Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 4, 1874, Page 4

ATLR I ADYANOR), 2.00| Hunday,, 2,5 il S50 ey 200 Parla tho same rato, ‘Top nd mistakes, bo surs and give Post " Of. ca address in full, including Stata and County. Jemittances may bo mado oittior by dratt, axpross, Post ©fiico order, or in reglatorad lotters, At aurr TERMS T0 CITY AUDSORINKRS, Taily, deliverod, Bunday mxcoptan, ‘25 cente por weok.: Dail; red, bunday Includad, 80 couts por wooke Adaross THE TRIBUNK COMPANY, Corner Madieon and Dearborn.ats., Ubloago, Il * ——— TO-DAY'S AMULEMENTS. FOOLRY'S THRATRE_Raudololi trest, hatwesn ‘ WV Biafedatl,. **Atnor; S L LS, e e atadvan **Robort Hmia ACADIMY OF MUSIO~Halx daon and onroe, Kugageniont, **Kit, or thu Arkansas I'ravelor. M'VIORKR'S THEATRE-Madlson o DoAioc an Beaver” Hogegoment of M “*Jano Lyro. , batwosn Mad- oL ink Obantras. hot: s Mene 70, w betwoon MRS, OTERAJIONSE, Moy v, Jetvese ole." r_of Wabash ayonuo oty pottoniomase. “Leota tomtmo of tho * o0 Dwarls," BUS"{IESS NOTICES. LIVER IS EAS] |¢‘.§-Tgfilruirvhmom diat t to provail durfox tho apring, Dr. Jayne's Bana is aro of sonsonalo - Dacy, da thoy r thia livor to hoalthy activn an wovs all billousnars The Chidans Teibune, Mondey Morning, Moy 4, 1874. DISORD! RRED{ AND Col. “*Bob” Ingorsoll told a eloct audicnco last night what ho thought of several distinguished divines in Ohioago, and their systoms of bollof. Fortunately for him, their, systoms are of such w nature as to dobar thom from informing the publie what thoy think of Col. * Bob " Ingersoll and his lesturo. The resignation of Comptroller Hayes has been offered to Mayor Colvin and accepted by him. It is not easy to say what is the political significance of Mr. Hayos' rotiroment, it it has any. Homay have discovered that thore was little honor, 28 he all along knew thero was no emolumont, in holding a Cabinot position under Mr, Colvin, J The Emperor of Russia, the Grand Duke Aloxis, and the Grand Duke Constantine have reachied Berlin on their way to England. Possi- bly their visit may rosultin restoring harmony to the houschold of silly little Marie, at least for a timo, There is now a rare opportunity for frosh diatribe sgainst mothers-in-law ; for ovon the amiable Viotorls has failed ut last to sustaln without roproach that trying relationship, — A rosolution wil be offered in Congress fixing the 15th of Juno as the day of adjournment. Thereis reason to boliove that evon this date will uot be agreed to, & majority being of the opinion Yhat July 1 is tho earlicst timo at which Congrass can leave Washinglon without impenling the safoty of tho Government, Wo should be plessed to have somo intelligont person inform the country what was scoomplishod by this Congress in the way of useful legielation prior to the passage of tho Exocoutive, Legisla- .tive, and Judicial Appropriation bill which the Houso sent to tho Senate Inst woek. There was oo much of dawdling and porfunctory sposch- making during tho winte Dispatches by ocean tolegraph—to adopt the latest affoctation of the purists—are liberally paid for by tho prass, The money allowed for the purpose ought to seciro a summary of the important events occurring in Turope; butitis & notorions fact that such & summary has never been supplied. English news of comparative un- importance ia sent, while vory important procood- ings on the Continent are neglocted. This morn- ing, for instance, we have the announcement that thoLiberal * whip " has resigned on account of ill-honlth, Thisis thought worthy of men- tion, while we are loft in blackest ignoranco of the ciroumstances sttending tho rosignation of Barloy was dull and nominal at $1.53@1.56 for Ni Togs wero aotivo and stronger, wit! at 24.60@0.10 for poor tobost, Cattlo woro ac- tivo and firm. Bhoop scarce and nominal, e —— Total dopravity haa not for many years boen oxhibited in groater porfection than by the mur- dorer of tho Hamnott fomily, nosr Plitsburgh, This oreature s namod Ernst Mintzing, In many respoots ho s the compoor of Zlegenmoyor, tho nseassin who {a now sorving a lito-sontonce in the Illinols Penitontiary. Doth murderors killed for money ; both wera of Gorman origin 3 and bolh wore alittlo loss thanmen, Tt almost seoms a8 if tho bonstly Instinots of thelr romoto ancostors, aftor boing roprossod for conturies, havo come to the surface in tho porsons of. thoso two mon. Mint- zing's erimois ono of the most horriblo on rocord, Ho was impelled to kill, and ho simply surron-~ dored himsolf to tho impulse, Taking an ax in his hand, o ascoudod to the nloeping apart- ments of the family, and, with ns little romorsa a8 ho would have killed s bullock, knooked tho thros children on the Lond. Tho paronts woro dispatchod in the same mannor on returning Lomo late at night, and tho houso was sot on firo over tho flve bodies, Mintzing got about §16 for his troublo, It will bo a source of rogrot lo right-fooliug pooplo that this man cannot bo moro than onco hanged, Prof, Bwing proached a sermon yoatorday that is romnrkable as furnishing ammucition for tho Pprosocutora in the trial which bogins beforo the Prosbytery of Chicago to-day, Mo rojooted tho bluo-blazes theology which Is espoused by his oppononts In tho Ohurch as unoquivooully a8 he could, and advancod the coun- tor-thoory which Milton hss so powerfully oxprossed in a singlo sontonce: “Tho mind is its own place, and in itsolf can make a holl of heaven or heaven of hell.” Robert Collyor's sormon was about horesy. Hia line of thougnt will be found very suggostive and onterlalning, oapeclally in ita boarings upon the Bwing trial. M. Collyor's frionds will bo pleasod to notico that ho has had thograco to make respectful reforonce to Calvinism, andto abandon insome morsure the unteneble position which ho assumod in the lot- ter to tho Chicago Prosbytery recontly printed in these columns. Other sormona published this morning aro: **Ronson and Religion,” by tho Rev, Dr. Thomas—the horesy-huntors in the Mothodiat Church may doem it worthy of atten- tion; “Theology and the Bridowell,"” by the Rev. Dr. Ryder; and s sormon by the Rev. F. M, Ellia, the now paator of the Michigan Avonile Baptist Church, ——, OF THE WEST, The champions of inflation have not dared to make a fight against the President’s voto. Aftor boasting that thoy represented the will of the Deople, aftor all thoir angry throate that * tho West " would * veto the Prosident,” they havo 1ot dared to roply to his message. Even Logan, by some myaterious power, has been kopt silent, As the inflationists did not dare to disouss tho bill when it was pending, and to all the argu- monts of its oppononts answered only with such stolid and unrensoning votes as a gang of negro fleld-hands might kave cast, 80 they dared not disouss the voto nor reply to its sbarp and storn rebuke, It may be doubted whether & majority of Senators of tho United States has evor be- fore confossed so clearly that they bad under- taken .a job which thoy know thoy-could not defend or excuso, The proteneo that a majority of tho poople de- sirod inflation i o fraud, If we judge from tho votes of Senators, wo find that ton States (Poune sylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Michigan, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Missouri, Keutucky, TFlorida, and Oregon,) wero divided, and that five of the New England States, New York, New Jorsey, Dolnware, Obio, Toxas, Nevada, and California, voted ngainst tho bill, while tho romaining fiftoen Statos voled for it, tho propon- derance of population belng vory largoly on the sido of tb%Slnkeu opposiug the bill, Morcover, *it must bo remembered that" the carpot-baggors from Arkansns and .Lousiana do not ropresent. the peoplo of those Btates. If we Judge from tho tone of tho pross, aswo have already de- Count Von Arnim and its significanco in Ger- man politics. In another column will bs found & memorial to Congress prepared by the Committee ap- pointed for that purposo by the Canal Conven- tion held at Rock Island on March 24. The General Government 15 solicited to undertake tho buildiog of & canal from Henuepin to Rock Island as a measure of reliof to the agricultural intorests of the West. The memorialists bo- lieve such » canal would furnish to Tlinols and the rogions dopendent upon its traneporta- Hon facilitios & highway similar to that which the Erie Canal gives New York State. Mombors of tho Convention who decried its action as not being for the interests of the wholo Northwest will take kindly the petition of the Committes for the improvement of the Misnisaippi Rlver ‘1o its fullost capaoitios,” The memorial is well worth roading. —— 5 A slatement of the results reached by the 8anborn inveatigation will be-presented to Con- gress to-day, by the Ways and Moans Com- mitteo, Mr. Buller haa boen in & stato of healthy subjection since the opening of the inquiry, but, now that it is closed and he lins *been officially assured that no ovidenco tend- Ing to implicate him was olicited, Lo is lfting hia bead liko snother trlumphant Zion. The dispatches this morning say that he 18 preparing an elaborato spoech, in which he will attempt to convince the Houso that Sanborn is & thritty patriot, desorving of encouragement and reward, At the same timo, bo will put * the mysterious man” on o pedas- tal apart from that oooupied by the hero of Now Orleans, Banborn may take to leaking, and in that ovont it will be deslrable that every tub ehould etand on its bottom. Gon, Butler's San- born speech will take o placo in contemporary history alongalde the dofonso of Oakes Amos, ——— The Chicago produce markets wore generally Yeas activo on Baturday, with littlo ohaunge in prices, Moss pork was in modorate demand and aebado casior, closing at 10.60@10.52}¢ cash, ond $16.70 sellor June. Lard was in fair re- quest, and 3340 per 100 tba higher, closing at @10.15 cash, and $10.30@10.32% sellor Juno, Meats were In botter domand and stendy, at 530 for shoulders, 83¢e for short ribs, 830 for short cloar, and 10@11c for swaot-ploklodhams, TLake freighta were activo and unchanged, at 4o for corn to Duftalo. Highwines were quict and steady, at 040 por gallon. Flour was quiot and firm, Wheat was rathar loss actlve, and $¢@2go bigher, closing at $1.20}¢ cash, 81.27%@1.28 seller June, and $1.20 for Minnosots. ' Corn was qulet and X{o highor, olosing at G6c oash, and T6}{o soller Tune. Oatu were quict and stoady, soslng at 465§@403 50 cash, and 4835@48)0 soll- arJuoo. Dye wes quitt aud atosdy at 01@ 01340, monstrated, o majority of pepors in number have sustalued tho President's voto in avory Westorn State except Indiana and Kaugns, and that ma- Jority includes nearly every paper at the West of largo circulation or influence, The truth is, that the noisy demagogues, ot very cross-rond vil- lage as well as in every city and in Congross, shout for inflation, whilo the sober, intolligent, and industrious clusses, hero as at the Enst, on tho farms aa well as in the fuctories, clearly un- derstand that a deproclated paper-currency, as Senator Jonos ko pithily expresscd it, is “not the spade of the husbandman, but the dice-box of the gambler.” With s degreo of ung- nlmity at onco honorable and remarka- ble, business communitics and commoreial bodice sustain the veto. Even among tho farmers, from whom thoe ery for inflation s 80 often snid to come, wo venture tho prediction that within one month's timo thero will scarcoly be found u respectablo minority to dusire or do- fond that policy. For, although meny of them may have boen at firet deluded with tho ides that tuflation would mako it moro essy for thom to pay their debt, inteRigont farmers already rea- lizo thit tho pricos of thoir products aro con- trolled by forcign markots, and therefore by gold values, whilo the prices of manufactured articlos which they bave to buy are enormously enhanced by expansion and conpequent dopreciation of the aurrency. This trath, of vital importance to overy agriculturiat, intolligont farmers will speedily impress upon the minds of their neigh- bors and asaociates, and it will ot bo long be- foro the Western Statos will becomo a8 earnost aud united fn advocnoy of a, Bpoedy roturn to o spocie basis ag they have beon falsoly claimed to bo in advocacy of inflation. - It 18 of grent importance, bowover, that publ o opinion at the West should bo irrovacably fixed on this subject as enrly ay Possible. Eventaare probably approaching which will givo tothe domugogues & bettor opportunity thau thoy have yet hiad of appealing'to tho 8supposed solf-intor- oat of any who do not fully undoratand this sub- Joot. In ali probability, from enusos not de~ ponding at all upon the currency, & s6ason of considorablo stringenoy and cmbarrassment. may ocour boforo the closs of the year, The tarifr bas produced omo of those widely-extouded prosirations of manufaoturing industry which inovitably follow a poriod of # protection," and, in tho iron intoreat cspeclally, the clrcumstancea aro now such that uo addition of duties could produco tho temporary rollof which hag at other times boon gainod by that moans, Iu that groat industry, production must ho materially reduced, many cstablishments must go into bankruptoy, and thousandy of workien tust bodrivon tospolc other employment, beforo thore can como any pormanent relief, Asg congequenco, sowne dlg- turbance In tho mining fnterost o luevitable, From thio disturbanco of theso Industrios & con~ able reduction of consumption fs lkoly t rosult, with dulln n bnsinoss, genoral roduce ton in pricos, and some commoroial embarrass- ment. Wiso bankers aud business men, in all parts of tho country, are prudontly proparing for tho difloultios whioh may bo expeoted to fol- low tho continued prostration of fron manufac- tutlng, and wo hope that this prudence may avort any genoral disnstor, but that prudenco it- #clt must for a timo rondor tho ombarrassmiont moro apparont and gonoral, Inview of theso ‘probabllitles, it is pooutiarly important that the pooplo of the Wost should bo informed, aa fully and prompily as possiblo, respocting thelr true intoroats in rogird to tho curronoy. Farmore, cspecially, should dlsouss tho subjeot in their gothorings; should considor how thoy have boon robbod of the fruits of thoir labor by means of tho tarift, and by menns of that expansion and dopreoiation of curronoy whick tariff-monopoliats continually ' domond; should firmly grasp tho fact that no chango whatever in the ourroncy can add to the prico of whoat or of cotton in Livorpool or Now Yorl, but that oxpansloii inovitably adds to the gost of producing wheat or cotton, to the oont of trangporting it to & market, and to the cost of clothing, imploments,. and all othor artiolos which the farmer may wish to purchase with his product. It will bo well for the Advisory Com- mittoo of the State Farmora’ Assvoiation to con- eidor this view of tho quostion at tholr Bloom- ington mooting, A protectivo tarlft and s doprocinted ourroncy ara tho weapons with which the monopolists and gamblors rob tho producing classos, To the groat pro- ducing Btates of tho Wost, & rostoration of tho taridf to an honest rovenue ‘boals, and a roatora- tion of the currency to an’ honost epocto basis,. are allke imperativoly necossary, and ho is an onemy to’ the truo intoroats of thia sootion, whather ho be Bonator, Roprosentative, * or oditor, who rotuses to urgo those tio groat ro- forms. Violent mensures, sudden and sweeping changod, may not be expediont; it is true, But it is time o start tho country in the right diroc- tion, and to move with resolute purposo and stoady progresa toward thorough reform in the ourronoy and in the tariff, To this ond an intol- ligent choico of mombers of Congross st the eleotions next fall is necessary, and during the coming summor no paina should bo spared by the friends of roform to propare tho public mind for intelligent action upon these two vital ques- tions, — KIRTLAND, That mysterions myth which has go long floated dreamily sbout in tho muddlo of the District of Columbia invostigation has at last rosolved itecl? into a roality, and Kirtland has boon beforo the Committes. If he was unsatis- factory before, he is still more unsatistactory now. In fact, we know less about Kirtland n a reality than we did sbout Kiitland a8 a myth, When ho was simply a mystery—an abatract idon—gomo sort of concoption could be formed of him, because as an iden Lo was very magnotio, and attractod all tho looso corruption which was floating about to himself. Whatever was unintelligible in the testimony, Kirtland would oxplain, Whatover Count Fosco did not underatand, Kirtland wonld mako clear. What- aver monoy was paid out went to Kirtlaud, and Kirtland could toll what was done with it. Kirt- 1and knew all about the littlo twists and turns, tho shufflings and dodges snd evasions, Everything hinged upon Kirtland. Ho was tho pivotal ides, tho vory centre of tho Ring, tho power bohind tho throme, which pulled all the strings nnd sct Count Fosco, and Btorrs, and Parsons, and Moore, and Brown, and all the rest to dancing. Ho was the man who bad influence to sell or hiro. In fact, before Kirtland boeamo visiblo to the naked eye, wo know all about him; but, now that be Lae burst upon us liko a moteor and disappeared, ho has Ioft nothing bobind him ; we are ouce more in the dark, and it is still uncortain whothor Count Fosco was born in an eclipse or not. Judged, Lowevor, by the standard which Count Fosco ap- plied to himself, whon he announced that tho eyes of the Masonle Fratornity and the Episco- pal Church woro upon him; and that the world would say, and posterity wonld £ay, ** Chitton- den don's loak,” Count Foaco must cease to bo tho model witness, Chittenden is simply a bar- rel that doa't lesk, but whother thore ia snything in the barrel romains to bo scen, Kirtland is o barel full of concontrated Iye that don't leak. Count Fosco may still ciaim Lis laurels a3 the model witness, but Kirtland can discount him, He bas no 1dea of economizing truth or straining ita quality, With an airy snd profound disgust for that dig- tinguishod ornament of human oharacter, he loftily waves it one side and will have nothing to do with it, Count Fosco's dignity, with Btorr's ingonuity and adroitnoss thrown in, . appear little and coarso by the side of this man's olegant nnd rofined evaeiveness, The Commit- tee thought it singular that ho should go to Now York after midnight by an ocean steamer, but they did not know that ** fislung waa good.” The Committeo also thought it strango that ho should have given away his handsome horses, which he Lad obtained with a part of the money ho got in Chieago, but they did not know that “odts were very high! Tuen tho Committes got track of 10,000, only to find that it bLad beon spont ! for millinery," Whan he wroto to Wiloox : “1pre- sume I shall bo compelled to put in an appear- ance beforo the Committeo, but somobody will be sorry : 1 am perfeoting & schomo that will, T oxpoct, knock the legs from under & cortain crowd,” ho only meant “his wife.” - When ho was found rogistored at the Eubitt House under o falgo name, he didn't know how it came there. Whon things got a littlo warm at the Washing- ton Houeo, he only changed his quarters bo- caugo ho wanted to seo Storrs, and Storts said “ho wae dovillsh glad to eeo him "; but if Btorrs testifiod that Lo (Kirtland) told him ho could uot account for thoe proceeds of tho notes with- out implicatlug persous in bigh placcs, then “ha lied If ho told you that.” At thia polut wo quote from tho tostimony : Q.—Havo you had auy interview with any person counccted with tho investigation ,Minco you reached this city 7 A—No one excopt Mr, Htorrs, if kel connocted with it fu any way. Q.—Whore aid you seo Mr, Storta? A.~T1 went over to Iils roown, Q.~And found him in? A~ found him io bod ; yer, sir, Q.—You hnd an futerviow with him ¢ A=Yz, nir, Ao said ho was devilish was all e sald, ‘I'hie I8 too much, Whon Itis remembored that Kirtland went to soe Btoris for tho oxpross pur- pose of employing him ‘ny counsol, we cannot beliove that thiais all Btorrs said, Itle not Btorts' habit to lat fat casen slip through his flugers on mecount ‘of shynoss or taciturnity, Rather than loss & 0a%e, he would talk an appli- €1ad toseome, That The mixod pathos snd disgust of Judga Thurman, atter listoning to this compound of brags and falschood, will bo shared by overy roador of tho followlng extract from tho iostl- mony ¢ : Judgo Thurman—~Tn your fatter to Wilcox, written Aprll 15, 1874, tho following sentenco occira: 1 {link McCleliand mado an ass of bimself,” Ploaso toll mo whoroln McClolland mado an ssn of himeolf, Kirtland—Well, ko aid bad work on his Washington contracts, and acknowlodged it to the Commiiteo, Judgo Thurman—~Then, sir, you wish this Gome ‘mitiee to understand that you think any man an ass who Las senso of Lonor cnough to toll tho trath. Rirlland—As the world goes, ir, I think sny man 8n 288 {0 acknowhodgo anything to hiis own injury, Judgo Thurman—Woll,all I havo to aay fs § the world will not acouss you of making an sss of youraelf, as you Intorprot tho moaning of tho torm, during your oxamination bofors this Commities, . Kirlland is still rotatned, hut it is evidont onough nothing is to be Rot from him, and thq_ scent of tho §73,0001s lot, Thisis unfortunato, It won noeded to olear up tho oloudiness, and uncertaluty, and want of momory which Count Fosco dlunlnym.l‘ It waa needed to explain como littlo mystorics touchng Btorrs and that suppor with Kirtland. It wns noeded to explain Con- grossman Farwoll's visit to Washiogton to got contracts renowed, when ho know that monoy hind boon alrendy used corruptly, and also tho edvico in his loitor that tho -contract bo ronowed or tho bribo-money refunded. It was nooded to explam Count Fosco's operations, which tho Count could not himself explain, Aftor all tho ‘troublo in capturing Kirtland, and after all the pumpings and Bquoezings of him which could be applied, wo are to Lolieve that Mra. Kirtlsnd fs tho only porson who s to suffor by her husband's devolopmonts, and that the 872,000 wont for horaea which Lo couldn't koop bacauso oats were s high, and for millinery and dress-making! Wo submit that this outdoes even Count Fosco, and that, as s modol witness, ho dwindlos to a pigmy by thé sido of Kirtland, — THE WISCONSIN CONTEST, The rogulation of raflways is & quostion of the vory highoat importanco to tho peoplo of this country. Thoy are in thelr vory nature monopo- los. ‘Tholr ratos of fare and froight, unlike tho pricos of commoditics of every kind, aro not rogulated by what Adam Smith calls tho hig- gling" of tho market, It botwoon two goograph- feal pointa thera o but ono railway, whoover wishies to travel from ono to the other, or to ship goods from one to the other, must abide by the terms of tho railroad company, stay at homo, or allow his wares to remain without s market, ‘And even whoro thore are two or more lines bo- twoen two places, although thore may be come petition for a while, in the end the companlos agroo mot “to compote. It ia not too much to eay that the publio are at the meroy of the railway companios, sinco theso corporations hava that to soll Which tho publio actually need and can. purchaso but from thom, They possess immense power, and have not unfroquontly sbused it. Tho Farmers' Movement has boon the conscguenco of their extortions, It is not probable that the railway mpanios in Wisconsin havo beon more extor- tionate in thoir demands thon those of othor States. In Wisconain, howover, the issuo be- tweon the railways and tho peoplo s to bo tried for tho first time. Honco the intorost with which it is watched. It is to bo feared that the efforts made in Wis- consin to rogulate tho rates of farc and freight will prove abortive. Tho Diractors of the roads say that, under the schodule of froight fixed by the Logialaturo, they cannot continue to operato the roads, and that if the law bo carriod into oxecu-~ ton thoy will have * to shut up shop,” Tho most eminent lawyers in the country declare the Wis- consin lnw unconstitutionnl. Now, neither tho Directors of the railroad companies, nor tho dia- tinguished New York Judges whom they have consulted, deny the power of the Logislature of ‘Wisconsin to establish a tarift for ralways in thot Stato. Tho charter of o railway or other corporation in Wisconsin {s not an irrovocable coutraot bétwoen tho company and the Btato, as it hae beon hold to be in somoe othor parts of the country. Whatover forco the colobrated Dart- mouth College case mny have olgowhere, thero ithasnono. How comes it, then, that tho law can bo unconstitutional? It may so reduco tho ratos of faro and freight that tho ronds cannot be oporated. It may thus ronder the smount of capital invested in them unproductive. It may sct a8 & virtual conflscation of the proper{ - of the railway companies. It may so homper the companies that thoy will not be ablo to pay tho intercst on their bonded indebtodness, and thus indirootly impair the obligation of con- tracts, all of which is exprossly forbidden by the Constitution of Wisconsin, The wholo railroad controversy there turns, thorefore, simply on the solution given to this queation of fact: Has tho late law so fixed tho echiedule of rates that the railroad companies operating under It ean earn enough to pay tho .interest on their bonded indebtedness and a reasonable intorest on tho actual cost of con- struction, - after tho oxponsos of run- ving tho road have boon provided .for? It It has, thon it conflacates no property virtually or otherwisc, violatos no con-' tract overtly or covertly, and ia constitutional. If it has not, It does confiscate proporty, is a vio- lation of contracts, aud is unconstitutional. Now the presumption is that the Iaw is an un- Juet ono eithor to the companios or to tho peo- ple, It is prepostorous to think that a legisla- tive committeo, without oxsmining the books of the company, could hit upon & just schodule of railroad rates, or say whother tho existing rates wero oquitablo or mot. ‘Tho Wisconsin “schodulo as framed was & guess, nothing moro, and & guess made, wo bolleve, by gontlomen not particularly vered in the operation of railways. This wss ono grave omor on the part of the Wisconsin Logislature, Anothor was the equally arbitrary division of the railroad companies of tho Stato into olassos, no good roa- gons boing assignsblo why certain railronds should bo put In one class rather thanin another, or why any distinotion of classea should bo mado at all. Evory road should bavo a taviff of its own, A third ercor was making tho tariff un- olastio, Railrond companios are coutinually va~ xying their tariffa with the cost of labor, tho smount of traflio, eto. The rates oharged by railway companics arequantities of many f; actors, and a oinuge in any one of the factors nocossi- tatos a chango fn thorato iteclf, Tho Wisconsin Inwis dofectivo iunat having takon theso fuots into account. DBy o strango oversight, the Legly- Iature fixed tho schodulo of rallway rates first, and thon catablished o Board of Railrosd Com- missionoers to ascortain and make returns of tho ‘notunl cost of emoh railway, ity total gross yo- coipts, ita total not earniugs, totnl bondsd in- debteducss, eto. Had the action of the Loglala- turo boson roversed, it would have boen more sen- sible, Wa aro not glarnied at tho condition of affairg in’ Wisconsin, Tho rallroad corapanics hava |good yeasou to bring the law bofore'tho courts {mmedistely for adjudication. To get ik there & tho law must firat bo Infringod. - 1t Is to be hopod that the quostion will bo sotiled without any disturbance, and without the croation of any bad blood. If tho constitutionality of {ha law bo maintained, the ronds may or may not-ceaso operations, as they throaton, It they did, tholr aotlon’ would prosent tho mattor in an ontirely now phaso to whioh the peopls have not glven sufflciont thought, Tho.contest, to whatever inconvenience it may subjoot tho railway companios and the people of Wisconain for a time, will, in the long run, ho productiveof good. It will help to Buggoest tho ways and means by which the olaims of tho companios and the peoplo aro to bo finally har- monizod, THE REPUBLICANS OF ILLINOIS, The 8t. Louls Globs warna tho Ropublicana of Illinois of tho dangers which throaten them, It rofusos to accopt comfort from tho a8suranco of tho Chicago Journaf that, tho President hav- ing votood tho oxpansion bill, the Gormaus of Tiliuois will return to tho Republican party, The Qloba {nalsts that tho nomination of expansion- iata and contractionists on & platform indorsing both tho Prosident and Mr. Boammon will bo dig- astrous, Xtsays: Wo [the Ropublican party] held control of both Houaos of Congross, and #0 cannot shirk the reaponaie bllity for tho bill passing thoss Houscs, and, had the Presidont lstonod to tho advice of Mossrs, Morton, Butler, and Logan, than whom thore are not throe mon who lsy atronger claims to speaking Republican doctrinoand representing the Ropublicon party, the bill would hava beon law, ¥or s certaln class of Re- publicans to come to the front snd proach the Presi- dont and him glorified 1s about as scomly aa it waa for Tachimo, having fatlod to soduce Imogen, to protond onthusfastically that ho was cliarmed that hor virtup had proved proof against his tomptation, This is poculiarly the caso in Illinols, wharo both Sonators and tho avowod party organ woro for inflatlon, and sre atillfn favor of it, The Qlobs ia right. Tho issue is one that oannob be dodged or ovaded. The question at siako {8 ono {n which tho wholo people, es- pecially of this Stato, havo a doop intorost. Xa. tho Prosident to bo sustained, and Oglesby and Logan ropudistod? Or shall tho Republicans sustain thoir Bonators and repudiate the Presi- dont? The samo paper describes tho Ropub- licans of Illinols as trying to plow with a Ro- publicsn ox and a Repudiation 088, and calls upon them to give this up and to take strong grounds unanimously in favor of the President in his opposition to paper currency, and his ad- vico that thero bo & speody roturn to apoclo payments. This advice will not bo relishod in Illinois, In tho firat place, tho State Couvention will be controlled by the offica-holders, and tho office-holders owo their firat allogiance to Logan and Oglesby. It is not until after these broak with and aro discardad by the Presidont that tho office-holders will recognize any sllegiance to Geu, Grant. Logan And Oglesby, undor tho Civil-Sorvico systom, are tho eatraps in Dlinots, and woo bo to tho office-holdor who dares recog- nize any higher authority. The Convention, therofore, will in all probability continuo tho attompt to plow with tho Specie-Payment ox ond the Repudiation ass. Gem, Logan re- fused to oxpress an opinion upon the Prosident’s votoin the Bonate, and, ss soon ns that was quictly out of the way, ealledup & bill author- izing tho appointment of six additional Pay- mastors in tho army. As some of theso may fall to the share of Iilinols, Sonator Logan was too politlo to loso o' Paymastor by ropeating in the Henate what his organs in Illinols sny of tho. Proaident, personallyand officlally, concerning the inspiration of the voto. The ox and the ass will plow togothor while there ia an offico to bo had fora rotmnor. The Btato Central Committan of the party, at their meoting in Chicago (botoro tho voto), were sll for inflation, and for that policy which tho President has sinco deolared to bo unwiso and opposed to tho bost intorosts of tho country. Novertheloss the Convention will meot, and, bo thoe resolutions what thoy may, they will b framed just ss thoy shall bo dic- tatod, not by tho Prosidontisl ox, but by the Sen- ators who roprosent the offico-holdora of this State, — THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS. Thero is trouble browing in the camp of the Paople's party. Treaties are made only to be broken; and the alliance formed botween the Germans and Irish in Chicago abous a yoar ago is threatened with dissolution, The woll-known littlo cloud, **no bigger thaun a man's hand,” ia obsorvable already on the horizon, Unloss a fa- ‘voring wind arises to dispersait, it will soon cover tho wholo Gorman-Irish political sky in Chioago, It appeara that, whoroas, of tho 20,000 volumes of baoks in tho Pablic Library, s great many are Gorman, fow, it any, are Catholic, This Mr. Onshan discovored soon 'aftor he was appointed amoraber of the Public Library Board. To remody what he considerod an ovil, ko gave a catalogue of Catholic works to Mr. Poolo, the Librarian, who, from its pages, mado a selaotion of Looks to be ordored for the Library. After consultation with some of tho members of the Board, but without waiting for the action of & rogular meoting, Mr. Poole made out a list of Catholio books for the Library, which came to tho notico of Mr. Rosenthel boforo the books wora ordered, Mr. Rosenthal, at the mooting ou Baturday, objected to the books on tho ground that thoy wero sectarian. Mr, Raster, another member of tho Board, objected to them on the grouud that they woro Catholto, It is cortain that no book should be oxcluded {from the Public Library sirply because it ia Cath- oli¢, or written by a Catholie; for, if tius could be dono, then books might bo objected to be- causo written by Mothodista, Prosbytorinns, Eplsufipulnns, Jows, Ratlonoliats, Infidols, or Athelsts; or beosuso advocating Methodiem, Prosbyterionism, or Rationalism, The Library ia supportod by all classos, and was intondod for allclassos. All classes go thore, and all are taxed for its maintenance, Buch being tho caso, tho tastes of all should be consulted, Tho policy, howover, of ordoring o large numbor of books domanded exolusively by thouo of one persuasion or denominntion is quostionable, and, while no ono can rationally objoot to wecing Cavholio booke on the sholves of a Public Library support- ed in part by Oatholics, many will object to the manuer fn which it was proposed to “procura them in this instanco, viz: all at once and by special ordor, This was never dono in favor of sy other douomination, . 1t is not a littlo strango, howovor, that the op- position was mado mainly by the Gormansin the Board, and mado booause tho books wera ¢ Cathollo," That Catholios should have & woak- ness for Catholio books i not straugo, any more than that Germans should havo & weakuess for German books, Mr, Onahandoos not object to tho Gormans having their booka, Mr, Rastor do- cidedly objects to Oathollo books. And thus thore J au issuo botwoen Mr, Rastor and Mr, Ouahan, and, in their porsons, botwoen our Ger- mnn and Irlsh frlonds. It is just possiblo that this Little battlo may inoroase in dimonsions till Colt and Touton are arrayed againat ono anothor, 4l tio Peopla's pirty gdes thé way of all flosh) and Mr, Hosing bide long farowell to all his groatnons, Tho Irish and tho Gormans havo lit- Ho in common, after all; and, if they aro not congolous of It now, a fow littlo opisodes tike that which transpired at the ‘mooting of the Dirootora of the Publio Library on Saturdsy Iant will make thom feol it, THE BOUTHERN METHODIST OHURCH CON- : FERENCE, _ Tho soventh sossion of tho Gonoral Contorenco of the Mothodist Eplacopal Chureh Bouth, which {8 now sltting 1 Louiavillo, 1s ono of oxtraordi- nary interest in tho hiatory of tho Church. Tho slavory quostion, which had long sgitatod tho Motbodist Ohurch (noarlyall the mombors of that Church in tho Bouth being slavoliolders), lod to & divislon of the Ohuroh in 1844, In 1845, tho Mothodlst Episcopal Church Bouth was or- ganized, oporating malnlyIn tho South. Tho Bamo causo also sovored the intor-communion previously oxisting betweon the Mothodist Church South and ‘the ‘English Oburch, Their rolations with tho Iattor and tho Methodist Oburoh North aro tho principal topics engaging tho attontion of the sossion, With roforence to tho English Churol, offcial action hoa already boen taken in tlio form of a documont addrossad totho Goneral Conforonce of Great Dritain, which mets forth tho fact of tho romoval of slavoiy, which has Lorotofore soparated them, aud adds: “Tho Oburch fntho United Statos b causo to bo thankful that nothing exists to provent offictal intorcourso botweon your Gen- eral Conforonce and our own, and wo pray that both Churches and both countrics may bo firmly unitod with thomselves by concord, and to ono another by amity.” ‘As tho telograph has not yet intimatod that any sction Lns beon takon with roferonco to rounion with’ the Mothodlst Church North, wo prosume this matter is, etill ponding, In 1848, tho Oburch Bouth sont a dologato to tho Genoral Cooferoncs of 'tho Church North, but ho was rojeoted upon the ground that, as important intorests wore inliti- gation botwoon tho two Churchos, the reception of tho dolegate would compromiso thoir claims. Binco that time, thoro hes boen no ofieial intor- course botwaon tho two, although the subjeot of rounion has boon often discussed; but at the prosent imo gomo dofinite and formal aation will be taken, es throo dologates from the Church North are in sttendanco, viz: The Rov. 0. H, Fowler, D.D,, the Rev,8, funt, D, D., and Gon. Clinton B. Fisk, who aro empow- ered to offer tho lhand of fratornity, It is not by any means cortain that tho offer will bo accopted, as tho sontiment of the wmajority qf tho denomination Bn_\lth is opposed to organis unity, but it is oxpocted that a very respectablo minority will show itsolf in favor of immodiate unlon, which will bo a material polnt gained bringing it about ultimatoly. Considering tho effect upon tho Mothodist Church South of the War, which almost entirely crippled it, it la now in avery healthy condition, having olght. Bishops, 8,000 traveling pronchiors, and 680,000 members, The Publishing Hougo hos o capital of 314,087 over and abovo all liabilities, whils the contribu~ tions to missionary work from Juno 1, 1870, to April 16, 1874, amounted to $894,466, the ox- penses during the samo poriod boing only $14,390, e ——— In tho dobato on the - Civil Appropriation bill _in Qongress, Afr. Lamport, of Now York, de- olared that the Commlssioner of Agrioviture expends $1,000 & yoar moro than ho roceives 2rom tho Governmont, This remark oallod out tho following. commont from Mr. Kasson, of Towa: In regard to this Commissioner, who the gentleman 80ys expends anuunlly $1,000 mrore than his salary, and also fn answer to what the gentleman hae sald about the Agricultural Roport, I wish to call attention toa fow facts. Tho prosent Commissioner oamo here from Pennsylvania and took the position st a salary of $3,000. Hemoved with his family into the Departmont bullding {my friend from New York is responsiblo for callitig out those facte), sud Le now applies for ad- ditional rooms to ba reuted for carrying on tho busi- ness of the Departmont, Tho Government thus fur- auishes him with what it furnishes to no other officer of the Government except tho Prosident, fros apartments in addition to his salary, Io has put his son fnto the next beat oflice, as his chief clork ; and this ouss haa been kind enough to-day, in abolishing tho disbursing clerk, to put aut of ofice the only man, or nearly so, who comes from any othior State than Pennsylvania, ‘This unfortunato clerk is from Illinols, Wo kave also added $200 to tho pay of the Commissioner's son. At onoe tinie he also had on the pay-roll of Lis Dopartment. othier members of his family, and porhaps still hos them; and Ilearn (I do mot vouch for tho fact, and T Leg any genlleman (o correct tho statomentif Tam wrong; I obtained it from a gontloman who hos ale ways taken an intorest in that Department and in agri- culture) that his very sorvant, who came with the present Commiesionor from Pounsylvanis, was also put on the pay-roll of the Department, Of this I soy 1 bnve no personal knowledga, Yet in spiteof all these fucts the gentleman fror ow York saye that the pay of tho Commissioner is 80 small that it 19 ouly at a cost of $1,000 from bis own pockot that be can re- mein in the discharge of his duties, No porson contradicted any of these state- ments, The Commisaioner, thorofore, is hardly entitled to the credit of sacrifieing his valuablo time, and $1,000 & yoar boside, in order to per- form the dutics of Lis office, The Chicago corrospondent of the New York World sooms to have discoverad tho real force of tho inflation, or repudiation, party hereshouts, He saya: “The laws of trade ordain that whoro thero I8 a domand for demngoguce a supply of domagogues will bo forthcoming; henco thero isno lack ot such politiclans as are typificd In Mr. Logan and Mr, Oglesby, Thelr solo aim ia to be popular, and it suits them to preach from the stump the gospol of inflntion, assuring their oonstituents that more currenoy will raise pricos and eusblo thom to pay off thoir debla for so much less on the dollar, And finally thero are partioulacly n Chicago, o fow desperato spocu- Iators whoso ruln s inovitablo if tho market lowers or oven romaing stendy. It was those mon that tho Board of Trado report for 1873 degoribed as the only frionda of inflation in Chi- ©ago~—mon whoso reputation was go bad and sit- uation 8o desporate that, no matter how great an addition wore made to the volumo of currency no ouo would extend thom accommodation, This, thon, is the party of inflation fu the North- wost. Tt leaders, without excoption, aro dema~ rogues and gamblers, its ranks aro filled with tho prejudiced aud ignorant.” Tho New York Tribune, in ita roviow of Prof, Swing's “Truths for To-Day"—lls sermons during the past wintor—discovers * an orlgluality of thought, a truthfulness of pumpose, a warmth of humanity, aud o fine graco of oxpression ‘which are not always found {u the productions of popular pulpit orators,” and adds: ‘Tho most remarkable featuro of his discouvees fs tholr manly direciness, Thoy are equally freo from affecfation and extravagance, Thore iz no Miriving aftor effect, uo sousationnl surprises, uouo of tho clap. {raps of a false rhotoric, Lut every uttorance Is marked by modesty, refinement, and singular force, Thedis- coursce aro pliched In 50 moderato s key that thoy leavo the improssion of groat roserved power; tho proachor mukes 1o displsy of his rich resources, but you oo convinced that you are MNstening to s man of curnest thought, of rare omlture, aud of genulne humanity, s forte s evidontly not that of doctrinal dixeussion, - Ho deals in nonice dlstinctions of creed, 100 hisa no taste for halr-aplitting wubtloties, Lut pro. scnta s broad and gouerous viow of human duty, sp- peallng to the higkeat insthiots and the pureat motives of & lofty manhood,* Tabis view, th by s , the ethical elomont romacy in our nature, Tho Iatost spoclmon of nowapapor an| 18 furnishad by tho Ohicago T(mgu, whl:!exm;::,; bLas its spaclal corrospondonce from Paris writ~ ten in Now York. -Ono and the same Rontloman dosoriboa tho Now York clorgymoen in tho Batur~ day papor over tho signaturs of ¢ Porsimo,* and, undor the dato of Parls, goos through the Fronch Academy the vory noxt day ovor Lho sig- naturo of ' Possimonus,” Whethor or not his quick translt Lns boon accomplishied with tho aid of Mr. Btoroy's frionds and correapondentn In the spirit land, is not oxplained. Thore han long boen a notion among the pooplo that tho foreign correspondonce of cortain nowspapora is proparod at homo. This ia » mistako so far g tho Chicago Times Ia concornod ; Its foreign cor- respondonco is propared in Now Yorlk, ATTITUDE OF THE WESTERN PRESS, Tho following tablo shows the numbor o Westora newspapors, as heard from to da that sustain or opposo the position assumed by the Presidont in Lis vato of tho Ourrency bill s Sustain Opposs On the o, tiae, Juner, 4@ u 23 . [ 1 7 1 1 - 10 1 1 . Tolals to-du BU C 1 Tolala Baturday, 8‘4’ {!’i Addedcusvsssrvrresrene 32 BT An analysis of the Ilinois list, 8o far as known to us, shows 85 Ropublican nowspapers, and 20 not Ropublican, now sustaming the flnancial viows of tho Propident; and 27 Ropublican pa- pors, and 17 not Ropublican, now agroed in op- posing thoso viows, —The divergenco of Republican organs in Iili- uols may bo sbarply lluatratad by the two ox. traots subjoinod. In tho firat, the Balloville Ad- vocate (Uspt. ¥, M. Taylor, Postmaator,) saya: ‘Wo bellove the Adcocats was among the first Journals to sustain tho poiloy of an incroase of currency. motlyes for dolug #o were, primarily, with tha vicw of benollting the buulness inforost of tho country ang tos labarlng clusass, and, socondsrily, with @ vius of e {uaonizing the poicer'of the Weat inith that of the £ust in Congrems. . . . The expansion of tho currancy 18 purely a Western lasue, and atmost solely for Weterny fulereats, It hasbeon defeated by tha Eustorn Ssnns tors and Congressmon, aldod by, thie Dresident Lut tna Question 18 0ot yat msttled, The people of the Wose will be affordod an oportunity to sctilo tho mattor at the polls, and they will xottle {t after & mennor fhat will astonish somo Eastorn pooplo, In tho socond, tho Carroll County Airror (Capt. John M. Adair) saya : Tho peoplo aro with tho Prosident in this matier, Tho Inflationists aro niot oboying publio opinfon ; tiey are manufucturing it in tho intorest of gamblors, speq. Ulators, sud “ moonshine " raflroads, Tho pespip czy, Let usalono! Waaro doing well enough | Don's tompt us sgain into riotous aud exteavagant living | We lind Indation snd got desper m)‘f’d““ Forn few cars past wo hove Leen dofng bettor and gait Zut ot dobt again| LIT UB ALONE, "0 St ‘Will ono Republican party platform in Illinols, this yonr, bo big cnough to nold theso two goa- tlemeu ? . ~—Wo havo probably reached a turning-point It is now lifo or death with us, in our history. Should the inflationists ultimatoely triumph, and vil war the false systom of fluance that our of deliberatoly adoptod as the necessitated Lo | policy of this Government, wo will ‘witness & carnival of apeculation, Iuxury, and oxtravagance that, according to the inexorable Inwa of naturo, —that ovorride those of Congress,—cau hava but ono end. What that end is all history teachos, as woll as tho common sense of common mon,—Fond du Lac ( Wis.)sCommonceaith, ~—If Congross wero coustitutionally incligible to touch the question of tinanco and currency for the next ten yenrs, finance and ourredey nnd the businoss of the country would gat along ad- mirably. Wo have tnanked Hoaven a nlony that Uongrees hind ro much worry over reconstruction that it loft it littl time to play the fool with tho currenoy. But now that it hias loisure for thia thoro is no end to the trouble it may make, Wa groatly for that our history is golag to ropoas itself.—Keokuk (Ia.) Gale City. —We aro thoroughly convinced that tho Preafe dont haa rightly incorpretod tho popular domaud, aud has biad tho courage to meet it. Tho Wast and South aro not 80 strongly in favor of 8 gaseous carrency, as cortsin Congrossmon and uowspapers would have us boliove, sinco it Is ny dostructive to thoir truo intoroats as it would l}:tu thoso of capitalists,— Cedar Rapids (la.) Times. —It is evidont now that this financial issue must pase from the halls of Congross, and from Cabinot chambers to the pooplo, who, sooncr or later, will loara the differeuce botweon s real and a flotitious ourroncy, and place ths businoss of the country ouce again upou a spocie basis, Those who attempt tomako it an issne between tho Eaat and West, aud 1o croate sectional foel- ing rogarding it, are most dangorous advisers andshort-sighted prophots.—Denter (Col.) News. —Tor onco there hus arigen a quositon of vital public importance which stands some chanee of bolug thoughtaud acted upon, with more reforenco to ite marlty thuu to mere party considorations, - « « In this question of a sound and redeomnble currency, it 18 not capital, but labor which hug tho most at stake, . . . Lot us not be seduced from the only pnuclé)la which can cairy us thronugh to the ead, and above all things lot ug not offer & premium for demagogues to RO ta Congross as the ropresentativos of our own dis- Lonesty. National faith and individunl faith aro one and the samo thing.—Jefferson Counly (Wis.) Tnicn —\Yo have taken some pains to ecanvass the opinions of our business men and other oilizeny on this quostion sinco the news of the veto was roceived, T'he ganaral exprossion is ono of sat— lafaction and approval—in somo casos vory em- phiatic, and that without distinction of party,— &hlle Plaine (la.) Union, —As tar ag showing tho. attitude of the Ad- minietration on this quostion is coucerned, tho veto sattles that, But it is only o negative, It does’ not guaranteo to the coantry that tho hone “or of chin uatton is to bo proserved upright, and ita debt is to bopaid honostly, In ordor to so- curo this, un oxpression is neadod from Con. gress in favor of Resumption, Till ‘this ig doue, the country will not feal at case in ilg tinancial mattors. "By thus equelshing the infla. tion bubble, Grant has porformed the- crowning act of bis Admimstration.—Nashua (Ia.) Posl. —Resumption {8 the only road to & sound finaucial policy, A fluctuating curronoy is a rich and continual feast to spaculators and moncy- gamblors, whilst it is paralysis to the honest producer, and doath to the indigent,—Ailistore (JiL.y Anti-Aonopolist. —The Gazette believos in the resumption of specie paymeut 83 soon as it can bo bronght n[}oub withiout scrions disturbance .of the busi- ness of the country. Wo don't believe in taking tho baclk " track aud indefinitoly Dostponing tho day whon our currency hall bo Phund on a spo- cie baais.—Carthage (It.) Gazetle. —Theso conscioncoloss ingrates, to food tho flamo of thair vaulting ambition, wonld aguin plungo us into the mad delirium of ‘wild speouln- {mu only to bo succeeded by & prostration whick would 1novitably carry down to a common rnin tho innocent as woll as tho guilty. It was tlieir last curd, and they havo played it with tho deaperation of dospaix. If it “won, thoy might bo cuabled, beforo tho orash came, to pull tho arty through the coming Prosidontial campaign, { not—weli, thoy woro already lost.—Priuceton, (I.) Tribune, —Intlation is & shoreloss sen undar a starloss sky ; only the timoly veto of Prasident Grant provented ug from starting on n voyago without oud.—Belleville é[ll.) Democrat, —While aninflated currency might bavo tom- porarily sont values up, induced spoculation, avd put money into tho Liands of that portion of communicy that is continually on the move, that wants to “soll out, it would have boen & grout detrimont to the permanent population—thoso who havo sottlod down to stay—who are, in fact, tho bono and alnow of our land,—Boone (lowa! Lemocrat, —Tho numbor of inflatiouists, nover 8o -large a8 many supposod, I8 now certamly diminishing, While tl{o uumerous class hithorto ‘known a4 neutrals or indiffoionts, aro fist coming to tha conclusion that a fresh insue of paper monoy fy ot the tiuo romody for our finuncial flla, It seems to uk that Gon, Grant bas met tho crisis and responeibility with the trucst wisdom and courage.—~Laporie (Ind.) Herald, —1Tha coolnoss with “whicli tho inflationiats claim the poople antdoos all concoptlon of Arctio and Antavetie, There Is not one’ fota of proot but goos to show that tho peoplo are overwhelin- ingly in fuvor of u rotura to specio paymoeuts,— Terve Haute (Ind.) Gazelte, ———— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, New Your, May 8,—Arrivod—Steamers Alpe- tis, from Liverpool; Italy, from Glarg o g NeIe‘lnr‘ fluml)nrlbmm‘l}. 5 i Ba AVENYVOOL, Blay 8.—Bieamship livi Taaho, from New Yorls, armved out, " *0d (HAvnui‘_hAny lxi.—-'l‘hu l]z'u_nfi;h u‘txruuu-x\llmulo steamor niorique, arrlved U] day from Po:umguu'x. P it