Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, Juny 26, 1873 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TERME OF AUDSONIPTION gl'A‘;A“u N ADVANO:). (4 | Bunday. 1300 Waday arta of & yout At tho samio rate. : o sravon deiey and mistakon, bo suro and gisoPost Office addrosa In full, Including State aud County, TRomittancon may bo mado olthor by drat, ozprose, Fost Ofico ordor, or in registerad lottors, at our gk, . TENMA TO OITY BUNSORIDERA. Daily, delivorod, Bunday oxeoptod, 35 conte yor wooks Dally; dolivorod, Sunday inoludod, 30 conts por wook. Addross TIIE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison and Dontboru-ata,, Obloago, Jil. TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, 'S THEATRE_Randolph stroot, bet PR R e VL B B '8 THRATRE—Madison atroot, botwoon P S ot i W Wrols. Aftarnoon and Evoning, . BUSINESS NOTICES, INSTEAD OF BITTER USE BWERT QUININE, "Bt BURE AND OALL TOIL “*MR8, WINSLOWS senhiebieatd Wl e Wl ol ity . Gives rost to l’:‘l‘h‘; lé:?l‘t'l? ‘%n‘m lvlmlc;ol.lu and rogulates the bowels, ROYAL ITAVANA . LOTTERY-WR BOLD 1N a-u?\u”«m &‘;Hll‘lnn e afiaa.m o, Ultoniaes Daitors, 10 Walbat. o Fo 0. tox 46, Now Yorl. TATCHELOR'S MAIR DYE. TIHIS GPLENDID Batrdyo 1n tho bost én tho world, Tho only truo and por- £oot 7. Harnilese, rollablo, And inatantancous: nodieap- Rointaiont uovidlalons it or uiplasaant pdor, Tiomo: fon tho 11 effoota of bnd dyca and ywashce. Droduces in. pdiatoly supori bl of maiusalivonn, and joavos the clean, soft, and beautiful, Tho genuino, slgn . A “Bntonalar.” "Sold by il _druguisia, OLUARLES HATOILLOR, Propriotor, N. ¥ The Chicage Tribune, yoar wau 123,386,768 tons, and 808,844 pordony woro employed, showing an average produotion of about 814 tons for each porson. The produo- tion oxcooded that of 1871 by six miillon tons, snd tho production of 1871 that of 1870 by nind milllon ‘fohs. Tho rlse in prices com- monced in 1871, and roached its ligh- ost; point in the boginning of 1873, In Tondon, tho wholessle pricos of tho best housohold coals woro, in 1870, 18 6d; in 1871, 10a 8d; in 1872, 248 11d; and n tho prosont year, 838, Tho Committoo find thoe causos of this rise in tho Increasod activity of the iron trado, snd tho groat strikes in Walos, and tho Minos Rogu- Intion act of 1872, which added to tho cost of tho Committoo ngrood that the prico of conl would not again bo a8 low be it waa throo yoars ngo. Tho announcoment yosterday foronoon that a firo was raging in Daltimore, had alroady do- stroyod tou blocks, and throatoned to eproad much farther, caused considorablo intorost among our ecitizens, who Lave o keon remom- branco of Low a groat firo in o largo city may result, Fortunstely, howover, the Baltimoro* firo did not prove as dostruotivo ag was indicated by tho carlier roports. In our columns this morning will bo found full partioulars and do- tails, togothor with & map of tho burnt distriot. Consldoring the aren burned over, the losa of proparty is not nearly 80 gront as if it had been Saturdey Morning, July 20, 1873. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The pressuro upon our columns on Sunday morning {a 80 groat that wo aro compalled to roquost advertisers tosend in thelr advertiscmonts for that isstio atos »arly an hour as poasible, in ordor thot they may with sertalnty socure the proper classtfication, No answer has yot beon given to the applioa« jion of the Amorican prisonors at Fort Garry for wil. From tho statemont mnade by tho Cana~ lian officor who arrested thom, there is littlo Qoubt thoy wore taken on American'sofl. Tho boundary sottled by the lagt convention runs nlong the 49th parallol, and the arrest took placo 110 yards south of that Hne, e Canadian oxcitomont about the Pacific Rail- way shame gota hotter overy dny. Every load- iug Govornment organ, oxcopt the Afail, of Toronto, has beon compolied by public opinion to nbandon the ides of proroguing Parliament to prevent dobate on the quostion, and it is bo~ lioved that, if tho Government is so rashas to attompt this polioy, popular disturbances of a sorious charaotor will follow. T ———— Rusein has mado o tFoaty with -éhe XKban of Khiva by which Lis Ehanato s guarantaod its indepondonce ,upon tha paymeut of a war in- domnity of 2,000,000 roubles (about $1,600,000 gold), ponding which Russian troops will ro- main in the country. .Khiva also ongages to follow tho oxampla of Russia in the abolition of capital punighmont, which has been unknown in that Empiroe for a long timi — Tho Iowa reilroad robbers have been travked 25 far'as Pattonburg, Mo, Thoy aro still push- ing sonthward, but their Lorses rro o Jaded, and pursuers aro springing up in such vumbors, that they aro not likely. to escapo, Tho polico of 8t. Louis beliove them to bo the ssmo ging that robbed tho Bt. Genovievo, Mo., bank, the Russellville, Ky., bank, and the Gallatin, HMo., bank. If this be corroct, their rondozvons is in Jackson County, Mo., aud thoir homes are in a community which, if thoy reach it, will do ita bost to shield them from justico and misload their pursuers. — Gen. Butlor's invontion of the salary-stoal, tosay nothing of his other sins, ia roturning to plague him. At o mooting in Boston yestordny, of some of tho most influentinl Republicans of Massachusotts, who are detormined, it possible, to thwart his Gubornatorial intriguo, Judge Hoar denounced the salary-grab and its author in unmensured torms, and said notbing he could do should be wanting to provent Butler from boing clooted. The weight of this confor- enco may bo ostimated from tho attondanco of AMr. Dasos, Judgo Hoar, and E. R. Hoar, Bpeak- or Sanford, of the Massachusctts Loglalature, and many other leading Ropublicans. An Ex- ecutive Committes was nppointed to devise some pleu of action, and an address is to bo issuod to tho people of the State. ————— The Constitutional Convontion of Now Je orsoy, following the nction of tho Ponnsylvania Con- vention, hns adjourned until the 7th of Octobet. The principal amendmonts thus far submitted aro the following: o make o member of the Legislature inoligible who aceopts freo railroad tickets ; that mombers shall roceive but $800 por annum ; that no Judge of & court shall ride 1reo or hold railroad stock ; that ospital ponishe mont ehall bo abolished aud imprisonmont for lifo substituted, the pardoning power baing dis- allowed; that the Court of Chancery shall be obolished ; zhat no man shall hold an office who sholl lave influenced n caypus by money orotherwiso; that any man who has been s dofaultor to tho Stato or General Governmont shail bo deprived of the right of voting ; and that a man shall bo entitled to vote after slxty days’ rosidenco in a connty. Tho influenco of tho present farmers' anti-railrond movement ia clearly tracoable in meuy of thesoradical changos which havo been proposaed, t ———— ‘The Chicago produce markots wore gonorally less activo yostorday, Moss pork was dull, but 100 por brl bhighor, at 815.70@16.76 cash, and $16.80@15.85 sollor August, Lard was dull and unchanged, at 7%{@8c por Ib for wintor, and 734 @75 for Bummer rendored. Moats wero quiot and stendy, at TX@75¢o for shouldors, 87¢@% for short middles, and 10@1224o for sweok plel- lod hams. Lako froights woro loss aotive and 24 bigher, at 5}fo for corn by sail to Buftalo. Highwinos wore insctive snd unchanged, at 9)4@920 por gallon. Flour wae quiat and steady. Wheat was dull and 3go lower, closing at $1,205{ oash, and £1.145¢ sollor Au~ gust. Corn was quiot and atendy, closing at 86a cneh, and 36)¢o sollor August. Oats wero quiot and unchanged, closing at 273¢c cast, aud 2050 sollor Auguat. Ryo was quict and stoady &t 570, Barloy was dull and onslor, closing at 80a for now No. 2, soller Boptombor. Hogs were in moderate domand ot $4.90@4.85 for coarse hoavy to extra light, Tho cattlo market was dall and casy, Bheop ruled stoady and nnchanged, e ee—— The English Parliamentary Oommites, which wan appointed last March to investigato the qupstion of coal supply, bas fnlshed its labors, ond slthongh it has mot yob mado it xeport, the ovidenco iy all boforo the publio. - The total working the mines, All tho witnesses boforo output of tha aoal flolds of Groat Britain iesy " practically abolished. in tho business part of tho oity, or even in thoso distriots whoro tho finer privato residoncos are located. Alarge part of tho buildings wore vory old, including » number of framo housos, Thirty yoars sgo, this particular distriot was o fashionable location, but business crowded 8o closoly upon it, that for many yoars no residonces of the moro costly stylo have been oreotod thore. Apart from tho porsonal loss and distross inovitablo in such cases, it ia possiblo that the fire, liko many othors, may prove an oventual benefit. Tho contiguity of n large planing-mill, surrounded by frame buildings, togothor with intonse hoat and a brisk wind, furnishoed all the requiromonta for an oxtonsivo fire. It is an old exporience again ropented. ‘Tho various commonts on the Bhepherd-Dana libel enit has called out a card from Mr, Elizur Wright, of Boston, who takoes the rathor gueer position that thero should be no right of action against an editor for libel excopt on an afii davit that the editor has rofused cithor to retract publicly, or to admit, in conspicuoua typo, an auswor to tho alloged libelous mattor, of at lonat oqual or reasonablo length.” This Js oven a more liboral view of tho rights and duties of public journals then fair-minded journalists can domand. It is undoubtodly based upon the -ground that newepapere 0o it to tho public to gathor . nows from tho best sources at thoir command, and that when, in tho bona fide- ondenvor to protect mo- cloty, thoy publish libelous mattor withost malice, they shonld not bo pumished for maice. But tho ru'® which Mr. Wright proposos vould opon tro door wido for gratification 6f any malice which n nowspapor editor might hLave. ¥7e could give full vent to his sploen, and work out his purposo in such mannor that tho publi- cation of a denial on the following day would #earcoly wipo out tho improseton that had beon mado, Thero {8 no douLL Wiab ého law of libel in somo of tho Btates works gross injustice uguinst nowspaper publishers, but the other extromo would be quite as hurtful to thoe intorests of -golloty. The peculiar manner in which AMr, Kellogg was sustained in his olaim for the control of the Louisiana Government has evidently led him to helioyo that, like Louis XIV., ho is the State. Ho was cortainly promptod bysomo such impres- sion in his rocont action in regard to tho Stato funds. He practically abolishod the offico of Btato Troasurer to carry out his purpose. New Orlonns is flooded with Trossury warrants with which official ealarics and tho Btato dobts bave beon pald under carpet-bag rule. By the oxorciso of eomo extremely arbitrary ‘monaures, Mr, Kollogg has rocontly succeoded in socuring a small smount of monoy in tho Trons- ury. Inthe hope of making some reputation for oconomy, Lo sustained Mr. Clinton, tho Stato Auditor, in issuing an advertisemont, which an- nounced to the peoplo that & cortain amount of monoy would bo disbursed ot o cortain date in “ ghaving" warrsnts, and that those who should bid highest for tho monoy, or, in other words, toko loast for their warrants, should bo favored in tho distribution of tho funds. This procceding was, of course, B spe- cies of repndiation, and altogether unauthor- ized by law. The Btato Trossurer, & colored man named Dubucht, who was elected in 1870 to hold office for four years, protestod againat this course, but Kellogg ordered the Collectors to pay over their money to the Auditor, and ordered tho Auditor to follow the advertised programmo. The Troasuror's offico was thus —— ‘The Postmaster of Chicago is at Washington sooking suthority to enlarge the sorvice by carriors in this city. Ho asks for an additional forco of forty carriers, The following flgures from tho officlal monthly reports show that in point of postal businoss Chicago is the second city in the Union. The numbor of carriors em- ployed in each of tho principal citios is as fol- lows: Now York, 817; Philadelphis, 177; Ohi-s engo, 111 ; Bt, Louls, 64; Boston, 70; Daltimore 69 ; Oincinnati, 50. Tho'dolivery and collection of lottors in May, in ench city, was as follows N~ SEIEIE = g g =3 Citfes, 35 g§ gz_ & Y| FY|RFIig 593,8481,810,728,017,253/3,350,134 001 480,705(,542,447 5,000/627,757|1,013,260 80,200 168,933] '527,898 W SALILTT,IAT] 804,051 GO,1TA[LINA] 49,400 6,873] 99,870] 813,747 Ciucinnati, The average of mail lptters dellvered sinco January is groater In Chicago than ip Philadel- phia, though tho lattor oxccods Chicago in tho number of drop-lattora, Tho lotters colleotod by the carriors In Ohicago oxoead in number the collections in any two citios, excepting Now York, The forco of carriors allowed this city is wholly dlsproportionate to tho orvico thoy porform, and greatly inforlor to that allowed all othor clties, Chicago onght to have 200 carriors, but QGon. MoArthur acks only for s total of 150. o 180 asks to have flva additional sub-stations os- tablighed,~—one in tho North Division, one - on Milwaukea avonuo, ono st Tywonty- second etroot, ononesr MoCormick's factory, and onont tho Btook-Yarde. At presept ol tho drop-lotters have to be collected and brought to tho Post-Ofiice, and thonce carriod out again for delivpry. DBy means of thoso stations, all thoap city lettera could be taken out direot from thee qub-stations ayd Qoliverod hourly, Tho difffoulty at Washington haa always boon that tho suthoritios in tho Post-Offico Doparimont do ‘ot comprohend that Ohiengo, noltyof a fow yenrs .of ngo, should roquire postal facilitios groator than tho Atlantio oities with thelr contury of growih. It would do tho postal sorvico immonso good it the Postinastor-Goneral and his sovoral noslatants would visit Ohleago and spend s month horo, and witnoen tho oxtent of tho city, its vaat population, its immonso business, and especlally tho gront mass of mail matter recolved and sont frown horo dally. HOT-CORN LAWS, ¥ Dospito the hot weathior, thore has not hoon any posting of hot corn fu tho clovators for somo timo. Mr. Hiram Whoolor's doclaration, that thora fs no mora hot corn this sonaon than tho avornge, i thus largely verified. Tho occnsfon is o gonsonablo ono to suggest to tho Board of Trade tho adoption of somelaw or rogulation on’| this subjeot which will ronder rocklossnoss in posting corn impossible, or atlenst unprofitable. Falso posting of hot corn, falso bottoms in grati- bing, ovor-issucs of grain receipts, sro now historieal. During tho yoars in which theso wore practiced, thoro was gront roluctanco on the part of tho Board of Trado to tako any measures to exposo, punish, or provent such things. Tho warchousemoen wero simply masters of tho situntion. Thero waa roponted whitowashing by committoos, and tho newspapors woro as usunl denouncoed sa sensation-mongers, and as libelers of plous and exemplary, men engaged in tho warohouso business. Thero camo & timo, how- over, when the Board was compelled tostriko n honyy blow at warchouso sbuses. This boing dono, it wns nssumed that the busincss had been purified ; that thero would be no more dishonesty, and that tho grain trade wonld bo theroafter conducted with as strict a dovotion to intogrity as if it wers o church affair and all the denlors wero deacons. Tho publie all over the West wore invited to admire the snowy white- noss everywhere visible. Novortholoss, thero followed from time to timo oxtonslve cornors, and bad failares, aud ro- fusals to pay lossos, and gonorally as diaroputa~ blo sorambling as thero would bo in caso of tho collapso of o faro bank. Then comos tho hot corn posting, nud then tho rope:t8 of spocial committens testitying to tho fact that grain doposited i the warchousos hne 000N 80 nogligently, csrolossly, and ludifforrcly kopt that it was actuslly deenying, and the propriotors woro uot awsro of the fact. A nowspapor ro- porter, who repeated o statpmont that tho corn waa not ® rotton na had »eon reported, thoroby intimattg thot bottor ¢aro had boon taken of it in thewarchonse than really had boon, was de- nouscod 28 an onemy to Chicago. Ne published yostordsy a letter from omo of cir staff, who has beon in Towa latoly, chargod with tho special duty of collocting agricultural information. Ile reports that thocatimatoplaced on tho grain trado ns carriod on in Chicago s by no-moans favorablo, It {s added that Iowa fur- nishes more trade to Chicago than Illinois docs, and that the Towa farmers would like to bo satis- fiod that their grain is proporly handled wher it ar- rivos here, Wo arg freo toadmit, and very glad to ‘beliove, that nearly. all tho .warchouse abuses hiavo boon oxtirpated, ‘but 8o long as wo cannot tako a8 good car of corn us othior cities do, wo might a8 woll not attompt to handlo it at all. 8o long a8 any warohousoman can, by bis own .noglect or otherwiso, get o stock of corn into a partially damaged condition, theroby reducing tho value of tho property; and so long as that partinlly damoged corn can be purchased at it doprociated price, shipped hence, cleaned and sold at its original valuo; ond so long ns the Board of Trade takes no action to chango this modo of business undor which fraud is always possible, and will always bo suspocted, so long will the public believe themselves plundered whon' *hiot corn " makes its appearance. Wo are porfectly awaro that thore is a sonti- mont that this thing ought not be talked about ; that it is injurious to tho charactor of tho city to give publicity to any kind of abuao or dereliction of duty. Wo do not sharo in this sontimont. In fact wo considor it stupid and short-sighted in tho laat dogree. Is thero not among thoe fifteon hundred mon who composo the Board of Trade of Ohicago sufliciont regard for tho character and reputation of tho city to propose, for in- stance, that one grain-dryor be erected some- where in this vicinity, and that it bo freo to all corn, without rogard to color or provions condition? It may bo that the prosent logislation of the Btate is defective, and that thero is no power in the Board of Trado to adopt nny rogulation which will reach ot cornj but that hody can, at leaet, do its duty by point- ing out the neoded remodies, and by preparing for tho Legislaturo noxt winter such laws ng will mako hot corn moro oxpensive than any ox- isting machinory for keoping it in condition. THE VIRGINIUS AFFAIR, Tho blockade-running steamer Virginius, which last year was conveyed to sea by the TUnited Btates stonmeor Kansas from a Venozue- | 1an port, undor the instructions of Mr. Hurlbut, then Minister to the Ropublic of Colombls, at o timo whon she was threatoned with seizure by tho Spanish steamor Pizarro, has once moro provokod tho indignation of the Spanish suthorities, By & curlous coincidenco, it ia the eamo United States stonmer which has sgain conveyed her out of the reash of harm, not from tho Pizarro this timo, but from tho steamer Bazan. The correspondonce botween Com- mander Reod, of the Kanaas, tho United Btates Consul at Aspinwall, whore the Virginius was lylng, and tho Commandoer of tho Bazan, has now been published, and sots forth tho facts of tho situation very cloarly, On tho 23d of Juno, the Bpanieh Commander nddrossed a noto to Com- maudor Rood, stating that the Virgiulus had pre- viously mado o landing on tho coust of Ouba with o cargo of arms and ammunition, and agk- ing him to inform him whother the Virginius was an American vossel aud hnd the right to fy the Amerioan flag. On the recoipt of this note, Com- mandor Rood addressod o noto to tho United Btatoa Consul at Aspinwall dosiring to kmow the charactor of tho Virginius, to which the Consul ropliod that the papors of the Virginius woro all corroct, that sho was & Unjted States vossol, and was authorized to sail undor the Amoricon flag. Commandor Reod thon auswered tho Bpan- foh Commandoy’s noto in dotal, set- tiug forth the substanco of the Consu- lar mote, nud adding that, as iho hostile ot complained of had novor been brought to the notlce of the United Btatos Governmont, ho falt himsolt bound to protoot tho vessel, as Lo had boen roquosted to do by tho United States Consul, to whom tho Captaln of tho Virginius had applied for asslstance. On tho 25th of June, the Spanish Commandor roplledto Com- wandor Rood's noto, sotting forth tho fact that Lo had no mesus of Jotormining tho corroot- neas of the Virginlus' papors, and that i} wag undeniablo that sha hiad landod upon tho const . f Cuba with arms and ammunition for tho Cuban fnsurgents, and that undor such clroum- 8tancos Lio conld not pormlt hior to loaye tho port. Thinshowingof tooth, howavor, dld not in tholonst dlsconcort Commander Reed, who ncknowledgod tho lottor in n courteoua manrior, and dofinitely oxplained his viow of tho situntion in substanco 08 followa: That tho running of n blookado and tho landivg of gontraband of war doos not in- suro tho forfeitura of tho vessel unloss caught in tho nct, and though sho may bo guilty, tho offonso is dischargod ot tho end of tho voysgo, and tho ponalty novor travels further than tho ond of thg roturn voyage. Finding that thronts wore of no nvail, tho Spanish Commander triod a littlo diplomacy, and addrossed o jolut noto to Commandor Reod and the United Btatos Coneul, tho matorial part of which la contained in the following oxtract : 1In tho name of tho Spanish Government I donounco tlio steamer Virginius na o pirato, and I sk of you, taking fnto consldoration tho good rolations oxiaiing botwoen thotwo countrics, that you would diroct tho sald vossol bo sent to the Unitod States, to bo thero Judgod boforo your own courls, to which Spain will &ond the proofs phio hasin her posscsalon, wWith tho un- dorstanding that if these proofs be not sufiiclont to con- domn tho Virginius, then, as tha roprosentative of tho Bpanish Govornment, I plodge that nation to pay all damages growing out of her dotontion, ¢ Commandor Roed moroely acknowledged tho rocoipt of tho lottor, sfoanwhile the United States steameor Onnandaigun arrived in port. After ox- smining the cago, hor commandor, Capt, Ronck- ondorf, at once orderderod tho Kanens to convoy tho Virginius to ses, which was done on tho 1st of July. Tho Bpaniard tralned his guns on tho Kansns, whercupon tho Cansndaigus trainod ‘hors on tho 8paniard, and got into position for action. The Bpaniard, however, ovidently deoming discrotion tho bottpr part of valor, did not fire. When tho Kansas had gob hor convoy out to son, sho roturned to port, and shortly aftor tho Bazan loft Aspinwall to lay tho caso toforo tho Spanish Governmont. Tho Navy I¢partment at Washington has un- qualifiedty approved tho action of Capt. Ronok- endorsr and Commandor Reed. Tho mattor, howover, haa yob to come bofore tha Stato De- surtment, that is, provided tho Madrid Govern- mont can find timo onough in tho midat of its own distractions to attond to tho communica~ cations of tho Commaudor of the Bazan. Just at prosont, whon noarly its whole navy or at least tho most officiont part of it is in tho hands of the Carlists, it may como to tho conclusion that it bas naval troubles enough at hemo without adding to thom abroad. Should it, howover, lay the matter boforo our own Governmont, tho ro- spoctive Ambassadors at Madrid and Washington will bo enveloped in rod-tape for o long timo to comoe. Tho best proof, perhaps, that tho position of Commandor Reed ia & tenablo one in tho fact that ho has convoyed tho same stonmer onco before out of tho reach of a Spanish stoamer, under the instructions of Ministor Hurlbut, and that Mr. Hurlbut'a review of the cago at that timo, involving a similar position in intornational practico, was gustained by tho Stato Dopartment at Washington, aud was not soriously quostionod at Madrid. At the samo time, it is no moro than right that the Depart- ment should dotermino the oxaot status of the Virginius. - I¢ siio s in roality sailing undor the Cubun flag, and only claims tho protection of the American flag when in dangor, that fact slould als0 bo ascortained. If sho hns changod Lor fiag and performed a hostilo act toward tho Spanish Government, sho has forfoited sll protection, 08 in the caso of tho Oaban privateor Rosoluto, which was captured by tho United States, taken to Nowport, R. I, condomned and sold, for a similar offengo. This is probably tho only quos- tion to bo dotermined in whatever diplomatic correspondonco mayresult from thoe affair. From tho fact, howevor, that tho Navy Dopartment hias approved thoe action'of the Commander of tho Kansas, the presumption is that sho is an American vessol galling regularly undor tho Amorican flag. THE CARL VO0GT CASE, One of tho most intoresting and compheatod casos that havo arisen under our extradition Jnws Is that of Carl Vogt, now and for somo timo paat hold ag a prisoner in Now York. The crimo for which ho was arrestod was committed nbont two years ago in tho City'of Brussels, Bolgium, and was of o poonlintly atrocious character. The Chovalier Dubois do Bianco was murdored for the purpose of plunder, This was attosted Dby tho finding of his safo, which had been broken open and dospolled of its contents. Aftor tho murder had been committed and tho property stolen, the murdoror fired the promises to comceal Lis act, and thua bocamo guilty of three of the moat hoinous crimes in tho calondar,—robbory, murder, snd argon. Buspicien at once attachod to a valot named Josoph Btuff, otherwiso known as Carl Vogt, and, upon subsoquent investigation, it beeamo reasonably cortain that he committed the crimo, o was finally traced to tho United Btatos, and o domand was made for the dolivory of his porson to tho Belglan Government. But Vogt had money; ho secured counsol, nnd succossfully resisted tho domand, thero being no oxtradition treaty botween Bolgium and this country. The prosecutors succooded, howover, in Loeping Vogt in cnstody on tho chargo of bringing atolon proporty into Now York. ITo was thus Lold long enough for the Prussian Govornment to mako a domand for his dolivery under tho oxtradition troaty botwoon Prussia and the Unitod Btates, Vogt is s subjeot of Pruseis, ond the domand for his extradition was basod upon alawof that country which givos tho Btato jurisdiction over ita own subjocts, oven in tho cnso of crimes committed by them on foroign torritory, Whon tho Prussinu Consul made n domand for Vogt's poraon, he was takon boforo o United Btalos Commisgioner, and finally boforo Judge Blatchford, of tho United Btates Oirenit Court, who declarod that the prisoner was lnwfully detained, and remandod him to await tho extradition papars from the Btato Department, upon tho rocolpt of which Vogt was to be taken to Cologne for trial. Whon the caso was brought boforo tho Btate Dopartment, Bocrotary Fish applicd to the At- tornoy-Genoral for his oplnion in rogard to the right of the Governmont to deliver up tho pris- ouer to tho Pryseian authorltios undor tho treaty. Attoruey-Genoral Wilinms proparod sn opinion whioh Liold, in opposition to Judgo Blatolitord's docision, thot Prussia has noclatm upon tho pris- oner under tho troaty, and it is understood that tho Stato Departmont will rofuso to fssuo tho oxtradition pupors, This getion fs I diroot cone travention of tho polioy of the Administration in tho Loulsiana case, whon the Prosldent's inter- faronco was justified on the broad ground that it wag tho duty of the Ixeoutive to enforce tho docreos of tho United Btates Courts, Tho nction of tho Btate Department in rogard to Judge Dlatehford's docreo would indicate that the Ex- soutlva luanh of tho Government doca really oxorelao n discrotion in rogard to tho aots of tho Judlolary. . Notwithatanding Judge Blatehford's docislon in the caso, it must bo admitted that Attorney- Goneral Willinms' opinion hias » basis of common songo, andissustained by precodonts, which ronder any othor conatruction of tho oxtradition Jawa obrouro and far-fotched, Tho troaly betweon Prussia and tho United Statos dmands tho mu- tual dolivery of porsons charged with cortain orimes * committed within the jurisdiotion of oithor party.” - Tho point in controvorsy, thon, is whother tho Pruselon jurisdiction'in the Vogt caso can bo rocognized undor tho troaty. Itis tho opinion of Mr, Williama thiat tho word juria- diction in tho treaty clearly moans the lorritory ovor which tho Btato exorcisos its functions of Qovornmont., o holda this to bo truo (1) bo- caugo sich fa the common uso of the word ; (2) becauso it has DLoon o construod in former oxtradition cnses which ho oitos; nnd (8) becauso to admit Prussin's jurisdiction In the Vogt onso would be to concedo tho same jurisdiction over France, Groat Britaln, and the Unitod Statos, so for ag Prussian subjects aro concorned. A con- cesgion of this kind might, undor cortain cir- cumstanocs, lond to vory serious complications, I, for inatance, Vogt had committod his crimes in Qront Britain, with which country tho.vnltnd Btatea hinvo an oxtradition troaty, it might hap- pon that both the Prussian and British Govern- ments should mako s domand for hig dolivery un- der thoir soparato troatios with this country. The Unitod Statea could not deliver the prisoner to both Governmonts at onco, and would scarcely care to nssume tho rosponsibility of deciding which Government was ontitled to him. This would be tho offect of acknowledging Prussin’s Jurisdlotion over crimos committed in other countrics. Whon tho criminals aro Prussian sub- jects, that Govornment has undoubredly the right to try thom on its own torritory for orimes thnt aro recognized by its own laws, if it chooso to do so; but it muat first have the guilty porson within its own dominion, It cannot, on sound in- tornational principlos, domand thatothor Governs monta should hunt him out and deliver him over in casos whoro the crime was committed under othor jurisdiction, Aunothor point is, that tho rocognition of Prussin's jurisdiction in this caso would defeat tho reciprocal intention of tho troaty, ng the Unitod Statos Govornmont hias no law under which it could demand the oxtradition of ono of its subjects undor similar circum- stances, Complications of the kind that have grown out of tho Vogt caso could bo readily nvoided by o genoral law which should require the doliver- ing up of all persons upon compotent prima facie ovidonco that they havo beon guilty of cortain high crimes. Thero are offensos agniust socioty which are rocognized aa criminal and punished in about the samo manner by all civilized coun- trics. These aro tho crimas of murder, robbery, arson, and forgory. Pereons guilty of such erimes should bo punishod without reforenco to the territory on which thoy are committed, and tho samo ovidenco of guilt which is required to soouro tho “dolivery of tho criminal under the oxtradition treaty should be sufficiont to do- mand his dolivory without an extradition treaty. Many ablo writers on international law havo contonded thab thore is n mutual obligation upon nations to surrender fugitivea from justice. The practico of nations has beon to fix this obligation by treaty. But, if tho principlo is correct (and there can bo no doubt of this), thon it should be applied equally whoro thero hina been o failure to givo it expression in the form of a troaty. Had thoro Leen a law recognizing it in this country, much time and money would have boen enved, and justico would hinve been sorved, in tho case of tho conspicuous villain who murderoed Chovalior do Bianco. m—— Tho Cheyenuo Leader makes an sppeal for the prosorvation of the buffalo from indiseriminato slnughtor. Last yoar, 200,000 wore kLilled for tholr skina slono. Tho extonsion of railroads Las givon the hunters an opportunity to drive the buffaloos into comparatively restricted dis~ tricts, and thus they aro ponned and shot down, and tens of thousands of caronsses aro loft rot ting on the ground, Tho destruction has beon so great that tho market has been seriously affocted. A your ago tho prico of buffalo hidos in the West rangod from four to five dol~ lars for a cow's skin, and from six to soven dol- lars for a bull's skin. Now, a hido that would bayo brought fivo dollars s yoar ngo will searcoly goll for a dollar and o half, Thore iz another important point to bo considored in connection with this wholesale slasughter. Tho buffalo ia the principal moans of sustonanco to tho frontier sottlors aud to tho Indian tribes. While the Government Is annually paying onor- mous sums for boof supplies for the Indinns, thousands of thoso ueeful animalsare rotting on the Plains, instend of being utilized for food a8 thoy ehould bo. If it bo considered necessary to pass laws for tho protection of various kinds of small game, which aro only lux- uries, why should not Congress pass laws for tho protoction of this largor gamo, which is a necessity for food? NOTES AND OPINION. Jullus B. Btarr, of Pooria, s momber of the Iili- nois Legislaturo, olooted Iast yoor ag o Republi- can, concludes a lottor i tho Poorla Zranscript thus: T'hio Rallroad Jaw may bo defective, but giye it a fair trial, Put tho blame whero in all Loneaty it belougs, Let tho rulroud companics try half ns hard Lo confori to its provisons as thoy do to defeut ils operations, and el will bo well; but if thoy continuo to disrega) its plalnest yrovisions, and ride rough shod over tho law as thoy bavo done, they will fiud that thia irre- pressiblo contlict will. go on uniil their charters aro Torfoltod into tho hauds of the pooplo, Jurius 8, Branm, It secms that Roprosontative 8tarr and o fow othiers havo inforred that tho Transeript i op- posed to tho law aud in favor of tho railronds, This 18 o mistako, Tho Transeript is of the opinion that when any intorest, no mattor what, attompts to sot itsolf abovo tho people and the QGovernment, aud to giye rathor than recoive the I, it is time for that intorost to bo taught its true plnco. UWho act of railroads, in ruising, rathior than reduclng, thoir tariff in ¢onsequonce of tho now law, is lisving tho offoct to cousoli- datonnd intensify the opposition, and that faot thoy will yot lonrn, . . v . If wo blundered in Inadvortontly ascribing to tho law what was tho worle of tho railronds, wo will takoe caro it daes not ocour ngein—Leoria Transcript. —Thero is no foundation for tho statoment that ¢ tho Wtuilrond law Lins dorangod tho businoss of {ransportation.” It hus done wo such thing, ho busingsy of Lrangportation may bo derango A but it has beon derangoed by tho railronds, fi is unjust to muko tho law responsible for their nety,—Illinois Stale Journal, ‘Ihus fur the railronds havo motely beon trying to find out_what advantages cun be tukon of tha lnw, and any doraugement of transportation which has followod is simply the rosult of this trial, But in good timo thoy will bo * brought up standing,"—Rock Island (1) Union, —Wo don't objeot to 8t, Louls aveiling itael? of any ono or allof tho proposed roules to the East for its flour, 88 our rallroads will bo the only purties iujured, Dut wa do objoct to Ita slding with thoto vory monopolios it it 80 uad ot, on tho prinviple of the thing that tho necos- vity for this i all owing to tho Ilinois **adious froight lnw." Tt s all u\\'inf; to tho ralironds thomselves who have fixed thoir tarift rates, so that, kooping in somo respeots within the lottor of tho law, its wholo mxm is violatod, While wo aro now trving, and shall eventuslly succeed, to mnko thom conform with tho spiritof tha law- ond at the same timo bring them to tho roal lat, torof tho law, it in hardly the right thing in Bt. T holr offorta to make tho law oue, —Rock Island Union, —All chiarlors of rallrond compantos contaln one word—ono saving word it it lu regardod ; it ocours u tho olause which providos the cnl‘l‘vlufi of pnssongors aud frolghts at * peasonablo ratos, Bo far, the companion havo disrogardod thin word and fiavo ostablishod raton that 1 simply robbory to_tho farmor. Xf tho farmor, whon in powor, ns ho must nsurodly bo, shonld aluo, through the Logislaturo, ignoro tho samo word and ocstablish rates tbat wowld bo s rulnous to railroads as railrond rates hnvo boon rulnous to farmors, will tho railrond managoe- mont of our railronds thon sco the polutg— Carroll County (Il.) Gazette. ~—Yoars honco, whon tho inoubus of those grasping oorporations shall bo ahnkon off, whon Uovernmont shall sond pnssengors nnd froight, as it now sonds lotters, at tho lowest posaiblo rote,whon ratea shall be reduced, as rates on lot- tors hnve boon roduced, to one-quarter or ono- tontl the old prices, wo shall look back to tho prosent timo with wonder that s freo poople could evor M{mrmfl tho rallways, tho ordinary travolod roads of tha country, to bo monopolized by a sorios of soulloss corporations, each insist- ing upon charging a prica for passing ovor it that is limitod only by its own greed.—Sycamora (JU.) Trus Republican. —The Stata holds the resorved mght of omi- nent domain, by which it takes our lauds, or any othor proporty, when the publioc good domands it. Is it not absurd to say that it hns not the samo right over railronda and othor corporations and their chartors in tho samo oxigoncles of Puhlln good? What ia thereabout & anancouflnh ly sncrad, that it must not bo violated when attnchod to a railroad chartor, that doos not ob- tainwhon aflixed to o doed for your land? Thus wouldImnko * tho rovoreign right of tho Stato" cut this Gordian knot.—Dr. Thomas J. Mazwell, at Olena, 1M, —The idon of the producers and Inboring mon uniting with a rnrty that has rivon away nearly all our publia lands to hoartloss corporations ' organized a privileged olnes, undor thoir proteo- tivo tariff, to tax forty millions of pooplo for the spocial bonofit of tho clnss ; qulcted land titles in favor of wenlthy railroads; a party whoso Ohristian statesmon yoro bribod into Cradit Mobilior schomon to awindle the pooplo, and then {inished with the salary-grab and back-pay stoal, is repugnant to all decont mon. Hell le becomo a flowor gardon, and the Davil will go about pronching rightoousness, beforo such a party with such o history will doal justly with tho laboring pooplo.—A Farmer of Jordova, Ill. v —Whilo donouncing by resclutions unjust did- criminations and extortionato charges, and do- manding nhunv' transportation, the Ropublican lmrty, baving both tho Prosident and Congross in ite hands, and complote power to_alloviato wrongs and roform evils, refuse to do eithor, and oxpoct tho ‘panplo to romain, a5 horotofore, uiot undor their sevora inflictions, , , . , heap rosolutious, to lull the people asleop, are 1o longor current with tho farmers. Thoy have been dacolved too ofton and too long. Thoy in- tond to havo notion, and loss talk,—Ilinois State Tegister ~Tho cohosive power of public plunder ia well Imown. And the fact is notorious that all plundoring rings aro_concoutrated' in tho gront combination which Las tho Union Paciflo and tho Central Paciflo Railwaya for its right and loft arms, and holds botweon its teoth tho outrageous enlary-grab, Taxed aro accumulated with fright- ful rapidity, and tho bond-contros of oach of theso combinations Liolds strong rolation to the Ohiof at Washington, Turn which way wo will, then, wo find all things subjeoted to the imporial sway ot Washington. It holds all busincss and industrial intorests at its command, and compgla thom to fecl and rovognize its powor. Logisla- tivo and judicial action is subordinated to its deereo. Btato Governmonts aro held in subjeo- tion by it, Public_oflicials feol tho tightoning rein at all times, Loenl offioials daro not dige- Loy its mandate. Publio plandorors aro its most :lieoful and willing agents.—Albany (N. Y.) rgus. —Thero Is somo noodloss discussion aa to whother the back-pay grab was o Republican or Domocratic monsure, It was noithor. It was Grant's mensure, originated and fostered by him ond carried through by his tool, Donjamin F. Butlor.—New York Sun. —The Republican partisan leadors bave waited long to find who is responsible for tlo salary- stenl. Sny thoso domagoguos, & majority of the Ropublicans in Congress voted against the stenl, while n majority of Democrats voted for it. Now,. granting this to bo_true, lot us ask why Grant did not veto the bill? Is not he King Hiram ? and could not he have saved the disgraco to the party? If tho Republican party is not rosponsible, thon is King Hiram no Re- publican.—Des Moines (lowa) Leader. —A choico betweon two ovils waa presonted,— tho accaptance of an objectionnblo clauso in an otherwiso satisfactory bill, or an extra session of Congress. Tho President choso the flrat, and ‘wo boliove his judgment is sustained by the gon- ez‘rpl soutiment of tho country.—Zroy (N.gl’.) imes, There wes no ochoico of ovils in the caso, be- cause an oxtra sossion of Congress at tho lime would uot haye boon an evil,—at any rate no moro of an ovil than a sossion of Congross at any time,—or cvon_an_ oxponse to the pooplo. Iho,choico of tho Presldent was betwoen grab- binf $25,000 o yenr out of the Treasury, in di- roct violation of tho Constitution, and losing tho opportunity to pocket that increase upon Lis al- ready oxorbitant pay. IIo chose the grab. ITe must suffer thoconsequonces,—Rochesler (N. X.) Union. —8eriously, wo incline to the opinion that no enlary-grab Topeal Lns ovar beon agitated or thought of intho logislative **cottage by the sea,” or if ithas it was probably with a view to quicting tho publio voico that clamors incossantly for tho roturn of the stolen funds, jarring vory discord- antly upon tho long plensant holiday of tho Prosidont and his political apostles, and the public will set the whole story down a8 & myth until it has substantinl proot to the contrary, or until the men who aro determined to reform, cloanso, aud strongthen out the confused jumble of Govornmont ofairs, shall have taken the reins into their own hands, and nothing but the unsavory memory of tho prosont power shall ro- maoin to disgraco our halls of logislation.—Du- buque Herald. —Iiow any ono can indorso the notion of Con- 088 in this ‘‘salacy-grub” is a mystory to E:uusb mon, 03 it boars injustico upon its faco. Thoso are not war times, and tho mombers of the Government must live ke other pooplo, This nation does not pm&uno to kaop an aristoc- racy at tho hoad of its affairs, and it will not do it, “This talk about & member's exponscs in Waghiugton is all bosh. Half tho Congressmon 1ive at Liome on $2,000 a year, and wero glad to got that, and thoy can livo comfortably in Wash- igton, *for 9100 o month.—Yorkbilla (Ill,) Record. —1WWa wish to eny to thoso members of Con- gross who accopt this incroased salary, that they will bo brought to an nccount for it by their con- stituonts, TFurthor, the time is not far distant whon tho man who thus bascly botmt(a his truat, instead of being awarded » lucrative Govern- ment appointmont, will ind & home smong his constituents a vory uncomfortablo placo to coma to, unlosa we vory much mistaka the temper of public sontimont,—Champaign (Ill.) Union. —Wo aro in favor of punishing big thioves ag woll ag littlo onos, If the salary-grabbers poked their dirty paws into the publio crib, didu't Grant opon tho door ?—Oltumwa (Jowa) Democrat. —Wo don't pray for the cholorsa to take off tho salary-grabbera and othor thicves who have boen using oflieial positions to plunder the peo- Fln, but wo would suggost to tho pestilonce that hoso follows can bo' moro oasily epared than any one elso.—Carlinville (IN.) Enquirer. —The Grant managors are fo have a thorough canyoss of Towa this fall. Thoy fool that they are losing ground in public sentiment, and that, unloss thoy can_hold their men by the applica- tion of tho party Iash, thoy will find thoir major- ity felling off wonderfully, The Btato is to be flooded with speakers, and the old song of praiso about Grant’s glory is to bo snng until the peo- lo aro mado orazy sgain ovor it. But we foel {Ihnt tho maasos ara gnmnfi thelr oyos open, and caunot_afford longor to bo led blindfolded and havo thoir pockots picked by o sot of oily politi- clnng, whoso right namos aro thioves,—Burling- ton g}owa) Gazetle, . —T'ho timo has gono by, as it should bo, whon the honest vator is to ho'chained to the politioal ear and forced up to the polls to voto for » man ho Dbolioves to be immoral and incompotent. .+ o o 'Fho Radical oflice-scoker might torm it bolting, but, call it what you may, it is sound doctrine, and emancipates men from base sorvituda to party to tho oxtent of thair rofusing to support unworthy moun.—Marshallown (Jowa) Times, = ~Tho vory idoa that political affaivs oan bo so shnped and controlled as to put uuck men asBon Butler into high and responsiblo positions is onough to enuse ® popular roaction on the part of the pooplo. That sobor, second thought, whichi wo uro frequoutly assured is to como, might, with profit” to Massnchusotts snd the country, indicate iteolf in that Btato now, Bure- ly novor was thoro & groater provoostlve to ro- Janunn upon tho 8odom and Gomorrah condition of political affairs.—Logansport (Ind.) Pharos, —Tho Cineinnatl Knquirer, an_organ of {ho pro- fesslonal * leadors® who ubject to belug burled with Illn‘lnrflcul‘ 1»mjl'nl‘llu known a8 }Im".l.nfm Dnmlum‘lug party, Lss luvented n now uame for ul equa St Daluical buniugrs' kad wire-pulers, 'P".‘\'lnon.?.w donfan Phalanz” fs whal Shonte—Chieage flmu.‘ tho Olnclnnatl organ calls The differonce botween the Cinolns T quirer aud tho Ohlcago Times g umz’u'.':t(‘orm 8 baoked and supported LY 280,000 honost moa slricora Domoorats, whilo the Z'imea roprosonts nothing and noboby. It 1a almply n{‘mtmu- tionist in politics. = The Domocratic party of ©Ohio, instead of boing *an anclent projudfcs, 1a tho most enlightoned, prograssivo, and libaral po}ltlcul organization oxtant.—Cincinnali Epe quiver. ; —Aloxandor MoOuo, Olty Judge of Brooklyn, is ontitled to the honor of giving uttoranco to m yeory mollow dofnition of thoe orimo commitieq gy r.. Mills, Prosidont of - the Brooklyn Truasg 'ompany. Iiis statoment {8 that,** ho did not cona sidor that Mr, Mills had boon dishonost in busid noss, but that bio ind committed tho too pnwnlunt orror of using othor funds as his own," Had storving boy pilfored a mounoy-drawor to got tha means to buy broad, Lo would not have bgon sa smoothly roforred to as was tho bsuk Presidont, But whoro s tho difforence in tho naturo of thelr crimoa? If onoia o thiof, 8o {a tho othors —Pillsburgh Gazelte. 8 e RAILROADS AND FARMERS. To the Editor of The Chicago Fribuns : Bin: 1t is not surprising that the confliet b twoon the farmors and railronds of Miinofs shoul have attractod tho attention of the whols conn< try, for tho wholo country affords no moro fruitd ful subject of political annlyals. Wo holiove that it filuatratos aud inclndea the whole quesd tion of tho future govornmont and ‘stato of 804 clety in this nation, i And first wo romark that, ns In most cagony thora ia a groat desl of right on each sido, Th old fablo of tho gold and silver shicld is oxaotl; in point. Tho two Knights quarreled about th matorial, and fought till they wore both disabled) whon a ‘pluflur-by pointed out that onch was right from his own point of view, and that, if tfio had nlmngov.l sidos for & moment, they wnnl; have avoided all ground for quarrel. In the case now bofore us, it hins beon suggestod that a groal donl of tho diffioulty is owlug to tho state of the currency. Buppose, for examplo, onr papord monoy ~ wWere flo‘sruu(ule!l n _ tho ratig of two to one,—In othor words, that &3 of it aro worth but 31 in tho avarago prices of tho world, whilo gold is solling at 116, *Now, the [arlcu of thoe wholo gmln-cmg is doterminod b ho oxportod portion,~that is, by tho prica of fiolda 1f, theroforo, the farmor gots but 115 for is crop, whilo tho railronds aro doing theix business at & cont of 200, it is ovidont that both sides may bo contondivg with dificultics, and neithor hiwve ground of complaint against tha other, This may bo an oxtremostatomont; but, if any part of it is truo, both sidos would da botter to combine their efforts for s roturn of spocio payment, Again, tho farmors chargo that tho railroadd aro trying to oarn dividonds upon watered stoclk, and 8o maintain unreasonable charges. Now, tho yvory first quostion to bo sottled undor this hond is, What 18 the profit upon moving a barrel of flour or a bushol of grain above tho cost of bendling? In proportion ne this is gront or littlo, Ia tho chntfiu well grounded or not ? Thora is no doubt that this can bo dotormined by figures with o clogo approximation to accuracys but tho troublo is, that no one can mako thosa figuros but tho railronds; and the farmers would nover bolievo that they mado them fairly, and ‘would rejoct the evidonce, Again; thoro is & bittor complaint of low through and Ligh local frolghts, and an attompt to romody this logislation. But therois no donbt that low through rates aro onforced by naz‘nfimmlon, end it may bo that higher rates would drive away businces ; and, oven though ihis business may bo douo at a loss, the rocoipts {rom it may mitigotoe the chargos upou the local froight, from which the profit muat be dorived, The question for the farmors would then be, not botweon through and local froights, but batwoon prosent charizos aud no railroads o all; and that too, not at any particular moment, for there will doubtlogs bo Beasons when their farma aro run ot a losg, but in o sories of yoars. We donot eay that this is the case, but it may bo, though unfortunatoly, in this case, ngain, tha ovidenca is all in tho tanda of the railroads, and the farmors cannot bo expocted to placo cone donce in thelr presontation of it. ‘Whether the difiiculty is in any or all of thesa onuses, or in othors not stated, thoy alt point in ono diroction, namoly : th want of a mediating authority in which both sidos can havo confle dence, Buppose—to illustrato—all parties wora to unito in choosing from one to six mon of well« Lnown public charactor, commanding ontiro cons fidonco for intogrity and publio spirit, and the sbeonca of any privato biag, and_should give ta thoso mon full “powers, aftor investigating the subjact, to eubmit to the popular voto a plan of compromike, with & full statasiont of the avie donce in tho case, and the reasons of thoir aos tion. Does any one doubt that the })luu would bo quictly accepted ? The farmers of this Stata aro not rovolutionary, nor a body of Come munista. Thoy aro as law-abiding aud consorvas tive ag any set of peoplo in tho world. Any just requiroment of tho laws thoy aro ready to sub« mit to, oven at the cost of sovers hardship. Bu thoy want, in the firet placo, to bo satisfied that it 18 Just.’ What they objcat to, and what thor suspect, In tho boing ridden ovor and opprass by poworful and lawless corporations. i iqxe h]l)oumon wo_have described ia exactly the ono which should bo filled by the Btate Governy mont ; bub it is equally true that it is not sa fillod fnthe slightost dogroo. Noithor fn thig nor any othor State Logwslaturo, nor, for thai matter, in Jongrosa either, iu there nuzxmnn wha has tho right to speak, or any direct interest’in spenking, on bobalf of the wholo Stato or coun< try. Every mombor reprosents a district, and curos littlo or nothing oflcially, and gonerally in fact, for-any othor. The mombers being all equal, the only way of gotting business done ia to rofer it to standing committoos, which sif gwticu\ly in goorot, and in desling with which oro is but ono mothod : lobbying.- It is safo to say that tho only way B"K important business ia or can be done is through tho lobby. Now, thig may bedono honestly, but it is always susplcious, and a gamo at which tho railronds can beat the farmers hollow, ‘What we nood {8 a change in the method of logislation. Tho Exocoutive in tho only branch of tho Govornment eleoted by the wholo Stato, and which 15, or should be, charged with puting tho laws In operation. ‘The Kxccutive officerd should havo tho right of pcech in tho Legislne ture, whero they would Lave an oye to tha intorent of thoe Btate, could propose lawe hnving somo relation to intlcnl oxecution, and coul secure such publicity as would give at onca wmtisfaction and force to public opinion, A subjoct 8o important cannot be fully troated in n nowupq:,m\nruclu, but we bollove that the indisponsnble koy to tha sottloment of any of tho grave soclal quostions which are upon us, and, above all, of that crying evil of tho day, special logistution, s to bo found in giving tq Lgu Exeoutive—tho only reprosontative of the wholo Btato or country—a publio hearing in the Logislative bhalls, aud in thus fixing upon indfivldunls the rosponsibility which is now frittored away smong partisan committoos and boards. Tailing this, wo nro sure that tho lobbyin; of tho railrouds and the blind oxasperation of tho farmors will incronse till violonco bocomos only a question of little move or less individua} suffering. G. B, ———— ‘The Goss=Udderzoolk Case. From the New York T'ribune, July 23, TUdderzook ia not a nico name; one uxigm verg ;nutly bo forgivoen for distrusting an Uds A Tho man who has just figured in an arrcst on suspicion, in West Chester, Pa, Iwg‘rm o caroot of infamy as William Uddorzook, Willlam was tho brothor-lu-law of ono * Dr.” Goss, an_casys going porson, who had an insurance on his life for 35,000, in favor of his wifo, who wna Uddorzook's ister. Ono day thoro was an exs plosion in Goss' laboratory ; in tho charred ruing of the building wero found tho binckonod re. maing of a human body which was alleged by the widow and Udderzoolk to bo that of (oss, and on which application was mado for tho amount of the life insuranco. 8o far the caso is not a couliar ono, _ But_not long aftor this, Gosa oing snrpoacfl dond, o strangor stopping at a wayaido lun waa takoh out i tho wagon of 0 casual wayfaror, as though tho lattor had ccurs toonaly ontreated the former to take a ride, The man in tho wagon and bis supposod mew noe quaintauce disappeared, Mouths aftorward the half-buried body of n murdered man was found in Wost Chioster woods, ‘TI'his must have been the missing stranger; and tho man who ine vitod him to rido was probably Uddorzook, Thg murdered man is supposed to Lo Gass, who, oy oreting about his porvon all hia availablo funds, hadbeon in hiding whilo the farce of eollnnthlfi tho 825,000 duo on his lifo insuvanco was earrio on. Udderzook must hinve known that Goss had his monoy abqut him ; ho know that Goss Was a8 good a8 doad to tho community who ha known him ; why not kill him ? But whoso wi tho body found iy the nshos of Goss’ labora- tory.? Wo will not pursuothe rovoltin, lm“uaa ‘These simplo details of s true storyare abandon to tho blood-curdliug novel-writer. plhuite feiten b it 4 Hair-Parting, : i The Now York WWorld saya thata convenf of young mon who part their hair in the mldm is nhorlfil to bo organized, for the consideratios of tho quostion ag to whother they have n rights that aro to be respectods orzoolf,