Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1881, Page 4

E PAGES. : \ qualifications of tha voter. ‘Tho General Aw | Is, thorefore, 7.70 Inches, In rega 1 to tho sembly ean no more authorize a person to | nicteorological condition of Western Kansns, vote at any election {n this Stato, after a pree | Prof. Hawn, of tho State Horticultural CHICAGO TRIBUNT: WE 4 “Tl ESDAY, EBRUARY 2, 1881—TW earnings would be necessity. If there were no other way than this to break down the monopoly and protect the people from extor- S PAberd oy of the success of the Jeannette fu making the [ shall raise Its revenue by special taxation rey [Uy é j 4 oune passage aro diminished. ‘The vessel was, | and without reference to tho general vatune i Wee ‘OA Ay & | however, provisioned for three years. The | tion of property. Then the Counella and commercial interasts of tho oi ocennecarrylng trade than ny intey tn, | aliies, Syatem of Pi < : Washington National Ke, Rie members of the expedition, no soubt, win- | Boards of each elty and county may inerenso | ton, the end might justify the means, But | vlons restdence of six months, or thirty daya | Society, wrote In. August of Inst year | sro, talent mylar of tho wrest ‘TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, tered comfortably Inst year In Wrangel's | the valuation. of property within their own | atch a proceeding Is in no sense necessary. | in the counts, or five days in the electlon-ls- | that there was a perceptible improvement. | ere CRtey | vho, {0 the Senntbrial contest tn dis g Yyertertay, recol¥ed H7.votes, or five more tt! any othor candidate, 13 sald to bo the eh only fiddler” of thé Nowe of Representa” ja reluted by his defented Democrat Land, and rny survive even the severities of | Ihnits ad THhitem without assuming thoreby BY MAIN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID. | this unusual season, But they could not rea- | any of the burden for State taxation that Pally canton on reat sonably be teil either ta llve through a] should properly falt upon other portions of third Aretla winter without fresh fool or to | the State, ‘Thore Is no obligation upon the Government, either legal or moral, to purchasa tho mnte- tial, franchises, patents, or watered stock of the Western Union Telegraph Company or trict, than ft can abolish voting by ballots | ‘The driving out of the buffalos has hind the and yet it has all the power (110 more and no | effect of Introducing coarsor plants than the less) to change and abolish all these const!- | tough grass which formerly covered tho tutfonal requirements Uintit has to anthor- | ninins, ‘Tho new vegetation las protected Uaily and Sunday, ono ye tists, tg ‘Suceday, Thursday, and satura ! ; i ‘ . Upbencag | Alomning, Wednoaday nna tehtay return within reach of auy ordinary whaling | ‘There seems to be absolutely no other pur- | any other telegraph company. When tho | ize persons whose proudest boast Is that thoy | thesolt tosumooxtent fram oxcessivo ovapara- | Me aint wey ietoll hinewe ee hetat : Hmday, 2 Oonare at Pia hee vessels that visit that partof the Arctle Clrole. | pose in the “ Linegnr bill’ than that of fur- | Government determined to add tho carrying | are aot“ nialo citizens of tho United States” | tlon, Moreover, cultivation following close | lor in the atump-spoechess buts when tho at! One cop; s ee eee ‘ = es nishing the local governments with the power | of parcels to its postal systens It did not ap- | to vota nt any and nll elections in this Stato | In the path of tho buffalo has broken up the Peer attr sat net eattariet he Bare ry fhiver'ive AN open barroom for woinon hing been es- | to increase expenditures aud (axes, pratse the yaluo of the express companies’ | ‘Tho fact is, tho Constitution of Llinols | soll and tended to absorb the rains. Domes: Th Kansas Travelers’ ho reeogulzed tiny ee Ate Reaten oven befora tho votes were connie, 4 Gath: If Gon, Grant gets this Phitadg hi and New York money the donors oun cure itso that he cannot use the Drinetps ‘Ge apeeulation, fle is now understood ty tee member of a firm which advances mane miniag and othor stooks, and put inte ittay ensh, much of which ho derived from these) his Long Reaneh residence. ‘The aititude of Epeetmen copies sont free, tabiished in Boston. The best Hauors are It {3 not elalmed that the railroads will pay’ Gtyo Vost-Uitice addrora in fult, inetuding Coonty | kept on sale, and the patronnge of the sex Is ay Uarwen shar ot Ankes fin thoy for pgs and Kista. solicited’ under promise of the utmost refine- | Indeed, upon the basis of their earnings Ins' Pencuniee nclen orin rogietared ietton, naurFiate” ment and pzrace In tho dispensing of cule | year, tho rallroads would not pay so much; TO CITY BUNSCHINERS, chawed beverages. Tho effect of tis new | and, in tho event that railroad earnings fall Daily dolivored, Sunday oxconted, S3contanorweek. | enterprise, in opening’ tip a road for the | olf, as they may in cnse of bail crops, the ‘ally doltvored, Ban lay Inelnied: He canta rey ree eventual. trinmph of woman's suffrage, ean | proposed tax thercon would fall short of tho Cornar Madison and Denrnorn-nts,. Chicago, tt, scarcely bo overestimated. The Springfield | necessary revenue, | ‘ho tax which It ts de plant and contracts and proceed to. purchase them; it merely Increased Its own facilities to tho extent necessary to transact the added buelness: No other procedure Is necessary in the ense of the telegraph companies, If Ibe dechted that the postal facilities of the Goverment should properly Include. the sending of letters by wire as well as by rall- stands broadly, firmly, and immovably in the | tle plants and trees planted in farge mum- way of this Hinds DI, and, should the Leg- | bers have created a higher per eent of islature bo wonk enough or foolish enowsh | humidity, and it fins been shown that to pass such n glaring attempt to setnsito | storms onterlng tho. dry plains of the West tho Constitution, the Inw would bens {mpo-] do not dic-out so soon as formerly, The tent In the way of legalizing female silfrage | Leavenworth ‘fines supports the theory that as if the law formally abolished the Constl- | the rain which falls in that part of tho tution and declared some one of these would- | country comes chiefly from tho Iocky Mount —_— Republican thas atready pointed out that no | staned to assess pon express, telegraph, end | road,—aund but few neoplo question this now, be stulfranists Governor of the State, alns, and that it Is coplous or seant in pre Conmeunn on, feat: {int shoretire, pera at as POSTAGE. intluence {3 AY leveling and democratic in its | Instrance companies will not hea saving to | —then it Is the duty of the Government to The Utnds bill ig but-n feature fn the grand | portion to the amount of snow inthat region. | fim. fe looks probable tht he will tare tr to " tendencies ns the barroom. But the event | the people, whatever It may amount to, be- | add tho wires to Its postal system, and not | farce which these suffragisty exhibit attho | When tho percentage of humidity in tho. pee. fete Sa aul sts witch, in altis Fnlered at thePest-opterat CMeagy Hy aa Seeond~ | 06 avon g deopor signitienncs than this. In| cause It will bo renssessed upon the people | to buy out some existing corporntion nt a State Capital every two years, ,Thero is nut | atmosphera fs very low, the rain clouds aro URN tapicg him a clear {neome of €20,000.0 year, eve ce 4 | Some localities, at teast, barroomsare centres | fh larger proportions by increased charges | fictitlous valuation. Let tho Western Union | an intelligent man in tho General Assembly | carried high above the dry region, and In pe poi x ule) Is peatty Rulon! for the meet PU Ma ants UP toners | of political power. If the women can only | fordnsurance, ete. Meanwhile, thore will be | Telegraph Company continue its business, | who does not laugh at the simpering folly of | proportion ns the humidity tnerenses the as 8 beet cutie ie oxpected ta #6 to Mexico hy Retires agit BONB, Who are alag goin ere, sy te ho will ueeompany thon. YH notary * Vieksburg Herald (Dem): ‘There canta: no good excuse to refusoto Gen, Ornnt a pod. tlon on tho rotired list. We nre sorry the Sous, ern Senators could not ree nboven Partisay aplrit fn considering this question, ‘They lout opportunity te rebake Bourboulsn and Stak wartiam. A solld Southern vote for This play siveheruwith the transient rte of postagor : Domest tes Per Comp Fight and Twolve Page Vapor. Bixtcen Lago lapar. establish barrooms enough they ean carry | no Ulminution, but almost certainly an in- their mensures througii almostany municipal | crease, of genernl taxes, for the reason wo Jegiainfure.’ Whenever the Jeaders are | have given—viz.; beeause the valuation of agreed that {tis worth while to corrupt the | taxable property will beenlarged ani local sox for the sake of giving It the batlot they,} taxes will grow in proportion. ‘The farmers may be nssured of the casy success of thelr | can much better afford to pay thelr present efforts, : proportion of the State tax, which is com- ——————= paratively instenificant, than to submit to ‘Tr weather reports, itis well known, do tot | éxtortion from local Boards and indulge ex- and charge asmuch or little ng It pleases. ‘Tho postal telegraph, to answer its proper function, should strve the public at the mint- mun rate which will pny the operating ex- petises upon the lowest ensh cust of the neeessary material. ‘The project should bo in every way Independent of the existing corporations with thelr watered stock; and Mr. Springer’s new bul only convinces us those agitators, and who, taking these man- | chances of the deposit of rain through the agers a3 specimens of the to-be-enfranchised | lowering of tho clouds improve. ‘The Now sox, would not declare thom lacking In the | York Herald also has supported this ex- reasoning qualities by which they propose to | planatloi of the phenomenn. It may easily elevate sulfrage. be that the statistics on which the clabornte ‘There fs but one way in which those wom- { arguments of the Kansas sclentlsts are bulit en can gain the right of voting In this State, | are defective, and thelr conclusions may to and that fs to have the Legialature submit an | some extent be modliled by tholr desires and amendment to the Constitution’ of tho Stato | interests, Dut it ts most sincerely to be orclyte Elehtand Twolve Para haper, Eixteen Paxe lapor, . TRIBUNE VRANCH OFFICES, LPR Cnicaan ‘TRIBUNE hat ostabishod branoly for Gen, Grant, the world-renowned, foliiey, onsers for thecpeaatne tt subseriptlons and advertlso- | atiow the real temporature near the ground, | travagant administration of local goyern- | that it Is always unsafe to commend any- | stritcing the word “male” from tha seventh, | hoped that the ovents will juatlfy the predie- sro Base: pean. Uke: feat ithe facoct eae Voltkeitoom 2 Tribune Muliding. ¥.v.ao- | ‘The thermometer ts elevated on n pole | ments, thing which ‘that gentleman proposes In article, to be yoted on (ns other amendmants | tlons now made of acontinucd increase In | the country that tho South fs not tahtiog are voted on) by tho general votersofthe Sthte. | the rainfall, and the consequent development Fanny, Manager. placed In one of tho highest buildings in the If it ben fact that the Nmitation of local | Congress. but, working for’ jiatles. Tf “the “propositted GLASGOW, Scotland—Allan’a American News ‘ “Arcnoy, iit Ieniiol-ate city, and tho reported temperature is many | {axes under the present system prevents the D8 BILL: FEMALE | SUFFRAGE. ‘The attempt to amend the Constitution by an | of all the Innds of the State into fertile plains, Sa oe aly te eee cans 1 and tho erty LONDON, Huge-Ametlean xchange, 40 Etrand, | degrees higher In winter and lower in sum- | local goversiments from raising revenue eS Peerze in a ah tho Constitue | Scb0f tho Legislature may be suilloient to | Certainty the facts niready brought forward | eurluusly biundcred tn voting je dtown, tut, Henhy ¥, mer than that which the people have any | cnough to enrry on their alfalra properly, y hs = a def tickle tho credulous female ngltators who | are suflelent to encourage a Mberal pojicy of ask it, but itisan insult to the Intelligence | tree-planting throughont tho State. of tho whole sex, —————== WASMLNULO: Wefeat iy Thoy showed soreness und party bitte Gen, Urant will be placed on tho retired het et fg soon ts tho next Congress meets, What a piy tho Southern Democrats could uot anticipates at New Orleans Democrat (Dem): We Ob serve that tho flory, tntutned fdiot, Hrngg, of Wisconsin, las ugningeized tho opportunty ta fradueg und blnekgudrd the South. Brigg. ig Democrat from Wisconsin, and ocouples x sexy in tho House of Representatives at Warh{ogton, A year ago he distinguished hiniself hy a apeecy of slnilar Smport, and thon tala the foundattog for tho name of an illustrious Jackass, upog which foundation ho hus siueo reared an Impey Ing and substantial monument. Breage Is now reported ns having created « marked sonsatios and won tho hearty applnuse of the Republicans by accusing Southern men of keeping op scetlonal strife by continually rattling at thy ‘'Trousury doors with War claims. Of cours Bragg ig a blatant demagog, bit the importa, fact remains that ho is i300 Democrat; and, as this Is tho second time that he bay seen" fit to promulgate thes sweeping opinions with roferenco to Southorg men, !t becomes propor to imeutro whether Liragg inuy be supposed to represent hls party wttho North, It seems to us that Me. Bragg ushumed of his Southern allies, Tho Inference nppears to be unnvoldable tat Mr. Drazy and his confrores ut tho North regurd ug a9 die reputable agsoglutes whom they feel called upor todisown {1 public. Let us, therefore, disnig tho Iyaue ns to the truth or fnlschood of liragrs ueeusations and look only at tho fact that bs takes so many occasions to repudiate us. Let us put the question squarely to hina anid biscoe lengues whether thoy would like to break up the lllanee altogether," We bave four years before ugin which to consider the matter. Oving (1 the stupldity, mistnanagement, und cowarites of Me. Hrnga’s Northern fricnds tho Democratic purty lost ite vietory in sit. Owlng to similar Gaueos it hns Just sulered unathcr overmbelmicg defent. Wo of the South hive tho entire inter val between 14 and 184 fu whieh to pre Icke anew polley aud cement now alliances, it Mr, Bragg and his friends aro ashamed of us tet them apenk out more platuly. They need not fenr to burt our feetings. Thcy cannot be mut ashamed of us than we aro ashinied of and dis. austed with them, They need only make ddtest of overtures In order to Bectire our unanle mous and enthusinstle consent to a reparation, ‘The Northorn Demucraey buve never been other than a load and a drawback to the South. We hve given them all tho power they ever hadia Congress or in the Nutlon. At home they occupy an inferior station, politically, socially, and more aly, and the built of tha ‘respectability ant strongth of tho Democratic purty nt largo bas tuwaya rosided In the South. Without thy souls, the Deinooratic party would bo an uncousitered: trifle, ranking with the Greenbackers or tt Probibitionists in strength and Intluence, Yer it is a noteworthy fact tnt the most su born-apposition to ‘all meustres for tho South's material benefit has emanated from the North ern Democracy, and that, i instances other thin thatof Bragg. individuals Lave found ito their taste to revile, and retitke, and repudisty AML wat vo to sity 1s, that If tee bas any cousiterabte following fu tho Northern Demo rues, and if tho clrenmstunce can le mad? clear tous, the Month fs quite willlag to rid ths party of ita auherence, ‘The Northern Demo racy has never beon anything Lut an fucum brance,—and a very distasterul one of Inte; a0! we aball not qo into mourning if wo lose It. Let these gontlemon express thomselyes without | hesitation or delicagy,—supposing them to bare any,—and we promise them that the South, ors vory respectable part of it, ut lenst, will leod | them A cordial coBperution In securing a reallz- ton of thelr desires, Unis is cold business wild us. ton of tha State of Linols fs more clear and emphatic than any other, it Is In the deelar- atlon of who stall vote nt any election for any purpose helt tn this State, Profiting by pnst experlence in the history of Iithiols and {n the history of other States, the Constitution of 1870 placed this question in plain and distinct terms, and removed It beyond the scope of legislative Interference, or legislative quibbling, and legistative powor to control, regulate, enlarge, or contract, Ilere is the Inngunge of the Constitution itsalfs : “ Ant, VOL, 860.1. Every person having re- sided In this Stute one year, in the county ninety dys, nnd fn the clecton-district thirty days next preceding any clectlon therein, who was an elector In tid State on tho lat day of April, A. ), 1848, or obtained a certifleate of naturallzn- tion before any court of record In this State prlen to the Ist day of dunuury in tho year A. ) 1870, Or who shull be n male cttizer of the United’ States, nvovo the age of 2 yenrs, shull bo entitied te vote ut auch election. 2. All yates shall be by ballot. ‘There fs 2 Dil now pending before the Gen- oral Assembly, and which has been heralded with grent nolse and much parade, which proposes to nullify this article of the Consil- tution, and which strongly, If not exelusive- ly, commends itself to those who support It beenuse of Its plain, notorlous, and self-ovi- dent unconstitutionality. We refer to the “Ifinds blll,” which pro- poses to give to each community the optional vight to prohibit within its jurisdiction the sale of all liquor, beer and wine included, tho chnies of option to be determined at an election to ha held for thut purpose, the bitl declaring that at such elections women shall be Jegat voters! 'The Coustitution provides that three classes of persons only shall bo yeters at nny elec- tlon to be held under tha laws of this State, ‘Theso classes are: 1, Persons who were legal voters in Til- nolg under the Inws thereof prior to tho adoption of tha Constitution of 1843, 2 Persons who in good fulth’ obtained certificates of naturalization prior to 1870 from County Courts, which Courts {t was sub- sequently declared had no authority to Issue such certiflentes. ',- + s 4 3, Malo citizens of tha United States above tho age of 21 yenrs. OF the first and second classes thore are but very few, they not numbering. perhaps 5001In the whole State, and as they are all imnies, they may bo considered, so far ns the present question {s concerned, os included In the third class. It mny therefore benceopted that the Constitution requires ag an essontinl qualliication for avery voter in Iinois that he shall bya malo eltizen and 21 years of aga at the time of voting. Tits Inds DUI proposes that women who eonfessedly are “not malo citizens” shall bo permitted to vote at all elections under this Dill, and that the ballots deposited by then shint! be counted as all other ballots, and shall have thelr full weight in determining the result of tho election. There nre two kiuds of, elections contem- plated in this State by the Constitution; these practical knowledge of. It would seem also | then the matter should be frankly stated in that the record of ratnfall, while It may be | this shape, and w very simple device, Involy- strictly accurate from a sclentifta point of | ing only the change of o single lino in the view, 1s totally misleading to the average | Revenue law, will supply the’ proper remedy, newspaper reader,. ‘There was a heavy | ‘The State Board of Equalization Is now per- snow-storm In this clty Monday, Tho urifts | initted to Incrense the aggregate valuation of were in many places three or four feet deop, {| the taxable property of the State ns re- The discomfort caused was in proportion. | turned by the local Asseasors only 3 per Yet the Signal OMice reports a rainfall of | cent. It might be empowered, without risk four-hundredths of ans inch, which Is ex- | or injustice, to addons much ns 10 per centto pinined to be composed of melted snow, and | this gross valuation, wheneyer persunded of the condition of the weather fs reported as }] the necessity fer such Increase. ‘This addi- “Nght snow.’ Nowhero docs It appear in | tion would be distributed pro vata among all the report that Chicago has been visited by } tho counties of the State, leaving to each the anything but 1 slight flurry of snowilakes, | payment of the same proportion of the State The Signal ofltcers are, of course, following | tax, but thus enabling the sevorat countics certain rules preseribed for thelr guidance, | and clties to increase tholr local taxes within and no blame attaches to them; but there | acertain limit if they see fittodoso, Such ought to be some amendment of the system, | a change will undoubtedly afford a retief In so that {twill be possible to ascertain, ap- | certain localities to thelr embarrassments proximately at least, from the printed re- | under the Jaw, without, however, elving un- ports what tha real condition of the weather | bridted license to tax-devourers. But the Is In distant elttes. Linegar bill is caleulated to plate the tax- \/ mame cenmpuanent payers of every community at the mercy of ‘Tum Canadian authorities attack as wildly | the offce-holding, tax-eating ‘vlass, and to untrite the report of, the Ameriean cqs- | circumvent tho restrictions which wero pro- toma officer at Port Iuron that 14,760 | cured with great trouble and have operated Canadians had {immigrated Into this country | to the public benefit. the past year thro’ that gate alone. ‘Tho Sa Canadian railrond returns show that this | SPRINGER STE One, THE HANDS number is all bosh. When persons i Y: musoee fe etl Bea le pain aval When Mr, Springer introduecd into the nda and Canadians who intend to return | SStlonal House of Kepresentatives, n few after transacting tholr bustness in the West- | Uy's ngo, a resolution ordering an inquiry as ern ‘States—are deducted from the whole | te the actual cost value of the “plant” now niunber of persons entering Port Huron from | owned by the Western Unton Telegraph the Dominion, it leaves but seven or eight | Company, or to ascertaln the investment thousand ns Canadian emigrants ‘to this | Walch would be necessary to duplicate the country. ‘The Port Huron Immtgratton-sta. | Ne, Tia: Tamnuxe commended his propo- tisties wera shown to be utterly worthless. | Sition because it pointed apparently to an and prepostorously oxaggerated. It struck ulterior movement for establishing and main- usat the tima'as a remarkable statement; | ‘ining 9 separate, independent system. of and, as nobody had seen‘any large number of Hostal or Government telegraph, Elthor new Kanucks hereabouts, the mystery was Tue Trimox at that thne misapprehended where they had gone to, and that thoy had Mr. Springer’s purpose, or else Mr. Springer disappeared from sight snd observation. sinco then has been Induced to change his Where aro those 14,789 Canadian emigrants | PUTPOse and contemplate a purehase of tho thnt are alleged to: have gone West, vin existlng telegraph Hnes. ‘The latter project Port Huron, in 18809. Where Nave they | has always. been condemned by Tin Tran hiddén themselves? ‘There are. probably | UNE, Which warned Congress at the very tirst 1,000 nore Kanucks now in this elty than notice of the recent amalgamntion of the tel- were here a year ago; but our proportion of { Seraph companies that a sale to the Govern- 134,789 would be ten to twenty ines that} went.upon the basis of their Inilated, fietl- many. Ths Port Muron officlal has blin- Ulous, watered stock might bo the real alm of dered. the movement, Mr. Springer his now intro- : duced 4 Dit which Indicates that ho Is clthor LINEGAR'S BILL TO INCREASE TAXES | © dupo or a willing instrument to ennble the AND DEBTS. Jay Gould crowd of watered-stock jobbers to The *Linegar Tax bil” proposes, puttlng | carry out Just such a scheme, tho ense briefly, to raise tha revenue neces- An net of Congress was passed fifteen sears sary to the support of tho State Government | age conferring cartain benefits upon tele- by tuxing the gross receipts of rallronds and | gravh companies,—such as constructing anid other public corporations, and confining the | operating Hines over the publle domatn, across tax on real estate and personal proverty be- | rivers, and along the post-ronds,—and provid- longing to private citizens and private cor- | In¢nan compensation for these grants that voratlons to thosupport of the County, Town, | the United States may purelinge sald Lnes at and Municipal Governments, We do not | anappralset valuation. This act fs the basis eare to disctiss the constitutionally of this | of Mr. Springor’s bill, which proposoa to proposition (which is certainly very duubt- | crenton Board of Appraisement,—conalating ful), sluply because thera is n serious objec- | of two persons to be appointed by the Post- See A connrsronnent of the London Pait 80ME OPERA FOLLIES, Matt Gazelle writes to that paper in regard to It may be tnld down as nn axlom in amuse- | tho numbor and size of the tenant Innd-holdings ment matters in general, and in operatic pe etait ue eays: ‘eet dasnee mutters In parttentar, that te publig is will- | jn tho alecussions now so unlverenl eto tine ing and eager to bo deluded, and in no form | Irisb question than the equally universal want of necurate acquiintinee with tho real facts and of popular entertainment dovs it manifest | feires contained. in thy nithontie stntistles of this alnerlty with more zeal than in its | Irotand. Attention wns lately enlled fn your apor to the absurd dulnelon which lias so tiken patronage of the opera, Tho same peopld | Pol? ot the public mind us to tho Improvidence who would boll with indignation against 6 | and frultfulucss of Irish marringes. There 1s 7 Y 5 nnothor delusion not fess prevatent, that Ireland merchant who should charge thein $3 for an | Tre itintey ocu pied substuntinity hy wretelied= article worth $1.50 will accept the $1.50 | ty smu! peasant farmers, WIN tho following article of opera at $3 not only with cheerful- | tablo (which {a nn abstract takon from the Agri _ cultural Statistics of Ircland fssued from tho hess, but faney they aro romiss fi-thelr. de- | Goneral Registar Oflice for 1877) have any offect votions at the shrine of music if they do not } in dissipating that delusion? offer up the pecuniary snerifice, In singling ee out the present season for illustration, ‘T1n ‘Tnmunt has no desire to invelgh against Col, Mapleson, of Mer Majesty’s Military and. Operatic service, A manager would bo ) to BOO Heres something more than mortal who would ..£00and upwards: reftiso to take all he could got, cs} Allthia half million of irish tenant farnilles peelally when peoplo persisted In pressing | Inver and anve, toll and starve, pineh and Hyein. thelr money upon him, If he be a man rags and on potntocs and sult In order to produce: ofsarenstls turn of mind, the sight of his 5 eae oF eee na for 20), owileh eash-box and the contributions which pour | reague seeks to force down the rentsto the Into iton account of one artist must afford | Grinith tax valuation, which would leave onc- him dminense gratification; while, onthe other j third of tho rent of 25 millions of dollars x yoar hand, if he benman of a philosophic turn | in tho hands of the miserable serfs whose toll of mind, his thoughts must be tinged with a peoliugea the Pedant a a eset Fat pensive enst as he considers the tatal neces- | weoercion billy and proposes to proelatm muar- sity thatcompels lim to accept twieo tho | tial taw throughout Ircland, Tt demands tho vahie of his goods, 5 pound of fleah and a quurt of blood with ft, Let us couster the case. The repertory of | tukon from noar tho heart of tho wrotebed tho season, so far ng announced, consists of | Irish. And that Is tho Land-Longua question, “ Ca 98 wje ” 4 a —— Resins Ene omrmtairaat pa A e JAY Goutn, 2 Philadelphia dispatch says, 4 + Dutt, ‘J has followed Vanderbilt's example last year ana “Stabat Mater” (for & Sunday night con- | ordered 15,000 tuns of stect rails in England, to cert), * Purltani,? “Faust,” and ‘Don Glo- } cost €00n ton, The Amerloan tills, whoae pres- vanni” Analyzing these, “Aida” Is notyet | ent ordors will ocoupy thom till hoxt autumn, worn, and the performance of iton Monday | expect ta turn out about 1,000,000 to 1,200,000 tons evening was very creditable so far ns the in 1881; but this will probably fallshort of moct- ing the American demand, The rest’ must bo three principal artists were concerned, while miporiod nndor a heavy duty, !mposed when in other respects It was not up to | atcc rails stood at nearly threo times tholr prea the nyernge, and in stage-setting was | ent prices. shabby and parsimonious, “Mefistofele” | _ Pd Is mn new opera. The “Stabat “Mater,” PERSONALS, as given by the same people last year, was n fiasco, The ouly other impor- tunt work left, “Don Giovanni,” it fs safe to | foro it hus been usud for beefstenk. say, cannet be dong in the manner It de |. iyg astonishing report eomes from Indtan- serves, because the material ts not in the | qpotis, Ind., that there la n glut of $1 and $3 troupe. Tho remaluing operas have been | notes thore. In Chleago there 13 9 glut of men done here every senson for thirty yoars, and | looking for $1 and $4 notes. aro throadbare, Aro thore no other operas “Mr, Bulking, that Sway-back stepper of that can be done by this troupe? Are there | yours muat have been born along time ago?” no old oporas of the Italian school that | Yes, (@ way-bacie in 180, but he'd a 740 horse nll might be. revived? Mave Vordi, Bellini, | tho enme."—Lobert Bonner. ieee Donizetti, and other Itatinn composers writ- Quillen fu Hee eee emels iis cites pen aay Hoth Smobraris Blak ne beeivon? | ing in with a joke to the effect that the Fount- othing In-the French or German | jingss tome resembles n popwlar song because it achoola worth performing ? Have we loft | jg bavy mine.” tho days of grand opern, and inust we now | «phe editor of a come newspaper in Japan becontent with half n dozen of the lightest | nas boen sontenced to three yoars’ imprison- works repeated over and aver ad diflaltum | ment and a fine of 800 yen for publishing # cer- andad nanscum? Lavo we left the days of | tain articlo., Wa were contitent that some duy the grand singers, and must we row be con- | one of those Now York Post Jokes would be ¢a- {ent with small ana pretty warblera who can | tated at Its truo value, Hootey’s Thentre. * Randolph atreet, between Clark and LaSalle, “My * Goraldine,” Afternoon nnd evoning. a MoVioker's Theatre. Madteon streot, between inte nnd Dearborn. Engagement of the Xoldene Comic Oporn Company, “Olivotte.” Afternoon and evening. Grand Opera-ifonse. Cinrk street, oppusit now Court-llouse, Engages mont of tha Plorey Combination, “T'no Legion of Honor.” Afternoon and evening. Haverty's Thenire. Penrborn nircot corner of Monroe. Engagement of Hor Majesty's Oporn Company. "* Mefistofele,"* Otympte ‘Theatre. . Ciark streot,between Laka and Mandolpt, Variety adaiontte ‘Sntortninmont. Attornoon and evening nero 1to (f neres fto ®) acres 30 to BO aures: 10 to HW neres, 100 to 200 teres i aAcntomy of Musto. Tlalsted sjroot, nour Madison, Wost Sida, Variety entertainuiont, Afternvon and evoning, Central Muste-Mall. Cornor of Randulph and State atreots. The Stod- dard Lectures, "Saris" WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1881. Senator De LANa’s Autt-Poo! and Wager Dill hay passed the Ilnols Senate by the strong vote of “Mayes to 10 noes. ‘The latter would find It dificult to glve a decent rea- son for thelr negative votes, No kind of gambling Js more insidious or destructive of inorals or money, tan“ poolk-selling on horse-racing, ball-playing, antl other games of chaucv ur skill. Buylng chances In pools Ig Inithation into the blackleg business gen- erally. ‘Thousands of young men commence thelr downward career to diagrace and rnin In poolroums, There they take thelr firat Jessons. ere Mn. Exns boldly eontroverts the statement of Admiral Ammen: that ib is not usual to +. put loaded vessels indry-dock, ‘The Admiral by training and professional oxperience ought to be {Mn position to know whereof he af- firms; but Capt. Eads virtuaily declares that he does not, ‘The projector of the ship-rall- yayyin support of his awn position, cltes a solitary Jnstanee of a North German Lloyd steamer being docked in New York when Juaded, and says that several Inrge vessels ave heen-so treated at the Victorian Docks in London, But, by his own admissions, theso would appear to be only exceptions that go to prove the rule, “Tha Scientific american says that rubber fg now used for voncorlug furniture. Hereto- Or all the objections Ghat have been applied fo the scheme of a postal telegraph that founded on the apprehension of a“ paternal - Governmont” {s the silllest, A paternal s Government has carried and distributed the ‘gills for many years more cheaply, efficient- ‘ dy, and regularly than private enterprise could possibly do the sane work; and the Uberties of theecitizen have not to an appre- :. | -eluble extent suffered In the operation. The postal telegraph would have a ‘much smaller patronage than the Tost-Onice, and Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.): On tho prinetpla that misery likes con it will gratily the eltizens of this State, whose political forts unes ure fn tho hands of tho rullroud corpo tluns, and who are to be represented by Mn Plate In the United Stutes Senate, to learn thst New Jeraey is Inn alinilar plight, Senator a Be tion to the measure even If: itbo constitu | mastor-Goneral, two others by the telegraph | are general elections and special elections. } only carol a Ittle round of old melodies? It A sporting young man In Magenty dolph is sreceeded by Gen, Sewell, the candidate gu Haron Cis nature of. the ensb would bo far less tional. ‘The real purpose of the bill does not | company, and a fifth selected by those four,— | The general elections are those when the | It beso, then opera must be In its decadence, Tot his fathor 0 lute ue tind wont of tho Ponnyylynnia Central Rutlroad, cae open to politieal Influences, Our polltlenl "b+ | aypenr on {ls face nor in tho explanations | whose duty it shall be to ascertain the value | thes and the purposes of the election are the | And for this small fenst, ns compared with Parteners Popa sain PPR SE carties wil not bo subverted by the Morse | that have come frown Springficla; and, when | of “the plant, property, and effects of tho | samo nll over the State; and spectal clections | the gorgeous spreads of tho old, tho public ts Tut bo lost, for suo went In 2:20. informmons. : instrument and the quadruples, that purpose fs stated, the objection tothe | company interested, iricluding the value and : are those held under the Inws of the State, but upon questions of n local character, sub- witted to the yoters by locnt authority, and their results” Hmited- to the jurisdiction nuthorizing them. Of this Intter class are elections nuthorizing'an-issue of local bonds; changing county seats; on the question of Meonse or no Heense; tho erection of public buildings; the adoption of elty or village willing aud anxious to pay the royal prices! | —Charics A. Duna, But even this thin repertory might bo tol- | “Witt you allow me to approach my sub- erated at these prices provided the works | ject at onco?” asks a gontlemun who sends In were porformed by artista who should com- secomnmmtteatlon, Sortolilye aon ean Anol ony mand such prices. Old opera-goers evon in | *PProach I ut once, but you enn carry 1 ot this young city, however, will look back and amali tho ee as Ae STO ee remember troupes whose ensemble was | Sen Gwar 4 don away thoy minke if up in some other way. stronger, with-stich artists as Colson, Cor- “Cecil Clare” sends in somo yerses com- During his elght yeara of servicu in tho Bate fet ata hy has donu good work for the state, but bissile lund fo tha Vormaylyauniu, Atulleoad Wena 90 es MOUNT Lut the wood tings te his duue hare Ye pbveured moro thin, ty Juat ty tls constant wh lonce th the Interests of hits ralisaae or bu kond u DHL wine be, nor how beneitele Or tu Huy community, he fay Hert xerutial z referonce to “our inigrestt,” und voted necordinel, While he hus insny devoted Sricndas tt ls only uted to siy thuton bly merlot he wuinhd not have ok vt nuny Legistaturo for United states senator rather foared than admired In hls own rection Of virtuo of his control of the ritrend money 40d 1 mensure will be apparent. character of all lenses, contracts, and fran- So long as the tuxation for State purposes | chilses, and also tho rece! pts of such company bo raised upon no uniform nsscasment of | from all sources, the operating expenses; the property, as equailzed among the connties | rates charged for transmitting messages, by the State Bonrd of Equalization, thera is | tho royalty paid to inventors,” ete,, ote. If +n common effort In all counties to keep down | Jay Gould himself had dictated the torms of the valuntion of taxable property, to the end | this bil ho could seareely have made them that each county may pay as amall pa pro- | more favorable to the purpose of securing Junae Freeman, the Assistant-Attorney General, who has been In attendanes on the session of the Tennessee _Legistature in the Snterest of Mr. Maynard, stopped over a day: 4+ $n Cincinnatl on lis way back to Washing- ton. He intimated that the failure of the Re- publicans to elect n Senator was due to biek- Se erings within the party, nnd especially to the Le Ibto of th Thi Iblo valuation of ext: hart lopti tems of wat spe keene ari vabiees na bbe Be Fraga, a Ue thy bore of Wont dures aad taa . ” 01 marry: portion as possible of the Stato tax ‘his | the highest possiblo valuation of existing | charters; on adopting systems of water-sup- | Parepa, Amodio, Bellini, Roneonl, Drayton, ‘fhe wun alnks low botiind the hilts, {utodntienintorscetodt ey the bentsyivenis ost Bape ee ane iano counE ay rivalry amounts to # permanent’ check | ldjegraph fuellittes upon tho basis of Inflated | ply, and various other local subjects, Elec- ] Junca, Susini, Antonuecl, Briinoll, Mazzo-* ey tamale aie nd tte Drunehos he Uns mo tutural wareliKtth a acdan Random Butler, though perfeetly upon local taxation, beenuse tha Stato valun- | st0ct'and monopoly rates. tons for all these purposes, and rll suchother | lent, Errani, Irfre, and others, dolng thesa Akg anata of, the rippling riley Jt is, wo trust, not too muul to usk our re " y tion Is the Inwful basis for local assessments, | ‘I'o pass sucha Dit! as Springer has now pro- Local taxes are governed by threo provis- | posed will bo to jnaugurate the same project Jons: (1) No county or town may constitu- | whieh made the British Government the vie- tlonally incur any debt dr issue ponds in ex- | tim of a hugeswindle atthe time ibproceaded cess of 6 per centoft the valuation of taxable | to nequire the control of the telegraphs of properly; (2) elty corporations ‘ara. now | tho country. England pal about three thes Manited under the law ton? per cent fax on | tho netnal cost value, or nctual Inyostment, to ponder tho significance of auch fhzures in out politics, ‘That in a single Commonwealth sy corporution or group of corporations shou! haye the audacity to Iny hands upon tho Jal Intive authority would justify grave dlacussht Int whon wo eco auch tsurpution in ball a daze of the chief Commonwenlths, 1t 14 lh tle @ tnkothe alarm, ‘ant New York Is for the rte olections as may be authorized by the Inws of the State, aro all contamplated by the Constr tution of the State. ‘The Constitution, how- ever, makps no exception, change, or moditl- cation as “to the qualification of the voters who may voto at these clections, 1t provides the sume qualifientions for tho yotora at any dhicere, was premature, to say the least, in an swinging over to the support of Jackson, If x. Moynard’s forces had remained firm at the By erltien! Juneture, and he had recelved the ‘ Lull Nepublicun vote on the next two ballots, he imight have beon elected. Tho conse. quences that may flow from the errars com- same operas for halt the expense, And if und wants our opinion of her chanecs ns a poet, y 2 By We think your chunces of boing killed aro firat- they, why not tho troupes of toaduy? Even | cass, Cecil, but you will burdly do umons tho Col. Mapleson will not fusist that his people | tree-for-nil pocts, vecause your effort lacks fire 60 per cent better than these old artists, | what is called *contemporancous human tutor- As we have alrendy sald, ho fs not to binmo | est" by playwrights, Ie you hnd tixed your for charging all he enn get, but it Is a Mttle | Mrst verso over so that 1, read something lke strange that people will compet him to do so, | 18 Ne y by trftts monopolist jnitted by the Republican members of the | Me valuation of thelr prouerty outside the | for tho mtorial {t purchased from tho ex- | and all olections, goncral or speelal State, | And why? It cortalnly Is not buennse tho Rave ar fortran fits re POUR ni ted CO bis oe Bi reeset "Tennessee L episinture may have an impor- Interest on their debt andsthelr scliool fund; | isting companies, only to find that it had | county, clty, town, or village, It inexorably | repertory is an attractive one, It certainly Ree et ition and oirap aqaiite, Founsylvanh( iain nalmilar plight. | Wisco (3) County Boards enn, under the Constitu- | been loaded down with obsolete and worth- | demands that tho person offering to vote at taut Intluence on future Jeglstation at Wash ton. . a ig not because the troupe Is stronger thnn | it would have locked moro homelike and natu- others whieh have beon hero. It cortainly ly | ral. Let us bear from you again, Ceell, Wo ure not beeausy the operas are woll mounted,— | sos when you slog. beenuse they have never been mounted more An odftor sat tu his room. Ifo wns think- Mo wi ? ing, Ap editor has to tink u rent deal. Generally shiabbily, ‘Lo what athor cause, then, can It | yes avouthow to got wonoy enough to pay af Who be attributed than that musical taste has | otoreditors whon the end of the wouk comes. A given way to fayhlon, and no} te have been | man come inte thy room. Ho bad arollor papor in at thu opern Is to confess ono'a self ont of tho | PIMARG as ne euta, world, especlally on star nights? It will not tia btaboute doto have hoen seen thera on off nights, | “lt ten reply ta Prof, Huxloy.” ; { : * though in nll the tost polnts that make ren | 4y Not muiehy rou eun’e got tt in," anld tho editor, and success of the honvst, solid sort, they are | “Preity soon another man camo tn with roll of the beat, ‘Tho star's tho thing; so the public | paper, sean § got this in?” he sald, rushes with headlong haste to sea tt, regard- | Veh itum about a proacher and ® Deacon's less of expense, After tho glimmor has dis- | wire.” appeared {tanay wonder why It went; but “ You Just bot your Hife youcan gotitin,” sald tho Ithas dono the prover thing, Shall we over | etiter wattinu up und shaking tho wan hearty by tho return to the days when off nights were un- | ~ goo now some man succeod whore others fall, chtt- known and all nights were good, and people | aren, and peer by Sa, lesan Em, “ fules for the who bought a one-dollar or twa-doYar are | Nurerw” by Aurat table ticle got their monoy’s worth? Perhaps so, PUBLIC OPINION. butt cannot by expectod that mianngers wilt take tho firat step In that direction. St. Louls Qlobe-Democrat: An Stem’ has , ————————==—— been gotug the rounds of the press ¢o tho ¢ffoct ‘Tne western countles of Kansas are do | tbat Gen, Grant still claims Galena, IL, ag bia pendent fur thoir future prosperity in 4 | residence, ee pity of it !s that ho ever mais it pecullar degree on tho Increase of the annual | doubt possible on tho subject, Grant iad rainfall, They vow have gudlelent rain In | *e evening of bis Ufe—which wo truat wil} bea “ very long surnmer evening—at his niadest homo somo yoars to ralso {alr average crops, but | jy Gatena would boa far more herote churucter the Se of wise Is 20 lremulak pall uns for history than Grant living fn style. tn Now cortaln that cannot be depondad- on, | York avs pensionor on tho bo Tet Hence the evidence'that the ‘ralnfall 1s In- pilitouata. iE Grant permunontly ite eroasing from year to year throughout the | of bia lite, F Btate 1s espectatly gratifying, ‘The Signal-| Hartford Courant (Rop.): Senstor Blaing Service observer gt Leavenworth reports that retina or: Bie ee rere ie vale of oraxe ralnfull for it elght yeara | subsidics to American stca pie bea aod laches, heath Nnaet ofa | Strung aruniont from bia standpoint, and It 15 t 0 tb would be w great partial geological survey of tho State made SEAR eA Che nent Te uli eee eeree in 1865 put the anaue pen prea for ships, but thore sro mnany of, those most inter the thirty yeara immediately preceding, agde- | cated in the promotion of un Atiurican commer. tormined by. ‘observations made .4t Fort olal marine who wacrover tne Nberty to buy ips ut presout wherevi cau bo obtajued Leayouworth, af 3434, The reported Increase pled cheaply would do mosy: tp itluulate oy Jaan almost trrecluimable victim, Oblo is) moat in the toll, Colorada and Nevada ty notoriously ieeket burouuhs that tho pulls, ininngers thigk of tholr vote only ns & IE bo negotinted for Iiko grain or the prod iol their mines. California scomod an thet, deliverance two years ugo, but niatier as evidently resumed tholr of gomplexion, ray) thig advance of spevlal interests ual peworur tho peoply be specily cherteney of fine cannot be distant when tho Pros! ie tho country will be burgnined for tn Wal Mt ae and our law be framed by a, yatherly, mend rond and bunk Dircetora. There ton we of Burge which, slightly modified, ae ien fal present stuto of publlo atfairs. etn mon," say8 ho, * combine, tho yood mu rapites late, cleo thoy will Fall one by one on veh sauriiice In ncontomptible struggles” ypu tute rallroud monopoliste for bud wer? good men, guy the friends of governmen 1 people. and tho admonition incets our alec! 's mainess, It is suicide, te continue tts id whilo State attor Stato Is thus visll) yaad under the dontrol of a few men who A nen ue thiotly at odds with tho gceat mass of fp reek pondeat uv pow daily Industry, for, ft ihe pee hg any Turkish Pasha fa at odds witb, er aur untry he plunders, What docs the Caer eae! pose ig meant by this sending of Faaat your Btate Logleluturcs und to batt Had Congress’ Is lt to the ond thut the hePri ic ge industrious milligus muy bo fostered? ayo wet becaugo the railroad kings desire Oy ordinate franchises held and used in sul one nee to tho common welture? If not TY) us ends, what lsu cun tho object ovens to eniurge powers which aro alrendy 10 Fa and to add to fortunes that long 0 Tee proportions most dingeraus to se ja now & Dill boforo the House of | t «tives, Introduced by dir, Reagin ol a pelt signed to regulate ratlroad cunnmcr tho States. [te purpose ty to end hy, dlsoriminuition by which fuvority wie und thee In dlatayor plan ees | equality of service by the railrouds, bir * ling” of intercaty by wolch Geert) mady on end of aud codperation Bectiiy, ae puts the cousumer and the praducet ay a Incroy of these Insutivblo mutadlenne gp prubibit tho sudden varlation of ry tosth ty which it fa found possible for MO ts deplete, at their pleasure, tho WHT Atlantic seaboard, dir. Reagan's Pay ra interests of the people, Who eats Sot apes, Acarmieus it weil recelve at Hg oe picked oy Toad agents who are now be rupreaont Now York and Now Jorset . Uulted Blales Eenate? tion, levy only 7 cents on every 6100 of tha | fens sti, Any scheme for tho purchase of yaluation of taxable property for the ex] axlating telegraph Hines in this country will penres of tho connty governments, All] result in the same way. The uniform basis these forms of taxation are thus governed | for appralsement of corporation franchises, directly by the amount of tho valuation put | property, or business, with a ylew to pure upon taxable property, and loent debts and | chase, is a capitalization of tho profits of tho local taxes aro higher or lower according to | concern during 9 term of years, Ta apply tho valuation sent to the State Board, this rule to a telegraph company that has a From the moment that self-lnterest shall | monopoly of tho’ business, which ought to cense to restraln tho local assessments, the | bo broken down in the public interest, 1sman- basis of taxation will begin to grow, and now | Sfestly unfair, [tis tho duty of the Government resources Will be opened up to the tax-caters | to protect the people against the oxtortions at tho expense of the taxpayers; and, when } of monopoly, and: it Is certainly inconalst- over each county shall be released from the | ent with that duty to reward the monopollsts obligation to pay Me full proportion of the | by purchasing thele property at a valuation Slate tax along with all the otnor counties, | whiel) {tcoutd only attaln by reason of the thore will no longer- bo any object to make | monopoly, ‘Tho Western Union Company the valuation us low as possible, but, on the | cout show, perhaps, that it earned tet six contrary, a temptation to enlarge It in order | inillions of dollars inst year, and that, having to Increase tho debt-incurring power of tho | absorbed or otherwise got rkl of all competl- Jocal governments and the annual fund for | ton, it fs now Inn position to carn still more the benelit of tax-eaters, in future years, Thus tt would furnish a ‘This osplanation of tha uatural and prno- } basis for ante, pyon the rule of appralsemont, {ileal oparation of the [inegar proposition | at not less than $100,000,000, or four or five furnishes a faint objection to tho scheme, | Umesas much agit would cost to duplicate whuteyer its constituflonality may be. With | its facilities with the best of material, ‘The areturn of prosperity tho tax-etters become | Company would put a valuo upon. fran- ravenous for more money, ‘Thoy beljeve that | chises obtained from Government, ‘and the taxpayers will submit to having more | thussoll back to Government for millions Uberal contributions Jevled upon them, But |] what tt bad-obtalned ng a froe grant, It the Inwful Minit of taxutlon in most cases | would inako the Governmont pay fancy ig exhausted upon. the present basis of | prilves for patent vrivilugos which receive valuation, The Cougy Commissioners and | thelr valuo from Government protection, It City Councils ean nelthor. Increase the | would put in stock at.par which has been local debts nor levy more’ taxes with- | watored over and over again in violation of out onlurging the yatyation, Tho tax- | public polley, ‘Khe whole scheme would be payers of thie efty sud’ county, for | a fraud in theory and practice, and Springer Instance, will not submit to such enlargo- | sveins te be making himself a party to It. nent while It Involves the payment of.anin- | ‘The only, condition which would justify creased yropoition of the State tax; but thls | (avernment purchase of oxleting telegraph protection will be lost whenever the Btate | Jines uvon tho bass of mouopaly valug and “any election” held in any olection-dlstrict must bo 'n male citizen of the United States above tho nge of 2 years” “to voto at such eleetion’’ ‘Chis |s peremptory, and it is cayally exclusive. It Includes every alee- on Hold under tho laws of this State, aud It prohibits any. voting by any person who fs /nota male citizen” of the United States and 2L years of age, There ean bo no aya- slon of this provision, elthor as to the oliar- neter of the election or tho aualitreation of the yotor, It is a peremptory law, ap pileable to and governing every posstble form of public election held unter the laws of this State, for whatever purpose; and over tho subject of the qualifleation of the yoters who may vote at auch clection the Legislature of the State fag no more wuthority or discretion than 1¢ has over the quulification of the yoters at an election In Ohio or Wisconsin. ‘The same urtlele of the Constitution pro- vides that, In addition to being ‘a male eltl- zon of tho United States,” 9 person to be on- titled to voto, shall (1) have resided in the State ono year; (2) shall have resided In the county ninety days; (8) shall haye resided in tho olvction-district thirly days next pre ceding the election; and (4) that all yotes shall be by ballot. tee are no Jess than five requirements specified by tha Constitution to qualify a person to vote “apany election" in the State of Illinois, Tho Logisiature hns no more authority to relleve a person of any, one of tho requirements than it has to re- Moye a person of all of them; and no moro power to dispense with or abolish them, or any of them, at any,election, general or spect), thant has to abulish then from all elections, ‘Thu Constitution docs, and was 50 intended, take from the Legislature all con- trol or. dibcretiun over the subject of the . Tun Now Orleans Democrat, as will be Seen from an article printed In the column of “Public Opinion,” takes the speech of Gen, Ed Bragg on tho Page clalm very much ta heart. It notifies him that the Southern Do- * anoeracy enn got on very well without ite Punic allicain the North; while it very serl- ausly questions whether tho latter can do as well withont the vote and Influence of the Bali South, But no part of ts diatribe Isso exnsporating, because none Js so true, as the uccusation that tho Intelligence and power of >, the Democratic party are for the most part to do found In the Southorn States, Mr, Brage, dn his calmer moments, must have thought tis much hinself, Whatever muy be sald of the good taste of the writer who calls Mr, Bragg an * idiot,” 0 “jackass,” and a “dem- agog,’”? It must be confessed that the estl- ninte contained in the- Democrat's artlele of the relative tnetits of the two wlugs of the party ty not far out of the way CikyJusticn DALY, the Prosidont of tho Geographical Soctety, In his letter to Presl- , dent Hayes advocating the digpateh of a re- Nef expedition to seareh for the Jeannette, f gave reasons for believing that the present, vey. winter hag been one of excoptlonal severity) \S Inthe Atetie regluns, as tu all other portions \ “of the Nosthern Hemlsphere, ‘The amount of Ico accumulated In the Arctica In the last ; two seasons has been greater than has been { known Jor imany years before. It fs balluved i. by many thut the Arctic tee has been the first 7. cause of the extraurdinary cold both in this ae? country and Kurope the present season, ‘i'o : ' the extent that tho felds are thicker ‘and more extensive than ever'before tho chances y mn