Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1873. (ERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. B E‘Rn‘:lfl 0!;\!“!0‘"‘1’!0)4 (PAYADLY. IN ADVANOR), n ma) 00| Bunda ek D E00) Wakiy Tarts of u yosr at tho samo rato, 'To provont dolay and mistakes, be suro and givo Post 0ff.co addross in full, including State and Gounty, Remittanoos miay bo mado olthor by deaft, oxpross, Post Ofice vrdor, or In registorod lottors, at aur risk, TENNS TO GITY WUDEORINERA, Dalls, dolivarad, “unduy excontod, 33 conts per wook. aily doliverod, Bungag Tneluded, 10 aonth Sox wooks Addross i1 TRTTUND COMPARY, Corner Madison aud Deatbornests,, Girionga, M, e TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, WVIOKER'S TIHREATRE-Madison strest, botwoon Btate and Doarborn. Kngagomont of Mr, Mark Srith, **Ono Hundrod Yenrs Old." ATHEN'S TIIEATRE--Wabash avonus, cornor of Cone gress. Engagomont of Stuart Robson, ** Littlo Jm'ly,» HOOLEY'S OPERA MOUSE—Randolph streot, be. tweon Olark and LaBallost. **'Flokot.of-Loavo Man," AOADEMY OF MUSIO— Halstod stroot, south of Madison, Lngagomontof Mr. F. 8. Ohaufrau. **Kit, thio Arkansas Travolor.” MYERS' OPERA HOUSE—~Monroa streot, botwoen Btato and Donrborn, Arlington, Colton & Kem Blinstrol and Burlesquo Troupe. ** Romao and Jullot. BUSINESS NOT! © OOVERNMENT ARTIFIOIAL LIMB MANUFAC- tory. DR, J. E. GARDNER, ocornor Sixtoouth-st., ad Wabanlag.) 1o only une 1 Ghlsago authorized 1 ho Govornmont {0 furnish soldiors. artiflolal lmba an spparatus, ROYAL AVANA LOTTERY, THE RXTRAOR. dinary dramirig will fako placo on, e ! of Apell 1872, g Srawn 1o B1,300,00. Thora will bs only 16,660 tickota and 2,097 prizes, . 1, MARTINEZ & CO., Isankors, 10 Wall'st. 1 Post-oltica ox 4,685, Now York. SOHENOK'S MANDRAKE PILLS A8 A BLOOD- Purifier and Provontive of Disoass.—Tlio soason hus now srrivod when tho uso of ¢ blood-puritiers and tanics v mocessary, in order to invigorato aud reguisto tio systom, soasto ehablo it to ropol thoto morbid influonoas, 13 joate aily any incurablo matadies,—-aro caution should, thorefure, bo adopted to proj foct (1o syston in advanco boforo tho warn totain and tonds to devolop tho many tisonses pre 1t tho changos of {ho svazon, But tho guostion arl i vlow of tho many nostrums palmod ou thio publlo, £0 thio bost romudy it will deatroy_sny gorm of dis Ihat may bo lutking in the wystem, Vortunatoly, we linvo ong epscitlo sulted altke for all porsons and climatas, which Wil Tgudor tho ssatein iniproguable aaimt the sttacks of tho many complaluty ‘atignding onr I'lemi pod ewmmor mouths, Schonok’s Mandrako Pills, & household word [n ovory nook and cornor of tha isud Ixthis vutunblo romeds. Wo do nol. maan to apirm bub tliat somoof tho bivod purifors i tho slinpo of eataapn- Hilins, £anics, &ty posdons morlt, but wo do contond thoir metioh in 50 tardy as tn requiro thelr long continuod uso, which not only nouessliates groat Inconvenlonco and ex. pense, but stll] leaves tho” aystam, whila undorgolng thls Blow proonss of ronovation, tuprotcied and labla to nt- gl fcony e peowailin sfiloinion of o so Scheuelcs Mundrako. Plls, on tho other liand, act fm- modiately, althuueh goutly any discasg, At panding, Defug at. onco beattorat, lheso pills not'with tho o tzinty of calome! or blwo.masa, withuut any of the in- jurious or enorvating laflucnca of theso drugs, Thoy not_onlyact upen the fons of the llver, tho great workshop of thu huwa! v, but from tholr altorativo eopertiva thoy lmnediataly tastoro to o hoalthy condi- lon a1l tho sucrotlons of tho mownch and bowols gon. <cornod n 1ho Brvocas of diestivn. An & biood-puriiior, tonropara tho rystom ngalzist 4o indluonces of thozoa: 5em, aud to provout bilousuoss, languor, lassitude, fover and aguo, atil all othor digordurs witls which tho atmon. phoro'fs burehargod at thia porfod, tho uso of Schonck's Hiondrako Pills, continued from ‘two to Hve days, in %1 that Is nocossary, oxcopt in raro cases. For what athor Tomody can tils Do elaimed, and substantisted by t=atlnony such as fa given dally by hundroda in all parts «f tha count) Tl vorious sarsapariiing and othor prep- aratious sold for this purposo aro not ouly expomlve, Costiuiz aa hiish us ono and two dallars por bottlo or pack: 50, bt liavo toho nsed for wooks and ovon thon with vory imporfoct and unsatizfactory resilts, Ou the other Tiend & singlo box of Nolcnok's Mandrako Pills, costing ‘gl tironty-iso conts, and proourable of any Origaist dealor, u sultiotont, 1 mnny oxsce, (o an ordinary-sizo Sumily, nod, unl{ko tho ollier propirations, gUaratito &1l who uss thein ‘»mllm”vu from disease and a leasa to fo0d hoalih, This fact alono lins sccurud for {hiowo pilla & auora oxtonsivo enlo than any other similar proparation ‘aver offerod, They arv, as tho nuwie Indicatoe, composed fargoly of Mandrake, ofolusizely s Amorican’ plant, the 700t of which bosscaies ara wmodictnal powers, cspecally {n A treatment of a disovdored stato of tho liver sod kid- Ziogs. o Aanirako Pills gon boused aliko both by Erown porauns and ebiideen, Lull direotions ns to dose, Bic., nocompanylog cach box. Propandenly b 5yt SOHRNOK & SON, B, cor, txth and Avch-sta, Philadalyia, N. And for nalaby ail druggists aud den] The Chivags Teibune, Tridey Morning, April 25, 1873. ‘Wintor whoat the country through s reported by the Agricultural Bureau to bo looking better now than ab tho same timo last yoar, Tho stockliolders of tho Atlantic Oceau tolo- graph companioa mot yestorday in London, and, informally, approved a cousolidation of all tho companiea iuto ono, in accordance with "the pro- gremmo foreshadowed uomo time ago. ‘The Popa has fallen ill again, and is compelled tolcop his bed. Buch frequent nnd serious changes in tho coudition of so old a man betoken approaching dissolution, and mako it doubtful whethor ho will live to celobrato his 81st birth- day, on the 18th of noxt montl Logal intorst is atill rostriclod to 7 per cont by tho bilt now boforathe Now York Legislature, and which has been deseribed incorrctly sa o bill for tho repesl of tho usury laws. Its main effect is to lossen the penalty. Iustead of for- foiting principal aud intorest, tho londer is pra~ tected in hisright to tho former, sud loses only the Interest Roger Tichtorno is now being tried for per- Jury. Tho opening spoech of tho prosecution was begun on Wednosday, continued yostordny, and, at the last advices, 18 etill running. One of tho peculiarities of the Tichborno litigation has boon the low of words it hns caused. Whon Bir John Coleridgo summed up tho ' case ngainst tho claiment last yoar, Lo mado & speoch twenty- threo hours long, ’ ——— Two vital soctions have beon atrickon out of tho House Compromisebill. They are tho eighth ond ninth, which empower Railroad Commigsion- ers to fix the trolgl*t and pasgongor ratos of each railrond in the State, and which make such rates prima facie ronsonable, and tho ro~ ports of the Commissionors prima facie ovi- donce. Tho voto by which this action was taken wes unoxpected, astho frionds of tho Lill had withont troublo defeated all the attempts to amend the precoding seotions, The bill will bo considered to-day, saction by section. Cozl will Bo made still doarer and ecavcer in England by tho formidable sirike of twenty thousand coal-miners in Leicestershive. Tho combination of mino-owners and the panic about exhaustiug the mines have alresdy produced o serious conl-famine, aud avo remotoly tho cause of the Atlantio disnstor, Bomo good may re- sult from thiy state of affairs in the discovory of now metliods of ceonomy and of now sources of fuel. A patent hns alroady been sought for a ‘rocens of ragolving air iuto its component gases, €0 that thoy can bo usod for fives or lights. The Insurauco Convonlion sitting in Now York favor tho inkartion of a elnuso fu el flro policics limiting tho responsibilly of companios to threo-quartors of tho loss, Thoy think thnt upon tho genoral adoption of such n rule prop- exty-owners, knowing that In any ‘ovent one- quurter of tho loas must fall upon thomsslves, will tako greater paina to provent fires, Undor . tho present uystom of full insuxance, it is often, j rathor to o man'y interest that his property . should burn; the now rale would bring his in- terosts and thono of tha comparics togethor, e s In snother column will bo found a very full and interonting deucription of the bulld- ing nnd prepsrations for tho groat Exposl- tion ot Yionus, mndo up from the notos of our carrespondents and from mny othor sources of information, The accommodations for vis- itors and thoe arrangemontu for contributions are given nt length. Oue matlor of intorost pub- lished for tho flrat timo i tho fulilist of Amorican Commissloners, whoso names will bo ecxutinized with great attontion aftor the recont disclosuren of tho connoction of some of thom with sowing- machine companlos, iron mauufacturers, and tho like, Moxican raids and Indian dopradationa aroe making sad havoo slong our Southorn border. News comes this morning of a fight nenr Fort Quittan, in whick o party of Amorieans, in pur- euit of o band of Moxican maraudors who had murdored a Toxan farmer, burned his homo, and carrled oft hiz cattlo, were badly beaton and driven back by tho despora- docs, What with theso guerrillas and {lio Indians undor leadors like Cochlso, who still roorontos himeclf by roasting an occasional white man, the wholo lino along Toxas, Now Mexico, and Arizons is unfit for industry or even oxistonco. In two years thore has boen a do- oroaso of 10per cont in the population, and every intorost {8 orippled Tho projest for mnking Christianity in soma sort o Binto roligion in this country, which is urgod onca o yoor by an undorsized convention, sooms to bo doveloping favorably in Japan, for wo loarn by cablo dispatch from Borlin that tho Japanose Ambassadors Liave intorviewed an omi- nont Gorman professor on the subject, Tho loarned professor enrnestly dissusded them from taking such & stop, telling thom that tho pro- copts of Chriatianity appoal to tho hearts of mon and not to the poworof govornmonts; that Christianity cannot bo enforcod upon & peoplo without doing violence to its fundamontal prin- ciples. It i8 added that tho Ambassadors lis- tened with much attention to the romarks of the professor, and oxproesod satlufactlon with the advico. Although tho Bauk of England has rocovered from tho MceDonnoll gang all but thirty thousand dollars of thoir atealings, it docs not rolent in prosocuting them criminally, as is too often dono in glmilor cascs. From tho moment of dis- covery thore lms boen mno whisper © of compromiso, no bargain for tho com- pounding of folony., The forgers bLnve been sternly pureued, ‘and with great kil and oqual’ puccoss. Bidwell, who fled to Huovann, was yostorday delivered up to tho English Consul, snd will Lo sont nt onco to England in n man-of-war. Tho first warrant on which McDonnell was arrestod In Now ' York proved fanlty, but he has been promptly roarrestod on anothor, and will proba. bly soon be travoling beck to England in chains, Itis n mark of tho lowost type of provincial Jjournalism to garblo and misveprosent tho arti- clos or positions of othor journals, 'Thoro are wvery fow of this clugs romaining in the State of llinois, It bappous that ono of them s printed in this city. It sooms to have como into being for the spocial purposs of perpotuating o withored and lonfless typo of journalism which is fast dis- appoaring from the precincts of Higginbottom- opolis and Podunk. The Rock Island Union docs not "belong to this branch of the profession—nt lenst wo Llave not 8o classed it horoloforo. Honce, when it anys that Tnx Curcsao Tripuxe: has lately ape pliod to the farmers n sneering oxpression— “husbandmen (farmors) have always beon au unfortunate race of beings from the time Nomh adopted tho business, and camo (fo griof in his own vineyard by resson of tdo much guape- Juics "—wo concludo that it hua not seen tho ar- ticlo to whiol it rofery, but has borrowed what it koows, or dou't know, about it fromn a eity paper a8 destituto of candor ns it is of brains, 1 Tho State Journal soems to bo troubled be- causo wo mado the suggostion that it tho new Tailrond law should provido for advertieing the schedule of freight ratos proposed by the Rail- road and Warchouso Qommissionors the Spring- flold newspapers would not be useful advertis- ing mediuma oxcept for reilroads centoring in Bpringfield. Wo medo this suggestion not in tho interost of newspapors at Chicago, or. Ga~ lons, or Quincy, or Alton, or Cairo, or any nows- papera whatsoover, but in tho genor- 8l intorest. Wo suggested that ihore waa no need of publishing thom in any newspa- por, Bo far as rogards tho furnishing of legal evidonce,—that appoaring to bo the main objeot of tho publication, as recitod in the bill. But if published for tho purposo of giving information to shippers, thore 18 no renson why suck publica- tion, rogarding n railway laving its principal business nt Peoris for instance, showld be at Bpringficld rather than at Peorls. Tho publica- tion, if -made at all, should be loft to tho discra- tion of the Commissionora. —— The Chicago produce markels wero less ne- tive and irrogular yestorday, Mess pork was-! dull, and declined 30@40c per brl ; closing at 817.80@18.00 cash, and 818,60 goller Juno. Lard was in good demand, and 100 per 100 ibs higher, closing at 89.35, cash, aud $9.76@Y,80 sollor June, Ments wore in fair demsnd, and a shade firmer, ot 63{@C}c for shoulders; 9@D)¢c for ehort riba ; 93{@0%{c for short clear, and 10@12 for sweot-pickled hams. Highwines woro dull and nominnl at 861¢@87c por galion, YLake froights wero dull and nomiual, at 160 askod for corn to Duoffalo, Flour in fair demand and firm. Wheat, was moderately aotive, and 3@1o highor, closing at ©1.244@1.242¢ caih, ond $1.25}¢ soller May. Corn was modor- ately nctive and unchanged, olosing at 374¢{@ 875¢e cash, and 383go eollor May. Oats wore in good demnnd, and 1o higher, closing at 81@ 3130 oash, aud 813¢o sollor May, Ryo was moro active, and 3¢o bigher, at C9¢c. Barley was dull and nominnlly unchanged, at 70@780 for poor to good No. 2, Iogs woro dull and 100 lover, closing ot §6.20@G.60. Cattlo were ne- tivo, but closed oaster. Blicop romain stendy, Tho mocting which hes beon called at tho Autor Houso, in New York City, for May 0, to cousider tho tranaportation question ns it nifocls the country at Intgo, is likoly to furnieh the basfy for n natlonnl movemont sgainut monopolies, tho ultimato growth of which it is not porsiblo to forolell, It lina boon nuggested that this meot ing was onlled for the purposs of bringing the farmers' granges and tho labor-uulons in di- root communication, Tho tondenoy of the movemont, whothor it has (aken {his direction or & more genoral wcope from the outaot, in to unlto tho producorn of tho West and the consumors of {ho Eust i g common caugo agalngt tho raflrosd mansgers Tho growth of n combination botweon Pproducory and consumora will inovitably lead to n common opposition to all clansou that live upon subeidios, monopolics, and “ protection” of overy dosorip-, tion. Whon tho consumers of tho East "dlecover that tho bulk of tho monoy which thay pay for grain goen into the pookate of tho railronds, who, in turn, pay over & largo shara of it to the manu- facturos that furnigh thom the material for bullding and running thewr roads, tha consumors Aud producors Wil meot on common ground and take common monsureA for thoir own proteotion, The producora of tho ‘Weat and tho consumors of tho Enst form anag- grognto in numbors a8 against which the *pro- tocted” fow will ho a pitiful minority. Tho vigorous strides which tho movement against railwny oxtortion lag nlrondy taken indieato that tho rostraint of tho railronds will not be tho only nor most important rosult, but that it will foally load to tho massing of tho pooplo againat tho bano of all commeroial froodom,—tho protoctive tavifr, Every now nand thon wo hear a clatter of tongues about tho groat advantagos of tho Mis- slssippl Rivor as an outlot for Woatorn produce j ‘but, ae yoars roll by, wé find ihat tho amount of coroals taking that conrso seaward is limitod to abont tho quantity wantod for consumption in thio Bonthern Blatos—or only a trifle moro. At timos whon tho most talk fs heard on the ad- vantngos of this routo, grain ia being shipped enstward, fn large quantitics, by rall, from Bt. Louis. This grain orossos {ho Mis- sissippl Rivor by forry-boat, asud fa then bouled a thousand milos, more or lons, by land, ratber than take tho cheap though longthy sud roundabout routo via New Orloans. Tho rengon is, that o surplus of grain ab New Orlonns, over and abovo the requiremonts of lo- cal consumption, {5 na far from markot an it was in tho 8¢, Louls warchousoe. It Is probably truo that freighting on the Mississippl River is tho . choapest inland transportation in tho world, snd if the courso of that stronm wore east and wost inatend of north and south, it would noitle the railrond quostion and all kindred quostions with » vongeanco. But wo find, 08 a matlor of fact, that this greatest of rivora doca not, in any comsidorable degroe, rolieve tho pressure in the Northwost, though there is an incroaso in tho amount of property transported on it both up and down. In rogard to the 8t Philip Ship-Canal, a worlk projectod lialf a cen- tury ngo to avoid tho barat tho mouth of tho Mississippi, wo ssy to all tho friends and ndvocntes of thet undorialing that no local jonlousy or apprchension regarding it exists in Ohiengo, so far ns wo know. The only objection to it is that which applics to all similar works sought to be foisted upon tho Natioual ‘Ireasury, and the danger that helf o hundred others will bo fastoned upon it ewolling tho coat to intolerablo proportions, If tho St. Philip Ship-Canal could bo taken up sud voted upon by itsclf, a8 s work of national im- portance and valug, o pretty strong argument could be made for it. MR, ADAMS AND THE OHICAGO CONVEN- TIOH OF 1860, The receni culogy pronounced upon the lifo andmomory of William IL, Sowerd, beforo the Now York Logiolature, by the Hon, Charles Francis Adams, is meoting with very searching criticism in tho columns of tho leading newepapors, both Inst and West ; not from eny desire to datract from Mr, Sewnrd's well-earnod reputation as o statosmnn, but bocause, like many other biogra- pbors who cannot estimato-tho worth of a man without making uufavorable ecomparisons with others, Mr. Adams sought to clovato Mr. Sow- ard by undorruting Mr. Lincoln. No onocan doubt that NMr. Adsms was sincore in all that ho srid concorning M. Bow- ard, but thoro were ultimatoly somo circumstancey which could not fail to proju- dico his judgmont. Years ago, Mr. Beward wroto biography of John Quincy Adams, and alsopro- nounced a glowing eulegy upon his lifo and cheractor boefore tho Now York Legislaturo, It way but natural, thoreforo, that tho son should Liavo hield this fact in the kindost remombrance. Again, it is doubtful whother 3fr. Addms had any porsonul knowledgo of Mr. Lincoln, or any means of judging of him, excepb na o distant observor, having no eympathy with Mr, Lincoln’s humblo origin and rude antocedenta—with his lack of that culture which is gained from the literary nud artistio pursuits of an ologant leia- ure, and with his cloze afiiliations with tho com- mon peoplo, from whom BMr, Adams has always beon remoto. Lastly, during tho whole of the groat crigls in tho history of this country pro- duced by tho War of tho Rebollion, Mr. Adams was in England, in s diplomatio capacity, and all of lig ofticinl relations with this country wore majntained in correspondence with M. Soward, Lig chiof, seldom or novor with My. Lincoln, It is o curious fact, too, that Mr, Lincoln was ag far from approciating Mr. Adams ss Mr. Adams from appracinting Mr. Lincoln, if wo may trust & private lotter from Montgomory Blair to Gen. Fremont, publichod Ly tho Iattorin his testi- mony boforo tho Committco onthe Conduct of the War, tho substanco of which is: “Tho Prosident sgroes with you [Fromont] that Adams is wholly dovoted to his monoy- bags"—n very unjust estintato of Mr, Adams, as wo fhink. His long-standing friendship and in- timney with Mr, Soward, ond want of soquainte anco with Mr. Lincoln, would tond to bias Mr, Adams in Mr. Boward’s favor, and cnlist his sympathios otrongly for & man who had much in common with himsolf, and with whom alone ho hnd been brought in contact during the dark duye of tho Rebobion. It s nob sarprising, thoreforo, that ko should claim for Mr. Soward tho crodit of tho eafo conduct of tho Govern- mont and tho succonsful fssuo of the war, aud, claiming thig, of nocessity lio would deplore the @ofuat of Mr, Seward iu tho Chicago Convention, and aseribo it to tho chicanery and intrigue of 3r, Lincoln and his friends, To dispose of both thoso assumptions at once would roquire more spaco than can bo afforded innn ordinary nowspaper artielo. The charge of political intrigue in the Chieago Convontion, howover, may bo ozeily disposod of. Br. Bei- ard’s immodiate friends, under the lendorahip'st Mr. Thurlow Weed, made the contest for the nomination st Cbicago a purcly personal one, without roforence to the wishos or policy of the paty ab largo, and thoy commenced organlizing for Lis nomination iwo or three years bofore tho Convention, by an attempt to manufacture pub- lio oplnion, As tho thuo for tho Couveution draw nigh, and it becumo apparont that it wae impoesible to Howardize tho voto of Indlana and Iilinos, o bLold movement was mado upon tho Bouthern Btales. Mr. Thurlow Woed and n delogation from New York wont to Daltimore ond sought to urrango o delogation from Maryland pledged for Mr, Soward, At first the movement was Jaughod at and way deomed o hosx, Imé whon tho poople of Dalti- mare found thet o mooting had sotually Looun convonod, they brole it up by mob violence, and drovo tho so-called delogates from tho Liall, aud while pursulug thom through tho sireots the Blairs got pousesnion of the hall and hustily or- ganized a dologation for Mr, Batos,—a proceods ing whioh would never have hupponed bad uot tho Waod cliquo sought to spring this Boward movement upon the people. Tho case of tho Texag ropresontation was oven Jore glaring thau this, and no one who was prosent at the Convontion will forget Mr. Wilmot's cloquont protost againat tho admission of thoso dologates. No convention had boon held in that Btato; no dologates Lind beon nppointod. Two mon from Kalamazoo, Mioh,, and four men from Cannda woro picked up in our streots by the Weed cliquo and foistod upon the Convention, notwithatand- ing tho protests of othor dolegaton, with fustruc- tlons to divide tholr votos npon the first ballot, and afterwarda concontrato thom upon Mr., Sew- ard. Tho instructions wore oboyod. On tho firab ballot, thoy cast four votes for Mr. Boward and two for Mr. Datos. On tho otlier two bal- lots, thog cnst tholr six valos for Mr. Boward ‘Tho Torritorinl delegntes from Kansas, Nobraskn, and tho Distriot of Columbia wore for tho firat timo allowed full powors in o National Convon- tion, and thoy onst their ton votes for Mr. Howard on overy ballot, Thoro was no phnso of political obicanory which Mr. Woed loft un-~ tried in that momorable strugglo. Such mon ns Thurlow Woed: and Preston King did not think it boneath tholr dignlty to march through the stroots bobind Tom Ilyor,, tho pugllist, who bore aloft o Boward flag, with drums and banners, to manufacture opinion for Mr. Boward, Tho wing of the Republicn party to which Mr, Boward bolongod had long beon noted for its futriguing propensities, Tho New York clique was fairly notorions for endal and intrigno, and among theso ndopta in tho arte of politicnl chicanory Mr, Thurlow Weed was facile princeps. Intriguo was 10 thoroughly ingrained into his political lifo that it is slmply frivolous to as- sume that in any campaign whero he nppoared a8 on nctive partisan anybody olso should sur- pnss him in thoe uso of thoso arte. Tho dofeat of his intrigues was owing to tho foct that Mr. Soward was not belioved to be, on the wholo, tho best candidate. The succoss of Ar, Lincoln's earaor,—although the grent emergonoy which ho was to face was nob apparont whon lie was nominated,— shows that tho pooplo wero right in their csti- mafo of him. Tho unduimity with which tho pross aro vindicating Mz, Lincoln against any attempt to underrato him ehows that his sterling charactor and commanding ability aro still trens- wred with fond admiration, and that his momory isheld fn ns high roverence ns when ba foll under the hand of tho nasassin, A NEW QUALIFICATION FOR CONGRESS, Mr, Bonjamin T, Butler, who bossts of Leing tho anthor of tho back-pny swindlo for thoe in- crenso of the nalarics of mombors of Cougross, in o lotter justifying tho mensure to & citizen of Ponnsylvanis, declares that Congress las to do tho worlk of o nation of forty millions of pooplo, # and no man who caunot earn at least §7,00 ia fit to do that work.,” This places the roblery on o now dofenso. It suggests that men who nceepted places under n stipulation that thoey woro to got $5,000 a year avo justified in laying hands on any amount of thoir employor's money to meake up what they shall thiuk thoy could earn elsowhoro, DBut Mr. Butler catablishes & mew test of eligibility to Congress. No man who cannot oarn ot bis Dbusinoss 87,500 n yoar is fit, accord- ing to Br. Butler, to go to Congross. This doflnition of fitness, if accepted, would bring tho number of persons eligible to a comparatively small number, According to tho roturns of the incomo tax, tho number whoso income reached that sum’was not only small, but they were not genorally of tho class who would make desirablo members of Congross. Onkes Ames and other wealthy manufacturers, or holders of patonts, or who manago railroad corporations like Jay Gould, Daviel Drow, and Vaudorbilt,—all belong to tbat class. Thero wero, of course, a great tany merchants included in tho list baving incomes equal to 87,600, but as a geueral thing that incomo was not of itsolf ovidonco of intelloctual power, oducation, experionce, orany of the roquisitos for an intelligont reprosenta- tive of the publio inferests. Mr. Butler, for in- stanco, lias an intorest in o mill whore bunting is manufactured. This manufacturo is heavily pro- tocted, and tho law which protocts it may secure to Mr, Butler an income of 87,600, or more. That, howover, adds nothing to his fitness ns a member of Congross, and, should that law bo re- poalod nnd his incomo bo diminished, it would not follow that hio thoroby consed to bo fit to sgorve in Congress, Tho averageannual earnings of tho whole American poople do not excoed §800 & year cach, Tho average cnrnings of the employod clnsses do mnot excoed 81,000, The averago earnings of thoso holding salaried omployments does not exceed $1,600. The aver- age earnings of tho learned professions do not excood §2,600. And yot of these tho majority are probably equal, if not superior, to tho avor- ago member of Congross. There are s numbor of Congressmen whose private fncomes are Intgoly in oxcess of §7,600 a yoar, but sn exam: ination of the list will not show that these rank among tho more intelligent or capable Reprosent- alives, Income is, of all other standards, tho most uncortain, If not the basest, by which to ‘tost honesty, Intelligenco, and Altness for Congressionnl duty. Thors are men in tus and in all othor cltios who mako twico Dutler's standard of fitness at tho gambling table ; others make large sums by tho use of publio monoy in tholr Lands; othors gomble in gold aud In stocks ; othors got them- solvos includod in syndicatos ; othora contrivo'to obtnin Governmont contracts. AL theso, ac- cording to Mr. Butlor, aro bettor fitted for Con- groes, and are to bo preferred to the man who earny his living by labor, meatal or mauual, and ‘who does not carn §7,600 a yoar. TFORNEY ON THE POLITICAL SITUATION. {,Tha Philadelphia Press has an articlo, in which My, Fornoy, the editor, makes an urgent appesl to tho people of Pennsyle vanin to unite, without distiuction of parly, to savo their State from tho hendlong cor- ruption of tho Ropublican party. In summing up tho businoss of the last Loglslature, Lo finds o sorles of overt acts againat the poople, a faflure ., to mako even tho attompt of giving Philadelphis o fair olection Isw, and an extension of the Btate Treasuror’s torm of ofiico for tho oxpress pur. poso of providing tho memis whoroby tho noxt olection may bo controlled in tho intorest of the rings, What Ponnsylvanin politics Lias beon for years past, it Js yot. Tho conduct of tho re- ocont Loglelature was as corrupt aud doflaut as that of its predecossor. MMr. Fornoy doos not Lioaitato to fix tho responnibliity whore it propor- 1y bolonga—in the Ropublican party of tho State, 4 1'he Roformors,” ho says, *‘as s single organi- zation, with all their noble works and noblo mon, oan do nothing,” Ho therofore ealls upon tho leading Ropublicans of tho Blato, who are not couneoted with any of tho ringe and who do not approve tho corrupt practicos of tho party, to cut loosa from tho organization, and to join with the Dowoerata and tho Reformora Intho effort *to rid the Stato from tho fucubus which hins g0 long rulod {t to its ruin,” At tho closo of tho Into sceslon of the Ponn- sylvanin Logislaturo tho Assombly paseed n rog- olution, in & spirit of dorlsion, nsking Col. Mo~ Cluro to como over from fhio Sonoto and nddross thom on the subject of Roform, Col. MaCluro, contrary to oxpectation, nccopted tho invitation, and talked to thom in & menner which tho mem- bora will not ho likely to forget. o told thom to tholr fuces that ho lind novor Imown of a body of mou, poot or prosont, 0o thorougly givon up to individunl and oftictal proflignoy. e poluted out that thoro woro many mombers who had never heon elocted, and somo whe had nat aven beon nomiuated, to cho placos thoy held, Ho romindod thom that o had sont in roform mons- ures all during the sesslon, which wera voted down witha yell as fast ns tho rules would pormit. Ho chargod thom with creating and multiplying local offices to which they hoped and propored to rotire. Finally,ho found but ono act of tho sosslon whick could meot with tho approval of the poople, and that was tho voto to adjourn, Tho Loglislaturo oven passod annct caleulated to dofoat, by means best known to Pennsyl- vanin politicians, tho safoguards that will bo offored to tho peoplo by the Conatitutional Con- vontion. Under the nct authorizing tho Conven~ tion, it waa docreed that their work should bo votod upon by the people next Octobor. Thia would dotermine the sccoptanco or rojection of #ho now Constitution bofore tho next session of tho Logislnture, and would leave the politicians no power to dofont tho rosult it it should happon to bo distastoful to thom. The Loglalaturo, theroforo, passed an act providing thot the roturns sholl bo soaled, ond neither opaned nor connted boforo the convening of tho noxt Legislaturo, and then in their prosonce. This Loglalaturo was choson in the year of tho Prosidontial olections, Mr. Forney made an offort to dofeat 1t without projudico to tho national issuc. ‘Iho other party leaders of tho Btato hold that this could not be dove, snd pro- caeded to carry the olection by fraud, Mr, For- noy now renows bis appoal for the comiug yoer, when there is no Prosidantial olection and no porty intorosta to bo affectod. But ho commits tha samo error of conflning the movoment for roform within tho limits of his own Biato, It isnot possible to retain an allogianco to tha porty and at tho rame time work carnostly sud actively in ovorthrowing its machinory. *tick together,” is {ho motfo of your good party man. “Fall spaxt," i tho adjuration of Mr.-Fornoy. Mr. Fornoy tried to roform insido tho porty lnst year, and failod. Ifho trios again this yoar on tho samo plan, ho will fail again. Tho intcrosts of tho Ropublican perty at largo and tho Repub- liean party of Ponnsylvanin are common go far a8 thnt Stato is concorned, and soonor or lator thio Ponnsylvania Ropublicans who dosire the re- form of the Btato will find it so. 3Mr. Fornoy has gono too far for a party man—not far cuough for a Reformer. m—— Tho Seeramento Record ndvances o vory prob- ablo thoory to oxplain tho reason why the Mo- doca murdered Gon. Canby, Among tho major~ ity of Indian tribes, tho fall of n Chief ia tho signal for the flight of his follawers, and, reason- ing from analogy, thoy supposed that if they could only kill tho chief white ofticora tho troops would at onco disperso and leavo them mastors of tho flold. If tho Government, thorefore, had been sufficiently aware of this tralt in tho Iudian chanetor, and lad put no confidonco in tho peacoful protestations of tho savages, tho messacre might have beon avolded. After tho Modacs hind already made two aitompts of a similar king, one to ontrap Gon, Gillem, and the othor to draw the Peaco Commissionors into an ambusl, all furthor ne- gotintion ghould have been stoppod. Costly ng tho losson has beon, the Government hns loarn~ od somothing to its profit in its future doalings with Indians in arms. . Ex-Socrotary Boutwoll malkes & very completa ‘answor to the * explenation ® recontly publishod by Messra. Phelps, Dodge & Co., in rogard to tho false invoicos which ind passed through the Custom-Houso under their name. Mr. Bout- ‘woll says that, whon the charges of fraud wera brought againet the firm, thoy filed & statement protesting thelr innoconce, and offering to pay $271,000 into tho Treasury in sottloment of tho suit, Mr. Boutwoll, thon Socrotary of tho Trensury, declined to accopt the sottlement on theso terms, telling Mosurs, Pholps, Dodge & Co. that if thoy were in- nocont, a8 they claimed, tho courts wore open to them to justify tuemselves before tho publie. Chereupon tho firm withdrow thow protestations of innocence, and desired to mnke a gottlomont on any construction which tLo Tronsury Departmont might sco fit to put upon their cazo. Buying a Juageship, In the Ealt Lako Herald of April 16 it is statod that a suit has beon bogun in the Third Digtrict Court of that Torritory by Thomas J. Drako, now o citizon of Pontino, Michigan, ogaingt Obed T, Btrickland. Tho suit is brought to recovor tho money named in tho within obliga- tion: WasinaToy Crrz, D, 0., March 20, 1860, $2,800, Tor value receivod I promiveto pay Thoas . Drako or his ordor $3,800, as followa: $700 on the Sirat day of Oclober, 186Y ;, $700 on the firat duy of Jan- uary, 1870; $700 ou tho fifst duy of July, 16703 aud tho furthor sum of $700 ou tho first day'of Jzuary, 1871, In cnsoof my death beforo tho last &-myumn‘ Dbocomes duo, thion stich piymonts as aro not dyo shall not be collected, O, ¥, BTNIOKLAND, Tho Listory of this paporis intoresting. At tho time of its exocution, Drake was Assoolato Justico of the Bupreme Court of Utsh. Btrickland wns & residont of Uteh, socking an oftico at Wanhington. Falling to obtain ono, lio proposed to Drake that tho latter should re- slgn, recommending Lim for the vacancy, and, in cnse ho was appointed, ko would pay Drake £4,800, The appeintment was forfour years, and tho salary #2,800 o year ; ho was, thoroforo, to pay Drako ono-fourth of bis eelary for the placo, Drake rousigned to take effect on tho appoint- mont of hia succossor, and Btricklund was ap- pointod, He sorved four yoars, when, according to the Herald, he resigned “ becauso ho hiad made so much monoy.” Strickland, howevor, nover paid Drake tho monoy, and honca the guit. Inthe same paper we find tho following lottor from Drako to his attornoy, Goorgo O. Batos, whois woll kuown in Chicago ¢ ‘Ponsao, Mich,, Jan, 0, 1870, MY DizAn T Your note of Dec, 30, wlt,, and tolegram of lulor duto Teached mo Into on Batuirdu aigitt, T was dndoed plensod {0 hear from you, Bokuwith forward fo you tho noto which he, Btriciand, avonc, I inve fndorscd it in Llank, 08 it is payablo > 1m0 or iy ordor ; this may bo u convenlenco ; 1t can do mo hutt, for i not vinted you ean steka it out, Do thio Lest you cau for yoursol? au woll us for mo, 1 whull bo glad §f you cun Dring tho rascal to torms, Tl linn 1o dcfonso fo tho noto thut I cati 800 ¢ ho may say what ho plenses, 1£ thero way any villafuy iu tlio transaotion, it wos wholly o bis jinct, not o mino, 1o wan fu Washington scoling an appoiitment, first in ontann, then Wyoming, ond falod. 110 was destituto aud gald ho darod uot g0’ Luck to Utub, 1o bad safd and dono o much_ta expggo ho Morundng, ho was n dangor if bo wont back wilhout an offico, ‘T had but ong yoar, & Hitlo less {hun a year, to orve, and I did Tot intoid to sk fora reappointmont, Ono doy o came Into tho room which Judgo Titus, uoiv Ohiet Justica of Arlzons, and I oceupied, Ho uppeurod mueh dlsplrits od und ‘cant_down, Mo uld st Alorney-Goneral Hoar kind told bim that 1o would givo Liin an oftico If Hhora wna n vacunoy, - Aftor cousidurablo convartion 1o #ald lio would glvo o all niy kalory would swount $0 40 X would roslgn, That aud the uext day, Judag George C, Rai Titus and I talked tho matter over, and 1 thon thought 1 would go into practico in Wanhington_or Philadol. llll!n H nn.}l when Inoxt mot Strickland I told him I hought I shiould reslgn, Tho ntnount hio was to give mo wan fizod, and tho timo of paymonts mndo oas; liat o could pay thown na Lin ealnry bocumo payilbio snd _1ivo, and I sont my resfgnation to tho Prosidont to tako oitect upon tho appointmonut of n Auccossor ; soon nfior bo was mpminatod ond - confirmod, on ho came fo our raom, 01 le sid, to slgu tho noto, aa he wna going fo leavo thint day, Tho noto had beon written out, and ho took tho pen to aign it, Ho declared that if o lived 1o would pay the fustallments ns thoy becamo duo ; but natd hio s poor, aud 3f o died boforo thoy bo- camno duo they nover could bo {m(d, and his wifo and olilld wonld Lo diatrensed, I thon' toolk tho pon and wrolo tho Inat clauko to {lio noto ¢ aud then Lo slgned 1t and hondod 3t to me, avowing {hnt 1 1o waa Aufered to live, each installment shonld bo pafd whon dus, You wil nco thoy are ll_payablo at tho and of a quar- tor; thoy aro payable In Washington, Whon tho firat was nearly duo I was in Pontiac, and had given up the 1don of going {o W~ I wrote {0 Lim n kind Jotter for ho purposo of making somo nrrangoment o9 to tho plnca nud mannor of poyment, whothor by draft or otherwino, Aftor n long tiino I got his roply, which doveloped hia dishoncuty. o+ .+ . Youra respeot- tully, TrioMAS J. DRAKE, Tho United Btates have not boon fortunato in tho neloction of mon who Lisve bieon sont to Utah 28 Judges. With a fow honorablo oxcoptions, tho men appointed to theso judicial officcs have boon disgracoful fn thoir porsonal na woll ag in thelr judiclal lives, and it ia not the loss ro- marksble thay among thoso consplonous for thoir porscoution of the sinful Mormons havo beou also tho most consplcuous rmong tho roprobates who Linvo dishonorod the bench and havo lod dograded lives porsonally. Thore is much truth in tho langusgo of tho Salt Lako paper, When commonting upon thia suit it says: **Theso are tho mon that hiave o holy mission to oxpose and uproot Mormonism—theso piro, lionost, high-minded, honorable Judgos, ouo of whom fott e could dono loss off tho bench than threaton to lisve mon shot in o ‘quiet and Christian-llke mauner,’ a8 & gort of post-prandial diversion.” Sreo— e NOTES AND OPINION, “Tronsuror Bpinnor declines to farnish tho namen of Congrossmen who dosire to remain in public lifo, as roquested by tho editor of tho Rock Island Argus, but, in his answer, under dato of April 19, says: I have no objoction to staling, for your information, tho nmaunt of back pay that has beai1_roturned to th Tressury, which o, 1o thiu date, $77,757.77; but, as n considesnble portion of this amoiint kas ot retirned by Honntors aud membera who Lave requeated that o publicity bo given Lo tho matter, I do not feel at Uberty to furaish {heir vamos, All right ; tho people con walk. Dub just mind, now, it any Benator or Represontativo atays in Congresn longer than his prosont torm, without proof of tho deposit of money, on ‘*extra poy " nccount (back pay and future pay), in tho Trensury of tho United States. Let the fund accumulato under the ban of * no pub- licity,” 'Tho peoplo can weit as long as thoir sorvants can. —A lotter from Warren, Ttumball County, 0., to the Cloveland Leader, says ¢ Gen, Gerfleld was in tho city (bo foro partof the week, Mo ngsumies tho position {hat, if the pooplo do- mand hir a5 a sacrificato_appesso their wrath on tho salary-steal, thoy ought clso, in {nstico, to call an Gen, Grarit to know why ho signed tho bill, 2nd not, in thofr hnate, uek tho losser in tho affunso Lo be racritlead, T glvea'our city papers n lotter kotting forth his positton, which will appear iu their noxt issue, ~The Grand Jury at Dea Moines, Ta., has ro- fused to indict ex-Stato Tressurer Rankin fora stoal of $60,000, which Lo confossos, whoroupon thio Kookuk Constitution yemarks : 1t Raukin kad been on obscuro poor man, and stolen n horagworth §20, and Lud conferced Lig guilt, docs onybody bellvo thie Grand Jury would biavo refuted to fudict lim ? Dut ko {82 promiuent politician, ond & formur Tressuror of tho Blate; thorefora Lo’ could cownmit perjury by violating his ofiicial onth and sleal £10,000 withi impupity, The Lord doliver {ho peopla froin auch shum-—cailed Ropublican government. —Gov. Kollogg's tax-gnthoror bag called on the New Orleans Picayune to put up £2,800 or shut up. That's tho law in Louislana, —Wao are glad to quoto from Congrossman ZEllis H. Roborts’ nowspaper, tho Utiea Herald, 80 truo a remark o thig: **Thoronover was bo- foro such n gorty timo for corruptionists.” ~—Tho Toledo Commercialmakes an snnounce~ ment which will ho positively out of date efter this year, and is hazardous even now, viz : Among the candidatea wheso names will bo presented to the Stato Ropublican Convention for the nominas tion to tho Attorney-Generalsllp, mention s mado of J, L'H, Long, Esq, of Putnam Couuty, and-at present Vico-Prosident and Cbief Engineer’of tha Nowark, Deluwaro & Northwentern Rallwny, o stands high, Doth a8 o lawyer and railrosd man, —Tho ovagion of their fairshare of taxes is ono of the worst ovils of theso groat corpora« tions, and they have aggravated it by such opon defienco of all appsersnce of docency or fairnesy that they lave little rosson to wonderaf the genoral hostility which is_ dovoloping itself agmust thom—Indianapolis Jowrnal. '—Tho New York Z2%mes declares thnt tho Re- ublicans in Connecticut have *moro than held hoir own.” It is the caso with too many Re- publicans overywhore. Put it in convoniont stealing distance of thom, and thoy will aiways hold more than thelr own.—Zouisville Courier- Jowrnal. y —An aristooracy is to bo builded at the ox- pongo of tho people, und tho first stop is to give our royal rulors princely stipends, IF.tho Philn- delphia platform had declared salarios » necessily, and goue into the eampaign on that issuo, oven tho frauds in North Carolina aud_ Ponusyfvania would bave beon without avail in cou{iuuing tho Governmontin tho hands of tho dishonest cormorants who now_conduct our nationnl affaire.—St. Paul (Alinn.) Dispatch. —7The idos of ‘imying guch men as Morton, Chaundlar, Amen, Clayton, Logan, and othors in tho Unitod Btatos Honate, £55 por day for their sorvices during tho actual soksions, whon it in known that Wobstor, Clay, Douton, Wright, Bu- chanan, Adams, Corvin, Ohase, Douglas, ' Cal- houn, and mon of brains, rocoived bub 8, is simply vidienlous, If it {5 honest to pay theso ricos for tho legielators of to-day, then the nn~ ?ian is in debt to tho doscondants of the men named above, who sorved thoir country bofora the corruntionists camo into power.—New Alba- ny (Ind.) Ledger. —In solecting Repreacntatives to tho noxt Oongrees, tho pooplo must sco to it tat nono who proyed frithloss in the ** back-pay " job aro sent back. Tho people want men in . Congross of back-bone, possossing courage to fight for tho right or to resiat tho tomptations .of & bribo,~ South Dend Union. —Tho porty must bo purified. To go “on re- ardloss of whet has happened, will vosult in cor- glin and suro defeat. thioyes, and thoso who scok an o[;fmrtuulty to steal, Houncst mon everywlero will desort tho standnrd, and overy effort to xally tho rank and 1Hlo will bo uttorly fruitloss.—Monroe (Wis.) Re- publican. —\Woaro indebted to the Troy Times for o little frosh Hluminntion ou g rather hazy “ro- form,” Tt remarks: *Tho Prosidont will not purronder his constitutional prorogatives to othors, nor will hoe et aside tho considoration of party sorvico altogother, in tho mattor of ap- ointments to ofiico. While ho can find Repub- {oans wlho nre competent to fill positions undor his Adminiatration, Lo will not go out of his wa to seok for others. A true roform of tho Civi Borvico doos not ra(}ulru nuch an exhibitlon of ingratitude to political frlends o maguunitaity to politicnl foos.” My, Curtis will please vend this and blush for his unreasonablo and ungrate- ful bobavior,—Springfield Republican. . —Now thut Bonator Moriill hies dono tho most raiaoworly ack ou Lis record—givou tha excels I‘nnt Stato of Vormont sovorzl thousand dollara of hia own gtolon mongy—tiho Hprlu’iflold Repub- lican unkindly punchies his hoad. Tho newspn- por is not acquainted with tho man ; that i the yonble. It docs not know how impossiblo it is for him to cut It fine ax to tho strict right of the mattor, to soo any differenco between that monoy and his other monoy, or to take decided action Iu any ovent,— [Yoodstock Post, —Tho Boston Post thinks that Mr, Adam's ad- drons on Mr, Boward *can bo rogarded only asa violent political ossay, rathor than tho dispas-, sionate survey of a notable life.” —Burely nobody would Lo willing topay £0,000 for the privilega of aftonding the Vienns Lix- vosition evon with en oflloial position, when in Ponnsylvania threo Sonators—two of thom membors of n conunittoo croated to confer upon oints of difforonce betwoon tho Bonnto and the Tousa—can cunningly thrust a now soction (whiol had not boon a point between the Houses at all) futo tho Lilt, providing thst cach of them shall have £3,000 out of the Binto 'T'rensvry to l}l‘y rllmh- way to Viounn and back,—Pillsburgh ost, —Undoubtodly thore s no Government in Louislaus, actual or pretendod, thut is entitled to tho rospact of tha peopls, ulthough there he a8 many prolondors sy to the Government of Trance, ‘Tho politics of thut unluppy Stato, on Loth sldes, aro s maess of reoking corruption. Thio Presidont 18 in tho_uncomfortable position thnt ho wlll bo obliged to Intorforo, and what- ovor ho doon will bo uot from contidonco in oithor Govornment, but from tho nocesaty of presery- iog the poaoco, and will bo suro to bo misiopre- sontad,—Frovidence (£, 1) Journal this incresse of | fobody will follow but ' MIKE'S REVENGE. How Mr. L3 Dischorged Coache man “Got Evemn,” An Entorteining but Unusual Scone on Calumet Avonue, In aclecting hia coachman, & man shonld bo as caroful ag in tho purchase of a horss, The conchman must hiavo many virtuos and fow vices, Abovo all things, lok him bo stupid sud good- notured, rather than shrowd and vindletive, A conchraan is o dangorous thing. If Lo is young snd good-looking he will slopo with his omploy- or's daughtor; if ho is atrong and lusty ho will mash the horses to jolly aud tha carrlagn inta tho minutost partiolos kuown to analytienl scts onco. If ho iy sowor he will demand highor ‘wages, and if ho Is drunkon by habit ho will— - what will honot do? Ono cannot bo too earoful in tho seloction of & coachman, or too vigilant in watching him when ho is hired. A noat quarto volume might bo writton on "The conoh mon, hls vicos, weaknessos, and poouliar- Ities,” by any one who owned w #pan of valuablo nags. Wo hiavo not spaco to dovots to all tho poculinritios of this extraordinary bi pod, and will theroforo contont tho roader with a Littlo story about n conchman, Mr. L. is o wonltly morchont in this oity, Emud of himsolf, Lis oxcollont family, and bhis ~ orsos. ITe knowa a good horao, but cannot toll 8 good horse-keopor, probnblg bocause thore is a wide mm-rm botwoon o good and a bad horae, and very llitlo Lutwoon o good and a bad conohr. man. If ho thought 5o, 110 wns about right. Ho hired a coachmen” of Mileslan oxtraction, and poid him good wages. Mike, for that was his namo, was smar, aclive, and attontive to his chargen, aud Mr. L. hnd no fault {o find, In fact, ha bogan to grow Juut n triflo proud of ke conch™ man, congratulating himself on his engecity in solocting 80 good o man_to tako caro of the s ok a ol ago it was not o week ago that o friond who had “lonrned too Into {hat men botray,” capocially conclimen, was dicussing matters with him in a goneral way, and askod him how o liked Miko Dir. L, xopponded {hat Miko was a firat-rate concliman, livaly, active, and inclined to work. In fact, Mike was n jowel of a hoy, and ho osged ho was about s good me thoy made of Liat stoclk. Tho friend waa charmed to heor thin nows, bo- cauno when diko worked for him he waulike many other coachmen of thnt stock. He wag more fond of whisky ihan work, and whon ptimulated with corn-juico was not liko tho good man in tho pealm, for ho was not ““morciful to his benst.” On the contrary, ho was Drutally cruol, and sbused his nuperloru, oquine aud human, unnccessarily. So common becamo this abuse, and so frequent his oxconsive stimulation, that Lo, tho speakor, hind discharged bim, DMiko took revengo for this wikindnous by Exena!ng tho upliolstery of his earriago in & most iboral and .artistic_manner, aud thus got oven. Mr. L. thought Miko was not such a good concliman, af(or oll. And, ns s matter of fact, ‘e did suepect him of occnulaunl\x‘ imbibing with moro freedom than diserotion, And, coming to think, ho wnan't fit to bo conchman in hiz family, ‘When Mike obtnined his fest installmout of wages b celehrated that glorious ovont by an Jgnoblo drunk, and _was_promptly discharged from L.'o sorvico. Now Mike was an gontlon porson ag ovar livad—so long.os o had all ho wanted and could got more,~but, liko othors of Lis closs, was an troacherons end vindielivo as tho untutéred Madoe, On tho day following hia diechargo, Miclinl, filled with algoholio ardor, presontod his fragrant_porson at Mr. L.'s houso on Calumet nvonuo end raiged n commotion. He cursed and gyoro, and tho broguo was vory rich and raoy. Sowas his Janguage, to a Bridgport ear. Mro, L., howover, Dbocama nlarmod, ond sont for hor husband, who camo home as mpidly ns ho could, Uringing with him two men from {20 oltics, Tiadl IE the Milogian Lioro on 1is propuises. Dire L. dolibarately ejocted him, Bichusl waw vorysbrave, liowover, and ro~ mained round the'premises, until it becamo noo~ essary-to call in the nid of two policomen who wore dotniled to watch tho houro. Michaol's courago wilted at sight of fwo sulstontial clubs, and hio changed Lis bnao of operations, He wont to the moruing paper oflices und caused an. advertisoment to bo inserted requesting any por son who had found r dog to Lring it down to Mr, L.'s rosidonco and cluim areward, The congos quonco of this adroit proceeding was oxcoeds ingly ludicrous. Whon Mr, L. .came down to ‘breskfast he was encountored by ten or a dozon women, boys, and men, each lerdiog by astring ono or moro yellow dogs. Ilo romoustrated against tho_introduction of yollow dogs to Lis houses hold, but * shure an' it was in tho papers,” sud similar oxplauntions was all tho satisfaction 1o could obtain. As ho drove awny the firab batch, more came in, until thirty or moro Colts, with fhroo times thiné number of yollow dogs, hdd boon turnod awey, A ib bocamo apparont to the finders of tho fu]low dogs that Mr, L, was tho victim of o practical joke, they grew boistor- ous and derisive, nud the uufortunate merchant was compolled to go down to lus office without Droaking bis fast, dotormined horeafter that the words “ Gorman or Scandinavian proforred” slbould be his motto in hiring o coachman, But his troubles were not yet atan end. The Joss of his breakiast brought Lim Lome hungry tolunch. On nearing his houso, tho first thing that mot his sstonishod gaze was an cnormous tlo of shinvings, nud & fow foot OF o gigautia lozd of etras. Tho neighbors looked at lim in blank surpriso, "Thoy suppoeed o had suddonly Roue crazy, aud was preparing for a grand conflu~ gration; ‘or, porhoaps, Il’uul forever foremwarn Toathor-beds, oud would Loncofortls slaop in olean sbavings and frosh straw. Mis nnmz look counfrmed the popular supposition, an oor Mr. » wag immodiately booked or Jacksonville. s tempor did not improve at the sight of twolvo dozen live ducks flopping noisily about in the yard, snd quacking constor- nation at thoir ridiculous predicamont, He walked hurriedly to tho house, nud nt tho base- mont door found & man insisting on loaving 40 Ymmd! of cod-fish at tho door, and rofusing to isten to any denial of Lis right to do so. He ran up-stairs to Inquire of Alre, L. what new stroak of insanily had neized the houso, whon he was confronted with tho question, “What in tho name of cowmmon Bensa possessed you to sond all theso peoplo Lioro P A peal of laughter oxplained tho situation, It was Miko's doing, Ho hnd bden round toall Mr. L.’ tradesmon and ordered them to send round %aada, of which the ducks, straw, nlmviufl:, and codfish were but tho firsb installmonts, He liad also callod ot overy employment ofilce jn tho city and loft nn order for two men ond two womon to cell immediately nt M, L.'s houso. And throughout the whole aftornoon they con-- tinued to arrive. Mr. L. thought the thing was good enongh for- n.]n'u(rnomd joko, but thore was puch o thing as: o limit even to n good thing, and applied to &. Inwyor for advico. Ho told Lho story to the at= torney, who roured with laughtor over tho dis~ mal rooital, and whon neled for instruotions ro- pliod that A1, L. could lawfully shoot Milio it ho ventured on his premises, but advisod him to Tiiro tho raseal over again, Which oxplaing the introductory remarks with which this nurraiive was commoneed, —_— The Hop Crop. - Baninoo, Wis, April 23.—Somowhat oxag- orated rumors a8 to tho failure of the hop crop n the Woastorn Siates, (anlinulnrly in Wisconsin, having boou published in tho Enstern trado pross, it may Do woll to say that it fs ns yot too ‘early to dotermino with precision tho stato of af- fairs, Local roposta are vory contradictory, That Bomo damago has been dono by tho unusually low and sovore weather it is impossible to doubt, The old yards that have thus far boen examined have #ll suffored, somo saverely; the now onaa, and thoso coverd by manuro st fall hayo faro muchibottor, and are, ;iuum-nlly bolieved, to bo all right, From Pootoviilo, Mr.” Campboll roporta only ono piant killed in' ten ncves, half of which woro old vincg, 'Tho goneral conclusion mrived ot is that tho presout alaym is promature and al- mosat cortain to prove oxcessive —_———— A uad Afinir. Speeial iy to T Chicago Tribune, Rocrronp, April 24.—The villago of Rlockton, abont twelyo miles from hero, up tho tivor, i somewhat oxeitod ovor tho attemptad suloldo of s Mrs, Lempman, under the following clrcum= atances : ‘'t fathor of Mra, Tampman, ono Davis, wag takon ill and sent for his daughtoer Lo nureo him, Mr, Lampman objeclod, not boing on good torms with tho old ‘man, Nolwithstanding the objactlon, Mra, Lampman wont, loaving hor hus- band, who, it 1s said, thereupon told horuot io como back, My, anpmnulllxomuuml rogardod 1ifo a8 & blanlk, and sought comfort and consola- tion in an cnormens dosa of oroton oil. Bho i3 nowapoechloss and just nlive. Doath is oxpooted at any moment, ok N S W A Murdefer Surronilers, Tosrox, April 24, —Naxk Boothby, who killed: hiu wifo in Edgowood youterday, hag surrenderod totho auumlt%