Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1881, Page 4

e TRIBUKRE FRIDA Helford a Repidllean, Tho neett of now piblle bulldingd at Denver Is unguestiona- ble, The city has increased more thau four- fard sinco 1870, Randnll allowed o publle building for West Virginia to po through, and yet Denver apd Lendville refurn mors revenno lo the Dest-Offieo than thut: entire State, - 'Tho recelpts from Denver aro double 5 : ure was shut oft, Hlurd iy n Demoerat and e @ribans, 7 “llnmx{n i those from Atlaaln, Portland, 'l'upc‘lm. unday, 16-pago aditios s 4 1 : e WEEKLL ITTON—=POY Chinrleston, or Wheeling, ench of which hns lately heen granted a Government building, Che enjy. par yoar., (et Telford properly complaing that as the sale Twenty-ong e | Epecimen coptie 3 topresentative from Coloradv hie 18 entitled ¥ ,,};‘:’L{:’“’U"w“ wddresa in ful, including County, | 4, gy,0080) w?lsldumnm, for when he i€ de- e atancos mias he mado cfthor b dkatt, osarass | wled recognition the ¥liole State is Injured, TPost-Oitice ordor, o In redistered letter, 1 UF Fivk. R0 CITV SUBSCIINENS, Polly.Aiivored, Knnidny 6XCCu, 25 conts ner weok. Latip;eliy sred, Sunday includen 5@ conts yer week. wheteas other States that have more than one Ropresentative- ke severnl avennes of commimieation with Congress, The evi I} Address PHE TIRIBUND COMPANY, Qenee seems Lo bo complete that Randall hos i ‘Corner Mtadison nad Dearborngsis. Chickwllle | ghyyged lifs posttion aud dseriminated nminst ' a Republienn member and n lepublleat iy t his rtisan splies ¥ Infered ot the Dopt-tilent (utriz Ty oy Stende - ¥ L Tur dollet Republican thinks Conk 4 Forthe benent of oue pasrans who desiea, 10 rand | County wns favored by Speaker Thomas [ 4 }"l?fié}illl‘,fx." K'II:A]::;n||:l|l\“::k\'::':'l¢"ll;l"|‘l::s';n'm " | the appolntment of Tiouse Committces, aud L Domestie. - reroonu. | says: - B 1L 0 R 25 SO0t | " iFiio legtelution of thu presert General Assems o4 3 " Fareigie Uly, 20 for ks the Housa of -Jupresentatives 19 4 Liehtang Tweivo Pago Ui eonceencd, now passca Into the hiands of Coul 4 Eateen Page Pave: County, The followlng nre thuChatrney of the AN " fmportant cammittees, ne wnnsunced by Gen, 0 p e el e iR Mo o \ o b of Cook: Warehotges—Phelps, of Cooks Eduer- D e verbm wionCook, of Cau'k: Militin—=Trrson, of Cooks 3 montaos followa: Senntorinl Apportionment—Yookwell, of Cooks ¢ NEW YORK--ltoom 3 Tribine Bulldiog. FoT.M¢= | To Vialt Edueationnl Instittloe=White, uf \ FADDEY, Manager. = Cook; Miscelluncous Subjecta—Harris, of Cook. ; ""‘\E‘;fl‘:fl:fi.\w EAaE: driicad = Dut there were a good many important tng—American Fxchange, 40 Etrand. | committees that Conk County did not getu s, ' HESRY L10, A “"“M, for Instance, Judlelary, Hallronds, Finance, ! WABLINUIUS, LAy Approprintions, Penltentiary (the Wil . o :| County people ought to make a note of 1t), AMUSILE State Institutions, Charities, Bnildings, Rev- i Taveris's Vhokbive, enne, Countles, Bauks, Agriculture, Manu- ; Fearborn sirect, corner of Monros. Minstrel ene | faptures, Electlons, Canal and Rlver Improve- Loralumionts ent, Tnsuratee, and Printing, It is vidleg- Afontey*s ‘Thentre * % tous to- pretend that Cook Connty wad oo ‘. Tandoph strnor, Dotwenn Gark unit i &alls, Ene | 10 Gyttt with by the Speuker, Invie ~ qaggmont of Itice's Bijou Opern Cunpuny, *The Lulght," nnd * ains it Jlome.” i) Cintk streot, opposi ok, Fingagne ) ment of tho Menda & Main i Tl . " Dea- cont Crankott." whinglop, MoVicker's Thnira, * Madison_street, Letween' Stato Engazement of Mite. urnt lornhrit, Thenrhoes, rou-Frou.” vie & Behwsn Comedy Company “Muldoon's Piente” -~ Asailony of Mule. tatatod atpeite noar Madisan, West 8o, Enungs ment of Me.Joseph Vroctor. * Nigk of the Wouds,” Contrnl Muntc-Efull, * - Corner of 1tandolph und State stroets, Entartain- mont by lulon Poter's Pleludos for the Nenelit o tho Nowsboys® Homo, 2 ¢ Expodtion Building, i Yake front, opposite Adnims streot,” ‘Whalo oxhts . dbitlon fromYu . to 10p,n1* FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 181 ‘Ti1s exports of brendstufls from the Unit- ed States’during Deeember hid o value of SI2H, 50, ngainst $19,155:2% In the same month of 180, Thoe totul value for the twelve months ending Doc.. 81, 189, wil 505,857, agalnst SIH,880, The ex- ports of wheat, -corn, and Hour during the Lwo years vomy: as follows: Lo i Elout; it A 2 i} he net Inerease 1 the valie of the total bréadstufls exported in 180 over that of 18570 (R0, Corros-vierixg by mmehinery has long bren a dream of the Southern plunters, The i3k of phntlng rovolves about the pleking senson. 'The bolls open feregularly, but they st be plucked when they are at a certain slage of ripeness, or be'tost By whole or part. 8. It Cockerdll, Viee Mestdent™al the Mis- sissippi s Valloy P'lanteis’ - Associntion, be- licves ho has dretved ot a solution of the will continue to vipon and open Ju dug tine, £ the plant Is ent up by the roots: and stacked. ‘Tiigre I8 1o "practieal ‘difieulty in seprrating the cotton from the boll by mn- chinery, if thestalks enn bu gathered and fed at one thue, The npparatus for this process hns been Invented and works woill, But . everything depends on the truth of Mr, Cock- erlil's assertion that cotton In Its lust stages will.tlpen In‘'the stack, Covun Nz,0f Tennessee, bas graclously offered the Iiépubliean mu- forlty in the next House nn ollve branch In the shapo, of 8 proposition that they shall ballot for Speaker without a previous enveus nomination, ‘The wecoptunee of this proposi- tion, the versatile member from Tennessee deelures, would hie proof of the sincority of the Republican attempts Lo~ conclliate tho South, Why s it that the South siands In necd of such an enormons mnount of conefl- intlon? “The North hus never been *“conell- Tated ® in the way proposed, Spenker Iau- dull was not first, \*meq for In open Ilouse on the oceasion of clther,of. his two elections, The alleged yearning:-disive of the Repub- lican pasty to **conviliate ” thoSouth by giving 1o.tho iningrfiy Glfices 1o which its strength does not eutltle it exists only In the imaglun- hon of fervid patriots Hike Mr: Whitthorne, Up to tlils timo the *conellintion” buslness hus beon too ene-slded, il the Republican party hus no desiro to continue It on preclse- ly-the old terms, Tue prohlbition question In Illinols is In somatbing Jiko this shapes There are 600,000 male ndults in tho State; nbout 400,000 of thein driuk mora or less beer, wine, or whisky, and a large number delnk altogether oiore shiun Is good for them. In, short, seyv- eral thousauds are Inebrfatés, It Is probable Vit 08 wany us 40,000 mefi In this® State iy drink hubltunily mul to exeess, and 360,000 drink b varlous degrees, of moderntion, Ahere Jire 200,000 men who nre practically teototalers, und never or ravely drink any in- toxientdng Nguors. ‘The problem with Mrs, <., Willard wnd the other leatters of the non- v drinking winority of men 18 how Lo prevent the 40,000 cxcesslve drinkers from get- g any lguor. The plan 3Mrs, Willard + bns deviged s to forbld by female rotes auy of the 10000 saloonkeepers from selling beer, wine, or splrits to wmy of the 400,00 adultansles Ty the State who want ‘e take something” It i nssuaned that such 1s tho gallantry of $he 10, ¥ saloonkeepers In Hinols, and.of. the 100,000 mnkes yoters who finbioe, tht the for- er whl empty thefr liquors lito the gut- beps und the Jatter hever mgnbn ugk for u gliss Leven of beer—all i tho event that Mys, . Willard and the females generally vote no- ¢ llconse, We siucerely wish , wo could b Uove it REPIESENTATIV on's complaint agalnst Speaker Itandull §s that the latter lias vocognlzed & milinber of membiers from Southern States, one from Ohlo, and ong from Pennsylvania to eall un bills providing for public bulldipgs, and hws refused to ree- vignlze him for the smne purpose. Tho bitl authorlzing the ercction of u Post-Oftice at - Denver had precedence on the culendar over another for a-Custonr-flouse at Toledo, yep Fravk Tura “was permitted -to put the latter gu its passoge, while the Detiver meas- Theatre, t Lako nnd Iggearnnli” Fugnges “problem. Hesays iLisa fet that the bolls, of the fact that 1t contains onesdrth the poyn- fation of the State, and funlshed o telegraphy, the Government will not need half thewires which will be controlled by the Western Unton after the consolidation with the other companles, but It will need larger and stronger wikes than the-great bulk of tho Western Unlon material, Mr. Springer's resobtion: should be passed In preeisely the shape hie as proposed as a preliminary step, and at o subsequent advanee toward the estublishinsent of u Goyesnment postal tele- graph should auy but 0 new and hulepemds ent system by constdefea for otie moment, NeEnnaska, Fennessee, Texas, and Penne sylvaniaare tha only States In whieh the cholee of Senator for the term beginning Mareh 4 has not Ueei netually or inelfect completed, Taduoek §s leading in ‘Nebraskn, but the sltuntion W' Pennsyivania, ‘Texas, and Tennesse 18 at this wrlting chaotl he fol- Towlng Senntors have been rediectd: . My pom.), of Del. Coekrell (Dem.j, of Mo LR ln. I;Ilrllflldl‘(lh‘ll.l. 1 L of V1, -7 dotiea (e, of ¥ Dpwes (g, 0f Muss, Ldumnas (tep, MeMillantep.), Minn, Tho followlng present Senators wilt votire to private (e alter the 4th of Mureh, Ttooth titap) of £l Randolph themdof N, Enton (e of Conn - Keruan (Demy) of N Y MeDonald (Demgof Tuds Fhinpman (i ilnmlin (ltep) of Mo, Wallnee (Do Whyte (Dent of Md, Withors () Tintdwin dtep.) of Mich, Hovetord ¢ Brie (Rep of Misso - Cameron (Rep. ot W #huron (tep) of Nev, Phe followlng new Senntors have been clected or elosen by mujorily caueuses: Miller ltep.s of Cal, Falribom.) of Novada, Tawley (livw.) of Cann. fewell (iep,) of N, Tiarrison (op) of Ind, Plitt (ltep.) o Hale titepa of Me, - Shermun ttep, Gorham (e of Md. - Muhone (Ind.) of Congeer gitep.) of Miel, Candon (e of WoVa George (Dom.) of Miss. Sawser dtep) of Wis, o Fhe proportion of new Senators Is unusn ally large, owing I part to tho changes of mnjorities fn severnl Northern Legislatures, s, for instance, New Jersey, New York, Tennsylvanta, Indlang, and Couneetleut, where, the Repubileans gain six Senutors, anid Mississippi and Neviudg, where the Den- | oernts gatn two. ‘The politieal complesion 4 of (ho Senate nfter the 4th of dareh will de- pend on the result in ‘Cennesseo and the ne- quirtet of the Republlean nmority, tie nsslgnment of seven Chatrmanshibs lo ¢ oxt of some forty-five nt the disposal ot tie Spepker, or less than one-sixth of ally wasngb oxeessive, OFf tho seven, only three aw - portant,—Covporations, Warehouses; and Ay portlonent, ‘Fhe propricty of givingthe Inst named to Cook County, whers the ral work of apportiontment 1s to he done and A the galn to be providel for, Is apparent, T say gt the control ol legisiation-ns been put e hands of Cook County, while the Judielury, Railromd, Finanee, Appropria- tions,. Penltentiary, State-Lustitutions, Charl- ties, Itevenue, cte., ul&, Committees are ln the possession of country mtmbers, and majority of rural votes Is glven to each of the other Conunlttees, js nbsurd and unjust, The teuth is, that, until this session, Cook County s not been for years treated with Dalf-way fairness In the appointinent of Come- Initteesy and (he novelty of the thing ks the cause of the complaints In n portion of the conntry press, Irig elalmed by some of tho parties who adulterate onr food and drink that tiley o no hart, 68 they nse no hurtful ingredionts, This is a very poor apology foracheat, In the first plaee, it is too much to nsk o cred- ulous public to believe the .statement withe out other proof when the pafties mnking the stateiment stand self-confessed ns the mnkers of things whilch arg, to be sold for what they are hot. Inthe sccond plaee, the situntion Is pregnant with datger, even If the state- ment be true. The man who adulterates dues [t to make money, ‘The Inevitable re- sultfs that hygmest goods dre delven out of the warket by competition . with the dls- honest, . Other men, who also want to “anke money,”” go In to competo with the fraudulent: arcticle, and produce sonie- thing which 1Is_ not manufactuged ~with a conscientlons regard for ‘the health of the people who have to ent and dulnk {t. Even 1f onc could be assured that there Is no dan- ger of disease or death, the manufueture and sale of ndulterated property—we cannot call it * goods”—Is n-swindle worthy ot repro- bation by every membor of the communfty. Ir tho'stufl b harmless it is Just us bad to sell the bogus for the gonulne artielens it wonld be to sell nine ounees when charglng: for . ponnd, It 15, 8 miserable sophistry which ean elnfm that the one course of ne- tlon Is respeetable, whije ealling the other aet o theft, Let-us Nhive w law which will brand as a felon every man who I8 know- tngly o party to even the harmless wdulteration of food, drink, or drugs,—any- thing that enters futo human consumption in tho striet sense of the term. - Let us also have provisions in that law whieh will make 1t to the persunnl futerest of others to deteet and expose the frawd, ere fs danger that the present attempt to pass sueh a-law will bu defeated by the combined efforts of those Interested In wdulterating processes of miyn- ufucture, Fvery consnmer. fs vitally inter- ested In the profeetion of the communily aguinst the swindles, which will be more un- blushing and huriful than ever If the pend- g attenipt at reform bo not gucvesstitl, ‘i nows comes from Washington that the Mouse Committee on Post-Oflees and Post-Runds has resolved almost unaniinons- 1y—the voto belme 7 to 1—to report favorably the followlng resolutlon, whieh was futroe dueed by Mr, Springer: Iteaoteed, ‘Pt tho Committes on Post-Olicos and PPost-Ttouds be inktrieted to lguiro lnto thy expudieney of estublishlug by Iaw u_tolegrapblc pstilseratom BndCe Ui Govoriinent “ar tho Tnlted Btutes, and also the cost of reprodieing the fucilitics for (ransmitting telegraphio mess suges oquinl te those now possessed by the exists i covparntions, und A 10 the éxpense of aperating tho saine, with power to 1 fur pers sons nud - papers, und report ot any thae, by bill or utherwise. ' I thls malter Mr, fis'n'lngl;r hins proceeded entirely In the right divection, Let us have Aust the Information which his resolution enlls for, und Job us have 1t In the most expe- ditlous und complete manner, The form of the resolution 13 espeelally commendablo be- cause It does not contomplate In any emor- ganey the purehnse of the old material aind, to the Government, worthless franchises of the Weatern Unlon monopoly nt any prive, This i3 a thing ot 1o be consldered In any event, Thy only questipn now In order iy whether or not 1t s expedient for the Goy- ermuent to establlsh n telegraphic” postal system, I 1t o llcl\hlcd it such n pro- ceeding I8 expediont,—uil thero cap searcely bo sny doubl of this under extsthng comll- tions,—the next guestlon witd bs what 1t will cost to add o telegrnph system to the present pustul system, ‘with complete contiol of right of way, Bostal ronds, franchlses, pate ents, uud all pther necessnry sdjunets which the Gavernment may want at any thoe, s with the immediate assistanee which the rullrowds will bo uble to furnish with:the Nnes they chaye bull, 1towill boe o sheer waste =of woney o buy the Weslern Unfon lues at any price~mueh more st igure represented by fletittonsstock sl nggrexating four or five thnes the actual value of the materlal to be sold, When the Euglish Government bought out the tele graph compunles 1t becane tho viethn of & hugo Job, mid tho firsg thing o didh wis to throw away the obsolpte ad worthless na- terlnl a8 rapklly as it coulil substitute new und fwproved waterfal, ‘The Unitod Statey Government must not repeat this folly, With tho pow sunchiuery and avpllanees’ wsed ju tign of the Indeépentdent Senator from Vir- rlnin, THE CHINESE TREATY, Theré Is reason to believe that, on the whole, the Ameriean Comnissloners to China suceceded I nezotiating the most favorable treaty that conld be seenred, and that it will result in giving the Uunited States Govern- ment the necessary authorlty to regulate Chinese immigration to this country, At all events, all exeept the hoodlwm sentiment on the aeifie Const seets to regard the treaty In thit 1ght, and this fuct warrants the ratifica ‘lun of the agreement. Thi trenty prosfdes (1) that tho United Sates Government may regulate and it thy Incoming and reshlencs of Chinamen in th country, provided that hmmbgration shalt nothe prohibited nnl that the regzujution shall by fi&nml to lnborerss (2) that Clhilnese Jabor- ers \ow in tho United Stafes, nmd that Chinge subjects coming here as tenchers, stutlens, merehants, und travelers in future, shinll bakutitied to alithe protectionextended to the sif\eets of other patlons ¢1) thatleg- Islative masires adoptéd for the mbiation or regulafon of the Chlucsa fmmigration sinll be ‘wummnlented lo the Chineso Governmen, subject to protest from the lat- ter If unrcdgnnble, and to rearrangement between the cuitenethys Powers, ‘Uhis ngree- ment I8 supplemented by s cummer- clal treaty, ppleh provides timt nelther Government yfinll _levy n higher tats of tonnage of dutles on the exports or uports of thebther »than Iy nssessed upon issels of othedaiatins, and stipulates that o subjects stutll ot be permitteéd to fmport-uplum Bite the United States ports nor the citizens of the United Stutes to bne port oplum tuto the'ports of China, These are_ {ho chilel festures of the two treatles, which really go togher,”. | 1t 13 not probable thit he Ghitese Govern- ment would have entered futo n treaty of this uature I it were disposst 'h) nke any fuetipus apposition In the futur to any regu- lutlon of Chinese immigeation i this coun- try which the United States Goyemient §s Hkely to muke, The stipulation, reqoirhig the United States Goveriment to ceniunl- cate its leglslation upon this subject 1o the Chinese Government, and the opportunks for protest reserved by ' {hat Goversiigt, simply show that the Chinesé aro shredd aid eautlous in diplomuey as well ns busingss: affalig, and are not disposed to place them- sclves In a position wheve they may be over-. reacheds IL may he assuined, howtver, thid the Chiness Government o has virtusily agreed to “the lexisiation - whicl was adopted by Congra amd which only falled” through the Exeeutive voto which President .« Ilnyes Interposed - beenuss he betfeved It to be o violution of the freaty: fenred, However, that among tho many things which the present Cangress fs likely to negleet the limitation of Chinese humigra- tlon nnder tho trel'uy" il be included, . THE ERIE CANAL. New York Herald urgently reinforces commendations of Mr. Seymour, the State Engineer, concerning the Erle aml othor Now York camals, Mr. Seymour ve- minds the Leglslature of New York of. the near completion of the Welland and other Canadinn enunts, nud of the miperior means atfurded thereby for the transportation of all artielus Jdatended for export, o' recome- wends varions things that the Legislature way o, preniistg these rezoummendationy with tho suggestion that the, New York eanals in 1870 moved LT lons of mer- ehandise, white 1n 1850 they transported - 43,400 tons, nn Inerensy of nearty 5,000,000 tons, and that this tmmense Inerease wis mninly due to-the reduction: of tolls two years ago on 'west-bound freight. -lle claims that thiy veduetion so stimulated ship- ments to tho West by the eanal that the boats, having nlways n return enrgo, were able to reduee their rates on enst-bound fretghts; and he urges this most naturnl and rensonably result ns o reason why the Leglslature should now abolish all toils on west-bound Trelght, - In addition to this recommendation, Mr, Seymour advises the mismng of the bauks of the Erio Canal, to give it one ndditlonal foot of water; ‘thereby giving the canal n uni- form depth of elght feet, Included In this recommendation §s one that the dreglging of the eanal, which 13 greatly needed;’be here- after performed by machinery instend of by nand, ‘Uhis Inereased depth of water It Is claimed. will enable the present boats to carry each fifty additional tons of load with- out any change in the relation of the size of the bout nmd the size of the canal, By the adoption’of stennt power In the opening and closing of tho locks, and the Inerensed depth of water, the boats will be enabled to save (hirty-seven hours in the trip between Iinf- falo aud, New York. 10 the boats golng west earried full cargoes, us they prob- ably would If the present lofls were abol- Ished, the State Engiueer thinks they could alford to take a load of graln castward tor one-half the price they could- If they went empty to Buifalo, The boatmen’s aver- age rate of freleht on a bushel of whent from Ljiifnlo to New York In 1850 wus 5§ centy, exeluslve of tolls, which wero 1 cent, 1t this eharge conld by reduced to 434 conts, Mr, Soymour declares™ the Erfe Canal could sueh ceonomieal - transportation that vould boe very little danger from its Notthern rival” . ‘I'ie whola'of these propased tmprovements 1t I estimated will not cost more than $2,000,- 000, anl tho removal of present constitution- al wd other legal objections to this expendi- ture will be necessary, nnd should bo mu.«lv. The State of New York has been retm- bursed from thé tolls of the Erie Canal for all the money expended in the cost of construe| tlon, repair, enlargement, and maintenanes of that equal, neluding all that has been stolon, with 850,000,000 over, 1t hasoniy been within a fow years that th State has abau- doned the paliey of using the Erle’ Canal ng u source of revenue, and its surplus earnings have been sunk In the wild endeavor to sus- taln o system of useless Internl eanals, The tete polley of the State Is now to* hiake the canal n free highway by the abolition of all tolls on-east as well “as on west bownd frelzhts. 1L18 as wbsurd and unjust for the State 1o colicet tollson the Erle Cunal as 1t would bo to eollect tolls on_the-Iludson River, or for the Clty of New York lou toll-gates on its streets and avenues. New York Clty could well afford to puy the whole eost of repuirs and malutenanee of thut ea- nal Inorder to retain its permungney ns the commercial metropolls. I'he proposed haprovements, and tho abo- Iitlun of ull tolls, In fact muking the ennal u free highway with enlarged enpaclty, will 50 reduce the rates of transportation by lake and by eanal from Chiengo to Now York, diiring tho season of navigatlon, ad to pro- teet the country against the combimation of pooling rallways, Unless that enval be thus mado free,” and rates of transportation re- duced to the miulmum, then Niw York City must expeet to seo the St Lawrengs made the route for Westorn Imports and vxports, I'he Coundian eannls will permlt griin to by moved trom Chicago and put on steamers ot Montreal at n maxhnum rate of eight cents per bushel, Ruturn trausportation will be sp cheap that the whole Misstssippl Viilley " wil usu that route for thelr exehango come hiodihes,” Lake Champluin witl become the centrnl point for the entire trade between thio West nd New England, and Montreal bo- come the seapott tor the forelgn trade, It hehwoves New York to no longor negloet the then In foree. Llils loghslation. thuited Chi- nese fmmlgration to Amerfeanports to fifteen persons In any one vessel, and 10 the Chineso Governmunt wera not Inelined to aceept such terms it would hardly have nssented’ to the new treaty without protesting that sueh limi- tation would bo regavded ns unreasonably, Iuis probably this view of the enso which reconelles the people of the Paclfie Coust to tho terms of the new- treat, € 1tis a matter of survise ‘that any New York morelinnts showrll have united in w pro- fest agninst the ratitlestlon of tho treaty on account of-the prohibitlon of the gplum trade which it contalus, As wmatier of fact, this 18 the most eredible part of the {reaty so fur ns the United States I8 coneerned, "I'he opium hablt has been recognized by the Chi- nese Government as one of the most serlous dangers that threaten” its people, nud 1 Iy tho policy of. that Govervment to digeournge tho - traflle in this drug Ly efery menns n M8 power, The Dritish Government foreed upon tho Chinese CGov- ernmont u recognition of ity right to trade upon theviclous appetlie of the Chine Enigllsh inen-of-war wera smmmaned to vin diento the Hrhtish eupldity In this Instun Itiitting that the United States Governs ment, o the other hand, should votuntarily surronder a trudo which Is shocking to tho morals, i the sense in which Chiun regards 1t, ut o tim when it solletts from the Chilness tovormuent n material wodliention of exlating treaty, I the Unlted States etalns the right to exelute (o' nny degres it sees it tho subjects'of China from the privilego, of coming to this country, it cannot cons 1y deny to the Clilnese Governmunt the rght to exelude, so fav a8 Its relutions with this cotntry ave conoerned, the traflic in s deng which it regarids us polsonons to the healtn, momlity, st Intelleet of 1t subjeets, T'he chwse b regard to oplum ought rather to fuellitato thun to retard & ratiticaglon of the treaty, ] Itwill bo an easy matior under the trenty thnt lms been negotlatod to restrlet gwb’ nese hubgration within proper Ipits, phe Inerense of Chinumen i this cqunitey duving the pust ton yenrs, as sho 'il.m' the Jute consus, huy not becit so¥dnvgiy us o bitter. s of tho ughtation upon ‘g‘z) subjecg s Drobably ted most peapip-t0belleve,: ‘Tho censup of 1850 shows the uber of Cliliéso I Callfornin -0, 'The census of 1570 onumergled (5,199 Chiness In the coun- try, of whoilt 40,207 wore In Culifornk, 3,50 {11 Qregon, and 3,153 Ju Nevadu. Tothe ex- torft thut Chinese nunigration 8 o evil, pre- cautionary restraint seems to. huys beep taken In tine to, ulthgato 16l proteet the A;nerlc‘:m veople from itg spread, lvistobo § Eirle Cunaly that routo must bo haproved to its full cnpneity, because it [s now s essen- tin! to tho (rade of Now York CHy as it was 1lrty yenrs ngo. Se ey THE PROSPERIIY OF FRANCE. A correspondent of the London Times, writing from Parly, dwells upon the wonder- ful prosperity of Franco, and culogizes o country where the Inerense of revontie has beén such this yedr that 120,000,000 Tranes (825,000,000) of taxes have been tnken off, and where the poor-louse -Is unknown, and- 1o destitution or paverty, exists, In secking for the cnuses of this prospority, which by been obteindd I the fieo of a Lieavy burdon of; var debt (the debt. of Lrance Js double tiatof the United States), hoavy taxntlon, deficiencivs In the wine il slik crops, -wnd competition In agri- enltural Indwtries with this country, he finds three, which ho entmerates as follows: (1) "The gecgraphieal frontier wnd its wore evonly-distributed resourees from agrienit- ure nud dustry; (2) the oxtreme ceonomy wid twiftiness of lier people; and () the universal diffusion of the National bonds mmong the masses, o dwells upan thesethiren canses nt some length, showing howFrance proteots existing Interests and uvedils overproduction, how ceonomienl und prdent the people wre, providiug fof overy chili's future evéh whilo It Isin its cragle, as wellus the operdtion of tho law which obliges o Frenchiman to divide most of his possessions equally among his'ehildren, whivh mmkes it Tinpossible to hold Inrge properties und alse stewdily diminishes the holdlngs of land, Upon the latter point o suys: Php State, morcover, Jovies dutiva on overy chafge of wwnership, sanglng neeording to cons alnley Trom i 1o 11.per cent. This great division of property docs not depreciote tho valuv ot Jand~—ptite (ho contrurys ynd this nuy bo uxpliined “}" 10 Cruviing ever enehmag lina fur o bit of ts soll, What with the luw of inogitanicr i (o ving aualitios of tho pe oy Wt tind fs wy Bt thio it gots demoviutized, AL hawing w bt not often maeliof Jt, il try to &ob us muels out of 1t us poasible, ‘The reasons wihileh. this writer advinces wndoubtedly have cantributed Lo the sues of France, but after pll they are only subshl- Tury, aid 1t is o 1itti rewurkablo that ho docs not verlzo that the one great cause—that fs, lnnd-holding, to whicl'he only casunlly al Tudes—Lled pt the very foundation of Franco's prosperity,” According to the Jatest oftlolal returns the gultivated Jand of Frauee way divided fnto 5,500,000 dfatinet farm proporties, Of this totul, the properifes uveraging 000 acres numbarpd 30,000, and those avernglng sixty aerps 500,000, whils thero were tive mill- fons of properties under sisty ncres. But suppose that the five aud, n Lalt willlons of ¥reuch furmens had'eadh to pay from €3 to 810 per nere to Parlsian landlords, and that the Tands were let out to the highest bidders! Suppose that nil the lnprovemnents made by farmers bolonged to Lords, Earls, amd Mag- quises fving in Parls, and that the farmers were discouraged -from mnking fmprove- wments Meeausy overy sueh -lietterment only sdvaneed the rontals] Suppose that the ng- pregato rental amounted to between five hundred and - seven hundred millions per annuni, without regard to tha stzo of thy crops or the prices, or thedamnges Inflieted by Hlonds, drought, and Inseets, and that In the fuco of ull obstacles of this sort the rental must bo raised to be squandered upon titled tnndlords In Parls, as was tho ease be- fore the Freneh Revolution, what would by the effeet upon France? Preetsely that which happenad then; when one-third of the laud wns held by tha Catholle Chureh, onethind +of it hy the nobles, and the other third was adiministered by the State for the benefit of the King, his courtiers, and harlots, Ieance was robbed - then ns Ireland i3 robbed new, ‘I'here was 1o prosperity then, nor would there be now, It the land were not owned by tho people, ‘The Revolution reversed the okl feudal mud priestly order of things, aud the Lo went to Its cullivators, and sinee it has bebm In the hruds of the Iatter France hos been prosperous, Now there ave five or six millions of Independent, prosperous, con- tented farmers, owning smnll farms wder exeellent cultivation and well taken care ofy and the result Is the farmors are Independ- ent and forehnnded, “Ihey Iny up thelr money. They provhile® fur thelr ehlldren, ‘They hold all the Governmuent bonds. Asu pendant to the five willions of such furm- owners, thers are nearly five milllons of the French people holding nationad honds, As the Statesman’s Year Book says: “1t will be seen that the natlonai debt in recent years hns been steadily undergoing the process of complete subdivision among the population of Frunce, the number of the publie-fumnd holders having™ come to npproach that of the frechollers of the sofl” In other words, almost every one In France owns sontething, except the Communistic netisnns and Iborers of the eitles, who sguander thelr earnlngs on Tiquor. SAmong them Is found drunkenness, aml fnprovidence, ,m\tl poverty, and & ruven- ous duslre to seize other aud better men's carnings and property. 5 France §s the richiest country on the earth 1t hns no Goulds or Vanderbllts, no * pioor white trash *? or landless milllous of negroes, 08’ wo have In tho South, no gmsping ellques or monovpolies, 1t avernges ns much fnn general eomtort as the great States of In- «fnnn, Ohlo, mul Hlinols; and® in proportion the people are farless in debt. They aveno mortgages on their lands and houses, They ure not speculntors on bhorrowed eapdtal, henee fullures and bankrnpteles are Taxation 13 not a burden, When ther surplus of revenue it s used o cut ilown taxation, instead of belng burled in sinking- fundls or squundered in all sorts of wild amd dishonest selicmes as with us, "Chig 13 the ronl cause of the universal prosperity of France, and so long ag the Innd s evenly dis- triputed she will remain prosperous. Should it éver rovert to the conditions preceding the Tevolutfon that prosperity will disappear, + FEUDALISM IN AMERICOA. Eltehl” in Fun Trmuse of Wednesday addresses ** the Prime Minlster of Euglund ** on the subjeet of the cost of Royalty and tho wages of labor in tho British Islands, 1t 1s u enustle paper, and very suggestive of the feudal fdeas which stlll control *the must enlightened” and “the richest nation’ of modern times, The writer shows that the *snlary” of the Queen of England Is §,000,- 000 a year; that the wages ol Inbor are very low Indeed,—nlmoit stavvation wages; that there §s n vast Indigent and pauper eliss, Bus how abont our own country? Vander- DS Income Is sald to be $10,000,000 o yenr, —three times and move than - the salavy of the Queen of England! And a committes of New York moreimnls have lately shown tho publie tho processes by which the prop- erty. ylelding this enormons fneomo wns e anireds Mr, "Uhurber and hls assoclntes of the Commdttes state that the New York Central & lndson River Naflroad earned 13 per eemy met lust yenr on s grossly Inflated eathtal, and then . show that In 1867'nnd 1808 forty-seven wmilifon dollars were added o We stoek of the Company'at the shmple cost ofuawhite pnper und printing! They nlso ehinrge that it is D contemplation to consolitlate this read with thoe Lake Shore Ttond, nnd by this sieme fo stlll further S grogsly Influto ™ Its ewitil. The Commit- {ee deelare that by the digiiml stock-water- Ing operation the public®Were In fact swin- dled ot of sepenty-foe milion dollars, and that this vast s has gone fago the pockets of tho syndicate, The terntswindlers, ns nuplied to the Vanderbllt coterly, is justitied by the statement ot the Conunittee, shice they sny that the ** Hepburn ™ Investigation resnlted i n verdiet of *fully prova,” And thoy say further that the Iepburn, recont- mendstlon of legisiation could not bokarried oty beeausy “4twas found that o nuority of.tho Smate {State of Now York] hudvecn cleeted In the ratlrond Interest, wid no pilt could pass without Mr. VandorblIt'sconsent | The correspotulent of ‘T'uk ‘Trnuxe, whols troubled about the salary of the Queen ot Eugland and tho wages of laber and the pau- perctuss of Great Bellaln, would. flo well to turn his nttentlon to homo’ atfalrs, 1€ Mr, Vunderbilt required his estato ns the Thur bur Committeo chargs o did, bjs Incomo Is far less * regular® than the sulary of the " Queen of Eogland, -Tut this 1s not-all. The Plinrber Committee chiargo * on nformation amd belief,” thut the mallroad managors pro- poso to eontrol tho United States Sennlo ns they contro! the Souate of the State of Now York, with n view to the perpetuntion of thele control of the Industrles of the entive community,”. ‘The Commulttes well observes “Ihe feadallstie tendencies of the ngoe nre very marked, nnd unless prompe and vigors ons efforts nre mnde to cheek this papidly grawlmg power it will bo too Inte,” A phitosophic observer of our institutlons remurks, bn substance, thet the pedple fondly fmngine that they rule, but {f they will open thelr gyes ad look nbout them they will see that o few nien think and net for tham, The rnllropd and telegraph manngers seom to by Shinking und acting for the Amerlcan people, I'ho peaple object to thelr watering rallromd it telegraph stoeks, but they water the stocks nevertheless, aml proceed to drnw dividomls- on them preclsely as if they had cost good labor and géod money, The peo- plo object to the destructlon of campetition by the process of conswlldation of rallrond and telegraph tines, butthe hushiess of con- saildntlon goes forward enm-*, and the consolldated Hues become m@hopolies, with all which this nnme Implles of extortion and vobbery, Awd, with thumb 1o nose, the wanagers hapertinently iiguires *\What are you gotug to do nbout it & . Ag the Thurber Cummittes Inthmate, it wiit soon b too late to do nnything but fight about it. " 1t-sounds vory yueor—the inthmu- tion that it will ever hecome necessary for the Ameriean citizen to throw nway his bal- b wul tike up W3 ousket’ s w protest agalnst rohbery] ' Bul what 15 to be doue it n corporation may coolly tuke from - the pub- Me o round seventy-tive millions utono gihb? Loglslate nbout it, of course; lock the stably- door utter the horse has eseaped, But, ne- cording to the ‘Yhurber Comittes, the pub- lio trled. to lock. the deor, nud fouud, oddiy- » “ennough, that te ritvond nnagers had {be key and refused to give Itup The New York Leglslaturo could nol pass n bil without the comsent of Mr. Vinder- bilt] We aro o freo: people, -aro .we s .08 a government of laws, 18 It O, yesi. but ono man makes the nws—In the State of New York! And Mr. Vundorbilt does not elioose to have the sinble door locked, beeause ho may want to steal tather horsel Seventy-five millfon dolinrs seenred by walering the stock of one rall- rond comprny I ono Statel Fifty or a - dred milllons to ba seeured hy waterlng the stock of n line runuing throwxh several States! Sixty willllons 1o e seenred by waterlng the stock of the telegraph monop- oly! Tow long will it take Mr. Vanderblit and My, Gould and thelr confrires to gobble up tho whole property of the country? "Fhese monopolles threaten the commerce of: the country, and, what Is more, they threaten tho peaco of the country, for Aterlen is not to be relegnted to a relgn of feudulism percenbly, M. Scnenem, voviewing Disracll's * Eu- dytnlon® (n tho Paris Lennw, pronounces tho hera a very pale nnd Insipid personnge wd thio othor ehnractors equally tamo, The lnterest of tho book Hes In revelutlons 6f tho nuthor's own nnturs nnd opinlons,'a prominent fenturo being fls love of luxurlons surroundings. *Ono rege ounizes at evory line the jowels nnd tho golit rings on his fngers, Lord Benconsiteld’s talent 13 *tout on fagule sur la rue’ Do not nsk him for heartfelt deseriptions of Nuture, elear nualysld of niatives, or oven adrnntis repre- eentation of tho passlons. Enough to fnd n certnin vivieity of mind and o kind of unfmu- thon, whereby the reader guts without too muche effort to the end of the threo volumes, If tho matul hns not the ring you could wish, you must confess tho gilding 1s nicely done and produces weertaln duzzte.” After remarking how tnuch better George t, Dy dint of study and power of Jmainution, has pletired tha past than Lonl Benconsfleld, with ali bis persunul experience, ho tinds little wit in thedtaloy, though ocenslonnl Baflies are pithys and ho contrasts Mr. Glud- stone's carnestness, breadth, und lack of humor and toxibility with Lord Bencontleld's shuttow- ness, worship of euceess, teet, genlnlity, and resolution,~regolution espeelnlly iudventirous uffairy, * Lord Benconstield s to Lord Chathnm nhout what Mr. Gludstone Isto Plet, and En- gland's old Buropean rolo to the contrueted and uscertaln role now satistying her mnbitlon,” e B Tur, Memphis Avatanche publishes the following lotter adidressed by Senator Hruce {eolored), of Mississippl, to W. 1L Moore, mem- ver-uf-Congress-cleet from tho Memphls dis Cuamne, WasgINg- Coy 1L 12, he Hon, Willtdny 12, Moore, Memphin, Tenn, =MY DEAR Si: Your Tavor of Jun, B Informiie me that you had pro- viomsly reenmmetided my appointuient to n seat in tho Cibinet of Presideni. Gurtleld, bus beon 1, Tupprecinte ully the gouddwlll and constderntion il nspired your kiwdly net in I||f Dohalf, und rily think you for if, Lave conseientionsly studied all the great guestions of publin moment that eome hofore Congress for considorntion and action, nnd 1 fintter myselt thut my slx yeurs® experfence in the Scnnto hns luft me & anuch brots ngled and wisee man than when Lentered upon piblie life. | havo studied atlso, 1!»]",‘1!1!!"?‘. the vondis tion and wints of tho Soutb, aud al) cinsses and rives of her people, wnd win prepared, thorefore, n 8oy menstre, nt least, o perform the fune- tlons of tho oflice for whiel you have recomn- mended mo, ‘ 1 think It would bo eminently wise, both us n party aud publio measere, and TOr mony rensons, to glve tho colored penply some prominent recopnition in the new Adminiscration by deslg- nating for oftieo some competent rejirosontative man of their vlnss, i Whether | nt best fitted for tho position Inm not prepired or dleposed to decide, but §f aps potnted 1 stindl endavor falthinlly to perform the duties develving upon me. Agaln thanking you for this gonerous net, L, very rroly yours, I lnee. Anrriy, the Communistic SenMor from Clilengo, hus Introditeed o bill I the Leglsinture prohiblting lfe-insuranco companles which do ot loun mones fn Hilsols geom dotng any fur- ther business in this Stato,” Several yeurs ngo the Lopislature of New York, in n seifish and ig- norant ondenvor to Insure the stabllity af thar Btato's lifo-insuranco ussets, made o taw forbid- e 1ts companics to plueo loans oufsido nnur- row cirelo buyond the State, 'Tho luw wis nota sensible one, and it will net-bo long ere the In- proved wisdom uf Now York legielutors will leatd to its repend. Mennwhile tho Artleys of neavly ovory Stute outstda of New York have, ns fu tho present cuso, inpertinently endenvored to ine struct thole respeotive Commonwenlths n the principles of finunelal vy by Juse sueh propos- terous propositions ux he has lntroduced, Money will bo louned where it 18 most needed; and for Artloy to lmagine that any Legislature ean forco porsons or corporations to lend their. wenlth whoro thoy do not thiul 1t sdvantageous to o so, 9 ridieulous ‘even forn Socinlist. He ought to attaeh a rider to his bill compelling somebdy to borrow tho monoy, Tho Legislature unforti- nately eannot pigeon=hole Artloy, bt it ean und will smathor his ubsurd bill in tho dustiest ro- ceas of {ts Insurnnee-Conuaitteo roon. L ———— SraTe-SexaTon Woomy, of New York, guve United States Scnator Roseoo Conkling n hard rap In the following purt of u protendod culogy of Mr. Plutt, Senutor-elect, In Juint con- vontfon: * Mr, Platt 13 an approuchablo’man, frank and stmplo in his unnner, unpretentlons, unostenta- tlous, without nrroguice or fmperlousness, and Ne will nover full 1o remomber thnt ho 19 the servant of tho people nud not their muster or * Hoaw'* It I8 ulso extromely gratlfying 1o know that 1t l|uf‘l|01|y shnll huve oceaslon to ealt upon him jt will ot be neacssary o approach i )Sh the ugeney of au presentation attended all tho formalities und ceremontes peeullor to cotirt etiquot, with the ehunco gddod ot betug frozen todenth i the operution, No step-ludler will lnvo to bu called for o veach tho thoutro of his presenee. “iThis," snyd tho Iorld, *1s as clover and ox- pressive In it way us Humlel's compnrison he- twuen tho minfature of bls futhor fn his mother's luckot und the portralt’ upon the wull of his unele, the rolgning King." i Sterafterstep Is belig taken bl Franco Intho dircotion of tho sepnvation of Church and Btate, Eplscopal stipends bavo been reduced to tho figures of the Concordut, tho orucilixes baye een removed from tho Parls fred sehools, a Beeulir Educatlon bl had been sent up to tha Staute from tha House, and cducatlonnl diplomas aro now to bo gained without tho ne- cedsity of nh oxninination in religious subjeots, The Supreme Connell on Prisons 18 alio to bo resodeled Nike tho Eduentionat Councll, to tho exelugion of the Archbishop of Parls, the Chief Rabbl, and tho Pestdent ot the Protestuat Con- slstory, hithorto ez-oficlo mermbiers. et < A anoss injustice hns been done the City of Peorin, 111, In thostatement that it hos but four dally newspapers, It hus clght—viz.: tho Transeripl, Ivorlan, Freeman, demoerat, aud German Demokrat (il morniog), and the Journal, Review, and Die Sonne (afternoon), The popula- tlon of Peorlu {8 20415 by tho Inst.consus, 1Y hay, therefore, one dufly newspupor to each 2,600 intiabitauts, Chleugo bus but onu to cuch w000, SExATor Biranox oceuphul his seat in Congress on Monday morning for tho iirst thoe slnvo the openiug of the wessiun, butdrew bis §10 por duy likoa little man from tho (et Monday in Decomber, . In violatop of tw, Aml nle brothor Senatars, who knew o was violating tho Iaw, mado no objeetion 10 his abstructing this unearned manoy from tho Troasnry, it il . Tur Democeratic Irish have lost thelr Benator,—Kornm, of Now York—T'att (Ite- publlean) tuking his pluee; bhut the Republican Irish huve Just galned o Benutor,—Gun. Suwell, of Now Jerauy, ¢ A —————— ‘o M VENNoR wroto under date of Jun., 103 ‘ets degreps below zoro [at Moutreul] Inst night or easly wmorping, After this u pretty gen-. cral snow-full, and then wy thuy ——— ‘Tur New York ‘Suy prints daily n list of tho nbsentees from tho flouse. It has o timus luting etfect on the New York and Yennsylvauia members, L 2 ———— PBRBONALS. 3 ““Grant is n biger man. than Ol Washing- tou,Y—Gov. Coruell. My, Beecher 'snys that newspapors aro “n bleased ovil™ Everybody knows what tho newspapers say about Hunry. “Fhe Countéss Hysebery has given birth to a duughter, Her Ladysbip wiil bo regoge nized fn this conntey ns the wife of a genye. unn whows horios rn with, distingutshed noy. suecess rainst Parote, A enrling tournament. hns heen nrrangeg, to titke plaes 1 Chlcngo, Unfortunntely sy, things gge not recogalzed by the erfiminal codn, LordCamoys, un English noblema, jige Just died at tho nwo of 14 yenrs, ool will te Common prople think ey are In luek w jiy until 60 or o, ‘I'lie New Orleans Democrat Tins an arthorg ot *Our Lubor Bystem,' The mere hendiy convoys & geeat doal of informaton to sung people—provided it 18 true, “Do not lse lope,” says the New Yarg Pritane, Calin yourself, Me et Iy examin. e anothor purt of tho paper you will see iy 1lope has Just been gent down for ten years, Hopo witl aot by lost, A Washington dizpatel says that Secretary Fvarts has not dechaned an Invitation to s sovy uathering . this winter, This shows stalesnan. shlp, Mr, Evurts knows that it would take him, fonger to swrlte hls regrets than to atteud tha prty, 3 : Senator Brows, of Georgli, was Indueed by Senutor Hill to aequicseo In tho dictum of eoclety und gel a dress sult. Tho other nigny Mr. Brown wore thd suit nt a dinner pary, ple notlued thitt tho sult didn't ity ind sane Aeved why, After awhile sone Ingalsitive pee. on diseovered 1t the Senator i ordered thy Buit to be mnde sut of heavy beny ih, The eifeot was tromendous, The dr ont Inoked ke un overcont, aud the distinguished Gean b ind to sit all tho thno to kocp his cont-tails from stafiding out, i Over the banlster bends n face, Dirkingly sweet und begutting Somehody stands [0 enreless greo, “And watches the pleture simillog. Over tho banister soft hands fufr Brush his cheoks liko o feathers - Iirighit brown tresses uod ansky i Mect aud minglo together, There's o question nsked, there's u swirt enresg, $ho lias Hown lke u bird from tho bulwny; 1int over tho banlster drops o Yes Thut shil brighten tha workd for him alway, It is very geatifylng to learn from a pamphlet reeently lssued by tho Juhins Hupking Unlversity that for years we have nll been Ullndly lgnorant concerning tat usotul cdible, the ben's cmr., Tho starting end sewdnlous fucts sot forth it the punphiot alivgled to nre a3 Tullaws: b T exk undorzoes tots ihero 13 10 Tood Yo “l'fll T ausgnentation, iyt CIERYIRG KO qulle 11 it g o 14t trid nogmientntion cuvity. i Pyl A Uk, Nunphiun, wnd passey wxelizopod wake. peinligos ure ne i, Wiy 18 certulnly o mute to which all thoughtful people should pay attention, The fuot thit wo lmve been cathnie eggs destitiie of £tk thurnele sexments by stmply horellving, e el e - PUDBLIC OPINION. Keoluk (In,) Constitution .(Dem.): Gov, Gear will have to go Buooks with sotno strong Northern or Northwestern statesman when Allis on restgns, arhe wifl be left out ju tho cold Iy the Senntorlal thehit, 16 won't do tor the Gove crnor to lot Jlin Wilson or Jfm Hurlan get uway witu hig, ' Cinelnnatl Guzette (Rep.) s Stnator Logan hns introduced a bl to restore tho franklg privilego In full. Henator Edmunds, fu support- 1nyr it, sald tho nowspipers opposed 1t beeause it woulil diniinlsh thetr elreuiution. Ho hay tbo £ natton tit Congressional dootnients wid cumpulgi comnuitttey litoratiire wonld 8o surlcis thy peoplo thul they would not wintnewspipers, Emery’s Peortan (Rep): Wo want none of Green I3 Ruum in Gurlleld's Cabinet, and oue udvice to Gen, Guriteld b to ot all such men severely alone, 8 we bellove ho will, Chere are seorus of bLettor and abler men for a Cubines positon in [lilnots, und 1t there wore not wo hink the Prosident-clect will do well to give thy slate the go-by votlvely. Alton (11L) Petegraph (Rep.)t "The fmprese elon §8 gnining ground in #pragileld that a little fnvestigntion fnte the nets and proceedings of tho Bpurd vt Ttnlirond and Warchouso Cutninls sloners would be the proper thiug nt this junct wre, when two of tho preseut ineimbers have Beon reappolnted audare awaltine contivnation, 1f the Buard hns been ol any Lervice to the pubs Hu now 132t good thmo to uike the fact Knuwn Bloomineton (UL) Patagraph (Rep): o uttempt to doleat the contirmation of Messrs, Smith, Bogue, and Robinson, uppointed members of tho Radlroud und Warehouse Cows fon, untd the thieut to Investixate tho Board, prugs Trom o desito to yeupen tho appotutiment auestion, uud not from nny dellnguency on th prL ot thoso gentlomon, “Che troubilo at Springs tleld Just now i3 dearth of olfices und abundaat ollley seekers. . Joliet (11L) Stn: We have proposed plan after plan {for fmprovisg the condition of the water In the ennad and viver] to Chleugo, year urter yent, In which both would be benetited, nnd Chicago Inughed at us und klcked us outof e way, and the people are tired of such trest- ment, Deatlh s stalked about the stream until thoro 15 a.wall Lrom one end of it to the otbur, und relicl we niust bave, und if Clieag wiil not start the pumplng-works, it 13 possible, aye, vory probable, thnt this * injury” to Chicago muy be perpeten Dubuque (fn.) Thnes (Lep): It 1s highly prabubly thut Senntor Alilson will be Scerviaf of tho Treusury fn the new Cablnet, ‘I'uls fatto wost important oitlco in the Government next v that of Presidont, 1t 13 véry geatitying to the Trionds of Senutor Allison horo at boime thit b ubitity to Bl L (8 conceded by wil tho pres ol 1he countey of both poiitienl pacties, Tho vitice, it It comes o him, will cuie. unsaught, ind we £now tht Souator Allison would: ruthog sty tho Semte thin gn to the head of_the Freasury Dopnrtaent. M he siinll iecept any phee (1 (50 Cubinot he will do o Trom w senso of duty. Now York Post: Abliea Dehn is burled fn Westimlnator Abbey, Churlutte Brontl and George BHut huye graves in outer shurebyantt Mra, Apbra Behn' hwl abliity, but nothing s~ prouching genfus, Charlotte Brom@and Georso Mot wero real prinvites In fotters. Mres, Apun Tiehn uged her nbitity us o mehins of ministerisd to low tastes. and viclous desives, Churloty Jirontd nnd Georwe Blot mudo genius o miniser 1o the highest fntellectind and moml aspiration of their nge. WinL is the usy o Westmiasi® Abboy wd it prathoon, unjoss ludeed menns e ho fonnd for tho rovision of tho whsurd Judd: ments npon which adinisalons to 1t ure made of dented? Grand Raplds (Mien,) Bagle (Rep.)s e Storrs hus many friends In this State andis Grund Naplds whio would be geeatty plensed 10 sco him i tho Cablnet, Nor s personal frien hlp tho only ground For such preforence. 10 prido of thoe Western Bar, and thy teeling thitlb woull be worthily rupresented, und gl 9 “pragressiyo splvit of tho e and enthotieits of WVestern Jllrlurrmlcnun Swonbd thuy, he lutuse juta Natlonul adminisiration, huvo o shuee il 1l motives by which thoy ura Intucnced: 13 full conlidenoy whers ho I8 Rnoy Rtores wil o Found equal to 1o gceasion and dnties of thy positonof Jea ndviser 1 the Gov crutont, San Franelsco Call (Ind): Bimetalisn ¥ ropldly sninfog ground In Europe, and ever i England thory i a stroug opposition duveloyis totlio slugio gold standurd, which fuvolved # congraction of tho volumes of currene congequontly operates wgninst tho dulitor Tho Junuary nuuiber of tho Wealimfuster conting un_ exbaustive* articio on bimetiis whleh is reportd to have peoolvud editortl it durdoment, n clreumstinee not only saniicny H ts0lf, bt indicutive of great esulis it near fitire, Amorican potiticinns who e wdopted Euglisn idens un this subjuct, wibost mih (HOURNE 0N THEIE oIy PAkL, twy have W cuslon 1o Tetrucs WUlr steps, Witnt o Pevusylvania man toll Nordhotl of tho New York Herad; *Where xlrl"lhf wroat mon - of Pennaylvauin? you nsk. Welly there nre nono, uud there nover were wo don't Kniow how te aceount for It, put that V8 Btate nover had u grent mun uuless she !nf" rowed hiut, A good many years ngo, at i e publio dinnee i Phitadelphi, §think it wed Mr Guargo Tleknor Curtls or sume other wish O : shurp tongue, who lato in tho eventng vive B0 tonsts Tho threo gront stuteanien of PO Aibhi—ionnin. raitin, of Musgaenusctiti Albert Guiitin of, Switzorlind; and Gousee onr Morrls, of Now York,—und ft 18 uuplr:lfl-’lfl fur ‘mo, ' Pounsylvaniun, 1o contesy that huve hot got uny furtheor thun that y I St Louls Dlspately (Dem): It 15 the l“;' ory of the unclont. St, Louds Republican 103t 4 whipping-post ought to be rovived in Missol for thy punistimont of miior offenses. Wo ": 10t surprised that tho Republfcan should rmc_""‘ roturn to burbnrism In every form. All tbe¢ > liatog Intiuences of the lust century have M, Jost upon that stolld, Bourhanlo concert Knupps huve niover been really coutented lmIl tho privileay of walloplug uckrocs Wis e uway trom tho Miesourl Caucusiun. Thes €L 10 the shudowy prst und ity customa with BEEC thing of tho forocious funatielsm that ¢S50, tertzed tho olforts of tho pusun pricst 18 /e tuiiu " 1o boat back tho tldo, of Chrlitimy which swopt the guds of Rowe Juty oblivios