Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1877, Page 6

| 4 il CHICAGO TRIBUNLE: MONDAY. MARCH 12, 1877. Lard cloged 12}c per 100 tbg lower, at £9.20 @9.22} for April and $1.30@9.32} for Mny. Menta closed 4o per brl lower, at 4jc for loose shoulders, 7jc for short-ribs, and 7jo for short-clears, Highwines wera steady, at $1.00 per gallon. Flour wns qniet and nn. changed. Wheat closed 1o lower, at $1.23% for March and $1.25} for April. Corn closed §o Jower, at 39]e for March and 4340 for May, Oats closed Je lower, at 524c for April and 34Jo nsked for May. Rye was ensier, at 61}@630. Barloy closed dull, at 400 for Marcli and 48}c for April, Hogs wero dull and rather wenk, at $6.25@5.75 for poor fo cloice, Cnttle were quiet and firm, at 83.26@5,76. Sheep wors steady, at $3.00@ 550 for poor to cholcs grades. Ono hundred dollars in gold would buy $104.87§ in green- bncks at the close. The Trilbave. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. TIIS OPPICE. postpald: 1 yes Tet montir,, '#9 four weeks for, llterary and Ttell ' H j AY MAIL—IN ADVANCE—~TNSTAGE PREPAID AT u ont jici Trl-Weekly, postpaid, Farta i n Sear, V4r miont WEERLY EDITION, POSTPALD. Qnecopy, per yeu en.. i i iy Postage prepatd. § ' Epectnicncanien sent free. - Taprevent deiay and miataken, be rnre and give Post- § . oreee addrems tn 10, including tate and Catinty, i . _Remittances may bemade elther by drafi, express, { Fowt-umiccarder, or In registered letters, at oor ritk, ; TENMS TO CITY BURRCRINERS, + Tally, aelfecred, Bunday excepteds 25 centa per week. 1 Datly, deltvered, Sunday included, 30 centy per week i Address Corner Madeon and All sorts of rumora are nflont from Con-. stantinople regarding the condition of the Bultan. One story says he is sick ; another, that ho is insane ; another, that ho has been poisoned ; and another, that ho hns made his THE TRIDUNK COMPANY, bomn-sta,. Chicago, Tl AMUSEMENTS, 4 NeVicker'a Theatres ., Madteon _‘nm: r‘-‘a:r; n!urhflm and Btate. | nrrangoments to fly, tho, Boftas having de- b Jelenonn™ Alumoonandveolug: manded his deposition. It fsalso rumored 14 laverly's -n,,,m;‘., i that Epnext Pasna, the G,rmul VXzicr,d whc; g . b a1 e ..’E‘;‘g}g};n‘,‘_‘zflflm;fi"n a g‘:;lm n il succeeded Mipnar Pasna, has resigned, and it is nlso romored that hie has not resigned Adetphl Thentre. and is n stronger man than his predecessor. Monroe #ireet. corner Dearborn. Verlely enter- 3 el evenin The truo rumors fin this generous flight are j LoD A e two—ilrat, thiat the Saltan is dangerously il { MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1877. with brain disense, the result of n life of 2 pensupl excesaes, and the sccond, that Epnest H Pasna is unequal to his position, but no ©_ Attho Now York Gold Exchange on Bal- | ong lina yot sappesred. with either abil- " dny greenbncks ranged botwoen 954 and 933. | {45 or cournge to take his place. In view of thie allogether probable rumor based upon theso others thnt Turkoy must soon linve another Sultan, it will Le interesting to know that the present Sultan has five Drothers, besides the ox-Sultan Murap, The next in order to the snccession is Mrnmpiep Recuar Ervenol, who is in his 32d year Tho Sultnn also has soven slsters, tho eldest of whom is Surraxa Farne. Tho elnsticity of Turkish domestic relations is shown by the fact that the fair Sultana married hor first husband, Art Guavris Pasua, when sha was but 14, At 18 she wns n widow, but ler days of monrning were fow. Five months nfter hor husband's -death she married Nouns Pasua. !. The new Cabinat will ba sworn in at 10 . o'clock this forenoon, nlf theo members taking 2. the onth of office excapt Secrotary Smznmax, % who hns nlready observed that important i formality, The Administration will thon be , rondy for business, It is said thota motion, in the Lower Houso * of tho French Congress, to amplify tho for- _’ * tificntions of Paris, was incontinently smoth- : ered upon peremptory information from the . German Government that such action, if enr~ ried out, wounld bo construed into causo for ' another war botwoen the two nations. . 'Tho necessity of an immediate applieation of the President's polioy with regard to Civil-Service Rtoform is apparent in the cnso . of soma of the Federal office-holdars in Lou- “ jsinon. Many of these ars nolorionsly in. ' competent for the posilions they occupy. £ The naval officer at Now Orleaus ;ds said to be & megro who ean neither road nor write, and whosa ofticial ac- " counta benr the customary confession of il literncy—** X, his mark.” One of tho first " acts of the President will bo to croate vacan- cies in the offices held by persons of known inefliciency, and the selection of appointecs * who can at least write their own namos, Marr Canrexten fs understood to bo anxious to get back into politics, and, ns ho * unturally prefors thoe winning side, which- * over in his judgoment that may bappen to * be, he would liko to be once more regarded * o8 n Rapublican. o is said to meditato tho publication of n lettor oxplaining that his . championship of Troex before the Elcotor- ; ol Commission was merely in hia capncity o4 o lawyer; but the Republicons of Wisconsin manifest an unpleasant disposi- tion to romember that the ex-Sonator was b grent paing to declaro that his nppearanco ' was wholly voluntary, and that ho repre- sented the wronged and defranded Demo- : cratie voters of Loulsinna, Whon'the peoplo . got to remembering things and looking up . records it is n good time to postpono the re- sumption of active political life, THE RESULT OF THE ELECTORAL COM- MI1881 It isopportuns to reeall tho attentlon of the country, on the fair Jaunching of Mr. Haves' Administration, to the predictions of rank confusion and disorder which n fow wooks ago greeted the proposition to deter- mine the Presidontial difiienlty by the arbit- ramont of o court of law. Six weeks ago tho ponca of the country was serionsly im. periled by factions of the two opposing par- tics. ‘Che Electoral vote was in disputo, and tho result depended npon which way the vote of the Btato of Louisiuna was connted. On this question the political mnjorities in the two Houses of Congress were opposed. 'This opposition was so intenso that an agreement by which the vote atiould bo counted by the two Ilouses was an impossibility. No hope of any such agreement was entortained. Ex- tromo men then beeamo conspienons. Like two locomotive-ongineors, oach claiming the right to the track nnd ench determined to asgert that right, and, letting on all possible stenm, resolved that if o collision did take place his machino shonld strike ns hard as possible, so theso cxtreme pnrtisan fac- tions, each claiming to ba right, preferred n wrock of the National Governnrent to yielding one inch to the other. In days of strife and peril, the worst mon, govoraed by tho worst aud most groveling matives, riso to the top, ns doed tho filth and scum como to tho sur- fnco when tho waters of a poud aro violently disturbed. Fortunately thero were enough men of both parties who lind no ambition to witnesa another civil war, who lad no taste for planging tho country into an. endless ex. citement over n dispnted auccession to tho Presldonoy, and who hnd higlior estimates of tho functions of n President than that of ap- pointing Postmastors, and Appralsers, and Paymastors, and Gnugers. Theso men of Dboth prrties conslderod that it would be Lot~ ter to preserve the national peaco, oven if there should not be'n change of office-hold- ers, and tho Lungry partisan beggnra ba left to starve. Theso mon devised nnd maturod the Electoral-Comminsion scheme. ‘They davisod the Commission without any party ndvantage on either side, nnd left to the four Judges of the Bnpremo Court the cholco of the finol momber, It was propared, and was o intendod, to bo as impartial oy is pos #iblo in any human tribunal appointed under such cireumstances of nationnl and party ex- citoment, ‘Ihero wora those who honestly belioved that A1pen had beon fegally and v "The cool elfrontery of the Now York Her- ! ald in attempting to appropriate to itself tho * distinction of having originated the blue. * glass sensation has called forth n spirited % communication from the New York corro- spondont of Tnr Tripuve who wrote tho : letter of Jan. 10, which was published “in our columns a fow days later, und which was unquestionably the starting point of the widespread {uter- , cst which has since, as the Herald " remerks, **divided tho Lonors of attentlon ' with ono of the greatest politicnl sonsations the conntry over experivnced.” The Now York FErening Mail mny justly claim tho credit of being the first nowspaper of that city to copy from Tue Tmnune its earlior ar~ ticles on the subject of Gon, PreasoNton's bluc-glass experimonts, but the Jleralda pretensions are shown to be simply absurd by the history of tho facts which wo print this morning, ¢ Gen, Gaurterp hos withdrawn from tho rooms nt Washington begging offica and Dread from the hands of thosa who conlid only hLave reached power pencofully through tho jndgment of the Electoral Com- ‘mission. President ITarrs nets wisely in telling thess crentures to go home, that thoy aro wasting time, and that ho will make no changes, ox- cept for official delinqnoney. Ho has organ- ized his Administration to earry ount now policles. For this purposo he has appointed to his Cabinet n Democrat who voted for Truory and who sorved in the Confederate army ; hio has chiosen na an ndviser Sciunz, n foreigner by Dbirth, and who has been de- nounced for yanrs as an apdstate becanse, in 1872, ho ndvooatad that very reform of tha civil sorvice which the President has now mado the lending polioy of his Adwinistration ; he lns made Mr. Evirta Boorotary of State,—tho man wlo s been purancd and maligned for yenrs by the whole body of na- chino politiciaus ; lie lins called to his conne cils McCnany, Devexs, Troyrsox, and Sarn- AN, all fair, honost, and liberal mombers of his own party ; in addition, ho hns mnde momber of his conneil Vice.Presidont Wzt~ zn,—n mnn of integrity and judgment, a man of conciliatory disposition, yot always just. AnAdministention thus organized, with its do- fined policies of penca and justico, and above all of honesty in office, hins nothing in com. mon with the fanatics who a few woeks ngo wero shouting for office or eivil war, for official plunder or annrchy, The country, by the wisdom and patriotism of the majority. of both parties in Congress, escaped the dangors of strife and civil disturbance, and. now by the wisdom and patriotism of ' the Presidont and his Cabinet, sustained by the moral intogrity of the poople of all sections, the Government and the country will bo rid of the corrupt, beggarly partisans, in offica ond out of it, who were so clamorous for revolntion and blood, lest they might miss some portion of the plundered Treasury. THE CITY VOTING-PRECINCTS, The Conneil will take final nction {o.day on the allotment of the various procincts for voting at the appronching city ecleotion. Though tho eloction ordinanco has beon passed, in order to meet tho requirement ns to tho time of notice, it may be nmended so as {o increnso the number of voting-places, aud wo desire to press upon the Council again the necessity for enlargiag the number of precinets in order fo draw out' tho full voto of tho city, nnd save voters needless an- noyance, and expense, and exposure incldent 1o standing in line for two or threa lours, 1t is notorious that, at tha lnst clection, even though a Presidentinl clection, hundreds of voters went away from the polls withont de- positing their bollots rather than submit to the inovitable dolay nnd wait for a long time in tho raw, cold weather. In incrensing the number of precinets the Council may,bo materially nssisted in fixing tho location of the additional voting.places by roforanca to n tablo which was printed in Tue Tnmuxe of yestorday. Wo made a showing that in tho elghteen wards of this city thero wera but very fow at tho lnst eleo- tion whero the avernge number of votes at each precinet did not excoced 500, while in fomo of them tho averngo ran np ns high as 1,300, Wo also gave a dotailed statemont of all tho ssparato precincts in which tho votes exceeded 800 in number. With tho nasist- ance of these tables it will not bo difficult to determine whoro new voting.precincts should bo establighed. ‘The wards that most need them aro tho First, B8econd, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Bixteonth, and Seven- Benatorinl contest in Ohlo in deference, it is sald, to the desiro of Presidont layes that ho should remain in the House ns the leador of the supporiers of tho Administration in that branch of Congross. Wilh the cleva- tion of My, Hoan to the Bonate and the ap- poiutmont of Mr. MoCnany ns Secretary of ‘War, tho Republican leadershipin the House would naturally revert to Gon. Ganrreip, who, in the cssential requirements of ability, character, and pariiament- ary experience, is especially qualified for tho place which the President desircs him torfill. By remaining in tho louso he will stay whero hie can do the most good In tho development aud application of the now Southern policy, with which he is in entire harmony, aud his future prospects for Ben. atorinl Honora will be none. the worse for the delay, Tho withdrawnl of Gen. Ganrizin's namo from the list of candidates is thought in Columbus to add materislly to tho chances of Judgy MarTuews, The power of publio sentiment, which was demonstrated in tho passage of the Jaw cre- oting the Electoral Commission, snd again in compelling the defeated party to abide by the results of that law, was once more brought to bear at a critical period when the Cabinet nominations were pending in the Benate. ‘There is good reason to believe thet the formation of aa anti-Administra. tion faction among the Kepublicans of the Benate was ot one time serious. ly contemplated, and that the violation of ull precedent in the refereuce of the nomi- nations to the various Committces was in- tended oy a direct afiront to President Haves. Presmuusbly the same elewent of opposition would Liave openly arrayed itself against the Aduministration bad not the prompt sud un. mistakable expression of public sentiment convinced the malcontents of thelr mistake in uttempting to block the wheels of pacifi. cation and reform. The people spoke, and the disgruntled Senators were forced to obey. A single objection would have carried the Cubiuet appointments over until to-dsy, but 0 objection was offered, and the confirma. tions took place forthwith, ‘The Chicago produce morkets were active Beturdny, sud gencrally weak. Mess pork cloged 250 per bil lower, at §13.87j@13.90 for Aprii and $4.07§@14.10 for May. wero inslsting : fairly elected, as there were thoso who belioved that Hayes had beon ns falrly and legally olectod. Dut thu mon who ontertainod theso sonviotions the most conacientionsly were not these who 1. Thot the President of the Sonato was & Republioan, and that there- foro the Tepublicans bad tha whole gawe in their own hands, and all they had to do wna to direct the President ‘of the Bonnte to count Havea in, 2. That there wns a Demo- cratic majority in the House of Reprosenta- tives, that in case of a nou.election tho House could elect a DPresident; that the Democrals hiad the whole game In their own Liands, and all they lad to do was for the Houso to refect the voto of Loulsiana, declara that no election bad {faken place, and pro- coed immediately to eloct Tiroex, Theso were the positions of the extrome partisans, who took no interest in questions of law; foirness, or honesty, and wero only intent upon having their men counted in, and thereby securo the plundoer, no matter what would be the consequences to tho country. The Electoral Commission was appolnted, when, sll over the country, the office-beg- gars ralsed a howl, They denounced the schomo s & betrayal of party, as rank cow. ardice, ns shameless submission, 83 knaviah trickery to rob the falthful of their well. earned wages, aud, estimating Party on the level with Cmrwst, like 80 maony Pirates they called the world to witness that they washod their hands of the terrible crime. We need mnot repeat the listory of the Cammission, or how it dispersed the threat. oning storn and gave peace to thoe country ; but no sooner had these Republicans who had o ostentatiously washoed their hauds of all responsibility for this great mensure of Jaw, justice, and peaco, found that Havzs had been elected, than they rushed to Wash. ington, and from the wesk hands of an ex- piring machine-Administration successfully begged office in order to anticipato any se- lection of men with clean hands and clean records which the new Administration might miake. Theso creatures, who & fow weeks sgo were denouncing the suthors of the Electoral-Commission law as betroyers of the party and of the couutry, and who were clamoring for a civil war, in which they would have taken no personal share, arenow fswaning and groveling iu the ante- toonth, 'Tho, number added by the Council on Saturday will not bo at all ndequata to the necossitica, Tho First, Sccond, Third, and Tourth Wards have only four precinets each, yet the number of voters shonld outitle (he First Ward to six, tha Second to seven or ‘:lghl, the Third to a3 many, and the Fourth to at lenst oight, ‘The Council need not Lo nfrald of being too liberal in thie nllotment of voting-places, Tha {ncreased oxpense to the city at large is trifling na compared to tho individunl loss in- cidont to an effort to voto twice na many poo- plo at ono place as ean bo proporly accommo- dated ; besides, nmplo facilities for voting aro in the interest of honost elcctions, giving the jadgon, elerks, and challengars abundant time to dischiargo thelr duties carefully, In New York, Philadelphin, and. other large citics, it is the practice to' provide voting. places in such number that not more than 250 or 300 aro required to voto at one precinet. Cortainly the arrangements should bo such in Chicngo that not moro than 500 be required. to vote at any oune place, It will not bo denled that the importance of tho ity and town clections, which botl' oceur on tho same dny, demands that the full vote of the city bo polled; but this ean only ba seonrod by affording a aufliciont numbor of preclucts to necommoadate it without sorlous inconvenience or delay. ‘The Couucil should, therefore, give thu matter propor altention at its mooting this afternoon, THE WISDOM OF ARBITRATION. At tho outset of the Presidontial campalgn, the London Zimes, foresscing that new and Interesting questions might spring up, do- toiled one of its mosl competent editars to visit this country, aud furnish the paper with lottors from such pointa as ho might sclect. The commiasloner has done his work indus. trionsly and well. In addition to compre. hensive daily dispatches of & spocial nature, in which respect the Z'fmes has made a new departare In enterprise, he has written woek- 1y lotters which bave covered the clection, with its most characteristic scenes and inci. dents, the visits of theinvestigating com- mittees to the Houth, the work of tho Re- turniug Bosandy, the debates in Cougress, the fury of the filibusters, and, flually, the ses- slons of the Electoral, Commission, His lnst letter s dovoted cutirely to the Commix. sion, and is profaced by some characters istio comments upon tho manuer in which the orderly and law.abiding peopla have rallied to support it. Oune of his observe- tions will recall the taunt with which Gen. Syies floored the rampaut CamesoN and bellicose Conzse, when these two Genorals were fssuing instructions to Gen. Suznaax to prepare for ¢ goah" aud * wabi,” and Gen. Krexax, editor of the Chicago Times, was firing the Dourbon Leart. The 7%mes cor- respondent says: “* Iu the Sonth, I noticed that the Domocrats who had actually fought nagainst Republicans spoke of them in a far less hostile and bitter tone than the Northern Democrats, who had merely said they wounld fight ngainst them, and that thg former rarely or never indulged in that talk of war ‘which has of late been too frequent among sowse of the latter.” Inclosing his letter he pays the American people the following com- pliment: It fa really a fine, one may say withont sxaggera- tion & sublime, sighé which the Commission pree scots at ite pew worls of Presldent-making. No other counlry than America could, perhaps, bave got into such sa Electoral muddle, bul certalaly no otber country could have got with such stgple sod decarona dignity ont of 1t, Hore Ia s conteat be- tiveen two Lialves of & great nation, pretty equally divided, for no less A prize than snpreme power, eazh half firmly convinced that it has law and jus- tice on its nide—a contest quita ns grave and dim- ealt of nettlement as that for succeenion to the dle- pated headblp of a dynasty, and which in any other part of the world must have been settled in the nsnal time-honored but barharous way, by an appeal to force, might dolng daty for right. For somo tlore It scemad as if this contest conld admit of no other settlemont hero. Suddenly the best men in the nation pat thelr beads together, & peacefal compromise Is hit npon, and, whena stranger newly arrived at Washington goes to watch the struggle which tbreatened clvil war, ho finds himeelf, not among Gencrals with sworda at their sules and diplomats armed with atill more formidable uitlmatune, but in & law court, whers a few clvillans in plain clothes are dotermining what the next Government shall be na calmly and robetly and with as close attention to the eirictly legal aspects of every question ralsed a4 if no mora _weru atstake than a disputed legacy between Jonx Doz and Rrciann Roz. The result of the national arbitration goes furiher thnn a mere matter of congratnlation for the American people. It s eminently satisfactory, of course, that tho country has emerged from the Elootoral muddle without prejudice'or harm, and that the, hot-headed fools and office-secking demagogues have beon thwarted in thoir efforls to embroil the two parties in war, and that they have earned the sontempt of tho whole feople. But be- youd this, and perhaps even moro valnable still, is the exnmplo which this country has set to Franco and othor countrles, that Revolution {a not the only arbiter in settling groat national questions, Wo have, shown them that we con seltle a fiezes and bitter quarrol, not only for the Prexidoncy, but for the absolute control of the Govern- snont, where neither tho Constitution nor {he Iaws provile a method. Wo have shown them that, in the very midst of dnnger, with political possions ot fever heat, we can stop and do- viso 0 mothod that works onut peaceablo re- sulls and that innugnrates the Chief Mngie- trate withont tho striking of o blow or spill- ing of adrop of blood. We have shown them that all this may bo accomplisbed ot no grontor expensio than hard words, which are not nanatural in o country of absolute free specch. Bo far as words nre concerned, there is no ordinance forbidding their use, aud partisan patriots are at liberty to rake tho vory sowers and cesspoola of slang and Billingsgato in their search for epithots, ns did the OChicngo Times. Like tho editor of that paper, thoy may run amuck, throwing their filthy mud upon overy ono thoy meet. There is no law ngninst it This great stmgglo of forty millions of peoplo for power hns passed by, and loaves only tho remembrance of the {roth and fary of wordy, windy partisans,— barmless in its insanity, however disgnsting it mny be. 'This examplo of respect for lnw and devotion to tho best interests of the conntry is not only suggestive to other countries, but it forever sets at rest the taunting prophecios that have been made by tho cnemies of the repnblican form of government, that Republics bave no safoty-valves for just such exigencles 28 that through ‘which wo have just been pass- ing. 'The taunt may apply to the Latin and Hpanish Republics of South America, whose people have never learned to govera thom- selves any moro than the people of France and Bpain, but it can no longer apply to the Anglo-Saxon Repnblic of the United States. ‘Wo have passed throughthe most momentous danger that can ovor occur to a government, —tha vory danger that hns produced:all tho European rovolutions,—and emerged from it withont the spilling of a drop of blood. Wo liave shown to the world that might does not. ake right, as in Spain,—that the revolution is not & nationnl iden, as in Franco, TRE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AOCT. Aniong the. first bills introduced into the present session of the Tllinols Logislature was ono by Scnntor Ronixson legislating the prosent Cook County Commissioners out of office, and ennbling the people of this conn. ty toolect an ontirely new Doard by genoral voto of tho county every year. For some time this bill was negleotod altogether, and now wo learn that it has been amended, or o substitute prepared, so that it will fail to meot tho desires of tho peoplo of this coun. iy, who slono aro interested in the smntter, ‘The eubstitute which is proposed provides that of the fifteen Commissioners tho voters of Clicago shall bavo the privilego of voting only for ten, aud that tho fivo mombors to which the snburban districts in the county aro entilled shnll be olecoted by sep- arate . votes of the five country dis- tricts, ench voting for only one man, Tho effect of this provision will be that the 7,000 or 8,000 taxpnyers of Chicngo who live in tho suburbon towns nnd villages and sloep outside of the city limits, though their interests are all in Chicago, will bo en- titled to vote for only one Commissiorfor, but will be taxed, and plundered, and robbed by fifteen Commissionors all the samo. At the Inst goneral election the vote of this county was 703,200, of which 62,000 wero cast inside tho city limits, leaving 14,200 who vote at the country 'procincts, Of these 14,000 voters residing outsido the city limils, at loast one-half, or 7,000, do bosiness in Chlca~ 80, come fo tha city in the mornjug and go out home In the evening; the other 7,000 are engaged in stone-quarrying, manufacturing, gardening, raising poultry, ete., and depend exclusively on ‘the City of Clicago for their support, The interests of tho city and the snburban districts aro oonsequently identi. cal, and yot the proposed measure will per- mit those who happen to reside ontside the alty limits to vote for only one of the fifteon Commissioners who are to tax.them and bandle their monoy. The ipjestica of such an arrangeiment is manifest, ‘Wa understand that the objection to Sen. ator RopineoN's proposition that all the Commissioners shall b elesttd by genernl voto ‘of the county is partian, and based upon the assumption that, it {ie Domocrats should carry the county, thqBoard would ba entirely Democratic, while if the Repub- licans ghould carry the county it would be exclusively Republican, We|have already pointed out the improbability pt either party making an effort to seize thowhole Board ; such an attempt would ceralnly be im- politie, and probably result i3 the defeat of the party that should be sily enough to mako it, . At tho sowe time, &y spprelien. sion of party greed may be nut without di- viding up the vote into disricts, which would defeat the purpose of sccuring the best men from both parties. There is one ‘way in which to insure n proper representa. tion of both parties and still dect the Af- teen Commissioners by the goveral vote of the county, This {s by makingthe minority- representation plan & part of Bwator Ronry. son's bill. Let it be provided tat the fiftesn Commissioners be elected by tie whole conn. ty, but that every voter shsll have fifteen votos, which he may cumulsts or distribute aa he secs fit, elther as integer) or in even fractional parts. The result v such s pro- vidon -will ho that party will nomipate ten mon instend of fificen, and the stronger party will elect tha majority nnd the weaker parly the minority, apportioned fo {heir relative strongth, The party tickets will be made out 5o na to give each of the ten candidates one and & half votes, whilo the indepondent voters will cumulate on those of either party whom they beliove to bo tho best men, thus insuring their election; ond that party will eleot the larger number of Commissioners which shall put forward the larger number of unexcep- tionable caudidates. The operation of the minority systom of voling will bo as simplo in the cnse of the County Board o it is now in ol+oting mom. bers of the Legislature. In voting for the Logislsture, thoro are throe membors to be elected from each District, and every voter hns thrce votes; oach parly nominates iwo candidates, and the parly voters give each candidate ono nnd a half votes; tho result 1a that the parly in major. ity elects two membors and the minority porty one momber. It will be almost pro- cisely the samo thing in electing the fifteen Connty Commissioners, and giving one and n halfl votes to oach of ten candidates. Tho minority party will thus gocure five Commis. sloners certainly, and ns many more as tho strength of their candidntes may stirnct. ‘The London Behool-Bonrd of hslf a hundred persons aré electod in this way, oach distriot “voting for somo sevon persons in the way wa propose Cook County shall vote for its fifteen Commissioners. . If thero is a disposi- tion in the Legislaturoe to do juatice to Cook County, and afford our taxpnyers the rellef thoy need so sorcly, Bonator RoniNsox's orig. jual bill. ainonded by providing tho minority system of voting, will bo promptly taken up and passed. A SOUTHERN BULLDOZER, The Richmond Engulrer Is the most Implac- able Bourhon sheet printed In the South. It urged tho fllibusters fn Congress to break np tho arbitration and count in TiLDER at all haz- ards, and risk the consequences, It was as violent and vituperativo na the Chicago Jull- dozer; aud, like somo of the Republlcan “bull- dozing" sheets, *washed fts handsof all re- epansibility”! for the submission of the Presi- dential muddle to o Board of Arbitration.’ It is #till Irreconcilable; it sces in President Hayns® polley of conclliation and reform the sceds of danger to tho color-line platform, which, it fn. sists, aholl' b malntalucd I Virginla. It Is alarmed fest the whites of Visginin may divide into two parties, and ccaso to he banded to- gether on the jssue of hatred and revenge. The Euqrarer I8 as fierce a hloody-shirter as tho con- cern hero which **washed {ts hands of arbitra- tlon' and clamored for a violent {nauguration. In atmost the Identleal Janguage of the Chicago DLloody-shirter, 1t exclalma: ._'The Nadlcals have sought to deflle the graves of onrdea ey have harrowed tho sensibilition of the fiving: and wo have defended onesplves with a dignificd, caln, and resolute conrage that has been worthy of our heritage, 7h¢y have do- nouncod s i barbarisna in wakgnd as assseins In peaca [ete, ], This Southern bulldozer then procceds to warn the populace of the conscquences of lis- tening to the conciliatory words of the new Presldent: Dut the truth must be told, The inaugaration of TIAYER opens before we & futaro of uppscesion and Inmalt, vague, dark, indeSnite. Many faint hearta are turning slck. Emissarics arelIn the camp, and {t la oty asked af us, \Why keep np the fight? We are told that it is hopoleas; that Hadicatlam Intends to have its own way: thatitis too strong for nas and_that tho North will, by In- actlon, justify It in lllg conrao it may take. Like an fnsldious polron, the compromiso arguments are being poired Into our cars, The oruanaare flattering the Soathern Congressmen and encour- aping them 1o o milk-and-wator poicy. \We adjure our people to drive away the tempter. Tle offers food and dlahonor. 1le offers pay and troason. Like that other temuter, he promiscs all the Kingdoma of the earth, when he i0es not own anacre of land, Tho heart of Virginia la sound and true, Her manhood, her conrage, her virtio, her women and children, will never make terma with the men who have sought to rob her of her fair name, avd to send down the names of hor chidldren In lnfamy ta the future. The faint-hearied may desctt now, tho weak may alink away from the trinle jnst on us, but the real aplrit of the people will romaln firm, Bofore thoee, Howuver, who arn disposcd to give heed to thy templer, act: before they aell thefr birthright for o mirerable mess of pottage, ~we holid up to them a eolpmn warning, 4 The most terzible of all weapons—tho noclal tez. ror—will visiton them punishmont dire, torrible, and swift. ’l‘holy will bo arked and bhranded ‘so that all men will knaw them. ’l'ho,{ will bo lopers, Liefore whosa stepy all will fly, They will be ene circled with s wall of fire, beyond which nothing on. 1t Wil bo tho effort of saclety to nranerve taclt, andd 1§ will succaed. Tn tho truo and tho brave we say: Doublo the pickets,—close up on tho right! ———e OBITUARY. MATILDA TIRROX. Tho telegraph has already announced tho death of the once eminent actress, MATILDA TznoN, which oceurred in Now York a few days sioce. Bho came of o good family, and was born In Londonderry, Ireland, about 55 years ago, Bhio was but a child when sho camo to this coun- try, and, when s mers girl, was a favorite pupil of Psren Ricuings, Bhio made herdebut at the ‘Walnut Btroet Theatre, Philadclphta, as Bianca, in **Fazio,” Feb, 17, 1831, For two years sho worked Industrlously as s stock actress, learn- fng the elements of her profession, and then visited Cadifornla, whero she was very success« ful In the standard drama. Bho thon visited Parls at a'timo when Dumas’ play, * La Dame sux Camelins,”” was ot t4 helght. 8ho studied the play yery carefully, also tho ortlst who was playing Camille,. When sho seturned 1o tbis country sho mado a “translation of the play under tho title of #Camllle; or, tho Talo of a Coquotte,” pro- dnced It 1n Cincinnatl and made & hit with 'i¢, 8ho then produced It in all the leading citles of the country, and straightway MaTiLDA JImnox became a colebrity as famous as Channorrs Cusnsmax in her role of Mey Merrilies, She was the rage everywhere, and became so thor- oughly Identified with the consumptive Camills that no one else thought of playlog 1t. Actors would as soon thought of taking Mey Merrilies from Miss CusniuanN, or Faltafr from Hackerr, a8 Camille from Miss Ilnnow. 8he performed it in fact so constintly thattho public bardly know that she had any other characters in her ropertolre. Bhie became as much & one-charse- ter sctor as Jervgmsox. Bho was cccene ric and open-hesrted In her manners, and although she made money very rapldly sho spent. It very rapidly. Her last yeara have becn spont In comparative poverty and misery, with occastonal attacks of Insanity, In 185t sho married Rooznr 8ronreL, s theatrical orchestra leader, but the marriage was an unhappy one, One clild, Mt~ tle *Buouy " Hukon, the result of that unlog, 1s alrcady upon the stage. She was a woman of rare genius, aud, although very eccentric In her manuers, was & favorito in the profession. Al though she dicd poor, old, and {n obscurity, her name will go down as one of tho few successful American actresses, and be remembered long after tho shoal of pretty mediocrities now on the stage are forgotten. OUITUARY NMOTES, Among other prominent persons who have died rocently are Dr. Gorpon Buok, the visit- log surgenn of the New York Hospital, one of tho most entiuent members of his professfon in the United Btates; of Josmeu AUTRAN, & member of tho Fronch Academy, who was noted for his studics of Evnirinzs, and who has published a great number of posins, critiques, reviows, snd translations; of the Hon. Jamxs Cocnuax, a member of the Excentive and Leg- falative Councits of Nova Scotla; of Omis T. Ruaopss, for nearly thirty ycars Buperintend. ent ot the Vermont & Massachuscits Rall- road; of Cusxrxs Dovoras Courrox, Marquls of Northampton, who succeeded to the titlc on the death of his father fn 1851, and arried in 1859 Tuxoposia Harniotr ELizABNTH,dsughter of Captain and Lady Mamy Vyass, sud grand- daughter of TmoMas PriLip, Earl D Gear; sud of Georow Opaws, the well-known sgi- tator for the rights of the English workiog classce. Ilo has Iong been known as a trade- unfonisty and was at one time & member of the Internatfonal Workingmen’s Assoclation. Ha contested nseat in Parlisment several timesna a workingmen's candidate, but was always un. successful. —— In Memphis, the Aralanche supports Presl- deut Naves Southern polley o peace and reee onciliation, and adviscs an abandonment of tha color-Hina us a party fasue. It calls upon all fair-ininded and conscrvative men to give the Presldent & generous support. It is highly pleascd with tho nppointment of ex-Sonator Kxx to a seat in the Cabinet, and predicts happy rosults ‘to tho Bouth from the new pollcy of President Hares. DBut the Appeal and the Erening Ledger—hoth Bourbon—denounce Judge Key for accepting s acat In tho Cabinet. Thoy say: A# for Mr, Kex, be has gone whera he bolonge, —into. the ‘vosorh_ of tlia Jiepubltcan parcy. 118 virtaally ceased o bo n Demcerat, if over I wan one, long ago, The Ledaer'a estimate of him has heen fnlly verified, Politically, he in nntrastwor- thy. Four yeara from now, when the Democrats come in (1], he will 1o donbt claim that he was A good Democrat all the time, It seems from thia appolntment that the only Sonthern men to be st Iected far positions under the Government are avowed Itepublicans or thase of the soft-sholl kind who hava been holding themselven In readinesn {o fall on tho Wlmflnf sde, Mr. Rerisin the right company now, and tho right place.. But it was demonstrated on Snturdsy that ‘the Lusincss classes of Memphls support the position of the Avalanche, and candemn that of the firo-eating organs, the Appesi and tho Tedger. 'The Assoclated Press reports that the largeat meeting of business-men that has ever assembled at the Cotton Exchange in Memphis met thero Saturday afternoon to take action In roferenceto tho polley foreshadowed by President Iaxes in his inaugural address, and by the ap- pointment of D. M. Kex to his Cabinet. The following resolutlons, after full discussion, ‘were almost unanimously adapted: Resolred, br{ the members of the Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Exchange of Memphis, That wo hiafl with satisfaction and approval ihe brond departura of President 1latrs from tho poliey whiich han characterized the Administration of tha pastyents: and gt wo pledg onraclves, withont regnrl to past or prescnt politieal sasociations or afihations, to unhold and sustaln him in ave Just and contitutional measnro or act of hix Ad- minietration having tor it object the pormanent neification and reconciliation of the people and States af tlie Fedoral (fnlon; and o this end be it farther ltesolzed, That wo heartlly indorse and spnrove hin appointment of our_lstingaished fellow- cltizen, the lan, . M. KrY, to the vosition of Postmaster-General, and that onr thanka are due to Mr. Ker for his prompt acceptance of the same, e — Tho 8t. Paul Ploneer-Press (Republican) says the mistake BLAINE made when he nuchmi into Prestdent flayzs and denounced hls Southern polley of concillation, wns, that he (BLAIX®) has “ not yet perccived that this was tho last pulsa- tion of tho expiring animosttics of tho Wa:; that the firehio kindled, and which blazed for awhilo with so flerce & hieat, hins slready dled out, and is now smolilering in its own dust and sshes; that the patlence of the country is exhaustod with this perpetual offort to sustaln the Repub- Hlean-party upon tho traditlons, animosities, and prejudices of tho War; that, above all things, the country now domanils peaco and concord on the basis of justico to white and black, to Un- fonist and Rebol alike; that it yearns for the natlonatization of tho Repubile, for the extin- gulstunent of sectional lines and color-lines, and all the hiatreds on which political parties have Veen bullt up.” Intoxicated with his success in assalllng Jepr DAvVIS anid Andersonville, BLAINg undertook to repeat the role In the Senate, “ by putting himsolf ostentatlously forward fn oppo- sitlon to the peaco policy of Prealdent Harxs, THo will find that the timo was {ll-chosen for thiy manifostation. Ile is poing throuzh the mo- tlons of sawing an old tune on o flddle whose atrlngs arebroken. Tha country will not dance to his musfe.” 4 ——— The Clncinnat! (Fazeite, which stoutly sup- ports tho new President and hia S8outhern pol. {cy of peaco and good-will, docan't like BLAINE'S attack on IAves, It sayss As tho horo whoso charactor he has pat on fssucs his doflanco: ‘Whoavar dare these bools dlsplaca Must meet Bonibastes faca 1o face, 80 doen Nombastes BLarxs proclaim his defiance to the fonr winds: Tdo not proposs ft. Iam here todo battle with lnr one in my lumble way, who esrouet that polloy, Iny tist eze down for sny Senstor who standt epansar & tlie sugention af Mr. STAXLEY MATTURWS 3ad Mr, Evants on this question, ‘Tho public mind can draw bat one ratfonal opin- fon aa to the motlve of this uncallcd-for deflance and hypothetical denunciation of the new Preals dent, and that {a that {t {s Mz, litAtxe's peesonal speculatinn, not unmixed with personal dlungmlm. went. and that hie {8 run:_{{ to inake a broach In tho Topublican party, In order that he mn{ lay the partof ftw defeuder for tha chances which may come through that uncalled-for and sham cham- plonahip. ‘Tha Rev. C. H. Fowan, editor of tho Chris- tian Adrocate, delivered a lecture in Philadelphia last weel upon # Mustle and Brain, in the courss of which ho salils #Tho tondency of the newspapers of the day show tho leaning of - tho public. They devole a paragraph tos sermon and two or three columnato apriza fizht.” The miarcpresentation contalned In the remark shows not only that Mr, Fowrzn docs not know which way the publlc is leaning, but that ho doca not read the newspapers. Instcad of publishing paragraphs about sermons, they are publishing every week whololirondsides of seemons, good, bad, and Indiferent. If Mr, Fowlnn wishcs to have zood religious reading, and to know how the publle lesus, e should take Tum Cnioaco Trwuxs. Ho would find moro sermons in ouo week's lssuo of it than tho Chriatian Advocate prints (o a year. ———— 0 4he Kdlior of TAe Triduns, Cnicago, March ,—-Will 1‘"“ decide a question for met 1'1ald a wagor with & gentleman that Vienna, the Capital of Austris, had the ssme pop- ulatlon as New York City, J. Lo ‘The population of Vienna proper in 1875 was 673,685; tho vorofe or communea included fn the pollca districts, but not in tha municipal juris- diction, hed o population of 3i6.005, makiuga total of :1,020,70. The population of New Yorkin 1670 was' 042,202, and 1s probably now largely in oxcess of that number, Wo should say that the population of New York, allowing for thedifference of dates in the taking of the census, exceeded that of Vicuas, vorote and all, by at Jeast 100,000, . e —— ‘The Cinclnnatl Wash-VeLeanery, alias En- quirer, llke the Indlanapolls Seatind and the Chicago Jiulldorer,—wo moan tho Democratic one,—is Irreconcilable and fmplacable, It vents Its sncors at the Loulsvllle Democratlc paper thusly; The Loulsville Courler-Journal s ina fair way tobecome s Haves organ, 1t stacted out with the navel propositton somo time & pontleman untll ho proved and now jt declsres: T = Uty by oy Flicy, Demoaratio aflg dlscuss Tt LS el Ther o ol lhlll saloog a4 he mnnuln-’“n ot ground. 0t treat 11ATES 88 mself & usurper; Seasturs canaok A dlstingutshed Southerner said to the editor of the Albany (N.Y.) Journal, on tha day of Harxzs' luauguration: Tho crime 1 charge upon ihe Republicans is that thoy have forced 40, old Whlgs in my Btate ] to a¢t with the Democratic party, with have no natural sympathy. L exe sentlniont of maay, Uy followlng this # can uuravel the Demorratic web in tho Soutl, snd foar years hence carry woveral of the Bouthern States,” Prealdent ‘llavis sad the Ite- ublican leaders clearly grasp the trath. If tho etter of acceptanco lsst June had been written fi-n:rdny, It could not bave beon better fittod tu e pro it ty. 1t showed deep rotlec. D o ity foreat b e has coi avzs L8 the man. ————— A Californls paper says the following dis- patches were Intercopted at Salt River Btation: 15 Gnavenoy Pauk, March2,~7v Gov. Lafay- il Groter, Satew, Ore. ! Exploded, deaparstion, rainous, oxpense, folly, crampe. Bigned] . TsurEcor. aLeM, Oro., March 2,—7vo &. J. TVden, 15 gramercy Parks Condolence, uielcts, disgusted, mpecunlous, hopeless, dlvgrace. signed] Gossis. Even the Peonsylvanians sre beginning to call CAMERON to sccount for his obstinacy and unwilliuguess to give up his hold upon the spolis. The Philadelphia Norih Amurican says:. When sombo of their leaders wers urged to con- mider the contingency of Mr. layxs refuslng thelr deniands while willing to recogulze Peons) s in aother form, ibo reply was: ** Dama Penn vanla; wo'll bave Dox 1o auzson or the State -h’.u have Hflllh{l{"' They have dona thelr best to damn. Tenneylvanin; the Stato has nobody, and Mr. Cangnox may acceot hia defeat and his respon- sibllity together, This s only fhe beginning. ——— The 8t, Lonls newspapers are not favorably impreased with Chleago criminal Jurlsprudence. Bays the G.-1). ¢ B " The great SuLLivan-Maxyonn (ragedy, emacted In Chicagn rome months since, ende-l yesteriay In A farcical acqnittal of the accnned, Tho Inw fof the punishment of marder In Iilinols should bo ropeal- ed at once, 1t1a 4 dead letter If the SuLLIVAK Case 18 to stand as a preco ————t—— PERSONAL, ‘Matildn Meron left an antoblography, which will probably be printed soon. Rar) Bhatteabury writes to OliverWendol Tolmes that many breakfast tablea in England arc awalting the antocrat. ¥ Joaqaln Miller Is 8o delighted with the atmos- phers of Washington that he talks of making his resldence thore, - Mrs. Milicont Faweost Ia preparing a pamphlet on the dlatresa oxlating In Eastern Enropo, Sho is dolng this at the requost of the Easterp Question Association. rE The Duc d'Aamale _has parted with his Diritish reaidenco at Twickenham for $225,000, and it In to be made n pleasant ont-of-town feaort for arlsto. cratic supper-partles, A questlon of sclentific Intoreat now Is, **\Who, 17 anylody, has been * hnlidozed * in Washington?™ Not Simon Cameron surely! It cannot bo that Simon wonld sahmit to such treatment. .The Cincinnatl Gazefte thinks the nppointment of Mr. Nlafne as head of the Committco on Civil. Service Reform s & joke almost equal to the placing of Flanagan at the head of the Committeo on Education, Mies Danser loft n her till $10,000 toa clergy- man, a chance acquaintanco, who had been kind toher. She died suddunly two days befors tho time appolntod for her marrlage, and her fancral was celobrated by tho pastor who had been sum. moned to hor wedding, Sho was the danghter of & famous gambler, and derlyed her fortano from him. Allof it goes to charlty. Mr, Draglaugh and Mrs, Desant propose soon to pabl verbatim Dr. Knowles' ** Pruits of Philose ophy"; they will defend their right to discuss hon- estly the question of population, and to publlsh popnlar medical works, or socla] works not Issued for an immoral purpose, and will go to prison other thon concede this right. | They ato Yabls to imprisonment for 8 torm ranging from threo months to two years, The Nation Iaafter the noble Edwards Plerre- vont, present United Btates Minister to Great' Brltaln, witha sharp stick, o Is chargon with having told certain London merchants that it wonld be necereary for them to bribo heavily {n onter to “get a measuro desired by them throngh the Amerl« can Congress. This la acandalons. Mr. Tlorre- pont must axplaln or como home; the Nation seems to think he had better du bath, A beaatifal yonng Scotch girl who hasbeen wear- Ing the name of Olgivle Brico in London, and pro~ tending to wealth and descent, proves to bo a Mrs. somebody who was not as scrapulous in hor obe scrvance of her marrinage vows aa she should hava been. Bwarms of disappointed tradesmen and mortlfiad tnft-huntors monm her abrupt departura from the matropolls. Shea saidto b now {n Now York, sceking whom she may devonr. i Dr,Schllomann has weltten to Mr. Stedman thank- inghim for his “*splendid article™ In the New Yorlk Zribuneon the **Treasarc-Tombs at My- keam." Tho appreclation of his labors by the great American people, Dr. Schllomann writes, #*1s the noblest and most fattoring reward ho can wish for, and at tho same time ls thegreatest oncoursge- ment ha conld poesibly recelve for tho contlau- atlon of his hard tol! na the'fleld of eclence.™ The New York Zribune says President layen named Evarts, Sherman, Schurz, McCrary, and Koy as members of hla Cabinet to a confidential friend Fob, 97, bofora leavlng Columbus, and conld not be shaken from his parposc by all tha n fluenco that was brought to bear upon him after roaching Washington.: There doca not acom to ho *| that **ahounding Indeclslon of character™ about him which was spoken of during tho campalzn. Gen. John A. Dix, In tho March numbor of Serid- ner's, tranalatea litorally Clandlan'a **O1d Man of Verona," and snccoods In patting Into twonty-two 1ines what Cowley oxpandod to thirty. Tha first quatraln {s an excellent specimen of the follcity of the whalu;; T aiteiat At s o whotn paternal fle PRI e Thostafl of age:—one liome, his frst and Jast. The New York Sun has heard of & yonny En- Rlishiman who §s nandsome, a perfect lnpnist, & gradnate of Nallol College, Uxford, an accome plished gentleman: and, in spite of It all, serves well in tho capacity of butler Ina woalthy New York family. DId anyono ever know of a mora beantifal instance of gentua rising superior to clr- cametancea? Fow yonng men similarly endowed conld rotain In adversity tho proud splrit of a but. ler, Qeorge Townsend, for a wonder, writes enthue slassleally of one person In Washington, It fa Qrace Greenwood, Jle callaher **a raro womin," Hor exporlence, her talents, hor sweet womanly nature, her devotlon, herIndustry, altke oxcite kis admiration. **No woman writes with wuch breadth of view on publicquestions, nor with such a twinkle of haman kindness glimmering throngh,* Mr. Townyond bomors himeel! In speaking thas of one so descrving of honor, ‘The Faculty of Harvard Collogo have nover cone sldered tho questlon of the adintesion of women for the very sufliclent reason that thoy have never been asked, President Ellot rojects all applicants without conaultation. The Springfiold Repudlican eays Qov, Nanke used tohave a similar methad of saving his Exccutlvo Councll, and somotimes hime« sclf, trouble, **What does the Council think abont 161" sald he, reforring to somo queation be- fora the Exccativa branch. **Why, they baven't boen neked for their opinion, and won't be.® A young gentleman of Cornoll Univeraity named Emil Schwonltfeger committod sulclde Bunday eveninglast. The cause of hia action, ne statod by himself, was conatant sicknoss, and the convictlon that he would novor beany better in this world. He wasoneof the most brilliant studonts In tho University, having taken many prizes. At tholast Intercolleginto contest ho was awarded $300 for having passed the beat oxamination in Latin, Al- most as sad & caso was tho sulcldo at Owensboro, Ky., Wedncaday, of a boy of 0 years, who grioved bacauso hls mother would not give him an spple. ‘Tho London Times' obituary of Mr. John Oxen. ford {8 a curious pleco of writlng. 1t pralees him for his varlous endawments, yet judgos that bie dramatic criticisms wer alnost too kindly. Cone sidyring his attalnmenta it seoms incredible that ho should have been self-taught, Such, bowaver, I tho fact, He acqulred, Greok, Latin, and the principal modern languages entiraly withous ald, and, In addition to thls, made himself, though only sn amatear In mathiematics, able to discu problems and tbcorles with any professed master of (hat difeult atudy, Ile was not mervly & asholar, but an onglnal thinker, and could ha produced » work on philosophy that would have handed bis name down to posterity, He chose to get knowledge rather than fo Impart it, and has cousequuntly left no enduring memorlals.. Ewinburne hasa very effusive notlce of Victor Ilugo's ** La Slesle de Jeanne" In the last number of the Academy, 1e says every word of this poom of thirty-cight Jines will be troasured by posterity. **1 was ot minded,” writes Mr, Bwinburne, *‘to plack out apy petal from this paradlsal ross by way of sample; but, baving onco put hand to I, I must nceda take heart to lopch & leaf of ita cen- tral and crowning glorles: uro od led 'ull:&ll :ollll :onhlmmnu. Gtad ca Bidso Al duntt 1n reudte (uds atindbia da dormire " the Fates conld notaliow two i a8 that to live together In one time of the world; and that Shelley thereforo had to dle Ia his 30th year as so0n 85 Hugo had stiained his 20th, " Tom Taylor's new play, **Nine Polnts of the Law," Is described by Mr, Conwsy, in a Ictter to the Cincinnat! Commarclal, as o mere vulgariza. tion of one of Browning's bost goms,—** Colowbe’s Birthdsy.” In Browning's play: Colambe, tho Duchess, 8ading ber litth kingdon: claimed by & Prince on good grounds, ressts his claln as Jong as aho can, but ultlmately bo ia Inclined to settlo the queation byoferof hia hand. Hae does not sceept ity howover, bub cheoscs rather to yleld ber crown and marry tho hunble Valence, who bad represented hor cause as an advocate, sad had ad- vised her, with a heavy heart, tosccept the Prince's offor. Mr, Tom Taylorfods intho frstpert of ibis beautiful drama the plo of bis now play. A charming widow In a charming cottage ls fnformed tuat her title to the eatato is defective, and she s summoned tugive itupto s aturdy Manchester man, who arrives on the sccac with bis attorney. ‘The widow obatructs, wheedles and outmaneuvres both the attorney snd tho riglttul clalmant, sad Ooally fascinstes and masrios the Manchester maas |