Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1873, Page 2

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1873. 2 N Iaw, was & gost upon whose head were symboli- ] a8 well as _those of a Vestry.” He should be [ = 3 3 32 P all their est friendship, snd te directi i WASHINGTON: R N e LONDON. Ereny bt 13 o o (o i CONTRASTED: Tl wentor mimaat, o s | WU b ot ik ‘6% o3, %6 dach was suffored t0 escape’ i vildernese. cation @ gov solution of the . X i Y i o 11v0. L wiclemean, prablem *turns ont to ba the ssorifce of A amous alecturor and a gentloman, tho admiration of | holes gradually conve, ;ufi\:nlnlfi” ey The Settlement of the Case of Phelps, Dodge & Co. _ The Senate Committee on -the Credit Mobilier---Patterson and” Conkling, Toadying Ben Molliday---The Associuted Press Bispatches from Salt Take City. 2 Beapegoats—-John B. Alley---Some Democratic Congressmen--- The Pacific Mail In- vestigation. rom Qur Qurn Correspondens, ‘WASHINGTOX, Feb. 28, 1873, PHELPS, DODGE & CO. Bave settled thoir case by the payment of ©271,000. This is o settloment of the smallest smount, for the public had expected at lesst £400,000 from the distinguished swindlers. It eppropriately happens that this imperfect com- peusation was made the day after Congress Te- fused to make bribery a matter of ex- Tho frm of Phelps, Dodge & posure. Co. hesd o class of mercantile moral- ists. In 1865, I published s little story in the New York Citizen, to which William E. Dodge took exception by letter, because it was a true ement of & case without cloak. I folt rebuked 2t the timo in the presence of this morzl men's letter, little believing that I wonld livetoseo himand his firm confessed before the Government as its robber to the extont of 090. 1f Mr. Dodgo had put this amount of in 10y hands, I would have convineed him, :gh the samo well-directed journal, that e no right to cheat the Government out of Jutics to thet amonnt; and I would have con- tinced tho country that, when he cheated it to swico that amount, he should not be let off ““at thie figure.” sCRIF. A gentlemau who Lad State acrip to sell came to see me yestordsy, and asked why it was that the Land Department refused to arrange for the dclivery of cash on Agricultural Colloge scrip, ustils cerfein man in Cleveland, Ohio., (by numo Georgo P. or *Pop-corn” Lewis), had been aceepted as the best bidder for the said scrip. 1f the ecrip sells for 96, and the Cloveland man otfers but 90, why is it thet the facilities for de- livery are tightened on thie man, unless he goes to Cloveland ? This is another job of the In- tarior Department. The President of the United $:stes will begin his term with at least three descripts in his Cabinet, and the hoad of the ior Department is one of the trinity of the co:raption which exists in our country. PATIERSON. ‘The Senate Committee of which Lot Morrill, of Meive, ig Chairman has reported in favor of Patterson’s espulsion, Harlen's censure, and tho wittal of Wilson, Logen, and Conkling. vai Patterson ongh to bo expelled 1o plain to everylover of his conntry; and this expulsion sl:0uld not be made dependent mpon the trite plea that other men worse in character are not expelied. If wo cannot catch the whole band of thleves, and catch but one, let the one go out, neck a0 heels, Tho prees of the country did itself no >redit in failing to support the Poland Commit~ tce's report. Had that report been sustained, Brocks and Ames would have been flung out of Congress, and, guided by their examplo, the constituencies would have dealt with the guilty tien who had been dazed by the Committee, Senator Patierson has truly ruined our faith in human nature. Hewas & college-professor, & mild-spoken pedagogne sort of man, whom n0 person &w\l ever scandalized by one word of calumny in the public press. There is much talk smongst thioves in this day abont “*a licen- tious prees ;” but think'of this : thnt Patterson, Colfax, and'many othorn -Lnd Lean_guietly rob bing #!.eir country during a period of several car.@nd no pen in all the pross wrote a line :timating a8 much ! % Mr. Patterson is already drinking_deep the draught of disgrace, to the extent, I am tol ti:at the State anthorities of Ohio have address bi letier taking back the offer of the Presi- a of the State Agricultural College. Where i tho man to go? Dropping out of Heaven into the mud, whet human vocation is left for the lost angel 2 A mancame to mo to-day and £id, apropos of Patierson: *By George! we want him in:Nevads. The population of Nevads has fallen' off for years, end we have gob to that moral condition out there in whick Senator Jones can claim, before & popular sudiencs, that to elect a Senator with moxey is the most natural thing in the world. i will go to Patterson, and make him an offer to teach an educational institution in Nevada. He some character to recover, in a Com- vealth as much reduced momfliau ours by Stewart, Jones, &c., ho may begin to re- e bis own reputation and our semse of ency.” The above may havo been said asa Joke, but it is very nearly a true transcript of hig gentleman's talk to me at Willard’s Hotel. ROSCOE CONELING . ts mede blameless by this report ; but he is ot probably sware that an iguorant fellow, by the nnme of Franchot, gooa around the Capitol that be elected Conkling, and first icke i d him out amongst the worthies of New 23 s proper_character to bo Benator ; al- though the said Franchot has testified before tho 2 Congressional Committeo that o reccives 20,000 a your a3 the professionallobbyist of the ral Pacific Railroad, and has said in Wash- oncircles that he made the Central Pacific 3576 to poy Conkling $10,000 year aa ax aitor- ney. If Rokcoe Conkling receives that 810,000 8 vear while in the Senate, he is no better than Oakes Ames, Bonjomin ¥. Butler, or Bill Stew- art 1 mey intimate tho dogree of personal inde- geudence Cinus resident in Conkling' by quoting s his speech made ot dianer at Welck- given two weeks ago, whare the great brute, DEN HOLLIDAY, celcbrated himself. Affer they had sll drank 2u's Jiquor and eaten his ferrapin, Roscos Conkling aroso, glass in hand, and eaid that ho bad n great rosponsibility to fulfill ; that hedrank £o tho noblo men who had built Tailrosds _snd run vesselson tho Pacific Coast, whom New York ciaimed as one of hersplendid productions. After Conkling camo Kelly, the great heavy fel- low from Oregon, who ssid the State of Oregon would not permit New York to claim such a magnificent production as Holliday, but that be was all Oregonian, and heard no sound save hiy cvn dushing. Next came Beck, of Kentucky, who said thot New York and Oregon shonld not tuke from grand old Kentucky tho ownership of Bex Holliday, for there hq was born and be- fonged in bonor. All this miserable toadyism over a fellow who Is in Washington City giving dinners to got n subsidy for Lis imperiled railroad, and who hea 1o conceplion of the privaté rights of_anvbody standing in his way, but will eat up individusls, ions, snd Legislaturos, like a hog, to the Lis stomach to digest them | 0 more c0o Conkling s the gentleman of tho TIE SCNATE OOMBMITTEE x tho Credit Mobilier has done its duty nearly 13 well 55 that superb Committee of which Judge Polaud was the head in the House, which lsbor- 1d,to {10 best of its ability and conscientioueness, :0 refurm Congress and give it respect pefore the seaple. . The Pf:fh of the country have been reading *er eeveral months [ELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES FEOM SALT LAKE CITE nworthy of the Associated Press and of the srees of the United Statos. These are writton v 8 man named Oscar G. Sawyer, who was car- wied out to Utah by the Gontile Ring to assist in lividing the raiment of the Alormons and steal- &g their provender. If the Associated Press . 1an keep such an Arsb to argue every morning rough sl the papers .of the United States, rereafter offices in that association will not otamand salaries that will be_fat things to pur- Luge. ~ Our own morals at Washington are not iteh, at tho present moment, that we are now to eform the Mormons, who' bave, at least, no iypocrisy in their practices, and whose gospel 1oes mo harm to men and women away from wome. ~ When Congrees refuses to expel Ames ud Brooks for ewindlng and bribery involving loss of £40,000,000 to the United States, what acral anthonty has it to advance upon the 3or- 2008 with the sword of the Lordand of Gideon? THE WORD SCAPEGOAT :a8 got into our Congressional vernacular very quch of late. Senstor Patterson is a scape- §i oat, as Ames and Brooks were called scape- % cato. A scapezoat, according to the Jewish ‘The miore of these goats we have, provided they carry off the ins of Congressmen, the bettor. Whenever you hear aman talking about *the scapegoat”™ of Congress, you may generally infer that he indorses s goodly quantity of thio 80id sing. The Spanish fashion of dealing with such fellows is best,—to make no nice discrim- inations, but give the fusilade every timo you catch a rascal. 30IX B. ALLEY, one of the thieves who goes to church to atone forjthojswindling Lio does on weel-days,has drawn ‘milesge and per diem compensation for tostify- ing before two commitices ot tho same time. is miserablo creature represents what is left of Massachusetta honor in Congress einca Charles Sumner was consured by that Legisluturo under the codfish of the Boston State-House, IF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY containg nn:{ clemonts of character in fit, let it pay especial consideration to Alr. Beck, of Kon- tucky; Mr. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Yoorhoes, of Indiana. These men, by rushing in with the argument of no jurisdiction, etc., bave shown that they carry stock, or something,’ to the extent morally of James Brooks himself. Since Richard C. Parsona left THE SUPBEME COURT . of the United States, s rule has been passed by the Bench thereof, that neither Marshel nor Clerk shall follow any other pursuit than that of the performance of the said office. Had this rule been passed four years ago, Judge SBher- man, of Cleveland, might not now be doveloped 85 the loafer that he has been shown to be. Corruption in this city bas walked right up to the Bench, and, if it conld not pleed its cause in the ares 0f & court-room, has beon permitted to whisper to the Judges soparately. Mr. Nico- ¥, of 108, i8 now the Marshal of this Court, and wo shall probably have no more scandal. An old man, styled Commodore 0. K. Gar- rison, of New York, has been the father of the ‘PACIFIC MAIL INVESTIGATION, to the extent of domanding it. This person probably gets his title of Commodore from his benevolent: services in sending emigrants through Central America to California by the closest computation ever made upon the tenacity of the human system under s rigid diet. Garri- son came Lere to get a subsidy for Lis Brazilian steamehips, when the Pacific Mail obtained the additional subsidy for theirs, The Pacific Mail under the leadership of A. B. Stockvwell, sponf from £800,000 to £500,000, and crowded their bill through Congross, whilo Garrison was lof out for his meanness. This Garrison is said to be one of the wealthiest men in America. The Committcs has folind out nothing, and, if it did, and it redounded to Garrison's advantage, we should be ont of the frying-pan into the fre. ATIL THE BREEN MIRE. MexoaxEe, Feb. 26, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune : Bm: I notice in sour issue of Feb. 21, an arti- cle in relation to railway extension and the Lake Superior mining regions. The article in the main is correct, and conveys just views on the subjéct of our iron resomrees; but thero sro some slight inacouracies, that, if amended, would convey & more correct idea to those who are not familiar with the sub- Ject. _ TFirst, you class the Breen Mine and Brei- tungs Mines, on Secs. 6 and 10, Towa 39, Range 29, among the Lake Superior mines, wheress, in fact, thoy aro in the Menomineo iron-ranges, slong distance from the Lake Superior iron- ranges, and nearer the waters of Lake Michigan than of Lake Superior, and not ovor 20 hours’ travel by rail from Chicago. ‘Thereis s paragraph in the article commencing a8 follows: */The Breen Mine has not fulfilled expectations. It is mainly owned by citizens of Green Bay, who hoped to-realize a handsome fortune, Early last yeer,.a branch road was lo- cated to it, but the prospecting operations havo searcely warranted a railroad solely for its de-. velopment.” The article does not state whose expectations havo not ~been - fulfilled. If the writer means tho expectations of the owners, he is -lsboring under a great mistake. Tho opening of the Breen Minc, so far as made, does fuily meet their expectations, snd shows that the quality of the ore of that mine is equal to the best in the Lake Suporior region, or anywhero clse; and that the quantity promises as well as any mine can promise until it is worked ont. Thay, 28 woll a8 all moeu who know anything aboat mines, know that the amonnt of .good shippin; ore_in =& .mine csn mever be determin until the mine is exinusted, but, judging from the size of the rich-paying basis now exposed, they do not believe this or the next generation will see all of the first-cluss ore mined out of the Breen Mine, let the work of mining De prosecuted as enorgetically 2 it can be. 1t mattersTittle to the Company what any per- 80n may think of the mine, as thdg' are not in tho market to sell stock, and do not desiro to soll the mine, but ' do intend immediately to com- mence mining, 8o that, when the railroad is com- pleted to that point, they will have s stock pile of ore ready for shipment ; but such dis- ‘paraging statements are injurious to the Me- nomines iron-ranges, by carrying the idea that explorations have proved that the previous ex- ectations Of tho value of the mines have not foen sstainods wherass all fhe cxplorations made have proved that those oxpectations rest ona eolid basis; and, further, that there are many more mines in tho Menominee ranges equally 28 good as those which have been brought to the notice of the public, which 28 yet have no name; and this branch railroad referred to, in- stead of being built to open 8 mines reforred to in the article, will furnish trausportation for over 20 good mines. ; ‘The Breen Mino is owned by the Breen Mining Company, which is an Incorporated company. The stock is all owned by persons living at Mo- nominee, snd none of it is owned by persons living aé Green Bay. The stockholders still hope, and have full faith, that they shall Tealize & fortune from the mine; and they Tfully halieve that they will mine from £30,000 to 50,000 worth of ore during the year 1873 ; and they have no doubt but {hat tho Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company expact thnt the transportation of ores from that mine will add mnnffxillly to the business and profits of that To The railrosd was not located to the Breen Mine early last apring, but the survey of it was commenced’ in_November, after all work had ceased on tho Breen Mino, and waa Dot -com- ploted until Jan. 13, 1873, and was locat- od to the Breen iline, and mo fartler, ‘The work of construction on it has commenced on the part located, and the enginecrs have been sent on to commence to survey beyond. the Broen Mins, to tho minos in Town 39, Range 29. In extending the survey, they will run mear another valuable mine,—which has never been brought "to public notice,—at tho foot of the Littlo Sturgeon Falls, on Sec. 8, Town 9, Range 28, This mine is & micaceons specular ore, un- like the others named, which ore brown and slate hemstites. MENOZINEE. —_—— THE STATE'S ATTORNEY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tritune : Bm: The Supreme Court has recently filed, through Judge McAllister, & unanimous opinion in regard to Rafferty and our Btate’s Attorney. Of tho latter, and his management of our mur- der cases, the Court says: *‘The ususl and Proper practico in such cages is well known to all good Iswyers,—plain, simple, and essy of compliznce. There is no fault in the law; -the rosponsibility rests with the Attorney for the ?enple." In another part of the same decision, it says: “Wa are, by such omissions, ignorance, or negligence, on the part of the State's Attor- ney, cowpelled to allow writs of error, or do violenco to our own consciences.” Thus thic supremo legal authority of the State has located tho blame.The people wero beginning to agk why the opposite counsel always beat onr State's Attorney. It cortainly was not that Mr. Reed neede moral support.” We gave Lim our best wishes, whon he eadly needed legal support. Let the people hire a good lawyer to aid him, and so protect the community from his ‘‘ omissions, ignorance, or mnegligence.” Now that the Su- preme Court has passed on XIr. Reod’slegal ability, there is no doubt he would gladly accopt the services of & lawyer to try his cases. The only need of haste is tho danger that Mr, R. may taks some saction or draw up some papers in these caees, and thereby endanger the intercsts of the State. Aa soom as b good lawyer is_se- cured for the State’s Attorney, it will be his duty t0 go ahead with theso cases. In this way, our citizens can freo themselves from the ‘*omis- sions, ignorance, or nogligenco” of the State's Attornoy, as well 28 from the murderers. 5 i regard to this decision, says ho will convince tho Supreme Court thatitis in error. This is his defense. Tho Supreme Court has often proved Mr. B. in error, but miserabla will b our condition if our murderers remain unhing until he proves the Sopreme Court in error. 9 Crrizes. Cicago, March 1, 1873, . The‘riBritish' Parliament in i Session. Aspeet of the House of Commons---A Test for the Nervess The Mover and Seconder of *the Address "-—Mr, Disraeli, A Radical Demonstration---Mr. Laing upon Interna- tional Law. From Our Ouwn Correspondent. ZLoxpox, Feb. 8, 1873. .London seems indifferent to the matter, but the country genrally, no doubt, takes a little interest in the meoting of Patlisment. Paople cannot see their favarite daily paper invaded by long columns of debate without being somewhat stirred by the fact. They may read only horo and there, and may prefer the summary to the full report ; but have somo influence over their mental life, it must. ASPECT OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, It ig the House of Commons, after ell, that draws to itself tho nation’s gaze. The House of Peers rejoices in its new Lord Chancellor, and trusts that, under his care, and with tho help of a few blunders of the Administration, which it will loudly point out to vindicate i1s gignificance in therealm ; but it is the Lower Houso that possesses the real power. I always feel, aftor listoning a short space to the formal oratory of tho gilded chamber, that I am, after all, but witnessing an imitation. Thestageisa stago of marionattes, nad, however clever the actors, thoy are at best but puppets, moved by thohands of others, Thus I have preferred this week to confine my Parliamentary visitings to the Com- mons, save & brief half-hour or two in the other place. Time changes us all. We notice it in others, and forget that they notico it in us. In looking round tho chamber, I sce soma scores of familiar personages, and it would not bo true of ono of them to sny that he was liternlly unaltered. Here, & figuro is stouter; there, the stoop of the shoulders is increased. The hair of some is sprinkled more liberally with the enows of age ! that of others is thinner. - In a few cases, the gystem scems shaken, and you feel that vigor has gone, without observing what part of the frame is the loser. I could write much upon this aspect of the House, but tho subjects of the skotch are unkmown at Chicago, and cui bono ? A TEST FOR THE NERVES. It is amazing what a miracloe can be worked in 2 man by one or two slips of paper. The timid becomes bold; the hare, & lion. Who more sounding, who more stentorious, more dogmatic, even offensively confident, than, say, s Rural Dean in his Sunday pulpit, with his manuseript- sermon on his cushion? Who so hesitating and gaspingly feeble as ho, the next day, on rising, at & public meeting, to propose a resolution, withoat any notes et all 7 But some individuals are so constituted that not even the words in their- hands can overget- their painfal shyness. It was amusing o waich low the fifty or sixty mombers who gave “ notices of motion " got through their task. ‘You may knovw, the Speaker has a list before him, and, soon after taking his seat, he pro- ceeds to call upon the members in their turn who have mnotices to give. ‘‘ Mr. Trevelgar!" “Up rises Mr. Trovelgar. “S8ir, I beg to give notice (hore ke looks at a paperin his hand that, on sn early dn‘f, Iintend to bring in & bi to extend houschold-suffrage to the counties.” And 80 on, one member after anotler, until the list is oxhausted. What a mass of business is promiged ! . Mr. Disrneli ~ declared himself Irightened, and predicted that the country would sgain have to deplore “hi -scurry de- bates and helter-skelter logisletion,” Searcely two members played their pari alike. The chamber was full, and, 8 it bappened, was attentive. The members who lined the benches waited, with curiosity, for the various notices. The silence, and the critical oyes on every side, ‘were too much for several unhappy meun. They blurted out the syllables, and not unfrequently excited Inughter by disturbing the proper suc- ccssion of the words. I saw onegontieman, who fgoyo potics of 8 motjon in tho absonce and on ehalf of & friend, who really did not know what he was doing. - Ho was long, and thin, and young. Howasasred as o poony, and water came to his ayes. Nor did herecover himself even after ho Lad sat down. He swayed to and fro, passed his hand hastily over his _face, sod st last took refuge in a wild uso of his pocket-hankerchief. One ‘member, kmown to mo a3 & specially modest and retiring man, fook me by surprige by the lond- ness of his voice a8 he read ont his notice, and tho extra ease of his manuer. But it was onl; snother form of nervousness, as I eaw immadi- ately afterward by his scarlet countenanco, and by tho hurriod way in which ho began to tak to his neighbor. Othors thera wero, old vetorans, who could stand_any emount of fire, who gave |: their notices with perfect coolness,.and - with their respective poouliarities -of macner. Hard 88 & Fock aro Some of their number. Others are pompous, sarcastic, or effominate. Would the moeting "of Parlisment be legally complete without tho grave and _stage-melancholy voico of Mr. Newdegate announcing & motion for the appointment of & commission ‘to inquire into tho monastic and conventical insti- tutions in Great Britain ;" or, in default of the uniquo and affected intonations in which Mr, Beresford-Hope promises & motion with rogard to cathedrals and canonries? The mingled cheers and smiles with which theso prelimi- naries were received wero perhaps s little trying to THE MOVER AND THE SECONDER OF THE ADDRESS, who sat sido by side, immediately behind Mr. Gladstono, and who were clothed in a military uniform, for which one of the two, at least, was scarcoly well fitted. Tho government of the day choogea new men for the honor of movin thoreply to the Royal speech; and ona oy suppose the opportunity was covted by any one possessing n little ambition, Ordi- narily, I am bound to say, tho effect is not very striking. The ITouse of Commons is hardly a favorable arena for an incxperienced speaker, and its peculiarities are_such 08 render even expericnco, if gained anywhere but witbin its own walls, & di!ldv:mtlfi)e Tather than other- wise. A maiden specch in Parliament is no sign of & man'a ability or of his prospects. M. Lit- tleton, the mover, is tho son of a Pecr, and the inheritor of an honorable name. Ha is tall and good-looking, and has many friends on the Con- sorvative_ benches, if we may judge by the en- couraging applause which proceeded thence. ir. Stone, the scconder, was once a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and his wife is a daughter of Sir Arthur Helps. Usu- ally, tho mover and seconder venturo .out » liftle distauce from tho terms of tho address. It is considered almost sudacious if they do much more. Mr. Stome, bowever, attempted independent comment. ' “The question of University oducation in Ireland would,” he said, ‘revive difficulties which theological zeal in England had connected with the question of elementary education. Experience told us_that theological disputes were not less luxuriantly developed by their transfer to the other side of the water. It might therefore bo with & touch of irony that Her Majesty re- minded us, in her gracions speech, that the object’ of tho measure relating to University education in Ireland was the ad- vancoment of learning in that portion of her gominions, because ho feared there might be debates in which that important consideration Joud bo loft almost entirely out of sight.” ‘This is & safe Parliament; oke, and Mr. Stone was rewarded by cheors. ok MB. DISBAEL E looks much older in the face, but’ his oratory is unchzoged. He seems resolved upon carrying out the pert of leader of the Opposition, and has two orthree subjects Spflfiilflfldu study. The Fates must be eccentric indeed if ho dogs not get capital of some_smount out of the gov- :x;:lg?\fil schame for Irish University education, of tho arrangements and engagements &% tending tho Alabama arbitration, in%‘uspctglfly out of our ehare in the dispute with Russia. He was in2hsppy vein fora_little whilo on the opening night, and half-a-dozen of his phrases were repeated after him, round tho Honse, He should not roject incressed attention being %flm to forcign affairs. *‘I think it well that the Houso of Commons should remember that it has to perform the duties of a Banata and learned ministry in ordor to substautiate for it the-r_ chanical medic of an examining voard.” The peragraph in the-Queen’s spocch, in which several domeztic topics were strung to- gether, appearad to have Leen dzavn up individual who hns watched witl feverish anxicty all the vay t rhetorio which distinguishes the Tecess.” Dut, once- entering upon the Geneva arbitration and the ¢ three rules,” the Right Hon- orable gentleman dropped all sarcasms, and was hesvily argumentative. Yom - have known, long ‘ere this, what wes gaid in tho Housd about tho atbitration,—even that the no- torious builder of * tho Alabama, Rir. Laird, who, had ho a spark of shame, would sell ol he has, and give tho product towards paying tho dameges, had the brazen-facedness to spesk. ‘The most sensitive critic in the States will allow that English statesmen and the English Parlia~ mont accopt tho result in a genial and & gentle- manly spirit. The Government may be abused, but not & word is uttered against the arbitrators, or the honesty of their decision. . Mr. Digracli is dull enough in controversy; ‘but be is bappy, and often brilliant, in descripe tion. He was 80 in his treatment of Russia. Sir [said Mr, Disraclil, we do not look with any Jeal- ousy on the natural development of the Rursian Em- pirc, [*Hear, hear!”] Russia is an inland country of imniense size, With & very sparse population, produc- Lag llmltablo aupplios of Luman food sad rsuw mat- risl of inestimablo price. It follows from such a nat- aral combination of affairy that Russis must force her way to those waters which cz1 alone allow her to come municate with the rest of the world, carry food to {helr population, snd raw_material to'their manufac- tures; and the ‘policy of Russia, s it has procecded now for two canturies, o8 for ‘as it has been o sys. tematic attempt to obtain this access to the waters of the world, s a natural and inevitsbla policy, snd ons which, T beliove, cannot and ought not to_be succeas- fully resisted. ' [*Hear, hear]"] Its developmont has” cccasion cir od many of us may doplore. It Las ~cost gallsnt Sweden some of ita provinces; it has cost the Empiro of Turkey many of ts provinces, But, 28 fur aa the policy of Russin has been confined o this necessary,” and, a8 I maintain, inevitable development, England should view it withe out jealousy and without fear, But, if the policy of Ruseia takes a different character; if it attempta to do that which its natural dovelopment docs not require; if it wants to seizo upon Constantinople OF o conguer the conduct of Hussia must bo distinguished Lrow her condugt when s follows hier natural policy 2nd Russia must not bo surprisad that {t excites the Jealousy and distrust, us it will undoubtedly provoke tho resistance, of Europe, [Cheers.] The attempt to appropriate Constantinople 18 a fresk of zmbition, and not a natural development of a natural policy, ' The ides of conquering India is a distempered dream, [“Hear, hear!") In concluding his speech, Mr. Disracli mada an allusion which seemed out of keoping. “I 8o obligad,” ho said, ‘*to the Houso for Bsving listened to me when'I was not in a position to sddress them in a mannoer I conld have do- sired,"—alluding to the death of his wife. The offoct was soarcely impressivo ; and particulacly hollow sounded the succeeding words: *‘I w! only say I rc-acho the language of the last aragraph in the speech, which commends our eliberations to tho_guidance ana favor of the Almighty, for never, I beliove, have thoy required them more,” 3 EEEPING TIE AT ON i8 » sign in most countries, I suppose, of dis- rospect, The Honge of Commons is_particular about it. No member can wear his hat in the House while standing. Every Peer who comes in must be uncovered, whether sitting or stand-~ ing. When the Spoaker reads the Queen's speech to the Housoe, it is the custom to um- cover. Now, on Thursday night, while the Can- sorvatives sat with bare heads, to a man, I noticed that twenty or thirty of the Liberal members kopt their hats on. Sir Charles Dilke, of couree, was one of them. Itis easier to show ono's Republicanism by wearing s hat than by abandoning o title. Tha demonétration was rather weal. ~If it pleased the Radicals, there is no harm in it ; but it was not altogether froe from a sort of petty vulgarity. A BPEECH UPON INTERNATIONAL LAW. Last evening, I heard Mr. Laing, an clderly member of the Liberal party—a financier of eat experience, only recently returned to Par- iament after rather & long abscnce—deliver an impressive speech upon international law : Having due regard [he argued) to the march of events, it was not surprising that international law, 85 well as other matters of importance, should require modification snd smendment, The most importsnt changes had occurred in consequence of sn altercd state of feeling on the part of civilized Europe with ro- gard to war, and of an aitered state of facts resulting from tho enormous incresse of commerce, The re- strictions upon neutrals in time of war which formerly existed bad becomo such an intolerable nuisance that thoy could po longar be put up with, and, consequently; it was lad down by the Treaty of 8 that s neutral flag should cover all goods, by Which the rights of neutrals wero Bat, while it was imperative that L6 g mid be thus enlarged, it was equally just that thefr obligations should also be en- 1o Tho feeling adverse fo war upon, prinelpley the consclentions dialike to go to war except 88 & lnat extremity, which originsted in this conntry, had now spread over all civilized nations, and hiad compelled an altoration being made in public iaw. - Endeavors wers ‘being made to Himit tho operation of war when it un- fortunately arose, and to conduct it as humanely as possible. The general opinfon wns now entertained,: that neutral nations had no right to farniah belliger- . enta with munitions of war, or to allow their ports to ‘e made the basis of expeditions to be against afriondly power. . 1t was felt that such conduct was ke that of 5 man who gold Joaded pistols to two of hin friends in order 10 ensble them o tight a duel. 'Under theso circum- stances, he did not bisme Her Majesfy's Government or their predeceasors in offico for having endeavored to sottle our dispute with s foreign country by arbi- tration, instead of going to war. Neither did he blame thetn 07 admitting the principies tnvolved in tho threo new rules, The difiiculty we found ourselves in with respect to the Geneva arbitration was occasioned, not by our having at longth yielded to what was riglt, but by our having taken upa false position in which we greatually found ourselses outdanked,—by sesisting just demands; and it was to be hoped that we shoul learn, from the lesson wo have roceived, the impolicy of sefting down our foot 2a & nation in s position whi W wero afterwards unable to maintain, ke e e MIDDLE-MEN. Lesoy, Lake Co,, Ind,, Feb, 26, 1873. - To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: . Bm: In Toe TRmMUNE of Feb. 19, a corre- spondent, in speaking of middlo-men, says: 4 You may, possibly do awsy with the man, but the work that he performed must be done by some one. It may be done by the consumer, at much inconvenionce, and at greatly increaged expense.” This is doubtless true of tho sidivs- sary work of necessary middle-mon, bu the. unnecessary -work that the consumer hea %0 pay for is the thing of which farmers justly com- plain. As soon 28 spring faitly opons, these middle-men start .out peddling_ their wares. First comes the broaking plow ; then the corn low ; followed by rakas, mowers; respers, . o expense of hauling L‘leae_ implements over bad roads, many .of ° em §cores of miles, 8dded ;o ' bsd dobis cre- ated by selling o’ irresponsible persons, 2nd tho loss. on westhor-worn 1m lements, ag- egato an alarming sum. Andall this 18 paid ¥ the farmer, to, 8y nothing of the precious time lost in talking with theee agenta. For this thero ouglt, Gpd must be, & remedy. And_ now a,word as to the *much inconven- ience” and ‘‘greatly incroased expemses.” For two seasons: the members of Eagle Grange, in this county, havo bought their plows and somo other implements of the manufacturers at wholo- sale rates. ‘The number of plows wanted are ordered before plowing time, together with a few extrs ones that may be needed. Each member sends the pay for what ho orders, the estra ones being ynid for out of surplué moncy in the treasury. The implements are got at tho station by the farmers themselves, the whole thing being attended with no inconvenience or extra expense, but by a nice little sum saved to each. The same thing can bo done in the purchase of reapers and mowers. Let tho members of each grango or club unite on some one leading machine. Order them in gobd time for use, and, at the same time, get such repairs as they ‘may need for the season, and keep them at some ceniral point in the neighborhood, where each could go and pay for what he wanted. This would be more convenient for farmers asa whole, and would save to them thousands of dollars that are now paid to middle-men. EcoNoxy. —_— THE NEWSBOY. . o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune = Bm : Isee, by some of the papers, that the subject of oponing a ** Home ” for the newsboys and boot-blacka is being agitated. I hope it will not prove to be a big failure. Andnow I ‘want to ask, if you will indulge me, what be- comes of all our newsboys ? Do they ever grow up? Whoover heard of & man who was & real, fall-blooded newsboy ? Or don't they grow up atall 2 Whero do they go to when itis time to bo 16, 18, 20, 30, or 40 years of age? Can any- body tell us if thege little fellows ever have a ‘big faturo, or any future at all ?° Won't some- body tell us if there is any hereafter at all fora regular, eimon-pure newsboy ? OBSERVER. ~In 1865, s colored girl of Chillicothe, O., swallowed ® steel shawl pin. Tho pin has been searching around her system for an outlet ever since, but on Monday it entered her brain, and she died instantly. §0me'Gf the Manners and Customs'of Europeans and Americans, Street-Scenes Across the Atlantic, as - Seen by Wendell Phillips. A Contrast Not Especially Flattering to _the Average American Citizen. We are compolled to classify emong the falso Propheta those peaple who Liave been foratelling the speedy decay of the Jocture systom. Every year we have a greater variety of well-selocted lecturers, who aro paid anunally in an zscending scalo of prices. Nothing could be & better proof than tho money-gauge of the demand for these wandering gentlemen orators, and tho high esti- mation in which they aro held. The sevon days just past havo been prolific in harangnes from the people's platform. Wo have Lad a lecture from Mr. Gough, two lecturea from Mr. Beecher, and two from Mr. Wondell Phillips. All have been well - nttended, and the peripa- tetic rhetoricians have shnt wup snd carried off in their disinterested coffers quite a handsome amount of their hoarers’ riches. The money was, no doubt, willingly paid, thereforo we feel constrained to say that we have no com- plaint to make on that score. Whether there 'waa value received for the financial considera- tion given might be regarded by manyas an open question. The deliveryof Mr. Wendell Phillips’discourse on “Btreot Life 1n Europe,” at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church last evening, elightly re- lieved the lecturo plethora from which we have been suffering. Tho sndience was madeup of cultivatod peoplo, such as the polished speaker usually has for his hearers, who listoned with tho utmost attention, and were not chary of their applauso. Thelecture was series of anccdotes hungon & thread of criticism touching the differences be- tween forcign manners and our own, Mr. Phillips considered travel and tho telegraph the great peace-makers of the dazy; that quar- rels Bprang from ignorance of ane nation by an- other ; that one of tho benefits of our own vie- tory were ‘that the South and the North knew ench other at 1ast. He illustrated this by half-a- dozen instances of incrédible ignorance of Englishmen tonching our own country, its lan- guage, its habite, althongh there is no-vnil of & foreign tongue ‘betweon England and ourselves. Ho cited Prof. Silliman, Gov. Gore, and others, and told how Walter Scott once asked an Ameri- can how many Indian tribes wero to be seen in traveling from Boston to New York. Proceeding with his criticisms of England and the Continent, he brought forward his agsertion that thero ia more individual independence of character and manner in Europe than in country; that here we are overawed by the pub- lic opinion of the millions ‘about us, that, in politics, in business, oven in tho social lifo, al- most every American is afraid of Mrs. Grundy. He illustrated this point by clothes, dwellings, and_street-manners, capping his selection of stories with that of the recent wholesale kissing of Mr. O'Conor in & New. York court, which he did not find would have been nt all singular on thia Continent, however much it might attract attention here. He then passed to the point'which led him on to Mr. echer's remarks of the previons ovening, on the extrema development of the inventive and _mechanic faculty,—harnessing steam, and sandindgntha lightring on errands, making Nature & drudge, and lifting man into a superiority to all toil. Ho cited Emerson’s epi- gram, that the genuine Yankes hns more brains 1n his hands than the men of other nations have in their heads. He alluded to the nlusfi'ixh flow of the tide of thought in Europe, and told of Horaco,, Greeloy's -advonture with the French pensant, 1o whose bands Mr. Groeloy found, as an instrument to cut-grass, & heavy, ugly bit of iron, and to whom he philosophicaily sgugested that he could do three times 25 much work if he hed an ordi modern scythe. To the pug- estions tho peasant laconically replied, ** Bat T aven't throo times the amount of work £o do.” EM&' xplained very clearly why he did not want 0 scythe. Thonce the spesker gracefully diverged to the elovators of Ch'lmPo, which he rogarded as the igh tide, and os illustrating _admirably the way in which the Yankee was shirking tho primal curse, and getting his living without the sweat of his brow. After dwelling upon this portion of his theme st somo longth, he turned his at- tontion to education in Europe, which received a full measure of justico st :nds, and praised the universal civility and tpoliteness of people to each other in the strest a8 worthy of all commendation. This extremo politeness, he said, i8 never seen in this country, to prove bhis point quoting the story of Thackeray, who, © wandermmg_ abont ~New York alone, found s Bowery boy, leaning ogainst a lsmp-post, and eaid to him, ‘with all that genial benevolence that character- ized his manners, *‘ I want to go to Broadway.” “Why in h—) don’t you go,then I” the specimen of tho independent American replied, an answer which the great noveliat atated he could not pos- sibly have received in n:éiupinl in Europe. ‘The Roman Catholic Church received tribute of | praise from the speaker for ‘the manner: of its alms-giving, tha decorum of its worship, ond other particulars. The Catholics, he usserted, deserved much more credit than we, In our ex~ treme self-satisfaction, arg nccustomed to give them. il The womsan question, as it offers itself to criticism in Eflrogg,’ was not neglected. The Yectirer quoted Mr. Greeloy's argument_that woman was not entitied to the samo privileges 85 mnn, because she did not do the same amount oflabor. This might be mensurably true in this country, but was not true in_Enropo, where, in Bome countries, women performed two-thirds of thie Jabors and industries of life, This could bo* verified both in Germany and Denmark by ob- servatipns from thecar windows, as the traveler paesed rapidly throngh the country. 3 In the-courso of bis remarks, Mr. Phillips made a rather elaborate defense of the Paris Commune: -1t was not o factions mob, but s reassertiont of tho pre-eminenco claimed, by all great cities in regulating the affairs of a country. Montesquieu remarked a hundred years ago, that Paria was France, and tho action of the Communo was simply o claim on the art of Paris, the whole of it, fo bo consulted Fotits uiny trasty wanmsdo. Reforring to the claims made by Enghahmen and Americans, that they alone have tho home and the domestio hearth, he stated that the French were equally remarkable with ourselves for thia sirong family attachment, and that we, heving seon Franco only through Eng- lish epectacles, had not o fair appreciation of her. Hoquoted an_sssertion made by tho Quarlerly Review, that in the great revelations of the lnst twenty-four T hardly any distin- guished Frenchman had betrayed bis party for ‘personal aggrandizement, the proportion being Drath Joss tham the history of ‘parties ahows in America, or other_ Enropean countries. In this connection he took occasion to diengree with Mr. Beecher in regard to German education, and said that German oducation consisted largely in pro- aring & man for camp, and added that the Fronch philosophy of tho present day is in ad- vance of the German philosophy. Europe bas 80 far advanced in social lifo that ehe don’t know black,—colored men being found in all spheres of life and duty, and being commonly received upon tho eume plane of social equality. The speaker ended by saying that when he listened to the Latin service at 8t. Peter's in Rome, and saw the listoric names that were knooling at the altar, he felt keenly that be was four thousend miles from Boston, where a colored Emon wasa not even allowed to ride in an omnibus. —_— TEMPERANCE MEETING AT PEOTONE, - ‘ProToNE, ML, March 1, 1873, To the Editor of The Chicago Trilune : Smm: On the ovenings of tho 2{th and 25th of February, the citizens of Peotone and vicinity had the pleasure of again listening to the well- Imown temperance orator of the West, the Rev. M. H. Pogson, America’s second Gough. His words of burning eloguenco never fail to send conviction to the heart of every candid hearer. Mr. Pogson delivercd a course of six lectures in Peotonc ono year ago, when, by the eloguent, ablo, and convincing manner in which he brought the subject before the people; by his devotion tothe cause of temperance, and by his happy faculty, 88 a gentleman, of elicitins from iLL the_entire- commuuity, who manifested it by ain availing themselves of his valuable. ser- vices jast boforo our village election. Wo are in liopes to wipe this accursed trailic from our otherwiso.moral aud happy town, during the coming Spring. Considerable enthusizsm prevailed during tho meetix;ss ot the closo of which the Committee who had been nflpninted for that purpose pre- seuted the following resolutions, -which were unanimously adopted by the meeting: WHEREAS, Wahave long been convinced that the uso of intoxicating liquors is the source of nearly all the crime and misery that curse humanity; and, Warnzas, We bail with delight the genera! awaken- ing of pubifc sentiment against this terriblo evil, and would add onr voico and influence to the popular move- ment; therefore, be it Resbleed, That we, the people of Peotone, in mass- meeting _assembled, do ke indorso the new Temperance law s it now_stands, and would respect- fally request that our legislatars, without delay, mzXs | guch amendments as will render it still more effec- tive, : : Reesolced, That wo will mot finch in doing our pert for the full and determined eaforcement of such & law, gyen to thasacrifics of our personai comfort and pro- t. Resolced, That we consider those who vote to lcense this niquity, or who inany wisealdin giving per- mission for tho making of more drunkards, as deserv- ing the same, or even greater condemnation than that moted out {o those sctually engagodin this unholy traf c. Resolred, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to tho pn::,dt'md 10 our Bepresentative at our Stata Gapl- tal, The Rev. W, F, Woob, Tho Rev. E. W. Dazw, W. E. Conmis, Committee, Respectfally, W. E. Cog1s, Secretary. CREDIT MOBILIER. The New York Times on the Action of the Eousc. From the New York Times (Administration). The Houso of Representatives, yesterdsy, showed that it Imew ita duty, and did not dare toperformit. It assorted its power to expel Ames and Brooks by rejecting 8 resolution con- taining the negative of that proposition. It acknovwledged that these members committed the offenses of which they were accused, and this acknowledgment was made by & mora than two- thirds vote. But. though the mon were guilty, and might be expelled,’the House hsd not tho courage to expel them. = If the resolution pussed with reference.to Ames, yesterday, means aything, it is that ho offered bribes to members of Congress. It declares that the Honse * absolutely condemna the conduct of Onkes Ames in seeking to pro- cure Congressionsl attention to the affairs of & corporation in which ho was interested, and whose interest directly deponded on the legisla- tion of Congress, by inducing membars of Con- gross to invest in the stock of ssid corpora- tion." - < Here are all the clomonts of bribery—the in- terest of the bribar, tho purpase to b oflcted, the mesns usod—dafinitely sot down and_‘‘ab- solutely condemned.” In the ssme way, if the regolution concerning Brooks means anything, it ia that ho was bribed. It declares that the House “absolutely condemug tho conduct-of James Brooks for the use of his position of Gov- ernment Director of the Union Pacific Railroad, and of member of this House, to procure the assignment to himself or family of stock in the Credit Mobilier of America, a corporation hav- ing » contract with the Union Pacific Railrond, and whose interests depond directly upon thé legislation of Congress.” ero, also, are all the elements of an offenso tho counterpart of the one of which Ames was convicted. ‘The use of official position corrupt~ 1y, the method of using it, snd the way in which it use was connectod with continuous legisla tion, are deacribed and ‘‘absolutely condemned.” Ames is pictured 3 a giver, Brooks as = taker, of bribes. And yet the Honse, by & vota of 115 to 110, refused even to consider a resolution of ex- ulsion. No comment is necessary to charactor- Ee guch action a8 this. It charactorizes itself. We have already said that in these proceedin; the House of Representative itself was on tris It cortainly was not to have been expacted that, when the preliminary. examination was over, and the accused body was fairly arraigned, it wonld enter a plea of guilty. This is what the House has done, and the parfect naivette with which it has done it adds to the impressivencss of the act. The most unfortunate ending that could have been anticipated was, that the House wonld {ail to see tho real nature of the transactions of its members, or would endesvor, by some deln~ sive and evasive form of words, to conceal their real nature. It might have been feared that, 'without denying or concealing the nature of the transactions, the House might plead that it had Do power to deal with them, because they oc- curred before its torm of existence began. “But recourse has not been had to either of theae al- ternatives. Tho House has characterized the course of Ames and Brooks as corrupt, and has confessed its jurisdiction with reference to thom. But it has refused to act, Buch a conclusion can only be attribuied to moral cowardice. No other ‘motive is sufficient to account forit. Porhaps the people onght to feel relieved that our repre- sentatives ara not bold -enough to reject a high standard of official morals, or to try to conceal violations of it. But 1tis but a poor consolation for the mortifying spectaclo of yesterday, and the people will not nec“:fit it. The impression upon the ?npulumind ill be one of quiet, but deep and lasting disappointment_ and regrat. - It will undoubtedly be rocognized that the sudacions immorality of Butler, or thespecious and artful | immorality of Farnsworth, if exhibited by the body of the House, would have been more ravolt- ing and more threatening. Bub it would hardly have been more disheartening. A It would be idle now .to undertake to forecast the effect of yostorday’s proceedings upon the litics of the future. * But those who think that | it will b8 transient or elight, have widoly mis- tcken'the character of the American peoplo. No such blow has been_sdministered, for yeara to'the tios that have held parties togother during the last decado. Now that tho issues on which parties have so long dofinitely divided bave boon sottled, or placod in s fair way for sottlement, the publio mind is open for the con- | sideration of new ones. At this important m ment the House has presented for consideration 2 guestion in which tho poople are profoundly intorested. Itis this: Are our public men fair representatives of the popular idez of public vir~ tue? Can they be trusted to protect tho interests of the peoplo 8" against tho innumerablo and constantly increasing ‘army of those who stand ready to seize the instrnmentalities of govern- ment for private gain ? Thia is not s question to bo answered atone general alection, or immediately. But it is one tho paople wil hot resdily allow to pass ot of mind. 10 answer-will be sought patiently, and tho resulting action will be lual. But the votes of yesterday will bo closely scanned by millions of voters bent upon reaching a decisien. This much, st least, the people will not be slow in perceiving—that the representatives who can aclmowladge tho guilt of their sssociates, yob dare not cast them out, are not to bo blindly Remarkable Fishing. From the Rochester (N. ¥.) Democrat, We auppose overybody knows by this .time that peD;So sro coming to Rochester from all parts of the State to obtain fish and spawn for stocking purposes ; but faw have any idea of the extensivo nature of the supplies furnished. Orver one hundred lakes and streams have been furnished with bass or pike or both this winter. Every one who came has carried away from seventy to 150 fish, and to show how far such a number goes in stocking a body of water, wo may mention that fourteen years ago four. teen black bass were placed in the Potomac, and that the river has now become the best stream in the country for black-bass fishing. All the fieh obtained horo are taken from the ‘Wide-Wator. At the ont solicitation of Soth Green, the canal authoritics forbid private par- ties from drawing a net thero during the win- ter, and 8o all the finny tribe that havo gathered. thoro can be made available for Blocking der pleted ponds, lnkes, and streams. When the water was drawn from the canal lsat fall a net wag placed across it at the east- ern end of the weatern Wide-Water, and as the water all the way from Buffalo was al- lowed to flow in this direction, an immenss quantity of s wera stopped in the basin, At oth's invitation we visited the scene of these operations on Monday' afternoon. One of the party, wo may add, was Mr. Lamberton, who is still skeptical 'on tho fish-bearing ~ ques. tion. Tho Wide-Water presented a _lively scene, dozens of men and boys having gothered on the ice most of them brought there to secure the coarser varieties of which are not wanted. The surface was dotted with small openings cut through the ice, with two or three targer apertures. A canal-boat fammishos s local habitation to the men in charge of the fishery. The latter drew from under the ice et the largo openings, for tho inspection of the visitors, & number of boxes containing sov- eral pike, black and rock bavs. These boxes ara simple, but extremely well ndaptod for the pur- pose, sud the fish are readily taken from them, 2nd preserve all tneir vitality. The manner of drawing the_seine was then shown. us. The ropes by which it is drawn are passed under the ice by means of a pole to which each is at- tached, and which is passed from one of the small nings to the next succeed- inz ons. These appertures lead in op- it requires about three-quarters of an honr. An Bnimated picture was prescnted an tho fish came to view—pike, bass,sunfish, mullets, sheep-head, and nalf. s dozen other vareties. A landing not - was bronght into requisition to tako tho fish from the eeinc, when the finer kinds wero placed in pails and immediately transferred to the bokes afready ailuded fo. It should bo stated that in tha epring the water stagnates in tho largo basin and nearly all the fish' die, S0 that it is a positive saving to draw them ont, be- sides the important benefits which accrue from the operation. We need hardly say that the whole plan i3 of Mr. Greon's contrivance. The men zra in his employ, and the cost, which is ia considerable, is met by the State. - - o4 CONGRESS AWD THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. Prom the New York Journal of Commerce., No wonder that old politicians like Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, do not like newspapers! For the independent prees of the United Statesis fash becoming, if it i8 not now, the first_power in tha Jand; and wo hope s00n £0 see tho day when Mr. -Hoar’s gldomy Emphacy -will be fi ed, and ™ Congress tako the proper place of follower of public opinion as expressed through the leading Journals, instead of esgnsing to b the guide. In that parf Congress makes a very bad failure, As 8t present composed, the majority of Gon- gress aro_deficient in originalify and public spirit, and recont investigations prove that something still more important is lacking. We E;nrer that the deficiencios of Congresa should corrected by electing only capable and honest mon to that body; sfter 8 pretty thorough revo- Iution has awept over the country, tho necded reform may be worked out in that way. Bat un. til the people can be stirred up to theduty and necesaity of representing themselyes at Wash- ington by a majority of brains and integrity, it is incumbent cpon ‘the independent press to con- tinue in its self-imposed task of compelling Con- gress to be honest and economical. There ig really no arrogance in making this statement. 1f any man, not an- editor, and in no wise in- terested in magnifying the standing and _influ- ence of the independent journals, will Jook over tho files of their issues, &y _for two years past, - ke will fnd that they have becn tha, instigators of every measuro of reform npon which Congress has taken any action. The independent prege has opposed subsidles,—and subsidiea have, as class, failed in the present Congress, It has. fought tho franking priviloge, and tha has een: abolished. It has ridiculed withont stint the ox-. travagant appropriations for wasto-puper under- the.name of Pub. Docs., and if that folly is not. dead, it isdying. - It has been the stanch advo- cato 0f amnesty to the Southy end thoogh the end i8 not yet roached, thero has becn o marked: - improvement in the feelings and acts of Con-. gross toward the Bonthern States. . But the most romarkable achiovement of the. independent press—that which demonstrates its power and its filness to wield power—is its set-- ting on foot the various investigations now ab-- sorbing the attontion of the country. these: are directly traceablo to tho indepéndont press Take the: single case of tha Credit Mobilies swindle. The party, some of whose leadin; members ‘were most disgracefally connect. with that scandal, had tho strongest motives for proyenting disclogures and saving reputationsin igh places. Noithor that party nor any other , party in power vould o its own volition havo conducted an inquiry 80 damaging in results. The_nowspaper organs of the majority are too servile to domand such an investigation. It is their cue to apologize, conceal, and misrepresant.. As for party journls of the opposition, their motives of atiack are always questionablo, and command no respect from Congress, and but Little from the paaple. Had thera been no independont press, con- troled by men free from partissn shackles and resdy to assail wrong-doing under whatever name and patronage it flourishes, the Credit . Mobilier inquiry would have been ontirely barren of results. It Wus not originally designed by those who responded to tho challenge to ferrct out the wrong-doing, but to cover u and to whitewash the men who hfi been pub- licly accused. But the’ independent press took up the evidence as it leaked out from the Com- * mittee, and firally compelled & more thorough inyestigation. Inlike mauner the whitewashing of a large - part of the guilty mombers has been go thor- oughly exposed by the same fearless hands that .. the shortcomings of tho Committes in their re- port have boen overraled by the poople in the popular verdict of condomnation. The guilty may not be expelled from their seats, or suffer. - any form of - official - censure, but they will bo : duly punished ontside of legialative halls, aud . be consigned to everlasting disgrace or obecurity. . Their punishment, thus_govere, will bo & warn-- ing to bribe-takers for all comiug time. The inquisitions in the cases of Pomeroy and.. Caldwell and the Stock Exchange affair aze all . sttributablo to the influcnco of the independent : pross. Not ono of thom would ever bavo beon : card of if the only, organs of public opinion : - wero the old-fashioned nawspapers, whosa sole duty it was 1o stand by the party that supported them, with no regard for consistency, and bub little regard for {ruth. Veteran tinliti::inx‘m are naturaily alarmed when: they seq” tho real Government of tho country- pasging from corrupt and incompetent men jnto- the keoping of the. independeat press. There: mayit concentrate and remain until tho ovils finiqflt which we protest are remedied by the ection of trustworthy men for offica! ~That.. done, the flees will be only too glad to rest from.: -its great labor of .cxposing official-corruption: usxli the need again arises fox its interference.. Masonry in Persia. s Of the Dritiah officors who aro at present in Borlin_purening: military studios and making themselves acquainted: with Prussian military- organization and nm&emen!a one belongs to the Magonic. arder. . Ha is o Sussalman. He- seems. £o0 :have spontaneously sought recog- /nition as a member of the craft at a Berhn Todge, * and 'his claim_was alloved ouly sfter such an examination as satisfled the . brethren that he was one of them. From the statoment of this Persian Mason it appears that nearly all the members of the Pereian Court belong to the myatic order, even a8 German Ma- sonry.objoys tha honor of counting the Emperor - and Crown Princo among it adherents.. The ap~ pearance of this Mohammedan Mason in Berlin Booma to have excited. o little surprise among some of tho brethren thers, and the surpriso ould o matural eaough’ to persons. not aware of the extent to which Masonry hes been diffased over the earth. Account for itisas one may, the truth is_ certain that the mysterious’ order was established in the Orient many I%D! sgo. Nearly all of the old Moham- medan buildings in India,. such as . tombs, mosques, etc., aro marked with the Masonie symbols, and many of these structures, still per- fect, were built in the time of the Mogal Empe- ror Akbar, who died in 1605, Thus, Mason: must have been introduced into Indis from Mid- dlo Asia .by. the Mohammedans, hundreds of yoars ago. Vessels Passing Down Detroit River. 4,12 the courso of hia spoech in the Licbi egis e, Thureday, opposing the proposition ;' t0 bridge. Dotroit Rlvon iz, Howerd 58 Pors - Huron, gave some figurea ahowing thé number of vessels that, rassed Fort Gratiot lighthouse on their way down tho lakes during Iast season. Hoehowed also the average frequency with . - which & vessel would pass that point. -The r - statistics are 2a follows : G e : - Highest Ho. of tes- No,anany - ¢ sels. one lingj o b 1205 2989 88 By these figurca there would be ono vessel, ffismn the light sbout every - 103§ minut,c * ron crowded days of each Bcazon, the general yer- - ;frewnu.'ldnmuunttoonainlhont 634 mi ,ptes.. Howard edded that thero were 13 ¢op 000, SRR Joe S!fllllf. * : coaze: A Lrgs vt::;‘ I‘l‘y é’:l:;-Lsk e. foce is large, the eyes bt .fi?;:r‘;;‘h Tho tery, and promi- B nder ip loug, the . Tho chin is small; the osantly prominent; nent; the cheeks puily; lips thick and sensus) cheek bones are unp! forehead recedes ip The prophet haslc lamped at the earr & redundant wh* pearance of th- 3 i d ‘brown bair, atraight, 20 "o wears » high colad with .te neckcloth. with bulbouae o head—bulky, pwkward head—is abr ges and horridly rotreating {u:o-x_ eme. A ormal, and repulsive in flm,n - spectator ' conviction seizes irrcsistibly o orof an et itmust be the heed of o CTImine ehouldF idiot. No believer in the Prop 2 suffered to seo that painting. the frand, | - out the season of navigation, and in *he <. _a fashion gcarcely humads holo ap- iward, ill-set,