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

4 THE CHICAGO DAILY MBUNEL: MONDAY, AVUGUST 4, 1873, . TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TRAA OF AUNACRICTION (PATANTE. TN avvanom, iy by matle o8 FT I ——— 1 P‘\ ) 5 3 e 35.08 ri- ol G Woal Parts ol a yoarat tho samo rato. To wrovont dulay and mistakes, ho suro and giva Post Off co address fn full, icluding.Htato and County. Romittancos may bo nindo clthor by dralt, oxpros, Post Oticc ordor, or In rogisterad lottars, at our risk, TENMB TO OITY BUDBCRIVERS. ity deliverad, Bundny excoptod, 2b cante por wook, Tuily, uolivorod, Sunday included, 50 conts por wook, ddresa + THE TRINUNG COMPANY, Uornor Madison and Doarborn-sta., Chioago, 11l TO.DAY'S AMUSEMENTS: GLORT TURATRE-Desplatnon streot, betweon Made o and | Waaliiogton. AMiss Analo Fismlnand Mr. John Jack fu * Tho New Magdalon," ————— BUSINESS NOTICES, MILLIONS OF BED-BUGS AND COORROACHRS aro Litled dadly with Tyow'a Inaoat Povdor, GASF, OF GHRONIO antory, eliolotn_morhus, (chiolors, or bol- ora infantnm, it taken §a thuo,) that wo san’t ouro with Dr. Kendelok's oarminativo Anodyn Yor salo by all draggists, Olica 9 Woet N BURKE AND OALL | i, WINATOW'S e, roducos inflam. T Boothing Syrup.t It sollons tho guums, outon altays Afl i, ‘A, ion tho. fon, wind colic, S Gulel bl Lo e, froin mblo Tt albs VIR fons of imothorn on fostiy- T FIEOK ! MOTIL PATONRS, ASK upat, 49 Hund-t,, New York, g 86 Porry's fmprovod Com- ono_and Pimplo Reyiody--tho Great Skin Madicino, Proparad only 13 TR U S ——————— The Chicagoe Eribuae, Monday Morning, August 4, 1873. = d and sfcoshiod, Yurtostly safo (a ail oasos, asmitl- oot B3 lomd-r Fof Fimpios ontho knco, iiinaioads, and eshiworn Porry Y Porry, Dormatologiat, 40 Boud-st., Now York, Benator Rameoy and Gov. Austin, of Minno- sota, mede o porsonal appesl to the State De- partmont on Saturday for its iutorcosslon on bobialt of tho Amoricans in prigon in Manitoba, As thoy decline to make public tho partioulara of the mtorviow, and tho Dopartment is cqually roticont, nothing is known of the rosults of their visit, Tho unspoakable liorrors of tho massacro ab Alcoy, in Bpain, were tho work of the Intorna- tionalists, who struck beeauso they were rofnsed tho incroase thoy domauded of 50 por cont in thoir wagos, Their conrse has coused a reaction among thoir fellow-laborors in tho town, 6,000 of whom havo resolved to organizo n tomporary municipal government for -tho maintonance of order. — Boforo Baron Routor has had timo to use any of thioShal’s magnificont ¢ concessions," hofinds himself tha object of n law-guit which throatens to uoutralizo them all. A Forufan nobleman, Salvalan Khan, hne filed a bill in chaucory agninst tho Barvy, i which bo says that the Stah las mndo him the samo couceasions s to Rontor, and 'that bis rights aro puporior to vhe Baron's, for thoy dato back to 1866 Tho dobt of the District of Columbia, ivstead of being only 9,000,000, as assorted & short timo ngo, is $17,000,000, and will soon bo $25,- 000,000, as tho improvements alroady under way will consumo $8,000,000. Gov. Caoke and tho Peavd of Puhlia Works aroasid, on food subliority, to havo determined to rosign thnir pesitinns when Congross meota, us thoy cannot administor such finnnces. Tho Chronicle eays that auch o debt is too lienvy for the back of the peoplo of tho Dis- trict, and proposes ns ono means of rallof that tho Fedoral Govornment pay tho whole, or at least half, of it, and in futuro boar all oxponscs not covered by a tnx of 134 per cent on the prop- oity of tho District. e Tho convontion of McLean Couuty farmers hold ot Bloomington, last Friday, was, from all accounts, o decent and orderly gathering of onrnost mon, assembled for o lawful purpose. Thoy adopited a gerics of short and pithy resolu- tions, setting forth tho political necensities of tho day ns thoy discorned them, and they mado nominations for county officers. In reporting this convention, the Dloomington Pantagraph says that * thero was the usual talk of monopoly, salury-grab, protective taxiff, railroads, and tho honest farmer,” and it thon induiges in nearly thres eolumns of bleckguard slurs and flings at tho proceedings of the Convention, ridiculing this man's porsonal appesrance and that one's diction, snd ko ou, Tho best way far tha farm- ors to teach the Pantagraph to admiro their beauty nnd praiso their grammar will bo to olect (he ticket thoy have nominated, It is now announced that Gen. Butlor will shortly publish an # elaborate, legal, aud histor- ical defonso of tho Congressional back-pay,” and that the document *‘ abounds in flashos of sarceem and wit.” | Benator Carpentor's dofonse s sorious, staid, and religious, and its failuro lias probably induced Butlor to tako tho opposita tack, Hin trontment of the quostion may bo in- forred from his auswer, soon after tha presege of the Dbill, to one of hiy complaining constituonts, to whom he inclosed o 3-cont postage-stamp under a frank as his sharo of tho plundor, This was Gen. Butler's ides of o joke at that timo, and the “flashes of sarcasm and wit" which -are now aunounced aro pro- sumably of the same mirthful character. It ia tafo to say that the 8-cent joke did not oxcito 50 much a8 n smilo throughoug the whole country, and only found ono imitator, to-wit: Mr. Jaspor Packard, of Iudisus. — In the disputo between tho Governmont and tho railronds about the postal-oar businoss, the lattor aro acknowledged by tho Post-Offico De- purtment to be not altogether in the wrong, Ono of their complaints is admittod tolo reason- ablo. It sooms that fully Lalf the compensation recoived for carrying the mails is paid by thom to megsongers whom they must employ, in con- soquonce of their obligation to doliver the mails to all Tost-Ofcos within oighty rods of the dopots. On wome roads itis found necosoary to employ o messongor at ovory station. This is not only exponsive but dangorous, 6 it places tho mails whilo boing carried back and forth in the hands of unofficial and comparativoly irrosponsiblo persons, Tho sottloment of the postul-car question would ho made much oasior if tho ruilroads were yelioved of this servico, which conld bo performed by the Lcal Postmastors, and this course, it is sald, the Bonute Beleot Committee on Transportation will rocommend, The Chloago produce markots were loss active on Baturday, but gouerally highor, Hess pork was In fair request, and advanced 10@160 por bri, closing at $16.63}@16.75 cash, and $16.40 @16,50 gollor Boptomber. Lard was dull and unchangod, at 74¢o por Ib for winter, and 7@ 7340 tor summor rondored. Meats wore quiot and fiem at 724@75(o for shoulders ; 9@03go for ahort middles ; and 10@103¢0 for swoot-pioklod bams, Iighwines wors qufot and a shade oagier, at 930 por gallon, Lako froights wore ac tive and unchauged, at 5% for coru to Buffalo, Flour was stendy and quiot, Wheat was loes ao- tivo, snd 3¢@Io hicher, closing at BLIT@ . 11794 onsh, #1363 nellor tho month, ond 81075 nellor Soptomber. Corn was dull, and averaged 3o higher, closlng at 870 cash, and 83@383fo0 sollor Boptombor. Onts woro moro no- tive, and Xfo highor, closing tamo at 265¢e cashy, and 20560 ollor tho month, Ryo was quiot and firm ot B7@080 for cash No. 2, and b0o bid sollor tho month, " Barloy was very quiot, but 1 high- or, at 82@824g0 for now No, 2 sellor Hoplomber, Tho bog market was inactiva aud pricos wore weak, cloping at $4.16@4.75 for conrso honvy to clioico light. Cattlo sold to n limited oxtont on- ly, and pricos favored buyors. Shocp wetro stoady at $2.75@5.00. 10 chinnces of o ropeal of the Salary Uil by the incamipg Congross may bo ostimated by tho fact that thoro 8 a vory large bribo standing agoiust such ropeal. Whon Onkos Ames wanted to provent auy furthor logislation on tha subjoct of Union Tackflo Railway, ‘ho procooded to get mombors of Congreas intorestod in it, bocauso, hio said, thoro would bo. no diffioulty in gotting mombors to look aftor tholr own businoss. Just 0 with tho Salary bill. Tho followiug tablo sliows tho oxtont of tho interost Forty-two Senators who havo poeketed back pey s forward PaY..euesveiiersasninna e $ 412,625 Titteeu Benatora whio refunded back pay and pockoted forward pay. 84,575 Boventeen new Bonators whio at aibla for it, and hove pockoted, 5,625 “Total “monoy power * in tho vola of tho Benate agatunt ropenl,,.uesuressnes...$ 603,625 Ninets-two Rapresontatives who iave pockete ed buck pay and f0rward PaY..eveeessenses 903,000 Twouty-nine Toproseutatives' who rofunded buck yoy and pockated forward pay....,... 103,123 Ono buindred and soventy-one Keproscnta~ tivos now to Gongroas, * not resjouulble . for thonct, and Lisve pocketed 80 Dac. ..., 001,876 Totat * mon wor " ju tho voto of tho Uoued npatoeh OCHl osesso o 243,018,000 Tho netivo tluenco of Territorial Dolegats 1o havo ind, . 16,250 Tho President of 1 A Total... $2,185,160 THE * NATION" ON T! EANEHdAM. The Nation's reply to our articlo on tho logal agpeets of all “watered stock,” is excoedingly droll. Tho position it Lakes ia that, sven though tho jesuing of such stock was unlawful from the beginning, yot, beeauso * tho people " stood by and #aid hothing whilo the,* queor” waa sfioved on tho market sudsold to fnnocent holdors, thoy are naw estopped and must forover aftor hold thoir poaco, To attompt to soparate tho lawiul from the unlawful issues now, would be like ,raising monoy by tho * panel-gamo.” Tho * panol-game” s supposod to bo an opora. tion whereby & confiding capitalist 1osos his pantaloons in & houso of ill-fame. Tho poople aro presumed in this instanco to koop a house for the convenionce of capitalists, to luro thomon by silenco, and then to make way with tholr cnthing and valusbles. Dosigning peoplo! Tngenuons stockholdors | Judgo Bamard once gave a correct definition of an aat of the Now York Logisiaturo logaliz- iug on over-issus of railway stock. Ho said it was “‘an act to legalizo countorfoit monoy."” Tho sort of stock now under discussion la that which hes wuover been lagnlized. Tho Na- tion lholds that, If countorfoit monoy has beon issued and has gotton into the channels of trado, aud if ¢ tho poople” did not protost againat it at tho tine, thuu it should Lo consid- ored good money, and anybody who Bays it isn't ia atosling clothos fu a brotholl This stunning discavery is tormed morslity, and wo aro in- formed that wo can flud moro of tho eamo sort in the Bible, and in the works of the Rov. Ar. Paley. Tho only similar caso in the Bible ia tho one recorded in thoe 88th chapter of Gonesia. It this iy not what the Nation meens, its roforence to the Bible and Paloy is probably a ploce of protentious quackery nnd cant. But thero {s anothor renson, according to tho Nation, viz.: Gon. Butler and Senator Morton otca said “that tho United States woro not logally bound by tho declarations mado in the House of Ropresontatives and by the Secratary of the Treasury when the bonds woroe issued, to pay them Ia coln, and that they might bo paid in papor all tho samo; which was quile irue. But all coticerned in paying them inpaper would Levo bocu nona the less knaves, bocsuso thoy had all stood by stlent while the bonds wore boing s0ld, thus acquiescing in the construction put at tho timo of tho loan on tho torms of tho contract.” We fancy tho holders of 5-20 bonds will not thauk the Nation for its dofenso of their rights. ‘Those rights dopend not at all on anything safd Dy tho Secrotary of the Troasury, or upon vocif- orations in tho Iouso of Ropresontativea, or “upon the silonco of auybody whomaoovar. Theso would bo sandy fonndations indoed. 'The panol- gamo would bo preferablo, Butlor will be vory glad to got tho Nation’s ndmiesion that thoy rest upon nothing botter, ' Thoso rights rost upon tho privciple that a debtor cannot dischargo an obligation Dbearing intorost avd peyable at o time cortain by tendering auothor obligation boaring no intorost and pay- able at no time, Tho good and lawful and solo reason why tho bonds cannot be paid in greon- baocky is, that such & procoss would not be pay- ‘ment, but morely an adjournmont of the time of paymont, without the croditors’ consent. Wao copy tho Nation's article elsowhora for tho cenlighteumont of all other nations. THE BTATE STREET FIRE, By o fortunate combination of eircumstances duripg the Btate streot firo on Saturday evening what might bave boon a groat public calamity was Lapplly sverted, Had the firo once gained the mastery and spresd throughout the massive Bingor Bullding, wo might havo boou ealled upon this morning to lament not only tho loss of this handsome structure, but of many othors of the adfoining palatial bulldings, with thoir extensive and valuable stocks of morchandise. Tho fire- men of this eity have rarely had to Iabor against grautor obstaclos in subduing o couflagration. Tho groat hoight of thio building was tho ohiof of these obstucles, and tho difleulty of forcing water to such a helght Liaa nevor beonmoroolearly excmplified. It is doubtful whothor houo can be mado sufficiently strong to sustain tho woight of the column of wator in it st such o hoight, combined with the prossure of its ve- locity ; and if oxtra strong hoso caunot ronlst tis doublo force acting upon it, what other result thun that which took place on Baturday eveniug can bo oxpectod with hoso which may bo of averago strongth, but s moro likely to bo undor thoaverage? Tho way contracts are mado by tho oity for howo, it is impossible for the man- ufaoturors to supply o firat-olass article. Thoy Taukt Mso mora or loes poor matorial to make a profit on thoir contract. Anothor obstadle in the way of tho firomen was tho difficulty of roaching tho firo, eyen whon tho water could bo foreod to thiotopof tho bulldlug. Tho building had adoublo roof, the undor roof inbedded in plaster and only two and a half feob from tho upper root, which was covored extornally with shoots of galvanized {ron, and around these ran tho cor~ nicos, aluo of galvanizod iron, with numerous vrofections and involutions, In this narrow, conflnod space, tho concenled fire was raging, only monifesting itself us it found oullots through the cornloo-work. In this spneo, nfter much pulling down and outting away, the firo- mon had fo search for thoir enomy, avd in addition to this bad {o contend with tho donno volumes of smoke whicl filled the wholo bullding. The crowds which had congre« gatod about the building, and tho largo numbor ot pooplo who inklsted upon flocking into it without any purposo, as peoplo alwaya do at n firo, also impoded the firomon in tho onrlier atages of the firo, and would havo coutinuod to do so Lad it not boou for tha timely arrlval of the Tollco Bu- perintondont, by whoso onergetic action the building was soon clearod, and amplo room was afforded thoe firomen, It must furthor bo ro- membored that the firomen woro not undor the commaud of tho Firo-Marahal, that individual tiaving boon romovad by tho Magor ou Saturday, His duties thoroforo dovolved upon Assist- ant Fire-Marghal ~ Bonpor, who found himsolf, immnedialely wupon the assumption of his dutios, faco to faco with s fonrful and ox- traordinary respousibiiity, and wilh tho obstscles wo have montioned working against him, It was & vory bryiug position, and had the flames got boyond his control and destroyed a considor- ablo smount of proporty, 1t would probably bave been tho Iast time ho would Lave exorcised tho authority of Firo-Marshal. Assisted by .tho in- tolligont and woll-dirccted efforts of Commis- sionora Wright sand Bheridan, Mr. Bonnor proved himsolt toba oqual to the emergency, and, although at first somowhat flurried by the suddon and vory uunoxpacted problem ho was called upon to solve, as any other man might havo boon, undor the circumstances, ho ovontuslly proved himaolf to bo tho mastor of the situation, and, contrary to the expocta- tions of ovory ono who witnessod tho firo, tho Singor Building stfll stands ns good as ever, with tho oxcoption of tho loss of tho roof and cornico. L While the presetvation of this handsome structure and of the adjoining buildings is & mattor for sfncore congratulation, the Iesson which the fire suggosts ia none tho less impor- tant. There aro othor lofty buildings, many of them, with iron roofs, and thoy are all tho timo linble to got out of ropair. Thoro sre many other etapid, blunderiug workmen in tho city, who may loavo their braziers in dnogorous places, so that , thero fa no immunity from firo, and thoro is an alarming possibility of wide-sproad destruction should such a fire oceur in the night-time, when tho diflculty of rallying tho Depariment and ox~ tinguishing it would bo groatly inorensed. ‘fhe vory fact that tho Siger Building has lost its roof and cornico show that wo bave not yof given heed to all the warninge of tho Groat Firo, In this connoction wo would again urgo tho recommendations which havo been alroady printed in Tue Tomose. Thoy capnot bo stated too ofton or cmphesized with too much carucstness. Tho systom of iton-tubing which hins beon adoptod in somo of our high buildings ontirely romoves tho danger of bursting hose. ‘Wea roproduco, thereforo, tho rccommondations originally made by o writer in Tux TRIBUNE after the Grout Five, o says : Among othier regulationa let it ba compulsory to bavo pipes of a size of not lesa than two and one-halt Suches (that bieing tho sizo of owr onglue-hosc) bullt in and carried to the roof of sl walls of o cerlain efght nt proper distances, such pipea to havo inlota at tho bottom, sccosalblo from tho sidewalk, with coup- lings to 8t engine-hoae, and srranged to connoct with houo on the roof, or on elthor floor tnsldo tho buildings and furnfsbed with permouent ladders, moking it practicable for a mau to climd upon tho outslde, snd carry hoso on to the roof, Thero is probally mo fire, engino fu tho city that hns not ample power to forcon good stream from o nozzlo at a hielght of 150 foet from {ho ground in from four to eight minutes aftar light~ Ing the fucl fu the furunco, whero tho water 38 kopt couatantly hot, as it {ahoro, Thls, however, caunot bo douo thirough lioso alono, as the great weight of o long column of full hone Auapended cawties it to bucklo” and collapeo over tho cornice or window-sill where it entora tho.bullding, Buch pipes or tubes, when thoy are placed in a building at the time of its construction, involva » moro triflo of expouse, which is not worlh wontioning in comparison with the minimum to which tho risk is reduced and tho consoquont saving of insuranco. Notwithstanding the com- paratively fortunato rosult of tho Stalo stroot firo, it i8 ono more warning, in addition to the coatly onos of tho past, which tho people of this city ought not to disrogard. THE SMITHS OF VERMONT, The Bmith family has oxtondod its base of oporations indofinitoly of lafo, The Chicago branch reachod out inte Canads, tho othor day, and swsllowed an entiro Ministry with o rail- rord to boot, The Smiths of Vermont, meau- while, have vindicated the family roputation to such & dogreo a8 to rendor them the subjocts of a gonenlogical record and family history in tho Springfield Republican. Roaders of Tim Trsuse hovo alroady been treatod to somo acccount of tho Vermont Contral opora- tions, but tho Bmitha of Vormont may bo said to havo fllustrated tho possibilities of railrond manipulations moro fully than thoe late Hon, Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, or tho docoased Col. James Tiek, Jr., of Now York. Oporating on a smaller capital and within a more con- tracted territory, thoy have schioved rosults which entitlo them to rauk with tho Vandorbilts, tho Jay Goulds, tho Tom Beotts, and the othor railwny magnates of tho time. The founder of tho Vormont family of Smiths was, quite natar- ally, named John, and honored Worcostor Coun- ty, Mass., with hie birth, somewhore botweon 00 and 100 years ago. Ilo wos slrendy ad- vancod in yoars whon he wont iuto - the ruilroad business, snd, consequontly, did not bave time to becomo & millionairve, though ho died in the possession of a handsomo ostato, ITo loft two sons, however, to work out tho family grostnoss,—John Gregory Smith, oratwhile Governor of Vormont and Presidont of tho Northorn Pacifie Railrosd, aud Worthington 0. Bmith, who sotved in Congress one torm from tho Bt. Albany District, 'Theso young men woro broughit up in the storling old Domacratio school of thoir father, but wont over to tho Republicana ot the proper time and wore duly rowarded. John Grogory married tho daughter of Lawronce Brainurd, aud kindly took his father-in-law into tho Smith raflroad fanilly. The youngor Smitha came into possession of ihe Vormont Oontral, the Vormont & Oannda, and tho Rutland & Burlington Railronds by family succession, a8 It were, and thon procoodod to oapturo s numbor of othor rallroads, including the Vermont Valloy, tho Vermont Junotion, tho Misslsquol Valley, tho Ogdena« burgh, tho Now Loudon, and others, John Grogory Smithi doos not soom avor to have Lad much political ambition, but ho accoptod the Govornorship of Yormont as & moans to groater rallrond gobbling, He wa3 a lawyor, and thoro- foro undorstood the advantago of getting hia rallroads tiod up fn chaucory sult and running thom In tho capaclty of Reooiver. in which ho sooms to havo deomod it his dnty to rocolve ovorythlug and pay ovor nothing. As the Republican puts ft: ¥o hns' ran his road and mnde his milion by & porpotual Inw-ault, of which tho publio ‘lave pald the costs, while Gov, Bmith and Wi friends took thospolls,” ThoVermont Central has boon in the Linnds of the Bupromoe Court for twolve yoors, Auring which timo tho Bmith family have run it Lo suit tiomaolves and Inoroasod thoir fortunes agcording to tlio rulo of goomotrical progression. The policy of managomont undor the Smith rogima Is woll indicatod in tho difforenco botwoon tho rotnlts whon ono rosd i8 yun for stock- holdors and snothor for the managors. Tho Bmithe lossed tho Vermont Junction and Bullivan Roilronds for thomsclves as managers of tho Vormont Contral, and thoy have slwaya boon profitable, having nottod thom a8 thoir share £100,000 o yoar sinco1861, But thoy have run tho Vermont Contral nominally for tho stockholdors, and it hos always boon unprofitablo—to the stockholdory, Gov, Bmith, having boon somewbat in politios, know tho ropss, ond rotalned tho leading mém- bora of the Vermont Loglelaturo with dircct focs In somo casos, froe pagses in others, and in a varloty of Ingonfous ways. Ilo then formed s miniaturo Oredit Mobiller in Vermont Contral, in which the SBmith fomily mado se individuala profits from contraots which wore provided by tho Smith family as managors, Thoy built cars and locomotives, and leaged thom to tho Vor- mont Contral at o Jargo pormanont rental, which had to bo paid whether the cars and locomotives wero in use or not, Tho natural rosult was that thieo Vormont Contral constantly lost money and tho Bmith family constantly made monoy. ‘The acandal graw to auch proportions that tha Logis- Inturg was forced to appoint a committes of in- vostigation, This Committeo was organized to whitowash. But tho ovidonco that came bofors thom was so damaging that thoy did not dare to do thoir work vory thoroughly whon thoy know that the ovidonce would also have to bo publish- od. Bo they compromised by withholding tho ovidoneo fora whilo (and it hasnot yet boon publicly printed), making no detailod roforonce to it in their roport, and issuing s vague aud fooblo roviow of the situation, in which thoy held that it would, porbaps, havo boen betterit cortain things hadnot beon oxactly as they wore. But thero was no corruption,—oh, nol The people -will havo to await tho publieation of tho evi- denco in dotail hofore they can lmow just how bad the caso was, Sufliciont Lug como out from timo to timo to show that it was bad enough. Gov. Bmith had chorgo of » *‘Socrot Sorvico Tund,” the disposition of whioch ho rofused to account for. Besldos the direct oporations in Vormont Central, the Smith Oredit Mobilior formod a construction ring to build the road from Bwanton to 8t. John's, in Canads, for which they charged more than 32,000 o mile, though it ran through a country whore it could not have cost mora than from $20,000 to 825,000 & milo, and then thoy fslsificd tho milenge in their favor, They leased tho road aftor it was com- plotod. They aleo lessed the Sullivan Railrond, and the two havo brought thom in 100,000 & yonr profit, while tho Vormont Contral, of which thoso loasod roads aro mero oxtensions, hns boon losing monoy at tho rato of $1,000,000 a year. Tho boldest scheme conceived in the fertilo brains of tho Vermont Bmiths is yot to bo workad out. A chartor was grantod to the Ring Gt tho Inst sossion of tho Vormont Logistaturo ostonsibly forthe purpose of offoating » congolida~ tion of intorests and removing the bankruptronds {from the Chancory.Court which has onabled the Smiths to run them for their own bouefit. It turna out, now, that this chartor is & schomo for » £2,000,000 subscription that shall tako proco- donco of all the other mortgage bonds, of which thore are four or five series, and thus securs to the now elique tho ontira proporty, which repro- sontd o cost of ton timos tho nmount of monoy which the Bmith fawmily, with Trevor W. Park (of Mariposs Olaim andl Emma Mino notorioty), and gome Now York capitalists of liko repute, propose to poy for it. Tho roquisite $2,000,000 hiavo beon subscribed sinco May last, and about one-quarter paid in, The echome, with n prog- pect of succoss warranted by tho enccess of the othor Smith schomes in tho pust, hne alarmod tho holdors of the former socuritios, somo of whom aro solling ont to the Smitha for ‘what they can got, Tho Springfleld Republican advises them to abandon this policy, hold on to their bonds, and make a fight in tho courts. It promises that publio opinion will be strong enough to force tho Supreme Judges, who have singularly favored tho Brithe in protracting the Iaw-guit, to a spoedy sottloment of tho quostion ou an oquitable basis, It further prediots that on anti-monopoly party will be formed around tho nuclous of the Granges which will drive the Bwith riug to the wall at tho noxt Stato cloction. e —— THE FARMERS' NOMINATIONS, The farmors of MoLean County, 1Il, who Dhavo boon accustomed to give 2,600 Ropublican majority, have taken it into their honds to throw ‘party ovorboard, and nominate o ticket of thelr own for county officers, The farmors of the County of DoWitt Lave dono the samo thing. To-day the farmers of Bureau Couuty, who have ., Leen in the habit of olocting the rogular tickets by 1,200 to 1,400 majorily, hold a conven- tion to nominato o ticket of tholr own. In o few days or wocks tho farm- ors of Champnign, Whitoside, Livingston, Kuox, and Union will hold thoir conventions, and put in nominntion condidates of their' own. T'his movement is not confined to the countios wo have namod, nor to Ropublican countles. It 18 just a8 strong in countiea: whoro tho’ Domo- aratio party in in tho majority. Tho differarleo, howover, is that, in nearly overy ease, the Domo> oratio organization haw ‘“kicked the bucket" in advance, and abandoned all purposo of holding party conventions %o nominate tickets, In the Republican counties, however, tho Postmasters ond rovon:o officers, tho broad and butter brigade, fool called upon to proserve tho party by making nominations, In this proceoding thoy aro supported by the party nowspapers, who affect a lvely zoal for the Farmors' Movoment, 80 loug as that move- mont does nothing practical. Tho politiolans and nowspapor-organs doolaro that the organe {zation of » Farmors' pasty fu au tmpossiblil. ity, ood thot tho formors wil not, mnd cannot, nomiuvato tlckets In opposition to tho Ropublican parly candidates, aud tho answer givon to this by the farmors is he aclual nomiustion of just such tickota. In like maunor a Justice of tho Poaco was onco told that ho couldn't grant a divorce, Ho re- pliod that ho had actually done it, snd that the woman had got marriod again, Tho way to rendor tho olection of thelr can- didatos In 1874 morally certain iy for the farmers to perfoct thelr organization by holding conven- tions and oloollng tho local offiers in 1878, Throughout the Siato the Domooratie party ins proporly and connlatoutly Il down in Its gravo; in somo countles the Republicans have dono the same, snd now i thoe farmera will unitedly sup- pork their own candidates in all tho othor countien, and dofest tho nominces of all tho otlior parties, thoy wiil have a closr flold for oloction of & Legislalure and Cougrossmon & yeur houeo, PROTECTION FOR OALIFORNIA. The 8aun Frauslseo Julletin 1s complaining Iutterly that Oalifornia annually oxports an fm- mousa stack of sueplus products, and imports {n roturn manufacturod articlos, ofton mado of raw owtorial produced {n that Stato, and inslats that thig policy is rufnous, and must ond fn fm- povorisbmont. It starts out with what it atyles 8 “ gottlod maxim," thot the farmor who sonds ovorything away from his farm, sud roturns nothing, will 8ually havo impoverished folds. The Bulletin states tho caso as follows: Tho troublo with California fo-dny fs, that the raw matordal, which ought to enroh tho country, 18 sent ont of 3t at very smoll advaneo over tho eost of produc tion, Tho broad marging of profit aro mado abrond, The graln-grower has ono profit, snd Aomoyears b vory amall ono, tho shipper may got another, But aven tho frofght monoy, or tho latgor part of i, 15 earnod by veasels osned abroad. - Tho millers only grind & small proportion of the wheat producod, and (ho bakers ‘mako but a swall proportfon of tho flour futo bread. Wo send off leather a8 raw matorfal and buy it back in Uoota and alioes, Tho best profit gocs to the monus facturer, Tho question {ra very simple one. If Cali- fornia enn oxchango hides sud leathor for moro baots and shooa than sho could make from thom st bomo, sho gaing by tho traffio ; if sho can make boots and shoos for loss monoy than sho pays for those sho imports, sho losos. If tho farmor cnn goll hig hides at the noarest lown, and can purchaso boots and shoos for loss money than it would cost him to convort his hides into loather, and make tho boots himeolf, ho acts wigely by selling the raw materlal. Californin 1has moro Wwhoat than sho can consume, and, if sho can got moro boots and shoos for hor wheat than eho could obtain with tho samo Iabor it they wore mado at homo, sho onjoys tho profit of the trado, Sho exchanges what sho has, and don't necd, for that which sho las not, and doos nood. How can this be an impoveriabing procosa to California? But the Bulletin con- sidors that tho cost of tratsportation of the whoat to market, and the transportation of the boots and shoos back, snd the profits of the msnufacturor, oroall lost to California by the trado, Is this truo in point of fack? Assuming that tho cost of trausportation on the hides and on tho roturn boots and shoes, tho cost of mak- ing, and tho profit of tho manufnoturor, consti- tute 80 por cont of tho value of tho ooty aud shoos, this leaves but 10 por cont to roprosont tho value of tho raw matorisl. Would the hidos ropresont any groator portion of the valuo of the ‘boots and shoos it tho lattor wero mado in Cali- fornia? Would tho ownerof tho hides be al- lowed any greator proportion of valuo in ox- changing them for boots and shoes made in Californin than is allowed him in exchong- ing thom for boota and shoes mndo clsowhore ? ‘When tho timo comes that Oalifornin can mako boota and shoes and soll them as choap or cheapor then thoycan bo imported, that will not add auything to the value of tho raw mate- rinl, aud consequently the producer of that materisl will get no more i oxchango thorofor than he doesnow. 1f the machinery of ‘Massachusctts woro put down in Californis, tho manufacturer would pay no moro for the raw motorisl than it uow brings in Cali- tornia, 0 tho condition of the pro- Queor of hides would not be improved. Tho “gottlod moxim" jnsisted wpon by tho Bulletin, it carried out, would require overy farmor to produco everything that ho noeds, Ilo should produce his own weol and cotton ; mako his own clothes ; makobis own wagons and carts; make his own leather, and his own harness, and boots and sboes ; bo his own blacksmith, and make hig own horso-shoos ; make Lis own im- ploments, hia furnituro, and his utensils of all kinds, Being thus occupied in 8 most divorsi- flod industry, on & nocewsarily emall and most unprofitablo scale, it is probable that the surplus products of his farm would not cover his ex- ponses, Indood, if overy man produced sll ho naoded, thora would bo no porsen to purchase any surplus. Bo with SBtates; it no othor Stato or country noeded lreadstuffs or leathor, the surplus of theso articlos produced in California would bo valuoless, and bo lost to tho Btato. Tho manufacturer who now pur- chasos tho raw matorial with tho costof trans- poxtation added, if in Californis would only pay tho samo prico for the raw matorial, less tho cost of transportation. Wo do not undorrato the valuo of manufactures; it fs but a quostion of timo whon California will make her own boots and shoos ; but when that takes place it will bo ‘bocanse boots and shocs can be made there for Iess monoy than it costs to jmport them. Tho boot and shoo makors est the same mmount of bread whore thoy now rosido as thoy would do if oll aottled in Californis; butif they wore in California thoy would pay for brond the price it bears in California, aod not that which it bears in Massnclusott; ——— Tho enlary-grab, which is opon to attac: on al sidos, is coustantly doveloping now phasos of injustico and iniquity, Ouo of tho latest and strougost pointa mndo aguinat it is tho dinpro- portion botweon the relative incroase of Con- grossional pay und that of the Supremo Judgos. As the power fo fix tho pay of all tho United Btatea ofiicials - has boon vosted in Congress, thoro Las boon a constant disorimination against the Supromo Bonch and infavor of thoso whoso sorvices wore, in ono way or another, necessary to socure the dosired incroase, At tho outeot, it waa intouded that tho salary of a Uongrossman should bo bhut ono-fourth that of tho Ohiof-Justivs, Had this ratlo boon maintained, the Ohiof-Justice's snlary woutd now bo §30,000. Instond of this tho salary of tho Chlof-Justico is only $10,500, ond that of tho Assoclate Justicos £10,000, whilo the Cougrossman roceives $7,600. 'I'homembory of Congros now oxcood, by one, the number of days in tho yoar, being 860, 8o that Congress couty the country a little moro than 7,500 aday, whilo tho Bupromo Court costs but §250 & duy. Anybody can be o Congrossman like Mr, John Morrissoy and tho carpot-bug rascals who aro not a8 good as ho ; to be & Bupromo Judgo requires tho conditiona of cminont learning and a life spont In hard professionat labors, The Congrous of tho past fow yonrs has beon chiefly engaged in organizing measures for plundoring the pooplo ; 1t iy the proviuce of the Bupremo Court to pro- tect tho peoplo from all oucronohmonty of anun- lawful nuture, A Oongrossman hae o Jargo por- tion of overy year to himsolf, whioh ho can dovoto to his businoss or protession (Seustor Ouarpoutor eays ho mado $10,000 last yoar out- side of his Congrosslonsl pay); tho time of & Bupremo Judgo I8 all cooupied with his publio 1and, Minnesota, Miustes{ppl, Nebravkn, ! J Py dutles, and ho lu prohibited by Inw from practis- Ing in court, which ts, an n rulo, tho only busls nosa o knowa. A vory largo proportion of tho 800 Sonators and Roprosontatives do littlo or nothing toward corning the monoy thoy draw outof tho public iroasury; the Suprome Court in ovor-rowded with work of tho groatost im-~ vortanco to individuals aud the country at largo. "hoso contrasts forcibly illustrato tho gross in- Justleo of tho last gonoral lucreano of salaricn, in which Congrossmen ratsod tholr own salarlos 2,500, with o bnok natlon an woll as o forward, and tho Buprome Judges' erlarios only 3,000, without tha rotronctive featuro. A casio ing Just boon summarlly disposad of by tho Lord Juatioos of Appoal in England which ehould bo a model for tho troatmant of eimilar cngos in this codntry, where thoy are more com- mon then in Gront Britain, Ouo Maj. Kiteon, who was Chafrman of thio Intornational Contrace Company and tho Ottoman Financial Company, organized & now stock company (limited), under tho nmmo of Charlos LaFitte & Qo. Thero woro fo bo 40,000 sharea of £20 ench. There wos to bo o working caplial of £200,C00, which was raised in the following mon- nor: Tho International Contract Company gave {ts promisgory notos for tho smount, which the Dirootors of tho National Bank discounted on tho agrecmont that the money should romain with thom on doposit until the notes bocamo duo, and thon omployad, togother with tho pro- coeds that might como in from the sale of stock or profita {n busincss, to tho paymont of tho notes, Tho mew slock nasociation of La- Fltto & Co. contracted dobts and decolved ite Yona flde ehnro-holdors. Whon tho mattor wan brought into tho courts, it was adjudged tobo “dishonost” and s “sham,” aud held that “thore was no monetary transao- tion at all, only a roprosentation that money had beon paid whon 2t had not been poid,” It was furthor docided that there could be no action at equity betwoon the National Bonk, the Intornational Contract Company, and Charles LaFitte & Oov., bocauso all wero equally coguizant of tho fraud, Tlia planof organizing stock companios i vory familiar in this country, tho difference boing that tho American organiz- ors usunlly make thoir notes and put thom away in tho safe to roprosont paid-up stock, and do not pothor to got oven n discount on tho sgrooment of o pormauent doposit of the whole sum in the bonk which furnishomit. The planwasa favorito ono with Illinois insuranco companies beforo tho Chicngo fire of 187 It Is roported that Senator Morton, In a recont convorsetion, stated ho did not believe the Domocrate'intonded to abandon thoir organiza~ tion for any now party or now doparture movo- mont, Bays Benator Morton: *Withont any immediato prospect.of succoss, thoy will keop togathor, and avoid anything liko thelr mistako of lnst fall.” As their only mistake last fall was their want of success, and a3 tho immodinte prospoct of that succoss must Inevitably grow moro snd more distant sftor each oloction, it is very ovidont thot Bonstor Morton is taking counsel of Iis foars. If the Damooratio Trojans aro wiso thoy will bowaro of this Indiana Greok Loaring his gifts to thom. Buch disiutorested advico as this is not given gratuitously byan intorested party. In the parlanco of tho day, it is altogether * too thin.” Tho recont movoments to croate a new Stato by condolidating contiguous portions of Ken- tuoky, Tonncsseo, and Mississippi, sooms to hnvo been tha signal for other annexation move ments in the Bouth, Tho paople of Northwest- orn Louisiana, being convineed that it will tend to their intorost to annox thomeolves to Toxas, aro moving vigoronsly in the mattor. Itis enld that the now movement meats with great faver from tho Toxan press, Still anothor projoot ia to annox Wost Florida to Alabams, and ibis is 8o for advauced that tho Covernors of both Btatos are shortly to meot and conaulé over the matter. The now movemants, of courso, aro hoartily indorsod by tho politicinns, as they will opon now piacos to be filled, and develop new opportunitioa for plunder. . NOTES AND OPINION. This day (Aug. 4) is the monthly pay-day une dor tho salary-act of tho lnst Cougross, for mems Ders of the now Congres that moots on Monday, Dee. 1. The disburscment to-day is $228,760. Tho total disbursoment of nlarics sinco March 4todate is $1,143,750. Tho disbursoment for snlaries to Dac. 4, whon Congross will have been throo days in session, will be $2,058,760, Bona« tors and Ropresentatives will be paid, in addition, for ““nocossary travoling oxponses to Wash- ington,” . —Thore no longer oxists for Sonators and Ropresontatives in Congress tho cheap dovice of lotting their alaries “luy undrawn lo rovert into the Treasury." Sinco March 4 the disburs- ing oflicers of thoSenate and House draw from tho Trensury the full amount to bo disbursed, and digburso it poromptorily by chocl or drafi sont to the individnal at his roeidenco, X —The individual salary account of the olect Congrossmen, to dute, s $3,125, Our own Chi- cago Reprosentatives—Jobu B. Rico, Jaspor D, ‘Ward, and Charles B. Farwoll—have received or will have recoived it, Haa any ono of thom enrned it, so far? Ts it importinent to inquire what thoy proposo to do with it? Doos it bo- long to thom? Ta it their private busmnoss ? —The salary-grab law is o rat-trap. Innocont Congressmen eloct did not Bet it, but it catchos them all tho samo, —Ot gixtecn Scoatars and thirty-goven Ropre- sontativon, in tho Forty-socond Congress, who all fotundod thoir “back pay,” fiftcon Seustors and twenty-nino Roprosentativea havo seats in tho Forty-third Congross, snd will havo votas, noxt wintor, on the inevitable question of rapeal, What ara they doing, meauwhile, with tho * for- ward pay 2" % —Brother Harlan calls attontion to it, in his Washington Clronicle, that, it only the refund- orgof tho Forty-socond Congrgus woro honost o, thon thero ara positively no honost mon, but ouly ¢ thioves, salary-grabbers,” ote., in the Forty-third Congrees; and so appalling a con- clusion makes it appear to Brothor Harlan an an absurd toat. Brotbor Iarlan ta profoundly interestod ; ho ia not a refunder, —It tho salary-act 18n't wiped out botore an- other goneral ecloction of Congress, individual nmombors of Congross nood not make any por~ sonal exouses, whoy will not bo hoard or heedod, Tlio poople understand tho dadge of making up & personal “record,” and working privataly for tho opposite rosult. —Compare, uow, the whole pay and mileage of 1llinols Bonators for an ontire period of two years, paid aftor the work was done, with the pay alone (traveling oxpenses to bo addad). of Illinois Bonators boforo over thoy begin to do any worle: XXX, CONORESS, XLITX, CONATREA, Patd at the end of work, | Paidtn nont of wozk, Bloplion A, Dougias, §5,420130hn A, Logan. .. 85,635 By irecaa. o30S0 hichurd J. Dytiniy. oiass —Tho Washington corrospondont of the Now Yorl Evening F'osf, who haa Lud accoss to tho books, says: ‘Not a single Senatar or Ropressntative fromn any of the fnllowgm Btates hua roturnod his slaro of the i galary-grab ¥ to tho Creasury : Alabanin Florids, Georgls, Kausak, Keutucky, Arlunn, Loulnlaua, Marys Novada, Now Houth Gasollns, uire, North Oaroluo, Oregon, Tonnosco, ‘Toxan, Virginia, and Wost Vieginta, . White otlt tho Henndors from Masmchunotin and one Bens tor anch from Rhodo Intand, Dalméare; dnd_Californis finvo roturned their pay, nofling lins hoon hostd from any of tho Represontatfvos from thono Statos, ~—Jamen I, Blater, Iato Ropresontative of Oro gon, ackmowlodgos that tho “ sniary-gab® puf #1100 in his pocket, and recognizen the hostility thorato of Ozogon poople by b long lottor of ox- planation, in which lottor, however, ko fully ox- poson the hopeleskness of his own eako now that thero s n Congrosufonal vacanay to ba filled, flo sRyH: T know of no reason ju Inw or morala why T should not_rocolvo thin part of tho omoluments of the oftico under the ciroumniauces I have mawed, I lnve rawn and rogolptod for it . . . Tolnva placed thin amgunt boyond my own confrol or it of my holrs or legal roprenentativea herenttor, 1t would Lnve boon tocuksary for o to draw it and_then pay it over 10 tho consclonco fund of tlo Unilod Blatcs, This I hiawo not scon proper Lo do, snd do not now or hore- After {utond to- do, nok even to gecuro the privilego of BINKIDg A £aco €o n sent in tho Forty-thisd dongroen. et i S A CYoF AOUgIE to nvold aoting tho hypo- erito, and will fiot now sof {ho domagoguo | This Mr. Blater, of Oregan, 8 & Domocrat, and discovered, 00 Ite, & sontiment in Orogon yihich ho makes tho -toxt of his lotter, ‘viz.: Rany of our old Domocrats Any thoy will novor voto for & man who lins taken bavk-pay.” Kow, whoroln is Mr. Blater Joas entitlod than Ben Bat. Ior to the praiso of the Gnlena Gazelie, which &ays of Dau: Among Lis good and manly qualitics ara s wardiions, PInck, and coptais for o1 aienightfon othorn doand spologlze for, i doen and Juntifica ; 1 o takes monoy out ot the reauiry bo doct sa ovesy, “ whip tho do us n Fogard o tho samo “atoakn oo o stump ~—Tho common, toreo, and Anglo-8axon na for & porson who stoals i ‘‘thist.” Tho Teme Hauto Journal enlls tho “‘hack-pay bill" “ the stonl.”" Very woll; thon thoy who perpotrated it, who holped it nlong by thalr speceh or voto, and thion pooketod tho procoods of * tho atonl S sro thioves, Thoy who wore dotormined in tholr hoarts to commit this act, and then * backed down,” or are only waiting until the storm ghall blow ‘aver to pocket thoir “swag,” aro also #hioves, with tho additioual recommondation of Leing, in the ono cago, cowards, and, in thoothor, ‘bypocrites.—Terre Haule Gazelle, —In whatovor light this pay business {s roe fi:mlml, it stauds out s a monument of opon, nld-facod robery, aud no argument can strip it of {ts lonthsomo “chnracter. Tho prosent Cons oes, bofore it shall have Leon in sosafon an our, will cost the country 83,058,760~or almosh throo timos b much a8 an entiro Aession cost the gountry boforo the war, and twico as much na tho {awnous war sossions.~Indianapolis Sentinel, —Tho iniquity of tho malary-atenl appoara greator 08 o oxamino it moro. ~Why Congrese mon should receivo %625 onch month during tholr_vacation, I o mystory to tho thx-payon Tbis at onco chnplu):];lfl.m chhl‘n mn(lln, that a Con- rosaingn cannok live comfortably at Washin, on on 25,000, To bring this mlanr home, lE: tho peoplo of the Fifth Towa District ask thome sulvcu Mlll“ ggrflon.‘ John a Kargon has dong 0 onrn tho §625 oach mouth sinco tho 4t March.—Des Moines Leader, ol —Josoph . Canuon, BL. 0. aloct, woll knows tho sentiment of his constituants evor singo thnt wicked and unjust satary Inw was ennctod, and if, in tho faco of thoud facts, ho touchies ono dotlar of the moncy, ho s as_culpablo, ‘morally, 84 tho wholps who garroted tho nntion by put: ‘z‘x'.’.gn tho monuuro "through.— Cliampaign iy ion. If Carpontor i to Lo donounced for the baok-puy stonl, Why not Morton and Tynor? Why dacs tho Journal travel to Wisconsin to sontch outa Cougressmau o pitch into, whon it could bo abundantly nccommodated’ nearer hioma ?—Zoganaport (Ind.) Pharos. —Wo will” say now what wo wore proventad from seying st tho timo tho Hon, O, L. Waldo's Yopiy to Sonator Carpontor's baolejny spocch wag firat printod. Ar, Waldo lays the lash quite smartly upon tho backe of the Republion edic tors of tho Stato for not ropudinting tho Senator's Eoflmpu inamoro prompt, claborato, and ox- austivo manner, . . . W cannot allow him to hn“qnch the intogrity and faithfulness of the Ropublican pross of’ tho Stato without entoring our (uowst 1n it behalt,—Milwaukee Senlinel. Wo havo stndiod ovar Matt. Carponter's spocch af Janosvillo, defendiug tho bnck-pa kloptomamacs, and tho Credit Mobilior stocl {n\x ory, until o have como to the conclusion to uy n pair of pistols sud becomoa * Knight of tho road.” Thoro aro just ns good placos around here for a man to build up n gnod paying buainoss in & highway robbory, MfiVflflhmgfifln pregonts to tha avorago eloctod’ highwaymun,— LaQrosse ( Wis.) Democrat, —Ono of our dxchionges hits the nail oxaotly, and not any too strong, whon it pronounces the “ gnlory-grab " an illustration as tho tenchinga of tho Graut party. Domocrats dabbled in it to bo suro, but thoy never could havo beon partios to such rascality in tho dsy of Domocrntio prog- tigo, It waa rosorvad for the pasty in power to muko such villsiny possible.—Aaguoketa (Zowa) Sentinel, —Tho Rendnllvillo Standard insists that tha Demoeratic mombors of Congress wero, num- bers cousidered, mora ch!Llly implicated in the back-pay and salary-grab Lusiness than the Ro ublicans, This, wo' judge, is porfectly truo, ut wo ara puzzlod to know' why tho Standard should caro to mako this point atall. It onjoye tho “bad eminonco™ of boing sbout the,only papor in Indiana which oponly defands’ tha “grab” and “steal," and, if tho thing waa xight, whi should n Ropublican journs! tnke wivg to show that moro Domocrats’ (in propor- ion) than Ropublicans voted for it ?—Layorts (Ind) Ierald, - —T'ho Bouth Bend Tribune in tho only Repulx lican papor in the Stato that oponly condemns Prasidont Grant for tho part he played in the increnso of tho salary business. . . ., 'I"lm papers that havo no word of condemnation for the Prosidont, but from week to weolk aro filled with obuse of Gen. Tackard and other *back- paystors,” aro not ouly inconsistent, but thoeir acta sovor atrongly of dishonesty. 1t thoy op- pose tho back-pay and increass of snlaries from principlo, thoy should includo all oflicials who 8re in any \way responsibla for the law.—Laporte (Ind.) Argus. man who censurea a Congrossman for supporting tho salary-steal, and wor tho Prostdont, 18 diehonost. Thoro is uo uso of trylufi to eucapo the stigima of this salary- stenl. i8 no answor to charge that Domo- cratg supported it, and might have defoated it. It only shows that neithor party, as such, ia entitled to tho paople's confldoneo, and proves. tho necossity of A now Fumicul organization, {hat will respect tha rights of the people, an froo us from tho corrupt party cormorants that sro now ruining the country and disgiacing the CGovornment.—Adrian (Mich.) Press, ~1f this conncotion of Gou. Butlor with tho salary.bill, at the roquest of the Prosident's frionds, ought to reeult in his condomnation, how much mors ought it to croato disgust with the Administration ?—Albany (V. ¥.) Argus. ~The President has opounly sssured promi- nent public mon that ho will urgo tho ropesl of the got. Right hore wo must also state that the Progident would in all probability have votoed tha © back and frout salary act," as the Omaha Herald torma it, had not thia bill boon attached as & ridor to tho most important spproprintion bill, on tho Inst day of tho sesslon. A Jfailure to sign thia bill would have soriously impaired the functions of the Government, and nobody knew: this botlor thou tho raseally Congrossmon tha fathorod this stonl and puelicd it through in this sucroptitious maunor,.—Oniaha Jee. —Ad 5 matlor of party policy, wo thiuk tho Prealdent ouglit to Lave vatood tho' sulary-bill, on account of ite rotroactivo fentures, - Tho rbove wo clip from n Grant paper. Lise ton to tho uttoranco: *As o muttor of parly policy,” “tho Trosident ought o havo votoed tho salary-bill," und thut too * on account of ita rotropotive featuves.” Wa hold that thoe Presi- dont, as a matter of duty to the_people, should havo vetood that sulary-bill, not bocauso “of its rotronctive foaturos,™ but because tho membeys of Congrass aud tho Dresidont woro bomg pnid mluui‘;h —Galesburg slll) Froe Press, —The language of the Dos Moines Republiean platform is, that tho salary-stoal is “most tlagrantly infamous;"” and yot, whilo tho Ad- ministralion presy is ringing theso rosolutions throngh iho Iand, with editorialy laudatory of thoir oxcollonco, in tho gnmo papors, nud the samo iwsues of thowm, we find those Congross. men, tho wholo Congress, aud tho Prosident ap- plauded an living models of political purity and worthy oxamplos of iwitation.—Ulerokeg (Jowa) Zimes. —A largo number of American newspapora appear to tako pocullar dolight i denouncing Congross, A wireugor, doriving all his infor- mation of tho churactor of Sonntors and Ropro-. sontativos from this sourco, would duuhdmm couclude that thoy uro an oxcoodingly untruste. worthy conolave, * But ehionld (hiu form of gov- ornmont be abolished, what_can be substituted In itu stoad ? Mauifestly a despotisin must fol- low. Wao theraforo concluda that such porsona aro ofthor chroulo or bypoeritial fault-findors, or honostly opposed 1o n Republican form of Qovornmont.—arlan's Washington Chronicle. —It wa could gond tho rascals out of tho ocountry, ineluding ull tho Christian statosmon, not oxcopting Colfax & Co., it would bo & goo thing,~Jonesboro (1ll.) Gazelte. ~Ii aliould bo romeriborod it tho onormous E}Mmungu aud political maokinery of tho Foderal jovernment, controllad by tho Y'reahlont and his Bn}:])nrtum, can only baheld in chock or ovor. como by awskening 1o public mind in timo and rropnd.ngi for tho conflict jong i sdvanee.—Zure inglon (lowa) Gazella.