Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1874, Page 4

Bl R TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. 1874, AATES OF KUNACKITTION (AYAULE IN ADVAN and give Post Offco aditras In full, inoludiug . Liamfitancenmay bomada oither by dralt, exyross, Poate Ofsco order, or in reglstored lottors, at aur rlsk, TENMS TO CITY BUBECRIDE: Dally, delivored, Sunday vxcented, 235 cants povwek, Daily, dolivorad, Bunday Inctudad, 30 conts por weok. Addrosn THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Cotner Madison and Deatbor Chloago, Tih TO:DAY'S AMUSEMENTS, XY OF MURIC Halsted straot, botaon Mad- WA A heroe. +* Aladdin® L WIOKER'S THEATRE-Madlsqn strect, hetween nfi{.‘éimf.an Siato. | Qonnort by tho Do Mursks Troupe. OOLEY'S THEATRY~Randolph wtreot, betwoer o O SuiTer 4 By ory Love b Long Dranch.” OPERA-TUUSR—Clark _piront, opposito S Rtoata: Raly A Somnea Stinsteaiss RS A1 S1—Montoo, sizeet, hetween Y LR O ont of ‘Harry Lindeu. St ** Silsories 0b Human Lito A, ¥, A, MTIAl, 3 i coninunicatlon s (Peidars R ok, for Duisiuess and work on tho P s Cordintls Briore iy e Sider ot tha '0LLD COMMANDERY, K. T.—You st autificd O e s 1”513, Baturdty Woyalus to thi inusral of onr Woconwed Bir Kolght, Gl len tral 15 to Riveralde, v Uy carvingos to 16 1. BROWKR, 0. G The Chicago dribune, Friday Moruing, November 20, 1874. ERL w0 Sonstor Choudler sends word to a friend in Washiugton iat lls ra-olaction fs sasured. Tho Ropublicon mojority ou joint bullot ia the Mich- igan Logislaturo is estimated at 22. A o et Sacrilegions hands havo boon lald on the gold Jnednl prosented to Mr. Hesing by leaders of tho Peopla’s Party, Now lot us sco what tho Peo- plo's Party police can do in this oxtromity, Its altar las been desccrated, Tlorenco McCarthy deires to correct the stato- ment that ho designs leaving the Baptist Cnurch and emborkiog in politics, Ho proposos to so- i in the Church becaugo it is moro corrupt than Congross. Porhaps the wolght of DIr. Mo- Curlhy cn either gido of tho balance would turn the realo, 01 King Coffoe, of #ehanteo, is not such a oliy old soul that we rogret to hear of his mis- fortunes, The rumor of his deposition and the suceession of hls nephow io 'tho throne™ of Ashantee must bo ploasant reading to tho En- glish. To thom Ashsutee was 8 hot iron for- avor burning yet clingiog to the fesh. R Ay A digpatch this morning brings news that the Carlist army s not scattored, or demoralized, or oven raaterinlly woskened, but has agawmn takeu 8 position around Irun, and is almost ready for an nggrossive campaign. This statemont must bo taken with some ailowance, siuce it comes from Carlis wousces, To-morraw, perbaps, wo shall be informed from Madrid that Carlos is & fugi- tive. Buch expert liars aro the Spanish corre- spondonts, Wo have positive nesurance that the CGrand Jury boa proparad an iudictment of McDonald, tho cbiof gamblor and rufilan of Chicogo, on & chargo of sesault with deadly woapou. The THE CHICAGO TRIBU. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874. gallon, Loke frelghts wero dull. Flour was quiot and unchanged. Wheat quiot and l{o higher, closing at 8¢ soller tho month, and 803/ for Docombor. Corn wha quiet sud }@lo Dighor, closing ut 79¢@705¢0 sellor tho month, and 760 for thie year. Oty wore quiot and un- changad, olosing at G0 noller tho month, nnd *403¢o for thio yoar. Ryo was quiel aud firmer, at 00G90%o. Darloy was quiot and steadior, clos- ing tamo at $1,281¢ for Novomber, and $1.20%5 for Docember. Hogs wero active and closed frm. Sales at 80.00@7.36. Recoipts estimatod ot £0,000. Cattloand sheop wore fairly active and firm, Atty-Gon, Edsall has given sn informal opiuion rospecting the propor dispoeition of Btate taxos collectod In countios having & rall- rond indebtedness, He holds that such toxes must be pald to ihe officors who would bo authorized to recoivo thom it thore woro no grab-lnw on the statuto-books. Ho undorstanda the Buprome Court deoluion to o final, but sdvises tho bringlug of toat case to ottlo the practice of county oficors In tho ‘matter of grab-law taxos, A Mastor in Chancory who hus beon examining cortuin points in the Gilman, Clinton & Spung- field Rallroad cago has submittod a roport whicl sustaing, 80 far as it goos, tho viewa cxpressed fu this papor sovoral months ago. Ho finds that 14,000 shares of stock of tho railroad wero fraud- ulently issued to the Morgan Improvemont Company; that Dircctors of the raileoad woro membera of tho Improvemeut Corapany; thnt cortain lands deeded to the Railroad Compsny for tho location of buildings and shops woro wrongfully pledged to the Improvement Compa~ oy for an advauco of monoy, eafd Iands not hav- ing been improved in the mannor stipulated and agroed; that tho contract for furnishing conl betweon tho Rnilrond Compnny and the Burclay Conl Company was illegal. This cosl con- tract, it anpoars, was voluntarily absndoned by the Barclay concern. Tt proved unprofitable to them, The Master becomes awfully solemn in roviowing tho Iniquity of tho coal transsction, cloging with this pious reflection s **Whetlier tho contract would have remained benoficlal [to tho Railrond Company] for tho whole twenty-five yoars tho conteact was to run, only omuiscient powor cau toll.” THE TWO JOBS. There is & job before the Common Council pressing for action beforo tho expiration of tho present Council for tho purchase of the small triangular block at the junction of Madison stroot aud Ashlaud avenue, under the protest of adding it to Union Paxk., Thero ia anotber job, which {a to vote $160,000 additional componas- tion to Norris & Co., contractors for building tho Fullerton avenuo sowor. It would naturally oceur to the upinitisted that theso two glaring attempts on tho City Treasury would injure or woaken each other; but the reverae is the caso, tho one is part and parcel of the other, The prica proposed to Lo pairl for the Tnion Park trisnglo is £2068,000 ; (he bonus to Norriy & Co. s §160,000; tatal, $428,000, Wheu tho con- dition of tho City Treasury Iu ramembered, this dewmand {8 no trifling oue. The echemo was to unite o North Sido job with & West Sido ono, and push them both through by & combination of tho votes of the Aldermen of the two divis- ions, But thorei a closor connsction than this, The Uniun Park job {s urged upou the ground that, by purchasiug it, the city will collect $10,- 000 of Mr. Guge's debt to tho city, sud tho argu- mout procoeds sa follows: Afr. Samuol J. Walker,whorepresonts thercctangular triungla on Ashlandavenue, owes the Secoud National Bank $130,000, Tho Socond Natiousl Bauk owes BIr, offray in McGarry's saloop, just bofore eleotion, waa one of tho most disgracoful that ever oo~ curred in this city ; and tho person responsiblo for it deserves speedy and condign punishment. The city can better afford to psy Sam Walker's febta than to tolorate the swollen insolonce of the man McDonald e Gago, lato City Treasurer, $130,000. Mr. Walker can't pay tho bank, and tho bank can't psy Gage, and Gago can’t poy the clty, and the city can’t pay its contractors. Mr. Walker thorefore etops forward liko a public benefactor nnd saya: Here is my little rectangular trianglo; nobody will buy it for any purposo; it Las no commorelal valus at presont ; no ono will lend Mr., Lutto P. Poland, member of tho Arkaneas Juvestigating Committce, was stopped in St. , Louis yesterday by tho reporters sud catechised iu relation to the Garlend-Smith complication. He #ays Smith is a * firebrand,” and no more Governor than Baxter. It the Garland Govern- ment ie disturbed, Smith ought no}, in Judge Poland’s upinion, to be recoguized; but thoe Qovernmont should revert to Brooks. Judge Poland i not propared to give an opinfon as to tho validity of tho new Constitution; and this, wfter all, ie the main quogtion at Issuo, Romsn Catholicism in England is a different g Ircm Homan Cathoheism on tho Continent of Europe. The Englich Bisbops of tho Church virtually afirm thie much by making » phigrin- ago to Rome and ssking the Popo to impose noj wuch restrictions upon them in tho impending fight with the civil power 2 ho has placed upon the Continental Bishops. The request is some- thing of an affront both to the Continental Bisk- opa and the Cantinontal Governments ; and it is a ligh complimont to tho aturdy loyality of the English people to the civil power. Mr. Bliendsn, of the Police Board, has at- tompted to prove, in a figurative way, that thore s much less stealing tban wvsual in Chicago. 1is statement ought to be some consolation for Mr. Hesing, whoso house has heon robbod, and for Mr, Johu Wentworth, whose watch has been stolon; and if Mr, Bheridau's figures are not enough, thoso gontlemen may reflect that tho Peoplo’s Party has full control of the police, 80 that the recovery of last or stolea property is & mere question ‘of time. Mr. Hoaing and Mr Wentworth helped to put the People's Parly in power; now thoy aro enjuying the rowards of their labor. Lovers and patrond of truo sit in this country will nct be encouraged by the roport this morn- fng thiat Miss Vionie Ream ia lkely to sccuve s cowmmission for tbo national statue of Far- ragut, Miss TRoam has nolther the edu- cation mor tho genivs of & soulptor, Bho §s an motive woman of the world, 8 {riend of politictans and ** ladies of influence." heso are her chief rocommendativng to pub- lio favor, Wo bave just as Jittlo confidence in thy judgment of tho Commitieo which Is to sonka tho award a8 wo have in Bliss Ream's abili- ty to do tho thomo justico, Neithor Seorotary Nobegon nor Gon. Shorman hus & great roputa- tion wmong artists, howevor justly they may bo ostoomod 2e mon of affalrs, tho Chileago produce markets woro Renerally strong yoeterday, with & light movemont in broadstufts, Mest pork was active, and 700 por brl ighor, closing ab $20,00 caah, aud £2046@ 20,00 wellor Februsry., Luzd was nctive, and 400 per 160 1us bigher, closing at @10.75 cash, and £13.25 goller the yeur, Moats woro quiet snd n shiado esslor, ab o for sbonlders, 93{@93go for ahort tibs, and 103go for short oloars, High- viuea wera quiot and ateady, closing &b 900 per auy monoy in it ; it bos been for sale for years, and no one will give $75,000 or any other sum for it. Now lot tho city pay me $268,000 for the patoly, and outof the proceods I will pay tho Hecond National Bank, tho bank will pay Gago, Gago will pay tho city, and the city pay its credit~ ors, ‘Tho city will actually’ colloct £180,000 of tho Gage dofaleation by paying ma threo prices for my trianglo ! The facts of the other case aro cqually pecu- liar, The city ordered tlo conmstruction of an aqueduct from the Lake to the North Branch ot tho rivor, and the Board of Public Works adver- tised for proposals. Norris & Co. undesbid all compotitora ; the Board of Public Works reasoned with thom, but thoy expressed their satisfaction with the prica nnd demanded the contract. Thoy filed & bond, and on that bond is the namo of Mr. Samuel J. Walker ag security for tho faith- ful performance of tho work.” After executing a portion of the aquoduct, Mr. Walkor aud Nor, ris & Co, present themselves totho Common Council and state that il they go on and com- plote the work they will loso considerable money, and thoreby ndd to Mr, Walker's embarrassments, But it the presout City Counoil will only vote an order beforo they go out of oflico to pay them £160,000 extra compeneation, in addition to thelr contract prico, they will save thomselves from losa and make some profit, and aleo onable Ar, Walker to bridge over his difticultios. It will be econ, therofore, thatAr. BamJ, Walker ia tho bonoflciary in both cases; that both echemos are In fact ome job, which has for its sole objoct to mako the city pay §428,000 of Mr. Bam Walker's dobts. In consideration of this sum of $428,000 paid out of the Oity Trons- ury, the city is to receive Sam Walker's littlo right-anglo-triangle, whicl it 1869 was offerod to tho city for §99,000,—thnt Lolng wuch moro than it was worth, and whioh ig now assossed for tax- ablo purposos at the sum of §88,030. Tho clty Las no more use for the trinngular blook of ground than it Liss for & coruer lot in Duluth, It is valuoless g8 an additiou to Union Parl; in fact, if added theroto, would disfiguro even tho ungraceful proportions of tuat Inclosuro, would {avolve the vacatiou of & very neceskary &nd con- veniont strect, aud an outlay of $75,000 for feuc-" ing, planting, and improving tho sddition, T'he Board of Public Works, to whom, by law, alt dealiugs with public contractors aro commit- ted, has reporced to the Common Council that thero I no morit or equity in the demand of Norrie & Co. for additional componsation. They took tho contract willingly. To sccure it they underbld all competitors, Tho Board says : ‘Thio increase saked for by tho contractora would muke tho conduit cost more than the price nawed in thie hiyhicst proposal received for tho work, aa will be seen by the list of propossls attacked heruto, Boveral of the bullders mnext fu prices above Mossrs, Goorge F. Norrls & Go, havo caliod upon tho Toerd, aud oxpressed thelr willluguess to accept o contract for tho unfinisled yortion of the work, st the prices numed i thelr reapective propously, potwithstsnding the fact thst tho most profitable work 15 now connluted, Ono of theso gontlemen, Johu 8, Cuvk, sskios thia offer 30 writing, o 14 see monatrenco which was presented to your honorablo boiy, 4 Tho law provides it a contractor defoults orabuodons Wi work s mode for ita further prosecution hy luviting propoanls from othor ‘bidderd, and rolotting the contract, To hiaveibe Couneit como In aud {uorenae the contract prico i8 Lo cuoourago biddors to socuro big contracts ut low pricos, aud thon go to the Council and have tholr compensation inereaned. ~'q Doapite theso notorfous facts, tho Common Council aro gravaly aonsidoring r. Walker'a ro- quiont thint the ofty pay his dobts, aod on Mou- day Inet the Unlon Park Addition job rocoived uineteen votes, Incking but two votes of & ma- Jority of tho whole Board. It whl possibly be revived on Mondey night next, whon a trinl voto will take place on the othor branch of the schioms, the voting of $100,000 extis pay to the Tullorton avenuo contractors. It is not often that a public-spirited citizon can flud a City Gov- ernmont volunteering to pay his dobta to tho amount of #428,000, Of tho whole job, the Fullerton avenuo brauch is tho more glaring. It o violative of oxpresa law aud of sound policy, bealdes belng in itsolf wholly without auy morit, uccording to the report of tho Bosrd ot Pablic Works, THE MASONIC BUGABOO. The Illinols Anti-Secreb Societs Aegociation has once more mounted its hobby of Antl-Ma- gonry and put the animal through some very ro- markablo paces, They havo lifted tho veil and put Masoury before the public in & garb which iy caleulated fo give slmplo-minded people, who nover go to the Lodgo and ride goats, tho hor- rors for tho rest of tholr natural lives, and causo thom to rogard n momber of the Bovereiga Con- sistory or a full-flodgod Knight of tho Apollo Commandery sa & butcher of humanity, who takos his coffeo every morming from & frosh skull of some apostate Mason, and dined on tho fricrgoed cbildren of tho victim. If we aro to boliove tho encmics of Masonry, the lodge-room must bo a chamber of horrors, in comparison with which Dante's Tnferno Is quite lnsigniticant. Wo aro told that the bretren go round slricking “ Jubila, jubllo, jubilum,” as Holomon aid to tho wotkmen wbo wero building the Templo, whioh, of course, is quite absurd, becsuse *Ju- bila, jubilo, jubllum,” is Latin, and Bolomon uover spoko Latin, tho classics not bolng & part of his many accomplishmonts, Clergymen aro led into tho lodgo-room with ropes about thelr necks, one shoe off and the othier shoo on, (Hey diddle dumpling, my eou John), snd stripped of a portion of their raiment,—a cos- tumo alinost as unique as that worn upon 80mo occasions by tho Sons of Malta, This is sufi- ciontly dlstressing, and ought to be & eolomn warning to the bLrothren how thoy dally with tho deceitrul goat. Lot thom oling to tho horus of tho altor lost the horns of this goat lead them to tho bal- ter. One of tho members told a story of a friend of his who joined the Knights Templar and was compelied, aftor partaking of the sacra- mental wino, to drink the fifth libation from o humen skull without even kaowing tho charac- ter of the gentleman who onca occupted it, while tho other Knigbts gathered sbout him with drawan ewords, executing o ssvage war danco, sud threntening to cut histhront acroes, tenr out Dbis tongue, and bury what there was left of him in the sands of tho ses, if bo divulged sny of the secrets, After some Irish melodies on the organ by Prof. Merrill, another member arose and told bis lttle story, anuouncing to thoso -prosent tho dite disssters which overtake such luckless Masons as inform their wives, in moments of inebriation or absont- mindedness, of any of the secreta of the Order. Tirst, they cut Lis throut across, Then his tongue {8 torn out. Then, notwithatanding bis complaints at thelr rongh trestmont, thoy lot out bis heart and bowols, o that he has no futllier use for affection or food. Having se- complisled this, they then burn him to ashos, singing * Jubila, jubilo, jubilum,” we presume. snd dancing up sud down, kicking up s dust with tho asbos of the lato departed. Then they gather tho ashes up in a dust-pan and scatter them to tho four winds of heaven, arrangemonts baving boon mado, of courso, beforchand with tho Signal Servico to bave (he wind plow all four ways &t onco that day, in order to distributo the Iate de- consed me impartially 88 possibie. The hor- rors of such a treatment aro onlisnced by the fact that it will be pext to impossible for tho doceased to find the whole of himsctf when he wants to rise at tho summons of Gabriol's trumpot. Thoe worst, hbwever, is yet to come, for one of tho members kuow of & man who asked tho word of tho Grand Master and way struck upon the windpipo Wwith a snuare by Jubito. Then Jubila hit hima terrible blow on the broast with compass ; and Jubilum knocked him cloan out of time and fixed him for the rest of the night with a stuffed club. The very next day the victim went to church and discovered that Jubilom was his minister. We haven't much sympathy for the victim, howover, who would coolly stand this kind of busincss and not geb even with Ju- bilum at thoe frst opportunity, To oll euch twaddle ag this there can, of courao, bo no apewer made, It anewors ltself by its own absurdity. We biave no more sym- pathy with Masonry than tho Anti-Secret Socioty hos; but if o man wante to pu on a white apron and other silly toggery, march ubout with square and compaes behind o brass band, rido s gout or fancy that he belongs to the order in which Bolomon and Hiram onco flonrished, in the pame of all that is sonsiblo let bim do so, aud have as many aocrots a8 bo ploases to koep from his wife, Ten to one, whoro Lo has one secret she will Lavea dozon. Billy as Masons may be, the hoight of siltiuess fa ronched by theso Anti-Seorct Socioty {udividuuls, who meot horo every few months to rohenrso these skull-and.crosabone storios, and gointo spasma evely timo thoy sde & square and compass, Yo & woman who believes in a personal devil josano? That is & question which Burrogato Hutehings, of New York, iu callod upon to decida in the contost ovor the will of Mrs. Harriet Cru- gor, Thislady was & woman of great culture and congiderable wealth, and had no chilaren of nor own, In 1800 she was efzod with o sudden aleknesa which go troublod Ler that sho bolioyed the personal devil was in hot pursuit, and ro- quired the personal and valiant intervontion of & malo sorvant to provent his bodily oarrylng bor off, In order toappessa the foul flend sho willed €236,000 to choritable inatitutious, leaving but 140,000 to hov relatives. Tho question of hor saulty lu rather puzzling, The more fact of per- gonal encouutor with tho flend cannot be ssld to catablish Insanity, artin Luthor was badly {roubled thiaway, while 8t, Dunstan, as tho gtory gaas, koized the Dovil by the nose, without ever {nowerlug danger of & commlssion de lunatico faguirendo, Dut then thess flne old gentlemen liad no property to leavo, which mskos a great dlfferonca. THE L0S8 OF BUTLER, The Opposition newsprpera have been unu- sually stupid sfuce the election. Wo mise that Lillliant invective, that fine frouzy, those bold {magon, and blunt sarcasmia which woro wont to onllven tho pagos of the Demacratio journal. T¢ bos suddenly bocome stalo, flat, and unprofitable, Ity occupation soems to bo gono. It indulges in woakly drivel ovor the pulitical recovery of Podunk, avd an anolout roostor iapa somowhat drooping wings at & prospeot for & seroeoh in the Torty-fourth Congress. But, novertheless, there ie o conspionoun tnok of that glorious, old-time onthuniasm which innrlied its era of defeat. I Lins Jost its staplo topio, which never falled to supply matorial for billingsgate when overy other theme was oxbausted. Its prosent lament may bo porapbrasod somothing ko this: Iumply Butlor sat on n wall, Humpty Butler hiad a big fall § And )l tho Ring's horses, Aud ull the King'a men, Couldu’t put Huinpty Butlertogether sgain, With tho fall of Butler beglus the deciine of & populnr school of journallem tliat has boon built up within the past fow years. To tho Opposi- tion preas Butlor was a gort of literary Mmcanna, who offorod himsel? up at alt timew for tho bene- fit of Democratio writors. Ho was tho embodi- mont to them of tho ontiro Ropublican party. While he yet lived, breathed, and had a being, they nover failed to find matoerisl for abuso, A leador on Butlor was always in order. He was & stauding cffigy to be pelted at. Whaen dawu, ho could always be picked up to bo kuocked down again. Tho comio papers carlcatured him by drawing his faco on a spoon, and there wus & brosd guffaw at the exvenso of the *Radical” party. Tho sorious editors took down their Looks of synonyms and popular quotations, and went at bim with an ardor that ago could not wither. DButlor was to tho Domocratio heart what whisky is to the Democratic stomach,—a coustant, nover-failing stimulaut that pricked tho writor and the orator tonew flights of faucy, fronh sallies of wit, gorgoous atxokes of rhetoric, und herolo dofonses against tho ogro of all polit- ical woal. Strabismus alone was euough to aup- ply editorlal pap to the entire Demoorstic press of tho country for s month, Butler was the Inventor of Banbornism, the apologut of Credit- Mobilier, the dofender of the Salary-Grab, the unrelenting foo of investigation: therefore, a0 attempt was made to represont Butlerlsm ns a syrionym for Ropublioanism, To the Demo- oratic imagination Butler is as neceessry as the bugaboo in nureory-tales, And mow that he has been equelched by Republican votes, sand ruthlessly driven from the scone of aciion, the soul of the Demooratio oditor ia sad, Al the victories of the late oloction fail to com- peneste for the lows of DButler. The Domocratic loss i3 & Ropublican gsin, but the geveral publio must euffer fn the grow- ing stupidity of tho Opposition newspapors, They must absndon their infinite variety on this one thome ; Butler can inepire them no longer. Ho may or may not go to Europs, may or may not go back to the practice of law, may or may pot start 8 new party, mav squnt, or bliok, look two ways at ouce, or write, or talk,—Butler no longor stands sponsor for the Republican party, and the Republican party will no longer biave to bear the hoavy odium of his misdeeds. But what will the Democratic press do siuce chie exit of Butlor ? Whero bo thoir jests and gibes now? Whouce can they disw 28 from sn ex- haustless fout thoso floods of (nvective and tor- rents of opithet which have mado the whole con- tinout resound ? What themo will snpply tho Now York World, the Cincinnatl Enguirer, Oteveland Plaindealer, St. Louls Times, Chicago Times, and Brick Poweroy's Democrat with edltorial stuffing now that Butlerislost to them? Thoy could better have spared & botter man. e POSTAGE ON PRINTED MATTER, Among the sousible acls of the last Congross was the passsge of & law providing that sl printed matter sont by mail (with tho excoption of weskly mowspapers ciroulating within the county whero they are published) shsll bo pre- paid. This Jaw goos Into effect the firat of tho coming year, Though it las recoived some ad- verse criticism from the wealkior newspapers, which have felt thoy cannot hold their subscrib- ors at an increased price and cabnot alford to propay the postage witbout incrcasing thelr prico, the wonder is that such alas was not passed bofore. The printed matter s much greater in bulk and weight then tho wrten matter that passes through the mails, and yet the vystem haa horetoforo been Bolax thut a largo portion of it hias paid no toll whatever to tha Govoroment. Almost any newspaper, cir- oular, or printed document has beon car- ried without question, aud the post-offices have beou forced to kesp opon accounts with thousands of customers agalust whose vefusal to pay there has been noremedy. Every journal or periodical issuad rogularly bas hiad tho privilege of souding to any address, whather the unfortunate recipient has ever subscribed or vat, The man who refuscs to subscribe for s papers aud takes it upon compulsion, it st all, naturally daclines to pay the postage ; and Unclo Sam has ganorally hoeu compolled to carry such news- papers six months or = year for nothing before thoy can bo stopped, Thoe mails have likewise ‘been Hoodsd with ciroulsr advertisomonts, thus dead-boatlg their way throughout tho country to the great oxpouss of tax-payers aud the in- finito disgust of all mankind. The Postmasters who bave failod to colleat the poatage ou printed matter, baving had no responmiblo persons to chiargd It againet excopt thomselves, have been upanimous in the practico of wiping out theso accounts, and tho result is that & very large pro- portion of tho printod matter has heretoforo bien a drag and o dead waste Iu tho Dopartment. Ex-Postmustor-General Croswoll estimated, o couplo of years ago, that st lenst Lalf of 1t pald 10 revonue whatever to the Government. ‘'ho raquivomont of b now tew, that thepost- agoon printed mutier shall bo prepaid s writ- {en mattor, s 80 Buse, simplo, natural, and just & way of romoving ull thoue abuses thab suy pro- test ngalnat it is a virtual confossion of a desiro to dafraud the Governmout., Every nowspaper or magazine publishor can »dd the amount of the postage to hls subgeription prico, sud if his subacribeta aro not willing to pay it the clrenm- stance is uncomplimentary eithor to tho valuo of the publication or tho honosty of the subsexlber. At sll ovents, the Government whl be no longor under the necosslty of carrying publications which the people do not think are worth tho postage, A system has beon agreed upon which will simplify the prepaymont, 80 that every Iarge publlshing house will be at as little trouble ss whon tons of printed mattor wero dumped iuto tho malls ab Unclo Bam's rlsk, Tho law fixos @ conts o pound for publications issued weekly or oftonor, and 8 conts per pound for thosa published loss froquontly. f'his yhows that Congrass appreclased the faot that monthly publloations aro npt to be h than others. The Dopartmout bas sdopted a serios of stamps which aro to be attached lo a womorandum-boak ou tho delivory of tho me mattor, Theso ntamps aro of twonty-four diffor- ont donominations, running 2 cents, 8 conts, 4 cants, 6 cents, 8 conts, 9 cents, 10 conts, and 12 conta ; and, after this, In multiplos of 2 sod 3 cents up to €00, ‘Whis arrangomont of stampa will onable publishors to soud any smount of printod mattor from 1 to 2,000 pounds without using mora thau flve stamps. Theso stamps will ‘bo uold at tho post-ofitco in sizes enitablo to the buslnoss of the publisher, and the necessary amount will bo' affixed to tho stub of a book mado out in the form of s bank-check book,—tho othor part of the pege being torn off and given to the monder aw 8 recolpt. Thisis a simploand inoxpensive system of kooplug sn accurate account of sll printed matter sont out, and tho oftoct in tho Dopart- ment muat be two-fold: (1) grontly to roduce tho butk and welght of the mail-matter, and (2) groatly to increaso tho revenne of the Post Ofiico Dopartmont, Both results are directly in tho Intorents of the people, and cveutunily will lead to a reduction of postage in this country. While the begiuning of this roform was in- auguratod by tho passage of tho law undor Mr. Creswoll's admiuistration of tho Dopartmont, Postmaster-Genorsl Jewell {a entitled to tho credit of tho admirablo systom that has been dovised for putting f¢ in ovoration, and he will probably enjoy the diatinction of bringing about tho best results it can posaibly attaiu, R ——— THE THIEVES AND THE FOLICE. The police atsrted out to meot Tue IninuNs's exposures of the curront ravages by thieves and burglara with tha plea that tbere was no more orlmo of this character now than 15 usual at this timo of tho yesr. Tho collateral ovidence cou- tribuced to sustain our position by the peoplo who have boon sufferora scome to have driven the polico away from their first position, and now Mr. Mark Shoridan comos beforo the Grand Jury to sbow that the police undor Mr. Rohm are recovering alarger proportion of etolon prop- orty than thoy did under Mr. Washburn, Wo can conceive of nothing moro irrelovant to the main quostion, oxcept that it shows tho polico under the prosent mausgemont not to bo doing what thoy aro organized and maintained to do. We have always labored under tho improssicn that a polica force ie organized for tho doublo putpasa of protocting tho citizens sgainat outrago and robbory, sud for approhonding offend- ora aftertho outrages aud robberios have been committed. Wo are famillar with no code of 1aw or ethics, however, which wasrantss traus- formation of a police into an organized body for rocuiving stolen goods. Yet it is for this that Mr, Bheridan claims apecial credit is due the polios under his goneial direction. Wo should think it would occar to the Grand Jary, whom Mr, Bheridan has undertaken to eulighten on this point, that if tho polico devoted less timo to tho rocovery of somo of tho stolen property, they might have more time to watch tho property before it is stolen aud to approhond the thieves 8o that thoy might not stos) again, Tho police are not the only ngents through whom stolen property may ba recovered. Tho thioves of a large city are genorally or- ganized into gangs with contral quarters aud acommop pool of earnings. This has been motably the cmse o Chicago for some years, Whon a pickpocket relieves a gen- tleman or lady of a watch on the horse-car, or 8 burglar makes away with a diamond brooch from a rosldence, the stolen articls is aont to a secrot depository In tho city, or, by a system of ex- change between the thieves of vaiious cities, uent to a slmilar dopository in somo other city. The thief nlways prefors to setl back the article to the person from whom it was stolen, as this is rogardod 88 & final setilomont of tho matter, wheress, it sold outside, it may lead to appre- heneion and arrest. Thoro sare always porsons ready to nogotiate tho roturn of the stolen property for a consideration. Sometimes this is done throngh newspspor advertisomonts, some- timea through porsonal application of a **mutual fricnd,” snd sometimea through the agency of the police. When accomplished with the aid of the police, tho modus operandl dosa not differ from that followed in the other nego- tiations, Tho owner of the stolon prope:ty in- dicatea what he is willing to pay to got it back; the thief tells what ho will take; and, aftor tius, it 18 & question of haggllug es to price, with crime on oue side and avarice on the other. Itis this kind of boginess in which tho police, under tho orders of tho Board of Police, have boen en- gaged tor aome months past, and which the tax- poyers sud plundered citizens aro called upon to extol and admiro. We bLave sn idea that they will refuse tho Board the praise Mr. Sheridan sooms to banker after. If, as the Prosident of tho Bosrd, he could have ehown that there aro fower robberiea wunder the present administration than under Mr. Washburn, or that thero are fewor policomen now to pre- veut burglaties, ke might justly have been con- gratulated. But when o provos simply that, with one-third moro policomen, the percentage of stolen proporty recovered is larger, hodeliborately domonatrates that the present occupation of the polico forco 1 uot to discourage robbery by se- curing tho thieves, bus only to recover somo of tho proporty after it Las beon stolon, It would not be out of placo for the Grand Jury to in- struct Mr, Shoridan that it Is tho function of & police force to protect property from belng stolen, toapprobond thioves, to bring burglars to justice, and, by conatantly harsssing and tor- turing them, to drivo tho robbers whom they caunot convict out of the city. Torhaps it nover before occurred to the unuat. ueal consumer of opium that be could not travet with auything like comfort. Bupposing him to be a coufirmed opium-eator with a dusire for travel, He would meet with all sorts of diilleul- tiea Iu the way of bugage, Custom-Ilousedutios, foau to corrupt pllicialy, 8ud oxtra fare on ao- count of extra welght. He would bo hauled up beforo somo Justice of the Peace i avery coun- try village in which ho took his daily doao, ou the suspicion of attewpted suwicide, All these things avo mado cloar in the coufession of an opwm-eater in tho Daily Graphic. Rocom- wenced the habit ten yoars ugo, and from thirty draps dally rose to thirty ounces of laudanum in the samo time, Llien bio began to realize how ponderous his habits wore. When ho paid n viait to a country-cousin ho had to tako o keg of laud- anum with bim. When ko went out fluhing for & week, s barral would hardly sufice, In tact he beoame A nulsanco to hiwolf, and camo to tho couclusion thet it was about timo to reduce hin poppy-teed potations, Ho set to work, thorefore, and in timo bolloved that Le might, with praotico, reduce hls dram to 420 dropa a day. He huu done bettor than that, o gote uloug nicaly on 180 dropy, aud (eela as cam- fortablo as possible. Mo baa reachod this mud- arato resutt by giviog up coffeo, » The activs principlo of coffac ia an sntidte of oplun, sud to neutralize ita effocts requires a houvy dose, Dy yieldiog up bisudy, coltes, and all othor stimulants, he has made & reduction which witt onable him Lo travel without inoumbrsnce, and 1ive without dauger of transmutation nto an apotheonry-shiop. 1t will accur to somo persons that a pationt who_requiros oven 140 drops of landanum to go to sloop must bo u protty wide- swako man, Tho offlcial canvass of thio October oleation in Town, and an oxtra-officisl allowanco to Opposl- tlon candldatas for votus msnifestly polled or roturned fu error, glvas tho following results Bepublicen. il Oppoution. ecrotary of Btato, Joslah T, Young...107, -n?’, David Morga, ... 79,083 udltar of Htate, Buren R, Bhorman.108,014 | Jonaply 3T, King. ... 18,401 rossuror of Siat Willise Qbrdaty.....300,009 | Heury 0. Hargls, . 70,208 ‘Altorney:Uoneral, f Rognauls, an at for many a painting o8 Cloopatra, Juno, or Apliradite. Her lover fell in the days of the Commune, and for four yenrs shio piued. Thero was ona resourco loft for hor, an thoroluforaven thopuoreat Partsinn, In tho murky waters of tho Bolne, Bho was lovely tn lifo and intorosting 1n doath, which is enough to satinty tho ambition of auy Parisian Indy. —_—— T Ta Vandorbilt at tha bottom of it ? bogins to be the question about tiie opposition of tho dichi~ gan Contral Rollway to an oquitablo arranges wont by which tho Baltimore & Ollo may oc- oupy somo of tho Illinols Contral' dopot and grounda, ‘That con ooly postpona the activo business of that rond for a few days. It laim- poasible tostop it. The Michigan Ooutrul hos avor been one of our faireat ronds, \What fs the mattor with its now managomont? The Hon. George W, Wright, an old settler of Toxue, has racontly discovorod some ovideucea of oarly clvilization in that Stato in the abape of fortifications, weapons of war, cooking utonils, and srtlclos of oruament. It s plonsing to know that thoro was at ono time a clvilization of any sort in ‘foxas, It would bo mtill more pleasing it somobody would find some evidences of modorn civilization there, NOTES AND OPINION. Al corrections bolng mnde that would soom ta be required by later returus, the eloctions to the Houso in the noxs Congsoss atat 104 Republic ok, 171 Domocrats, Tho seats of fiftcon Ro- publicau mombors are known to be contosted. ~Horatio Soymonr, in a card which the Utica Obserzer of Monday publishes, declines to be a candidato for the United States Sonate, —There ia & rumor that Sonator Goldthwaits M, E, Qutts.....,..100,307 | John 11, Koatley,,. 70,804 Glerk of the Supreme Gaust, Edward 3, Holmcs, 107,019 | George W, Ball,... 76,643 Tieporter of' the Supreme Gourt, John 8, Runells, 100,098 | Jumce B, Woart. ., 79,077 Tiogister of tho State Land Ofiico, David BacOT. oss ¢, 107,080 | Rt 1L, odantmel 18,985 Tho votes for tho Opposition (a8 above) ara, in each case, from 3,000 to 10,000 greater than a atriot coustruction of tho law would atlow. Thus, the propor vote for Henry C. Hargls i 74,970; for various litinls of Iargls, 2,7580; and for Barns, long-timo withdrawn from the ticket (intonded for Hargls), 1,440, Jamos 3L Woart, the Chawrman of the Auti-Monopoly State Com= mittee, in hke mauner sulfers to the extont of 4,112, The Canvasming Board dosoribo aud tocato mome 4,000 faulty votes for Rodenrmel, and pags othera {n & lump with tho romark that thore {s *‘an endless nmount of varlations.”! In some counties the namos of candidates wero wrongly placed on the Opposition ticket, as in Johwwon County, whoro 1,800 votes were for Weart tuat should have been for Bail, snd sg many for Ball that should bave boon for Weart. 1t is, of courao, none of our tuneral if the Op- position in tows fling themseivos away in this careless mannar; but, romemboring with what lugh pretonsion they set out, we atcall the moro contouted with tha large Republicsn majority tlat it leaves no osuse for angry dispute over orrors in the roturps, Tho lesson ia noue the less worthy to ba hoeded, howaver. EEAEEEN M I The rocont appraiaal of tha stock of Oliver Dit- gon & Co., by the msuranco companies, brought out some curfous faata in a musical point of viow. One of Lheuo was tho costof producing muslo. ‘Tho sppraisers, in their roport, stato that, of the ‘Imusic-books, tho prico charged for one sories was £1 anch, the prico allowed wss 80 conta, tho cost of praducing 18 centa ; ditto, oharge $2.05, atlowance $1.65, cost 40 conte; agaln, chargo $1.25, aliowance 50 cents, cost 14 conts. There wore soven Btyles of work onumorated, and this 1aa fair average. Tho olnimants chorgod for 1088 on thuir sheet-musio abont $48,000 ; the ap~ praigers mado the value a littla aver $11,000, and charged the loss to the insurors at sbout 88,700, Tho disparity in thego figuren was occasioned by the fact that the appraigors looked uvon & parb of the atook, such ae songs of the War of 1812 and political songs of the campsigus of 1840, 1844, and 1848, aa worthloss for anything but old paper. 1t would have boon unfortunate for the Em- press of Russis lsd she left her pockotbook at home when she paid s visit to hor daughier at that interesting period when maternal encour- sgement i¢ indispeasable, It appears that Queon Victoria sccluded herself at Balmornl as soon as the Empross of Ruseis arrived at Buckivgham Palaco. Installed thers, the visiting Empross was compelled to poy her way just as if she werobosrding at a Lotol. Ic might be urged that the Dukoe of Edinburg should have enter- tained his Imporial mother-in-law, but those who know him beat declara that extravagance is not his failing, and the support of a mother-m- law I8 a Juxury he could ot afford. Hence tho 1ady wes compelled to satiefy hor butcher, and baker, sna candlestick-maker from her own purse. This may be Court etiquette, but tho hospitable American eapnot help thinkiog it gowewhat peculiar. —— The Parisian oditors aro haviog a very lively time juet at present. They are nat only con- stantly cenaured for the publication of on dits of the wildest desaription, but overy fow days ste soveroly punished for giving currency to acan- dals. A short timo since, a French Bohemisn, named Cononne, invonted » scandal aud sold it to soveral popers, all of which eagerly published it. The rosult was that five editors were fined 100 fr. each; Ducret, of the Paria Journal, and Vassoy, of the Figaro, 800 fr. esch, and Fray- sinnaud, of the Soir, 500 fr. and six days’im- prisonment. Oanounne, the originator of the scandal, received as his portion 500 fr, fine and an imprisonment of fiftcon days. Notwith- atandivg tho severity of tho punishment, it {8 maora than probable that every one of them will got caught in the same trap again at the firat op- portunity, == Simultansously with the record of Europosn miracles by whieh stigmatized young ladies ean subsist indofinitely loug on s cracker aud a gill of water per diom, comes a better suthenticated story of au unfortunate gentlomsn in Michigan. T'akon sick some time ago, he Lina been able to eat nothing for twenty-one days, and has man- nged to preserve life, and, uniil within & day or two, renson also. Receutly, owaver, the phys- ical oxhauetion following auch a long fast pro- duced inesmity, and tho unfortupate sufferer made two attempts to end bis life. Whother thaeuo offorta woro caused by tho proximity of confectionery storo which we are told was 8it~ uated opposite, and tho painful reslization of the 1io *“Thon art so near and yot 80 for," is ona of thoso painful myateries one ehrinks from lo- vaatigating. P N Tho 8an Franclsco Chronicle claims that by 8 process just wvonted ice can bo mannfactured chieaper thau it can bo cut in winter and storod for summer use. It coemws there are two patonts. A Mr. Lloyd Tevis, & capitalist, obtained coatrol of the At cousolidated tho two old compantes, and theu put up the prico of ico from 1}¢ cents to 234 conts per pound ; that s, bo sold it for €60 por ton, whilo o paid the patentaos only 87, sud thoy made & haudsome proflt st that. Ouo of the mon connected with the factory councoived the ides that he could discover a procoss by which it conld bo mauufsctured ata much less price, and, having placed himeolf under the pat- ronage of Benator Jones, it 18 claimed no bas baon most succeasful in his efforts. No ono noed now swoller from summer Loats, aa ioo Is to bo furnished * dog chosp.” A good a8 well a8 a ool thing for Jonos. —————— A writer In the American Historical Record for November says that gown and bands were gouerslly worn, until this coutury, by Preaby- torion and Cougrogational ministers. A bas~ reliof on the tomb of the Rev. Nathan Bassett, a Couprogational preschor at Churloston, 8. 0., who died 1n 1783, represonts him in gown and bands, Thore I8 a wimilar roprosentation on tho tombstono of tho Rov. Francis Worcester, of the umo denomiuation, who died in Holls, N. I, in 1763, Weuloy and Whittleld botls presoned in full clorical dress. Dr. Channing, the Uni- tarian, is sald to bave done so, Tho Luthoran Ohurcl still clings to the gown, probably bocauso Lutber is sald to have mtroduced it into the pulpit, Before his time, it was aoademical rathor than olerioal. ————— Cbarcoal and the Selno end many a romaoco n tho gay Capital of ¥rauce, and when » noted oareor ends through thelr agenoy, L'aris asls to disousy the caso as the sonsation of tho hour. ‘Pho daity papora givo the latost spactmon ofa Parision romance, Amoug tho bodios exposed at tho Morgus, baving duly qualified for a slab by unmersion in the Beluo, wad ono RO beautiful in faco aud so perfeot In form that Parisisns ravad ovar tho lovaly corpse with characteriatio oxtravaganco, They flocked fu shoals to admiso it ontlines and epoculato upon ita history, At Jast oume sn old woman Who rocognized tho dosd girl ne Lucrozin Dalbl, au Italian, whio hiad lived with hor and shared hor mesgro faro of broad avd wine, Lucroziu wuy a palut- or'amodel, Sho Lind loved sa artist aawmed Heu- (Democrat), of Alabama, belng ia ill health, will rosign; and alongside of it comes a roport that John Forsyth, of tho Mobilo Reglster, bas been booked * for tho firat_occurring vacanoy in the Boualoe of the Unitod States,” —Tho Utlea Herald, whose editor (Eilis H. Toberts) {3 one of the Ropublican members of Congresa defeated for re-aloction, hes some earuost words on tho duty of Congross this win. ter, saying: For tho coming sesslon of Congress, 1 party retuina 1y il pover. f bt Tomooleqa dnties aro not diwinished by tho reault of the recent | cloctions, . . . Often rotiring mombera ata reoks los, In'tho coming sossion tho plos will be :?fl: gh; pil_’li‘y‘fllghl |’H lt:a generous, pled, But thin majority represe BiRory dosorves 10 be dofondod, and 1o 1 ng neros chapter nppears than ix Tocent offorta. for aclf-puriti. cation and the correction of hoary ubuses in adminis. tration. It will be tempted to iwo courses,—io con’ rupt extravegance and wastefulness, and to purlitsule ‘mous_ concensions snd penitentinl _stralt-fuckots Mindful of s paat, it will maintain s solf-rospact, aud tho Congromulonsl mujority will grove by’ I closing acts that it dosery > S Besaraod to s 1T e verdiat thud hut —In roply to some scandal used for local ef. fect, Congrossman Dawes says, in & published card : 80 far aa tho Ohorpenning claim s fuhod t SemBORES L Ba b proes. feaut S Lt Houso or before the public, It 1a now’ pending In a new form in the Hous of Ropresentatives, ond when it1s renchied I intond to oppoes it with whiat abllity 1 Tuve, becauso T atill Lliove it to be o gross fraud, —The Allegan (ich.) Journaleraves notoristy with the following at the mast-head: For Preaidont in 1876, GEN. WILLIAM 'TEQUMSEH BHERMAN, For Vice-Pres(dont, HON, THOMAS V, FERRY, Subject to tho decldfon of tho Kepublican Natlonal Convontion. —0f gonuiue, unmitigsted salary-grabbors,— men who, in the Forty-sscond Congress, took back-pay and kept 1t,—tho folllowing have boen elected to she Forty-fourth Copgress, andisa full list of them, viz.: Republicans. Democrate, Bufinton, of Mass., Randal, of Pi,, Cougor, of Mlctt.. Wood, of N. Yy Dunhell, of Mbin,, Ely, of N, Y., Durrall, of La. Swann, of Ma, Kelley, of Pa., Harrls, of Va, of, of Pa., Waddell, of X. 0., Huge, of Ala., ‘Huncook, af TezT, Blowes of 3 Inderend towell, of Va., ndependent, Wallace, of B, 0.—10, - Banks, of Aass~1. It is protty safe to sy, evon at this distance in time, that the above list does not contaiu the name of the noxt Bpeaker of the House. —The Hon. Samuel Lo, Democratio (negrc) Copgressmav-clectin South Caroling, was, 8s3a the 8t. Paul Pioneer— Formerly mester of ceremonioa snd things In Col. Dill Ring ond Sonstor Windom's _etsble Washiugton ; lie was aleo thelr coachinaa, and wea & customod to ot them vide_out with him : but, 2 Yoward {lio last of it, Samuel didu’e like to botuert, with 'em, Tho result was, thut Samucla Tosiguution 34 concliruan waa nocepted, sud thy Lon, dr. Rem.). Plekod bim up for o place on tho Capitol police, Aud Bow Symucl uas doug busted Luness nod 1 4 prosies- tive Democratic AL O, himself} This 18 8 froo coua- ty. —The vata of New Jeraey will not ba officially canvassed unttl the 24th inat., but these are sud to be the footings of the returna: For Goveruor —Josoph D, Bedle, Demoorat, 97,254 George A. Huleoy, Repubiican, 83,945, ~ The whola vote ia 92,464 groater than the vote for Goveruor in Tho returns for Cougress give footings a Democrat, 8212 Hardew ) State Gazelle, c 0 Trenton (N, on the rosult, says: With the barnacles went down all the nobls frelghb snd passcngers of thus ausplclous veseol, With Beo. Butler and bis henchmen went down Dix, snd Halsey, and Beuddor, and Olurk, and many others of tho Uest exponent of our political integriiy, sud dnest repro- sentatives of Amorican citizenship, But, thsuk Teuvon§ Dutlerism is desd. The Kepublicsn party s been thoroughly cleansed of this load of corrup= tion that it has Leen staggering under, sud the future 1s bright and hopeful, —Sumith, of Arkausas, claims that the recons atruction Conetitution of 1868 bas baen violated by the mew oue, 86 though tho formor wisn finulity which the pfiolylu hiad no power to modify orcuange, . . . It lovks sa though this ac~ tion of the old Licutenaut-Govornor i8 whotly \ln{‘n!uflnble. and that sbort work will be made of his olams.—Albany Evening Journal, —If Mr, Srith insists on staywog in Arkanses tokick up another muss in that sufliciently- mussed-up Btate, all we can say to Mr. Bmith i8, that, of all the numerous family of Smiths. Le i3 tho one Bmith that baa tho sniallest modicuw of commop souse, 1f ho thks ho wili bo sup portod by the Republicaus of tho Nouth {o &0 at~ tompt to renow the troubles in that Stato, bo w-u‘;xavar moro mistaken tn Lis 11fe,~Cleveland Herald. —However ths country may now regrot ite folly in haviug supinoly pormitted Democraoy to take ovou partisl posscssion of it, theio is yot some consolation forit in tho reflection that it will ba some time yot befors Domocracy can bring its purposes o bear, if, indeed, it w evor pormitied to do so st all, It wil be ovor thres oars before the Dewocratic majority in the ilouua can pase or ropeal an act of ‘Congrest without It]he ‘%usauz of the Ropublicana.— uincy I hig. Q-O'l! éll t?m m:ichnd protenses tor claiming tho pouition of Governor, that of Siith, in Are Javgas, excos, o . » The follow stould ba put fu s luuatio seylua.—Pitisburg Gazelle —In spite of the dieroputable character of Arkaueas Ropublican leaders, it would bo the Jutv of tho President 1o sustain them if they hiad been cheated out of power whick was hon- Qstly thelrs, after exruont offorta on their own part to rotain it In fuct thoy bave done nothivy o avert tho calamity that bas bofallen thew, bl bavo sat by with foldod bundy until thore Bllo\lll Dbe an ocoaslon when they could plnuaibly sppos 10 tho President. The Republicany havo made thoir bad, aud they should lio in it.—Boston Ad eertia g boou, canting er. —1ug Citoaao TRIBUNE about for causes of tho overwhelmiug dofeut o the Ropublican party o tho recent oloction, and i troo to sdmit thet ono of thoda causoy Waa tho seaud the party took on tomperance loglslation, 1t oluiws that it is Almout supertiuous to ‘morahizd upon theso faots, Tho election tablo of October and Novombor are silent but suggustive proof of {he rackless aud ogrogious blundor which the Republican leadors have pormitted themselvas to be dragooned info makiug, and, if any further proof of this sort is needed, 1t may be found in wbundance {u the political record of Obicago dur- ing tho past two or throe ‘ynra. The only safoty for the party ia to lof sutaptusry logislation alona, Proufl:mun is not, aud caunot bo mado, party principlo. It 1t 18 mada a law, it caunot Do euforoed, _In Wisconsw, Iows, Vermont, Tbode Islund, Nobrasks, wherover tho Ropublic- an party b jgnored aud vefused to havo any~ thing todo with thia fally, it has rotainoed ity ponor, Mo persiut In bolstoring up thin mis- ohlovous and juesne movement any longer, a8 simply suleidal. Probibluon must b prolibited in tKn Republican paity, i€ it sveks for Nuooess,— Alvion (1) Journch fourn