Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1881, Page 4

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Clark atrost, batweon fake and Rundolph, Engages ent of tho Thloiman and Woyland Dramatlo and welalty Combination. 0 Phantom King." Academy of Muste, Inlsted atroct, near Madison, Weat Side, Vorloty ortainmont, = Exposition Buttding. Lako front, upposita Adama atrect. Whalo oxhl- ion from a, m, to 10 p.m, “MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1881, TWENTY-FIVE Senators, constituting one- lird of the Senate, will be sworn In for tho rm beginning March 4 next and ending in 87, Five have already been elected—namely: » P. Gorham, of Maryland; J. Z. George, of ississippt; A. E. Burnside, of. Rhode land; George F, Edmunds, of Vermont; id William Mahone, of Virginin, Five oro have been chosen by. caucuses of tho njority party in their respective State Leg- Jatures—namely: Join F, Miller, of Call- nia; Eugene Inale; of Maine; Omar D. onger, of Mich{gan; Francis Mf. Cockroll, f Missourl; and: James G. Fair, of Nevado iyo more are conceded an election without, pposition—namely: Joseph KR, Hawley, of onnecticut; Thomas I. Bayard, of. Dala- are; Benjamin I, Harrison, of Indiana; entry L. Dawes, of Massachusetts; and Jolin hermnru, of Ohio, Four othors will prob- ly be revlected with little diMeulty—name- ’: Charles W. Jones, of Florida; Samucl all Maxoy, of Toxas; Frank W. lereford f West Virglyia; and AlgernonS. Paddock, ' Nebraska, Tho roal contests aro in 19 lx, remalning States. In Minne- sta there aro two candidates, Me- fillan, tho {ncumbent, and Ramsey, tho resent Secretary of War, one of whom will celected. In Wisconsin the choice’ Hes be veen Philotus Sawyer and E. W. Keyes, ‘he Penneylvania eandldates are Henry 8, liver, Jr, and Galusha A. Grow, with the hances much in favor of the former. ‘Choro re two Conkling candidates in New York, homas C. Piatt, who Is supported by the ornell wing of the machine party, and Rich- rd Crowley, who Is supported by the Arthur ‘ing. There are also nn antl-Conkling can- {date in the person of Chauncey M. Depow, 49 Now York Central attorney, and several ark horses, Mobeson Is lending stightly In ow Jerscy. In: Tennesseo averything is lll chaotic, with tha chances favorlng tho lection of a compromise Democrat, the in- umnbent Bailey belng already as good as de- sated, —— ‘Tir annoxed table shows the population f tho nineteen Congressional districts of iHinofs In 1870 and 1880, and the gain of each athe last ten years. The counties and wards omposing the present districts are taken for B70; Pop. | Pon, Pr ta, |. 4580, |Gain, | ct, 138,700 /244,007| 107,08]78 (+ | 2235,440) 105,576 )78 *{roana] 407] Diatrict. i 131,155] 141,15) 142} 155,007 120,020) 140,630 ‘Tg, 104) 148,003 1s 400) 15,007) HOG] 148,75) 10, TAY T1835) 2,057 23 (380| SARA) 18 ‘*Decrenae ‘Tho above table shows oxactly where tho Teatest galna of population have taken place, Theresults ay besummed np thus; (1) The ties generally have inorensgd largely; } the rural counties in the northern part if tho State have had less than a normal srowth, whilo tho rural counties in the southern part, or in gypt, have held thelr own. The difference Is well.understood to ba iye to the wlgration of Intge numbers of fariners and fariners' sons from the northorn counties to Coloralo, Kausna, Nebraska, Towa, Minnesota, ‘Lexas, and other States. ‘The, men of Southern Minols ara more con- pervative as a class, and they have stald where they wore and multiplied, It{a prob- able that by the new apportionment the City of Chicago will lake ono Congrossinan from th:northern Republican counties, while tha southary sMetricts under the Increased ratio will rematn nearly as at present. Outside Cifeago tha district which has increased most‘fe'tho Fourteenth (Cannon's), which contains several large towns, and has had a railroad opened up through it sinco 1870; and-“‘next comes the Nineteenth. (Town- shend’s), which ‘is the very citadel of Boyr- pontsm In Itnols. ‘ . Tue provision of the Constitution of Ill noja relating to the Senatorlal apportionment fe an follows: Aut. 1V., Heo. 6, The General Assembly shall spportion the Stato wovery ten yeurs, beginning with tho your Jsti, by dividiug the population of ‘he Btate as ascertained by tue Federal conus ay the number fifty-one, and the quotient ehall yo the Presentation in the Senate, divided into ifty-one Senne lerricge, each of whlch stud elvet one Beuator, whose tern of ofice shall be tour years. a ee Senatoris divtricts suall bo formed af Aguas and sompact torritusy, bounded by connty Hnos, and contain ag nearly as practien- We an cqual number of inhabitants, but no dis- trict shull contain less than four-fifths of the Ronntorial rntto, Counties containing not toss than the ratio and three-fourths jay bo tle vided Into separate distriota, and shafl bo on- titled to two Sannators, and to ane addittonnt Ronrtor for cach number of tnhabitanta equal to tho ratio contained hy euch counties in exccas of twleo the numberof said ratio, Tho population of Ltlinois is 9,078,690, which, divided by 31, gives 60,365 as the Senatorial ratlo, Cook County will be entitled to ton Senators, tnstend of seven, as nat present, Two other countics—Ia Salle, with 70,420 population, and St, Clair, with 61,185—have a {ull Senatorial ratio, ‘The. following. .six countics will each have & Senator under tho four-fittha rule; .59,148/ Peoria. 00,191) Sangam AVOTWIL ees ‘These six countles and the. two previously nientioned fiave each a Senator under tho present apportionment, No county now en- titled alone ton Senator will Inso its ratio, though Adams and McLean, which formerly. had more than 2 stugly ratio, will now have to take advantage of the four-fifths clause, the latter being nbout 200 snort of the full ratio, The threo Senators tiken from the country mud given to the city will have to come from the smaller counties. In other wordsyit wilt be necessary to {nerease the number of countics In severat districts [n stich o way that three rural districts shall be wiped out, ‘The following districts no longer contain sufllctent population for ono Send 42,231 00518} rweNTY-rouRtit., 1,627] Nenderson .. Tuncock..... Dall t The following districts have more than four-fifths, but lesa than n full ratios NTT. THINTY-FOURTH, 227,594) Christion . «-B1,070| Montgomery 80,054 1,318 THINTY-BIXTH. 010/Mason. i Te: Jo Davicas, Stephenson. TWELITH, 56,810 THIRTY-BIGHTI, 738) Scott... 10,71 Pike r 61077 FONTTY-SECOND, 14,873 bit Bh red YOUTY-RIGHTH, ‘Monroo, TWENTY-BEVE! NTH, TAZOWOIL..0,.00 0eeomtbert 06,017 ‘The following districts, composed of moro than one county, have a population In excess of the Senatorial ratio: FOURTEENTH. . | FORTY-¥LETH, 44,058; Clark... 21,000 19, 187| Crawford. ah Lawrence: TS, 0053 64,143; Juapor,, 14.515 BIXTRENTH, — Kune.... Du Pago Kankakee, 4,001} 66,208 Troquols,... 157 FOUTY-BINTIT. ——— TOMOKO sso 0 eee SO CFL 00,418] Hamitea TUIRTY- FIRST. White, 282) HilinG. . bay Gallatin THE ILLINOIS BIVER :AND CANAL IM- PROVEMENT. Gov. Cullom, in his message to tho Illinols Legislature, calls attention to the urgency of the improvement of the river and canal asn work of National Importance, but which seems to be disregarded by Congress for no other rengon than that It Iles wholly within the territory of IiHnols, Owlng to this toch- nieal objection the whole burden of con- structing that connecting link between the Inkes and the Misstusipp! has been hitherto borne by the State of Ilinols. Owing to tho want of means in the carler days of the State, and financial disasters Involying the Stato in debt, the whole oxpenditure by Ilnols up to this tine has been nearly $17,000,000, ‘Chis sum, {f expended directly on the work, would have more than completed the undertaking; nevertheless, the cost to the State has been none the less, ‘The State has oxpended about $1,500,000 on the river improvement, and xbout us much wore fs necessary te completa it. The cost of completing the canal will bo & much greater sum, All applications for National ald hava been rejected or retused because the State Js the proprictor of the work, and collects tolla to cover the cost. of malutenance and repair, ‘This objection Js jneyitably presented to our delegation in Congress, and the Governor Now proposesto put an end to this objection by an offer to turn over the entire. property, the canal and the rivor iinprovemont, to tho ‘United States, on the single condition that the work be completed and be made free for- ever to all the country, As, under our Consti- tion, tho transfer, lease, or sate of the canal can only be madeby thaconsentof the people, the Goyernor propases thnt the . propasition be submitted by the Logisinture to a vote of the pedpld at the next election, , re ‘This Js the policy of wisdom, not only for the State. of Illinols, but for tha General Government. ‘The work Itself la by uo means ‘Q local atfalr. ‘Iinols can do without tt us wall as can any other State, ‘The canal and the Uiinols River once sade navigable, there ‘Will be that full connection of the waters of the lakes with tho 13,000 nillea of rlver nay: gation of the Missisalppl Valley go long do- sired,” ‘Tho hmportance ‘of that connection was recognized as far back ay when Tilnols Was part of the ‘Territory of Indians, and Cougress half a century ago gave the amall donation of land which waa. then supposed suflictent t build the cunat,- The State, howover, in 1897 undertook the work alone, and did accompllsh the connection so Yur us opening the canal to Laky Michigan. ‘Time has, howeyer, rendered the work vompleted in t817 alfogetner ineufilclent for 1880, and alll more hisullleient for tho Inter-State cou merce uf the Lnuediate future, ‘the State af Nitiols now offers to the Gen- eral Uoveriiment Uy works ou which she has THE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1881. exvenited, first and Inst, fourteen mifilions, asking only that Congress shall cumplete the work to mevt the changed and enlarged con- dition of the Inter-State tratile, and river improvement isof more importance now, Lecause It connects greater populations and unites greater highways of greater trafic than did the Erle Canal of thirty years azo; ond part of Its fmportance fs that it connects the ontire Mississippi Valley, from Minnesota to New Orlenus, and from the Ohio tothe Mis- sour! River, with the Inkes and with the Erle "This canal Canal, There isn small mountatn stream in West Virginta,called the Kanawha River, whieh nas nrange of mountalns at its back and precipi- tates its wators into tha Ohio River, whieh alternates between an ineapnelty for naviga- tion from want of water or from too much tee. Congress has yoted to the Improvement of that purely local stream—the Kanawha—over $2,000,000, nnd estimates aro pending for $800,000.n year more to dam-lock that river up to the highest polnt at whieh the slightest molsture ean be found oozing from the foot of the mountains. That work when com- pleted will connéct nothing navigable. It lins no trade from above, and none from -be- low. It is a more succession of locks by which the nonproductive mountain inay be asvended and descended by boats with no defnit destination at elther end. Tho commerce of the Grent Lakes, aud of tho Erlo Canal, and of the St. Lawrence River will be connected with the Misslssippl, the Missouri, the Ohto, the ‘Tenneasce, tha Cumbertand, and all the great water courses of the Mississipp! Valley country, 12,000 niles of navignble rivers, by the mere enlargement of the work on which Lllinuls has oxpended so iuich monoy, and which needs but sronipar- atively sinall sum to complete, The inter- State commerce on the Hlinols River and Canal in one week even now exceeds afy poasthle trafile on the Kanawha River Ina century. Still, Congress has voted Mberally for this vurely local Improvement In West Virgluln, and not one dollar for the Ilinels hinprovement, {f the Legistature will taka the necessary steps, and promptly, as recommended by the Governor, the Ilinuis delegation in Congress can at this session ask that in the aypropri- ation Dill now pending there be Included something for this Improvement, contingent upon the formal delivery and-transfer of the entire property to the United States and the adoption of the Improvement as a National work. Further delay {ys trifling with tho public Interests both of this State and of the Unton. GRANT AND SHERMAN ON THE PRESB. The addresses made at the annual banquet of the New York Press Club by Gens, Grant and Sherman were somewhat remarkable mn a certain way, but their effect upon tho liflarfous crowd that Hstened to them was still more remarkuble, for, to judge by tha upronrious “Jaughter and applause” ' thot greoted the two speakers,the former utterly failed to comprehend what was sald, and construed broad sarcasm on. the ono hand and open censure on the other to mean undisgulsed admiration, if not ou- loxlstic praise, of tho press, which was as far from being the purpose of the speakers as thelr manner was from the ordinary rules of etiquet that should govern gentlomen partaking of the hospltality of other. people In tho capacity of honored gueate. Grant’s speech, from first to Inst, wasn satirical attack upon the freedom of tho presa in dealing with public characters, aid tho freedom with which be indulged in it was tantamount to a confession that ho Is not so stolenl.as he has been ‘represented, but that some of the feathered sinfty which haye been shot ut his political career have ploreed his armor and left n sting. But the great Genoru! overdtd some of his sarcastic passages; for instance, when ho insinuated that tho members of the press aspired to all tho offices, beliaving .thentselves capable of filling every position; when In truth ton Inw- yers are ofiice-seekers to one editor In pro- portlon to'thelr relative numbers, ‘The mem- Lers of the press are neither better nor worse than other men of thelr ability, Intelligence, and ‘ndwers of observation, nor moro con- sumed with an egotistienl desire to hold ofice, Gen, Sherman was more open and direct in his censure, .Gen, Grant attacked from be- hind cover at Jong range; Gon. Sherman mado Lis assault in the open field at short range. ‘That the members of tho New York Press Club should have lustily appinuded the sentiments of the two Censors, and not have mistrusted that they were belng Iect- tured and censured, argues that thoy had not turned thelr wine-glnsses down, but had kept tham well up and themsclyes well Med and fuddied. Gen, Sherman said some things which his potulent Nstenors will be slow to bellave. Iu toll them that their publications were notup to the standurd of the Chicago pupers in news, enterprise, or ability. Gath, commenting on theso lectures .of Grant and Sherman, observes: ‘Tho trouble with the prese in this quartor {a fait {thas too many plenyune resentuents, If one. editor takes a hand in afulps ho Je called a voxcomb, Another office tie’ list of names hanging up which are never to bo mentioned: and if a aletinguisned man on the Hinck Liat hurios his wife they disguise his name, or leave it out. Tho Western newspipers baya lon taken precedence of tho journals of New Yor in their Hberality of conduct, the amplitude at thoir naws, and thelr indifference to more pride of opinion, ‘Tho New York papers, located on the East- ern margin of the country, cannot see over the crests of tho Alleghenics, ‘The Chiengo papers, located Inthe centre of the Union, can seo In every direction, * But this fs not to the point so much as the observation that In tholr roprehension of nowapapers, which we conceive was mostly Intended for those which happen to be printed in New York, tho two noted Generals did not take Into account or realize low much has beon dono by these newspapers in building up. thelr own reputations. Gen, Sherman suld jn his lecture; Jf you suppose you can bulld wp: the fame of this nan and teardown the fume of that one, you fall into errar, Mon ara known by thelr deeds, You cannot puit down the famencquired by war or actual deeds done in battle, Romem- ber that men live by thoir deoils, $¢18 your of- fice to recurd thoso ducda, and to explain and bring thom inte harmony and conection with tho rost of the events of Ifo, Very true; but what were the agencies that did record these ‘“doeds,” that ox- plained the deods, that pratsed him far his deeds, and. that set his deeds in suoh glowing colors bofurd the people that lis name filled all the trumpets of fame, If they were not the newspapers? Unquestionably, : the ho- role deeds uf Grant. and Sherman speak for themselves; but when thoy were performed they spoko for themselves through the ugency of the ‘newspapers as recorlod by cleaoyed, able. men who marched with thelr arudes, and were frequently abused, {ll treated, and insulted by shouldur-strapped superiority, When Gen, Stierman com- plaing of combinations of the press to crush a person -ho talks wildly, Combinations of this kind: are tm- possible, ‘Ihe papers of this country, are hover a unit on anything that has two sldes tait. Politically, they are divided; commer cially, religiously, goctally, in every way, newspapers are divided; and no one of them can seek to establish a given point without Nndlng iteelfantagonizad at ancein a differont directton, Bor evary one newspaper that un fulrly attacks a pyblic jan, several others will plao to defend him, 1b would be Just as conalstent to accuse all lawyers of slander because tho prosecutors {a a caso ore 'Chiengo River. Gon. - milan the detondant. forts of the prosecutlun on the one hand and the defense on the other truth ts ar rived at ant Justlee prevatis; and so between the evidence and argument brought forward by tho newspapers which criticise n man and those whieh defond him, a given mean fs reached which representa the truth and re- flects the average popular opinion, Both Gen. Grant and Gen, Sherinan have run this gauntlet and come ont with fying colors, and ought to bo so well satletied with the dects- fon of tho American peoplo as expressed through the medium of American newspa- pera as to feel gratoful, and not to have np- peared fn such a disgruntled vondition be- fore n crowd of so-called inetropolitan Jour- nallsts too befuddled to distinguish the dif- ference between. censura and pratse antl lustily appinnding the hand that was laying on tha lash. ‘WHO POLLUTES THE ILLINOIS RIVER! ‘The latest development of the canal-sow- tige question 1a the preparation of plans and esthnates by which the waters of tho Dea- plaines River are to be turned into the Ill nols & Michigan Canal below the Sumit, the purpose being to supply that canal with water to the exclusion of any from Lake Michigan through the Chicagq River. Of course this scheme tg one of potty spite and Impotent revenge aliogether unworthy tho Stato of IiInols or its ofticers, ‘The onlysub- stantial cause pleaded as an apology for even the stigaestion of such n mensure fs the alleged pollution of the 1NMnois River and tho fnilure of Chiengo to take any effective steps to remedy or mitigate this annoyance. ‘The facts in this whole business are worthy of attvntion not only in Chicago, but also by all the people living alung tho Mlinols River. And we will just remark in this connection that from August to March, seven months of each year, the Desplaines only carries 1,500 to 1,600 cuble fect per minute, or less than one-tenth ‘as much water as the canal dis- charges at Lockport. ‘The orlgival d esignof the canal was to commect by a deep eutand broad canal the waters of the lakes with the Ullnois River, and thence with the navigable waters of the Mississipp! Valley. This plan was subse- aitently changed to ashallow ditch, which Is now but a few feot below tho level of the Inkes the present discharge of wator from the Inke Into the canal is about 20,000 cuble feet per minute. With the fee frozen to the. depth of two: feet, the discharge Into the emul probably doves not exceed 10,000 cubic feot per minute, and this is notequal to purl- ftytug the water after Its passage through the This water, {impregnated with the sewnge of the Chicaro River, emp: fles ‘Into tho Illtuoly River, and, with its strong and offensive oder, Is carried down, passing all the citles and towns on the way until it Is lost in tho Misstasippt River. Agalnst this, the peopleof these cities and towns protest, and, owing to their com- plaints, this scheme to disconnect. the canal with Lake Michigan is proposed. On the Illinois River there ure the follow- ing eltica and towns: Lockport, Juliet, Mor- tis, Ottawa, LaSalle, Peru, Lacon, Peoria, Pekin, Lewistun, Havana, Beardstown, and various other smaller places. Into the IIli- nols River is emptied the Kankakee, draln- Ing WH, Iroquots, and Kankakee Counties; the Fox River drains'Kano and Kendall Counties, with the saWare of ult te cities and towns, and the'vaghings from the dairy farms atong the Whole route; Jollet, a large city with imapy manufacturing establish: ments, Including the Penitentiary, with 1,500 prisoners, pours all herslops and sewnge Into the UMnols River; the Kankakee brings down tho sewage from Kankakee, Wilming- ton, and the mining towns; Morris runs all her awilll and.sewage into the Ilinols, as do Ottawa, La Salle, Peru, aud Lacon; all this putridity, the washings of elglht or more countios, and all the sewage of the cities with thelr stock-yards, datry-farms, distil. leries, tanneries, prisons, slaughter-houses, and = factories, are -carrled down to Peorla, At Peorin the water of the Illinois River $s heavily londed with the sewage of thatelty of nearly 40,000° Inhabitants, - and with the offensive matter from her gincoso establishment, hor numerous whisky distil- lerles, her cattle sloppens, her factories, | ndded to the stuf that comes from above, she sens tho sluggish stream thus polluted down to Pokin, Havana, Beardstown, and ait tho'places below.’ th ‘Tho Mlinots River from Lockportto Beards- town 1s n commoit sewer for all the eittes and towns, and all tho country drained by tho Desplatues, Fox, Kaukakee, and Vermilion Rivers, with ail thelr tributaries; and yet tho “people of these towns with ono voice ery out, that tho mpurity of thalriver is the work of Chicago alone! Jolfet,;|Ottawa, and Morris call upon Veorla to denpunce Chieago, and Peoria Insists that Pekig Is polsoned by Chi- engol—cach suppressing tho fact that these’ elties nll uso tho rivet as their only sawer, and pollute it as much a} they can, The canal when tis open pours 90,000 to 95,000 cubic fect of Iaka/water Into tha IIli- nols River every minutd furnishing it with the most of the water ih stummor, fnll, and winter, above the junetin of the Kankakee, that {t- contains, Durlgy the summer and fall months, whon the egnal fs supplied from the lake, the water It di{charges {nto the Illl- nols River Is comparatively clean,—ts In very’ little worse condition than the wator of the Fox. But little complagit In regard. to odor fs heard until the surface of the canal. is frozen over in tho wintér, and the water Is thus prevented from belgz oxydized and purl- fied by the alr. If Chifago uses the rivor as & sower, she docs 10 mete than all tho eltios,. towns, and counties onghe river and {ts trib- utarles now do, with fie addition that sho sonds with Jt n volumejof pure water suf liclent in considerable gree, when It is por- initted to run, to tho dfodorizing and disine fection of tha ‘Chicago sewage that passes thro’ the canal, Chicago, moreover, h: selfish, nor -his she. ben wholly indifferent to the convenience ant comfort of others, She has, at an expensepf $000,000 of taxes, not bean entirely provided for: the’ puriqeation of tho North |* Branch of. her river by pumping {ts inpure watora Into the Jake, ud notone drop of that Impurity passes Into the canat or’ lito the IUinols River. ph is ‘The present small. fgw of water into the canal from the luke because of the thick tea; not more than 10,440 cubic feet per min- ute can get through; when freo of Ica tho natural flow ts about/20,000 cuble feot por minute...” i . ‘The City Council of ‘Chicago A year ago, at the universal domandof her eltizens, voted the monoy estimated ns sufliclent for the pur- pose. for Incroasing ‘thjs dlachargo of ake wator Into the canal to 60,000 or 40,000 cuble fest por nilnute, a volume of, water ‘equal to making the Chicago River purer than the {Uluols River after tts receipt of the Peorls sewage, So far aa the people of this city aro concerned, all that. they could do to have that all-suflicient sanitary mensuro in full and satisfactory operation has been dono, ‘The Mayor, howeyer, bis tuken it upon hinis self to defeat tho action ot the Council and public -wish, Ho ralsed objections of all kinds, sald the money appropriated was not guiliciont, but did‘not expend a dollar ‘of what was voted, or mk for more, He sat down on the whole project and plgheadedly refused to take any actlon or do anything but tatk, object, and procrastinate, - But gu soun us the will of the people of this Between the ef elty can find fegal execution, the flow of water through the cannt, and thence down to oll the eltles whieh use tho Ulinois River nso common sewer, WH bé in such quantity and of auch purity that they will not only thank this clty for Its action, but will seek to forget the pettishness which suggested the Deaplatnes feeder ns a substitute for Lake Michigan, es To the Extitor of The Chiedigo Trine CM1cAgo, In, &—In an editorial this moratng on Finunelal Wisdom in Congress," Tag Tri UNE Says monoy in tho hands of the peuplo ia worth 4, 8, and even 10 pur cunt, and discourages high taxation for that rengon. Tf the fet la as stated, why td you ndvocnte a funding bill ota areyen{ per cent when mioncy to tho extent o! 600 or GOO ililions must come front these sang people—and come volunturily—to innke it suce cessful? Lam tot an ndvoente of high taxation, but 1 fail to Reo the cohoranee of your argument {In favoring a refunding of the bonds ata low rate of Intercat. J. A, GUHENFIELD. Refunding would Jn large measure be simply an exchange of bonds, ‘The National banks hold more than 200 milllons of 6 and 5 per cent bonds on whieh the ontlon of pay- ment acernes to the Government next July, Savings banks, Insurance companies, Stato banks, aud trustees for catates hold nearly nil of the residue of the 640 millions of these high-interest bonds, ‘The National banks, to inalutain thelr elreulating notes fn elreula- tion, must buy the new bonds,—ttnt fs, ex- change the oli fs and és for the now 8 or 3Y-per cent bonds, It is believed the other Institutions and persons holding the 53 and 63 will generally do thesame. It ts very doubt- ful whether even 50 milllons of the new bonds will lodge. permanently in any other innds than those now hold- ing the 6G ond 6 per cents, beeauso these holderg, for tha snko of absolute safety and Instant convertibility into ensh, can nf- ford to keep o lower interest bond than tho gonoral business, commercial, and Industrial classes; and in tho case of the banks, be- cnuse they en Issite notes upon the security of theac 8 per cent bonds. Persons acting ns trustees for heirs under wills seck Govern ment bonds on neccount of thelr absolute safety nnd non-taxabllity. no inatter how sinnll the Interest, rather than invest the trust funds in land mortgages and the like bearlug higher rates of interest, but whigh fre not readily negotlablo or salable, and ate liable to duprectation and Joss from panics ‘and other enuses. Ifenca our correspondent will perceive that the moncy for the purchase of tho refunding bonds will not come out of the pockets of the industrial masses and bua- {hess classes who create the wealth and pay the tuxes,, They cannot afford to tle up their money in 3 percent securitics of any kind. Farmers, manufacturers, and merchants can inake much moro than 3 per cent out of thelr | netive capital, and when they borrow moncy to putin their business from the banks or professional lenders they have to pay twice to thrice 8 per cont for It. Every dollar, then, of war taxes extracted from tho work- ing capital of the peopie to be used In buying bonds to save Sper cent intorest thereon fs nn economf{eal blunder on the part of Con- gress, Kelloy says that In forty years 3 per cent will amount to $120 on a hundred-dollar bond. Very true, but in forty years $100 of working capitul left in the hands of 2 trader, manufacturer, or farmer will carn him at Ieast $300; so that to save $120 he loses nenr~" ly or fully three times as much, Kelley con- cenlad this vitally {mportant fact, If he saw. it, and the other Solons. had not thelr wits enough ‘About ‘thom to see the error of his reasoning. Wasitnaton Tennrrony has made remark abla progress in population and wealth during tho past ten years. In 1870$t numbored Seth? inbabitants, Last June itbad Increased to 76,120, —boing a gnin of 100 per cent. The completion of tho Northern Paeifiv Ratlrond will give that Territory a erent impetus, and will pour an tuamense strean of imtnigration into It, The ollinate ts mild, motet,and ealubrious. The tim- bor fa abundant and maynintcent; wheat, barley, and onts grow aplenditly. A great oxport of Jumber to the naked plains of Manitoba and othor trectess Territories wilt take" placo on the completion uf tho Northero Pacific Hailroad. In th fa respeot {t will ocoupy the position to the Torritorles cust of f¢ that Michigan and bor vast pinerles havo done. to our pralrie country. dna little whilo Washington Territory witl bo kuooking'at the Gourd of Congress for admission nga State. Ina year from now she will contain mora thhn 100,000 inhabitants, a3 every veasel up tho const fron: 8an Francisco is dropping plo- Deor populatioy, and a gvod many ure going overland. ‘Wo ndd this from nnexchango: * .Gov, Nowell, of the Torritory of Washington, who scoma to hive brouxht to his now position ult of that energy and cnpucity for resenrch which tire characteristic of hin, prints many new und interesting facts in rogurd to that far distant corner of the country. Aniong othor things, he draws attention to tho fact that tho’ Industry of planting und culttvuting Hnastorn oysters in Pugot Sound ie steadily progressing, and he prodicta that ut no distunt day the Tor- ritory will beconio tho werent oyster-producing roction of the Pacitic Const. ‘Thetrattte tu cluins, too, promises to be very large. ‘This varlety of sholl-fab ta found in the greatest abundance in the sound, many-of tham growing to the ox- truordinary wolght of ton pounds, Ax to th anlmon (ishorics, tha Governor stutes thdt the catch for the tnat yeur amounted fo forty million pounds, Fish caught in Puget Bound were forwarded to every murkot jn the vlvillzed world, and tho re- turns to those engiged {in tho tradg amounted during tho your ta thore than $3,000,000, In this. canneotion, the Governor suggests that tho gids, & spocies of codtlal, though larger and of Muer davor, whieh is found In extraordinary abundance tu tho waters of the ‘Territory, could bo most advantageously dried, and with much prolit sent to the great cuntras sr be nrig ed in this and other countriva, In addition to these nutural sources of wealth, Mr, Nowell mentions tho fact that there Nes on Puget Sound 15,000,000 nores of 'the tnest timber lund in the world, ‘Thousands of tho trees are upward of 300 font {i hight und ten fect in dinmeter nt tho base. Ono stick of tinberrecently cut ineasured 1:4 foot in fongth and squared twanty'-four inches nt the amialler ond, Thu resources of tho Territory for enttio and shoep-riising sre represented us be- lug on tho same wonderful scale, and, wite~ ficthars Gov, Newell esoms to de fully justitiond n belloving that Washington te destined, in tho nenr future, to become ouo of tho great Btutos of the Uuton, pone rr Tue New York Tribune tho other day doublo-leadod ona of its editorials and endeav- orod to creuto tho auspluion that tho inattor was Inspired from Bfontor. It contained among Othor parayraphs this one: . Tho fucomiog Adwintatration wilt deo to it that tho wien from New York and frum other: Btutes who bud the cournye ut Chlcnze to oboy tho wishes of their districta In the bulloting for President, and who thus tinnily voted for Gore field, shail not eulfor for it nur lose by It. Thoy will not fall of honorablo recoxuition for thoir Jndepondonee, thelr courape. their resolute pur aultof the pulley thoy bolicved best for the Ho- publican party and forthe country, - x Several of the spoolal organs of tho ‘900" have beon commonting, ponderonsly and lugu- Urfously upou the Tribune's oraculnr utterances or Delphic ornoles, The Cinclnnatl Commercial, toss frightened than tho "306" organs, sves tho thing tn thts iyhts Tho Trifune means clearly, and wo have no doubt was uuthorized to say, that the “Stal- warts,” the * immortal b08" from Miseaurl, Ken= tucky, Virginia, aua othor proiwising Democrutls State, u fuw only buying Mepublicun conutit- uencies, ore not to he revognized by the Gartield Adaiiniatration as tho grout aad only Kepublige ung. They are entitled to the rospeut of the Ad- miintstratfon, but hot exclualyely so, ‘The Pros- idont would tndved * kick down tho tnilder by which hy has risen" it bo kickod against tho men who nominated bim, and the opposition ta Certain well. uuderstood tendencies In thy Roe publican party woich ho represonted, Itia tine possiblo to run tha Adininistration ao ug to piouee teak a Ho hav.tos thany ittlo ways hat are importsnt to bin, aud too many ennile tlea, nud hutes, and snocra, and prejudices. Ills Rene ability {a conceded, but big tinpracticabil- ty Ia still wrenter, 2f Gariiokt hud forty years of Presidential Ute before tla, it would tuko him tho whole the to reward Conkling’s friends aod punish bis enomies. It ia pot worth while to spend four yoara in efforts that must be inot> eo! tual, a ConanesssANn FeLton, of Georgia, olocted as an Judependont Democrat, it is assorted, is preparing a apeoch which will be a bombshell in tho Bourbon ranks. He thinks he was dofeated -at tho late cloction by a combination of fraud, torrur, and tissue ballots, and will contest bis seat. Howants an oxtra wossion of Congress called, 80 us to admit thu numbor really elocted promptly to thalr seats, and to koop from draw- tng & year's pay thoso who obtalned fraudulent: cortiivates, He olulmg thut a ropublican form of governinont fa virtually overthrown tn most of tho Southern States, witoh Ia tris. (In making Dla Nght ho represents and will havo tha ‘aym- pathy of tho Greonbaok mombers who wero counter out in tha South, Hoe docs not claim to ‘bo a Republican, but will do his best to broak up tho foreo and fraud Dourvon combination which now controls his section of country. Tho truth, coming from n Bouthorts Domocrat, will be bee Moved, evon though doniod by tho Northorn Domoerntle pross, Thero issome hope for tho South when Domoorats begin to tell tho truth about thomselves, —<—— Tur Cutcaco Thinunez spells thom " din- log,” * progenin,” ete.s but why does Tie Tine UNH stop at that? There are tiundreds of othor words domanding, according to its * thoory,” to bo spelled in oxact aceordance with ‘thoir sound. Cleveland Platideater. Well, how elso would yon spell dintog and pro- aram? What more letters do efthor word neod. to spellit? If thore are “hundreds of othor Words demanding” pruning, Is that any reason why a tail of altent lottors should bo attached to dintog or prograin? Would {tnotbe more sensible, for the 2-1), to lop of a fot of superfluous tot- tors from somo of. tho othor absurdly-spelled words, and thoreby sayo valunbic apnce now waster! and rondor its coluuins more oasily road by the common people whohaveuever innstered tho luconyruities, soleolams, and barbarisms found th English orthograty? A cuntous Insight into Southern polltics ts, furnishod by the curd of a Democratic vandl- date for Deputy-Sheriff in Atinnta. Ho att nounces that a rival candidate te endeavoring to “defamo ine by Inventing and clroutating tho roport that! ilrst came herons a * Yankee sol- dier* in Bherman's army," and adds: “I pro- nounco bis statement a malicious slander. I nover served in the Federal army." ‘This avowal shows tho kind of Natfonil and Amortenn senti- ment that predominates i Georgia, Tho nce cursed spirit of sceession-scctionallam fs atilt rampant In that Stat —————_-_ GAtusita Crow's enuvass was shockingly miemannyed at Morrisburg, He waa clearly In the lout tho day of the caucus, but somo of his frionds hud tho bad senso to placard the town with bills eutling for a enucus of “Tha Fold agatnat Oliver." ‘his gaye Oliver tho nd- vantuge. All tho mombors who wero aching to know who was to be the winning man rushed jim, to him, and’ Grow's xvoso was cooked in 1. ye ————— ‘Tins brewers of St. Louls, by a mighty aud concerted effurt, hnve raised 81,006.23 for tho Stute Immigration Society, If tno browers ot Chicago wlaher to entertain a fow friends for o. day or two thoy might subscribe that amount, but the chances nro thoy would draw cuts to acu who should foot tho bill, * oo Ay Ohio Domocratic newapnper remarks: Chittenden, of New York, is grieved because he wast benten for Congress py u Baptlat preachur, Why Chit. those Buptist preachors when thoy run for office aro flyers. Look how the Mentor prewoher got away with Hancock. a Tith newspapers agree in figuring out a majority for Phitetus Snwyer in tho Wlaconsin Legislature, It's clonr that ho has the polo at Present, But nobody knows bettor than an old pollticlun tho uncertainty of check Ista made up beforehand, Lot us walt and sce, —— Tre Raleigh (N, C,) News wishes {t known that that Btute has fifty-seven [small] cotton ffetorios in operntion on full time and still un= able to Mitt all thelr orders, and muny more in process of construction, <<, PERSONALS, Now that the hollday advertising season is ; over, Boston papors ure dull again, 4 Adolph Klocfel, of Big Creck, Pa, killed his wits becnuse sho wouldn't sing. There fs no verord of anylody boing killed: for refusing to play tho piano, : ; Tho San Franelseo Chrontele says that “Mr. J. C. Flood give $6,000 to deserving objecta Christmas-day." San Franelscu editors aro cor- tulnly to be onvied. “What Js there,” asics mi exchange, “mora oheerful and homelike than the busy bum of tho sewlug-muchines" Nothing, unicsa a bollor- shop cun be culled homelike. Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer, is trying to Induce tho peoplo of Vroy, N. Yi. to purchase and present to hima house. Myr. Mure phy'a check Is only cqualod by his willingness to dispiny It, . A vee Tho Now York Post says that ‘Readers of tho Princeton Revicw will be perplexed somo- what by a mistuko In the paving and binding. of tho number for January.” Wo noticed tho dis- erepuncy, but ascribed it to tho woll-knuwn acnuationul charactor of the publication. > Adolphe Thiors had habits of sleep so amazing that {tis hard to rpconcllo thom with rauonallty. Ilo inyurlably undressed and went to bed at 7 p.m, awoke at B.to dino, dozed In his chiir about 10, went to bed about midnight, and rova wt 4:30. Hs health suffered from any disturbance of those hrrangoments, “What docs Boycotting mean?” asks a young man in Peoriu. We huve not timo to ene tor. into 0 full explanation of tho torm, but you have doubtless boen onamored of 4 bonutirul boing whose futher falled to harmonize with: you, and persistently sat in the parlor when you ‘walled, A bouk couldu’texplaln tho thing better than this. Ah, Nps of woman !—rosy, tlpe,— ‘Thy amber mouthplece of my pipo To mo is twice as charming. ‘Whon one arrives at fifty odd, ‘The arrows of tho archer god Maye toast the power of harming. A wounded hourt will acho, no doubt) But then ono finds u twinge of gout Altice mora alarmiig, —Samuct Jones Tuden, For years old John Koop, of Iouston, Tox., has beon known wou miger. To died « few days ugo of starvation, refusing foud up to tho last moment. Io toft nt Icnst $40,000 in real estate and In moncy, owning much proporty in Hous- ton, Ho was n huter of younkind, and batod ‘women su much thut ho would uot even rent bis houses to one uf thom. Tho mlser lved in a two- roomed hoygl. When he was dying tho room was so dark that the doctor, who hud como vol- untirlly to attend tho man, ordered another oandio fyhted, but old Koop ratsad ble head and with hts dying broutu expostulated and forbado the extravuguuco, ——————_____ PUBLIC OPINION. ° Cincinnati Gazette (Rop.): ‘Uns not the tine fully como for Prusidunt Hayos to recat! Miulster Chriatianoy and thus, afford him full timo to attend in ponion to his fumily dittcul- ues? In the fuco of tho developments mudo within tholet Cow duys, 60 ia cortuinly a dis- graco to the diplomutic service of tho country, Clnetunat! Enquirer: Editor North amert- can Revicw—Deaut 81s Having undorstood that tho pon !s mighticr thun the sword, I bayoroctod off a few Ines on ane Nieanunis Canal schomo; also a poem on spring, I thought they my to Ht ine It yon print them piewse gene so copy of your Valuublo papor iu whloh they ap- peur. U. 8. G. Springtleld Republican (Ind.):. It was an untucky day for poor Christtanoy whoo that bolt oyutust Chondlor was, organized tn tho Miobigan Lowislature, If it hadn't boon for that tho old Judge would have kopt: out’ of Fang ‘of protty Troasury-girla, nnd doubticss ra- talned tho good reputation ho once hud, fustead of which be will roturn to Michigan a pitiable New York Trimine: Congressman Murd does not taake much’ hondway ‘with his free- trago mousure, Js brothor Domocrata huve tritlod with the hot ond of that poker all thoy care to for tho present, . Tho tarif has ceased to bo for them a mero local fasue, and ‘thoy prefor to treat it ne a dond isan tilt tho next Prosidon- tal oxmpain at least, In fact, a mau who should bot that thoro would bw no reference whuteyer to the turif in tho next National Pomecratic platform would not be ag entirely revkicus spo utator, a Now York Times” Mr. MoLane(Den,) of Muryland, in tho course of tha last debate on ro- funding, laid dawn program for his party which {t would bo very fortunate for them if they had tho sayacity to follow out. “I bollove,” ho said, “It will bo our duty In the future, as an opposition, to onforce upon the Government this he , that they shull not reduce roveous, but (isoy shall sudueo tuxadon. If the Homo eratlo party sult dolint uy udoptany wuch course asia bere Jad down, it will afford Btkonger ovi+ donee than {t bag yot givon that it can gin wis- dom from udversity. During tho thuo that it hus beon In power, (thas pursued proolscly the opposit polloy. It has not pald tho fuintost or most cursory sttention to the reduction of taxa- ton, and It bus, with tho asslatanoe, we regret to say, of a youd muny opublivqns, squandered reventio rlghtand loft, That {t way taliow, fs possible: thot tt will lo so ts not protas bly. ‘Tho purty bas no inteligibte principles In remard to cltlior {nxuston or fhianer, and, even Volopanne pposition, itis not Hkcly to dee Atbany’ (Nv -Y¥.) Journal (ep) Gon, Gartiehd has other.than porsount reasons Cor Ine viting Mr. Hlaino to hls Cabiuot. No othor man represents n Inrxer clomantin tho lopublican, party. ‘This was shown by tho zeal with which is candidacy was taken up and by tho voto h recelvod tn tho Convention. It $s proper. that tho President should aurround himself with the hest representative men of tho party... , That Mr. Binine will meot tho dotnrats ‘of the reaponalble position tondored hin muy bo Ins ferred from tho record of his pudite life. He hag Med many reaponsible atticcs honorubly to hime self and aceoptubly to tho people. As eretary: of State ho will prove himacit tho equal of tha moat eminent of bis predecossora, Fis selection will be nocepted ag an enriest of tho sngnolty and wisdom which will characterize the Adinine iatrationof Gen, Garfold. New York 7'risune: Ex-Senator Clingman, of North Carolina, thinks’ President Garheta weuld mako the South happy and hasten the ara of good feoling by putting an Old-Line Whig in bis Cabinet. ‘This is tho first nppearahco of thie familar sugeention for four years. It was hnide originally to President Hayes, and he was fo favorably impressed with ft that he adopted it, What was tho result? When the Old-hing Whig acleoted for tho place remarked In a wells meaning way that he thought tho Wur of tho Rebollion was a intstako, the Solid Zouth aroso fas one inn and hooted hint go loud and long that ho was forced in aelf-dufense to turn Repub. Mean. Tho experiment was a ridiculous fallu ala tel tacateate aaah ast , not tho slightest pruspoct Gon, Garhold will ropoat ite ee Peer Lansing correspondenea Detroit Free Preaa: Wo wero spenking of tho Impossibility of cheoking off a lat of mombers of the Legialas ture that would at all stand tho test of the noted Houle for Sonator, I roferred to a Welle nown 'gontlomen of Wayne County whi netuntly find iMfty-four votes pledge: Sten by. dolegates to a county convention, When the hallote warp counted out of tho hit he had but twenty-threo, “That reminds mo," anid Fredoriok, Dubl,*of t certain party who wished sume pas por discounted at a bank and to muko sure of tho accommodation eaw evory Director persons ally and secured thoir promise to advocate tho tuntter for him, Tho Directors met, the paper Was Alscussed, aud the Cashier was fnstructed to refuse tho accummodution. Tho much« offended holder of tho paper burried into tho bank parlor noxt day and said to the ollicurs and Divectorsy My opinion Is that: inutvigually you o ct yenticmen, but cotleative! are nothing but aaot of scoundrels,’ verges New York Times (Rep.): Tho only point in regard to the unequal operation of our tax system which aoems to have finpressed Mr. Core nell fa, tho atendy deerenzo of tho taxabl amount of personal property Jn presenco of th great inerenge in tho valuo of real property and of individual and corporate wenlth. The ‘Gov: ernor dous not accopt that ng a ‘demonstrat: of tho absurdity of our whole system of pors sonal tuxation; Inf ho gravely quotes an roverso thig ack, opinion that tho value of persoul property at tho presont time Ja quite equal tou falr valuas ton of tho reul estate,” and if he bus ronehed, Any conclusion on the aul eet at ntl It scams ta bo’ that tha cluatve entity known ng personal property should, somehow, be made to beur ag much of the burdou of publid expenditures ng real ostnto, Jt ia ovidont that no very profitable hints ‘ns to tho reconstruction of the Tax Inwg need be expected from the Exccutive Mansion, bowover much disposed the Governor iniy Lo to second wy well-cunsidured action taken by tho «Lepisiature,. a Clevoland Plainderler: Suppose the young Governor of Rhode Island, when firat bo ylolda to tho witchory of Kato Chase at tho: Kena Hous ‘bail, could have jooked twenty yea ahend at tho fato destiny bad in store for bim,. suppose sie could bave looked that far before bot with what horror they would havo recoiled from tho vision! And the honored fathor of th beautiful young bdride,—could tho ‘politica’ honors which were sbowored thick upon bi bnve ntoned for tho enrthly boll crented for bli by tho knowledge of tho slough of dfagrace pr paring for the petted daughter and ber rurally a ‘ho wife publicly charging a succossivn ot Jonthsome crtines upou the husband, the whi Qn outoust fram ber once-hapny home; the huss bund rotorting by tho employmont of legal scavengers toruke the pool of scundal, in t ardent hope that he fay comprom{ep the virty of tho mothor of ‘hia children! ‘© are, sure} without any refcrence to the merits of tho case, or tha amount of provecation on olthor side, that a more repulsive picture than this it woul: ‘bo impossibie to imagine. Cleveland Platndealer: It{is ensy for falr-minded mon to be decolyed by a supertictal: view of this. Irlsh Land-Longue question, It Is & pliusiblo assumption that tho English ara Justified in going any longths to subjugate a people who refuso to pay tholr rents and dk everything thoy can tu annoy and olroumvon' thoir landlords; but how dffferent the cast acems when we cone to look at it and can ap: preeinte the abjoctly wrotchod condidon of the poor, downtrodden ‘people of Ireland! Let n one express an opinion of tho Irish question tll ho bas studied It. It is etmost a crime agains Llumuuity-to judyo tha onse after a carciesa, off: band method, Amoricans should bo the Ins! persons in tho world guilty of this offense; fort their country was cridied in oppression, and thelr Declaration of Independence waa nimed ag tho grandfathors of those sume brutal landlords Perhaps it lg too much to oxpuct thut [relans can now win her judependenco; but at lcast hei presen, agitation should give her peopla agreat: iy uicllorated condition. New York Tribune: Dakota has sufleten' population to demand admission to the fede: don of Btates, Tho condua of 1880 credits It wi 24,502 [nbabltants, which ia about the avera, numbor entitled to a member of Congreas unde the apportionment of 1870. Tho conaus tuken in the month o' June, however. when tho Buinmer tido of immigration wis scarcely at Ito - Hood, Tho intlix of vow settlers was unusually lntgo the paat senson, und au enumeration taken now would unquestionably show a largo puin over the tigures given in the census fepart, qe the now busls of rupresuntation ahould bo ratacd 150,000, or ose 1 ae thore’can bo no doubt that Daliota would havo auwpty population to fil tho full mensure of its requiremonta by tho expiration of the time neccasary for kolng through the process of yotting + tho machinery of,a State Govornment in working | order “an prosenting — itself ¢ with two Senators. and a Representative for ade ;, mission tothe hntls of Cotigress, Thus thors can be no objection to givin her the privileges ;. of x State on tho score of deficient population. A valld objection imy be urged, however, on . necount of the vast xeaxraphical nroa of tha Territory, and the fuct that tho settled regions are not contiguous, but aro widely sopnrated and practleally isolated from cach othor, so far « a8 business und pouticat lifg gre concerned, Dukota cuntning 148,42 sbuaro nilles, It is three thnes as large as lowa, and nearly four times a4 jurge as Onlo. Itiloea not -uppear wise, looking to the future, to erect the vast, incongruous urea comprised yithin tho Hinits of Dukotn into nelnglo Stute. (lacks tho compactness, homo~ ouelty, and unity which n State should haye to jevelop n healthful political fife. ‘Tho proper course to take seems rather to divide It into * threo or four Torritoriea, of proper siapo, 6lza, und characteriatics to grow nto Btutes during thonext noxt decade, - The new Michigan Sonntor ts not loved by tho Democrats, on nocount of his hornot-like sting, whieh be frecly uaedon thom. The Phik adelphia Times (Dom.) commonts thus apitefully onblactevation ta the Senate: “ Holttom bas boon translated} The merry wags of the Michl- gan Legtatuturo, with an oxquisit satiric sense of tho dtness of lea have cust Bottom for tho Non's part. Conger in the Sonate! Harlequin ontho bench! It willudd a pang to Randall's regrot for tho Spoukerahip to thluk of 4 Housa that shill know that uerld voto, that utrabliious - faco, that hurloquin form no more forever. Rut tho Joy of tho Houso will dio before it crosseé tha cbrridaura of tho Sunate, Tho swelterod . venom of partisan onto of the Michigan mountes bank wil hevceforth distill ttself In that trans qt chambor dovoted to dulingsa and devoruny ‘That brown and dirty ron whieh Brat while sa se pialiiil transfixed the Speaker,that forky Now of eraboe incoherence that was wont to sot tho House by tho oars, will now enliven and exacerbate tho mock amenitics of the Republkun jords, The xnnuls of the grotesquo preseut no more plquant a transtormation thun tha testy, truculent, invoturato milschluf-maker of the Lower House prictleing his tuutullzing Noridities in the sotomi procedure of thu Bens ate, .In tho imporlal puyeant of tho Homad . Consul’s triumphs it was the of @ persone nye of tho Couger typo to stand beblud tho vices. tor, reminding bin thut be was mortal. Thd Michigan wits have copied this classic custom, It waa Conwer’s purt tn Congress to hold thi Mirror of 18 own indulgent Imbeellity High ubove debate, Some men are dora gour, s0nle achloye sourness, and somo hyve Buurnced thrust upon thom. Conger wus born sour nehioved sournoas, and thon Unrust it, ng a snak ts youu, upon al} who were uufortunatd + enough to como within reach of bh splttic. tls untics, uro they not ow Duimed in hywop in cvery pugo re oust ton years’ Proceodinent -fog-bora at ava tn dreadful sound, but tt the 1wuslo of the sphores compared to th sounds that Conor emita tu thosg moments 0 mallyn {naplradon wheu hecoutd dash thy Hou: with polnta ot onter as tortuous 48 own con: evlence. Whon Sung, tho joiner; Shout, tinker; and Starve (ng, tho tailor, caat Hulton for tho berola park hy wide inswors *1f [do i slot tho uudicnee 100k to thelr eyes; I will mov storing, Yout my chiof humor ia fora tyrant; could play purt to tear a cut in—te make, ‘au | split’ ‘The Wolverine butchers and bakers on candiestickinakers bivo done their work we a Tho audience will ‘split’ when, some fine any in tho Huo fury of lordly Roscuo's passion, t i } attenuated ture, tho bendy eye, the brow digit,tho sepulebral nari of the backwou™ Cato emerge upon the scene, transhxlog re rhapaody with un infinitesimal polne of orders The whirthelg of tiie brings ite revenges. saree Jy. Bluino inay betuke bimsclf to the Cabinet In'peace. Hu leaves a Parthian arrow, fashion in furlong ‘venom, to pleivo bls haughty antag | oulst,’ :