Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1877, Page 4

©a i i | b ’ @I}’B @i’ x ’ alg’ and 44}c for ay. H for March and 3o for April, { TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 4 4 f } BT MAIL—IN ADVARCE—TOSTAGE TREPAID AT | 400 for March and 7o for April. ! TS OFFICE. H 4 10 ADY adidress fonT wee o $ Runday I'dittons Lilerary and Hellgio o | ive, at 10@16c decline, 1 Fatan 200 T 8. WEEKLY RDITION, POSTPAID. , per year, ik Cinbof twen Postage prepaid. &pecimen coples sent free. Toprevent delay and mistakes, he mreand give Potte Qftce rddrest n i, including Etate anid Connty, Lemittances may be mude eifher by draft, express, Fort-Utice order, or fn reglatered letters. at our risk. TERMS TO CITY BUBECRIDERS. Taily, deltecred. Snnday excepted, 23 conta per week. Dinfly, delfvered, Bunday incinded, 30 conts per woek Addresn THR TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madizon snd Desrborn-sty., Chicago, Il TAMUSEMENTS, 1 Adetnh! Thentre. ¢treet, corner Dearborn. *'Marked for Monroe. Lite.” Variety entertatnment. H Hinverly’s Theatre, Randoiph street, hriween Clark and Lafalle, Fo: gazement of the'soldens Troupe. **Chilparic’ and “Trial by Jury”t MeVicker's Thentres Mndiean strrel, bLetween Dearborn and State, Eae went of Gencvieve Rogers. ** Maud Muller.’ fl THURSDAY, MAROCIH 1, 1877, Greenbacks at the New York Gold Exe chango yesterday closed at §5, * "The South Chicago Collectorship imbroglio .has assumed a new phose by the election of Mark Kixnarn ns Collector to fill the vacan- oy occnsioned by Mz Evaxs' continued failure to qualify and serve, 'The new Col- tector will have the best wishes of the tax- ; payers of the South Town for an undistarbed { and efiicient incumbency, but it is grently to be fenred that his election will only result in spening up mow complieations and legal proceedings, and that in the ond the colicc- , lionof tho taxes will devolve upon the + County Treasurer. The Senate, after retiring to discuss tho . Vermont objections, made short work of tho oaltry put-up job whiclh Hewrer and Biun Benivorn sprung upen the Joint Convention, Mr. Eovusps, who was naturally expected ' to do the talking for {ho Republican side, contemptnously declined to mako any nrgu- ¢ ment whatover, remarking (hat ho wonld not | dignify such a procoeding with n sipgleword. , A two-liours' apeech of angry, scorching in- vective could not have more effectunlly dis- * posed of tho whole quostion, After a brief discussion, tho Senate overruled the ob- jections by o unanimous vote, The bills relating to the indebtedness of the Union and Contral Pacific Railrord Com- panies have beon postported by -the Scuato + uptil noxt Decombor, We think this was a wiso procednre, The Inst hours of nu ex- * piring Congress, whon so many of the mem- bers have been voted ont by their constitn. . ents, aro not u season of honest legislation : in tho matter of subsidies or other gratuities ; to largo corporations. The railroad cor- " porations will loso soveral of their more persevering friends who will not bLein the Senate aud uot in the Houso at tho mext « ression. Tho chances are that the public s interests will faro Letter at the hands of tho new Congross, Leenuso as n gonoral thing tho character of both Honses hos Leen ele- : vated and improved by the electiona of last © year, At tho nextnession, disturbed and oc- " sapied by no questions of the Presidential + mceession, Congress can givo full timo to uaturing a proper law to compel theso rail- i wny companices to provide for paying tho ‘nterent snd principal of their indebtednesy . Yo the United Staten, The basisof a new Louisiana comprotnise is outlined in our Washington dispatches, + and, if the reports aro truo, President layes has an execllent prospect of n comparatively . casy task in adjusting the difficulties In that State. President-Gnant is eaid to have au- thorized the nunouncement that instructions + will be sent to Geh. Avoun at New Orleans wodifying that oflicer’a pravions iustructions to the cxtent that the intorvention of the . troops will bo wholly withdrawn, and theje functions limited to the prevoution of bloodshed. ‘This menng that Pacganp will Lo doprived of Fedoral support, without whieh, it is DLelieved, he will have no alternative but an corly surrender to the * Nicnorts Governmont, which wiil then hold undisputed wway, ‘Tho reported plan of compromiso goes still further, nnd contem- plates au adjustment somothing after tho . fushion of the Wurrres Compromise, where- by the Louisiana Legislature s to cloct ns United Btates Senntors a Conservative Demo- crat and a Itepublican to bo desigunted by a ' committeo of Northern Ropullicans, ‘As to the first mection of the programme, thero is * little doubt that Tederzt interforonce in Louisinua is practically at an end ; and it is ! by no weahs improbable that something like the remainder of the plan may follow in tho natural course of ovents, ‘Tho production yesterday by AMr, Hewrrr of papers purportiug to be duplicate returns from Vermont wasa proceoding so obviously intended for delay and obatruction as to throw discredit upon that gentlemnn's pre. vious professions of hostility to the plottings of tho House revolutioniste, The papers are uot legitimate, and Mr, Hzwitr kuew they were not when ho eubsitted them, Nono but the Republican Electoral College of Ver- mont et on the Gth day of Docem. " ber ond cast the Electoral vote; thore- fore, the so-called duplicate roturn precented Ly Br, Hewirr and so brma. zenly thrust forward by B Senyorn 4 u lic upon its faco, o shallow trick, a forg- cry sud a fraud. It has not even the colur of legitimacy that Croxix's vote had, for the latter did go through the' forn of casting o vote for TiLpEN on the 6th of December, while the Vermont pretender did not attempt to micct or act with the FEloctoral College. The bogua duplicate was not received by tho President of the Senate within the time pre. wnbed by law, aud ke was compelled to ig. + aoro its existence. Iis. presentation in the Joiut Convention was adisreputable device ' having for ity object the delay involved in + sending unother cass to the Electoral Com. wission. It'is & trick that will not win, Vice-President Fesay having tromped it ! oarly in the gume. The Chicsgo produca muarkets wero gen- erally active yesterday, and the.leading de- partwents were stronger. Mess pork closed &0c per brl higher, at §14.70 cash and $14.93 + for April. Lard closed 25¢ per 100 ibs Ligher, st ¥9.85 cash and $9.97)@10.00 for April. Meats closed do higher, at 5o for loose ghoul- durs, 7jc for shortribs, snd Bjo for ehort- ¢ clears, Highwines were steady, ot $1.06, Flour wus aulet snd woul, Whost olosed 1ie Kl higher, at $1.21] fof March and $1.23] for April, Corn closed firmer, nt 304c for March Oata closed ateady., at 23o Rye was 2¢ fower, at G0c. Baley closed 1o lower, at Hogs wora fairly nctive, and closed firm at 10@15¢ nd- Bales of common to exira at $5.86@ 6.15. The catile market was moderately act- 8heep were un- chianged. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $104,75 in greenbacks at the close. The vote of Soutl Carclinun was yesterday counted for Haves and Wneerzsn in spile of furious and porsistent aliempla ‘at delny on the part of the Mouse obstruclionists. 1te- pented rulings in {he interest of law and onler were innde by Spenker Raxnary, who romained firm thronghout in his determina. tion to frustrate all filibustering altompts, and tho numerous votes: taken on nppeals from his declsions invariably sustained him Ly majorities which clearly demonstrated the fatility of farther struggles for delay. It will bo recorded o the honor of Mr Raxpany that he rose saperior to personal and partisan bins, and fearlessly and impar- tinlly performed the duties of his high office. Ordinarily no espeeinl credit attaches toan officer who oboys the law, but the trying oc- casion of yesterday was an oxceptional oase, and Speaker Ranpart’s conduet fs worthy of all praise, He was aided by the Republicans and the honorable Democrats fn forcing the Houso to n vote on Bonth Caroling, so that the Senate waa notified, the Joint Conven. tiou renssembled, and tho seven votes of that Slate were counted for Iaves and WRERLER, Tenubssee and Texns wers soon counted for Tipex and Hevpnicks, nod when the two Houses separated to debato the objections to Vermont, the Ilouse ntonce took n recess until 10 o'clock this morning. The farewell reception given yesterday in tho Capitol at Columbus by Presidont.cloct IIaxrs and Alrs. Havs was the oceasion of tha Lestownl of a most beauliful tribute of respeet and affeotion by the towns. people of the distinguished pair. Neith- er politics, age, sex, mnor condition in life wore conaldered. Democratio citizens united with their Republican noigh- bors in testifying their high regard for the unostentatious gentleman and statesman who was to go from among them to tho highest place in the nation, and the childron from the public schools had their own particular allofment of the dolngs of the memorablo day, and eame in “troops to enjoy the rare privilege of shaking haunds with tho President of the United States, And the speach made by Gov, Mayes was of the same model modest port {hat has already made him fomous for raying the best possible thing une der the most delicato nnd tryiog cire eumstances. e repeated the éver-momor. nble words of Annauax Lixcory upon leaving Springfleld, Ill., sixtcen years ngo—that prayer for the Divine guidance withont which ha could not succeed, and with which ho conld not fall. The exact’ hour of Gov. Havzs' departure for Washington is not an. nounced, but it may be sot down as cerlain that ko will be on hinnd at the right time. AN .INTERESTING INQUEST, The post-mortem cxnminntions have hegun in the matter of tho defuuct Basven J, Tu- oex and the political nssoclates who follow him to the grave, The inquest is in the lands of his friends, so that the vardict can. not ronsonably be said to bo unfairto his memory. Yet thero seems to bo a singnlar indisposition to observe the charitablo in. juuction to say nothing bmt good of the dead. That was a Pagen motto, snd tho frionds of Mr. 'rLoeN, now that lho s possed away, go for him in the genuino Christian fashion, using the scalpel ruth. leasly in tho interost of the scionce of poli- tics and for tho bonefit of future nspirants. ‘Ihe Chicago 2'mes has not been able to hold in any longer, sud it3 pent-up wrath finds the more vigorous expression bLeeause of the constraint which it hna observed during elght long months, Uulike most of the Demo- cratio organs, it docs not content itself with afuneral oration over Titvey, but holds forth ovor the remains of the entire Demo. cratic party, which it consigns to the grave with o prospect of subsequent cremation, Hero is a somplo of thostyle in which tho wreck in pictured: That helerogencons combination of miscellaneous and pecullar oflice-hunters calied the resurrccted Democeracy hay gone a1l to pleces agaln, o fact never, alnce 1t was called up from tho political grave-yard by the schemo to inake SAx Tines the national apolls dispensator, hus it ever been any- ihing but on {ncoherent acenmnlation of dlsjolnt- il fragmonts--a collection of political dry hones of all extinct party anlinale, ont of which acome plete skeleton of any kind could not be patehed up. Though nswuning to hove o majorlty of nearly two-thirds iu_tho Natfonal Assoubly, that majority was made up of all the political odds and ends of carth. Bourbon, Liborals, Sorcheads, Grangers, Protectlontats, Free-Traders, Bullion- Iuts, Hag-Lunatics, Calhounltes, Nationallsts, men of every wort and whado of political opinlon, hold- Ing utterly leroconcllablo views, and ogrecing upon nothing but the appetite for spolls, com- posed tho ahvurd combination of old prave-yard politiclans that attemptod to Impose themselves upon the conntry as tho Democratic party come back from tho other sldo of the Stygiun river, with oll the sius done In its Hfctime **barnt and purged away, " bearlng a new 1ife, posscesing a re. formed character, and having a now clalm (care- fully conceuled) to popular trust aud confldence, We think tho 7'imes hns not forgotten anybody worthy of mentlon in its enumera- tion of the fag-ends and tho rag-tag-aud. Lob-tail, which et up as the Reform party somo months since, * Dry-Bones " ia o sort of generio term that will includo almost any of tho pre-Adamie politiclans that hnve been rattling around tho coflin of the last sixteon years. ‘Dourbon" s more specific, and wny elther refer to that nunerous faction of Democracy which never forgets and never lenrus anything, or to the favorite bovernge of tho Democratio rank-nnd.tile, * Liber. als” 18 a term evidently applied to those gentlemen whio wero liberel enough to hold offico nuder the Republican party ns long ns they could, and afterwards liberal enough to hold office undor the Democratio party if thoy could get it,—in fact, not bigoted a4 to party and oxcessively tolerant as to office, # Borelicads,” wo fear, is futended to spply particularly to such gentlemen s Judge Tuvapace, ex-Gov, YaLuem, CGroror W. JuL1ax, ote., who did uot love their country lesa but offico more, * Grangers" refers to that class of well-meaning but mistaken yeomonry that vainly looked to the Demo. cratio party for emancipation from the im. oginary ills thoy Lave suifercd ot the handsof monopolists, ** Free-Traders” and * Iull. iouists " are referred to sueeringly becauso they made a common bed witls the * Protec. tionista” nud * Rag-Lunatica” in tho hope of dividing the spoils, ** Calhounists” and * Nationalists " Ly down togetlier liko the lion and the lamb, but the experiment was not suceessful, and the * Calhounlsts ™ swal- lowed the ¢ Naotionalists” a% a single mouth- ful. If any other political eztremes oceur to anybody, they will fit in the Znes dissec. tion of the Democrutio corpse, und simply THE CHICAGO ‘add to the complication of tha diseases which proved fatal. A morbid and absorbing ap- petite for spoils, suddenly nnd finally disp- pointed, nnturally sct these antagonizing political forces by the ears, and tl.e result in extermination, annihilation, and eternal danmnation. Having thus disposed of the body by con- signing it to the purifying fires which alone can fusa such n heterogencons mass of refuse politicians, the 7%mes turns its attention to the head and tail of this Jusus nature. The head, variously known as Tiupex, * Uncle Saamty,” “Slippery 8am,” “O0ld Unsu. feuet,” olc.,, is denominated “‘a slip pery New York politician™; and the tnil—the irrepressible Mr. IIeNDRICRS— is mildly Qismissed as **a facing.nll-ways In. dinnn - demagogne.” Iaving thus demol- ished head, tail, body, arms, legs, and such membra digjceta as corld be found in the general wreck, the 7't¥mes concludes that “the resnrrccted fagends of the putrid reminiscence fell asunder.” This ia the ver- dict; but, like an intelligent and patriotic Coroner, tho 7'imes algo draws a moral, and socks to mnko the diraster n lesson for tho future benefit of tho American people. Iia ndvico is that *tho true conrse of political wisdom for*the ngaiu shipwrecked spoils- Democracy is, then, to immedintely disband its organizntion, which no longer exists ns a menns to any politieal end, but only ns an instrumentality of futile nud useless contest ngainst tho officinl class for the possession of thespoils.” Which meana that repentance comes too Iate, nnd thot TiLpeN and his motley crew must not merely give up the ghost, but at the snme timo abandon all hope of future resnerection, We ave not disposed to find fault with this compreheusivo verdict. The examination Lins Leen too thorough, scarching, and seien. tifio to admit of any criticlsm on the finding. If §t had come from o Republican Coroner, wo might have thought that party prejudico had injected a little ran- cor in the summingup. Had it come 'from some ong ontside of politics, we would have sald that it was an nugenerous dislike of po- litical men and affairs ; but coming, ns it docs, from an expert and one who has been on terms of {ho closost intimacy for soveral months with ** tho slippery New York poli- ticinn,” with the *facing-all-ways Iudinna demngogue,” with the ** Bourbons, Liborals, Sorchends, Grangers, Protoctionists, Free- Tradors, Bnllionista, Rag-Lunatics, Calhoun- ists,'and Nntionalists,” and with the whole set of * resurrected fag-ends of the putrid reminiscence,” the verdict must be nceepted ns of ouc who knows whercof ho speaks, In fact, it is n sort of confession. It comes rather late, it is true, but bottor Inte than never, The Z'mes only tells now what it might have told at sgy moment within the Inst oight months, What may nppen like n revelation to somo innocent peoplo is as fa- miliar'as houschold words in tho Z'imes es- tablishment. It may be that this verdict liaa long beon in type, lika many obituary notices in newspaper ofiices, only awaiting tho aunouncoment of final dissolntion for publication, There is only'*ono thing which was not brought out ss fully asit might have been, but .that was unturally n delicato poiut. Wo refer, of course, to the cirenmatance that the 7'imes, consclous all nlong of tho absurdly-hoterogencous and con- spicuously-disreputable non-nffinities scraped togother in the combined . attack on the npoils, did not hesitate tonnke their enuse its own, but scrambled, and lied, and bull- dozed ns vigorously as the poorest and most despernte of tha whola lot to reach tho covet- ed prize, Evidently **indopendent journal- ism," ns represontod by tho Chicago ZVmes, must bo tossed into the common plt along with tho other putrid remains it has enume- rated. THE PARK COMMISSIONERS. The House of Represontatives at Spring- flold has passed the resolution to appoint a Joint Committeo of the Legislature o inves- tigate the affairs of the Commidsionery of tha Olicago parks, The objcctions to the pas. naage of the resolution were to the mauner in which this fovestigation should take place. The investigation itsclf is n proper one, No body of men futrusted with the power to in- cur public debt and make expenditures of public mouey should he exempt from invos. tigation. Thnt investigation should bo com. pulsory, and at least ansual. Thero shontd be no escapo from it, and the Park lnws should be amendad ko ns'to require an annunl investigation. Charges have been mrde 1n the Logislatura against the Commissioners, and it would bo manif<atly improper not to havo them investigated promaptly aud thor- oughly. Wo understand that, whilo the Come. missioners have protested ngainat the accusn. tions made, and the sceming indorsement thercof by the rosolution, they liave at no timo objected to the fuvestigation *itself, It I8 to Do hoped,: therefore, that tho Beunte will not oppose or de. Iny tho investigation, which at the shortest can hardly tuko lesa than two and probubly three months. If the investigation i3 to bo a thorough and a searching one, and there should be none otlfor, it should Lo be- gun without delsy in order to be completed within any rcasonable continuation eof the sesslon of the Leglalature, # ‘The peoplo of this city aro especially inter- ested in having the whols park busincss thorouglly and completely ventilated. Tho proceedings of the Commissioners began cight years ago, aud many of the transactiony wure beforo the fire, and others’ before tho panie, The acconnts of the Commissioners aro uumerous; their purchases, thelr re. colpts, and their exponditurcs, cotering o long period of yoars, should be overhauled, scrutinized, and made pablic, The people liave a right to this information; they have fobear tho taxatlon und have to foot the bills; it is thetr monoy that i4 cxpended, and they have the right to know what is done with it. It Is a matter of right and of interest for them to know whethier these park commissions . have Leon honestly and wisely administered, or whether the public have been defrauded or thelr confidouce abused, corruplly or through negligenco or the incompotency of tle Commissioners. It thero has been wrong committed, lot the facts be made known, and the responsibility placod where it belongs, sud measures taken to rewedy that wrong and prevent its repetitiod, If the affaira of the parks have been - honestly administered, then the public Lave the right to know that foct, The Park law Linsnlways coutained a pro- vision that, upon the application of a certaiu number of citizens, the Judges of the courty shall investigate any charge made. Thisis not suificient. The faw should require that the Court should auunuully appoint a com- mittes of reputabloand responsible citizens to examine the accounts, investigate the pro- ceedings, and mako o full report aud exhibit of the condition of the business of the parks, and on this report the Courts should have power ta rewmovo TRIBUNE: TIIURSDAY, any or all of the Tha appointment of the Commissioners was lodged with the Judges of the soveral courls, becanso they wero Lieroon the spot and conld intervene {o arrest improper action, and knew personally the character and fitness of the men appointed. 1t wna also done to re- move the appointment of tlhese Commission- ers from party politics. . Itwas n large publio business trausection, in nowise conuected with polities and forming no part of party patronage. Another berfefit to resnlt from this investi- gntion will be a full and complete expose of tha renl-cstato job to compel the payment of enormous prices for land not yet paid for, By all menns, let us have tho investigation, if it takes all tho summer, and lot the public have full iwformation as to the *true in: wardness ” of the wholo business from flrst to lnst. THE CAUCUS INSTRUCTIONS. The mentbers of the Republican cancus at Bpringfield have exceeded themselves, They havo instricted Judge Davip Davis to proceed without delsy and urge Gov. Hayes to appoint Gon. Lowan Secrotary of War. 8uch a resolution, under any circuute stances, wonld hiave Leen impudant and cone tomptible, but addressed to Judge Davis by the mombers of that enucus it bocomes Inugh- oble in the extrome. Considering the fact that that eancus rofased to vota for or allow any of its members to vote for any Repub. lican oxcept Gon, Looay, and thereby de. feated the eloction of any Republican, the attempt to instruct Judge Davis, who was clected in spite of the caucus, as to what ho shall do in his official eapacity as Bonator, is especiaily a cool proceeding. The argument on which this resolution seoms to rest is, that Gen. Looax has for over six yoears had the dispensation of Federal patronage in tho State of Iilinois; that, being a candidate for Bonator, he wns under an obligation to tako care of nand provide for the needy men out of ofice in tho ®Lcgislaturo who supported him; that had he been eloctad hio would have honorably executed all his contracts; that Judge Davis nllowed himsclf to be clectod Senator, in spite of tho superior claims of Gon, Looax, and has therefore deprived tho Intter of his offielal position, of his ofiicial title to ad- minister patronage, and left Iim unable to provide for the meu who had sacrificed thom- solves for him at Springfield ; thnt if Gon. Loaay, upon leaving the Sonate, could take aplaco in the Cabiuct of Presidont Haves, he would bo in a position where ho could control Federnl nppoitments, and could still take care of tho frionds who had staked all their hopes on his suceess. Looking upon tho situation from this point of view, tho caucus oxpected that Judge Davis wonld re- gard himself as having inflicted a personal injury on tho members of the caucus, and that, knowing him to Le a humano man, n charitablo nnd kind mau, they resclved to instruct him to go immediately to President Havrs, and imploro him to take Gen. Locax into his Cabiuot, Judgo Davis, however, {s not a politician of the machino kind; ho Is decidedly in favor of a roform of tho wholo civil servico systom, and by his connsel defended and sustainod Socretary Bnwstow in his efforts against the whole tribe of whisky and other rovenue thioves who used their ofilces to plunder the country aud dogrado the public sorvice. Wit waight tho instruction of the cauncus at Springfleld will have with him may be easily estimaled. Novertheless, the epucus, intent upon Laving romo spocial friend at court to redeem ther promises ond gratify tho expectations of the Iato Sona- torial campnign, havo not -hesitated to in- slrnet the Judge to advise Mr, 1Iaxes who lo appoint in his Cabinet. Lo It Is true, Sonator Oarzsny s not under any special obligation to the presont canous, and hns full as many persons applying tohim ne hio enn taka caro of, novertheless ho and his associntes in the House hardly need this rosolution to juspiro them with the nocessity for having Gen. Loaax sppointed to tho Cnbinot of President ITaxps. In foot, it 18 hardly just to supposo.that Gov. Ilaves, in looking over tho country for the propor men to mako up an anti-machine and n re- form Admunistration, has overlooked Gon, Tooax, or has not gravely considered the propriety and oxpedienoy of making him an ofilcinl counsclor, I! to these facts Judgo Davis will only oboy tho instructions of -the Hpringfleld caucus, tho chances that Illinols will be represonted in the next Cabinet may Le quoted ns ** fuir to middiing, with an un. uncortain tendoncy In the market.” Wa should liko to nsk the Cook County delegation to Springficld what has become of Honator Kenor's Lill providing for holding tho city aud town spring clectious on the samo dny, Tho bill passed tho Sonate with but o single dissenting voto, aud now it seems to bo buried in tho Iowse. The con- stituonts of the Cook County mombers ex pect thein to look it up and bring it to a voto immediately, It will nced promnpt adoption to cusble tho: peoplo to avail thomselves of itsoperation this spring. Tho first bill of Souator Kenov's, to which we rvefer, simply provides for bringing two elections on the samo day that now occur only a couplo of woeks apart. Not an honest objoction can Do raised to it by elther party. 1t is o Lill to aave timo, turmofl, monoy, and political bummivg, aud to Lring out as large a vole for town offfcors ns for ity oflicers, instead of permitting a chque of scalawags to cloct the formner, Henator Kenox has introduced another DLill, supple- utenting the first, which will enalle the same judizes to servo at both elections and provide & ballot-box for town ofticors ab overy pre. cinet wheore city ofidlcers are votod for, Thero will be no difliculty jn passing this second LIl as soon ns tho firut shall become n law, and it ouly need be amended by substituting the Town Supervisor fn the placo of Collect- or iu constituting the Convassing Board for town elections, Ilut it had better Lo passed without this amendment than not passed at all. Tho first step to this ond is to pasy the origual bill iu the House, flxing the two clections on the same day, aud tho Cook Couuty mowbers should seo that it is brought up without any further delay, Besides the Town Elections bill, there is anothor before the Iliinois Legislature ,in which the people of Cook County have a vital fnterest, and which seems to have been buried out of sight. Wa refur to the bill m- troduced by Senator ltomissoy, legislating the present Couuty Comuwissioners out of oflice and cucbling the people of Cook County to elect ou eutire new Board every year on n goneral ticket, A bill of similar import was introduced in the House by Rep- resentative Iliczey, but wo bLaven't hesrd of either of them lately, What is the reason ? We know that the bill is opposoed by the Com- nissioners now iu oftice, and their cliquo of contractors and subondingtes; but they sre the only people in Cook County who are oppused to it, and we cou scarcely Commissionera. MARCH 1, 1877, i think that the Legirlaturo runlempln(cn. listening to the public plunderers in preferonco to the plundered taxpayers. We are also aware that the Donxd's $7,000 at- toruey has been at Springfleld to lobby againat the bill, but wo did not ruppose he had the samo control of the Iilinoia Logisla- turo that he lins of the Cook County Com- missioners. Then what is the matter ? Why 18 the bill not passed ? Why ia it not even ealled up ? Wo can givo the frionds of the County Tting duo notico that the people will resent o failuro to provide the only relief that is nttaluable, and the Ring itself may tako notice that not a dollar of bonda will ever bo voted by the people of Cook County for proccoding with the conatrnetion of the Conrt.Ilonso s long as the funds shall be ot the disposition of tho prosent corrupt Board. ARD. Ta-lay a plat of five acres, lacated at the comer of Forty-sixth stecet and the Grand Bonlovard, 18 tho property of Arrngn Cowrzs, In 180 husiness manager and ono of tho proprictora of Tue Tiinese, linnacs Wnrte owns in Sec. 16 a teact of romo elght acres, llonace WinTz was {n 1809 manag- ing Tax TYninvse, —Inter-Ocean, Feb, 28, 7o the Edltor of The Tridune, Ci10400, Feb. 2.—Alow me to say, if it isol suy Interest toanybody, that I do not own afoot of land in Sonth Chicago, Hyde Park, or Lake,— that I have not owned any land fn the vicinityof tho Bouth Park at any time during the past slx ycars,—that I never recelved any * donas tion of any kind, direct or Indirect, from, for, or concerning the South Park, or ils promoters, orany land, q **land option.” The columns ol the Jiter-Ucean (or its nucestor the Republican) of March 24, 1871, contains acomplete refutation of this Idle calumny. Mr. ALPRED CowLES Is now in Enrope, but 1 will say fn his abscuce that 1 know positively that he never recelved any land, or land option, 83 donation from, for, or concerning the South Park or Its promoters, Whatever land he holds he bought In tho open market at its falr: cash value, and pald for it the full consideration, ~~thie seller not belng one of the promoters of the South Park. Honrace Witire, e ——— A TOOL'S8 ADVICE. * A letter of Mr. Gronae ALPRED TOWNSEND to the President-clect of the United States may not bo considered an event of Importance by the unthinking inultitude, who have not heen sccustomed to attach equal significance to the doligs and nayings of the two persons con- cerned. There is, however, at least one person in this broad universe who thought such a let- fer was callied for. Mr, Townsexn was. the man. 1la not only thought that the time had come for him to speak out, but feit that he must speak out at considerable length, and that his thoughts descrved to bo apread broadenst through the country. Ile thercfore addressed n lutter two columas long to Gov. ITAYES through the Clncinnati Enonirer, ndvistng the President- elect ns to the policy he must pursue, in general and in particular, If ho desired to have the sup- port amd csteemn of Geonor ALPRED TOwN- 8END and the rest of the country. There lias spparently been no fnquiry on the part ol Mr. Towxsmip as fo whether Gen. Haves fvants his support; it s sufilclent for bim to know that the President will probably wrant the support of the rest of the vountry, and the worda of Townsesp, he vainly fmng- ines, may Lo taken to ropresent the views of o vonslderable number of thinking men. But ft fsnot so much & question what TowNsexp thinks or Imagines, as [t s what hosays; he does not habitually think at ail, and he talks o great deal, In print and out, Tho present letter in eapeclally delightful for its amazing cgotlsm, ‘Tho opentog paragraph {s o marvel In its way, aud worthy of reproduction. It runs thus; Gov, Hayes—Bin: Without the consciousness of impertinciice ar (he motive of noloriety, 1 take his form of mhlrwlnv uow-nnvur letier to you, v+ . Youarsprobably to bo Presldent. ~Tha clock travels with a tick “of rellef toward the -1th of March, when tho dlepute about Lousc-moying will be done, and tho White Homne receive its ton- nnt. Tho awnkening Instincta of spring flutter Hke the prlscs of miltions of inen, to array all Giovernment in orderanil start to growth, At this timo it is well that tho Chlef Magiatrate should bo- gin the work of the roazon withan open mind, n Hense of hm consecration, und gratitudo to his countrymen and his Gon, Mr. TownsuxD doubtless speaks tho cxact truth when hie aays he {snot consclous of * . pertinence or thy motivo of notariety "4 If ho wero consclous of these characterstics ho would not bo the shinple einld of nature that ho ls; ho would beonly an uncducated ass, and would lose all futerest as o psychologiceal study, Tho beauty of his open letter to the President-elect consists inthe fact that, with the screnity of superior knowledae, it proceeds to Inform him how lio shall act fn all the perplexities of his fmpending oftlelal career; what his party afiilla- tions shall bie, hiow lio slinll treat the Bouth, the proper relatlons for hiw to hold with new wpers and newspaper-correspondents, the ene couragement ke should give to sclenco and selentifle men, the diseretion he should use In the exerelse of the veto pouwer, the Cabinct he should eclect, the men he should avold and thuse lie should affect, Wo aro really sur- prised that Me, TownsunDp did not procced to advise tho President as to his family aflalra, What can Havas know of the etljuctte of the White Housel ow can Mrs, Haves bo quall fled to seleet her cook? Aretherenot marringe- able children In tho fumily who are In danger of Belng mlamatehed? The mansgement of all these affuirs ought tobe A B C to Mr, Towx- sEND. There I8 advico In the lotter on mors fmportant matters, Here's a word as to the future Sceretury of State, who, It appears, Mr. ‘TowaseND selected some time agos Govornor, yonr Cabluet will probably be a dise appolntmoent, Daav well o8 you will, and still thiero will bo lacking tho olonients of herolem tn your Caunet, 1 supposa you will make Me, Evanta Becretary of Etato; that scema to b une dertood. No man f4 mors raspectable, hut whut s - predecessor lLw - will * have; that old Knlckerbockoer, in whose o [-muxl rils {8 tho noble prile of 8 Dutch-Amers Scan gentlemant Probubly the Buznsax fuonly will have a wreat place in your counsels, That 13 o able mnl){. Juus has less geniug, but more scnee, than Lho General, I alwaye think highly of e who captured good” wives, {hough 1 way not agreo with the wen, T'o afecta wise, pure woian, aiul then to muke her happy, even fna certain des crco; Iniplics chnracter romowhera., ‘The SHERNAN rothiers, Jonsand’Uecumr, have superior wives, Joux Suensax wed to keop some bid company, 1 hopa he has corrected it, [ san Dick Patsoxs, among others, ien, BUEBMAN {4 @ man of dictatorlul wpirit, who meddles too much and too wudly with uthee deservbig pwople. — Weo all have a littlo fear hero that your full tnergy of character will not devetop, and “that sumebody will codalo an, For Gou's wake, ylve us HuTueuroun I [avRs In the President, und not somo presuming usurper behind the throne. The Beeretary of the Iuterior s not on any account, Mr. TOWNSEND days, to coms from luwa, snd Brang and Evozse Havg aro to be dlscouraged. The letter juaptly closes with the remark of the Gosernor of North Caroling to the Governor of Bouth Carolfua, thut It was a Jong thae between drinks, which Mr, TowNsexp certaluly canuot have found the caso whils he was engaged upon the composition of this et~ ter, The country wiil look with futerest for the carly publication of Mr. TowssgND's lctters of advice, which, we understand, ere incourio of preparation, to the crowned heads of Burope, the salnts, the devll and his angels; and cs- pectally wild all desire to see what words of con- solation Mr, ToWNSEND tusy bave to nddresa to thelate Quvernnr of New York, Bawveed, TippeN, Whatever they may be, the vountry will plty Saxnur; consolation from TowNseND will be the woret experfence of all the old wau's checkered existence, b i The Chicago Limes t9 stlll at it. Having cx- hausted ity eplthets for fudividual Democratle Congressmen, it now takes the whole Demo- cratie party und covers fo with mud. Wo are inforwed thot it Is “u heterogenvous combinu- tlon of misceliancous aud pecullar oflice-bunt- ers,” “an incohierent accumulation of disjoint- ed frogments,” **a collection of political dry bones of extinet party animals,” * political odds and ends of the earth,” “old grave-yard poll- ticiang,™ *“nconsisteut political bumbugs,” seresurrected fag-ends of the putrid reminls- cence,”? % pustilanimous spolls-scekers,” and Sresurrected spoils-Democrucy.” 8o much fur the party, DBut it does vot stop Lere. One of its caudldates i3 *“a slivpery New York poll tlefan,’ and the othern facing-all-wags Tndi- ann demngogue.” For once we can heartlly and thoroughly agree with our contemporary, Tz TRINUNR congratulates the Times that it has at last vindieated ita clatm to heing an Ewlependent Journal. But, having stigmatized the Demo- cratie party fn genernl and both its candidates, why does it not complete the job ond tell us lionestly what it thinka of itsclf! Or has it ex- hinuated {taclf, so that words will not do justice 1o the subject? e — As the time apnronches for Mr. HATES to en- ter upon the duties of tha Presidentlal office, advico of all sorts Is showered upon him by all sorts of people. Al kinds of policles ara map- ped out for him, atl kinds of Cabincts are con- structed for him, &nd nil sorts of dutles aro thrust upon him, by the popular sovercigns. Advico pours in upon him through the matls, In personal Interviews, and In the daily press. No man fn the world to-day is so thoroughly ad- vited ns to Just what course he should pursue. Among others, the New York Zrilune ond the New York Herald, neither of which papers cx- actly knew what they wanted or whom they were suprorting through the campaign, are as profuee in thelr tenders of advice as it they had fought, bled, and dled for him. The Herald Baga: Mr. Jlaves will entoron the Presidential office Innvnrysucmlnr manner, bound to heal up the old wotinds; to create hinrmony between the kece tionas to bo nn unpartisan Peesldent. ‘Tho manonor in which he was chosen, the uxlremol{,nul‘mw ma- Jority which claimed fof him cvon by the inost zenlons Republicans, admonish himg 1 he necds the admonition, that lie s nat tho President of o party, but of the whols people. In fact, all the circumatancen attending his clevation pince him necessmtily aliove the control of party Influences, nnd lead the country to expect of him in an uncom- mon degree Independence of party trammels and traditions. The Tribune has this advice to offer: Mr. 1{avEs cannot afford to consult Itepublican [mrhnnn alone. e will be compelled to: neek ha support of tho best men at the North and tho most progresalve men ot the South who have not been identified with the Iepublican party. In short, circamstances will compsl Lim to bs pro- clnely what the contntry liay deatred and needed, — n traly natlonol Prestdent. Me, 1IAYES desiree, as Bls loiter of nceeptance proses, to do better thaa his party has done, Absolute necessity will re- Infarce dleslte, ‘The circamstances under which Tie will enter the White-llguze will compel hlm to bring to his support Northern men who trusted i, bt distrnsied his party, and Southern mei who arc alck of fatal allianca with Northern Cop- perlieada, As Mr. HAvzs cannot be expected to follow tlie advice of all his fricnds without serious ems barrassment and national eonfuston, would it not be advisable for somo of his friends, cspectally those who liave come fn at the eley- enth hour, tolet upa little and old on to thelr advice until It is asked for? PR A Under the hieading of * Donations to News- paper Men," CoLenoun, Dusrevy & Co. at- tenpt ta start a bLack fire on such of the press ns are opposed to paying them 85,750 per acre for swamp land in tho Boutheast Park, when | tho tract 13 actually not worth onc-tenth of tho sum for any private putpose, unless it be for ralsing frogs, They “Inspire™ the following luthe Ring organ: On the 1at day of October, 1870, Joaren ManiLy purchased o five-acre_tract, bounded on tho north- cnat by Hydo Park nvenue, ou the cast by Wood- Iawn oyenue, and on the wouth by Forty-Afth atreot, which ho now owns. It {s located In'n sec- tion eligible to decided Increnss In value, in view of Improvements of the future, Tho date of the purchasc, size, and location of tha lot nre correctly given. The parties who “danated?! the land were NuTT & BRrooks upon the recelpt by them of 845,000, or $0,000 per acre. One rearon for sclecting this plece of ground, which looks out un thelake, was that it was n considerable distanco from any park or boulevard. Tho owner fswilling to *“donate? tho lot to CoLenour, DusLEvY & Cu, on os lib- cral terms as ho obtained it, notwithstanding ita *eligibitity to declded fncrease in value, in view of improvements of tho future,” which means, we suppose, the value that will be im- parted thereto by taxing it to pay C,y D. & Co. lalf' @ million of dollara for cighty acres of swnmp-land down near Calumet. ——— . It {s not surprising that the Springfield cau- cus of Ttepublicans abandoned thelr project of waking up a record of the Senatorlal caucus alter Representative EAsTON oxposcd the per- fidy of the mojority of the caucus to the Re- publican party to which they profess nllegiance. Thelra was not a Republiean, but a Looax, cau- eus, and thelr purposo was not to clect o Re- publican Benator, but to clect LooAx, or, in de- fuult thereot, let tho clection go into the hands of their opponents,. Mr, BastoN demonstrated very clearly that Mr. Wasttnunxe certalnly, and Judge Lawnescs probably (both steriing Ro- publicans, and In every way qualified for the po- sition), might have been clected, Lawnexce ot no time recelved the full” RErunLicaN vote. At omo time Wasnnunnm received 08 high as clghteen Democratic votes, and four Democrats by agreement with Easton, of which e notifled the caucus beforehand, voted all oue day for Wasupunye; but the caucus would not desert Looax, though it had been demonstratod by several days' voting that LooaN vould not be elected, As to good Republicanism, Mr, Eas- TON'S record s mora envisble than that of the LooaN men who defeated $ho cholee of o Re- publican Senator to succced thelr pet statos- wan, —_— The New York Sun makes a virtuo of ncces- sity and gracefully recedes from its filibustertog in the following emphatle manner: ‘White we hold these views with unshaken confle dence In thelr correctness, we do pot seo how thows who ditfer from_hein, who beliuve the Elcctoral Commission conatitutional, and who vutud in favor ot reforring the subject of the Prosidentlal eloction 10 the Commlssion, can couslatontly refuse to pro- ceod with the count becutsy an untoward result has become n forgone conclusion. If they have sworn 10 thelr awn hurt, that affords thei 1o ex- cuve for changing, It iv almost literally o cuve of honor amon thicves, As a soverclen balm for Democratic dlsap- pointment, the Sun suggests that the House, after the count shall have been made, can puss o resolutlon sctting forth that, “in its deliborate judgment, 8asuer J, TiLpeN has been duly elected President of the United States and Ruruenronp B, Haves has not been duly elected.” If, as has been futimated, the Sus reflects Mr, TILDEN'S sentiments, It would seem that Mr. TILDEN I3 dealrous of haying tho last word,—to which no ono will serfously object, a—— The United States Eeonombit gives areason for the sudden success of Bexn I fn becoming Benator from (eorgin, The Eeonomist says: A# usual at thoe seaslon after election, the lably {s'ont in force at Washington, and an -cepecially large sectfon of this aelvctable body ls working Tod Seotr's "IfM and day to carry through Col, » 10 for Uovernmunt ald to the Texas or Bouth- vl 19c Rallroad. ‘The fufluences at work to se- €nee success ore more powerful wnd far-reaching than [x commonly supposed, o8 is well illustrste: by the recont Scuntorial slection In Georgla, Bene atos Nouwnou. 4 gentleman of irreproachable and unassatlable honor, of vacellent capacity and of statesinanlike vlews, being true to the best Inter- wute of his country and his section, refused to com- wit hhmecl! to the Texas Paclc schome, Ex-Gen, doag1il U Diowx, buving Invested a largo wun in 1ho rund, and belng unxlons for Goverument sid L order to tealixe, took umbruge ot Mr. Nouwoon's honorable tudependence, throw hia whole influcncs sgalust ot geatlvman, and Uofouted biy sueclece on, e —————— Even the rabldest of the SBouthern fire-eaters are deserting the Northern Detmocrats, and brandiug them as poltroons and cowards. ‘The furlous Vicksburg Herald takes the buck track aud notifes the Northern Democrats that ths South might as well tuke care of lerself hereafter. It deciarcs to the Northern people, L they will give us that polley of noun-inter- fereuco and gencrous kindness wo so much need, we for oneare oppoied to continulug & contest with cowards as partuers.” From the following utterauce, we way Infer that the dis- sulution of partnersblp is o permounent one: “Before another Presidentfal election rolls round, §f this policy is carried out, sectionalism will be buried und the contest will boa differeut fssue—indeed It may be under parties with different uanes and with differeat Lanuers tiytug.” e —— - The Selentiflc Anwrican, in an article on “The Blue-Glass Deception,” combats Geu. PLEas- oNTON'S theorles of electrivity : The Llue-glass manual refers Lo BYUKEDLEN'S 1o« searches, Which 5o W ehow that the blue and vivlet raye wre the ot active lu- determinlug the decompusition uf carbonic acld fu plaute, “This statewesnt, the Scleniific Americdn vays, Las bevn totally diaproved by Dr. Yon BezoLn, and the a perior efilcacy of the yellow ray fn'd enthonic nelil bas heen shown by 1 . W, Dusrei. Voors, PrRIFFER, R0y, £nd Prace: I Gen, PLESSONTON'S Asanmptlon that vinlct have n_magnetizing power on steel in njeo traversel. The conclusion of the cnitie s thia: *UTho violed glana nots purely an o sliade for (qn. Ercmlmi the ‘intensity of sofar 1lght, and In this act e the evle virtue (IF nny there be) of —— A dispateh to the New York Sun (Titpry paper) rnys: 5 The Southern aympathizers among tho Repubite. ans express minch satlataction over the nction of the Southern Democrats {n helping to defent the dila tory movement in the House, ond &re pashing ahiend with thelr promites of amnerty s frien: nhip to the Bouthern neoole, Those claimng t represent HAvea In his policy are committing Kim nuequivocally i the atrongest possible terms to nn entlrely new dopartnre, In rexponeo o o direct quiery niade by n, furiner momber of the so-called o ng ol ¢ parly, (ov, IIAYERs wrol under date of Feb. 10, At faiawa: o 1isre no L AR Ronth e amil policy, 1 o . utlined in my letter of fast aummers . Y o PUler With this assuranco from headquartera the Lib. erals are makingcunverts nmeng the Southern en, and holdly annuunce it nettled that the count will proceed without further unasnal Intersuption, o et— .- Elght thousand dollars’ wera sent to Oregon to buy a Republlcan Elector, who was 8o * par tigan " that he refused to sell out, resisting the patriotle persuasions of Kewty as well as the cool cash of TieoeN, If he had accepted the Lribe, the Chlcago Zimes and the whole bulldoze ing press would lave hafled him ns a noble patriot who had risen above the trammels af party. P Wa care Jittle for tho loxs of the Prestdency. 1t 8 the rardonic lecr of the postmaster dnd the tna. lignant wiile of the whisky-gauger thut diaturbs ug, —Clncinnatt Enquirer, If the bulldozers hnd suceeeded {n counting in Ti.orx, how docs the Enguirer suppose our slde would have stood the *smiles” of the new spotlsmen? | CRONIN can retire with the proud satisfaction that, i he played the part of o scoundrel for TiLDEN, he made the * old man’ pay for it protty handsomely, # The prople have beon decolved, aucked in, an flkc\\'ll‘; BI:IM)LK\’ foulad. —Cinclnnati Enguirer, 4 Vi1 you never get done o-CroNix’ about It} PERSONAL. | Germany {s now spending 880,000,000 n year on her ormy, and France $108,000,000. Tho new German Parllament Is facs to face, for the fOmt time, with an Imperial defelt, Mrs. A. T Stewart s glven to her brother, Mr, Charles T. Clineh, the venerable cx-Assistint Col- lector of the Port, property worth $50,000, and las allowed il an annnity of $10, 000, Mr. W. J. Florence, tho comedian, has worked Into his play, **The Mighty Dollar,” n new po. litical allusion by adding to the nsua! catch-phrasa «~=*'Dy a Iargo majority '~tha words **Seven to elght.” Tho Cincinnatl Gazette notices that the American pocts wha nppeal {o the popular heart are growing ol Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, and Nolmes have eachied parscd thrco-score, and we have no young pocts in trainlng to succoed them, ‘Tho New York Erening Post continuen to publish ‘igh-tened paragraphs In regard to the functlons of literary eritlclam. It would do iwell to explain ja its Hterary department whether one of thesc func. tlons is to oxact udvertisements from the persons criticlsed, * Kate Ficld writcs that the London custom of put. ting pricea In gulneas Is o palpable mwindle, She never knew the case whore s purchaser sald boldly, **I will not talk gufneas—I will give you ns many pounds as you ask guincus,” but what the offer waa accepted, ‘The vetornn French politician, M. Raspal, re. contly exerted his Influence agalnat the electlon of his nephew to the. Assemnbly becanse the latfer counented to be marrled at church, and solicited s Papol dispensation on account of his being withia the forbldden degrees of relationshlp to his bride, ' **Doys, for the moat part,” observes the London Spectator, **think but little of the puwer of acca- mulating wealth, and, moreover, think of it rather slightingly." ‘Thls pecullarity of tho class is gen- eratly devoloped first, no doubt, In tho fnnocent sports of peg-top and inarbles, when it moy gener- ally bo noticed that the spirit of ucqulsitiveness does not in any measure control the youthtul fecl- ings; love of art urgea boys to win, . A Seuth Carolina casnist, who may falrly he set down for a ratirical rogue, avks his lacal edltor, **Can you dose o hog with strychnine suficiently to kill thagoguo that would stcal and lutcher the hog, and yet uot kil the anlmal it not wtolen?” There le probably no hog #o peculinrly constructed 48 to absorh strychnine In this useful mauner; but a good fat hog with trichina {n his systom will - answer all the parposes deslred. *4The intellectual afiinity which made Smollett the favorite amuthor .of Dickens," wsays & writer in the Cornhlll Jaguzine, *‘ls scarco- ly 8s closc a¢ that ‘which comucnded Floidlng to Thackeray. . . . The grest butt of Flelding's satlre e, oa he tells us, affoctation; the afectation which he speclally hatad 1s that ‘of stralght-laced morality; Thackeray's satiro ls more generally directed nyalnut the par- ticular affcctation called snobblshnesa; but the ovil principle attacked by elther writer is morely one avatar of the demon nxsafled by the other.” Mrs. 1anaford, having been turncd out of her palpet in Jersey City, bas organized n new Unle tarlsn noclety, and prop: to ruin if sho cannot rule; thus are the swoctnoss and light of woman's nature occastonally worked up Into sumething far diferent, Miss Oliver, on tha other hand, scoms to bo getting along fomouely with the Methodlets, Bho is college-bred, can read the cloesics, 14 powe erful In exerclscs, and has no feellngs to speak of, except a ** nameless longing™ and o **vague ane rest' arisiug from the, prescat uncertainty aboust the Groek accent. An amazing story about Mr. Joln Taylor Johne ston 18 $n circulation In New York. It ls (o thef foct that, having Iost cverythingzexcopt his pictured by the decline in Jursey Ceniral, and having heav- i1y mortgaged these, he took wi Ittle waa left to bim from tho procoeds of thowalo nnd Invested every penny of it in Jerdoy Central at 20, The atock has slnce- touched 10 cents. Mr. Johnaton's entire fortune has thus Leen sbsorbed in this une fortunate road, of which ho was so long Fresidest ond Munsger. 1Is falth In its rescources bas besd abundantly tostlfed, Mr. Glder, tho keeperof ** Tho O1d Cablnet ® In Scriduer's Monthly, Is not sattefied with the kind of men who are commonly employed as 'rofessors of English lterature In Amerlcan colleges. Therd are comparatively fow persons in such posltions he says, who koow what lteraturo {a when thes sceit, Tha risk of employlug genluses as Profer sors of Uteraturo, Mr, Gilder thinks, s not gresty and, ¢ t°'were, ho would Jlko to seo 1t pun occar sionally with such happy revults as Harvard had fa tho case of & yuung man named Longfellow, 3ud, later, with anotuer yoang man named Lowell. Ofenbach was charged by a radlcal newspaper in Parls with ridiculing Frauco aud the United States on board the steamer when on his way back frum the United States, The accusation yguve him & fright, since it threatencd the lovs of his popularl ty, which s almost his entire stock in trade. ! was suon dlyproven, however, on the testimony of & number of his fellow-passengors. ** No Frenche man more French thun Ofenbach, " sald they: **nO foretguer a greater ndwirer of the United Stated. o Pranco and America Offenbach owes Lig name and fortune, and he ought to think highly of them. Anewnovelcalled **Klsmet". fw announced i3 London, and uttributed there to Mre, Newtod Seurs us.on author, The **Ifemet" kuown (o Amerlcan renderd is supposed to havo boen wriltes by Mivs Dudu Fletcher, Whotlier thio.hooks e tho satne, o whether Miss Plotcher has lately bee como Mra. Sears, or whuther thera bas been a inld tuko 84 10 the suthorehip of tho American book, of whether the English work has buen botdly fiched from the American, or whether' the colucldence of namea ie accldental—these are perploxing aad pro- found questiony which no fellow cau at presnt find out. The Ibiladelphla Court which recently lsqued 83 order regulating the tintiuuabulations of & chind of church-bolls in an aristocratic ueighborbood in* timated that the m: would not have beed worthy of attentlon had it not concornod the pests of auch important people. The Const supyested wlx strokod ver mintts as about tha right tbiod that modo of ringing haviug been tested by 1o custom n the Presbytensn Chorch upon 19 square below, But thero reslly docs not' e @ bes propor allowance here. for the comparative friskiuess of tho Vresbytorlan and Eplacopal de* uominations; what 18 fast for Lie oue fs wlow for the otber, A Presbyterian girl might dauce to (h: wmusicot & bell that gavo six strokes per minute, bo! u Eplecopal girl would demand the Hvellcst mesd ure of Htrauss, without which ke would vk 10 danco b wlk