Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1880, Page 4

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Chicago, IL Address Corner Madison ané Dearborn: VOSTAGE Entered at the Postenpice at Chicago, Til, aa Second Clare Mutters Torths henent of our patrons who desire to send pinelecoplosof THR TRUE through the snail, we sive herewith the transtent mto of pustayer Tromeatid, Fight and Twelve Page l'nps Bizteon Haga Papo: ret Rizht and Twelve Page Vapor. bikteen Ingo Have: TRIBUNE RANCH OFFICES. co THIN has ostablishod branch OMe fon iGo recaipt at subycripltous und averting mients as foltnwn: NEW YOHK--Itoom 2 Tribune Building, FT Me= FADDEN, Mannger. GLASGOW, Scotinad—Allan’s American Nows Agency, al Ronfetd-st. NX, Hye.—Amorican Exgango, 49 Strand, Auont, 2 ONDO! hentres "ark and Pa gatte, En~ Tandolph rtrect, between y. “Funan gaxemont of darrott und Slico’s comp the Bristol! Afternoon nud oventing. Grand OpernelTonses Clark street, oppoait new Conrtellonse, Engages montof Minnie Pater, “Minne Palmer's Hoarding Schdol” Atternuutt aad evahlee, MeVicker's 'Thentres Madison ‘street, between Htate and Dearborn. Epeagement of Herrmann. Afternoon and evoning. hentre, Montes. Kngagement ‘allno," Afternoon aud Baverts’ Lenrborn treat, corner of Uleo's combination, evontag. Olymple Theatre: Clark atreet, beimeen kake and Randolph. Knsazo- mont of Frank I Frayte. “St Slocum.” Atternoun snd evonings New Acndemy of Mase, Sinteted siroct, nent Madsenn, Weat Ste, Engngo- ment of 1 ‘I. Stetson In" Neck tnd Nock." Atte noon and ovening. Fox's ‘Thentre. Drspinines street, between Washington and Madi- pon. Chilstmas Pantuinime, Afternoon and ovunini, SATURDAY, “DECEMBER 25, 1880, ——_—_— ooo , TO ADVERTISERS. For the aceommodution of adverttacra, the Lual- ness offloe of Tin Kinny will be kept open lo-tay did loonight, dx taal. ——————) Att Port Gibson, In Clatborne County, Miss., last week, © municlpal election was held. ‘The Bonrbons put up a teket which was headed “Phu 2 Iin Aristocracy.” ‘The op position nominated a fislon ticket, composed of Republicans and Conservatives, ‘The lat- ter tleket was elected by a ote of four to one, ‘The Vicksburg Herald Serards this as wehevring Indication that the Conservatives will sweep tho State at tho approaching clee- tion, doun Keriy milineked tho Aldermen who voted agntust him, and satd one of them was “ny chap who mde Inger-heer and sold ft to the pepe to drink’? Ho might have added that twoethitds of tha Tauuany At dermen in the nest Counell are inthe sane business, Sis out of nine of the ‘Tammany- Ses and (wo out of five of the Erving-Lall Altlerinen ave snlounkeepers. On the other hat, notone of theelght Lepubltcans elected to the Common Count ts engaged ti that Jine ot business, ‘Tho New York Journal of Commerce must eertamly be a little prejue diced when itaays that minority representa- {ion fins nat Lmpraved ‘the cluracter. of the Jocal legislature Tie Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company Yas been the viel af a constructlaa cour pany quite ns ingenlous and symmetrical in ita way as that which saueezedytha Paclile tilrond corporntions, Fontnine Brut was tho hend-eentre of the Brooklyn uperation. As shown by recent proceedings In court, he was President of tha Rallread Company, chief contractor of the Construction Com pony, and engineer, As Prestlent ho awarded tho contract lo himself, and ag ene Rineer he certified that the work was pro erly performed, For each nile of rond con- structed thy Company was bound to pay $500,000 af its capital stock and $850,000 of Its bonds, Judge Cooke, in his statement of the present cordition of the Company, sald: * About $U,000,000 par value of its resourees have been exhausted, and only $037,680 have heen expended on the road, nota mile of which has yet been completed.” Now Ie- celvers were appointed. ‘he public may judge how soon Brooklyn Is ikely to havo an clevated railroad at thls rate of progress, Honace MAyxaAnp has boen a resident of Temnessee for thirty-elght years, He speaks with a strong Southern accent. A ‘Tennessee paper stil clusses hhn as Yn Massachusetts: man”? When do Repuplleans cease to bo “earpot-baguers” in the South? It ts pre sumed that they become something else the moment they turn Democrats, Only threo out of ten of the Alabama Congressional dele exntion were born In that State, None of the Arkansas dolugation are natives of tho State. But one out of four of the Floridadelegation, one out of eight of the Loulsiuna delegation, thivs ont of ning of the Misaleslppl delega- tlon, seven aut of fifteen of tho Missourt del- egation, and none of tho ‘Texas delegates were born in the States which they repre- sent, But they are Democrate, and their po- Mtleal falth savea them from being earpet- Daggers, On tho other hand, we have not observed that Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut; Judge Davis, Messrs, Honderaon, Stnglottn, Stevenson, Cannon, and Townshend, of Ile nols; Senator Kirkwood, of lowa; Senator Saunders, of Nebraska; or Senator Thurman, nnd Messrs, MeMahon and HI, of Ohlo, ars athzmatiad ay carpet-bagners in the North. Yet they are all Southern-born men, —— ee ‘rite nddresa of the Chieago Branch of the Irlab Land League fs a tersely-worded atate- ment, ait presents the condition of the Irish people and the cause thoreof i n very strong and truthful Nght, For the purpose of enabling Amerloan readers to comprehend or reulizé the gelding character of the rent- alg extorted from tho farmers of that little Seland, the address states the fact that those rents exeved the Interest that will be paya- Dio on the Aieriean Nutional debt after te It of July next, ‘The language of tho ad- dress fy: An Idea of the unparalleled extent of the ox- wclons of these feudal tyrants cou be formed when wo state that that ‘Hitle imand, over and above the cost of ite local governiment, Cro olicers, garrisons, and Constabulary. pays about $65,000 atstually to theav lundno(ders ue rontyy woleh, within gx wonths froin this date, will bo 000,000 wore than the puopio of tibia yreat, wealth: Bou ater, wil buvo to pay as tntercat on thelr whole National debt, ‘After the refunding of the 700 milllons of ‘. Band 6 per cent bonds falling duo next May and July into per cents, the Interest on the Amorlean debt will otly be about 60 milltons, of dotinrs an years and this isa smaller sum than ts ground out of the wretched Irtsh farmers on their tenements. And this not for a single year, but generation after gener. atfon, ‘Tho Drltist national debt ts 3,700 miltons of doiara, The Irlsh have paid very nenrly tint sum tn rents since the battle of Waterluo to feudal Jandlords on thetr own Hand confiscated by the English Gov- ernment, and inndo gifts tu favorite and re- tainers of the Court. ‘Tho adress docs not overstate the facta when it says: ‘Var over 100 years the bulk of the Tela: eoplss although theifty and Industrious, have been lv- ing. MH the most aurdid wrotchedness, because thoy have been unable to ransom theinselves: from the dottt-grin of thelr Iandtords, For over 100 years honest Jadustry has heen kept in fags, housed {n hovela of mud and strew for tho support of alllacnt, indolent, and absent land. holters. For over 100 squrs the tonant-farmers of that unhappy island hive paid an oppressive teitute for tha bate privilege of oktug out wrotehed oxistence from tand tho most of which was wrosted by force ftom thelr nuces> tora, nud which to-day thoy almply ask the poor rivilege if ptrchasing brek, thit they may bo ‘ree from the bitter nltornative of starvation or exputrintion, _* ‘perenne Ges. dR. Cuanauens, the sitting member for the Shoestring District of Mississippi, has filed an answer to the petition of John It, Lynch, contesting his electian to the Forty- seventh Congress, ‘The answer ts long and tambling, but evades the real question at Issue. Ib is well known that about 5,000 votes cast for Lynch wore rejected by cin. yassing boards after they had been recelved and counted by Judgesof election, Chalmers justifies the throwing out of the ballots on the grou that they bore “«dlatIngulshing marks? on thelr face, ‘The “marks? re- ferred to were printers! dashes used, in the ordinary style of typography, to separate the title of the ticket from the names, aud differ. ent classes of names from each other. Such dashes have never been deflnod in Inw as “distinguishing marks? ‘They fre used gn nenrly all tekets, Chil- mers. shows fn his answer that .tho object of the Inw prehibiting ‘ distin- gulghing amarks” is to secure fo voters the right of asceret ballot. But ho does not assert that that rmght was dented to any ot the Republican yoters of the Shoestring Dis- trict; that any of them were prevented fron voting such tleket om account of thoso “distinguishing marks,” or \that the Judes were able to tell by means of these dashes what thy tlekets were when folded. ‘This, afler all, iy the real polnt of the contest, The law forbids the use of “distinguishing marks,” not because there is any objection to Informing volers what they ere about, but beenuse ft is desirable ‘that they should be protected tn tho free exercise of thelr rights ns ellizens. 1f anybody had tho right to complain of the uso of printers? dashes on tho Republican tiekets It was Mr. Lynch, the Republiean candidate, not Gen, Chahners, who had certalnty nothing to: fear from the oppression of his polltical ovpo- nents, The whole ‘quswer "is charactorlstle- ally lnpudent. tT riotorlous that the Re- publleans have a majority of 17,000 In tho Shoestring District, ‘They actually pit tn the boxes 9,700 more votes than were cast for Chalners, Yet ho has the effrontery to claim that tila number of persons shoutd be dis- franchised Becauso he hns twice before suc- cessfully defrauded them of their rights. Congress should send this brazen Brigndler packing about fis business and deny him comnpunsation for the time he shall waste in malntalutng his most Inlaultous cause. THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL, Never, perhaps, in the history of the coun- try have there been such universal evidences of the substantial prosperity of the American neovle ng have been furnished by the present hollday season, ‘The columns of Tan Tamune have beon for weeks crowded with notifications of where money utght be appropriately ex- pended in the purchase of goods of every | imaginable vanoty, and which might serve ng gifts expresslyy of grateful Christlan good will, Nover In the memory of the present genern- tlon Hinave an entire people had stich vceasion to thank thy Great Kuler of the Universe for go many blessings as presents Iself thly year, The country {stn the fu) enjoyment of all the blessings of pence. ‘Tho voles of pulitieal discontent is silent; the Inw ig recognized ns tho supreme arbiter; notan arnied soldier fs required to enforea subinission fo the National will, ‘The husbandmen were never so busily engaged, nor have they ever had so many acres under thelr skillful cultivation, std never wero thelr labors so bountlfully rewarded clther In the volume of productions or in tho rendl- ness with whieh those productlons find sale, ‘Tho workshops were never 80 numerous, were never so crowded wilh workmen, and Iwbor was never so Hberally compensated ng in this year sso, Food has been abundant and cheap, wages lbernt and constant, and the general condition of te whale people has never been more prosperous thin it has been In the year whieh is nyw ending in this great festlyal season, ae ‘Phere are those who will find much to re- pret and much to denounce in what they may style tho waste and extravagance in the expenditures for the purely ornamental, hix- urlous, and destructible. ‘Lhere have always been such people, When the Savior per- aitied the Magdalen to anoint bis feet with spikonard, and “the house was filled with tho odor of tho olnt- ment.” Judas, protesting against such oxtrayngance, inquired why tho’ olatment had not been sold for thros hundred pence and the money given to the poor, So to-day there wil be tamonting and protesting aginst the waste and extravagance in thy expenditures by whieh men, and women, and children will avek to cultivate srlendship, promote fraternity, cheer the Aespondine, give hope to the falling, aud generally cone sUTve A generous memory of the advent of the Child God upon tho earth, for whose peo- plo He came to open the Heaven of eternity, ‘fhe money spent this senson for silks and satins, In brondvloth and broendy, in mill nery and flowers, fn toys aud jewels, Is mainly and of necessity expended to pay for the Inbor employed tn fabricnting the materl- als, in fashioning the garments, In constrnet- ing tho mnerehandlse, In painting, gilding, and beautifying the ornamental, which fra- ternal love’ dispenses to-day to gladden hearts and seatier happiness and good will, Jt wilt not do, therefure, to denounce the expenditures neunl at this season ns willful waste, na extravagantand reprehensible, Itly part of the economy of hiunan hopes and loves, rend and water are al, perhaps, thay ary necessary In the woy of fool te support human Ilfe. Perlinps It la oxtravagance and waste to have any other garments than tho skins of wilt beasts, or other habltntions than such a8 Nature furtshes,—holes ln the earth, eaves in the rocks, and dens in hollow trees, ‘The mojority of mankind has at some Une tgus Iyved, and why should we waste money and ture In constructing others which aro not essontial ‘The real aud only peremptory rulo'which clearly defines the boundary between waste- fal oxtrayaganco In expenditure and that which Js not censurablo ig, that no man or Woman shall expend any nionvy that Is not absolutely his or her own; nor spend any money for any purpose that ts fatal or daju- rious tv life or health, orfs needed for the continued preservation of these, Tho Curlutiun world all over the earth will DECEMBER t 18s0—SIXTE N PAGE S. to-day celebrate the nativity of Christ, "The Christian faith is that tho angels and tha saints, the cherubim ant seraphtm, and all the Inhabitants gathered under the dome of Heaven, will greet this anniversary with re- Joleings that are Incomparabte ip Inenan thought or Inngunge, If, in nig? Teayenly THosannn, the chiltren of earth sock to Join their voices, if they too wish to Mt thelr houses with the odors of precious ointment, costly thongh they tay be, who shalt deny them, who shall undertake to Iimlt the cost of that olntment, or menstire the gratitude, and good will, and fraternal love whieh men aay wish to exhibit on such an uceaston, or {n comnmemoratton of the Royal Infant whose first levee wns In tho manger at Bethichem? Desplte tho general prosperity which exists {n all parts of this most favored Innd, there are, of necessity, the poor, thesick, tho stffer- Ing, and the weak; and on this great festival, when the expenditure is so lavish, these humble chittiren of the same Savior must tot ba forgotten, No more appropriate and no more satisfactory celebration of this festival of God's charity can be devised than to visit tho sick, feed tho hungry, and clothe tho naked, Let Christmas, therefore, be cele- brated; so Jong ns it in a festival of untvorsal charity among the members of the human family, and tends todraw mathood closer together in the bonds of amity, and so lone as itis conducted decorously ant approvrl- ately, the cost—the actual expenditure of stirplus gains—t!s of the lenst consideration, VALIDITY OF MUNICIPAL BONDS. The Inw on the subject of municipal in- debtedness has been pretty thoroughly In- vestigated by all the State Courts and by tho Courts of the United States during tho Inst twenty years, For n long thne Jowa furnished cases of this kind. Atono time the Supreme Court of Iowa dented tho power of the State Leg- falnture to authorize countles and cities to issue bonds in ald of rattrond companies; subsequently the same Court fora tine de- cided that such subscriptions were cons{itu- onal, but after s year or more thy Court re- vorsed this Inst judgment, and agnin denied the valldlty of the bonds, These conflicting deelsions led to some extraordinary com pileations, Bonds. were issued during the periods covered by all these declslons. When sults were brought to recover the amount of the bonds, the State Court dented thetr valldity. A largenumber of these salts were carrled to the Supreme Court of the United States. ‘That Court Intd down the rule that, inthe construction of the State Con- stitution, the United States Court would adopt that interpretation thereof made by the Supreme Court of the State. Under this ruling, as the eases came up, the validity of tho bonds issved prior to and during the time tho first Stato deelsion wns authority wns de- nied, and the bonds declared void; when the cases involving the validity of the bands is- sued .sfter the second decision of tho State Court cnme up, the Supreme Court of the United States, following its ro of necepting the Interpretation of tho State Court, allirmed tho validity of all those bonds, {uey haying been issued when thelr issue hud been declared constitutlonal by tho Supreme Court of the Stute, 11 took the peoplu of the munielpal corporations of Jowa 8 Jong tne to understand why the Supreme Court should hold the bands to be Tegal in the enses of certatn counties and not in the cases of other counties, ‘The anestion, however, has sines become one of general importanee. Cases went up from all parts of the country, and the ger- eral tendency of the Court hng been to Wold the muntielpatities to strict responslbility wherever there was a possible authority to do so, ‘The iysue of munietpal bonds, espe elally for railroad ald purposes, lias been grossly and villainously abused, but the Court has fnyariably refused to release the counties or towns front obligations in form legally entered upon beeause of the froud or rascality of thelr own authorities, ‘Tha Supreme Court of tho United Statos has reeontly decid a casein which the ‘Yown of Litehileld, Montgomery County, in this State, is declared released from an issue of bonds made under peculiar elreum- atunces, In 1873 tho “City of Litehfeld ” fysned 100 bonds for $500 cach, payable twenty yenrs after dato at the Nassau Bank, New York, with interest, paynble seml-an- nuatly, at the rate of 10 per centim per nie num. Each bond contained on sts faco, algned by the Mayor and Clerk, the following revttals . ‘Thin bond fa issued under authority of an act Of tho Genoral Ageembly: of the Btito of Tll- nots, entitled & An uct aithorlziug citles, tears ported towns, and villages to! constrnet and maintain water-works,” approved April 16, 187), and [iy pursuaneo of an ordinance of the Bald City of Litehfeld, No, 181, and entitled © 4n ore dinance to providy for the teauing of bonds for the conatruotion of the Litehietd Water Works,” Approved Dee. 4, 1673. Neither the general act of the Legistature of 1873 nor the efty ordinance made any ref- erenco to that section of the Constitution of UMnoeis whieh deelares that “no county, elty, town, township, sehool district, or other municipal eerporation, shall be allowed to become fndebted in nny manner, or for Any purpose, toan nnount, Including axist- lng indebtedness, In the aggregate exceeding 5 per centuum on the valite of taxable property theraln, to be ascertatned by tho Inst assess- ment for State and county taxes previous to Incurrlng such Indebtedness,” The property within the IMnilts of the elty, ag assessed for State and county taxes of 1873, was proved on the trial to have been $1,400,000, while tts existing Indebtedness, on, Jun 1, 1874, the date of these bonds, was 870,000, or 0 HI exactly equal to the whole Indebtedness authorized by the Constitutlon, ‘The Supreme Court therenpon say: The words employed are too explielt to leave any doubt as to the object of the constitutional restriction npen munioipal Indebtedness. The pnyose, Of its frumers, beyond all question, wis ja witbhokl from the fegislutive department tho power to confer upon municipal corporations authority to Ineur indebtedness in excess of prodorlbal amount. The vuthority, thorefore, conferred by tho net of April 1h, 87d, to incur indebtedness iu the construction and malnten- ance of a systom of water-works could hive been Inwfully exorcised by x elty, Incorporated tawny, or viliago only when fta Habliities, ine creased by any propose now didobteducss, would bo within the constitutional Init. No lexisiution could confer npon a municipal core porntion nuihority ta. coutract indebveduess which tho Constitution, expressly duclared tt should not be allowed to incur, ‘he supreme authority of the Constitutton Inthe matter of the prohibition of deht be yond the prescribed Jinits is not, however, aecording to tha Court, conelustyo tn all cases, either as a defense of tho city or agalust tho right to recover by the holders of the bonds Issued in violation of the con- atitutlonal prohibliga. ‘Lhe Court upon this volnt cltes and afliring & previous decislon, as followst ‘This caso might perhaps have been brought within the rule unnauneed by thisCourt ty ‘Lown of Coloma ts. Eives, 0 U, 8.400, dn whieh ense Wo anid.and now repeat, that, © where Jegislative authority hag been wlyon toa mitilels pality. or to its ollicers, to subscribe for the stock of a railrond company, and to issue mu- nioipat Lends In payment, but brly on sane precedont condition, aAueh asm populir vole favoring the stitueription, and where it ay be wathorsd from the legistacive onmotniont that thy olfivers of the municipality wore Invested with power to decile whethor the coadition precedent has been complicd with, thelr reeital that it hustwen made un the bonds issued by: them and tel ae bond fide purchuser, td cots ulusiye of tho thet, and binding Upon the mite nletpality: for tho recital ts iteelf n decision of tho fitet by tho uppointed tribunal” And the Court, elting 0 nuniber of cases to tho samy effect, this polnts aut the defect in the Litelitield bonds: ‘ ifad tho bonds mato the additional recital that they wero jesued du accordance with tho Constitution, or had the ordinanco stated, in any form, that the propre Indebtedness wna with: {n the constitutional Miniter had the statute re= stricted the exercise af the authority therelit conterrod to those tuntelntl corporations whose {ndebtedneas dit not, at the tine, execed the constitutianal Hitlt, thero would have beat ground fot holdiig that tho elty could not, ns turninat the plainttt, dispute the fale tnferenco 1o be deawn, from stich recital of atitument, as to tho extent of its existing Indebtedness, It will besven that the truth of the recttals in the bands fs not essontial; If those tssutng the bonds had taken pains to print on thelr face that the indebtedness of the corporation, including tho new issue of bonds, was with- In th Hintts of the constitutional proviston, then, no matter how false this re@tal niany have been, the munielpalily In whose name the bonds wore Issued could not deny Its own recital. / "The City of Litehiticld, therefore, escapes becauae those who prephred the bonds onitt- ted something which would doubtless have been Inserted had ft been supposed to bo es- sential, In 1874 theas honda’ wero announced for ante in flaining ndvertisoments tn the finanetal papers of Boston ant other Eastern cities. Tue Tripune at that {ime copléd portions of these advertisements, pointed out the small poptilation of Litttield, its remoteness, the murderous character of the rate of Interest, and warned purchasers that in oll probabit- ity thoy would collect interest or principal only at the end of yenrs of Mtigatlon, ‘The result has proved even more disaytrous than we predicted, Litchiletd, however, {8 not to bo envied, ‘The debt was $50,000, ‘The rate was put at 10 per cent ag 4 suare, to enable brokers to push the bonds upon the unwary, ‘The water- works were provided, and Litehfield hing tho water, supplied by other people’s money froudutently obtained, Perhaps tho water might taste sweeter aud purer had if been obtained honestly; even now the olor of «ls- honesty might be removed f£ tho people of Litehfield would pay back the money thoy got for theso dishonest bonds from the cred- ulous but unfortunate holders, Solomon sali, ‘Slolun waters are sweet,’ but the Litchfield people do not probably justify thomselyes by the language of Solomon, DEMOOCRATIO CIVIL-SERVICH REFORMERS. Senator Pendleton has Introduced a bill In the Senate prohibiting ' any ofiicer, clork, or employé of the Government, or any gent or contractor, or other person holding any office of employment or trust, from contributing money, property, or other valuable thing for any political purpose whatsoever, or by the use or abuse‘of any official privilege or func- ton, or by the appolntment to office, or gly- tng a contract, or by tha promise of office, or contract, or roward, or Influence, orby threat or mennees, or in any other manner except by giving his own individual voto or by pub- Ne speech, intermed@dling with any election, under paln of prosecution fora high misde mennor and fine.” There are not wanting indfeations in many othor quarters that the Democrats, not yet out of mourning, and ap proaching the ond of their rope, feel deeply in the imatter of Clvil-Service reform, ns they see themselves approaching the evil dnya so swiffly drawing nigh, when they will say they linve no’ pleasure in them. Even the Hotel Brunswick Democratic Re- formers of New York City begin to feel that “Civil Service is a question of grent mo- nent,” and declare that ‘the army of office: holders unter tho National, State, and Mu- uiclpul Governments, and the established practice of compelling them to contribute money towards carrying the elections, aro fraught with the grentest danger to the Re- public.” ‘This {3 all very right, very proper, very correct, It is sound doctrine. Ib would he for the advantoge of the country could Ib be carried out.” It may be that In tho midst of thelr funcrent “griefs and the solumulty thoy feel, so fresh from recent bereavement, thoy may actually believe for the moment that the Civil Service needs reform, that ofliee- holders should not be levied upon, and that spolls should not be dtstributed to the vic- tors; but we fear It 1s mich more HKely that, being ont of offlea and dented access to the public crib, they aro carrying out the spirit of thy old proverb that the Devil, when siek, a monk would be. 1b fs a long, long time since they have had the opportunity to assess Federal officeholders, It is mony, many years alee they had thelr noses in the public trough, but, when they did hayo them there, no hogs ‘over crowded more closely or grunted more fiercely, and there were not wanting sume who gotinto tho trough ull over. It ig very natural thats party which hag no chance at the spolls should feol alarmed and horrified when it sees the victorious party, ehjoying them, Mornlity and self-snertilead aro very ensy virtues to-advocate, espeelally {f thelr champions are not compelled to prac- tice them. Unquestionably they feel deeply, and oven Bose ‘I'weed may be inensily turn- ing In Iie grayo as his perturbed spirit, re- visting “the pale glimpses of the moon,” secs spolls averywhere and no chance for lis late assoelates to enjoy thei,” But aduilttlng the propriety and the neces- sity of this reforin, and conveding tho funce- real gloom hr whieh the Democrats find thomselves enwrapped, we still ‘question the slneerity of thess Greeks benring thelr gift of reform and the reality of thelr professions for!t, In referring to tho record of the Demoeratlo party when It hag been in con- tro] of tho Nation, we find it engaged in the niost disreputable scrambles for tha spolls, We do not find any Democrat on recogd who over refused to necept office or to ask office for all his own and his wifo's relatives, We ftnd that In New York, In New Orleans, fn Baltimore, In every city whero they have permanent control, Clvil-Service reform ls a thiag ag tinknown a8 prre and undeflled re- Ngion among the heathon, We find that tho diviston of spotls {9 not confined to large elties, but extents to towns and yillages, and. oven to preclnets,* and that just os soon ons Uleso §=psucdo-reformers got Into power - they commence — tax-cat- Ing and grabbing everything they can lay thelr hands on, and with such aviillty uven that ‘narratives of the dofalegtions of Democratic County Treasurers ure quite pro-, fusely currentin the daily payors, Lf these reformers want what thoy demand so* for vently,why do they not Institute Civibservica reform, say, In tho ninntelpal adininistration ut New York City, and try the exporlmont thore whore they have full sweep? It isan excellent plucu for It, and te would havea widespread Influenca for good Jf successful there, Now, when ‘Tammany is in disrepute and John Kelly Is on the down-grade, bs Just tho tlw for it, Let us hear from the re- formers at hoadguarters where. there Is No possibiity of Republican: interference, When there are no pickligs and stenlings In that city wo shalt begin to belleye in the candor of Uiese death-bed reformers. Tus Chleago Journal asserts that Tun ‘Tisnuny ts “beghuiing to eee the defects of the cumulative young plan,” and bases tts statement on an cditorial paragraph In this paper, which It carefully refralus from quottug. ‘The paragraph tn questlon closed with these words: tue TRUUNY wubsorlbos cordially to what Mr, Springor has to say at tho benollty Of tho Hystem in TMnold; but oven be mie adit thit the conditions under which ft aperates in thi Stute ure vastly diferent from those whieh provall in tho Balid South. ‘There dovs not appear to be In these words tmuch evidence of y change of opinion on the subject of minority-represeutation In 1UIL- ifofs, ‘Tr begun to ace the defeats of the cumulative voting plan” Not only so, but 1 belleves that fully three: fourths of tho voters of tha Slate have be- come convinced of tho morita of that platy It has broken up sectionalism in tho Legls- Inture, aud has aliswered very purpose that wag Intended hy the Constitutional Con- yorition’ which propused it to the people. ‘There were formerly about sixty southern counties In this State which were solidly Demoeratic and forfy northern counties which were soliily Republican, Roughly speaking, ntl tho State suuth of a line drawn east and west from Danville to Warsaw was Democratic, and all north of that Ine Re- publican, About sixty countica went Demo- erniic cn masse, and forty counties Repub Nean likowlse, ‘Thu northern countics, being tho larger ones, genernily overpowered tho imore numerous, but smaller, countles, As often a8 the Legisinturo met partles confronted each other by golld sections, 1b wag Northern Illinols aguinst Southern Hil nols, and vice vera; which was an exceed ingly bad state of things, ‘The General As- sembly was full of sectional jealousy, aul- mosity, suspicions, and bitterness. ‘Tho large minority of Republicans In the south nlf of tho State was unrepresented ond smothered oubof sight and hearing, and tho Democrats of Unis eud of the Stato did not fare nich better, Minority-representation has changed all this for the better. From every part of Ill nols botl parties ara now represented, and in proportion to their strength; and an infinitly better feeling exists 1n the Legtstature sinco sectional lines finve been abolished, Mem- bers are no longer divided into two sectional enmps; the “North” and “South” are now friends. ‘The Exyptian Democrats find thir- ty or forty brother-Democrats from "Ca- nanny” and froternize cordially with them; while the Republican phalanx from tho North find thirty.or forty Republicans from Exypt, and batt them as long-lost brothran, ‘Thus the two estranged gections are brought into relations of reapect, confldence, and friendship, by means of minority-represonta- tlon. It sometimes docs happen, a3 the Journal complains, that, by " plumplng” for one of two conitdates, the other onv fs defeated; but one sido loses as much by this as tho other, and, when ft occurs, it is generally tho dishonest work of tho candidate himself, who trencherously sacrifices his colleague In order to make sure of his own election. But, under the. old system, when two, three, or four candidates were running for the Legis- Inture Ino district, it often happened that one of then would bo scratched and defeated if the district was close. So that objection raised by our “esteented contemporary? amounts to nothing; andany way the people have aright to “scratch ? or “ plump” just fag much as they please, and it {3 nobouly'’s business but their own, Some narrow-minded partisans of the grab- all pursunston and Court-llouso ring poll- tleiana have always opposed tho principle of proportional representation for low-down partisan reasons, nud always will But that makes no matter so long as tho principle is right. If Mr. Springor’s plan of minority repro- sontation in the Lower House of Cougress could bomnde to operate under the same conditions as those which prevail in [itinols, ‘Tre Trinonxe would unhesitatingly approve of It, and it would undoubtedly be a benefit to tho whole country, But,as wo polnted out yesterday, tho frst condition for a proper trint of tho system Is a falr ballot and falr count, and these cannot be secured fn tho Cotton States until a great reform in popular sentiment among the Confederates phatt bo brought about.-Springer’s minority bill would sceure tho Republicans no roprescn- tation fn Misalssippl, Louislana, ‘Texas; Ark- ansas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South or North Carolina which they cannot se- oure without It, Thoy. would be connted out just the same as thoy are now; tho ballot-boxes would be stuffed and the bulldozing «would be prac tileed worse than over. It 1s fair voting, no Intimidation, and honest counting, that are needed In the South. Let Sir, Springer turn his attention to securlne these Indispensable: reforms in the South first, and, after thoy are achieved, we will then take up tho minority- representation question and consider it, Of the 106 members from the South, the Repub- Nenus can elect, If thelr votes are fairly counted, and tho ballot-boxes are not stuifed, nt least thirty-five members; and that ts per- haps about as many as thoy would get under Springer’s scheme with nn honest election In the South, A connEsronDENT writes to us saying: The astronomer of Tie Tiwuxn has been publishing for sovoral wocks cortain agsuinud inoyemmonts by the sun, moon, and vartous plan- eta, giving the dates, hours, minutes, and seo- onds of the rising, setting, southing, and othor notions of those celeatini bodies. Whit docs bo menn? No ono in this city hasscon tho aun, or moon, oF Jupiter, Saturn, or Ary of tho so-callod plauojs for sovoral weeks; Lut your aBtronomor asks us to bellove him that the sin and moon havo been rlaing and golng down just ag usunl, and that, during his long obscurity, tho sun bus renebed tho length of his ropo on bia southorn tour, and has now turned back. Boolng fs bo- Hoving. If your sstronomor can enloniate tho movements of planetary bodies which aro nut visible, enn ho not caleutate and tell us when tho aim And moon will boagain vislbie to tho physice aloyo? How do wo know that thoy wilt bo over visible again? a A nnotuEn of tho late Prof. Watson, the astronomer of Mioblyan and Wisconsin Unl- yersitics, writes from Bloux Falls, Dakota, se- vorely criticising the will of tho Professor, who loft most of bla property for solentifie objects, any sayings ‘ is mother supported the Professor by hor dntly Inbor until be graduntod ut tho University of Michigan. Not vow roferring tu the auiter IDE. Misnppolntmont, and himilintion sho Lis endured tho last twenty years, ber son, hor varly bopo, now conflrms hig nature by leaving awill granting his mother $150 a your to pay Lourd, clothes, oto, whieh is nbeolutaly all, sha hus todepund upon, Prof, Watson was 6 man of extraurdinury {utellect; butof bis luordinate ambition to distinguish bhuselé before alt moral obligation to his fuunity there can bo no batter proof than bis will, Eo guve all ho passosred ta R selentia aocivty with tho view, ovidently, of still furthor poe panun tit hia name. Iwas proud of my brothers hia ability was an honor i an ie und his tro a vilunble one tobe lost, His ss diayrace te hie name, —————__ Ma. Dravatuny is a Russian mystle who in astonishing the English oficials in fndlu, Col, Ulett continies to be her cacart, though tt ts not precisely clonr why such a wonderfully able person should need unescort. Mer miracles, at all ovents, seem pnet finding out. At plonios, teacups dlanppear from luuch-baskets and vaue ish into tree-tops, only to be found afterward In somebody's solar helmet; long-lost bronches turn up unexpectedly fn cubbage-veda; welrd Jeslves of elgaret-paper, on which are traced mysterious charactors, come trom Thibet to people who hardly know of the existence of sueh a country; in fnot, tho most amnzing pho- nomeng occur under the most commonplace olroumatunces, Tho Intvrest taken In all this by London society socma to promise a worl of Hontzution for Mae. Blavatsky whonever eho pays a vislt to the rtish metropolis, — Unnen tho new license lawnow In force in Misvissippl the saloonkecper must give a $4,000 bond, with two or miore sureties. Ho ta liablu for tho full ponulty of tho bond if be sells Nquor between toldolght Saturday to. midulght Sunday; to dell iquor or keep his bar open dure ing tho twonty-four bours of any elvotion-day; two sollor give away Mquor to any minor or drunken person; to permit upon his premises gutuing, cucd-playiug, or any game of chance merely for amusement. For any yiolution of the law regulatuus tho Hquur-trafiic the suloon- keeper oun be proceeded agaiust iu n clvil sult upon the inforinuuon of auy person, who will receivo ones po conviction. The snloonkeoper is alse Hable to criminul: pros- ecutlon, ed + ‘Sire New Orluans Pleaynune lias a spright- ly dramntic eritic, who wrote of Miss Ada Cav onitlsh as faut Macheth > At night, i “Macheth.” we cannomsay tho aanis, Too Hea nt buirdon can he placed on any: Unck, and Mlet Cavendish'’s company hid too mtuetl Hyan thors in trying to handls one of the thost dulieult of Shakespeare's heavy tragadien, Tt has been aome little tinia sitice “Mneboth ” fins baait Riven. here, and It wile, porhans, tts tovolty that brought out a fairbouse, Tho per~ Tormniice was passable, und that Js al, but matty" Mked It and were satisiiod, On this Me, MeDonough, the agent of tho com pany, remarks: As" Machath” waa withdenwe from tho bilis sovernl days ayo, and “The Now Magdalen” substituted, perhaps tho humor of tho thing may be appreciated by your readers. UlTitts signifieant re Lonuon Eeha: * While Italy ts xcoumuiatiog a dotleit; while Austria ts bending under a defelt; white Spain can seurecly make both ends mect; and whilo tho alleged (mprovement of the fAnancinl condition of Prussin has proved to be Mtusury.—to say nothing of Russity—it is worthy: of notice that Switzeriand, as sho has doue for ages, maintains in Government anattérs the even terior of ber way; that Frauce, under tho Republic, feels no Nnancidl strain; and that tho United States, the greitest Republic of all, is polng. forward to prosberlty by leaps and bounds." ‘hls would Indicato that republicun Institutions nro a. striking success from 1 bust- ness point of yiowon both sides of the sea. Tum Medleal Record derives very little comfort from the faot that, nbtwithstanding tho widesprend prevatettea of bath diphtheria and scarlet fever, the types of the diseases are not unusunily severe at preecnt, Tt contends that this fs by no micatis a sibject for congratulation at this carly season, in view of tho reasenable pusstbillty ofthe increase of both disoagcs dur- Ing the winter and spring, and tho probable f erenso of thelr malignuncy., Very few phy- slcians bave lost 0 per cent of tholr cares of dipbthorta thuatar, Even 20 per cont woukl bo avery high figure. Stl), the prospect of the continuance of thia compnratively luw rutlo of mortality ta far from promising. << Lanv In the cotton belt of Ainbama has largely increased In price of lite years. Tho Montgomery Advertiser enya: “Lands In this county have more thas doubled in prive, Those which four or five years slnco could boeasty pure chased at $5 of £0 an nero, now readily command from €10 to $15,—some raying even higher that this, Those lands bofore the War wore not cons sidered high nt $50 por ners. The Inauguration of *the Clement attachment’ Into the catton belt, which wo must bellevo fs a conaummmation not distant, must add Jargely to the. valuo of its Innds.” Z . — A PomNENT Democrat at Washington writes to Mr. Nordhoff on the subject of tho Civil-Sorvice reform chatter: Here now tuo Senate and some Democratic organs are talking about Clvil-Seryica retorin aaa great Demoorntic pulley. ‘That's tho kind of nonsense that makes our party contemptlble, Tf Hanedek had promised in big letter of uecept~ ance (bit he would not remove any ofticeholder. on account of politics, nor for any enuse except milaconduct or incnpaclty, after tho next 4th of Marelt, that woudl Tuve beew Civit-Burvico rue form. . ————— Tue New York World opens its perform- ance for the holldny season by returning to tha defonse of Chalmers, and with a acrious cauntes naneo remarks that the presence of x vory alight printer's dash ‘upon tho tlekets of Cyalmurs' negro opponent waa plainly a “incans of oxcr- alsing moral coorgion upon those who cast them.” ‘This scoms to hua discovery of tho most trae monituus case of bulldozing on record. What will the World do next? ————= ‘Te New York World was dear at $250,- 000, the prico suid to have been pid for it ny day Gould, It is understood that tho pupor his not made a cent alice 1&5, a " PERSONALS. Barnum would hang his stocking ff ho thonght Il. L, Morey would put bis presunt ad- dress into {t, “Tho Coffee-Pot as an Engine of Reform’? ta suggested to Sanntor Wallaco as n subject for his noxt article In tho North American Review, Sprluger and Spacks are both from Mlinels, aud fre both well named, Ono fs full of bounce, tho othor {s Cull of Lire, and both are humbugs.— New York Tribune, oo PUBLIC OPINION. | e Augusta (Gn.) Constitutionalist (Dem.): The aturof promise for tho South Is not In tho Wear, but in tho Enst. Buffalo Courter (Dem,): So John Sher- man wins fu tho fight for tho Ohio Benatorstlp. Wall who would have thought tho old man to have had go much tlovd tn bin?” Montgomery (Aln.) sldvertiser and Mail (Dem.): Tho shot that bit Fort Sumter glanced through tho heart of savory. That Institution died—and all tho North and South now rojoico thut it is dou: Springfield (Mass.) Ztepublican (und.): Wo sco no reason why six orsoven inililons abuuld bo freely yotod for river and harbor [n- provemonts, aud nothing to sponk of to meot an oducational need very inuch grouter, New York Yribune (Rep.): Mr. Sparks was himseif throughout,—tho first of tho two men ta lose tle teniper, tha moro yulgac in tho quarrel of words, tho Icss anxious to come to tho quarrel of blows, and utterly churlish tu his apology to the House, 7% Now York Timea (Rep): The sons of Now England nro ontitled to thotr glorittention on Forefathers’ Day, but tho reat of the poupte may elaim to bave some part in making tho -eountry what [tfgand In saving it from what tt would have been 3a mero development of the Puritun cotonies, Kansas City Malt (Dem.): No Govern- ment on carth could, in this day and generation, protect Itself in tho exorelae of stich powers 1s those rultroad corporations claim for them. selves. Tho Government cannot protect any of its erentures In tho oxerclas of powers which it dara not Itself exercise. * New York World (Dem); It fs a more histerical fuct that our nuvigation lnuws aro founded upon a compromiso with the Now En- gland alave-catobora and sfuve-podilors, 8 It not in order then for stich stalwarts as Blain, Maunlln, Dawes, Hawloy, and Fryo to atone for thigiinmoral bargain of their fathers by. repaule jug the old navigation restriotions of 1702 and emunelpating coumerce from tho slavery of auot provisions ¥ Albany Evening Jounal: Americans who plny tho réle of “snobs xbrond" aro usually those who are snobs at home, Snobbery and toady tum {aa wenkness with o large clars of our countrymen, Snobs are goncrally found dancing attogfance upon aoclal and politica) nubobs, as Af thBy were contont with rotlected groatnass, having nonvet tholrown, When thovo persons: guabroad their snobbery finds full develope JJuent, and urna disroputu upon the National character, "The Ohlo State Journal, replying to somo ox-Buckeyo who wns cuiliug Judgo Wooden curpot-bagger, remarks: “*Supposd tat the Prosident should appolut tho editor of the Globe. Democrat (McCullugh), tho editor of Lite Cite cago TitbUNY, or tho cditor of the Now York Tribune (Held) to sume ottlce of honor, trust, and profit, how would elthor of those gontie- men tke te have it thrown in his teath that ho ty tn Oblo curpetetiaguer? And if Judgo Woouls is aw carpet-bugyer, whit aud who are thoy? ‘Tho Judge hus resided outside of tho limits of Oblo fonger than elthor the frst or eocond named, Tan‘tit about time that Oblo men shuutd quit ousting slure upon thelr kind old mother?" Providence Journal; Tho record of the | gruduatcs of tho emnullor colleges againet that of tho great universities Is cortataly not 80 tne ferlor as Mr, Ingalls would huye us believe, and some very notable examples of tho success of the former urout band. At all cyenuts, we cun- not admit that a amall colicgo ja nucessarily a sickly one, or that the tendency of effort shoul ba to Increavo tho alze and diminish the number Ubrotighout the Vaulted States, n the feeble Western colleges aro not to bedesplsed in thelr duys of struggling woakntsa, 18 they muy con~ taln the gurms of future etrength and stably, to be devoluped by thy growth of the gurround> ing poputution, Charleston (8. 0.) Newa and Courier (Dem.): The fault that wo find with tho Sonate Education bill ts that it docs nutimect the enor yonoy. Last your the recoipts from tbe aato of public lands were $1,010,606, and in 1870 the re cofpts woro @04,78L Taking the annual receipts ata million dollars, anu’ investlug tho mouvy ut 4 percent futerest, there will by avallablo for school purposes in tho first your $10,000, the second year $8,000, tho third yoar 120,000, In witk 1s mao by the” the tenth yonr, with ten miitton doll ey e a barton H wwill ib TeMMnUE Mon: ALLIS It 4s ne pitra, and tho work to be donee ko Fat us partiondiirly aifeuts those who aro ney voters and who a growing Up, must to Hong next yene and tho nest nnd the Hox Ne is If thore’bo x dealro to retain both tniversd Autrey nd good yoverniuent dn the Stnteg TO ienardiea fs most prevent, In three £8 S200) will bo available for eddention: in Two yenrs $h,000; In on 2,0 Yh He ai lest amy Shine , there wore Hourly af mile Persons over 10 years old who could itd rend? New York Herald: 'Tho natural way of dealing with the dlvergenco of oplnton botveen Suvretury Sherman and Mr, Wood would he to pasa nun tet preserlbliug og per cent ns tho ninxle inuin rate of interest, and leaving the Secretary ‘of the Treasury to make Me bust terms ho could, vulow that rate. Tho country would then haya the bunellt of 3 por cont If the condition of the money murket mndo that rate practicable, ang should It be impracticable rofimding would nuvertholess Fo On AL a rete not exeveding dg per cent, ae eae cine that ne Js force fa, eply whic cunt mide to Lis ar; Tt hs mid chat if if por na the mui rate, With dls nes ela a dene ra tl ! ject Jouns olfered at flower rata in the z ition of compelling the Government toccaters the Migiest rato perinitted by the hw. ‘There i rent force in this stgeation.. Tt would perhaps 2 Detter to eatablish by law an invarhble rate of tnterest on the new Bonds; but tis makes it all the inure necessary that the rato should not bu so bigh as to block the process of refunding, and compel thy Governinent ta pay oO and percent when tt certainly could do a grent dent better, Itis wiser to make tt sure thing of ree dueling tho Interest to 3) per cent than to offer iF pen cont wad pee ie ae fans rejected, vhich would entall a necessity of cont pay the present high rates. sulante New York Trthine: Yor unbounded Ime pudence commend us to tho averiya Demos erntte pollticinn. Clyll-Service reform ts his particular nuxiety at present. Mis-Roul ia tore tured by the thought that tho public service, though etenner than it, ever was under any. Democratic Presklent, is not strictly non-partl> san, ‘Loo largo a proportion of the public serve onts, he says, is taken from one party, The men who carn tholr wages ns pithile servants do not forget that they are also citizens, and still, continue to yote, to tuik with their nolzhbors, to contribute monoy for party expenses, and sometimes to sped in public, All those things every eltizen hag in iudefeasible right to dobus the Dumoeratic politician insists that they must bo stapped; ft the publle servant must eonsa tobe neizen. ‘There never wast Democratic Administration yet that did not expect, and ever compel, oliciits to vote, talk, give, and mike speeches for the party; but what of jt? ‘The ditfereneos between partes 18 this, secording to these polltleiins: Tho things whieh Demo cratic Administrations compel ollleluts to do, tnder penulty of losgof plave, Republican Ad- rations haye to right to permit them to The “falr division” of ofiees » Which Democratic Ads mught of geantinz, Kee publlean administrations are buulid to make, Speaking of tho inscrutable motives that Induced the Prestdent to retire the gatlunt obit hero, Gon, Ord, tho Now York Merald snys; There is no doubt that Gen, Sherman bas been irritated nt the Sact that certain Important changes in ariny commands have been mado lntely without consulting him, and ho bus ale lowed hig trritation to appenr iv conversation vury openly, It should ve said in his favor thag Oley. Wis feeling tg mot without cnuse, He, better than elther tho President or tho Seerctury of War, bus rengon to know the merita and deserts, as well as tho necessities, of army olicers, and no ono hus over aveused Gen, Sherman of vither Jnjustice or favoritisn, In tho case of Gen, Ord, who bas been retired, Shorman not only knew, a8 he suys in the dicrald interview, thit Ord Js poor and bus eousiderable fimnily, but he knew niso that Ord had gerved an the Sexi- can border for t number of years with exvep- tonal ability, showing nut merely solidierly, but sintesmnniike, qualities, An oflicer “of different character, leas wise and prus dent, might easily in theso years have xottho country Into n dlsereditable war with Mexivo,—a war whieh, it nay 18 well be known, hot only speculators, but some polltichins uf considerable power nnd high rank, were rendy * to welcoine, though hoy knew thit the country wos averse to it, The country owes to Gens Ord's prudent and houorable gvourse ina very dellente purt.a debt which is hardly patd by une sousrht retlrement. Erobaulr, it would ‘hb: heen wiser for Gen, Sherman hid he given Ord tho pralse he deserves in this matter rath than draw eomparisons between Wine and Geta, MeDowell, and hut at political causes for tho retirement of tho one. and the aulyaueemont of tho other, thouga it snay be sald In his justifies. tion that the futes of the two Goncrils were by common consent here In army sud politcal clretes referrad to’ polities. Lt muy also ho sald that Gen, Sherman hus in tho Inst two or three yeurs needlessly exposed hin: tothe President's resuntinont by comment on general ordots whieh wore not entirely respeettul. Mut Gen, Sherman, Mk Gen.“ Qrant, has dono onough good work tor tho country to deserve that his peculiaritics shall bo, if uot overlooked, mtuny rate Kludly dealt with, New York lmes; ‘The lato election for Mayor of Atlanta, Ga., waa in muny respects tho most suggestive contest of this Kind which had ever -tnken placo In tho South, Je was con= ducted In a manner entirety now to that partot the country, and It glvca, more thin any reconé ovent, avidence that tbe white people of somo portions of tha cotton, States aye beginning to break uway from tho urbitrary control of thete Arrogant leaters and nct to some extent tor thomselves, Mr. I. 1. Kimball, who was the Res Publican candidate, is one of tho most remarkas Je mon hv seation which iy Mlled with so-called reuntrkuble men, te isa Nortnern inan tn tho best senso of tho term, hiving all tho gnerny. unterprise, and oxecutlye ability of his clusa. Ho went to Atlanta when It was no alles ufo for peaple of his stamp to fully express thor aiud, and yot he was always outspoken In hla defense of tho Governmoyt and bis doo nunelation of every spocles of fraud unl outrage, “Mtl, ho fully idontitis ed himself with overything which voncerned Atlanta, and he was untiring I hits efforty to ade .vanes the elty's Interest. Indeed, It le largely ‘due to hls exertions: that Atlanta Is to-day’ bo- youd al question Nie most progressalve, tori ving, and independent city in the cuttre South. In the local crmpalen Just clusedt the Bourbon polltichus tonk no aévount of those Miele, but with the most, intense bitturitess nysniled Mr. Kimball as * a Yankee,” and called tpon.all tho fultuful to defeat bin’ beenusy bo was nv Yin fenl." "To these attacks ho paid no attentions but’ contented himsolf with referring to bls record us a citizen of Atlanta and, one of tho amost extunsiva busluess men: in the place. The reault was most sutlefuctory. Ho revelved the warmest support from men who were naturally | is pullticnt opponentd, The bast cltlaens of Atlanta, Irrespective of party, protoated njgalusé the partisan attiok which was made upon bin, and geome of the must prominent ers ppenty prachiimed tholr intention to sccure for him a free yoto and a fate count. When tho polls wore closed it wie found that ho hud fallen anly GE votes short of an eleution. Greatly ene couraged by this result, the independent inen of Atlanta aro confident that at the next municipal vleetion the proseriptive Bourbon ring w! completely overthrown, Now York Thnes: A great deal has been sald about the cllinute of Colorado, concerning which, 140 saniturlum, many, and often contm= diotory, opinions ura betd. At certainly affects persons, especially invalids, very ditorcnty> Hut noarly everybody who gavg tuore loses testy tho average loss being aboutono-eiehth, Inthe course of ‘nsenson a 4-pound man wilt be ro* ducal to 175 pounds, which ts aseribed to the ultitudo, tho dry, Hht atmosphere, the scarvity , of vexvtution, and tho Incrensed quantity of exygon consuming tho tastes and taxing tuo Vital functions much mora than at tower alt tudes, The reduction of Nesb fa usually propors tloned to tho bight of the pluco, Tho propire x Y nite nbuye the tion glyen Is ut Douver, nbout am ove 1h. bon. At Leadville, whiob is two mii sua, tho reduction Is commonly one-s!: xeventh, and more rapht thin at Denver Lendvillo diseases of tho lungs, parte arly pnounonta, frequently declare thomaclye an Uearly oue-third of all the caves prove fatal. Very” few dogs, oxcopt bounds, cua Ae thore, and the atmusphore is ‘destruct we to cuts. At Denver, bowevor, those a Tints com to “et ‘on very comfortil by. Novertholess, both men und aniinuls tora atrongth thore and clawhero, ‘Thoy lou me of tho muscular power thoy have Ja tha et aud they cannot endure go mite hurd work | they cuit bere. Blight hours of continuous 1ubor fy felt us nuch chore ag ten hours fn the Bust or Bouth, and. with laborors, when tired, lassi und drowsiness supuryens. Beals, work 13 ey mwreexbausting than physical work, ust boon ropented!y expertoniced by Inwyers, clent: men, Journulists, und students of covery $F ‘Their nerves ure ‘speokilly acted pon, ane te Ceudlug irritabiilty 4s thy “result of any cont ued elfort ‘Naturally these elfocts ure far sore hoticoablo Jy now-comers than in old residentys At acelimating proceas seme to be require i Dat an utter that tho mental powers are tet thore what they arcin other party of the country, ro W rs Whothor Colurado is or ia not dedlrable fori valida remiins an open question, Dow tte Tiny tniolgrunt consumptives have teen KNEE quicker theru than if they hud reumnlned Home, ‘Thousands of people who go to Colon vontract dey catarrh, whleu,when they leave te Staty, Is converted Lute cankuinpuion. The oe mute generally [a Very far fram, wife, aud great any cases positively injurious. _—<—————$——— VERMONT LEGISLATURE. Montreninn, Vb, Dee. 2.—Tho Legisla- ture, after the longest session on record, adjourned without day ab ta. m. Ithelda session all last aight. ‘The bill taxing 6% press anid telegraph compatnes 9 per cont on thelr gross roculpts passed both branches