Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE TERMA OF BUDSORIPTION (PATADLE IN ADVANOR), 12,00 | Bundn, 2.0 K F0B1 Wk 2508 Tarts ol ayearat th same rate, Topravont delay and mistakos, bo sure and give Post Omcoaddsens in tull, Including Stato and Counts, Homittancos rany bo mads sithier by eatt, expross, Post Olice order, orin registercd Jatters, at our risks TENMA TO OITY BUBSORIDERS, Daily, doliverad, Bunday excoptea, 2 conte por week. Baily, aolivored, Bunday included, 50.cents por wooks Adator I TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madlisan and Doarbornasta., Uhioage, Tk sty TO-DAY'S AMUSEMENTS. " '3 THEATRE—Madison eteoot, \hotwoon R ntor Kngagament ol Magyis Aicloll * Poar] of Savoy, " Ja strast, belwaen Mad ACADRMY OF MUSIO- HalstoCH R0 okon Bamily. on and__ Afonros kbt o Kitohon. | | RK~—Cornor, of Wabash avento A A Jortormanco, 3o Suax- aposrean burlesque of ** Bad Dickoy. | —Nos, 218222 Wost Madison talobloau, ota, ,DING-Lakoshoro, faot, of Adams. OO R elh Altoruooh and wvenings | KING: BUTY MUSIO HALL-Olark etract, betwosa Randolpl 1 ‘#nd Lako, {Bullock's Royal Maronottos. UGIT'S OIROUS~Stato strost, dorner Trren- P AT b A ovomtnis b MEETINGS. NIGHTS OF APOLO_COM- TRENTION, S RO R OU R ks DERY NO. 1, K. wlfifiu held at thoir Council Chataber, {rusadmm)ovoning, st 8 oelosks G SO N R Yislitag Kalgita courtooysly Ity JIE S Rocordor. LODGE, No. %% A, . and A, M,~Togulsr Py wiii'bo iold y:hlkfilr T, 5 aiid 13 Mon, P s anaare o T 0%, 31 CIUANE, Soc. 1. A, GABUMAN LOGE No. 656, A, F. and A, M.— tig Tucadsy eyening, May 5 ‘ab mfi}:‘;fil.g o o and Toboyate. Work on 1104 3 ially invited, RS b Brolivon sprfaly et v <. 3 ———— BUSINESS NOTICES. LIVER AND BLOOD DISEASES. BT R, V. PITNCK, M, . A hoalthy livor socrotos sach day nbout tsro and 8 whick ¢ontains & |‘N-b amount of $hio blood. ‘When tha liver : 0, 10 1205 to wllitonts this e f moxious. substarico, Wiioh, therofore, Toraatya 1 potson tho. lood, Al e convzed to evory gart of tho syatom. What must be tho condition of tho Biced whon h 1n vogulving. mnd rotaining onch duy twi aud o lall pounds of pojevn 7 tries 1o work off Thi “pulson through' oflior channels and organa—tho T, e, ata, b thoesorgass bocumo sy xod in porforming this labor in ad on 0} s {Ehctions, aud |cn£not long withintand 1ho prassuro, but sonsod. D e Je thio reat elooteleal centrn of all _ witality, is undaly stimulatod by tho unhealthy blgad, Yhioh Basecs o it feom tho heact and it falls to parforth A otics healthiuily, - Houeo tho tymptomu of bilo polsou- o EeRith aro duitnosw, hosdache, incopacity 10 kesp. tho' mind on any subjoot, impalrment of momory, Glizey, sloopy, of Borvous foslng, gloomy Torabodiny nd lrritability of tempor, Tiio blugd furolf olng dis- s It forins tho' swest upon tho surfaco of 1! I3 5o frritating and Toisonous that §t produces 2 hrown spotr, Dimpion, biotohor, and ofher (orpitons, sorom, Loils, oarbuncics, sud sorofulous tu- ‘Snore, Thostomach, bowols, aud othor organs ankiat Gacayo bocoming aléolod, souner oF 1AOF, nud WO linve & {lie reeult anstivoness, niios, dropot, dy hlllo{ o 1 hvoat, Lioating ot Btundy’appotite, in throat, blonting o Bamach, pain in eidos of sbout shiouldors. of Lsok, cold- nosxof oxtromitins, ofe., eto. Only s fow of tho abuvo l,fl’ll’l'flm' ‘aro Hkely to bo prosont in any oase at one timo., o Hivar belng the great. dopurating or blood cloansing ordih of tho sxstom- sat. this great *'housokoonor of pur ottt ot Workand tho foul coreuptions, which gondor 1 tho blood snd rot atit, as it waro, tho machi ‘%0 ginoually xpolied trom the systom. Tor thls purposs i Eoldn Modienl Disaasory with vors smnl doses dully Sty Dlossant, Purgative Nollots ara pro-emivontly thn artiolos nooded. They curs ovory kind of humior, from the worat scrofula to tho common pimplo, bloteb, nrumly- o *Grant eating nicors kindly loal undor thelr migity Sarative influotico; Virulont blood polsons that Jurk (n o spatom aro by thom robliod of thelr terrors, and thoi pemoroing and somowhat protraoted o tho most {ainied syatoms inny b complotely sonovated snd Lully B anew. - fainrgod glaudy, tuinorw, and swollings divin- Jo'away and disappear undor tho inlluonco of thoso groat rosolvonts, The Chicage Tribune, | Tuosdsy Morning, Moy 28, 1874, , uns A firo in Indopendonce, In:, yestorday, de- atroyed s lnorge part of the town. Tho loss ls estimated at $500,000. ] The Ohicago Erening Journal, o dercliot organ of tho presont Adminfetration, hardly knows # which more to feel towards Becrotary Richord- mon—pity or contempt.” Until further notice 1t will be content to *feol” & good dent of each, without stopping to ix proportions. Mr. Olements, an Illinols momber of the Houso of Teprosontatives, has troduced s bill to remand corporations in any Stuto to tho juris- diction of State Courts, Thore is little chanco that the bill will pass at $ho presont session; in any case, 1ts ez post faclo operation would, of eourse, be imposaible. Ald. Jonas last night reported to the Common Council a series of regolutions which will meet tho hearty approbation of taxpayora. They sot forth that it is not expodiont, in view of the prosent condition of the Trossury, to undertake tho building of & Court-House or consider any steps preliminary therato, until tho resources of tuo city havo been incressed. The resolutions wota referred. Benator Btowart has introduced a joint resolu- tion for an smendment to the Coustitution of the United States providing for the establish- mont of common schools by tho Goneral Gov- ernmont when States shall fail to maintain them. His design evidently is to provont the fsilure in practicsl operation of the Civil Rights bill ; and he has not taken account of the frob that it is an anomalous proceeoding to prop up & pisce of Congrossional legislation by ap amond- ment to the Constitation. Elder Cannon’s polygamous practioes wore under investigation by the Houee Committeo on RElections yesterday, It was prettyolearly cstab~ lighed that the Elder's last wedding-trip was taken in company with wife No, 1 and wife No, 4, Thowholo party, with a thritty oyo to busi- ness, went o-flabing, not caving so much for human and divine laws se for tha factitious standard of rolid comfort which hnas becn sat up by the Mormon Churen, Jomes Watson Wobb hag sent by cable s de- fougo of bis conduct in the Carolino case, which waa mado the basis of a considorable sonndal in the debate on the Consular and Diplomatic Ap- propriation bill, Ho says that tho claim was prosecuted on the understanding tbat all over 25,000 recovered should go to tho persona making the collection from the Brazilian Government; and le divided ihe award betwoen the clmmant and tho attorneys according to ihis sgreement, Gon., Wobb prom- feeq to roturn home sa woon as hig health will sllow, and attond fu porson to tho * calumnies " againat him which have recently beon uttered. His answer suflices for want of » better one ; at Josat it devolves upon Socretary Tish the duty of sposking the next word, The Chieago produce markets were gonerally weak yesterday, with moro dolng in brendstuffu, Meas pork declined 400, but olosed firmer at P17.073@17.45 cash, and B17.00@17.05 seller July, Lord wes quiot and stoady, closlng at , 810,78 por 100 1ba canb, and 910.85@11.00 sellor July. Moats wore quiot and ensler, cloning t 8} @034 tor shoulders, §8.90 for short ribe, 936@ 93¢0 for short clear, and 103@113¢o for sweot- plcklod hama, Lake freighta were activo aud filmor, ¥ 4)¢0 for corn to Buftalo, Highwines wato- 23078 ‘Adilvi abd unolisnged, af B4)f0 per . gallon. Flour wags netivo snd wonk, Whont was active, and 1fo lowor, cloging at $£1.183¢ cnaly, 81,10@1.10}¢ scllor Juno, and $1.215¢ for No. 2 Minnesotn. Corn was active, and 2}{o lowor, closivg at 57¢o onah and 583¢osollor July. Oats wore active, And {0 lower, cloning at 400 cash and 44}¢o gollor Juna, Iiye was quiet and 1o lowor, at $1.00, Dsrloy was innotive, and nomi- nally 5o lower, at §1,56@1.00 for No, 2, and $1.15 @118 for No. 8, Iogs wero active and firmnor, Cattlo advanced 'an 3¢o undor a brisk demand, Shoop unchanged: Prof. Swing has glvon formal notlce to the Trosbytery of Chisngo of bis withdrawal from {tho Presbytorian Ohurch, 'Tho rensons for his action aro that ho fa s man of pence, that a stub~ born opposition to tho protensions of Prof. Patton might introduce elomouis of discord in the Chureh, sud thint he ks no wish to auataln Ohurch rolations which aro theologieal nnd not brothorly, Ha wishes that tho pocullar passlon, or rabies, of Prof. Patton shiall languish for tho want of u viotim.. The argument is thef hydrophabis oan be bost combated by dopriving 1t of sustenance, Ansigtant Secretary Sawyor appeared bofors the Ways and Moans Committeo yostorday, and gavo reagons why tho resolntions censuring Richardson, Bangleld, and lhimsolf should not be rspurtis'd. Ho throw the whole blamo of tho Banporn travenction, go faor a8 Tronsury officlala were implicaled, upon tho Bolici- tor. Tho argument apparcutly made littlo improssion. A report wng ourrent in ‘Washington last night to tho effect that tho Comnitteo will withlold thoe resolution of con- suro on the undorstanding that Mr, Richardson and lis assistanta will bo quictly rotired by the Prosident. Buch arefuge from impending dla- grace would nob be without procodent. ‘The Presbytortan General Assombly, in sea- slon ab 8t Louls, has had under considaration for govoral daya’ tho roport of a commitico on the consolidation of the bonavolont operations of the Church, Tho debato hns been for the most part in opposition to cousotidation. Pure Calvinism sooms to crave s complox man~ ifentation, whilo & less perfoct creed, subseribed to by that pard of the do- nomination which is slow in prosocutions and gwitt {n missionary work, strives for sim- phicity and economy in methods of distribution. It is the complaint of the Now School that the Presbyterlan Church has too much machinery, Prosbyterics, Synods, and, Gencral Assombly might do the governing for anation tnstend of confining their offorts to tho 590,000 men, women, and children who aro at present within tholr jurisdiction. The bonevolont work of the denomination is carried on by ten ora dozon soparate Boards and Commitlecs, ench one indo- pendont and in somo messure lresponsiblo. Mon acoustomed to buelnoss usages will sce littlo to commend in an ecclesinstical eystom so cumbersomo and oxponsive which divides In sovoral diroctions the energies which ought to be concontrated in order to bo effectivo. BUNDAY’S BERMONS. Tho sermons of last SBunday, published in Tax TrIouNe yostorday, are at once au index of the roligious future of this country sud a mirror of its present. The.Evangelical churches show themselves oxtremoly reatloss under the yoke of thoir various crecds. Thoir membors are yearn- ing for a more cheerful viow of:lite and of God. Tho scquittal of Prof, Swing is approved by por- sons, by clorgymen even, of tho most opposite views. Prof. Patton Las fowfriends aud fow anp- portersin {he most drthodox Evangelical donomi- natious, It Isnot dificult to understand why this shonld be. I'hero wag a time whon the world was thoroughly Chrislion in the sovse in which that word was used by our grandfathers, Tho number of infidels or unbeliovers wns then small. Tho atmosphere of soclety was either Ontholiv or Protestant; either Episcopalian or Trosbyierian. A man could not brenthe aud not taka 1n Catholicism or Protestantism, Calviniam or Lutheraniem, Litoraturo abounded with the one or the other. In Clristian countries thoro hnve alwaya beon large numbors of porsons ywho ot 10 tore by ereeds of any kind, but thoy woro fow and farbetween, They were rarely met by the faithful, and thoy influenced the courseof thought about a4 much as if they had had no existence. Thore was no great power antagonistic to the churches or thogects andextorual tothom, such as modern thought and modorn criticiem have cre~ atod; for Christianity, as Dr, Christliob ehows fu hig vocest work, i8 no longer the only great forco in COhrlstondom. Thave is sanother force acting countor to it,—unohier Wwhich it would bo diffiult to fiud a name for, porhaps, sinco sci- onco doo A not cover it, bub which all men feol. ‘Whatover veoplo may think of this other power, it is cortainly not wholly ovil. Mon's views of the world they are in, of thoir own esgential nature, of tho charactor of God, of their whonce, and tholr whither, and their whorefore, and of a thousund othor Iimportant quos- tions, havo been insongibly modified by the results and dovelopments of modern in- vestigation, There can bo no doubt that tho 8pirit of modern culture and tho sveraga spirit of Ohristianity, including in that phraso the Catliolic, Protestant, and Grook Churchos, ave not in harmony. They mutually exclude one anothor, or at lenst tond to do so, Dr. Christ- ligh holds that the Church itsolf is largoly ro- vponsible for this fact. Fow are tho Chriatians, olergymon or other, who can withdraw thom- solvos entirely from thoso influences, or presorve thelr roliglous opinious from the modifications which contact with thom {8 sure to produce. The rouult is that there are thousands who, like Prof, Swiug, fecl less aud loss at home in the old liousehiold; & houschold by contluuing in which they confor upon anothor the power to arraign thom from timo to timo *over rome dend dogmaa, or over the middle of a wen- toncs, or over some fabellion or Mo- hammedan word," ws Prof, Bwing says in hia lettor to tho Chicngo Presbytery aunounc- ing his withdrawal from tho Presbytorian Cliurch, Prof, Bwing's sermon on Bunday lust la the ox- prasuion, nob of lits views alone—It expreeuos tho foellugs of thousands in his own and other churohos,—of thousands who, nurtured in these organizations, are ondeavoring, out of their religlous bollofs and tholr other acquisitions, to mako o counistont wholo, Tho textof that sor- mon I8 signifieant, It polnts to those very changes or modifioations of Evangolicalism to which we rofor. Itis from tho sixteonth obap- tor of Matthew, and reada: * Cnu yo not dlecern the gigus of the times?” The eignd of the tlwea aro that men sare no longor willlug to nccopt @ CGod of vengeauce, * Men, women, aud oven dear ohildreu, have by somo Blow and powerful motamorphosis come ovexto a now hungor and & now thiret as to tho choaotor-of God." Digsatlatection trith tho chiacaotes of (ol s daughs by otur’ fathors, &ud e eeo—omr—TTODUNET TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1874, = Jonging for o God with & nalure Infinitely bot- tor than onr own rathor than & shado worss (for nono of ns would forcordaln our childron to otornal formont), thoss are indood the aigns of tho times, +What tho rollglous world nooda it would por- haps bo diffficult to say in words, Butthnt it wanta gomothing which It doos not possoss, that its orood doos mot il tho mching vold of tho lioarts and ntollocts of its peoplo, there 18 ampla ovidonce to show. Bays Prof, 8wing: Tho civilized world, fn il itaJongth ond breadih, eros out for & Ioavonly Father, I road it in tho ot torn which infidels write ; T aoo It evorywhioro, The world noods a Heavonly Fathor, Whother the fonder- nera of Uberty, which loves all alike, and which bins mithgated atl buman_ govornment, hias also_mitigated tho government of God, ono may ot boldly sflirm, but cortaln it Ju that tho samo ago that gives Amorica only Presiident, and England only a gentle, loving Queon, and Franco only a plain eltizon for ita guido, aud Bpain only an orator for lts Oblef, gives tho civil 1zed world God who has thrown nsido tho character - of an onomy to put on evormoro, I bollova, tho habill monts of & Father aud a Savior, A need, positives welldofined, ulmoat universal, hos sprang upin tho publio heatt for this conception of God, And 1t la sa valn to dony it as it would be to deny that man hes renched & nred of froedom in polltics, or & nead of baoka {n hfs mental life, Nor {s this movement conflned to the Prosby- torlans, The Rov, Dr, Thomas, pastor of tho Tirst Mothodist Church, sald in his sermon on Bunday, speakiog of tho rosults of tho horesy trlal, that hio was— Profoundly glad {hat the loarnod Presbylerian Olirch, b body ominznt for fta bearing and dignity, had gald—and this would not bo roversed by the By~ nod, which was threo-quarters made wp of theso very men—lio was glad that thoy hod sald that oven tho Confesslon of Faith might bo raviscd with ndvantage; ‘that somo of Ita slatoments aro unfortunate, aud, if glven now, it could bo improved, Thot was s grand scono last weok when Dr, Pattorson .and Dr. Bwazey stood there, uttering noblo iruths, whilo Mitle Frof, Patton, with bis back to (ho futurs, was_clinging to tho past, and vainly trying to arrcst tho growth of the niincoenth contury, It was a strange scono—the old men looking forward, tho young men looking back, THE BITE OF THE COUNTY HOSPILAL, Our focal columus toll a sigoificant story this morning concorning tho purchsso by the County Commissioners of & site for the new hospital. Tho story boars strong marks of verisimilitude.’ 1t sounds exceodingly like an * o'er truo tale.* Tt Las tho flavor of n old and oft-repented nur- sory-rhyme. It is so similar to rovelations we have been acoustomed to read of County Bonrda and other governing institutions for ton ora doz- en yenrs back, that wo aro inclined to accopt it for & fact, =~ Briofly told, it is this: The County Commissioners hove been casting abont for & year or more for a suitablo building site for the now County Hospital. They have roceived offors large and small, both a8 to the land and the prico, and, cortainly since tho ponio, must have had onportunitios for purches- ing ground at » reagonable figure, Among tho various pieces of property offored to thom somo timo ngo wore tha blocka lying betwoen Harrison and Polk, Lincoln and Wood strsts, and” ownod by Mr. Baldwin, who wanted to sell them for 8180,000. ° After long and todious delay, Mr, Baldwin concluded that the County Com- misslonors did not want his properiy, witbdrew it, and subdivided it to soll in lots. At tho last meoting of the County Commissloners, however, thoy mado n selection, and purchased Mr. Bald- win'a proporty, but they did not buy it from Mr. Baldwin, and poid §146,000 iustesd of $180,000, {for whioh it had proviously beenoffered to thom. The gentloman from whom they purchased, how- aver, had bought it from Mr, Baldwin about an hour beforo forthe original price, thus making the neat Jittle profit of $15,000 in about the samo spaco of timo it would take a man of slow specch to say Jack Tobinson. Tho confidence with which ¢he purchaser from Ar. Baldwin (and the sollor to tho city) paid down his §180,000 is chocring in theso times of gencral distiust; and s faith was amply rowarded. Tho alaerity with which the Gounty Commis- diovers paid Mr., Cushman $145,000 for the proporty ous lour after he bought it from Mr, Daldwin, after rofusing to purchase it for o wholo year from Mr. Baldwin at $130,000, is tho most striking foaturs of tho case. Perhaps the County Com- missioners can explain this sudden change of leart. County Commissloners probably par- take of tho common ofica-holding faculty of oxplaining overything. But toone not » County Commissioner—to o tax-payor, for instanco— the economy of the fransaction is of the most microscopic character. If all roports aro tmo, the Connty Commissionors bhave heen somowhat contracted in their opportunities for the seloction of this County Hospital sito. There is said to have boon & solomn political compact that, the South Division baving the Court-Houso, the North Division should have the Connty Jail, and the West Division should havo the County Hospital. Biill, tho Wost Diviston abounds in property, and, in all the competition, the County Commissioners secm nover to bave discovered the pecullar advantages of tho site sdopted until it had possed out of the original owner's hands, and had ine creased §15,000 in the prico domanded for it. 'The only consolation that can possibly bo dorived from the transnction s the direct evi- donco it furnishos that Chicago proverty is con- stantly rising in value, in apite of tho sovers trinls of tho ponle. In tho meantime, Mr. Bald- win is probably puzzled to know why the County Commissioners would not give hum the benellt of the rise. And tho peoplo will wonder how Afr, Qushman could know #o gurely that ko could by for £180,000 one hour and sell to the County Commissioners for §145,000 tha noxt. If this atory fe truons it comos tous, the ocaseis ono that demands prompt and honest investigation, if such & thing i any longor possible. MOSES, Moses, aecording to'tho Sunday-soliool Echolar, was the only man who over broke all the Com- mandments at once, His namonake, tho Gov- ernor, sccording to South Cavolins, has come protty near porforming tho same somowhiat dit- floult feat, Howevor, it has boen thought boat to punish him for their violution, one by one. T'ho entertainment—it in hugely entertaining to all honost men—hae begun with hts indictment, by n Ropublican Grand Jury, for bresch of truat with fraudulent intontions snd for graud lar- couy. A County Trossurer, ono Humbert, was indlcted at tho samo timo. He is chisrged with having used $6,000 of county fonds to pay Moaua! privato debts, The Goveruor is known to bo impeonnious, It is but s fow woeks since hoflod from Ohsrleston to Columbls to escape an lmportunate croditor. The luttor followed him, knooked down tho servant who tried to shut the door upon him, ocaught Mosos in bhls oom, and, by a caroless display of what ho tormed “ pistols and things,” got his bill pald abonce. Biuce thon, proceedings in banlruptoy have been toguu, The ill-got money Las disappeared, Tho luokleas Gubarnatorial thiof owes his tailor, fais shoemuler, hls grocor, Xt looka as though his assoolates iad decided te make Moses plsy Jouak, Thop dppatefitly ke thed i id tlde to unload, Tho dologation which wont to Wasl= ington {o controvert tho statoments of tho Tax- payors’ Conventfon—nnd had fts oxponses paid by tho Btate, that is, by the men it went to op- poso~could not concosl tho vile corruption thab hns mado the name of Bouth Cprolina s stench in tho nostrils of honosty ovorywliore, Oongress~ man Elllott rocontly vigltod Columbia and mads somo poworful spooches 1n bohslf of pure gov- ornment, Wo sald at tho timo that ho desorved woll of his country. Itisnow stated—wo trust withiout truth—that his sorvicos woro rowardoed with $1,000 from iho contingent fund of tho Biate. Do this as it may, tho corruption is oloar a8 duy. Gov. Mosos sooms to Liave boon solootod as soapogont. 3 . Ttis an odd story. Tho Governor Is indioted. A warrant fs {ssuod for his arrost. The Sherift trion to gorvo It. Tho mllitia is called out. A colored mob, armed and bloodthirsty, reaponds, The etores sro shut, DBusiuess s parslyzed, In thoe evoning Moses makes up his mind to bo arrested, and sonds = carringo to fetch the Blorl. Thon he veers about and sends a Con- stablo to catch the Sheriff. Tho Iatter flocs tho county. The Court proclaims itsolf powerless against tho militis, and all s quiet. It is to bo hopod that the ringloader of the gang may be brought to speedy justice, but thore is & deal of truth in tho commont of the Charleston News: It 18 ovidont that n dead sot hias boen made agninat. Moses, but faho thoonly oulprit? What of Noagle, Parkor, and Pattorson? What of the Advisory Doard, who issuod freudulent bonds? What of tho mem- bera of the Loglslature who accopted bribea? ot of tho “Tossca” of tho Printing Ring? ‘What of the hundreds of miuor officiala \ho Lave dabe bled in wrong dolng? A scapegoat will not sufiico, The wholo herd must go! . The “herd" hero montioned differs from its Beripturat forornpnor. That drowned itselt as soon as tho dovils ontorod iutoit. It this bad done thosame, tho cemoteries of South Caxolina would have been full somo yoars sinco, ) REPEAL THE LAND TAX, One of tho moat important questions which preacnts itsolt to tho peoplo of this State ia how to poy tho taxes for 1878, now due, In Chicago our feoplo will have to pay almost £8,000,000 bo- fore tho 1at of August, less what they lave al- roady poid slueo January. In the wholo Stato of Illinols the aggregate tex levied for 1878 for State, town, county, city, and gchool disirict, including interest ou outatanding indobtednoss, will not, fall abart o §26,000,000, aud moy reach govoral millions more. This 18 not oxcoptional. The tax systom of this Stato hias Yoen usod in all {ta Woverity for & numbor of years, Thus tho Auditor of Btate estimates that the taxes in Illi- nois for 1870 and 1871 were as follows : 1870, 1871, 8,105,400 1,500,000 $25,077,838 Totaly.... The incresge from 1870 to 1871 was about 18 per cont. Putting the annualincronse at only 10 per cont sinco thon, we have, a8 the snumal and aggregato tax for the four yoara: 4 « Theroe is a limit to the oapacity of the people to pay taxes, and, in view of this oxhibit of what ‘has been oxtorted from the peoplo of Illinois in the four yesrs just closed, nojone will be surpris- ed at the statoment of Senator Btarne, that many farmers in various parts of Dllinois are selling their lands and moving out of tho State. They feel that thoy must do this now, nor wait until tho tax-gatherer leavea thom notbing to soll. ‘Wo havo on repoated occasfous shown from tho Auditor's reports that under our” Btate rovenuo eystom ovor 80 perccnt of the taxes laviod for Stato, county, and all other purposes inIitinols is pald by tho land and the personal property incidonts) thoreto, OQur rovenue sys- tem professes to tax sll the}property in the Btato ; it la offective to tho extentof roaching overy acro of land and overy town-lot, From Osiro to thoLako not a foof of Innd escapes. Tho Assossors are also ablo to find (outside of tho cities) every horse, mulo, cow, shecp, ox, hog, and chicken, aud avery plow, reke, raaper, mawar, snd other implement ; they aro able to enu- merate overy watel, clock, sewing-machine, wag- on, and corb on ovory farm in the Siato; not ono of theso things csoapes tho vigllenco of tho Assessor. But, away from the farms snd dls- connectod from tho land, the Assessor finds little or no personal property in the State, Thus while the values of the real and personal property in this Stato, subject undor our law to taxation, aro about equal, the Asscssors find and the State Bosrd of Equalizstion apportion tho values s followa : ‘Volue of lunds snd lots, ++.$907,040,202 ‘Value of peraonal prop: 287,202,809 Nor does thia claesification show tho fuil vi- clousness of tho aystem. Included in the abave atatemont of personal property aro tho values of the live-stock, implements, wagons, etc., found on the ferms, all directly connected with tho land. These items foot np about 8142,000,000, aod we Dbnve, as the result of a tax Intended to apply to oll proporty alike, tho followlng results Lands and lots, Personal proper! ‘Total leuds and appurtensnces, 049,940,202 A1 ORer Jersonol GOBERy oors Ay These, with tho £60,000,000 valuation of rail- roads, make up the aggregate veluation of real and porsoual propoerty subject to taxation in Il- linols, It will be seon, thorefore, that, althongh tho actualvalue of the porsoun! proporty in tho Btato i oqusl to that of tho lande, the lands with the live-stock and othor appurtenancos rAY TEN- aweLrTns of all tho taxen collected In this Btate for all purposos; and that, despito the bristling array of onths and ponaltics, and graunts of ar- bitrary power and summary process, the 800 or 900 Assesyors canuot find off ‘the farms in all II- linols more than $145,000,000 of personal prop- orty. Taling tho estimated and aotunl returng of tuxes lovied and colleoted for 1870, 71, 73, and '78, we Lave the atartling axhibit of who pay the taxes m Illinols ¢ PR A PR i i Paid by all other personal property....§ 18,408,200 Tu 1t not timo to arrey this injustico, which ls entlog .the very substsnco of the producing olausos ? Wo aubmit to the Farmora’ Conven- tion that hore Ia a grlevauce that farexcesds any- thing complained of in tho way of railroad ex« tortion, Horoia the tox-gatherer domanding of the ownors of ono-half the propoerty of the State 8314 conts out of ovory dollar of tax lovied and colleated. Fortunately the Constitution admita, authorizen, and directs & remedy for this ex- troardinary fnequality. It provides that the Loglslaturo mny tax & varlely of acoupstlons usmod thoreln by oouse and otherwiso, end tax rallronds, expross companied, aud tolegraph companiod upon thelr gross recolpts, aud all othor porsons sud compsnles nalng fran. ohises and wpeclal privileges, tpon mslen and prodin ot We hete pablahied trom tise ta tlmo tablos 1llustrating tho amount of rovenuo thint might bo thus collectod, and It 18 concedpd thiat from this source lone thoro can bo colleotod tho entira amount of rovouuo now ralsed for Btnto purpogos. A tax thus fmposeds in a form that admits of no oscape. Bforaover, fuch & tox diftuses itsolf over tho wholo communitys whilo o Innd tax doos not,—bir. Wolls to tho contrary notwithetanding, Whon tho Additor lovies & tox nndor tho proront syntom, ho ndda thereto 20 per cent to covor tha cost of collcction, Undor the olternative power of taxation given in the: Coustitution, tho whole rovonue could be col loctod at a cost not oxceeding 1 per cent. Tho Btato of Illinols is outof dobt, and tha #ime has come whon tho Legislaturo may repeal and abolish tho ontire tax on land for Blate purposes. As the farmors, who pay 83 per cont of tho tax, are moro intorosted than sny others, we submit that justlco"ln themeelves snd to tho peoplo st large should induce the Farmers' Conventlon to adopt s o leading part of their platform a resolution substantiolly as follows Resolted, That the powers of the Conatitution (bith erto not excrclsed), of taxing occupations and persous uslng speclal franchises, in the form of Neenso and 1 thio shinpo of porcentages on gross receipta, be put in oporation; and, If 1t bo found thnt ol rvenuo needed by tho Biato can ba collected trom tliess sources, that the tox on Iands and other property for Biate pus poecs, by valustion, be ropealed st the eatllest dsy ‘posaible, sr—— THE TESTIMONY OF OLUSS, The most dsmaging ovidenco against tho Distriot of Columbin Ring hine boon glvoen by s memper of the body responsible for the frauds, —Adolpls Qtuny, Obiof Engineor of the District and mombor of tho Bosrd of Public Works, Ho i8 n Gorman. His professional exporionce covora twonty-olght yoars, Ho hsa beon In this oountry sinco 1848, i Ho soys that ho repeatedly warned Gov. Shop- lord that tho engineors employed by him were making' falso measuromonts, No heed was given to him. In somo cnges, 00 measurements whatover woro made, Enormous sums woro paid onmoro cstimates, ' One Albert Glonson recoiv- od $148,230 at ono time, and $75,000 at another, for work dono on stroots that had nover head an jostrumont or an en- giocor upon them. Monoy was poid and con- tracts wero awarded by Shephord. The Board was only his ratitylug-machine. In two oud & half yoors tho Board bag had eight meotings, Tho longest lasted an hour and a half. The main buelness dono st those rare gathorings was tho signing in bulk of the contracts Shopherd liad alrondy awarded, Mr. Cluse gave many in- stances of false monsnroment. On Bassachus setts avenuo 50,000 yards of grading was swollen £0105,000. On one streot the contractors grad- ed 19,148 yards, and wore paid for 41,000 yards. The overpaymont smounted to $7,281.50. On snothor atroot the real grading smounted to 10,667 yards, whilo & Dill for 43 870 ysrds was duly paid. In the same way, T,491 feot of ourbing becamo 9,208 foet tho day before the Board passed the vouchors for its payment. 'Tho witness oxplained his sig- pature un several suspicious papors by ssying that in some cases his failuro to comprehend the matter, and in others his conviction that reslat- snco to the majority was useless, had lod him to put his namo to documents which he should havo loft unsigned. Tho explanation gcems plausible, In eithor ovent, whether ho is an accomplico turned Btato’s evidonco or an honest men surrounded by rogues, his testimony is crushing. Tho offorts of Gov. Bhepherd, backed by elx lawyers, to meet it bave been in voln, It hos convicted tho Board of Fublio ‘Works of criminal carelessnoss, though not nec- csgarlly of fraud, After this, no one will be anrprised at the announcoment that Prosident Grant hos removed Mr. Cluss from the Board of Publio Works and appointed hissuccessor, This was done yosterday. Semm—————— THE HYMENEAL ELEFRANT. Thevo isan olopbant connected with every wodding, which the happy pair immediztely find upon tholr hands the very first dsy afior thoy oommenco housckeoping. Itis & good-natured elephant, an affoctionnte elophant, a well-moant and well-disposod olaphant, but it is none the logs an elopbant, and the bappy pair know no ‘more What to do with it than tho man who drow £1i6 livo ono in the lottery, Woreo than all, itis an elophnnt sanctioned by immomorial ussge, and one which musn’t be sold aund cannot be given away without dolng vlolenca to the bonda of friendship whickh suggested it. A referonco totho recent Grant-Bartoris wedding will ex-~ ploin the nature snd hsbits of this matrimonial pachydorm, and how it s i% becomes #o troublosome snd casts ita huge, dark shedow ssland the soft and silvery rodinnce of the honeymoon. Tho President's doughter and hor busband weve favored with pumerous and affectionate frionds, who Iavished upon them many tokens of thoir esteem in the shopo of gold, silver, ormolu, and penr] articles for ornsment and ueo, Theso valusble articlos woro packed away in trunks, and ure now afloat upon the briuy deep, under the seol of Mr. snd Afre, Bartoris’ chocke, It:is not probablo sither Mr. or Mrs, Bartoris have much concern for thom now. There I8 vory littlo in this world which ling any attraotions for victims of hyporestliesia; but whon Mr. and Mrs, Sartorls arrive at their new home, nnd unpack their truoks propara- tory to golng to housekeoping, the elephant will moke his sppearance, and where to put him, how to keep him, and what to do with Dhim, will bo the fitat problem of tholr life-partnership. The officinl list of prosonts made to them shows that they will find 10 loss than soven sorvices of berry-dishes, five Bibles, ix watev-pitchors, five servicos of ico- cream dishos, and toilet-sorvices sufficiont to supply tho whole Smxtoris neighborhood, What will they do with them? How can they utllize thom ? What is true of the Grant-Sartoris wadding is truo of ) weddings. In lumbler lite, the clopiant, however, takes usuother form, Tho male friends of the nowly-married pairalways convey thelr wishes for happiness and prosperi- ty in o oske~basket, wiule nothing is 8o express- ive of the wundying affection of =& fomale friond as .6 butior-knife. It fs ploasant to hiave theso good wishes, It ia plens- ant to have undying sffection. It & plessant to have a cake-basket it you have cake to put in it. It is plessant to have a butter-knife it you have buttor to eut with it, But i i¢ pleasant for s nowly-married counla to find thomselves with a4 many cake-baakoets as they bave gentlemen frlends and a3 many butter-kolves as they have lady friends ? Use might be found for one or two onke-buukets and two orthree buttor-knives, but when it comea to hrlf--dozon oake-bsskots and & dozon or two buttor-knives, {t prosonts an pmbarrasement of riches to tho young houso- keopora, who cannob bo axpeoted to dlet exolu- slvaly upon ¢ake and butter, aciwithstandlog tiio frogile vbarietsr of “the sppeitis dusisg brio? poriod, would involve physical the intoresting perfod of tho hopoymoon. I? cako-baskots could bo used for frying-pans, or conl-gouttlos, or washbowls, and it buttor-knives could bo mado to do sorvice aa tablo-knives, ihe sfteotion roprosontod by ihem would not bo so embarrassing. But this 1a monifestly mpossi- blo. Itls not every onowho can turn & multl- plicity of tho ssmo articlo to account ag Lord Doxter did whon Lo found bimaclf atuck with & oargo of warming-pans and shippod them to Cabn, having porsunded the plautors that thoy woro admirablo sugar-ladios. It will puezle any onewho is not in the berry and ice-cresm busi~ ness to discovor whatin tho world Mr. and Ara. Bartoris enn do with 8o many borry and {oe-croam eorvices. Borries aro only In sesson for a briet period, and the uso of suffloiont bor- rlea to utilize all theso sorvices, even in this consg- quoncos which aro rathor dlstrassiog to contom- plate, Ico-oream may bo palatablo all the yoar round, but & constant diet of ice-croam might bring on & coolnoss bolween them, and thore should be no coolness excopt in tho rofrigorator. "This proollvity of the malo being to plunge into a onke-baskot whon his frionda are married, sndof tho fomale bolng to rush frantically after a buttor-knife whon her frionds are married, i¢ purely a ‘matter of convention and want of thought. o In shoor despair, the rospectivo friends of the young prir about to launch upon the troubled tators of matrimony softle upon the cake-basket and but- ter-lnife na o bappy roliof from the vexatious problom what to choose, upon thosatne principle that tho distracted housowife, uncertnin what sho shall have for dinner, falls back upon beof- stosk, which i3 usunily just what Patorfomiling does not want at all. Thero docs mot scem to Do any way out of this embarrassing business oxcopt for the frionds of the married puir to moot and rosolve to throw out butter-knives and cake-boskots altogothor, and not duplicato ench othor’s pledges of aflection, Then letonch one oxorelso sone fancy {n obtelning something uniquo, or, what would bo still botter, let them give the yonug couple a faiv atart {n furnishing the louso. Lot ons got tho cooking-stove, suothor the kitchou-ware, one & patlor carpot, another farniture, ono & book-collection, anoth- or plotures, and go on, In this mannor the vory ologant but vory useless assortmont of butter- knives and cake-baskets with which the young couplo find themselves wrostling might bo avoided, and ¢fe olophant would not disturb thoir slumbora, Somebody, incited thoreto by the Russian ncandal, hoas gathered & mass of stories of royal misdoings, which rond like the sorceds against kingoraft with which Bradlaugh loada the columns of his paper. Thero was the Count do Charolais, who used to sit in the Polaig Royal and pop at cnsunl passors-by. Long practico gave him skill, He finally brought Qown n tilor—killed him, in fact, outright. He waa tried, convicted, sontenced, and—pardonod. There was the Duke of Gloucester, who figured, & contury ngo, in the criminal courts. Thoro was the Duke of Cambridge, who {asaid to have mur- dorod ono of his sorvarts, as Christiun of Bwe- den did ono of hers, Tho Duke, howover, omitted tho formnlitics of trial with which the Queen preceded the slaughtor of her victim. A horde of Gorman Princes,—tho Into Duko Olnrles of Brunswick, the Iate Grand Duko of Baden, tho ex-Elector of Hesse, nsy, the very Electors of Honovor, from whom Victoris i8 doscended,— wore all no botter than thoy should be, Guelph bload is not of the purest. It in not a pretty ploture, that of Georgo IT. sobbing to his dying wife, who told bim {o marry agaln: * Non, non, jaurai des mailresses.” Nor is its countorpart,— ‘Albort Edward, Prince of Wales, stsnding in the witnoss-box and swearing that 8ir Oharles Mordaunt's accusation wes false. It is within bounds to sy that hall London belioves to thig dny that it wag true. Tho sinful world laughe ot the Yopo's donunciation of Vietor Tmanuol's sin in seizing Rome, but. the Holy Father might mako = point by commenting on tho fact that the logitimato and illogitimate sons of the King meot in the society of Rome. Fran- oig Josoph of Austris is counted a well-mesn- ing, though weak, Emporor, but ho repudiated, Dy » singlo edict, balf the money his and his no~ tion's faith wus pledgod to pay. The long linois closed by tho Russinn Grand Duke Nicholns, who atole his mother's dlamonds and gave them to aprotty netress. Afterall, however, the rulers are not much worse theu theruled, Their crimes cortainly do not oxcoed the partition of Poland by the ‘throo robber nations, or tuo whilom oppression of Iretand by England, or the plander of Moexico by the Unizod Bates in order to nggrandizo the slave power. Mighthas msado right many times, It is sweet to know that our rulors are involved In no ecandals, that all who gother av Washington oro honest and pure. Sure of this, wocan pity the unfortunate sab~ Joots of crowned commandment-brokers. The movement whioh was recently organized in Paris to establish o lecguoe against tho prosont licentious condition of the Frowch stage took practical shape on May 1, An immenso - semblage gathered in tho salons of the Du- | chesto do ln Roclofoucauld, ono of tbe loading mombers of Paris eacloty, composed of leading Doputies, politica], arlistic, and literary celebri- tios, and many woll-known tbeatrical peoplo. fThe loague was formed, aud all tho ladies pres- ent promised to discountenance degrading and indecent plsys, Tho English Iadies aro going to got up o similsr moeting, and loagues of this kind are already ivaugurated in Rome, Flor- enco, Milan, and Venico. Here is & cruaade sgaingt which no objeotion can Mo, What axe Americon ladies doing ? e Tho State Journal complalos that its position on the currency question has been misropra- sonted by other Republican papors in Illinols. That 18 Indeed oruel. The Journal, howover, finds no difficulty in stating that T'ue Omicaao TRIBUNE hng oxprossod gratification thab the Ohiongo & Alfon Railway Company bave taken sholter in the United States Court belind an sob of Congress passed to 8ecurs the right of suf~ frage ko colored mon, * Lord, Lord, how this world ia glven to lying." gty Tho lateut form of objurgation sgeinst the Prosident’s veto s that the Prosidont lufllmd"’ his own aalary to 00,000 a year booauso Lis dsughtor was about to gob mumirled, and he wanted to pay tho oxponsoof that coremony ot of the pockets of tha poor. We grlove to find this sentimet ooplod ‘into soveral Republi- ean popers from tho Maroa (11L) News, iteelf & Topublioan journal, POLITICAL NOTES AND NEWS. Tle olootion in Oregon occurs next Mondsy, and the prineipsl \innd)dm: nml: i L Tt M g A A Congrom— T D, Demoarst Richurd Willisnus, Republican, e San Franclsoo Bulletin, roviewling tho slt- uation in Oregon, says the yace for Governor ia bo- twoen Campbell aud Grover, and, for Qongrass, botweon Davenport and Williams, aud tho Bulle- tin asys v ‘I eovoral of (ho countles, tha Democrats aud Te= ublicuny have openly conlesced ou_county and legla- fiva tiokets, ws tho only Liopa for tho ‘urly hiscks srosnman ara dovaloping foo miuch atrongth, and the moliticsl and monopuly Tinga foar tlie defeat of their candidatos, notwithstnnding that they havo joined forcea, Also, the Baoramento Union ays of tho cane vass fn Orogon ¢ "Tiore ars threo tickols in tho fleld, with 510 sppreciae lo differonco {n thelr platfaras, All brofee o lio for roform nnd ecanomy, and yet cuch oo 18 doniauding the mnost waatoful expendilires from tho Gonoral Qove ernniient iu favor of that partioular Btate, Tlo fndo. pendenta have tho mordt of tho best nominees; and, -ihiorgh wo ihiok thcir platform an abomination, itis 21 ood ua tho otbors, fud wo lopa Loy May, succoed in olocting thelr candidates, o o » If the Indo- Jondentn aro ta be defosiod o Oregon, tioy will linva eir own inoxpiicablo and indfenaible platform (v blamo for it, Huch b plaiform—ssking, a8 it docs, tho most extravagant things from Cougress aud tho No- tional Treastiry, aind proposing tho inanguration of now and moro powverful xailwny corporatious st tho ex- ponso of the nntion, to control tho politica of thut Binte du tho futuré—prescnts uo dintinctivo 1ssuo as Delweon Independents and iho llepublican party ar Independents and tho Demacratic party, ~Tremor W. Park, Iato of Californin, and espeoinlly of Mariposn, now of Vormont, with- draws bis pamo 08 an aspirant for Governor of Vormont, sud the undivided cholco of the Re- publican Conventlon (Juue 17) 18 likely to fall upon Judge Asahal Peck, —T'wo yoars ago Andy Johnson mnde troubla on * our gido of tho liouso" in Connesgoo, and, Dy drawing off 88,000 votos, olocted Horaco Maynard to Congrana for the Stato at largo. Thin yoor thoro fa troublo on the * othermdo of the liouse,” all csused by the Civil Rights bill in Congrogs, which tho black Ropublicans atoutly domand apd tho whito Republicans aa stoutly ropudiate, The Nashville Banner enys ¢ Therafs & orfsls jutho history of the Republican party fn East Tonuessoo, arlstug ttom o diciluce positlons takon by mombiern of tho party in zegara to thio civil righta question, Wo aro tofu reliably that the fevor ia high, bringluy 1o mind tho tempestuous times Deforo our Kthto cost bior_fortunes with tho Confeders ucy, though ot & vory difforent fssue, Brownlow, in Lia opposition to tho monsura of mixod schooly, ling a Turgo number of followors, whilotho other Wing 1s ntrong, and thoparty bids'faft to dush itsolf into smithereens, g As n pioco of this nows, Horsco Maynard des clines to make tho raco for Governor of Tene nogsoe; snd the Republicaua who, two yeara ago (thianks to A, J.), olooted soven out of ten Congrossmon, donot now entertain well-ground« ed hopos of clocting oven one, Tho Momphla, Avalanchesnys: The Chattsnooga Datly Commiercfal (Ropublican) indorses Bouator Drownlow's viuws on tho “eiyi T ucstion, Unquestionably the Benators timenta aro thosg of tho musses of the Bast Tonncasgn Tiopubilcans, witiont whom thelr pary in Tennoreca 10 amall afloir, Tho colored political zeslota whu ‘mot {n Nankivillo and domanded goclal, nok clvil equale 18, have forced tils $ssus on tho peoplo of Tunnesice, —Mr, John H. James, of Atlanta, Is tho banke or of tho Ropublican party in Goeorgia ; o North- orn-born Republican, also an inflationist. This explanation should precede tho following, which is making itd olronit through Republican papers of thoNorth ¢ AN, Jon H, Jamen {nforms the peoplo of Sonth Garalina (7] thot fio 16 not ot presosit a candidate for Congreuslonal hionors, but that tho tme will cowa ‘when he shall wish logfl to Congress for the reasou that ho o convinced of the righit of the Southera peo- plo to clalm ¢ nbout $400 eacl: far the slaves that were ot free,” Ho thinka the time fa coming when * Our Northern and Western frionds will seo tho justice of ‘this, a8 no doubt many do nlready.” —~Ex-Gov. Powers (Ropublican), of Misgige alppl, denounces John B. Raymond (Republican), of the Jackson Pilof, in unmonsurod terms. Drothren should dwell togother in amity. A quarrel betwoen thess two woulg dovelop all tha political rascality done in Jackeon for four yoars past.—Aemphis Appeal. ~The Layreuce (Kan.) Standard ssys the ping aro sat for s nolle to be ontorod in tho case of tho Stato againat 8. 0, Pomcroy. The powerful influence of tho machivery of the Republicat pasty in this Stato, with the aid of Pomeroy's money, has silonced all opposition from tho old party politiclany and the subsldized paxty pross. ~—The Indianapolis Journa! is doing what is can to elect Lambkin P. Mulligan to Congress. It will croato n sympathy for him, onding in Mnfinf stan untiring teaitor” from Indiana in the Houso of Ropresentatives.—New Albany lger. ~—I'ho Ploche Xecord has beon shown o lotter {from Adolph 8utro, in which he auuounces his intontion of becoming & candidate for United Btates Senator from Noveda, —The Hon, C. N. Lamison, our member of Congross, paid Lis home & shiort visit & fow days ago. Ho thinks that if tho Sonato Currenoy il it (o poople. On the State tioket tbo coalition B e ol party leaders fa fhio mouopoly futoreat fa oo tho Jess real althiough 108 60 upen. ~Thete 14 W thorongh undevslunding us $o the diviston of tho ols, The Hspublicons are coatont et Grover all retain the Oltoo of Governor, If thelr ouud dats, %::(3?’1, l‘mmlay Lnown in Oregon a8 *Blips Eir SRS ROERS ad dia now pending in the Houso of Representatives is again vetoed, the chunces are that adjournmont is n question that willracoivelittlo consideration. It will becomo a question of ondurance, antt pull Dick, pull devil,” will becomo the orde: of oxerciseH ; that tho AYpraprianu bills novw unfllng in tho Bonato will bo ** hung upon thn ook ;' and thet contraction will have an oppor- tuuity of temug ita efliciency m otherdirectioms thon that of *¥irredooniable corrency."—dAlic.s County (Ohw) Demacrat. ~'ire Democrats of Now Haven soronaded tho Hon. Willism W. Eaton on Woduerday evemny in honor of hig election to tho United Statos Ser:- ate, aud in o brief responso lie gave uttoranca tg thoso sentimenta : *' I am a hard-money man. I ‘Veliove in ono curronoy for tho people snd H.0 sume for tho Goverument. I douot believe in allowing any man to atick his arms into tho peo- ple's maney up to his shonldor-bindas, I dout beliove in corrupt things. Igo to Wasnington to atand by fair sdmimstration, and to protrct what belongs to the poople of this, country ; to protact for the laboror what littlo lind tho reik yond rings have not already stolen, That, in fect, is my missfon. I will defend the honor of my Gtato us I would the honor of my wife, For you I will do my whole duty. = Aly koart will nob 1oil, although my Lead wey.” —Ti0 more wanguine are now giving assur- ances tuat Congress may adjourn in sbout a mouth, It ia almost too good to b true—~Lart- Jord (CL.) Post. —Congress has voted to adjourn on the 22d of Juno. Bo far s any practical good is ceus corned, thoy mey a8 weli adjourn at once.—Pen-~ " tiao (Mich.) Gazelle. —T'ho sooner Congresy adjourns thoe befter.— Cleveland Herald, —T'hero is & great deal more monoy in $109,~ 000,000 for the Northern Pacitio than in $3,00), 000 for tho Centepnial; but Congrossmou wio fuckive to fouch it wonld do well to scoure onouge to retiro on.—Rock Istand ({iL.) Union. '—he Bloomington (I.) Leader, & vory sound Topublicsu paver, i8 of the opinion that it tho Givil Rigbte hin benrs the construction which the corporatlons put on it, the peoplo of this State will domand its repeal, —Qur peoplo aro out of work and discontent. od, but thoy sro not yet Comidunists, How long bofora_they ombracg “tho soductive and dangorous doctrines of Communism doperdy upon the length of time they aro idle, and thin daponds upon tho wisdom and virtuo of our j 0~ Jichenl londors snd rulers. . . . ‘ho oxtratn- gauco of tho lacal governments aro overlooke §ot they nood looking aftor. ~'There fa & big le Tonr ovory tax-payers door, through which hiu onrninga escapo. Lot us illuatrate : In Indianu Shoraaro binoty-two countios, To run (hese county govornments costs the pooplo aboub 26,000,000, ‘Yhoro aro four oflcoy: Cow:ty Clork’s, ‘Lreasuror's Auditor’s, and Bheriff’s, whose Ingumbouts numbering aver 270, raccive Sbout $1,000,000 in the way of snlarics and fecs. ¥ Roform Is noedod in this one partieu- Iar, by whick at loast one-half now lnvished oo~ on'ofllcials may be saved to the people, and tis oue-half, if uow iu the puckets of the uuem- ployod fnborlug pon of Indiana, would furnich nany of them the relief they nowneed. Lach community can do wuch in brlnglug about Tottor condition of things, Wo shall from tinio to timo poiut out what we cancoive to ba Ympur reforms and remedios, For tho present ot ov- ery man begin to reform lis own abuscs, his family's, and the reforn must extend to our ke cal govornmonte. Al theso purged it wall bo ¢n onsy job to clean the Augenn stablos at Wash- ington,—New Alvany (Ind.) Lcrlfye_r. —* Raferm or rovolutlon " ‘Chisis tho " wasch- word and reply " of the prosont timo. It i8 not, ‘Which political party do ‘you bolong to? Docs sny man_beliove our Govorninent osn go ol in- croasing in its corm{xfiun and demorslization for ten yoara longer without _ending In tho throe3s of & bloody rovolution? Lot that man continuo to voto for the party. Daes any msu love kiy party moro thau bis country ? Hods just the Kind of mau who, in his biind fanatiotera, will bs tho ravsna of bringing woo and desolation upon tholand., Lot Amoricans srigo, and throw off the inoubus of party, and show [hamnshgou to be frue totho wantsof the hour,~ills County (Jowa) Journal, A GERMAN FESTIVAL AT FORT WAYNE. Fr. Waynz, Ind, May 25,~Tho anoual re~ union of the Ft, Wayno German Baengerbund took place to-duy, The procousion formod about 8 o'olook, and, after porading the principal straots, vopaired to Turner HMall, whero, atter dedicating & u&xlnudid flag made tn Milwaukeo at o cost of §300, thoy were addroused by the Moyor aud otherd, at tho couclusion of which tho differont soolstios procoeded to ¢ Mad Ane DBABLD, o Shind Bl s Hiraur Halk G