Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1874, Page 6

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE zru-n OF KURACRIPTION (FATABLE 1 ADYANCE). 124 1 rm- nl a sear at the same rate, To provont delay aud mistakos, be surs and give Port 0 cendiress in toll, including Stata and Connty. Remittances may bo niade elther bydraft, oxpross, Post OBicooidor, or 0 rogistorod latiie, at ourrisk. TERMS TO CITY RUBRORINENS. Patly, deltvored, Sunday oxcoptod, 3 conte por wack: Lolly, ucliverod, Kunday includod, 30 conts por weoks Augiess THE TRIBUNI DOMPANY, Cornor Madisan and Dearbarn-ata,, Ulloago, 1il. TO-DAV‘S I\MU:EMENTS. 3 s —~Madlson_atreot, hetwoan oo a8 T.‘:.“‘}K,‘.E:E,e.n:..fl.fi“m..,n. Mighett, Poniat faeyos fironing, © Litle v 0 Tialted stesoh botweon B M- Bnumc o TR o and voming. % Wabnah. ayanne putiss i) ADELPHI THEATEE Comer, o B ailt Canyross atroot. orforiance. l]unfnnnr KA &e\uy Wout, Nadis onioAGo m“”““‘““\'\‘l}"fim‘hm. fgon et el L d oroming. ¢ n - Lakeshore, foot of Adsms OO D ik tohagon and svorig. TIATL--Qlatk strest, betwoen Y B Iulioiis Toyah daonetion, AL Bnaoiran svoning. FOREPAUGH'S OIROUS—Madison strest, cornor of Eiizabeth, Aftornoon nnd evoning. 10AGO. COM- f T( Jatiis a;x{-nu‘.l"’nfavfi%'g‘ N tortt 2].!!::‘31: highisc R e, 5 BUSINESS No_TlcEs. WERK'S DOINGS IN WALL STRERT. i apgrations ot swall Capital wiliont, virks B ent fron FUMBRIDGR & GG,y 3 Wal T THE BLOOD, 4T Diogd mxf:qs ito S¥iion tvin soufos 14 orrapt od, thn painfal gad o orrow-produoluk offeots ate vis(bio| R wouli o '""m{f‘""r" 'umm;n'icfl Y et er i itaoif would form subjoats upon 7.'|§.mm 170, an afl the variod £ dlspase mhioh poad o bad o Im-'. ‘rosted,. by uch mediolnes as take up_from M fs fluld and oxorste: ’l‘nm tho systens the nl‘;llfll! nldarl‘lilmlflablt 1s not la! prn:- » that, ono Hano Prcatcal withorsdesoribe shont afly virlatics of i dtscnse but, s thoy sl o Tor tholr aure vory HS tre iont, 1% In of po quunl uumY to know Junb hatame o aiiply (0 8 Sarfaip form of ax o know fioe D3t to ouvo tt. Thon aain Trlei %nt doxerlbo varlous Kinds of surofulous soro sitas, whito mwllings,_oulargod slands, aud wicorso ¥yiog appearanca; might doworibd bow vlmlnnl nnlluu may show I!lnl' in Vlrlmll lunn'ol eruptions, ulcers, soro throal & bng as all theso Vnflunl lppull‘- ing munu-mm.ow Blaod ‘aro carod by aunliorm B ot saels & coutas unngsoemary, Thoroughi Oleanes tio bigod, whioh It tho REeat fountain of Uios and gont lnestion, a ivakin, busyautapiciinsiial atrofith, $od soutduoes'of consdituslon” witfall returm o us. ot this purposs Dr. reo's mnn lilflt lqcnvnr’ llu'l fi,flr[nl\ml’nflnll Are pm nm nontly tho artioles no ol tngire Hottaty Salt Tilaiss, Soald o lotohgos Bote, Erupiione, Pos it Carbubolen, Soro 1ty ")"z e Sin, Har, Berote rans inge, Fovor Sotes, White Sollines, nd 1§’Xfl: "'nxm' Uioors of the Liver, Htomaotis A The Chicage @fibmm Baturdey Morning, May 80, 1874, Chorpenning springs etornal liko the Father of Lies. A Dill has been roported from the Fouse Judiciary Committee, through Gen. But- ler, reforring his caso to the Court of Olnima. e The Pig-Iron infant demauds mors currenoy.; The Pig-Tron Infant is acoustomed to having ita demands listened to. It hna beon fad on sugar- plums and awectmeats st the public cost until it hos becomo dropuical and hydrocephalic to an. alerming degreo. And now it declares it will die uuloga 1t can Liavo somo moro curroncy. Tariff lozenges will no longer cure its digosso, but cur- rency bittors will. We don't think that the ories of the Pig-Iron infant will be listened to. Tho defeat of tho Senate Cm—:onuy bfll inthe Fiouso rondors it almost cortain that no billwilk pasa Congress at this session which can recoive tho Executivo approval. Under theso clronm-~ stances, (he cutrency question willbe the issuo of tho fall oloctions, and tho nominating con- voutions may aswell understand it and take sides upon it. Woare bound to say that the in- fation nowspapors in this State are right in in- sisfiag that plain langnage aball be nged ln the platfortus of gl tho partica. —— . Gen. Bubler's wtompt to smend, the bill m the reduction of the wmy. by forbidding tho To- moval of hondquatters wom tho National.Capl- tal hay come to nothing. rig amendment was rejoctod yesterdsy by the Hous. Sp thera'is only the senee of propriety to Prevent tho Ad- ministration from exiling Gen. Bhorman to 8t Louis, or Evaneville, or any other place adaptod to nccelerato his atagnation and decay. And the gengo of proprioty bas not seriously interfered with tho plonsures of his Administéntion, clso we should have bad no Vienna seandal, no Leot, 10 Murphy, no Bimmons, no Casoy, no ‘Sickles, no Sanborn, no Shepherd, no Richardson, The changes are that Shorman will gn & 06 Lovls, — Dogoratjon De- 108 come. It'will be- goner- ally observed throughout tho conntry, The custom of throwing flowera upon the soldiors’ graves one day In tho yoar ia not & bad one, but it might easily be abused: Tha annivarsary affords an oceasion for tho exhibition of tendar sontiment and unmixed buncombo for a ma~ terial manifestation of tho love sud hLonor in which the natfon's ddad “is' held, and for sn excossive oxpeuditura of monoy, omo of which might bo used to hetter purposo in relieviog soldiers’ widows and orphans. Somo- thing must b allowed for the gratification of wathotio tastes. - After all, it is not so much the doad a8 the living who aro houored by &bu core- mouieg of Decoretion Day. A bill for tho reduction of the army s passod the Houxse, but Logan threntens to smotherit in tho Senato Commitleo, Logan once fought in tho aymy. Hoisnow Chairman of the Benato Committes on Military Affairs, Tho’ necesslty of reducing: the army, sinco ho has laft It, 1a not Ho preesing as beforo; but tho peoplo are protty well agreed in favor of the bill that s passed the Houso, 1AIr. Logan should tako time for roflection on this question. Ho thought through the knotty subject of finance in two woeks, and might dispoeo of tho army Lill in Lalf sn hour. Nobody expects him to ar- xive at the corroct conclugion. All that is asked of him s ta submit his orroneons recommenda- tions to the Senata for definito action. e Tho Chicago produco markots were gonorally woult yeatorday, with loss dolug oxcopt in the sottloment of options. Dless pork was quist, nnd 5@100 per brl lowor, closing at $17.12)@ 17.15 cash, and B17.87}¢@17.40 sellor July. Lard was muroe active, and 330 per 100 Ibs lower, closing ot §10,02}§@10.65 cash, and $10.80 seller July, Meals wero quiet and 3go per Ib liigher, at 6%@634a for,ehoulders, 8o for short ribs, 03(@93¢o for short cloar, and 103/@113¢o for sweot-pickled nams, Lako frelghts woro ao- tive aud easior, at 6o for corn to Buffalo, gk~ winess were a shade firmer at 0ii€o per gallon, Fiour ¥as dull and unchanged. Wheat was ace tive, and 1340 lower, olosing strong st $1.103§ onsh, and 81,1634 soller June, Corn was potiye Aiteracon snd ' “and too modest to 1mitate tho exsmple of Lydia * Times, alloging damagos 1n the sum of $60,000 and 1o lower, closlng atrong at G63fo cash, and 855¢o naller Juno. Oats wera dull and 5¢o lowor, closing at 440 oash, and 493¢o seller Juno, Rys wan moro activo, and 40 lower, at 00c, Darloy waa aotive and easior, at §1.45 for No, 2. Hoge woro active and firmor, with salos at $4.05@0.00. Osttlo wero notive and stoady. No ealea of shcop, bo rald that the Ostholis Church is immovablo, Indoed, ifft bo Oatholio dootrine, the Catholio Qhurch 1 the most advanced of all Ohurches, Xathor Torry hns roconciled Bolonce and Religion In such & way that thoy can never quarrel again. If 4t bo urgoa that God did not creato tho world in slx days, tho future Catholia thnnloulnn will -angwor: Of courso not—that s all pootry. It & promolyto finds ft difMoult to sub: J| sorlbe to tho: mcoount . of . the fall; low. ‘the tomptor took tho shape of a serpent and induood tho first woman by its cloquenco to cab the pple, Lia doubls may ba calmed by tho as- .suranco that that ia ono canto of anople. Ifit o suggostad that Obriat {s not tho Redosmor of the world, fn'the nnmmnnly-wooptnd unmn, the akoptio may b conflrmed in his position by the ssauranco that, since "man's ‘fall ‘{8 a fiction, thoro was no need of such a rodepmer; that, thorofore, Olirist is not & Tedeomor, but only an .example. - Having bogun thus, Fathor Torry will do woll to conlinue, Le the Young -Men's Oatholio Library Association havo & sorios of losturos of tho samo charactor se that on Thurs- Tlavomoyor s roughly treated by all tha ro- spectablo nowspapors in New York, Imputn- tions aro oast upon tho intogrity of his mind and morals, and ho is rouudly abused for the alight glimmerings of roason aud honesty whiol itisallowed that ho ocosslonally’shows. Tho Times ia florcest of all in thio aunuk, though its wind set in another quarter whon'tho prosont olty oficora wora sollciting tho votos of the poo- ple. Havomoyer lumsolf is a puchyderm. The blows of tuo ‘press fall without offect on his thick hide, “Ho s like Emerson's martyr in that ovory lash infllolod upon him ls a tongue of fame, Er———— . * Dr. Howard Crosby, Chandollor of the Univer- sity of New York, took a vory gonsiblo stand on tho tomporance question boforo the Presbyterisn Gonoral Assombly, in' 8t, Louls, yostorday. He practices and advises total abstinonce, but Lo does mob bollove ‘in forcing individuals to conform to the standard of his own moral monse, Tho tomperanco dobato will bo contlnued to-day in tho Assembly, and it is .probable that Dr. Crosby's po- sition will be warmly entagonized by many of his brothren, He is far in advance of tho Chureh on this subject, 25 waa protty clearly es- tablishod soveral montha ago by the comments of tho dopominational press on a sermon ‘delivored by him from bis. pulpit in Now York City. on tho Pootry of Matthow, anothor on the Pootry of Jolin, & third on tho Paotry of Job, & fourth on the Pootryof tho Virgin Mary, and & fifth on the Poolry of tho Judgmont. If-Fathor Torry is only consistent throughont, and in- ducos tho rost of tho Oatholic Ohuroh &' follow him, he will find Darwin, Huxloy, and Sponcer humbly knooking at tho door, bogrlng admission inln thoOnio Holy Oatholic and Apostolio] ‘Obiarch, and roady to uso tholr influenco tu. favor of Tather Torry for Popo of Romo. HIGH-SEAS . ROBEERY, slon of the Amariean Bocial Sclonve Assoclation was by tho Rev. Dr. Woolsoy, ex-Prosldent of. Yale, on ‘' Exomption of Privato Property upon tho Sea from Onpturc.” esting skotoh of tio gradual refining influonce olyilization lias exorcleod upon war. Originallyy, when two natlona'wors fighting, ench indlvidual in tho ono was, tho onomy of ‘each in tho othor. Tt wae bolloved that everything was fair fn war. Pheso barbarous ldnns graduoally disappoared—on land. On the wator they still kept thelr forco. An army might pass through an enemy’s coun- try without plundoring or destroying, but ‘tho floot thot' coasted tho hosbilo shore would Bolzo on the soa what the soldiory had apared on - tholand. The differonce was without a rosson, In rocont years it has boon proposed that froo ships should mako froo goods. - In. other -words, that ‘moutral vossols . should' be allowed to carry nm _onemy'’s g«mfls without danger of seizure, The Paris Conforonca of 1850, ot tho olose of tho Crimoan War, agroed A doclaration of principles, or want of thom, hing hoon mado by the farmers of Ford County. They favor au incronso of the currency, and tho making of direct loans to the farmers by tho .Gonoral Governmont, Tho position hera ny- .sumed is fooliah and porniolous, but it Is con- sistent with itsolf, Inflation moans’ the raising of » forcod lonn for the boneflt- of tho dobtor claes; and tho Tord County farmora ‘mérely add to-this “principle® a proposition totax the whole country’ for the sake of tho ogrioultural class. Nothing can’ bo moro.dis- Loartening to gonuine frionds of the Farmers' Movoment than such an exhibition of demorali~ zation and ignoranco &8 is made in the; Ford County resolutions. “Thoro I joy smongtho ‘monopolats over overy step taken by the farm- ors in this dlrection; for.with these "pflucl— ples” no party can aucceed. The' Rockford Gazelfe donownces the fithy |. chinrgo publishod in, the Chicago Times sgaiust tho daughter of Liout.-Gov. Earlyas an out- ragoous slander, having not o shadow of founda< tion. - . Noxtto slndering s dosd man, the Times is alwaya liapplost in vilifying & virtuous woman. 1t gonorally seleots for this purposs ono who is too ratiring to follow it Into the courts of law, privateoring should bo abolished. Tho agrac- menk was suhmlttm! to tho natlons not presont 4t the Conforenco for ratification. It racelved tho assent of all Ohrietendom, save Spain; Mex~ leo, snd the United Statea. We are not in tbo "beat of company. At the timo this Was pro- posed, William L. Maroy was Becretary of Siato. Hé doclared, in reply to tho ciroular of the Allied Powors, that tho:Unitod Statos, while thoy rojactod the Paris agrecmont, would join with tho pattios to it in guarantecing tho exemption of al privato proporty {rom selzuro during war. The proposal was rojocted.- Marey's action was duo to Thompson by horsowhipping the editor, and ia shis way it still farthor signalizes its cowardico.- In this caso thera is vonson to hope that it g migtaken its victims, Mr. Crawford and Gov. Enly's daughtor havo brought sult against the onch, Tho amount:is mnot excessive, and if. both of tho injured partics got a-verdlet (as they will if they do Dot tire of the law's dolsy) the oditor of the Zimes will not hava beon- suifi- oiently punishod for the unparalieled outrage. . Mra. Gon, MoCaok is hardly in hergrave whon & young lady of unblemished reputation, | tho daughter of an eminent citizen.and public Gfflcar, fa selected for purposos of slander-such &lander aa might, well drive hor ta inesnity, and whicli canuot fail to causo hor and Ler relatives & lifo-long sorrow. A short timo ago, the oditorof tha Times anuounced that, if he did not take duo vengeanco on Dr. Johnson sud sundry othors, mankind might. call him adog. He hns not taken tho vengeance aforesnid, but ho has dili- gently nnug).\i to oarn the appellation which e jnvoked upon himself by nesaults upon WOman ‘and cbildron, tul prize, we neoded to use privateors. Thisscems doubtful. ' We did not uso them Juring ' the atrugglo with tho South, In 1866, on the out- brenk of hostilities betwoen Prussia and Auatrin, tion not to' meizo’ privato .proporty on the gen, providud its ememy- would re- ulpronnh. Bix.'days later, Prussin Acc!)‘llufl the offer, In Julyof the ssmo your, Iialy .in- sorted in her commercial code tho law that ovent of war no private proporty sionld bo acized upon tho 8es, unless tho contonding power ‘abould fivst seizo Italian property. On April 18, 1808, the North-German Parliament unanimously passod a law anthorizing tho ‘Government to os- tablish this prineiple of the exomption of private prnparty from capture by treatios with all other ‘nations. In '1870, both France and Gormany proposod the racognition of the principle. In 1871, the United Btates and Italy agreed to ft. Xt {8 bolleved that Groat Sritaln s ‘alono. in opposing it. 8o will probably assont ere long, and then robbery.on tho high séas will bo no "longer & part of honorable warfare. The princl- THE ORY FROM LOUISIANA. . . . Thu Mayor of Now Orleans has boen- tele- graphing to tho North almost uvnry doy for aid for the sufforors from tho ovorflow in that Bate, Unless reliof comes speadily, 40,000 people will havo perished of starvation, A million dollars will bo nooded to kesp them alive muntil tho crops aro harvested. ‘Therd fsno doubt of the faok g extrima, dostitution, Thoro ia no donbt thot, unless lmmulhmgls done, this dn!fit\lt(on will ena 1n-starvation. No time istobo lost, Lot Congress immodiatoly make another appro- priation for the sapport of the Louisisna sut- forers, Thore is_sufficient proceflent for this course. Congross oppropristed 88,000,000 for the xolief and ‘caro’ of the Frocd- men aftor the Wor. Human lifo is aa valuable now ag then, and white men 8s well entitled to bo rescued from the panga of ‘famine me black. mon, Thon lot the Chicago Reliof and A1d Bocioty send $60,000 of the money contributod towards the rollof of 'the sufforors from the fire, ‘Thon Tet & local committoo bo organized to golicit sub- saviptions fortbwith.. Then in every church ot ' colloction be taken up for tho aficted brethrer; of tho Bouth. . And lok every Chamber | of Commorce, every merchants’ association, and every society in the land, benevolent and othor, contributo its share. In this way the $1,000,000 needoed will bo forthcoming, and the threatened scourge of famino bo averted. If ‘ono man, woman, or child perishes from hunger in this land of plenty, wo must sll answer foritasa crime bofore God.’ says: ** All private proportyon the soas engngod in s lawful trade to. pormitted parts ought to oross tho soas in safoty. % DID CALVIN BURN BERVETUS? Tho Rev. Dr. Brown, of St. Paul, has under- taken & task that ‘might appal & Congressional investigating committeo, e trics to vindicato Calvin, in re Borvotus. Inalottor to tho Bt Paul Press hie saya: i A lio will 1n many cases atlok, till the {ndgment. So 1t i, perhinps, ridioulous beforo the judguent to deny thint Calvin aid not burn Servetus. It hios boon donlod ‘s thiousand times, but the Jto atill stioks, The facts, Lliowever, are, ihat Bervetus, who held and-uttored Dlasphemous heresios, that by the laws of all Cbristisn countries in his dsy wero. punfshed with death, had Dbeen condemned for them to death fn Catholio'Austria, and caenped and fed to Gonava, Thoro they tried to allence him, but Lo would not ba silonced, and was «broiglit beforo the: Qouncil, trld, and condemnod, After hio was “conacmped, ‘Calvin trfed to. savs his Itfe, but the Council; refused, and the other Swisa States protested aud domanded Lis death, 2nd ho was burnt at the stako, Thatho was burat s simply to say thiat that was tho alzteenth contury, not’ the nine- toenth ; but to chargo Calvin with his death, in the Tauguage of Liliput, s ** tassy that the thing i not 50, The Press has pue its thoological eflltur through an oxtondod courso of reading. e piles an astounding srray of ponderouns: tomes .upon the dofendor of Oalvin,: Moshelm and "Fishor ave'too muoh for Brown, Moshelm says Bervotus was tried for herosy at Vionno, in the South of France, and that ho oseaped:before sonténce . was passed upon him and fled to Genova, whoro he Iay concealod for four wecks, Ho was stopping into a boat to leave tho ecity, when COalvin saw him and had him arrested. Oalvin and bis secrotary drow up the charges. The ¢woappoarad in court to prosoouto thom. (Borvetus pleaded for a ohangoof venuo in ordor to got out of his cnemy's . powor, but in yain, His answora to Calvin's charges wore submitted to tho Bwies Btatos, Tho Statos con- demnod him. Theroupon the Court ot Goneva sontoncod him to bo burned alive on.tho very noxt day. The English translator of Moshelm Boys that Calvin and other ministors “Interceded for a milder death,"—but they dId nok opposo tho doath-sontenco in ituclf. Thoss were the ©01d Tostamont days,whon the Lord's-clectamote infidels and herotics hip and thigh, and tortured them for tho glory of God. Bo Moshelm showa that Oalvin killed Barvotus, though he sooms to have been a little disinolined to burn him, A littlo we sy, for the atern Ioformor was thon thedefactoruler of Genova, Ho'might have used Louls XIV.'s words: "L Etal, o'est moi,". with < IFAT!mE TEB.BY ON GENEB!B. Of all the mothods proposed to reconcile Gen- osia and Geology, that offered by the Rev. Mr, Terry, & Roman Catholio priost of Chicago, is by far tho most effoctive, if not the most orthodox or moat satisfuctory. Soience, according to this view, is all fact end Genesia all fietlon; and, as faot and fiction cannot bo eaid to contradiot each other, Sclence and Gonesls cannot bo said to dis- agreo. Tho book of Gonoals, Tatlior Te teachos, Is & grand oplo. The storios of Edon and of man's creatlon aro poems. Bo is that of the crention of Eve outof ons of Adam'a ribs, Poarls of rovelation are containod in thom, it is truo. Tho seld of eriticlam will redeem thom from tholr fucrustation, The story of the deluge aud the rainbow in the Bible are no botter than those concorning tho rib and the {gardon, nor are thoy of a difforent mature, Bodom and *Gomorrah were_burnod just' 88 Chicago was. There was nolhing mystorious in their burning. God bad no more to do with it than Mo had with tho groat Ohieago firo of 1871, Not an avenging Doity, but the West Bido shingles and tho high winds, were the oause of that disastor, 1t this boe Oathollo dootrine, {t can no longer ;out of tho frying-pan into the fire. déy night, and from tho samo gentloman,—oue Oné of tho best papers read at tho recont sos- | Tt contained an inter- | that froe ships shonld make ffas goods and that. thebeliot that,it private property was tobo alaw-' the Iattor ‘proclaimed on May 13 ité inten-" plo, is well summod -up by Dr.,Woolsoy,when ho: ontiro truth, If ho had boon dotormined to save bis whilome frlend from his terrible fato, he could have done it Dr. G. P, Fishor, In his * History of tho Ttof- ormation,” corroborates Moshoim. Ho says that Servetus was triod at Vienne for tho (socrot) publication of a book exprossing Babellian vlows about the Trinity and rojecting infaut baptism, *Tho manuscript of thae firat draft of tho work liad boon sent to Calvin &t an eatly day.” Bor- ,votus, whon brouglit to trial boforo tho Aroh- bishop of Liyons, denfod that ho hind writton tho book. Calvin supplied thio” midning proof, . Tho prisoner, goomg ocortain convictlon befora him, flod. By foollshly going to Gonova, ho, jumped Calvin bad alroady writtén that it his suthority was of any avell, in onse, Borvotus shonld come to Ge-: nova, ho should not go away allve.” Thoag sro Dr. Fishor's words, Ho quotos anothor lottor writton by Oalvin after ho had caught his horotios “ I hiopo the sontence will at least be capital, but dosiro tho atrocity of the punishmont to bo abated, 'Dr. Tishorsums up the case in these worda 1 On tha one hand, it s not true thiat Calvin arranged that tho modn of Lfu death should bo needlonsly pain- ful. Tle niado the attompt tohiavo it mitigatod,—prob- bly that tho aword should bo used instend of the fagot, And, notwithatanding tho prisoner's threat, to which referonco has beon made, 1t ia likely that lio expectod, and had reason to oxpoct, that Borveius would recant. On tho othior hand, it cannot bs dented thiat ho yielded to tho solicitation of Tris, and supplied the documentary ovidonco.which went from Gonova to tho Court of Vienna, o causod the arrest of Borvotus at Geneva, and it 15 a violation of historical truth to poy that he did mot dosfro his execution, .’ , Ho wished him to bo put to death, but not by fire, In wolghing this ovidenco, it shonld bo recol- locted that tho writor thoreof is s Culvinist of Calvinists,—an odition, on » somowhat largor saalo, of Prof. Patton. And, indeed, it lsa priort probablo, from ' Calvin's creod and the customa of tho times, that ho was dirootly ro- sponaible for the roasting of the man who dared tothink, with Babelllus, that tho Trinity consiatod . of tliroo soparate waya of action of one God, in Btena of thrao Gods united in ono. THE STATE OF NEW MEXIOO, Three now votes, one in tho House and two in tho Beunato, would be n very good thing for tho Ropablican party. Making Now Mexico o State would not, however, bo o good thing for the Re- " public. - Gov. Giddings, in hia Iast ‘annunl mos-" _8ago to tho Territorinl Logislaturo, gavo the fol- lowing plessant ploturo of the wonld-bo Btato : Toro 1s & peoplo 1,000 milea inland, asvay from all Bources of knowlodgo and civilization, with scarcoly tho power, in the midst of tha eral, rolontleen, and Qevastating savages evarywhoro surrounding thom, to socure tho bread necessary to keep soul and body to- - gother, Thia paaglo, transferrod without thotr con- sent or choico to another Government, of whono Iaws, Inngusgo, or fnstitnitons thoy have no knowledgo, now 1ft thelr hands, and in tho namo of humonity ask that thoy may have the meaus of knowledge furnished them which shall it them to stund oqual with any other Commonwealth of America, Lot thom have tho meaus of useful kndwledge by sll means, A State organization, with hotly- contostod Senatorial and Conjreasional 'oloc- tions, would but teach. tho asts of political knovery. Tafbjust that & population of 92,000 Bpaniards, Mexicans, half-breeds, and savages shiould have as much weight in tho Sonato of the United States as Now York or Hlinois? Now Mexico is like 01 Moxico,~—a haunt of banditti, an offeto civilization. TEuropeaus. roached it slmost o eunmry before the Puritans stepped upon Plymouth Rock: A faintand fitfal civile ization clung for a little while to tho scanty sot~ tlementa along tho narrow river-valloys that in- torsact ita sun-scorched plains and rugged moun- tain-ranges. This soon diod out. - Tho mission~ axies woro murdored ; the troops wore forced;to abandon the inhaspitablo sofl to its savago own- ers. Tho re-discovery of tho--mines'led to re-settloment. : 'Then tho .United Statos, pushed on by the elave-power, etole tho couatry from Moxico. Iis history nh!l:n in a moro record of Indlion roids.., The pnwulnuon is Moxican and Spanish. Tho ‘Iorr_uorlnl Lo;(lsmlnr_o_ maintaing & staff of Interproters for the benofit of its many ‘meombers who donot:understand English. A bastard Bpanish is the ordinary language. Ig- norance -i8 & rulo that 1t would be difficult to prove by ita oxceptiona—so fow are the latter. ‘When it was proposed, some time gince, to o8- toblish. froo-achools, 87 Votes wero cast for it " aad over 5,000 agalnat, tn 1872, however, such almv nusux!. Thero sre now 183 sohools. In ton of“ theso, English i taugbt. In.twelve, Ennl(nh end Bpanish ore used. “In lll, Bpanish is tho only language. * In 1873, 17,000 Yotos woro_ cast. In 1870, thero wero 48,836 peraons over 10 yourd' of age in ‘tho' Territory who could not reid. Of thoso, 14,893 were. men aver, 21 years of age. Prohably B0 por cent of the votera aro illitorate, Wo aro wolghad ‘down by too ‘much fgnorance’ already. We might almost ns well conquer’ Guba and make a'State of her as admit New Moxico now. The arguments for sdmiesion are wofully mmuy. 1t is sald, foraooth, that tho Territory waa *1oyal.” ' Bo wora othors, _The othera wero inmugautly loyal.. It made 1o differonco to tho average *gronser,” lolling bofore his mud-hut and gravely thinking, about notbing, whother Union or Disunfon wan tho fight.. Wheu wo.got the Torritory from Mexico, sll the inhabitants bocame Americiu citizens a8 o mattor of course, It 'the Confodersoy had ‘gol It from us, thoy would sll have ohanged their allegiance g a mattor of course. It is said ‘that ad- migsion * a8 o State -would develop tho rich mines "that now lle untouched. Why? Tho .xock does, uot, yiold gold more rnn'dlly when tho pick that strikes it s wiolded by 8 man‘who just sold Lis voto 'to s Congres- slonal candidato. It s said that the poopla de- mond it. They have shown no suchwish, If thoy had, thewasking is no reason for our giving, Itia enid that o Stato Governmont' would instruot the poeoplo. When voting for Torritorial Roprosonta- tives has failed to oducato the sodden masses, we'fail to seo why voting for a Congrossman or & Govornor shoutd produca the wished-for ro- sult. South Carolina bns oxploded tho doctrino that the ballot is tho foo of Ignoranco and tho friond of morality. It is enid, finally, that tlie Republican party would gain threo votos in Copgrogs by making Now Moxico a State. It might. Io the reason suficiont for the docd ? v - m—————— . A smnll Presbytorlan difiloulty has broken out in Freoport which must go boforo the Prosby- tery, ag both tho participants theroiu aro minis- tors in that donomination, The Rev. Mr, Proc- l}zr, of Oregon, Ogle County, it appoars, recently made & _prayor in Frooport, in which he mado the choerful and fraternal announcemont that “tho Rov. Mr, Jeokins, of that city, who had ro- fused .to slgn the temporance pledgo, was *damned not only from all cternity but fo all eternity.” Mr, Jonkins thoroupon demanded & publie rotraction, which the Rev. Irootor re- fused to mako, and tho caso has gome totlio Presbytory., It is certainly & rathor strange an- nouncemont for the Rov. Prootor to make to the Divine Being that the Rev. Jenkins was _dapned from and to all eternity, as the Divine provod to ba divided 1nto threa compartmonts, ono of y A Delng {a presumed to havs the mole oxerclse of judgmont, Want of oharity a evidontly uot conflned to Ohlcago in‘ Prosbyterian mattors, Thore s a toxt in tho Bibla whiich thoRov. Proo- tor lian probably not serioualy considored: “ Judgo not that yo b not judgoed.” e BEEF V8, BREAD, * According to the Liverpool Daily Allon, broad {a no longor the staft of lite among En- gltsh workingmon. - Beof s’ takmg ‘ita placo, On Mill stroot, Liverpool, whero many of tho poor do tlieir buying, thero woro as many Lread- &liops filteon yoars ago o8 thero ara now, whilo tho numbor of butchor-shiops bas risen, in the anme timo, from soven to thirty, Thls ia not tho whole story, eithor, The broad-ghops do ndt do os much bueiness ‘e thoy did, while the domand for mont steadily morenses, On Upper il stroot, Livorpool, the threo bread-shopa of a fow yoars ago havo all boonclosed. Throo butoh- or-shops have sucooeded thom, Oatmoal, which was onco largely used, is now in litile domand. Otio Liverpool firm, which sold botweon 1,600 nnd 2,000 loads of oatmeal a woolt through tho first fow yoara of ‘tho twonty-Avo during which 1t bas.dona businoss, bas disposed of soarcoly & singlo lond for tho Inst three yosrs, Theso aro typleal, not oxceptions), facts. “They soem strango, for in Eogland broad was nover 83 chesp and beof nover as deot ag now.’ Tho higher wagos of lobor account for this notablo change. The men who used to consider broad, ten, and dried horring o good dinnor, now eat boofatoak and vog«tnhlns. Their nmm-r]ny monl usod to bo acold ono, ' Xt ia now’ served: hot. The Albion eaya: . . : A gontloman got into- one of the dock ‘omnibuses somo littie t4mo ago, and found that nine out of fem. ollior porsons who wore passongors Were carrying Lot dinners, Whon tho omnibus stopped ho had the curl- osity ta follow two of thess peoplo into a public house, One of thom openod tho tn which she carried, and it which containod moat und gravy, tho two others vego- tables, _Blio noxt.wont to tho counter and obtalned & pint of beor for twopenco, and then placed bofore hor “watting husband as comfortablo a dinner as sho could fiavo given him at his homo, Altogather, {n this public tiousc, on the occaslon réforrod to, therd Wero Roven- toen workingmen enjoying hot dinnors, which had ‘boon brought to them by wife or child, aud there dhl nut apponr to be & conplo of ounces .of ‘liread among’ tnem, Ten yenrsago tho samo men would Lave dinod on bread, with gomo liftls relish addad, but now thoy aro eoabled, by battot wages, not only £o pey for s mest dinner, but can afford the omnibua fate of the carrier, Such facts milifato againat Prof. Fawcott's thoory that the English working clagses ' are no bottor off than thoy were twonty-flva yenrs 8go. No such chango has oceurred, in the last fitteon sonrs, in tho. food of Amerlosn workingmon. _Bnlt pork is still our’ farmers' dict, If broad I8 to bo still {m-tlmr dlsplacud by boof on tho othor side of the Atlautio, we may expoct to soon soe, on this sido, & stendy trarisformation of farmors from crop-raisers to cattlo-brooders, Tho busl- noes of exporting beof on the hoof is atill inits infancy. Grostgrowthliesboforeit. Lastyoar, the owners of the: Anchor line of,steamships carriod somo cattle across in temporary pens on tho uppor- decks .of. thoir vessals. It was cur- rently reported, in Glasgow, that they clearod 100 pet cout on their investment, TEE nmmz REVIBION. Tho American Teaot Boolety ia about to pn'b- ligha brief but comprehonsive statoment of the progross of the Amorican and Einglish Biblical scholars who are now at work mvlamg tho King James version of the Biblo, Tho Amerl- cans como together monthly in the Bible House in Now York City, ond tho English, hoaded by Archbishop Trench, moot overy month in West- minstor Abboy. Tho pfluclpllmluu of proceed- ing nre thoso: " First=To introducoss fow alterations aa possible! consistontly with faithfulnoss,: Second—To mako_tholr changes, a faras panmx.‘, 1n tho Janguiogo of the authorized versjou, Third—Each company to go twice. over the portion tobo rovissd—once - provislonally, ‘the second’ time finally § the firstiime all alterations aro to bo detor~ mined by & majority of votes, and tho lsat time n vote of two-thirds 15 nocessery, Fourth—In all cases whero thors fsa diviaton of opinion the vote ia not to bo taken until the next meot~ ing nftor the disussion, 1fth—Tho work of each oompany fato be commu- niéated to the other,snd recoweits sanctlon, that uniformity of lsuguoga sud tono may bo, decured throughout, i . The completion of the work will require some six or cight yeats, and, to savo outsido oritiolém, . no part of it is to appoar till tho wholo is pube. lishod by tho Univorsitios of London and Cam-. pride. But little is known of what haa been dono, but it Is ascerlained that tho rovisers will rojoot the doxology in tho Lord's Prayer:. *‘For thine is the kingdom, ote.,” of which ther 18 no traco in any of tho manuscripta; and probably. a part of John: ‘‘In Hoaven the Father, tho ‘Word, and tho Holy Ghost, sud these thrae aro ono. And thero are threo that witnoss in earth,” which canuot bofonnd in any Greek manuscripts until the sixteonth contury, or in any of -the Grook fathors, or in any of the anclent voreions, In' view of this -revision, tho heresy-hunters ought to go very slowly, ns it may turn out, when the now Biblo appoars, that thoy are wrong and ihelr victima aro right aftor all. ————— HISTORY OF A MONUMENT, Ilvory porson who has visited Wuhlngton City bos witnossed, at least from a distauce, ehu unocmploted shaft of tho Washington ‘Afonu- ment, which. stands upon the mall ovarluu!dng tho Potomae Rivor. 'Tho history of this monu- ment s intoreating. .. In August, 178, the Continental Cangruau voted that'sn equestrinn status of Washington be orected, ~ Bubsaquently, the. Constitution waa ndopted, and Washington was clected: Proai- dont, and nothing was dono concorning the monument. In 1790, Washington having dled, the National Congross voted ¢ That: o marblo monument bo'erected by the Unlwd Statos at tho Oity of Washington ™ to tho Iv‘ntlmr of his Coun- try, and the widow was roquosted to pormit his body to' ba doposited undor it.” Tho request” +was formally presontad to tholady, who, ¥ taught by tho great oxamplo” of her husband . * never to oppose lier private wishios to the publie will,” made & ssorifice of her peraonal feolings, and gave ber consent, That was Bevonty-fivo years ago, and the nation has nover singe then claimod tho body, which still rests at Mouut Vernon., Con- gress tool action sovoral times on the subjoct, but never mado any appropriation, After the lapso of & third of a century, some citizons of Washington, in 1833, organized & soclaty to ercot tho monumont. Thoy appealod to tha pooplo, and limited tho subsoriptions to 31 for oaoh per- gon, Chiof-Justico Marshall was tho firat Prese Idont of tho Socioty. At tho closo of 1830, §21,- 000 had beon collected, which sum was investod, During 1837, §5,101 was collsoted, Attho ojoseof 1889, the collections, with interoat on investmonts, oto,, renohiod about $83,000. ' The collections, however, wero small, and the fund grow elowly, malnly from interost promptly rnluvnstod. At the olose of 1847, the sum inveatod lmonnted to 02,360, and thero was 01,0(10 in cash besides.: Tn January, 1848, Congrosy authorizod tho alon-, ument Boclety to erect the monument upon auch “milder during tho ok weathior. Atlertho timely - such actiona are vory sad to contomplate, It is poztion of the vublio grounds withia the olty -sa:| should be notectod by the President, Thesltene- lected was & roservation of thirty acros, and the cornor-atons was 1ald July 4, 1848, Robert O. Win- throp, of Massachuaotts, dolivering the oration. ‘Work wan at onco bogun, and 170 feot of tbo .| obolisk waa oracted, when all progrosawaa arrost~ od-by n most’ oxtraordiuary sud romorkablo evont. Tho original plan ombracod a grand olranlnr building 250 foet in dismoter aud 100 foot high, and from this an obelisk waa to riso 600 foot high, The rolunda forming the baso of tho monumont was to bo surrounded by 90 columus, onoh 12 foet in dlamotor and 45 feot bigh,. Out~ eido this was n torrace 20 foet wide, and tho wholo was designed to be one of tho fineat works of tho kind in tho world. Tha cstimated cost of the whole was $1,260,000, Thoe ivnor . walls of this rotunda. were to. bo appropriately adorned, ' Places woro resorved thercin for Buch marbles or othor stonos ag Biates, so- oloties, or forelgn Govornmenta might con- tributo to commomorato the ‘namo of ‘Washington. Ench State and Territory bad con- tributed s block of marble or stono inscribed with its srms or some othor suitablo dovice ; warlous soclotios nud assoclations {n all parts of the country had dono the snmo, The Masons and 0dd-Fellows, various firo dopartments, and sehoola and colloges had forwarded blocks of marble appropriately mnrked. Eighty-three of thoso marbles wero recelved. .Among tho nas~ tlons of Burope thers was a'lively intorest to bo roprosented in the monumeont to Washington. Blooks from Bwitzorland, Turkey, Chins, Japan, Grooce, and from Bremon and other citios in Europo had boon recoived. At Jaat thero come *a' magnificont stone, taken from the column of Trajan, ot Rome, which hnd been forwarded by tho Pope. This was dn 1854-5; during the hoight of the Know-Nothing oxcitoment. By o goneral agree- ment throughout tho lodges of that soclety it was xesolved- that no- stono roceived from the Popo shonld bo allowed to bo placed in that monument. Bo & midnight oxpodition was or- ganizod by the lodgoa in Washington City, which procoeded to tho monument grounds, ‘surprised ,the watchman, and in an hour or two succecded in breaking the stone from the Trajan column {nto small piccoa, Every man who had contributed adollar to thé Assoclation was & legal mombor of it. The Asso- olation had beon organized for fiftcen years, and its nffairs had boen administered by well-known gontlomen, without componsation. Tho &n- nual election ‘of officers was fixed for the ,22d of Fobruary, Waslington's birthdsy, and soldom moro then' half-a-dozon porsons woro ‘prosont. On the 224 of Fobrunry, 1855, there was an attondanco of soveral hundred ‘men af the offioe of the Baclety, who procceded to olect ‘an entiro now sob, of officors,—nll Kuow-Noth- ings. Upto the closo of 1864, :tho sum of $230,000 had been oxpended, and tho balance on band was $273, which, with roceipts up to tho dato of tho Enow-Nothing revolution, amounted 0 $1,882. . Tho recoipts from contributions for 1864 wero 91,000, 'and since laylng tho ‘cornor-stone had .averaged $25,000 per annum, Trom tho dato of the Know-Nothing coup delat until 1858, whon that party voluntarily aban- doned thio fleld, tho history of tho monument is & blank.. Not o dollar wse collected nor a stone laid. The idos of making the monument an ox- clusively ** American™ affair wag nob popular, and tho wholo thing was susponded dusing those four years, and, 88 & consequence, has been pm:uénlly susponded ever since, 1In 1859, Congross incorporated tho Monument Asgoclation, but fr'om' 1858 to the close of 1878 tho rocaipts hinvo baon very smull, boing maiuly cantrlhntlun! made by visitors to the monument. Tho expenditures Lavo beon 950 & month for s watchman, and for some . worls to presarve the proporty. umr tho lapée of twonty-six years since the corner-stons was laid, an oxamination | of the almfl. a8 it stands showa a deflection of one inch. It is reported by the' engincers that it is not safo to carry the obelisk to the height originally intended, and it is proposed to Lave it but 400 fest above the foundation. -This plan olso, it we understand It ‘disponscs. with the panthioon, and Jeaves but a plain obelisk with s, “torrace.. To complete this will cost £810,680, and it is assumed that it moy be camplnted by Moy, 1876, if tho money can bo obtdined. 'These foots are set forth in a document just publuhed by authority of Congroas. - Tne hented term ishaving o od effoct upon tho country editors fu_ this State, The editor of tho Lexington, McLoan Oounty, Znferpriss waa recently thrashed by somo ono whom ho offended ‘in his paper, whereupon lie pathotically remarks: Dest acknowledaad that bo hos commilted w great outrage, says Lo 8 gorry, and suce for moroy, = Yes Ist mercy como with her fans of swootness and lot Justics, too, step forward with her soutence of torture, Lot moroy got on one sido of poor Bost and -juatice on the other, and lot thieeo two angols ralse him np from the infamy to which ho Laa atooped in shedding his neighber’s blood—thus endangering bir lif and caus- ing nights of patn aud ‘weoka Of sulTering, from which doath itsclf would Liave buen & rollof, Withont an; foaling of hafred agatnst Beot, the outrage, the rauit ant injury received by us from him can nover bo for- gotton, We should say not, A thrashing is apt to malo a lnsting - impression upon the thrasheo, ‘Tho oditor of thie Liberal Reformer, at Morxis, hins algo had an attention of tho same kind from an outraged subgcribor, but has had the ' good monao ta say nothing about it. Toadd to the dlatrosacs of tho rural pross, tho oditor of the Jor- soyvillo Demoerat calls the edizor of tho Carlin. .villy Enquirer *‘an aas,” *apolitical pirato,’ and .“ a political fool who docen’t smell half- way honeat,” Tho editor of the Carlinville En- “quirer saya ho will nob atoop to bandy epithets, g0 hia contonta Lilmaelf with calling Lis opponent #5, Jersoy County beor-keg,” * a drunken black- guard,” “a sponge upon respectablo saloon- hoopers,” o “‘blackmailer,” “& dirty, drunkéen hiog," * n lodgor in tho boor-snloous and whisky- sliops of Joraoyville,” and concludes his sorecd o8 followa ¢ Dut wo havo alroady bandled toomany words with tho dirty whelp whoio whalo umbltion 18 {0 et a fro drlake and try to make Litoalt nol(ceauls by abiatug gontlomen. “Wo linvo no further* words for Lim ut fircaml\, oud wo bid him adle with tho sume foollng iat we'would close” our door agulnst a polecat, For an-editor who won't stoop to bandy opi- thots, tho abova choice collection is very com- mondablo, but at the same time'it croates some curiosily as to whot this editor would aay if ho shiould limppon to stoop to bandying epitheta. As most of tho country editors are on thoir way to Washington, it Is fair to presume that the ap- prentices have mounted the tripods and are *elinging ink" at onch other. Whothor this bo 80 or not, tho rural pross should draw it a lttlo advice which was given them B fow days ago, tima for them to put on the bralkes, —_— A philaothroplo persan who doos not wisk to- kill bis surviving friouds by allowing lhis Lody to bacome a mavufactory of polsonons gagos can now chicose betwoon being burnt ‘into ashos or ‘oing transformod into powder by first becom- ing a chalk-like stone, Dr. Goorge Baylos aug- goats that a dead body should bo subjected to certain chomioal actions, which would make it a mags of carbonate of oalolnm. During the pro- cosy thie .water (In abody welghing 154 pounda, 110 avo water,) would disappoar, Several small ohemloal compouentaof the humau form, whiok nlumntaly by zho soll. Then tho chalky ulanq figuro could bo raadily reduced to powder, Dry Baylos doos nob say how.. Thero might be steam hammor near by to do up the job all af - oncs, or the mournera might poundup thele doad frlond togethor. Any much process seemd miutet mora ropugnant to our idoas of tho roe . #peot duo tho doad than doos cromation, It i posaiblo that, s Dr. Bayles suggosts, poworfal eliocka of elogtrioity may bo found to bo tho bosh and quickost moans of rosolving our bodioes nt tloir componant parts, f —_— Two young women have leapt suddonly into roputo—famo 18 & trifle too strong a word—ns srtiate, Miss Ellzaboth Gardner, an Amorioan, * has two ‘ploturcs in the Pavielan “Gallery of 1874 Tho finc-art critlo of the Pall Mall ' Gazelle, writing from Parls, saya: *‘Takon altos : gothor, thoy atruck mo s bolng among the moat sttractive porformancos in tho oshlbition,” An Englishwoman, Miss E, Thompson, Lias a painte * ing, “Colling tho Ttoll after an Engagoment in . tha Orimos,” in tha Royal Academy Exhible : tion of this year, " At tho R. A. banquet, tha Princo of Wales roferred to this ploture in torme of tho highost praiso, and sald of Miss Thompa son: “I am suro shio hna boforo her & groah . futuroas nn artist.” Tho Duke of Cambridgessidi **T'oan have no doubt that it thoyoungjlady cons . tinues to produce auch plotures, sho has tho prospect of bocoming o most distinguished artist, and ono of whom the country will have resson to be proud.” The Royal indorsement has guaranteed tho artist’s fature success, n:;nohlly consldored. Bho fa not yot 23 yesrs ol —_— Tho Detrolt Tribune publishos an_Intoresting ' papor by Prof. Winchell, formorly Stato Gooloa .. glst of Michigan, upon the amonnt of watore power In that Btato, Holllustrates thia polat by solooting throa rivers, tho Huron, the Grand, and the Black, Trom his tablo of elovationa taken . in Woshtonaw County, ho estimatea that tho : sggrogato water-power of tho lHuron in that . county amounts to 5,567 horses, having anet value of ovor a quarter of a million of cotton-spindles’. Hia caleulntion with rogard, to the Grand - Rivor, from Jackson to Grand Rapids, : givo . an aggrogate of 82,688 mat horse-powers for twenty-four Lours ' in tho day, whilo tho Black River, in the immodiate vicinity of Bouth Xavon, turnishes & conatand - powor of 185 horses. Whilo these results:hava - 1o special significance so long as stoam'is coms parativoly inexponsive, Prof. Winchell thinks they sro of value considering onoh yenr's dimie xution of tho fuolaupply. A e o The Western Spiril,; published at Paola, Kan., : contains somo statistics of the growth of that Stato which shows astonishing rosalts. Twentye * . four new countfcs have beon orgenized sinca 1870, containing lnst yenr 76,000 peoplo, accord« ing to the compilation of tho State Board' of . Agriculture. Bedgwick, Bumper, Cowley,.’ Harvey, and Xeno Countles,’ which five years ' 8g0 wore unorgenized, and hod hardly s settlon | in tholr limits, now have an_sggrogato of 85,000 ' population, In 1809 thero were no poople in tha ° Arkangas Valley. Now it has twolve organized ' counties .and a largo . population. Tha tofal population of Kansas in 1860 was 107,208; in 1870, 1t was 864,809; and in 1878, it was 006,003, At this ratio, when the national census ia-taken in 1880, Kansas will count ovor 1,000,000 people, - 3 1t seems impossible to surpaes this country in concooting long strings of. titles for tlio Past High Grand Msjestio Ordor of Folderol, every. official {n which, from tho Presidont to the por ter, has & dozen or &0 adjectives tacked on to ' the namo of his office. But England Is doing her bost to equal us. Tho report of the Com: missioners of Friendly Soolatigs’in studded with’ curlousnamos, Thoto aro tho Rochabites, the . Anciont Romans, the Comicdl Fellows, the Shope hords, the Prussian Hermits, the'Odd Fomalos, the Oad Sisters, tho Royal Women, the Order of Cemented Bricks, and the Royal Antmulnvlu: Orlhr of Buifaloes ! s Thenuynl Hoolety of Antiquaries in London has beon discussing the discoveries of Dra Sohliemsnn, Only one member, Lord'Stanhope,. believos that tho Corman savant has found ‘Troy. Mr. Gladstone is non-committal.: Mr, Charles Nowton, Koopor of Greok and Roman* Antiquities at thie British Musoum, hag written o long tractato against- Schliemanu’s thoories, Max Muller coincidos withh Ar. Nowton. Since tho Bocioty's position has beon made known, it {8 amusing to notico the great number of papers which, so they eay, Liave rejeoted ‘* this Helhlioe moan folly * from the firat. —— The Danville News acknowledges the roceipt of an envelope from tho State Treasurer'a offica contniniig & number of clipplogs from neéwspas pérs rocommonding Georgo A. Sanders, Eaq., as a candidato for Btate Treasurer. : Innsmuch s Mr. Bandors hns. beon . the . Asalstant-Trenaurer for 6ix yonrs sud has used the ofticial . envelopes of the ofiico to sproad Lis praises abroad, tha News thinks it will support him, if ho. gots the TRopublican nomination, unless. the Convention’ of the 10th of June nominates an oqually good man for the position ———— It now appowrs thiat the Russlan Grand Duke Constantin’s son, Nicholas, gave the’ diamonds which he_stolp from his mother to a beautiful American aotress, Miss Fenix or Phanix. Asit is oustomary, in cases of this kind to lay the falult at tho door of Ohicago, wo wish to anticls pato it by disowning this fascinating stage-birde Notwithstanding the immonee number of Phee nixos produced by the great fire, this particulay Pheenix is nono of ours, The Vicksburg Lerald says that it would pros, fer to take thrco terms of Grant rather than ong ‘of Bherman, and that fu this proference it id sustained by Gen. Benjamin G. Humplreys; #a cltizon-goldier of our gallant Stafo, ono, whosae fiory crest went stronming through Virginis like the white plumo of Harry of Navarre, leading nl\mys in tho path of glary and of danger,” ¥ NOTES AND lJPlNlON. The Domocratio Convontion of tho Nineteonth llinols Congrossional District is called t6 moot ot MoLeansboro, Aug.-20 ; oight aays:nfter the Tarmers’ (or Im\opundnnt) Cou\'«ndfln 8t Core’ mi, —Col, J. W. Langioy, of Champaign, ., heratofore an influentizl ‘Républican, announcos that ho is uot 13 cl;udldntn tor Oaugress, and LT Canousen and convéntions tiay onilfiato whow they ploasie, and T will excrelson Hko privilege fu voliug, ‘wholly freed from party bias, —The ‘Tuscola (Tll.) Gazefte sutiouncos "thod Jndgo 0. B, Hmllh isnota cnndidntu fm‘ Cone grose, —The Rookford @azelle has thiu announcoe’ ment, of special interest to Btove Hurlbut: ' The frionds of O, M. Brazec, Esq,, of thls city, pros. . poas {0 presont bia nuwe wha caudidato for 'Cone gresslonal lionors at the enswug cleotlon; Mir, B, {8 oue of our ablest Inwyers and maat_popular mon, and, should e conapnt (o run, will recolve tho warn' supe Tort of Winnelago Oounty fn the Republican Noafs najing Couventiou, ~—Iho Prairie City Herald saya of tuo situntion in MoDonough County : & Tho farmors here aro walting to'seo it e Bpring: fiekl Convontion bo ruled by wuch “ farniera " ua Long John Wontwortl, of Obicagto, and mon of Liastamp, - —The Ligonior (Ind.) Banner snys : * Thora sre those who belleve thut four State Hekete will be in tho field tuls year, viz: Republican, Deo- eratie, Iudepeudont Foriner', and Tempesance,, Tha Workingmow's Union pooylo &lso talic of testiug thoi strougth in o like mauzer, —The Tows Falls (Towa) Sentinel says: Qandidates for Congress ato u thick as_ molou-b {2 July, aud are, faly troublosome aud “harder 13 I, Just now their groatest troul Y Whitlier to sxpand ot contract, ¢ oY cuut tok —The Canton Register (James K. Mageo) i %Imlhlk to calenlnto how 600,000 popular vatea . (linola will bo divided, with four tlokels im tho fleld. Of courso, n glorious nspuhllcm victory is prodictod, baoause— o thoro are a0 many Dowocrats who prefor t open Ropublican tlcket rather than ul:malulrn:o': ity tickot or olass leglalation, that it Las Dacome pparent sre very valuable for maunuring purposos, would als) bo get free, to ho absorbed by the air aud that the Farmers! Movemeut is likoly to beueAt than {njury to tho lwxmhl(eu{: p.{if;‘ {nmore / 'This onitire ealoulation 18 baged, Lowever, og i 4