Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1880, Page 4

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Engage. ment of H.C, Jarrett. ‘The opera of “Cinderella,” Afternoun and vvonlng. MoVie! Madison astroct. botween State and Dearborn. Eugngement of Horrm: Haverty's Thentre. enrhorn streot, cornor of Monroe. Engagement af Kico’s combination, ‘he Now Evangoline,”? Otympte ‘Thentre. Clark’streot. between Lake and itandolph, Engage- mont of Miton Nobles. “A Man of the Paople,” New Academy of Mastic. Halste strat, nvar Mudisan, West Side. Fingnzo- mento (, W, Barry, “Kacapnd from Sing Sink." MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1880, Somn harmless Inaties In Manitoba are stlil nursing the project to have a new route tw the seabonrd and Europa opened up through Hudsow’s Bay. If the ocvan would freezs up and the Prosser car could be puton skates there would be a chance of making the new Ine useful, There are fully ten months In the year when the Ice In ILudson’s Bay Is perfectly anfe. A Breuriy correspondent of the London Standard says that Prince Bismarck ly virt- tally Regent of theEmplte, Tho Emperor's health fs very much broken, and no disturb- Ing news is permitted to reach Nim except with the consent or approval of Prince 131s- marek, A censorship of this kind exercised on the Emperor puts the possessor of It Ina ponttion of real yower behind and before the throne, : Tue females and males moro nearly ap- proximate ese other in numbers in Maine than In any othor New England State, tho excess of the former being only 717 inn total population of 648,045, The number-of for- elgners isnlso: unusually sinnll, being only 58,869, or about D percent. There aro about 2,043 colored persons in the State, Strango to say, Mulno has becume ono of the most prituitive communities In the country, and would have the purest strain of nativo stock tn tho Unton but for the admixture of trench- Canadians, Ti Sebastian Martin Iau grant In New Moxico, which has been secured by shrewd speculators in New York with the Idea of di- recting negro coluntsts towards It, Is belfeved. to be utterly worthless. The Chief Justice of the ‘Territory says that “ for present agricult- ural purposes you might as well plant col- ony onan Iceberg.” The real friends of tho colored people will need to be constantly on the lookout if thoy wish to protect them from the wiles of unscruputous adventurers such as those who have prepared thls New Mex- ican trap and baited It. R. G. Wire and tha New York Nattan have been disputing as to whether New York City was amore agreeable place to live in, more highly cultivated and aristocratic, aut better provided with Ibraries, pictures, nse ums, ete,, fifly years ago than it Is now. Mr White, of course, majatains tho affirmative. If he lived in Chleago he would do the same. Ifhe were a resident of Chieago, we should expect himtodomonstrate that John Kinzle’s family Bible was worth all the othor books, + Mbles Included, that have ever come to the ~ysince, Mr. White ly nothing if not rov- sintlal toward the past and despiteful the ‘present. There Js, in his opinion, rone advantage which Now York of to- ~ "Dossesses over New York of fifty years Und that one he is, for obvious reasons, dod from mentloning. ndlanspolls correspontent of the PE ocr bam. the readers fournal as “ Jayhawker," recently .-<arough Kansas City on his way to =" "$i ‘the Oklahoma colonists, Belng in tho wild West, he felt confidentinl, and he told the Kangas, City reporters sume astonishing stories about William 1. English, late Dem- aoratic candidate for the Vice-P residency, Moe estimates Engllah's wealth nt $10,000,000, and suys that ho owns nearly all the Congres slonal district which he formerly represent- ed In Congress. Kuglish told this confden- tial person a few days ago, 80 the latter says, that he wouldnt take the Vice-Prestdency ow even If he could get It; that he was In- dependent of everybody and every party, and was willing that the public should under- stand ft, The pabhe hasn't been much agl- tuted on the subject, It conferred independ ence and leisure on Mn English with an une wrudging aud liberal hand, and doesn't mean to try his nervous system by putting the mre of political preferment before him again, a dJupge DaNiEis, in Gi Supreme Court of the Now York Distriot, has lately decided that, for a wrongful,re- fusal on the part of any raltrond of common carrier to recelye and transport property, the axurleved person ig entitled to recover ag dutnages the difference botween the value of the property at the place where it was” teudered to the Company and Sts yajue at the place of destination, Jess tho ex- pense of traneportation. ‘She decision was made on on appeal from an order refusing o writ of mandamus to com pel the Ero Railroad to curry crude oll for the plaintiif, whlch It refused todo though it had the means of transportation at hand, ‘Ths Supreme Court held that Jt was the duty af the Company to provide means of accom: ‘nadatlon for the public and to take frelglits offered without discrimination as between individuals, But a writ of mandamus was held to be an hnproper remedy, as ratlrond compantes cannot ba compelled to perform any service. ‘Tho only remedy for ngarieved persona {3 to sue for damages, wlien tho rule above noted will be enforced by the courts, errr pit Wireneit, the anilable Brigadier who succeeded In counting oute Willian MT. Lowe In tho Congresstunal votes. tion In the mountain district of Alabama, must bo an extraordinory gentus. Mont least. deserves credit for one of tho richest proclamattons—in promises—that the elec tton excitement enlied forth, ‘This cireular on belialf of Gen, Wheeler purports té be written by nnother hand, but ft fa incon. celvable that it-should have been put out unless he had consented to and approved ft. ‘Ths following is literal quotation of part of tts Ho ts 9 x00 Munson. a Kalght of Honor, Ho slept on the same blanket with his soldiers, (low inuny of thom Is not stated.) [fa nte tho snino food. Ho wore tho samo clothing, Ho always led thom in tha very front of battle. Hig was toved and adinired by such men as Gens. Lee, Jobuston, Uragg, Hood, and Henuregard. Ho ohne oa great | Nue tonal reputation. Hncock loves him and ed him for bis work In security his nomination. Hanvock will helpGen, Wheel- er to got 11M pay laws which will make thesouth prosper. With Hunvook's wid and the nid of a Dumoeratic Congress, Gen, Wheeler will procure the passngo of Inws to give us Onanclal relief, Hewlll repent all laws Sriiluh GpBreRS our people. Tie will Rave laws repouled which tax n farmer on his lonf-tobaeeo, or on, brandy mate from tipples and peaches, Ho will restore the South to prosperity, * Alas, poor Joseph! Hancock did not fulfill his part of the bargaln, ‘The odtous inquist- tion of apple-Jack inust continue. And, worse than all, a hateful Radical majority promises: to find Its earliest pleasure in seizing this em Inent patriot by the stack of hts breeches and returning bhn by a beeline and aerial route to the fustnesses of his native mountains, NEGROES COMING NORTH. ‘The Indications are that the exodus of negroes from the Southern States, which be gun two yents ago and was continued to some extent Inst yenr, will be resumed in the comlng spring. It now appears that the of- forts made a year ago to induce the blacks who had lett Louisinna for Kansas to return had falled, searcely one familly golng back. ‘Though they were poor, and subject tu hard: slips, and were without money, tools, or hab- itatlons, they preferred all such hardships ith the ownership of tha land to golag bnek fo the homes they had abandoned, A century of slavery had been hardly less op- pressive than the life of such freedomnsthoy werd permitted to enjoy In Louisiana, Mis- slssippi, and the Carolinas, Slavery had. its merciful side: Ifo was protected by law and by tho self-interest of tha master; but the life of the freedmnn fs of no more value and recelyes no more protection from tho Jaw or from public opinion than does that of tho benst of the field. In fnet it fs elntmed that terrorism enforced by repeated brutality is essential for the safety of the white race and tho only protection against “nigger domination.” ‘Che exodus of 1880 will be bettor conducted {han those which have preceded it. The col- ored people who will depart this year will leave thetr homes with so much of thelr Inst two years’ earnings as thoy have been able to save. ‘They will come North to better their condition, and particularly to bo free. ‘They come not as paupers or beggars, but os able-bodied laborers, seeking by hard industry to secure permanent homes; and who can object? ‘They come.lo the Northwest for the samo, motive that Induct the’ white’ evilgrants’ frony Virginia, Kenticky, the Carolinas, and all the Southorn States to find homes in Ohly, Indinna, Winols, and Iuwa, Thoy camo where thoy could get [and and would be their own masters, and where thelr pover- ty and necessity for labor would not bo a social badge of disgrace, as it was In tho South, Why should not the colored freemen be moved by the same hopes and ngpirations and prido ns the poor white men of the South who preceded thom? ‘Che Northern States aro largely peopled by the hardy Inborers of Germany, Ireland, and Seandinavin, who have come hero to bo owners of Iand and to be frea men In a free country. ‘The New England States and the Eustern and Middle States have sent hither of thelr people, who haya come to better their con- dition. Why is it surprising that the negroes should be governed by the samo feelings anit should take the same methods? ‘This exodus will go on yoar after year until such tinfe as the negro enn flu the snine pro- tection, the sume safety, the sume personal and politienl freedom at the South that he ean find at the North, and can as. freely be- come tho owner of the soll he cultivates theroas he ean at tho North, At tho risk of wounding tho sensibilities of Senutor Voor- heos, of the Wabash, and of being summoned fo Washington to give the reasons for tho opinion, the editor of THe Trimuse ts bold to declare that tho migration from Virginia, the Carollnas, and Georgin of 2,000 to 2,000 nble-boiled freedmen with tholr faml- lies Into Indinna, there to- find“work In the flulds akting the farmors of that State to make bigger crops, would be a wiso inove- iment on the part of the colored people, and be very beneficial to Indlana in developing her agricultural resources and in reprossing the retrogresslyo tendency of her Bourbon nollticlans, ‘The settlement of the Grecian frontier tor- rltory 44 now tho, most Important of Euro- pean current questions, After passing through varlous stayes .of Commissions, Conferences, and diplomatic negotiation, in which Turkey has suceessfully averted the settlement demanded of her, the six Powers scum «disposed to let it out to ar bitration and aettla it for themsclves, thus relleving Turkey of any further responsibility In tho matter, oxcept to deliver such territory fo Qreeca as they shall ix upon. This will bring matters to the snine head ns in the caso of Montenegro, with this excoption: that wherens the terrl- tory to ba ceded to Montenegro was small and Insignificant, that award- ed to (irecee must of necessity In- clude a yery generous portion of ‘Thessaly. and Epirus, where the Greek population is overwhelmingly predominant, As this territory Is yery valuable, we may consequently look for another serles of the Ingentous detays and ruses for which Tur key Js so famous, after the: Powers havo settled upon the new Grecian frontior, untess tiey demand Instant complinnce, ‘Turkey will unquestionably resist, 80 far as .pos- sible, any cession of ‘territory to Greece, and Greece will unquestlonably Aight for its possession, and will of necessity have the auorul, IE not the physical, support of. the Powers, Ata recent meeting held in London to sympathize with the Greeks, a significant speech “ was wade by Lord Rose bery,—algnificant because | probably rellecta Br Gladstone’s yvlows, In that ppeoch he recognized the fact that the Greeks ure armed, and’ justiled tham In urnlng, for Greece * fuels that she cannot go back, that she canuot restrain her people, that she has been fooled too long by the promises and pledges of responsible stutes- wen and of great countries, and sho fecls thatthe moment has not arrived when, by the yolcs of somo reassuring Power, she would obtaln moro by disarmament than she could have secured by forco of arms,” Ag to the probabilities of suecess—and this speech was delivered before the Powers had mado thelr arrangements for arhlitration, aving under consideration at that tine the proposal of ‘Turkey to trent directly with Oreece—he sald: Tho responslbility of war ta always serious; In the enso uf Creeee, with these ocdla, it is tres mendous, Teaple will tell you that Greece cautd only bo blotted and oxtiigulstied by suah i cor test. Griovious ts my apprehensions tre, they: do not oxtend so far as that. Greoco [sn nation, and nations are not obliterated, and, though Greece may be thrown duels fn nittonl progress: half a centiry or a century, yet cannot dissuade her froin eding to war on thy ground that theres Uy sho would eoase to be ne nation. Yer how rave nimnttlor it ls to restrain her wa have aver by the action of tha tute Government. Ts tt not Agrave ting, when a nition has lost her chance by abstaining from war, to ask her to lny down hor arma? Itis not moroly a grave matter, but Isuy you could not restrain Greece if you wished, oxeept by legitimately mecting hor eliimg; nnd, though our words may hot have any tupprecinhle effect, it isn xonso of sorious respon sibility to utter such words, Asto the Turkish provosition, Lord Rose- bery nddeds ‘Tho Porto fs often auxtons to trent directly for tho acttlemont of vital questions, and thos you have ho right to any to uations that thoy Inust tot ettle thelr differences, yet when you remember that diplomacy Is the ‘great weapon of Turkey, and that Greece Ix huving her llo's blood drained from her day by day by ber praie arutlons, is it louauspinloun, to think that this muy be a policy of exhaustion, desigued to suck out tha last resources of Greeee ? Tho most signtileant of Lord Rosebery’s utterances, however, was the following: Thero are, however, two clreumstances In Tutrope.on which 1 think we may look with hope, One fs that whatever Foreign Minister, past and present, may say, the honor of F rope Is pledged toGreece, Tt 1s impossible for M. St. Hilaire or Tord Salisbury to tule away that fact. “it bas Yoon admitted i Congress and cannot be wiped away by aapeech in tho Chamber, or by one inode in this cautery. In the seeotid place, You have the fportint conekteration that nil the Towers of Europe are concerned In the Interests of pence, At this time the question of peaco or war—n war which it provoked mizht oxtend mued further than statesmen think—Is in tho hands of Greece. do not think Greece will ny: down the sword unless her usplrations are sutis- Hed. It ds, therefore, the interest of Europe, speaking in the largest sensu, fo satisfy those aspirations, Such declarations ns the above, coming froin an authoritative source, aro favorable omens for Greece, and indicate that tho Glad- stone Govermnent feels the responsibilities resting upon it,to which It was. committed by the actlon of the Government at the tine of the Russo-Turkish war, and that as En- pland Js the champion of Greece, having. as- sumed that duty after the failure of France, sho will protect her in acquiring the rights which have been promise r so long. THE “NATIONAL LIBRARY" S0HEME, - Athong the projects for squandering public monoy to come before Congress after the Jiolidays is the proposed crection of a new building for a National Library, This scheme hing already mate considerable hend- way. It has onlisted a surprisingly active support fron’ Senator Voorhees, who Is the Chairman of the Joint Library Committes of Congress, aud it has the backing of all the influence which Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, can bring to it. Tho latter is welglity, becauso Mr. Spofford frequently serves as the staf, upon which Jame and halting Congressmen Joan when they prepara thefrspecches, ‘The proposition is to locate the new building on Judtelary Square, which is about half a mile from the Capltol, down oo hil and then back up tho hill, and the purpose fs ‘to start off with an catimate of $5,000,000 ns the cost of the structure; what the actual expenditura sholi be tn the end no man enn foratell, A Comnisston of three expurts, consisting of Edward Clark, the present Capitol arelitect, Alexander 1. Esty, and J. J. Sinithmeyer, “have already reported favorably upon the scheme, and plang are rendy for. adoption, ‘The mattor startet In tho crowded codition of the present Library of Congress, witch fills up rapidly from. the accusation of volumes deposited there to secure the ndyan+ tages of the Copyright law. ‘The Comunity sion was appoluted to consider what“ prac- tlenl and beneficial changes” can bo made ln the Capltol Building, in order to provide bot- tor aecommodations for the Library, and the following is tho conclusion at which the ex- ports arrived: Resotved, That in tno opinion of this Commis- elon it le dicxpediunt If not impracticable, to extend tho Cupitol Bullding so as to provide id. ditional xpaca fur tho rapid growth of the brary without seriously interfering with tho architectural proportions thoreof, and also ite convenlences for logistatlye purposes, but that *priction aud benoficlut changes,’ such as imentioned {n tho net creuting thi Hoard, ean and should be mado at no distint day in and of tho Capitol for the better aecommodation of tho two Tlouses of Congress, Woe thorofore recom. mend tho orcction of aseparate edifice for the Library. All the members of the Commission tndi- vidually indorse this conclusion by separate reports, in which they give rather elaborate suggeations for a costly stricture than show why It is not practienble to extend the Library accommodations In the Capttol Bullding, Lndeed, it is agreed among them that the Capltol ought also to bo extended to complete Its architectural proportions and general appearance, in addition to the $5,000,- 0 structure recommended for a National Library. Like all “experts? the Washing- ton Commission of Architects would Jike to seo all the wurk Inld out in the Ine of thelr, business for which Congress would provide commensurate appropriations, Washington experts aro very much Hkeexpertselsowhere, —only mora 80, This scheme 1s, objectionable from many points of view. 1, ‘Tho ultimate alin of a project for a Na- tional Library is the creation of a new ant exponsive Government establishment, As the Botnnical Gardens grow from the small beginning of n few herbs which some nayal ofiver brought from over tho seas, as bu- reaus grow uy from the ddtall of n slnglo elurk to gome purticular work, and as de- partinents grow from bureaus, 60 0 separate building and n distinctive ttle will imposa upon the Government a now branch, which will spread ont with time Into 9 tremendous annual expenditure, First and Jast the scheme will cost untold millions of dollars, It would no doubt bo very gratifying to Mr. Spofford to riso to the dig- nity of Natfonal “Librarian, with a largo staf of assistants and a retinue of messengors, aud it maybe that certain contractors to whom certain Congressmen feel friondly would not object to dividing $5,000,000 among thomeelves in the shape otf building contracts, but theso clreumstances will scurcely reconcile the people to the ox- pendilure of vast suis of money for a proj. ect that promises no adequate return, 2 ‘Lhe removal of the Library from the Capitol Building will be a detriment to its mlsslon instead of a bonefit, Almost the sole usa of this IAvrary Isto provide Con- gressmen with Information, of which thoy already avail themselves too little, If tne Library bo removed to 9 location halt ao mile distant, with a high hill to climb Incommunteating with tt, there will bo tesa uso of the books thanoyer, ‘The Depart- ments are nil supplied with yeforonce Mbra- ries sulted to thelr duties, ‘The State Departe went Library Is in mauy respects snperlor to the Library of Congress, and has a magnifl- cont room several stories In hight which hos been pronounced to be the finest interlor in tho world, ‘Tha Departments are, therefore, fn no way Interested in the’ proposed “Na. tlonal Library” scheme; and, if they wero, the location of the building on Judielary Square would keep it practleally as tar removed from them as Itis now, If itbe suld that Its proposed to leave at tho Capital all the books necessary for the use of Congress, then It miny be replled that the usefulness of the Library onds at that polut, aud there Is no further need of anew bullding snd a new stat of oflcints, %. ‘There ts no demand I the Clty of Wasl ington for a great Mbrary, al the ttle of “National” wonld bea mere sham as appltodt to such an institution, ‘The people whu Hye in Washington are matnty migratory, They seettre “stop-over tiekets and stay there awhile, There ts no feeling of permanency among the great. mass of the Washington populations An iinmense and gorgeous reat Ing-room, such as ts proposed fi the $5,000,000 bulkling, would be a vast space of emptiness, ‘Tho novel-readers among the Government employes would not be satistied, for thoy would not be permitted to carry books away, and Washington Is nut Hkely to become the Mecen of students so long as ft shall be dom- Anated by polittetans, as tt ts likely to be, A Natlunal Library loented at) Washington would be of no suc service to the Nation ns world be implied by the mune, nor equal in wncfulness to the great nnd growlng Hbrarles of Now York, Boston, and Chicago, 4. ‘The only possible Justiileatton tor the now Library seliema is to be found in the crowded condition of the present Library quarters, ‘This condition ean he relleved fn two Ways. Firat, the accumulation of books Is due tn the main to the volumes deposited uniler the Copyright Jaw. ‘Phese books are worthlvgs forthe most part. Atallevents they are scent to Washington merely as evidences of compliance with tho requirements of the Copyright Inw, and are retained there for that purpose. A fire-proof building of dl- mensions equal to the demands of the next generation may be erected near tho Capitol for the storing of these books on shelves at n cost not execeding $50,000, and thero they may stay. When tho eapnelty of such a boliding shall bo exhausted on other similar building may be pro- vided, and so on Indexes world ennble rondy reference to any books that anybody. might desire to consult which shoult not be found in tho regular Library ‘of Congress, “This done, the extension of tho Capttol, which will probably bo made any way to securo a cruciform desizn tn tho building and mako the walls of the old Capl- tol correspond with tho new wings In .ma- terlat and appearance, will provide ample and commodious arrangements for the Con- gressloual Library and its employés. The schome for the so-called “ Natlonat Library” 1s alinost so useless xs to be vicious, considering the gront cost it will Invelva now andin the future, and [te should be abandoned {ultogether. OHIEF TINGLE ON UNDERVALUATIONS. Mr. A. K, 'Tingle, Clef of tho Division of Special Agents of the Treasury Dopartinent, in hls report to the Secretary makes a very creditable showing of the operations of his Department for the fiseal year ended dune 80, 1850. With twenty-eight employés, at an expense of $95,000, In round numbers, he ins, by coBperating with the Collectors and Appraisers of Customs, saved to the Preasury upwards of $2,000,000, Following ts tho tablu of Items: Hoizures, fines, and Bults.....+.-0+0.. 8 B5,818,70 Duties and inerensed duties on nd- yaneed value: 704 Tnereased dit Miscellancous, ‘Total pald 1 2, 042082 In addition to this actual Inrge saving to the ‘'reasury, Mr. ‘Tingle lias recommended through the Investigation of his agents are duction of expenses in tho offices of Colleet- org and Appralserg, cquivatent almost to tha whole cost: of hia-Department or Division. ‘Tho Immediate-trag] aportation business (tat of liland poateyielbws a liyeo inereage over tho preeed {ng y' the invoice valusof tho goods 36 trauapored:belng, In round nin bers, thirteen mililion dollars: for 1880, 04 againstelght nnd three-quarter milous for 1870, Tho number of packages so trans ported to the interior In bond was 320,88, against 249,811 In 1879; and of this fargo num ber not ono was lost, nud not a dolur of rev- enue was Jost to the Government through the operations of 1-T. Bond act. Mr. ‘Tingle finds that the practice of nndervaluation of picco silks and velvets at the const ports hing not been suppressed, Ilo says: On tho contrary, so untyorsal te Tie pinatiog with reapect to silks, velvets, Inces, and similar eos subject to bigh ad valorem dutios, that uropeatt manufacturers and shippers of such mmerchundise do not, 18 a rite, attempt to murs ket tholr goods in tho United Btutes without ondenvoring to evade n porttaty of the duties by moans of tndervalued Invoices. Amerienh merchants, with al the capital and facllitles re- quired for the largest business, who would pre- fer to buy thoir silk yoods in the foreign mare kets and import them regular, ui An thomseives compellud to bu of tho commision —morchunts in United Btates who = reecive — gands cans signment. . +. . Pitrchuses are sumetimes nnidein the forolgu market, but only nt whnt 13 atyled a “dollar prico” tobe pald in United states currenoy upon delivery of the goods In the United States, duty pald, through the Amerie ngent of the vender, and no forvign murker valuys, othor than Hletitious ynlueg atatod In tho Invoices, w! ara prepirod soluly fur the eyes of tho customs officials, upper in” tho transac. Hons, By thia method manufacttrers and shippors alin to provant the cusioms oflecrs from obtaining truo infortiation ag to uetunl foreign values, and ara enabled to decide fur thomeclyves what umount of duties thoy will pay, subject only tw the risk of an advance by tho Apprulecy, ‘2hla tea risk they witingly take relying upon thelr American agent to put the favotee thrngh the Customs Houxe, and knowing the great diiculties In tho way of obtaining proof of for- ign murkot value, At will bo observed that the United States Government occupies tho rather humillating position of being sucecsstully defled on Sts own ground, in {ts own Custom-llouses, by a league of foreign manufacturers and ship- pers, These foreigners ‘deatde for them- selves what umountos dutles Mey witt pay” without any regard to the laws of the United States! To be sure thoy taka “the risk of an advance by tho Appraiser.” But this risk “thoy willingly take, relying upon their Amor: Jean agent ta put the dnvolea through the Custon-Ilousc,” i It Is Just to remark, however, that there is only ono Custom-Houso in tho United Statys whera these forelun robbers “tako the tuk of an advance by Appralser," and that is the Custom-Iouse “st the Port of New York. ‘These undorvalued.nvoices of silks, velvets, and Inces are neatly all “put through” one Custom-House, and that Custom-Houso is at the Port of New York, And it is propor to remark further that no Congressman from tho Stnte of Now York, no Senator from that Statu, no public man in the City of New York, and no journal high or low in the Em- pire City has ever been able to discover this mammoth evil fn the customs seryica of the chivt port of the Nation! ‘The Now York par pers are quick enough ordinarily to de nounce frauds, Hut on this subject they aro osallont as the grave, By this particular spectes of fraud carsied on exclusively at tha Port of Now York the Government ts robbed aunually of millions of revenue, but the press of New York has not o word to say in the way of protest, Evon Harper's Weekly, whlen never appears without on article on the sub- ject of Civil-Soryl s rofurmu, on thonotorious fact of gl«an' ds in the collection or non-collection Tevenue at the port of the clty where’ urnal of civilization ts issued, fs a3 dumb as an oyster} ‘To Hurper's Weekly and the other Journals of New York City, end to tho Congressmen of the Empire State, wo commend Mr, ‘Tingle’s report, and beg to know of such and all whether they desjro the robbery of the royenue at the Portof Now York to continue {ndefinitly, and lf so, why? ‘Tue Suproimne Court of Missouri, while affirming tho right of Utigants in court to cums pel telegraph companies to produce disputchos pe eed to be offered as testimony or used fh trials, nt fhe snine time forbids a general search warrant, And Umits tho production to tho exact toleurams that bear an tho cuse, and which mist bo dos serlbed. ‘The ense on which the Court gave tho oplaion ts thus atatods Jury ordered tho loent man Ager Walon Company to pros duce any daputehes that thore might be in his office between certain persons (numing them) within the past fifteen months, The inner nudiuitted that thers wero such messnues In his custody. but declined to produce thom, under the rules of the Company. These facts were ree Horted to tho: ites of the Criminal Court by the Trand Jury, and the munager wis committed for contenipt, Ho brought the matter before tno Sitpromo Court by habeas corpus, ‘Tho Court decided that telegraph messages: not oprivilyred — communi- aro vations, and that the Campiuny cannot refuse to prodves thoms but that thelr praduction is gov- erned by the autng rules that apply to all written documents—thoy must be desorbed, not in gon ern] suri, but with such acenragy as to identify: thom preekely, ‘That ts nelther tha Rtuto nor Any private tidividital ean say tau Company: Wo have a inwenit or a crintinal prosecution gos ing on here, and in order to Nad ont whether there fs any evidence on tho subject which would ho of uso to ty wo tow proceed to overhaul all tllo incasnges In sour chstody whicl passed he= tw such and sich persons awithin sitet and such rs, What must be done fs first to ascers tun what inessayes are. needed, and thot entl for Just th messnyes und no othors, ‘This may in some entses bo dimejt todo, but It fs dltculty atte with tar tess danger to public and private Intoresta than the right of such a body asa Grand Jory to overhnul everybody's piivate correspondence for the purpose of tid ih {uF whethor he hug done something contrary: Utne ———— Tne Dublin correspondent of the London Times telegrapha Wut * Tho Introduction of tho Land Lenguo into the North of Treland bas bad tho efactof setting tho existing tonanteright borderers, who hud teen for some timo qulea- cent, again In motton {1 some districts, and two concurrent movements are now In progress, ono of witen ts dlatitet from the Longue, nithough agreeing to sumeextent with {ita principles.” ‘Tho chief soffcltude ot Parnell and tho Lengue ja tu win over Uister to tholr cause. If that province joins the Irish Land Leugus the * threo B's" and a good deal more enn bo seeured from tho lritish Partiament, As a contemporary re- marks: Ulster has hithorto occupied a perfoctly dis- thict position as regards avery land movement, Jt has n polloy of its own to work out, and griuy- ances of its own to redress in ig awn way, ‘The ereronchments mide upon the tenant-right custom Upon some estntes and the achltrary rules of some agents, whiett irritate a sensitive and spirited puis lave long beon the aul. Jects of complaintin tho North, and the result. of tho last clection showed # detormiinition on me part of the tenants to brenk through tho Bellet thes which had previously bound then in diferent parties, and to Join ta a dumand for reforms, The Liberal members who were re turned ut the Inst electlous have kept this movement astir and ondeavored to pro- servo Ita diatinet ehuraeter; but the moro rapid and sweeplug netion of the Tad Loaguo ree- oniniends ft to many of the tenant farmers who have not pat! to walt for tha chance af ob tnlnityg tho moderate nieasures which they are promised. They sua greater advantage to bo Obtained ‘niore” qulekly by Jolning the Land Lougue, and aro, therefore, ready to merce thoir diifercnoes; und if thore te any gente sulve for tholr consciences in tha promiso of Detter behavior on tho prt of the Louguers they will" full into line," Ike othora, ‘Phosu are ehielly tho Cathole tenants. Tho Presby- teriun and tho Protestant farmers ave divided upon this und othor questions. The great body of the Orangunten aro unwilling to have any eonneotion with the League, und gomo are rendly to oppose tt by force, Others, nnd it large pro- portion of the Roman Cathollo farmers, ure “iberal tenntt-righters,” who would be content with the * threo F's," whlle a few Orangemen ave disposed to bo Land Lenguers. * ——— Says the New York Ltines: Mr. Gillette, of Iowa, regards this country from an alurmiug point of view. Here is tho Refunding bill, for instance [to change 6 and 6 per cent bonds inte i's], blz with all the [ils that polltical flash 18 holy to,. Jt “is a premitin on digness and a tix upon industry.” it mort. gugos the next genoration of tollers in advances tothe Howls, Vanderbilts, and others. tt will bulld up caste and clisees in Atorionn 6o- ciety.” And he opposes It “because ha heara tho millions of freemen calling on Congress to Ulock the wheels af this modern ear of dupe Rernaut lp tho mune of justice and himanity.” Perhaps it Is this fearful view of what is galing to happen It. the Pernt DIU passes which enuses Mr, Gillette to think himself justitted in defacing the publio records fn’ the manner dos serlbed by our Washington dispatches this morning, Hla antles gre always dleagrouabic, but of Inte they aro becoming a littiodiger fut ng well, and tho House would do well tu puta atioek upon thom, © . “Tho trick thla playod-out flut mountebank perpetrated Is thus deseribed: Prior to tho holiday adjournment Gillette In- troduced u substitute for tho Wood Roftunding DILL, whieh was printed In the usual fori for dis tribution to members and the public. Gillette hug ndopted an unusual method to give bis sub- atitiite prom{nonco, and in dalng go has tiken a Uberty with the puullc records whieh showld ree erlve emphatic and prompt condumnition from tho Spenkor, who hus ‘churzo of tho records of tho House. Gillette’s viohition of his priv lege consists in tha printiag of a dodger, about onu-third the size of the page-sheot oF a printed DU, which ho citised to bu pasted on tho titles pe Cor his substitute. his dodzer te pritstad In bolilefaced type, and ronds its follows; * Wood Funding bit, Cun you vote to refund for twene ty to forty years bonds which, wader this bil, would bo pald tn leas than two yours, without in- Juatico or oppressive taxation?" 1f Mr. Giietta ‘onn this mutilate the putite records, thoro {s nothing to prevent bier from baying his hand- bills pasted on the walls of tha House of Repros sentatives, and should hig novel practice tn this fnstunee pres unnoticed by the Bpuaker, “tho DIlls, roports, und ather documents presented to Congress muy become us pleturesque ns tho most Homing show-bils of a traveling dircus, Printed coplos of tho Gillette eubstitute, with tha poster above quoted attached to the titlo-puge. are dos Iveved ut the folding-roum of the louse to inombers who may apply for copies of It, ——— " Punci’s” travesty of Disraeli’s nevel la entitled “Bon D'¥mion,." Horo is a specimen sheet: . . Somoiina was the Empress of London, of fashion, and of tho ory party, sho waa always atbome tu ter intiantes, so sho did not get much exoruiso; at this moment sho was recline Ing ona brilllut sofa, a innajestie footstool nt bor feot, Aupuaeed, by romintic cushions, i Ina low ol nde (BE {ny front of hor, with bib and Dinaforo on, and catching up overy word tint fell from her Ups, gat ou Grout Versonnge, A couple of Bishops and a Cabinet Minister were pluying vt oat's-cradio in an aleove; while, tnore remote, some dames of high dexroa were surrounded ‘by qavallory of anclont Hnenge, whoso very word was a Lon mot and every movements whole volume of souluty otiquet. Horvants gilded about in mufted skutys over the ablulng parguot, distributing sborry-cobbters: aid gin-corktalls to the visitors, whilo at huif> minute lntervals mystorlous and nuble-lookiug Strangers appeared wt the door, flow to Sumo Nino's outatretebed pat, finprinted agp impuse sicned kiss on her Jeweled Nugor, and t8On eud- donly vanished Inte alr) Vhut I want you to seo," suit Somoiina, “only you're so Incurably obtuso, is that rene tlon 18 the law of Ife, that 28 can't got ot without the'Tomplo and the Bur, that tho intros duction of Gna will be fatul to the Crown, that Pubilo Dpinhas ia all humbug, that clinnyes are Ukely to happen univas things go on AB they ure, and thit on the Bve of changes Adaminune Fortitude fafinporatlvely dewandod, 1 hopo you clently foflow ine?" Hut the Grout Porsonagoe had fallon fust asleop, and wag snorlug., Scmolina was dis wuntod, “ “The age of Livoralism his come!" sho exe claimod; and, kicking tho low chalr trom under tho Great Porsouuxze, bounced cut of the upart> Mont, and slawmed the portal beind ber. —————_—_. James Monnox, the fitth Presidont of tho United States, was elooted for a socond term by the ununimous vote uf the Etcotorul Collogo, yot, as the following note points out, thera wus no proposition to pension bin in bly poyorty and old agos Buvsu Hier, Dec, 17, 188.—y Dean Sir: 1 havo road tho printed document relating wo tho pansion to the ex-Hresldonts, and think it inn etrengthon tho cause to state the oss of Preals dent Blonrou, Mr. Monroe was appointed by Washington Minister to Francy, 1194, uud con= Unued tn the public aurvicd more thun twenty Years, ua Miulgter to, france, 170s, and attor Ward to Englund und France tilt lz, und on bls roturn wus tudo Sucrotary of Btute undor blade iyou, 4 pluco which hu ovoupled untit his own eleation to the Presidency In 1417, and waa again voted In bel, the fret tino by a yota of moro than tive to one, and the seound tlie of his electing revolyed' very voto of the Eloctoral Calleye except a single yotu from Now Hamp. abire. ‘This popular public servant died in sil, sud the following extrict is taxon from the dlury of Jobn Q. Adums. undur the date of July 4, 18its ble day ocourred the death of James donrva, ufter siz yours of ponury and distress,” Youre truly, J. BL, Ronnies, One would supposs from the Christmas od{torials ty the nowspapers that yule loge wud wlatlutoo boughs and holly wery cowmon orn. inunts In this soasou, whereas thera ty not Ono Amerioan citizen iu y thousand who knows 9 yulo log frum a borao-blouk, or a mistiotos bough from a sldu of bacon. a Eastenn capitatists have determined to Dulld aveulroad In Cullforala from sume polnt near Sadora, on tho Tulare Valley Katizoud, to Frosno Flat, whlot Is thirty miles from the Yo- somite Valley, ‘Tho arranxemonts aro alroady cous ploted, nad It is understood that the now road will be purhwd so onergotioully us to be come pleted In time to carry tho spring travol to tho vulloy, A railroad to Fresno Flat will render the trip to Yosomito fur leas formidable, It will in feet put te within the rench af almost avery body. “Hut, snys the Sucramonto Union, “wa fro yin that the now Company does not intend to curry tho Une avy nearer the valloy than Fresno Flat, for we are convincad tint toda go would Le to deatroy all tho pletiuresquencss and charm of tho magnifivent soonery, aud to fob that mareclous yalloy of Ita poetry and majos- ty. ——_ M. Mauntcr Brock, who ls good authority in tho promises, has digested tho French Gove ornmont returns on tho crop of $880, The total yletd of whoat in France during the pnat ten -yenra Is atuted by bit as foltuws: Militon heetol, Per hectare, and Wi8 Prrrtretieriits MAB eee D5 13,00 +100, Mls oe HS Ait oe GBA 1.0 irrece “ senveee OLD pT Ay Tho crop of this yenr, therofore, isn (alr avers age, Inquallty its superior, Dut. as ft fol lows the very bad crop of 187 and the Indifter- entorop of 1878, France will hive to fmport more than Inst year, and prices will rte strong. Priecs aru not so much affected by one crop ns by the relations of one crop to that preceding: It. Henco the prospcots of tho American drend- atalfa deslor in Fraveo are good. M, Mock mon- tions thut a price of twenty-olght Erines for fh hundred kilograms of French wheat towves the produecr no proflt, whilo Amortean wheat now nulls at Havre at about that rato or n little lesa, s —$—<—————— "Ti Parls correspondent of the Now York Tintea writes; : Louiac Michel isn danger to Rocloty. Bho was cheered on Sunday when, with a yolou which rang Uke a trumpet, sho sald: * We will go to eavh of the inurderera of our breturon and we will KHL them, f any ong among you shoulil nek apurdon, Cwltlanawor, Vout nea? a mort 2 Tail, gaunt, bony, this woman, whe resesbtes tn appeunines and iy character that type of tha mabguant olf maid portrayed tn tho * Cousine Hette”™ of Balane, exercises an tuiluence over tho mob precisely beenuae she cimnot be suse pected of nuy inotives of persounl ambitio Hike Pave Minke or ltborting Auctere, 6h docs pot aepire to be, an upostie of womnl rixhls, She louks with contempt upon tho argt monte and parndoxes of Binley de Glrardin aud ‘ Alexandra Dinas, who claim that women ought not only to bo clootors, but to bo “ellgibte. “She, dixinins the’ Chambur of Deputies und the Sennte; her inission is to destroy, not to edify; na she avows hersolf, hor nonin tte Is venyennes, Loutse fought behind the barrleades jn 1871, and poured pelrotaut into basements, and would buve sliuln hostiszes tf glo. could have found othors than those whom her colleagues murdered, tad she will do so agin and, what ls more to be droaded, she wilt tne proscly tes, —= >. Finp Ops was sentonced to Ife servitude In tho Kangas Penitonthary In 1674 for the murs der of an old man mnmed Toris, at Topeka, in whose employ hy was. flo did not deny tho crime imputed to hin. Some tine after bis sentence, ho being ut the timo 17 yeurs of uge, his futher committed sulcide, Tho sons now absolyed from obligations of Mul duty, and he nsserts that (t was bls fathor who committed tho murder for which ho fa suffering. His unsup- ported word might not pnss for much, but It colneides with lifs confession made iminediutely after his arrest, but afterward recanted, and thore scoms, thercfore, to be much luberent probability in the nurrative, ——_——____ Joun Kunty’s evening organ in New York hod Christus contributions from the Rey. Dr. Hunworth, the Rov, Robert Collyer, Sarah Bern= hoards, John MeCallough, Thurlow Weed, Mary Anderson, Magglo Mitchell, Delmonico, Julict Corson, “Tho Detrolt Free Preax Man," Mino, Sohlke, Salvini, and whost of other prominent writers, “forming [aa tnondvertisemonts stated] the gregtost arruy of tutont ever concentrated In tho single issue of a nowspnpe Oddly enough, the Herald printed the advertisements, Will It now proceed to denounce tho contrite. utors na supporters of “a paper that defames women"? 5 . Tos South Carolina railroads, according to tho recent report of Nallrond Commissioner Donham, are iuereastug tholr bualness and net enroings.” @hery ure seventeon railroads in bperntlon” In qho State, with. x total tength, exe cluatve of sidings, uf 1,07/5 miles... The total ox- pense for running these for 1880 wie $5,585,700; tho total Incomu wus 84,0807: not earnings, €1,057,07. Lust your the total oxpunse was &,- OME; HeUss eome, $4,009,802; net earnings, 8010,h10, Thus showing not anty an incrense of businoss amounting to nearly 24 por cent, but an nerense of pront of noarly 60 per cent. ——$———— ‘Ti Senate will lose Its “ watel-dog of tho ‘Troasury"” if Mr. Edmonds should go on the Huprome Boneh, “Don't you know," sald 0 Washington tobbylst, “that, whon that old cuss cones in the Senate and sits down and lote bls right eyebrow drop down about three-qturtors ofan ineh lowor than tho loft, hell Is niwiys to pay? fe 1s tho moanost old cuss ubout objoct- ing to cverything, anyway; capoctally anything with monyy fn it; but when he hings down bls right vyebrow ho'll objeot tu the Lord's prayer.” ——— Tun New York Tinea gives tho District ‘Telegraph Company of that city a suyere scor- ing for {ts utter Ineflicloncy, which was spe- oluily displayed tho dny before Christinas, whon tho service. broke down through the uresa of business, though tho managers should have ‘been prepared for a yreat increase of business, “In tho caso of this sluggish and mismanagod corporation,” snys tho Times, “It Ie oluar that nothlog but whalcsomo compotition can give It Ute” i —————>____. Tur law of California provides that tho anmo pay shail bo given for similar work, whothor done by men or women; ant, 18 a con- seyuonca, tho women Vico-Prinelpals In the San Franolaco schools receive ns much pay as tho malo Vice-Principals. It 1s enld by the Alla that 1 propusition is under consitteration to givo tho title of * Muster” to malo Vicv-Principals, und thug onable thom to draw highor py. —————— PERSONALS, An lown paper says thot n Judge of that State, although ds years of ugo and considered n, protty well-educated man, his entered a cullega in Boston ag n studont, 1 Mr. Henry feving ls a master of the art of fencing. Soskilicd and so grucotul {s ho that moan who caro nothing fur Shakespeare go to the theatre to sco bim as dfamict, fonolug with Laertes, ‘Tho Pittsburg Commeretat records the death at Elder'e Kidxo, Arinstrong County, Ponnsylvauia, on tho 18th inst., of Sirs. Letitia Kwring, sald to baye boon 107 years and 23 days old, Hor oldost eon fa xed 82 yours, aud bor youngest haa roachod threa-scoso yours, Sho loft two other suns aud one daughtor, tho Inst boing 77 yours of age, She loft thirty-two grand- children, ovor titty yrout-grandchitdron, and sovoral grout-grout-grandchildrun, Her mom ory wis ao rotentiyo that she was onablod to keop a corroct chranologioal record of hor nus Morus progeny without tho ald of momoranda, ond her chlof pleasure wus to name thom in chronvlogical order, glving date of birth, mur- Flaxo, ote, A Paris lettor to the Pall Malt Gazette of Deo, Ideays: "Sinco thaday of tho inauguras tion of M, Thiors’ statuo at Bt. Germalns, Mme, ‘Thlors’ strougth hog been sinking. Bho bad proviouely beon leading & very unhealthy ilfe, After tho death of M, 'Thiors, who kept tho tablo whero be lunched and dined animuted by his intelfectual babble, Mmu, Thicrs concolyod a dluyust for food, Thero was DO animating powor fa the old frionds and relutions who guthe erod round ber, Who the bell was rung for tho midday or evening ropast sho often sent down word that sho did tot fvol inelincd to cut, and begged that ber alster would take the head of the tublo. Sometimes sho prolonged her fast for several days, and unly took when wouk frou Jong abatention from fuod 4 cup of broth or of chocolate, whlch she swalluwed down at onoo. it did uot appoar to hor food; but sho turned with repugaunce from anythings sulld. Tho digestive orguna thus becaine paralyzed, Grief generated wauvats sang, Hut the worat blow ot all was the Indifference ahown by the public to * ba grando mémojre do dl. Thier.’ Mimo. Thiers belluyos that Bf, Thlors abridged bia Ifo ton years by muking bisbouse ufter the 24th of May the contre of Kopublican opposition to the Royalist, Bovapirtist, und Ducat factions, —————— PUBLIC OPINION, Ifarper's Weekly: Secretary Schurz cer- talaly gives good rcusons for bls opinion, and ha woeaa to us to defend blmself conclusively agauwt all charges of romissness or lujustion. Indocd, tho country und tho ludians will he oxcerdngly fortunate If his ruoe cessor Hy Nec Interior Hotes: ib ANITOR Ae mich ability, Integrity, intelilvence, and dove. thon to the publi interests and to tho welfuro of the Indians us Secretary Sehurg has shown, Loulsylle Conrter-dournats The ctection of Gartield has done at lenst one excetlent thing. It has extingnished in tho avernge Southern heart tho expeetiney, the hope of ttle, Tt tas turned the Southari mind to business. Madison (Wis) Demorrat: Tho proper thing for the Damuerntle party to do ts to aot outof the way of some orgninization which wilt necessarily come up nnd champion all tts reat doctrines If the olf orwantzution will give an ope portunity. A Portland correspondent of the Philndel phia Press says Mr, Elule is vertain tubo elected fountor from Maine. His success over Cone Brosainan Frye {6 sald to be malniy due ton bee Uof that Mr. Frye can serve his purty best by rematning fu the House and matntaining an earnost contust for the Spenkership, Ho 1s tha only prominent Easter man who fs named tor Rpenker, und It is feared If he does tan & Western man will be chosen Speaker, whosd Westorn idens on tho turlif may bo mntigoniatie tu Bustern interests, It. GQ. White's cestusy about Sara Bern hurdt: No actress that L remomber Ie her anual In tho assumption of n look of cestatio joy. Ins aspired and remalted by tho oxpression of thi emollon, tho oyosand Ups of that mean and surdid visnwe, whieh defles the skilLof palntere and shames the art of photography becoma ane geli, worthy of Ruphnel’s coueeption of a eherib., Such a radintion of purity and tender= neas, such an abandonment to simple, contiding, All-absorbinge happiness, f ruroly svon portrayed, to any form of urt—rarely overt In very nature, Nordhotf’a dispatch to New York Herald: ‘The Southorn negro is undoubtedly the most doclle, nt tho whole, the best peasant Inbors erin tho world; but the Suuthern white dovsnot know how to manage tim, Hepersists, and with no Inhuman Intention at all, in regarding bine merely na the representative of so muny baleg of cotton to tho man, and the binck froo man, who fools this, 1g mude uncomfortable by it, Ha does not resent tt but, us he becomes more ins tellizent, he Mes from the sentiment, just a hundreds of thousands of Germuns lett thoir votntry because they were subject toa siintine degradation under the old aristocratic system and wanted thelr children to have a fale change: fia freo land, The Netton (Ind.): ‘That the hundred thousand oftlceholdera of the Federal Govern iment, most of thon Iving on salaries no small as to mnke tho accoptance of them ag a pormanent: provision almost au udmission of failure in life, would, if sevurud in their places on condition that they give tholr whole mind to their dutios, vise upaguinst the influences which dominate tho rest of the comunity, Iny aside the kindly und unpreteading and“ tnissuming manners which now may Ue said to run tn the American blood, and put on the te huughty, and over: Dearing demeunor of sain Wurenucrats, Is auroly ietrange supposition. It Is go strings that [ta existence taty beertod as nm striking dle Justration of tho small degres to which the pub- Ic has us yet beatowed any thought on tho nest serious question of American polities to-diy— via: tho best mode of keeplug the Gavernmont: under the control of popilir opinion without de+ ranging or obstructing tho administrative mie ehlnery by which the Nutiounl busliyess is trans- netod. New York @huca: ‘The noble army of pension ngonts, whose sympathy for tho defend« ers of the Nutlon {3 as profitablons it is profuse, fro not content with tho oxisting law forthe Payment of arrearuges of pensions. Although $50,000,000 have already pagsed through—or Into —thofr hands, and some $20,000,000 more will yet. be drawn under the provisions of tha luw, theso gentlomen desire to open the doors of the'Trens« ury etl wider, Mr. Deering, of Iowa, has pres sonted aw DI repenting tho Limitation fixed by the exisiiug lu us to the time of presenting clufis, and as to the pertod from which they shail bo calculated. Our correspondent points out instances of tho prosperots nature of tho pension agent's calling. ‘They sutliciently ex- plely the zeal of those enyaged tn It, bat ie would soein that Congress could bardly be bilit to the reat motives which fisplro movements of this sort. ‘This conntry has dealt with bivish eoncrosity with ite disabled soldiers and suilors, There wre very. fow Of thr whatover thot conilition, who seck any furt grants from tha Treasury. ‘hero ure still fewer who would get anything Team additional grants after thay had subsattted to the exturtiony of the pension claim agents, Hulato Cuuricr (Dem): To employ the term “carpel-bagyer" In the sense In whieh Gon, Grant uses it, fg a perversion of languages and If ho docs not know that fact already tt ld time for him to learn it. The phrase Is one of ree cont upntication, and is designed to ebaracterlZe a distinct class of men. Tt was colned as a nick name for tho Northern adventurers who wont ‘South uftertho Warin the hopu of muking n forte une outoef the process of political reconstruc tion of the rebellious States, As a cluss these ten were rascals, ‘Chole purpose was plunder, and they enine upon conquered comunmitics 18 representatives of a victorious party rather that na follow-cltizens, | ‘The term © earpet-bagyers” hus been distinctly set apart for there amen and othors like thom as the term "thieves ”* has been set apart for those who svcretly cou- vert to tholr own use the property of othors. To calla mun who moves from one Btate to another a *carpot-buggor” is as absurd as 1b would bo to peralst in using tho word * rogue” In describing. and culogizing an honest min. Tow nbout Judge Woods, who lavested $50,000 in tron works [iy Alnbuma and striotiy attended to his own business; yo. utter iftvon years’ residence In the State, bas been stigmatized as a “curpot-bagger” in the Senate of tho United States by Me, danas, uf Louislana, bimsolf born in Kentucky, brod in Mlinole, and a resident o! Louisiana only since ho conuuitted treason agulost bls country?) New York Nation: Wo havo waited a forte night toseo whether there would be any ree sponse to our Inquiry whothor the oxperlonco of the American people durlug tho period between tho adoption of the Constitution and Gen, Jack- son's first Admlniatration—ovor forty yours ft all—furnished any wcod ronson for fearing that arecurrenco totenure during good behaytor In tho Ciyil- deg would rosult in the croation of whaughty " aristocracy of ofticoholders.” Wo ofe foro to publish any ovidence on this point which any of our readers would be ood oncugh to fore ward, and wo polntod out that if apy such ovle donce existed, it muet bo within onsy reach, a8 tho ported at which tenure during good behavior ooaged was not very remote. ‘Wo bave recolved no anawor tu this Inquiry by lotter, and wo have not found any in any of ourexchanges, Wo theres fore fool warrantod in ponctuiting: that no such evidence oxists, and fn repeat that during the frat half-century of tho Republic tho ten- taro during good bebavior in tho surbordinate ottices was tried without rilsing or suggesting the“ arlatocratio” obsection: that nobody caine plained or thought of complulutty of it on that Houro; that tho Introduction of the progont 6y8 tom of uppolutment and tonure bad nothing to do with the manners of the ollico-holdore, oF with tholr mode of regardluy their office or of curryiug thomselves towards tho: public, We asked, too, when wo lout touched on this sub- Ject, whether the present systombad been rer wortod to with tho view of making otfice-nolders polite and wnpreasing thom with a songe of tholr dependunoe on tho people, and of the necessity of ingratiuting themselves with the publio by a propor discharge of tholr dutica, Nobody has ventured to nnawer thia question aflirmativoly. Even if tho old system of permanence fullod to keop the offica-holder in his proper place, lo badly ventures to nssert that tho pregont system has ourod tbls defect or waa resorted to for aud such purpose, Albany Express: Tho Province of New Notherland, ovor 200 yours ayo, was tho asylum of tho opprossed who tlod from befero tho f10e of tho poraccuturs of New Enyland,—and yet now tho lattor are fauded on our own soll as the | Ploneers of freedom! A Baptist rofugoe from New England was the scribo of Dutch and En- ulish colinists, when thoy first cnunciated 1m Now Nothorland the truo principtes of governs mont,—und you Baptiste huve forgotten Goorge Naxter, if thoy over know him, and think onl of Roger Willlamal Luthorana, and Baptiste, und other denomtnations woro protected from tho porsocutions of the tyrannival Btuyyosant by order of the Government of the Unit Provinces; and yet Luthorans aud Baptisl seomto hiye forgotten that thoy owe to the Nethorlands tbat which was denied thom by tht Varitaus! ‘The Dutch Reformed and othot churches of tho Presbyterian model fed ti way in the: atruggle for froodom it this country, .and thoy ‘gave to others the Nibortica wulch thoy demanded for theiaclvoay aud you these Now York Presbyterians porml tho ‘Puritans to olutin the primuoy rightfully bolonging to themvlves, ‘Tho Methodist Hplss soynl Churvh [the direct product of tho Uboral gplscopiuy whiol resisted Courics 1. while pro= forring tho Episvopal system; and yot atl the Episcopal opponents of Itoynt prorogatlve within and without the Episcopal Chureb surrender the Ute of leadership to tho persecuting Puritans of Now England) Tho erate old Chucter of Libors Hew, pursed by tho tret Geuorul Assembly tho colony over possesoud, when a Catholic was Gove ernor, iu ignared by those who bave the right to clalin'to bo bela to {ts framers; and New York fy crowded una sidy on tho very inland where Hint ret (netrutmunt was enacted! Now York atoudily malntuined tts Joudersiatp throughous tho contury which procedod tho Heclurution of Independence, and yet it bus tumely permittiod aw Bnglund to usurp ity pluge in bistoryt Now York Ted in the moveiuent far the union of tho colonies and for the perfection of | that union, und yet it full to assert the prond pre= eunluence It held! A New Englund dinner! Yes, Ive New Engluud all the glory whitch Is ber duc. ut fall not to reniember that Now York bus a record wore gloriuua still, oyeu it she dogs bok wagurt tue sho suould,