Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1881, Page 4

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Tight and Twolve Page Paper... bizteen ayo Pavoi TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES, Go TRINUNT has established branch onices irike receipt ot subscriptions aud ndvortisa- menta ns follows: B NEW YOIRK—Room 29 Tribune Dultding, F.T. MC Fapnes, Managor. 4 GLASGOW, Scoltand—Allan's American Nows Agency, 31 Konflold-st, : » LONDON, Eng.—Ameriean Exchango, 49 Strand, LLG, Agont, WASHINGTON, D. C.—1319 F atroot AMUSEML MeVieker's Theatre. Madison strect, between State and Dearborn, Fnguaoment of Mile. Harah iornhardt. “ Phedro.”* Haverty's Thentee, Fenrhorn streot. corner of Monrov. Engagemont of D'Oyloy Carte’s London Opora Company. “the Pirates of Ponzanco.” Mantes’ Randolph atreet, between ‘und fn Salto. mxomont of Churles L, Davia, “Alvin Josly: F Grand Opera-Honse, : Cigrk atroot, opposlt now Court-House, Engnzo- ment of Mr, F., Chanfrau and Misa Hanrlotts Chun- frau, “Kit, the Arkansas Traveler.” ntres En- Olympic Theatre, + Cinrk street, batween Lake and Randolph, Engazc- ‘ ment of the Thielman Woytand Dramatic und Specialty Combination. “Tho, Phantom King." Acnidemy of Musto, Halsted streot, near Madison, West Side, Variety entertainment, Centrat Munte-Hall. Corner of Randulph and State streets, Entertain ment by tho Matestine Arabs, Exposition Munging. Lake front, opposite Adntua street, Whato oxbt- bltlun from Va. m, tu 20 p. mn. i FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 18s). a “I'ug alleged reason for the formation of the Amorlean Union ‘Telegraph Company was that it could duplicate tho plant of the Western Union st one-fifth the vaine of the chpital stock of that company. How much sounder will that argument be now when the consolidated company is staggering under tha burden of $80,000,000 stoc k—two-thirds of Stwater—on which dividends are to be paid. JupaE Grant, of Morris, Grundy County, ‘whose death was Iately reported, had been a) prom{nent man in his section of the State for many years. $Hewas an ardent Grant man in tho Into State Convention, and in that ea- pacity saton the Comittee on Credentinis as one of the most determined gpponents of tho. Farwell Hull delegation, He. was. also op. posed to tho principle of ,district:representa- tlon, Judge Grant. was an able and pure minded man, and had tho entire’ respect of lis townsmen and assoolates In public and -private life, Z Din John Kelly really come West’ to seo the President-elect nbout the Now Yotk Sen- ntorship, and to arrange a trade whereby the Conkling faction might be beaten ? 1f so, tha New York Boss hina less sonsa and more im- pudence than he ins been generally credited with. The report {s that Gen, Garfield sent out couriers to meat Kelly while he was yet afar off, and Inform him that “the President- elect was too much oceupled with Important business to bother about the New York Sen- atorship orto see Mr. Kelly.” ‘That was a hard answer; it could not avail to turn aay wrath. j Tux population of Alaska was roughly os- timated in the census of 1870 nt 70,000, Last year n special Conimissionor was sent to the *) miteit better showing In the next census, ‘of the House to Senate nuendinents rather ‘Territory to tnke the cenaus ns accurately as possible, lo returns a total of only 80,000 {nhabitants found In the whole Territory, or tess than one-half the estimate ton years ago. ‘The discrepancy shows how inaccurate loose. guesses are npt to be, and explains the great: exaggeration of the population of, many of the Asiatic cities, It {s probable thatif a eoreful census of Russia showld be taken the reported population of that Empire would be considerably reduced, Senator Epsunps raised his eyebrows Tuosday and sailed into tha Holladay claim in his yigerous way. Ho showed that the original contract was not given In the report : of the Committes which recommended tho » elaim; that afidnvits of stage-drivers «and others, who spoke mostly from hearsay, wero accepted ns proofs of loss; that Holladay's books were not produced, nor thelr absence accounted for; and that it was proposed to grab $600,000 from tho National Treasury on aense which would not give a penslon-elaim agent n leg to stand upon, Spite of Senator ‘Teller’s assumption to the contrary, tho free THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, JANUARY have run almost weekly excursions at low rates of fare for the benefit of prospectors, with a promise of the return of the passage money Inense of purchase. It ts not sure prising, In view of these efforts, that the rural counties between the IMinols and Mis- alssippt have not increased much since 1870, With the return of part of tho tide of fuml- gration, which fs muro to ‘take place In tha next ten years, they will be able to make o REFUNDING AND THE DEMOORATIO DEM- f AGOGS. . ; The debate in the Mouse of Representatives on tho Refunding bill can senteely fail to Jeaye the Jmpresston on the country that tho people must look to the Senate for n rational and unbiased consideration of that question, and that, If any practicable funding scheme be agreed upon at the present session of Con- gress, It will come through a reluctant assent than risk public censure by a failure to pass any bill, ‘he Democratic majority can searce- ly afford to yleld up thelr power with more than $050,000,000 bonds outstanding, which Dear 6 and 6 per cent Interest, and which may be refunded nt so low a rate ns to save Stt,- 000,000 a year. ‘I'his fenture of the ense may finally dudtuce the Democrats In the Tottse to abandon thelr unreasonable and treacherous designs In connection with refunding; but thelr chivf purpose, ns developed tn the de- bate thus far, may be stated as follows: 1, ‘To mnke war upon the Nationat "banks, as ff thoy were Institutions that ought to be broken down by falr means or foul, 2 Yoinjure the public eredit: by making such conditions precedent to refunding as shall pince the malntenance of specie-pay- nent fn peril. ‘The Demoerntle leaders of the House have insisted that an lron-bound rate of 3 per cent shall be adopted, that the bonds shall be of the shortest term ever suggested, and that the Natlonal banks shall be * dragooned,” to use Mr, Frye's expressive term, Into subseribing Tor $400,000,000 of these securities, or the full amount of bonds required as deposit for thelr present outstanding clreulntion, and that no wer-taxeson thebauksshallberepealed. ‘This matter of “dragooning? the National banks nay not be so easy as finmature Democratic statesmen seem to imagine, In the first place, the Natlonal-banit securities already, consist in large part of the recent Issues of 43¢and4 per cent bonds, which are not yet subject to call by the Government, and there is no authority to compel the banks to sur- render those bonds and subserlbe for 3 per ‘eents. In tho, second place, the National banks have authority under tho law to re- duce thelr clreulating notes to $45,000 cach, and in this manner may reduce the whole yoluine to Jess than one-third what it Isnow, In the third place, no compulsory measure hing ever succeeded In ‘controlling the value or rato of money inthe world, In the fourth place, there Is no sympathy on the part of the people at large with any effort to cripple the National banks by an oppressive policy in ad dition to the oppressive taxes they now sts- tain, and thus impair’ their great ugefumess to the business of the country. The proposition of tho Democrats Is to re- duce the coln-reservo of the United States ‘Treasury, which Is about 140 millions, down to one-third, or $50,000,000, ‘This is even moro menacing to the financlal {nterests of the country. ‘The.pretended purposeof such f proceeding Is to provide for the pnymentof “a large part of the maturing bends before ‘any refunding shall be undertaken, | ‘Lhe real purpose, however, isto aven the way for the abandonment of specle-vayments and a return to tho former chaos of an irredecm- able, fluctuating, and ‘uncertain currency, Such’ result Is threatened by any mensure “which shall curtail the prudent coln resources of the Government Treasury, destroy public contidence in the ability to redeem all United States notes upon demand, and furnish an op- portunity tor an organized Wall street raid upon the Government for Its coln, This would be the most severe blow the Demo- crata could possibly hurl at Government credit, low rates of interest, and business prosperity. ‘The Governnient can much bet- ter afford to continue the payment of Gand 5 per cent interest on the 070 millions of ma- turing bonds (unnecessary and waste- ful as such a coursy would be) than’ to risk the failure of resumption now or at anyother tine, It !snotorlously conceded byalt factions, Includingeven the unreasoniig, {dfotle Greenbavkers, that the new era of prosperity in this country dates from the ‘| time resumption was assured, Tho uniform | ity and stabilityof the currency, and the large sence, and leave of absenco should not be granted except Incase of sickness, Drivate Dusiness Is not asuficient excuse, A mem ber has no right to charge per diem while transacting private business fy thie which he has agreed to give to the people and ts pati for devoting to public interests, If tho Dnsiness {3 hmportant cnough to require the member's attendance, he should be willingto forego his salnry for the tline which he en- ploys fn his own affalrs. i 5 ‘The pay of members ts $10.0 day, the year round, besldes mileage: amt they have vas entions after the lotig sessions of four to five months, and after the short sessions of nine months, Which Uey ean devute to thelr per- sonal affairs. Whatcould bo fairer than that this sum of $16 per day should be deducted when the member ts absent from his place without a suficient excuse? 'That rule would prevall in any well-reguinted private busl- ness, It ought to prevail In Congress. It was in operation fa former years when the salary was only $3,000 n year, ‘There fs no decent excuse for not enforcing It now, Men who now do thelr duty would be protected by It, and those who do not would haves strong inducement to clinngs thelr habits or resign thelr sents, If such a practice existed, the umber of members who have important “private matters te attend to” In New Yort City during the session would be eonslderably dhntnished, 3 It might be well to supplement the pro- vislon concerntug, the stoppage of salaries with an order for the publication of the names of persons absent without leave. Hut whether this should be done or not, the other remedy should bo vigorously applied. “Tho people are sick and tired of the political shirks and non-representatives who keep bet- ter men tlinn themselves outof Congress, and sponge n handsome salary out of the Govern ment for doing it. cere THE TELEGRAPH CONSOLIDATIONS. ‘The grand consolidation of all tho tele graph companies, with thelr franchises, pat- ents, contracts, and Interests, of the United States and Cannda into a single company, owned and controlled by Jess than half a dozen persons, 13 a warning to the American people of the danger which threatens ‘the property, business, and even the political freedom of the country, The Western Union Telegraph Company lias for many years, fn order to maintaly a monopoly of tho telegraph business of the country, been compelled to purchase a mune ber of other systems of wires, started per- haps for plunder and blackmail, but noml- nally for competition in business. ‘The latest organizations of this kind have been the Atlantic & Pacific and the Ainurican Union. The companies were Invented and or ganized by day Gould, With abun dance of money at hig command ho made them annoying competitors of tho Western Unton at many. points bg cutting rates, Under his. skil}ful manipulations, these compunies were able to innke exelu- slye contracts with various railway coin- panies for the tse of their readways for the construction of telegraph routes, By bulllug and bearing the stock of the Western Union, and linrassing the business of that Company in amany ways, he was able eventually to minke the latter propose 4 purchase or con- golldation, with plenty of new’ watered stock, and the consoldation has now been perfected, Pending this movement Gould and Vanderbilt sold to tho unsuspecting pub-" lic immensely of thelr Western Union stock talked the stock down to as low ns 7, at which polnt, after establishing a pantie in tt, they bought back all they necded to make the consolidation, and the stock is now nt 107. Vanderbilt, Gould, Sage, and .ons or two others of the Ring, have pocketed ten or fifteen millions of dollars by the preliminary operations of the consolidation, out of which ‘The consoldation 1s on the basis of a capl- tal stock of $80,000,000! ‘he present eapltal stock of tho three cumpantes Is ns follows: Western Union (largely wateretl), $41,073,- $0; Atlantle & Pacific (nominal), $14,000, 000; American Union (nominal), $10,000,000, The aggregate of these 1s $05,000,000, of, which one-half {s purely fictitious, or water, But the manngers haye voted themselves In addition $15,000,000 of so-called stock, and on tho whole they expect to skin dividends of 8, per centum out of the people. 1t 40 lMberat esthnate to say that the actual enpital In- vested, including all the “plant,” the con- tracts, patents, franchises, and all other forms of property, does not exceed $25,000,- 000, In other words, It would not cost the United States more than $25,000,000, and addition to the stock of money, which were the resulta of resumption, have been the principal factors in the sudden transition from hard tines to good times, from doubt and uncertainty to confidence and stability, And yet the Demoeratic demnagogs in Con- gress would place the present prosperous condition of the country In jeopardy by re- quiring a reduction of tho coln reserve to an experlnental aud: hazardous amotnt, and this propoattton hns been lugged In without any real bearing upon the question of refund: Ing. ‘Yho fact 15, that the discussion in the House has developed an {Mogleal and viclous ant- mosity of the Democrats to the present sys- tem of currency rathor than a desire to ro- fund the maturing bonds at tho lowest rate of interest and upon. the most favorable terms, ‘Tho bulk of the Democrats, includ- Ing somo of thelr lenders, appent to be utter ly indifferent to the welfaro and luterests of the Govornment In this whole'matter if they ean only gratily an unreasoning prejudice ugainat the banks and thelr old-time opposl- tion te resumption. It Js to be hoped that the Senate will davelop the ability, honesty, and firmness to defeat tho demagogism in the and boundless West will be deeply grateful to Senator Edmunds for the part ho has taken in this matte: Conanesstan Sienwin's bill to regulate the exportation of oleomargarine naturally recelyes the warm indorsement of his con- stituents, Ile represents one of the grentest dalry districts of thacountry; and the people there ure at Inst thoroughly aroused on the subject. Not only thelr Representative in Congress, but thelr members of the Lexisla- ture, are stirring In. the ‘matter; and strong Tesolutions in favor of some regulation of the trafle have been Introduced in the Fox River Medleal Society and. various dalry associa. tlons, If the present JNinois law wero en< forced, there would be much Jess complaint than at present concerning - domestic sales, * But there is need of a moro efitclent system of Inspection, buth Stata tnd National, i i Kyox County tn Tlnols ts mentioned by the Galesburg Register a8 one of those which Jost population’ In the Jast decade. Tui Thwunxe was well awato of that fact. It nierely called attention to the special losses of counties bordering the Liltnols and Miss - slasippl Rivers. One might almost believe that 8 portion of the inale population in those counties had packed thelr effects on flat- boats and drifted quietly down to the mouth of the Missouri, where they obtained trans- portation to Kansas and. Nebraska, ‘She Regleter directs attention to a fact not se well known—nanely: that the Chicago, Bur- Ington & Quincy and the Atchison, Topeka & Banta ¥6 Railroad Companies have had azentsthrough all that sectlon‘of the country cullehing Junmigration to thelr Jandy, aut i { i 4 : Ls = Tlouso; If not, tho prospects for suecessful refunding under the anspices of tho present Congress will be very forlorn, CONGRESSIONAL ABSENTEEISM, Congressional absenteclsm is a growing evil, Acertain nimber of members in ench Congress ara habitual absentees, and a large number stay away half or more of the thine. Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has not been in hig seat alx weeks out of hls whole term of lx years, which expires on the 4th of Murch next, Mr. Darnum, of Connectteut, when he wus a member of Congress, was almost as conspicuous by his absence, Gen, ‘om Ewing, of Ohio, has seldom been In hls seat. since his defeat at the election In the {all of 1870, There aro a dozen other professional absentees; and from fifty toa hundred meme bora wha are very Irregular In their attend- ance, probably not averaging a month Ina session, hag Tho objections to Congressional absentee- isin are that It throws an undug amount of Jabor on the faithful -mombers of Conpuit- tees, causes Important mensures to ‘be pup through In an (rregular way without proper vonsideration, aud demorallzes the public service, “When one branch of the Goyeri- ment is a hiding-place for sinecures, and sanctions the drawing of pay for services not performed, it cannot be expected that others: will long fall to profit by the oxample, é ‘The cure for absenteelsin Js su simple and eflicactous that it Is strange the working meme bers haye noverthouglit of It and applied it. ‘There should be no pay for work not done, ‘The standing rule of the House should bo that.members absent without Jenvo of tho Mouse should receive no pay during such ab- probably less, to duplleate every dollar's worth of the property or things of valuo of this great consolldated telegraph company, ‘The magnitude and enormity of this com- bination is Intensified by the fact that the monopoly {8 owned and controled by four or five men, who use ft, In connection with othor monopolies, to fleece and plundor tho eredulous people who dabble Jn telegraphic stocks, and thus, multiply accordingly thelr profits on yalues which are mostly fictitious. THE CHISHOLM ADULIERATION BILL. Kane County seems to be thoroughly. aroused to the swindling which {s practiced by ¢ertain yenders of the community by means of food adulteration, - ‘The Super- visors of that county have presented a petl- tion to the Legislature calling for the passage of alaw that will protect people from the frauds and the physical evils that arise from the sale and use of adulterated ‘food and drugs, and in thelr petition they not only en- large upon the injurious effects of adulterat- ed food upon tha system, and the fraud which is practiced In {is sale, but also upon the testimony of physleinns as to tha delu- terlous effects of adulterated drugs in thelr workings upon tho neryous system and thelr tendency to produce nervous diseases ant insanity. Lhe Kane Connty Supervisors do not go a step too far in characterizing this, practice as “a erlme that should be sup pressed by statutory enactment.” “Lhe pres: entation’ of this petition was accompanied by a bill, also originating In Kano County, and presented by Mr. Chisholin, coy erlug the ground of the petition alluded to, Ut Is in every particular an admirable bill; and Is sufficiently searching and sweeping in churneter to be operative Ia suppressing What has grown to be o giganto evil, If rig- Adly enforced. ‘Tho first section of Ils bull “provides that no person shall “inlx, color, stain, or powder any article of food withany. matertal or ingredient which is Injurious to health” Thosecondscetion ts tdentieal with tho first, encept that tt provides agulnst adul- toration of drugs and mediclues, The third section is very sweeping in its character, and. forbids tha adulteration of food or drugs with any material, whether jnjurtous to health or not, unless the adulterated article 13 suld under its true ond appropriate nue, and notice that the same ts Impure or mixed fs nude upon the package, so that it can be plainly seen, Tho fourth section touches # method of adulteration which Is svery familiar fu the butter and cheesy dis tries of Kune County, art fs becoming equally and disgustingly familiar In our own miurket. It provides that “no person sliatl mix nny glucose or grape sugar with sirup or sugar intended for human food; or any oleomargarine, stilne, beef fat, lard, or any other foreign substance, with any butter or cheese intended for human feod, or shall mix or iningle any glucose, or grapo sugar, “tion. practiced nowadays sum the public was skinned, I slower level of the 1 14, 188I—TWELVE PAGES, or oleomargariye with any article of food, without distinctly marking, stamplug, or la beling the artlele or paektge containing the same with the trae and appropriate name of such nrticls and tho percentage In whieh such glucose, grape sugar, oleomargarine, oF suine enters Into its composition”? ‘The re- malting sections provide penalties ranging from $25 to $200 for tho first offense, and from $500 to $2,090 for a third and all: subse- atent offenses, applying one-half the amount of fines to informers and tho other half to tha school funds of counties where the cone victlon 13 obtalned. ‘The bill is a sweeplig onv and {ts penaltles are severe, but not too sweeping or severe when the enormity of the evil fs considered, No one whl deny that much of the adultera- is injurious to Heatth, aud that fit many ensey it Is absolutely polsonous, and ts known to be such; and when administered tn drugs Intended to re+ store health the practice is still more edlous anderiminal. “But,” say many of the adul- terators, “the ingredlents we mingle with foot are not wnhenltliy.? ‘This does not alter thelr criminal linbilty, for whether tho adulteration Is larinful or harmless, they are none the less guilty of frahd and of swine ling thotr purchasers, A vender who sellsan artlele really worth but $2.50 to his customer for $5, tho prea of the genulne articte, with tho representation that it ts genuine, or even If he dovs not represent tt as genuine and the buyer thinks itsueh, Is guilty of falschoud, of fraud, of oblaining woney tnder false, pretcnses, of swindling, andof theft, Ilis offense ts tantamount to steallng $2.50 front lis eugtomer, and he fins tolen It Just as unmistakably as If he put his hontls tute his customer's pockets and took that intich money out of them. Not to put too fine n point upon it, the ian who will deliberately swindle his customers with aduiterntions, knewlng them to be such, is a scoundrel, and,- as laws are — passed for the puntshinent of that class of the com- munity in general, thoy, ought not to be exempt. Mr, Chisholim’s bil covers the ground very completely and works no hard: ship to any class of sellers.. The exceptions made nre ample, and as it is one of the prime dutles of legislators ‘to ‘look after the public health, and ag the ‘people have the right to know what they srobuying, It onght to be passed unanimotsly and promptly, ‘It is very similar In its provislous to the English laws, which have been very successful, and there Is no question that If sneli a bill qs Mr. Chisholm’s were righily enforced { would neet with equal success. reread POLLUTING THE ILLINOIS RIVER. - ‘yne newspapers published in tho citlesand towns located along the line of the Ilinols River are unreasonably Indisposed to admit the share whiel thoge elttes nnd towns have | In the pollition of the river of which they are complaining, It fy both foolish and selfish to contend that Chicago alone ts a¢- countable for the offensive condition of the river, or that Jollet with its 15,000 inhabit- ants, Peoria with {ts 40,000, and large towns like Ottawa, LaSalle, Peru, Lacon, Peklu, and others contribute nothing thereto. Such sense ns this can only be made out by mis- representation and suppression of tho facts. It Is stunted, for Instance, that but few of the towng mentioned have sewers, but * the sewage sinks Ito sand and remains’? ‘To the extent that this 1s true, it may necount for much of the offensive smell and polson- athigh prices; having unloaded, they thon |-U8 sir whieh these towns claim to be tne Aicted pon them, ‘Sewage Is never more offensive nor moro-injurious than when It Mes on the ground or near the surface In the ‘anand, and we have heard more or less of pol- goned wells and dqmp soil in the region in, “question, But-It-is-aiot possible that the drainage, sud. nlicht-Yotl, and filth of all Ihuds that is generated by. populous communities should “sink Into sand and remam there,” The Inw of gravitation and iulids requires that it should seel an outlet Into the still Ver, and the sewage per- mentes through the sand and tnds its way In greater part into the river, In this manner the numerous and growing towns along. tho Illinols River, and near the other streams |! that drain into that river; contribute their share to the pollution thereof, as ‘Tim ‘Trt UNE has maintained and st is an injustice to ‘urge the Legistaturd to treat the whole prob- lem as if Chicago alone were responsibié for tho foul condition of the LMnols River, ‘Tate another Instanee, It is represented that the’ slaughter-hotises and rendering ¢s- tablishments of Chicago send ntl thelr refuso inte the Chicage Wfver thro the canal and into the Hiinols River, and that slinitar estab- lishments logated on the [Mnols River bauls: along the line do not, As a inntter of fact, the economy of the pork-packing, beuf-pack- Ing, and rendoring. vuslness fs talsing tho shape of an entire consumptlon of tho offal ant reftiso matter, and the large establish: menta located at tha Stock-Yards—not on the Chieago River, by the way—send bitt lite tle offensive inutter Into the TlMnols River, On tho other hand, tio smaller butcher-shops and distilleries at numerous points along the ling of the river arg not supplied with ap- pilances for consuming the refuse of thelr manufacture, but It’ goos directly inte tho river, It ts not right: that the river,towns shoutd shut thelr eyes to such facts, Chicago, a8 welt as‘all tho other IInols towns, is deeply Interested In the puriflea- tlon of the IiInuls River, becuuse such a re- sult alone will assure complete anu sntisfac- tory disposition of thiscity’s sewage through, regular and rapid carrying off of the Chicago accumulations, Chicago Is endeavoring to secure stich s result, but It is by means of Ine ‘ergasing tho flow of water through the Tll- nois River from this .polnt, and not by shut- ting off water. IMPENDING CONSOLIDATION OF ALL THE . RAILROADS, The consolidation of all tho telegraphic Ines into one gigantic monopoly by hilt a dozen men of overgrown wealth and Tne satiable cupldity Is but the forerunner of the greater consolidation’ of the rallroad aud transportation business of the United States, Gradually, but rapidly, all the rallways of the United States are gatherlng into distinct and suparate groups, We printed the other day n table of the milenge of the various railways Which already have beon Included in the “Gould system,’—that meaning the rallways owned and controlled by Gould, This “Gould system" embraced no tess than 13,000 miles of road, ‘There is also the equally well datined collection of rons Known as the * Vanderbilt system? ‘Then thera nro the “Pennsylvauta system,” the * Southern system,” ‘and tha " Pacitle Const system,”; there are also the Baltimore & Ohfo, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, Burlington & Quiney, Tilnols Central, and 4, few other as yet Independent orgauizutions. ‘These several systems are gradually galuing control and possession of all the smaller or- ganizations, aud are aravitatlug rapidly to- ward a combination of the same character as that just made in the: ease of the telegraph companies, Practically, the consolidation Is already accomplished, so far ns the crushing of ult competition Is concerned, by tie aystem of“ pooling” of eaniings and the arbitrary establishment of rates, A Conmissloticr sitting in Wall street, New York, from. his ofiice dictates to all the railroads the rates thoy shall exact, and upportions the receipts among the compantes. without reference to tholr actual earnings. -1t only uceds a fow formalltles to make this combination an} netttal conxolidation.. « But thts combination has even further alms and ambithing, It secks to: contro! all the transportathhn of the country. Jay Goutd hus already'placed on the Mississippt River a fleet of bhrges, Intended to control that systom of navigation, Vanderbitt and per- haps Gould have placed steamers on the fakes, and have bought Invgely of sail ves> sels i order to suppress or cottrol compett- tlon by Uhat route, ‘Lhey will run thelr yes- sels nt such rates as will expel all others, and then, commanding buth Iand and water, exact, suieh rites as they may determine. ‘Nhe power of thess combinations over tho Govermment {s shown by the fact that tha railroad managers ave filing both Mouses of Congress, especintly the Senate, with thelr retained and penstoned attorneys. They bid defines to the country. ‘They are In posses- sion, and control all tho highways of trade, ‘They are practicing extortion hievery direc ton, All thoy need ts to defeat alt fegisia- tion. ‘The so-called representatives of tho people nre paralyzed at Washington, Men who vallantly fight over the battles of the Revolution and the Inst: War stand mute in thelr pinces when It 1s proposed to assert the power of the Government to control and reg- Wate the commerce of the country and to protect the interests of the people, Jett Davis, backed by the. armies of twelve States In declared rebelllon, was never 80 formidable un enemy to the IHberties of the people, the integrity of tha Unton, or the mitterlal welfare of the country as ave the men who own this telegraph and ratlroad combinatlon and consolidation. ‘Thecountry at fan immense cost emancipated tho African ‘slaves, but the slavery in which these few men in Wall street hold the Congress of the United States is more disgraceful ant hu- millating than even that of the African race, Senators are no longer elected by the States; they owe thelr appointments ta the railroad magnates, ‘They are selected ns attorneys of corporate monopolies, So with Representa- tives; before the throats of rallrond oppo- sitton,.or wner the assurance of rallrond support, or even under the influence of more direct arguments, these Representatives, day after day, refuso even: to Iet a vote be taken on the very harinless bill so long pre- sented and urged by Mr. Reagan, Is tt any surprise that such an infamous transaction ns this telegraph consoldation, or tho rapidly maturing consolidation of the rattronds, can be brazenly perpetrated when 1 cowardly If not corrupt Congress protects these manopo- lies against the Interference of National nw and Natlonal Justice ? _—— es Mn Duane introduced the following res- olution in the Senateon tho 12th of February, 1880, nearly n year ago: Reaulved. That the President be respectfully requested, If In bls Judgment not Incompatible with tho public Interest, to communicate to tho Senate any Information In possession of the Government touching the ulleged talse statistics and fabricated testimony iinposed upon tho Haul- Itux Cominigston and used ag a basis for tholr award {n the mutter of tho fisheries. The resolution passed almost without op- position, Hut Mr. Evarts, the most [nef clent Sceretary of State the United States hasever had, quietly plgcon-holed tt, He had eaten too many good dinners at tho Britlsh Legation to be willing to give offense to the representative of that Government at Washington. Itis Inferred from recent com respondence with the British Forefgn Office that the subject way never brought to its nt- tention by Mr. Evnrts. Ue has shuply tg- nored the Sennte of tho United States, But he stil’basks In the smiles of Sir Edward Thornton, Is the honor worth the price? THArLANtine In India’ has not been al- togetlier tho grout sueveas, says tho New York 7 imes, which those who beltevo in the vastness of tho undeveloped riches of that country antl. elpated a few yours azo. Thoro 1a plenty of tea grown throughout Assam, In the Dehra Doon, the Kangra Valley, and other districts tying In the nelubborbood of tho Himutnyan Rane, but somehow It has not succegded In conmnandiug a market of tho eamo value and oxtent os the Chinese tens. Nevertheless, in the optoton of teu experts, many of the Inding teas aro ns ood ag, It not really better than, the majority of Chinese teas, Thea “pekous"” produced in the nelghborbood of Darjeclng and tn the Kangra Valtey possess a flavor of grout delicacy, and there aro certain Assam samples which can challenge favorable comparison with many supertur classes of tea produced in tho Flowery. Land, The Goyernincnt of Indin, which fs In tho hnvlt of dry-uursing young Iudustries,—a sy8- tem which ereates special Conmnlsstancrships, Inspectorships, Superintendentships, and other very lucrative appointments for favored Buropeans,—has given a xood dent of attention to tho development of tho ten trade. It hus en- cournsed tho industry uot only In Assim and throughput tho fertile valloys lytny umung tho lower Himalayan slopas, but has gong to con- tderablo oxpense In making expertinents in tenegrowing in the Wynaud and certala othor hilly regions lying Im tho Northwest of tha Madras Presidency, Thera: is now evidence that tho Indinn tea-planters Intend to do same. thing for themselves, Uelleving In the excet- lent quality of their tens, thoy have resolved to Raia wider murket for the frulta of thelr ine dustry. ——_——aa————- Tnenr seems to be a growing conviction amony the people,.snys the’ New York Thurs, that the officiua at Wnehington spend too much of tha ‘pubila money on Congressional doors’ Kocpers and what inay be called offtelal Howard, There Ia not 2 door in the Capltol.which has not ita keeper, and gome of the entrances, notably thowe to the Supreme Court and tha Senate, nre provided with two able-bodied gentlemen who do uothing but draw fat sutarica and amuse thomselves by awinging the green-baize doors whieh protect tho Sonntors and Judges from tho vulgar gnze. Inthe mutter of flowers the Gov erament ts equally, If not moro, oxtravazant, Indeed, the Congressinan’s wife, Iylngat the Capital, who dovs notatsome timo during the seasion reculye a buaket of exotlos from the Presidentiat greenhouses duly lnbeled “With tho compliments of Mra, President" regards hereclf ag a much-injured woman, Nor fa this the ouly drain upon tho Whita-louge vonsert= ators. Tt fs not unusuul to boar that bridal und funeral wranths from it have dono duty in at lunst ong far-distunt State, Still, thaso cuss toms might pass unnoticed were 1 not far the alinilur und more extensive ovll of keeping an expenalye bul-bouse apparently for the one pure hese of supplying Consresemon, Congressional employes, even merscugers, pages, and thelr formule associntes, with bouquets of rare flow ers, The Superintendent of whut {3 ottlclully culled the Notanleal Gurdon, famiinrly known aa “the Nutlonnt houyuet factory,” receives $1,000 a year aud froo howso-ront. He and hls exponsivo nsalutants might hv ongnged in some better business (hun an offelally supported op- position to the private florlata of the Cupltal, ——— Mu. Biatne says that §¢ Frye is sinart he will nut go lute the Seuute, even If be can got there, but will atuy In tho House and become the louder of bis party, Blane esys tho House of Representatives ts atill tho grent Held for a pubs Ve man, Binino*bas made that dlscovory since helettthe House. A good muny English Comn- mouerd baye mado tha samo discovery when thoy necepted titles and allowed themselyes to be translated to the House of Lords, Ar a festivity held Dec, JL at Beasangon, * on tho allxing of 4 comnyemurative tablet on tho house In whieh M, Victor Hugo was born, tha following letter from bim was rend; . Tihunk my fetlow-countryimon with profound emotion. 1 am @ stone OC tho thoroughfare bumunity traverdas, but te le the right roud, Man fs master nelthor of bistife nerof uivdenth, He can only olfer bis tellow-eltizens bis elfurts todtininish huukn auferity and to wbow hig uns” vhukable bollef! ju sho extunglon of freedo: ‘ ———= JAuEs Reppatn, the blographer of Jolin Brown, who was alincat indloted ty Trolund, gave sy Asattiea je af ehormous gudlonce Iu Coopor {nstitute Wednesday ulght, beginutng thus (bo was born in england): Iroland If the Uethsomane of Europe. Init there ure pore undeserved poverty and wlntess: ecu than'in upy gthus land oa the face of tho said beens Riobe. England will aie yur rengons for It as plentiful as tha tigers In tha Indian Jungle. She says ft ls beenuse a tanjority of the inhubltunts are Catholles; beenuse thes’ aro bawlesay beewtise thoy tire Indolent; Leeandy thoy nea, dronken, thoy tre oxtrayagiit. If you ngk me fora reason, Lanawer jo ane word? Land- Jordiam! The trouble hue {ty origin fe thy rob Dery of n race forthe benplt of iW elnsa of ub- sonteo luafers. a Sreanen Sitanve, of tho Now York As- seinbly, showed considerable cournge, not to my andaclty, in withholding ‘the’ apvolatment of committees until after ho hind eased the eal of n-Senatoriat caucus. Tho. proceeding was high-landed even for the machine. Voth tho Crowley and Pintt factions approved of It, Dut ono must have been through the infill two or threo times In order to enjoy thoroughly such a rotighshod perforinunec. : ———————— Wins. the new Senator from California bo good cnough, when be takes his sent, to move nn Investiration into'tho profitsof tho Alaska fur- seal munnpoly? It isreported that duriig Inst yenr 100,00 skins valued nt $1,00),00 wero shipped to the United States and Rugland, Thore are no other sents within ensy reach Uke those of the Northern Pacitic, The Greenland seal ts comparatively worthless, a PERSONALS, A mnss-mecting of tho authors of “ Beautl- ful Snow "is talked of for uext summer, Miss Mary D. Bring has written some yorses for nt. Paul paper, Its very gratify: Sng to run across one poct who {is not fresh, ‘There are four daily papers In Peoria, Th, find It Is hurd to deetde whether the public sym- pathy should be bestowed on the papers or on tho peupte who rend thon, The house tn whjch Davy Crockett once Hived at Bawreneeburg. Tenn. ts atill standing, Dayo 1s ded, but, unfortunately, tho play which takes his name fs not. A'Toxns editor says thata negro in Touston County In that State ot 80 Inst autumn for cot- ton picked after gathering bis own crop. A negra In Chiengo sot thirty days for pleking cot- ton cloth after dark. A poem on the Irish Innd questfon has been received, but the fot that “onsia”’ Is made to rhyme with “her faco tg." rondors tt 0 little too Woitmanish tor Cook County tusto, and we have forwarded It to the New York Post. The richest man in New Mexico fs said to be In the White Onks district. Tt was originally sold for 82 1n allver, n Sttle dust, and an old re- volver, nnd ia now suld to bo worth $3,000,000, In Chleago It works differently, ‘Tho tind is sold for $3,009,000, und provesto be worth nu old revolver. A rumor comes from Madison, Wis, that Bjornsijerne Bornsen, the famous Norweglan poet, who is now on n visit to Amorlea, will weil Mrs. Ole Bull, widow of tho famous violinist. Mrs. Bull fs a daughter of Mr. ‘Thorpo, a wealthy: lumberman of Btudigow, Bke is young and beautiful. Willle Winter’s soul-writhings must have reached England. ‘Talking ubout American “gush,” tho Myaro (London) says: “After this, we puny inkesllngers of Bngland may just take aback sent. Tt kneeks tha sawdust out of us altogether, We shnply can’t do anything lice It, ‘The gush of Fleet street js to the gush of Broad- way as Lodore to Ningara.” . A. Cambridge (Mass.) Jetter says that dancing {3 2 rare diversion In (hat place, ox- vopting for young girls and undergraduntes, A Methodist preneher, who louked on ata snail dancing party at « house in Camoridge, ob- served with gectarinn humor that the young woulen went through thelr quadriiies and waltzes ns gravely usif they were “under con- vietion.”* A Boston correspondent, remarks upon new songof “intense beauty," juat published, entitied "Ob Love Come Iinek": So popular has It already becomo siuco its publication that it morits this extract from ite leaves": Lsont thee frum moat forgive me, love! When docs a womnn avec know her heart? Tyent thee footn tne tt my dette wrath And sui our tives word butter Wed aprirt. Ob love, come tack to ne—come Uavk wo Hie! O thovetud, the editor's club, How lovely tt tooks with Its great big nub, Sitting up there In tho corner 80 nont— HLlyt "tis the gound of u young puct’s fect; Climbing, Rbyining, Up-statrs be acoots. Gut out the club and the eopper-teed boots, O who wouldn't bo In tho editor's place, And knock 2 young puot from home to third base. Whitelaw Reid. A Boston young Indy who racently con- ferrei) her bloloyicul affections on a. Chicago young min, and fitted up thelr house on the West Sido with cathotio ourpets, bigb-art cur taing, Queen Anne ehairs, and Japanese fire- serauns to Kitch on extent that ho hurdly knew whether ho was at home or inn museum, hus ro- turned to ber parents beenuse the horrid wretoh on whom she hud squandered her love refused tosubscribe for a recoutlyspublished work on tho atomic theory of nau, She wil suv for dlvorca on tho ground that her husband rofused to sup- ply her with the necesaltles and comforts of Ife; sand a Boston jury will doubtiess eut her Cree, ‘Two Jovers by a inass-grown spring; hey leaned soft ehvols wzether there, Mingted the durx anasunny Itate, And Wourd the woolng chrienis itty, ‘O budding tino! tovu's Guest primo) . ‘wa parants by tho o voning fro ‘rhe red ight fol uuuut thelr kueos, On bonne Gut rosy by sluw doyeues' Lik buds upon thy Illy spiro, cr puttent ital Otvwnder siritel John WW, Forney. ‘hwo lovers on a awinglug gatos” ‘They made tho hinges creak und strain, ‘Toll how thoy soon would mect again, And beard the village-clock strike eight, O elubbing-tlne; How docs that rhyme? ‘Two, parents by the oventng Nro; The old man got bla bux-tocd boot, He mado young Mabel’s lover scuot, And cuss ber unrolenting alro. O close the gate, 1a bulf-past elght, 'Thore is a story told of n lady and gentle min travelug toyotber on an English raltroad, Thoy were strangers to each other, Suddenly the gentleman sald; Madam, 1 will trouble ie to look out of the winnow a fow minutes; Loan going, to make ante changes in iy wearing apparel,” * Cortulniy, airy” ebe replied, with grent pollta- ness, rein und turntug her buck upon iin, Tivn very ahort thay hu eaidt Now, madam, my change {a completed, and you may resume your own svat.” Whon the ae turned she behold ber tate companion transformed into a dashing lidy with a voll over hor fee, “Now, alr, ov madam, whichever you lito,” auld the tudy, °F inusytreublo you to look outot the window, for} ulgo buye song chinges to muke in 1g apparel.” “Cortality, mudiin’ ant tho tudy’s uttird Inmediately comple “Now, lt, yOu ivy resume your own sents’ Yo big grent surprise, on resuming bia acat, tho wenthenan in temute attire found his indy companion transforated inte a nun. Holiugbed lonaly, and wadits “Ipuappedrs that we aro both anxlous to avol recognition. | Whathaye you dune? 1 haye robbed 4 buwk.”* . And 1" atid tho whitom Judy, as ho doxter ously fettercd his compunion's wrists with a pate or handentts, "am Detvetlve J—, of Scot fina’ Yard, and intemute apparel buve shadowed you for two duys; sow," ice wtlll.” ————— PUBLIC OPINION, fontlenan in drawiug a revolver, Pittsburg Commerctal-Gazette (Rep.)s A free country bud better bo without 4 General, or oven a Cuptain-Gencral of the army, than without a free, fearives, and Independent press, Bt. Paul Ploncer-Prese (Rep); ‘Vo a citl- zen of Siunegatn, who recently visited Gen. Garilold ut Mentor, the President-olect sald with reat omphusia that he did hope the Republic ane of Minnesota wonld do so sensible vy thing us to send Raingey buck to tho Bounte, New York Sun (Ind): Mr, Eyarts will go out of office with tho susplolon thut hig cule pablo neglect of tho Hallfux niael gna ots irge one wome sspeots to nfect the roe He ee deat Hirtain and tio United Sines, Way by no means acelduntal. 5 Butfalu: Courter (Dom): Senator Conk- Ung's candiduty for the Sunstorship fsa cortuln graceful fmags of a base-byll player on the Bowery, Jt ia an adimlrably-inalded athtoto, und the Senator says that i¢ will answer overy function of a colicague perfeutly. My will bo xraceCul, silent, subuilvalve,—creditable to tho Stute und convenlant for bia. * A Fonton man’s characterization af Sena- tor Roscoo,Conklings He lé a may who nover orlginuted anything in bis lito; never bad any couvictions upon auy question of the hour; never made a epeech on n timely tople, unless it Involve the Patronaro: ready nothings gong nowheres Just lives amotie Is politica! mentatg take polities of a personal sort, and Dulldazes Renta. The word bulktozer apples ta hig unto may Of the Kultlux. Winsted (Cont) Presa Already churely property Inn single corporation In one of on cites ninounts to more, wittion sthan J.J. Aato, had accumulated whon his wenlth was regiraed, ns fabulons, Hundreds of millions throughoye tho und are boing piled uy. Pelion upon Ose, tuntfl Ue amotint of property exempted by tit from fixation has become suilielent, were it tg Yenr tte proportion of taxation, to reduce the tuxes of the people nearly one-half, Ben TUM in the Atlanta Constttutlon: Phe Demmocratie defeat In 1k) was the result of Democtatla follies and not of Republioan strength, These follies must bo abandon, In, the South we have local reitattons, which muss be healed, All forms of personalism must te reputinted, Wo have lost everything but the Senate by nothing but one follies, rnd now wq are thredtoned with the toss of the Senute by tne coneeivaule follies, If n Republican Senntor ig vhoson in Democratic Tennesee and Kellogg @ retuned by a Denveratig Senate in agent ty which hu wits never elected the Senute will bo Republican. Brandon (Miss.) Repubtlean (Dem.): Our peopte ure solld fur the right, solld for an toncet Government, solid for home rute, sulld forg tnrlf for revenue only, solid for tho Improves iment of tho Mississippi River, solid fora freq ballot and an honest, count, and rotiily ngal tho party that donfes us theso blesalngs, W are solidly for our own sectlon, bit we ure ope posed to doing anything to ingure any other secs ton, We ure for pence between the sections, but wenre not willing to sneritice our eelf-res Bpeet to obtaln it. Tho Sonth will remain gold. ty Democratic ns long ns the North refuses to treat us ns equals and denoinces vs us rebels ang as and we will do our utmost to keep it if Washington correspondence Columbus (0.) Slate Journal: Tho recently appointed Juda Woods put jn an appearance a day or two since, was aworn In, and took his seat with the veneras ble duffers who deal out constitutional taw tron tho woolsuck of tho Supremy Court. Amung the firatto congratulate bint wns tho unswerys ing, ublquitons, and tndlapensable Democrat, Tonag 1. HI,of Newark, 0, who remarked In hla tonierest tones: IT Judge; how d'yq do? Tn wind to ace you,” How ure yo ker* responded the fouy ules don't ‘Judge ma any more. Call me * Bill,’ as you did when you and F were Buckeye Democrats, and vised to rald Gingerbrend row In Newark together.” Then * BI” and“ tke" shook bands, and wero xoon teep In the disenssion of tho old times, old felons, au old eailonte, ae des oC there Youth. Who can doubt, after this, thut Jud Woods isu Olilo mun? * * ak New York Tinea: Nothing could more strikingly Mlustrate tho perfunctory character of the document popularly known as “ the Gove ernor’s Message” than the eliborage casny on tho publle sebool question which was gent to the New. Jersey Legtstature yesterday as Gov, Me« Utellun's third and Inst Mesenge. Gen. MeCtellua went over to Naw Jersey to be elected Governor, Before his thine explred be brought his carpets bag home te New York, and in tho quict of city house ho ealuuly sits dawn and lecture people of New Jersey on “suporticlal overediue cation,” “skilled Tabor,” and * technlent schools.” Of course, thera must be Goyernors, and even Governor's messages, but It Is rathor farsieal to find a retiring functlonary perform Ing his fast oxecutive act by dumping erude theorles und ponderous commonplaces among & people In whogs Interest he has nover had any part, and for whose weltarc—now that he lig done with them—he does not care the value of an old urimy button. New York ‘'tmea: The pertinacity with which tho United Stntes Henate continues to waste time over a ruscally swindling ofd private claim, to tho exclusion of nll othor Important. business, cannot he explained without enliby in queation either the churacter or the Intelllgence Of mnembers of that boy, ‘There are four regue Ine upproprintion bills uwalttns tho uetlon of tho Senate, aud even should the Senate pass tho fraudutent) Hoituday bill te Is altogether un« ikely that it could be considered by the prose Housa, ‘This perverse disregard of pirbllo duty, In presones of sume subject of merely privaig interest, ar some question of purely personal importance, has become titogether to common a talliog with the Senate, ‘Lhe occasional out brenks of disorder or of violent purtisanstip in the House tro less offensive to the people than tho solemn pettiness of the ways in which tho Senate contrives to waste time, bo far such Ine dustry and earnestness in tho discussion of really public questions which tho session bas dienlired hus been found solely In tho popular branel of Congress, Charles A. Dann beams upon Mr, Conger. inthe New York Sun: Tho translation to the Sennte of Mr. Conger, of Michigan, deprives the Hepublicans In the House of thotr ablest und safest leader. A thoroughgotng partisun, nlort and eager In the cause, bis reputation 139 minn nud a legisintor ts that of tho purest. Cons Late name Is open to no reproneh; no stay of jobbery ar trickery attaches to hlin, and this, no doubt, Is tho secret of hla power among his ase soclates, Wo observe that the Demouratl¢ newspapers generally deseribe Mr. Conger as a wnun oC ucrid temper, but nothing could be furs ther frum tho truth, Ho is one of the most wenlal of men, and bis humor Is simply, overs towing. No yoatlaman over attained hia promt: ence 11 the Huuse, compelled 3 kuch a person fs to go nbout stoppin, everybody's schemes and team pling evarybody's toca, whe had ware des voted friends than thls acrid Ropresentutiva, trom Miehizan, Ngo enongls $1 Might tng Detnocrats a8 Democrats, or thi as thioves; Lutolf bis Conyresstonal ley: full of buona Ieindness, fun, aad aneciute as Bob Ingorsoll himself, New York Thnea: It was a somewhat se vert test of tho virtue of tho Republican mujorl> ty of tho Legislature of Mutne thut,after all that hig been endured by tho Malne Republicans at tho hands of the corrupt Fusionists, thoy should be naked to deeldo n politicnl question in favor of thotr old ndvyersaries, whilo tho otd Fusion {ne of arguinent would have brought 1 Repub Henn victory. ‘Thla ts preeisely what has bap poned in Muine. y questions wntured inte tho digenssion whieh bay Just cued fn tho ree ort of-thy Joint select committee of the Maino pexiduture: Was tho constitutionn omende nent, providing for an elocuon of Gayernor by plurality, applicable to the Inte elections and should votes cast for Plaisted bo counted for him notwithstanding the luct tint these votes were defective? ‘Thy position of the Democrats before the Gubernatorial clection aud whon they thonght that there might bo n plurality of votes cnet for tho Itepublicau candidate, was that hig the S the constitutlonal amendment, adopted wt tho Gubernutoriut election, cuuld hot oupply = to the result af tht clevtion. ‘Zho position of tha Fusloslsts fast year wae Wut ballots enst for a eaudidate, of well us returns certifying tho results of clece tlon, tuat be exnctly regular i avery point, ¢& pociully in respect of tho spulling of thy names of candidates, Otherwise, those wore * Cutaily defective.” Chis year the tables aro ture Instead of thore bolug 1 plenty for tho [toe uiblican candidate and « Fusion majority In the augivluture, ag wie oxpected, the Leugisliturs has nm Nepotllean innjoritys, and tho iin who bua a plurality of all tho votes cist is Harris Me Phusted, tee’ Fuslon candidate, 1 hag, theres fore, devolved upon this Republican Lexisiae thro to sny whether n constitutional umendment adopted at tho same ciection at whieh the Gu. Dornataritl candidates were voted for abou b upplied to the resilta of Us olection, If thd plirality amendment docs not apply to the Soe tember cleetlun, then there fs Ho chuice by Y people, and tho eluvtion of Governor fa throwd into the Legigiiture, whieh, belug Ttepubticaty thee needs chouse Days, the Republigan tot nee, . ‘The Now York Tribune ts calling loud attention to the urgent Hecessity of reformed the courts of that city, In one of Its articles | syst Thoexpensive syatont of conducting the courtain tho city and schemes to do uwvay will the ovils that are known to exist are now auch Alscussed among lawyers and other pereool whosy interosts wre most deeply atteeted. ‘Tht eviis, most complalued of under the preset syston aire the uxcossive delays in tithadon ! lisexpensiveness, In many fustuucea thy bart cat work Ig dong by the person rocolving tht smallest pay, ‘Thore aro a number of sutured’ nates tn tho otfice of tho Clerk of cach Cul whodo dutles ure merely nominal, who batt secured thelr phices out uf the potitleal re wards, wad the places aro revervod for tit pul nse; und oO stil more vacleds oxpense Is tht urge number’ of court oilicers who tive ale tutely Punt to do, Tt would surprise olf Loglalature tf its membure could fearn by. re wont obdervation how many court sinccury have been allowed to remain since Ut days when, thoy were so enslly create for political purposes, The Har asd \ von imudt come out and pame this Jue Ant that Judyo who {a sbirking bie daty., 2} thoy haye net tho moral pluck tu do it, AY - Imprisonment for debt, Lam told that tho a atitutionul Convention adjourned under the I pression, that they hud stopped ft to tuts elt} ut there were so muny old statutes UnTepedT thut wo still bave tia barharitios of tho revere teonth century timost transferred to the ten Ucth, and intrasted, perbups, toa man i car ”q them out who would got have bows worthy ¢ross the threshold of Jonathan Wild, babi opinion bore is raphlly forming, und wher dues noxt make an exumplo of u Judge It wf not only turn ity ot tha Bene and hig’? hits asa Judge, but put fin ln tha Poaitentagy Ko to thy above’ wh y fue ‘ innke bin weur hls stripes, bath, aud bo Hoxged hike priyacy be bus intruded upon dickury and the jaws ara reformed here, obants and others domyg business ta New City who have uny Pony of onmlt: i feronce bad better fook out bow thoy eter Th Hate fala, The inerchants here will oul Andituat they muse awaken ro we lulu tog of tho fiw in New York, whleb exit otber city Ju the country.) etter mel Until th