Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 2, 1880, Page 9

MARCIL 9 wy 1880—TWELVE PAGES. AGlance at the Results of Eads’ Labors at the Jetties. ~ The Current Doflections in the Ohan- nel Neccssitating Constant Dredging In Order to Keop the Water- Way of Nearly Unitorm Depth. How the Grain Trade of New Orleans Has Recently Increased, qb the LAllor of The Chieago Tribune, New ORLEANS, Ln, Feb, 27,—The present suecess and tho durabliity of tho South Pass “jettles are ow assured, The orlginal plang ‘of Capt. Feds have been modified Inmany partiewlars to eonform to. the lessons taught by pmetical experience, Thy Jetty embank- ments themselves have been strengthened by pullding wing-dams, Jutting ont at right aygles from the embantments towards the eentreoftheehannel, Between these spurs there Is a slowing of the current and conse- quent deposit of sediment ayalust the inat- tress nnd stone work of the jettles, whieh fils up Interstives, und thus prevents leakage, whilendding strength to the embankments, Behind, or, more properly, on the sea side of the jetties, the slowhug of the current has re- gulted In the rapid shoaling of the water, so that where, In 1875, the depth was from six to ten fect, It ls new from one to four only, and Insome places flats have formed on which thera Is less thiam one foot of water, ‘This filllng up of the waste outside of the Jettles,, protecting them with a solid wall of deposit, first suggested to tho engineers 1 shinilar niethol of protection for the embankments on the riverside, and resulted in the construction’ of the spur or = wing-dams above — referred to, While (his modifiention has narrowed the channel from 1,000 to abott 700 feet, it has Inerensed its.depth by contain the eur rent within narrower Ihalts, and so Inereas- ing tg scourlng enpacity. There was for a thie considerable difficulty fn securing the pennmience of tho sen ends of the jettles against the destructive wash of tho waves during storms, © This dieulty has been finally overcome and thesafety and durability: of the structures secured by weighting down the mattresses with enormous blocks of artl- ficial stone, welghing from twenty-five to seventy-two tons. In Europe various In- portant marine constructions have only been possitle by the use of fmmense blocks of artificial stone. Among such ure the de- feuses of the harbor of -Cherbourg and the breakwaters of Marseilles and ‘Fouton, at various poluts on the Suez Canal, partien- Invly nt Port Safd, and the settids of the Dan- ube; but it Is believed thit in none of these works were blocks of the weight of seventy- twa tons used. . The practienl navigable depth of the ehan- nel between the Jetties was twenty-s]x feet on the 18th of last dune, ‘This channel was at no point less than 200 feet wide. On the 8th of July, 1870, « channel of thirty feetin depth withoutregard to width was obtulned, On the WthofJuly, 1879, auavigablechannel oftwen- tyslx feet in depth was obtained at the head of the Passes, In many respects the most dtm. cult part of the work. ‘This completes tha conncetion between the deop water of the Mississippl River and the Gulf of Mexivo through a channel having a minimum depth oftwenty-six feet, and of 2 suilelent whith feat navigation, THE GRAIN TRADE OF NEW ORLEANS has shown a considerable Inereasa during the present season. In spite of the low water Jn the Uppor Mississippi and Ohlo durlug fast fall and the early winter; preventing the shipments of grain from above, the exports thug far show n finttering inerease over those of 1973-79, Thus, from Sept. 1, 13%, to Feb, 18, 1870, the total export of wheat wag 1,188,102 bushels. From Sept. 1,187, to Feb, 18, 1880, 9,079,063 bushels, an Increase of 891,560 bushels, From Sept. 1, 58, to Feb. 18, 1870, the total export of corn Wus 1,137,117 bushels; from Sept. 1, 187), to Feb, 18, 1680, 3123 bushels, an inerease during the present season of 2,188,105 bushels, It is reasonable to suppose thut this Inerensa {n exports of grain iy partly at east due to tho completion of the jettles ant deepening of the outlet of tho river, Doubtless tha foreign shipments would have been much freater, if more grain could “have been rought down from hove, Ag itis, the exe ports of whent shice the Ist of last’ Septem- ber are already larger than for the entire commercial year of 1878/79, while tho exe raf corn during the same period Is only Tee gts hels less thin for the entire year of 7e70), THE CHANNED AT THE JETTIES, a8 above stated, fs of ample depth for any Yessel afloat to Ay 89 through, but owing to tho dettuction of the current at varlons stnzes of higher or Jower water bars form, whieh harrow the channel at different and varying polity, In order to avoid ditticulties from Mis souree, dredges are kept nt worl to kery tho chunnel of anearly uniform width. It + probable that the extension of the dykes at the hend of the Passes, thus straightening the fhannel and preventing lateral currents, will n tine remove this diifeulty, and the channel kept entirely open by virtue of its own Scouring vower, Considerable alarm ling been oceastoned by e Igh stage of water in tho tiver at this ey date, immediately following which ts bd heavy rise at. popaent coming down from he Ohio and fis. tributaries, ttention was called to this source of danger in one of the city papers a few days ago, but the State glneer dectures thors is no danger, ris not unusually high ane s In good condition ‘This be consoling if it warn te witch it is not. ‘Tho Assistant City ti Binver to-~day reported upon an examinn- ton Of the Javea in front of the elty fora Spur stance —say three witles,—In the Course of which he’ found fifty-six gaps and cabs In the tevee, each a source of danger In ase of gh water. One of these cuts In tho j ss is six feet deep (3 feet 4 Inehes below fgleWater mark), and 100 fect wile. ‘These ae Ore from wn offteial report and may be th Upon ascorrect, OMposlt tho elty, from aK vrs to Harvey's Connl~about four nilles, roy condition, a4 I have satisfied myself by sonal Inspection, Is as bad, if Noe worse, acer Maces along this Yne the levee fos (eet Uadermined and eroded until it is ihe thun four feat thlek at the present water as Jess than a weok of lilgh water such break down tive sighy erie ant tocN 4 it barrier and flood the towns of Gretna and Algiers, to suy nothing Of th the ‘a aimeneo damage to the plantations I TN ORDER TQ DETENMINE Tltether there is any reusonable ground for eu cension of overtlow, 1 have made’ an minution of the conditions precedent to ere great es in 1874 which eaused th 8 Loree fonnet Carré on April 16 of that ist, Daring the entire first half of the year eye Lssdurl and Upper Mississippi Iiv- th tnalued at or bolow theiraverage hight. gyi AES oe Perunry in that year the 7 "i nit tho gine as at this dat aa the Lith sf alarely fe hen feet, receded slightly, sat omits reached a'depth of ninotect the Ohio, at Lou a oulsvilla, ree on the Mth of April, free total swells tn December, Jauuary, ond Were fury Al three of these flood-waves i quer than the one at present, which Is Atta ity feet and six tnches at that point. four fat 0 the rlver reached a hight of thirty ceded ‘a (4 the gauge in December, 1873, r6- Uap to thirteen feet in the beginning Ofdae: Biel Heine er wards, In three successive halt, ial Tost pao ree tists four anda Pi g eet In Janus oe Mure nh lsr4, reachhy fortyrelaht Tout ingot i Hof April, At this date the read- with a 9 gauge ot Cairo is thirty-nino fect, tients pee, C6 & foot and a half in tho fast Ort eR hours. ‘The Red itiver at Shreve: ie de aan yotiree oot, iu Decunbar, oars eding to fourteen feet 11 “WUary, tose aguin to tWentysoyen aud & rose to nineteen 18H, after thres ‘ebru- hilt on Mi 18) vent tlonary or falling silently until April 4, wien ie bisalt t Fin fo iat reachitny ites “ser on April 27, after whic! gradually receded, ‘ 3 ah THE ONLY CONDITIONS of the year 1874 which do not linve a pnraltel ab the present tine are the low stages of ater fn the west-bank trilmtartes of the Missisaipp! from the Arkansas River down, Bul, when itis borng in mind that the aver= nye rainfall aver the watersheds of all these tributaries has been greatly below. tie Worinal for the Inst year, the probabilities of an early food-rise “in these rivers becomes exevedingly great, The Wotnet Carrs crevasse of 1971 hind been closed at the expense of the Stale of Louisiana, the total cost of the repatra being nbout $110,000, On April Ut, 1374, during he High water resulting from the general rises, A stunmary of which ts given above, the levee gave way about one-third of a mile be- low this. new constrietion, — form ing the Bonnet Carré crevasse, of 1874, which Is yet fresh in. the minds of all on keeotunt of the enormous amountof dant age resulting from the overllow. ‘1 This crevnaye 1s still npens and the water pourin through and into Lake Pontehartraln. sill of mattress-work ling heen placed In the crevasse In order to slow the current and prone deposition beliind the bank, and so uillding up a natural levee, ‘This deposition is going on slowly. ‘The expense. of this work was about $12,000, and was borne by the State, Having been ‘only recently eonie pistes. It is finpossible to. suy to what extent ib may affect the hightof the river by con- fining -n greater volume of water between {ts banks.” ‘The slowing of the cutrent In the river produced by tho crevasse gives somo very remarkable results, ‘Thus, on Sept, 2 1874, at luwwater, the greatest depth ot water above the crevasse was 110 feel; fine inedintely Lelow the crevasse the greatest depth was sixty-(ree fel, showing 2 re- markable deposition of sediment within five months, In ssh tneasurement at the sme polnts zave 110 feet nbove ant for’ “elit elow, and i 1876 the menstrements gave still 110 fect above the crevasse, while below the river had shoaled to forty-two feet. Its stated that the work on the ‘crevasse, confin- Ing n greater volume of water within the Danks, lins already lind the effect of some- whut deepening the elannel. R DHE TAX ON KNOWLEDGE. Commonts on Itw Iniquity, and Advoe ency'of Lin Removal, A TARIFF-AUISIDIZED Jot State Hegtster, The paper-monopollsts know where and how to get servieeable lobbyists. A Washing- ton dispateh says: Nixon, of the Chicago {nfter-Occan, is here, working against the Fort bill, and saying that the newsprpers are really under no necessity to have the tarif reduced, as he pays but 8 cents a pound for piper, and docs not think that the newrpapers make so mueh noise nbont ft She Finen eagerly plek up the statement, and Use it a8 a powerful argument against the Fort bu.” The Jnter-Orcan, It seems, has as great faculty for betraying its own fraternity as It has for betrayling its own party PAPER DISCRIMINATION, Quiney Herat, The latest plinse of the pnper-manufactur- ers’ fight fora eontinuanee of the present high tarilf an paper, we are told, Is to furnish some of tho larger and Suttuentlal journals paper at reduced rates, in return fora sup- port of the monopoly by those journals. It this be true, the combination will not only have the effect of entting the attention of the people tothe inlgulties of thls particular Monopoly, but public attention will be ealled to other Wrongsof the tariff system, and other evils will be reached, and, by the forea_ of public sentiment, crushed out. It would be well If the people generally were more thor- oughly tnforined on this subject, and the public press is dolng a valuable service ever Ume they call attention to the evils of such rings fostered by the Government In the {n- terest of 0 few monopoll HOW PRoMMITORY put : EYES. Hoston Herald. A numbor of newspapers in tho West have seen a new light on the tariff question. Thoy haye not been able to discover why the pro- teetive duties on fron, salt, and lumber should undergo any change; but the recent great rise In the price of printing-paper—an advance brought about by the advantages whieh tho tatiff affords-to Ametican pnper- makers—has nffected them very keenly, and has brought to them a lively sense of the In- iquities of a tariff which permits of comblua- tions among domestic manufacturers, At peesent thelr wrath Is directed. against the duty on unsized papers and, at meetings of newspaper-proprietors at diferent places, resolutions have been passed asking Con Gress to putilis article upon the freelist, Wo subinit that this is Inconsistent; the paver- monopoly is not a whit worse: than the Bessemer-steel monopoly or tlie carpet mond- poly. If Journals are to uphold the prineipie of protecting American Industries In one dlreetion, they should be equally urgent in the other. ‘Tho shou certainly cannot plneh them worse than it now binds the foot of nin nine out of every hundred citizens of the United States, FREE PAPER-PULP WANTED, Hufuto Express, When the Express, a day or two since, rec- ommended, as teure for the pnper-famine, the repenl of the duty on the raw materlals which enter Into paper-wnaking,—straw and wootl-pulp, soda-ash and other chemlents,— it evidently expressed the general feeling of experlenced publishers. Wo yesterday re- ceived copy of a memorial to Congress uuklug precisely the same recommendations, It has been agreed upon by the various Chi- engo publishers, nnd is by thom circulated for signatures. They ayk, also, that the duty on printing-paper be reduced from 20 per cent to 6 per cent ad valorem, ‘This woutd not cause 8 decrease, but nn increase, hn the Goy- ernment revenues, the present duty beln; prohibitory, ‘The duties on all the chemfeuls used in papor-making seareely ninownt to $2,000,000 n year, and inay well be spared, since, under tho recent revival of {mports, the customs-recelpts have been greatly aug- mented, and the Treasury has sa large ® sur plus that during the month of Januury tho dabt was reduced $12,000,000, and bonds are now belng regularly bought in for Govern- ment account at the rateof $1,000,000 a week, besides occasional blocks of $10,000,000, ‘Tho roposed changes in the tariif would relleve bath panera ers and publishers, and woukd beneilt the whole people by keeping down the prices of books und newspapers. We know of no good reason why nny member of Congress should refuse to grant the prayer at ithe memorial Issued by the Chivago pub- shers, RAK ES OPEN PROPEL TINY TARIFF ON PAPER, San Pranctseo Chrontcte, The price of print-paper, such as is used by the newspapers; has recently been advanced by the manufacturers fully 50 per cent. This involves an enormous inerease in the ox- ponse of publishing journals of largo clreu- lation, The {Inevitable conscauence of tho adyanco in the price of paper will be elther a reduction in tho sizo of the most largely circulated Journils, or an increase In thelr rates of subscription, A large number of the journals east of tho Rocky Mountains have been compelled to take measures to mect the advance of tha price of paper. Some Nave ceased publish- ing supplelnents, some lave reduced tho size of thelr sheets, and some have raised thelr rates of subscription. The paper-manufact- urers have for u long term of yeara enjoyed the advantage of a high protective tarlif on foreign paper. But, notwithstanding this protection, they now allege that they find. ¢ necessary to advance thelr prices, They —justity — this nlley upon the groind ‘of the nigh price of the bleaching chemfents which they have to uae in their manufacture. ‘These chemicals have to be Imported, and they are subject tos high uty, Whether this is a reason or a mere prutext, it should be removed, Congress should lose no thne tn giving attentlon to this matter, for {t Js one that vitally concerns tho people. ‘The duty on the chemicals used in the manufact- tre of paper shodid be repealed, and the Sule. on forefin paper should be reat, reduced, ‘Unless this is done, the public will ultlinate- ly bo the chief sufferers. *" Inanother column of the present fasne of the Chronicle will be found & mumber of ux- pressions of oplnton on this subject fram the press throughout the entire country, showing: he magnitudes of the evil resulting from the present tarfff on paper aud chemnfcals, and the consequences that nist Inevitably ensue un- less Congress speodily takes judi¢ious action on the subject. Our home-manufacturers diuPdties on tel huguried articles oceebary ng duties on thé laperted artle y iy thelr buyiness, Aud, ifthatls done, they ennnot Ju ample if the paper 19 alse entirely THE DUTY OF THE 1 THE DUTY ON PAL dteutt ree Pree, The efforts which aro being put forth to defeat the proposed remoyal of the duty on print-paper and the chemleals used tn the manfaeture thereof, impose upon the friends of the mensure an obligation to per sistenee and vigilance in pressing theirenuse. Foremost nnong these friends ara the nows- paper-publishers of the cauntry. ‘They have itdouble Interest In the matter, ‘Lhey are, first of all, the lumediate sufferers by the continuance of the obnosious duly. Under it the paper-monopotista of the country have Leen enabled: to make an advances dn the es Of thelr product horinatsly dlgpre- Honite to the rise in the price af the iit erinls used in. its production, «For this advance there ts. absolutely uo adequate ustifieation, even in the uty on che Dut that duty Is made by the inne the excuse for the advance, while the ¢ vaper protects them from the com Which cat atonebe relied on to properly rege ate prices as between producer wid vonsume er, conti as It did at a (ie when the phe Ushers of the Country had established their stbscription-rates, it Tas borne down upon them all very oppressively, and, in some ins stances, With crushing welght. The law of self-prescryation, therefore, Imposes pon publishers the obligation to uct promptly and effeelively dn another Hapodt of the case, the duty of the pciishers it quite us etearly tindieuted, While they themselves are the lhimediate suf- ferers by the monopoly compliined of, the ulthnate sufferers are the masses, who’ will sooner or later, If the monopoly continues, find themselves subsected to one of the mast eulling taxes that ean be conecived of tn this enlightened age—a burdensome tax upon knowledge, Not only the newspaper, but the sehool-book, will udyance In priee, until Vast numbers of those who are now Keephig pice with the movements of the world, and eduenting their children for. future Usefulness, will be compelled to nbane don the hope of — education — fer themselves and their faniftles. And, as the pross is vecullarly the friend of the people, aud should be thelr protectar and defender Paatust all forms of wrong and oppression, Its duty to battle on thelr belinif against this monopoly, which threatens 50 grievous 1 Wrong, 18 even more sacred than its duty to battle on its own bedi Jn respect to demunelation and exhartation through tholr columns, the publishers have already done a good work; but there ts more sth that should be done if Congress fs to be apprised, as itanust be, of the tinperative ityof prompt uction In this matter. ery newspaper-piblisher in theeowntry tothe member of Congress frome ht trict. and urge the matter upon that mn attentions and let the operation be re- pented ng often as Is necessary to keep Cot Bress awake to the finportunce of speedit temovlng the most obnoxious duty, With untted and stinmltaneous netion of this chur aeter, an iniiuence ean be brought to hear Upon the people's representatives In, Wash- Tngton which all the powers of all the monop- olives In the country cannot counteraet, DEAR LAPER-SCHEME TO MAKE DEARER TYPE, Charteaton (8, 0.) Nets, Persons not conversant with the question have no {dea of the mount of paper used by the press and printlug-ofllces of this country, or the cost of this apparently tritiing article of commerce. The popular opinion fs, that paper costs little or nothing, and is a ier bagutelle In the current expenses of publish- ers, This illmsy artlele, which may be said tohave but a short Ife after it has once passed through a printing-machine,has lind boom; infact, thas been boomtng for the past three months, and has advanced just 60 percent. News-paper, or as tt Is called in the trade, “news,” which could lave been contracted for at six cents per pound ninety days ago, cannot now be bought for tess thar a eents per pound, Averaging the Ine ise fi the yearly cost of paper te each of the 900 dailies, great and small, In the Union atS5,000ench (which ts rather under than over), and the 8.000 weeklics and other period- tealg at the moderate sum of S100 eneh, we have us the total inerease In the cost of print- ings wiper the stun of 25,800,000 per year! This extraordinary rise Is caused, itis al- leged by the paper-makers, by the increased. price of soda-nsh, and other chemlenls made artificially dear by: the dutles levied upon theur, and also by the seanty supply of rags. As much of the paper used nowadays ts nada from woud-pulp and straw, the searelty of rags (which js probably caused by a ring buying ip all the stock) has ‘renlly but little todo with this enormous ndvance. and we must let whatever truth there fs {n the fns- tice of the ablegutions of the rill-men rest fn the duty charged on the chemlenls used in the manufacture of paper It 14, therefore, tho duty of Congress to reduce or abolish the duty ott iniparted paper, and alsa on such articles us are necessary in paper-naking, 80 ag to acinit of competition from abroad, and the same time decrenso the’ ex: Dense of home-manufacture. A Dill combining these objects has been in- trodueed, — we understand, In the House of Representatlyes; and it witt be well for the press of the whole country to ures upon Congress the hupurtance and ne- cossity of its ently passage, Like the Iron, quining, and other American industries which have been fostered for the benellt of {he people, the protection to paper-manu- fneturing interests, In the hands of a ring, promises to be an injury instead of a benellf, und the strong hand of the law must be t- yoked for the protection of the buyer and consumer, an In this connection, we desire to enter our earnest protest agalust the effort now mak- ing by the type-founders! ring to Increase the duty on priating-types, which, ns it stands, fs almost prohiblt The Di now before Cangress proposes to substitute for the pres- entad valorem duty of 25 per cent a specttia duty of 15 cents a pound an nows and book tyne, and 30 cents n pound on job and faney type. Such duty would not — anly amount to an | absolute prohibition of forelgn type, but would be n most onerous burden an and ufust our printers and publishers, for the sole ben- efit of a combination of some ten or a dozen Ameriean 'ypefounders, who need no such protection, "Types are now made in thiseaun- try ns cheaply as thoy are in England; and st is'a significant fact that, while our found: ers are elaiming Increased protection, Aner can typo aro now largely exported, and sue cessfully compete In, price and quality in for- vign markets with English type. Upon no possible plea can this proposed Increase of duty on typa bo justified. As it would mmount to’ actual prohibition of imports, it would bring no revenue to the Gaverniment; mul its only practival effect would be to en rich & combination of monopolists at the ex- pense of the jrintera aud publishers of the country, and thus impose Increased burdens on the means of disseminating knowledge. Tnstend of imposing heavy dulles on types snd paper, Congress owes St to the people to Nahten the burdens of the press, by placing both paper and type on the free lst, {THU WIS IN PAPER, Hudson (N. ¥.) Regieter. Tho marked advance In tho priceof print ing-paper, which has taken place during the lust month or two, has confronted newspa- per-publishers with a problem which a nun- ber of them, especially In the West, have solved by advancing the selling and subserlp- tion prices of thetr publications. ‘Ihis fs not a pleasant-or desirable thing to do, and wo aro Snelined to think that most Journals will realst the pressure'a Jong tue, with the ox- pectation of natural rellof before resorting to this expedient, The patronage of 9 news- paper ly always sensitive, Reductions aro always accepted with much —com- placency; but patrons generally think they are M-used when any: thing like an Inercaso In prico 1h demanded of thon, no matter how much publishars many juny to pay for raw material or service, omg think the newspaper should go back to an ante-War basis tn its aubseription price, but none Who hold this oplnion would take n newspaper edited ae: cording to the methods that prevailed before tho War, ‘The xreat changes that have taken place fn this conntry during the fast twenty cee nave foreed newspapers into anton elds of enterprise, and all the welcome hin provements cost money, and 4 great deal of t, Te was doubtiess.easier for the averaze newspaper to make money according to the adjustinent of prices that provalled before the Wur than {tis now, and arise in paper emphasizes that tact very materlully, There ts a remedy for all this, no doubt; but that remedy should not be ant advanes ft the price of newspapurs, If it.cun reasonably boavolded. A more equitable plan, more ine to the publishers and the pubite, would 6 to take steps for tho manufacture of cheap paper without damaging the Interests of the manufacturers, ‘That remedy ts a very marked reduction of tha duty on foreign Paper, with likewise an abolition of the duly THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, on certain of the rw materials that enter into papersnaking, ike wood and. straw pitty. kedaensh and other bleaching elhem- els. His neextrvagant figure of xpeech to call the Digh price of paper, owing in part to tariif-remulations, © tax on ednea- ton, We hardly see how a Protection Journalenan argue otherwise without sure rendering, apparently, belief fn fits awn mls- slon, One of the ‘Most accomplished and tstinguished ecdueators in the country is so inpressed with the vale of “The Press ag an Etlucator,” that he da lecturing an that question ut seme of the Jarac centres of the (nion. Itis the solvent of all other edue cational tititences, and whatever tends to Make costly tothe people fs unfortunate, [tis the duty of the newspapers and the gener public to agitate for the revert of printing-paper fram tho tax which tends to wake it dean—for, without doubt, sueh tineasure would be in entire harmony with the post enlightened justiea and public Bp) o ‘ed OVE WITH THE PAPER-DUTINS—REPLY TO A. PROTECTED PAPERMAK EN, Laniaritte Courler-Sournat, We print elsewhere {1 thls Issue a come munleation froma Rhode {sland paperemane ufacturer who sets forth the papermakers’ plea for the heavy advance in the price of print-paper, We have to say to Mr. Wheelright that tis statement that “The eapital invested fn the trade Is ever $100,000,000, and has not patd in the Inst five years 84 per cent per annum on the investinent,” {3 0 fling commentary on the Jnlauity of the Protection system, which is a merely artificial foreer of Industries, and invariably leads to the withdrawal of capital from where it might pay a falr interest inte Hines of tndustry ht exeess af the requlre- ments of neountry., Hf ghe paper men can make but 2 per cent on Melr capital tvest- ed, they tad better buy 4 per eent Gov. ernment bonds and retire from the business until ft can become more profitable. Itis not obigatory upon the people of tha United States to pinch themselves to enable some one iulustryto be made profitable totha men who rim it, “New England aut Pemsyl- vinit nanufacturers In awl branches hnve fevied tribute on the other States of. the Uulon too tong, and It ts about dime that the Dustness was. stopne ‘They have grown rieh out of thelr exactions. and people are coming to the concluston that they aren set of fools to erlpple themselves to auiplity. those rehes. correspondent speaks of sagtrous effect Upon te lneanie of the Government hy the event of the removal of the paper-tas. ‘The Governinent gets little or nothing from the duty on print-pa is only ny buniiles are} led. ‘The paper- n '$ pocket the 20 percent tax on that artlele, and give, as a reagon for thelr oppo- alton to its: removal, that thoy can’t minke any money at current rates and at thelr eure rentexpenses, Adniltthigall the papersmakiers suy about the cost of Inbor GQvhich has not advanecd), and the cost of ehembeats and rags, and the royalty pald on maelines used for tha munufaeture of Spon yl, there Is if no justification for the heavy advance fit print-paper, which. reaches nearly 40. per cout, and, as we. are advised, in Michigan about 7 per cent. The Government. derived tt revetiue last year, from the Snnportation of pulp, carbonnte of soda, soda-ash, mid oats: tle soda, of 31,2000,000; but. a large portion of these elemfedls wag ttsud for other Durposey besides papersmaking, althongh the puper- makers assert that they use the whole amount. Probably not half of it was used In paverauaklaye, Pulp was only finportel to the extent of worth lust year, and the Teventte to the ernment upon dat mmowit was only $152.80, ‘These pupersnokers are apparently very solicltous about the “hie coma of | the oie ‘They are really only solleltous about their own welfare; and, with all due regard to thelr veracity and common sense, Wwe must aay that they are the bigeest fouls In the country If they prefer your nfter ye $100,000,000 inva business whieh pu 3 percent, New England peonle are repit to be very sharp in business way, and we never yet knew one of them to stick to a business that did not.pay, itis strange that the paperiniiker who wee as areason for their. high priecs that the tariff dutles bear heavily upon them, do not, with alaerity, ald fn the passuge of’ the measure to tuke off the duties on pulp, bleaching, and washing ieterlal, that they may manufacture more cheaply. To be ears sistent, they should earnestly ndvocate plic- ing these articfes ow the free lists but they do not do it, They prefer to raise enormous ly the price of prlit-paper, nnd inerease the burdens of newspaper-proprietors, whase ex- penses hive been vastly augmented with the advance of jJournalistle enterprise, whieh must comply with the Imperative demand of the people for nows. The Ameriean people sre erowlie wonry of taxation to olster up a few industries, and enable their operators lo extort. exorbitant prices, Mon gredien says truly of the effeet of Protection upon the protected Industries themselves, that, “White the labor and eapttal cinple cl in them obtain no more than the averse re. muneration, they are subject to one peculiar Usadvantage: they existon sufferanee; and the system of Protection by which they were Drought Into being, aud under which” alone they can live at all, Ix precarious, question: able, and Hable to break dawit altogether at any moment that the Nation may get lived of paying a yearly subserlption for the purpose of artifielally’ matutatnlag if" Americans are getting tired of paying this “yearly sute scription” to swell the bunk-depostis of the protected classes. In England the peopla strugeled forty xenrs ngalnst the outrageous extortions of the food monopoly, the lil building monaply, and other rings, and dialy: overthrew them, to thelr own great benef, Within fifty years they sneceeded In. lasing the fourpence newspiper tax removed, which restricted tho dissemination of knowled, ‘The sane battle must be strongly waged aginst the system of Protection In this country, which, Snstenad of “protecting Amerlean industry,?* fs a positive injuty to it. We hope that Port's DML to redues the aluty on printlig-pape: ‘om 20 to per cent and to free pulp and un papor-makers” chemicals from duty, will be passed, In spite of the mighty efforts of the combination to i Our correspondent concedes that Protec. tlon is a failure when he states that, after nll these years of an almost prolilbitory taritf, the puper-makers get onty a bexgarly return ore 4 ber eonton thelr large outhiy, That Jy sutlcient to show tho Absnreity of Protece tlon, and fs a strong argument why book and newspaper publishers should be relieved of tho Iniguitous Inw which forces thom to bolster up ot poorly-paying business, ‘They are thred of paylng the yearly subscription to imen Who ought to bo able to support them. selves withous Pawsliny around the hat and sitbseription-book for f) cut people, Tho puper-makers have admitted, in une guarded moments, that they only wanted to ereate a boom for themselves, Last year 10 per cent of the mills ruling on fine and jower-gradty papers were Idle. They had overdone the business, as protected manu- fucturers always do. ‘The tik of a senrelty: of rags is all nonsense, ‘The paper-mantic factirers da not depend on rags as thoy use to, 80 that, von If there existed 1 scarelly, {6 would make vory itty difference with the papeganakens, Tho Pulllahers’ Weekly of ast Saturday, a jourunlof Protectlonist prin- elples, says on thls subject: “Lhe paper-market Is hy’ 10 means go de- fendont on rags ts It used'to be. ‘Pho wunny. libres developed or developing have much rel- mand forthiselass of stock; and Jeved the de this Js neue. fo by nore and more the cnse, Wood-pulp ta practically unlimited tn aup- plan, as the patents op its manfaeture are running out, the low prices that must fae Inevitably rule in this stock will more and more relluve rags, Morcover, the high priev. of rage will call out nmusnal efforts to gather a Well ay to gave them in the domestic mars ket, and with tha spring collection prices are Wegly to run lawer by May, “On rags and other paper stock there Is no duty, On chemfeats the turil 1s not 40 dreadful amatter asthe paper-interests would have us believe, Bleaehlig-powder (ehfelly of line) is free; soda-ush bears a duty of one-quarter cent per pound, and the alum of alx-tenths cent per pound In the straw-papers, blerch and soda-ash ni used WW about = equal — proportios white, in the upper grades of stock, bleach only Is used to any considerable ex: tent. Alum is used Incidentally pny to imnke ready for the sizing. On. both these cherleals, it will be observed, the duty, {3 specie, so that it docs not rise proportionately with a risa in price, On the other hand, the duty on paper ty ad vatorem,—20 per cent on unsized and 23 on sled. printing-papers. comparison of English prices’ for paper with our ow shows the decided advisability ofa reduetion of this thuty, ns, under a du oS Mr cont, any other advance, not justi. fied by an advance In rags the world over, can be cheeked by Jmportation, ‘Toward this end publishers mnny well alin, especially sincy tho present cry for cheap books enn not bo met without cheap paper. Lubor ts so sinall an clement in the cost of paper that realstance to reductlon can scarcely be juatl- field on that geore.” ~ Tho present advance in the price of paper te alas of the Amert-,| sentirely unwarranted, as the above state anent shows, and to publisher should sab. wit to it, On with the Fort bit —— EUREKA! The Popular but Perplexing Problem Solved at Last“ 'Thirteen—Fitteen— Fourteen %~A Gamo that Has Puzzteds Phttosuphers and Pleased the Multle Ado. New York Herald, Feb, 24, “Fifteen ts a puzzle of secining slmplict- ty, but ds constructed with diabolical cun- ning, Atfirst aight the victim feels little ar no Interest; bul, if he stops for a single moment to try [t, orto look at any one else who fs trying It, the mania selzes hin, Bust ness, home, friends, family, soclal, religtous, and elyie duty, and all moral obligations are forgotten, while the unfortunate man pon- ders, and putters, and bothers, and slides the fifteen blocks around, and Meures, and calcu. Jntes, and swears, sud yives It up, and begs again, until the carth reels beneath him, his brain cracks, and he finaily succumbs in blank despair, doubting Ils sanity, or retin quishing all hope of future usefulness, ls only hope fs to “swear off,” registering his onth before a notary; but no one tas yet been found who was able to keep thy vath after he had minde ff. Jn banks and barsrooms, tegisiativa halls And gaiubling-houses, hotels and horse-cnrs, everywhere, in short, wil he American eltizen i4 to be fountd,—hoe will be seen trying the fifteen puzzle, Children and pitlosophers ullke try {t, and, while tt is poputar tn the bursery it has bern discussed fn them Ines of the A cadena: of Selence, whe luws were parthilly discovered, but only td tlally, ft remained for the Herald to dis- nf the puzzle, tly i nou toca 1 Th are numbered conseentively; and the puzzle dy to place them on the bonrd trrecalarly, and then, by stlding them around, without re- movin thein from the bord, arrange ten fu the following order: 1 |°2 a | 4 5 | 6 | 4 8 9 | 10 | ma | 12 | 13 | i | 18 ANALYSIS OF THE Puzz Tt wilt be'found easy to arrange the first thirteen numbers jn sheeesston. “Any ehlid ean do as much ay ‘Then, 0s to the Inst two inmnbers, it depends entirely upon the way In. whieh the blocks happen to fall inthe first place whether they will come '4—15 or —l, If they come Telit, the puzzle is done and is no puzzle atall. “If the blocks have fallen thus, they muy be mixed up to any extent, provided that’ none of them js taken up from the board, and the solution of the puzzle fs ens: order to develop the “pure enssedness* of the toy, how: vit is only necessary to put the figures in the proper order and then change the MW—15 ta 1b—14 by lifting ont. the V4 und pincing it after the 18 It isin trying to reduce thls problem to a solution that so much of the thne of the community at large hins heen consttmed, and that so imany fine nitnds have been reduced tu hnbeckilty, A number of the most influential newspa- persin the country have devoted wore or less space In their colunins to the considers- Hon of the puzzle, and all of them have de. elured that the solution of it, when the twe figures are reversed, is ynpossib’ have, moreover, complicated thelr trea of it by considering six positions Instead of two, ‘It Is true that. in working out. the ptz- ale (or trying to), the last three numbers may come In any one of six positions. ‘They way come, tirst, 1—14—1h; or, second, 13—Th—hs or, third, 415-13; or fourth, 418-15} or, Ath, —13—142 or, sixth, 14-1413, But a htetle further expertiuent wlll show thatuny 120F these six positions ean easily he re. ducer! to the first or second, so that’ the real posttlons to be considered are only two. As was said, all the newspapers that have disenssed it heretofore have declired thatthe puzzle could not be solved {f the Inst three mimihers fell in the second, fourth, or sixth ofthe positions stated. As the fourth or sixth: can easily be reduced to the secoud, their stvtement fs simply that the second position Is the Insoluble oue, Notwithstanding thelr statement, the public kept on puzzling and working for the solution, Two or three enterprising: gamblers took up the puzzle, and for n tind nade an excetlent Mving, betting with any and all comers that the puzzle eauld not be done if they were allowed to place the blocks, Many were Wiillng ta take the bet, and worked. hard to win ty bul not a slagle instance has been reported fn whieh the bet was won by the inn who trled to do the puzzte, And still the public was not satistiled, but went on Working for the solution, SCIENTISTS DISCUSS IT. At length was sid, tha subject was brought up Inthe Academy of Selences by the veteran scientist Dr. PL Vander Weyde, the proprictor and editor of the Practical glmericun. Dr. Vander Weyide declared that he had Investigated the puzzle mathe- watieally and thoroughly, and that by the Jaws of mathematles the solution was fipos- sible ifthe Inst two figures were reversed. Nevertheless, the great American public ye on tryin but utterly without success, It wisy Nut hal emernieys Whether possibts or not, the solution had to be found in order to suye the publle, ‘Che Herald hid foreseen this, and tnd selvcted reporter with a mathematical mid to solve the puzzle, The reporter worked at first as other men worked, but afterward he Inbored with the energy of desperation, He consumed valu ble thng with witer disregiurd of itavalue, He wellnigh ruined a valuable braln, but he found the solution. After extiusting himsett in vatn to reveh the tinal solution, after revers- ing tho order of the Land 15, with the board in the original position, ho made an entirely NeW Mrrangement Clianging tho position of thabourd Itself so that’ the leftehund side (along which in the dingram are ranged the mumnbers £4 9 13) came inte the position of the top, he found the puzzle an easy ane. So will any one else who tries It, Investhratlug alii further, ho found he coutd do ltby putting the right-hand side of the board at the top. So can any one else who willtry It, AM that fs necessary to do the fifteen puzato ts ta work Ib town to the first or second position named. It the first posts tion is. reached, the puzzle is solved, ft the second position ts reached, turn the board one-quarter way round, so that one of the sides becomes ‘the top, anu the top and bot- tom become the tivo sides, and the urrange- ment {s easy, Joforg sliowlng the, solution to Dr. Vander Weyde, the reporter got from hin a state mental the mathematical Jaws governing the puzzle. Dr, Vander Woyde used the fol Jowlng diagram In Hlustratiig his statement: ix wa | LX “You HAVE DONE 11." “If you Imagine the crossed squares to be black,” said he, “ and the others le be white, ft will bo sven that the board is the same a9 4 quarter section of. a chess-board. ‘This problem Js siuilar i pature to tho old ches roblem of moving the knight all over the ard in sixty-four moves, touching every square once, and only once, Now, this fifteen ple igelthor sluple or it ts insoluble, if he fourteen and the fifteen are reversed, or i {referring to the diagram] avy two num- bers be reversed, one of which Is # black- . q sqiare miunber and the other belours on a white square, the problem t3 insoluble. You inay see this by arranging the nunibers core rect! i and then taking outany nimedber bee fonging ona black square Eo putthw Ft tn the vacant square at the lower right-hand corner, which is also a black square, | It is evident that, if the fifteen numbers be then pushed inte position, rernraless of their rota. ton, a white-sauare number will cons on the Diack squore fust vacated, and the black that was moved will go toa white square.” “Then the fifteen numbers so placed,” said the reporter, “are seven of thei blnek-squnre bumbers and eight of them white-saunre numbers, and as long ns a blaek-square is to be Jeft vacant, the solution is hnposstble tf a bined: and a white munber are reversed.” 4, ca,” salt Prof. Vander Weyde, wn? sift the reporter, “suppose wo {urn the board around so that n white square will be the vacant one’ And he turned the Loard and solved the problem, We Y out have done jt,” admitted Dr, Vander vile, Ir was at ontce a veriilention aud 2 contra= Miction of his theory, ‘The puzzle can only be solved If the hoard {s 11 9 certain posttlot, Tf the ntrmbers come wrong, it is beeatise 0 black and a white square umber have been reversed: and, by rendjusting the beard so that biork Now d will cone on a different (dnaginary) color, the arrangement af the hock is exsy. Without this change iy the position of the bourd the arrangement of the numbers ts fnpossible, ’ MELIKOFER. The New Milbeary ¥ New York Tribune, t Gen, Loris Melikotf, who is now the MIt- |° tary Dictator of Russia, ta the son of an Arientan merchant, and began his military qareer as an ofticer ina dnussar reginent fn St. Petersburg, 1s talents were recognized: by Mouravlef,, the Governor-General of the Crneasus; but, until the opening of the ean palgn of IST, he liad never had an opportu- nity to handle a large body of troops, or to learn the sefence of war in the open flefd. dle was selected, however, as the commander of the principal column whielt invaded Are Inenla from the ling of the Caneasus, and in the end justified the sagaelty of the Russian War-Otlice, ‘The plan of campaizn which had been adopted by the headquarters stuf was exceedingly brilliant, but it was based upon the nominal rather than the avatlable strength of the anny. If the 170,000 men ealied for by the estimates had been ready for active operations, the concentric move- ment of three columns upon Erzerum would have resulted In a speedy and overwhelming triumph. But the nominal streneth of the army was scarecly 100,000 men, ant neither Melikotfs patience nor ‘Terukassat’s ¢ could compensate for the default ia Lestinates, Ardahan was carried Kars was iuvested, Mukhtar was. io the imountains, and the ap pearance of the Bayazid column on the tank was anxtously awaited. ‘The Turkish com- inander, at the critical inoment, took adva fage of shorter Iines of communieation, and, by wenkentig fils centre, massed his forees against the Russian left wing. Mellkoff at- in front, and, after ase nes tacke the enen: : vere repulse, retveated toward Kars. left wing, after winnlug n victory at Zaldi khan, was forced to retire and reéstablis communications with Erivan, ‘The lnvest- mentof Kars and Batam was abandoned, and Melikot's campaign seemed to have ended midway in disaster. Although f{t reported that Mellkoi had been removed from command tn dis: grace, the Grand-D: Miehiuel was willing to alive lilin a chance to retrieve his reputa- tion, He resumed operations about the mid. die of August, two months after the retreat from the mountalns, aid Jost one of his ad- vanced positions. ‘The Russlan forces were then concentrated and heavily reinforced, and by brilliant generaiship Mukhtar's arms: was cut in two. ‘Phe bate of Aladjn was an overwhelming victory for the Russians, and the victorious connunnder lost nto Cnie in following up his success, He pursued Mukh- far to Kars, and again defeated hhin at, Deve. Boyun. The storintnz of Kars on Nov, 18 was the most brilliant achlovement of the war, Althongh x nicht attack upow Erze- Tim was repulsed, the town wus closely In- vested, and by this serfes of successes the ussinns were virtually masters of Armenia, Melikoi? fs a handsorne soldier, with black curly hilt, large dark sparkling eyes, 0 some: what bronzed complexion, and features whieh, without be! ne quite regular, are camely and refined, He Is of middle stature, of asiight, nervous structure, and spare per- son, J1is manners are polished and extreme. ly affable, while his conversation fs Ively and vusy. He ding been ong of the most sneeess- ful of the Military Governors who hive been lnvested with supreme power in thelr dis. triets during the last year, He is naman of great and yarled aecomplishinent: tion to his native Janguage, Armenian, fanilinr with and speaks Russi, 1 Persian, and French, but is ignorant of Gere man and English. Ife was a” erent, fayorit with hissaldiers. He visited them In thelr Divounes, lasted the soup, and Jngulr L after their comfort. Ho took expeclal care of tho sick, frequently inspecting the fleld-hospitals. and ambtfanees, At the sume thie, he wasa strict disciplinurian, and required from all, nut particularly from the non-commissioned oftcers of his army, a punctual performance of their duty. is 57, aaa English Manners wat American Eons pitalicy. Fram Mex, Hooper's Novel * Under the Tricolor” “Dy tho way, 1 heard of sucha charming reproof admiiiatered’ by a Swedl niileman to-two English Lonis tho other day. He hud inv them to ding with bim, and they eamoin frock- conta, cheeked trourere, and without —xloy Sinilingly surveying thelr costumes he rena eds *On, 1 seo you buve quite miatuken the etylo of iny dioner? it is not a siinple family vitae at all, but 0 formal entertafminent, So T shall give orders to my cook to put it off for half. an hone #O 8, 8, give you gontlenen thug ty gohome and rons |'* dr “They would hardly have recelved even sodel> featoureproof as thatin American. remarked, “If our socl uty poople: have. one weil above another, itis for titled Englishmen rudeness they will meekly enduro at thelr hands is somothing beyond peilef. Ha fnot remember: how, {1 Qunker opally, Mr. Edgars, of the Dally Thunderer, was Ivited'to n Bup dinnerpurty rotten Up: Se pecan y it his honor, aud at whiel fe uppenred Ina shepherd's plaid vee iman ts when vvery other man present was punetiiously arrayed fu tho orthodox dress-sult and white heektie? And fx it nat record how Lady Kleby, ate dinner-pir which wis en ur by the wife of one of our leading citizens, xehitined, on having a plate of terrapin placed before her: ‘Oh, take tho nasty atuit awny—T ennnot endure the sight of ib! And did “uot Bir Digwlesby Dikges attend sundry grand dinner-partion at ‘Kewport ina bluck velvet morning-cont? Yet who ever heard of ufreesborn: Aimerican citizen resenting any of these sutull but siieniieant tokens of eantempt?” F waAnd thon their tugnititudel” quoth Mrs Harding, Waxiug warm in her indignation. "Do 1 not remember how one of our reat Western millianalres took a cortain noble Lord to his howe and ontertalned him Hoyally, going wo far ns to charter a special traln to take him to some point of titercat: thutho wished to visltY Hin Lordship was cuthusinstio in hts ©. friendship toward hiv kind hot, ever come ta London, be sure that Know,it once.! wae his parting injune Well, one day our Western gentleman conchided that ho would goto Europe, Arrived in London, he sent bls curd as requested to his noble friend. A fow days Inter the Englishninn left his card {ni return, with two tickets for a review that was to take plice on the noxt day. and & polite now Poquentiag tho Aterivan to call at his Lard + ship'shotse at necrtain time to go with hin. Owlng tu batky cub-horse tha gucst was five minutes lito at thy place of rendezvous, His Lordship was prone: ten ba uoword ov message, And from that day to thly our ovorhospitbla countryman has wovor seen bin or heard from him, But even that was not quite eo bud aa tho remark made by Lord tarry Lackland respect- Jog Mrs. Pace hitlouday when bo was in Amor fen. Tint lady potted hin and (ted bln to a. perfectly Ne oxtent, but atall eventa ho a accepted all her ontertuinments and attentions tora whole winter, Jn tho sprit Mra. Muce Gilleuddy wont turope, * Tum so yiad,” ree marked Lord Harry in tha hearing of one of ny frlenda, ‘that sho ald not ask me for a letter i of introduction to my mother before abe tert, forioe course, I ghould liwye bad to refuse a 1 Soward on Forelg Relutions in 1863, From Estricts from the Journal wf Menry J. ituye facade! bu Serdimeris for Mareh. Mr, Sowurd talked vory Freely’ of our. foreign relations, Atthe outset of the War, bo bal evory foreign Minister in Washington ox Huran Gerolt, tha Prussian Minister, symp thized with Secersion in one way and giuutber, Their ylows hud been changed, until now they were all salluitous to ayold giving us any offense, sat anxionsg to malutain the most friendly relus ions. France hud withdrawn ber teet trom the mtouth of the Misaissippl, and had dismissed ber Consul at New Orleans, who bad mude binelf offensive to ua by alding. the Kebels, Kogiand evinced in varlous ways her kindly tvoltiurs, and: now usked us favors concessions sho hud bithore to demanded ns rights. Axnn Instance of this bo mentioned that an ollicer of the Hritish wrmy, Maj, Wlunio, hid been taken at Point of “tlocks' coming’ fite our “Mies without authority, He wasn Prison, and was to be tried by court-martial as a spy. Lord Lyons hud urged bla releuxs several times, but this hud beon reftised, He had tually penises to put a stop to the frequeny visits of English otcurs to the rebel armies, and Jn conshleration of thle Mr. Sewnnt had harord that the oflver should to tefed, but tmmedintely pardoned. Ho recited several othor lustances Ihistrnting the ctinnged disposition. of thy English Gavernments nd now (said Mr, Seward) Just whan we bive with gront ditleulty established thead relations with foreign powers, and given thom to watorstand that Intervent erated, Mr.CGreeley comes forward, holds private Interviews, and opens a correapannanyy with the French Minister to persunde him thut the Franie would weleame a mediation whieh wonld ture minute the war, Mr, Seward shied, a great deal ot indignation nt thia mischievous inter= ‘rence with our fureign relations, and expreased fours that it might produce very eerious and injurious results. Mr. Creeley, het rene dered himeelf cleurly aud unmisinkably linble to tho pennities of the law forbidding alt Ritcltine Tereaurse with forolan Ministers; bit his own Personal refutions with iin would render it ime possible for hin fo take any steps in the matter, As it would be charged to persaunt hostility on his part. Seeretury Usher (of the Interlor De- purtinént) thought this cansidenition ought nat o interfere with his sfscharge of a public duty, He xald the arrest of Mr. Greeley would do great good by satisfying the people Unnt the Govern: Juent meant to punish wl vieintions of Inw aud all departures fron loyalty, with impurtial vigor, Me. Seward indul; {n'a good teal of ively ridicule of Mr. Greetey's proposition te make Awitzerland the arbiter of our destiny,—a He- public buf Prussiag and hole Frenets, fale Cav ole and batt Protestant, held togethor only by oudwird proseirt, and represented at Washing: tou by aConsul-Generl who kept a “flour and feod stare near the Capitol, and who knew ne morn of the necessities and conditions of our National exfatence than be did of the putts of the moon. Mr. Bancroft, wha bud fullen valet up during tho more serious part of the Secretary's exposition, awoke at this silly and expressed the opliton that it would be nntch better to.rid- lene reeley out of erotchets thi to send tLufiyette. Tho reat of the caumpa- ver, thought tho matter one of ton Mr, Seward ercier (tho Freneti Mingstert knew Me. Greeley asa very prominent and ine Muenthtl utpporter of tae Adintulstration—as having in fact almost aietated its polley upon. several ost Smportant subjects; nnd it would be very natural far him to reve! ir. Grecley's representutions us proofs tat, in spite of the ssurance of the Seurctary of State, the people would not be wholly tverse to foreign interven tlon. RANK IN CANADA. The New Order of Precedence Juat Promulgated at the Viceregal Court— Mfow Etiqucet Was Observed under the Old Freneh Heche and under Later Governor-Geticrals Ottawa (Ont) Correspondence New York Warkd. Vor the first time since the confederation of the provinces a ukuse hie gone forth establish- Ing an order or table of precedence, ft is dated from the Colontat Office, a3 all Tinperinl docu- ments fire, but of course st emanates from the oftive of the Lord. Chamberlain, at St. James Palace, and hoa been compiled under the dirce- tion of the Hun. 8, Ponsonby Fate, who Is the controller and prinefpal hirrophant of the mys- teries of thnt depurttnent. Hitherto the Canadian people haye recognized na preced- ence beyond that which is uccorded tn every cuuntry te wealth and Intellect. It ik true thot a somewhat similar table was promulgnted dn 1803, but ft remuned a dead-letter. ‘Tho new order, howover, will be rightly enforced. It di- vides soc! into twenty-tlye grades, tha Gov- ernor-General ranking first, and the command: ing officers of the nemy and navy secon hen come the Lieutenunt-Goyernors af provinces, Archbishops and Bishops, Domlnton Sfintaters, the Judges necording to their rant, tho members of the Privy Counell whe ure not now Minjaters, xeneral officers of the army and navy, olticers Of the milltlt, Senntors, ncmbers of the Com- mhons, the minor Judes, provinelal ministers, Thembers of the Legistitlve Councils antl Assen Diles, and lastly tho retired Judges, ench of theay clnsses belng Kubdivided Into forms, us {t were, ‘The taxpayer has no locus stand? whatever in the Txt, but he will probably rank in the twenty- sixth unde, being the corner-stone and founda Hon of the whole structure, Maj. De Wintos and hig subordinates wil no doubt do thelr best to carry out this order, but ft will be a mmed they sieeecd. | Old Workl exotics rurely thely when trinsphinted to New World sail. Twenty five yeitre age Str Edmund Head, then Gove ernor-Goneral, drew up a table of this kind, and Kought to introduce the regulutiona which gov- ert the Intercourse of Ministers with the Ceown fu Englund. is tirat order was that when Min- isters left tho Cupitat they should Inform him of the fact through the Clerk of the Council. sir Allan MeNab, t proud old Hignlanter, but, ns fur us etitquct went, a perfect Goth, had aeen- sion to leave town tho next diy, and this was Is note of exense to the Governor-General: ~ “Tho MeNub begs to Inform his Exeetlency that he hus gone down tho river ns far a8 Grosse lala to x cock-fight, and if the MeNub does not return to town to-morrow or tho next dny his Exceilengy will bo eet teat In conchuding ‘that the MeNab has fallen into the hands of the po- Nee, in which enso his Excellency witl doubtless bo gol enough to intereede for the release of the MeNab.” ‘Shia letter got te eae and amid the up- roarious hunghter af bia lege subjects Sir Rd- Tuund canceled ffs order and abandoned the iden of trying to govern Canadians with sealing- wax and red tape. ‘Che Marquis of Lorne’s ore der will not fare much better. Claes distine- tions, such xs ure fount in England, do not, and from the nuture of things, eannot, ex- ist here, Faber nic | forte 16 the ony motto In Canada, When the ald no- blesse were bousting of thelr. aneestry Jue hot sald: Je atten eal ricn, mat je atin man ancy and tht fa eminently trae of Cann- dling. The Prime Minister, Sir John Maedon- ald, was go country lawyer; Sir Charles Tupper, 4. country doctor;” Sir ‘Leonard ‘Tilley, a drag kists Mr. Bowell, tho Minister of Custams, tho editor of n eix-by-seven evening paper in Belle- 3 Mr. O'Connor, the Postminster-Goneral, o H-tencher and a Fotlco Court lawyer at sor. oppoxsit Detroit: Mr. Muckenzle, the leader of tho Opposition, a stone-muson; Mr. Muepheryon, tho President of the Senate, a Ser- want fia Highband regiment: Col, Gzoweki, A. ie. fo the Queen and tho Princess, a Polish daneing-master In Moston, and. then a Grand Trunk contractor, And so on, from the frst to the of tho pubilo men, Crests they eepe tial of rude toft or ondeaver tmore or less honest, and, 18 for artis, they ean guy with Sydney South, when somebody usked hlin for bis: “The Smiths nover had uny arins, aid heve invariably sewed thelr letters with thelr thum ft the olden Gime tho order of precedence was observed In Canuda as faithfully ag tho imorat law, Laval, the Bishop of Quebee, was a Mont- tnorency, and nobis comme un Mondnorency was, tor yeurs he kepe the French reeedence Lee ft much eruvity for such truntment, Rall that AM r King buay deelding points of tweatt hlweelt and the Govern He clalmed that he should rants frat, and (ssued a mandate to thut elfeet, and the * Relntions des Jesuites” contin ftems Ike the following: Churies Coustiand and dinave do Ropentighy saluted the Governor tint, at which the Hishop was mortally offended, and the next duy the two luis were whipped for thelr disobedience.” The old régine with ite selgntarial laws was based, In fact, on precedence, und | the court of Abasuerus, the King, or of that Spanish grandee who was roasted to death because tho proper otffeer Waa not at band to move the chair back from the fire, wis not more decoruusty rey- uluted than the tew Soclety of the Cagtle St. Touls, ar’ tho houschold of the lord of the wutnor; but with the dawnfall of imilltary rule and the Introduction of free inatitutions the ayo of buckrim anded and democracy: took Its place, The now order will not only go Into at at State coruonies and Suite dinners ro, bur will prevail at the seats of thy pros vinelal Governmenta also, nnd its enforeoment there will lead to curious entangiomenta, 111 Manitoba, for instunce, the Promicr threw or four yenrs ago win & botelkeeper namod Davis, und when the House adjourned be tuped to ask his colleugues and supporters home, ahd golng behtt a bar would serve them with thelr respective drinks, 1b will bo dittcult to minke such a community observe a table of pre= coder In British Columbin, some years ago, hofore ¢ yrnv din ntered the Douinion, the Governor, Sir Jauies Douglas, was married to an Indian lady, and on state occaslons her fathers nnd brothers, to whoin tha prohibiting tbe silo or uiving of it aborigines uppliod, used to refrain out respect tothe law from drinking wine, ball one ilynt, Lady Dorgslie wes duvelny nimnidahipmen oCone ef the m f ig rather aaiatete. be © Os) what would my nustiuid gay I he knes 1 owas shaneing petty oftieery’ rs don't know,” answered nifdidy; but heavens! what woult my suitor mother hy Pleendilly say’ iC sho saw me waltaing with your" Colouiitl so- elety is too nich intxed for tables of proctil+ ence. Whou the Hritish regisients wore quare tered here n Colonel sont forn tlusinith to pub up bis stovepipes, and white watuhing the opera- ton Wavdin the Unker thy Colonel urn pd with whom he had been yssoel- uw thoduy before, * Exeuse mie, Wstonished regular, * but upon may soul, weal took yor for a rentionnmn yosters aay It uversatly felt that in paomulgut- ing thly order tho Tinperinl wuthoritiea have done the Marquis und tae Princess t grave bis Jury. ‘To attempt to sort Into grades % comunit- lty whode coumon eradte fa tho emigraut-ahip intoxicating Nquors to a whh slr,"" an whose very extitence 18.0 tons of tho mutber country, is 6 they mbcht na well seck to bint thu Pletudea or gulue the Arcturus. m4 with bis sons. ” Wentarkablo Recovery of Wearing, Hartford (Cann) Tinea, A story of 4 most sitigulir character {¢ vouched for by one af the Windham County meubersof tho Legisnture. It retited ta ik drenm by Mra. Martha P, Graves, of South Killy ily at old ily wo his but deaf for tho just thir ¥ years. On the night of the th of Janus ary eho dreamed that her bearing wax perfoctly. restored. In the mornin sho related tha rent, to the Members of her family, On the night of tho dist of January, when ghey retirbd, she wits aa deaf as usual, but the Callawing juorning ber aQliction was gone, and aince then’ gh: has had no diticulty tn bearlng,—a whiapersoven bette . distinctly audible, [tte reluted by hor friends that sho’ baw ulwaya boon a tray believer ig on fie any form will not be tole - otost scaudeigt tht 4