Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 24, 1874, Page 2

to Chloago to liva in fashionablo circlos ; to mix with spoeulatony, and bo tholr mouthpleco in Congross, 1o Sonator! Logan hing lort prostigo in the Bouth, hio haa reapod no ndvantago by hin rost- donco in the North, Probably Lo expooted to bo the Great Mogul of tho party in Cbicago, and, with tho olty na & basis of oporations, to ramify and control the Stato, - But last fall HIF TRIED M1 TAND AND LOST, o was atronq!y in favor of & Ropublican Con- vention, and of lssulug & Ropublican Lioket. ITo dosired to maintain the lmrty organization j but Mr. Farwoll swallowod tho “Committeo in' Mr. Hoslng's intoroat, showed Mr, Logan he bad no powor, and snubbod him nt the outset of his caroor 08 nutocrat of GthPa. Farwoll fights in his own hn;:lrvnul, and 18 ablo to dofond it against importod roostors. .. Oglesby and Bovorldge boing st war with Logan and Oullom, THE NEPUDLICAN PARTY IN TOR STATE 18_BFLIT into Oglosby and Logan factions, 8o far, Lognn hag controlled Foderal Pntronngn moro than Oglosby, but, whonover tho lattor can, ho ro- moves Logan mon and puts in his own, A nota~ blo instanco was his romoval of Sam Jonos from tho Southorn Pension Agoncy and tha appoint- mont of Joseo Mooro. Jonos i Cullom's part- ner, being nssoclated with him in business and gufluce. ut Oullom waa Logen's friond, and Jones Cullom's ; whereas Moora was a residont of Decatur and one of the faithful fow who stood by Oglesby wlen the Republican party descrted h{m for Logan. Cullom wag very mad whon Jonea was ousted. Togan® tried to saveo Jones; Oglesby was flrm, 8o Jones, Oul- lom, nnd Logan went undor togothor. Oglosby's Influenco in Southern Illinois is Atondily grow- Ing; Logan'a stondily waning. Tholr contost for llxu control of appointments in that seation is florco, and it is morely o quostion of timo Ml:m Oglesby will be supremo and Logan no- whore. And now comes tho rumor that ELULU 1. WASUBURNE 18 to como homo from sunny Franco. The rumor 18 crodited in ‘mmlcnl circled, and cnueos alarm in both thn Oflasby aud Logan faations. . Oglaa~ Dy and Logon' aro’in monial torror of Washic Home think that Washbwmo is Grant'a choice_for tho Presidoncy, whilo othors contond that a Westorn man . eannot bo nominated, sud thnt, fn no ovent, can the nomince of the party como from Iilinols, this Stato having furnlshed Republican Presidents sinco 1861, But anothor. Prosident will bo cloctod in 1880, and 1f o man goes to tho Bonato in "70 he may poseibly turn up & Presidont in '80. That is what is tho mat- tor with Logan. IIo has abandoned all hope of beiog nominated mext time, but his frionds thnfi—n\ld \mdonbtedxg he sbores tho liope— tuat if ho can roturn to tho Sonato ho may staud ashow the noxt timo butone, Washbhurne is anld to Lnke tho samo viow, subatituting himsolt for Logan, and Ins frionds claim that ho would bo an inflnitely strongor cendidato. It is, thoreforo, rossonabio to supnoso that™ Washe STATE POLITICS. The Chiefs of the Repfibfioan Party Arrayed Against Each Other. Gov, Bevoriilgo Wants Gen, Lo- gan’s Place in the United States Senate. Ogleshy, Mindful of Logan's First Victory, Supports Bev- eridges Disposition of the I‘éd@r&l and State Patronege Accordingly. Will Eliha Washburno Como Back and Tnterforo with' Both Pro- graminos ¥ Confusion to Be Worse Confound- ed by the Farmers’ Now Party. Exprossions of the Illindis Press on Va= rious Btate Matters. AN INTERNECINE WAR. From Qur Own Correanondent, Srnmarres, TIL, Fob, 25, 1874, Gov. Boveridgo is tho lnokiest man in, Tlinois. Aftor lonving tho army,—whore, by'all accounts, burne’ has his cyo . on tho_ Sonato, ho did his duty,—ho waa takon up and mado | png Tyo T will put m _and Bovoridgo Sheriff of Cook County, which gave him o star | to their tramps to defoat;him. Bithor would sup- in politics. Ho'was noxt clected to tho ‘Btato Bonate, whero ho served iwo yoars, obliging evorybody by voting for overy moasuro not abso- Qutely bad, 1o oxerted himsolf specially to pass ovor Gov. Palmer'a veto the bill allowing Quiney to iseuo railropd bonds, nnd . ¥ TOENEDY DANGS'A' TALE. ° Ho boat Tom Boyd, of Fulton, a big-hearted, clover follow, for tho nomination. as Congross- maneat-Large to flll tho vacancy caused by Logan's promotion to tho Sonato. Boyd-washis most formidable oppotiont for- the ' nomination for Licutonant-Govornor. Bofore tho Conven- tion mot, Bevoridge and'Boyd did all in their power tosecuro tho delogation in Adems County, in which the City. of Quinoy is sltuated. Tho Adams delegation mot in & Lelnod parlor, and decided to voto for Boyd. ‘Boveridge's frionds Kuew tho offact of tho first voto in the Conven- tion, and detormined’ to” hnve it, if possible, Henator Burns, who was Oliairman of the dolo- gation, was appealed to. It was fiftcon minutes to noon, Tho Convention met at noon. No timo was to bo lost, DBurns called the delogation togothor, and, on the ground that Boveridgo had acted_more kindly in tho Quincy bond matter than Boyd liad, the voto was recousidered, and Bovoridgo wns uomlinted, Oglosby was sont_to tho Beuato, and, by Ym‘o accidont, Buvqudq? be- came Govornor of Illinols, Iis luck-streak was at, and pechaps it has not yot. forsakon him, ‘mat who manipulated ovents na ho did,-and ‘bont circumstancos to his own ugo, is & shrewd politician. No ona ever protended that Gov. Bov- eridge was o great man ; but, byhisreticonce, his wonderful gift of shaking hands, and kind words which cqstfixim nothing, he rose ‘stop by step from & lawyer's offico to be tho moat prominent citizen in & commonyealth that ianot without ita share of able mon, Is it any wonder that he Ietill has CONFIDENCE IN 118 LUCK, : nnd that ho ains to figure in & wider fleld a8 & Senator of tho United Btates ? " 1In four years of offico the Governor hae op- tunity to form new combinatiovs and arrsy on his side an_army of mon who, being indebted to him for place or favors, will rally round him when he blows his buglo blast in 1676 and loads Liis coborts againet John A Logan. Boveridge's torm as Governor will expire simultancously with Logan’s as Benator, Baveridge is ambitious to succood_Logan, too, and Logan to succood himsolf, Tho campaign kos alroudy begun, and inn quict wayis boing pushed on both sides with Yigor. GOV. BEVERIDOE HAS THE METHODIST OIUROH TO START UPON. Ho always had it at bis back, and those who do- splo it gsa political force have no adequate appreciation of its power. He hag been a pillar of tho cstabiishment, consistont temperance aan, a loader in clags-meeting. His rocord in the Ghurch has boon. bright, and the bigher he roso the brightor it shone. . The Ohurch was proud wheu he becamo Govornor, and umuih tho moro atriot mombors nccwsied him of back- sliding when he pormitied dancing and card- playmg at his mcoFflnnE the mass of the do- nomination were_dolighted whon he braved the faghionableworld of Springfield, and, inobedicnce to remonstrauces of the Church, put an end to amusements- which ita sovere code of morals clausifios as sinful, Logau, too, is a lamb of the game fold, but is not a8 old o Ohristian, and has not enrried his cross so long. At issafoto conclude, therofore, that bobwoen tho two, tho Mothodist_Churoli will stand by Beveridgo rather than Logaun. Tally one for Boveridgo. port Washburno to spite tho othor. Washburna onco in tho Sonato would boin training for 1880, Thore aro sound Ropublicans who think that Logan and Boveridge have roached iha ond of thoir tether, and that the political positions that have known them will know them no more, even if tho me gucceods in the noxt Prosidontial campaign, . 5 LOGAN ‘* TOOK THE MONEY," . and tho party aro afraid to_ capouso thet Inlquity by nttompling to enrry any man who voted for tho atesl and pocketed: tha swag. Ropontance won't save them, or tho fact that under tho prose- ure of populer indignation thoy went baok on ‘thomoolves nna votod to ropeal tholaw. And theronuont it in. proper to .inquiro if Goy. Beveridgo drow his sharo, Nobody scoms to knovw. %fi was ontitlod to somo 84,000 for his sarvicos a8 Congrossman-nt-Largo, -~Ho did not vote for the incroase, having resigned boforo tho roll was called. Dut did ho take the money ? Oglosby and Weshburne woro not oxnosed to tho tomptation, aud , are ko far abond of tho gontlo- man who mastered political economy in two ‘wooks, Oullom is LOGAN'S CROICE FOR QOVERKOT, the programme boing that. ho iy to go to tho Sonato whon . Logan, i President, (This is no jost. Thoro are persons, including himsolf, who Pprofess to bolieve that Logan will bo Prosident of tho United Btates yot), Should it happen— and stranger things Liave hns)peued in this wicked world—that Logan should lose the Prosidoncy, Ounllom {a-to talo Ogiesby's seat in_ the Souato. It Logan had his way Oullom would bo in Bov- oridge's shoes. now. ‘Thot was his slate, but Oglesby smoshed it - into smithercons, and Cul- lom’s name wos not oven mentioned In tho Convention. Logan mado s desporate attompb in 1872 to capture tho State, and had Oullom Dbeen put on tho ticket for Licutenant-Governor Lo would bave beon on top nud the Oglesby crowd out in the cold. Dick saw it and trumned Logau's card. Had Boveridge beon benten, Far- well would havo been takon up by Oglesby. It was & ANYDODY TO BEAT CULLOM AND LOGAN, _ Oglesby was n necessity to the party at o critical poriod, and bofaro ha consented to run for Gov- crnor ho inalsted on & straight Oglosby tlokob, Lippincott, the Auditor, was one of his mon; Harlow, Soecretary -of ‘State, was his private sacrotary whon e was Governor ; Edsall; the Attornoy-Genoral, lonned towards him; and Rutz, the Troasuror, was mnot ogainst him. Tiogan, boing boaten in'tho _campaign of 1872, ad to rolax his grip. 1o is now trying to . got hold agnin. o W use oyery stratagom known to the practiced politi- clon'to nominate Cullom. That was why Cul- lom ron.for tho Houso. Having Borved six yourn in Gongess, ho could ngt onttneo hia rop- utation in n lowor station, The object was %eop him before tho poople, nnd, ns Bposkor of tho Houso, that hns been sccomplishiod. BMr. Oullom, if ho can't go to Congross,—which is ot likaly in this distriot,—will bo apt to run for Roprosentativo onco moro: - and, if tho Ropubli- cans bavo o majority in tho Iouso,—of which thare aro gravo doubts,—ho will induce thom to mnko him Bpenker, <~ THE OGLESDY FACTION havo not yot sottled on their candidate for Gov- omor. Prosident Larly, of tho Sonate, thinke lightning mey steiko him, but it won't. Ho is not 152 mane o torm in tho Sonato oxpires this year, and with it his torm aa Lieutonant-Goy- ornor, and mayhap « his torm sg & public indiv dual.’ Donnhue, Chalrman of the Railroad Com- mitteo in theSonate, is much more likely fo ba Ogleaby's ohoice. Ho stood by Oglesby whon his star was daclining, - Oglesby hns not forgotion that ; Donahue is agood deal of & man in his way. Thoro is nothing remarkablo about him, but ho is on o par with tho prominont men of tho Ro- ublican party in tho Btate. o is a Bmm- lawyor than Oglesby or Logan and would bé as much of a Governor as Bover- | idge. - With strong tomptations to play the demagoguo, he has rofrained, Ogloaby may do worko than back him, BSteolg, of tho Souato, would suit Beveridge botter; but Bteclo never did anything for Ogiosby in Lfafight with Logen, MoNulta, now Congressman from the Bloomiug- ton District, ia _ THE BTATE INSTITUTIONS are for Boveridgo, who understands thelr influ- euce in politics. Ho hasmado the rounds, man- ifosting deop coucern in their wolfaro, and of course their ofiicors and trustees will feol like rociprocating when the timo comes, Tho move- ment to apolisl tho Boards of Lrusteos is in tho interest of Logan, and for onco_his interest and the intorost of cconomy are identical, Baver- jdgo's frionds aro ngainst -tho-nbolition move- ment, but Cullom, who is Logau's candidate for Govornor, is on the other side, 1f A PET OF OOLESDY, the secssion- holds out, the DBoards | baving nominated him in the caucus against will bo :abolished, though the Bover- | Logan, and ho, too, would like tho Govornor idgo men -havoe maneged to delny action, IF Bovoridgo sun solsin fhio patronao tho ap- pointwont of Truatoes confors, it will givo him immonsge strength and Logan moy fiud it out. TO OFFSET THESE BOANDH, YLogan thinks ho bins tho Foderal patronago, snd no man kuows liow o uso it more advanta- goously, 1o uover forgety frionds who aro loyal £0 hiny fn an_omorgoncy. Ho marshalod o host of offico-holdars to bont Ogleshy for the Senato and thoy beat him. uring the canvass, Oglosby's friends tolographed” to Prosidonk ship, ~ Aftornoy-Goneral Edsall i casting & slioop's oyo in tho #amo direction, and 80 I8 Auditor Lippincott, who would got overy vote in grab-law countios, The truth iv, that candi- datea for Goyoruor aro as thick 2a flios in Au- gust, ‘Tho list would not be completo without THE NAMES OF TilB AGRIOULTURAL BET, ‘There is Heuntor Whiting, of Burenu, and Rep- rosontative Hart, of LaSallo,—favmors and Ro- publicaus. Whils professing profound syrapa- thy for the farmers agningt mmmPollcs, theso gontlomon inalst on belug Ropublioans, Thoy t to haul off his mintons and give | Will prens their claimain tho Ropublican Convons Oty ‘% diow. Nost day an . osdor | tou on tho ground of Loing Nopublicans, and awvas issucd tho T'rensury Department, | defy the Convontion to roject thom as farmera, "Lhat is thoir grmo, It is not likely that oithor of thom will bo nominated, Any of thoso men- tioned sbove can bont them ‘in a Ropublican Convontion, Thoy _aro like many other farmors in tho = Logislature, putting on anti-monopoly airs and sssumiug to rep- rosont tho producing olassos, when in faoct thoy are barnacles who havo betrayed the farm- ers to maintain tho Republican “organization. ‘Thoy would llko to tear thomsclyos froo, but, lacking tho cournge, Lingor shivering on thn brink And senr to lnuuch nway, TIOLDING THE BALANCE OF TOWER in tho Gonernl Amscwmbly, thoso Gubornatorial aspirants, togothor with "Moffot, Cassedy, Bald- win, awes, Gordon, Bavage, and oflier solf- constituted champlons of farmers' rights, who want to go to Congross, oto., have meokly suo- cumbod ~ to wire-pullors ‘Instesd of take ing the reina “in thelr hauds and running logislatlon in tho _intorests of the peoplo, This thoy could have dono, but, unfortunatoly for themeuolyos, thoy bad not the grit to bo indepondont. Lawyors and party imanagors fooled thom every tinio. It is n pity} b; 1t wan too lato. {mgnn had secured his election, Gen. Grant did not carea rush who won. Do- tween Oglosby or Logan it was six of one and and hoif-g-dozen of tho othor. He sdmired noithor. His man was Gov, Palmer, whom he rogarded as ono of the ablest mon in Illinois,— ano who wonld hivo booa un Roquislion to the highest body in tho nation. But Palmor was not » cendidate, Lcgan used Assossors, Colleotors, and Postmnators with marvelous ekill, and by thelr aid shielved Ogloaby for two yourd. Oglos- by has not tm'(i;)m!u that contest hor the bittor— o with which Logan fought, und it iy undor- gtood that if ho can get back on Logan ho will dio in poace. Naturally, G HE PHEFERS DEVERIDOE TO LOOAN, and Beveridgo has beon partial to Oglesby's friends, whilo he has done searcoly nuything for Logau’s, DBoverldge will bo Oglosby’s candidate ne against Logan ; not but what Oglesby would prafur somo ouo loss dovout,—for Dick i8 nob vory pious,—but Boyveridgoe is the most available insirumont, with whioh to punish Logan, What tow Foderal appointmenta Ofilcnby a8 will bo wielded agninst TLogan for Bovetidge. Logan ;vlll not rully all tho ofllec-holdors as he did be- foro. v Logan made tho mistake of his life in nbau- doning his frionds iu Southorn Illinois and ro- moving to Obicago, It has hurt him in the Bouth, estranging the adherents who followod his political fortunes aud foulght_ by hiy side for many ayear, Intho South lay hig stronghold, but: he has forfoited the affection’ of “the’ ‘ibuplc Thoy say e proved ungratefal ; that with pros neflgycnmu pride thatho is to grand to live among them, or to care for tho noighbora who kpow when Lo was nobody; that fw Las gone ’ tive farmers. Bub thoy foared tho party more than thoy loved tho Fuonlu, and, being” sluves thomeolves, would faln koop {ho people in bondago, Jl'l.my will find out thelr miatako whon too late to romedy it, Tho sigus of the timos {ndloato that thoywill bo ropudiated at the bal- *lot-box, and thab their places will bo filled. by mm l‘runh from tho poople and racy of the goil, or THE DEMOORATIO PARTY, they hayo no oaudidatos forthe Bonato or for .and tho Democratio Morrit for thore ara some good men among the logisla- | Governor, Tho dlrenthralled, like Onsey, Dun- ham, Herrington, and Oborly, rofuso to bo oon- uldgmd m:::; 3 and sro rondy to be ploncors of somothing now, But thoro nro l’osn‘:ln like Burke and Arghur,— goutenarlang,—who havon't an iden abovo wal- loping a darkey, - Buoh political Snurians are ho- youd tho reach of rosson, and nothiug this side of doath will got thelr old aud barbarons notlons outof them, Thoro 3 no Demooratio party horo, Those who stlck to tho party are moved to it by projudices, or elso they como from dis- tricts whora Domaoracy hna boon dominant, and aro afraid tholr constiluents might not sond thom Lo Congrosa if thoy concoded ?lmt tho party WAS B COXpHOD. i Burn., — SPIRIT OF THE STATE PRESS. Tho only scotion of the Coustitution of tho “Illinols Btato Favmors' Associntion'’ that Bavors of politioal aotion by that body ronds ng followa . "Cho officera of this Asgoolation snd the Presidents of Conuty Assoclations shall constitulo nn_Advlsory iy abstis DSt ) poliiat sckom Sl Anc o whiat (If any) political 8 As~ soclafion sball tako for mzfia‘r’. Sesen The eyes of the wholo conntry will bo upon tho mooting of tho Advisory Board on tho firat Tuoaday of noxt May, Tho sotion takoen by that mooting will form onoof tho most important ©poobs in tho political history of America, For on thnt day will bo formally proolaimed and christoned a Eront politieal party whose Dirth took placo whon tho Committoo adopted tho soction quoted nbovo of the Btato Constitution. —~Ford Gounty (IU.) Journal. =-And now wo appesl to the mechaniosl and Isboring classos, so callod, fust ne ecarncstly to organizo. Although tho Grango Is au oxclusivo orgauization (as all trados-unions aro, and must naturally romain), our friends will find, whon i comes (o the open flold of politics, where all producors, of overy kind,—tho man in the shop o8 woll as tho man in tho flold,—aro n(r}unlly - toroatod, that oxclusivonoss will bo lai ontiroly asido, and wo wlil meat overy honeat worker aa an oqual 'and #8 a brothor, - What mora cau wo eny to you, frionds?—The Northern Grangor, 8t. Charles, Il - . —Tho farmers bollove in taking the initiative of all opposition, and waging au aggrossive war, which {8 probably the ‘wisoat tactios to adopt. —Carlyle (I) Union Banner. —Just a8 tho farmors, groat and small, aro or- gonizing, 80 aro tho workingmen and mocbnnics organizing.. What will be tho ultimatum of thoso organizations no ono can toll.—Joliet (ZiL.) Republican.. . —'ha Lattlo now i8 a conflict of closses. It is alpablo that 1o ordinnry party divisions, as be- chen “'ing" and ** outs," nre horo involved or willavail, . . , . But it is timo that tho farm producers and their attondant merchonts aud magchanics (all of whom aro tmlf in numbors and usofulness, tho people), shoul 1d band to save thomsolves nnd the countryl—Lincoln- (1ll.) Statesman. —In-countrios governed by crowned hoads, thore in o ru‘ynlty of blood, In this thoro is o royalty of thieves, An army of liars and swind- lors, over busy, over clasping hands for spoils, 10 bo crowned as Knights of Fedoral Patronage at tho oxponso of truth, honor, decency, patri- otism, gud industry,’ Thoeo oro Lho imps tho farmers . have Dboen foedlug' aud nurturing, Theso aro the scoundroly wlio meot you eo blandly and sweetly on tho eve of overy olection, to got your votes, whoreby they may hava opportunity to steal an lundor.” farmors, do you liko tho pictura ? Who Lo built up this country ? Who_has stol it poor? Tho farmor doveloped it, aud tho &n"lb- ) “—All that the farmota wish' to know Is, that thosa who not with thom aro with thom in Fessional politician vobbed it.—DBloomington - Anti-Monopolist, “ gpirit and truth,” and can be trasted, Tho | dny of decoit nnd troachory is paat, Ho who i rocroant to his trusts horeaftor will moot with the fate of Judas; and theso decoivers of tho poople will, ere two yoars, bo calling upon the politrenl ““hills. aud rocks " to fall upon them and bury them from-tho sight of an outraged aud fusulted people.—Paxlon (Iil.) Journal, —Thore are_many nowspapersand publio men who aro ardently working in. the iutorost of the roat monopolica of the conntry, who unscrapn- ously nttempt to_mako Oungilmkslnnnl ‘intorfor- onco with railroads appoar to bo for tho interost of Weatorn farmers, and doliver themsolves of an ondless smount of buncombo in praise of artios who favor the schomo as working for tho nterest of tho farming community. The false position of such advacates needs no furthor rofu- tation than to cito tho rosclution pnased by the Tllinois State Farmors' Associntion, at thoir ro- cont gonsion at Decatur : * That wo oppose any logislation by Cougress undor iho ploa of regu-~ lnfiug commorco botwoen the States.” It is much onsior for railrond Rings to buy ono Con- gross than thirty-sovon Logislaturcs, and this acconnts for their zenl in trying to socure Con- grossionnl control of railreads.—Bloominglon (au. Pfln(agmph. —Tho Public of nst weok dovotes two columna to prove that tho Domoorais ln\’thu Leglelaturo aro opposing railroad roform, hbnee aro not on- titlod to ¥he confidonce of tho farmors. The Publio does not scom to understand tlnt the farmors somo time ago loat confidenco in the. oliticians of both partios and formed & party of Fioir owne—atinon (11L) Register. ~—It tho railrond compnnios can't pay taxes, lat their ronds be sold Iiko other people's prop- orty, and maybe somobody will got hold of thom that can koop tho tux gmd up, aud run tho roads more in conformity with thio true.intorosts of the country.~—OQumberland (1ll.) Democrat, - —Whenevaer the [raiiroad aid] grab-law of 1869 is mentioned by tho Omcnso papers, and the participants in tho -*stesl” ure held up to odium, LaSallo County comes in for a full share of sbuso, bocause, thoy say, this county owos $208,000 which tho grab-law helps to pzy.‘ Bog your pardon, Tho $286.000 LaSallo County is charged with consists of Fox River Valley bonds, Yotod by half & dozon towns undor & supposod Inw that never passed tho Legislature, and which bouda tho Supreme Cotirt has thareforo decided tho towns nood not pay. LaSallo County, thore- lom‘ hins no interest in austaiving tho ™ **grabe law."—Oltarca Freo Frador. ZSupposo tho Logislaturo should pass a lnw by which the Stato would pay the bonds of Ma~ coupin County that were {gsued for hor two-mill~ iou” Qourt-Houso, and tho pooplo of Mercor County were taxed to poy thom, would tho' said poople think such o law constitutional? Tho cagos aro glmilar, Bomo of tho countios in tho Btate havo run themsolves into debt (on raile ronds), snd tho Grab Iaw says that all the coun- ties ghall help pay thoso bad dobts, This Btate caro and suporvision crops out all over the land. It is parent of our salary-steals, land-grabs,- Crodit Mobilior_grab, printors' grabs, sud gene eral official stonling,—.ledo (Ill.) Banner, ~—Tho dootrine that *To tho victors belong tho spoils " is most pornicions and abominabla, There_ should bo no such thing ou “*spolls™ to reward tho anfiportnm of any man or party. « «.+ « Thoro should bo no such baso iuffucnce as tho spoils of office to embittor our political contests,—Rochelle (Ill.) Register. —O!_the printing steal, Morritt, of tho Regis- fer, and Phillips, of the Journal, seem to be tho Boss Twoods in this raid on the people’s money, + » » Wotrnst the Logislature ywill go to the bottom of tho mattor, and, if the Radlea! Phillips tt land In the Ponilon- tinry, tho poople will eay nmon.—Pekin (ZiL) Times. —It will bo seen that Waehington is not the only place whero the. leading meun of tho Domo- aratic and Ropublican partica have gone in co- partuership to rob the people. No wonder that Torritt, of tho Register, protonds to think that tho Fnrmers' Movoment - will not succeod unless he canlond it; and no wonder that Phillips, of tho Journal, protonds that tho safety of the Htato dopends upon tho succosy of **tho parly " iu the control of which ho tales o prominont part, But tho mon who aro taxoed to furnieh the monoy thoy bave stolon are yot to hear from.— Harrisbuyg (1) Chronicle, —Through private advices from the Hon. John R. Edon we can positively stato that ho isin favor' of 7more GUEENDACHS. . . . . What moro could we aslk P—Sultivan (JiL) Progress. —When they go to printing more ‘*‘money,” thoro fsn't o bit of uso to fool away timo on frac- tional ourroncy and dollar bllls, whon by & trifling addition in expanditure, sny nbout 10 conts por Dbushal, the printors can annox threo cyphors and mako 'om slashing 1,000 notos; then print oaoh freo American votor 10,000 of tueso, and ovory mother’s son will bo a fat-faced, bloated millionpire; for you know Congresa can pass & law muking thom s good ssgold.—Afacomb (1iL) Journal, —It was Lincoln who flrst propounded tho startling thoory that ‘o small dobt was ensior aid than n largo ono.” TLogan Pmpnsnd to ro- ova tho burdon of tho Natlonal debb by * o« ducing therintorost and extonding tho time on the prineipal," aud now comos Oplosby, . . Comiont is useloss,—IlUinots Sm(l'u Register, ) w Woman i Gerinany, A writor in the Vicloria 3fagazine, of which Migs EmilyFalthfull is the editor, suys: * Ger- many, in epito of ity military snccossos, and the splondor of its triumphs in the rontms of selonce, siands lower In the gradoof oivilization thau any other Burdpoan ‘country, oxeopt ‘Curkey ;. for in no other.dduntry dooa . woman ocoupy so figuohla and gowwilgls position, , In_Iingland women gro troatad:with rospeot, In TFranco and Americs, BO lo“F a8 thoy aro young and protty, thoy are rvm‘-‘nh pod, In Gormany thoy are imply util- z0d, THE CHICAGO .DAILY TRIBU ora of & partylong Binco dofunot,” ““WASHINGTON. The Country as Congress Sees It N Schemers in The Ax F:.flling-- Despond, Transportation, Curroncy, and Free Banking---8cott, Cooke, and Holliday, From Our Oun Correspondent, ‘Wasinnaron, Fob, 18, 1874, To atato tho sitnation, backward and forward, 80 a8 to keop Congrosa intetligible and the read- or’s mind oloar, 18 n task nlmost too groat. Tho art of tolographing, while it juforms, also con- fusos tho reador of the daily press, Parageaphio, minuto, lisblo to to-morrow's contradiction, the avorago hend dlsslpates upon that daily hudget liko tho spoctator of & long procossion from tho sidowalle. In briof, tho Governmont is just now engngod in theso GENERAL AVOOATIONS ¢ Firgt—Dotormining a policy on tho subjects of money “to rolieve .the siringency,” and rail- ronds to rolievo the harvests and reduco tho tolls. ' Tho former question is in dobato, with such ifforent sentiments amongst tho spealors ns to mnke it apponr that thoy were not brought up naodor tho same clvilization. Indeed, tho un- equal cultura of tho country ia shown to oxtend to oven olomontary principles. A ocountry- school-houso dobato suporscdes n firm policy, nud the Boorotary ‘of the Treasury lacks the con- fidenco or the forco to presont ono. The spirit of locality hins invaded tho domain of & national currancy, sud & strangor might think, to hear COongressmen tallt about what the Wost, tho Boutly, Ponneylvanis, or tho Pacific Const wanted, that this nation had noither homogonoity nor patriotism, ond was too oxtonsivo for ono outhority to proyall ovor it. Tho causes of.this coofusion lie in the irrogu- Inr settloment of tho country, by which thero is nu apparent croditor and dobtor geography, and in tho provalonco of artificlal views on political cconomy, which require a visionary currenoy, to make thom pasa oritieal places, Under tho representative system, thore i8 no hopo for a sottloment of this vital question until the intol- ligenco of & constituoncy is oqual to its staito in tho illusion, Congross Is full of mon satisfiod that High Inflation and Ropudintion, High Protection’ and o Maaufacturing Panlo, go in palrs, yot who dare not presont thoir viows, lest they bo pounced upon as Brit- ish agouts’ and drivon from publio lifo. Error thus paramount involves, of course, a lack of bath bold and truo men in tho Govorn- ment. Tho, Presidency is the objeot of all the Inrgo mon, ro-olection of all tho smail oncs, 1t may bo enid of our politieal cconomy and our statesmanship : Thoy nre such atuff 08 dreams nromade of, And tholr Lty 1ifo 18 rounded with a dodge, ¢ THE PROBABILITIES favor somo inflation, although tho oducation nnd consorvatism of the Govornment opposo it. With the enrrency dobato is intorwoven a con- test ovor what I8 calied free banking, to mystify tho situation, and which tho Prosidont has og- poused, It doos not mean what it should, how- ovor,—tho deposit of gold with {ho Govorn- mont for ocurrency, but tho doposit’ of bonds, for which the gold has been al- rondy spont, If this were to prevall, our curroncy might swell 80 nearly to tho dimen- aions of our dobt that it would depreciate into spnce. I¢ banking i o desirablo bustnoss, it will pay to doposit gold coin for United States cur- roncy, tho bonds solling on tho market at such remium 08 to securo the gold without loss, Y)ut to pigcon-holo your bond, foteh intorost {rom it, aud bank upon it a8 well, is to got too much blood out of ono turnip. If it be said that the Nationnl Bnanks do this, it can also bo said that provision waas madesfor them to graduslly substitnto nohflpbd!sa, ond that Congross failod to_hold U8m to tho programme, This fontrre thoy rosist, and honce aro besot by oppo- sition, g0 “that & motion was rocontly made to malko evory Congressman with National Banl stoolk revoa! tho faot.' THE TRANBPONTATION QUESTIONs A Tho Repablican party will endonvor to absorb by nlloging national juriediction ovor tho rail- TO! a8 Mc. Morton hasdone, andthon nt- torpling to compoto with_the prosont ronda b subsidized roads, as Mr. Logan advocatos. subsidized road is auy rosd with spacial priv- iloges, ovon & nationsl charter, which other roads do not ensnoflu. Tho policy of Mr. Logan is impossible In_tho prosont condition of rail- way-credits and the National Troasury, Tho policy of Mr. McOrary, of Iows, {8 toward light rathor than solution., Tho railrond question 18 o problem at morals in its presont condition. Xow to esoapo from men who wator stock aud rob . stockholders and shippors into the handa of pol- itiolnus who will conflucate all the railronds for patronage, is tho issuo. If tho Government bad a8 good a Clvil Bervice s the railronds, and tho railrond-magnatos conld b mada to fool pub- Tio opinion like Uongress, wo skould atill wondor how to move an empire of wheat ovor a few fives foot gauges in o fortnight or two. . THE DEBANGED BUDGET. Qongress is also engapged in : Bccolld—finvlriffl)e public credit from deproci- ation, and encbling the Treasury to pay tho in- torost on the public debt. ‘The Bocretary of tho Treasury is probably o reapectable citizon, but without'the authority of eithior original forco or rocord, to impress o Con- grogs whero ovory member wunts appropriations, and only a few will lot now taxes -be .imposod. Mr. Daweg, tho leader of Congress, slows, how- ovor, that ho Treasury §s in & #nfclontly Alarme ing condltion to make these Congressmon hear tho cry of Halt ! The impolicy of. electing any mnn Presidont twico is shown by tho general disordor of tho fluances, which began iwmmediately aftor thé Preuidentiat eloction of 1873, Fifty-govon mill- jona of dollarg loss wore patd upon the National debt than in tha previons year, The oxpondi- turoa lonped up to $319,000,000, or {he oxtraor- dinary sum of 3874,000 per dlom,—nenrly a mill- jon o doy,—an_inoroase of about 840,000,000, Finally, wo shall pay nono of the debt at all in tho year to ond next July, and bo bohind 1872 to tho onormous oxtout of $141,000,000. This the nation hos paid for two torms of a Prosidens alwaya cnreloss except undortho tongion of. hid ambition. The ro-cloction deatroyod all gonso of responsibility ; salaries wore incroaged, commissions crnntnd. apathy and wasto bolow goarcely watehed incompetonce abovo, aud the balanco in the Troasury drifted away, until it stauds at tho pallry fguro of near 10,000,000, wherena last July it was 360,000,000, And boford ue iy tho public dobt cn.iling for gold, §0,000,000 larger than it was in 1873, “Tho public credit, 08 asenilablo ns a privato citizou's, willuot parmn us to borrow money to moot in- torest, ‘o cut off oxponses is cssontinl, Totax moro 18 & political vonturo which the peopls might throw up to the Party. TIOW IT ATPENED, ‘What happinoss do wo posgoss, not enjoyed by 8 throo yeara ago, for this vnst inercaso of ex- ponditnro? Wo bave spont 103,000,000, or nbout 14 for overy family in tho land, on publio buildings, sinco tho oloso of the Waur. Most of theso hui[«Ungu woro yoted to accommodato the rivalry of towns, or please somo * pool” of city politicians who had w lot to soll or contract to got, or conld carry & ward by “voting” tho atone-cuttors and Inborers. In somo cnses, theso # publio works " woro dovised far from tho scono of counstruction, to nid Gen. Butler's or somo othor porson's l.\urm‘ proporty; and it is woll kuown that railroads which ‘caunot haul the farmor's wheat with any profit to Lim can oarry granito from tho ooaut of Maino to Oinoiunatl and goll it for about tho sama price stone can bo quarriod in the envirous of thas placo ! No, Pho Tronsury has boon pulled apart by tho groad of conatituencles which nre based upon speaial interests, and have beon oducatod to ro- rord Oongross as an eloemosynary oharity, Na- ionnl mon uro superiluous fn tho presonco of Mr, Platt, who can got the Governmont to work the Richmond stono-quarrios, or Mr. Kelloy, who onn got sovoral millions for & Contenuial alrcns. Ton nnd coffeo, which.every houscholdor can taatify to bo no cheapor now than ane year ago, oud whioh gavo, when taxod, 825,000,000 to tho ‘I'ronnury, wora'retired to the froo liat, In oy~ dor to” advance tho tarlff uwpon manufac- tured fron, ‘And, now tlidt “tho crash lins brought Congress to face inoxorablo no- oossity, invoatigations into the extrava- gances of all burosus mud oflcow Aro order; aud Fnlnrnl.nnd uncomfattablo things thoy aro, Lol aud the publio mind which plnos for somothing to lavo faith in, You can soo how tho despotism of spacial in- {toronts opprosses Mr. Dawes. 1fo daros not volo to Iny tho ton and coffea’tnx on, but profors to poleup _tho rogulor army and some other do- partmonts not offoctive at the polls. Third—Congroes i8 lying supinely botwoon the nggeessivo lobbics which sl to racovor a dying credit or Login now sehomes of folly, and tho vigiiaut dlscontont of tho pnupln, who gonerally underatand what Crodit Mobilior means, TIE OENTENNIAL BLOW-OUT. Tho first of thess concorng ia the Philadel- phin Centonnial Bxhibition, which has a Aort of pleturesquo support amongeb. Yoopln fond of Erlmnry Amerlean history, and a strong local noking, not groatly ntrungfiwnud by the trinmph of the Gamoron eandidate ot tho Into Moyoralty olection. Tho United Btates I8 atronuously sought to bo ontrapped into this shiow, and thero is littlo doubt that tho firat atop will bo half tho Jjournoy. A natlon of our euporfices and di-* vorsity, with o press and poriodieal literaturo which make overy Invention public, and brinj tho wholo peoplo into montal rapport, ia local- izing its dignity wlon it undortakos to illustrato n contury of growth by a fair liko that of Noy- gorod. ‘Amoricn cnnnot thus bo typified, o ‘Wo do not stand, like Viennn or Paris, in tho radius of mauy natlons divided by languago, un- oqually dovelopad, and linving someting to learn from oach other. Wo cannot bandlo » World's Lixhibition with tho same - cconomy a8 o mon- arcly ; and what wo hnyo to show is not of tho musoum chernctor. Wo canuot incronse our trado to-any groat dogreo by the Exhibition, nor oven reap tho roward of a varioty of dlsplay pearcoly. worthy of us ; for our artia thin, our. mausio not original, our populaco domestio, and our gront achiovemonts aro upon a sonlo which caunot bo reducod to modals. : Buch n World's Fair is at thia time promaturo, ot any tima out of tho gonius of our institutions, and traceablo to n bad Imperial oxamplo. Thero nre tho half-concasled sontimonta of tuo discroot men of Congroas. 'Tho truo Oen- tonnial Exhibition of North Amorioa has already lmrpnnnd; Emancipation horo, tho Frenoh ex-' pollod from Moxtco, Russia o voluntary exilo from our Continont, and ponce with the Dominion of Cannda, If reciprocity with all tho nations of oivilization could bo _ndded to these glories, wo should draw Europe by tho impulse of immigra- tion to an Exposition a whole century long. What will we have dorived from all this peg- tor when it is ended? - What National hungor will it have rupplied ? If it gota 15,000,000 or 820,000,000 from Congraas, £5,000,000. from tho clty'and Stale, aud lielp trom many othioe citios and States, how mnch, bosides, will our people spond 1n traveling thousauds of miles to attond it? Lot ws supposo {hat it will bo voted, by National, State, aud clvic. nuthorities, $30,000,- 000, If, thon, half amilifon of our gnnplo [ tond it from an_averago distanco of 800 milos, ané_romain ono wook, 6x) on(’lmF, BRY 050{;« hond, hore will bo somothing under §50,000,000 —enough to build tho Pacific Rallrond— burnt up in fire-crackers. Our Bu- ropean guoats will - most ‘probably be bogus Itussian Counts and ballet-dancors, Whon the groat drunlt is dono, and tho edificoof . the show falls in, how_mmuch gravor will thoso'| old portraits look in Indopoudonco Hall at tho misapprehionsion s century could make of their iustitutions and theiv examplo ? Tho sum of monoy involved in this Fair wonld givo & frao-achool systom to whole Btatos now disordered- by ignorance. It'would endow a; ‘University whoso nscfulnoss might sarvive the |~ momory of ilsorigin. Thore is small probability of tho Philadelphia entorprise boing impossd upon the nation. - BEVERAL RAILROAD BOMEMES . llo around Congress; liko the Forly Thioves fn tho ompty barrols, whio exposed themsolves by sayung ¢ © Captaiu, s it timo ¢" - 8 Col. Scott's "Toxns Paciflc scheme would have advauced across Texas had ho bogun five years 2ago and beon now on tho Rio Urande, au the North Preific is on tho Miissouri, Thero it might have becomo, aftor many yoars, o useful road,— probably novor finishod to the Pacile in our po- riod. 1tis now imporiled bofore and bohind,— bohind, by tho vast obligations of its Presidont,” whoso ‘indorscments aro outfo tho figure of 3,000,000, nud whoso forcos hava noarly_dis- solved by f\ungzur and dolay; before, by tho local opposttion of "Loxag, . which bag in’ turn behold Feomont, Roborts, i Soott fail, and. jn: omblt- torad ngainst nll Northomn oporators. A chartor waa geddlod about tha™ city Jast weok to pass through tho finost Iands Iu Toxas, and endowod with n suporb grant. If this could go bogging, is it possiblo that tho Texas Pacitlo Rond is so valunblo? Meantime, thoe Pennsylvanis Rail- rond, straitened in monoy, is engulfed in its Southorn attachments, on' which Col. Scott ro- liod to got an outlot_for lilg Texesline. Tho Daltimore & ' Olio Railroad, with money in hand, has tho ppfiorluuity of tho momont. Docs it not socm as it Nature worked for libarty whon such corporations, grown too diffusivo by am- Dition, fade quite at lnsb? i Col. Fromont, tho ploneer speontator’ on tiis line, is now. sald to bo in a distresaing debato withi lus conneotion, tho. Baron Bolleau. - The Baron told Tromont that Lo wanted bonds to corrupt the Imperial family and Court, but put them instend on tho market, for which ho is now in tha ponitontiary. ,Thoro ho tolls that he was tho dupo of Fremont, whose family is groat Iy seandulized. ks “he Northern Paciflo Ralroad, slthough col- Iapsed, is still o mystory. Somo of tho Coolo family havo of lato boon offering 12, 15, 18, and | I hove hieord of ovon 26 cents, for tho bonds, Somo ssy thero iy o bull movomont; others think it prelusive to a reorgavization of the road, provided Lhe creditors Do liboral and ox- chango thelr bonds for land. Tho sangaine na- ture of Jay Cooko, his prostration, so complote us to loavo bim nontly freo for anothor carcer, and his infatuation with this railroad, lead some to think it moro chancoful than the Texas Pacific.. Honry Cooke's son is to open 6 banking-houso in ~ Washington —with & gon of ex-Judge -Shorman, ~of Ohio, Tho Iladies sny that ‘DMiss Kitly Coocx a protty and nccomplished girl, aunounces her marriago off with Mr. Frederiok Giaut, Roan- timo the Firat National Dank hora i8 boing in- vestigntod,—a mattor whioch loads Washingtou pooplo to avoid Nationnl Bauks for othors which Congrors canuot ovorhaul, g Ben Holliday is ono of the operators who has como horae to reside, having rontoed a houso noxt door to Bonator West, withitho privilege of threa years' lonso. The Contrul Pacific Railrond has also beon ropresented horo, and the document- filos are full of bills nscribed’to that intoroat. A strong canal lobbg is enountored by tho Phila- dolphia tow-boat lobby, which sooms to own or control tho mouths of tho Mississippi, and works hero through the Flanagany,—mon slways most prosperous near Govornment, FINIS, Nothing stands botween such sohomes ng tho above and Congrossional uufl)oxl Lut public son- timent and tho condition of tho Treasury. ‘The former might not bo hieedod if these: schemors had s large purse, but thoy aro.poor this year, I'ho state of tho Tronsury I8 n.warnivg to every, ‘Dusinoss-intorest in thio country, aud wo aro'|- compolled, whother we like or not, to rotronen, Gara, ‘The young Duchess of Edinburgh has rogelved among bor wodding presonis a multiplicity of Biblos. _Thore was one, writos & correspoudont of tho London Zimes, from the Dritish and Toreign Biblo Bociety in Loudon, **T'his was a Tussinn Bible, handsomely bound in three vol- umos, aud was proscuted by tho. Doan of Wost« minstar on tho part of the Socioty, The first volumo of this Biblo contains the first cight books of tho Old Teslament dono into Rusg, the vousion suthorized by tho Emporor Aloxander I ‘Cho second yolume contan thio rost of the Old ‘Testament, translated by tho learned Nussian profossors Livischa and Chivolsov, at tho cout of tho British and Foroign Bible kocloty. from tho originnl text, The third volume gives tho Now Teulantont, following tho edition authorizod Dy the * IToly Synod,” or Supromo Council of the Ttunsinn Cbureh, Thopoculinrity of tha translation thus prosontod to tho Duchess of Edinburgh is thot 1t is tho only ono which presents the whole Bible in & vorsion of modern Russ, & tonguo not easontinlly difforont from tho old Bolavonic, but nxuuudh:glg usoful for tho gencral undorstand- ing of the Beriptures by tho uneducatod musses, Tho gift of the Bible was nolknowladged by the Grand Duchess in a fow graclons words, which showed how woll sho nndorstood tho yalua of tho work. Tlo Grand Duchoss slso recoivod with like oxprossions of gratitudo a liusa Bible prosented by Baron Korif, Dr. Karrell, and oths ers, on bohalf of tho Russian Biblo Soolety, . It may bo eddod that tho Grand Duchess has also recolved n fino copy of the authorized version of tho Buglish Biblo, o prosont from oneof tho most distinguished Indies of tho Imporinl Cour horeolf a doyout momber of tho Enstern Churol.” —_—————— Rod itot. A Migslealppi paper snys: ‘' Blould thia issue of our papor lnfi iu tho way of tho villain who dofaced Admiral Bommon'g bools, tho property of, n citizon of thistown, wo sy that no ono but & Jiar and o gneak would pronounco that gontle- man, distinguished snilor and soldior & ¥ scouns dral,’ or that his book waa * the blackest of lles ovor utlored by mau or dovil! Thoso aro tho words that defaco tho book s and wosay again, tio who'wroto thom fa hinusold lar, & sconndrol and snenk, aud, it ho is not too cowardly to give Dhis name, will rocelve tho roward ko o justly merlts,” L to tho roputations thoy affect," _bettor . days, and ‘also ‘accompantod *_“MAD MERRIMENT. The Ball at the Insane Asy- - Ium, Bismarcl and the Queen of Shoba ag Partners, Sano and Insane Peoplo Much Aliko When ' 1t Comes to Dancing, 1t 18 rolated, with what trath itis impossiblo t08ay, that whon tho gods Lad oronted mau- kind and had endowed thom with every faoully nocossary for enjoymont, it was suddonly dis- covored that no moans had boon propared by which thoy could bo amused, all tho affairs of naturo golng on with solomnity and sadnoss, and ol things partaking of ponsivenoss rathor than mirth, In this dilomms, it ocourred to onoof tho mythologieal doitios, who it seoma was of an ingenious turn of mind,—probably tho one who inventod aleop,—that the raco would bo of such » strango composition that thoy would find plenty of fun looking at ono anothor and noting one anothor's actions, and would notneed any spocial modifieation of the systom of tho univorde to koop thom laughing. Pbis ok Drovertio bo tho fact and a philoso- pher might ovon say 1t is the basis upon which Bocioty aots. For instance, in tho matter of dancing, If o spoctator. should’ stand outsido of his own omo- tions, and, stopping up his enrs, bocomo a cold an uninterested lookur-on of this social pleasuro, 1o would como to tuo conolusion that mankind bind gono cloan mad, aud that sanity rulod only beenuso {t was in tho majority. That pooplo should go dcliborately to worl and jump up and down and grin af each othor cannot passibly be justified undor any olhor h{- othosis than that nataro insists that wo should 0 * amoosing,” like Artomus Ward's boar, - - Theso rofloctions aro suggested by an attond- nnco upon o ball which took placo nt tho County Insano Asylum Inst Snturday night, to which on attacho of Tne Tnippye hsd the honor of an invitation. & s BOCIETY AT JEFFETSON differs In some respects from O‘h[cngn wocioty, but the material points aro the eanmo, and, on. the occasion in quostion, tho olito of’ that nolghborhood were in quito aé much of n fevor of oxpectation as proceded tho Pacific Hotol Ball of happy romombranco, ! TIE COMPANY 'ED 9 1 INVIT! consistod of some 200 lunntics, and probably fifty other guests, who.wore (ndistingnishablo In tho genoral gayoty that followed, sl meoting on tho snmo footing whon it comes to danoing. A band, consisting of 2 boy with a fiddle thnz-l]:ynd soou a com- Ennlnn with sharp that had cortainly met with ottor usago, comprised tho orchostra, Tho room dovoted to tho torpsichoresn plonsuro is one fltted up for the pu{‘pnsu in the Qounty Asy- lum, being quito na good a tho ordinary halls of tho city. oxcellent. - TUE ANRIVAL OF, THI COMP) 'ho - arraugements, in. fact, wero all occaslon aro’ permancnt residents, thiere was uo necceslty to go totho oxponse of onrringos, 80 this fashionablo and exponsive luxury was omit- ted: At nbout 8 o'clack tho company wae ushor- od into tho ball-room, thete boing sevaral floor- maungers prosent totake chargo of them nnd- lend them to tho seats which surrounded tho room, And now, while they aro passing the compliments of greeting and waiting on tho tip- ton of oxpeotation for tho moment whon tha ‘band will striko up the dolicious, floating droam of Strauss, or tho witching molody of Dan Bryant, the fashion roporter enters and takos noto of TILE COBTUMYS that nro worn. .In theso thero is a decldod unity of expreesion, 1o to spoak. * The dark- oyed bruuotto on tho loft is dressed in o robo of «calico, with o whito apron and a collsr of un- talntod linoh, pure oud white a8 a uowfoko. Noar by, seated npon an elegant pino divan, Hlflnlcd 1o imitation of onk, is n blondo with o ross which must hava cost 32 ot lonat, It is of dark calico, striped with brown. “Bhe also woars o whito ‘apron and collar, ‘That distinguished- looking porson atanding near the window, look- ing this way—notica Lor oyes, dark na night and strangely molancholy. . Sho hna on—auother calico and & whito apron ‘and collar. Great Loavons ! thoy all Lave on ‘onlicoos nud white np_r:ng ;" and’ the fashion reportor depurts dis- sted. | Aud now, baving disposed of this individual, Iot the mpcatntor proceed to rolate the evonts of the ovening,:’ and ~ draw thuse fine deductions that distinguish the ace tions of 'tho ingane m :the Bane, if it bo poesibte to discover:any difference. In doing this it will bo romembered that a provious Enrugmph hns pointod out somowhat obsourely, ut yet sufficiently woll, that when “mankind bo- gin to danco. all laws of sapity .are abrogated, and theroforo no apology is duo to the insanoe for degoribing tlioir actions, all being on a° lovel at' this pano or insane acoupation. . ' IUNTING PARTNERS, As the firat noto from tho violin gently an- nouncos that raason is dethroned for tho time being, Count Vou Bismarck is observed to_arise from his seat with much ocagornoss aud thus stands & moment gazing upon his constituonts. Ho then selects the Quaon of Shoba as & pariner, and tho ball bogins. ~ Pope Plus Ninth chooses Oapitola ;' o mombor of the Board ‘of. Trade saunters jauntilyup to Oleopatra.and. aska hor to oblige him by putting up & margin ; Ole Bull propares to put in a fow extra flourishes on his own account ; and tha reporter of Tue TRIBUNE, not to bo behind hand, salutes Miss Anna Diok-~ inson nod solicits hor ofton-sought band. Aud now tho Italians who composo the orchestra, having carefully discovered differont keys in which to pitch their persecutions, ) © TIE DANGING DEGINS : : in enrneat. A schottischo is the first numbor. 1t is not o wild danco usually, but the overflow- ing vigor of the dancorasmuat have vont, aud such .stops’ aro invented and introduced on tho spur of tho momont 88 givo it a hitherto un- known vitality. .Olo Bull solects the contro of tho room as the thoatre of his efforts, and, stiok-~ ing ont ono log a8 n signal that only tha ofuor is noeded by a person of genius, he piroucttes and cuts pigeon wings innumerable, having mado o good . start, suddonly romembora that ho has an order to issuo, and stops to com- poseit. Oapitoln suddenly rofuses to budge au= other inch, and stonds in tho midst of the onw |, coming tido of dancors to thoir manifest dis- turbauice, and’ Dickinson halts with ‘s painful suddenness upon tho foot of the ropresentative of the pross, and snys nhmpt ly: EEvia I beliovo you ard ono of thie consplrators.” 1 think not. What consplrators ?" ;. - " Phnt put moin horo, But thon I'l bo out again next weols, 80 come on.” - and the onthusiastia croaturo startod agafn in quito as lively & man- ner as sho had atoppod. TIIE RUPPEN. As the evening progressed the roportor hed the happiness to mako the acquaintanao of many people distinguixhed in the world’s history. One of theso ho took to supper., ‘This meal was pro- vided by one'of tho employes; aud was & froo spread, 'The bill was not olaborato, It consisted of wator in a woodon bucket garnished with o beor mug. Although it was siniplo, it wns high- ly onjoyed by tho party; who returned to it from timo to time with great ongerness, and, after partaking, roturned to tho business of wenring out thoir boots and shoos. with inoroased ardor. - A CONVERBATION. At one timo o fair lady was asked if sho was fond of musio, * Yos, vory foud,” sho ropiied, .“but I have not sung much sinco I loft tho Grand Opora-Hauso.” “Indeed, and why not ?" #Qh, I couldn't get an engagomont, Thoy do not know how to sing out hore."§ “Ilayo you boon horo long 2" “No.. I'wo or throo wooks. I will ranch longer. Do you Jnow Montford ? 47 boliove not," eald hior companion. “T wish you know him, I waut you to toll uh'n u; coma nnd take mo away, 1 do not like his place.” 4 it nhnuh]‘bo fh\ddto do g0 it Tcoutd," and the conversation clased, 1t was aftorwnrd learned that this pationt had been in tho asylum thrco yonrs, ‘Chis couvorsn- tion was the only instauce of anything like sad- nosk thiat ocourred, all tho othors sooiming to bo in tho highost good humor, and, excopt for oo~ caslonal occontrioitios such ns those alrondy notod, would not have boen thought to havo = boon other than mane people onjoying thernclves. At ono timo n patient, be- ocoming dlsguetod With tho slow movemont of the musloiaug, 3 JUNTED UPON TRE PLATFORM and finished tha measuro correctly and in pore foot timo. Ho waa found to havo beon a concort performor In past daya, The ontortainmont con~ olndod at 034 o'clools Ao far .as the pationts in ohargo woro concerned, thoy thus sotting a good oxamplo, and giving ovidence of - pogsessing & ligher degreo of sanity in thia reapeot than their fashionablo competitors, And now, whother this ball at tho County Insano Asylum is to bo clasa« ‘;Jot stay ANY, Aa the grentor port of the participators on tho | Blsmarck, after |, od a8 tho sane porformanco_of insane poople, of whothior the porformances of sano *peoplo ma Do onllad ingnno, fs “ one of thoro thinga whiarl [ log:w can't find out,"” s Dundroary lucidly re- maotks. RAILROAD NEWS, TEDUOTION OF FATES, Thoe managors of tho Toledo, Wabash & Wont- ern Railway havo notiflod tho railroad mansgers In this oity that, aftor the firab of noxt month, thoy wilt reduca thoir passongor-tarift to 8 conts o milo for oach passonger. This sunouncoment Lins onused quito o consteruntion among tho mfnagors of thoso ronds which are crossod by that one, - Thosq lines chiofly affocted will be the Iilinola Qontral, tho Chiengo & Alton, and tho Indianapolis & 8t. Louis. The main line of the Illinofs Contral Railrond s crossed at Docatur, 108 miles from 8¢, Lonis, which will reduco ratos from Bt. Louis to all polnta north of Decatur, Thig will seriously affact tho Chicago & Alton Railrond, whioh ia dolog & largo business botwoon Bloom« ington and Bt. Louis. The roduction botwoon Bloomington and St. Louis willamonnt to §1.10, ond tho samo reduction will conscquontly ba mndo from sll points oast or north of that place. The Ohicago brauch of the Illinoia Central is crosgod by tho Taledo, Wabneh & Wostorn at Tolono, 1lL, 146 milos from 8t. Louls, whick will * cpuao o reduction of $1,60 from that place and all othor points north or onst. Adding to theso reductions the local fare from Ohiengo to Bloom- ington or Tolono, it will considorably reduce tho faro from Qbicago to Bb, Louis, By tho samo action tho rates botwoon 8. Louis aud Toledo, Dotrolt and Canada, will be grontly loworod. THE EREIGHT TROUDLES, Mr. J. O, Btubbs, tho TFroight Agent of tha Contral Pacific Railrond, stated to s TrRmoNm roportor, yosterday that, fhus far, nothing had boon accomplishod to secure an understanding botwaon tho Chicago roads-aud the Union an the Contral Paciflo. The managors of the Con- * *tral Pacifio would gladly prorate if_they could -induco the managors of tho Union Paciiic to do tho same, but every offort for a poaceablo sottlo~ ment bnd thus far fallod on nccount of tho atub- bornness. of Mr. Vining, tho Gonoral Freight Agsut of tho Union Pacitio. “In hia opinjon, tho Central 'and Union. DPacific should. receiva somothing * moro than tho Chicaga ronds, 'but ho would novortholoss * pro- rote, bocsuss business would Do greatly tmproved thereby. ‘Chrough frelghfs Lad no§ fnllen off much on nccount of the difMoulty, tha Baltimore & Ohio Railrond doiug their business at vory low ratos.’ The Pacific Mail Bteamship Company was injuring tho Pacifio roads far more tlian tho action of tho Chicago railways, that lino having an gstablished Chuna and Japan trado which it would take many years for & now o lino liko tho Tranapacific to acquire. But, nev- ortholess, thoy would .got that trade, and os« pecinlly 'tho tos traffie, bofore Iong. ns toa coming overland was far suporior to that trans< ported vin tho Isthmus of Panamn. This woa owing to tho faot that tho ten going ; ovorland’ was not subject tosuch changes in olimato ns that going via Pauama. Mr. Btubbs wns confident - that the diffieulty could not last ot e loug, and that overylbing would bo peace- ably settled in a fow days. %, BLIGUT ACOIDENT, A froight train on tho Michigan Sonthorn Rail- rond ran off tho sido-track at Millor Station, 25 milos from the city, obstructing the main track and delaying the morning train”_coming in ona ‘l;ptqu ond . fifty minutes. No othor damago was % one,’ A TRUNE RATLROAD BOUTII FROM TPLATTSMOUTH, B, - g NER, PrarrésourH, Neb,, Fob, 28,—The trnk rail- road to counoét with Eolnm gouth is again agis tated, and this time with moro prospect of sucs . coss, " A’ force of men Are prospocting for coal . here. Buccess is not very flattoring 0 far, but hopos arb entortained. & M. WILLIAM WELSIS RELIGID&. " 0nrd trom the fov. 4. Ni Powors. T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: In an oditorial this morning you calk Mr: Willlam Welsh, of Philadelphis, the *oml- nont Quaker.” If by this you mean that Mr. ‘Wolsh ia a pure, ponco-loving, Lonest, and be= novolent man, then you are right. Dut if yom think he is & membor of the seot called Qualters,! \ ou aro mistaken. DIr. Welsh Is o dovout and ntolligont Episcopalisn, and for many yoars has beon promiaont in the councils and charita- ble ontorprises_of tho Episcopal Cuurcd. Ha and tha : Hop. Felix R, Brunot, who is anotber specimon of an_Episcopalinn, have done noble sorvice on the Indian Commiesion, for' whiok they deservo the thanks of the e&n Onrcado, Fob, 33, 1874, e NE . —_— . THE GHOST THAT JIM SAW. (Kanaas Pacifio Rafluoay,) 1873, # Why, 54 to that, sxid the enginesr, “ Ohosts aln't thihgs wo aro apt to fear, Splrits don't fool with lovora much, , And throttlo-valyes dan't tako to Buch's | And n fc for Jim— ‘What happened to him . ‘Wan oric-hslf faot and tho other half whim . Tunniog ono night on tho ing, A lotisoa pista s tho morl e Juat by the moonlit bnnké‘und thonce Gaimo’ drunien man wis o mora onsa-. i an rop on ti i Fiatngadath o oo s 31 drove by with tho midnight iafl, - Downwent tho' patonts, ~ Blosm revaraod, - {lcoh}fllfi 1 for (l.{gm cn‘:l‘ll‘l “thud,” Jim cursed, " s firoman, thero in (o cab with him, indor stared in the faco of Jim. g B | Aud says, What now?" . | Bays dilo, “* What mow!l , * T'vo Just run ovor a man—that's Law 1% The fireman starod at Jim, Thoy ran Hack, bt thoy nevor fout:d houss hos muz,— Nary s shadow within o milo, Jim'turned palo, but ho triod to amilo— ¥ Tlsen on he taro, - Ton mile or mo; “In quickor tim than Bo'd mads afore, Wonld you believo it 1—the very next nfg Up ross flat hiowso o T mooH Rt e Out comea tho chap and drops as before, - Dovn goos tho brakes, and the rost encoro— " And 50, In fact, Lach nlgut that it Occurred, til folks eworo Jim was oracked, Tramph1 - Lt me seo; it a year now, most, IThat T met Jim, Zasty and said} * How's your ghoit 29 # Gone," says Jtm ; ! und morc, Ve plain © “That ghost, don't tFoublo me agatn ; - * X thouaht T shook = Mot ghost when I taok "' A place on an Eastorn lino—but took ‘What should I meot tho flrst trip out, But that very house that wo talked abon Aud that sclf-same man| ¢ Well, ¢’ timo o stop this I Bo I crummy o+ i Whon thero camo ascrosm From my fireman—ond it broko my dream— “You've Iilled somobody " Says T, ¢ Not muchy Tos boon Sl ofton o tha Ayt o suc ‘And now Tl provo it Back weran, * And darn my sidn1—but thar was @ man On the rall, doad, . 7 i fil‘l“l‘!:‘llnd in tho hl;n'dfl v ow T cail thnt meanneas 1 Thatls ol » —Hret Uarte 1 the New York Times, - e i ——— . © Mr. Gindgtone’s Now Pcors. From tho New York t'tmes, = Mr, Gladstone's now Peora aro, ns at present snnouncad, all men without sons, and, a0 far ng Dloara, Forteseuo and Uardwell ‘aro concernod, thoir clevation 18 simply with a viow to theiz . convonicnco and tho exigonces of thoir party in . tho Lorde. Mr.. Hammoud's. poorago is a recoge - nition of able and uutiring devotion to the publia -« sarvico, which oan bo mado without incouvas nlanco In tho caeo of » man oven of very modor- . ato monns when the poorage will dio \:{lh hin, . but would othorwisn be objectod to on grounds ; ot pulilic policy, which limit pooragos to tho af-. flnont. . Chichiestor Fortosono, who Iubrother - aud helr toXiord Olormont, frustented hischaucos of trausmitting his namo by bis marriago with: tho very attrao(ive and richly-ondowed widow of’ tho Xarl of Waldegrave, whon she bad voached n comparativoly advauced period of lite, without lm\'lu% issno by any of hor threo provious husbands, It i8 almout. corfain that Ar, Gladstono will ultimately- ¢ gholve ™ in tho Iouse of Lords, The iutor-. osls and conneotions of his family poiut in that. dircotion. On tho doath of his brother, Sig Stoplion Glynne, who will certainly novor marry, that gontloman's anclont baronotoy will bocomig, oxtinot, whilo his eatatos will dovolvo on Mr,. Gindatone.- Tor yoors Hawnrdon Castle, Sir Stephen’s soat, ling beon My, Qladstono’s cotmtry rasidenco, and ho is himegolt a conslderabls land-. lolder in the noighborhood. It has long Loon: ovident that Mr. H, I, Gladstono, tho heir, ia not going to 8ot tho Thamea on fir, aud a come fortablo nook in tho Houso of Lords oulq, probably, bo_complotoly agrocable to him In the far futuro. Evory Primo Ministor sincs Wal~ P““‘“ time, with tho excoption of Peel—who loft spooial (njunnunmi pmhl{;ltlu 2 nccoptanco off, honor by his widow or children—has. oithor ro-. coived o poorago in his own porson or ono ling! rer foolishnos on steam, “boen canforred upon his wid 1 ey b 0w, with romaindor; to hixsou, - iscacti cannot b & mmnpunu to tho n'aul]lcl-a luannonllr?ghxh}‘t:flmi“u'; with o ponrage, alnce his lament i Viscountoss 1 her own righgy 00 "ee diod &