Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 4, 1874, Page 4

FHE CIMEAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: PRIDAY, § PTEMBER 4, 187 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. o An e 1 r nvvmmv‘fiox (PA{AI!’ o L0 [ & 3. LA Eo 1t tuding Btato and Conntys oade o oF Uy dratt, oxpross, Post jottarr, DL DUT TiRk, ANOR). TATES O Daily) by moil ul-Weeklys, Taria o) e Tqpesrent 4ol coaddresnin Lemttancos iy bo made o OMcw outlor, or b realatered lottort, B K TERMS B0 1T Ly s i Buuday oxcontea 2 conte p , Dl deltrorely G anday dnoludod, B Sunte poc mack, B tivens TUR TRIBUNE COMPANY, + Ulilasxo, 111 Cormer. : TE-DAV‘S AMUSEMENTS. Madgon and Dearborn- dotph stroot, botweon QOLTY'S THRATRE—Rand fl’:xh ‘aud Lafialle, ¢ Led Astrar.” dixon streot, botwoon C M '8 THRATAR-Madizon steect, D:;rgisnglfxlsdulo. ngagomont of Edwin Adsma. 74Ty Marble Hosets." ' ireot, oDDOsita ND OPRRA-HOUSE-Olatk elroo !lfl’r&l"lu Houso, Kolly & Leon's Minstrols. Mad- MY OF MUSIO—~Halstod straet: botweon uf‘..“fifi“ ‘Monroo, ltogagoment of Robert MoWado, $¢Rip Van Winklo." e AMERIGAN MUSEUN-Monroe _siroct, botwoon Biato and Dearborn, ** Auduotion. “SOCIETY MEETINGS. %, NO. 0, A. F. AND A3 nfi!‘l?a“fi.‘.lfl,‘.‘?&“x.mm cbrimuiontion this (il Ball 151 fo etock for bustuoss and sk, 1y ord BRI B N T , Boo's, — BUSINESS NOTICES. ¥ PRINTING IS VERY RXTENSIVEL nfl!l‘n‘}!(:}l'l‘l’l Oluoiunati by LB & Go. Thate work i Tacgoly urod by publishora all over tho countes, lo The Chicags Tribune, Friday Morning, Boptembor 4, 1874, Mr, Ohandlor's programmd, by which overy~ Pody {6 to bo re-cloctod, ia belng faithfully fol- Jowed out in Michigan, Four Congroeamen from that Stato have boon remomivated within tho paat Lo aays. The Ropublican Conventlon in Nobraska sdopted n currency rosolution which, if it is cor- rectly roported, is quite as rospaotable a8 soy that has seen tho light in tho East. It ax- presses tho * hopo that tho circulating modium will soon bo based on & nmatallic curroucy.” pSta——————— —— Tho rosolation oflored by Mr. Derickson in the Btato Board of Equalization, sgrociug 10 tho valuation of capital stock ¢ 40 por cont, hns heen indofinitely postoonod. Tho Board has ap- parontly loarned nothing gineo ita orgonizntion, though thero have beonsome oxpressiona of pub- Jic opinion and some judiclol docistons of Iate to which such o body might wol attond, Tho fecling of Aloxandor Stephens’ constit- uonts is that he should bo allowed to die in hor- nose, and he was sccordingly renominated yes- Jorday; in spite of tho very positivo declination whichh he had previously made. Mr. Btophens' health is now 8o broken that it is mearcely pog- gibla lio will survivo to take hisseat in the Forty- fourth Congres! b An item marking the progress of trado is tho purchago iu Chicago and ebipment bhence, via Montreal to Livorpool, of 800 head of cattlo. A ptonmor has boon fitted up ot Montreal with stalls sud othor conventonces, and it is proposed to ko tho trade iu boeves botweon Chicagoand Livorpool a pormanant one, This in o new ont- lot to the alrendy cpormous cattle-trade of Chicago. e s Mr. Montgomory Blair sought the Democratic nomination in the fixth Maryland Congressional Diatrict, and failed to got it. Somo Republican foutnals have sincy nttempted to give pecullar signficanco fo this circumatance. The truth is that Mr, Blair bad not tho loast chanco of suc- coas. Every county in tho district presonted & goparnto candidate, and tho peraon most oxpori~ enced in “ combinations” and * managing™ se- cured tho nominatton. . Tho Grand Jury yestorday roturned indiat- monts ngainst two alteged swindlors, known a8 proficionts al tho throo-card monto game, Tho Btate's Attarnoy Lopos to couvict them undor o statuto which Las not, up to this time, been nsed agninst gamblors, sud to send them to tho Poni- tontiary, Wo sincorely hopo that, it guilty, this will bo their fate; and that political influence, swhich will doubtless bo freely oxerclsed in their Pebalt, will fail to socure their roloaso. Such ‘Bopes as thesa aro quite incxpensive, and may bo indulged in the more liberally as they are not tkely to bo realizod. . . Mr. Dockrsy has beon spirited away by tho Bpanish authorities in Cuba, and afterboing con- fined in one of the fortresses about Havana, haa been sont on a war-vessel to Spain. Ho sorved for a timo in the cbain-gang, and has boen sub- foctod to quite as sovera punishmont os bis offonsos required. o in an American citizen of dubious antecedonts, snd may have dono some- thing so terriblo in Cuba as to desorve thain- digity to which ho has attaived. But his eaveer in this country was such that nobody considered bim dangerous to the peace, A Conveution of tho Indopendent party in Minowri was held in Jefferson City yesterday und tho day Lefore, Tho platform was in tho main good. Tho currenoy resolution opposed any coubiaction in tho volume of ourroncy, ard ndvocated o return to specio paymonts as soon a3 possiblo withont dinasior to the business in- terests of the country. Thin 1s as ponitive non- sento a8 tho vesolution of tho Missourt Domoo~ racy. It in vivtuslly an sesumption that any con- traction will ho dixatrons, aud tunt apecie pay- ‘monts may bo revumed without contraclion withi- in a rossonablo time, £ Qon, Sheridun hae again forbiddon the fuva- glon of the Bloux Indiun resorvation, in which tho Black Hilts ara includod, aud his language ig 80 plain that it can bo undorstood by tho most obtuge. Tho Department Commandors are in- structed to capture oxpeditions trospassing on the resorvation, burn tho traius, dostoy tho out- fits, nnd lodga the participants in the noareut guard-house, If auch expoditions ponetrate tho country, they aro to Dbo pursued by civalry and ovortaken, Tho General says, with delicato irony that is as creditablo to his Doad as his heart, that o will bo most happy to aeaist in tho sottlementof the Blaok Hills roglon whon 1t kiss beon thrown opon to white men by the Sacrotary of the Interior. Until then, per- sons who are really bont upon hunting for gold fu that diwvootion will do well fo try thelr chancea with Mr, Delano, An offor of sharcy might secnro tha dosired permisaion’ The Chicago produco markots were generally firm yeaterday, and grain was oxoltod, Mosa pork was quiot and stoady, at $22.75@23.00 por brl casb, and $17.25 sollar the yoar, Lard was dul} and osaler, a% 215,00 per 100 1ba oash, and $11.25@ 11,878 nollor tha yonr. Blents woro quict and firmor at 8Y{c for shouldors, 138{@13)fo for short middtes, and 11¢@19:o for awoot-pleldled Linme, 1lighwinos wero quiot nud firmor, at 98¢ por gallon, . Jiake froights woro quiot and bighor, at 83¢e for whoat to Duffalo, Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat wna moderatoly aotive and 1@20 highor, oloning at 053do sollor tho month and ffic for Octobor. Corn was ac- tive, and 20 highor, olosing at 720 cash and scllor Octobor. Oats woro activo, and 2c bighor, clos- ing st 443¢o cash or sallor Octobor. Ryo was quict and atranger st T7@77}go. Darloy waa oxolted and highor, but closod easior, at 02@030 sollor the month. 1Toga woro quict at 10@16c deoline, solling chefly at $0.25@7.10. Catlle wor strongor. Shoop ruled quict and steady. ———— The fato of Judgo Poland. In Yormont ia not unlikely to overtske Gon. Garfold fn Ohio, Garflold bas recoived tho regular nomination in an immonsely strong Republionn distriot—not strongor, howovor, than Polaud's, It ia inthe immeusoly strong: distriots, by tho way, that a polt is always most dangerous, There was an activo sud unsatisfied minority in the Conven- tion that nominated Garflold, Thoy had threo poluts sgainat Lim: 1. That, as o mombor of tho Committoe of Conferonco, ho roported tho Sulary-Grab; 2. That ho was mixed up in the Orodit-Mobilior businesa; 8. That ho nccoptod #6,000 for making an argumont for the DaGolyer pavemont boforo Boss Shepherd, Tho minority have not bocome any bottor satisfiod sinco tho Convontion adjourned. A special dispateh to the Olovoland Zerald, dated Witloughby, Sopt. 1, saye: For somo t/mo 5 rumor hns Leon provalent that tho ani-Garficld men of this district proposs holding a Uoltors’ Gonventfon, anlt tak such nction an they con~ sider sdvisablo In tho approaching contest, Tholr cry is “'anything to beat Garflold.” Within o day or two tho project acems to Lave taken dofiuito form, and & call, sakl to havo #hie aupport of at lcast fiftcen hun- drod TRepublicana opposed to tho re-clestion of Gen, Gnrflold, i to bo lssnod for a Qonvention, {0 be held in the Oty of Warren, Bopt. 10, Qov. Kollogg, of Louisiang, bas offored a re~ sward of §5,000 for tha apprebension and convio- tion of any porson concorned in tho Conslintia MAassacre, Appundud to his proclamation isa statomont purporting to givo 'tho facta in tho caso. 'Wo should ba more inclined to bolieve the murdored men wholly innocont if they did not poom {o be high in tho esteom of Gov. Kol- logg. Ho accopts ‘nud promulgates tho very worst construction tho circumatances will admit, sesigning puroly political ransons for the murdor, taking for granted tho tronchery of tho guard which undortook to romovo tho pris- onots from Coushntts to Shiroveport, and crodit- ing. tho White Lenguo of Loulsiaua with the inception of tho affalr and its deliborato accom- plishmont. Adviecs from Democratio sources dony all theso allogations Lut it i only farr to sy that thoy also are mot deserving of entire confldonco. Prosidont Gront baa beon advisod by his in- timato advisers within tho parly that something must.be dono by the National Governmont to restore order in tho South, and incidontally re- cloimthe Ropublicon vote in that region. Mo has accordingly roquested the Becrotary of War and Attornoy-Gonoral to gonfer togotler as to tho best mensures of relief. Theresults of thoir deliborations may be scen In a circular lotter of tho Attorney-Genoral to Marshals und Diatrict Attornoys, published this morning, Itis a gon- oral dircatlon for nctive proceedings agoinst political conspirators, but it may bo, snd was probably. meant to bo, considered authority for roprossing all lawlessness, Tho propricty of presuming 80 much we will not here stop to dis- cuss. Tho oflicers addrossed by tho Attorney- Goneral aro advised to calt npon tho military for assistanco whonover 1t may scem nocessary. All arresta of murderors by tho National Govern- ment will, of courso, bo justified by that conve- nient phraso in tho civil-rights ennctmonts which Acacribos thom ns being ¢ for other purposes.” A contingent Congressman has beon nominat~ od by the Ropublicaus of Nobrasks. The con- tingoncy involved is tho granting of an addition- al Roprosentative to tho Stata by the grava of Congress. ‘The population of Nebroska at tho Inst oonsus was 120,323, Tbhis is somothing be- 1Tow the number required for oue Represcutative. But o 8tato census hins recontly beon taken, and it shows the presont population toboin the neighborhood of 800,000, Congress has, in ona or two inatances, violated tho law which pro~ vides that the spoortionment of Representatives to cach State shall romain unchanged betsween the taking of two successive consuses; and it is supposed that the precodont thus es- tablisbod may bo. followed in the caso of Nebraska. Tho fate of tho contingent Congrossman, wo fancy, will depond vory much upon tho political comploxion of tho Houso whou he happons to presont his claims. I the Ropublicans are in a minority ho will of course bo rojected ; if tho Ropublicans aro in a small majority, and havo uso for ono moro dovotod follower, lie will vory likely bo admitted.” The countitational provision iu respect to the appor- tionmont of Congrossmen is vory plamn; but for weighty reason, it Lns beon genorally atdowed that cvory legislative body is tho sole judge of tho qualifications of its membors, Honce Cone groes does protty much ng it *chooses whon {ho party is in dangor of Josing power. The Demo- crats of Nobraaka, it will bo observed, bava not thought it worth tho while to nominato & “con- tingout,” Of conreo tho excitemont cnused by tho Mis- gouri highwaymon a few months ago waa a'hoaX. Tho nowspapera of that graclous Commoniwealth fopudiated the iden, Now tho Jumes boys and Youngors bavo broken out at North Lexington, 3o, not very far from the scono of their formor triumphs, Thoro is an air of romauco sbout thioir Iatest act of villainy which might bs mado to servo o purposo. The emnibus from tho sta- tion to tho forry ia passing through tho woods waa stopped by threo masked” men, who rolioved the passengers of thelr monoy and valusbles, Ono of tho victimes was a young woman, Hamlot by name, who gave up hor watch and chain to ono of the highwaymen, A secoud roguo ap- proachied her, rafsed his mask, spolo hor name, and mado his pal restore tho Jewolry takoen from her. At the sanio time ho calted on o passengor sitting woxt to Miss Tamlot to deliver. ‘Tho young person addressod produced a roll of ills which ho placed in Miss Hamlot's hand, whore, as ho supposed, 1t would do the moat good, lo was right, Bl rofusod to doliver it up. Bho likewiso cautiod tho reatitution of their property 1o two othor passengors, ‘whoroupon tho robbors disappearod, Romauce will lnsist upon a love- match betweon ouv of theso parties and Misa Hamlet. As a prelimiuary it would bo as woll fors Grand Jury to soouro Miss ITamlot, dls- covor her relations with Jouso Jamos, who was, sccording to hor statomont, tho chlof of tho goug, snd make uso of her to capture tho pore sopy 88 well as hearis of tho robbers. Romance 8 very charming, but o rope'a end wonld ho al mora fitting conclualon to it than a woddlvg-riug. DEFEAT OF JUDGE POLAND, ‘Wo publlshed, rome wooks ago, tho history of a . Vormout mombor of Cougresa who was tlio firat victim of the old **Beditlon Inw " passed by Qongross to punish libola upon the Governmont ofMeors, mombors of Congross, olo. 110 was in- dioted, convioted, finod, and imprisonod, but the- Nborty-loving people of Vormont robuked tho Infomons Logislaturo by re-electing their im- prisonod mombor of Oongross, and continued to do'so until tho law waa roponlod. Judgo Polaud {8 'tho auccossor of Matthow Lyon, nt a groat distanco, and, Inat - wintor, . permittod himsolf to bo used by Butlor, Qarpentor, and Conlding, to roport aud push through Congress a bill which,' infta swoopiog despotism and mennco to tho froo discussion of public nots, far excoodod the Bodition law of tho time of tho older Adams. M, Poland reprosented s district whore the op- position to tho Republican party was numerical-’ Iy 8o amall that it conld hLardly bo sald to have an oxistence,, Poland, two years sgo, hed 11,010 majority out of n total vole of 10,445, This yoar ho was renominatod by. the rogular Convention of his pacty, and the pooplo wore adjured in tha usual {m- prossivo mannor to voto for him, Bovoral csn- didates woro nominated in opposition, and thoy all published cards doolining to run. Nevortho- loss,” tho peoplo of that dlstrict, without sny othor candidate before thom than Poland, voted for a numbor of other gentlomon, and Poland, instond of boing elected by 11,000 majority, finds himsele with loes votos than a gentleman who was not o candidato at all. Judgo Poland had: to answor boforo his con- stituents for sovernl things. 1. Ho was tho author of tho roport on the Orodit Mobilier which whitowashed everybody. 2. Io voted for, and took, snd nover rofuoded, tho back-pay. 8. ‘Ho wan tho rosponaiblo author of the bill grant- ing a looal conrt fn tho District of Columbia tho" powor to isane warrants of arrost of any porson in any part of tho Unitea Btates. It is nok sur~ prising that tho pooplo Qisrogardod tho party nomination, and dospite bia eminent ability took his caso into their own hands snd sdministerod a stinging robuke. ] Tlus oloction shiows that the psoplo aro keeniy alive to tho past rocord of Congrons, and that party obligstions will no longer suffico to olect & man whoso record is, in itsclf, objectionable. The pooplo will mark ovary salary-grabbor, and placo such s condomnation upon that robbory sa ‘will constitute & warning for all futurotime, It is rofroshing to know that tho people of Vor- mont havo placed thelr condomnation upon a man of Poland’s provions eminence. The notico to tho othors is thoroby mado all the moro con- sploucus and alarming. Y | SOUTHERN MOES AND THEIR LESSON. Tho accounts of disturbonces in tho South'are startling by their froquency. A numbor of cases of violence has occurred within & wook or' Bo. About ton days ago the negroos of Pickotteville, Gibson County, Tonn., throatencd & riok and oven tho sacking of the town. Bixtcon of tho leadars wara lodged in jail at Tronton. On tho morning of the 20th of last month, masked mon to tho number of abont 100 rodo up to tho jail whoro thoy wero confinad, compsliod tho Sherilt to deliver up tho koys to thom, took six of tho nogroes ont, shot four of thom, and woundod the other two mortally. ‘Tho other ton tho ‘masked mon rodo off with, and, it “is thought, killod thom. The origin of tho'whole troublo in this caso was In n controvoray botwoon & whito man and s negro about tho payment of balf a dollar, at & barbecuo hold st Picketts- villo flve weoks boforo. Binco that timo the .fooling botweon the whitea and tho blacks was anything but-friendly. The night proceding the throatoned riot, as two yonng men woro riding along tho road 8 milea from Pick- ottsvills, thoy were fired upon by a party of Bome thirty negroes, This raised a suspicion thiat the negroes wero orgauizing with hostile in- tontions. Ben Ballard, s uogro, confossed that tho negross had mot the night the two young men wero fired upon, and had organized to pro- tect o colored Colone), by the' name of Webb, and also to kill ono Bassdl Butlor, who had die- covered their plans to the whites. Ballard's con- fosslon soon sproad. Tywo nogroos testifiod that tho colored poople bad boon contomplating tho extirpation of the whites; and that it was our~ rently reported that whatover thoy did would be approved of by Gon. Grant. Itisno wondor, after tlis, ‘that tho whites became alarmed. Following the Gibson County tragedy como another,~the. Coushatin mnssacre. The most roliable account of that ehockiug af- Ialr comos from A. Y. Btephonson. In Red River Parish, La., the negroes aro much more numerous than the whitos. The whito peoplo of the parlsh had for some time foared an oulbreal. 1t was Bupposod that this ontbreak was instigat- ed by T B. Edgarton, Bhorlit of the county ; I, T. Twitchell, Tax-Collector; Olork ollang, Registor ; Dowees,. Rowoll, Willls, and others, moatly office-holders, Tho lives of & number of. whites had boen threatened, and one whito man, 8 Mr, Williams, had boon assautted by two no- torious nnd desporate nogroos.” They flred on bim with a doublo-barrelod shot-gun. A num- ber of whito mon endeavored to arrest theso no- groos ; aud in tho attompt ono of them waa shat st and killed instantly by tho blacks, 'Iosa now attemptod to save themselvos by flight, but tho whites flred ot them and killod both of them, " Noxt day, botween 300 sud 400 nogroos asgombled noar Brownsvillo, sweaning to avenge thia death of tho two desperadoes, ‘Lhoy threat- cued, it is said, not to leave n whito man, wom- an, or child alive in thoparish, The inkabitanta of Coushatta taok tho alarm. Thoy stationed plckots along the ronds Joading to the town. A nogro coming into town was halted by two young mon dolug duty ou the zoad. Ths negro had a anals of buckshot on his shoulders, and, instoad of halting at tho signal given, ho ran away, The two pickots went into town to roport what had ocourred, Returning thoy mot Twitoholl, tho Bheriff, and two notorously dosporato nogroes, all armod. After talking with them a fov momonts, thoy turned arouud to Ro back to thelr posts, when thoy wero shot at by P'witcholl's party, and one of them seriously, it not mortally, wounded, During the night Tyitehell, Edgarton, Doweos, Howell, Holland, aud Willls (whites), sud a numborof negroes wero arrestod and placed undor gusrd, Tho prison- ers nll promisod to loavo the Biate if & yuard woro furnished as far s Shrovoport, Thiy was agreed to. A guard was furnished them, in chargo of John Carr, a man in whom the prig- onors had all confidenco, and whom they ro- quested to sssumo tho position sssigned him, Mr, Carr startod with tho prisoners at 10 o'olook on Bunday morning. Later a party of thirty or forty mon atarted lu pursuit, Intonding to lynoh tho prisoners, Tho guard wero overtaken, the nrisonory taken possossion of. and Edgarion, Twitohell, and Dowren ehot on tho aot, A little farthor ou, Howoell, Moiland, und Willly wero shot, Lousiana and Tonneenco are not iho only Blalen whoro thoro ara dlsturbancen, Lhovo I sonrcoly o Stato in tho Bouth whore thore hes not beon moro or loss tronblo of tho Bamo nne turo, though, porhaps, nothlug racontly hns hnp- pondd in tho othor Btates as ntrocious s tho Gib~ son County and the Conshintta tragoidios, Thot anoh Iwlossnesn should oxiut, must bo Inment- od, 'Thoro fa no oxcusa forit, and searcely any pallintion. Theore is but ono courso to bo pur- surod towards all who in any way have par- tiolfated in theso or aimilnr crimos. Thoy should bo brought to justico; it matters nob how numorons thoy aro, or what thoy may olaim bas*boon the provoeation to tho deeds of blood of which they have beon guil- ty. * And thoro I8 Dbut one woral to all . thoso otrocititos, and (hat is: En- forco tho, Iawl There aro not wanting thoso, howavor, who would read a difforont moral Thoro aro thoso who would, if that wero possl- Dlo, rosuscitato tho Ropublican party to take cara of tho whites and niegroon of tho Bouth; forget- ful that, If thoro iy so much luwlessnoss at tho Bouth it is, to o vory groat extent, the fault of tho Ropublican parly. The Ropublican party hins had tho South in its hands for ten years, and tho rosult wo know. Thoe Southorn peoplo, if thoy would hasten tho timoof thoir dolivery from bad ‘govornmont, will do all in tholr powor to disconntonanco violence. And wo are glad to no- tico that poblic opinion Bouth bns sot iis faco opainet it. If Jofferson Davie aud Gon, Forrost moy.bo talon as ropresontntivos of tho feolings of tho Iato Itobals, tho outrnges abovoe deseribod aro far from meoting with the spprobation of tho Bouthorn people, At a moet- ing hiold at Momphis to glvo oxprossion to publio opinion concerning the outrage in Gibson Coun- ty, Davia charactorized It 8a o crimo to bo pun- 1shipd; snd to bo punished .ne it deserved. Gen, Forrost wont ovon a littlo farthor, and oxpressed ‘his willingnoss to hunt the mon up who bnd committod tho bloody deed. Xio was as rondy to ‘protoot tho binok man as tho whito. Thé pross of the Honth {s unanimous in denouncing tho octa of theao desporadocs. So long as tho Southern poeoplo themsclves aro dotormined to put an ond to the lnwlogsncss from which thoy aro' suffering,-it is woll evough to loave tliom alonio.” Ropublican politiclans will of courso endonvor to make capital out of the troubles of tho South. They will hold themaelves up aa tho party of justico, purity, and truth, Tho peoplo, howover, understand all this. If tho lato mobs and violence at the South teach anything con- corning tho Ropublican party, thoy toach that to the carpet-bag policy at the South all the ovila from; which tho South suffors, this last ono of Iawlessnoss not excoptod, muy bo traced. l e . RICHARDSON ON THE RAMPAGE, Ex-United Btates Bonator William A. Richard- gon, an’ “old war-horso,” hng jumped outof porty: traces.and i8 cavorting sround through sundry columns of print, undor tho improssion that ‘bo is ‘the solo, old, origiual, undiluted, simon-purs Demooracy of Tllinols. IIis impres- alon ia 8o far gorrect that ho s, with Joo Ledlio and Gen. 8inglaton, about gil the Bourbon Deo- mocrscy of the 8tate. Tha threo havo apparent- Iy learned nothing during the lust half-contury, snd have managed ta forgot all thoy auco know. Mr. Richardson, having oxisted ainco a timo whoreof the memory of man runnoth not to tho contrary, is old enough to know that hard-money has always been Domocratio doctrine, Yotnow ho assorts tho contrary, beeauso the repudi- atfonists have "controlled tho rocent so- ' callod Domocratic Couvontions in Kontucky, Obio,. Indiana, and Missourf, A man who hng hobnobbed with Jackson, the anthor of -the “8pooio Circular,” and tho destroyer of the Natlonal Bavk and its brood of bad bills; who haa talked with ¢ 1lard-Monoy Bonton ¥; nnd who has indorsed countless Detnocratic plat- forms demanding spocic-paymonts, must bo suffering from softoning of tho brain or in- curpble ignorance when.ha thinks that the Jingling nonscnso adopted by four mobs makes shinplasters, not spucio, the Democratio doctrine, It is really s matter of minor im- portance what man or sot of men believed in gold thirty or forty yoars ago. Tho question ig: ‘Who bolioves in it now? Wo have reforred to the undeniablo fact that specio-paymont has long boen the corner-stono of tho Democratic crecd ‘only. to show how sballow Mr. Richard- son's sophistry i8 when Lo ciaims that Domocrats are bound to repudisto tho sound and sogacious platform adopted st Springfiold on tho 20th ult. Ho quotea thoe Pondleton shin- plastor plank of tho Domocratic platform of 18068 'ns ir that sottled the quostion. That did sottle all queation of tho Republican success in 1808, Whon tho Democracy declarod for ropn- diation, tho Republicans had tho gamo in their own hands, The plank was an unsecmly inno- vation, a flat contradiction of tho real Demo- oratio doetrine, It haa ever sinco beon ko re- garded. Thoro is no danger that it will over sgain bo insertod in o Natlonnl Democratio platform. Tho only chanco of regaining power that that party bas lles in its adhorence to its timo-triod dogma of bard monoy, Richardson and his brother rag-men beloug with Jobu A, Logan ond Richard J. Oglesby. DR. BACON ON MOULTON. Dr. Loonard Bacon la one.of tho strong-hoad- od and iron-willod descandzuts of tho Puritaus, IIia doctrine is that nothing s over sottled in this world till ic is sattlod right,—a doctring which Lo soome detormined to apply to the Boachor enge and all its bolongings, Thoye is now avidoneo enongh to warrant the conviction that Dr. Bacon has boen for o long tino resolved that thore ghould bo an investigation of the chargos ngalnst Bocctior, It fa too much, pexbaps, to say that ho has at any tmo bolioved Docchor gullty, But it is perfeotly ovident that Lo hag bolloved it wes mecessary to havo Dim proved oithor guilty or lunocent, Dr. Patton, in Liis statoment to the Brooklyn Committao, snys that o conforred with Dr. Bacon on the sub- Joot nearly two years 8go, and that they Lotk sgroed that at womo timo there mmet o an investigation, If theso woro Dr, Da. con's viows, wo can understond how 1o camo to malo Ao Bovoro an attack on Thoo- dore Tilton—an attack which was suro to goad Tilton, in Lis norvous and Irritablo coudition, to &ay somotbing which would lead to an investi gation., DBut wo cannot commond ihe methiod by whioh tho end was sought to be accompliahied. By liko indirection Dr. Bacon scoms now do- torminod to push Moulton on to logal atop o gottle tho disputo foravor. o points out the fact that Beoohor baa chargoed Moulton with o conapiracy to dostroy his roputation and io extort monoy from him, and that he (Moulton) can boat dofond himsolf against such n chargo by bringing an action for slaudor, Then, to glve a partionlar and effootivo ating to tho forogolug, hLe #dds thet the presumvtions ata oll againat a man who, according. to lfin own showling, lins beon employod during somo yonrs in covorlng up an atroolous orlmo, using as much levoption ny was nocosary to compass that ond, And ng though this wore not sufflclont oncour- agoment to Moulton to pitch in, ho alludes to hin (M.'5) ronsltivencss on polnts of honor. A chilvalrie gontloman, indoed, quoth Bacon, la ko who Inbors to concoal erimo in ordor that sn- othor mny bo n succossful hypoorite. A very Chovalier Bayard, with sll tho modorn improvo- monta | Dr, Bacon ling cortalnly found AMonlton's un- protected flank, Tho business of shioldlng the roputation of culprits, ovon for the sako of their ohildren, is not dofousible when it is nndortaken at tho oxpenso of t-uth, Mr. Moulton has ol- roady admittod the vinplensant pungonoy of this maxim to ono of tho roportors who havo intor- viewod him, IIo will probably fool it moro koonly in the light of Dr. Bacon's articlo in tho Independent. ——— THE ELECTION IN IOWA, Tio fesuo in Tows is clonrly drawn. Itis for or agninst the Ropublican party, Tn that Btato thoro are butiwo tickets, Republican and Opposi~ tion. On thia fssuo all thoe tho candidates have boon . nominated, In 1873, the Stato of Towa gavo over 60,000 Ropublioan mojority 3 in 1878, with sn unorganized Opposition, it .gave bat 22,606 majority for the Ropublican State ticket, though on tho legislativo ticket it gave a small Opposition majority. Tho election in that Btate is peculiarily {nterosting bocauso of tho contoat on Uongressmon. The Republicans lisve sought {o nvoid tho fores of tho populer fndignation by changing eandidates, snd displacing some of the objoctionable Congrosemon, Naverthologs, thao odor of tho party attaches to all the nomi- neea. E Tn tho First District, Grant had ovor 4,000 ma- Jority in 1872, aud the Oppdsition had 78 in 1870. . o 55 55 Intho Socond District, the Republicana had 8,490 majority in 1872, while {u 1878 tha Antt-’ Bonopol fets bad over 1,000 majority. In tho Third District, the Ropublican majority in 1872 waa 1,880, nod in 1873 it was 428, with no Opposition tickot in ono ot tho largest countios. Theso threo distriots aro oo the Miseissippl TRiver. 5 Tho Fourth District gave ovor 11,000 Ropub- lican mojority in 1872, when Mr. Pratt was oloct od to Cougress, Rolying on tho immenso wma-’ Jority, ho hns braved publio opinion a8 a salary- grabber. A largo numbor of Republican papers in bis district opposo him, and the party is 80 demoralizod that tho result ia rogarded douby- ful. 7 ‘Tho Fifth District gavo 8,000 Republican ma- jority in 1872, and ouly 2,700 in 1878, In tho Sixth Diatrict, the Republican majority in 1872 waa 2,900, snd in 1878 tho Opposition had 482, The Sevonth District gavo Knsson, Ropublican, 7,200 majority in 1872, and wont Ropublican by only 1,000 in 1873, Kasson ia bitterly oppasod by somo Republicans, aud tho district is doubt~ ful. y In the Eighth Distriet, the Republican mnjor- ity in'1872 waa 5,700, and in the Ninth District it wos 7,600, In theso districts tho Opposition liad little or no orgauization 1n 1873, and how strong it may prove in 1874 romains to bo eoon. Horetoforo Iowa bas had an undivided Ropub- lican representation in Congross, and now the Opposition Committeo have hopes, scomingly woll founded, that not only will the Opposition ticket for Stato officora bo eleoted, but that n ma- Jority of tho Congressional delegation of the samo party wil bo chosen. And this on the plain and direct 188ue of sustaining or rebuking the Republican party, in & Stato that gavo Grant no less than 60,000 majority. . Tho following axa tho nominations ; Anti-Yonopaly. Republican. Beeretary of Biate, Dasid Morgan, Jostal 7. Young.” udltor, Jowoph M. King, uren R, Sherman, seasuror, Wiliiam Christy,* Attornoy-Goneral, John X1, eatloy, 3. E, Otita,* ‘Clerk of Bupreme Court, Georga W, Ball, "Edward J, 1olmes, TNoporter of tho Bupreme Oourt, Jamea AL Weart, . Jolin B, Runnells, Tiegiater of Btato Land Olico, Robert IL Rodoarmel, David Secor, 1, Leroy G, Pal O otg0 W, MoOrary,” , Toroy G, Palmer, - 00rgo VW, McCras 2. Jim L, Sheotn,” Jnm’gfi. “Tufts, ol L. L. Alnsworth, Joun Lowman, amea Wilkingon, Oliarlos ', Granger, Teary O, Pratt,* Jumos Witson,* X. Gates, Tizcklo) B, Sampeon, 7, Jobn'D, Whitmun, Joliu A, Kasson,* 8, Auson Rtoodl, Jamos W, McDll,* 0. O, B, Whiting, ‘Adlson Oliver, * Candldates for re-clection, THE PROHIBITION PARTY, 1t moy porbaps bo doubted if politiolans gen- erally, or oven prohibitionists themselves, aro aware of tho oxtont of proparation to organizoa Prohibition Party in tho soveral Statos, on a ne- tional and political basis. In Wiaconsld, a call just now isgued, recites a9 follows Belloving that tho “ lquor quostion” {a the fegiti- mato and only Worlhy auccessor of the “ slayery quos~ tlon * in Amorican politica; belloving that the miesion of the Republican party endod with the overthrow of slavery, and tho reconstruction of tho old Blave Statos on frop basla ; aud Lelloving that no political party now In existenco 1a either able, compotont, or willing to deal offectively with this gigantio crimo which mocks at the fooblo offorts at reatralnt, of #1iconao lawa,” * local option lawz,” ond the like § wo Qo hereby unlto n calllg & mass-convention of ‘tho tomperance yeoplo of the’ Slute, o sssombls 4 tho Clty of Rtigon, on tho 15th day of October noxt, at 10 o'clack a, m,, to form & separato and indepoudent, o~ litheal party, with probibition us its contral idea, And that ono part, nt loast, of tha ebove doclaration may havo instaut Mlustration, wo quoto from & report of proocedings at tho Ohio Ropublioan State Couvention, Leld on Wodnos- doy lnst “Thio Westorn Resorvodomanded a tomporancoplank, ‘The running of & Prohibition ticket weskenod thow fn tho Ropublicau stronghold, Tho Houthorn Olifo dolo- gotes comphalirod thut tho (omporance quoation, an ade vocated by tho Trolifbitionfsts, was forcing tho Ger ‘mans futa tho Democratly party, snd had withdrawn amilton County from the Ropublican party, Tho Oght In tho Gommitieo was bitter, At longth o resolu~ tion wos propoecd, by Judgo Wost, fn favor of enfogce Ing alt tho liquor Laws o tho statute-book, ns suflelent for &)l polltical purposes, Tt was ngreed to, Thoso fearlng tho Josu of tho Gormun votos donounca it aaa eringing to prohibition ; th Probibitioniats denounca 1t a8 wilk-snd-water, Tho Prohibleionists of Ohio have a Btate tlolkot boaring tho nmmes, among othors, of John R. Buchtlol, of Akron, for Socrefary of Stato, and Gideon T, Btewart, of Norwalk, for Su- premo Judgo. Last year Mr. Stowart, ag the Trobibltion eandidnte for Governor, rocoived 10,278 votes, so ovonly distributed over tho State that i many countioy and Cougrossional Dis- tricts tho Prohibition voto ropresouted a bal- anco of power, Wo obsorve, however, that these balanco-of-power voters donot propose to bo tho subjeets of political diokor, aud aro gon- orully, through the distriots of Ohio, nomiuating thelr own Congrossional and local tiokets, Among candidatos for Congrosi are the Roy I, A. Thompson, Prosldout of Otterbolu Univer- sity, noar Columbus, and tho Rov. W. D. Qod- man, Presidont of the College at Beroa, near Olovoland. Thera i no election of Legislaturo, tula year, in Ohlo, but noxt year, in eleotions to fmportant body, tho Probibitlonists hopo to bo thomaelvas & powor inntond of morely & bal- anco of power. 'Thoir voto, indeed, thin yoar will likely enongh upsot, many caloulations iu- dulged by old party nominoes. In Ponnnylvania tho Prohibition Stato toket Lng tho pnmes of Denjamin R. Jradford, of Toaver Oounty, for Lioutonant-Govornor, and Bimeon B. Ohmse, of Budquohanna, for Bupremo Judgo, The nominating convontlon was prosided over by John Dinck, who, ng tho Prohibition can- didate for Prosidont in 1872, appoatu to hava ro- eoived 1,000 votea in Ponuaylvania, sud 5,000 in all tho Statos. In Ponnsylvania, aa in Ohlo, tho Prohibitionists aro nomivnting Congrosstonal, Loglslativo, and local tickets, and tholr eandi- date for Buprome Judgoe beginsa to attract atton- tion as likoly to roceivo many Ropublican voles that will not, in apy ovont, bo given to Judgo Paxson, tho roprosontative of the Philadolphia Ring. Tgo Now York Prohibition Btato tloket fa honded by ox-Gov. Myron IL Clark, for Cov- ernor, and the party organization extends to loca! tickets, Luat yoar tho Prohibition voto in Now York was 8,228. In Michigan tho Prohibi- tion Stato ticket is hended by Charles K. Car- ponter, a well-to-do farmer of Onkland County, for Govornor, Alichlgnn farnishod tho Prokibl- ton condidato (John Ruasoll) for Vico-Prosi- dent, in"1873, and gave tho tiokot 1,271 votos. Wo presumo tho Probibitionists hero, as in othor Btates, intend to mako local nominntions, In Itlinols tho Prohibition Biate tlcket boars tho names of Jawmes F. Bimpeon, of - Carrollton, for Btato Trangurer, and Mrs, Jonnfo T. Willing, of Bloomington, for Buporintendont of Public In- struction,—being tho only goneral officors to bo olocted this year. In the Thirtoonth Iilinols (Bloomington) District, the Rev. Goorgo W. Minior {8 the nominoo for Congross, and in that portion of tho Stato, if'not eloowhoro, ‘orndi- dates for tho Logielature will be put in the flold. Wo soo It stated, indood, in & Carroll- ton paner,: that Mr, Bimpson spoaks confidently, on advices roceivod by him, of a large Prohibl- tion vote in the Btato. In 1870 there wero 2,000 volos polled for a Prohibition” Btato .ticket in Tilinole, but in 1872 the Probibitioniata appear to hova droppod out. . : Inaddition to the abovo Btates, tho Prohibi- tonists of Kansas and Nobrasks sro aboat to hold' nominating Btate Conventions, and, wo prosume, the Minnesota Prohibitionists will do’ tho enmo. * Tho Maasachusotts Prohibltionlsts on one occasion (1871) polled 6,693 votos for Goy- arnor, but thoy aro now satlsfied with Qov, Tal~ " bot, and have groedily possessod themsolves of tho Republican organization in that State, only to seq that organization erumble in their hands. It may bo interosting, in this conmestion, to ro- call tho fact that in tho last spring oleotions tho population, or any grave designs‘upon thoe poacs and woll-holng of tho community. Tho anly *teoda of cthica" in which tho publio fs intere oated Ia that tho physician ehiall givo a8 little modiolio ne posaiblo, no that tho vialt of tho un- dortnlker may o doforred to tho lnat morgent. T e THE CREDIT OF NEW ORLEANS: The City of Now Orleans hag an oulstanding: dobt of $£21,002,100. This dobt consats of. varlous loans, falliug due ot various datos from: 1874 to 1011, ¥ome of {hom bearing 6, othora 7, 7-80, and 10 per cont intorest. In 1872 tho Logialaturo authorized tho isouo of a now Yond, having fifly yoars of run, benring 7 por cont interest in gold, to bo subatitutoed for thoso varlous forms of dabt, and to bo called the Con- solidated Loan of tho Oty of Now Otleana. Up to July 1, 1874, 8,220,000 of theso bonds had boon substituted for, .outstanding debls, Tho et of tho Logislaturo limits tho dobt of tho city ot 23,000,000, declaring any form or ovidenco of dobt issuted by tho city in oxcess of that. sum to bo illegal and void; and making {t a. ‘ponal offonso for aby municipal officor to fssuo . such bond, warrant, or ovidonco of debt {n ox- cous of tho gum limited. Sinco then the Log-. islature hes gono furtbor, and prohibited the. isuno of auy debt, or evideuco thoreof in any- form, oxcopt warranta on tho City Trossury for* cash actually therein. at the timo tho warsant is - issuod. Tho Consolidatod Lonn, therofore, when ltl'fu takon, will ropresont tho whole dobt of tho: city. ; Asan ovidonooof the want of faith in thes Govorument of tho Stato, of the genaral domor- - alizatlon produced by tho carpot-baggors and! their usurpation, and of tho uncertalnty and: distrust that provail, those munioipal bonds thats ought to bo at a promium aro offorad for salo in: Now Orlonns with no takors nt 46 con{s-on thet dollar. This doos not indieato n vory, honlthful' praspect for tha ity finances. Duripg 1874, old’ bonds, totho amount of $8,490,000, fall duo, Those s con only bo paid by an oxchanga of. new bonds, or by purchago with tho proceada of tho rale of ! now bonds. Tho dobt belng- limliad to $23,000,-~ 000, and tho debt bolng now $22,000,000, and tho + only moand of paying that debtbeing by tho eate: of bouds worth only 46 conts on the: dollar, the prospoct is by no means flattoring, . sud the city will soon bo brought faco to fac with tho altornative of ropudiation or direct-tax- - ation. If tho oity woro ombarrassed only by its . own debt {tcould soon recover ita eredit, but it ; is taxed to tho utmost Jimit of enduranco to pay - tho oxponses of the recklers and unbridied Stato Governmont, and to pay the Hon's share of tho - Interast on the Btate dobt, and of tue principal a8 it falls duo. Thore canbo no flnancial rolief * to Now Orlenns until the Stato Govornment is takon out of tho hands of tho irresponsiblo spondtbrifts and advonturers who control it, and ‘e restored to the poople of tho Btate, e o To sny that His Graco tho Duko of Bedford . lias beon making an ass of himself, s to exprees . mildly the opinion which Londoners at this mo- ment ontertain of him, Ho bas been oxerolsiug : fouaal rights with a vongeanco, nnd, commencing : Prohibltionista polled 4,604 votes in Connectiout, and 2,135 votos in Now Hampshiro, and that in both theao States the Prohibition party is organ- ized on an’ iudepondont basis, naking now no odds of any other political organization. THE BURGLARS AND THIEVES, Thero is o goneral aud woll-foundoed complalnt that tho polico force of tho city has lost or let go tho conirol of the ruftian and dishonost alassos, and that murder, robbery, burglary, snd gam- blingatd confidonce oporations Lsve becomo Quily events. . Nobody has any fent of the polico. The forco 18 uttorly ‘inelMciont and demoralized a8 tha hoad. ‘Within tho lnet ton doys thoro have beon no less thaa five homicides; and burglaries have bocoma'such & matter of coursa that thoy no longer attract atteution, and sufferors, jn- stoad of roportiug thom, opon negatiations diroctly with tho thieves. That s the only chanco thoy Liavo to recover any proporty. Thoro can be no difloulty whatovor in fixing tho rosponaibility for this condition of affairs, Tho Buperintendont of Polico could rid the city of tho burglars and blacklegs in twenty-four hours'it sodisposod. But tho Superintendont is just now ongaged in tho business of re-olecting a cortain candidato to Congross. His agonts aro tho gambling fratornity, tho bunko-house kaop~ ‘erg, tha confldence mon, the fonces for receiving and pelling stolon goods, the pimps, ruffians, footpads, and pickpockots, The Suporintondont of Polico has absoluto power over all thosa peo- plo. Thoy olect dologatos to conventions; thoy . move to and vote in any ward thoy are direated; thoy poll in tho aggrogate a large number of votes, and can poll thom in whatever dlstrict the Superintondent may roquire, Tho sorvices of all thoso peoplo will bo wanfod from now £ November, and the Superintondont of P : will not dlsturb or intorforo with thom. T | oo thoy aro enjoying jush mow a harvesk digorder, and booty, anco, of riot, THE ETEICS OF PRUG" ;. In the sathor amusivg AiEouesw un'at tno Jaat mooting of tho druggists of hjg citg, on the quostions of froo rept™ Bv'] eommissions,” Dr. Foster sfated hig boliot fnt a1l tho ubbub sbout physiclany faking vommissions from the druggists qn thoir Prosoiptions and ocoupying offices free of ront oyor drog-stores was & nows- peper mousstion, unworthy tha notico of tho profossion, The Dostor ores, however, in m’m- posing that oitbor the mowspapors or tho publlo oare anything about the facts in the cnso. Wo presamo that tho publio do nmot emro o fig for tho faet that some physiclans have ofticos ovor drug- stores and got thoir ront frea; or that they have n carle-llanche at the sodn and mineral wator fountains, and got hottles of perfumery and eakos of soap without mauay and without prico, "Primarily it i nobady'a business if the dogctora have a soda-fountnin runumg for tholr oxelusivo ueo, aud snoint thomgalvos from homd to foot with oils and pomades which cost them nothing, Tho only intorest which the public kave fn tha mattor is that the dooctors snall not fool it {n- cumbent upon them to Increaso tha doses o na to inarense thoir commissions. At thia walor~ molon-cholie time, for ingtanco, Bmiths might seriously objoct to taking n pound of Epsom ealts whon an ouuco would bo suficiont, just bocausa Smith's dootor con thus Incronso Lis commikgions, Brown nldo would havo good gmuudnlurcxpuatulutmxngnimiua.klug & whala box* of pills for his dyspopsla when Lnle that amount would bo tgo much, Tho public will 1ot objaot to any mutual arrangoments botweon doctors and drugglsts so long 0 it doos not af- feck tho number and amount of doses, Woll mon have no intorest in ono or tho other ox- ¢opt in soclal way; snd pick men do not caro about cultivating long friondshipa with them. If, howovor, the mutual assoclation and prox- imity of the doctor and tho druggist da irply largo dosos and moro of tho, thon tha under~ takor should algo bo admittod to tho partaersinp, #0 that causo and offoot may bo togothor, and thas tho applisnces for rapid and casy transit to Gracoland and Rtoeohill may bo provided. Ine timately ag thoso three gontlomen ora gone carned, howover, wo aro loth to bellavo that thoy Lave any gommon purpose in lessening the with tha cabmon; hea brought down upon him- - solt tho disgust of all cinages, Roadors of Dics cns will call to mind the air of decayed gronts ness which hangs round Russell and Fitsoy, - Bquares. Ronged aronnd the gooty shrubbery aud smolky rallings of the square, whorein dreary” nursomaids drag frotful childron about, shivering: under the dismal infuonces of lenden sky ond northeast winds, are the housea ownod by His Grnco the Duka of Bed-'. ford. Thoy are like the shrubbery, smoky ; snd dismal oxtornally; lke . tho square,-. thoy aro dreary and gloomy inside. The great~'- ness hae departed from thom. Tho silonco in-: them is funeroal, broken only by the yell of the) milkman and tho rattle of the butchor'’s eart; over the cobble-stonos. The sparrows ohirp on: tho eidewalk, scarcely ever disturbed. Herey bachelor curates, schooolmastors, and iudigents gontlemen board, And onall this tha light of? other days shinos bt feebly. Dull and fonereal! 88 aro theso two squares, and sovoral othors ad- Jacent, the otoupants find.the solitude too nolsy.. ‘Tholr 14ndlord, of Bedford, tharefors prohibitedi the pnsssgoe of cabs ond_ funorals through his property. Thig covers noarly a square mile,of faded grontnoss in tho heart of London, ty main division being entered by Gordon straot. o X Euston rond, s Gracoputup o gate, Wits burly lodge-kaopdt 4o, gpard g against cshm on ond fungrals, Recont!~ "y pabhy tried.to & rog his v;-mypm the p7eq, “'ho ludigo-keopex 88¢ gyje. edbim, A bripit ennnod, in which: e canhy w3 woral ud, and ro- oived wounds Witk carried Pm ty the 100d, whero gorvants €08 g from fcabling oud v\ Jor gabmen oro sbres) . Then oamo tho 1ow. | ‘yq papers wero GUllDS d ou the Tookout for " gonuniion - Thoy uelzed upon Iis Graco of P oa¢crq. Tampooncd bimyridi culod i, charged* o, Sith ‘providing o funor . merely for the P rgure of lmowing thi\b bl fenants in Xe’ .oy Squaro should not soo 1% 2! ;]a k"’,“ 4¥' yihing moro propostorous tha " $ho Duk's ation cannot bo imaginod. It eh O78 # pitiful ambition at snyrato. It is possible” 05 thit display of foudal tyranny may creato . ¥ F4#t8 dangorous to the Duke's futura, (s sbate st i TN The London Spiritualists are in a quan @813 Tho spirits aro not over-friendly to somu ® of thom. ° Theso unfriendly spirits are ap, W0 printoly deslgnated * ovil” Tho porsecution ' Of Spiritualists by the ovil ones has nesumod st ‘ot frightful dimonsions that tho leading Lond. '™ medinma have been compelled to issio & gover, V! fnvitation to nll ** visiting spirita * to meot thom. in & gonoral conforonco, Tho objoct of this conforanco ie to ranson with the ovil spivits, Tho meoting was called. Ono of tho mediumg present was tho director of a well-known musical bsnd. Ho roso eud informoed tho other mediums, and tho iuvisiblo good and ovil spirits who surrounded him, that ho wisked to bo allowed to inquiro what courso should bo pursued towards tho lower clave of spirits whon one was annoyed by them. Tho spirits of {he lower olass troubled tho mon belonging to hie band consldorably. Wherover the band went thoy were tormonted by tho ovil ones. Tho apir- its dashed thoir instruwents about. Occanional- Iy thoy littod up grent heavy things to the ceil- ing. They oven carried the playors inlo other - rooms whera their musie was not wanted, When tho spivits did not Jike the engagoments mado by tho bnud, theywould inform them thatthoy could not go sud forthwith would take possession of their instruments and portmantosus, Instead of flutes and trombones, thoy would put guns and pistols into tho lands of the playors and toll them to uwso thom. Tho load- e of tha baud wunted to kuow what it was hgac to do undor the ostraordinary circumstances, A Mr. Morso who was prosont fell into a trance, and, after mucls twitching and ! quivering, n splrit spoko through bim to s’ tho musicinn tunt tho ovil spivib muw bo roa- soned with and shown tha orror of bia ways, for, Just as o man was wndo botor by lustruction and examplo; so the evil epirit could only by ro- claimed by logie. Wo should suppose that it would not bo over-difiicult to satisfy any evil spirit of averngo intelligonco that it was su- premely unreagounble to dash oxpensive musieal iustruments about, ft thew up to the colling, carry tho playera away from thelr compaulons and tho audionco, or prevent the performuuco of coutracts, S It tho molley of the Pennsylvaula rallvoads: Lios not douo somothing for Ililadolphia, thon indeod hias ita labor boon all in vain, for no liv- ing buman being can point out a single move which hias lookod to tho Uenofit of any spbt of ground boyond tho corporate lmits of tho City of Brotherly Love, 1t in no wonder, thon, that:. the Press of that olty bogiue to congratulate itaolt upon the advantages it cnjoys over all othor points on tho acaboard for controlling tha oxport trado of the couutry. Montronl, it olaims, has bub half tho advantagoa of Phila- dolphis, beosuso its routo is ologod from Novem- bar ta May ; Boaton [4 situated too far from Chi- ogo t0 be ablo to copa with Pliladols