Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 11, 1881, Page 4

e e femmmy T it i € o i j | i 3 ; THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY members would have lelsure to attend to the tutles which they ars nominally elected to diseharge. A remoto consequeice of such change might also bo the removal of the desks and an_Inereaso In- the membership of the Tlouse suflicient to give alt scctions nnd tnferests ndeauale representation, Such is the drift of Mr. Hawley's argument, who, it Wil he observed, Is n firm believer in the utllity of a largo Ilouse, other things belng equal, S admisston to the Unfon in 1818, Nolessthan twenty-six States besldes Tlinols have expe- rlence of thissame nlleged * paradox ” when cach new apportionment Is made, or whenever the State s gerrymandered be- fween times. It eannot be avolded wn- fess tho Senatorial term 18 nrbitrarily ended by eacl new apportionment, or redis- trieting is forever prohibited; mul no State hins ever done cither the ono thing or the other, 'The young wan at Springfield has spuken out of an Ignorance of tho subject whiclh I3 absolutely unfathomnble, Thye @rilme, TERMS OF SURBSCRIITION. Y MAIT—IN ADVANCE Jiatty eattion. ono ear, 'aria 0f & 7ORT, PoT MO Daily and Kundday, ono yr: ‘Tuesday, Thu 4 Bath Monday, Wet i Bunday, 16: WEEKLY EDIT] ©ne copy, por ye ol REy Fwonty-ono ¢ Speatmen coplea kent freo, Givo L'ost-Uflice address in full, incinding County #nd Stata. Ttemitiances mav ho mada either hy draft, oxpress, Fost-0ifico ordar, or in roulstered lottar, Al our sk, TO CITY SUNCHIBENS, Datly,aolivored, Bunday oxenpted, 273 conta por weok. Daily, delivered, Bundny Includoi, 110 conin per weoks Address P TR COMPANY, Corncr Madison und Dear! icav, ny, B HEsny Launovensie says that it Tins been found neeessury to suspend the liberties of the House of Commons In order to suspend thoe liberties of the peoplo of Ireland, 'The serles of rules which Speaker Brand reported in the Commons yesterday confirm Mr, Labouehore's stalement. In effeet thoy ke the Speaker the antoeral of the British Parliament. 1le may silence n member whose observatlons he may constder super- fluons or frrelevant, may deeline to enter- tain motlons for ndjournment when In his oplnlon they ara ohstructive, may cut off de- bate If he Is sustained by a %-to-1 vote of the members present, may order n rising or slt- ting vote Instend of a lobby division. Someof these changes are lmprovements, but those rules which clothe the Speaker with almost absolute power aro arbitrary in the extreme, and certanly without precedent in any par- liamentary body. ‘They are completely at variance with British lieas on the subject as hitherto nnderstood, and even as enuncinted by Mr. Drand himsclf. Last year n select committeo of the llouse of Commons was appointed to revise the rules, The Commit- THE VIADUCTS AND THE RAILROADS OF CHICAGO, No question of municipal governnont can have greater Importance than that which the construction of vinduets is now asswming, and, in fact, ias nlready assumed, ‘The pol- fey of the City of Chieago towards tho il ways hias always been o most liboral one. Al the rallways have been admitted fo tho city under the most generous ferms. Not only have they been permitted to locate their pns- senger-depots in the central parts of the eity, but also thelr stutions for the receipt and de- livery of merchandise, with unlinited free- dom of aceess from all quarters, awd with uniimited means of communieation and ex- change and transfer of cars from one road to the others, inno other city on thisfconti- nent, nor In ¥urope, have railronds such fa- ellities for the clieap aud prompt transaction of thelr Dbusluess us they have In Chicngo, The grain elevators are all located In the very central portions of tho city, and It isno unusual thing for the ralironds to deliver LOSTAU Bontered at the Post-Office nl_ Chieago, I, as Second= Class Malter. ‘Forthe bonent of our patrons wha doslre to aend single coples of THE THINUNE through the mall, wo sive herewit ho transiont rate of postago: Droweatics Per Copy. Fight and Twelvo Page Pnpos conts, Eixteon I'ngo Inper.. Eight and Twalve Page I'apes Bixtecn F'ago Laver. s CRICAGO TRIBUNE has ostablished branch #ffices for the rocalpt of subseriptions and. ndvertise menta as followa: NEW YOIK—Ttoom 2 Tribune Bullding, F.'T.Mc- FADDESN, Manager. tee reported through Mr. Ralkes, the Chale- | atthe clevators and from thelr yurds 25 LASGOW, 5 —Allan's 1 A s S 2y Ag:ntr.‘?!(l,l‘;on()hufi:?s?d an's Amesican News | yunn of Commilttees, or Deputy-Speaker, and | ears of grain per day, and to removo thoso when the report was submitted to the IHouge Mv. Brand sald: “I draw 2 brond distinction between falr opposition to u partienlar meas- wre and persistent and vexatious obstrue- tion to a varlety of measures for defeating tho will of Parliament.” Heolng asked what he meant by *“fair opposition,” he replled: “Ishould say that it a member or members, having a strong oplnion 18 to the hmpolicy of a particular measure, resisted that mensure, using all the forms of the Ionse for that pur- pose, that would be merely falr opposition,” There 1s no doubl that Mr. Parnell and hls thirty-five ndhierents were convinced of the “impolley? of the Coerclon bill; that in using “ql the forms of the Ilouse” they were only using “fair opposition,” nccording to the Speaker's own definition of n * fuir opposl- tion”” Iast year. I3ut then, men change thelr opinions, Speaker Brand has certainly changed his, LONDON, Enz.—American Exchanga &U Btrand. HERRY F, Q11010 Agont. ABLUNGTON, D. C.~130 F streat. cars to make room for others,—something which wonld be physieally fmpossible were it not for the free atd ttnobstructed employ= ment of these trains at ail hours through and over the streets of the clly. ‘I'lic construc- tion of vinducts has been of the greatest util- ity to rnllvonds. ‘The immenso business dong by the railways on the North Side cast of Wells street would have to be wholly abamloned were it not for the vinduets on Wells, Clark, sl State streets. As It s, these structures have ennbled the railroads to obtain the exclusive use of North Water street for thelr trains and for the business nt their depots, The franchiso to cross Clark and State streets would bo ecomparatively valueless to the compunies in the absence of viaduets, . : In like manner are the viaduets over Lake, Madison, Adams, and Van Buren streets an indispensable necessity to all roads using West Water street; In the ubsence of vin- ducts that route wounld have to ho aban- doned, and the expulsion of the railways be- yond certuln Jimits would long since have become nn hinperious necessity. ‘The privi- lege of building viaduets over all the streets crossed by railways 18 themost valuable of all the franchises possessed by the railways doing business In Chieago: without that privilege their right to cross these strests would boe valueless, and wonld entail a cost of maintenance and an interruption to busl- ness that would compel an abindonment of all business ‘within the city limits, As a franchise the privilege of building vinducts over all street-crossings Is ‘of Incalculable valuo to the railway companies, and one which they should, as a matter of cconotny, bo tho lust to surrender, Tho necessity for these viaduets s obvions to all, and to 1o one more than o the rail- rond companies. T TrinuNe yesterday published some of tho dotalls ot the partial agreement made In 1838, whereby iho old railrond companies agreed to bulle vinducts wiien thereto required by thoe eity, the latter consenting to pay the damnges for ralsing the bulldiugs on tho apuronches. All the compunies which have heen ndmitted sines 1873 have been commiltled to this agreement, The City Government hns, however, been greatly remiss ln not requiring tho construe- tlon of vinduets sinco that time. At the eon- ference fn 1873, Mr, Corter, P'resldent of tho Bourd of Publle Works, submitted the fol- Jowlig Hst of viaduets which requived early construction; we publish the list as o curl- osity: AMUSEMENTS, MeVicker's Theatre. * Madlson streot, botween Ktato snd Dearborn. Xngagomont of Annfe Pixiey. “M'liss, the Child of thse Biorras.” Grand Opers Ciark stroct, opposit now Enrage- wment of Mr, and Mrs, Geo, 8, Knlght, “Goverament Bonds."” Taverly's Thentre, Dearborn streot, corner of Monros. Engagement ©f Her Majosty's Opora Company. " Carmon.'” Hooley's Thentre. Randolph street, between Clark and La Balle, “My Geraldine.” Olymple 'Theatre. Clark stroot, betwoen Lake and Randolph. Variety ®ntertsinment, Aeadems of Music, Hnlsted atreet, near Madison, Wost Side, Variety saterialnmont. " Falrbank Xall, g Corner of Kandoiph and Ktate streets. Locturo by tho 1{on, Thomas Loyne. Bubject: “The Lawyeres ® Pioneer.” SexATon Kinkwoob has addressed to the Jowa Stute Register & communleation relat- ing to o paragraph which appeared In this Journal some days sngo on the subject of his amendment to the **bill relieving from duty objects of clagslenl antiguity.” ‘I'he drift of tho Scuntor’s reply, If wo comprehend It clearly, 1s that the nmendment had reference not tosalt-fish, but to cured meats; that it pro- posed to relieve from duty forelgn salt used in o great Western Industry, and that 1t was, on that account, wise and timely, Tne Tmp- I use has, and can have, no dispute with Senator Kirkwood as to the propriety of nd- mitting snlt duty-free into this country, Our critielsin was directed not toward the cconomienl princivle which he advoentes, but to the relevancy of itas & rider on *a bill exempting from duty objects of classical antiquity.” 1n this view of tho case it makes no difference whether tho salt that Senator Kirkwood had in mind was to be used in plekling fish or curing meats, It certainly lad nothing to do with * objects of classical antiquity,” unlessby astrained construction of the misslon of salt-pork and corned beaf, The Senator truly says that vock-salt and Michael Angelo's statues are both ineluded in tho Tarlff bill,—tho Intterns *manufnct~ ured marble”; butso are a thonsand other widely different artleles, It was the object of tho bill in question to get medieval statu- ary and puinting out of that jumbled cate- wory, 'The objection to the Senator’s nnend- ment is, that It Is too heavy for the il 1t has rested ke n mountaln on the Innocent littlo measure, aml will probably erush It In the end, As o person of taste and refine- wont, who enjoys & good pleture and o fine statue himselt, Senator Kirkwood should use his influence {o have the DIl passed without lis rider. Then, If lo will fntro- duce o freesalt bill fndepondently, Tk TrRINUNE, In common with all his other West- ern friends, will heartily support it s0CL MEETINGS, WAUBANSIA TODGE, NO. 100, A, P & A. M., will ‘hold thelr regular communicatlon’ i’ Masonio Hull, TiMonrao-er, this evoning at vl o'elook. A full i anco OF iHombors 15 desire "0, BARKER, W. M. FRED, W, PORTER, Secrotary. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, I8si, A mspaTcir In regard to the llerancourt divorce ease nt Dubngune, which appeared In Tue Trinuse Iast Tuesday, stated that tho evidence showed 3 Ilernncourt to have compelled his wife to sleep in o cofiin, This was wholly wrong, nosuch evidenee,wearere- 1iably Informed, having been introduced, and the mistako was due to the carclesness of the person sending the dispateh, who may huve been Jmposed upon by false information. We rearet the appearance of the item {n onr columns, ° Tk Gns-Inspeetor Is reperted to wish that the street-lnmps In tho busliess portion of tho elty should be lighted all night, Irre- spective of moonlight. The iden Is a good one; It ought really to have been ndopted several years ago. In 1873, when the present plan of lighting by the moon as weli- as the sun was adopled, the computer of thetables for Hght~ ing and extinguishing speelally urged this. 1le stated that **in the business portions? (of the city) * whero tho buildings are high, tho moonlight 1s of so little nccount that it ‘ought to ho digregarded.” The suggestion was not ndopted, as some members of the Commiitteo on Gas were afrald the Council had not the rlght to order a discrimination 1o be made. Thore i3 now more than o square mlle of area inwhich the street lamps should Lo Hghted regardless of the moon. The much larger area outslde Is well enough lighted by the moon during o fortnight In each month, TO BE BUILT IN 1673, Totk and Beach streots, eifth nnd leach streets. *8ixteenth und Canal streets, *Sangamon and Kinzo streets, North uvenue und Cherry streot. Huwthorne nyenuo. i *unlsted aud Kinzlo strects, TO BE BUILT 1N 1874, *Diioe lsland avenuo nnd Sixteenth street, Hatsted anid Chiengo nveno, Lirhteenth and Stewart avonuo, Halsted street and St. Louts & Alton Road. *esplulnes und Fourth streots, Sinto street, . Wubash avenue. Michigun avenuo. TO WE DO IN 1875 Lake and Rockwell streots, Madison and Rockwell streets. Washington and Hoekwolt streots, Asbiand nvenuo und Kluzio strecta, Contre nvenuo zud Slxteenth streot. A VERDANT young person serving an auv- prentteeship in journalismasthe Springield correspondent of the Chlengo Tlmes has sent that paper nn extraordinary lot of gib- berish about thu npportionment question amt the new Constitution, This self-confident novico saysa: Thut body whichin 1870 ovolved the wonderful rodietion known as the new Constitution of 11- Inolg,and whichioriginated minority representa- tlon, or cumulatiye voling, eithor jorgot or Dugiosely omitted the very' necessary dity of maklug tho tonstitution hurnonize with itsalf, o« o+ GOne-Bulf tho Benuto 18 mlwnys composed of “hold-over” Benutors, Tho Uenerl Assem- biy Is required to napportion tho Binte futo Afty- one Benutorial districts under tho now consis, but twenty-iive of tho Beautors now fu ollicy have (‘uur‘y«nm yot to serve, nund thorefore will hold over for two yearsafter tho now apportion- mont goes Into eifeot, The other twenty-six Bunutors to ho elested In 1882 will have (o bo cleeted In the nowly-mado distriets. Iut this arrangemont s lkely to produco n politieal uradox. Some of tho new (districts may cons 11 two or ovon threcof thohold-over Sontor, whilo others uay huve nono atall, The Constl- tutlon makurs, 1o doubt, thought thut this see- tion mndo the Hinita of districts for Senutorsand Representatives torritorially tho same, 1t wlil bu suun that this 18 Inpossible for tho two years fmmedlately followlug o now apportionment, bes cige tho alightest change i1 Uio boundurics of any of e dist disurcunges tho otlginnl hin 1o this uxtunt: the Ropresentatives from i new distriot witl represent o differont territory from (ho Benatord, The follacy of this statement consists in the assumplion, first, that thers Is o *para- dox,” and, secondly, that minority vepresent- utlon has produeed it Minerity representas tion hins no earthly conncection with the sub- Jeet, 'heSenntors arenot eleeted undor that system, und the Representatlves, whe are, will bo elected fn 1853 under the new apportion- went, The correspondent who hus slurred minority ropresentation and the new Consts ™ tution 18 probubly not old enongh to know that the Journal lio now represonts in Spring- fleld, the Chlengo Tlmes, advocated that sys tem vigorously mud porslstently, and elnimed 118 adoptlon ns belng due to the Inlluence ex- tonded through its colnnius, while It has re- peatedly extolled the new Constitutlon as one of the best Instruments of the kind ever framed In this conntry, Theonly *puradox” conneeted with the apportionment question exlsty In the muddled Smagluntion of the cor- respondont who concelved It, ‘T'he faots are these; Kach Senator Is elected In hisown distriet, and continues to hold oflee for fowr years, A new apportion- ment does- not amffeet him iIn any way. ‘The alternato Senators are hlso elect~ ed In the distrlets which oxist at the thne of thelr election. A new apportionment caunot abridge the right of the hold-over districts to enjoy representation In the Sennte for four yuars, u privilegs which theother distriots In the State presumably huvenlroady oxercised, When the torus of hold-over Senntors e plre, thelr successors will be chiosen, as o matier of course, In the new districts which n the meanthme wili havebeen ereated, The ulleged “paradox * §s not at all peculiar to Llinols, and has nothing to do with the “new” Constitutlon, 1n exlsts Jn every other Stat In the Unlon in which the Sen- qulred, & very corrupting intluence would be | utors hold oftice longer than the Rteprosent- | specifications of the City Governient, it shall yomoved from the halls vl)euhluuau. and | atives, aud has existed ln fhis Siate sluce s | uot bolawiulforsuch ¢ompany o moyoany of ‘T1x Illinois House has passed the bill to allow the question of Incorporuting under the general luw 1o bo voted on by elties an- nually, if desired. ‘The bill has now gone to the Senute for concurrence, But would 1t not be better to ennct nt once and done with it that all elties in the State shall be Incorpo- rated under the general law? What Is the senso of this cutting the dog’s {nil off by Inches? 'The general Incorporation net nf- fords » better charter than any of the speeinl ones now In use in (his State, Besides, p gonoral law simpilfies the whole system of munieipal government. The Sennte should amend this 1llouse DIl by applying 1t to all tho cities and incorporated villages in the Btato; and the time fixed for the clty and township elections Intho sprime should b onong and the swne day, and thereby save tha peoplo all the bother, expense, and loss of tine attendant upon two eleetions for loval officers, If tho Scnators feel like dolng really ugefnl act thoy witl make these umend- ments, and the people will thank them for so dolng. Those mnrked withn (%) havo stuco been con- strited, o nTe HOW under way, Five only of the twenty vinduets for which plans and specllleatluns wero thon prepaved huve been constructed during thoe cight years that have clapsed, The want of thuse viu- duets has now become unendurable; but in the meantlue other vinducts over other streets have grown to bo o necessity, Pwo questions have, howover, nssumed espeeinl importance. Lsperienco has shown hat some of tho vinduets have becowe of themselves perilous. The faulty construe- tlon nnd the want of solldity for the work re- qnired show thot all future vinducts must bo In o mwre durable manner, and of more dura- ble matorkals, and upon some more durabler vlan, A weak eap, filmsy vinduet 15 o waste of money, involving frequent renew- als and constant repatrs. "Fhat 13 one ques- tion. ‘I'ie other is the cast of ronewal, re- pair, and maintenunee. Who should bear this annunl cost, which has hithorto been borne by the city? Practically tho rond- ways of these vinduets are but plank ronds, requiriug continuous repair or renswals, The substructures are also insuflicient for the purpose, and Inck thut sodldity whieh is required for safety, for endurance, und for economy, ‘T'he ratlvomd companies now, it 1s sald, re- fuse to bear the expense ot renewing, repalr- ing, and maintalning the viaduets already erected, or those which anny be bulit heres after, ‘Chey inslat that, having paid for tho orlginal construetlon, they ars therenfter wholly free from any ehurge for renowals or repalrs, Asnoutter of power, tho city, by the snme authority that authorizes It to come prel the ratlways to bulld o vinduet, can com- pel the raflways to keep that viaduet In good ropalr, Tho vinduets ars not bullt for the public benetit; thoy are bullt for tho accomne wodation of the railways;.all the benelits resulting from thelr construetion vesult tothe ratlways, and for nll damages resufting from the unsafe und lmperfeet condition of those vinduets these rallway eompanles aro respon- slble. ‘They hold thoir right to cross the streets nt grado by stemin power on con. dition of building u roadway over tho streot; thu construction of an unsafe or dangerous rondway 18 not a compliance with the cone dition, 'I'he City Conncil have, howaver, the power by general ordinuuce to provide, among other things: 1, That whenever any rallway company, when thereunto notified by the city suthorl- tles, shell refuse to bulld a viaduet over any street-crossing, necording to the plans and H M HAwLEY, of Connecticug, Inst Satur- day advocated & new apportionment on the basia of 301 mewmbers in the House, and sup- ported his argument Ingenlously with fig- ures designed to show thut a mujority of the Btates, aud partienlarly tho small ones, loss in rointive influence ns tho number of mom- bers §s inerensed. Incldentully, tho speaker mado a noteworthy nttnclk on the practice o€ lopding down Congress with private busl- ness, Ife snld that our Nationnl Assembly was the only one in tho world that permits itself to bo Incumbered by desks. Nelther the House of Cummons nor the French As- sembly permlt thelr use, and they are in oua senso a great hindrance to the public Lusi- ness us well as an Inconvenlence to a delibor- ative body. Without desks the Jlousa coukl ret along with b00 members irore ensily than it can now with 800, ‘I'he necossity for them, Mr. Hawley and (his I8 o polat seldom notieed,—1s that members are overs whelmed with privats business that ought never to come hefure Congress at ull, Fully one-lalf the thny of Congress- men, in committee, In sesslon, sud In thelr correspondoncs Is conswmed fn | the conslderation of matters thut are not of 4 publlc nature, This luflictlon might be borne patlontly I the private business were actually disposed of fu an equitable mannor, But It Is notorlous that such Is not the case. Three-fourths of all the clalms nre post- poned and cavrled over from sesslon to ses- sfon until the money or the perseverance of the politioner 13 exhausted, It all this petty business were sent o caurls estubllshed for the purpose, the public bustuess could bo dispatched fu Jess than balf tho twe uow re- @ 1881 —TWRLVE 1AL, with fourfold the amonnt of line and more than fourfeld the amount of business, the doubling of the caplital 13 not a largo eapltal- fzatton.” Thon with n sly wink and the frankness of a man Inan assured position, the Doctor admits that the capitatlzation of 00 n 1800 wats n lurie onel ‘T'his 13 equivnlent to suying: * Lf we wero honest and falr bn 1800 we are honest and faly notv. Inm willing to admit, however, that our Company was not honest and falr In 1860 in s stock-watering operations; but Messrs, (lould and Vnuderbilt would like to know, What nro you golng Lo do about ity gentlemen of the Committeo P* T'his 1s falrly ustrativo of the tone of Dr, Green’s entire speech,—rollicking, funny, hu- morous, atd occasionally good-naturedly Ime its trnins across that street withont first com- ing Lo a full stop, nor at any time faster than ot the rateof one mile an hour. 2. That at any amd alt strect-crossings with- In the limits of Chieago where no viaduct lins been bullt no company refusing or omit- ting to builil vinduets, of the manncr as re- quired by the city ordinance, shall move any of Its trains over any street-crossing unless thiere shall be a flagman ou ench sldo of such erossing, by day and by nlght, to warn per- sons wishing to cross such street, & That whenever any rallway company shall refuse, fail, or negleet to repair or renew the rondwany or structure of any vinduet over any street-crosing, wlien thore- to reguired by tho city authority, then it shall not bo lawful for such rallway to move any of its tralus over any of its tracks within the city limits by steam power, or by nny other means than horse power, during such timo ns such vimluet shall remaln unre- vaired or uniit or unsafe for travel. ‘Theso regulatlons may be supplemented nimost Indefinitly, and o brief experience of may possibly bring these raliwny companies to understand that tho vinduets are In everysensa constructions for the benefit and convenlenco of the rallways, and not of {he publle, and that of nil the fran- chises enjoyed by the railwnys inthis clty thero:is no one of equal value or of such in- dispensable lmportunce ns tho privilego of builting viaduets and keeping them in repair, — e AN ENGLISH VIEW OF US, sant to know what our nelghbors think of us, when they think well of us, apd for his renson we reprint else- where an editorial artielo from the London mes of 1 recent dute commenting upon the growth, progresy, and status of this country ng shown by the census returns for 1880, It is an artlele which may be read with pride, as itcomes from a source which hitherto has been rather disparaging than Inndatory, and Its tendency wiil be to promote frieudly feel- ing and to call out o sentiment of gratitude for compliments aud of gratificatlon that at Iast Inglish eyes are wide open with aston- Isliment al our progress, which tho Limes swns up ag follows: A nation has never exhibited a more magniileerit pleture of ma- terial progress for ten years. Since 1870 and a half milllons - -ennge Lecouvrour,” aix times, with 100,000 franes. 00 Dr, Green, however, bécomes quite serlouns when he attempisto prove that competition mnkes high and combination low rates. must have eaused the Committee to stare or Tho nuswer to Dr. Green’s argu- ments on this head should be an act of Con- gress establishiug o comprehensive postal- telegraph system coverlng the whole cout- thelr enforcemen Tho Arntlos of Greoco nnd Tarkey. ‘The Mitttury Revicw contains in its last nitmber au exhaustive description of tho mil- tary preparations, and orgauizations for war which have beon made during tho Inst three mouths in Greece and Turkey. knawn, the Review 15 edlted by the oflicers of tho General Btaff of the socond entegory of the Imporinl German Department of War, and ita contenta are tused upon docunsonts and reports inroference to tho milltary status of forclgn countrles. Tho ubject ol theso publications i to keep tho oflicers of the German armics 1t is alwnys pl revoliitlonary things which transpire bogond the borders of tho German Emplre. A clear und comprehen- sive statement of tho real military situntion on tho Balkan Peninsula i8 given in tho following: The recrulting and enilsting of volunteers for tho Greek army has Incrensed, instead of fylling part of those recruits come from Galatz, from tho District of Janina, from the nelghborhood of Boutl, from Egypt, Asin Minor, Russin, nnd cven Marsoliles.” At tho Itumater) was in sesslon the army was judged to be 46,000 e, and ‘it was thouxlit that, in order to resch the number of 60,000 which wero demanded timio when the Councll tho effeetive stretgth of cffective mon, by tho order of tho alrendy drilled wero out on furlough. reserves which The Government, bows over, which for tho time belng, had abandoned thls enll for tho reserves, ndopted mensures and 1 8 to rotain of thoso In the service who had voluntarlly enlisted under {ta banners a8 mny For 1his renson tho new loan of 13, 000,000, twlco a8 much s tho proceding Inan, bu- eame neeessary, I order to meet the regular expenditures which aro demanded by an unny of U000 e, and to bo unteers, who lnd jueen suftielently drilled home 13y this modo of constaut recruit- {ng, dellling, and sending on furlough the regl- ments wero always kept at thelr highest nins ,000 men stood constautly ata rate of 40 per cent incrense, Kxcept China and Great Britain and Russin, no Gov- ‘ernment ean count more subjeets, Intho number of eltizens moved by similor im- pulses, and recoguizing comuon ends, the \ Empire Itself ylelds to the great Re- deetaration that milllon Awerieans more than mateh the cighty-six milllons of Russlans and that the hundreds ot milllons of Chlneso cannot be compared with them as a force mnong mati- I1s not particularly complimentary. rather tho compurison Jind been made with the Eaglish thomselves, to see which of tho two forees, Ametlean or British, Is moststrongly influencing the world, This in part, however, the Times concedes when it admits that there Is no danger in the multipiylng of the race, sinee Awmerien keeps equal pace in its produetivity, and as fast ag tho European census advances fresh means of support from the New World are mado While tho 'fmes 13 astonished at the growth of the country and Its grain-pro- ducing avey, it s equally astonished ut the growth of eitles nml towfs, and snys: “Itly i pecullarity of North Amerlean develop- mentand evidence of its solidity thattown and country growtogether. As thebranches and roots of o henlthy tree should stretch forth In unison, prosperous country life planted Ameriean nble to send those vol- ber, and au nrmy of rendy for nctlon awaiting ordors, At prosuit six new regiments of infantry and one binttallon of engliecrs ure in-course of ors wiuization; tho number of eavalry {8 nlso belng Inerensed, " The houge of Krupp'in Kssen hns recofved orders for nine fleld, fiftoon mountaln, Ordera for 1,000 have been ecnt to Iranco, and orders for 9000 rovolvers nnd 50, rldyes have beon forwnrded 10 Styrin llvered {n tha shortest possible fime. Besides 10,000 uniforms are belug prepured, to bo on hand forun emergen Instruments, tools for engin miners aroe bLelng purchnsed equipping and provixioning of an army of 0,000 men §8 nenrly completo and placed under tho direction una suporvision of threo general ine pector "Iho Turkleh Qovernment, develops equally ns much energy, The redifs (3oldiers of tho reserve) of Eplrus and Thessaly have been ealled {n W tako ho pluces of thosc tronps which have been de- tached Inorder to reinfores those stationed in A slmilar mobillzetion hns tha reglon of tho Third Aruy Ive strength of which is tobe ,000 men, with alx battorles of heavy netilery speclally designed for tho de- fense of the Dardanelies, Tho troops quartered 1 the provinees of Asln Minor nearest Constan- tinople hoave been moved over hnd nssigned quuriers in tho serroundings of Adriunople, they relleve the troops cerdered to ‘o Dardinglle batterles and - four siexo Gros muskats on tho othersllo, all tho distriets of Upper Atbuni. Corps, the effe In a newly thriving nelghboring market town.” Piphlchinpivola, this regard Europe nffords no parallel The only eritielsm which the Times makes is that tho determination wherever thoy may ba pluced to have some of the luxuries of soclal convenionee does not conduce fo the pleturesgueness of Amerlean nattonality, which mny bo unswered by tho remark that n preducing nation, espeeially n nntlon which is feeding and clothing the world, is not likely to be so pleluresque as it Is practleal aml terribly In earnest, and has 80 mueh to do that it ean only stop (o enjoy a few of the luxurles. A nation is rarely plet- uresquo until it s in ruins, and the univer- sallty of luxury i3 usually the forerunner of ‘I'his, however, I8 but u Hitle erlt- felsm, and hardly worth consideration when compared with the gencrous tribute pald to Amerlean growth and enterpriso by **the Ihunderer.” these mens- particularly Artu, and Peta, “In Kuksouli it main doput for matorinls of wie and provisiond hus heon es- In the fmmedinte nelghborhoud of this town two strategically Important routes Vust purchnses of all rorts of materinl of war- and heavy nvtlliery huve 1 made, und 0 regular transport service hus formed, ‘Tho export or horses, mules, hnrness nad saddio materlnl hus been prohibited, evon from one provines Into anothor, around Hedjez und Ymen LLO00 men wl drawn, so thit tho total strongth of “tho Turkish regulnr ariny will amount to 60,000 mon, with a 000 anilitin, which will Do daivided Incea of Thessul: of Amerlenns crosa each other, Dbeweon tho brov whose cammanders will have thoir atArtuand Arrayro. —————— Ix Its issue of tho ith Inst., tho Milwaukee Iero'd (German) printed an artieto (somowbat in the form of nproclanution) fn which it calls upon tho friends of personal liberty to form n Natjonnl soclety for protection ngninst tho pas- sngo and onforeement of nll sminptuury Inws and prohibltory wonsures Innugurated and advoent- —_— SPECIAL PLEA YO%L?’:LEGBA‘PHV HONOP- ed by temp crance people. In this article tho There isa grim humor in the appearance of Dr. Norvin Green Lefore a committes of thy Leglslatnre to protest ugainst the passage of w bill proliblting the cousolldation of telegraph companles Into oug glgnutic monopuly, Lverybody Knows that the telegraph companles have heen con- solidated. Vauderbilt mul Gould did ity Dr. Greoen §s the Trestdent of thelr compnny, and they send him to Albany to toll the Leglslne turo that'lt would bo unwise to prohiblt the consolldation of telegraph companles, and to add o postseript to his speech to the effect that the thing Is dong, and to pass a prohib itory blil now woulgd be to lock the stable- door nfter tho escape of the horse, Dr. Green does his professlonnl duty ably and plays nls part splendldly, his speech betrays a consclousness of the power of his emnloyors. one “haylng nuthority,” 13 stylo Is ensy and colloquinl, with o touch of wit nmd humor to spice it. 1o tolls the story of thu manipuintion of the Stock Exehnnge with grentgusto, ns an excollent Joke, Ilear hims Tho lurger stockholders uf our Compnuy un- Tondeil what they could on epeculntion und kept onkd afford to keop durimg the cted unothor your's warfure, when to our surpelse it wis nscertalned thut tho othor party had neenmuluted a lurge prrt ot our #toek, and then nunounced to us thut the voudy for an ndjustmont. Wo were all tuken by Woukl sueh nn organization of nll tho liberal olt nts of tho country not Harmony und unity creato strength, and nsolldation of all the liberal eitlzens Inthe antled meot Lio opposition with tromendows ¢, For onco this contest hus to Lo finadly de- chled.—whethor tho land shultbe free, or whoth- or it shnll bo handed over as o tolerunt fanaties, Such r contest conld best bo decfded by 1 Natlonal organization; It would excerelso 4 tremendous political intluence. ‘Thor Anzelger des Westens of St. Louls re- printe tho artlcle, with the following fuvorable be n time and booty to tho In- quoted ns snying that it costs him every live $1,000 more than thosalary—which I8 n small counnent on governmental cconomy. Mr, Mursh snys ho 15 getting otd and I8 not woll, Why then hus ho not reslgned and como home? Why re- main In Italy at & peeuniury loss? As ho lives in ono of tho chenpost eapitnls of Buropo, how bup- pons It thut ho cun't subsist himself and wife— two old peoplo—on $12,000 n yeur. ‘Wao support tho proposition of the IHerold, and would onco more cill piteution to the fact that it would be of the highest haportance to induco the native llberal element ‘to purtlelpato in guch o movemont. _Wo do not .doubt that by onergotio nud adr@it movements tho geuoril storn of the temperanico funutics can bo suge ceasfully vepulsed, ut lonst in such Btates whero thuy have not, us in Maine, lown, oto., alrendy seeitrod all tho power, Iho Westliehs Poat (8t. Touls) also reprints tho urtielo with tho followhig remarks: A word in timo, aponks for Itself, Fvery line of. The urticle of tho IHerold It 8 our decided opinion that anlzatlon should tuko phice without n Chicngo, St, Louls, or Clnclunaty. Tho 8t. Louls Amerika nlso reprints tho artiele. with tho fuvornble worde: * A word at tho right Staats-Zeltung 8lso reprints tho snliont points of the Herold's article, and com- monts thercon na followa; ¥ Inorder to instill the Anglo-Amerieans with tho propor rospeet for suc Uermnns should act more promptly in this mat- ter thun heretoforo hus been the onse, Qorman-Americin pupers wo i bittor com- plaints n_ relation to the manirested ovon by those who nre most directl; nifeetedd in their business uvoeations, althongh tho German press hny often and clunrly enough given the alurm and ruised Its warning volee. Porsonul lberty 18 not alone . mantter of husiness clreles, but u preclous boon to b looked nfter by all sensiblo inen, Now let us posltion wxlll bo received by tho ?nly whut thoy u movemont, the great fudifforonco Doubtless tho Committeomen smiled when tho facetfous Dr. Green told thom this pretty story, snd Jnughed outright when he pro- ceeded, in lunorous way, to tell thom how Jay Goulil drew the lambs, and even the smaller wolves, of the Stock Fxehange into his trap, and thon, with the assistance of AMr, Vanderblit, threw them out fleeced and mungled, ‘lon ho toldn storyof a con- tractor who was cunningly hoodwinked by o brother-contractor, and” so cheated outofn shave In the spoils of n presnmably corrupt bargain with a Senutor of the United Stutes, ~—thls apropoes of the shm;n gnme of Mr, Noxt Dy, Green assorts that “not o slngle newspaper or a single volee has been ralsed thut we aro not rendering o good at falr and reasonable rates,’ courss Dr. (reen knows that the wmain com- plaint Is that his Company has watered lis stock from 50 to 55 per cent, ond that it charges for servicen rate sufliclept to pay dividends on the watered stock, as well as tho gonuine, The Doctor explains the “wa- tering® business in n very unlque mannor, 11a pleads thestatuteof mitutions asngulnst tho charge of watoring In 1806, when the eap- Ital wans fixed at forty-ons mlillion dollars; shows how many wiles of wire, offices, ete,, the Comwany hud B0 how this pro Gurmun press of ————— A YEAR Or 80 ago the British Government in Indin established a censorship of ke pross in that country on seeount of the scdition and trunson sauny of the Hindoo nuwspupors woro prouching. It was not intended to wake this lwitation on free fpuech perpetual, but to con- tinue it until tho native pross would be admon- ished und punished for tholr over-frue eriticlsm of thelr lords aud masters, tho Dritish, rew the followlug In u Culeutta dispatch to the London Zimess uestion of the abolition or tho continu. tho Press Cominigsionorahi; 1£ sy doubt oxisted us to tho foellng of the Indlnn pruss on the subjecr, it hus entirety removed b wmumorial praylig for tho retention of the ultice, ropriclors or uditors of over und vorndcuinr, has boen Lord Ripon. This memorial, which represents the ontiro Indlan press with throg or four exceptions, begins by tracing tho nlstory of thu olliee, und shows that (18 uo sudden creatlon, but was dlsoussed during the Vicervyalitss ol Lords Muayo und Northbrook, It polnts out that there i3 not u single Instanee of tho Press Come missfoner having exerclsed censorship over the upers, and (¢ calls spootnl attentlon 10 the murked lnprovement o thuse pupers sinco the oilice wus Institute Tonker dependent o bivguur run t hut uble 1o discuss actual fugtd, und thus glve the Goveriment an opportunity of lourn. Ing tho sentiments of the pouple, -'Thls sliwoet ununlimous expression of oplnjou can burdly bo overlogokud by Lord Ripon, while, oul the other tho Government. , u3 they ure no nors fur [nfori- ond number of oftices, ote,, the Company has now, and nalvely says: * If that £11,000,000 Wag ln apywlio o xeasonuble ewpital thon, tiand, the abolition of tho ofiice is netively urged by only n singlo Journal, which formorly enjoyed .the monopoly of the oflloial !mwul nud which, therofora, ls obvlonaly intarested n wishing to revert to tho oid prctle e et P Parls Quzette Ancedotique, published by Juunust ang edited by M. . Heyl, of Jan. gives oty detalls about tho sejourn of Mllw, Barah Bernhardt iy Amerfen, During the twen- ty-four representntions nt New York, Milo. Tlernhardt played “Adrienne Tieeouvreur' threo times, tho recoipts belng 08,000 francs; ** Frou- Frou,” six times, with 115,000 feancs; tho ** nmo aux Cnmélins,” 8ix times, with 157,000 francs “Hernanl," four times, with 81,000 franes: $Phddee,” twice, with 1,000 franes; and * Tho Sphinx,” threo times, with 60,000 francs, Rachel, 1n 1855, gave thirty reprosentations, among which “Phddre* four thmes, with 57,000 franes, * Adrl- Tho avernge receipts of Huchel wore 15, franes, thoso of Milo. Berntnrdt about 20,000 francs, but It muat bo stated that the firat. nlght of “Adrlenno Lecouvreur” produced 28,000 france, which reduces tho receiptsnetted for the othiers to 10,000 francs. At Hoston, Mile. Ilern- hardt gave thirtoen represontations, with 216,000 francs, au averago of 19,000 franes. The averago recelpts of tho forty representatloins given by he Comdédio Frangnlse in London tho yenr be- foro lnst was sald to have been 25,000 francs, tho nverage of the Comédio Frangalso in U'arls dur- Ing tho, whole year boing 6,00 francs, without reckoning the subaldy, n sum which was much exceeded In 1878 uring the Exhiblten, ‘'ne. Donaparte chiefs nre surrendering to tho Nepublie vno after anothor. A Parls dis- puteh of Jan, 27 says: M. Durné de Ia Fauconuerlo, nn old function- ary of tho Lnpire, moro recently ilitor of the Bonnpurtist Orvtre, and until the Inst few years oRo uf tho most ative Deputies of that party, hus gone over to the Repubtic. Hu wlil ruul;iu his sent for tho Orne, bitt sollcit retlection. In an aiddress to his conatituents, o argies that tho iepublio s proved @ success; thit to ig- nore its repeated ratiflentions by the country ia absurd; thut the Prince linperin{'s death hoa re- stored him_full liberty of action; that he de- clines to ugitato for tho” mero sike of ngitntion} and that siich adhesions ns hig own will strength- on tho Modorate Republicans agninst tho Fix tremists, The Republic is iow the only possible form of government, and, g0 far irom belng a rencgile, he cliims 1o bo consistent with all bls nutceedonts in deferriug to the witl of the nne tion. I reblected, he will continue to defend tho order, liberty, and scelal conservation es- sontind to ovory (iovernment; but, 11 bis constit- uents wish to try to overturn the IIE]l)\lllHn with- out_ knowing what would suceved i, let thein 1ind another representative. le himself 18 not tho man for such o Lukk, T dispatchés from Springlield stato that Austin 0. Sexton (Dem.), of 8L Lnst Pearson street, Chlcugo, s -steadily pusbing his little bill through the Houso turning over the selee~ tion of tho Lincoln Park Commissioners to the ward entteuses and bumner tot This will be reform with a vengeance, What aro tho othor nembors of tho Cook County delo- gation about that thoy #ro letting this violous, partisan scheme slip through the Houso uuder Vil convoutlons, thelr noses without scolng tho triek? e —— Tnr vote for President was officially an nounced by tho President of tho Scnato In pres- enca of the two Houses of Congress'on Wednes- dny last, to tho effect that (the voto of Geor- gla not belng countedy Garfield had 214 votes and Ifancock hnd 144 votes. tnd the clevon votes of Georgin beon legally polled on tho legnl day, and thorefore ontitied to be counted, tho wholo voto would have stoods Gurfleld, 2 votes; Muncock, 165 votes. PERSONALS. #1 Want to Be Somebody’s Darling,” isthe titlo of tho Intest song. Unhapplly my namo i not Somebody.—S. J. Tilden, “ I wonder if. Butler will tell Conkling what his address 182 A fight is great fun—when viewod from n distance.”—John Sherman, Gon. Butler says he Is always ready to de- fond the honor of Virginin—tor a sultable feo, Luwyers soldom dic of enlargement of thohenrt, Mr. Nichol has promised Wisconsin a Cal- inct position, Mr. Nichol's lavishness u making promises 1 only exceeded by bis nabllity to ful- A1 thom, A very sad Incldent oceurred in Now York tho othor duy, nn original ftem gotting lnto the World. The author of this villainy has not boen discovered. ¥ now tako my pen fn hand fo Interviow myself,—no, thnt I8 wrong. Plengo fix up o suit- ablo introduction to this when it renches tho oftice. Gould, From the unpubliehed tworks of Jay Tut sway our sister’s bangles, Bhie is aleeping on the hill, And her hale no longer tungles In the vest of cousin Wilk. —George W. Childs, Capt. Jinds 1s after another appropriation. Itls to bo hoped that the gentloman will allow tho Amerjean peoplo to quit working for him nfter o yenr or two, so that they can pltch inand build some more rullronds for Stunford and Crocker, “Young Repubilcan P—Mr. Ilnyes’ pa- trlotiam hus never been yuestioned. Ho would dle for hig country,—If somo arrangemonts could be mndo whereby the Prealdoutinl salury could bo puid in ndvanco for tho termof his nntural Jifo. ; 0h, the naughty, naughty men, ITow I dote upon them when I am sitting on thoe sofu fn'the nw..( When my walst {8 slyly measured Dy tho arni of one thut's trensured, Ol 80 denrly—you should gnze upon tne thon, —@Qall Hamilton, Two Boston men recently made n bet ns to which could staud out In the cold tho longest. The first to try stood it thirty-six minutes. The sccond man then went ont, but whon within ten minutes of his adversnry's timo Chueles Franola Adums enme nlong, uud it was with difliculty the unfortunnte sport was thawed out. Thoe Hon, C. P, Marsh, Minlster to Italy, Is yeur to Ench morning you'll sco them go hopping around, iy > Tho' little they find on tho cold, frozon ground; Yet nover disheartened, on each bush and treo, "They merrity eurol a Chick-a-deo-dee, Oh! aweet littlo songstor; so fearless and bold] Your littlo pink feet—do thoy never foel coli? Havo you s wurm sholtor nt night for your bed, Whore under your wing youenn tuck your brown head? — Clirfstmaa Carols,"” by Mural Hulatcad, Mr, Froude writes of his first torm at Ox- ford: “Wo dll proetty much whut wo liked, Thero was much dissipntion,und tho whole ma uer of life was needlesly oxtruvagant, Wé wero turned loowo st 18, pleasures tempting us on all sldes, No dean or tutor evor voluntvered to holp our inexperionce, Tho prices which wo pald for overything wore proposterous, The col- lego nuthorities wouid tnko no trouble, and tholr own charges werv on tho sume extravaguut senle, Tho wrotched novice wus an objoot of goneral plunder tlll ho hnd lenrnod how to tako care of himsolf, 1 remombor culenating that 1 could huvo lived at a boarding-house outoi- truet, with ovory luxury which I had 1 coliego, ata reductlon of 56 per cent.'” In the spring the merry robin all his songs malodious trills, In the spring the mellow sunshino gilds the val- loys and the hills, In’ the spring tho youtbful sluggard's told to cnulato tho ants; In tho spring tho young man's fanoy lightly turns to checkored pants, In tha spring the Jocund June-bug eits upon tho *tuter vine, Iu tho spring the gentle malden 'kins to sigh and then to plne, Intho spring tuo Baster bonuet shineth forth in splendor wild; In tho spring the front gate suffera with the lovors on it plled. —From “Songsof the Season," by Murat Halstead, It was a dreavy November day, From the gray sky, ovor which swupt vast masses of londun-colored cluuds, camo u atoady, dronoklag ralu, which best duwn upon the ourth lu o pitlioss woy, wokiog the acans ono of ulturly cheerloss gloow. Drip. drip, deljh came the vold drops from Ale euvos, und butora they reachod the eround wors juined by othor drops tut hud plushud axsinet tho window panes n o viclous wuy, -only to bu beuten back aud nt to foln tholr watos thag bhud attacked other pors s uf tho bousy with uqual non-success. 14 waa 8 wodvst Hitle slructure this, agolost which tha ontiro forces af ko alamonts soe: ined, but, althougt small, it had and stuck its varlons angles and siq Atorm in o calmiy dofiant manner, Inn cazy Lo room of the cottagn 4o 10 summer and abont 40 falls, ‘ wos 116 to the oxtromo length of th tho peavlons year, Hortha Bandaly sonsitlvo girl, who instinctively str ty of any rort, and tho first ting ot hid ho sat thora ealmiy for nn inatan, nylug sofuly to hersalf: “1 hayg Wnrm words of sympathy and nffae hoso around her, but xho only smiteg homo a wiser but bustioless glel. Tho fathior raeotved o bill for a now bustly, 1t for n moment and thotight of theitays go; Horshn would chimb on his kne ns ha s glowinggrnto, nnd, nftoer pulling at hy. snylng how much sho lovod papn, would fal his arms, the flickering binzy of the iy stranuo lghte and shadows around hor fieng, tangied mass of yollow halr, that Ing upon der, 8ho stll sat b front of tho 0ra with hor tha eain place, but the shouldor belonged to ang “ My dnughter 18 very dear to me, tenierly ns ho paid tho bil. Unconsclunsly ho had (o1d the truth, Terthn la stilf sitting in hor boudotr. Boudol room, but it s more high-toned. Kind o, nothing, and even boink Kool L0 yourselt in practico, 'Tho rin still foll, 1t 1a the 1, nud dirgs of iy happiness,” sald Horth, spaleing volca. * Rupert will nevor oy It scofus na It hio lind rallol away in tho i lights and tho music and tho werry pas 1oft me all Alona on the dnrk watorstn an 1ons bont bononth tho ntdnliht sky." orthn did not know what thronad, slung it tn at random, Mt we can fa wna ofton too provious In hor Innkundo, Af g, Dity & younk Lioart torn by confilcting emo " tating botwoen falth and doubt in one I can print the bincknoss of & anturo thut sould n trustso sncred? Is nob its pussessor w etoranl dntnatiun? But whilo Hertlin sits enshrouded in hor own o, bro thoughts and forebodings whero Ix the object of In n gilded haunt of sour-mash stand t; Qnio In Rupert, the other I Jim, “Jim who?” do you nak? Nover mind, A bnubla s spinning on o strfneo of polishod volutions conso, bond eagerly ovor It. “ You'vo lost, Jim." The young myy “#Give us the s1mo ns before,"—~thus to o manbes ind tho counter, In nnothor Instant o tiny gug want to Rupert'a lips, Does ha lova Horthin? 1 cannottell a llo—I don't knaw. ——— PUBLIC OPINION. Springfield *(Mass.) Republlean. (ind)p When Garfleld I8 huating nround for Wostery Cnbinot timber, ho shotldu’t. overlook Iuaae N, Arnold, of 11linols. All the prairio abilit; not utiled down 1 fowa. b Atlantn Constitutlon: The Republicang are In doubt abont bow to recognlz cut. Asyet thoy hnve tot been uble to decids whetlier Barnum or Jewell contrlbuted most to tug efeetion of Gen. Garlield. Indlanapolls Jowrnal : the Democratlo members of tho Leglsluturo to havo n lnw pasacd reatrafnimg thom from deinke ing nuturally rafses an inquiry whethor they aro concorued for tholr own welfare or nre trylg o Lamstring the Ropublican party. New York T'ribunc (Rep.) well If tho Itepublican voters and logislutors of Minnesota could fully realize whut disgraco thole conduct ensts upon the Republican party clses where, Not n weok pussed during the lust came piniin thut tho atalkl, stubborn und persistent dishonesty of * Minnesota with 1tg 0.0 lepube ** was mot thrown In tho teol publicans clsewhore who were [ of publio honor, Rateigh (N, C.) Farmer: Race troubles are nearly pxtinet with us. of the negro peoplo rising; tho worso elementy sinking.—through vico, erimo, whisky, and want, Many of tho viler sort bavo exodusted North and West, Alroady there §8 o pronounced aris toerncy among tho negroes. At their fashions able weddlngs the areny of sltks, whito kids, and Jewelry is gorgoous.: Thero uro blacks In Ras lelgh worth from $5,000 to $10,000 in good city here aro negroes In this county -uere fnrms, with nll necessary Im= Ono recently built o sebool-houss for his nolghtiors, and " got a count; od to puss his houso. of propurty is vwned by negroos In Hatie fux, Wirren, amd othor cottuties. 4 ends of lnnds nre pieked up for almost nothivg, —gometimes n 4 gift,—nmnd aro soon mado (@ i ‘erhitps 10,000 negroes In tho Btate tov duy own from ton (o 300 ncres. Quiney (111,) Wiig (Rep.) of tomperance, us in tho Interest, also, of that respeet for law which ought to Lo cultivated I evory cominunity, it 18 to bo hoped that the Gene ornl Asgombly wili bave the gond Jjudgment o rejeot the proposed uniendniont to the State Cons stitution, prohibiting the mutfacture or sale of It submitted to the po 1t would undoubtedly bo rejected by tho populae 0, which would do the eanse of temperancono f it wero not rejected it woulid cers tiinly vemnnlu inoporutivos nud every person of intelllzence knows that wo nirendy bive coough “tdead letters® on our statute books, the femalo veformers ut Springficld and toelt male condjutors ure nctunted by tho bestof fne tentlons; but they nro neverthcless exhibiogs zeal that §8 nltogother without knowludee. fuot §s that for muny yonrs pnst tho cause of temperance hus been more roturded by tho in tomperateand mpructl wnce roforimers The anxlety of Hean majoriy Tho biotter clementy Intoxienting Hoguors. cabla zeal of professionsl than it has by oy other Washington dispatch tothe Boston Tratcl Ter: Duriug tho first year or two tho Preaident was frequently inlluouced by the tono of (88 press,and would ot times yleld bis own Judgy ment to that of tho public at lurgo upon s | public ntter. Thisls no tonger the caso 0% d tho Presidont ets independently of whutthe refleeted by tho tully pretd conversation he alluded o 11 modifying 28 anrrent of oplnlon ns the crittclsm upon his course court-nuictinl sontences of mury oflic army convicted of uiplino of the serv the jntluence of lquor. 0 thot public huid only eno slde of tha story, A were mitlgating elreumstance: oyery caso where ho ha clenonoy, bitt he did no to suy what thoy were. to know that ho had noted necard udwment, and wita not at all dis 1o hid been assalled for Interfe f tho soveral courts-n Presidont sald he had been attac tlmes unjustly that ho hnd arrived dltion of ‘mind when he censod tonour disturbed nt the consuro of the nUWPINe the romainder of bis torn intendod 10 bo gutded solely by hi ment, anad not bo ritied by the press. New York Tribune : Doubtle: fort (Ky.) Yeoman expresses tho o ment of the Bouthern Domoceracy preferable thint no his way to the new rensons given are, flest, that therofd no ern Ropubliean fitted for thi ond, that owling to the lack ol own party * Goi. to luy violunt hands upon suvg mlght Lo weak enough to muko The Yeoman suya it hus ** known of and * folt the il offects upon our * It s not bolieved oxists of (un, Garlleld’s reneal nointing 8 Sonthern 1 von tho very moderatt 1o tlun of dolicitude on thnt scoro In tho tract is unnocossary. monts i1t politicy thaf Aud that it so muc! cessful us beeanso ot thelr pe dunonstrating that it docs nof ment any farthor in tha of un expariment wis ment of Judgo Key, concilintion an ag puch with cor: g, LUt wad repe I n to demorntize the Now York “Times: Stauley Mutthows, touchtng s it of the highest Nationnl momeit, & asitsocima to buve beon, by purel tnotlves, 18 o miuch graver blumder lie minor nomluations for ol Tho proved lack of auything liko cdness fn tho make-up of dir M sutliolently sorfous objootl tlou; tho fact that ho has act tho nttorney of whosa relntions witl L und aro alinost teer for judieiul re enough to disquality onough, BIr, Matthews scems 5\:; [t support mmonyg Denoc: r. tho Louisvillo ~Conricrd pressing bl claims; the Cluciun undertukon tn Teprove th capucity, und Sonutor L ardent udvocates of bis conleing be tuttoring to the gonlulity u %, charaeter, und to his power, umong political o Tuo Presldont sal rposcd oxecutisd Gartielt would foc nevor needtol cmatipn fibew 2 o rucuulllwulll a e« nmm‘u Admluistration wl eavo beblnd (L any such oy :Lx‘uu.-d folly an tl