Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1873, Page 4

4 THE. CHICAGO DAITL TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 187 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF BUBECRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADYANOE). Oaily, by mall, ¥ i o S1800) oy 2 Patls of & your at tho same rato, To provont dalay and mistakos, bo sure and glvo Fost ddress in full, fnoluding Btate and Connty. tances may bo mada elther by draft, oxpreis, Post Oflas ordor, or In rogistorod lottars, at one risk, 1 et 7O GUTY PUBEC TS, ally, delivcrod, Bunday excopted, 35 centa 2 Baliz: Gelivereds, fundey Sacenied: 3 sonta per work. Addro T TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cortor Madlson aud Dearbora-ata., Ohioago, 1, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE, FIRST PAGE—Washington, Now York, and Miscollan- cous Tolographlo Nows—Advortisomonts. BECOND PAGE~Tho Cou: Misslon Work—The Now and Tatlroad Iron—The Railroad Questio 0 Ruroka Tragody, TIIRD PAGK—Tho TIall Abortion Caso—Tha Exposi~ tion~Tho Oity in Briof—Aurora Insuranca Gomipany Invontigation—Personal—Ratlroad Time Tablo—Ad- vertisoments. FOURTH PAGE—~Editortals: Tho Transportation Taxj Judge Law onco s Distriot; Tho Question of Vis ducts~Qurr nt N wa Paragraphs—Notos and Opin- fon, F ¥IFTI PAGE—Yosterdsy's Pracoodings in- the State Loglslature—Aarkots by Tolegraph—Advertise. monts, BIXTIE PAGE—Monstary and Commorcial, BEVENTH PAGE~Small Advortisomonts: Resl Estate, Yor Balo, To Ront, Wantod, Boarding; Lodglng, ato. EIGUTII PAGE—Forelgn Nows—Btate, Leglslaturos— The Bossungor-Slosson Billiard Matoh Last Evon- ing—Mfiscollancons Tolograms—Auotion Balos— Email Advortisomonts. t ‘TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ATREN'S THEATRE—Wabash avonuo, cormor of Gane jgross stroot, . Engsgomont of MoKoo Rankin, **Oliver Turlst," IVIORER'S THEATRE-Madison atroot, betwoon Btato and Dosrborn, Engagement of Miss Notlson, **Romeo and Jallot." HOOLEY'S OPERA IOUSE—Randolph strest, be- Imeon Clark and LaSallo, “*Fate." ACADEMY OF MUSIO— Halstad street, “south of Madtson. * Chrisand Lena; or German Life on ths Mis- eeippt.” MYERS' OPTRA HOUSE—Monroo stroet, bstwosn dato and Doarborn. Arlington, Cotton & Komblo's Minstrel and Durlosque Troupo. **Tho Clookmakors' Hat." NIXON'S AMPHITHEATRE —Olinton, botween Washlugton and Randolph atroots, Wilder & Co.'s Natfonal Olrou BUSINESS NOTICES. NLY, THE BESTIPAYING DRUG STt drons LN Y GEISS, Musoatlas, Tow. VANA LOTTRIY, THE KXTRAOT: Ao A il nk Tisgon the 2 of Apn, 1ot e Tmonne drawn, fa 00, ‘Thero wil onl J. . MARTINEZ & CO., Jankors, 10 Wills co_HBox 4,685, Now York. SOHENOR'S PULMONIO BYRUP, ~SEAWEED drako Fills nro the only medicines neoded o msauation: and fhOF &r3 bat Lo things to o omeke i AL Ehd Womach must bo got fnto s good, 6,000 tickots aud 3,097 priz First, the Hyer ai 5 tho lungs ato wnsting the 4008 ot nourlsh 110 bhily, od with slimo, it lles there I l"[adl Bnnlfln“nnll{r{hl, plnlont hfl: yetite, or voi o, oI astrio juico eannot ol 16 £0d, Falch loa in thio stomach and spoils or sours, and passes off Wl“lfllllllmlfllhlnf tho systom, ehonok's Mandreke Piia act fver and atoinach, s urvs off it slimio, Tho Hoawaed Tobio 8 a vory ploasant stimulant, ‘which, Il taken directly aftor eating, Taites w)llldull llllflflu wfn ‘L’i‘lg fl;:;npl:::.l"hl:énflg.ngl:; izt and ohylos thoa b B fnonio Kreup tho food Is turaod futo good Dlgod kad e body boginnto grow.” As gine to gain in floali the mattor in ti lung? ripon, and thoy heal up, This fa-tho only way to cure EBuatimpiion,No oo wes vor ourod Salos they bogea rain in flosh, & **fiysecond thing ia, tho pationta must atay i warm room Wil tHoy got wolls it [s very fmportant for thew to prevent taking cold whon the lup, re discased. *‘Frosh sir" and ridingahout &re sll ywron, ind yot, becausa thoy aro In the house, thoy must not in ‘quist; thoy must walk about m'fl!‘??x‘: I'l g‘:l" :g:l; strongth will permit, to got up a good ciroulatior 5 110 can alord.it, and arounwilling to stay tn 1% tnoun il cam find f andarananiing tostaytn ids, woll down In tho State, whoro the tomperaturo & subjoot to suoh variations as' i moro slonvilin, and Hatorpriso now hotol belng kept at s, Potorman, whilo t! actiltato. tho Tocarery’ of all who pariaka oy proparations and foflow tho advios X bave o 1ata ‘dow, and which i moro fally ot forth 18 the circulars acoompanying my medicinos, T "o Domiacny looated 18- my sigw bullding, northeast ,corner of Slxth and Arch- 'hiladelph Saturday from m. , 1., Iy son S mielf ou o Coneultod froo of alikrga; But fora Uior, gty osamination wis (i Tasplromoter Lo ohardo vl 's Resplromotor doteots the slightest murmerof and takes tho pl ans, and the oporator can readily de- otmor & car) e A the tormine whetli 3 AvO o forui , d whothor a pationt can be cared or not. fotietunes, ad vhodhers wilatt o ottt o7 ul, the Raspirometer. i dlos, sothat R e B & striot obsorvanos of Bun:’: . 80 OK, 3. D. Propared and for sale by J, Y1, BORENCK & SON, Northsast corner Stxth and Aroh-sta., Phlladolphls, And by Druggiata and doalors gonor: The Chicage Tribune, Friday Morning, April 11, 1873, SUNDAY EDITION. Tho pressare of advertisomeonts upon our Bunday edition compela us to request advertisors to condense thelr favors for that day, and hand them in at tho Counting-Room on Friday, or at as carly an Liour as ‘posatblo on Saturday, in order to securo insortion sud apropor clasalfication, The Ministorial Committeo to inquire into the corrupt slliance which it hns boen charged oxisted botween the Canadian Government, the Canedinn Pacific Railway magnates, and cortain Amuricans, hins bogun its session. American contributions to the Vienna Exposi- tion have bogun to arrive at Trioste, Austria's Meditorrancan port, in the United States vossels, whioh nrotransporting thom free of any charge to the exbhibitora. Villafranca has boset by the Carlists, who demand a heavy contribution, and threaten the citizons if thoy rofuse it with the fato of Derga, Thoy havo also bogun to bombard Puigeerds, and aro monacing soveral othor places, Theso operations aro much more for- midablo than tho slraggling Insurroctions of o fow woeks ago, aud show that their rosources and discipline aro growing. The Bub-Committes of tho Committee of Thirteon on Tailroad Loglslation will probably roport to-day. They aro eald to havo made a com- pound out of the Donahue, Connolly, and Hildrup bills. Extortion and unjust discriminntion are troated yeparately. Each rond is to have its tar- iff fixed by tho Railrond Commissioners, and tho reasontblenoss of chgrgos is to bo seitled by juries. No forfoiture of chartor is cnacted for any offenso ; and tho lughest punjshmont is s fino of §25,000. Chancollor Lowo has learned tho groat flacal socrot of incroasing revenue by lessening taxes, In his budgot speech, Monday night, he enid that the rocoipts last yoar, not- withetanding lower taxes, exopeded the catlmates by over £20,000,000, sud ho was thoreforo ablo to propose a reduction of one- half thae duty on gugar, and of one ponny in the ponnd in the jncome-tax, e fulfilled thie prom- ine, laut night, by announcing that the reduction of the sugar-tax would go into offeot next month. — Bold, bad, white mon, Peace Comnmilssioner Mencham wayy, aro at the bottom of tho failure ot the long-drawn-out nogotiations with the Mo- duce, Those fellows find soms sort of carrion profit in the troubles, and make the Modags be- lievo that if thoy surrender they willbs aban- donoed to tha civil authorities of Jackson County, who have indiotments against some of thom. “Ihis, Becretary Delano says, must not be doue. It tho Indisns give up, the military must mos ¢hom sately trauslated. Tho negotiations have bogun again, aud hopoes ‘of peaco aro not yot gono, — A " Compnign Catch" is tho doflnition the Baltimore American, which s an organ, gives of Civil Sorvico Reform. It says that thoCpllector, Naval Officor, and Burveyor of Baltimoro havo all beon summnrily romoved, without oxplanation. According to the Civil Borvico rulos, which the President’s inangural said wore to bo obgorved in lottor and spimt, theso vacan- clos should have boon fllled by promotions, But no promotions havo boen mado ; and, still worse, in nearly every onao all subordinatos who stood in tho lino of puccession woro swopt out with thoir superiors, Althongh tho Houso votod sgainst making any sppropriation out of tho Troasury for tho much- neoedod dam on the Iilinois River at Copporas Crock, thoro is hope that the Logislature will mnko provision for this work, and theroby secure continuons navigation on tho Illinots & Michi- gon Cannl and the Xlinois River. By o voto of 81 {o 45, tho Houso has moved to approprinto tho not rovonuo of tho canal and tho look ot Honry to the construction of & doam at Copporas Orook. Thisrovenuo is $125,- 000 a yoar, and in four years will mount up to tho £600,000 nooded. As soon ag $100,000 of it are acoumnulatod, tho sum will be turnod over to the Cannl Commissionors to bogin with, Tho bill has passod to o first reading in the Bonato, ‘whoro its passage {s oxpocted. The Chicago produce markets wore moro so- tivo yostorday, but grain was lowor, all round, Moks pork was in fair domand, and 6@10c por brl higlor, clealng nt 816.60@16.65 cash, and $16.00 mollor Juno. Lard was dull and 2{@be por 100 Ibs lower, closing at $8.321¢@8.85 cash, ond 28.60@8.65 sellor June, Moata wore aotivo ond steady at 6@63¢o for shoulders, 7H{@7¥o for short ribs, 8@83(e for short cloar, and 11@ 12}4o for swoot-pickled hams, Highwines woro moro activo, and o shado firmor at 8Gigo por gallon, . Lake froights wero nominally unchangod, at 16@106 for corn by mnil to Buffalo. Tlour was steady and more active, Whont was moro active and Io lower, closing strongor, at $1.104@1.18%{ caeh, and $1.21% saller May. Corn was loss active, snd J@3Xa lower, closing firmer at 81@33]¢c cash, and 343¢o meller Moy, Oata woro in fair domand and 340 lowor, closing at 243¢@370 cnsh, and 280 sollor May. Ryo was moro sotive and 1o lowoer, closing at G61@03c. Barloy was dull and 1o lowor, closing at 73@T4e for regular No. 2. Hoga were dull throughout, and closoed weak at $5.00@5.36. Tha cattle aud shoop markets wore fairly activo and firm. Tho State Sonate yestorday passod Iouso bill No. 800, being tho bill to authorize citios to lovy taxed on an asscesmont made solely for munici- pal purposcs, instead of being confined to tho Stato valuation. The opposition to tho Dbill, aftor all the noise, numbered only seven votes, ‘The nocessity for this bill may bo briefly stated thus : Undor tho law, citios ar limited in lovying taxen to cortain specific objeots and rates, as in tho cago of Chicago, whore tho maximum tax for sowers s Jimiled to 1 mill on each dollar of as- sosaod value, Tho valuation of taxablo proporty in Ohicago for municipal taxation is $290,000,000, and for Stato purposes 886,000,000 Bhould the tax bo lovied on this Iattor assessment, the rove- nuo would boar tho ssmoe proportion to tho nctu- al oxponditurcs of tho city that 86 bears “£0200 ; and, aa tho oty cannot add to its debt, tho City Govornment would have to dissolve. Bill No. 800 anthorizod cities to aasoss proporty for municipal purposos with some reference to its value, and thereby to produco rovenue enough o pay their ocurrent expensos. This proposition has beon frantically opposed by the Ohicogo Times snd tho whole tribe of tox- dodgors, and the offoct of tho opposition on the Legislature ia shown in the voto on the bill. i ——— THE TRANSPORTATIOR TAX. In Tux TRmuNE this morning will be fonnd an extract from a speech made in Boston four years ago by Mr, Edward Atkinson, showing the rola- tion existing between taxation on railrond iron and the cost of transportation, It is a clear domonstration that such taxation renders an im- monso amount of property valucless. Bpeaking 88 an Eastorn man intorested in the supply of brendstuffs and provisions, ho rocognizes that tho aroa for the production of these is moving further Westward, and evorything that adds to .the cost of production or. transportation lessons tho valuo of those produots at tho place of their growth, Tho valuo of railronds to tho farming community is shown by the woll-known rule that the cost of transporting corn by wagon over an ordinary highway is 20 conts per ton por mila, and ot that rato it will only pay tho cost of tramsportation 125 miles to & market swhoro it must bring 75 cents por bushel, Whoat, solling ot its destination at $1.60 por bushel, will only pay its transportation over an ordinary highway 250 miles. Railroads, thorefore, create 'valuos in whoat and corn in distriots wheroe othor- wise they would bhave no commorcial valuo, Computing railroad froights at ovon 13 centa por ton por mile, the corn selling at its destination for 75 conta por milo may be carried by ral 1,600 miles, and the wheat, to bo sold for $1.50, may e moved by rail 8,200 milea. Theso dlatances, howovor, consuma tho entire valuo of the grain, loaving nothing to tho producers; and the pres- ent price of grain at tho placo of growth is tho difforonco in tho distanco, reducad to conta por bushel. Tho producer receivos ouly what isnot taken for transportation. It will bo soon, there- forp, that railroads creato a value in those arti- cles in on Immpnso aren of territory where in tho absouce of such moans of transportation thoy would linve no value, Tho preseut Jow prices of corn In tho Eastern market ronder it impossible to transport that grain by rail further than Now YorkCity. From this point it must be moved by wator. Anything that adds, howover slightly, to tho cout of transportation by rail diminishes tho arca In which corn has any commoreial valuo, and, of nocessity, reduces that value in tho Lliands of tho producor. In this light, thoe facts prosented by Ar. Atkinson show how far taxa~ tion upon this agenoy dostroys tho value of tho coroals at the'place of growth. In computing the cost of transportation, we havo given 13¢ conts por ton por milo as tho nvorage. If this could bo roduced to 134, the area in whioh corn would have a commereial value would bo in- oreasod, aud tho price would be advanced; if it conld bo roducoed to 34 cout por ton per mile, its value wonld bo largely advanced in its prosent marketablo ares, or it would bear transportation o much greater distance. When Mr, Atkiuson 8poke, thore were 63,600 miles of railway in the United States; thoro weroe, ot the closo of 1873, not less tuan 70,000 miled of track laid, Of this amount, 85,000 have been built sinco tho first of January, 1805, Tho oaso s ‘even worge now than It was in 1868, Applylng his figurea to the present condition of things, wo find that, taking ninoty tons of iron to the milo, thoro hins beon usod In tho construction of theso 85,000 miles 8,150,000 tous of rails sinco tho closo of tho war. The tax on thoso has boon %14 por ton of 2,000 pounds, the aggrogato tax boing 244,000,000, Tor overy pound of iron nocded for railrond tracks, thore are throo pounda required for ohairs, spikes, bridges, bulldings, locomotives, cars, improvoments, and othor uses; and upon all this iron & similar, it not groator, tax ialovied, Thoro woro, thorefore, cousumod for rails, and for all othor purposes qucidontal to theso 85,000 miles of now rond Infd sinco tfo war, not less than 10,000,000 tons, upon which this tox of §14 por ton waa loviod, moking an aggrogate tax of ©140,000,000, or oqual to a tax of $4,000 por milo. To this must bo added the fron neoded for snuual ropairs. Dut, taking only tho fignras of tho tax on the flvst cost of conatruction and oquipmont, and asauming tho whole coat of constructing o railrond at $24,000 por mile, this tax alono would have built 6,834 miles of additionnl railroad,—or noarly twiea the longth of tho railroad from ‘Omalin to Ban Francisco. . This $140,000,000 hns 1o bo collocted, with profits and compound ntef- ost included, out of the corn and othior produots carried over thoso roads. ‘o pay this.tax, tho distance in which cornean bo transported by nil hes boon reduced, and’ tho rates for trans- portation lave beon advanced. Tho mian who eold his corn for 85 couts haa now to give 10 conts per.bushol of that sum to help o rofund this tax, and, thorefore, mow rocoivos but 25 conts por bushel; ond so on, accord- ing to tho dlstanco, the prico of corn rocoden fu obedienco to to this well-ascertainod Iaw. The gross earnings of oll tho railvonds in tho Unltod Stalcs, from all sources, in 1871, wero $454,000,000; whilo the tax on tho iron’ slong consumed in the construction of of just ono-half of thoso railwoys was §140,000,000, oxceoding ono-fourth of the gross earnings of all the rail- ways. Farmors who will attentively read theso figures will sco bow it is that tho cost of trans- portation has beon mndo double what it ought to Do, and will discover why it is that, with tho in- croasoe of railways, tho cost of transportation has continunlly dopressod tho commercial valuo of tho produots transported. JUDGE LAWRENCE'S DISTRICT. Tho eali upon Judgoe Lawronce to be n candi- date for re-olection to the Bupreme Bonch, mudo by the lawyers of the Fifth Judicial District, and his lottor of acceptance, which wore published in Tne ToinusNE of yosterday, furnish just grouuds for the beliof that he will be returned to tho position which he has occuplod o long. The district ombraces thirteen counties, nud it is eaid that evory lnwyor in the district oxcept ton or twelvo has signed tho call, and that theso ten or twelve porsons wore nbsent from home or could not be reached. In ‘®o unanimous an nc- tlon a8 this, tho lawyors may bo enid to embody tho sontimonts of tho pooplo. Itia the Inwyers and not their clionts who deal dircclly with the courta. It is thoy who roprosont the poople in all litigation, and who can bost judgo of tho &t- nessof o man for passing finslly upon the causos thot nre brought bofore him. Itisnot probablo that the people of the Fifth Distriot will bo inclined to go back of o practically unan- imous decision of the lawyors that Judge Law- ronco'a ability, learning, snd intogrity demand lis rotontion on the Bupreme Bench. It is scarcoly probable that a lawyer can bo found in tho district who will care to be a’ candidato agninst him. And it is not to be supposed that avybody not a lawyer will bo elected to tho Su- prome Bonch, Thero has boen a very decided reaction in the publio mind rogarding the Suprome Court dacis- fon in the caso of the Chieago & Alton Railroad. Tho excitomont was based upon mere rumor, It was , roportad that the Supremo Court had sus- tained railronds fn nnronsonablo chargos and un- just discriminations, Tho farmers knew that tho McLean decision was revorsed, and that was enough. Thoy listened to epeoches that were mado at tholr mootings, and lotters that woro nd- dressed to thom, all based upon the rumor, “But they did not stop toroad tho decision. Thoy thought thoy know what that was. Certain dem- agoguos, anxious to avail themsolves of the op- portuity to rido into favor with the farmors, continuod to mislond them. Mr. Castlo, o State Bonator, wrote them u lottor, based upon the ru- ‘mor, nnd suggested to thom * o roverso tho Su- prome Court,” which lotter e Las since boon compelled to rocant. Mr. Potors, a lawyer who Biad boen in Chicago for some time, roturned to his formor home in Princoton and proachoed against tho Bupreme Court because it was in longuo with monopolists. As Chiof Juatico Lawronce had deliverod the opinion in the caso, Lo becawo tho target for tho indiscriminate abuso and denuncistion, Tho farmers worc not greatly to blamo, as o class, for they had beon misled. Thoy aro not a peoplo who read and analyze judicial decisions. Thoy seizo upon tho main facts a8 thoy are interpreted from tho do- cisions in public utterances. Tho -facts in this caso woro misropresented. Tt required timo to disnbuse the publioc mind of tho falee impression which had been made upon it. Gradually, howover, the decision itsclt corrocted tho wrobg construction which rumor had put upon it. Men intelligent emough to understand it, and honest onough to toll the peoplo what it really wrs, slonly elbowed' tho domagoguos out of tho way. Mr. Potors has not beon hemd of Iatoly ; Mr. Castlo acknowledgod that o had writtén under & mieapprohonsion; M, 8. M, Siith has withdrawn' his opposition to Judge Lawronce. It came tobo lmown that thio Bupromo Court, Instead of deciding againat tho peoplo and in favor of tho rail- ronds, decided ngainst railrond extortion and discrimination, The decision in the Chicago & Alton caso pointedly declared that raflronds may be forced judicinlly to roduco extortionato charges, and to abandon unjust digerimination, It laid down tho principle ihat competition alono doos nob justify dlserimina- tion. When the farmors learned that this was tho meaning of the decluion, and not what it had boon rumorod and intentionally misropresented to bo, thoy began to take a differont view of tho Bupremo Court and of Ohiof Justice Lawrence, ‘Thoy eent their represcntatives to Bpringflold in tho rocont convontion to demand that ‘a law should bo framod which should meet the oxi- goncies of tho easo according to law, Thoy as- sembled in convention aund passed a resolution to tho samo offoct. Thoy concluded, liko senal- blo poople, that it was better to scouro their righta acoording to law, than to overthrow tho law in order to oatoh larks whon thoe sly falls. The oppoeition to the re-election of Judge Lawrenco may, therefore, bo regarded s vir-- tually onded. Hiu letter, accopting the invita- tlon to be o candidato, must add strongth to his position bofors the publle, Ile refera to tho movement which threatened to run a class- candidato for Judge of thoBupremo Court as the l firat fnatanco of the kind in tho history of tho Btato, nud proporly chnractorizos it naa procadent that would ** utterly dostroy our judiclal system, and with it all socurity for civil rights” 1o offers no plodgo excopt his past record, and says distinctly that, if ho shall tako his sont ngain, it must be, as horotofors, without ropresonting any class, or party, or opinfon. It s of stuff liko thin that Suprome Courts and all ofhor Couirty should bo made, LANDED PROFERTY AGITATION, A vory sorious ngitation againat laud-ownors has commoncod in England, which ia boginning toalarm tho proprietary olass. At tho aunual mooting of tho Land-Tonuro Roform Asscin- tlon, Lield recontly, considerablo excitoment was occasionod by the spocoh of John Btuart Mill, tho political economist, who prosided, and do- livorod o very bitter address on tho holding of 1and 83 privato property. Mr. Mill fn his spocch protosted ngainet the conversion of publio or corporato lauds into privato property, and againet dividing tho common. lands among the nolghboring proporty-holders, What will croato still moro eurpriso in this country 1a Mr. Mill's assortion that pormission to own the land does not cariy with it a'right o tho Incroass of valuo which the land is constantly soquiring, and that this spontancous increaso of valuo may bo taken from tho public by means of spocial taxation, Ono can imagine the constornation which such o proposition would crente in Chicago or any of our large cltios, whero fortunes are aunually made in tho rise of real estato, and whoro oven poor mon manage to invest tholr sur- plus - wagos - {n- land, -nnd - reslizo some- thing -on their investmrnt by ite riso. Ouo can algo imagino tho conaternation of somo of our local land-owners, who contest even the logsl porcontago of taxes on tho assessod valu- ation of thelr property, if thoy wera compelled to pay into the Public Treasury ns taxes the annual increnso in the valuc of their londs, Mr. Mill's idea a8 to the inclosuro of commons, 8o that they shall contributo to the gonoral good and be en- Joyed in common by the publio, will mook with, genoral nccoptance. Mr, Mill's address 8o thor- oughly aroused the pacsions of his audienco that they camo near going much farthor than ho intended to havo thom. A considerablo number, indoed, wore in’ favor of o rosolution de- monding that all the Ilanded proporty in tho country ehould bo scired at onco by tho Btato, and Leld for,tho good of tho pooplo at lorge, This Communistie view of things, however, was not approved by the ‘majority, who favored a mildor and mora ron- sonable courso, and tho rosult was the passago of n resolution denouncing. the laws.of primo- gonituro end entail, and tho prosont costly snd involved syutoms of transfer. Tho'nctionof tho Asgocialica geina additional importanco from tho fact that the samo proposition has boon bo- foro Parlinment soveral times, and that thero is & wide-sproad foeling of opposition among the English pooplo sgainat their system of land- transfors, which aro 8o exponsive and intricato that thoy virtually provent poor mon from pur- chneing, and koep: tho landed proporty in the hands of tho wealthy fow. MMr. Mill'a theorios, which are so strongly adverso to landed prop- erty, will moot with long ond bitter opposition ‘befora thoy are adopted ; but the recent dobates in Parlinmont, and tho nction of tho Tenuro-of- Land Associations scem to indicato that tho ‘timo ia not far distant whon thoro will bo & very radical chango in the.laws rogulnting the trans- for of renl ostnto an woll as in the laws of inhor- itance. . The Now York ZTimes has an abundanco of faith. It doos mot bolieve that Civil Service Toform haa beon abandoned, and professcs to oliove that Mr. Curtis did not rosign in dospair of doing anything .mora.fo promoto it. Mr. Curtis’ lottor must have bioen wofully misunder- stood ; and yet it is difficult to see how this could be. It was amodel of brovity and per- spicuity, It conslated of just two sontences, ono of which state® Mr. Curtis® belief that tho pro~ Jectof réforming tho Civil Sorvice Liad boen abandoned and that he folt constrained to ro- sign on this account, The other contained & sor- rowful sseuranco that Lo would continue to do whathe couldto makeGen.Grant's Adminiatration aguccess, Mr, Curtis’ lotter was a picturo of de- epair, a8 graphic as if Nast had madoe a striking caricaturo of Mr, Curtis and Gon. Grant, with tho former presenting bis resignation forlornly, and tho latter receiving it complacently with Lis cigar in his mouth. The Now York Zimes bo- liovos, morcover, that * Tho country will judgo tho Prosidant sololy on the facts, and not on any ono man's intorpretation of them.” Te what facts does the Times refor ? Presumably not the reappointmont of Mr, Cagey at Now Orloans, tho appointmont of ox-Gov. Holden at Raloigh, N. C., the appointment of United Gtatos Mar- shal Sharpo as Naval Ofiicorin Now York, and the fraquent disregard of tho rulo of promotion in the prinoipal post-officos. An immenso mooting was hold in London on tho 22d ulf,, whick was eddrossed by Mr. Plim- goll, M. P., on tho subjoct of unscaworthy ves- sols, The charges made by Mr, Plimsoll, in i worlk rocontly issucd, have alrendy beon pub- lished in Tue TripuNe. The action of tho meoting resulted in o rosolution, unanimously passed, that Parllamont shall bo ‘petitioned to pass law forbidding anyship neoding ropairs to go to son, and alao proventing the sailing of suy overloadod vossol. Mr. Plimsoll intonds to pre- sont tho potition immediately, and, as ho hos the press and people on his side, ho will have no lack of help in tho advoency of his humano measuros, It would have boon an important ad- dition to the actlon of the mesting if it had also recommended that no voseol shall go to soa without sufiiciont cosl and provisfons, The Question of Viaduots. ‘Within littlo moro than & year ordinances have beon passod nllowing twelve new railways to ontor tho city. The great caro manifostod in the provisions of these ordinancos, and the safe- guards thrown around the interosts of the pub- 1o, doservo the cordial thanks of all our citizons, Tho ordinanco passed admitting the Columbus, Oh.cago & Indlana Rallway, after dofining tho line by which tho rond may entor tho city, Seotion 8 provides that the crossing of overy stroot shall bo made under tho direction of tho Board of Publio Works, and that tho Company sball croct and maintaln vinducts over its d {racke ot Malated, Bangnmon, Lako, aud Madison atreels, within ono year from tho assage of thin ordi- nance, and shall annually thereafier erect two vizdnols In each yeur over ite sald tracks, sud the Board of Tublio Worka shall, in each year, 6n or bofora tho lnt day of January, deslguate tlio stroety over which wuch viaduots sud upproachca o safd visducis shall bo cone structed and muintainod, the samo to ba bullt fn such munner u (ho sald Board of Publio Works shalt direct: Provided, howover, that tho safd viaduet or viaducts shall avo approaches thoreto on elther sido thorcof, with tho proper area on oither side of aid approacics § sald approachios to have au elevation of nol more than one faut to overy forly feet i tho length thorof, sud that said l‘lv prozchen fo sald viaducta shall Nkewise bo eracted and buflt by sud at the expense of sl Raliroad Company, Tt aleo provides that, whoye the road runsalong {ho lino of another, jt shall only be required to build one-half of tho viaduct acrosa tho sevoral stroots. Soation b says : Tho privileges horaby grantad shall ho subloct to al cuoral ordingtices that Aro how or may harorfler bo in orco concorning rallroads in (o Olly of Chicso. Hootion 0 ia vory importaut, and provides as follows ¢ Tho permission and authorlty ‘heroby grantod are upon tho furiher oxpross condition thnt the said Columbuy, Chisago & Indiann Central RNaflroad Com- i’.“’ shall and wfil forover indemnify and rave harm- lcas tho Clty of Chieago agafnst ond from sny aud all damagos, {udgmenu, deerecs, and cokts and oxponscs of aanio which it may suffer or which may bo recovered or obtaincd againat #ald city for or by reason of the granting of el privilegen axd anthority, or for or by Teason of, or growlng out of, or resulling from, the pM!na’o of this ordinaneo, or any matior or thing con- nectod therawith, orwith the exerclao by sald Company of thie privilegon heroby granted, Boction 7 roquires tho rond to adopt logal monsures within three yoara to ascertain what damago, if any, tho cltizens whoso prop- orty lios ndjacont to the road may bo damnged by it, and to pay, without any unnocessary delay, ail such damnges, The noxt eection roquires that permission shall be given otlior ronds to make connoctions with i, nnd side tracks to Lo builb to elovators, ship- yards, &o; and that proporty nt reason- ablo ratos sholl bo pormitted to pass over its lino, It is also roquired to bulld . swing-bridgo ovor tho weat branch of tho Houth Branch, and, in fact, overy roquisito snfogunrd seoma to havo boon included in the ordinanco. And now, will not our oldor nnd wealthler raliways como forward and bridgo thelr linos, ns {heso now lines are forced to do? Buch viaduots aro comential to tho eafety of our peo- plo and to tho succossful proscoution of the business of the roads thomselves. Somo of thom might nuy day dostroy o score of lives costing moro than it would to build tho visduct. Bocauao the city may not—wo are not #o suro as to that—bo able to forco them fo doit, thoy should not considor tho oxponso & hardship. It will pay in. the. confidenco. .and -tho. respeot it would inspiro among our ‘people. Thoy ought not to bo unwilling to do what tho new roads do gladly in ordor to got pormission to outer tho city. ¢ . — NOTES AND OPINION. Tho goratohing dono in Now Haven, Gk, ot the Iate oleciion, was simply frightful, Just sco the reault: Repubitcan, K ..0,671 Driscoll 113 [Electing Jamos ¥, Babcock (Domi,) and Henry B, Harrison (rep.) to the Leglalaturo. Laat Novembor the City of Now Haven gave Grant 4,061, and Grooloy 4,706, On Mondsys tho Domacrais nt tho polla wero about 4,100, snd tho’ Ropublicans 8,200; nnd their froo handling of tho ballots supplied tho varintions, If the Honry B. Harrison (Republican) cliquo slanght- ered Mr, Havon for Governor, the Gallaghor (Domocratic) melcontonts did no less for Mr, English for Congross; and Lonors woro made the moro *‘easy” by the election of Babcock and Horrigon to tho Legislaturo. | —Mr. Stophen W. Kellogg, of Watorbury (Re- publican), has threo times boon olected to Con- gresd, oach timo profiting by the English-Bab- cock-Gallaghoer faction Qgits in Now Haven, although the Democratic majority in the diatriot wasg nover losa than 2,000, ''his yoar the Domo- eratic majority (on Governor) 18 5,124 ; and Mr. Kollogg's 18 685. —Thero is o flavor of earcasm in the an- nouncemont by tho New Haven papors that tho Christisn Statosman, whom Connceticut does not soom to want for Govornor, would addross & missionary moeting in Springfield, Moss., and Lelp start o man to the Zulus. —Tho voto of Cleveland, for Mnyor, was: Charles A. Otis, Domacrat, 7,498 ; Jobn Hunt- ington, Republican, 5,782, Tho Herald and Leader (Adminiotration nowspapers), which doym to tho last moment snoored at tho ides of tho Democrats running & candidato at all, aro casting about, now, for anything but the truo roason why that Domocrat waa olected. The Herald faintly suspects it may Lavo boon duo to ““n combination of causes.” —Certain parties wore once most ruinonsly ad- vigod that thoy should not suroly die. The Now York Worldnow advisos that the Domocratic party will not dio; and our own Illinois Stale Journal insists that neither party must die. The Journal snys:’ ‘Wao ngreo with the ¥orld fully in its opinfon, Thora 18110 need of any porty déslgiations othier than tho Ropublican and” Democratic, But two parties ‘oro wanted, Lot the two that aro now recognized stand over against each other, Let the polilical Lucksters and middlo men go to one or the otlier slde. —A corrospondent of the 8t. Louis Democrat offors ‘¢ 81,000,000 or more " for tho annoxation of Enst 8t. Lonis., —Tho pross all over this State Is beginning to wake up and spook for the people. ‘Tho farmera sre organizing, and in eixty days Wisconsin will show 1tsolf as fully alive to the subject of cor~ poration abuses a8 it southorn neighbor.—La- Crosse Democrat. —Wo do not beliove that when the tide fairly sota in, there can bo any agencies called into roquisition that can stop it, short of a political rovolution.—Burlinglon (fowa) Gazelte, —Thio Convention [at Springfiold, Il.], and in- doed tho wholo farmers' movomont 'has to strugglo with a diffioulty in that o host of decay- ing Politiclang, lavyory, Lsnkors, ‘olo, Lavo joinod in for tha émrpmm of riding agamn into power on it. But the heart of the pooplo is with 1t, and it will Hm‘.\nbly bo found to have ac- complished a good work. Its recolutions are long and various in nub[i ect, but mostly pointed and truo.—Sycamore (1) Kepubtican,' —Thoro nover was a strictly popular move- mont started, ono which reached the hearts of tho pooplo sfter sacuring their Lottor judgment, and swapt things bofora it liko a prairio fire, bub what waa usod, or sought to bo used, by doma- gogues. Thoro is elways a gang of worn-out aud played-out politicians, o of pofiticians whoso doserved and unquestioned fato will scon bo of tho playod-out kind, watching for just sunch whirlwinds of popular oxcitement as’ their lnst Topo of political salvation, or na thoir *first Dbest hold ™ to gratify aspirations. Tho presont exciting farmors’ movement illustrates this,— Rock Island (IIl.) Union. —We foar Lhero aro moro railroad attornoys in the Logislature than peoplo genorally supposo.— Belvidere (111.) Standard. —It has cont the nation £5,000,000,000 to strike tho fottors from 8,000,000 of slaves. It may take {hat much moro £0 omancipato 40,000,600 of froa- mon from tho extortioni of mionopolios; but whenover tho nation makos up its mind tuat it must bo done, thoir hour has como,—Champaign (11.) Gazelle, —It is not meroly the election of & Clovernor in Conneotiout, o Judgo in Michigan, Mnyors in Bt. Louin, Cindinnati and othor points, that bids us rojoice at_thin timo and fesl oncouraged for tho futuro, butitis tho nesuranca that thewo events givo us hopoof a revolution in the country that only awaits tho first opportunity to unsent corruption in ‘)llbflo'plncus and reinstato honeaty aud purity, ‘heso signs of tho timea cannot bo mistaken” and tho observing may rend in them the cnmin? doom of tho Oradit Mobiller party. Quincy (I1L) Herald. —It cortainly looks as if tho Orodit Mobilier star, having reachoed its zonith in the second olcctlon of Grant, hnd hogun to move to its us ovituble declino.—Bugfalo Courier. —In our o}\lnlon tho losa that party politics are mixed with the election of tho Judgas of tho Supromo Court the bottor; but while tiiia in true, the caudidates for this position should bo ns closely sorutinized in rogard {o thoir qualifica- tions “ay candidates for any other ofiice, This being tho caso, it is very ovidont that but fow of tho grontest mombers of that court slould bo re-olected, Bomo of their rocont decisions, espocinlly tho one declming the county bonds issued by Livingston ocoun- ty, for tho Stato lNoform School, il logal s clearly in contravontion of u\?lw and oquity and, should forevor consign the Judges who mado it to the shades of private life, Courts, liko everything elso, will hava to learn to pay a decont rospoct to the common sonso and £ho wishos of tho gront muss of Lhe pooplo.—Alfon (Zil.) Talegraph, . —Dled, ln Washitgéon rocontly, littlo orphan boy namod Civil Borvico Reform, who was ap- ronticod to the Prosident Iast fall, just Lofore 1o cleotion, ‘Tho I'rosidont un!ol'tuuu(nlt’ pub Lim to bed tho othor nlfi}xt, to gloop bobwoon Casoy and Fred Grant, who overlald him, and tho miserablo little wretoh was smotherea to doath, Frionds of the deceasod will attoud tho funoral without further notice, Sorvicea by {ho Rev Dr. Nowman, Inspoctor of Consulatos,— ZLoufsville Courier-Journal, WASHINGTON. Exhortation Jim-Jams---New- man Sent on Circuit. Henry Wilson's New Book. The Lato Biogrnplny'ol‘anlnudlg- bam---Hurry Gilmore’s Primer. From Ouyr Qwn Correspondent, WasnNaToN, April 4, 1873, A fow Congrossmen aro in town, sud two or throo Bonators who aro frlondless at home. The spring daya horo aro vory exhilarating, and such 88 have rosidonces at Washington find tho roads good for country-driviug. It is amight to meo tho groat bags of books satacked up in tho basement of tho Capitol, to bo franked off, following such departod chaps as Nro, Cole, Corbott, otc. Will the privilego” borovived? Who can toll, when 8o few under- stand dio Govornment, 5o fow watch it, and so fow caro to correot it ? A DREADFUL BTUDY. To reo Brother Harlan unshorn, wild-oyed, and talking to himsolf, as he pacoa tho stroots, would bo en oxamplp to youth of tho folly of Lypoorisy end ovil courses. The spring-dsys havo como and tho Inmbs frisk on tho hill-sides; tho intelligent radish comes up with its piquant countonanco, and obsorves : ¢ Take me young ond tondor!” tho shad como ashore, s if it woro all ono to them, Iaud and wator ; but tho countenance of Brothor Harlan is vory dismal. And travolors now, iike Chartos O'Malloy, Through tho red-litten windows 560 ‘Vast form that move fantastically To a discordant melody, Theso aro tho monstraus offigios of railrond- jobbors, who withhold the customery “douche ers” from Harlan, bocauso of his lost influcnco oven to purloin. Why aro thoye no nunnorics in Protoatant churches, to which such hulks of pub- lic men—those old * receiving-ships"—mey go, instend of jigging, nmbling, and lsping hore, and nicknaming God’s croatures ? ) NEWMAN, The daya of tho itincrant ministry have ro- turned, end the Rev, Dr. Nowman will go on circuit——to Japan., Ho travols, like Loronzo and Peggy Dow, with his wifo, M, F. —, ona froo stoamship pass. I rofer to tho M. F. be- cause undor theso modest initinls tho Indy was ooncoaled in the appointmont. The duties of the offico are to convict of sin, by roporting such Conguls as do not show familiarity with thoir du- tlos ond our importanco; and to exhort to ro- pentanco, in tho way of squaring mth our Con- noction, 1t is for this that 80 much presching and proy- ing for the President has boen done. The Nuncio goes abroad in atyle. Ho will proach on ship- board with the power of tongues, and the au- thority of tho Great Johovah and the Continon- tal Congross, Tromblo, horotica and hoathen ; for behind this man of God may come the ten now iron-clads. If the Olristinn Church doos not fool o little ashamed of this secular allot- meont for its sharo of thoe spoils of office, we con only sympathize with the Leathen who aro to bo dismnyed by this son-going Jonah as Lo will bo apouted upon their ahores. The active duties of $hio biilco it thurs be . ars fhosoof b epy: but tho objeot of the ofiico is luxury, reatloss on- {gymont, aud soumious apocalyptio sight-sooing. We shall have o book of travels, of course, horded thus: ; N “ John (Newman) to thoSoven Churchoawhich aro in Asia. Brass bo unto you " CONRLING'S8 DEFENSE OF DRIDEKY. Mr. Conkling’s argument for Caldwell did not got into tho papor called the Ktecord until to-day, nnd it is sopped over, sponged, and altered, a8 the suthor were ashamed of it. " __A DOOK FROM THE AUTHOR, “Tho IHistory of tho Riso and Fallof ths Slavo-Powor In Amorics, by Henry Wilson,” ia tho title of a noble baok, of more than 650 pages, which I have rocoived with tho compliment of the author’s good word on tho blank-loaf. This titlo is effsctive and complote. The book is written without malice. A fow duys ago, when laid up with & cold, and without intercst in ootry, or fiction, or oven travols, I took up this Bools of our Vice-Prosidont, and. bogsn to road it with n senso of ploasurs that ho had choson 8o happily his titlo, and had 80 far commended him- .aI[; to the estimation and admiration of 5,000,- 000 of our fellow-citizons, whom Providonce has sont amongst us to lve with us and solve with ua the problem of the Now Continent, Itis lgrfilt Erivflogo for a contemporary poli- tician to have Liad such & thome in which to roca- Eltu.lako the homely biographies of men liko John liot, the early Methodists and Quakers, Elias Hicks, Benjamin Lundy, Charles Sumner, Won- dell Phillips, John G. Whittier, Gamalicl Bailoy, and other noble gentlomon who took but ono Jong look atBlavery and its phfloaopli,, and mado up their minds for'all thoir 'days. To rosist, to counteract, to fulminate, to fight without ceas- ing, this is'in itsolf a plensuro, if ita object be suficiontly formidable, and euch: an objoct was Slavory,—quite a dirty affair, around which thein- tollect, scholaralip, and bohavior of noarly two conturios wero nssombled in apology without avail. It is complimentary to our human nature that such o cause could, by tho mere attention roquired to dofond it, mnko o cortein sort of strong publio manhood. But, with 5 book like this in his hand,—well-bound, good to look upon, largo and durablo in its mochanics and composition,—who can wish the groat slave-liolder who Las survived his poriod more injury than to read theso quiot pages throughand through, and feol the anomaly of what ho hes defouded, and what has porished despito him ? TIIE GLAVES OF THE UNITED STATES have como l\monfifit us liko the contributions of sl the races, without our request ; but hore thoy ore, never to quit us, Thero can be again no Colonization -Bocioty. People with black faces number one-sixth of tho American race. About them and in them aro somo qualitios lacking in us. Thoe fmwlu nervousnoes, spontaneity, and dobility of tho Western white may be compollod at some timo to find its countor-irritant in tho greaty Louyy, light-honttod blagk. Wa know nothing of thoae possibilitics. A thousand years toman, as to God aro but 28 a day. We onl Inow that here wo are placed, to look at oacl othier forcenturios. The projudico of to-day is of no moro account to tho contingency of to-morrow than the horse-shoo over tho door s to tho witch, the murrain, or tha opi- domlc which may come, Further in this luo it is not plensant {o 50; but we may all congratu~ lato the Vico-Prosidont of the UnitedStatos that, aftor many yenrs of vory noblo servico in the ine torosts of tho Ragublic, ho has found publishors and & thomo which will 80 woll commend him to tho groat posterity we aro sure to havo; and that, in writing hid book, Lo Lasboen so qualitied by tmporamont and eddeation Lo clioosas quiot, agroonblo, simple, and offoctivo style, o littlo ro moved from partisan attack, but not o far ro- moved a5 to disgnise tho abliorronce of all fol- lowing humanity for an institution which was mainly unlovoly, and yet which assomblod about It in deforance, if nob in dovotion, clorgymen; churehios, philanthropio sociotica, States, und, to somo dogree, nations of men. DALTIMONE PUBLISHERS, Tho City of Baltimoro hag of late coms to bo tho common placo of publication for books tine- turod with that ourious spasm of bravery, hood- lessnees, local attnchimont, and protligaoy, called the Robollion. A rebollion for o person, such as o King, moy praporl{ find its dofoudors, because gratitude to a hored “Mfl right has the eloments of horoism about it. But” robellion to make auothior man da your work without pay, and with only o peck of cornmseal twico a weel, is & pro- cous which tho futuro novollat will havo a desl mare lubor to male brillinnt than Mr. Gllmore B8ims or some of the great Southorn authoressos Lave shown. "The United Btaton, boing tho most composite and aunomnlous governmont of the earth, will crontly bothor the Positive philosopher of & uturo duy, That Fflnllnmlu muat undorstand that wo aro dealing in our national capacity with all the husks “of tho middle agos,—tho Roman law, the English common law, aud mavy other such mattors; and thut the evild of our 'Imrlufl Lavo to gito their defenso in the uatural doforbneo which & law-oboying peo- plo pay to tho forms loft unto thom, Hero fs a Baltimore book, the lifo of CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGUAM, by Liis brothor, a clergymun, if I mistako not, of tho town of Nowark, in Northorn Dolawaro. ‘Lhe tiook was sont to me dmrlmpu & year ago, and I presumo, by the gontlomnn whoin I heard proach ‘when boy, little knowing that the family name Lio boro was to ocoup; nmfin & conaplonous placo in tho civil history of the nation. Mr, Vallandighem, the politician, was s man of consldorablo powor boforo & projudicod audi- enco, Ho lind beon nourished amongst conservas tiye folkn, and lind boen o toncher in Maryland, whero Lo had the luck to mmiy into. the fino fomily of MoMalon, ‘he wome on of . l[arnylnml, while Indilferont about fomalo suffrago, have groat -power with tholr husbands, and. Vallndlgham, who was noturally a resistant, a protestant, and svorso to family and personal .rule, found himmelf ina Western Btato, opposod to the grm\'lng Bonti~ maont of tho great multitude, and ho thoroforo ow more bittor and more vli;arouu ovory year, @ bad no groat oxccutivo or fundamontal qualls tics. Ho was o politician, with n good face, crual teoth, nice clothes; nnd ho belonged to a good town,—one of the best. towns in tho West, —whero the churches aro big aud roomy, the houscs cloan and neat, the stroots broad, and whoro tho growth of the place has boen 8o grad< uel, and yot 8o sufficiont, that the citizon lifo and the incomo of tho eoplo have dovelopad about oqually. In that town of Dayton, thera woro many strong mou, not tho lenst of whom was Robort 0. Bchonck, VAL AND TiOD. Schonok was & man of eandor, voluptuouss noss, lnzinows, force, and publia capncity, which wero ~bounl' to bring- him an keop him in tho forogronnd. Vellandigham wag & man of gelflshnoss, F““ vanity, fino np%nnr- anco, and pride of intolloct. Jo had boon brought up fo that atmosphore whera mon sook s patron. Schonok had boon raised in that ‘Westorn atmosphero whore n man doflos o patron 24 800n &3 ho can conveniently got around. Tho contoat in ita philosophy was unoqual. Nothing in tho Republic Lid grown like Democracy. Vallandigham, inhabiting tho domnin of géne tility, wan supported all his days by tho riff-ra, sad thoso people who seem to seok o mastor in ordor to take refugo from thelr own unintorost- ingnesa. Bob Bchenols, with the Nortliern lights in Lis eyes, had only to live long enough to Dbolong to & gonoration capable of carrying him to Congros ns long as ho would kaop honest. TIE DESTINY OF THE DEAD-SET, It is - strango, at this distanco, o sce what n part Vallandigham was to' play in the great robollion betweon Mastorship and Oitizonship. Ho wao not o manof oxtrave sgant conrago, nor a slavelioldor, nor auyihing which eliould hnve propollod him into that une oqual contost which o young nntion was bound. to wago against tlo protonses of tho deslors in pooplo. That hiodld tnkio tho rauk ho has ob- ninod, s to bo attributod to the law-ablding nature of tho majority in Gongroes, to the souso of Govornment, which wna not wholly abandonod In tho worst periods of tha War, aud to tho au~ dacity whickn man iu the minority might nssumo, knowing the tompor of is ssoclatos In tho ma= jority. Womay, at this distanco, congratulate oursolvea that r. Vallaudigham tas nilowed to havo his sy ; and wo know vory woll that, beforo ho diod, hio wns as anxious to'get ont of tho fin as tha Ropublicans wero nuwilling to lot him gscaps. Lo found tho Dourbonsm. of tho Democrats of Ohio dinguuting sud confinin to on nmbitions nature, It ho beon forcmost in lis oxprossions of sympathy with the_slave-rebollion, he was vory prompt to dislike tho obscurity of private life, and to wish to sco his party convertodto the now civilization. Porkaps ho mlfhtlu.u boen s fine, chivalraus, philonophic loader of & now poriod. Cortainly, the Domocratio party lost moro in his * donth than the country ; for that party is now vacillating, sold, without londorship of rny kind, and iu tho bands of folks like Bock, Voorhees, Brooks, and 8o forth. REMINISCENCE, It was my priviloge, ns & young man, to bo acqunintod with Mr, Vallandigham, and, in 186, whilo visiting his houso, I took the liborty of his favor to iuploro him {o holp & new doparturo with tho Domocratio party. = A goutloman was prosont who has sinco becn s prominent momber of tho Bar in Dayton, who sppeared to sit o agga whilo T waa' talking to this great fomontor. 'wo years after that Vellandigham was anxious to have Balmon P', Chasio nominatod by the Dome ocratic Gonvontion at Now York, for tho Prosis oncy. It z!lm'o that Vallandigham did not éulny the Bourbon. He had too much scnse end stetos= manship to Lang ou to-the wiotliog vostigas of Domocracy, such 04 it was, and, fisd ho lived until the presont time, ho would have been like 1 oo of John Tyler, tho sons of Stophon A. Douglss, and many othor such scions,~-a mem bor of another party. Clomont L. Vallandigham had lived too long in Dayton to lilo Ohivalry, and I think tho Govern- ment under Mr. Lincoln did a_splendid thing in sending Lim South during the War, to make him oat that colobrated gronsy chicken which thoy got at the railrond-stations thero. hAnnthnr groat book, as tho author concolves it, HMARRY GILMORE'S oporations in the Robol army. Gilmoreisa largo, cock-cyod daro-dovil, of Taltimoro Gity, and. & natural rough, who wout Bouth at the bes ginning of the Robollion, and undertook to do almost_anything of a vagrant and rockloss nae turo. After a while, ho got o emall command, and was amplo{red to do fraebootor’s duty ot tha hoad of the Valley of Virginis, and finally ta burn Chambersburg and stop the trains on tho Philadelphia & Baltimore Railroad. Ho was court-martisled ovon by tho Rebel authoritios,— ‘which was a great deal like trial by jury amonget piratos,—for robbing inoffonsive pasiengors on railrond-trains. 1" have done him the compliment to read his book quite through s’ and, if ho bad substitated “burglary” fo “war” at tho boginning of it, and narrated his sorvices a3 dono in the intorost of somo groat gang of outlaws instead of & presumod nation of mon, it would havo beon_almost ns boastfl and quaint s tho story of the Buccaucors. Tha City of Baltimoro Las formidablo capncitios tay produce fghting dond-boats, To-day thoy fights he nogro, to-morrow the Gorman, and next day tho soldier of tho United Btates. An oyatera ealing, torrapin-cating, peacli-brandy-drinking populstion ia never quito suro of what it ig about, QGarn. A correspondent of & New York jonrnal mekes the suggostion that ocean steamers should pros vide thomselves with ready-mado rafts and carry thom on every voynge. The auggestion ia cor-, tainly worth an _investigation. Bxporlonco hag proved that life-bonts are of littlo uso in ship~ wrock. Inamajority of instances, they cannok e detachoed from their complicated fastoninga. and launched nt sea witkout rome accidont tink rendors thom unseaworthy., Ofton, 28 in the case of the Atlantio, there is not timo to undo them from tho Ehip, Even when thoy ara Iaunched, they aro Jikely to be overcrowded ox: mismanaged in tho panio that ensues &o 88 to rondor {hem practically msoloss whom thoy aro noeded. It might bo difforont with rafts constructed with & viow to use in ship~ wrack, It is cortnin that rude and improvised rafts,—timber from tho ship, n part of the deck, pioco of tho mast,—hnve trequontly savod lifa in_marine disastors whon the lifc-boats lisve failed. Rafta could bo fixed on deck in such & woy a8 o toke up little room. ‘Thoy could ba ugad to walk on or at tho side, and fastened witlh a simplo bolt that could bo wronchied off easily. Tn Jaunching thom, it would make no differenco- ‘which end'went first ; the yaft would bo apt to- come up right and flont, Thoy oould bo_provid-- od with lifo-linos and contrivaucos for tying the: poople fast, which, in connection with lifo-bolts, might ronder tho human lives antrustod to them safor than in hoaty, Itis certain that oxperi~- ments sliould bo tried ap constructing sen-rafta or somq other additional means of refuga in case of shipwreck. Tho paseage of tho bill in the Lower Houro of tho State Loglslature rogulating the practico of dontal surgery, is moro important than appears at the first glanco. It roquires dentists who moy herenftor attempt to fix teeth to have a di- ploma from some college or tho Stato Dental Bociety, This, it is to bo hoped, will put an of- fectunl quiotus on the dental butchers, who got suffering humanity into their clutches and then, whon thoy have them in their powar, subject thom to still furthor tortures by their blunder~ ing and bungling. As mattors are at presont, tho unfortunato wight who sits down ina strango dontist's ohair ins no assurance that ho will not riso from it wilh his jaw pulled out as woll as his tooth, whilo another sot of these butchera have a practico of Kulllng out o portion of a tooth aud ~eaving tho balanca for a futuro oceo~ sion, It will bo a precious roliof to dontal suf- ferors whon thoy can fool assured that they are in the hands of n compotont dentist, who cam tako ont & tooth without taking out the jaw also, end that it Is not nocosaary for thom to "bo drag- ed all around tho room, if tho tooth comes ot Tn the mattor of logisiation to pravont. cruolty to animals, the Housa hua accomplished nothing more important this session, If tho Bounto refuncs to pass tho bill, it desorvos to hiave tho tooth-acho until it soos the folly of its waye, —_—— Tho Eighth Annual Report of tho Tllinols Lus, stitution for the Education of Fooble-Mindod Obildron ehowa that tho actual numbor of idiota In Illinoie 1a 2,000, or 1 in every 807 of the wholo population, which is & larger proportion even than that of tho insane. Ot theae, 692 are objects of charity and 059 ine dependent, and of tho lattor, 78 aro roported ta bo wealthy,