEE of M. D, was conforred upon 8. 0, Alford, de< consed, and suad eundem dogreo upon David Dodge, M. D. ; also to A. R. Jackeon, T. Adol-- phus, of Chicago, C. D. Allon, of Rutland, Vt., snd T. O, Catlin, of Now York, The graduates, who ranged from beardlosy’ boys to hairy men, recoived their parchments oaud sat down, after which THE PRESIDENT nddrossed to tho students a fow words of friend« ly advico. Tho parchmonts, ho sald, might bo considored tokona of akill and learning, and on~ titled tho owners to practice in the madical pro« fossions. FHe cnutioned the young men not to lot the public bo doceived "by thom, or cast: reproach lfl:l“m their Almn Mater, He com-~ plained mildly that bluuders were oceasionally- mado by bestowing diplomas upon unworthy por~- song, and hoped that none would have beon: mnde on this occasion. The. oxaminetion bad boon unueually thorough, and he hoped the ,irnduntca ware all dinmonds of tho first wator.. (ko romaindor of tho nddross consisted of the usual yecommendations to study, not to think thomaelves anything but *‘novitintes,” but to collech ol the neceseary booke and instraments Tho Oratorlo Socloty will mooet this evening at tho Swedenborgian ’l‘umFln. cornor of Washing~ ton utroot and Bouthwestorn svonue, ‘Tho cloventh annunl masquerado of the Dania Boloty will be givon at tha Aurors Turnor Hall, Milwaukoo avonue, noxt Monday evening. The tickets of admission ara $2 each. The Bouth Chicago City Railway Cum‘pnny bave placed an extra car on' the Stock Yards route, The two-horge cars now leave Thirty~ fourth streot evory thirty minutes, instead of evory hour; a8 formerly. Business mon should remembor tho down- ‘town dinners given ovory day this weok by tho ladios of the Christian Union, at No. 118 Franke lin stroot. Tho objeot for which they ore givon is n_worthy ono, and the tables should bo crowdad overy day. Justico Banyon yosterday sent a- young bo; nemod A G, Wrighty to ol tondor S350 il 1ot ‘the incresse of the volume. of its|. business, furnish tho transportotion at a constantly ~ falling rato, . 'To. . broal stabbing & man in tho kead named: lilos Thow, 10 a drunken row ab No. 855 Twenty-second stioot, on Tugsday night. Thow's wound ia not sorious, & Tho notorious Bill Wray yesterday morning mado application before Judge Gary to have his default sot asido and hereadmittod to bail, Par- nell Mungon was ézuaant to sign tho nccessary bonds, but, the Stat’s Attoruoy objectjng, tho mattor went over. 3 A daring robbery was committed yesterds; aftornoon, betweon 2 and 8 o'clack, at “the reaf~ donco of Mr. F. Letord, No. 606 State street, The wordrobe in one of the rooms was_broken open and the contents carriod off. Tho sus- pocted parties have not yot baen arvested. Unusual jutorest was manifosted af the noon firnyor mootiug, yosterday. Bhort, stivring ad- resses ore mado by the” Rev. J. E. Roy, the Rev, 0. 8. Thompson, and others, Professor Saulkey lod the Bulglnf. The moetinj will be led by the Rov.'J, W. Cracraft. Ject of tho'lecturo will bo ‘¢ Eternity." About 9 o'clock yastorday morning a man namod Patrick Gallagher, in’the omoloy of tha ‘Wost Bide Railway Company, wad caught botweon two cats, at the corner of fiandolph and Btate stroets, and boing thrown down, wag run over. Ono of his logs was go badly crushed that it had to be amputnted, Ho was taken to the County Hospital, whore the operation was porformod by Dr. Emmons. Ono of the rebellious hentors at the Bridge- port Tolling Mills, Iato on Tucsday night, bo- camo angored at @ -holper who had takon his lnce and asanulted him sa Lo was proceoding to abor. The heater was quickly arrested and lodged in tho Doering Btreot Station, About twonty other heaters soon surrounded tho sta- tion and domanded hiu reloase, Sorgeant Hood informed thom that the {wismmr would not bo yolensed, and told thom to lonve the station ap onco, A hasty doparture followed this com- mand, A squad of policemen aro on guard at the Milla to prevont any further disturbance. Fuller and Rainforth, who have operated to- gother In ovory kind of villainy for the last ton years, nnd whose coreor was writton up in Tue TnipyUNE somo months nFo wore yeatorday libe erated from tho Bridowell, fmving sorved out n torm of. 60 dayp. Thoy aro still under heavy bail for & chargo which it Ja Loliovod will ultimatoly laud them in tho Penitentiary, It is but ronson- ablo to resume that thoso nion will resume thair old business of * roping {n" funocont parties, mxd tho partien had bottor bo on the watch for om. 5mm 8ub- Hang Wilson, & Scotchman, nbout §0 years old, residing in thoroar of No. 493 Wost Indians streot, attompted to commit suicide yestordn afternoon about 5 o'olols, by hangiug himeetd, Ho mado tho attempt with nulc%hon line ino basement of tho houso whero ho rosides. Ho was discovered and cut down by Thomas A. Honrn, & young mau in tho Liouse, bofore ho bo- como ingcnsiblo. Wilson has made an attompt to ond bis lifo onco beforo, Intomperance is suppoacd to bo tho cause of his troublos. The Professora and Truatoes of the Univer- sity of Chicago, witl: tholr wives, and o numbor of "tho frionds of tho Inutitation, met at the res- idonco of the Rov, Dr. Burroughs, ou Ellis ave- nug, on Tuesday ovoning, for the purpose of aiding in tho ontablishment of n collcge or do- partmont for.the specinl education of ladies, in conncction with tho University, The Rov, Dr. Buwroughs, tho Hon. James 1. Doolittle, Mra, Doggett und othors, spoke In_ favor of the pro- jeot, A tho fconcluslon of tho sddrossos tho entlemen declded to withdraw and lot the lndies alk tho matter ovor among thomwelves. M, Dogpott was callod to the Chalr, and Mrs, Pro- tesaor Stearnu appointed Seorotary. 'Tho follow- ing Committeo was appointod to” carofully cons eldor tho subjoct aud repart ot u future moat- ing: Meadomos W. E. Doggott, I 0. Stono, Fornando Jones, L, Wilson, I1, L. Boovis, Josso B, Thomae, J. O, Burroughs, Professor Mathe v, to-day for their professional armature, etc. 'Tho address was recoived with applause, aftor which - * DR. P. R. BMITH, nowly mado 80, repliod. o thanked the Prosi- dent for his address and tho parchments, on bo- holf of tho class, and admitted for thom that they wero only novices. Ho hioped the I-‘no?lty would never have cause to regrot the occasion. The class were about to soparate, never, per- haps, to meot sgain, but they would nover, aa {ndividuals, lnriflb “0ld Rush.” They wora united in hoart by » common intereat, the ad- vancemont and dovelopment of tho scicnce of medicine. There were probloms to bo solved and discoverles to be mado; some might fancy thoy wera to bocome teachers. Whatover tho future hed in store for thom, their success would be a_ source of ploasure to the ro-~ meinder. Whoover did honor to Rush, did: honor to himsolf. Their student lifo had only- bogun, Asa closs thoy intended doing their: bost to march together to tho music of! Scionce. Humbugs and frauds who waro pro-. pelled by wind and of no earthly assistanco;. could not jmpodo the progross of fclence. To: win they must work, Tho address was not vory agroeably delivered, but othorwiso was perti~ nont enough, though elightly tainted with cant. PIIOFESSOR WALTER HAY was thon introduced. He said that it bohooved the young mon to gonsider thoeir rolations to that idesl being callod the public, likened to a circle or aconfusion of circles. Each individual would find himsolf the contro of his own cirele or pub- lic. This public might bo divided into quito a number of clagses,—one tha phralc-mdng, and the other the foo-paylng clnss. The province ot a phflaicim ‘was not always to ndminister phyeic;. and horo tho young doctor would join fssuc with, tho publio,” who hold that gruponnity of the foe-paying 0 indnlged. [Laughter]. This class should encourzged in well doing, for they hndillustrious: oxamples, Nanman, when he went to Elishs,. took a quantity of gold, eilver, and raiment, aa: anovidenco of his approciation of modical akill., To w&mm steadiness of purpose and integrity: should bo the first object of & physician, for om theso was character founded, and on-charaoter- the world built his roputation, Thus, the: foundations: of character mueh ha great: and strong. No gront reputation: wam ever -built upon o Jittlo or bad char-- scter. Ho who commoncod in {dlencss woukl! ond in ruin, profossional if not personal, Horo. tho intractablo infant wailed with horror, Haya- ing studiod anatomy and physiology abjeotivaly on the romains of somo of their tleparted {riends, lot thom study psychology s'ubjnaglvely. i Tho noblost atudy of mankind Was man. One . rniunt, self, tho Ehgnlcmu should always have : n thoir ofices. Lot Lim atrengthen the wealk - points and temper the gtrong. (The infsnt's : wailing horo nocessitated its hurried removal.] | Lot 10 moun ba ¢o far misled a8 to mis- - tako public motoriety for profession- - al ominance, Re-ontor infant.] The « Bponker warnod all his hoarers not to mistako & . notica by 4 nowspapor roparter, gratoful for an itom, for ominenco. [The infant—* No, mamma, 10, 10, no.”] Thoup grades wero only to bo: reaclied by toil and labor. In ona form of study * }Ib“ young men hod ghown themsolves pro-- cients, nomely in reading, but rongln : would not suflica, To this thoy must add: ohsorvation and oxperience. [The infant—. **No, mamma, 10-0-0."] Never imagine_that: ono oannob study bocause his flold of! observation was not large enough. Tho timo, had now arrived whon his hoavers wero roliewed!. from the trammola of suthority. The speaker concluded by recommending tho practica of charity, [A“swoel, buzziug sound was hore maintained by tho unappreciativo infaut, donot- inga pain in Its stomacir.] Dr. Huoy hoped the firfldlmlnfl of tho oceasion would justify tho lofty opes antortained by thoiv Alma Mater. The addross waa recetvod with applase, PRESENTATION, In a ncore of nnintelligiblo uttorances, shot ot like o volloy frofa an oral mitrailleuse, Dr, I, E. Levwis prosonted to Prof, J. Adams Allen, one of *| tho facuity, on behalf of the class, s vory hand- somo desk. Just enough of whathe said was heard to asoure tha biearer that tho wondorful volacity of tho sponker’s phraees provented his enjoying somothing. Incflldlbl}; facatious, Dr, Allon, In recotving the koys, said ho had : louf ago ndopted ““Nil admirari" as hie motto, but now ko was aatonished, be- - cause it was _a ‘;ouulnu surpriso to . “their unclo,” IIe hnu{zht this olass the . bost that over graduatod. [Hoars of laughter.] : That was what Dr, Froor said of a clasa t\ml' gove bim a cano, yearsago. [Laughtor.] The . noxt year aftorwards, tho class gave Dr. Ray s chalr, which brought him down'to tholr level, . [Loughtor,] Dr, Kay thought that waa the beat : clase, For himeclf, “as thelr uncle, ho thought tha preent of a dosk was tho most appropriate, . With & fow moro romarks tha spoaker thankéd | tho olags, aud was applauded. The benadiction was pronounced by Blshop v Foloy, and tha 9x0101899 &m0 $0 AR end,