Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1874, Page 4

Liis YialUAULY Daklia LandBULvay? MULDAa L, JUN 8, 1844, O v ——— e ] TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE, i ATRMS OF AUDEONIPTON (FAYADLR IN ADYANOR), 1. 82 RAL 338 Farta of n roar At thy same rate. To provent delay aid mistakes, be suro snd give Fost Ofttca address in fuil, Including Btate and County. Ramittauces msy bo mado oithior by dratt, oxprass, Post ©OfMice ordor, orm rogistorad lottars, at our risks TXAMA TO OITY BUBHORIDFENA. ity deltvorod, Bundey oxcoptod. 25 conte por weoke aily, dellerod, Bunday includod, 0 conts nor weok:, 1K TRIBUNT OOMPANY, Addrosy T, Ortnor Badison nnd Doarborn-ata., Ukiloase TO-DAY!'S AMUSEMENTS. RV'S_ THEATRE-TRandolph algoety belween gf.‘&?’.‘.,'fi"xfs,.m. Fipgngoment of the iith Avonus jomedy-Company. *! Divorco.” ot otweon Mad- A “"i:?.‘{’.:&,?.’:.fi“.’,:‘{fin ‘Vokos Family. » Stonton, VO ohaitor 80 Kiichon: ji ¥ RATRE—Madison straot, belween P A gmqumaut of 5. A: Sothora ur Amorican Cousin,™ TRE—Corner of Wabash avenuo ADDLEIL TGty arformance. Abdsllat ‘roupo D'Allbl from Jorusalon. Ixlon,’ —Lakeshoro, foot of Adams OO P Dl A ltotnvon #ad voRiag: "SOCIETY MEETINGS. AT No. 3, T A, M. re A ufim!’.f%fif}camnnfl‘um Ao oy avoning, At !n‘dnl‘.k(_‘ for lm&m:‘lnl(;l'. huflln::s;r :f:=‘u‘ ‘llbl Jppdanca of tho mombers GRS RGOK KR, Heorotarys e BUSINESS NOTICES, WRRK'S DOINGS IN WALL STREET, EX- tions o small capital without risk, B o R DG & COw & Wallats No ¥, The Chivage Teibune, Monday Morning, Juno B, 1874. Dr. Ryder is willing to wolcome to the bosom pt tho Univorsalist Church Prof. Bwing, Dr. Pattorson, and othor apostlos of the Now School. Ho says thoy bolong thore. Porhaps o is night, $ub it fa Mkoly that tho divinos mentioned will zojoot tho Invitation on tho score of promisculty. Thero I8, no distinction in being taken to the bosom of the Univoranlist Church. —— Dr. 0. H. Tiftany, who filed the pulpits of poveral Mothodist ohurches n this ity and vicin- Yty sovoral yoars ago, and more racently of the MMotropolitan Obureh in Washington, preschod in Graco Olurch yestorday. An abatract of his pormon ia given in another column. The Rov. Dr. Lord attompted a refutation of the ovolution thoory In tho pulplt of tho First Presbyterian Church, Prof, Swivg's subjoct was * Froodom and Rostraint Necessary to the Groat Soul.” Hard facts for tho pig-iron politicians and monopoliste are related in o lotter from Olove- land, which we publish this moring, Our cor- respondent has found much the same stato of _affairs in Northorn Ohio as in Central and West- ern Penneylvania, Tho iren busineas hos beon too much * stimulatod."" Tho resction kins coms, and this branch of industry, which was once the most buoyant and chieorful of all, is now sick and exbausted. 1t is but natural that tho pig- 1ron devotees should yoarn for more atimulus, et their clamor 18 ns senscloss as it is danger- ous. Woehould heed thom and pity them no moro than nny other inebriates. Turnor Park {s & placo for tho resort of Ger- jman cilizons who turn. It wae dedicated yos- torday. Qen, Licb and Magor Colvin made ad- dresses. Tho Mayor was moro then nsuslly folicitous and oxuberant. IIo wantod the Ger- an citizens who furn to call at tho Mayor's oficoin the hour of theiradveraity, and promised, £ his invitation woro accepted, *to bo thoro"— which exprossion of pbilanthropy snd un- bounded good-vwill was received with vociferous oxprosaions of applause, If tho German citi- zons who turn continue to manifest s much sound senso and political insight as bhave con- trolled thoir movements lately, fow will wish to Btop their ovolutions. The Now Orleans Zimes of May 30 says Mayor Wiltz, of that city, siill calls for aid for tha guoro than 60,000 men, women, and children who wore turned out of house and home by the deso- Inting waters. Tho Retief Commiltoo Lins also annonacod that tho supplies now on hand will not lsst over two wooks, Although the Com- itteo has dono all that was possible, the calam- ity which has bofallon the people of Loulsiana 18 by no meaus over. Noarly all the lsrgo cities have contributed liberally to the aid of the suf- ferors, What is Chicago doing? Have we for- #otten 8o soon our own -groat calamity, and the charity which relioved it from all parta ‘of the world, that wo can sit 1dly by and not come to tho bhelp of otbors, in 4 time of oven worse cnlamity than ours ? g According to the Rockford papers, the Chica- go ZTlimes was decelved in the information on (whick it based its infamous publication concorn- fug Mr. Crawford and Liout.-Gov. Early's daugh- ter. It is now maid that tho lattera from “four prominont gitizons,” which tho Zimes olaimed o 1ts authorlty for publishing tho kibel, wore for~ geries, and o large roward s offered for tho forger. 1t is to be hoped that he will be discav- ored and puniehed, but wo do not goo Low this yelievos tho Times from any of tho Infamy that attaches to tho publication. It was a vile and viclous articlo which no decent journal would have printed,” had tho story been -attestea s thousund times over, Tt was printed with the purposo of pandering to the lowest instincts and doveloping tho worst passions of human nature. Itis but onoof constant succession of filthy thinge which the Times presonts from day to day to destroy virtue aud degrado soclety, If the Z%mes Lins boon caught inone of ita own nasty traps, it dosorves to suffer the ponalty, e The Chicago produco markots wera irregular on Baturday, with considorable speculative ex- citement in graln, Moss pork was quist and 5@ 10c per brl lowor, cloaing at 817.65@17.60 cash, and $17.60 sellor July, Lard was dull and 100 por 100 ha lower, closing at $10.05@10.9734 oash, and $11.00@11.02}4 vollor July, Meats wore fn light domand and oasior at 6}(@63¢o for shouldors, 8}4@9}¢o for short ribs, 9}¢o for short olear, and 11@11}ge for .swoet-piokled hams. Highwines wero quiot and unchanged, closing at 95c per gallon. Lako freights woro active and firmer at 43¢0 for corn by sl to Buffalo, Flour was dull and unchangod. Whont wag active and K @34 highor, closingat $1.10 cash, and $1.173¢ @1.173¢ soller July, Corn was sctive and g0 bhighor, cloaing tamo at B7}4 cash, and 6750 soller July. Oats wore less sctive and easlor, closing nt 46340 casl, and 42}¢@490 sollor July, Rye waa dull and 2@8¢ lower, olosing at Bl@87o, Barloy waa dull and nnchanged at $1.00@1.05 ftor No. 8. IIogs were active and firmor, Thero woro liboral malos at 84.05@B.76 for poor to sholco. Cattlo mot with & good demand at p!)wt atoady rates, with gales at $2.50@0.20, Bhioep wore inactive, thero bolng mo fresh ro- -elpta. prmmme—— The Miohigan Railrond-Aid law has boen do- olarod oconstitutional by the Bupreme Courtof tho United Btates. An issuoe boforo this Court waa mado up by tho appoal of & poraon holding towaship bonda on whioh payment had boon ro- fused, Tho only question iu tho cnso was in re- gard totho constitutlonality of tholeglslativo act. Justico Bwnyne dollverad tho opinlon of tho Court. Dy way of clearing tho ground, ho reite- ratod tho axiom of Amorican jurlaprudence, that & statuto is not to bo pronounced vold unless ita ropugnanco to the Constitutionba cloar ; and de- finod tho words in the Constitution scouring “1ito, lvorty, and proporty® to avery oltizen a8 having roferonce only to judi- olal procoedings. Ho thon made tho following distinct affirmations: that the credit of municipal corporations may bo given in ald of porsons, associations, or corporations, thongh the crodit of the Stato may not; that a railroad corporation is not private In tho sonso of tho oonstitntional probibition; that tho United Btates Bupromo Court is not bound by the do- olslon of tho Btate Conrts, whon the ques- tions Involved belong to the domain of general jurisprudonce; that tho obligations of contracts cannot be impaired in any casos which may properly como beforo the Bupromo Court for ad- judication. The opinion, which Is published in another column, is thoughtful and strong. It will bo of interest to peraons advooating the ropu- diatlon of rallroad-nld bonds issued by towns in. Illinois, Towa, and other Westorn Btates, which aro inoluded within the scope of the opinion. EXECUTIVE DICTATION. A fow days ago a conforonco committes was appointod to coneldor tho disagracing votes of thé two Houses of Congross: on tho Currency bill. Instoad of performing tho duty assignod to thom like indopendent and self-rospecting mombers of the loglalativo dopartment of tho Governmont, they appointed a sub-committeo, consisting of Sonator Logan and Representative Farwoll, to go and find out what kind of o bill tho Prosident would like to have prased! It is no part of the President's duty to know soything abont bills in. Congross till they nro brought bofore him for approval or disapproval, But, s ho had been censured by bis party frionds for withholding his views ot tho formor bill till it waa officially Iald bofore him, Lo consonted to accommodato them. ‘What transpired at the interviow hna not boen made known ; but it has been mndo known what tho Prosidont thinks about tho currency quos- tion in the way of & writton memorandum hand- od to Benator Jonos, of Novads. Tho Presidont dosires that specio pnyments sliall bo rostored by the 18t of July, 1876, aud to this ond, that boads of tho Unitod States bo sold to obtain the gold necoseary to resumo, and that tho Logol-Tender act ehall b ropealed 08 to futnro (not past) con- tracts ona yoar earlior than tho timo fixed for resumption. Coupled with thoso monsuros he hasno objection tofree banking, Ho recommends that at somo futuro timo small bills shall be witbdrawn from circulation, so that the pay- mont of wages and tho smaller transactions of tho peoplo shall be made in specie, and 8o that thore shall be an accumulation of gold in tho country as o guard against future panics. No sooner i this lotter or' memorandum to Jones given out than the very mon who ad- journed their Committeo mooting to find out what tho President would liko to have them do 1t up sn indignont chorus st what thoy eall Exocutive dictation! Waa there ever such im- portinonco? thoy nsk. Hore wo are in tho lawful dlschargo. of our dutics, trying to pass o bill compromising the littlo dif- foroncos betwoon those of us who want to issuo countorfeit money and thoso who don’t, Wa have almost succoeded in our arduous endoavors whon the President sonds a firobrand into our midst tolling us what kind of & bill we should passand what not. Tntho mamoof all thatis decont, manly, Amorican, wo won't stand it. We will pags our own bill and leb him veto 1t if he dores., . Very govd, very goud indoed! But whydidn't you think of this bofore? When you wero ap- pointed, firat by tho poople and afterwards by your roepective Housos, to framo a bill, why didn't you do it? What sentyouto the Excoutive Chambor in ‘tho first place? 1¢ you got moro than you wont for, who {a to blamo? It is not tho frst timo that pooplo who didn't mind their own businoss wore snubbed for their pains. Bo far a8 the chargo of Excoutive dictation goes, it 18 a sufficient angwer to sny that theso puling Congrossmen went to the White Houso ex- prorsly to be dictated to, Thoy got a littlo more than thoy bargained fory that s sl If they havo any objection to raige, lob them raise it against the Prosident's arguments, not sgainst his manper of delivering thom. And what will thoy soy on this scoro? If wo wera called upon to framoe o conanter argu- ‘ment, wo should eay that his fault cousisted in not having dolivered such s mossnge long ago. Bub wo aro nob dealing with by-gonos. Having usod a cheating, lying ocurrency nearly ton years longor than thero was any neod of it— having allowed the rich to grow richer and the poor poorer through ila conseless and grinding flactuations of valuc—having soen the business of the country jerked hither and thither by reason of its infloxibility of volume—having experi- encod the dangors of allowing successive Secre- tarios of tho Treasury to tinker with it acoording to their notions of tha country’s neods—having soon tho time when thoe cucroncy was within a boggarly 8 por cent of par, and having seon thia opportunity to put tho currenoy on tho only sound basls glven undor heaven among men for a curroncy slip by unlmproved—we are pre- pared to heartily indorso the Prosident’s recom- mondations,and not complain that they wore so long deferred. Do those grumbling Congressmen (Inflationists and others) oxpoct ever to get back to spocio paymonts ? Thoyall say thoy do, ‘but they will nover find a timo to bogin, When anybody olao suggests a time, no mattar how re- ‘moto, they slways commonco ralslng difficultios, and by the vory act of postponing thoy toach the ignoraut and unthinking, and most of all the rising goneration, who Lave nover handled gold orsilvor coln excopt 88 curiosities, to beliove that spoclo is a humbug, n delusion, & euporati- tion, Thluolass of lunatics are becoming dan- gorously numorous, and Congross is dolug its utmost to multiply the brood. It ia timo to cafl a halt. It ia impossiblo that publio opinion should romaln stationary as rogards the ourroncy quostion, Tinahasboon amply domon- strated by tho events of tho past fow wmontha, ‘Wo must go to specle paymonts or wo must go tho other way, aud thore is no bettor time to do- clde whish way we shall go than now, ‘We aro told that Congrossmen especlally ridi- oule the fdoa of abolishing bunk notes of & loss donomination than $10. We shall, at & future timo, sbow why we think tbis I4 unnooessary eud unsofontiflo, but it is too small a fraction of tho whole mattor to wasto words on now. Anybody who pauses to olapporolaw tho Prosldent on that score must bo at a loss for argumonts to ranail his plan {n the aggrogate. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND, Thoe annual roport of tho Prosident of the Chicngo Publio Library was printed In Tue TrinuNe of yostorday. It makes a showing that Isat onco croditablo to the Board of Manngors and significant of a stoady progross in tho futuro, if thero shall bo no narrow-mindod partiean or political offort to hamper it. Thoe Public Library hae hiad & ronl existence of sonrcoly moro thin o yoar. Tho firat tax ralsod for it was in 1872, and this was not collected till 1878, Tho tax lovied for 18781a not all collooted yot. Aftor doducting tho doflolonolos, the aggrogate smonnt of money $urned over to the fund ls about £86,000. Whon thoZtax of 1878 ehall have boen collooted, the Bonrd will havo about $48,000 over and abovo the amount oxponded, on which the Library will have to subslat for oightoon months to come, ns the tax-lovy of 1874 will not bo all callocted till Novembor, 1875, As -| the necossary running oxponses sro now §27,600 _por yoar, this will mako it closo salling for the Board, and will leave no margin for the purchaso of books, In sucha condition of things, it ia surprising that the City Comptrolier should recommend a roduation of the Dibrary appropri- ation to $25,000 for tho present year, or about one-hialf tho sum to whioh the Board in entitled undor the lnw, While Chicago finances aro in & conditlon that calls for rigid cconomy, this isnot tho placo to begin, Tho authorized appropria- tion for'thio Library Is not cxorbitant. To out It down ono-half now would be to stranglo it in ite infancy. Tho Publie Library can be madoa sham in tho oyos of tho poople by withholding at this tinty tho money nocoasary to give . it ro- spootabllity. Is that tho intontion of tho city au- thorttios? Thonumbérof books aowon thesholves 13 0nly20,000: nnd, aftor all tho books which have boon donated and ordored shall have boon recolved, there will not bo moro than 40,000 vol- umes in ail. If tho appropriation for this yoar: 18 reduced to §25,000, not moro than $20,000 of which will bo collectod, the amount will not be sufllolont to cover the actunl ruuning expensos, end it will bo more than two yoars beforotho Library Board will bo able to buy & single now volumo. The rooms might as well bo closed up st onco. .Fho Boston Library has 800,000 vol- umea and 60,000 borrowois. Tho Circinnat] Li- brary bias 60,000 volumes and 20,000 borrowers. It will be soon that tho numbor of borrowers in Olnclunatl is now equal to the whole number of booke in our Library, and the borrowers in Bos- ton are three times more numerous than our volumes, At tho bost, the number of volumoa in the Ohicago Library will not exceed 40,000 this yoar, and if thereis to bono purchase of ourrent books tho publio intorest will rapldly decline and the Library will lose all its value. Tho number of borrowers is already 2,578, snd it the rato of incroase for tho last month is main- tainod, they will number. 80,000 boforo :tho ond of anothor yoar. Tho number of volumes would scarcoly go around, patent-office roports snd all, and & cholce would bo altogothor ont of tho quostion. ‘Wo have heard it whispored that some people in suthority cherieh a resontment against the Library ‘on account of ita presont location, Had tho Board of Education bohaved properly in the premises, the Library would -have ‘becn located in tho-old OCustom-Houso building, which "was ascquired -by tho city in. a trado with the Governmont for this specific pur- pose. But when tho ezactions of ‘that Board made it unwise for tho Library Board to take the Custom-Houso site, wo are Informed that some porsons - favored locating the Library in the West Division, This was found to be imprac- ticablo, Chlcago, in spito of tho divisions made by a winding river, has o natural coniro, by reagon in part of ite converging lines of sircot~ railways, What that contro is, was woll demon- strated by the rebuilding sftor tho five had wiped out all locations. It happons to bein tho Bouth Division, but is not on that account any tho loss accossiblo to the Wost and North Divie- jons. An effort was mado to find ‘a suitn- blo building noar Madison stroet bridge, but o valn. Finally the building on tho cormer of Madison stroet and Wabash avenuo, whoro the Library now i, was seourcd st a reasousblo rental, and we doubt whother o more dosirable location could have been found, The Library is now eltuatod within ono blook from where the horse-railrond and stage Unos convergo, and is equally accosgible from all throo diviefons of tho oity. ‘We do not want to bollovo that Mr. Hayes hing been influenced by any local projudice in recom- mending tbo reduction of the Library appro- priation to one-hnlf of what tho Libraryis on- titled to under the Iaw, But the recommonda- tion is so injudiclous and fll-timed that heo slionld reconsider it in order to relieve himsolt of this susplelon. If o does not, the Common Councll muss not countonance an ultn_nipt to choke off our Publio Library. A Public Library is oither desirable, or itls not. If itis not, then lot us close the doors at onco, and bo dono with it. But if it iv, thon It must furnish the number, variety, and attractiveness of books that will commend it to the' publio. Wo have moroly tho nuclous of a Library now, though boving o p‘opnlnlinn which demands as complote & library as that of Boston or Now York, If wo stop at tho nuclous, and add nothing to the Library for two yoars to come, the publio will coaso to hinve any interest in {t, nnd it will dwin- dlo Into Ineignificanco lnstead of growing to be ouo of tho noblost institutions of & great city. ¢ THE NIGGER SOHOOL." P’ Undor thls eaption, Mr. George L', Downing publishes a characteristic lottor in defonso of the Civil-Rights bill, o bolloves that it should bo & law bocause (1) *the foollng of tho most igno- rant colored man, in tho poorest log-cabin, is most intonsoly wrought upon fu this mattor;” (2) “ho will rogard indifferoncs to this bill as a Lronoh of faith;” (8) tho defout of tho bill would be & trlumph of projudice; (4) such loglelation is noeded to ovorcome tho “old eduoation” which leads white mon to contomn bluok; (5) tho proposed law would scouro every- body's rights, not elmply those of the colored mon; (6) the wnegro ohild noods tho “stimulus of contack™ with tho whito, the “inaplration of fooliug his oquality by out- stripping, if o can, the whito child in the olaas ;" and (7) the * throat " of breaking up the public-achiool systom, it carried into offect, would shiow & meauncss that would causo gon- crous dounstlona towards education in the Bouthi, Buch & courso “might have o stimu- lating offect” upon tho ocolored man, The argumont that the nominal tax-psyers, {, e., tho whitos, support the schools is unfounded, bo- causo thoso mon colleot the taxes,in tho shape of highor ronts, pricos, ofc., from the poor, to- wibs tho nogroos, Thorefors, slnce tho negroon suppork tho -schicols, they ought to be able to ontor thom, Theso views of an ablo colored man deserve ablontion. They prosent the negro view of tho quostion thoroughly. Itls significant that wa havo to sy “ tho nogro view.” ‘Lho baro dis- cusslon of the bill has begun the work of orgen- izing parties founded on raco. We proceod to re- view Mr, Downlng'a argumonts in tho ordor in whioh ho has stated them, (1) The ** feoling of tho moat ignorant colored man " is no reason whatovor for passing o law. An. emotion Is raroly, if over, good ground for logielation. ‘Muoh loss is it g0 whon it Is folt by an oxceod- +ingly ignorant poreon. Buch ronsoning would Justify slavery or bittor religlous perscontion. Many ignorant porsous have vory slrong foelings in favor of both theso things. The queation in this cheo, from an omotional point of view, ia whother 'wo.ought, for tho enko of gratifying tho foclings of & minority, to outrage tho foolings of a mn~ Jority, aod o perpetuate tho race-prejudices which mako our colored follow-citizena fool badly. (2) It is timo that tho negro outgrow s dopendenco upon the Government. There {3 no possiblo brench of faith in voting down this bill. Tho notion has given bim freodom and oquallty bofore the.law, and the Btates havo provided him with prooisoly the same opportuni- tios for oducntion thot aro offored tho white. A fow yoars ngo ho was a chattol, Iolanows man, Lot bim work out his own salvation. Why should he appeal to Congross bocause ho cannot uso a partioular bath-room, or sleep in o particular bod, or bo buried within a partion- *lar Inclosure? The prejudico against forolgn- | ors has boon a8 strong in paris of Amoles na that against pogroos, but the formor have not appoaled to tho Govornment to try the hopoloss taglc of putting down that projudico by law. Thoy have lived it down thomsolves. Let tho no- groos do lkowiso. (8) Tho dofoat of tho bill would be o triumph of roason, not projudice. ' Its passega would perpotuate projudice. Can Mr. Downing point to a single feoling that a law aimod dlrectly against it has not strongthoned ? (4) This quostion answors his fonrth argument 28, woll. Tho fruits of an education cannot bo withored by an enactmont, Congress might as woll deoreo : ** All Bouthorners shall forget how torond,” ns to declara: ** All Bouthernors shall forget tho unwillingnoas tomeat nogroes on torms of social equolity, which tho training of thoirlifo hae given thom.” This cannot bo done by ono or ono million laws. (6) The Oivil-Rights bill is raco-logislation. Nobody notn negro wants it, ‘Everybody, clso foels himaolf capable of taking caro of hia own rights in 8 country whore justice 18 impartial, and tho ballot Is given to all, (6) Tho wished-for *“stimulus" and *inspiration® cannot bo got by this bill. The white children would leave the schiool as the black oncs entersd it, unless, Indecd, the school were shut to both. Tho Jatter- I8 tho moro probable. The white raco, moraover, does not oxist, as Alr. Downing sogme to think, for tho snke of ¢ stimulating " or *inspliring " the black, (7) There have boon fow “thrents” of broaking up the public-school sys- tom in tho ovont of the bill's passage. There havo boen many predictions, by eminent odu- cators and provon friends of . tho negro, that such would bo tho necessary result in the South. If Mr, Downing considers 1t worth whilo to have this happen for tho sake of getting gonerous do- untlons towards Southern education, wo disagroe with him, Having argned that mixed schools should be kept opon for tho sake of stimulating his raco, ho now arguos that closing thom might stimulate the race. The dovelopment of soveral Downings, however, would, scarcoly atone for «tho doninl of education to thousands of ehil- dren, Iis final argumont, which is corract in declariug that taxes are paid ultimately by tho poor, does nothing to prove tho right of tho colored people to go to school with the white. Schools aro now open to them. Thair right to nn cducation is grantod. Moro than this thoy cannot nsl. His principle would justify a law whioch would malko it obligatory on every white ohild to sit beside & nogro for sev- eral hours every dayin order to furnish {his mystorions stimulus that ho rogards agso im- portant, Is it not timo for tho colored raco to stop play- ing boby? The whites of Amorica have dono nably in outgrowing the old projudicos against thom. Thoy cannot hurry this procesa by law. Lot them obtain socisl oquality as gvery other man, woman, and child in this world obtain it,— Ly showiug thomselvea in thelr lives the social equals of those with whom they wiski to consort. It thoy do this, year by year tho projudico will dieaway. If they press tho passage of this bill and succood, day and day that prejudics will grow dooper and moro bitto! d § A NEW CAS3ANDRA. Richard Wagnor hus iusugurated the musio of tho future, and, if wo can roly upon L. E. Caro, of tho Fronch Academy, the celobratod eritio, tho pootry of the futuro has bogun its onroor,— that Is, if the man of tho futuro is to be a posl- tivist, or saburated with tho philosophy of Bpon- cor and Darwin. Madamo L. Ackermann, author of o volumo of pooms ontitled Poesics Philoso- phiques, is tho first of theso bards of the future, —thonew Cassandra, As M. Oaro snys of her, hor pooms (the Sphinx, the Cross, the Unknown, and the Last Word) * roveal & mind shaken to 1ts vory foundations by modern philosophy, whether that of Darwin, Iorbort Sponcer, or Anguste Comto."” There can bo no doubt that tho philosophy which our new pythonosa has adopted presents the world and man's piace in it to us undor sn nepoot different from what mon have boon used to contemplate, It s impossiblo to chango mon'a viows of Naturo, of themsolves, of thelr origin, of God, and koop tho olango from aoloring their feelings and finding oxprossion in thoir art, . The highost pootry is tho expros- slon of .man's feolinga face to faco with tho problem of oxistonco. Tho great prob- Jom of human destiny i8 not solved by Dar- winlem. - It o not' solved by Seloneo, When all that can bo known has boon mastored by us, wo are atill surroundod by mys- tory., Dut it the Positivist, or tho Bpencorian, or Darwinian can find in his spooulations no an- awer to the riddle of existenco, thio question atill voxes him, and unutnmplrmi 1t ho must through the modium of his philosophy, What would men feel if sll thought not sclontife wera ox- oludod from the world? IHow would tho hoark fare in & world whoro all mon drow tho lino striotly botweon tho Knowablo and the Unkno- able; whoro no Power was rocognizod but Force, no law but Evolution; from which Faith was bauished forevor? As Max Mullor gald, a short timo *ago, and s M, Caro roposts afler him, poople cannot belleve i tho God of Mosos andalso {n tho God of Darwin, The two con- coptions ara radically and fundamentally diffor- ont, If the God of Darwln lives, tho God of Mo- . sen will not muryive, o cortalnly doos nok sur- vivo in tho stormy, sclent!flo, yat passlonate soul of Madamo Ackormann, The philosophy of Comta ‘hag ontered thoro, and tho lssttrace of tho old Faith has boon wiped out. Yot not & word of complaint does the pootoss uttor over ‘what sho has lost, Bho doos mob rogret that her God fa doad., Bhodoes not look sfter Him ss one sho would lovo if lier lntellect would only pormit hor. 8ho does mot think of Him, now that alio 1g saturated through and through with tho positiva philosophy, ns & charaoter in a nuraory talo, Sho doocs nat fool indifferont to him eithor—sho hatos Him § for ** He who conld doall has willed pain{"® Ho i & tyrant—the God of tho past—whom men will cite bofore the tribunal of ronson. Faith having doparted like a nightmaro, man will no longer romsain a proy to torror, nor cowdrdly bow hia head beforo sn altar, Not more fascinating aro Madamo Ackermann's viowa of life whero mankind, in opliomeral pairs, advance, twined . in one snothor's arms, to mingle tholr dust togothor— all making tho samo promise, all vowing to lovo—forever! Forovorl—n word whioh tho heavons hoar with wonder from lips alrandy turning palo, on which Death's ioy fingor is al- rondy laid. B Tho * Unknown" she spenks of in hor vorsa a8 & void ovening bovond the region of Belonco, tho dominion of which Faith usurped; and, she continues,—we can offor only & proso translation, ~—“procipitating hersol? lnto this obsoure nbyss, sho would fain illumo it. We expol thoo from thy divino kingdoms, zoslons queon, -Thy hour lins come, ‘Thou enalt know uo longer where to lodge thy phantoms, Wa close up tho Unknown!" Tho foolinga of tho poot towards Obristianity ‘moy bo gathored from tho followldg: “In thy ruinous avidity, O Inflnito, thon hast left him but a Oross and Doath,” Tho book is dodloated to Pascal, with whom the gifted but gloomy author has much in common. Thero was somothing appropristo in connocting It with the nome of the author of tho lines, “Tho oternal silenco of tho 1wflnito abyss torrifics me,” and of theso others, *Looking st tho whole world silont, and man without light, surrendered up to himeolf, and a8 it satray in one corner of tho universe, not knowing who sent him mto it, why ho was put there, or what will become of him when ho dies, I foel the bhorror of a man trans- lated into s dosort Island, aud awaking mot knowing whero ho is or how to escape.” Buch seoma Lo bo tho position of Madnino Ackermann, It tho poetry of tho faturo s tobo oll of tho character of Madamo Ackermaun’s, what form of delirium will bo its proso ? On the whole, wo think our now Cassandra hos not surpassed tho sgoliloquy of Hamlot in philosaphy, or the droam of Clarenco in imaagination, . BANBORN AND THE PRESS. Tho power of tho pross has beon well shown in the results of the Sanborn investigation. ‘Tho invostigation iteclt was forced mpon Con- gross by tho domands of tho prows. The do- tailed roports of it kept alive's hoalthy public indignation, It is rarely that tho procopt: * Bo yoangry and sin not,” has been better obeyed. As tho scandalous facts Gen. Builer was so anxious to conceal became known, editorlals piled thuck and fast upon Richardeon until he waa fairly forcod from tho placo ho had dis- graced. Had thore beon time botween his nomi- nation as Judgo of the Court of Olaims and the voto upon it, tho press would have prevented his confirmation,despito the evident bargain botween the President sud the Benate, Solicltor Ban- fleld's offleial head was chopped off in doforence to tho stondy domand therefor. Tho attitudo of all the prominent journals of the country on-. couraged Beorotsry Bristow to foreo Assistant- Beerotary Sawyer into resignation. This Sanborn Inveatigation Lias resulted in the abolition of the worat fonturos of the spy system, in the crush- ing dofeat of tho model demagogue of the country, and in tho ousting of threo erimiually- inefliciont officials from tho Treasury Dopart- mont. Tho crodit for' much of this is due to the press. It has, of course, reflocted the popalar feeling, oud so gained tho strongth mooded to carry on the good work, but it has kept that faoling alive, which would othorwise have died out, A fact like thia covers many sing. Binco tho press has done 8o much, it should domore. Ithas cleansed tho Treasury Depart- ment, but tho Augean stables of the Interior Dopartmont romain, Richardson is thrust from his seat, but Columbus Delano retains bis, Lot American journalism, backed by the Ambrican poople, demand aud *get what this goneration bas Ditherto tried for in valn, Lot ushave an honest, senrching investigation of tho Indian Ring! Throughout tho West it is belioved that Columbus Dolano, Esq., Secretary of the Inte- rior, 18 at ita hoad. Lot us have this ulcor on the body-politio probed. Year aftor year wo aro’ plundered by thls’ Ring. Everybody knows this to be s faot. Who is responsible? If Delano is guilty—Delano delendus est. THE ENGLISH NAVY, There ia ofton a wide discrepanoy botween the fighting power of & nation. as oxprossed in re- ports prosented on paper and as shown By an +actual and rigid inspeotion. During tho recont ngitation on the Virginius affair, tho feoblencss of tho United States In the matter of an'oficiont naval force wag mado apparont. The figuros upon which our boastod strongth on tho son was founded scomed to undergo a strango trang- formation, and from tho holiet that an invinel- blo forco of iron-clads was at our command the opposite fact of our wonkness was developedand took possossion of tho publlo mind., How much' of the porcoptiblo toning down of the war-apirit was duo to this {s 8 quostion for tho ocurions, but 1t may afford somo grim sonso of satlefaction to find that wo aro not alone involved in a difl- culty of tho kind, but that our English cousing aro just now in the samo position, - Among tho various overhaullngs consequent upon the change of Administration in England, that of naval affairs is one which, in its rovola- tions, vory sorlously affocts tho tomper and gonse of security of tho people, - Mr, Ward Munt, the First Lord of tho Admiralty, has made a atatomont of the condition and requiremonts of tho British navy which is somewhat startling, Of o total of Aifty-five iron-clads, forly-one aro son-going ships, and fourteen for coast and harbor defense. Of the forty-one, five ave in course of construotion, nine are worthloss, and nine moro aro ot to bomade available during tho prosent yoar, Of the romalulng elghtoen, four are only availablo after August noxt, loav- Ing tho effectivo forco at fourteon in numbor. Ot the fourteon coast iron-clnds, five aro absont on forolgn atations and nino are it for defense, Truly this *sooms a small roslduum into which to bavo bofled down tho invinciblo navyof the llgtross of the Oconn.” But tho chiot cauko of complaiot 8 tho mieropresontation made by tho outgolug Lord of tho Admiralty, Tho navy hns beon roprosonted by Mr. Goschen as fully sorviconblo, aud aa equal to that of other Powera in all rospecty, Br, Hunt findg it in & most un- aatisfactory condition, and domands £10,000,000 (aterling) to bogin the work of restoring it to kn oftective atato. Tho average snnusl oxpondituro for iron-olads for the past fifteon yoara has boon under a miillon sterling, What littlo money the lata Governmantdid spend wason gun-boata snd gmall eraft, For tho strength inmen is 00,000, and somo place muat be Liad to put them, ‘Wagos, materinl, aud coal have risen in prico, sud whoress & fow years ago the cost of placing & sailor ineffective duty was £100, it is now £170, TIn roply to tho oritiolsms of My, Hunt upon the negloot of the former Adminiatration to keep the navy in ordor, Mr. Goschon roplics that they had many diMoultios to contond with, that ships of tho most modern construo- tlon roquired » stupendous outhy in ropalrs aftor - & very short timo, and that such ropalra had proved far moro costly and oxtensivo than had boon sntloipatod, Dut the improssion romains thot in ita effortant economy the administration of BMr. Gladstone far overshot tho mark with regard to tho iron olagg, and that mow large sppropristions are nooded to restore thom to a stato of officiency. Altogothor it sooms probable that to tho paraimo- nions coonomy of AMr, Gladstone's administra- tion—induced by a dosire to koop the party in powor—this state of thingais duo, . Meanwhilo tho English press consoles {teolf with thethought thataf thelr navy is in Il ropair forelgn navies are In no better condition; that it English boil- ora wear out, it 18'to bo aupposed that forolgn botlors woar out too ; and that, with an excellent navy in all rospects but iron-clad vessels, oxpon- ditures somowhat but not greatly incrensed over formor yoars, will with care place it onco moro in ita formor strongth and offectivencss, The procoodings of the Ropublican County Convention of Rook Ieland Connty, on the Gth fust., sccording to the Argus of that city, woro lugubrious. Only two towns in ‘tho wholo county, Rock Ieland and Moline, wore ropro- sontod, and thoso by ofticolioldora prinoipaily. ‘What the Convention Incked, howover, in num- bors, it madoup in good sonse, Throo resolu- tons woro ndopted, tho first deprocating all ‘mensures or legislation tonding to doprocinte tha ourrancy &8 an act of bad faith and a repudiation of former Republican professtons ; the socond, opposing tho inflation of the currency and in- dorsing the President's veto; tho third, in- structing dologates to tho State Convention to catry out the spirit of thosa two rosolutions, Considorablo discussion followed the reading of the rosolutions but thoy woreoventually adopted, aftor which o discussion aroso on general princi- plos which resulted in a *' row,” pending which the two-town Conventlon ndjourned. Tho Re- publican party in Rock Island County must bo in desporate ,ntralts it tho bost that it candoin & Convention to nominate dologates to tho BState Convention is to mustor dol- egates from two towns and theso mainly officebolders. Thero is ovidently some- thing rotten in Denmari whon soventoon towns in a county do not make an apposaranco at ita Conventlon, and aro contonted to go unropro- sonted st a Btato Convention. REither the Grangers must have overrun Rook Tsland County like grasshoppors, or elao everything Repub- lican thoroabouts has come down by the run, and thé thing hos gono to the dogs, dospito tho offorts - of the managers, The mournful catastropho In this county, howoever, is only anothor eloquent indication of the dissolution of the party by moaus of its own corruptions. —_—— Vasquoz, the nolorious - Mexican bandit, who was recently arrested m Lower Califorma for various acts of outlawry, aud is now awaiting trinl for numerous murders committed by him- self and his desporate gang, Las an amount of assurance which is remarkablo, ovon for o ban- dit. In his confosalon he betrays - the following samplo of touching fllinl devotion : **I went to wy mothor In Montorey County, and I asked hor for hor blossing, and told her I was going out into tho world to suffer, and take my obancos,” Now that Lo has taken his chancos, ond fallen: into the hands of the authorities, and Mme. Vasquoz's bobison isn’t of any use to bim, hio haos iesued a card to the public, a la Tich- borne Olsimant, appealing to tho charitable to mako up & purso for hia dofenso. Charity suf- feroth long and enduroth much, but its only use In Vasquez's cage will bo to present him witha hoempen collar. e Tho recont distressing cagos of trichina spira- 1is at Flint and Sonth Haven, Mich,, which ro- sulted =o fatally, have beon mado the subjaect of & patient and prolonged investigation by tho Modical Bociety of Kalamnzoo, Posi-mortem oxaminations of tho bodies ot the victims were made, aud these loasthsome parasites were found in groat numbors in the bodies. The pork and Lam woro also examined, aud found to be alive with thom, It was furthormore nacortatnoed that in ench oago ham Lad been eaton raw. As there are numerous others hablo to eat Lam in thia condition, we commend to them tho following oxtract from the modical report ¢ Eat no uncooked or half-cooked hog's flesh, The raw flosh of tho hog, whatover its shapd ot condition, whether liam, bacon, or pork, salt ur fresh, smoked or unsmokod, i iablo o contatu this parasite, full of a | lifo and activity that muy soon work a romedilcas mis- chiof in the human body, Bologua sausago, if pork bo in i€ uncooked, is es dangerous as suy. othor form of this moeat, ‘Tho Leat that cooks moat uttorly destroys tha l{fe und wmischiovous power of these vermin, and 10 ono need four any harm If thls fuct ia obsorved, ———— Bald Mountain, North Carolins; which has Dbeon for some time rumbling, and quaking, and bonving in a very romarkablo mauner, kns now brokon outln & now dircotion. Itie roported that o huge light was rocently seen moving up Broad River, accompanied by & quaking of the mountain. The light shona with such Intonsity 08 to oxhibit the treos and lullsforan eighth of a milo on each sido of the river and then auddenly disappoared. Tho Morriatown Gazelle claims, on tho otber hand, that thoro mever have beon any qualdngs at all, and that tho story was concocted by speculators to deaw peoplo thero, From tha. aggrogato of toatimony, Bald Mountain appeara to be & bald humbug. The dispatchos from New York announce the arrost of & young man, Juliau 8, Mendelssolm, upon the oharge of forgery, who claimad to bo tho son of Mondelssolin, tho great composor. Ae tho biographies record that Mondelsoln had bug two sons, Follx and Carl, the forger may also bo sot down ns an impostor, Felix Mondelssohn died in ohildhood, and Carl is now an eminent physleiau at Froiborg, who rocontly brought out the oharming work, ** Goethio and Mendelssohn,” ——————— NOTES AND OPINION, . Congressman Donnan, of the Dubuque (Towa) District, sulary-grgbber, writes to the editor of the Dubuque Th! g that * reflection higs tonded toward a determination” not to bo n candidate for re-cleotion, DBut of tho salary-grab ho says : By my own conviction in this matter I stand; and uover have, aud never will, apologizo 1o any man oy party on earth for a courdo of action which has soemed 10 10 £0 bo both mauly und upright, —Another Iowa salary-grubber caunsos tho an- nouncomont to bo mado in his home organ as fol- lows ¢ [} fances have matured that dofingt Mr, Ore's refusal (o o & candidate Tor m—eln:mu..ml‘ * —Cangressman Kasson, of Tows, who is not a oandidate for ro-olection, writes ina supplo- ‘montary letters Ibave nelitier LId farowell to one party nor hall to auothor, but bava shuply doclined o candidacy in ordor to lenva my frieuds’and oppoucuta both freo to cliooso as thoy wauld, —Qongreasman Cotton, as a nossiblo candldato for re-olection, ia & bone of contontion to thoe falthtul Ropublican papors in tho Secoud District of Towa. Butthe Ropublican party hns gono lato & hopeless minority (laut yoar, 1,830) in that distriot, and a Republican nomination wou't go for muoh, whaover gots it, ..—Dowdsll, of the Peorla Demooral, baving boen named 88 & oandidate for Congress, roplion In his papor ¢ Mr, Dowdall has aspirations only to excel FH"“ In the war for tho Xluupln'uy iy hll,un"-:uhl’n':: o monopolists, and fu 1o eveut v:ould ho conngat. to th6 uso of his name ns a candidate foc Congrean In thia district, # ~—Tho Anti-Monopoly nominating convention for the Eghth Illinots Gungrosslonal Dintrici fs callod &t Fatrbury, July 1, and aspirants aro nue morous, Of ono of them tho Drwight Star says: Tho Pontfno Fyce-Trader, wn inflation phaet, brings ouil ita candidato for Congross, -, A, McTeighon, of wogo, + o . but wo cantot indorso Lim, Hols in favor of (fiat rulnous and deranging policy of fnfia- tHon which would, had not tho Presidont interfered, bave lterally rultiod the commercial interosts of our country, B —How ig thia for a " oalls” All votars n favor of a pure Governmont, an honeet sdminfstration thsroof, & wound and sufifclent cur- ronoy, cheap transportation, thy dovelopiont of tho rovoccon of tho country, tho encouragemont of all branchios of iudustry, tho largest liborty consiatont with tho publle good, and who are opposed to monopo- tlos, aro roquosted 'to moet at tho Court-House in Witichester [Scott ounty), on Saturday, the 13th of Juno, o appoint two dolegates to the Btafo Ropublican Convoutiou, to Lo held in Springfleld, Juno 17, 1874. REPULLIOAN CRNTRAL COMMITTER, Rospoctfully roforred to * Charles B, Farwell, Ohalrman, and Daniel Shopard, Becrotary," to know if_tho above ia rogular, —Tho Indianapolis Journal stnounces Bone tontiously s A call for & meoling of the Nallonal Republican Committes x now iu proparation, A fow winde on gle-horn will propare Ropublicans to respond with alaeri., - the n;‘dol{,?‘ Fall in mon, fall in,” P But the Lafuyetto Journal throatens to fall out rathor then foll in. It ropudiates with gcorn the sickening farco of Republican primarios under ring manngoment, aa just ro-en- sotod in its own county, and say; If tho groat Nepublican party b th to falil an to thake thin favoslo ot somo aoepdomtat Qongrosaman & Postmastor, or that busy wire-workor succossful aspirant for ofice, then tho groat Ropube licau party s no bottor than sny othor kiud of brokor, and s no more claim upon tho patronageof the poaplo. —1I'ho Domocratio County Conventions in In- dians continuo to doolaro for sound money. In- dood, tho Terro Hauto Journal (not lang ago for inflation) says ¢ Upon thio currency quostion, we are most happy to find the Demacratic party ovi - 00 soneo and practicably view, o0 2K & com: —The Fort Wayne Sentinel rogrets that tho Indopondents (or Farmers) in many connties of Indiana rosolvo in favor of inflation (or what they call choap monoey), and soys : There nre thousands of peopla fn thots of tho Norihweat Betotofbro-voting with the Reyties 1ty who wonld act with tho furmors iu an Inde- pendont reform mavemont outaldo of this {ssuo, - But thoy will not doso if the Farmers mako au fnflation and consoquont doprociation of tho currency the load. ing clomont in tho campaign, The financial question ‘wlich hua boon practioully reicgatod to the Gongroa~ alonal campatgn by tho xofutal of the House to pasa thio lnst Honato bill, s likely to oreats more disturbance 1n politics thian any fssue since that of slavory, ;Thu Laporto (Ind.) Argus says: o have talked with Ropublicans from o norihern countios, snd fully foursiftns of thom gfm:l;: expansion, aud {hey any thoy fairly roprosont thole reapoctive localities, “Sonator Morton 18 mistaken if ko supposes Northorn Indiana wants clieap monoy, - ~—Our Illinois Republican papora continnoe to dlsagroo in this unmistakablo manner: Tho Republican Btate Convention will bo expectod to pronounce on this monoy quostion, and ndorss. our Bonators and Represontatives who voted to relivve the country from staguation in businoss,—Clinton Pubite, Tho Presidont Lins again aud again recommendod on oasy and natural solution of -the wholo traublo, and i Congress sbiould consult tha goneral good of the na- tion, instead of porsonal whims and moctional projiu- dices, this mattor might bo sottled. Innumorsblo pit~ falls of bankruptcyaud miro havo beon dug by tho long, unsettled dissensions that havo n:nn(fiud’ tho time of Congress, aud distracted the nation,~Pekin JRtepudlican, —~The Lincoln (Tll.) Statesman, Independent Domocrat gays: . ‘Wo are not for policy but prineiplo—for Interaals of tie peopio ayd. cm{‘ulry;p e thoaction of tho Tenth of JuneIndepondent Convention ‘With no emall degreo of solicitude and interost. . . . It anything leads to tho defeat of tho roformers in thia Btato it will bo bocaus they may assumo an unten- able,unjust, and falso attitude foward the best intarcats tho people and country, 3 ~—Thé Quincy (Ill) Herald says the Demo- oratio Committee for the Eloventh Uongressional’ District will moot at- an early day probably in Quincy; and it also says: . A writer from Hancock Gounty, disoussing thy : ing contoat in. tho Tonth Congiasatonal n‘fum’ufafi Jlich Honcook lsow o pact, thinke the, clisnces are ing for large Domocratlo gains, sug Dty e sotion ot a Domecra. ™ M probe: —1Ve publish this week a call for the mombers -of the Democratic Contral Committeo to moe: in this city on the 20th of June, - We hopo all will pay such attontion to this call as the importance of " th mooting requires.— Carmi (1IL) Courier. —Sholl the Domooracy hold convantions ? Woll, whynot? Noneod to bo in suy burry about It, avd we do not want any narrow-gaugo convontlons eithor. Lot the Radloals and Grane gers hold their conventions first, if they will, shen lob the older consorvative organizations that have ombraced the domocracy in late came paigns, whother styled Demogratic aimply, or Democratio sud Liboral; or Domocratio nus In- dopendont Ropublican, Lold their conxcils, conn- zf, logialative nud Btato, and nominate strong tiokets coupled with the resolution to elect thoms. —2Mound Qity (1U.) Journal. - ~—Tho attewpt to form a political party out of & particular olass, hua proven a' failuro, and the only party in the country to-day that prosonts apything like o formidablo opposition’ to tho oorruption, oxtravaganoo and olticlal dishounesty gonerally of the dominant party is tho Demo- oratic.—Olney, (1lL.) Times. . —Should the farmers Lo foolish enough to 'mako & narrow, class Flnglorm, upon which no- body ought to stand, it will bo clearly the duty of overy Democrat to assist in a reorganization of the party in this Stato, and put into tho fleld # straight-out Domocratio tickot. For this, how- over, wo predict thoro will bo no necessity, Bu lot us wait aud sce.—Champaign (11l.) Times. —Tho signg of the times aro unmistakable. Thero is vastly moro sctivity among tho loadera in the Domocratic party than has beon observed for many years; more Lopeful signs of life in the old carcaes ; more boldness and detorming- tion in the words of thoso who bavo stubbornly rofusod to follow after etrange gods, but have nlun§ to tho faith as ostablisbed by Jefferson aud Jackson,—Geneseo (1il.) Republio. —The fact is, soparata organizations Is tho only true way to wield the balance of power tho farmors and producors hold ; aud that is what most troubles thoe old parties,—Cambridge (IUL.). Prairie Chief. —Of courso these howls and echoes, of which wo write, will reverborato witlh monstrous nvise st the comlng Congrossionnl campaign. The old offico-holders will tromble and bellow lustily thoso old, worn cries, Their little Post-Officos and othor sugar-tonta will be nt stuke, Do-mot bo confused or changad in your purposo by their noiso. -Go calmly on with Your good and right- oous purpose of placing” men in the oiloes who will givo at loast s madicury of thelr time, in furthering your interests, aiid let the noise’ mado by presont incumbents who have proved unwortlly bo thelr death-wml.—Hgnry Oouniy, (IIL) News. TR —If Mr, George A, Sanders [Deputy Stato- Treasuvor] {8 uot beaton in his canvass_for the: numination for Stato Treasurer by.tho Ropubli- cnns, it will mot bo forluck of prossing his. claling, A week or iwo agq, we recolved a marked nowspapor containing’ & vory finttoring- notice of the “young mau.” A fow days after along came another' papor with more marked' notices, and now wo hiave_n full broadaido after- tho manner of Barnum's Hllmodromp, filled, a8, the hoading asys, with * Fiattering, uoticos; from tho prass of the Hon. Gaorge A. Satders.™ Wa obsarve that govoral of tho uotices rofor to tho editors haviug recently seon Mr, Sandors,- Wo have no doubt that Mr, Sundors ia a good Ropubticas, an honest gontloman, aod will mako a good Tronsuror if elected, but thore is such a thing as overdoing a convass for & nom- inatlon.—Peoria (IUl.) Transeript. * —'he Chicago Jufer-Ocean 18 proparing a soft: place wheraon to fall after the adjournment of the Illinols Btato Ropublican Convention on the 17th, On tho 80tk of Moy, roviowing tho World's aditorialupon the aituation in Ilinois, it affectod to datlde tho World for saving that the Stata ofticos to bo filled this yoar—those of Treasuror and Buporintendent of Publiv Instruction—wera not of much oonsequence. On the 2d of June it fonrlassly sunouncad that *ihe patronnge of tho Troasurorship is insiguificant; tho salmy iu small—it ylelds nothing but honor ;" and eaid of the Buperintondenoy of Publio Instruction, that “4the componuation was (is) out of all proportion to the domunds of tha ofiice,” Al of which wonld bo amusing in any paper which hasn't for months beon barking ssvagoly against Renump- tion with its editorlal Load, and wagging fiu commoroial tall joyonsly in approval of Resump- tion. ~We Infor that "tho Jluter-Ocean, rather than dostroy barmony in tho party and perll ita unity, will bo wiliingto give us the Btate Trosss uror and Buperintendont of Publio Instruction and the pht{or_m. Thal {8 what {t moans by a ‘* compromise,” The Fuler-Ocean doubtloss yo- membora that Mark Twain rofused to be ohrise toued Sumuol - when bo was a_baby, and ran sway, His storn old parent sallisd after him, and Mark, rathor than causo fil-feoling in the houso, *'compromisod on * & Hoking and tho obe noxious preuomen, Bawuel.—&h Louts Globe,.