Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1874, Page 2

CANADA. Resume of Recent Events in the Ne\:r Dominion: l'rojoéted' Canal-Enterprises that Are gSeeking Public Recognitions .o Respective Merits of the Georgian- Bay and the Trent-Valley J Schemes. Prosont Status of tho Reolprocity Quess tion, snd Nowfoundlend’s Dilemma. The War Department, and Its Regula- tions for the Management of tho Recent Militia Camps. iy dence of The Chicage Tribune. Spentel Coryeper o;—:{vm, Ont., July 29, 1674, PROJEOTED OANALS. The discnesions that are generally. {aking plece in thia country and the United States on tho subjoot of tho Reclprocity Troaty, have brouglit necesssrily into. considorablo promivonco thio canpl-system of tho Dominion, and the pro- poscd smendmants and additione thoreto, A telo- gram haa recently boen golug tho ronnds of the prean hore, to Lo offoct thata cargo of grain was rocently sold at Livarpool, which Lad beon shipped on as tbrough froight from Chicago, for tho vessol * Pamiico.” This, tho bost Hlustration that could be bad of the posaibility of tho uso of through vossols from the West to tho East, nlso * shows, in tho length of timo requirod to mako tho pasengo, the abeoluto nocossity that exista for still greater improvements to bo made in tho canal-routos of tho Dominlon, Thore aro too projects now ecoking the aid of Government zud tho confidonco of capitalists, having this objoct la viow, Both are familiar, in namo at loast, to many Wostorn readors. One ia old, the othor jomporativelymow, Tho one Lias been pushed with all tho onorgy possible toan enthusiast, aod bas been recoived with all the chilling doubts and resorve with which the practical world too ofton greots tho too gushing advocacy of any MEAsuro; tho other has pot yot becomo s nulsanco, and 18 being very quistly nnd cloverly mauaged: Yhe ona is known as tho Toronte & Goorgian- Bay Caval; tho other s the Huron, Trent-Valloy % Outaria Canal. If either of theso cauals were buile, it would result jn & vast bouofit to West- »rn commeoros. It would supply o uew avouue by which accoss could bo guined to the outer world for the producls of the vust Northwestern Blates. THE GEORGIAN-BAY OANAL ' matuly advocstod by Mr. Froderick 0, Osprool, M Toronto. Mr. Capreol is now nearly B0 years »¢ ago, and his whole lifo has boen a conatant Eght with unapprociotive capitalists. No sconor —ns in the caeo of the Northorn Railroad—hns bo scourod an ontefprise on % decent footing, than ho forsakes it to go to tho emp- posl of awother which Is shaky in the extremo. But Mr. Capreol Maa fought the fight for tho Goorgisn-Bay .Caual for tho last ton years so persistontly that it now stands indorsed by nvil ongincors, capitalists, county And municipal pfficors, and, to somo extent, by Gavernmont ttaelf. Unfortunatoly for Alr, Capreol, e possesa- 18 1o politicat fufluouce. His schemo likewise is 1180 not so brilliant, nor I it supported in such 1 way, that tho opportunity to force a land-grant thirough the Duminivn Parliament by moaus of bribery, if it wero possiblo, can bo resortod to. The late Canadian Premior, Bir Jobn A. Macdonald, used to laugh at Capreol, and, while occasionally making him promiecs, never was good onough so far to, surprise poor Cepreol by carryiug them out. Tho present Prewler, the Hon, Aloxander McKenzic, a Re- former and John-Bright character in Canadinn politics, canuot bo expected to look with sny great warmth of admizatien ou a ecliemo advo- Inted by a Tory, and which comes begging to Lis doors, after it has been scouted and tritled with by the political nxsociates of its chief promoter. Furthermoro, the Hon, George Brown, the pro- piietor of the Globe, of otonto, tho leading Giovernment organ, and who is the power behind the throne, Lad a personal quartel with Mr, Capreol some time sinco; and n Beotch- nan nover forgets s brawl, Mr, Cupreol 1uks for s grant of 10,000,000 acres of Dominion huds a8 n Bubsidy for his canal—contending that, with this granted, the capital neceseary for fho work is already promisod and subroribed. Theroe scems littlo bopos for his euccess in this respect. Notwithstanding tho vast land-grant that i8 tied np in tho Pacitic-Railway scbemo, tho Reform pa1ty have pretty definitoly declared that they donot Jook with approval on the granting of losge portions of the publio dumain to privato compuautes. 1t the wuccess of the scheme de- peuds on his securing the land-grant, which Mr, Capreol eays it does, I fear tho prospects for his ultimate success are slight, Ihe other scheme to which Ihave referred, and kuown as the MURON, TRENT YALLEY & ONTAWIO OANAL, i an old venture of comparatively recent resur- rection, and the figures used in counaction with it hove not been _ro generally perused ae those rolating to the Georgian-Bay Canal. Tho great recommondation of this caual*is eaid to Lo the number of lakes and rivers that can be utllized g0 a8 to eecure, at & comparatively smull cost, o cansl of 200 mifes in Tongth. OF this lungth, it is estimated that only 40 miles of actusl canal would have to be constructed, no less than 360 miles of tho 10ute being aiready traversed by stoamboats, 1t is caloulatod that bargos, coc) carrying 16,000 bushels of grein, could be towed by stenm-tugs through the eannl, to the number, it 18 calcalated, of 100 per day, dunng soven menths in the year, The riso from the mouth of Tront River to tha algut of laud aver which the canal must pass is about 600 foot, and the stream proposed to bo usad iy for miles both rocky and rapid in character, It will bo gocn from” this that tho obstaoles iu the way of tho construction of this canal are very formid- able. But the projectors of i, teking wise oouusel of the public disposition, have docided not to ask for a cent of public mouey, or a foot of publio land, ag & bonus for their enterprise. It }Z put bofore the public on its own tudividual merits a8 & oommercial enterprise. Aud uobly do the projectors fignre out s flattering prospeo {for the iuvestors iu the echema, The capital to boe embarked in tho enterpriso {8 §5,000,000, Befors a decado the roturny are osloulated to amount to $4,600,000 per annum! It {u » pity that buman naturs looks with such diemay nowadsys on any schems in which it is asked to becows an origunal stovkholder, that the paliry 5,000,000 ssliod is nover likely to be renlized. It doos not secm possible, moroover, that tho cannl—0 extended, and prossuting such diftieul~ tlea—can bo built for any such pum, As lon| aRo ns 1830 ita construction wes attémpted, but 31 was uboudoned & decado lator, for wautof unds, aud becuuse it was finally decidod to bo mpraoticablo, But what was beyond the powers of the past generation sre but lsughing matters £o us, the * heirs of all tho agoa,” Wo can yat aurely succeed. * It i to be regrettod that tho prospects of uoithor of theso schomes, 0 caloulat- «d to bo of bonofit to tho Wost, are fayor- ablo for thowr complesion, It is unfortunate, but shippora must content themuolves for yeats $o coma with tho enlarged Wellava Causl and the * all-round-the-lake ™ courss, = THE RECIPROCITY QUESTION, . Notwithstanding the fulmination of Bpenker Blaine, Wo havo not yob abandoned the idea that the Eput, as woll a8 the Weet, will tinully de- olare in favor of s rouewul of reciprocal trade- relutiona botweon the-Canadas aud the United States, L'he Stuto of Maino hins actually rolro- graded einca tha withdrawal of tho lust Troaty ; snd it would, to sn_ordinary obsorver, weem to baa matter of polioy with™ the pnlzllu men of \hat State to eupport tho enactmont of & now froaty, -in the hopo that it mjght ut o stap to tha decay of tho Commonwenlith, tu thisgcountry, wo aro as earnostly its advocates 8 ever. We have tho coutage to show our yarnestness, and deiro thut it thall bo passed. Shrowd Amencang may ondoesvor to draw sho oral for tholr projudiced listoncrs that It must g‘% » good thiug foruy, sud a bad thing for them, or e&o we would not hanker afior it go, ‘Tho ouly mistakes vuck mou mako i, that tholr prop- ind oaltion I8 only hialf truo,, Itis go m‘-hma it will ba_good for, their donstitucntd, T | cltyhum Boat of tho Governmeht, the'prospdota of ‘the lnal ensormont of tho traaty are consid- | ored> good. -Wo rely, lLowover, upon- tho Weat to do' much in support of it whon bofore tho court of last rosott, in the Honate-Olinmbor of the Umted Stntos. It is groatly to the good of tho West that it should ba passed 3 and Cannda expeots tho West to soo tho point, and rajso It. Our State Dopartment, In ils elegant quarters on the Capitol Hill, ovorlooking the magniticent Chaudiore Falls,—iho fincat water-powor in the world;—was thrown into o tremor of oxcitemont, n'fow days sluco, by advices from Downlngstmnl to the offect that tho Mothor Country did not altogother approva of somo of tho proporad pro- visloue of thu Tronty. Dut the mcara Wwas but moantary, and ail tho * Conrt " are now bask- g in tho suntight and bathing In tho Wators of our sumner-reaorts, ANOTIER RECIPIOOITE-UNDERTARING, Tho Dominlon is very anxious toga into an- othor deparimont of this reciproocity businoss ; and tho gentlemon at the boad of ths promont Governmant ara sorely deslraus of soelng it ac- comphshod., 'They seo {n it the olovation of gno or two of their nuwmber to tho dlfmlty of Knight- hood.—to o place by tho side of tho acalawag Albert Grant, whom Gladstone dubbod Kul, Lt In tho 1ast twonty-four hours of bisrelen. Tho schomo ia nothing loes than lnducing Nowfound- 1and to ontor into n Reciprocity Troaty with tho Domnton of Caunda, by oue uf the provisions of whicl: sho will consant Lo be swallowod up by the Dominfon, recolving a izood’ dowry for life, and atmoot all the privilogos of solf-govornmont that sho now enjoys as a Colony of the Imperial Kingdom. The Proviuco of Newfoundland is tho ouly part of tho Britlsh Dominions in North Awmerlea thint hos ay yot reiused to accopt the maplo-toaf for hor onsign, fustead of the rose. ond lias persistontly declined to .clovate hersoll by beeoming a part of tho ** fourth maxitimo na- tlon in tho world.” ‘I'he proposition 18 clear, and, to all residonts in countrios whore Royalty can oxercise it Leuofi~ cent sway ju the distribution of ribbonsand name- haudies, thore will ba no question, whotever that thio Miulster who succoods fn bringiug into tho fold of the Dominion of Caunda tho last stray- ing momber of the erstwhilo flock ot Colonios, will rocelve tho mark of his sovereign's highest pleasure, Undor thioso cirgumstsuces, the pas- soge of tho act destvoyiug the telegraph- .monopoly, under the auspices of tho Cunfed- oration Ministors, has boen soized upon as a good_opportunity for pressing upon tho New- foundlnuders tho ndvautagos of union, I tlink it is perfoctly eulo to say that slow-golng, mothodical, Scotchy Canads will bave rounde: off her vosscssions by adding Newfoandland to hor empiro, long bofore the smart, enterprising, go-ahead, mx‘ulumvo United States. has suc- ceoded in fultllling bor * manifest destiny,” and done a soryico to humanity at largo by giv- ing to ber tertitory a symmetrical shape by tho avuexation of tho **ever-glorious fsle " of Cuba. MILITARY CAATS, Martial sounds hinve boen beard of late all over the Jand.. The fifo hias piped, the drum beat, tho bugle sounded. Thero bas beon heard the ro- vorboratiug roar of artillory, the “ping” of tho bullet, tho “rattle of filo-firing. Our cities Liavo seon the parades of banda of armed man, keadod by orgamzations discoursing the most approved martial musio, Raliroad-trains, steambonts, and wagou-ronds have boon filled with mon wearing the uniform of eoldiors of H, MM, Queen Victoris, Amotican visitors hnvo asked of civillans: " Expoot another Fenian invasion ?” “ No, sir.” #\What, thon, is tho cause_of ail this pomp and prido of glorious war? Iu It Vio's birthe Qay 'i‘lw Canuck, wha is the most loyal creature on tho faco of tho earth, will perbaps resent thia familiarity with the name of his beloved sover- cigny but, if o i8 ablo to smother his indigna~ tion, ho will inform tho traveler that tho Buir is caused by tho holding of the annusl camp, for battalion and brigado drill of the militia. Buch is the fact. Bir George Cartler, whilo he wan alivn, always bold the position of Chief of tho Military Department of the Dominion, and looked aa~ martisl—on horsoback—as only a little man can. e was 80 fond of hia soldiers that ho always had a magnificont army of thom— on paper. Tho present Government are do- tormined to change thiugs a hitlo. They are go- ing to have & lhoren‘hlr—uqulppnd aud traiued oorps on tho flold and o less numbor on paper. Among_the orders recontly issued from the Militia Dopartment is one reducing tho force to 80,000 men, and fixing rigid rules respacting tho emoluments of tho oftlcers. The nominal atrength of oach troop of cavalry, garrison-bat~ tory of artillery, company of riflog, iufantry, and engzincers, is ot to excocd 40 non-commissfoned ofiicors and men, with tho addition of iwo por company for atafl-ofiicors and band.” The Graud- Trunk Nailroad Brigado, organized for the pro- tection of thnt noble break-oown and smash-up rond, are notified that thoy will not receive any wy for their drill this year—aud thoy bavo not Cnuu drillod. THE PAY-ROLL. Thero have been twelve camps held, at which' about the full complemeont of men have attend- ed, To most persons, the attendanco ntsuch camps is & serious inconvenlence, althongh it is evorywhere acknowledged to be the best kind of iraining for the men, The fallnwingi- schedunlo of per diem pay will, I think, prove intercsting to the readois of Tux TRILUNK who arc inclined to the * military”: Licntenant-Colonel in command of s battalion, $1.87 Mofors, $3,00; Caplains, $2.83; Lioufonant, $1.58; Enulgn, Second Lisutenant, or Cornet, §1;28; Adju- fuut with Tapk of Licutensnt, $2.44; AdJutank with rank of Eusigo, §2.15; Poymaster, $3.05; Surgeon, 43,05; Amsfatant Burgeon, $2,435 Quattormaiter, 1,947 Sergeant-Major, $1,00; Quartermester Sergeant, 90c § Paymaster'a_ Clerk, 9003 Orderly-Room Olerk, 000} Hospital Borgeaut, ¥0c; Pay Sergeant, 80o; Borgoants, %003 Corporals, (e; Buglers sud Trumpeters, (o ZPrivales, 60c, There is no pay when absont from camp; and, oruel to eay, rogimental oflicors acting tempo- sarily in a highsr position than their regimontal ranli e only allowed the psy of thor acjual rank. ~ During the last eession of Parliamont, A COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION took up the consideration of the military affairs of the nation, aud dieclosed sovorsl cases of dishouesty, negligence, and incompetenoy. Tho morale of the mulitia.corps wos showed to be of tho lowest, and the valuo of the servico ahmo- Jutoly nil, Thera was, behind all the disclosures which camo out during the investigation of the Committeo, a strong belint, smounting almast 1o o cortaiuty, thal not onc-half of the wrouge aud frauds_perpotrated bod bocn disclosed. Adj't-Gen, Ross, now in charge of the forco, has, by the ordor roferred to sbove, an othor stops be has taken, given a rude ghaking-up to the forco, and onusod many & military fossil to wonder what in the deuco tha conntry was coming to; to utter that traditional compisint of old Shoulderstraps: *'The sorvice is going to the dovil, sir.” RAILWAY NOTES. Mr, Mackenzio’s Governmeut have formally an-~ nouuced that they intond to lose no timo in opon=- ing up communications with tho great Northwest Tairitory, - 'They proposo to locato at ouce a live from Thunder Bay to the small lakes, choosing for its texmimm‘ at first, that known ss ‘' Lac dos Milles Lacs.,” 7This is to belp pasunge over the present cumbeisome Dawson routo, snd will eventually form & lnk in the Fort Garry und Thunder Bdy saction of the Cay- ada Paciflo Hallway, Tho disastor that overtook the Northorn ' Paciflo Railway has interrupted tho afforts of Mr, Mackouzie, who bad detor~ mined to spare no_time in. commoncing operas tions on, and pushing to complation, the branch connecting Fort Garry and Pembina, The com~ pletion of these two branches wmfilm sll-yoar travel to the yet distant Colony of Red River,— that for the summeor-monthe, by wsy of tho ]Alkuu, :lvarfl, and railroad, being pocullarly lensant. . : ¥ A chiango of gaugo from tho otd Canadinn 5 foot 6 iucuos to the Americau 4 fest 814 inohes has boen made over tho ontiye line of tho Mid- 1snd Railway, from Port thu to Orilus, and fiom Port Iopo to Lalkefiol The Company Lave obtained new locomotives and rolling-atock, aud the Midiand ts now onoof the hubnqulppm.l z0ady iu Cauado. TIE BOCTAY EVIT, ‘Who shall say that the'Cansdian peoplo are not moral ? And who uball suy that tho bright- et and Imwn of Qanadiaus ard ot tho inhab- itauts of this city in the Ottawa Valloy? You may urfa that it is jmpossible; that tho Domin- fon Parlinment npsombles here, three, four, or six mounths, every soar; aud that, where legis- latars are, thero pucity of Lfe canunot be, b you wonld make s mistake, Wa are good horo, and wo rathor prido ourselves upou it. Do you ask for tho latest Hllustration? I will give S{ to ou, 2 A fow nights ago, a mob of young men assom- Dledin frous of o houeo on Colohy stroof thub nad tbufix}pumtion of beinga * fanoy house," aud stonos ‘dud rovolvers were flred, and volcea oried out, “ (et thoo hionco from out thischoson land." And the poor, misorablo creatures, frightonod aud shamed, gathored up thelr ward- robes, and slunk off ju the darknoss of tho njght, Aathoy cropt away, the erowd broke into tho promigos, & fow rags were quickly ig- nited, and, in losy than palt un lour, *the bulld- Ing was razod to the ground] ‘Tho multitude thon weut home, said its prayers, and rotired to {ts virtuous couoh, A similar eceno happened a night or two attorwards, Ta-day tha city i oloar of theao soclal vormin, I not thut sotting 10 world au oxample? OaNADLNEIS, . | WISCONSIN. The Apm;onching Political 0nnvas§:;86i|fi- tor Carpontor and His Chances of Re-Eolection, Candidates and Prospeots in the Vafi- ous _Bnngrnsslqngl Districts. Ex-Gov, Fairchitd, as- a, Candidato for tho Prestdoncys Will the Pottor fiuilro_ad i’.fin; Be Re- ponled Next Wintor ? Corvesporidence of The Chicano Tibuna, . .. . « . Osmxosi, Wis,, July 30, 1874, Tolitical matiers in this part of tho Stato have Just commonced Lo get iutorosting, and in a fow waeks tho campaign of 1874 will bo iuaugurate Just nopw politielans Aud peaplo gonarally s considorably “atsoa’ on.poiltical queations, and party-imoa appenr £3 bo pretty well broken down. Tho rosnlt of tho clection {n Wisoonsin lnst Novombor was 80 unoxpeatod and ao anoma- lous in this history of political - parifes that the good, straight-haired people of the Badger Stata ‘hiva not yat beon thoroughly awakaned from the condition of indiference causod by that event. The quostions which bave horetofors divided political partics, Liocal, Btalo, and National, ap- pear to have utterly faded out, aud, if two men cuonce to $alk of .polilical matters nowa- days, thoy flnd 1t difficult to dlsagres and quarrel 08 cheerfully s in former timoa. Whea the popular haliof is epitomized in a general disboliof in the honosty and. intog~ rity of our leadiug politiciaus, and- a universal disrogard of old-timo party-miogans and plat- forms, thora can be but Hittlo to divide the honoat men of tho Stato at large. towever, tho com« ing clection will, of courso, devolop & certain smouunt of party-eloquonce; ana the emall-fry politicias, who smoll the fat things in prospect, will probably stir up about tho usual dogreo of part-yfooling and partisan acrimony, Coming, #8 it does, midway bebweon two Presldential campaigns, with no gencral or nationsl guestion st atako, the elcction of 1874 would scem to the ordinary obsorvor to posscss littlo importsnce, sud its rosult to be & mattor of littlo interest. But the politiclans beliove that between pow and eloction day ‘in November a to be setiled the questlon of political supremacy. in. Wisconsin, for tho n oxt dozen years at least, The fate of two or threo distinguished Wisconsin politicians i8 to bo decided, and the success or failure of the Potter Railrond Iaw will be announced by an emphatia oxpression of the people. BENATOR QARPENTER, 5 The noxt Legislatura will chooso a Benator in place of Matt H. Carpenter. Tho Assembly has 100 membors, all of whom are to be elected this fall; but, in the Senats, which g 83 members, thoso from tho even-numbered diatriots hold over until the election of 1876, Thoy are s follows : Jolin 3, Read, K Reform;; Tk Dicoiundon onros, Republicans. Joln Dlack, Milwsukes, Rieforms - T, D, Weeks, Walworth, Republican Johu A, Rive, Waukeahs, Reform H. T. Moore, Groan, I g J. B, Quimby, Ssuk, lug;ll-\flnn J. C, Holloway, Grant, Republican 'W. H, Hiner, Fond du Lag, Republican Josoph Wagner, Fond du Lag form TReinbard Schlocting, Calimet, Reform; H, D, Barron, Polk, Republican 3. E, Davis, Dane, lteform Guarge Krouskop, Richland, Reforms H, P Graham, Esu Olaire, Heform R, 0. Field, Trempeauloat, Ropublican, Relormers, 9; Republicans, 1. 0! course, iha elcoting & Senator will give the legislative nominationa peculiar importauce, and already tho friends and enomios of Mr, Carpen~ tor, or “Matt" as ho is bolter known, Lave commenced woik. It will bo seen by the fore- goivg list that tho Beformors have & majority of two in the hold-over members, whila it is well known that ono or two, if not more, of tho Re- publicans who bold over aro not friondly to Mr. Carpenter. But *Matt" baa matorial which he can uso ju this compaign, and Lo proposes to usait. Ilo hna s united strongtb of the Post- masters, Intornal Revenuo oflicors, Mail-Agents, sud Federal offico-hioldors gonorally, They are all at wark. Hoowns tho Milwaukes Sentinel, which anpounced, in its fliab issuo aftor *Alaty” bought it, that tho editor ** would endoavor in all things to make lus opinions ooincide with thoso of men of prominonce in tho Ropublican arty.” But, besldos all this, ** Matt ™ 1s popu- ar, " Thoro 18 wo use in donying it. Ho has done enough alresdy to kill, politically, any ordinary man, ‘¢ Mats " ivlike a spoilt’ child, Ho can do almost anything thst ho onqht not to, snd yet bis coustituonts vill forgive hiw, and, in fact, they rathor soom!lo Jikait. What thoy call ¥ porsonal magnelism ¥ secma o bo + Matt's * forte. 1lis handsome apposrance, roady tongue, ossy ard persunsive langusge, carry with them the stongest kind of an argu- ment ; and, whatever may be tha comploxion of the next Legislaturs, ** Matt’s " chances for re- olection appear to bogood. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES. In the First District, Charlos G. Willlams, of Janesvitle, the preseat momber, will be renomi- nted by the Repuplicans, In 1872 Lo Lind & majority of 6,286 gfer I. C. Bloau; so that hig return thin fall is Plorably cortain, Intho Becond District, Gerry W. Harleton, who was chosen ja 1872 by 18,408 to 11,784 for Goorgo B. Smith, wants a ronominstion at the Lands of the Eepublicans, L. B, Caswoll, of Jeffergon, is a, strong candidate sgainst bim, T'he aistrict is slose, and the Roformors will un- doubtedly suciced in olecting Gon, Goorgo B, Bmith, of Madison, or A, G, Cook, of Columbus, unloes somo new dovolopmehts arlao. J. Allen Durber, of Grant, bas publicly and firmly declined a renomiuation i the Third Dis- triot. Judge Darbor is o rospactabld old gentla- man, of good ability, and it is questionallo whetlior s better man will bo elocted in his placo., Ui district in 1872 gavo a. Republican ‘majority of 8,805, Georgo O. Hazloton, of Lo cobel; V. W. Fiold, of the sama placo, now Boce rotary of the State Agricultural Eoulnlt{: John 0. Clurk, of Laucaster; ex-Senator I, 8. Ma- goou, of Darlington ; Dr. J. 11, Vivian, of Min- eral Point; J. H, Miner, of Richland; and Capt, Q. B. Thomas, of Prairia du Cbion, sro all aaid to bavo on eys on Judge Barbor's shoow, Hazle- ton cume within a fow votes of the nomination in 1870, aud has Leen a stauding caudidate for soveral years, Ha s a brothor of Gerry Hazle- ton, from the SBecond District ; in awmbitious, and hos some Lrains. > Alogander Mitohell, of Milwaukes, who has ably ropresentod the Foucth District for tho Yut four yesrs, Liss declined a renomination, ¢ ia bolioved, however,.thal he will acospt it nominated. His Domocratio frionds would pre- fer to keop lnm in his prosont position rathor than to have bim onter tho conteat for the Sonatorship uoxt wintor, in cage the Reformers carry tho Logiglaturo. Charles A, Eldrodgs, of Fond du Lao, has beon » Mombor of Cougress for twelvo con- nocutive yesrs, having boen clacted as a straigut- out-and-out Demoorat in 1802, A man ot only Iair ability, v bas ratained tho respoct of men of all paitics, and woll ropresanted hia people dutjug * that torm, Ho will eook ronom. ination, and, I think, will be successful, althoughi thoro will te some DLitter nppollunn. Eldrodge voted for tha “salary-grab,' and took his shure of iy withous winciug ; and this_will work against him, Gen,. E, 8, Bragg, of Fond du Lao, & Democrat {n the old tunes, sud n fighting one at that, would hlio Eidredge’s placs, and he has many friends who would liko to seo him get it; but Eldrodge 5 in, and will try to siuy thero, In the Bixth District, matters are decidodly un- sattlod, Philetus Bawyer, of this city, who bag ropresontod the distriot pluce 1804, doclines & ronomination, Bawgor has made a good mem- bor, rtanding smong the strongost mon in the House for ablllly %o oarry hls pointy, and los dono “a good work for Lis dstrict, s abrolutely declines to have sny- thing to do with the hualnoes any more, and the politicians arolu a stow, 'Tho” district basa & small Republican majority, and, if Bawyor doos not accept & renomination, it i thought that s Roformar will bo alcctod. In thst onse, it is tol- orably sure that oltor Gabs Bouck, of this cltfi. Speakor of tho lust Axuumhlil; Col,_0. D, Rob- inson, of Greon Bay; or M. I'. Lindsley, of Qreon Bay, will scoure the nomination. fiow, Bouok, during his loglelativeexperionco at Madi- won last winter, mansged to tresd on tho corus of = large numlor of pagple and the reault is, that mauy of thess aggrlev {udividuals are roady to apend their bottom dol- lar to boat him if ho dures to sccept & homins ilon, Whon Lis advecaoy of the Fotter Lislirosd "Llndala}’ wan a candldato againet Sawyerio poopls of, neatly all the towme and villages in the disttict, 'Col, Robinson, editor of the Graon Bay Adyuoale, is a dignified and conrtoous gentloman, and ono who fs generally likid by all,~oxcopt Bouck. Douok hates Lhim worse than ko does 11, L, Palmer, and Robinaon does not oxpond nny uscloss love on Douck. Either would rather son Sawyor olected than the oller. '1872. 1o s n prominont ofdor in tho Odd Fol- lo;,va' Drgnmn{i‘on, and was in tho State Sonate ' for Lwo years, _On the Ropublicau sido, in cosa Bawyor doos not accept & renominatlon, tho can- didates avo . L, Browno, of Waunpaca : A, M, Kimbgll, of Pimo iver ; Goorge 1. Myors, of Applaton ; J, 8, Curtis, of Groon Day; Charles l!r. lllvptl" , of Blswano ; and Georgo D. Warlng, of Berlin, o : + Jorty " M, Ruek, in_the .Baventh District, which 1o has roprosonted slnce 1870, will b‘u‘! T8~ nomlunted, sud probably elecied. * Jerry " ia s woad _follow, obliging to and careful “of Lis 7fonds, and a protty good spocimon of tho aver- ago * countty-momber," Dr. A, 8, MoDIll, tho momber from tho Lighth Disttlot, who, in 1872, was unexpectedly ‘tranaforred from tho Buperintondoncy of tho Aadison Inssno Hospital to the congenial Atmos- phere of Washingson, will also be rouomiuatad ‘without opposition. ¢ WASTINUNK, Ex-Goy, Washburu will roturn in about two months from Europe, whoro e has Leon for the ast thras wonthe, The Govornar will take & hand {n tho nnmpn(En thiin fall, and, In cago tho Topublionns carcy tha’ Logisisture, will contest ‘the flala for tho Sonatorabip with Afatt Carpon- tor, The Govornor is one of the faw solid mon whom overybody pitied in tho political ravolu- tion of laat fall, . FAMOIILD, Bomo of his frlends aro confldent that ex-Gov. Fairchild will be s candidate for Presidont in 1876, and they base thoir beliof upon theso con- eldorntionn : Goy. Fairchild is mow United SBtaton Consul at Livorpool, and bas boon out of this country during the discussion of the numor- ous gmrplmu questions which Lavo dous go much for tho disintegration of political parties. Hia record an a soldior is oxcellont, and ho has sufliciont natural ability and political prominence to mako him & map of some influonco, and not too much. It now looke probabla thot a sorlous offort wiil bo mado to biing Lim prominontly be- foro the public ss & Presidontial candidate next CAL. y TIE POTTER LAW, An effort will be made in the next Legiainturo to ropeal the Potter Rallroad law; aud, judgiog from the popular feellng in various parts of the Htate at tho prosont time, 1 betiove it will bo done with bus little opposition, Tho law was passed a8 thareault of a bittor fight, last wintor, between the Bopublican Benate and ‘the Domooratio As- somblv. The Bopato, in trying to out-Herod Horod, drew up a railroad bill so violont in ita mossures of roformn that the Tepublicana did not beliave it conld pass; but tho. zealous Beformera rushed it through; snd now both aro hoortilyslck of it. Its workinga hiavo resulted in serious inconveniovce to all partlesintereuted, and no one can be said to be beusfited by it. Its ropeal is lnudlL called for by shippers of lumber in tbia city, by the flouring-mill mon at Neanah and Appleton, by all olasses of business- men at Fond du Lac aod in nearly all of tho Iarger towns and villages. Faimers are !n{nm! by ita operations, sa it has stagnated businoss and produosd » goneral uncasiness in all kinds of trado, . O.N. 1. e ] THE ‘GRASSHOPPERS, They Arc Making Sad Mavec with - tho Crops in Kausas. Spectal Dusvatch ta The Clicaao Tribtne Leavenwontn, Kan,, Aug. 1.—Tbe grasshop- pers in Westorn Kanaas aro doing immonee dam- age to tho crops. Letters from Cloud County &8y nino-tonths of the cornin that fegion has been deslroyed. Tho ownorof & G00-acra fleld writea thut they destroyod more of his corn n twenty-four hours after descending than 5,000 cattle could in the same length of time. The territory Fovured by tho peats is over 100 miles in width, extending from the Nebraekalne on the north to tho Arkaneas River on iho south. Concordia, in Cloud County, 18 pear the castorn limit of the swarm. Thoy seemto be coming from tho northwes! and’ tearing south, Reports ostimating great Joea to the corn and fruit have beon roccived from fifteen countics. In many localitioa much suffering in prodicted. The Grasshopper Scourge in Yowa. Special Dispatch to The Chicago T'ribune. . Des Momnxs, Is., Aug. 1. —The grasshoppors have coms and gono, Tho air was filled with them to-dsy. They flew high, and ina south- easterly direction. * They wers scon by millions. They havo been plenty in the gardons for sov aral days, but theso had departed before. Frowm-ths Desfoines Renlster, Movea by the absolute want of tho peopls in the grasshopper portion of Kosauth and ottor gountiea in that region, the Algona Republican has been for some time advocating that an ex« tia gagsion of the Legislature ba called to pro- vide rolief, The suxgesation gained considerablo atrongtl in that locality, and Gov. Carpentor, it noomy, WAy advised with on the question, For, in tho Inat igsuo of the R?ml:llmn we flad & re« pork of tha procecdings of & public mooting, at which the following lotter from the Governor was read ¢ EXXOUTIVE DEPANTMENT, Dzs Moinzs, Suly 20, 1884, Col. R, 7. Spencer, Aigona, Ja : Bix DiAR S1x: Upon my return, after fow daya neceasary absonce from the Capitol, I seizo the first opportunity to write to you in answer to your lotter of recent dato, I, of coures, have no meais at my dispossl to aid the deatitute in your county sny moro than wuch dooation as I will gladl; 1 lave boen trying to ‘think and comprebonaive way which the doatituto in_your county vo suffered {he like calamity, The grasshopper scourge ia of course temporary and may never b a repeated atler thla ypar, and it sooma to ma If the county authorities would take hold of the ‘matlar, and look up the abaclutely necdy and do some- thing toward aupplying thelr imunadiats’ necessitiss in auch that this, I may meko as a citizen, of some Batisfacto way as may séem proper and poas! n additfon to such private contribution: e obtained from generous-hearted people, will exrry them through ot} anothor barvest. I should not hesitate, if the counties ahould involve themaclves fo some extent, in doing what secms $0 Lo domanded by humanity, tdask the nozt Leglulatars, aud to upon it, 10 devise nomo method in & measure o in- demnify the counties, I will sndeavor to visit your county and others which have sufforsd with you, but Tcanuot do a0 mmadiately, In the meantime plesss suggeat the theary of this lotter to some of your citi- zens, and 1ot mo know what they Ibink, Yours, very truly, 0. O, OaBPENTAR, The Republican says that, acting on _tha sug- gostion of the Governor,, the meeting declded to pus the matter in tho Lauds of a gonoral county committee of five, they to request the co-opera- tlon of a committce from each civil township, euch committes to be appointed by the people of the saveral townships. Miscellnneouse Bypeciat Dispatch . Br. Pavr, Aug. 1, 'ho grasshoppers have crossed the esots iuto tha southoern part of LeSuour County, where thoy are killlug the cora by eating oft the silk and of tho cob, snd also taking leaves from fruit and other tra SHORT HORNS, Close of the Scrics of Grent Sales in Kontucky. Buecial Digvatoh to Ths Chicgao Tridune, Pante, Kr, Aug. 1.—With tho salo of the Budduth herd, also the herd of Mr, Alexander, of Washington Qourt House, closed the groat gerien of Kontucky males. Mr. Budduth's hera gold for about ©7,000, and the vory small, but cholos hord of Mr. Alexandor's, sold for abont £8,600, Bixty dollars was the highest prive of the day. ost of Mr. James Sudduth's hord were Dbought by Kentucky _broed ere, while tho entirs bhord ' of - Mr, Aloxandor was sold to thres mon, viz.: Mesars. Deatty, Warnook, aud Oharles, of Codar Rapids. The total number of animals sold is about 700 liead, aud have realised upward of $25,000, with w fow piivato sales included. The principal larivnlu uilo was Hose of Sharon Bull, sold by Waruock & MoQiblon to Cyrue Joues, of Ban Joss, Oal,, st €2,800, Tho correspandent of Tre Tainynx dosiros to thank the shoré-horna broodors of Keutuoky for lindnesa recoived at their hands while gather- iug information of thoso uales, —_— ‘Che Insane Asylumat Elgin. Fyoni the Galena (Iil,) Industriat Press, The necessary appropristion for the Insane Asylum at Elgin was bungled, so that while tho now wing Is complated sud furnished &t Btate oxponsa for the aocommodation of 460 additional patients, it must remain unocoupled for want of the funde necossary to meot the daily oxpendi- tures for those Y-Hnulu. Dr, Fowlor, who wont to Elglu with Henry Lawrenoco, loarnod from Dr, Kilborn that applications woro being made almost daily for tho adminsion of new patlonts, which might be woll ssccommodated but for the faot that no money to pay for the food nnd oaro of suoh_additionn] B\lunm was appeopriated, Ho thet number now kopt at bome or i county-houses without the: benefits which might acorue from the ukilltul troatmout and othor advautsgos to be had ouly in the Asylum Tnw would make him dooldadly obnoxions to ths | 'preased the gonvictions ot s largs body of voters ;wlio hiavo bhithorto sated with thio Ropublican ILLINOIS * POLITIC! "The Meeting of fho Democratic Stato Commitec, 1 Comments of the.Press upon Its I T 'y o Actiones o ey 0t WMo (ar i o - "o Fyom the New York Tribune {Independent), **BITONT, SHARP, AND DLOIBIVE.” No doubt ex-Gov. Palmor, of Illinols, ex~_ party, in the searching oriticlama of the manage- mont of that party contairied in s lottor to the Bocrotary of the Illinols Democratio Btate Com- mittes, which was pubtished yostorday. Thoy may not a1l have reached his “cotiolualon that tho party “ will nevor again epbmit to tho country an honost, frauk, and woll-dofincd platform of prinolples.” Thera Is wtill a lingering hope in . tho minds of many that tho party which bad for tho flrat yonrs of ‘it "history !sich au horiorahle ‘rocord” will shiske {taelt frop from tha corrupt mén who control it, and agaln sdeert itselt grandly for tho right. In this hopo partly, and partly through fonr that any other party would adminieter af- faira more rocklessly and dishonestly. still, thoy liavo held on in » half-hesrted” and thoroughty disgusted way to thelr old politionl ‘sssociations. Gov, Palmor himself Las olupg to the organiza- tion 8o long a8 there soomed to him to be tho esbadow of & Liopo for what I8 calted ‘*rofornung it from tho inside,” o is & strong, experienced, Lionost, able map, and his abandonment’ of -thiat. hope and his vigorous: devunciation of the. sing and ehoricomings of tho party in power, caunob failto havo & posttive effect upon large numbors in tho party whoas sontiments colucide with his, 1t is'undoubtedly true tiat oveiything: like siatesmanship s by 'a sort’ of tacit agreomont” among the leaders understood to be tiou-cssen- tia), and {t 18 In-just tbis" fabby condition of politica that Gov. Palmor recognizes one of the difficulties of the situntion. With nothing posi- tive in the policy of the party in power, thore-is grent difficulty m finting & basis upon which all who are opposod to it oan co-oporate. Yot Gov. Palmer indicaten in a fow sentonces & vory dis- tinct and substantial basis of opposition, snd the Committce to whom the letter was ad- drossed very wisely -adopted his suggos- tions .in proparing. tholr. call . for » Btato "Convention, The ‘topics “on which an orpoamon arty is called upon to announce opinlons and formulate a policy are’ not mauy or gomplicated. - Of theso, obviovsly the Soan- cinl question ja chiot, snd the simplest phaso of it, to-wit, resumytion, tho most importaut, In Gov. Palmer's judgemnt thorois but one way to accomplish the end desired by the upporents of the prosont mo.policy poliey of the patty in powor, aud that is **togo before the couutry upon a daclaration of principles that shoall be, frank, unevasive, and true, and which shall by its pialnnoss carry the proof with which it is presented.” Buch a'platform in these ' days of platform platitudes, of poiuting with prids to the rocord of tho past, of meaningless rhstoric and ambiguous statements, of windluosa aud gush, it must bo confémsed, would be . somewhat re- freshing. The Illinofs Demooratic. Blate Com- mitte had the'wit to sco this, and have soundod thio key-noto of it in thelr call, A ‘Whether the Convontion, when it assembles, will be a8 wiso aa tho Committeo, is quite another question. In their announcoment of the Eurpoueu to bs promoted by tho Convention, tho Committoe give no uncortain sound. Espa- clally distinct and emphatio is s utteranco in favor of tho *‘ restoration of gold and silvor ag the Lasis of the currency of the country, the specdy rosumpsion of apecio pavmout, aud the payment of all national hv obteducsa fn the money recognized by tho civilized world,” Thero is no ‘jivglo of useless worda in this statoment, nor aunything that can be misconstruol or _misunderstood. Unlike the emply stuff on this pubject which many of the political eouventions of- the = West have put in the shape of solemn resolves, it makes an iasue clean out, distinct; plain. There s no mistaking it. With regard to tho sccond roposition, **Free Commorce,” wo still hold to he bolief that tho issuo iy not at preseat prac- tical, and that in'the evidont fmpossibility of drawing party linea throughout the coantry upon the issue of Froe Trado, the poliocy adoptod at Ciociunst), relegating the whole question to tho paopleof the Congressional Districts, was emi- nently wiso. 1t was the only honest or consiat~ ont uttoranco any national” parly has made on the nubject for yoars. Tho ethor purpose em- biaced * in the ' call, tho restriction of Govornment to the legitimato domain .of political power, opposition to lsud-granis, aud protection from chartered monopolies, are well stated. The call is one which will command respoct, and the Convention, it it follows the Lino of polisy indicated by the Committeo, adopting such ».platforn as Gov. Palmer recoms mends, embedying a . declaration of pringiples frank, unovasive, and true, will accomnlish ona good purposo st least in cloaring the’ politicat atmospliere of a great deal . of foggincss mnd foulnera. And yet we havo to remember after all that thore be platforms and plstforms, sud that wo have had a great multitude of thom, aud that partics which uso them to get into pormer have very often kicked thom down aftor- ward, The great thing gainod in such a plat- form as the oné suggested by thie Iilinois Domo- orats in that it i8 short, abarp, and doclsive, and and thoroe-{s no fog in it. ‘' PRER TRADE, HARD MONEY, AND NOME 'RULE." From the dew York World (Demacratic), The Domocratic Btato Committeo of Tllinols have rondered memorablo service to tho Domo- cratio party of the United States, Following Dard upop the Indisna Convention, they ropudi= ata its Mortonism, and, like the Democracy of Now York one year ago, thoy summon to a Btate Convention Democrats, Liborals, and sll othor opponents of the Ropub'llcm ‘party who desird to pl:nmnn thio following purposes, ~ [Hers follows the cal : This is the Frea Trado, Huord Money, Home Rule platform of tha World to the last syllable, It ia the platform vrhich, adopted at Utica lnst 1all, iuduced New ‘fork to commit her destinion to Democratio statesmanship. Alr, McCormick, 3Mr, Hesing, Mr. Raster, Gov, Palmer, and their associates have percoived clearly that Democratio principles will gather to~ gothor the tiue Demactata af thaie State. That nothing but - Domocratis principles will Enum' thom togethor the exporicnce ot tho past ought to aufica us all for tuohin&. +the Demooracy of Iilinols will follow thoir wiso guidanoe, and, wo Liave notthe shightest doubt, will iudorse their call and con- form thoir platform iu August to its simple plalu statoment of time-honored Democratic principles applied to the cointry's presont and niost pressing noedn, We predicl now that in- dorsenent by the Convention; we predict now ils approval by the people of fllinois in Novém- Uer, Mark the words : for the Demacratio par- ty has only to be atterly and uncompromisingl Domooratic to swesp the Western Sintes wfig victory after ' victory. Tet Mortonism be stamped out 3 1ot Froe Trade, Hard Money, and Homo Ruls be lifted up - for a standord, and the trinmph of Domocrata 8 asaured in tho triumph of a true Domocraoy. . Hereafier, then, the New York and Illinois Domoorata stand shouldor and shoulder upon tho same political platform. TFree T'rads, Hard lonev, and Home Rule won the Empire Blate to the Democracy last November. This fall they will carry & Democratic Governor to powor af Albavy, and put a Democratic statosman in the place of Fenton in the United Ktaton Benate. A eimilar triumph awaits the Demooracy of Illi- nols, and the days of tho longor-lived Logan and Oglasby too aro numberad, : '‘he foromost Stato of tho Enst, the great Rtate of the Wost, have both learned tho opon mocret of Democratio vigtory—In Democratio principlos, Mipor States will uob ‘be slow to profit by tholr shinlag examrlo, 44 P AULE PANTY.” Fyom the St, Louis Democrat ( Republican), Democracy, as expounded by tho Illinols Com. mittes, 1s not the same as tho Demooraoy which will meet at Jofforson City in August. It lu, in {aot, ® new party, which®finda the Déimooratis name and ‘organization fa thal Btate lying around vaoant and unocoupled, and procoeds to take possgosion, Ior the mew parly doos not appaal to tho eloments ‘which formerly congti- tuted the bulk of tho Democratio party in I1lli- nofs, That parcy believed in repudiation, and was crazy for Pendloton in 188, This now concern admits only yotors # who desire to pro. moto payment of uli national indebtodness in monsy recognized by tho avilized world," 1t is a bar&lacnflnnd to oall tha new affair a Demo- cratio party ; - whatover ita othor vicoa or virtups oy bo, it could ba indictod and convieted for stealing lta nameo. « . . To oall this & Demooratio parly ina oheat, got Demooratio votos by uslug tho na abandoned organization of the Demooratla Tor the new concoern 8 simply polit.oal g larceny. Ilaving stolon_cortain excellent Ropublican priveiplos and » Demooratio organization, this product of crossod breods ought to be oallod he mule party.” It bravs svowal of noom- Pmml-iuu hontllity to ropudiation, and to svery, orm of financial rascality, ‘lflmua:h borrowed from tha Republican piatform adopted at ého Chieago Convention of 1888,. will a1l to draw into a protessodty Domocratio orgauization e~ ublican votora, “ And its_call, fhuuxh iasued )y & Domooratio Btato Committoo, “in_pur- suRnUa of tho powor vostod {n it by tho Demo-' cratio Btato Uonvontion,” will fall to draw out of tho Indopendent movomont . cither thoso Domoorals whio know that Domocracy monns dige Joyalty and ropudlation, or thoso temperanco mon who hooted at tho apesch of Mr. Hesing in It there . was possiblo s auuhfi nf tho auccosr of thoiRopublican ticket in Ifingls, timt Torwatd wih surtaa i oo can, nb look i 0 & complol an upphnluan’lmnnflgunbly'm flmll? _vlatn'ry orer, ‘! MADNESS OR Intoor.” . . - From the Cincinnaté Euquirer (Inflation Demosrabi Alittlo company of usurpers, calling tho: solvos a Stato ** Domporatio.” Central Committeo of [linols, mot at thd 8horman Honsg, in Chlons o, ostordhy, and old ymat they conid to broak up tho Domoaiatio party in that Btate, . ,: . || ' .1t was tho most. un-Domouratio: mes! that haa boen hold in tho Woat einco the moercury be. gantorisslnat epriog, . « - 'Mlowmon ofmonoy | who havo failod witn the peoplo iavo controlle, 18 committoo. The votors invited under this ad- dross aro fow in Illnow, It .fs mssorted in that Btato that th rumers outnumbor -both the old - Emiu‘by- rgo majority. “But the farmem | avo resolvod, in conveatlon, foran expansion | of tho. curronoy. . Tho Ropublioan iparty . has' ruled Itliwols for s dozen yoars, and the Hopub- ‘licau party han passod resolutions fayoring an increaso of tho ourrency., ‘The Domoomtio Hiate” Contral Committos Lias baon dnduced by Lo op- ponents of tho Demporatio parky to-array iteelf - againat the Ropublicans and tho Grangors, un- losa 1t can evedp out Into common Honse through ita loosenoss of -phrasoology. [This s eithor u‘mflnnna or 1diooy, of o mixture of both, . . . This Qontral Comwitice hns no conssituonoy— and 1o sonso, ‘£ AN DNCOMMONLY GOOD YLATIORM, " From the St. louis Republican (independent). In makivg this call tho [Iliinols Domocratio Btate] Commities bave mssumod tho powerio’ make a platform, too,—an exorsise of muthority not entiroly justiiablo, for it ts the . province o conveontioun, not that of committeos, to draft Slnuorms. With this criticism mado, wa do tho lommittes the justico to say that its platform i an uugommonly goed one,—possossing & com- ‘)lctuoau aund directnoss whiok so many of the \Vostorn platforms of this year are deficiout in, ‘Tuo domand for * tho restoration of \gold and silvoras a busis of tho ourroucy of tho couutry " stands in etriking contrast with tho vague dec- larations of the Ropublicans of tho samo Btate, and will bo acceptod as o rallying-point for all poreons in the Wost who are in’ favor of a ro- sumption of specio poyment. BGov. Palmor writes o tho Committoo a'letter, which {s a valuable appoudage ito its platform, We judge from thus that Gov. Palmer is.no long- or & Bepublican ; he ouposes ita.pollcy onalmost oyory important point, and has made up hismind to act with the Democracy in tho present cam- paign, ob leaAk. 1 , . If ‘tho Convontion callod to moat on tho 26th of August can man- ago, oither by a renomination of tho Anti-Monop- oly candidatos or somo otuer concilistory moas- ure, to appropriato the strougth of that move- ment, the Domocracy will have & veryfair.chance of carrying tho Slato, and leaviog Senators Logan aud Oglesby without ‘s Ropublican “con- llltumlmy. ¥ E ** PROAD, LIUERAL SPIRIT." From the Milicatkes Newa (Denocratic), Theso principlos [those euunciated by the Ili- nois Deinogratic Btate Committeo] aro round, unfoss by ** fres commerce" Ismoant absolute frea trade,—the abandoumnent of Custom-Housos, md the collection of rovente by diroct tazation, . . o i tha Stave wyatral Committea ‘of Ilinols mean durcct taxathwi to ** freo .commarco," wo take isauo with thwm at once: If they moan a tariff for rovenue ¢nly, then 'wo boaitl]y indorse their viewa, Tbis 1n Jio only smbiguous point in their proposed basis of political dootrino, The State Conventfon that meets pursuant to the call must oxprosa itsolf olearly on this.point. , . . ‘leo, with the reservation just discussed, wo heartily indorad tho exprossed” phrposes of the Comihittes, we must say that wo would Jiko to oo tho Iilinoia Convention adopt, in ita brevity, compactnoss, complatonoss, comprohonsiveness, a platform put forth a fow daya dince in a Chica- g0 German paper, which réads os followsi' - “1, Hard monoy, sans phrase; . 3, A tariff for rovenuo only; - ' 43, Payment of national debta fn bonest money; 444, Individual Uborty.", The broad, liboral spirit of tho Tlinois Demo- cratia Blato Contral Committes cannot be suf- ficioutly praised, .1t .showed no dispasition, no wish, to roevive Bourbonism, I elmyl{ I:rommau to wield.~ tho" organization - whic! t ropresonta as & means and nuclens for the for- mation of & new purty that sball embraco all honost mon of whatever paat political sfilliations, ‘This moyement in Illinois promises to be in real harmony with the Heform party of Wiscousin, *'IT JENAINS TO NE BEEN.” . From the Now York Times (Bepublican), “yao Domogratg of 1llinois aro saved tho tron- ple of_golting up = platform for the approaching camphign by the foresight of tho Btate Crinmit- toe, which, in colling a” Conventlon for i. . 2ith of Auguat, lays down the priuciplos of the party in'advance.” On the whole, the Committco sy dono quite as well ag the Conyention conld hava done, and oven bolter, which is probably tho rea- son why the Committee fook the matter In band, The platfoim is fot hard maney, but we doubt if tho party is, and it romaing 10 ba seen how the Convontion, which will.bs & muoh moro ropre~ sontative body than the,Committea is, will accept these ready-mndo profossions. " NEW AND APPARENTLY-HONEST DEPARTORE." Krom the New York Kvening Post (Rewublican). The * Domacrata ™ of Iilinois seom to stand alono among ail tho Btate organizations in the West which assume that name, in proclaiming n creod boating harmonious xolation to democratio pfinclglr.- t {a short and good. . i ‘Wa bave proviously shown that the Ropubli- cans aud so-called ¥ farmora” of Iilinois, in their public declarations, Lavo fallen far short of 'the demands of the time. Che new patty way couspicuously at fault, sud disappointed & large number of Republicans and Domoorats who wora tired of tho old parties aud hoped for some positiva - roform n tho new. one. Binco its former surrender to the demagoguos tho “Independont men” have boon looluug for sn organization that shall dosorve their sup- port. 1t in llinoia the Demooratic party, which has go disastrouely blundored almosf ev- erywhore elge, sbnl) accopt in_earnest tuo plat- form of its State Committee, it will como to their rescue, Alr, A. G, Hesing and Mr, Hermann Raster aro mentioned a3 declaring an intention to support tho Domocratio ticket upon this plat- form. Thesa gentlemen aro among the foromost Gormans jn the West, and hitherto have dooe much- to socure to' the Republican party tho Gormpn-voto. uan{ of tho Demoorats who were disponed to bresk old ties and form a now froe- trade and bard-money party will also, doubtices, abandon any such intention and lnm&ort cordial- ]fl this new sud apparoutly honsst doparture of the old arganization. *Whothor thoTllinols Dom- ocrata can catty the Stato against tho two other Dartios i doidbttul ; but it they honestly adopt and M)hf}'fl to, the’ S;h;qlp;uu_ of this plutform thoy will desorvo to do so. ¢ A FONMIDABLE YLEMENT OF OFPOSITION.” Fyom the Pittsbury Delegrapk (Republican), Woars slways williag to recogulze political movemonts that seem to us to carry weight with thom, no mattor whoroe they may orgivate, or with whom. Tn this.way only can & pui:lln Journal fulfill its duty, InTllingis tho Republi- cans iave: hold 2 Linlf-and-half Convention de- voted to plastering up John A, Logan, snd tak- ing v decleive stand on the queatious of tho dny. It wasa mero movement of the politienl ‘mansgors, and roprosonted nothing beyoud that. Thoy tried to pave tho way botwoon an irre- doomablo currenoy and speofo paymonts. Al swd; the party must turn its face in one direc- tion or the other. This was followed or precod- ©d by some Lalf dozon conventions, ropresent- inF peculiar idean, principles, and ‘vupln' In all thero was nothing satlstactory, Why? Thoy failod’to meot what mon aro talking abont on the atroet-corners, at home, and fo thoir couniry storos. 'I'hia Joft an opportunity for tho Domoo- raoy and dissatisfiod Nopubllcans, and thoy ho- proved it by meeting in Chicago vestorday and uuuuiufin call based on thowo principlos. [Loro the call is given,} Wo think tiie Convantion in pursuanco of this call will sopressnt » formidable slemont of op- Touhlau to tho Ropubtican party, Tho first idea epoclo-paymonts) {s ono our Conventlon avold- od to snvo Logan and other bolters (if Logan ‘bolts) batwoon rapudiation aud honest payments, Lhoy hold no ponitive yround, 'Uho enomy does, Whind will bo the zosult 7 4 .+ o ~Wo deaire to qnt all maticrs before our rendors frankly and honestly. Wo don't bollave {u the oatzioh dootring, ‘There ja & losson in all of it for the party in this Stato. 1f wo dopart from honeat principles, and in flnatcos tako up the apontings of suoh financial quacks ss Bimou Camoron, Judge Kolley, the Iato John W. For- ney, Ohlo ronfilnton, of Bob Mackey, we will earn dofeat aud bo sure to got it. —_———— A Black Whnle XKKilfed with o Jacke Xnife 0ff Barron Isliud, Hyony the Long Island News, On 'Thuraday of Jasp wook Henry Glelse, Warry Adams; Gustavo Bhroover, Jounfih Eiohler, Johu Quuthor, aud Jacob Bphonok, while trolliug for bluotlels off Rockwway boach, bad thoir attention attractod by o nolse aud tho agitation of the wa- =————————————— ter inn small pool on tho sand-bar noar B rnn“lnlmm. On umlmull(nfi noator thoy dlw:: nrs o large flsh which Liad boon loft by tho row | e Ian tdo, Landing oo thoe bor , they dlscovered )| the hfll\ to bo a young black whalo, &mmxltnunn w\{:}! T‘d with a view of eapturing him alivs, but tho achomo was judfiud impracticable, as bofora tha proper (ackilng and tools could be obtalned the tido would refurn and ‘tha' fish bo roleasod. 'FLio next thing was to kit him Tho only ofticient implement fn'sho patty was g + pocket-knife,- with . Visde - 5- inohes loug, . | wbion Landio and all, lod s longth of sbost § foot, Mr. Gunthor wastho ownor of the 1¥0pOD and upon him-dovolved the.duty of making the - sttaalc,Aftor.rpoounoltaring, e s, a° dive for tho whalo's nock, sud, aftor-sovoral blows, finally struck & blood-vones]. Tha blubber pono- ::‘u'la wad - “mmcrhel:l tglek.' Tho * whalt ' row ' up -spouts of. blood 16 foot tled mdmy.hplu onahour. - Hghia With tho nid of & dozon flahormen the party rotled the fish duto.a wnspfl and hauled him ta East Naw York, whora he was waighed on the ‘;;ubllv acales, His wolght wWas 2,1!?0 pounda :‘”m‘ th Mv!oot.d ‘Ho "rimmmnurle;i 8 foet bo- wenn the eyds; and aroun o ost pa the body 18 Toot. R A LITTLE MISTAKE. Alow a Ilartford Antigunrian Mistook o & Caller’s Oharacters ‘. From the Hartford Pasts A distivguishod pcholar. aud antiquarian of tthus eity, wiid writoa LL.D, aftor his nawo, tolls e amusing story on himsolf which' Is ontirely 1tod'gondto Jtoop, * In his Hosition as Librarian of In cortnin inatitution, ho is onlled upon to ox- - inmine and purchase tuch new publications ag imuy 8oorn {0 bo desitnble for its ahelves, aod as |8 necensary tonssquance is much sought aftor Iby aganta for books. At10 a, m. cach day h A y ho romplily appesrs at the mour ho usually rumlngl:rtnrh’fabm L rosidence, tme smorsod in bis dutie t Dy vinitorn %, aud dislikes to bo troubled Judge of hia annoyance, one morning’ three wecks ago, at being caflod low:.‘n:%loz::s ihfir:;l:.w:::" s gum\fimnn lvivlnh & volume undex tesantin cha]xlml“,h’dlnd?potl Lbnuk‘lgnnttl..m dleltnguishiog th hosty glanca at tho book, and withont waitiug to Loar what his call I".’fs’,‘;"‘:““"{ Fomarked? Ialte maritie : 't wang to goo you, sirl Oan't do an; {hing for you bere, Call at thy 0'%0‘]‘1&“ yn X : e librory at i'l. allor—Ezxcusa mo, air ; T'have in-town "thls moraing, and T ouly w{:&:‘fi;—mmd ‘Doctor—Don't mako any differonco ; call at 1¢ o’clogk. I'l Jook at your book thon: ‘Callor—Bat you don't underatsnd, Mr, —, | weab 1o C g . Doctor—TI think I know woll enough whal you waut, and I don't care (o talk with you uorr. i B 1y this time the Dootor, sunayed by the porti. nnchfy of ik eltet, appcbaciod ‘aivs Wil i usuanl norvous energy, while the caller, with & look of porfect' astonishment, and supposing thet fho Doctor jntonded to put him out Yulo the stroot, backed alovg the ball toward” the door, Judt s be reached the step his courage rallicd - and he 8aid m a'sootbing volea: X ¢ ** Moy, Mr.—, be rensoriablo; I oniy wand ' i Doictor—Nover mind yhat you want ! Call & Qmmas o S i 3 & Caller (doformined "{o finjsh his sentonce oy periskuin tha’ attempt) “*—to sek you u eingle questton.” - i . s T Tocior-—~Vell, well, what fuie? : i The callor. thon. wado an..inquiry reapeoting ccerlain maitors in “the history of tho aborigines * irt Tthode Tuland, and - wihitle “speskiug, a look of blauk amagoment, minglod with pleasare, ovors uprend the countenanco of. his ‘hoarer, and ba ejaculnted : B3 d @ My dear sir, who aro you 2" Fid kdown Professor from- Bhode Island, who hoa quite a repiitation far Lis antiquarian resaarches, wherenpon - his: ‘was rocefved with the utmost cordialil 4 and nothing further waa sald aboak calling ¥ at tho llbrary at 10’ o'olock, sir{” The onding ‘of this little incident was pleasing enough, but it you desire to see tho Dootor at his rosidonco, it inJust as well not to go with a book under your arm,. —e e 4 [USCELLANEOUS. e naw and handsome postal-card—bandsoma enough, ouo Iil‘wr 80y, t0 use for n valenting— will bo rendy in Septombor.” - ' - —La Ports, Tod., 18 putting up a large number of new buildings thia scason,—samo of them very bandsoma ones, costing from £4,000 to $10,000. Tha total foots up wbout 850,000 —Gon. Braxton Bragg has boon ngpuinted Chiot Enginoer of-tho Gulf, Colorado & Banta. Fe Raliroad, and will commepco s survey of lino shiortly, with a corpa of 100 men, —Lizzio R[nyo, = colored domestio in the house of Capt. Platt Pearsoll, of Wostport, Conu., de- eamped recently with éa,nao, stolen’ from her omployer, in her possession. Hor wherosbouts is still s mystory.': - - —Of tho'878 deatha in Now York lsst weck, which reeohed, according to one of its own jour- nals, twico tho number of those in sny moder- ately-healthy Europeen capital*st this soason, mors than balf were jufants, —The Olnoy (UL) Titmes saysthat a Richland County lady came to that city ono day lnsb weok to do_somo shopping, and whilo at a Main strest etoro gave birth to a bouncing baby, and the 8ame svoning rode homa in a wagon. —Tho houso a¢ Kissingon, ocoupled by the “ Irou” Priucs, a8 tho German papors style him' nov, is distingnished by seven "hombs, whick if racolved from the Prusaings in 1866, and which wore loft immured in 1t. ~A peasaut of the envi-. rons, to whom thes Prince, incognito, showed tha proper way of mowing meadows, Lay, siuce the thing got abroad, refused lsrzo sums oftered for the goythe with whichthe Ohoucellorexemplifiod bhis practical knowledgo of farmivg. —Hamilton County, 1L, i disputing the laus rola with Willinmson. Throe murders ware com- -mittod thero last week, Mr, Richard Flaunigan waa knockod in the henad with & ¢lub by Qharles- Qarlylo; Mr. James McFarlaud sbot s masn named_Meecs ; and & maw, name unknown, ntabbod anothior ong, also unkuown, fo doath. All tho murderors dlsugpmrnd. and have nok besn apprenended.—Calro Bulletin, —Not a couaty in tho State of Blichigan has made full and corroct reinrns of the cousus of 1874 to the Sacretary of Statc’s ofics, Mauy township returns aro so imperfect, under tha law, that they hava bocu returnad to tho Super- visors for correction. Bo far as can bo catimated from such as are complote, tho total population of Michigan ia abont 1,300,000, Many farming towns iu the older-sottled portions of the Lower. Poninsula, and s fow of tho oldor clumzb have decreased slightly in inhabitants: whlle the now vorthern countios and most of tha citics vhow & liandsome gain,—Lansing Bepublican, 'ho Now Haven (Ct.) pspors sannonnce tha dcath, aftor a sovers liuces, of Mrs. Roger 8, Buldwin. Shoedied at her residouco, No.227 ‘Chureh strect, a¢ So'clock \odneaday afternoon, Mrs, Baldwins maiden uawo was Porkins, she boing » sistar of tho late Thomas 0. and Honry A. Porking, of Hartfopd, She was the mother of Prof. Simeon . Baldwiv; also of tho wifo of I'rof. Whitnoy, of Yale Collogo, of Goorga Baldwin, of Chicsgo, and of Bra, Dwight Foater, f Boston. 3 4 —1hs Dol\!onf‘ (Qa,) Egu«l says that the firat nuggot of gold fonnd in Georgia waa fonud on Duke's Omfi in 1820, It weighed 3 ounces, and the pluco of .ita deposit was afterwards Xuown as tho Nacoochos mines. Other discove aties eoon followed, . nmil then eams tho groat gold excitament, From the Dbest datatbal can t- obtained, it i1 bolleved that tho mines o Georgis yielded about $18,000,000 baforo the es« tablisfnent of the United Statos Miut at Dah- Jonegs in 1838, The mint coinod 5,000,000 mate Dbofore it waa closod by the breaking out of tye war, Tho gregter &m of thoso large amounta was obtalned from the alluvium of tho stroams, voin-mining having been disrogarded in the aar lior days of gold mining in this 8tato. E: —————— A Bride of an EVeninge ¥ rom the Carro (111,) Dutletin, - One woman's faithtul love haa just met with W r roward in Drankiia County, Mies Aunig S, Brown, of that couuty, ‘‘loved with alove thiat was ready to forgive all faults. Mr. J. Wa Brashears, also of Frauklin, whohas pob boen long out of the Ponitontiary, whoro he sorved & term for having devoldged a fondnoss for goln, {nto othor peoplos’ houses without $helr conson: and possessing Jumeclf, also without their con sunt, of monoy, watohos, and other small artly cles, oasily and convoniontly carriod about tha orson. On tho 16th iust., My, Drashoars and iss Jrown were made auo, Tho honeymoon Iauted just ono day. On Fridsy, Mr. Brashears, who was proudly walking tho stroots of Bonton, was contronted with tho uupleasant appoaranco of a pistol held {u tha infuriated hands of o gon- tleman named Buyder, aud compaliod to retura to him tho suny of $423, Iscking 80, Drashears, who Is young in years but oid in villainy, had told a pathatio story. of & mortgaged farm and & dintressed wito, angl offered to soll 4 @500 note purporting to lave beon given by Pope & Co., 56 - Dhu Groto, to Judeo ownlug, of Beulon. Bnyder’s sympathy ant the ~temptation {o make 475 inducod bim to bocoma the purchaser of what o fow days revealod'to bio & worthless piecs of papor, Drushoars now languishes in jall on & ohurge- of loninry, ang Lhe, too contding Misa Brown; the hrlde- of an ayeniug wieuts Ehe wiokednena of-ull wmon aud the v Y of ong. Tho visitor then introduced himself sa & wnll-l