Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1873, Page 4

4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. ZEIMS OF BUDECATTION (FATATLE IN ADVANCEL o mall.....812.000 | Bunda Bapopeete:: e8] Wean Parts of a yonr ot tho samo rato. o provont dalay and mistakos, ho suro and give Post Off'co nddrosn tn full, inoluding Stato and County. Romitiancon may bo mado cither by draft, oxpross, Post Ofico ordor, o in roglstorod lottors, at one risk, TENME TO CITY SUDRCTITENS, Balty deliierak, Sander gxcentad, 25 corts per Yook "Addross B RIS UNT GOMPANT, Cortior Madson aud Doneborn-sts., Olilcago, 1l e ve————— 'GONTENTS OF THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. oxcoptad, 26 conts per weolt, FIRST PAGE—NEws oF THE WEER: Washington}Tho Btato Uapltal; Btato Affaira; Politios TForelgn Obitu. ary; Porsonaly Money and Buainoss: Labor) avigas fiony atironds; Fraud and Thof! d(lmul jasualtios; Firoh; Misoeliarioons, ‘THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT: Convontion of tho Farm- . ?l’l ?: ’l‘unwnlluflflmt , 111 ;fl]lnan\uunnw tho Cali- for; Farmera’ Union Convention, ’lgll FIELD AND STADLE~(Lottor from ‘‘Votorina. l’hllk")l Lalso Quartors; w 1o Provont a Cow from Bloking Homolr: WOMAN'A RIanT TO PRAOTICR Law: Doclston of tho _un dwd lflhl‘!l Bupromo Court in tho Uase of Alrs, Myra Fudoll: 'Tfilfl WESTENN Sronar: Losa ot Lifo and Doestruotion ot ik A PROroseD COMMERCIAL CONVENTION: To Do 10010 nt E. Loula, ‘Tug TRANSPONTATION QUEATION: Lattor from tho Governor of Towa to tho Governor of Mi L, BECOND PAGE—-EDITONIALS: Roilroads and Courtsy Tho, Decislon of the Bupromo Oourt in tho Alton Hall- road Caro; Darmors and thio Tariff; Tho Taxes on Corn; a'hll flmlllkgllmlplh(‘ll‘(lfkl Quostion and Answor; Tho 'rans; ation Problem. B b0 : st Nevw Trolght Tartd from thio Bos- O DARTMOUTI OOLLEGE OAsE: A Full Btatomont ©! . PACKING: Tigures for tho Yoar Ending March1, Sinrees AND SrARS: A Poom Writton by an Un- known Inmnto of an Army Hospital, "Srrizs oF Books: Wit Thoro is tn s Namo, THIItD DAGE-THE INDIANa: Full Roport of (5o Oper- ations Ageinst thy Modocs; Ohastisoment of “tho Apachos by Gon. Craok—Unconditional Submission sud S hiondor of Two of tho Worst Bands, i AN HALVADOR TARTHQUAKE: Partloulars of A Aesidbnt” Near Btontnato £ Sordbr n, ConneSovan Persons Ictilod and Thirty-fivo \outidad: M FASE AND. GAMDEN (Lotter from **Rural'): Dackwariness of tho Spring—To Proper Condition of e Sa for” Blowlng Wiy " MondowEand Bay Plowea Whon WotrHanty of 1iay and Fasture-—(Vhat 3o ay b Bhould thg Wenthor Brovo Hainy~Tronoh- Plowing the Moadow—\We Must Bo Propared for Un- Toward Weathor for Planting, Fi ATIARY (Lottor froi **Ella"): Tho Osuso of Paor Wheat Flonr Kxplainod —Introduction of Extracted ‘hio Markots, ond ta Favorable locoption— Bourco, and Bocrot of Aanufagturod A, Saxt JoNEs (Léttor from That Yady): Farm- ers’ Ulubs Gotting Dull, and’a &“h’g«fllmla to rs anizod—What Sam Thiuke” About Xlgoting Partisan rdgca—Womon for School. Officers, with Huma 'Things in rogard to tho Profita of tho Ofiico of Uonn(l Bupor- intendont—Tho Valug_of ** Opportuzities” to Onico- Toldgra—Gardoning—Plant tho Seods in Long Rows— Buy Your learly. Plunts—Gardon-Drafnago--Sonio Now {:don-Tools of Great Valuo—Tho Valuo of Ganigu- ing in an Ksthotle View—Hauliog Brush from tho e Rkarasm Lanonen: Somo Blriking Ploturas of His Condition, - FOUH bAGE—Rprronrata: Politics ud o Farm: The Salnry-Grab;--Protootion Tosted largomont of tho Cavadian Canals, 'RE ISIANA LATTLE:; An Administration Ao- count of tho Aficir—Ordors from the Secrotary of War A itevt Nows of tho Oporatinn Agatnut 'iE c8: Latest No eratinng Againat o 1o Woitsh Eotod! Killoa and 10 Wor 2dodeTho od, TADOR-IIOT IN INDIANA:_Difflculty Batwoon Whitea ond Nogto Laborers ot Kulyhtavitlo, Ind. FIFLH FAGi—TRE STATE UAPITAL: Disoussions on tho Railroad BTy y posod Missis. aippl & Atlasitio Canal; Appropeiation for tho Niatliaad CBhummission’ Tho Anti-Manupoly Bill; Roorganlzation of County Agrloultural Sooiotios; Passago by the Houso of **An Aot to Provant Extortion and Unjust Discrim. fuation In thio Rates Charged for the Transportation of Taseongars and L'rolghts on Railronds in This Blato,' Trtocefoxt of tho Adts Tho Compromisa Bill in the Sountos Doduction of Indeblednoss on Livo Stook; Condltfon of Busiuoss: The Question of an Adjournod "Tho Unlon Stock-Yards; Moro Railroad Blils Eal: 5 fst of Btosmors Lost Botwoen Euruyo and the United Statos Siaco 1841, Yohk VACKING 1t TOF WEST: Btatuinent of tho Su- porintondent of tho Oinclanaii Morchants' Excliango, ADVERTISEMENTA. BIXTIL PAGE— K FARMERS' MovEMmENT: A Full Siatomentof theOriglny Prograzs, nad Progent Strength of tho Ordar of uabandry in Jowa—its Iitical Buaring 00 Mooting—Tho Waterloo e rcioulturat orkn: Geucaoo, Tily aud o, Farmor i elal Glrouine "ia Tl ¥nrimors’ Glubes Dolos gotoniom Tiliaals to tho {rassporiniiva Convehtion ot o York, im0y LAwnENCE: Hls Tndoragmont by a Larga Nium- hor of Momboraof th Ohloao Har, 3 AGR-ixch: Siotehes of Tifo In_Poru— tha Womon, Pk NODLE RED MAN: Horolsm of an Insultod Ban- nogk. " O BY, TOR Waxainn: Bostou—Pacullaritios of B T 3 pun Munoaw A TovePoom, Huston: A Collaotion of Comicalitir. THE SALARY-GRAB: What Gon. Farnaworth Seys £RANzA: An Incldent of Life at Spa. T; Ohlcagg Monoy Coanencian: Chicago Produca Markots; Tivo-Stock Marke, hicago with Rovlow for tha Wook; Chicago (nmbor Markot: Herkimor County (N, Y.) Dairy Mar- Lumbor Marko kimor unydu ne Llr:’vSl:crl oan Markets: Bulle o, York Dry-Goods Mark Markot; Now York, Milmaukoo, Cleveland, Toledo, Do- ol Clnoinnat, St. Louls, aud Now Orloans Praduce nrkoly, HOT SAND-BaTHS: A Curg for Rhoumatism, THE UHICAGO TRIDUNE: Prospectus for 1873, TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENT‘S. M'VIORER'S THEATRE—Madlson streat, botwoon Btato and Doarbord. Engagomuut of 3r, Mark Sinith. ** Oue Hundred Years 01d." AIKEN'S THEATRE—Wabash avenue, cornor of Con- gress, Engagomont of Stuart Robson, ** Littlo Em'ly." HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE~Randolph stroet, bo- tween Olark and LaSallost, *‘Allxe.” * Turn Him Out.” ACADEMY OF MUSIC— Halstod ‘stroet, south of | Madison. Engagomont ot Mr, E. 8. Chanfra tho Arkansas Trovolos." MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—2onroo streot, botwoen Btate and Dearborn, Arlington, Cotton & Kemblo's Minstrol and Burlosquo Troupe. *‘Romco and Jullot." it, GOLDBEOK CONOERT—Michigan Avonue Daptist Olurch. BUSINESS NOTICES. GOVERNMENT ARTIFIOIAL LIMB MANUF. oy ity I 2 GARDNER, " coror Sixtoouthy sud Wabastiav.; i tho only ono 1 Olfoago sutbiorize thio Garermnoni’ to- furnish soldiors artlfifal litbs an a A TOYAL, TAVANA LOTTERY, THE EXTRAOR- dinaty drawiniz will tako place on. the 224 of April 160, Tho amount drawn 1s 81,300,000, Thore will bé only 6,000 tickots and 2,697 prizes. ., 1. MARTINEZ & CO., Ankors, 10 Wallat.1 Post-offico Tox 4,683, Now York, BATOHELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS SPLENDID bairdyo is tho bestin the world. Thoonly truo and por- oot dyo, Harmloss, roliable, and instantanoous; no disap- Solu(mant 3 noridiculous tints or unploasant odor., Ilema- los tho 11l effects of bad dyes and washos, Producos im- “modiataly a -ugurh black or natural brown, and loaves the e, i b il et iR IKATUAIELO‘Q "l"rlwflntzr. N. .‘ ‘“ The Thivage Teibune, Thuraday Morning, April 24, 1873. alg are allowed to testify in their own . bobnlf in somo of tho States: A bill passod the Sonato some timo ago giving them the same + right in Illinois, but was lost in tho House yos- torday, only 61 votes boing given for it, ey Appropriations for the Normal 8chool of this Btate failed to pass tho Houso on Tuesday, but the matter was taken up ngain yesterday, and thoy wore earriod through. The amount appro- priated is $95,016 Common carriers are forbidden by the Thomp-. gon bill, which bag passed the Bonste, to avade or losgon any of .their responsibility under the common law by any provisions or stipulationa printod on tho recolpt given for the proporly thoy tako in chnrgo. i Tire insurance was not profitablo in thp year of tho Borton fire. The Prenidont of the Con~ vention of Underwritors at Now York says that the companies of thi country lost £6,820,806 in 1872, The total loss in tho Doston fire was §70,000,000, of which $30,875,348 lins been borne by tho insurauce companies Usury laws are not likely to Jast much longer in Now York Stale, Tho Grand Jury of Now Yorlk City, who loarned tho utter juutility of the laws in tho offort to enforco thom, vacommended the Logislaturo to abolleh thom, and this sug- goution hag rosulted in tho Introduction of & bill for their ropeal which has passod tho Benate by & voto of 17 to 12, The Now York Sun publishes o Washington lottar stating that tho amount of conpon bonds taken out of tho trunk of Vice-Prevident Colfux Ly tho adroit scoundrols who roobed him just aftor tho Orodit Mobiller investigation wau be- twoen ninoty und ono hundrod thousand dollars, Inetead of three or four thousand, a% e glven, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1873, out at tho timo. The writer intimatos that thoro is an offloial rocord of this fact in tho polico office. Tho Jotter In writton in » somowhat son- sationnl style, and ombracos & gooddoal of extrn- noons mattor, S — An eight-hour law Now Yorl workingmon thought was all that waa noadod to onnble thom to do eight hours' work without giving up tholr ten hours’ pay. Dutlaws nrenomoro omnipotont for tradod-uniona than other poople. Employers hinvo disrogarded the law or paid thoiremployos by tho hour, and tho Inw les o dead lotter. To compol its onforcoment, tho Workingmon's Asso- clation havo diroctoed thoe formation of o loaguo, to consist of two mombors of each trades-union in tho Btate. . e 1 Oconn tolegraphio moesagos wore to hinve beon roducod in rate, after May 1, sccording to tho promiso mude by tho throo companies somo timo g0, from 81 to 75 conts & word to Gront Britain. Binco that time tho Frqnch lino has becomo dis, ablod, owing to a broak 230 milos this sido of Broat, and tho two romaining companios take | advantago of thia acoldont not only to racail tho promised roduction, but to raiso the rate from $1 to 81.50 a word. On Juno 1, the Groat Enst- orn will leave Europe with a fourth cable, which ‘bolonga to tho samo company whoso line is now broken. Two roports havo been mado to the Houate from tho Railrord Committee,—tho majority rocommending tho passago of tho Houso Com- promigo bill with the amendmonts thoy fastoned to it, and the minority favoring ita passago as it came from the House. No action was taken, and & day's delay supervenes whils the roports are ‘being printed, unless the frionds of tho Compro- mise bill auccood in enlling it up this morning out of tho rogular order, as it is given out they menn to do, and pass it." A canvass of tho Sen- ito shows-dnly fourteon votes known to bo agajnat tho bill Ciil-Borvico Roform finds another illustration inthe complaints of about a hundred young mon, who were allured to Washington by the proupect of ontratica into official life thirough tho door of compotitiva oxaminations, They passod through the ordesl = successfully long ago, but found themsclves straugoly ovorlooked in the appointments which, accord- ing to tho ¢ pirit of the rules,”—tho onforce- ment of which was g0 earnestly promised in & rocont inaugural,—ought to follow the examina- tione. They nssort that men who havo noyer sub- mitted themeolves to tho testsof flinoss ro- quired aro put overy day, through political in- fluonces, into the positions which they bLave .earned, They aro promised tho ‘‘noxt vacancy," but the next never arrives, i The Chicago grain markets wero gsn active yestorday, and tho leading onos wero wenk Mess pork was active, and 20c por brl higher, closing nt 818.15@18.20 cash, and $18.75@18.80 goller June, Lard was active, and 40c per 100 1bs highor, closing ot 80.85@9.8734 cash, and $0.65@ 9,70 Bollor June, Moata woro active, and X@Xo highor, olosing at 63{@63go for shouldors ; 8}(@ Do for short ribs ; 95@93c for short clear, and 10@120 for sweet-pickled hams. Highwines woro moro sotive, and & shado firmer. 2t 803¢4@8Tc por gallon. Liko froights woro in- activo and unquotable, Flour was active, and a shade firmor. Whent was loss sctive at Tues- day's rango, closing weak at §1.22)@1.23%( cosh, and 91,283 soller May. Corn was less netive, and 1o lower, closing at 87@37}o cash, and 870 gollor May, Onts were activa, and 34e higher, olosing n$ 30@303¢0 cash, and 80}gc seller May. Ryo was quiot and unchangod at 69¢. Barley waa quiet, and 1@2c firmer for good No. 2 at 76 @78¢ ; and 660 for good No. 8. Hogs wero nc- tive and higher, solling ot an extrome rangoe of $5.25@5.75. Tho cattle trade was brisk at o slight advance, with sales at £3.50@6.80, Bheop wero unchanged. JUDGE LAWERENCE AND THE PRINOETON ~ CORVENTION. The question 28 to the security of individual rights and publio intorests in the hands of an elective judiciary is in process of rapid solution in Illinois., Attho formation of our Govern- ‘ment it was rogarded as essential to the indoe -pondenca and impartinlity of tho Judiciary tha® tho selection of Judges should not bo romitted to tho frequent arbitrament of popular election, but that they should be appointed in somo other mode, and their tenure of offica placed boyond tho influencos of any tomporary popular oxcito- mont. : Aloxander Hamilton, in dofending that fenturc of the Federal Constitution which provided a pormanont tomuro of judicial offico, — tho appointment during good behavior,—ss contributing to that indepondont spirit in tho Judges o easontial to the faithful performanco of their duties, eaid : #This Independence of tho Judges is oqually requisito to guard the Coustitution and tho rights of Individuals from tho offcets of those il humors which the arts of dosigning mon, or the influence of particular conjunctures, some- times dissominato among the poople themsolves, and which, though thoy speodily give place to ‘bottor information and more doliberate roflec- tion, have a tendonoy, in tho meautime, to ocea- sion dangerous innovations in tho government, and sorious oppressions of tho minor party in the community.” This was the accepted doctrine for many years, until finally, ‘ns the problem of seclf-govornment began to dovelop into success, tho peoplo grad- ually broke awsy from theso rostraints upon themselves, and in vory many of tho Statos tiio golection or all the agencies of the governmont was submitted to popular election, oven includ- ing the judiciary, In this Btato, under tho Constitution of 1818, :the polloy of olocting all the Judges by the poo- plo was inaugurated. Many good men doubted tho propricty and wisdom of tho change. Dut tho oxperleuce of over twonty yoara has vindi- cated the people from tho doubts whothor they would chooso their Judges wisoly, During all that time tha popular voico called to the Appol- Iato Bench the bost mon,—mon of ability, loarn- ing, nud integrity,—and selected solely in view of thoso qualitios, without regard to politi- cal viows or party afiinitles, In repested instances have Judges beon olected in districta in which tho politieal nnjority wans largely against the candidate—so froo were the pooplo from any party bias or projudice in solocting from thelr number thoso who should be tho final arbitors in thelr disputes. Ho satisfactory wore the results of tho plan of on olective judiclary that, in framing the new Constitution of 1870, no one proposed to go back to the old system, The Judges then upon the Tonch woro rotmined, aud four moro added to moot the demands of tho progross and conso- quent inorease of businoss in tho State. In mo- looting the fournew Judges, the people contin. uod to koop in view tho proper roquiremonts for tho high offico—nability, learning, and iutogrity— rojocting nll politienl or partisan considorations, Now, for tho first timo in the history ot judiclal oloctions in this Btato, is it proposed to noml- nato o candidato for tho offico of Tudge of tho court of last rosort upon a partioular issue, or to raprosont a particular intorost upon the Bonch. Wo rofor to tho proposod Princoton Convention, What ia the objoot of thoso who assumo to have called that Convention? Itistoo ovident to bo mistakon. It s to nominato candidato for the offico of Judgo of the Bupreme Court, who may dofoat Judgo Lawronco, Whonca nrises thia do- siro with’ some to dofost Judge Lawronco? Not becauso ho is not n man of nbility, loarning, and unquestioned intogrity. Not becauso ho lss not dovoted himself with unconsing diligonce to tho most arduous Inbors of tho Court, Nor yot bocauso ke hag failed, with unflinching firmnoss and indopond- onco, to go right on in tho dischargefot his high dutios nsa Judgo, rogardloss of clamor, or abuso, or attomptod intimidation, The dosire to dofont Judgo Lawrence dosa not ariso from his want of sy of thoso qualities which constituto tho just and ablo Judgo. It nilscs, oatonsibly, from o diseatistaction of & fow with tho recent declslon of tho Supromo Court in rogard to the nct of the Logislnturo on the subject of unjust discrimina- tion by rallvay companion in tho carrying of froight, which, it in contended, in not in necord with tho advancod publio sentiment on that question. b Wo do not propouo to inqniro now whotlor that docislon is open to this criticism, but wo nek what good ond is to bo nttained in that di- rection by dofonting Judge Lawronce? Is it proposad to securo plodges from the candidate, in ndvanco of his cloction, that ho will, ns a momber of tho Court, decido a cortain question in o cortain way? Not oven tho most enrnest of thoso who desire n new candidato would have the temority to admit fhat tobo their purpeso. Bo monstrous & proposition would ot once meot with public condemuation, Will the Convention adopt & platform, in respect to these contravort- od questions, with the Implied undorstanding that ihe nominco of tho Convention will conform his Action ss & Judgo to that platform ? Or will tho Convention simply nominato o candidato in opposition to Judgo Lawrenco, without adopting o platform or oxact- ing plodges, but with the necesuary implication that the nomineo, if olectod, will decido cortain quostions difforontly from Judge Lawrenco ? ‘While'some of thouo propositions may appoar loss monstrous than others, they are equally viclous and dangerous in their tondency, It doos not soom possiblo tho peoplo would commit -1'80 great n folly as to nominate and support & lawyer for tho offico of Judge with even tho most romoto understanding that he had prede- terminod what ho wonld docide. No honorablo, high-minded lawyor could accopt a judicial ofilco with tho knowledgo that tho causa of his olec- tion wes oven an oxpectation on the part of his supportors that he had pre-judged their cnso. Any lawyer olovated to tho DBench under such cirenmsiancos, would at onco incur the servedly no, To submit argument to n court thus constitutod would be n farce. Butono form of argument would bo considored availing, and that would bo of the most vonal charactor. Wa understeud overturos havo beon made to Judge Lolond, and also to Judge Dickey, of Ottawa, In viow of tho possible nomination of ono of them by the Princoton Convention. As might have been expocted, thoy both promptly refusod to permit thoir names to bo uned in that || connection, Neither of thone gentlomen would accept such an office under oir- cumstances go . muggestive of improprioty. Moroover, they had bolh signed o call to Judgo Lawrenco roquesting him to becomo & candldato for re-sloction. We do not seo Low any honorable Ilawyer in tho Kifth Dietrict who has signed that call upon Judge Lawronce could now accopt & nomination ngainst him, \having, by their solicitation, implicdly at loast, offored him their support. But, boyond and above this, is tho coneider- ation wo boforo adsorted to—that tho pooplo caunot afford to prostitute the Bench to a mere -subservioncy to thoe resolutions of a convontion. The quostion is not whethor tho people shall choose another to succeed Judgo Lawronce, but it is whother they shall chooso o successor under such circumstancos a8 will necessarily invito the euspicion that. such successor s not an lhomorable, trustworthy man. Lot it bo disgulsed as it may, & nomination, by tho proposed Convontion at Princoton, of o can- didato in opposition to Judge Lawrence, will be undorstood all over the Stato as having boen 'medo upon tho ground that thoe decision of tho Court in tho case referred to was not satiefactory to that Convention. Tho conclusion is inovyita~ Dlo that the nomince would be oxpected to de-~ gldu differontly, whatever might ba his convie- tions ns to what the law is. No Iawyer who would accopt s judicial office undor such circum- stances would be wortby of tho confidenco of anybody. A Judge should be frea from tho taint of evon o suspicion that ho will rondor a partic- ular docigion 08, the prico of his eloction. TIE EUREKA TRAGEDY, Tho story of the killing of Mra. Hodges at Eu- rekn, Il from beginning to end, is ono of the most shooking of recont occurronce. Itfurnishes o striking comment on tho liboral construction that hes been put upon tho 1w against tho tal- ing of human life. Mrs. Iedges was a widow reeiding in Eurcka, who dovoted n largo sharoof bher timo and energios to tho church of which sho wag a member, Ouno day, & fow weoks ago, hor dend body was found behind a school-house, half%nton by hogs, but benring unmistakable evidonco that sho had beon murdered, On ox- ammation, two lottors wore found, pinned to hor undor-clothing, which botrayed an improper, though perhaps not crimiual, intimacy hotweon tho decoseod and tho Mothodist clergyman of the town, a man named Workman, This gave tho firt cluo to tho commission of tho crimo. Workman was produced, but ho denied any oriminal intimacy with tho woman, and also donled auy knowledgo of tho cause or mannor of her death, Busplcion at onco attuchod to Work- man's wife, who had tho roputation of bolng o high-tempored woman, and sho was nrrested, Hor conduct aftor the arrest confirmod the sus- picion of at loast o knowlodge of the crime, Bho swoonod sovoral timos in succossion, thon foigned Insanity, and finally, whon tho doctor told hor that atl that would not avail hor, sho nformed him that ho might go to hell. Bubae- quont invostigation showed that Mra, Workman had miade an appointment to moot Mra, Hedges ; that seufiling and outorios ‘had hoon heard in tho quartor whero tho mooting ocourred; that Mre. Workman had aftorwards declared thnt she was ruined for life; and requested prayers for hor soul, though sho had nover bofuro baonxas suspicion of the Bar and the people, nnd de- liglously Inclinod; that there woro brulses on her body, which showod that sho had boen in n fight; and that tho dress sho woro on {ho ovon-~ ing of tho murdor hiad boon hiddon, and, whon found, was covored with mud, hlood, and hair, tho bialr bolng tho samo ns that of the murdored woman, In ono word, the circumstances wore a5 conolusivo a8 clrcumstancos can bo thot Mrs. Hodgos hnd beon murdorod by Mrs. Workman in o fit of jenlousy. Tha ‘lottorn which pacsod botwooen tho Rov. Mr. Workman and tho murdored womnn, and which lave since boon mado publle, give ovi- donco that Mrs. Workman's jonlousy was protly woll foundod. Workman's opistlos show him to. bo o cantlng bypoorite and scoundrel. If the intimacy was not criminal, it is evidont that ho was roady to mako it such, *Tn God willing," ho aska in ono of thom, ‘thnt Xshould have two wivos at onco ? Tt is truo that Jacob had two, and Abrabnm might ns well, and God nover con- demnod, with many othors of tho eame olaga j but you know that {anot tolerntod now-n-days,” Mfr. Workman had porhaps rond the joint debato botwoon Brothor Nowman and Oraon Hyde, and bod taken the Mormon intorprotation of tho Pon- tatouch, Thereupon ho proceeds to inform Mra. Hoilges of tho glowing intensity of Lis love. Mra, Hodgos scems to hnvo boon under stronger rostraining influonces than her royerond lover, though hor letters disclogo that she was more warmly sttachod to him than she should have boon. Doth partics conclude thoir lottors with prayors. Unhallowed love ond pioty are strangoly mixod up in tho froquont oxchango of lettors, tho inforenco from which is that Work- man used his position to secure the lovo of a woman who had no right to love him, and who was boyond tho nge whon such s passion might bo considered difficult to ropress. Tho caso ap- poars to have been ono of & dengorous clags, in which roligious interconrse on ono side’ and hypocrisy on tho othor cithor load to a violation of moral rectitudo or bring the partios upon vory slippery ground. i The most dengorous phaso of the case, how- over, hns boen developed in tho action of tho Grand Jury of Woodford County, in which tho murder was committed. In spito of the proofs that Mrs, Workman was tho murdeross of Mra. Hodges, tho Grand Jury rofnsed to finda bill of indictment, and tho guilty woman hns boon re- lonsod. Thoro are fow cases of such manifest negloot of duty on tho part of a Grand Jury. Ono of them was tho release of youug Leonard, in o similar fashion, after the killing of Dr. Seanland, in this city. It is cortain that tho Grand Jury of Woodford County Lad ovidenco enough before them to have convicted Mrs. ‘Workman of tho killing of Mrs, Hodges, it thoy hadbeen o Potit Jury trying the cago. They con- stituted thomsolvos at onco Potit Jury,Judgo, and counsol, aud mado the vory evidonco of guilt the pretoxt for roleasing hor from trial, This decis- jon was ovidontly as much of a surprieo to tho peoplo of Eurcka, whero the murder occurred, ge it will bo wherover the history of the case s known. The nction of the Grand Jury soems to 2dd anothor to the already oxtendéd list of homi~ cides that are held jusiifinblo on tho ground of emotional or sentimental inennity. Tho acquittal of Bickles, Cole, and Manrlnnd ostablished tho precedent that o husband may kill o wife's para- mour or suepected paramour ; that of Miss Mary Harris and Mrs, Fair, thot o woman may shoot & man who desorts her; that of varlous. busbeuds du Franve, that & man may kil & faithless wifo. And now it appoars that & Grand Jury will not oven find-an indictment against a wifo who Kkills tho woman whom sho suspects of criminal intimacy with her husband. Xt los not even -baon shown judicially what Mrs. Workman's sus- picions wore. What is to bo tho limitIn the category of emotional murdors? Tho latitude of justifiable homicide is soriously alnrming whon a Grand Jury rofuses to bring to trinl n person whoso guilt was 80 apparent as that of Mrs, Workman, and some means must bo found to restrictit. Tho noxt Grand Jury fn Wood- ford County can do something to this end by finding the indictment which their prodecessors failed to find ; but, in the moantime, Mrs, Work-~ man may make good hor escapo. It s tholr duty Liowevor, to bring in an indictment, aud nothing can exouso them for a failure to do so. And it ia the duty of the Progocuting Aitorney to pre- sont the caso to ench succossivo Grand Jury until an indictment is found. THE VIENNA AUCTION-S8HOP. Not contont with bringing the Amorican nams into digrace at home, it now apposrs highly cortain that some of the Commissioners repro- sonting this country at the Vienna Exposition have beon ongaged in corrupt iransactions, which can only tend to bring this country into disgrace beforo tho reprosentatives of all the nations of the world, who will shortly assemblo in tho Austro-Hungarian Oapital, Tho flvst ink- ling which was given of this appesrod in the following dispateh to the Now York Herald from Vionon : Viesna, April 10,~Swindliog {s reported in connec- tion with tho appolutment of the American Commis- sloners to the International Industrial Exbibition to boheld in this city, It 18 assortod that many of tho Commissfonera purchasod the position for tho sake of tho honor of appearing in an official charactor at tho assomblagoof tho falr and during its mausgoment, Ono of tho gontlomen ssya hoe psid tho suwm of $6,000, but tho rato gonerally chiarged. was gomowbero in tho nolghborkiood of $2,000, Thomajority of tho Comnils~ slonors nro incapablo porsons, Tho mora respoctablo among thom are engaged n instituting Inquiry into the matter of the swindlo, This nows, which was forwarded to the Herald, is now supplemonted by furthor dotaily from Washington, which announce that ono of the Commissioners has already been suspendoed for improper practicos, and that anothor is sus- poctod ; that some of tho complimentary Com- missionors socurad thoir appointments in order to roprosont cortain manufacturing intorosts, and that & sowing-machine company and a gun compauy have onch & Govornment Commissioner iu their omploy ; and, finally, that sales of sites forrostaurants, on the American grounds of the Exposition, hiavo boon mado, o8 woll as sales of Commissionorships. Buch roports ns those of wholosalo corruption in tho roprosentation of the gront Ropublic of the world, nt a gothoring of the art, scionco, and industry of the world, is oxtromoly humiliating, Bettor that the Amorican dopartmont of tho Expouition should liave beon loft u blank, than that this country ghould havo mado & public and’shamelosy oxhi- bition bofore tho whole world of huckstering propensitios, insatisto groad for money, and rank corruption. It hna long beou notorions that tho majority of the Commissionors sont to Vienna havo boon a pack of incapables, appolnt- od by partisen favoritism, and poople who wero novor hoard of oven in their own Btatos, This, howover, might have hoon eon- durod, oven If it woro mot reliehed; but to make & publla exhibition of ragcality and corruption before tho oyes of all tho rulors of the clvilized world and of the thou- sands of poopla who will assomblo thore from Europo and Asis, is s most gallingshamo. What with our Crodit Mobillers, our railroad hond awindlos, tho occontricition and gaucherios which® Tiavo oharacterizod somo of our diplomatio rapro- sontatives abroad, and tho corruptions which run through almost overy dopartment of the Govern- mont, wo onjoy none too good a reputation in Europe, That wo should bo still further seandalizod and disgraced upon such an occasion a8 the Viennn Exposition, is simply and uvuttorably atroclous. If tho Administration wishes to eavo itsolf from this now standal, it will loso notimo in investi~ gating this mattor, and punishing those who aro found guilty in suck o manner that tho oxample will bo as long romembored as tho disgraco whioh precoded it, UBURY LAWS AND THE RATE OF INTEREST. Thero hins boen & groat stiramong the bulls and ‘boars of Wall stroot Intoly, nbout onforcing the usury lawe. Bumo forty or fifty brokers wore summoned to appoar boforo tho Grand Jury, to tostify on tho subject. Tho *‘usurora” wero searod out of tho streat for half o day, nnd while thoy were gone tho rato of interost rose about 60 por cont. There is porhaps no subject with which the people of our country are so familiar, and concorning which they display so much ig- noranco as tho subjoct of usury; none around which ignordnes, and projudice, and supor- tition havo built highor ramparts, and from which thoy havo so long and ®o com- plotoly shut out tho light of roason. Somo mon who donounco usury as an unjust, unholy thing, ‘aro lod to do 80 not from any just considoration of tho pubject, but from n vague, indistinot im-~ prossion that somehow or somowhero it is pro- nounced sgainst in tho Biblo; and it may bo worth whilo to pay some attontion to this aspoect of the cage beforo oxamining its cconomical foa- tures—espocially sinco the huo and ery against usury had its origin hero. Tho primary meaning of the word usury is use, and or{ginally any taking of money for thoe use of monoy wag usury. It is in this primary or original sonso tbat tho word is used in the Bible, wherover used, The Jowish law on- jolned the Hebrows to lond to one another, and to the stranger who sojourned with them, s emplatically ns it forbade that any use or usury should be taken for tho loan; st first, whother mado to Hebrow or stranger. (Lov. xxv., 85- 87.) **And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallon Into decay with theo, thon thou shalt re- liove him : yes, though he bo o stranger or a so- Journer; that ho may live with thoo, Talko thou no usury of him, or increase. * * * Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lond him thy victuals for iucrease.” DBut this prohibition was afterwarda lmited to the He- brows only. (Deut. xxiif,, 19-20.) ¢ Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,” usury of victunls, usury of anything that is lont upon usury: unto s stranger thou ‘mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thon shalt not lend upon usury.” This same law sanctioned tho selling of the borrower into bond- 8go, whether n Hebrewor a strangor, on o failuro to pay the smount borrowed ; but, in tho caso of the Hebrow, it provided that ho should be re- leasod the sevonth year, or, ot farthost, the year of Jubileo, whilo the strauger might be hold until the debt and usury theroon were fully pad. According to this law, thon, whoovor, belng o Jew, raceivod any remuncration, no matter how small, for anything ho had loaned, recoived nsury, and was a usurer and o violator of law. But, as tho Inw was amended, it wag no offenso to loan upon usuryif the lonn wore not mado tos Jew, for tho law gavo express permission to loan upon usury te a stranger. Now, those who think thia law, as first concted, still sacred and bind- ing upon the peoplo of this a8 upon the Jows of that day, are ns clearly usurers, and na clearly condemned ,by the law, for taking 1 as20 per cont for money loaned, or for taking 10as 50 cents a day for tho uso of n horse, If thoy cling to tho law as amended, then they must toll ua who ia their brother from whom they shall tako no usury, and who ig the stranger to whom thoy #*may lend upon usury ;" and, in elther case, to ‘bo consistent, they should inaist upon the lender having tho right to sell into bondadgo the bor~ rower, on & failure to pay tho amount bor- rowed, for if o part of the lawlis still eacred, then tho whole must be, and if the whole has not boen annulled, thon no part of it has. But it ia well known that the Jows have *dis- countod ” all tho rest of tho world in negloct ond disobedience of thoir own usurylaw. In tho parablo of the talonts, a certain lord, on his roturn from o foreign land, is ropresonted as commonding the servants who returned him his own with a hundrod per cont increase, whilo ho robuked the one who returned only tho one tal- ont he hnd given him, snying, “Thou oughtost theroforo to have put my monoy to the exchang- ors, and thon at my coming.I should have ro- coived my own with usury.” Thia law, thore- fore, doos not Lelp us to sottlo tho question ag to what shall bo the xate of Intorost in our busi- noss transnctions ono with another, and observa- tion and oxporienco aro fast convincing all thinking business men that no enactmont of any Btato Logislaturs can or will ever sottlo or help to setilo it. 2 Tho value of monoy has ever bLeen, and will continue to be, rogulated by the law of supply ond domend, and the onactmentof any Inw which nttompts to intorfore with this natural method of regulating it, worka only injury to the bor- rowor, the parly it is intended to protoct, Thoro aro no laws which so complotely defeat the very object for which thoy are passed as thoso known on our statute-books as usury laws. Thoy gp- press instead of rollevo the poor, aud incronso inatond of leasen the rato of intorest. A wonlihy man, doing an oxtensive busainess, cannot afford to plead usury ; his crodit is worth too much to Dhim ; the loudor knows this, and theroforo londs him at such rate of intorost ay thoy can mutually agres upon. Tho poor man, soldom wanting to, borrow, and nover any great amount, does not fool his credit of so much valuo to him, and un- doratands that he mny plead usury, should he Lo proased in bis flunncey, and suffer no Injury other than the repronches of his conscience, which may or may not bo sovero; the lender realizos this, and oitherrofusos to lond him alto- gother, or charges him & groator rate of intarest for the grentor risk ho tales, If ho rofusos to loan him, he drives him to tho necessity of soll- Ing for $100 cash a horso which ho might have sold for $150 on o year's timo; or of sacrificing somo othor spocies of property for whioh thera may bo, at that particular time, no demand. All usury laws are sn insult to tho manhood and good sense of mon; their onactmont implics & Dbeliof on tho part of tho logislators that the groat maes of mon aro Incompotent to make their own bargains or to manago their own af- faira, Leglslators who vote for such lawa vie- tually say to the poople, * You aro uot of sane mind 80 fax a4 tho borrowing of money {s cons and thoroforo wo horoby appoint and constituto oursolves your conserva- tors and guardiansy” thoy eny, in of- foot, to all baukers nnd money-lendora: *'Tako notico! wo will not pay, or eauso to bo paid, any dobt contracted with tho peoplo, our wards, for monoy losnod without our authority.” Usury laws are not only an insult to the intelligonco of tho poople, but thoy legaliza the open violation of contracts, invito men to dishonor, and offer & promium on fraud, . Thoy Influonco no man to lend money at a loss ato of intorost, but, on the contrary, increase tho rato whonovor enacted, Thoy tench tho peo- plo & disrospoot for law, for nowhera in ourwhole country aro the usury lnws, a8 arule, oboyed, ovon by our National Banks, with which, by o pro- viston of national lnw, & violetion of the interost laws of tho State in which thoy are located worke o forfolture of charter. Tho Comptrollor of the Currency fa apprised of this faot, and hience has recommondod to Congresa tho ropoel of thia provision of tho law, Many men aro unwiiling to subjoct themsolvos in any contingoney to the ponalty of tho law, and, not boing willing to lond thelr monoy &t tho logally-proseribed rate of in~ torost, invest itin trade or in spoculation ; or placo it in tho handsof o twoker, who, while loauing it at tho logal rato of intorost, chinrges a Inrgo commission for his mervicos, which tho ‘borrowor always pays ; whilo s fow freo-thinking, independont men, cousclous of tho Injuatice and absurdity of allusury laws,and of theperfect right of all mon to make their own contracts, whothor for lauds or money, daring to act as their con~ soloncos and intelligence dictato, have & monop- oly of tho monoy-loaning, and, becauso of tho monopoly, obtain high rates of intorest, Tn- trammoled by law, men generally usc their monoy inthat woy which thoy think will yield them the groatest remuncration with least physi~ ool and ' montal exortion, A man hav- ing" n competonoy, and proforring to] lond his money at 12 per cont to using it in busi- ness roquiring his conatant prosenco and atton- tion that would yiold him 18 por cont, will bo o londor; whilo another man not having what o deoms o competency, but having brain snd muscle, and boing willing to uso them for tho ox- tra 6 por cont, will Lo a borrower. When, how- over, tho law steps in and denies to the londor ‘what hie dooms a fair proportion of tho profit on tho money -and brain and muscle combined, ho will unite bis own brein and muscle and money in business and conse to be a lender, to tho dotriment of tho man who would bo & borrower, and thug tho rich are mado richer and the poor pooror. No law can compol men to bo either lenders or borrowers, and they will bo eithor one or the othor a8 their judgments, inclinations, onpabili- tles, or intercats moy lend. No lawcan compol & man to pay 81 o bushol for seed corm, ‘but if that is tho market prico, and ho can buy it for no less, and ho thinks it better to pay tho price than to let his farm lio idle, he will probe- Dly pay it, and no one will eondomn the sellor; nor can any law compel a man to goll his corn, se it ia now boing sold, at 25 conis o bushol, but, it that is the market price, and Lo can got no moro, ho may conclude that it is bot- tor to sell at that than to hold and suffor tho wasto, and run tho rik of the price being higher by and by, and mnobody will think of consuring the buyer; bolh buyer and sollor paid and recoived what the articlo bought and sold was worth ot the time, Yet & bushel of corn will plant no moro acres, and give no more nourishment, when it solls for 81 a bushol than when it will bring only 25 cents ; & bushel of corn is only o bushel of corn, be its valuo in dollars and cents what it may; and that value will always be govorned by tho supply and demand. Monoy duffers from a bushol of corn chiefly in this: it is 5 moro convenient medium of oxchango; its value or purchasing power moy be said to vary a8 does the valuo or purchasing power of a ‘bushel of corn, and the intorost it will command must ever vary sccording to its valuo a8 o pur- chasing modium, or according to the supply and domnnd, Gold and silver have beon adopted as the modium of exchango by all civilized poople, chiofly becausn a given weight or bulk of these motals roprosonts tho largest amount of Ilabor, which s tho baeis of all yalues, With the Ro~ mans, 2,600 years ago, copper was tho medium of oxchango; the ancient Britons used tin, and brass, tnd iron. In some parts of DBritish America to-dny, tho medium of exchango be- twoon the ITudeon Bay Fur Company and tho Indians i8 beaver-sking; o barrel of pork or flour, o pair of blankets, or & sult of clothos is pricod st ono, two, or more beavor-skins, as they may be relatively valued. The money of any peoplo is the medium of exchiange used by that pooplo, whethor that modium bo brass, iron, copper, gold, silvar, bank-bills, or boaver-skins, and its relative valuo can nover bo regu- lated by law any moro than can tho rolative value of produce. All usury laws arothe rolic of tho grossest ignorance aund the blindest projudico; and one of the hopoful signs of our nago ig tho effort now boing mado in many of the States to repoal thom, %, corned, B £ " Tho report of the National Burcau of Statistics givos o tablo of the numbor, class, and tonnage of thio United Btatos morchant vessels belonging to the sovoral customs districts bordering on the lakes. ‘This includes Lako Champlain, The totals aro ag follows : 1871, 1872, 3,020 1,685 260,468 205,189 (7 S 1 164,323 3,0 295,593 H3 5,3 680,404 720,108 The unrigged vessels mentioned in tho above tablo aro principally canal-boats, Excluding theso, tho aggrogato tounago of tho sail and steam vessels for tho three yonrs was na follows: 1870, tons, 804,928 ; 1871, tons, 417,498; 1872, tons, 420,611, Tho incronso from 1870 to 1871 was 22,670 toms, and from 1871 to 1872 it was 12,018 tons, Tho last increnso was los than 8 per cont. It s undoratood that tho tounnge for 1878 will not ghow any greater incroase. A recent ocowrronco in tho town of Dath, Stoubon County, N. Y., isa fair instanco of tho way in which the Civil-Sorvico Roform is arriod out. Tho present Postmastor, Mr, Ebonozor Ellis, was some timo sinco ncensod of various political irrogularitics, such a8 shouting for two candidates at onoo, a8 uncertain offico-holdors aro opt to do. The most griovous chargo against him was his opposition to the nomina- tion of tho Hon, II, Boardman Smith as a can- didato for Congross, Thorofore, whon Smith wae olocted, his first ofleinl act was the dacapitation of Ellis, and the sppointment . of My, Jared H. Thompson in his place, Bubso- qeontly, Mr. Ellis mado it appoar that ho had always boen tho friond of Bmith, and Hmith's socond officlal not was tho decapitation of ‘Thompaon and “ho rostoration of Elis' head ; tha wholo affalr only ocoupylng oight days, In tho faco of much factn ns thoso, tho Presldont cor« tainly has all the Intitudo he can wish iu roward- Ing “those who nre in closs sympathy with the Admiuistration." NOTES AND OPINION, Milwaukeo, on Tuosday, olocted n Mayor, turnod tho ** April-fool joko"” on Mr, lym\"l‘?g. Kellogg, whoso olection, on April-fool's day, proved o nullity Ly his own mischanco in not having rosigned his sent in tho Council. Thy voles on April 1 and April 23 wero ¢ Lovi 11, ellogg. .. Aprit1, Aygfl 22, 4, arrison Ludinglon, .. .4, 4:;3 g:}: 1,35 Mr. Ludington was firat olootgd Mayor in 1671 by 1,200 majority in a goll of 9,188 vnytua. i —Tho Missiaulppi Logislature adjourned sing die, April 19. Buch praiso is enid of tho Bposkor, Jobn R, Lyneh (colored), who was born o slavo, is solf-cducated, and Is the Congrossman of the Natohor District. . Of the posslon itsclf, the Vioksburg Jorald sy : 0 Logiulata: 10 daye, ko Qom RoTwing, ok oy ey fee ~—Tho voto of Quincy, IIL, Mondsy, for Mayor, wag: Trodorick Rearick, 2,200 ; Robort . Bon~ nnm:ln, 1,608 Tho Domoorats earried ovory ward. —Tho Dotroit Post, tho organ of Zach Chan= dlor, saya: v % Thoso Congressmen who do _not desiro th all, but arrango, withont PUbLio boxsting, 15 haup It :gv;r:gh:w:(mlnnwdllg Tr‘fl‘}fluryllnm certalnly worthy, ommendation than 1 ‘morit and n wida publieity of ol wirtua. T BT Ta Znch ono of thoso modost fellowa? But tha Post furthor saya: The Congrossman who draws thie monoy, and then uses it to Luy populsrity for himself, Ly ’Vln% it to charitabla inatitntions, or otlierwiso, In his own dis« trict, transparontly uscait aa o fund to securo votes for his own re-clectlon, The Bonator who draws it and giveaitto his own Btate cannot docolvos wayfaring man or a fool, —Tom Cnrney, of Loavenworth, who sold hia chancos to Caldwoll in tho Sonatorial contost, now publishes a card to oxplain to bis follow= citizona thnt tho seal of socrosy upon that trans- action was not broken by him ; that ko honora-~ bly Lkopt tho bond (and the $15,000), and 8o so- cured Cnldwoll's election ; and that ho was a most unwilling witnoss againet Caldwell, All of which showa & high stato of morals in Kansas to roquiro such an oxplanation, But Alr. Osrnoy adds, and concludes : nd Mr, Caldwoll kopt his promiscs, mad ‘Tonor, with thowo who aidod. 1um, and. hiad st pracs tiged {ho samo bad faith toward his frionds, who roally socured-hia. election, that, I have heard {t sluted, ko practised upon Irwin, Jackman & Co,, who siot him Up In businoas whon o firit camo to Konsas, ho would fo-dny have beon a member of ' tlo United States Bonate ; and neither himsolf, his'friends, mor tho people of Leavenworth, would havo heon sub« Jected to tho degradation thoy hayo hud to enduro, If iho peoylo of Loevenworll shall at any futuro iime foel the loss of o Henator, thoy need “only to roflect that it waa seolly owlug'to tho parfdy and trenchery of Mr, Caldwell to tho men who aided them in his olection, ~—A communication In tho Yowa Oity Press, recommending that tho Ropublicans of Iowa concedo to the Opposition ono of the four Judgeships of tho Suprome Bench, called out such n storm of indignant answors from the party press, that Gon. Nat B. Baker, of Des Moings, avowed tho suthorship, and bas sinco been recolving the party kicks upon his own per- son. Gon. Baker says : Dss Morxxs, April 17, 1873, Eptron Ree1sTrn: Your sharp criticim on anonys ‘mous writers, in connection with an articlo in the Towa City Press, would iuduco the bulief that the Hon, Jobn P, Irish wrote that article. I wrote that communica~ tion, and very hnatily, withous *emendntion or cors rection,” If X bad known that it would have called forth notices and criticlams to such an oxtont, I should have written with great care, I sont the communicas tion to the Press bacauso I belloved that Ropublican papors would not desire to_advocale, oven by commus nication, what migut ho deomed {rozson ¥ with the party candidates, I beliovo the Lastily-suggcited points of my communication aro worthy of the cone ‘sidoration of tho peoplo of this Stato, - Yours; truly, 3 N. B, Baxzn, —Tho Grand Jury at Buffalo,N. Y.,chargsd Ly Judge Daniols to inquire into tho use of monoy in olections, anawor: That whilo this inquiry has ralsed in the mindaof thomemboru of this body o suspiclon that s ke smount of monoy was expended at tho last clection for political purposcs in tha County of Erle, and that such anamount waa Inrgely in_oxcess of the leghimato ex-~ ponses which should attend an election fairly and hon ©atly conducted, yot they have not beon abls to find any individun] agalust whom an indictment could bo found on tho facts actually proven bofore thom, —Tho inaction of _the Logislature with regard to the frauds in the Land Oftico Is, in itsolf, ono of the greatost frauds ugon tho peoplo of Mich- igan which have ocourred in many yoars. Thig inaction makes it look as if o farco similar to that of the impenchment trial of Idmonds were to be played. Let tho people look at this cage. —Delyoil I'ree Press. —Wa should like to honr Scnator Morton, Gov. Heondricks, or somo othor long-horded statoss man, road a paper or mako & speech on the sub- jeot of the latitude and longitude of tho present #ailing of the groat political partios of the couns try, Or, are we all anchorod ?—Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune, Wao know vcrfi woll that party names aro spella to conjurc up the dovil of unrenson, prejudico, and blind bigotry ; that tho cancus is & mighty institution in this country, that *‘our ticket™ ombraces tho whole political creed of many, though Ben Butlor or tho Dovil head it. Yot wo * havo not a shadow of doubt that the party that givos the most satisfactory pledges of integrity and economy will obtain power; that n pledgoe to ropesl the salary act would rouse tho enthusi- esm and securo the suffrages of o mighty major- ity of this nation, and wo venture to proposo it nan test of poflucnl intogrity.—Iond du Lao (Wis.) Commonteeallh, . —Far boettor Grant and unadulterated military rulo than tho vonfusion and cheos which now oxigt. Wolcomo Grant and tho bayonot, if thoy cnn 8ave us from organized Ignoranco, incompa« tonco, and fraud!—~New Orleans Times. —The extont of tho Congressional snlary steal {8 not always fully apprehended by thoro wha fool indignant about it, . Tho increase of erlary from £5,000 to §7,600 imposes n perpetual an= nunl ehargo on the Troasury and the pooplo of §000,000. " This is exactly 5 por cout on 18,000,000, which {s tho rato at which tho ‘Iveasury Is mow borrowing moucy. Thoe effect of the inoronso of .tho salaries is rocisoly that, therofors, which would lnve con produced if Congross hind issued bonds for 18,000,000, sold thom, and stolon tho proceeds, and loft tho people to pay the interost on thems It would have heon choeper for tho Treasm and the peoplo in tho ond, if tho rascals ha votod thomselvos a plump sum of 260,000 apioco, and gono home with tho plundor. ‘Thi would have tnken only o littlo over $16,000,000 out of the Troasury, metead of £18,000,000 ag tho thing now stands,—Buyifalo Courier, —1It ia now in order for certain philanthropie people in various parts of the country to_peti- tlon tho Government to commuto Capt. Jacl's unishment to imprisonmont for life.—Fort Vayne Qazelle. —If tho rnilrond companios are wise, they will spoadily adjust thoir frelglt chrrges uo us to do justice toall. Uhose urbilrary and unjuet dis- criminatious, moro than tho high rates, have ero~ atod such an_ oxcltomont nnd_gonoral uptising, Now, not only will thoge discriminations have to ‘o stopped, but the raten materially reduced, be- fore tho public mind will bo pacited, Some guaranteo of justico in tho futuro muy also be demandod.— Utica (N, Y.) Herald, —Lot the Illinois peoplo consider whether Btate ownership_of compoting linos is not the true romody,—Madison (Wis.) Journal, . —The ilinois farmers scom to bo in earncst about pufting down monopolics, but thoy Lave a hiard Jub on hand, The ruitroads ronlly control, and in many districts olect, dologntes to our Leglslatures, and any amount of mouoy to effect it is at onsy command. A small addition to tavift ratos_furnishes all that is needed. 'I'he people havo bullt_most of the ronds in our country, corlainly intho Wost, ala costof 16,000 {a 17,000 a milo, oithor by individual nuimurlp‘ tiony, lan-dmorigagos, municipal or logislative nP|nroprlntlonu, and should own thorocdu; but theso clnims ure all wiped out by mortgagoes, probably mado for that vory purpose. g‘lm roads aro watored up by stook-dividends, or by direct Issue of stack to favored parties, at n cout to §40,000 or £15,000 por mile, aud tho people aro uado to pay tavift-rates to_mnke up divi- dends on this inflated stock. Wo can soe how our railrond-managors becomo suddenly rich, living in princoly stylo, furnishing u\mcln{h'nhnl for frionda and influontinl partics, but grinding the puuxlu who built tho roads to pay [’;r it— Ailiwaukes Wisconsin, —'Tho noxt cumEnlgn in this Btato wiil pliow conolusively whothor tho Btato of Witconsin is tho chambermaid of tho rmilronds, or whothor 8ho ia the Madamo that rung tho house,—Lan Crosag Revublican,