Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1874, Page 3

CONGRESSIONAL FUN. Speech of the Hon, 8. 8, Cox on the Follies of Our Diplomatio Sorvice, oL Stefnberger’s Sciontific Ramblings Among tho South-Sea Islands, ’ The Influences the Samoan Group Might Exerclse Over Our National Customs. ' The Policy of Extension and Rep- resontation Humorously Constdered. The Appropintion bill for the Diplomatic pnd Consulur sorvico boing under conuidoration, lnst Baturdey, Mr. Cox, of Now York, made a very happy speoch, from which wo roprint what fol- Jows: THE BOUTAL AMERICAN NIHUIONS. As o samplo of the Soulh Amorican missions «—that asylum of docnyed nnd exiled patriots, o to Ecundor, wlnore somo man by tho name of . Rumsoy Wing flies his Embassadorial kite. He writes from Quito tho day ailor the Fourthof Jaly lnsi—] hopo it is because bo colobrated tho Tourth : Quiro, July 5. Hay, Frar: T have the pleasure to report to you, sir, that our nationsl anniveraary, sir, was feusrally olidorved, sir, iu tlus city, sir, 1 fnicloss dispateh, Rumsey WiNe, Including exchango and contingoncics Rumsey AWing's salary is £8,747 total, as per finauclal roport for 1878, page 23. What & coueldoration for such Information! Mombors will porbaps have obsarved s voluminous correspondenco from & Minister at Santiago by the namp of Root. Ho is & doctor. Doing thoroughly vao- cinated he mnuaged to catch tho small-pox, got woll ensily, aud turned his sanitaty condition 1nto the Sinte Dopartment, Although tho press of Chili jmtimated that Mr. Root is radically wrougin imtermeddling in their hospitals, yot I always forgivo the physician when Lo hns some- thing to pxopose for the human race, especinlly in South . Americea; for it is a sickly continont. In writing to 3Ir. Fish, ho soys that ho perform- cd the follwwing romarkablo marvel : # I daily snedicate gout numbera by proxy.” ‘¢ My ryatem of t1valmont is o great puccess,” “ Wi grand idca is to dortroy tho pofon.’ A ‘now stroot Lina ‘Deen nnmed uficr mo bero,” I gonerally prefer an cuema rathe r than o purge 3 o fuverito one s com. posed of ofl of turpentine,” &e. ¢ In essoof consti- pation, Jemo cudo or other acldulated drinks,” “T orward to the Department directions for a purge.! “When an & Jeotiolio stimuleit fs indicated 1t ehould be ono with se itittlo acld an posaibla,” This gentiloman has boen considored the most remarkablo plague fn Soulh Amciien. Yet we pay for his performances, snlary, exchange, and eontingencies, over $11,0001 It would be impertinent for moe to rofer ton Alinistor like Jay., 1Io had nn ancestor, He is very much liite the bird of his uame, in plumago end jabbering, His fume and fussiness iv the Vienua melter is a simple acandal to our time snd country, Lot me ukip these sedate, umin- farmed flunkoys of our Ministerial sysiom. “We come down to TIOMANTIO APPOINTIES. “This brings us to my friend Col. Steinberger, a4 his report of the South Sea Islands, Ilois 10 b 4 religious nover liko Dr. Newmnn, I think no body will suepect him of being particularly pio us. IIois a dlippant eciontist, & man of ob- sex vation, rhotenie, and entorprise. In all that I tay I mean to support bim natho pra per candidalo for the Goveruomship of tho disiant islands_ which ho hns surveyed, Hais sud denly called from his duties at Washington ey f:ho Houth ‘3oa; why, no one can guess. \Will tire. Houeo laok upon this map, which 1 presont, toy Jearn the iocus in quo of thode islands? We & 10 told by Bhiekspenre that— On such a full ges aro we now afloat ; Aud we must tako tho current when it serves, Or lose our venturos, T supposs that on this authonty the Colonel £ tdls to the Sonth Pole. An Great Britain is now o smexing the Friendly Isles, must wo bo idle? 1§y may wo not seek for the Navigator's Isles ? f thus our old joalousies are uroueed. f A NEW SOUTIL BEA DUBBLE, Woll, sir, my intorest in these Bouth Son 1 Mles does mot como out of tho bubbles of hik- { wry which the Eoglish missioneries and John 2 Lnw blow in the lust century. It Lns s gontler 1 lountain, T oncoluew a pirl whom I truveled + xith i Africn, from tho Grisons in Bwitzerland, 1xho told mo her grandmother hed o lover along Aaith Captoin Coole in the good ship Endeavor, 1ind was eaten fu the Friendly Islands by tho gontle savage! Ilonce my absorbing and ro- 1 uantic interost in those lands, But, Alr. Speaker, whilo Linny have ideas in- 4sonsistant with thoso of iny Lonorable friend LAIr, Swann] as to the utility of tho missions ysraposed by thia Lill, I think, 2a an old traveler 1nto avery continent, I ought not to object to THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE o—— ¢ SATURDAY, MAY 23, 16874, monoy for a conlingont fund go out to the anti- pudod, T'he ront of my epeoch will bo in explonation of Uiy romeclablo feot, I know that 1 can only hatlf toll It, and moletivs always nood an ex- planation, It wan not onough for tho Administration to malo an attempt on Ban Domingo, Failing in that, thoy now ronch out to the Polynesian fnm p. hnt group is notod aa having lad in it o Botany Bny of England; aye, aud within a fow monthe, n roousmnt 5.-‘ruuul.\ domouorat, Rochofort, escaped from one of the IFrench inlands by swlmming through one mile of shurks, This fllustratos the vigor of democracy sguinst tho ravonous shoal which llvoe to destroy, OUN COMMISBIONER ETARTA. Bysan order of Presidont Oraut, Mr. A, B, Stolbborgor was nppoiuted In Maroh, 1878, Bpoclal Agont tovisit and roport upon thess Homonn Ininnds, Tue Presldont wns not sntla- *fled with tho juvenile romance entitled +Tho Swiss Family Robinson,” nor with Robinson Crusoo, with ™ his dog, parrot, and man Fnday, o intetesting as a olevor o ory for youth, I){vn persoculod Dissentor, o was nob contont with the various reporly made by tho missionnries from tho Friondly and othor adjncent islunds, Capt, Cook was to him a myth, and the mon who uto othior men woro 10 less & myth. A vilot-bont, enlled the Fauny, is chartored under tho “*contingont fund." It enils from San Franciaco In June, 1873, Hut alas | for such ox- peditions! Tho Sun Francisco prose anticipatos it, and when our Embagsador roaches the Band- wich fulands, to use hin own langunge, hie ns- sures “ His Alajosty King Lunalilo that he isin no wise aceredited to his Govornment, and that nowayondors in this us in_mauy othor cuses nro irresponsible ngitatore.” Tho reportors’ gallery will take notice and tromblo! In August, our Commissloner ronches tho enstorn island of the Bamonn group. Tho istands nro callod ** Navagutors” because, a6 our ; Commissionor eays, novigntors lhavo alway g ovolded them, just s the Friendly Islands ui a cnlled friendly bocause overybody was oal ay whon they wont thore. This group which wo sock to annox consists of nine fslancls. As tho queation beeomon one of acomamy [ an appropriation ot monoy, In ordor to fwp: the Houso against the approprintion I ) ve thought of using three rhetorionl modos: T irat, tho scientifie: sccond, the piotistic; oud, & hird, tho simplicity of my own style or that of D efoa, BCIENTIFIG VIEW OF THE ISLEH, In order to dovolop the sclentific view, I'w ould 8ay, irrospootiva of what our Commissioner has #ald, that, while thero ara ovidences of er ators In those islands, thoro are fonnd anciont ve wicn- lar lava and amygdaloidy, the olivine ofte 2 dis- intograted, sud mountalus of bagaltic xock, againnt which tho groat ewoll of thoocean!, canks with dezfoning roar. This will roadily be v’ sador- stood by the Houto. Leaving for one momont thoe repart »f our Commissioner, I would udd that thero are found there, in the circumjacont wators, round of mmandrina and wstram, conlrasted wil onto loaf-like and cup-shapod oxpanslons /oI ox- plavarioe, and with an _inflte varie iy of branching mudroporm _and serlatoporo;’ some with moro fingor-shepod projeotions, uthe, ri with Iarge branching steme, and othors agamn e xchibit- ingon olegant axsomblege of intorlacini g twigs of tho most exquikile worimanehip. Th oir col- ors avo mrivaled, vivid grecns contragtl ag with more sober Lrowns and yollows, miug 'od with, rich shados of purple from pule pinki. to deep bluo, Bright red, yetlow, and poacki-colorod mullipor: clothoe thoso mneses that ai:e doad, mingled with besutiful, porrly flakes of " eschara, and ratepora, the lntter looking like larqi-work in ivory. Inamong the branches of th o corals, like birds among trees, float mnny beau iiful flsl, radiant with metalile greens or erimsou &, or fun- tastically banded with™ black and yello:w stripos. Patches of clenr white sand atoe seen ‘hore and thore for the floor, with drrk hollows nud ro- cossos bonoath overhanging mussos a11d Iedgen. Jives, Tlore are m\m?v Xindu of pea-av;imals that have Loles in the corals ings among thein, while some kinds of Jish proy blo. ‘Fhis will answer for the phydical dossription., As & resort for coral, theeo islands aze n success, But why did not our Commissioner describe in seiontifio phzage how the sweet little Siminns (ordinavily called monkeyn), witn the prohioueilo clp of tha extendad og -coccyx, swing from the lga!!aphyllum nophyllum, in thie sunshine upon the uy JEcr slopou of Upolu and Savail # Thin would have added to tholr evion tific inborast. 8till wa should not complnin, for Las uot our Commissioner given ua tha yellow Artocarpus or bread-fruit tros, and the Cocos aucifera or cocon-nut which tho intelligent nionley drops upon tho bead of the juvenile islancler ? BAMOANS AS OIIRISTIANS. The piotistic 1terest connoctedl with theee islands dates almost ns early as Cupt, Cook's voyages. Uhe first Snbbath spent in this lnnd ho missionarics is memorable fcr s sermon, in Lnglish, from the word: ‘“*Betiold, Iam the TLord, the God of all flesh: isthora aaytbing too hard forme?" (Jeromieh, xxxii, :27.) ‘'ho na- tivas, who understood littla of the languago, be- lioving that all mankind were of onu fl esh, seizod, cooked, and consumed tho miksionaries, 'They found thom too hard for digestion, and wore shortly aftor convorted. In handsome sitylo, and ut our ox:venes, Col. Stoinberger relates the present plous coudition of thenatives, On page 21 of his report Lo showa that in 1869, when a religions _consua was taken, thoro wore 95,107 of wli religions; Inde- {wndnmu, Presbytorinns, Wesloyans, sud Catho- ios, This makes n jarjority of 60410018 relig- ious people in the islnnd then tlere ave popula tion, It is therofore 2 fair iufar ence what ovel body on the island belongs to some Clristian porsuasion. It ie sulo to say it thers is not o singlo Snmoan who hing not neer ptad Christinni- Ly, fhongh more devout rnd zea.lous in somo dis- {ilio roving sgents of the Department of Stuto, *(hio difforenca botwoon thom aud mysolf ig, that 1. bavo traveled ab my own_ oxpenwe, and pub- Iished my books at my own rigk, ~ Now, we have nod voto o contingout, fund, *“Contingent ™ menns depending on chance, i. e., wherevor 1thore is & good chinco to holp a gond goutloman of the church, like Dr. Newman, or n chovalier " industrie, liko Dr, Bteinberger, we doit 1 The iRev. Dr, Newman's ohgervations nro yot-to bo published. 'Thut good Mothodist is now exam- ining the Chinese wall for economical and arch- {2octural purposes, Ho will thon ekip over to tho fslo of Spitzenborgen ond doseriba the re~ markable breed of dogs there ; then flop into the equatovinl regions, whero . Chimborazo atends sublime, A landmark on thu ses of Time, Before the intorest of his exploration inun. dates tho moral and pious mind, let us take a glance nt Col, Steiubergor, This gontloman was dent to the Smmoun, on tne Navignior's Isles, His roport is Executive Document No. 45, Forty- third Congress, first sessiom, Our Committoo haa u recommendation, bated on his report, forn Commigsioner to be up{m[nted, with o good sal- ary, to thoso isles, T'hisis done with o viow to = prolectorate or spnexation, Its discuesion, thorofore, involves his report, and pives it an omphasis not balonging wholly to sclenco or ].numcyiu?'. We must voto onit, The *‘cou- tingont " fund is at stake, In this in involved ity proper uen. The hurdy granger aud labori- ous urtisnn, tho drowned-out planter, and tho houneet miner, dosive to know that melr money Jans beon well investod in the Houth Sea. In othor words, let us prick this new South Sez bub- ble, For mysolf, I Lave borne my share of the ex- pondicure with joy. It is not much, ly share is sbout ono-ninetioth part of a mull, Xspecially 18 this interesting 1o view of the fnct that En- gland has just anuwexed the Xeejeo Talands in thut quartor of tho globe, and appointed Capt, Grovor, an Ashantee horo, as it ruler, WHERIS ARL THE BAMOAN ISLES ? YWhere, thcn, are theso isles 2 Lool at this map ! You will percotvo, firat, tho Isls of, Juan Fornandoz ; well, atont 8,000 milew west just nbove the ‘Lropio of Capricorn, and 40 degroes enst of Australia, you will fiud them, Robinson Crutos was ono of the neavent . neighbors, and Botauy Bay suother, The iblands are cousidor- ably conducive to solitude, but not so much ay that of Crusoe, Thore aro 85,000 men and ‘women of tho V'ridny family on the islands, Al- zendy I seom to feol that wo have sunoxed thom, Contiguity of torritory makes thom o neer in tho IIYM of bumanity, yot #o far, whon wo come to rotlect, Cowper suny of Holkirk and Lis isle ¢ ‘Whea L think of my own nutive land, Ina moment I scem to b thera But alan ! racollectlan at hund, Boon hurries me back to deapalr, Toan ouly travel to theso distaot corallino ehoals in thodo pagon of the gallant Colonol. But how, sir, shall wo hound them? On the morth by the wirora borealis? Un tho east by suurigo? On tho south by tho South Pole? On tho wewt by the Dnli' of Judgment? Yes, that will do, as the map doen #o isolate them, They are situatod in fho 1nidst of an inexpressibly wutory wasto, Thoy are 7,200 miles from Juan Fernuudez, tho same distance from Bau Fran- cisco, and tho sumo distance from Loo-Choo, aud the sume from tho seat of tho Achosn war. What chorms kit this comparative wolltude for our Urusoes of clvilization? It is for those ialos that the fexmer burns his untranaported corn in Tllinois ; for theno the drayman ond truckman 4 pays hig shot " and starvosin the Ewlorn city, Xt in for thone isles, to bo acquired with & coiie tingent fnud, that tho artlanu Inbors and_strikos in Now England and that the colored lnborar, who ploke cottou in tha Houtk, sickous to soo, to love, a11d to aunex, Rogardless of ox) L ouli i 60 398 vl QUADAT o8 o o |, L3 tricts thou in othors, DAN AND JIMAIT, Asido from tho missionnry ento rprises, it might e wll to atate, in tho languago of tho Commin- sioner, how tlny remerinblo ace misition to tho OChristion religion took place. Jilo ways: Wiillams found, in 2830, that tho nt stiven know some- thing of Christinniby, ond rendily a ccopted It 'This knowledgo evidently came from thio 1-uds teqchings or influence of castuway sailors, as the mativay still Bpest; of tho whito men among them long ticfore the arrivn ! of misclonarios, 07 wich was “Dan tho Convict, who ezxptured a vossel, the Rora, murdored tho cays tatn, burned the ship, and lunded tn. Savafl, He could notther rend nor writs, yet taught tiso natives, through tholr superstition. Such anotlor wuw *Jimmy ths Bwaot,” who regularly preached to thum, Muny Inte 7. fi!vli:'lg storles cre Tolaled of these characiers by the s - e, Itmoy he necesuary to recall the fact’ g *‘Dan tho Conviet," who was 1 pirste 3ad ¥ gur- dorar, and ** Jinvunydhe fiveot” lilely camo Crom St. Ctilos and the Old Miley. Thelr m3de of propagating the Christinnisystem mbst hay v heon pecutinr, How did thoy pi*oduco such a remark- ablo efect upon those sinrole South Ser, fuland- eru? Porhaps they rolated how Pelordsnied the Lord, and iuduced alt th Islanders to copy Peter's oxample. Or pothin) ), follwiag tho toxt from Jeromualy, they tnughi them the neceseily of consuming tho misoionan o8 witlont graco, in order to be full of the holy* unction, Perhupy tho slory of Judw improssct | thea. *Hyidontly “Jimmy the Sweet" nnd ‘' Dou tha Conviet loft their impress upon these. islands, which our Administration desires to auny)x. Thsy pointed to th cross and fo the imponi tant thief. I can well imagine whet sermons :they «wuld have prenched to these heathovs,” Did ihey tonel them to pruy for thelr daily hroad, with the bre fruis trao, as owr Comunguioner Sayw, banging around their houses? Wbhat a mierninglsn, wastoful oxcesn of prayor, even Spr & Binkth Siya Islonder! . BAMOAN NUSIC, ‘What rougs did '.Im{luln;iF Ihave he fovo- o volume edited by n Miss Furmor, on tro v i slonary history, which i8 prefacod with 3. pie' aicg of natives sitting in o ring ronud tho miys ion ary, sither “ Dan tho Conviot,” or Jimmy tho ~Bw« sof " Nenr by the waves of the acean lave th v & horo, The rude hut, surmounted by the cocom wt; and tho banysn troe, the bread-fruit and th 2 palm, hero spesk to us ko touchingly. Kack i mativa sits squat, upon his sacrod mat, The | - gmn {s fvon outaud lined. Ihave tho musio of that ymu in the volume’reforred to. Cupbi Willion heard tho sume rofrain, I8 mew aing ju “thanks,” *good evening,” # how ap ) you?” i3 your mothor woll #” etv. Boautifw! . pulutu~ tlons from Polynesiau ly: “Lha lar puage in **lolel,” “loleol,” Ivis much the s dno us I bave heard in tho dravling sougs of - the har- Lariana of tho South Mediterraueancor st Capt, Coolr, when he first hoard it, said it wa: ) not en- tirvoly disagreenble. But the historinu 1 seys that the Coptain wes in a good humor thal oy, De. licions odors filled tho air, aud ho by ud drank high and full of the Kava bow], fud i the musie neownod 5ot to bo discordsnt, Yot om * Commii- aionor says in b roport, from which -1 quote, that the “Sumonns ars foud of musl ) without molody, In church and sehool ench ¢ ild neema 1o outvio the other in vocal puwer and cow that the instrumental musleis confd ed boating of stickn upon nats and hol low logs. What kind of anusic Uhin may bo v -loh, exalts thelr plons enthuslaem iv hard Lo deter :mimio, Aw # vomely vancordnney {8 ofton helped by u con- vement discord, oven a3 affvetion 18 1.uedlo mory intonse by dissgreemont ; so whon | vo anucx this wnelo of tho Polynesian Pacifle. o that of the Atlautic—whon It is_accompunic d hy such rinio donne ng Nillson, Ticon, und ol Marska, he effect would bo unexampled. Wi fen to the tich, interesting glahluu Mizoads of tho grand y Inistdz, Vi brating at bl awolli ot s Wien v i Frol (ibieo Luve ‘Theso bright creaturos havo not aiwnyis poacofal ;| s, and take up thwir lodg-- | upon thom. I presume this is if political para-: | of tho .Jrlnubhn ru Sow, those dlusounncos, which a1o veoc rdod o nd eet bo muelo in this miksiouary yolumo, | it wejuld not he unllke adding to the Iyrie gutdi of tho Btabat Mntor, or Lo tho might foather jof tt o 4 Moasinh,” n roundalay frouy fil- ivg a 8w or 4 n froty mumlu([. or a rofrain from an ovoidon.ed and undorfed doakoy, To srbnl, pontimont should this Polyneulnn mmdn; ro spond ? bl I uodorstand 1t, Jy 'i"?'."c?n .[vrnoonunpuan they would sing fruwm [ And aro tho abela yot alive, | Auddo o yct rebel, s viandrous, Wi iinazing grace, i That weuro ot of holl] 3 POLYOANY. Euw far thoy hiavo beon convorted to Ohylatl- anaty yo a8 Lo Do tit nabjects for our ritlo may bo 1o aried further from the Commissionor's roport, 1r toth which T quote s ** Polygamy {u common on "o part of men, novor ontho part of womon ; two wives goldom livein the samo houso; a 1lurality of wives in not common, the husband Tasunlly nending his wife to hor peoplo when ho 1kakoa "8 now one, Virtue in Samon Is predomi. 1onnt, The malden of a village is roverenced 110re a8 n virgin thna ae a chiel’s daughtor.” Bo that when the Houvo of Representntives shall Yoto tho propositlon of Socrotary Fish for vor- ial rolationu aud porhiaps nunoxation of thoso Islands to owur country, I fool liko calling the rolo of gentlemon who voted tho other day Lo invos- | tignto the heinous polyganiy of Utal. And may | X not auk that a commixslon bo sont to Sazon ba- | Toro wo nnnox? WAB. ! _To show further the romarlablo Chrintian | Principlo of thoso islunds, lot us look nt their ! mannor of conducting war. In nat war o fair %ot of nllogiance to the Princo of Peaco? As to Lhis, snya tho Commiusioner, *the Samoans are Potient, onrnont, onsily controllod by his lender. $¥Lilo ‘oruel to thoit onomicw, thoy nro navor troncherous. Prisoners are never taken. ‘Lo importanco of n viclory is mensured by the num- ber of heads takon, “The hoad iy publioly ox- posed ond roviled, but novor mutilatod.” ‘This would soom to give a refinoment to war to whioh our Modocs have nover attained. Onr Indicus aro actuated by the pame rofinement to tako ‘not only tho ecnlp of o bairy, but 8 bald-headed man. No ono oscapes ; but they only teko the scalp, Thoso Chiriotinn Arcadians in the Houth Sen fulnuds, whom wo would sonox undor tho vrdors of the Hecrotary of Stato, aro nevor satisfied withont having the whole hoad | I do not refer, na an ovidonco 0f Ohbrlstisnity, to {ho disonses prevalent in thoir midst. I might refer to the protuborancos which surgoons uro cumy‘mlled to ent from tho bodies of thoso welf- indulgont islandors. Tho mubject, howover, is too nico for this delicate Congross. Besides thero aro disoasca—olephantiasia, sorinsis, &o,— which characierizo theso islanders, Befora wo annox thom, it might bo well to atato that clo- phantiosin 18 not avy diseass connocled tho ‘pachndermotn, but it in a swolled log; whilo Horinsly is nothing mora than thoitch, This, liowaever, in no special objection to nunoxation with our Administiution. . TREIR DNESS. If Troferrcd, ns the Conunfusioner does, to their disposition to assume tho dross of the whites—the white gloves, silk dresses, onormous erinoline, pauiers, old-slyle hounets for their DMay moetinge—some ono might say that Iwes making points ngainst our rovolutionary an- costors and ancestrenssos, who, s wo wero in- formod tho other duy, drossod in suoh ontre Lhabiliments. LLOAL-TENDER JIATS, It would bo woll, perhaps, in considering tho finznoisl condition of our conntry, to quote from the Comminsioner with respoct to tho ** snorod mate " producad thero ; pot because thoy aro sucred, but because they are rogurded s & ieg:ll- tender. Our Commissionar eays, on pago 24, “tlut fumilies connt ¢hele wonlth, ‘and all Purnuunl and real estato is cowputed by fino mate.'” For the sccure establishment and muintenanco of ahomoe sud foreigu govorn- mont in Bamoa, tho bereditary sud fletitious value of ¢finc mats” must bo destroyed, This could best be douo by aflixing a Govern- meut stamp and making them a circulating mo- dium subject to redomplion ag is papor monoy." Was thero ever 8o easy u solution of onr trouble- somne problem 2 Boeides giviug us o fixed stand- ard, it would enorgize and oncournzo n now branch of iudustry. Why not then sond for tho chief of Pago- Pago to weitlo owr distressing questions of finunce upon tho principlo of fing mots oud re- domption. And yet, on pago 41, tho Commis- sluner enys of tha nativea of thoso islands, **In thoory thoy display romo wisdom, buk thoy munt fail in practice. They fully realize thut somo Govornment must aid.” Lot us rush to thewr nasistauce. Loaving, therofore, tho roport of ths Cowmissioner, and going o tho nppendls, it gives mo o great deal of pleasure 1o sy that our comtaission to Muugo, tho Chiof of Pngo-Pngo, recognizes tho intellls uuce and the financial supromacy of the United tutes, for this chief writos to. Presideul Grant hat “his people aro poor, and s flunncos ato Josa; that the good teachora have taught us to Do honest, obsyrve your doctrine, aud mnintain o{gr tml.hr.;’ Whutln. iillxml-e on Amc]llclm legis- ation, aflor our legislution on poulygamy and the Prosident’s 'wto.e. e e VEMALE DISTILLATION, Ny, I havo omitted one thing we need; wo soob. for revouno and cconomy. I'he fomales of thode islunds ave 2a incornate distillery, No cru sadern disturb their operations. Thore is n berantiful spreading shrub catled tho macropipit m ethysticum, tho 1vot of a kind of pepper-plaut, n delightful eoporific properly apministered, tat through the abuse of mon bt beon trans- ‘formed into an intoxicating beverago. Our Comrmisnioner says that he has seon no case of stopelaction or intoxicetion resulting from its uep, How is It prepured, nndin cago of nnnesa- tion how can wo recover the Internal-revenus tox? Our Commiesionor says that the liquor is prepared from the dvied root of o wroocss of mastieation by young glils, mnd strainod through cocoanut” flbres intou Uurge Lowl, lewn -from the trunk of & trec. “Whoso young virginel_distillories “must bo ‘healthy with sound, clonn teeth.” According o another nuthority’ which I havo beore mo, ‘tho root must bo bitton cerefully whilo fn the Fumth with litlle moisturo mixing with it, Fhon % in prepared for tho Samomn fostivity. Jnpt. Cook hid o saturnalia with this remarkn- Dlo liquor; and I am not suro but bis fiual death wus occasioned by & too froo-indulgence. Ono ihing {8 sure, that never sincoe tho time of Sgancer's Fairy Bower of Bliss, when his boau- %eous heroines pressed tho grape botween their pinky fingors, could it ever bo snid with truth that **Ho fair & wine-press mede the wine more swoet.” Who that admires the benuty of the Eamonn womnn degcribed by our Commissioner us hevlug oyes Dlack, woft, mad pleasing, with ~ melancholy air and meekness, with alin of- polished ocoppor, proud in boaring, amaotl, straight, eract, und symmetrical, would he reluctant to drink tho wine of so falr o wine-presy ? *Where aro your burgundios, shor- rios, clarets, champagnes, mantilladoy, aad lnoh- rymio clristm—compured with (his Snmonn Aiquor? Lot Luoullus dash tho gommed goblot from his luxurious honrd ; tet Bacehus real under tho burdoen of his wine-leaves and his bibulous excosses, Lot Longfollow tune his Iyre in praisn of Tongworth ; lot him ohnnt, like nn_inspicod Silenus, the pralses of the cremmy Verzouay. ‘What nro those tothe original vintage of thio Bawmonn Islands? Drugyed In thedr juico 3 For forelgn use, ‘When ebippod o’er the reeling Atlantic, “T'o rack our hrains With the fover paius That have tiriveu the old world frantle, Yet, My, Sponkor, why should we aunex theso slnuds? Some liarsh und orabbed porson like my friond from Indinnn {Mr. Holmun) or my friend from Vermout [Mr, Willurd] will ask mo why we want no distant und_extravayant a reln~ tion, Porhups I s peculiar, Wo ¢an bave nothiog worso thun wo now haye. Almost any- thing would bo bettor, It wasJosh Billings who remarked: ; Inever ownod kammel-loopard yet, and: hopo X sliau’t; but 3f 1 aliood hav te take one Ju payinent,of & dot, Iihood konsider I had lost {he tet twico, Perhupe ho had this sorl of uequisition in bis eyen, 3 CUBA AND CIVIL RIGHTS, Bofore ontaring ulmn the onormons travel and soquisition coutemplatod by this roport, would 1t not be well to inquire why it is, when catled upon to protect nnd anuox such u People, 85,000 strong, in the South Hoa untipades, that we do not protect and enlarga into the light of liberty the thousands who sre in slavery nesr us, on the Tslund of Cubs? Itiaight also b woll to consider, whoen wo have so many local aund donjostio questions connectod with our In. diun ond other coloved raves, growing out of thieir dosire to llva und to Lu buried equally with tho whites, why thewr status in not 1\xud soInp- how, bofore wo recognize aud organizo another raco, Certuinly our interosts with Ouba involve’ iu mueny ways our oconomios, nol merely as to Juxurles like clgars, but as to ucoessaries Hko sugur, It involves the liberly of aracve which made our Civil War, and cost us soven billions of raoney and u million of men, Lint I um growing sorious. I meunt ouly to presons the bost kido o this remarkublo foreign aftair, UEAFONG THO AND CON YOI ANNEXATION, When we consider the rolative distances of thesa Hanionn lules from our shorns, and the fact thut eurtiqualion aud voloanoes huva 50 sbound. | ed thorain thati tho pationt worle of billlons of coral g baon Ulstributed by the Prnnmuru Ape RavanBe of, aynls wud gikolto) 16 fo olonr shnt (b comep within tho limited powors of our Faderal (tovernmont [ Morcover, whon wo remembuor that our Duroaus aro oxmmiulng into our own faunn oud flora—thal wo wre meking tho Yoscmito snd Yollowstona Parks tributnry to sofonco by Fedoral oxploration and publications whon aven our Capitol is decorated with tho birds and booota and evooping things of our homisphora ; and as theno mattors are dofonded ag swithin the purvlow of Fedoral nuthority who doea not rojoice in the discovery by our Commlasionor of the npottod suake that crows and tho oxtinct dodo, which, like tha phoonix and the griftin, are dolivered frony the wilnown realmy of famcyl Sir Jobn Mnndeville and Munchnausen ara nob, 1or ronsons uunccosaary to 1ehearan, fit for Fubllem‘lnn by n vornclous Ad- ministration, bub the luminoun and unplenuant wruths of this pampllot aro indisponsable to Tedoral logislation and the nverago intolligenco. For fustauce, wo hnve loug boon disousuing finnncoy, with thelr intlations nnd contenctions. Whint aray of Jight Is casl upon theso abetiuso subjucta by tho disoussion of our Commissioner of vhosnorod mats Many reasone might bo urged for tho ncqulal- tlon of thosoe isles. " Nob boenue porpetunl sum-'| meor (hers simmors in the sunny air; nat bo- canso brond-frult is produced without planting, plowing, harrowlug, or reaping s not bocause tho codba givos from tha fruftful bpsom of mothor earth its milk for young aud old ; not because polygamy there J:ruvmla nnd Christian- ity sings its hymus in discordunt monotone ot beceusa it recognizen cauts and has © maty for logal-tender ; not bocauso il adopta tho dise corded toilettes of our civilized dnmon aud demoisollos; but bocnuaze the 85,000 indigenes will, whon annoxed, beoomo con sumers of our products; aud, when they buy our hatchotn and nails, our whisky and tobacoo, our hair-ploa nand hoop-skirts, otir hymu-bools and Biblos, will we not in this timo’of diutress liore add to our ravenues? Ience, I am for Mr. Tish's proposition. Not, howaver, do I avaor it on mercenary vounds| Ob, no. When Mnrk Twain recgived from the Porsian Pasha Lis plcturo sot in diamonds, he oxclaimed, * O, sive, I do not cara for tho atting. It is ouly the portrait I crave.,” Noithor, sir, iu it becanso L would have a con- voniont_lile of rotuge for thowa who may lonve wa in 1876, Tho good men who aro ny cereful ay thoy are honost in administration, the mou of moioties,and the Indlan contractors, mighi {lnd no theuo Islos o happy refugeand resting-place, freo from the porsecutions of a vonal pross and tho indictments of indignant grand juries. In ¢onclusion, r. Bponker, finding & contin- gont fund of 931,000 ju this bill, knowing what contingonolos nre end how thoy grow and gos knowing tha neods of tho Trensury, which is bunkrupt, and the needs of the people who have to make up tho deficloncy, I should be deroliot in my duty it T did not inaist thnt wo ahould out off tho large body of this oxpense growing oul of our forvign yelntions in ordor to draw to us the polygomous aud Christinn and commercial peoplo who live 80 many thousands of miles away from us; who aro 8o noar and yot so far, I thiul, Mr. 8poaker, these romarks will iltus- trata tho remarkable comity, patriotism, and ox- poditions of the State Dopartmont, Mg their worsk endenvors Lo bettor than that of Ban Do- mingo, and their best toud to the intorost and honor of our country. THE FARMERS' FRIENDS. Tnsect=Eating 13iras. Trom the New York Ivemng I'ost. o hnve boforo us o prisio osasy, by Frank H. Palmor, entitiod * Ingcct-Bating Birds the Farmers' Best Frionds,” published at Boston under tho auspices of the zssachusotts Bo- eioty for the Proveution of Cruelty to Animals, Iusccts oo the pest and hano of Amorican fruit culture ; they spoll our cherriea ; thoy sting our pours ond apples, and rendor thom worthless; they provent our plum treos from producing mature froit; they puncturo our grapes; they destroy the beauty of our roses; thoy dovour our groow vegotsbles, nud are: mizchievous in othor woys. Mr. Palmer muintaivs that this is tho result of our own improvidence. It is, ho wuays, Dbecnuso man bhas de- slroyed thoir naturnl enemics that inacels have becomoe o post, and they will coaso Lo trouble him only in proportion ag he shatl re- store the dalauce of which nnturo shows tho no- cessity. During tho rast few yoars, ho remerks, there s been o steady decrease in the number of our native birds in nil Hm‘tu of tho country _whore mian hos formed his.sottlomenta, and consoquontly thore hai hoon an immento in- oroase of Llio inseet tribow on which birds are fod, Tho pamphlet beforo us coutnina a liat of* the birds which feed on insocts. Of tho insceta hurtful to garden vogotablos he makes thirty ditferent specios ; of those injurious to the apple and apple tree, sovonéy-five. Shade troes bave o huundred kinds of inscet cuemion, and wheat and othor graing fitdy. Wo require a very con- #ldorablo army of birds to protect tho husband. mon sgainst tho ravagos of theso pouts, end thoro svoms to be uve\'fl reason why tho killmg of birdy that fecd on the ineect tribes ehould be punshable by tho tribunal, Bul wo began thie only with o view of copying what My, Palmer hes to kay of providing proper Lobitations for theso friends of tho farmer. Hera is what ho says on this poiut: *‘Noxt to tho luw, tho most important mens- uro for tho protection of birda is tho putting up of accommodations for thom, uud thuy inducing them to settle ou our eutatos. Thero 18 no rea- son why overy ouo who hay'a half-ucre of fand should not huve two or threo paivs of birds nost~ ing Lhereon. Torbzps many do uot realize what simplo accommodations swallows, blucbirds, sparvows, wrens sud otber birds are eagor to avail thomselves of. Simplo aud inexpensive nrrangomonts aro just a satisfactory to them as the most clegant and costly ornsmental houses ; and no ono neod be provanted b tho fesr of oxpouse from furnishing dwell- ing-pluces, rent free, to theso interesting ton- outs, With a fow simplo tools and a box or two which any grover will give you, o bird-house may be made of nhnost any size or shape do- sired, Saould you wish it highly ornamental, nothing iy better then to cover It with rustic work, which muy bo done with the nid of a wild grapeyivo cut in piecos of the right lengil and uailed on, Huch a bird-house "costs littlo or nothing save the time required to make it ; and thuw slight oxpenao will be maply ropuid by tho untinfaction of doing o good decd. 'hero nre meny simplo confrivancos which may bo prepared aud put up in livo minutes, and will gorvo thio birds as well as anything clse, At tha oponing of tho present seuson wo putup four Lin cuns, such ay ave used for canuing to- matoes, huving tirst filed & small Lols in the lowor ond to provent the collection of wator. Threo of the four were jmmediatoly occupied by bluebirds. Ouo prir laid five oggs, four of which hntchod, uud the young grow fo muturity. The othor two puirs each hnd two broods, four u;{gu to cach brood, and all hatchod; but three of the young diod bofora rowing up, Soventcen young blue-birds and hoir pnronty, six 1n number—iwonty-three ju- #eet-ontlng Lirds—wore thus luduced to make their homes iu onr orchavd, tho parent birds for about & mouths, und the youug way nboutd moutho, Cortaiuly, ut & vory low cstimato, oach bird would nveruge 20 iudoets n duy ; for tho food of thoso birds cousisty entively of insocts, At this rate tho old birds would have dostroyod dur- iug their stay hero 18,000 iusects, nad thio young 80,600—whioh gives n cotal of 48,600 jusucts do- atroyed from our own and our neighbors' trees ; and it did not talo ws half an hour to propare wnd put up those wimple uccoramodations, Avo not thoso facts eloquent? ‘Then iiow Interesting to watch tho lousokesp- ing ' orraugements of those beaubiful little noighbors: to hoar thelr welecomo song when wintor seotnod slill with us; to bearr them de- bato the situation, sad finally dacido In favor of our np[:lmmn; to soo them carrying nup grasses and colton ‘and feathors, aud weaving' thom tos ffithar into u hod of down for tho protoction of thelr enrly-lnid oge; to watch thoir love-mnk- ing, sud all their gentlo, aiedtionalo <wayy towardu oach other; their jealousy of intruders, and their solicitous cars of their egus during tho period of iucubation; their final joy whea the youny: break tho sbolis and are borp to the light ; and thew untlring dovotion in obtaining tholeo bity of tusect-rood for the nourishmont ol thoir offepring, Lruly, hovo I8 Bounly at our door- yurd, and Pootry has takon up ber abixie in our apple-troo, * Purple mariing, and other mowlers of tho awallow_tribo, will readily occupy hoyon put up for thoir use. Wrous, too, Aro tintorosting friends, und ave onsily induced to sotfilo with us. Wo know of o case whera & pair of bluae-birds found u happy bome'in an old bouvor* hat which had blown up and lodged in an applo-tree, A finnd hird-houss may bn wada of & my dlum-sized tlower-pot, with tho hola somowhut on larged and the top coverad with s bonrd. Wil nol ovory ono who hes a dozeu rods of Jand uako u bird- house of somo kind, and thus help to restore tho proper proportions of tho feathared and in~ Heob races 2" SR The Gird of the Perial, Lrom the Now Yerk Mudl, A yery ningulur style of walle greal oxtont amany; ihe ledies of a0 plousod to ool thomeolves Arms nkinbo, hend tossed on one , ind eyes turned heovenyird, thoy wnnter down the stroot —un embodiment of impudenco and suog froid paintul (o see wmony ladies, Tho “purlof tho poriod " is unquentionubly bold in looky, it nob n dmnn‘pm. und RYOthapt) uq'qt dn{urtllul Re= 4 ol mrevails to n oW Yorl who hionablos, vl ditiolen 16 wiKolY s ila vty THE PRESS AND THE PEOPLE. An Address Deliverod Beforo the Ken- incky Press Association, By Mr. M, Halstead, of the Oin- cinnati Commercial. The following s the full toxt of the addresy delivered heforo the Pross Assofiation of Ken- tucky, at 1lsnderson, May 20, by Mr, Halstead, cditor of the Cinclounti Commercial: Gentlemen of the Aasociated Press of Kentucky If wo of tho Prens should ask our bost fricuds, not of our aceupntion, to Lell us faithfully In whnt estimn- tion tho world Lolia ua, nnd thoy ationld kindiy con- sent, for our mako,to enabls i toses ourselven ag others geo us, wo miglit be surprisod to find it tha opinion of the Judlclous that wo Liayo not reohod i porfoction of pulio naefulnens; und that ho Iress, Viowed from the highest pointy, aud weighed in tho hr@mt balances, would bo found seriously wanting, "Che nnwn)mx\ur ainga tho song of the poct, who has ot morit of candor, if not tho gift of melody, 41 GRLEUNATE NTNELT," The virtues of udvertising lnve been much com. mended, aud certainly tho Press Tm'lnllca freely of its fuvorlto pruscriptiou—taldug, indloed, tho lowe ahare of tho medicine that is—tha oppesite of an * oblivious entidoto,” Whatover, thon, it 1ny Incl, our buslnesn liaw th nmplest coneplomty, One lghts shino liko tho lawps of tho cities on thio bills, "The printed paper sheot Is one of the elements of tho utnosplisro of the age, Tho bulm and uplees, Jo- Titical und personal, that give the familior fiavar, on- ter Eoelfll«rly into the alra that lup tlis Continent, One-half of tho world's 14,000 perfodicals aro fasued in North Amorica, aud one-Haif of . thess in tlio Valivy of tho Missiseipyl, s0 that we muy bo suro tho peaplo ‘who are sinfiil in this qunrlor of fhie globs—miocasured Dy tho newspnper coiisus—sto sinners ngainmt tho Ught und knowledgo that thoe * able wlitor " radiates, thore ia ouu thing that (roubles us mnovw than another, it 34 not obseurlty—nor 18 1t Inck of influonce, ‘Tho Press hos afuenco of power, but it appeara BATIL IN BTIMULATING THAN IN DIREOTING tho forecu of populer movoments, Ouo uanuot he confldent thnt it doos not somotimes uugment the to- naclty of orlinal siu and strengthon tho vigor of total dopravity, Itacapucity in oxciting rovolutious sud colindiing wara Lins {inposing oxnmples, nnd hos readior recognition than any ability it may possesa o gulde with wisdom tho fiery storms it hns fannoed ; but thoro 1auu tpression abroad that sometinies, nfter nowiug the winds, tho Press reaps with singular ad- ‘vautuge the harveat of the whirlwind, It may o that wo wield amoog tho jmplemonts of our {nduatry tho trumpot of Fame nud Lo thuuders of Jove, and that we possoss tho gooun that Jaya the golden eqgs of the day ; hut L {3 to bo remarked that tho chieap facilities of publicity load us into tho temps tation to magaify our oftice, Now, ahall we not, under o senso of rosponsibility incousistent with estentation, corrget tho besetting teudency to exaggerate our pre- ropatives—if indoed we havo any—and constderatoly define tho Limitations of our dutles and lnbors ? Tlore i3 an {liustrious sentenco, written by George Mazon, of Virginin, that i npt ere : ' Noman orsotof men iy eutitled to exclusive or sepatato omolumonta or privilegos from tho com- munity, but in conslderation of public services," Thesonro worda of wisdom, and thers oro io por- sons to whom they may be moro usefal than thoso de- seribed ps % meimbors of the Press,” We munt not consont fo be reckoned no n caste—to be classified as tribo—’ pacullar puoplo vet ‘apart for slalod service amd spocial censure or roward, Wo must roslst {he prosiunptions of ignorarce not in our midst, and the ailectations of the vain among vuraclves, that our Tiphts arenot pracisely thoso of our fellowscitizons, ‘There nro no priviloges of the Praas th ARE NOT THLE PIIVILEES OF L PEOVLE, Any citizen has the right to tell the truth—epenk it or ‘write it—for Lia own advanioge aud tho genoral wel- fare, No editor can properly claim_n court or o the strect more than that, Our equallly in rights with our nelghbors is positive, If wo hove the menns of addressing a Jarger andience than others lave, thero 48 an fucreaso of reaponsibility, not an enlsrgement of right, If we ntriko with tiic longest polo we moy ¢ lnock the porsimmona” from the tres-lops out of tho reach of ofher sticks, but the frulta not oura until wo gather it; and us for the grapen that aro sour, wo must learn to'look upon thom with, i nossiblc, more than tho fox's philorophy, for they wlfl glitter ou the inaccenniblo arbors forover. It s implied in tho svvero and luminous words vio quate from Georgs Maeou, that In cousiderntion of public services men becomo entitled to omoluments end privilezes from tho community, Wo enumerate amoug {hoso omolumenta: wages in proportion to worké,—tho good-will of houest men,—the_roputation for helpful deeds that seserts title to public respect and confidenco s and among {hose privilecs, (he. eo- Joyment of tho enwity of the vicious, the mnlico of tho Tobbers of the people, and (ho hatred of the swindiors of the poor, No wet of men—not oven those who have charge of the administration of tholaws—nre in a more commandfug position to render themeolves ‘worlhy of grateful remembrance than that in which it 48 pructicabile for us Lo place. ourseives, Compstency for the publio eeryico can cowmo only from dutifal preparation for ib, If weaccept no favars, wo muy ox- act justice, If wa claim for ourselves only what wo earn, wo can deny to others that which thoy do not de- Borve, ‘The thing necdfui firal in cstablishing n baso of operulions for the belpof the people, against thoso (o uso mighty fa euuntig o dovour thelr subslance, ; TNTEGTITY § anid with it helong the courage of conviotions and the conseiouences of independenics, With thesa wo are equipped for tho field, aud tho flold 1s the world, ‘Wo come, thon, to nasort thut conslderatious .of Keeplng faith with our subscribers, and of Lonorable dealing with the public ot large, u well nd of our own moral attitude, urgo that in ouf colunua tho roadin matter and tho advortisemonta should alweys ba kep! apart ond distinet : and that thero should bo betwesn the Prosa and the Btato a separation as clearly defiued 25 Botveen tho Stato and tho Church, Tl mezns, i roqurd to the distinction of. ndver- Unoments und roading mutlor, that ve have space to &oll, not oplnions of which wo moko morclandiso ; and, in reapect to the aoparation of the Press and tho Btate, it does not mean absence from uffnirs, but {dentity with the people—activity with prodiictive {ndustey, not purtnerebip with consuming ofticlls and thelr co-oporative coutractorn, IF wo print, 0s mafter sclected for the publie in- fornution, or ng propared by oursulves for the beneilt of the goueral reader, that which represcats an indi- Vidund futerost, and wko DA for t, Bow osa o escape the imputation that we liavo HOLD OUR ISTLUESOE with thoso wlio repono coufidenco in us? An avticlo appoears u editorial position and typs n o reapectable jouraal—or, to Lo oxact, in a journal {hat to couflliug; readers setms to Lo Yesponsiblo—recom- monding as o safo and remunerative investment the bonds of 6 railroad or canul In courso of coustruction from Groenlond to Biberls, A fattering tulo 14 told of thie genlal climato ond fertilo kofl, of tlio huppy Isud between Hudson's Bay aud Alasku—of tha curly epple Dlossomu, und tho grasses and wild flowers of the loni sumuict fime, and the fruita, the coru, and sweet fod~ dor, and all tho riponess of lingering mutumn—in the superb region, watered by the abounding rivers that Tun to the Polar Sen and tempored by tho soft winds from Northorn Asis rich with (ho musk of tho roscs of Spitzborgen, Among thoso who read this glowing fiction (which is made to bristle will certifieales and statistics), and who, aa thoy undoratand it, tuke tho word of {he editor they believoin for lts iruth, nro o0 suid women who have Jittlo hoarda of mouoy, the not product of maby years® hard work and hard sy~ ing ; and they want £o piuce it whore it will be sufoand yield o moderato income, 8o they iuvest tholr eapital, made precious by their liopes and prayors, nud sacred by the purity of tho devoton it reprenonts, in the 4vgold-bearing bonds ** that huve no other security than the proditction of tropical feulta In tho Arctis Saliarul Ton not the editor asinlod in flie roblery of {hoso oo people, aud {8 1ot the money pald Lim, for his (udorsowent of a rascully romance, in THE NATURL OF A LRIBL? Tn it sufficlent that he dlsclalms responsibility for an zdverlisemont 7 Certaiuly the advertiscment shoull Do elassifiod 50 thiat thero conld ba 1o infutako a8 to its charactor ns matter ‘:flid for, und representing nat the eititorinl judgment, but the enterprine of au jrrationn} adveuturer, or un unconsciounble scoundrel, 1t would seow {hat thosubzoriber for a hewsgaper eliould biyo @ reraguablo aaatrsiice b ity princiylos nd motliods of buainess, thut {L iv not to Lo uséd by shurpers to cheat him. “Tue adverticer fs, however, tho diflcult person fo deal with, 1fe 4 often In neod of admonition aud ne struction for bis edification und Lullding up Iy Gio knowledyo of (hat which belonyu to him win o pus- chases udmiuslon to our colimus, Wo must fix tho polntin tho public nndurstanding that the nowspu- per Is not tho product of ravoritism of adver- tsers—that tho oditor doey mnot cusl solely by tho graco of the Melng who puts nn wdvortissmont in his poper, bub ues In his dally Jubor, if In nothing’ elss, vinible aud rightful menni of enpport—tuat newspaper ‘!(npeflty 14, Nko ofhor properly, fatrly productive, 1f * curefully’ mannged— hut {he subsuriber, decontly dealt with, gets tho woeth of s mpney—that tho ndvortiscr dots not bestow benofaction and confer a solumn and lnsting ohllga- tion, but engages in n transaction of a purely busiuces charactor for bis own benefit—thut lio_dues not pa- tronize {ho Pross, but that tho Pross furnishes i the indinpenssble moons of veaching the public, und when Lie has paid the bill, 18 ON EQUAT YOOTING WETI HIM, Now {f io proposes to purchaso anyihing more than spuce, tho advautngo of good position awl tho most ui- tragtive style that can bo offered for tho display of bis mattor, ho mistakus his rolations il the Pres, or oy ur ot o wort at should. Liave our upyrdiae o, Torhnps some advertisers moy heeltate to come down frow tho podestal they havo ocouplod for i long Hmo as Uio patrons mud Lenofactore of tho Press, 1t gmo; Le, If thoy ean not ocoupy our columus as thoy fSing, thit thoy will witldraw thelr {nostimnublo boons and permit the Presa to laujuiel and the pouple to mourn; and it 1s ovident that wa should proceed 0 48 o guar, sgatout tho porll of mixfortuio 8o worv. 34l tho Pren wo think wtronss enough toideterml the law of its business, aud to * relegato” tho ailver- tlser to kis own proper’ part of the puper; uud thero can 1o 1o doubt that tio managers of novispapars who Lava flio norve to lay down (o Taw and Tive up to it, will fiud theinsolven nugtulned b all sides, kooplug thi #ood thinga they Luve gol, aud reachiug ont with strougthoned hinda for tho' golden promscs of tke fature, In the mnke-up of the nowspapur we mist 4 draw the Hno somey:huro " hetwoen the motter thub 1s for tho genvenl outertatument, inforpiation, sud - stvuotion, und that wlich s for the sdvancemont of {ndividual purposes; and wo vhould denw tus sigit 1uo ones for all—tuat yuld matler ehall b publivied &0 that the fucl vill not o couconlod, If this cowd Do declared and establiubed by tho Prean s an fnyorls Ablo rule, at finieuse aind porplexiug cubarrarsment would hu romoved, Wo sbould waln wnck, sud o= bady eould lnso unyihiug that cuglitnot toL.e lost, The advertivers wha aro fond of editing our puj e wauld not, perhape, givo up ths bubit of dictuting, and e vadty of adestiving vditoslally, wWitbout proteity 3 4n7 a gond deal, but presently Hliera would e among {ham the dawn of a righter Intelligenreand tho olenv= Toss of the bottor way,” Unquestionably they would have advantages in uceopting fully o ‘roapon bility for th publicity of their vwn entorprises, When it Lri'uomml known that tho editorial article 18 pucchusu~ o, TT8 FONCE ITAS PARED AWAY, Adsestising ngeutn nro vlgorous in {hole opinlons, and it woatns to bo their fAnost siroke of busiuces to thrust an advertisement futo a placo whero they are toid It cannot go, aid {0 get rntes whick thoy nre as aured iLis impomblo o obtniu; but, in epits of tho thoory of thosu ugents, ¢ often 'oconts that o mimplo advortisemant hina strongtl thut a local parngraph or an editorinl nofice éannot hnvo, Tho udvortisor Lan Luntliar knowlodga of thy trananetions in which s 18 ongayiud, aud kuows how o oxpross Limself aboub thoi Intia wnont el terma, d whun o goen o~ Lors tinpblio faiely, giving bfn awn clese.out oxprone wlons fo ita announcement, idontifylog it with firm- namo aud location of huslrioss, it comes aut, with tho ringol_reality, geunino, atsmpod with suthionticlty, and cominanaing coufidence, It lina the oficial tono, for It In by unthotlty on tho ubject. trostod, and_ huk e valua of abvians varlty, “Many Dustiiosn men thoroughly wnderstand {hta, Thole oxpariotico tonclion that the efllciency of an sdvertisoment, that appenca nn tho thing it In, oxccadu that of auy false cteunslocal er cdilariniyor of un arilly muggled o {hie “ reading mattor* thal s g0 dusr Lo tho huarla of tho negotintor whoso schontes domand the (decey tion of tho customar, This [u the losson it ds: (myor- tant to tench tho othors, Tho art of tho : ; ACCOMMODATION OF THY, ADVERTIRERN, ~and the ways of pleartug im, wo sionld eulttvate ond cmploy, “Whon fio han lean tfught thoprluclpley upon Which'e can_procced with ue, we may count upon Lilin ns amonnblo to renson. Tlien we must (ako him into tho ovneturm, and finpnrt somo of that intolligenco nbont the dotails of our relatfons with the world, which; though avolvad long 1go from our experience, Tins ot pnsed futo Ll common fund of informationt and taken the form of procepts, All should kmow {uat n ndverlisement 18 not cona spiatious in proportion as 1t iz dirplayed—thab thera i rcat promisence of typo withoul ntirusilsoness o (o eye-Lthnt excosslvo olicliation in_ropwlaivo—that ff the_closaification of ndvurtisomonts 1o careful and comjlete, and tho male-up of the papor uccording to yusslon’ that, 4 plaia, ho rendos known wilors (o Took for what in wante, 'and turns thero wilholt ze- gad o the slznof tho' type, tho odilly of wrrango- ent, or th loeatlon of tho classification head— wlgllee it s Inuido oF oulsidey Gent yogs oF laat, Wo can fllurtento this by & famillar luslanco, It would bo prepostoroun, in Fhiladelpbis, to luld b= Ho nueeting, fox religious or political; sorlal or bo- nevalent pit rposs, wltuout advorlising it i the Ledger, Whon the Philudelphian wonls Lo kuow what meotinga ara 10 o lield, lio Jooks, not to tha local calumn, hut (o the ndvortised notieca, Tt he ehiould ace n © Jocal ¥ rof- erenco to o meeting e woiild not. know whetbor it wus authorized or wot 3 but the reguluendvortired notico, aecording to tho clistom of tho city, gves {ho nomos aud dutes, hour and place, and fu oxactly ta tho polnt. Thiero 18 130 nonsouso about it, and I MEANH BURINESS, Toro fs & public policy worthy to e studled and jm- {tatedj and if tho Philadelphin systom wora gonerally ndoptad, it would ave v from many amisbio bt pri sumptuous demonds—from unprofifable repetitions of woariabino comumouplace, gad contuslon thut 1 irei~ ating. The' Inglish atsle of nowapapor-advertislng lias el to commond ft. In posters fluming on tho walls, in sigu boards, fn utiliziuf famous scenery with glar- ingunuouucénienty, England surpassea us, Tho Young Men' Christian_Assoclation competes, fn pla. carding landscepes, with the Jjoound propriotors of patent medicines, sud with tuo London Zelenraph, which procirimn throughout the lind ond afoug thé o Lo Joytul tdings ot fhe *Iurgost circalation in tho world.? Fho penntics of naturote of courro o= liancod by tho glgantic etering of o most mwiable apots with famous texta of Scripture, But tho ndvr- tialug in tho lournaln of Englind i fieth ot guudy, 1t In high-priced, and the prices aro unchangenbio, It in tlie hoast oa tlio London Timea conntiug-ragm that tho prlto of adyortising hoa not varicd o penay s pego for & quirter of o contury, Tho advortiromonts fu tho firat-rale English nowspapers aro rigorously clussified, o poople seck thelr *wanis” under tho approprinta hoaily, Amongs tho advantages of this system is (ho ‘promotion of TAR BUAUTY OF TYPNGRAPHT, ‘Tho hienyy rates charged for ad vertieemonts, and firma iy maiutained, yloid o uga rovouto frofn o smnall space, and (L4 gives raom for tie o of plain taye in the reading matter. If wo conld rid ouranives at onco of the groteaqno displays, and of the frandulent adver- tislng ns reading matter, the appoarance as well ui the cliaracter of the American newspuper vould le im- proved, ond, without reducing our profts, we might cnlarge our typoand psre tho eyesight of tho students of current history, Wa yas3 from tho iscusslon of business manage- ment £0 our larger relatious with the people. Ttings— &nd thero $3a wholo Lfstory in tho word—iro combinne tlous to contral publio uffuirs in private interests, Thoy {mprovo our citics not to hiclp (o paoplo or for thosake of tho fmprovements, brit for tho benefls of {lio company cugaged_ in thuutelpal nisogeincal, They sdiniulater_our States thal thoy ngy wko o margius on the kalo of bonds, the foll on public works, the contraols for bonrding nnd tworking conlets, building awd runing henovoicat fustitutions, aud tho blackmwil on corporatiuns, They 10sses eur coun- ties, that thiey may conatriict. roids, and bridges, and worllioeet, ad pooe-liouaes, nnd purt-loiios, nd Hold tho ofices thut nro mndo faliith porquikites. They nte nntiousl s wll as local, ‘s regulite tho tarld, Lnild tho navy, supply .tho army, ald ho rall- rouds, enrry tho mialla, feed the Indiaus, and have Lnjlt Up Lho vast syaéem'of oxtravogant puy for miser~ able servico that contres ot Washington, and $mpover- 1zhes aud discredits tho colntry. Tngs rule in the conrt-Louscy, tho State-louses, {lie city halls, and the Nutlonal Capltol, ~‘T'ho Ring i the roslity of powor, Oongressmnon, Legilntors, Counciimen—thesa oo tho puppets thot leap und mouth and dence s tho mestor touchcs {he wires, Tho boast of tho Bonrlion, **T am tho Biato,” was Tolly. Our koverelga iuay Epéak o ickatno offoct an imaiter of buelncas, It fu from this tato—from the Sover- olgulty of Litnge—that wo HOGLD SEYANATE THi: TRESS. “The condition of the country undor rlug rule— whiol ia notliing new indced, butt_coustantly faking under oxposura shapos that wagment ity odlumi—ex~ citos indignation, dirgust, and alurn, In Lowcils poom, wiition at Florenco, on _tho death of Agansiz, uto thezo terriblo lincs, whose Atueee, wo oy féar, will woko theu stick for rome thuo: 44X poanmed tho fostoring nown wa half dospise, Yet scramblo for 10 los#), Aud rend af publlo sndly private traud, Crimo fluuntlg scot-frea whille tho mob upplaud, Oitico marle vlle {o brlbo unworthizens Aud all tho unwholesoma ness, . ThoLand of Broken Prowiso forves of lato o tiach the 011 World how to wait.” Now however tho nows may festor, it is notun- wholesome, "Lho nowa 8 tho tratl, and the trath i profitable to nll mon, It 43 uub tho 'editorial duty to Drepuraw proper uriicly of futellgence, or to taniper itk its colorinig, but to hold tho uiirror up to Natire, Qur citizens have no gardisus, Thoy ore rospousi- Dlo for themaslyes to-themeelvos, Tiero 3a nesther priest, nior soldior, nor editur, ordatniod to administer th trith us the people can Lour it, . It s information, rathor thun dnetruction, ihat dliey demand, ~Tho whole truth is their requirement sud right, and it fa ut our hiauds they aliould_reculvo. it We must presumo them cupable always of {he spplication of {he facta for their own enlightonment; and we want tho winds utormy us need be, aud the sunlight fiery as may be, in al t places of ' publlo busiucess, without sensitlve. nies for tho feelingy of thio great pocls wbroad or of the smull politicians st home, I 4t in s cousolation that others are no better than anrnelves, we mny bo comforted by tho refiection that tho O World I8 NO LESS CORRUPT than the Now, The Into Kmpireof France was the product of (he Nl\!‘lulcnulu Ring, Wo nuy well bo doubtul whether the Emperor was tho msater or the sorvant of it, Ll splendid nomo, burnished by the vomances of Thiors and Hugo, servéd thy public plun- derora who were around hiu, und who, widlo L6 was enthroncd, dwelt fu palaces and fared ' sumptiously avery dy. The Imyperial Ring robbed the army of Fraics nnd serambled for the spoils of the nutlon, untll the catustrophe of Sedun orashed tho Ewpire. Theru is (rll{h!lul corruption thronghout Ruasia, Tho substatco of the Lmpire wus wusted by thleves in the Crimean struggle, sud the groatest of the Czars was Relpless, A Taomer of tho Tmporial fwintly b under wrreat u6 o diamond-thief, Spaii ws rotten long zgo, It e related that thera is 1o other elty in tho world whoro 60 muny oditors ean bo purchased with a fow dollars 86 in Madrid, In Ituly tho eivil servico 18 cost— Iy tud sloventy, the expenss of (hy (overnient enor- Tioun, nud tho' quality of it iudifferent, Aurdria fs vaukrupt, trempled by a military avistoeriey fueftelent in wer aud tmpertinent fu peace, The wealth of En- glund ennbles ber to pustain her burden of corruption, —her discrimfuntion in favor of the rones of f{no hive—her unworthy pousioners,—hcr ageant of fmbeella royalty,—whilo tho babitwl reti- cenou of tho peaplo, eecolded by tho stolid reservo of the press, prevents’ auy bolsterous mnuifestation of Der miserfes boforo tlae world, SHl, thy wusting dis onse thiat rivcks s is in hier blood nud boneo, an must somo tmo bloteh hor reputution, spofl hot oredit, and drag her glories in tho dirt, 1o 1o tis grealest of (G Bmpires, Goruuany s Sl 0 IMPERIAL ILLUSTUATION OF PRUGALITY ! Her tron-himded dlscipiine. begna in tho echools and 1ho uriny, and has enforeed & Spartan shinplieily 3 the public kervice, Onv result is the incomparable mitita- 1y orgenization that gives tho Gernins tho tuktery of Tutop, atd, f power yieldu precalenie, placat tlom at {he Hewd of all tho nalions of the earth, Lnt it iy suld the torrouts of I'reuch gold poured fnto Germuu: has corrnpted the peoplo, so thut (e incstinuble ud- vantages ll.\cf' Lavo enjoyed fu hablls of Figld cconomy aud purity the geuornl aftairs, will "bo theird uo mote, ‘Uho testimony fa fususlicient, but thologle of hslaty teuches that ths {n true, e ai for Mokleo, Cuba,” Brazil, tho Houth Amcricun Topublica nn Auarbhies, 1t Is quits cortain thut thoss countries aro 10t Teas coprupl than ours—and wo canuot gy (Lt tho comparison Natters us, The wmalady of Rings, thore- foro, I8 not ut )l peculiar to us. ‘Tho ago Das it, We might anticipato that the astronomors wny ev culually 1 {ho Earth inyolved Wk Boturn, Tl compusition of tho Ltings Inu ourious study. Wo tind them $uvariably 1udo iip of the professlounl polticlans wnd busybodics of U tya parties, 1f thoe Flouldt huppen to bu thireo parties tho Rug would Lo~ Como u triuugle, Tho mien who et ticir Hviug out of ‘olitics will not ullow any fuportant vrgranlzation o movement to_dinpense with thele skilled Iabor, or to Taugguishs for (ho Iack of thelr onthuifoen. Tho Ring- leadors ure uot wauting in (he front runks of reform- org, und thoy ply thele trade Iko plekpookcl, in the midst of 1o popular uprislngs, In thls couneetion the Preus should 10L give up to party what Waa meant for munkind, bt pour the lyht of dally inteligonee upon the multitude, that the honest men and the ras- exla puay. bo partod at uicw liks e abioep aud tla gonts ut Just, Whichiovor of the provalent Jurtles we Truat, wo aball probably have ocoasiou o regret {hat o lubv ot irled tho other, Wao (10 110} asaumu too much, end porkiaps will not be gontradicted, in rting thut tho MAIN DEPENDENCZ OF THE VEOVLE for the degroo of relict Wb 1t dn rational to bopo for from the dewolating ovil of the thucs, is upon the Presw, 1t tho Press slould prova untrno to the Jjconls, siad fhs buirdoa o wrongi—uuer. which Lieco 6, thuw fur, geoater fotigue tioy rercutmont— accuiulato, ther'uro doepor wud dackor Lrouble for urin tho fature than in tho EML Thera I8 no ox- cmyption hero from the anraos that have blighted otlior ands, Ve mist live uprightly and deal juatly with ournelgbors If we would haya posco ; and wo should remembor the universal law thot nucleanlinoss moatia pustilence, and that the fuhoritauce of profligacy is (anino, How ahiall tho Press ho purlfied and mado strong for the work of roformation? That which {5 nbove ali re- nired in tho unfaltering faithifulness of the Pross to the pooplo, Our proposition fa lo dissskooiate tho waditora and the rings, to enlighton publio sentinont on thin toplo, and trust to tho creation of publio opinion agofuat tlio patronago of the Pross by officlals—Lo muke the stbmission of tho Press to il bago usey of thio rings, Btate, municipal, or natioual, un intolor. nble dligraco, Oficinl mdvortisiug in o "baleful dolu= wlon, It don't pay in nny sonko. 1t glves tho ngent of tbo ting having tlis patronago to Leatotr, & grip upon he cditor who accepts it 3 and tho plain rule that ono good turn deserven anothicr {8 not in operution, for the editor i oxpocted to givo ten favors whoro hio gola one —and §f he duea not r:n:y s anlf-styled patrons fn that proportion nt least, ho s scouned of ingratitude, The editor who Is not in jobs ia not out for lack of opportuntty, for the Press is apponled 1o incessantly to pnrticipat in some of tho cuterprises plauned to divido tho spoit gathiered by taxation or yielded by un- warrantod monopolien, and newspaper influcnco is eqnivalent to cunb, but the editor who pays for n share inn Job with hin'* influenco,” not oily participnten in tho ewindlo, he solls himself into acrvitude and bo~ comen A STLAVE O TUE MING, O cautrae, wo need ot talk nliont the abolishment of oficlal ndvartising, ‘That 18 impracticablo, Awl yot the great muns of advertisementy of anofticial churactor aru fraude—{liny aro maufactured an o part of some scliemo La take inoney from the pockets of those who havo avrnod it and, without giving su_oquivalent, to Jisca it (ntlio poekéts of tUoso who ' have not eartiod . 'Thero i1 contamination in that monoy, nnd when {hio Press purtiolpates in tho profits of plunder, it In not only finpossiblo that ita intluonce should be in Debulf of {lie right, bit It must inovitably become the chosen weapon &0( the wroug. The frosdom of the Tress from logal reatrictions propared in tho nterest of dynastiey or olber forma of despotlsm, to hurass and intimidate thono who are nfiah\nt iheir perpetua. tlon, is fmportant, but the freodom of tho Press from ofliclal favor ia o s of greater portinenco, Wo should guerd against (ho Ioss of the liburty of the Pross by innisting that #t ehull huvo no favoritism from tho anthoriiice, Tuke Lho reformation of our postal sorvice : It is the trita position that the abolition of tho franking privie Tega shottld mean that not s ounce of maltor shall paas through tho post-officos withoul charge—then, ihnt tho charges slnll be according to weight und the distanco of tho trunsporlstion required, 5o far o thosa conditions enfer inlo tho cost, Tu onr dealing with rallroad corporations, thora In ground that must be troddeu toudorly. According ta he custom of the country—ono of those custows, it must bo confessed, * shoro honorod n tho brouch lisn tlioobturvatco”—any of U8 Liavo passcs aud can ga to and fro, up aud down tho earth—liko tho distin- guished Listorls character Who wus tuchained for a weason of specinl service—without paying fare. We count it a certninty, howover, that in somo way we PAY PRETTY EXTRAVAUANTLY FOR PASSES, Taflrond munagers, it 4 eafo to sny, ura notbin the hiabit of giving soniething for nothing—~on the con- trary rathior the rovorse, They contrive in a groat part of tha country fo gut' thcie ‘advertiaing froo, and 10 put it where thuy think it will do tlo moat goad—in tho local and ediforfal coluning, An o rulo, if they pald fairly for tholr ndvortismonts, and for the local aud cditorinl noticea that they obtsin they would fur- 1fsl the money to pay our ruilroad fure nt the usnal rates, and leavo us n neat balance for other travolin cxpenea, Tt would bo much tho betler way to alacard thu syotom of burtoring freo notices for oo passes, and do a cash hushiess; espocially as it 18 o rare raile roud man who daes not feel n_senso of tho posecsajon. ofn pronoriy-intorest a o editor,or Juage, or Lagie: Tator who rios on o fro ticket; o notion {hiat shotld Do oxtracted, Perbiaps llie Grangers aud othior mauda. tory reformora will ‘give this subjoct tho delicacy of consideration it demands, Thiora haye boen timea when ond placon where edi- tors found it troublesoma to puy for tholr shara of the bovorages consuniod in a soclal way. Oceasionally oven yet 1t ocours that hats, frait, poiitey, bottles of sparkiing drink, sults of clothing, Loxes of cigava, oven Juga of ofly'old copper-diatilled Kentucky wlilsky (the ‘vory blandislunents of bribery), aro bostowod upon us 38 testimoniala of affection or of tho gratitude thint s w lively souno of beuefactions to come. ‘This & mild phaso of patronage, bt In all its forme, thougl it may be gwoet lo tho mouth it ia bitter in t[la Lelly. Terhapn it 1 tho true woy to nckuowlodgoe {heeo attens tlons [n those geacoful puragraphs thai you all know 50 wall how to turn, saylng ot onco—Thunk you, und pray donot do o nny more. Now do uot let us bo ularmed by tho phrass * INDIPENDENT JOURNALISM," 1t Is ovorworked, and tomany It hpanotn soothing sound, but it I descriptive of considorablo fact, Tha Indepoudent Journalist s oo who s qualified o cx- claim with Junins : “\henevor Junius appears lie must encounter 8 Thost of cuemies, Butfs thero no honorable way to serve tho public without engoging in peruonal quar- Tols Wit ineiguificant Individuale, or submitting ta tha driidgery of canvassiug votes foran election 7 Tu {hera no merit fn dedicating my Hifo to the informs. tion of my fellow-subjects’? ‘What publio quostion DayoT declined 2 What Villain have I spared 77 17 Junius had been tho oditor of & Newspaper, Wt presume hio would have found 1t in bis tomper to no- ‘cept personal quarrols rather LUnn permit public fn. Tamios, for it 1a ut times difliult to striko a blow thal Durm s villuiuy without hmrting somebody, and we 470 not always able Lo Lo imporsonal, oF 1o enjoy tha wdyautago ho had of being shonymous, Certainly the public may Lo most houorahly rorved by strikdng down tho professionals i pecniation, as in tho cu- coursgluy examplo of (le wurfaro of tho Yrein upod tho New Yorls Ring of millionaivo robbers, which hne pluced Tweed, tho chief of tho gang, ou Blackwell's Toland, aud lus wado bis vulgar pomp and sinister Teutures fondlior fu cvery howso os those of tho grent criminal who has beon bronghit to Tighteous Judgmont, This was o very personul matter, and tho tuieves did not Jietitate to etrike back at tho honest mon, scoking, i always in such casos, to malte the impression {hat thero wos o private quatrel rathor than & publie cone troveray, . How far the press s failed in tho complets per- formuaice of 118 duty wo seo in tho fact that whilsthers 13 0 © Dosy » i every clly fu the country there fu but ouoin the pecitentiary, ~ 1t should appear to the peo- ple—nnd WE MUST MATE IT APPEATI— that thers are most Lonorablo carcers not sssocinted with ofllco-liolding ; that thero ara botter placcs thian oNicial positions; that the iuformation of our fellow- cltizenti Is of greator consoquenco than to win thete rufirage for individual oggrandisement; thut {ha drulgery of canvassing voica does ot bocomo tha Deet manliood, and fs harmeul to tho people; that the pulillc servicomost advantageous is not through flut- teries: thnt thero aro surcr measiromonta of popular confidence than by counting . ballots; thot it ie oxcels lent to Liave & ginits strenyth and to use (¢ ke o glant in faciug all pitiic questions with perfect candor, und sparing no villafus, Tweuty-Avo yeara ago thoro wore two Journsl fsaued on this continent that conld Lo eallod indopendeat, Viz., the Herald mnd the Z'ribine, of Now York, Thoy wero conducted by the Meu of gentus who founded them, Each oxprosscd the charactor of tho man who mudo it, James Gordon Bonnett wan & nows mau, Horaco Grooloy was o man of opinions—ideas, if you. plcaso, Heunett's paperhmd tho larger clroulition— Gvecleys the greater influence, Denuett was not of any poilical parly, aud despiaci them ally aid thele feaders with thiem, wnd Jnughed ovor bis oW defeats, Grecley was nlways on bigher ground than his party oceupied, wan liopetul of bis statesmen, and gricved with & porsonal sorrow over its discomfitures, “In onu scuse o was o party nian, and a helfover in other mon, but ho nover spured tho rod among his purtissns whow 1o belloved thoy betrayed the cuusa of the poople, If tho qualities of the two_ great journale—tho Herafd wid 'ribune—could bova buen combiued, the product wonld_huvo beon nlmont tho idoil newspaper, Din- tinet, hostlle, but sssociufod in thole location nnd by their' strong coutrasts, they were o only Amorican journals o bo countéd out of perty caloulations— inown to boalilo fearless nnd unpurehasablo, Now there fu mo consfderable city fu the country that iz without & nowsyuper, and often there is niore than ane, either absolutely independent or approximating thaf conditfon ; und the more independout journnls, areus u r TIOHE ITGHEST IN PUDLIC FAVOR, A great shizro of the work appointed for tie Press, 1t 14 _clear, cannot_be dona by t fournnls of {he citien alone. To the thousauds of weokly nowspapors iu tho United States, another thousand hus been: added sinco the closo of the war, Tho weokly press increnses fn numbers faster than tho dully press in circulation, and {ho hokt of editors of tha town aud county ppers ara thoroughly awave that they are & power In the land, Yot us avold, If we can, tho hesty expression of an tine Round hopo, but wa muy trust thut thoy Wil somo timo fako up independent journalisg for themselyes, sud glve it breadth end volmno and triumphant fllustru. tlon, With thew comprehenelve nid Iu the promotion of tiio goneral wolfure, by carnestly and coustantly tolling the truth of publio’ concery, irrespective of fue forlor considuratione, the service of thie people by the Troeg will b woll done and glorjous. 'Thou tho ritle of the rings will bo overcome, und (he Ropublican form of governmout approved as tho thrifilest and mosk honoruble, an well us the strongest kuown among men, thero will bo no moro suesring ucross thy ruas, ut ¢ tha Jand of broken promise,” und if tlio peoplo of tho Old World huvo been taught to wait for ua to brighten tha ihia of tho progress of munkind, they noed Lo no {auaer detafned by the dimness of our example. el et ol An Elophaut a Thiok, "Tha elophant at tho Zoological Gardens, Dub- in, fnnocontly got bis keopor Into tronble on fhe 23d of April, Btaft Burgeon Luokle, wao had boen in tho Ashantce war, dropped in the ardens a ring, telen amony the Afrioan spoils. Pho elophant_saw the ring drop, puc forta his trunk and picked it up, Dolng in tho habit of giving to his keoper colus and ather indigestible presents mado to him by admiring spectators, ha guve tho ring to his keeper, Bo far tho keuper was_sate-tho olophunt was the unconsions thiof. But the wholo trnueaction was :een by otherss ; and the keopor being taxed with having thoe ring in his posseusion, sald he know nothing about it, Ilowas then obsorved to throw some- thing away, which was fonud to bo the ring, o was fined 20 shillings, I'ho olephant nppropri. ated other poople’s goods. The keopor was the Toceiver, In the Shrondy, ‘diourgh Seotsman. Grimalik From the During the recont gules the sohooner Eaglot lay in 'Euhm'mory harbor, In furling the waine suil, n ent bolonging to the vossol, without the tmowledgo of tho enilors, got rolled up, aud while the eull continued furled it conld not oscupo from Its continomont. Tor tivonty-thres days the suil lny untouched, and during that timo poor uuau was u closo privoner, without foud or drink, and with only a small quantity of alr, \Whon the mil was unfurled the cat dropped ot in sch & wenkly stute that it could nok gtand, ‘Tho sailors mirsed their favorits sa pare- fully that in o day or two it was nklp&hi.»lhq\“ the vease| au if nothing had Loppone