Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 16, 1873, Page 4

4 THE CHICAGO DATLY T.RIBUNE: TULESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1873, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNG g T8 CF AUBROITION (e ailsy by matl. o0& 02200 | Sunds Tl aridimeers SO0 | s, Pavinatn rearat the samo rate, Tuttovout delay nnd mistatios, Uo suro snl givo Post €1 ceuduress tn wull, including Stato and County ! ctottauces mav Lo mmilo olthior by dratt, oxpross, Post Uhieevidon, o inegistorolt lo'to.e, nt our risk, NMA TO CITY BUNMCRINERS. Toily, dellvorad, Bundny ecconton, 2 conts per wook. Bl aolisered, Sunday tncludad, % conts por wook, © Addiass TIR TRIBUNT COMPANY, Coruor Madison nud Dearborusts,, Chicago, 1l TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS, HOOLEY'S THRATRE--Randoluh steost, hotweon Qlvvk _snit LaSalle, Urand linglish - Opara-Troupe. ¥ ¥.a Dixvolo, plLYIOKIILS TIUATRE-Mulian strsst, botyoon enrborn ¢, Ling 20, or Puint Lyndo Light,n - Lniomene of - Leda, < ACADEMY OF MUSIO—Halated stroot, hotwoon Mad. no und Ao Enganemout or, tho Lydia Thompyon Burlesquo Troupo, onitworth." GLOBE THRATRE~Desplatueastroot, hotwoon Mads ison und Washington, ~ fiugngomont of’ Barius Turck, **Ligutning Bob," + ,MYERS' OPENA-HOUSE Monroe stroot Dearburi and Siato. Burlesqus of ¢ Douns of fouziolum, " Minsicolsy and wonicalitios, otwoon tho Fum: KINGSBURY MUSIC ITALI~Clark stroot betwoon 1 . Teoinro by Uhiarles Hradlangh, B e Movesmont 1 Eaglumd. CENTENARY M. I CHIURCI—West Manroa stroot, Sorgan and Abordeon. Rolweor Readings by O, Dalo Aumstrong, DR. KAHN'S MUSRUM OF ANATOMY-Olark stroaty Uotweo: Madison and Monroo, The Chicago Teibune, Tuosday Morning, Decombor 16, 1873. Moro than 300 bills wore introducod into Con- grosa yeatordny. Tho Mouso of Represontativos lavo votod to adjourn on Friday sill after the holidays. Thoy will convene again Jaa. 6. Thers are at least 120,000 peoplo in France who are in favor of monarchy, siuce s petition for reetoration signed by thut number of names has been presented in tho French Assombly, The Pomoroy bribery case is further compli- cated by a roport tkat Pomoray hns purchased o nolle prosequi for $7,000. Tho proof is not in yet, but 1t is ovident that Mr, Pomeroy is not idle, The vacancy iu the State Board of Rallroad and Warchouse Commigsionors, oceasloned by tho death of Col. Cook, has boen filled by the wppointment of Judge James Stecle, of Edgar County, There was a general discussion in tho Senato yesterdny ou the financos, in which Mr. Pratt, of Indiann, domanded £100,000,000 more cur- roney in behalf of the West. Nothing defiuite was accomplished. is gradually recovering from the effects of the panic is indicated to somo ex- tent by the announcement of Messrs, Claflin & Co,, the great dry goods firm of Now York, thut they will bo aly to aaticipate the payment of tho firut inataltment of their oxtonded pupor. Tho Towa State Qrange, which claima to rep- reeent tho sentimeat of 100,000 farmers in that State, havo passed o resolution requesting Iowa Congressmen 10 voto againat the rostoratiou of the duty on tea and coffoe, rnd favor the rovival of the incomo tax if more taxation shall become necossnry, AUr. Woar's bill for devoling the proceeds of the public land sales to an edueational fund provides for o division among the States accord- ingto their relative illitoracy for five years to come, and theroafter an equal allotmout to all. T'ho bill is thus favorable to the Southern States in general aud the negro race in particular, Kansas scoms to lead tho van in tho march of defaulting Tronsurers, Leavenworth reports o shortage of $3,000 on the part of its City Treasurer, and another of 370,060 on {ho part of tho County Treasurer, who has mado an as- eignmont of Lis property to Lis boudsmen. In addition to this, the State Treasurer of Knusas ia also alloged to bo in arroars. The Special Committeo of the House have ndopted the feolle compromise on the salary queution suggested by the Administration, and bavo decided to roport a bill fixing the salary of Congressmen ot 85,600 & yoor and actual travel- ing oxpensos, Tue bill will repeal all increaso of snlaries mado by the law of last March, ex- zept the Presidont's, which will not bo distwrbed. The Senate Committoe on Privileges and Eloc~ tions being equally divided on tho question whetlier tho Ion, Mr. Pincliback, of Louisiana, hall havon soat in that body, tho matter has been turned over to the Senato at large to decida tho question. The political division of the Sonatoe is fifty-ono rogular Republicane to twen- ty-threo of iho entlro opposition, which will probably have something to do with the sattlo- ment of the case. Mayor Colvin last night corrected his mis- take of a weok ago, by fist removing Mr. Wright from the Board of Police Commiksionors and then appointing Mr. Klokko to tk% vacaney, Jocob ol was also nominated Polico Super- intondent in place of Mr, Washburn, who haa resignod. None of Mr. Colvin'a appointmonts bave been confirmed othor than those Loroto- foro moted. Tho Council have postponed, for wnother woek, the consideration 'of the proe- sosed reduction of tho tax-levy. The sufferings of tho sottlara in Northwestern lowa prove to bo much greator than bas boou bolioved, The numbor of families 1s said to be 1,000, and of persons over 4,000, who aro actual- Iy suftering from waut of food in this land of pleuty, The famine bas been brought on by tho grasshoppor plague which has utterly de- stroyed tho crops in that section of tho country, Asido from tho preparations for reliof wade in different parts of tho State, tho Stute Grange bay appointed o Bpoelal Committeo, with boud- auartera at Des Molues, to recalve contribu- tious, The Obieago produce markets wero more ac tivo yestorday, and breadstufy wore gonorally stronger, Moas pork was activo, but 85a lower, sloging at 814,10@14,16 cash, tnd $14,00 soller Fobruury. Lard waa aolive, and 100 por 100 (he loser, closing ut ©9,26@8.30 cash, and £8.70@ 8.7) seller February, Beats wore quiet and o sliado oaslor, at byge for shouklers, 03{@6}¢e for short ribs, Tho for short eloar, all boxed, and 8lg@Y)ge for swoot picklod Liamw, Highwmes wers quios and lo highor, at 030 per gallon. Dressod Jiogs were dull and easiot, oldeing at €0.00@6.76 per 100 1bs, Tlour was more aotlve and flrmor nt 85.60@5.75 for good spring oxtray. Whent was netivo and 1o highor, closiug at ¥1.16!¢ eash, and 91,173 uellor fununry, Corn ag moro native nnd J¢e Ligher, closing tamo at H11e cash, and 3o wellor January, Outs woro moro nelivoe nud firmer, closing nt 89%¢e cash, ol 393ge woller Jammary. Rye was quict and oasder at 1o, Barloy was dull and lit:le botlor than uominal, at §1.43 for N, 9, and $1.03 for No. 3, Ilogs wora inactiva and nominully 13¢ lowor, Cattlo wero in falr rojqucst uud flrm, Sheep quiat. Mr. Tromain yosterday introducad into the Ilonso a bill for thoe rapeal of the Dankrupt law which providos (1) for tho absoluto repoal of the prosont law and all tho awoendments, aud (3) that, in coses now pending, tho creditors ropro- sonting the largest amount of elaims shall decido the modo of sottlemont. It wau dotermined to mako tho bill the special order for to-day. - Ita paseago will rostoro tho old relations botween croditors nnd dobtors that oxisted bofore thoe Dankruptey nct became a Jaw, and which are do- tormiuod in tho soveral States by tho differont statuzos thoreof. It is hinted, howover, that tho provision reguding ponding bankruptey suits Lias boen conceived in tho intorest of Jay Cooko and others agninst whom proceodings have al- ready beou instivuted, Tho death is announced of Ehzaboth, Queon Dowagor of Prussis. This lady was the wifo of Frodericle Willinm IV., o brother of tho presout Emperor of Gormany and hie predecessor ns King of Prussia, TFredorlek William IV. died in 1861, elnldloss. ITis relict was tho daughtor of Maximilian I, of Bavaria, who died in 1825, and who was tho first King of Bavaria, having suc- ceeded, througl tho inatrumentality of Napoloon Bunaparte, the long lino of Elcetors of Bavaria, All the fomalo descondants of this family were attractive enough to makoe good marringos, aud they aro ropresented on many of tho thronss of Europe. The Quorn Dowogor Elizabeth was bora in 1801, aud was about 72 yoars old at hor doath, Tho smount of David A, Gago's defalcation ia now stated to b $250,000, us nscortained by the difference botweon the actual money in bauks and the City Trousurer's statomont of the balanco on hand. A meeting lns boon arranged for to-dny at 1 o'clock, nt which tho Mnayor, Cily Comptroller, and Corporation Counsel will listen to tho proposition which 3r. Goge will makoe through lis counsel, 1t is presumed that the proposition will be to turn over all tho property of which Mr. Gago i3 possessed, ask tho city to tako it aud realize thereon as much of tho do- ficioney a8 1t will pay, and look to the bondsmen for tho remeinder, if thore shall still Lo a short- ago. - Mr. O'Hura's bonds ns City Treasurer were approvad by the Council last night, aud Mr, Gage must meot the domand for the city monoys to-tay. The Suprome Court of the United States, in tho appeal of the Uvion Pacific Ruilroad Com- pany againet the Treasurer of Lincoln Couuty, Neb., resisting a county tax lovy on tho property of tho roand, hos decided that tho taxe ing power of s Btate {8 indepondent of tho Constitution of the United States, and that, a8 au attribute of soverciguty, it may be oxercised over all property and bueiness within the boundaries of tho Stato, oxcept in 80 fur as it may have been surrendered to the Federal Govornmont, The County tox on the Union Pacific Railroad is therefore valid, Jus- tico Strong delivered the majority opinion of the Court, but Justice Bradloy filed o dissent- ing opiuion, in which the tat of tho Unfon Pa- cifio Road fs hold to bo an unlawful intorfor- onco with instramentalitios croated in this caso by tho General Government. The Stato Grange's resolution, complaining that Tue Cu1caco TRIBUN: was the only nows- paper in tho State that gave full accounts of ita proceedings at Dloomington, was basod on the whereas thae *certain leading newspapors” found funlt with the monopoly. It is a pity that tho Btato Grango neglected to givo the names of the * cortain leading nowspapors " which foel so badly. As n matter of fact, Tne TRIDUNE was tho only newspapor that had both the entorprise and tho appreciation’ of the Graugo to sond & special reportor to Bloomington. This s tho reason why Tug TitouNe hud a monopoly of tho news, The **cottnin leading newspapers® Liave evidently persuaded tho Grango that it was tho Grango's duty, and not (hat of (ho newspapets, to furnish the nows, and thoreby . betrayed the Grango intos faux pas. Wo will inform tho Grangers, for their futuro protection, thatitis the business of newspapers to colleot the nows for tliomsclves, and that, whenever * certain lead- ing newspapera™ fail to take any stops to this end, itis not the dutyof (he Gramge, or any other public body, to supply the deficiency, nor even to condolo with them for their want of enterprise. Tho Agricultvral Colloge of Towais again iu trouble. Last year, tho Treasurerdefaulted in n lnrgo amount. It seems that Mr. A, G. Woloh, who, a few years ago, ropresentod Florids in the United Statos Benale, for a short time, bhas been President of tho College. o nnd the professors do not get along very well, o, at a mooting of the Trustecs, Welch resigned, and the Board, by an unanimous vote, removed all the professors. It wos understood bofore the voto that Lwo of tho profesrors wero to bore-clected. Weleh was then re-elocted, but six out of tho oloven Truse toes rofused to voto to re-elect the professors, Tho trick beeame {ransparont nt once, Itre- quired soven votestoremovesn professor ; this vote could not be obtaed, but the removal was so- cured under an agreoment to re-elect thom, which agreoment was not carried out. The friends of the discarded professors are meking it Yively for P'reeldent Welel, and all the papers of the Sato are dizcussing tho mattor warmly, Tho nllegation is mado that all the profesaors voted the Farmora' tickot, whilo tho Prosldent thought thoy should have voted tho Ropublican tioket, Tho College will probably be overhauled genorally by tho Leglslature at tho meotiug this winter, The most importaut disoussion which has oo~ curred during the prosent sossion of Congress took place in the Iouse yestorday, relatlve to tho menns to be adopted for supplying the defi- clonoy in the rovenuo, In answer to ® requost from the Ways aud Means Committes, Soc- rotary Richardson had writton anothor lotter, purporting to be an oxplanution why bo rocommonded tho inorcase of tax- ation on the particular things singled out in bils flust lottor. The secoud lottor really consfsls in great part, howover, of (uotations from tho fivke, aud, in splto of the evidont konti- meut agoiust au {ucrosas, tho Bacrotary does not modlfy hia firab suggostions, Ho announces that alrendy 18,000,000 of {he sa-cnlled * ro- #orvo " hinve been paid out to moot detloloncies, nwd that the amenut will bo inoroased by sove eral millions boforo tho first of woxt mouth, A resolution was introduced by tho Ways and Meany Committoo, recommending that the Do- partmont bo matrueted to oxhinust bvory effort at roduotion before addiug an additional burdon of tazation, In this, thoey find the co-oporation of the Committea on Appropritions, who pra- sented o rewolution calling for n rovision of tho ostimates for tho curront yoar, Qlieso rosolutlons wora discussed at longth, Gon, Builer, laving saggostod an fsauo of non- Intorest-pnying notos, wandorod off into his usual vagarios on the ourroncy and dobt quose tions, end pronounced tho movonment in favor of a roturn to spoclo paymont as “n mischisvons dogma,” and also no ** o dolueion aud n Aunre.” Mr. Dawes romalned by tho question beforo tho Houso ; sald it was o marvel to him that the ostimatos stondily inoronsed evory year (au,unn,ooq more this year than lost), and wawmned the Ifouse that it would bo fatal to our national credit abroad to borrow monay to pay tho intorost on what wo already owe, ‘The final adoption of tho reso- lution introduced by tho Committeo on Appro- pristions would indieato that the sentimont of the Houso is right in this matter, Judge Kelloy introduced n resolution providing for tlio ivsuo of & tompormy loan at a low intorost, but tha Ilouse voted to adjoura rathor than act on {t. COUNT THE MONEY. Wa aro fu favor of all porsous, whether can- didates for vflic or not, who want to Count the Money. Wa aro satisflod that all publio money should bo counted. We beliove that Tronsurors and custodiaus of public monoy should boincligi- Llo to ro-clection, and that their torms of ofico should bo short. We are in favor of count- iug tho monoy at unexpootod times. We are in favor of having tho money counted by tho Public Enemy. Wo desire to have n public onemy appointed by the Courts or clect- ed by tho peoplo to count tho monoy. Wo should like to have the money counted nt tlto Btate Treasury, and at tho National Troas- ury, and at all the Bub-Treasuries, If thore had beon a periodical count at the National Troas- ury, the Covornmont would uot have had $182,000 in Jay Cooko’s Washington bank., If there hiad been a periodical count of tho Chicago City monoy, it would be in the Treasury to-dny, inatead of being in Rivorside bouds or in cats aud dogs, Count the Monoy. Tho need of counting the money is not con- fined to any political party now existing, or any party that has proviously exiated, or that may hereaftor exist. It is ono of tho needs of human nature, A fow yesrs ngo thero was u defaleas tion in the Stato Treasury of Obio, and the po- litical party opposed to tho defaulting Treasurer raised o great hue and ers about it. Au investi- gation was otdered, nnd it was found that the defaleation commenced in the proceding torm, when tho other party was in power, and that the Treasuror knd “‘carried " the defaleation of his predecessor and edded one of his own on top of it. Tho howl was thien on the other side, but it wag not of long duration. Both parties being equally {n the mire, it was deomed best to say no more about it. Quito recently, there was a defalcation in the Stato Trensury of Miuncsota, and the investiga- tion showed that it had commeuced a long way baek of the then Troasurer,—that a raft of de- ficiencies had drifted into his sdministration, ho gonerously or foolishly undertoking to carry them enfely over his term of oftice, and flont thom into tho next mau’s cask sccount, hoping, mennwhile, to collect something from tho spac- ulators and politiciens who had got the State money. A fow days ago, there was & defaleation in the New York State Troagury. Not long sinco, thore was a defalcation in the Iowa State Treas- ury. Tiere is & dofalcation in the Brooklyn City Tronsury. Shortly after the Obicago fire, o defaleation was discovered in the Philadolphia City Treasmy. Thete has beon a dofalcation of publie securitics in the City of Pittsburgh. Da- fuleations in County Tronsuries aro distressingly uvumerous. And uow comes tho defaleation in the Chicago Oity Treasury, Bomething must bo done, and nothing elso can be dono but to count the money. The taking of Londe avails nothing to provent defaleatious. Tho sums placed in tho care of Troasurers aro frequontly in excess of the amounts for which bouds can bo given. Tho Treasurer of tho Uaited States gives a bond for only half a mitl- ion, whilothe sums hold by him average over one hundred willions. Mr, Gago's ofiicial bond was for only one million, while tho monthly balances show that he hud $1,44,000 on the 1at of Soptomber, and that the balanco was oftener over than under the amount of his bond. There hae beou gross neglect everywhers in not sur- rounding the public funda with the safoguards which prudent business mon would ‘adopt for the meuagomont of thoir privato estatos—tho most important of which is to frequently Count the dloney. MODERN RAILWAY-BUILDING, In the report of the Committeo on Railway Transportation of the New York Cheap ‘Lisus- portation Associatiou, various dofects and abuses of the railway system aro poiuted out and dis- cussed, aud the Comnntleo adopts s gruphic skoteh of the modern mude of building raflways, Tho old-faxhioned way was to have a survey snd an estimace of tha cost of covatruction and oquipment ; when this was dono, thoro camo o subseription to tho capital stook, which was called in by installments until at loast two- thirds or moro of tbs work was comploted, aud the company had that much property actually Dbuilt oud paid for. Then a mortgage wna is- sued, and tho amount of money necossary to complote nnd keop the rond in ruuning order way borrowod, Tho modern style {8 quite dit- forent, A few mon concludo to build a rallrond without tho expenditure of a dollar, The firut thing done {8 to form tho company, and sollels subdcriptions in the bonds of tho va- rious towns, countios, olties, oto,, ulong tbe lue,—for this purpose making lavish promises of dopots aud workshops, IHoving seonred theae, they noxt issue construction bonds to an indofinito sum. Tho manogors then or- gouizo thomuolves with others Into a construe- tion compony, aud make a contract with thems selves to build the road. 'Tho boudu ara sont to Now Yorlk, whore a ' banking-house " ia seleotod ond the bouds placed for sulo. The Presidont, Tronsurer, or whoovor Liag the duly of selling the bonda, agrees that the bauker whell have tho bondu at 70 cents, and muy keop all ho can get ovor that sum’; the committes, howover, writo homo to the * company " that they can got but 00 cents, aud aro wutharizod to ecll ab that rato, ‘Cho banker und thoe committes divido the 10 conts betwoun them, Who roliglous proas is thon employoed, to advortise tho bonds, and some Chrlstian stateaman wrltes to & brothor advising au investment fu the ontlelng 10 por cont bonds, Widows, ganrdinng, and trustces goll out tholr trust funds, and juvest in these railrond bonds thus recommended, In the meantime, tho can- struction compnuy goos aliend with its grading and building tho road ; tho contricts nro sub-Tot to frionda of the Dircctors, and thono mlb-aun-v tractors run off and fail to pay for tho labor or material. In (his way tho rond Iy fnnily built from tho qrocoods of {the municipal bonds obtained by fraudu- lont ropresentations, nnd the construction bonda fsancd by tho raflrond company. Thore is then o moeting in which patd-up capital stocl, oqualing fu amount the sum of tho outstanding bonds, 18 taaucd and dividod among tho Dircctors diractly, or givon to thom au tho construction company ; oxtortiouato rates for transportation of passongers and frolghts ato levied on tho people who uso tho road ; * freight " and **min- ing " compaulos aro urgnnized by the managors, and contracts made with them by which thoy sha!l lavo a monopoly of the profit of transpor- tation, If poseible, an issuo of sccond-mortgago bouds is made, and, when cvory dollar that can bo robbed or equeezed out of the concorn is oxhausted, thou the Dircctors rotiro; then tho rond is sold, and tho old Directors buy it in for one-fourth of its indobioduoss § or, bottor still, longa 1t in porpotuity to somo other company for o porsonal annuity, leaving bondholdeis to got their iutorest as thoy can, and the stockholders, eapeially the municipalitics, without tho least ovidonco of titlo In their proporty. Thin is the modern style of bullding railroads, and has, einco 1808, been succossfully carriod outinall parts of tho country. Little or no monoy is Invested by those who undertske to build tho ronds, All tho money contributed is patd by the vietims and dupes who aro induced to parchaso tho bonds or stocks. For avery dol- lar oxpéudod in tho construction of tho rond, thoro aro thrao to four dollars in bouds or stocks issued, and tho surplus, after paying tho nctual cost of the rond, is dividod among tho man- ngors. In the recout investigation it wus ututed that thoro was Lut 880,000 stock subscribed to build o cortain railroud 100 miles loug, and that of this subseription only 10 per cont was ever paid. Tho mon who paid this £8,000 wore tho sume who were the Divectors,—including the President, Gocrotary, Troasuror, and other man- aging officers of tho railroad company, and who wore also interosted in the othor companics hav- ing contracts with the railroad company. 'Theso ubuses, or, as thoy may with propricty bo called, Irauds, in the modorn systomof railways, avo the producing causcs of tho inordinate and un- reasonnble rates for transportation. MORE BWINDLING BONDS TO BE TZSTED. Tie pooplo of sovoral towns in Logan County liavo dotormined to teat the logality of tho lax lovied on them by the Auditor to pay the inter- eat on cortuin railroad-uid bonds, under tho law of 1869, known as the Tax-Stoaling law. Tho bonds upon which injunctions have boon obe tained wore issuod in aid of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Westoin Railroad. These bonds hiave beon registered sinco last Decombor, and wodouot know their nmount, ‘Though regis- tered within the last yoar, thoy must have beon voted bofore August, 1870. How many other bonds have been rogistorod duriug the yoar 1873 wo will not know until afcer the annual report of the Stato Auditor is published. Prior to Docember, 1872, thoro had beon local bonds issued in aid of this raitrond by tho follow- ing municipalities : McLenu County, tho Town of Empire, §74,700 ; the Town of West, $10,000. This rallrond {8 the condolidation of tho Indianapolis, Crawfordsvillo & Danville, and the Danville, Urbaua, Bloomington & Peltin Rail- roads, both of these roads being united and under the new corporation known as the Indian- apolls, Bloomington & Western Railroad Com- pany. Tho rond is 202 miles long, extending from Indionapolis to Pekin, Tho liabilities in 1872 wero, capital atock, §6,000,000 ; first-mort- gage 7 por cout gold bonds, 85,000,000 ; second- mortgago 8 por cont bouds, §1,200,000. Tatal, $11,200,000. Gross earnings in 1872, $1,138,000. There lad been, however, in 1872, registered & numbor of municipal bonds issued to that part of the now consolidated rond, thon kuowu as the Dauville, Urhaua, Bloomington & Pekin Railroal, ‘Theso bonds are es follows : Clnmpalgn County— Danvors, .$ 90,000 +$71,600 Downs, e 10,600 74,000 Piatt County— 19,000 47,000 Dlus Ridge. ..., W00 Vermilion Couty— * avilla, , 100,000 4,100 D: 000 DaWitt Co ,g Bauta Auna, Tatal, All theso bonds bear 10 per cent intorest. In- cluding the $84,700 subscribed by tho two towns in McLean County to thocongolidated Company, and allowing €50,000 for the towns in Logan County, the totalbond subscription is over $800,- 000, all bearing 10 per cent intorost. Thero is o gouoral proteat iu the counties sgainst paving thoso bonds, or any Interost on them, and honco the poople of the State can understand how doop- ly the boad-lioldors are intorested in tho recent lovy by tho Stute Auditorof over $1,100,000 tax upon the State at large to pay the principal. ‘The Supromo Court ling blotted out thio bonds issuod to tho Ottaws, Oswego & Fox River Val- loy Ruilrond, aud it is possiblo that tho judicial proceedings taken in the caso of tho bouds is- sued to this rond will ead ia & like rosult ; but in the menntimo the Auditor {s at work lovylug taxes in tho unfortunate towns to pay the inter- ost and on tha State at largo to pay the principal of tho bouds. A HARMLESS BIGOT, Fathor Pholan, of St. Louts, who some wooks ago mado Limsel! uotorious at tho mesting of tho Oatholic Benovolent Aesocintion by his in- towperato counsels with regard to the common- school syatom of thie country, has once more ox« pressod hils views in public upon this subject. Tho membors of the Assoolation, to which wa have reforred, bad the good sonse to vote down hia crazy propositions at the time they were offered, but it sooms that Lo I8 not so enuily to be sup- pressed, aud the publlo, therefors, Las Leon obliged to liston onos more to his absurd but harmless ravings, Tho gist of Lis position ia summod up in the two statements, flrst, that thoro hiould bo no public-aohool system of odu- cation, and, second, that the sohools should bo utilized for the teavhing of rebglon, sud, as Fathor Phelan is opposed to ovely form of Protestant roligion, of conrse ho meaus tho Outhollo religlon, o would huvo no systom of education in the publio schools, bocause it roba tho workehops of [ndustry, untits for monual labor, sud leads to crime, In other words, ho would abollsh the wholo systom of oducation, beeause, in his view, tho puople ure gotting to know tuo muoh, It would be worao thun uscloss to uttemp: to vewsou with a man whose narrow mind, in thia day of onlighton wmont, oan roauh uo othor result thantlls, If he wero brayad in n mortar it would probably not curo him of his folly, It would bo idle to toll him that, notwithatauding all tho offorts mado to olovalo tho pooplo by eduention, ig- noranco groatly propondoraten; tha', in- atend of robbiug the workshop, tho odu- eated. workmau commands highor wages thun tho ignorant ono ; that ignorance and crimo 80 hand in hund, tho world over; that lon ig- norant men commit erimo to ono cdueatod man § thit tho most prosporous natiows ara tho boub cducated oney ; that education brings happinoss to tho firoside, and gnoranco brings misery; that education clovates, dignifios, and purifion mankind; that its tendency fs upward, and that tho tendoncy of Ignornuco iy downward; sud that boeause hero and there an educated man commnits crimo this 18 no moro nn argumants agninst education than tho erinie of o religious man is an argument againet roligion, Education liko roligion is to bo judgod by its offocts upou the masses, nob upon individuals, Wo avo to put ig- notant Asia and Afties by tho aldo of educatod Eu- ropo and Amorica; ignorant Spain by the sidoof cducatod Bngland ; and so on, Stato by State, city by oity, and oven village by villago, to soo tho offects of edueation. Theso elomontary truths, howover, which lie at the vory basis of individual and national dignity, prospority, and happinoss woulidl bo thrown away upon a man who iy narrow-minded by nature. Fathor Phalan lins Lut one object iu his lifo—tho advancoment of tho Catholie reliyion, aud, according to hip uarrow view, the Catholloroligion ean only pros- per and incroaso through the medium of fgno- rauco. This is the doctrine and the practico aitributod to tho Dark Ages, of which Fathor Pholan is & ninctecnth contury roprouontativo, If bo had lived in those days, ho would bave been & bLright and shining light ; but tho world Lins ‘advanced s'nco thou, and the Church to which Lo belongs lins advanced, aud the rising genoration of that Church is ndvancing, by vir- tuo of thoe very oducation which Fathor Pholan drends 80 inuch. Thoy aro readiug, aud writing, aud loarning, and thinking for thomselvos, end prepariug thomselves to ho botter citizons, both sochally, morally, and roligiously. Mosnwhilo, Tather Pholan, like Mrs. Partington trying to swoop the Atlantic out of hor door, socks, and will probably continue to sock, to stop tho educa-~ tion of the poople. It tho offort wore not 8o su- premoly silly and Larmless, it might causo somo apprehonsion. Mo will havo his littlo day of rant and blustor, and then pass away, but tho great world will koop on moving novertheless. ‘T'he easo of tho allogod luuatic hoiress, Marin Barto, is ereating groat oxcitemont in Ponnsyl- van. In 1868, onc year after tho death of hor lusband, she was deolarod a lunatic, and sont to the asylum, After remaining there somo time, during which Lior fortuno was placed {n tho Linnda of n committee, sho way relensed and wont to livo with her guardisn, Two yoars ago, sho beeamo acquainted with a clorgyman, tho Rov, L. C. Terman, and was evenlually married to him, This procecding oxasperated hor frionds, who thoreupon entored a st for divorce and ob- tained it, upon tho ground that, being non composmentis, shio was not capable of contracting a valid marriage, Tho ministor loft the vicinity for a timo, but subsequently managed to sco hier, and they wero mairied over again. Her trionds then went to work and carrled her olf, while Lo was temporarily absont, swhereupon he hrought suit to regaln possession of her. This suit bas just rosulted in her being romanded to the asylum again, The discon- solate ministor, therofore, after twico marrying his wife, hasn't got her or hor fortuno eithor, the latter featuro probably being quite ns melan- choly to him as the former, the fortune boing.a very large one. — The City of Pittsburgh fs in & condition to sympathiza with the City of Chicago, having just lost balf o million dollars in water bonds, The simplo facts are, that $223,000 in cash or its equivalent and $254,000 of water-loan bouds were doposited with tho National Trust Company, instead of with the City Tronaurer, as the law directs, by the Secretary of the Water Commission, and that tho Cashicr of tbis Company hypothecated them for bis fricnds on their notes, and that, so far as the city is concerned, tho funds are gono. One result of all this has been the arrest of tho Becrotary for embezzlemont, and of the Cashier and four of the Diractors of the Company for conapliacy to defraud the city. The other ro- sult is that the taxpayers havo gotto foot the bill, e The riso and full of Pitholo City, in tho contro of tho Pennsylvania oil-regions, sooms almost liko & miracle. In threo months after the first houso was built it had two theatres, two noews- papers, an opern-house, 76 lotels nnd ea- loons, one of the former costing $100,000, and a population of 25,000 people. Now, tho Philadel- phin Telegraph enys, tho peoplo havo vanished, tho thonties are closed, tho nowspapors re- moved, tho oil-wells are dry, and the placo is lapaiug iuto its original desolation as rapidiy as ftwas built up, Thero are now scarcely 100 pooplo in the place, This wouderful growth and equally wonderful declino could hardly o pos- siblo in suy othor pait of the world, Tho histo- ry of Pitholo is the bistory in briof of the eager, reatloss, eucrgotio American life, Budn, on the ight bank of the Danube, and Pesth, on the left, have been consolidated, and Buda-Pesth is uow tho Oopital of Hungary, and tho long contoution of the two citles, the flist claiming to bo tho Capital by right of proserip- tion, and tho second by right of population and wonlth, Is over. The strife botwoon thoe two towns has been a bitter ono for hundreds of years; but it is now sottled by tho Diet, which, atits last weesion, organized tho new munici- pality, tho organization boing completod, re- cently, by tho clection of Mayor and other city ofiicinle. Apassiz’s Unfinished Work, The publie lous in the denth of Arassizisto bo moaeurad by tho work ho wns doing aud was capable of doing, nono of which can bo com- plotud as it wonld have Leon by his master haud, At thomoment of Lis death hLis bralu was busy with projects of pgreat valuo to acienco and to the world. Bome of them, liko the Cambridgo Museum, othera cau camy for- ward, but some, liko tho sorles of papers ho lod plauned to vanquish tho Darwin- fons, will dle with him, The Cam- bildge Musonm {8 ono of the greatost undertakings with which Agassiz was connocted, ‘This Mluseum, which atands second to noue in the world, America owes to Agaselz, Its estab. lishmont was his owa ides, and it was intended by him ns & paymont of tho debtof gratitude which his yreat simplo henrt felt ho owed tho country of his adoption, Ho began tho work poor and alone, The colleotions wore all made al bis own expenso, and wero stored partly in his owu bouss, partly in tho collar of Harvard Hall, sud purtly inashanly on the Brighton rond, Tho wum of §12,000 was raleed for tho purchase of this colleotion, in 1852, by the e e Tronsuror of Marvard Colloxo. In 1858—its toundor having spont tho intarval in greatly add- 1ug Lo Ita valio—n soncrous boquost of $50,000 trom Trancls O, Gray, of Bouton, followed by n grant tho following yoar from the Ktalo of 100,000, and by private subscriptions to the nmount of §71,000, placed Prof. Agassiz'a chor- ished plan of a Musoum of Compurative Zoology on n sura financinl basls, s objeot wan statod in his addrosu to the Logislaturs in 1859, in its bohalf, to bo *to huvo & muncum fonuded hidro which will equal the great musoums of the OId World, Wo have a continout boforo us for exploration which has a8 yol beon only skimmed on the nurface, My earncst dosire hag always been, and iy now, to put our universitios on n footiug with thoso of Lurope, or oven ahead of thom.” Tho Museum I bus 14 yonrs old, and Iins 80 well fulfilled tho hopes and and plans of its foundor that Prof. 'Uyndall aaid of it, aftern thorough examiuation: * Wo live nothing like {hiy in tho O1d World. A scientifio #pecialiyt, who was familiar with every similar institution sbroad, said of tho Cambridge Muscum, that nowhors olso had he “seon ko much original wotk dono.” Everything fs thore dono systemat- feally. An Prof. Agaseiz himeolf hassald, “ Tho timo Lias parsed when tho value of & museum is to bomensured by tho number of its stuffed birds and empty sholls,” And ho las according- ly kept tho inatitution from dogenerating iuto a more repository for dry bonas, It hiass boon objoeted to tho organization of the Musoum that itwau tao comprohonsive, aud cov- ored so wida o range that it would collapse when its foundor waw talon away. It was in roply to thoso oriticisms thnt Prof, Agassiz snid, In roporting its condltion for lust year, “Tha Au- soum fs now 8o organized (vitalized asit wero with tho spirit of thought and connectad work) that my presence or absence s of littlo impor- tonco. It will keop on ite course without auy now or repented stimulus Loyond the neceasary approprintious for its maintenance.” IMero oould bo no more fitting monumont orected to Agassiz's momory thau the perpotuation of tho work ho has 6o wall aud unsalilshly begun, and 1t is to bohoped that, when tho presont resoutces of the Musoum fail—which will bo in about s yoar—moans will bo found to commemorate him by giving it a pormanent endowment. Trof. Agassiz leaves unfinished a study which he Led bogun of tho Echinaderms. Iie had purchased and addod Lo his favorite Museum o vory flna gpllection of those fossils, wiuch Lad boen made in Yows, and is said to afford tho Lest opportunity for classiflcation that hss yo, boon obtained. Iis son, Alexnnder, has beon particularly inatructed by his fatber in this branch of natural history, sud may continuo tho worl. Tho arrangement, study, and comparison of the invaluable zoological collection mada by Prof. Agassizand his aseocintos on the voyago of tho cosst survey staamer Hasslor, from Bos- ton to San Franclsco, Is anothor important un- @ortaking thac must forover remain unfinishod oy ho would bavo done it. This collection was #0 large that more than 8,500 gallons of alcohol woro roquired to preserve it. For many wooxs, tho attaches of the Museum have beon preparing it for the iuspaction of thair chief, who meant to have bogun work on fc oarly m the coming yenr, and bolioved that it would be onoof the greatost Iabors of his life. Its material was of 1mmenso scloutific value. It covered in somo respects tho wholo fleld of zoology, tncluding the natural his- tory of muukind, that of marine mammalis, marine birds, roptiles, and fishes, Another study that Agassiz isd planned was the order or rolations of developmont in birds, from the om- bryo to the moro mature forms, and for this pur- Ppose ho bad mado a tino collection of oggs; and still anothier was the proparation of s synthoiic collection showing the aflinities of animals, Desldes theso projects which wore part of Lis work in counection with the Muscum, Prof. Agassiz had promised to write a serios of articles on “ Evolation " for the Atlantic Monthly, The firat of theso Las appearod; the rost must re- main unwritten. Ho was also busy on o review of Haeckel's work on sponges, in which ho in- tonded to combat strongly the Developmont Theory a3 applied to sponges by the author. He was to havo lectured, in addition, to tho studonta of Iarvard and Yalo, and was engaged for a courso of loctures in Washiugton in Fob- ruary, Tho latest, most novel, and ono of the moat useful projacts of this indofatigable brain was tho Natural History School at Penikeae Island, and it is tho ono most likely to suffar most from bisdealh, Its plan wassuggastod by his pro- found disbeliof in any othor moans of toaching natural history than that of bringing the studont face to face with Nature. Tho idoa was whoily originel, and its oxecution, so far, has boon altogothor his persoual worl. It was lis groat reputation that brought hundreds of applications for admission before the wehool was open, and, without tlat attraction and guaranteo, the school can “barely Lope to achiove the resuits his prosenco would lave jusured. During its firat yoar, just closing, s good' deal was done in tho orcction of necessary buildings, but tho foundor had planned his most important work for the conung spring. Thon the pupils wore to hiave Beon supplied with lodgings and looturas, and ol applisucos necessary for carrying oa thorough sciontifio ‘traming,” Extonsivo works were planned for supplying fresh sea-water to tho aquariums ; aud an observatory wna pro- {cu!od to oceupy tho bighost polut of"tho islund, While Agausiz lived, tho succoss of the oxpe: ment dependod ulmply on the muniticonco of M Audorsou, It remuins to bo seen whothor, oven if Mr, Andorson's gonerosity fails not, nny one can bo found ablo to continue the work of “edu- catiug o claes of teachors who may teach what thfi' havoseon and not simply what thoy have To —_— NOTES AND OPINION, Fernando Wood, in his meckly-besocching lat- ter that Temmany would not go buck on him, wroto, Dec. 2, 1873 Aa to mysolf, T did not voto the back-pay bill In tho laat Congress, ‘belug in New York with a sick wife, iud I beeu presont I should have voted against ft. The Congressional Globe shows that Fornando Woaod voted stendily to keop the grab movement going until ealled to Lis sick wife in Now Yorlk, and supplios tiis information concerning tho final voto: ‘William B, Roed, Eentucky (Llls name belng called)— Mr, Speaker: Lum paired on this question_ with the gontioman from New York, Mr, Wood, If hie wore present Lie would vote in the siirmative, whilo I should voto in the negative. ~—REditors in tho rural districts, who are also Postmasters, and who keop up a clatter that “The Ropublican Congrossional caucus nuani- mously resolved to repesl tho salary sot,” and thiat tho salary act ¢ is doubtloss by thiu timo ro- poaled,” oto., are invited to pick some texts out of an aditorial fu gcod Brother Harlan's Wash- ington Chronicls of Dou. 11, viz.: Interost in the subject is rapidly passing away, . , . Ttisuotstall probablo thut uny logisiation wili b constmmated on that subject, . . ', The discus- slon thua far has disclosed tho fact that scarcoly u pin- le Represontative thiuks tho pay st tho new rute too urgo, . . . All tho Bonatosy xnd Ropresentutives, posutbly with two or thtce excoptions, Luvo bron draw- Fois" ey "at thie fioroaued ratd shice the Atk of it Marcn,” , , . Itis aquestion whether any of thomn will obtain (ho}mflr rowsrd of popular spplause for the practice of hypocrisy, , . ., This [wer dicm pay) is now impracticable,” Renators and Ropresentu~ tivea will probably coutinuio to bo puiil in the form of an nnnual sallazy from this thne forward, as long aa the Ropulilic atands, On the samo duy that Brothor Harlan was say- iug this, tho Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern was flinging at Fornando Wood nud sayiug: It {8 no uso to throw up the nawes of Grant and Matt Carpenter, for both they and tha Tepubiican mumbery of Congreus will favor & repeal of the back- poy and iucreuse-of-pay law, —~Tho Grant &urly in Oongrass have ulroady bogun tholr old game of promlisiug much and performing little upon the salary-grab ropeal, + + + Nothing short of the repeal of the whola Infamous mossure, -inoluding "the Presidentinl awag, Wil aaisty Lo pooplo.—Lansing (Alicle) ournal, —To botoh the matier now will only add to tho dlsgust of the pooplo, uot only with the thieving operation, but with the protonded repentunce of tholr unfathful sorvauts,—Portland (Me.) Ar- us, ¢ ~No quostion now before Congrous s rogard- ed with 4o much futercst by the psople as that Lknowa as the ' back-pay steal” Thove ls & good doal of wunocossary wrangling in the ITousa, over thu repeal—n “good deal move than there was whou it prssolo—St Joseph (Alo,) Gazelle, —Tho poople are watohing thom Intontly, und * domand that nol only the mombors' part of the Inersasn o cut off, but tho Prosident’s (oo, .Mmlikt led:mll(hh) Press, —I'horo doos ot weam fo bo any danger sty Ieglulntion fr tio-rapent of th sulacy bl =Tolrdo Commercial. —'I'he whole proceeding, in ity ineoption angd onactment, mny Lo Juntly destistntod & grab, and tho membors of tho prosont Congreas may offaol nmuolhmf; in holinlf of tholr own goud ciigracter by ronenting it nngindelagly.—Jalimora S, he Inoreaso of kalarici—from Congrowsmon to Previdon(—waa ono of tho sroatont ontragee over perpoetratod “Pon & poopie, If Cungress Inows what is bost for it, it will tako nwift oecan slon to ropaal tho obuoxious Inw, und woe bo to the member whose record is not clear on thin question. It wore bettor for him ho had nover been n Ca\lgmsnmnll.—-l{flnma Cily Thnes! —If tho Congroramon don't stop thoir quarrol- Ing avor tho repeal of tho grab Il thoy will bocomo o stench in the nostrils of tho nation, — South Bend (Ind.) Tribune, —It looks oy though tho grab might romain. If 8o, what & rattling nmony the dry bones there will bo noxt fall. “Won't the rural distriots go for sumabady ?—Clinton me) Age. ~Wo hava but vary littlo hopo, Lowover, that tho fair thivg will Bo dane. Wo axpeet that o great noldo will bo made, and when the smoke of the contest cloarn nway, find tho mattor ahont whero it is nt preeent, Lot those who tritle :;‘ilt‘ltn ,lll:]u pn‘plic'.‘« |u‘mu.iut,tknw:lwor,\ remembor ny of recloning Is at hand.—New Albang and) Zedger, . el —Thero” is neither senso nor propricty in n Congresuman drawlng, a3 has boen dono thln yonr, ovor €5,00+ hoforo ho hns been mwe in, Compensation chould date from thie hogitmini 0f tlhc |:c.nul 088101 of Congress,—Delrod 2res ress, . = ~Mr. Cox pleads in hin own dofonsos that Inw allows men olacted to fill g, v 'nuc‘;' to d\!:.l: pay from the date whon the vacaucy ocenred, ovon though thoy uro ot olectod until lonyg nrtor- word. Buc this ouly uorves to call attontion ta tim;. nhfllm? in the n‘\)v. 'l‘llm Iaw which alluwg such o back-pay grab ought to ho repeslod.— Deiroft Posiy B> ouRb ! e —It s far botter to fall below tho exact no of monsurement in fising nalavies than to riss shovoit. The wholo theory of our Govorninent iy simplicity, und in thia #go of shoddy uricoes racy, aped by so many of our wealthy people, tho examplo of the Gavornment should unsin. talkably peint to simplicity.— Cleveland Leader, —Any patehod-up, hulf-and-half repoal of the oalary lucronse will nos saciufy tho peopla of tho natton. 1 any mombors cannot merow their courngo up to the sticiing Imhm and mako cloar work of it, thoy may as woll, for their own lutore onte—and 'wo liow merely ‘addruss tlioko who havo no higher motive inn thoiv public action— thoy mav s well, wo say, lot the imquitous act etaid and pockot tho proceods.— Cincinnalf Times. ~11i his Congress wonld now ropoal the snla- ry-grab Iaw, and reqairo tho money of the poo- plo that hey alveady beon stolon to be placod back againin the ‘Treasury, whore it Lolongs, they will bo entitled to tho cradit of doing. ais honest act—no mattor what motivo prompted it, —Oqnawka (Ill.) Spectator, —Thodrilt of wontiment in Congross is sald to bo in favor of 6,00 Ralary per aanum, L is quito salo to assumo that tha drift of sontimont will bo to taico just as littlo from the sum ostak- lished in tho Iu%o grab-law nu possiblo, We may add that the d of sentimont on tho part ct tho public i8 that the unlary should be reducod considorably below that, ‘aud 1f thiy Cougross fails to heod that sentimout, the nest robaoly will be to constituted as to ‘hood it.—2ilwaukés Newim " —Tha membera of the prosent Congress may as woll louk for omploymont s thels saspaonay homos, for they will’ necd it as soon g theic presont terms close,—Carlyle (IUl) Union Bane ner. —Let Congress go to work now and pass a eorles of resolutions ngainat tho peoplo for th harel: things thoy havo boon saying tho past fow months, and thon vole another imcrease, It would ull Llow over by auothor Cougreas,—0gla County (IU) Grange. —\Wo want botter business ability in Congrosn, The flonncial blunders alouo of the last fow yenrs linvo cost the nation not loss than o willion of dollars por Congressman. . . . Wo wanta Congross which understands business priuciples andcan do tho uational busmess us ueen]n_\-. soundiy, and succeesfully. o8 & good businesd nan clnn'lus on iy own ulfaics.—Rocksord (L) emster. —Fnancial tinkoring and wrangling over back-pay scems to Lo tho order of tho day in Congress.—Omaha Bee, —1t was uot the amount of monoy taiten by the Cougrousiounl salary-steal that #o rouses thy indigaation of the people; but the shamo and senudal of tho prococding.—Zurlington (lowa) Hawk-Eye. <. —The samo violent and vindictivo partisun- ship that went to_make up tho lifo of tho old Cougress lias wade indecent hasto to naseri itaolf in tho mew. . . . Tt is tho same old reigh of tho bribo-takors aud the ring-masters, and thera is to bo anothor long night of despot- iam, auotber disgiacotul period of recklessness and proflignoy, and thon the final reckoning,— St Louis Dispateh. —Wo aro ucupid, and deserve oppression if wa lot it remain thus, Wa can smito tlus horda of parasitic oppressors to tho dust, It is our duty to do it, Voia moc foroue of tuom, by what- woover purty nomioated. Damand of tho men for whom vou vote the unconditional repoal of the Salary bill, nad tio old rate for Congrossmen and the Dresient. If thoy fail to work for that sum, smito them ns accossory afler tho dood, and uovor conse to use tho tlawing sword of your indiguation until you have rebuked this tyranny aud crushed it undor your fest. Don't allow trickstors to turn you asilo to mattors of porson- al oud pariy strifa. Keop the main issua beforo you. Fightitout on that lme.—Danvilla (1ll.) News. —1he salary-atenl was tho most prominont, and tho ono tiat all honest peopla denounced 3 and it was also the oue thatin the receut oloo- tion brought n now party iuto existonca, and one that has,’in tho 8bort 8paco of six mouths, ac- complished mora to rolievo tho masses than the old pariies bave in the long period of twelva years, , . ., Thoa lot the watch-word be *lhonest, intolligent, upright mon for ofice.” Mako tho fight on this, and, oy suro as thore fs a God that rulos the univorse justly, that sure will victory crown tho party anit deliver the toit- ing millions who a1e now ground to the earth by ot of overboming. corrupt politiciung, bncked by {asiff stoals, luud-grant piracy, aud railroad kdgn.—Page County (1a.) Democral. —"1he faithloss Repubhean parey has roceived in tho late clections a tolling rebuko, aud by tho conduet of its leadersin Congress, it would ncem, Las grown desperately deflant of the wishes of the people. But *'whom Lhe pods would des stroy thoy first mako mad."—sfadison ( Wis.} Demacrat! —We greatly foar the gentlemon at Washing- ton do not_approcinte the rouon for the publia condemmation of tho Halary bill.— IForcester (Mass.) Gazetle. —It is a divgraco to tho country that both the Democratic sad Ropublican partios, s ropro- seuted iu Congross, to some extont at least in- doruo or fail tocouderan tho salury-grab.—Gray- ville (Iil,) Republican, —1f tho Liosidentiul salary may not bo law- tully raduced during tho ourient torm, thero is aii opportunity for fropor rotrenchwment in the vory full list of Presidential appropriations,— Boslon I'ost. - —I{ thoy ouy off ali thoso_appropriations the people will not complaiu if Graut is given £50,~ 00w year; but will they do ft? Noi Tha Jta publicans dare not reduco tho Presiuder '» sulary nor bis porquisites,—Carlyle (L) Constitution. —Wo now have a salary-gvabbor for President, a Cradit Mobilier for Vice-Prosidont, a salary~ grabbaor for Prowidont pro tow, of the Souate, and thirty-threo aalary-grabbers us Chnirniou of comiuitioos in Congreus, aud yot the Ropublican pnpers are not lappy beeause the Daomucrats in Congrons voted for o _salary-grabbor for Bpeaker of tho Housor Cleteland Matndealer, —It would bo interosting, just uow, to seo coplod fn_Administration Journals the Yomarke of thorio Democratio and " indep:ondent papers upon Aly, Blaino's appolutment of comumitteos, whith, at tho oponing of tho ossion, praided the Bpealer for tho wisdow whioh they ook 1t for grantod he would display. The change in tona siuce the eveut is ouo of the nignificant rigns of thotimes, Thoy noarly all seem to think that the usually wily Eolmuhu Lag commitied baris kari—and without appavent provocation, Thoy do not, Lowavor, appreciate tho rod that fs held over him by the corrupt rings that rule at the Nutionnl Ospital.—Fortiand (M) Argus, —Wo aro not of thoss who beliave ull tho res ports civoulated to Alv, Carpontor's discradit; but wo do know that, for various roasous, ® clond reots upon his reputation, and it would cortainly appear bottor it the Sonuta, from among ita ex- cellent mowmborship, sliould select some othor man.—~Jochester (N, Y.) Democrat, —Let tho peoplo be prompt uud sweeping, ana if tha President doos nob choouo to rospoot the demand of the peopls, and should continue to draw tho fucroatiod salury—that 18 his private atter, and he and the piooplo can sattle their littlo diMorenco of oplufon us to tho ndditinal $100,000 us thoir loisure, No such shavp pruotice orepeclal pleadiug ought for one momant to restrain any momber of Congross from voting to Inciudo the Prosidont's salary in the bLill foy the reduction,—Desdloines (1a.) Slale Jowrnak -r