Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 31, 1873, Page 4

“ratos, and the Blate TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. A OF SUDNORTION (PAYABLE 1N m‘“:‘" 812,00 Bund 82 Aetdrannccr: 3 &:00) Wk 338 Parts of & year at tho samo ralo, o provent dolay and mistakos, bo sure and gtve Poib Office addross In full, including Btate and County, Tomittances may bo mado oithor by dealt, oxpress, Post OfMeo ordor, or In reglaterod Iettors, at our risk. TRRMS TO CITY SUDSONIDENA, Bundey grcaptad, 25 conts por wack. Dallr deliverads Sy Saciodsd; 00 oenis hor waok, Addrows o THE TRIDUNI COMPANY, Ohieaxo, Tl BUNE, FIRST PAQI-Tho Farnors' Movomont: Farmors® Con. vontions nt Orogon, Oglo Uounly, and Bomonauk, DoKalb County; Lettors from Roprosontatives Domont and Marsh~TYorelgn Nows—Miscallansous Tolegrams. > AT.OOND {PAGR—Baturdas's Procosdings in the Iiinols Gonoral Asssmbly—~Now York, Washlogton, and Forolan Now: TIIMD PAGE—Capital Punishment: Bormon by tho Tov. Dr. Rydor—~The Now Court-Houso [communt. eatlon]—Dagoration Day—The LaCrosso Dridge BUL in tha Wisconsin Logislaturo—Rallroad Timo-Table . —Advortisomonts. 5 FOURTH PAGE—Editoriats: Tho Springflold Conven- tlong Tho Tax on Kaports; A Droadful Affar; Gur- ront Nowa Paragraphs. FIFTH PAGE—Tho Farm and Garden—A Porilous Blt- uation—A Word with a Busy-Body~Manufacturos: An Kabibit from the Consus Roport—Markots by Tolograph—Advortisenicnts. BIXTIH PAGE—Monotary aud Commorctal. BEVENTH PAGE-Tho Uourts—8troot-Car RuManism— Hinall Adverttsomenta: Roal Estato—For Sals, To Tont, Wantad, Banrding, Lodging, ito, EIONTI! PAGR—Washington Lottor—Springfiold Lot- tor~Clty in Brlot—Porsonsl ltams~Fuburban Nows Advortisomonts TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ATKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avonuo, aorner of Con- grosastroot, Lingagemont of McKoe Rankin. **Rip Van Winkle." MVICKEI'S THEATRE-Madison streot, botwoon to and Doatborn. **Artiolo47." " I{GOLEY'S OPERA_TIOUSE—Randolph straet, bo- weon Olark and LaSaily, ‘‘T'ate,” ACADGMY OF MUSIO— ialitod strest, south of Madlson, Engogomont of Olara, **Bunlight.” MYERS' OPRRA TIOUSE—Monroa straot, botwoon fBtste snd Doatborn. Arlington, Colton & Kombla's Miustsol and Durlesquo Troupo. *' Julius Snsozor.” AMPHITIIEATRIE —Olinton, botwoon Wilder & Co.'s NIXON'S Waahlugton and Randolph stroota. Nations] Clrous. OTICES. ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERV. THE EXTRAOR. ganey deantog, il (3o placo ot the 24 of Apti, 165, TR T R A ankors, 10 WalLst. § Fost-oflico Tiox 4,6, Now York.”” The Chicags Tibune, Monday Morning, Maroh 91, 1873, The Ropublic was declared for by a meoting of English workiogmon at Shoffield, Baturday. Tho proposal that through railroad traflic should bo put undor Fedoral care, is spproved by the Committos, in tho Logislature, on Fod- eral Relotions. They roport in favor of the bill- aaling Congross to put to voto an amondmgfis 1o the Constitution, making railronds /ny‘u high- ways, and empowering Congross g fix through atures to fix local xatos, A voto of censuraagainst the Congressmen form thia Btate who voted for the salary stealwas prasad somo time ago by the House, and, Satur- day, came boforo the Senate. An amondment was offored to tho Houso resolution, subjecting the Prosident to the samo rebuke ns the Con- grossmon, but nothing was done with oither raso- 1ution or amondment boyond ordoring them to bo printed. Postmastor-Goneral Croswoll asks the Attor- ney-Genoral whothor tho Governmont has not the xight to protect the postal interests of tho coun- try against tho conrse threatoned by the rail- ronds, who, although thoy have yielded for tho momont, may renow their menaco in the fature. Ho put six questions to the Attorney-Gonoral, tho substanco of which is, whother tho Govern- ment may not run postal-cars of its own, when tho rallroads rofase to do g0 ; and, If not, what the Post-Ofiice can do in such a crisls to save tho Immense postal interests of tho country from rumnous confusion ? From the first, tho isolated and hoatile spirit of tho Bpanich army has beon drondod ns one of the groatout obataoles to the success of the Ropub- lo. How woll foundod those foars have been is soen in tho failure of tho attempt to rosouo Borga from tho Carlists, on account of tho do- portions and demoralization of the governmental troops. Tho samo disorder is spoiling tho rest of therrmy. Otherwiso, Spanish nows continuesan surchie picturo of rovolts, pillago, lynch law, and fruitloss conecriptions. A new olement of distross is added in the statomont that the Span- ish Treasury and Republican credit aro ot a low obb, In copying from the New York Staats-Zeitung = list of Amorican railway securities that had beon nogotinted in Germany, which are now quoted on the Frankfort Exchange at from one- qunztor to one-half of what they were sold for, Tur TRinuNE montioned the fact that the Gor- man bondliolders in the Rockford, Rock Island & 8t. Louis Rond Liad surrondored ono-half their bonds in the hopa of gotting the intorost on the other half, and added: *And they aro now dis- appointod oven in this.” Tho latter part of the statomont proves to ba incorreet. The Company has so far paid the intercat on the remaining half of tho bonds, and recontly paid the Fobruary coupons. Bomo dnys ngo tho Wall stroot dispatch to Tite TRInUNE, montioned that tho present man- agors of tho Westorn Union Tolegraph Company dnd sold out tholr stock some timo sincoat nbout 70 centn, baving carried it since it was worth only 85 or 40 cents. It was furfhor statod that tho Vandorbilt party bad bought and run tha ntock up to 83 centa (it was 803 cents on Baturday), that tho prosont mnnagers declined tobuy baock at that figure, and would conso- quently rotire at tho oxpiration of their presont torm of oftice, and had already mado arrange- monts to take chargo of the various oppo- sition tolograph linos consofidated. This state- mont {a confimed in tho monoy article of the Nalion, The consolidation of the opposi- tion lines 1s #nid to havo actually oceurred, snd 1f their managoment shall be undortaken by Mr. Orton and the oxporionced Bauagoera of the ‘Wostorn Union, tho result will be alasting and formidable competition, The public aro to be congratulated on thia condition of things, if it bo truo. The result will bo active competition, lower ratos for mossages, and a widor oxtansion of tolegraph facllition. The Chicago produco markota wore less sc- tivo on Baturday, excopt in provisions, and stondior. Moss pork was active and strong, ndvancing G0@600 per brl, and closing at $15.40 cash, and $15.05 soller May, Lard was quiot and unobanged st $8.06@8.10 per 100 1bs cash, and 6,20 ecllor Moy, Moats wore motivo apd 3¢o highor, at BY$@0o for shoulders, (@730 for short ribs, 7}{@8o for short oloar, and 10@ 120 for nwoot ploklod hsms., Highwines woro quict and unchangod at B6}{@87o por gallon, ko frolghts woro dull and nominal at 100 for com to ‘Buffalo, Flour was dull and onslor, ‘Whoat was quiot and 3¢e lower, closing at £1.183¢ @1.19 onsh, nnd $1.223¢ sollor May, Corn was quiot but & shado strongor, closing at 805¢@33c casly, and 8430 sollor May. Oata woro quiot and ntondy, olosing ab 2524@203¢0 cosh, and 283¢0 soller May, Ryowas quictand firm nt6i}¢@ 6o, Barloy was dull and 2@30 lowor, closing at 74340 for rogular No, 2, or sollor April, Live hoga woro motive st a furthor advauce, pricos going to 86.20@0.05. Tho cattlo and sheop markots woro modoratoly sotive and stoady. Tho conflict botwoen cortain Enatorn railroad companion and tho Postmastor-Gonoral, with roforonco to incranssd componeation for trans- porting tho mails in post-offico cars, has Iulled somowhat, but thero is no guaranteo that it may not broak out again. It cortalnly cannot bo de- forred lator than tho noxt mooting of Congross, Tho Postmaster-General, in informing theso ronds that tho componsation for mail sorvico is fixod by Inw, and that he cannot chango the ratos presoribod by Congross, hos statod his ultima- tum., Ho can do nothing furthor until Congross moots, whon ho may nek for more powor to con- trol tho rallroads, For tho prosent, the raflronds bave informed Postal-Suporintendont Baugs, who has boen in consultation with thom in Now York, that thoy will not rofuse to run postnl carg. Thoy will carry tho mails ns before, but will appeal to Bonator Windom and the Postal Committce for & ro- port favorablo to tho justico of their domands. Thoy will also pross tholr claims upon tho noxt Congross, which they hopo will date back thoir incropsed componsation as it did ita own oxtra pay. THE SPRINGFIELD CONVENTION. On Wodnosday noxt, one of tho most import- ant gatheringa which have ovor assembled in Ilinoln will meot at Springflold. This gather- -ing will bo composed of mombers of the State Farmors' Association, and roprosentativea of tho clubs and granges in every part of tho Btato, who will meat togothor in the Stato Copital, to consult upon questions of the day which vitally concorn thom, and unito thomseclves more closoly togother - for self-protoction againat tho oxactions of monopolies, which are dovouring their substanca, gravity of tho situation justifics this meoting. Tho primary object of this Convention is touran: upon the Leglslaturo prompnesa i dispatch 1o perfooting mooouros of, Zliof. This, howoy- or, ia hordly necosesry, Tho Legislaturo, which flmbfl"‘flql“.".'mny farmora in ita organization, ap- “Celatos tho importance of tho situation, sud, on tho vory day upon which the Farmors’ Associa- tion meots, will havo undor considoration the va- rious bills which aro intended to moct the cago. It is making as rapid progress as could bo ex- pected. Iissty action in such an Important mattor as this is to bo doprocated, It might only benofit nobody- and do tho farmors sorious harm, in putting off still further the romedy for the ovils of which thoy complain. Thoyhave no roason to doubt that tho Legislature will devoto itself to this important matter with duo prompt- noss and enorgy. The little cloud which waa no bigger than a man's hand, a fow months ago, has now as- sumed large proportions, Tho farmers of Illincis have novor bofore been In 1 position whero thoy could wleld so much influonce in determining tho comploxion of curront ovents. They nre now joined togothor into .an oarnost and compact organization of 100,000 mombors, with the power to do nlmost anything. Neovor bofore havo thoy hed such an opportunity to loave o last- ing impross wupon the more important isgues of the day, and to infuso their own, idems with tho body politie. The timo is ripe for the farmors to form the nucleus of & party organization which shall em- ‘brace all classes who aro now, and have beon for o long time, sufforing from tho tyranny and ex- tortions of monopolies, and who eco no presont way out of thoir bondago. Railrosdmonopolies, serious as thoy aro, aro not tha only grivances undor whick the people are gronning, and the whole country will listen with oagor attention to the farmers, if thoy spoak out boldly snd firmly against all theso ovily, and demand that thoy shall be oradicated. Let them condemn not only tho unjust discriminations and high charges of railronds, but also the systom of pro- tectivo tariffs, which compols both farmers and railroads to pay bountios for the nocossaries of lifo; which lays its oxcessive tax upon overy tool aud machino which tho farmor uses in his labor, and overy blankot and carpot ho brings into his house ; overy pieco of lumber in his buildings and foncing ; every pound of sult aud ovory yard of cloih which houses. ot them condemn the corruptions which aro running riot in tho administration of public affairs, and de- mand that tho frauds and dofaleations, tho pick- ings and stealinga of offico-holders, shall coase. Lot thom condemn the flagrant waste of the public monoy and lands in the form of subsidies to stoamboat and railraad corporations, procurad by corrupt influences. Lot thom domand that the civil sorvico shall bo purified, that tho Gov- ornmont sball fulfil its promises to carry out the regulations which havo boon made, and that tha servico ghall nevor be disgraced again by tho appointment and confirmation of such culprits ng Cagoy and Holdon. Lot thom set the sonl of their condomnatipn upon thoso Congrossmen ‘who porpotrated the salary grab, and lot thom domand that tho iniquitous bill bo ropoaled. Theso aro mattera of tho gravest moment, in condomnation of which the farmers should ox~ pross thorneelvos id*no uncertain mannor, and, forthesupprossion of which thoyeliould oarneatly Inbor. This benoficial rosult, which would bo o blossing to the whole country as woll as to thoemsolves, it is within tholr power to accomp- lish, if thoy havo tho wisdom and courage to do 803 and their action will bo followed by tho farmers of every Northorn State, and by the overtaxed and overburdoned laborors of the Bouth. It la usolosn to look to any oxisting party for tho corroction of thexo' ovils, Tho objact for which the Ropublican party was organized was tho overthrow of Amorican slavery and ita edjuucts, and, when it accomplishod that, itareal mission was ended. Thoro is nothing left for it to do but to make monoy for its loaders, and this it is doing; its only publlo mission, meanwhilo, being to hammer awsy at tho dead corpae of slavery. Since its last gnthoring nt Philadolplia, it hos not accomplished a single substantinl measure of good to tha country at largo; on the other haud, when glaring ovils have boon brought to its attention, it haa proved itsolf Incompotont to suppress or offectually condomn them. The Domocratic baity is in a The |’ tilt moro hopolens attitude, To mnko now ro- forms, it ls noconsary to commence da novo, and to act indopendently of those who aro rospon- siblo for tho ovils which must bo roformed, Rub out, commonco anow, tako & frosh start unim- poded by any old party trammols—that ia the only way to necomplish any subatantial bonofit to the farmors or tho country. Tho people wiil loolk anxiously to tho farmers on Wodnosdny next, snd, while they will bid them God-speed in well dircoted offorts to throw off the railrond yoke, thoy will also oxpoct thom, now that thoy hisve thoe opportunity, to make thelr influonce folt in tho gront work of national purification and ro- form which intimately concorns overy farmor in Lis dutlos na ncitizen. Lot them romombor, whatover tho politiclans may tall thom, that the movomont I8 in tholr own hands, and that thoy aro atrong onough to control and direct it. They aro a majority of tho pooploot this country. GEN, FREMONT'S CASE. Late Parls correspondenco brings an ncoount of tho preliminaries in the proseoution of tho partios who nogotinted tho Momphis & El Paso (Transcontinontal) Rallroad bonds, which recent- 1y roeulted in tho conviction of Gen. Fremont and tho othors associated with him, and the son- tonce of tho formor to five yonrs' imprisonment. The accusod wora Gon, Fromont; Baron Qauldroo-Boilloau, his brothor-in-law;* Messrs. Probet, Lossignol, Paradis, Aufformann, Cramp- on and Paupinol, When Gen, Fromont's namo was called in court, and ho was found to bo ab~ gont, ho was forthwith doclared to bo n fugitive from justico. The swmo decloration was made ogaingt Probst ond Aufformnann, who wora also absont, Tho others among.tho nc- cused woro prosont, and it {8 to bo prosumed that thoy have already entered upon the soveral torma of imprisonment to which thoy woro con- domned. Tha cage mado out by the French Governmont is cortalnly a very curious one. The main thing which secured tho Introduction of the Trans- continontal bonds on tho Parls Bourso, n clr- cumstanco that rocommended them directly to tho Fronch people for investment, was the pub-~ lieation and circulation of a falso and fraudulent cortificato, of which the following is a copy « * Dy ordor of tho Board of Diractors 1t is certified by theso presonta that the firat mortgago bonds of tho lands of tho Memphia & El Paso Raiiroad, which Liavo Tioon fesued I two corlos of $5,000,000 cach, amount~ ing fn all o $10,000,000, in bonds botwoon $100 and $1,000, aro admitted to salo in tho New York Ex- chango, This cortificato was signod. “Sjfticor Van Nor- mon, Beoretaxy,” and Spencor Van Norman's 4tritity woa attosted by * Frodorick Kapp, No- tary Public, No, 4 Wall stroet.” Tho cortificate was dated Oot. 27,1808, It was subscquently nscortained that no such porson as Sponcer Van Norman over oxisted, and, consequently, could not havo beon Secrotary of any New York Ex- chongo. It was also ascertained that Froderick Xapp, tho Notary Publio, had died sometimo be- foro tho 27th of October, 1808, the dato of the cortificate. Tho authorship of this falso cortifl- | cato could not Lo tracod, but it was used by the Paris managers of tho Momphis & El Paso schomo to obtain tho official guotation of the bonds in Franco. This project was fur- thor advanced by contracts which woro made with prominont Fronch manufacto- rics. Tho locomotives woro ordered from Andre Koochlin, of Mulhouse, and tho rails of the Vozin-Aulnoyo Company, of Manhonge. Tho amount of tho orders was $2,800,000, half to be paid in cnsh and half in bonds, but it was mado & condition of tho contracts that the bonds must first bo admittod to official quotation. Othorwiea tho contracts were to bo null and void, In this mannor, tho most powerful manu-~ facturing Intorests of Franco woro enlisted to gecuro tho snccessful introduction of the worth- lcea bonds, To this was added the influenco of Baron Gauldree-Boilloan, who had been Congul- Gonernl ot Now York. Theso combined influ- onces socured an official quotation on the 8th of March, 1869, and on thio 15th of March the Bourse was notiflod to this effect. Now bogan the worl of tho brokors of the ring. Probst had authority from Fromont to soll £5,000,000 of Londs st 2 minimum price of 60 per cont. Trobat turnod over his authority st a profit to Crampon, Crampon sold his contract to Paradis and mado agood thing ; and Paradig sold tho bonds, by public subscription, nt 75 conts on the dollar. Tho sum of £20,000 was exponded in advortising in ton Paris nowepapers, the sum of $12,000 for special puffs, and the “sum of £8,000 on the pro- vincial press, Crampon and Paradis started nowspapers of their own, connceted with their bureaus, which mado the most extravagant re- presontetions, and tho walls of Parls wero covered with maps and posters of the great trans-continental route. After the snlo of the bonds had progressed fa- vorably for some time, public interest began to foll off. It was considored necossary to fnvent somo now coup. Gon. Fromont was sent for. Ho apposred in Paris as ** the American Gon- ernl,” wroto soveral communications to tho Paris nowspapers, . and published o pamphlot enti- tled “ Exhibition of the Posilion of the Mom- phis, Bl Pago & Pacifio Company.” o ropre- sonted in thoso documonts that tho Company controlled nll the railronds botween . Norfolk, Va., and Moemphis, Toun., and betweon Momphis and 8an Diogo, thus giving an uninterrupted lino botwoen tho Atlantic and Paciflc Ocosns, About this time protesta wero mado by various porsons, among thom Qon, Cluseret, but * thoy wore quickly suppressed by tho influenco on tho Tremont side. A new impoius was given to tho saleof tho bonds. In 1870, those com- plnints wore ronowed, and they prevailed upon the Government to selzo the papors and attach tho effects of tho Company. Thie was done July 232, 1870. TFrom these papors it was discovored that the French poople Lad paid $4,128,004 for Momphia and Ll Paso bonds, Only £407,866 of this smount wero found in the possession of the Company. The sum of £396,219 had boon usod, though a part of tho capital, to pay tho coupons talling duo in July, 1809 ; £28,163 had been ox- pondod in ealarios. Of tho balanco, £1,208,224 is allegod to have beon takon off to Amoriea by Fromont, and €1,090,049 remsined in Franco, divided smong tho local promotors of the schemo. The avidenco of 3, Lisuignol at tho trinl was particularly curious and interesting, IHo, and all the others of tho accused who woro presont, desired to throw tho entiro rosponsibility upon Fremont, and thoy claimed that they also Lad boen doceived by him, But M, Limsiguol went furthor etill, and blamed the whole Amorican poople for the fraud that hnd boon prastised upon the Fronch. In ono place ho says: “I have ninco aecortained that thoro is not the loast npocies of morality in Amorica.” ITo blamed the common custom, Which ho hold could not bo un- derstood in Franco, of railroads mortgaging what thoy did not possess, but what thoy promised to purchaso, He claimed that {ho oase must bo adjudgod according to Amorican customs, ‘'and unfortunataly," ho added, “Imustconfossitnow, Amorleans fn gonoral must ho extromoly dia- trustod, oven mombora of Congross and tho ‘most ominent mon of the country.” From thoso and similar oxprossions in tho mouth of & Parls” brokor, who had nogotlatod Memphis & El Paso bonds, wo may form some ides of tho estimato placed upon Amorican raflroad bouda abroad. Thoro has boen somo tall about thio Fronch @Govornmont meking a demand upon the Amorl- can Government, under tho oxiradition troaty, for tho surrendor of Qon. Fremont to sorve out tho imprisonment to which he has beon con- domnod, Xtisnot probablo that this demand will bo mado. It could not bo sustainod, The oxtradition troaty botweon Franco and tho Unlted Biatos demands the eurrondor of orimi- nals undor the following nconentions: Mur- dor, attoropt to commit murdor, rapo, forgery, arson, embozzloment by public officors when punishable with infamous punishment, robbory, burglary, and the class of erimes known 88 vol qualifle crime,. The offonso for which Gon. Fromont has boen condemned to fivo yoars' imprisonment does not como under any of theso olasa!fications. A DREADFUL AFFAIR. - There was a timo whon Kontucky was known 28 tho “dark and bloody ground,"—that ie, when ovorything, however faintly resembling a poreonal aflront, wns o ceuso for war, not only ‘botweon those immediately concorned, but often wholo families and communitios, - Things have changed; and Olark County, tho capital of which 15 Wincheater, furnishes tho ovidonco how groat that olirugo has boon.: In thotown of Wincheator roaido two physicians,—Dr, II. O. Ifart, who measures 6 foot 8 inchos, and Dr. W. O, Walkor, who moasures only 6 feot. Doing rivals, thoy Avoro not friondly. On March 7, Dr. Hart visited o pationt four miles from town; on his way back ‘ho mot Dr. Walker, who had beon called to seo tho same porson. Walkor, discovering that he bed beon anticlpated, wheolod his horse ond gallopod back, leaving Haré bohind him. ‘Whilo temporarily dotained nt tho toll-gato, Hart passod him. Walker whipped up his nsg and _Hoon, ovortook Hart, but the latter, urging his own horso, rofused to bo boaton. They both ‘rodo in this way for o milo, the horsos boing at tholr best spood, and neither rider uttoring a word. At last, Walker gainod, and, as ho came “abrenst of his rival, thero ocourrod an incidants which is thus doseribod; . """ " 5.7, Yliscing a part of Lia right hand on the right Bldo of hisnesal projection, and giving & violent out~ brosthing, nslsted by o strong March wind in their facos, discliargod tho contonts of the left orifico in the faco of his pursuer. This in Kentucky; and bys gontloman | Wallker at once rode up to the offender, and, with his riding-whip, boat him soveroly, and then rode on -to town. Flvo dnys aftor, Hart sont a challonge ; but frionds wore at work to sottlo the matter. The next day, Walker wroto, doolining, a8 o “ Olrigtinn gentloman," to accept o challongo, ‘but announced his purpose of defonding himselt in o stroot-fight. On the 1Gth, Hart denounced ‘Walker a8 “a liar, scoundrel, poltroon, and cow- ard."” Tho parties have been bound over to koep thio poaco, and Winchester is quiot. ' 1In tho courso of the long corroapondenoe, Dr. ‘Walkor uses his utmost offorts to have Hart do- clare that the noso-blowing was not intondod as an insult, in which case ho offers to apologizo for thobenting ; but Hart, having discovorod that Walker would not fight a duel, sticks to tho challengo, leaving the world to undorstand that 110 a1d blow bis noso, did receive o beating, and hos been robbed of the satisfection due to o gontleman. And to this deservedly low stato has fallen tho codo in Kentucky, whore once it was held tho highost privilegs of & gentloman to be shot in oold blood. THE TAX ON EXPORTS, It should bo borne in mind by those who pro- duco corn and other farm crops, that overy duty or tax lovied on imports from foreign countrics is a tax collocted from thoso who oxport tho art~ icles oxohanged for thom. Thia fact is easily domonstrated : Tho United States produce a lsrge annual surplus of agricultural products ; this surplus has tobsoxported; in foroign marlk- ot¢ in compotition with tho surplus crops of Russis, Poland, flungary, and the" countries on the Meditorranean, The price of Amor- ican grainis determined in the foreign market ; the price in tho foroign market detorminos the prico in tho ome markoet, and back to the crib of the producer. Tho price in the forelgn morket being tho maximum, the pricoatthe place of growth ia precisoly what is loft aftor paying the whole cost of transportation, hand- ling, commissions, taxes, and profits, Every oxpense attending the grain from tho time it lonves tho farm until itis sold in Liverpool is paid out of tho procoeds, and what happons to Lo left is tho not earnings of tho producer. This in clonrly understood by ovérybody, and by nono more so than by tho farmora. DBut this is not tho only dissdvantage under which thoy labor. With the procoeds of bLis orop tho farmer lms fto purchase othor commoditics, On these commodi- tios Congress Lns imposed a tax avoraging 60 por cont, Bo that, whon tho farmer recoives tho prico of his corn or pork, and proposcs to exchango it for such things as ho noeds, ho is mot by a tax averaging 50 porcont on the ox- chango commoditics, For overy dollar's worth of iron orsteel which ho exchanges with tho foroignor who buys his grain ho givos tho pro- coeds of fivo bushels of corn to pay for the ar- ticlo, and two bushels anda Lalf in addition to pay tho tax. It is immatorial whero tho exchango ia made—swhothor in London, Liverpool, Now Yorl, Ohieago, Peoria, Rook Talnud, Dos Moinos, or 8t Paul; whorever it is mndo, this tariff tax is col- looted in the price of tho goods. Nominally, itisa tax on theiron, blankets, or cloth, but, in fact, it is s {ax on tho corn, wheat, pork, cotton, choose, or othor commodity given in oxchango thorofor. If thia country produced no more grain or provis- {ona than wa consumod at home, and therofors bad nothing to soll, producors might fix their own prices; but, 80 long 88 we produce moro than wo oat, and lave something over tosoll, then so long witl the price of tho wholo produck borogulated by what can, bo obtained for the surplus. Bo that it is Immatorial to tho producer whothor his corn be converted into cash, or ex- chiangod for dry goods in Chicago, New York, or Livorpool, ho paya out of tho proceeds the tax lovied by fhe tariff on tho arti- cles he rocoives in oxchamgo. Whethor the corn bo sold in Chicago, Now York, or Liver~ poo}, ono-third of it {a conflacatod to pay the tax lovied by tho tariff, The farmor who sonds 1,000 bushels of corn from Pontiso, Ill., to Lon- don, thore to be #old, tho proceods, nfter paying tho froight, to bo investod in dry goods or other commodities, must send forward 500 bushols more to pay the tax which Congress hes lovied ou thd return goods. In other words, tho tarift {mporos » tax of §00 bushols of graln upon each 1,000 bshols oxportod from this country, and this tax on tho oxport of gratn fs collocted from tho producor whonover the graln is con- vorted into from, sleol, cutlory, palnts, oll, enlt, blankets, oarpots, cotton, or woolon goods, quinine, or anything olso upon whioh the exorbitant nnd. unnocessary duty 1a imposod. Tho same tax s collocted on the beot, pork, Iard, cut meats, tallow, wheat, ryo, barloy, onts, flour, and all othor produots of sgriowlture, For overy dollar's worth of theso thatis gold by tho producor, he must doliver fifty conta’ worth moro to pay tho tax which the Govornment lays on its valuo, Evory farmer, in ordor to obtain tho markot valuo of ton hogs, must doliver fiftoon, tho additional five boing to poy tho tax lovied by tho Governmont upon tho export valuo of thoton. Of cattlo, or shoop, tho rulo is tho samo—flvejadditional hoad aro ro~ quired to pay tho tax on tho procceds of ovéry ton sold. Fifty oxtra bushols of wheat muat bo furnishied to pay tho tax lovied on the procoods of every 100 oxportod. And this taxisnot lovied for rovenuo, but for tho bonefit of cortaln priv- flogea classos who aro not farmors. This tax is lovied nund porpotuated by mon in Congross who hold their seats as law-makers by tho votes of the very farmors who are thus taxed. Apropos of the recommondation made by Mr. Charlos Francis Adams, Jr,, that Massachusotts shall imitato tho Bolgian system of controlling one or moro main linos of railroad in tlic Stato, in ordor thoroby to regulato rallroad tariffe, writor in the New York Sun givos some of the dotalla of the system provailing in Bolgium, Tho enrliost rallrond linos in that country woro constructed by the Governmont os public works. Subsequontly, privato companios woro orgsnized for tho building of othor ronds undor ninsty-year charters, tho roads to bocomo tho proporty of tho Governmont at tho expiration of this torm. Tho Government rotainod tho priviloge, however, of construoting and oporating compoting lines a8 s safoguard ngainst monopoly. Tho relative proportion of Governmont nnd private linos under this system hing boon as follows: In 1850, tho State hold 64 por cont of the railroads, and privato companies, 80 por cont; in 1860, privato capitah woraclled 67 por cont, and tho Govgmanent only 83 per cont; in 1873, tho Gmiornmont controlled 42 por cont. wnid ton privato companies hold tho ro- “Haining 68 por cont. Tho Govornment ovidently found it neceasary to own moro that 93 por cent, in ordor to carry out its principle of rostraint, and o oxtonded its purchases and lenses. In the meantimo, consolidn- tionhas boon the tendoncy among tho private companies, which haa onabled thom to hold thelr own ogainst the Governmeont. It sooms, that maximum rates of faro and froight aro fixed in tho chartors under whick tho companios are originally organized. It is safo to assume that theso aro oxceedingly liboral, however, as tho railroads aro profitablo, and as thore is no con- flict with the Government on this point. Tho rates aro increased or-lowered bolow this maxi- mum according to the condition of things, and under the suporvision of the Ministor of Publio Worka. Asido from this, thore is no attompt to exorcise Governmont interforonce with the pri- vato ronds, oxcopt in a police powor for purposes of snfoty. Tho lateat intolligonce from Spain shows that tho Carlist cause is looking up. The Spanish troops havo boen aovorely dofoated, aud many of | tho grent cities uro now monaced by the insur- gonts. Tho garrison of Barcolons, which has for n long time been cooped np in the citadel, bos at last mutinied. Pampaluns, the strong capitalof Navarro, is in serious danger of cap- turo, and will bo made the baso of operations sgaingt Madrid, in which direction the King is actively propariog to march. Meanwhile, tho Ro- publicans sre distraoted with Communal disturb- ances, and Oronso (tho Marquis do Albnids), tho groat apostlo of Spanish Republicanism, lis ar- rived at Madrid, with a purely visionary scheme for o Ropublic, which nover can bo realized ox- copt in Utopls, but which assumos unusual im- portanco from the fact that ho is Hkely to bo the futuro Drosidont of the Republic, if it lnata long onough. The condition of Spain ia forcibly do- ploted in the following extract from a letter to the Pall Mall Gazelle : Tho Carlfsts collect faxes, foreo lonns, and 18suo pass- ports which thelr followers respect, Thoy hold the rallways everywhero, burning stations, and cutting viaducts whon compelled to givo way bofore superior forces, Tho country and tho season aro allke n favor of theso irregulara, They aro used from thofr child- hood to scanty fare, rough weatlor, and mountain ‘work, In their ranks they have guldes in sbundanco to unfroquented passcs that the rgular columns would shun a8 fmpracticablo. Thoy bave spiea everywhiere, "oy have no Leadquarters to protect, nor Leavy bag- gago traina to fotter tholr movoments, On tho othor Laud, tho regular troops mwst mass themsclves, in sclf-defence, in a country naturally {ll- adapted to operations en masee; thoy must operate by cumbersomo movements, and attempt dif- fleult combiuntions sgaiust an encmy who neod never fight If he prefers to fly, and who scarcely loses pros- tigo eithor by Totroat or defeat. Above all, tho foel- inga of the population are strongly enlisted in favor 8¢ Carlism if not of King Charles. Tho Basques are not fighting for absolutlum, cxcept In 80 far 08 evesy truo Spaniard loves o strong-hauded muatoer, but for thoso fucros of old livoral privilegen which Liborallem Ling Litherto threatencd aud Oarlism promises to socure, In addition to this, tho Church is fighting on tho sido of the King. Agsinst such a combina- tion of dangors, tho prospects of the Spanish Tepublic wears a mast gloomy look. Tho later dovelopmeonts in the Goodrich mur- dor ¢ase of Brooklyn put s somowhiat difforent conatruction upon tho crimo from that given in Tur. Tripune of Saturdey. It now appoars that Goodricl's fntimnoy with tho woman AMyors had oxelted tho jonlousy of & Spaniard nzmed Pedro, who had also sustained criminal rolations with her. Ho Lad proviously made an attack on Qoodrich in Mrs. Myors' house, and, on the even- Ing of tho murdor, it is supposed thab he fol- lowod the woman, eaw hor ontor Goodrich's houso, forcod an ontrance at a Iater hour, found Lia mistross and rival in bed togother, and killed tho lattor in & fit of jenlousy. At tho same timo, therols anothorcomplication in tho allogod seduc- tion, by Goodrich, of a girl named Kato Stoddard, lia Intontion of doserting lor to marry a Miss Olem, and his deceiving Kato Stoddard as to this by a false marrisgo, It may turn out that theso circumstances aro in somo way connoctod with tho commigslon of tho crime, In auy caso, it is ovidont that Goodrich was a confirmad, deliber- ato, and heartloss liborting, who brought death upon himeelf by tho gross jmmorality of hia con- duct, Whilethis fact in no way relioves the erimo of any of its horrors, it should cortainly not fall to stand as a warning sgainst illicit indulgencs, and a8 an Indication of iho inovitablo rosnlts that vico of.thiy kind is sure to produce in somo form or other. Attontion Ly “to tho fact that Amorica i3 by no moana the only country whore omotlonal or sympathotie juries are found. Franco Las latoly had soveral jurloa of thia kiud that haye boon ablo to Aind oxtonuating olr- oumstanoos whero tho unprofossional oyo can discovernothing bat tho most atroclous horrora, Thero was ono chgo in which an ontorprising far- mer had marriod throo young womon succos- slvaly, for thelr small dowerios, and killed thom oft in 08 rapid sucoossion, In his Iaat matrimo- nlal vonturo, o found it nocessary to kill an unole and a brother, in sddition fo tho bride, in ordor to got at his wife'a ostato. In this ho was discovored, but & French jury allowod him to escapo capital punishmont. In another ‘oaso, on tho publio highway, and while the family was on the way to ohurch, a young man namod Gragsot soizod o girl and atteraptod to Liss hor. Bhe rosisted, and ho pulled a pistol from his pooket and shot hLor, doliberately firing throe othor shots as she foll from tho offoots of the first. Even this young bruto was pormitted to oseapo the scaffold, as Linva sovoral othora olearly proved gullty of murdor quite aa revolting. The Now York Tribune finds horein an argument againat capits! punishment, bringing out tho old theory that, it it wero not for tho hanging, convictions for murdor would be moro oaay and cortadn, Tho Nation makes & good anawor to this In reply, when it admits that conviotion would always follow if tho punishmont of hom- Ieldo was & montl's imprisonment. But this is certainly no roason why the doath penalty should bo aboliaked. Tho London Daily News, in & long articloupon tho mont supply of Great Britain, presents some interosting statintical facts. Tho mctual num- bora of cattle, shoop, and swine in the United Kingdom in 1872 were as followa: Catilo, 5,024,004; shoop, 27,021,507; swine, 2,771,449, otal, 36,818,250, Thoro hna beon o decreaso in tho number of swine in Ircland aud sn immonse falling off in tho Importations of llye pigs from foroign countrios; both these causes, how- over, boing mora than balanced by o Iargo incroaso in tho importations of ba- con and hama. Tho hope of the for oign moat supply, the News ntates, is in tho importation of doad meat and not of living ani- male, Tho chiof incroaso is in bacon and ks, 1,996,745 cwy nt which woro imported in 1873, _priwipally from tho United Btstes, A ourious foaturo of this meat-supply question ia tho de- clinoin pork. It averaged sovenponco & pound in 1869, foll halt & farthing in 1870, mado a furthor fall of a farthingin 1871, and in 1872 averaged sizpenco farthing, while all othor meat rose 88 much as pork fell. Beof ia choaper than mutton ; venl only two-thirda tho prico of lamb ; and pork tho cheapost of all. Wheat-Culture in the Valley of the Saskatchowan, As an article of food, whoat stands nt the hoad of all our coroals. As such, its importanco to tho higher physical and intelloctual dovelopment of mankind baalong been undorstood and ap- preciated. Honco, as civilizod nations increaso in populntion, the sources from which & porma- nont supply of whest can bo socured becomo objects of coreful inquiry. Exporionco hns proved that soila constantly aown to wheat soon loso tho clomonts that favor its succossful cul- turo, and thelr ability to produce good crops of it must bo kopt up by caroful manuring, lotting tho ground lio fallow, and othor troatment well known to tho educated farmor. Virgin soils, if rich and favored with proper climatic influcnces, almost always produco good crops of whoat. In the oarly scttloment of tho country, the rich “{lata” along tho Connecticut, Hudson, Dela- waro, Susquohanna, and their tributarios, pro- ducod an abundanco of the finost whaat; but, in @ faw yoars, constant croppings woro out the goil; population pushod westward, tho new dis- tricts ylolded thoir goldon horvoats, and it was found mora profitable to cultivato tho lands noar the sonboard to other cropa and leavo tho market for wheat to be supplied from the more produc- tiyo lands of the Woat., Wostorn Now York and ‘Wostorn Ponnsylvania flrst supplied tho incrons- ing wants of tho gonboard citios ; thon Ohio ad- ded hor styplus; then Michigan and Indians; thon Illiriofo and Wisconsin; and now Iows, Minnosota, Nobrasks, aud Xansas aro adding largoly to tho statistics of whent production, The tablos for a serics of yoars show that tho lino of supply is stoadily moving westward. Ac- cording to the roport of tho Agricultural Depart- mont at Washington, the wheat crop of 1865 in tho ton States of Ohio, Indinna, Illinoie, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Minnesots, Iows, Missouri, Kanens, and Nobrasks, nmountod to 144,007,856 bushols, end, in 1873, to 144,356,160, Wile, in tho oight years included in this poriod, those States grow in population, production, and evorything olso immenscly, tho incraase of tho whoat ¢rop waa only about 850,000 bushels, The oldor States foll off rolativoly whilo tho nawer Jargoly incrensed their erops of wheat, Tho in- oresso in Minnogota was from about 8,000,000 to £015,000,000; {n Town from 13,700,000 to 20,600, 000; in Konsas, from about 200,000 to 2,000,000, and in Nobraslks, 166,000 to 2,500,000, As this lino of the surplus production of whoat is stendily moving wostward, it is interosting to noto what now districts aro available, aund | whothor thoro is any {mmodiato nccessity for the country to commonco & systomatic restoration to our soils of thoso clomonts which will ronder tho cultivation of wheat a permancnt success. And first wo notico all that soction of Colorado east of tho mountains that can be reached by ir- rigation. No finor whoat oan bo grown in any country than in this acation of Colarade. Should tho oxperimont of artosian wells prove a success gonorally o8 it has in s fow cases along tho lino of tho Union Paciflo Railway, thoentiro 600or 700 ‘miles botween the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountaing—onco called in all our school geogra- phies the * Great American Dosort"—may n tho nexthalf contury becomo one vast whoat-fiold. Tho immouiso incranso in the wheat crop of Min- nesota has come mainly from the southern soc- tion of tho State, lying south of tho Minnesota River. We hinvo bofore us ocular domonstration that Northorn Minnesota and tho central sec- tions along tho line of the Northorn Paciflo Railway will produco tho finest wheat in abun- denco, Thoro aro soven epocimens from sta~ tions along tho line of that road, all of which, excopt ono, woigh 62 Iba to tho bushel, and tho yleld, with only imporfoct culturo, was 24 to 40 bushols por scro. One epecimon, Treadwell white winter, raisod, at Aloxandria, 63 Ibs to the buehol, and 40 bushels to tho acre {8 suporb. Thrao epacimons, from Manitobs, raitied only & fow miles outh of Lalko Winnipeg, aro all good, whilo tho Fults wintor, ralsod at Bt. Donifaco, opposito Fort Garry, sowed - Oct. 20, 1871, Liarvestod Aug. 20, 1873, yiclding eovonty-two bushels per acro, would croate tho most livoly compatition on our Board of Trade wora 1,000 bushels offored to tho highest biddor. But tho most intorosting specimon is from tho gront Saskatchewan Valloy., Of its culture thero, tho Hon. James W. Taylor, Unitod States Consul at Fort Qarry, anys : UNITED BTaTES CONSULATE, ViNNIPEG, B, N. A., Nov. 8, 1873, Taend yous small samplo of Savkatchwan wheit, own at Princo Alhort Mission (Provbyturisn), noar tha finction of the borlh und south branches of thy Sase atchewan Tiver, (0 longltude 105 degrees, latitude B3¢ dogroos, 300 mllcs in an air-lina northwost of Furé Gitry, or 800 miles by the clrouitous trafl of the ilud- son lidy Gompany, Withy o gratn, you wil rocoivo mo of tha unthroshed hoads, ehowing Temarkable o sud fulbess, Tho ‘Mission farm bhss been undor cultivation for alx years, and Y 'am Judebted to its Huperintondont, Rov. Jatea Nosbilt, for the following particulars : In 1667, fivo bushelu, of spring wheat wore sown on tho newly brokeu sod, roturning 40 busliels ; in 1808, 17 bushiols aown prodiicod 360 busbels, or neirly 40 per acre ; 1809, being & yoar of droutl, tho yiold per acre only 16 bushiela; in 1670, ouly 20 buwhols on sccaunt of injury from » hurricano, Whils for the last o yoars the average hay_oxceedod 30 b poriad for sowing fs from 17th to 24th April; of ha yost from middle of Augusi to 10th of Boplembe There hus beon u0 {njury from summer {rost, Tho Baskatchewan Valley alone extends from Lako Winnipog to tho Rooky Mountains, sud s somo 700 milon long by 200 broad, sad if wo ad® - to thin tho vast country dlroctly onat of the mouniainy na far south a8 Now Boxico, noarly all of which s sysilablo for tho produce Hon of wheat, all anxiotles ns to the of our clvilization mny bo dlssipated. Provis denco has provided our pooplo the moans to rafso onough, and milliona of bushols to BPArO, for a contury to como, ¢ Wo linvo also apecimens of oate and barloy of tho fluoat quality from Coutral Minnesotn, Thoy will grow whorevor wheat can bo succoatully cultivated. It fs, thoroforo, porfoctly anfo to in= for that whilo Ohlorgo shippod onstward in 1872, 85,804,224 bushola of grain, hor trado in coroals is till in ita infanoy, In view of thomo faota, the oponing of the 8t. Liawronea routo for the freo trauait of largo vessols to the ocoan bacomen tho moro important and pronsing, . =it W The geographera of Germany aro sbout ta sond an oxpedition to the wost const of Africa fhe immodiato objoct of which is to complete Livingatono's discoverios, by oppronching tha Lako Tanganzikn from tho west. Tho polnd which tho Gorman geographora wish to sottle is, whother that Inke bolongs to the rosorvolrs of thio Nilo, or 18 ono of tho hendqunrtors of tha Congo, Tho object of tho oxpodition if, not to succor Livingstono, but to link his discoverion with frosh discovorien on the woat const, ——— NOTES AND OPINION. Rhiode Teland elootion, Wednerday. —The countles, citlos, and borougha of Ponn« sylvania (excopt Philadelphin), voting soparately for or againsat licenso, under tho Local Option Iow, givo & not majority of 86,657 for licenae, with seventoon counties to bo honrd from. Tho voto in gomo countles was vory full. —Tho LaCOrosse Republican declares that its COongressman Rugk “ did rofuso to take tho ox- tra poy,” a8 it suchrofusal onds tho mattor. —Hoveral Congressmen are now sunounced as having Invosted thelr oxtra pay in bonds of the Unitod Btates, and destroyed the bonds; bub oven this, supposing the roports rue, doos noti rostora the monoy to the Trersury unless the fact hins boon mado to appear on tho books of the Department, Such bonds * destroyed " withous proof or knowledge of tho' fl'ronsury, will con~ tinuo to bo carriod indofinitoly au part of tha paliie debt, with an accumulsting intcrost ne~ count, Only two Ropresentstives have taken tho trno and honost courso of putting the monoy back into the Treasury. ~—Tho Ohio Sonato will to.day make a protonco of virtue by demunding to know what tho Cin~ cinnati Commercial knows about the corruption of Bonators to defeat & bill which was to have put an end to tho lottory business in Ohio. The Commerctal enys: Gontlomen of tho fenate, why do you not pass tha ‘bill for tho nup{nrcanmn of luttoriea? “That would aig~ nify. But if that can not be done, cortainly befora rushing loosely into investigation it would be cminents Iy appropriato to mnko kowmo dlsposltion of the bil which, under all circumstauces,is not placad to do mos good or look woll, Itisachieap shiow of virtuo to call an oditor to toll what ho knows of the corruption of the Sonate, with o purposy of muking outery Uiat e ine formation is inautllcient, and of delieataly diffusing over thore whose complexion Is displessing tho thin &nd aircaky whito- wash that the perjurcrs provide in tho lobs, —The nomination, for tho oity clection in Clne cionati, April 7, srohiow completo, as follows : Ztepublican, Opporition. Mayor... Dacls, 6 W Sohmaton, Troasuror., Itobort Muoro, *Itobnart Moore, Buporior o “MCH, fildon,” 00, T, Tildons Bofion “Suiko ... .doln W, Cnriar, Mat. Marchaat, Klicitor. W, Warrliatn, 1. D. oo Campboll, Francis Pludkott. Tho vote of Cincinuatt in April, 1871, was, for Mayor: Davis, Ropublican, 16,474 ; tarrin, Democrat, 18,648, In Novombor, 1873: Grocley, 19,670: Graut, 15,007, “—The nominations in Clucinnati for delegates to tho Ohio Constitutional Convention (election April 7; moets Moy 18) aros Republican. Oppoattton. Ell 1, Jobneon, Guorge B, Pugh, Ohrisiian Boss, . M. Bishop, John W, Herrén, 3.1, Carbery Goorgo Hoadly, Guoras Hotelr Bamuol ¥, Hunt, Guorgo E\ Davin, Samucl L. Hoydon, G. Bruclt Henry Mack, Jopiab L, Kack, Rufus Klnli. Rufus King, Toter . Olark, (colored) D, Thew Wright, Josioh Kirby. Joha G, Olden, —Goy, Jowall invites the poople of Connectl- cut, on Fast-day, to pray that * individual selfish- noss may not bo pormitted to undormine the foundations of tho Republic.” —Tho canvass in Iowa for the oloction of. Gov- ornor and Logislature, in Oclobor, has brought tho Farmors’ Quontion into tho foreground of prominence, and the Dubuque Telegraph saysa Au to what tho Nnsliua Post says about tho farmors of Towa boing waked up, wo don’t sot zauch valuo on it, without any disrespeot to tho Zastor to the farmera, “The farmors will bo dividod, an thoy hava alwys Loen, tetween tho two princlpal political parties, aud they will bo apt, a8 uaual, to lot thoso partiba control thele voted, and mako thelr nominntions for them. Wa would bo right glad to aco tho farmors uso thole powor and influcuce, oven if it would but end in alocting membors of {he General Assombly, But it ‘is not & fact that thoso who betrayed tho farmora of this State In tho last General Assenibly, ns woll e in *pro- coding ecssions, woro farmors aa woll a8 othora? Thig is our understanding of tho matter, and if it bo woll founded, anil it bo the truth, what 'moro_confidonco canbo placed in farmors than In_others, eithor ag volers or a8 memburs of tho Gouoral Assembly. The poopls of Iowa must look this matter in tho faco—must meot monopolints on their own ground—and dafost them. Railtond mon are alive and combined together for their own mu- tual advantage.—Indianola Journal. —The hrlbfl‘l;f of logslative Lodies s becom- ing so frightful a national sin that oxtraordinery attention must bo bestowod upon it. It is a can- cor, and the only lope it {n burning and tho kmife.—Cincinnati Commercial, —If mon whom wo boliove to bo honest de« fraud the Troasury, wo nd better filll onr Con- groesional seats from -thio penitentinvios ; theu We may know what to expoct.—Soulh Jiend Trib- une., —The Trumbull Distriot has won groat honq Dy huving for its Roprosontativo so brillia, brave, and truo o mun ng Jamou A, Garflold, Wi, tho Ropublicans of thatdistrict throw himaway & —Cleveland Herald. —1Tho Hon. Jerusalem Gammon lays his hand upon his hoart and apponts to his Makor for the roctitudo of his intentions. Ile was opposed to voting back pny, but foarod o National calamity should tho Gonernl Appropriation bill fail to pass. What could tha doar man do in such an ‘oxtremity but sink all poraonal connidorations in tho welfare of tho Nation? Could a putriot do less ?—Cincinnati Commercial, Mr. Sumnor can bettor afford to await the ustifieation of tho futuro for his actions than o State of Massachusetts can afford to let this consure of ono of ita purost and most distin- uished citizens romaw upon its records.— ‘hiladelphia_Inquirer. . —Meoswrs. Conkling and Carponter must feol docidedly chosp sinco the rosignation of their friond Caldwoll.: Their bitter porsonal attacks upon Semators Morton and Behurz ronated against their cliont, who owes thom no thanks for thoir {ll-mannorod advocucy of his case.~S2 Zouis Democral. ~Momentoos of the lato Senator Caldwoll, in the shiape of tho latest public dogwnents priuted by Congress, are on oxhibition in the socopd- hand bookstoros on Penusylvania avenue, Kansas s n great way off, and tho lato Sonator, rather than have the expenso and bother o tmnsportation, stopped into the socond-hand bookatoro with his plunder, and propounded the q‘nuutlou #0 offonnivo to tho Into Daniol Webstor, 'What is all this worth ?"—~New Yorlk Tribune. —The Rev. Mr. Nowman, Chapluin to the Scn- ato, has rocolved the n‘mointmunt as ‘“Ine gpector of Consulates,” at a malary of 85,000 per yoar. 'This gives tho revorend politician n * chanco to go_around tho world at CUovernmont oxponse. But, not content with thot, he has procured tho uppoint. mont of M, T. Nowmun ns lis clork witha wnlary of 32,000 por yoar. M, F, Nowman menns Mary Francos Nowmau, aud sho is tho rovorend gontleman'a wifo, 'The Buffalo Courier calls Spon tho Mothodist Cburch to expel Nowinnn and bis wife from the church as *gontool plek- ookets.” ‘Ihat judgment s rathor savere, but fr. Nowman las cut into tho fat protty woll. Ilo has beon around \Vnnhlugton 60 long that stealing has loat its torrora. Such procecdinga ave disgracoful, and the cut or color of & man's coat should not protect him from being called by tho right name—political suokors.— Cloveland Herald. —In tho Ponnsylvania Constitutional Conven- tion a rocognition of God hag beou rocommonded by the Committeo, In torms wo genoral that wo 800 N0 iround for objoction on the score of re- ligious bolief from auy but Atheists,—sud our ouly objection to it is that it meems out of keop- ing with the purposes of tho political chartor which ia undorgoing amondmont, A gentloman duly reverent in il religious mattors said to us that he would as soon think of asking that Qod should bo mado a dirootor of tho Ponnsylvaniy Rallroad |—Fhiladelvhia 490 sbundant mupply ot this essontial ‘clomon¥: 3 (SN e pee