Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 17, 1873, Page 4

[} THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, JUNE 17, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, i 'll'lll;lfl QI‘II"WCI!XEI’!'ION (PAYADLE IN ABVA"GE’- Il malki. (M) | Bundag Raoakinatl: S1E00| Wodny Parts of a yoar at tho samo rato. To provont dolay and mistalos, o suro and giro Post Oftice address In fall, including Stato and County. Romittances may be made olthor Ly deaft, oxproas, Post Ofico ordor, or in roglstorad lottors, b our rlak, TERMS O CITT AUDRONINETA, Datls, dolivorod, Bundoy osooptor, 25 conte par wook, Daily, dollserod, Bunday inoluded, B0 conte por wook. idross TIE TRIDUNE COMPANY, Corucr Madtson aud Dearborn- Uhtongo, Iit. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, ATKEN'S TIRATRE—Wal Ayouno, cornor of Gon- gross stroot. Hpuotacular epora, o +Zolo SIOOLEY'S THEATRE-Randolph strost, botweon Olarkand LaSalle, **Uamo of Love," M%VIOKEWE THREATRIL-Madlson_streot, betwoon sarborn and Stato, ‘Mo Katlo Putnam Troupe. *Blado ©'Grass.” AOADEMY OF MUBIO — Halstod stroot, botwoen Madison and Monroo. Thoatre Gomiquo Combiustion, MYERS' OPERA HOUBKE—Monroo s Biato and ‘Doatborn, Moran & Mannis ot, betwoon ‘s ‘Minstrols, AMPHITHEATRE--Olinton stroot, botwoon Washing ton and Nandoiph, Oal Wagnor's Miustrols. BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL JIAVANA LOTTRRY-WE SOLD IN dm?mmc 2 Ayl 1ot tho L0 priee, Gltoglars Hitkors, 10 Walat.- P. O. Hox 485, Now York. 2 SIS JIAR DYE. TIIB SPLENDID B st ha worl Thio only trre and por. fout tye. Jarinlos, o ud fnstantancous ol himent: oridicnious tita or unplensant o or. Romy ts of bnd dyea and washes, Produces A, Kl;'é'k %{nx‘n\n"‘r_\\bmwn‘h::d louros utiful, Tho genuino, A e or,” "Sold by all _draggiats. OHARLIS hi Propriotor, The Chicags Tiibune, Tuosday Morning, Juno 17, 1873, Sonator Pomoroy’s trial for bribery and cor- ruption was to bave bogun at Topoka yoatorday, but has beon postponed until noxt fall. —ee—y The Common Counocil has indofinitoly post- ponod considaration of the ordinance sllowing saloons to be opencd on Sunday after midday. TTho fruit rogion around Bt. Josoph, Mich., I8 sufforing spdly for rain. Tho strawberry flolds aro blighted by tho drought, and will yield much fose than hialf o crop unloss rofn falls this weak. e ———— Memphis has establishied & Boord of Hoalth to doal with tho cholera. Therowero fiftoen doaths yosterday from cholora in that city, and 1n Nash- villo there have boen thirty-two sinco Saturday, almost all of them among the negroes. “Tho prico of a licenso to goll liquor was ro- contly raised by the Common Council of Wauke- gan to 600, Thair notion hes boon votood by tho Mayor, who holds that it liquor-selling is & logitimate business it ought to bo accosslblo to poor men a8 woll a8 to tho rich. President Grant's Louisiana proclnmation has worked like a charm, according {o Gov. Kol- logg. Taxos, ho snys, aro now being paid more rapidly than ever bofore, and will yield funds enough to pay all tho intercst on tha State ‘bonds excopt thoso affected by the injunction so opportunely insued not long age Vico-President Wilson is Iying dangerously ill in Boston. Mis oxhausting laborsin the canvass of last summer, and tho painful excitcment of tho last session of Congress, followed by too bard work on his bhistory of tho anti-slavery movemeat, huve broken Lim down. He is bo- lioved to have passed the crisis of hia disoase but is not yot out of dangos As if Philadelphin Lsd not already couso ©onough for complaint agaiust New York, arrange- ‘morts are now making by which n special train will delivor Now York newspapera in Philadel- phiia by 634 o'clock in tho morning. It is siid that 8,000 New York newspapors are sold daily in Philadelphin now, and it is estimated that, when thoy aro in the hands of thp nowsboys almost a8 early na the Philadelphin nowapapors, at least 10,000 copies will be domanded. nlsted stroot was tho scono of o sanguinary fight ecarly yesterday morning botweon throe bravo police officeraand threa dosperate Chi- cago thioves, who woro intoreopted ou thoir re- turn from Milwaukeo with tho proccods of & $2,000 burglary. The desperadocs, who are Lknown to the authoritics as the very worat of our profossional criminals, fought as for their lives, and wors all soverely wounded by pistol- shota and clibbing. One escaped with en indi- gestiblo bullet in his stomach, and the other two unchanged, st 63¢@73o for shoulders, B}@ 8o for short ribs, BY@BJo for short clenr, snd 0}(@11}4e for ' mwoot piokled hama, Highwineas woro , quict and steady at 000 por galldn.’ Lake frolghta woro active and 3o lowar, at 630 for corn to Buffalo, TFiour was moro activo, but onsler. Whont was aotivo, and deotined 83, closing firmor at $1.193¢ cash, and 6110} sollor July. Corn was sotivo, and do clined 20, but closed firmor at 813(@31){o cash, aud 843¢ sollor July, Oato were nrotive, and do- clined 1340, slosing mtrong at 20lfe cnsh, ond 2730 sellor July. Rye was dull and 1o lower, at 00@003go. Darloy wan dull and 8o lower, at (0@ 850 for poor to good No. 2. Hogs wors quiot, and closod woak. Bnles at 84.87%@6.10. Tho cattlo trado waa dull ot o elight decline, Shoop woro unchiangod Mrs. Olom, tho allegod Indiana murdoress, by o doclsion of the Buprome Court of that State, ia once more to hovo B now trial. The murdor with which sho stands chargoed was ono of tho most torrible, as well as mysterious, on record. Bhio was first triod in Decembeor, 1808, and tho Jury disagreod. In Fobruary, 1869, sho wastricd again, and convictod of murder in the sccond dogreo. Tho caso wna thon appoaled and ro- vorsod. Theso two trials wore for the murder of Nanoy Young. She was then brought to trinl in the fall of 1871 for tho murder of Jacob Young, and. tho jury dissgroed. In Jumo, 1872, sho was tried again, found gnilty of murder in the nocond degroo, and sentenced fo the Penitontia- 1y for life. 'Tho caso hes beon again roversed, and the Bupramo Court has now remanded hor for hior fifth trial. Tho main polnts upon which the Suprome Court romanded the caso are that tho indictmont contained a flaw, nnd that tho lower Court orred in sustaining o domurrer to tho speolal plea of former acquittal, made by the dofondant, and also that it improporly instruct- ©od tho jury, The decision of the Buprome Court hns met with o gonoral outburst of indignation from the leading papers in Indiana, e ————— Tho Chicago Zimes thinks it has discovored an inconsistenoy in our treatmont of tho defoat of Judgo Lawrenco, becauso wo have spokon of the large influence which was cxerted sgainst him by the argument that, if ho were ro-closted after the Princoton Convention had nominated onother man, the Farmors' Movemen$ would como to an end. If, innddition to the fact that Judgo Lawrence had concurred with the other Judges in rendoring the Alton Raflway decision, it bad been discoverod that ho had o long nosa’ (popular projudioe running in favor of modium noscs), and that ho had onco decided a libel sult in on unfedling manner, and that Lo had fined tho Btate Idiot for contompt of coart, and that ho lived in tho wrong town for county-sent ot Knox County— and if all theso facts had moro or Joss influence in turning votes against him—theso facts should bo taken into account du dotormining whothor tho nggrogate voto of the District implios o sot- tled purpose to subordionte tho decisions of courts to tho doorees of town meetings, or whother it is only o tomporary and local blun- dor, which may bo repaired at another clection, aud which is not likely to bo ropeated in othor districts. But thoy cannot alter tho fact thot the public issue was tho decision in the Alton Raflway case, and that whatever reputation the poople of tho District may acquiro sbroad, whether good or bad, will bo gauged by thot circurmstance. It will mnko very littlo difforence to investors of capital whether tha question of long and short mosos, or any other extrancous issue, entered into tho contest, or whothor theyhad much or little influ- onco. What they want to- knowia just this: whother the law is to bo interpreted hereafter by independent Judges, aftor woighing tho facts snd learing the arguments, or whother judicial decisions aro to be rendored at the ballot-box rogardloss of low, facts, arguments, or official onthe. THE BALARY-GEAB, The 8t. Paul Press comes to tho dofense of the salary-grabbers in this fashion : Wao are acquainted with the member of Congress whoso expenses at Washington do not exceod $1,300 per yoar—not in proprfa persong, but in tho person of the well-known Zroprosontative of this altogether uniquo and fesrful spocics of tho genus howo, Holsa bachelor, bocauss ho {8 too mean to marry, and wears & chronfeally dirty shirt beeauso ho has only ono, and i top slingytu got thot washed. 1o lives alone, on mouldy orackers and rotten codfish, with an occa- sloual dessert of cheeso parings, in tho attic of & tumblo-down rockery, which a docent slave- holder would not have subjocted his *niggers’. to tho bhumiliation of living in, This Lalf-starved, unkempt, are in custody, The oflicers are fortunatoly unhurt. Nogotiations have been in progress some time with Iuntington & Hopkins, of Sncra- mento, who coutrol tho Central Pacifio, for tho purchase of their intercst in tho road. Californin nowspupers take o deop interest in tho business, and assort that tho parties who aro thus trying to gain posscs- sion of tho Contral Pacific are acting on bohdlf of tho Vanderbilts, who—provided thoy got con- trol of tho Northwestorn—noed only thia link to complote thoir trunk line across tho continont. Yostorday the negotiation wassaid to have failed; to-day it is roported succossful, Tho libol suit agaiust the Jancaville Gazelle, of Wiseousin, Which has ended in s verdiet for ©1,100 damagos, wasthe occasion of an Intor- osting ruling on the law of nowspapor libols. Tho proprietors of the (fazelle attempted to provo, in their dofance, that they had offered as roparation to the libeled party to print any statomont ho wished to make, and to publicly ro- tract any charges which be would show had boon unjustly made, Presiding Judge David * Davis, of the Suprome Court, refused to admit any such tostimony on the ground that such subsoquent rotraction in no way leseened tho responaibility for the original libel, Homobody has stolou from tho War Dopart- ment an invaluable mass of privato archives loft there by Socrotary Stauton, They covered the . whole poriod of tiie War, aud wore of singular interest on account of the light they threw on tho ron! history of many of tho patriots nml' heroen of the War, who fignred in court-martials contracts, and army jutrigues, in a way that would not, if known, add much to their oivil reputa- tion, nlthough many of them, it is intimatel, hold vory high positlons to-day, If tho statemont is truo that copies of many of thoso atolon papors wore kept by a goutloman who intonds to use them in writing a hlstory of thoe war, tho loss I not irroparablo, e e s Tho Chicago produce markets wore lowor yos- terdsy, and grain was aotive, Meus pork was quiet and o lower, at $15.70 cash, and $15.76@ 16.80 woller July. Lard was dull and Go per 100 Ibs lower, at 88.923c cash, and $8.40@ 8.45 sollor July, Meats “woro inactive and sordid wretch, whoso groveling naturo s unlit by any rayof humsn friendship or kindliness—and whoso Lungry svarice prompta him to cke out hla parsimo- nious savings by whatovor sordid stealings hio can rake in by tho huckstering of his one despleablo voto in tho Tobby market—may bo tho kind of Ropresontativo that Doat suits Trr: TRIUNE's concoption of what & Repro- sentative of the Illinols peoplo in Congress ought lo Lo, But the pooplo of Minnesots don’t want any such gurrot zata s this to represcnt thom in Congross, Tho differonce botween $1,200 and £5,000—the latter boing tho annusl pay of & Congressman “from 1866 to 1878, oxclusivo of mileago, is con- eldorablo—boing something over 800 por cont. Honco the startling picture of squalor snd wrotchodnoes which the Press draws of the $1,200 man s hardly applicable to tho caso of Cen. Averill. Tho aggrogatoe amount of mouldy crackers and rotton codfish and cheoso parings that can be bought for 1,200, and tho nutritive proportics of those articlos, may bo interosting to tho ‘“‘socinl eciontist,” but docs not sorve to oxplain how Sonators Fessenden, Collamor, Bumner, Wilson, Ramsoy, and Ropresoututives Blaine, Boutwell, Btovons, Farnsworth, Win~ dom and othors, got along vory comfortably on salavies of 8,000 up to tho yonr 186, sinco which time the genoral costof living has not in- croagoed, slthough the salary had beon inoreased 66 por cont before the lust incroase, That the style of living bas ndvanced is undoubtedly true, and the question is whethor the people can bo rightfully toxed to support an advancing atyle, and, if so, up to what point. Botwoon tho poor dovil who okes out s misorable oxlstonco on £1,200 worth of mouldy erackers and cheese-pariugs and the millionuire who nover sita down to dinner with Joss than thirteon wine-glassos to cach plato, thoro is o very wide margin for guosswork as to what par~ tleular utylo of liviug the peoplo shiould maintain for their Congressmen. If the decision of this quastion is loft to tho Congrossmen sololy, thoy will very soon find that $7,500 per yeur is Loo lit- tlo, and thoy will prove it in tho same way that Gon, Averill proves that &5,000is too littlo, It 18 the duty of overy smob to huitate tho oxtravaganco of his suporiors in woalth, aud, if he finds Sonator Chaudlor or Reproson- tativo Hoopor living in costly housos and giving splondid entortainments, of course it will b considerod menn for him to live in spartments and give no entertninmonts whatover, although Danlol Welmtor, and Rufus Ohoato, and Pitt Tessonden livod in that way, aud Henry Wilson doos ntill. Wo do not malko these romavks ag porsonal to Gon, Aver]ll, for we do not know how he lives, or what his means aro; but thero 18 not n snob in Washington who oannot dofend tho noxt salary bill, no matter how high it may Lo, by the same argumonts that Gon. Averill usos to dofond tho lnst ono, ¢ THE FARMERS' FOURTH OF JULY. Tho tidal wave of tho Farmors' Movomont, which s just now sweoping ovor tho Wont, hng at last submorgod tho Fourth of July, American caglo, fire-craclors, stwmp orators, sky-rookots, and all, Tho addross of the Exocutivo Commit- too, sotting apart the Fourth of July for a free disousnsion of tho farmors’ griovances, tho aboli- tion of tho stereotyped oration, and the reading of the Farmore' Declaration of Indopondence instond of Mr. Jofforson's, has alroady boon printed in our columns, The truly loyal ond highly potriotio citizon will bo disposed to rogard this innovation a8 little loss than snorilego. Tho stump orators will mourn their lost opportunity to wrap thom- golvon in tho Amorican flag and fight tho coun- {ry's battles ovor again, Tho proud bird of froe- dom will wonder why ho s not allowod his cus- tomary shrick. Tho village clocntionist will pino in socrot that ho cannot hurl tho Declaration of Indopondenco into the faces and oyos of the tyranta of the Old World. Thare will bo moro, howover, who will rojoico at tho prospect of suppressing what hna grown to bo a publo bore, ‘Wo nronot yob nware of tho dotails of tho Farmers' Fourth of July, but wo prosume **tho day wo colobrato " will boof a bucolio, rather than patriotio, character. Chanticloor In just s good o bird as tho bnld-hoaded eagle, can seronm just as loud, ond, in fach, moko moro nolse, bocauso thoro ig moro of him. In- stond of the intorminablo and bombastic oration we shall have tho farmers’ talks, and theso will Lo enjoyablo, becauso the farmera never talk- long. Thoy aro men of fow and plain words. Xostond of the American flag, the corn will wave its groon lenves sll over tho prairies and on & thousand hills. Thoe farmors’ boys will not have to go to tho largo cities and got sick on colored lomonade ond groasy iec-cream. Having o Fourth of July of thoir own, they will provide tho gratoful cidor, swoot apples, donghnuts, and other pnstoral luxuries, which do no harm. Thoy can bring up their mowors and their throshers, thelr huskers and thelr corn-shellers, and have all tho noise they want. The Goddess of Liberty always was a fright, and the villago bollo will take much moro comfort ns Cores with hor shoavos and sicklo than shio has been accustomed to have as the Goddess with o star-spanglod potticont and sn ugly cap, mot adapted to the prosent stylo of boir. There will bo somothing inspiriting in the proceesions of bronzed and brawny-armed farmers coming to- gothor to cousult upon their griovances, and to hurl defiance at locomotives aud freight tariffa. They will roturn at night to thelr brond ncres more refroshod for their work and moro hopeful of thoir future harvests than if they had gone to tho county-soat to sot off fire-orackors and listen to patriatio twaddle which hay beon dished out to thom aevery year of thoir lives. The farmors have dono well to sbolieh tho various nuisances which cling to the colobration of Fourth of July. JVhilo wo congratulato thom, wo commiserate tho dwellera in citics, We Lovo no farmors, no granges, no Patrons of Husbandsy, Pomonn dwolls afar, ouT worod could not -abide tho metropolitan smoke and emolls. Intho cition, therefore, the cnglo will still seroam. Tho orator, doprived of his ryral opportunity, will improve the civic opportunity to his vory utmost. The fire-cracker will blazo and tho sky-rocket will sputter. Houses will burn up and horses will run swny, Small children will got thelr fingors blown off, and young men will got diunk. The Goddess of Liberty, fresh and smiling in tho morning, will go to bed at night with dishovoled lair, dirty robes, and uncertaln gait, used up, fagged out, and diegustod. People will sook their couches dispirited, and disgusted with tho offort to rocognizo tho fact that this is a great and glorious country, and thankfal that thoy aro not obliged to bo truly loyal for another year. All this misery the farmers, happy beings, will oscapo, Thoy will colobrate thoir own dny in thofr own good way, ond they will not “bo cxpected to prove thoir pat- riotlsm by touching off the allotted number of blacksmith's anvils, or setting. their noighbors’ premisos afire with Roman candles, or gotting drunk on benzino whisky, Wo fanoy tho farmors will bo just about as patriotio as it thoy had dono all tho absurd things wo have montioned, and bad stood in the sun two or threo hours, listening to Thompson as ho descants upon the advantagos of being an Amorican citizen, and tho corrosponding dis- sdvantages of those unfortunate beings who had tho bad luck to bo born under tho galling yoko of effeto mounrchies, . HOT CORN, ° It is understood that a portion of the corn in two of tho grain elovators of this city has boon declored by the warehousemen to bo * hot,” and, ng a conrequence, corn, yestordny, sold in this city as low as 80 centa por bushel, & docline of 8 conts duriug tho woeok onding yestordsy. o amount of corn in store yesterdsy noon was about 4,076,000 bushels, nnd tho asmount de- olared to be *“hot " was only 65,000 bushels. T'ho proportion thus affected 1y small; but the fact that any is affectod his a tondency to lowor the markot. It is, howover, to bo remembored that noarly if not all the corn declared to bo hot was rocoived by canal. And it will bo also ro- mombored that, in the olosing wecks of April ond firat wecks of May, tho Inapoctors wero roundly and flercoly abused for rating alargo porcontage of canal corn as ‘*rejected.” Tho great nolso thon mado hind tho effoct of rolaxing tho iuspection, and tho effect is, that corn which ought to have been inspocted as “rojoctod,” was passod into the olovators at o higher grade, and {8 now "*hot corn.” ‘CLis rosult ia & natural ono, for which warchousemen aro not responsiblo. It i suothor ovidonce that inspection of grain should bo rigid, and that any departuro from tho truth in making it is & woakuoss which Iy sure to provo costly in the end. ‘Though the amount of corn known to be hot i comparatively amall, It ling a sorious effoct upon tho market. Tho prosenco of hot cornin an cloyator oxposes tho corn in othor bins; tho condition is conlagious, and thus the introduc- tion of a umall quantity of the inferlor article may do au lmmenso damage to corn of undoubted quality. Tho danger of such ocourrences onght cortainly to stimulato tho ‘trado to make somo rogulations to protect tho public. It is known that such an ovout as the hoating of corn can bo provented. Thia procoss involves an exponse which the warchousemon rofueo to incur, Thoy recoiva tha grain on storo, but do not asenme rosponsibility beyond ordinary caro and dili- gonco. Iore, hiowovor, wo have 55,000 bushols of damngod corn' nffooting tho valuo of over four millions of bushols that {8 not yot dam- aged. The amount of prosont loss s vory groat, and, should the Injury sprond, the loss will bo still groator, It ocours to us that thoro onght to bo an authority somowhero, upon the appoar- ancoe of Lot corn {n an olovator, to take possca- olon of It by summary actlon, not ouly for tho purposo of romedying its condition us for s ie practicable, but to provent its infocting othor corn in tho samo clovator. Thils provention ot hot dorn, a8 wo have sald, involves an oxponso and a loss of woight, which tho warchousemon refuso to boar. Cortainly, in o community whoro tho corn traflic fa 8o oxtonsivo, there ought to bo aomo moans taken for so distributing this cont of provention that it should fall equitablyon ali con- corned. Tho loss consoquont upon the declara~ tion of “Lot corn™ in o nuibor of clovators is tonfold, probably, tho annual cost of preventive rogulations which would rondor Lot corn an im- poseitfity. ee———e— PRO BATA. Thero s just now considorable agitation among the farmors of Iown and other Westorn Btates, including oven Kansas, in favor of adopt- ing tho Illinols pro rata law, which demsauds an inoreaso of tarif according to distance, If tho farmors' movement woro in favor of high, in- atoad of low, freights, it would bo difficult to suggost & moro diroct process for arriving at that ond, To fully satiafy tho sph® of tho de- mand, that thero shall bo nbaolutely no discrim-~ inntion in the transportation of grain from tho Northwost to the Atlantio seaboard, wo must presumo that not only Hlinols, but Iows, Wis- consln, Minnesots, Kaness, and Indisns, Ohio, Pennsylvanla, Now York, and Now Jersoy, will adopt tho pro rafa systom. When this ocondl- tion of things shall bo cdtablishod, how will tho Jowa, Wisconsin, or Minncsotn farmer got his grain to market ot all ? ’ ‘Tha pro rala problom is by no moans now to the railroad manogoers. Probably the largost oxperionoe and boat talont in the country have beon engnged in maldng up tariffs bost adapted to tho Interasts of all their patrons. Thoy havo figured out rates ovon to the hundrodth part of o oent, and have applied overy known prinaiplo of mathomatios to striko tho mean ‘that would apply best to the businoss along tho Jinoof theirroads. If, now, tho Btatos are tostep in and compol them by law to charge an additional rate for ovory station, thoy can hardly bo ox- pected to ovorcomo tho geographical boundaries of the country and conform to eucha law at ono and tho esmo time. Tho practico of roilronds horotofore has beon to mscor- tain, os mearly s possiblo, tho averago coat of freight por ton per milo, estimating thofr through and local businoss togother, In pursuance of this policy, thero has boon o ma-~ toriol reduction of rates during the paat five yoara on all tho principal railroads in the coun- try. Tholnst roport of -the Directors of tho Michigan Southern shows that tho averago rato por ton per milo for local and through businoss for 1868 was 2.48 conta; for 1869, 2.84; for 1870, 1.60; for 1871, 1.80 ; for 1872, 1.87. The local ratos on tho Michigan Central Railroad for tho past tivo or three years havo beon from 8,80 to 2.70 centa por ton por milo, while tho through ratos have boen in the neighborhood of 1.19 conts por ton por mile. If the pro rata rule “suuuia 66 applied from the Northwostorn grain districts to Now York, tho most favorable plan thet could possibly be ndopted would be on iuoresse in tho basis of tho average local rates. Tho best average local rotes would bo 8.2 per ton por mile. At thia rato the froight on whoat from Winona to Now York would bo $1.20 por bushel instead of 10 conts, the average undor the prosont tariff, or 50 conts por bushel highor than it is now, This would bo on a basis of averago local freights, howover, ona single road and under ono control. But as each State Iaw would con- trol the road-bed lying within its boundaries, it would be impoesiblo to comply with tho law by making up s pro rafa tariff on an average local rate. No railroad could be asked to earry freight at a loss over auy portion of ita rond, end a8 overy rond would be obliged to contomplato tho loss of through busincss, it would be nc&?flnry to start tho tariff at the actual cost of carrying freight from ono torminus to the nearcst station, and then build up on this basis, Thia process would have to bo ronewed in ovory Btato, in order to comply with tho various Iawa. In effect, then, a pro rafa law in every Stato similar to the Illinois law would mako the freight from Winona to New York a sum equal to the addition of all the intermediate local freights on the sovoral roads and in the soveral Btates travorsod. Just what this sumn would bo wo have no moana of ascortaining, but it would certainly amount to soveral dollars por bushel. Xf the grain could be eold in New York at thia rate, tho railronds would cortainly havo co objection to the adopt- tion of & pro rata law in all the Btates, 18 thoy would derivo all tho benofit from it, But, as the offoct would inovitably be to shut off from mar- kot all thoso districts B0 far from the Eastorn markots ay to mako tho aggrogato of local ratos in oxcesa of tho ruling price of grain, the far- mors would cease to ship anything, the trans- portation businoss would come to a stand-still, and farmers nud railroads would go to pot to- gothor., Tho farmers of Minnesots, Iows, and Kansas, who aro now demanding a pro rata law like that of Illinois, do not kuow what they are-talk- ing about. Thoy arc mieled becauso they find in their immediato neighborhood that a shipper some twenty miles furthor from market than thoy nro hos grain transported for the samo price, oud bocauso thoy think thet thoir small sdvantage and bis emall disadvantago of loca- tion should onablo thom to do the businoss first andloave him to take his chonces afterwards. Thoy do not stop to think that a law which would apparently secure so:mo of them such an sdvantago would, on the ccmtrary, discriminato agaiust all’ olike, sinco it would shut out all of them from market, If law similar to the Illi- nols law oxisted and were onforced in Indiann and Ohio (it was once passed ' by ono branch of the New York Logislature), i is oxceodingly doubtful whothor tho surplus (grain of Illinols could bo shipped to Eastorn mavkets by railway, or to Europo via the Eanstern Biates, Cor- tainly, Wiaconsin, Iows, and Misnosots, would Lo fencod out complotely, Theso Btatos would no longer bs troublod with the trauspor- tation question, it fs true; but it wowld bo bo- cause thoy could not transport their products at all. That thoy should deliborately aulc for tho adoption of alaw that would inoviiably leed to tho result wo have described, ia very muoh as if & man should climb s troo with ropo of un- known length, tie ono ond around his neck, the other to a high limb, and then jump off in order to tost the lungth of tho rope, If the ropo should prove to Lo short, the individual of an oxporimontnl turn of mind would probably homg Limsolf. Tho farmors of Aissourl, Iown, Minncsota, and Eanans,will do tvoll to walt until Illinols hins thoronglly testod the pro rata lnw bofore .thoy make any attompt at tho oxton- slon of ita imnginary bonofits, aud the poople ot Tilinofs will do woll not to urgo the ndoptlon of tho law upon Ohio and Indinnn. It must fivst bo domonstrated that the terrltory of Illinols is not too Iarge for the application of tho polioy without oxtending it furthor. The samo policy way triod in England, which is not larger than Dlinols, and fafled thore becauss it had tho effoot of shutting out certain districts from mar- kot altogothor. If England was too large to admit of tho pro rafa principlo as doflucd in the Tllinols statuto, it would be worso than folly to attompt to npply it to the territory of sovoral Btates oqual tosixor eight timos tho aron of Tugland, HOW WE PROTEOT LABOR. Tor what purposo aro wo taxod 08,000,000 overy yenr, in tho cost of our woolen snd worsted goods alono ? The protended ob- Jeot iato * proteot Amorican labor,” Wo aro tald to rojolco in the patriotio sncrifico bocause the money gooa into the pockots of Amorican workmon, and if any ohurl wanta his monoy to go whero it will bring him tho most clothing, ho is called a disloyal crosturo who must have British gold to spond. If this tarift claims to bo & woll-managed oleomosynary institution wo may at loast bo per- mitted to inquiry why it would not bo botter to glve tho 68,000,000 dircotly to the 92,078 hands employed in tho woolon and worsted mills, It would ba some 780 for each man, woman, and child, now thus employed, and that is moro than thoir wholp averago yearly earnings ; and thon, ‘whilo thoy could afford to do nothing, wo coutd afford to buy clathes at the pricos of 1860, and savo monoy by tho operation. As a benevo- lont ontorpriso thia tariff doos not ecem to bo quite woll gonducted. But if it fs morely o schomo to got monoy into tho pockots of a fow monopolists, and if it roally gives to our work- mon loes domand for their labor, and less pay, mensared by the quantity of nocossarics and comforts which wagea will purchase, then it is an outragoous swindlo. ‘We * protect” tho manufacture of cloth, This affecta throo alasacs of Amorican laborers ; firat, those who mako tho oloth ; socond, thoso who work it up into clothing ; and, third, those who woar the clothos, Tho flrat class includos 185,869 poraons in cotton mills, 92,973 in woolon and worstod, and 6,640 In silk, 241,740 in all— for tho 700 employod in * Yinen works " aro not making cloth. Tho socond class includos 161,820 tailors and sosmstrossos, 92,084 drossmakers and milliners, 4,080 ehirt and collar-makors, and 063 hoop-gkirt aund corsot-makors, 258,946 in all, ‘The third clags includes both of these, and all others who woar clothes of tho forty millions of poople. “ Facts have beon presonted from the conous roports which show that wo pay at lenst 61 por cont more for tho same quantity of cloth of do- mostio make than we did in 1860. Dutios on for~ elgn cloth, which, being lovied in gold with im- portars’ chnrges nocossarily thoreby eonlarged, raigo tho cost of imported goods much more than 60 per cont, still do not provent the importation of about 237,000,000 yards of cloth, and it is easy to sco that, if there were only rovonuo duties of, 883, 20 por cent, wo could obtain all our cloth at pricos as low in gold as thoso of 1860, if not oven lower. Tho wholo body of loborers who consuma clothing cannot bo vory mugh benefited by this increaso in tho cost of all tho cloth thoy woar. - Tho peculiar blossings of Protection to American labor," thereforo, must be sought for in somo bonefit greater than thoir sharo of the goneral losa by incroased cost of cloth conferred upon tho two clossea which make cloth and mako clothing. But the proof must bo pretty clear if it 18 to convince anybody that it Iu well to make forty millions of people woar one-fourth less cloth, and pay 60 por ‘cont more for it, in order to help half & million of persona who make cloth and clothes, But how cun thoso who mako clothing be g helped by o systom which diminishes the quanti- ty of cloth consumed ? Censua reports and ofii« cial records of imports prove that tho entire quantity of cloth consumoed in 1870 was 1,647,- 688,000 yards, but in 1860 it was 1,694,868,000 yoards; in 1870 only 40 yards per capita, and in 1860 abont G4 yards. Suppose the entire de- mand for farm products, or iron, or horses, or lawyers’ sorvices, should thus docrease in propor- tion to population fully onc-quertbr, how could farmors, iron-makors, carpenters, and masons, or lawyers, cscapo injury? Wo uso o yard more of woolen cloth to cach inhabitant, but doos this supply. work to compensate for the use of loss silk by half a yard, and less cotton by fourteen and o half yards to each inhabitant ? Not only has the work of making clothing neces- earily docreascd in proportion to population so that, if tho proportion of tailors, soamstresses, oud drossmakers hos romained tho samo, one- quarter must be constantly uuemployed, but wo “sotually usio loss cloth by nearly 150,000,000 yards thon wo 1d thirtecn yoara sgo, If the number of tailors, soamstrosses, and othor makors of clothing has not incrensed at all sinco 1800, still B3¢ por cont of thoso thon employed rmust now bo out of work, simply bacause we have reduced our consumption of cloth. Bome proof of thooffeots of this etate of things upon dothos-making may bo found in the con sus atatistics of the manufactures of men's and women’s clothing. ‘The numbor of hands om- ployed in men's olothing establishments in 1860 was 114,000, and in 1870 it Lnd decronsed to 100,000, Notwithstanding an inorenso of 223§ per cont in population, the numbor of hands employed in all clothing establishments, for mon’s, women's, and children's clothing, had doorensed from 120,589 in 1860 to 119,824 in 1870. Yot theso establishmenta havo very groat advantages over tho scatterod tailors, soam- strossos, aud drossmakors who form the ro- maiudor of the 238,46 porsons omployed in making olothes, Thoy uso machinery, can buy and soll at wholesalo, and, in the tor- rible compotition which a reduced consump- tion of olothing must cause, would natur« slly bo nble to orowd tho scattored workmon aud poor sewing-girls to death. If in thoso strong establishmonts tho number,of hands hag diminished, what must have boon the loss of labor and the sufforing among thoso otlor work- ors who havo at all times & life hard enough at best? Tven in theso strong establishmonts, the cost of materinls has 8o inoroased that corre- sponding prioos for the finished olothing, could not bo obtained, Iu men's clothing cstablishe monts, the matorial cont 54 8-6 por cont of tho ‘value of products in 1860, and 58 8-10 por conb in 1870; in women's olothing cstablishments the matorial cost 46 per cont of the valuo of pro- duets In 1800, aud 63 por cont in 1870, As the inovitablo rosult of shch a compotition, tho wages paid ralatively docronsed ; in mon's oloth- ing tho sum paid as wagos wps 243¢ por cont of tho value of tho product in 1860, and only '20}{ per cont in 1870, whilo in women's clothing tho averago por hand in 1800 was $207.88 In gold, and in 1870 only $215.06 in currency. Thus in onoh branch the wages paid to Iaborers incrensed loss than the cost of tho material used by them, and less than the prico of tho produot oreated by thoir Jabor, and far loss than the avorago inoronse in gonoral prices and in tho cost of living. Dut it thoso have beon tho offecta upon Ilabor in tho strong establish- monta whore machinory is used, what must have beon the affcot upon the employmont and aver- ago earnings of tho 140,000 tailors and soam- streases not omployed'in such establishmenta? To thom, the decrosse in tho consumption of clothing fa falal. It has forced four porsons to battlo with each other for tho work that suficos for only throo. If this is protecting Amorican Iabor, thon tho less wo havo of it the bettor for tho poor seam- Btrossos, who worlk for loss wngo; in gold than they rocolved in 1860, and yot number more than all tho porsons employed in woolen snd worstod manufacturo ; and tho less of It the bet~ tor for tho olothing oatablishments, which ome ploy fowor handa then they did thirteen yoars: 2go, and yot employ more than all tho woolen and worsted milla {ogother. Out of forty millions of consumera injured by the incronsed cost of cloth, it alrendy appears that only thoso who mako cloth—loss than s quarter of a million—can havo boon helpod, ‘To bless o country by taxing ono hundroed and gixty porsons for tho benofit of ono is tho theory of Protection ; lot uslook at the practices The avorago of wages per hand in tho cotton manufacturo, nashown by the consus of 1870, woa 8288, but in 1800 it was 106,63, so that the inordase bas boon 47 porcent. Buk the price of cotton cloth has fncronsod over 60 por cant, and in 1800 tho cost of tho material was 49 per cent of the value of tho product, and in 1870 63 4-5 per cont, o that wagos have increased far loss than tho cost of the matorlal or the prico of the goods mado. Tho avernge of wages por hand in the wdolen manufacture in 1800 was $286.87, and in 1870 it was §842.21, tho incrense boing 44 per cont. But the prico of woolen goods has incroased 64 por cont, and tha cost of all mate- rials in 18060 was 58 7-10 por cont of tho valuo of all products, and In 1670 it was 61710 per cont. Whilo tho number of yards made (of woolens only) incrensed 53 per cent, and the wages of bands 44 por cont, the value of products in- creased 103 per cont, Tho avorage of wages paid In the gilk manufscture in 1860 was ©196,07, end in 1870 it wae $202,11; incronse, 897-10 por cont. But the prico of goods inorcased 60 per cent, and the cost of matorinls in 1860 was 59, and imt 1870 it waa 04 por cont of the product. " Thus, In every branch, tho wages increased loss than the cost of articles used by tho labor on tho one hand, or tho prico of articles made by tho labor on tho other. Tho averago incroase of wages ‘was 48 por cent, and it ia nok necossary to toll anybody that 8140 in currency would not go as far in pay- ing exponses of » family in 1870 as £100 in gold in1860. But it is » littlo hard that the vory people who mako cloth should be able to buy loss ot it with their wages than they could be- foro they woro protected! The workman who earnod $100 {n 1860 in woolen mills,nnd now earns 8140 by .tho same labor, could then boy with his wagos 100 yards of tho very cloth ho produces whore the wages for the samo Iabor will now buy him ouly eighty-five yords of tho same cloth. The highly benovolont manufacturer has not only * proteoted " us ous of sixty-oight millions in tho cost of woolen and worated goods, but has also ¢ protected™ hig own workmen out of sbout onc-sixth of the wages ho usod to pay, measured in the very cloth which thoge workmon make. Verily, this is “protecting” American lnbor with » von- geance! To rob forty milliona of poople, and deprive o quarter of a million of tailors and seamstrosses of one-fourth of thoiromployment, under pretenco of protecting 242,846 persons engaged in cloth-making, aud thon to pay thom go littlo that thoy oannot live a8 well as they did ‘before, nor,even buy ns much cloth of their own make—if thisis not a swindle, and & very mean one, what is it ? NOTES AND OPINION. Tho Dubuque Zimes, odited by Jacob Rich, Chairman of tho Ropublican State Central Com- mitteo in Towa, says: Tho farmors aro Do more oppressod by raflrosds thon othor poople. . . . . Tha condition of affairs which now brings thom to tho now policy of restraiut 1ins brought nearly overy ono elso toaceapt that polloy, ‘What nocd, thon, of new partios ? Doos this foreshadow the platform of the Re- publican Btate Convention at Deslloines, Juno %2 2 +—Tho DosMoinos Register (organ), brage that 80 far evory dolegate to tho Republican Convon- tion is “instructed to vote loud and unani- mously for the ronomination of Mr. Carponter.” Of courso; all tho official sins thnt Corpontor 18 accusod of wore done “for the snke of tho party.” —8iuco the farmers in all the Weat are to pro- claim and colebrato their Indepondence on the Fourth of July, the Alton Zelegraph (organ) 8ys : \);lo object to converting this day of rejolcing and de- voted to the cultivation of klnd 'and fratornal focliug amang all classes of citizens, into one complutnlug of and arraying oue portion of our citizens againut aue other, —Kontuoky elects a Logislature in August, and the Louisville Courier-Journal urges that the peoplo instruct for a Constitutional Uonvon- tlon, —The Ponnsylvania Logislature, it tho pro- posod now Conatitution bo adopted, will have n _mombership increasod to fifty in the Senato and 162 in the House, all to be elected in singlo dis- triots, —Ex-Sonntor George W. Jonen, of Dubuque, who is distontly related to n member of the Prosidont’s housohold, and hos racently joined the Grant porty, indigoantly denfea the ru- mor that he was about to atart another Republi- can papor in that olty. —The Michigan Scnators have removed the ban of seeresy, Zack Chandlor's Lack png wag 3,908.80, and Thomas W, Forry's was €3,020, and it was all put whero it would do tho Treas- ury most good, Muarch 28, with this roquoat : Not willing to gain what we voted ngaiust, wo re- «quest that the eamo bo applied toward the cancellatton of tho 0 por cont_intervat-bearing obligations of tho nation, Lest such roturn bo distorted into possiblo rofloction upon the prapriety of dlssimilar dlaposition by othiors, you will obligo us much by giving no pub- Lty to the matter, —Wo cannot holp feeling that the aotion of the Miohigan Benators, neither of whom had any roal need of tho monoy is yery oraditablo to thom, ‘They made o serious mistake, however, in their over-modost desiro to concoul their gnnd doods, Had it boon genorally known at an ear- 1y day that tho great war Senator aud hia asso- olate had refuscd to becomo rocoivors of stolen proporty, it can hardly bo doubted that their oxample would havo had a bouoficial offect upon womo of the Jossor lights in the Congraasional firmament. That they should shrink from tho opon consure of tho Presidont, which the an- nouncoment of their intention would havo oar- rlod with it, was porhaps natural ; but tho good which the announcement would have offeotod ought to have stoelod thom against Presidentinl groas from this Dlstrict, did not draw the bacle pay voted him by tho salary grabbors,” but had covorad it Into tlio Treanury, whoro it belongs. This notion Is consistont with Mr, Waldron'n rocord, Ifo votod n?nlnut tho bnole pay, aud very properly rotusod to atulify Limsolf by ac- gopting moioy to which ho dld not conhider himsolt entitlod.—Hilladale (Aich.) Democrat, —Seuntor Edmunds saya no snlary stoal for him, In couvorsation with a roproontativo from Vormont, lio_deolared ogrinst touchiug it, and has actod in accordance with that declaras And, in o privato lottor to his friond, A, J, Crano, Collootor of Intornal Rovenue for tho Third District, ho spoke in tho most decided torms of condomnation of the wholo thing, His couro in this mattor prosonts n_most honorablo oontrast to that of the Hon, Luke P. Poland, who said ho had his back-pay in his broochios pocket.—Monipelier (V1) Argus and Palriol. —The Board of Buporvisors of Wapollo County, Town, have dirooted Auditor Caldwoll to roturn to tho Hon, M. M. Walden tho $339.60 which Lo rocontly sont to that county out of his back-pay. ~—Oltumta (Iowa) Democrat, —~Oongrossman Packard, of Indiana, has doubtloss discoverod by this timo that the pao- plo of Laporto County aro not in a Juklng mood about tho salary awindlo,—Detroit T'ribune. —TFarmers of Franklin County, on and after July 1, you will ploaso hinve 0 conta ready to pay the posfage on your ounty papor, in ordor to assiat in making good the "82,600, moro or Joss, which tho Hon. D, P, Lowe, your M. O., fobbod from tho Troraury of tho'United Siatos.—Olla- wa (I{an.) Republican. i —A man muat fall troos enough to make twonty-fivo cords of hard wood, work it up inte cord-ood longth, thon lond it upon Lia wgon, / malko hig tonm draw it from ten to twonty milen, / thion unload it—with all this work baving carned’ monoy onough to pay o Congrossman for ong day's Work.— Watseka (1ll.) T'imes, —A distingulshod mombor of the bar of this city suggosta to us that menibors who huve taken back pay and kept it, conld bo made to rofuad tho samo in,an action at law.—Afilwaukee News. —Had tho moribund Congross that votod ltsolt rlch upon back n{‘lorcmou tho rosults uponthe ublia mind of tho country thoy would jave ositatad over 60 naked arobbery, and the Frosi. dont who shared, and who sanotioned it for'that roason, might hove boon_porsuaded not t4 sign that infamous law.—Omaha (Neb.) Herald, ' —*'"Ny voto did not make it & law. His sig. nature dlfl."-—-G'anflcld on Grant's conacction with tha salary steal bill. s ~Not only the Uanton Farmera’ Olub, but the pooplo gonorally, of all classes, shonld say ta Cougrossmon, yon must repeal tho law giving yourselvos incronsed pay, or be doomed to tho £0mo lgnomlnlona fato which haa befallon overy man who voted for or received the back: pay.— Canton (I1l.) Ledger. —It 18 protty certain that tho ropoal of tho in- oreaso of salary bill will bo made o question in the npxt Congross, sud the members eloot may s well mako up their minds to it, There is a surprising smount of vitality in the mstter, and it dooms destined to give a good deal more troublo than its suthors ever apprehonded.— Davenport (lowa) Democral. —Tho wo appointmonts by Presldent Grant, of Shollabargor and Bingham, both used-up Crodit-Mobiliers, to responsiblo positions, when thoy wore totally Inid on tho sholf by their con- stituonts, rather takos his frionds by surpriso. In thio wholo fuvestigation, not o whispot s Toard sgainst the Prosident in any way, Why should 1o 80 8oon indorso tho roscally matter by maks ing such appointmonts ¢— Carroll County (1) Qazette, —his n‘ppulntmunt of Bingham, and other incidonts of tho samo sort, show very conclu- sivoly that tho Presidont rogards public thiovery . a8 no disqualification for his confidonce, or for promotion to high places, Lot the poople roe mombor thoso things against the day of roolons ing.—Ncbraska Cily News. —From nino to cloven sets of tho Modical and Burgical History of tho War woro printod for each of our high-toned Scnalors and Con< rossmon., Tho theory wag, of course, thah fhoy would plnco this valuablo work whoro it would do most good ; that i8, in tho libraris of practisin phyaFulnns 'or medical societios in their Bovoral States and districts. The fact was, that a Inrge number of thoso sots turnod up on thg slplves of tho socond-hand book-soliors of ‘Waslungton, who bave been lmwklng thom at 89 and 810 o sot. * There is no doubt,” writes tha Washington correspondont of tho Now York Times, * that_sovernl mombers sold thoir sots outright, or allowed persons conuocted with or dopendeht upon thom to melke tho salos and pocket the price.” Thoy do seom to have been o good deal on tho make—those statcsmen of tho Forty-second Congross. The littlo busy bea pooms -& morc shiftless idlor compared’ with them.—Springfleld Republican, —1t is distinctivoly characteristic’ of Ropubli- cans to bo aungry with their party loadors whon-~ over thoy.violato their trust and’ prove rocroant to tho principles of tho pmg; and it {s the habig——. of Ropublicans to forthwith cast overboard’all thoso who are no longer worthy of coufidence. —Milwaukeo Sentinel. —Hobby riding is played out. Good, practi- cal, common sonso, producing favorablo rosults, aro ingredionts dosirable in tho prosont iskuo, and st this time. Tho result of Credit Mobilior, of salary stoals, of Munch-Soogor dofaleations, -&mve to us that tho * gilded sepulohre " are nol ourinteroat, Thoro has boon too much using of the people for a porsonal bonoflt, snd our inion is that the farmer thinks so soriously about this 1878.—Winnebago City (Alinn.) Press. —A fow loading politicians got their honds tos gother and nominato a men for Governor, and two or three poltical papers adopt him, and brag or blow him into office, while tho large ma- jority of tho poople, Who go to tho polls and vote for tho man, don't know who ho is. Now, Ism o Ropublican, dyed in tho wool ; but for ouo, 1 am opposod to this way of doing businoss.—A Minnesota Farmer. ! —Will tho farmors and laboring men organizo for their own protection and vindioation, or will they quietly lot their hands romain ' in tho. shackles that have boon binding them so loni Wo ngain repoat, that immediate action will bo their salvation, and procrastination their do- struction,—Pazlon (ZIl.) Journal. . —Doliticians may snecer, but tho movoment in Jowa moans n oleaning out of corruption and thioving all over the Btato.—Iftock Island (Ill.) Arqus. 5 -—g-‘is would be extremely hazardous for us to say that the movement in Town promises suc. cess, nud milly to ay that it will smount to noth. ing. Wo renlly considor it b formidablo move« ment, and one that will call for careful manago- mont and n sound discretion to overcome. Its forces will not be lessenod in numbers by either ridiculo or sbuse, nor auy man dotorred from ad- herenco to its polioy by the cry of traitor or do- sorter.—dJazper County fllowa) ‘Frece Press. —Projudico is now meltiug “away, and tho de- lotod pockot-book of tho farmer i cauping him FD ook into tho causes of his lack of mouoy. Tirst o soos the infamous robLery of tho rail- Tonds ; noxt ho gots a view of tho banking and tariff systom,—the last of which roba him to en~ rich mon who buy up Cougressmon to pass luwg to opproes the pooplo of the Wost.—Carlinuville i) Enquirer. —Tho whole Amoerican paople, oxcepting somo fow rich manufacturers, aud coal nud iron doanl= ors, are robbod and_plundered overy day to fill tho pockotn and coffors of monopolists. Tvery- thing wa eat, drink, snd wear is coverod over with tarifls in some ehape.—Aledo (1il.) Banner. Tho massos ovon now domand that the protec- tive swindlo eball bo rooted up from tho bottom. ‘When they invnsfiimta further thoy will bo a unit on that subject. If this infamy is porpotuated by purchasod sents in the Unitod States Bonate, ostorn agrionlturists will be compelled to geolk tho open markots of Cauada, even if forced to do it with tho bayonot.—sSt. Paul (Minn.) Pio- neer, —Tho monoyed and scctional oloments which are reliod on to provent action in reliof of tho people, and choap trausportation for all, we do not count worthy of notice. 'Tho sections inter- osted aro strong onough to tako what thoy want, and Lribery i far loss powerful fn such an_issuo than it is genorally .credited with being.—La Crosse g Wis.) Republican. —Politicianis toil us that all gront moral quos- tions must be fought out through one or the othor of tho political partios. True, to a cortain extont ; but are we to agroo tlab if political partion will not consont, thoy muat not ho fought out at all, but & great moral wrong euffored to 0 on uurnbl;kud and unchecked ?—Lafayclle Ind.) Journal. - ?L\Bra i8 moro renl life and spirit in tho ‘movomont of the Weatern * Granges " thau in all tho othor politica of the Union added to- gothor, It is now certain that tho farmers movoment thore has passed beyond tho sontrol of tho party yot oalled Ropublican,—Butfalo (N, Y.) Courier. —1'ho pooplo of the Wost ‘are evidoutly very tirod of tho protonso, humbug, and rascality of tho Ropublican party, and this peoplo™s move- ment is an outeropping of that ‘sontiment ina practical working form.—Philadelphia Age. —Tho dofeat of Oharlos Wheaton in tho judl- ofal contest should be attributed to n fow politi olang rather than to that Qonllumml himsolf, ‘The Ropublican party “fl“F " wus dofoatod, not Mr, Wheaton, ‘I'ho ping all set up for noxt fall wore knocked down, and Mr, Whenton foll with them. Mr. Whontol is an ablo Inwyer, has mada an honorablo roputation as n constitutional logs {ulator, rud in worthy the confidonce of tho poo« plo. Iad ho boon tho favmors' candidnte his diupleasure.—Detroit Free Pregs. . —1ho Hor, Henry Wuu;vu, Member of Cone elootion would havo boon cortain.—Elyin (It Adyocate.