Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1873, Page 4

TIHE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, lé73 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ’Itln‘l:l O!‘lllflllflllmofl (PATADLE IN ADVANOX), 0 mal 12,001 Bundar. Prl-‘&'noiu. 8 5(}81 Wookty Parts ol & yoat at tho samoTate. o provent dolay and mistakes, bo mre and give Fost Oflica nddross in full, Inoluding Stato and Counts. . Remittaucas may bo wado oithor by draft, oxp! o8, Pout 0o ordor, or In registored lottors, at oue risks TERME 0 OITY HUDRCRIDENS, 5 fo, &8 oonta por wosk. Dt doliverads SUUSY Paohatod, W couts por wook. Addrens ‘FitK TRIBUNE OOMPAN Ooruer Madison and born-ste., Chicago, OCONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. $IRST PAGE—Washlugton, Forclgn, Now York, and “Miscallanoons Tolegraphto Nows—Advortisementa. SRCOND PAGI—Baturday Night's Tolograms, TMHIRD PAGE~Tho Law ourts—~Homo for tho Friond- Toss—Porsonal Jtems—Northorn Onlifornin Tatter~ Qonuocticut Domooratia aud Liboral Btato Convon- tlon~Advortisomonts., . FOURTIT PAGE—Xditorlala: Tho Paciflo Mail Invaeti- ‘gation; Tho Ohismplain Canal; Anothor Fillbustor- fog Rxpodition; Aflalra Iu Utab~Curront Nowa Ttows. FIFTH PAGE-Oathollo Coromontalatt. Mary'sChuroh —Woman Suffrgo— Tho Farm and Gardon—St. Lotls Vistors—Tatiroad Matters—A Boar Story— Advortiscmonta, SIXTIL PAGE—Monotary and Commorcisl—Rallrosd Timo-Tablo—Advortisoments. BEVENTH PAGE—Washington Lettor—The Transpor- tatfon Quostton—Two Women on tho Block—News Paragraphs—Small Advortisomonts: Roal Katato, Tor Sale, To Rent, Wanted, Boasding, Lodging, Eto. EIGHTH PACGE—Now York Lottor—The Now ‘York Cnnals—Sorgoant Hoff—Now Publications—Adror- tisoments, —ee TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. N'VIOKER'S THREATRE—Madizon streot, botween Etate and Doarborn, Rngsgemont of Kdswin Booth. **Ludy of Lyons." Rpe— AGADEMY OF MUSIC— Halstod streot, south of Badison. ** Countorfolt.” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-Rsndolph streot, bo- Awoon Clatk and LaBatle, . *‘Falso Shamo." MYERS' OPERA HOUBE-—-Monroe streot, botwoen ftnto and Dotborn, Arlington, Cotton & Komblo's liustrol and Burlosquo Troupe. Ethtopian Comloalittar. osplainon atroat, botwoonBladi- Neck anil Nook." .GLOBE THEATR] soa.aud Vashingl BUSINESS NOTICES. TOYAL HAVANA LOTTERY~WHOLE TREKET, AotC Cireutars sent: Information givons o, B, MAR- T & 60%, Bakors, 10 Wall-s., ¥. O, Box 468, New ort. The Chicage Ttbune, Mondny Morning, February 24, 1873, To expel Brooks and Amos, hs the Poland Com- smitteo recommended, will require a two-thirds voto; but, if the Associated Pross may be be- loved, not oven n majority will vote for tho rosolution of tho Committee. Twonty membors of the House have made known thelr intention of spenking on the question when i€ comes up to-morrow. s Senator Pomeroy's ruling passion {s as strong at tho calamitous_ closo of his Senatorinl careor a9 it waa in the heydsy of his famo as Ol Bub- sidy, Uuabashod by the charges of corruption for which ho is under Investigation, ho appoarod Inst, Fridsy before tho Senato with another lsnd- grant, giving tho right of way through the pub- lic Jands to tho Utah Northorn Railway. e Tho Chicago Times of Baturdsy Iast has sn fmportant dissorfation on Chineae law as applica- blo to railway logislation in tho Btate of Tilinois. By pushing ite researches into tho phitosophy of Confucius, it éan'undoubtodly obtaln light in the demagogic value of o hrae-cont war. ‘Wo com- piond the Times to o diligont atudy of tho re- Digion of Joss, with a viow to agcortaining how many newspapers can bo 80ld by urging pooplo to mob railway-conductors, Minister Sicklos gave o rocoption and ball at Madid, Soturday night, which was attonded by tho leadors of the Republican movement, sud +was mado an occasion for informa) discussion of the policy of the new Govornment. Gon, Bicklos gavo his advice, the substanco of which was that the peopla shonld as soon as possible learn thoir dutios as citizons. A monstor mass-meot- ing of tho resl Republican sort ia to bo held in Madrid to-day. = Gov. Warmoth hias published o long reply to the majority report on tho Louisiana case. Hoe aseails tho evidenco of tho .witnosses for tho Kellogg partyas falsy and untrustworthy, do- nies the statoment of the Committee that tho black voters aro in & majority in .the Btate, and that they went unanimously for the Republican ticket. Ho claima that, making overy allowance against tho Fusioniate, they electod McEnory by 8,500 majorily, and domands that ho bo recog- nized ag Governor. A freight traln was loft standing on the track of thio Chicago, Danvillo & Vincennes Railway, yosterday morning, st Momeuco, right in the path of 8 passongor-train already dne. Tho men in eharge of tho freight-train coolly go to sleop in tha coboosa at tho rosr instoad of golng out to warn the approaching train, and, of course, thoy wako to fipd its locomotive plowing +through their car. The conductor of the freight- train, who was rosponsible, if euy ono was, for tho nogligouco, was iustantly Lilled, and two others were badly hurt. The Senateis oxpeetod to debato the Caldwell caso to-dny, The Democrats, our dispatchos sny, will opposa tho rosolution declaring that Sonator Caldwell Lias nover been duly olocted, ‘They follow the reasoning of Oalob Cusbing, bt tho Senate Line no warrant for ooy inguiry bohind tha votes of the Legislaturo. Ithaan right to know only that the organization of the Logialaturo and tho elaction wore in compliance with tho forms of law. Oaldwell, it is gpid, will pload that only two cosos of corruption aro al- loged, snd that thesp two should not vitiato & mnjority of fwenty-five, — e 1f Congressional Committoes are to bo be< lieved, o caeo of bribing is an excoption to the <ula that it takes two to make & bargain. The Credit Mabiller Committee found that Amos bad Dribed Congrossmen, but that no Congressmon havo been bribed. In ruch tho same ‘way the ‘Ways and Moans Committeo rpport in the case of Judgo Bhorman, who procured cortpin logisln- tion from Congress for his employors, tho New York Stock Excliango, that no Congrogamqn arg inculpated by tho evidence. Thoy refor tho Judgo's easo to tho Judiciary Committeo to seo, 1t Imposchraont be Juatified. ‘Tho Judiciery Committeo have detormined ¢0 -prosont articles of impeachment against Unitod \States Judgo Delaliny, of Kansss, whoso cade 3 Sy bogan to oxamino & your ago, The chargo ChE wénsit tho Judge ia habityal infoxication and 8. *caguent comminsion of groas indecongcies the1 4o boneh undor tho iufience pf liquor, whila ¢ Tho evid. Ono of tho “who agrood t, witpeuses :is Bonator-Elect Ingalls, oy Judge .Dolabisy's gop-in-law 95,000 1 hio would koop tho Judge sobor long onough to open court and Bign somo yory fm- portant papors. This wea donoj but Mr. Ingalla' olionts rofusod to pay tho monoy, and ho deelined to hold himsolf liablo, ey In ordor to check tho destruotion of life in Now York by tho polsonous mistakoes of ill- trained and oaroloss druggists, 8 lnw was onnoted, yonr boforo last, subjocting all druggista to survalllanco by tho Btato, a8 is donoabroad. No porson was to bo allowed to compound modicinos or goll drugs unloss ho had passed an oxamina- tion boforo n Btato Board, and recoived a cor- tificato from them. This law lins not done fta wark as fally as it was hoped it would. At lonst one-fourth of tho 1,200 porsons cmbraced under {ta provisions havo ignored it. Of theso, only 276 bavo boon oxamined, although tho DBoard bos boon in nession siuco Inat Auguat. Tho now systom i to be credited with having drivon out of tho buainess twonty-five or thirly of the most dangerous class of drugglats, P A dispatch from Washington says that tho Prosidont hias appointod tho Hon. Richard Yalos » Governmont Dircotor of tho Union Pacifle Railway. -If ho has made this appolntmont in tho way of sarensm, at tho oxponse of tho Hon, Jomes Brooks, we can ensily approciate tho joko, Itls equivalent to o suggostion that o high stato of porsonal debsuchery s preforsblo to n low state of blackmaliing, This may bo o truth worthy of all accoptation in tho abstract, but wo submit that tho country has not reached apaes whore a choice must bo made botweon a #ot and a bribe-taker for tho mansgomont of im- portant public business. If it is nocossary to tako caro of Yates ab tho public expenso, lot him Do put on the pension list, and lot tho intoresis of tho Govornmont in tho Pacifio Tailway be looked atter by sober mon, r—— " Tho proliminary organization under the laws of Illinois for the cbarter of tho long-oxpectod extonsion of the Daltimore & Olio Railroad will tako placo in this city to-day, Tho vouto of tho road from Pitteburgh to Ollcago hns beon fixed, snd tho contracts for the con- struotion will be lot a8 soon a8 the Company is organized. Tho road ruus in almost sn alr-line from Chicago to Pittuburgh, aud it is to bo hopod that $ho work will Lo bogun simultancously ab Chicago and at othior points, When thero aro two or threo tons af froight hero waiting trans- portation East to one that the oxisting xailroads can carry off, tho sooupr this additionnl brunk- line Is complotod tho greator will bo the beneflt conferrod upon thig oity and tho Wost, and the more spoedily will it bogin to reimbmrao ita stookholdors for tholr outlay. v —— . «The Progroes of Iron Smelting ” ongages the gratifiod attontion of tho Now York Tribune, which shows that {}ie production of plg-iron in this country during tho past year was 2,988,260 tons, and that tho businoss was very profitablo, and i8 likely to bo moro o this yoar. This prog- xess, it usys, “is sbundantly vindicating the wisdom of tho protoction it roceived.” Wo do not 69 how these facts yindicato the wisdom of the proteotion it received, any more than tho hugo profits obtained by the Credit Mobilior Company vindicate the wisdom of tho protection thoy received. Theve id another brasich of in- dustry, which was followed last year toa very considorable oxtont, whih yielded no profit at oll,—that of corn-growing, Jf the corn- growers had boen ollowed a bonnty ot @7 per ton Dy luw,:thoy might have made ns glowing an oxhibit of tho yesr’s business aa the American Pig-Iron Manuy- facturers’ Association. Is thore any moro virtue or patriotism intripsically in making pig-iron than in growing corn? Bfr. Charlea A. Dana was requested to attend a publio colabration of Washington's birthday at Philadelphis, Which was to havo s spocial im- portance in advancing tho intercsts of the Con- teninl fostival. Mr. Dann was slso requested to make o spooch, In his roply to the Commis- slonors Lo referrod to his arrest in Phila- delphia, .some months ago, as lhe wag passing throngh tho city on his way from Washington to Now York, bocanso of his publication of the Kemblo lettor of *saddition, divlslon, and silenco,” Ho gavo bail in the sum of §6,000, which ho subsoquently forfeited, bo- cause bo was advised that ho weould nov Lo al lowed toprovo tho truth of tho lotter ass justid- cation of ita publication. Mr. Dana bas now declined tho {nvitation o make an address in Philadelphis, on tho gronnd, ovidently, that ho is ntraid to spoak in & communlty whers s mgn cannot tell tho truth without being subjected to a prosccution for Hbol, o exprossed tho hope, however, that tho Jaw would be ohanged botora the celobration of tho Second IMundredth Anni- yousary of Amerjcan Independonce. The now Spanish Ropublie does nob start off with that unanimity smong Ropublicans which promises success, A8 we havo already stated, the Republic has ns much to foar from TRopubli- cansas it has from tho machinations of the ihres claimanta to tho throno, Alphonso, Don Carlos, and the Duke de Mountponsior, Political pnrtios in Bpain aro partics of most violent aud almoat jonumerable factions, ond in tho contontions aud quarrels of tho numorons factions of the Ropublican party thero {8 ovory ronson £0 oxpeet thet the most powor- fol of -the three royal claimants will step inand take possession, Theso quarrels have alrendy commongod in violent partisan pgitation, and, notwithstandlog the rapssuring statemonts of Castolsr, Minlstor of Forsign Affairs, and Ecbogaray, Minlstor of Financa, that tha condi- $ion of the Ropubllo is poncoable, tho Miniatryft- golf to which thoy bolong is in the facoof aorisls, which already throatons to ocost it the loss of Cordova, Ministor of War, and poseibly all the Ministors adhoring to tho Radical party. Blean- whilo, 2 large numbor of . tho loaging gfficors in tho rogular army have rosignod, and this iu tho faco of tho operationn of tho Carliats snd thio preacpgo of Don Carlos himsolt n Bpain, e e—— In the conul;i ration of tho Houso Approprin- tion bill, Mr, Benks offored ap grapndmont pro- ngo in tho case {8 very voluminoys. Libiting the publiention of ddeuments for gratu- itona ciroulation, which cucountered vigorous opposition. Mr. Hoar was particularly denun- olatory, aud characterizod tho proposition ay & pnr't of & system, of which the repeal of tho fxppking privilego was another par, to doliver the public santiment of tho country and tho log- julatlon of -Congross into the hanils of n fow nowspspors §a the great clfiod. Tl vary absurd; {ho influence of nowapapors ciroulating millions of coples, and glving tho procoedings s thoy oceur, by the oceslonal spoaclion and roporty that find tholr way to the trunle-manufacturors. Ilowovor, tho majority of tho Ifouso soomed to Do of Mr. Hont's wny of thluking, for Mr, Bauke' amendmont was votod down without ovon taking tho yoas and nays. ‘Whotbor this rosulted from an Indisposition to decronso the printing sub- sldy, or from n wholosome fonr of tho “nows- . papor despotism,” it is impossiblo to eny. It s roported from Washington tbat tho No- tlonal Lnbor Councll,—n sort of lobby cstab- lishod in Washington in tno Interost of tho olght-hour movomont,—will make & vigorous sdvance on tho noxt Congross to securo tho possngo of & law providing that, undor all public contracts entored Into botwoon omployer and employo, oight hours shall coustitute the logal day's work, and that any violation in this respect shall annul the contract, Tho baaly upon which this law witl bo askod {8 that tho prosent Gov- ornmont recognition of tho Eight-Hour lasw for its own omployes fails to help the intor- ostn of' tho workiufmen, for tho ronson that tho contractors, who work - tholr mon ton hours n day, can afford to tako contracta st oheapor rates than the Govern- ment can, and do the esmo work, Thia advan- tago for tho contractors, it is held, will even- tually take tho publio worka out of tho hands of tho Governmont, which will thon have no ocea- slon to omploy laborors. ‘Tbat thero is littlo dangor of suoh & roault is proved by tho voto in tho House on Saturday, In which it rofused to authorizo the lotting of contracts to tho lowest rospanaiblo bladers exclusively. If thoro wero such o denger g’ tho National Labor Qouncil foresoo, howovor, it would not affect tho ganeral right of employers to ongago workmon for s many hours a8 thoy can, nor the general xight of lsborors to work ns many hours sa thoy wish, As o matter of courso, tho moro work a man doos tho more pay ho will rocoivo. This is o law of supply and domand which no Congressional law conld pos- sibly touch, Tho result of such o lawas the Labor Council proposes, therefors, would bo o apeales of despotio restriction on mon who deo- siro to carn more money than thoy can earn by oight houra' work, and at tho samo time & fruit- ful gourco of swindling by oponing an oasy way for bronking contracta, e ey Tho Bupremo Court of this Stato have decided tho appeal from McLenn County, tsken by the Obicsgo & Alton Railroad Company in thoe prose- cution bronght against them by Gustavus Koer- nor, Ricbard P, Morgan, Jr., and David 8! Ham- mond, Railrond and Warehouse Commissionots, for unjust disoriminations in froight charges, fovorsbly to the Railvay Compsny, nnd havo doniod tho conatitutionality of tho Railroad law Ao for ag relates to such diseriminations. Tho clauge of the law upon which thd action was brought s as followst Thiot no railyond compsny organized or dolng bustc ness in this State undor any act of incorporation or gonoral law of this Stute now n force, or which may herefler boenactod, shall chargo or colloct for tho transportation of goods, morehandiso, or property, on ita id rosd, for sny distance, tho samo nor any larger nor greater amount as toll or componsa. ton than I at tho same timo chargod or collocted for - tho transportation of similar quantities of tho samo class of goods, morchandlas, or properts, over & greater distanco upon tho samo rond, On the 5th of Decomber, 1871, the Railroad and Warchouse Commissionora filed on informa- tjon in tho nature of & quo warranto in tho Cir- mont. In n rocont artlclo upon ¢his matter, it points out at firat that Congrossmon had no right to sharo in tho profits of tho Crodit Mobilier stock, whothor thoy obtained 1t honontly or not, for tho reason that tho dividonds wore drawn from tho misappropriation of governmont bonda and governmont lands, thodiroot result of & fraud uponthopeople, Forthlareason, it denouncos tho roport of tho Poland Committes for attompting to oxcuse womo Congressmon by stoting that thero was 1o ovidenco to show that theso Con- gressmon know tho naturo of tho stock whon thoy took it. Tt claims that thoy should have known it, as tho charactor of Orodit Mobilier was no focrot. It claims that, in cases whero tho Committeo haa rojected tho tontimony of Con- grossmon, tho witnesses bould bo nrraigned and punished for perjury, and oloses with tho recommondation that ‘it is tho plain duty of Congress to visit with punishment all who took Crodit Mobllier stock from Oakes Amos,” and ,adviseasovoro consuro for all who had connac- tlon with it but fortunatoly got rid of it, not only as an act of justico, but in order that n doflnito standard of publle morslity may bo es- tablished for the futuro. ‘The Pacifle Mail Bteamship subsidy schiome offors n fleld ovon mora promiaing than that of Crodit Mobilior, That the subsidy was procuroed by gigantio corruption has long boen notorious in public rumor. At the time favorablo logisla- tion was procured, its agents maintained a eplondid establishment in Washington, which was srunway for Congressmon whonover thoy folt inclined. Thoy gavo ologant lunches and entortainments. Thoy woro abundantly fur- pisbed with monoy, and it flowod frooly as water. Thoy aupported a largo and influentisl lobby. Tho movomdnt on Congross was g much & stock-jobbing operation, . manipulated by Wall- troot brokers operating for o riso in stocks, a8 it was a schomo to procure the subeidy, aud, botwoen the officors and agonis of tho Company and the New York brokers, a powerful combination was offected, which, if the charges slloged aro truo, spont » Iarge sum of monoy in ‘Washington—compotont nuthorities placing it @8 high as half a million of dollara—to obtain tho pnssago of the subsidy bill, Tho falluro of tho Brazilinn subsidy schomo sbout the time that tho Pacific Mail passed, furnishos s cluo also to tho corruptions which secured tho Iattor rosult, Mr. O. K. Garrison, who managed tho Brazilian scheme, now proposos to show up tho mombors who indo propositions “to him for ‘monoy in considoration of thelr votos, a5 it is stated will produce alottor from the Hon, Sypher, of Louisinna, whoroin he offored not only hisovn voto, but tho votes of twonty othor carpot-bag Congrossmon, for tho gross sumof 880,000, ox sbout $1,600 each, which shows that tho carpot- baggors wero ovon cheapor rascals than Kansag logislators, Tho prima facie showing with rof- crence to Pacific Mailis oven moro damaging than was tho evidonco upon which tho Credit Mobiller invostigation wag based. To tho lat- tor, thero was a loop-holo for cacapo, or at least for plausiblo justification, in tho fact that tho acquisition of stock was a mattor of nego- tlotion through the rogular chaunels of busi- .ness, and this plea was at firat sdvancod by the implicatod partios with considerable show of success, In tho Pacifio Mail schemo, however, the charges sro mado ihat cortain sums of money lave boon di- rootly paid Congrossmon for their votes. Morally, thero is no differonce in the two modes of seouring the dusirod legislatioft. Logally, cuit Gonrt of MpLonn County, eetting forth that the Ohicago & Alton Railrond bad ropestedly charged $6.05 por thousand feot for transporting lumber from Chioago to Lexington, a distance of 110 milos, while It chorged only 86 por thousand foot for transporting lumber from Ohicago to Bloomington, a distanco of 126 miles, The Rail- road Company anawerad that the logislation above quoted wes in violation of its obar- torod rights, and therefore void, They allogod, also, that tho chargo of €5.05 to Lozington was a reasonable chargo, and that the chargo of &6 to Bloomington was unroasonably low, but that thoy woro compelled by competition to carry at that rato to Bloomington, or loso tho businesa. Tho case was brought to o hearing last aattumn, and jndgmeont rendored by tho Circuit Court in favor of the Commissioners; Judge Tipton, in the learned opinion which hg gavo, holding that “¢ho Statp rotains the power, notwithstanding tho cbartor of defendaut, to so rogulate and con- trpl tho franchiso of dofzndant ps to dotormino what shall constitute, and to prevent by proper logielation, unjust discriminations betwosn com- munitics, as woll asbetweon difforont individuala of tho samo commubity.” This judgment has booun rovorsad by tho Suprome Court of tho Btato. Tho' Court afirms tho right of tho Logislaturo to prohibit unjnst discriminstions in railway fraights, but eays that, by tho act in question, tho Logislature hgs forbldden pll diserimina- tions, and, In caso ofany disorimination By a rail- rond, hus declured its chartor forfelt on an arbi- trary prosumption of guilt, glving #tuo chanco to oxplain, although It might bo sblo to shoy ituelt junocent of any unjust dlscrimination, On thoso acooynts thoy unanimously declave tho get con- trary to the spirlt of tho Constitution, and ro- vorso the decision of the Court bglow, ——— THE PACIFIC MAT, INVESTIGATION, Itis to bo rogretted that tho limitad timo ro- maining bofore tho ndjournmont of Congress may provont tho investigation of the Pacifl Mail Btoamubip subsidy from being ae thorough 8 jt should, The work of invoatigation is but Lalf done if it doea not go to tho very bottom of the corruption which ips of Iato years boon a controlling forca in Congross, Tho remody cannot be made effectusl until tho soro is com- plotoly oxposed. Thero has novor bLoon 8o good an epportunity prosontod before to accom- plish this. To stop now, oy humy over the work in & asuperficial manner, would bo & notional calamity, and an injustico to Congross iteelf, Tho investigations Lave bacouao #o gonoral that thoy no longor nseume o portisan charactar, but sre conducted in the in- forosts of honost logislation. Tho public aro in oxcellent tomper tohavathesojnyestigations con- tinued, until bribory snd gift-taking aro extir- patod, root and branch, and the offousos made o odious that no manwill have the hardihood here- after jo scok to influonca logislation with monoy, Even tho pustlesn pross, which has hithorto maintained an apologetlo courso, which originally stigmatizod tho ahargos of cgrrapilon se compaign slanders, aud, st tho qutset of ‘tho Inveutigations, prophosled {haut objectlon was succassfully answored by BMr.- TRoberts, whon hocompared the proposod barrior lgl(nstmwuplpnrdupol!am toMrs, Partington's’ _pttompt (adopted® from Punch) o Ewagp | back $he .ocosn tide with s broom. Mr.: ‘Hoar's apeech ot with tho ridienle it dosorved whon 1o b §old tiat, o AR Jrving bo ovorcome. the vosult would exculpato ' averybody, xow 'acknowladges {ho gravity of the fhote which have boon proven, and calls for the appllcation of o ponalty which shall adequatoly stigmatize th enormityof the offonses, Eton the Now ¥ork Times, the principal organ of the ‘Administration, sflor much grimacing, clamors Iustily for awooping and eveu Vingictivp pauial-, Lowaver, the Pacifio Mail schemois divested of oll technionlitios, Itisa plain matter of afiir- mation ar donial, with no opportunities for pre- varication or quibbling, Thero {8 no avonuo of oscapo for the guilty party, For this roason, it is to bp hoped that tho investigation will ba madle as thorough ss possiblo, in the brief timo that romains, and that the modus operandi by which tho agonts of tho Pacific Mail pro- cured tho pessage of the subeidy may bo clearly demonstrated, It may not Do pos- piblo ot this lato stage of tho session to proporly punish the guilty partios, but it {8 duo ta the caugo of honost logislation that the oxposurs shall bo complote enough to eatablish o standard for tho noxt Congress and for future Congrossos ; and it is also an imperativo noces- sity.that this rosult shall bo roachod, that somo chock may bo put upon subsidios, Jand-grants, and other schomes upon which the publis money has hithorto boen shamefully squandored. A complete oxposition of tho Pacifio Mail, ovon if it Aid not resull In the punishmont of bribery, would socure anotber valuable;resnlt in making tho oncouragomont of privato speculations by Government assistance 8o odious that no Con- grossmen would dare to yoto for them here- after, ———eee THE CHAMPLAIN (ANAL, The proposition to ecnlarge tho Champlain Cnnal, ponding in the Now York Legislature,was noticed soveral days ango, Though not Jikely to pass at this sesglon, somo facts in rogard to it, brought out in tho debate beforo tho Onanal Com- mitteo, will bo interesting to our readers, From tho romarks of Mr. Woed, we learn that it is proposed to improve tho Fudson River by damg betweon Troy snd Fort Edwsrd, a distance of forty miles, 6o ps to socuro a depth of wator of ton foot, Tho locks are to be 800 feot long and 45 wide, It s twenty-four milos from Tort Edward to Whitohall, soventoon miles of which will bo by esnal and soven by improving Wood Crool, which only roquiros drodging to makeits capaoity oqual to that of the caual, Itia proposed to make the caual of o capacity of 110 foot at tho bottom, 160 foot at the t‘np, aud 10 foot doop. Tho total cost iy catimated to bo nbout $8,000,000, Pho summit ab Fort Edward is 150 feot above tido-wator, Of this 117 feot occurs in the Hud-~ son River whiol it is proposed ta ovorcomo by 11 dame, snd from the point whero the ¢anal Jeaves tho river the romaining 83 foot can bo overcomo by two looks. It was statedbefora the Commiltoo that a lockago of 50 foet is roquired botwoon tho Fort Edward summit sud Lako Obamplain, but, accordlng to tho profle of the Now York canals, It is 81 feot; butit mattors littlo, a8 tho Hudson Rivor, which foeds boths waya from tho summit, will probably furnish an gmple supply of wator to tho canal. The Tfan. Jqun Young, of Moutroal, who was presont, by iuyltation, wpoko of the enlargo- 1nont of the Wellandand the8t, Lewrouco Canalg to s capaoity for veasola of 1,000 tons pasure tobo accomplished, and that the Gaughuawage Cnual, from tho bogd of Lachine Iapids to Lako bnmplqhx, 85 8UrD tg be oponed by tho timo tho congl pnd improvemont botweon tideswator on the Hudson and Lake Champlain oan bo put in | oporation by the State of Now Yok, It tho Oity of Now Yorl-moana to rotain tho grain trado of tho Woat, or ‘any consldorable portion of 1, the more oarnestly she advoeates tho oponing of this route the botter, Thon vossola of 1,000 tons witl havo diroobaocessto that clty fsom oll tho lnkos, It it ls not oponod, Montronl will ultimatoly grasp most of this trade, and with it a largo sharo of tho commerco of the West, Mr. Young showed” that the cost of frolght now botween Buffalo and Now York in $4.80 por ton, whilo by this route It would not exeeced £2.05 por ton, making » clear saving of 81.95 por ton. von with tho prosent tonnage, with n mnving of 1,60 por ton, the galn to our com- merce would amount to about 3,700,000 ovory yoar. Ifo nlgo reforrod to tho troaly by which tho wators and canals of tho Bt. Lwrenco woro mndo froo to tho peoplo of tho United BStates. ‘What tho pooplo of tho Wost want s choaper froightato tho oconn, without any roforouco to tho route by which it is soenred. e r—————— ANOTHER FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITION. A dacument is publighed in Now York, algned by & number of londing citizons of Ban Domin- g0, aud purporting to raprasont tho popular son=- timent of tho Dominican Ropublic, making & vlglnroun protest againat tho leasing of Samann Bay. The bombestic stylo of tho oircular gives 1t an napeat of genuinaness ; and, if gonuine, it indicatos that the Now York Company will not Dbo nblo to gesume tho sovereign rights which Bacz bne guaranteod it without a struggle. Tho protest refors to tho formor negotintions botwoon Baoz nnd Grant, and represent that the presont tranefer i3 a8 uneuthorized and tyranni- cal o8 that which was contomplated (n the unrat- ified treaty with tho ,United Btates Govern- mont. It nlso rofors totho unguccossful offorts that havo boon mado In timos past by tho British, tho Fronch, and the Bpaniards to possess thom- solves of tho fsland, and declaxes that the aamo popular resistance will bo offered to tho prosont undortaking, Tho manifesto comes in #imo to confirm o very gonoral improssion that tho torms of tho convention betwoeon tho Buoz Gov- ornmont and tho Samana Bay Company aro not Bo accoptablo to the pooplo of San Domingo a8 thoy have beon roprosented. It also comes in tho shape of a warning to Congress to have nothing whatever to do with tho Bamana Bay Company in the way of spaeclal logislation, Asa commercial ontorpriso, tlie Samana Bay Com- pany must bo pormitied to work ita own way with such facilitios alono ns international law and existing troatios afford. Tho telegraph bringing the account of thia Dominican protost also conveys tho information that there will bo no lack of adventurous volun- toors in Now York Oity to nesist tho Samana Bay Company to take possosaion of the proporty which it profossos to have bought, and to 8ot up tho new Government projected in tho tormsof tho Baez convention, This statoment fully jus- tifles tho prophesy which the Dominican leaders mako in their circular, that the Samana Bay Compaoy {s but another form of the Alibustor- ing spirit which Walker developod in Nicaragus, and Lavostids onco attemptod in San Domingo. It will be the oxerciso of only reasonablo caution for tho Unitod Statos Governmont to rogard the entorpriso in tho samo light. If tho Ssmana Bay Company twero simply o commorcial vonturo, thoro would have boon no occasion to oxact from DBaoz the governmental powers that ho pretonds to haye dologated, The terms of tho convention guarantecd tho Compnny the right to establish thelr own Government over tho peninsula which they have bought ; to lovy and collect taxos ; to fix import and oxpork duties for their own bonofit ; to charge for all harbor facilitios, snd otherwise exorcise eminont domain, Tho contract farther provides for the futuroe oxtonslon of their dominion ovor tho ontiro Dominican possessivns, by enormous grants of land for overymilo of telograph linos which the Company shall construct. All contracts or rights heretofore oxist- ing that closh with tho torms of this Baoz convontion are declared to bonull and void. 1Itisnot eurprising that the Dominican people rocognize that they have been sold out,— proporty, citizonship, and all,—and that thoy propose to make a national strugglo topro- porve thoir country and their independenco. 8o far as Ban Domingo is concerned, it is not im- probablo that Baoz will bo deposed and driven ont of the country, ond that the coming Gov- ornmont will be formed on thn basis of oppost- tion to the invasion of tho Samans Bay Come pany. If this Company sball thus loso its commers: cial charactor and assumo that of & filibustering oxpodition, it Will be tho duty of the United States Government to interforo. Wo want no American counterpart of tho Enst India Com- pany in the Wost Indies. We want no privato individuals, nor association of privgto individu- als, to make war on their own account, 8o long a8 thoy aro Amerjean citizons and may bo le- gitimately restrained by the American Govorns mont, Nor will it be well to defor Government action until the expoditions aro organized, and tho attacks actually mado, as in tho case of the Fenlon war in Caneds, 1n the progent Instanco, thero is amplo warning, 'Tho whole history af San Domingo annoxstion tonches tho cor- ruption and probablo illegitimacy of the Bpoez Govornmont, Tho torms of the Samans Bay Company's charter, sud tho violent oppasition of the Dominican poople, forecast tho purpose of cortain American citizons to ot up a govern- mont of theirown in opposition to the sonti- mont of s republican peoplo. Wo must not roat undor tho asporsion of oven winking at suck & project, It is opposed to tho very spirit of onr governmont, and to the bost principles of civ~ jzation, Itisnot probable, after tho davelop- monts which have beon mado, that the Bamans Bay Company will daro to como beforo Congress to al proteotion in any form. But the Gavern- mont should not wait for this opportunity to do- claro its irresponsibility for this Company's con- tract. Itshould bo on the alort to oheok tho moyomont at the very first ovidence of an overt aot. e Affairy iy From & gontleman engaged in business at Balk Lako, and whoso residenco of movoral years in that city has given him amplo opportunities to Judgs corroetly of ourrant ovontd aud opiuion in tho dominions of Brigham, wo learn tho follow- ing particularay Ono of the mant lomentablo facta 16 the do- bauching and utter domorallzation of somo of tho Govornment ofitcors of tho Territory. Thoy can; Lo snys; bo bought for mouoy to do almost anything. To obtain justicoor an honest oxcon~ tion of the law s, thoroforo, sbout impossible. Tlo montioned ono cage in which it was deolded o buy up for §108,000 & totally unjust snd indo- fonsiblo claira to ano of tho mines, rathor than to truat it to iho doclsion of the courts. Thia stato of things lins rondorod proporty uneafo and in- yostmonts uncortain for many months past. The agent of the Associated Prose, ho sayy, 18 tho croqturo of thgso blackguard offiolals, and honco thio nows ho sonds {8 ofton unrelicble aud false, Trom theso ohargos lo oxempts Dr. Taggart, Judgo Huwloy, AL, Hollistor, aud & fow othors. Pho Probato Conrts have usurped nearly all tha fungtions of tho law, and, being entively undor tho ontrol of Drigham Young as botwoon Gen- tilos and Mormons, po justico con bo oxpooted from them, In tho iransfor of lauds, Mormons slways linve accoss to tho comploto rocords,whilo Gontllos nevor can know whether thoy are mak- ing a safo purchiogo or not. Honco, also, notod muzdorora walk the atreots at noonday, and orimo goen unwhipped of justico. In apito of all thin, inveslmonts to the amount of §100,000,000 Liayo boon mado in tho minos of Utal, most of which aro_yiolding largo divl- donds to tholr owners. Railways oro building mall dirootions, and gront progross js making in the sottlomont and dovelopment of the Tor- ritory, Thoro In now twoenty feot of enow in tho mountaing, and much more than usual lies upon tho whole Torritory. Thin has, in most cases, stoppod mining for the winter, bub it forms o whro basis for active summer business, and good cropa sro confldently nnticipated. Most of tho bost oros are still} shipped to Bwanscn, Wales; but tho Emmn ond somo others aro nclling sl thoy con ralse to tho emolting cotablishmonts in Ohicago. Our informant re- gords Utah ns containiug tho rickost and most extonslve allvor-producing dlstricta in the world. Novada con no longor olaim pro-eminonco over tho homo of the Mormons. Tho Mormons havoe no intontion of removing to the Bandwich Islands or anywhoro else, They claim to havo dlacovered the country and mado it babitable, and thoy proposs to stand by it. Thoy bolieve tho Lord is on their.side, and that all thofr enomios will bo put o confusion, Tho lending Gentiles doprecato tho large concontra- tion of troops inthe vicinity, as no violence is spprohonded. There i now n strong moral prossuro on tho Mormons, and it is stead~ ily increasing by.the largo influx of Gontiles, and it is thought tholr peculiar religious notions and tho practico of polygamy must yleld moro suroly and rapidly to natural forces than thoy would to a military domonstration. Removal of corrupt Governmont officisls and & roorganiza- tion of the judiolary, of tho Torritory, so that tho Probato Courts should bo confined to thoir logit- imato duties, and those of the Goneral Govern- ment be empowered to administor the lawa with impartiality, will speedily restore Utsh to its former prosperity, and golve the Mormon prob- lom wisoly, and in the shoricat time possible. — he Nobula in Orion, The Now York Tribune contains tho following, 08 part of a roport of o lecture delivored lnst wook, at tho Coopor Union Institate, by Prof. Goorge T. Barkar, of Yolo Collego: Still another application of tho spoctroscopo 1, to tho nebular hypothiesls of La Place, ono of o peandons {hoories whicll the brain of man over concelved, As it camo from La Placo It was only & theory accounting, it §a true, for the facts, Mon, howover, ask for provf, of tho oxistenco of this cosmical mattorin a pebulons form, Tho nebulm are, by tho spectroscope, found O bo of this nature, Tho Bpectra given by tho nobi® vary, somo_bolng those of gascs, others being pftly thosd of solids or liquids, 'Tuus docatho specirdcore Siipsr Hha peoseas o the creation of tho univede and verify tho theory of La Placo, Nobulw wergiought 10 bo clustors of amall stars, 60 small na ng'to be re Bolvablo by tho telescope, The spootroscopenind shown thi to be false, The nobula in Oron, thoigh resoived Dby tho tolescopo, and though it scems though tho tol- oscopo to bo o muss of slare, gives, thugh the spec~ {roscope, truo gaseous spectrum,’ a0 story of tho teleacope 1a thorafora not {rua, ‘Eithor the roport doos grent njustico to Prof. Barleer, or ho bas botrayed a umontsblo want of acquaintance with the subjeot; which is all tho ‘moro dangerous, as it trnds to throw unwar- ranted discredit upon tio value of tho toloscopo a8 an aid in the studyot phenomenal astronomy. Tho nobula of Orios appoars, in tho best tele- 600pos, a8 o nobrious mass, which “ contains” sbout forty-cight stars; and it was simply sug- gested, soversl years ago, that an instrumont of sufliciont power might be conatruoted to rosolve tho wholo nobuln into soparato stars. But this hps nover boén domo, and tho speotroscopo proves to us that tho guess was unfounded in this coeo, though. correct ns rogards soma other cluaters thon callod nobulm. Tho nebuls of Orion has not besn resolved (into stars) by tho teloscope. Tho foriy-olght stars aboved alluded to scem to be surroundod by tho cloudy maas which the spectroscope shows us i a vast aggrogation of glowing gas. Wedonot yob know whother theso atars aro » part of tho procoading to 11 1t, the bellet is ontortained at Topoka that tho nppointment of Caldwoll's suc- casgor will fall to Gov. Osborn, In that avent, Loavenworth intoreatas will ha pratected, *tho Govornor holug o Loavonworth man. Ihoro are sixtoon Lonvonworth candidaton, ~—Tho Ilarrinburg (Pn,) Slate Journal onjoys the poentiar confidence of Bitnon Cameron. Wo nr;lplonuud to quoto from tho Jourual : ; ior can bo no mistaking ¢ 10 0o Cattwet Gomee. Tise HeiAcson of tho Renalo ‘procedent which Indicates its conraoin other simiar casen, and o vindicatlon of tha dignity of tho body, wtich given namiranco (int Congteys I dotormigod 10 purgo finolf of tho foninoss which tho nation kad such oo xeason to pollovo lin oxinted thore, Tho fdoa of h0ld auy of 1 Jnown Lio prirchascd, i 4 rovufil'-'w'.mmon VhEY ~—Tho poople of Arkansas voto, Mareh 8, on an amondmont {o tho State Conatitution putting ;1“1“‘1‘111 to lllI disabllities by ronson of tho lato obolllon, If enrrled, 20,000 poople will bo o« Tranchinod, e e ~~Tho Albany Evening Journal saya of the Caldwoll carot % e :r 9 If It could bo sottled that th Bone atordal contoatw, a8 in xmn;g.“::m%x"mn Lato tho oloction, It would go far to dosiroy thls proicious Tawyor wil doubtises divider ot o "ho oditor of tho Journal is popwarly under~ atood to bo ono of a myndicato atoady making plons at Albany to “‘place™ pUnited Btates Bonatorship In 1876, Tho “by”’ rofers, doubt. Yy’ 1 loss, to thnt. ~—Gov. Hartranft's fifat %fiifl of tho voto- poror was, last wook, on a {1 which proposad to oxcopt tho Borough of Connclisville, Pa., from the operations of Jokalow's monsuro of tho Iast session, for tly olection of Municipal Boards by tho cumulatiy plan. Tho Governor * only objects to the Cunellavillo bill, without oxpresging any opinid 88 to the cumulstivo syatom itsolf. ~—Tho rovision ¢ Alsbama laws has been intrusted to n Lélslativo Committoe wholly compoged of blac)men. The Mobile Register suys: ' Wo have no condient to make on sn_outrago & fingrant as to bretl disgust by s very \mimz.E No‘; havo wo any cophont 1o mnko upon McKinatry'a act {n tlius fnagitiy tho body over which ha prosidos, tha Togal ablity ofho wholo Blate,nnd tho laws of com. mon ponso, w$ollas of decency, —Tho p;:pln of New York will voto, mext Novembe) Whother Judges shall hereafter bo « sppointd by the Governor, or oleoted according to theorosont system, —Rhot must bo the gonoral opinion of that me'8 honeaty who caeapes punishmont by the 8tinacy of one juryman? The voto yosterdsy i tho impeachmont of Colfax leavos bim in a similar position.~—Davenport Democrats —Poor Nesbitt dicd without taking tea with Colfax. Thero has beon nothing so touching since Adam.— Cincinnali Inquirer. —Now thoso who know Goorge T, Nesbitt in his lifelimoe might wonder why o showed such unwonted liborality to *an almoat total strong- or," it it wero nob for tho fact that, in June, 1808, Congress mncreased tho appropriation fox pnmngn-smm}w and ntmfipafl envolopes from $275,000 to 8150,000. As Mr. Nesbitt's firm wora tho contractors for printing ouo or bots tioso articles, a flood of Yight h{?ul in upon his mo- tivos,—New York Sun. —Tho cnao of Mr. Colfax takos a now aspoot from tho discovery of furthor contributions from Mr. Nosbitt, Thus, winlo Mr. Colfax is partly corroborated, now doubts aro suggested.—Albany Evening Jour.al. ¢ —Our atatesmen aay to-day they would be glad Lo know if Ames has anything to Add, Thoy usod to ask, unless thoy aro belled, Whother he hadu't somothing to Divide., —New York Tribune, —Tho procession will positively start noxt Tuoaday,—scapogonts in - advanco.—Springfleld Republican, Z_Mr. Colfax's caso {8 a bad one, indeed. Po- Utically sposking, & may be considored his ‘burial caso.—St. Louis Timos. : —Tho Springfield Ropublican thinks the pub- lic maybo assured “that there aro more and biggor Aish iu this Oredit Mobilier pond than have yob baen caught—old, wary fellows, who Kaop in dtop water, and aro now silontly chuckling ot tho limmne“' and consoquont misfortunes, of their less-oxperionced and less-cautious broth- Ten. 'Thoy may como to tho pan yot, though, in spito of thoir knowingnoss,” —Mr. Ames jokes right and loft. Ho said among_other things that * {f tho Houso takes nobuls, or whethor they aro much faxther away or much noaror to wa thaD tho gas; tho latter ponition {8 tho most probable. Tho story of the tolescope is mot, thoroforo, contradicted by tho spoctroscopo, notwithstanding the assortion of Prof. Barker. On tho contrary, the two storios aro complemontary and consistent, ag truth should be; and, taken togother, they far- nishus with a muoh grestor volumo of truth then is contained separately in cither story. —————— ! Moncuro D. Conwsy, writing to the Cincinnati Commercial from London, aftor o visit to the Zoological Gardons, acknowledges himsolf to havo beon more than hatf convorted to Darwin- ism by what ho saw and heard thoro among the animals, and narrates many curious facts, One of tho besrs closely resombled Theodoro Parker, who, 18 overy ono knows, had a special fondnoss for bonrs. An old fox bore a oloso resemblance, algo, to Mr. Boward, and @ walrus to tho Tich- borno olaimant, - He saw & singing mon- koy snd @ tesrful chimpanzeo. Ho saw, algo, somo humblo invallds who wero conétantly unhappy unless thoy had tho sympathy of tho Superintendent. Onaold bab- con gave o look andmado a motionat & trouble- somo boy praolsely “in tho style of tho gouty old unolg on the stago who shakes his crutch at tho offonder, and crics, *‘Qdda boddikins! Grammeroy! Zounds! Egsd!” Two bears ro- contly had catorpct on tho oy, and, after the administration of chloroform, to which they submitted in human fashion, wero operated upon “with sucooes, and rocovered. Many of the mon- Koys are pufforing from hereditary consumption. ALr, Conway slgo Baw o maternal hippotamus ad- minister castigation o hor orring child in tho ‘monnor which has boen patent among women since Eve's timo. Tho most conclusivo proof of husmanity which ho qbservad, however, was. tho follommng: There was @& vory pious yuan in tho Gardens distributing tracts fo tho visitors. A boy whobad ono of the tracts, which invited bim to * Pause,” put it into tho paws of o big ape, who sat down with if,-0y0d it upsido down, fore and aft, every way—then used it to ticklo the nose of a slumbering baboon. Whoroupon, Mr. Conwny romarks : «Onowould give somothing to havo achim- panzes commentary upon the dogmatic theology thus offered him bofore any rovival Las occurred in[the monkey-houso, or any catechotical in- struction destroyed tho original siminn sim- pliclty.” The official North German Gozelto predicts that grent evonts will happen in Gormany dur- {ng the prosent month, and bages ils prodiction on the fact that February has always been a sig- nifioant month in Gorman affairs. It shows that in Fobruary, 1079, Froderick Willlam achioved succoss against tho Swedes, In Fobruary, 1673, tho penco was concluded which olosed the, sovon .yosrs' wor. In Fobruary, 1807, King Froderick Willlam, was compalled to make poace with Napoleon at Schon- bruup, but in TFebruary, 1813, the leaguo was made betweon Prussia and Russis, and in TFobruary, 1814, tho means for tho ovorthrow of Napoleon were in Bluchor's lands, In February 1816, Napoleon resolved toloave Elba, and, after the hundred days, came tho crowning victory at Lo Bello Alliance, In Tobruary, 1850, King Froderlek Willlam IV, accopted tho Prussian Coustitution, In Fobrunry, 1804, tho Prussian troops scoured thelr victorioa in Bloswick, and in Pobruary, 1871, tho preliminarios of posco woro siguod at Voreaillos, ————————— NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Now Hompshiro campnign ia very dull. Ioro they are within a fortnight of tho eleotion, and, oxcopt that the Ropublican organ at Cou- cord hne an occagional paragraph of s columu upon the impressivo gharactor of tho crisis, ono would hardly know an’election was ponding: The Dontocratio papors are romarkably quiet, —Tho Kausoa Loglelaturo must adjourn March 4, ynlooy mombory gro willing to prolong the seasfon without pay, and,.as the Logislature must walt until tho secoud Tuocsday aftor notico of & vacanoy n tho Unitod Batos Sonate Lofore Dis gealp thore vill bo a good mugf bald-headod men around,”— Washinglon Dispalch lo the New Yor): Herald. —William R. Roborts waa asked this evoning what he thought of Poland's roport, His roply was unique and witty. * Well, I will toll you my opinion,” enld ho, ; * the Crodit Mobilier investigation {s_a pyramid of fraud, tho baso of which {s Republican and the apex Democratic. The Committeo have revorsed it, and put the ontiro Republican pyramid upon tho Demoeratio cpox; but it won't stand_thoro long"—New York Herald's Washinglon Dispatch. —What o valuablo aditor' of tho Now York Tribune Mr. Colfax would have mede abouk thoso days.— Cincinnati Enquirer. —Wa gre pleased to loarn that Onkes Ames is « staunch friond of the causo of tomperance, and encourages tho growth of toototalism among his workmon in his Massachusotts shovel factorios. Woaro giad to hoar that Schuyler Colfax hes ‘boen ablo to resist all temptations to violato tha rasolution against smoking cigars ‘which he mado two yoars ago. It 'is comforting o lnow that ' hoth the Pattersons aro strongly opposed to tho Mormon systom af Pnlfinmii t 18 cheering to got tho assurance that Hurlan is in {favor of pmpl}gn.ting the Gospel amoug the In- anb. |1t is rofroshing to bo reminded that Jamos Brooks delivored an eloquent eulogy upon Goorgo Washington, who mada a famous obsorvetion aftor ho had chopped down an applo- treo with his littlo hatchet. It is consoling to think hiow Kolloy, and Dayres, sud Garfleld, and. Gompany opposed Horsco Greoloy bacause of the olitical corruption with which ho was connected. Et 1s somothiny; to got thonformation that Hen- ry Wilson is 6till o poor man after thirty yoars of ublio life. It stmugfiheus our loyalty to recall ow furiously Gon, Liogan fought for his coun- try. But it is not plonsant to eateh poor, pious, anti-Lobbaco, teatotal, suti-polygamic, patriotic, anti-Groaloy, propagsndist, spple-tréo horoia mombors of Congreus with Crodit Mobiliex stock in thelr pockets.—Cincinnati Commercial. ——— CORMISSIONER DRUMMOND. McGreaon, Towa, Fob, 20, 1678, 1o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune 2 T bavo rond s lotter in your issuo of the 18th {nst., from ““your own Washington correspond- ont,” reflecting vory saverely upon Commissionor Drummond’s otion in rogard to public 1ands in Towa,—claiming that ho is working for tho rail- rond interest, snd obtaining unusual snd im- propor declsions and rulings from tho Beerotary of tho Intorior, favorabla fo railroad companios:s It colls him tho “stool-pigeon” of the Towa companies. . . . Now, 1 know ncthing of the casos moptioned, nar do I caro to invostigate thom. I’oasll_:ly Commissionor Drummond is in error, but harCly probable, for ho was & man, whon smong us, noted for thorough oxamination, fully mas« toring & subject beforo f,’ivmfi hig judgment. Buf, - us lo his _ honesty, ou haye only to ask thogo who kuow him bost, Thoro is but ono voico. 1o is above suspicion, Haoro, at homo, frioud or fog will, I am uro, iestl- 2y allko to his unswerying intogrity. 1is wholo lfl'n-mcorr.\ iy opposed to il such insinustions of your carrespondont. T have knowa him for many social and businens lifo, and, it thero is a man in te Govornmont morvico who is trying fmthfully ond importially o diachargo his ofloial duties, it is Commissionor Willie rummond, Yours, ———————— COhildrents Partics. 3 ro dreadfully old fogy sbout childron’s pfi?i.‘iffl. G aon, Ttho 'LioEd Mayor had & chils P ons bali, rocoutly, numboriug oight hundrod osts, sfrom 6 to 16 yoars of ago. The ogan ¢ srxive at 0 a'clock, aud wero receive immodiatoly by tho host and hostoss, and danced tlufla'clocfi. Then & #hadow ‘phntnn}lmu WAS, rondered, and at 9 a company of posturing Arabg woro introduced, who woro succoeded by & Punch and Judy. The Londonsuppor wag served at half-past 9, and ab 10, wo Vlush to say, the company wont homo. 5 oars, in all his —Wo canno? socond tho oxalamation of Bonator Nye: “Awuy with those investigationa; wo have 14 enough of thom!" Wo cannot holp thilnk- fug that if “thoso myostigations” had boon corumonced in 1776, aud contiuued ovory yoar up to tho presput time, the country would bo muc! botter off to-day than it is, Aud tho man who, in fiture, undortakos to stand botwoon the pags ple snd an honest inquiry-into tho conduct of ‘publio affaira, will have & rough time of it.—8f, Louis Demoorat (Administration). i —A Danbury young man in the srdor of hia affoction promisod to eherish a young lady with 8 lr.Q" hat would survive &n amy overe conty