Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. TR OF WUDRCHETION (PATATLE IN ADVANCE). ntly, by m () | Bunday, ot T Tai-Wed S R R ewbias X111 't AL the sama rate, *I'o provent dolay and mistakes, bo sure and xive Post 00 conddress in full, including Btata and Counity, Ttemittancen may be mado efther by dratt, oxpruss, Post Ofi.coouder, orn raglstered lottors, At our risk, TERMB TO CITY AUDAORIMENS. Dolls, doliverad, Sunday oxcontea, 25 cante por wack. Dails, dolivared, Bunday fncluded, R eonta par wook. Addions THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Coruor Madinon ahd Dearhorn-sta., Uhloago, Il TODAY'S AMUSEMENTS. HOOLPY'S THRATRI=Randoloh strost, latwoon QR Lt uangamontof Jarrelt & Faimor's Combiaation, " Undino. M'VIORKR'S THEATRE—Madison atreat, botwoen Dearborn and Stato. Itugagement of Wybart Reava, “'The Woman in White.'" AUADEMY OF MUSIO—Halsted stroat, hetwoon Mad- 11on and Monmo, Afternoan: Bonefit of Kd, Marble. Ervenlng:, Kngapomont of Mes. James A, Oatos’ Uombl. Tation, * Tho Flawr Girl of Paris," ADELPHI THEATRE—Comer of Wahash syonua Varlety ontertalumont, ** The Soeniatamers "o, andtho 155 Glorkns: GLOBR THEATREDosplainca strect, batwaon Mad- . _Kugogemcnt.of tho Jye Neathom E:-EE;;}Z-" Dlviade’s Paniomime Truuper -5 Tho Wil o't P . N o] t, Dot O e K ingion, Batton: aug Hammnias and gomicalitiva, ** Barnum's ‘e Watoh-Dog, " sto. CORMICK MUSIO.HALL—North Olark sf o thre by Anna Dickimaon on the. Evil " quostion 10 HALL-Glark streot, botwoon nflfii".fl‘ ke Lootare by < & Porsios.” psekiniss A "SOCIETY MEETINGS, MANDERY, No, 1 O O aer) SveRing s 11 'clocks o 1o Soptain i Monort Torrirk o K. 1 Grdar, Viai” 1o Bl Kalghus oourtaon T £ 0OKE, Tecordor. s, No. 211, A, . and A, M._Evory e (R o Tova poroonay nailied by suail and otherwiso, of the Social Assembly to tako place to-mprrow (Weduosday) ovening, at thoir hallon Monros. At TRy ineiver s 11 16 ol mion comnual: s antioa Dy o a5 ey ik be evern g e WHIFNEY Boo. K. T.—Bpactal A. F. and A, M.—Regular A o s Ik ojenink, i iliele il Nog oommunication this (Tu 78 Monroo-at, (Erao asuna o ‘biisinots, and ‘hird Dogreo, Th ity condinily fivi- Tk on thoLhied Dogreo. “Iho {pIpIBIIANE, Bu. "BUSINESS NOTH ' A -SLIGHT OOLD," COUGHS. — FEW ARR sware of tho Importance of :Iluuklnn & cough or *alight uuh.l."('hluh:n&lddln‘d toa m“rl“ml\m;{ly, ul::';, SRR Bl e e fihz Chivagy Tiibune, Tuesday Morning, March 24, 1874. Tho bill to liconao houses of prostitution has passed to o third reading in both Houses of tho State Leglslaturo, A petition to Congress signod by evory momber of the Now York Cotton ‘Exchange, protesting againat any inflation of tho currency, and ssking for a spoedy return fo specis payments. A simllar momorial has been prepared by the Grocors’ Board of Trade. The Compulsory Education bill wes defeated in the Stato Senate yestorday, through tho in- attention and unskillful tactics of its supporters, and the genoral apathy of the Legislature to any public business of importance. The vote waa 18 to 9. There were twonty-four Senators absent ar not voting. 2 The report that tho Dircctors of tha North ‘Wisconsin Railroad had sccopted tho 8t. Oroix Jand-gront is donied. There has boon no moet- ing at which this conld be dono, but thero is be- lieved to be no doubt that tho grant, which was rejected last year by tho AMilwaukee & St. Paul Rallroad, will be accaptod by them, and the rord be built in accordonce with its terms, Representative Hoar follows Mr, O'Erien in an attack on the landsulot stenl and the sys- tem io vogue among high Governmont ofticials of degrading publio employes into private men- als. He has obtained pormission of the Housa to introduce an amoendment to the Appropriation 'bill mposing penaltics upon any public officors— they range sbove aud below Cabinet dignitaries ~—who put public property to any private use, or detall any employe of the Government to private service. ‘When a servant of this Administration forgets the high rectitude that characterizes the conduct of his tellows and becomes a defaulter, there is but one resource for thie unfortunate man under the soverity of our present reformed Civil Ser- vice—that is, to resign. A defloit of $10,000 has been discovered in the accounts of Postmastor Qlarke, of Golveston, and he has tendered his resignation. Restitution aa woll a4 resignation nobody nesd exvect. In the Comwmon Council last evening it was decided to allow the Exposition DBuilding to stand two years longer. A resolution instruct- ing the Corporation Counsel to take mens- ure to annul the oontract between the city and the gss companies was .passed by 19 to 5. The Lake-Frout question reappeared in a resolution that the interests of the city would be promoted by accepting tho offer of $800,000 from the rallroads for tho prop- erty, The resolution was reforred to the ap- proprinte committea. From Red Oloud Agenocy there comes the char- actoriatic news that the Peace Commissionera havo bad & talk with the Indians, but that noth- ing Lis been ncoomplished. Beof has beon ik sued to the Indiana for 2,000 lodges in excess of the real number, and they havo uccordingly beon ordeted to present themselves to be counted. Thia they are shrowd ouough to bo unwilling to do, and are talking in a gloomy way about got- ting their guos ready. There is no more defl- nite evidence than thero was s month ago as to what is nctually the prospect of a serious Indian outbreak, Both Houses of tho Illinois Logialature have paased the now Lien law, aud it awaite the Gov- ernor's signatare, Thisit is not thought hikely be will withhold, One of the main objeots of the bill is to extend the time during which workingmen may onforce their lion. It also provides protection iu case of fraudulent col~ luslon botwoon contractors and ownors Iu undor- valuing the price of work dano, and stipulates that lons for lsbor and matorial shall take precedence of other incumbrances upon lsud, whether created bofore or atter the contract on which the lien deponds, Thers are many othor provialons of grent iuterest to land-ownars, oon- tractors, and laborery, — The Chicago produco markets wore genorally stoady yesterday, with loss business done than the aversgo of last wook, Meus pork was quiet and unchanged, closing st $14,65@14,0 cash, and ©14.60@14.05 wollor April, Lurd was quiet and ateady at £8.90@8,923¢ per 100 Ibs cash, sud 08.92)6@8.95 eellor April. Moats were quist sud etrong at 53@830 for shouldors; $7.85@ 2.0 for auort rlbs; 8K @830 for short olear; wnd B@10j50 for sweeteplakled bams, Highe T ITIn CIMUAUU DATGT ITUDUNLT TURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1874, — e R R R R A R R R R R R, winos wore quiet and‘stendy at 920 por gallon. Flour was dull and nominelly wnchanged. Wheat was less netive, and go lower, closing at #1,173¢ cosh, and 11734 seller Aprll. Corn was quick and unclianged, clostng flrm nt 615¢o seller Aprll, and 042¢@043450 nellor May., Onls wore dull and unchauged, closing at 430 onsh, and 4630 aollor Mny, Ryo was quiet and firmor at B6@863¢o for regular, ‘Barloy was dull and onslor at §1.47@1.40 for No, 3, and ALIB@1.40 for No. 8. Livo hogs wore dull aud wenk, clos- ing hoavy at £4.76@5.06 for poor to ochoice. Cattlo wore active and higher, with sales at f3.00@0.87}4. Bhoop wore steady - and un- ohangad, Theouse of Roprosoutatives has rofused toal- lowthe Logislative Approprintion bill to baamond- od sa that members, instend of milenge, should receive Lhoir actual traveling exponses. So many such things are done bya Congress like tho prosent that thoro fa dangor poople will over- look thoeir real chineactér, It would soom that an honest member of Congross, aud thero aro atilt some such, ought to be content with an allow- ancoof travellng oxpensos that actually covers his ontlay. But thers is ovidontly n majority who profor to rotaln a systom which, without tho inconveniont publicity of a salary-grab, enabies them to put into thoir pockots a good desl of monoy that bolongs to tholr constituents, and is taken from thom with somothing not much bot- tor than falgo pratonses. Amorican politios was the subjoot of an in- structive and timoly nddress last ovening, by Mr. Frankiin MoVeagh, of tbis eity, bofora the Christian Union, Tho decp linos of thought pursued by thla lecturor brought him to tho samo conclusions that aro pressing wilh melancholy weight upon the most carolosa obsorver. With rare excop- tions, we have no otatesmen. Tho only, art of govarnment widely stndied 16 tho art of gotling {uto ofiico aud staying there. This would bo bad onough in sny cireumstances, but is partionlarly otninous now, wheu our institutions, nocossarily uastable, are underzoing most sorious changes, that will probably pormanontly alter tho balanco of our systom, and whon questions liko that of the governmont of rallroads, corporations, and othor {orms of combinntions are confronting ns ‘with the need for the highesl possible states- manship. ¢ Tho Housoof Reproscntatives have passod tho bill prepared by the Committeo of Ways and Menns, fising tho greenbuck circulation at £400,000,000. Mr. Dawes offered bis smendment withdrawing tho #£26,000,000 of the "rosorvos that have bLoen rols- sucd, snd redncing the ocwroncy to $956,- 000,000. It was dofented by tho decidlve voto of 171 to 70. Mr. Roberts' amondmont fixing the circulation nt £382,000,000—that Is, logalizing tho issue of tho $26,000,000. reserves that hnve been already put out—wns dofeated by 172 to 74. The 800,000,000 bill was then passed by 168 to 77. In the Senate, 3Mr. Shorman offered his compromiso bill, which is to bo substituted for the Redistribution bill, and fixes tho limit of circulation at $832,000,000. It provides for free bauking, and stipulatos that for overy &1,000,000 new National Bank notos issucd, $700,000 greenbreks shall be withe drawn till the legal-tender circulation is reduced to £300,000,000. Tho status of thecurrency since Prosident Grant Lias plodged himsolf in advance to approve any measure Congross may pass de- ponds upon whether the Senate adopt the action of tho Houso to-dny. That netion is & palpable inflation of tho curroncy. Itis astop towards repudiation, tho levy of a forced loan in time of pesco, and an iovitation to disnster. If tho Sonate approvo it, they must shara the dia- grace. Eloven additional charges were filed yeaterdoy by the memorialists againat the Board of Publia Works of the District of Columbia. They are supplemontary {o thoso already proforred, and meke similar acousations of Iax managemont, of tampering with ocontracts, and raising the dobt of the Distriot beyond the figure fixed by the charter. They arc eaid to bave spent moro than 316,000,000 in making improvements which they proposed in the firat instancoe to make for £6,500,000. One of tho momorialista has with- drawvn his name from the charges, on the ground that he is now convinced that they are’ frivolous. The wark of tho Invostigating Ocynmittes yestorday consisted in oxumining the witnessos Latia and Kilbourne, poth of whom knew more than they would tell. Latts, when pressed lo toll for whom he hed bought lsnd ss Trusteo, finally snid that it wag for his partuer Kilbourne, a8 True- teo. The Committes, turning to Kilbonme, wore rofused any furthor information than that he had mnot mado tho purchases for any members of the Board of Public Works, and that those for whom he was Trusteo wero non- vesidonts of the District. Thore are betweon 900 and 400 men in Washington, not residents, for s0mo of Whom Kilbourno might have aotod, in ths matter, to thelr great discrodit, and the Committee did not relinquish their inquiry, but told Kilbourne hie must answer next time, PAY BACK THE MONEY! Send back the money,” cried Willism Lloyd Garrigou to Daniel 0’Connell and Iroland, when Lie discoverod that Maryland sleveholders had boou conttibuting to tho Ropeal Fund, with the ovidont lntent of stopping O'Connell's mouth from uttoring douunciations against their po- culiar oustoms, which he had branded man- atealing. **Send back the money,” he reiterat- ed, until tho Groen Islo listened'to tho demand, If that requisition was woll put,—and'the moral sense of the world commended it when it was o matter simply botwoen man aud man, to be gauged by tho state of tho individual conseienco,—how much mora 80 when it pertains to tho houor of a nation and to the requirementy of public justice in tho treatmont of tho Goy- ernmeut towards its subjocts. If money be ob- tained by fraud, by blackmailing, by conspiracy, by one mau from another, there s a romedy in the courts, ‘Lhero is no reasonablo doubt that it a rospeotable firm in Obicago hud been troutod by nuy riug of unofiiclsl persons as the firm of Pholps, Dodgo & Co. havo beon troated by Gove ornment sgents, just as suvely as justico could bo done fu tho courts of Ohlengo the perpetra- tors would bo dolug tho Stute some oreditablo service fu the Penitentiary at Jollet, instond of boing examined by 8 Cummittee of Ways and oans ut Bpringfield, Paying back the monoy i tho only way tho Govornument of the United Btates can do justica to a tlrm that it hos outrageously swindled, and #avo Heolf trom tho just imputation of & partuor- abip with piratos, How this swindiing and binoke maillug Lus beon done, and what are the links of the parénorship, Las been often told in Tue TrizuNe and mony other papors of the laud, and In botng told day by day to a commlttee exsmine ing lato the operation of tha law, aud the adklon of the conspirators working under it. Beforo this Committeo finluh their work, let them ex- anline ox-Besrotery Boutwell, and sacortain what lio Jmow of tho transnction at tho time tho thumb-sorew way adjusted to these merchants, Did he, or did bo not, know that thoir offonso was morcly tochuloal 7 Waa he then construing tho Inw a4 n just nrbitor, or a8 & political slly of Benjamin Butler ? Pay back tho monaynot only to Phelps, Dodge & Co,, but to a numbor of othor respeotablo firma who havo boon robbod by tho samo gang of conspirators, Purgo out tio blood-monoy from tho Public Tronsury, which soois to have becomo liko tho Houso of God in old Jerusalem, den of thioves, And whilo tho change is belug countod out, It thoro bo a vigilant scarching into the mattor of that little transaction with Samucl A. Way, of Boston. He, too, came Info tho totls of tho offieinl spies, aud ho. came down with 8200,- 000, or therenbouts, and stralghtway wout and hangad himsolf, or by some otlior means '* wont. to his doath,” Now, did ho hang bimsolf, as Judas did, becauso it wus tho bost thing undor tho cirenmatancos that ho could do, or was he porsocutod unto doath? Samuol A, Way was os teomod an honorablo, aud was cortainly s pros- ‘perous, merchant; he proved himself above the roputation ofa smugglor whou, in tho timo of the War, ho had business transactions in London. The man has gone, whether as botrayer or be- trayed, we know not; perhops there are rono who dare to domand an investigation ; but cer~ tainly the Committoo of Wage and oans, who now hiave Jayno in hand, might easily inquire by what ways and means Samuol A. Wny camo to his end. 1Is suicide to hocome o part of the pro- gramme in tho administration of our tariff law ? Poy back tho monoy! Lot tho publio pross domand this, and the poople eoho it, till, asin the aalary-grab, Congross be driven to do this act of slmplo justico. It moy bo that, as tho po- litieal ropresontativos have dono overy possiblo dishonorablo thing to keep up tho party, thoy ‘may consont to do an honorable thing to'save it. Py back tho money ! THE PRINTING FRAUDS AT SPRINGFIELD. ‘The frands practicod upon the Btate Treasury at Spriogficld have attracted much attention, but it looks as if the Logislature was not equal to tho task of punishing; them. Tho Committeo on Printing havo talou s maes of tostimony, and on Friday Judge Bradwoll made a roport ‘of tho facts, with cortain resolutions. The majority of tho Committee, while conceding the truth of the roport, proposed difforont action. Finally, the majority accopted Bradwell's roport, but substi- tuted their own resolutions, and .Bradwell has been compelled to submit his resolutions as a minority roport. The fucts briefly stated are, that on the 26th of August, 1872, W. 1. Bailhacho, representing tho Springfiold Journal (Republican), and E. L. Morritt, the Springficld Register (Domocratic), flled a bill for the public printing at the max- imum rates allowed by law; that Bailhacho as- signed bis interost in the bid to tho Journal Company; that thore wore ton othor bidders for tho public printing; that, before tho time for awarding the contract, Morritt and the Journal Company * fraudulently and corraptly bougnt off the other bidders.” The Committea roport tho names of the persons so bought off and tho smount pald to each, This conspiracy was to Dprovont competition. On tho Tth of Septembor, thoro being no othor bid, the contract was awarded to Merritt and the Journal Company. The thon Bocrotary of State prepared written contracts for tho public printing, that thoy might ba signed by the contractors. In this coutract it was rocited that sixteon pages of book or pamphlet work should conatitute o form, This contract the partics refused to sign, and up to this time there has novor beon & writ- ton contract sigued for tho public printing, The law fixes the maximum price to bo paid for press-work st 25 conts per 100 impressious ; but tho award was 25 cents for 25 impressions,— being four times the price authorized by law. For a yoar on the books of the Journal office the proes-work was charged at the logal rate, and thon the entries wero all changed aud thoe aggresate quadrupled. 4 The Committee say that by law 18 pages is fixed asa Jogal *form;" that tho Btate furnishod paper of a size to print 16 pages, and that tho Public Printer actually printed the book and pamphlet work in forms of 16 pages, and then cut them in half and charged for full progs- work on 8 pages, thus doubling the compenen- tion. They roport that §8,705 was charged for constructive composition, In anothor fob, 89,750 was charged, whon tho law allowed but 81,276, Thoy also report that tho award of iho conlract was novor approved by the Governor, as roquired by law. The Committes also report that, without any agrecomont as to price, the printers have boen furnishing tho State with papor; that the profits on the papor are divided between the two offices; that for one ¢lass of papor which costs $5.50 the Journal collects £10.50} othor paper which cost 88 is charged at £19.00, and that, adding up the papor charged on ono pagoe ofs the Journal's books, it was found that £67.10 was charged for what cost but $32.13, .| Under these circumstances, Judge Bradwell and the minority of the Committee recommend: 1, That the award of public printing to W. I, Bailbacho and E. L. Merritt, of Sopt. 7, 1872, bo declared null and void, 2. That thore be an immodiato rolotting of the public printing a8 provided by law, 8. That the acconnts of the Puslic Printers be rostated, in conformity with tho prices fixed by law. The mojority of the Committee, while concoding all the corruption, overcharging, ote., atated by the minority, sug- gest that **the possible ombarrassment to tho Stato thut may arise under the present law, if the conlraots should be declared void, detors us from recommonding that the General Assombly should take such action,” This is o most oxtraordinary exhibition, Itis admitted that the contractors bought off all ather bidders ; that thoy thoy then bid tho max- imum ratod allowed by law; that for a portion of the work thoy charged four times tho amount allowed by law; and that for anothor portion thoy oharged double rates ; that they have boon allowed to furnish tho Btate with paper without any contraot price, whon the law requires the Btate to furnish paper to the printer; that, not~ withetauding all this adwmitted fraud and corrup- tion aud ovorcharging, the majority think the Logislature had better not interfere! ‘Ilis i8'» cloar cnvo of u fusion of Demoorats und Republicons to vob the Btate. Neithor of tho nowspapors iuterosted could alono love ongincered .this job. They thoreforo united, the Hegister to maunga the Domooratio members and the Journal the Republican mem- bars, to prevent any diaturbauce of tho soheme, Thowmajority of the Comuitleo, conslsting of Demoorats and Republicans, now give their sance tlon'to the robbory by recommending that the Legialature take no sotion, Judge Dradwell, and the minerity of the Commiitee, Andingike faots of the fraud mud conspiracy established, ‘vroposo to carry thom out to “thelr logleal con- clustou, by declating tho wholo contract vold, and doing what tho law snys shall bo done,—re- lot tho publio printing, Tho frand is held up at Springfleld na & *non-political” one, whon, in fact, It I8 a puroly political ono; the organs of tho two parties having united to ewindle tho Btalo, and divido tho baoty oqually, Tho only legltimato notlon the Loglalature ean tako s to adopt Judgo Bradwoll's rosolutions, Anything lngs than this Is cowardico and partloipation in tho fraud, ——— AMENDMENTS TO THE MIORIGAN CONSTI- TUTIOR, Tho Miobigan Logislature Lins adopted & num- ber of amendmonts to the Btate Canstitution, to boratified or rojocted by the people. Among the moro importaut provisions arethe following : No munieipality shall aid in any way auy nsso- clation or corporation, mor shall it construct or own a railrond. No city or villago shall incurn dobt amounting to over 10 per cont of its tax- able valuation, unless & mjority of the electors oanthorizo tho fucronse. Tho Logslature shall have tho power to prohibit discrimination by 1nilroads, to regulato the spoed of trains, and to oatablish **resgonable maximum rates™ for froight and passongers on ratlways and canals, No railroud enrporation shall consolidato with a compoting line, or have any arrangemont nbout froights or farcs with suoh a line, No person interosted in a railrond ebinll be intercated in supplying matorial to that railroad or in a confpany for trausporting passengers or gooda ovor its line. Tho consolidation of compoting telegraph lines, oven by the pure chaso of ono by tho othor, shall be strictly for- bidden, A womsn's privato proporty shull ro- mnin hors aftor marriogo. Any proporty she ac- quiros aftor marringo sl also bo entirely hevs, Hor husband shall ot bo linble for her dobts before marriage, nor for those ‘‘contracted by liet in relation to hor nolo proporty aftor mar- rlago.” Women shall be eligible to tho offices of Rogister of Deods nnd Notury Public, to thoso connected with sohools and librarles, and to any others hereaftor desigoated by law, The intorost on public funds, loaned or doposited, shall always be paid over to the State, munici- pality, or other owner of the funds. Convicts shall bo taught no mechanical trade which will mako thelr labor compoto with that of Michigon méchanics. Bpecial Ilegislation s prohibited, Sessions of the Legislature shall b bienntal. Nelther the Stato nor any municipal corporation shall appropriate money or property for any sec- tarion purpose. * The Logislature shall not Poss any act authorizing the grant of liconse for the ealo of ardont eplrits or othor intoxioating liquora,” THE MISSOURI HIGHWAYMEN, The mwurderous operations of the Missourl highwaymen, no matter how dangerous or des- porate theso bonditti moy be, are & disgrace to that Stato, and arguo s dogzée of inofiiciency or cowardice upon the part of tho Btate author- ities. The St. Lounis Republican records seven robberies committod within & comparativelyehort time, and all of them undoubtedly by tho samo gong,—tho robbery of the Iows railroad train; thit of the Corydon, Chillicotho, and St. Gane- viove Bauks; that of the Tronsurer of tho Kansas City Fair Assoclation; the plundor of tho Hob Springs' concb, and tho Gad's Hill rob- bory. Although these robberies were of an un- usually aggravated character, and 1n some inatances sccompaniod by murder and personal violence, no 6uo has been nrrested or punishod for thom. It1hins bodn woll cstablished that the Gad's Hill robbery was perpetrated by two gangs of highwaymen known ss the Jamos brothers and the Younger brothers, and thero is littlo remson to doubt that thoy wero concerned in all the other outrages, These desperadoes live in Missouri, and are well koown in their section, and yot the Stato has tnkon no steps to arrest or punish them. What lictlo has been done is the work of privato dotoe- tives for tho sake of reward, and that littlo Lias mot with tragio rosults, a8 might have boen an- ticipnted.. Whicher, the detective, who traced tho Jumes brothers to thelr lair in Clay County, was selzed by them, tiod upon a horse, taken over the Missouti River, and shot, and lhis body. was lofb in the woods, Tho dotectives who hunted down the Yonngor brothera fared no better. Although one of the brothors was Lilled, two at least of the detectives were also killed, and ono made his escapo, and now both gangs are at large again, with nothing to provent them fiom organ- iziug anotbor robbery and continumng their dop- redations with impunity from arrcst. Itis vory doubtful whether any more private detoe- tives will caro to take their lives in their hands, and go down into thia section where they cannot hnve the help of any ono in their operations. It will be remembored thnt neither tho detective ‘who wont into Olay County, nor those who weont Into St. Clair County, although thoy consulted the Bheriffa of those counties, had any help from them. They were loft by those authorities to go upon their tragical mission alone snd un- aided. Tue tollowing dispatch to the St. Louls Re- publican sufficiently explains the character of theso doaporadocs, and leaves room for com- ‘ment upon the inoficienoy of the State authori- ties: 3 ‘Therenre fourbrothers of tho Younger boys,who have ‘made tholr headquartora in the vicinity of Monogan Springs since 1805, and bavo exercised u sort of terror 1sm over the people of the region, snd though thelr desperato choracter was well known, thoy weraehleldcd from arrest by an fndisposition and a dread smoug thelr nelghbors to inform sgainst them, Tho worst one of tho gang s Cols Younger, who formerly hafled from Indopendenco, Jackson Gously, Monogan Springs, tho hoadquarters of the desperadoes, aro lo- cated fn & mountainous county, boavily wooded, and ar0 somowhiat secluded, although but fivo or six niles trom Ozceols. Tho indisposition of the State and county au- thorities to do anything comes out in stitl strong- erlight whou it is odhuiderod that theve s no clemont of socrecy attending tho oporationa of theso highwaymen, There whercabouts are well known to the Blieriffs of the countlee in which they live, and thoy are personally known to the local officers, They maue no concealmant of the {act that thoy are highwaymonand live by plun- der, Robbery is their business, and they conduet it Just oy openly fu tho community in which thoy live ns o carponter or s grocor conducts his busts ness, If any one objects to it, or says anything about it, they quietly shoot him, and that Is the end of it. They have cstablished such a ter rorism in their counties, unot only among poacetul residents but also among tho officials themselves, that thoy do not evon tako ordinary precautions in com- itting robberies, Instoad of fnvosting their doods with eecreoy or commilting thom under cover of darkness, thoy rob and kill in brosd daylight and right under the eyes of the officials themuolves, That throe men in one county and four mou in another, known to all thoir nelghs bore aud the autliositles, making no convoalment of their Identity or thelr business, should bo able to futimidato all tho officers of the law, and that the suthorities of a large aud poworful Stato should slt 1dly by, year after yoar, and allow thero gangs to rob, plundor, and murdor at will, in simply disgracoful, If tho anthoriticn of theso two countios are not strong or courageous enough to rogulato thoso rufians, Job thom call upon the Stalo, sud If Missouri 18 not strong onough, lot hior eall in Tows to help, aud if tho two Blates togother cannot extermi- nate theso sovon men, then lot tho army of tho United States bo called in. It Is possible that the 80,000 mon in the army might wipo them out in ilie course of timo, and rollave tho thousands of paoplo in tho Btato of Missourl from abjoctly submitting any longer to the terroxism of soven mon. 'Thoy are, in overy senso of tho word, out- Inws, and the only way in which tho Biate of Missourt can wipo out its disgraco Is to organizo o forco large onough to arrest or oxtorminnle thom. Its presont attitude towards thom is sim- ply pusillavimous. HINTS FROM HINTON, Col. R. J. Hinton has hithorto had a good rep- utation ns & noldlor, & journalist, and & book- maker. In an ovil moment for him and a good one forthe people, he brought certain chargen agoainst Commmssioner of Pensions Baker. The Intter rotorted by enying that Iinton Liad drawn pay na & olerk in the Pension Offico for political sorvices, Hinton's frionds expeotod, of courso, that e would promptly dissvow this monstrous charge. Instend, ho has confessed it. He has made an afidavit which sota forth that ho was pnid for his sorvices as Scerotary of the Repub- liean Exocutivo Committoo during the lnet Pros- identinl campsign with a sinceurs clorkehip in tho Ponsion Office worth 1,200 & yoar. Dut, pleads tho acoused, I did not ssk for the appointmont; Dolono, Ldmunds, Chand- ler, ond Harlon put me into the placo; and I did not then, snd do not now, boliove in tho practico, s that thoy aro guilty, not I, it any guilt thore be. This Jast plon is equivalont to saylng: * If 8mith lets mo into the Troasury vaults, and I steal all I can lay honds on, Smith Is guilty, but 8 for me—no stan rosts on my namo!” If a Paymaster had offered Col. Hinton, during the War, an oppor- tunity to steal $1,200 of Government funds, would tho lattor have folt justified in doing so? Weo might havo oxpected to find Delano and Chandler aud 1arlan committing petty larcony in this way, but it is a shook to discover that a good journaliet like Hinton should Lave con- sonted to it. Wo have called this transaction potty larcony. Thore is no protense that Hinton over did an hour's worl for the Government. Yot ho was pald 1,200 of Governmont monoy for bis sorvices to the Republican party. This Wae & Dica transaction for a party that was then trumpeting ita new dogma of Civil-Bervice Roform. & One of the most offective moans of coping with jutemperance is the establishment of placos of publio resort which can bo conducted cconomi- cally and respectably, and at the samo time at- tractively, and thus compote with the drinking placos. No woll-organized effort ling boen made in this country to do anything of the kind, but in England conetant experiments are tried to rive tho people attractive resorts, conducted upon temperance prineiples. ‘The latest of these is tho *¢ Paople’s Cafo Company,” set on foot by tho Earl of Bhaftesbury. Attho publicmaeting hold to organize the company, Lord Shaftes- bury presided. What the company had to do, His Lordehip ssid, wasa to place itsolf to workingmen 1n the same position 26 the largo browor stood to thio public-bousc-keapor,— lend them monoy to utart theso housea and then loave the menagement to thom, morely stipulat- iug that they should be conducted on strictly temperance priuciples. With this object ia viow, i o committeo, including the Earl of Shaftosbury, Cnuou Ellison, and two workingmen represen at, ©es, way appointed to take tho protiminary stops townrds lonniug the company. Thatsome- thing of the kind would bo very offective hero there is no doubt. Thesuccess of the numerous cafesstarted in thiscity sinco tho fire, in which no liquor is sold at all, is sufticlent evidence of it. Their business is immense ns compored with that of restaurauts whero liquor is sold. —_—— The Hon, B. O. Stanard, of St. Louis, has bean making a specch in Congress on the Na- tional Railroad bill. Ho ineists that the true moasure of yelief ia mot by railroads, but by the Mississippi River, and that the proper voca- tion of roilroads is to haul produco to the river- landings, then to Lo sont by water to Now Or- leans, and round by tho ocoan to the Enstern States. He thus explained the purposes of Crontion: r, Spenlter, tho Great Croator, who dug out the ocoun aud pilod the mountains high in air, has spread out tho most beautiful und_exteneivo valioy througl tho centro of our country that there fs on tae faco of thecarth, . . . And thy sums beueficout Provi- dence had provided this valloy with more than 12,000 inilea of navigablo xivers, to Loas froo to the poopla na tho oir they broatho, aud as univeraal in blesslnge o tho sunlight, Ho explained that in this river thero woro a number of shallow places which had been over- lookod at tho time of tho Croation, and suggest- ed that Congress, by the liboval oxponditure of money, should remedy these dofocts in the original exccution of the plan of Piovidence. Mr. S:anord pointed out tho soveral places whero the band of mun, aftor visiting the Treas- ury, cau reviso tho imperfeot work of the Graat Crentor. — e Tho famino in Bengal presents & grave problom for the English Government to deel with, In one district sloue, which ombraces ounly one- third of the faming-stricken province, 1,170,000 were reportod to bo starving on tho 1st of. March, Tosave these people would require 180,000 tons of rlce, costing £1,250,000, The Speclator estimates that food for the whole province would cost £5,000,000, and the extra publio works £5,000,000 more, or £50,000,000, ‘e large towus of England refuse to do any- thing, upon the ground that it s tho duty of the Goverament to provido rolief. The Govern- ment, therofore, finds itsolf ina dilomma. It cannot laave the poor wretches to starve, ae that would be inbuman; it it sponds this lavge amount of money, it must incroase taxation and Lo aceused of extravaganco. This is notan ouviable position for a new Government, Aoau- whilo, botween the question of humanity on tho one hand and expenso on the othor, the people of Bongal are starving by thonsanda, il fhysioiy Tho Jacksonville Sentinel hog somo vory wild writing on the subjoct of pork-packing in Chica- go, urging the farmers not to send thelr hogs to this market to be turned into sour meat. Ono would supposo that sour meat wasia the intorest of the farmer, as having a tendenoy to raise the price of hogs nat yet spolled. It is true, wo be- liove, thnt the bad moat sent out from Chicago Lias beon confined mainly to shoulders, though ‘it would scom fromn o pending suit in thb Cireyjt Court that there hevo beon somo taiuted hams wont o Bult Lake Clty. But, Lo tho quantity moro or loss, the farmor fs 1ho last man to com- plain of any operalion which tonds to render the oxiuting etook of moats unmerchantable. To him it makes no difference whethor shouldors ara apofled in the ouring, orsunk in Lake Miohigan. Elther process tends to ralse tho price of hogs. Neither process, however, is to bo commended. ——— MASONIC, Inpravarouss, Maroh 23,—There will be a yand oonvucation hiere to-morrow of the highor mgteun of masoury. This meoting will last threo daye. Members avo expectod from all parts of the Biate, The fifteentt to the thisty-third dogroes will be repressntads LAST NIGHT'S LECTURES. Mr, Franklin McVeagh on American Politics, His Idea of the Tendencies of Qur Govornment, Degradation of the Word Politics.” “Eli Perkins” at Kingsbury Hall, AMERICAN POLITIOS. Lecture by Franklin McVengh Before the Cluirlstinn Unlou, Yostorday evening Mr, Fiauklin MoVeagh lec- tured at No, 114 Enst Madison streot, in tho Chrigtian Union coutse, on ** Amorican Politics.” ‘The attondanco wna very good. A full abstract of his romarks is givon. Ho began by saying that tho majority of Amerleans belleved thoy could undorstand poli- tioh quite woll without study—by a sort of in- stinot paculiar to tha American ; but ko had loat faith in this politicsl sccond-sight, snd found that what ono gained by so-called self-govorn- mont wag not an mtuition, but s responsibility ; onodld not become chlefly more yifted, but chiofly moro boundon to study the politics of tho uation. 3 roLITICS. The word *politics” had two meanings—ono ofthom wow and dogonerate. Politics, 1n its original, pure sonse, roforred to the gonuine selonco and art of government. In Amories, iu its usunl nccoptance, it suggostod no solonce nt all, but the art only of getting into offica and keoping in. Tho sdjective * political” was so tainted that it noeded the rospectable company of an unsuspoctod noun boforo it could belifted luto its formor purity, Wo might still say polit- ieal phllounrh or political aconomy, and oxpress a respectablo [des ; but, if wo snid political man- ager or politial cumuaigo, tho ilioritod respect- ability of thoso words was lost in tho mire of their associntions, "Tho wordu * polltics,” *political,” and **poli- ticlan,” in America, npart feom thelr raro uso, wero, ot thoir best, assocluted with the fdoa of moro partisanship; at their worat, thoy wero re~ lated to & low-tonod, demoralized, and demoral- yizing purauit of oficoand its wratchod spoils, "Uuis chango of meaning was important, s o word did not teke on a new mennlng by caprics or chanco, Its progressiic meanings lay in strats, and theso scents told a story of human naturs, s tho strata of euth told a story of physleal natwe. TIE FINST OF TWO FACTS - snggested by the titlo of tho lecturo was that Fufi!lcn in our day, in Americn, bad fallen from t high ostato; in morals it was dogenerato, in method unsclontifio, in tone_uncultivated. ' No peoplo conld long bo superior in culturo or moraly to their public life, Thoy must otther ?!evato o low-toned public life or sink gradually owor, TIE SECOND FACT suggested by tho title was next dwelt upon. The condition of our public lifa was not hnportant wimply becauso il tended to drag privato life to its own lovel, for our Repubiican institutions and the grand futerests of the nation were in tho Ieoplug of this public lifo, We wero governad, thorefore, through {nstiumontalities ill-bofitting tho high ux%um- and delicato interests of gov~ ernment, No apprehension wua folt on this ac- count. We gave ourselves uo concern about the consequoiices of the presont condition of our public hfo. Thoro was & provalent sontiment, amonnting a8 nenarly to belief as a sqntiment conld, that ths Amorican Repubvhe was sui generis,—an oxception among States ; not merely that it Was o now varioty of govermmeut, Lut that it was now and oxcoptional in a senso thot exompted it from the oporations of tho laws of Listorical politics. Wo bolieved that, in our Republio, wo had found a pavacea for po- litieal illi—that it was solf-protecting. Tuis alone could oxplain the apathy of the American poople to tho present stute of aftaive. UNLIKE 2R NEIGUDOIS. ‘The locturer noxt spoio of tho sontiment that we.were not like our neiglibors. ‘Lhis seutimont inctuded two conceptivns: 1, That onr political ingtitutions wera unlile thoso of other natious, boing now aad original. 2. That thoy wero une like, being stablo aud floal. What \as now 1o them was 80 overbalanced by what was old and familiar, that we cou'd not call thom now or origimal’ withont very grent misconcep- tion; and it was unwmraotable to bulld uoon their assumed movelty a confl- donce in their exomption from ordinary political dangor. Nothing could be moroe salu- tary tor the wholo Amarican pcoplo than the tharough and earncst kuowledgo that our politi- cal Bystom was but one moro added to the many variations of & fow simplo poliical 1deas 8o much oider than our Repubitc that thoy were ju Bome 1nutauces older Lthan written istory itself, TR STATE embodied all our fustitutions; it was the basis of politics. The radical ides rogardivg it, al- ways the samo, was a distinet, wholly indepon- dont, and_strictly unitied political orraulsm. America tried to Rubstituto for it tho idea of & confederntion ; but that exporiement was not new. It bad been tried and failed before. To- Gay, o Amorican Ropubbe was really o State for the firat time, huundroid yenrs of devolopment, climaxed with wlal war, bad puc America_back into barmony with the great Aryan idea. Ho did not eny the idea of a umficd, iadopendent, contralized State was an ultimato Jdos, but it wia the best hnman- ity bad yot reached. : OLD, NOT NEW. TRopublican government wus not new, nor was froe goverumont. An Athenian would soouor havo aied thau suffer tho political slavery of Amoricon eitizonsbip. In the fundamontal fon- tares of our political syatem wo were not mainly original, but mainty liko the otharnations of our fomiily ;' and wo wora ropeating bistory with the variatious common to all natious. . Honce, when we saw other Governmenta changiog beforo our (eyes, and rocallod the many splendid States that had passed away, was it wiso for America to ba either boastful or ignorant ? NECESSAKILY UNSTASLE. Our institutions wighs be stablo and not final, But thoy bud not boen, wero uot, aud coitd not, in their naturo, bo stable; They' woro organio, and it wns tho nature of an organtem to dovelop. ‘Tho lecturor then gave Boveral instances of the Instability of our ivstitutions. At he beginning we woro & looso_confoderation ; now we woro Stato, with 8 marked tendenov toward atill groator contralization, It was the original theory of the Govornment to divide power among the Exocu- tive, Judicinl, and Logislativo brauches. History £ind provad that thore could bo bat ono Suproms power in the Btato, and America was proving it for lherdelt, Ouo of tho three co-ordinate powors had already been put out of the way, and tho contost was practically loft to the othor two, Tho tondouclos of the ago wore patlia- moutary, snd Congress might bocomein Americs what Parliament was in England. Tho political power of the Bupreme Court was gouo; it could no moro hald Congrass or tho Prosideut to the lottor of the Conatitution, than it could hold the wind by o legal process. The Exccutive and Legslative liad on oceasion samped out, without apology, fts indepondent Jmnuu.l power. Waen ita_doclsjons. disploasad thom, thoy ovairan it with uow members who wora known to have desired opiuions. So imperious wore tho President aud tho Congroes in their troatment of thix co-ordiunte, ogual, and indopondont power, tlst they actually com- polled it to cut its own worlds, and publicl sonudalously, directly, aud witliout disguigo, ri vorse its own doclsion. Was not this the deat| knell of the indepondent political power of the Court? The nation weekly sccoptod it, the larger part opplaudiug. ‘Yhe nation did not takio the paius to observe that nn importany theory of its boasted atable Constitution had probably then and there sunk out of sight. EXEQUTIVE AND LEGIBLATIVE, The contest betwoon tho Executivoand the oristative still wout on, During the War the Exdoutive gnined a cloar advantago, making rupid strides in power. No ling nor Emperor in Europo bad oquel powers with our Ropublican Presidont, Congress was ulmost distauced, but siuce 1805, Lad grined upon the adversary. buce the Exoccutive was brought so low awto be s orimnal betore its bur, "Ho was not convicted, but Congress ostablished such canous, such rulos for judgment, amid tho wild np?luuuu of tho peoply, thut tio conviotionof a President Liad been made easy, "gho practico laid down tho theory that an impeachntent trial was a political and not & judicial procadure, thus openiug wide the door for Congresslonal supremaoy, In view of such facts ua these, could thers be any protenso that our institulions were stable 7 Tholr seeming stabilily was but a triok of the imagination, wade possible by the waut of good politioal books and cultured statesmanship, Biavery was auothor chauge, audif they gone -Huued where might they nos nul‘ it ungulded § and how should thoy be guided except by oul- tured statcsmanship, iy pLby FINALITY OF OUR IXSTITUTIONS. Tho lecturer then asked if our juntitntlons woro final, aud procecdod to answer the uos- tion. ‘Tho’ pohtical 1dona upon which out 1~ public was based bound us logleshy to slt that bad gone bheforo in tho history of the Aryan race, and mado that splondid history our own, ~ The finalit of political devolopment was a porfeotly wise government, in whicli tuo sonso of duty should tako the piace of intcroat, au the controlling motlyo of publio lifo, This hind beon tho political dream of the world—tlio ideal; and nothing short of it could bo flual, It was not slmply & funoy, this drosm of a Goy- ernment 0f tho bost—tiia pute arislouracy, Though the porfootion of tha ides counld nevar :)lsrcnchud‘ tho world was moving in its divec- on. politics now ; but alde by sido with nterast, duty was an actual motive. Duty was the leading po- litical motive” when tho War came, An emor~ gonoy was nooded to_ give it control, but it was extant nll the while, Thie, the sood of tho ulti- mato matlve of political conduct, was plainly in tho beart of wman to-day. Chango would como, ‘I'he world might go back o while, a8 the wavo driven up_ by the advancing tide; but the noxt wave would como with an {ucreased impotus, aud evon carry it & littlo further than it foil away, A NEW CHAPTER. Ho thought our political system waa nlmply ono moro chaptor in the Aryan history., ‘Lho changea of political systom that had veourred to others woro possiblo” with ne., He trusted the Amorican Ropublic would continuo to Lo the most ominent and oxcollont prodiuct of Aryan political thought, The prime need of thie nation was cultured tatesmanship, To provo thistbe lecs turorcitodsevoralof the presoutproblomuof Amor- ican politics. e showad how esuntini & rospect for the courts of tho nation was for tha nution'a prospority. Ho ssw in the growing lack of ro- #peot for the courts of Now York City a sonrce of dangor to ihe Ropublic. He asked : How shall tho public and private moralities of thopeo- plo be promotad with tho gains and distinctions of oflico, fow and. bigh, Civil-Service and ail, ojeu 10 every voter, while meny of tho bost men were too eagor in tho pursuit of woelth to attend to practical politics, Ho thought ODI PUBLIO LIFE was itsolf & acandal, and wanted to knosw how tho puolic mon could help it. Ho asked how, iu thoso days, when the individual hiad become im- portant again, und was becoming more and more important as a factor fa pohtical probloms, - should the provinco of 'tho iudividual and tho provinco of tho masa bo bost divided, the provinea of the unit from tho proviuce of the political aggregate. For instance, shall the ovornment meddlo with the manufacturor through tho tariff or with tho monov maritet through the curroncy, or let the individunl pur- sne his business-lifo’ without eithor fonring or hoping tho interferenco of Government? 'I'he province of thio individual and of the mass wau o tangled skein which nothing but pationt and cul- tured statosmanship could bring out of disorder. GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL, Tho quostion of whether tho Governmont should ronteol railronds was singularly profound, bocauso it involved tho problen of the sesimuas - vion with tho presout political, commercial, and socinl Bystom of n now fact in modora life, to- wit: Combination. Tho sgitation by the farmer barl only bronglit to the front - none too soon & qlxlmmlnn most sndly ncoding attention, in which the farmer would sk out of sight, and the wholo nntion cowe in view. Tho moderu idoa COMIINATION . waa the synthetlo result of that analytic modorn iden Division of Labor. Ho thouglit 1t wus un- accountablo that the American people should bo #o recliless of their statcsmanship, Every po- htical philosophor or plilosophical statcsman horo or in Burupe know that thio question of co= operation, othorwise called corporation or com- bination, was the veriest problom over Kmm“d to statesmanship, and overy child new that tho statesmon confronted by tho problem were, for 0 most ~ part, destitute of the culture that would incline thom to study it, ‘Tho sublimo and tho ridicalous wera mot faro to faco. Thore were at least THREE TOSSIDLE 18SUES 10 tho question in_the Land of a compotent statesmauship, bosides those issucs that would sigoify the fuluro of the Republic, Ouo wio the limitation of the suflrago; another, the sulliciont universal oducatioa of tho peoplo ; tho third?the weakeniug of the powor of tho vota to an extont that would transfer power to tho fow, Passing by the first two, the lecturer roferred to tho third issue, at the same timo stnting that he did not pretend to havo o solu- tion of tho problom, There was, of course, no tondeney to & limitation of the suilrage, 'Lho orucating of the voters, compatently, could only come round in the distant future, as loug s the sultrago was oxtending As to the weakening of the individual voto, ke thought thero wera at present indications that the powoer of suifrage was woskening. What waa true of any ono vater was trao of any part of the wholo body of voters. W could couceive tha diligent, iudo- poudet votora in o hopuloss minority, ths rest cing ofthor disused to votiug, or voting under tho fixed influonce of cortain lgading mon. Any ono whohad studied political economy knew that whon a tondency set at work 1 politics it would probably work itsolf out to its logieal issue, Ho ssked, Was thore & tendency in American politics toward the weakenivg of tho iudividual vote? Ho thought that it was quite withintherangeof posaibility thut thophenomena observable all aoout us should erow into such & tondency. Again, bo would state that au impor- ative nced of the Republic was a CULTURED BTATESMANSHIP. 1t it was not requisite to Lo a gontlemon in order to be a ruler of froe men, then it conid not be of much uso to'bs & gentloman at uil. Tho culture needed in statesmanship was very wide. What proper limtt was thera to the appropriate culture of tho gm(esmon of atatesmauslip? 1o thought the culture of a statosman should in- clude & thorough rcqaintauce with history sud its chironology, & latge conception of what his- tory moant, and whore hus own nation 6tood in tho common ficld of listory; o knowledzo of political philosophy. and of " political economs, of layw, municiva! and international, Tuestatoss man should aino huve a_kuowloage of political aifairs boforo ho was called, 8t any rato, to tho highiost oxccutive positions' in goveroment. A mao without this kaowlodge of aifuirs might, in rare instances, succaed as Prosident or Cubines momber, but as a 1ule he would prove n failure, At the same time it must bo remembered thut the oulture would not nocossarily mako u statos man, a8 politics wag not an exact scionce, liko mathematics, or an oxuct art, like brick-maging. With rara excogtions Amorica bad no_statesmon ntoll _Calling our public men politicians was an anomaly, It was noc ft that & low-toued, uncul- tured hife shoald surround a permanent rapublic, ‘The Republio was ungnostiutably . DRIFTING, DRIFTING, DRIFTING, A ropubliv, no more than a khip, could drift al- wnve withont compass or ruddor. lu fius wouther dnfting wae very well, but in rough wenthoy tho ship would Do ‘lost, Tho question was, Must the Republic contione to diifc, or shall iz bo steoreds The lecturer houglt the world Was gettng roady for a distinctive political ape, An aiga was drawing noar favorablo, dovoted to po- litical dovolopment. War was losing its iron grip, Individualism was gotting its foothold docure, Phymcal snd theologleal seisnca would have had thoir distiuctive day. Thon polities and tho seience of socioty wonld wvmfiy tho fleld of an rge. When that timo came, the Auworican Ropubiic, which was to-day tho' bost product of Aryan polities, might still” bo in its cimo, and b then, s it \ad now, the political oader of tho world. ——— ‘*BLI PERKINS.” Lecture at Kingsbury Music Hall by M. D, Landon. Ar. B} Porking—a buworist from Now York— was introduced to & fair Chicago audienoce at Kingsbury Hall last evening, by Gen. Caetlain, Tho Hon. Thomas Hoyne nlso garnishod the stage with his {mposing prosence, Gen Chet- lnin’s speech was long and eulogistie. Mr, Porking camo forward, from betwesn au array of cartoons represonting his limited fainily cirelo, blushing. Hels & young mauof light ‘proportions, with o moustacho, some hair in the right place on lus head, and a claw-hammer cout. Aiso, he wore a white-choker, and lig slurt-front lovked liko themdesof & well-np- poluted polar bear. Mr, Porkiue would have boon very homely, only that Naturo gifted him with good” featuren, and lus family rolations would have been cxe tremoly bappy had his kindred all inherited his Bweotness of “disposition. To sttogpt a ropors of Mr. Parkins' lootura would be tb placo that goutleman aud the ige g:nnnr at o disadvantugo, nsp«uluky tha repartor, 'ur oloquence bie deponded on oddity, and thera wasevery littlo of boih, Mr. Pergins—to an nu. prejudiced observer—bolonga to the brokeus winded stylo of oratora; he - accomplisher more an affectod _hesitstlon - thag he ever could by dircot nssortion In listening to him, the suditor faols in the position of o petsou who #eos & huntor aiming at a doer, whilo tho guu hangs fite, Whaen thy fire-arm tiually conseuta to dischnrge ltsolt, the threatoned animal hay Eat boyoud "danger, ' Mr, Torians waits tuo loug bofore Lio firos his shof sud, when he dces, the auditors too ofren fla out that he operatos with blank cartridgo, Alsg ¢hat ho does Lot oruply, on vecasions, to use old material a5d seud oubuew jokes wrapped u la Bolf-interout was tho leading motive in - .