Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGU DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERMS OF AUDACTIPTION (FAYATLE 1N ADVANCE). Daily, by mail.....8 12,040 | Bunday, Rodmitl:c S 100 ey Parts of a yonr at tha samo ra To provont delay and mistakos, bo muro and giva Pasb Mco addross fu full, including Styto and County. Tomittanc ¥ bo mado ofther bydraft, oxpress, Post - bifico order, o in ogtatorod lottors, b our risk. TERM? TO OITY AUNSORIDENA, Dalty dolivored, Sundey sxcontol, 8 ca ally, dolivored, Sunday included, & cos ' Addross .. TULE TRIBUNIZ COMPANY, Cornor Madlson aud Dearborn-sta., Ohtongo, Il ' CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’ DUNE, IRST PAGR—Washington, Forolgn, . and- Now York R e Tira Towa. Tornado-Tiio Wosthan-Bisocl: - ** Iancous Advortisoments, SECOND PAGE-fisturdsy Night's Tolograms. THIRD PAGH—Chicago to St.'Pauls istory of the Ohl= cago, Milwaukoo & At. Paul Raliroad—Tho Erla In. * " vostigation—Rallrond Timo-Tablo—Advertisomonts, FOURTIX PAGE-Edltorials: Tho Attantio - Invastiga~ ‘tion Mr. Curtis' Rovlgnation; The Farmors' Movo. mont, In Iowa—Currant Nows Paragraphs, FIFTIL PAGT:--Roason and Trath ; Sormon by Prof, ‘Swing—Kvanston Matiors—Porsonal—Tho Farm and Gardon—Markots by Tolograph—Advertisomonts. BIXTH PAGE—Monatary and Commorolal, BEVENTII PAGK-—The Courts—Tiydo Park Itoms— Bmall Advortisomonts: teal listato, For Balo, To *Rout, Wanted, Boanling, Lodging, oto. RIGHTH PAGE—Now York Lettor—Tho Bupromo Bonoh . ~The Euroka Tragods—Auotion Advoriisomonts. . TO-DAY'S - AMUSEMENTS,’ | ATKGN'S THEATRR—Wabash svonuo, corer of Gon. fomatroot. ingagoment of MoKoe Tiaakin, **Iip Van Wiakle."" ; M'VICKER'S THEATRE—Madison strecf,” botwoon Btato nnd Doarborn, Engagomont of Miss Nollson.' “*Romeoand Jullot.” - * e "HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE—Randolph strost, bo- twoan Olark and. LaSallo. . .**Fate." ACADEMY OF MUSIG- [alsted streot, south of Madison. **Ohris and Lona; or Gorman Lifo on tho Mis- slsaippl,* b MYLRS' OPERA HOUSF—Monros streot, botwaen Hato and ‘Doarborn, — Atlington, Cotton & Kemblo's Stinstrol aad Burlesquo Troupo. *Tho Olockmakors® HatM - ; % NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE —Olinton, botwoon Washington and Randolph strooly.. Wilder - & Co.'s- Shtfonal Ofrcul 25 —————— BUSINESS NOTICES. TOYAL HAVANA LOTTERY,..TIE EXTRAOR- g will (81 placo on. ths.22d -of Aprll, 1878, Daboce, 20 \Wait-ate: Porl-omos Hox 4,05, New York. " The Chicago Tiibune, Monday Morning, - April, 7, 1873, ‘Aftor o goneral excliango of opinions, tho Railroad bills which have beon debated for sov- oral days by the Leglalaturo have been' roferrod to’s solect committeo, - This committoo will con- sigt of thirtoon mombors, who will probably be namod . to-d Gold closed in Now York on Saturdny at 11934, » paint which it has not roached sinco tho Franco-Gorman war. Socrotary. Richardson s toportod aa snying that hio will not do. atiything lo'influence the money market oxcept to hasten Jbp payment of tho May.interest.on the debt, if geomed adiisablo Like tho Progident’s Civil Sorvico rulos, tho irdor forbidding Fodotal ‘ofica-holdcre ta fill dtate offices has its oxceptions, It is honored in tho broach in Louis{ins, and'fn Virginia ofi- cldls in the Custom-Houdé at. Potersburg, who sronlso city oflicors, aro told they need not pay suy attontion ta it. Brigham Young {s'belioved to have made an. enormous fortuno out of tho various finpncial trasts he hold in 'tho Mormon Church. At tho somi-nnnual conferonco yesterday, ho rosigned two of the most important of theso positions, and is bolioved to bo bout to with- draw altogother from tho business affairs of the Church. Tho sttondance at the conferonco was smaller than usual. Tha'Secrotary of the fécant Farmers’ Conven- tion at Springfleld officially informs the State Register that & motion t¢ roconsidor the anti- | {ariff resolution, pnssod on Wednesday, lind been mado, and laid on the table the same dany. Consoquently, it was no longer bofora. tho Con- vention; and, under parlismontary law, anothor motion to reconsider could not bo entertained. ’i‘huruforu, the notion taken on tho subsequont day by the fow delogates who romained, aided by A. B. Meeker, of tho Jolict Iron Works, and the $Springfid}d politicians, was utterly nugatory and void. Tho Woman's Rights women of Ponnsylvanin claim that they nuo ontitled to voto according to tho torms of tho Constitution of that Stato, which gives the rightsof citizenship to all # freemon.” -They mado up-a caso for the courts to tost their cnso and have boon dofeat- od, the Suprome Court ruling ' that. women are not freomon, and havo no right .to the suffrage. A step towards tho industrial oqualization of the #oxos haa been more successful in Arknisas, whore the Legislature has paszed o bill giving male and fomalo lunc}mm of the eame grade tho 8010 pay. e — A now menace has heen sdded to the dangors threatoning the integrity of the Spanish Domiu- fon, which the Govérnment has grandiloquently snnounced thoy mean to maintain, Tho disson- sions of tho mother. country havo infected the Spaniards of Cube, and they are on the point of revolution. *The Cubans havo Just Won a great victory in the capture of Manzanillo with a vast stora o supplies, Tho Captain-Goneral appeals to Madrid for heavy reinforcoments to awe tho Spaniards and.quell tho Cubang, but the Homo QOovernment lias its own hands full with tho Car- lists, who have sovered railrond communication between Madrid and Barcolona, ‘The have ovor- run all Catalonia, where every church has boen turned to military uses. Tho Now York Tribune takes occasion to commiend in the highest terms the action of tho Farmers’ Couvontion hold in Bpringfleld, oxcept sa to tho resolution calling for the roponl of the protective duties on iron, steel, lumbor, and the matorials which ontor into tho construction of rollroads, cars, atenmahips, sailing-vonsols, and agrionltural implomonts. To this the Tribune replios, that * it would not hu@l‘ll cnso of tho grolo-growors in tho best."™¥Tho argument which it omploya s, thut tho railway com- panies can afford chonp froights now, and to en- sble thom to bulld thelr. rallronds cheaper would be to put more monoy in their pookety without benefiting the peoplo. This iasimply beg- ging the question, Tho rallronds claim on their gide (hnt they cannot afford ochonpor ¥ates on acconut of tho grest cost of tho mato- ¥inl which thoy use in construoting and oper- ating thoir roads. Admit that thoy charge too much at the prosont cost of thelr roads, and that they should bo medo to reduce thelr ratos, thon a reduction in the coutof building sud running thoir roads would enablo thom to make » still groater reductlon in ratos.. The ditfor- once in their oxpenses would bo apparent, and ') qvmm o5 GReRRQE (ROBARQKIAMOR Would l bo botter founded then ever. *On tho other hand,” continues thd Tribune, *tho manuface turing bommunitios which are growing all over tho Wost would bo rufnod." That {8 nob true, but supposing it wore—tho farmors olalm that thoy are ruined nlready. Is It worth whilo .to koop thom ruined in order that sthor pooplo may tax thom 50 to 70 por cont on their iron and staol, lumbor and snlt, hardware and crockery, blaukots and carpets ? Tho Chicago produco markets woro generally dull on Baturday, excopt whoat and provisions, Moss pork was in fair domand, and 10@15c por brl highor, closing nt 815.60@15.65 cash, and $16.76 siollor May. Lard was moderatoly active, and 100’ por 100 Ibs highor, at $8.00@8.96 cash, and 8,60 sollor May. Moats wore dull and onsfor, at 0@63o. for shoulders, 74 @7)4c for short ribs, B@8}4o for short clear, and 11@13%40 for swoot-plokled hams, Highwines wero quict and steady at 86}¢o por gallon. Lnke frolghts woro insotive, and nominally unchanged, at 160 for corn to Buffalo, Flour was quict and un- changed. Wheat was less activo, and 340 Lighor, closing at 8L16}4@1.18 cagh, and . $1.20% meller May. Corn wae dull and o shado easlor, closing at 8046@8%0 cash, and 8434@341¢c seollor May. Oats woro dull and o shade firmor, closing at 2334@2063¢0 cash, cnd 27340 soller May. Ryo was quiet nnd ‘unchanged, at 63)%@04c. Barloy was dull aud 10 lowor, closlng at 76@80c. Tlogs woro in good requost nt substantially Friday’s prices, sales ‘moking at $5.80@5.85. , Tho cattlo and shoop :markots woro quiet and Without matorial chango in valuos, ‘The New York Herald prints s communication in which the writor attributes shameful oupldity to tho White Btar Line of stenmsbips, which is attostod by tho following circumstaucos: * Of all the prominent Atlantic ‘stoamship lines, tho White Btar makos ' the shortest allowanco of {imo for tho trip aoross tho ocean, The Inman Lino allows 28 days from tho day of departuro from Livorpool to thedayof doparture from Now York ; tho National Tine, 21 days ; the Will- isms & Guion Line, 21 days ; the Cunard Lino, 18 days; ond the White Star Lino ‘only 16 days. Tho time is thus reduced by & mnew lino six .days from the average allowanco of tho othor lines, and it is evident that the Captains of tho steamors hinvo instruc« tions to malko tha best possible tims, in order to cnablo their stenmeora to leave port according to sanouncement.. - This practice enables the Com- pany, if thoy are lucky, to save the investmont of tho cost of threo or four steamors. If thoy oro not luaky, as in the case of the Atlantio, thoy loso a steamer, and soveral hundrod lives are sncrificed to this purposo of eaving monoy. Tho gamo ocupldity on tho part of the Company seems .to bo Hllustrated in the short allowance of coal and provisions on board tho Atlantio, THE *‘ ATLANTIC” INVESTIGATION, Tho ofilcial investigation into the causesof the Atlantlo disastor docs not placo the scaman- ship of Capt. Willilams or his crow in any more favorablo light ; on the contrary, it showa that, after maoking rndical crrors inlis reckonings, and ‘beving misgivinga that ho was wrong, he doliberatoly went to sloop at meritical time, without giving orders fot shore-soundings to bo takon—went to eloop as coolly and with aa little concorn as it his vessol wero lying at anchor in the harbor of Halifax. From bis own testimony bofore " the Custom-House officlals, it is closr that he had no positive Inowledgo of his whoreabonts, although ho had takon ob- sorvations by the stars and tho chronomoter at 8 o'clock in the ovening and again at midnight. Ho did not oven have a cloar idoa of thospoed of his vessol. ' The whole business of dotermining Lhis position scoms to have beon littlo bettor than guesswork, sud then, after calculating a part and jumping ot the rest, ho wont to bed. I his calculation had beon correct and ho had full con- fidence in it, even then hisloaving thedeck would have been an act of gross mnegligonco mnd rocklesandes. It will bo romemborod that ho said in his firet statomont, and ropeats it in hia sccond, that at 1 o'clock on Monday Lo bolioved himself to be 170 miles from Cape Bambro, snil- ing mnorthward and wostward at the rate of from cight to twelve knots por hour, At mid- night the vessel had made 122 milos, which loft hor 48 miles from Sambro. Hothen retired, after lenving orders to be called at 8 o'clock, when ko intonded to shift her course and walt until day- light. But fi_t 8 o'dlock, it tho steamor was moling twelve. miles an hour, ho would have boon within twolve miles of shore, which of itsclf should have kept him on deck, as ho admits that he had never sailed into Halifax Larbor beforo, nor had any of his officors, except thoThird, ovor been thero, and thoy all knoew that “tlio coast was an iron-bound and dangorous one.” Undor such clrcumstances, the conduct of Oapt. Williame is eimply incomprolionsiblo, unloss it may be explained By tho theory of utter rocklossuess aud incompoetency. It is tho universal practice among suh-gch!g Captaina, when they are appronching s coast, to romain upon deck, oven though they may be familiar with i6; but hore was a Captain- enil- ing hend on to a const with which ho was on- tivoly unfamiliar, oxcopt that he know it to bo an excoodingly daungerous ono,~going to bed with misgivings sbont his own celeulations, whon only forty miles away from it, and leaving orders to bo called, when, according to his own caleulations, ho would have boon but twelve miles off, It is anothor inatance of the gencral rocklessness which provailod among the ofilcors that the Coptain was not called s ho had ordered, at 8 o'clook, although, ot 2 o'clock, Quartermpster Owons had eau- tionéd tho Becond Oficor agninst stand- ing in 8o olase to land, as, according to s caloulations, thoy woro closs on shoro, and had mot with a rebuff for his pains and an inti- mution that he had better attend to his own business, The Captain was swalened by tho shock of the vessol as sho struclk tho rock, and this was at 20 minutes past 8. ¥ad ha been callod at 8, tho veesel, at tho rate she was thon eailing, would have been at loust four milos dis- tant from the fatal raof, and tho disster might even thon have beon prevented. Dut, with a rookless Oaptain asloep bolow, with an {ncompe- tont officer on dock in charge of the boat and its . thousand passengors, with ouly one man on board who had & clear {don thnt thore was somothing wrong but was not allowed to offor his sugges- tiong, the ill-fated vessel was stoered into swift dentruction, Evory susploion of dangor was thrown to the winds., Every warning was disro- garded, aud, as if donth fitself wore at the helm, tho Atlantic was stoerod midwny between tho two lights, which must have boon visiblo for honra to any one who had eyes, full upon the rooks only two or three hundred feok nway from tho dsngeroys and fron-bound shoro, T¢is « pitiful, misorablo story, at bost—a torriblo ancrifico of 1ifo by recklossnosss and ignoranco unparalloled in navigation. Was thero ovor bo- foro n mora wrotcliod confosslon mado by the commandor of an ocoan-going vessol thau Oapt. Willinms makos whon hio snya ¢ o T am now satisflod that when I wont into thn charte room I wan mifatakon in tho locallty.of tho sitp, Bho ‘st hiavo beon farthor northward end westward than I thought, 1lmow tho const was au fron-bound and 'daugorous one, If I had been. sounding vegularly Srom 12 o 8 o'slock, 1 1oould hava been on deck, and tho ‘ahfp tcould not have gona ashore, Thero wora threa Quartormusters, and the Socond and Fourth Officers on deck, ¥nd thoy Loen cnorgotlo, thoy might, T think, bnvo scon that thioro was romothing aliead, nud, 1t ordors lind beon glven to revorso tho engines, tho catamity might havo hoen avolded, : ‘Wky should Lo make such orrora in reckoning whon hie hiad boor taking obsorvationa all the ovoning ? If ho know tho const was dangerous, why i@ ho not take the procautions which sea- Captalns usually take? Why was ho not on dock sounding, as ho should have been? Why woro not his throo Quartormastors, and tho Soc- oud and Fourth Officors onergotic aud on tho look out? Why whoro not tho cuginos roversed ? ‘Why was ho not called, ns Lo had ordored? Thono aro tho questions which ovory .one will aslk, but thoro I8 mo answer to thom yob. Thoro can bo no answer to thom excopt in tho acknowledgmont of n hoodlessness ns cruol g it wna fatal. Thoss aro not the only quostions which the publio will nsk. Tho Cap- tain and crew aro not the only responsiblo par- tios. Why was tho Atlantio allowed to eail with but ton days’ coal, when she should bave had n supply for oightoon? Why was sho out of pro- visions, or with only enough for ono day longor ? Why was hor crow made up of vagrants picked up aé Liverpool, instond of ‘oxperioncod and trusty sosman? s this the ususl man- nor in which tho Whito Btar stoamers aro fitted out for an° oconn voyngo? Thoso questions mnst bo answered slso, If tho other boats aro officored, manned, coalod, and provisioned as the Atlantio wag, their destruc- tion may happon at any timo. Thero is nothing inthe tostimony of the officors of tho Atlantia avhich rolloves this disastor from tho stigma aoft) gross ignoranco and criminal rocklossnoss, By his own statoment, Capt. Williams should bo forover. .. disqRAITIET™"T¥om: gailing anothor stoamor, T % ¢ e —". £°" MR. CURTIS' RESIGNATION:.. Tho protense of roforming tho Civil Sorvice has boon abandoned sltogother by the Adminis- tration. Whilo this hns been evident for somo timo to thoso who Lavo obsorved the nomina- tions mado by Gon. Grant, tho resignation of Mr. Goorge Willlam Curlis as a mombor of tho Advisory Board of the Civil Borvice must bring it within the comprehoneion of the most loyal partisnns, When the first roport of Mr, Curtis’ rosignation bocame publio, it was announced from Washington, in o somi-official fashion, that hobad resignod on account of poorhealth, The explanation was immedintoly pronounced false by the New Yorl Evening Post, on the authority of Mr. Curtis himsolf, and now comes tho toxt of tho lottor of rosignation, which contains a blunt statoment of tho rorson Mr. Curtis hns withdrawn, Tho lotter is g followa: West New Dnionto, N, Y., March 18, My Dean Smt: A8 tho circumstances under which soveral important appolntmonta Liave beon receutly made soem to mo to show an abaudonment both of the spirit and tho lotier of tho Clvil Sorvico regulations, T respeetfully resign my position as o member of the Advisory Board of tho Civil Sorvico, In ro doing Ibeg to neguro you of my warmest wishos, snd of thocontin- uance of my most oarnoat offorts for tho auccess of your Administration, Very respoctfully and truly yours, Gronoz WiLLIAM QUnxIs, Hig Excellency tho President, Mr. Curtis hus resigned in Juatico to himaolt, and, at the same time, in shoor dospair, It was his offorts more than those of any other individ- ual which lod to tho creation of this Board, and it was for tho purposo of rotaining him and others like him, who belicved in the necossity for roforming the Civil Sorvice within tho Re- publican party, that tho Philadelphis Couvention introduced a resolution into its platform which committed the parly and the presont Administra- tion to this roform. Tho plodge of the party in its convention, the pledge of Preaident Grant in his various messages, the pledgo of the Admin- istration press, and tho pledgo of Mr. Goorgo William Curtis and his follow-members of the Board, that tho Civil Sorvice should be reformed sccording to tho rulos that bad beon adopted, havo all been disrogarded, and Mr Curtis finds himself forced to rotire with the mortifying confossion that *both the spirit and tho lottor of tho Civil Service rogulations have been abandoned.” It is with a doleful sort of lament that he concludes his pointed epistle to the President with assurances of ‘‘the warmost wishos" and the continuance of his *most enr- nost offorts " for the success of ithe Administra-~ tion. It is porfeotly ovident that Mr. Curtis looks upon it a8 forlorn hope. Gon, CGrant's first appointmonts after the alection indicated that ho intonded to fulfill the plodge to reform the Civil Bervico, and to bo govorned by tho rogulations that had been Inid down nnd approved by him. The appointment of tho Deputy-Postmaster at Philadelphia in accordanco with tho rule of promotion, and in spite of the eofforts of Bonator Cameron, Gov. Hartranft, and othor Penn- sylvania politiclans to secire tho placo for ono of their number, wus rogarded as a signal of hopo that tho Prosidont had turned over n now lenf, and proposed to malo the virtues of his socond Administration compeneate for tho orrors of the first, This appointment wns received with expressions of satiafaction bythaindapand- ont prosy, aud 1L was puisicd vutas a fit rebuko to Cameron and his tribe, It was not long, how- ovor, bofore tho resignation of Postmaslor Bant~ man, of Chicago, offerod another occasion for tostiug tho gonuinoncss of Prosident Grant's new policy. ThoeDaputy at this point waslkuown to bo ono of the most eflicient and capable men in tho service, Ilo was ontitled to the placo whon - Mr. Eastman rosignod by the samoe rules ihat lod to tho promotion of ihe Philadelphia Doputy. Gon. Grant choo to ignore them in this ocase, and mado s political appointmont, which has resulted in the divnissal of many of tho best mon in the Chicngo Post-Offico, and filling their places with politiclans, Tho breach of rules in tho cnso of tho Chicago Post-Ofico lod to inquiries in re- gard to tho obgorvance of tho rules at Philadol- phis, and it was discovered that the Doputy DPosimastor there was promoted simply bocanse ke was & membor of tho ‘“Grant aliquo” of Thiladelphia, and =« porsonal friond of the President. It be- camo evident at this point that tho Prosident proposed to obsorve the Olvil Bervice rules whero they suited his convenionco, and ignora thom whers they did mot. Anothor gleam of hope was offerod when the ordor was issuod that Binto and municipal offieors could not hold Fed- oral offices at tho samo time, But, in its imme- dinto application to Louislana, it was found that this order would xoquire #o many mombera of tho Kellogg Leglnlaturo to rosign aa to Joavo that interosting body without a quorum, and so it was quiotly altowod to go by dofault. Thén followed tho most hotorious deflanco of tho Civil Borvica rulea and the public wolfsto. Onsoy, the Presidont’s Dbrothor-in-law, a8 ronp- polnted Collector at Now Orlenus in the faco of the gravest publio odium nnd Congros- oional condomnation, Tho Rov. Nowman, tho Ohoplain of the Benato, wna proffored tho place of Inepootor of Consuls, st & Inrgo salary, to ongblo him to make n pro- Jocted plonsuro-irip about the world, Holdon, of North Carolinn, was appointod Dost- mastor at Raleigl, though lo Liad formorly boon imponohod a8 Govornor of the Stato formal- feasnuco In offico, romoved from his placo, aud disqualified thonceforth from holding any ofica undor tho Btato Govornment, United Biatos Marshal Bharpo was appolntod Naval Officor of the Port of Now York, fustond of promoting the next in command, snd In direct insult to Mr. Curils, who was first appointed ono of o Com- mission to dosiguato tho proper man, and thon not consulted. This olinin of appointments fully justifies Mr, Gurtis fn concluding that tho purposo of reform= ing tho Civil Borvico hns boon abandoned, aod lis resignation was tho ouly alter- native for an honorable man, But, unless placed on the ground of mere politoncss, the concluding sontonco of Mr. Curtls’ lottor is shal- low and monningloss. Ho can soarcely hope for tho succoss of an Administration which has thus flagrantly disrogarded tho most important of its plodgos. Tho Nation saya that *“The trouble with Gon. Grant is that ho doos not undorstand what Civil Sorvico Reform, or reform of any kind, means,” ‘Though not complimontary, this | 18 o mild way of putting {t. Itis moro probablo that tho promison of roforming tho Olvil Bervico, which linve beon o coolly brokon, wero held out as a devico to rotain the support, ponding the olootion, of such mon s Mr. Curtis, and such Journals as tho NVation and the Now York Euen- ing Post, without any real intontion of fulfilling them. THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT m}QWA:' " "l formors of Towa have prottyFonorally ro- solvod that if. thoy-arct5Ghinin any reliof from .- prosont opprosslon, and any security for the fu- tuge, they cannot dopond on any political party for that purposo, but must select publio officors thomsolves, On tho-20th of March, dologates roprogontingabout tweuty grangesof the Patrona of Husbandry met at Waterloo, Iowa, sud, aftor disposing of othorbasinoss, unanimously adopted tho following proamble end resolution : S ‘Wneneas, The fnterests of the farmorshavo been be- trayed and sold out Ly all parties, wo now deem it ox- ‘pedicnt to look after our own intereats, thoreforo Resolved, That wo will support D, W, Adams, of Al- Iamakeo County, for Governor, snd James Wilkinson, of Tama County, for Lioutonant-Governor, at tho noxt Btate otection, A. BrowneLL, President. Jenemy Braprey, Becretary, This notion will probably not stop at Waterloo, —very suggestive name, by tho way. The on- tiro farming community of that Btate is, or will bo, organized in local grangos, and, whethor thoy adopt tho two persons named by this Con- vontion or others, it is protty certain that thoy will have candldates of their own for Governor and Lioutenant-Governor at the eloction next Octobor, Tho roason they glve for thig actionis conelsely exprossod in tho statomont that ¢ Tho intoroata of the farmors have boon botrayed and | sold out by all partios, and wo now deom it oxpo- diont tolook attor our own intorests,” No man can Linve his business attonded to so well as whenhe looks after it himsoclf; and that one-half the population of tho country can dp their own nominating and thelr own voting bottor than thoy. can have it done for them by others is oqually true. What is right and necessary in Towa, is equally €0 in all othor States. InIows, there im n Stato olection’ this ypar, at whicka Govornor and Logislature have to be choson, and there can bo no more appropriato time than this for thom to sheke loose from all partios and 800 what thoy can do for themselves. Tho sar closod nearly eight yonra ago, and gince that timo thoro hos not been an armed hand raised against tho Governmont, nor » seri- ous exprossion of hostility to the Union in any part of the country, During thoe war, tho country, smong its othor burdens, was afflictod with » depreciated currenoy, and by such taxes as. nover had boen hoard of in modorn times. The dopreciated curroncy, having at all times an uncertein valuo, led to tho wildest specula- tion, and thia speculation was largely in tho way of building railronds, The recent disclosure of tho means whoroby a corporation conaisting of o fow porsons, calling themselves tho Credit Mo- Dbilier, managed to gobblo- tho ‘money, bonds, lands, and othor assots of tho Pacific Railwey Company, for a timo atartled the whole country, but the surprise is wosriug off 88 it becomes Jmown that precisely the same systom has boon carried out in building many thousands of other railronds, espocially in the Westorn States. All this robbery has beon rendored possible, and has beon fostorod and encouraged by tho logislation of Congress, and of tho States, and by tho dircct complicity and co-oporation of many of tho lead- ing mon of both partios, including officials of all ranks. During the war, without attracting any os- poclal attontion, and under tho gonoral ploa of making any sacrifice to save the country, there was begun and carried into oxecution the most oppressive system of taxation that was ovor at- tompted in modern days. No porscn objected to taxation, no mattor howover sovoro, whon tho objoct was to procure rovenus. For this pur- pose, tho people bore without murmurs the taxes loviod on thoir Inuds, their incomes, their salos, thoir productions; overybody contributed his foo for o licenso to do business, and to purchaso & stamp ovory timo Lie wrote his namo, Nobody objocted to payings tax onlus ton, coffeo, or sugar, bocouso those taxes all wentinto tho Troasury to meot tho oxpenso of the war. Buf whon the war was over, whoen the million of men of both scctions wero drawn from the ficld and tho camp, and again became producers; whon peace again smiled upon a tranquil and united people, it was found that tho most onerous of all the taxes wero thoss which ylelded no rovenue, but had beon lovied to pro- toot a smallebut privilegod class, Thoro was a protest. Thoro was & domand that, as tho Gov- ernmont had boen rostored to n poace standard, tho taxation should bo roduced sccordingly. But from 1805 to 1873, though tho country hns ‘beon in a condition of profound tranquillity, the logiulation of Congross, and of tho Btates, and tlio political contonts, and tho contmycruiun of partios, have boon conducted on the hypothesiy that tho Robollion s still in progross, and that nothing short of tho most lotty and solf- gacrificing pattlotism can ocarry tho Unlon * gatoly through tho perils by whichit is environed. In Congress, bills to roform tho revenuo lawa wero postponod and burled in orderto have florce debates upon authorizing the President at -ing slavery, hin dlacrotion to take military posnossion of any Btato, oject its Qovoriumont, and rule it by n Military Bonrd. Congross, when appealed to to roduco tho tariff, answored back, that it had no timo to attond to such mattors; thatit was nocespary to protoot tho Union by olection lnwa which would provent tho pooplo choosing Jofr, Davia for Prosident, and thereby re-catablish- Btato Legislaturos and Gov- eruors since 1866 lisve Doon elocted, not upon {ssuos afocting tho local intoronta of thoir pooplo, but upon quostions of loyalty,—that is, whethor thoy wore in favor of ro-onslaving tho blacks, acknowledging thoe inde- pondence of the Confodorncy, or submiiting to an armed robolllon, which lind not a soldier, or a musket, or & dollar, or a friend on oarth, Logis- Iaturos, oleotod upon tho fesucs of awar long slnco terminatod foraver, oloctod Bonators, and the poople have olectod Roprosontatives, who have boon fighting tho war ovor again in Congress, aud doaling in Orodit Mobillor, falschood, bribes, and subsidios in private. Corporations havoe overrun tho country; have seized Stiato and munieipal governments; have placed whole countics, towns, and Statos undor long mort- gogos to bulld their reilronds; havo stolon the procoods of tho bonds, and, whilo the white peopls of tho country havo beon doluded with an imaginary battlo to main- taln the frecdom of tho blacks, thoy havo thom- solvos been delivered into a bondagoe that will grind thom to death if thoy do not rise ngainat it and throw it off. In n contost of emancipation from this thealdom, tho farmors of fowa aro right in resolving to place no moro confidenco in any party, but ¢ to look their own intorests " by horenfter salecting thoir own law-makers and ‘othor publio servants, THE CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY. The unreasoning bittorness of party alrite is woll illustrated by tho disoussions now golng on in tho Oanadian nowepapers in rolation to their Pacific Railway. Prompted by alaudablo desire to bind thoir Atlantio and Pacific provinces in ono great and compaot nationality, Parlinment " | lnst yonr muthorized the Ministry to gront & chartor to build a Canadian Paciflo Railway. A bonus of 30,000,000 sud somo 50,000,000 of acros of Iand was to he given to tho Company in proportionate installments as tho rond was finished. In accordanco with this act of Parlin- mont, two companios, ono hoaded by Sir Hugh Allan, and tho othor by Sonator, McKenzie, tho londor of tho Opposition, applied for the charter. As mizht havo beon anticipated, ss Sir Hugh and his party wero tho friends of tho Govern- ment, thoy sccured the franchise. The Toronto Globe and tho ontire Opposition immedintely at~ tncked tho Governmont with tho groatest bit- torness, Thoy throw out some intimations of bribery snd corruption ; but their main and gravest chargo is that the Government has sold out Canadian interests to an American company. Thoy claim that Bir Hugh will build tho gyoad to the foot of Lake Buperior, and thonce con- noct with s rond on tho south shore, and use thot and tho Northern Pacifio line to the Red River of tho North. The Company would thus se-~ curo n conneotion botweon the oastern and west- ernsoctions of theirline that in all wintors wonld o open for tho tranait of thoir traing, an! at a yory reasonable cost ; whilo to build the six or soven hundred miles through the uninhabitable country north of Lake Superior would absorb all the means placed at tho disposal of the Com- pony, and, when completed, it would not be profitable to operato the road during tho winter months, The country north of Lake Buperior has always boen reported ns composed of granite ridges and isolated knobs, with almost impassa- blo swamps Dbotwoen them. Goologists tell ug that all tho soil was swopt from it by icoborgs ond other ceuses in’the drift peried. It is now claimed that a platesu has beon found from 50 to 100 miles north of Laka Bupec- rior that nffords o fino location for the road. But what of tho climate? A gontloman who lias beon spending the winter at Bilver Islot writes to o friond that during tho entire month of Docombor tho morcury did not get as high as zoro, Ho says, Jan. 6: Tho winter thus far haa been remarkably pleasant, Tho moroury s indicated 38° and 80° below zoro, which sounds cold, but wo do not feol it a8 you' mijht think, Tho troublo is that wo aro in constant danger of belug frozen unless wo are very. watchful, Afufllo up as we will, and with our feet, hands, and Lody ss warm as toast, f tho tip of our nose 15 exposed for oven o fow minutes it loscs sonaation and borrows the translucont appesranco of & wax candle, Then bo- ‘waro of tho roturn to feellng . 1 heppened to bo walking with a Isdy ono cold day to tho Post-Office, a distance of probably 200 yarde, Thinking thoro was something unusual about my nose, 1 askod my fair fricod to obsorve, Taking off hor vell, sbho informod mo that I was bitton, As she isnaturally of a goy and festive turn of mind, I thought of course showas Joking j but when I rolurued to my offico tho sad ronlity starod mo in tho face : my poor littlo noso was a8 white as an icoberg and about ue hard, A glance ot tho map will show that the line of the railway must run st least two dogrees above Bilver Islet, ornearlyto tho fitticth degres of north latitude. Far from the modifying influ- ences of tho Inke, can any ono doubt that 40 de- grees below zero, the freczing point of moroury, would ofton ba reached? and porhaps for many woola togothor that would bo highost figure the spirit-thermomotor could indicato. ' Thit cor- tainly would bo a cheorful country fof railway passongers to pass through, Only aretl dxlinals ovor pass tho wintor in thego forbidding rogions, ‘The Financier notices o propogition mada to tho County of Loavenworth, Kanens, by John- son & Olomonts, starch manufacturers, to oroot & corn-taroh factory thoro, provided the county in it corporato capacity will do the following things: M 1. To givo them $30,000 in cash, 2, To glvo them Hivo apacificd acres of land In tho Qlty of Leavenworth, on which to eroct butldings, 8, To oxerupt their land, bulldings, machinery, and improvements of overy kind from all city taxationand assessmonts, 4, To construct, *' in such mannor g8 Johnson & Clemonta may direct,” s auitable track and switch con- ncoting the factory with tho railroad, at the oxpenso of tho county, 5, To givo them * satlefaotory security (porsonal or othorwiso, 88 thoy may deom bost) thot sald monoy will ba promptly paid over,” The Financier thinks that 16 waa an oversight that Jolnson & Clomonts did not ask the county to furnish the corn to mako thoe atavoh of, Hay- ing required tho county to furnieh theland, build- ings, and sidoe tracks, and to exempt tho prop- orty from ordinary taxation and speoial nsgoss- meonts, it was cortainly gross onrclossnoss not to havo stipulated for the corn. It might hava ‘boen woll to provido, aleo, that the Oity of ‘Loavenworth should pay tho wages of tho op- erntivos for tho firat flve yoars. The Leavenworth Commercial favors this sohiemo, on the groupd that tho factory will ex- oxpend $100,000 por awnum for corn, and thus furnish & homo merket for that important staplo. Unfortunatoly, Mossrs. Johuson & Cloments do not stipulate to expend #yon qno dollar pex aunum fo5 gorm, In Qrdor l of tho yoar, thint tho people of Leavonworth and vicinity may ronliza all that they oxpoot from the contems platod starch fnotory, they should roquire John« #on & Qlomonts to give bonds that they will buy $100,000 worth of corn por snnum. Thon, if thero is no market for the atarch, they canthrow 1t Into tho Missouri Rivor, but Loavenworth and the agrioultural.community will bo enriched by tho conatant purchasos of Johnson & Olements.. And thus the gront doctrine of protection to homo industry would receivo a now illustration, ——re——y A bill hos recontly boon passed by the Lower Ilouso of the Now York Logislature whioh will furnsh for tho Btato of Now York o statute in- tended to oporate like the *Buspect aot” rocont- ly sdopted in England. Tho flrst saction of tho Dbill providos that, if any porson shnll be charged n onth with bolng a profosslonal thiof, burglar, plokpocket, forger, or countorfelter, or shall havo boon arrosted by the polico authoriiies in any placo whatever whoro thoro is a gathering of poople, fow or many, and if it can.bo proved that such & porson was there for an unlaw- ful purposs, and las been convicted at any provious time of' the crimes named, ho shall bo deomed n disordorly porson; and punished a8 such. Tho second seetion pro- vidos for tho right of lssuing the writ of habeas corpus and rehoaring tho ovidence. Somo such logislation as this Is noeded in overy large clty, whore the polico nuthoritios have positive knowledgo that thicves and pickpockets aro mingling in with crowds of pooplo for the ox- pross purposo of plying thelr illegal avocations, and yet aro powerless to provent thom. It would vory matorinlly interforo with the opora- tions of this clasa of scoundrols in Chicago and overy othier largo city in tho country. — A writor in tho Miunonpoils Tribune, giving bl Views on Rationnlim in tho socular pross, eays that Richard Smith, of tho Oincinnati Gazelte, * I8 ironically called Doncon bocauso of his extromo imploty.” Buch {a famo! Mr, Bmith hos boon an oraclo of tho Prosbytorian Church (01& School) some twenty-fivo years, evi- dently to very little purposo. —— A dispatch in alato issuo of Tne Tnmune says ¢ ¢ Foroign lotters roport that Sir Bartlo Frore failed in his misaion to tho Sultan of Zan- zibar, against the oarrylng on of tho slavo- trafiic.” A koy to tho causes of this failuromay Do found in the following oxtract from s recont lottor of Moncuro D. Conway to the Cinclnnati Commercial, in which he saya : Tho Yrench Consul socma to havo o far espoused tho intorest of tho slave-traders that s mojority of tho dhowa that como in with mon and womon kidnapped on tho coast float the tricolor, and fo escapo examina~ tion from tho Britfeh ships, I havo not Loard of s United 8lalon dag Lelng employod {u any such vilo sorvico; but it is wald our Gonsul has prosoivod a st nllenco on tho mattor, snd that a lotter of inatruction which camo from Wanhington after tho srrival of Sir Bartlo Frorg, nddrcased ta fuo Captain of tho Unitod fiatos qunbost Yontle, was #0 manipulntod in tho transiation that when_tho Sultan road it ho oxprossod Bimsolf Lighly plosscd with fis contents, and at onco doclinad o accodo to any ono of tho English proposis tlons for tho suppression of ofther the slavo trade or sisvery, Iio d1d not cancoal 1ia dolight at boiog sups ported in (bl porilous cours by both Franco aud orlca, - Is it not sbout timo tolnvestigato the Conaul at Zanzibar, who thus deliboratoly uses his in- fluonco to porpotuato the horrora of tho African slavo-trado, and to thwart tho offorts of the civilizod powera engaged in breaking it up? Our Government is too soriously compromised to pass this matter ovor lightly. Let us have the full toxt of tha lottor of instructions to thia Con- sul, that it may boknown who is responsible for this high-handod proceeding. It is due to the peoplo of this country that tho Governmont set itself right, and correct the impression which provaila in England that the United Btates has deliberatoly instructed its consular roprosenta- tivo to hinder the humane mission of Sir Bartle Troro. —_— Tho heirs of the Iate Rembrandt Pealo have prosented tho colobrated ploture, * Washington Boforo Yorktown,"” of thoir dietinguished ances- tor, to the Mount Vernon Assmociation. As the picture would readily bring §10,000, the gift is a ‘moat liboral one, and, as it is virtually & donatlon to tho people of tho United Btates, it should be properly appreciated by the public. Asido from tho dangor of its boing dostroyed by fire, it is the placo of all others in which the pioturs should bo doposited. It will add groatly to tho intorost of o visit to Mount Vernon. In nddition to the portrait of Washington, are thoéo of Gons, Lofayctte, Hamilton, Lincoln, and Count Rochamboay, to whom Washington ia roprosented in tho act of giving orders, The dasign of it is to show Washington's docislon of charaoter as illustrated by en incident given to tho artist by Col. Forost, s mombor of Wash~ ington’s military family, who was presont whon it occurred : Waslington, with Lis Generals, having murveyed tho ground and decidod on the apot, rodo to his tont, took & hosty moal, remountod with his staff and rodo back to thoground, where he found nothing doue. In a volco unusually loud, ho called to Col, ‘Ilornan, Chiof Englueer, who rodoup to him, startied snd palo, “Bir," snid Washington, “did I not order the en- trenchmonts to be begun fora? 1f thoy ara not begun in ten mivutes, I shall know tho reason why,” Inten minutes thiero wore two hundrod men at work, Obiof Justico Marshall said of it : Ilave nover soon o portraft of that great man which oxhibited so porfect a resemblancoof Lim. The likeness in features s striking, sud tho character of tho wholo faco is preserved and exhiblted with won- derful nccuracy, It 8 moro Washington hfmself than sny portrait of him I have oyor soen, It gooms hard to imprison a man who had but just escaped with hia life from the terrible wreck of tho Northfleot, yot such an ocourrence recont- 1y heppened in England. One of the survivors of tho Northfleet committed s burglary two or throo yoars ngo and bad managed to keép hint solf out of tho hands of tho authoritios, ‘It oc- curred to him that, having bocome somowhat of & hero by renson of his sucoess in getting away from tho sinking vessel, tho authoritlos, proba- bly, would not be 8o hard-hearted as to troubla him for his past offenses, and 8o, in an unfortu- nato momont, ho nllowed his namo to appear in connection with an appenl for the survivors of tho Northfleot. The polico at onco pounced upon him, and he was convicted and sontenced to fittoon months' imprigonmont. Tho incldont 18 only another proofof‘tho truth of.the old adago that the man who'is’ born t5 bo hanged ‘will never bo drowned. 4 g Patriotism is all vory well in its way—Mr. Morbort Sponcer is inclined to regnrd it as a bias ~—Dbut it cortainly can bo carrled too far, One Bquire Monteith, a farmer living in the westorn part of Now York, iaa living illuatration of this possibility. o haa lately become tho heir to tho title and ontates of tho English Earl of Mar, do- scending to him on his mother's side. But Mon- teith porsistontly refusos to asaumo tho title, which is not altogother unreasonable, but also to recoive tho ronts and’ omoluments attached to tho Earldom, which cortainly is unreasonable. Ho continucs his farming, aud his greatost an~ noyanco 18 said to be tho title which tho English noblemen aro trying to fix upon him, This ap- penrs to bo an excoss of patriotism, and, for a groator wondor, Montolth i eaid to be married, and his wife submits to it. —_——— Tho announcemont ia mads by the Now York World that tho citizeng In a coriain neighbor- hood of tho ecity—nround Tiftioth stroot and Madison and Fourth avonuos—are contomplating the organization of a vigilance committeo, and it iaintimated thatsovoral of the professoraat Co- Tumbia College hiave determined to take annctive partinthomovement, Thonecessity whichisurged for this eummary procoss of self-protection is the continued aote of violence and bold highway robbories that aro unohocked by tho police, In connoction with this annoupcement, the same Journal mekes an oxhibit of the murders and asgnults committed in tho city alnco the firat day Thore 18 seavcely au intexyal of threo ‘days without tho ocourrence of gomo brutal cawo of Killing, and od somo days as many o8 half n dozon shooting and stabhing affrays aro chronfoled. It 15 only the moro notorious casos that arc spread abrond, but tho celondar shows numerous ine Btances of fatal askanlts whickh are ng horrible in overy way ns thoso that havo attractod moro goneral publio attontlon on accownt of tho pocial pna}tlouu of tho partios. Tho mont notablo fon- turd of tho oxhiblt 15 that the polico havo not napprebendod tho oriminals in movo than ono-half tho cxdos, and that somo of the ansnults and murders have cucaped their attention altogother, ‘Tio sentimont {8 hocoming very gonoral that it ia not enfo. to wll hio atrcota nlono, nnd it ia not unlikoly that tho formation of o vigilance committoo in one noction of tho elty will he imi. tated in othor quarters. o, NOTES AND OPINION, Connocticut oloction to-day. Ticketa: Repubifean, Demasratie, Governior.... ... Jfonsy I, tavon, ., Ghws. T Tigensoll, Lieut,-Govornor,,Ohna, L. Grinwold,.C * rio G, Lill, Secrelary of State.Jolu M. Hull, vin 11, Sanigor, Tyeaaurer, David P, Niclioic,,, W, 1, Raymond, Comptrolle John T, Rockwell,. Alfred it, Goodrich Congresa.., |—Tosoph It i—soh, 8imon B, Kendall, o lakwoathiot, mes XJ; gl;p""h mios A, DIl Hm 1 Minor,.Wm, ¥, Barutm, i Tho Prohibitionisly havo a ticket headed by Honry D. 8mith, of Southington, for Govornor 3 and for Congross, Third District, Llisha \V: Palmer ; Fourth, W. W. Porkins, Voto of Connaeticut for Governor, 1873 : Jow- oll, Ropublican, 40,463 ; HMubbard, Domocrat, 44,562 Qillotte, Prohibition, 1,649 ; Harrigon, Labor Reform, 899 ; Jowell's majority over all, 28. Tn Novombor, for Grant, 60,318 ; Grooloy, 45,600 ; seattoring, 410, —OMlio eloction to-doy : For delogates to Con- stitutional Convention, and for municipal and township officors. —Mlichigan olection to-day : For o Justico of the Bupromo Court, two Rogonts of tho Univor- sity, County Buporintondent of Schools, County Boardof Bupervisors, city andivillage officers, ote. Judge Tsnao P. Christiancy, who has heon fite teon yonrs on the bench, has noopposition, The tiokot for Rogents nro : Republfean, Edward 0, Wnlitor® nnmfi'mf;f . Andrew Climio Androw A, Flnch, “Renominatod, * —As & moiter of history wo copy from tha Washington correspondonco of tho Administra- tion organ, as follows = Senator Gonkling's defonoa’of My, Cr . tho 10th and 20th of lnst mouth, nppm:‘“-:l“ifll lml.pdnnr.?;\rll. numbor of the Congresnional Record to-day, Tho re-* ‘visfon has been oxcoodlngly thorough, Miny pAsRages: do not apponr at all, and_others still cannot bo recog- nized by thoso who listened to its delivory, ‘Tho clos= ing portlon of tho argument §s further ‘onlivoned by: #ovon insortions of 4he word * Inughtor,” in brackol —Bonator Adelbert Amos announces himself & candidato for Governor of Mississippl, and for re-cloction to the Bonato, —The cumulativo plan of voting as applled to borough cleotions in Pounsylvania, adoptod, last yedr, at tho urgency of Mr. Buckalew, in hopes that the method might grow in favor, has now boen sbolished by act of tho Logislature, —Tho Rock Island Union (late Postmaster). argues thus on tho salary stoal: Tho cost of liying {8 not ono of the incrensod ox~ nses of Washington, Itisnomore than it was a fow yenrango, But tlicro are oxpensos incumbent on aspitants for this position whicli appear fast incroag. ing, and yot aro not connooted with tho cont of living, . Tn somo cases it 8 tho cost of bribory to sccure an. olcotion, In nearly all cases it costs, *in an honeat ‘way," a good deal {o bo olected to Congrose, . . . .. Thoso aro ‘““tho incrcasod oxponses” for which mombers of Congross _want incressod | pay to moot, It hes probably been refloctions on thocost of golting fnfy Congross tlat, mado many men run thorisk of gotting out of it, and ina hurry, by voting for his {nfamous and Yory appropriatels tormed “ salary-steal,” Thelr salarios, in viow of those - xpouses, oto nol remunorativo, and probabl amount of salary would bo.remunerstivo to a ms| of mombers ; and that 18 a proper objection to Increase, Tho Into Postmnster at Rock Island knows. what he s talling about, and may yet give valu- ablo testimony of what ho knows, —The Utica Herald, whoso editor (Ellis H, Roberts, ox-M. 0.) has gone to Europe to think over the ealary-stoal, and how ho may disposoe of . it * without ostontafion," suye: . It the Congressman who refuses tho back pay covera 1t Into tho Unltod Statos Troasury, Lis consthuents got no groater sharo of the bonefit thian tho district whose . Congresaman took the $5,000 for his own bonmefit, Jn thioro any equity in this? " ;1;1:0 question recurs, “What will he do with: —If tho peoplo of Madison and Oswego eond. & roguo to Congross and ho stenls from tho Trea- sury 85,000, tho potmlo of Oueida will have to. share in tho loss. 1 this is undeniablo, but what Is the romody? Our noighbor [the Utica. Herald] thinks ho has discovered it. If oro mombor of Congroes stenls, every membor of Congross must stenl, to make taxation oquall All will at onco discover a high moral tone in- this doctrine—an inoxorable sense of justice,.— Qiica Observer. —The Troy Times has somehow picked up o fow facts about tho attempt of Congressman Roberts (Elis H.) of Utica, to induce the loading : Tapublicans of tiis Houso ko Joiaim in a forma) Tofusal to tako tho back pay. “Tho proposal,” it gays, ‘“was much discouraged by tho gentlo- men, and tho rosult of his endeavors in that di- - roction was abortive, One of these gontlomon . thus solicited, aud who then declared that ‘Ho shonld tako hls ehars and invest it for his old 8go,’ has sinco drawn the money and covered it back into tho Trensury.” Can not tho Témes or the Utica Herald favor a curious public with tho names of those leading Rcpublicans who threw cold water on Ellis' virtuous project for s lalf—donying ordinauce ?—Springficid Republican. —Heonry Wilson's conscienco Lias pricked him. Ho drow his back pay, but, not wishing to bu; into a Inwsuit, ho haw returned the monoy. And. yot ho s not happy,—Cincinnati Commercial. —Tho Jackson (Miss.) Olarion wants o now name for Colfnx County in that State. Bupposg it bo called “ Apollo,” Whose name is associated with tho most ronowned lyros of classio antiqui- ty ?—Cincinnali Enquirer, % —In tho act to apportion the Congrossional : roprosontation of Tonnesece, passad by the last Logislature, tho following extraordinary section occurs: ‘‘That in tho ovent of a tie vote Detween candidutes for Congross, 1o one _rocelving tho highest or groatest numbor of votos, fhe Governor shall de- - fermina the same by giving the_casting vole, and itsue the cortificato of elaction accordingly.” This mode of sottling s tlo voto cormmgv posses- - o8 morit of novolty. We don't think that any- thing liko "it oxists in any othor Stato.—Zouis- - ville Courier-Journal, N B * —Tho time i8 coming fest whon railronds will ¢ no ority i 1aat _havo to drop thoir chargctor of privato enter- priges, to bo. directed solely for private ends, and bo held, if not as highwaye, ot lonst as some- thing which owes a duty to publio intorest and tho nacrificos of the poople for them, -which ives tho public somo powor to diroct or limit fiml: direction.—Indianapolis Journal, " —‘Tho tarift papers ot Chiengo aro trying to - fool tho farmers on the question whethor or not railronds cost moro to build them on account of tho tariff on railrond iron and machinery, and @ whether this inoreaso of cost Lias not sumulhlng todowith high froights on the roads, The tariffites want to porsuade tho farmers that the highor the duty on iron and supplies genm‘ullg, tho choapor such commoditios can be uiforded, and thorafora that the duty has nothing to do with tho h(&h froight. To cnrry out thoirtheory thoso tariff papors nu%m to argue and try to raundo farmers that the moro froight thoy pay or oarrying their grain to market tho botterit {s - for thom, for don't high freight compol consumers 0 pay mora for the grain, and is not h|§h prices tho farmer's want ? Wo don't doubt {hore are farmors in Illinois, a8 in other places, foolisl: onough to boliovo what these tariff papers toll thom, repuguant 08 what they say is to common #onso as it is to common honosty. The fact that thoro is such a tarift in oxiatonce as we have in this country, is the best proof that the groator number of farmors credulously bolieve that the - morae & thing costs tho cheaper it is, and the loas Prlcu thoy get for their productions the botter it 8 for them, Where such ignorancoe is bliss, 'tis indeed folly to bo wiser; and whoro peopla are 80 credulous as to bollove nongonse, 'tis in vain totalk songe to thom, The tariff papers soom to . undorstand such people thoroughly,—Dubuque - Telegraph. ~The sertimont alroady awalkoned on'this : subjoct [tho salarystoal]” is so strong that rotribution is not likely to stop with the punish- . mont of the guilly, "Tho poople will not bo contont with ealling their plunderers to account. Alroedy the ory of * m[{:ml " s hoard. The in- cronsed salary s too high, and must bo reduced . —the blot upon honest legislation I too black and muat bo wiped out. T'his is tho way opinion is tending, It may, or may not, ariso 50 high s to onforce its decrecs, But its threatonings aro ominous, and all who are in_peril should take timely warnjug.—Davenport Savelte,