Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 13, 1881, Page 4

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OF JEILUSA- THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1881, ‘Tre Monroe doctrine was not syuinting at the pickax or the spade.as wenpons danger ous td the peace of the American continent. Good old Mr. Monroe would have thought as soon of fulminating a brondside against the power-loom or the locomotive. ——— ee ‘Tre Canadian papers elther do not wish, or do not know Yow, to get at the gist of the controversy relating to the Halifax award, ‘The Immediate question Is not whether Prof, Mind's. charges ‘aro’ trie, but whether ho shall be aforded an opportunity to substan- tintethent. lle says he can do so, and has in form demnnded-an investigation, A Gov- ermnent whieh really: desires to protect Its own honor cannot refuse to, listen to: so reas sonable a proposition, ' neers Pror, Sumtnen, of Yale College, in hisiate article in the Prinecton Review aseribas the , postponement of Clyil-Sarvies yeform to tho conatant ocetrrones of Natloual elections, In whioh tho iden Is mady ridiculous, ‘The only escape froin the evils of the present system, in his judgment, les In lengthening the Pres- dential term and atthe same time stripping the office of tho most important powers Which 1t now possesses to contro! legisintlon, go that it might not gain relatively from longer continunnee In the hands of any one person, hen the problem of Clyil-Serviec reform might be solved between two Presl- dential elections, . No Governor gave IMs people sounder advice nor put itin plainer language thin Gov, Pllsbury, of Minnesota, did in that part of his message relating to the State debt. ‘Those honest words should prick the consciences of the yoters In tho State who defeated the provision for the payment of the debt. dollar for dollar, Minnesota has no excuse for ablding in the slough of-diss Honorable bankruptey, ‘Cha State ts rieh. Itcan pay up, without feottng it, every cent due, It cannot afford to be dishonest; nor can the great Northwest, of which Minne- sota is so rich 9 purt, suffer patiently the Tepronch whieh has been cast upon tha Hinle section through that single act of bud falth, Aq’tho Bar dinner in honor of Judge Woods, at Atlanta, the Chief-Justico of the Stato Supreme Court presided, and the Goy- ernor of tho State, the Mayor of the clty, tha inember of Congress frum the district, and tho Judge of the Superior Court were among the persons who tendered tho dinner, Ex- Gov, Rufns Bullock referred to the mixed character of tho company, and sald: A gon- tloman’s soctal status la now determined tn thls Stato by his personal charaeter frre spectiyd of his polltient convictions? How Jong las that been so in Georgia? It has ale whys been go in the Northern States, But it fs still not true of most of the Southern States, Georula is probably the only one of al tho ex-slaveholling aristocracles to which Goy, Bullock's remark properly applies. ——e Tv ts stated that Mr, George I. Davis, of the Secqnd Congressional District, has Intro- duced jute tha House of Stepresentatives o Dill grantiug to the City of Chicago the right to sell or lease the thres northern blocks of the Luke-Front to ‘any persons: or corporae tions and on such terms ag the elty may pro- Serlbe, Tho bill prepared by dhe elty wuthore itles to enable the elty to give 6 quit-eluim deed of all interest In these blocksto the Ratt road Company had already been introduced » 40 the House by Afr, Aldrich and $n the Sen- ate by Gen, Logon, What the purpose and * object of the Davis bil can be ling not been definitly stated, nop is It disclosed with whont Jt orlginated, "Tho use of that prop evty for any other than Its orfglnal par. pose, without the consent of the owners of tho property on the west side of Michignn Byenue, has been affirmed by Judge Drum: uiond, and an injtinetion ta that effect hay been in forea for years, ‘Those owners ayo consented to the use of the three blocks foragrand railroad dypot upon the econdl- tlon of paylng to the elty $800,000, It 1s to enible the elty (whieh has nots ghost of leaul title ta’ the property) to realize this handsome sum, and to enable the property. owners to linproye the now vaeant nnd on the avenue with some degree of certatnty as to Its futuro uses, that these owners have consented to withdraw thelr injunction, and not otherwise, Mor this purpose, tho Aldrich Wii was prepared by the elty auhorities, ‘The Dayis bil, hi the absence of any exptina- tion} foots ken Job to defeat the mensure whieh Ig of 80 intel Importaner to the elty, and thay defent of which will pastpone fndedl- nitlt#e improvement of the nuw negleetedt and dilaptdtated property along Michigan avenue.” No sueh bill as that of Mr, Davis ts Tepresented to he, even if passed, would havo even a’sembianee of legal force, mud why It. has beet proposed fs a matter whteh requires explanation. or GR. Th Taiitsox, who will hy the next Republican Semitor from Indiana, comes from good old American stock. Is erent ‘Rrandfather was a Governor'of Virginia three thes, a member of the Continental Congress, and one -of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. — UIs grand: father tas President. Is father, John Svott Harrison, was a Representative tn Congress from Ohio for two terms, Ife has himself a brilliant record asa soldier=in the Inte War, ‘Nhe Regittican party owes Mtn something for aceepting the forlorn hops in 1870, after Orth had withdrawn, He stumped the State In’ that entpaign and again Inst full, Asa lawyer his abfiities are of the highest order, he having been frequently pilted In the Supreme Court of the State and the United States against Voorhevs, Hett- drieks, MeDonald, and other Democratic Jeadors, and invariably held his own, _—S———_——— ‘Tun Chinese-lnbor. seare tn California ought to subside, There are barety 0,000 Chinamen in the State all told out of a total population of $61,000, And the nimber ts rapldly diminishing. ‘Chery wit! be no tm ‘portation of .servile Inbor after the new trenty and the legislation under it go into effect, HH is quite unnecessary, under the elrcumstances, for the white men of Califor- nin to object to the employment of the Chi- nese already in this country. Yet this is what they are dolng, The Inst number of the San Franelsco Merchant contains 1 ree- ommendation of a business firm for the ren- son that “they employ only white Invor.? Suppose that principle should be applied in the Suuthorn States! Would not the whites of California then hold thelr Southern friends responsibte for narrow-minded race-prejudlce arid the persecution of an tnoffenslye people? A-xustnen of Seuntors continue to occupy and waste the thne of the Senate pettifogaing the wretched old mailelaimof Ben Holladay, whleh has already been thrice kicked out of Congress, and one rejected by the Courts. It wns shown on pravfons Investigations of the elatm that Holladay had been paid for more than his contract eallad for, but he got lls extras so easily that he was emboldened fo hold up his dish for more. Che present Impudent demand we belleve is for the tritle of halfa millon of dollars, It is sald that he has wired and dined a majority of the members of the Senate, and thus put them under some kind of viand and bibutous obii- gations to him. But have Senators the ight to mulet the United States Treasury tn. this way tn ilquidation of dinner feasts and champane suppers? In-Coisting this rotten clatin on the Treasury they are making records for themselves that may prove troublesome hereafter. ‘Tne attention of the Mayor of Chicago is respectfully directed to this passage from the report of tho Canal Conmnissioners: «+ Barly tn the present, feat the City Council of wo took auch netion as led 1s to hope that meusures woul! bo taken Immedintely to abate this grout niisines, and In fact an appropriation wis oindo by the Bourd of Aldermen with such an end in view, but'for some reason the mintter its beon permitted to rest without nny effective action bolny tuken by those In authority, “For some reason” the work has not been done. The people along the Ine of the canal have not been permitted to know for what reason, ‘They lave assumed that the failure was duo to want of disposition on the part of the city authorities to carry out the orders of the Common Connell, ‘Ti people of the elty’ Reuerally have had the same understanding of the facts. It la a pity’ that the: Mayor's aetion should be so generally misunterstood by a whole community and ‘State, especially as his fallura to net, not being excused or explained, hag had the effect of Increasing enormously the prejudices of the peapte liv- ing along the Hne of the canal and the river tugatnst the City of Chlenzo, —— GLADSTONE'S PERIL, Tho British Mouse of Commons has de- yoted n week to a debate on the answer to the Queen's speech, fy which the Irlah question hins been vigorousty discussed. ‘The Queen's speceh stated In general tarms that mensures would be proposed for the mitigation of {rlsh land troubles, and the debate has proceeded with great animation upon the supposed chnraeter of this proposed legislation. ‘The Ministry have refrained ‘from: stating ht ade vanes the oxact tenor of the bills they pro- pose tu offer, which they will'do when tho response to the address hasbeen voted, ‘The tuldress out of the way, the Ministry will be prepared with thelr hills, ‘The debate has developed anextraordinary complication of parties, ‘Che Liberal party embraces a largo number of nrlstoeratle Whigs, and these Whigs have always been more Intolerant than even the ‘Lorles on the atestion of land tenure. ‘Thoy are, in part, the bulwark of the British landed aristoc- racy, ‘They fnslst on the ninintenance and Wreservatlon of every right and privilege which the fendal system granted to the lords of the soil, “Mr, Gladstone’s Cabinet ts largely made up with members of this branch of the Liberal party: Enrl Granyilto, Seurotary of Stato for Forolgn Depaetwents the Margie ot Martingtan, Seuro- tary of Stuty for Inding 1. 0. 1, chi Klord, Secres ry of State for Wars Lond Solbaurne, Lord tne: High Chancellor; Willian E. Forster, Chief ous rotary for Ireland; Lont Northbrook, First Lard of the Admiralty: Duke of Argyll, Lord Vrivy Senly Karl Kimberly, ata A of State for the Colonial Departments John right, Chancellor for the Duchy of Lunoaster; Joseph Chambor- Jain, Prealdent of the Howrd af Trade; Join Gouurge Dodson, Prosidunt of tho Local Govern- ment Board, Of course the whole Consorvative or ‘Tory Party, representing the nobilily,—the aris- tocracy of birth,—is opposed to any change ‘In the Irish land system, as thut will reduce tha incamowe all the noblo fatniiies awning tho lands of Ireland, and will, at the sano thae, woaken the land-monopoly futerest of the “Order” in the whole Kingdom, On the other hand, the Irish members who demand areform of Irish lund tenures number 83 of the 105 Iris members of the Louse of Com mons, and united with these aro the English Radicals, who represent the great bulk of the English peopto, as distinguished, fromtho aristucracy of money, of land, and of birth, To the Ministry "Js committed’ the tnsk of presenting bis whieh will command « majority of the House of Commons ropre- senting these wigke-opposed policies and f1- terests, ‘The Whi#ayembers of the Liberal party have, durhig the present’ debate, threatened the Ministry with defeat if It dare attempt nuy radleal reform of the Irish rotten fand system, or ff ft falls to present the most coercive micasures, such js the sts Denston of the Habeas-Corpus act, ‘he Rad: deal (aud English) branch of tho, Libera! arty Instat on legislation ntninly sucli as 1s daked by the Irish members; and containing substantially the propositions of the Land Lengue, j Under thesa elreumstances, with his own party rent Inte factions, and the Tories united Agalnst him, Mr. Gindstone Is to present Dis which heexneets to become laws, oF, in ease they fall, he will be cotnpetted to ttts+ solye Farllament and appeal to the people. If the billy be defeated by a unton of the ‘Tories, the Whirs, the’ Radteals, and the Irish, then It willbe nsetess to nipedl to the country as ngalust sucha combtintion A compromising, hatt-way policy will conelll- ato;none of these parties. ‘The Issue must, therefore, be a direct one. Mr Gladstone has MMimself within a short tine deelared that tho Issue in Ireland fs, whether the peas pie there shall hive the right to exist. "The possession of the Jand is essential to the pres ervation of the existence of nine-tenths of the beovle, At present..and in all bad: seasons, they enn hardly ‘produes enough from the Jand to supply them with foods and under tha present law that food is taken from thent for rent, and they are expelled by foree from the land itself, to ye or dis nd-best thoy may on the roadside. ened he declared that itt Stofand the fssuo was whether these people shoull be permitted to live ureontemned to starvation and death year after year, Never ling the Irish auestlon been so thoroughly discussed in Engtand as it tins deen this year, mul never lins the sense of Justice and humanity of the Uritish people been so enrnestly appenled to ng it has been recently, What will 3fr. Gladstone do? 1s courage is unquestioned. Shall he wreak with the Whig nobles, and, uniting with John Bright, Joseph Chainberiain, and thelr Republlenn followers, propose such legislation as will destroy the feudal déspotism of the Irish Annd system, antl which will give to the Ivish who live onthe Innd the withnate right of pttrebnsing the. soll at a prico to be deter- mined by legal valuation?’ On°that direct issue, ong of substantial and radical reform and rellef, ho niust expect defeat in Parlla- inent—In the House of Lords If not in the Commons,—but he will have a living ques- tion, a plain and distinct tssuc, on whieli to go before the people, Ino iis sie port he will haye the areat bulk of the Nonconformists in Englands lho will have the support of the cities and towns of Great Britain, and will be opposed matnly by the Squirearehy and those who inhabit the estates of the landed Lords, Whig and ‘Tory. Ié will be a memorable struggle, and on Buch an issue, presented In his own terms, the rightof five millions of Irish peopie to exist by’ thelr own labor, or that faintne and starvation be made permanent in one of the British Istands, he will, whether successful or not, take a commanding position among tho humanttarians of the world, Christian England, however, will not dare to vote down such proposition, The elvilized world will treat with horror any sueh formal declaration in favor of perpotual famine, ‘This Is, however, the present situation of the British Minister, {To will bé competed totake strong and radical positions on the Irish land question. ‘fie landed proprietors do not propose to yleld onelneh of their power or prerogatives, ‘They will fight to the Inst, and the great struggle will haye to take pinco sooner or later, and It mny as well come now as aftur several other ylsitations of famine, disorder, rebellion, and anarchy. ‘There can be no peace fn Treland until the people who cultivate Its soll are allowed to retain cnough of their products to support fe, Y THE SCOURGE OF DIPHTHERIA, ' Itisacheerful feature of the struggle of sclence ngainst disease that white the wedlenl men are still groping in the dark as to the origin of and ‘remedy for that remorseless seuurge, diphthorta, theyure activoly and res: olutely engaged tu its study, and that, ns other ctsenses of nn optdemte character ones thought to be tnenurable haya ylelded' to” their skill, this sudden and fell destroyer . may yet be confined within the Nits. of their selence, and brouglt under subjection. The New York Stato Board of Heatth have recently beun Investigating the disease, and they have established one important fnet— namely: tliat, even If it does not originate In filth itis ageravated by it, and is spread by the neglect of drufnage nnd sewerage, which Is very. common among the poorer elnsses; In their investigations they even found diphtheria prevalling in the Iighest and niost salubrious parts. uf ‘the State, but in every case there was found 2 breeding-place for It which might have been Avoided by the shuplest. precuutions. ‘Thoy also discovered that, oven ‘after the dlsensa had broken out, there was the same tzno- Tanceand cnrelesness about It. Patients were not Isolated, and rooms and clothing were not cleaned and disinfected. Ono instaned fg reluted as follows: “At Northville tho first fatal ease was that of n chia, and, in gross ignornuce ‘of the fearful danger to which the neighborhood was exposed, a pub- Ne funeral was held ina churoh; the corpse was carried iu by child berrers, companions of the end one; the church was crowded, principally with children; a sermon was prenehed, and the body was followed to the grave by along concourse of people, young and old. ‘The result was not one that should have surprised anybody, The funeral in- feeted the whole villuge, and In a week thera were forty-slx cnses of diplithoria In the place.” Rusein seems to ba-the favorit locallty of the horrible disease. In tho Province of Kharkoff, 13,000 peopte have uled of It In two yenrs; and that it does not of. necessity arlso from sewer-gas polson Ie well shown by the faetthat thereare no sewers In-that province. Investigations in that province indicate that the home of the disense, ‘ns In tha caso of cholera, is in India, along tha low, stenmy plains of the Ganges, and that it has traveled, Ike the cholora, tnto Russla, and las spread fu spite of the efforts of the Govornment to prevent $t,—for the Government caimot keep its people clean, and of all people of earth probably the Russian pensanta are tho dirt- fast In tholr clothing and bodies, As there has been quite an extensive Russian emigration ta this country during the past year or two, itis vory naturally claimed by some authorities that they may have bronght {t hore In thelr clothing, packed away In cheats during tha sunmer and brought aut for wear in winter, Lf such bu the cnse, the disease could Le dealt with very oifectunlly by a rigid system of quarautiucand disinteet- ing of baxgago; but thisis not suiliclent to necount for its appearance in sume of tho lenlthiest localities Ip (ils country where a Atussian was never soon or heard of, An Jntoresting paper upon the nature of the disengo was recently printed {n the New York mes, written by Dr. Kerr, af Pltta- burg, the substance of which is thus stated by the Tunes: Whatever muy bo tho nature af the disoaso,— a floating germ in the afr, or oven the fornine tion of a false Biembrane tn tho thront—ln Its curly stage the disorder fs purely local. ‘Tho Inembrane, which ta Orstrarilye spoken of ne a Mouus, can bo retioved by local Aupiientiont, Dr. Kerr sugyesia w rather powerful lotion of hydrochlorig veld and glycerine, Wut the ino. Ment the uembranc forma the patient ts threut> oned with nother and far moro dungeruus mulady, While this process in tho tongila {ts golog’on & virulent polson fe distilled in tho helgoborhoud, “This secretion, an {uelgaiticant winount of whieh is suiiichont totupregnate tha bystein, pigsea from the tbrout into the wlumach, producingfacute gastritis, and thenve Inw the cireulatiun. The system bevowes much des pressed; the aotion of tho beart and brain is lowered, Ordipurlly, ta tho verge, und sometiines to the worst condition, of parulywil, aud the pus Went dios, not, ua is supposed, from asphyxia, cavged by tho stoppage of the air passage, bat front the presones of « virulent polson in the blood whielt Tahun the budily functions and auenches the uctivity o£ tho vitulorgund, ‘the the publica withty:compotly, Tem cimnot withont proper treatment cocetyd, roinforecment In tho way of new tissue, for thd stomach belng wrentiy Infamed, feunable to nse aiinfinte fof for the teplenishine taf Lhe wasto! that has tuken place or restore energy to threw alr tho, Hust Hut. tha wrorbht eomlitions oned thoroughly anderstood, trentinent to esrrespond shoukd nat be hand to tad, and 1: the symploms with appropriate remedies, detaches the Above fan re eta io ‘alse membrane by talng the wash Mia Inte tho stomach a aiinpte pration, catained mngnesin, to ant neutrilize tho aiphtheretia poigon and Rent remove it (einen tho mute Ural channels, Thia provonte It tneaing into the elreuintion. Meauttine hy supports dia patient | Upon nutritious anil Pousieeitunt tood, until the erlais of the dlaorger Iv rencherd, when wine, or. if necessary. whisky anid brandy, are coplotelye antininigtensd to ahd in clita ting tho lingiir tes aad throwlng off the clitieh that threatens: to choke the Ife ont of teact aud bran, and, { with care and attendion, the tone returais, the voldon Is climinatet, the functions are unturally discharged, the membrine covses to form, anid the polsonons sécretion fs no longer provided, Whethor sanitary violations aud neglect of cleanliness ara the catises of dlphtheria por- haps has not yet been suficiontly estab- lished, but it Is Well enough known that they agerayate ft, that bad drainage and sewer- age tnd nceumntttations of filth aud the pres- ence of bad alr are tts most constant egm- Minlonsy: aud that. wherever It extsts these conditions ave to be fount. "This negleet ous not always occur smoeng the pourer elnsses, Even among well-to-lo people tlonniiness ts not ntways observed. ‘ho alr In houses, especially in voll weathar, Is ale lowed to gro fort, nnd the fresh aly, with Its life-giving principles, is reldly excluded be-*| Catise it‘eouls oi the house. Careless serve Ants are Allowed to throw 'slops'ont of wine dows,’ Vegeinbla matter decays tn cellars Awiobserved, “In rural places wells, become bolsoned with the drippings of cesspools. Owners of houses neglect to attend to the Joeal drains or are tog mean to de it, while y tenants. can’t alford to place them in order, Prof, Chanter, of the New York: Board of Health, in a recent, communieation to the New York Eventny Post, says; “Men who Will spend thousands of doliars on patnting: and gilding and carving their houses will not spend ‘one cent to make. sure that the alr they and their families breathe ts not reek- Ig with dangerous hnpurittes, which would Make their hair stand on end with horror could thes see them magnified a few hun red times.” As we sald atthe outset of this Artlele it is cheering that medical men have commenced a thorough tnvestigation of this disease, whieh ts rpidly becoruting as terrl- ble an epidemic ns cholera, Though jt does not sweep off whole towns and villages, and its progress Is slower, yet Its results are. equally fatal, and itis on the Increase every yenr,—nn fierense, however, which might be stayed by the-vobservance of the ordinary Jaws of cleanliness ant health, TELEGRAPHIC COMBINATIONS. A couple of years nzo, or less, nents were sont from New York throughont the country fn the Interest of 2 new teleeraph company, They had tlie most captlyating pictures te lsplay of the future possibilities of an Inde- pendent, non-pooling, competing telegraph system. ‘lhe, existing facilities of the \West- ern Union were to be duplicated for about $10,000,000, wiille the stock of the old com- pany represented an, Investment nearly five thnes ns much. The sum of $2,000,000 was represented to be guilcient to establish u etre enit that would embrace about four-fifths of | the business done by the old company. ‘The hew concern way to hayo larger wires and closer set poles, so ns to withstand any storm; Improved machinery and more.expe- itlous methods, It was to reap tho benetit of the oxpiting contracts whieh’ the Western Union: had with certain “prom: lnent vellroad . lines, But -its:: princl- pat mission - yas “to break down the existing telezrajifite monopoly,” A u rates, anil it wadinever to pool or coi with the “ odlous old monopoly, et Was this rosy prfsentment of the f attracted all thoneeded capital, ‘Phéamount of stock assigned to Chicago was quickly subscribed, and" Wo presuine the sntiie wns the case In other.citles, Aas The naine of -this:telegraph company that enme before tha’publle in almost'a benevo- lent nititude Is the “American, Union,” which is now repurted to have pooled,..com- bined, and sold ontto the Western Unton, Just as Its predecpssor, the Atlantic & Pacific, organized with ashnilar high-sounding mis- slon, hnd done before. Itis entirely prob- uble that the selling-out scheme, In spite of all protestation, was contemplated by the in- yentors of the selemo from the first, and that the whole Job was englneered by ‘the, samo nen, who now fud the reward of thelr virtue and unselfish deyation to the public Interests in several millions of dollars which they “have biackinalled out of the oll company. ‘Tho now combiuation of thecompeting telo- graph Mnes ting an Intorest for tho public only as itnffects'rates and service, 1f the how arrangement shall not result in another effort to fleece the publje it wlll bo a matter of no special eongern who has' made money or lost ‘inoney by tha affaly. ‘The consoll- dated company will now, obtain control of all tho Hines, thi patents, and the fneilitles en- Joyed heretofore, by the competing compa- ules, It will bo inn position to transact an enormons amount-of business, and, by fol- lowing the course, of the English Govern: nent telegraph,—lowerlng rates to an extent thot will actually compete with the ninils,— an Increased profit nny be earned contempo- ranconsly with decreased rates te the public. Such v polley would probably avert tho mennee of another organization, mada-up perhaps of tho yery same inen, to annoy aud finally compel a edinpromise at a large ex- pense, and nothing less will satisty the peo- ple, Moreover, exportence In other countrles has shown that tho miniinwm of rates pro- alucea the maximum of busliess, and the &router aud surer profit in the long run, NOMINATIONS FOR THE SENATE. Tuesday was 9 flold-day for tho nomina- tlons for tho United Btates Senate, Messrs, Harrison, Maw dInte, and Shorian see cured the prizes In.fhelt several States, and, with the exception. of New York, Penne sylvanta, and Now ‘Jersey, ali tho contests Kaye been practically determined, ‘Tho re= sult will bo not «merely to add to tho numerical strength of the Kepublicans in the Senate, up to the very pulnt of the control of that body, but also to increnge the ability, force, aid usefulness of the Republican sie, Gen. Unrrlson’s nomination tn Indians wna foreseen sone weeks ngo by all who pald any attention to tho matter oxeept tho few competitors who were ambitious for the same distluction, Only two of theso—Messrs, Orth and Cumback--remalned in the fel up to the close of tha contest, nid thoy then became so convinced of Hurrisun’s superior strength that they withdrew and left tho way open to lim. Much will bo expected from Gen, Harrelson in tho Seunte, “He Is not so acute a politician ner. perhaps & mon of go much foree as Morton was, but he fy sn ablo, lawyer, nud por sesses fino addressand personal qualitles that are calculated to glye hima favorable tutro- duction In public Hfe. While it is a inatter for congratulation that Gens Marrigon,; og a° Republican, suceeedy Mr, MeDonald, itis a matter for regret that it ls not Voorhees rather than MoDonald who niakes roont at this time for 4 Ropubllea? successor, .dfe- Donnlu’s career in the Senate, thaugh bound dawn tos partisan support of Democratlo nienstires, Has beun more consistent and Nov Uonnl than Uiat of most of his party col- leagues, ‘There aro’ muny Democrats who ie TRI—TWELVE PAGS. | that Senator MeDonntd, Gen. Thwley’s nomination for Senator froin Coftttettent ts satistactory from every plat of view, Tle suceceds a man (Batdhiy wh has been otnt+particutar gurviee to the equitry and no particular. eradit to his own SlafonrRatay was a bad Copperhead daring the Wanandihag beon an intense Stite-sov- erelanty ndyotatd since. ‘The Senute 15 0 National body faavell riot tlm, Cen, Hawley bas nada n respectable appear- fnce Hialkehe public positions he has oceu-, “flea Uierat, md ht dignity, thoughtfilness, ant Alnitiss! Neon tu ft lim peeuliarly for Senator hialors and ditties. Me ts not the kind of HAN (b obthnde himself upon piibite notleg, but Te may be safely trusted to be on the’ rhslit, ate pf tho great publle questlons tint Attest Phe noyal ih gf John Sherman in Ohio Was assiytyd Ht fy the moment Goy, Foster yitherewad29ny tho cotitest in that Sinte, rut Is returtso,hg, Senate at this time may be properly pegariicd as the most sitable se- ivetion thaticankl be made from tho ‘lars alock of public mon cultivated fu Ohio, ‘The omination has been the sequence of a curl ous combination of elreumstanees, Mr. Sherman. wi How suceeed ta, the seat In the SeriAGy‘to which Gen. Garfield had already byqy elected. Gen, Gartleld will beeomo Presldest through a nomlnution for which heat tirsthurged Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sher- ninn’s willingness lo return to tho Sennte re- iMeves Gen. Gariletd of ts troublesmne embar- assnient In maling up his Cabinet. Alto- ether, therefore, the homination of John Snerman for the Sunnte ts afortimate cir- fsunstanee, and the story that he will vacate Abo seat nfter "his ¢étectlun in fayor of Gov. Foster, and in ordor to return to the Cabhict, is extremely fmprobable, Mr. Slierman's long experience fn legisiative affairs and his éontinuous connection with the flnateinl in- ferests of the Nation will, make hin in tho future, ag he was formerly, a useful Senator, Mr, Hale, of Maine, who has been noin- inated to fill the sent now. oecupled by Sen- ato? Hamlin, is a comparatively yourlg man, but during bis seryico In the Tome and. in other phases of political life within the past few years he ling galned an honornble repu- dation, Ie is a man of wealth and apparently Rood nblitty, Tis presences will probably be felt {n the Senate mote than Senator Ham Un’s has ween during the Inter years of his public enrecr, Gen, Miller will be elected from California. Like Senator Booth, whom he steceeds, he went lo the Pacifle Const from indiana, and won his way to pronnence by his own effort. Mr. Conger, who gous to the Sepate from Michigan, wilt carry with hina. deelded ability in the tneties of politics, and a chronic habit of objecting, which, though it may be oceastunally a thorn in the side of that rather formal body, may not be without its uses, Tt remains for New York, Pennsylvasia, ant New Jersey to complete a respectable lst of new Republican Senators, nx. HAwsry, tho coming Senator from Connecticut, Is 54 years of nge. Ie was born in North Carolina, but has lived all his life in Connectleut. Hamilton College, in Cline ton, N. ¥,, lind the honor of graduating hfs ‘Though he began Hfe asa Inwyer, and prac teed forsix anda half years, ho las been an editor and a politician fn the best sense since 1857, Hoe serveil trough the War; was elected Governar in 1860; acted 9s President of the Convention that nominated Grant, and as Presidentin’ Elector in the same year; was a leading member of the Conventions of 1872 and 1870; was President of the Conton- fal Convnission; and has been in three Con- iBresges. Gon. Hawley [s a, good speakur, anda plain; practical thinker. Ho Is one of tho most original and independent meir in Bilblic MMe, getting his opinions at‘first hand, nud stleking to them-as longas he belleves them, fo bo ‘right, When if Platt was elected to the Senate in 1879, the real contést was betweert ‘ex-Cov. Inwley and ex-Gov, Jowell, ‘Pho Inticr threw lils forces ver to Pintt and nominated hin. Since then den, Hawley hag never iibated his resolyd to b6 the Senator from Connectient Iv 18st, Ie has practienlly achieved now tha strongest purpose of his fe, and those who know bliin best will agree that the honor fs well de- served, Coxanresstan Hupnnny thusceseribed the present condition of tho penston business fn consequence of the demngox enuctinontoft Dems ogee Deoring’s bill to rob the taxpuyera of tho United Btntes: % 8 ’ Tha Pension Bureau is to-day Hterally snowed under with Porites clains, and the chunces ure that fraudulent clits which dave bucking will be the first to be put eee Hore, sir, tha rst paymont ig 81,100, Can it be pusaitlo’ that by the Arrearage act we propose ta penslon overy camp-follower, every nan who, without doing any service, was injured during the War of the Rebellion?” Mr. Chnteman, It Is time to talk plainly and squarely to the Amertonn peo. ple upos thlagubject, Whilolam jn favor ut paytis i pension to the deserving soldier, gett in Ivor of duvining some eystom which shall give At to bin specdily, yet Ldo not believe that ull the pending olaling are of that kind; nar do LT belfeve that the stow system -undor which wo are now. operating willaver gnablo ns to pay to tho honeat clalmuint his just dues, Ie ia cine that the American Congress should look this issue falrly ip) tho faa | There should ba NO | goutimentullty — nbout. it. Wo have undertuken to Pry, out nearly $300,000,00 to tho dofetiders of our country, If thoy nro hone eatly entiticd to its but, it God's namy, Mr, Chalemaiy let ae. throw around this aya all tho'safeyiiards thit we can, Let us moe pay ont this monéy on 4 mere ox-parte und prima-fuola ciee, Muga vp, perhaps, by, an Incompetont clerk, It will thie be sven’ that under our present atein anybody enn: gotn pension who. 6 Willing te tukoe a false onth. A jin ny put, in clattns of porsons who noveraxiated uswilaws of private soldiers or.of officers, Tho Colunol, the Mujpr or sine oMecer of a company mi have beep killed; and, knowing that no ono Wii ever jnqhire into st, 8 man inay got allidavita that tho fraudulent ‘clainant. applylug te tho: widow, ‘tho proofs inuy bo apparontiy in’ proper shape, and yot the clalm- nut bo adtetltions character. * It fa whilo this ts the condition of the pension systom that Congressmen, taklig no ateps to. first reform tho Ins nud rpot ont tho frauds, propose Jn make the enormous present burdens of tho sygion: still more nioustrous ud uppull- cy a ' i — J — A rAthsrampicixe pan hog offered o prizo of Fa) for oyery ngW' comet discoverad, ‘The astronomer of the Prpvilenco Jaxruat oyl- dontly ageg a gold-mine 1h this promise, for‘ ho suysr? of 5 4 5 Tt looks now asit Mr, 4 would bo responsible fora greatwunny prizes for the heavens of luto have swaryed with fu ye tidoant bits of star. dust hardly desorytng MO name of comets, tulle Joga and sontdtines boudiey, and never Bean ex- cept by the gstronomary who pick thont ue ta thoirtele He. and Hie hore talk about thom int 2 naa pors thutl they ure worth, ‘Those telescoplo Guitats fre adneur to nothing as any. thing connected with th rt ozlustial world cun Le, unless it muyibe asteropls, 1 Patciitemedicie philanthroplat probably did't hive tefewopio ddinuts fu bismind whon ho nade bis generous offey., He was thinking only of that big comet wi Ke fe to full into tho sun some tine thia yeat"hnt burh everything to aghed, exegpt the North Vojo and thosd who aro ducky enougl to get aati Uris onintime. It would bo muney In?dny ‘inan'a pocket to know ythat comot “Urte itavtull-oyor-the solar Rauch officer, All atem. ' tut tt 3 if t § ctirlous and most Unpleasant advauiurg, AsoPalludeiphia. Her alstur Jeanne hud, ES to g utgro-winstrel slow, and seu ity drtatutng buriewque of tha great French ‘i tas “Camille, Jeanne urged Sura to wo aga yet bervelf, ‘Tho luttor consented." Wier que was called “Sara Hourtburn.? Bi pH swhumingly, and Silas Bernburde wef snuepeanuvsed, until at a certain point a boy wna. febir an the stayo who culled Sarah Ueartaury’ Mamma," and veked to go along with ber to America, Tho inoldant was highly dls) plonning “to Misa Bornbardt Sho turned BUY boad,! and’ sald toy mumber of hor company thyt jr tity in bad taste and wholly une neve ary, Whit sho boy appearud ogain she rose ront hor sand loft tha thoatre, Thoro was uo pruyocations for so low aud mean an ine might much better be spared in the Sonhte. fat ne nares nena etna, pattent Is hi this additional plight: that hia syat! sult toa Wwoinhn dnd a visitor, Byen th negro~ milnstref compahy night have been oxpected to. show n hotter sense of hospltatlty and deconey, espeolally ns Mins Bernharte’s prosenee fn the -houso jag Known and stie hed been hoforott With apdrtidulat Invitnttan to Attend, 4° ‘Tie, Meniphis stvalanche declares’ tho thirty fect Ends? Jolty’ vhanndl has suddenly shontedt fo sixteen feet! That ts pretty rapid aloaling For n five ttilliion Job, Couldn't wo havo n’commmitice of Investigation. equal td the odgcastbn?! The Now Urloans Picayune of thd 6th BUYSE - ee te Rae ‘Tho Udtinan steamship Braungchwolg, Ca) ohio, tenve ty Bremen, in poli through the Jentles, grounted on a indd Inmp on Thutasdiay ny Vier deutt istwonty-one fest eight iabes, pt, Cupt. Pohle telegraphed ‘to Mesars. EF, Stock= meyer, & Co, for nasisiance, The dredgobont G, We hos ley anil dossth Cooper's towbonta bave been etigued to nasist her olf. ‘This would seonr to wighify that-thore was a anid timp whore it should not have been. Thorefore tha fetties have not nbollahed mud lumps. The Momptila Avalanche anys: araivhig twenty-one feet, in eixtent fect water on Friday night at tho fot mouth, autties tho question as td Eads’ thirty vhannol, for con structing which be revel ved $5,000,000. es eNO To supa from the “scones” at the antl Semitle mectiye in Berlin the other evening, the agitation ugalnat the Jowa is itkely to become more rerions than has been generally belloved hitherto. Tho meeting was attended by about 3,000 persons, and the’ spirit dlaplayed both by tho sperkors and ‘thor audicnee was that of theroughyolng persecutors. The principal orne tor read extracts from tho Talmud for the pure pose of proving that Jews regnrd it asa merito= rious detidn to rob Christians, and ho excited “frantic applause" by instating that thoy ought once more to he subjected to tho disabilitics thon. In tho course of the proceedings Jews wero from time to timo discovered among tho audicnee. Many of thom were sovercly beaten, and all were insulted and turned out. Several tlines a freo fight took place, and on ane oecn- sion the uproar beenmo so violent’that tho Chairman abandoned for some minutes the at- tempt to resture order, * a Ti: Legistature of Nebraska Is spoken of as “the boy Legfsinture.’ "The body {3 com- posed of 114 members,—thirty Senators and eighty-four miombers vf the House; 102, Repuh- cans, 11 Democrats, and 1 Fustontst, Only eloven membors of tho body are over 0: yonrs old and forty are under 85. Twenty-nine mem= bers camo from [linols and twenty-three from Jowa. The majority of all the members settled in Nobrnaka since 1870, ‘Chirty-alx of thom are farmors, eighteen aro lawyers, soventeen are mercbunts, lzht ara physiolang, uve are rall- road inen, six ire editors. Of tho 102 Ropublla- ans, sixty-seven were soldiora In the Unton army aurlng the Rebelilon; ahd of tha thirty-four who were not In tho ariny fourtcen were tinder 13 yenrs ‘of ago and seventeen tnder 15 years when tho War began, ——— Moneune Conway hns been visiting Amer ea, Birirohis roturn to Engtand ho has notedsome obsorvations on tho customs of. bis untive land, Ho wus pleased to see that the claw-bummer coathnd become acelimuted. {ndved, It is worn moro tn Now York than in London, NoEnulish- nan at home would think of putting on evening: dress for an informal dinner. at 9 restaurant, os ail the swells who frequent Delmontco's do. Conway was amazed to seo some Now-Yorkets turning out toa o'clock luncheon In swallow. tals, That wns bad dressing, Londoners hest- tute to put on thelr dreas-conts for anything whieh aceura eariter than 3 in the overing: and this-ia tho sufficient explanation fur muny upparont breaches of etiquct which English+ men traveling in America commit. ———— = BismAnck’s {tax bill for Prugsin—so often promiscd—hus been lald before Purlinment.. It ulma at entirely freeing the four lowest grades of chiss tuxpayors from thelr present burdens, and nt banding over the remainder of tha class taxes, with the balfof tho ground and building {inposts, to the Commutnil Governnicnts. Tho measure is meant ta be a Btrp in tho direction of freoing the soparate Stutcs from thoir present burden of direct taxes, hnd for this purpose the Government wilt hava to reguinte by taw the application of the surplus sums accruing from the Jmperial Treasury from new or Increased. indirect tuxea, A mothod whieh, in the opinion of some, Blacks uot a little of tho system of robbing Poter to pay Paul. a Wey‘ tho reluforcements for the Trans- yaal war wero about leaving Woolwich tho Duke of: Cambridyo tolt thom that tho Queen hoped they would make a mild uso of tholr vice tury, Her BMnjesty should have been moro ex. pileit, the Now .York ‘Tribune thinks, and hayo ancoifled tho number of patriotic Boers the sole ders would be expected to kill, Thelr idea of a mild uscof victory may-not correspond with hera, Thoy will not be likely to need hor words of caution, howoycr, 18 much ns the semi-bar- barous Sopby troops sent from Indiu to suppress, the rising. These almplo creaturoa may think that the proper way to treat tho robels ts to blow them from the mouths of cannon, ——— Tur Monetary Times tells how the forests disuppear: ‘No minke shoo-pegs enough for American uso consumes annually 100,000 cords uf tinbor, aud to make our luclter-matches 300,00 cuble fot ‘of the beat pine are End every year, Lasts and boot-trecs tute 500,00 cords of Uiron, bocoh, pnt maplo, and the bandlos of tools [00,000 more, ‘The baking of our bricks coisu mes 2,000,000 cords of wood, or whit would cover with forest ubout 69,000 nures of laud, ‘Telegruph- poles ulrvady up represent 800,000 trees, and tholr annual ropalr consumes about bW,0W more, Tho ties af the rallrouds consumo annually thirty yours’ growth of 75,000 neres, and to fence wll our railronds would cost $15,000,000, with a yerrly oxpondituro of $15,000,000 for repaira, a De Lussers’ band of filivusters will ba recruited mainly in tho Bouthern States of America, Tho equipment of each man will con- slut of oud plokax, one apada, ono pulr bine over- alls, ono Hanne! shirt, ono pair brogana, ‘ono larga struw bat, one horn-handled pocket-knito, one plug nayy tobacco, ono dinner-pall. What a plratical-looking orew, ta bo aura! Theeo Im- plemonts, it 14 thought, insy be Janded on the isthmus without knooklug the Monroe doctrino into smithereens, a Tun London Pines hea had.a row with + its compositurs over tha use of compnslig-nit- ohintes. Tho now invention sets type, but docs not distribute tt, asa Now York dtacovery does, andwhen the Times compositors wore asked to diatributo tho type set by the machine thoy do- olined to do this except for increased pay, Mr, Waltor refused higher pny and the whole night force left, Bo that tho paper narrowly missed not wolng to press, i . oe CANADA ly hastening’ along the high rond of so-called national grenticss, Her debt, which Wita $81,010,061 nt the time of confederation, had grown to bo $109,125,023 lust July, By thia timo, no doubt, it fsa round two hundred millions, not much compnrod with that of the United States, but enough forudmalier country that hus had no four youre’ clyil war, a Mu. ENocn Esteny has brought out: hile now paper In Peorla, Te cally it Bmery's Daily feortan, It te bright, breeay, and full’ of owas and will undoubtedly take much of tho patrons age of the old Transcript, ¥ ’ Tv is to tho honor of Michigan that a poor man was chosen for Senator from that Btate. Thero ure too many monupoltsts and mllifonaires in the Sonuto, PERSONALS; Let us not speak harshly of Ciba for a while, An Atmorican opera troupo fs sluging in Havana, mie “Clevelandor”—The Ozar of Kussia fs not an Obio man, but wo confess that tho fact fs an Unuccountable ono, ‘ . A Boston bank advertises that it will place money.anywhore by telegraph. ‘This office bas unoxcelled telegraphig fuctlitles, ais An “Unole 'Toin's Cabin’? party Is playing @ two weeks’ ongaguinont in Dotroit, It ls bard to deolde which js ontitled tu the most pity. ‘The fairles ara kind to the Trish: Dr, Ale bert W, Murphy his been appointed dentlut to tho royal coust of Spain, with a residenco at Madrid, Dee's ‘tho spirit of enterprise Is rapidly pormeat- ing the Bollth, Tho Loulevilla Courler-Journat reoeutly printed an account of the capture of Island No, 10, A Boston paper states, ad something re- markuble, tho tact that the French Juumnut The grounding of the steamer Braunschwoilr, . which wero removed by uless prudent, genera, steol man, whose alry graces cuimo, howover, by |, mous tostinony in the Christianoy diterco sult, optete cohithins tio advertixements, ‘Tho Intep Geran of this olty haa vets nontly sudeceded fy abcomplishing the same fent, Wo tan confidently recommend Chitengn ay fa winter regort. Enough wintor has resortey hore aince Inat? Noyeinber td supply most: Eltloy for revoral yours, 6, f "The present ‘winter flas heen an wpe ecdentedly cold one at Minna tls, and great hopes ate titertained tht Aor 8 Mackemen may bo frozen todeath, + Conthiodore Garrison says W. 1. Vander. itt 14 worth 9,000,000, } Thid He the fret Inte mation that Oj haa beon working naa reporte, ona St. Louls papor. ad Louis Ehtnsbetger, 0 streatidar conduetos of Duiratu, tits fallen hotr te nn estate in Hen many valued nt $100,000, Its hardly probable, howover, that be will retire fram business, Lord Motghton, the Bettfo Tremaine at { Bndymion,” enys in ah nettele. on the novel fg the Fortnightly Revicio that Lont Benconsteliy enrlentura of Thackuray 18 At once * false ang teuble."* “Who ta this with pocring face, ‘On tho threshold of the yonr”"— askes tho Cluveland Leader in beginning poent, but we cannot vfford to rend the ontire work In order.to ascertain whethor it wns the man with the grocer'’d bil! or a book agent. Mr, Carl Setvurz ts sald to be about to pub Mish a novel aftor the style of Lord Beacon. Helis * Endymion "—of courge, a gront ea) better. it fs ramored that various othor distin. Rulshed Americnns nro ntéo about to publi books nt grenter or less distance after tho atylg of “Endynilon.” ‘This ts rather n distressing result of Beaconflold's work, Still, it might have been oxpected; tur nothing looks s0 easy he on imitntion of an original sucvess, and fey things are og hard, Wearo not snrprised to see no Pittsburg Paper the Poetical statement that— A'RemeVoure morn nae ee Rbeunt ‘To most i comes wit h Joy and yleo— ‘ty mo with none, —but our esteemed. contemporary, while reflects lug upon his unbappy position, should remem ber that thorearo editors In 8t. Louls and Mile waukea, Even a Pittaburg cloud tas ite silver ning. : A lady correspondent wishes ta knowjt Tim TumuNe cannot sugecat n title for n song sho hins writton, preforring “Something after the style of that boautiful gem: ¢ Empty fs the Cradle, Baby's Gone!'" Cortutnty wo enn, Yar might cnll your offort “Empty 1s tho Hottle, Papa's Full," “Whistle. Duck tho Bulldog, Charlie's Gono," * Empty t3 tho Pantry. Jotinny's Nome," or “Broken ‘is Her Bustle, Mave Biipped.” Any timo you would Ike a nico name for n song do not fas) to welte, Lord Randolph Churchill, a growing Ex gilsh politician, years ngo married Mies Jerotns, tho daughter of one of the Now York Jeromes, currant and malicious New York gosslp saying that, In nddition to moking over the Union Lengue clib-house to his daughter, Jerome petra fyrded not to visit bis daughter In England, ‘The Lonion World now anhounces that another of his daughters, Miss Clara Jerome, is to marry Morton Frowen, of Derbyshire, a grent traveler who ha paid a number of visits to this country, tho Inst thine within a few months. , I met her wp at Central Park; Her face wus fair and rosy, And tn ber dainty, kid-wtoyed ham, Sho held tho sweetoat posy, : Ter halr wns banged, French-twlated, tee, In colls of golden yellow; Sho smiled tho moat bewitching simile ‘That ever crazed n follow. Ol{.tieaven be pratsed! Mow opportune! Bho drops hor lovoly posy, ie And quick ua thought the gom I cnyght— Tfer cheeks wero now more rosy. She thanked ine ns 1 atumbted o'er A gumin crouched beblnd mo; And ag I fell henrd him yell, | * “Tosa, f ain't hurt, don't mind me: —From “ Skating Songe,"" by John Kelly, a aan PUBLIC: OPINION. : wy ' Richmond Dispatch (Dem): The South Perhnps may become tired of a sectional dew potism and ald iu establishing a National one. ;Cloveland Leader: (Rep.): Ifthe Profes 60r'a charges are malntalned, that Halifax award money must come back to us, penceably If pos alblo, forelbly if neceasury, 5 2 Washington correspondence Springticld Republican: Ungatinnt and unsentimontat asi tinny be to suy stich a thing of a rmatden with 2 charining a name, Bright Eyes isa phenomenal Mar. New York Commerctal Advertiser: A Philosophical German Socialist suys “ there it muth good soul in tho stricture of a Com- meralaty Slat as thore ts good beef in a mad _From Beecher’s last Friday evening lect: lire; ‘Tho good Lord of Henyon, fa He not bere, and what am I when he {s present? Itscemsto mn that you try to mnke me God,—Fathar, gon, and Holy Qhost,—whercas I am nothing but what Tau, Washington Republican (Rep.): As the position of Mr. Kasson, our Minister to Austria, onthe tariff question scems to bo misunder stood, it ts but Justice to him to stato that in the Inte campatyn he took prominent ground in favor of protection. St. Louls @lobe-Demoerat (Rep): As Pad> dy sald when he stuffed bis bat into a broken pane of gings, “If it won't Ict in the light, irl keop out tho cawld.” Cockrelt won't tet In much light, but he wilt keep out spine man who is quite a8 ignorant and more blatant, Indlanhpolis Journal (Jolm CG. New's paper}? She Journal takes genuine pleasure !a presenting Gon, Benjamin Harrison as tho next United States Senator from Indiaua, and In at aucing the boris of the Btato and the county (bat bo {8 capable of tuking a foremost rank ia that body, | Springheld Republican (Ind.): Eugene Halo’s olection to tho Sonate from Maine vill aond up to that body a rather brilliant and gen natuyy rithor thin alfoctation, and consist with mgood deal of strongth of mind and studious ness of bablt, é Gov. Bullock at the Bar dinner to Judge Woods In Atlanta: While wo have bad our dif foronces In the past, we are hero together to aight enjoying this occasion in asplritof bar Mony, and the expressions that wo hoar are witb’one ttecord about a common country aud é uated people, cowl ' “Thorv te n feeling abrond,” says tho Cin- olnnatt Enquirer, commenting on Giro's infir “that perjury ought to be gucouraged when St Jnvolves 8 woman's fames but If that rontinent once aturts it will not bo long before public oplir fon digoriininntes botween honorable and eri dual perjury on @ vartaty of ering." Boston Herald (Ind.): Wo trust that the warm-heartod humanitarians “of this nolkhvor hood who wero carried away by tha eloquence of Tibblos and “ Bricht Eyes,” and led intos controversy with tho best friond tho Indiunt ever had ih the Interlor Dopartment, will nov bo sntisticd, espéolnily na. the new home of (he Poncua is much bettur for thom than theirold one, Tamilton, (Ia,) Freeman (Rop.): Inwa slroudy bewins to feol the good futucnees uf the booln of prospority that fa sending peuple into the great Northwest in suarch of homes. Ming hundreds who wont of to Kunsas during tht atress‘of hard times are returning to Towa,—xla to got back to what they tow know to by ‘one ot tho best regions, all things considered, that ibe aun elias on. j : Mr, Oinar D. Congar’s spoceh to his Port Huron friends; Was my success in the Sens torlal caucus a proud momont for mo? I seemed tome to shaw ataw to the people, 1? tho young, that povorty hall ot etop tho bisb- wy ¢o editcation, to promotion, to fumes to show that In manhood Is the fountain of greatness: and that to be usoful: is the hopo of the pull: ticlan’s proformont; to stow to thogo who are standing by tho wayalde, to those Hying inte cubing and small houses, to thoae in oe school shat thoy may stup ont Into the highway ARI. ; ‘ Willalo Express; The ratio of increase for the decade from 1700 to 1800 was 85.10; 150-18 BU.B8y 1810-720, BI.00; 1620-'9, I. T; 1890-140, SIE 1840-"50, B58; 1850-"00, 83.11; 1800-70, 32.65. G will be seen that from 85 to i per cent has bee the prevalent, and is apparontly the normal, rata of aepirth, Front 1800 to 1870 It was reduced i the Wary from 187U tu 1890 ft was gifected by fuancialand industrial prostration, and & io ool to W pur aunt: but thoro is evyory reason bellevo thas from 1860 to Iwo and from, 19 is 100U tho arma} raty of, say, U5 percent wilt bo rvacbed, If so, tho ceudua of Iu) will wi U6 t pepulution uf 68,004,000, aud we stall ent f on the twentieth century with 3000, 0u0—far of away tho foremost Nation of Christoudom. Wetpud that Auperiatondent Wulkurs nsttiuats, talls somowbat beluw this. Ho allows but oe 500,000 for 1800," But then he allowed but 45) OW as thu outalde ilunit for 188, Lf ee ee ee ay eR ns ee fee ae oesgnrtardiert: ts ne ee