Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1874, Page 4

Asiau LValVAGY DAllix TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, TERNA OF AUABORIPTION (PAYARLE. 1M. ADYANCE), Datly b moll..... 812010 | Bundar, B2 Bttt .08 e 55:38 Parts of 8 sear at thie samo raf To provont dlelay and mistakes, be snro and give Post 0t candd n full, inoluding Stats aud Conuty. Romitta nay bo made eithor by dratt, 021 ‘Olice order, or in reglstered letters, at ourrisk. TENMB TO OITY AUBRONIDENS. H sliy, delivorod, Bunday oxooptan, & cente par weoks Dadly, aolitered, Sunday includad, 20 conts por wooks Addr THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, . Corner Medinon and Dearbary-ata,. Unloaxo, Il VIOKKIV TRF_Madiiou strost, botwoon DO At s gomont of Megglo Mitoholl. FRoRr of Savop v o traat, botwaen Mad. on_and - Aonent B aitosbe e Ronens ] t Wabash ADRLPHI THRATRE—Cornor of Wabash avenus . Varioty porformsnce. The Bhsk- S o i of iiad Biokcy.” RK—Nos, 218-22 West Madlson oA o Fianco, " Walle Satore, Ailo: San- yoah, ‘sto. 2 N BUILDING-Lakoshars, foot of Adams OO e Aftoriaon and sroning: UNION PARK CONGRUGATIONAL GHURCI~ Conart by the Tounesoaus. FOREPAUGH'S GCIROUS—Btato steeot, aornor Twen- Ay-third, "BUSINESS NOTIOES. OAUTION TO THE PUBLIO. COUNTERFRIT ALLOOCK POROUS PLABTERS, Dangerous Tmitatlons sud Counterfeits of this valuable medioinal articlo arein the market, whoto uso faealenlated 1o make worse aflections, which the Trus Plastars fnvas slably rellave or oaro. But tho caso (s aven much worbe, far some of thate vile sountorfoits poss absolutaly poleonous qualities, pro- ducing, whors applled, Blotohes, Gangrono, and mortifi- otlon ot the Thio men who make these imitations should bo feomned down by an Indlgnant aod outraged poople, Those mon sreincapable of making anything of thoir own eam & wune, thoreforo, they stea! tho roputation of colabrated wttiolos in whioh to olathe tholr tataorable and nefarious «goncoctions X Tho ALLCOOK'S INDIA RUBBER POROUS PLAS- TERS ate proparod with intelligont, conselentious ro- ward, to sscuro thoss groat curative propertlos which bave wado the plastor calobrated throughout the oirilizod word, BOW X0 SECURE TN TRUE PLASTER WITHOUT Do 7. Observe that on the Plasteris a U. 8, Govornment Btamp printed {n Black Ink, with B. BRANDRETH ou thosame In Whits Lellers, all othors are Imitations or Countorleita, B. BRANDRETH, Prastdent of POROUS PLASTER CO., of New York. Prinoipal Agoncy, Brandroth House, Now York, Tl Thivags Teibune, Mondsy Morning, Moy 25, 1874. e Pregidont MacMahon’s new Minlstry i eaid by » oautious foreign correspondont to bo *‘formed for business.” Most Ministrics are. The chances are that the Fronoh Government's busi- ness will for a timo bo conducted in the Bous- jpatist intorest. — e Rochotort is now journoying overland: from San Fraucieco to New York. He will makea atay of soveral daye in Chicago. Incendiaries of all kinds,~barn-burners, heretic-burners, and members of the American Labor-Reform Lesgue, —should unite to give tho illustrious leader of the Parisian petroleuss a fltting recoption. 8onators Doracy and Olayton have baon re- quested by the Arkausas Legislature to rosign. ‘They cannot do better. If the attompted revo- lution in Arkansas had been successful, thoy would have had the right to profit by the result; sinco it has misorably failed, thoy caunot hope to avold the ponalty of failure. The gamo played by the Bonators from Arkansas was not of tho heads-I-win, tails-yon-loso order. This week will probably be & bad one for rail- road oompavnios in Wisconsin. Gov. Taylor has about finished with his insorutable proolamations, and hiss gathered his subordinates well in hand for serious work. He means miechief, Four enits wore bogun ngainet sgents of the road on Soturdey, and these are merely the first of s myriad which the State officials are preparing to brivg. Good Catholies will fiud little to commend in the remarks of Soustors Edmunds and Sargent tn the Civil Rights dobate, concerning the atti- sude of tho Churoh toward the common schaols. Sargont alloged that the Church was atlempting to break down the common-school syatem, aud Edmunds fecbly parried by saying that the Dburch never digcriminated between black and white men in her misslonary efforts. The at- tack and dofonse in mannor and tome were equally in bad taste, unsuited to the Sonate- COhamboer of the United States, and not pertinent 10 tho subject undor consideration. Two sorcorers have boon burned by the Al- «calda of Jacobo, in the Stato of Binalos, Mexico, and more are under survoillance, The evidence upon'which the guilly persons were convicted ‘was of the most orushing character, A man eeid to hbave been bowitched was treated to three swallows of holy water, whereupon ho vomited blankete and bunches of hair in great profusion. This was enough for the Alealde. He roasted the accused without atopping to connoot them with the blankets and halr in the stomach of the bewitched, Mexican theology aud logio, after all, are not very much inferior to such &g have rocently been exhibited in more onlightenod lands, The Civil Rights bill, which.paesed the Benate early Baturday morning, is published in tull élse- where. 1t ia without doubt one of the moat im- portant measures that hus come beforo Congreas during the present session, The possible offect of its pasaage upon politics in the Bouth cannot be acourately estimated. In tho North, on the other hand, few will rogrot thut the oolored poople biave st last been wecurcd in tho enjoy- mont of thelr rights as American citizons. The fault of thebill is that l¢ attempts to dotoo much, and to regulate by a decree of Govern- ment tho purely smoolal relations of oltizens, But, so far s it disregarda obvious principles of ‘human naturs, the bill will of necessity become inopesative, snd for this reason no sorious ob- Jootion can be urged sgainst ita extreme pro- islons, The Chicago produce markots ware generally weak on Baturday, owing to Iargor supplios, and grain was active, Moss pork was dull, and & whade lower, closing at $17.40@17.45 cash, and $11.8736@17.40 sellor Juna. Lard was dull aud 200 por 100 tha lower, closlng at $10,70@10.75 cash and 810.90@10,93)¢ sellor July, Moats wero quiat and unchungod, olosiug at B @Usge for shouldors, 0c for short riby, 0}¢o for ahort elesr, and wy(@n;fn for -woebplokle_d hems, Lake treights were quies and fm, wb &0 for eorm to Buftalo, IHighwines woro quiet and un ehnngod, at #4140 por gallon, Flour was quiot and woale, Whent wan nctive, and 1}{@20 Jower, olosing &t §1.193¢ cash, 81.20}4@1.20% nollor Juno, and $1.23 for No, 2 Miunesots, Corn was active, and 13¢a lower, closing nt 593%@600 oash and 503{@GUJgoallor Juno. Oats wereactive, and 1@320 lower, cloatng at 460 cash and 44340 sollor Juno, Ry waa quict and steady at $1.01. Bare loy wan inactivo, and nominally firm at $1.60@ 1.05 for No, 4. Hogs wore active and firm, solle ing nt 94,00@0.25 for fnforlor to oxtra. Onttle weroe in good demand at strong pricos. Sales ab $4.00@0.90. Bheop wera innotivo and nominal, [N ———— " ‘That Prof. Bwing's detormination to withdraw from the Presbytorinn Church bns not lossened bin popularity, is attdstod by tho alncrity with which people subscribed for tho bonds of the Tourth Church yestorday, with the understand- ing boforo thom that Prof. Bwing ia to remain tho pastor. ‘I'lic amount of $20,200 was sl tnkon upin about fifteon minutes, or about the time nacossary to put down ihe namos of the sube seribors, ‘The takors inciuded mon of various croodu,—auch men aa Henry Greenobaum, John Wentworth, Perkins Baes, L. Z. Lelter, N. K. Fairbank, Porry I Bmith, William Vooke, and othora equally woll kuown, The subscription of the Merchants’ Savings Loan nnd Trust Company would indicate that the bonds are regorded as a safe financlal invest- ment; and thus must largely depond, after all, apon faith in Prof., Bwing, The varizace of doctrinal beliof which is to be found among the subsoribors sooms also to indicato foollug that tho Fourth Church will horeafter be something of an independont tomple where all mon may worship. 1t is said that. Prof. Swing will send a formal withdrawal to the Chicago Presbytery to-dsy, DRAKE ON CALVIN. Judge Drako, of tho Court of Claims at Wanh- ngton, isa qumei-universal gonius, Heis an author, & atatesman, a constitution-builder, and theologian, a8 wollas judge, lawyer, and poli- tician. At tho begiuning of tho Warhe waso hot Socousionlst ; but, finding that socesslon was not likoly to load to political or other preforment in Migsouri, hio became an intense radical and leador of radicals. Redicalism in politics he found paid, and now he is equally radicsl in Calvinism, At the Saturdny session of tho Pros- byterian Goneral Assombly, at 8t. Louis, his rehigious earnostnoss and Calvinistio zeal cropped out, much to the discomfort of tho Assombly. Had an Isaiah suddonly appoared 1 the midst of themand forctold the near dissolution and utter oxtinction of the Presbyterion Church, he would gcarcely have produced & grester comdo- tion. Our correspondent informs us that some of his hearors turnod pale at his words, and that after the speech some fifty mombers * arose ns it sliot from thetr seats.” There must bave ‘beon considernble explosive material in a speech which could etart fifty sedato Presbyterian di- vines out of their seats o suddenly, BIr, Drake stated that it was his firm and con- sclontions couviction, and ho wishod to oxprass it boforo that body snd bofore God, that thoro ‘wore at work in difforent parts of the Presby- torlan Church of the Unitod States influonces and opinions thet are inimical to the con- tinued existenco of the Church in ils integrity, He was met with & chorus of “Noes" in reply. Nothing disconcorted, howevor, Judge Drake pro- ceeded to establish his nssortion. Ha could sco heresy eroppiog out here and cropping out there, and know that before long it would be found in open sutagonism with the Church. The worl of publication of Presbytorian books did not proceed rapidly, and thero wase groat deal of ill-will shown toward the Board of Publication iteelf. The Assembly had boen tooking for an explana- tion of all and had found nope. Mr, Drake was of opinion that it was all caused by a *rooted dislike of Calviniatio literaturo.” Wo think thet Mr. Drake hit the nail on the hond whon he uttered theso words. Thoro is & rooted dislike for Calvinistio litersture; and among Presbytorians that dielike 18 a growing one. Prosbyterisns thomselves are bocoming conscious of the fact, HSomo know it bocauso they observe it all around thom, and some from self-introspection. 'Thera ls sbundant evidence of the truth of Mr, Drake's romark fu vavious parts of the conntry, and his logal training in woighing testimony bas euabled him to seo the full boaring of the dis- like of which ho makes mention., Prof. Bwing's coursa s & protest against Calvinistio doctrine; 80 16 that of the Chicago Presbytory; eo is that of the Presbyterian mombership of this city which sympothized with snd enstained NMr, 8wing in his trial. 'The contest botween pre- deatination and its opposite in the Presbytorian Church hag beon begun, and the doclsion of the Synod in the case of Patton against the Chicago Presbytory, no matter whether it go for or aguinst tho Presbytery, will bé the signal for vast cbanges in that Church, The withdrawal of Prof. Bwing will not delay the finol issme, while it enhances tho probsbility that tho doolsion of tho Synod, now that Prof, Swing hias 1oft tho Ohmreh, will be adverse to the Presbytery and to liboral- ism in tho Presoyterian Church, Tho tonots that a more belief or an opinion can save, and that God predestines thousands before their birth to oternal damnation, are not very popular in this sge. 'To those and other Calvinistic doc- trines there i 1n this country, as Mr. Drake hag #aid, **a rooted dislike.” It wouli be marvelous it there wero not. CONGRES8 AND CONGRESSIONAL ELEC- TIONS. Tha torm of the next (or Forty-fourth) Con- gress beging March 4, 1675, but it is not now ox« pected thore will be anyscasion of that Congross before the first Monduy in December of that year. Alrendy half-u-dozon new Senators have been olected to take thelr seate in the Forty- fourth Congrees, Gov. Booth, of California, belug tho earliest, and AMr. Eaton, of Conneoti- cut, the Jatest 8o choson, Gov. Booth way elect- ed in Decomber, 1878, lucking two weeks of two full years batore ho muy expeot to onter upon his Senatorial dutfes, Mr. Eaton must walt at least u yoar, posuibly eighteen months. 'Tho olections to the Houso in the now Congress bo- gln with Oregon, one member, June 1, 1874, and end with Mississippi, six mombers, in November, 1875, At various datos within thin poriod of weventoon monthe the othor membors of the Ioyse sro to be ochoson in the sov- eral Stutes, in August, Boptembor, Oc- tobor, and Novembor of tbls yoar, and in Maroh, April, September, and November of next year.- In Californis, a8 already atated, Cov. Booth was clected United Btates Sonator 1ust Docember; but the four California Repre- gautatives in tha Houee, to begin their tevmn of servico with Senator Dooth, wil be eleoted tn Boptembor, 1875, In Missiesippl, the new Benator, Brauch K, Bruoe (colored), was cleoted In Januazy, 1874 the Missleslppl Ropresentativon will bo olectod in Novom- bor, 1875, Thoso aro tho extromo onaon. Bat to localizo an illustration in the New Ene gland Btatos: Connootiout olools a Sonntor this spring, and Reproscntatives noxt spring; while Mnino and Vormont elect Reprosontatives in Septombor this yoar, and Souvators in tho winter following. Tho throo Pacifte Statosmake na even more pointed illustration, ay we have in part explained, & T'he oloations ending with thoas in Novembor, 1874, will have dotormined the oharacter of overy change to bo made in the Senate, and will loave only nineleen sonts to bo filled in tho Houso of the now Congress. Tho now Congross will be, Lowover, still more than a yoar distant, unless specially convonod. More than this, and worse, an unexpired poriod romatns for the membors of » Congress long bofore olectod under simitar cir- oumstauces; and mombors, too, it may, bo re- morkod, but few of whom oan this yoar expoot the iudorsement of & ro-cloctlon. Thus, aftor the pooplo have practicslly decided, upon the isauon of 1874, what sort of & now Congross they will bave, an old Congroas still exiata with powor to do worlc or mischiot, Could “the fathors® have devised anything worse than this? The presont Congress, with yot another wintor's acsslon bofaro it, was eleoted on tho {ssios of 1872. Bofore it ever assombled the issucs of 1878 had avopt away thone of th yoar procoding. Tho issues of 1874 aro mnewer still, and more shorply dofined. What may thoy bo, or, rather, what may thoy not bo, next yoar! It is of course not intonded to say that issucs of Re- form, on which this year's lssucs are lasgely based, Will over grow old. But the country bas rocently seon one Congress, in its expiring hour, olutch st & salary-grab, and anothor Congress misraprosent the poople on critieal tosts of na- tional honor. It tho Forty-second Congress could, 1n its lask days, so contemn publio virtue, and if the Forty-third Cougress can slrondy so tlireaton the nation's welfars, what may we not expoot noxt winter? The country, to this day offonded at an unavenged malary-grab, may, ine deoed, & year from now, bo in the pitch of wrath at some -new ack of Congressional perfidy er malevolence. The people, in their Congressional cloctions this yesr, scem vory genorslly dotermined to hnve new men,—men with oloan hands, stout hearts; and trustworthy professiona. Theso Con- grogsmen-oloct will como to their work—when, at longth, their work begins—with tolerably woll- defined wstructions on o good mony points, of doctrino and duty, that are now falsely estoomod tho peouliar prerogatives of the Congressfonal office. Liot the peopls thia yeor consider whethor one point of instruction may not be that the Congressional poriod shall bogin and end with Congrossional eleotions, By ack pssod somo yeara ago, Congressional elections (for tho Hougo) aro to occur conourrently in all tho Btates, beginning with the election of Novem- ber, 1876, but the chief ovil remains, snd can only be reachoed by constitutional amondment. The Forty~fourth - Congross should, therofore, bo instructed, in the election of its membera this yoar and next, that it prepare the way for the Bucceoding Congross to sssemble in Docom- bor, 1870. Thus, if, porohance, the porils of noxt winter's ehiort sossion be safoly passed, tho country may hope to haveits chief represonto~ tive body como up fresh from the peoplo, end do its work within the reach of wholesome pop- ular restraint. WHAT WILL THE PRESBYTERY D07 Tho Presbytery of Chicago, at itaresumed neauion, will necesssrily bogin to consider * What 18 to be done with Prof. Patton?" It isno longer a question botwoon Patton and Swing, or tho shades of theology they ropresent. Tho issus mow {8 botween a small and overrnled minority, eny one-fifth of the Presbytery, with Prof. Patton o thoir leader, and the Prosbytery itsolf as represented by ita working majority of four-iifthe. It it shall bo carried into the Bynod and General Assombly, it may also becomo a fight between Old School Presbyterianism and New. To avert, it possible, this widening of the conflict, Prof. Bwing withdraws from tho Churcl ho chiefly loves,—unwillingly, according to the human standard, but perhaps wisely indeed, so- cording to the standard of the Ohrist ho serves. He proposes to *“male up with his adversary quickly,” whilo thoy are on their way together to the Bynod, by not only parting with the mantlo of a Prosbyterian miniator which Dr. Patton Lias 80 ruthlessly demanded, but by giving him his clonk glso, even to membership in & body from avhich only the most captious desire him to de- park. Wo do not supposa the Divine dlastor doubted tho logal right of His Apostles to stoy in any house or oity whero thoy were despitefuily used by soma emull portion of those to whom they wero sont. Btill Ho dirocts thom not to liti- gato tho quostion, but to * shake the dust from tholr foot” and lenve. In the apirit of this divine injuuction Prof. Bwing las acted. It is too early yot to pronounce nupon the wisdom of his sction further than to admit that it hos not been * worldly-wise.!! It immediate offects oembarrasy his frionds and delight his enomios. Whether its nltimate consequences will vary from these, depends in part on the sotion of the Chicago Prosbytory. ‘What ought thoy todo P Their votes declare that David Swing is a good, valid, sincere, and orthedox Presbyterian, Sball they flinch from thia verdiet? If it was true when mado, is it . made the loss $rue by the epirit of modest self- saorifice in which Prof, Bwing would leap over- ‘board from their common ship because it con- tains o fow to whom his prosonce is unwelcome ? If David Bwing isa valid Presbytorian, with no greater eccentricities of thought or diotion on* collatoral pointa than Paul, Augustine, Calvin, Knox, or President DMcCosh may have enter- tained, or than Patterson, or Biwazey, or Patton himgelf entertains, though of a different kind, what shall be the action of the Preabytory to- wards the officious, eolt-appointed 8aul of Tar- &us who conceives‘he doss God sorvico in boing present and consentiog to tha stoning of this Htophon ? To permit Bwing tobe dnven fromihe Church by merely making it too hot iuside for Lim to atsy, is to admit that a Presbyterian ma- Jority is poworless to defend iteclf againet the sseaults of a footious aud beaten minority. The Prosbytery, fooling tho toeth of Patton through thelr paotaloons, have their cholce either to throw nway their weopons and pat him on the hoad till ke rolaxca his grip, or to min him through with thelr bayonet, ¥ad he made over- tures of conoiliation wheu his course was so em- phatically condemued by the Prosbytery, they might now talk of conpromise, But to propose vompromiee with one who threateus to impoach 6 bofore the Bynod 1s benoath the dignity of uroliglous body. Itiathe logical duty of the Presbytory cither to back down from their ro- oorded vordict, to nokuowledge Swiug o herotlo, sud Patton the acoredited whipper-in of the Preabytorian Churoh ; to sustaln him as he pros Geads to lmpesch badore the Ryned U fariyaive - the House, Judge E. R, Hoar, of the Committee, 1oUsnl: MONDAY, MAY 25, 1874 herotios who stood by Bwing in the Prosbytery ; or to faco wquarcly around and impose upon him tho sovorost ponaition whidh the Ohuroh judios- turo ufilxes to ono who haa hrought unsustained chinrgen agalnat his brethron, Upon what grounds can thia ho dono ? Upon the chargoe of disoheying the procopts of the Now Toalamont by proforring charges againet & brother and bringing his caumo bofors the Church withont having firat IJabored with him in private, porsonally, Ilindly, tondorly, and in the splrit of tho Divino Master, Upon the chargo of haviog advertisod himsolf iuto notorioty, by uslng the Presbyterian Church as a stalking-horse for the gratification of his own awmbition. Upen the chargo of employing thoss powora whioh should bo devoted to ** 1ift- ing mortals to the skies ” intho ignoble work of ‘dragging angols down,” On tho obargo of dnving & faithful sorvant of Christ from the minlstry, and toking stops tending directly to disrupt tho reunitod Prosbytorizn Church. If thoro are no provieions in the Prosbyterian Book of Disolplino which cover thoso offenses, it ia vory poorly adapted to illustrato the Gospel of Pence by punishing tho litigious, censorious migchief-maler, and protecting the peaco- malkors, If amischiof-maker onnnot bo & good Presbytorion nor a faithful Chrlstian, it will bo no anawer totheso ohnrgea to say that Mr. Patton was pincore, In quohtions of moral rosponaibility sincority fs almost a erime, unloss allied with discrotion, sonsibility, and sonse. In tho ministry, s sincere, indiseroot, and unsym- pathetio epastlo may meke more infidels than &° prudent knave. atorm thint has gathorod sround hin head, might woll pitifutly complain ¢ Slucn 8o early T am dono for, Wandor what I was begun for. Aa & Judge of Probato, Mr. Richardaon is said to hinve dono passing woll, Whilo acting in that ceapnoity, o strongly condemnod the systom of molzing hooks and panors, It Is & pity that in Lig highor eapncity ho has forgotton his former Views, * We aro naturally sorry for Mr. Richardson. 1t is Always vory painful for a man to realizo thut Lio 18 hopelesaly incapable of dolng Lia auty. 1t must be agony to him when ho knowa that somo 40,000,000 of his fellow-citizens—not to montion tho foreigners who sneor st his Imbocility— realizo tho samo thiog. To save bimself pain he should at once get out of a position that makos his wosknoss o matter of uational inter- eat. Tho advico of his frionds must colnvide with that of his foss. It is summod upin ons ‘word,—Roaign. THE LIMIT OF AGRICULTURE, New York Oity used to got ita graln from the Conneotiout Valloy. As population advanced westwurd, tho grain-contro gradunlly shifted to the Mobawk'River Valloy. Then it traveled to Ohio, Now it has ronchod Illinols, and has per- hapn just crossed the Mississippl. Tho cost of transport has fixed, year aftor year, the limit of agriculturo. Translated into miles of railrond, it has boon tho radius which haa described tho charmed efrelo within which graln-growing would pay. For, as everybody knows, tho prico of grain at Livorpool fixes it priceat any point in this country, Tho farmer solls his whoeat for the Liverpool prioe, loss the cost of tranaport to Livorpool. As that cost incroases, them; his profit docronscs. When it roaches & cortain point, s profit is nil, sud he must stop producing. It is evident that this point in dollars and cents will bo roached ata certain distanco wost. of Now York, aince tho cort of onrriago inoreases with, though not as, tho number of miles. It {8 o question warth considoration whether it has not boen reached alrendy, whethor the plow has not struck tho invisiblo but impasssble wall which Nacuro hoa built up around our grain-fields. The farmors #ay that :buy’ make no monoy. We know that there hns beon over-production of corn in the Northwost. Within o yoar it has beon used s fuol in Mioncsote. The incronsed demend cauged by the fomine in Indin has now awept off our surplus stoclk, but wo cannot oxpect Hindo- stan to starve overy yoar in ordor that our formors may live. This is a question of no mean importance. If our agricultural limit has boen reachod, the sottlomont and dovelopment of tho West, savo in tho neighborbood of the mines, will Loroattor bo very elow. Tho weat- ward way of tho course of. empire must be & railway, or & canal) or a pnoumatio tube, Until seience can manage to shorten the distance from acean to ocosn, the prairics of the Far Wost cannob be broken up juto grain-flolds. It is evident that the tide of immigration has flowed nenr the limit of successsul agricul- ture, oven if it Las not roached it. There aro two lossons to be drawn from the fnct. Tho first is tho inexpediency of encouraging furthor immigration, especially | that of tho thousands of English agrioultural la~ borers who are now bogglng passages to this de- lugivo Cannan, Tho second 8 the pecossity of concontrating sciontific attontion on the question of cheap transportation. Only a fow mon have treated it in a scientiic way. We have repro- duced, from time to timo, their views. We have ulso printed the many plans, pnoumatic and otherwise, proposed as substitutes for stenm. What is needed now is a careful, scientiflc exam- ination of theso plans, aud a thorough test of thosa that seom the best.: The discovery of some practical way of shortoning the distancebe- tween Chicago snd New York would push the 1imit of agrioulfure nearer the Rocky Mountains, ond would 0 throw open suother grest belt of our Western land to settlemout and develop- ment. EXTRAORDINARY DIPLOMACY. ‘When the Civil and Diplomatio Appropriation bill was ponding in Congress, an amondment waa moved by the Committoo on Foreign Affairs to appropriate $57,500 to pay to Brazil for monoy erronocously claimed by and psid to tho United Btates. An oxplanatlon boing insisted on by reluotantly stated the faots, which are not only extraordinary, but wo hopo unprocedonted, in the bistory of American diplomacy. In 1842, a Po- ruvian vessel, the Catherine, in distross, put into & port in Brazil. There boing no Poruvian Con- sul thero, tho Captain applied to tho Brazilian au- thorities for a survey. A roport was mode that tho vessel could not bo ropaired, and it was wold, This report as to tho condition of tho vessel was fraudulent, Tho vessel was fpgured. in Noew York and Philadelphis, and the msuranco was pud, The companies prosecuted & suit in the Bra- zilian courts ogaingt tho ~ Oaptain, and the former decrce condomning the vessol and ordering its solo was sot Asido. Dut the vossol was gone. Ono Wolls, who had beon United Statos Consul at Bt, Cathorinos, in Brazil, pur- chaged the claim for this vessel. He mado a do- mand against the Brazilian Qovernment. He prosented it to our Governmont, who referred it tothe Amorican Minlster in Brazil, to be pre- sonted to that Government. This was m 1855 or1857, The claim wag sejoctod by {io Brazil- inn Government, The matter was pending whon Gon, Jamos Watson Weobb, of Now Yorlk, was appointed Minister to Brazil by Mr. Lincoln. He was not impressed with the justico of the claim, and during the War ho was instructed by Mr. Boward, in order toavold any controversy with foreign Governmonts, not to pressit at all, Sub- soquently, in 1867, Mr, Webb scomuto have been struck with the validity of this claim, and urged it vigorously upon the Brazilian Govornment, and, taking the opportunity when Brazil was engaged in wor.with Paraguay, and her Government was in dlstress for menus, he informed the Brazilion authorities, just as a ateamer was about to leave for Europo, that ho wonld sever his diplomatic relations, demand his passporly, snd send to Europo information of these facts, unless tho monoy wae paid. Thoe Governmont of Brazil, protesting that it was not linblo, paid the money to Mr, Wobb, the clalm amounting to £14,262 storling, or about $71,260 {u gold. The matter belnyg laid befors our Government, the colaim was investigated, and our Attorney- General gave an opinion that there was no ground for holding the Brazilian Government responsible, even if all the facts stated wero true. Mr, Webb, in his dispatch to the Stato Department concernjug the payment, romitted n draft for £6,000 sterling, and the Depariment supposed that was the whole Bum received by him, aud the monoy was investod in United States bonda until the matter could ho investl- gated by the Attorney-General. This took n long time, and, when {t wns concluded, the President ordeved the return of the monoy to Brazil. The Brazilion Minister then informed tho State Dopartmont that tho £5,000 was only & portion of the amount prid to Mr. Webb, This wag.the first knowledgo of tho real facts pos- soesed by our Goveroment. Mr. Wobb was writ- ton to for an oxplanation, and he roturned vo- Tuminous letters, stating that ho had been ut ex- penso in haviog tha oleim passed in Brazil, bub he gave no particulara, Ho would not state what he had dove with the money. Invostiga- tionsin Brazil cstablished the faot that the money was paid in threo drafts, one for £6,000, one for £8,353, and one for £5,000. Tho firat of theso was recoived by the Stato Dopartment; the gocond was discounted in Drazil, and probably spont thera ; and the third was placed to the pri- vate acoount of Ar. Wobb in London, Under thoso ciroumstancos, of course the monoy should be rofunded to tho Governmont of Brazil, and Mr. Webb should bo prosccuted for swindling, Mr. A, 8, Webb, son of Gen. Webb, has pub- lished & cnrd in the Now York papors asking a auspension of public opinion until his father's return and oxplanation. e et PEACE AND POPULATION. The days of small armics have gone by. Troops are haudled now by tho division inatead of the regiment, The foct makos small nations noutrals perforce. Bwitzerland, Greeco, Bel- gium, and Holland are in this plight. Thoy must submit to whatever the Great Powers docres. Those Groat Powors united Bolgium snd Holland in 1816 and separated them 1 1890, They supply Greeco with Kings from time to time. Donmark is practically neutral~ izod. Hor faint straggle for Schleswig-Holstoin was like aneworing & mitrailleuso with a pop- gun. None of these minor nations have enough men to bo able to count their soldiery by the bundred thousand. They are out of the game. the Europoan choss-bourd,—ree & onatle taken Lere and a king checked there. It was the surpluspopulation of the North that poured down upon thoe oivilization of the Meai- terranean consts when Rome grew wesk, Taci- tas tells us that it was tho regular custom of the Germans to foreo part of their numbor to seck new homes, from time to timo, in order that those who remained might liavo ground enough for thoir noeds, Thusa surplus of population onco caused war, while now a scaroity of “popula- tion provents war. 1If this relation is to hold good forover, tho decreasoin tho number of births, which is sonoticosble in Fraaco snd i8 boginuing to bo marked in Germany, fs not, on the whale, & bad sign, War 1e the eurso of Christondom, We can afford to suifor alesa evil for the eako of suppressing the greator one. Two questions romaln: Will war grow moro rare as population grows more sconty 7 Will the population of Buropo keop on decroaslog ? His- tory answers tho first question in the aflirmative. Common senge shows why that answer muat como. To fight, & nation noeds money and men, Tho first are the sinows, the second are the muecles, of war. Money can always be got by forolgn losus whon home resources aro ex- haustod, Natiousl Loods can always bo sold, provided they are offered low enough. When a nation is in the hoat of confiiot, it will burden {ho nozt goneration with debts without end rather than bo forcod, by waut of money, to submit. Bo the bonds swili be pub at panlo prices {that are sure to attraot investment, snd the elnows of war will uever grow weak, It is s difforont matter when the sup- ply of soldiorsj showe sigus of stoppage. The murket for merconaries i8 closod, A nation candraw only on its own people. The fower of thom there are, the smallor the quota of troops thoy can furnish, ‘Thue the ability to fght de- ponds upon the density of population. As the Iatter diminishes, war muat booome more rare. Tt in probabla that the present doorease in the population of Europe will continue for some tinte, T'he recent doatructlve wars have killed oft & very great numbar of the young men who, Liad they lived, would have been the fathers of tsenasd generation, ‘D46 drala of enigration POOR RICHARD3ON, Tho fabled donkey in the lion's sldn had & pretty good ume of it until ho was dotacted. His modorn imitator, unluokily for him, was found out at the commencement of iy careor, When he began to *move tho crops,” one olon- gato oar projected. Tho rosumption of specie paymonts, §5 at & time, tore the covering from theother. The Banborn Investigation stripped off tho falso skin ontively, and scems, judged by the sgony of the viotim, to have out protty deaply into the real hide. The Investigating Com- mitto handled the shrinkiog Secretary roughly in its roport, and now ihe sword of Damocles, in the shapo .of & resolulion of censuro, Langs over his bowed hend. As Mz, Richardson Les neglectod to propltiate tho Harpors, thoy Lave got Nnst at hiat. The penoll that once did naught save longthon Oarl*Bohurz's logs and brondon Grooley’s stomach, is now busy with oarioatures of o truly loyal Sooratary of the Troseury, whose ouly faulisore au ignorance that i alnost gobocllo nad & willtul carolossness that is crlmival, Lvon tho Chicago Journal, ox- clted by tha novel #ensation of supporting the veto agalust Logan and Opleeby, is ageln taste 1ng the awoeta of independonce by calling upon Bictiardeoa to resiax $46 laktar, [ vlair of the probably renohed its higheat point, Turopean nation, as a wholo. They can only stand by and ses the moves on | i8 and will be a heavy ono, although it has More potont than elthor of theso two caunos Ja the increnaing numbor of pbasnnt propriotors, !fr. John Stuart Mill showod, in hia * Principles of Polltient Econ- omy,” thal peasant-proprictorship was apb toresult in fower childron. Tho pusscksion of land makos & mon pradent, It is this that haa cost Franco millions of poople, Tmigration is #carcoly folt thore, and the natfon foughtno blaody wars, with the halt-cxcoption of the Cri- mean campaigus, from 1816 to 1850. Butthe number of poassnt-propristors lins steadily in-' creased, and the number of childron has pari passu decronsod. A fourth renson for tho declino of population may perhapy bo found in the fact that thore is now scarcoly any intormixture of races, at least on a grand soale. Whon a nation beoomes enorvated with the rofilnements of civilization, no God-sent barbarians pour in upon it to strongthen tho almost aterilo stook, Philos- ophors have argued that the goodness of & race dopended "on tho numbor of nationslities roprosented in its blood. The groator tho mix- ture of blood, the better tho chanco of survival. 1f this theory bo trus, wo mny look, sinco the time for seizlng nations bodily bas passed by, for a decresse in the reproductive power of each 1t is thua quite posgible that tho preasnt declino of population will be pormanont for some time to comey and will involve the docline of war. Pulplt oxu::lus yesterday may be olassifiod sccording as thoy wero Bwing or not Swing. Dr. Thomas' sormon was ¢ pean, Ho rojolced that Prof. Bwing had been acquitted, that the Pros- byters had vindicatod tholr roputation for com-~ aon seneo, and that Armininn principles had boon yecognized distinotively by a Calvinistio Oturch judiestory, Tho Rev. Honry Pawara spoko & good word for Prof. Fatton. He beo- llevod the proscoutor to be an honost but misguided men. The pralse wes not oxcessive; but, coming from @ Unitarian, 1t may injurc the standlog of Prof. Patton among his brothron. Robert Collyer's discourse was depigned to commemorato the fit- teonth annivorsary of his sottlement n8 pastor of Unity Church, In passing, he referred to tho recont progress toward the light of the Preaby- torian Church. Prof, Bwing himsclf made no allusion to the trinl or its consoquoences. The most noticeablo of tho nnt-!iwing ovonta wore & lecture by Mra. Shufeldt, who has boen Lioonsed a8 & proachor by tho Westorn Avonue Moth- odist Church; the inatallation of the Rev, W. 8. Ralph ss pastor of the Third Universalist Church; aod Whitsunday services in tho Oatho- Yo churches. THE OHIO CONSTITUTION. The now Constitution of Ohio will be voted upon by the pooplo of that State at the Ootober olection. The old Conatitation is substantially re-onrcted, the principal chaugesor amendments beiug the following * Juries in inforior tribunals in clvil cnges may consiet of six persons, Logal notice of judicial proceodings by publication only will not be sufi- clont unless tho Court is satisfied thot tho resi- dence or address of the parties is unknown. Tho tune for holding the clections for logislative and Btato otficora is changed from Octobor to Novembor; and all the officers are to ba elected ‘biennially. No porson 1nterested in a contract with the Btate to be eligiblo to the Legialature. All joint rosolutions to bo paseed only by the recorded vote of a majority of the mombors of each brauch of the Legislaturo; the voto ordering bills to first and second reading to be taken by yeas and pays. The Governor is for the firet time to have,the veto power, whick, however, cnn ba overruled by a three-fifthu vote of both Houses, He ia also autborized to veto any itom in an approprintion bill, Tho yess and nays aro to bo recorded on ench item of sn appropriation bill, and, unless auch item reccive tlio vote of & majority of all tho membors eloot, it shinll bo rojected. The **Salary-Crab " law in- duced the nocessity for such n provision as this. The Legislature sball voto no oxtra compensa~ tion to any officer, public agont, or contractor, The torm of oftico of the Supreme Court Judges is ineronsed to ton yoors, and the salary is not to be loss than 85,000 » yoor. Atthe first alection for these Judges, no person is to voto for moro than threo of the five Judges to bo elactod. Tho prosont Courts of Common Ploas aro continued. Drunkenness of a judicial ofi~ oer during bis torm of court, or whon ofticially engaged, works a forfeiture of office, Probato Judges and Clerks of Courts ‘are to bo paid sala- ries, and all fooy &ve to be paid into the publio treasury. 2 Women are made eligible to any office under the echool laws, Thooltices of Commissioners of the Board ot Public Works are abolished, and & Superintendont of Public Works is tobo elected. Countiesand townships aro for tho first time made bodies corporats, toenable thom to suo aud be sucd, otc. County officers to be pald ealarios, rod foos to go into the looal treasury. The Legislature fs suthorized to divide tho municipal corporations in the State into six olagses, wod to define the powers of each class as to tnxotion, ssscesments, losns, §2d dobts. No taxation in sny corporation oxcoeding 10 per cont of the taxablo valuo of tho property thero- in sball be lovied in any one year, nor more than 50 per cent in any ten yoars." The indebt~ odness of auy municipal corporation shall nover exceed & por cant of the taxable valuo of the property within its limits without the consent of throo-fourths of the voters. The amondments relating to private corpora- tious sutbosize eumulative voting in the eleo- tion of Difcctors. No offtcer or agont of any compauy owning, or oporating, or using & rail~ rood in Ohio shall bo intercsted by bimsolf or with others in tho recoipts, contracts, or earn- inga of such compauy othorwige than asan or- dioary shippor or passeuger, or as a stock- holder, creditor, or employa; nor in soy sr- rangemout whtch shall afford moro advantagoous tormw than are offored and warded to the pub- Hoj all contracts in violation of this section of thls section to be vold. Coneolida~ tion of porsllel or compeling railroads is prohibited, The iesuo of stock or bouds, excopb for money Or proporty actually recelved or for labor done, iu prohibited. Porsons and proporty transported on any rall- rond shall be carrled to any station at charges not exceeding, in gross, the charges for the game clags aud smountof transportation to any more dlstant station, iThe rule of taxing all real and poraonal property in chianged 80 86 to tax thosamo upon its uesessed money valuo at auniform rato. Franchises and incomes derived from investmonts areto bo tnxed when the property itselt, like United Btatos bonde, cannot be roached, Lanks are tobo taxed by & scaloe based upon capital and the amount of husiness done, No mnterial chango is made In the apportionment of ropresontatives in the Logislaturs, oxoopt that the Bonate isto consist of 37 and the ouge of 105 mewmbors, No member of the General Assembly shallacoept » pags from any railroad or transportation com- PANY. s In sddition to thiese thero are several articles tobo voted upon separately by tha people. One of thege iy, * For License " or “Agaiust License," 1t the former [varry, shon the salo of liquor may be licensed in Ohlo ; i the lattoc sarry, then no such license will be issued. Anothor {s, prohib- itingmunlolpal corporations subsoriblng in ald of any railroad, . ———r—e ‘We hinve rocelved from the Rey, J. W, Hanson another ledies on ' Eidinal Pantslunsnt” in roply to Mr, Reed's last srtfclo. Wo ocannot sparo tho spaco to pursue tho controveruy, * Atonlos® may or may nob moan oternal, Luk certatnly tho iite of tho avoraga mowspaper rondor in too short to follow all tho srguments that may bo adducod on cithor sido by the dig. gorsof Grook roots, Those who deslre to soe what Dr. Honson hae to sy in reply to Mr. Toed will porhaps find his articlo in the noxy number of tha New Covenant, * SRt e e CALENDAR OF POLITICAL EVENTS. [Corrooted to May 85, 1874.) June 1, Oregon eleotion, June 10, INinols Iudependent Convention Juno 10, Indiana Roform Conventlon. June 10, Kansea Independent Convontion, June 17, Ilinols Nepublicau Convention, Juno 17, Indiana Republican Convention, . Maino Domooratta Convention, Juue 24, Towa Anti-Monopoly Couvention, Juno 50, Tilinols Prohibition Couventlon, Juno30, Arkanses election for Constituttonal Gone ‘yeutlon, July 1, Town Ropublican Convention, July 14, Arkanss Coustitutional Convontfon moots, uly 16, Ohilo Domocratlo Conventlon. July 15, Indiana Democratfe Convention. July 20, Alabams Cousorvative Conventions Aug, 3, Kentuoky clection, Aug, 6, North Carolins eloction, Aug, 18. Oblo eloction to mdopt or reject mow Coms aittution, Aug, 19, Penneylvania Republican Convention, Aug, 19, Tonuessoo Consorvative Conventlon, Aug, 26, Pennsylvania Demogratio Gonventlon, Bopt. 1. Vermont elaction, Sopt, 14, Madne election, Oct, 18, Obio cloction, Oct, 13, Indian election, Oct, 13, Tows oloction, Oct,. 16, Nebrasks alaction, Oct, 14, Goorgln eleotion, Oct, 22, Wost Virginfn election, Nov, 2, Loulsians cleotion, A Nov, 3. Eloctions in Alabaros, Arkanaas, Delawars, Florids, Ilinols, Kunsas, Maryland, Masschusolts, Michigan, Minuesats, Missouri, Novada, Xow Jorvoy, New York, Ponueylvania, South Oafolins, Tounsusce, Taxas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Norz. All iha nbove-named States (82) eloot Ropre. sentatives for tha orty.fourth Congross, besldes Gtata officora varylng in esch State, The clect:onsto tlo Forty-fourth Congress will bo comploted, next year, us follows: New Hampshire, in March; Ithode Taland and Connocticut, in April; Califorpia, fu Sepe tombor ; Misalesippl, in November, The Torty-fourth Congross will, unless nooner convened, muot on the first Mondsy in Decomber, 1878, NOTES AND OPINION. Oandidates for nomination by the Illinois Re« publican Btate Convention, June 17: For State Treasurer—Goorgo A, Binders, now Doputy Stats Treasurer; Thomas B, Lidgeway, of Bhasmectown; K, K, Jonos, of Quincy; Oourad Tnl(fi,u, of Joliet. For Superintendent of Publ{o Inatructfon—Nowton ‘Batoman, the prescnt inoumbont; Eimer Baldwin, of LaSalle Oounty; H, W. Suow, of Tazewell Countys Auron Gove, of Molean County; Edwazd L, Wells, of Ogle County, ~—The inflation issue came too late in Orogon to bo rocognized in the rogular plutform way. But we observo that, while the Ropublican nows- papors and candidatos dodge it, tho Independ- onts sustain tho Prosident (on this question), and the Demoorats, not liking to suatain -Grang on any question, fall back to the original Domo- cratic dogmas of hard money. The Danville (11l.) Times, Indepondent anti- inflation, says:) ‘The Convention called to meet at Springfield on ths 10th of Juno will Laye sploudid oppurtunitics for dratting the outlines of o purty lu whiel ol \vhe axy dissatised with Republicanlsm may work: harmonfous- 1y and successfully, ~—Tho Aledo (IiL.) Banner, Indopendent anti- inflation, ays; We cannot tell what this (10th of June) Covnention will do, and of courso cannot say wa will Indorzo its action in the futuro; but we believo it cun do good, ~—Tho Illinois Stato Journal (Ropublican infla~ tion) is busy discussing - with anti-inflation Re- publican newspapers the, *Tosts of Political Orthodoxy;" and, in an argumont addrossod to the “recalcitrant” (as it is plensed to term it) Litchfield Aonitor, the State Journaul enys : Tho Republican party existed long before Proafdont Grant wos a member of it, and hus mace him what by {s. If tho creator iu superlor to the creaturc, thw pacty hoa certainly not aurrendered eny Tight by thut fact to exprous o apintons. Eut If, ¢3 o Jemtor suys, “The resolutions must sp condemn Congress, or condemn tho veto und sustain Congress,” it u batter that tho breach should be witi our unnnimous dolegation in Congrosa ? —Tho Marshalltown Republican, edited by Oapt. Neidig, Chairman of the Iowa Ropublican State Contral Committeo, warns tho Ropubli. oans to ** watch espocially that no flrobrands bo thrown into the State platform.” As Capt. Nei- dig is for inflation, would the thirtconth plank of tho lust National Republican platform Le, in his opinion, & firebrand? In this connection we fiod the followingin the Keokuk Constilulioni The Des Moines State Reaiater advisca the Tows To. publican Btato Qonvention to lot the currency question govorgly alona {n tu platform. It saya tliit uuy al- tempt to pass a rezolution elther for or agatnst i exe pansion of tho currency, will be sure to breod discord sud dissension in the party. This oxtreniv caution vy tho part of tho Reqlater would scem to indicato thint f1 does not beliova its own assertiou, so repeatedly una #0 positively made, thot nine-tenths of tho pooplo of ve tho veto and Jows are In favor of an expanslon of the tnrroncy, If © - this assertion wero true, the Regidter otyht to sy thnt an oxpausion plank in ' the Republican State platiorny would be just ‘the thing to make victory doubly sura ut tha election in October, Also, tho Keokul Gate Cily says : Tho State Register don't want any nzurientexpan- lon pleuk or any snocle-rosumption plauk n ho Sty Topublicun plutform, It thinksa froe-unkiug pionk onough, and. thut all can unito upon that, Tt ia uit woll endugh, 8till, we romind the Repister thul for elght years paot tha Repnulican purty” lixs won itu Vice torlou upon o specie-resumption_platform, 1t is not putting spece-rosuroption in a Ropublican piatforu, ut leaving it out, that will be the unovatlon. —The Carlinville Enguirer (Domcoratio anti- inflation) thinke the Democrats will not taka tho field in Illinofs 88 & party, it wisdom charnoe terizos the action of the [Indopendent] Couvene tion to bo hold on the 10th of Juno.” —The Macomb Eagle and the Efingham Damo- corat declare for straight Domocratic nomina- tions, ~—The Galena Industrial Press sy : Whetlier tho palioy (of the uew Tudepenlont yarty): will bo nfintion, Umitieas or otherwiso, rewuins to b deternined, o » . Wo hopo the prty will not by Ccommitted io Any schemo which shall deprociate thi curruncy or Tafie tho price of gold ; such & conrso Jrould clungo tho atundard of values, unsattio pricca, Iead to atock-gambling and spoculation, and bo disas~ trous to all lsboring sud business clagsea, We wpesk thus froely in advanico, becausa we wish £o Lo right, and wish {0 808 the now purty right on the yocord, ~—The Burlington Hawk-Eye, In anawer to contemporary, says of inflation: ' Tt fa not an * intangible dssue,” but one of tho most vital quieations that cau voncern any peoplo. It lles ut {hie buls of notional prosperity aud natiousl morality, Ifoueat men who live by honest labor tuuwt Luvo Lo eut money. National immorality, natlonal hshonssty, and bod fabil, will reuck powerfully, producing inal: vidual dishoutaty and corruption, a8 wide-spreud as it would be disgracatul and dostructive, In our fidg- ment, thls great question 19 tho mont Jmportant one now bofore the people, aud it prevacs for immediate solution, We are uuxious to have it come beforo thy puople, not booauso we desive & uew party deal, but 1hat it muy, haply, strengtlien, purify, snd re-euerglzy tho 010 Reyublican Patty; and. mory then ki, becaauy we desiro to see the untional Lionor sud crodif pre. sorved, und the peopls ssved from the unnunbered evils which thoy will certainly call down upon them- nmelyes 1f thoy plunye iuto the vortex of an unlhmited, irrodeomable papor-currency, which must feovitully end in both indlvidual aud nations! bankrapicy, dli~ grace, and ruin, 5 —The Potersburg Democrat says : The platformn sdopted by the Slute Farmers’ Asso- ciatlon Iust winter nt Decatur {8 sound Damocrativ dootrino, but we ean #6g 10 good rouson wiy thu Damoceacy abiould abandon thelr organtzation sud Fun utter & % New Durty Movemont,» 1¢ the. Dacatns Convention honastly ropresentod the viows of the Farm. ers and Antl-Mouopollsts of the Btuto, in the rewolu. 4lonn pasied at flat meoting, why not jofn {n aad help the Dowocratic party carry fhem Intosflect 1 , . Wao Lopa that #ll the opposltion to Itopublican ox. trayaganco aud dishonesty may bo cousolldated to the e\;d llll‘_lt lllhlholl may b mdunmo:‘l‘ from the olutclics of a purty whoss avory ach tonds to miake .ing rlalior und tho poor povrer, b, Hel —Tho Jacksonvillo Seatinel racalls the Demo- oratio traditions in favor of & hard-money and a spooie basis, iudorsos the Decatur platform as #pure old Joffersoniun dootrine,” and anys: ‘I'ho Demooratio mavues deoply sympathize vita t obct wnd puryoAceof tho ABtl3Tononaly movemEl and, Ln_dfunle of prasenting o ticket of thlz ona, o’ gracetully snd choorfully giva it thetr sid ab us polls, without any sncrifice of priuciplo, —~The Towa Fulls Scntinel sayu that & strong effort will bo made to have the Iowa Republican Btate Convention commit tho party to the policy ot.oxpanslon. Tho Sentinel saya that * Thia av- tion would be worse thun folly, tusicas i3 Womd Vigokous Ml v ,! PORIEPTC R