Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 2, 1873, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, AUGU TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE . TENMA OF BUNECRIPTION {'I'A'\;AI".I 1 ADVANOR), D 12,00 Sundo RaoLmn:: 81800 | Mook Partaof tho samo ra To provont dolay and mistakos, bo suto and givo Post ©OfEco nddross In fall, iucluding Stata and County. Romittancos mny bo madu oither by deaft, oxpross, Fost ©OMoo oniler, ar In rogistorod lotlers, ot aur risk, " TRUAB TO OTY BUNACILER, Dally, deltvérod, Sundny oxcontoa, 2 conte por wook. Dolly, dolivorod, Bundny fncludod, 30 conts por wook, Addrons TIIE TRIBUNI COMPANY, Coruar Madison and Dosrborn-ats,, Oltcago, 1, gttt TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLRY'S THEATRE-Randolph streot betwaon Olark and Laatlo, **Unste." " Aftornoun ang ovoning. GLORE THIEATRE—Dopptatuos straat, botwoon Mad tson and Washington. ** Aurura Floyd,® —e BUSINESS NOTICES, INSTRAD OF BITTER, USK SWRET QUININE YAL TTAVANA TOTTRRVWIE 8OLD IN dx‘n‘?ln‘\nlmlifilmrll Joat tho u;!‘»i'm.m Rz, Sircular 3 oo, I3, M Iiniora, 10 Wailat. B 0. Yo disey Now Yark, i AND OALL FOR ¥ MR8, WINSLOW'S R . diy TR B e AT Bt BURE AND OALL FOR 'MRS, WINSLOW’ Boothing Syrup,' I dors Rt P i aop, S0 sad Foteertiod, Tgrtoouy hafa n all cator, oa Tl fons of motliors oan fostify. oS B ' TR DYE, T8 £oot dye, Harmloss, rotlablo, and instantaucous; nodisap: intimont; no ridiouloun tints or unpleasant odor. |‘nn- Fl’fll tho 111 offacts of bad dyes and washos. P:l“;‘u‘:l“'“‘l tX"x'll; B D e it T oo, pnos We i drugglsts, OHARLES BadSinos: . ot tefore . ¥UVRR SOLAXOK) The Chicage Tribune, Saturdey Morning, August 2, 1873, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS, ‘o pressuro upon our columns on Sundsy morning 13 80 great that wo are compolled to requost advertisors tosond in thelr advortiscmonts for thot fasuc otog oarly anhour g poasible, in order thot they may with cerlainty secure the proper classification. ————gp—— . The reduction of the publio dobt last month was 8870,618. Tho amount of intorest paid by tho Government on the bonds issued to tho Pa- cific Railrond Companics, boyond the sum repaid by them in transporting Government mattor, now amounts to 916,222,182, No parts of the now railrond tariff of thin State have oxcited more complaints than the chargos for earrying cattlo and conl. The Rails rond and Warchouso Commissiono1s aro propar~ ing o now achodule of rates covoring thoso arti~ cles, and applicaplo throughout thoe Btato. Atetatane per in wanlsine to tho epecch of Bir Charlos Dilke against tho marringa allowanco to the Duko of Edinburgh, Ho said the poraistont opposition to tho grant wos * in-, docent,”—nn oxprosston which Lo wa forced to rotract publicly, and immediatoly. Tho biil haa pagsed its third reading in Committes of tho ‘Whole. Baron Von Rhnden, from whom Pauline Lucca was rocently divorced, terms the pro- coodings by which tho separation wns of- focted “n villainous pieco of rascalis ty” T states, in the Bolin papers, that he recoived no mnotice of the proceodings, and has spplied to Now York to havo tho do- croo of divorco annulled. DBofore AMudamo Lucca began her suit, ho commenced an action for divorce in tuo Borlin courts, which is still in litigation. . Tho Cloveland Leader objocts to the rosolu- tion of the Columbus Convention condemning tho Administration on acoount nf ita atnla. ness.”” Rosolutions indorsing tho Administra- tion aro not likely to bocomo etale this year, Thoe Ropublican Conventions of Maine, Iowa, and Minnogota omitted that evidonca of loyalty, ‘The Tolodo Blade takes a still more wonderful viow of tho Columbus gathering. It saya it was simply a put-up-job of the Domocracy. It being oustomary for political parties to put up jobs in order to divide thoir own vote, the Blade's viow of the caso bocomes extromoly convincing. In their cloction of ofiicors, yestorday, the Kansas Grangors showed that farmers' ways are not thoso in which politicians dolight. An at- tompt was mado in the bad old way to cut ond dry tho ticket by o caucus, but one of tho membors, moved by the now spirit, sroso and protested, ond -the incipient ring was brokon. This action left tho Conven- tion with no othor guide than their own will; ‘which geems to have boon all they noeded.’ Mas-~ tor Dumbauld, of tho old Btate Grango, was s candidate for ro-olaction but was defaated, a Dr. Boling, who hithorto has not boon prominent in tho movemont, being closted Mastor by ono majority. Tho farmera of McLonn County, who met yestorday to nominato county officors, fortified their ticket by o statoment of their principles thint would serve as an admirable madel for polit- ical platform-makers. Their platform hing cight plauks, couchod in eight torse sontonces, cach straight to tho mark, Their grievances are pro- teotive tarifls, salary-grabs, land-grants, railrond extortion, and political dishonesaty. Tholr remo- dies are the discontinuance of all spocial favors to any classos, regulation of the railroads by law, rigid cconomy and honestyin tho publio sor- vico. They declaro emphatically that thoy con- stituto themsclvos o soparate and indopondent organization apart from the oflice-geoking coali- tions of tho day. Carlism has long beon suspocted by tho Span- {sh Government to bo at work in Cuba, but thoy havo not Lithorto beon ablo to uncover it, Itis now aggorted that o largo number of Carlist con- splratora have boon dfscovered in Ilavana. Thoy have boon put under survell- lanco, and tho confiscation of their estates {8 likely to follow, In soarching tho houso of thelr leader, one Guijano, haif anillion dollars was found which the Govornment usserts was to have beon sont to England to holp Don Carlos. Nothing is 8aid a8 to whethor the monay was left in Guifauo's posscssion or not, but those who know tho habits of Spanish offi- olaly in Havana will have vory littlo doubt as to thelr disposition of this Carlist gold, Eastern shippors ne woll aa Westorn farmors Lave been tho victims of ho .unjust diseriming~ tions and tho oxtortionsto ehargos of tho rail- ronds, and they axo bogiuning an agitation at tholr end of the lino which may bo & great halp to tho Farmors' Movoment. Tho sugar roflners, tho grocers, the graln commiyion morchants, oud othor heavy frelght-ehippors of Now York Oity have takon the movement in chargo, sud intoud to co-oporato with the producors of tho Wost uulil tho raliroads aro brought under propor coutrol. Bosidos the WAEE-eoHug In Cooper Tustitute noxt month, of whioh notico hing lready boen given, thoy an- nounco thelr intontlon of holding a sorlos of public mootings to pross tho subject on the at- tontlon of tho people and tho Govornment. In addltion to tho ovils of Ligh charges, Now York oapaclslly comploius of the discriminations agalnst it and in favor of Boston, Baltimoro, and Philadolphin, which {ta morctiants eny thronton & pormanont injury to ita commorco. ————e “Thero was an offort mado in tho rocont Btato Ropublican Convention of Virginia to pasa a res- olution condomning the salary-grab. It waaa folluro, Congrossman Platt dofendod the back- Py a8 ominontly just and propor 3 there was a sorlous commotion at tho very thought of do- nouncing it, and tho rosolution was epocdily withdrawn by tho man who introduced it, This rominds us to ssy that no Ropublican Oon- vontion, or oflior Ropublican gathoring, in tho BSouth las, to our knowledgo, con- domnod this Swindlo, snd that no Bonth- orn Congrossmau hoa covorod his DLack- pay into tho Treasury. The ropronontatives of tho carpot-bag Btatos all votod for tho bill. Tho aeliool of politica in which the Iatter-day statos- mou of the Bouth have boon educated 18 osson- tially tho grab school. Xt is thoir rulo to take all they can got and give up nothing. The Con- grossiounl salury-grab naturally commonded it- 80lt to thom ns tho propor oxorclao of political power, and their constituoncies have boon plun- dored 80 often within the paat four yours thnt thay no longer riso to tho dignity of a protest. Tho Ohieago produce marketa woro moderately activo yostorday. Mosa pork wagin goad do- mand, aud asbado frmor, st §14.60@14.02% onsh, and $14.90 moller Septombor. Liard was dull and nominal a4 73{@7J40 por Ib for winter, and 73ge for summor rendored. Monts woro in good domand, and firm at 7T3{@7%o for shoul- dors ; 9@9360 for short middles ; aud ‘10@12%0 for sweat-pickled hama. Highwines woro qulot and o ghade firmor, at 93@9%%o por gal- lon. Lako froights woro loss active, but Mo highor, at b53c for corn to Buf- falo. Flour was dull and stondy. Wheat waa less notive, and quite stoady at $1.40@1.41 till attor 1 o'clock, then doclined 21c with the closa of tho corner, and closod st $1.19, Sollor August closod at $1.14%{. Corn was quite active st unchanged pricos, closing at 803{c cash, and 88%o saller Soptomber. Oats woro dull, and H@34o lower, closing at 201gc cash, and 263/ sollor tho month. Tyo was dull and easior at 670. Barloy was quiet and & shsdo firmor, at 81@B13¢c sollor Septombor. Tho hog market waa largoly overstocked, and prices recoded to $4.20@4.80. Cattlo woro dull and unchangod, with eslos ot $2.00@0.90. Sheep sold at about formor ratos, o Aftor tho newspapers have protty genorally informed tho publio that Vico-Prosident Wil- sow's illnessls vory sorious, and that ho will probably not bo able to serve astho Prosidont of thio Sonato, an authoritative doninl of the story comea from Boston. Mr. Wilson snys that Lo is gotting woll'na rapidly na possible, and that Lo hopes the nowspapers will lot him recover in peaco. Wo hopo so, too. Mr. Wilson has al- ways boon & hard workor, and ¢arned his pros- ont position by incossant toil in the lnst compoign. It would cortsinly bo o sorions visitation if tho physieal sufror- ings; which lhave beon largely brought on by his campaign labors, should doprive him of enjoying thoe position for whick ho labored. And tho nowapapors ought to let him rocover in peaco. What with tho rovival of his oarly Know- Nothing attachmonts during the campaign, and the elucidation of his Oredit Mobilier connactions sinca the campnign, Nr. Wilson has had his sharo of journalistio attention ; and, a8 he Is Pprobably loss responsiblo for tho polities! cor- ruption of tho day than most of thase who havo ‘beon in office 80 long, it is certainly fair to hopo that ho will bo-spared to sorve out Lis torm as Vico-Lresidont.’ 9 — Tho 8pringflold Journal Lus roceived advanced 6hoots of tho 15th volume of Wallaco's Reports, ‘which gives tho decision of the United Statos Buprome Court in tho easo of tho Roading Rail- ‘road va. Ponnsylvanis, in which the following points are mado : . First—Tho transportation of frolghts, or of the sub- Jocts of commarce, 14'a constitutionul part of commerca itsolt, < Second—A tax upon frelght, transportod from Stato to Biste, 48 & rogulation of commorco amoug tho Btates, SChird—Whenover the subjects, In regard fo which a power to regulato commerco 15 asserted, aro in thelr naturo national, or admit of oue uniform systom or plan of regulation, thoy are oxclustvely within thoreg~ ‘ulating control of Congress, Hourth—Transporiation of passengors or morchan- dtao through a Btato, or from ono Blato fo another, is of thianature, | Fiftb—Tenco a statuto of a Stato imposing a tax upon frolght, faken up within tho Stato and carriod out of i, or tation up withiout a Stato aud brought -wilbin it, 18 Topugnant to that provision of tho Constitution of the Uuited Btates which ordaina that “ Congross shall hava power to regulato commerco with forelgn nations snd nmong tho sovoral States, and with the Indian trivea,” Theso polnts raverse tho decision of tho Rnil- road Commisaionors of this-State in applying tho pro rata featuro of tho new Railrosd Jaw to intor-Btate commeorce. Thoy cover all the Phoses of this kind of commerco, viz: Trans- vortation in transitu across the Btato ; from a point without to o poiut within, snd from o point within to a point without the State. Thero have hoon soveral like decisiona by the Suprema Court of tho United Btatos, but perheps nono othor that touches tho present quastion in Iili- nois so dircetl; THE FORT BNELLING SWINDLE, Tho oxplanation furnished by Bocrotary Bel- knap to our reporter, of tho transsction which wo eall the Fort Bnolling Swindlo, is not at all eatiefactory. 1t may sorve to ehiold tho Socro- tary from o oharge of dishonesty at tho expenso of his intelligonce, but there must bo partios to tho iransaction, roprosonting the Governmont, who Inew that Fort Snolling and tho 7,300 neres of land apportaining thoreto belonged to the Gov~ ernment and not o Slecls, Thoy must havo known that the pretonded enlo to Steelo was a traud, beeauso it Lind been proved to be such by A committoo of Qongress, which had reportod upon it in theso worda : Resolved, 1, Thattho salo of tho milltary post at Fort Bucliing, and so much of tho Itesorvation attachod to it o4 was nocossary for milllary purposes, msdo on tho Oth doy of June, 1857, under tho sutbority of tlio Soc- rotary of Wur,—the samo bolng thon sud now retuinod under the sutliority of that Department, boesusa nec- ousary for willlary purposes,~wus without authority o lu, 2, That the sald salowas made by tho Becrolary of War, notwithutanding tho knowlodge of tho ofiicial opinion of his predecossor, tho Ion, Jofferson Davis, ond of other vificers in superior milltury commund, to tho coutrary, without consulting with, without tho ad- vice, and without the knowlodgo of any oficer in tho sarvico af any rank, loaving tho quostion of {he ro- tention of that post to the dlacrotion of the Commis sfonera appointed to mako tho sale, and that this ac~ tion on tho part of the Bucretary of War was G grave oftcial faull, % That with n knowledze of {ho grest valuo of tho “Fort Bnelling post and resorvatlon, and the fm- portanc of great cantlon and Jndgmont In making tho snle, tho Hecrotary of War appofnted on agonts for thio purposa unqualified, dnosporioncod, and Juconie potont mon, < Lo 4. Tuat proviston for and manngoment of tha anla wara so negligontly, carolesaly, and injudiciously mada 2310 Indtice n succonsfal combination against tho Goy- arnment, oxclude all compatition, sud bring @ loss to the Gavornment, 5, ‘That John O, Mather, ngont for the Dopnrtmont of War for tho oxamination and salo of thio Fort Tiploy Toservation, aftor Laving alroady Jolnod a combintion for tho purchuse of tho Fort Snoling Resorvation, aclod, fn maliug such parchase, fn violation of hla officlal duty, and sgainst the known polioy of tha Government, and that, tg to him and Richard Behell, ropresentod by him a5 ngont, and Bleclo and Graliam, who woro complicated fit tho anlo with him, with a full knowledgo of thia officlal charncter, /e salo of the Fort Snelliug Reservation waa at the time, and now s, vofd, To offset tho opinion of Joromiah B, Bluol, who was Attornoy-Gonoral at tho time Floyd was Beorotary of War, agafnst tho forogoing declaration of a committeo of Congross, aud tho subsoquent voto of tho Houso disapproving tho salo, was an ot of gratuitous folly, if not of knavery, If the Congress which meots in Do combor noxt Is not palsied with fright, or rotton with baok-pay, it will propound some quostions to Bocretary Belknap lko thesg : 1. Was tho title to the Fort Snolling Resorva~ tion fn tho United Btates at tho timo of thoe so~ onlled sottlomont with Btecle? 2. Waa tho prico obtained for amid Reservation tho truo value of the property 7 8. Was tho snlo to Btoole mado in ecordance with law? 4. Woro tho rights of tho Government in said Rerorvation protocted a8 n private individual owning the samo property would havo protectod ‘ them ? * We undartake to say that, if those quostions sholl bo propounded, an afirmative answer will bo given to tho first ono and n nogativo anawer to cach of tho othors, It mny be replied, and ia in fact roplicd, that Bteolo was tho eguitable ownor of tho proporty. That deponds upon whethor hio eamo into possession of the proporty by fraud. And right hero is the grava- mon of tho chargo, viz.: that tho gnlo by Tloyd to Btecle wes a notorions, unblushing fraud; that it was exposed by Con- grosa and stopped, and that tho prosont Admine istration hos consummated It in tho faco of abun- danit ovidonco of its truo character. To say that Stoolo was tho oquitablo owner, without title, of 7,300 acres of loud obiained by fraud, as ogalngt tho real owner with titlo, is ono of the most nstounding sssumptions ever put forth by & public oficor. And yot this is what Bce- retary Belknap's oxplanation comes to. Wo shall thorofore continue to characterize tho trausnotion as the Fort Suclling Bwindle, with- out, howover, agsuming that Mr. Bolknap was knnwingly & party tn it. Tt mny sarve to onsa off tho Republican pross s trifle to know that Stoele {8 one of tho leaders of the Democratic porty in Minncsots, though perhaps ho may Liave moro thon one string to his bow. THE SPANISH HORROR, Binco tho oxpulsion of tho Vandals from Spuin by tho Visigoths, and the olvil wars, vio- lonco, and nseassinations which in twin ovor- threw tho Iatter, thoro hos boon nothing so hor riblo and inluman as tho sanguinary opisodes of tho insurrcctions which aro. now aimost daily occurrencos fn that unfortunate country, Neithor tho mnssncro of St. Bartholomow, the atrocities of tho Thugs of Indla, thoe worst hor- rors of tho Paris Commune, not even the ro- flnomont of torturo practicod by tho savage tribes of our own country, can compare in bru. tality and fiendishness with tho oxcosses com- mitted by thoso monstors of cruelty at Alcoy. To renlizo it, wo have only to imagino an up- riging in ono of our own cities of tho lowest clo- monts of tho population, tho ovorpowering of tho nuthoritics, and froe liconse glven to thoir brutal passlons. If such barbaritics wero pos- sible in this country, wo should havo to imagine thoso oity offlolals atripped naked, somo of them decnpitsted and hurled down from tho balconies of the publio buildings, whoro thoir bodles are tramplod under the foot of tho fronzied mob; others thrown down alive and caught upon pikes and bayonots osod then renb to plecos; whilo others, aftor bo- ing smoured with potroloum, aro set on firo, driven through tho stroots until they fall, eithor consumod by the firo or killed with the more mercifal pistol-balls, Evon women and childron aro tranaformod into bonsts, nnd take a promi- nont part in the borrible slaughtor, the dotaila of which wore 80 torriblo at Alcoy that the Minis~ ter of Publio Affalrs, when called upon in tho Cortes for information, could not ropeat the whalo of tho droadful story. And thisis but o singlo opisode in tho bloody record of Bpanish anarchy and misrufo, Tt is not difficult to discovor the causo of tho massecra ot Aleoy. It must be inovitably ro- forred to tho fact that Bpain has no sottled Goy- ornment. Tho protended Ropublic has no moro power dr anthority than a child. Tt makes laws which are nover enforced., It raises #quads of men aud sonds thom Into tho fleld, whore tho lmgor part of thom spocdily he- como disaffectod and go over to the rauks of Don Oarlos, who ig slowly but surely approsching Madrid. Its navy has fallon into tho hands of tho {nsurgonts, Ita principal citics, like Alcoy, Malaga, Cartagonn, Barcolous, Gronada, Bovillo, Cadiz, Valoncin, and others, havo elther declared themselves in- dopondent of tho Governmont, or thoy aro in tho hands of tho insurgents, and given up to thoir worst oxcosses. Tho Cortes iteclt is @i~ vided. The Doputios of the Leoft have cspoused the causo of tho Rovolutionists, sud protested against any thanks to tho cltizous of Almoria for their dovotion to the Republic. Tho In- transigentes, or Irroconcilables, who socoded from tho Cortes two months ago, and who in- oludo in thefr numbors come of tho ablest orators in that body, nre wandorng frooly through Bpain, inciting tho poople to revolution, and tho Government has not the courage oven to suppross thelr newspapor organ, which is published at thp soat of tho Govornment itealf, Tho Intoruntional Bocloty s seizing tho prop- orty belonging to the Btate, conflacating Ohuroh proporty, melting up tho ochurch bells and plato, closing up faotorios, and inciting the workmen to the commission of tho most atro clous outrages. The Governmont belng powerloss to provent tho outrages of tho unorganized in- Burgonts, or oven to Laal tho divisioi among itu own frionds and ‘wuito tho various factions, is of course unable to withatand tho progross of Don Carlos, whoso army, though emall, is woll oflicored aud organizod, nud whose operations sro conducted by tho recoguized rules of war. ‘The very oxcesacs of the insurgonts and intor- nationals, and tho fouds of tho varloua Republi- can factfons, aithough not dircetly Inapired by Don COarlos, are so many diroet alda to his ad- vanco on Madrid. If not tho rocognition, ho ligg at loast tho sympathy, of tho Frenoh Goy- orumont, aud Buglaud ituolf gtauds in w fricudly t ; 2, 1873, rolation,to him, 08 {s evident from tho roply of Lord Enfleld, tho Undor-Bocratary of Btats for Torolgn Affairs, who, upon boing askod recontly In Parliamont whother tho Government intond- 00 to rocognizo tho Oarlists ng bolligoronts, an- sworad that * thoy wore unquostionably gainlng ground,” though not yot ontltled to formal rocognition, ‘Tho Buccoss of Don Carlos, howover, would not offor any guaranteos of peace or order in Bpaln. His reign would not bo a qulet ono. His grandfathor, tho first Don Csrlos, whon elaiming tho thron, proved to bo orucl and ro- lontless, During his war for the throno thero woro frightful oxcesses committed. Tho wave which lands the prosont Oarlos upon the throno will spoodily bo followed by snother wave which will wash bimawsy again, Should he ever bo fortunato cnough to ontor Madrid and establish hia olalm, ho will find ingurroctions rendy mado in ovory ity and town of Bpain, and tho present atroclties would bo repoated, slthough wo might expoct a groater show of vigor in the offort to supprees thom than has yob been displayod by the prosont [mbwu.n Ropublionn Governmont. Thoro are only two methoda of denling with the situations One is to let tho peoplo alono andal- low thom to go on outting onch othor's throate until they got tired of tho sport ; and tho other 18 to socuro ponce and order by the intorforonce " of thoother Ruropean powors, Intornafionaline torfaronco is no nowdoctrinoin Europo, although by & mort of mutual understanding {t hua not boon put in practico much of late. Interforence compelled Holland to give up Bolgium. * Xt com~ pellod Austria to code Vonetin and Lombardy to Italy. Xt protcoted Turkey from Russia. In Bpain iteelt, tho other powoers havo many timoa intorferod In tho intorcats of poace. In the war of the Bpanish succession, England, Holland, and Gormany for twolve yonars resisted the claim of Philip of Anjoun to tho Bpanish throne. In our own dny, ss lato ss 1830, England and Franco, in the intorosta of humanity, steppod in to tho ald of Maria .Olristina snd drove Don Onrlos out of Spaln, thus putting an end to the horrible atrocitios which were committed by his edheronts. Sinco that J$ime, howevor, by a kind of common consont, intorforonce with tho domostio affairs of an- other nation has not beon recognized as a right, ‘unloss thero wero somo valid protexts for it. In such an emergoncy na this, howover, it doos not roquire much to constituto a protoxt. Tho offi- olal sonouncomont in the English Parliamont is a forcshadowing of what may yot happen. Tho Gorman Conaulate at Almorin was destroyed & few days sinco. Protexts as alight s this may oven furnish grounds for interforeuce. Whatovor may bo done or may not bo done, the ovonts. which aro transpiring daily in Spain are a blot upon the olvilization of tho ninotcenth conr tury. . —— THE TAX-STEALING LAW, ¢ A correspondent from Canton, Fulton County, writes asking information concorning the opora- tion of tho tax-low of 1869, on the increased ossessmant of proporty for Stato taxos in 1878, The trao operation of tho law is stated in his lottor, and wo submit to the people of Illinola that & moro infamous robbery, under the color of Iaw, waa novor porpetrated, Tho law of 1809 mado tho nssessmont of 1808 a standard ; it thon provided that any tax lovied for Stato PUrposes, or any incrense of valuation ovor that of 1868, in ony county ortown owing a debt contracted in nid of railronds, should bo hold by the Stafe ‘Tronsuror separately, and, instond of boing np- plied for Stato purposcs, should be used by him in paying tho railrond-nld dobts of such county or town. S0 -long s tho dobt of the Btato was annually decronsing, and the nmount nooded for Btalo purposes was diminish- log, there was no occasion for ine croasing the sunual valuation of ‘proporty in tho Stato over thatof 1868, arid, theroforo, tho divorsion of money from the Stato Troasury for local debts was comparatively small. The Con- stitution of 1870, however, struck that largo body of men in all local communities who livo by handling publio monoy o savers blow whon it limitod the oroation of county dobts to 5 per cont of thoassassed valuation of tho county, and limited the rato of county taxation to 75 conts per $100 for curront expondituros by such county. Theso provisions, most excollont in themaelves, clipped tho winga of soaring Supor- visors, and forcod expendituros down to tho hard-pan of indisponsable necossity, Tho holdors of the railrond-nid bonds got somewhat alarmod ; 80 thore waa o gonoral move all along tho line to bave tho nssosemont for 1873 mado fouror fivo times na groat ag that of 1808, whero- by thoe following resulta might ba obtained : 1. The collection of & vory large sum to pay tho railroad-pid dobts. 2. To anthorize the increaso of tha connty and town Indobtodnoss by tho issuo and sale of bonds, 8. Tho fncronso of taxation for county pur- Poses from 75 conts to €3 on cach 100 of prop- ortg, To carry ont thoro thres objects the nasoss- ment for 1873, on a full valuation, is now pro- grasing all over tho State. Our correspondont touchos upon ono only of those topies, thatof the raflrond-ald swindle. We enlarge his {llus- tration, Tho County of Knox owos no rallroad dobt, but the Tawn of Rio, ir that county, owos $80,000. Undor tho operation of this law, tho sagossed valuo of property in Knox County will be incrensod from $5,000,000 in 1808 to §20,000,000 in 1878. But tho Town of Rio will bo taxed for Btato piirposos only upon the valuation of its property in 1808, Nor will tho propoerty of the rail- roud which has beon constructed in that town bo assoased for Btate purposen; the wholo tax col- lected therofrom will bo applied to the paymont ot tho dobt of tho Town of Rlo, In polut of tact, tho other towns in Knox County will hava to poy the railrosd dobt of Rio, or, which is tho somo thing, poy the Btato tax due from that town and taken to pay its railroad dobt, 8o with many other countios whore the dobt i not a county debt, but chargeable to separato towna. In all such cnaos, tho towna which owe no debt will practically have to pay the dobt of thoss that have Issuod raflrosd-ald bonds, 'This s tho cage in Falton Uounty, where the debt of 8178~ 000is owod by only five townships; theso town- ships will pay nothing into the Btate ‘L'roasury on tho fncroaso of thelr assossment nor upon tho raflroad proporty within their limita; and the doflolonoy in the State ravonue will have to bo made good bysn apportionment of the amouut upon the other towns in the county, In this way, towns in no monnor bonefited by tho construction of the railways will practically have to pay tho dobt oroated to build them, Tho mode fixed by law for mooting this do- flolonoy is os followa: If tho valuation for 1868 was_ 460,000,000 and fhat of 1679 s $,600,~ 000,000, ond if the portion of thila inorease ‘ehiargoable to tho countios and towna owlag raile road dobts, and tho property of rallroads cons struoted sinco 1808 1a $1,000,000,000, tho Auditor will doduct $1,000,000,000 from his list of taxa- blos and ndsens upon tho other $1,500,000,000 & rate of tax nocoasmary to produce the required amount of Btato rovonue. o wlil thon lavy the 8amo rate upon the wholo $3,500,000,000, paylng tho procoeds of the tax on tho 81,000, 000,000 over to tho holdors of tho rall road-aid bonds, and apply tho procoods of tho other to Btato purposes, It will bo soon, thoroforo, that tho whole Binta tax, including tho payment of tho Stato dobt, falla mainly upon, and hins to bo pald by, those countios and towns which owo no rallrond-aid dobt; or, prao~ tieally, tho 18,000,000 of rolrond-ald dobt will bo paid by tho countios and towns which owe nono of thoso dobts, Thoro aro 42 coun- tios and tho Oity of Quincy which owo such dobts as countles; of which 81 also have dobts owing by some ‘ot tho soparato townships thoreln ; thoroaro 27 othor countiea which owo no such dobts 8a counties, but whoso townships aro sopraatoly indobted, This leavos 83 coun- ties, including Cool, which have no such dobts either as counties or towns, Tho docislon of this question, whother the asgessmont for Stato purposed sholt be In- oronsed from 8500,000,000in 18720 §2,600,000,000 1n 1879, in ordar to crowd tho wholo Stato tax on 43 out of tho 102 countios, and to enable County Bonrds to issuo bonds and spond the proceeds, and to quadruple tho county taxes, will reat with tho Stato Board of Equalizatfon of Taxes, which moots in Boptembor noxt. JOWA. POLITICS. ‘Wo rocontly sent o roporter to Fort Dodge and DesMoines, Tows, to roport Farmors' Con- ventions, Bome of the Ropublican nowspapors of tho Btatosoem to bo voxed about it, and ao- ouse our reporter of unduly magnifying the Anti-Monopoly movement. We do not bolieve that o misroprosonted s singlo fact fn the course of lig tour. To have done so would have boen 8 gross violation of Lis instructions; and, a8 ho has boon fn our cmploy several yoars and has approved himaolf both truthful and discroet, we beliove that his roports woere corroct and nn- binged. At all ovents, they have rocoived tho iIndorsomont of tho Becretary of the Btato Grongo s rogards tho statiatical information furnighed. . In one of his letters from Dos- Molnos ho reported that ho had soon Mr, Olarkson, the editor of tho &Slate Regis- dery ond that Mr. Olarkeon eaid that Gov, Carpontor would bo re-clected by 10,000 majorlty ; that thore would be an Anti-Manopoly candidate for Govornor, but that there was. not onough in it {o break up tho Ropubliean party, To -this tho DosMoines Register responds that Tuz TRIRUNE reportor did not sca Alr. Clarkeon #tall; tlal o (tho roportor) was told by othor poraons connacted with the Register substantial- ly tho somo things ns woro attributed to Mr. Clarkeon, oxcopt that Gov. Carpentor's majority would be 50,000 or 60,000. And tho Register pledges its own vornoity that Carpontor's majority will not bo less than 60,000, ‘Wo bave quostioned our roportor upon tho point whothor ho had an intorview with Mr. Olarkson, and ho roplicd that ho wont to tho Register office, and was introduced to & gentloman 8a “ Mr, Clarkeon, the oditor of tho Register," and that this porson 8o introduced to him aid soy oxactly what was reported. The proprioty of ro- porting a convorsation which takes plnco in tho freedom of offico intercourso may woll be ques- tioned. If we Liad noticed this paragraph boforo it was printed, wo should have excluded it. But & quostion of versoity having baon raised upon it, wo oxpross our bollof that our roportor did 800 Mr. Clarkson, tho editor of tho Register, and hold & convorsation with him. Whothor Mr, Olarkson said that Garponter would be ro-clocted by 10,000 mafority, or by 60,000 majority, is of very littlo consequence to the public, although it may be of somo consequonco to tha Postmastor of DesMoines. Wo have all tho timo osprossed tho opinion that Gov. Carpenter would bo ro. elooted, though wo have had misgivings about tho composition of tho noxt Iowa Logislature. The Register seems to havonone. Wo do not beliove, howevor, that Gov. Carponter would have 60,000 majority ovon if nobody ran againat him, — PARTY-RAGE IN CANADA, Tho nction of tho Conadisn Govornment, in virtusily suppressing fovestigation by tho Houso of Commons of tho alloged bribory of the Min- istry, hag producod an oxcitoment in that country which Is porhaps unprecedonted. The Litherto rathor misty politics of the Dominfon havo ro- coivod now and vivid interost. Dut tho melan- choly part of tho wholo proceeding is the frantic zeal with which the Ministerial newspapors do- fond tho action of tho Governmont. Tho facts are that Bir Hugh Allan paid to Sir John A, Mac- dounld at lonst one sum of $10,000, to Bir Fran- olg Hincks 250,000, and to Bir Georgo I. Oartier # largo sum, undor an agreomont made by tho thrao Ministers that ho should have tho building of tho Canadisn Pacific Railway. Tho publica- ron of tho dooumonts maling thoso dis- closuros wns causod dircotly or indireetly by Mr. George W. McMullon, a residont of Ohicago, Tho substancoe of these chargos was stated in Tarlinmont, and a motion to appoint & commit- teo to investigato them was ndopted. It re- quirod loglslation to authorlzo the Committeo to send for porsons and papers, ote., and, when the Committes mot to bogin the {nvostigation, thoy loarned that tho Homo Govornment in England had disallowed 8o much of tho Investigntion nct a3 suthorizod tho Committse to administer oaths, The Committeo then ndjourned without doing anything. Tho noxt session of Parlin- ‘mont boging by Inw on tho 13th of August, when the additional and necossary powers are to bo dempnded, But tho Mintstry havo intorposed, aud, under tho peculinr form of govornment In Osnods, thoy bhave ndvised tho Goy- ornor - Gonoral. to appoint a Royal Com- misaion, composed of porsons named by tho Ministry ltself, to invostigato the chargos, theroby defoating any examination by the Gom- mong, Thoy furthor propose, in case tho Come mons inslst upoi an invostigation, to prorogus Parliamont uutil attor the Commission shall have mado s roport. Thoso oxtraordipary exer~ clsos of prerogative Haye aroused n popular ox- oitoment all through thoe Provincos, and the Min- fstorinl prossos, in thoir zosl to dofond and pal- lata tho conduct of tho Government, are drivon to tho Invontion of tho most extraordinary juati- fleations, Among many othor ronsons givon Wwhy tho sotlon of tho Miulstors is right, are tho fol- lowing: 1, Bocausa MoMullen is a rascal, < 2, Bocause the Opposltion want to dofoat tho building of tho Caunda Pacifio Railroad. P 8. Bocouse tho Opposition want to get the handling of tho subsidios aud the building of the road for thomgolves. 4. Booauso tho testimony is forged and * atolon,” &, Becauso the Commons Committes had no powor to administer onths, and would ¢heroforo havo to takounsworn tesitmony. 6. Bocsuso tho money sllogod to havo boon paid to tho Minlators was fasuod by thom for olaction purposos, and not for tholr porsonal profit. ) Thoso roasons nro somuwhat contradlotory, and thoy do not contain the cloar and obylous 000 which has compelled tho Governmont to Ppractically atiflo the investigation, That reason is that tho Ministors—Macdonald, Cartior, Hincks, Oulmot, Langovin, and porhaps othors—did both domand and recoive largo sums of monoy from 8ir Mugh Allan; thot Onrtior roducod to writiug an ngrooment to givo tho Pacifio Rallrond job to Allan, tho Inttor fur- nishing monoy to onablo tho Ministors to elect tholr candidatos to the Parliamont which was to carry this agreomont into offect. Cartior had at first rotusod to dosl with Allan; but bocoming satisflod that Allan could dofoat tho olection of tho Ministorial candidates, made tho agreomont which was subsequontly carried out. 'The evidenco of tho domsnd and receipt of tho monoy by tho Ministors is complote. Tho rocord is In black and white over their own signatures. Ponding the oxposuro Onrtior diod, loaving his nssoclatos to moot tho wcousntion and it proofs. Thore can bo no question a8 to tho facta of the onso, and this the Canndinn Ministry know. Thoy do not want to bo convicted by tho Housn of Commons and forcod out of offic; thoy dare mot resign and havo thoir conduct Investigated by thelr Opposi~ tlon succossora. ‘Thoy havo thoroforo rosorted to thoso powoers which tho law has placed in tholr hands,—tho disporsion of Paxlismont, sud s transter of tho invostigation to & Commission of thoir own choosing. — Tho Winonn Republican says that Franklin Btoclo could probnbly have collected hia bill of $162,000 against tho Govornment for tho ront of Fort Buelling by a sult in the Court of Claims, In view of tho fact that Fort Snolling ‘belonged to the Govoromont ol the timo that Bteolo claimed ront for it, it {s difficult to sco what foundation ho would have had for any such suit. But tho juriadiction of tho Court of Olaims fa Umited to two classos of cesos, viz: those founded upon somo act of Congress, and thoso busod upon womo contract with tho Govornment. Thero Ia cortainly no act of Con- gress glving Fort Snolling to Franklin Stoolo. ‘Was there any contraat, oxpross or implied, bo- tweon Ium and tho Govornmont by which the Intter agroed to pay him ront for the use of Fort Bnolling? Upon tho aunswer to this ques- tion dopends tho right of Btoolo to go to tho Court of Olnima at all. The question whothor tho Court would be likely to rondar Jjudgment agninst tho Govornmeut in favor of a private party for tho wuso and ocoupsnoy of its own proporty, is an after. conafdor- ation. It may bo answored, perbaps, by asking whother tho Court would bo likely to award rent to Tom Murphy for tho uso of the Now York Custom-Houso. It ia clnimed tbat Bteolo was put in sctunl possession of tho forb by Floyd. I the proporty belonged to tho Government, Steclo was o trospassor, whother ho waa thero by Floyd's uthiority or not. Nobody cannequire possessory titlo as ageinagttho Govern- ment, Tho wholo cago turna on the question who ownod tho property at tho timo Beoretary Bol- knap made tha sottloment with Steolo, Nobody protends that Btoolo owned it, oxcopt possibly Stoolo himeolf. Tho fact that ho didn't own i, and tho furthor fact that ho had no caso that would give Lim o status in the Court of Olaims, conatituted the very reasons why atops wero takon Lo consummato tho original fraud, The Norwich (Gonn.) Bulletin has ‘propounded & conundrum, which is harassing the pooplo of that Stato, Itisna follows: “4Tho statutes of this Stato, it says, “provido that “evary rarried woman living with her husband ot tho Hmoof s death, or abaent from him by Ll con- Bent, or by bis default, or by inovitablo accident, or in cano of divorce whora 8o is tho innocout party, and u0 part of tho catato of hor husband was assignod to her for Ler support, shall havo right of dower in one= third of tho real estato of which her busbaud died pos- soased in bis own right,’ Naw, if 8 woman bolng the {unocent party lins obtained a divorco without alimony, and tho kusbaud has marriod agadn, and bolh wives survivo him, do both wives take dowor? And if this Lo anawered in the afirmative, the ssme principlo would, of courso, Lold good If ho lad been similarly divorced threo thnes snd bad died leaving Atill an~ other wife ; and Low could four wives oach liave one- third purt 2 The answor to tho conundrum is not o difii- oult one. ‘Tho four wives do not havo cach one- third part of the whole, Tho first wifo hog ono- third part of the whole, tho socond ona-third of what is left, and the third and fourth share in tho same mannor, so that, ns Buclid statos il, the wholo iy not groater than tho sum of its parta. NOTES AND OPINION, Ifaq Bonator Windorm rofunded his baok-psy ? Tho Minncapolis Tribung givos tho vory first in- timation of it, suying : Tho Bpringflold (Mass,) Republican warns farmers to tako no atock in Henator Windom, becauss ho Js 44 tho Senatordal grabber from Minncsofs,” Does not tho ftepublican know thut Benator Windoin irat voted agaiust tho kalory bill, and then drow his back salary and roturned it £0 tho Treasury 2 —Tudiona oloots Cirouit Judges and Prosecu- tors, besldos county oflicors, Oct. 14 ; and If tho Iilinofs “ diseaga " shalt eproad into our adjoin- ing Stato thoro ia materinl ouough iu tho canvass to mako it rod-hiot. Up to this tume, howover, all is apparently quiot. The first symptom of pouding election is seen in tho call of o Repub- liean Convention for tho Thirty-fourth Circuit (Elkhart and Logrange Countics), at Middlo~ bury, near Goshen, Aug. 7. —The 8t. Louis Democrat says, and the In- dianapolis Journal copios in editorial, tho fol- Towing : p Benutor Mrton wiil make but one spocch in tha Obiu campaign this fall. It will bo nt Athous, on the 23d of August, Wo undorstund that ho will ccept tho situation as Iatd down by Senator Thurmau aud othera—that tho Democratic party atands by ita rocord 1u tho past, {4 nshumod of it overturcs mado last yoar, and will go {nto 110 now dopurtures or entaugling atli ances, Fighting it out on that line, Morto., il make 4t hot for the Bourbons, ‘Cho Journal some time ago anuounced that tho Sonator hiad in preparation a great speoch “on quentions now bofore tho peoplo.” Of courso this intonded apeooh is not that specch. —Tho Hudson (8t Crolx County, Wis.) True Republican of July 81 says: e wero fold tho other duy of an exporiment made by a 8t Oroix County farnior in_shipjibg onlous to Milwaukeo, vis tho “West Wisconsin Railway, The. onjoug wera of good quality sud sald for the morket prico, but the froight chiarges wero 80 great that the ufous fallud to pay vspenses by 7 conts o bushal, Hoy iu this ? Thore Is no * infamous Railroad law " in Wisconsin, —The Muscatine Journal (Postmastor), after aposking contemptuously of the bouh about 5 third torm for Presidont Grant” s a * migehioy~ ous schomo of the opposition,"” says; Thoy knaw wolt enaugh that tho Ropublioan party aa & body regard it an entirely too soon ta talk about the auccessoraliip, and kuow thia atlll mora fmpagtant fact, that auy move to sooure g third term fir Gep, Grant would drouss popular suspicion and s G it aught) tho abject sought to bo attuined, Thlv fa the secret of tho Dorslstenoy of tho oppaslion in putting Gon, Grant an the track, Thoy knaw hv {8 ]luimlu with tha peoplo, aud they want to deatray his yopularity Dy creating tho Tuprossion that ho fu sohowing to pore petusto his oflicial hold upon tho pooplo’s coundenco, But Senator Coukling's Utiea Herald viows it in a difforent light, eaying: An wo liave beforo gald, it 1s barely Immhlu [Grant’s] enomius to force hils nomination o for biu lection for & third torw by the same villainous means which accured his yenonination and re-clection st fall. ¢ they abuse him. nuuu%h to rauso the papular Indigna. tlon agai, wo sus wolhiug to proveut the pople fom baving tholr owa way, Wa it, then, * villainous moanswhich geoured his ronomination and re-slection last fall?"” "Tho Bonator ought to knov, ~Charles Pomeroy, & Ropublican M. 0. an- torior to “*bnok-pay " dnys, writes from Wash- inglon to the Fort Dodgo (Tows) Afessenger, saying : Tlho Oredit Mobilier rosolntions of last winter aro te - ‘bo aupplomentod during tho coming Congross with discovorica in_Northorn and Bouthorn Pacific, and Bloux Olty & Incifio, thnt will oolipso_in magritude ovorstliing that Tina’procodod thom, Wilson s busy huning up promising trails upon which to sot hiy slinrp-scontod Comunittco.soon 8 tho opantng of th sessfon aliall bring 1t togothior; ~Wo ofton encountor in nowspapor organs ot the Administration romarks such ns this from the Toledo Commeroial : £ Tho Ropublican party mover stood higher in tho confidenco.of {ha Ametjcan Dooplo tian Tt docs non: Individual mombers of that party liavo, wo aro freo to admit, forfolted tho confidanico of good mon of all par- te, Just an an oqual or groator number of tho Demo- eratio party Linve done, Isu’t 1t Just possible that tho Ropublican par- £y would not agrao upon any singlo uame or liat: of its own “ individual membors” who havo # fortoltod tho confidonco of good mon of all portios " ? “And, sinco auch * individusl mom- bors,” aa tho Commercial fa “fros to admit thora aro such, must belong to the ruling, ropra-. sontativo class in tho Republican party, {an't it Just possiblo to entertain a doubt thal ** tho Ro- publican party naver stood higher In the confi- donco of tho Amorican poople ™ ? It the Com- merclal is, indeod, ““froo to admit ™ that thero aro Individual mombors of tho Republican party who have forfoltod confidonco, it must haves somobody in mind, Bupposo it print that goma~ body's name. —Tho Gonesoo (TI.) Republio, which s aleo Postmaster, crios aloud : Thoy want o got into power; thoy want to fix $ho plundor: tlioy want to food at tho public e, That's what ibo matlor with the Domocratio-Ldverei arty, and ovon tho blindeat among us ought not to bo vod by thom, ~—The Ropublican party already fully roalizes tho necossity for cortain mtor#n’, und’h doter- mined on eatrylng them into offect. Thoro noeda. to bo'an Infuslon of new biood into our politics, . -pumilng of our political morala and - clonrer- concoption of tho naturo, dutics, and respousi- bilities of office-holding, Tho pooplo are com-- ing to the front, and tholr sightaand Dower must: bo moro dlstinefly recognized oroaftar than thoy: havo boon boford. Gronter oare must bo exere: cifiod in logislation and publia sorvants mst kaop thelr skirts cloar from oven tho smoll of dishoucsty. Al this Ropublicans s0o vory plaine Iy and aro fally dotermined on oarrying out, but do not propose to do it by jolning tho Domocras. oy, no mattor what nnnoum;iumonc thie ““patriotic mon” of that party may hold out.—Indianapolis Journal. —Thio ovils of Grantism muat comp thoronghly home to tho peopls, Tho actual bardshipsof tho agrieulturiats and laborors must mako Ehnm thot?ughly in enrnest, and then thoy will accopk roliof without sticldiug about the name in which. it comes, Wo feol by no moans mo much con- cornod nbout the namo of tho now movement; or whethor & now namo bo asenmed of all, ag about the ovidonces that those who are concerned are roady to march undor it for tho achioyoment, of roforms. Thero are many signs that tho timo; 18 growing propitious.—8t. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.. —Aftor all, wo must comoe back to tho fect that: vory littl Lopo can be entortained of tho muccoss. of tho naw party until tho noed of reform ponc- tratos daop into the mass of the offico-holdora® organization, Whon thig bocomes manifost, as it Is alrondy boginning to becomo, overy oncour~ sgemont should bo held out, and ' evory encrifica made by the patriotic mon of tho other pido, to Flvu the moyement the impotus that will make t usoful to the country,~St. Zouis Republican. —Inasmuch a8 it is monopolies that the pooplo aronow fighting, what could bo a more appro- printo titlo for fiiem to assumo than tho antie monopnl& party. It o:rmum tho wholo quess tion without any (IX{ll anation or inuendoes. Domocraoy and Ropublicanism, in its true and. simplost meaning, i3 synonymous with anti- monopoly, but thelr commonly-accoptod moan- ing has ‘becomo 8o adultorated that it ia no longor oxproksive of tha true principlos of lib-. cr?, most especially [n business and commorco, and, thorofore, the word anti-monopolist_is moro oxpressivae than ofthor Demoorat or Re- R}ul\ucnn. and, if o now party is to be formed,. t it bo callod tho anti-monopoly party.—Peoric .y Demacrat. ~The small aligno of politicians which mot at Columbus yosterday, nunder tha guigo of & * Peow pla's Couvention,” sucooodod in crystalizing sut~ ficiontly to f‘“ out a platform, nomiuate ita can— didates, aud adjourn in good ordor, As s politi= cal movoment ‘it was of no importance, and it will be only romembered ns the date of tha denth of tho “ Liboral " party which disappoar- od forover after a briof and slckly oxistonco of & littlo more than a year.—Oleveland Leader. —Wao Lavo no objection whataver to any sob of men amusing themselves by inaugurating as many new partios as thoy wish, What we do. obfeot to_ig that such men as Brinkerhoff and Blonne, who uover cast s Domooratio voto in. their hvus’, should sny to tho 250,000 Domocrats, of Oliio, ¥ Your namo doos not suit us, yon must: theroforo drop the namo of Domocrat, and dia~ band your orgnnization or wo will not act with! you!" As far a8 wo aro'concerned, wo profor fo rotain tho time-honored name of Democrat and do without tho services of such men. . . . Wo hope the' 0th of August Convention wili pay no. attontion whatover to the 80tk of July side show.. ~—Cleveland Plaindealer, ~—Our prontost objection to giving up tho name of tho Demooratic party is that somo ollor pazty will spntopriato it as Avon ax o liavo die- cardod it. Xtis tho best namo over applied t6 o political party in this country. - Its trmliliaml aroe & priceloss herltago, and ith gront namon constic, tuto a mustor-roll of horocs, atatesmen, and Phes triots such'as nover graced or will again Bracn; any party in the country.. A now party will grow up ond claim the name, or the Ropublicans,; whoso party namo is plasterod all over with _ tho - Cradit Mobitior and back-pay, swindlos, and, with othor corruptions, will seiza! it, a8 soon as it is dropped, nnd dove-tail it in’ some way upon their own neme. If the name of* the Domocratio party could bo foldod up, and laid awny, and presarved ns a historical rolic, and not bo dofamed by unworthy usos in the future, thoro would bo in that a recompense for the in- convenfonco and novelty of a now party namo,. Dutif wedrapit, somobody olre will cortainly pick it up and woar iv.—Ailwaukes News, ~—Tho talk of & Domoacratic ravival is childish. It is not a posaibility. This country is not to bo roplnced fu the hands of tho Doniocratio pn.\'t{. Throo terms of Graut even would bo proforabla to that.—Cincinnati Commercial, —Tho farmors' movement in_the Wost grows moro aud moro intorosting as it s dovelopod by timo and circumstances, and seoms roally dos- tined to play an important part in forthcoming political affairs, Thero soems to bo a degrea of earncstness and dotormination on the part of ite londors raroly noticoablo in political moye monts, tompored, withal, by an_honesty that caunot bo mistalken. The fooling is skin to that which animated our forofathurs in tho dnys of the Rovolution. 1t is not o quostion of party,. but" of principlo—an organizod rosistanos to corporate oOppression, irrospeotivo, of* political falth or "record. = That thero havo boon absurditios of apecol and action, on tho part of the farmers since tho incoption of" tho movemont is patent enough to all who -have .takon au interost in tho matter; but for all that 10 oo will bo disposod to dony that their plat- form is, in $ho muin, sound and just.—Boston Globe, —It i roported that an Iilinois farmor on bos | ing asked recently, by & promiuent politician. to whothor the farmers were "ranlil’v in aare o N roptied ; *Yog sir, and most (erribbly i» i est™ And so it Iooks.—Denver Trilnuy —Ths timo has como when Iaboru , men hava boon compollad to form thomsolve 2, 7% 0 WG for molf-progorvation, Lahap .nions, farmors’ loagues, grangos, and all e - of organiza- tous aro invoutod to PEOY*”, faporing man from tho furthor grasp of 8l i, grcdy” politicinna, and tho buso offoots O Jining: dighoncnty, and oftlolal corruption, » oy ‘Administration which Lin, by its Wb W+’ roctivo ‘policy burdoned the nma;lo With. ", perublo burdons, whilo corpo- Tations, Wl ofios, and ring mon havo beom Toaping & B4 Larvost. Wo tako nn stock n Liying 49 coax Grant men or any othor mon to da kel Juty o themsolves or ot[vmm.—flmlroa CWisy) “Liberal Press, "l\.hnt moro ridiculous than to seo disenged 0lf\ cias, donlors in worthloss patont rights. 1a¢ havo ruined moro worlors than ail othor Im-. ‘poxitions put togethor ; notorious ofilue-sookers with uneuccousful proclivitios, currylng tho bane nors of tho honost, hard-working farmor, shout- Ing: “Down with monopolies |~ Down with the thioves and politicians! Make way for honost tolll Iurrah for our party 1" It tho Qrangors can ba dupoed by thoso protentions * loaders™ thoy aro of difforent mntorial than they claim to- ba.Alonroa ( Wis.) Sentinel, —~Thora is ot of talont in tho country that only neads to be brought out In order to aco what fs Lohind tho curtain, Who, in 1800, thaught of U, 8. Grant being Prosidont of tho. Unitod States, but as his llght slione o was. adyanced tillho was oloctod Proaldent. Now I think I'know (hat thore i late of talent in the. country loft, oven among tho farmors, it it was whoro it would havo a chanco to. - only placo orop out,—A Norris (i) Grangen