Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, APRIL 30 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, IETNG OF SUNAORIPTION (PAYADLR 1N ADYANOE). Rallg by ... 812,001 Runday,. 1 Wookiyeisirs 0,00 | Wookly's * Partsol a yonrnt tho same rato, To provont dolay and miatakos, ba sure and gtve Post O conddress n full, inoludiug Stato and Counts Remlttances mny bo mado olther by dratt, oxprot ©Office ardor, or tn roglatorod lotlors, at our risk. TERMS TO UITY KUNSCIIENS, Daily, delivorad, Bundny’ oxeopton, 2 conte por wasks Deily, deliverod, Bundny includod, 80 conta por wiosk. Address TIY TRIBUNE OOMPANY, Coruor Madison aud Dancborn ihloago, Tit AY'S AMUSEMENTS. GURG Fraupo, ++onorlore o Draban som JIOOLTY'S THEATRE-Randoloh siraet, botwoon Olark and LaSallo, **Tho Btraots of Now York. 510 alstod atraoh hotwoon Mad- AR Rokaos e Oreirbt ot Fvank Cbaatrau, Kt or tio Arkansss Vrat ) OPRRA-HOUSE-Monroo Dot hng Niate: Ablmgton Catton: I'“JA 'Pllg;!n ani 0! 0's HTitroe. . Minstroisy ‘and oomlcalition. ©+AI's Well that Knds Woll."” ADELPHI THTATRE—Comer of Wabish avanis troot, Variety sntortaloment. —Alex: Bt 18Tl Sithor Conviantino, sto: ; M'CORMIOK HALT, stor Gruad Daion e t cornor Kin« oo Jubtion.” ™ WAUBANSIA LODAR, NO. lm.‘l‘wil. fl]xlnl Thure- r day) ovenlng ut 736 o'clook, in Orlental Il 1Sallo- \, . Visiting Brothren cordially fnvited, By :'rda'r“h“a'fl':"w. K. 178 BrotGop SOTOHE, Boorotirys e BUSINESS NOTICES. ,r8, ERUPTIONS, ROUGH BICIN, Th!vfllarnyinln jut_under tho influsnco ef Dr. ‘Picree's tolden Modical Discovory far 8 fow weoks, the Bkin booontes smooth, clear, soft, and valvaty, and, baing {laminated with tho kloy o vorleot honiti ! l;{-flnwnmn. tands foeth in & lory. o ublicasa Imlullll!r ||7 thi fl h satisfactinn for this purpote affacts of all modicinos witioh, preaontod (0 2 thls Dix: ato upon Sovory, por throuah the modium of th blood ate nocosisrs o AR frood tho remedy amplor- ad. Whilo ovo to throe bottles cl uption ollow spots, comedonos, or *“grubs, S R R M §ore tno syitem s Tolion wiih “scrofulous or viraleat ‘bloo isons, The curoofall those disonss owovor, from ho cominon DINIDIO to thio worat sorofula. 14, With {0 uso of this most potont agant, only o mattar of timo. Hold by all druggists, COVERED WITH ERUPTIONS, OURED. OrAvERAGR, Columbla Oo., N, Y. - Dr. 1. V. Prenoe, Builalo, N, Y. ¢ Jicar Str: Lam 60 yours of ago, and hava boon aflioted with 8alt Rlionm In tho worst form for a_great man gears, untl), accidontly, I saw one of your buoks, whici dorerlbod iy anso oxacily, Thougt Your Goldoxt ol eal Discovory and. ‘took two bottios and a haif, and was entiroly onrod, ¥rom myshouldors fo my bnds 1 entirely coversd with eruptions, alsoon faso and. budy: § s 1fkowisn aitlotod with Rhcumatiy it grostdioultyy and thnti'ouifraly Suced.” May od pmxo sou 1 long 1113 to romain o o B SVt intold ratitude, " Sins. A¢ - WILLTABH. The Chicays Tribue, * Thursdey Morning, April 80, 1874. ar thio skin of pimblcs, Tood, a nogro mur dorer, was hanged in Clove- 1and yostorday, o onticed his stopson, o boy of 13 years, away from home, mndo him drunk with whisky, killed him with a board; and buried him under s pile of rotting wood. Bove and the sontimontalints will doubtless plant forgot- me-nofs on hia gravb. f A m——————— At tho rhquunfi of tho city suthorities of Dos- ton, Carl Sohurz delivered o eulogy on the lato. Benntor Sumner in that city yesterdsy, in tho presonco of an immenss audienco. Tho oration wns propared with great care, as was befitting a production that is destinod to bo bistorleal, It will meot tho expectations of Mr, Bchurz's ad- mirers. ————— Cumulativo ovidencoof tho reckloss hasto in which tho officers and orow of the L'Ameriquo saved thoir precious ivos at the oxponso of tho property confided to them is furnished by tho recovary at son of the vossel's mails, which woro found driftinginanopon bont. Tho L'Amerique Aannts tho faithloss Frouchmon as the albatross did tho Anciont Mariner, Consnmors of Atool ara asking a reduction of tho duty on that articlo, through a Commities of - Blanufacturers now in Washington. Tho Presi- | dent of Lho Iron and Stoel Associntion is slso in ‘Washington on an exactly contrary mission. Ho wishos to socuro & repoal’ of tho 10 per cont e~ duction clauso, adopted by tho Iast Congress. Does Protection protect? If. protection docs: protect, whom doos-it protoct?- Not tho manu-_ facturera who uso steal. P —— In anticipation of the opening of the Straitsof. Mackinae, a largo flect’ of vesgols hns boon in that neighborhood for mome timo. _The mild weather of the prst wintor soemed to favor.an enrly oponing of navigation, but the Straits aro etill blocked. Reports wora rocoived yostorday to tho effoct that eailors on somo of ‘tho vossels aro suffering for want of food. The word ! famino,” which tho dispatoh ‘employs, s alto- gothor too portontous for tho occasion. If tho sallors aro hungry, thoy have only to turn about to rench o harbor, or they. moy securo suppliea from some of their moro provident noighbora, Roformed Episcopalisns bo rojoiced to hear that tho Rev. Mr, Sabino, who rocently ro- signed tho pastorato of the Ohurch of tho Atono- nient In Now York City, hus given an unqdalificd ndhesion {o -the Reform movement, Ho witl become pastor of the First Reformed Obureh, which was organized several woeks ago by Bishop Cummins. Theconveraion of Mr, Sabino 15 of importance to the now Church, sincs it ro- leves tho Bishop from pastoral servico, and gives to the oxintonco of thio Tirat Church & roal pros- euca whioh it Las up to this time been withont, e ———— "Baxter and Brooks hnve mado statemonts to tho peoplo through a New York paper. Baxtor will abide by the decision of tho Logislaturo ; Brooks will not recognize n Loglslature sum- monod by Baxtor, On tho other band, Brooks will oboy tho Courta ; Daxtor maintaina that tho Courts havo alrendy doclared tho contest to bo without thelr jurisdiotion. -The Prosidont, it is eaid, will support the ' Goverer who carrios tho Legislaturo, Altogeiber, it .18 a vory protty quarrel, and one in which tho equities aro so ovenly balanced that nofthor side recoives muoh sympathy, Civil-Sorvico Roform s bocoming a ridioulous, torm for an arrangoment by which the Proui. dont and hoads of Dopartments are saved from annoyance in the making of minor appointe monts, and allowed freo roin when nominations oro to bo mado to the Benato, A bill introduced yostordsy provides that the sham roform shall b docontly put to doath, In its place a system pF appointing from tho Congrosslonal dlstriots will bo adopted, the *spoils boing apportioned much more oxactly among the Oongrossmen than has ovor boforo beon tho cao. * Tho roao- ton from the Roform promises to oarry thoparty to tho adoption of praotices much moro objeo- tlonable thau thoso which wore. #o. lustily con- #omnod in tho Hopub}ion Convontion st Phila- delphia, e L. 5 ¥ The Ohieago produce markets woro gonorally plrou ger yostordsy, under a botter deraand, Mosa pork was active; ‘and 16@200" per Lrl biglier, olosing nt §10.25@10.27}¢ “onsh, and $10.60@16.66 soller Juno, Lard was notive, and 6o por 100 Ibs highor, olosing at $0,80 cash, pud OV7IE@10.00 sollor June, Moats wore in ot, batweon imees Opora~ miso that L waiked | good domand and steady, nt 83go for houlders, 8o for sliort 11bs, 3@ for short cloar, and 10@110 for nweot-plokled bams. Lako Trolghts woro qulot and woalk, at 40 tor corn to Duftalo, Highivines woro quiot and unchinngod, at e por gallon. Flour was in moderato domand ot formor pilcos, Whoat was moro nelive, and H@Xo highor, cloalng at §1.9540 cash, and 8LIA7)4@1.275¢ eollor Juno. Corn wne slrong at nearly tho Bamo ravgo as on Tuosdny, olosing 0t 6450 onaly, and 060 soller Juno. Onts* word quiot aud 3¢@3¢o highor, closing at 46)¢o casl; and 43340 sollor Juno. Ryo waas qulot sud.n shado firmer, ot D134@020, Barloy waa in- activo and nominal, at $1.82@1.85 for. No, 8. Hogn woro'active and firmor, with the bulk of #nlos at §5.20@5.60. COattlo wora falrly notive sud firm. Bhisop Aoarcs and kighior. —e Emilo Cook, n dologate to the Evangolical Allianco whioh motfn Now Yorl last Octobor, took m roturn passago to Tranco in tho {ll-fated Villo du Havro, and was drowned. A subsorip- tlonin bolialf of his family was started, and now the Committes having chnrgo of tho mattor roport thnk moroe than 87,000 has beon recoived for this fand, Thoro is in such an ot moro satis- factory evidondo of o spirit of truo Ohristisr followship than was dovelopod by anyof tho hundred brotherly-lovo speeches to which the moeling of tho Alliance gavo oconslon. ———— It is now uncortain when Mr. Boutwell will bo ablo to appenr I.w!or_g tho Ways and Moans Com- mitteo and oxplain his. connection with the Sanborn caso. Thore is no doubt that the ex- Soorotary Is sufforing from an aggravated form of & vory painful malady. His recovery isim- pogsiblo, and his roturn to active politieal lifo is rogorded a8 oxtromely doubiful, Delay in ate tonding to the Sanborn case, Lowaver, is a lux- ury that o cannot afford. He was ablo to ap- poar in tho ‘Senate Ohambor Tuoaday ; ho cor- tainly must havo bodlly vigor suficiont to toll what he knowa of the Banborn contract. -His oxplanation will bo raceivod as final, 80 fax ps ho + 18 porsonally concorned. ——— A docision of some intorest to tho tumbonnao ;poople in Iudiana hos boon rondered by tho iBupremo Court of that Stato, Itia. that a por- | son golling liquor to ono whom ho knows to bo. ‘an habitun] drunkard is liablo to' punishment' undor tho Baxter law. In the partioular oase -|-passod upon, the liquor-dealor was sequitted, tho progecution having nogleoted to provoe his acquaintance with tho habite of the drunkard ‘whoso rolations brought snit. Dut tho prinel- Plofs catablishod ; and in future it will bo an ‘onsy mattor to convict galoon-keapors who make aliving out of drunkards' families. Unhappily .the law s impotent to_provent ‘the making of .drunkards, or to fix tho oxact point at which iroputable inebriety hocomes disrepuinblo, — Rotrenchmont is o vory wholosome ory to met up'ns long as the National Wrensury 1 not botter filled than at prosont; but it is Lecoming ovi- ‘dont that in many cnses protended cconomy” {8 | made to cover a multitude of small jobs, Hero, ‘for instance, aro some itoms from the Rivor and Harbor Appropriation bill, which s profaced. by tho statemont that ** Owlng to the financial con- dition of tho Government, the Committeo havo concluded not to roport in favor of new works": Horbor of Refugo, Chicag: $76,000 Harbor of Refugo, Calumot, 25,000 arbor of Refuge, Michigan Cf 50,000 Hazbor.of Refuge, Graud Haven, 50,000 Kirtland, tho lobbylst, sold the notes which ho roceivod from Ohittoudon for £22,000 in csh aud o fow square milesof lond nt Calumot. Tho ’Iom at Calumet aro more nogotisblo at Washing- Jfon than at home, . Fernando Wood recontly mtroduced & resolu- tion in tho Mouid of Revrorontativos dirocting inquiry'by tho Ways and Moenns Committeo ns to- ¢ho action of United States officials in attemp! ing to influenco logislation at Albany. 2.The ' du-| tios of tho gentlemen roforred to. ought to Leop them in New York Olty. Thoy aro Distriot-At- tornoy Bliss, Collector Arthur, Burvoyor Laflm, ‘snd Commissionor Davenport, This, of courso, is‘the Ropubliéin ‘syndicate of the Now York Custom-House ; and tho influence complained of in exactly that which bas disrupted tho Republi- can party in the Stato, and which Is now exerted’ to destroy thoe remnants of tho Fontonito: {action; .1t s unfortunnio that o measuro l;éssassing 0 ‘much merit ag the resolution dirceting inquiry into tho political maneuvering of this Ring does | Dot como boforo the countryundor & bottor pro-- toctorate than that of Mr. Wood. ey At a moeting of farmera recently hold at Now- market, England, to coneider what nction s oxpodient in view of the striko of agricultural laboroers, o romarkable address was mado by Mr. Wood, a gontleman ropresenting himaolt as liy- ing in Ohio. Ho snid that any number of labor- erscould bo brought over to England from that State on n contract fo roceive 14 shillings por woel. Mr. Wood is welcomo 1o’ mako the irial. It ig surprising that 110 hias not alrondy proved the triath of his stato- mént by taking ovor the seas a ship-load of Ohio, farm-laborers. Thero s vlouty of money in' such a speculation, one way or tho othor. I, Wood will not mislead the thinking pooplo of England by his uncorroborated assortion, - The Speclator, and ‘othor journala in a position to know the truth, bavo alrerdy warned tho English laborors that acoounts of the surplusago of lnbor in'tho United States aro manufacturod sololy to dlacourago cmigration to thig country. e * Mra. Nouoy Clow has boon four times triod for murder and twico convioted. Blho was granted a ffth trial, but this time no propara~ tions wore mado to carry out tho ordors of the Court, Tho exponse of the Pprosecution had ba- como 8o burdensomo that moithor county nor Btata would edusont to carry tho matter fur- ther, aud so M‘rs. Olom has boen discharged. Blhoor woarinoss and diegust at tho monstrous malndministration of justics in the caso doubt. loss had ns much to do. with tho rosult a8 tho difficully of procuring tho nocessary monoy.,. There is vory little doubt fn the minds of won-lnrurmn!l peisons as to tho guilt or {nnoconco of Mra. Olem. ~Blo was onco granted & mow trinl on «the ground that tho mrdor of two porsons at ono timo and place fa a ginglo offonao, and not- liablo to n doublo indict- mont ; auothor trial was obtained through somo oqually trivial technicality, tho jury twico dis- sgroed, and now the woman i freo. A anddor burlesque unon the vaunted right of trial by Jury haa not ocourzed in this eoetion of the country slnco it cowld lay olalm to & placo within the bounds of clvilization, T A paragraph 18 traveling tho rounds of onr . oxohiangas which glves thp following popular” oxplanation of the way in which the forthcoming Translt of Venus will bo used to dotormine the distance of tho Earth from tho Sun: “Tho problem is slmply the familiar goometrical pro- 0088 0f construching two eldes of a trlanglo in | ordor to find tho third,” Thatis Iucld euough; but unfortunatoly it {s not truo, Practioally wo only know the longth of one side, whiol fa drawn bolwoon twvo polnts of obsorvation ou the enrth's surfaco; and wo are not too sure about tho oxaot value of that quantity., Tho transit will enablo us to' ind tho maguitudo of tho anglo oppoalto to that sido, and the other quantities in tho triangle may bo found by an oxtonslon of tib thoorem that tho sidos are proportional to tho slnos of thoir opposlte angles; THE SPRING BUSINESS IN ORICAGO. Tho backwardaoss of the donson and tho une usually unploasant wonther has intorfercd with and dolnyed, to Bamo extont, the rosumption of apring bueinosy ; and thoro are thoso who, not informod of tho aotunl facts, nesume and ory out that the gonoral trado of tho clty was never eodoll. This {s not the case.' That thoro in not so much building in progress at this timo as thero was in 1872 and in 1873 {a a natural result of the oxtraordinary anfount of work dono in thogo yonrs, It ia not likely that the amount of buildlag on privato account in &ny one yéar will over oqual that which was done in this clty ia thoso two sensons following tho fire. Novortho- loss, if wo Lad no knowledge of thoso two yoars' building, the smount now in progross and undor contrack wyould soem large, The old oustom of the grain trade of Chioago wag, that as aoon as navigation closed, tho grain’ trado was practicnlly susponded. The rocolpta by rail daring tho wintor wont into warchouso, snd romained thoro until spring. In tho first fow wools of gpring, thero was a domand for Yoasols, froights wora liberal, and foota of vas- sols took tholr departuro. The railrosds londing to Ohicago resumed thoir business, and began hauling grain to tho city, and this was kopt up stondily “until vavigation olosed. But four or fivo years ago thio grain businoss oxporlenced n elight modifieation. The firat acnson thore woro 8 fow and occasional shipmonts during tho wintor by rail; the noxt, scason tho prao- tico wae inoressed, inoluding flour and ments ; and so until tho Inst winter, whon tho shtpmont of Western products waa continnoue, Tho ox- tont of - this businoss is easlly shown. Durlng tho yoar ending Aug. 1, 1873, thoro was recolved in Chicago 17,628,685 bushols of. wheat; sinco then, and up to this timo, wo havo recelvod 20,465,869 busliols, From Aug. 1 to Doo. 1, 1878; wo recoivod 18,028,412 bushels, or 1,500,000 bushels moro than in -the precoding * twolve months, - Notwithatanding those oxtraordlnary racoipts, thero ia now but little more whoat in’ warchouso in this oity than thoro was a yoar 8go. This showa that all tho railronds londing, to Chicago have boon Lauling whont in immeneo quantitios during the ontire ‘wintor, and that during that samo poriod wo have boen sbipping it.to tho Enat by the same menns of_transporta- “tion. Instend of tho “soason of shipmont be- ginning with tho oponing of navigation, it has’ ‘not beon enspendod nt all, but has continued ‘uninterruptod. In sddition to this, the ehip- imonts of whoat from poluts west of Ghicago, by ithrough linos and” not passing through atoro in {this city, lava boon also unusually largo, Tho .trado in pork, lard, and moats has: boon fully up with that of last yoar,—tho sale of out-moats ag- grogating g0 far in this wook about 2,250,000 ipounds, T From this single item it will bo soon that thera :has beon o contivuons trade golng on durlug the ‘ontiro wintor; that tho orops have been kept moving, and that more money has passed into tho hands of the country producers than ovor did beforo in tho same months, The farmors Lave not only shipped more grain-and stock, but have roceived much largor pricas, thinn tho aver- 0 of aovoral procading yonrs,” Tho result i that thoro is moro money in ‘tho intorior,at this timo’ for crops sold daring the wintor than was ovor ‘boforo known In the history of the- grain trado, “All this businoss, covering many millions of dollars, has boon done without any spoclal noise ‘or bustlo, but s & mattor of courso. “Thero have boon large suins of .money from oll parts of tho “West horo in Chicago for, invostmont; thé aggregnto nmount fas:boon: ‘largor than in any precoeding yesr.. .Tho own- ersof this monoy bave carefully avoided all epaculative investments, and tho class of seouri- tios thoy have domanded has boon tho vory bost. ‘Thoro has-beon no lack of money Lere sooking investmonts' of a substantial character; any 'person with first-class soouritics has beon ablo ‘o get ail tho nccommodation noeded ; nor has thero boon any diffienlty in' gotting loans on im- proved ronl ostato woll located. Tho' faok io that the howling- for more monoey, ond ihe outery against tho sovorlty of the markot, have beon confined exclusively to thoso entangléd in tho wide-sproad speoulation, snd to thosa whose orodlt has boon oxponded to "the uttermost tonsion, and who havo not an ad- ditional rag of ccurity to offer.. As.wo have 'snid, in some branches of tho rotail trado tho prolosiged cold wenthor has made somo diffor- | onco, but othor branches havo enjoyed a dorro- ‘sponding bonofit. Thie immonsoahlpmentsbysall during the winter havo diminishod the demand for lako frelghts. The winter sulos of our whole- salo oatablishmonts havo not in the least dimine ished, tho sales showing an incroased .amount of goods gold. Tho interior having more money then usual at this soason, tho gonoral ‘trade hos been aidod by this olroumatanco, The only striks ing diifcrence ia tho trado is that tho gonoral re- celpts and shipmonts of whoat, which hithorto hava_boon moro or less crowded into the carly woolts of spring, havo'beon snticipated by tho continuous recolpts and shipmonts by rail dur- ‘WISCONBIN RAILROADS. ‘Wo print this morning a lettor of Albert Keop, Prosidont of tho Chicago & Northwostora Ttuil- way Oompany, and & full abatract of o lotter from Aloxandor Mitcholl, Prosidont of tho Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Railroad, to His Excotlonoy William R+ Taylor, Goveruor of tho Btato of Wisconsin, got- - tiog forth tho ronsous why tho-Dircotors of those Oompanios have como to tho conclusion that they ‘cannot operato tho roads' undor the schedulo named in two nota of tho Wisconsin Loglslaturo rolating to railways, approvod on tho 11th and 12th of Maroh last, and which wont into offact day lmnm_s yostorday. Tho ot approved on the 11th s tho one to which moat objeation ia found. It is ontitlod an ot rolating to railronds,oxpross and tolograph oompanios in the State of Wia- consin,” and "divides all the railronds in that 8tato {nto threo olagies, to be known rospoct. ivoly a8 Olasa A, Class B, aud Olass Q,' Tha Ohioago & Northweatorn Rallroad, of which Afé, Koop is Prosidont, bolongs to Olass A, Thia; olagg is lited to n componsation of 8 conta por mllo for tho tranepottation of any porson, with ordinary baggago not oxocoding 100 pounds in woight §* ohargo for childron under 13 to bo only ‘ono-hialt, of the . chargo for adults, , Tt fs. Dro-, hibitod to chargo for carrylug grain moro than ¢ cents por 100 pounds for tho first 26 miles, or moro than 4 gents far the gecqnd 24 miles, oy moro than 2 conts por 100 pounds for each nd- dition 35 milen, Top oorrying a barrol of flour, whon tho flour 1a sbippod in lots of 50 bacrols, it may chargo 13 oonts por barrel for tho first 25 ‘milos, but wot “moro thnn 8 conls por barrol for tho mooond 25 mallen, or moro than 4 conty por barrel for each additlonal 25 imllos, ote, 'Tho maximum rate for othor articlen of morchandise,—coment, wator- limo, ntucco, luibor, shinglos, five atdok, agri- cultufal {mplomonts, furnituro, ofc., oto.,—is also prosoribod. Tho ponnlties for racelving Rreator componsation for enrrying frolght or pag- Hongars ara forfeituro of all right to recolvo any oomponaation whatevor for the aorvico randored. Itis d_oolm'od to bo a misdomesnor for any agont of ‘any railway or otlior corporation mentionod in the act to rofuso to racolvo- for transporta- tion ovor tho ratlroad for which o s ngent any artiolo at tho rato proseribod by tho act; and every agont so rofusing to accopt froight at thore ratos, or who violates or ottompts to violate or evade tho provisions of tho aot, aubjects himself to pay & fino not oxcooding $200 for each offouse, Bosidon all of this, tho injured party hins a right of sotion agaivst tho raflway company or ite agont, Tho Diractors of ¢the Obicago & Northwostorn doolaro that, if this law ia Lo bo enforced, thoy cannot continuo to operato tho road. The lottor of Mr. Koop, which wo publieh, is a dignitled, tomporato, businoss-like dooument. It cannot bo doubted that rallway companios Lavo, in cor- tain parts of the country, boon guilty of oxtor- tion, and that whon thoro is no compotition bo- twoen tiom—and thoro raroly fs—they neod close watohing, Butthon whateveris dono in this direotion must bo. done ‘wisely. In Wisconsin tho Btato haa resorvod to iteolf tho right at any timo to annul or modify the franchises of corpo- rations, Tho act abovo reforred tois, thoroforo, no violation of the Constitution of Wisconsin, unless {¢ can bo shown that it is virtually an act to conflacato tho property of tho railway com- panies, or to doprivo citizons of thelr Iawful pos- session without componsation, and without **duc process of law."” The compantes olaim that to op- orato tho ronds under tho schodulo named in tho aota would subjeul thom to hoavy losses, and, rather than undorgo theso, thoy propose to stop doing business. They lave, as wo bave alrondy informed the publio, consultod some of the boat logal talont in" the country, and aro now oting undor the advice of such mon ss Judgo Curtis, William M. Evarts, and G. F. Hoar. ‘ /11: tho Ohicago & Northwestern Company can ghow, 28 Mr. XKoop is coufident thoy can, that tho ratos fixed by the Inw arg 80 por cent less than thoso made now by the Company; that : it takos 70 por cont of their gross “oarninga to | operato~the ronds; that to reduco the ratos ' clinrged by thom hithorto would bo to leavo the interest on their bonded debt unprovided for, to . 8ay notling of a surplus for dividends ; that the not i3 covert confiacation and cortain ruin to them, it will bo imposuible to hold thoe not con- stitutional or just. Beforo ratos can bo pros seribed for o railrond, investigation must bo made into tho cost of operating tho rond and into tho oxtent of its liabilitios, It is not rensonnbvle to suppose that figuros “taken at hap-hazard by mon not acquainted with the cost of running o railway can comstitute a fair freight tariff. It is nsserlod that the Wisconsin logislators nover roquested the railway managors to accord thom sny information relating to tho oporation of the ronds, and that, therofore, tho ratos adopted by them are entirely arbitrary., Such proceduro was certainly noithor statosmanlilio nor businesslike, sinco, as Mr. Koop says, *with- ‘out such koowledge it is impossiblo to fix ;an oaunitablo tarift.” M. Mitcholl's argumont is ‘to thio offeot thiat tho Milwaules & 8t Poul Rail- ‘road was construotod as choaply. as possiblo, has boon ‘aconomically mavaged, and has iolded, including stock dividonds, not moro than 6 por cont por annum £ o stockholdora. Ho olaima "that tho prosent tarift would reduco the rocoipts bolow the oporating - oxponsos, and that it is, therofore, an invasion of rights gnarantaed by tho Constitution, and confirmed by decialons of tho ‘Wisconsin Supremo Court. Itmaybothat theratos charged on Wisconsin railronds moy be ont down, ond ought to bo out down as they have boon. But it should have been done only after care had boon takon, flrst to ascorfain whother or not thoy could bo diminished without intorforing with - tho oporations of tho ronds, or to fix. thewm. at suoh figures a8 mnob ;to violats or intorfore with the proporty: ghta:of the stockholders, If tho Wisconsin ‘Logislature” falled to' do this, 08 tho rnilroads claim, it may bo nocessary to rovise tho tariff in the intorosts of justico, But thoro will enter into tho invostigntion tho question whothar tho railroads are not now paying intorest and divi- |- donds on watored stocl and indobtodnees. All ‘that can be oxpeoted from tho peoplola that thoy shall yaya fair profit on motual invest- [i i mentsand cconomical managemont. If tho now Wisoonsin tarift fails to provide for this, tho :allronds can unquestionably forco a rovislon, But 1t is not probable that they can over again ¢ domand prices that will yiold dividends on wa~ tored stook. “All this is to Lo tosted in the Wis- |. congin oontest, which may now bo said to bo fairly inaugurated. .Though the railionds aroin |. tho attitudo of resiatanco to tho law, this wae thoir only moans of testing the validity of the ‘racont sots, and it is to bo hopoed that both tho railroad managors and tho people of Wisconsin will regnz'd tho coutost calmly as o morns for tho logal settlomont of their diforoncos, : — THE 5WING TRIAYL, ‘Tho roport which bas boen printed in o sonsa- tional morniug puper, that Prof. Bwing, after mature deliboration, has decided to withdraw ‘from tho Presbyterian donomination, and that Lo will print a lottor to that offeot within a few doys, is-incorrect and unsuthoritative. In a recont couversation with a friond, Prof. Bwing admitted that ho bad canvassod the possibility of such a stop, but, upon subsoquent rollec- tlon, as wo are authorized to stato, ho Dos Qocided to stand Lis tris), and will thud find oub, whethor his DIrobytorlanism is up to Prof. Patton's standard or not. The announcemeut of this purpeso will be recolved with satisfaction, not only by Prof. Bwing's por- sonal frionds, but by tho Prosbytorlan donomie uation throughout tho country aud by tho com- munity in. gonoral, It Prof. Swing had glvon "up tho contest without striking a blow, it would have boon regarded cither as an not of moral cowaxdice, or a taclt nckuowlodgment that Prof. Patton's long list of chargos and spocifications 'waa true aud unanaworablo, The 'rosult would havo boen that Prof. Patton would have plumed bimsolf npon bis esey victory, and would have flourished is whip of bigotry ovor the heads of Prosbytoriana in & manner which' would have |boén sk ouco dofiant nud oxaspurating, Now \tho 'burden of proof vesta upon Prof. Patton, Prof, Bwing ia not obliged to show that hois a Presbytorian, but Prof. Patton 18 obliged to #hlow that Prot, Bwing Is not a Proabytorian, and that ho fs presching hotoradox dootrinos from hla pulplt and in kls writings. To the Presby- torlan denomination this point {a all-important, and now Is tho timo to sotilo it. Thora hes not Loen an opportunily for a long time to dotor- mino what constitutes horesy from the Prosby- torlan Alandpoint, and, now that tho op- vortunlty hmg como, horesy should be dofined olearly nnd unmisiakably, In ordor that thla mny bo done, Prof, Bwlug should make his defonss eharp and thorough, and compol Prof, Patton to oxhnuot the resourcos of bia inquieition, 1t s & duty which ho owes not ouly to himsolf but to thoe wholo Prosby- terian donomiuation thathe should compel Prof. Tatton to define horesy 80 that there oan be no mistaking It horeaftor. Prof. Swing.ls not the only ono on trial. Ho ropresonts a largo con- stituoncy, nnd that constituenoy io eagor to know what constitutos Lorosy. The Fourth Presbytorinn Churoh, numeroms membors of othor Preabytorian olurchos, and sovoral olorgy- men, aro suxious to know if Prof. Bwingis a herotlo, It ho s, and his oonneotion with the = donomination in thoraby sov- ored, then thoy nro . horotica also and must witbdraw., A gront priciple is at stako in this contest. Itina atruggle botwoon Uongervatiem and Liberalism ; botwoon {mmo- Lilily aud progrees ; botweon tho fixed dogmas of croed and the 1mpulses of tho Intollact and honrt towards progress. In this otragglo tho Prosbytorian Church ia divided, Tho crood oan- not streteh. Undor itsiron tonets, Oalsin burnod Borvolus, and, it Prof. Swing fa a horetic, under its tonats ho must withdraw, as burning of horo- ties is ont of fashion, Ho cannot stand up in bis pulpit like Mr, Doochér and eay: T shall pronch liboral idons,” Mo must gv, sud wil him must go .all thoso .in' tho . denomina~ tion who aro sceking to got to Hoaven by any other routo than that which -starts from Dort. For theso ronsons, it Is important that it should bo now deciduq whothor Prof. Swing ian horetic, not only for his own eako, but also for tho snko of numerous othors who are herotics it Lo is, sudmust go it ho goes. Whilo he may have lont an oar to tho advice of some of his porsonal frionds that ho should wathdrew from the Ohurch, it is not probablo that ho has soriously contom- plated It at any timo. In fadt thoro is no othor foundation for tho report than tho atatoment of sn impotent nowspaper which has froquently enough domonstrated that it is not entitled to orodenco, HOW FIGURES OAN LIE, An inflation organ in this city prints, from day to day, long lists of papors opposed to inflation (“oxpansion™ is ita namo for the prooessof swolling tho bubblo to tho bursting-paint) and in favor of it. It hedges at the beginning of its column by saying that the list is not complote, and it then procoeds to ipflate its inflation row of names with tho titles 'of & great number of country papers, no issues of which, dated since the voto, had ronched Chieago when tho list was mado up. Until they do reach horo, it ia impos- siblo to sny what tholr sontimonts may be.. That veto wos a: mighty porsusder of' Ropublican opinlon, capecially of tho opinion expressed by the rural press. Having played this fraud on ono sido of his statistics, the list-maker takes vains toverify his declaration thet his work is incomploto by omitting, among othors, the fol- lowing papors: - eI Chicago Staats-Zeltung, Jackeonville Journul, Rockfurd Reglater, Alton Telegraph, TRosavillo Obsarvor, Bloornlm‘lon Lantagraph, Gnllmhurg Republic, ora, Slerling Garotte, Pralrio Clty Horald, Wilmington Advocate, Cairo Bun, igin Advocate, - IV XDIANAL Fort Wayno Gszolte, Tioskport Domacrat, Indianapolin Nowe, Now Albauy Ledger, Tho Indisnapolis Sentinel, {8 put in favor of infla’s tlon, It really opposca it, . - : IN aiontaiw; Tansing Journal; * ‘- Port Huron Timen, Ty Olty Chronicle, + Aun Arbor Gourler, ‘Adrinn Yross, , ‘Ant Arbor Arqus, . Ypsilanii Cominerclal, . Grand Rapids Evon'g Poat, s IN 10WWA, Des Molnes Journal, Glinton Ago, Burlington Gazotte, ¢, Pleasont Froo Frozs, Nashun Post, Keokuk Gato-Oity, Keoleuk Gonstitutlon, Dubuque Horald, Olierokee Times, & Washington Garette, Waterloo Courier, “* Gedar Rapids Ropublican, Tho Chariton Leader 18 miarepresonted, Lko tho Tn. atanapolia Sentiitel, : Tho list grown o0 long. ' Hora .aro thirty-slx papers, gome of thom very influential, which the organ hins omitted in four Btatoa alono, It has ruisplaced ot losst two others, “He' might add sowmo sevonty-five other journals from tho West and South which do not figure on this cariously- concoctod list. Among thom are the St. Louis Republican, Globe, Times, and Westliche Post, , four-fifthe of tho Now Orlonus pross, tho Donver News, Tribuno, and Times, and about tho wholo Ban Francisco pross, Our roadors can judgo for themselves of the trath of o list which is guilty of guch omissions, Qur Western exchanges to dnto malo the followlng record on tho veto: Sustain, Oppose, On the 5 B Ja:llu_., Titinots.,... .m n ! Indnna, 10 1 Michigan. ...\ m F] | Wisconal 1 - 4 Minnosot 5 1 oW, . 17 9 Kansas, 1. 8 Nobraska. ] 51 Mtswouri. 3 8 ) Toreltoriad. 3 % o . o7 [z 1 —— ‘WILL QOUNT FO0SC0 LEAR?' y The toils aro gathering about’ the mystorions RKirtland, to whom Count Forco gave 874,000 fu notes, after ho Lind casunlly mot him at Willara's aud found that lo ““Lid, influghes.” . Count Foaco and Lis honckman, Storrs, Lavo romained in Washington & day or two toolong. Like silly moths fluttoring about a candlo, thoy have von-’ tured too ndar tho firo and soorchod thémsolvon: Dazod with tho fascinatios of tho Capital, sclous tha tho oyos of tho Magoulo Fratornity and tho yholo Epiucopal Chureh wera fixed upon them, thoso two hiorpes of tho Distriot investign- tion' must noeds loitor in"Washington to bask in tho sunsbine of their nchlovoment audfeed upon’ that dangerous lotos—tho admiration of tho publie, And now tho enemy hias got-its’ selno around tho big fish Kirtland, and is slowly Araws ing him into slhore, -and Conut Fogeo and Storra aro also floundoring about in tho moshos, vainly wishing they woro back in Chieago. Now it must bo fiavelopad- what was dono yith-that §72,000, Now tho Utilo mystory must bo solvod, upow which the Count would whed no light, Afier bolng cooperod by Btorrs, : the ‘Count was g0 confidont of -his own ‘strength that Lo publioly announcod, bofore ho wont to Washe ington, “ Chittondon won't loak,” and Chitten- den didn't onk ; but now the pressure is'so groat thnt the hoad must como out orsome of tho staves givo way, and Storra with all hta'skill wil not bo ablo tostop the lealk, Bo long as Kirtland was an abatract idos, & myth, s wan of Btraw, thoro was no danger that the Count would epring 8 loak 3 but Kirtland now beging to apponr as an appalling roality,~a flosk and blood eusonoo,~ an entity which can bo renchoed by . law, grasped by tho polico and mado to *tally—n"living fuck which gives :dinnora and , has trunks et hotols. Madamo Rumor, with her hundrod tonguos, was not long in eproading the fact that thia ronlity waa in Wasbington, Instead ot coming homo, na they should havo done, Count Fogoo and Btorrs must noods moot Kirtland, and Kirtland out of shior gratitudo must nooda givo Count Fosco and Blorrs a littlo dinnor, and who kuowa what confldoncos Kirtland mny revesl in ordor toredesm hin trunk from tho pawn of tho polico? Who knows what impolitio utterancon may have loaked from tho Count and Btorrs, over Kirtland's Roedoror, which Kirtland muy 800 fit to ropont whon tho tine comos ? - Tho most oruol part of this nffalr {s not tho detontlon of Iirtland's trunk ng o balt to ontch him with, but thoe arrost of Count Fonco and Btorrs as hostages for Lin appearanco. It s painful to contemplate tho ploture of tho gallant Count and tho oracular Btorrs pacing tholr sovon- by-nino apartment, with so little room for Storrs. Obosity nnd cadavoronsness have rarely boforo beon linkod togothor by so fast a tio. Tho roo- ords of Incarceration prosont no ‘sadder pleo- turo than {heso tablosux of ftho. little moment of triumph, the fostive banquot, and tho oruel stross of duranco, Count Fosco In a “dond lothargy,”" cursing tho fatal moment whon Lo wont to that auppor! Storrs, rabsnck- ing bis momory ‘for procedents nnd rulings which may apply to thelr oase, unlock tho pris- on-doors, and lot the captlvos freo | To como to suoh uso'es this, aftor being the model witness, aftor ghowing * the world and posterity that Chittondon don't loak™; aftor onjoying horo- worship. and Non“worship; aftor having tho oyos of tho Magonic Fraternity and tho Episcopal Chureh fixed- admirlngly upon thom; shows o ormelty in tho opora- tons of fato, compared with which the sufforiags of the Jamontod Eoolos, yhon ho ex- olaimod, in the angulsh of his soul, *Thin cod 'ard” warn as nought' Andeamads ohainad tn tho rook, Osoaola in his ongo, Richard the Lions Heartod in his dungeon, Napoloon at 8¢, Holens, and Count Fosco restrained of his liborty! Thus the world Towards its horoos, Thero Is only ono rofloction which tempers our sympathy aud bolps to roconcile us to tho situstion. Count Tosco and Blorrs would not hnvo beon in duranco bad thoy remiombored that * otornal watchful- nos is tho prico of & paving contract.” : Tho situation may bo thus summed up: Kirt- 1and must come or Count Fosco must stay, ‘It Kirtland comos, will Kirtland leak ? * It ‘Kirtland don't lonk, will Count Fosco lonk? -Bomehody has got toloak. Our advice to the Count 18 to sond Storrs home, tako out tho bung and loak, for, if it {s mede to tho intorest of Kirtland to leals, ho is ono of that clnsa who will run a stream Which may wosk Count Fosco and Storrs away and involve thom in mutual disaster. % ——— POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE VETO. Tho country haa already sven gomo of the of- foota of tho Presidont’s vato of tho bill for tho inflation of tho currency. Thoro are other offects suro to follow, but it will take some littlo time to devolop thom. On tho busindss of tho country this settloment of the curromoy question, for thio prosont at all evonts, caunot but have o good influenco, , Businoss men, baukers, bor- rowors ‘and lenders of monay, now feel cortain that tho ourrency will not be incressed in yal- wmo, and; thoroforo, thoir oporations will nat, thoy know, bo carried on entiroly in tho datk. Hence, aotion will tako the place of. insction in business. On tho orodit of tho country the Prosidont’s acting has beon bonefloial, It Liae shown that the poople of tho United Statos do not intond ‘opouly or covertly to repudiate thoir debt. _ ‘Tho most palpablo effact, however, of tha veto will bascen in its influenco ontho political partios of tho country. President Grant’s Inst mossago was the death-warrant not only to. the Senate bill ; it was, in all probability, the fl«agh-‘gurmnl of oxiating political partios. It thieatons mnob only tho: ‘unity-of the Ropublican party, but of ‘tho ' Domooratly, for moither Domocrats . nor Ropublicana: are sgrood among thomsolves on tha curroncy quod- tion. Gon. Grant, o Republican Prosident, is alrendy nt loggerheads with a powerfal fao- tion of tho Ropublican party, and tho party is divided. There aro inflationist Ropublioans and auti-Inflationigt Republioans, and, unless s compromiso can bo effocted batweon them, tho patty is_hopolossly ruined. Ropublican loaders 800 this, aud henco the efforts making to offect o compromiso on tho'quostion of the currenoy. It1s vory donbtful, howevor, whethor any mons- ure can bo dovised which will satisty both infla- tlomsta'nnd auti-inflationists, | What tho infla: tioniats desiro is moro greonbncks immodistely, Any bill looking in that dircotion, however, Gou, Grant fs, by Lis voto, commitiod 'to disapprovo, Froo” banking would bardly moot tho domauds of thoso gontlomon, for’ bnks might not be opened, and the National Bank nolos might not ‘be issuad; in all probability would not bo issued for the prosont, since it would not pny to issuo thom, As Mr. Buel do- monatrated in bis: statoment to tho Committos on Banking and Currency, on Fob.'9 last, tho stooklioldors of & National Bank, undorn froo baiking not, Would' not bavo * enough of total tiot profits loft to pay 6 por cont on thelr onpltal, nod without any allowauco in tho estimate for Dbad dobte.” “Freo benking, with - or withont redemption, mosning only ‘tho cwwenoy in fta, presont cone : dition, - cannot bo accopted by Logan & Co. a8 & compromise, and we' boliove. that at-presont thisis tho.only compromise thought of. The prospect ig, therefore, that in tho Republican . axmy wo ahall see two rival camps, Tho inflationiats. aro . vory auxious to impress tho Imiimlr'y with thio fact that thoy Liave n ma- jority In tho Sonth, and that thist majority doos uot agroe with tho Presidont. To command the rospook which 1t .18 supposed numbors’ alivays command {n politics, and not beosuse they hiad any hopo to pass. thelr. favorito bill over tho Prosidont’s voto, did thoy bring it \l]}_ugnln in tho Bonate day boforo yestorday. Thoy failed, of coursd,'to carry it, and thon thoy mado (su oxhibition of thoix strongth, aud that is all thoy doslred, . . ) Wore thoro'among tho advoontes of a furthor omission of gruoubacks & natural born leader,, ‘wo shiould . find’ bim already at ‘tho head of o party. Logau, it i gonorally nupposnd,-_luoks tho buckbono nocessary to goneralship, ‘Whothor Morton will load the Ropublioan foraos, aa ho Lins boon inyited to by cortain friends of his,, the future will toll, o ’ Tho offoot of tho Voo on {ho Domdoratls’ party will bo much tho same as on the Republi« can. Of our Domooratlo exclinngos in Tllinois, Indians, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesots, Iows, Kousas, Nebrasks, and Missouri, fourteon opposo the Prosidont's veto, while twenty- ono sustain’ it, showing that, if tho our renny bo made’ a quostion, it will' mot be & squabllo - botween Ropublioans ang Domoorits, but botwoon Inflationiute, and Antie Intlationlats, rowruited from tha ranke of poth thaold partios. A porusal of the comments ot our Wostern oxohangos, Ttopublican, Indopend- snt, and Domocratio. confirms wa L thoao yiows, Tho veto i altacked by somo of a1l pattios and approved by gomo of all. Thoro aro thoss of all partios who argue from tho Prosident's Into mos« sago that ho' i only n tool of the Wall stroot baukors, aud thoso of all partics who considor his last sorvion to tho country his grontoat, Unloss, thorofors, » compromiso oan bo mnde botwoon the partics to the ourrenoy controveray in Congross,~and thoro 8 now little hopo that thoro will bo,~it {8 proballo that old party linos, alrendy vory indistinet, will soon Lo obllorated entirely. At the fall oleotions 1t will probably bo mado an isauo ; but whother it shall ho the quostion on which foture parties shall bo reorganizod, it fa yot too’ early to prodict. . All that can bo cone fidontly assortod at prosent {8 that tho voto hea thrown anothor bolt fnto politics, and hos stirred up anow the prooesn of disintegration which hing boen going on In tho old partios for tho last thiroe yoars,' THE ENT OF SUMKNER, Tho Benato on Tuesday, whilo tho vato: wag * under disoussion, debated for ono hour tho quose tion why Mr. Sumner wag dopoaed from the Obalrmanship of the Committoa on Foreign Ra« lations. M. Thurman, of Obio, suggosted that boliad boen doposed bocause ho had differod fromtho Prosidonton the San Domiugo quos- ton. Mr. Bdmunds, of Vormont, doolared $hat thero waa no authority for saying that Mr. Sum. nor was pursuod by the Adminiatration, Mr. Howo, of Wisconsln, sald that the samo caucus which had romoved Mr. Sumnor from the Coms mittoo on Foroign Rolations hnad tendered him o placo at tho hond of the Committes on Elace tions, Old Bimon Cameron followed, protoating that ho had not robbed Mr. Sumner: of tho places that ko Intondod to rofuso it; but, hoaring somo othor Sonator epenk’ of him in un. complimontary. torms, he had detormined to rotaln it, 3r. Hamlin, of Mzino, finally Ppluckod up courage to give a ronaon why tho Re- publican cauous had thrust Mr. Bumaoor off the Committeo, and it waa that Mr. Sumner was not on speaking torms with the Prosidont or Socra- § tary of Btato. Mr. Howo again roturned to the mattor, - confirming the statemont of Mr. Ham- lin, and declaring that tho San Domlngo matter Liad no eonnection with tho romoval. ' Fortunately wo have Mr. Bumnor's own vore olonof tho wholo. affalr. During tho War, Mr. Sumner renderod invaluable sorvicos to the Gov- ornmont as ite adviser in all that portained to forelgn affaira, The tostimony of ox-Secrotary ‘Wellos ia conclusive on this point. Whon Mr. Fish booamoe Becretary of Btato, in 1869, ho was wholly inoxperienced, and found in Mr. Bumnor o warm porgonal and oMeial friond, ‘This friond- ship,.porsonal and official;- continued until By, Bumuer, by his oarneat opposition, Lilled the San Domingo treaty. That trouty, though its fato was soaled, was not formally rojooted for a long timo nftormards. It becomes important, thero- foro, to” kuow whon and why Mr. Bumnor wis not on spesking terms ‘with the Prosidont or Becrotary of Stato. ‘Mr. Sumner tells the story in his supprossod spooch, which hss rocently been published. It apposrs that when ho op- posed tho tronty, he made an elaborato reporé and spoooh against tho whole sohemo, and critle ciged tho manner in which the tronty had been Degotiated. Tho Presldont was vory indlgnant, and declarod that, wore.ho not Prosident, ha would hold tho Sonator poraonally responsible. Gon, Baboock, the Prosidont'a: 'Beorotary, and the specinl onvoy to Ban Domingo’ wha nogotinted tho trenty, deolared that, if ho were not an offiocr of the army, ho would horsewhip Mr: Bumnorfor hisspeach, These goutle admonitions inducod DMr. Bumner to drop -thio: White House from his list of visiting places, and ho was nover again invited thore. His porsonal and oflloinl rolations with Mr. Fish contlnued, howover, Tho two visitod porgonally, and had froquont official congultations. This was during tho poriod whenr tho 8an Domingo troaty laid on the Sonate tablo.. Onthoova of tho flual vote on that troaty Mr: Fish visitod him at his houso, and, during o dis- oussion prolonged until after midnight, sought- to'chnngo his views upon tho - {roaty, and then; all olse fuiliug, offorod to bribe Lim to abandon his placo in tho Sonate by proposing to maka him Minister to England, “*Mr. Bunner rojooted tho bribo. Mr. Motlay, his friend, was romoved from London bocausn ko was ‘Simner's friond, aud, theronfior, the Socrotary of. State and tho man who had rojoctod his Lribo woro ot on speaking torms, . ‘Thon tho Becrotary of Btate informed the Bon- atocauous that tho Prosident, and the Prosident's Privato Sacrotary, and Mr. Fish' woro not on 8pasliug terme with tho Senator, and tho duti-, ful and obediont cancus, woll kuowing that the elloged excuso was the result of tho Senator's opposition to Ban Domingo, dismissod Mr, Sum- nor from tho lioad of tho Committas, and ap- vointed Mr. Comeron in his place.” Now, " witl thoso facts made publio, Mr. Hamlin' and Mr, Horvo declare howas not degraded -because of his opposition to the 8an Domingo measure, but for tho renson that tho Prosident and Bocrotary of Btato were not on speaking terms with lum, It is fortunate that Mr. Sumuor loft bebind him an explanation why he was not on sponking torms with Mosars. Grant, Babeoclr, and Fish, it Rl R Smmmm—————em—— A Miimosotn philogopher, Frans Hornan Wid- strand, o Bwodish .gentleman who wasat one timo » Government clork -and dovised a uniquo Oommunistio systom kunown as Tarism, s peti- tionod Congresa through Senator Ramsoy ta abolish the Englivh languago, avd, &8 another of the ovila growing out.of tho Dhiladolphin Cen- tonuial, "ho -proposes to have - it dono ‘on the Tourth of July, 1876, that day of oll others when the Engliah lunguago i in such copiéus domand for paurlotic puiposos ‘a3 to causo “'alarming drains upon its resourcos, This ls au ago of progress and :iconoclasm, but the proposi- tion of the Bwedish philosophor {s° go Bweap- ing ‘that. it “takes awny ono's broath to think “of- it. ‘There nro doubtloss foaturga in tho English languago. which aro ex nuperating. ‘Thore aro-tho words ending in *tough,” like “slough,” * through, "+ enough," “ dough," * cough," which ure suleiont to dis~ locate Bwodieh jaws. Thoro aro barbarons din= | leats in. Marblobead, Boston, New York; Oalray, | Mobilo, and Tallahassco, which aro worso thrn Hottontot patois, The abolition of tho langhaga would also sporo uy many dull sermons and tes dious- speechbs, many poor - pooms and long< winded newspnpor communicatiuy, and would prave n pooticol retribution on tonguey poople. But tho worst of 1t ia thet our philosopher does not suggost. anything in placo of it ‘Ho eays oll' the modorn languagos aro objeotionablo; ‘and hence: it will not bo worth whilo to substitute any of thom! Either this philosophor has tho flondish, dosign of suddonly siloncing everybody in tha United States two yoars from now, or olse ha intonds at that timo to ronew tho Jargon of Babel by compelling overy one to commonco; talking Banserlt or Ltin, Eithor of thoso con-* tingenclos {8 s0 appalling (Lnt we trust tho Come mitteo on Bducation ‘will promplly roport ade versoly, . If they do no,wo hopo the Prosident wilt have courage enough-to veto the bitl,-tather’ than Incur the respousibility of belng obliged to sond futuro mosssges to Oongrosa fn Bauworit or koo his mouth shut, ‘