Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1873, Page 4

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Addros THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Dearborn-sts., Uhleago, Il CONTENTS OF TO:DAY'S TRIBUNE, ¥INGT PAGK—Washington Nows—Now York Miscollancous Tologtama-Advorlisoments, BRCOND PAGE-Tho Dostwiok-Skiunor Sult~Oounty Mattors—Lako Viow Itoms—Tho Rotten Uall Dual- n cfonoo—The Railroad Quost THIRD PAGE—Tho Law Courts~Washington Tottor— YPorsanal—Miscollangous—Iatlrond Timo Tablos-Ad- vortlsomonts, itorlala : Tho Oity Tax Bi; Mor- Tho Vonnsylvania Raflways—Cur rent Nowa Iioms~Notos and Opinion, FIFTH PAGE—Tho Stato Capitnl: Yostorday's Procond* inga In tho Btato Legisiaturo~Tho Council Moating Last Tronlug—Amusamonts—Markots by Tolograph _ Advartisomonts, SIXTI PAGE—Monotary and Commoreial. SEVENTI PAGE-The Ofty {n Briof—8mall Advortiso. wionts: Roal Iistato, Yor Balo, To Ront, Wantad, " Boarding, Ledging, oto. BIGHTH PAGE-Cetobration of St. Patrlok's Day— Forolgn Nows—Stats Loglslaturcs—Biscollanoous Tolograme-—Auotion Advorlisomonts, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. M'VICKER'S TIHEAT Madison streot, botweon Stato aud Donsbom. Ingngomont of Edwin Booth, **Jullus Oresar." HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE-—Tandolph atroet, bo- twoon Clark and LaSalle. **Porll; or, Love at Long Dranch,® ACADEMY OF MUSIO- Halsted stroct, south of Madison. Lydia Thompson Troupe. **Konitworth." MYERS' OPRRA 110USE—Monroo stroot, botwoon Stato nnd Denrborn, Arlington, Cotton & IKomblo's ¥ ‘ustrol and Burlosquo Troupo, AMPHITHEATRE — Olinton, NIXON'S ‘botwoen Washiogton and Randoldh strosts. Wildor & Co.'s Natlonal Clrcus, RUBINSTEIN-TIIOMAS CONOERT—Union Park Congregatlonal Ohurel BUSINESS NOTICES. FOYAL NAVANA LOTTHIY_WIIOLE TIOKET, ! enty lormation m, o, 1, - %’lafir;%l.'f 0% Bankors, 10 Wall-st.s I O, Box 1685, Now ork. BATOIRLOIUS TAIR DYE, —THIS SPLENDID Bairdso fs tho bestin the world: Tho only truo and por- feat dso. Harniloss, roliablo, and {nstantanoons; nodisap- intment; no ridionlous thiits or unploasant odor. [Toots of bad dyos and washos, Prodncos fm- iea tho {l] lefll!'fil! e Toter.” "Eaid by " Stchslar. "ol BarSiiEGh, rroprioter, N. Yo TT0W CONBUMPTION OAN BE GURED_YT 1§ anorally ndmittod tat tio only modlcinss that will EiroUnnsumption aro Bobonel's Pulmonio Syrup, oo wwaed Toolo: and Aandzako Bills, ‘Tho Mandrakn Dills cloar out the Hvor and rostoro it to ahioalii o, Turio off £ho foul aiimo aud dlsoasod unfor thatlsatcpyiti 5o tho Momech auoyolh, ana aforfarto ate" propor. wotk: a'trom Caloimol Ofaty OO ththk fhat iy {ifirious o sratoms nnd can bo takon with satoty by all classesand conditions. Tho foswood Fonto. gives tono to tho stomach and ofhot organs, croatosa good appotito, and assists to digest the foBa: strongtiions {he gonoral syatern, and tho porson wiil 200 graw sirong i ueroneo 1o flas e Bulmonle syrar Tipons the dissasod mattot fn tho lungs, and oxpels it by oxpeotoration heals all sorcs and tayfiio o o lins, and. thus aro- bo o Banlth who lind. baos, @ivon up An Inou oary Cousumption. In a fow cnses tho modicino may not Biichood, not, from any want of powor.in tho mediofos Hi6imeolyas, but sololy on dccount of tho lmpradonca of thoso using thom. d th grost orror with most peoplo fe, that thoy do ot taka proar 6aT0 of IhumBGIvOs, AN, Ly 0Tpoauro o bur damp and cold atmosphers, aro contiouaily adding ol to cbid, 8o that. Hothing Wil do-{hom any kood, riah {2 utato Horo Tory emplistzally, thavif peopiS wish ta ot well oy Taustavold OXpoBUED, damp, cofd: or hange: o woather, partioularly durfng tho winlor or oarl: ring. TIIU{ must not tako cold, and, {n my oxtondos porlonce, T havo found it bost for consumptive poopln dubing the cold knd dsinp raathor o Tomiain I & woll Yontilated room, and, with & thormomotor, rogulata tho tomporature at or noar a uniform standard "Fhio fmporaturo most gratofal and nvigorating to tie human ayafo rabgos (1o & to 8 dogeoce, but i¢may b made higharariovor, tesutt peouliefion,” This tompor” o with Pu ‘ature saoms to abstzact tho hoat of tho body in about tho ssmo propartion in which it i ganerated In tho honlthy systom, “matoof (ho and this dogroo of tomporaturo fa Hibiroforo tho jont dongonin, for 1 Roithoe oshatists tho witol powors, nor givos riso to any unploasant sonsations, For tho propor exorclso, walling in tho room and oxorchink with caliethenics will bo amplo o givo o frea and hoslthy elrculation of thoblood, and matorially ansfst digos! ‘The diot roquiros striot attontion. A nutritious and eunly digeaiod dLot s Rocossary to assiat 13 making good ood.. 1vory ono aoquires » Imowlodgo by oxporlonce, what Qg and what dooa Botagres with thawme : ‘Avold all mbstanans inn haavp on tho sl and soom to disagroo wi t; uso nn‘{ such art! exporionco domonstrates u.vl‘zhlln proper. fully bellovo that, noarly ail consumptives, my modtcinos according totho diroctions, and practice Btriotly tlio abovo dist and rogimon, will got wall, as thousands havo boon curad who have' takor proper ‘cara Palmonle Byrup, Sose nd Mandrake P} NOK, M. D. v J, i1, SOHENOK, Schenck's Palmonlo Syrup, Hoawood Tonlo, and Dlandrake Pills, Propared h{‘ CHENOK & SON, J, 1, B N, . corner Bixth ahd Arch.sts., Phlladeiphia. And fof saie by all drugglsts and doalors, The Chidage Tiibune, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1873, maci, s who tako and used Sohonol Col. H. D, Cook haa beon chosen President of the Railroad and Warehouss Commigstoners. The memorial of Missourl Domocrats concern~ ing Senator Bogy'sallogedbribery was prosonted yesterday to the United Statos Bonate. Tka periodic proposition is made that the Qen- eral Assombly meot in this city. An attompt was modo, yestorday, to bave a Committeo ap- yolntod to preparo quarters hoto for an adjourn- «d sossion, but it was not successful, At o meoting of ropresontatives of the farm- ers' assoclations of McLean County, held at Lox- ington, Saturday, the Legislature was unani~ mously asked to empowor the Railrond Commis- sloners to pay all tho logal exponsos of tho defondants ju the trespass suits begun by the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad. Blost of the Senators who spoke yesterday on tho Caldwell case favored expulsion, the legal objectinn to declaring his olection invalid seem~ {ng insuperable even to such a stern Senator as Bayard, of Dolaware. Benator Bherman pro- posed that the subject should bo closed by ‘Wednesday, but no action was taken on tho motion. Canadian commorce coutinues to show the stimulativo effects of confodoration, which, in tho firet five yoars of tho Dominion, doubled itatrade. During thelast fiscal year, tho im- ports have rigen to 8107,700,116, an increaso of 120,761,634 over tho yonr before; its oxports aro ©82,630,608, which is §8,460,045 moro thau thoso of 1871, Of thia trado 82 per cont comos to this country. The public debt Is £122,400,129. Tho rovenuo is' £20,714,818, and tho exponsos £17,589,408, Tho Canadians havo o low tarift, one reault of which is scen in the prosperity of Aholr ship-yards, which nddod laat yoor 414 now woasels to thelr commorcial marino, Gov. Dix's lattor to Mr. Tyng, ataling his rea- sons for refusing to commute Fostor's sontenco has boon published. Ho reviews the facts of Ahe case, tho conduct of the tria), and the do- cisions of tho Courts, aud auswors tho recont "Iltcmont of tho jurymon, that thoy thought Aholrrecommondation tomerey wasequivalonttoa commautation of the sentenco, by refuning to ine mugurato the procedont of allowing tho aftore mevelations of tho deliborations of a jury to an- mul tholr vordiot. 1fo finds nothing to command i oxoontive clomency, and declines to brosk sdown the barriers of the law for the protection of human life, With the exception of Mr. Fernando Wood, no smember of Congress from New York Oity voted fin favor of the salary ateal, and two ofits Xepre- Bebintives, Rlx Olarkeon 1Y, Rottox and Al 3 \ Ttoborts, refuso to rocolve tho monoy. The nctlon of tho Masenchuncits Congressmen fn somowhat difforont, That Btate fur- ulshed all the Now England voies that wera glvon “for the mensure, nud, whilo ono of ita ropresonlatives, Mr, Honr, who did not vote in its favor, rofuses, liko Mosurs. Pot- tor nd Raborts, to recolvo tho ndditional pay, ho does not, 1ike them, roturn it to tho Troau. ury, but assnmes to glvo it to » local charlby. Momborn of tho Brothorhood of Locomotive Engincors have boen dofng some wanton work in Missourl. In rotaliston for the rofusal of tho 8t Louls, Knnoas Cily & Northorn Railrond to dischargo from thoir employ an ongineer who was not o membor of their order, the engincers withdrow from the service of the Company; and, not content with this exerclso of thelr inalionable right in the disposnl of their labor, thoy procoodod to run locomotives off tho track, to tap water-tanks, to throw omery into tho axlo- Loxes of ruuning trains, and destroy whatevor proporty of tho Company thoy could Iay thoir hands on, much a8 if thoy wore English trados-unionists of tho villainous Bhefileld typo. Tho polico wore found insufliciont to quell the disorders, and two companics of mili- tin liavo boon called out by tho Governor of the Btato. £ For pationt and skillful villainy, the frauds on tho Bank of England, of which London papora give gome secanty detslls, have porhaps nover ‘been surpassed. The gang countorfoitod the com- morelal papor of soveral leading bankers, and their proparations coverod not only the manu- facturo of differont kinds of bankenoto papor, with poonliar watormarks, and the forgery on nlso o course of logitimato transactions for months with the bank in erder to gain a footing. ‘They ovidontly moant to mako & great haul, and nothing but so littlo » thing a8 the omission of n «dato provented their achioving a calamitous suo- coss. As it is thoy gob ©400,000, of whioh $237,000 was in United Btates bonds. A similar, ‘but much less oxtonsive sorios of forgerios, was detooted yostorday in Now York, by which 236,000 woro obtained on counterfoit bonds of the Wa- ‘bash and the Fort Wayno Roads, Theso forgerios wore discovored in tho omission of the words **and Co." in an indorasment. Tho Farmers' Olub of Rock Island Couaty, at thoir last mooting, adopted the following, among othor resolutions : * Resolved, That our Sonntors and Ropresentatives in Gongress bo roquested and instructed touso all honor- ablo means to securo o ropoal of the dutlcs on lumber, salt, pig iron, iron and stcol ralls, and thoso artioles ‘which enter Jargely into tho conatruction of Isko and sea-golng vessols and ngricultural mochinory, Thia ig not the first ovidenco that tho farmors are getting their oyos open to the enormous rob- bery parpotrated upon thom under the guise of protocting their industry, but it is the moat do- cisive resolution they have adopted at any maot- ing. It is porfoctly cortain that tho farmors havae tho right to oxchange their products with thore who are willing to psy tho most for thom, whothor thoso persons live in Canada, or Eng- land, or Bwoden, or Kamtchatka, subjoct only to such taxation ss is imposed for revonuo. ‘This right has beon donied thom for many yonrs, In order to rosumo the oxcrcise of it, it is not necossary to tramplo upon tho rights of any othier persons, nor to make war upon the Judges. of the Courts whom thoy have thomselves oloated exprossly for their learning, impartiality, and fitness to interprot and administer the law, It is only necossary to pass o bill of a very fow lines_in. Congross, . which.thoy- ean - aasily pass. ‘whonover thoy make up their minds to do so. Tho Ohicago produce markets were dull yes- terday, and tho majority were ecasior. Moes pork was quiet and 5o por brl lower, at 814.065@ 1470 cash, and $14.95@16,00 sollor May. Lard was quiot and Go per 100 1bs highor, at §7.80@ 17.85 cash, and ©8.05@8.073¢ sellor Mny. Meats wore quiot and a shado eastor, at 534o for shoul- ders; TH @730 for short ribs; 73¢@Tic for ehort cloar, and 9Y@114go for sweot-plekled hams, Highwines were nominally unchanged, at 80}@87c per pgallon. ILako freights were insctive and oensior, at 13}{@18c for corn to Buffalo. Flour wag dull and un- changed. Whoat waa quictand 13¢e Iower, closing wenk at 91.195¢ geller tho month; §1.20 soller April, and 81.24 gollor May. Corn was loss nc- tivo, and 36@Xo lower, closing st 81%@83X0 cnsh, and 85340 seller May, Oats wero more ac- tive, and @20 lower, ot 203 @263¢o oash, and 203¢o eller April. Tiyo was quiot and flrm ab OGe. Barloy was more active, shd firmer, closing at T0@70}4o for regular No. 2 or soller April, Live hogs mot with an activo domand, and pricos advanced 5@100, or to $4,85@56.80 for poor to extrs, Cattlo nnd sheop were quict and un- cheanged, The President has reappointed all the mem- bors of Lis Cabinet, oxcept Mr. Boutwell, who lins boen olected to the Senate. For tho Trons- ury ho has scleoted Mr, William A. Richardson, of Magsachuselts, who has boen Asaistant Becre- tary, for soveral years, under Mr. Boutwoll. ‘fho complete Cabinet is composed of ¢ Mamilton Fish, Booretary of Btate, ‘William W, Bolknap, Secrotary of War, George M. Robeson, Secrotary of tho Navy. Culumbus Delano, Bocretary of tho Intorior, William A, Richardson, Bocretary of thio Treasury, Jolin A, J. Creawell, Postmaster-General, George B, Williams, Attornoy-Genoral, Thoso who have expected a chango in the Cobinet, and, indirectly therofrom, o change or modifiention of tho polioy of tha last four yours, will bo disappointed. Tho appointment of Br. Tichardson o8 the successor of Mr, Boutwoll, if it havo nny significance at nll, means that the policy of tho lato Bocretary is to be continued. It is but just, however, to both Mr, Boutwolland toMr. Richardson, to statethat it is now under- stood that the illogal oxpaneion of the ourrency, in Octobor last, by tho rolssuc of a portion of the once retired grooubacks, took place during Mr. Boutwell's abscnce from Washington, and that Mr. Richardson porformed tho act, upon the ordor of tho Prosident. Tho Sonato Com- mittee, in thelr investigation, troatod it nstho act of tho Assiatant Bocrotary, and polntedly con- domned it. Thoro is nothing on rocord, how- over, toshow that oither Mr. Boutwoll or Mr. Richardson opposod it. About the timo of tho Thiladelphia Convontion, in Juno last, there wore atrong doclarations that the Prosidont, in tho ovent of his re-clection, would reconstruct his Cabinot, espocially by tho appointment of othor persona to succood Roboson and Oreswell, whoso oflicial conduot liad been tho subject of Invostigation and public animadversion. The Prosident hag probably concluded that tho elec- tion *vindicatod™ the Onbinot oficors as offoc tually as himsolf, Tho Washington corrospondent of the Naw York Times, in commonting upon the circum- stance that tho Comptrollor of the Troasury { firnt votuged to page tho Warmant fortho pay- somo of thomnotes of half-n-dozon names, but’ mont of tho Incronsed Congresnional snlaries, Dlanies that ofticor for ‘ tho hypororitical nnd toohnieal objoctions” which ho ralwes upon ovory warrant that comon bofore Iim, Wo talo it that the Comptroller could not ask for n highor compliment than what was hore intonded ay consuro. The dutien of this ofilcinl consist in the closenosa and tho acouracy with which ho in- spocts ovory warrant prosontod to him. Ifo has 1o moro right to pnss a worrant whioh ho be- lieves to Lo unauthorized by law than a banlk- tollor has to pay n chock which ho knows to have boon forged. ‘Thoro is no power in the Qovernment to forco him to do it 1o mny bo removod, it Is truo, nnd another ap- poluted In his place who will consont to do it, or who mny put a differant conatruction upon the luw. Such, Indoed, the samo corronpondent intl- mates, would have boon the fate of tho prosent Comptrollor if ho had potsisted in his dotormi- nation not to approve the warrant for tho rotro- actlvo Congressional grab., “Woro ho to at- tompt to stop the mombors from geiting the pay, now that it 1a voted,” says thls corrospond- ont, "“his official hoad wouldn't bo worth o rush-light at tho noxt session; thoy would cor- talnly romombor him long onough to flud n way to got rid of him." Buch o statoment is highly demoralizing in the causo of honesty, to say tho tho least; and tho worat of it is, that it is proba- bly truo. N THE CITY TAX BILYL, In the articlo concorning the collection of clty taxes, as affoctod by the bill now beforo tho Logislaturo, tho floating dobt of Ohicago was misprintod fen and a half miflfons {nstead of two and o Lalf millions, as i tho fact. This dobt of two and a half milllons reprosonts say- oral itoms, 1. It roprosouta sbout $500,000 of the unpald taxes of 1860, '70, aud '71, which the rich tax-fightors havo thus far escaped payiug, and tho city authorities have beon obliged to borrow monoy to moot tho dolinquency. 2. It includes $200,000 for judgments obtained against tho city for doopening tho cannl, the cost of that ‘work having excooded the procecds of the salo of the bonds {ssued by that aniount, 3. It includun ovor 600,000 of deficioncy in the rovenuo of 1871, causod by tho reduction of faxes, aftor the firo, from 15 to 10 mills. The Common Council had mado appropriations in 1871, cover- ing tho wholo procoeds of o fax lovy of 16 mills, oud nearly all the amount had been oxpended, ‘but nono of the taxes to pay them had beon col- loctod. Immediatoly aftor tha fire, the Council, in & panie, reduced tha lovy onoc-third, and then tho Logialature allowod n robate for property destroyed by firo. Theso reductions combined cut down tho roveuue of tho cily ono-half. Evon with tho aid derived from the canal lien fund, the rovenues collected from the 10-mill tax of 1871 proved insufficiont to repay tho obli- gations incuxred previous to the firo and carry on tho clty nftor thot calamity, This ombarrass- mont was furthor aggravatod by the professional tox-fightors, who rofused to pay oven tho 10-mill tax, but resisted, and appeeled from evon that small nssossmont, The rost of tho “floating dobt ropresonts the amount tho city haa been obliged to borrow to pay the appropriations of 1872, in advanco of tho collection of tho tax for 1872. 'Tho municipal yonr ends on tho 18t of April, 1873, but not onc-sixth part of tho city taxes for 1872 have yot boen paid. Itison thecol- Iection of thia tax that the City Governmont do~ ponds for tho menns to pay the floating debt now outstanding, and to carry on tho Government for the next twelve months. Unleas House bill No. 19, is onncted by tho Logislaturo, the unpaid taxes uf 1672° vauuvt by Lullovted; unlons voluy- tanly paid, and it ia this bill, on which the vory oxistence nnd credit of tho City of Chicago do- pond, that the tax-fighters and tho Chicago Times aro straiving every nerve to dofent. MORTON ON CALDWELL, Tho caso of Caldwell, now ponding boforo the Benato of tho United Btates, involves the de- cision, by that body, whother bribory, to secure 2n election as 8 Senator, in any way affoots tho validity of tho olection of tho member. Fifty yours ago, Mr, John Quincy Adams, in o report upon tho caso of Senator Bmith, called attontion to tho fact that, while tho Constitution provided tho strictost rules and rogulations governing the eloction of Scnators by the State Loglslatures, thero was no provision by which an clection once mado could bo recalled by the body making it, No matter how fraudulent may have been tho proceeding, nor how docoived and mistaken the Logislature may bave been in tho character of the porson elected, tho Logislature was withont a romody. DBut tho Constitution had provided a ‘moans whoroby the Benate could protect itsolf rot only against tho prosonce of improper por- sons, but againet those proouring olectiona by froud, or whore the Logislature should seok to forco nn unflt person upon the body; and this means was to bo found 1 the power to judgo of tho clections of its mombors, and to oxpel when- ovor two-thirds should so determine, Tho caso of Caldwell presents, forthe first timoin this country, the question whether bribory nt the oloction of o Scnator is a fact nuthorizing tho Bonato to declure the election void, or to war- rant his oxpulsion. This question is moro direotly presonted, bocauso the substantinl faok of tho bribory is lardly denled,—in- deoed it ie overwhelmingly established by proof. The dofonso rests upon four grounds : 1. That tho proof dooes not show that enough membors woro bribed to chango the result, 2. That tho Bonato bas no right to inquire why mowbors of tho Liegislaturo voted as they did vote, and that, tho cloction boing in all things conformable to law, s binding upon the Benate. 8. That tho nots objocted to took place boforo the election. 4. That bribery of mombors of the Logislature 18 not a statutory erime, undor tholaws of tho United Btatos, and cannot Lo punlshed. Mr, Morton, of Indians, last weok made o spacch on this subject, which prosents this mat- tor in its truo light. Ifo claimed that, undor the Constitution, the Senate, a8 tho judge of tho olection of its mombors, has, in addition to do- clding a8 to thoso qualifications and the formal- ity of their certificates, full power to judge # whothor the olostlon was conducted npo- cording to Iaw, and was freo, or attonded by clrcumstancoy that would mako it invalld, such o bribory, fraud, or intimidation.” Of this, we do not soo Low thore can Lo any doubt, If the Bonato Is precluded by the cortificate of eleo- tion from inquiring whother thoro was o logal quorum of tho Logislature presont, or whothor ony mombors wero coorced by violenco, or fear, or were under arrest, or whetlior membors wero provented from attending, or any othor means whereby tho froodom of tho eloction was do- stroyod, then the officor who makes tho certifl- cato of olection usurpa the power of the Son- sto and bocomos tho judge of the oloction of & Bonator. Doos bribory affect tho freodom of eloction? Upon this point Mr, Morton clted various and numiorous suthorities, from which wa mako tho following uolections ¢ Tho great prineiplo which lies at (ho foundatio of ofl ofoctive govormmonty, and a casontind, indeed, to tho vory idea of oleotion, In, (hat tho electora shall bo froo Ju tho giving of thelr suffragas, Treedom of elections is violated by oxternal violonco, by which tho eleolora nro constrained, or by brlbory, by which their will fa corruptod; and in ali canca whero tho cloctors aro provented in efthor of theno ways from {ho freo oxerefoo of tholr right, tho oloctlon will he vold, without roforenco to tho numbor of votos thoraby altactod. The frecdom of eloction may nlao bo violated by cor- rupting tho will of {ho cleotars by means of bribery, ag well ag by {nt{midating or proventing them by extornal violeneo from oxorcisiug tho right of surago, 1t (bribery) la ant offenso of o holnows a character nnd so uttorly subveralvo of tho freedom of clectlon, ihat, when proved tohave been practised, though in ono instanco only, and though a gnjorlty of unbriboed votora remaln, tho olection will bo abaolutely voll.— Cushing on Legislative Assemblies. Dribery at an clection ia the creation, or tho atlempt to create, an unduo nfluenco over the disposition of suffrages by a lucrativo constderation, or o volunlary aubjection to such influence,—Sheperd on Eleotiona, This ig the common law ou bribory, and is wholly indepondont of any atatutory provisions. All tho statutos of England have boen founded upon and carry out theso principlos. Auy othor 1aw or rule would offor a premium on bribory in tho olection of Sonators, by romoving overy pog- uible power to punlsh it, or to romedy tho fraud porpotrated by it. It Is ndmittod that the action of the Senato is final, Thoro is no nuthority snywhore to roview or rovergo that action. So far ns rogarda tho oleotion of its own members, its action is abso- lute law. Upon tho point that the bribory, it proven, took placo bofore Oaldwell's eloction. and, therofore, boforo he passod within the juriadiction of the Bonato,—na point rocently mado in othor cnsos~NMr. Morton thus con- vincingly and overwholmingly spoko: o sny thot tho Sonato cannot oxpel o member for o causp arising beforo his cloction, when that cause was the very menna of tho clection, aud brought it about, sooms to bo very unreasonable, and 1a to say in offect that, If the crimo hua & favorablo result, nd thio por- petrator of it cuters upon tho onjoymont of ita frults, ot by that very fact exonerated from any inquiry iuto ia character, and protected in hls gulliy possoa~ slon, * For oxamplo, supposo & man secretly procuts tho opposing candiiato to bo pofsoned, and {hus scouro his clection, snd aftorward tho crimo Locome known ; or suppose io sccretly procuro bis opponent to bo kid. napped, ond the sudden disapposrance being unace counted for, o thus obtain tho eloction § or supposo 1io procure lis opponent {0 be arcosted upon falso charges of crimo, nnd thus, for tho tiuo belng, dlsgraco him and bresk him down, and thus obtain his eloc- 4ot ; or supposo he proctiro his lection by tho most monstrous frauds, by nlimidation, by gross bribery, by buying off tho opposing caudidates, or by othor die- honorablo and iitegal means, and slip fnto tho Benato ‘bofore his offouses aro discovered—shall it bo snld that tho success of his crimes aud their successful conceal. ment for tho tfme slall becomo thelr conatitutional protaction, and that o may hold on to 1ho seat which ho ias thus illegally and fraudulently obtained 7 1t is ndmitted that tho Benato mny oxpel o membor for a crimo committed during hin membership, ol- though it hus no connection with his offictal dutics or Lia positfon of Sunator,upon iho ground thutlils presonce in the Senato dogrades tho body, and that ho Tins shown Limsclf unworthy of publio trust and unt to bo assaclated with honorable men, But do nat st theso roasons oxist with equal foree for oxpulsion whore tho erlmo was commitied Leforo admission to tho Benato, but waa not discovered until afterward ? It has been argued that, if tho Leglalaturo of o State eloct a known criminal to tho Senalo of tho United Blates, it is their business, and tho Btato has o right to bo represcnted by s criminal if sho desires to be, and the Bonate must recolve whomover tho Btato sends ns Henator. I dissent from thiy doctriue, Tho Senato has o right to protect ftsolf ogainst tho ndmfsslon of a criminal, although tho Yoglslaturo olecting him was indiffereut upon tho subjcct, or choso him for that very reason, Tho pro- prioty of exerclsiug the power might bo moro doubtful if (ho criminality of the member were known at tho o of his clection, for it might bo argued that the ‘mombers of the Legislaturo did not beliove the chiargs to Lo true, or that the offenso was mitigated, or had #fuce been condoned. TThe logal dofonso ot Caldwell, though it’ doos not say 80, conveys tho! intimation that, if the Bonate could expel o man for an act committed ‘before his oloction, some future Benate might Liold Honators engaged in tha Rebellion rosponal- blo, and porhaps it is this that gives riso to the statemont that soveral Domooratic Benators from the Bouth havo detormined to voto to rotain Oaldwoll in the Benate, though his election is, as Mr, Morton declared it to be, *‘tho most flagrant case of bribery in the history of English or American politics." THE PENKSYLVANIA RAILROAD AND IT8 NEW FREIGHT LINE. The nunual roports of the various oflicors of the Pennsylvanin Railrosd Company to tho stookholdors have just been publishod, and possoss & public interest in two rospects: Firat, tho business of the road and its branches for tho yonr; and, second, thoir relation to the gonoral question of trausportation, ‘Che oarn- ings of the railrond aud branches botween Phil- adolphin and Pitteburgh were $22,012,626,27; tho oxponses, 818,764,673.00, leaving not earn- ings, ©8,247,852.18, nn incroaso over 1871 of ©8,202,688.42, The earniugs of tho Philadel- phin & Brie wore '©8,080,752.87; expensos, €0,283,016.91; not onrnings, ©092,736.90. Tho carnings of tho United Railroads of Now Jersey wero §8,206,226.80; oxponsos, §0,005,160.78 ; not earnings, §2,261,060,02, The earnings of tho Philadolphis & Frenton and the United Rail- roads of Néw Jorsey (alrendy mentioned), Bolvi- dere, Dolaware, Railrond and Flenington Branch, nud Delawaro & Raritan Canal were $10,455,225 ; oxpouscs, §7,685,695, leaving total not carniugs of tho railronds and canal 82,709,030 But, after doducting from this sum the interost on the bonds and guarantoed dividends to shavoholders, tho iuterest on the additionsal capital required to conduct tho business of tho ronds, thoe amount of debt puid off, and other items, o doflcit for iho year on tho New Jorsoy roads is shown of ©224,280.84, which, addod to the deficit of ©030,298,23, which lad accrued up to Jan, 1, 1872, mekes o total deflelt up to Jan. 1, 1873, of §1,154,621.67. Tho Presidont of tho rond, howover, justifios tho do- ficit by the absolute nocossity which oxists for the nccommodation of tho rapidly inoreasing troflio of tho lino from the West dostined to Now York and the East. The rovonues of all tho lines oporated by tho Company aro a8 fol- lows, for tho yonr 1872 : Rocelpts, §30,088,503,9; oxponges, §26,481,028.41; not profits, B811,357,~ 479, Trom this sum, tho following deductious aro made : Dividends and taxes thercon, 84,711,~ 497; intorost, $484,145.05; lonsos, $135,060.84; paymonts to {he Btale of Ponnsylvania, 460,000 dividonds; and intorest paid on account of tho United Railronds and canals of Now Jorsoy, £3,131,857.42, loaving & balauco of %2,395,423.24 on the oporation of all Tiney botweon Pittsburgh and Jovaoy Oity. No roport is mado for tho loasor linos weat of Pitts- burgh, A largo part of tho Prosident's report s do- voted to the transportation question, two points in which are speclally intoresting, The flrat is an historical record of {he Union Transportation Company, or Fast Frolght Line, run in connec- tion with theroad, It sppoars that tho intro- duction of tho Fast Froight Lino was only ndopt~ od 88 o mensure of golf-protection, aftor the fallure of every effort to induce tho railroads of Now York to diecontinue thelr employment. .the bail to acquiro & Tho Unfon Transportntion Company was, thoroforo, organizad, and its lino Lo boon man~ agod ot o profit to ita stockholdera, Binco the raflrond company hins acquired control of its oxtondod Wentorn connoctions, onst of the Min- siosippl, and romoved tho obstructlons that in- torrupted a fron flow of trafilo over the railway from tho trade contros of the West to thoso of tho East, tho mission of tho Transportation Com- pnuy hos boon fulfilled, and the * Pennsylvania Company," not the Ponnsylvania Roilrond Com- pany, hing now made arrangomonts for the trang- for of the proporty and franchisos of tho Unlon W'ransportation Compnny to itsolf, in conuidern- tlon of £8,000,000 of tho common atock of tho Company at por. The second point in the transportntion mattor is ono which wlll spoclally intorest farmora. Thoe roport states that tho oxtont of tho Wostern conneetions, and the rapid increnso of tho local and through tonnage of the rond, has not only prossod upon tho Company tho necossity of in- crensing ita facklitios by tho laying of additional tracks, but it lims nlsu pointed out the neces- 8ity of an additionnl lino across tho mountaing thnt soparato tho waters of tho Mississippl Val- loy from those of tho Atlantie, to bo built special- 1y for froight and dosignod for cheap transporta- tlon, at slow ratos of spoed. Not only has tho nocossity for such o lino boon indlcatod, but tho Company has already acted upon tho necessity, and has commenced its coustruction. Tho Pros- ident saya: This lino has no gradients againet tho traflic oxcooding ariso of three-tenths in o hundred, orless than 16 foot in amile, on straight linos—roduced proportionately on curves. Its route abounds through its wholo oxtont with chonp fuel, consisting of vario- tien of bituminous coal in unusually thick beds, ombracing the best coking conls for iron-smolting, blacksmith, gas conls, aud cannel conl,—the Iattor Doing tho most nccessiblo of that variety to the Eastorn matkets,” This important route, to bo known 08 tho *‘ Low-Grado Line,” is in rapid progross of construction, aud will be opon for use this yoar or early noxt spring. * When completed,” the report says, *and its connoctions mado with thio Wost, it will bo possiblo for froights to bo carriod al much cheaper rales than they can bo conveyed by any of the proposed canals belween the AMississippi Valley and the East,” It this is a-corract statoment, it is & vory matorial step to- warda tho solution of the transportation quos- tion. Tho ezpose madoin Tue Trinune of yosterday, of the syatomatic manner in which the county is swindled on tho bail bonds that are accepted on criminal charges, is of a charnctor to attract at~ tontion. It showed thaf, out of $19,082.95 of Londs given sinco the firo and forfoited, only one bond of 206,85 had beon satisfied, whilo bonds ropregenting £9,052.45 hind boen returned Dy tho Sherlff with thio indorsoment : “No prop- orty found,” Tho balance, amounting to $9,080.00, promises no DLebter roturn, Out of thirty-saven recognizances but ono, for n small sum, bas been collocted, It is reprosentod that tho most frequént way of swindling on bail- bonds i{s for tho man who proposes to go sufliclont amount ot proporty for tho purposo, to mnke afidavit to tho possossion, and thon to turn around and convoy the proporty to some other party,~probably tho one from whom ho received it for tomporary use. This practico indicates that the law roquiring bail is defective. A bail~ bond, to bo’ good, should be & lion on sufficiont property to cover tho smouunt of the rocognl- zanco. It not, it ia ovidontly uscless to raquira that tho bailor shall bo posseusod of proporty, sinco be can immediatoly transfor it, and thus roliove himsclf, and prohibit the county from the colloction of tho bond. Dail-bonds in erim- innl cases should, in their very naturo, bo re- gardod difforontly from other bonds of a com- morcial character. The defect of the law, how- evor, docs mot rolenso the State's At- tornoy, tho Justicos ‘of the Peaco, and tho other oflicials who necopt bonds, from blame for such glaring and systomatio swindles as the records show. In tho absonce of any lion upon the property, tho character of the individual offering bail should bo the first consideration. Wo can only concludo, thereforo, that the re- sponsible officors are very bad judges of human nature, or olso pay little attention to thosubject, when only ono forfeited recognizanco is col- lected out of thirty-seven, and only ©206 out of nearly $20,000. Tholoss to the county ia by no monns the most sorlous aspect of the swindle that is thus tolorated. It affords o roady menns for the escapo of oriminals, who only neod suf- ficiont money to ongage the sorvicea of a profes- slonal bondsman to insure thoir oscape from trinl and punishmont. Tho showing is scanda- lous, and the ofiicinls which it implicates will do woll to redecm themsolves., In an orticlo on tho late Congrossional oxhi- bitions of disregard for public sentiment, the Nation points out that tho idea of political ro- sponsibility as an accompanimont of politica power seoms to havo lost its forco. *In the enrlior days of tho country,” snys tho Nation, 4t politicnl parties wore Leld to strict nccounta~ bility for the aotion of thoir agents, whather thoso ageuts wore Congressmen or Prosidonts, Logislators, or Govornors, und this sense of accountability porvaded tho munsses as woll s tho roprosontatives.” Thero is 1o ronson why this should not be tho cago now as well as in any formor period of our history. Tor tho past fow yours tho conntry hns been more gonorally and supinely undor the control of a political party than ovor boforo, Tho people Lave boen instructed thut their welfare deponded upon meintaining tho Republican party in power. The party itsel? lins boon urged as tho great imperativo nocossity of tho country's prosperity, Leadors and membere who have dared to avswme inde- pendont positions on cortain matters Luve boen formally rond out and variously denounced ss traitors and dengerous men, Tho dictum of Congresg or thoe Prosidont has beoun rogerded ag maudatory bn ull who claimed membership in tho party.” Even United Btates Judges have boon found who would stoop from theic judicial altitude to furthor tho party polioy. The whip }mn ‘boon flourishod over every recalcitrant, and, vory genorally, with succoss. No party has ovor bofore kopt its organization so compact, or under such absoluto discipline, It has an ontlty of its own, which it protrudes upon ovory possiblo oceasion, and it proclaims itself 04 tho savior of the country and tho incarnation of all good things and just. If, then, the party assimilates to its own oredit all tho good it hos accomplishod, it eniinot shitk tho rosponaibility for its orrora or crimes, Mr. Oragin admitted asmuch whon ho announced - in tho Sonato that” tho passago of tho Sulary bill would cost tho porty tho Btatos of Now Ilampehire, Rhode Ieland, and Conucotiout. Bo it should, A party with moro than two-thirds majority in Gongross In clonrly responsible for ovory robbery of (lio T'rossury, overy fraud upon the pooplo, and ovory Fodoral nggronsion that in porpotrated un- dor tho cover of legislntive nuthorily. Tho absurdity of undertaking to leglelato upon mattors about which n Stato Leglslaturo has falled to Inform itsolf fully, is illustrated by o recont Rallway Tarlt I introduced iuto tho Towa Sonate, which bnroly csenped hecoming o Iaw. Tho bill wag Introduced for {he purpose of deoronning tha ratos of frolght, but the Joffor- #on (fown) B¢ now shows that it would hnve incroased thono rates nbout 83 por cont 12 it ind passod. Tho Town Loglalature ean mako lnwa for tho Binto of Iowa alono, and cannot extoud its Jurisdiotion boyond that portlon of o rail- rond swhioh los within its own bordors. Taking Jofforaon ns the shipping point, with Ohicago as its markot, 1t was found that tho Northwestorn Tailcond would be governod by the Stato torl® only wo far a3 OClinton, on tho border. From Clinton to Ohieago] it would thon follow the Tooal ratos, whorons now the shippors havo the advantago of through rates from Jof- forson to Chleago. A car-load of whoat of 10 tons, by through rates, now costs 870 from Jof- foraom to Ohleago. Undor the proposed Tarift bill, tha rato would have boon §46 from Joffor- son to Olinton, nnd, by local rates, 50 from Olinton to GChioago, meking the transportation of the same smount of grain cost $90, or §20 moro than the prosent rates. Thore would bo an fncronso of @30 per car on othor gralns ; $30 por car on cattlo and hoga; €30 per car on horsos; 819 per car on shoep ; and & propor- tonnto incronso on tho othor articles of ordinary frolght. It i no wondor that the Iowa peoplo aro now congratulating thomselyes that their “Low Tarift bill” did not pass. Tho oxpori- onco should bo of benefit to tho other Logisln- tures that have railroad charges under con- sideration, E Mra. Elizaboth Cady Btanton is out in an- other manifosto, which sho has dircoted this time to Prosident Grant, but has also generously published to the world. Mrs, Stouton has boon looking up the rocords, aud finds that the Phila- dolphia Convention promised “ rospectful con- eidoration of the rights of womon.” Bhe has waitod In vain foranything that looked like n ful- fillmont of this promise, but her Inst hope falled hor with tho appenrance of Prosidont Qrant’s inaugural. Bho thorofore, calls him to task, in her own poculiar and vigorous stylo, bo-~ causo ho spoke words of comfort, and gave gon~ orous pledges to throo clasues of oppressed citi- zons,—tho Inborors, mogroos, and In- dians,—and ontirely ignored *20,000,000" dis- franchiged womon, who are classed inall tho Btato Constitutions with idiots, lunatics, paupors, and criminals.” Mrs. Stanton should also turn hor attontion to tho Massachusotts Logislaturo, which has just rofused to liston to o rosolution providing that women may have tho right to volo and liold office tho samo ns tho men. Tho Mas- sachusotts Loglelnturo §s of a political complox- {on that should also havo boon guided by tho promises and pledges of the Philadelphia Con- vention. e Tho Committee on Cities in tho New York Logislaturo has introduced a bill providing that the statutes and laws, in which' tho worda # gtrong or spirituous liquors” or *intoxleating liquors” ocear, shall bo bold not to includo lager boer, oxcopt in thoso provisions roguir- fug o poaymont for liconso. As may | bo well concoived, tho rosolution is cous- ing consldorable cxcitement throughout tho Btato ; thero is commotion among tho churches, and temporance meotings aro caliod to congider tho mattor. Nevertholoss, tho discussion of the proposition in tho New Yorlk Logis- lature would furnish an oxcollont oppor- tunily for the introduction of competont ovi- donco as to the proportion of alcoholio spirite ‘which lager boor containg ; the goneral offect of thls boverago on tho clags of poople who use it; the amount of intoxication it produces, and tho smount of intoxication which it provents as a substitute for liquora. It is n quostion worthy of consideration whother lnger beer and puro native wines should not bear a place soparate from the genoral clagsification of intoxicating liquors, —_— Tho enles of sowing-machines during the year 1872 amounted to the extraordinary number of 461,730, divided nmong twonty-ona companies, Threo of theso companies alonc,—tho Binger, Howo, and Whoolor & Wilson,~sold 538,846, tho profits upon which are simply enormous. The high prices which aro charged for sowing-ma. chinos grows out of tho fact that threo or four of tho loading companies have combined, and refuse fo give the later inventions tho right to uee the patented foed movomont which s cssential to the success of machines,—oven in considoration of the pay- mont of royalty,—unless they agroo tosell at o rato not less than 860. This accounts for tho foot that, in tho faco of unusual competition ond with twenty-ono difforent machines In the markot, it is impossibls to buy © machino for less than &G0, which only costs about 816 to make, A corrospondont of tha Bostan Journalcalls at- tention to tho fact thet just as 8t. Louis, after tho great fire, Rought in overy manner to divert trade from Chicago, oven in tho hour of hor oflliction,-but failed, so New York souglt to got tho advautago of Boston in a similar manner after the firo in tho Iattor city, and also falled. In this connection, the Boston (Hlobe prasents an exhibit of the contmerco of that city which is vory encouraging.- The imports for March, 1873, amount to 95,027,725, ngainst 84,670,828 for Mareh, 1873. Tho averago weokly value of tho imports slnce Jauuary, 1878, {a $1,292,274, whilo tho grand total valuo of tha forsign fmports from March 1, 1872, to March 1, 1878, ia 873,668,875, agalust §61,710,008 from Mareh, 1871, to March, 1872 Tho English army ostimates, which have just beon presented to Parlismout by tho Sceretary of ‘War, roduces tho total nutnbor of monin the rogu- lar forcon from 183,049 to 138,008, nud tho osti- mates from £14,821,500 to £14,416,000. Of this sum, the Control Eatablishmonts and Servicos of tho Army will take £6,000,939, those departmonts supplying tho army with provisions, forago, fuol, clothing, arms, and transportation. The estimato for provisions aud foraga is matorinily incronsed, owing to the advanco of prices, but the supply, manufacturo, and ropairof warlike slores will bo loss costly than last year. NOTES AND OPINION, Thoro are a good many Congressmon who havo not (yot) drawn thelr incronsod pay, and somo of thom aro tolling tho folks at home {hat thoy “hayo not drawn it,” But the amount undrawn stanudu to their crodit, and will bo availablo to thomselvesor to their hieirs at any time, even for yoars to oomo, until the account is actually closed by & recofpt for the monoy, Tho honcst way is to draw tho Incrensed dividond, and ro- convert it into the Natlonal Tronsury, The dis- Tionost way ia to way, “1 have nob drawn it,” aud thon to quictly pocket it hoereaftor, ~Washington correnpondonts with ° gonius for figuros assure us that if all the jobs had got through, the Tropsury would have boon outa littlo mattor of §624,600,000, 1 —ThoTedoral patronngo in Californin hnsbeon # placed whoro it will do tho moit ood" for Goorgo O, Gorhnm, now Soarotary of tho Unitod Btatos Bonato, who aspires to o scat in tho nost Honato, vioo Cassorly, Tho raiiroad interest wants Gorliam in the Honato. ~Thero {8 no reason to supposo that Mr, Nich- ardeon dooa not now, a8 horetoforo, fl'uninin tho logality aud polioy of My, Doutwell's solion, Woro ho onca insiallod in the TromsuTy oy commoreini and financinl intorosis of thio country would bo, i thoey liave been for months, at the moroy of one man, oxorcing nt hiy own disere- tlon enormous powors which wore nover }xxggu- tionnlly conforred upon him by Congress: ‘The sltunlion of tho conntry in {his regard has for months beon o ourioun Mustration of tho odious and dangerous dospotism which can oxlst under purely ropublican forms, ‘ha illastration is mora’ Inatructivo {han plonsing.—New York Timen. —Judge Durell, having ynuzzled tho volca of tho Now Orlonna T'mes, row throntons to muz- ylo the Picayune, which paper says ¢ 1t romnine to bo seen whothier tholr nssault upon tho Indepeidence of tha Ieayine will prove nlilte anccess- ful, Wo shall defend it with all tho encrgy of our na- turo; and, with tho sympathy and supjort of that poo- plo, th whiona intercsts alono Linvo wo ncted, wo fonr ot the result, avon though the Timca ndia it feabla infitoncoto that of tho array of udvocates who liave undertaken tho causo of deapotlsm, —ITonry Ioward, of Covonlry, the Ropublican nominee for Governor of Ithode Island, lu a com- paratively young man, largoly identified with manufacturing intorestn, 1o wna nominated after nstrugglo i tho Convontion,—the othox anpirants bofng Moury Lippett, Cleorgo H. Cor- lign, Amoy D. Bmith, Rowland azerd, and Gov. Hoth Dadelford. —'Tho Stato funds of Minnesotn, nccountod into’tha keoplng of E. W, Diko, Wreasurer nd intorim, amount to 817,044 in nnnll—dnpmailn and S5, 'Pho 'I'ronsuror 800 in Lrust invostmonts, will ho unabla to puy_out any money, however, Tronsury have boon untlltho doposits of tho lacod necording to Inw, which caniot bo before lio 28t Inat, Tho Lonisvitlo (Ky.) Commercial says : Oongressmon TRead, Lowls, Winchostor, and Crosa. Iand, met in (biacityn day or two sineo to dotore mivg wliot disyosition should bo mado of tholr oxtra Y Bumor eayn they woro divided, two and two otwoen tivo of the most prominent of” outr Protostan chatitlos, and thero oro wickod peoplo who say thoy willrematn divided, it hoving been ngreed that no disposition of tho amount caubo mado without tho coucurrence of 4 majorlty of tho four! —Six of tho members of Congroas from this Btato (Town) aro propor]ly crodited with having voted agninat the slonl of oxtra compensation to Congrossmen, Wa havo not honrd thnt ony onoof them has rofused to participato in tho thott, If thora bo any any, wo ara roady to give him the propor crodit.” Otherwise, voting n;in[nnt thio stopl and thion participating in it will not be much to the crodit of onr Congress- men.—Dubuque Telegraph. ~Thouks to the stupid blundor of clerl, tho origiual 825,000 appropriation for tho Presidont’s Py, was nob taken out of tho bill whoen Butler's stenl was pat in. The result in, that Gon, Grant i ontitled, nndor tho lnw, t0°375,000 por annum, Ifo agsurcd tho Enrolling’ Comunlttos, howovor, that hoe wonld not takoedvantngo of the ovorsight, but would loave tha extra £55,000 in tho Troas.. ury, subject to the action of Congress nt tho {:::Jt sossion,—n vory proper and creditablo rono- on, —Honeaty is tho bost politics, just now,— Spring/iald, Ropniican. DE e N ~Tho Whool lu{: Register has found tho right pronuncintion at last—Alob-0'-liars. ~—Tho gharacter of the last, a8 woll as of the presont, Congroau Tins beon compromised in this mattor ; and it is tho moro to bo rogrotted bo- causo just now things manly, pure, and of good roport” soom nob fo Lo hold in high ostoom iz that body.—Camden (N. J.) Press, ~Tho” masses, through the machinations of professionnl politiciang, aro led like shoop to tho shambles, and yet foot tho bills for extrava- fant approprintions to support in splendor théic londors.— Clarinda (Iowa) Denocral. ~—The time-honored wim-Fnllnrs are sacly do- moralizod in the proseneo of the groat nwikonw ing among our farmors, Thog seo cloatly that ,if thils ogitution continucs, onoof two things must onguo: cither tho bummors must porish, or they must control the movement.—Le Mars (Jowa) Sentincl, 5 —Tho farmers of Kano County would bo as- tonished to learn that one of the lending * or- ganizers” of the anti-railrond movoment has o - thorough undorstanding with tho railway intor-. csty 5 that it is bis duty to throw cold wator upon tho movoment when needed, aud distract whon it isnceded, ote. Watoh and sco.—Elgin (Il.) Gazlte, + % —That thero was & rogular system of letlcnl lobbying at tho late eossion at Lincoln [Nobras- ko], i6 shown on all hands, Tho mutilation of tha criminal code, the failure to sign the city chartor by Sonator Gwyor, and tho reckloss trad~ ing of votos on all measures, ioll a story that onnnot bo minauderatood by the pooplo.—Omaha Ierald, —A most roprohensiblo longing for a fight is thus displayed by the Cincinnati Commercials NMausachusotts wrougs tho country by nob sonding William Lloyd Garrison to Congrees. Ho ought partioulasly to bo in the nox Cougross a8 o match for Mr. Aloxander H. Stephens. Garrison is utill abolishing olnvoEy, nud Stephena in yet tallking about sovorcign States, If hid- den away togothr, thoy would bo of groat ugo in irritating onch othor.” ~Farmers shiould remembor that at the last oleotion they refusod to bolieve thero was any- thing “rotten in Donmark,” and stuck to *‘the party,” without any. rogard to thoir own inter- oata, Wo don’t knoiv but thoy aro rightly sorvod for rofusing to exorcige their own good scnse and judgmont, instend of submitting to the dictation of patty loaders.—fewance (I{l.) Inde- pendent. —John G, Whittier, Now England's favorito {mob, ono of tho pioncors of anti-slavery, mekes hin ‘Tomnrkablo admission_concorning tho cor- ruption of the Administration in n recont lotter concorning Sumner's opposition to the presont Administration : 1o feit tho atmogphereabont him thick and foul with corruption, and bribery, aud greed ; ho say tho Treas- ury ringed about Hico Baturn with unscrupulous combi= natlons and corporations, and it s o bo regretied mora than wondored at, If Lo struck out wildly in s indige nation, and that'his Liows fell sometimes upon the wrong object, —The_Albany Erening Journal {8 quite en- couraged by the New Hampshire olection, which, it "says, i8 ‘“‘a substantial and gratifyiny triumph” of the Ropublican [mrtfr. 1t in in Al- ho ¢ gets back baa, tion, that tho miesionury w his hint " roturns thanks for s “substantial snd gratifying " colloction.—New York Tribune. —Somo indiscreot antiquarion hos dug up tho following extract from au inaugural addregs de- livered eighty-four years ago: To {he preeeding observations I have one to add, ‘which will bo most properly addressod to the ousv of Iicpresentutives, It concerns mynelf, and will, there- fore, bo s briof as poesible, When T wes fiest fionored withi a call into tho eorvico of my country, then on tho evo of an arduous atruggle for iis libertics, tho Hght in which I contemplated my duty required thnt I shonld renounce overy pecuniary compensation, From this rosolution I hava in no fustance departed ; nnd, bo- ing atfll under tho fmpressfon whicls produced ft, ¥ Idst docling, as fnapplienblo fo mysolty Gy shnre’in tho bersonul smolumionty which sy Lo indiapensably {ncludod in a pormanont pravision for {ha Exccutive Dopartment, This does* not correspond very wall with Grant’s recent blowing of his own frumpot, nnd signing o Dill to incronso his own salary ; but, if tho comparison bo odious, so much tho worso —our Radical friends would eay—for Wushing- ton—8t. Zouls Republican. i —At_tho Hartford (Ct.? Ropublicats Convon- tion, Gon, Pratt variousy alluded to o distin-~ guishod Mnssnchusotts ~Congrossman as o “thief,” coward,” *scoundrel,” **villain,” and ¢ Bonst Butlor,” —A recent through train to San Franciaco con- tained oighty-ono forsons riding on freo passcs, costing {he Company ©9,000. ’fhroo thousang froo pnsson nra worth, ot tho usual rates, £846,000, 'Thus it is seon that mombers of Con- rens have profited largely from their liberality o the_Company at tho country's expense. Tho mutual interchengo of benofits aud caurtesios has boen somowhat inoquitable. What Con- gress gavo to the Compuny camo out ofe the ockots of tho pooplo; what tho Company gava 0 Congrosy went_into the pockots of Lhe woms bers,—St. Lowis Republican. ~What & rising of the gorge would follow an oxposuro of the wholo system of logislition, of which this is but a samplo? Bah! it sickena ono to think of it.~—Glenwood (fowa) Jowrnal. —In tho oldon timios, whou n mau had o lawe sult, bio used to hiro x Inwyor ; now ho has to Lire o Judgo.—Acwo Orleans Fieayue. TFounderod nt Sea, DostoN, Mnrch 17.—Tho propellor Grace Trving, whieh loft lLioro on Sunday for Now Dod- ford, whore she had Dbeen bhought, was acon to fouridor off Duxbury, Mg, yostordny aftor- noon. Bho_ sunk a0 ?uickly ihat notio of the porsons on board had_timo to save thomsvlves, “'ho persons on board woro from New Bodford. One of tho new ownors was tho Ilon, Janics Ritehle, of this olty, and ho ig supposed to havo boon on board at tho time. Michigan Libernve Speeial Diaputeh to The Chicano Tribiune, TAx , Mareh 17.—At Mason, to-day, dele- s;nte»l woro choson from Tugham Cumny,fi!bml- Democrat, to the State Nom{uating Convention Tor Justico of tho Bupromo Court and Regouts of tho Univorsity, 'Tho dclogatos woro Ifon, I, 4, Fiteh, Lucian Roed, Judgo A. N. Hurt, aud Geo, P. Bunford, B s Euthanaslii. Inp1ANATowts, Ind,, March 17.—Charles Hunt, & woll-known tobacconlat of this city, conmitted, suloldo this morning at his storo, by shooting himsolf with a plstol, The supposcd causo i finagolal troublos.