Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 11, 1880, Page 4

4 TITE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER N, 1880-—-SIXTEREN PAGES, Ohe TE Cribune. IRI TION, tM OF KUBY DY MAU--IN ADVANGE--POSTAGEK PREPAID. Biz. dally edition, one year. Parte of ye: 4 ag, Thuretin} onad sntarde ‘PUT ORC. AMenday: Wednosdny, nnd Friday, per yout., Eunday, 1G-pnqu adition, per year. _ WERKLY ates ‘Onn copy. por year. oi Chitsot Bytes: 3.00 Twenty-vne copie: .O0 Epectmen cupics sent frag. Give Post-Ofice addroys In full, inelnding County and State, Reniittances may bo made either by dratt, oxpross, Post-OMco order, oF In roatatorod lottar, nt our risk. TO CITY SUNSCKMEnS, Nalty.delivcrod, Suaday oxcepled, £5 conta per wook. Vally,dollvered, Sanday Inctuded, 20 cents por week. Adiress TE TUBA COMPANY, Corner Madinon and Doarbarn-ste. Chicago, UL Posts ‘ Entered at the Post-oftee at CAleaga, ik, as Secor 4 + Claas Matter. 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Engagoment of Joseph ‘Jofforson. 3 Tho Rivals" Afternoon and oyoning, : Mfonley's Theatre, Nandolph streot, botwaen Clark and LaSalle. En= gagomont of JobuT’, aymond. “I'he Goldon Ago.” Afwrnoun aud oreniug. Grand Opern-Honse, Clark strect, opposit new Court-House. Engace- montof Cilnton Hall's Nurlesque Company. “Strat oxists.” Afternoon and erening. Fatebank Matt Corner of Handoiply rad Stato strects. Concert by the Liosesang-Helmondahl Quartetta at 8 p.m. ’ SOCIETY MELTINGS. + COVENANT LONGI, NO, 62% F. & A. Communication this Saturday evening nt at Corinthian Hall, 137 East Rltialo-st, for important work, Visiting bruthrun cordially invited, Hy ontor WM. KEK, Secratary. G. AL WAIT, We Me SATURDAY, DECEMBET!. 11, 1 ‘Mn. W. W. Ilunren, a statistician of some repute in England, esthnates that the popu- Jntion of Bengal has inerensed threefold ond that of all Indin at least twofold since tho British conquest. While the averazo population of the native States, which re- semnblo India unconquered, is elghty-nine to the square inilo, that of Britisn Indin js 218 to tho square mile. France, a rich country, which considers itself fully populated, lias only 120 to the square mile. There size dis- triets of Bengal strietly rural which have a population of 1,280 to the square mile, and in thirteon districts of Northorn Ind!a, equal In aizeto Ireland, tho population is more than 6&0 to thg square mile, ‘That Js, each acro muust feed a fraction more than one human being. My.-Hunter_tugeniously contends that the destitution and suffering of the peo- pis aro duo to the goodness, not tha badness, of tho Government, Lut he does not clearly show how the ralaing of $200,000,000 in taxes annually froin an‘impoverished cotntry ean boa blessing to tho people, nor how India profits by tho exportation of {ts surplus food to yay interest on Its public debt. —_—— 2 = Joux Law himself was not a moro wily achowmer {han tha venerable De Lesseps, who, at nnoage when most men are thinking of the hereafter, Is Inunching tho most astound- Ang engincering enterprise of the ago, Itis @ romarkabld fact that hia most active oppo- nent and rival is Capt. Eads, who 1s ajgo ad- vanced in years, x men for counsel and young men for War 1s apparently not arulo that appiles in engineering, Do Lesseps pre- pared the way for floating tho Panamaschema by beginning tho publication in Paris of n Journal called the nter-Occante Canal Butte- tin, which was tilled with contributions from selentific men known throughout Eu- rope. ‘Tho paper of. speclal interest to American readers will bo that compar- Ing tho prospects of tho Panama with those of tho Suez Canal. Tho Pann- nia Canal will havo a length of only 80,020 yards betweon the deep waters of the two oceans, while the Suez Canal Is 113,710 yards Jong. The Suez Canat has ten locks,—threo doublo and soven aingic, The Panama will hove but‘five, all double, Mall-bonts pass the Suez Canal in sixtecn hours, At Panama most vessels can make tho transit between sunrizo and sunsnt, and mall-bonts in eight hours, Sailing-vessuls will haye a great ad- vantage at tho Jatter canal, as thoy will not be required to traverse the narrow and dan- gerous Red Sea, which {3 2,014 iniles long. The Cunal Dultetin furnishes tables to show that the trafic ready to pasa through tho canal will be amply suffciont to sustain At from the start, ny Eanw Gnanviuwy’s lottor to Mr. Lowell on tho Fortune-Buy fishery question, which 43 published this morning, while not wholly satisfactory, Indicates n uisposition on the partof the British Cabinet to bring the mat- ter in dispute to a speedy issue and to a sat isfactory settloment, Sotting ‘out with tho atatement that the British Ministry deeply vegrela and regards as unjustitiablo and In- dofenstble the attnek made on Amorican fish: erinen by those of Newfoundland at Fort- uno Bay in January, 1878, ho adds that the British Government is willing to indemnity Amerlean fishermen for the Injuries sus- tulned on that occeston, antl for the losses which they haye sustained by being prevent- ed from plying thelr vocation off tho coast of Newfoundland In accordanco with the Treaty of Washington, Earl Granville holds, however, that strand fishing, for the prevention of whish American fishermen eluim damages, fs wholly forbidden by the treaty, and ho fainks that the eluins under this feud cannot be considered, Earl Gran- ville {8 quite at Issue with Sveretary Evarts on the. lnterpretation of that clause of the ‘Troaty of Washington which provides that citizens of the United States shall by entitled, “Wu common with British subjects, to fla in Newfoundland waters within Ueltish sov- erelygnty.” He thinks this clause means that American fishermen are. to be allowed to fish In tho waters subject to such regulations nx tho Logisiature of Newfoundland sees tit to impose on British Ashermen, and holds inadmissible tho claima of Secretary Evarts that the fish- ery rights of the United States citizens are tobe exerclscd wholly free from restraints ‘and regulations of the statutes of Now: foundlaud. At the same tue he says, aut fa Apparent selfontradiction, that the New | betta : foundtand Loytsinture Is not justified In {m- posing on our fishermen unjust, unrengon- able, or unfair restrictlons, and offers to onter into negutiations with our Government for the inodi fication of any such harsh rules as may oxist, always provided that the United States Government shall admitt beforehand tho right of Great Britain to enforce and earry out such rules as may bo adopted In waters within {ts own soverelanty. ‘This proposttion will probably be Acceptable to our Government, and Karl Granvilie’s come inunication will thus opena way for tho sel- tlement of the dispute In a manner to some extent satisfuclory to our Government ant fishermen, f Ture annual report of tho Commisstonor of Education, an abstract of which will be found In another column, puts tho total school population in 1873 at about 14,500,000, Tho numbor enrolled in publie schouls was 9,204,816, and the. avernge daily attendance (seven States nat reporting) was 5,003,203, In {he Southern States the total sehoot vopula- tion was 5,197,584, and the numberof scholars enrolled was 2,710,195. It appears, therefore, that the whole numbor of children growing up tn ignorance In the year mentioned was 4,114,077, of whoin 2,477,089, or considerably more than one-half, wore in the Inte Slave States. About £00,000 wero negrocs, Tho number of unenrolled children in the Southern States ts vastly out of propor- tion to their population as compared with the Northern States, ‘Iho figures contained in thls report emphasize the need, which Tim Trimpusn has many thaes called attention to, of some adeaunte National provision for pul- Ie education, But the Commisstoner falls into the errors af his oMeinl superiors in nil yising that the moneys arising from the sale of public lands be appropriated ‘to this pur- pose, ‘The him avatlable from this source would ba cntirely insufficient for the great work which would be required of a National Bureau of Eduentton, The thing should be done thoroughly or not at all, As Tue ‘Triuny: has before demonstrated, there is 4 sulticient surplus of revenue arising from the Nquor-tax to make an allowance of 31 for cach inhabitant, or $4 for each family In the United States, nnd $1260 for each child of school ago not now on the rolls. The $50,000,000 reventie derived from this sourco could. not be devoted to a bettor use. The tax 1s permanent. It is levied on the lenst-defenslble appetites and indulgences of the people. Its appropriation to National Educational Fund would be tho most fitting way of returning it to tho people, and making intemperance nnd yico pay tributeto the intelligence of the coun- try. We sincerely hope that members of Congress whv have {teas of statesmanship rising above tho River ant Darbor bill will give their early attention to this important subject, THE NEXT SENATE, 1tisa matter ot considorablo doubt, and fully a3 much concern, in Washington whether the next Senate wil) bo Republican or Demoeratie. ‘Tho contingencies in the case inay bo stated as follows: (1) ‘Lhe position Davis of Illtnols and Mahone of Vir- ginia; (8) the election of s Senator In Ton- negseo; (3) the attendance and degree of pai Usanship of Falr from Nevada; (4) the pos- alble choice by a Republican Legistaturo of Fair's Democratic partnor te succeed Booth, of California; and (5) tho jalluences of sick- ness and death, As to Sonntors Davis and Mahone, nobody cansay with any confidence what attitude thoy williake. If elthor ono of them ‘acts outright with the Republican party, then tho Republicans will have control of the Senate with the ald of the Vico-Presidont's casting) vote, Theres sro tnany reasons for belleving that Senator Davis will not bo bottud up In the futuro fortunes of tho Democratic party, Neither his judgment nor his ampitlon ean any fonger prompt him to make common cause with the Democrats, Ho was nover a Bourbon, and he must now bo convinced that tha Democratic party Is thoroughly and trredeemably Bourbon. If, howoyer, ho shall conclude to nsaume a con- fessedly hostila attitude to the Democratic aide, ho will bide his own time for manifest- ag that purpose, aud probably do it in such manner ag shall count for tha most to himself in reputation. ‘The cnso of Senator Mahona fs even moro peculiar, ‘The Southern Democrats profess to think thoy may enumerate him on their side, but for no better reason than bocausc ho has beon os Democrat In tho past, and was 1 soldier in the Confederate army. Closo ob- servers of the situntion contend, on the other hand, that Mahono'’s fight in Virginia tn- volved somotliny moro than question of re adjustment, Tho differences between the twe factions of the Domocratle party In that State widenod out into bitter porsonal feel- ing. Mahono has not much in common with tho old régime, Meisan Irishman, n brave fellow, and an independent {ft not an crudite thinker, and seems to lave reached the conviction that Nation ought to bo spelled with n big “N” In this country, ‘The Inte tendency of the nowspapers in Vir- Rinta which are ‘.nderstood to represent Mahone fs in the dircction of n stricter con- struction of the constitutional amendments, tho power of the General Government, and tho rights of citizenship, than obtalns in the South, 1fhoissincers In a similar convice tion {twill not take lim Jong to discover that the realization thercof Is not possiblo unter Domacratic caucus dietation; Indeed, it fy probable Unt he will not go Inte caucus atall, Z The other contingencies mentioned aro not so Important, It {s possible that Mr. Fair will not bo In his sont much mora than Mr. Sharon wags, aud In euch caso tho advantage will-be with the Republicans In- stend of agulnst them ns heretofore, It 1s also probable that he will not assent to any Bourbon obstruction of legislation, though he will Nkely go Into tho Domo- cratic caucus, ‘Tha olection of Mr. Flood tn Caltfornta {s not to be reasonably uxpected, and Jf brought about at allit would proba- bly bo by such menns as would merit and nerhaps scenro his rejection, It may bo safcly predicted that California will sund an undoubted Republican tu the Sonate, It fs not Nkoly that olther Mr. Maynard or any other Republican will bo elected by the Ten- nessee Leglglature, Tho Jow-credit men insy suceced In defeating Ualley, but the Dem- ocrata will be more apt to agree upon some compromise candidate than, to tolerate the cholee of 8 Republican, Thd ouly ense in Which the health of Senators now promises to affect the situation Ia that of Suuator Grover, who is sotlously stvk, and whoso death would make a vacancy for tho olection of a Nepublican from Oregon, If Senator Lawar’s illness should prevent him from putting in an appearance, the Democratly working majority would, of course be re- dueud to that extent, Among ail the uncertuinttes of tho eltun- tion It is evident that tho Republicans have most to hope fur, and that tho Domocratle control is so frail that it may bo easily broken before tho 4th of Murali next. If tho Democrats can got botn Davis and Mahone to act with them, cau cure tho sick men now on thelr hands, and cru compel the regular attendance of all thelr members, thoy may possibly prevent on reorganization of the Eenate ut the beginning, But thore sa fair Diospeet that tha committees Mill be mas tesially temodeled, und not altogether as the Demoeratle envens may dictate, und it Is certain that the Demoernts will not be able to hold thelr majority for any purpose of harassing or embarrassing the new Admin- istration, NICARAGUA AND PANAM. 'Tho Do Lesseps Canal scheme across the Isthmus of Panama js now conspicuously before the people. ‘Che scheme ts brought to public attention with somothing like the American spirit of enterprise, It confronts tha newspaper-rendera in attractive adyer- tisoments, It is announced that tho machin- ery, loots, provisions, and’ other matorial for the construction of the canal nre to bo pire chased In the United States, A special Ameriean Comiittes is to have charge of subscriptions on this side of the water, and ta Seerctary of — thé Navy has been offered and will proba- bly necept the Chairmanship — thoreof. Secretary Thompson went over from Washlngion to New York yesterday with the avowed purposo of 9 consultation on this subject. Tho offer of a targe sulary in tho face of early retirement from the Unbinet is probably tho chief attraction to hin, Gen. Grant, was tendered tho same Postion some timo ago, but Is salt to have repiled that he wanted to seo a canal built, and that he would very much like to en- joy the proffored salary of $25,100 n year, but he did not {betleve tho Panama schema was practicable. Yet Yo Lesseps {sa pushing fellow, hus a world-wide rep- ulation og an engineer, and will without doubt make moro or less of s stir. But it ts now evident that the French Com- pany will not have s monovoly of public at- tention relative to an Interoceanic canal. ‘Tho American promoters of the Nicaragua project are already on the ground. ‘Thay will como before n Sonate Committee noxt Monday and ask favorable consideration for thoir petition for a National chartor. The st of incorporators will be formidable, with the namo of Gen, Grant at tho head. It is expected that onco the charter be granted the ex-President of the United States will becoma tho President of tha new Company. Some of the constitutional Inwyers have taised tho point that the United States Government cannot give o charter to n company to perform a certain work outside tho territorial jurisdiction of tho Government, and so the charter of tha American Company has beun framed with tho purpose of depriving this objegtion of any force there may bo Init Itsets forth the concessions and privileges that have been granted by the Government of Nicara- gua, and asks only the permission to organize the Company under the auspices of the American Government, without grants orsub- stdy of any kind, !n order to proceed with the, proliminarles necessary to the enjoy- ment of its concessions. 1 provides for a capital stovk of not-legs than $50,000,000 ag Aguarantes that the work shall be carried out, and not more than $100,000,000, It ts declared to be the purpose of the Company to build the Nicaragua Canul out of the stock subscribed, without borrowing money on bends, it 1s probable that tho Nicarngun Canal project will receive sorlous consideration from Congress if presented In tho shape that has been outlined, As an American com- pany ft will appeal to the patriotic sontiinent, and the previous position taken by Congress ia its Joint resolution reassorting the Monrea doctrine {s warrant for the beliof that such an appeal will have much weight.' Mow far tho Bulwer-Clayton treaty shall be held to prohibit such a charter ns is asked foreannot bedetermined until the matter shall he dis cussed; but, it thls be an obstacle, the fact wHl probably serve as an additional rensoa for tho abrogation of that treaty, which hos already buen suggeated, ‘Tho ,application for o charter to the Nicaragua Company will open thd way for i comparison belween the rolativo morits of tho two canal projects, Tho Nicaragua. scheme contomplates the utilization of tho lake of that name, and tho canal to bo'con- structed will only ba a few miles longer, aside from tho Inke, than the spun of the Isthmus of Panama, Onoot its chict merits, from an American point of view, Is that o Nicaragua canal will shorten thd route be- tween the Atlantic ind Pacitle coasts for all American trade soveral hundred miles moro than will a Panama canal. It is objected to the proposed French canal that it ts tin- practicable; thatit caunotresist the torrentot tho Chagres River in 9 country where tho rainfall ts nearly as groat per month as it is in this couulry per year; that while sub- seriptions for only $60,000,000 ara asked, the Englneer’s cxtiinate of the cost of coustruc- tion reachos $163,000,000; that {t Involves an enormous subsity to the Panama Railroad, which controls the right of way across the Tathinus; that it evor bullt it will bo under tho contro! of 9 foreign company; that thera will be no speeinl consideration for. the Aaorlean consting trate In the fixing of tolls; and. that tho protection which tho French Government will bo sure upon any omorgen- eytoxives Froneh company will sooner or Inter tead to an infraction of the Monroo doc- trlne whereof this Government will be bound to take natico, Tho most striking feature of this Impend- Ing competition between Interoceaniv canal companies is that It is belleved that success- ful appeals can be made in this country for the investment of capital in schemes that do ot promfsa 4 return within tho lifettine of the youngest mex who shall put thelr money into them, Sitch a condition would not havo been belloved possible If It hud bean prodictod a few years ago, and It Is a alynificant liulleation of ‘the progress that has been made tn Amerlea of Inte years in accumulating surplus capital, rey HOW TO RELIEVE THE SUPREME COURT, ‘Thore ara several measures proposed In Congress looking to tne release of the Sus promo Court from tho mngs.of buslness whieh hasaccumulated upon its hands, Two of tho Justices are so jafirm in health as to bo unablo to attend to any business at all, ‘Two others of tho Court havo passed that age (three-score and ten) when tho law assuines a willlngness to retire froin the labors of the Reneh, The whole Court consists of nine Judges, while tho business taken to that Court Is Increasing annually, All tho mena ures of rellef so far suggested aro founded on the stereotyped remedy of tho profes- slonal polltician, and that is to Increnso tho number of offices and the number of per- sons tu be appointed and salaried, That is always the pluccuan’s remedy,—to multiply offices and vat more taxes, The Court Is net divisible; 16 cannot bo divided Into several courts, cach, acting 1s the Court, All its Judgments must bo ren dered by the whole Court, so that all the Judges who hear the satguincut haye.to take part in tho consultation, and haya to assist in the judgment. Prnetically all the Judges leur and determina all the cases, Nino Judges areas many ascan conveniently sit {nu caso; when tho Court is more numerous than that the body" a cumbersome, the con- sultations become todiuus, and thd delays are &reater and more numerous, ‘The increase inthe nimnber of Judges, therefore, will afford no relief to sultors or expedite tho do- layed bystuess, That rellef must be found otherwise, ‘Tho United States Judiciary is now numer Ieallylarge, ‘Thoreurethe District Courtsand tho Clreult Courts, From tho District Courts Urere Is on appeal to the Clrenit Courts, and from tho latter t the SupremeCourt. Under this systein Ut is possible to carry every vase, where the sun in controversy exceeds five thousand dollars, through all these courts, to bo argued and adjudicated in each. ‘This {s unnecessary for the purposes of justice, ant it even affords an opportunity to defeat. Justice by the long interval between tho f1- stitution of the suits and the finat Judgmant. Tant many, possibly a majority, of cases aco carried up through wl these courts for mera purposes of delay ts hardly doubted. Courts wore not constituted that they night be used for any sueh dishonest purposes, There are two remedies for this state of affairs, Now that there are Cireult Courts, there ought to bo some limit placed on the tichtofnppeal, Under tho present practica tho ease Is tried. and determined in each of the courts accorting to the tnw ane the facts, ‘The Supreme Court as well ns tho District Court has to pass upon a report of tha testl- mony, and In faet try the ease de novo, Nothing 1s considered final, nothing ts n¢- ceptod ns established, and counsel argite the fucts before tho Sitpreme, Court ag they originally argued thom before the jury In the District Court, All this is wrong. If thore are to be intermdinta courts the judg- ments of those intermediate courts ought to De final, certainly as to the {nals of tho ease. ‘Tho wisest and best mode of expediting busi- noss in the Supreme Court would be to limit the right of appeal on all questions other than. thoso of naked Inw and constitutional con- Atruetion to the CireultCourts. Beyond that, the record should be limited to the direct pro- sentation of strictly legat questions. 'The find- ing of the Cireult Court should bo final as ta tho facts, and that finding should be certiiled with only such questions of Inw as ttinay present for the decision of tho Supreme Court. With o trint by Jury under the diree- tion of the District Court, and a thorough re- hearing of all the tacts presented by tho rece ord, the case ought to be so reduced to ov finality as to leave nothing to be carried to the Supreme Court, save such questions of Jaw upon which litigants may ask for the nd- judication of tha highest tribunal of tho country, r Wo ard informed by an ‘nuthority which speaks from tho record that nt tho lowest es- timate nt lenst one-half the caves now taken to the Supreme Court ought never to bo taken there, and ought to be finally disposed ofby the judgment of thoCircult Courts, Un- der those elreumstances, it Is a waste vf time, an immense cost to litigants, andin countless casos practical defeat of Justice, to tolorato the present practice any longer. It fs an abusa of tho'forms of Justico which Con- gress shuuld promptly terminate. We know tint lt is useless to expect that tho Bar will over favor any mensuro to limit Iltigation, or to reduce its cost, but Congress has other rights to protect and other Interests to pro- mote than thoscot tha legal profession, With thechunges in tho Jurisdiction of the Clreult and Supreme Courts fu cases of appeal, the business of the Supremes Court would be- come exclusively that of law, and for this a court of nine Judges, or oven of a smaller number, would be ample at all thnes, FOOD ADULTERATIONS, Some time ago three prizes, aggregating ous thousand dollars, were offered for the best essays on food adulterations, with forms of legistation by the General and State Logistatures to prevent and punish the evil consequences of such frauds, ‘These prizes have been awarded, and tho essays and plans have been published in 2 supplement to the Sanitary Engincer for the current week, AN these papers hinve points of great ex- cellonce, and are:-worthy the attention of scientists, teglalaters, and all other persons interested in tho matter of the preservation of health aml of commorelal honesty, At tho sane tline there was furnished, and the Awarding Commiltea advisod ‘its pudlica- tlon, a paper written by Dr. O. W. Wight, of Milwaukee, and to tho non-technical reader this paper fs of direct practical in- terest. ‘The Doctor has furnished us a copy of this essay, which wo lay beforo tho reaa- ers of Tie Trimune this morning. ‘The general subject as treated by theso writers, and those who have preceded thom, is' presented under several distinct hondy. First, any law on tho subject must define the offenses to be punished, and, primarily, these aro two: ‘Firat, the adulturation of articles of food; and, second, the adultera- tlon of «drugs, ‘These offenses are agaln divided Into two clusses,—the one the adul- teration with duluterious substanecs, or sub- stances which, although not deleterious in themselves, yot render the articto with which thoy aro snixed injurious to health; and tho other, adulteration of food or drugs with substancas not in themselves injurious, but which are used for the purposes of fraud, ‘The adulteration of food or drugs with arti- cles {ujurious to health {8 an offense of the -higheat character, It Is an assault upon human Iife and henith, and there ean bo no apology or extcnuation for the wrong, which Isossentlallyacrime, Ignorance, carolesness, or don’t-care-ness is no mitigation of tho act, and the man who sells dangerous food to another Is guilty, aud should be punlshod for all the consequences, In cases where tha adulteration of food or drugs with articles which ore not of themsulyes fujurlous to health, and where the net Is committed for purposes of fraud, to increase tho profits, tho manufacture®. who paling off spurious goods for genulue should bo treated as other persons guilty of petty swindling and fraud, and selling by light weights. The subject has long occupied tho atten- tion of Governments, but whatever effective legislation bas been had on tho subject has been of comparatively Iaty enactment, Prior to 1860 thore was practically no Inw In England on tho subject. In that year there was cousiderabla agitation by tho medical Journals. Tho London Lancet attacked the food adulterations, and had numorous analy- sea mate, and the result of these showed that 65 per cunt of tho drugs and food sold to the public were found to bandulterated. Tho Lancet published the startilig reaults of its analyses, nud so nolorlous were tho frauds thut the facta published were never ques- tloned, ‘This led to an act of Parliament, which, however, was very Imperfect. This fet was amonded fm 1875, and again in 1879, ‘These additional acts were tho result of ex- perlence, and a very effoctive law has now been establishod, Oltleial investigutions have followed, and tho percentages of udultera- tons in food, 15,000 examples belng testad, show a decline from 65 per cent in 1860 to 16 percent in 1876 Of these, ‘the porcentages of adulterations by articies were, milk, 23; butter, 14; grocerles, 13; drugs, 27; wine, 28; broad and flour, 4; sundrics, 10, ‘The adul- terations of milk ond of wines and spirits were fud to, be mainly with tho harmless substance of water, ‘This la glvon as tho elfoct of o ‘well matured law, vigorously oxccuted, The En- Ush law has been greatly effective fn the mattor of articles adulterated with harmless substances, ‘That law. puutshes every case of adulteration, even when no deleterious substances are used, unless the package con- taining tho article bears upou It the state suent of the severul substancos and thelr proportions contained {n the package. ‘I'his permits tha fraud, but compols the vender to to advortise it that tho purchaser ls not de celved, ‘Tula public advertisement of doc- tored goods ls not profitable, and heuce that bmiuch of the aduiteration business has de- clined, “It fs, however, tn full blast to thts country, é A somowhat similar tawin Canada has lind tho effect of reducing tho proportion of adul- terated goods offered for sate from Gl to 6 percent, © Dr. Wight In his paper arranges and dls- cusses the subject under clearly defined classea. ‘Thus, (1) an enumeration of tho dangerous adulterattons, which should ba prohibited, (2). Dofetarious adulterntions are, ‘many of thom, under certaln cireum- stances, su fatal that they ought to be pro- Aiblted. (3) An ennmeration of tho frandu- lent adulterntions, where tho object is gait nll these touch tha economy of. the house: hald, If thos do not necessitate the doctor or the undertaker. (4) ‘Tho effect of these adulterntions on health and on trade, And on thesv poluts ile words aro full of wisdom, and he states the substance of two laws, one to bo enacted by tho several States and one by Congress, ‘The diMfcutty which stands in tho way of any Inw on this subject tn this country arises from our dual system of government. Ibis denied that Congress can enact n Inw on this, subject to bo exceuted within tho jurisdie- tlon of any State, and It fs hopoloss to expect that all tho States will unite in tho samo general law.. The refusnl of any ond or more States to codperate In* legislation on this subject will in Wany particulars furnish so many sanetun- ties In which adulterated goods may be manu- factured, and Gience pushed {nto other States to be sold, The dealers all profess to be anxious fora rigitl law on the subject, but they elafin that no’ law ean be sticcessfully executed so long ns tt {s In forea ina few lo- enlities and notin all parts of tho country at the sametime. ‘The Democratle party has not yet progressed far enough Jn tho direc- tion of Nationality as to adinit that Congress ean enact a National lnw for tho protection of public Nfo nrid health, and forthe punish ment of thesate and manufacture of poisoned food, or of food infurtous to health, or food which, to the deception and plunder of the consumer, Is widely different from what it purports to bo. Still, in timo Democracy may be able to take a wider.and broader view of Natlonal authority, and we may yet have, asin England, » wise and effective law on this subject. ‘WATTERSON'S ISSUE HUNT, - Mr. Henri Watterson, of the Loulsville CourtersFournal, Is again a prey to his finagtnation, and, In forecasting the future of party at onve of the notlve support of the oficu- seckers, pon whom It clleily relics, Here fan aplendid organization pinkrupt of a boliof orn cauan, coloring only in its traditions, Its name, and tte apnotite, with Just. votes enongh to be tantalized with its nearness to tha publiv crib and a consolousness that it can get hu nenrer tntess It can tnd sorotting tony: out in the way of principle, doctrine, or creed that will attract reinforcements, tn the South ern States hoy have verrdefinit principles: It huppens, unfortunately, that tho avow thon {aa rource of strength only whore thy Nob need it, while It wookens thom where thoy most need reinforecment. At the North suey have exporltusnted in nll tdirections, und nlways without net, for the renson int the purty here ie. combination of men for gelfeh aime and not for a politienl purpose, Tho aetand work togethor not beeause they thin! and bolfeve allko pon any current ‘queation of politics, bit beenusa they have a commu Ine fercat In rovurlig xpalls tobe divided, And now fur Nathonal purposes thas are hunt. ing an isso; more correctly, looking for u mask, Itlan strange apoctacto, Tut hore nti if the part; atrong in discipline, organization, anit machinery. and auil avarching with lighted candles for sono reason for its bulng other thant {ta Insatiable hunger for office, It hina used up all ane avhilabla issuos. Hadn't it bottor ule perse’ ‘Tun London Spectator notlees a feature of tho soclal waror struggle for Mfe goingon in Ircland which deserves more attention than It has recolved, ant thnt ig tho strange coherendo of the population, thoir unsworv! fadutity to one nother: Within a cortain area tho whole people of alt clnason below tho midite, of alt cecupattane, farmers, shopkvopars, laborers, loufera, aud of both euxer, aro united ina detorininntion to ox- communicate Capt. Boycott. Tho farmers threaten bln, tho shopheeperd wii not tike railt fram him, the liborera idectine hla wages, he lonters wateh him ficessantly and eviliy, the women und girls euray bin, bla faborera, anid tle olicamen as they. pusr, Tbe whole people is bats together In tho effort to coerce him, tl a earinan ordered tu drive to hia house re- fuses heavy pay, aud at last, driven to hia wite’ und, asks hia would-be employer, a stran> rer, understood to be friendly to tho people, whothor ho “wants to sot the wholo country, aldo agin’ a poor carman.” Now, unanimity of that sort—complete unanimity in a desien which Js not legal and not in harmony with the tom- yoramont of the people, who are onturally kind- iy-—ls oxcegatvely dificult to produce, and ono would say was spoctally dlifieult among frish- inen. Thoy ure much divided in opinion! Mounlists,” fer instance, net loving Land- Leaguora—much incited to, rosist dictation, very anger for emallgalng, and (ndividuully yer brave. It Ia ensy to auy thoy are terrorized: bui nUBpDS IRIE Maj. Sirr in Mayo again and threat- onlug death or torture to anybody who com- munieated with Capt. Boycott, every third bo: in the barony would risk his life but he would, somehow or other, Und his way to Boycott Farm, Au army could not starve the owner out unless they surroundei his house with un impassuble cordon of sentries; and even thon those sentrivg would bo eludud, or cajated, or made drunk, or killed, or made powerless In some way. What ennbles tha Pogeleoton, they choose, 60 to corm- bine that nobody enn be teinpted or coereed into, brenking their unwritton decree, not even those who, Ilka tha hordsmen, risk sturyation In con- Bequonco of it? Clearly it le not only tarror, ‘but opinion in rome form, acting with n presauro whieh no individual or mluor group of Individ- unis {gs comprtont to realist, ‘Tho anewer dues not seem diMoutt. a ‘The solu- tho Democratle party, tses his horoscopo in + 20" OF tho appnrent mystory fs onsy, ‘Tho Irish the ntost recklusly iden! mauner, and with- out tho slightest rogard to facts and reailty, thus once more confirming his pointed state- mentin the North sLmerlean Review that he Iadestitute of the ‘muthomatical facitity und allows his fancy to run away with him, He is now hunting for an issue, and in the voursy of his erazy Chovy Chase says? ‘The Iupublican party is a very bad party, Thut itis a very strong party, and a very stuart purty, All the keen ragenis Iu the country have contrived to got into it. The Democrats only at tho uscleas rnacals, the fools, and the sorc- eds, ‘The Rupnbliern party must be beaten, But it cannot bo beaten on the old ttnes. It must bo bonten on Issues of real pith nud mo- mont; on fasues having moral force and enpuble of organization; on “rrinciriy.” But, iko tho Republicans beforo thom, the Domo. ceutut got too hig for tholr breevhus, and the fu- pubiicanss aut from nny marit of tholr own, ub throuwh the folly of the Democrits—havo come buck to power, To drive them thonca Will require a polloy: {n tho opposition which shall cement, consollinte, inspire all tha cle- mentaof tho opposition; and this polloy must be iald in sound, economic prinalplos, and re- Jato to tho business and bosoms of men. And now, leaving Brother Watterson to chase his pretty will-o’-the-wisp and coming down to hard facts, what prinetpte does he refer to and what is Ils issue going to be? With that disregard for tho oxact sciences which, ho says, always characterizes him, ho does not inform us, In some quarters iis fellows are inclined toa “tarlfl for rovenuo alty,” but on that issno thera: can be no agreemont In the Democratic party, ‘The Democrats have now had contfol In Con- gress for six years, and never have been able to agree upon any proposition, resolution, or Dill looking towards tariff reform. And what Is Brother Watterson to do? If his section brings in a bill favoring a low tarilf, stralghtway Pennsylyania, New England, Matyland, Dolaware, and apart of Ohio anit Now Yorkareantagonized against it, und the entire manufacturing interests kick. When the Republleans come into complete power thoy will modify tho tart and settlo that question as thoy have many othor Issues, and this will end thu contention about the tariff, It will leave the Western Democrats nothing to advocate but -“ free trade and direct taxn- tion," and @n such an Issuo as that Wattor- son would find himself ot the head ofa fol- Jow!ng as small and absurd as Falstail’s army, Clvil-Servico reform {8 anothor issue talked about In some Democratic quarters, but this Is almost too Inughable to talk serlously about. Whon tho skies rain larks Damo- crats will be found advocnting Clyil-Servico reform, and not until then, It 1s tho Inst role that will over bo played hy'tho party whieh originated the dogma “To tho victor belongs the spoils," which has the chronic Ulsonse of office-gotting, and whose Idea of a political heaven isa piace whore every ono can hold office, and well-paid office at that. ‘ThoChinese question has been ruled outby the now treaties, ItIs on issieno longer. ‘The dobt question Igoutof the way, ‘The cur- reney question Is scttled. No amount of ingenious effort can torturo resumption Into aufssue, Everything that Jooked like an issuc hasbeen satisfactorily settled by the Republicans. What have Mr, Watterson and lis hungry crowd, therefore, that they can muster In ag an issue upon which tocarry tho noxt Presidential election? Wo fear that ho inust carry an empty bag a while longer, and remain on the outside with all tho pationce he can muster. The only service ho enn ron- der, or his party cau render, 1s to continue their opposition to the Ropublicaus as thoy have done In tho past, and thus keep tho Int ter party fu an netive, wide-awako, and first class fighting condition. That Is tho best service Brother Watterson can render his country, aud his ldeal, and poetical, and fan- ciful temperament better fits him for that duty than hunting round for practleal {ssues whoro thoy do not exist, or, aven lt thoy did oxist, under circumstances that, according to his own statements, unilt him tograpple with rem. them, Now York Trilune, discussing tho painful search of tho Demuvorats for live igsues, makes these pertinent remarks, which wo commend to the perusal of our strandad friond at the Falls of the Onlo: The leaders of tho Democracy, Just now on- fgtwot in beating tho alr tur dome Bort of 4 pos tle) ieguo that whull ofer the party an excuso for being, bave Our sympathy, We have purely: goon then so varineat and thoughtful, With all tho wachlnery and the orguntention of a great Belitical pacty, ubdolute control ia many of tho tutes, und a powerful tinerity in the remuins der, they lick a couse uid an ulin upon which thoy cu agrus aiaong thomsolves or hope to draw atreugth {rom thoir opponents. The lite chhvads Wie fatal to the Inst surviving ahams and shudows of principles upon which thoy dopended for cehorunve, Noth fg tuft thom but the huuger for office, and that ly pot enough to make u purty formidable, ough tt yadoubte edly tb very effective in holding a desperate minority together, They must have semuthine to beilove in,-or protend to bellove in, if ey would guin votes and uchlove success, and thy thoy are blindly eopin rr Whitt shall be tho noxt sbibboluthy Free Trude or Civil-Service reforio? ‘The Free-'lrado fasue scotns impruce Heubie, since they put it Jn thuir platform at Ciuciugatl, and were firat Felgiuo into a sare render and thon beatcuon it, Whether thoy wero beaten ou the platform or the repudiation of it fa Of no consequence. It is obvious cnough that it Is tiu doctelne to make o hopeful tight on, Aud, a4 to Civil-Sorvice rofurm, tho only propos sition they olfer on that subject would weakun justead of strungthouing thei, by depriving tho people are in natrugglo for life with tholr bru- tal, rapacious taskimnatora, They seo n chance of breaking tholr chalna and ending tho thrall- dom by moans of the Land-Lengue orguniza- tion, They have by a common inatinative im- pulse decreed atnong thomselyes not to give nid or comfort té the common robbor and enoniy, and to visit sociil ostracism on any of tholr number who dos give ald ur comfort, —>___ i Tur German papers of the Empire aro filled with tho “Jew question." A most. bitter controversy is raging over tho Fathortand,_ It{s Jesa relllous than political The Pruesinn Par- Uament bas rung with Jow atrifé, The Gor- ernmontal Norddeutsche sillgemeine Zettung re- views the debato in a apirit which plainly ine dicates its conviction that tho interpellation ought nover to have boen brought in, and that it bas led to no good resutts; while the sunsl- amtolat Port opines that the popular curront of tho moment fa not running in a direction favor- Able to the Jews, nnd that tho {dontificntion of tho Progresslsta with the cause uf tho former seems to be of doubtful tuctical advantage. ‘The Retchavote says tint Germany would become a lunghing-stovk tu the world— If foroign nations know now tho heroes of Konitggriltz and Gravelutte aro sucked dry hero at home by Jowlsh usnrors, how they are wan- dering about in bungor and In rage, or It (hoy heard that the Gorman people allows its proses to bo written aud ia public opinion formed by Jowa, thit our authors and artists sigh under the censorship of a Judafattc Uterature, and that tho rent beat of the national Germun pulse en bo fell because tha Hobrow critle hiin- ie In Bugland rules tho nglishiman; itn ‘rance the Fronchiunn; and ull we want ls that In Germany tho Germ, aud not the dow, shull Riva tho tono. | Wo wish the world'to bo In- fugneed with rospvat not onty for Gernuin arta, but also for German clvilizution, but this can- not he if these arostitled by an overmnstering Judatam, We wish to have no Roman Empire of the Gerinan nation, but neither do wo desire a Jewish Empire of the Gorman nation, What witnt isa German Emplro of tho Gernian nation, and that we can only get when tho Gar- mun becontes and remains’ the bearer and dis- dominator of wealth and culture, <a Tnx Yate College entalog for 1880-81 shows u list of sixty-two Professors in the ya- rlous departments, ton tutors, and thirty-throo spoclal ustructors andjecturors, Tho students from Chicago tro us followa: In thooloxy, Charles Honry Witcox; in law, William Arthur Gardner; in tho ocutumical department, Lov! Abrabum Eltel, Frank Millor Furyzo, George Snow Isham, Benjamin Blagell Lamb, William Wilson Kirkhoftér Nixon, Sholdon Pharis Patter- son, Houry Nelson ‘Tuttle, and Khon Hulo Wells, of tho Sontor, Cings; Cyrita Rontloy, Jr. tnd Frank Cooloy Furwoll, of the Junfor Class; Wehurd Mervin Bissol!, Churlea Rogors Corwith, Henry Edward Fisk, Sautucl Rountree Jowett, and Horatio Odell Stone, of tho Sophomore Class; and Martin Androws, Jr, Allison Vincent Are mour, Nelsun Poudleton Bigelow, Arthur Line colu Farweit, Robert Watbridie ial, Edward Ashton Luwrence, Wit Lune Muraton, [sano Honry Mayor, Sydavy Stein, Charles Moorehead Watker, Arthur Brattle Wells, and Henry Mitton: Wolf, of tho Freshman Class; and in the Shof- flotd Sulentitie Schuol, Howard Biold Chappell, Frubcls Stuyvesant Veabody, Fred Moore Stroug, Allred Buckingham Wilvox, 8, Lawrence Willlams, Samuel Myrou Chise, Henry Curtis Nutt, John Sdmund Nowoll, George Shipman Payson, and Edward Wotls Pentlold, Fa ——— Tne offorts of Lord Beaconsfeld’s Homo Bocrotary to f!mprovo the houses of working poupla in London by moans of tho Artisans’ Dwottinga act have uot been succossful, Tho Daily News haa come tp rogard It aan Landlord's Itelief act. itsuys, that nlandlord bas only to lotu group of houeges got ao bud ngto bu unfit to lot, and the locul authority may bo oblixed to purchase thon from him, incur the exponse of removing thom, and endure the loss which their removal ontuils. In thia way tho ratepayers of London hive alroady put muny hundred thou- Bani pounds {nto tho’ pocketa of tho owners of houses which ought to havo beon almost valuo- Jeas. Onslxacres which had buon cleared and dlapased of upto the end of inst year, the low was $201,000, Those areas have boon sold to the Veabody trusteca, and the sum thus lost is practionlly a contrijution by tho publio toward loworing tho reuts Te poor mon's housos, Tt Is rockanod that the loss on olght othor ptots of innd thus cloared will come to $2,500,000 moro, and it Ja guid that $5,000,000 inore will be ex- pended bofore ull tho sekemos now actually bogun can bo successfully complated, —— Ax item was inadvertently published tn tla paper « Cow wepks ugo to tho offect that the: Roy, De, Gibson was dtssutiefled tn bia now fold of labor, Tho following correction, taken from a lotter Just recoived Yrom the Ductor by ane of hia frionds In this city, ahows that thore was no ground for the atatewonty Of courso you consider yourself authorized to contradict any rumor of wy, disaatisfuction, Now fricnds cannot indeed be like od onus all ut ‘onee, but no one could bave Leen received with renter considehition and kindness than wo Fave beon by the eougregation of Bt. Jonna Wood, And xo far I havo bud u great neal of comfort and sathifaction in my work, ud now have a full church, guilury as well ag towne stulry, evening ag‘well as morning, and wot wouthor ag weil ns dry, Sa ‘Tne President of tha Now York Contrat Ttaitroud bus iaaued an ordop that the sale of that varloty of nowspaper readiug known aa “flash Uterature” ahall bo discontinued on ali trains and in all depots of thoCoutpany, In or- dor unat thors shall bo no eyualon of this order, the papers Included In tho category referred to are mentioned by name, The example inight be {imitated with profit bya number of Wostorn roads, a ——_ A pispatcu from Rome of Nov. 23 says: Tho Vesuviay eruption bus entered on a phuse of greatly increused activity, The news reucbed: ua on Saturday, but, es {Luppeared onty in those papery which wru directly interested in the wuutuly dnoline unicular Railway, it was looked upon as nn oxaggernt! day exetiralontata,. Tt la ne so nttenet Suns Arined that tho Inga in Howing ever) wards Nuples, and, after having destin Guiwork Lut to prateet. tho persist t of tho rallway, ts running raptdly ing vicie oot of firo pnraliel to. the Ties ante tt reat which does nut thua far imnorit tt angen eee Rpectncla Is described ue magnitecet? Zhe feet anasecoatadageai sonic ol 19 Jnr Kaltways won the fate of the Funteus rr A pisrateit to the Lone re aA an Ucneva, Switzerland, dnted Nov, Sa from Ht te announced that tho eloutrte eubte: 4 facturing Orm, Rerthoud, Borel & Co.. cts tallied, tu Neuchatel, have made a highiy ey Com fant alkcovery tn prntotical telogreptg, Age Jony and expensive aories of ox nrelinen a bayo sueeceded In dovieing a milton of | calles whereby the induotions of the eero8 eurront froin one wire to another, altho ecteig yipeaare LA fixtaposttion, la proventod” ay covery, is nasurted, remove a clo In tha Way of to widest worattity UM Obtne Of faoltitios for telephone coumumeny cso8 PERSONALS, Tho Japaneso Ambassador. dead, Wo shall issue n supplon hla namo, Bad luck sticks ta a man, Massichuactts hos named x trott John sherman, A college education fs bound to tel!, Brnat, A. By LG, Day 8.84 Who graduntod Harvord in 1870, has beon olectad Noston pase-ball elab, Jounis June says that Clara Morri: 8 s fs best drogsed woman in Atmerten, and the ree wating for Miza Morris to aay that Jenniv Juno fo the vest writer in America, + Western papers contain accounts of yor cante oxplostons on Piko'a Penk, this belny ne first intimation that any of the rostlonts of that section brought a mother-In-law from tho East, It ts very discouraging to discover that an article houded “Tho Peel Cnso," tn tho Unis State Journal, ta nothing but a report. of a mur. dor trini, iustead of relating to n burlesque troupe. “Tnotlee that my mother-in-law has had anothor row with my wife. ‘Thoy are both very eatiiniblo tadics, but T havo not seen mitch of them for the past threo yours." —Maryuts of Lorne, Ono of Jim Keone’s horses ded during the Parsngo from England to this country, and re coived # hnif-columu obltuary in the New York papers, A Frenchman also expire during the kaine voynge, but la cnc was attended to in threo lines, : A Vassar girl temporarily resting tn Cht- enzo souds ino poent entitled “A Fragment,” and wants to know if we can improve it. Cers tainly, nothing is castor than to make soverat fragments of It, In view of the fact that IHanlan is soon coming home, tho Prince uf Walvs has decided to postpone his visit to Canuda, altbough he tng ‘been assured that bo would bd reccived In nears ly ng fine style na tho onraman. ‘A Sad Outlook” fs the title of tho teading editoriul ina recount issue of the New York Thnee, aud 18 one notices that tt {6 fulluwed by six cole umnns of slinilar articlos, be cannot but fect that tho caption isan exdocalugly hippy ane. “Ts tls Moxico?"” excitedty asks the ede {tor of the Oshkosh Northwestern, For tho suka ‘of tho Mexicana we hope not, A lnrve and pros perous country ke this might stand one Oshe kosh, but to aturt anothor une In 4 Republle ale ready weakunud by interonl strife would be a Uttlo too tough. Gen, Grant's success ns an atierdinner spenker loads the Pull Mall Quzctte to suy: “The circumstances {n which ho thus showed forth, * to Franco ty ent contalning Someborty In ht horse attor ile rom President of 9, aspeaker might well induce bim to eny his atk, ‘The Republic has not been ungrateful to th man who, whatever his shortcomings nan strate exist, nover despairod of succcsa in the time of trinl; and to-do Gem. Grant justice, He threw personal plave aside, and worked for his party during tho Inte olection with a loyalty thut shamed some of hia own supportors.”” John 3. Gough has been a publle speaker for thirty-elght yeara, and hus never metan nuidtence that he did not feel Nko runniuy away from. Tho, older he grows tho more tlmld ho Decomes. Ho was go frightened in Spurgeon's church that he was abilged to‘calin himself tu tho vestry. He has froquently been conipellet to walk up and down n street in frontof a lect> ure hatl inorder. tocoul of. Mo enya that tho trouble witha platform orntor le that bis best atorics do not take with the nudlonce, PUBLIC OPINION, New York Sut (Ind.)}: Tho Domocratle party hng votes enough. What tt needs {3 leade ora Who aro not kudvos mod not fools. Philadelphia Bulletin (Rep): Nor will tho President’a views regarding Clvil-Service 1u+ form carry very heavy weight to Congress or tho country. They come pari pussit with an appoint: mentof a very prominont ollicor, the Chief of ‘the Signal Bureau, which directly trayeraes the principle laid down in tho measitgo. Providenco Journal (Rep): It is ono thing, Howovor, to Juy down tho Inw, to point. out ovily, and avother to providu o romedy in consonnuee with Inw which #bull uot insure or permit equally grave evils, Herein 's tho great difficulty tn thls, businoss, one serious enough when only tho Individual State is cona{dered, but of tho highest consequence when {¢ comes to putting tho raffroads of the country in tho hands of Congress, Freoport (Ii) Journal (Rep.): Gen. 1, He Thomas, of Chicago, Ja without a doubt the conitng man for Spenker of tha House in to Stato Legislature. Ho 18 one of tho lending Inwyors of Ohicayo, bas had large exporivuce as 8 logislator, 1s a One parliamentarian, has o [casing uddress, yot a dignified mid comamnd- fog Prevenco, Io ls just tho man for tho pices nnd Chieayo deserves this rovognition of tho nndsome way in which sha ' polished off” tho Demovracy on election-duy, *Phitadelphin Pimes (Ind.): Mr, Read, am Englishman, who visited ut hort tue ago to goo and report upon what we could ilo toward fooding Europe, 13. Just now endeavoring to coinfort hls countrymen by tho agsurance that in twenty-five years our lauds will bo exhausted and English farmers nood not after that fear American compatition. ‘Tbls must hoe wxoveds ingly consoling to tho Dritish azeicutturists, thoy bavo to do f¢ to stand It Justa quarter of 8 conttiry and thon thoy will bo nit right. Denver(Colo.) Tribune (Rep.) + ‘Tho trouble with tha Indinn fa that ho lea aavuge, Miy ae ogators have never known civilization, Baragery iain bie bones, His tustinots and tendoneles ura ull wild. The only hupo ja in tho education of tho Indinn youths and to our mind, tho one suas stion of Mr, Schurz, thnt as to boarding and ubor schools, removed from tho Inilueces i ‘savaged, 16 worth all tho others which iS naked, ‘to’ olvilize tho aborigines the wor aust bo begun vt the foundation. vex thoa much tine and labor will ber ae fain Memphis stppeal (Den): When thoem dropped on tee ana dramn of tho Presldontint clection, the Southora people slatturd thors aelvos inito tho belief that they would Lave o shore reat; but the tyrant Caligula cultiva 5 his lovo of cruelty watll bo was forved to ocvuly hla thoy in sticking pins in tho files tn his or when be could Od nothing olao to tortura, re tho Republicans have acgulred such a ae abuainy, mallgningand persocuting tic: Vo up aple that thoy cannot averd to ul aed uxtiry which constitutes thelr chiof pleysy Fe on to. Wo wora dofontod ia wary huve jude fet defeated in polltics, We are disarmed, t soace Togs, ond hava no ambition beyond that ot Hill, botweun tuo actions and the desire to iis cous our waste places, and whilo we are fad arty dition tho magasnimity of the Htepab! eat Fired {a in imitation of the eat which tortures tullzes tho mouse before devouring ist Now York ‘¥mes (Rop.): In his annul report tho Becrotury of tho Interior en cy reasons for opposing tho roturn of | Sieh Indians to the rea¢rvation in Dakota, front yourd thoy wore ao ruthlesly expelled gen ab ago, ‘Tho firstta that tholr Dakote tig boon ceded to the Blaux befure tho Pon! oad UA removed, and tho sccond is that coe tho exe « hot appropriated any money to defray ponses of taking tho Indians back ae aed | try from which thoy wore drive oe enalaa, that the eondition of tho Pavens ii 0 ato BY proved, oi Boe ante] it thoy wore not distur! by ois ad 800 14 fruns the outalde thal they Wout eT Potumned to Dakota.” But it bs Eve ye explained why the Poneas wery Cone thoir laude for tho numine) PUFFIN uae day to {ug the bloux, who have never fr thfy occupied tho reservation Lr y Poneas wore ovicted, ie may bo said that tho Interior Del dotray the never naked tor an wp] ropriaton NG gost of returning the Pousds 1 ing ure ents homes. Aud, if they bunistiod nd a yatta of atuored of thelr surroundings 1 tn oe wD the Indian ‘Territory, it bs didley they should bo unsettled by NaBUS AO og thelr boing. cotati Aeoe ir ta cnse, sca OO ceo te a agolit ol tho Goverumeny fa port iltted to guzo upon tho Pouca 9