Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 9, 1873, Page 4

YIIE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JU v, 8. e e TERMS OF THE THIBUNE. 5 ;rn;‘u- ovflmnwmrflnn (VAYABLR IN ADVANGE). aily, by . Dokt SR | oy Partsof a th o provont dolay and mistakes, bo surs and pive Post Of coaddrons in full, {ncluding Bfato and County, Ramittances may bo mado oithor bydratt, axpross, Post Oftico oxder, or in reaistored lottars, at our risk, TERME TO CITY BUDECRIDERS. Dally, dellverod, Bundny oxcoptod, 25 conte por waek, Daily, dolivored, Sunday includod, 80 conts por wook. Address TILE TRIBUNE OOMPANY, Caruer Madison and Dearborn. Chiosgo, 1l TO'DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, HOOLRY'S THEATRE-Randolph Dlarkand Laallo, ** Miriam's Orimo, tlo Savage,’ t, bety U MOVIOKER'S THEATRE—Mndison stroot, batwoon Doarborn and Stato. 'Tha ICatia Putnsim Troupo. “*Bot; or Through Firo and Wator.," AOADEMY OF MUSIO —Hnlsted stract, botwoon MASHon and Monro. Hontrd Comints Corabiantion: MYERS' OPERA_HQUSK-— trgot, Letwoon BIMtS 820 Denrbra. Moran & Menafasts. Binsirols: BUSINESS NOTICES. T POWDER IS USED BY ALL otels, andl rostaurants, for cloaring , worus, nnd T.YON'S IN: TOYAL HAVANA ~LOTTERY—WE BOLD IN o A0, . Ulronl: ettt ARl o 00 8 i BT 16 Walk-st. “ . O, Box 468, Now York. 8 AND LIVEILJAPANESE por jar, 820 curronoy: Japanoso Livor %) curroncy. Ono ‘jar sulticiont to _oura eithor » mndjenity. Roglitoe your lotters. G, A. MOL: AU, 431 Dupantsi., San Francisco, Cal., Solo Agont r Noith Amurica, The Thivage Tibune. Monday Morning, Juno 0, 1873, TDNEY. D Pills, por v, diros o L 1o According to the Intest figures, Craig’s major- Ities foot up’ 4,404; Judge Lawronco's, 1,767, Thin givos Cralg n not majority of 3,640, Tho Constituent Cortes, in accordance with Prosidont Figueras' proposnl, hoa roplaced the Provisional Government of Spain by the proclu- mation of tho Fedoral Republic. Thoro wore but two diesonting votes Momphis roports twenty-two doaths from cholora, but clnima that this is no greater than ita usunl ravages ot this sosson. Naghville has beon badly frightonsd over a daily aversge of soven deaths from tho samo disenso, but belioves that tho worst is over. The Republican troops in the Province of Bar- cclora have broken into opon revolt at Igualava. Gon, Velardo, holpless to reduce them to sub- jection, was compelled to fly to save his life, and hos resigned his commission. A strong dotach- mont of Governmeont troops has boen sent to tho acene of disorder. B, Tho farmers of Richland County, Ohlo, held s Convention on Saturday. Resolutions were sub- mitted denouncing the railroad, salary, land, tariff, and all the other stesls of tho day, and doclaring that both our political partios wore corrupt and unworthy of confidonco. Tho Ad- ministration men made & bitter fight ngainst tho ‘passage of any such resolutions, and worc ablo to postpona thoir adoption. Without taking any action, the Conveation ad- journed to moot again on the 23d inat. A comparison of Thiers’ last specch in tho National Assombly with tho utterances of Mac- Nabon shows that thoy both agree in tho aim of their administrations. Franco, Thiers said, wanted a Government which should sternly ro- pross all intornal commotions and froe its terri- tory from tho presence of tho Gorman -invader, and needed no foroign alliance boyond the zespoct of other nations. DPresident Mac- DMahonholds tho same views asto foreign and do meatio policy, and hns taken pains to inform the world that ho has succeeded Thiors only because of & disagreomont botwoon tho ex-Prosident and tho Assombly concerning the means by which Tranco is to be guided to theso onds. ————— Tho Elkhorn bridge on the Unfon Pacific Rail- rond broke down under n passonger train yoster- day, and tho engino and tho mail, express, and baggago cars wore thrown into tho river. But ono lifd wne lost. One of the wracked cars wns loaded with 80,000 live young floh in tanks, whoso traneit throngh this city was mnoticed tho other day. They weroof o dozen difforent varieties, and ‘woro consignod to the Colifornia Fish Assacia- tion, to bo uged in the pisciculturo of the Pa- cific Const, This unusual freight Lad beon ‘brought all the way in safety from Charlostown, Masa., ouly to be thus precipitatoly returned to its nativo clomont in the rivers of Nobraska, The merchents of Chicago, many of whom, for somo incomprohonsible reason, failed to por- coivo the dritt of tho controversy on the rail~ rond quostion in tho recont scssion of the Logis- Tnture, or to tako any intorost in the disoussion whilo the matter was pending, Lave just bogun to diccover that somothing is tho matter. A heavy soap-menufacturor of this city, who has heretoforo hiad a profituble market for his soap in Pooria nud the surrounding country, suddonly finds himsdl! without o market in that city. Ilo can't ship by rail at a profit, and ho can't ship by canal becauso 1t takes too long. Whethor _tho consumors of #osp in the noighborhood of Peorin can seo thelr advantago in it may also bo doubted, Tho Chicago produce markets were quiet on Snturday, oxcopt whoat and onts. Mous pork was dulland stendy, at §15.50@16.65 cash, and £15.80@15.85 seller July, Lard was quict and a shado firmor, at $8.35 pox 100 1bs cash, and $8.60 soller July, Moats wore quict and unchanged, at 63@C0}c for shouldors, 824@8%{c for short ribs, 8%@8)¢c for short clonr, and 10@12 for swoat-pickled hams, Ilighwines were quict and unchanged, at 900 por gallon, Lake freights wero dull and lc lower, at Go for corn to Bulalo. Flour was dull and easier, Wheat was cxclté:] and 3chighor, but closed weak, at 1.243¢ cash, and 281.213¢ sellor July, Corn was quiot and }e ligher, cloging at 843¢{@847¢o cash, and 87)6@380 wollor July. Oata wore notive aud Xo highor, closing nt 28o casl, and 20%@29360 sellor July, Ryeo waas dull and ensler at Glo. Barley was fuactivo and nominal at 68@780 for poor to good No. 2. Ilogs wore active and ad- vanced @100, cloging firm at $4.00@4.85. Tho cattle and sheop markets wero quict and un- changed. —— ‘The Chicago Z%mes has ecen fit, oditorially and othorwise, to irdulge in some very able- hodied blackgunrdism becauso of an annoying arror which appoared in Tue TRIDUNE, with rof- orencoe to ono of the Jubiles concerts, by which » criticism of tho overturo to “‘Tannhausor" was printed ingtead of tho ovorture to ** Willlam Toll,"” whioh was in reality performed. As the pamo error ocourrod in tho Times of tho samo day, it would have boon more consistent for that gopor to have rosorved its abuso for its own oritio, and not to abuse othors for committing an error which it mado itsolf, With roforonco to tho manner in which tho error ocourred in Tnr Tminuxg, wo tiso to ox- plain. The writer of the paragraph in quoation was presont on Thuraday morning, when tho ovorture to ‘'Tannhausor” waa xelonrsed. It wont very badly, go badly that Mr. Gilmoro worked upon it for a long time, and, as it ovon- tuntod, vory properlyout it from tho programme. Tho writor took Eomo notos of the rehonrsal, also of the two ruccoeding concerts, on tho samo slip of papor. At night, in the hurry snd con- fusion of writing his articlo, the writer trana- forred from his notes tho commonts upon “Tannhauser,” ovorlooking tho substitution. ‘Wo Hopo thoe Times hns an oxouso oqually good. THE OASE OF JUDGE LAWRENCE AGAIN. An idea scoms to prevail In the Fifth Judiolal Distriot of Illinols, and in somo other places, that [f Judgos can bo alectod to doclaro tho law to bo differont from what it s, the poor man will presently bo in & much bottor position than ho was boforo, whilo the rich, and espocially rich corporationg, will bo provided with o much- nooded ourb to chook thoir grasping tondenclos. Wo do not percolvo In this widoly-provalont do- lusion any Communistic notions, for it is cnsy to sco’ that those who have tnken it up would bo among the fret to suffor from o rodistribution of property, They aro, for tho most part, fore-handed porsons— thoso who have savoed somothing: who havo ac- quired farme, horsos, cattlo, imploments, oto., and who could as little afford to divido their ac- cumulations with thoso who have saved nothing 25 conld A. T\ Btowart or Commodoro Vandor- bilt. In faot, thoy conld less afford it, bocauso it Stowart and Vandorbilt wore turned into tho stroot to~day with only ton dollars aploco, tholr exporionce, prudence, and skill (which are not subjeot to arbitrary divislon) would soon put thom in bottor positions than tho average. Henco wo say that the motives and impwlses which led to the dofeat of Judm? Loawrence , on account of o dacieion obnoxious to ignorant projudice were not of a Communistic sort, although thoy havo somo resomblanco thereto. Tho notion is, that if tho admintstration of justico can bo overturned, or uqha:dlx{utodm tho deorees of a town mooting (which is tho samo thing), then tho” millonnium of the poor man will come in—tho poor man be- ing dlways in tho majority. Ivmay bothat thia vicions and uncivilized notion will run its course until cured by contact and collision with one remarkable fact, viz., that Inw and jurlsprudenco wore invented to protoct tho poor against the rich, the strong ogalost tho weak, tho ignorant againet tho cunning; that civilization con- sists in nothing olso then in furnishing to tho poor, tho weak, aud tho ignorant the sams edvantages legally which are posscssed by tho rich, tho strong, and tho cunning naturally. In tho timos when man was little more civilized than tho gorilla, Mr, Darwin tells us that thero was o struggle for oxistonco, and that tho stronger and more perfeet specimons of tho raco crushied out tho weaker and loss porfoct. Itwaa not necessary for Mr. Darwin to toll ua this, for tho globo is covorad with tho proofs of it, writton and unwritten. Those wero the days when might ‘mado right, #Ero human statute purg'd tho goneral weal.” ‘Whatever progross mankind has made from o envago state has beon accomplished by substi- tuting law for might, and putting into tho hands of the humblest and weakaest suitablo snd sufil- clent machinery to obtain justico from the pow- erful and unscrupulous, wheresoover his rights are infringed upon. In tho course of ages thero has grown up, in pursuance of this com- ‘mon movemont of mankind, o code known as the common Jaw. This is the code which a Ghicago newspapor declares is unsuited to tho pooplo of Illinojs, beesuse it is “an outgrowth of monorchical institutions”! This is the codo, for thorough knowledgo and impar- tinl odminietration of winch Judge Law- rence has beon driven from tho Dench. It boappons that o confidontial attor- ney of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad—one who Laa hold that relation for ten yoars consecutively—has boon substituted in his place. And here wo. find an illustration of the point with which wo began this articlo—that whon in the course of human ovents itis deemed necossary to overturn law and to substitute the decroes of town mectings for tho declsions of courts, the rich and powerful will tako care of thomselves, while the poor and ignorant will - not bo tsken care of at all There is no fear (hat any man possoss- ing o hundred thousand dollars will not bo woll protected under such & rogime. All his rights will be secure. Ho will attond to that himself. To peddle decisions for votea is no worso than to peddlo them for monoy. Doth involve porjury. DBoth require that tho Judge shall ‘violate tho outh which he takes to ‘deal justly and impartislly. To un- derstand how the community wounld be situatod in euch n case, just fancy that all laws and courta woro abolishod—for that is what is moant by electing Judges to docido this way or that way, according to tho real or supposed wishos of the majority. It would bo much cheapor to abolish tho lawe and courts at once, for that would envo tho ealarios of tho Judges, and would como to the samo thing in the end, The laws and courts boing nbolished, who is most likely to suffer ? 'The rich can hire protection, the strong can protect thom-~ selves, tho cunning can ovade injury, while tho groat maug of tho peoplo must suffor overy spo- cles of wrong and injury against which tho Inw now shields thom, and on account of which law and ita administration have boon toilsomoly wrought out during forty conturicsof the world's history. Tho vory last to suffor from tho abol- ishmont of laws and courts will bo the “mam- moth corporations,” whoso accumulated capital, armies of servauts, diecipline, and ndroitness of managomont will always securo to thom all that thoy oro ontitled to iu any coudition of socloty whora it is possiblo for tho mass of mankind to maintain an oxistonco, There is o rumor among tho legal profossion of this olty that tho SBupromo Judges hinvo ro- vived tho notion of resigning which some of them sorfously contomplatod at the time Judge ‘hornton withdrow from the Deuch. Tho reason for this rumored action is matorlally tho samp as that which prompted its considoration in the flrst instanco, strongthonod by the maunor in which Judge Lawronco was defeatod, and the nocossary {nforonce that & Judge must pandor to tho popu- lar oxcltoment of tho timo if ho desires to rotain bis position on tho Bench, Tho rosignation of tho Buprome Judges, or any numbor of them, at this tlme, would bo a more serious disaster than tho dofost of Judgo Lawrenco, snd almost o breach of falth with thoso who have no sympathy with tho popu- lar rogo of tho moment, and who look to tho Su- premo Court to proteot tho intorests of tho poo- ploovon against thotr own misguided conduct. Tho oloction of Mr. Cralg in no wiso joopardizos tho usofulness of tho Buprome Bench, for, even if it shall prove that ho nocepts hin olection in tha spirit of o class-ngont, tho Court, which was Leforo unanimously opposod to tho rocoguition of clasg-domands, will have o minority consist- ing of only ono mombor opposod fo It. The olaction of Mr, Soholfleld in Judge Thornton's placo in simply tho substitution of one good man and ablo lawyer for anothor. On the othor hand, the rosignation of tho remnin- ing BSuprome Judgos would be to take awny tho only practiesl opposition to the prosont wild purpose of *‘rovorsing” tho Su- premo Court, and to give tho fanatics who inmat upon this oreed full sdopo to work out their short-sighted folly, It would bo tho fruition of tho insano movement which has resulted in the dofent of Judgo Lawrenco, and which has noth- ing whatover to do with tho farmore’ fight againat monopoly. Wo do not boliove that tho Bupromo Judgos are propared to take so porious s respon- eibility upon tholr shoulderans wouldbo involved In tholr resignation at tho presont timo. They owo a duty to tho poople oven in spito of popu- lar abuso, and thoy must not botray tho Judiclary of tho Btato into the hands of demagogues, which thoy would bo likely todo by resigning now, THE FATE OF THE MODOC ASSASSINS. Under tho olear and well-writton opinlon of Attorney-Goneral Willlams, which is published olsowhoro in this fssuo, thero 'is no doubt that tho Modoc murderors of Gen. Oanby snd Mr, Thomas will bo brought to a spoody trisl befora o military commission, and ecntonced to bo hanged. Gen. Davis has alrendy indfeatod his conviction of tho nocoesity of proceeding in this way, in order to impress upon the hostilo Indi- ang everywhore that thoy may not with impunity break faith and commit murdor ; and, now that tho logal dopartment of tho Governmont has: clearly domonstrated his right to try Capt. Jack and his murderous companions without farthor formality, tho Indian sentimentalists will scarco- 1y bo ablo to dofoat his policy. Therocan bo no rensogable doubt that the United Btates Governmont has full authority to aet In the caso of tho captured Modoos just s it would bo justificd in troating a foroign foo undor tho eamo circumstances. The privilogo demanded by tho various Indian tribes, that they shall bo rogarded as ecparate nations, has always beon conceded by tho United Btates Government. ‘The powoer of making troatios has been accorded to them, and it {8 in this shape that all agroe- ments betweon thom and the Government have boon mude. They have nssumed the war-mak- ing power, and, from time to timo, have organ- izod ware ngainst thoe United Btatos of long duration and bloody results, On these grounds thoro could be no other way of donling with the Indians than ac- cordipg to tho usages of civilized war- fare, which conatitute a common law of nations ponding hostilities. It is a declaved principle of martial Iaw that a prisoner of war romalns an- aworable, aftor his capture, for crimes committed ‘bofora his capture, and, under this rulo, Jack and his assoclates in tho murder of Canby and Thomas aro answerablo to military authority, ' and not to the local civil law which is suspondoed during a war., Attornoy-Gonoral Willinms is of tho opinion that the Modocs should bo tried [ bofore & military commission instead of o court-martial, 0s their crime doos not como under the military statutes but under tho common law of war. IIo cites as procedonts tho trinl of Moxican officors boforo o military commission during the Moxican War, when they had broken parole; the trial and exceution of Wirz for his barbarous troatment of Union prisoners at Andersonville ; and tho hanging of tho assnssing of Prosident Lincoln under con- viction by a similar tribunal. Tho crimo com- mitted by Jack and his followors—tlio assaseina~ tion of the boarors of a flag of truce—ia proporly regarded as ono of tho most horrible known to the law of war, and it naturally comes under tho summary jurisdiotion of & military commission. ‘The opinion of Attornoy-General Willlams is timolyand important. ‘Thero is little doubt that tho Indinn sontimentalists of tho Intorior Dopart- ment would have mado an effort to interceds in Dehalf of tho Modoc assassing if they had been turned over to tho clvil suthorities, Thelr ac- tion in the cuscs of Batanta and Big I'reo has nlready indieatod the oxtont to which this class of persona will carry thoir mockery of morcy. Tu the hands of a military commission tho coun- try may feol cortain that Jack and his compan- lons will mect thoir just doom ; and, as ¥ndians Lavo a special qud wholesomo dread of hanging, tho oxccution of theso wretches. will probably accomplish moro In the intorest of frontior ponce than many rogimonts of goldiers and hosts of Indian Agents THE “*CREATURE” AND THE ‘‘OREATOR.” A correspoudent aska of Turx TRIDUNE somo information in regard to tho rolations of *cren~ ture" and “croator,” which have formed the staplo of tho rosolutions passed by numorous farmors' moetings, and applied to chartors issued by tho Stato to vartous railroad corporations. Tho cnso of tho Alton & Bt. Louis Railroad is ono in point. Under the charter granted by tho Stato of Illinois, this rond is authorized to fix its own rates of froight and passonger transpor- tation. Bomo yoars aftor granting this privilego, tho Btato passos o law under which 18 presented a cortain uniform and fixed rate for all tho rafl- rouds lying within Illinols, end domands thet tho Alton & Bt. Louls Railrond shall conform to it, Tho Rallroad Company seta up the contract undor its charter that it shall be pormitted to establish its own rates, and rofusea to surrondor the priviloge. Tho Supremo Court holds that this contract is valid, and that the Alton & Bt. Louls Rallroud may reslat tho arbi- trary infringomont of the Stato Legislature, and contlnuo to fix its own ratos #o long as it doos not transgross tho principle of common law which domands that ratos of transportation shall bo roagonablo, aud that thero shall bo no unjnst disorimination, T'heroupon tho farmers pro- coed doliboratoly to ‘‘rovorse™ the Bupromo Court on the ground that tho Rallrond Company is tho croature of the State, and that “ the crea~ turo oan in no caso bo suporior to tho croator,” This {8 tho doctrine of sccossion, It ia pro- cisoly the samo principlo which the Bouthorn Btates applied to domonstrate tholr right to withdraw from tho Unlon, Thoy held that tho Qonoral Government—tho creature—could not bo suporior to tho Btates—tho orontor; and that tho Btates could not delogato to the Contral Govornment powors which they had not the right to roeall. When the General Govornment bogan to assumo a shapo which was unsatlaface tory to thom, they proposed to oxorclso lhglr rights ns crentor, and sot up anothor Gonoral Govornment which suited them boetter, This was tho justificntion for socosston. Tho doetrino found many boliovors, Tho majorlty of thooit- zons of oloven States gavo in tholr adheronce to it, and belleved in it so roliglously that thoy toolc up arme In tho causo, contended for thoir ns- sumed right florcoly for four yoars, and sacrl- ficed tholr proporty, thoir homes, and tholr lives to’entablish tho thoory that ¢ the cronturo csn in 1o easn bo suporlor to tho croator.” Ab that timo, howovor, and ag applied to tho Tight of o Stato Govornmont to rocall tho powors it had dolegated to tho Fedoral Govornment, tho farm- ors of tho North and tho Northwost had no sym- pathy with thoso rolations of creature and ore- ator which thoy mow sdvoonto, Thoy woro among tho rondiost to respond to tho call of the Podoral Govornment for volunteors to rosist this thoory and to put down its application. Thoy ' rushed * to arms willingly , nnd ongorly to crush ont s fallacy which thoy rightly conaluded would lend to universal anarchy. Thoy mado tho nobless sacrifices in the work of ovorcoming its advocates, and they aro to-day cheortully paying taxes to discharge tho national dobt incurred in dofonse of tho obligation of o contract, by which tho Btatos delogatod ton Cen- tral Govornment cortain authority which & num- bor of thom subsoquontly proposed to rocall. Wo prosumo that no large mumber of the farmers have committod themselves to tho in- consistency and folly of snpporting the doctrine which will Justify sccossion at sny time. Wo profor to think that thoso who have applied the scocssion thoory to tho railroad quostion have dono so unmindful of its truo import. Itis probablo that many of them have taken thoir cun from tho Chiongo Times, which has had o good deal to aoy about * creator” and *creature.’ But thoy must romembor that the Times has nlways advocated the dootrino, and favored its application to tho right of eocossion as woll na tho right of recalling privileges granted away in Btatochartors, Tho T{mes was in oponsympathy with tho scceded States, and nover missod an opportanity during the War to oxtond to them such comfort and ald as it dored to express. But, at that timo, tho farmors woro all ranged on tho other slde, and donounced tho Robal sontimont of tho Times as vigorously as they fought to put down tho Robol army. Tho Zimes is, thoreforo, only following ocut ita nativo instinct in its prosont advocacy of tho dootrino that *tho croaturo can in no case bo superior to the croator,” but the favmers, in adopting it, would forswear thoe loyalty which promptod thom to fight for tho maintonauceof the Federal Gov- ornment, If tho Btato is in all cases groater than that which it brings into being, thonit is in all cases suporior to the Federal Govornment, which waa the product of Btato concosslons. If the farmers hold this to botruo, the danger may prosent iteelf at any timo whon they will bo called upon to ndmit the right of overy Btato -to withdraw from the Union. To tins dangor must bo added another, viz: the invalidi- ty of all contracts at any time whero the princi- pal of the contracting partics moy desire to ab- rogate the agrooment. Itis supreme folly for tho farmers to oxposoe thomsolves to theso dan- gors whon the highest Oourt in tho State do- clarca that tho rallroads, no mattor what their charters may bo, are prohibited under the com- mon law from charging unronsonable rates or making unjust dlscriminations, H . THE RAILROAD QUESTION IN IOWA, Tne Auti-Monopoly Convention whick met ab Des Moines on the 7th inst., composed mainly of furmors and mochanies, will probably exert on important influonce upon politics in Towa. Like tho Livingston County Convention in this Stato, tho Des Moines Convention assumed an ivdepondout attitude, and medo tho proliminary arrangoments for organizing a now party outsido of the two oxisting partios, the atops taken in this dircction being tho ndoption of & resolution to call o State Convention on tho 13th of August, to nominato a county ticket, and to solect delegates to o Stato Convontion ; o Stato Cen- tral Committeo was also appointed. The resolutions which wore adopted sufllciently re- voal the issucs upon which tho anti-monopolists will go into tho noxt campaign. They declare that they will support no man for offico who is not in full accordanco with thelr principles ; that class legislation 18 subvorsivo of Ropublican principles ; that * tho dootrine of vested rights under which railronds claim exemption from logislative control cannot exist without infring- ing on tho rights of people goneral- ly"; and that the glving of ealarics to officors disproportionate to the finan- clal returns of labor in industrial pursuits should bo stopped. The resolationy close with an cmphatic condemnation of the Congressional- salary stoal and of the notion of the Prosident in signing tho bill, and thoy demand its ro- poal. . Most of theso rosolutions touch upon quos- tions which aro of pressing importance, and in- volve reforms which are proper issues in a po~ litical campaign. In altering the rolntions now oxisting botwoon tho railronds and tho Legisla- turo, however, the anti-monopolists should take care lest the romedy prove worse than thedisoaso, Tho Leglslaturo of Illinols hns passed a law making railway charges proportionate to dis- tancos. Somo of the ronds which It affects run to tho Mississippi River, connecting with Towa ronds which wore built with epocial roferencoe to Olicago and other Eastorn markoets. Bay that tho rato of charges in this Btateis 5 conts for 50 miles, thon it will bo 10 conts for 100 miles, 15 conts for 160 miles, and so on. Now, if the Logislature of Iowa adopts n similar line of polioy, what will bo tho result? The rates of frelght will bo go incroased that it will bo abso- Intoly impossible to move froight from tho contre of Tows to Ohicago, or any Eastern point, or to recoiva goods in return. The furthor wost from tho contro tho froight is to bo ehipped tho worso off will the shippors bo. By such an inesno policy, fowa would literally fonco hersolf oft from any market at all. A very largo proportion of hor producers would bo nn- able to raise anything excopt for local consump- tlon. Ronl ostato would defreclato fully one- Lalf, and tho groat cattle and corn raisers in Wontern and Central Towa would find thelr ocou- pation gono, and would discover that, in sceking to xogulato rallronds, they had literally regu- Intod tho businoss of production out of oxist- ouos by cutting thomselves off from a market. Dut, the anti-monopolists will say, if wo can't got to Ohlcago, wo will go to Bt Louls snd Mil- wattkoo, This {8 plauaiblo ; but there is an ob- stacla in the way, Tho Jowa roeds wero bullt chiefly with roforenco to Chicsge snd Now York, not to 8t. Louls or Milwaukee. Practl- cally, thoy have no communication with thoso clties. Thero aro now flve principal roads in Towa, tho Dubuque & Bloux Qity, tho Chicago & Norghwogtorn, tho Ohieago, Rook Island & Pae clflo, tho Ohiengo & Bouthwestorn, and tho Bur- lington & Missouri River, with thelr ro- spootive branch roada or fooders, which aro tributary to Qlleago, Now York, and Boston. Thoso ronds lnvo cost twonty- five or thirty milion dollars, ond Tove roquired many yoars to conatruct, To opon nesr oud sufllclont routos of communioation with Bt. Louls and Milwaukeo, which shall bo ablo to ac+ commodanto tho trado of Yows, Is impracticablo, owing to tho want of capital,—which will bo in no hasto to rush intoa Stato whoro such doo- trinos provail. But supposo that tho trado ls divorted to thoso two oltios. Tho producors of Towa now hiave the advantage of throo compot- ing cition. Tho competition would thon bo nar- rowed down to two, and this narrowing pro- coss would toll agninst tho wholo Stato, while & largo part of Iows would bo dostituto of a market altogethor. Moreover, tho trado diverted to Bt. Louis must got ncross the Btato of Illinols somohow in its course oastwand, and must como in collision with the tho Illinols prorata law., From whatovor standpolnt this quostion i viewed, thoro can bo but ono conclu- slon. The rogulation of the froight tariffs in proportion to distance would in Iows bo suici- dal, and its only result would be to out that Btato, or a largo part of it, off from a market altogothor. If, however, tho anti-monopolists fanoy that tho railronds are infringing upon thotr rights, tho Leglslaturo has the romedy in its own hands, can apply it any time, and might have applied it long ago. Ono of its roads, tho Chicngo, Rock Island & Pacifio, in accopting tho Isnd-grant, voluntarily concoded to tho Logislature tho right to control its freight tarifta, Horo, therofore, is a caso whoro thero is no quostion of vested rights. Tho roadis undor tho absoluto control of tho Logislaturo, and, if thoy want to tost this matter of froights by statute, why don't they commence by regulat- ing froights on tho Chicago, Rook Ieland & Pa~ cifie, which thoy can do &t any timo without violating any vested rights ? This would vir- tually rogulato tho tariffs on tho other four ronds, would satisfactorily test the wholo mattor in controversy, and would save a groat deal of "usolosg gabble. NOTES AND OPI In viow of tho fact that Ohiof Justico Law- ronco, ono of the ablost and most splendid ju- rists that can bo found in tho cntiro nation, hes through n strango and short-sighted caprico of tho poople, been thrown aside to make room for o modiocre,—a man who is_uttorly nnd fearfully incompotont to discharge tho dutics of the high nnd responeiblo offico of Judge of tho Supreme Court, ono may woll oxim!au tho npprohension that tho systom of selec! m‘i judlciu‘ oficors by yopular voto is, nfter oll, s * fallicy.” In other offi¢inl &usluons, tho accidental eloction of o boich or blockhead, although unfortunate, {8 not fatal. It is a mistako which carrios no disastrous consequonces with it. But to bavo an unqualified nnd an unfit por- son_ olovated to an offico in which aro to bo sottled tho most delicato, abstruse and important questions that transpire nmong men, and Btates, and communities, nnd for the proper dischargo of tho duties of which' peculiar and distinotivo qualifications aro essontial, is a reproach to our popular form of avummunL Wo can only say thet Dlinols, by olocting this * political ‘bummor," this man Crn.(sf ovor Chicf Justico Lawronco, hos lowored itselt in tho oyos of tho world.—Springfleld Journal. ~—Thoro is no donying tho fact. It is tho Qounty-Boat_deoision which defented Charles B. Lawrenco, It was tho opposition in his own county that proved his Watorloo. Had it not been Tor this, he would have beon nominated at Princeton and olocted without opposttion.— Knozvillo Republican. —Tho Hon, R, M. T. Tuntor is urged for tho Consarvative nomination for Govoruor of Vir- ginin, It would bo difticult to find a man moro Aitted for tho position, But, whilo Grant is hob- nobbing withi that ox-gudrrilla and slayer of woary 8tragglors, Blosby, tho Administration pross will cry out against tho conscicntious and nblo Huntor as an _ox-rebel.—New York Sun. —According to the Bpringflotd Republican, tho principal renson for the failure of the State Man- ugoment bill for tho Hoosas Tunnel, ling, in the ‘Massachusetts Logislaturo, was that the scom- ing majority for it was not sincero and carnost. That journal says: “It was rather a majority against tho othor plans of cousolidation. Thero sro but o fow peoplo yot, at loast, whoso ndvo- caoy of Btate railroad managoment s more than slin-deop. If Charlos Francis Adams, Jr., and Gov. Olatlin had really beliovod in it, thoy would hardly havo fono sy, oo to Vieuna and tho other to Californie, wlion tho most favorablo at- tompt to insugurato the exporiment in Mossn- chusotts was ponding,” Y —Intimntions aro given out in various quar- torg likely to be well informed, that Mr., Dawes is likoly to resign his sont in Congress from this distriof, and thot, consequontly, among tho ole- monts of political intorest und oxcitoment this fall will bo tho choico of his snccossor, Why he is to resign ig not so clearly intimated; but the supposition is a transforonco to the Prosidont’s Cabinet, or to o firat-cluss foreign mission—n supposition which the peculisr political tone of Mr, Dawes' Groonleld Docoration-Day address is thought by tho people who affoct to bo wise abovo thelr gonoration, to groatly support.— Springfleld Republican. —1It [the Walworth parricide] is tinoturod with that strango notion of masculine chivalry which crocts women into somothing resembling divin- ity, and punishos discourtesy to hr as sacriloge. Thore's a something indefluablo about this mandlin sontimentelism that throws a glow of horoism round tho murder thatis dono undor ita influence. It's tho fashion of tho timo to hold woman’s comfort, and ense, and her good namo of such supremo account that human lifo wolighod- in tho balanco against it kicka the bonm, and socloty is almost ready to justify any murdor that hus "6 woman iu tho cago.” Itmay bo that this fashion of chivalry has an olovating and onnobling influenco ; that such doforence to tho gentlor sex is calenlated to softon and rofine tho hardness and harshnoss natural to man; but we submit that it might ntop somowhat short of murder. It ought not to bo necessary to any woman's comfort or happi- noes to havo a man killed in hor bohalf. Hu- man lifo should not be held quito o cheaply.— New York Tyibune. —Tha effort to turn qublie sympathy in favor of the young parricide ia already apparent, Iv- ery circumstanco is oxaggoratod to mugul:{ the provocation, as if the purposo wore to obtaln be- forohand s publle verdict justifying tho homi- cide. Tho truth is that no concofvablo circum- stancos loss than {mminont dangor of dnndlz violenco can justify the crimo young Walwort! committed. Unfortunately for such a hypotho- sig, ho hay himaol? givon conclusivo ovidence of tho malice which prompted tho crime.—Boston 1ON. - Adverliser. —Wo goo no escape for young Walworth. By confosaion ho firad withmalico, By another con- fossion ho thought ho sow his father put his hand to his pocket, Thot Jflm‘ is mado oug timo too many, It might havo done for Btokes, but it naver could bo usod but onco. Putting onc's hand to his pockot doos not constituto an asapult on anothor porson in the same room. Much ag wo carry rovolvarg, thoy aro not frequont enough to juatify such » ruling. Pockats are common, and men cannot go about thoir business or con-+ duet their conversations with thelr palms bhold aloft. Andif, in n moment of opizootic ngon{, ono should tlmugmloshly mako & dash for his korchiof, must his lifo pay tho forfoit? Tho young murderer has frionds of influence and Wwenlth, but, in the angry mood of publio opin- lon, oven theso will bo o wmisfortune to him,— Spiingfleld Republican. gl P 2 Gilmore in Milwaukeos Special Dispatol to The Chicago Tridune. Mrnwauiee, Juno 8,—Gilmore’s band appoared boforo n large and cullivated audlence this avening, at the Acndomy of Musle, diveated of tho auxiliary forcos mndo nocossary as annd- juunt of the Ohlcnfin Jubileo, mid apponring with thelr own mombers only, They gnve ono of tho moat brilliant concerts ever givon in this clty, and it is eafo to say that Milwaukeo hag heard tho finost_offorts of Mr. Gllmoro and his colobrated band in tho Wost. * Tho sudicuco wore_enthuglastio in_their domonstrations, do- manding encoros of Mr. Arbucklo and sevoral othor solos, and applauding cach nud every ploco, in fteolf a gem, to the very echo. prlniatin st iV Oconn Stenmship Noews, Nzw Yony, Juno 8.—Arrived, stosmers Wis- consin and Gcganlo, from Livorpool. New Yoni, Juno 8,—Astived, stoamor Egypt, trom Livorpool LITERATURE. Liborty, Equality, Fratornitys With the ovont still frosh in our sympathy, of tho denth, at Avignon, of * one of tho foromost thinkera nnd statesmon of modorn timon,"—n man whoso oxquisito porsonal worth, with its atory of dovoted nffactions, has furnishod tho pootic countorpolée of his Gradgrind philoso- phy,—nothing ean bo rogardod with indifforonce that has any vital connection with tho life-work of John Stuart Mill. At this momont, when a gonoral Intorest is oxcited, snd closer attontion i diroctod to his viows, thoro npposrs among tho now publications an enmost opposition to tho political doctrine of Mr. Mill, and ita o8- pousal by party creed, from tho pon of an Eng- lish jurist, sud littoratour: * Liborty, Equslity, and Fratornity,” by James Fitz- jasmos Btophon. This volume, plannod in Indis, and rosulting, ns tho suthor statos inhia profalory dodieation, from tho roflootions of many yoars, found strong conflrmation of its ar- guments in an Indinn oxperionco, *Tho com- monplaces,” ho writes, ‘*and tho voin of sonti- mont, at which it is lovelod, appeared pocnliarly falso and poor as Irend the European nows- papors of 1870-1, ot tho hoadquartors of tho Governmeont of Indin." Tho rofloctions aro the offspring of a mind in- tont upon watching tho actual procoss of incul- cation in the oxtension of political principles, and ordoently intorested in praotical tests of quesiions upon which dopond the management and direction of human life. The motlve of tho book, as oxprossed in tho close of the chaptoer upon Fratornity, is *to cxomino tho doctrinos hinted st rather than oxpressed by the phrase Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, and to nssort ‘with respect to thom theso twopropositions: First, that, in tho presont day, even thoso who use thoso words most rationally—that ia to ssy, s tho names of clomenta of goclal life which, like others, havo thoir advantagoes and disndvantages according to timo, placo, and circumstancon— havo o disposition to exaggerato thoir advan- togos, and o dony tho existonco, or at any rato to underrate tho importanco, of thoir disndvan- tages, Noxt, that, whatovor sigmflcanco bo at- tachod to thom, thoso words aro ill-adapted to bo tho orood of a roligion ; that tho things which they denoto are not onds i thomselves ; and that, when nsed collectively, the words do not typify, however vagucly, any state of socloty which a rensonablo man ought to rogard with enthusiasm or golf-dovotion.” The ordor followed in this cxamination, which is conducted vigoroualy and with thorough ear~ nostnoss, ia: The distinction between tho Tom- poral and Spiritual Powor ; tho doctrine of Lib- orty in its application to Morals; Equality ; Fratornity ; and, in conclusion, o summary of tho dootrines contendod for, thrown into a posi- tive form, and conductod courageously to their ultimntum, A note on Utilitarianism closes tho volumo. : Throughout the wholo dincussion liboral quo- tations aro mado from tho writings of Mr. Mill ; ond their valuerability is ossayod with unaffoot- cd dircotness. Yow figuros of specch aro used occasionslly, howover, n motaphor is cmploye in the hoat of attack ; oa when Mr. Stephon de- olaroy, in his chapter on Liboity in Rolation to Morals : The Brabmins, it ia sald, being impressed with tho importance of cattlo to nuflc\llllu‘ohunghl people to regard tho bull as o boly beast, o must mover bo thwartod, cven if ho put his noso into o shop and ato tho shop-keoper'a grain. He must nover bo killed, even In mercy to himself, If ho slips over a olitf and ‘breaks his bones, snd the vultures aro picking out his oyes, hio must boleft to dlo. Iu Foveral Indian townn, tio Dritish Govorument hos gent Lialf the holy bulls to Nobammedan butchers, and tho other half to draw ‘comminsariat wagons, Many matters go botter in con- sequence of this arrangoment, and_agriculturo in por uuull?\ruflw 00 worso, Liberty is Mr. Mill's Brahmi- neo 5 In dofining Humanity,—which, in Mr, Mill's theory, will, with tho progross of civilization, acquire n dominant influenco,—Mr. Stephon re- ‘marks, witha discrimination that will roadily bo accoptod as Just, In viowing a sontimntal phaso of this moral ‘dovolopment: “It froquontly monng distaste for the presont. Xo that loveth not his brother, whom he hath soon, ia peouliarly opt to auppous that Lio Invos bis dlatant conain, whom ho Linth not oen, and nover will see. Mr, ML, for instanco, novar losos an opportunity of spenking with contompt of our presont * wretch- od social arrangoments,” tho low state of society, and the gonoral potL{nosn of his contempora- rios; but ho looks forward to an age in which an all-ombracing love of Humanity w‘f]l rogenerato tho human race.” Elsewhero Mr. Btothn romarks : **Tho great defect of Mr. Mill's lator writings sooms tomo to be, that ho s formed too favorablo an estimato of human nature.” Altogether, Mr. Stoplien’s book is tho toughest outgrowth of 4 old, bido-bound Toryism ™ that has” apponrod since Hobbe's Levinthan. Ho shows himself utterly unable to comprohond Mill's Essay on Liberty, and, a8 comprehension must precedo rofutation, ho comes a8 far ahort of answering that noblo treatiso na tho Church of Romo camo short of answering the Oopernican thoory of tho solar system. (Holt & Williams, New York.) ¢ Monographs, Porsonal and Social,’? by Lord oughton. This volumo comprises eight skotches, critical and biographical: Buloiman Pacha; Alexandor yon Humboldt at tho Court of Borlin; Cardinal Wiseman ;_ altor SBavage Landor; tho Borrys; Harriet, Lady Asbburion; the Rov. Bydnoy Bmith ; tho last doys of Heinrich Heine. ‘The arrangement of theso characters angfizats somothing of tho.subtle managoment of light and shado which givos artistio charm to Lord Hou]ghkm’s stylo. Tho strong lights and_deop uhadows bolong to the contral figura, Walter Savage Landor, A shado of mnlunchofy tinges with mezzotint the daring and adventurous careor of tho chivalric and adventurous Sulei- man Pocha, to whom, gonial as he was to tho Iast, “tho Woalthy ropose in his luxurious pal- aco on tho banks of the Nile, and tho gonoral consideration acquirod by his skill, vigor, and ‘beneficenco, were o poor compensation for a {mjunt which would have changed the face of o oarth and the destiny of millions of men— the foundation of o gront Arab Empire, which should be within the roach of all Europoan civil- ization, and not ae mediator betwoon tho East- orn_and Wostorn world,” And tho darkest shadow curtaine with its gloom the lonely couch whero, in *tho last daya of Hoinrich Hoine," tho gay, "sonsuons, pootia humorist “lay on '8 pilo of Mattressoa, his body so wastod that it soomod no biggor than a child undor the sheot which covered him, tho eyes closed, and tho faco altogethor like tho most painful and wasted “Ecoo Iomo' ever painted by some old Gorman paintor.” 8o marked in theso ossays is Lord Houghton's masterly use of chinroscuro, the Monographs are, in offoct, monochromos. They aro portraituros drawn in the mogleal alto-rofiovo of that grand and nimplo ombodiment which mado Titian ox- claim, “The most bosutiful colors are blnck and white.” Thoy hayo, too, tho graca of intorpra- tivo isolation ; tho buokground of bistorical Bconory is subordinated to tho biography, and {et skillfully ndjusted to soften tho outlino of ho charactor, or rondor it sovero, as truth com- pols tha empbasls of likorioss, Wo havo called Waltor Savage Landor the con- tral figure of tho group, It is this portraic that tho author most carofully olaborates ; hore, in~ dead, is n charnctor whora the conteasts of light and shada givo both mystory and broadth. If space permitted, tho essay should be copiod on- tiro ; for to quotoe {is to give segments of a pie- turo whoro unity is chiof, Thus nowhero, in tho rango of the English Ianguago, aro tho glory and happlness of modoration of min ‘moro nobly proachied and powerfully illustratod than in tho writings of this most intemperato man; nos whero 18 tho sacreducss of tho placid.lfs more hallowod and houorod than in the utterances of this tossod and troubled spirit ;{ nowhere aro horofum, and self-saorifico, aud forgivenioss wioro cloquontly adorod {han by this intouse and florce individuality, which sooinod unsblo to foryet for un natant, ita owie clalms 1ia pwn wrongs, its own fancled suporiority ovor all 1ts Tollow mou. In tho watter of ho affections, thoro i leas discrop- ancy between his writings and bis_lfo. If a woman could bave foroborno and awayed herdelf according to tho vaclllations of his tumpor, his wholo charucter might hiave been modifiod, aud his happincss saved ju uis own despite, It was a nd of prido with him childron loved him, © In his domeanor to his own, lls tondorncss wos oxceaslvo, ‘Thiat bis boy of 13 hiad not ceanod to carcss Ly 1 spokon off s a dolight o could not forgot, by sending him to England undor tho caro of tho keholar ho most respoctod, 1lo waa alwsya drawing analogica botwoeen children and flowers ; aud thore was no mero fanoy i tho well- known Huos ¢ Andl 'tis, nnd ever wan, n\{ wish and woy o lot afl flowora live frocly, and all dio Whono'or tholr gonfug bids tholr souls dopart, Amnong tholr kindred, i thelr native place, 1 nover pluck tho roso; the violot's hosd 1inth shaken with my broath upon ity bank, And not roproactiod mo ; tho over-snored cup Of the pure lily Liath been botwoon my hands, Tolt eato, unsolled, nor lost one grain of gold Inhis garden Lo would bend over the flowors with a sort of wuruhlm but rarely fouchod ono of thom, ‘Tho form whbich thy noforioty of {his scutiment took in tho Florentino Tegend was, ttiat o liad ono dug, aftor an hinporfact dinner, thrown the cook out of the window, nud, Whilo thin 1inn wan writhing with & bro- ken 1, ofuotiatod, Good God, 1 forgot the vio: Ief (Holt & Wililsms, Now York,) ¢ Protection Agni Elro: nnd tho Ieost Meons of Eutting Out Fires in Oltioy, Wowny, and Villnges; with Practical Suggestlons for the Socurke ty of Lifo and Property,’? Ry Joscph ird. Nothing npon the subjeot of the dovonring el~ omont, and its attack and conquost, could be writton with moro righteous conviction of In- stant importance, or moro valiautly con amoro. Tho motto of tho book is, ** An ounco of pro= vention {8 worth _a pound of cure” “Wa know," says Mr. Bird, who has hoon dilating upon the alarming increaso of fires, * that firos aro beat managod if instantly attacked whon small; yob wo go arrange our fire-fighting sys- toms that thoy cannot bo thus attacked. e 88y, ¢ A stitch in timo_savos nino,’ and thon do not tako tho stitch, Wo any, ¢ Light blows kill &hu davil,’ but dofi't atrilko the liqht blown: that A short'horsa Iis soon curriod,’ and walt until our firos aro full-grown ; that * Dolay makoa tho dnnfinr,‘ and thon always dolny.” Theo roform which Mr. Bird urges la tho Pro- vontion of firos, by building 5wemng-houuos noarly a3 posalblo without wood, and stores nnd warohouses loss high aud ronlly fire-proof; and by idstituting o syatem by wh{uh 98 mny bo inatantly attacked, In ox] llolfli describlng the roform nooded in our modo of building, Mr. Bird dpolms out tho ospoolal dangors of the Mansard-roofs na thoy arg built in Amorles, tho imperfoct olevators, and rockless uso of wno:.]-wotrlls. Ho_contrasts with this imprudont stylo tho snfoty obtained in Europonn oltles by ugo of tiles and plating ; and uotes a lottor from Mr. Hiram Powors upon the ro-proof architecture of Florenco. Many causoes of fire, In ignorant uso or dlge posnl of dangerous substances, are warningly ouumorated ; and rules aro given for prosorva~ tion of lifo from firc, as, for instanco: ** If per- sona awako 1n tho night and find the room fled with smoke, thoy should gotout of bod and craop, with tho fnco a8 near th floor as posaiblo, to o door or window. A room may bo o full of smoko a8 to suffocato eny one standing up, and Fl?n pgrfcc‘l;ly 8ufo to bronthie in, & fow inchos from oor. Into an urgont appeal for tho institution by logislativo ncts of o systom by which fires I\llnfi Do Instantly attacked, aud gront conflagrations provented, Mr. Bird 'throws all tho energy and exporionco of a lifo-timo. Io ndvocatos zenl- ously tho usoof oxtinguishers and amall engines, or hand-pumps ; and suggosts tho nocostity of mnking their use a matter of oducation, and thoir Poesossion & muttor of law, Ho comparcs_thoso small onginos to small~ arms in the bunds of infantry, while the stoam- ongines constituo tho artillory ;*and inaists upon tho greator efilency of tho former, for the renson that thoy may bo ‘mado instantly available; and “Tt will'soon bo found that the best timo to work nt conflagrations will bo when they aro about throo foot in dinmotor.” Tho arguments for provention aro very com- prohensivo; and are admirably supported by ohapters upon Fire-Brigades ; Byatoms, Old and Now; Alarms; ’.l‘clogmghlc-fll inls, oto. Iilus- tratlons gro coplous, both of courago and nog- lect; nnd oxamplos aro given of tho valuo of rompt vlgllnncu; ns-tho action of Princo Albort n eoving the Paluco of Coburg, ‘* Historic Fires” includos full accounts of the groat firen of Loudon, Chicago, Doston, and Constanti- nople; aud an elarum is gounded in the cars of Now York, of hor danger to-day of n conflagra- tion to whick thoso of Chicago and Boston would soom only as bonfiros."” (Hurd & Houghton, New York.) Public Laws of the United States. Littlo, Brown & Co. have published their an- nual colloction of tho public laws of the United Btatos of Amorica. The last issuo contains those nased at tho third session of the Forty-second ongross, 1872-8, togethor with copios of all ofilclal proclamafions, aud of oll treaties and postal conventions, carofully collated with the originals ot Washington. This edition of the Inwe has the sanction of Congross, which hos de- olared it to bo compotent ovidonco in sl the corfla and ofiices of tho United Btates, of ita scta. o ELnws of 1lkinois. Tho Iawa_passed at_tho first session of the Twonty-oighth Goneral Assembly of this Btata havo been published, in & volume of 200 pagos, by tho Zilinois Journal Compauy, of Bpringfield. It ombruces oll tho onactmonts, including the Appropriation nots, and ia indoxed. WISE AGAIN. Tho Irrcpressible Xlenry Agnin Iushes into Printe-Virginin Poli« tics in & Now KLighte Richmond, Va, (Juneb), Dispalch to the New York Herald, Henry A. Wise publishes o four column letter in a Virgiuia papor to-dey dofining his pol osition. Ho arrnigns both tho political partics, ut is very partial towards tho nogro. The con- gorvative party prosoribes the nogro, whilo tha rodical paxty proscribes and euslaves tho white man, He favors n programmo of poace and K;-lncmlu, and strongly opposos conflict of au; ind botween whites and blacks, Ho inslats thal tho Unitod Statos Government, having destroyed thoe old Btato of Virginia nund created two new Btates—East Virginia and Wost Virginiz—is now responiblo for the dobts of botl ; Govornmont should assumo tho govoreign right of insurance of lifo and property to onable the Btato to moot tho intoroat on Lior debt and di- minish toxation ; that tho James Rivor and Ka- nawha Oanal should bo built by Nationnl aid ; that railrond monopolios and rings shall bo pro- vonted by penaltios ; that tho rato of intorest #hall not oxcood G por cont ; that tho systom of public achools shall bo botter rogulated ; that nskessmonts of proporty shall bo ad valorom ; tho State revonue to be'more punctually colleot- ed ; and that more cconomy shall bo obsorved in tho public oxponditures. ‘Tho above principles, ho snys, aro those of a Ihrgo majority of the peo- 1o o! \}lrgmln who will combine to elact the st mon to offico without rospact to parties, It their cancuscs carry theso principles into effect, and if tho Presidont of tho United States will aid in‘promoting these measures, thoy will, without regard to tho past, give to his administration for the future o just eond gonorous support. Ha concludos as follows : T caro not what intolligont man of iutugdt{ doclares himsolf a candidato on thoso grounds, will give him my voto for tho offico of Governor of tho Stato of Virginin. If I thought L could succeed in opposition to both of the presont or- gonizations of the State, X would declare mysolt a candidato for tho oflice of Governor immodi- atoly ; but I am without o purse and without a ress to contend with the two alread anded to make nominations. I wil will not inour odium by running of electing tho ono_or tho othor; but if oither the Consorvative or Republicau Conventlon will abstain from nominatiug & candidato of its own, I will, as an indopondout_candidato, opposo tho nomfnco of tho othor, T caro uot which abstaius or which nominatos, If both convontions nominate, I will not bo a candidato at all." S g ANOTHER ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE. Shocking Depravity ==A Woman Prompts Xer Son to Poison His Fathere=Lucifer Matches and Lead Filings the Mntorinls Employed. From the New York IHerald, June 0, A ulmnluni; inatanco of dopravity was brought to tho knowledge of the Brooklyn’ PD“m yestor duy, Tho caso is ono which involves a no lesy holnous offenco than an attompt on tho of o boy of 11 yoars of ago to his fathor. Tho inatigntor of tho crimo is Louisa Baugert, & Gorman woman, 47 years of 8ge.. It appoars that thocompluinant in tho case, ono Christinn Baugort, who is o tailor by oct oupation aud a resident of No. 161 Loonard gtroot, B. D. has beon soparatod from Diis wifo for tho past fow months. Tho parties haye two children—n girl of 15 years, who rosided ‘with hor mothor, and Clarles Baugert, who lived with his fathor, ' Charles has, howsver, enjoyed the E}n-lvllogn of visiting his mothor at hoer abode in Second streot, botween nvonues A and 1B, Bome weoks ago Obristian folt that ho was not quito a8 woll as usual, and, gotting no better, ho Dbogan tosuspect that Lo was being polsonod in gomoe way or othor. A day or two ago his sua- ploiona bocamo aroused concerniug his son's ofiicioutuess in propuring ten aud beor for him, On walching tho affectionato youth ho discovored him slyly dropping Bomo- thing into his coffee oup. “Tho vessol waa thon carefully placed in front of *“ tho old man,” ag # Ohorlie dear " was wont to eall his patornal progonitor, Charlie walked out, ond Christian shortly aftor withdrow to a chomist'’s and bad tho contenta of tho oup analyzed. On tho bot- tom was found lend filinga” and tho hoads of Luoifer matchos, Tho young scouudrol was ar< mutndu&mn mm}flnlub of Baugort soulor. Ie was arralgned boforo Justico Bomlor, nyd oon= feusod that ho had boon dosing bis father's bovor. agos with lead filings and the tops of matches Ior uoveral woeks puat, and that ho had dono so at tho matigation of his mother. Yestorday morning Mrs, Baugort was arrested and cows mitted fo Joil to awalt oxamination, art olson nt tho State ~