Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1873. ' i TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TRNME OF BUBSORIPTION él‘l"'“-fl IN ADVANOE). X o 1500 ey Parts of & yoar at tho ssmo rato, S ‘To provont delay and mistakes, ho suro and give Post Offce addross In full, including Btate and County. Romittances may bio ruads olthor bydraft, oxpross, Tost Oftice ordor, or in rogistered lottors, at our ek, ¥ TENMA TO OITY lvfll?llllglzl:;“. — day excoptod, 3 Balls detvoredy Biiny etaded, 2 conts por waok. THI TRIBUNT COMPANY, Chicago, Iil, Address Cornor Madison atid Dearb GONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. FIRST PAGE-Washington Nawa; Docialon in tho Olay- ton Caso—Now York Mattors—3iscollancous Tolo- grams—Adsortisomonts, BEOOND PAGE —Mormondom —Toston Lettor— Mo- Grogor Lettor—~Washington Lattor—English Agri onltural Labarors—Tho Now Argogauts—Belons: ““Anothor of Brot Harta's Horoos. 5 THIRD PAGE-Tho Law_OConrts—Banitary Mattore— ‘Acros tho Continent—Indisna's Gorllla—Buburban Notos—Yostorday's Storm—Diatinguistiod Visltors— * Tho City In Brlof—Rallroad Timo Table—Advortise- - monts, FOURTIL PAGI—Editorlals: Tlold Your Horses; Chlof Justioo Lawronco; How Modern Raliraads ara Bullt; The Onso of .Cleyton—Qurrant Nows Itoms—Notos and Opinton, FIFTII PAGE—Tho Stato Capitsl—Town Officors : Tho Prosent Inoumbonts, Nomiuate Thomaalvos—Obi- cngo Dry Goods® Matkot—Markots by Tolograph— Porsonal—Advertisomonts. KN ¥ g SIXTI PAGE—-Monotary and Commorelal. BRVENTIL PAGR—A Curlous Caso—Neéws Paragraphs— ‘Small Advortisemonta: Roal Estate, Xor Ealo, To * Tiont, Wantad, Roarding, Lodging, Eto. RIGHTH PAGE-Torolgn News—State Legislatures— Northwostern Univorsity—Miscallaneous Tolograms Advortisomonts. AIKER'S TIIEATRE~Wabash avonuo, corner of Gon- gross siroet, Atmeo Opora Troupo. Matines, ‘‘Grand Duchosso.” Eveulng, ** Goneviovo do Brabant." M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison street, botween Btato and Doarborn. Kngagomont of Edwin Booth. “ Richelion." . HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUBE~Randolph streot, ho- tweon Clark and LaSallo, *‘Porll; or, Lovo at Loug Branol,® Afternoon aud ovenlng. AGADEMY OF MUBIO- Hnk Mndlson. Vingagumont of Frank Mayo. att." Afternoon and evoning. » stroet, south of ** Davy Orocke MYERY' OPERA HOUSE--Mouroo strest, botween Ftnto nud Daatborn, Arlington, Cotton & Komblo's Minatrol and Barlosquo Troupo. 2 NIXON'S AMPIHITHFATRE —Clinton, botwoen Washington and’ Randolph stronts, Wildos & Co.'s Nuttonal Clrous, Aftarnoon and ovoning. v s s————— BUSINESS 'NOTICES, o Koystono Corn Plautor, is now built by tho linreka finl]‘:l m‘:r&n?c:*‘t:&nn;,%’l’;nk Falls, 11l. - NA _LOTTERY—\WHOLJ: TIOKET, ! it O B MR o W cat. T 6. Hox do80, Now The Chicags Tiibune, Wednesdey Morning, March 326, 1873. . Aformer Confodorato Gonerel, Sonator Gordon, of Goorgia, presided over tho . Senate yostorday. in the absence'of Vice-Prosidont Wilson, + Ep— Gov. Dix has given a respito of threo wecks to a murderor sontenced-to -be hanged at Syra- suso noxt Friday. ngmjaugu(.l‘rnutnnho BamO sxtension of tinio, > ) Bonator Bogy's case did not socm, to tho Com- mitteo to whom it was reforred, to prosent facts snough to cill for auy invostigation, and it lag beon: summorily dismissed from coneidoration by the Senato, A Gorman flot haaboon ordered futo Spanish wators. No intimation is glven of the ulterior pugposo of this movement, or whothor it has any significanco in conneotion with tho rofusal of the Courts of Borlin, St. Dotersburg, and Vienna to recognizo tho Ropublic. —ee e Tho bill taking upon the Btate tho burden of the dofonse of the parties in the trespass suita brought by the railronds hes pessed to o third reading in the House. Tho Donshue bill hag passod to o second roading, aud, with the othor ¢ailroad legislation pending, comea up 2a tho spocial order for to-dny. 3 ‘When McDonnell, the Bank of England forgor, was brought up bofore tho United States Com- minsionor in New York, & Sorgoant of the Lon- don polico forco was on band with the warrant of the Lord Mayor for his arrost under tho ox- tradition treaty. Ilow thoroughly and sldlifully tho English dotectives have done their work is shown by their bringing ono of McDonnell's fomale friends into court yesterday to idontify him. Bho was soarched out and arrcated in timo to be on her way to this country by tho steamer that followed tho Thuringia. RO ——— Tx-Sonntor Patterson, who 'loft the Senate Chambor with & rosolution of expulsion hanging over his head, has printed o defenso of his Crodit Mobilior operations. Ho admits that lie bought the stock of Oakes Ames, and oxplains tho discropanocics in their ‘statements as forgot- fulness. Hoholds it to be proper for Sonators to .indulgo in oporations liko the Crodit Mobilier spoculation, a8 by 8o doing they acquiro intorests in common with their constituonts, If they hod no such_intorests, Sonators would become liko childron in tlo nursery. Finally, aftor having admitted tho main facts on which the resolution for bis oxpulsion was based, ho naivoly romarl that tho whole thing is tho outery of tho defeated oppouonts of thoe Adminiatration. The Chicago produce markots wore moderately nctivo yestordsy, and grain was lower. Moss pork was in fair demand, and 10c per brl higher,. slosing at ©14.70 caili, nnd £14.05 sollor May. Lard was firm at 6o advance por 100 1bs, at 87.00 @7.95 cash, and $8.073¢ soller May, - Moata were guict and strong st }{e advance, at b}@bX0 for uhoulders, 7 @173¢e for short ribs, T3@734c for sbort cloar, and 10@12¢c for swoot-picklea bams, Ilighwines wora quiot and uncbanged, nt 86}¢o per gallon. Lake freights woro quict and 1c higher, at 16¢ for corn to Buffalo. Flour was quiet and steady. Whoat was weak at 3dc edvance, closing lower at 81.203@1.21} cash, eL21 woller April, and $1.25 fnllur May. Corn was modorately active, and g0 lowor, oclosing at 319¢@3%c cnsh, and 863go soller May. Oats were dull and 3o lower, olos- ng at 265§ @20340 cash, and 28){o sellor May* Byo was quict and unchanged at G4}@GCo. Burloy was quict and stoady, but elosed easlor ¢ On 10@70%c soller the month, or soller April, Bnturday night last thero was in storo in this city, 2,476,040 bu wheat; 5,080,506 bu corn; 1,727,051 bu oats ; 803,800 bu ryo, and 820,692 bu barloy. Total, 10,819,275 bu; in sddition to 50,000 bu whoat, 463,855 bu corn, and 162,4641u onts afloat in the harbor. Livo hoge were in briek demand, and advanced fully 10c, salos be- ing offactod at £4.00@6.40—olosing firm at §5.00 @0.40. Cattle met with an active inquiry at full prices, Bhoop remain firm and unchangad. An Ameriean deputation recontly waited upon the Popo and prosented him with an addresy, to which tho Holy Fathor mado reply, Tho burden ¥ bis roply was that, whilo America was lncom- 'ENTED RY . “ES o patantoo parably rioher than any other country, rloches ought not to form its ouly trensure. In hia own words: ‘¢ It doos not bohoove ua to ontertain an oxconslvo lovo for richos; 1t behooves us not to bo too much atinchoed to thom ; 1t bolioovea us not to onchain our hearts too strongly to tho tronsuros of this world,” all of which goos to show thint tho IToly Fathor has heard of Oredit Mobiller and Wall atreot, with thelr corruptions and speculations, and forescos the dangors arls- ing from thom. The addross would bo oxcollont reading for Amos, Colfax, Brooks & Co., and contains many hints which might ministor to both their tomporal and spiritual edifleation. . HOLD YOUR HORSES! Tho high-tarift organs in this Stato have boon .takon with a sovero collo since the farmers bogan to find out how much of their earnings is ab- stracted from thom to pay the bountles on the production of iron, steol, glass, salt, lnmber, woolen and cotton goods; drugs and mediolnes, *paints and oils, and the thousand artleles which ontor luto thoir dailyconsumption, The Chicago Tnter-Ocean is droadfully griped by tho anti- tarifY rosolutionsof tho recont farmers’ meotings, and now cor®¥ the Champalgn Union plaintively bogging tho fmmers to lob that partleular zu1goe alone, Tho wail of both thoso journals rrue in this wisé: Thoro fa a differonco of opiuion, gontlomen, about tho ex- -podiency of taking 50 conts out of your pockets evory timo you svond & dollar for your clothes, or your implomorta of Inbor, in order to’ &woll tho ‘profits of -tha iron and wooley mongors. But wo aro all sgroed in donouncing those hor- rid railrond . monopolios. Don't divide your fordos by counting s out—olsa “all tho fat will be in tho firo directly. . Hold your horses! Wo have given somo attontion, during some fivo yoars, to tho onormous and high-handed rob- bory perpotrated upon tho farmors of the Wost, partly through tholr own suplnonoss, by tho tarift monopolists, and wo don't intend to atop mnow. Wo shall not disguise, oxouso, or palliato n singlo outrago por- petrated upon them by tho raflrond monopolists; but wo shall insist that the two wrongs bo righted togather, and that, whon the railronds ars brought to thoir milk, the Bessomor stoolers and tholr afliliatod oxtortionists shall bo brought to thoirs at the samo time. Aund wo take for our toxt to-day the following resolution, adopted by tho farmors at Earlvillo, Illinois, on .| Baturday last: . .Wo insist that the duty on fron, stee), leathor, jum- bor, woolons, tin, rallrond rals, plush, velvat, and all’ ‘material used 1n bullding rallroas, onglucs, cars, snd stosmships, ought to bo st once roporled ; that tho in- | tereata of tho laborors and srtissns of Ponneylvania and Now England, s woll os the farmersof the West, requiro sbacluto fro teade In thoso materials; that it 15 quito aa essential that mich matorials shall bo im. portad freo of duty a5 that rafiroads should oboy tha Inws ; that freo trads would cnablo tho rallrosds to make 8 tarliY of pricos conformablo to law. If any man in Congross was to propono that toll-gatos bo ercoted on all railroads, at intervals of twonty miles, and that onch passonger and oach pound of froight should pay n cortain toll, without which farther transportation would bo prohibited, the proposition would moot with univorsal oxecration. Yot tho existing tariff law ig akin to it. ' Transportation of brondstuffs is porformed by soveral agoncies: 1. By the wagon to the nearest railroad station. 2. By the railrond to tho lake port. 3. By Inke and canal or rail to market. Now lot us soo how theso agonclos aro taxed by Congrosa. Tho wagon is taxed on the wood, on the iron bolts and BOTOWSE, on tho paint, on thoirontfres, onthe canvas cover, an average of 50 por oent. The shoos- and shoe-nails of tho horeos aro taxed 75 per cont, the harness 45 por cent, and tho whip 60 por cont. The man who drives the toam is taxed on his ovorcont 80 per cent, his undorcoat and pantaloons 50 por cent, his wool hat 60 per cont, his shirt 45 per cont, and his undor-clothing 65 per cent. . At tho station tho grain is-placed on acar composed of wood and -iron, which is paiuted, aird has iron whoels and stoel aprings. This car is taxed 80 por cont on the wood, 70 per cont on tho iron and steel, and 70 per cent on the paint. 1t is drawn by a locomotive made of iron, stool, and brass, and which is taxed an average of 60 per cout. Tho cer is drawn over rails, which, if irom, pay .40 per cont, and if steol, 50 per cont tax. Whon tho grain renchos the loke port it is placed on a vesscl bullt of wood and iron, both of which are taxed aa stated; tho wire ropes or standing rigging is toxed 60 per cont, the anchors and chains 60 por dont, the cables aud cordage 50 per cont, the paint 70 por cont, tho glans 66 por cont, the can- vas sails 60 por cont. Every man on the vossel pays from 60 to 75 por cont tax on all tho clothes Lo woars, The cooking utensils on board tho voasel, as well as tho blankets, hammocks, and all tho furniture, are taxed from 560 to 100 per cont. When the grain is placed on tho canal-boat at - Buffalo, it is transportod on a vessel taxed in tho same way, and drawn by horses whose shoos and harnosearo aleo taxod. Whon it roaches Now York it is transfoired to steamers or eail vossels, whero tho liko tax is opt up, So that from tho time tho. corn leaves tho crib until it reaches Liverpool It ia required to pay tho taxos which Congress Lins lovied on overy orticlo needed for tho transportation, and on .avory wman who ia In ony way connected with its landling. The sum thus collectod from tho corn to pay the taxoa on the iron, steel, paint, wood, canvas, horeeslioes, cordngo,- harness, and clothing, amounts to 47 cents por bushel from Central Illinols to New York, and 62 cents to Boston. That tax is paid by the corn and whoat, but only o small portion of that tax goos into the Troas- ury. Tho corn s sold in Now York for 67 conts, and, aftor paying tho tax of 47, the romaining 20 conts is paid to the pro- ducor. Ho at onco purchosos with it such artiolos az ho noods. His thousand bushols of corn havo produced him $200, and when ho has made his purchasoes ho finds that tho monoy has beon thus paid out: For woolen and colton goody, for boots nnd shoes, for clothing, for tools, for stovoe, carpot, glasaware and crockery, $137.60; fortax on the articlos thus bought, $062.50. Bo at tho ond he finds that his yoar's labor thus foots up : 1,000 bushols of corn at 67 cents Lces tax on transportution, . Tax on $187.50 of gooda purchased,, Expended for merchandl 1oer s $107,00 In point of fact, ho receives but 133¢ conts por ‘bushiol for the corn,—all tho rost boing taken to pay taxen lovied to protect somebody elso. The osots of Congross lovying theso taxes arn repenla~ blo, They produce no rovenuo for the Govorne mont, and wore not intonded to doso. They wore enscted to build up & vory small privileged clasa by lavying bounties for their benefit upon the labor of the country. Wo urge the farmers to go etraight ahoad in tholr war onthis lniquity. Thoso who aro ealling out to thom to hold thelx horeos avo of uo mecount anyliow, Thev can neithor help thom In tho railronad fight, nor hin- dor thom in the tardfr fig] HOW MODERN RAILROADS ARE BUILT, The Rock Inland Argus tolls the story of the conatruction of two rallronds 1 this State, with tho ciroumstancos of which it is famillar,—tho Pooria & Rock Ioland, and the Rookford, Rock Teland & 8t. Louis. Tho reoital is timoly, ns it oxposoa tho fallnoy of tho claim mado by the railrond compnnies that thoy must earn 8 or 10 por cont on their onplial stock over and above tho oxpenscs of running thoir roads and paying tho intorent on their bonds, What ia true of the two roflroads named, Is, In o groater or loss do- greo, tmo of all tho railroads in tho country, Tho eapital stook of roflroads is fictitions to tho oxtont in which tho aggrogato stock and bonds oxocod the actual cost of tho roads, nnd the claim that thia fictitious eapitnl should earn div- 1donds nccounts, in large part, for the unreasoa- #ble oharges to which the railroads adhoro in violation of tho law. The Poorin & Rook Ieland Railway Company ‘was incorporated in 1867 to build a road botwoon tho two pointa namod,—a diatanco of 91 milos. Tho declared purposo of building tho road was to furnish chenpor transportation; and, npon this ropresentation, subscriptions wore obtained from individuals and from town and county govern- monts amounting to. 700,000, . Tho Diroctors, ovor two-thirds of whom aro eaid to havo hnd no pecuniary intorest in tho road, thon issucd £1,500,000 gold bonds, bearing 7 per cont intor- ost, and mado & contract with cortain Eastorn copltallats to turn over tho ontiro amount of ‘bonda sud $1,260,000 of stock for tho construc- tion of tho road, furnishing the locomotivon and rolling-stock, building the shops, dopots, ote. Tho “‘Block was to bo trausferred to tho Construction Company as tho work progressed, so that, by the time of the complotion of tho rond, ©1,250,000 of the stock, or five-oighths of the entiro capital stook, would- bo in the hands of tho construotion ring, ‘who would ‘thereupon .ématml tho corporation, pogs upon tholr own work, and, as o matter of courso, accopt it a8 o dischargo of their partaf the contract. - In tho moantimo, tho Construc- tion. Company had placed the bonds on the mar- Xot, advortigod thom in & manner unwarrantod by tho facts in tho case, nnd sold them at ratos ‘varying from 80 to 90 conts, They were not per- mitted to disposo of tho bonds at less than 70 conts, and, assuming that this was tho averago prico which thoy recoived, tho result would be £1,050,000 in monoy. Tho cost of the rosd is sot down as $1,000,000 at tho highost. The ring proflts, thorefore, were 850,000 in monoy and $1,250,000 in stock, Or, assuming thint tho stock was worth par, on which railroads claim that thoy must oarn n high interost, tho Construction Company, which also becamo tho owner of tho rond, madoe s profit of ©250,000 in stock and $1,050,000 in money. Now, after oporating tho road about cighteon months, tho Compaiy which has made those cnormous profita proposoes to issuo another million of mortgage, bonds for the purposo of paying off the floating indebtednoss which has acorued, and'for further stocking and oquipping tho rond. ,Xf this oxtra isguo shall be made, tho nominal capital of the road will be ropresented by £2,050,000 of bonds and 2,000,000 of stock, or $4,060,000. This would bo moro than threo timos ns much as tho rond cost, inclnding tho additional material which it is proposed to add. Assuming that tho oarniugs of tho road should poy tho 9 por cent Intorest on tho bonds, with- out declaring dividonds, and that It will require 60 por cont of tho gross receipts to oporato the road, it would be necossary- to earn $788,000 o yoar, considorably more than $8,000 por mile, and ps much as tho largo trunk-linos oarn, To do this, it would bo necessary to increase its progont rates throo or four timos as much a8 they aro now, If thoroad should also undor- tolke to enrn & dividend on its capital atoclk, over and above the paymont of its Interest, the raton would have to be further incroased in pro- portion. It will be soon, from the mannor in whick the Pooria & Rock Island Railrond was constructed, that the patrons of tho rond aro oxpacted to pay an interest not only on the cost of building and operating o railrond, but also on the onormous profitsmade by the Construction Company and tho managers, It is s mattor of notorioty that moat railroads aro constructed on a similar plan, and with similar wastefuluess, The Rockford, Rock Island & 8t. Louis Rond furnishes another illus- tration of tho samo thing on a larger scalo. Tho Company suthorizod an issue of 89,000,000 stoclk, #old as much of it a3 thoy could to the counties, citles, aud towns on the lino of the road, and kopt enough to insure them the control. Thoy then made a contract with nominally anothor company, consisting mainly of the samo mon, aftor tho manner of tho Crodit Mobilier, for tho building of thePond atan oxiravagant prico, Theé noxt step was to issuo £0,000,000 of 7 por cont gold bonds, which wero sold mostly in Germany for abont 75 conts. Having absorbed all tho proceeds from the sale of tho bonds, and all the loeal subseriptions, the road was not yot completed, aud there was no money with which to pay tho ncerned interost on the bonds, Tho ‘bond-holders found they had been swindled, but conoluded that thoy would bo swindlod stit! worse If they foreclosed thoir mort- gago and took tho road to oporate it, Thoy, thereforo, concluded to eurrender one-hinlf their bonds, hut took preferred stock in thelr placo, so that the nominal capital was not decroased. But it is only by charging tho Tighest rates for transportation that the Com- pany can now pay tho intoreat on tho romalning half of the bonds unsurrondored, The claim {s naturally rogarded as just whon railroad manngors reprosont that their only de- siro ig'to cnrn o rengonnblo intorest on the eapi- tal stock of thelr roads, But whon it is thus shown that tho bonds and stook roprosent throo or four times the legitimato cost of a rallroad, the wonkness and injustica of tho claim bocome apparent. It is not probablo that there would bo any formideblo objection® to rates which would roprosont o roasonablo profit on actual cost; but this profit, in casos like tho Poorin & Rock Island and the Rookford, Rock Island & 8t. Louls Roads, would not pay tho intorost on one-lialf of the indobted- noss. Bo much tho worse for innocent bond and stook holders, It is tho law that railroad ratos shall not bo unronsonable, and they are un- roasonable when they yiold & groator profit than 8 or 10 por cent Intorost on tho monoy for which tho rond can bo, and ought to have, been, bullt, In dotermining tho reasonableness or unreason- ablenows of rates, the profits, over and above the operating oxpenscs, will bo considered, What theso should bo =will bo determined In turn by the motunl valuo which the road ropresonts. This rule of law, practically enforced, aa it cor- tainly will bo in this Stato, will evontually put a atov to the construction stoals, which nominally roprogont #o many million of dollars of unpro- ductive capital. OHIEF JUSTIOE LAWRERCE/ It may bo sot down as a fack that any intolli- gont rallrond official would rathor lave seven Loglalaturea aftor him than one jury. The point of this observation is specially applicablo to tho prosont anti-rallrond war, fn this Btato, in tho progross of which tho Buprome Court, innre- cont doolsion pronounced by Judge Lawronce, has shiown the farmors tho true, suro, and lawful way {n which they can right thelr wronga, In viow of tho proposod action of tho farmors in tho forthcoming Princoton Convention, in con- nootion with the judicial olection, it ia proper to inquire whothor tho faots in the,onso justify thom in antagonizing Judgo Lawronco. Throo or four yonrs ngo, tho Leglalaturo toolk its firat stop townrda righting the wroogs of tho farmers by prosoribing arbitrary rates of tran- sportation on railronds. Tnr Tarnuns contonded ot that timo, and has insisted ovor sinco, that such a monsure was unwise and of doubtful con- atitufonality, and thiat tho railronds could do nothing but rosist it, becouss the right to flx ratos at throo conts involved of nccessity tho right to fix thom nt ono cont or at nothing, At tho eame timo it showed that tho common law roquired that rallronds should charge only ronsonsblo ratos, nnd that a court and jury wero compotent to dooido what constitutod roasonablo rates, This viow of tho caso has boon substan- tially sustained by: tho rccont unanimous docision of tho Buprome Court. At the samo timo, Trz Tomunz suggostod tho only feasiblo course for the State to pursuo, which ‘was, to olothe tome body of mon with the proper suthority to proseoute ovory cnso of ovorcharg- ing at the publio expenso. The Logielaturo, howover, took a different view of tho matter, and in its wisdom thought it had discovered s shortor cut'to justice, and an oaslor and moro cortaln way of righting tho wrongs of tho farm- ors, Aftor four years of porsistonco in this courae, and aftor educating tho popular mind to on untonable position with roference to tho question, it manegod to get ono case boforo the Buprorho Court, tho result of which was that its law was overthrown, in form though not in sub- stance, by soven Judges of ominont ability and incorruptible charactor—Judges, who, it is not too much to say, would allow themsolves to bo hanged, drawn, and quartered rather than give o decision contrary to thelr convictions, and of whom Judge Lawrence would probably be the firat to immolato himsel? on tho altar of foalty to his judicinl onth, "The Logislature, having scon tho folly of its past courso, is now wisely ongaged in maturing a plan to carry out the principlo involvod in this doclaion, namely, that sll common carriers aro obligod to oarry nt rensonablo rates, and that it ia for a court and jury to dotormine what consti- tutes rcasonmable rates, on sufliclont evidonco. 1t is utterly Idle to supposo that any Court of Appoanls, however far romoved from the court ond jury jrying o onso of this kind, would over rovorso tho verdlet of such a jury, because the vordiot would bo in accordance with all tho rulos and praotisea which govern juris- prudonco, and it is equally probablo, as M. Poters doclared in his Princoton specch, that tho court of last resort,—tho Buprome Court of tho United Btates,—woutd decido” sgainst any logislative act fixing an arbitrary rate to be charged by common carriers, without a trinl of its roasonabloness. The farmors of Illinols are an intelligent body of men, nnd we beliove, if thoy will give tho matter 2 little sorious consideration, that they will come to o right declaion ; that they will sco at onco what the findings of jurics will be whon theso cages oro brought to trial; and that if thoy oxamine the Donshuo bill, now ponding in the Logislature, thoy will goo that it will creato n powerful and slooploss organization ncting in their intorestn, clothed with tho fullest power to prosecuto cases, and o8 long-lived as the railrond compantes thomsolvos; and, furthermoro, that it is organized to corry out the very principles enunciated by Judge Lawrenco, for tho oxprossion of which they now propose to displace him in the judicial clection noxt June. Wo boliove that, if they will give tho subjoct sorious considoration, they will aoo that thoir relicf must ultimately como from tho courts and jurics, and can como from nowhero olso, b . What have the farmers to gain by displacing “from thebench a Judgo who has, in the oxercleo of his official duty, pointed out to them the only suro way to nccomplish what thoy dosiro, and subgtituting some ono plodged ‘boforehand, olth- or exprossly or impliodly, to decido their cases in o way that will novor sccomplish what thoy deslro, because his decialons would bo in contra- vontion of the well-known principles of law gov- .erning such cases, which have been deflned ovor ‘andover again? In plain words, what havo thoy to gain by olecting & man pledged, directly or indiroctly, to rondor declsions In tholr favor, which will not, {2 Mr. Potors is ‘s truo prophet, bo sustained by tho ocourt of last remort? ‘Wo have too much faith in the intelligence of tho farmers to beliovo that they will enfertain for a momont tho absurd proposition of Mr. Potors, to break down the prosent Suprome Court of tho United States by ndding now Judges to vote down tho old ones,—n proposition which is not only impolitio but immoral, —a proposition which, if it woro practicablo, could not bo accorn- plished for yours, Buppose, as Mr. Petors al- loges, Judgos Bradloy and Strong and others aro projudiced in favor of oapitalists, and will always decido against tho peoplo, tho farmers lave to considor whothor Prosidont Grant is 1likoly tobotter their condition by adding now Dradloys and Btronge to the bonoh., And they hiave to romomber that any changes in the Su- prome Bench affoct not only thomsolves, but that the wholo Unitod Statos will havo somothing to say nbout tho matter. Wo bolievo the farmors linvo good sense onough to dismiss Mr, Potors and his ignis fatuus without giving them tho slightost attention, > Whon the Farmers' Convention meots at Princoton to mako o nomination, if it is wiso 1t will nominate Judgoe Lawrence for re-election, a8 6 Judgo who has ehown thom the only way in which thoy can freo thomselves from tho exac- tions of the railroad monopolies, and who, nt tho samo timo, hins proved himsolf toLoa jurlst of eminent learning, of striot impartiality, audspot- loss integrity. Any othor courso that the farm * ors may adopt must ronot againat thomselvos, and put still furthor off the romedy for the ovils of which thoy complaiu, e—— THE OASE OF OLAYTON, The Benato havo doclared that the charges against Bonator Clayton hiave not boen sustained, The vote stood 83 to 8 ; but thore wors 83 Bena- tors who did not vote, many of them ploading want of time in which to examina the evidonce, Clavion first became a eubieot of Qongrose slonnl fnvestigation In 1802, although ho was not olosted Honator until March, 1871 In January, 1873, o joint committco of Congress upon the condition of tho late in- aurrectlonpry Slatos called the attontion of the two Housos of Congress o cortaln testimony talion by them, in which thors was disclosed o corrupt bargain by which Clayton, the Goverior of Arkensns, had fssuod o cortificato of olection to Congress to ono Ldwards, & Domoerat, in. considoration of ro- colving tho votes of Domocratic mombors of tho Loglalature for Clayton ns Bonator., The Hougo of Ropresontatives investigated this mat- tor, andbyan almost unanimous voto ojocted Edwards, In the Sooato, the mattor was ro- forred ton committeo consisting of Mr. Mor- rill, of Maino; Mr. Wright, of Towa; nud Mr. Norwood, of Georgla, Lanst Juno, this Commit- too mado o partial roport, and in Fobruary, 1873, mado o full roport,—dlossrs. Wright and Morrill to tho offcot that thero was no chargo affecting Mr. Clayton that had boon sustainod, and Mr, Norwood to thoe effoct that Clayton Liad beon oleotod by corruption and frand, The reports and tho tostimony mako a volumo of 400 printed pages. Olayton was Governor of Arkansas, and n porsonal enomy of his, Johnson, was Licuton~ ant-Governor, and a friond named Whito waas Bacrotary of State. On tho11thof January, 1871, Clayton was clocted Sonator, but, a3 his rosigna- tion as Governor would make Johnson his suc- coggor, lo declined tho Sonatorship, Aftora vory oxoited timo, Whito waa induced to rosign, and Johnson accopted ffém Claytoh tho offico, of Boorotary of State; Btato Henator Hadloy was thoroupon olocted Lioutenant- Govornor, Tho Legielature, then, by five mnjority, on tho 1Gth of March, again olocted Olayton to the United Btates Bonato, and Hadloy became Governor. At tho firat cloction, the Demoorats hnd voted for Claytom, hoping to have Johnson for Govornor. When this waa de- featod by the subsequont mrrangoment, theyre- fused, with fow oxcoptions, to voto for him. .Tho testimony shows thnt White, who had re~ signed the offico of Secrotary of Stato to cnable Clayton to got xid of Johnson, roccived from Clayton $5,000 in money and 825,000 in railroad bonds. Jolnson then roccived the lucrativé offlco of Bocratary o Stato, ns n consideration for rosigning the offico of Licutonant-Governor. Boyeral witnossos stato, and OClayton admits having said so, that Clayton declared his olection had cost him $20,000. It s concoded that Edwards was dofeated for Congress by Boles, Ropublican, by o large ma- Jority; but Olayton refused to issue him acortifi- cato, and flnally issucd it to Edwards, who, though a Domoorat, was in constant attondance at the Logislature lobbying for Clayton's elec- tion, Tho certificato was glven Edwards o fow days bofore tho socoud olection of Clayton. Two Democratic mombers of the Legislature, whoso seats wero contested, abandonod their claim upon an agreemont that Clayton would issue o cortificato to Edwards. This was early in tho sossion, but, tho cortificato not being issuod, tho Democrats united with Clayton’s op- ponents to impeach Clayton; whoroupon tho cortificato was issued, and the impeachment was abandoned. s It apponrs, also, by tho testimony, that five or more Repyblican members peremptorily refused to voto for Clayton so long as it would make Johngon Governar; that, therofors, tho purchase of Wifite's resignotion, and thoe appointment of Johnson, wera necossary to his eloction. Fena- ing theso monsuros, tho Logislature passod cor- tain railroad subsidy measures which were ap- proved by Clayton, and the inforeuco is that tho money and bonds which Clayton dolivered to Whito wore part of tho corruption attonding this legslation. . » 5 A Clayton received ot the socond election 42 Voten in tho House and 16 in tho Senatp, being a mojority of 2 in the firat body sud '8 in the latter. * Qovernor Hadley, who succeeded as Govornor by Clayton's ekillful bargain with Johnson, tes- tified that ho appointed ninoteon Representa: tives aud six Senators who bhad voted for Clay- ton to office immediately thereafter. Thus twonty-fivo of the fifty-soven membera who votod for Clayton woro appointed at onco to Stato officos which they covoted. Hadley states that ko appointed some at Clayton's request, and others because it had boen agroed to do so pond- ing tho changes which wore to make Clayton Senator and Hadloy Governor. Secarles, o Dom- ocrat who votod for Clayton, testifled that the Iattor had offered him for his voto the patronage of his county, and that he namod soven pergons for county offlcers, all of whom wore appointed. Ono of Clayton's com- petitors was o colored man namod White, whg withdrow tho night before the election, and said that ho had got 825,000 railrond bonds. A wit- ness was nuthorizod to offor Senator Btoelo a Judgoship if ho would voto for Clayton { ho did 8o voto, and was appointed Judgo. Aunother mombor wag offered the ofiico of Bhoriff; ho voted for Olayton, and was appointed Bheriff. Tivo cases of this kind aro stated in tho evi- donco. Othor mombors wore intorested in railrond bills ; they votod for Clayton, and their Dbills woro approvod. Out of tho various charges, thirca seomed to bo sustained by the testimony : 1. The corrupt arrangement with Edwards. 2, The uso of money to purchago Whito's resignation, and tho appointmont of Johnson, whoroby ho socured more than five Ropublican votes.” 8. Tho diroct purchase of o largo numbor of votos by the promiso of appointment to lucrative offices, which promises woro oxcouted, and by the s proyal of corrupt logislation in tho intorest of othor membora. . Tho majority of tho Committes raport that the Benato haveno juriediction over the acts of Clayton whilo ho wag Governor; that all his e~ tions whilo holding that offico being beforo his olection as Sountor, cannot be inquired into by the Benato, This dootrine is directly contro- vorted by the report mado by Mr. Morton in the Caldwell caso., Tho whole tostimony disclosos that tho mornls and standard of honosty in Ar- knusne, at tho timo of this election, wore ns low a8 thoy ever wero in Kansas, and that is saylug o apreat deal, Thoro doos not appear to have ‘beon o man involved in the whole controversy who lindtho slightest objeotion to committing the moat dishonorablo act to accomplish his ond. Unliko tho Caldwell case, tho money in thia case seoma to Liave boon plundered from the Btate. Prosidont Grant's Innugural in Engs 1and. Bome of tho Inspired obacrvations of Presi- dont Graut's last innugural messugo ara roceived by the Pali Mall Gazelte, the Loudon Spectalor, and the Saturday Review with any thing but ray- oronco, The Prosidont's Delphio ravelation— T rathior bolleve that tho Groat Maker {a proparing the world “to bocome one uation, apeaking one Ianguago, & consummation which will rendor armies and naviés no longor necossary, 1 il enconraye and Spport any vecommiendation af Congress fending towards atich ends, —~13 rocoiyod with dorision by thoeso porverao jours nala. Tho Pall Mall Gazelle oxprosses s quiet satisfaotion in the prospact thnt Providonco i to Llinvo tho cordial co-oporation of Prosidont Grant 1n this groat work—at tho propor moment. Tha Bpeclalor looka with complacency on this aillenco of ngross and tho Almighty, under tho suspleos of President Grant, for the purposo of absorbing all orention in the Republio, Tho Baturday Revieto discovorn that— Tho modest tacilurnity which hins bhoon popularly tribiited to Gen, Grant* hna appnrontly covord. tho wildest dronns’ of “national aggraudizoment, Tho Grent Makor han often beforo luon invoked for tho ranction of ambition and Inwloss oupidity; hut oven tho conquierors who have almed nt tnivorsal empire hgve noyor beforo snnounced tholr Intention of simul- tancounly ostublishing & untvorsal lnngungo, It seoma that the American Union is to ombraco the world, snd that mankind Is hercafter to spoak olflly tho Trans- TAtlantic dinloot of English, Tho accomplishment of so marvelous a revolution would concern Frauce, dnd Gormany, and Italy, moro than Eugland, which, as 88 ono of ‘thio humbloatdopondencies of tho great Ro })!llllks, will happily bo able to undorstand and imper- otly 10 apeak tho dorainant laugungo of Dankum. Tho Presidont's mstronomical rovelations nro .| not botter recoived. Tho Speclator sgreon with him in the “ firm conviction that tho eivilized world {8 tonding toward Republicenism,” but it dooa not like to hoar tho leader of thia political oxodusi out of tho Egyptian darkness of dospot- fam say that— . “The Amorican Govornmont, and, through thelr ropresontatives, tho pooplo of our grent Iepublic ara deatined to bo the guiding star of all other countrics.” A governmont plus & peoplo can Lardly boa slar, and the wholo passago aavors too much of tho apirit satir- 120 by Dickons 1in tho words, Wo nir a great people, aud wo must bo cracked up.” Tho Saturday Review is moro savage over this stollar {magory, and suggests to the ! guiding star’ that, boforo it bogins to guide others, it clonr ita own light o littlo : Tho advautago of boing govorned by Tweeds, and Qolfaxen, and Butlers, is, at this moment, but faint) appreciated in England ; nor is tho cynical acknowl cdgment that unfounded claims woro established at Gonova caloulatod to attract respact and admirstion to tho netutoncss of tho succossful Litigant Grant hiad unfortunately died s month ay the Governmont which is to bo & nations would havo boon & _porson w) % ntely nccopted 8 paltry bribo, and who afterwards concealod his guilt by false statsmonts, A Ropublicsn nominoco for tho Dresidoncy lins just hoon convicted in his absenca by & Fronoh court of justico of a pecuniary fraud, Tho Saturday Review goes on to wonder what would bo tho offect nupon American sensitivoness it * the Queon’s speoch wero to expross a dosire fortho oatablishmont of constitational monarchy in tho Unitod Statos ?” It thinks the Americans would be fully entitled to rosent it as importi- nent. Roferring to the Prosidont's strong roc- ommondation for tho imposition of protoctive taxes, in which it saya ho ehiows both his igno- rance’of tho principles of commerco and his fidolity to tho narrow and absoloto policy of his party, the Saturday Review malkes this noat re- ductio ad absurdum ! 1t Is strango that Gon, Grant should fal to ros tho in- compatibillty of 1fs commorcial theories with his polit- fcal prophecies, on tho wholo world ing, undor Amerlcan _supremacy, become ono_nstion, spoaking ‘ono languaga, not only armied and navios, but custom- ‘touses, will dlanppoar; yot ‘t will ba as minous for Pounsylvanian iron-master to compoto with hia fellow. cltizons in Staffordshiroand 2:uth Wales a8 to encoun- tor the rivalry of the samo m. pufacturers whilo tho arostill dograded subjects of n bonighted monnrchy, 1t in searcoly to bo suproscd that the outlying Enropetn ovinoes of tho univorssl Republle will bo oxcluded tom s ntorcouro with (helr metropollsof New ork, Thoro {a ono portion of this guahing document which excitos some approhensions abroad, that Gon. Grant's guiding star is inflamed witha torritorial lust, that may kick up a vory sorions row in his univeraal happy family,—if wo may, aftor tho felicitous stylo of tho Prosident, ascribo such manifold functiona to a “ gulding star.” It {a that paseago in which tho President advisos, or, moro oxactly, says Lo ought to advise, the annoxation of Ban Domingo. This tho Spec- tator conelders the * dangorous portion of the mossnge,” and, recalling the Prosident to his “wonderful burat of highfalulin” about the one univorsal Ropublic, ploads with him not to spend livos and tronsuro in tho offort to acquiro Statos, which, s ho believes, must drop in of thomselves, oboying the irresistiblo attraction of #tho great Ropublic.” The Saturday Review, as usual, tnkes the mat- tor more to heart. Gon. Grant's statement, that the extoneion of our territory on this con- tinont would ennbla wa to rednes anr militery forco, must bo directoq, it says, againat clther *COnnada or Moxico. Noithor the British Em- piro, nor, a4 faras is known, tho Moexican Re- publie, bns auy quarrel with tho United Btatos; and any othor Governmont would shrink from tho rudoness of hinting that annoxation might produco a saving a8 well as a profit.” ono evident practical application of the Presi- dent'n hints toward annexation is to tho colonial Emnpire of Bpain. The Review sayss For some months pask tho Amorican Bocrotary of State hua by his monacing dispatches to the Spanish Govornment thrown impediments In tho way of negro omanclpution, nnd prepared tho way for armod in- torference in Cuba, There 18 no reason to bollevo that the urgency of his ropresontations hns beon ro- laxcd since tho proclamntion of the Ropublio which the Government of the United States was so eager to rec- ognizo, It is {ncrediblo thst the President should at this moment moditato any encroachment on Moxico, or on tho Dominion of Canada ; nnd thorefore it may o inferred that Lis gratuitous apology for aunoxation 1a tntonded to proparo tho way for aggression in Ouba, Tt romalna to b geen whothier elther Gongress or the people of tho United States will support the Presidont’s policy. These pna:ngu's which wo have quoted are not the hasty and ill-considered criticism of the daily press of England ; thoy arc tho thoughtful ob- sorvations of its threo woightlost political ro- views. Tho Spectator and tho Pall Mall Gazette are not unfriendly to Amorican interosts, nor aro thoy unintelligent in their current obsorva~ tions on American affairs. That with such gon- oral accord they should havo found in the Proat~ dont’s mossage 6o much that was awkward, un- diplomatic, and alien to tho intornational courte- sies which should mark o formal and important a Btato papor, sorves but to reinforco tho disap- probation which was expressod horo at the time of its delivery. A R The San Fraucisco Bulletin publishes somo startling facts with regard to the prevalenco of crimo in that city. Moro than 200 murders wore committed in San Francisco - botwoen 1851 and 1873, Inthose oases, fifty porsons woro found guilty of manslaughter, and sontonced to im- prisonment’ for a term of yoars, fourteon woro sentonced for life, and only oleven wero hanged. The Dulletin adds : | Tho rato of assassinntions in this clty st present in abont two a month, or on an aggregate of from twenty- four to thirty murdora o year, ‘Tho ratlo of capitul punishient 18 about 53 por cent of tho capital crimes, Whillo lous than 50 per cout raceive any puuishmont af sll, Thoro is & fearful incroase of capiial crimos, Huimai life 16 evory year bacomivg cheaper Liere, Wo avo triod tothink tiat for many yoars past thore wero fow citios 1n the world, and nouo in the United States, where more complate protoction to_lifo and limb was Aordod than it Ban Franchico, Dut tlie prosont ratio of crimo sliows that not less than thirly persous ara to be murdored in Ban Franclsco during tho presont year ;nud when we have tho othor fact, that, according 10 tho prosont way of adminiatering fuatice, foss thau onc-soveuth of tho murdera of tho presont yoar wili ba capitally punishiod, wo can account in part for this ine croase of assassinntion, —_— Mr, Kellogg, the Acting-Governor of Louisi sna, evidently feara that thoLouisiana proporty~ holders will act upon ths suggestion that thoy slinil run his bogua government out by rofusing to pay their taxes, Hae has recontly issucd a procinmation in which he warns all citizens of tho State againat jolning any combiuntions to resint tho payment of taxos, and says that ho undorstande such combluations have heen formod. 1lo pricks up tho tax-colleotors, notices that 82,381,321 of taxes atill romain un- paid on formor ausossmonts, and dirocts them to uso all logal moasures to insuro obodlonce to hig order, Mr. Kollogg evidently foprs thnt the primary objoct of his government—tho handling of tho monoy—msy bo dofeatod by tho pooplo who here find their only show of resistanco, Ilis proolamation sooms to indicato that the failuro to collect the taxea would bring him to terma. ki s e Tt ia probablo that the Dritish Governmont will mako some practical offort to cheok the Ohinose coolio trade, which is devoloping tho samo uiquitien in the Ohina soas as tho elaye- trado did formoly on the coastof Africa. Bir Obirles Wingflold recontly gavo notice in Parlia- mont ¢hat he would ocall up the matter for con- sidoration, Asido from tho general fnterost which England clalms to foel on the ground of Lumsnity, it has s spoclal intorost in the fact that the coolio trado is carried on maluly by the Portugueso in tho nterest of thelr coloninl pog- Bogalons, Tho procoss of kidnapping - and the other abuses practixed dlsconrago the freo omi- gration of the coolies ; and, as tho English da not entor into tho slave trado, thoir colonies are sufforing for tho want of laborers, and thoy find 1t impossiblo to compete with the rival colonios. Holf-Interost may prompt o moro dacldod intor- foroneo with tho coolio slave trade than would any considoration of humanitarinn principles. et The Omcinnntl Gazello prints an artiolo from tho Staals-Zeitung of this city on what the latjor ealls ¢ Moral Loglulation,” and makes somo sonsiblo commonts upon it. The argumont of tho Staats-Zeitung iy, that it s absurd for the Btnto to proscribo rostraints upon tho driuking of intoxicating llquors boenuno thoy ara hurtful in oxoess, whilo it falls to put any chocks upon tho hurtful influence of the oxcessive indulgonco of womon's love of droas. Itn conclusion is that intoxieating liquors * havo boon indulged in b ull timos, and among oll people known to his- tory, and, thorofore, it eannot bo in itself criminal,” Tho absurdity of tho proposi- tion s very pnlpnblo, nu the Gazelle points out, Robbory and erimes of . violonco hinvo provailed in like mannor, “at all times, sud among all poople known to listory,” but it would Do manifestly insano to hold that theso are, a8 & condoquonce, not eriminal. 'The argomont in regard to oxtravagant drons is equally illogieal. It it bo truo, na it is to somo oxtent, that tho in< dulgenco of woman's love of drout leads to many of the dofaleations and social crimos that are committed, the falluro to restrain this indul~ gonce by Inw would not justify o noglect to ro- strain oxconsivo indulgencein Intoxientingdrinks. On tho contrary, if the oxcessof drink s moro productive of erime, and moro oasily roatrained by law, than indulgenco in dross, ‘thon the logal rostraiit of tho ovils that accompany tho formor will oxorcigo o deterrent influenco upon the ovils of tho lattor. s » Tha dramatio writors are in o had way in both The |, Franco and England. In tho latter country, a docialon ling rocontly beon rendorad by which tho author of & novel i virtually deprived of any ox= clnsivo right of dramatization. 1t has beon de- cided that any ono may read tho story and use ° tho outlines of the plot for the construction of a drams, 8o long 08 ho doca not adopt tho oxact lungungo of tho dinloguo. In Franco, tha * “Boclote dos Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramn~ tiquos™ hiave undortaken a monopoly of writing playa. At o recont meoting thoy passed a roso~ lution that no thentre manager should be pore mittod to play any picco writton by himself, hia . notors, or anybody in his employ, and that no membor of the Socioty should act in concert with . any manngoer rofusing to oboy this injunction. The situation {s bocoming decidedly complis oated. G —_— The English people at present aro engaged.in tho same difflcultios with the railroad corporg- tlons a8 tho Americans, Thoro aro tho snma complaints of mismanagoment, overcharges, and unjuat digcriminatfons, In 1854 an act was pustied, one object of which was to mako It as onsy to travel ovor sovoral connecting lines as if these lincs were undor the control of a singla company. Thoact failed, howover, to accome plish its purposo, from tho fact that tho railrond corporations continunlly violated it provisions. A new bill hae now boen introduced , in tho Houss of Commona aud carried to a socond roading, without material opposition, which provides for tho appointmont of n hoard of rallway commissionors, to bo pnid by the Govornmont, whoso duty {t will bo to administer the oxisting railway lawa and seo that they aro enforced ; in other words, to carry out tho bill of 1864, with tho additional duty of onforcing the adoption by all companios of n system of through ratos and tho publication of those ratos, Cap Y —_— NOTES AND OPINION. Candidates aro now boing brought out for tha election of Oircuit Judges, in Illinois, June 2, Wo notice tho following: William H. Boyder, of Bollovillo; Mesara. Cochran, Ehallenborgor, and the newly-appointed Judge Hoplins, all of Peoria; Charlos Wheaton, of Aurora; Judga Tipton, of Bloomington; Judgo Vandeveor, of Tayloravillo. —Tho Cloveland (Republican) nominees fox tho Ohio Constitutional Convention aro Shere lock J. Androws,Jacob Muoller, Amos Townsond, 8. 0. Grlswold, and Morris E. Gallap, Tho To~ ledo (Ropublican) nomincos are Morrison R. ‘Waite and Harvey Kollogg. Tho Sandusky noms ingces are Josoph M. Root and A, W. Hendry. Other candidates nro: Mansfield district, Col. ‘Barnabas Burns ; Huron district, Cooper K. Wat+ son ; Morcor distriet, J. T. Godfroy; Knox dis= trict, Richard 8. Tnllos; Marion district, Capt. W. E. Beofield; Definnco district, Jacob J. Groeno. . S —The now State Troasurer of Iowa has got affaira in shapo to offor cash for Stato warrants. ~Gaov. Hartranft has vetoed ton acts of tha Pennsylvania Legielature,—littlo - follows, not stalwart cnough for sclf-dofenso, He lins, how- over, approved Tom Beott's big bills, aud Will- jom H. Kemblo's schomo for a stroet-railway grab in Philadolphia. ~—Bon Butlor is on the cards tobe tho noxt Gov« ernor of Massachusotts, and the Legislature could not think of consuring a Congressional stoal which ho inclted. Buch consure would ba impolitic. But tho Logislature dolights to got ina lick, 88 often as it may, on Charles Sumuer. # Thero is Massnohusottal ook at hor.” “The Virginia Logislature has olected 79 Judges to do tho work of County Judges, dis~ triotaboing croated to embrace all tho 99 counties. ° —Of tho Missouri Logislnturo, just adjourned, the Bt. Louis Republican says : The fact 18, tho scasion has been frittorod away, and tho procoodings hova not. redonnded to the cradit of tha Btato, We groatly regret having to say this, for in Dbelilf of ths Domocraoy we had promised tho people & far difforent result of list full’a eloction, - —Worse than of & session * frittered away," the La Crosse Republican, edited by s syndicato of Fodoral officehioldors, says of the Wisconsin Logislature : A’ majority of tho Assombly just adjourned waa. owned nnd controlied by tho Milwaukeo & Bt, Paul Cum!)lny, ‘whoso bidding was blindly and thoughtless: Iy followed, Thero was toa much purcimsablo ferinl fn thiat body, and what mada_it dlsgusting, w the low prico at which somo wora sold, —All our Towa, Congressmeon voted an l“difi- nant no when it ‘was proposed to steal £5,000 aploco from tho United States Tronsury, Honox to the brave, tho noble, the honest Iowvans | Per conlra, all our Town Congressmon walked straight to tho Congrossional Paymaster, pre- wontcd thoir littlo bills, nud qulotly pockotod tha ©6,000, which oach by his vote bad doclured an act of public robbory.—ZLemars Sentinel. —Tho Boston Transcript thinks that the roe nomination of brother-in-law Cuso{ by Prosidont Grant disproves tho accusntion that tho Prosis dent is sometimos * cold Iu his public relations,” This is tho_first time o _brothor-in-lny was ovey stigmatized as a public rolation.—Aew York Sun. Rellglous Rovival in Denvers Dexves, Col., March 25.—1. Hammond, the rovivalist, has boon laboring hero in_Donvex abont toi duys, Tho Govornor's Guard Hall, Tiolding about 1,500 people, lina boon fillod overy morning and evoning, and at some of the evens ing sorvices mauy wero unablo to entor the hall, On Bunday ovenlng somo of the noighboring churches woro opou to admit those from tha ovorcrowded hall, Sovoral huudred adults, sy Woll na childron and youth, have boen couverfed, and the intercst continucs this weck unabated, and porhaps incroased, 'Iho P'resbytory of Col- orado, in sassion hore on Saturday and Monday, addod fiftsen to twouty minmsters to Mr, Ham- mond's working forco, and the daily nowspapora admit that much good is belng &coomplishod through these roligious offorts, —_— Proposcd Public Buildiugs in Olncine nntl. CrxomwNaty, O, March 25,—Tho Commissfon~ era_to prooure & sito for tho now Covernment buildingu in this oity to-day oponed propositions for grounds forsuch bulldings. There wora fivo ropositions, Nouse of thom wera completa for. | rha ontire site. 'The prica for the whola sita indicated by tho bids ranged from $590,000)to 785,000, Tho two sitow proposed for are within a squaro of tho present Government buildings, ‘I'he others wore from twa to eix sauarea distantd x